"What is the meaning of this,
Kazekage?" Hiruzen asked as he looked into the kazekage's eyes. Only to see it being completely white, a dummy. Not a moment later 4 shuriken was thrown, effectively killing the Konoha-nin next to Sarutobi.
Hiruzen tensed up seeing his shinobi dying so easily and looked around before he felt someone grip him around the neck and put him in a headlock with a kunai at his throat. The man who had Hiruzen in a hold jumped up through the roof and landed on the orange tiles revealing it to be the Kazekage and 4 Ninja suddenly dropped down at each corner of the roof.
"Sound Ninja." Hiruzen thought as he struggled against the hold. A group of ANBU dropped down at the edge of the roof and the obvious leader gritted it's teeth as he commanded.
"Let's go! We have to back up Lord Hokage. Beware of traps!" The group assembled nodded and jumped through the air making the Kazekage's eyes narrow.
"Do it." He commanded to the sound-nins as they all nodded and smirked before clapping their hands together.
"Ninja Art: Four Purple Ray Formation!" Was the collective shouts of the 4 sound-nin. Immediately a large purple barrier appeared in a rectangular formation and inside was none other then the village's beloved Third Hokage and the Kazekage. The group of ANBU who had been running stopped themselves and landed towards the ground, however one of them had been running too fast and fell straight into the barrier.
"AAAAAHHHH!" The ANBU screamed in pain as his body was incinerated into ashes, the rest of the ANBU squad jumped back in shock seeing the damage the barrier could do.
"I never thought... The Sand Village betray the Leaf Village?" Hiruzen muttered. It was a well-known fact that the Hidden Sand village was one of the Weakest Great Villages at the moment, right above The Village in the Hidden Mist, due to it's lack of natural sources.
"This treaty between our villages was simply a trick to make you let down your guard. This petty little battle game ends now." Kazekage growled as he inched the kunai further towards Sarutobi's neck. "From this point on, the course of history will change."
Sarutobi narrowed his eyes "What are you saying? That your going to start a war?"
"That's right" Kazekage smirked as Hiruzen shook his head.
"Armed conflict resolves nothing! We should seek a resolution through negotiation! There's still time Lord Kazekage, you can reconsider!"
The Kazekage sighed and closed his eyes before letting out a dark chuckle and spoke. "Perhaps, the feel of death makes one more cowardly through age... Sarutobi-Sensei!" The Kazekage said as Hiruzen's eyes widened.
"No... You..."
Outside the village it, the wall at the west side was completely destroyed by giant snakes, making the guards on lookout duty jump in shock. They leaped into the air and through multiple shuriken with exploding tags attatched however no harm had been done to the snakes.
One of the snakes opened it's mouth and striked at one of the mid-air ninja's, making a large scream of pain rattle throughout the village. One of the other guards looked at his comrade and ordered.
"Go find reinforcements!"
"Hai!" He said and jumped off, only to be brought back down by a volley of shurikens.
The man who had ordered the attack looked back to where the shuriken came from and saw a group of sand-nins with arrogant smirks on their faces.
"Sand Ninjas..."
...oOo...
"Well, well, well, we had intended to capture Sasuke-kun while Gaara had been causing up trouble in the village, but I suppose, not everything goes into plan, does it?"
"I see... So that was the plan, then the Hidden Leaf Village... And Sasuke was your target, was that correct?"
"Huh! Do you really think the Leaf Village was so important? Now, if Gaara returns, i'll be able to show you something very interesting. Very interesting indeed. But anyways, your stubbornness and incompetence have allowed me to out maneuver you. I've defeated you."
"Hmph, nothing is decided until the very end. I told you that years ago didn't I?" Hiruzen felt the 'Kazekage' tense before holding him in a tighter headlock and pulled off his own face. Showing off a deathly pale man with purple marks around his golden slitted eyes. He had long black hair and sharp teeth with pronounced cheekbones.
"Orochimaru... I knew, or at least, thought, this day would eventually arrive... However, you are not going to defeat me that easily!" Sarutobi yelled.
"I told you didn't I? You should have picked the Fifth Hokage before now. Because Third Hokage, right here, right now, is how you're going to die!" Orochimaru declared as he licked the edge of his kunai with his ridiculously long tongue.
"Kukukukukuku" Orochimaru laughed making Sarutobi raise his eyebrow in consideration, he looked back and saw Orochimaru with tears in his eyes and smiled knowingly.
"Are you actually crying because you're so happy. Or is it that, inside in your heart there is sorrow, a feeling of unhappiness you can't shake as you contemplate of killing your old master."
"Not at all" Orochimaru chuckled amusedly as he edged his kunai closer to Sarutobi's neck. Orochimaru then jabbed his kunai and blood was drawn... From Orochimaru's hand. Blood splattered against Orochimaru's hand as he laughed and gave out a small yawn.
"I was feeling so sleepy that a tear slipped out. But now it seems I am finally awake." Orochimaru smirked as Hiruzen grunted in amusement.
"Yes, that was exactly what I was thinking." Hiruzen spoke as Orochimaru shrugged and released Hiruzen and began to walk away.
"And I was also thinking, that you aren't the type of person to hold a grudge. So it seems neither a goal nor a motive."
"Ah, well I guess... I guess I do kind of have a goal. Let me see if I can explain it... I find it very interesting to watch things in motion. But I get no pleasure... When the world is still... Like a windmill, that isn't churning, I suppose some might find it beautiful, even if it's mobile. but to me, such a thing is truly boring, so now, I want to put things in motion myself, and the first step is crushing the Leaf Village."
"Hmph. I see nothing has changed at all. I see now that I should have killed you on that fateful night, It was my mistake, however, I shall rectify that mistake, starting now!"
"Kukukuku, Sensei, you are correct, you shouldn't have left me alive that day, and because of your mistake, that will prove the destruction of the Hidden Leaf." Orochimaru laughed as he threw off his Kazekage robes and wore his regular outfit with his signature purple rope tied around his waist. Hiruzen narrowed his eyes as he crouched slightly and prepared himself for whatever attack Orochimaru was going to throw at him.
"Orochimaru, I never took you for foolish but do you honestly think you can beat me? And then the rest of the village and win? Even though i'm old, these bones still have a lot left to give for it's village." Hiruzen spoke calmly as Orochimaru shook his head.
"Indeed, the odds are against me isn't it? Me against you, and part of my shinobi forces against your entire village. Seems a bit... Unfair? Why don't I go change that." Orochimaru laughed as he went through multiple hand seals.
Hiruzen frowned as he threw multiple shurikens and running through hand seals quicker than Orochimaru and yelled "Ninja Art: Shadow Shuriken Jutsu!" The few shuriken that had been thrown multiplied into hundreds and was aimed right at Orochimaru who merely chuckled and placed his hands down to the ground.
"Ninja Art: Summoning : Impure World Reincarnation!" Orochimaru yelled as two coffins came from the ground with the Kanji for "one" and "two" appear and put his hands into the Serpent hand seal and added more chakra to the last few shuriken as it buried itself through the "Four" Coffin as it rose halfway, before disappearing once again through the ground.
"So you stopped the Fourth huh? Well, no matter, I have one more up my sleeve." Orochimaru smirked as he went through the same hand seals Tiger → Snake → Dog → Dragon → Clap hands. A third coffin appeared as Hiruzen's eyes widened.
"No..." It was like the nightmare all over again. It had the number 5 placed on the coffin lid making tears form in Hiruzen's eyes.
(Flashback)
"Jiji! Look!" A 5 year old Naruto appeared with a makeshift Hokage hat on his head with the fire symbol on it.
"You know... I'm not that old Naruto-kun." A much younger Hiruzen chuckled as he scratched behind his head sheepishly making Naruto just stick his tongue out cutely making him sigh in defeat.
"I'm gonna be the Fifth Hokage one day, and kick Tou-chan out my office!" Naruto grinned as Hiruzen smiled.
"You know, he only just got the job Naruto-kun, you're going to kick him out that early? How lucky." Hiruzen chuckled as Naruto shrugged.
"Oh well, sucks to be him!"
The two just laughed together in harmony as they both agreed that Naruto will be the one to be the Fifth Hokage.
(Flashback End)
Each and every coffin fell to the ground with a small thud. And out came 3 corpse's. One had long dark brown hair and bright green eyes with a black sclera and cracks in his face. His skin was deathly pale as he was leaning against the back of the coffin, immobile. He wore old fashioned red Senju armour with then black Senju symbol on the collars. This was Hashirama Senju, the God of Shinobi and one of the co-founders of the Hidden Leaf Village.
The next person had short spiky white hair with pale skin and 3 lines red lines on his face matching his own red eyes. His attire consisted of blue senju armour over a black body suit and a fur collar. This was Tobirama Senju, brother of Hashirama Senju and the Second Hokage.
And finally, the last person. Naruto Namikaze, son of the late Fourth Hokage and elder brother of Menma Uzumaki. In his current form he had pale, shaggy blonde hair with dull blue eyes. His face had cracks all over it as his sclera was black. He wore a black bodysuit under a white coat with blue flame motifs with the caption "Lightning Flash" on the back and the Namikaze and Uzumaki clan symbols on his high collar.
Hiruzen's breath hitched as he stared at the former legends with shaking hands. He could probably take on Orochimaru and the first and second Hokage's, as they weren't at full power. However, Naruto, with his Hiraishin and list of powerful jutsu's, was hard enough even if he wasn't at full strength.
The three of them walked like zombies as they left their coffins and Orochimaru walked forth and put 3 kunai's with red tags attatched into their heads making their eyes go wide before they all looked around.
"What's going on" Hashirama murmured as he looked around. He looked to his left and saw his brother and some other blonde fellow.
"Brother." Tobirama spoke.
"It seems we have been brought back to life." Naruto explained as Tobirama nodded. Hashirama leaned his head forwards and looked at Naruto with confused eyes before frowning at the blonde and spoke.
"Hmm... Who the hell are you?" Hashirama spoke as Naruto sweatdropped.
"Erm, I'm the son of the Fourth Hokage, Naruto Namikaze." Naruto said as Hashirama's eyes went wide with excitement and grinned.
"Oh? So there has already been the Fourth? Nice, Nice! The village has remained stable then."
"Umm, I'm not actually sure or not, I died together with my parents and sealed away much earlier, so I have no clue."
"Hmm, is that so? You look quite young, which means you died quite early." Naruto merely nodded. Naruto looked around and saw Sarutobi standing there with wide eyes so he grinned.
"Yo, jiji!" Naruto waved happily as the two brothers had a confused look on their face as they saw Sarutobi.
"Jiji... EHHHH!? Sarutobi!?" Hashirama screamed out in shock as he pointed towards the Third Hokage.
"Sensei." Hiruzen nodded slowly as Tobirama noted.
"You have grown quite old Saru."
"Indeed, the years have not been good to me."
"So, I guess you took up the mantle once again huh?" Naruto smiled.
"Enough, kill him!" Orochimaru ordered as he glared at his sensei. Tobirama and Hashirama tensed up as they felt their wills being suppressed by Orochimaru. However, Naruto just merely stood there with a raised eyebrow before scoffing while shaking his head.
"Eh.... Was it suppose to do something? Foolish. So it was you who brought me back huh? And at full strength as well while you gave Lord Hashirama and Tobirama only half. You have really underestimated me." Golden chakra exploded from Naruto's body and rolled off his body like waves causing ripples in the air
"Bringing me back to do your biddings was foolish itself, and bringing me back in full strength? I almost pity you." The kunai that was put into Naruto's head floated out and was crushed into dust. Hiruzen watched in disbelief as he saw Naruto merely throw off the weak bindings of Orochimaru as easily as he just did. Damn, even Sarutobi had underestimated Naruto's strength.
Orochimaru paled even more than he could as he put his hand in a ram sign to make the other two kage's attack Hiruzen. The two dashed at the old Kage as if they were being controlled by strings and they both raised their fist, both aiming for a punch at Hiruzen.
Orochimaru now was running through multiple hand seals to put Naruto under his control however nothing he could think of even fazed the blonde prodigy. Naruto smirked as he ran through hand seals at crazy speeds before clapping his hands together and muttered something under his breathe.
"EDO TENSEI-Seal Release!" Naruto yelled out the last part as the cracks in his face disappeared and colour went into his face showing off his tanned, handsome features. The black sclera in his eyes turned white as his eyes gained a familiar lightning-like spark. His pale blonde hair burned into golden shaggy blonde as it bathed under the sunlight.
"Ah, now that's better right?" Naruto smirked and he disappeared out of sight, just like that. Only to reappear in front of Hiruzen to catch both of Tobirama's and Hashirama's punches before swinging the two kage's around like rag dolls before releasing them, making them fly into the air and crash into the stone tiles on the roof as a small crater was formed by the two Kage's bodies.
"Naruto... You're... Alive?" Hiruzen's jaw dropped as he saw Naruto in perfect condition. Naruto looked at Hiruzen and smiled.
"Yup" Naruto grinned as Hiruzen felt a tear falling down his face.
"Ahh..... Orochimaru chan~ you sure look confident . Is it because you still have Lord first and Lord second under your control ?"
"Kukukukuku Naruto kun , even if you are strong and these two are at half their powers you won't be able to match them " said Orochimaru
"Ehh.... Well what do you think I was doing in Shinigami's belly for that much time. Orochimaru chan~ I have far surpassed Hashirama sama and Uchiha Madara" said Naruto as his electricity started dancing in naruto's eyes.
Orochimaru , Hashirama, Tobirama and Hiruzen were shocked at hearing this.
"RAIJIN NO YOROI(armour of thundergod)" shouted Naruto as lightning fell onto his body from sky and electricity started dancing around his whole body and covered it as armour.
Every one in konoha stopped in their place for a moment as chakra of highest density started weighing space time of the area.
Naruto went through some handshigns and slammed his hands onto ground and shouted "HIRAISHIN : ZEN'NO (flying thundergod : omnipotence) as black swirls made of kanji covered whole Konoha before dissapearing.
Naruto disappeared in lightning and at next moment tagged both dead Hokage and shouted "CONTRACT SEAL : KAI (contract seal: release)".
Both the hokages started disappearing into dust.
"The will of fire remains strong" said Hashirama before disappearing.
Tobirama also nodded proudly towards Namikaze Naruto and disappeared.
This all happened in 30 seconds and no one was able to move from his place.
Naruto looked at Orochimaru and asked " now now orochimaru chan~ are you ready to die ?" as he disappeared from his position and reappeared at back of orochimaru and plunged his hand into orochimaru's chest and shouted "RAITON : RAIJIN NO HANTEI (lightning style : judgement of the thunder god)" . At the same time lightning fell onto orochimaru and the sound four from the sky . As a result all were burnt alive and the barrier fell.
Hiruzen was watching the scene in front of him with wide eyes and wide opened mouth .
When barrier dropped everyone broke out from their stupor and rushed inside the barrier.
Naruto, Hiruzen and his anbu went to check the corpses they turned out to be corpses of other people.
Naruto's nose wrinkled in disgust as he recognised the technique and said "CORPSE POSSESSION TECHNIQUE"
Hiruzen also recognised the technique and nodded sadly.
"Tell me Jiji... How long has it been?" Naruto asked slightly nervously as he awaited the answer.
"12 years... 12 long years, Naruto-kun."
"That long...I see... and Menma?"
"He's great, he reminds me so much of Kushina..."
"Good..." Naruto smiled as he closed his eyes and relished the moment.
Meanwhile Anbu were also discussing
"S-Senpai... Who is that?" One of the female ANBU asked in awe as their leader stood there shaking in his sandals.
"T-That's... Naruto Namikaze!" He shouted as they gasped.
"Y-You mean... The Naruto Namikaze? The Lightning Flash?" The female member fangirled as the leader nodded slowly.
"The exact same. It seems he was brought back into the world of living."
"And on our side as well!" One of them grinned as they nodded.
"Yeah..."
Naruto spoke to the ANBU guards stationed outside. "What's the situation?" He asked. He had a basic idea of what had happened due to Orochimaru's scheme. The village had been invaded and the losses were quite tragic.
"Hai! Sunagakure and Otogakure have formed an alliance and attacked the village during the Chunin exams. Most civilians have been evacuated into the Hokage mountain while the invaders are attacking from the North and West Gate. Jiraiya-sama is currently stationed at the North Gate with a squadron of shinobi however the West Gate is suffering severe damage. The remaining Shinobi left are protecting the Hospital" The ANBU spoke from the reports he received.
"And the Ichibi-"
"I already know" Naruto cut him off. Naruto could sense a massive, dark chakra being emitted.
"Help out in areas that are needed, I will handle the situation at the moment".
The ANBU could only nod dumbly before following his orders. It seemed as if Konoha will enter a new, prosperous era once again...
Naruto turned to Hiruzen an smiled Sheepishly " Sorry Jiji , force of habit. I forgot they had to follow your orders".
Hiruzen chuckled and said " don't worry about it Naruto . Now you have returned. In some time they all will follow your orders. "
"Ehh... Whatever Jiji I will now rid Konoha of its loss and enemies" said naruto as he flared his chakra .
Naruto went through the hand signs and slammed onto ground shouting "KUCCHIYOSE NO JUTSU :KATSUYU" as a giant slug appeared onto the rooftop collapsing the building.
Hiruzen sweatdropped at the scene .
"Naruto kun , how are you alive ? Tsunade Sama and Shizune chan were so devastated after hearing about your death." asked Katsuyu in confused but kind voice.
"Eh he Katsuyu chan , I just came back to life. I will explain the rest later" answered Naruto scratching back of his head.
"OK Naruto kun what do you need of me ?" Asked Katsuyu
"As you can see Kon kha is under invasion, please separate and scatter to help save lives of my comrades."
"Hai Naruto kun , its good to see you again." Katsuyu said as she separated and scattered healing wounds of injured and lowering casualties.
"Wait here Jiji I will finish this in a flash."Naruto held out ram sign as RAIJIN NO YOROI started sparkling and shooting lightning and then he yelled "HIRAISHIN : ZEN'ON SUNPO (flying thundergod :omnipotence:flash step)
And he disappeared.
Lightning flashed around in whole konoha as horrendous screams filled Konoha . In one moment both sand and sound were cut down by lightning Without touching the allies . Blood filled the streets of Konoha. It was like a massacre, no enemy survived.
Maximum Suna ninja were waiting outside of village at a distance to enter as soon as Orochimaru's summons decimate the konoha walls. But as soon as they were summoned their heads went flying as lightning cut through them.
Seeing this Suna understood there was no chance of winning so they all fled.
Hiruzen was both sad and releived.
Sad due to loss of so much life and relief that no harm will come to konoha. He SHUNSHINED into his office.
Meanwhile the name of lightning flash was heard all around the Konoha.All started remembering how he got the name in first place.
(Flashback)
It was a name that spread fear into every Suna and Kumo shinobi alive today. The news of his debut hit them like a mountain in their gut. He was a carbon copy of his father, the son of the Fourth Hokage. If his time was during an era of war, he would surely be labeled with a "Flee-on-Sight" order just like the one other before him. The Yellow Flash of Konoha. His arsenal frightened every living shinobi, the Hiraishin was already overpowered enough, however, his genius lied in his massively destructive scaled lightning Jutsus that earned him the moniker of "The Lightning Flash".
At the time people didn't take the young shinobi seriously, despite being the son of the Fourth, he was simply too young. However that all changed when the Fourth Raikage issued a challenge to the boy, in order to knock him down his high horse. A, was furious that some snot-nosed brat was deemed an even more serious threat than himself in the art of Lightning techniques. His pride wouldn't allow it, a Konoha-nin better at the Lightning Release than himself?
Preposterous!
Inconceivable!
A was utterly furious.
Ready to knock some sense into the world!
However, the world's perspective changed once again as the two fought. Their fight was hyped hard enough that many representatives of multiple hidden Villages had arrived in Kumo to watch the fight. A wanted to make the Namikaze lose all face when he utterly destroyed him. It didn't matter to him that he was over twice the boy's age, trained dozens of years longer than him. All that mattered was making the Namikaze family embarrassed in front of the world. Yet all it took... was
One move.
Naruto Namikaze defeated the Fourth Raikage in one single bout. Everybody could remember the fight clearly. In a burst of pure speed, Naruto in front of the Raikage. One Raikiri pierced through the Raikage's chest and ended their fight.
Since the fight had happened, the Raikage had lost all face. Losing in front of a crowd of this size, by one move from a kid half his age, a dozen years younger than him! The fight had broken something inside him.
Instead of getting angry about his loss, he stayed silent. He didn't train harder or try to get stronger as fast as he could. His stubborn nature was broken, and everyone knew why.
Fear.
Pure fear.
The Raikage was fearful of the young Namikaze, even more so than his father. It wasn't until news reached him that the entire Namikaze died out from a rampaging Kyuubi that his mind began to heal.
(Flashback end)
Kakashi , Asuma , Gai , Kurenai and other jounin were surprised but happy seeing their long time friend.
At the west gate Jiraiya and Gamabunta were fighting against 12 three headed snake summons of orochimaru . Suddenly lightning burst there and all 36 headless snake bodies fell as their heads bursted into lightning splattering blood everywhere.
Both Jiraiya and Gamabunta were shocked.
"Ji--jiraiya was he....?"
"H-h-hai looks like it , but how ?"
"I will be returning now Jiraiya , find out and tell me is it true or wrong" said Gamabunta as he disappeared in plume of smoke.
Jiraiya landed on Ground and rushed through the street of Konoha followed by Ibiki and some other jounins.
They encountered gruesome scene as numerous bodies of enemies with holes at their hearts with lightning flickering within them were lying all around konoha.
"W-What is this?" Ibiki spluttered out loud, quite uncharacteristically. However, this scene was shocking to any shinobi.
"Who did this?" Another questioned.
"There's only one person that is able to pull off something like this..." Jiraiya spoke quietly with a rare moment of seriousness.
"Who Jiraiya-sama?"
"Naruto... Naruto Namikaze." Ibiki finished for him.
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With Menma :-
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Temari was restrained by Shikamaru's Shadow possession not that she could do much after bring injured.
"Is that why you injured me in the arena ? Did you know about the invasion ? " Remark questioned in a low voice.
" No I didn't knew about it . Menma told us sand was planning something and told me to injure you . " Shikamaru answered lazily.
Kankuro was looking at remains of his puppets and bugs oozing out of them.
Menma was beating half transformed Gaara with taijutsu and blasting him with rasengan.
Suddenly Gaara shouted and sand started swirling around him .
Temari and Kankuro shouted "RUN HE IS TRANSFORMING , HE WILL KILL EVERYONE "
The sand which was holding Sakura to the tree started tightning around her and few pained moans escaped from her.
Sasuke Shikamaru and Shino shouted at Menma to get out of there, but Menma didn't run. How could he leave Sakura chan there and run , if he will abandon her he would be worse than trash.
Now a fully transformed Gaara raised his arms and shouted "SAND COFFIN"
As Sand covered Menma Gaara shouted "SAND BURRIEL". Sand started tightening around Menma .
Shikamaru , Shino and Sasuke shouted at him to run but he couldn't. Seeing his best friend buried inside the sand sasuke's eyes started stinging. When he opened his eyes there were 3 coku pattern tomoe in both his eyes. He tried ran towards Menma but was unable to . He looked down to see Shikamaru caught him in Shadow paralysis.
He glared at Shikamaru and shouted "LET ME GO, HE WILL KILL MENMA , I HAVE TO SAVE HIM".
Shikamaru just shook his head and said " If you go , you will die too"
While being buried into sand , he heard Sasuke shouting at Shikamaru to let go so that he can save him.
He thought about his past and thought 'looks like I will die today' , but suddenly many memories started coming into his mind , memories of team 7 , memories of Ichiraku's , memories of his Jiji , Iruka sensei, and finally memories of his new teacher Pervy sage. Then suddenly he saw a bright light and there was blurry image of a red head woman who was saying something . As he tried to concentrate he heard something like " now is not the time to meet us socchi , go and show the world why never to cross paths with uzumakis ".
Suddenly there was a burning sensation throughout his whole body and he was covered with red chakra and he screamed . His fangs grew , red hair became wilder , eyes became red with black slits in them. He screamed in rage and pain "UZUMAKI HIJUTSU : NENSHO KONGO FUSA (uzumaki secret art : burning admantine chains ) . Then hot burning red chains made of pure chakra erupted from his back and grounds then they wrapped around recently freed Shukaku.
"NO I JUST GOT FREE , I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK " shouted the tanuki but
sand continued falling lifelessly to ground .
When dust cleared , Gaara was falling down from a height wrraped in chakra chains of Uzumaki Menma.
Sasuke , Shino and Shikamaru were all surprised from amount of power their redhead comerade showed.
Sasuke saw Sakura was free from sand as he jumped and caught her before she falls from the tree.
Gaara opened his eyes and shouted " STAY AWAY FROM ME , MY EXISTENCE WILL NOT BE ERASED , STAY AWAY ".
"The feeling of being all alone... I know that feeling" Menma said sadly as his red hair shadowed his blue eyes. "I've been there... in that dark and lonely place... but now there are others... other people that mean a lot to me. I care about them a lot more than I do about myself! and I won't let ANYONE hurt them! That's why I will never give up! That's my Ninja way!" Menma said determinedly as he crawled with his chin to Gaara.
"B-But why! Why would you do this for anyone but your self?" Gaara whispered confusedly, his body had shut down mere meters away from the kyubi Jinchuriki.
"Because they saved me from myself, they rescued me from my loneliness... they were the first to accept me for who I am and They're my friends!"
Gaara's face was shocked as he stayed laying down frozen.
'Friends... huh?'
Menma saw the look of understanding on Gaara's face and smiled .
'Now I can pass out' thought Menma as with a flash of lightning Naruto appeared and caught Menma.
"You did great otouto ...." was the last thing Menma heard as he fell unconsciou.
"Menma-chan... I'm sorry." Whispered Naruto. He didn't know what else to say as he held Menma in his arms. Now... he had to settle this mess.
Naruto looked over to the Ichibi Jinchuriki's side and saw two other figures landing by him. It was a blonde kunoichi , her right hand limp and a boy clad in a black hood and had purple makeup across his face . Behind him, both Sasuke and Sakura appeared for Menma only to be shocked into silence when seeing him in the arms of a taller figure.
"You are... children of the Kazekage I presume?" Naruto spoke quietly.
"Y-Yes" Temari nodded with a slight blush upon seeing Naruto. Nobody could blame her however as he was quite the looker with his long blonde hair, toned but slim body, sharp jawline and handsome facial features. Kankuro quirked an eyebrow and kept it for one in the books before focusing on the situation.
"Give us a Gaara!" Kankuro demanded.
"Ah... The Ichibi Jinchuriki? I'm afraid that won't do." Naruto finished coldly.
"Y-You!"
Naruto waved his hand slowly as Temari and Kankuro immediately passed out beside Gaara.
"What did you do to them!" Gaara yelled.
"Just a small Genjutsu, now go to sleep as well, I'm sure we can sort something out with your village" Naruto spoke as Gaara felt his eyelids grow heavier and slept for the first time in years.
"My lord, w-what are you going to do with Menma" Sakura asked worriedly, noticing the leaf headband on Naruto's forehead. Naruto sent her a friendly smile causing her to go beet red and responded.
"I will send him to the hospital and help the village fix this mess," Naruto said.
"Who are you?" Sasuke demanded rudely.
"Sasuke-kun!" Sakura shouted, worried that he couldn't understand the situation he is.
"Sasuke... huh? Mikoto-oba's son?" Naruto smiled.
"How do you know that!" Sasuke roared angrily.
"Eh... You don't know, I and Menma chan are supposed to be your god brothers "
"....." Sasuke was silent and shocked
"You... that coat... NO WAY! Naruto Namikaze?!" Sakura screeched making the two males wince slightly. Naruto nodded at her making them both shocked to the core.
"B-But you're meant to be dead!" Sasuke said in disbelief as they remembered the class when they learned of Naruto Namikaze, the son of the Late Yondaime Hokage and Konoha's Lightning Flash. The class had left a deep impression on everyone, including Menma who seemed oddly interested in learning about Naruto Namikaze. Sasuke in particular when he remembered what Kakashi had told him about the Chidori.
It was a Jutsu that Kakashi invented at the age of 12 when he tried to copy RAIKIRI. The Jutsu itself was famous when he defeated the Fourth Raikage with it and rumors said that Naruto even sliced apart a bolt of lightning, earning the name 'Lightning Cutter'.
"A lot has happened in the past few hours... I will make give everyone a detailed explanation once everything is in order." Naruto said, "But for now, I need to take my Otouto to the hospital." Naruto said as they both nodded subconsciously.
"Also, would you take the Kazekage's children to the Interrogation and Torture department" He ordered as they once again nodded. Naruto smiled and disappeared in a flash of lightning.
"Wait... Sasuke-kun" Sakura paused. "He said... Otouto... right?"
"Wait... that means Menma is-" Sasuke paused as their eyes widened.
'Impossible'
'Impossible'
They bought thought in shock.
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