I do not happen to own Naruto or Digimon.
I do happen to have a little pre-story rant-
1)This is a Naruto and Digimon crossover (duh) However, most of the people in the world of Naruto do not have Digimon effecting their daily lives in any way, shape of form. As such Digimon won't be running aroud everywhere, and Digimon won't be encountered 24/7. Almost no one will be getting a Digimon partner.
2)The Digimon will be edited. Most will remain the same. The biggest difference is that their won't be anything digital about Digimon. They are no longer (weren't ever is more appropriate I guess) data. They have chakra. Etc. PM me is you want any clarification.
3)This story starts around, but not before, episode 118 in the anime. Sasuke and his team are going after Itachi. Naruto does the same so he can get Sasuke.
Naruto is frantically running to the Hokage's office. Tsunade would be pissed if he was late again. Once he enters the building, he sees Sai and Sakura. He catches up to them and matches their walking, on-time pace.
"You know, you might be taking in Kakashi-sensei's tendency to be late," Sakura tells her blond teammate.
"Well, you can't embark on a mission without eating a fill of ramen first! Especially when we will probably just be guarding some caravan. Besides, I'm with the people that are on time," Naruto counters.
The three make it into the Hokage's office. They see Team Kurenai(without Kurenai), Shikamaru, and Kakashi already being briefed by the Fifth Hokage. "Ah, the rest of Team Kakashi. I just finished telling the others about your mission. Basically, a scouting division, the Lord of Fire, were at the coast when an island appeared out of nowhere, and disappeared a few seconds later. What's more, they said there was a village on the island. Normally, I wouldn't send two teams but they sent ten guys all swearing the same thing. Your mission is to go to the coast, and wait for a week for that island to reappear. If nothing shows, report back. If something does appear, try to make contact but avoid hostilities. Also look for suspicious people while you're out. I want you eight to leave within an hour," the Hokage tells them. She lets out a small sign, not liking sending ninja on a mission with so little information.
"Basically, this is probably going to be a wild goose chase, and I'm leading Team Eight because Kurenai is already busy. What a drag," Shikamaru whines. Team Seven and Team Eight start heading to the gate. However Naruto takes it upon himself to introduce Sai to the other team.
"So guys, this is Sai. And Sai, this is Shikamaru, Shino, Hinata and Kiba," Naruto starts, pointing in each member of the other team as he announces their names. "Shikamaru is really smart, and has this awesome Shadow Jutsu! Shino is a bug master, has these beetles that live inside him. Kiba has a partner called Akamaru who is this big dog, and they have these combo moves that are like fighting two ninjas. Where is Akamaru anyway? He's usually is right by you," Naruto says, eyes widening as he wonders where the dog is.
Kiba lets out a small laugh before answering,"Oh, he's just back at the house. My sister wanted him for something. Wouldn't tell me though. He'll be with us for our mission though."
Naruto almost jumps out of his skin, as if Kiba's answer took to long."I almost forgot Hinata! She's one of the Hyuga clan. She's got these cool Byakugan eyes, and uses a fighting style where she hits you gently and messes up your chakra. It's pretty cool to watch. And everyone, this is Sai. He's got this neat ink-based jutsu that can make his drawings come to life. He's kinda weird and doesn't really understand stuff well."
"He thinks I'm cool…" Hinata mutters to herself, while blushing.
"Nice to meet you all," Sai says, giving them all a fake smile.
"Alright, I say enough introductions, we all prepare and be at the main gate in thirty minutes?" Kakashi proposes. The other ninjas agree, and go to their separate houses to gather supplies. They are on their way to the coast in twenty minutes.
Three uneventful days later, they are near the coast. Kakashi gives the hand signal for the group to tighten formation. Then the oldest of the ninjas present orders," Hinata, check if we are being followed." Hinata turns on her Byakugan as ordered, and tells the group that there are four people tailing them. They decide to split into two groups, Team Eight staying to deal with the threat, while Team Seven goes on with the mission.
When Team Seven arrives at their destination they see nothing out of the ordinary. Naruto begins to head back to help Team Eight when the island they were sent to see appears out of nowhere. There isn't any warning, like there is with Kamui. The ninjas' eyesight's are confounded by the sudden change. They take a few moments to confirm that they are seeing an island, that smoke is coming from it, and that it wasn't there a few moments ago. Naruto begins moving to the island, but Kakashi stops him with a hand. "Let's wait a few minutes, don't want it disappearing with us on it," he said. Then, with a glance and a nod, Team Seven heads out.
After a few minutes of running on water and running up a cliff they see what they weren't expecting. The village they came to see recently went through destruction. The buildings are still burning. They can't see any remain fighting, so they head through the streets together. As they run through, they see what kind of battle it was. It had been a battle between ninjas. Kunai, blood, ninja stars and ninja bodies are littered around. "We should focus on finding any survivors," said Kakashi.
The Leaf Ninjas keep running, encountering higher and higher concentrations of bodies, even pockets of mercilessly slaughtered civilians. And it looks as if for every defender that fell, their was at least one attacker that also kicked the bucket. As the ninjas keep going, they realize that some of the blood hasn't completely dried yet. They slow their pace to see if they can spot survivors, traps or ambushes. And there isn't anything. Eventually Kakashi stops them. "It looks like we're close to the center. We haven't found anyone, We'll are going to have to keep looking for people after we send a quick status report. Sai, make some ink birds to report back to Tsunade."
While Kakashi is filling in a report for his boss, Sakura notices a stone out of place in the road. With her ridiculous strength, she moves the long, narrow, yellow stone out of the street. "Sakura," Kakashi calls out to her. He trains his uncovered eye on her and says," Don't." his voice is almost sad as he looks at his student. However, Sakura has too much curiosity, and that combined with the lack of urgency in her teacher voice, has her ijnoring her. She drops into a small, dark tunnel. The tunnel is full of corpses. Sakura gasps at the slaughter. Naruto drops in and sees the slaughter of innocents. At first he looks at the bodies in a mixture of shock and disgust. Then he just clenches his fists, and jumps out of the tunnel. Sakura notices the lack of decomposition and stench, and realizes the bodies must still be warm.
"I've been in a war before. These people knew the place where they were attacking well. Looks like they wanted to end a war in one battle," Kakashi tells his former students. What Kakashi wonders is why they would go so far, and leave so quickly.
"You know what Kakashi-sensei? I'm going to find who did this, and I'm going to make them pay for what they've done." Naruto says. The jinchuriki is enraged, shaking with anger and fists are closed.
Then the ninjas barely hear the high pitched sound of two blades hitting each other. Without a word, they run to the sound. The sound repeats itself a few times, and the ninjas are led to a small, one floor building. The door is closed, but the Leaf Ninjas open it just in time to see a blade protrude from a young man's back. The blade went through the ninja's heart before the man's back, killing him. So, when the blade is withdrawn, the corpse falls on the floor, joining many and spreading more blood on the battlefield of a building. However, the falling of said corpse reveals the first living soul Team Seven has seen. And she looks worse than any singular corpse so far.
Most of her skin and hair are covered in a sheen of blood. The sword of the man she just killed is in the muscle of her left arm. Underneath the blood, there are several cuts and bruises. Her shoulders are slumped, and her right foot is staggered in front of her left to keep her standing, and her breathing is a wheezing gasp. It takes her a moment to recognize that more ninjas have arrived. When she does, however, she murmurs, "Don't… Don't worry, Sensei. I'll.. I'll stop them all. " She takes a shaky step toward the foreign ninjas, and falls unconscious.
"Sakura see what you can do for her. Naruto swe-" Kakashi starts giving out new orders, but the ninjas detect a not very sneaky presence approaching the building. Naruto immediately goes to the right corner, and Sakura and Sai to the left. Kakashi jumps and lands on the ceiling. They prepare to ambush whoever comes in.
"I swear. I swear you better... you better not be dead, you fool." They hear as the door swings open. To their surprise, what would be known to the previously living inhabitants of the village as a purple little imp of the race of "Impmon" barges in. It takes one look around the room and grimaces. It spots the living girl's knocked out body and quickly levitates to her, surprising Team Seven further. They spot a tear growing on the Digimon's face. After checking for a pulse and wiping his face, the Digimon turns and yells," So, Ninjas of the Leaf, why are you here?" The imp's fists are clenched together, and his face marred by rage.
"I'm not sure yet," Kakashi starts talking as he drops from the ceiling to the floor. "This last hour was not one that I could ready myself for."
"That doesn't help me at all! Just tell me what happens next," the small one demands.
"We're going to take this girl back to the Leaf. But first, we're going to find out what you are," Kakashi answers, considering looking at the Digimon with his Sharingan.
"I'd also like to know," Shikamaru says. Him and Team Eight walk inside the building. "Sorry we're late. They were just some regular bandits, but they had a lot of buddies. We only found you because of Shino's bugs."
"I'm definitely no summon! But I have got better things to do than spill all my secrets to some ninjas from a different village! Especially now!" the Impmon yells, rage and grief unrelenting.
"Okay fine. We're going to take this girl with us to The Leaf and give her proper medical attention. Then, we'll see what happens," Kakashi proposes.
"If ANY OF YOU hurt her, I'll slaughter all of you," the small digimon growls. A small bit of the pain and rage leaves the Impmon's body language.
Taking that as approval to go ahead, Kakashi picks the girl up and then carries her outside, with the younger shinobi and the Impmon following. The Digimon follows from several feet behind the ninjas.
"Is there anyone else here?" Kakashi asks.
"No, she's the last one," the Impmon answers, solemnly shaking his head.
"Kiba, I'll need you to hold her for a while. Hinata you'll be coming with me," Kakashi orders.
"You'll be looking for more traces of creatures like me, you'll find some, but you won't find any bodies living. Plenty dead humans," the Impmon does a dismissive gesture.
Kakashi wonders what a creature like the Impmon would look like. However, voices his thoughts.
"Let's save this for later," Impmon says with a glare, not in the mood to discuss biology.
The Leaf Ninjas start backtracking out the destroyed village. The group heads to the forest outside the ruined buildings, with the Impmon taking the lead. The digimon leads everyone to the side of the island opposite the mainland, where the forest gives way to a field. Here, it looks as if someone cut the island from a bigger island, because it ends in a straight line, minus natural occurrences chipping away at the rock. Impmon stands in between four small, grey rocks, that if someone were to draw a line between them, it would form a square.
"At least one of you is a medical ninja right? You're letting someone bleed everywhere," Impmon remarks. Sakura realizes this and starts healing the still unconscious girl. "Everyone else make yourself busy. I'm going to teleport us to Kohona," the Impmon says. After he says that, he kneels down and puts his hands down on the floor. Each of his hands form a bridge.
"Are you that powerful? Teleporting nine people and a dog across that much land?" Kakashi asks.
"No I'm not. The ground here has been saturated with chakra for thousands of years. I'm drawing from it. White Eyes over here should be able to see it," the Impmon states. Hinata turns her Byakugan on, and sees an enormous, blue flow of chakra flowing from the ground into the Digimon's hand. The imp's already vast chakra storage is replenished and then overfilled. After a few minutes, he stands up and does long, complicated hand signs. Then with a flash, everyone finds themselves a little of the road outside Konoha's main gate. The humans feel various degrees of sickness, with Sai barely feeling it, but Hinata and Kiba bowling over.
"Come on tuts, you're fine," the Impmon says as he pants. He walks over to check on the girl from the village. Then he says,"I teleport everyone to a place I've never been before, discreetly, and without any loss of limbs, and no good job or nothing. Well, we might as well move on, with that half done healing job Pinkie here did," Naruto begins to think the glare is permanently etched onto the Digimon's face.
"Hold on, you can't be going into the village looking like... you," Shino stops the Impmon by holding a hand in front of him.(I had to remove the tag)
"You must think I'm retarded, don't you?" the Impmon snarls, thoroughly annoyed by the bug user. ("the Impmon glared at him" is enough. Just remove "the Impmon snarls" if you please).Then he performs transformation jutsu and changes into an Impmon size, blonde kid with green eyes with his scarf still on. They run through the gate. With the exception of Naruto, everyone heads towards the hospital. Naruto runs towards the Hokage's office, while the unconscious survivor is handed to hospital staff.
Naruto bursts into the Hokage's office and yells, "Grandma Tsunade! We need you at the hospital right now!"
"Why? And how are you back already?" Tsunade asks, shocked by Naruto's quick return.
"Just come on!" Naruto yells as he begins to sprint back to the hospital. Tsunade lets out an "ughhh" of frustration, but gets up and chases Naruto, despite hers and Shizune's frustration with the youth.
At the same time, Team Eight and the extended Team Seven and the Impmon wait outside the room where the still knocked out girl is being treated. The Impmon tells Kakashi, "Nobody's returning to my village, before I teleported us, I reinforced the jutsu that kept it out of this dimension."
"Why?" A shocked Kakashi asks.
"Because their isn't anything for anyone there now," the Digimon answers.
"Kakashi! Report now!" Tsunade yells as she takes four steps at a time.
"Well-" Kakashi starts.
"What is that?" Shizune asks as the Impmon undoes his transformation jutsu.
"There was a ninja village on the island. It was almost completely wiped out. We found one person and she's recovering inside. We also found this thing," Kakashi explains, with a wave towards the Impmon.
"I guess it's my turn to explain," Impmon starts," They call creatures like me Digimons. When we're grown we are much more powerful than the average ninja. Few of us reach that level though. The more humanoid of use can use hand signs and jutsu. Some dumb human decided that all of our species should have a -mon at the end. For example, they call Digimons like me Impmon. We have our own names though. Imagine you classify things like plants, animals and Digimons."
"And all of them are dead? The ninjas from your village and the... Digimons?" Tsunade asks.
"The ninjas are all gone, except one. And all the Digimons...left. I don't think they'll be coming to this world for a while. When they do though, be ready for the fight of your life," Impmon grumbles.
"Why would we need to fight them?" Tsunade asks.
"Because I don't see them coming back to the human world for nothing less than blood. And that's because none went willing," the Impmon looking annoyed just because he has to explain things.
"Then how did you get anyway?" Tsunade's persistent questioning continues.
"I got lucky," Impmon says, but refuses to explain any more on the subject with a turn of his head.
"So, what's your plan now?" Tsunade asks.
"Stick with my partner and stay alive," the Digimon answers. As he answers, he glances to the room his friend is in.
In said room, the girl is starting to stir. All of her cuts and bruises have been healed. The major ones were healed by Sakura, while the smaller ones are healed by the nurses. While the nurses and doctors discuss the injuries, the girl tries to get her bearings without alerting the other people in the room. The next time one of them come close with a healing jutsu, she kicks him hard in the gut. The move surprises the nurse, and sends him to the ground. The ninja from a different village sends herself flying at the nurse. She punches him, and then proceeds to put him in a choke-hold and drags him back to the bed she was laid on.
"Where am I!?" She yells.
"The Hidden Leaf Village," one of the frightened doctors answers.
"Hidden Leaf…" she murmurs. Then, she yells, "Where are the others?"
"As far as we know, you're the only one."
"The… the only one?" she asks no one in particular. Her grip goes limp, and the captive doctor escapes. She begins to cry. By now, the Impmon and the ninjas outside have heard the ruckus inside. The Digimon bursts in first, with Kakashi following. The latter has a kunai drawn.
When the girl sees the Impmon she cries out, "Maru!" in surprise. She goes and hugs him. Maru the Impmon hugs her back.
"I'm glad you're okay," Maru whispers into the girl's ear.
"Let's give them some privacy. I'll question them later. We'll also need to inform the Sand Village." Tsunade says.
As The Leaf Ninjas leave, the girl quietly and slowly asks, "How'd this happen Maru? We should have won."
"I don't know who did this to us… But believe me when I say whoever did this will burn when we find them!" His eyes almost glow with anger. He unintentionally spits as he speaks. His forehead creases. A clenched fist is raised, and is shaking with anger.
The girl crawls back onto the bed, and sits on it. Maru levitates to the frame and sits above her. Tsunade posts two of the ANBU outside and returns to her office.
While Team Seven and Team Eight return to their homes to rest, Maru and his partner begin to contemplate their suddenly changed lives.
"How'd we lose Maru?" the Digimon's partner is speaking softly and with long pauses between each sentence. "Even if they attacked us after the Olympus Twelve, Maul should of been able to take on whatever they threw at us."
When Maru answers, he stares at nothing as he answers, focusing on the memories, "I was going to go train, but my usual spot was taken, so I snuck out and was heading to the forest to train. I heard a bunch of commotion, and then I saw the other village's shinobi and Digimons, all geared for battle. I decided to go run and use the land's chakra to alert our people. But before I could get there… the sky opens up. It was like someone just filled it in a big, green square. All of the Digimons under it were sucked up. They went just above building level then just… fazed out of existence. I think it was some kind of advanced portal jutsu. Most of the Digimons were knocked out by it too. I only saw Maul, Wisemon, and a few others struggle to escape. By the time they were all gone, I'd reach the drawing point. I created several Third Eye of Water with the land's chakra. I watched… everything."
Rage invades Maru's speech again. More and more fills the small digimon as he talks."For a few minutes, everyone was shocked that the Digimons were gone so easily. Then the other village attacked. They seem to had forgotten whatever plan they had. They rushed in blindly, and started killing whoever they saw. And the Olympus Twelve meant that most of our forces were killed, or recovering and confused. It took forever for our people to rally and by that time, any advantage we might have had being defenders was lost. We had just lost too many ninjas to the Olympus Twelve. While you were evacuating villagers, I was using the land's chakra to kill as many as I could. Dropping enormous fireballs, just like practice. Eventually they won."
The intense anger suddenly drops, and Maru seems transfixed by the memory, "That warehouse you passed out in was the final stand. We had lost all of the civilians by then. When they gathered, I unleashed the most powerful attack I could channel to wipe them out. There were only you and a couple of the enemy left, but my body couldn't handle any more foreign chakra, so I got to you as fast as possible."
Maru voice adopts a soft and slow tone. "You were passed out, and the Leaf Ninjas had shown up. I showed up after them. I teleported us back here, but I secured our village back in its dimension. I think someone was draining it to the point where it couldn't keep itself stable before we were attacked."
The two are quiet for a while. They find themselves reminiscing about the people they'd never see again. They both start tearing up involuntarily. "Kazue, what are we going to do?" Maru asks.
Maru's partner, Kazue, doesn't have an answer straight away. However she thinks back to the teaching of her sensei, and of her parents for inspiration. When she answers, she does it slowly and shakily and softly. "We're going to keep moving forward." Then she says it again, a little faster and a little louder, convincing herself it's true. Then, after saying it again, she truly answers Maru, "Yep, we're going to keep moving forward. And we're going to start now. C'mon, let's go." Although both Guy and Lee would put the emphasis in her voice to shame a thousand times over, it helps inspire Maru.
"No one is going to get to either of us. My village won't be extinguished so easily," Maru thinks to himself, promising to keep himself and Kazue alive. The pair leave the room.
