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A/N: Welcome back you guys, this is a special update as a huge thank you to all of you who have followed this story. It is a little late as I said I would drop this when we hit one-thousand and we're sitting a little under one thousand one hundred follows, but I got a little caught up working on other things for the story. Speaking of, the prologue chapters have been edited and cleaned up, the other chapters will be following them once this arc is complete. But, even though I'm behind in the usual chapters I try to stay ahead of my release chapter, I had to drop this to thank you all! It really is amazing concerning all of the positive support and constructive critique I have received for this story and it means the world to me. I seriously can't thank you guys enough! See you Sunday with the next chapter!
The Wolf and the Fox
Chapter 21 – Unlikely Bargain
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Naruto ducked as Menma came in with a wild charge, quickly noting his brother was beginning to succumb to the Kyuubi's chakra once more as the third tail fully formed. It had been like this for five days of trying now, they would get it closer and closer, by a small margin, but as they attempted for the crimson haired boy to begin working into stage two of the Bijuu Cloak; things got out of control. The blonde had been forced to use both Bijuu suppression seals and the Gogyo Fuin on one instance when a fourth and then fifth tail quickly formed. Menma had explained to him that whenever he got closer to the fourth tail, the Kyuubi would quickly go from allowing his chakra to flood in at a small trickle to trying to force more in than he could handle. It was beginning to annoy the blonde, and as he was once more forced back by the younger Uzumaki-Namikaze, he stomped his foot down forcing roots to explode from the ground just as he noticed his brother's skin begin to redden and peel. It immediately stopped and the chakra was being subdued as the blonde focused more and more chakra into his jutsu.
"Enough is enough," he sighed heavily, pulling the bandage from his recently replaced eye as two slightly different mangekyo spun to life. As soon as crimson met crimson, the world around the brothers changed, the destroyed clearing becoming a dark and damp sewer with a golden gate blocking off a massive pair of crimson vulpine eyes. "You've been giving my otouto quite the troublesome time, Kyuubi-san," Naruto lamented, his mangekyo turning to meet the large eyes without even a hint of fear.
"You dare to appear here with those accursed eyes, when asking me to help the runt and deem yourself able to chastise me with such a fierce look?"
Naruto sighed deeply, allowing the tension to leave his angular and defined face as the mangekyo faded from his eyes, black now retaking his orbs. "I understand your prejudice against eyes that have the power to take your free will, and I want you to understand I have no intention of using them to do anything of the sort; even if it would make this situation much easier," the Kyuubi growled, glaring at the boy as he uttered those last words. "I intended to let Menma-chan do this alone, so that he could bridge the bond between you, but you've only proven I can't allow that to happen; even knowing it would be for the best because of what is coming for you and your brethren."
The Kyuubi was about to respond angrily, but paused when the area behind the blonde ningen changed, a blue hue over taking the water below as a pair of golden orbs with pink sclera found his eyes. "I'm only here to support my Aibo, but I would ask that you listen to him if only for the sake of the other seven of our kind," Isobu's deep voice rang from the darkness, Naruto not even breaking his focus on the fox to look back at his partner.
The nine-tailed fox growled lightly, but regarded the young man Isobu seemed to have formed some kind of bond with. "Then speak, Gaki."
"Well, you may have noticed that I've excluded Menma from our conversation, and that is for good reason, namely a hot temper that could possibly even rival your own or more accurately rival your former container's, my Kaa-chan," He started, earning a low growl from the fox at the mention of that woman. "But, it's also because I don't want him to know about the entirety of what is coming not only after the Bijuu, but the entirety of chakra itself if what I read a few years ago was correct." This time, the fox seemed to allow his anger to sway in favor of his growing curiosity.
"What exactly would you have read in any ningen literature that could spell out what it is I think you're trying to spell out," the fox carefully chose his words, not wanting to reveal anything he truly knew of the matter or what his creator had forewarned him of; something he had hoped Isobu had also followed.
"It wasn't written on paper or scroll like we do now, it was a relic of the clan you hate for reasons I can point towards Uchiha Madara given my great grandfather's journal. But, most of what I read was only an old story that seemed impossible at the time, but I can understand that there is some truth in all legends. It explained how the Mangekyo is supposedly awakened, something I can't believe just based on the circumstances behind myself awakening my friend, Uchiha Izumi's, mangekyo," He paused, having to fight back feelings he hadn't entirely dealt with revolving around that certain event. "I didn't take the life of one of my precious people to awaken the eye, so it led me to believe a warning had been forged into a sort of false prophecy. Especially given what I read on the stone of the Rikudo Sennin and a fight I can't even fathom happening, I just can't believe a man heralded as the Savior of the world and father of modern chakra to be capable of something as controlling as what I read because of my Mangekyo," he paused and the fox seemed to analyze him for a moment further, wondering why it was this human seemed to be seeing what no other being, himself included, could see or imagine.
For a scant moment, the boy was replaced with a man of similar height with slightly better kempt spiky brown hair, but he quickly wiped the thought from his mind before any more of that man's features could impose themselves onto this boy. "Why exactly do you think what you read to be a false prophecy?"
"Seeking stability, one god was divided into yin and yang, these opposing two acting together obtain all things in creation. When someone who possesses the power of Samsara approaches the moon, an eye will open that is reflected on the moon to grant the eternal dream." Both Bijuu seemed to think about what he had just said, before sharing a glance with both nodding slightly while the blonde seemed distracted.
"I know of the story you speak, was there anymore your accursed eyes could decipher from this tablet," Kyuubi asked, Naruto finding himself surprised at the shift of the being's attitude from the beginning of their conversation to now.
"No, whatever else was on the tablet was blurred and unreadable, and it won't be read again considering I destroyed it," he explained, his thoughts now returning even further to the night he had reduced the tablet to rubble.
"To fully read the stone, someone would've had to awaken eyes that haven't been seen in this world for a great many eras, ningen," Kyuubi sighed, releasing the small amount of anger over the blonde destroying something that could've given them more answers. But, a look from Isobu belayed that reaction and he chose now to change the subject to something more prevalent in the moment. "I will reconsider working with the shorter ningen –"
"Menma."
Kyuubi just looked blankly at the blonde before rolling his eyes heavily, "Yes, I will reconsider working with Menma, but there will be things I want and he will have to prove himself to me, meaning no more interference from you," the ancient being pointedly stated, earning an accepting nod from the blonde. "Now, about my conditions…"
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"You're seriously going to condone those requests and his reasoning for it?" the thought was harsh, shot accusingly at the beast within as he walked down a path he hadn't since he was eleven, Menma trailing behind him with a slightly confused aura.
"Not so much condoning as I am understanding that it was bound to happen given the council found out about what the fox described to us, or rather showed us what happened when the young Uchiha succumbed to that seal," Isobu sent back through the link, not entirely remembering his host to be quite the hypocrite, but he supposed it was what he kept calling protective natures. "Menma-kun was undoubtedly already interested in two women, what is the damage with having at least one more woman? Was it not a shared desire between the two of you to revive the Uzumaki clan?"
"It was a shared desire yes, but I didn't want Menma to be forced into something like that, what he does with his life is his choice, not the choice of some overgrown fox or a damn council of meddlers," The blonde shot back, his once more lone revealed ebony eye glaring ahead of him. He should've just ripped that damn seal off and kicked the damn fuzz ball's ass like he had wanted to before Isobu stopped him.
"I have no doubt that you could've eventually beat him Aibo, but it would not benefit Menma-kun any, and just agreeing with Kyuubi and using your position to make it happen will just make Menma's life easier," Isobu reasoned, having been forced to listen in on more than enough council meetings to know Naruto could easily make Kyuubi's request happen.
"But to make it a condition simply because he is the supposed almighty Kyuubi no Yoko, you should've at least let me get more than one chakra punch in," Isobu was forced to bite back a laugh as he remembered the blonde actually punching the Kyuubi deeper into its seal when the request was first made. "And, what about the other things he asked of me, how am I even supposed to find the Nibi Jinchuuriki if I have little to no contacts within Kumogakure?"
"Why not use the contact in the Akatsuki, sure you'll have to do that again, but from my point of view you seem to have little problem doing that," The turtle shot with a laugh, and he could almost feel the blonde's glare on him after that one.
"I suppose that is a feasible option, even if I'm sure I'll be sore for a few weeks following that psychopath's torture."
"Keep denying you loved it, just like you ignore your infatuation with that dog woman," Isobu laughed heartily, knowing his host better than most people ever could hope to.
"What Hana and I did was a one-time deal and nothing more, she and I both agreed on that!"
"Then why has it happened six or seven times now, and what about that same agreement you had with the Uchiha woman?"
"The Hana deal is different, and it's simply not happening, she's into strong men but she's not the sharing type and I'm kind of already in two relationships as is," the blonde relented with a sigh, honestly he didn't understand why so many women were interested in him. But, unlike the turtle seemed to believe, not every woman's interest in him reached the eventual marriage level.
"Four, the other Uchiha woman and the Sand woman that kept stalking us that first week, not like you didn't enjoy that either. Technically five if we count your informant with the snake," Isobu once more laughed, honestly having enjoyed his time with Naruto because he was so fun to mess with.
"Ne, Onii-chan, where are we even going?" Menma's voice finally reached his ears after ten minutes of trying, forcing the blonde to look back at him with a raised brow. "You just told me to follow you and haven't answered any of my questions since we started walking."
"Sorry, Otouto, Isobu-baka and I have been talking about some things and I was distracted," Naruto sighed, allowing his pace to lessen so he was walking next to the shorter Uzumaki. "I've got something I want to give you, but if I'm going to give it to you I want it to be a significant place that I've never brought you to," his explanation earned him a confused look, but Naruto only chuckled and placed his hand in the mess of crimson spikes atop his head. "Just trust me, Otouto, I should've brought you here a long, long time ago."
Menma only rose a brow in confusion, the same way Naruto and then Minato before them had done, wondering what it was the blonde could mean. But, a yelp escaped his throat when the blonde lightly bopped his head and then took to the trees, forcing him to break into a sprint to keep up. He wanted to curse when the blonde looked back with a wolfish smirk before sticking his tongue out and flipping him the bird, speeding up as he did. "Onii-chan!"
The roar could've been heard for miles as the crimson haired boy pulsed chakra into his legs to keep up with his brother, who was still pulling away with ease. Unconsciously, he was so enraged with his brother's taunting and teasing, he actually channeled wind chakra into his legs as he ran. Naruto sensed it and allowed a smile to grace his lips as he cut the small amount of lightning chakra influencing his own speed before suddenly dropping down and stopping completely.
He wasn't shocked when Menma managed to follow him, but was unable to stop himself from slamming into his back at the suddenness with which the blonde stopped. Naruto looked back to him with a small smile, before nodding towards the opening of a cave directly behind the Hokage's monument, but heavily hidden by foliage and massive trees. The young boy once more rose his brow in question, Naruto only shaking his head before leading the way into the small cave.
Menma, seeing no other option, took his brother's example and walked in behind him, only to abruptly stop as he took in the lit up cave. His eyes looked over the Sakura trees within, the ground littered with a veritable sea of the pink petals, leaving only the center untouched where a small shrine of sort was placed in memoriam.
"This is where my Mokuton was awakened, where Kaa-chan took her last breaths and where her real grave is," Naruto explained, his eyes holding a delicateness Menma rarely saw from him as he looked towards the slab of stone ahead of them.
"What about the one in the village," Menma asked, unable to take his eyes from the stone after looking back to it.
"For the people that knew her and tou-chan outside of you, me, Ji-chan and Baa-chan," he answered, slowly walking up towards the shrine. Menma watched with interest as his brother pulled the katana from his back and placed it before the stone, kneeling down before it and beginning to pray; something he had never actually seen his brother do. Quickly making his mind up, he once more followed the elder's example and removed his weapons and leaned them against one of the many Sakura trees before taking a kneeling position next to his brother.
For some time, the two just sat there in complete silence, Menma wearing a small frown as he looked at the slab with his mother's name carved within it. "Why did you choose to bury her here, in a cave of all places?"
Naruto smiled sadly for a moment, "It's where I spent her last days with her Otouto, where I promised to look after you in her and Tou-chan's stead," he paused, looking towards the trees that surrounded the grave entirely. "It's where I unlocked the first thing I ever received to help me with that promise I made, because she died with her hand in mine," Naruto didn't even bother to wipe the tears from his eye as they freely fell. It had been many years since he last visited, and he regretted it, but he knew the weakness that swallowed him when he came here. He couldn't afford for that weakness to follow him in the years that had passed, he needed to shoulder that heartbreak and use it as the hone to his will.
"I wanted to bring you here after that night," he said, nodding his head of blonde spikes towards his brother's abdomen, where they both knew a scar to be. "But, I didn't want you to see it after that, I wanted you to see it when you were in a good place, so I could give you what was always meant to be yours."
"Meant to be mine, what do you mean, Naruto?"
The blonde chuckled lightly as Menma actually used his name, something that wasn't a common occurrence between the two brothers. "Kaa-chan's katana, Menma, in her will she asked that I take care of it until you were ready to use it and after training you these past two weeks, I think you are."
"K-Kaa-chan's katana?" he felt his eyes widen as he looked to the blade his brother had always wielded, knowing it well as he used to always watch him work with it; imagining himself being the one to wield it.
"Tatsu no Ishi (Will of the Dragon), is what the Uzumaki clan called it," He smiled, having learned a great deal about their clan's history both from Kushina's father and the massive library he had returned from Uzushio with. "The forger of the katana and its counterpart, Kirin no Ishi, was born a branch member of the clan; but forged the blade with his belief in what the eldest daughter of the main branch had taught him. That man later married the eldest daughter, Uzumaki Hitomi, because of his power, knowledge and sacrifices for the clan. But, unlike some arranged marriages, they loved each other dearly and had seven children. When Uzushio was attacked, he gave Tatsu no Ishi to his youngest daughter and had his most trusted guards take her away in the madness, his daughter was Uzumaki Kushina, Kaa-chan," Naruto smiled as he remembered his time in the seal with Uzumaki Michio and Isobu. He then summoned the shorter blade of Kirin no Ishi to his hand and placed it before the Katana. "I wasn't entirely sure when I began teaching you the two sword style that there were two ancestral blades, but I found this on my trip to Uzushio and considered it only right to also give it to you after training you to use them."
Menma was completely speechless as he tried to process not only the blades, but the story Naruto had told him and the reasoning behind having trained him to use two swords. His brother truly had gotten lucky on one part of his assumption, but it was as if he had completely planned and foreseen the rest.
Naruto only chuckled at his little brother, "Why don't I tell you about what I know of our mother's clan while I help you make some wrist seals?" He only chuckled as the crimson haired boy mutely nodded, before that hunger for knowledge shone in his violet eyes.
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Sakura sighed as she looked out of the window of the guest room that had at some point unintentionally become reserved entirely for her. It had at first bothered her mother no small amount that she was staying at the house of her latest crush so often, but like usual Haruno Mebuki relented at just a glimpse of her daughter being happy. It had only taken her mother one-time of seeing she and Menma walking around the village, on the night the two had joined Tsunade and Shizune for dinner, for her to relent.
However, that wasn't what was really bothering the young pink haired girl at the moment, it was more geared towards the fact she hadn't seen the crimson haired boy since he had abruptly landed on her that day a few weeks ago. After not even an hour, where it seemed like the entire village had gone on high alert when Naruto's release of chakra had washed over them, he was escorted right back to wherever it was the Uzumaki brothers had been training.
Was she probably just being stupid and over attached? Probably, but it's probably the main reason she hadn't said much about her worry over the boy to anyone. Even if she knew that Tsunade had called her out on it several times during their medical studies. But, she was quickly coming to accept that the older woman just knew what she knew, like some sort of sixth sense you developed as you aged.
Honestly, she had just missed the interest he always showed in what she was working on, where she had improved or even if he could help her. She felt a smile cross her cheeks as she remembered how many times she would appreciate his offer, but turn him down because she knew he didn't have the control to help with her medical techniques. Though, he had been plenty of help during her taijutsu and ninjutsu training, even if the taijutsu training she had done with him revealed one of his secrets; the one where if she hit him, it was because he let her. It made her feel sort of bad for always hitting him in the past, but she assumed there would be some crazy reasoning he had as to why he let her hit him.
The pinkette was however brought from her thoughts as a knock resounded from her door before it was pushed open, none other than the Mizukage poking her head in with a small smile on her ruby lips. "I was hoping you'd still be up, Sakura-tan," the woman teased, making the pink haired girl deadpan at the annoying way she called her.
"Baka-onna," Sakura responded with a mild glare, earning nothing more than a giggle from the auburn haired woman.
"I need to run a couple things to Naruto-kun, I was wondering if maybe you'd like to join me," she offered with a smile, watching as the girl's similar jade eyes brightened immediately, just as she had anticipated. "Though, I would advise you wear something other than that shirt you stole from Menma-chan's room," she shot teasingly, enjoying it when the girl blushed brightly after looking down to see the over-sized short sleeved orange shirt she wore. "I'm not sure Menma-chan could handle seeing you in his shirt like that just yet," she giggled, deftly catching the kunai sent towards her head, continuing to giggle as she exited the room to wait for the younger girl to get dressed.
Sakura could only sigh as the woman left her alone, Mei was honestly the closest thing to a big sister that she had ever known even in their short time of knowing each other, but the woman always teased her mercilessly. However, she had also done a lot to help Sakura with her ninjutsu training when in Konohagakure. Considering that and the fact she would be marrying the elder brother of the boy she could quite possibly marry someday, it was nice having her in her corner cheering her on to end up with Menma. It was why as she walked towards her bag and began to pull the baggy orange shirt from her body, a small smile came to her face as she let it fall back over her young modesty. Maybe, just maybe, she would allow Menma to see her in the shirt she had admittedly stolen from his room, she had been sleeping in it almost religiously anyway.
With her mind made up, she quickly grabbed a pair of black leggings and pulled them over her legs before walking to exit the room, quickly spotting what Naruto had dubbed as a "tiresome" smile on Mei's face. The older woman only shook her head before handing some of what they would be taking to the two Uzumaki to the younger girl. It seemed rather poetic to Sakura as she noticed Mei herself was in one of Naruto's shirts, slightly tucked into a tight black skirt that fell to her mid thighs. Neither woman had any doubt that Menma was dense, but neither of them considered him too dense to see Naruto's future wife wearing a shirt owned by the blonde and then see Sakura wearing one of his shirts, without being able to connect dots.
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The two girls shared a laugh as they walked, just allowing normal conversation to pass between them as they neared where Mei had told her the two brothers would be training. However, the conversation seemed to die off as both woman took notice of the apples of their eyes. Neither Uzumaki wearing a shirt as their forearms smashed against one another in a show of force before a brutal taijutsu exchange broke off between them. It seeming to end quickly as the crimson haired boy was rocketed backwards, only for him to explode in a plume of smoke.
Mei felt a smile come to her face as she watched the wolfish grin come to her betrothed's face when four clones of Menma erupted from the ground, attempting to attack him. But, had to cover her giggle when the blonde himself exploded in a flurry of electricity as contact was made with him by Menma and his clones. Sakura just seemed in awe that Menma was actually keeping up with and reading Naruto's movements so well, having only sent clones to fight the blonde, signified by the four new plumes of smoke filling the air.
When both brothers appeared Menma was quick to call upon his fuma shuriken from the new seals on his wrist, throwing both with practiced ease as he charged in behind them. Naruto's smirk only seemed to widen when he saw it, surprising both women as he jumped and twisted his body to actually go between the projectiles, the Kibas appearing in his hands after he cleared them. Just as his sandal touched the ground, both women seemed surprised to find Menma pressing a familiar pair of swords against the legendary blades. "Not bad Otouto, but keep pushing!"
Mei seemed to only smile more and shake her head when she heard the blonde's roar, both boys beginning to exchange a flurry of sword strikes at speeds she hadn't seen Menma previously moving. In her opinion he was probably nearly on par with Chojuro by this point, the blue haired junior member of the Seven swordsmen having trained many years to get to that point. But, she knew Naruto had ways of speeding up the training of the body, if his Adonis-like form was anything to go by of course.
The young woman looked over to the girl who had joined her tonight, smiling as she saw awe and admiration light up in the pinkette's green eyes. She had honestly been a bigger fan of the blonde girl infatuated with her future little brother, but seeing he and Sakura interact had brought that to a stalemate. Sakura however had almost entirely taken the lead after she and the girl had trained together a few times, even if she lacked chakra reserves unlike Mei, she made up for that with her desire to be a true kunoichi and that insane control.
"See something you like, Mizu-hime?"
"You could say that, Naru-kun," she smiled as she looked over her shoulder to spot the pout on his face after not surprising her like he thought he would. He would do this far too often for him to get her every time, and of course she was a Kage-level shinobi with reason. "Sakura-tan and I brought you those things you asked me to pick-up today, though I get the feeling she's just here to see Menma-chan," she giggled playfully after looking to spot the blush lighting Sakura's cheeks.
The clone sent by the blonde after noticing them looked to his other student and felt a smirk come to his face, "Cute shirt, pinky," he goaded.
Sakura immediately snapped and irately punched the clone square in the jaw, bringing a hearty laugh out of Mei as she watched it dispel and the real Naruto look over with wide-eyes at his student. At least, that was until Menma planted a firm kick into the very same jaw, the blonde however standing steadfast as his eyes robotically turned towards his brother.
"We have guests, Otouto," he murmured, the foot still on his jaw before Menma flipped backwards and resealed his new blades. Naruto only had to wait a moment for Menma's violet eyes to find the two kunoichi who had come to see them before the boy quite literally vanished from his place. The blonde could only shake his head and sigh when he looked to find his brother already animatedly talking to the two, yet to take notice of what Sakura was wearing or the fact she was clearly staring at his state of undress.
The blonde wasted no time in flashing to Mei's side, the shorter woman happily leaning into his side as she felt his arm snake around her waist. The older pair just examining the younger duo as the two teens talked and bantered per usual, Sakura still making no effort to avert her eyes and Menma entirely oblivious. "Did you have any trouble getting what I asked for?"
Mei shook her head in the negative, smiling as she watched the younger almost couple before looking up to her blonde haired wolf. "It would seem you've been pushing him pretty hard in such a short time, even if I know you're nowhere near full out with him," she said, earning a small smile from the blonde.
"He's getting better, but he's still got some time before he's ready for that," he chuckled, reaching over to pull the long sleeved shirt she had brought him from the bundle in her arms. He only shot her a wink, that looked more like a simple blink with the bandage still over his eye, as she pouted when he pulled the blue fabric over his body.
Rolling her jade eyes, Mei simply handed him his flak jacket before crossing her arms and further cutely pouting because he had covered himself. It wasn't fair Sakura was still allowed to have a show and she wasn't, at the very least in her opinion. Which was exactly why she looked over to the crimson haired boy and caught his attention, "Maybe you should put the new clothes on we brought you Menma-chan, and I don't mean that shirt of yours Sakura-tan is wearing," she said with a sweet smile.
Menma's reaction was immediate as he seemed to finally notice that his crush was indeed wearing one of his orange clan shirts, smiling shyly with a light blush as she no doubt saw his face burn crimson. Timidly, she offered him the black hoodie he had Naruto request for him, and he hesitantly took it and slowly covered himself with it and zipped it about halfway.
"Well then," Naruto sighed, watching as the two awkwardly now danced around each other, in no small part thanks to Mei's comment. "Why don't we call it a night and I can cook something up for all of us," he finished, pointing over towards the small cabin he had made several years ago when he first started training here.
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A/N: So, some mild story development here, Naruto continuously revealing more and more of the pieces he's put together even if in different conversations with different people or beings, in Kurama's case. Which by the way it is so hard to not call "Kyuubi-san" Kurama every time I have to write him. Some of the way Naruto knows what he knows has been revealed to a small extent, further expanding on why Naruto felt so drawn to destroy the ancestral tablet of the Uchiha in the prologue. But, we also see some glimpses of Naruto's playboy streak, which no, none of the women mentioned or hinted at in that particular moment are the mysterious woman I have yet to reveal. I'm sorry, I know a lot of people love Hana and the other woman you may or may not have picked up on my foreshadowing to. But, we've probably only got maybe ten… maybe twelve, chapters until the final woman is revealed.
Menma has also received his mother's katana and the Kirin no Ishi, which yes were always meant for him from the beginning, the Naginata was always meant for Naruto along with the Kiba blades. You also have gotten, over the last few chapters, to see a bit of a leap to put Menma and Gaara on near equal footing as it could be argued he really wasn't as such in cannon, especially not at this point.
There is also the matter of I imposed a new vote several chapters ago and I have only received a few actual votes. Now, the choice is, DO YOU WANT TO SEE MENMAFUU? If so, drop that vote in the reviews, if not do the same deal as with the previous pairing vote and put NOFUU. Make your opinion heard so I can know what all these amazing followers want to see, or at the very least a good portion of them.
Anyway, thank you again for the amazing support you all have given me for this story, I am beyond grateful to each of you!
