Menma's spirit woke up in a sewer and he looked around confused seeing nothing. "Is this hell?"-Menma. He heard a chuckle coming from behind him and he turned around to see a man floating above the ground on a staff with a white cloak. The cloak had tomoe all around it and the man looked like he had 3 eyes.
"Who are you?"-Menma. "I am Hagaromo Otsutsuki. The sage of the 6 paths."-Hagoromo. Menma gasped in surprise, "I read about you in books before! But what are you doing here? I killed myself."-Menma.
Hagaromo closed his eyes for a second and looked at him, "Why did you kill yourself?"-Hagaromo. "Well... because I let myself fall into the hands of an evil being, and he made me kill a close friend. And before that happened 2 of my friends were killed right in front of me and my girlfriend was raped and killed in front of me... AND NOT JUST THAT! BUT I WAS TOO SLOW AND TOO WEAK TO EVEN SAVE MY OWN BROTHER!" Menma calmed down for a second and continued, "And then Kakashi wrote a note saying how he felt about me after all of that. And my other friends probably hate me too... I can't continue to live after all of those close to me died... especially Kurama."-Menma.
Hagaromo looked on and started to speak, "You are assuming their feelings too quickly, but why would you kill yourself over a close ones death?"-Hagaromo. Menma looked up at him surprised and Hagaromo continued, "Do you Believe you will be reunited with them in the afterlife? What about all of those still living that want to spend time with you? All of your friends still deeply care about you. What if you're death causes your loved ones to commit the same act you did, is that what you want?"-Hagoromo. Menma looked up and responded, "No! Of course not."-Menma. Hagaromo sighed, "You must realize that the taking of one's own life is the most selfish act one can do. What do you think your brother, parents, and girlfriend would think of you for doing such a horrible thing?"-Hagoromo. Menma looked down, "They would be disappointed and mad at me."-Menma. "That's right my child, but remember this young one, time heals all, and time is all the dead have, they intend to wait for you. They want you to live your life to the fullest, and do better than they did. Just remember... one should never choose the dead over the living. Besides, you said you admired Naruto, but did you really want to be like him? Naruto's ninja way was to never give up no matter what the circumstances! Have you forgotten that?"-Hagoromo.
Menma's eyes widened at those words. 'That's right, Naruto would be disgusted at what I've done... and those words, One must never choose the dead over the living... That's what Gaara and Kakashi have been telling me.'-Menma. Menma stood up and said, "Yeah, I guess you're right... but what about all of my friends and Kakashi? And then there's all of the villagers... they still hate me."-Menma.
Hagaromo looked down at him and created a mirror for Menma to look through. "You're wrong about your friends, that split personality of yours has been lying to you. Look through this mirror, this is what your friends were doing while you were in the hospital.
Menma looked through the mirror and saw everyone surrounding his hospital bed crying. "All of your friends worried about you before Sasuke or Sakura or Hinata, they were all their by your side the entire day waiting to see if you would wake up. So no, they don't blame you."-Hagoromo. Menma smiled at the mirror and it changed again, "And look at the villagers, the council found secret records and released information about your parents after you died, so now they all regret what they've done. This probably wouldn't have worked if the gossip about that evil personality inside of you didn't spread."-Hagoromo. Menma actually had a legitimate smile on his face. "So, I guess I'm not alone after all."-Menma.
Hagoromo smiled at him and continued, "Great, you're back to your usual self again for the most part, now for business. You see you may have read a lot about me but you probably don't know about the cycle of the reincarnation of Indra and Ashura."-Hagoromo. Menma looked at him confused. "You see, in the beginning the gods came across our realm and decided they wanted to interfere, so they created the Otsutsukis and sent Kaguya to the planet. The creation of these superpowered beings caused a paradox on our planet though. Kaguya had a 2 children with a human and I was one of them, the planet was able to adapt to people receiving chakra from my mother Kaguya but then everything was ruined. Kaguya went crazy and absorbed the chakra fruit tree and turned into the ten tails. Me and my brother were able to stop her but her destruction forever changed the terrain of the world. We separated the ten tails into 9 different tailed beast and sealed her inside of the moon. The 9 tails is one that you are familiar with. Next what happened was I had 2 children, Indra and Ashura. Ashura inherited my body and chakra, and Indra received my talent and eyes. I wanted a successor so I sent them away on a mission and when they came back I choose Ashura sense he had a pure heart. Indra was furious I didn't pick him so he fought Ashura and lost to him. When they both died their spirits kept on reincarnating into different people, the last one was Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju. Do you know who the current ones are?"-Hagoromo.
Menma shook his head and Hagaromo answered, "Ashura was reincarnated as Naruto and Sasuke was reincarnated as Indra."-Hagoromo. Menma stood there in complete shock and fell onto his knees. "But because of the Gods the cycle has been ruined. One of them came to this world and whispered into the ear of Orochimaru about you having eyes that would give him immortality."-Hagoromo. Menma started speaking weakly, "So it's all my fault."-Menma.
Hagaromo looked at him and frowned, "You need to stop blaming yourself for everything. Some things are just outside of your control. When you were a baby a wounded man came to this world and gave you his eyes, he planned on you fulfilling something with those eyes... So don't hate yourself for having those eyes, you have been given a bigger mission to complete."-Hagoromo. Menma looked down and felt a little solemn, "But why do I have to be the one to do this?"-Menma. Hagaromo stopped floating and approached him, "Because that man saw something special in you, something more powerful than Indra and Ashura combined."-Hagoromo.
Menma looked up at him and had a half smile, "But how am I gonna fulfill that duty now that I'm dead?"-Menma. Hagaromo started molding all of his chakra into his hands, "I was supposed to give this power to Naruto and Sasuke just in case the time came, but now since their gone I'm gonna give you all of my power. Your gonna need it if you're gonna defeat the Gods."-Hagaromo stated holding out his hands, one had a sun on it and the other had a moon.
Menma marvelled at the power and Hagaromo continued, "With this chakra you'll be more powerful than almost anyone that's been alive. Your reserves will be so large you can fight months on end! Accept this power young Menma!!!"-Hagoromo.
Menma stood up and grabbed both of his hands and felt the power surge through him, all of the veins in his body started glowing and his skin turned into gold. After a few seconds his skin returned to normal and his veins stopped glowing, he held a staff in his hand, and he wore a white Sage cloak like Hagaromo had.
"Such power!"-Menma. Hagaromo manifested a mirror and held it up to Menma's face. Menma looked at himself with surprise, his left hand had a sun on it and his right had a moon on it. Also both of his eyes turned purple with tomoe in them. But then his eyes turned red and looked like indescribable.(Its that one fan made sharingan that has them all overlapping)
And then they turned back to his normal eyes. "What's up with that?"-Menma.
"Well first of all, the purple eyes you just had were the rinnegan, they grant you around 10 different abilities, and the red ones were the Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan. You have both because their both part of the same evolutionary line. If I was to give Sasuke my power he would have just received the rinnegan, but your not a Uchiha so you received both."-Hagoromo.
Menma looked at him in confusion. Hagaromo sighed and started explaining, "Ok, I'll skip the rinnegan powers, and I'll skip the basic sharingan ones because I'm sure you already know them, I'll just tell you the Mangeyko ones. Clears throat* Because of all of the constant suffering you've been going through in life, your eternal Mangekyo Sharingan has a number of abilities. Your first ability you have is because when you were a child and you were abused you wanted people to know the truth about who you really are, but they wouldn't listen. So the first ability is Tsukuyomi, a powerful genjutsu that will make people experience what you want them too."-Hagoromo.
"The next ability you have is because while you were being tortured and the 2 girls were put in front of you, you couldn't make a choice and just wanted him to stop. So your next ability is Kotoamatsukami, this is the ultimate genjutsu, it will allow you to make people do anything you wish them to. It's so powerful that they never knew that they were under control, they would think they made the decision."-Hagaromo.
"The next ability you have is because of your eventual hate and disdain for the villagers and Orochimaru and wishes to see them disappear. So your next ability is Amaturasu, the ability to conjure black Inextinguishable flames that will burn everything you see."-Hagoromo.
"The next ability you have is because you killed yourself, you consider yourself weak because you couldn't save Naruto, so you rejected the idea of continuing to live on and escaped this reality. The abilities name is Kamui, this ability will allow you to teleport you or other people/objects into and out of your own pocket dimension instantly. You'll also be able to teleport parts of your body into the dimension to do things like walk through walls or avoid attacks."-Hagoromo.
Menma started thinking about all the possibilities that this can give him and asked happily, "So are you gonna teach me how to use them?"-Menma.
"No."-Hagoromo.
Menma stood there for a second then he was confused, "Why?!"-Menma. "Well I never used any of these abilities, I only know about them from looking at the world. Besides, we don't have any time to do that, your people need your help. So you're gonna have to go back to the real world now."-Hagoromo.
Menma looked at him confused, "The world? What's going on?"-Menma. "Well a lot of things, first of all Kakashi wasn't the one that wrote that letter, he also retired as a ninja since he couldn't handle the sadness, Tsunade started drinking twice as much, Gaara locked himself away in fear that he would turn evil again since he had lost his last friend, and the Hidden Mist village heard about the 9 tails jinchurikis death, so they are currently attacking the village and fighting all of your friends and other ninja in the graveyard."-Hagaromo.
Menma's eyes widened at the information, "Well send me back now then!"-Menma. Hagaromo raised a hand and Menmas body started to become transparent. "You will learn how to use these abilities soon young Menma! Those abilities will become necessary for you to defeat enemies yet to come and all of the Gods!"-Hagaromo.
Menma simply gave him a thumbs up and spoke with courage, "With this power I'll be able to form my own dream and protect all of my friends! I'll bear their pain and get rid of all of the hatred in this world! Ya Know!"-Menma.
The Real World
The 3 tails was causing a lot of trouble for them, there were only 300 Mist Ninja left now but all of the rookies were too tired to continue fighting. And the adults couldn't be too offensive because they needed to protect the kids. Some of the adults have been injured a few times and they were beginning to get pressured into a circle position. Kakashi wasn't really struggling but he was more worried about the kids than assaulting the mist ninja too much.
It was midnight now and the moon aligned on top of the graveyard. All of a sudden weapons, gravel, and dirt started rising from the ground. The moon started to become brighter and a beam of light shot down on Menma's grave.
Everyone stopped their fighting and looked in the direction of the light to see a man rising out of the grave.
The light settled and everyone could see Menma standing there. His hair was snow white, his build was ripped. His right eye was his ultimate Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan and his left eye was the Rinnegan with Tomoe. He wore the sage of the 6 paths cloak and had 9 floating purple orbs behind him. He raised his right hand and one of the balls formed into a sword in his hand. The sword was the same one he fantasized about on the 4ths head that one time.
All of the Leaf ninja smiled at the familiar face and his closest friends had some tears of joy. "Menma! You're alive!"-Kakashi.
Menma smiled at his adoptive father and looked back at the enemy with a deathly stare that demanded respect, "Mist ninja, return to your village now or be killed."-Menma.
The mist ninja stood there strong though and Yagura yelled, "So, it turns out your still alive! Who do you think you are threatening the blood Mist?!? Since you've come back to life, I'll just have to kill you myself!"-Yagura.
The 3 tails disappeared and Yagura jumped at Menma with his staff in his hand. Menma simply sighed but then a subtle grin grew on his face and he whispered to himself, "I was hoping you would say that."Menma. Menma brought up his sword in front of him and poured some chakra into it. The sword instantly extended at a blinding speed and stabbed right through Yagura.
Menma grew a smile and started alternating the chakra inside of it to do something else. Yagura's body looked like it started melting and his body formed around the sword before disappearing. Menma receded the sword back and let it disappear with a satisfied breath. 'Damn, the 3 tails has a lot of powerful chakra! And now its mine!'-Menma.
Menma took a deep breath and raised his left hand into the sky and he grabbed a hold of the moon. Menma looked down on all of the remaining Mist ninja with a fear instilling look and spoke with authority this time, "This is your last chance, leave now or else I will bring the moon down on all of you. You will return to your village and disband the Blood Mist and become a peaceful nation, if you don't I will come for you."-Menma.
Most of the ninja knew about the sage of the 6 paths and knew how he created the moon, and Menma had a striking resemblance to him. So all of Mist ninja started running.
Once they were gone Menma dropped his hand to his side and smiled at all of his friends as his eyes returned back to normal. 'How did I do all of that? Must of been the adrenaline.' "It's good to be back."-Menma.
Then all of a sudden Menma fell over unconscious. The adrenaline wore off and Menma's body was exhausted after coming back to life and using so much chakra so soon.
Everyone ran up to him and Tsunade smiled, "It's just chakra exhaustion. He'll wake up tomorrow."-Tsunade.
Kakashi picked up his body and had tears in his eyes, "I don't know how he's alive, but I'm just glad he is."-Kakashi.
Konoha Hospital 1 Day Later
Menma woke up and found himself in a familiar place. He sat up and thought, 'I've been to this place a lot lately.'-Menma.
Menma's vision adjusted to the brightness and he saw all of the rookies, Kakashi, and Tsunade.
"He's awake!"-Kiba. Tsunade walked over to him and punched him in the face.
Then she hugged him with some tears, "Don't ever kill yourself again! You'll always have people who care for you!"-Tsunade. Menma recovered from the punch and hugged her back.
"Sorry, but I've had a change in heart. The split personality in me convinced me that all of you hated me. He used it as a way to weaken my will and try to take over my body."-Menma. They now had a new look of confusion on their faces, "Split personality of you? Sense when did you have one of those?"-Tsunade.
Menma started thinking of a possibility, "I'm not really sure, I think I developed him while I used to get abused while I was really young."-Menma.
"Well what's he like?"-Kiba. Menma frowned, "You would all think less of me if I told you."-Menma.
Kakashi grabbed his hand and told him in a firm voice, "Menma, no matter what you say we will NEVER think less of you."-Kakashi. Menma smiled at him and told them, "He likes to refer to himself as Menma just like me. Anyways he is definitely the most sadistic person I have ever met, even more than Orochimaru."-Menma.
He heard some gasp in response, "Well, he claims that his only purpose for existing is to torture and kill everyone else that exist. Killing makes him horny too, sick bastard. And he doesn't discriminate between friends and enemies either... he's the one who killed Sasuke... the biggest reason I killed myself was the loneliness, but another reason was because I was afraid that he would take control of my body again."-Menma.
The room went silent for a minute. 'It seems like even though he killed himself he did it out of a sense of selflessness.'-Shikamaru. Neji smirked, 'Menma truly does put everyone else before him.'-Neji.
"So do you think he's still around?"-Shino. Menma thought for a second, "Well, I wasn't born with a red eye, when I noticed one of my eyes changed from blue to red, I thought it was because of the kyuubi, but it must have really been this dark Menma. Is one of my eyes still red?"-Menma.
They all have him a reluctant nod, "Damn, well the way you can tell if he's controlling me is if both the pupil and iris become red and the sclera becomes black in both eyes."-Menma.
"So when do you think he will make himself come out again?"-Tenten. "Well I highly doubt he will, he only came out when my will power was at its lowest. But when he did come out I think I found out that he doesn't completely hate everyone. While he was using my body to escape he came across a room with dozens of enemies in it. He killed everyone in the room, but when he saw the person that... violated, Temari... he definitely made him regret it."-Menma.
Shikamaru thought for a second and said, "So even though
"Soo, moving on to something more positive how exactly did you come back to life? And what was up with your eyes and clothes, and basically everything about you?"-Shikamaru.
Menma sighed and said, "Get comfortable, this is gonna be a long story."-Menma.
You just had everything explained to you in 2000 words so I'll skip the explaining.
Menma finished and everyone looked surprised, "So apparently Naruto was part of some kind of reincarnation, but because of Gods from another realm interfered with the world so much that cycle is ruined, and you were given the mission to kill these Gods?"-Kakashi.
"Basically."-Menma. Everyone sat back and took it surprisingly well. "Well with everything that's been happening it doesn't really seem that outlandish."-Ino. "Besides, with those abilities you probably can kill Gods as long as you train enough."-Neji.
Menma made a nervous laugh in response, "Yeah... about that. I don't actually know how to use any of my abilities, what happened yesterday was just adrenaline and luck."-Menma.
Everyone fell out of their chairs in response, "What do you mean?! How are you gonna face Gods if you don't know how to do anything?"-Tsunade.
"Well maybe I can do something like practice with shadow clones... "-Menma.
"Well you should start as soon as possible."-Kakashi. Menma nodded and stood up out of his bed and almost fell but he grabbed the bed. "My legs aren't broken again are they?"-Menma.
Tsunade laughed at him and said, "No. You heal fast but you still haven't fully recovered so your gonna need to use a crutch."-Tsunade.
Menma looked down and grabbed the crutch before walking to the door. "Where are you going?"-Kakashi. Menma looked back and said, "I can't go to the sand village in this state, so I'm gonna start practicing with my eyes a little so I can get there another way... Gaara is suffering right now, i can't leave him like that."-Menma. Everyone had a mutual smirk on his face, that was a very Menma kind of thing of him.
"Well, you have my permission, but bring Neji with you."-Tsunade. Menma called out to Neji and he they went to the training field.
Oh the way there a lot of villagers noticed him and stopped what they were doing. 'Sigh* Here we go.'-Menma.
But nothing bad happened, they smiled and started praising him, apparently he was a little bit of a hero now. A kid even walked up to him and gave him a gift. Menma thanked him and asked Neji with confusion, "Are you sure we're still in the Leaf? Everyone is unusually nice."-Menma.
"Well it's a slow process but people are starting to like you after finding out the truth about you, also since you saved us from the Mist village."-Neji.
Menma understood and simply said, "Well, it feels nice to be liked. Too bad Naruto couldn't get the same treatment."-Menma. Neji nodded in agreement and they continued on to the training ground.
Once they arrived Menma started off by summoning 5,000 clones and 1 wood clone that ran into the forest. Neji looked around himself in shock, "How can you summon so many?"-Neji.
"Well, the sage gave me his power, I guess he must of had a lot of chakra. He said I could summon 10,000 shadow clones but I haven't fully recovered so I'm not gonna try something like that."-Menma.
Menma looked on to his clones and they already knew what to do. Menma was trying to find out a way that he could travel so he decided to focus on his Kamui and his Rinnegan to explore its abilities. He split it 2,500 each and the training begun.
3 Hours Later
Neji was leaning against a tree sleeping, but the Menma woke him up. "Huh what? What happened?"-Neji.
"I think I've gotten the hang of it! I still haven't figured out the Rinnegan but I learned how to use Kamui! Let me show a demonstration!"-Menma.
Neji stood up instantly and played attention to the 2 clones in front of him. One had normal eyes and the other had the EMS eyes. The normal one prepared a rasengan and charged at him, but he passed right through him. The EMS Menma turned around and grabbed the other Menma and made him disappear in a weird vortex looking ripple.
"Its like I said, the Kamui ability sends parts of me and other stuff to a pocket dimension. And I just learned that it's a special kind of space/time jutsu that let's me teleport anywhere!"-Menma.
Neji was shocked by the display and thought, 'Damn, if he can learn such powerful abilities in a matter of hours, then he might just be too powerful.'-Neji.
Menma then put on a serious face, "Ok, since I know how to use it, I'm gonna go to Gaara now. Do you still want to come?"-Menma. "Well I was ordered too so of course. Besides I gotta make sure no one tries to capture you again."-Neji.
It was decided then, Menma put his hand on Neji's shoulder and they both teleported away.
Gaara's Sand Prison
Gaara sat still in his prison and was thinking to himself. It's been 2 days now and the isolation was becoming torture. Gaara looked up at where there used to be an entrance. 'Once again I'm alone... maybe it's a curse, when I got close to them they both suffered horrible fates. And now the 2 people that turned me to the side of good are gone. There's nothing stopping me from wanting to kill again. But as long as I'm here I won't go crazy or hurt others.'-Gaara.
Gaara looked up though as he saw movement and the sand began to separate. Gaara had to close his eyes because of the light coming from the hole, he saw the silhouette of a man in the light and it held out its hand towards him.
Gaara felt a strange tug on his body and it stood up on it's own. Gaara couldn't help but think that the person was familiar. When he grabbed the person's hand though he instantly knew who it was.
When he was lifted all the way out of the prison he had a smile on his face after looking at the familiar man.
Gaara didn't know what to say but before he could come up with anything Menma hugged him and he hugged back.
Gaara finally found his voice and asked, "But I got a letter that you died."-Gaara. "Well I was dead. But I've come back after I found out so many of my friends were suffering."-Menma.
Gaara tightened the hug with tears and his eyes, "Please, don't die again."-Gaara. Menma tightened the hug and answered, "Of course not."-Menma.
Neji was standing a few meters away from them and thought, 'No homo right?'-Neji.
They released the hug and Menma said, "Let's go back to your village Lord Kazekage! I'll stay for the day if you want."-Menma.
Gaara wiped away his tears and responded with, "You don't need to call me Kazekage. But you can walk me back to my mansion. Besides, I think I need to get caught up on current events."-Gaara.
They both started walking back to Suna and Menma responded with, "Well, when I came back to life my village was in the middle of an attack by the Mist."-Menma.
Gaara looked at him with a surprised look, "You were attacked?!? What happened?"-Gaara. Menma laughed a little and said, "Well I don't know how I did it, it must have been an adrenaline rush but I killed the corrupt Mizukage and warned them about what would happen if they didn't disband the Blood Mist."-Menma.
Gaara looked even more surprised now, "How do you kill a Kage with just an adrenaline rush?"-Gaara. Menma laughed nervously, "Well it wasn't pure adrenaline, you see when I was dead the reason I came back to life was because I met the Sage of the 6 Paths. Basically what happened was he gave me a history lesson about the beginning of all ninja and he gave me some pretty great Doujutsus!"-Menma.
Menma had the same expression on his face for a few seconds before Gaara said, "Oook, what are the Doujutsus?"-Gaara. Menma put his hands behind his head and said, "I'm glad you asked! He gave me a special Rinnegan and an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan!"-Menma stated proudly.
Gaara looked at him with a bland look, "I barely know anything about the normal Sharingan, do you think I know anything about either of those?"-Gaara.
Menma did a deadpan and Neji spoke up, "Even if he did tell you he doesn't know how to use any of them besides his EMS ability Kamui."-Neji.
Gaara was starting to get interested again and asked, "So how does the Kamui work?"-Gaara.
"Well, what it does is give me access to a pocket dimension. And some ways I can use it is I can teleport myself or other people or even objects to the dimension or anywhere on the planet. Also I can make myself intangible by teleporting parts of my body away, like if someone tried to punch me in the face, it would go right through it. I didn't get enough time to practice but I think I have to practice on my concentration or else I can only use it a few times."-Menma.
Gaara had an impressive look on his face and said, "That's quite a formidable ability. But don't be a fool while using it, if you aren't concentrating you could be hit with a critical strike."-Gaara.
They reached the village walls and Gaara greeted the guards. They were shocked to see him return so suddenly and before they could say anything they walked past him.
"You know, the last time I was here I didn't really get to see anything besides the mansion because of that mission we had."-Menma.
Gaara was silent as they walked and Menma realized what he said. It was still too soon.
They kept on walking until they reached the Kazekage Mansion and Gaara opened the door to his office.
A girl was sitting in his chair sleeping and Gaara walked over to her. He flicked her in the head and she woke up, "Ha what?!? Ga-GAARA!!!"-Matsuri yelled as she pounced on him.
She had a comical amount of tears in her eyes and was saying, "GAARA! GAARA, DON'T RUN AWAY AGAIN!"-Marsuri. Gaara pushed her off of him and he responded with, "Yes Matsuri, I promise this won't happen again. Now, have you met my friends Menma and Neji?"-Gaara.
Matsuri looked over at them and said, "Who's that old man?"-Matsuri asked pointing at Menma.
Menma jumped and shock and retaliated, "Huh?!? Who are you calling old you brat?!?! Just because my hairs white doesn't mean I'm old!"-Menma.
"Only old people say brat!"-Matsuri. Menma felt defeated but furious. "Why you little"-"It's not that serious Menma."-Neji said holding Menma back from running at her as she stuck out her tongue at him.
Gaara started to get annoyed and spoke up, "Enough! Matsuri, apologize to my friend, hes only 15."-Gaara.
Matsuri pouted and looked over at Mea before apologizing, "I'm sorry."
Menma nodded at her and diverted his attention to Gaara, "So sense this problem has been taken care of, I'm gonna go back home now."-Menma.
Gaara walked up to him and held out his hand for a hand shake. Menma accepted it and brought Gaara into a hug, Gaara hugged back and said, "This will be the official alliance between the Leaf and Sand."-Gaara.
Menma released him and backed up, he was about to put his hand on Neji's shoulder but Gaara asked, "Wait! So now that your walking again what do you plan to do?"-Gaara.
Menma thought for a second before he said, "The Sage of 6 Paths gave me a mission to kill the God that did this to me. I intend to accomplish that mission, but right now I'm too weak to do that, so I'm gonna start training my skill and eyes abilities for the next couple of couple of years. Then once I've mastered the rinnegan, the EMS, and the golden eyes, I will go to the realm of this God and destroy him... although this isn't just business, if it weren't for this God then people would never have chakra, and both my brother and all of my friends would still be alive. So what I'm gonna do is teach all the Gods out there a lesson in what happens when you mess with the natural cycle of life."-Menma.
Gaara nodded at him and Menma teleported away with Neji.
Once they got back to the village he thought to himself, 'Ever since I've become a ninja I've always felt like someone was watching me from somewhere I couldn't go. I think this God is the one watching me, if I'm gonna face him I'm gonna have to do something that he won't notice. The wood clone will be useful but I should try to come up with a back up plan.'-Menma.
Menma smiled at the smirk and made his way to the Hokage's office to tell her the news.
Once Menma got there he entered the room and saw Jiraiya there with Tsunade.
"Menma, right on time. Jiraiya decided to come by and I've decided I'm gonna give you a A-Rank mission."-Tsunade. Menma became interested and signaled her to continue, "I'm gonna send you off with Jiraiya to train for 3 years. If you're gonna do what you say you will you're gonna need to train harder than you ever have before."-Tsunade.
Menma's jaw dropped and he asked, "3 years?!? What if the village gets attacked?!"-Menma. Tsunade sighed and said, "You know you're not the only one capable of protecting the village, besides it's obvious the Mist won't attack, and it's very unlikely that the Cloud and stone would attack out of nowhere. And besides, Neji told us about your newly formed alliance with the Sand."-Tsunade stated with a smirk.
Menma looked confused and asked, "How did Neji tell you what happened? We just got back."-Menma. "Well he told us that when you got back you just zoned out and he came here to tell us what happened."-Tsunade.
Menma remembered that he was thinking about the wood clone the entire time and laughed nervously. "Anyways, you can leave today. I've already told all your friends, they were reluctant that you're leaving so soon sense you just came back but they eventually accepted it."-Tsunade.
Menma thought for a second then thought that this was necessary. Jiraiya told him to follow behind him and they started walking towards the door.
But before they could leave Kakashi showed up in the door, "Kakashi?! What are you doing here?"-Menma.
Kakashi smiled at him and said, "How could I not say goodbye to my son?"-Kakashi. Menma smiled up at him and they both embraced into a hug. "When you come back, you better be able to beat me."-Kakashi.
Menma chuckled and said, "Well, I'm not sure about that, you're one of the strongest ninjas I know."-Menma. Kakashi patted his head and said, "Oh Menma, you're already much more powerful than you think."-Kakashi.
Menma smiled at the complement and He started leaving. Menma waved at Kakashi before disappearing down the hall.
So that's the end of Chapter 8, next chapter will be a time skip. Atleast I think it will be, I'm not sure whether I should write down parts of his training or not. And if I don't then I'll go straight to the Naruto Shippuden timeline
