I'm gonna have to retcon the part about the Leaf having one of the 7 swords of the mist. I did more research and found out that the sword I was thinking about isn't actually one of the swords.
Letters/flashback speech: Underlined
Tsunade woke up to a poking feeling on her head. She looked up and saw Shizune poking her. "What do you want Shizune?"-Tsunade. "We have visitors from the sand village."-Shizune.
Tsunade shaped herself up and said, "Let them in."-Tsunade. Shizune opened the door and saw a sand ninja walk in and spoke, "Lady Hokage, the sand village has requested your assistance in a recent urgent matter."-Ninja.
"What's the reason?"-Tsunade. "Our village was attacked by the Akatsuki a couple days ago and they captured the Kazekage. If you would we would be in debt to you if you helped us retrieve him."-Ninja.
Tsunade was still half asleep but after hearing that she was fully awake. "Yes of course! Shizune, gather team Gai, Kakashi, and Menma."-Tsunade.
Shizune had a nervous laugh. "Why are you laughing?"-Tsunade. "Yeah... well about Menma, that was the other thing."-Shizune. Tsunade squinted her eyes at her, "What about him?"-Tsunade. "Last night he left the village after he talked to Suigetsu. Suigetsu said he went to the sand village."-Shizune.
Taunade started to remember what happened last night when she was drunk, and she became angry. "That Menma..." Tsunade punched through her desk and Shizune flinched. "When he gets back here I'm gonna beat a lesson into him about leaving village whenever he wants!"-Tsunade. The sand ninja didn't want to stay there any longer so he told Shizune, "Have them meet me and my team at the village gate."-Ninja.
Back With Menma
Menma continued running on the trees and slipped on a branch. He fell to the ground and struggled to get back up. To release some of the strain he dispelled his clones until there was only 100 left searching. "Damn, I haven't slept in the past few days."-Menma.
Menma stood back up and continued running until he noticed the trees around him started transforming. Menma stopped dead in his tracks and looked around himself until his eyes met with a beautiful woman.
The woman wore native looking clothes and had long brown hair. She also had white skin and a sword on her back. "Uh, hello miss. I don't know who you are but I have to save my friend."-Menma.
Menma started running away but the trees transformed again and the lady spoke, "You don't know who I am so let me introduce myself. My is Freya, and I am the goddess of love, fertility, and more."-Freya.
Menma processed the information in his head and became hostile, "So, your a God."-Menma. Freya put up her hands in defense, "I am not that kind of God. The Gods you must be thinking of are the Aesir gods. I am a Vanir God."-Freya.
Menma was a little confused but understood what she said. Freya sighed and said, "I don't have time to give you a lesson on my people sense my time here is limited. But I will tell you this. Don't linger in this world for too long, if you are going to fight my husband you must become much stronger."-Freya. "Well I already knew that, but why do you want me to do it so soon?"-Menma.
Freya looked down with a guilty face and said, "My husband has manipulated me into teaching him the magic arts. And he's using it to try to absorb the power of the dead from your world."-Freya. Menma's eyes widened and he said, "Wh-what do you mean?"-Menma.
"Right now your world has no heaven, they are simply trying to fight off his desire for power. If you fail to defeat him, the souls of everyone including your friends will be destroyed."-Freya. "Well, then take me back with you now!"-Menma.
Freya shook her head, "No, right now you can't stand up to him."-Freya. Menma was about to protest but fell to his knees and started punching the ground. "Damn it, Damn it, damn it damn it DAMN IT! Even after 2 years of training I wouldn't stand a chance against him!"-Menma.
Freya put a hand on his shoulder, "Don't feel discouraged young one. Use this info to push you to become even more powerful. The reason your still here is because people have entrusted the future to you. Don't fail them!"-Freya.
Freya started to feel a pull and a portal showed up to take her back. Menma grabbed her arm and she said, "Don't let your friends sacrifices be in vain! The fate of the 9 realms is in your hands! You must defeat Odin!"-Freya. Freya disappeared into the portal and Menma was left to his thoughts. '9 realms? As in other planets? And Odin? Is that his name?'-Menma.
Menma's arm felt weird so he looked down at it and realized it was glowing. The glowing subsided and a weird symbol appeared on his arm. He didn't recognize the symbol but all of a sudden his arm started glowing again and his eyes turned gold. He felt like his soul left his body and he started having visions.
Images started flashing in his head. The first was of a gigantic tree, much bigger than even the planet. 9 different land masses sat on the branches of the tree. He started flying towards one of the realms and a word popped up in his head. 'Midgard'. When Menma looked at the world he felt at home, but he didn't recognize any of the landmass.
Before Menma could think more about it he flew towards another realm. When he looked at it another word popped up in his mind, 'Jötunheim.' His soul flew onto the land and be looked around to see endless mountains decorated with giant dead bodies. Menma looked around him to see if anything wasn't dead and his minds met with a giant fox. He squinted his eyes and saw that the fox had 9 tails. "Kurama?"-Menma. The fox turned around to look in his direction and Menma recognized the fox. "Kurama!"-Menma.
The fox didn't see anything so it kept on walking. Menma started calling after him and he tried flying towards him. "No Kurama! Come back! Don't leave me again!"-Menma. Menma started to feel a pull on his soul and he started flying away from the planet.
Menma's body flew back to Midgard and his soul landed at the bottom of the planet. Everything looked like ice but once he got close enough he started seeing the 5 nations.
Menma's soul flew back into his body and he looked around himself. Once he got used to his surroundings he thought about what just happened and he screamed up at the sky.
After he was done he stood up and took a deep breath and continued on his search. He felt a rise of stress in his heart but ignored it. 'Geez I'm such a mess, whether it's my split personality or my weak emotional will... no matter, I can't think about this now, I'll just have to bottle it up.'-Menma.
Along the way he started thinking more about what she said and what happened. He still wasn't sure what just happened but he could think about it later, he had to focus on the here and now.Then he started thinking about just how many people and things relied on whether he would complete his mission or not. He started thinking about some of his friends and his girlfriend that died, 'They all died in horrible ways. And now in the afterlife they're still struggling, that isn't right.'-Menma. Menma clenched his fist and promised to himself, "This isn't just about me, this isn't simple vengeance, this is my destiny. I've had a lot of my friends die, and I won't let their deaths be in vain. Not Hiruzen, Kankuro, Hinata, Sakura, Temari, or Kurama. I won't fail you!"-Memma.
After running for another half an hour he saw a man with a huge bandages sword waiting for him. "It's you again!"-Menma.
Kisame stood up and said, "It seems like Itachi wrong about your tailed beast. But I'm glad you remembered me."-Kisame.
Menma knew what was gonna happen so he pulled out his sage blade and charged at Kisame.
While they were striking at each other Menma said, "Ya know, I have a friend that would like to have that sword."-Menma. "Ha, well maybe when I'm dead."-Kisame.
Kisame dashed back and activated a jutsu. All of a sudden water started flooding the battle field and he started surfing on it. The waves were too erratic to stand on so Menma started flying above them.
Huge pillars of water started popping out of the water and Menma started flying around them to dodge them. While he was dodging them Kisame sunk into the water.
Menma was starting to struggle dodging them and activated Kamui to avoid some of the hits. 'Damn, I'll only be able to use this for a few more minutes today.'-Menma.
The water below him started bubbling and Menma flew high up as the water erupted. Once the water settled Menma looked around for Kisame and sensed him above him. Menma looked up as Kisame slashed down at him and the sword went right through him.
Menma tried to grab him so he could teleport him away but felt a sharp pain on his back. While Menma was shocked the clone grabbed him and Kisame slammed the sword against him, sending into the water.
As he tried to reach the surface the waves started forming a whirlpool and Menma started drowning. When Kisame was about to finish the job he was interrupted by a Dynamic Entry by Gai.
The jutsu dispelled and Menma came out of the water. He coughed aggressively and Neji asked, "Menma are you alright?"-Neji. Menma gave him a thumbs up and Lee said, "We can handle this from here. Go ahead without us."-Lee.
Menma stood up and started running away but Gai stopped him. "Menma, one last thing. When you come back to the village Tsunade intends to punish you for leaving the village without permission."-Gai. Menma paled for a second and continued running.
Hidden Leaf Prison
Tsunade walked with Shizune down the corridors and Shizune said, "Lady Tsunade, are you sure we should do this? I mean, if he was with Orochimaru for so long don't you think"-"I know what I'm doing Shizune. Menma talked to him already and nothing happened so it'll be fine."-Tsunade.
They arrived at their destination and the guard opened the door for them. Once they walked in They saw Suigetsu sleeping. "WAKE UP!"-Tsunade.
Suigetsu jumped out of his chair and looked up at them. "Who the hell are you?"-Suigetsu. Tsunade decided to ignore the blatant disrespect and said, "I am the 5th Hokage, and depending on what you say I might let you out of here."-Tsunade.
Suigetsu decided to listen, "Last night when you talked to Menma what did you talk about?"-Tsunade. "We made a deal. He said he would speak to you about me being released. Once that happened I would help him locate Orochimaru. And in return he would help me retrieve all 7 of the swords of the mist."-Suigetsu.
"What do you think about Orochimaru?"-Tsunade. "Well he did capture me and stop me from achieving my goal, so I don't like him."-Suigetsu. "And what will you do after you have all of the swords?"-Tsunade.
Suigetsu thought for a second and said, "I don't know yet, by that point I would have honored my brother and achieved my dream. But just in case you're wondering, I'm not interested in anything like world domination."-Suigetsu.
Tsunade was satisfied by that and asked one more question, "What is Menma to you?"-Tsunade. "Well, I just met him so I feel pretty indifferent towards him. But he seemed alright."-Suigetsu.
Tsunade was satisfied by that and said, "Well you're clearly honest, if you said you thought of him as a friend I would have thought you were lying."-Tsunade.
Suigetsu stood up and said, "Alright! So I can leave now right?"-Suigetsu. "Yes, you're free. But sense you're a ninja I can't just let you go around doing anything you want. So I'll grant you the title of a Leaf ninja, and your first mission is to help find Gaara."-Tsunade.
Suigetsu lost a lot of excitement after hearing that and groaned. "Is that a problem? Cause if it is I can let you stay in here and"-"No no no, it's no problem! I'll be happy to!"-Suigetsu.
Tsunade smiled and said, "That's great! Here's your headband."-Tsunade. Suigetsu accepted it with reluctance and wrapped it around his neck. "Well then, follow me to the village gate and I'll tell you where to go."-Tsunade.
Clone of Menma
Menma was jumping past the trees and saw a couple of white heads in the corner of his eye. He looked over and saw Kakashi with an old lady. "Hey Kakashi!"-Menma.
They stopped running and looked at him. "Menma, any luck?"-Kakashi. "No, but I'll find it soon. Who's that lady?"-Menma. "This is Lady Chiyo, she's been sent to help fight Sasori and the other guy."-Kakashi.
Menma greeted her and they started running in the direction they were earlier.
"So, I heard from Kakashi that you're also being targeted by the Akatsuki."-Chiyo. "Uh, yes I am. I'm being hunted for the 9 tails."-Menma.
They kept on running but a question popped up in his mind. "So, sense you're a village elder can you answer a question?"-Menma.
"Depends on the question."-Chiyo. "Why were Jinchurikis created? And why does the Akatsuki Want them?"-Menma. Chiyo looked at him for a moment and came up with an answer, "Well as you must know there are 9 tailed beast. Each one is a powerhouse that could level a village. I'm not sure why the Akatsuki is after them, but that is a dangerous power. The reason Jinchuriki were created was because people didn't believe such powerful beast should be allowed to roam free. So they captured them and sealed them away, usually in infant children, as a means to having a powerful village weapon."-Chiyo.
Menma lowered his head and thought, 'Wish I didn't ask.'-Menma. Menma started picking up the pace and ran ahead of them. "Wait up Menma!"-Kakashi. "I can't, every second we waste is another second that Gaara could be dying!"-Menma.
Kakashi sighed and Chiyo asked, "Why is he so intent on saving Gaara?"-Chiyo. "Well, Menma was a jinchuriki too."-Kakashi. Chiyo was shocked.
"Even though they aren't from the same village that doesn't matter to Menma, he considers him one of his greatest friends... the reason he's so intent on saving him is because he's the only person he can truly relate too, as you know jinchuriki are treated with the same isolation and abuse no matter what village it is. And Gaara is someone who experienced the same loneliness and solitude as him. But at the same time Gaara had it worst. It was only a couple years ago that people started truly loving him while Menma had loved ones at a much younger age. And he doesn't want Gaara to be alone again, so that's why he's so intent on saving him."-Kakashi.
Chiyo processed the information and started thinking about it as they kept on running.
5 Seal Barrier Cliff
Menma arrived at his destination and saw a giant boulder with a seal on it. He tried walking through it with Kamui but it didn't work. "Damn, I'm too exhausted to use Kamui."-Menma yawned and flew up to the seal.
The raised up his left arm and the seal reappeared on his forearm. 'Time to find out what you can do.'-Menma. Put placed the hand on the seal and he felt the presence of 5 other seals in the area. "Alright! I can locate connected chakra sources nearby."-Menma.
Menma dispelled all of his clones and created 5. He sent them off and they all went towards a seal.
1st Menma Clone
Menma pulled off the seal and was about to dispel but a formed out the ground. The figure became solid and it was another Menma. Expect it's eyes were orange and their hair was red. It was also a woman.
Menma looked at the new person dumbfounded. He also noticed they wore a lot of jewelry and a fur coat even though it's hot outside. The person saw Menma and ran towards him. "Wow! This is an amazing cloth! What are your clothes made out of? You gotta tell me the store they came from! You know what, never mind just give me yours!"-Mina.
2nd Menma Clones
The Menma pulled off the seal and a figure appeared out of the ground. When it became solid it looked like Menma, but with some differences on it. Firstly its eyes were yellow and it's hair looked flat, except it had a wavy look to it. It also wore a shirt with the word supreme on it. There were some weird looking white objects in its ears and its sandals had the word Gucci on them. "Uh, who are you."-Menma. The person was mumbling something along the lines of, "murder on my mind" but saw that Menma was talking and said, "Ehhhh? Sorry but I don't speak broke!"-Cloutius Chasinorticus.
3rd Menma Clone
A figure popped out of the ground and started forming. Once it became solid it looked like Menma, but a little different. It wore a fedora and fancy clothes that were all red with zebra stripes as a secondary color. It wore a gold undershirt and had a fancy ornate black cane with a gold handle. Also It's eyes were blue. It looked around and saw Menma the said, "Ah my good man! Could you point me towards the nearest brothel? The homie Mike Klinger has been feeling lonely."-Mike.
4th Menma Clone
The person formed and once again it looked like Menma but with some differences. It's eyes were a lighter shade of blue and it's hair was lazily done. It sat on the ground and yawned then it just went to sleep. Menma was surprised by it but decided to leave.
5th Menma Clone
The man that appeared looked like Menma but had green eyes. And wore basic clothes. The guy looked at him and spoke in a sad voice, "Wow, those are some pretty nice clothes. And you're quite muscular."-Menama.
Back to Menma
Menma looked at the seal with rinnegan eyes and saw that all of the chakra in it was gone. He pulled off the seal and backed up. He was waiting for something to happen but nothing did. Menma walked up to it and reeled back his fist before punching it. The boulder crumbled under the force and Menma ran inside.
Once he got inside he saw 2 men in robes Infront of him. One had a husky look and wore a face mask, while the other one had a long bang covering one of his eyes and was sitting on a body.
Menma recognized the body as Gaara and called out to him, "Gaara! What are you doing sleeping at a time like this?" No response. "Hey Gaara, come on wake up!" No response. "Come on Gaara, GAARA!"-Menma. "He can't hear you now, you were a bit late to save him."-Deidara.
Menma was going to deny it but all he had to do was look at Gaara and sense that there was no chakra in him. Menma started clenching his fist until it felt like his bones were crushing, and his chakra became more intense. 'Damn it, even with all this power, I still can't save a single friend. I truly am a failure."-Menma.
Menma looked up at them with tears in his eyes and thought, 'Don't worry Gaara. I won't let your death be in vain!'-Menma.
Menma took a step towards them and felt his body ache, 'Damn, I haven't slept in the past few days. And I'm running low on chakra... whatever, screw that! I'll just have to push past my limits!'-Menma.
Menma's chakra intensified to the point where the terrain around him shook. "Get off of him."-Menma. Deidara put his hand up to his ear and spoke in a mocking tone, "Huh, what was that?"-Deidara.
"I said, GET OFF OF HIM!!"-Menma. Menma activated his sharingan and flew towards Deidara and reached out his hand. But before he could reach Deidara's face a tail came out of Sasori's cloak and blocked it. Menma ripped the tail off of his body and stabbed Sasori with it.
Sasori's body was crushed like a puppet and a body flew out the back of it. When Sasori looked up he had a surprised look on his face, 'How was my hiroko shell destroyed so easily?'-Sasori.
Sasori pulled out his 3rd Kazekage puppet and told Deidara, "Take Gaara's body and get out of here."-Sasori. Deidara was going to resist but saw he was serious and compiled.
But while he was flying out Menma cut him off and covered the cave exit with Amaterasu. "No one, is going anywhere!"-Menma. Menma charged at Sasori again and manifested the sage blade. The puppet stretched out an arm and at least 100,000 smaller arms came out. Menma charged towards the arms and started cutting them up as they tried to assault him. Menma was progressively making his way towards the puppet and extended his blade to make one big slash that destroyed all of the arms.
Once he reached the puppet he made a thrusting motion with the blade but was intercepted by iron sand. The sand tried grabbing Menma so he had to jump back. The puppet created 2 rectangular prisms and a pyramid out of the iron sand before throwing poles of it at Menma. Menma dodged the poles easily and the number started increasing. Eventually the poles that landed on the ground started flying back up to him Menma. Menma created a shield around himself and the poles started knocking him around. After awhile Menma dropped the shield and started knocking away the poles with a staff. Then he grabbed one of poles and threw it back at Sasori.
The pole hit the iron sand shield and all of the sand gathered into one place. "Iron Sand technique:World Order."-Sasori. All of a sudden the sand started turning into thousands of different poles and were about to hit Menma.
When all of the poles started charging after Menma he coated his hands with tso orbs to negate the poison and used some of the poles as leverage. Menma started dodging all of the poles for at least 3 minutes and was starting to feel exhausted. Once the onslaught was over Sasori thought he was dead but chakra started gathering in one place and building up In power.
Menma used Amaterasu to obliterate all of the iron sand constructs and blitzed the puppet, which destroyed it. Sasori pulled out a scroll from his back and activated it, the action caused pipes to appear on his hands. He pointed his arms towards Menma and a stream of fire came out of it. Menma used 1 of the 2 orbs he had left and blocked the attack with a shield.
Sasori made an inference that elemental attacks wouldn't work on him so he threw away his cloak and opened a panel on his chest that revealed a ball of chakra. Sasori made a hand seal and summoned 100 puppets. "This battle has gone on long enough, so I'm gonna end this now with this jutsu that won against a nation."-Sasori.
Menma looked at all of the puppets and thought, 'Well now I know how all of my enemies feel when I use shadow clones.'-Menma.
Menma made about 20 clones and felt like he was almost out of chakra. 'Damn it! I'm gonna have to end this soon.' Menma looked over at Gaara's body and thought, 'Don't worry Gaara, I will keep you safe. And I won't your sacrifice be for nothing!'-Menma.
Menma charged at all of the puppets and started destroying them. They were surprisingly easy to destroy and Menma cleared them all with ease. And charged at Sasori. Sasori tried guarding himself by bringing out blades from his sides but he was too late and Menma looked him in the eyes as he stabbed the blade through the heart like canister in his chest.
Sasori didn't have the chance to say anything and the last thing he could feel was fear as Menma formed a rasengan and destroyed his "heart". His last thoughts were, 'My art has lasted long enough.'-Sasori.
Menma dropped his body to the ground and looked at Deidara. Deidara was surprised that Sasori fell but looked back at Menma and glared. "You have those same eyes. Those damn Uchiha eyes! I will prove my art is superior! I'll never lose to another one of you!"-Deidara. Deidara made the bird dissolve and turned it into a dragon. Deidara's next move was to make clay pour out his hands and turn them into humanoid figures.
They all looked at Menma and started charging at him. Menma stepped out of the way of one but when he did it exploded in his face and made him fly back. The remaining 20 started doing the same thing and Menma created a handheld shield.
He started blocking and deflecting them away until they were all gone. But Deidara didn't let up his assault and made the dragon shoot homing clay missiles at him. Menma used the 20 clones he had left to all charge at the missiles and take the hits. Once they were taken care of Deidara looked at Menma again and said, "You still have those same eyes, I will beat you!"-Deidara.
Deidara pulled out a chunk of clay from his pouch and started eating it. After he was finished he vomited it all out and the clay started to form into a physical form. The figure started growing in size and was rising above the caves roof.
Menma realized that the cave was about to collapse so he ran over to Gaara's body and ran outside the cave exit.
Menma sat Gaara's body against a tree and turned around to look at Deidara with awe. There was a giant version of Deidara that started walking towards him. Menma wasn't sure what to do so he started running away to create some distance. "Where you going? There's no way you can escape my C4 Karura!"-Deidara.
Deidara clapped his hands together and the giant started to inflate. Menma noticed this and was about to brace himself for the explosion. But when it came nothing happened, it looked like his body popped like a balloon.
Menma was about to run back over to Deidara but noticed that his body started turning into dust. Deidara had a smile on his face and said, "I was gonna use this against Itachi but your good enough. This jutsu sends out microscopic bombs that are invisible to the naked eye across a huge area, anything living that it touches will die!"-Deidara.
Menma's body continued to turn to dust and there was nothing he could do about it eventually his entire body turned to dust and he was gone. Deidara was satisfied but quickly realized something, "Damn it, I forgot I forgot I was suppose to capture him alive!"-Deidara.
Deidara flew onto the ground near Gaara's body and dispelled the dragon. "The leader won't be happy about this."-Deidara. "You won't have to worry about that."-Menma. Before Deidara could do anything he was impaled by a chidori to his liver by Menma.
While Deidara was coughing blood he asked, "How?"-Deidara. Menma deactivated his sharingan and spoke with an exhausted voice, "It's simple really, earlier right after I killed Sasori you looked at me directly in the eyes. Your obvious distaste in the Uchiha blinded you from realizing you put yourself in a genjutsu."-Menma.
Menma was about to pull his arm out of his body but before he could Deidara started laughing and Menma felt his legs being grabbed and the person his arm impaled turned to clay. Menma tried to activate his EMS but didn't have enough chakra. "Hahahaha! That's just like something Itachi would do! But I don't fall for the same trick twice, so I already knew you put me under a genjutsu!"-Deidara.
Deidara rised up out of the ground and
Used the clay clone to start inflating. Deidara jumped away and the clay clone swallowed up Menma. Menma broke his arm free of the clone and cut out a hole in him to escape. Menma activated a chidori with the last of his chakra and started charging towards Deidara. But Deidara expected this, so he activated the explosion and the nanobombs he put in Menma blew up.
The explosion blew Deidara back and he landed into a few trees. He caught his breath and stood back up. He looked around and saw that there was no Menma. "Hahaha. HAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHA! Yes! My art prevailed!"-Deidara. Deidara was about to start walking away but was interrupted by a drop kick to his back.
Once Deidara landed he looked at Menma who now had his sharingan activated again. "How did you survive?"-Deidara. "Well it's quite simple, I didn't say this before but the sharingan can see much better than the naked eye. And I was easily able to see the bombs in my bloodstream. And being a sharingan user I was able to see that you mainly use earth hand seals, and my chidori is lightning jutsu, so you can do the math."-Menma.
Rereading this I just realized how smug Menma sounded while saying this, it's pretty ooc
Deidara realized where everything went wrong and looked back at Menma in his eyes. He glared at him with a disgusted look. "After all of this, you still have those same overconfident eyes that have no respect for my art! That's what I hate most about you and Itachi! You can't respect true art!"-Deidara.
Menma could have explained to him why he was so confident, but found that there wasn't much point in it sense one of them would die here. Deidara saw that his expression hadn't changed and got even more pissed off. He was about to yell but decided to take a deep breath.
He stood up and ripped his shirt off, revealing a strange tattoo over his heart that looked like a mouth. He grabbed the stitches on it and pulled them out and the tattoo looked like it came to life as it turned into a real mouth.
Deidara reached into his pouch and grabbed the last chunk of clay and fed it to the mouth. After he did that all of his veins started pulsating and he said, "This time I'm gonna detonate myself! My ultimate art!"-Deidara.
"You're insane."-Menma. "Hahaha! In death I will become the embodiment of art, it will be so magnificent that it will leave a scar on the earth itself! I'll receive endless admiration for my art while you'll be forgotten!"-Deidara.
Menma tried to stand up but fell back onto his knees. As Deidara's body started becoming transparent he said, "You won't be able to escape, this explosion covers 10km! Now tremble, be afraid, recoil in fear and despair, cower in awe, cry your heart out! Because my art... IS AN EXPLOSION!!!!"-Deidara.
Deidara's body turned into a black ball and the ball created a white beam in the sky that was spreading. Menma knew he wasn't going to escape and he looked over at Gaara's body. Menma looked at the last tso he had left and sent it over to Gaara's body to protect him. "I guess this is it then... I really can't do anything right can I?"-Menma.
The explosion spread out and enveloped both Menma the entire area. But while Menma was being swallowed by the explosion a toad showed up behind him and reverse summoned him.
Menma kept his eyes closed and realized he didn't feel anything, he looked up and saw Jiraiya and Gamabunta. He looked at the area around him and noticed how different it looked. He tried to stand up but feel back down. 'The gravity here is heavy.'-Menma. Menma also noticed that he wasn't injured anymore.
Menma felt something on his left arm and looked down. The mysterious seal on his arm felt funny and it looked like chakra was entering his body. He started noticing that his arm started swelling up into a toad shape and he quickly pulled it off the ground. When his arm stopped receiving chakra he accidentally shot it back out of his arm in a burst of chakra.
Gamabunta looked at him surprised. "He just absorbed nature chakra!"-Gamabunta. Jiraiya looked at him curiously and Menma asked, "What was that?"-Menma. "That isn't important now, I'll tell another time. But are you alright?"-Jiraiya.
"Yes, but what happened?"-Menma.
"I heard that you left the village so I decided to tag along with team Gai. And once I got a certain distance I summoned Gamabunta to help find you sense he can find anyone who signed the contract. And once I saw that you were about to die I had Gamabunta perform a reverse summon to bring you here."-Jiraiya.
Menma looked around and asked, "What is this place?"-Menma. "This is Mount Myoboku, this is the home of the toads. Now I would love to tell you more, but that can wait for another time, right now we need to go back to where Gaara's body is. Everyone is waiting for you there."-Jiraiya.
"We should go back now!"-Menma. Jiraiya nodded at Gamabunta and they were teleported back to where they were earlier.
Menma looked around and noticed he was in a huge crater. He also noticed that Team Gai, Kakashi, and a lot of sand shinobi were all in a circle surrounding something.
Menma stood up and walked over to them. Menma pushed past them and arrived in the middle to see Chiyo trying to heal Gaara. Menma walked up to her and asked her, "Is he alive?"-Menma.
Chiyo stood up with a look in her eye that told Menma all he needed to know. Menma looked at Gaara's body started to feel tears well up in his eyes.
"Damn it Gaara, you didn't deserve to die like this. Your the Kazekage! Everything was going to go back to normal!"-Menma. "Calm down Menma"-"SHUT UP!"-Menma yelled turning around looking back at Chiyo. "None if this would have ever happened if you didn't put that monster inside of Gaara! Did ever stop and ask how Gaara felt?!? Or even thought about it?!?!"-Menma. Menma sniffled and tried to wipe away some tears.
"Jinchuriki my ass. You have no right, to act so righteous labeling us with that word YOU CREATED!!!"-Menma. Menma got on his knees and continues to cry. "I can't save Kankuro, I can't save Temari, I can't save Gaara, and I can't save anyone! I've trained so hard these past couple of years but nothing's changed."-Menma.
Menma continued to cry and everyone looked on. They all wanted to help but didn't know what to say. Eventually Chiyo got up and walked past him towards Gaara's body. She laid down next to him and hovered her hands over his chest and a blue aura appeared on her hands.
"What are you doing? He's already dead."-Menma. "That isn't normal healing."-Neji. "Is that what I think it is?"-Gai. "Yeah, its THAT jutsu."-Kakashi.
Menma wiped away all of his tears and looked at them confused but figured out what they meant. Menma looked back at Chiyo and noticed she was breathing heavily and the blue light was becoming smaller.
"Not... enough... chakra."-Chiyo. The light was about to completely fade but she felt a pair of hands on top of hers. She looked up to see Menma. "Take my chakra."-Menma. Chiyosmiled at Menma and the blue aura started flaring.
Chiyo wasn't breathing heavily anymore but she was visually becoming more tired. "Out of this ninja world us old ninja created, I'm glad someone like you showed up. My whole life, has just been a bunch of mistakes. But I'm glad that the ending of it will be for something good." Chiyo smiled. "Kakashi told me a little bit about your mission you've been giving. And I just want to tell you, make sure you never give up, no matter how hard it gets you must bear the hardship and succeed... you have a fragile heart Menma, you must try to control your emotions, once you do you will become an unstoppable force, and then you'll always be able to keep your friends safe."-Chiyo.
After a few more seconds Gaara sat up and looked dazed. Menma put a hand on his shoulder and Gaara looked at him. "Gaara, your back!"-Menma. Menma brought Gaara into a hug and Gaara looked around and saw everyone that was there.
"This is..."-Gaara. "Everyone was worried about you, so they came to help."-Menma. Gaara still felt like he was in a dazed state and he heard, "Lord Gaara! Are you okay?"-Matsuri. Everyone held their breath and waited for him to answer. When he nodded his head in response everyone started cheering.
Matsuri ran towards him and Menma stood up. He felt a hand on his shoulder and turned around to be met with Kakashi. "Thank you Menma."-Kakashi.
"If you want to thank anyone you should thank Chiyo." Menma looked at her. "She must be sleeping now, that jutsu must of used up all of her chakra."-Menma said with a smile.
Kakashi looked down for a second. "No, you're wrong."-Kakashi. Menma looked at him with a questioning look and asked, "What do you mean I'm wrong?"-Menma. "That jutsu she used was a reanimation jutsu. It let's you bring someone back to life at the cost of your own life."-Kakashi.
Menma looked back over at her body and activated his rinnegan. He saw that there was no chakra flow and he realized he was right. Menma felt sad for a moment but remembered what she said about him needing to not be so sad all the time. But then a thought crossed into his mind about what that Freya lady said earlier. "Your world doesn't have a heaven right now, all their doing is trying to fend off my husbands greed for power."-Freya.
Menma clenched his fist and promised himself, 'You told me that if I control my emotions I'll become the strongest there ever was. I promise I'll defeat Odin, and save you and everyone else!'-Menma. "Kakashi, I'm gonna go to sand village and bury her. After that I'm gonna start hunting down Orochimaru. I know Tsunade will punish me for it but it's something I have to do."-Menma.
Kakashi chuckled a bit, "Well Tsunade was intending to send you on that mission anyway. But before you do you should at least tell everyone back home that you're gonna leave."-Kakashi. Before Menma could say anything he felt an arm wrap around his shoulders. "Hey Menma, that Tsunade lady let me leave the village. So when are gonna get started on our quest?"-Suigetsu.
"I have to do something first in the sand village, but after that we can leave."-Menma. Suigetsu quickly backed up. "Woah the Sand village? That's a no go for me, I have to stay hydrated."-Suigetsu. Menma made a wooden canister and filled it with water he created. Suigetsu sighed and agreed to go.
While Menma followed Gaara and the sand ninja back to their village Menma sighed. 'Man, I really have a lot of things to do. I gotta hunt down Orochimaru, kill the Akatsuki, gain enough power to defeat Odin. Kill Odin. And then save everyone from the false heaven they're in... man it's like the universe just hates me. But Chiyo was right, I'm gonna have to work on my emotions, in my current state I'm a disgrace of a ninja.'-Menma.
Next chapter I'm gonna skip Chiyo's funeral and Menma's gonna go back to the village for a little while before leaving to go hunt down Orochimaru.
Not sure if everyone caught it but all of the guys who showed up In Front of the clones are all parts of Menma's split personality. There's gonna be a total of 7 and everyone has already seen the other 2.
Part of the next chapter will seem a little strange. It's gonna explore 5 or 6 of the personalities, but when I imagine it it sounds like it would be a filler episode. But I'll try it anyway.
