Carnage : Thank you for the long review! :D I'm really glad you enjoy my fight scenes but for the negative point.

1) I know sigh this fic will be over soon the atrocious grammar shall be fixed once this is finished.

2) We just can't call Minato a Gary stu. He's ridden by guilt and tormented for 10 years straight and in the end as well all know he will become the seal. The hotsprings scene was only done with Yukari and Mitsuru who love him very much if Mitsuru didn't (Which was until she won the poll) She would have executed him without mercy beside that was for the lolzz. Junpei hated Minato for sometime. Yukari slapped him and crushed his gift, telling that he could die for all she care so yup he's not even a bit stu here otherwise he would have charmed Fuuka and Margaret. Moving on. Plus Minato prolly has got beaten up worse than anyone else like in chap 3,16, 22, 29 and finally the 60th. Besides he hasn't even touched Liz uptil now.

3) Well they did defeat the 5th full moon boss but I can see what you mean. SEES is strong enough now which will be demonstrated soon but this story is focused totally around Minato so most of the fight scenes include him. But still I'll do a full chapter of SEES minus Minato kicking ass hope that makes you happy. Oh and Minato will snap at them too very soon as well keep watching.

Whew! I love debating! Thanks for the review :D

000110: Thank you :D

Emotional and heavy chapter! The wheel of fate is turning.


Minato sighed "Alright this is kinda….. Tense." The full moon was just 2 days away. Normally they would prepare to fight a big shadow but….

"Damn that Ikutsuki." Junpei hissed.

Minato sighed again "There isn't much we can do. If something does come, which is highly unlikely we'll fight it."

"Do you anything about this Sakura?" Mitsuru asked and the girl in question sadly shook her head "Sorry but no, 'She' never was really close to any of them."

"Alright then, let's head to school now." Akihiko added in, earning nods from everyone.

"Take care." Sakura smiled as she waved them off. Minato decided it was best that she didn't go with them, even though she was totally different, someone might just recognize her.

Mitsuru scared off the fan girls, something that Minato thanked her for.

"Aigis?" Minato called out to the android, breaking her out of her daze.

"Y-Yes Minato-san?" Minato rose a brow "She was never really on edge like this."

"Is everything alright?" Minato asked and Aigis gave a glance to Ryoji who was busy flirting with a few girls.

"Oh come on he's practically harmless." Minato waved "He won't touch you."

"I'm not worried about that… There seems something wrong with him." Aigis answered, not taking her eyes off Ryoji.

Minato smacked her on the back but then regretted it as hard steel bruised her hand. He barely controlled a yelp.

"Chill out Aigis." Minato petted her on the head and she calmed down a little.

Throughout the whole day, Aigis glared furiously at Ryoji who would wink back.

"This never ends." Minato sighed to himself.

Minato got home early since he wasn't in the mood for boxing practice. He slammed the door open with a grace of a Rhino.

"I'm back." Minato sang.

"Oh hello Minato-kun." Sakura greeted "No Ken, you have to open the brackets first." Ken winced "I suck at Maths."

Minato smiled "She really is different." Ken suddenly got up and bowed "Thank you Sakura-san for you're help. I need to do this on my own now." With that he walked up the stairs.

Minato sat next to Sakura who blushed, remembering THAT night.

"S-something you need?" Sakura nervously stated and Minato chuckled "Nope I'm just bored."

Minato stared up "We need really had a chance to talk have we?" Sakura smiled and nodded "Yes… I was busy thinking about ways to kill you." She winced at the thought.

Minato sighed "Put the past behind you woman." Sakura nodded, repeating his words.

"Good….. So let's just talk." Minato offered and Sakura giggled "Sure."

"I sure do know you a whole lot better now." Minato smiled.

"Same here." Sakura grinned "Um Minato what's you're dream?" Minato suddenly fell silent, making Sakura panic.

"Ooh I-I'm sorry I didn't want to dampen the mood." Sakura apologized but Minato shook his head "Nah you didn't."

"My dream is simple… I want to find the one who hit my car during the accident ten years ago."

"You mean THAT time?" Sakura asked cautiously and Minato nodded, curling his hand into a fist "Yeah and when I find that thing, I swear on my soul I WILL KILL IT." Sakura nearly shivered at the look on Minato's face.

"Heh didn't meant to scare ya." Sakura pouted "I am not."

"Let's go for a movie." Minato offered and Sakura blushed "A… Date?"

"Haha if that's what you want to think then okay." Minato smiled.

"Okay I was bored anyway." She grabbed a hold of Minato's arm and walked out.

"Are you sure?" Minato asked worriedly and Sakura weakly nodded "I can watch this."

"Exorcist? That movie is the scariest in the whole world." Sakura wasn't bothered by the horror rather it was something else, but she didn't want to refuse since Minato invited her to the movies.

"NO I will watch it come on Minato-kun, lets find some seats." She said determined and Minato sighed "Alright."

The horrific film played and screams from the movies and from the people in the halls rang Minato's ears.

"Oh for the love of.." Minato hissed, turning around "Grow a pair you good for nothing cowards." He shouted, resulting in a little silence.

"Noo." Minato heard a whisper, he turned around to see Sakura shaking and sobbing quietly.

"Possession? Another self?" Sakura broke into a cold sweat, even though it was winter.

"Dammit." Minato cursed "I shouldn't have let her watch this." Sakura kept shaking in horror as the demonic girl in the film who was possessed give a haunting laugh that reminded Sakura of Nyarlathotep.

"Please stop." Sakura pleaded and Minato without thinking pulled her into a hug, placing her head on his shoulder.

"Shhh.. Calm down." Minato whispered into her ear, he was sure people were talking about two teenagers flirting in the front but he didn't care.

Sakura eventually calmed down and Minato asked "Can you watch this?" Sakura tightened the hug around him and whispered "If we stay like this."

"Not a problem." Minato replied back.

It was late night when the two returned to the dorm. Minato was really sleepy.

"We're almost there." Sakura urged as she opened the door. Minato and Sakura stepped inside to be greeted by a black haired transfer student.

"Hey Minato." Ryoji grinned and then eyed Sakura "God! Who's she?" Ryoji fawned over her which visibly made Sakura uncomfortable. Everyone came around them.

"She's my relative Mochizuki." Mitsuru replied calmly.

"Ah I see.." He gave a pervert wink to Sakura who cringed slighty.

"And if you try to hit on her I will personally rip your innards out." Minato hissed almost making Ryoji puke.

"Gross." Ryoji blurted.

"Its nice to meet you Ryoji-san." Sakura greeted "I'm…uh.." Sakura fumbled over her words.

"Alisa!" Minato spoke aloud "Her name is Alisa and she came from Russia." Minato explained to Ryoji who rose a brow.

"Why doesn't she remember her own name?" Ryoji asked.

'Oh she's pretty forgetful." Junpei answered from behind with a broken smile. Stupidly Ryoji seemed to buy it so he started flirting with Sakura.

"Wanna get to kno—"

"Alright that's it! Yukari bring me my blood stained knife." Minato spat, glaring at Ryoji who backed away.

"J-Just kidding." Ryoji broke in a sweat.

"Anyway.. I hope to see you guys around then." Ryoji gave a grin and then waved "I'm outta here, seeya later." He went out of the dorm.

"Where were you?" Mitsuru asked. Minato was glad that she wasn't over protective like Yukari was.

"Oh Sakura and me went out for a movie." Minato answered, barring the part about the hug.

"I see." Mitsuru nodded. Aigis came walking down the stairs.

"Was that Ryoji-san?" She asked.

"Yup." Minato asked "He's being coming here a lot."

"But visitors are not allowed here." Aigis stated. It was clear she really didn't like Ryoji.

"Yeah but Mitsuru-senpai said it was okay." Aigis fidgeted with her uniform "But he is…. Dangerous."

"Who he?" Fuuka asked.

"Come to think of it. He was hitting on Mitsuru-senpai the first time he met her." Minato's eyes grew cold, sending a chill down everyone's spine.

"That son of a….. I'll mutilate his corpse right now." Minato yelled.

"I'm surprised he didn't get executed." Akihiko shivered slightly and Mitsuru smiled at him "Would you like another Akihiko?"

"Hell no stay away." Akihiko cried and Minato laughed "You act like she's gonna take you're virginity." Minato joked but that resulted in uncomfortable silence…

"I messed up right?" Minato sweat dropped, earning a smack from Mitsuru and Yukari.

Junpei busted into laughter, pointing his finger at Akihiko who was embarrassed.

'Talk about a overkill." Junpei laughed loudly. Minato smiled "Well looks like things finally got better eh?" He pointed at Sakura.

"Hell yeah! We defeated mother freaking chaos!" Junpei cheered making the girls giggle.

"Correction. Minato defeated Chaos." Yukari corrected Junpei.

Mitsuru awkwardly fidgeted "Um Minato? Are we by any chance slowing you down?" Minato's brow rose a few centimeters up.

"Of course not! Because of you I was able to counter the Chaos Wave."

"Yes! Even I could sense it." Sakura added in.

"So yeah, you guys are awesome!" Minato grinned at his team mates.

"I'm glad to hear that." Mitsuru chuckled. I suggest we study since the exams will be hard this time." Minato smacked himself mentally. He totally forgot about exams.

Everyone groaned at Mitsuru's news.

"Lets call it a night then." Yukari sighed, waving "Seeya guys later." Sakura walked up next "Thank you for the movie Minato-kun." She smiled and then bowed, moving up the stairs.

Everyone left, leaving Minato and Aigis.

"Aigis if there is something wrong then just tell me." Minato nearly pleaded but Aigis shook her head slowly "No nothings wrong…. Minato-san I don't want you to get hurt." Minato smiled at her concern "I wont Aigis good night." He patted her on the back and then walked up his room.

….

The next day something was wrong in the air. Minato could feel something happening since it was the full moon. Aigis and Ryoji practically flew out the door the minute school ended.

This time… It was way worse than Nyarlathotep.

"Something's wrong." Sakura noted and Minato nodded "Yeah. Fuuka be sure to scan for shadows in the dark hour." Fuuka nodded.

"Where's Aigis?" Minato asked and Ken answered "I saw her on the second floor." Minato bit his lip "Alright." SEES forcefully slept except Mitsuru and Fuuka.

On the moonlight bridge two figures stared at each other. A figure with blonde hair charged at Death and was blasted back like she was nothing…

"I… Failed.." Aigis choked out as she felt her hardware shattering completely. She flew up into the air, several feet and was about to shatter into pieces until….someone caught her.

"AIGIS!" Minato cried as he lifted Aigis up and carefully placed her down. SEES was behind him as Minato's heart started beating painfully fast.

"Minato-san I'm sorry I've failed." Minato hushed her "Don't talk please."

"Please forgive me. I'm sorry." Minato could not answer back as another voice cut in.

"There's no need for you to apologize." From the shadows Ryoji Mochizuki appeared. The look on his face told that he experienced a million years of grief. Minato's eyes opened wide as he felt a familiar aura around Ryoji.

"You?" Minato asked, standing up.

Ryoji just looked down in agony and sorrow.

"Aigis." Fuuka choked out as Aigis stopped moving completely.

"Alright! Ryoji tell me what happened or I'll blow this whole fucking bridge apart." Minato shouted. This was just too much.

"His aura." Sakura nearly shivered and so did Fuuka.

"Who are you?" Mitsuru asked but soon corrected herself "WHAT are you?"

Ryoji painfully spoke up "I'm the same as the beings you call shadows." Everyone gasped in surprise.

"You're a shadow?" Junpei yelped.

"I'm the embodiment of all shadows. The Appriser born from the union of the 12 Arcana…..Death." Everyone froze at his last word.

"Death?" Minato nearly shivered.

"The Appriser?" Yukari repeated with a confused expression.

"I finally found about what I am! The frightening truth about myself and shadows." Ryoji spoke weakly, still looking at the ground.

"WHAT TRUTH?" Minato shouted.

"The shadows are here to facilitate the rebirth of the maternal being. The maternal being will awaken as she is drawn to me." Ryoji spoke but nothing he spoke got into their heads.

"Maternal being? Who is that?" Sakura asked terrified.

"She is a great entity. There is no word in you're language for her. 10 years ago a man collected a great number of shadows to unify them as one, but the unification was interrupted and I awoken in an incomplete state."

"The hell?" Minato whispered to himself, his heart beating painfully fast again.

"Not long after I fell to Aigis." He pointed at the motionless Aigis on the ground "She knew she could not defeat me so…. In an act of desperation she sealed me inside a child who happened to nearby…. That child grew up carrying me inside him." Ryoji gave the most sorrowful look ever to Minato "And he later returned here…. As a transfer student." Everyone gasped and Minato's eyes widened. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He couldn't believe it! Ryoji was inside him?

"You mean?" Yukari dared asked and Ryoji answered, turning to Minato.

"Yes the essence of Death flowed through you're body." Minato started breathing heavily.

"Until you defeated the last shadow." Ryoji spoke with a weak voice.

"Death?" Minato asked himself "I had Death?... Inside me? For years?" Minato felt real close to breaking down.

"I'm Death the 13th Arcana born from the reunion of the 12 you defeated. I was the one who Aigis sealed inside Minato 10 years ago." Ryoji barely spoke in a whisper but everyone understood him.

"Sealed?" The same thought passed through everyone's mind. Minato on the other hand felt something completely different right now….. Anger.

"Hahaha." Minato laughed manically, shocking everyone "Death?" Minato snorted as he walked towards Ryoji.

"Let me ask you something Death." Minato gritted his teeth.

"Minato! Wait." Yukari cried but he didn't listen.

"Are you the one who hit my car 10 years ago?" Minato asked and Ryoji resisted the urge to cry.

"…..Yes." Minato calmly nodded.

"You're Pharos right?" Minato spoke in a deadly voice and Ryoji painfully nodded again.

"You manipulated me into coming here." Minato glared ferociously at Ryoji. Minato stopped in front of Ryoji. He could practically fell Death reeking off him… But he didn't care.

"You haunted me with all those nightmares didn't you?" Minato asked again.

"You hurt Aigis didn't you?" Minato asked softly, nearly camouflaging his hatred earlier.

"Yes…" Ryoji answered.

"You son of a bitch!" Minato yelled out loud, smacking Ryoji right on the face with all of the energy he could muster. Everyone gasped as Ryoji staggered back but he made no effort to fight back and didn't even care about blood dripping down.

"You fucking bastard." Minato yelled, driving his knee onto Ryoji's stomach, making him scream in pain.

"Minato stop!" Mitsuru yelled but her boyfriend didn't listen.

"You ruined my life! I THOUGHT OF YOU AS MY BROTHER!" He repeatedly punched Ryoji on the face, grabbing the scarf of his with a harsh grip.

Ryoji was still not doing anything. Minato let go and charged again, lifting him of his feet and slamming him onto a nearby car, totaling it completely.

"This is great!" Minato shouted to the sky as he grabbed Ryoji's head and rammed in onto the steel car.

"The thing that made my life a living hell. The thing that is responsible for the loneliness and grief that raped my soul for the last 10 fucking years." Minato yelled out.

"I'm sorry." Ryoji choked out and Minato grabbed him by the throat, slamming him on the ground.

"Sorry? You backstabbed me PHAROS!" He screamed "You were the little brother I never had. You were my first friend since that accident and fuck me for befriending the thing that killed my parents."

Minato began pounding Ryoji senseless. SEES shivered at the display.

"Fight back! Fight back!' Minato cried out "You killed my parents! Do the same thing now." Minato screamed. He summoned a dagger and drove it through Ryoji's right arm, making him scream. Minato got up and stomped him multiple times on the face.

"Fight back!"

"I can't." Ryoji cried out.

"Bastard. I FUCKING HATE YOU MORE THAN ANYTHING!" Minato yelled out, grabbing him by the hair and making him stand up.

Minato charged up a Megidolaon up his hands and blasted Ryoji at point blank range. A huge explosion erupted as Ryoji was blasted back. Minato himself was pushed back.

Death slammed and wrecked multiple cars apart and then slowly slid down. Minato regained his balance and staggered to his feet.

Mitsuru ran upto him trying to stop him.

"Minato stop." She begged but Minato shoved her away remorselessly, utterly shocking everyone.

Junpei and Akihiko ran towards him to stop him from advancing to the seriously wounded Ryoji..

Minato snarled "Just fuck off." He blasted his best friends away with a vicious tornado that sent them flying.

"I don't get it." Minato choked out, his anger filled voice becoming a whisper.

"Why me?" Why me?" He walked towards Ryoji who was bloodied and beaten bad but he still got up quite easily.

"Death… Personas… Chaos.. Everything." He took a deep breath "I never wanted this crap."

"I expected backstabbing from that bastard who deserves to burn in a thousand hells…. But not you Pharos."

"I…" Ryoji couldn' speak further.

"I hated Sakura before but now… I hate you more than I ever hated her." Ryoji nearly dropped to his knees at Minato's words.

"I hate you with every fiber of my being." Minato spoke with finality in his voice, sealing the deal.

Minato stopped in front of the bloodied Ryoji "You made my life a living hell Ryoji! My parents…" Minato fought back the tears… He couldn't cry no matter how painful it was.

"The people who gave me birth… Now because of you I don't even remember their voices."

"Those moments of utter grief. My sis being dragged down because of me, those horrifying nightmares… That was all because of you."

"But I'm y-y-your friend." Ryoji choked out.

"Don't make the mistake for thinking for a second. I'm not the same damn guy I've always been in the last 10 years!" Minato screamed in his face.

"I'll rip you apart Ryoji. From limb to limb." Minato readied another punch and aimed it towards him… But this time Ryoji caught it.

"Enough." Ryoji let out a monstrous roar that made everyone drop on their knees from the sheer horror. Ryoji's body was surrounded by a black aura that shook the whole bridge apart.

Minato however, gritted his teeth and charged up Thanatos's power into his own body. Minato's eyes shifted to black.

A dark energy exploded from the two who were locked into stalemate. The pure wave of energy blew the cars back and blew the bindings of the bridge apart. Everyone flew back from the sheer force.

Ryoji shoved Minato's hand away and delivered a punch right onto his face. The pain was out of the world. The blow he received from Chaos was no where near this one. Minato felt his vision blacken for a while… He was going to pass out soon…. Everything was fading.

"I….swear on my life." Minato repeated in his mind. He mustered up all the energy he had and clinged onto consciousness. Minato rebounded and delivered a viscous knee right up Ryoji's gut… He placed all the power he had into that strike.

Ryoji and Minato flew back and landed on the ground. Minato was sure a lot of his facial bones were broken but he didn't care… He swallowed the pain and got up again.

"Please no more!" Ryoji begged "I beg of you… I'll tell you everything."

"You already told me a lot Pharos." Minato shouted back.

"No please! Just this…once." With that he collapsed onto the ground. Everyone was silent. The revelation was just too shocking.

Minato the blue haired boy harbored the essence of Death for ten years and he was never aware of it.

"I just want peace… I'm tired of fighting." Minato dropped to his knees, emotionally and physically drained more than he ever was.

"I… don't want to fight anymore… I want…. My Nee-chan back." Minato choked out.

"Please…" Minato whispered to himself "I'm tired Nee-chan…."


Done! Oh man am I excited to write the next few chapters! Esp the avatar fight Review as always please hope you enjoyed this.