Delfim: Hey there guys, so here it goes a new chapter, and now I am going to present you the Hokage's hand.
Laurelene: Are you sure you have them all?
Ego: Yeah, and don't forget the other guys in the series.
Delfim: I won't. Promise. Though there are going to be some OCs in this story, the original characters are not going to be forgotten.
Ego: Good.
Laurelene: Yah, that is great and all, but what about other tamers?
Delfim: I will get there, don't worry. Though only Naruto is going to have more than one partner. This is because it would get much too complicated if they had more then one. Naruto himself might be a problem but I can handle it.
Ego: Great.
Laurelene: Ego, you are very agreeing today, aren't you?
Ego: Delfim said that if I didn't behave he would take away my sugar.
Delfim: DAMN RIGHT I WILL!
Laurelene: Alright, what is this about?
Delfim: Ego likes sugar too much. So today I decided to use that to get him to do what I want.
Laurelene: Good thing you have nothing to force me with.
Delfim looks at her like he is studying her. Ego slaps himself in the head as he said: You had to say that, didn't you? Now he will find something to force you with.
Laurelene: Pfff, like he could ever…
Delfim: No sex for 2 weeks.
Laurelene: What? NO! Please! Please! Please! Anything but that!
Delfim: Then you must agree with any decision I make.
Laurelene: Fine…
Ego: He got you!
Laurelene: Shut up, Ego!
Delfim: Anyway, on with it!
Chapter 3 New friends, New life.
Naruto, Renamon, Blackrenamon and Vulpamon walked right behind Sarutobi as they crossed the corridors of a dark building. Outside it looked like an abandoned small building, the normal country house. However, inside there was an enormous network of tunnels that amazed Naruto and the others.
"So, where are we going, Oji-san? Some training ground just for us?" asked Naruto trying to squeeze the most out of Sarutobi.
"Yes, but not just that. This place is going to be your headquarters of sorts. It has various training grounds, a library, dorms, kitchen and even a leisure chamber. However, the last one it is you who is going to fill. You and the others, of course." Said Sarutobi as he kept walking.
"So, how does this work, the Hokage's Hand? Do we all get to be a finger or something? Because I want to be the middle one." Said Naruto.
"Naruto!" said Sarutobi, before laughing at his antics. "Actually it is something like that, since there are always Five members in the Hokage's Hand. However, this does not include your partners, I'm afraid."
"WHAT? Why?" asked Vulpamon.
"Because you yourselves aren't ninjas. Your role is much like the Inuzuka dogs. You are living ninja tools and are connected to a ninja, in this case Naruto. I know this may not sound very appealing, but it's your description here." Said Sarutobi.
"We can live with that." Said Renamon. "We do wish to know what other members there are going to be."
"Well, there are some kids who have impressive skills, but are outcaste because said skills do not fit in a family, clan or an orphanage. Like Naruto here, he has formidable fighting and evading skills, but because of his appearance, he is an outcast."
"And you wish to make a team out of these outcasts?" asked Blackrenamon.
"Precisely."
Renamon then looked at Naruto. "What about Naruto's appearance? And why is he so hated? Azulongmon never told us the reason, so I was wondering about that."
Immediately, both Sarutobi and Naruto stopped. Sarutobi looked at Naruto and said "It is up to you to tell them, Naruto. It is your secret after all!"
Naruto sighed. He then turned to the others, eyes filled with pain. "Could we… talk about this later? I… don't feel like telling now."
The three kitsune nodded and they all continued forward. Then they reached an empty room. "This is going to be the mission room. From here you can reach all the other rooms. So when I call a meeting, you are to present here." Explained Sarutobi. "Now you are all to stay here while I go get the others."
They nodded as the old Kage left through the same way he had entered. The three then turned to Naruto who sighed. "I suppose I should tell you. Well, when I was born, at October 10th, a great demon attacked our village. It is called the Kyubi…"
"What you mean? Kyubimon's aren't demons!" yelled Renamon.
"Kyubimon? No, it wasn't a digimon, it was a demon fox called Kyubi! A red furred Kyubi." Said Naruto, trying and succeeding in making the others understand. "Anyhow, it destroyed a great part of the village and many people died. But then, the Fourth Hokage…"
"Fourth? But isn't that old man the third?" asked Blackrenamon.
"He was the third Hokage, but he retired and the fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, took his place. Continuing on, the fourth Hokage appeared and had a major fight with the beast. However, he couldn't kill the demon, because it was a being made of pure chakra. So he did the second best thing…" said Naruto, stopping as he was starting to feel nervous.
"What? Come on, what did he do?" asked Vulpamon.
"He… sealed the creature inside a baby… me." Said Naruto, making the others gasp. "That is why I have this furry hears and tail, it is because of an excess of Kyubi chakra that leaked out of the seal."
The three stood shocked at the revelation, then they growled, making Naruto fear that he had angered them or that they hated him. Not in the slightest… "Those damn ASSHOLES!" yelled Vulpamon.
"Oh, I'm going to enjoy feasting on their bones once I am out of here!" said Blackrenamon.
"Girls, we won't do any of that!" said Renamon, only to grin. "Killing is too merciful. We will torture the hell out of them, then kill."
Naruto was shocked. "What…"
"Look, Naruto. We understand that you are not the demon. We already saw enough for us to tell that you aren't a demon in any way or form. It is them who are idiots!" said Renamon.
"Yeah, don't worry we will make sure to prove them wrong." Said Vulpamon.
"And make them pay along the way, don't forget that!" said Blackrenamon.
Naruto started to tear up at what they said. He had someone that genuinely cared about him and had no trouble with him. Up until now, he only had Ayame, Teuchi, Oji-san and some Anbu, but that was it as far as it goes. The others either hated him or downright ignored his existence. He hugged the three and whispered "Thank you… Thank you so much."
The three smiled and hugged him back. The moment was broken whenthey heard a cough behind them. "If you are done with the teary bit, here is one of your new teammates, Naruto. Her name is Jean Haruno."
Naruto turned and saw a girl, wearing very poor clothes with her pink hair done in a pigtail. Her green eyes looked at him with a bit of fear. She was definitely 6 year old, but there were a lot of things wrong with this Haruno: first, she was very quiet, and no Haruno was quiet. Second, her clothes were dirtied and torn, and Harunos always use the most expensive of dresses. Third, she looked scared, and the Harunos were always filled with confidence.
"Hi, my name is Naruto! This is Renamon." He said as he pointed to Renamon. "This is Blackrenamon." Same for Blackrenamon. "And this is Vulpamon. They are my partners. I hope we can work well together."
The girl looked at him, then started to do signs with her hands. Naruto looked at her confused. Is she going to use a jutsu! Has he thought that, he readied himself. Sarutobi, however, said "Calm down, Naruto. She is not going to attack you."
"But then, what were those hand signs?" asked Naruto.
"Gestural language." Said Sarutobi, making Naruto go wide eye. "yes, I see that by now you realize just how different she is from the other Harunos. The thing is Jean was born without the capability of speech. So the Harunos treated her like a second class Haruno and paid her no attention whatsoever. She, however, is an expert in sealing jutsu. So I decided to have her join the group."
Jean looked at Naruto, like she feared his reaction. Naruto saw that and said, with a smile. "Don't worry, Jean. Just because you don't speak doesn't mean anything. You must be really good if you can do sealing jutsu. That thing is tough!" the commentary made Jean smile.
"Alright, children, stay here while I go get the others." Said Sarutobi as he once again was out.
Renamon came forward and started a conversation with Jean. Apparently, Renamon knew gestural language and promised to teach the others so that they could all speak to Jean, which made the girl smile at having people who made the effort of learning gestural language just to speak with her.
A few moments later, Sarutobi appeared with a strange kid near him. No older than 5, the kid wore a dark blue jacket, white trousers and his hair was all marine blue. His eyes were yellow and they were analyzing everything around him.
"Everyone, meet Alex Russo! He is an expert in genjutsu and a good one at that." Said Sarutobi.
"Hi there!" said Naruto, trying to be friendly. When he didn't answer, he asked "Are you mute too?"
"I'm perfectly capable of speech." Said Alex, in a monotonous voice. He then turned to the girl. "You, however, seem not. For the sake of the team, I shall learn gestural language." Jean nodded sadly, it was the only thing she could ask anyhow.
Naruto looked at him weirdly. "You don't have to be so cold. We are going to be a team."
"And until we trust each other more, I suggest you get used to my way of dealing with people." Said Alex.
Naruto turned to the others, and made a funny face. "Jeez, what crawled up his butt?"
This made the others giggle. "Maybe I should show you." Said Alex as his hand became freaky: it had a black substance and it bigger, claw-like hand with spikes coming out of it. Naruto jumped out of his skin as he saw it, his partners tensing and getting ready for trouble. Sarutobi then put a hand in his shoulder. "Please refrain from attacking your team members, Alex."
He nodded as his hand returned to normal. Sarutobi then turned to the others. "Right, Three down, two to go!" and with that, he was off.
"Hey, what the hell was that?" asked Naruto.
"An illusion. I made you think that you were seeing my hand shift so you would fear me. There, is this enough to sate your curiosity?" asked Alex.
"You don't have to act like a jerk, you know, we all had hard lives!" said Naruto.
"Maybe, but does that mean we are to trust everyone here? I myself find that the harder the life, the more untrustworthy is the person, so until you can prove worthy, I will keep acting like this." Said Alex.
For a while, everyone was silent. Suddenly, Sarutobi appeared again. "Here is the fourth member. Everyone, meet Riku Aybara." Everyone turned to see a boy with short green hair, wearing some cream shorts and a red shirt. He was 8 years old by the looks. His eyes were orange and he had a goofy look on his face. Against his shoulder laid a sword in its stealth. "What is up?"
"Aybara? Never heard of them." Said Naruto.
"That is because we are not a clan, more like a small ninja family. However, I was kicked out after I… accidently blew half of the house."
Naruto whistled. "How did that happen?"
Riku looked at the black kitsune and said "I have a very strong wind element. So I was playing a bit and unconsciously drew chakra. I was four at that time, so I actually didn't know what I was doing. Suddenly, a gust of wind came and all of the sudden half the house was gone."
"Damn!" said Naruto.
"Well, only one to go!" said Sarutobi as he once again vanished.
"Say… shouldn't there be only five of us?" asked Riku. "I don't wanna sound anti-social or something, but there is way too many people to form a hand."
"Although we are alive, me and the other two kitsunes here are only considered ninja tools of Naruto over there." Answered Vulpamon.
"Cool." Said Riku. He then turned to Jean and said "What about you? Judging from the hair, you are a Haruno. But you haven't said a thing!"
"That is because she can't, she is mute!" said Blackrenamon.
"Ouch! Sorry about that." Said Riku. "Tell you what, just so you can forgive me, I will learn gestural language and ask sorry again just with hand signs. I promise you I will!"
Jean smiled and nodded. Riku then turned to Alex. "And who are you? Mister sunshine?"
"You better not mock me if you want to see day light again." said Alex as he made the room fell like it was freezing.
"Damn, sociable much, huh? You didn't have to freeze the room, you know." Said Riku as he took a step back.
"Forget it, that guy has been acting like that ever since he got here. He doesn't trust people at all!" said Naruto as he turned away from Alex. "It's probably and illusion, though. Don't worry."
"All right! Whatever you say!" said Riku. "Say, what's with the fake fox tail and ears? Are you trying to match your partners or something?"
"They are real! Asshole. Look for yourself!" yelled Naruto.
Riku came closer and pulled one of the ears. Unfortunately, he pulled to hard and made Naruto yell in pain.
"Holy Shit! They are fucking real!" said Riku.
"Of course they are, what you thought I was tricking you?" asked Naruto.
"Hum… yeah!" said Riku.
"If you are done fooling around, I would like you to meet your latest team member." Everyone turned to see the Hokage holding a little girl by the hand, 5 years old at best. She had blue hair in a hime cut style. She had white pupil-less eyes and wore white clothes. Naruto realized she was a Hyuga.
"Everyone, this is Hinata Hyuga, your latest team member." Said Sarutobi, letting others come closer to meet the new member.
"Hi there! Name is Riku, by the way. Riku Aybara." Said Riku.
"Naruto here! This is Renamon, Blackrenamon and Vulpamon!" said Naruto, introducing everyone.
"Alex Russo." Said Alex.
Jean made some hand signs. Riku saw that and was the quickest to act. "Oh, and this is Jean!"
"Very well, and now that the introductions are over, we can go to the explanations." Said Sarutobi as he walked up a podium. "Now, the Hokage's Hand are elites! In the sense that they must be above any Jounin or Anbu in the village. You each have a special skill that makes you unique." He turns to Hinata. "Your skills in the medical field may pass unnoticed to your father, but not me. Here we will try to solve your problem with the Jyuken." He then turned to Riku. "Your powers with wind are supreme in your clan, making them afraid of you. Here you will learn to control them." He then turned to Alex. "Your skills with the virus you have are unique. Here, you will learn to work in a team and trust others." He then turned to Jean. "Your skills in Fuinjutsu are unparalleled. Here you will learn to be yourself." Then he turned to Naruto and his partners. "You guys have skills that I cannot yet predict, yet I know that you will become a force to be renowned."
He then let the kids digest what he told them so he could release another bomb. "In the village, you only obey to ME! That means, you are above the council itself! No rule they create has power over you and you are free off most rules, except the ones I impose you. You will answer to me, you will take missions from me, and you will do as I command. Is that clear?"
At the mutual "Yes sir!" from all the people in there, Sarutobi said "You are free to use the training grounds, but every Sunday and until I say so, you are all to present on training ground five. The maps of this place are over the tables behind you." As they turned around in shock at how the tables had appeared out of nowhere, Sarutobi continued "More than that, each one of you will have a personal class every week at a still to define date so that I may train things that better suit one or the other: medical skills, the dark arts, sealing jutsu, and much more. Is that clear?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good. You are also free to use the library. Now the rules. No fighting, except for sparring, is allowed between members of the Hokage's Hand. I will not have a team crumbling apart because of petty fights. That goes double for you Alex." As he said that, Alex grumbled under his breath. "None of you are to reveal any clan secrets you learn here. That is to prevent sensitive information to reach enemy spies. Finally, none of you are to bring any person here, under any circumstance. Got it?"
"Yes sir!"
"Good…" said Sarutobi, until a hole formed in the middle of the room, followed by a strange fog. Then the image of a blue dragon filled with chains appeared. Most gave a step back, except the three kitsune who put themselves in front of the strange beast and said "Azulongmon-sama!"
"Hello, I see you have reached rookie level already!" said Azulongmon in his smaller form. Naruto then remembered about the omnivice and pointed it to Azulongmon, getting the following description.
"Name: Azulongmon
Level: God
Type: Data
Element: Dragon
One of the four holy beasts, he is the kindest of them all. That may be why he takes care of matching digimon with their tamers.
Attacks: Aurora Force; Lightning Whip; Dance of Raijin
Warning: There is no telling of how many powers this digimon has. Proceed with caution if faced with him."
Azulongmon turned to where the voice was heard and smiled. "Well, if it isn't Naruto." Naruto became tense. "I hope you keep doing a good job keeping these three in check."
"I will, Azulongmon-sama." Said Naruto, trying not to irritate the old dragon.
Azulongmon then turned to Sarutobi. "You must be the Hokage and creator of this group. I have serious news to communicate. It seems like the fabric between worlds has become… thinner." Said Azulongmon. "As such, digimons may start to appear in this world. However, I have a plan. I want to make these kids in the room tamers. With that, there is still hope of fighting the incoming digimons."
"Well…" Sarutobi was indecisive. On one hand, this meant that the Hokage's Hand would have one more power and have an upper hand in this business with digimon. However, this also meant more problems to deal with the council. Unless… if I could get the damyo to agree with the Hokage's Hand… then the council would have no power to intervene! "I believe that is for the best."
The old digimon nodded. Then turned to Alex. "You first. You captivated the eyes of one of my digimon. This… is Lunamon." And with that, a Lunamon came towards the kid.
"And who said I need a partner? I already have to deal with all this guys, adding more won't make it easier." Said Axel, much to the shock of everyone. Lunamon looked unfazed as she came close to him.
"Test me!"
Alex turned to her. "Excuse me?"
"I said test me! If you are so sure I am useless, you don't have a problem showing just how much to everyone here."
Alex looked at her with narrowed eyes. He stayed like this until for everybody's surprise, he disappeared and ten of him appeared around Lunamon. "You must chose the true me! Wich one of these is me?" yelled all of them at the same time.
While everyone was trying to see among the ten clones who was the true Alex, Lunamon laughed. "Neither are!" as everyone looked at Lunamon in confusion, with the ten clones narrowing their eyes, she explained "The moment you narrowed your eyes to me you moved towards the door and you have been there, cross armed and looking at the result of your genjutsu."
Suddenly, the clones vanished. By the door and as Lunamon had said, was Alex. He clapped his hands as he came towards Lunamon. "Very well, you have been proven worthy and so I shall accept this partnership. Though we still need to work a lot until we can work together to perfection. Understand?"
"Yes sir!" said Lunamon as she rushed to his side.
"If we may continue here…" everyone turned and Azulongmon continued. "For our windy guy, I have just the digimon. Falcomon!"
A tiny bird digimon came and jumped his way to Riku. "Hey there. It's a pleasure to meet you, I am Falcomon. I hope we work well together!" said Falcomon. (I know there are two types of Falcomon but go with the Digimon savers version of Falcomon.)
"Pleasure to meet you too, name is Riku Aybara." Riku then shook… his wing.
Azulongmon then turned to Jean. "You were actually a challenge. I had to actually search for a digimon that knew gestural language. However, I found one. Come now, Palmon."
A Palmon then appeared near Jean. "Hi there! Name is Palmon."
Jean made some hand signs and Palmon nodded "Yes, I am a plant type digimon from the nature forests. I guess it must be a shock to you to see a walking plant but I do hope we can become friends!"
Jean smiled and nodded.
"Hinata." As she heard her name being called, Hinata trembled a bit. "I see that you do not have that much confidence. That must be why I chose this partner in particular. Come on now, Gatomon."
Gatomon then appeared and ran towards Hinata and jumped to her. "Hi, name is Gatomon!"
Hinata was a bit staggered. "H-h-h-hi-i-i-i-i!"
"Don't be so scared, I don't bite… much!" said Gatomon.
"And now the devices." Said Azulongmon as his eyes closed. Suddenly, four lights appeared and Hinata, Jean, Alex and Riku got a device in their hands. Naruto saw that apart from being smaller, there was no difference from theirs to his own. The only real difference was the color of the arrows: Jean had pink and green arrows; Hinata had dark blue and white arrows; Riku had green and purple arrows and Alex had light blue and white. The middle button for all of them was silver.
"I am sure you are wondering about them, but I will let your partners explain about them. Now the cards." Said Azulongmon as some cards appeared in the hands of the tamers. "Now normally you would have more than these, but I gave the omnivice and the digivice a special ability. You will find out on yourselves. The cards will have to be explained by your partners too as my time is running out. Keeping a portal between so distant worlds can be quite challenging. I hope you fulfill your goals." And with that, he was gone.
As everyone was confused about all that had happened, Sarutobi pinched his own nose. "I'm getting to old for this."
Author Notes:
Delfim: So here it is.
Laurelene: You made the thing with the buttons and colors again.
Ego: Not a bad idea, if you ask me. It calls for a bigger connection between human and digimon as their colors are shared in the device.
Delfim: Dude, what the fuck are you talking about, I just liked the idea os having a color from the tamer and another of the digimon, that is all.
Ego: … I will not comment on this.
Delfim: Good. Any questions?
Laurelene: Aren't most digimon here female?
Delfim: Yes, but that means nothing. I actually think that the digimon series doesn't make justice to female digimon or female tamers, giving them secondary papers while a guy and his male partner do most of the stuff. Oh well.
Ego: Is it possible for an Haruno to be mute?
Delfim: Normally? NO! In my story: yes, and I quite like my character, so don't mock her.
Laurelene: Isn't Alex a bit off an ass?
Delfim: In this chapter and to strangers: yes. The other chapters:… we will see. Any more questions? No okay.
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