-=Calm days=- rewritten
Currently Naruto is at the hospital, visiting Lee
"Again, sorry for DESTROYING you at our match Lee..." Naruto sarcastically said
"It's okay, I just need to redouble my trai-" Lee was interrupted
"STOP RIGHT THERE!
You will do no such thing, after you recover, double or even triple your training for all i care, but until then you are forbidden from training!" Naruto said with authority.
"But..." Le tried to counter but could not say anything
"No buts, Lee. That is your health on the line, what good would it be if you trained more just to fall apart because of overwhelming your body with training?" Lee had no answer to Naruto's question.
"We are not at war Lee, you dont need to train all day long, you know that rest is as important as training itself right? Just take care of yourself..." Naruto walked off as the visit time was ending.
-=-
"Sigh~... it's almost time..." Anyone who heard Naruto thought he was talking about being almost night, but he was actually talking about the time when the 4 ninjas that Orochimaru sent, talked with Sasuke.
'I could stop them but... why bother? Sasuke being in Konoha is more annoying than anything, and he will end up almost killing Orochimaru this way...' Naruto was brought back from his thoughts as a voice called him
"Naruto! i finally found you!" Called Jiraya
"Oh, that pervert from 1 month ago..." Naruto plainly said
"I AM NOT A PERVERT" Jiraya started his catchphrase but Naruto was not so patient
"Yeah, yeah, you are a super pervert, whatever dude..." So he dismissed Jiraya instantly, much to Jiraya's displeasure, but he had important things to talk about...
"I am going out of the village to search for my old teammate, Tsunade. And you are going with me!" Said Jiraya expecting a surprised reaction from Naruto, But he only got a bored answer
"Why me?" Jiraya was left speechless, he could not say 'Because i am your godfather and want to pass some time with you' after being absent when Naruto needed it...
"Because... It was the old man's last wish" Jiraya thought of a reason but thats the best he could come up with...
"If you don't wanna tell me just say 'cause i said so' i have no time to waste hearing such bad lies... When are we going?" Naruto in his deeply bored tone said.
'Damnit' Jiraya was really helpless, he had not thought it through and now he made a bad impression for his godson...
"In one week..." Jiraya answered
"Kay" Naruto nodded and went back to his house.
"Sigh~, what am i doing? i need to stop just jumping into everything without a plan, Tsunade was right..." Jiraya mumbled as he remembers what Tsunade aways said to him in the past, as he walked away to prepare for his trip.
-=-
"...So that's why i will be leaving the village for some undetermined amount of time" Naruto just finished explaining about his 'trip' outside of the village.
"NOT FAIR" Ikki exclaimed, surprising Haku at her side
"What is not fair Ikki?" Amused, Naruto asked
"You just got back from 1 month of training and you are already going out!?"
"What's the matter? are you missing me in advance?"
Ikki had no way to answer Naruto's teasing words... because they were true, so she only shyly nodded. Naruto put a hand on her head and as he patted her, he said
"That's so cute of you, but if you miss me you can just ask to go with us, even if that old man declines i can blackmail him"
Answered Naruto with such calmbess that it seemes as if he didn't just talk about blackmailing someone.
"THAT'S IT! I AM GOING WITH YOU!" Ikki had a bright smile on her face, whether it was because of her going with Naruto, Naruto calling her cute or Naruto's headpats, that is completely irrelevant as Naruto is the reason in all 3 cases.
-=-
One week later
Naruto went to konoha's gates were Jiraya was waiting for him with Ikki by his side.
"Sup, old perv, i already said goodbye to my friends so let's get going" Said Naruto as he approaches the gate
"BRAT! Who are you calling old?" Jiraya got really annoyed by Naruto's comment.
"Huh? you of course" Naruto answered
"I'M NOT OLD!" Jiraya shouting answered
"But your hair is already white..." For some reason Naruto found it really funny to annoy people.
"I was born with it" Jiraya said
Naruto looked at him like he was an idiot
"Of course you were born with it, everyone is born with their hair. I am saying that i has already turned white because you are old" Naruto teased.
"Pfftt" Ikki couldn't hold her laugh anymore
"Brat... Anyway, who is she?"
"None of your pervertes business!" Naruto answeres immediately
"And why is she going with us?" Jiraya asked again
"Cause i said so!" Naruto answered with the same line he said to Jiraya to use instead of excuses, implying that he could not be bothered to create a excuse.
"...You are really annoying, you know that brat?"
"You are really old and still single, you know that, old man?"
"YOU LITTLE..."
Jiraya and Naruto went out while bickering with eachother.
Ikki had the time of her life laughing at their antics.
After a long time, they stopped bickering as Naruto decided to train because he got out of ideas of how to annoy Jiraya, who in the other hand was quite pleased that he actually got to know Naruto better, as he got some info from their bickering. He was not a master spy for nothing.
"Oy old perv!" Naruto suddenly called Jiraya
"What is it brat?"
"Do you know any good jutsus or genjutsus?"
Naruto also asked dor genjutsus as Ikki once commented that she was interested in them, Hearing that Naruto remembers what she once said made Ikki happy.
Jiraya smiked at that question, he now could approach Naruto easily with the intention to train him...
-=-
Back at Konoha
Two people appeared in the middle of the village in a red flash, the area was pretty deserted so no one noticed anything.
"The village still looks the same, didn't Orochimaru attack it?" Menma asked
"Let's walk around and see if we can collect any info about the reason... also how will we proceed with the mission of capturing your brother?" Itachi suggested and asked
"Well let's do just that. About Naruto? just leave him be, let's just find him, create a commotion and when someone strong sees us we retreat, simple as that!" Menma came up with a plan. As they walked around they heard rumors and conversations about how a yellow haired kid beat the giant sand monster and created a army of clone who saved and helped everyone in the village.
"Itachi, we are being followed" Menma said
"I noticed" Itachi answered as they went to a deserted area.
When they arrived their pursuers jumped in front of them.
"Kurenai Yuhi, Asuma Sarutobi and Kakashi Hatake, Huh..." Menma instantly recognized them.
"What are you two traitors doing in konoha?" Kakashi asked as he pulled his headband revealing his sharingan. Asuma and Kurenai also went into combat positions.
"Before we start this Kakashi, i just want to ask you something..." Menma said as he looked at Kakashi
"What is it?" Kakashi asked
"Do you know the way?"
"Huh?"
-=WE ARE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES, PLEASE STANDBY=-
"What is it?" Kakashi asked
"Why didn't you take care of my brother?" Menma asked with a chilling tone, anyone could guess that if he didn't like the answer...
"I... I couldn't face him after all that happened..." Kakashi explained in a sad tone but Menma's face got colder and colder.
"So you are saying...
That because you had no courage...
He needed to live a life of solitude, with all the village hating him...
JUST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T HAVE THE GUTS TO LOOK AT HIM?!?"
"... If you are going to guilt trip me, why weren't YOU there for him?"
Kakashi's question made Menma enraged, as the thing he wanted the most was ro be with his brother, but he couldn't.
"DON'T TALK LIKE YOU KNOW WHAT I WENT THROUGH!"
As soon as Menma said that, he jumped towards Kakashi, but...
"Leaf's strong entrance" Guy jumped in. As Lee was not almost crippled like in cannon, he spent less time at the hospital, so he got there early.
"Tch... Another one..." Menma prepared to fight both Kakashi and Guy at the same time while Itachi was facing Asuma and Kurenai. During their time in the village they had Itachi put some ninjas into genjutsu and got to know that Naruto was out with Jiraya, so they decided to end this fight quickly.
"Guy! This man is Menma of the Red flash, he is an S-ranked missing nin, trained by the fourth hokage himself, so keep your guard up" Kakashi said as he prepared for a difficult battle.
"I am tired of hearing you talking, so i will attack first" As soon as they heard Menma's voice they noticed that he vanished, They looked left and right but couldn't find him, Kakashi's sharingan caught a shadow moving at hus left so he immediately jumped back, but Guy did not and was hit by a shadow coated spear. He moved out of the way at the last second bu was still hit in the shoulder.
"GUY!" Kakashi lost his composure as he saw his friend getting hit, that is what years of his new lifestyle made him, such a rookie mistake...
"I am alright" Guy said as he kicked at the direction were the spear came from, Menma jumped back while smirking, he turned his head to Kakashi and said
"{Loki} (decided to use other god of trickery, for convenience's sake)" Kakashi expected a attack but he felt nothing, but when he looked at Menma he could only exclaim in shock.
"H-How?"
The reason for his shock was because Menma had a pair of blood red eyes with a shuriken pattern inside of it (Itachi's mangekyou).
This was Loki, Menma's own jutsu that could copy anything as long as certain requirements are achieved.
"Tsukuyomi" As Menma's voice fell, Kakashi found himself in a large forest, half of his body was burning with red flames and the other half was cracking because of how cold it was, he heard sound of thunder and looked up, he saw black lightning bolts falling in his direction and when the first one made contact with him
"AAAAAAGHH!" It was like a switch was flipped and different from before, he now felt all the pain from half freezing and half burning to death, but doesn't matter how much his body broke down in ice or burned to a crisp, he always regenerated as soon as a lightning bolt hit him, every time he was hit by the lighting his pain became worse. That went on for 2 days...
(Yeah only 2, as Menma's jutsu can't copy the Tsukuyomi perfectly).
In the outside world only 2 seconds have passed...
"What did you do to hi-*COUGH*" Guy asked but mid sentence he vomited blood.
"Oh right, you were hit... Sasori said that this one was a failed poison, it is not lethal but it can cripple someone... but it takes a long time to act though... maybe one month or so? so when he was about to throw it away i got it, i would love to have another fight with both of you, but i have things to do, so~" As soon as Menma finished explaining, he appeared behind Guy and kicked him with all his strength, it would not even knock Guy out but it did give him time to teleport Itachi and him outside konoha.
"Huh? You finished already? that was fast..." Menma was surprised to see that Itachi had already defeated his opponents.
"Asuma tried to use a fire jutsu from the sarutobi clan, an Kurenai tried to put me in a genjutsu..." Itachi plainly explained
*SLAP*
That was the sound of Menma facepalming...
"Who is dumb enought to try to place a Uchiha that was renowned because of his genjutsu prowess and has a evolved sharingan in a genjutsu? and fire? seriously? against you? Man... why did i end with the troublesome ones and you got the idiots?" Menma complained about his luck.
"Enough of that. We need to go." Itachi stopped Menma's unfairness monologue, and remembered him that they needed to go
"Right..." Menma said as he placed his hand on Itachi's shoulder and teleported them away.