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Chapter 4: Big brains, Lavender eyes and a badass sensei!
Hyuga compound/after school hours.
Hyuga Hinata stood inside her clans sparring room, dressed in black clothes and her feet bare. Her left foot in front of her pointing forward and her right foot placed beneath her facing to the right. Her left palm like her foot facing forward and her right near her chest. Blood started dripping from the corner of her mouth and she coughed spitting a bit of blood on the floor. She never dropped he guard, even though the pain in her chest tried to force her to.
In front of Hinata stood her little sister, Hanabi, dressed in the same sparring clothes as her. To Hinata her right sat her father, Hiashi, observing the fight. To Hinata her left stood a member of the branch family, he was skilled as a medical ninja and was there in case of an emergency.
The pain subsided slowly and Hinata activated her byakugan. Hanabi noticed her older sister reactivating her kekkei genkai and charged. 'This time! I will stop her this time! If I stop her now she won't have to feel pain anymore.' Hanabi thought as she raised her palms to strike a finishing blow.
Hanabi didn't want to hurt her older sister, she loved her, but she had her duties to her clan which forced her to fight. At first she fought her hardest so her sister could grow stronger but Hanabi soon beat her sister in every sparring session. The elders had even started suggesting that she be made the heir of the clan. She never wanted that, Hanabi never wanted to take away her sisters birth right. Now she fought her hardest to end their sparring fights as quick as possible, so that her older sister didn't have to suffer too much pain and injury. Nobody knew of this because like most Hyugas, Hanabi mostly kept a plain expression on her face.
Hanabi was now only inches away from landing her mercy blow when she noticed a change in her sisters eyes.
*HYAAAH! PAT! FWIIIH! CRASH!*
While her little sister charged towards her, Hinata thought back to earlier that day as Menma had introduced himself to her and her classmates. She remembered how she felt at that time.
*flashback*
Hinata watched as Menma walked over from the entrance and introduced himself. 'Naruto?' she thought, confusion, hope and joy. She felt her heart race at the sight of the boy. 'No… he isn't Naruto. Not MY Naruto.' Hinata thought as her emotions once more turned to sadness as she grieved the loss of the one she had loved.
She kept her distance from the rest of the curious crowd. But eventually she joined them as well. As she appeared from behind her hiding place she wiped away her tears with her sleeve. And she joined at the back of the crowd as Menma had relocated himself onto a tree branch to escape the madness.
He looked so much like Naruto but at the same time she painfully realized that he could never replace Naruto. Her hart tightened painfully as she remembered how the third hokage had announced this boy to be Naruto's replacement.
'He could never replace Naruto! I won't let him!' she thought as anger filled her hart. Her hands balled into fists, her head hanged toward the ground. She gritted her teeth and bit her lower lip until it bled. She wanted to raise her head and cast an angry glare at the fake Naruto but she couldn't as she felt of a pair of eyes staring at her. She looked up and Menma's eyes met her own, and for a moment she thought his eyes appeared lighter blue, but only for a moment, an illusion created by her grief.
'Did he look at me? Does he know? Can he read my mind?' her thoughts panicking for a moment before she came back to reality. She continued to listen to the crowd, her anger towards the boy now left behind in the moment. She listened as Kiba asked Menma about Naruto and as he explained that they had never even seen one another.
She started to feel sympathy for the boy and Naruto, as she couldn't imagine how it must be to have never even known you've had a family all that time.
When Menma had asked about Naruto she wanted nothing more than to start talking, tell him every single detail that had been engraved into her memories. Like how he always smiled, about how he never gave up, always did what he believed to be right, never ignored those in need, and above all never took revenge for what the villagers put him through on a daily basis.
She wanted to tell him all of this but she couldn't, even when Naruto had died she couldn't bring herself to speak up about her feelings. She hated that she couldn't, she hated that she was weak, she hated that even though she had admired Naruto for his strength, she never took the trouble to actually do something about her weakness. This bottled up frustration brought her to start crying slightly.
That was when Sasuke had spoken up, that bastard Uchiha. How dared he say such things about Naruto-kun! He didn't have the right to say those things, Naruto trained ten times as hard as Sasuke every single day. Naruto-kun put everything he had into his training. Naruto-kun had become so much stronger, and so much smarter since his first day at the academy.
While Sasuke desecrated Naruto's memory, Hinata couldn't help herself. Without her knowing she had activated her byakugan and had started radiating killing intent. Sasuke hadn't noticed as he had been focused on Menma, trying to provoke the boy. But those that stood next to Hinata definitely noticed and had started to inch away from her. For the first time in her life she actually felt a thirst for blood. A darker side to her had awoken and Menma had seen it.
She calmed down once again when Menma smiled genuinely, and explained his similarity to his brother by performing the clone technique. But she only started to really like the boy when he explained his ambition to become not just hokage but also the kage of the other villages. The madness in his eyes escaped her, instead she noticed the look she had seen a thousand times before.
Naruto's look, his determined look.
*flashback end*
In a single moment all the emotions she had kept bottled up since then exploded into a single act.
Hanabi, Hiashi and the branch family member watched in shock as Hinata's movements suddenly changed as she dodged Hanabi's strike by stepping to the left, bringing her right palm behind her head. From there her hand lowered to her waist where chakra was gathered into her palm. With a loud yell she thrust forward. *HYAAAH!*
Hinata's chakra filled palm made contact with Hanabi's chest. *PAT!* Sending her flying backwards. *FWIIIH!* straight into wooden wall behind her breaking through. *CRASH!*
Hiashi stood perplexed as he had witnessed his 1st daughter who he believed to be weak and useless, beat his other daughter, who he believed to be stronger and more fitted to become heir.
As the branch family member ran towards Hanabi to perform his sworn duties to protect and watch over the main family, Hiashi looked at Hinata as if he only now noticed her for the first time. Who would have guessed Hinata would be so powerful? Hiashi realized he might have been going about his daughters training all wrong. Maybe he needed to spend more time with her.
Hinata, now realizing what she had done quickly snapped out of her frenzy. "Hanabi!" she yelled. "Are you okay?! I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to."
Konoha streets/2 days before the team assignments.
Menma walked through the streets of Konoha a brown paper bag in his left arm and a juicy red apple in his right hand. *SCRUNCH* as Menma took another bite of his apple he couldn't help but smile thinking about all the mischief he had done up until now.
He had placed a shadow clone at every single training ground around Konoha, each one disguised with a transformation jutsu into a tree, a bush, a rock or a wandering fox. This allowed him to spy on the higher level ninja, learning and stealing their techniques. He even had some clones just randomly walking around the village, disguised as civilians. This allowed him to pick up on some interesting rumors.
This was just one of his actions since becoming a citizen of Konoha. He had put Ichiraku's customers under a genjutsu causing them to leave more than just a generous tip. Not a single one of them suspected a thing. He thought of it as a thank you to the old man and his daughter for taking care of him in his world and the Naruto of this world.
Many people also started noticing that they couldn't relax their facial muscles for several hours after they giving the new demon kid a filthy look. The news that had been intentionally leaked by the hokage that Menma was the new container for the nine tailed fox had reached every ear in the village by now. The problem of not being able to relax one's face caused a lot of misunderstandings between the citizens of Konoha.
Menma's favorite had been on an occasion where a middle aged man had fallen into his trap. Menma had created a new technique, by sending a wave of chakra into his targets facial nerves he could freeze their muscles for several hours. When Menma had walked on he heard the man's wife who had been walking next to him shout throughout the packed streets.
"Don't you look at me like that!" "Look at you like what?" the man's question had come over as a less politely then he actually was and that had earned him free fist in the face and a one way ticket into a nearby dumpster.
People had soon stopped giving the new Jinchuuriki foul glares, though they hadn't been aware of it themselves. In fact they had started avoiding looking the boy in the eyes.
Yes, Menma was having the time of his life as he walked to his new apartment which the hokage had assigned him since his previous establishment had been labeled uninhabitable.
Hokage office/ 2 days before the team assignments.
Hiruzen Sarutobi looked into his crystal ball watching Menma as he walked through the streets taking a bite out of his apple. A big smile adorned the boy's face. "Hm" the hokage frowned as he looked up from his crystal ball into the eyes of Danzo.
"You don't believe him." Danzo stated.
"No, I believe him. I just don't like him." Sarutobi said. Danzo raised an eyebrow to his lifelong friend and enemy. "You?!" Danzo asked not convinced. "You don't like the always happy and idiotic tailed beast container?" Danzo asked. "That was Naruto! This Menma… he's different, I can't figure out what he's thinking."
"He looks the same to me." Danzo said as he compared the smile of the boy in the crystal ball to the one in the picture on the hokages desk. "That's because you never knew Naruto like I did!" Sarutobi snapped at Danzo, releasing a short wave of killer intent.
Danzo ignored the killer intent and said. "I'd say it's a good thing you can't figure out what he's thinking. That would mean he'd be a better ninja!" Danzo rationalized. *SIGH* "Perhaps…"
"Why did you call me here Hiruzen?" Danzo asked. The hokage took a deep breath.
"I believe he might be a threat to the village. Because Naruto died here in our world the ninetails will reform here as well. And after several tests it turns out Menma possesses the Yin half of the Ninetails which the fourth hokage sealed into himself before sealing the Yang half into Naruto. If we can trust Menma and seal Naruto's Yang half of the ninetails into him we could avoid a disaster, but if we can't trust him we would be inviting an even bigger one. I need your help in deciding who to put on Menma's squad and who his jounin sensei will be. This decision will be vital to the villages survival." The hokage explained.
Danzo understanding the logic behind his friends reasoning agreed and put his differences aside. Normally Danzo always found himself going through life as if he were playing a game of shogi. He always had to make sure he was multiple steps ahead of his adversaries, sacrificing only his weakest pieces when he couldn't get away unscathed and in the meantime striking a larger blow to his enemies. But this time Danzo felt no need to keep his mental guard up, he had to admit that the constant plotting and scheming were starting to take their toll on him.
"I take it you've already had something in mind?" Danzo asked as he sat himself across his old friend. "Yes, I have but I'm not so sure anymore." The hokage said as he handed Danzo a piece of paper. He then stood up and walked to the door, opening it and putting his head through he looked into the hallway and over to the desk where his secretary was sitting.
"I'm going to be here all night, so I'd like some coffee…" He said when the secretary noticed him. "How about you Danzo? You want anything?" Hiruzen asked. "Tea please, lemon/bamboo if possible." Danzo replied. "And some tea as well, lemon/bamboo." He told his secretary, she nodded and stood up to go and take care of the order. "When you're done you can go home for the day. And knock before entering." The hokage said with a friendly smile. Hearing she was allowed to go home after her coffee/tea delivery caused the young woman to smile.
"What happened to your old secretary?" Danzo asked. "She died last Tuesday, broke her hip coming down the stairs." Hiruzen answered. 'Great! My mole in the hokage tower dies and I only find out now!' Danzo thought as he remembered bribing the old lady with a substantial amount of money to report to him everything suspicious. But he had to admit her services had been worth every single penny.
"You want to put the boy with Hatake Kakashi?"
"Yes, I believe he'd make a great jounin sensei."
"But who will teach Uchiha Sasuke how to properly use his sharingan, I don't have to remind you how valuable the boy has become as our last loyal Uchiha, do I?"
"Then we place them together in the same three man cell."
"Don't be foolish! If this Menma is even half the threat you think he is, I don't want him near the Uchiha!"
"Fine! Sasuke gets Kakashi. Who do you think should take charge of the boy then?"
Danzo thought deeply about this. "What about that woman that your traitor of a student left behind?"
"The last thing Anko needs right now is to be surrounded by an evil presence." Hiruzen stated as he disapproved the idea. The two of them thought long and hard on the subject, the coffee and tea were delivered and even hours later they still hadn't come to a conclusion.
But then suddenly Danzo stood up and walked over to one of the drawers in the office. "I think I have an idea." He said. Out of the drawer he grabbed a folder and threw it on the desk. "What about this one, he's retired but if we can convince him to take one last genin team…" Danzo started.
Hiruzen opened the folder and started reading. "I think you're on to something here." He said. "But we'll have to inform him of the situation and we'll need to make sure his teammates have an advantage over the boy so they can keep him in check if need be."
The two of them spent the next couple of hours working out the details until the sun rose over the horizon, starting a new day.
Ninja academy/the day of the team assignments.
The classroom was filled with noise as students loudly discussed their future careers as real ninja's. everyone was excited and nervous about the next couple of minutes which would decide their teammates and jounin sensei.
When the door suddenly slid open the room grew quiet, but to their disappointment it was only Menma who arrived late. Before the graduated ninja could resume their discussions however they noticed the boys new look.
Menma walked into the room, closing the door behind him. Menma had exchanged his counterparts orange jumpsuits for black pants and sandals, on his torso he wore a red sleeveless T-shirt with a black fire pattern on the bottom and the white Uzumaki swirl centered on his chest. On his arms he wore long, black, fingerless gloves that reached all the way to his biceps. Wrapped around his black gloves were thick, red, leather strips. Strangely his forehead protector was nowhere to be seen.
As Menma walked up the stairs to the back of the classroom several pairs of eyes followed him. Menma had become a rival to Sasuke when it came to fangirls, given his good looks and prematurely developed muscles, the girls got all tingly in his presence. But they didn't openly screamed his name like with Sasuke. Menma had made it clear he found it extremely annoying.
After several more minutes Iruka walked into the room trying to bring his students to silence.
"First of all I would like to congratulate every single one of you and wish you good luck." Iruka addressed his students. This was always an emotional moment for him, and he kept on talking for a while, trying to give them some last minute advice before they would enter a world of violence and death.
"Now here are your jounin sensei's." Iruka said and as he finished twelve people appeared at the front the classroom in a whirl of leaves.
The jounin at the far left, from the view of the graduates took a step forward and opened his mouth. "Hello I'm…" but he didn't get any further than that as another person appeared in a whirl of leaves, cutting the man of by shouting, "You will call me Ryuudan-sensei!" The man yelled into the classroom.
The man was a lot older compared to the other jounin, but still not an elderly though. He had a rough stubble beard and his black hair showed signs of gray. His lower arms and hands were covered with thick steel chains under which he wore bandages to keep them from shredding his skin. His left eye was covered with an black eye-patch which had the leaf symbol engraved into the piece of metal that was embedded into the center of the eye-patch. With his visible eye he gave everyone in the room a very unfriendly look.
Everyone noticed that none of the other jounin really liked the man, as they their eyes narrowed at the appearance and rudeness of the man's tone. Kakashi stepped forward to the man and said, "Ryuudan-sempai, you are in charge of team thirteen so please wait your turn."
"Wait my turn?!" The man spat at Kakashi. "I'm supposed to be retired! But the hokage asked me to take on one last team of genin before I quit the business, so me being the generous man that I am accepted, sacrificing an easy life so I can train three kids to become great shinobi and then watch them die horribly. I'm old, and if I have to send some more brats into the wide open world I'm going to make sure that they are prepared for it! So I don't have time to wait!" the man known as Ryuudan yelled to the white haired jounin.
"Now get your virgin ass back into that line and go read that filthy book you enjoy so much, while I take care of my team." He spoke releasing a bit of killer intent, thereby exposing the entire class to their first life or death experience. The mood grew noticeably tenser as Kakashi obeyed and took a step back.
"Now…" he said turning back to face the graduates. "Uzumaki Menma, Hyuga Hinata and Nara Shikamaru. Follow me, you're on my team, unlucky thirteen!" The man spoke and with that he stepped towards the door. "If you aren't on the roof in a minute than at the end of today you'll be going to the hospital instead of home!" He said as he disappeared through the door, leaving the classroom shocked.
Menma was the first to stand up, walking over to Hinata grabbing her underneath her armpit and dragging her behind him and slapping Shikamaru on the back of his head trying to keep them from becoming medical patients. The three of them quickly hurried to the roof to find their new jounin sensei lighting a cigar with a flame that sprouted from his right thumb.
*PUFPUFPUF* "Good you made it, now let's get started."
End chapter 4: Big brains, Lavender eyes and a badass sensei!
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