Disclaimer: Nope, don't own Naruto or Digimon.
Note that I'm using the US dub for their personal information, meaning that they are older than the original Japanese version.
Also, note that I'm writing the story from memory, I am using the episode outlines but I can't watch the actual show to see what exactly happens, so most of it will be improvised.
Chapter 1: Arrival of the Destined
Date: August 1st, 1999 - Somewhere outside of Odaiba…
Tree…tree…another tree…another…
Why the hell did he agree to go on the summer camping trip again?
'Oh, yeah…Sora and Joe, they just had to mention the trip in front of mom…' a preteen thought sourly to himself.
'"It'll build character for you, brat,"' words to live by mom…'
His name was Uzumaki Naruto, age 12, birthday October 10th, a 5th grader going on 6th after summer break. He had blonde hair as bright as the sun that spiked in every direction and shining cerulean blue colored eyes. He was currently wearing a plain tan shirt underneath a desert camo design jacket with matching pants with several pockets lining each item. A red sports bag filled with his stocked supplies for the two-week camping trip and a beat up, faded orange and waterproof rucksack filled with items to pass the time, mainly his notebooks, manga and a snack or two, were placed into the provided storage above his seat.
Lurching forward into the plastic covered seats in front of him, Naruto noticed that the bus had already gotten them to their campsite.
"All right, kids," the camp director called out, "Were here!"
His announcement got cheers from most of the passengers.
"Now, left side please exit the bus with your belongings…now the right side!"
Soon everyone was off the bus and already wandering around the campground.
Naruto started walking towards his assigned log cabin to see who would get which bunk. Pushing aside the wooden door and bug screen, he was happy to know that he was the first one inside, meaning he had first choice.
'Top bunk here I come!'
"I call top bunk!" a voice yelled out from outside, the door soon slamming open revealing a spiky auburn haired preteen wearing a blue shirt with a yellow undershirt and white gloves. A pair of round goggles with a blue strap on his forehead.
The preteen scrambled up the bed post to the top of the bunk, completely ignoring Naruto who had just started towards the ladder.
Resisting the urge to smack the brown eyed preteen upside the head, he settled for the bottom bunk, stuffing his sports bag underneath its wooden frame.
Heading back outside with his beaten up rucksack slung over his shoulder, the blonde looked around for a nice shady spot to relax at.
"Naruto!"
'Damn!'
Turning around, said blue eyed preteen saw his best female friend running towards him.
"Hey Sora, what's up?"
Takenouchi Sora was an orange haired girl, around his age, with reddish eyes. She wore blue jeans with a yellow sleeveless shirt. Her trademark baby blue helmet/hat on her head as usual, along with a bright pair of red gloves covering her hands.
"I was looking for you when we got off the bus, but you were already gone!"
"Erhm, sorry Sora, I wanted to get to the log cabin before all the good bunks were taken," he replied, giving her a sheepish grin, his right hand going behind his head and rubbing it.
Sora rolled her eyes, "And you couldn't come find me afterwards?" the tone in which she said it made Naruto start fearing for his health. No matter how he answered he'd probably get hit either way.
'So…this is how it ends for me,' he thought to himself sardonically.
"Hey guys!" a new voice called out.
'Yes! Thank you Joe!' Naruto inwardly celebrated that he wasn't going to suffer a fate worse than death.
"Hey Joe!" Sora and Naruto greeted their other friend.
Even though Joe was a year ahead of them, they grew up together in the same apartment complex. Joe had dark blue hair and dark eyes covered by his glasses. He was wearing a plain white shirt with a vest over it. A satchel with what looked like a medical symbol on it from Naruto's position.
'Figures,' Naruto thought while rolling his eyes, 'He worries too much sometimes. What could honestly happen to us at a school sponsored summer camp?'
"I'm glad you two were able to make it! I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't!" Joe exclaimed happily.
"I didn't really have a choice in the matter 'cause of you two…" Naruto mumbled under his breath.
"What was that, Naruto?" Sora asked kindly, though the evil look in her eye made him think otherwise.
Waving his hands in front of him frantically, Naruto stuttered "N-Nothing! Nothing at all!"
During all this, Joe had an amused look on his face. While normally he would step in during such a situation, but with these two…well, he knew they cared too much about each other, though they would immediately deny such an accusation with light blushes, to do anything overly harmful to the other.
Deciding that his friend was getting in over his head, again, with a remark to Sora about her always being mean to him, he decided to change the subject.
"So, Sora, Naruto, what do you guys feel like doing?"
'Ah, Joe, the Voice of Reason. You always pull through for me when I need help the most' Naruto thought, glad that he could always count on him when Sora came at him with intent to maim…or worse.
"Well, I was planning to go find a nice spot to doze off at…" Naruto started.
"Oh no you don't! We did not just come here for you to fall asleep! Now come on, I'm going to go introduce you to my other friends!" Sora stated while already dragging Naruto behind her by his arm.
"Jooooe! Help!" Naruto cried out while trying to free his arm from the orange haired demoness' vice-like grip.
Said blue haired teen just shrugged his shoulders before following after them.
'Never a dull day with those two…' Joe thought dryly to himself.
"Ahhh, my arm! Sora, you're going to break it again!"
"Ah, ah, nope, not following for that again, Fishcake!"
"Grr, its Maelstrom!" Naruto retorted before twisting himself around enough to get Sora to let go.
"Ha! Catch me if you can, Tomboy!" Naruto cackled before running off into the surrounding forest area.
Letting a un-lady like grunt escape her, she was about to give chase when she noticed that the temperature had suddenly dropped. She could see her breath!
Looking up towards the sky, she notices tiny small flecks of…something floating down from the sky.
Tentatively reaching out her arm towards the closet fleck, she realizes that its snow…
Snow? During the summer?
Sora was not the only one observing the freak happening of nature. All around the campsite campers were yelling out in joy at sudden turn of events.
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Meanwhile, Naruto had finally stopped running to catch his breath. Sure he was known for his incredible stamina, something a few adults pointed out to him numerous times with creepy grins, but even he had to give out at some point.
The subtext just flew over his head.
Inhaling and exhaling the fresh untainted air, Naruto was stunned to see his breath in front of him. Looking up he saw what looked like snow drifting down from the sky.
Slowly the steady stream of snow increased, winds started to whip through the trees around him, scattering leaves and snowflakes alike in every direction.
"The hell is going on?" he exclaimed in panic.
In the distance, Naruto heard the yells of someone, presumably the camp leader, telling everyone to take cover before the storm got worst.
Once more looking up, he noticed that a mass of the storm clouds were discolored to a shade closely resembling his own eye color.
The mass soon converged into a swirling vortex, and from the vortex eight beams of light shot out to different locations in the camp, one heading straight towards him.
The aurora-like light heading straight for him curved slightly so that it was nearly level with him. Just as it was about to reach him, he raised his hands to catch it.
Bad idea.
"Ahhh!"
While the catch would have made some baseball players green with envy, all it did for him was knock him down to the snow covered ground.
Slowly getting up, the strange object still in his clenched fist, Naruto took the time to notice that the winds had started to slow, but by no means did the weather looked like it was going to stop anytime soon.
Opening his closed hand, Naruto noted that it looked slightly similar to a footstep counter that one would use for jogging.
It looked like a light blue square with its corners missing. It had a small square screen that was encircled by two rings with strange text written around it. Three dark blue buttons, two on, what he assumed was, the right and one on the left. The top left cut-off corner had what looked like a clicker from a stop watch.
"The hell?"
If Naruto would have been more attentive, he might have noticed a huge unnatural wave erupting from the ground behind him before it engulfed him.
"Huh? Ahh-!"
Too late.
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"Agh, my head… What hit me?"
Groggily getting back up onto his feet, Naruto inspected the surrounding area.
To his surprise, it looked like he was in a jungle than a forest. Taking a closer look at a weird looking plant, his unoccupied hand went through it!
Jumping back in fright, Naruto didn't see the tree root.
"…ow…"
While Naruto knew not where he was, he did know that it wasn't anywhere near the campsite.
*Rustle rustle*
'Ugh, what now?'
Lifting his head towards the noise, Naruto was surprised when a small purple blur burst from the bushes in a beeline straight for him.
Before the blonde could do anything, the blur jumped towards him, landing on his chest.
"Hiya, Naruto! I've been waiting a long time for you to finally come!" the purple…creature spoke.
Naruto did what any normal person did when something strange happened.
"Ahhh!"
Yelling out in fright, he tried to crawl away, inadvertently tossing the creature off him.
"Hey! That's not cool!" the creature complained.
The bluish-purple creature had a round-ish body with two triangular ears on top, four small legs on the bottom along with a cone shaped tail. The only places that didn't have purple fur where its mouth and tiny legs, which were snow white.
"What the hell are you?"
"I'm Dorimon, a Digimon: a Digital Monster!"
"…eh?"
"But you finally came! Some of the others were beginning to think you guys would never come! Not me! I knew you'd come someday; I never stop believing!"
Naruto didn't know how to the situation he found himself in, so he did all he could, gape his mouth openly like a fish and stare at the not even a foot tall creature in front of him.
"Uh, Naruto? Na-ru-to! Hey! Listen to me! Grrr!"
The small purple creature, Dorimon, seemed to have enough of Naruto's unresponsiveness, seeing as it charged straight at his prone body.
Blinking, Naruto felt extreme pain in a place no male wants to feel pain at…
With a silent scream, Naruto felt small tears beginning to form around his eyes. To make matters worse, Dorimon started to laugh at the comical sight Naruto made.
Yep, the start of a beautiful friendship.
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"Sora," a small, pink ball shaped creature with a blue flower growing from its head called out, "Where are we going?"
"Honestly, Yokomon, I don't really know. I just can't wait here for something to happen, I have to find the others that you mentioned arrived with me," Sora replied.
Inwardly though, Sora wished that her friends were okay. Her Digimon companion had learned the names of the kids that arrived with her from the other Digimon.
A few of those names happened to be of people she knew quite well.
'I just know that Naruto is causing some sort of trouble for somebody,' she thought with a uncharacteristic giggle from herself.
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"Get back here right now!" Naruto yelled while chasing after the surprisingly fast purple furball.
"Ahhhh, I said I was sorry! Waaahhh!" Dorimon had almost immediately regretted attacking Naruto, seeing as the Human was at least four times his height and was madder than a Apemon!
"Sorry isn't good enough for what you did! What you did could of cost me my chance of being a dad one day!"
The game of cat and mouse had the two running all through the jungle forest till they finally came to a stop at a cliff's edge.
Naruto knew he had the little furball cornered now, and just as he was about to go in for the kill, he noticed that he was able to see more of his surroundings other than the forest scenery from before.
"Whoa…" was all Naruto was able to get out. He couldn't help but marvel at the view he had from his position. It was breathtaking.
Seemingly forgetting about him, Dorimon inched closer towards his partner, curious as to what he was looking at.
*Whack!* Collapsing on the ground, Dorimon was completely out of it from the receiving blow dealt by Naruto.
"Haha, 'Do not do unto others what you would not want done unto you', Furball!" Naruto quipped, giving Dorimon's prone form a foxy grin before he turned back towards the view.
Letting the slight breeze caress his blond hair, he heard a distinct beeping sound coming from the object that had seemingly brought him to wherever he was currently.
On the screen, it showed seven blinking dots closing in on the center dot, which he presumed was his position seeing as it stayed put.
Soon enough, the seven dots continued to head in his direction. Looking around, Naruto saw no one nearby.
"Huh, I wonder what it was…" he wondered aloud to himself.
"Ugh, Naruto you hit too hard!" Dorimon whined from the floor.
Eyeing the strange creature, Naruto carefully picked him up and brought Dorimon up to eye level.
"Where are we?"
"Were on File Island! South of the Old Factory and east of Infinty Mountain," Dorimon explained before he jumped towards Naruto, startling him slightly.
"Ah, much better!" Dorimon comments while adjusting his new position on Naruto's shoulder.
Resisting the urge to just knock the purple furball of his shoulder, Naruto chooses to follow the cliff's edge, hoping to find a way to cross over to the other side safetly.
'Heh, who would be dumb enough to fall of a cliff?' Naruto muses to himself.
A loud cry of something coming from the forest's depths reaches the two's ears.
"Er, maybe we should get going, eh?" Naruto suggested.
"Definetly!"
And soon Naruto was off running, little Dorimon clinging to his shoulder for dear life the entire time, neither of them wanting to be on the receiving end of whatever made that noise.
Done! And as you can see, I decided to try my hand on a Naruto x Digimon story.
I've had ideas floating around, but Outkast000 gave me the push to write this.
Leave a review to tell me how I did, this is my second story featuring both Naruto and Digimon, and my first featuring both together in one story.
Revised as of February 7, 2011
ADK Out!