Chapter 1
These roads were familiar yet also unfamiliar. Obviously, since he knew this place from a different time period.
Menma Uzumaki, black messy hair like his mama's and blue bottomless eyes like his father's. The kid was way from the future of this timeline, and he had no idea how he'd gotten here in the first place.
Well he had some idea... Messing around in his father's attic he found some random scrolls that were probably forbidden jutsus. Being the absolute pro he is he decided it would be funny to try executing the easiest jutsu he could find in the bundle of scrolls
And then it came to this.
The village was mostly the same except that the city wasn't there anymore and there were only five hokage faces on the cliff. When he teleported here he had fallen somewhere near the village, not exactly inside.
He was 12 years old and was smart enough to know that he shouldn't let it be known where he was from and who he was, so he supposed roaming wouldn't be too dangerous as long as he had a cover up story ready (he didn't)
As he walked he noticed the ichiraku ramen shop. He stared at it for awhile and gasped
'Ichiraku was THAT small?!' he thought to himself. The ichiraku in his time was a big shop now, this was....quite humbling honestly
Suddenly he felt a hand tap on his shoulder and he immediately jumped away, once again alert. He shouldn't be dropping his defenses..
"Old man?" He muttered out before he could stop himself.
The young boy infront of him who was wearing seizure inducing orange, with bright yellow hair and whiskers, was DEFINITELY his father. He could recognise the colour he wore any day.. because only his old man would choose such a horrible colour
The boy, Naruto, blinked and his face changed to one of having recieved great offense
"Old man? OLD MAN??" He said pointing at himself "do I look old to you?!"
Menma shook his head quickly and tried to find an excuse. Damn it
"That's not what I meant— i meant OH MAN! I zoned out in the middle of the road..." He said, slowly trailing off realising he sounded stupid as hell
Naruto looked unconvinced and eyed him suspiciously. Menma shifted, almost uncomfortable.
"You don't look like a Shinobi from the academy." Young Naruto said, his hand placed on his chin dramatically.
"I don't look like a Shinobi?"
Naruto didn't reply for a second. He shook his head
"I mean you definitely are. Your reflexes were fast and you have the leaf hitai-ate on your head" the blonde pointed out, nodding to himself about his observations.
'oh shit' Menma realised 'I didn't take off my head protector'
This was going to be difficult to explain. He WAS a leaf ninja, from another timeline, not this one. The hokage nor the academy would recognise him, and that would stir up more problems
Maybe he could somehow fool this kid version of his father...Naruto always was kind of slow after all
"Actually this is just a decoration piece I found from.. uh, a shop outside the village. I'm travelling different villages for enjoyment." He quickly said, trying to convince his young old man
Naruto looked unconvinced, but his expression soon faded from apprehensive to relaxed. And then he grinned
"I see I see; so you're a civilian ey? Travelling, that'sounds fun dattebayo!"
Menma internally facepalmed. He can't believe his dad believed such a HORRIBLE lie. How did this kid even come to become hokage?
No, genuinely. Menma knows some things about both his parents' pasts. The Uchiha Massacre, he learned about it from books he'd read from the library, and as for Naruto's story, it was a famous tale already since he saved the entire world.
But still how could someone be so gullible and strong? Menma was shaken from his thoughts when he felt another light tug at his arm.
Naruto was telling him to come along to Ichiraku ramen.
"Hey, wanna eat together? You were looking at this shop when I found you 'ttebayo!"
Menma looked at his dad and the shop a few times quickly before agreeing. He was hungry, and he wasn't going to let his stomach growl to signify that he was hungry and embarrass himself— like how most characters in those cliché novels do.
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While Menma was still on his first bowl his young old man was on his, like, fifth bowl and the black haired boy was getting super concerned.
Naruto glanced at him once and continued slurping down his ramen.
"This thing's good yea? You're such a slow eater"
Menma's expression visibly turned irritated and he suppressed the urge to roll his eyes. He simply groaned as a response
"By the way, I haven't gotten your name"
Oh right. Menma didn't introduce himself.
He cleared his throat
"Ahem, gomen. I forgot...my name's Menma Uz....Uzunami."
Naruto flashed him with his cheerful grin
"Mm, Menma Uzunami! I'm Naruto Uzumaki. The future hokage!"
Menma hummed. He was right, he was the future hokage.
"Your clan sounds similar to mine..Uzumaki, Uzunami, isn't that cool?" The orange suit boy said, twirling his chopsticks around in the air mindlessly
Menma hummed again, shifting his gaze away from his ramen bowl to the walls of Ichiraku. No pictures that he would usually see were there, not even Aunty Hinata's with her 19 empty bowls of ichi ramen.
Suddenly he heard another voice join him and his young old man. It was a bit more less cheery, more arrogant. A little.
"Oi, dobe. Kakashi's calling."
That voice. It sounded familiar. It sounded like a smaller version of a voice he'd heard before.
Also, dobe was something he had heard his mama refer to his old man as several times.
Wait, mama?
"Ahh really? Can't you tell him to wait longer Sasuke—"
"Mama?" Menma spluttered out again before he could control his mouth, his head turning sharply to catch a glance. His eyes met directly with onyx ones, as recognisable as his father's cardiac arrest inducing orange clothing.
Without missing a beat, both Naruto and...young Sasuke perked up. Naruto very taken aback and Sasuke a bit embarrassed
"MAMA?!"
"mama?"
Menma rushed to think of an excuse. No matter what lie he'd say he was sure his young mom would figure it out anyway, since he wasn't a numbskull like his old man.
Naruto whipped his head from Menma to Sasuke repeatedly before getting off his chair and shouting at the Uchiha boy
"Sasuke, I didn't know you had a secret baby?! You're a mom?? You're a girl?"
Naruto asked, his mind filling with questions he wanted answers to. Each question made Sasuke more annoyed and irritated at him, his face starting to slowly burn up with each one he asked out of pure embarrassment.
Menma internally facepalmed again. Holy shit, his dad, as a kid presumably his age was seventeen times dumber than the one he knew in his timeline
Sasuke shoved Naruto away harshly and glared at him
"No! Ofcourse not. I'm a man, I can't have children I'm young!" He said, his tone sounding humiliated.
Sasuke then snapped his gaze at Menma, to which the black haired Uzumaki gulped.
'Mama's glare looks the same. Always looked the same.'
The Sasuke of his time would absolutely eat him alive even with just his simple signature glare if he disobeyed him, and this was that exact look. This was one thing Menma was all too completely familiar with from this time period
"Who are you?" He said, his tone sounding accusing.
Naruto decided to do the introductions instead.
"Sasuke, meet Menma Uzunami! He's a traveller who's travelling all villages for fun!" He said, repeating Menma's stupid excuse all over.
Unlike Naruto, Menma could sense that Sasuke was not at all fooled.
Naruto seemed to have noticed it too and took a glance at Menma
"The hitai ate was an accessory he bought I think."
Sasuke and Naruto looked at eachother and the Uchiha sighed
"Anyway. Kakashi said he needs team 7 assembled near the office now."
Sasuke quickly jumped away disappearing. Naruto realised he didn't even introduce the Uchiha
He turned to Menma, who was still in thought about his young parents.
"Menma, that guy just now was Sasuke Uchiha! Don't pay much attention to him though he's just an asshole" Naruto said quickly, before pushing his bowl back.
"Anyway I gotta leave too so see you another time friend! Bye!"
Soon the blonde boy also disappeared into the sky and only Menma was left sitting at the small Ichiraku stand. He looked at his now empty ramen bowl
'Father's fashion sense was questionable.' was his first thought after being left alone.
'alot of orange... And mama's fashion is slightly better' Menma had some kind of favouritism towards Sasuke for sure. But to be fair it was true, atleast his mama didn't wear bright ass eye blinding colours all mixed together. Anything other than that would look sensible and better
Menma remembered the Team 7 picture that was pinned up in Naruto's room and also in the living room. The third member was his aunt, Sakura.
"Excuse me! I gotta go!" He said and left some money on the counter. Thankfully the currency hadn't changed through the years and the value was the same too.
"Where would aunty Sakura be..." He muttered to himself. Then he remembered what his young mama had said..
''Kakashi said he needs team 7 assembled near the office. Now."
So they would all be near the Hokage tower.
Menma supposed it wouldn't be too troublesome to go there
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The time travelling Uzumaki was hidden pretty well among the trees.
He could see his young parents, young aunt, and a younger version of old man Kakashi here too.
"Alright, that's it." Kakashi said, the whole team nodded. It seemed Menma reached a little late.
Aunt Sakura came in view. She had her short pink hair, red clothing and the hitai ate wrapped around her hair.
"So we should use this money to go shopping!" She immediately suggested, Naruto deflated and Sasuke didn't react
"Actually I'm gonna spend this on buying the limited edition ramen"
Sakura surged forward to smack his head but Naruto moved out of the way by pure luck, his expression scared.
Menma almost laughed. Aunt Sakura was ass aggressive as she always was
"What about you Sasuke-kun?" She asked, her voice more soft and mannered now. Her eyes looked like they were hopeful.
Menma tried to recall what he knew about them. Aunt Sakura once mentioned that he really liked mama, and Aunt Hinata said he really liked father. So that's in this time..
Sasuke crossed his arms and didn't look bothered in the least.
"I don't care. I'll save the money. It could be of use some time later"
Naruto's eyes narrowed and glared at the Uchiha while Sakura just nodded understandingly
As Menma's gaze was fixated on team 7, he suddenly felt a presence behind him.
He turned behind quickly with a kunai ready in his hands— KAKASHI..
This time he didn't open his mouth beforehand. The guy infront of him right now was younger version of Sixth Hokage Old Man Kakashi.
"Impressive. I appeared here only a millisecond ago but you noticed right away." Kakashi said
Menma looked at him irritatedly. He didn't want to deal with this right now, he got caught
"Tell me what were you doing listening in on us?"
"Uh..." Menma should've thought this through. Of course a Jonin of his level would obviously sense his presence. Menma had tried to reduce his chakra levels but it didn't work
Kakashi looked into the boy's eyes.
"How old are you? From this village? I've never seen you."
"I'm 12. No, I'm not exactly from this village..." Menma said and realised this was going to be difficult. Wait, he had the sharingan, he could just erase everyone's memory after fucking around with them
He was such a genius! As he thought of this idea his face brightened up like as if a light bulb had ignited over his head, and the Jonin had noticed the change in behaviour.
"Fine I'll tell you everything." Menma said and got comfortably seated.
Well this was new. Kakashi didn't encounter shinobis so willing to share their plans.
"I'm not from this time— I'm from the future."
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Kakashi tilted his head to the side"what?"
Ofcourse its hard to believe . How would Menma prove it?
"I'm from the future. Uh..listen, do you know that forbidden scroll? Well, one of them I mean. It was a time travelling jutsu."
Kakashi seemed to have caught on fast, his eyes turning a serious look.
"So you've used that jutsu to arrive here?"
"Well..I was just messing around. I didn't know it would actually work" Menma said awkwardly, rubbing his head.
Kakashi didn't entirely trust the boy but this would explain many things, plus the time travelling jutsu did exist after all.
Kakashi pointed at the three genin
"How about you come down and introduce yourself to those people."
"I already did...except to Aunt Sakura."
"Aunt?" Kakashi raised an eyebrow, interested
"Ya! Aunt Sakura, Old Man Naruto and mama Sasuke" he listed off excitedly.
"Mama?" Kakashi repeated, blinking twice.
Menma laughed nervously "you'll understand later" he said and jumped down from the tree. Kakashi followed suit
Kakashi did the explaining, and Naruto was left with his jaw dropped, Sakura amazed and Sasuke a bit uneasy.
"Wow! So you're from the future!" Naruto exclaimed, examining Menma once again
"No wonder I thought you weren't a leaf shinobi. You don't belong here!" Immediately Naruto earned a punch on his head from Sakura.
The girl looked up at Menma and bowed slightly
"I apologize for my friend's words. He doesn't really think before speaking"
Menma's eyebrow twitched as he forced a smile. He could see that. He could very well see that. "It's fine"
Sasuke's gaze was on Menma's the whole time, and the Black haired Uzumaki finally decided to lock his eyes with him again.
The Uchiha strided over to him in fast, short steps, talking to him with a smaller voice so no one else would hear.
"You're from..the future, right?"
Menma nodded firmly
"Did I .." Sasuke gulped "Do you know if I killed my brother?"
Menma's eyes slightly widened. His mama had said he truly regretted it, but his path was always of revenge since he was a kid. He had wanted this before, ages ago.
Menma replied trying to keep his tone neutral
"Yea, you did. Itachi Uchiha is dead."
Sasuke seemed to visibly relax, his expression relieved. Menma was glad he caused some happiness to young mama atleast.
"Actually!" He decided to add.
All of team 7 looked at him— including Kakashi
"I'm Menma Uzumaki. Not Uzunami, sorry dad" he said, rubbing his head and grinning sheepishly towards Naruto.
Silence overcame them, realisation dawning a little slowly over the four ninjas. Naruto stared at Menma
"Dad?... UZUMAKI? YOU'RE MY SON?!" Naruto said excitedly, although a bit worried
"Yaya I am" Menma nodded vigorously
"Wow! I have a son! Sakura chan Sasuke teme look!"
Naruto said happily, running happy laps around the field. Sakura clasped her hands together and also took notice of the boy's eyes
"He has your eyes Naruto"
Naruto agreed humming
Kakashi also noticed his hair. He remembered what Menma had said earlier and came to a conclusion
"Menma"
Menma looked at the younger sixth hokage
"Does your 'mama' happen to be...Sasuke?" He said, silencing the entire place again.
"WHAAAAAAAAT" Sakura screamed and fainted dramatically. Naruto also scream that and looked at Sasuke for an explanation, as if he could provide one. Sasuke had ALSO screamed that for he couldn't believe his ears or eyes
Menma nodded unfazed. Infact he found their reactions entertaining.
"I'm Menma Uzumaki, son of the seventh hokage Naruto Uzumaki and shadow hokage Sasuke Uchiha."
He re introduced himself more pridefully now, and Naruto seemed to competely disregard every other word Menma had said except for 'seventh hokage'
"I'm HOKAGE?!"
"Yes old man"
"Old man...but YAYYYY" Naruto jumped around leaping in joy from the confirmation that he indeed does fulfill his goal in life.
Sasuke on the other hand wasn't comforted in the least. He looked like he wanted to punch a hole in a tree and then toss the tree around like a volleyball
"... you're..my son?" The Uchiha muttered, confusion etched across his features. Menma nodded and moved closer to Sasuke
"Mama, I have the sharingan"
Menma said and activated his dojutsu for a brief moment, to which Sasuke's eyes widened. The Uzumaki kid quickly de activated it.
But what bothered Sasuke even more was...
"You call me 'mama' ?"
Naruto stopped his overjoyed celebration, gaining interest in the two brunettes instead. He came to stand next to them
"Yeah! You're mama" Menma said again pointing at Sasuke, making the Uchiha look away in embarrassment.
Menma shifted his finger's direction to Naruto
"And you're old man father! Papa."
Sasuke choked on his own spit and so did Naruto. The blonde Uzumaki coughed and grew a small shade of red, while Sasuke was a whole tomato.
"So me and teme are married? We have kid—"
Sasuke punched his head, Naruto shouting a small 'owch!'
Sasuke looked extremely embarrassed and humiliated, completely red from head to toe.
Menma smirked, recognising a similar scenario like this from his time period. He missed his parents, both of them. In general.
His papa Naruto was the ever busy hokage, drowned in duty and paperwork 24/7. He would come home, but only around 3 AM, sometimes he would FORGET to come home.
And his mama Sasuke was also pretty much missing. He surprisingly, and pleasantly was around more than Naruto— Sasuke would have long missions and assignments to complete outside the village, but every time he'd get even a tiny break he would come home for his children during the daytime when they COULD meet instead of Naruto who would come at the dead of night
Sasuke was just 15% times more present than Naruto, but even then it felt empty.
Menma would be lying if he said he didn't have some favouritism towards his mother. And it applied here too.
He missed his parents, but most of all he missed his mama. He still remembered Naruto's face, voice, hair, everything pretty clearly. But for Sasuke,even with so many photos in the house, Menma has almost forgotten what Sasuke sounds like. It saddened him
Atleast his young mama and young old man were here.
"I can't believe it..." Naruto mumbled, then grinned widely "I married teme!" Naruto announced to Kakashi who was busy taking care of a fainted Sakura Haruno.
The Jonin hummed in response, sounding amused. It was like a typical love story— two rivals who're always bickering, get together in the end.
Sasuke grabbed a handful of Naruto's hair again, pulling him which earned him a yelp from the blonde kid
Sasuke was still red in the face processing the information and agitated, at Naruto, treating this as something funny and exciting.
What about the Uchiha clan? Was he not going to revive his clan? What happened to that? How did he manage to even settle down, with THIS DOBE?
"Can I ... Hang around you guys for awhile?" Menma asked, a bit awkward now after all his confidence just dispersed
Naruto was too busy complaining and tugging at Sasuke's hand trying to pry it off his head, while the Uchiha stared back at his supposed 'son' from the future.
He looked alot like Naruto, only his colour palette was similar to his and he seemed to be atleast a bit more dignified than the yellow blob he was torturing currently.
Sasuke's expression somewhat softened. It was kind of, sort of, relieving to know he'd found family in the future, even if it was with this...questionable, loud, irritating partner. And this was his son
"Sure. Just don't annoy me" Sasuke said, trying to keep up his usual demeanor and he let go of Naruto who landed on the ground prettty harshly.
"Oww ..Sasuke!"
Menma laughed it off, actually enjoying being with his parents. Young, small parents.
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