Chapter 022 I am Vengeance

-Borders-

Menma was escorted by Anbu and brought to the Fire and Cloud border. An Anbu leader spoke with the cloud shinobi squad leader from a distance.

Leaf Anbu said to cloud shinobi, "Where are the leaf shinobi you captured? Return them; we brought Menma according to the agreement."

The leaf guy is getting a little irritated, but he still has to do his duty. The cloud shinobi's face lights up.

The cloud ninja said, "You are willing to trade one boy for entire shinobi squads. Don't you think it's unfair? And you are selling your boy for other men, not us." He taunted the leaf ninjas. The next words would make him surprised.

Leaf Anbu looked at him and said, "Menma retired yesterday, so he is no longer a Leaf Shinobi. If you want to play games like this, we can come another day. And even if you deliver less than half the men, we will return him to the Leaf. Don't think we don't know the actual numbers of your hostages."

His words brought the Cloud shinobi leader to backfoot. It is one thing to trade konoha shinobi but it is another thing to trade a retired person as he is no longer an important part of the Shinobi system.

Cloud shinobi leader gritted his teeth but said, " Quite a despicable move from you leaf shinobi. We are the ones who are holding your men, not us." He tried to capitalize on their weak point.

But the people sent by Hokage didn't budge on his demands.

Leaf Anbu said, " Looks like you are not agreeing with your superior words. We can wait for another of your superiors."

The Leaf Anbu who had been negotiating, gestured the squad behind him and they took back Menma and disappeared into the forest. The Cloud Shinobi again looked angry. However, the Leaf Anbu didn't like his attitude from the beginning.

The leaf anbu is about to leave but Cloud Shinobi interrupts him. And said, " Okay, we brought all of your men, all 300 of your men. You can take them back but Menma has to be taken by us today. "

The cloud shinobi would get promoted for this kind of thing. So he didn't want to miss out on this opportunity. However, he didn't gain any advantage from the conversation.

Leaf Anbu said, "Have you taken us for fools? You have 460 of our shinobi in your possession. And the other 40 are being taken to the other location as we speak. We want all 500 captured shinobi and all the leaf corpses that you are taking elsewhere. You don't seem to know the agreement between the Hokage and the Raikage through the letter, I suppose."

The cloud shinobi looked angry and signaled the cloud anbu behind him. He immediately left somewhere. And both Leaf anbu and Cloud shinobi squad leaders stared at each other.

Another Leaf Anbu came and whispered something into the ear of the previous Anbu, then left. The Cloud Shinobi knew that his men were keeping an eye on his men.

Soon the captives were brought and Leaf Anbu counted their numbers. And Menma was brought back immediately. The exchange took place immediately. The five hundred Leaf Shinobi were given to Leaf Anbu along with all of the corpses in a scroll. The border was lax at that time and not many people died, but there were injuries and captures. Even five hundred is not a small number.

Menma walked slowly to the other side, and the captured leaf shinobi were brought there. After the leaf Anbu took back the captured leaf shinobi; he looked at Menma one last time before being taken away by the Cloud shinobi squad.

Leaf anbu thought, " He shined too brightly for a kid. Now I don't know what they will do to him. "

He has taken the people as per agreement. And he didn't look back at this time.

Menma was brought to the Cloud Shinobi's squad leader. The latter signaled another shinobi who placed a chakra seal on Menma.

He sneered and said, "What kind of genius? He's just a regular kid without chakra. A chicken in our hands."

Menma didn't say anything but remained silent as if waiting for something. No one saw a small smile on his face when that cloud ninja applied the chakra seal on him. These people don't know that he can break that seal at any time. And it does not affect his body. But still, he hid his chakra immediately.

Cloud Anbu said, " Bring him back to the hidden base; he is no longer a threat to us without his chakra. He was a konoha chunin; so he should know many secrets of konoha village. Strave him for a few days till Raikage and Elder arrive at our base."

They throw him in a small cage which is carried by a tall man. They didn't see three bees coming out of the cage silently. They are the shadow clones who are produced in a transformation form.

-Two days later-

-Hidden base of Cloud Village-

Menma is inside a cell, they keep an eye on him. But they looked at his shocked face. They tried to interrogate him about Konoha. But they all saw Menma's lifeless eye. And he didn't speak even once. No matter how much they tried.

A ninja said to another one, "Hey, what happened to him? He hasn't spoken a word since we brought him. It looks like Konoha placed some kind of seal on him so he can't talk."

Another one said, "I also think that is the case. We starved him for almost three days, but he didn't speak. Should we try another method?"

A third ninja arrived and said, "There's no need to do something like this. It's a futile attempt like those other guys."

The first two nodded their heads, but soon realized something was wrong. The second shinobi lost his head, and the first shinobi's mouth was closed by the third ninja who had arrived. The third ninja then transformed into Menma and turned the cloud ninja's head 180 degrees.

Another shadow clone of Menma appeared, and they became these two ninja. They disposed of these two corpses and freed Menma, who walked out of the cell.

The first thing he did after getting out was break the chakra seal completely, even though it was ineffective, it was an eyesore for him.

Menma ate the food he had brought from Konoha after that.

He disguised himself as a cloud ninja and walked out of that room. Meanwhile, Menma directly raided the kitchen of their hidden base. As it was soon going to be lunchtime.

Menma saw that the food was finished to be served. So he robbed the food according to his needs. And poisoned the remaining food with some odorless poison. He is a doctor, so he knows about poisons. It is not only odorless but a slow-acting poison and will take effect after an hour.

His clone went back to the cell And he placed an illusion of himself inside the cell. Some ninjas came and checked his cell from time to time.

-After the lunch -

Most of the ninja finished their food. Even Anbu who came to eat at this time.

The shift change occurred and the two were called by the same person who had negotiated with Konoha Anbu.

He asked, "So, have you made any progress on the captive? Has he opened his mouth?" He looked impatient to learn some secrets.

One of the Menma clones said, "No progress, squad leader."

His words brought a suspicious look from the squad leader, but before he could speak.

Someone grabbed him from behind, and the other two clones of Menma also grabbed him immediately.

Menma, who was using advanced cloaking techniques, appeared and said, "It is not good for you to doubt your subordinates. Remember, you called me 'chicken.' Who's the chicken now?"

Menma didn't wait any longer; he turned his head 180 degrees. The lifeless body stared at Menma in disbelief as it died.

Menma hid the body in his inventory and became the squad leader himself. He had to wait for the poison to take its effect.

-Two hours later-

A cloud ninja who had just returned from outside spotted numerous other cloud ninjas within the base writhing in pain. Immediately, he rushed to their aid. The base's squad leader approached them and demanded, "What is going on inside the base? Bring everyone to the infirmary."

Those who didn't have time to eat the food were looking at the people and immediately gathered all the people who were poisoned by strange means.

Suddenly, two mist ninjas attacked those who had not been poisoned with a barrage of kunai and shuriken. The two mist ninja were Menma's clones.

A few unlucky ones are immediately impaled by kunai and shuriken.

Menma barked out orders immediately like a true squad leader, "Form up around the wounded and defend them from those two intruders."

Because they have no time to pay attention to Menma's odd behavior even if he acts nothing like their squad leader. They formed a formation around those who were wounded.

But soon the mist ninja did something every elite mist ninja knew in their village.

One of them immediately performed some quick hand signs and said, " Hidden in the Mist Technique."

The mist is thicker than any mist they have seen from other mist shinobi. The credit goes to Menma's kekkai genkai and his strong primary elements.

Soon after Menma had transformed back into his original form, he activated his Byakugan. Immediately, he began attacking those around the formation.

" Tiger claws,"

" Eagle strike."

" Serpent movements"

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No ninja knows where the attack is coming from. They try to disperse the attack, but they are suddenly killed before they can do so.

When the mist cleared, everyone saw Menma standing above the squad leader's dead body. They were all wounded and the people who had come to help them were also dead.

"Water needles"

Menma and his clones immediately fired water needles from their mouths in three different directions, killing all the injured ninjas who were not yet poisoned. The number of them was small, so it was easy to take care of them.

Menma took a kunai from a dead cloud shinobi. He started killing all the poisoned shinobi who were trying to attack him. It was like a wolf slaughtering sheep at this time.

-Ten minutes later-

Menma and his clones dealt with every shinobi in the base. Now they collected them and made them as a hill. He looked at it and said, " I am not Minato. Who can kill ten thousand of the enemy without breaking a sweat? I would have been killed but your bad luck. I am very smart. Slow and poisoned shinobi are no match for me. You are stupid to think that you can control me as a prisoner. Nevermind. It is not too late to learn even in the afterlife. "

Menma looked at little more than one thousand shinobi whom he killed after he poisoned them. He is fast but he makes his enemy even slower.

His clones collected all the ration, weapons, money, and scrolls. They directly put it in his inventory. They are standing around him.

Menma looked at his clones and said, " Do you think I did something bad?"

His clone shook his head and said, " We did nothing wrong. Who told them to interrogate an eight-year-old boy? They chose their future and we chose would have killed you anyway. They are counterkilled, it is their fault. It is war and we are about to become casualties. So we changed the outcome. Now instead of us, they are the casualties."

Another clone said, " I want to leave a message above this corpse hill. We will become as mysterious as Batman. Yepp,"

His other clone is too excited. And Menma didn't stop him. His clone used the blood of cloud shinobi as ink and wrote on the wall.

( I am night, I am Vengeance. I am winter, I am Menma.)

( Winter came for this base. And night and death followed after him. Beware winter is coming)

( By Menma Satoshi)

Menma doesn't know how to react to his clone antiques. His first clone laughed and said, " Batman and GOT quotes are now owned by us. It is a cringe moment. And we are like shameless people. Anyway, there is no copyright in this world.

Menma sighed and said, "Let's disappear and attack the other bases they have captured. We will destroy the very things they used to gain advantage over me to get me as a captive."

His clones nodded their heads and disappeared. Menma walked out of the base, having equipped himself in his normal shinobi attire. He was only missing his Chunin jacket and headband. However, he wore another jacket for added protection; one he had worn during his Genin days.

Menma disappeared in the forest in which he entered.