Menmaverse.
Hello everybody and welcome to my new story "Menmaverse". I have another story also about Naruto called: "A New Friend! A New World!" so check that one out as well if you have the time.
My goal is to become a better writer, not just being able to write proper words but also stories. So if I misspelled a word, or you think my plots are stupid and I'm not being original then tell me about it by sending a review. You can be as blunt as you want. All criticism helps me become a better writer.
Now enjoy the first chapter!
Chapter 1: Me and another me!
Konoha woods/after Naruto stole the scroll.
"Stop! Surrender now and you will receive a fair trial!" a leaf shinobi who led a capturing unit yelled towards the unknown intruder. It was dark and he couldn't see who it was.
The anbu had found the sandaime hokage covered in blood in his office. At the same time a shadow was seen jumping out of the window. Unknown to both the anbu and capturing unit, the hokage had fallen prey to Naruto's sexy transformation jutsu and got covered in his own blood.
The anbu now had the idea that whoever broke into the hokages office was at least an S rank jounin, probably a missing ninja. This had let them to give the orders to use any means necessary.
When Naruto had escaped through the window he started to doubt himself and started thinking he should turn back, return the scroll and apologize. 'Mizuki-sensei lied to me, this is way out of my league. How could I've been so stupid?!' Naruto thought. He was just about to surrender when a kunai flew past his head leaving a deep and painful scratch.
He panicked. 'they are going to kill me! I don't want to die! I want to live!' the fear overtook him and he started to run harder, forgetting that in his hands he held the scroll.
"I told you to stop!" the leaf shinobi yelled once more. When the intruder didn't respond he threw a shuriken.
The shuriken moved with great speed towards Naruto. It was aimed at his shoulder with the intent to injure. Naruto heard the sound of the shuriken cutting through the wind, his fear increased even more. His eyes were wet with tears and he couldn't see very well.
Naruto moved through the air about to land on a branch of a tree with the shuriken closing in. His fear made him lose his footing, he stepped to soon and missed the branch causing his foot to hook behind the branch sending him flying face first down into a bunch of leaves.
To Naruto, he had just stumbled into the top of the tree bellow him. But to the shinobi that were hunting him, it looked as if he had disappeared into thin air.
"What happened?" "He was here just a second ago!" "What do we do?" "Spread out he couldn't have gotten far! Search both in the trees and on the ground! Go!" and with that the shinobi disappeared.
Naruto had seen it all from bellow through the leaves. He had held his breath and was now breathing heavy but silent. He heard the voice of one of the shinobi some distance to his right from the ground. "He isn't here!" the shinobi yelled. Naruto looked to the voices direction.
He saw a shinobi standing in the door of a wooden shack that was used by shinobi as an outpost in the woods. Although it had been abandoned after the last shinobi war. "of course not! that would be to obvious a hideout! Stop wasting time and start looking!" another voice yelled. "Yes sir, sorry sir!" the shinobi said and disappeared.
Naruto waited another two minutes before he moved from his hiding spot and barricaded himself inside the outpost. Naruto slowly relaxed as he realized the capturing unit wouldn't come back here anymore. He now looked around and discovered that he had access to food and a place to sleep. He wanted to get something to eat first when he discovered he now needed to pee, it was a miracle he hadn't pissed himself already.
When he was done he grabbed a dry cracker some dried beef and some fruit from a plant that grew in its put near the window. When he turned around with a plate full of food he noticed the scroll he had put down earlier.
"I'm such an IDIOT!" Naruto yelled out loud. Really loud. "If I had just dropped this stupid thing I they wouldn't have tried to kill me and I could've surrendered peacefully!" Naruto threw his plate on the table and stamped towards the scroll picking it up then running to the door. He opened the door and was about to throw the scroll outside when he stopped.
'Why is this scroll so important?' he thought. 'There should be some really powerful jutsu in here.'
His curiosity got the better of him, he closed the door sat down on the ground, opened the scroll and started eating while he went over the jutsu.
After an hour he had finished his dinner and almost finished reading all of the jutsu. He had already decided he was going to start with the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu shadow clone technique. But then he came across the last jutsu on the list. It was written in red ink, unlike the others who were just plain black. It read as so:
Kuchiyose no jutsu: jiko-ni-jiko kuchiyose summoning technique: self-to-self summoning.
Once again Naruto's curiosity got the better of him and he started training for the summoning technique.
Hideout in the woods/three hours later.
It took Naruto three hours to study the required handseals, the amount of chakra needed. Not too much not too little. And to understand the effect of the technique, even though he was kind of vague on that one. Supposedly the technique would summon another Naruto to his location.
Naruto made the preparations for the summoning technique. He focused hard, gathered the right amount of chakra and performed the seals and shouted "Summoning technique: self-to-self summoning!" as he slammed his palm to the ground.
Naruto's chakra ran from his fingertips across the floor and then spread to the sides to form a T shape. From the ends of the T the chakra started going up and eventually came back together again creating a mirror.
Naruto saw himself on the other side of the mirror, except it wasn't him this Naruto had black hair and dark blue eyes. He seemed confused and suspicious for some reason. Then his reflection started walking forward and suddenly he was blown out of the mirror and in front of him.
The mirror was still there but it had turned blank and it didn't show any reflections at all. the two Naruto's looked at each other and asked "Who are you?" at the same time. "I'm Naruto." the blond said. "I'm Menma" the black haired one said. "How did I get here?" Menma asked.
"Oh! I think that's my fault." Naruto said scratching the back of his head. "You see I found this jutsu that apparently allows you to summon yourself. When I tried it out that mirror appeared and you got thrown out." he continued.
"So you summoned me… to this place… by summoning yourself?" Menma asked.
"I think so." Naruto said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Well, send me back!" Menma said angrily. "This is all really, really weird!"
"Oh, yeah, sure." Naruto said as he looked back to the scroll to see if there was anything about undoing the summoning. Meanwhile Menma walked over to the mirror and placed his hand on its surface trying to go back through. It didn't budge an inch no matter how hard he pushed.
Both boys continued to try and find a way to fix things, but after half an hour they gave up and sat down in front of each other.
It was obvious they weren't getting anywhere so they decided to talk and get to know each other. They talked for an hour and a half and discovered that they actually were the same person. They lived in the same village, in the same apartment, sat in the same spot in class, liked the same food, and were apparently both hated by the villagers.
When Menma had asked where they were at, they discovered that Naruto had fallen for Mizuki's trap. After hearing from Menma what Mizuki was really up to he burst into tears and cursed the man's name.
Menma moved over to console Naruto and put his hand on the blonds shoulder. *RUMBLE*
Suddenly the air started to shake and the earth started to make noises as if the planet itself was angry. A moment later both boys fell to their knees in excruciating pain as the memories of one them started flowing into the other and visa versa.
Naruto's view/after physical contact with Menma.
The pain was too much for Naruto to bear. He fell to his hands and knees. His vision started to get blurry but he could see Menma opposite from him experiencing the same pain.
Menma's memories started flowing into his head. Just like him Menma had been beaten by the villagers, just like him Menma received those awful stares of disgust. But unlike him Menma had several other memories. Memories like being blown off of the hokage monument. Like being chased and captured in a dark alley that ended up being dead end, afterwards being tied to a table while the man that captured him brought out a meat cleaver.
Naruto almost vomited as he was forced to watch this butcher chopped of Menma's left foot and then continued chopping his left leg into slices.
Luckily for Naruto that's when the door to the basement was kicked in and an ANBU team charged into the room. The man with the cleaver was killed without thought and a medical ninja started putting the slices of leg back on their place and added green chakra to the severed pieces. Not much later red chakra started leaking out of his stomach and moved to cover his entire left leg.
Several other memories started going through his mind, some but none as horrifying as the butcher incident. Naruto had found that the people in his reality were a lot less aggressive than the people in Menma's reality.
When the memories of the academy years came he noticed that unlike himself Menma had never played with the others like he did. Menma had never pulled pranks with Shikamaru and Chouji. He had never fought with Kiba and found mutual respect. Menma had never talked with Shino, showing interest in bugs causing Shino to become a friend as well. Menma had never fallen for Sakura or anyone for that matter. In fact he found that Menma found his precious Sakura-chan an annoying fan-girl. Menma had also never been humiliated by the Uchiha simply for the reason that Sasuke believed he wasn't even worth the time to look at.
Naruto was shocked about the life Menma had had compared to his own. Fighting through the pain, Naruto raised his head looking Menma in the eyes. What he saw shocked him even more. Menma's face expressed extreme pain just like his own, but what was even more obvious was jealousy, hatred, greed.
Naruto watched in horror as Menma's hand reached into his kunai holster, grabbed a kunai and raised it above his head. A moment went by and a flicker of the candle light hit Menma's eyes. Hatred filled eyes looked down upon Naruto as Menma brought down his kunai on Naruto's head and buried it all the way in up to the grip.
Naruto felt the metal crushing his skull and cutting through his brain. His arms gave out beneath him and he fell down onto the floor. The pain was gone he realized, all the pain was simply fading away the pain in his head and the pain in his hart. He smiled as he felt peaceful and safe for the first time in his life and then he was dead.
Menma's view/after physical contact with Naruto.
The pain was too much for Menma to bear. He fell to his hands and knees. His vision started to get blurry but he could see Naruto opposite from him experiencing the same pain.
Naruto's memories started flowing into his head. Just like him Naruto had been beaten by the villagers, just like him Naruto received those awful stares of disgust. But unlike him Naruto was missing several incidents that had happened to him. Naruto had never been blown off of the hokage monument. Unlike Naruto had never experienced the butcher incident.
'I guess I drew the short end of the stick…' Menma thought as he tried to convince himself it was just something he had to deal with. Menma tried to keep himself from bursting out into anger yelling about how it wasn't fair that Naruto never had to experience such pain, such fear, such despair and he did.
It was then that Naruto's memories of the academy years started filling his mind. Menma noticed that unlike himself Naruto had friends he had occasionally played with. Naruto had been pulling pranks with Shikamaru and Chouji while he was either training or getting beaten up. Naruto had created a rivalry with Kiba Inuzuka which ended up in mutual respect. Naruto had been talking with Shino, asking questions about the boy's bugs causing creating a friendship between them. Naruto had even fallen in love with that pink haired loud mouth. Naruto had even been able to get the Uchiha's attention, the wrong kind of attention but at least duckface looked at Naruto when he walked into the room.
Naruto had had a good life compared to him and it was more than he could take. The boy was stupid and naïve and he didn't disserve such a life. Menma himself on the other hand felt that he had suffered long enough and that it was his right to be happy. They were the same person only from different worlds he'd be able to explain the change in appearance with some lie of sorts. Menma pushed himself off of the floor. Now on one knee he reached for his kunai holster he had strapped on earlier before he got sucked into this world.
All he had to do was kill the boy in front of him and take over his life and he could be happy. No more assassination attempts, no more lethal accidents. And even maybe… some friends. Menma's face contorted into a hate filled glare, one several times more hateful than one the villagers could throw his way.
Placing his hand around the grip of the kunai inside his holster he noticed Naruto was now looking up at him. Naruto's face expressed both fear and pain while he brought the kunai above his head as he prepared to deal a swift and deadly blow. Menma paused for a moment looking at the blond in front of him.
A flicker of light from a candle illuminated Naruto's eyes. Both eyes were filled with fear and pain, but something else as well. Menma couldn't place it immediately and then he realized it was pity. He feels sorry for me?
Like adding insult to injury Menma's disgust for the blond only grow, fueling his anger and in one fell movement Menma brought his hand down with great speed crushing the blonds skull.
Menma felt the metal piercing Naruto's skull and cutting through his brain. The boys arms gave out beneath him and he fell down to the floor. The blonds face changed from one of pain and fear to one of bliss and peace. He let out a last breath before his eyes glazed over and he died with a smile.
That's when Menma noticed that the pain and the memories had stopped.
End chapter 1: Me and another me!
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