Alright so sorry about the wait, I was going to upload this a lot earlier but some things came up and I haven't really felt like writing stories for a while... But now here's the next Chapter, also... should I just merge this with the last chapter? I don't know but meh.
I DO NOT own Mario or Naruto, they belong to Nintendo and Misashi Kishimoto respectively. And Go!
Menma stared as he silently avoided several kunai that Kurai threw at him, Waving his hand, several small spheres of magic were launched at the kunoichi, who jumped away from the multiple attacks. Aiming a kunai at him, she growled as he vanished in his dimensional teleportation and reappeared behind her with a large energy attack in his hands that he shot at her.
"Katon: Ryuka no Jutsu" she called as she breathed a stream of fire, causing the energy to be held off by the flames before it exploded into several flaming sparks of energy.
Teleporting above her, he created three shadow clones and several energy attacks causing her to throw a kunai away from the blast area before disappearing and replacing herself with the thrown weapon.
"Katon: Gokyaku no Jutsu" she breathed as she engulfed the masked man in a flaming ball. Once the flames died down, She looked on in shock as she saw the the masked man... not burnt to the crisp and instead surrounded in a cube-like prism. Seeing him appear behind the barrier, she looked on as she growled as the masked man smirked before taking a mocking bow.
"Your flames burn as the falling grains of sand in a pouring hourglass-" he said before she interrupted him.
"Shut up" she growled as the masked shinobi played with her. Menma smirked before he prepared for the next round. Yes he could easily finish her by leaving her here or sending her into space or another dimension but he needed to loosen up... Get into shape for when he faced the real threats.
Only a fool would rely on just abilities... He learned that as both Naruto and Dimentio from memories of Lee and the plumber and his admiringly impressive mustache. If he was going to face some shinobi, he was going to have to fight like one.
"I hope you're ready for round 2" he said as the woman narrowed her eyes. Oh she'd give him a round 2, by burning him into piles of ash.
Back with Zabuza, he smirked as he traded blows with the Kaiyo before the last blows ended in a deadlock between Zabuza's Kubukiribocho and the giant cleaver of the Anbu. Kaiyo remained silent while Zabuza shook with both excitement and a grin on his face. Finally he had a chance to cut loose. Not against some wimpy bodyguards but against a fellow shinobi and Anbu.
"Not bad, brat... you're diffidently at least a Chunin level" he back-handed complimented as the Anbu said nothing. After breaking their deadlock and jumping back.
"You praise me, Demon of the Mist... but I think it might be time for the real fun to begin" he said before he recalled his cleaver and brought out something else, something that made Zabuza halt in shock. In the hands of the Anbu was a pair of swords that were slim with two more bladed prongs.
"Where... did you get that sword?" Zabuza asked calmly as he felt anger welling up inside him as the Kaiyo chuckled behind his mask.
"From a sentimental fool who thought he could stand against the Empire" he declared as Kiba was surrounded by lightning. The last person Zabuza knew with Kiba was that annoying man...
"Raiga..."
"Indeed" the Anbu admitted as Zabuza looked down in anger. He knew about the spoils of war but after what he saw what Konoha became... after he saw how it slowly became no better than Kiri... he felt insulted, disgraced to have one of the Seven Swords of the Mist being used by some no-name Anbu
"Tell me... boy? How many other of the Seven Swords does Konoha currently have?" he asked with a little rage in his tone growing darker as his chakra started to rise into a purplish miasma, causing the Anbu to take a step back.
"O-once I take yours... I will have two..." he said as he tried to remain calm. Zabuza smirked.
"Good... so that means when I kill you... I won't have to worry about the swords being misused by you again" he cried as he charged with great Killer Intent as Kaiyo held his swords up to fight.
Back with Hinata and Haku, they both faced off against Towa and Komatchi respectively. As the blond woman shot several sharpened hairpins from her hands, only to be reflected by Haku's ice coated senbon needles.
"You're quite skilled" Haku complimented as the woman nodded silently before she turned to her partner.
"Towa" she called out as the masked man faced the Hyuga with his red chakra forming a drill around his arm while Hinata had a blue lion's maw around hers. Towa nodded and jumped away and joined her as Haku joined Hinata, who stayed focus on her opponent.
"Switch" he said as Towa soon charged after Haku while Komatchi shot her hairpins at Hinata, While the Hyuga grabbed them out of the air with a smirk similar to her current teacher.
'Gentle and kind... shy and timid' Haku thought as he looked at the young woman in disbelief... she either changed drastically or Menma was blind to the truth... Then again... people change depending around their surroundings and if she spent the last two years around the Mitarashi...
"Is that all?" she mocked out to her new opponent as Haku instantly saw the resemblance...
"Yeah, now I see it..." he muttered as Towa was behind him with a pair of red claws made of a mix of chakra and blood. Was that his ninjutsu?
"See what?" he asked as Haku however made a hand sign and surrounded himself in a pillar of ice. Towa however smirked as he formed a sword with a few hand signs of his own. Slashing through the dome, he was shocked when he noticed nothing in it before a mirror appeared above him and revealed Haku, coming out of it with a small sword of his own.
As their blades clashed, Haku remained emotionless as he reminded himself to thanks Zabuza for the sword lessons while Towa jumped back and returned the sword back into his body. Haku blinked as he took notice of that, He could smell the blood while the masked Anbu fought both him and Hinata,
'So, he can use his own blood as a weapon... maybe this could be my win in just one move' the ice manipulation Pixl thought to himself as he created a hand seal behind his back. Seeing the man using his blood claws again, he smiled and charged.
Meanwhile, Towa glared at the masked man. It was supposed to be an easy mission, capture the traitors. It was clear that they had the advantage since there were five Anbu, two of which were descendants of the second Hokage's own handpicked bodyguards. They were just as strong, just as dangerious... but with the five of them, then a former Jonin and a possible Chunin would be an easy target.
This was much more simpler when they seemed to have a scuffle with three unknowns, perhaps an opportunity. But after seeing it was Zabuza of Kiri... and more so that they would help the traitors and renew their former fight, it started looking a little worrying.
Regardless, he still had the advantage, until Yugao left with Anko, and Zabuza fighting Kaiyo... but their second in command and hidden ace was vanished alongside their mysterious masked opponent and it resembled something like a Jikugan: Ninjutsu...
That left him and Komatchi to fight, or at least hold off the Hyuga and the brat...
"Are we done here, Anbu-San?" Haku mockingly called out to him as he narrowed his eyes. He was already low on chakra from fighting the Hyuga... who was at around high Chunin to maybe a low Jonin level... but this was getting annoying, he just needed to take out the boy and be done with it.
"Kage Bunshin" he whispered as two more clones appeared and charged at him with the desire to finish it. Haku meanwhile smirked before releasing his stored chakra and creating a outward branching line of spikes, While the two clones were caught off guard, the original side-stepped it and brought his claw into the revived shinobi's chest.
With a squelch of carnage, Haku couched up some blood and felt his mask fall. Towa smirked, his mission completed before he felt his arm being grabbed and heard the small chuckling from the boy. W-was he laughing?
"Y-you know, Anbu-San... getting impaled really... does hurt" he said as soon ice formed around their feet and trapped the two in ice. "But I already died... I thought myself a tool, no better than you to the leaf... so I killed myself Just. Like. This" he said eerily as Towa felt something inside him, a cold creeping sensation as he felt his body beginning to shut down.
"When you die... you have so many thoughts... so many ideas and regrets... I once wondered how to hold Hakate down better, so that Zabuza-Sama would have finished him off... And now... I have an idea." That being said, Towa noticed that his claws... his blood was slowly starting to freeze. He couldn't recall his claws.
"I wonder, which of us has more chakra... you, who has been using it so recklessly... or me..." Haku offered as he gave a small smile, one resembling a maiden... no, this wasn't real, he was smiling in death, he died before... Like Zabuza, was that saying he was a reanimation too... was that masked man with his second in command a zombie as well?
Haku remained silent as he recalled his Pixl ability, one called Cyrosis... the ability to freeze any form of water and manipulate it as well as he could his own Kekkei Genkai... Blood was essentially water...
"And now... we die for our cause" he said before he smirked, freezing Towa solid with his Pixl's abilitiy and using his chakra as a detenator to shatter the ice around him. Towa's frozen blood exploded as Haku fell to his knees. His injuries being sealed by ice as he heard an explosion, seeing Hinata walk out with a small grin... her opponent now blasted throughout the forests of Nami
"You look like hell" she said bluntly as Haku got up and smiled.
"Busy day?" he asked sarcastically as Hinata smiled and helped him up. This was a reckless action but if what Menma said was true...
Hinata and Menma appeared in another dimension, the one and only Dimension D... Hinata looked around on edge as Menma sighed. "Listen... Hinata-San-"
"Who are you... where are we?!" were all questions she demanded as Menma remained quiet. Seeing her about to charge, he snapped his fingers before she was surrounded in a large glass prism. "Let me out of here this instant!" she demanded as she gathered chakra in her hands and formered to the masked man's surprise...
"No way... That's the-"
"Rasengan..." she called as the former Leaf Kunoichi shattered the prism with ease while Menma created another, stronger one, only for the same thing to happen. Seeing this was getting nowhere, he decided plan B...
"You know if I die, we're stuck here forever" he brought to the table as Hinata continued to glare. "Now you have questions... we have questions... we all have questions... like a riddle of-"
"Get on with it..." she interrupted as Menma sighed and removed his mask to reveal his whisker marks, causing the Hyuga to freeze. It was as if... no way, no freaking way...
"I don't... I refuse to believe it..." She yelled and got into a battle stance while she glared the impostor. Menma smiled as he made a small bow before he was forced to dodge her palm, now into a fist, covered in chakra. He smirked as he decided to jump back and create and hand sign. Seeing this caused the Hyuga to remain on guard... what appeared before her was something that she expected the least.
A mature looking woman... with blonde pigtails... with whisker marks... covered by nothing but plumes of smoke from the ridiculous jutsu... Only two people in the world... no, three people in the world would even dare use such an attack in any kind of battle.
"No... I... you... if you're telling the truth... But he's dead!" she cried as Menma smirked, still using his infamous Oiroke no Jutsu.
"As are the Demon of the Mist and his associate of ice" he reminded as Hinata froze... but, but how... she knew of the different kinds of revival jutsu, Anko mentioned them to her and told her if she tried it then she'd kill her herself... but this was... was this a dream?
"N-Naruto-Kun" she whispered softly as Menma smiled before looking away.
"In some ways... yes and no I suppose" he admitted as he looked down in a degree of shame. "I was Naruto Uzumaki... but for the longest time... I was also Dimentio..."
"D-Dimentio, what the heck does that mean?!" she demanded as he looked to her, her white eyes filled with confusion, emotion, fear... love...terror... all while his own near-emotionless yellow eyes met her. Like a bandage, quick and painless... it was better this way.
"When I died... I was revived as a Pixl... a mere soul trapped in eternal servitude like those experimented on by the damn snake..." Hinata was unsure of what to say, what was a Pixl... to answer her question, he sighed and his body disappeared into light, leaving only what looked like a two dimensional object made of wire.
"This is my cursed form... while I was able to recreate myself a body... it took a while to do so" he continued as Hinata was staring in shock and horror. "We were mere slaves to those damned ancients, cursed with immortality until our own souls broke into nothing... I was the only survivor of the original 100... the only one other that Shadoo and the others that plumber collected on his journey."
Ancients, Plumber, Shadoo, Those were all questions she had in mind but remained to listen to his tale.
"As I fled to safety... I saw many things. I saw war, violence, betrayal, rape, greed, HATE! It was too much for me to take!" he screamed as his voice began to distort from the memories before he eventually composed himself. "Sorry about that..." he apologized as Hinata was afraid. Afraid of what he became.
"I broke, I lost myself as Naruto... for the last 3,000 years... I held such... displeasure with the world... all the war, all the hatred... I was so weak... I lost my old self to my own hatred..." he lamented and looked away... or at least she thought he did.
"But... you remember?" she asked hopefully as Menma remained quiet, rebuilding his body and appearing human once more.
"I remembered... and I regained myself" he clarified. "I regained my heart and my memories that were long surpressed. But the betrayal... the pain all remained. I have blood on my hands, Hinata... And I'm no better than the Uchiha" he lamented, wanting to keep the severity of his actions a secret.
"Then why are you here?" she asked afraid. Was this revenge, was this some kind of payback for his betrayal. Menma however spoke a different reason.
"Something is going to happen... something I was given a second chance to stop... I was already dead... I had no one left... but this chance... this opportunity gave me what I needed. To make amends... to protect what little I have left in this world..." he said as he turned to her, his eyes reflecting a hint of sadness.
"Naruto-Kun..." she called out as he smiled regretfully.
"You're precious to me, one of the only people to stay by my side... one of the people, I truly want to protect... so if I become a monster no better than the Kyuubi I held inside of me... please forgive me-"
"No" she called out as he looked to her in confusion before she stormed over to him in anger. Before he could say anything, she beat him to it. "I refuse to believe you are a monster, you are still you, Naruto. I don't care what you did, I don't care what you could do... you said it yourself... you want to protect us, right?!"
"I did..." he answered as she continued to glared.
"You said you wanted to make amends... and that you got back your heart, right?!" she demanded as Menma nodded hesitantly before he was punched in the gut with a non-lethal Jyuuken. "I don't care what you say but if you compare yourself to some kind of monster like that again... if you truly are the Naruto I remember for all my life... you will show me through your actions. Understand?"
Menma groaned as he was supported by the woman he once believed to be gentle and timid... what the hell did the Mitarashi do to her... "Yes mam..." he muttered as feelings of his time as Naruto, mostly his time around violent females came to the forefront. And if Sakura was violent when she was cranky... then he didn't want to piss off a trained Hyuga... one trained by the renown Anko Mitarashi, any more than he might have done so. He might be able to handle Tsunade, he might be able to handle Mimi and Nastasia... he didn't really give much of a damn about others...
But for reasons beyond his comprehension... seeing the young woman like this... it actually unnerved him a little. Best to swallow your pride over you potential castrated balls... he saw that in another dimension... and that was "without" chakra.
"And if you really are a monster like you claimed to be... I will break you" she threatened, whispering that last four words into his ear... oh yeah, wasn't going to piss her off anymore.
'Menma-Sama' Haku's voice called out as the yellow eyed Pixl stopped in place and received the telepathy, an added feature he developed when he recreated their bodies for them.
"Yeah, Haku..." he called before his eyes widened slightly and reached for his mask. "We need to go, Some unfavorable Anbu from the leaf have appeared" he said as Hinata blinked before nodding.
"Naruto... I'm glad to see you again..." she said as he gave a familiar foxy grin behind his mask and nodded in acknowledgment before they were both sent back to their original world. Upon meeting the Anbu however...
"So..." Menma started off before the battle began.
Hinata scanned the area before she found Anko fighting Yugao a distance away before running to her location. Haku however looked towards Zabuza and narrowed his eyes. He was at a disadvantage on the water... a problem he wouldn't have for much longer...
Zabuza however glared with several pants... Even if the body was fake he still felt exhausted. Kaiyo however smirked as he held his swords ready for more battle. Before he could gloat to the former Kiri Swordsman, he noticed ice appear from the surface before Haku appeared and nodded.
"Tell me, kid? How good are you at using ice instead of water?" he called out before he mad seveal hand signs and created a clone before it jumped back and made a large dome of water, preparing for a ninjutsu to finish it before the real Zabuza and Haku used Haku and Zabuza cancled their control of chakra and were submerged into the water. Seeing an easy victory.
Slamming his swords into the water, he was shocked to see that they were frozen solid before the lightning freed them. Before he could say anything else, Zabuza appeared behind him and was stabbed into the side of his torso, only to explode into water.
Haku snapped his fingers as the water from the clone froze over, trapping the anbu in place before Zabuza smirked and pierce his chest with a kunai.
"No... I refuse" Kaiyo screamed in rage before he tried to use Kiba before he found them phase through him. "W-what" came his shocked response as Zabuza tsked.
"It's called Spector Skin, I'd tell you more... but I'm not that kind of guy." he said, seeing the swords freed from the Anbu before he and the Anbu returned to normal and were both surrounded in a pillar of ice and Zabuza made a hand sign. "Oh, and one last thing... That Kunai I stabbed you with had a small chakra paralysis seal... a little nifty little trick when in Kiri..."
That was the last thing he said before he and Kaiyo were pierced by several large spikes as Zabuza's laughter echoed in the area... Haku's clone just watched as the man he followed took way too much fun in this...
Soon he phased out, unharmed as he held his signature sword in one hand, his village's Kiba in his other. When seeing Haku disintergrate into chuncks of frost and ice, he walked towards the masked shinobi with a smirk. Tossing Kiba at him.
"Zabuza-San-Ahh" he screamed before glaring at his father figure in anger. "What the hell?!" he shouted as Zabuza held up a hand.
"By rights of the Seven Swordsman... a man who has earned the right and permission of at least one other swordsman may gain right to the sword of the defeat shinobi" he said as Haku looked at him before turning to Kiba on the ground. Did that mean? "You earned it kid..." he said as Haku smiled softly.
"Thank-you, Zabuza-San" he said before Menma appeared before them with his hands in his pockets while looking nonchalantly at them.
"So, that was a waste of time" he said as Zabuza and Haku looked panicked before slowly calming down. "...Nice swords, Haku" he complimented as Haku remained silent but nodded in thanks.
"So, what happened in there?" the Rouge Shinobi of Kiri asked as Menma smirked...
"Oh, nothing... I needed a workout and tried to see if she would join our cause or give us information... let's just say we have our new messenger for the little village when the time comes."
"What do you mean, Menma-San?" Haku asked as he stayed quiet... that would, as a certain person or monster said once... is a secret to everybody,
"So, are we good here?" he asked before he felt several more chakra signitures heading towards them, or more accurately...
"Well... this might be bad..." he muttered before he looked to Zabuza and Haku. "You two, I'll meet you in Dimension A." he said before they were both sent to said dimension as Menma flew with his magic to the final battle against the two kunoichi. Honestly, as much as he wanted a fight... a fight between him and his former sensei was a bit too much to handle at the moment. Yes he could kill him easily... but that would be too easy then.
Anko growled out as she held her bleeding arm as Yugao looked no better. They were both stronger than when Anko left... Yugao training under Kakashi while he became the next Hokage while Anko learned on her own while training with Hinata. Before Yugao could say anything.
"Anko-Sensei" Hinata called as she appeared before her sensei with her Byakugan active before she got into a fighting stance between them as Anko smirked and prepared to help her apprentice.
"So what were you saying?" Anko mocked as Hinata and her were prepared to finish it before another voice called out.
"Yo... Neko-Chan... are you having some problems there?" a voice asked out as Anko and Hinata froze and looked to see the infamous Kakashi Hatake with a bored expression on his face, They weren't near Konoha, so why was the Sixth Hokage here in Nami.
Before anyone else said anything, Anko was caught in his hold with a kunai to her neck. "Anko-Sensei!" the young girl called as she saw her sensei about to die.
"Now, I don't normally like to do this, but you two need to head back to the village" he said as Anko glared.
"Don't worry about me, I can handle this, just run" Anko called out before Hinata glared at them, taking a step back.
"I... I can't lose another-"
"Tactical retreat is a rather effective plan" a voice called out as Menma appeared and snapped his fingers, causing Anko and Hinata to leave in Dimension A.
"You-" Yugao called as Kakashi lost his tame look and became more on edge. He lost the two Kunoichi but now a mysterious man shows up... this was something new on the Road of Life.
"So... the Hokage has come... I can see your lazy-lone eye and whiff of your smell of mutts from here" he insulted before Kakashi narrowed his eye.
"I'm sorry, who are you again?" he asked as Menma smirked.
"The Future Boss Fight... Chao" he called to the two shinobi of the leaf before he vanished as well, only leaving the corpse of his once opponent on the ground where he stood.
Alright so I know the last chapter was lack-luster so hopefully this one is a little better. Also Kakashi vs. Menma will occur. Finally with "Great and Wonderful" news... I am currently sick, my head hurts and I feel like I want to barf when I lay in bed and try to sleep, still I guess if I feel better, I will try to write more but don't expect updates as often.
Not only that but my WIFI was starting to act up on me, so that's nice as well, so thoughts, ideas, criticisms or other...
