Chapter 01 HomecomingDisclaimer: I don't own anything, not even Naruto!!!The Uzumaki was a Clan living on a island they called Uzushiogakure no Sato, the village hidden in the worldpools, their members have the distinctive red hair, they were known for their skills in Fuinjustu, the sealing art, they were the biggest Clan in the world with the most members, their were lead by their leader the Sandaime Uzukage Arashi Uzumaki, when Konohagakure no Sato was built it Shodai Hokage Hashirama Senju, made on alliance with the Uzumaki Clan, but marrying one of their well known member by the name Mito Uzumaki now Senju, the alliance was the help each other in times of need. (more to be added)

《Konohagakure no Sato》

Konohagakure no Sato, the village hidden in the leaves which is located in the Land of Fire, is one of the five great hidden villages in the Elemental Nation, is was founded by it's Shodai Hokage Hashirama Senju and the head of the Uchiha Clan at the time Madara Uchiha, after Konoha was built, the other four nations followed suit.

Sixteen years ago tragedy hit Konoha in the form of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, one of the nine bijuu in the world, the Kyūbi destroyed many buildings and homes, along with the many people that died, the beast havoc, was stop thanks to the current Hokage at the time, the Yondaime Hokage Minato Namikaze, at the cost of his life, by sealing it into a new born baby by the name Naruto Uzumaki.

Currently walking to the direction of Konoha's gates is a total of three persons, starting from the back to front, is a man looks to be about fifty years old, he has spiky white hair tied into a spiky ponytail reaching his back with a headband tied around his forehead with the Kanji of "Oil" on it, tanned skin and black eyes with red lines underneath, (wearing the same outfit as canon), this person name is Jiraiya of the Todd Sanin.

The second person is a young man of sixteen years old, he has spiky sun kiss blonde hair with his black cloth leaf headband tied around his forehead, tanned skin and bight blue eyes with three wiskermarks on each cheeks, for clothes he wore black shinobi sandals, orange pants, an orange jumpsuit jacket with black sleeves and shoulders, this person name is Naruto Uzumaki, the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Kitsune.

And finally, behind the two is a tall young man of sixteen years old. He has spiky blood red hair chin length bangs framing his very handsome face, pale skin and dark blue eyes with three wiskermarks on each cheeks, for clothes he had on a black cape hooded with the Uzumaki swirl on the back in red with a dark red muscle t-shirt underneath, black bicep length fingerless gloves with red bands rapped around them, black cargo pants and black calf length shinobi sandals with the same type of red bands rapped around them, this person name is Menma Uzumaki

Menma and his brother were born sixteen years ago to Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage, and Kushina Uzumaki, on the night of their birth the Kyūbi was extracted from their mother by a unknown masked man, who used the Kyūbi to attack Konoha after fighting the masked man Minato proceeded to seal the Kyūbi inside Naruto's body by sacrificing his life and saved the village.

After that, the twins were placed into an orphanage,

Naruto and Menma were mostly fine at first while in the orphanage until the information about Naruto's Jinchuuriki status was leak into the village that's when every villagers they come across started to hate them both, the owners of the orphanage started to treat them like nobody's, the twins were even confused why they called them 'Demon Twins', it got worse that when they were four years old the matron decided to kick them out on the streets saying that 'Demons aren't allowed in their anymore'.

After about a month of living on living on the street, the twins were brought to the Sandaime Hokage Hiruzen Sarutobi, were the twins explained what happened, after that the Sandaime gave them a run-down apartment to live in, unfortunately their life only got worse when they started to live alone, because they weren't even allowed in the shops and stores, if they were allowed in any of them, they were either charged over price are get expired foods, more than half the time the foods will be both expensive and expired.

Fortunately for them, they found a ramen stand called Ichiraku Noodle Shop, with the owner and his daughter, didn't hate the twins like the rest of the villagers. It was great too because Naruto and Menma loved to eat ramen, Naruto more so, not long after that they started the academy at the age of six, now while Naruto loves to pull pranks to get the villagers attention, Menma didn't care much about being accepted by the villagers, he also doesn't like the spot light unlike Naruto, and while Naruto was the dead last of the academy, he was about the middle of the class.

While Naruto was busy trying different ways to get attention, Menma was busy training to get stronger so he could protect his future family because while Naruto wanted to become the future Hokage, Menma always dreamed to have a big family of his own, he and Naruto aren't very close because he and Menma had different out look on life, while Naruto would save everyone and be the hero, Menma didn't care about that one bit, because in his eyes not everyone will be saved, that doesn't mean he won't save someone if he can. (More to be added)

After graduation, which Naruto did by getting tricked by one of their teachers name Mizuki, who did like either boys, Mizuki was then defeated by Naruto as to what Menma was told since he when home after getting his own headband, he tried to tell Naruto to focus on his ninja training, instead of pulling pranks if he wanted to graduate but he never listened so Menma stop saying anything about the matter, especially with Naruto failing two times before that's because he couldn't do the Clone Jutsu, Menma himself couldn't do it at first but after training day and night for hours in Chakra control he finally could do it like the rest of the students.

On the day of team placement, Naruto was placed on a four man squad with consisted of Naruto him, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha with one Kakashi Hataka as their sensei, while Menma was placed on a two man squad, which was him and his sensei name Anko Mitarashi.

More to be added.

Now, after three years, they were returning to Konoha after being away on a training trip with Jiraiya, which was to mainly train Naruto to control the Kyūbi's Chakra, especially with a group of S-rank criminals called the Akatsuki is hunting down Jinchuuriki's for the tailed beast sealed inside them, which is nine to be exact, Menma for himself isn't a Jinchuuriki unlike Naruto so he didn't have to go on the trip, but because he got a Bloodline that can keep tailed beasts in check he was ordered to go.

'*Tch! While being away from the village for a while was good, especially seeing the new places.* Menma thought with a small smile since he did enjoy the places he saw before sighing. '*The Training with Jiraiya was a complete disappointment and waste of time.*' He thought very disappointedly since he was really looking for to learn from a Sanin, but he knew he should've known better especially with Jiraiya being a pervert who would rather pee on women in bathhouse and spa alike than doing anything else.

That, of course, didn't mean Menma didn't do any training of his own, which was in secret just like he always did before graduating, and after. 'Though something tells me that this is the calm before the storm,' He thought with a frown, especially with the Akatsuki threat out there, he then let out a small sigh before flicking up his hooded that now covers his head and face as he continued on the path towards the village.

《Konoha's Gates》

After walking for a few more minutes, the group of three finally entered the village and continued their progress into Konoha, which the two gates guards perked up as they walked past. "Hey now, are those who I think?" The one with a white bandage across his nose whose name is Izumo asked.

"Yeah, no doubt about it," said Kotesu while nodding in agreement to his fellow guard.

《With Menma, Naruto, and Jiraiya》

"It's has been about two and a half years," Naruto said as all three walked through the streets.

"So it has," Jiraiya said with Menma, choosing to keep quiet, as they came up to a pole to which Naruto took off the bag he had on and let it fall to the ground before he started to run up the pole my chakra control to his feet. "Always rambunctious," Jiraiya said with a smile as watching Naruto with Menma rolling his eyes from his position beside Jiraiya.

"Now this takes me back. The village hasn't changed a bit," Naruto said with his arms stretched out as soon as he reached the top of the pole before continuing. "I'M HOME EVERYONE, NARUTO UZUMAKI HAS RETURN TO THE HIDDEN LEAF VILLAGE!" He proclaimed out loudly with a fist stretch out.

'And he called himself a ninja,' Menma thought from his position with a roll of his eyes since a ninja must never reveal his presence, especially by shouting. 'But then again, he wore orange clothing,' He added in after thought while wondering how he is still alive wearing such bright clothes, not to mention his yellow hair, Menma on the other hand known full well that his hair color stuck out like a sore thumb, that why he wear clothes that can cover his hair, especially with it being a very, very rear color.

"Man, I'm feeling so nostalgic now, mm-hmm," Naruto said while nodding his head before his eyes landed on the Hokage monument. "Haha, they added Baa-chan's face up their," he said with a chuckle, seeing the monument now has five Hokage's face carvings instead of four, with the Godaime Hokage face now added.

From his ground position, Menma could hear everything Naruto was saying to himself thanks to his enhanced hearing. 'Isn't surprising that the Godaime Hokage face is up there too,' He thought before perking up when he sensed some Chakra signatures approaching that to his sensor ability.

He then turned around to see four people, which considered of a girl the same as him and Naruto, she is of average height with fair skin, emerald green eyes, short bubble gum color hair and petite built, for clothes she wore a red sleeveless vest blouse, a pale pink apron skirt with a black spandex shorts underneath, knee high kunoichi boots and her forehead protector tied in her hair like a hairband, her name is Sakura Haruno, with the three younger children being Konohamaru Sarutobi, Mogie and Udon Naruto's three little friends if Menma had to guess.

"Is it... is it really him?" Sakura asked in while looking up at Naruto's position since the gate guards informed her of his arrival. "Looks like," added in Konohamaru with a smile, not even glancing at Menma and Jiraiya's position, not that Menma was complaining he knows how to become invisible even with people around especially with ones who ignored their so rounding.

"Naruto, Naruto, is that you," Sakura said, gaining his attention with Naruto looking down at her. "When did you get back to the village, Naruto?" She asked.

"Oh, just now," Naruto said before jumping down from the pole to the ground. "Long time no see, ha Sakura-chan!" He asked, walking up to her before chuckling.

"Ha, wait a minute, you gotten taller than men haven't you," Sakura said, noticing Naruto's height.

Which caused Naruto to perk up. "I guess I have," he said after emphasizing his and her height with his hand.