A Shinobi A Long Way from Home

by KuramaFTW

After the climactic battle between Kaguya and the reincarnations of her grandsons Ashura and Indra, Naruto and Sasuke face off one last time but what happens when Naruto is thrown into a new world filled with Digital Monsters.

14. Training to be the Ultimate

A Shinobi A Long Way from Home

Chapter XIV

Training to be the Ultimate

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Digimon

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(Shinjuku Park)

It was 10:00 am and everyone was here and ready to begin their training. "Well it looks like everyone is here, did you all get a good night's sleep?" Naruto asked. He quickly got a nod from them. "Good so let's get started."

"Hey wait Naruto before we begin could you explain what it is we'll be doing?" asked Henry.

Naruto stared at the blue haired tamer before deciding to answer, "I guess, well the first thing that needs to be done is nothing more than physical conditioning."

"Physical conditioning, I thought you were gonna teach us to use our chakra?" Takato asked.

Naruto just let out a sigh, "Yes Takato I'm gonna teach you three to use chakra but there are things we need to do first before we get to that point. You see Chakra is basically the life energy of every living being. Everyone has it but some have more than others. Currently you three only have enough Chakra to keep your body alive but not enough to start throwing jutsu around safely. So what we are doing first is expanding your reserves."

"And how does physical conditioning help with this?" Rika asked this time.

Naruto just ran his hand through his hair, "Chakra is made up of two separate energies. The first is physical and second is spiritual. The best way to increase your reserves is to train both of these energies, you can increase your physical energy by training the body and making it stronger through work outs. However your spiritual energy is different. Your spiritual energy is made up or your memories and experiences not to mention your mental discipline. The best way to train this is through meditation. If you train both of these energies you then strengthen them and expand your chakra reserves." Naruto gave them a minute to soak all of this in and waited for them to see if they have any questions. They had none so Naruto decided to continue, "However this method is far too slow for the amount of time we have." he said once again getting looks of confusion from the tamers.

"What do you mean Whiskers?" Rika asked.

Naruto just gave another sigh, "I'm afraid that using only this method it would take you all a few years to get your reserves high enough to where we could get you to start using jutsu. And I get the feeling that something very ugly is going to rear its head soon so we don't necessarily have the luxury of time."

The others began to get worried looks on their faces, "What do you mean? Are you saying that some serious threat is on its way?" Takato asked.

"I can't be too certain Takato but I have this gut feeling that something bad is coming our way and soon, and my gut is never wrong." Naruto told them, not wanting to tell them that Fanglongmon gave him this warning and feared that his power wasn't enough. He didn't want to burden them with the knowledge that they could be facing an enemy stronger than the God of the Digital World.

"So what are we gonna do about this then?" Henry asked.

"Don't worry, I believe I have a solution to that problem." Naruto said.

"Really what?" asked Rika.

"Well you see I was planning on having Kurama channel a very, and I cannot stress this enough, very small portion of his chakra into each of you every couple of days to help get your Chakra network moving not to mention get your bodies used to the feel of Chakra running through them. This will also allow your Chakra network to grow and increase your reserves." Naruto said, explaining his plan.

Now the tamers were even more confused, "Wait why does it have to be small amounts, why not just load us up on chakra so we can begin training? Also why does it have to be Kurama, why can't you do it?" Takato asked.

Naruto gave Takato a very intense look telling them all that he was very serious about this, "There are a few reasons. First, it has to be a small amount because if I give you more chakra than your body can handle, the results could be explosive." Naruto said getting horrified looks from the three tamers and their Digimon. "Also I want Kurama to do it because he has far much better control over his chakra than I do so it would be safer with him doing it. While my control has improved greatly I'd feel better knowing that a being made entirely of chakra and has had hundreds of years of experience controlling his chakra doing this since he is less likely to make a mistake."

The tamers quickly understood why Naruto wasn't going to do it himself. With all of that said Naruto just had one last thing to tell them, "Now that you all know what it is we are going to be doing for the foreseeable future there is just one thing I need to tell you. While this method should work to help cut down on some time don't go ahead and be expecting immediate results. I imagine that it'll be a few weeks before we can start focusing on you all harnessing your chakra. Now before we begin training is there anymore questions?" Naruto asked.

Surprisingly there was one but it wasn't the tamers that asked, "And what are we going to be doing while you're training Rika and the other two?" asked Renamon.

Naruto just grinned, "Oh don't think I forgot about you three Renamon. You three are also gonna be training."

This got surprised looks from the three Digimon, "What I thought you were only going to train them not us too." Terriermon said.

"Oh Terriermon, that just wouldn't be fair. Why should your human partners be over here sweating and working hard in order to fight beside you all while you just get to sit there and watch? Nope, you three are training as well so when your tamers are finally ready to fight by your side you'll all be ready to watch each other's back. Remember those that break the rules are scum but those that abandon their comrades are worse than scum and not taking this time here to improve your skills might as well be considered future abandonment." Naruto finished his speech with a deadly serious look.

All of them there except for a certain confused red raptor were surprised at how serious Naruto was about all of this. It was then a question appeared in Rika's mind, "Hey wait, how are you gonna train us and the Digimon at the same time?"

As soon as she finished that question Naruto made a seal-less Shadow Clone. "Ok all of the Digimon come with me." said the clone. With that the group split up so that Naruto could focus on training the tamers while his clone handled the Digimon.

"Now before we start I just want to say one thing, you all asked for this and so there is no backing out. I will not go easy on any of you. You will hate me, you will curse me, you will want nothing more than to see my head on a stick in redemption for you future suffering. I will work you past your breaking points everyday but when we this is over you will all thank me now let us get started, I want you all to run ten laps around this clearing." Naruto said with a mischievous grin on his face. When the tamers looked the clearing was the size of three soccer fields and groaned that they'd have to run ten laps around it, "Why did you all groan, perhaps you want to run an additional ten laps?" Naruto asked.

"NO!" all three of them shouted.

"Well if you don't want to run them I suggest you all get moving." Naruto said. It took the tamers a good two hours to run the ten laps and they were exhausted once they were done. "Ah now that was a good warm up." Naruto said as he stretched out his muscles.

THAT WAS A WARM UP! All three of them internally shouted. They felt like they ran a marathon. "We'll take a fifteen minute break before we continue." Naruto said knowing that the three of them need to catch their breath.

Meanwhile over with the Digimon Naruto's clone was sparing and royally kicking the shit out of the four rookie level Digimon, Falcomon was not excused from training. His main priority was to give Guilmon and Terriermon more experience fighting while at the same time pushing them to their limit. He was also trying to make them more observant of their opponent and their surroundings. Renamon of course was the first one to pick up on the second part since she is the most experienced fighter of the group aside from Falcomon who has been doing this training for a while so already knew the purpose of it. However there was another part to the training, a newer part that none of them knew about.

"Come on guys, I haven't even broken a sweat yet." Naruto taunted the four exhausted Digimon.

"You wouldn't be that cocky if we were in our Champion forms." Terriermon said in between gasps of breath.

Naruto shook his head, "The purpose of this current training isn't for you guys to try and overpower me, which is why I want you to fight in your rookie forms, not that you could overpower me as Champions. You all may have a slim chance if you were all at the Ultimate level. However your best bet would only be that the four of you would need to be Mega level in order to beat me." he said with not a hint of arrogance in his voice.

"Then what is the purpose to of this training?" asked Guilmon.

"To better read our opponent and being mindful of our surroundings." Renamon answered for him.

Naruto smiled, "You're mostly right but there is one other thing I'm trying to teach you four."

They all thought hard on the previous spar trying to think of what it was they were missing. Falcomon especially since he knew Naruto the best and was trying to figure out where they went wrong, they all attacked him and fought him with the best of their abilities. They all fought as hard as they did as if they were fighting by themselves. Wait, by ourselves. That must be what he wants. "You want us to fight as a team, don't you Naruto." Falcomon called out.

Naruto's smile stretched even further as he began clapping his hands, "Good job you finally figured it out. I wasn't expecting you to get it so soon Falcomon."

Falcomon just grinned, "Yeah well thanks, but why do you want us to fight as a team?"

Naruto's smile faltered at what he thought was probably a stupid question. "Duh, teamwork is important in our group. Now that we are no longer fighting amongst ourselves we need to know how to fight together. We need to know each other's strengths' and weakness'. We may end up fighting some pretty powerful foes in the future and teamwork might just save our lives."

"But couldn't you just go in and kick their ass like you did with IceDevimon?" Terriermon asked.

Naruto just face palmed, "You're missing the point, you guys shouldn't rely on me to bail you guys out of a fight. Me entering the fight should be a last resort. Basically I'm our group's secret weapon considering most if not just about every Digimon expects humans to be weak and of no threat so they're quick to underestimate me allowing me to quickly take them down. However that still doesn't excuse you guys from learning to be better fighters and grow stronger. You need to be and act like a team, you each have crucial roles and if you fulfill your role than you four will be a force to be reckoned with."

Now the four Digimon were very interested to know what exactly these 'roles' that Naruto spoke of are. "If what you say is true, then what are our 'roles' as you put it?" Renamon asked.

Naruto smirked, "It's not that hard to figure out, you Renamon are a skilled fighter with a very powerful finisher move. The downside is that it takes too charge up. So your job would be to fight, analyze and finish." Naruto said as he turned his gaze to Guilmon "Now Guilmon, you are the powerhouse of the group. You can take a beating and still keep fighting not to mention that your attacks are quite powerful. Your job is to basically keep fighting, doing whatever you can to wear down the enemy." Once finished Naruto turned his gaze to Falcomon, "Now Falcomon your the fastest of the group, not to mention the stealthiest. However you lack most of the raw power say that Guilmon has so you'd be best at diversions and sneak attacks, a shinobi's specialty am I right?"

"You got that right." Falcomon said.

"What about me?" asked Terriermon.

"You Terriermon are different, you aren't as fast as Falcomon or as powerful as Guilmon or as skilled as Renamon but I know that you are intelligent and tricky in your own right. So you're mostly a mixed member. You can basically act in any role that is needed at the given time." Naruto said to the long eared rabbit. He then decided to give them a few more minutes of rest before getting back to training.

(A Few Hours Later)

Naruto finally decided to call an end to today's training and currently there were three humans and two Digimon laid out flat in exhaustion. Falcomon was better off than the others since he's used to Naruto's training methods and Renamon did her best to keep herself in upward sitting position but even that was a chore for her. "Hate you, hate you so much Whiskers." Rika managed to get out in between desperate gasps of air.

"Ohhhh the pain, make it stop." Takato groaned.

"Naruto, you can go straight to hell." Henry said, his usual need for manners already being thrown out the window after their 'warm up'. Yeah he made them not only do that run but the usual push-ups and sit-ups. After that, they went into their Taijutsu lessons where Naruto taught them some fighting forms, except for Henry since he already had a fighting style due to his practice of the martial arts though Naruto gave him some pointers to help him clean it up a bit. He also did sparing sessions, while he didn't go all out on them but he still went hard enough that they were just covered in bruises. And not once did any of them manage to land a hit. And if they ever complained about something then he'd just add something else on to their work load. Eventually they got around to meditation, something Henry already having a little bit of experience in since his martial arts sensei encourages the practice. Only to finish up with another freaking spar, the guy was a fucking sadist.

"Wow, day one and I already have you guys cursing my name, must be a new record." Naruto said with a grin. Naruto then decided now was the best time to use Kurama's chakra on them. With that Naruto went over to each one of them and had Kurama channel a small portion of his chakra into the three tamers and they were quick to notice the foreign energy enter their body.

"What is this that I'm feeling?" Takato asked.

It was after that he asked that question that he and the others noticed that most of the pain had vanished. They all sat up and got a good look at themselves noticing that all of the bruises were gone. "Whisker's what did you do?" asked a confused red head.

Naruto just grinned, "I channeled some Kurama's chakra into you all like I said I would. Kurama's chakra has a lot of regenerative properties so most of your wounds should be gone." (A/N: Yes this is possible, Madara pulled this stunt in the FGSW after Sasuke stabbed him in the arm just after being resurrected) With that said their first day was completed and Naruto let them go home to rest up.

(A Few Days Later)

These last few days have been exhausting and miserable for the three tamers and their Digimon. Naruto put them through utter hell, though nowhere near the intensity of Gai and Lee's youthful work outs. Naruto seriously doubted that even he could survive those. You needed something special to survive those work outs, something neither Naruto nor the other tamers had. What was needed was a green tracksuit, a glossy straight bowl cut hair style and the most ridiculously oversized eyebrows anyone has ever seen. Without any of those no one could survive that training.

Currently Naruto was at home playing this game that's had a lot of hype called Assassin's Creed Unity. He was in the middle of a mission when he all of sudden saw Falcomon acting strange. "Hey Falcomon what's up?"

"I don't know Naruto but I feel like something is trying to pull me towards it but something else is protecting me." Falcomon said effectively confusing the blonde.

"Ok, you wanna try and make sense this time?" Naruto asked sarcastically.

Falcomon just shrugged, "I don't know any other way to put it. I feel like something is trying to drag me off somewhere but…" he was caught off when began to feel something approaching, something powerful.

Naruto noticed the distant look in his partner's eyes, "But what?" he asked.

"Naruto something's coming." Falcomon quickly said.

"Ahhh will you start making sense! What the hell is going on?" Naruto shouted as he started pulling some of his hair.

"There's a Digimon coming, a powerful one." Falcomon simply said to his tamer to let him know of the situation.

Naruto quickly calmed down and gained a serious look, "Where?" was the simple question. However before Falcomon could say anything they heard what sounded like an explosion and felt the floor beneath them shake. Naruto quickly ran towards a window and saw a tear in the sky with what looked like digital wire framing moving as if it was the surface of the water. He then heard his D-Ark going off and saw that the arrow was pointing towards what he learned to be the Hypnos Towers. It wasn't widely known that those towers held a top secret government agency that studies Digimon. The only reason he knew this is because he had one of his clones tail Yamaki all the way back there after their last encounter. Man their security sucked. His clone practically walked right in there doing almost nothing to hide his presence. Naruto then looked at his partner, "Let's go." was the simple command from the blonde.

Falcomon gave Naruto a nod, "Yeah time to kick some ass."

(Shinjuku Park – Just across the street from the Hypnos Towers)

Henry and Terriermon were calmly walking towards what would probably be their next fight when they passed by a blonde man wearing sunglasses, a man that they recognized. "You." Yamaki growled in recognition of Henry.

Henry just turned around to face him, "Yeah me, what do you want?"

Yamaki however quickly turned around and picked up Henry by the collar of his shirt saying that it 'was Henry's fault.' "Leave him alone!" Terriermon demanded but Yamaki didn't relent. However he was quick to notice a knife now poised to slit his neck.

"I'd do what the rabbit said if I were you." Naruto said in a cold and serious tone.

Yamaki was quick to notice Naruto, "Come to help your little friend?"

Naruto however wasn't in the mood for a Q&A. "I said drop him Yamaki otherwise I'll be forced to make you."

Yamaki's eyes widened behind his sunglasses, "How did you learn my name?"

Naruto just smirked, "You and Hypnos really need to up your security if one can practically just walk right through the front door with no one asking questions." Naruto had no problem answering that question but his eyes quickly turned back to that of a battle hardened veteran ready to strike down his enemy in a moment's notcie, "There I've answered your question now. Put. Him. Down."

Yamaki finally relented, "You're not worth it." he said as he dropped the blue-haired tamer.

It was at this point that Rika showed up, "Hey who's the thug?" she asked as Renamon appeared behind her.

"Trouble." was all Henry said.

It was then they heard Yamaki yell at them, "You ignorant, Digimon loving freaks. You and your disgusting pets, now look at what you've done."

Naruto however smirked, "What's the matter Yamaki, this is after all you and your organizations doing why not grow a pair and take the credit for it, or in this case blame!" Naruto shouted, taunting the older blonde.

Rika and Henry just looked at their blonde friend wondering why he was antagonizing the older blonde about this. However Henry decided to focus on the bigger problem, "Hey are you two ready to back up Takato?"

Naruto and Rika quickly turned to Henry giving him a nod or verbal confirmation that it's time to go. So they turned and ran towards the Digital Field that engulfed the Hypnos Towers. Renamon decided to go on ahead and took off towards them at full speed. It didn't take her long to fly overhead of Takato and Guilmon. "Renamon." said in surprise though he really shouldn't be. He then watched he quickly jump up and scale the building.

"That's the way up." Guilmon said.

"Yup." Takato said getting ready to send Guilmon up there.

However he was stopped by Henry, "Don't go yet!"

Takato quickly looked at the blue-haired tamer, "Kay why not?" Takato then turned to Rika, "What's up?"

"Not you." the ever witty Rika came back with as she pulled out her D-Ark.

"I meant up there!" Takato shouted in annoyance.

"So did I, be quiet." Rika quickly shot back shutting up the virus type tamer and getting an amused smirk from Naruto. She continued to look through the eyes of Renamon thanks to her D-Ark but saw nothing. "I don't get it there's nothing there." shocking the three boys behind her.

"Nothing there?!" asked a confused Naruto.

"It doesn't make any sense." Henry said throwing in his own two cents.

"It's a Digital Field there has got to be something there." said Takato as he tried to make sense of this.

It was then that something came up on her screen, "Hold up." she said as what looked like a tiger with wings revealed itself. "There you are. But why am I not receiving any data, what kind of Digimon is this?" Rika asked to no one in particular.

However Terriermon decided to answer, "Who cares, what's it gonna do bite me? We can take him you ready." Terriermon said as he hopped off his tamers head.

Naruto smirked, "Terriermon has got the right attitude. But since we don't know anything about this Digimon we need to be careful."

"Right, I'll make Renamon Digivolve." Rika said as she ran closer to the towers.

Takato quickly pulled out a card, "Rika you could use this card!" he shouted as he threw it towards her.

Rika caught it and swiped it through her D-Ark, "Digi-Modify…Digivolution Activate!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Renamon Digivolve too…Kyuubimon!"

"Oh yeah now were talking." Rika said getting psyched up for the fight.

Meanwhile Naruto just turned to Takato, "Dude that dramatic throw of yours was completely pointless. You do realize she probably has fifty copies of that card." Takato however just blushed in embarrassment rubbed the back of his head like a certain blonde.

(On Top of the Towers)

"How about a dance big boy?" Kyuubimon asked as she ran towards her foe. The tiger only responded with a roar as he began his charge, "Tough guy huh?" Kyuubimon asked as they leaped past each other with only inches between them. She quickly then rolled up into a ball, "Dragon Wheel!"

Kyuubimon's aim was spot on when she fired her attack as it hit the tiger dead on and completely engulfed him. However the tiger just ran straight through the fire barely feeling a thing, "Samurai Tiger Tail!" shouted the tiger as it swung its transformed tail into Kyuubimon, he hit her several times inflicting massive damage each time and flung off the roof to fall to the ground below.

The tamers saw Kyuubimon get flung over the side of the building and were surprised and worried but none more than Rika, Kyuubimon no. Rika thought in a panic as she saw Kyuubimon's form break apart but reform several times, believing that she might get destroyed. However Kyuubimon lucked out as she was only forced back to her rookie form and her body stabilized as she fell.

Terriermon quickly got an angry look in his eye, "That's it I'm going Henry, that tiger's toast."

"Digi-Modify…Digivolution Activate!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Terriermon Digivolve too…Gargomon! Gargo Laser!" Gargomon shouted as he blasted the ground beneath him to launch him into the air towards the roof.

"I got her!" shouted Naruto as he channeled Kurama's chakra to give him his chakra clothes and extended one of his chakra arms out to catch Renamon. Once he caught her he laid her gently on the ground so as to not aggravate any of her injuries.

Rika quickly dropped to Renamon's side, "Renamon…are you ok?" she asked hesitantly as she put her hand on Renamon's shoulder.

"So…strong…Ultimate…possibly even…Mega." Renamon said weakly.

"Don't try to talk." Rika said wanting Renamon to conserve as much of her strength as possible.

Takato looked on with worry, "Naruto are you sure you shouldn't just go up there and fight. I mean if Kyuubimon was defeated that easily then our Digimon don't stand a chance."

Naruto however quickly turned to face Takato and leveled an intense glare at him, "Stop being such a coward Takato. Our Digimon can win this. I shouldn't have to step in to fight anytime things look a little hazy. Have some Goddamn faith in them."

Naruto would've continued but was interrupted by Henry's worried cry for his partner, "Gargomon!" Henry called out looking at his D-Ark hoping for some information, "I gotta help him. If you don't got any data on that thing I won't know if I'm using the right cards." Henry then looked up and saw the Tiger fly around to the other side. "Grr he's gone around to the other side. GARGOMON!"

Naruto for his part was getting worried for Gargomon so he turned to his partner, "Falcomon get up there!"

"Right." Falcomon said as he took to the air.

"Digi-Modify…Digivolution Activate!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Falcomon Digivolve too…Peckmon!"

(Back on the Roof)

Aww nuts. thought Gargomon as he reloaded his weapons. It was then that he saw his opponent charging right at him.

"Tiger Wing Blades!" the Tiger shouted as he launched his attack at a defenseless Gargomon.

"Kunai Wing!" shouted Peckmon as he cut off the tiger's attack and saving Gargomon in the process.

"Phew, thanks Peckmon I owe ya." Gargomon said.

"Don't thank me just yet, we still have to take care of the kitty over here. So got any info for me?" Peckmon asked.

"Yeah, he usually circles around before he attacks." Gargomon told him.

While those two were exchanging information the tiger took great interest in Peckmon, "Hmm a ninja Digimon, interesting." he said aloud getting the two Champion's attention.

"Yeah I'm a ninja what's it to you?" asked Peckmon.

"Oh you should know, just take a good look at me and you'll figure it out." the Tiger said.

Peckmon did as the tiger said and inspected him closely before it hit him like a GranLocomon, "You're a samurai Digimon."

"Correct, I'm Mihiramon, Samurai warrior and loyal servant to the Digimon Sovereign." the now name Mihiramon said.

"The Sovereign? If you serve the Sovereign then why are you attacking the human world?" asked Gargomon.

"I'm afraid that is none of your business, now I believe it's time to continue where we left off." Mihiramon said before attacking Peckmon with his Samurai Tiger Tail. Peckmon quickly jumped into the air as Gargomon came in with a Bunny Pummel but Mihiramon took to the air and followed after Peckmon. Right now Peckmon was seriously wishing they were on the ground since it was taking him everything he had to stay out of range of Mihiramon's attacks and being on the roof doesn't do him much since there is hardly enough room for both him and Gargomon never mind Mihiramon. At the same time Gargomon was doing his best to shoot down the oversized kitten but his Gargo Laser was do little if any damage what so ever.

Peckmon deciding he was done play cat and mouse, or in this case cat and bird, Peckmon turned around and launch his Kunai Wing at Mihiramon. Since Mihiramon was gaining on the flying ostrich he had little room to dodge the sharp pointy objects heading his way. However the Ultimate level Digimon showed off a great feat of aerial maneuverability as he managed to barrel roll to dodge most of the knives but was still clipped by a few. "Samurai Tiger Tail!" shouted Mihiramon as he did a forward aerial roll and slammed down hard on Peckmon's head.

"Peckmon!" shouted Gargomon as he ran to the side of his injured comrade. Peckmon managed to get back on his feet but was struggling to keep standing. Mihiramon was actually impressed that Peckmon was back on his feet. "Peckmon are you alright?" asked Gargomon.

"I'm gonna have killer headache when this is all over but otherwise fine." Peckmon answered.

"You two have done well against someone of my caliber but I believe our time is up." Mihiramon said as he charged the two champions. "Tiger Wing Blade!" shouted Mihiramon as he struck the ground with his tail creating a massive shockwave that hit both Gargomon and Peckmon.

(Down Below)

"No Peckmon/Gargomon!" shouted Naruto and Henry to their respective partners as they watch them revert back to their rookie form.

"That's enough my turn." Guilmon said with determination in his voice.

"Wha…Hey!" Takato shouted.

"I'm gonna need a lot of peanut butter and bread after this one!" Guilmon called back.

Takato just gained a worried look in his eyes as he pulled out a card from his pocket. Here goes nothing…come on boy. Takato thought as he watch Guilmon's back.

"Digi-Modify…Digivolution and Hyper Wing Activate!"

DIGIVOLUTION

"Guilmon Digivolve too…Growlmon!"

"Good luck boy!" Takato called out to his partner as he watch him fly to the roof thanks to the six golden wings on his back. But he also watched as Terriermon and Falcomon plummeted to the ground only to be caught by Naruto's Chakra arms again.

"Falcomon, are you alright?" asked Naruto.

"I…should be…fine Naruto…but …Takato." Falcomon said gaining the goggle wearing tamer's attention, "Mihiramon…always circles…around…right before…he attacks…the first…time." Falcomon finally finished as he fell into the sweet embrace of unconsciousness.

"Ok…Thanks Falcomon." Takato said as he looked into his D-Ark only to watch Mihiramon pass right by. He continued to watch for the perfect opportunity until he finally saw it, "NOW GROWLMON DO IT!"

(On the Roof)

Growlmon heard his tamers command and extended one of the blades on his arm, "Dragon Slash!" Growlmon cut right across Mihiramon's mid-section earning a roar of pain from the tiger. "Pyro Blaster!" Growlmon unleashed a stream of powerful flames at the tiger however the tiger powered through the pain from Growlmon's last attack and the flames of the current one and bit down hard on Growlmon's shoulder causing the Champion level Dinosaur to roar out in pain as his body began to destabilize like Kyuubimon's did.

(Back on the Ground)

At the same time Growlmon was bitten Takato grabbed the same shoulder as the one that Growlmon was bitten on and felt extreme pain while also dropping his cards and D-Ark which finally pulled up Mihiramon's information. "Uh I can feel it, it's over." said Takato as he collapsed and fell unconscious.

"What's wrong with him?" called out Rika gaining the attention of the two other boys.

"Takato!" shouted both Henry and Naruto.

(Unknown Place)

Takato was now officially confused. He was currently floating in god only knows where with a ton of clocks all moving at different speeds. "Is this a dream?" he asked himself as he cringed in pain. "Why am I feeling pain when Growlmon was the one that got hurt and while we're at it where am I?" asked Takato.

"Tamer." came a familiar voice from behind Takato, "Tamer it's not over yet."

Takato immediately brightened up, "Hey Growlmon your alive!" But then the way that Growlmon referred to him caught up to him, "Wait you don't even recognize me do you?"

"Of course, just seemed like such a serious moment." Growlmon said, much to Takato's relief.

"Yeah it was but don't do that again." Takato said.

"Ok sorry, anyway like I was saying you've got to let me fight again. So we made a couple of mistakes, no big deal. I know I can take but I'm really going to need your help this time, are you in? Takato I need you." Growlmon said. The fact that he referred to Takato by his real name and not Takatomon let Takato know how serious Growlmon was being. Then flashbacks of Renamon, Terriermon and Falcomon all falling from the top of the tower flooded his mind.

"But I'm…not worthy. IT'S ALL MY FAULT!" Takato shouted as he reached out to close the distance between him and Growlmon, "You wouldn't have gotten hurt if it wasn't for me, Naruto's right I've been a coward and I'm so sorry. But if you're really willing to give me one more chance then I no choice but take it. GROWLMON!"

"Takato!"

"We will fight one more time…TOGETHER!" Takato shouted as he woke up and grabbed a hold of Calumon's hand screaming at the top of his lungs the entire time. However he quickly realized where he was, "Eh yeah hey Calumon." he said nervously.

"Did anyone ever tell you, you talk in your sleep?" the little creampuff asked.

"Welcome back how are you feeling?" asked a relieved Henry.

"What a wuss I can't believe you fainted." Rika teased getting an embarrassed laugh from Takato.

Naruto was about to tease the goggle wearing tamer when they all of a sudden heard helicopters and gun fire all right above them. "Guns won't stop him, its gonna take something a lot stronger than that." said Henry.

"Brilliant Einstein and what do you suggest, send Naruto up there. Those people will see him and report him to the government. It's still too soon for that making Growlmon our only hope, but even he's been beaten." Rika scolded, aggravated with this whole situation.

"Don't worry Rika-chan, I don't care if they report me to the officials, it's not like there is anything they can do about it." Naruto said as he prepared to make his way up to the top of the skyscraper.

However a voice stopped him cold in his tracks, "I haven't finished yet!" shouted Takato getting everyone's attention. "We haven't finished yet. Growlmon is still willing to fight and as long as I'm still breathing I'll be right there by his side. It's time to use the power that brought us here in the first place. Are you guys ready cause we're gonna do this even if you're not." Takato said with a new fire in his eyes, one that impressed Naruto greatly and one he also approved of.

"He's got the card." Henry said in amazement.

"Ok I'm with ya." Rika said.

"He's all yours Takato, go for it." Naruto said as he stepped back.

"That's more like it, this battle has only just begun!" Takato shouted as he held up the blue card.

"Digi-Modify…Matrix Digivolution!"

Crystal Matrix Activate! Calumon internally called out releasing more of his dormant powers.

MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION

"Growlmon Digivolve too…WarGrowlmon!"

"What's going on!" shouted Mihiramon as he was flown backwards.

"Our little boy has grown up." Henry said.

"I'll give you that one." Rika said agreeing with Henry.

"Yeah WarGrowlmon, Cyborg type, Ultimate level." Takato shouted.

"Nice presentation but nobody defeats Mihiramon Samurai Tiger Tail!" Mihiramon shouted as he went all out on the newly Digivolved Ultimate. "How were you able to Digivolve to this level, don't tell me that human had something to do with it." Mihiramon questioned as WarGrowlmon tried to block the rapid strikes.

(On the Ground)

Takato was currently stumbling around and grunting as if he was being hit. "What's wrong?" asked Henry.

"Uh you don't look so good?" Rika said restating the obvious.

"I feel every hit." Takato said as he gathered more of his remaining strength, "Alright that's enough."

(On the Roof)

"Oh so you wanna play with the kitty huh, Armored Tiger Tail!" Mihiramon said calling out his stronger version of his Samurai Tiger Tail.

(On the Ground)

"Right time to take the tiger by the tail, let's do this together." Takato said as he took a step forward. On the roof Mihiramon made to stab WarGrowlmon with his now sharp and pointed tail. But WarGrowlmon managed to catch it with ease. "As your tamer I say finish it." Takato commanded.

"As you say so tamer." WarGrowlmon said as he yanked Mihiramon towards him, "You've been a very naughty kitty Atomic…"

"BLASTER!" Takato finished for WarGrowlmon.

WarGrowlmon unleashed two massive lasers from his chest and hit Mihiramon at point blank range. "GAAHH FOOLS YOU AND YOUR HUMANS, DIGIMON COULD'VE HAD SUPREME POWER OVER BOTH WORLDS BUT YOU HAD TO RUIN EVERYTHING GAAAAHHHHHH!"

(Up above in a helicopter)

"I can't believe it those kids were actually able to defeat him. And all this time I thought they were just playing that stupid game. This is gonna require additional research." Yamaki thought out loud.

(On the Ground)

WarGrowlmon had just landed and Takato didn't waste a second to run up and hug his massive partner. "Takatomon." WarGrowlmon said getting the attention of his tamer. "You are worthy, tamer. Thank you for fighting by my side."

"I didn't do anything, but trust you and I guess myself. Look like we're going to need a lot more peanut butter and bread." Takato said as tears of joy began to stream down his face and he continued to hug the WarGrowlmon's finger which was bigger than his whole body.

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A/N: Well there is chapter 14 for you. Sorry about the late update but as I said my hours at work have gone up plus I've had some difficulty with this one. Sure most of it comes straight from its respective episode but I just didn't know how I wanted to transition it from the training to the Mihiramon incident. Not to mention how I'll add Naruto into the mix.

Now I guess I should explain some of the things in this chapter. First of all how the tamers can have Chakra without the Shinju. Well if it wasn't obvious then let me explain my whole understanding of this subject. Through out all of Naruto Chakra is basically defined as everyone's life energy and they depend on it in order to survive. Which is why sever cases of Chakra Exhaustion can lead to death. So by that right everyone should've had Chakra well before Kaguya came along. She was THE FIRST to gain MASSIVE amounts of Chakra and CONTROL it thanks to the Shinju. In other words she discovered its existence. Otherwise if Chakra was passed down through hereditaryand genetic means then that would mean that every single person alive in the ninja world by the time Naruto starts would be related to Kaguya and that is just implausible. Now as for why the tamers have it, its more or less the fact that as I explained, chakra is life energy. But the Digimon universe doesn't have something like the God Tree or the Shinju to help them discover Chakra so they would forever remain blissfully ignorant to its existence until Naruto came into the picture.

Also if your wondering why I kept it as WarGrowlmon time in this chapter, this was a big moment for Takato and helped him develop as a tamer a lot. So I didn't want to steal his thunder for this one.

Anyways I hope that explains everything so I want to remind you all to leave a comment to tell me what you think and I wish you all a Merry Christmas or a Happy Whatever-It-Is-You-Celebrate-At-This-Time-Of-Year.