ddk: Yes, any old medic nin could perform the tests, but Hiruzen wants to keep it quiet. As for the seal... let me see if I can simplify it a bit. Kurama's seal acts as a cage that sucks chakra out of bijū until they're gone(at least for this story). Tobi/Orochimaru are not bijū. Kurama doesn't like having bits of other people floating around. After he saw what happened with Tobi, he blocked Orochimaru's soul bit from getting sucked up. That gave Menma 3 choices.
1) Do nothing. Kurama continues to block Orochimaru and horrible things happen.
2) Kurama stops blocking it. Orochimaru's soul gets sucked up and horrible things happen.
3) Kurama overloads it. Orochimaru's soul goes boom and Menma gets a new power with drawbacks.
Chapter 12
(Hokage's Office)
Hiruzen ignored the door as it slammed open hard enough to crack.
"How dare you!"
"Hello, Tsunade," the old man said, pulling out a file and placing it near the end of the desk. "That is your first assignment."
The blonde stomped forward with a look of fury. "You know how much I've lost!"
"And how many other people have lost what you have? How many others have lost more?"
"But-"
"How many of them have fled their duty? Fled the past? It's time you stop acting like a child, Tsunade. Your time outside Konoha is finished."
"You can't-"
"I can, and I am. Unless, of course, you feel like seducing women and writing smut as a cover for managing a spy network?" Hiruzen smirked as she sputtered and flushed. "I didn't think so. You're dismissed, Tsunade."
She sputtered a bit more before growling, grabbing the file, and stomping out of the room.
Hiruzen slumped after she had left the room and sighed. "That took ten years off my life..." He pulled out his pipe and paused as he looked over all the paperwork on his desk.
(Konoha Hospital)
Menma was sitting in a hospital room after two women had run a bunch of tests on him. As he sat the two women entered the room.
The first, was an attractive blonde with the largest bust he had ever seen, although she would look better if she weren't scowling the whole time. That combined with her clipped questions made it apparent she was bitter over something.
The other woman had black hair and eyes. She was nice enough and seemed to be doing what she could to calm the other woman down.
The blonde spoke up as she looked over some paperwork. "Well how about that? He is your father." She looked at him with a sneer. "You must be so proud of him for throwing away his life like that."
"From what I've heard about him in the academy he believe the village was more important than his own life," he replied. "So, yes, I am."
"He was a fool!"
Menma stared at her curiously. "You're awfully bitter over this."
"I've lost a brother and a lover to this village. They both gave up their lives for it. Anyone who trades their life away like that is a fool," she snarled.
"Anyone?" He turned to look at the dark haired woman. "What's your name?"
"Shizune," the woman replied, handing him the paperwork from the finished tests.
He turned back to the blonde "You two seem fairly close."
"What of it?" She snapped.
"If you had to choose between your life, or Shizune's life, you would let her die?"
"Of course not! I would choose myself every time!"
Menma stood, walked over to the door, and paused before exiting the room. "Then you're like them. You would trade your life for hers. By your own logic, you're a fool too. The only difference between you and them is they saw a village full of Shizunes."
He walked out of the room leaving the two shocked women behind. He flipped through the paperwork as he walked. 'So he really was my father... and I'll pass on the Sharingan.'
(Menma's Room)
Menma found himself standing in front of a familiar gate.
"So, what do you want?"
"I told you that you had a few days at most and it's been almost a month, useless little creature."
"The curse seal? What happened?"
"After the three days I told you that you had passed I burned out the soul piece. You can no longer use my chakra directly. Any chakra you try taking from me will simply drain into that seal making it stronger."
"So why not just dump everything you have into it now and be done with it?
The Kyūbi pounded on the gate with a tail causing it to rattle. "This prevents me from doing so. If I could simply flood your body with my chakra I could kill you and be free."
Menma frowned. "It's always something... how strong is that seal right now? How can we make it stronger?"
"It contains one tail worth of power. The only way to strengthen it is time. I can send a small trickle of power to it constantly, or I can send a burst of power and then get locked out for a time."
"How long does it lock you out? Can you send another burst now?"
'A month per tail each time, and yes, I can."
"Do it. Keep doing it every time you can, I want this thing finished as quickly as possible."
Kyūbi glared down at his before glowing briefly. "It's done. The other seal now contains two tails worth of power."
With a nod, Menma disappeared from the seal.
The Kyūbi grinned maliciously once the boy was gone. "An equal number of months per tail each time we charge it." It sank backwards into the darkness of the cage. "Only a few years left until I'm free."
BAM. BAM. BAM.
Menma jerked awake to be blinded by the sun. With a growl he pulled himself out of bed. "I'm starting to see a pattern here."
He staggered over to the door and threw it open to reveal Sasuke. Sasuke blinked in surprise. "You were sleeping? You never sleep."
Menma grunted and staggered back into the room to dress. He quickly threw on his pants and shirt and glanced at his coat. It had suffered quite horribly in Wave. It was tattered and worn in numerous places. Some of the fur around the collar was even permanently stained from blood. With a frown he put it aside and pulled out his chūnin vest.
He looked himself over in the mirror and frowned. Black, red, and... pale green. It wasn't pretty. He sighed and removed it. "I'll need to buy a new coat or at least a better matching vest later."
He walked back to the hallway and closed his door behind him. Sasuke gave him a curious look. "No coat or forehead protector?"
Menma rubbed his forehead and recalled taking it off the night before. "The coat is in bad shape. I need a new one, and we're just watching the finals, not participating, so who cares if it's missing."
The two quickly left the Uchiha compound to find Sakura waiting outside for them. "You almost look like a civilian."
"Yeah, yeah, let's go."
(Chūnin Exams Finals)
The exams had been interesting enough for the most part. Shino hadn't gotten to fight an opponent yet as the Suna ninja he was supposed to face forfeit before the match even started.
Shikamaru had done the same against the Suna kunoichi. She took offense to that and tried to beat him to death when she returned from the arena.
Eventually it came down to the two finalists, Hyūga Neji and Sabaku no Gaara. Neji, in all his arrogance, had blabbered on about how trash like Gaara was fated to lose to him.
Gaara wasn't losing.
Neji had been unable to land a single blow on him so far. Every time he tried to get close Gaara's sand shield would protect him. Neji had taken a beating throughout the fight and was barely standing by the time Gaara decided to end it.
With a simple "Mother doesn't want your blood," he impaled the Hyūga through a lung with a spear of sand.
"Winner! Sabaku no Gaara!" Those words marked the start of chaos.
Feathers fell from above. In the short time it took ninja to recognize the genjutsu and dispel it Gaara had transformed into a sand monster.
Jiraiya had jumped down and turned the arena floor into a giant mud swamp to prevent him from getting free and causing too much damage.
The Kazekage and Hokage had vanished somewhere while enemy ninja flooded the stadium.
Many of the Konoha ninja had primarily concerned with evacuating civilians. Sasuke and Sakura had moved to intercept enemy ninja when Menma found himself roughly grabbed and thrust into a throng of fleeing civilians. By the time he managed to force his way out of the stampeding civilians he found himself outside of the stadium and halfway to a shelter.
As he broke free of the group he felt himself immediately grabbed and being forced back towards the others. "Damn it, knock it off! I'm not a civilian!"
"Relax, kid," the random ninja told him. "No need to act like a hero when your girl isn't around to see it. Just let us handle this."
Menma was contemplating stabbing him when a familiar Inuzuka showed up. "Kiba! Tell this bastard I'm a ninja!"
Kiba ground to a halt when he heard his name called and whipped towards the voice. "Menma, thank god! You have to help me, they took Hinata!"
Menma turned to the man holding on to him. "Believe me now, asshole?"
The man frowned at him. "Where's your headband? Where's your gear?"
"I was expecting to watch genin beat the crap out of each other all day, alright? Not fight off an invasion!"
The man cast a glance over Kiba and Akamaru before letting Menma go. "Genin should be helping the civilians to the shelters, not chase down enemy ninja."
Kiba jerked a thumb at Menma as they started running off. "It's ok, he's a chūnin!"
The two had tracked down and saved Hinata easily enough, although Menma had used his Sharingan numerous times to avoid danger along the way. Hinata had only been captured because she was still recovering from her fight with Neji.
Afterwards Menma had bid them goodbye and hurried to the stadium where a giant creature of sand could be seen.
'Is that the Suna guy? What the hell is he?' Menma arrived at the stadium to see that all that remained were the dead civilians that didn't escape in time and a couple fleeing groups of ninja.
Facing off against the giant creature he could see a wounded Sasuke and Sakura as well as a white-haired man with red marks on his face.
He was about to call out to them when the beast slammed a hand down on them and laughed maniacally.
"I killed them! I killed them! Ahahahaha!"
Menma stared in shock, his Sharingan changing shape to resemble three scythes arranged in a circle. "Why? Why am I so weak? If I'd been faster, stronger, I could have gotten here in time to save them..."
"Ooooh, look! More things to kill!" The monster turned towards Menma.
Menma blankly looked around. The white-haired man was gone. He couldn't see any other Konoha ninja within the stadium. He tried to see the crushed bodies of his friends, but the ground they had been on was crushed into an indentation of the beasts hand. He looked up at the creature that seemed to be raising its hand to smash him in slow motion. His gaze locked on to it's forehead.
'That boy. Gaara. It's his fault.' His eyes narrowed as he glared. "I'll kill you." His bit his thumb and flashed through hand signs.
A roar and a surge of power rippled across Konoha causing ninja from the Sand, Sound, and Konoha to pause in their attacks and turn towards the source.
In the stadium where the exams had been taking place stood a large creature made out of sand with its mouth hanging open in shock, it's fist cocked back and ready to strike.
Across from it stood a colossal red fox, nine tails writhing in the air behind it.
The Kyūbi had return to Konoha.
End Chapter 12
A/N:
Since I don't think I did a very good job explaining it, yes, it is Obito's/Kakashi's Mangekyō Sharingan. What that means for the future, you'll just have to wait and see.
The chapter is a bit shorter than usual, but these things happen.
Also, this chapter is raw. Meaning I didn't bother to spell check or proofread. Deal with it. Or point out typos and mistakes, I might fix them later.