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Chapter 3: Hay, I'm Menma!

Hokage office /14 hours later.

Shikaku Nara stood before the Sandaime hokage and Danzo as he went over the documents again. All the information about both Naruto and Menma had gathered inside this room. First they had discussed the chances of success, this had taken a little over two hours. Eventually they had decided to take Menma's advice and go with his idea, but they made a couple of changes to the plan. They had involved Danzo on Shikaku's advice. The man was shocked when he had been told but his part had been simple.

The story would be as following. Menma was Naruto's twin brother, they had been split up at birth after the Ninetails attack on the village twelve years ago. Menma had been living and training in Danzo's personal underground ANBU HQ. But after his twin brother's death he had been released from Danzo's ANBU to become a regular leaf shinobi.

After the story had been created they only needed to take care of the paperwork and details. Birth documents, medical history, his time at the orphanage (which would be extremely short), and many more details. Eventually false memories would have to be implanted by Inoichi into several minds of the villagers and shinobi as well.

Shikaku looked at the situation from every single angle and made a list of necessary actions that had to be taken. A list that would be used for situations like this in the future, if someone had to appear or disappear without anyone noticing.

Finally after fourteen hours their story was foolproof. Not a single hole remained in their defense.

"So… does everyone agree with what we are doing?" Shikaku asked. The two old men nodded. "We are sure that we've covered everything?" they nodded again. "Good, then Hokage-sama will make the announcement in thirty minutes. Danzo, you will go and get the kid and fill him in on the story! I will inform all the jounin that Hokage-sama wants to address the village. And you just rest and prepare for your speech." Shikaku said as he explained the next phase in the plan.

Hokage tower roof /30 minutes later.

Hiruzen Sarutobi (= Sandaime hokage = third hokage) stood on top of the hokage tower as he looked down towards the villagers who had gathered to hear what he had to say. A single tear rolled down his cheek as he looked towards the crowd down below and saw Naruto's classmates amongst them, he also noticed that many of the clan heads or their representatives had gathered as well.

'They're going to want an explanation for all this.' He thought as he sighed deeply. 'But that is also part of the plan, so I'll just have to deal with that later.' He thought as he shook the frustration off of him.

"Citizens of Konoha! Two nights ago we were betrayed by one of our own. A chuunin instructor at our ninja academy by the name of Mizuki!" The hokage spoke, the volume of his voice enhanced by a jutsu.

People suddenly burst out into chatter as the hokage mentioned the name. Many women were worried about the safety of their children, the children themselves were honestly surprised at the news. Mizuki had always been a kind instructor.

The Shinobi amongst the crowd had started talking about the village security and the measures that were sure to be taken after this incident.

The hokage raised his hands to gesture the crowd to silence and he continued. "Mizuki tried to steal an important scroll which contained many forbidden jutsu. He manipulated one of his students to steal the scroll, in which the young boy succeeded." The hokage paused for a minute to see how the people would react to this.

"Of course since then countermeasures have been taken to keep this from happening again. The student ran outside the village while being chased by our ANBU squad. But they soon lost sight of the academy student. He hid from the village for the rest of the night and day. When Mizuki found the student the next night he killed this young boy and was later caught by our very own Iruka Umino who is also an instructor at the academy. Unfortunately he was forced to kill Mizuki to stop him from further betrayal. We thank you for your bravery and loyalty to Konoha!" Sarutobi said as he gestured to Iruka who was amongst the crowd himself.

Those around him looked at the in bandages covered man and showed small expressions of respect and thanks to the man. Unknown to many Iruka's memories had been rewritten of the event to fit the story. He didn't even know himself. His memories had been rewritten while he had been unconscious.

The hokage cleared his throat to let everyone know he wasn't finished. "Like I mentioned, the academy student didn't survive this ordeal. It is with great sadness that I announce that this boy was none other than Uzumaki Naruto!" When the name was mentioned, one hundred members of ANBU appeared out of nowhere to surround the entire crowd, they were armed to the teeth and had their weapons drawn, all stood in an aggressive stance. This did not go unnoticed, and had the desired effect.

The hokage had feared that many would start to shout out in celebration once the boy would be declared dead and possibly cause the S-class secret to be revealed. The old man smiled at the fear in the villagers eyes. As he could guess what they were thinking. 'Is this the hokages revenge for the boy's death? Is he going punish us for our actions towards the boy?'

The hokage continued. "Now that Uzumaki Naruto has passed on, I would like to introduce you to the person who will be replacing him!" Again the crowd started to murmur. "What does he mean replace? How does someone replace a person?"

"I would like to introduce everyone to Naruto's twin brother Uzumaki Menma!" He gestured behind him and Menma walked towards the railing so that people could see him.

"Who until recently has been serving under council member Danzo as one of his personal ANBU in training!" The hokage gestured to his fellow elder shinobi. "Due to his sudden loss of his brother, who he has never met, we have reassigned him to be a normal shinobi of Konoha. Please make sure he feels welcome!" The old man ended his announcement and disappeared to his office together with Menma where he would have to deal with the many questions the clan heads would certainly have.

Naruto's apartment now Menma's apartment/1 hour later.

Menma put the key into the lock and unlocked the door. As he was about to walk inside a terrible smell hit him and he fell back outside.

*coughcoughcoughHurl* Menma coughed and almost lost the content of his stomach at the stench coming from the room. 'bleergh, what is that smell?!' He thought to himself. Menma walked into the room, this time his mouth and nose covered with the sleeve of his black mourning clothes.

He wore them since the story said he had just lost a twin brother, and they couldn't let him go around in an orange jumpsuit now could they.

As Menma walked into the room he noticed the filthy clothes lying everywhere on the ground and the refrigerator door was open, probably broken as well. The bathroom was a mess as well. There was fungus everywhere and the shower was far from clean.

"Damn! That's just disgusting. No way I'm living in this dump! I can't believe Naruto lived here! It's the same apartment that I lived in but this one is just plain disgusting!" Menma cursed. "Might as well salvage what I can." He said before looking around the room.

After 15 minutes he had gathered everything that he could use inside a box which he now carried underneath his arm. "The old man is going to hear about this!" Menma said as he walked towards the hokage tower.

Konoha academy/The next day.

All the academy students who had already received the rank of genin with their forehead protectors had gathered on the academy's training ground in front of the school entrance. They didn't have classes anymore but they did have to attend the academy for another week until the genin teams had been made and assigned a jounin sensei.

Hinata was sitting somewhere behind a tree. She was thinking about how stupid she had been for not telling Naruto how she had felt all these years. Now she would never get to tell him.

Kiba was more silent than normal and everybody noticed. Apparently Naruto had been a bigger part of his life than he had realized. The first thing the young Inuzuka would do when coming to class was to bark an insult at the blond for being useless. This would cause the blond to insult him back and it would end into an argument. Now without the blond the Inuzuka didn't have anything to talk about, at all. He just sat there silently as he petted Akamaru who howled once in a while to let his master now he missed the blond as well.

Chouji noticed to his surprise that his chips didn't taste as good as they used to, and even more surprising that he wasn't that hungry at all. But he didn't realize he to missed the blond boy and thought that he might be sick. 'I should go see a doctor after school.' He thought to himself.

Shikamaru noticed that now the blond boy was dead he could focus more clearly on his shogi game. Unfortunately this made the game a lot less interesting. "How troublesome." He said right as his opponent made a move, making the boy think he finally had a chance of defeating the young Nara. His smile soon disappeared as Shikamaru moved one of his pieces and declared his victory.

Shino missed the blond boy as well, but without him he could hear the comfortable sound of his bugs buzzing. Maybe he thought they buzzed a bit too loudly for his taste.

Sasuke didn't seem that bothered by it though, neither did Ino or Sakura or any of his fangirls for that matter. Sasuke just sat up a tree thinking why everyone acted so differently. 'Even when he's dead the dead last is annoying.' He thought.

Slowly a voice could be heard coming from the direction of the academy ground entrance. Suddenly Kiba's head popped up. "Hey! That's Naruto's voice!" He shouted.

"What are you talking about mutt boy? Naruto is dead remember." Sasuke said in a harsh tone.

"Hey, I know what I hear and that sounds exactly like Naruto, Uchiha-teme!" Kiba barked back at Sasuke using Naruto's favorite insult for the Uchiha.

Everyone stayed silent as they tried to make out who the voice belonged to. Slowly the voice started getting louder and louder. On some people hopeful grins started appearing as they thought Kiba was right. The voice became even louder. They could now hear it loud enough to understand he was swearing, a lot, but they could clearly recognize the voice of Naruto. Eventually Menma came into view and everyone remembered what the hokage had said the day before.

Menma had had a bad morning. He had slept outside in a tree because his apartment had been unlivable, he hadn't had anything to eat since his meal at the outpost and he had been forced to wear an orange jumpsuit that was too small for him. But it had been the only clean pair of clothes he had at the moment.

Menma had stepped to the hokage about his situation, who had sent a chuunin to confirm it. After that he had said he would get the boy a budget which he could use to buy and fix what needed to be bought and fixed. But he wouldn't be able to get the money together before tomorrow afternoon. Which meant that he had no home, no food and no clothes apart from the orange jumpsuit and his black mourners clothes. At least he had three kunai and five shuriken, slightly damaged, but it would do.

Menma arrived at the academy entrance and noticed all the genin sitting together on the training ground. He walked over to them with a confident stride, everybody looking at him wondering what he was going to do. He stopped before the group and frowned as he looked at everyone for a moment. He then replaced his frown with a small smile and said. "Hay, I'm Menma. Naruto was my twin brother, but I didn't know that until yesterday. I'll be taking his place in the academy, the village and in the ranks of shinobi." Menma stated.

Menma was immediately bombarded with questions as his future classmates surrounded him. "Why didn't you know he was your brother? How come you're so much taller than him? I thought you'd be blond. Yeah even his eyes are darker. Did Mizuki really kill your brother?" *WOOSH* Menma jumped up at great speed landing inside a nearby tree.

The others hadn't been able to follow him with their eyes and began looking around for the boy. They were made aware of his position when he spoke up. "If you all group around like that it's really annoying ya know!" Menma said from inside his tree.

Sasuke sat up straighter as he hadn't noticed the black haired Naruto jump up beside him in his tree. 'he's fast!' Sasuke thought and an urge to attack the black haired Naruto filled him. Maybe this boy could actually be a challenge.

"Now why don't we try doing this more civilized." Menma said as he looked down to the group. "Who has a question?" immediately hands started going up. "Yes, you there with the puppy." Menma said as he pointed to Kiba.

"How are you related to Naruto? Are you really twins?" Kiba said as his nose had told him something wasn't right about this. Menma smelled to much like Naruto to just be blood relatives, every puppy that was born in his clan had had his own smell, no two pups smelled the same as much as Menma and Naruto.

"I'm not one hundred percent sure, but I think Naruto and I were twins." Menma said as he looked to the sky with a confused look on his face. "What do you mean you're not sure?!" Kiba said.

"Well, I've never met him. One day I'm training to become an ANBU and the next I'm told that I've had a twin brother inside the village but that he died a day ago. After that I was released from ANBU and I became a normal shinobi." Menma explained, the same confused look on his face but this time looking to the ground.

Many hands that had been raised were now slowly disappearing. Kiba thought he still smelled wrong but he didn't push the subject feeling that it would be rude.

"Next question. You there, girl with the blond ponytail!" Menma pointed at Ino who had temporarily abandoned chasing Sasuke to still her curiosity.

"Could it be that you don't know anything about Naruto?!" Ino asked making the general mood even more down as everyone looked at Menma waiting for his response.

"I wouldn't say that I know nothing." Menma said. "I know his name is Naruto Uzumaki and I know where he lived. And I think he had a crush on the pink haired girl next to you." Menma said as he pointed to Sakura.

"I am now living in my brothers apartment, and when I was cleaning I found a picture of her with little hearts drawn on it." Menma explained.

Sakura face turned red when her entire class started looking at her. A small amount of guilt overcame her when she remembered all the times Naruto had asked her to go out with him. She had never even given the boy a chance, and everybody knew that.

"By the look on your face I'm guessing you already knew. And that the feeling wasn't mutual." Menma stated. "Don't worry, rejection makes the heart stronger! Or so I've read."

This put everybody a little bit more at ease especially Sakura. 'I'm glad he doesn't blame me.' She thought, but the small amount of guilt remained. Menma jumped down from his spot next to Sasuke and walked towards his now fellow students. He remembered each one of them from his own world, but he had to pretend so he crossed the training ground to entrance of the building and sat down on the third and highest step of the stairs in front of the door.

The others followed him and gathered around. "Listen, I know you all have questions but so do I. And I would like to know what my twin was like before your memories start fading. Who among you knew him well? Who were his friends?" Menma asked looking over the crowd.

The genin started mumbling amongst themselves, now that they thought about it who were Naruto's friends? "Nobody! He was to annoying to have friends!" Sasuke said from across the area as he jumped out of his tree. "He was always rambling like an idiot." Sasuke said as he walked towards the group. "One day… I'm gonna be hokage!" Sasuke mocked, using his best Naruto voice.

Everyone looked at Sasuke with shock, had he always been such a disrespectful, arrogant bastard? "Hokage this, hokage that, the guy never shut up about it! He said it so many times that his loud and hyperactive voice still rings in my head!" Sasuke mocked again with a scowl on his face, as if someone had spit on his sandals. But then his expression changed to an evil grin. "As if he could ever become hokage with his skills. The guy couldn't throw a shuriken without injuring our instructor…" people started grinning as they remembered the shuriken flying way off target and hitting Iruka in the shoulder.

"He couldn't detect a genjutsu…" Small sniggers could be heard as they remembered the blond boy fighting thin air for almost two hours before Mizuki had gotten bored enough to undo the genjutsu.

"His bunshin/clones looked like deflated balloons, and his henge/transformations were always a joke!"

Everyone started laughing out loud as they remembered that one time Naruto had transformed into the third hokage but with a butt where his face should have been.

Sasuke looked at the black haired version of the idiot he had described expecting the boy to be furious. To his frustration a large genuine smile decorated his face.

"It seems my brother and I have several things in common." Menma stated as started smiling wider. "like what?" a random girl sitting close to him asked.

"Well, like the fact that my clones look like deflated balloons as well." Menma said as he tried creating a clone.

*POOF…PFWIIIIH* a clone appeared in a puff of smoke, the clone appeared normal but only for a moment, that was when he started deflating. Even the sound of a deflating balloon could be heard.

Everyone laughed as the balloon clone disappeared. "That and the fact that we both aim high." Menma said as he pointed to place his clone had disappeared. He could have used the shadow clone technique he had learned from the scroll but he was trying to come over friendly.

He hated having to be so kind and funny, to make a fool of himself for their entertainment. But he needed their friendship, he knew that you couldn't become very strong on your own. That was the difference between him and the Uchiha, and it would be the reason he could never beat him. Yes, Menma hated these feelings of having to depend on others, but he also enjoyed them, if even a little.

"Don't tell me you want to be hokage as well?!" Sasuke asked afraid he would have to listen to another fools rambling. "Hokage?! Me?! No, I don't think so?!" Menma said as he waved the idea away as being ridiculous.

His face then suddenly turned serious and looked Sasuke straight in the eyes. "I aim to become something much bigger. Why rule over a single village if I can conquer them all?" Menma asked with a slightly crazy look and a tone in his voice that accepted no objections. But this was only noticed by the ever so observant Shino and Shikamaru, and Sasuke who was staring straight back into the boys gaze.

End chapter 3: Hay, I'm Menma!

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