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Naruto took a moment to enjoy the looks of shock, the multiple gasps, and the eyes of the people around him widening in fear. He sent a knowing smirk at his sisters, both just as shocked as everyone else, apparently frozen in place as they stared at him, their faces white as if they had seen a ghost.

Deciding he had given them enough time, he stabbed the blade of his scythe into the ground at his feet, the staff sticking up at an angle. He rolled his shoulders one last time, the joint clicking loudly, before bending down at the knees. To most of the genin watching, Naruto became a blur, leaving nothing but a small cloud of dust that was kicked up. But to the more experienced Ninja, he was merely moving at a speed thought impossible for one so young to reach, as he made a dash straight at Mito.

Before she even realised what was happening, Naruto grabbed his sister by the wrist, planted his feet on the ground, and flipped her over his shoulder with enough strength to throw her across the arena floor to land next to Erza. Without pause, Naruto ran to close the distance between them, grabbing his scythe as he passed it and tearing a trench in the ground as he dragged the blade through the ground.

When he reached them, Erza had finally gotten over her shock and attempted to intercept him, only for Naruto tear his scythe out of the ground at the last moment, sending dirt and dust flying into her face and blinding her. The distraction gave him more than enough time to bring his fist up and slam into her armoured chest, the metal of her breastplate bending inwards from the force of his fist, winding her as she fell to her knees and coughed.

By this point Mito had recovered, and had gotten into her Taijutsu stance, though it was clear from both her body language and expression that she was unsure of what to do and hesitated to attack. The hesitation cost her, as Naruto took the moment it gave him to bring his scythe around and slam the blunt side of it into her side. Mito was able to use her arm to block the attack, though it still made her stumble and her arm throb in pain, and was able to stay on her feet.

He saw her face harden as he pulled back, finally getting into the right mind-set for the fight, and brought the staff of his weapon up to block the kick she sent to his chest just in time. Turning on the spot, Naruto swiped his scythe's handle towards her feet and made Mito lose her balance, before spinning it around in one hand and hit her in the shoulder, again with the blunt edge.

It was enough to make her fall to the ground, just in time for Naruto to step back to avoid the wooden sword that came speeding at his head, Erza following it with her armour back to normal as if he hadn't hit it.

She followed his movement, not letting him put any space between them so he could use his scythe, swinging her weapon at any opening she could see. Smirking Naruto let himself fall onto his back, Erza leaning forwards slightly as she almost followed him, before planting his feet into stomach and lifting her off the ground. He saw her eyes widen in realisation, right before he flipped her over his head, following through with the movement and rolling to his feet. It didn't take Erza a moment to get to her feet, a second wooden sword appearing in her other hand, and crossed them over her head just in time to block the blunt edge of Naruto's scythe.

Pushing back, Erza was able to jump away, but instead of trying to close the distance again seemed to try and reason with him.

"Onii-chan, stop, what is happening to you? What's wrong?!""

Not letting up on his attacks, Naruto swung his scythe at her legs, hoping to take out her legs.

"Nothing's wrong!"

She jumped over his swipe, aiming her own at his left shoulder as her feet returned to the ground, her breath coming hard as she tried to keep up with him.

"Look at yourself! This isn't you!"

Letting out a growl Naruto attempted to send a kick at his sister's chest, his black eyes glaring at her.

"You know nothing about me!"

The kick landed, and was enough to throw Erza of balance as she tripped, before rolling out of the way when he tried to slam the Scythe into her.

"Whose fault was that? You shut us out!"

"You all thought I'm weak! That's why they forgot me! Why they loved you more them me! I'M NOT WEAK!"

Naruto kept trying to hit her, Erza rolling away, and his strikes were getting more and more powerful by the second. By the end of his sentence, the ground where his scythe hit splintered from the force, sending culms of earth into the air around it. Naruto was momentarily blinded, giving Erza enough time to get back to her feet.

"You're wrong! They didn't forget you! You don't understand! They-"

"SHUT UP!"

This time when Erza blocked his scythe, the force behind the strike was enough to not only send her skidding back, but also broke her wooden swords in half. Luckily, before he had time to follow through with his attack, Mito appeared next to and was able to kick him in the side, knocking him away and skidding across the ground.

But again, neither of them followed through with the opening, letting him get back to his feet by using his scythe to pull himself up.

"It's not how you think Onii-chan! There are things you don't know, that mum and dad didn't want to tell you until you were older!"

"I don't want to hear their excuses, I want them to admit what they did to me! I want them to admit what they made me in front of EVERYONE here!"

Slamming his scythe into the ground next to him again, Naruto bent at the knees and leaned forward slightly, his teeth bared. He held his hand up, blue/grey energy coating both his hands, forming into balls of light. The balls started getting bigger and bigger, until they were both as tall as Naruto himself, before they started to shift and take shape. The ball forming from his right hand took the shape of a bear, while the one on his left became a wolf, both with glowing red eyes.

The Spirits slowly become more solid as his sisters shock, along with everyone else's, gave him enough time to finish. It still took him longer then he would have liked to form the larger Spirits, though he could now do the smaller ones with ease, and it always left him breathless for a moment after creating them.

Stumbling slightly, grabbing his scythe to keep his balance, Naruto sent a tired smirk towards his sisters before motioning the two Spirits forwards. The two Animal Spirits charged, the Wolf aiming at Erza while the bear made a beeline for Mito, while the blond Namikaze took a moment to catch his breath.

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Kushina didn't know what to think, her mind was a whirl of thoughts, confusion and fear.

None of what she was seeing made any sense, the way Naruto moved, the ferocity of his attacks. While the fact he was only hitting Mito and Erza with the blunt side of his Scythe clearly showed he wasn't out to kill them, the hits he was getting in were definitely doing some damage. This wasn't right, Naruto wasn't this strong, wasn't this violent. He was frail and quiet, often blending into his surroundings and fading into the background.

Then there was his words at the start of the match, about being the Jinchuriki of the Shinigami, and the clear anger in his eyes when too looked at them as he said it. Kushina had helped Minato create the Seal he used to split and Seal the Kyuubi, adapting it from one of her Clan's Forbidden Jutsu, and knew just as much about how it works as Minato.

Kushina wasn't a religious person, she believed in what she could see with her own eyes and heard with her own ears, but even she would admit that she didn't know if the Death God was real or not. There were different theories in her clan about what happened when they 'called forth the Shinigami', some believing it was the real thing, other that it was merely a physical manifestation of the 'force of death'. She had always believed in the second, that the Shinigami that appeared during the seal was the Jutsu forcing the nature of death into a form the human mind could understand, but that the create itself was not sentient or self-aware.

But then Naruto had actually transformed in front of her eyes, and Kushina started to wonder if it was actually possible that what he said was true, and that they had accidentally Sealed the embodiment of death into their son on the night they Sealed the Kyuubi.

In theory, it was possible, after all the Tailed Beasts were just masses of chakra and they sealed them into people. While the Jutsu was active, the Shinigami was technically just a mass of chakra forced into a more solid form…the more she thought about it, the paler her face got.

How could they not have noticed? How had neither of them ever seen a seal on his body? The answer to that was easy, they had never wanted to look at their son's body too closely because of his condition, his constantly sickly frame hard for them to see.

But the hate in his voice when he spoke…was that really what he thought of them?

How could he think such terrible things…?

They should have told him, should have forced him to sit down so they could explain about his condition, but they just didn't know how to tell him after keeping it from him for so many years.

Wait…if Naruto was a Jinchuuriki…

It was a fact that Jinchuriki never got sick, that they healed faster than normal people, something that was never truer when it came to a member of the Uzumaki clan. If Naruto really was a Jinchuriki, then why was he still ill?

Before she had time to follow this thought though, Kushina turned her full attention back to the arena, and watched as Naruto seemed to be getting more and more frantic by the second. But then he did something she thought he would never be able to do, and her mind exploded with even more questions.

Without out a doubt, the creatures Naruto had just summoned were created though the Uzumaki Solid Chakra Bloodline, though it was a form she had never seen or heard of before. The amount of chakra it would have taken to actually form solid animals must have been huge, and she didn't miss the way her son suddenly needed to use his scythe to keep himself up.

"Kushina…I don't understand…"

Sending a glance out of the corner of her eye at her husband, slowly reaching out and taking his hand in hers, never taking her eyes away from the fight.

"I know Minato-kun…I don't either…"

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Despite the strain it put on him to summon both the larger Spirits at the same time, it only took Naruto a about a minute before he was able to stand under his own power again, pulling the scythe out of the ground and watched as his sisters struggled with their new opponents.

Mito seemed to have started some kind of fist fight with the bear, jumping in and out of range so as not to be caught by one of his large paws, aiming most of her strikes at its body. The Bear Spirit showed no sign that it even felt the hits, just continuing to swipe at the teen when she came close enough.

Erza was having more look, having formed a spear to fight with, though the Wolf Spirit was fast and she was having trouble getting a hit, and was only just able to avoid having her legs bitten. The wolf as darting in and out in before moving to a different place, aiming at her unarmoured legs in an attempt to hobble her, barely avoiding getting hit by the spear.

Deciding to focus on Erza for the moment, Naruto ran at her from behind the Wolf Spirit, using his scythe to help him jump over the Spirit. Because she was so focus on the wolf, Erza didn't notice him until his foot slammed into her chest plate, once again denting the metal and knocking her off balance. Taking the opening, the wolf lunged forward and grabbed the spear with its teeth, wrenching it out of her hands and throwing it to the side. The moment it hit the floor, the spear disappeared in a swirl of blue chakra, and Erza jumped back to put more distance between herself and Naruto.

Not having time to think of anything better, Erza quickly formed a simple katana, just in time to finally get a solid hit on the Wolf Spirit. The wolf had punched at her the moment she her spear left her hand, and she was able to step to the side just in time to stab it in the side as it passed her.

It never landed, disappearing in a swirl of chakra, returning to Naruto.

Unfortunately for Erza, it gave the blonde the equivalent of a minor adrenalin rush when the chakra spread back through his system, making him move just a little faster as he came up from behind the wolf. Naruto was already swinging his scythe by the time she caught sight of him, eyes widening in shock, before she was knocked out by the blunt edge of the scythe hitting her in the side of the head.

Naruto had just enough time to realise he had beat Erza before he felt the chakra from the Bear Spirit he had sent to fight Mito returning to him, before rolling forward to avoid the punch aimed at the back of his head. Getting back on his feet, Naruto avoided the next punch by pivoting on his right foot, hooking his arm around his sister's neck and slamming her face first into the ground.

However, instead of hitting the ground like he had planned, Mito rolled with her momentum and kicked out at his face as she stood on her hands. Not giving him time to react, she followed it thought by spinning on her palm, hitting him three times in quick succession in the chest before flipping back to her feet and slamming her palm into his chest.

Only for her eyes to widen in horror at the loud creaking sound when several of his ribs broke, and Naruto let out a loud scream of pain she he fell to his knees and clutched his chest, the scythe falling at his side as he struggled to breath.

Falling to the ground next to him, Mito started to panic as he kept screaming in pain, looking around her for help as she tried to hold him still.

"Oh god, oh no I'm so sorry Onii-chan, I didn't mean to hit you that hard! Hold still, I'll-"

CRACK!

The sound of his ribs clicking back into place was the only warning Mito had, before Naruto grabbed her by the back of the head and slammed her face into the ground between them, creaks spreading out from the impact.

Jumping back, knowing that it wouldn't be enough to knock her out, Naruto frowned when he realised that he had left his scythe on the ground next to Mito. Said red head was already getting up, brushing the dirt off of her face and sending her brother a clearly betrayed look, a red mark on her forehead from the impact.

"You faked!"

Narrowing his eyes slightly, Naruto slowly reached up to the zipper of his hoodie, before pulling it down to reveal he wasn't wearing a shirt underneath it. Like the rest of his body, the skin was a dull grey, stretched tightly over his bones and making him look painfully thin. But the thing that really got Mito's attention was the large, black bruise that was slowly fading on the left side of his chest.

"No, I just heal really quickly…"

Smirking at her shocked face, Naruto quickly zipped up hoodie and fell into a rough Taijutsu style he had been working on for the last four years, raising an eyebrow at his sister in an attempt to goad her into attacking. It worked, just like he expected Mito frowned at the clear challenge and rushed forward, planning her foot in the ground in front of him and moving into a spinning kick aimed at his head.

However, in her rush to end the match, Mito didn't notice the fact Naruto's hands were glowing with his odd blue/grey chakra. Blocking the kick with his right forearm, Naruto brought his hand down on her leg, and Mito fell to the ground with a scream of pain. Those watching could only stare in shock, having seen the blonde teen barely touching her leg with his glowing hand, several thinking he had actually used the Hyuga Gentle Fist Style.

It was actually a style of his own creation call the Deadman Style, which like the Gentle Fist was based around using chakra, but instead of attacking a person's chakra points Naruto attacked the Soul. When something died, the Soul was compressed into the orbs he eat, collecting into one point, before fading into the air if left for more than an hour. But from what he had learned, while the Soul was still inside something living, it was more spread out around the body, like a second invisible layer of skin, with the largest concentration being in the chest. Unlike chakra, that had the most in the stomach and flowed through a system of chakra coils.

When he attacked the Soul directly with his chakra, it could cause extreme pain, but no physical damage. The pain would linger depending on how much chakra he put into it, but so far it never left any lasting damage, but then the largest thing he had practiced on were bears.

It was the perfect chance for him to make a finishing blow, Mito was still on the ground holding her leg, eyes closed tightly, all it would take was a tap on a pressure point and she be out for the count. But for all he could do was stare at her with a blank expression on his face. He looked over at Erza, who was finally waking up, then to the people watching them, his parents…

Naruto had been waiting for this moment for a long time, imagining it over and over again, dreaming about when he would prove he was stronger than his sister, that he wasn't the frail weak little boy his parents didn't think was worth there time.

This didn't feel good…at all.

After all those years of hating his sisters, making himself resent them for what his parents did…he just couldn't do it anymore…he couldn't do this anymore…

Stepping away Naruto let his 'Shinigami Mode' fade, the sudden loss of power making him stumble slightly, before looking to Iruka out of the corner of his eye.

"I…I surrender…"

Ignoring the shocked looks being sent at him, Naruto moved over to his scythe, returned it to his back, and walked off without a second glance at either of his sisters or parents.

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After getting over their shock at everything that had just happened, Kushina jumped down from the stands and ran over to her daughters, Erza supporting Mito. She heard Minato announcing that the rest of the matches would be postponed, followed by the sound of his feet hitting the arena floor, before he was next to her.

She barely noticed that several others were there with them, Kakashi, Tenzo, Hiruzen and Shikaku quickly closing rank around them as they made their way to the hospital. Though the moment they were out of earshot of the remaining crowd Minato sent both Kakashi and Tenzo to find Naruto and bring him to them, they had a lot to talk about.

It was while they were making their way through the streets of Konoha, when Shikaku started talking, keeping his voice low just in case anyone would try and listen in. The Head of the Nara Clan had been one of Minato's best friends since their time in the academy, and before he was taken as Jiraiya's apprentice, they were on the same genin team.

To this day he was one of the few people her husband trusted without question, both his advice and his loyalty.

"Is this actually possible, I thought you only sealed the Kyuubi?"

She saw the small frown that crossed Minato's, knowing he was beating himself up for not thinking to check sooner, feeling the same way herself.

"I don't know…it's possible, now that I think about it, it's very possible, but until we do a proper examination I can't say for sure. But there is definitely something…that transformation was real if nothing else…"

Here Kushina decided to throw in her own thoughts about something.

"Those animals he created, they looked a lot like the Solid Chakra Bloodline, but I have never seen or heard of it being used to make anything other than weapons and armour."

"I believe we should hold off on any further discussion on this matter until we are out of the open and in a secure room, there are ears and eyes everywhere, and the less people that know the details the better. The fact that Naruto-kun announced to all those people he was the Jinchuriki of the Shinigami has made it impossible to contain it, we need to do what we can to limit any more information leaking out until we know more ourselves."

They all nodded at Hiruzen's words, knowing he was right, and continued down the street without another word.

Shortly after arriving at the Hospital and they had both Mito and Erza being checked over, Minato called for Inoichi to join them, before coming back and watching as the a Med-nin examined his daughter's leg. It turned out there was no actual damage, at least not that the Med-nin could find, and although Mito claimed it still hurt she also said it was lessening more and more as the minutes passed. Erza was a little banged up, but was find aver all and would be back to 100% after a good night's sleep.

Surprisingly Inoichi arrived before Tenzo and Kakashi, and when it reached 30 minutes Kushina was tempted to go out and find them herself, but just as she was about to walk out the door they walked in, a frowning Naruto between them with his eyes fixed on the floor. It took about five second for them to notice two things that seemed odd. The first was the fact Kakashi looked paler than usual, and was clutching his right arm that was hanging limply at his side, his one visible eye clenched shut in pain. The second was the glowing blue orb Tenzo was carrying in what seemed to be a cage of roots, holding it out in front of him as if it might try to bite him.

Sending a worried look at the other people in the room, Kushina walked forward and made to lay a hand on her son's shoulder, only for him to finally look up from the floor to glare at her. She quickly took her hand away and stepped back, trying not to let the tears fall from her eyes, and moved to stand next to her husband.

For a moment, no one spoke, most switching their eyes from the blonde teen to the orb, trying to understand what the connection was. After about two minutes passed, Minato spoke and, knowing he would get more of a response form Tenzo, addressed the ANBU first.

"You took longer than I expected, what happened? Also…what is that?"

Slowly placing the orb on a small table before quickly taking his hands away, Tenzo stood up straight to address them all.

"We found him in the northern forest within the village, but it took some time to track him down once we hit the treeline. When we found him, he was standing next to a dead bear, with this orb floating above it. Kakashi-sempai stopped him from grabbing it, but Naruto did something and now he can't move his arm and it hurts. I made the root cage so that we could move it and brought it for examination, may be one of the med-nin could tell us something-"

"Hey kiss ass, it's his fault for sneaking up on me, now give me my lunch back already, I'm hungry."

All heads turned to Naruto at his words, noticing the way he was glaring at Tenzo, his hand held out in front of him. Kushina also saw the ANBU letting out a sigh, shaking his head as if this wasn't the first time he had been asked this question, and turned to address the teen while rubbing his eyes.

"I already told you Namikaze-sama, I cannot allow you to eat something that we know nothing about, it could be dangerous. We need to examine it and find out what it is."

"I already know what it is, why the hell do you think I killed the bear in the first place? Now give me the damn Soul before it fades and I have to go and kill something else!"

Flinching slightly at both his outburst and the glare being sent at them all, no one was able to stop Naruto as he grabbed to wooden cage and crushed it with his hands, before opening his mouth impossibly wide and dropping the orb into his mouth. Kushina felt her eyes widen in fear as his throat bulged out as he swallowed it, thinking for a moment he was going to choke, before it carried on down.

She had about two seconds of relief before his words finally register from before, the word he had called the orb…

"D-did you just call it a soul?"

Licking his lips, Naruto clicked his neck loudly before turning to Kushina, and while the glare had been replaced with indifference, there was still a frown on his lips.

"That's what I call them, not that it's any of your business, and did you really need to send your dog and puppet after me because I ruffed up Mito and Erza a little."

"I'm not a dog"

"And I'm not a puppet"

He turned to look at Kakashi, ignoring Tenzo altogether, who was slumped slightly and had a slightly depressed aura around him, before turning back to the others in the room with a raised eyebrow.

"Seriously, all I hear when he talks his 'Woof, I'm a bitch, Woof'. You should get yourself a better hunting dog, this one is as dumb as the wood the puppet uses."

"I'm not a dog!"

Letting out a sigh at the familiar argument, Naruto had never seemed to get along with Kakashi, Minato move to stand between them and raised his hands to get them to stop.

"Kakashi…you know better than to rise to his bait, at your age and rank. Naruto-kun, what have I told you about being respectful to your superiors?"

His response as a middle finger and a pointed look.

"If you can't get me to show your dumb-ass respect, then why would I show it to your pet?"

"You're a ninja now-"

"Fuck you"

"Not a child-"

"Fuck you with a rusty kunai"

"There are rules-"

"Fuck you with a rusty kunai and rubber chicken soaked in sake."

"…please stop…"

Again, his answer was a middle finger, but the teen stopped.

Clearing his throat, Minato decided to just get what they were about to do over with, knowing his son wouldn't like it one bit.

"Naruto-kun, the things you were saying in the arena…how did you find out about this, you mother and I didn't even know the Shinigami could be sealed-"

"Bullshit, you're the one that put it in me asshole, so unless you're an even bigger idiot than I thought, you knew about it from the start. I might not like you, but I can admit you're not that stupid."

Naruto saw it on their faces, the uncomfortable and nervous expressions, the way his mother and father were shifting around nervously. But he didn't believe them, couldn't, the idea that they had made him into this by accident wasn't possible.

"Stop it! I know you did this on purpose, you did this to me, then ignored me! I this wasn't an accident!"

He watched his mum step forward, as if to hug him, But Naruto flinched away from her touch and glared at her.

"Naruto-kun, please we didn't do this on purpose, if you are right and the Shinigami is Sealed inside you it was an accident, we wouldn't do something like that. Please, we need to know what you know so we can help you."

"I don't believe you! You did this to me, then forgot me because you thought I was weak so you could focus on Mito and Erza! Stop lying!"

The atmosphere in the room was getting tense, Naruto getting twitchier by the second as he turned to each person in the room, all staring at him with worried eyes. Lying eyes, they didn't care about him, it was all lie."

"Naruto-kun calm down"

"NO! STOP LYING!"

His head was starting to hurt, why were they lying, he knew they were lying but why were they lying! It was all too much, everything that was happening today, this wasn't right. Why did he announce that he was a Jinchuriki to all those people, why did he let his sister brushing him off bother him so much, why were they all lying to him and pretending to care after all these year!

Why…

Why…

Why…

Why!

WHY!

The last thing Naruto saw before the pain in his head got too much was the still worried faces of the people in the room with him, his sisters faces sticking out to him the most as they stared at him from the back of the room on the hospital beds, before his whole world fell to darkness.

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