Chapter I: Menma Namikaze
It was like Naruto was looking into a mirror, blonde spiky hair, blue eyes that sparkled in the sunlight. The older boy extended his hand to him with a small smile lingering warmly on his face. Without hesitation Naruto took the hand of the older boy and started to grin from ear to ear, it wasn't everyday that someone besides the Hokage and Iruka were nice to him.
"What's your name?" He asked, his voice as smooth as a sixteen year old could manage. His eyes drifted to the fresh headband that was equipped on Naruto's forehead. It wasn't the first time that Naruto had introduced himself to this older ninja, in fact he nearly ran into this teen every week.
"You ask me this every time Menma" Naruto replied as he shook the hand of his lookalike. "I'm sure I've shouted 'I'm Naruto Uzumaki! The Next Hokage!' at least thirty million times to you"
Menma Namikaze, an oddity to Naruto. Practically Leaf Royalty due to his heritage, being the son of the departed Fourth Hokage, a celebrity and record holder in the Ninja Academy, would spend his precious time with him more than anyone else he had seen the boy hanging out with.
Menma yawned loudly as he took his hand back and shoved it in his pocket, warming it up some more. In a contradictory tone he replied to Naruto. "Sorry sorry I must have forgotten"
Obviously this riled up the younger blond as he growled at Menma in a comical manner. "You Bastard! You aren't even the least bit sorry"
"Yeah… I'm not" He replied with a small chuckle. "Glad to see that you passed your ninja test"
"Bastard! I passed months ago!" Naruto explained while clenching his fist, his angry expression quickly turned to a shit eating grin as he remembered his last mission. Quickly putting his hands in his pockets. "I even completed an A Rank mission!"
Menma lazily blinked and smiled genuinely. "Oh that's really something, how did you find it?"
"It was super exciting! I kicked a tonne of ass" Naruto boasted, earning a small chuckle from Menma, who patted Naruto on the head.
"Looks like you took another step towards becoming Hokage huh?" Menma mused as he gave Naruto a thumbs up, his eyes wandering up to the tree where he knew a friend of his was watching the two interact.
He looked back down to Naruto and started to walk away from him. "Don't you have a sensei to go meet?"
Naruto's eyes went wide as he started to run again. "Ah! I forgot! See you around Menma!"
The older blonde smiled as his younger counterpart ran towards his sensei.
"You're getting cold feet Sensei…" Menma spoke aloof, the man in the tree hearing his every word. "Imagine an S Rank Ninja being scared of some snot nosed brat"
The wind blew and the man vanished from the tree, causing Menma to sigh, he probably wouldn't see the old bastard for another month, not that he needed the help now, he was more than qualified to be a genin.
He had some time to kill before the chunin exams would start. "Maybe I should stalk my Kid Brother for the rest of the day?"
"I haven't seen you in a while" Kakashi mused as he and Menma stood on a branch observing Team 7 do D Rank Missions. His eyes never leave the Icha-Icha book he held in his hand. "Has your sensei been taking you out for more assignments?"
Menma lightly chuckled as Naruto fell over in the river, much to the displeasure of Sasuke and Sakura.
"I've actually been running some solo missions for the past half year" Menma replied, causing the older ninja to humm in thought.
Kakashi turned a page in his book once again, appearing uninterested in the conversation that he was holding with the blonde. "So you're at that level huh? Why bother to take the chunin exams?"
"How often do you get the chance to meet exotic types of ninja in a controlled situation?" he replied while taking out a kunai, using it to clean the dirt from under his nails.
"I turn down all the diplomatic missions, they're boring"
Menma laughed, loudly enough to draw the attention of Sasuke who was growing bored of the D Rank mission that he was partaking in. "You'd rather read your book wouldn't you? You darn perv"
The two ninja noticed Sasuke walking to them but paid no attention until he was directly looking at them, specifically Menma more than Kakashi. His eyes narrowed as he seemed to enhance his senses with chakra, trying to sense Menma.
"Why do you look like Naruto?" Sasuke asked, surprising Kakashi and Menma, nobody really asked that question, most people were oblivious or smart enough not to ask such questions.
There was only one way to really respond to shift the focus of the conversation, while giving an answer that would leave Sasuke curious no longer. "Why do you look like Itachi?"
His sharingan sprung into action as his eyes turned red, his body switching into a fighting stance. "What do you know about him?"
Menma shrugged, knowledge was something that he never lacked. "Enough"
Kakashi took his lone eye away from his book and looked at Menma, curiously. "That was a little uncalled for, don't you think Menma?"
He held his hand up in a manner that suggested apology. "Oops! I shouldn't have said that. Forget what I just said, okay?"
This only irritated Sasuke even more, which was apparent by his growl, Kakashi sighed as he shut his book, the team had finished their mission, it was time to remove this independent variable from the equation.
Before he could speak a very wet Naruto sped towards the group, Sakura following behind not to miss out on any drama. He spots his look-alike and smiles. "Hey Menma! What are you doing here?"
Naruto's head then turns to Sasuke and his mood sours. "Oh for crying out loud! What did you say Menma?"
He pondered for a second, taking up the spotlight as he jumped off the tree and landed in front of Naruto. "I forgot"
"Well remember you dumbass! I wanna know!" Naruto screamed causing Menma and Kakashi to chuckle. Sasuke continued to look at the slightly older boy, now with a bead of sweat dripping down his face.
'I can't even sense him! Is he even here? My Sharigan isn't deceiving me?' He internally questioned while looking at the outline of the Namikaze, not a single flicker of chakra remaining.
A poof of smoke distracted everyone as a new presence could be sensed by all, on the shoulder of Menma. As the smoke cleared a small green toad rested on his shoulder, the toad itself seemed rather bothered. "Your Esteemed Master wishes to have a word with you before he leaves you to your own devices"
Menma sighed as the toad disappeared in a puff of smoke. He quickly saluted Kakashi and the rest with a smile. "I'm sure I'll be seeing alot of you soon, I've got to go beat up my coward sensei"
He stood there before he faded out of existence, once again no chakra signal or trace apparent for the young Uchiha. Who un-voluntarily let out a sigh of relief, one which didn't get by unnoticed.
"Does Menma scare you Sasuke?" Naruto mocked, causing the Uchiha to send him a dirty look, Naruto laughed until he was hit over the head by Saukra.
"Don't mock Sasuke you ingrate!"
I'm Back? What? Idk just got thinking about this stuff, all my other stories are on Hiatus atm, uni got me fucked up fr fr. Anyways lmk your thoughts and if you want a second chapter. ty and cya later