Land Of Water Orochimaru's Memories

Orochimaru looked at his watch and thought, 'They usually come around this time.' Orochimaru looked around and saw that all of the food was still where he had placed it.

He waited for a few more minutes and started to think they weren't coming. Orochimaru stood up and was about to walk away but he felt someone poke his shoulder. He turned around to see all 4 of the brothers holding food in their hands.

Orochimaru had a slightly surprised look on his face and asked, "How long have you all been here?"-Orochimaru. Saburo smiled and juggled a couple apples in his hands. "We've been here for about 10 minutes waiting for you to notice us."-Saburo.

Orochimaru had a look of slight surprise on his face and he smiled. "You all seem to have a lot of natural talent when it comes to stealth. But don't get cocky, tomorrow I'll really be trying to sense you!"-Orochimaru.

Sachi said, "Bring it on!" And they all left.

Eastern Hideout Modern Day 1:00pm.

Menma arrived at his goal and looked around. 'There isn't even a clearing or a building. Is there a seal hiding this place?'-Menma. Menma's thoughts were interrupted when he saw a seal hidden below the grass. It was a seal he didn't recognize and he was pondering what he should do.

Menma's final though was, 'I can't deal with this right now.' So he began draining the chakra from the seal with his God seal and it burned until it was nothing but ash.

Menma looked up and a mass amount of the trees in front of him faded away and the sun shined down upon a structure that looked like a fortress.

He ran towards the front door and saw a man in strange clothing standing at the door. As Menma got closer to him he realized that he was slightly transparent.

Menma was about to get rid of him but the man took notice of him and looked at him. When Menma saw his face he froze in place.

The man had a glowing golden eye to the right and an eye patch on his missing eye. Menma's own golden eyes involuntarily triggered in response and he stared at him. The man opened his mouth and said, "I'm not surprised things turned out this way, I know you too well I know your story, I know what you're like, I only remember them because of how I loved your story, how I loved what you're like, but It's unsurprising that It's exactly what will undo your puppet strings, you will fall limp to the floor, wishing that at least one of the strings could noose around your wooden stick neck."

Menma finally snapped out of his trance and quickly eliminated the man in front of him. Menma decided to dismiss the riddles and ran inside the building.

Land of Water Orochimaru's Memories

Orochimaru sat still in a meditating position and focused on the field of vision his chakra created and searched for life forms.

After 20 minutes in this state he eventually tracked 4 signatures appearing and disappearing. He smirked and stood up. "I know you 4 are here, come out!"-Orochimaru.

After a minute the 4 of them came out of the woods and walked into the clearing with pouting faces. "How'd you find us?"-Saburo. Orochimaru replied, "I used chakra to spread my field of vision by 50 meters. Within those 50 meters I can track any living thing."-Orochimaru.

Sachi's mouth dropped, "Huh?!?! How are we supposed to beat that?!? That's impossible to get past!"-Sachi. Orochimaru shook his head and responded, "It's not impossible. Ninjas can train themselves to mask their chakra signatures, but it would take a great deal of time for someone to mask it completely. But with your Kekki Genkai it appears that when your in the shadows your presence is completely non existent. You naturally have something that most ninjas wouldn't achieve until 30. So you should be proud."-Orochimaru finished with a smile.

They smiled in response and Orochimaru asked, "So what's it like when you're in that shadow realm anyway?"-Orochimaru.

The question caught them off guard and they all thought about it for a minute until Sen replied, "It's a bizarre experience. Time seems to flow differently in there since people look almost frozen when we look at them through the portal. Also it feels like being in water, you move like you're in water, and you can breath there too. But when you climb out of a portal you're not wet at all."-Sen.

Orochimaru nodded and asked, "Are there other portals inside of this place?"-Orochimaru. Saki answered next, "Yeah, there are many portals as there are shadows in the real world, as long as they're big enough."-Saki.

Orochimaru nodded and asked, "Can't you try to go to one of those other portals?"-Orochimaru?"-Orochimaru. Saburo had a slightly embarrassed look on his face that he tried to hide. "Well, you know how we said it's like water in there?"

Orochimaru and Sachi stated, "Well we don't know how to swim."-Sachi. Orochimaru stayed silent for a moment until he replied, "Well you can breathe when you're in there, so I think you should be able to learn quickly."-Orochimaru.

Sen shook his head and replied, "It's better if we just show you what our swimming looks like."-Sen.

Eastern Hideout 1:05pm.

Menma placed a hand on the ground and activate sage mode. He analyzed his surroundings and determined straight ahead was the best way to go.

He started running and that direction and he ran through a door. The walls changed from normal bricks to prison cells and Menma still carried on. Eventually he ended up stopping because he realized he couldn't go any further. He didn't know why but when he tried to touch the air in front of him it felt like a stone wall. Menma decided he would walk through one of the walls but when he turned around he was left in a state of shock. All of the cells were gone and there was no longer a door at the end of the hallway.

The first thought that came to Menma's mind was that this was a genjutsu and he tried to release it. Somehow it didn't work and Menma was confused. He sensed someone's presence and he turned around. His eyes met with the Hazel eyes of a red haired man in his late 20's with the same hairstyle as Menma, except his bangs hung lower. He wore a black jacket and a white shirt underneath.

Menma became tense and the man put up his hands in defence, "I'm not here to fight you. My name is Nero Uzumaki."-Nero.

Menma became more at ease after hearing the name Uzumaki but he kept his guard up. "That's nice and all, but I have to find Nozomi right now, I don't have time to talk."-Menma.

Nero smiled and replied, "I can see the dark determination in your eyes. You have the eyes of someone who literally will do whatever it takes to achieve your goal... but look at that clock up there." Nero said pointing at a clock.

Menma did what he said and noticed it wasn't moving. Menma looked back at him and said, "The clock is broken, what about it?"-Menma. Mero shook his head and said, "Look closer, pay real close attention to the second hand."-Nero.

Menma sighed but did what he said. He paid close attention to it. He looked at it hard enough to see dust particles around it. And eventually he finally saw what Nero wanted to see. The second hand was moving. But it was moving probably only a micrometer in an actual second of time.

Menma looked back at Nero with a now interested look and Nero said, "I guess you noticed it. Well please don't do anything to the clock, I need to see it for reference."-Nero. "How did you do that?"-Menma.

"Well us Uzumaki's are quite fond of our seals. This one specifically is meant only for small isolated areas like this hallway. It can slow down the pace of time in places like this. It could go even slower than this but that isn't necessary."-Nero. Menma asked, "Can you give me some more details?"-Menma.

Nero cleared his throat and added, "Well I can't tell you much right now, but there are 2 types of sealing techniques in the world. There are the normal ones that are commonly known and used to seal things like scrolls, boxes, and people. Then there are the more powerful seals that were created by the Uzumaki's. These ones are mainly used for fighting and can be a substitute for Genjutsu if you wanna use it on a genjutsu master like an Uchiha. They're a bit harder to do since they require prerequisites to be met to have the desired effect. But once they are met then they can do amazing things. But anyways I should tell you a few things about this place."-Nero.

Nero put on a completely serious face and told Menma, "There are some things that happen here that I'm not comfortable with saying out loud. So you'll have to go to the archive room right here for that. Now as I just said there certain kinds of seals that need prerequisites to activate." Nero said as the environment around him transformed into an archive room.

"The way your eyes work is by bouncing light off of objects. I'm gonna be honest I don't really remember how this one works exactly. It makes it so you can't perceive a certain object/material of choice with your eyes. In this case the material was wood. But if someone wanted to they could do this with metal so you can't perceive a kunai being thrown at you."-Nero.

"That's really powerful."-Menma. Nero snickered and replied, "It's not invincible though, someone can still hear it coming."-Nero. Menma nodded and responded, "Well you can tell me more about them later, right now you should tell me about this place."-Menma.

Nero nodded and Menma started paying close attention to Nero and he started, "The leader of this hideout is a scumbag called Yurusarenai. He's a degenerate that Orochimaru considers his right hand man. I don't know who would voluntarily be with a guy like this but apparently he used to have a wife, and they ended up having a child. It was a boy... about 3 years ago when Orochimaru took over this village he took over the gang here too. They use to be nice enough, they were the ones that liberated the village from the dictator like Daimyo, but with Orochimaru's leadership they quickly became the worst of scum. I guess that really tells you that even if you fight for a good cause that doesn't mean your good huh?"-Nero.

Menma took Nero's words to heart and Nero continued, "Wells anyways among the many scum of the Hagetaka clan one stood out among the others, it was Yurusarenai.

Land Of Water Orochimaru's Memories

For the first time in a very long time Orochimaru found himself holding back his laughter after seeing the 4 brothers horrible attempts at swimming. 'They swim like a bird having a seizure.'-Orochimaru.

Orochimaru took a deep breath and announced, "With the way you're swimming now it would take me about an entire week of constant training just to train a single one of you how to swim effectively. But I have a theory for a way to train all of you within at most 2 days."-Orochimaru.

Orochimaru caught their full attention and he asked, "Can you bring other people with you into that shadow dimension?"-Orochimaru.

Saburo put his hand on his chin and thought hard. "I don't know, the only things we've tried bringing into were food, so probably."-Saburo.

Orochimaru replied, "Well I want you to take me in there, that's where you'll learn to swim."-Orochimaru.

The 4 thought about the idea and Sachi replied, "That's a great idea! Since everything goes by slower we're technically learning quicker!"-Sachi.

"Are we sure that's safe though?"-Sen. "But if those objects were only safe because they were objects? Wouldn't it hurt someone living?"-Saki. "No, in a science book I saw once it said that things like food and plants are alive, so it should be fine."-Saburo. "So it's decided then, let's go!"-Sachi.

They all got into position near a tree and Sen was halfway inside the shadow of the tree. He held out his hands and Orochimaru accepted them. Orochimaru was surprised by their warmth but ignored it and followed him into the shadow dimension.

When Orochimaru was all the way in the entire area was more black than anything he's seen in his entire life. He couldn't even see his hands in front of him without the light shining through the portal.

Orochimaru realized he was sinking and he swam back up to the 4 brothers who were holding on to the edge of a portal. Orochimaru swam up to them and told them, "It's time to get started."-Orochimaru.

Eastern Hideout 1:06pm.

"Eventually Orochimaru wanted to try out experimenting with things besides sage chakra and he left it up to Yurusarenai to come up with something since he considered him someone who would be indifferent to people's suffering in an experiment... well at this point in time I was already spying on the gang and I was under Yurusarenai's command. He notified us about how he didn't want to be disturbed while experimenting."-Nero.

Nero dropped his usual smile and had a solemn look on his face as he looked down. "Well I was out playing with Yurusarenai's son Kuroko when it happened. It wasn't something that hit me right away, I only figured it out a few days later... while we were playing together his dad took him away and said that we could play again tomorrow... before he was taken away I was planning on getting him out of there that same day. He wasn't abused by his father or anything, but that is a horrible environment to grow up in... but I was too late."-Nero.

Menma noticed a tear fall down his face and he continued, "Well a day later Yurusarenai came back to us and said his experimenting was over, and that it was a success. He managed to create some kind of creature, it had some dog like features but it was the size of a house. He had some people fight it, but they didn't stand a chance. It killed them almost instantly and it ate them right after. It was disgusting to look at and left as soon as possible."-Nero.

Nero checked the time and continued, "I didn't notice it until later that night, but on the dog I noticed that it had green and blue eyes just like Kuroko. I don't really jump to conclusions, but I couldn't sleep after noticing that. So I decided to ask Yurusarenai about it. And do you know what he told me when I asked about his son?"-Nero asked with a depressing smile on his face.

Menma shook his head still not completely sure what the ending to the story would be and Nero answered, "He looked me dead in the eye with a serious look and told me "I used him for the experiment, I thought that was obvious.""-Nero. Menma's eyes widened as what he hoped wouldn't be the case was exactly what happened. Menma's hands involuntarily shook just from the anger that statement caused.

Nero wiped away a tear and continued, "He started talking about how a positive state of mind was preferred for the experiment, but I zoned out. After that day I couldn't continue my job. My disdain for him turned into a deep hatred..." Nero took a deep breath and asked, "So earlier you mentioned someone called Nozomi, who is that?"-Nero.

Menma snapped back to reality and replied, "She's a young Uzumaki that I've sworn to protect with my life. Do you know where she's being kept?"-Menma.

Nero nodded and replied, "She's being kept in the arena. You'll get there if you run further down this hall and take a left. If you want you can search the archives here before you leave."-Nero.

Menma shook his head and stated, "I don't want to waste anymore time, even though time is slowed down I want to get there as fast as possible... will I ever see you again?"-Menma.

Nero smiled and became a little more cheerful. The reason I came to talk to you is because we both have the same goal. I came here to finish the job by taking down this hideout, but since the legendary Kitsune leader is here I don't need to. If you ever wanna find me come to Pokanto Mountain, I'm a fan!" Nero stated as he started walking away. Menma also started walking away in the opposite direction but was stopped when Nero said, "Menma."

Neither of them turned around but Menma stopped walking and listened. Menma couldn't see his face but he sense the anger in his voice as he said, "Don't show that piece of shit any mercy."-Nero. Menma simply replied with, "Of course."

Orochimaru's Memories Land Of Water

"Are you all ready to show me what you've learned?"-Orochimaru. The 4 brothers nodded as they got in ready positions. Orochimaru announced, "Your last mission is to swim against the current of this river. From flag A to flag B. You have 10 minutes. If your feet touch the bottom of the river, you fail. If you start floating, you fail. And if you talk at all during this challenge, then you fail. Do you understand?" They all nodded with determined looks and Orochimaru yelled, "Begin!"

All 4 of the brothers started off with a quick burst of speed that placed them 6 feet away from their starting points. Saburo, Sachi, and Sen were using the freestyle swimming while Saki used the butterfly style. Normally freestyle is the fastest way to swim, but because of Saki's unnaturally strong body each of his strokes let him glide through the water.

Before Orochimaru realized it they already reached the halfway point. Orochimaru started in amazement as he thought, 'Their ability to learn is extraordinary. I thought it would take about 2 days in that world but they managed to put themselves on the same level as a professional athlete in only 6 hours!'-Orochimaru.

Orochimaru involuntarily grew a devious grin as he thought, 'You can have Haku, Zabuza. Because I'm the one who struck gold!' Orochimaru felt a tug on his clothes and he came back to reality.

He looked down at the 4 brothers that were drenched in sweat and Saburo asked, "Are all rivers this hard to swim in?"-Saburo. Orochimaru asked, "How old are you 4?" Sachi answered, "We're 12. Why do you ask?" Orochimaru informed them, "You just swam through level 5 Rapids."

They all gawked and Sen asked, "Why would you have us swim in something so hard?!?"-Sen. Orochimaru looked at him as he used a smile to hide his astonishment and he asked, "Do you know what they say about prodigies?"-Orochimaru.

They all shook their heads and Orochimaru answered, "It's believed that among every generation there will be 1 person who stands out among them all that radiates natural talent. They'll stand out in all fields of education and they excel at all training. I'm my generation I was considered that Prodigy, and I ended up as a Sannin. The next prodigy was the 4th Hokage Minato, he could kill platoons of ninja in just a few seconds. Then there was Kakashi Hatake the copy ninja, he created his own A-rank ninjutsu at 12. Then there was Itachi Uchiha he managed to kill his entire clan of elite ninja while he was still a teenager. And I don't know how but it seems like this time there could be 4 extraordinary prodigies. And I believe that you are those 4. I had you swim up this river because I had faith in you all. And I'm sure that I'm right."-Orochimaru.

After Orochimaru finished his speech, he noticed that the 4 brothers were crying and he looked confused. But before he could say anything they all hugged him and Saki said, "You're way to nice Orochimaru! What did we do to deserve you?"-Saki. Orochimaru just stood there awkwardly and patted their heads. Once they released him Saburo asked, "So what should we do next?"-Saburo.

Orochimaru pondered his question in his head. 'What should we do next? I've gained their trust and admiration, and at their age they can be easily influenced... maybe I should start making things more intense.' Orochimaru thought while hiding a mischievous grin.

Orochimaru took a deep breath and replied, "I want you 3 to test your skills in a more public place, tomorrow I want you 3 to bring me apples from a small fruit stand called Izuki's Fruits. Can you do that for me?"-Orochimaru. All 4 of them saluted him and they ran off.

Once they were gone Kabuto walked from behind the bushes and walked towards Orochimaru. "I could tell from your grin what you want me to do." Kabuto said with a grin.

Orochimaru looked back at him maintaining a smile and said, "I'm glad you already know."-Orochimaru.

Eastern Hideout 1:10pm.

Menma raced down the hallway he thought would never end as fast as he could. 'What if I'm too late? Will he turn her into one of those things Nero mentioned? No that's not possible, he said it took a day and it's only been a few hours. I'll save her!'-Menma.

The hope Menma gave himself filled him with a new vigor as he saw a light at the end of the hallway. He sprinted as fast as possible and reached the end of the hall with a hopeful smile. But as soon as he reached the room Nero talked about, he lost his smile.

The sight before him left him with eyes as wide as saucers along with constant tears that streamed down his eyes.

He was inside a huge room surrounded by a stadium that was currently filled by Hagetaka members shouting random numbers as if they were trying to buy her. And then there was Nozomi herself in the middle of the room. She wasn't the same she use to be. Her infamous smile that shined brighter than the sun was gone and she looked depressed. Another addition to her features was 2 years on the top of her head along with a tail peeking out of the gown she wore.

'I was too late.' Menma thought as everything around him turned into black as he gained tunnel vision. All he could see was the girl before him. All of the numbers being shouted out faded away as he started walking down the stairs.

Eventually he arrived right in front of her and his tunnel vision faded. She looked at him and recognized him immediately. She grabbed on to one of his legs and spoke in a feeble voice, "Please, get me out of here Menma, I'm scared."

Hearing her voice washed over Menma with a more bizarre feeling then when he achieved sage mode. He finally snapped out of the state he was in. He knelt down, and he patted her head. "Don't worry Nozomi, I promised that I would protect you no matter what. So just leave it to me." Menma stated as he transported her to the Kamui dimension. 'That's right. I haven't failed, she's still alive.'-Menma.

Menma didn't know it as he stood up, but somewhere far away in a place called Tokyo his other half Kaikaku felt what he felt and looked after Nozomi.

Once Menma stood back up he could hear everyone's voices as they yelled at him for interrupting. The fire returned to Menma's eyes and he produced a killer intent on the same level as Kaikaku as his chakra changed colors from blue to black and red.

'I don't think I've ever been this angry in my life, is this what it feels like? I think I've finally recognized this feeling. I felt it with Minako, and with Temari. This is what it feels like when you want to protect someone no matter what it cost.' Menma thought as his aura flared across the entire room while the stones under his feet were atomized from the pressure.

After his aura shot out no one in the room was shouting anymore, in fact they were trying to run to the nearest exit. But Menma used tso's to cover the exits. "Do you really think that I would let a single one of you leave, after what you've done?"-Menma thought his EMS flared.

Orochimaru's Memories

Orochimaru waited around the corner as he looked at the scene before him. The plan was to have Kabuto sabotage the story by knocking out Izuki. Then he would take his place with a disguise. Kabuto knew the exact time they would arrive and he was on high alert.

Something entered Orochimaru's line of sight and he looked at the source. It was a pair of hands reaching out for the fruits. Kabuto also noticed the hands and quickly got into his role. He pretended to be freaked out by the pair of hands and he quickly pulled Sachi out and threw him into an alleyway.

Kabuto quickly went to Sachi in the alley way and grabbed him again. The other 3 quickly left the shadow dimension and ran after him.

Orochimaru finally left his hiding spot and started walking towards his goal. Once he reached the alleyway he saw Kabuto standing over the 4 defeated brothers. Orochimaru also noticed that Kabuto was breathing heavily, but he decided to ignore it and quickly got into his acting role.

He pretended he was surprised by the sight before him and quickly ran towards the 5 of them. He punched Kabuto and sent him flying away. Kabuto pretended to be scared and ran away.

Orochimaru looked down at the 4 brothers and stated, "I'm not the only person in the world who can sense when something is amiss. That man was someone who noticed you because you were too slow. Not only that, but he was able to defeat the 4 of you in a fight."-Orochimaru.

Saburo got up coughing and replied, "Well then I guess you should teach us how to fight then."-Saburo. Orochimaru nodded and replied, "I intend to. I also intend to teach you sleight of hand techniques so that your sneaking skills can be refined. But just so you know even if you learn how to fight there will be people who are still stronger than you. Which is why you should never hesitate to take a chance when you see one. Even if you have to kill someone."-Orochimaru.

They all froze a bit at the thought of having to kill, but they all nodded and Sachi asked, "Can you teach us as soon as possible?"-Sachi. Orochimaru nodded and replied, "Yes, meet by the river in an hour."-Orochimaru. They all bowed and ran off.

Kabuto walked around the corner of the alley and walked towards Orochimaru. "How strong were they?"-Orochimaru. Kabuto responded, "They weren't too strong. But their natural speed and ability to coordinate with each other caught me off guard."-Kabuto. A grin grew on Orochimaru's as he thought about the endless potential they possessed.

Eastern Hideout 5:00pm.

Menma looked down at the only other person in the room with a grin on his face. His hand approached the face of the kneeling man as his cries increased in volume. Once Menma's hand touched his face the cries stopped and disappeared.

The fire in Menma's eyes faded as he realized he completed his goal. He looked around the room. There were no bodies anywhere, but the blood indicated that there was a massacre here.

Menma took a deep breath and thought, 'Now all I have to do is take care of Yurusarenai. After that I should rest. Everything that's been happening lately has been taking a toll on me.'-Menma.

Menma started running in the direction where he sensed the only remaining chakra signatures in the building. It didn't take long to reach the place. Once he stood before the door he reached for the handle, and as he was reaching for the handle he thought, 'So after this there are only 2 big threats left. There's Orochimaru, and those 3 shadow people. I have yet to meet them, but they are clearly trouble... whatever, I can worry about that later. I have to kill this scumbag for all he's done.'-Menma. Menma pulled all the way down on the handle and jumped into the room with 2 guns in his hands

The Menma's eyes were met with left him speechless, he calculated many possibilities of what he would be met with. But this caught him off guard.

The room looked like a normal bedroom, but in the corner of the room there was a post you would tie horses to that had 2 little boys attached to them with female clothing on. Menma's eyes went to the other side of the room and he met eyes with Yurusarenai who had a third boy in his bed. Menma's loss of focus caused the guns to disappear and his arms fell to his sides. "Wha-... what the hell are you doing?" Menma asked in a weak voice.

Yurusarenai remained silent, and Menma asked again with anger this time, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!"-Menma. Menma noticed that after he yelled the other boys in the room got frightened and he tried to calm himself down. "Don't worry kids, I'll get you out of here. Go hide in the bathroom." Menma stated as he used a shuriken to cut the leashes the boys were attached too. Yurusarenai let the boy next to him go out of fear and all of them ran into the bathroom and closed the door behind them.

Menma put a seal on the room that made it so sound couldn't reach in the room, and he turned towards Yurusarenai with a shocked look stuck on his face. Menma didn't even need to ask, he already knew exactly what was going on. He started walking towards him. "Just what the hell is wrong with you? Not even Orochimaru would do something like this."-Menma.

Menma looked down at the ground and when he looked back up he had a new look in his eyes. It was hard to explain. It reminded Yurusarenai of the kind of look someone gives you when they're for sure gonna kill you. But it went deeper than that. It looked more like his eyes were saying that even in death he would still torture him.

Yurusarenai was about to try to say something to save himself but Menma teleported in front of him and ripped out his jugular. Menma put up a finger to his lips and made a "shhh" sound. While Yurusarenai was bleeding out Menma placed a hand on his forehead as his rinnegan activated, and he ripped his soul out.

Hell

Yurusarenai woke up and he felt like his body was floating somewhere. He saw a light up above and he started floating towards it. He started laughing, but his laughs were cut off when he suddenly appeared in an open field next to a tree with a single candle to light up the area.

He looked around and saw Menma next to the candle with the most devilish look in his eyes. Before he could say anything Menma pointed at Yurusarenai's stomach and he looked down.

Yurusarenai's eyes went wide when he looked down and saw his intestines were outside of his stomach leading to somewhere. He followed his intestines and his eyes met where the other end was nailed to a tree.

Yurusarenai quickly understood that Menma wanted him to walk around the tree until they came all the way out. He started shaking his head but Menma simply said, "Walk." And his body started moving against his will.

Orochimaru's Memories

"Again, I've still only been using my right leg and my left arm. Once again I'll remind you, if you can force me to use one of my other 2 limbs or get one of these bells then you pass." Orochimaru stated. The 4 brothers got up off of the ground huffing and puffing and attacked again. 'This is nostalgic, it reminds me of my bell test.' Orochimaru thought as he grabbed Sachi's kick and tossed him into a tree. After that he dodged a punch by Saki and wheel kicked him away. After that Saburo and Sen tried hitting him from above and below. Orochimaru smirked and shot snakes out of his arm to restrain Saburo while Sen came at him with a jumping hook kick

Orochimaru grabbed his leg but before he could do anything he followed it up with a right punch. Orochimaru caught it but once again before could do anything Sen flipped himself upside down and went for another kick with his remaining leg.

Orochimaru released his hand and blocked the kick. Sen smirked and reached for the bells with one hand while going for a punch to the face with the other. 'This is too high level of an attack coming from someone with such little experience.' Orochimaru thought. He was about to stretch out his left arm to throw away Sen but he felt pain from behind as he realized Saki tackled him.

Sen's hand was millimeters away from grabbing the bells but before he could Orochimaru got serious and grabbed Saki's leg with his left to trip him while using his right hand to punch Sen in the solar plexus to get him off.

After Sen landed on the ground he started coughing and Orochimaru ran over to him, "Are you ok?"-Orochimaru. Sen recovered from his coughing and started laughing. Orochimaru felt confused and Sen responded, "We made you use your right arm!"-Sen. Orochimaru looked at his arm and realized they were right. He smiled and said, "Let's go eat."-Orochimaru.

As they started walking towards a restaurant Orochimaru thought, 'You all seem to excel in your own unique way. Saburo has the most intelligence, Sachi has the most speed and is the best at stealth, Sen has the most talent when it comes to combat, and Saki is strongest in every physical sense. You 4 might end up being stronger than Madara Uchiha.'-Orochimaru.

Eastern Hideout 6:00pm.

Menma teleported back to the real world with a bitter look on his face. As he was walking to the bathroom to see the kids he started thinking, 'I really need to get some rest to cool down. So much has happened in such a small amount of time... Kurama... Naruto... Temari... I wish you guys were still here. I really don't want to continue this.'-Menma.

Menma placed his hand on the handle and opened the door. Once he opened the door tears formed in his eyes before he fully comprehended what was before him. 'Oh... I see.'-Menma.

Menma's legs felt like jelly and he croubled right onto the floor. More tears started welling up in his eyes and he crawled towards one of the boys and held his cold hand. "The fear got to you 3. You thought I would have died and that he would have punished you." Menma stated in a weak voice as saw the bloody razor's in their hands.

Menma tried to heal them, but he already knew they were dead. He started feeling overwhelmed and his eyes overflowed with tears as he yelled out, "IM STILL A FAILURE!!!"