Hey guys, it is Menma Uzumaki Jr. a new writer, and I'm here with a new story called (Menma's Chronicles) (a re-upload) with the MC an OC with the name Menma (Naruto's younger twin brother), I warn you now that this story is similar to canon with a new character and few changes, now Menma will be OP then and even more OP when it's time for Shippuden, so yeah... and by the way, I'm a single writer, which means I didn't have a second opinion while writing, so there might be a few ups and down, but hey it's call trying for a reason.

Disclaimer: I don't own anything you might recognize.

Menma's Chronicles

Chapter 01: Enter the Uzumaki Twins


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 are the biggest Clan in the world with the most members, their were lead by their leader the Sandaime Uzukage Uzumaki Arashi.

When Konohagakure no Sato was built it Shodai Hokage Senju Hashirama, made on alliance with the Uzumaki Clan, but marrying one of their well known member by the name Uzumaki Mito later Senju, the alliance was the help each other in times of need.

《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 Senju Hashirama and the head of the Uchiha Clan at the time Uchiha Madara, after Konoha was built, the other four nations followed suit.

Twelve 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 Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato, also known as Konoha's Yellow Flash, at the cost of his life, by sealing the Kyūbi into inside a new born baby by the name Uzumaki Naruto.

《Konoha's Forest》

Currently standing on a tree branch in one of Konoha's forests in the cover of night is a boy of twelve years old who is very tall for his age standing at 155.5 cm, he has spiky crimson red hair that was tied into a small ponytail with chin length bangs framing his face, fair skin, round face with dark blue eyes and three wiskermarks on each cheeks.

For clothes he was currently wearing a dark red and black hooded jacket with red stripes on each sleeve and the Uzumaki swirl on the back and a red t-shirt underneath, with a necklace that has a Uzumaki swirl pendant, black cargo pants that end above his calves with red stripes on each sides and white bandage rapped around his ankles, his ninja kunai holder on his left thigh, his ninja poach on one his back pocket, black fingerless gloves and dark red shinobi sandals, this person name is Uzumaki Menma.

Menma and his brother were born twelve years ago to Namikaze Minato, the Yondaime Hokage, and Uzumaki Kushina, 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 five 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 Sarutobi Hiruzen, 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 and would rather spend most of his time training, he also doesn't like the spot light unlike Naruto, and while Naruto was the dead last of the academy, he was the top student 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.

Now, while they were twins, Menma and Naruto are very different from each other in more than just personality, Menma is very smart even at a very young age, which made him learn very fast, in fact he has a very strong feeling that the Yondaime Hokage is their father from a young age after he saw a picture and when he looked at Naruto he saw that they looked very much alike, unlike Menma who has who shared just the wiskermarks with Naruto, and while he suspect that Minato is the father he has yet to found out who their mother was.

Now, Menma was currently watching Naruto, who has spiky yellow blonde hair, lightly tanned skin, sky blue eyes with three wiskermarks on each cheek, and blue goggles on his fore head, for clothes he wore a bright orange jumpsuit with a little blue on the jacket and white neck and blue shinobi sandals, as he went through a scroll, but not just any scroll because it was the Forbidden Scroll that he stole from the Hokage Tower after he was trick by one of their sensei name Mizuki.

Menma for himself saw when Mizuki approach Naruto outside the academy after he failed the graduation test, now Naruto failed to graduate because he couldn't perform the Clone Jutsu which caused him to fail two before now, Menma tried telling Naruto to focus on his ninja training instead of pulling pranks but he never listened, Menma for his part couldn't do the Clone Jutsu at first but after training day and night for hours in Chakra control he finally could do it like the rest of the students.

So Menma decided to watch Mizuki since he never like are trusted him and see what he was up to, only to realize quickly that Mizuki was up to no good when he told Naruto of a secret make-up test he could take in order to become a ninja.

Now, if Naruto was smart, he would've realized that Mizuki was lying because if there was such a test, then why didn't he receive it the first two times he failed, but Naruto isn't smart so he felt for it hoke line and sinker. 'Though I must admit that I'm impressed that he has enough skills to steal the scroll,' Menma thought to himself from his position above the tree behind Naruto.

'Then again, he did paint the Hokage Monument in broad daylight and was only noticed when he was making his escape,' Menma added in after thought while knowing if Naruto add all that time into some serious training, he wouldn't be called the loser of the academy.

'Oh well, I might as well memorize a few interesting Jutsu!' Menma thought with a smile as he took out a small red book, that he would use to write down any ideas he had, and a Chakra pen from his ninja poach then began to write in his book since he could see the content of the scroll from his position and it was too much of a golden apertunity to pass up.

《Few Hours Later》

It wasn't long before Menma watched as Naruto found a Jutsu called Shadow Clone Jutsu and started to learn the technique, and after a female hours, he got it down which caused Menma to shake his head knowing that Naruto had potential but zero bain cell to utilize it. 'It's just unfortunate,' He thought as Naruto proceeded to roll up to scroll and strapped it on his back.

That's when Menma perk up and fick up his hooded after putting away his book and pen then hid his presence as best as he could when he sensed someone Chakra headed to their position with his sensor ability, that possessed for as long as he can remember with it only getting better with his training. 'Let's see how things go,' He thought.

Naruto, who doesn't know Menma, was watching him panted tired, but couldn't help but grin at mastering the Shadow Clone Jutsu. "Oh man, that was way easier than the Clone Jutsu! And I can make so many clones, I'll definitely pass for sure!" Said Naruto, happy that he'll finally become a ninja.

'Just like that bastard,' Naruto thought with an image of Menma in his head, and he said bastard because Menma never agreed with anything he said or do, he then shake his head before he closed the scroll and strapped it to his back, eager for Mizuki to arrive so he can see the jutsu he learned.

Though the blonde Uzumaki looked up when a shadow fell on him, he was surprised when he saw his other teacher named Umino Iruka. He is a man of average height with fair skin, black eyes, a scar on the bridge of his nose, and black hair tied into a spiky ponytail that resembled a pineapple with his leaf headband tied around his forehead, for clothes he wore the standard shinobi outfit with his forest green Chūnin flak jacket and blue shinobi sandals.

"It's all over!" Iruka stated, looking at Naruto in annoyance and irritation, seeing he really did steal the Forbidden Scroll, that he and the other ninja were informed by the Sandaime Hokage, with him now swearing that he's going to wring Naruto's neck to find out why he'd do something this foolish.

"Hehehe, caught me already, not bad Iruka-sensei. I only had enough time to learn one Jutsu." Naruto said, not surprised that Iruka found him like all ways when he tried to hide after pulling his pranks, especially since the old Hokage probably wore up after being knocked out by his Sexy Jutsu

'What? He's been out here training?' Iruka thought in confusion, now noticing how his clothes were dirty, seeing how whatever Jutsu he learned is one he worked hard to learn.

"Naruto, what're you talking about? Why did you take the Forbidden Scroll?" Iruka asked, realizing that he likely didn't know the full story of what's going on.

"What do you mean why? Come on, sensei, I know about the secret test. I had to get this scroll from the old man's office and learn this really awesome Jutsu from it. Now you're going to let me graduate and finally become a ninja!" Naruto said, causing Iruka's eyes to widen in shock.

"What?! Who told you that?!" Iruka said, now knowing what happened, Naruto had been tricked into stealing the Forbidden Scroll by someone.

"Mizuki-sensei told me! He's the one who told me about the test, where I could find this scroll, and this place..." Naruto replied, only to trail off when he noticed Iruka's shocked and horrified expression, the whiskered blonde now getting the feeling something was wrong.

'Huh, so Mizuki will arrive soon, interesting.' Menma thought from his still hidden position when he sensed Mizuki coming, though he couldn't help but think how prophetic Iruka is for not noticing his presence, but then again Menma was training himself to be practical invisible.

'Mizuki told him?! But that means...' Iruka thought in shock and horror before his head snapped to the side, seeing multiple kunai heading straight for him and Naruto.

"Look out!" Iruka shouted, shoving Naruto out of the way, grunting as the kunai hit him, pinning his to the wall of the cabin while one stabbed him in one of his leg.

"I see you found our little hideaway." stated Mizuki. He is of average height with fair skin, black eyes, and short white hair with his leaf headband tied around his forehead wearing the same outfit as Iruka with two Fūma Shuriken strapped to his back, smirking wickedly at the two.

"So that's the way it is, huh? I should've known!" Iruka said, looking at Mizuki, seeing that he told Naruto about the scroll so he could steal it for him, not only getting Mizuki the Forbidden Scroll but being able to go after Naruto as well. 'I hope he didn't do anything to Menma.' He said in thought, being worried that Mizuki may have done something to Menma.

"Naruto! Give me the scroll now!" Mizuki demanded, wanting to get the Forbidden Scroll first before dealing with the brat. "Wait a minute, what's going on here?!" Naruto said, freaking out as he looked between Iruka and Mizuki, not knowing what was going on anymore.

"Naruto, don't let Mizuki get the scroll! It contains Forbidden Jutsu that could put all of Konoha in danger! And Mizuki used you to get the scroll for himself!" Iruka said, grunting as he pulled the kunai out of his leg.

With Naruto's eyes widening at this, before he glared at Mizuki, angry that he'd been tricked and lied to.

"Naruto, Iruka's just trying to scare you because he doesn't want you to have the scroll." Mizuki said, which only confused Naruto further as he looked at Iruka unsurely, not knowing who's telling the truth or if they're both lying.

"Stop lying, Mizuki! Don't let him trick you, Naruto!" Iruka said, only for Mizuki to laugh mockingly at them. "Oh, I'll tell you who's really lying." Stated Mizuki, making Iruka's eyes widen in horror, realizing what Mizuki intended to do.

Menma, for his part, was getting bored at the back and forth between Iruka and Mizuki and was getting ready to reveal himself until he heard what Mizuki said. 'Is he?' He asked himself in thought, wondering if Mizuki is going to reveal what Menma thought.

"No, Mizuki!" Yelled Iruka, knowing how badly things could go if he revealed that.

"They've been lying to both you and your brat of a brother your whole life since the Hokage passed a law seven years ago." Mizuki said, ignoring Iruka and unknowingly confirming to Menma what he thought.

"Me and Menma? What... law?" Naruto asked in confusion at what he's talking about that has to do with him and his brother.

"Everyone knows except the both of you, the secret that was revealed when you both were just five-year-old. Even Iruka knows and is still trying to hide it from you. He'd do anything to shut me up." Mizuki said, wanting to make sure Naruto's desperate at finding out the truth.

'Too bad the red hair brat isn't here as well.' He thought, since he hated Menma more than Naruto especially with all the time he was mock by Menma during a practice match, but he realized that redhead isn't stupid like the blonde.

"What secret?! What law are you talking about?! Why does everyone know it, but me and Menma?!" Naruto shouted. "Don't tell him, it's forbidden!" Iruka yelled, only for Mizuki to smirk wickedly.

"The secret is that the Kyūbi no Kitsune is inside the both!" Revealed Mizuki, even though he knows it is only Naruto, but he doesn't care, causing Naruto's eyes to widen in shock at this.

"The demon fox that killed Iruka's parents, destroyed our village, and the Yondaime Hokage died sealing is inside you and your brother by splitting it into two! You and Menma are the Kyūbi no Kitsune!" Mizuki said, much to the blonde Uzumaki's horror.

"Stop it!" Shouted Iruka, seeing that Mizuki was now twisting the truth to hurt Naruto, especially by telling him that Menma also has the Kyūbi which was wrong.

"They've all been sneaking around and hiding things from you two, your whole lives. Even the Hokage tried keeping it a secret from the rest of the villages, but we were finally told the truth five years after the attack. Don't you think it's strange how everyone suddenly started treating the two of you like dirt! Like they hated you guys for just being alive!" Mizuki said cruelly, wishing that Menma was hearing this too, still not knowing he was present as well, while Naruto gritted his teeth.

"No! No, no, no, no!" Naruto said, not wanting to believe this is why he and Menma was hated, thought apart of his was wondering why Menma didn't seem to care about the villagers.

"That's why you and the brat will never be accepted by this village! Even Iruka hates your guts! Now die, Na–," Mizuki said, grabbing one of his Fuma shuriken, but before he could throw it at Naruto, he stopped when they all heard clapping.

"Congratulations, Mizuki-teme," Menma said, clapping after deciding he heard enough before jumping down to land on the ground and walking up to Naruto and Iruka position, while ignoring all three of them surprised expression and continued. "You just proved to be more stupid than I originally thought you were." He stated while shaking his head.

"Menma! When did you get here?" Iruka asked after being the first to recover from Menma's sudden appearances while wondering how much he heard, but before Menma could even say anything, it was Mizuki, who spoke. "What did you just say, you brat?!" He asked while glaring at Menma and wondering where he came from.

With Menma only chuckling at Mizuki. "Wow, not only stupid but also deaf," he said with a smirk before continuing. "I'm honestly surprised you're not dumb as well," he stated mockingly with his arms folded across his chest and not being faze by Mizuki's glaring.

"Why you!" Mizuki said as his anger started to grow. "I mean, you honestly believe me, and that fool is the Kyūbi," Menma said and pointed at Naruto, who was still in a state of shock, at the last part. "Ha, ridiculous!" He said.

"OF COURSE YOU ARE!" Mizuki shouted in anger before calming himself down slightly, not wanting Menma to get to him, then continued. "That's why no one will never love any of you, Demons!" He said with a cruel smirk while being happy that Menma was here. That way, he could kill both the Kyūbi and Iruka in one go.

Iruka, for his part, was going to say something since he realized that Menma somehow heard everything Mizuki said, but he didn't get the chance as Menma spoke. "Tch! How someone like you became a ninja, much less a teacher is confusing to say the least," he informed while rubbing his forehead, causing Mizuki to growl in anger.

"Anyways, allow me to be your teacher since you desperately need one," he said mockingly before clearing his throat and continued. "Now then, I myself is not the Kyūbi, believe you won't want that," he then points to Naruto.

"Their is no way in hell that fool is the Kyūbi itself, I mean, just look at him all frozen in fear like a bitch," Menma informed before turning back to Mizuki, who was glaring harshly. "Yes, you both are demons and nothing more." Mizuki said while having enough of his.

"No, you stupid fucking idiot," Menma said before smirking and pointed at Mizuki while looking into his eyes. "Because the Kyūbi is right behind," he said, being tired of Mizuki's nonsense.

《Genjutsu World》

Causing Mizuki to become confused. "What are you..." he began to say before trailing off as a large shadow suddenly appeared. He then looked at Iruka to see his eyes widen in fear while shakily pointing behind Mizuki, who turned around.

And what he saw cause his heart to almost come out of his chest because standing there saw the Kyūbi in all its large glory while showing its large knine, the Kyūbi them began to raise its giant paw before starting to bring it down on Mizuki, who scream as he was step on, not realizing he was caught in a Genjutsu.

《Reality》

'Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Jutsu!'* Menma thought after Mizuki screamed out before falling flat on his stomach from the Genjutsu he used on him that showed Mizuki his worst fear. "Well, that was easy," he said, a little disappointed after walking over to Mizuki's down form.

"Oh well!" Menma said before taking out a roll of ninja wire from his ninja poach, then proceeded to tie up Mizuki after making sure he was tied up properly, Menma took away his bandana fore head protector and walked over to Iruka then stretched out his hand that had Mizuki's bandana.

"Here!" Menma said simply to Iruka, who took it after shaking his head slightly while he tried to process what just happened, like how Mizuki screamed out after he turned around when Menma pointed at him.

'Could it have been a Genjutsu?' Iruka asked himself in thought while looking at Mizuki's body before looking at Menma, now realizing he was more skilled than he originally thought even with him been the top student in the academy, he was then knocked out of his thoughts when Menma spoke.

"Now that's taken care of," Menma said as Naruto stated to finally come around. "Why don't you demonstrate the jutsu you learn to Iruka-sensei, here." He said to Naruto, who was looking at him dummyly.

"Jutsu?" Naruto asked dummyly before glancing at Iruka, who smiled at him. "It's okay, Naruto, and can show me the Jutsu you learned." Iruka said with Naruto nodding slowly before making a handsign, then shouted. *"Shadow Clone Jutsu!"* causing a puff of smoke which then cleared to reveal six Naruto's standing before them.

Menma then stepped forward while looking at each Naruto. "Hmmm, interesting," he said simple. Now that he is up close, he realized that they're not mere illusion but solid clones. 'Imagine the possibility,' he thought, planning to do the jutsu when he got home to have a personal feeling for it before turning back to Iruka who seems to have come to the same realization about the clones not being illusions.

"Not only did he create five clones, more than the required number, but they're all look healthy to me, what about you Iruka-sensei?!" Menma said, with the Naruto's looking at Iruka with hopeful expression.

"Hmmm, yes, they're look right," Iruka responded, looking at each clone, realizing what Menma is trying to do. "You can dispel them now, Naruto," he told Naruto with them dispelling the jutsu, the clones leaving in puffs of smoke.

"Now step forward... close your eyes." He said with Naruto nodding and then doing what he said with Menma walking over to the scroll that fell off Naruto's back earlier deciding to use this apertunity to take a look at the content of the scroll.

Iruka then proceeded to remove his headband and then remove Naruto's goggles, which was then replaced by headband. "What's going on, sensei?" Naruto asked as he felt something on his forehead. "Hold on, I'm almost done... now open your eyes." Iruka said.

When Naruto opened his eyes, he saw Iruka smiling at him, but he didn't see his headband. "Congratulations, Naruto, you graduate," Iruka said and frowned slightly when Naruto didn't say anything. "Iruka-sensei!" Naruto said as he quickly hugged Iruka, who grunted from pain as his back hit the tree behind him. "Ahh! that hurt," Iruka said. "S-sorry, Dattebayo!" Naruto said sheepishly with Iruka waving him off with a smile.

They both then turned their attention to Menma, who cleared his throat. "While you two continue to celebrate, I'll be taking the scroll and the traitor to the old man," Menma said after he strapped the scroll on his back and walked over to the unconscious Mizuki to pick him up but before he could, a few Anbu jumped into the area.

"We'll take it from here." Said one of the Anbu who had on a bear mask. "Tch! You may take the traitor, but I will deliver the scroll to the old man myself," Menma said with his arms folded across his chest and a frown on his face not wanting the Anbu to take any credit especially after he was the one to defeat Mizuki.

"Ah, Menma, I think you should listen to the Anbu," Iruka said, not wanting Menma to get in trouble. "Tch, to hell with that shit," Menma said before he started walking away from the area with everyone looking, Iruka with a worried look at how Menma is not showing respect to the Anbu, Naruto with a conflicting look, and the Anbu... well, their looks couldn't be seen because of their mask, before they all left the area with Mizuki's unconscious body, with Iruka and Naruto following Menma.

《Hokage's Office》

Sarutobi Hiruzen, the Sandaime Hokage, looked at the two before him after everything was explained and send Iruka home, then put away the Forbidden Scroll he took from Menma while planning to put up some extra security so no one can take it so easily again.

He signed thinking about the information that was leaked by the traitor, who was currently locked up in the TI department to find out what else he knew, he didn't want Naruto and Menma to find out about the former burden this way, especially with Mizuki twisting the truth and thinking that both of them has the Kyūbi when it is just one.

As Hiruzen looked at the twins, he couldn't help but think how completely different they were from each other, which shouldn't be surprising since they are two different persons but they were twins who has nothing in common from what he observed so far given the fact the hard life they had so far.

One took to finding ways to be accepted by the villagers and the other one took a very different route that doesn't include being accepted by others, though he has to admit that Menma is very impressive to be able to defeat Mizuki a Chūnin with such a low level Genjutsu, but Menma told the Hokage that he caught Mizuki off guard because of his anger towards him and Naruto.

Hiruzen then sighed as he sat down in his chair and opened up one of his desk drawers and took out his smoking pipe before lightning it with a small fire style, then he took a puff. "Now then," he said after exhaling the smoke. "Am sure you both have questions," he said, curiosity as he looked from one boy to the other.

"Um," Naruto said, gaining the other two occupants of the office attention. "Why didn't you tell me- I mean, us about the Kyūbi, why everyone hates us?" He asked the Hokage, who sighed as he expected the question.

"I'll get to that, but first things first," Hiruzen said before taking a puff from his pipe, then continued. "Only one of you has the Kyūbi sealed inside them," he said while looking at both boys before his eyes stopped on Naruto, who was standing in front of the desk. "You, Naruto-kun!" He informed to which caused Naruto to look down, not being fully surprised because while he was out of it earlier, he heard a thing are two from Menma's conversations with Mizuki.

"I se–," Naruto began to say before he was cut off by Menma. "Impressive old man! And here I thought the hole being the *Professor of Shinobi* was just blowing smoke," Menma said, from his seated position on the couch in the office, with sarcasm and mockery clear in his voice as Naruto glared at him, which Menma completely ignore, at the way he's talking to the old man and said old man only looked at Menma with a small smile as he took puffs from his pipe.

"Yes, Menma, your analytic ability is truly staggering," Sarutobi said with a small smirk on his face as Menma glared at his, which didn't faze the Hokage since he learn that in order to win anything against Menma one has to use his own words against him. 'Still works, I see,' Hiruzen thought to himself. "But I'm curious about how you know you yourself don't possess any, and when you found out about it," he asked curiously.

"Fuck that shit! This isn't my interrogation old man, it's your," Menma said, pointing at Hiruzen, who raised an eyebrow at Menma's choice of word, though he is used to Menma cursing by now, and with Menma not being one to fall into any kind of trap so easily, unlike Naruto.

"And the question that the loser asked is," he said with Naruto growling slightly in anger at the loser comment but didn't get to say anything as Menma get up from his position and stand before the desk with his arms folded across his chest and continued. "Why didn't you inform us about said loser status, but was cool with blah it to everybody else," he asked with suspicion in his voice with Naruto couldn't help but nod his head.

'It's very impressive how he knows how to dodge a question like any experienced person,' The Hokage thought always been impressed by Menma's analytical skills when he asked the boy something, he then sigh before taking another puff from his pipe and exhaling the smoke, deciding to get it over especially with the inpatient look Menma was giving him.

"Now then, you see, the night of the Kyūbi attack, many people died, friends, family, everyone lost someone or something," Hiruzen said before taking a small pause to see that both boys were paying attention then continued.

"It's why I made the decision to keep Naruto's Jinchuuriki status a secret, to let the both of you have a chance at a normal childhood without being burdened with everyone's misplaced hatred," he explained taking a breath then continued.

"But five years after the attack, someone had leaked the knowledge to the rest of the village, by the time I learned of it, it was too late and all I could do was implement a law preventing anyone from speaking about it," The Hokage said then take another puff from his pipe.

"But not everyone is aware of Naruto's status. Those within your generation and everyone younger don't know the truth, which was the purpose of my law. Ensuring that while the older generation knew, the younger generation would have the chance to form their own opinions about the both of you, but mostly Naruto, rather than simply hate him because of the Kyūbi." Hiruzen explained, with Naruto looking a bit confused and Menma going over everything he just heard in his head.

"Ohh, so that me–," Naruto began to say but was once again interrupted by Menma. "Shut up, fishcake," Menma said, looking at Naruto, who glared at him at the *fishcake* comment since it's a translation of his name. "I'll do the talking," he said firmly before turning back to the Hokage.

"Now then, that's a very interesting story so far," Menma said before folding his hands across his chest. "But tell me about the part of our generation parents telling their children to stay away from us, that we are dangerous and a bad influence, that they should ignore us just because they said so." He asked, with the Sandaime sighing at this and shaking his head both at the questions and the one asking them.

"I'm afraid that was an inevitability, that even if the children don't know the reason why their parents don't like the both of you, they only focus on the fact that they don't." Sarutobi said, knowing that while the younger generations aren't aware of the Kyūbi, that doesn't stop their parents from influencing their opinions on Naruto in turn Menma.

It's something he couldn't stop and could only hope some of the children choose to get to know Naruto and Menma on their own. Or the few parents that don't hate, once again Naruto, in turn Menma, and encourage their children to treat them the way they want to treat them.

"Mmm," was Menma's response. "...you called him a Jinchuuriki," he said, motioning to Naruto. "Is that what he is because of the Kyūbi?" He asked, with Sarutobi nodding in response.

"Yes, when a person has a Bijū sealed inside of them, they become known as Jinchūriki, no longer considered something completely human. As when a Jinchūriki loses the Bijuu inside of them, then they will die. While some people would believe the Bijuu are actually demons, they are actually living masses of pure Chakra, making it impossible to actually kill them as they'll simply reform in a few years, is why sealing them is highly recommended." Hiruzen explained, with Menma gaining an understanding look and Naruto a very confused look since it's a lot of information.

'Mmmm, from the information so far, I'm guessing that Jinchūriki's are tools and each of the other four great hidden villages must have their own Jinchūriki...' Menma thought analytics before focusing on the Hokage. "Am curious to know how many Bijuu of our they?" He asked curiously.

"They're nine in total," Sarutobi said while being impressive at Menma's reasoning ability, with Menma gaining an understanding look. "Interesting..." Menma said with a nod before a thought came to his mind. "But do you know why it wasn't me made into the Jinchūriki instead?" He asked, always wondering why it wasn't him instead from when he found out about the Kyūbi inside Naruto.

With Menma's question making Naruto to be curious about it as well. "I'm not entirely sure, maybe because you were born very small and your body probably couldn't contain the Kyūbi without consequence," Hiruzen said always thinking the reason the Yondaime didn't made Menma a Jinchūriki was because he was about half Naruto's size when they were born, though he is happy to see him grow up fine, with Menma only catching up to proper size after he left the orphanage.

"Not a comforting answer, but it doesn't matter, not anymore," Menma said since that only made his belief in certain things stronger, especially with the part about the villagers unforgivable stupidity, before he shakes his head and get back to the topic at hand. "Has Konoha had Jinchūriki before him?" He asked, wondering who the previous Jinchūriki of the Kyūbi were.

"... Yes, there were two Jinchūriki before Naruto. Due to the Kyūbi being the most powerful Bijuu, only a very few were capable of containing its power." Sarutobi replied after a few moments, knowing he had to be careful in revealing too much information, especially with Menma with how smart he was.

"Who were they?" Menma questioned, wanting to know who the other Jinchūriki were if he and Naruto were somehow connected to them if only a select few people could contain the Kyūbi. "It doesn't matter who they were. Both of them have long since passed." Hiruzen said, only for the redhead Uzumaki to narrow his eyes.

"But if they're dead, then why should it matter whether or not you reveal to us who they were?" Menma asked with Naruto, nodding since he was curious, making the Sandaime frown since he couldn't reveal the fact the previous two Jinchūriki came from the same clan as the twins, are the fact one was their own mother.

"Because the information won't do you and Naruto any good are change anything. They will simply be names you both know but won't be able to do anything with." Sarutobi said, hoping that'll get Menma to drop the subject and Naruto not getting involved, with Menma gaining a frown.

"Yeah, I remember you saying something similar back when we asked about our parents," Menma said spitefully, making the Hokage frown and Naruto gaining a sad expression, Menma then continued before anyone else could say anything. "But you know what, don't sit right with me?" He asked the Hokage with narrowed eyes, who sighed, not liking what Menma would say.

"What?" Was the Hokage's response as Menma walked over to the side of the office that had all four Hokage's pictures on the wall before stopping and looking directly at the Yondaime Hokage picture with a glare,. "Is how the Yondaime Hokage Namikaze Minato," Menma said with venom in his voice, which didn't surprise the Hokage are Naruto since Menma made it clear he doesn't like the Yondaime, for Naruto the reason is unknown but Hiruzen could guest.

"Is celebrated as some great superhero," he said before turning back to the Hokage and Naruto. "But the two Jinchūriki before him are forgotten, and the recent one is treated like the fucking beast itself," Menma said with anger before continuing.

"Now tell me, were the previous two Jinchūriki treated like royalty then toss aside after death, are were they just regular nobody's who the villagers didn't know because they, the villagers didn't have knowledge of said Jinchūriki, which made them easier to forget about by the few people like yourself?" He asked with his arms folded across his chest, waiting for an answer.

The Sandaime couldn't help but sigh heavily at Menma's questions, while Naruto was looking at Menma in surprise since he himself didn't think of asking anything like that. 'Is... he defending me?' Naruto asked himself in thought a bit surprised since it isn't like Menma to defend not since they became distance about five years now, he was knocked out of his thoughts when the Hokage spoke.

"Look, Menma, I understand your anger, especially when you found out that the Yondaime Hokage was the one who sealed the Kyūbi inside Naruto here and because of his leak status the villagers turned their anger and grieve towards him and you for your relation and am sorry for that, you can blame me if you want." Hiruzen said with sadness and regret in his eyes.

"Tch! I have better things to do than play the blame game," Menma said with a wave of his hand. "But if someone is to be blamed, it's the parents for leaving us with that type of life," he said, looking at Naruto, who frown.

'I wonder if he knows that the person he hates is his own father,' Sarutobi thought to himself and wouldn't be surprised he Menma knew that Minato was in fact his father with how smart he is and how he saw him looking at Naruto and at the Yondaime picture.

"If you both have no further questions then," He said before turning to Naruto. "I would officially congratulate Naruto on becoming a Ninja, and even though Iruka said you graduate, it's ultimately my decision, so graduation Uzumaki Naruto," he said with a grandfatherly smile.

"T-thank Jiji," Naruto said sheepishly while scratching the back of his head. "Yeah, blah blah, are we done here?" Menma asked impatiently since he wanted to leave and go possess what he learned tonight.

"Yes, yes, we're done, but remember to return here in four days at nine in the morning so that your ninja ID photo can be taken." Sarutobi said, with Naruto nodding and then looking at Menma's position only to see he wasn't there, are in the office anymore. "He already left," the Hokage said to Naruto, who nodded before exiting the office with a goodbye wave.

Once the blonde Uzumaki had left, Sarutobi sighed before turning to look out the window at the Hokage Monument, specifically at the Yondaime Hokage stone face.

'I'm sorry, Minato, I've failed. I promised Kushina I'd protect Naruto and Menma, and I've failed to honor that promise.' Hiruzen thought, remembering how Kushina used her last moment to tell him both twins' names and beg him to protect her sons, only now realizing how he's failed to keep his promise.

'Damn you Danzō, damn you to the deepest in hell and suffer for everything you've done.' Thought Hiruzen, given how it was his former teammate/rival, was respected for leaking Naruto's Jinchūriki status to the village as well as Menma to harbor some hatred for Konoha

Which was true from what Hiruzen observed from the redhead, he is just glad that Menma hadn't done anything, and hope he doesn't do anything because while Naruto is a ball of sunshine, Menma is more are less the opposite. 'Hopefully, no one pushes him to do anything,' Sarutobi added in after thought about Menma and thinking who his eyes that were bright as Naruto's ones had become dark and cold.

《Konoha's Streets》

Menma was now walking through the streets of Konoha with his hood up after he had left the tower, which didn't have anyone else because it was almost two in the morning which he knew exactly thank the thing on his left wrist he calls a Fuinjustu watch but how he has something like that is for later.

He was currently going over what he learned from the Hokage and trying to put somethings together, like who were the two Jinchūriki before Naruto, and while it might sound impossible to know how they were since Menma has been searching the Shinobi library with every chance he got.

But now the Hokage has narrowed it down by saying that only selected people could contain the Kyūbi's Chakra. 'People with special traits,' Menma thought knowing that he and Naruto must have some kind connection to both are, at the very least one of the previous Jinchūriki. 'And I doubt it's the first one,' He thought since it wouldn't be a direct connection with how old the first Jinchūriki must have been.

He mind then began to think about when the Kyūbi attacked Konoha, which was twelve years ago on the exact night he and Naruto were born, now with new information he can now complete forget that nonsense about the Kyūbi appearing out of nowhere which was what is in the history books. 'Which means chances are the Kyūbi somehow got free for it host body,' Menma thought with a nod since that made some sense.

'But the question now is how the Kyūbi escape from its host body?' Menma asked himself in thought since Naruto was the third Jinchūriki that means it escaped from the second person, which was obvious, but how in the hell did the Hokage and whoever could be so careless that the Kyūbi escape and attack the village just like that, no Menma didn't believe that for a second having a feeling that there is more to it than that.

"A lot more than that," Menma said to himself out loud while running a hand through his hair before sighing and deciding to try and think about it more after he got some rest, he then took to the roofs of buildings in order to get to his house faster.

《To Be Continued...》


So yeah, that is the end of chapter 1 (the re-upload), so please tell me what y'all think.