Guess I'm redoing this . Sorry for not updating but I didn't think any one like this . But I got one review asking for more so here's more . Thanks first review.
In the beginning minato and kushina had twin sons .
Naruto and an unnamed child , who was unexpected but still very welcomed by his parents . However time was short , as the nine tail beast was rampaging through the leaf village .
The beast two big for one child . Was sealed into both . The foxes yang chakra was sealed into The oldest , bleaching his orange hair yellow . The younger was given the yin chakra dying his orange hair black but also tinting his eyes violet , like his mothers .
minato prepared the eight trigram seal for naruto, while kushina did the same for the younger . After the process was done . The lovers died clinging to their sons . Hoping their children lived a blessed life together, however fate held a different tune .
Part of the ledge the children had been laid upon crumbled
When the younger fell an ice ninja grabbed him . Not having the time to snatch naruto , he took of running .
The ice ninja headed straight west as to exit the fire country quickly . He would need to enter the lands of grass, rain, birds, and vegetables . Then through the northern county earth and iron.
Near the end of his journey he was tired from protecting a new born from getting hit by every thing. Including Kunai , jutsu's and traveling at God-speed he didn't notice the samurai's on patrol.
The samurai's untrusting of ninja during the war slaughtered him and took the child to the shogun mifune .
Mifune was signing documents when a loud knock was heard from his door. Putting his pen down mifune straighten up and smoothed out his kimono before announcing "enter ."
A man dawning samurai armor walked holding a baby in his arms and bowed deeply .
"I have a urgent Report sir . While On patrol a ninja was spotted traveling through are lands and his life was ended Quickly , however the ninja was carrying a baby from the south . The ninjas was from ice ."
Mifune closed his eyes and thought. ("The war may be ending but with this much chaos there no telling where he belongs .")
Mifune reopened his eyes . "Okisuke do we have any information on the child ."
"sir we suspect the child was kidnapped from one of the southern country's but he may have been taken from a eastern one. We believe him to be only a couple of days old at most ."
Mifune walked over to Okisuke and lifted the child to Cradle in his arms .
"Okisuke go inform the orphanage head master of the new child ."he stood up and bowed once more before leaving .
Mifune raised the child a little out and above him self ."Well you need a name don't you. "
Mifune walked over to his book shelf , his finger scanning titles until it stopped on one
"How about this one , it's called the tale of the utterly gusty shinobi , by jiraiya ." Mifune looked down at the child , "you want to be called Naruto ?"
Mifune didn't think newborns could glare but this one did.
"Okay how about this one Its a book about a samurai , it's a lot like you I think . Your from a foreign country and now you'll grow up in a samurai one."
"the name of the book is called . fable of the samurais resolve , its also written by jiraiya , he's a very famous ninja"
"How's menma little one?" The child giggled a little at the name ."Alright menma it is ."
Mifune pulled the book from his shelf and walked over to his desk to sit. Mifune opened the book and began reading in to menma .
"Once a lone samurai wander the land of the ink , the samurai felt lost and alone. He had been lost from his home for many years ."
Menma was now six years old and he had been locked in a swung his legs back in forth on his chair . Each time he sung a leg , he bumped the door . Tears traced his cheeks and his eyes stung . An orderly stuffed him in and said he was being punished for taking up space .
Menma wanted to cry , he wanted to dye . When ever he told mifune that he was being bullied the orphan staff would lie and say he was just trying to trick them like a filthy ninja .
(" no one deserves to be locked up like this ") he cried internally. He Banged his hands on his head until he heard a sharp growl(" not the best solution kid")
" who said " he asked out loud .
"SHUT IT IN THERE OR YOU STAY IN TILL NEXT WEEK !"
Menma sucked in a gasp.
(" I'm pulling you in ")
Menma's eyes rolled into the back of his head and he slumped down
Menma woke up in a deep dead forest . Ash and snow fell from the sky mixing together to make a gray floor . The sky was black but it was lit up by northern lights ; The lights were a heavy mix of red , and orange with faint spots of yellow.
Menma started following a dirt road. As he moved forward it seemed as if the trees were following him. He couldn't pass any . However he made it into a cleaving .
In the center of the clearing was a giant iceberg with a stamp in the middle . Inside the iceberg were two red glowing ice .
The eyes spoke with a voice like crackling fire . "so we finally meet huh runt."
Menma eyes widen . The power from the voice nearly knocked him back " wh..who are you?"
The beast glared ." I am the one who insights death, I am the one who mends you when you brake , I may be the reason you're in this land of snow."
Menma stood up and tried to compose him self." Why .. why are we here . I hate it here ."
The red demon grunted."I don't know , , I rarely see any thing , all I do know is I'm locked in side you and can't get out. "
Menma looked down " im sorry ...I'm also stuck and can't get out."
The red mass snarled ." Is that why you're crying , why don't you do something about it runt ."
Menma poked his fingers together " be...because I'm small and weak. That's what every says. Maybe I should just let you out . You're not weak like me."
The fox started laughing " kid you see how big I am . Do you really think size matters , a man not even a twelfth my size beat me , besides you'd die."
Menma looked back at him " Still maybe it be better if I just let you out , I'm nothing ."
The fox grunted " listen the fuck up . I'm not going to help you often and don't ever asked me for help but I guess I'll help you out .
Menma's eyes widened." REALLY MISTER YOU WOULD HELP ME ."
"Shush , for my help I need you to go to sleep."
" where? "menma asked .
" right there kit . Just go to bed .
Menma did as he was told . He watched the lights in the sky mingle as he drifted off.
Kuramas eye peeked open, cover his vision was a haze of black . He pushed at the think shadows of hair only for it to bounce back .
"Stupid hair " he muttered . Placing his hand on his head ,he gazed up at the dark ceiling .( why am I helping him . Iv felt nothing but contempt for my past vessel, what changed , why don't I feel whole , why can't I hate him like the rest .") kurama new in his heart that what ever traumatic incident that caused him to forget the past was the same reason he felt protective rather than hate .
Shrugging to himself , kurama banged on the closet door. " let me out dip shit ."
" I SAID SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU PEAICE OF SHIT " the man ripped open the door his hand raised back in anger .
Kurama leaped at him and gouged out his eyes . Before the man could scream he smacked him on the back of the neck , knocking him out .
Kurama chuckled sinisterly . Holding up his borrowed right hand , he incased it in a fire like chakra and sliced of the mans limps , making sure to cauterize the wounds just so he wouldn't bleed out .
He then used a tiny beam of chakra to scramble the orderlys ear drums and then used the tiny beams to slightly lobotomize him , but he only did enough damage to take away the mans senses of smell, then he cut of his tongue .Finally he burnet the mans skin .
Kurama smiled satisfied with his work he walked menma too his bed and put him to sleep . If all turned out right menma would know what had happened.
Kurama grumbled "I'm getting soft " before he drifted off .
Memna smiled widely today was his eighth birthday witch made him eligible for samurai sign ups and so Urakaku on the shoguns orders was to help menma register.
Urakaku looked at menma as they walk ." So menma are you nervous?"
Menma scratched the back of his head and smiled meekly ."Yeah I'm a little nervous. I have to have enough chakra to get in and I'm not so sure I do."
Urakaku shook his head and patted menma's." Even if you don't get in right away you can always train to building up your chakra and pass next year."
Menma tightened his hand" I can't wait , I need to pass ." His fist sung up .
The duo walked in silence the rest of the way . When they finally reached the school a staff member was sitting at a booth with registation documents.
When the man saw menma approach, he mumbled ." No outsider trash is going to be a samurai on my watch ." As he hid the documents.
Urakaku saw the man hide the papers but decided to see how it played out.
Menma looked up at the man. " can I have a sign up sheet mister."
The man looked down at him" no this is for people of the land of iron , not little outsider bastards like you .
Urakaka continued to watch and see menmas resolve , if he could stand up for him self , he'd make a good samurai .
Menma growled at the man before jumping at him with his fist pulled back. The man yelped as menma punched and bit into him.
Urakaku Smiled under his scarf proudly at him . ( "get em kid , get em" )
After a couple of minutes Urakaku walked over to the booth and grabbed a registration form and began filling it out for menma .
When he finished he slipped it into the pile and grabbed a struggling menma and slung him over his shoulder.
Before they left for the chakra test he turned to the man." You better not loose this kids form or you'll not only answer to me but the shogun as well ." The man nodded his head in fright as Urakaku left.
When menma calmed down Urakaku let him take the chakra test . The woman was going to refuse to test him but one look from Urakaku changed her tune.
She placed her hand on menmas shoulder " now kid push out as much of your chakra as you can in one big burst."
Menma clasped his hands together and pushed . His chakra bursts forced like an avalanche and threw the woman back . It was so strong it was visible to the human eye.
Expectedly he passed .
Menma age twelve was now close to becoming a samurai , his test was going to be hard and long, he need to preform three tasks . One stay still for five hours straight , two Channel chakra into a wakizashi , three last twenty minutes in a sparing match against a Kodenbushi rank samurai,
Menma was sitting alone in his own apartment. When he was six an incident occurred that forced him into his current home , he was never quite sure why .
The cloak he wore was far to thin for the harsh snow , more suited for rain. a long black cloak that reached his ankles .
"Ahhh this blows." Menma stated , his hands running through his hair . "Standing still would fine if not relaxing but channeling chakra will be freaking impossible , when I try I usually ended up melting my wakizashi and mifune yells at me when I ask for a new one."
Sighing menma stood from his couch/bed "Iv had enough of this, time for lunch ." He slipped on his steel toe boots , grabbed his wakizashi and left his tiny apartment .
making his way toward the outer reaches of the town , being mindful of the villagers who often threw mean glares and trash at him.
After trekking a great distance , he pulled out a box trap for a rabbits and placed it in the snow , then walk to a tree and sat under it . To pass the time he read his book . Fable of the samurais resolve . His most treasured possessions.
After an hour he dropped his book at sound of a roar .A lone white tiger was sprinted at him . its long claws sliding out as pounced
He ripped his wakizashi from its sheath , blocking the cats claws and forcing them to slide off .
The tiger jumped back ,growling as started to circle him . tracking it with hynsight . It circled him two times , each time drawing nearer. It charged once again.
waiting for the beast to jump once again , he side stepped the cat , menma sliced at him with his wakizashi. The cat skidded back but was overall fine.
Menma knew he needed to channel chakra into his blade to survive.
"Damn it." He cursed as the cat charged again. All his sword was doing was making tiny scratches.
When the cat charged it spread its claws to the side and scratched menma arm as he side stepped it . he was learning.
"I needed to end this " menma panted .
" maybe if I time it I can stab him before it melts." His blade turned blue and soon chakra was leaking from it , but the tiger charged him forcing him to dropped his focus to dodge .
Menma felt like butterflies were In his stomach. He was scared to look at his sword . looking down , His eye widened . The blade was fine , blue even but fading.
"That's it ." He stated . Menma charged his blade to blue then cut the connection then reapplied it multiple times. His blade evened out to a dark blue color .
The tiger charged him once again , spreading its claws to the sides waiting for him to side step but this time Menma thruster his blade into its open jaw. Scrambling it's brain with heat. The snow tiger body rolled on top of him as it died.
After pushing the snow tiger off himself menma grabbing his book and checked it for damage . then inspecting his arm and wrapping it up with some loose cloth .
He hauled the cat home And turned it into his meal . However He took one of its fangs and some fur, not as a trophy but as a reminder for the creature that helped him learn how to control his own power.
Menma's eyes burst open , excitedly he hop out of bed and got dressed in a red t shirt and white baggy pants .
breakfast today is some dry rabbit jerky. It's soft and easy to pull apart and for hid drink some snow . "Yaaay having no money and being hated." He grumbled.
He dressed in a red shirt with a pair of white cargo pants. He strap on a steel white chest piece . He also put on shoulder pads but instead of the normal wide far out shoulder pads , his shoulder pads were small as to fit under his jacket .
He pull on his boots . A pair of red leather closed steal toes that reach his a little higher than his ankles.
His gloves were just a pair of red leather fingerless gloves .
He grab his jacket/blanket from his mattress . He slid the jacket on and smiled at the feeling of fur .it had gotten ten times more comfortable from lining the inside with tiger fur and not only that he thought it looked cooler with the white tigers fur as a collar.
Finally he grabbed his wakizashi and tie the sheath to his belt .
He ran as fast as He could to school and into his class room and took his seat in the back .
A couple minutes went by and the teacher walked in . He's a man named Chiyomatsu . He's a tall man , who dark skin and broad shoulders as well as short spiky black hair.
"Settle down class , today you will be taking the exams to become a honorable samurai .If you pass you will be given a ring . This ring will show your status as a smaurai and your loyalty to the land of iron ,
Now every one line up for five hours . The time is now 9am you must stay still until 2pm"
Menma walked calmly to his spot and wait wasn't horrible for him , just don't lock your knees and zone out.
After five hours and people passing out from locking their knees , freaking out from standing still to long or just plain tired feet , twenty people out of sixty in the class passed the first test .
Mr Chiyomatsu yelled to the of the failed students ." all right those of you who failed go home , you tried your best and can try again next year .Now for the for the rest of you it's now time for the Samurai Sabre Technique test . Sit down and come into the side room when your names called ."
Menma was the elevens called .
"Hello menma ." Chiyomatsu greeted
"Hello . "Menma bowed as he said his name.
"Menma please preform the Samurai Sabre Technique."
Menma pulled out his wakizashi and started changing chakra through it then cutting the connection just to reconnect it. Like putting the fire out from under your stew before it boils just to relight and send it near the edge again.
clapped . "good job menma , I'm proud of you for figuring out how to do it .Go to the sparing room for your final test with ."
He bowed once more before taking his leave. "Thank you sir ."
Menma sighed and thought to himself. (It's time like this I wish had friends who could say things like. "I knew you could do it menma or congratulations menma or gee menma your so cool we should go out and do naughty things . "yeah one day I'll make friends.)
When he walked into the sparing room a match was going on , so He pulled out his book.
After a couple minutes his name was called . "Menma no last name "you're up , Called .
is short man with a bald head with hair on the side in a ponytail. He wears a green Kimono with a purple scarf covering his mouth and communicator.
Menma walked into the ring and picked up a practiced katana and got into a fighting stance.
Urakaku charged him. His sword aimed at menma's right .
Menma side stepped the man and swung his sword down.
Urakaku easily dodged it and swung his sword at menma.
The two continued to sword dances . Urakaku was clearly going easy on menma . Until out of nowhere , he speed at menma like a bull .
Menma Dropped to dodge but urakaku was ready. He slammed his sword down at menma who could only block .
Menma was losing and urakaku wasn't just going to let any one pass .
Menma and urakaku both began pushing their all . Both seemed to get the idea to push chakra into the training blades . Urakaku was faster and his blade turned a shimmering blue . Menma let his chakra go all the way without siphoning the feed to sustain his blade .
Urakaku jumped back when he noticed menma's pupils turn into slits. He shook his head and looked at the clock and back to menma .
Menma was panting as his blade burst in flames . He dropped it ignored it as it burned . Menma moved into a taijutsu stance
Urakaku had a surprise look on his face , which turned into a smile. "Menma you pass."
Menma blinked a couple of times "Really sir , even though I burnt my blade?"
Urakaku scratch the side of his " yeah try not to do that in the future . The Lord shogun is waiting for you in his office to assign you too a teacher and swear you in "
Menma made his way to the shoguns office at god speed , taking all the short cuts and making sure no civilian would see him , as it would be Dishonored to run like a child , "but hey " he thought " im twelve what do they expect."
When menma neared the shogun office , He slowed to a respectable walk and entered through the front door and waited next to mifunes assistant
"He'll be with you in a moment menma ." she gave him a warm smile and He returned one with a nod.
After five minutes a girl from his class walked out . uragiri Was three years older then menma . The typical age of a graduate. She had brown hair in a bun with pink eyes . She wore a purple kimono.
She looked to him and nodded and he nodded back .she took her leave as he was called in.
"Lord mifune" he said while bowing .
Mifune frown . "What's wrong with you ."
Menma looked at him and said ."I'm samurai now you old wolf." And grinned wickedly .
"There it is ,come here menma let a old man get a good look at you."
Menma walked in front of his surrogate grandfather and the tashio placed his hands on the side of menmas faces . "You make a old man proud . Let me get you something . "
"Menma I present to you a symbol of our land ." Mifune reached into his desk and pulled out a small box and handed to menma ."this Ring . It represents your status as a samurai of iron. If you except this ring you must swear a oath of loyalty to our code and village until released from it .do you agree to take the oath "
" I do lord mifune"
Mifune nodded " do I even need to tell you the oath ?"
Menma bent down to a kneeling position and took a deep breath and exhaled "I menma here by swear my loyalty to the lord shogun and land of iron . I will fight and defend my people no matter what until I am released from my duties , be it by my shogun or be it by death .
Mifune offered menma a hand and helped him up . " your teacher will be Okisuke . meet at training ground eleven at seven am tomorrow .
Okusuke waited at training ground eleven.( he better not be late ) he thought . Okusuke looked at his watch . 7:01. He continued to grumble. From what he read of menma was that he could be a little bit vicious for fun .
menma arrived right when his watch hit seven."
Okusuke looked up and starred at the clouds . "time does not exist . we are both late and early. dont keep me in wait "
Menma tilted his head . ( haiku battle eh fine) "if time is not real. then youll never be left in wait. dont complain to me ."
Okusuke looked back at menma."death hunts arrogance. Don't talk back to your teacher . Unless you like dirt."
Menma smiled at this and grasped his wakizashi Handel . " if it's a challenge . My dear teacher forgive me. Because I say yes ."
Okusuke was in front of menma in a heart beat , his right hand on menmas neck and his left on menmas sword .he ripped menmas sword from his belt and threw it . He then twisted menma so that his hand was on the back of his neck and slammed into the ground and sat on his back.
" My foolish student . I don't care for such a start . Now apologize ."
Menma managed to choke out a giggle . " I apologize . I will start arriving early. Just please dont be such a drag ,you are so very heavy.
Okusuke looked back up the clouds . He slid his hand up to menma's head and patted it ."good little samurai , why did you join the army , what are your hobbies , what do you like , what don't you like , what is your goal in life , answer normally .
Menma looked up from the dirt. " you just want me answer normally so you can win huh . "
Menma couldn't see it but okusuke was smiling under his scarf .
Menma grunted " I joint for a couple reasons . First was as a thank you to mifune for taking me in , second to be able to find any family I might have. my hobbies include reading and sleeping . I dislike my reading and sleeping being goal is to find any family I may have . "
Okusuke continued to stare at the clouds . " good enough I suppose."
Menma glared at him " you really did want to win . What about you ?."
Okusuke continued to stare at the sky ." I enjoy cloud watching . I like clouds. I don't like sunny days when there are no clouds . My goal is to stare at clouds .Nows the time for your samurai test."
Menma tried to stand up ." I passed the samurai test already though ."
Okusuke just pushed his head into the dirt . " you learned how to be a samurai befitting an academy student but now you'll learn how to be a samurai befitting a student of mine ."
Menma sighed " well what's the test ?"
Okusuke just shrugged ." You have to stand up before the timer goes off in an hour."
Menma grinned " that's it , no problem."
Okusuke yawned " then why haven't you done it yet ."
Menma pushed upward . But to no avail . He tried flailing around but to no avail . He tried to stab okusuke but couldn't reach his sword .
Menma gritted his teeth so hard blood started to pool inside his mouth
Osusuke mused about his young student. He Remembered killing the ninja who had menma in a sling . He remembered delivering menma to the shogun and informing the orphanage head master . He remembered when he and urakaku had to clean up a burnt man who had all his sense stripped from him because he bullied the wrong kid .he recalled the shogun having him guard menma's home for the first year at night .he then thought about the supplies he need to get for menma .
After an hour passed an alarm went off on okusuke watch , singling menma's failure." Okusuke sighed and stared at the sky
Menma's arms gave out underneath him" what now?"
Okusuke patted his head ones more ." Do you know why you failed ?"
" your heavy ?" Menma groaned out . Even though he joke a deep dread filled menma .
" mm no you tried too do it all on your own . Next time ask me for help "
Menma's head poked out from the snow " next time implies I'll be training with you ."
Okusuke sat up " it does , you failed my test but you're still my responsibility " okusuke held out his hand ." Don't shoulder every thing on your own little pupil .
Menma took okusuke hand and bowed deeply " yes master ." Excitement ran through him like lighting.