Menmaverse.

Explanation to review of a guest: Like you said Hinata's strength is emotional. And at that moment she experienced a lot of emotions. Hanabi is still a lot more gifted then Hinata, but she loves her older sister. Hinata's sudden burst of strength and speed will be an extremely rare occasion, Hanabi only got hit because this was so unexpected of Hinata. If you think it a better story I won't make her all that powerful throughout the story. But their sensei is a veteran teacher and he will draw out whatever potential she has at a very fast pace, after that her growth as a ninja will slowly come to a stop having reached her maximum potential.

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Chapter 5: This is true strength!

Academy roof/18:00 hours.

Ryuudan looked at the three shinobi before him.

To his right a girl with short black/blue-ish hair. She seemed to be very shy and nervous, as if she was afraid of being a yelled at for simply breathing. She was wearing a thick light-brown/crème sweater with white fur at the bottom edges, blue sandals and blue pants. Her forehead protector around her neck.

To his left a boy with his black hair tied in a knot pointing back and upwards. The look on his face was both lazy and interested at the same time. 'Only a Nara can pull a face like that' Ryuudan thought to himself. The boy was wearing brown/grayish pants, blue sandals, a fishnet shirt and a gray vest above that. His forehead protector sowed to the left shoulder of his gray vest.

Right in front of him stood a boy, slightly taller than the other two. Black hair, dark blue eyes, wearing black sandals, black pants, black gloves with red leather strips around them, a black sleeveless shirt with the white Uzumaki clan symbol dead center on his chest and the red one dead center on his back. No forehead protector to be found.

"Where is your forehead protector?", Ryuudan asked. "The leaf village doesn't own me. I'll fight to protect it, but I'm not bound to it", Menma said, earning him a foul look from the old man before it disappeared, remembering that he didn't care. "I have it in my equipment pouch", Menma added. "Sure whatever. Let's introduce ourselves, I'll go first", The man said as he cleared his throat.

"My name is Kenshiguru Ryuudan. I'm 62 years old and I like to read, though not that icha-icha garbage. I don't like watching my fellow shinobi die horrible deaths. And my ambition is to get all three of you promoted to chuunin as soon as possible so I can enjoy my retirement", He said. "Now you", He pointed to Shikamaru.

"Shikamaru Nara, 12 years old. I like shogi and my talking with my friend Chouji. I don't like unnecessary things and loud women. Too troublesome. My ambition is to be an average shinobi, married to an average beautiful woman and living an average life", Shikamaru spoke with his typical monotone voice, before turning his head to look at Hinata. Signaling her that she was next.

(I think the stutter Hinata does is too hard to write so you'll have to imagine her stuttering.)

"My name is Hinata Hyuga. I'm 12 years o-old and I like sweet things, my sister Hanabi and people who work hard for their dreams. I don't like people who are stubborn, proud or arrogant and people who choose to believe something is true because it is convenient. My ambition is to make my clan and father proud", Hinata said as she looked at the ground.

She had spoken about the elders in her clan and the villagers who treated Naruto as a demon because it justified beating and trying to kill him.

Kenshiguru Ryuudan looked at Menma as he was apparently lost in thought. "Your turn kid", he said.

"Menma Uzumaki, 12 years old. I like training and gathering new jutsu. I don't like people who can't deal with reality. I also hate people who are unhappy about their situation but are too afraid to do anything about it. My ambition is to become so powerful that I can bend everyone to my will, with force if need be", Menma said. His last words about his ambition left his teammates and sensei staring at him, shocked.

Kenshiguru looked at the young boy in front of him. 'I don't know why, but this kid makes me want to push him to his breaking point. Let's see how far he bends before he breaks.' He thought as he stood up.

"Normally I'm supposed to give you a test which is designed to trick you into working against one another. Even though you're supposed to work together to complete the test. It's supposed to see if you can bond as a team. But since we have a member of the Nara clan among us that test won't do jack shit." He explained, while getting a piece of rope out from nowhere, as he walked towards Menma. "Instead I'm going to have you guys go through a mission simulation." Kenshiguru said as he grabbed Menma's arms and started tying him up with the rope.

"Uhm, what are you doing?", Menma asked. "What are you doing, Ryuudan-sensei!", the old man corrected, looking into the boys eyes. "I demand some respect from you, Whiskers! As for what I'm doing…"

Ryuudan looked towards the other two. "Your fellow shinobi here," he tossed Menma over his shoulder after he had tied him up. "Has been sent on a mission to kill a potential threat to the village. However! He failed his mission and got himself captured. Your mission is to free him and eliminate the target. You've already gathered intel saying that your friend is going to be executed at sundown and that your target is inside this village. You have until sundown to find me, free your teammate and beat or capture me." Ryuudan explained.

At first Shikamaru and Hinata were confused, but they figured out he was giving them the details of the simulation. Ryuudan then disappeared with a body flicker technique.

Konoha village Unknown location/18:05 hours.

Kenshiguru Ryuudan jumped out of the tree, having tied the last piece of rope around the tree branch. He took several steps back and looked up at Menma. "You know what to do, right?" He asked.

Menma was tied to the tree, the ropes keeping his arms tightly around his chest. His ankles and wrists were tied together as well. To finish it off a silencing seal had been stuck to his mouth. Menma dangled from the tree branch giving a foul look at his jounin-sensei.

Because the seal kept him from speaking, he nodded to make clear he understood what was expected of him and what his role in the simulation was.

"Good, when your teammates come to save you I will be here to stop them, if they haven't freed you before sundown you all fail and go back to the academy." The man explained once again. "But if they do succeed in freeing you, you still have to survive until sundown. If I defeat all three of you before sundown you fail as well." He said as he sat down against the tree, lighting another cigar.

"Now let's see how your teammates do when I go after their weaknesses." He said and started laughing.

Konoha village gates/18:10 hours.

"uhm Shikamaru-san? Why are we here, shouldn't we be looking for Menma-san?" Hinata asked.

"We are. We just don't have the time to start looking all over the village. That is why I've come up with a plan." He said as he took out a map of the village and two markers, one red, one blue.

Shikamaru laid the map on the ground and started drawing red crosses over the map. After that he started drawing blue circles. Hinata watched silently as her teammate worked on whatever he was doing.

When he was done Shikamaru ripped the map in two halves and gave one to Hinata. "Menma and Ryuudan-sensei will definitely not be in any of the buildings or area's I've marked red, so don't even waste your time looking for them there." Shikamaru explained. "Instead, focus on the buildings and area's I've marked blue. And take a look at everything I didn't mark while you are moving between them. If you find them then meet me at the hokage monument in one hour, if he finds you then fire this!" Shikamaru said as he explained on the map and gave her a signal flare.

"If I see it, I will come to help as fast as I can. If you see it I expect you to come help me as well. If you don't see a flare we meet up on top of the hokage monument as we discussed." he said.

Hinata nodded, her eyes wide with amazement. She knew the Nara clan were known for their strategic and brilliant minds, but she had never imagined that he would be able to come up with a plan in such short notice.

They wished each other good luck and separated.

Hokage monument/19:10 hours.

Hinata was jumping across the rooftops heading towards her final destination. She hadn't found her teammate or sensei anywhere. 'I hope Shikamaru has had more luck than me.' she thought.

She arrived at the top of the monument to find Shikamaru already there. He was sitting with his legs crossed in a meditative position his fingertips against each other, his hands forming a circle. His eyes were closed as he had been thinking of several strategies to free Menma without their sensei finding out. He had found their hiding place twenty minutes ago and had moved ahead to the meeting spot to get started on their approach.

"Shikamaru-san? Were you able to find them?" Hinata asked. Shikamaru simply nodded and gave her his half of the map.

Hinata took the piece of paper and quickly looked at the spot her teammate had marked as the location of their next stop. "Do you have a plan?" Hinata asked. "Several, but I'm not sure if they will work. We know next to nothing about our enemies abilities, so I'm stumbling in the dark. But if we free Menma our chances will improve immensely." Shikamaru explained.

"So freeing Menma is our priority, yes?" Hinata asked.

"Exactly, I'll explain the plans I've got so far. So listen closely!"

Konoha village training ground 13/19:20 hours.

Training ground 13 was a bit different than any of the other training grounds. The main reason was because of the many different types of area that were all gathered together in one place. There was a forest surrounding a clearing. In that clearing stood a single tree. The trunk was 3 meters in diameter and more than (20 meters)/(65ft and 7 13/32in) tall.

Around the tree was a simple field of grass, but the area closer to the forest edge was divided into four sections. The first section being nothing but mud. The second having a rocky underground and boulders spread all over. The third having a river running through and the riverbank existed of white sand. The fourth section was surprisingly a garden, many colored flowers covered the entire section except for the center which was empty. It had been created to be used as a place for meditating as privacy seals had been placed around the garden to block out all sounds outside of the barrier.

Sitting in the middle of the clearing underneath the tree was Kenshiguru Ryuudan. With his back against the tree and smoking cigar in his mouth, he ignored the sounds of his new student, who was still dangling above his head.

The black haired boy had kept his cool at first, but after half an hour had passed he had started to squirm and mumble, trying to free himself. 'This kid needs to learn to be patient.' The man thought.

Menma had been stuck for quite some time now and was simply dying of boredom. "That's it! I'm never going to let myself get caught by the enemy! This is so BORING!" Menma wanted to yell out but the seal stuck to his mouth prevented this and only allowed him to make mumbling sounds.

"Shut up will you? It seems your friends have finally made their move." Kenshiguru said as he stood up straight and wiped the dirt off of his pants.

Menma ceased his struggling and watched as Hinata sprang out from the top of a tree. Hinata already having her palms up in a fighting pose stood in front of her sensei.

'I just need to lure Ryuudan sensei away. That way Shikamaru-san can release Menma-san.' Hinata thought.

The old man had noticed her arrival but didn't attack, instead he remained where he was. His eyes started sliding over the ground as he sensed the Nara boy tunneling underneath the clearing.

Hinata had hoped her sensei would charge at her, initiating the attack. But seeing as he didn't she was forced to attack him head on, forcing him back or to chase after her, leaving Menma unguarded.

Kenshiguru merely stepped to the side as Hinata struck at the man's chest, causing her to lose her balance and stumble forward. Before she could fall to her face he grabbed her by the neck of her sweater. For a moment she felt relieved, feeling safe. But it didn't last as the man suddenly pulled hard throwing her back and into the air.

Meanwhile Shikamaru was tunneling underground towards Menma. 'come on Hinata, I'm counting on you! please… just two steps… you just need to lure him two steps away from Menma.' He thought to himself. He started to panic once he heard Hinata scream out in surprise above his head as she was thrown into the air. 'hang on Hinata, just hang on, I know you can do this!' Shikamaru tried to cheer her on with his mind.

*THUD!* Hinata hit the ground. She had been able to twist her body while in the air to avoid landing on her head. But she still landed heavily on her feet and rolled from her back to her stomach and to her back again several times before coming to a stop.

She struggled to her feet, her knees hurting from scraping over the hard ground. 'He is really strong! But I have to keep going, Shikamaru-san is counting on me.' "hyaaaaah!" she charged once more. This time she stopped inches from his reach and jumped back. "Oh no you don't." Kenshiguru said as he gave chase taking a single step in her direction.

'That's one! Just one more and Shikamaru-san can free Menma-san!' Hinata was forced to duck underneath a kick from her sensei's left leg and rolled to the side. She sprang up and back into her fighting stance. Too late however as Kenshiguru jumped forward, bringing his right knee up to hit her in the stomach.

Hinata moved her arms down to block the knee. She caught it, though the impact sent a shiver through her arms. She was about to strike to close the tenketsu points in her sensei's leg but he was too fast and his palm connected with her face, slapping her three meters away.

Once more Hinata struggled to get up, her vision blurry. She looked towards her opponent and saw him moving towards her to strike a decisive blow.

Kenshiguru was disappointed in her Taijutsu abilities. As a Hyuuga she should have been able to put up a better fight. He took a step in her direction, and another. He was just about to take his third step as he heard the ground behind him open up. He looked over his shoulder to see a hole in the ground with a shadow tentacle coming out, which held a kunai. The hand moved to cut the ropes from Menma and freed him.

Menma landed on the ground on one knee, at the same time Shikamaru sprang out of the hole next to Menma as he tried to put the boy's arm over his shoulder Menma suddenly jumped forward and charged at the man. "Wait Menma! We need to fall back and regroup first!" but Menma didn't listen.

Kenshiguru frowned at the boys now in front of him. Shikamaru's strategy had been too risky as he could have lost his teammate and Menma didn't listen to reason being to hotheaded. Regrouping would have been the right decision, but the boy was lost in rage.

Kenshiguru watched as Menma charged at him. As the black haired Uzumaki came within his reach he placed his hand on top of the boy's head and pushed against him.

Menma stood there, he couldn't reach the old jounin as he held him back with his hand using his height advantage. Menma reached into his pouch to grab a kunai and slash at the man's arm but suddenly felt a huge weight pressing him towards the ground. Menma soon found himself with his face buried into the dirt.

"Damn Menma! What do I do now?" Shikamaru asked out loud as he jumped back creating some distance between himself and the man.

"That's enough! This simulation is over!" Kenshiguru said as he relaxed and pulled Menma from the dirt.

"Get over here! All of you!" he yelled as he pushed Menma into a seating position in front of him.

A surprised Hinata and Shikamaru slowly moved towards him and sat themselves next to Menma.

"First things first, let's go over your mistakes. Shikamaru! Your strategy was too risky, you sent a single genin to take on a high level jounin. Under normal circumstances she would have been dead, do you understand?" "I didn't ask her to beat you just lure you away from Menma for a moment." He said in his defense.

"That doesn't matter, if she engages into real battle she would have been killed before she even got to her opponent. Hinata! You were holding back, against an opponent who was clearly many times stronger than you. I have the idea that punishing you wouldn't do anything towards fixing that because of your kind nature. Therefore I have to take a different approach. Every time I catch you holding back during a simulation I will intentionally hurt your teammates. Do you understand?"

"Wait… no… I-I-I'll do better I p-p-promise!" She said looking at her sensei with pleading eyes. He merely shook his head saying "If you don't want your teammates to get hurt you will take care not to hold back from now on!" He mercilessly retorted.

"Menma! You didn't listen to Shikamaru when he told you to retreat and regroup. You didn't have any chance against me by yourself. That was the point of the simulation! You had been sent to kill me as a threat to the village and you failed! Why did you think this time would be any different?!"

Menma looked to the ground in shame. "I didn't, I had forgotten about the mission and I just wanted to beat the shit out of you!" he said angrily as he glared at his sensei who glared back. Menma couldn't keep looking him in the eyes and his will broke as he looked back to the ground as said "Sorry Ryuudan sensei. It won't happen again."

"That's better! Now let me explain something. You three need to work together! As one single entity! Menma! You are the body of this entity, you are its muscles and bones! Shikamaru! You are the brains of this entity, you are to guide the body, deciding where and when to strike! Hinata! You are the eyes and reflexes of this entity, you watch what is happening and inform the brains of anything of importance!"

The three genin looked at their scary sensei who now had a stern fatherly look on his face. Who would have thought the man in front of them could be so wise and kind?

"You need to work together only then do you acquire the strength needed to prevail! That is true strength!"

The three were still looking up at the man, eyes wide in wonder as they started to understand the meaning of his words. They were snapped out of their states as his face suddenly grew into a warm smile.

"Now, I think it's time I give you all a little gift to celebrate the creation of team 13!"

Weapons shop/20:30 hours.

Ryuudan and his team walked into a weapons shop and his team looked at him with confusion. The man saw their expressions and started laughing a bouldering laugh. "Don't tell me you haven't figured it out yet?!" he asked.

The three still looked confused. The man slapped his hand on his forehead and said. "Listen, you aren't going to defeat your opponents with just your standard kunai and shuriken. Therefore I am going to have each of you choose a weapon in this store. you can choose anything you like, I'll pay for it. It will be my gift to you. But choose wisely because I will have you master the use of the weapon you choose!"

The three genin now with wide eyes looked at him in disbelief. "Are you serious?!" Menma asked.

"Do we have to? It's too troublesome…" Shikamaru sighed as his eyes explored the room. His look unable to hide his interest.

"Oh, no… I-I don't n-need i-it I'm f-fine…" Hinata tried to wave the offer away politely as she nervously eyed the extremely lethal weapons adorning the walls.

"Yes I'm serious, yes you have to and I won't take no thank you for an answer young lady!" Ryuudan said as he answered each one of them face to face. "Now hurry up and choose!" he said as he pushed the three further into the store. well at least two of them as Menma had already rushed forward and was eying many different kinds of weapons.

Shikamaru and Hinata looked at Menma who was running through the store as a kid on Christmas morning discovering all the presents underneath the tree. The way he was acting reminded the two of a certain whiskered blond they had known not too long ago. Hinata found herself guilty of blushing at the black haired boy after having whispered "Naruto-kun…". The Nara boy found himself smiling at his teammates hyperactive behavior and realized he really missed and had cared for the blond boy who had dragged him into pulling pranks with him several times.

"Hey what are you two waiting for?! Come on! They have some really quality weapons here!" he yelled towards the Nara and Hyuuga.

"Oh I hear a customer with a great sense of quality." A voice was heard from the back of the store.

"And who might this young man be with such good eyes?" an old man said as he walked into the store. The man was wearing a blue Chinese kung fu vest with golden dragons weaved into its design. He was bald but had some hair on the side of his head. On his chin was white beard and which reached around to connect to his mustache. On his nose stood small round glasses through which he squinted. A friendly smile adorned his face.

"Cheng Fa, how are you doing?" Kenshiguru greeted the man. "Ah Kenshiguru Ryuudan, what brings you here? Since all of us already meet every Friday for drinking and remembering, I take it you came here on business? Are they with you?" The Chinese man asked.

"Yes they are with me and we are here on business. This is my new genin team, I'm buying them their first weapons." He explained.

"A genin team at your age? I thought you were retired?" "Yes well, the hokage asked me to train one more team as a favor."

"How do you two know each other?" Menma asked. "Ah yes let me introduce you guys. This is Cheng Fa my former teammate." The man bowed with both his hands tucked into the opposite sleeve. The three bowed as well. "This is Uzumaki Menma, the one with the eyes for quality weapons." Ryuudan said as he placed his hands on the boy's shoulders. "This is Nara Shikamaru, the brains of the operation, in other words… your replacement." He once more placed his hands on said genin his shoulders. "And this is Hyuuga Hinata…" *SIGH* "She is going to be the most difficult to train because of her kind nature."

"It is a pleasure to meet all of you." Cheng Fa said. "Now, Menma, why don't you show me the item you were praising earlier?" he asked with a smile. Menma grabbed smiled and ran towards the display case he was pressing his face to earlier.

"I was admiring these two daggers, one of them has an orange and red color, the blade is waved and has a sun as a pummel. And the other has a blue and white color, the blade is straight and has a moon as a pummel." Menma described as he pointed to the two daggers.

"Ah yes, the daggers of the cursed lovers!" Cheng Fa spoke as he recognized the description given by the boy. "The sun and the moon, forever cursed to chase one another around the earth in the skies, only when the eclipse comes can they be together again." Cheng spoke in a sad tone as he remembered the stories of when he was a kid.

He arrived at the display case and started talking about the legends of the two daggers. "the moon blade is called Luna and the other is called Solarius. Luna boosts the users water affinity while Solarius boosts the users fire affinity for chakra."

"I want them… but I don't want to base my fighting style on the use of daggers… Ryuudan sensei is it okay if I buy these with my own money and get a different weapon that I can use as a primary weapon?" Menma asked his sensei.

"Sure go ahead." Ryuudan said as he looked over from helping Hinata finding a suitable weapon.

The three took an entire hour but eventually they found what they wanted. Shikamaru had found a kusarigama, a small scythe with a chain attached and a throwing weight at the other end.

Hinata had found herself a pair of steel tonfas, smiling that she had found a weapon that wasn't necessarily deadly.

Menma was about to buy a legendary looking katana which was decorated with golden dragons, but he changed his mind as he walked past a large wooden club-like weapon adorned with metal stumps on the side, his eyes glinted evilly as he observed the weapon and imagined himself with it causing fear amongst the enemy ranks as he swung the wooden monster in a raging frenzy. When he brought the large wooden club which was at least as tall as he was, Cheng had told him that the weapon was called a Kanabo and was said to be used by the devil/demon king himself.

Menma's eyes once more glinted evilly and a large grin appeared on his face. The boy couldn't be more happy as he hugged and petted his new weapon in a creepy kind of way. He did however feel slightly bad that he didn't have enough money to buy the two daggers but he was going to save up the money and buy them later. Until then he would have to do with bringing fear and destruction.

End chapter 5: This is true strength!

Hey everyone! I need help! I'm looking for a story where naruto has been captured by Orochimaru and is being tortured or experimented on by him. eventually a group from Konoha breaks into Orochimaru his hideout to free naruto, but too late as naruto is no longer fully human anymore.

I've read this story a long time ago, but I can't find it anymore. Please let me know where I can find it or something similar. Would be a great help.

Also send more Jutsu! Come on people! still just one jutsu! One effing jutsu! Don't you have any creativity or are you just a lazy ass Uchiha?!

(Hard work vs. talent) = (sending a jutsu vs. not sending a jutsu)