Menmaverse.
Hey sorry it took so long but I've been reading a fanfiction myself. Seriously, this is the best freaking fanfiction I've personally read in my life. I can't wait for its next chapter. It's called "councils folly" or something. I've lost an entire night of sleep to it. It has 33 chapters so far. Go check it out, I highly recommend it.
Chapter 2: My world now!
Hideout in the woods/after Naruto's death the first night.
Covered in sweat, blood and tears Menma breathed heavily as he tried to understand what had just happened. He had been summoned by another him going by the name of Naruto, to this world. When he had tried to console the boy he placed a hand on his shoulder. That was when they both started to experience that unbearable pain and the exchange of memories took place.
Menma had finally caught his breath as he noticed the body of his other self, laying silent and still on the floor. Menma's hand still wrapped around his kunai, which was still stuck in the boy's skull. Blood had started flowing from the wound and started flowing down his head. Menma quickly removed the kunai and threw it into the room as he stared at his hands. He had killed! Two emotions ran through his head, disgust and excitement.
Menma looked into the boy's eyes. Only a few seconds ago they had been filled with many emotions, mainly fear and despair, but also hope, joy and wonder. But now those eyes seemed painfully empty and lifeless. guilt was the only thing he felt and he wanted to cry.
Suddenly the mirror behind Menma started to glow once more and started sucking everything in as if trying to drag something back.
Menma quickly jumped forward away from the mirror and grabbed onto a closet using his arms to pull himself forward and positioning himself behind it. The suction started to increase in force and all kinds of objects now flew across the room.
From his shelter Menma watched as Naruto's corpse slowly skidded across the wooden floor towards the mirror gate. That's when the suction increased even more and lifted the boy's body up in the air and into the gate. As soon as Naruto had passed through, the gate collapsed, the mirror disappeared and the suction stopped.
Menma remained in his hiding place for another ten minutes until he recovered from all that had just happened and accepted it for what it was. He didn't know what he was going to do or where he was precisely, but he was going to find out. 'For now I'm going to grab something to eat.' He thought as his stomach growled.
Menma grabbed the plate Naruto had used earlier and put some food on it when he noticed the large scroll underneath the table that Naruto had used to summon him here. Just like Naruto, Menma's curiosity got the better of him and he opened the scroll. The damage was done so he wouldn't be able to fix what just happened and go home, but that didn't mean he couldn't study the scroll a bit.
Menma's eyes widened as he read all the forbidden jutsu inside. The corners of his lips creeping up as an idea popped into his head. The smile quickly turned into a frown as he read the last jutsu on the scroll. Summoning jutsu: self-to-self summoning.
'Better stay clear from that one!' Menma thought and he started working on the first jutsu in the scroll.
Konoha forest/Mizuki/the second night.
Mizuki was running through the forest like a mad man. He had been waiting for naruto at the meeting place the night before, but the damn demon kid never showed up.
On top of that he had failed to remain unseen and had brought the anbu into the forest. He had withdrawn when he realized Naruto wasn't going to show up and had been able to sneak back into the village unnoticed. The next morning he and many other chuunin had been informed on what had happened last night by the sandaime hokage. Now that everyone knew the kid hadn't physically assaulted the hokage but merely had played a prank, the chances that he would be exposed when they caught the boy alive had skyrocketed.
Mizuki had immediately volunteered to join the search, he was going to kill the demon brat when he found him and escape from the village right after. It wasn't a good idea to leave someone like Orochimaru waiting. Unfortunately Iruka had also volunteered, they had been assigned an area where they were to look for the boy. It was near the meeting place so he told Iruka to take the right half and he would take the left where he knew Naruto would be hiding somewhere.
He had been searching the entire day and night had fallen a couple minutes ago. His frustration was almost at its breaking point when he saw a light and heard a voice coming from his right. Mizuki crept closer and the outpost cabin came in view. He now recognized the voice of Naruto coming from inside the cabin. An evil grin appeared on his face, "I've finally found you… demon brat!" Mizuki whispered.
Mizuki placed himself on a branch in front of the cabin's door so that he had a clear view. "Naruto! You can come out now! It's me… Mizuki-sensei! You can still become a genin if you hand over the scroll to me! I know it might have seemed scary but nobody was actually trying to kill you! We were just testing you to see how well you would do in a life threatening situation! So just come out and come claim your forehead protector!" Mizuki shouted towards the cabin. As he removed the giant shuriken from his back and readied it to throw it at the boy.
Konoha forest/Iruka/the second night.
Iruka had finished his half of the area a while ago and had decided to go help Mizuki with his half. He noticed Mizuki as the man went to check out the cabin. He wanted to shout out to him but then noticed the cabin as well so he decided to hide in the bushes so he could back his colleague up if he needed it.
Iruka watched in horror as he listened to what Mizuki was saying while the man clearly got ready to kill the boy with his giant shuriken. 'I can't believe it! Mizuki a traitor?' Iruka thought. But there was no time for further analysis of the situation as a small child stepped out of the cabin and Mizuki threw his shuriken. He quickly ran from his hiding spot and jumped in between the boy and the shuriken shielding him from the weapon.
*SHLACK!* the giant shuriken embedded itself into his back and he fell to his knees. he took a deep breath and yelled. "Run Naruto! Run away! Go… I'll hold him of!"
Konoha forest/Menma/the second night.
Menma stepped outside of the cabin, scroll in hand, to see who was yelling.
The next thing he saw was a giant shuriken flying his way, he was about to take a single step to the left to avoid it but then he noticed Iruka coming out of the bushes. 'Now this could be interesting.' He thought as he placed his foot back to its original spot.
Menma watched as Iruka shielded him from the shuriken and fell to his knees. 'What a weirdo. He could have just thrown a kunai to deflect the shuriken.' Menma thought amused. He noticed Mizuki in the tree and startled when Iruka suddenly started yelling at him.
"Run Naruto! Run away! Go… I'll hold him of!"
"No Naruto don't! Iruka is trying to trick you into failing! He threw that shuriken himself!" Mizuki said.
Menma watched as the man grabbed his last giant shuriken and let it fall to the ground. "See? I am unarmed." Mizuki said, he then removed his forehead protector and held it in his hand to offer it to the boy. Now that Mizuki got a good look at him he looked entirely different. Black hair, dark blue eyes a bit taller and stronger looking as well. But there was no doubt that this was Naruto. 'A Henge maybe?' Mizuki thought as he remembered how terrible the boy had been in the beginning of the year. 'but now his henge are one of the best, I've seen his sexy jutsu for myself.' Mizuki thought. 'it doesn't matter, all that matters is the scroll.'
Menma looked at Iruka and Iruka looked at Naruto's feet not knowing that they belonged to Menma. Iruka his hart broke a little when he saw the feet walking around him in Mizuki's direction. "Naruto… no, please..." he begged the boy.
Menma walked around Iruka, scroll in his left hand. He then grabbed the giant shuriken and pulled it out of Iruka's back causing the man to give a yell of pain. Menma continued to walk a few paces and then threw the giant shuriken towards Mizuki while yelling "stop calling me that. MY… NAME… IS… MENMAAA!"
Mizuki watched the shuriken flying his way and jumped down just in front of the tree. *BANG!*
When Mizuki had jumped down Menma had charged forward and hit Mizuki in his chest and against the tree. The impact caused every single one of his ribs to brake, crushing his lungs. Mizuki coughed up some blood and tried to scream in pain but he didn't have enough air to do so.
His eyes widened and a single breath of air flowed into his lungs. "What are you?" he asked looking at what he had thought was Naruto. "My name is Uzumaki Menma and this is the second time we've met! And it will be the last!" Menma said as he slowly, very slowly, extremely slowly slit Mizuki's throat. Mizuki slowly sank onto his ass to die a long and painful death. "Monster! You're nothing but the reincarnation of the nine-tailed fox that attacked the village 12 years ago." he gurgled with his last breath, he then grabbed his throat in reaction to drowning in his own blood and a lack of oxygen. Mizuki's face was contorted with fear and pain as he suffered for a period of more than thirty seconds and then dropped silent.
Iruka had watched as Menma stood above Mizuki, expecting him to strike a merciful deathblow to ease Mizuki's passing but it never came. "Naruto… what did you do?!" Iruka asked in astonishment.
"Like I said…" Menma turned around to face Iruka. "My name is Menma! Naruto is dead and this… this is my world now!" he said as gestured to everything around him.
Iruka looked at the boy claiming to be Menma and a single tear rolled off his nose. He then saw five ANBU members appearing in the clearing, one checked Mizuki's body two pushed Menma to the ground and placed a chakra suppressing seal on him. Another one ran towards him with his hands covered in green chakra for administering first aid to his wounds, and the last one summoned a small bird that flew away, off to report to the hokage. He watched everything happen before fainting from blood loss.
Konoha/ANBU torture and interrogation room/two hours later.
It was a dark room, the only light coming from a small reading lamp that stood on a wooden table near the door. The floor, ceiling and walls were covered with tiles like a bathroom. In the middle of the room on the floor was a small hole that led to the sewers, this was used to wash away blood, water and other filth after a messy torture session. Above the hole stood a chair in which Menma was chained.
The sandaime hokage walked in and nodded towards Ibiki sitting at the table looking at some documents underneath the light of the lamp. "What do you know?" The sandaime asked.
Ibiki sighed and stood up. "firstly: whatever it is, it's neither a henge, nor paint nor a genjutsu, it's real. Secondly: he insists his name is Uzumaki Menma, and not Uzumaki Naruto. And thirdly: he knows a lot about the village, so much that I believe he has lived in Konoha his entire life."
"Very well, I'll take it over from here." The hokage said. Ibiki nodded and left the room. The sandaime hokage ran through some hand signs and the room suddenly became a lot brighter. He then proceeded towards Menma while biting his thumb and opened a storage seal.
A chair appeared in front of Menma and the Sandaime hokage sat down. "Hello, I am…" He was interrupted by Menma who said. "Hey oji-san, it's been awhile. Not really though only a couple hours for me to be exact."
"So you really are Naruto aren't you?" The sandaime said to the boy with a smile.
"No! my name is Menma! Not naruto!" Menma said. His smile disappeared. "Then where is Naruto?"
"Dead." Menma stated calmly. "I think… probably… most likely." He said a little less sure. "How? When? Who? Tell me! Please…?"
"Do you have that scroll that was confiscated?"
"Yes I do, it's safe now."
"The last jutsu on that scroll is a summoning jutsu called self-to-self summoning. Naruto used that jutsu to summon me to this world. I am Naruto but from a different world where I was born with the name Menma and black hair instead of blond. When I placed my hand on Naruto's shoulder this excruciating pain hit my head and Naruto's memories started flowing through my mind."
"How do you know they belonged to Naruto and weren't your own memories?" the third hokage asked.
"Because I don't have good memories like that, I don't remember having friends, and I do remember being pushed off of the fourth hokages monument when I was 6. A memory that Naruto didn't have. Naruto's life and this world are a paradise to me, that's why I took his place!" Menma explained.
"You took his place? You said he was dead." The hokage noted.
"He is dead I killed him by driving a kunai through his skull. When he hit the floor the portal that brought me to this world opened up again and it sucked Naruto back into my own world." Menma explained.
"So you are telling me that you killed Naruto and that his body is now in an alternate dimension?"
"Probably, yes."
"Then maybe if you perform this jutsu again you can go back to your own world and we can retrieve Naruto's body." The Sandaime hokage stated with a hopeful expression like a child trying to convince its parents that its puppy might still come back home after it RAN AWAY(=sarcasm).
"No!" Menma shouted. "Like hell I am going back there, this is my world now. Naruto is dead and I'm here to stay, whether you like it or not!" Menma yelled in anger.
The sandaime hokage slid his chair back a little and positioned himself on the tip of the chair as he leaned forward. "You can't just kill a person, take over his life and expect to get away with it!" The old man yelled back.
"Why not?! I am Naruto, just from a different world. I'm different then the Naruto you know but Naruto and I were still the same person!" Menma objected
*SIGH* The sandaime hokage sighed as he leaned back into the chair and looked up at the ceiling. "So what am I supposed to do with you?" The man asked himself more than Menma.
"You tell the villagers that Naruto Uzumaki died and that I am taking his place." Menma stated.
"His place?" The old man asked.
"Everyone who knows about it will believe you are trying to tell them that I am the new nine-tailed fox. While those that don't know about it will merely think that I'll take Naruto's place in the academy." Menma stated calmly.
"Who told you about the demon fox?!" The third demanded in surprise.
"Mizuki told me right before he died. It makes sense that if Naruto received all that hate from the villagers because he was the nine-tails reincarnated that I am as well." Menma explained.
"Listen to me Menma!" Hiruzen said as he looked the boy in the eyes. "Naruto was not the kyuubi's reincarnation but it's Jinchuuriki, and so are you."
"A Jinchuuriki?" Menma asked.
"Yes. A Jinchuuriki is a person in which another living thing is sealed inside. The body of a Jinchuuriki acts as a vessel or prison, while the Jinchuuriki itself acts as the guardian or jailor." Hiruzen explained.
"Okay, I get it. But what about me, are you going to follow my plan?"
"Mhm" The old man looked back towards the ceiling as he considered what the boy had said. 'Maybe I'll ask Shikaku Nara if he could work out the details.' He thought. "I'll think about it." he said as he stood up, sealed the chair away and walked out the room. Leaving Menma alone in the dark as the door closed behind him.
Ibiki stood in the hall waiting for the hokage, as said person came out the door he hurried towards the man. "Did you find anything?" Ibiki asked.
"More than I can handle on my own. Have Shikaku meet me in my office!" The sandaime ordered.
Ibiki was about to ask something but was interrupted when the hokage spoke again. "And bring the suspect to the hospital for examination. I want a detailed report on everything from his health to his possible parents through DNA research. This data is to be handled as a triple S-class secret. This information doesn't reach Danzo or the other elders, and after it is done make sure everyone involved has their memories erased by Inoichi!" The hokage ordered as he left for his office.
End chapter 2: My world now!
I took me a while and I'm not really happy with the last part but at least it allows me to get started on chapter 3. See you soon, I hope!
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