For the last two years Naruto spent every waking moment training, During the academic studies he'd train his chakra control by balancing erasers, pebbles, leaves, and other small objects on his body with his chakra alone, during taijutsu classes he was allowed to train his own taijutsu just like Kiba and Hinata with their own clans styles, during ninjutsu classes he was allowed to practice his own ninjutsu due to him mastering all of the academy ninjutsu within the first week, during Shurikenjutsu classes he would find any way he could to increase the difficulty of the shots to challenge himself, etc. Outside of the academy he did mental training, taijutsu, and he trained his Wrath abilities.

Near the end of the second year he felt like he was strong enough mentally to attempt another sin and he chose Gluttony. For a whole month Naruto and Minato set up for it, setting up a specific area that the blonde hokage, his wife Kushina, his old sensei Jiraiya, and his only living student Kakashi covered in ancient seals made just for members of the Kage clan when they trained a new sin, calling in some of the most powerful shinobi, and putting up the strongest barrier ninjutsus any Konoha shinobi knew. All of this preparation and still they hadn't been fully prepared.

(Flashback)

Naruto sat dead center in the seals within training grounds 100, a far off and forgotten training field, he was shirtless in the lotus position in the middle of the most powerful fuinjutsu array known to man, it was called the Negation seal lv10: sin blocker and was ment to negate all forms of attacks done by a sin, it was made by an Uzumaki who was supposedly friends with a Kage before and created it as a failsafe for if their training went wrong.

The process had gone off without a hitch so far but now was the big moment, the moment where Naruto actively makes contact with a second sin to take control of their power.

Minato, Kushina, Jiraiya, and Kakashi all were standing at the four 'seal spokes' while putting their chakra into it to keep the thing stable and had hundreds of ANBU surrounding the area just in case. Minato spoke up. "Alright, seals active and we have reinforcements already here… whenever you're ready just start."

The young man nodded and closed his eyes. As he meditated he could feel his consciousness slipping deeper and deeper into his mind until he found himself back in the hallway.

Looking to the seven doors on his left he completely ignored Wrath's door and stretched out his senses to the other six. The first door was a raven black with a royal purple face carved into it. Behind this door he could feel a power that eclipsed even Wrath's and yet it was controlled, coiled like a snake, it was easily distinguished as far above his skill level for now so he decided that this was not the one to go for just yet.

Going through each of them and getting a sense of what each could do he chose Gluttony. All it took to open up the door (orange door with a demonic visage carved into it) was to imagine a key in the lock and as soon as the door opened he could feel the power pour into his mindscape, trying to feed off of him.

(scene change)

Outside of his body what everyone else was seeing was an orange aura blast out of him and strike the first of the barrier ninjutsus. As everyone let out sighs of relief the barrier came down. The chunin who had been the one to erect the barrier spoke loud enough for Minato to hear him. "Lord hokage. Whatever sin that boy is trying to control has just absorbed every last drop of chakra out of my barrier."

The blonde hokage nodded. "Gluttony, I know only of two of the abilities to this sin. A member of the Kage clan can regain chakra through eating and can absorb the chakra from others and even from a jutsu near instantly."

As if to give further evidence of this fact the aura blasted out again and two more barriers came down.

This continued with the chunin recreating barriers just as fast as the aura could take them down until four of the eight barrier ninjutsu specialists fell unconscious from chakra exhaustion. The last barrier came down and the aura started taking chakra from the seal itself but at a much slower rate.

Minato grunted as he could feel the drain on his reserves and the dark aura trying to devour him. 'Damn it! How is Gluttony even absorbing my chakra right now?! We have the most powerful negation seal up made specifically for him and his siblings!'

All four of them were starting to reach there limits when the aura slowly receded.

When the boy stood up everyone else watched as the aura radiated off of his form and his eyes glowed an orange color as well. Just as they were about to attack they heard the kid speak. "Mission success hokage-sama, Gluttony is under my control."

The fourth laughed, to others it sounded happy and relaxed but he was laughing out of relief as the fear drained out of him. "Congratulations on successfully learning to control Gluttony, am I correct in assuming that you will focus on this new training?"

A nod was all he needed and Minato was satisfied.

(Flashback end)

Within the last few months Naruto had mastered many different techniques. The abilities he gained from Gluttony were just the two mentioned before but his clan was nothing if not creative and had created different attacks out of pure chakra with the most basic being called the chakra blast, a small ball of concentrated chakra that when used it fires from the palm of the users hand and they explode on impact with the target, it can be charged for a bigger explosion, controlled to move it in certain directions even after you fire it, and more.

Now Naruto was standing outside of the academy in a pair of black anbu style pants, a black T-shirt, combat boots, and anbu style fingerless gloves with his new forehead protector tied around his forehead. He had chakra weights around his wrists and ankles for that extra bit of training and even had a couple weight seals on his torso that was put their by Mito's mother Kushina.

Speaking of Mito she was standing next to him in a similar outfit but red and without all of the weight he was carrying around and her forehead protector was being used as a belt.

The two were waiting for Kushina when someone tapped Naruto on the shoulder. Looking behind him he found it was Sasuke Uchiha, the only male in the entire academy who was able to put up a decent challenge for Naruto ninjutsu wise while there were two males in the upper year that was able to challenge and sometimes even beat him in taijutsu. He was a contender for rookie of the year for the last two years but in the end the title was awarded to Naruto both times.

Swallowing his pride Sasuke stuck his hand out to shake and Naruto accepted it. "Congratulations on achieving rookie of the year once again, you're quite skilled in the ninja arts for one our age."

Naruto smiled. "Well thank you Sasuke-san but I wouldn't be nearly as capable as I am without Mito-san here, she helped me more than most people ever have."

Sasuke nodded and was about to leave when he was stopped by Naruto. "Oh and you're on the right track."

This got the Uchihas attention. "Right track to what?"

The blonde smiled. "To surpassing your father and brother, you just swallowed your pride like your brother did before you which will allow you to reach much further than your father, just keep training and ask yourself one thing, Why do you fight? Is it just so you can surpass those who came before you or do you want to protect others? I'm truly interested in seeing where you go from here."

With a look of contemplation the young Uchiha walked away and was led home by his mother.

After another two minutes Kushina arrived and started leading them home. The redhead turned to the two twelve year olds as she spoke. "On my way I passed by Mikoto and her youngest son, the boy seemed to be in deep thought about something. You two wouldn't know anything about this now would you?"

The young Kage smiled. "I gave him something to think about that will decide who he becomes in the next few years."

The Uzumaki matriarch smiled. "I see, I'm happy to see that your helping your fellow Konoha Shinobi. You're a true ninja in the making."

They ended their conversation the moment they stepped into the compound where they found Minato in an argument with an old cripple with half of his body and his face covered in bandages. "See reason Minato, he's the last of his clan, he's mastered two of the seven already at the age of twelve, and he's as loyal as they come, we need to do this."

Minato glared. "Exactly, he's been loyal to us so we will never force him into the CRA and I'm definitely not handing him over to you for your so called 'training'."

At this they noticed their audience and the blonde man dusted himself off. "This conversation is over, remove yourself from the premises before your escorted out by my ANBU."

The cripple of a man nodded and began his limp away when he was stopped by Naruto's voice. "You two were both speaking about me weren't you?"

The man nodded. "Yes child, you were the subject of conversation."

The preteen glared over at Minato. "And you are attempting to decide my fate? Choosing my path for me?!"

The fourth hokage stood straighter. "You are twelve years old, no matter what circumstances are involved in your life you are too young to be making any big decisions. You will be allowed to choose such things when you are older."

The young Kage glared harder and turned away from the older blonde. "You are not my father and he's dead so I'll make my own decisions." Looking to the cripple he nodded. "If you have the ability to make me stronger than I'll come with you, if not I'll be moving into my clans compound immediately."

The man smiled and nodded once more. "I have more than enough resources to train you, my only request is that you join my ANBU division directly after your training is complete."

The blonde nodded and followed the man who introduced himself as Danzo.

Kushina looked to Minato quickly. "We have to do something! Danzo will make him a drone!"

The Namikaze stared coldly at Naruto's back. "He's chosen his path, let him leave and be a breeding stock weapon. He'll still be useful to Konoha."

Mito just watched as Naruto left. "H-he just left, no hesitation."

Kurama used her chakra to help ease the emotional turmoil that Mito's mind was becoming. "You have to think of it from his perspective, for two years of his life Naruto was controlled by Wrath and now he just heard your father trying to make a decision for him then he pretty much told him he has no choice in anything until he was an adult which isn't for another six years. I'm just surprised that he didn't use any of his abilities on your dad."

Mito allowed a tear to roll down her cheek. "Do you think I'll ever see him again?"

The fox gave her affirmative. "Of course kit, you two are linked together by the will of the deities. Whether or not that means you two will end up together or not is unknown but you'll always find your ways back into each other's lives until one of you dies."

As odd as the statement was it comforted the preteen girl and she turned back to her house. "Then I'll need to train as hard as I can so I won't be left in the dust."

(scene change)

Gluttony sat in his throne in his part of hell thinking about that day when that brat defeated him and the following conversation with his brother Pride.

(flashback)

Pride barged into his older brother Gluttony's throne room. "YOU FAILED! I expect such incompetence from Wrath but you are far too powerful too be defeated by a mere child!"

Pride gripped Gluttony by his fat covered throat and attempted to pick him up one handed but he grabbed his little brother by the wrist and slowly applied pressure. This hurt the purple muscle bound sin and forced him to release Gluttony. "I understand that you are displeased with the situation little brother but do remember which of us is really the strongest, that child had faced only a small portion of my power and still only barely won with that puny seal that Uzumaki whore created for her husband."

after releasing Prides wrist Gluttony sat back down. "Unlike our dear brother i made no such deal to never try again to control the boy again and he believes that he has bested me and now controls me, this will work to our advantage."

Pride nodded and was about to leave when the fat sin spoke again. "Oh and next time you think it wise to attempt to intimidate me remember that I could take the high throne easily."

(flashback end)

Pride hadn't taken kindly to Gluttony pointing out that fact but was smart enough to realize when he's beaten so he took out his frustrations on his own minor demons. Gluttony on the other hand was plotting. 'Grow stronger boy for the better prepared you are the sweeter it will be to take over your body and take all of it for myself.'

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AN: hello and welcome to the new chapter of the cursed seven. Ok so this chapter is mostly filler but it's setting up for the next chapter to get too the good part. I plan for there to be a time skip that brings them to sixteen, why? Well seeing as I didn't have Itachi kill his clan Orochimaru's not as willing to try and invade so soon and will spend more time planning and gaining strength.

I wonder where he'll get his new strength, hmmmm. Well you can all take your guesses and if you are correct and have your own stories on here I'll give you a shout-out.

If you need an image for gluttony just imagine a demonic hog's head on a morbidly obese humanoid figure that's completely orange.

And as always MCL homies.