Naruto, Menma and Pakura are seen traveling in the vast desert. Naruto had somehow seduced Pakura into coming back to sand village.
"Ughh...You don't know Naruto-kun how much I appreciate your temprature-balance seals. Though I don't understand, how does it balances the temperature of body with surrounding. It is property of the cold blooded animals like reptiles and I am pretty sure I am human. How did you do it?" Pakura asked.
"Ahhh...first of all, it's not my creation it's actually mom's. And it doesn't change the properties of our body rather it regulates the temperature of wind surrounding us maintaining it to normal body temperature, so we don't feel cold or warm. And it isn't a long range effect, It only affects 30 cm all around your body. Think of it like a warm blanket if you will." Naruto grinned.
"I don't want to know any of that. I want to ask why the hell we are not teleporting to Pakura's old house if you have a hiraishin mark there." Menma groaned.
"Ahh but Menma-chan, what about your training. You were the one who resolved to master all the elements before 3 years. Fire came easy to you and it took you 4 months and now we are moving to wind." Naruto grinned.
"Hmph...it's not that I only mastered fire ninjutsu. I have pretty much controlled the yin-chakra, a bit of wind chakra and am at intermediate level of Uzumaki fuinjutsu, though I don't think I would be using it battle like you or mom." Menma bragged.
Naruto hummed at that while Pakura watched their interaction with a smile.
"Altough..." Menma threw a Kunai at Naruto who dodged the Kunai but saw a red flash coming towards him.
"Ughhh...no fair" pouted Menma as Naruto held him by throat mid air.
"Impressive but it was slower than dad's and mine teleportation" Naruto pointed out as he released Menma to ground.
"Hmph... I know. It's not developed now. I knew if I had to use Hiraishin, I have to work on it from starting steps as I can't teleport through your or dad's formula. So as a side project I continued working on it. Even if it isn't complete I now have an attack to counter Sasuke's Kamui. I am pretty sure he won't be able to react like you." Menma grinned.
"Well of course Menma-kun. You would have even taken me by surprise." Pakura complimented.
Menma beamed at her and Naruto chuckled at them.
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"Ok let's stop. For now make clones to continue rock cutting and you come with me. I will walk you through Sandstorm training as it's kind off dangerous." Naruto grinned with sadistic glee in his eyes.
Menma gave him a flat look but compiled anyways.
Naruto took him in middle of deserts and said "I am going to use my wind chakra to create diffrence in air pressure here and start a sandstorm. For now I will start with small one but it will increase as you progress with your training. We will take 2 weeks to go to Sand village at this pace and I believe you will master it in two weeks. Than you can start learning new wind Jutsu. Though knowing you I can already tell you would be more into creating badass jutsu than using existing ones."
Menma grinned and nodded as he got ready for training.
"FUTON: CHISAI TATSUMAKI (wind style: mini tornado)" Naruto called his jutsu as air around the area started moving faster towards the jutsu.
"Menma-chan, you have to balance these winds without attacking the tornado using air pressure. Now start."
Menma started releasing wind chakra but in a second he was sent flying 3 feets back of his spot.
"Heh... it's harder than it looks." Menma commented.
"Yes it is otouto, yes it is" Naruto replied as Menma went at it again.
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[ 2 weeks later ]
"Finally I have completed the exercise nii-chan" Menma shouted as he send his wind chakra to oppose the wind around him thus dissipating the big-ass storm.
"Woahh... he really did it in 2 weeks. You took a month Naruto-kun. He is surpassing you in everything it seems." Pakura commented.
"Yes...and I am damn proud of it" Naruto replied with a grin.
A red-orange layer of chakra washed over Menma as his bruised and cuts instantly healed.
"Woahh... finally I have completed wind training." Menma grinned.
"Ehh... what are you talking about. The waterfall cutting is still left." Naruto broke Menma's rant.
"What... but then how will we do it. There are no waterfall in Sand." Menma whined.
"Ah I know... Have you not noticed that maximum Sand ninjas use their wind attacks as large area and pressure attacks with wind. Sharper aspect of wind is less popular here." Naruto informed as Pakura nodded in confirmation.
"Hm... I noticed during the invasion. Though I am pretty sure I saw Temari-Chan and her sensei using cutting aspect of wind." Menma mused.
"Well Baki who is very experienced Shinobi so it's not a big surprise. Probably rock cutting exercises for those many years helped him. As for Temari, she can't use it without her ninja fan. Though by using shadow clones to do rock cutting, I think you will be fine. But if there is a problem, I can always create a waterfall for you." Naruto grinned.
"Oh..." Menma accepted but then there was a thought that came to his mind. "Nii-chan, I have to ask you something."
"Hmm...go on" answered Naruto.
"Well I was thinking, I was always dead last of my class and I was not able to remember many things they thought in academy. It was only when Ero-sannin came, I suddenly started to understand everything and the odd thing is that I never forget whatever I learn. It is like when I try to remember the things, while scene plays before my eyes in detail." Menma confessed.
"Welp... about being dead last and all, first they don't matter, Second teachers taught you nothing and you were badly sabotaged and mainly there is a high possibility that a hormon-regulator seal was placed on your body. It doesn't changes your intelligence or something. It starts to increase more dopamine into your body which leads to excessive energy so you can't concentrate properly. So unlike physical skills where dopamine kind off helped you , you weren't able to concentrate on theory and so you were bad at them. I suspect Jiraiya found the seal when he was breaking Orochimaru's five pronged seal which is also the reason you are not so loudmouth and hyperactive as everyone reported you to be. But the thing is Jiraiya and Sarutobi didn't do anything after that is concerning. I already have suspicion who could have done these things but that's for another time."
"Now that your increased intelligence is solved, we move on to your memory. It's nothing to worry about. Photographic memory is trait of Namikaze clan. Unlike Nara-clan, who have mutations in frontal lobe of brain which gives them high IQ and reasoning, the members of Namikaze-clan have mutated temporal lobe which gives us photographic memory and fast responses. Our father had inherited the trait and he was one of the most intelligent man to ever exist on earth, surpassing the intelligence of Nara Shikito, the 13th head of Nara clan who was revered as most intelligent Nara of the century until Nara Shikaku proved himself better than his predecessor scoring IQ of 298. And it seems like you have inherited it from our father." Naruto smiled at his brother as he explained.
"Woahh... does that mean I am also one of the smartest ninja on the planet. Take that Sasuke-teme." Menma cheered.
"Ha-ha!! Calm down otouto. Only having photographic memory, doesn't leads to intelligence. And Sasuke also have photographic memory and increased reasoning due to his sharingan." Naruto tried to stop his brother from having too big of a head.
"Aw...that's no fair" Menma pouted. "I tell you sharingan is a massive cheat code. I mean turn on fancy eyes and you are smart. Turn them on and you are fast. Turn them on and you become a ghost."
"COMING FROM A BRAT WHO CAN REGROW LIMBS AND ORGANS." snorted Yang Kurama.
"OR THROW S-RANK JUTSU LIKE KUNAI AND SHURIKEN." yin Kurama added.
"Or throw unlimited about of fire weapons until he is bored. Seriously to control such a volatile element." Naruto muttered.
Menma, yin kurama, yang kurama and Pakura turned to him and shouted simultaneously "YOU SHUT UP!!"
"IF fire is volatile then what about lightning. It's rawest form of energy for fuck-sakes. And you don't even waste chakra to control it. It just dances around you like some kind of pet." grumbled Menma.
"OR HOW ABOUT RETURNING FROM DEATH-GOD'S STOMACH SOUND." Yang Kurama grumbled.
"OR HOW ABOUT BECOMING A FUCKING GOD WHEN YOU USE HIRAISHIN OMNIPOTENCE." yin kyubi added.
"Or how about being godly on bed with an equipment that can put every others to the shame." Pakura murmered in daze causing everyone to sweat drop.
"HEY!!! Don't corrupt Menma. Kaa-chan will whoop my ass." Naruto shouted indgilantly.
"Should have thought about that before forgetting to use silencing seal,AGAIN!!" Menma complained.
"Hey why are you all ganging up on me. Not that I am not flattered by your complements." Naruto said bashfully and got a deadpan stare in return.
"Anyways, let's rest we are close to gates of Suna." Naruto yawned as everyone else went to sleep.