The Legend of Menma
Disclaimer: Naruto and all its characters and lore belong to Masashi Kishimoto. Menma's personality is that of my OC who ironically happens to myself.
This is my first fan fiction so please try to be nice, although I will accept any advice and/ or productive criticism.
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Chapter #1 Menma's Calling
This isn't a story about some great leader, or some junk about love and peace. This is a story about a hero's new chance at life in a world he is unfamiliar with, this story is about Adam Parker; a twenty year old young man who works as an Advanced Care Paramedic at the hospital in town. Although he worked as a healer, he was much more passionate about martial arts. Within the past five years he's earned master level in three different martial arts. His first was in Taekwondo, a martial art centered around swift, powerful kicks. The second was Muay Thai, a clinching martial art with eight points of attack. Finally his last martial art was Jeet Kune Do, a martial art created by the late Bruce Lee to be able to counter all incoming attacks, translated to 'Art of the Intercepting Fist'. We begin our story at 12:37 am.
Adam grabbed his paramedic duffle bag and slung the decently weighted bag over his left shoulder, waving goodbye to the remaining nurses and doctors before exiting out of the Ambulance parking lot. The night was hot and muggy, a thick fog began rolling in from the North of Adam as he reached into his black leather jacket pocket, pulling out a bic lighter and a twenty pack of cigarettes. Lighting one up he replaced his smoking utensils back into his pocket before looking forward once again. Turning the corner, he walked into the alleyway he always took to get home but this time was different. The street lamps in the alleyway suddenly went dark the moment he set foot into the alleyway. He stopped walking, looking around himself trying to find the source of the power outage; finding nothing he shrugged and turned to continue walking, except a cloaked figure now blocked his path. The man wore a spiraled white mask with three comma shaped eye holes, one located at the forehead, and a purplish blue longcoat. He stood with a sense of confidence and power that intimidated Adam slightly, "Who're you? What can I do for you?" Adam asked, slowly placing his bag on the ground beside him. The man looked at Adam, down at his bag and then back up to Adam again, "Who I am isn't important at this moment, what you can do for me however is very important. Tell me, if you could have a different life, any life at all, but you could never return to your old life, would you take the chance?" The question confused Adam greatly, but he'd heard the same question many times before repeated over and over in his head. Adam nodded in confirmation, picking his bag back up and swinging it back over his shoulder, "Yes, I would take the chance." The man nodded and raised his hand to Adam's forehead. As soon as his hand made contact, they both disappeared into thin air, appearing again on a floating cube in a world with nothing but floating cubes of matter. Adam looked around frantically before leaning over and throwing up over the side of the cube, "What the hell?! What was that?! Where are we?!" Adam glared at the masked man who merely chuckled, "We are in a world of my making, come forth and I'll explain farther," Adam listened to the man and approached him slowly, the moment he was within arm's reach, the man placed his hand on his forehead again and a rush of information came to Adam. Images and memories burned into Adam's memory as he absorbed all the information given to him before falling to his knees and dry heaving bile from his stomach, holding his head in tremendous pain, "Why…. Why are you doing this to me?" Slowly and shakily pulling himself to his feet, Adam looked around again and suddenly more of what was happening was starting to make sense. The masked man reached up and removed his mask, revealing a face severely scarred on the right side with a single blood red eye with the same comma design as his mask as well as the regular pupil on the same side, his left eye was closed and he had yet to open it since their meeting, "The Sharingan…" Adam pondered his words a moment, trying to make sense of them, 'How did I know that? What is a Sharingan?', "Let me properly introduce myself, my name is Obito Uchiha, I was once the cause of my world becoming nothing more than a shadow of its former self, and now I want to change what I had done. I hurt hundreds, thousands of people and have killed many more in my time, now I must make amends." Without warning, Obito reached out and tore Adam's right eye from its socket and out of his skull, blood splashed the floor as Adam held his empty bleeding socket, screaming in terrible pain. Adam started to back away but he slipped on his own blood and fell to the floor, "Do not be scared Adam, I am giving you all I can give for you to survive in your new world," Kneeling down, Obito reached up to the right side of his face and pulled his own eye from its socket, he motioned for Adam to move his hand and he obeyed slowly, his hand shaking, "This will hurt a bit, please try to stay calm." Obito placed the eye into Adam's socket, a green glow surrounding his right hand as he ran his fingers around Adam's newly transplanted eye. After the transplant was complete, a change began. Instead of pain, Adam felt nothing but a burning passion, a dream he'd never had before, to be Hokage. His hair went from a subtle brown to a jet black, spiking wildly in all directions. His left eye changed from gray to blue, feral whisker markings appeared on his cheeks and he swore he could feel his canine teeth extending. Finally his face and form changed as well to that of a different person. Obito stood and looked upon his work, closing his remaining bleeding socket he smiled before he began to fall backward, slowly letting death embrace him. Adam reacted quickly and caught Obito before he hit the ground, looking down at the man confused, "What's happening to you?" Suddenly, Adam's envisioned this moment as if he were holding his dying father in his arms and suddenly began to cry. A single tear fell from Adam's eyes and hit Obito's face softly which brought about another smile, "You're crying on a monsters behalf, you truly are an amazing man Adam." Adam growled in frustration before asking again, "What is happening to you Obito?!" Obito sighed before responding, "I used the last of my life force to implant my eye and reshape your form, which was the cost of the jutsu I used to do so." Adam looked down upon Obito in surprise before Obito began to laugh, "Do not despair Adam, for you will be the hero who saves my world from… me, I look forward to seeing you again… in the past…"
A blinding white light flashed suddenly and when the light disappeared, Obito was nowhere to be found and Adam looked upon the mossy ground he knelt on. One last message repeated over and over in Adam's mind, given to him by Obito, 'your new name is Menma Uzumaki, your home is the Ninja Leaf Village Konoha, find Naruto Uzumaki, you are one of the last remaining members of his family.' Groaning getting up, Menma took his surroundings in slowly, looking for a clearing, road or path of some sort to follow. Finding the path to the road, Menma walked to the road slowly, turning his head left from right, searching for this 'Leaf Village'. Without any success, Menma decided to go left and see where it took him. Running through the information Obito had transferred to Menma, he began picking through the important information about this world. Apparently, in this world, technology went a different direction and most things in his world don't exist here, however a lot of his world was also in this one, namely communication technology and media. In this world, people used something called jutsu and chakra to fight their battles, and from the information Menma was given, he figured out that he already knew six jutsu and how to use them which may come in handy later on. He also discovered he had near infinite levels of chakra to use jutsu, which he suspected was not very common in this world. After about three hours of walking, Menma began to see a gate in the distance, being a little excited now, Menma began running for the gate, pumping a little bit of chakra into his feet to increase his speed. Little did he know, he added too much chakra into the technique, increasing his speed to atmospheric re-entry speeds. Blasting past the open gates and sending the two chuunin guards on duty flying back into the back wall of their small guard post shack, "Holy shit who was that?" Izumo asked Kotetsu who just shrugged in response, "If he were showing any hostility, the ANBU would have been here immidately so I guess it's nothing to worry about," Izumo nodded in understanding before sitting back down.
Menma, just realizing how fast he was going, slowed to a stop infront of what looked like a school but with training equipment and weapons. There was a small wooden swing attached to a tree with a small, sad looking orange jumpsuit wearing boy sitting on it, just watching the other kids be picked up and congratulated on graduating by their parents. Menma found this sad and very curious so he decided to go talk to the boy. "Hey kid? Whats up? Why aren't you celebrating graduating?" Menma smiled at the young boy and suddenly noticed the whisker markings on his cheeks, 'This must be Naruto, the boy Obito spoke of'. "What'sit to you? It's not like you actually care or anything," Naruto shrunk away from Menma, not even meeting his eyes, "Well when a child is sad, it's an adults responsibility to ask why and do what they can to make them feel better again, and you look pretty sad to me." Naruto looked up at Menma with accusing eyes in which Menma just smiled. Naruto looked back out infront of himself once more, "I failed the graduation exam….again.." A shadow cast over the top of Naruto's face as he said it and Menma sighed in reply, "How did you fail? I am a shinobi so maybe I could help you?" Naruto suddenly looked at Menma and screamed in surprise, "What's with your right eye?! It's all red and stuff!" Naruto jumped out of the swing and started waving his arms around to try and improve upon his point. Menma crossed his arms and looked at Naruto pointedly, "I offered my help to you, it'd be a little rude not to at least take my offer into consideration." Naruto yelled and held his head, "Too many big words!" Menma sighed, "Alright, my right eye is whats called the Sharingan, the Uchiha family's doujutsu kekkai genkai." Naruto looked down between his feet, "You'd better find Sasuke-teme then, he's a Uchiha so you can teach him easy… Im just the dead last." Menma wacked Naruto upside the head in which he responded by turning around and trying to hit him back, to which he was nowhere near successful, "What was that for?!" Menma glared down at Naruto with his creepiest, most terrifying look he could muster, "Are you gonna shut up and accept my help or not," Naruto trembled a little before nodding his head, "The reason I failed was because I can't get this damn clone jutsu right," Menma gave him a pointed look, "Language…" Naruto puffed his cheeks in annoyance, "Alright, try and make a bushin, I'll watch with my Sharingan to see what you do wrong with it ok?" Naruto nodded in confirmation before charging much too much chakra into the jutsu before performing it, it came out like a deformed looking toad person. Menma burst into laughter, tears running down his face and Naruto just glared at him, "It's not funny, I can't do it!" Menma calmed down and placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder, the contact made him flinch, Menma smiled at his blond mini me and began to explain, "Im laughing because the same reason I can't do bushin is the same as yours." Naruto's eyes widened, "You can't do bushin either?" Menma shook his head, "I have too much chakra to control, same as you," Naruto looked confused, "I have too much chakra?" Menma nodded, "Definitely more than Sasuke-teme by far, can see the Uchiha compound from here, he doesn't even have half your chakra." Naruto's face burst into a gigantic smile and he ran and hugged Menma, "Really? I have more than the teme? This is awesome!" Menma coughed in embarrassment and Naruto's face went red and he let go, "It's ok. Now, the jutsu Im about to…." Menma looked around, everyone had left, "The jutsu I am about to teach you is LIKE the bushin but instead creates actual clones, solid clones to fight and gather information. The user of the jutsu can learn all their clone learns once they dispel so it's a very useful jutsu indeed." Naruto's eye sparkled at the prospect of learning this new jutsu, "Ok ok teach me already! Dattebayo!" Menma nodded to confirm and placed both his middle and index fingers in a cross formation, an upright tiger handseal with a sideways one behind it, focusing his chakra into his shadow, his shadow took the shape of five separate Menma's as he performed the shadow clone technique, "See? All you have to do is focus chakra into your shadow and then imagine splitting your shadow into however many parts you can. However, the shadow clone splits your chakra evenly between the clones so this jutsu can potentially be very dangerous, I don't want you to overdo it ok?" Naruto nodded and smiled before trying the jutsu himself, nothing happened, "Try again."
After three hours of solid training, Naruto finally had the jutsu down pat, which was faster then Menma remembers he himself getting it down, "Yatta! I finally have a new jutsu!" Naruto was jumping for joy with what little energy he had left, Menma smiled and began walking in the direction of a motel, "Hey! I never got your name!" Naruto screamed after Menma, "It's Menma! I look forward to training you again kit!" Menma waved good bye before turning the corner and disappearing into the shadows of the night.
The third sat at his office desk and examined his crystal ball, monitoring Menma's movements, he was very curious as to why this strange shinobi would choose to help young Naruto of his own free will, "What is your plans for him… Menma?" The silence was a little deafening for a moment before a voice in the darkness responded, "Whatever do you mean Hokage-sama? The Third turned around to the front of his desk and met face to face with Menma himself, "Menma, you used shadow clone to divert my attention didn't you?" Menma had a big foxy grin on his face, much like Naruto's, "Guilty. So, Hokage-sama, I have a request for you." The third nodded his head for Menma to continue, "I would like to know who you planned for Naruto's sensei to be?" Sarutobi gave him a pointed look, "Naruto failed his graduation exam Menma he…" Menma looked confused, "You saw him perform shadow clone, I know you did… Naruto has so much potential he…" Sarutobi chuckled slightly, "You have your answer Menma, I originally wanted to have Kakashi Hatake train his team but you also have a Sharingan eye so you're just as qualified to train our last Uchiha aswell." Menma nodded in understanding before looking at him weird, "You don't want to test my skill?" The third hokage shook his head, "I am a Kage young Uzumaki, I know the power of another shinobi just by observing his movements, and you're more than qualified as a Jonin of the leaf. Plus your teaching style is very much suited for you're younger family member." Menma looked very much surprised, "How did you know I was Uzumaki?" Sarutobi stepped back from behind his desk and pointed at the spot where Menma was standing,he looked with his Sharingan and found that there was a seal there, "I wasn't entirely sure if you were Uzumaki or not but my sensory ANBU noted that you have enormous chakra reserves, they say they say it even rivals my chakra. The whisker markings suggest you are a container much like Naruto, maybe even for the same beast, although that would be impossible seeing as the other half of the Kyuubi was sealed with our late fourth Hokage, unless another seal master…no" While the third Hokage was pondering his thoughts, Menma cut his thumb with a kunai and placed the blood on the seal. The seal was released and what came about from it was a complete medical report on Menma, he picked it up and placed it on the Hokage's desk, smiling at him, "This may clear things up." The hokage read the report and his face drained of colour, "It says here your DNA matched Naruto's perfectly, but of that of a twenty year old man not a twelve year old child, how can this be?" Menma began to explain to him what happened, how he got here, how he knew what he knew and finally how he had gotten the Sharingan, "But Menma, Obito Uchiha has been dead for many years, the man you saw couldn't have been him," Menma shook his head, "Trust me, he was Obito, the memories he gave me knew that much but I can't tell you where he is now or what he's planning, all I know is he is responsible for a great sorrow in the years to come. That's why I was sent here, to prevent whatever he's going to do." Sarutobi nodded in confirmation, "Alright, very well, thank you for being honest with me Menma, or should I call you Adam," Menma chuckled, "That life is gone, I am Menma Uzumaki now."