Fangs in Your Throat

Strangled by Lies

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Sadly, the toad sage knew the full story had to come from Minato who was still asleep ...

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Menma stared at his godfather and sensei in disbelief from his spot on the couch. He woke up an hour ago after being dragged out of the Inuzuka compound yesterday. Jiraiya went to go and get Kakashi while the young redhead was out cold and now they were going to tell him the truth. Everything will soon be revealed, even the fact the nine tailed fox was never split up ...

"You knew the entire time and you never told me." Menma whispered sounding completely betrayed as he thought back to the blood seal. Naruto was related to him.

Kakashi winced and shook his head, "We didn't know for a few years. We believed Naruto was just a brat pulling pranks and blaming you, but then Tsume adopted him ... we both went to talk some sense into her along with Mikoto Uchiha, but she ended up being the mature one for once." Kalkashi chuckled weakly. "She told us no one was taking care of Naruto and some villagers were even beating him because they thought he was a demon ..." The silver haired jonin trailed off as Menma paled heavily. That's something Menma never had to face. The villagers' hate was reserved for Naruto only despite the fact that there was actually no reason for it.

"Beaten? ... but he only has half of the demon fox. Only the weak soul, right?" Menma said trying to make sense of everything. The villagers never treated him poorly and as far as he knew he had the demon's power. Shouldn't he be seen as a threat not his brother? ... his brother, he always wanted a brother and now he knows that he always had one. Unfortunately, now he has a huge amount to damage to fix if he ever wanted any sort of relationship with the blonde. After all, the one thing he knew was true was that his mother wouldn't want her sons separated.

"Menma." The shaky redhead looked up at Jiraiya who had a sad look on his face meaning that there was more ... much more. "We knew nothing until a couple years after trying to get to know Naruto, but when he tapped into the Uzumaki chains I got curious and looked at the seal ... or where I thought the seal was ... Menma, Naruto isn't a demon vessel. Tsume admitted that Hiruzen Sarutobi, my former sensei, found his wife's journal and it showed that Kushina was expecting twins."

"What? ... what do you mean? ... the nine tails wasn't split, but that means ..." Menma felt sick all of a sudden.

Jiraiya nodded, "You always had the entire demon."

Menma jolted away from Kakashi who tried to place a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Why? ... why would Dad let this happen? My brother ... my twin ... Naruto was abandoned, but why? Why have you never mentioned this before? Why? Why? Why?" Menma started yelling and a wave of tears poured from his eyes. "Dad told me that Uzumakis believed family was the most important thing so why would he do this? Why would he ... he told me to hate Naruto ... why?"

Kakashi pulled Menma into a hug, "We don't know exactly why your Dad did what he did. We believe your Dad went a little off his rocker when your mother died and for some reason he blamed everything on Naruto. Part of it was probably because you look so much like your mother and Naruto looks like Minato, but as far as why we didn't tell you until now is because we couldn't. On the day of your birth Minato passed a law stating that anyone who knew about what happened during the nine tailed fox's attack couldn't repeat that information to anyone who didn't know or they will be executed."

"And, Menma, we did try to talk with Minato." Jiraiya sighed sadly and shook his head. "He wouldn't even discuss the subject rationally, but maybe he will now. We think this heart attack was caused by him finally realizing what he did and to who. Do you understand?"