Menmaverse.

I'm wondering if there is anyone out there who is just as obsessed as I am with the theory behind fuinjutsu/sealing technique. I'm planning on introducing a lot of seals, with the explanation on what they do and how they work into this story later on. But that is way later on. At the end of this fanfic.

In the meantime I'm looking for that person who is willing to share his ideas with me, on the theory of fuinjutsu and how this would work. If you are interested to discuss this with me and to create a so called "Fuinjutsu for beginners" handbook contact me!

Still waiting for more jutsu! Only two readers inserted their ideas for their own jutsu! These are LordGhostStriker and g4ame4life. Thank you very much for your input!

Here are the teams in case you are confused:

Team 13 Kenshiguru: Menma, Hinata, Shikamaru;
Team 7 Kakashi: Kiba, Sakura, Sasuke;
Team 10 Asuma: Choji, Ino, Shino;
Team 9 Gai: Lee, Tenten, Neji;

Chapter 6: Youthful sparring and a first kiss!

Konoha training ground 40/first day of training 9:00.

"Expansion Release! Human Bullet Tank!" Choji yelled as his body expanded to form a ball and started rolling towards Menma at great speed. Menma however saw his chance to finish the fight quickly, he grabbed his Kanabo with both hands and waited for Choji to get closer. He was going to step to the side and hit the boy with all he had.

Unfortunately for Menma things didn't go as planned as Choji increased his speed at the last moment, seeing this Menma hurried to lift his Kanabo of the ground to get ready to strike but too late, Choji had already reached him making a clean hit

Menma felt the rolling ball of Choji hit him and swing him to the side hard. Menma flew several meters before hitting the ground hard.

'How the hell did I end up fighting this guy?' Menma thought as he started recuperating from the pain and opening his eyes.

FLASHBACK

It started that morning at 8:00 when Kenshiguru Ryuudan arrived at the training ground 13 and told his team to shut up and follow him. The three had exchanged a confused expression with one another to see if anybody had an idea of what was going on. They didn't. so they quietly followed their sensei through Konoha towards training ground 7 where they found Kiba, Sakura and Sasuke.

"Where is Hatake Kakashi?" Kenshiguru demanded from the three. "He's late, just like yesterday. I hope he isn't going to make a habit out of this?" Sakura answered.

Hearing about Kakashi being late caused one of Kenshiguru's head veins to pop up on his forehead. His fists tightened and a large wave of killer intent was released from the old veteran. Everybody started shivering as a reaction to the man, uncertain what he was going to do.

The moment didn't last long as he calmed down almost immediately "Oh well, he'll catch up later I guess. You three…" he said pointing at Kiba, Sakura and Sasuke. "Follow me and keep your mouths shut!" he said and started walking again. In the direction of a different training ground.

"What about our sensei? Is he going to be okay with you taking us to… where are we going actually" Kiba said then looking at Menma, Hinata and Shikamaru who simply lifted their shoulders, indicating they didn't know either. "Kid, I thought I told you to keep your mouth shut?! And your sensei will come looking for you eventually. And when he finds you he'll also find my fist so far up his ass he won't be able to sit for a month!" the old man said with an angry blood vein on his forehead once more.

It wasn't long before they arrived at the next training ground, which had the number 9. Here they met some people they haven't seen before. A tall man with bowl cut, black hair and thick eyebrows, wearing a green jumpsuit/spandex, a chuunin vest, blue sandals, his forehead protector wrapped above his waist and orange leg warmers. Next to him stood a smaller version of himself minus the chuunin vest and bandages around his fists and lower arms.

A little further stood a girl with brown hair tied into two buns, brown eyes blue sandals, greenish/blue-ish pants and a pink sleeveless Chinese martial arts vest (or something). She was leaning against a tree and she had a staff in her right hand against her shoulder and a scroll in her left, hanging beside her hip.

A little further away from these three was a young man with long brown hair, wearing brown shorts, blue sandals, a beige vest/sweater/shirt (I don't know what to call it!) and bandages around his right leg. The boy seemed to be performing a kata. (Kata = a sequence of strikes/kicks to a non-existing opponent in this case, to practice to flowing of different attacks.)

The tall man in green noticed Kenshiguru walking towards him and his students and yelled out at him. "Ryuudan-sama?! What a surprise to see you! A fine morning isn't it?! I CAN SEE THE FIRES OF YOUTH BURNING BRIGHTLY INSIDE OF YOU! and…" Gai didn't get any further than that as Ryuudan jumped forward and punched Gai in the face causing the green wearing disaster to backflip several times before landing unconscious on his stomach.

"GAI-SENSEI!" Lee yelled as over exaggerated tears started streaming down his cheeks. In the meantime Tenten and Neji jumped to full alert. Neji activated his byakugan and Tenten opened her scroll and unsealed several shuriken. A moment later Kenshiguru was surrounded by all three of Gai's students. Each one of them with an expression on their face that said they were ready to fight.

Seeing this, the old man started laughing loudly and slapping his knee saying: "Now that is what I like to see! Not only are you battle ready in a moment's notice, but you're loyal to your sensei as well." He kept laughing and finally said: "I like you guys, the freaky green brat has gotten himself a fine bunch of students. Now follow me! And no arguing!" He said the last part with enough killer intent to make them follow without question.

Kenshiguru grabbed Gai's ankle and dragged him across the ground as he started moving towards the next training ground. "Seriously Gai! I'm 62 years old! My fires of youth have burned out long ago! And I haven't had my coffee yet so I'm not going to handle any of your shit right now! So you can just stay unconscious for as long as you want." Kenshiguru spoke to the lump of green he was dragging through the dirt behind him.

Suddenly Tenten and Neji decided that this man might not actually be such a bad person after all.

They finally arrived at training ground 10 where they found Choji, Ino and Shino together with Asuma.

The old veteran didn't waste much time and yelled ahead. "Hey Asuma brat! Keep your mouth shut and listen! Get your students in gear and get at the back of the line, I've got some special training!" He got closer to Asuma step by step still dragging Gai behind him.

"Ryuudan-Senpai?! You can't just expect me to change my training program for you!" Asuma said annoyed to the man, thinking he wasn't going to let himself be walked over just because the man was several times stronger than him. Kenshiguru Ryuudan just kept on walking ignoring everything the man was saying. He grabbed his cigar which was almost gone and when he got next to Asuma, he pressed the still burning cigar against the man's forehead to put it out.

Asuma dropped to ground in pain, bringing his hands up to his forehead to wipe away the burning embers. "Fuck! You psycho! What is wrong with you?!" Asuma yelled. "You should've listened!" Ryuudan said as he turned to the three genin. "Get at the back of the line and follow! No questions! No whining! Now let's head out!" Kenshiguru said as he started walking back towards the village.

After all that they had arrived at training ground 40 which was the biggest open space training ground in the village. Nothing but grass and dirt.

When Gai had come back to the land of the living Kenshiguru explained that they were all going to be sparring against each other to get a feel of how to fight different kind of ninja with different fighting styles. He explained how every day the students would fight three matches each match lasting 15 minutes or until someone would be unable to continue.

First matchups:

Menma vs Choji, Hinata vs Sasuke, Shikamaru vs Ino, Lee vs Kiba, Sakura vs Neji, and Tenten vs Shino;

END FLASHBACK

Now Menma was fighting his sparring match against Choji, who had just hit him with his Human Bullet Tank attack. Menma was down on his hands and knees trying to get up while Choji made a U turn, still rolling, and was heading straight for him.

Menma noticed his opponent coming at him and tried to get out of the way, but he had been hit hard and was unable to stand up. As Choji came closer and closer Menma braced himself for impact.

"That's enough! Menma is unable to continue, Choji wins!" Kenshiguru said as he stopped Choji from waltzing all over his student, stopping the boy with a single hand. "Good fight young man!" Kenshiguru cheered on Choji as he wobbled to the side of the field, his eyes spinning from all the rolling, it made him look quite ridiculous.

"Menma! Always be prepared for any kind of attack! Never expect your opponent to attack the way you think he will. Do you understand?" Kenshiguru asked his student.

Menma was still on his hands and knees, ramming his fists into the ground in frustration. "Damn it! damn it! damn it! damn it! I was so close!" He yelled out missing his teachers lecture.

"Menma!" he shouted. Menma startled and looked at his sensei with tears in his eyes. "Stay calm! You're always going to lose battles. You'll never be the best there is, because somewhere in this world, there will always be someone stronger than you. If you want to become the strongest you'll have to find those that are stronger than you. You will have to fight that person and you will lose, after that you have to measure your difference in strength and train to overcome that person. After that you find the next person that is stronger than you, and you repeat that process over and over again. That is how you'll become stronger."

Menma looked up towards his sensei, wiping the tears out of his eyes. As he listened to his sensei's explanation his eyes started changing into a look of understanding. 'even though I lost now, if I can understand why I lost I can train to become stronger so I won't lose the next time we fight.' Menma realized.

"I see you finally understand. Good. Now go over to your opponent and thank him for a good fight!"

Menma nodded and said: "Hai, Ryuudan-sensei!" before taking off to thank Choji who was currently flat on his back taking a sip from his drink and stuffed a potato chip in his mouth.

(several minutes later)

"Okay, listen up! The winners of the first round are… Choji! Sasuke! Shikamaru! Lee! Neji! And Shino! The next matches will be… Menma vs Kiba! Hinata vs Shino! Shikamaru vs Sakura! Lee vs Choji! Sasuke vs Tenten! And Neji vs Ino! Now get ready for your matches!"

The genin all matched walked onto the sparring fields again after having rested for a couple of minutes.

Menma now faced off against Kiba and Akamaru. Their eyes met and narrowed, Menma's grip tightened around his Kanabo and Kiba raised his upper lip, exposing his canines and let out a low growl.

Asuma stepped onto the field raising his left hand while holding his cigarette in his right. He looked towards all of the genin on the field to make sure everybody was ready and said: "Ready…?! Set…! Fight!" as he lowered his hand.

The fight had started, Menma had rushed forwards as had Kiba and Akamaru. When Kiba came in range Menma swung his Kanabo to hit the boy in his shoulder but Kiba dodged underneath it easily. As he dodged he slipped behind Menma while Akamaru brought him out of balance by jumping on Menma's head after the Kanabo had swung past him. Menma stumbled backwards from Akamaru jumping on his face and pushing off, bringing him closer to Kiba who raised his claw hand and scratched over his entire back.

Menma yelled out in pain falling to his knees his back curving forward trying to get away from the dog boy. When Menma fell to his knees he yelled out in frustration and swung his Kanabo from his left side to his right, spinning around trying to hit the Inuzuka. Menma was too slow and Kiba jumped backwards, Akamaru landing beside him. "Let's finish this Akamaru!" he said.

"Transformation technique! Beast Human Clone!" Kiba yelled, transforming Akamaru into an exact replica of Kiba. After the transformation he yelled: "Fang Over Fang!" as he and Akamaru started spinning into a tornado and where heading in his direction.

Once again Menma raised his Kanabo to his side and above his head. In this stance he waited until one of the two closed in on his left. Menma quickly brought his Kanabo down and surprisingly made contact. He hit Kiba straight on his head sending him crashing into the ground, but Menma wasn't finished as he turned around counterclockwise, now having his Kanabo to his right below his waist. Akamaru attacked from the opposing side a second or two later than his owner but found Menma ready to swing upwards which he did. The Kanabo met Akamaru's jaw and sent him flying into the air. Akamaru landed on the ground unconscious and Menma was declared the winner.

The genin finished their matches and the third matches began after they had rested once more.

"The winners of this round were… Menma! Shino! Shikamaru! Lee! Tenten! And Neji! The next and final round for today will be… Menma vs Lee! Hinata vs Neji! Shikamaru vs Tenten! Kiba vs Choji! Sakura vs Shino! And Ino vs Sasuke!" Kenshiguru announced.

Sasuke was making a big fuss about having lost against a girl, and that he was holding back making excuses left and right.

When the matches started, Menma found his opponent to be out of his league and quickly abandoned his Kanabo to exchange hitting damage for dodging speed. The match didn't last very long but long enough for Menma to notice the way Lee moved. He felt nothing but awe at the boys strength and speed in taijutsu. Every strike, every kick, every move the green disaster made was almost perfect in Menma's eyes. It felt hypnotizing to watch his opponent move.

After the match was over which left him severely beaten and bruised and slightly annoyed at hearing the word YOUTH being yelled numerous times, Menma had decided to ask his sensei if it would be okay for him to ask Gai if he would train him in taijutsu.

Kenshiguru had merely smiled and said: "You can train whatever and with whomever you want, as long as it is done after my training."

Menma thanked his teacher and quickly ran over to Gai and Lee who were celebrating. After exchanging several words, many of which were the words EFFORT and YOUTH they had agreed to let the YOUTHFUL young man train with them.

It would be hell like Menma had never experienced but it would make him stronger.

Kakashi had arrived somewhere in the middle of the third round and true to his word Kenshiguru Ryuudan had planted his fist so far up Kakashi his ass that he couldn't sit for a month.

(for your information it was a fist made from an earth style technique: Earth release! Boulder uppercut!)

"Okay! Sparring is over for today! It is 12:00 o'clock and were all hungry, so you're all going back with your jounin sensei's to eat and after that everybody will be doing D-rank missions until 18:00 o'clock unless your sensei says otherwise! We'll do the exact same thing tomorrow and the day after that. From then on you'll train with your team! Dismissed!" Kenshiguru ordered.

The teams went their separate ways and went for lunch.

Ichiraku Ramen stand/12:02.

Kenshiguru and his team were having ramen for lunch. He had explained beforehand that he wouldn't be paying for their meals unless they promoted from genin to chuunin, he had already paid for their weapons after all.

During their meals Kenshiguru gave each of them some pointers. "Menma you underestimated Choji, never underestimate your opponent! You won against Kiba but got injured in the progress, do better next time. Your loss against Lee was expected, you need to work on your physique and taijutsu a bit more. But it was a good call to abandon your weapon. Hinata. I didn't expect you to win any of your matches considering your opponents, but you held back again and it's going to cost your team dearly. That's all. Shikamaru. You won against Ino and Sakura as expected but lost against Tenten because she kept bombarding you with shuriken and kunai. You need to learn to come up with a strategy while moving and while fighting. Your enemies won't allow you to just sit down until you've come up with a way to beat them. Remember this and work on your weaknesses!"

Kenshiguru finished his bowl of ramen and spoke once more after paying for his meal and thanking Ayame and Teuchi for it. "Now, Hinata, I warned you that if I found out you were holding back I would punish your teammates." He said with a you-should-have-listened kind of tone. "For your punishment Menma and Shikamaru are going to run to the hokage tower and then run back to us, then back to the tower and back to us, until we reach the tower." Kenshiguru said.

Both boys had a pained expression on their face and Hinata was about to burst out in tears.

"Come on! What are you waiting for?! Run!" He yelled and Shikamaru and Menma started sprinting towards the hokage tower while Hinata and their sensei walked at a steady pace. When Hinata and Kenshiguru Ryuudan arrived at the hokage tower, Shikamaru had gone back and fro 7 times and Menma had gone 12 times. Both were exhausted, sweaty and breathing hard. Hinata could clearly see they were in pain and vowed to herself not to hold back anymore.

For the rest of the afternoon team 13 performed nothing but D-rank missions. Mostly boring but hard work. They had to break down a rotten wooden fence, put a new fence up and paint it white. After that they had to patrol around the hot springs during rush hours to keep perverts away. And lastly they had to help at the bakery since the baker himself had fallen asleep and needed help to get his daily supply of bread for tomorrow ready. It took a while but eventually all missions were fulfilled and they each went their own way.

Kenshiguru went to a bar to meet up with his fellow shinobi. Hinata hurried home so she wouldn't be late for her curfew. Shikamaru was going to the park to hang out with his lifelong friend Choji. And Menma chose to head over to Gai and Lee for his Taijutsu training. A decision he soon regretted as later that night he dragged himself to his new apartment and fell asleep on his bed without even taking the effort of removing his clothes.

Before he fell asleep one thing went through his mind 'If that is what youth is all about I don't mind being old.'

Konoha training ground 40/second day of training 8:00.

Menma had dragged himself onto the training ground his body still sore from last night. He possessed over huge amounts of stamina and chakra reserves but even chakra doesn't stand a chance at the apparently infinite power source that was the FIRE OF YOUTH!

The first matches were called once again by Kenshiguru and Asuma started the matches while Gai was standing next to Kakashi who was wearing a plaster cast like a pair of shorts still sore from his last punishment. Kakashi had decided not to be late again, even though the doctors had told him he should be resting in a bed and put his students training on hold, but he would have none of it and left for training ground 40 well on time.

The first round started with Menma vs Sakura, Hinata vs Choji, Shikamaru vs Sasuke, Kiba vs Tenten, Lee vs Ino and Neji vs Shino;

The winners were Menma, Hinata, Sasuke, Tenten, Lee and Shino.

The second round was started after half an hour of rest. The matchups were as followed: Menma vs Ino, Hinata vs Kiba, Shikamaru vs Shino, Tenten vs Choji, Lee vs Sakura and Neji vs Sasuke.

Ino got Menma by surprise by entering his mind, taking of all of his weapons and laying them behind her own body, she then laid down on the grass and undid her mind transfer. With Menma unarmed she easily beat him. Hinata won against Kiba, Shino won against Shikamaru, Tenten won against Choji, Lee won against Sakura and Neji won against Sasuke which made him very frustrated.

After another half hour of rest the third round got called. Matching Menma vs Tenten, Hinata vs Lee, Shikamaru vs Neji, Ino vs Kiba, Sakura vs Choji and Sasuke vs Shino.

Menma faced his opponent which was a girl who was slightly older than himself. He had seen some of her battles as he had lost some of his pretty fast. He had noticed she was a skilled weapons user and was kind of itching to test his Kanabo skills on her.

When Asuma gave the starting signal Menma quickly charged forward, but he soon had to stop and jump back as Tenten had thrown three kunai at his feet. Menma had come to a full stop and decided to approach slightly less hasty. Closing the distance between them after having dodged and blocked several dozens of kunai and shuriken, Tenten unsealed a staff and they began their close combat.

Menma had the advantage when it came to power and stamina, but he couldn't land a single hit. Tenten had planned on tiring her opponent by dodging all of his attacks and striking when he wouldn't be able to lift his arms any more. A grave miscalculation on her part as she soon found herself to be more tired than the boy in front of her. 'How does he keep swinging such a heavy weapon like that?' she wondered.

After realizing she had made a mistake and that she wasn't going to win like this she started going on the offensive. But she was already too exhausted to fight at her best, her form had become sloppy, her strikes weak and slow. They now fought as equals trading blow after blow, blocking each attack.

Both were breathing heavily and all the other matches had already finished, now a small crowd had gathered around the two being the last ones still fighting. But neither of them noticed the cheering going on. They were only focused on one thing, their opponent.

Tenten charged forward and tried to strike at the boy's chest, she panicked as he jumped to the side causing her to stumble forward bringing her right at the boy's feet. She looked up to see Menma lifting his Kanabo one final time above his head to strike down upon her. Time seemed to start slowing down, the crowd held its breath, Gai's muscles tensed ready to jump in in a moment's notice. In a last effort Tenten raised herself of the ground and brought her staff up to block the oncoming attack, holding her staff with two hands at each end of her staff.

Menma looked down at his opponent, she had brought her staff up to block his attack. 'So she still has this much strength.' He thought. For a moment the corners of his mouth moved upwards forming a small smile. 'She's actually really fun to fight with!' he realized. A moment later his smile had disappeared and his eyes had hardened and he brought his Kanabo down with a mighty roar.

*YAAAAARGH!*

Menma's Kanabo landed on Tenten's staff, the strength of the blow forced her arms to bend. Menma's attack was about to hit her on her left shoulder when she bent through her knees and pushed up and backwards falling backwards herself about to lose consciousness.

Menma felt as his attack was redirected up and forward, at this moment his last bit of strength left his body and his knees gave out. He fell forward about to lose consciousness.

Both fighters fell, Tenten fell on her back and Menma fell on top of her, their lips made contact and their eyes grew wide staring into one another. The crowd had grown silent and a blush appeared on the faces of Hinata, Ino and Sakura.

At the same time hundreds of miles away, a man with long white hair, a sage like outfit and forehead protector with the kanji for oil on it suddenly felt a tingling in his pants. He turned around and stared into the direction of Konoha "Oho…? It seems something interesting is happening in Konoha! Maybe I should drop by the village just to see what interesting things are going on around there." he said while a perverted blush appeared on his face as he giggled like he usually does. This earned him angry and suspicious looks from the women in the streets.

Meanwhile back at Konoha.

For a moment the two genin laid there on the ground lips interlocked and eyes wide. A moment later Menma's mind went blank, his eyes closed and he pushed himself harder onto her lips, changing the accident into a passionate kiss. Tenten in response to Menma's actions slowly relaxed as well and allowed him to slip his tongue inside of her mouth.

Menma accepted and pushed his tongue inside and their tongues slowly started massaging one another. Menma grabbed her tightly by her shoulders pushing her into a hug as she let out a moan of pleasure.

End chapter 6: Youthful sparring and a first kiss!

Oh my god! I'm so evil! Stopping the chapter right here in the middle of the good stuff! But I have to, this chapter has already become slightly longer than most of the others.

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