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Chapter 03: The Road to Ninja part 1


《Training Ground 44》

It didn't take Menma long to reach where he was going, which was located in one of the many forests of Konoha, the place he was currently looking at is one of the training grounds with this one being called The 44th Training Ground, but this training ground was very special with it being so rounded by a tall fence connected in a circle with a number of gates.

As Menma listened closely, he could clearly hear a few dangerous animals growling in the forest which was one of the reasons people tend to stay away from the area especially with the forest other name which is named.

"The Forest of Death!" Menma said out loud as he looked at the fence. He could also sense killing intent from the forest inhabitants, but he wasn't one to get scared of anything, so with what he was here for in the first place, he headed straight for one of the gates before opening it and entered the Forest of Death.

After making his way a little deep in the forest by taking a route that he couldn't sense any of the inhabitants, since he knows most creatures don't like others in their territory thanks to his history on animals, he now came up an a clearing in the forest. "Hmmm, this will have to do," Menma said out loud and was a little happy that he didn't run into any creature, not that he was scared or anything, he just wanted to preserve his strength.

"Now then," Menma said before making a cross handsign. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!" He said before thirty clones of himself puff into existence. He could have made more, but it's best to start small before going big. "Okay, first, I want ten of you to do the tree walking exercise," he ordered ten of his clone who nodded and went to near by trees and by flowing Chakra to the bottom of their feet.

The Tree Climbing Practice is a training method used to gain more skills with chakra control. This training involves focusing a fixed amount of chakra on the bottom of one's feet and using that to climb a tree without using one's hands. If the stream of chakra is too weak, the user will lose their footing on the tree and fall off. If it is too strong, the user will be pushed away from the tree, causing the tree to break around the point of contact, and the user will fall.

Seeing his clones doing the exercise, Menma turned his attention back to the next matter. "I want another ten to go to the water stream nearby and do the water walking exercise," Menma said, gaining a corse of 'yes boss' from the ten before leaving to do their task, now the water walking is a chakra control exercise that is similar to tree walking but it's a bit difficult since one will have to control the Chakra send to their feet at a very steady flow because of the water moving surface.

Menma, of course, knows each Chakra control exercise like the other ones like the leaf and kunai balancing exercise, which is teach in the academy, but the reason is that because he has a lot of Chakra and by a lot he's talking about even more than a Anbu member, so because of that he has to always do Chakra control exercise whenever he trains are else he wouldn't be able to preform a Jutsu to its full extent.

Heck if it wasn't for his excellent chakra control he wouldn't have been able to cast a Genjutsu on a Chūnin level ninja like Mizuki, since like medical Ninjutsu, Genjutsu user is required to have above average chakra control, which made his mind turn to Naruto when it comes to Chakra Level and control, because with fact is Naruto has far more Chakra than anyone Menma sense in the village so which includes himself and the Hokage.

"And finally, I you guys to line up and come at me one at a time, so not only will my Taijutsu be improved as well as my movements and reaction time, but I'll get use to having new memories during a battle if one of you were to suddenly dispel," Menma explained to his clones with them agreeing to the original logic and plan before forming a line.

Seeing his clones doing what he said, Menma gain a little distance from them. "Okay, the first may approach, and remember Taijutsu only, since we're starting out small," Menma said with this clones nodding in understanding before the one in front of the line step forward with him and Menma taking a Taijutsu stands which is basically the academy fighting style but with him own improvements, and the that they both dash at each other.

《Later》

After a couple of minutes, Menma was now down to his last clone, not because he was having difficulty, but the fact that he was testing their physical ability at giving and taking hits. 'Excellent, the data I've received so far tells me that I should've had this Jutsu long ago,' Menma thought as he ducked under a kick for the clone, and when he was about to counter and finished him off, he sense a chakra signature near by, and his unfocused aloud a punch thew by the clone to hit him square in the face.

"That's a good one," Menma said to his clone, who nodded before narrowing his eyes since he also sensed that chakra signature, the clones that has been practicing the tree and water walking exercise also stopped and was awaiting orders. "I know you're there, so you better come out cause I don't like stalkers," Menma said in a warning tone since he was sure it was a person and not one of the forest inhabitants, because he got different feelings for human and animals.

Menma was about to get thinking it was Ninja who didn't like him for the Kyūbi and was thinking that he could try his luck, and while he didn't sense any evil intent from their Chakra since he could kinda senses emotion from people but it isn't always accurate plus he knows a certain bunch who seems to know how to masks their emotions perfectly by this person isn't one of them.

He was then interrupted for his inner thoughts monolog when a woman came out from being a tree. "Hehehe, and here I thought I have my chakra suppress," the woman said with a chuckle and scratching her head back sheepishly as she approached before stopping a few feet away from Menma's position at he took in her appearance.

The woman is question has lightly tanned skin, purple hair done in a spiky fan ponytail, pupiless brown eyes, a slim but athletic build, large D-cup breasts, and firm ass, for clothes she wore a mesh bodysuit that when from her shoulders down to her thighs, black sandals, grey shin guard, a burn orange mini skirt, an open tan trench coat, a cord necklace with a snake fan pendant, and a konoha headband on her forehead.

"So... can I help you with something?" Menma asked with caution, which the clone beside him and the other who went into hiding just in case shared, since the fact that Menma don't thrust anyone in the entire village and the only one he does like, beside his wife and daughters, could be counted on one of his hands not including Naruto since he doesn't hate him.

Menma just can't stand his way of doing things, but he is family, and to Menma, one family shouldn't hate or despite the other to the point of harboring murderous intentions, but not everyone thinks like that, which of course wasn't his problem. "Probably not, I was just curious about the new presence in my little playground and came to check it out," the woman said with a friendly smile, trying to ease the tension before she continued.

"Imagine my surprise to you it just a little boy," she said and smirked when Menma eyes twitched from the little boy comment. "So what's a little cutie like you doing in a big bad forest like this?" She asked, eyeing Menma up and down.

Seeing that the woman doesn't seem to dislike him like that rest of the villagers with the fact she wasn't looking with the look he would recognize immediately and it's impossible for her not to see him being are at the very least heard of a redhead since the only other redheads he seen so far are his two daughters, with that he tap his clone shoulder signifying for him to dispel, but in truth it was to send a silent message to his other clones to be ready for anything.

"Well," Menma began after the clone dispel before continuing. "I thought that I had found a private place to train in quite away from prying eyes of the people kind," he said, putting emphasis on people since he was referring to the villagers. "But it seems I was wrong," he finished.

"I see..." she said, trailing off as her brown eyes softened at what he said before she put on a friendly smile. "By the way, I'm the sexy and single Mitarashi Anko. What's your?" The now name Anko asked after introducing herself.

"Uzumaki Menma," Menma said and made sure to put emphasis on his first name since he hated when people thought he was like that idiot Naruto before he continued. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'll have to get back to my training," he said before walking to find a new spot since he wanted to get in as much training as possible before night fall, since he knows that predators of the forest will most likely hunt for food at night, and he doesn't feel like fighting off them, not today at least.

Unfortunately, Anko had other plans and started following him and watched him as he trained. After a while, Menma was honestly getting annoyed that he wasn't getting any privacy, and he doesn't like revealing his skills, so he knew if he didn't lose her he wouldn't be able to train in any that will reveal too much about his skills, but then he thought that could be an opportunity to learn something from a ninja.

"Mitarashi-san, would you like to spar?" Menma asked, seeing an opportunity to test himself against a real ninja.

Anko raised an eyebrow, a smirk playing on her lips. "Oh? You think you can take me on, shorty?"

Menma's eyes narrowed at the comment on his height. "I may surprise you." He said, deciding to ignore it.

"Alright, kid. You're on. But don't cry when I wipe the forest floor with you," Anko said, sliding into a fighting stance.

Menma mirrored her, his body tense and ready. Without warning, Anko lunged forward, her speed catching Menma off guard. He barely managed to dodge her first strike, feeling the wind from her fist brush past his cheek.

Recovering quickly, Menma countered with a low sweep, which Anko easily jumped over. As she descended, Menma saw an opening and aimed a punch at her midsection. To his surprise, Anko twisted in mid-air, grabbing his arm and using his own momentum to throw him.

Menma rolled with the throw, springing back to his feet. He had to admit, Anko was good, really good. But he wasn't about to give up.

For the next few minutes, they exchanged blows, Menma's improved academy style clashing with Anko's more fluid and unpredictable movements. While Menma managed to land a few solid hits, it was clear that Anko was holding back.

Finally, with a swift series of strikes, Anko broke through Menma's guard and pinned him to the ground. "Not bad, kid," she said, slightly out of breath. "You've got some moves." She said while being impressed by his Taijutsu skills for a kid.

Menma struggled for a moment before accepting defeat. "You're strong, Mitarashi-san."

Anko helped him up, her eyes gleaming with interest. "You know what? I like you, Menma. How about I train you? I could teach you a thing or two."

Menma hesitated. He wasn't used to trusting people, especially adults from the village. But the spar had shown him just how much he could learn from someone like Anko. After a long moment, he nodded reluctantly.

"I... I'd appreciate that, Mitarashi-san. But why would you want to train me?"

Anko's usual grin softened into a more genuine smile. "Let's just say I see potential in you, kid. Plus, it's not often I find someone willing to train in my playground. So, what do you say? Ready to learn from the best?"

Menma couldn't help but feel a small smile tugging at his lips. "I suppose I am. When do we start?"

"Right now!" Anko exclaimed, her grin turning mischievous. "Lesson one: Always be prepared!"

With that, she launched into another attack, leaving Menma scrambling to defend himself. As they continued their impromptu training session, Menma couldn't shake the feeling that his life was about to get a lot more interesting – and possibly dangerous – with Mitarashi Anko as his new sensei, it was hours before they parted ways and Menma leaving the forest to do other things before getting some rest.

《Next Day/Menma's House》

It was now the next day, and Menma had gotten up and done his morning routine before eating breakfast with his family, which was after his morning exercise, though he did smile when he remembered yesterday when he entered the Forest of Death.

Because not only did he got in some good training with a few Shadow Clone, he also met someone who might give him a lot more results than when he would training alone, but now he was finishing getting ready to head for the academy with today being team placement.

"Wonder who will be my teammates and sensei?" Menma asked no one in particular as he finished putting on his hooded with it been half zip. He then looked at his headband that was laid on his dresser before it had a blue cloth, but he changed it to red, as Menma looked at the headband he couldn't see the hype in it, especially with the fact that Naruto wanted one so bad the he was fooled into doing something that could've potentially made him not receive one at all.

Menma then shook his head before picking the headband up and then tied it around his forehead with the bangs of his hair, mostly hiding the leaf symbol, so with the rest of his ninja gear in place, he then left his house after he securely locked it up before heading out for the academy building.

《Shinobi Academy》

It didn't take long for Menma to reach the Shinobi Academy grounds before he entered the building and headed for his class home room, which didn't take long as he came up the the door which he slide open and entered the classroom before closing the door behind him, he then looked around the classroom to see he was early because only a few Genin was there, the only important ones are of the future clan heads.

The first is a fair-skinned boy with dark bushy brown hair with his blue cloth leaf headband tied around his forehead, and a pair of round dark shades, his name is Aburame Shino, he is wearing dark sunglasses and a grey jacket with a high unturned collar, brown pants reaching to his calves with his ninja kunai holder on his right thigh, and blue shinobi sandals, he is a fellow member of the Konoha's Aburame Clan, whose members used insects as weapons.

Sitting next to Shino is a girl named Hyūga Hinata, the heiress of the Hyūga clan, she has dark-blue hair, fair skin, and customary white eyes of her clan that has a tinge of lavender, she is wearing a cream colored hooded jacket, with a fire symbol on the upper right and left sleeves and fur around the cuffs and hem, her blue cloth leaf headband tied losly around her neck, with navy blue pants reaching her calves with her kunai holder on her right thigh, like the rest of her clan, she possessed the renowned Byakugan.

The seat behind them had two occupants, the first was a boy with his head-down, sleeping, he is Nara Shikamaru, heir to the Nara Clan, he has quite long jet-black hair tied into a spiky pineapple style ponytail, narrow brown eyes.

His attire was rather plain, consisting of a green lined mest t-shirt under a short-sleeved grey jacket with green edges, with his leaf headband tied around his left shoulder, adorned on both the sleeves and the back with a circle with a line through it, brown pants, and blue shinobi sandals.

Next to Shikamaru is a chubby boy who was eating a bag of chips, he is Shikamaru's best friend, Akimichi Choji from the Akimichi Clan, he has spiky brown hair (his headband style as in canon), swirl marks on his cheeks, like the rest of his clan.

He is quite large, which was a necessity in his clan to perform their techniques, he is wearing black shorts, a long white scarf, a short-sleeved green haori, over a white shirt with his clan's obligatory Kanji for 'food' on it, small hoop earrings, and his legs and forearms wrapping in bandages.

Across from them is a boy name Inuzuka Kiba from the Inuzuka clan with his nin-dog, Akamaru—a tiny puppy with white fur, like the rest of his clan, Kiba has messy brown hair with his blue cloth leaf headband tied around his forehead, sharp black eyes with vertical slit-like pupils.

Pronounced canine teeth, and nails that can change into claws, he also had the distinct red fang markings of the Inuzuka clan on his cheeks, his attire consisted of dark grayish pants reaching to his calves and a grey, hooded fur-lined coat over an apparent plate of armor and fishnet undershirt.

In the second row infront of the classroom near a window currently has only one occupant, which is a dark-haired boy named Uchiha Sasuke, he is a fair-skinned boy who has onyx eyes and black chin‐length hair with his blue cloth leaf headband tied around his forehead, his hair is spiky in the back with bangs, all in all his hair style shape like a ducks ass.

His clothing consisted of the traditional Uchiha clothing: a blue short-sleeved shirt with a high collar with the Uchiha crest on the back, white shorts, white arm warmers, white bandages rapped around from his claf going down and blue shinobi sandals on his feet.

He's a member of the once great Uchiha Clan that was massacred about five years ago, leaving only Sasuke as the last surviving member and the one to do the massacre his own brother, and like Menma read about the Uchiha Clan was the one who found the village along with the Senju Clan.

'It's ironic how the two founding clans only now have members in the single digits,' Menma thought with a shake of his head, while the Senjus died out of time, leaving only one member, the Uchiha Clan lost almost all of its members in one single night by one person, yet they were the strongest clan in Konoha, but one time that Menma noticed when he took notice of them before, is that they were full of arrogance and more.

After his once over of the classroom occupants, Menma proceeded to head for his regular seat, which was beside Hinata. "Morning Hinata-chan," Menma greeted with a smile as he sat down, and with no surprise, Hinata began to shudder out her response.

"M-m-morning Menma-kun!" Hinata said in her ever shy tone, which Menma found kinda cute, but he also felt bad for her with the fact been obvious that she had zero confidence. 'She better shape up, are it wouldn't end well,' Menma thought to himself, before he felt someone looking at him and turned to see it was Kiba.

"You got a problem," Menma asked before he smirked, knowing that Kiba wanted to sit beside Hinata, but Menma would stop him and, if Kiba sat there before Menma arrived he would push him out the seat.

"Dog breath?" Menma said, and like always, Kiba glared at him while growling, and when it looked like he was going to say something, his ninja dog bark that caused Kiba to sigh before he looked away. "That's a good dog," he said with a smirk.

It was known that Menma didn't take any talk from anyone and isn't afraid to put anyone in their place in fact he can safely say he isn't friends with anyone in the hole academy not even Hinata, and while he can say he has some respect for Shino and Shikamaru for different reasons, he wouldn't call them friends, as for Hinata she's the only non fangirl in the academy so he simply rather sit beside her.

Menma then proceeded to remove a scroll from his ninja poach before rolling it open on the desk, now the scroll is apart of the Hiraishin no Jutsu formula, with the help of his Shadow Clone he realized that it was a very difficult Jutsu to learn so he found away to split up it into parts, and this was the first part out of five and if he learn anything thing that involved Fuinjustu is that it gets harder the more seals the thing that one is working on.

Menma then notice both Hinata and Shino looking at the content of the scroll which Menma isn't worried about since not only do they have to see the hole thing to know what it's for, but the confusion on their face mostly Hinata that Shino since he doesn't show his emotions, that they don't understand what the weird writing were, Menma then began to go over the scroll content in order to try on complete the first part of completing the Hiraishin no Jutsu, the same Jutsu that the Yondaime Hokage is famous for are was famous for.

It didn't take long for the class doors to slide open, with Menma looking up from the scroll to see that it was Naruto that entered with a stupid grind on his face, and like always Menma wonder how these students are going to survive ninja life, as said students begin to question Naruto about what he's doing here since today is only for those who graduated, but they eventually forgot it when Naruto showed them his headband the was right in front of their faces.

As Naruto headed for his seat beside the Uchiha, Menma noticed how Hinata was blushing while looking at Naruto, which isn't surprising to Menma are anyone else who took notice that she obviously has a crush on Naruto but is too shy to say anything, heck she will even fainted when she got too close to Naruto, and obviously the idiot has zero clue.

'I lost count of how many times I asked myself if we really, in fact, related,' Menma thought with a shake of his hand before he decided to get back to his scroll but unfortunately his enhanced hearing pick up noise coming from outside the classroom that he recognized all too well.

It didn't take long for the classroom doors to slide open with Menma turning his head in time to see two girls, the same age as him, burst through the doors at the same time. "I'm First!" The two girls shouted as they entered the classroom before they started breathing hard like they've run a marathon before glaring at each other.

"Give it up, Forehead! I obviously won!" Said Yamanaka Ino with a smirk, she has long platinum blonde hair which is in a high-ponytail with bangs covering the right side of her face, fair skin and baby blue eyes, for clothes she wore a purple high collared blouse, and matching apron skirt with white bandages rapped around her abdomen and legs, small hoop earrings, her forehead protector wore as a belt, white arms warmers and blue shinobi sandals, she is the heiress of the Yamanaka Clan.

"Oh please, Ino-pig! My foot was already through the door, I won!" Retorted one Haruno Sakura, she has long pink bubble gum color hair, fair skin and emerald green eyes with her leaf headband tied in her hair like a hairband, her ninja gear is a sleeveless red qipao dress with white circular designs with a zipper, beneath her dress is a tight dark green thigh length shorts and blue shinobi sandals.

"Have you always been this delusional?" Ino said, as Naruto turned around. 'Sakura-chan,' he thought as he looked at the person he had a crush. 'Huh, she's smiling at me,' Naruto thought as Sakura looked in what he thought was his direction and wave. 'I think she likes me in his headband,' his delusional mind thought.

"Hey, wow, we're you going?" Ino asked as Sakura ran off. "Hi, what's up, Sakura-chan?" Naruto greeted as Sakura reached where he was before Sakura pushed him out her way. "Move it!" Sakura said as she got near who she waved to in the first place.

"Ah, good morning, Sasuke-kun!" She greeted the Uchiha who merely looked at her blankly before she continued. "Mine if I sit next to you?" She asked just as Ino approached her.

"Back off forehead, I'm sitting next to Sasuke-kun!" Ino said as she grabbed Sakura's hand. "I was here first," Sakura retorted with Ino not backing down. "I walked into the classroom before you did. Everyone saw it," Ino said before the other girls began to get involved.

"No way! I was here before either of you two, I should sit next to Sasuke-kun!" Said girl number one. "Well, I got here first, so I should sit next to Sasuke!" Said girl number two.

"I thought of sitting next to Sasuke-kun first, so I get the seat!" Added girl number three. "None of you are sitting next to Sasuke-kun because I'm going to!" Said another girl.

'After today, it'll all be over.' Sasuke thought, unable to deny the relief that after today, he won't have to deal with any fangirls, thought he wondered how they aren't bothering Menma, not knowing that Menma has add a special Genjutsu infect to his necklace to keep them away, and while it's a low level Genjutsu the girls are too unless and weak to notice anything.

Menma, for his part, couldn't help but smirk at the emo Uchiha situation, knowing that if he didn't take drastic measures when he did, he would've also been in the same situation and while he liked having a few fangirls a bunch of annoying girls will get on his nerves.

"Suck to be him..." he muttered before trailing off as he saw Naruto got up from were he felt and got on the desk, crouching down in front of Sasuke who looked up to see that their faces were just an inch away.

"Naruto, stop glaring at Sasuke-kun," Sakura said in anger. 'Sakura-chan,' Naruto thought as he looked at her before turning back to glare as Sasuke. 'Why are they so obsessed with him? Sasuke-kun! Sasuke-kun! What's the big deal with that guy,' Naruto thought as he face got closer to Sasuke until Lightning connected their eyes, heck the girls used to be all over Menma before something made them stop, but even now they still looked at him like they do Sasuke.

Naruto's glaring, of course, caused the girls to start getting angry and started to shout at Naruto before someone sitting in the front desk bumped Naruto in his back. "Wow, this is great," he boy said as he bumped Naruto before he turned his head to the side. "Sorry, did I bump up?" He asked as the girls became quite at what they were seeing.

"What tha?" Sakura asked in shock. "I ahh..." Ino tried to say in her shocked state as Naruto and Sasuke lips have been connected as they kissed, before putting away and started to gag and cough to try and get what ever they just did out there mouth, with Naruto stopping when got a feeling. "Danger," he said as he looked around to see the angry faces of the girls.

"Naruto, you're so dead," Sakura said coldly. "Hey wow, it was ancient," Naruto said desperately with his hands held up. "You're finished," Sakura said as she cracked her knuckles. "Hold on," Naruto said before they all began to beat him senseless.

At his position, Menma couldn't believe what he saw. "That wasn't right," he said with a disgusted face. "Then again the Ukechiha never seem straight," he said to no one in particular, before turning around to the seat behind him and looked at Ino were she was sitting and saw that she has an angry and was muttered at what Naruto did.

Menma just shook his head before turning away and took out his book and began to look at the content, in all honesty once upon a time he thought out of all the girls in his class, Ino would've a head on her shoulders but it turns out he was wrong as she now is a complete fangirl and obviously isn't training at all.

A few minutes later, Iruka entered the room with a clipboard in his hand. He was a bit surprised that he didn't have to use his big head jutsu to get them quiet. "From the day forward, you are no longer mere students of the academy but full-fledged shinobi. But among the ranks of the shinobi, you are mere novices, lowest of the low," he said to the gathered students... former students. "Your greatest challenges all lie ahead. The next step is the assignment of official duties to you all on behalf of our village."

"Now, normally, all of you would be sorted into three-man teams. However, due to a surprise graduate, there will be a single four-man in addition to the three-man teams." Iruka said to the class, with everyone eyes turning to Naruto, Iruka then cleared his throat to get his former students' attention.

"Each team will be mentored by a Jonin, who will guide and coach you as you become more familiar with your various assignments. Each team has been balanced so that their skills are about even." Iruka said before taking a breath, then continued. "I will not announce the teams," he said, then started to call out each team member.

Menma only half listened since he already knew the hole set up. 'Tch, most of them won't even pass the real test I learned about,' he thought.

At that moment, Iruka's words pulled Menma from his thoughts. "Now team seven will be our four-man team. Members are Uzumaki Naruto, Haruno Sakura-" Naruto cheered, ignoring Sakura's groan.

"Uchiha Sasuke-" Iruka was interrupted by Sakura, who cheered and ignored Naruto's groan. "and Uzumaki Menma. Your Jonin sensei will be Kakashi Hatake" Iruka finished, and Naruto groan even louder this time since can't believe that both the people he can't stand are on the same team as him, he then looked at Menma and could see him glaring at him.

'Well, this suck...' Menma thought, not liking the team he was placed on at all. He then saw Hinata looking in Naruto's direction with a sad expression. 'We don't always get what we want,' He added in after thought before Iruka's voice pulled his from his thoughts.

"New Team Eight, Hyūga Hinata," Iruka said. "Yes, sir," Hinata said when she heard her name, with Iruka continuing. "Inuzuka Kiba," said boy, showed off the k9 teeth. "And Aburame Shino," said person, adjusting his glasses. "You sensei with be Yūhi Kurenai," Iruka finished.

"Hmm, it's too bad we can't switch, hnnn," Menma said quietly to Hinata with a hand blacking his mouth. He then continued when Hinata tried to shudder out a response. "But that will be trading bad for worse," he said before focusing back on his back, then his ear picked up Ino and Shikamaru talking.

"Arrh, how did you get into this group?" Ino asked Sakura with a growl when Sakura put up the victory sign with a smile on her face. "Hah, truth love conquers all," said inner Sakura with a grind of her own, Ino then groaned in anger before looking at Menma's back.

'Something I wonder why I fight with forehead over Sasuke when their's Menma,' Ino thought before remembering that Menma has been a delinquent even since he started to academy and has send many of their classmates in the hospital because they called him a curtain name she wouldn't even mention in her own thoughts just to be safe, but still Ino always like Menma's bad boy attitude.

'And if I'm being honest, he's more cuter than Sasuke,' Ino thought idly before she was knocked out of her thoughts when Shikamaru spoke. "I don't get it. What do you see in a guy like that? He's not so special," Shikamaru said to Ino in his ever lazy tone.

"You're so beyond clueless, Shikamaru, don't you get it?" Ino asked while looking at him, with Shikamaru only looking at with his lazy expression. "No, I don't get it cause I'm not a girl," he said lazily, and even though Shikamaru wouldn't call Menma a friend, he thinks that the redhead is better than Sasuke, but of course he probably thought girls were to troublesome as well.

"Hm, you're so full of yourself. Jealousy is a terrible thing. I hate to be on your team," Ino said before Iruka spoke up. "Team Nine is still in circulation, so Team Ten; Yamanaka Ino, Nara Shikamaru-," Iruka said, causing Ino to gasp.

"Ha, did you say something about not being on my team?" Shikamaru asked with a smirk with Ino groaning before Iruka continued. "And Akimichi Choji," he said, causing Ino to hold her head. 'Not food boy too,' she thought in despair with said boy munching down chips.

"Your Jonin sensei will be Asuma Sarutobi." Iruka said, finishing with each team, and Ino couldn't believe the teammates she got as she held her head on the desk. "Those are all the teams," Iruka announced.

"Hey! Iruka-Sensei!" Naruto yelled, shooting up from his seat. "Why does a great ninja like me have to be in the same team as a jerk like Sasuke?!" He said while pointing at Sasuke. He would've also said something about Menma, but he didn't want to seem ungrateful for a few nights ago.

"Sasuke has the best score of all the graduate students, the same as Menma," Iruka said and Menma couldn't help but roll his eyes knowing that in reality he is way better than Sasuke no question. "Naruto, you have the worse scores," he said with the children began to laugh at Naruto, with Iruka continuing.

"To create a balanced team, we put the best students with the worst student," Iruka said, causing Naruto to groan. "Make sure you don't get in my way, loser!" Sasuke informs Naruto, who groans in anger. "Hey, what did you say?" Naruto asked.

"Hard of hearing?" Sasuke asked with the students laughing. "Knot it off, Naruto, sit down," Sakura said, losing her patience before Iruka cleared his throat. "Your Jonin sensei will be here shortly to collect you. Please stay seated until they arrive." He finished and exited the classroom.

Few minutes later different Sensei began to come and collect the teams from one to six, leaving teams seven, eight and ten, Menma decided to put away his glasses since he didn't really need them, not long after Menma saw two Jonin sensei entered the classroom of which he recognize for what he read in books.

The first been Yūhi Kurenai, Konoha's Genjutsu Mistress, she was a rather beautiful woman with fair skin, long untamed black hair that reached her upper back, unique ruby red eyes that had an additional ring in them, a slim build, and D-cup breasts with only a little bit of makeup consisting of purple eyeshadow and red lipstick.

For clothes she wore a red mesh armor blouse with only the right sleeve visible, over that is a broad material that resembles bandages with a pattern that looks like rose thorns, her hands and upper thighs are wrapped in bandages, her headband in on her forehead, and blue shinobi sandals on her feet.

The second a man of the same age, his has black hair with blue cloth leaf headband tied around his forehead, tanned skin, black eyes, a beard also with cigarette currently in his mouth, for clothes he wore the standard shinobi outfit with Jonin flak jacket, his name is Asuma Sarutobi, one of the guardian twelve and the Sandaime son.

"I'm here for Team Ten," said Asuma after taking a puff of his cigarette with Ino, Shikamaru, and Choji standing and heading towards their new sensei. 'Like father, like son,' Menma thought with a shake of his head.

"Team Eight is with me," Kurenai said with the members of her team getting up. "E-e-excuse me," Hinata said, pulling Menma for his thoughts. "Huh, oh, sorry about," Menma apologized with a smile before standing up and letting Hinata and Shino pass him.

"And good luck and all, Hinata-chan!" Menma said to Hinata, who looked a bit surprised. "Y-you too, Menma-kun!" Hinata said with a smile. She was happy that Menma didn't treat her like everyone else, though she just wished Naruto had said those words to her as she left.

'Hmmm, wonder where our sensei is?' Menma thought curiously as he watched as team eight and ten followed their sensei out the door, and by their looks he could guest that his teammates were wondering the same, well Menma wasn't sure about Sakura since she was in her Sasuke's world.

After ten minutes, Menma was starting to get angry that this new sensei was really going to stand them up. 'It seems that the old man didn't warn him about getting me angry,' Menma thought since he knew that the old man was the one who chose each sensei, decided that he didn't feel like waiting any longer, Menma got up from his seat, before heading for the door.

"Ahh, where are you going, Uzumaki-san?" Sakura asked as Menma was about to pass. Now she used his last name because Menma isn't like Naruto, and he doesn't like being disrespected, plus she doesn't want to end up in the hospital anytime soon. "Hmmm, let's me see..." Menma said after stopping and taking a thinking position while looking at the three.

"Instead of wasting my time here, I've decided to go and be intimate with a girl, and since you're not that smart to understand the word intimate, it's the same as a man and woman having sex," Menma informed causing them to blush in embarrassment at his causal use of the word sex, before he continued. "So I'm going to fuck a random female," he said with them becoming more embarrassing at the fact he said all that without shame.

"Like to join?" He asked, looking at Sakura, and before she could say anything, Menma started to laugh. "Hahaha, I'm just joking. Besides, you're way too skinny for all that, later," Menma said as he walked away from them toward the door before leaving the classroom while waving his hand.

"D-doesn't he have any shame talking about such things?" Sakura asked Naruto after Menma existed. "I don't know," Naruto answered in an uncurtain tone while thinking if he's really going to do that, with a random at that, it isn't right in his mind.

《To Be Continued...》