For four years Mito trained hard, she had been put on a team with Sasuke Uchiha and the class no-it-all Sakura Haruno under her father's old student Kakashi Hatake. During team training she'd do the training that was assigned to her then when she was alone she'd train her mind, body, and soul to the very brink of her limits and break through them like a charging bull through a china shop.
She mastered the chakra chains in there most basic form along with the fire, water, and lightning forms, she mastered all 10 levels of fuinjutsu, and was one of the best kenjutsu users in the village being second only to her mother and Mikoto Uchiha.
Over the last four years her team had gone on 20 D ranks, 30 C ranks, 15 B ranks, 10 A ranks, and 1 S rank. (Jiraiya gave her the toad contract as a gift for the last one) Right now she was on her way to the normal meeting spot for team 7 while wearing her ninja outfit which consists of her mom's old anbu uniform minus her flack jacket and mask, her forehead protector which now had a blood red cloth instead of the original blue, and a pair of black combat boots that held a single kunai in each. For weapons she had a pouch of shuriken on each side of her waist, a kunai holster on her right thigh, and her custom made ninjatō strapped to her back.
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Sasuke had taken Naruto's words to heart, especially after hearing that he was recruited into the ANBU right after graduation, not once since that day did Sasuke look down on others or let his pride control his actions. The young Uchiha took the time to not only train himself and ask for help but he helped others get stronger as well, over the last four years he mastered his fire and lightning manipulation, mastered multiple genjutsu, activated and matured his sharingan, mastered a kenjutsu style of his own, and mastered his clans interceptor fist. For clothes he wore a pair of black anbu style pants, a dark blue T-shirt, black combat boots, and fingerless gloves with metal plates on the back. For weapons all he had was two shuriken pouches and his chokuto.
Now Sasuke was on his way to the usual meeting spot for team 7 when he's stopped by Itachi. Said Uchiha patted his little brothers shoulder. "Over these last four years you've grown into such a fine shinobi and young man, I've watched as you've improved from that young carbon copy of father to your own person taking bits of knowledge and advice from others and combining them into what you are now and what you will become later on in life."
Itachi hugged Sasuke close. "You've become so strong and such a kind young man, I'm so proud of you little brother."
Sasuke smiled as he hugged his big brother in return. "I owe it to so many people but I will always remember who was the one to truly get me started down this path, Naruto gave me so much to think about with only a few words, I owe my growth as a person to him."
The eldest of the two brothers smiled and reached into his shuriken pouch. What Itachi pulled out was a scroll and he handed it to Sasuke. "Within this scroll are a multitude of lightning ninjutsu that would perfectly meld with your fighting style, I have an old friend in Kumo that sent me those as a favor. Now I have to go, hokage-sama has ordered me to go on another mission. When I get back I'm going to test your progress."
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Naruto had thrown himself into his training head first. Danzo had all of his top ANBU training the blonde in absolutely everything from taijutsu, genjutsu, and ninjutsu to kenjutsu, bojutsu, and shurikenjutsu to anything he could think of along with letting him learn to use his bloodline. Within the last four years he gained control over the power of Sloth and Envy.
Sloths powers were over the shadows while Envy had power over the mind. Both the Naras and the Yamanaka's had attempted to recreate the abilities of these two sins and were only able to get the most basic of techniques to work for them.
Something Naruto had discovered was that with the more sins he took control over the more he could see into hell. He had been able to see all seven sins and saw that the only one he was safe from being mentally attacked by was Wrath but he was attempting to go after someone else, he just didn't know who. The last time he gazed into hell he was caught by Lust.
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In a spectral form Naruto glided through the royal palace of the seven deadly sins until he found himself in front of a red door that was a different color from Wraths, curiosity peaked the blonde fazed through it only to be unable to move as soon as he was fully inside the room. "Ah, I was expecting you though to be perfectly honest I didn't expect you to come here so soon my dear Kage."
From the shadows came a tall woman with an hourglass figure, long slender legs, and flawless pale peach skin. For clothes she wore a red nearly see through kimono and carried a staff that's just as tall as her made of oak, it had a vine design wrapping around it and had a blooming rose on the top.
Lust quickly silenced the blonde before he could speak. "Silence boy before you catch Prides attention or worse Gluttony, I'm not the enemy you think that I am."
Seeing that she had Naruto's attention Lust continued. "No one knows it, not even Kurama but the ones that you know as the Biju were only able to escape due to me. I hid there escape from the eyes of all six of my siblings."
Naruto was cautious but he was willing to listen. "What made you decide to do such a thing? Surely you know what would happen if your siblings caught on to this."
Lust smiled softly. "When you're as old as I am you start to lose all sense of humanity but I never did because I never stopped watching the humans so when I discovered my nieces and nephews were attempting to escape from here to help the humans I decided to quietly help out. Each and every member of your clan has used my power even if they never fully unlocked the bloodline because I allow it freely."
Naruto nodded. "Alright then, while I'm here I'll need to ask you a few things."
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Naruto spent hours questioning Lust and got many answers to his questions such as that Wrath was attempting to take control over a lost member of his clan that has grown up so far with no knowledge of his heritage, apparently this guy has two older siblings and he's the jinchuuriki of Shukaku the one tailed raccoon who's helping the boy fight back against him.
Apparently it was inevitable that the gates will be open one way or another and Lust has sworn to lead her army against her siblings when the day comes for a final battle. Naruto had decided that he'd do what he could to stop the gates from being opened but if it came down to it he'd go all in and fight for humanity.
Another interesting thing he was told was that the sins used to be humans from the time before chakra was discovered but had defeated the original sins and took on their roles and Lust was the only one not to lose herself to the power.
Now Naruto stood in front of Danzo in his full ANBU uniform with a black mask with the kanji for seven painted onto the forehead in red. For weapons Naruto had two pouches of shuriken/senbon, two kunai holsters, and a pouch of ninja wire on his waist and a ninjatō on his back.
Danzo gave the first approving smirk in the last four years as he looked to his youngest ANBU captain in ages. "You have trained well young Kage, you have learned from the greatest shinobi within my ranks and mastered everything I could possibly teach you and are well on your way to mastering your cursed bloodline, your the best captain I have had in a very long time."
Naruto bowed respectfully and in gratitude but stayed silent. Danzo spoke again. "Lord fourth has studied your track record and decided that you were the perfect person for an S rank mission he's got on the table right now, go to the hokages office immediately and hear him out. Oh and by the way, after this mission you'll be reassigned to the normal shinobi ranks."
Naruto nodded and bowed once more before he left in a silent shunshin.
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Appearing in the middle of the hokage's office Naruto bowed respectfully. Looking up from his paperwork Minato looked down at the blonde with an air of professionalism. He could swear he knew this ANBU member but couldn't put his finger on it. Looking at the bowing figure he spoke up. "Stand, your partner in this mission will be here soon."
Right as he said that Itachi shunshin'ed into the room wearing his full ANBU uniform with a weasel mask on. Minato nodded. "Ahh, weasel I'm glad you could make it on such short notice. You will be going on a bounty hunt mission today, but before we get into that let's get to know each other a bit better."
The young hokage pulled out a file and opened it. "Itachi Uchiha, aka the genjutsu king of Konoha or the crow master of Konoha, rank:ANBU captain, specialty: fire ninjutsu and genjutsu, mission record: 20 D ranks, 40 C ranks, 50 B ranks, 100 A ranks, and 10 S ranks."
Closing up the file and grabbing another one he opened It. "Code name seven, no legal name stated, monikers are as follows Shadow demon, crimson devil, lightning god, and the soul stealer of Konoha, rank: ANBU captain, specialty: generalist, mission record: 80 C ranks, 100 B ranks, 200 A ranks, and 20 S ranks. You have a flee on sight order"
Putting that file up Minato leaned forward. "As you can obviously tell I've called in for you from Danzo due to your skills but I don't like unknowns within my ranks so I'll only ask once, please remove your mask and state your name."
Naruto took his mask off and looked to his hokage with cold sapphire eyes. "Naruto Kage reporting for duty…" He glared spitefully at the man who had attempted to control him four long years ago. "... Hokage-sama."
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AN: hello and welcome to the newest chapter of the cursed seven, I do hope that you've thoroughly enjoyed it.
Next chapter we see how well Naruto and Itachi work together side by side.
Also something for each of you to think about. We all know what Wrath and Gluttony are up to and we know that Lust is on humanities side but Pride hasn't done anything yet, and Greed, Envy, and Sloth haven't even shown themselves, What will happen next?
As always MCL homies.