Menma Namikaze

He appears in some of the stories as a recurring character, including *Footsteps of a Young Fox* and *The Adventures of Benjamin Stone*. He is the genjutsu counterpart of Naruto Uzumaki, as well as his brother. Menma makes his first official appearance in the *Road to Ninja* movie, where he serves as the main antagonist. After reforming at the end of the film, he goes to prison, where he comes to realize the errors of his evil ways and later abandons them altogether, instead aiming to help the world and his loved ones however he can.

## General Information

### Aliases

The Masked Man (formerly), Big Brother (by Kurama II), Bro (occasionally by Shinma)

### Relatives

Minato (father)Kushina (mother)

Naruto (brother/genjutsu counterpart)

Shinma (brother)

Kurama II (brother)

### Classification

Jinchūruki, Missing-nin (formerly), S-rank (formerly), Sensor Type

### Nature Types

Wind, Fire, Lightning, Water, Earth, Yin, Yang, Yin-Yang

### Instruments

Trombone (main), trumpet, tuba, cornet, flugelhorn, mellophone, baritone horn, euphonium, superbone, French horn, saxophone, clarinet, ocarina, recorder, oboe, bassoon

## Appearances

### Debut

Naruto Shippuden the Movie: Road to Ninja

### Appears in

Naruto Shippuden, The Adventures of Benjamin Stone, Footsteps of a Young Fox, The Path of Shirotora

### Voice Actors

Junko Takeuchi (Japanese)Maile Flanagan (English)

## **Physical Appearance**

He looks virtually identical to the teenage Naruto, though his blond hair is longer and more shaggy-looking in style with jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face, similar to his father's.

### **Initially**

In the movie, Menma had black hair as a result of giving into hatred. He also had darker and more feral-looking whisker marks, and dark circles under his eyes. Additionally, he also did not have the Eight Trigrams Seal on his abdomen. When appearing as the "Masked Man", he wore a white kitsune mask, a dark bluish-grey robe with grey lining and a fur collar, and a tattered greyish-blue cape emblazoned with his personal emblem: a mandala comprised of nine reddish-brown circles of varying sizes atop a larger green-grey circle. After revealing his identity, he discarded the mask and robe, beneath which he wore no shirt, fingerless opera-length black gloves wrapped in studded red-brown leather straps, baggy black pants, and reddish-brown sandals.

### **Currently**

Starting in his anime debut, Menma now wears the same attire as Naruto's in Shippuden, consisting of a black and orange slim outfit, with a long black headband for his forehead protector, and black zori sandals reaching his ankles. In addition, Menma wears black fingerless gloves and instead of the Uzumaki symbol on the back of his jacket, he has another version of his personal emblem: a green circle with five smaller red circles in it, one in the centre and four around the ends connected by two crossed lines, with two more lined-up red circles above and below the green circle.

## **History**

### **Early Life**

Menma was born on Naruto's birthday, October 10th. His parents survived the Nine-Tailed Fox's Attack on the Leaf and he has them in his life, where he had a stable and loving childhood. He enrolled into the Academy and became a genin and then a chūnin. At some point, the Black Nine-Tails was safely removed from Kushina without her death and soon after sealed inside Menma, who later mastered its power.

### ***Road to Ninja***

For unknown reasons, Menma becomes a missing-nin, though this is notably something fairly recent since both Menma's parents and his friends were unaware that he had left the village and that Naruto had taken his place. In addition, Menma kidnaps shinobi with unique abilities, which attracts attention from other villages, who then deem him as an S-ranked criminal. He soon meett Tobi who tells him all about his Eye of the Moon Plan and agrees to help him. From there, Menma begins targeting the jinchūriki of his world, overpowering his reality's Yugito Nii.

Later on, Menma attacks the Hidden Leaf with his Nine Masked Beasts and demands the Red Moon Scroll. When the Leaf Ninja refuse, Menma continues his assault, only to be interrupted by Naruto and Sakura. He subdues them, abducts Sakura to trade for the scroll, destroys the village with his Rasenring, and leaves. Sometime later, Naruto arrives at Menma's hideout and gets attacked by him. Menma asks Naruto for the Red Moon Scroll again, but Naruto refuses. Hearing this, Menma summons his Nine Masked Beasts and attempts to kill Naruto, only to be stopped by his world's Akatsuki. Menma then fights Naruto himself and clashes his Rasenring with his counterpart's Rasenshuriken. This results in Menma destroying his mask and upper garments, thus revealing his true identity. He then calls forth his defeated Nine Masked Beasts and merges them to form and summon the Black Nine-Tails. For a brief while, Menma manages to overwhelm Naruto, but the latter soon retaliates with the help of Kurama, his Tailed Beast. After a battle between the two ninja and their respective Tailed Beasts, Naruto emerges victorious while Menma falls to the ground, unconcious. Soon after, however, Tobi possesses Menma and uses his body to fight Naruto. After a short while, Tobi manages to immobilize Naruto and starts extracting Kurama from him, only to be interrupted by Sakura, who engages him in combat. Naruto then gets up and defeats the controlled Menma, similar to how Minato defeated Tobi. Tobi leaves Menma's body and proceeds to fight Naruto and Sakura before falling back into their reality. Minato and Kushina then arrive on the scene and quickly check up on Menma, who reverts back to his original state.

*More coming soon.*

## **Skills and Abilities**

* **Life-force and stamina:** As a descendant of the Uzumaki clan, Menma is blessed with remarkable stamina and an equally powerful life-force, granting him tremendous vitality and an immensely long potential lifespan.
* **Skill inheritance from others:** After being possessed by Tobi, Menma gained a Sharingan in his right eye and access of many of its abilities, including Tobi's Kamui for teleportation and intangibility.
* **Jinchūruki powers:** As the jinchūruki of the Black Nine-Tails, Menma possesses vast reserves of especially strong chakra. Unlike Naruto, he lacks the seal that restrains the Black Nine-Tails, allowing it to greatly augment his power. He is able to completely unleash the fox, using it in a manner similar to a summon. Menma's hatred has allowed him to bond with and better control the Black Nine-Tails, and he is able to create and control living entities composed of its chakra, which are known as the Nine Masked Beasts. He can also utilize Tailed Beast Mode to fight larger opponents such as Kurama.
* **Sensor:** Menma also shows the ability to sense chakra and negative emotions, able to detect the strong hatred of Kurama inside Naruto.
* **Ninjutsu:** Menma's abilities are essentially the same as Naruto's, and he has developed dark versions of Naruto's signature techniques called Spiralling Ring and Great Spiralling Ring, but unlike his counterpart, Menma can perform them without the use of shadow clones. He also has an ability to blast away targets and repel enemy attacks. He is able to counter a Sage Mode-powered punch through the use of a mysterious technique that created a dark aura that increases his strength to obscurity. He can also fly about freely in the sky.
* **Taijutsu:** Menma has showcased tremendous skill in taijutsu. Even when out numbered by multiple enemies such as Naruto's shadow clones, he remained calm and easily defeated all of them, easily dodging and counter-attacking simultaneously. Menma's strength is augmented by the chakra of the Black Nine-Tails inside of him, plus he lacks Eight Trigrams Seals which meant the Black Nine-Tails' chakra can be easily accessed immediately.
* **Close Combat:** Menma is noticably fast and strong, being able to quickly intercept an attack and easily block a giant weapon such as an axe with only his arm and a single kunai.
* **Musician:** Menma plays a variety of brass and woodwind instruments. His main instrument is the trombone.