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Menma woke up to find himself in a dirty room covered with blood at his feet. He already knew where he was. 'Ok, ok. I can't lose hope, Kakashi or someone else will find me.'-Menma.

A man with long hair walked into the room and Menma lost a little of that hope. "You're not supposed to be awake yet, today's the day things are gonna get really painful for you. Menma couldn't do anything about his current situation even if he tried his best. The man walked over to him and injected him with a needle, the needle pierced his skin and Menma jolted a bit and started having flashbacks.

Flashbacks going back to where it all went wrong after coming back from the Land of Waves...

Menma woke up in his bed and walked towards the bathroom. His face looked nearly identical to Suigetsu's, the differences were that Menma had shorter bangs, his hair wasn't as spiky, no pointy teeth, slightly tanned skin, red hair, and one of his eyes were red and the other was blue. He also had the same 6 whiskers as Naruto, but he didn't receive the kyuubi as young as Naruto did so if the kyuubi disappears so does the whiskers.

After he finished up he was going to wake up Naruto, but Naruto was already awake, in fact he never slept in the first place. Menma was a caring brother who was 2 years older than Naruto, he walked over and put a hand on his shoulder. "I know it's unfortunate they had to die, but there isn't always going to be a happy ending to a story. You should never forget what they did, that memory makes you stronger. But it isn't healthy to lose sleep by blaming yourself for something you couldn't control Naruto."-Menma.

Naruto looked up at Menma wiping away a tear from his slightly red eyes, "Yeah, you're right Menma, ima go drop by Hiruzen and ask for a job to help clear my mind."-Naruto. Menma smiled at this, and then decided to leave himself.

When he walked outside he quickly got a few negative looks his way, but they quickly looked away remembering his threats, Menma was a good person, and he didn't actually hurt anyone just for looking at him, He just threatened them so that they could stop bothering him and his brother. After walking past a certain house he gave it a glare, looking at helped him remember how before he became a genin the villagers had some sick game, where every time he and Naruto were adopted, they would whip them and deprive them of proper food. They were also forced to sleep in the mud if there was ever a storm, and if there wasn't a storm they just made them sleep outside anyway.

The only reason they didn't starve to death is because Menma was lucky enough to be born with a passive variation of the wood style Kekkei Genkai, where he could quickly grow any fruit or vegetable or plant in general, he can't do perfect trees yet though, and the only reason they didn't die from blood loss was because Menma's Kurama half felt sympathetic towards them, and scared their adoptive parents into staying away. And after an incident with Kurama killing one of their adoptive parents later that evening while Kurama was asleep the villagers tried to claim revenge on the 2 brothers, the only reason they survived is because Kakashi stepped in, and while hearing some of the villagers words he discovered their secret, and Kakashi being the student of Naruto's father became quite infuriated. It would be very vulgar and gory to go into deep detail, but Kakashi made an example out of one of them, and threatened them with words that could make Orochimaru push himself. After that was all done and over Kakashi now with less trust in the village people than ever before decided to adopt the brothers himself, as their new father, and life after that became great. Honestly it was the best thing that happened to them in their entire life.

Well now, they just about all the time just act like he's not there. Which he doesn't really mind, it's an improvement.

After Menma's jog down memory lane

he returned home and knocked on Kakashi's bedroom door he came out and was ready for his early morning training. Once they arrived Kakashi decided to do taijutsu today.

"Menma, you're naturally good at evading out of the way of an attack, but how about we take advantage of an attack by countering it. A counter is when you block an attack and then follow up with an attack of your own. And one more thing, when your countering target their pressure points, but target commons ones most of the time, not everyone has the same pressure points. So, we will do 3 combinations for now. And these will be bone breaking ones that can be lethal so that when you take someone down, they stay down. The first one is something like this.this move is used against a normal straight forward punch. First party their arm out of the way and use your other hand to chop at a sensitive spot near their elbow, then use that same hand and grab them by the wrist and pull down in a -45 degree angle, also while you are pulling on their arm use your other arm to keep their jaw facing backwards, the reason you do this is so that by stretching their arm far from their neck you can potentially break one of their nerves. Then you will knee them as hard as possible in the elbow. It looks kinda like breaking a wooden board but upside down."-Kakashi.

"Next will be if they go for a front kick, you know, like a spartan kick. You will grab the leg, and as fast as possible side kick them in the face hard enough for them to fall over, holding the leg up high helps this. Once they are on the ground make sure you still have a hold of their leg, and then go for a chakra enhanced axe kick, or wheel kick right on their knee. Now THAT will look just like breaking a wooden board, just a little tilted."-Kakashi.

"Next is the most brutal of all, I came up with this one in a dream, it was a weird dream in fact. For some reason some guy on steroids was fighting some guy in a batsuit. I think I'll call it the Bane. Now how the bane works is first you will have to wear down your opponent to around half stamina, then you will lift them above your head and slam them down on your knee, this has the potential to break their back."-Kakashi. "That last one sounds kinda uncreative."-Menma.

"Shut up. Just practice these combos on clones of yourself. Ima be over here reading if you need me."-Kakashi

1 hour later

"Kakashi sensei, I think I've mastered the combos now."-Menma. Kakashi was a little surprised by how fast he finished but remembered something.

"Damn, I forgot were suppose to have a mission today. Menma follow me."-Kakashi. They both shunshined towards the meeting place.

5 minutes later

"WHAT THE HELL TOOK YOU SO LONG!?!?!?"-Sakura. That sound was so familiar. It reminded me of the deafening screech of a siren.

"Sorry we're late, I'm afraid we got lost on the path of life."-Menma. Kakashi smiled at this, he taught Menma well.

"Anyways we have 3 D-rank missions, to do today."-Kakashi. Naruto would usually complain, but decided not to because of their real first mission they had.

Menma wasn't on any of these, he decided to use a shadow clone instead and go think about life for a day.

While walking along he eventually ended up on the 4th Hokage's stone head, and started thinking about some things about himself.'I have an affinity for all 5 nature transformations, I got fire from Kurama,(not that I know literally any ninjutsu or genjutsu though so it's pretty pointless...)., and I'm a natural marksmen with throwing weapons. What else can I do? Maybe I'll make myself a sword, nah a normal sword would be boring and weak. Maybe a sword like the kusanagi, but it would be awesome if I could make my OWN! Something like a sword with obsidian around the edges of the blade because obsidian can cut through anything, but It shatters like glass. And I could make the inside of the blade titanium because of how strong and light it is, and I could put tiny amounts of chakra metal mixed with silver inside of the swords metal so it can conduct energy like nature elements and Kurama chakra a lot better than it already would. OOOOO, or what if I could make 2 of them and chain them to my arm? Wait never mind that would be copyright. And I could just make the handle as fancy and expensive as possible, while also infusing special chakra seal on it, so that only certain people can use it, and I guess as I go on in life if I come across some cool new stuff along the way I could add on more to it. yeah that would be goo-"Menma, I can't sleep if you keep on thinking so much."-Kurama. 'Heh heh, sorry, I think I should go find Naruto.'-Menma.

Near the academy

'Maybe he's hanging out with Konohamaru. Hey is that Konohamaru with Naruto? Why is he being choked by this cat clown? Oooooh, and who is this astonishingly attractive blonde haired girl-wait, I have to pay attention.'-Menma.

"Hey clown thing what are you doing with my boy Konahamaru? Get your hands off my mans unless you tryna catch some a dese hands with yo face yung boi!"-Menma.

"Is you threatening me bro? You tryna mix fam?"-Kankuro. "Yeah bro esgo RIGHT NOW then!"-Menma. "SQUARE UP THEN BOI!"-Kankuro. They got close to each other and were shoulder to shoulder. "STRIKE FIRST BOI! STRIKE FIRST!"-Menma. "Na BRUH! YOU BETTER HOPE YOU KNOCK ME OUT QUICK BEFORE I GET MY SQUAD ON YOU!"-Kankuro. "SQUAD? MAN SHUT UP YO SQUAD A BUNCH A CLOWNS LIKE RUSS SQUAD!"-Menma.

"Menma, I sense tailed beast chakra nearby, it's Shikaku."-Kurama.

"Wait, there's someone in that tree."-Sasuke.

Everyone looked over into the tree to see a short spiky red haired kid with no eyebrows, and a kanji for Love on his head.

"Enough Kankuro, you're embarrassing our village."-Gaara. Menma was surprised Sasuke noticed him.

"Gaara, you're back!"-Temari. "Gaara this is a misunderstanding, they lashed out first! I was"- "shut up, or I'll kill you."-Gaara.

'Damn, they really just got bitched.'-Menma.

"My apologies, I'll make sure they don't do anything stupid again."-Gaara.

Seeing they were foreign ninja and knowing about the chunin exams he decided to make a humorous first impression, especially for the lady. Menma felt it was false hope but still wanted to try. "Hold up just a second, if I'm correct isn't there some kind of law about non leaf ninja needing permission to be here? Show me your greencards foreigners!"-Menma.

'I told Hiruzen we needed a bigger wall but he wouldn't listen.'-Menma.

Temari got over her initial shock and smiled and responded in an amused way, "Oh no, it's border patrol, here's my permit."-Temari. Menma looked at the card and saw their identities. 'So her name is Temari.' "Ok, have a nice day, Madam Temari."-Menma. He kissed her hand and left leaving Temari with a blush.

"Wait, what's your name?"-Sasuke. Gaara turned around and said, "Gaara. what's yours?"-Gaara. "Sasuke Uchiha."-Sasuke. Everything was silent for a minute.

'Hmmm, while they're busy ima take my shot with Madam Temari over here. I kinda have bad luck with women but I really think it will work for once.'-Menma.

"So I never formally introduced myself, my name is Menma Uzumaki, so what's your name?"-Menma. My name's Temari so how old are you?"-Temari. "Ima couple years older than my squad so I'm 15, you?"-Menma. "Same!"-Temari. "So what's your nature affinity? My most favorite is wind."-Menma. "Wind is what I use all the time for my weapon!"-Temari.

They were unconsciously leaning into another while talking about similarities for a moment before a thin sand wall appeared between them and separated them.

Temari,we are wasting time, we have to check in with the sensei for the chunin exams let's go."-Gaara.

"The chunin exams?"-Naruto. "The chunin exams are how you advance in rank. If you do them you take a big step towards Hokage."-Menma. "GREAT, Let's do that!"-Naruto. "We will but first, let's find Kakashi and get more info on this."-Menma.

At squad meeting

"So I know this is sudden but I signed you guys up for the chunin exams, you have all exhibited phenomenal skills so far. So uh yeah, you guys should go there about now, you're running late. Bye."-Kakashi

At the academy

"What great memories we all shared here, don't you agree Sasuke? You were always pulling girls just by looking like you hated everything and you wanted to die."-Menma. "Hn?"-Sasuke. "I agree."-Menma.

"Don't make this hard on us kids, we're saving you trouble by not letting you in. The chunin exams are really hard." The Jonin stated with a smug grin.

Sasuke started walking towards him with the goal of exposing him. But Menma put a hand on his shoulder. "Don't intervene let's just go up to the next level. If the people here are dumb enough to fall for this they don't have much of a chance in the chunin exams."-Menma.

"Hn."-Sasuke

As they turned and walked up the stairs a group of 3 leaf ninja saw them. And followed.

They all walked into a big open room. "This looks like one of those rooms there would be a boss battle in. What do you think Sasuke? Sasuke?"-Menma.

"My name is Rock Lee, I would like to test how effective my techniques will be on a ninja considered a genius. "My name is Sasuke Uchiha, and I accept."-Sasuke.

'Who the hell is this? He looks like a school shooter, with his bowl cut and green spandex. Sasuke better be careful against this monster.'-Menma.

Sasuke went for a head on punch, but Lee disappeared, he showed up above him and said leaf hurricane and did some fast spiral kicks. Sasuke couldn't escape so he went for a block, but Lee finessed him and kicked him across the room.

"God damn, Sasuke you got knocked out in one hit! You really gonna take that? Get up!"-Menma.

Sasuke got up, and his eyes turned red. "Oooooo you in trouble now Lee!"-Menma

But then something unexpected happened, Lee unraveled his bandages and did a sliding kick into the air, Sasuke was pretty helpless, Menma was actually worried about what would happen and wondered if he should intervene to save Sasuke. But then a huge turtle pulled Lee down, now normally that would be pretty weird and Menma would say something funny, but he decided to go check on his friend Sasuke.

"Wow Sasuke, I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed."-Menma. "Shut up."-Sasuke. Seriously that was embarrassing, are you sure you still want to do the chunin exams? Maybe we should go home."-Menma. "Shut up."-Sasuke. "Also you look pretty hurt, do you want me to kiss your boo-SHUT UP!-Sasuke.

But then something scary happened. A man who looked like an older version of Lee showed up. "Oh no, it's Gai, Kakashi warned me about this guy. We have to get out of here now."-Menma.

"Team 7! It's time to run for the 1st testing room!"-Menma.

"Hey, you kids are with Kakashi, say, how is he?"-Gai. 'Oh no, it's too late.'-Menma. "You know Kakashi sensei?"-Sakura. "Well I guess you could say we're rivals. Our score is 50-49. In Fact I'm stronger than Kakashi."-Gai. "What? No that's not true."-Naruto.

"Are you denying the abilities of"- "It's fine Lee, I guess action is more effective than words."-Gai.

All of a sudden he disappeared and reappeared behind them. 'He's faster than Kakashi'-Sasuke.

"Ok we're done here, let's go."-Menma.

"Wait! I would like to admit that I lied earlier, I faced you to test my own abilities yes, but you are not the strongest ninja in the rookie 13. That person is"-"Me."-Menma. "Uh, no, I'm talking about someone in my group called Nenji Hyuga."-Lee.

As he left Sasuke looked irritated, but then he smiled. "It seems things are getting interesting, what's next? Sakura, Naruto, Menma let's go!"-Sasuke. "Wooo!"-Naruto.

"So, you all made it. None of you can imagine how proud I am of you all. I remember when you guys couldn't even climb a tree. But now you all can take on A-rank missions with no major problems. Now, go on, and defeat this last obstacle to be Chunin.

When the 4 of them stepped in they were greeted with a room full of ninja from all around the Ninja world.

"Menma!"-Ino. "INO! How have you been?"-Menma. "Great! I've been practicing the chakra healing like you've told me to! And I took a test, my healing skill is A-Rank!"-Ino. Menma had a prideful smile on his face, "Seeee? I told you my training regiment would work. Ino had a blush and said, "Thank you!" And a bow before leaving.

'Ima get the rest of the rookie 10 over here for a reunion real quick. What was that one group called? I think it was ino-shika-cho or something like that. And then there was the group with the mummy jonin leader, pretty sure that was team 8. Oh, never mind they're already here.'-Menma.

"You all should be a bit quieter, OH wait, are you people the rookie 10? Strait out of the academy. Look at you with your cute"-"ok pedo get to the point."-Menma.

"Anyways my name is Kabuto Yakushi, and take a look around you, what do you see?"-Kabuto. After they took a quick look around Menma answered sarcastically, "WHAT a bunch of Intimidating individuals, good thing I wore brown pants."-Menma. He got a few giggles out of that answer.

"(Sign), you kids remind me of my old self."-Kabuto. "So does that mean this is your 2nd time?"-Sakura. No it's, my 7th."-Kabuto. "Wow, that must mean you know a lot!"-Sakura.

"It also means you must be pretty fucking stupid."-Menma.

"Whatever, there are 3 stages to this exam, a written test, week long survival exercise and a tournament"-Kabuto. "Is it really that high a hurdle? How troublesome."-Shikamaru.

"Have no fear, I'll give you all a little advantage. I have over 200 of these cards and on them I can give you info on any of you or anyone in this room. Just point and I'll make the info appear on this blank card."-Kabuto.

"Me first!"'yeah, this is gonna be good, ima have a 5 out of 5 on all of these, people will see how powerful I really am!'-Menma. "Don't be so confident, you might be surprised."-Kurama.

As the card started spinning his statistics appeared, and they were all ones. "WWWWHHHHHHAAAATTT!??!?!?!? THIS ISN'T RIGHT I HAD THE BEST EVERYTHING"-Menma. "Are you sure about that?"-Sasuke.

"Wow Menma, you're a pretty fodder ninja."-Sakura.

"Now show Gaara of the Sand, and Lee of the Leaf."-Sasuke. " Lee's a year older than all of you except Menma, and he only excels in Taijutsu and is bad at everything else. Hmmm, interesting, apparently Gaara has never once been hurt before. And he has no stats, but he's taken multiple S-Rank missions. I just want you all to know this isn't a game. This is real life, your all fighting elite ninja who aren't afraid to kill."-Kabuto. "Wouldn't be the first time, this will be easy!"-Menma.

"How arrogant"-Lee. "Can you believe this guy?"-Kankuro. "He might be better than we think."-Temari.

"We should strike now"-Sound guy.

The started racing towards them at high speeds. One tried throwing kunai at Kabuto and all of them. 'Kurama, ready to make a good 1st impression?'-Menma. "Always"-Kurama.

Menma started moving at high speeds and caught all the kunai with each finger, then he threw them all back at their knee kaps and pinned one to the wall. The leader of the group tried attacking him with his sound device. "Watch out, that gauntlet uses sound waves"-Kurama.

Menma covered his hand in hardened earth and grabbed the gauntlet and crushed it, breaking his hand. But he wasn't done there, next he slammed him into the wall and used the kyuubi's strength to bend his elbow back fast so it cracked, breaking it. "You won't be hurting anyone else with this now."-Menma. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH"-Sound leader. Menma did a flicka da wrist which made the leader fly onto the ground.

"Well maybe he isn't as arrogant as we thought."-Tenten. "Quite brutal."-Neji.

"What a man!"-Temari. "Ok Temari calm down, it wasn't THAT good."-Kankuro. "Hmm, impressive."-Gaara.

More sound ninja started walking up. "Who's next?"-Menma.

But then smoke appeared at the front of the room and out of it a lot of people and the Procter showed up. "Silence degenerates! My name is Ibiki Morino, and I am the 1st stage chunin exam Proctor."-Ibiki.

"You sound ninja, no fighting without the Proctors permission."-Ibiki. "Sorry but this is our first time here so we lashed out."-sound guy.

I'm skipping the first test, it's just a long and boring and everyone knows what happens. Also Menma passed it with a slightly lower score than Itachi because he's smart and he had Kurama's help.

This is the site of the 44th training field, also known as... the Forest Of Death, you'll realize why later."-Anko.

"Is it because it's a forest you die in? Cause if so my team isn't gonna be one of those."-Menma.

"You've got a lot of arrogance!"-Anko.

She threw a kunai but he caught through its hole using one finger, then she used shushin to get behind him but anticipated that and tripped her by controlling part of the earth. Now that she was in the air he grabbed her around the waist and slammed her onto the ground In a way so he didn't harm her much at all, he was now on top of her.

"Ha, maybe if you went faster you would have got me with that shushin."-Menma. She was gonna say something but stopped and looked down, she then smiled and decided to use an embarrassing comeback. "Well aren't you a BIG man."-Anko replied emphasizing the word big with a sexy tone. She knew saying this would make him realize what was happening. He quickly stood up with a nervous look on his face. "Sorry about that! Let's just continue with the exams.

Temari had a disapproving look. While a lot of men were jealous, and most of the girls were amused.

"Ok here are forms for you to sign, they also have the rules. Sign these to confirm that Konaha will not be responsible for decapitation sickness death or pregnancies."-Anko.

"Wait did you just say preg"-"OK MOVE ALONG NOW SCATTER ACROSS THE FOREST AND WAIT FOR THE HORN TO SIGNAL THE START!"-Anko.

"Why is Naruto taking so long? He should have been back by now."-Sakura.

"I'm Back!"-Naruto. 'Waaaait. Doesn't Naruto wear his kunai strap on his right leg?'"Menma, that is not Naruto. There is no kyuubi chakra in this ones body."-Kurama.

"Hey Naruto, ima call you Juan ok? Now, what do you call a Mexican Tiger Woods?"-Menma. "Uh, I don't know is it a"-"HOLE IN JUAN!" Menma yelled as he threw a kunai at his head killing him. "MENMA, WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?!!?"-Sakura.

"Hey guys I'm back, sorry I'm late I was knocked out by some guy from the sound village, man just wait till I see that guy again, I'm gonna... oh, you guys already took care of him."-Naruto.

"Hey Sasuke, give me the scroll, ima put it in a sealed box."-Menma.

"Hn."-Sasuke.

Before Sasuke could hand it to Menma they started to feel a cold breeze,"Hey does anyone else feel that weird breez-AAAAAAAHHHHHH!" They all screamed.

"Why hello there everyone, I won't waste my time with a disguise cause this Menma boy has sharp senses." Orochimaru stated licking his lips.

"Thank you, waait, where's Naruto?"-Menma.

"Nevermind, he's probably fine."-Menma.

"So, you want our earth scroll since you have the heaven scroll right?"-Sasuke.

"Correct, but we are wasting time so let's start already, life or death."-Orochimaru. Orochimaru then took out his scroll and swallowed it. "Those are some impressive deepthroat skills."-Menma.

"Be prepared."Orochimaru warned before he opened his left eye all the way and sent the fear of god into their souls. His stare made them see their own deaths, and they were paralyzed in place shaking. None of them could say a word.

'Uh, Kurama, I just saw my death, wha-what's wrong with me?"-Menma asked wearily. "Menma this is one of the 3 great sannins, he is way above your level, your gonna have to use at least 3 tails to fight him."-Kurama.

"Alright, this is gonna hurt for me and you, but mostly you."-Menma spoke bravely towards Orochimaru.

Menma's body became enveloped with red chakra and he grew 3 chakra tail.

"Interesting, so it's you and Naruto who both carry the 9 tails, you'll be under my control eventually."-Orochimaru.

Now I know some characters seem out of character to a certain extent. Like how Temari acted towards Menma. But just bear with it, also just to let you know, only the first couple of chapters are gonna have a lotta MenmaxTemari, I just want to give good development between characters and themselves. Although at around chapter 6 the relationship will die down drastically.

Also sorry if you wanted Naruto to be the main character but with Naruto you have a fixed personality you have to give him, with Menma there's more freedom. Besides the number 1 Naruto story on this site doesn't have Naruto in it.