Like Father Like Son- Naruto Hatake

~ The Meeting ~

Quick A/N: Regular text is jhuss regular text
Bold means thoughts
"This means conversation"

                           (Naruto's Pov)

I've never interacted with another kid my age!!!! What do I do?! What do I say!?! What if he hurts me!? Man this is difficult. I felt a presence near me and was drawn out of my thoughts. "Helloo, you okay??" I yelped jumping back from the boy who had suddenly appeared right in front of me with a concerned look. His familiar crystal blue eyes watched me carefully before he shook his head and began to speak.

"My apologies, I didn't mean to frighten you. I'm Menma, Menma Namikaze-Uzumaki." I watched him as he smiled brightly at me. I'm not sure if I should tell him my name but I feel as though I can trust him. Though I still hesitated before giving him my name. "I-I'm Naruto, N-naruto Hatake." I mentally facepalmed at my embarrassing stuttering, though he didn't seem to mind much. He stared at me a little longer before I snapped him out of it.

" Oi, you tall perky weirdo, you can stop staring now, I get it I'm incredibly handsome." He looks at me with amusement and chuckles. " No denying that. Would you like to sit with me by the lake?" I rolled my eyes at his first comment and nodded before walking towards the lake. We sat saying nothing, just staring out at the beautiful crystal blue lake ahead, as the sun slowly slipped away. Huh, that's  why his eyes seemed so familiar, they are the same blue as this very lake.
                       (Menma's Pov)
I had left the house early to find some peaceful to train and read the scrolls my Okaasa had given to me. I had heard stories of The Forest of Death and  how it held wild and poisonous flowers and dangerous creatures, but also very beautiful waterfalls, rivers, and lakes. Not to mention an abandoned training ground. So yeah that's where I'm headed. As I walked through the village, I was greeted and stopped by many and even had to run away from annoying fangirls and boys.

I was polite and spoke but never for to long. I know I'm only treated like this because my tou-san is the Hokage and my Okaasa is the Red Hot Habanero. Not to mention that I have a twin brother who is older by a minute or two. I look and act like tou-san and he looks and acts like Okaasa. We're rarely seen without eachother unless he's up to no good or asleep. In this case, it's the latter. I finally reach the forest entrance only to see an anbu covered in paint and glitter.

I chuckle and shake my head as I asked what happened. He bowed and explained how he and his team had become victims to the village prankster. After that he was radioed back to his unit. I bid him farewell and watched as he left before I entered the forest. Upon my entrance, I see how true the village stories are. The flowers were indeed poisonous and wild but also breathtakingly beautiful. The forest itself was beautiful. It didn't take me long to reach the abandoned traing ground, which was next to a beautiful crystal blue lake.

Not only was the training ground peaceful, it came with quite the view. This should be my new spot. After taking in the view once more I decided it was finally time to get started. I meditated next to the lake for about an hour like my parents taught me, feeling my chakra flow through me, then began reading the scroll labeled 'Taijutsu' and began trying different stances to see which was more suitable for me while I threw random kicks and punches at the tree in front of me. I don't know how long I was at this before I felt I was being watched. I continued my traing assuming the watcher would leave but they didn't.

Growing tired, I stopped and rested against the tree and wiped the sweat from my face with the end of my shirt as I politely began to speak. " You can come out now. I won't hurt you." I waited patiently for someone to walk out but they never did. Sighing I stood up and began to walk to the tree only to see a kid or I think he's a kid. I became concerned when he didn't speak just stared with his brows furrowed like he was lost in thought. "Helloo, you okay?" I asked as I looked down at him. He jumped backwards making a weird but cute noise in the process.

I shook my head before speaking again. " My apologies, I didn't mean to frighten you. My names Menma, Menma Namikaze-Uzumaki." When I finished my introduction I gave him a genuine smile as I waited for him to introduce himself. He hesitated but eventually began to speak, I-I'm Naruto, N-naruto Hatake." I smiled again. His voice was sounded as delicate and melodious as someone singing. I began to study him. He was about 1 or 2 inches shorter than me and had long blond hair with one grey streak running through it. I couldn't fully see his eyes because they were covered by his bangs which stopped just under his eyes. They looked silver though.

Anyway, I couldn't see any thing else because of the dark blue almost black mask he wore. It covered his nose, mouth, and neck. He looked quite feminine but I felt as though he was a boy. Before I could ask, I was snapped outta my thoughts by a sarcastic voice. "Oi, you tall perky pretty boy, you can stop staring now jeez, I get it I'm incredibly handsome."  I couldn't help but be amused by him, one second he was shy then the next his sassy. I chuckled before speaking, " No denying that. Would you like to sit with me by the lake?" I watched him roll his eyes but nod and walk towards the lake. We sat at the edge watching before he began to talk again.

"S-sorry for that back there. Sarcasm is kinda like a second language to me. Oh and sorry if I ruined your traing, usually when I come here no one's here. I-i've never been let alone talked to anyone around my age before." I watched as he nervously played with his fingers and kept his head down. I chuckled a little. " Ah no need to apologize, and I find it quite amusing how you switch from shy to sassy so easily. And if you don't mind me asking, why haven't you been with or talked to people your age? And you are a boy right, how old are you exactly?" I watched as he looked up at me and began to giggle.

"Má má blondie, slow down will ya. Anyway yes I'm a boy and like I said it's like a second language. I'm 6 years old, and let's just say my tou-sans very overprotective. I'm not supposed to leave the house without him but he's always on a mission so I sneak away a lot. I love the forest, I've been coming here ever since I was 3. That's when I found out he's an Anbu captain. Many people don't even know he has a son. Besides I'm not good at communicating anyways." I listen as he shrugs his shoulders and looks back out at the water. "You're quite the interesting little fellow aren't ya. Are your eyes silver?" He looks at me and rolls his eyes again.

He's gonna be doing that a lot. I thought while mentally smiling, just as he moves his bangs, the sun shines one last time before dimming again. His eyes were silver, but when the sun hit them they shined a luminous lavender color. I found myself getting lost in them before his bangs covered them like curtains. "Wow, your eyes are so pretty. I've never seen anyone's eyes shine like that." I watched as he quickly put his head down and his ears turn red. He look back up and tilted his head giving me and eye-smile which was adorable. "Would you like to be friends Naruto?" He looked at me wide eyed and nodded frantically before eye-smiling again.

"Yes! Thank you Menma, for being my first friend. What should I call you?"  He asked adorably tilting his head like a puppy which made me smile and want to pet him. I smiled and told him to come up with something. "Can I call you Men-men or M?"  I smiled and told him either one was fine. "Does that mean I can call you pup or Naru now?" He began to giggle which caused me to smile more than I already was. He nodded and said "Mhmm, my tou-san calls me pup or runt because of how small I am. Oh i never got your age, like I said earlier I'm 6." I nodded "I'm 7 and you are very small for your age. I thought you were like 4 or 5." 

We talked til the sky faded from orange to midnight blue. In the middle of us laughing and getting to know each other, both our phones went off. We both looked at the phones, then the sky, then each other before simultaneously yelling we had to go.
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Whewwww I hope yall enjoy this chapter. Sorry for the wait got busy with AAU but I'm back. I hope you all enjoy your day or night or afternoon.