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Naruto: Menma Chronicles

Chapter12: Two Gods in the Rain

Land of Rain: Ame / Crater

'Now this is what I call a fight,' Naruto thought as Asura's razor tail slashed at him forcing him to pull back. "Mokuton: Jukai Kōtan," he spoke clearly as an entire forest of trees erupted from the ground, completely changing the entire battlefield.

"Impressive," commented Deva as he landed on one of the various branches. "So you are a Senju."

"Judging by the fact that you have the Rinnegan, you must be related to the Senju too," Naruto shot back.

"...What are you talking about?" Deva questioned as the other Five Paths of Pain started to encircle the lone masked blond.

"The Rinnegan can only be awakened by combining the power of the Senju and the Uchiha into one vessel. My comrade is the same," Naruto explained.

"Senju and Uchiha..." Deva trailed off before narrowing his eyes. "Not that it matters now; I will kill you for what you have done here today."

"Give me your best shot," Naruto challenged.

"Shinra Tensei!" Deva exclaimed as a massive pulse of gravity lashed out and flattened a good chunk of the newly created forest.

'His gravity control is on par with Karin's,' Naruto thought and absently flung a three-pronged kunai to the side as he was sent flying backwards by the gravity blast. 'I know Karin and I have talked about her using her chakra rods to control slave bodies but we discarded the idea,' he added as Human appeared behind him with his arm outstretched. 'It seems whoever this guy is; he actually went through with it.'

"Ningen-" Human began.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu," Naruto interrupted as he flashed to where his three-pronged kunai was imbedded in the destroyed trunk of a nearby tree.

"That was..." Deva trailed off at the sight. "Who are you?"

"...I am Senju Hashirama," Naruto declared.

"Senju Hashirama?" Deva questioned in surprise. "And here I thought only Uchiha Madara was still alive to remember the founding era."

"...Uchiha Madara?" Naruto inquired. "Are you saying he's alive?"

"We are..." Deva mused. "Acquainted."

'How could Madara still be alive? Hashirama-sensei killed him decades ago so unless he's somehow immortal then I doubt it's really him,' Naruto thought. 'However both dad and mom told me that they believed it was Madara that controlled the Kyuubi the night I was born so maybe...'

"Do not be stupid, boy," the Kyuubi no Yoko less commonly known as Kurama growled from the back of his mind. Over the years they had grown on each other and they had learned to work together however the fox still preferred to keep to himself. When the fox talked however, it was usually something important since he didn't really like pointless banter. "He may have been similar, but the one who ripped me out of your mother's seal didn't feel like that accursed Uchiha."

'We'll worry about it later,' Naruto responded and spun his three-pronged kunai as he saw a blast of fire erupt from Asura's feet that launched him at the masked blond.

"Shurado," Asura spoke as dozens of missile-like projectiles shot out of his sides before descending on Naruto's position.

'Shit,' Naruto cursed in thought as he jumped back to avoid the volley. The trees were torn asunder as the missiles bombarded the battlefield, setting it ablaze even as the falling rain quickly washed the flames down. 'It looks like I'm going to have to take this to the next level.'

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu," Animal said calmly as he placed his hand on the watery rock at his feet. Seals spread across the ground before a large three-story tall rhino appeared in an explosion of smoke. It turned and started running right at the masked blond, sending dust up into the air behind it as it moved.

"I grow tired of watching this," Kurama commented from the back of his mind. "Stop holding back against this faker."

'...Alright then,' Naruto thought in reply as he closed his eyes.

"Your jutsu cannot save you from a god's wrath," Deva declared as the rhino closed slammed into Naruto, blowing up dust into the air upon impact only to slow down as if it had hit a wall of some kind. 'What is this?' he thought.

"Senjutsu: Sennin Modo," Naruto spoke clearly with his hands clamped down on the rhino's horn, holding it back. His eyes turned from blue to yellow as his as dark rings formed around his eyes and spread across his face as a dark circle appeared on his forehead. He took a deep breath as he felt the natural energy of the world around him flow through his body before he moved and almost effortlessly hurled the giant rhino into the air with his bare hands.

'What is this jutsu?' thought the Six Paths of Pain. His Rinnegan couldn't see anything different besides the physical transformation which could be seen with regular human eyes so where did this masked stranger gain such inhuman physical strength? Then there was his presence; this man before him seemed to be completely at ease with nature itself despite the fact that he was facing a god in mortal form. 'I can't let him finish whatever it is he plans to do,' Deva thought as Asura and Human launched themselves at the masked blond.

"Mokuton: Kajukai Kōrin!" Naruto exclaimed as the ground tore open and a massive wooden flower erupted from the ground.

'This jutsu...' Deva trailed off in thought as a strange sleeping gas was spewed from the wooden plant. "Shinra Tensei!" he called out as he sent out a massive blast of gravity which not only blew the gas away but also flattened the small manmade forest including the wooden plant. Suddenly a bell-like screech filled the air and he turned to see Naruto with a spinning chakra shuriken in hand and two shadow clones at his side. 'That last jutsu was just a distraction!'

"Futon: Rasenshuriken!" the masked blond exclaimed as he threw the chakra shuriken at both Asura and Human who were still clustered together.

'Damn it,' Pein cursed in thought as he tried to force both of his paths to dodge. It was too late however; the chakra shuriken flew in between the two and then expanded into a rotating sphere of wind. Asura and Human were quickly ripped apart and vanished when the wind ball exploded with a resounding boom. 'Even my Naraku Path can't repair that kind of damage,' it required that the body at least be somewhat solid instead of atomized.

"Futon: Rasenshuriken!" Naruto called out again as a second chakra shuriken was released from his hand right at the Deva Path.

'Not again,' Deva thought as Preta appeared in front of him.

"Fūjutsu Kyūin," Preta muttered as a barrier formed in front of him and quickly absorbed the chakra shuriken.

"Did you notice?" Kurama asked his host.

'Yeah,' Naruto replied in thought. 'Each of these bodies are only using one path each.'

"Don't underestimate him," Kurama said in warning. "He maybe a faker like that cousin of yours but his eyes are still strong enough to challenge you."

'The Rinnegan really is something else, huh?' Naruto thought as he quickly formed a set of hand-seals. "Mokuton: Mokuryu no Jutsu!" he called out as a large wooden dragon erupted from the ground and circled around him before launching itself at the Preta Path

"Impressive," Deva commented as the wooden dragon closed in. "But not good enough."

"Fūjutsu Kyūin," Preta spoke clearly as the wooden dragon descended upon him. It stopped dead in its tracks and slowly started to dissolve when he noticed a single three-pronged kunai imbedded in its mouth.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu," Naruto appeared in front of him faster than he could see and literally punched clean through Preta's head. 'I guess these guys count as metal heads, huh?'

"Don't make jokes at a time like this," Kurama growled in annoyance. Seriously, his Jinchuuriki never seemed to take things like this seriously just like Senju Hashirama. "Keep your head in the game, brat."

"Jigokudō," Naraku spoke clearly as a large demonic head which he recognised as Karin's outer path appeared behind the lone path.

'Why is he summoning that thing for?' Naruto asked in thought.

"Be on your guard," Kurama warned.

"You've got to be kidding me," Naruto muttered as he watched the outer path devour the remains of Preta and then spew him back out fully healed. "What the fuck was that?"

"Don't ask me," Kurama responded. "I only ever saw old man Rikudō create the moon with his gravity jutsu, nothing else."

"Great,"Naruto grumbled out loud.'This isn't like Karin's resurrection jutsu that makes use of the outer path but instead it's something else since those slave bodies are already dead.'

"Do you realize how futile it is to challenge a god now?" Deva questioned.

"Again with that god-talk of yours," Naruto said with a mocking tone. "Hiraishin no Jutsu," he appeared at Preta's side in a yellow flash before driving his Senjutsu-enhanced fists through the heads of both of both Preta and Naraku. "For the record, I'd already tagged this bastard when I killed him the first time," he added as he kicked the now headless Preta to the side.

'The Yondaime Hokage's Hiraishin no Jutsu is truly a dangerous jutsu,' Pein thought as he observed the masked blond. 'In a contest of speed it is likely equal to Madara's space-time ninjutsu.'

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Animal exclaimed as he slammed his hand down on the ground. Seals spread out on the surface and a giant dog appeared in an explosion of smoke.

"...You know," Naruto spoke quietly in the rain. "You should really learn to look up," a second later a single three-pronged kunai fell like the rain that hid its presence and landed next to the Animal Path. "Hiraishin no Jutsu," he appeared above Animal and his summoned dog with a giant chakra sphere in hand. "Senpo: Cho Oodama Rasengan!"

'Tch, useless,' Pein thought as his Animal Path was crushed by the massive spiralling ball and the giant dog disappeared in a burst of smoke. 'To push me this far...he's even destroyed my Naraku Path so I can't revive the others...at this rate I'll be forced to use that jutsu to end this.'

"What's the matter? Running out of ideas?" Naruto asked the Deva Path.

"Bansho Tenin," Deva—Pein spoke clearly as gravity shifted and Naruto was pulled towards him. A large boulder-like chunk of the earth was ripped up and then flung at the 'falling' masked blond causing him to fling out his three-pronged kunai to the side.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu!" Naruto called out as flashed to where the kunai landed.

'I have no other choice,' Pein thought warily. 'If I just continue attacking him like this then he'll just keep using that jutsu to escape; I have to use that jutsu if I want to win this. It should draw in everything that has one of his seals into the jutsu so he can't escape unless he wishes to leave the battlefield which will buy me time to recover my paths and regroup.'

"What's the matter? Have I finally managed to shut you up?" Naruto questioned the now silent Deva Path.

"...Chibaku Tensei," Pein spoke clearly as his hands formed a triangle seal and a small black of chakra appeared in the center. He threw it up into the sky and a blinding light shone down as gravity began to shift.

'What the hell is this?' Naruto asked in thought as he felt the earth start to rumble and groan.

"This is the jutsu that old man Rikudō used to create the moon," Kurama replied.

'Shit,' Naruto thought as the ground was torn apart and lifted up towards the black chakra-gravity sphere. 'What the hell can I do? He's pulling in all of my Hiraishin kunai and if I jump to the one I placed at the border then by the time I get back he'll probably have fully recovered. Sage knows that there's a lot of dead people in this 'village' that he can use for his little puppet jutsu after Karin reduced it to a crater.'

"...Tch, to think that even now you have to rely on me to get you through your battles," Kurama gritted in annoyance. Over the years he and Naruto had a better comradeship that his previous two hosts but even still, he hated to have someone use his power. Still, his current host was strong and could beat this faker without him however that would take too long and he was growing tired of watching this farce. "Synchronize your chakra with mine and let's finish this."

"...Thanks Kurama," Naruto said out loud with a smile as he was pulled up into the newly formed 'small' moon that Pein had created.

Silence...

'Finally,' Pein thought as he turned away. 'Now I need to deal with the others and then I can start recovering my paths in preparation for the next assault,' a suddenly snapping noise caused him to stop in his tracks and turn back to the new moon he'd just created. 'Impossible...there's no way...' a second later a golden chakra fox covered in a very complex seal matrix that spread across its spine and tails exploded from the underside of the 'small' moon. 'That's impossible...that's the...'

"Let me deal with the gravity well," Kurama spoke aloud through his own chakra mouth as his tails dug back inside the 'moon' and quickly wrapped around its core before crushing it. "Hang on!" he roared as the gravity sphere was destroyed and the chakra fox fell towards the ground.

"Be careful, Kurama!" Naruto shouted from inside the chakra fox's head. His mask was gone revealing his face which had itself undergone a transformation as golden flame-like chakra hand encased his form taking the shape of the Rikudō-Sennin complete with his jacket opened wide revealing a black undercoat and an extensive seal matrix below.

'To think he'd be able to destroy Chibaku Tensei,' Pein thought as the chakra fox landed in front of him with a deafening impact. "So...you're the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki...I thought you were dead and was waiting for the Kyuubi to reform but since you're here I will capture you now."

"...Kurama,"Naruto said quietly as he raised his hands and started gathering red and blue chakra spheres into a single black ball at the chakra fox's mouth.

"Pitiful faker," Kurama growled down at Pein as his mouth clamped down on the black chakra sphere."You are not him and never will be!"

"Bijudama!" Naruto exclaimed as Kurama released the black chakra sphere in a blast of golden light that washed over the battlefield.

"Shinra Tensei!" Pein called out as he threw up a gravity barrier to protect himself. 'To think that the Kyuubi has been hidden from us for all these years,' he thought as the blast died down and a three-pronged kunai landed at his feet.

"Hiraishin no Jutsu," Naruto—still covered in his released chakra form—appeared in front of him with a familiar chakra sphere in hand. "Rasengan!" the blow came faster than Pein could react especially with his jutsu's five-second cool down period.

"No!" Pein gasped in pain as his final Path was obliterated.

"Naruto?" Kurama asked his host now that his chakra body had been drawn back into the seal.

'These were just slave bodies,' Naruto thought in reply. 'If that's the case then where is the real one?'


Far away from the battlefield Uzumaki Nagato sat in his mechanical chair with blood dripping from his mouth as he stared out at the where his paths had been defeated. He'd pushed himself beyond his limits and had even been forced to use Chibaku Tensei though he hadn't expected for his opponent to call upon the power of the Kyuubi of all things. He could sense that Konan had been defeated and with the destruction of his six paths it was only a matter of time before he would soon follow her and Yahiko.

Maybe if he had done things differently it wouldn't have turned out like this...

"This is unexpected," Madara's voice spoke from behind him as he felt a kunai dig into his back. "And I can't say I like how things have turned out."

"Madara...why...you..." Nagato rasped out.

"I am the one who gave you those godly eyes of yours and now I want them back. You were merely my pawn and now your usefulness has come to an end. Goodbye Nagato,"Madara explained before triggering his jutsu and drawing in Nagato's corpse to his own personal dimension."Jikūkan Idō," the vortex died down a moment later leaving only Madara standing alone.

At least he was until a certain figure landed in front of him...

"So you've already gotten to him, huh?" Naruto mused at the sight of the orange-masked Akatsuki member.

"This guy...he's definitely the one who controlled me all those years ago...he's not Madara...and yet...I've felt his disgusting presence before...he's one of your father's old students. The kid was supposed to have died during the last war...Uchiha Obito," Kurama realised.

"Uzumaki Naruto I presume?" Obito-Madara inquired. "I've been looking for the Kyuubi for quite some time now."

"Please call me Menma," Naruto responded. "You're Uchiha Obito, one of my dad's old students?"

"...Interesting," Obito muttered at his words. "Call me Tobi."

"It's because of you that my parents are dead," Naruto spoke clearly.

"And it's because of your father and your former sensei that the woman I love is dead. I guess we can call it even," Obito countered.

"...You know sooner or later one of us will have to kill the other," Naruto reasoned.

"Most certainly," Obito agreed. "You have one of my precious Biju after all."

"I won't let you have the Biju," Naruto told him.

"Then I look forward to seeing you on the battlefield," Obito chuckled as a vortex formed from his right eye and pulled him in. "Jikūkan Idō," he was gone a moment later.

"Was it wise to let him go?" Kurama asked his Jinchuuriki.

'We're in no shape to face him right now,' Naruto replied. 'I'm out of Hiraishin kunai, our forces are scattered and it's only a matter of time before the other villages find out what has happened here. If I were to face him now it could go on for days before either of us gets tired; we'll get him next time.'

Author's Notes:

I'm back from my holidays and just wanted to finish this chapter before I go back to work. I admit the last chapter was a bit rushed but hopefully this one was more spread out and more to everyone's' liking. Don't expect another update next week but the week after that I should be back on track story wise. As for this chapter, Ame is destroyed, the Akatsuki are crippled, Naruto and Obito have finally confront each other and after five years since Naruto defeated him, Kurama has started to cooperate with him.

Translation

Rikudō-Sennin = Sage of Six Paths
Shinra Tensei = Heavenly Subjugation of the Omnipresent God
Bansho Tenin = Heavenly Attraction of All of Creation
Chibaku Tensei = Heavenly Body Bursting from the Earth
Shurado = Asura Path
Ningendo = Human Path
Jigokudō = Naraku Path
Kuchiyose no Jutsu = Summoning Technique
Fūjutsu Kyūin = Blocking Technique Absorption Seal
Mokuton: Mokury no Jutsu = Wood Release: Wood Dragon Technique
Mokuton: Jukai Kōtan = Wood Release: Nativity of a World of Trees
Mokuton: Kajukai Kōrin = Wood Release: Advent of a World of Flowering Trees
Futon: Rasenshuriken = Wind Release: Spiralling Shuriken
Senjutsu: Sennin Modo = Sage Technique: Sage Mode
Senpo: Cho Oodama Rasengan = Sage Art: Super Great Ball Spiralling Sphere
Hiraishin no Jutsu = Flying Thunder God Technique
Bijudama = Tailed Beast Ball
Jikūkan Idō = Space-Time Migration

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