Just wanna say that if the way the relationship was written may seem overwhelming then please try to bear with it, cause it gets toned down a lot next chapter.

"Hmm, I'm disappointed."-Orochimaru.

Kurama lunged towards him but Orochimaru ducked and did the 5 pronged sealing. "UUUUHHHH!" Menma gasped and fell off the tree with the wind knocked out of him. Sasuke quickly snapped out of it and caught Menma.

"S-s-Sasuke"-"Save your energy, I'll take it from here."-Sasuke. Sasuke wasted no time in activating his sharingan and shushining behind him and doing a Fireball Jutsu. Orochimaru threw up a snake before being burnt to death.

Sasuke was relieved. He thought he already killed him. He thought.

Orochimaru emerged from the snake he emitted from his mouth and sliced Sasuke's back straight down and grabbed him by the back of his neck and bit his neck before throwing him away. Before Sasuke hit the ground Naruto caught him. Naruto set him down and looked at Orochimaru, Orochimaru quickly ducked and grabbed the kunai above him and slammed it into the clone behind him, Naruto summoned 50 more clones to assault Orochimaru but they were all destroyed by a gigantic snake summon. Naruto didn't give up though and reached Orochimaru but before he could do anything Orochimaru weaved Naruto's assault and grabbed him by the throat with the intent to kill. Menma saw this and used the last bit of his strength to shushin almost as fast as Shisui and snapped Orochimaru's neck killing him. Orochimaru's body disappeared into smoke. "So you defeated my clone."-Orochimaru.

This shocked everyone that entire time they were only fighting a clone.

The whole time Sakura just stood there helpless only being able to watch on. 'What could I do. Both Menma, Naruto, and Sasuke are down. We're all gonna die aren't we?'-Sakura.

"I am disappointed, I expected more from team 7. I will spare you today, but I will be back when your stronger, especially you Menma. I will have those secret golden eyes."-Orochimaru.

'Secret golden eyes'?-Menma.

'Secret golden eyes? What does he mean by that, is Menma hiding something?'-Sakura.

Sakura was starting to get increasingly tired, and her eyes were starting to close involuntarily.

Sakura woke up the next day and realized her teammates were all down and exhausted, so it was up to her to take care of them and protect them, Sakura stayed there to watch over them for 6 hours, she also recovered their scroll while she was on watch.

After a couple more hours there was unusual movement in the bushes. When Sakura turned around with a Kunai in hand she was surprised to see the three sound ninja from before.

"A sleep lookout huh? Well, you're gonna have to cut it short. Wake up that bastard Menma, I need to pay him back for breaking my arm. You know how hard it is to fix a broken arm? Your lucky I had a spare sound gantlet." The sound ninja bitched.

"Sakura, it's alright I'm awake." Menma spoke as he slowly rose. "No Menma, you're still injured"-"it don't really matta."-Menma. Menma was about to make a Jake Paul joke. "I remember I heard a wise man once say, Talk shit get hi"- Menma was cut off by a sound enforced punch to the face and he went flying into a tree. The sound guy didn't let up though and rushed towards Menma and pinned his hands to the tree with kunai, then proceeded to start punching and punching into him, Menma was still somewhat in shock and couldn't get a big enough time window to react and his hands were pinned so he couldn't dodge. The sound ninja wouldn't stop. He was bloodlust and wanted revenge for Menma humiliating him in front of all the genin and his teammates. Menma was starting to think he might die as blood was spewing from his mouth.

As his vision began to fade someone grabbed the sound ninjas shoulder and ripped his arm from its socket. Menma was fully aware again and managed to pull his hands out of the tree because of all the fidgeting the beating caused. Menma looked up to see Sasuke, except he was surrounded in a dark aura, and strange tattoos. And it looked like he was beating up the sound ninja with his own arm. The satisfaction the sound ninja felt from beating Menma senseless quickly turned into horror and shock from what he was experiencing. Sasuke had a sadistic smirk on his face and a sinister laugh as he continued his onslaught of the ninja, finally the sound ninja stopped making sounds.

Menma just realized what happened, so he quickly ran over to Sasuke and noticed 2 other sound ninja nearby and noticed they were bleeding from blunt force so they would be fine. He got close enough to Sasuke to pour some reserve 9 tail chakra he forgot about into Sasuke's neck to force the strange tattoos away. Sasuke came back to his senses and collapsed from the stress the aura caused and the shock of what just happened. Sakura ran over too to comfort him. "Sasuke, Sasuke, deep breaths, you need to calm down."-Menma. "Calm down? What the FUCK did I just do? I just BEAT SOMEONE TO DEATH with THEIR OWN ARM!"-Sasuke. "I know Sasuke, but don't forget, he was going to kill me and the rest of us, you saved our lives. What you did was self defense, you did it to protect your friends."-Menma. Sasuke started to calm down, and regained posture,"Uh yeah, you're right. We should check if they have a scroll."-Sasuke stated still recovering from the shock.

Menma walked over the fresh dead corpse that was still bleeding and missing an arm and turned him around so he was laying on his back and reached into his jacket pocket, luckily he did have the scroll they needed.

"Alright everyone, we got what we need, I'll go to the tower and deliver the scrolls."-Menma. "No no no, I'll do that, you have suffered enough for the week."-Sakura responded while taking the scrolls. Menma gave her a smirk and spoke,"Thank you."-Menma.

After a few days of rest

'Kurama, what did that weird snake guy mean by all seeing golden eyes?'-Menma. "This is a talk for another time, I don't think you're old enough know."-Kurama. 'Not old enough? What am I gonna have to do? wait for my birthday?'-Menma. "Maybe."-Kurama. 'Oh, ok. I guess I can wait.'-Menma.

"Menma!"-Hiruzen. "Huh what?"-Menma. "Pay attention."-Hiruzen. "Of course, please continue, sorry for the interruption."-Menma.

"Now, as I was saying, unexpectedly there are a lot of you that survived, too many actually. So to fit the required number of ninja for the last stage of the exams you will all participate in a preliminary match.

"Preliminary? What a drag."-Shikamaru

"Now, I will let the procter tell you the rules."-Hiruzen. "Hello everyone, my name is"-"cough* irrelevant side character cough*."-Menma.

The guy(that wasn't really a joke I really don't remember his name) glared at Menma a little before stating the rules. "There are 20 of you, so there will be 10 battles. There are no rules, you can lose by dying, collapsing, or admitting defeat. Although I like to keep the dead bodies to a minimum so if someone is collapsing you will be stopped from delivering a killing blow. Now does anyone want to quit?" The ninja asked.

Kabuto raised his hand, Menma wasn't surprised. "Anyone else?" Asked the ninja again. No one else raised their hand.

"Well then, let the battles commence." Stated the ninja.

Almost all the battles ended the same way, with only small details changed, like Menma cheered for Temari a little in her fight with Tenten.

Choji Akimichi vs Menma Uzumaki

"Oh, lucky me I get to fight big fella."-Menma. As they walked down Shikamaru gave Menma a serious look and said, "Make sure you dont treat Choji like you did the sound ninja."-Shikamaru. "I would never."-Menma replied in an equally serious tone.

Both Choji and Menma got into positions and the Procter gave permission for the battle to commence.

Then all of a sudden Choji fell knocked out cold.

Everyone was surprised by this, and Menma decided to make another impression to prove he's not fodder.

"Now I know you must all be confused about what just happened so let me explain, basically what just happened is I used my wood release Kekkei Genkai to make a small poisonous plant sprout out of the cracks in the tiled ground behind his legs, and I manipulated it to poke him with a thorn. Now don't worry it was a nonlethal poison only meant for making people go to sleep."-Menma.

What he did was extraordinarily impressive for someone of his rank so they couldn't help but clap their hands. 'He just becomes mevery minute!'-Temari.

"Yeah, thanks for telling us your genius tactic, now it will never work on any of us ever again."-Shikamaru.

10 minutes later

"So, I have to fight Shikamaru, I don't know about that one, I think your a bit too smart for me Shikamaru!"-Menma. No one knew whether to take him seriously or not. So Shikamaru just gave a nervous laugh.

As they all left Menma became a bit more serious and thought about how this would be his last chance even though he has a whole month. So he ran up to Temari and asked her to meet him at Ichiraku Ramen to talk. She happily accepted with a very faint blush.

29 days until final exam

Menma went through a few ramen bowls already and was beginning to think she wouldn't come. He sighed and started to think maybe he isn't good with women. And Temari was just acting nice to him, cause she pitied him in some way. Before he could stand up and tell Ayame bye a blonde haired girl entered the shop. Menma turned around and his face glew up.

"You came!"-Menma. "Of course I did, sorry I'm late. It took some convincing for them to let me leave."-Temari. "Its ok, I'm just glad you finally came, please let's talk."-Menma. Menma called Ayame to prepare a few bowls. When Ayame came out she decided she was gonna tease Menma, "Oooh, Menma is that your date you were telling us about?"-Ayame. Menma got a Hinata blush on his face while Temari blushed in surprise. "Wha-wha-what are you t-talking about I nev-never said a-anything about a d-date?!?!"-Menma spoke frantically. Ayame wasn't done yet so she decided she was gonna go even further, "Oh come on Menma don't lie, don't you remember all the things you said you were gonna do to her after you finished eating?"-Ayame. Menma's face was a deep red now as Kurama was laughing his ass off in his mind and helping Ayame tease him by putting images in his mind. Temari didn't have anything to say as she was just as red as Menma, and couldn't help but giggle a little bit at the situation and thought. "WHA-WHA-WHAT ARE Y-YOU TALKING ABOUT?!?!! PL-PLEASE STOP!"-Menma.

"Ok Ayame that's enough torturing Menma, you've had your fun."-Teuchi. "Yeah ok, but judging by his reaction he was probably thinking it. "No, of course not. I wouldn't think of women in such a provocative manner."-Menma. "Yeah, suuuure you do Menma. Your probably thinking about all those curves right now aren't you?"-Ayame. Menma was defeated and dropped his head while still red to prove it. "Uh, Menma. Let's go for a walk towards a training field."-Temari. "Uh yeah, let's do that."-Menma.

About halfway there when they were leaving the main gates Kakashi passed by them and gave an approving look at Menma. "Yeah, I'm sorry about all of that happened at the Ramen place, Ayame really likes to make fun of me when there are female friends with me. "Oh it's ok, I found some of the things she said quite nice to think about." Temari replied getting within breathing distance of him. "Thot alert thot alert."-Kurama.

Menma was really red for a few seconds before she went back to regular walking distance and said she was just joking. Menma gave a nervous laugh thinking, 'Why do I always find company with these kind of women?'-Menma. "You surprise me Menma, you it were very brave and strong during the chunin exams. But now you get embarrassed by the tiniest tease."-Temari. "Yeah well I guess I'm showing you I trust you by showing you the real me."-Menma. Temari was shocked for a second. 'He already trust me enough to open up to me?'-Temari. "Ok, we're here now, training ground 7.This is where Kakashi sensei took us for our squad test."-Menma.

"So, anyways. You should show me what you got, we still have to train.

A few hours later

Menma was blown away by a another strike from her wind fan. "Wow that weapon can be very annoying."-Menma. " Yeah ranged weapons usually are. Hey It's starting to get dark so I think we should leave"-Temari. "Ok, but can I take you to one last place first?"-Menma. "Alright."-Temari.

On top of the 4th Hokage's Stone Head

"This is where I go most nights to watch the sunset, it has the best view to look off into the distance."-Menma. Temari had to admit it was an amazing sight to see. The yellow sun setting off into the horizon letting off orange rays of light. And in front of that was the endless forest of green. With birds flying high in the sky, and lastly an overview of the whole leaf village. "It is very beautiful." Temari responded with a heart warming smile. "Not as beautiful as you." Menma replied under his breath. Temari heard that and decided to lean into him.

"So, is there a reason we're on the 4th Hokage's head specifically?"-Temari. " Yes actually, The 4th Hokage was my father."-Menma. Temari's eyes widened a bit in surprise. " Yeah but he's dead now since the 9 tails attacked the village. I was 1 when that happened."-Menma. "I'm sorry to hear that."-Temari. "Yeah, it's all good. His last dying act as the savior of the village was to split the 9 tails into 2 halfs and seal them into me and my newborn brother."-Menma. Temari was very surprised to hear that he was a jinjuriki. She backed up a little in suprise, "You're a jinchuriki!?"-Temari. "Yes, but I'm a bit different from your brother. I have control, and developed a friendship with the 9 tails, turns out he even has a name. Its Kurama."-Menma. "Hello child."-Kurama. Temari was surprised, and needed a moment to take this all in. "How did you know my brother was a jinchuriki?"-Temari. "Kurama can sense tailed beast chakra."-Menma. "I see."-Temari.

Temari wasn't very sure of herself for a minute because of all this new information. So she just wanted to ask one last question. "So, how did you become friends with this Kurama if he killed your parents?"-Temari. "I'll let Kurama answer that for you."-Menma.

"I Originally viewed myself as a being made out of pure hatred, everybody I was sealed in to after the 1st Hokage captured me were all the same. They were all different people, usually Uzumakis, but they all said the same thing. They wanted to treat me like I didn't exist, they just wanted me to stay there and be quiet for the rest of eternity. Then when a masked man released me from Kushina after Barutos birth, I was finally free once again and I didn't wanna be put back into another body to be forgotten about for the next few decades. So I attempted to kill both the kids so that I Couldn't be sealed but Kushina and Minato got in the way, And severed me in half and sealed me in the 2 Infants. I was understandably mad after that, But eventually as the years passed my anger grew even further, not for the people I was sealed inside of but for the people who were supposed to take care of them."-Kurama. Temari was confused after hearing that last part. "Instead of taking care of the parentless kids what they did was blame them for the attack on the village so they took out their anger on him by adopting them, then starving them, and beating them until they nearly died. Eventually I had watched enough of it and took action by killing and torturing a group of these parents."-Kurama. Temari got a strange satisfaction from hearing that. "And eventually the villagers caught on to this, and I was unluckily sleeping at the time, But luckily the ninja Kakashi Hatake saved them and adopted them and adopted them himself. After that life has been a lot better. Even after I told them about his time as a baby and what I did to his parents he didn't shun me like all the other host, he remained my friend."-Kurama.

This was a lot to take in for Temari, she felt a lot closer to Menma now, but after hearing about the villagers she felt a lot less reluctant about destroying the leaf, she also felt more sympathetic towards Gaara."How do you have such a positive attitude after all the villagers have done?"-Temari. "Well, I guess I will never truly forgive them. But I am better than them, they are all to ignorant in a certain way to take their anger out on a child. But it's not entirely there fault, the 9 tails did destroy a lot of their homes and killed a lot of them, so it makes sense that they are angry. And besides, there is only a few people who know what actually happened that night. Everyone else only think that the 9 tails manifested into a child."-Menma. Temari was surprised to hear what he said, but then smiled. She felt an even deeper respect for him now and she understood what he said and wasn't sure about destroying the village again, but she needed to know another thing. "Who are these few people who know what happened? And if so why don't they tell the village?"-Temari. "Well there is the 3rd Hokage Hiruzen, and the masked man who started the entire tragedy, Madara Uchiha." Menma told with a scent of venom on the name Madara. Temari didn't recognize the Madara one but she knew the 3rd. "Why doesn't Hiruzen tell the village then?"-Temari. "I guess Hiruzen lost his back bone after that event, he doesn't have the energy to deal with the counsel anymore, he shouldn't even be Hokage anymore at his age, that's why Minato was elected, but is still love him like a grandfather, he's always treated me right. Besides, I'm not worried about what they think anymore, I have friends now that care for me, like Kurama, the other Konaha rookies. And hopefully you."-Menma. Temari was surprised by his words for a minute. Menma was an amazing person to her, he was one of the bravest men she's met, he was handsome, kind, strong, and was completely open and honest with her, which she admired the most. She also envied him at the same time by realizing him, Naruto and her brother were quite similar, the only difference is that unluckily for Gaara he never had someone save him from all his suffering. She almost cried a tear of joy and the happiest of smiles from having met such a guy. And she ran over to him and gave him a passionate warm embrace and told him, "I think I'm in love! Please, let's continue our conversation and training tomorrow."-Temari. Menma was more than happy to accept, and they said their good byes for now.

Nighttime-Menma

Menma opened the door to his home after scaling across rooftops. He was gonna sneak into his room but when he opened the door to his room Kakashi turned on the lights and was sitting in a chair waiting in a cliche father kind of way. "Your sure home late, you weren't doing anything special with Temari were you?"-Kakashi said with a questioning look. Menma blushed a little, "No, OF COURSE NOT! I'm too young for that kind of thing. She said she loved me after I told her my past, and gave me a hug."-Menma. Kakashi gave him an observing stare for a second to make sure he was telling the truth. Eventually he was convinced that he was being told the truth and he burst out laughing. "Hahahaha! You only got a hug! Hahahaha!"-Kakashi.

Menma blushed in embarrassment and retaliated, "Shut up! You haven't had any girlfriend sat all and your 30!"-Menma. Kakashi's hysterical laughs turned into slightly embarrassed ones and he replied, "Well you got me there. So, what do you like about her anyway?"-Kakashi.

"Well she's extremely beautiful, smart, has great manners, has good tactics, strong in battle, she's the only other genin my age, and most importantly she accepted me after I told her about my past even though she's from another village."-Menma.

"Good job Menma, you have good taste. Now if only Naruto was more like you in that regard when it comes to good taste."-Kakashi. They both nonverbally knew exactly who he was talking about. "Yeeeaaah, maybe he would notice if that Hinata girl was more outgoing. I don't understand how he doesn't see it, she loved him before anyone else did."-Menma. "Well, I guess we can talk about that another time, it's late. So goodnight."-Kakashi. Menma smiled up at his adoptive father and went to bed.

Nighttime-Temari

Temari opened up her bedroom window to sneak in but unlucky for her Kankuro was still awake. "You were hanging out with that Menma guy weren't you?"-Kankuro. "Yes, and what of it?"-Temari. "Don't get too close to him, remember we're here for a reason. And if you forgot that reason some people might need to have a "talk" with this Menma guy."-Kankuro. That last thing he said set her off some. She grabbed him by the collar and told him "If you get involved in my business your gonna regret it deeply puppet boy!"-Temari.

"Ok Ok, it was just a joke! So, what do you like about him anyway?"-Kankaro. She let go of his collar and replied, "Well, what's not to love about him? He has such a kind attitude, he's confident in his own strength, he's handsome, he's strong, and he's so honest with me! Which is what I love the most and"- Temari realized now that both Gaara and Kankuro were listening now, Kankuro was smiling, "Please continue." Kankuro asked trying not to laugh. Temari flipped him off before going to sleep.

28 days until final exam

The next morning Temari and Menma met again near the training ground 7 again, except they were near a waterfall this time playing some game hoping on rocks in the water. Also while him and Temari spend time together Menma sent a few wood clones with Naruto to spend time with him and Jiraiya.

"So I told you about my past so how about you tell me something about your past?"-Menma. Temari gave a sad smile for a minute. There isn't really a whole lot to know, my brothers are Kankuro and Gaara, And I'm the daughter of the 4th Kazekage. We are known as the 3 sand siblings and I never really had many friends growing up because of Gaara, but Gaara's childhood was the worst out of all of ours. He was shunned like you, but he was never tortured or anything because people were very scared of him because his ability's killed people, His own father the 4th Kazekage attempted to murder him multiple times, that might have something to do with how his birth killed our mother. Before he really became shunned me and my brother used to hang out with him and he would build amazing looking things out of sand, but we never really talked to him. He was alone and he never had any friends and and his one tailed beast inside of him never communicated with him. The only person who was his light in the darkness was his uncle, but eventually, even he tried to kill him."-Temari. She shed a little tear. "Maybe, If I tried to talk to him and be like an actual sister to him maybe he would have ended up differently."-Temari.

She started to shed some more tears so Menma walked over to comfort her. "Hey it's not your fault that you were afraid of him, and besides he's still only 13 so things can still be different, you just have to open up to him more."-Menma. Temari stopped shedding tears and gave him a hug, you're right, maybe I could try to talk to him when we go back home"-Temari.

Temari forgetting what they were doing lost her balance and was gonna fall off of the small rock. But Menma jumped onto the medium sized rock and grabbed her hand pulling her up close to him.

She was grateful but then realized how close they were to each other. Being so close to him she realized just how handsome he was with his short red bangs, and his ocean blue and blood red eyes, That went with his slightly tanned blemishless skin. Menma also noticed her deep teal eyes and perfect white skin with her nice sandy blonde hair.

She decided to thank him by giving him his first kiss. She pulled him in even closer and gave him a deep passionate kiss, they stayed like that for a while before they heard some cheering coming from the side of the waterfall, they looked over and saw Kuranai's squad, Asuma's squad, Gai's squad, and Kakashi with his squad with him.

That was very embarrassing for both of them. And it was clear that Kakashi was the one that brought them all there after their conversation last night. Menma was red faced and speechless. Temari on the other hand was a little mad that they intruded on there special first kiss, but before she could say anything Menma spoke up. "Haven't any of you ever heard of privacy? This is supposed to be a special moment for us. Your really just gonna ruin it because all of you are still single?"-Menma.

A lot of the guys and girls there felt some shots fired. They weren't cheering anymore. "Yeah. I thought so. We can all talk about this later."-Menma.

They started to leave, but Naruto said, "Sorry Menma, we were all just"-"leaving."-Menma.

They all left then, Menma knew it wasn't that big of a deal, but he needed to show he was brave in front of her so she wouldn't think lowly of him. Temari was glad that Menma said something, she thought he wouldn't for a minute. They unconsciously backed up from the waterfall onto land while they were talking and Temari was so glad she was wrong about Menma's bravery that she tackled Menma right there on the ground and started kissing him furiously.

The entire week was a great one, they continued their training and love making for the next few days former deciding that instead of bringing their own food they should go to a place to eat, and Menma wasn't embarrassed about what Ayame said anymore because she was right about a couple of things, but nothing that dirty... yet.

21 days until final exams

"Are you sure?"-Temari. "Yes, it will be worth it."-Menma. "I don't think I'd be able to take all that in."-Temari. "Well you don't know until you try. I don't want to make you do anything you don't want to, but I think It will be delicious!"-Menma. "Ok, let's do it then!"-Temari. "Atta girl! Now open wiiiide."-Menma.

Menma used the chopsticks to feed her the miso ramen. Her taste buds went ecstatic after savoring the taste of the noodles. "Soooo, what did you think?"-Menma.

Temari snatched the Chopsticks from him and dug in, she ate almost as fast as he could but still didn't make a single mess or spill. Once she finished the bowl she smiled at Menma and gave him a ramen flavored kiss for a few seconds. "It was amazing, that was one of the best things I've ever had!"-Temari. "I knew you'd love it! Ayame, 4 more bowls please!"-Menma. Ayame was surprised that they actually ended up together, she wondered if what she said had anything to do with that. But she decided she tortured him Menma enough so she would let him have his fun now. Although she was glad that he was finally able to find love. Temari had the most joyful smile of her entire life on her face as she thought, 'Oooh, I don't deserve someone this perfect. I hope he doesn't spoil me.'-Temari.

For the next 2 week everything was good, Menma's clone and Naruto learned the toad summon with Jiraiya, and Menma's relationship with Temari only grew by taking her to monuments and bonding. Later that day Temari decided she grew to really love the Leaf, and couldn't destroy it like she was suppose to. So she was going to reveal a huge secret to Menma

7 days until final exams

As they cuddled into each other on top of the 4ths head like they always do Temari had to tell him something. "Menma I have to tell you something, but if I tell you please try to understand what I'm saying, and don't jump to any conclusions because what I will say could potentially end our relationship."-Temari. Menma gave a serious and confused look at her and nodded for her to proceed.

3 minutes later

Menma was left speechless, they planned to destroy the village to retain power, because they didn't like a treaty. Temari looked at him and was starting to become teary eyed as he just stared at her. After a few seconds she hugged him, "MENMA, Menma, please understand why I'm telling you this, I DON'T WANT this to happen to US, I still LOVE YOU! Please say SOMETHING! PLEASE!" Temari begged for her lover to respond. Menma grabbed one of her hands and separated himself from her so he could stare at her.

"I still love you, in fact, this is extraordinarily brave of you to betray your village by telling me this." Memma finally responded with a smile. "I should warn everyone about this as soon as poss"- Menma was cut off by Temari's kiss. She was so happy he still loved her after what she said that she couldn't hold back. 'Maaaybe warning everyone can wait.' Menma thought as they both fell to their knees, they both started to feel the heat of love and passion that late evening sunset.

Unlike all the other nights they actually fell asleep on top of the 4ths head.

Some of these characters seem a little ooc, especially Temari. But it is an AU story so there are gonna be some changes, but don't worry, it gets toned down a lot after this chapter.