"Normal speech"
'Normal thoughts'
"Demon/Summon/high Digimon speech"
'Demon/Summon/high Digimon thoughts'
Attack/jutsu name
(author comment)
flashback/memory~locations and transitions~
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Digimon
Chapter 15: A Bridge in between
Naruto was floating in a white void. No sound could be heard, nothing could be seen, not that Naruto could tell with his eyes closed.
"Hello?"
Naruto heard someone speak to him but he couldn't recognize the voice
"Are you ok? Oh, maybe he is sleeping."
Naruto slowly opened his eyes, only to see a large set of eyes that were interestingly enough the same kind of eyes as his. He opened his eyes completely to see a Digimon that he has never met before. "Uuuuhhhh…...hi?"
"Hi! What's your name?"
Naruto felt even more confused about this as he never met any Digimon other than the newly hatched Digimon. "Uh, my name is Naruto….."
The little Digimon raised his paw "Hi Naruto! My name is Calumon! Wanna play?"
Naruto made to sit up but due to being in a void and floating, he ending up spinning forward for a few turns "Woah! Wha…?"
Calumon laughed and began spinning as well "hahaha this is fun!"
After Naruto got himself to stop in what he assumed to be an upright position he looked to the still spinning Calumon. He chuckled at how happy the little Digimon was but he looked around and asked: "hey Calumon, do you know where we are?"
Calumon stopped his spinning and looked around. After a few seconds, he looked to Naruto "I don't know."
At this Naruto face faulted, which caused him to spin again. This time he didn't stop, he just crossed his arms and thought about where he could be. 'The last thing I remember is protecting Renamon from that hunter dude in the ice mirrors, and then… I blacked out….?' As he was thinking this, his body began to fade away. He noticed this and began to panic "what the hell?! What's happening?!"
Calumon expanded his ears and smiled "you're waking up silly."
Naruto turned his gaze to Calumon and tilted his head in confusion "what do you mean I'm waking up?" he saw Calumon say something but it was muffled
As Naruto faded, Calumon gave one last wave "Bye by Naruto! Hope we can play more next time."
Naruto heard that and gave a small wave as he disappeared
Calumon smiled before he floated away to another figure "he was fun."
The figure only nodded as he chuckled "that he is Calumon, that he is."
~Tazuna's house, guestroom~
Naruto lay in the bed unconscious and surrounded by the Digimon that came on the mission.
Meicoomon and Mikemon laid on the right side of his head
Terriermon sat on the left side
Coronamon and Gazimon at the end of the bed watching the boy
Betamon was sitting on the nightstand that was next to the bed
Renamon sat cross-legged on the ground next to him, watching his chest move up and down, making sure that he is still breathing
Kushina, Menma, and Kasumi were sitting in chairs that were next to the door, watching the group. They had each checked him over when they brought him back and they were sure he was going to be ok.
Kushina continued to check him over even if she got the same conclusion over and over again.
Kasumi was almost as bad as she continued to use her small sensory ability to make sure that she could still feel his chakra.
Menma was just happy that his brother was alive
"Uuggghhh"
Everyone perked up when they heard noise coming from Naruto
"ugh ….I'm starving, Ayame two helpings of the Uzumaki special please….and put it on my dad's tab." He slowly opened his eyes to see a bunch of faces looking down at him. "You know it's creepy to have you guys stand over me while I sleep."
"NARUTO!"
Naruto found himself being dogpiled by most of the Digimon as they all spoke at the same time
"You're ok!"
"You're awake!"
"We were worried!"
"You jerk! doing something stupid like that!"
Naruto was waving his hands in the air as he was starting to lose oxygen. After a few more seconds, the Digimon let him go and he looked up to see Renamon, his siblings and his mother looking down at him. "Hey." He suddenly found himself being grabbed by the collar and shaken by his brother
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING YOU IDIOT! Out of all the stupid things anyone could have done why did you have to be the one to do it?! Do you have any idea what we went through when we saw you!? I should beat you into the ground for that!"
Naruto felt that his brain was being beaten like an egg "M-m-m-me-nm-a pl-pl-e-e-eaaa-se sssss stooooop…."
Menma stopped shaking his brother as he was breathing heavily. He brought Naruto up higher and hit him on the top of his head
Naruto fell forward from the hit only to find himself in the middle of a group hug with his family
Kushina and Kasumi were crying with a smile on their faces as Kasumi spoke: "We are glad you're ok."
Once the hug between the family was over. Naruto looked towards Renamon.
Renamon looked down at Naruto with an impassive face, which made Naruto a little nervous. After a bit of silence, she pressed her finger on his symbol.
This was a gesture that Renamon was one of the few to do this with him. She smiled at him before bringing him into a hug "I'm happy you're safe my prince"
Naruto grumbled as he spoke in her fur "you know I hate when you call me that."
She just smiled at this
~later~
Naruto came downstairs, with Mikemon and Meicoomon on his shoulders and Renamon behind him, to the living room of the house and paused when he saw who was sitting at the table: Zabuza and Haku. Haku was bandaged up and at first, Naruto didn't really recognize her but Renamon had told him that she was the hunter-nin that he fought. This caused Naruto to give a deadpan look at the girl but he shook his head as Kakashi was sitting nearby, reading his little book, which told him that it was ok.
Zabuza had both his arms wrapped up and in casts, which Naruto thought was funny to see a gruff man like Zabuza have his arms stuck in a certain position.
Naruto went to sit down at the table which had the genin of team 7. He was still being surrounded by the Digimon like he was a celebrity and they were his bodyguards, although Terreirmon and Gazemon went to be with their team members. Once Naruto sat down, he asked: "so how long was I out?"
Sasuke was the one to answer "you were out for a week."
"A WEEK! What the hell happened?"
Sakura nodded "yeah. After you…" she caught a look from Kakashi who shook his head, she continued "...were knocked, the fighting had ended with Renamon getting you out of there." once she finished she thought back to when they got back to the house.
~flashback~
After Gato was taken care of both teams had returned to Tazuna's house. They brought Zabuza and Haku with them as they were no longer considered enemies and they both needed medical help. Kakashi did, however, have to restrain Kushina from killing Haku when she found out that she had killed Naruto. Once they got both Naruto and Renamon into a room and Kasumi and Kushina were looking both over with Menma helping, Team 7 were in the dining room with only all of them thinking about what could have happened. It was decided that if Naruto showed no recollection about what happened then they will keep it from him. The reason given were that: it would be traumatic to know that you died or the person could see it as a way of being invincible if he could come back and even if Naruto didn't seem the type, keeping this a secret would be beneficial.
After this was agreed upon, Sakura asked a question that was bugging her "hey Terreirmon, what happened to Renamon? She looked like she digivolved but from what Naruto told me, she is supposed to be yellow, not blue."
All the Digimon grew a bit depressed at this as Terriermon spoke "she dark Digivolved."
"'Dark' Digivoled?"
Gazimon picked up from here "you see we all have the ability to digivolve without Naruto's help really but the problem with it is that normally it ends up as dark digivolving. When we go that route, so many things could go wrong. Like we could become virus types which unlike normal virus types, who are born that way and keep themselves together, if one were to dark digivolve, they could lose everything about themselves and go crazy. Sometimes on rare occasions, we could still keep our minds but be furious….but most times we go berserk. Some of the smarter Digimon think that its due to the power boost since dark digivolving makes us stronger than normal. One example would be SkullGreymon, that thing is so powerful, even low-level Megas have problems handling it." he shivered at the thought as he had seen what that Digimon could od
Terreirmon followed up "that's one of the reasons why we all prefer to have a blessing in the digivolution but the most crucial one is that…..it brings us close to deletion."
Everyone looked shocked as Kakashi asked, "what do you mean?"
Gazimon took a breath, "it's like forcing too much chakra in a jutsu, much more than you need and done wrong. I've seen Sasuke do something like that with one of his fire jutsu. He put too much in it and did a wrong hand-sign. It blew up in his face. Dark digivolution is like that but it is also using corrupted data for it. When the Digimon returns to normal, the corrupted data tries to go back to normal as well. If the Digimon is lucky, then it will but….if any corrupted data stays, it could harm the Digimon more. Whether the corrupted data is purged or it destroys the normal data, the Digimon will be less whole than before and it's possible for the Digimon to become unstable. If that happens, it's only luck if the Digimon doesn't end up deleted."
The humans were shocked to hear this and felt more worry about Renamon as she could possibly be deleted.
~ the next day~
Team 12 were brought up on the dark digivolution and they now not only had to worry about Naruto but Renamon as well. Fortunately, Renamon had woken up that afternoon and put the rest of them at ease. And now they all waited for Naruto to wake up
Flashback end
Naruto plopped his head on the table, which brought sakura out of her thoughts "damn. I can't believe I was out for a week. No wonder I'm so hungry."
Sakura shook her head at how he could just take that in stride and go straight to food. "Well you better eat and enjoy the sights as best you can. We will be leaving soon."
Naruto lifted his head "already?"
Sakura nodded her head "while you were sleeping, Tazuna was able to finish the bridge with our help. So we will be heading home soon."
Naruto slammed his face into the table again "aw man and I didn't do anything to help." he then stood up quickly and ran outside to his tent. He came back with a scroll in his hand, opened it and placed it on the table. He then did a hand sign and unsealed what was inside.
Once the smoke cleared everyone sweatdropped at the sight of a bowl of instant ramen.
"If we are heading home so soon then I am going to eat my deluxe super Ramen!"
Once he finished shouting this both Menma and Kasumi came running downstairs and eyed the bowl.
Kasumi glared at Naruto "Naruto! Where did you get that?!"
Naruto turned to his siblings "I bought it before we left and I'm going to eat it."
Menma joined his sister in glaring "why do you get to have that?! We deserve it more since we worked on the bridge since you were napping!" he didn't like saying that as it reminded him about what happened to Naruto, but after he was told to keep it to himself, he chose not to show any hint of something wrong.
"No way! I bought it, it's mine!"
Both Menma and Kasumi began to chase Naruto around the house as said boy was jumping around keeping the bowl away from his siblings.
Kushina came down the stairs to this and could only watch as her three children run around the whole room, even on the walls and ceiling. What amazed her was the fact that they weren't causing any damage. Even the vase that they kept going past didn't even jiggle. She shook her head and made her way to the kitchen in order to help Tsunami make lunch.
Renamon could only smile as she watched Naruto but she noticed a few things. One: the other Digimon were watching him as well and two: Sai was watching as well. The former made her feel more at ease as the other Digimon felt a bit more need to protect him but the latter made her bristle a bit. She was suspicious of the boy and after the whole event happened she was more protective of him and if this pale-faced boy does ANYTHING that could even be considered a threat towards her prince she would end him.
~ the next day~
The two teams stood in the middle of the bridge with the whole village in front of them.
Tazuna stepped forward with his family "we want to thank you all for what you did for us. If it wasn't for you, we might never have become free from Gato's hold."
Kakashi waved his hand dismissively "mah mah it was just part of the job." he then turned a page from the book he was reading
Kushina swiped the book away so fast that it didn't register with the man
Kakashi blinked as he clutched and opened his hand until he realized that he didn't have his book anymore. His eye widened and ran to Kushina and tried to get his book back but the woman was holding his head as he kept reaching for the book.
Inari walked up to the three Namikaze siblings with a few tears in his eyes "do you guys have to go?"
Menma stepped forward and ruffled Inari's hair "hey no crying. You should only shed tears when they are of joy."
Inari still had tears but he grew a smile as he nodded
Both Naruto and Kasumi walked up and Inari gave the three a group hug.
Once the hug ended the Konoha ninja smiled at the villagers and the genin walked forward with Naruto speaking "take care of yourselves alright!"
The villagers bowed to them as they said: "we will, and thank you!"
"How touching"
Everyone looked to behind the villagers to see Haku and Zabuza making their way through. Once they made it in front of the leaf ninja Zabuza looked to Kakashi who was internally moping at not being able to get his book back "Kakashi, I have a favor to ask."
Kakashi looked to Zabuza "and that would be?"
"I want you to take Haku with you back to the leaf."
Everyone from the leaf grew wide-eyed and screamed "WHAT?!"
Zabuza ignored the shout from the ninja and the Digimon, as Haku called them "I gotta stay here in the village until I can move my damn arms again but once I am able to move them I am going back to the Mist. The Mist village is in the middle of civil war and Haku would be a prime target if she went there. The fortune that Gato had in his little hole is enough to help the resistance effort. But to make sure that she is safe, I'm sending her with you. She has no real ties to the mist other than the headband that wasn't officially given to her."
The leaf looked to Haku who smiled and nodded at them
Kasumi walked up to her and held out a hand. After a bit of hesitance, Haku took it and Kasumi smiled "it's nice to have you with us."
Zabuza watched this with a hidden smile before he spoke up "if the war ends any time soon then I will come and get her. Whether she wants to leave with me or stay, at that time it will be up to her."
The leaf ninja nodded and agreed to it. After a bit more small talk the leaf ninja began to make their way
Naruto was in the front of the group but after a few steps, he paused. The Digimon kept walking for a bit, passing him before stopping and turning to him, while the humans noticed his immediate stop and paused behind him. He was looking down to see a thick white line that cut across the bridge. Confused he turned to look towards the villagers and asked Tazuna "hey what's this line for?"
Tazuna looked to the line before answer "it's a marker for us to know that this is the halfway point of the bridge. We also use it to know where we put the plaque that will have the bridge's name."
Naruto gained a look of understanding as he looked down and noticed that he had a foot on both sides of the line. Looking to his left were the Digimon and looking to his right were the villagers and ninja. He smiled as he spoke, "whatever you call it, I'm just going to think of it as a 'Bridge between worlds'."
Sasuke gave a small chuckling scoff "since when did you become so philosophical, dobe?"
Naruto just grinned at Sasuke "since I became royalty. Now bow down to me Uchiha!" he said in a haughtily that wasn't all that convincing
Sasuke smirked as he began to walk past him "hn in your dreams dobe."
The group began to move again, with Menma, Kasumi, and Sasuke arguing about calling Naruto "dobe"
The villagers watched the group leave as Tsunami asked her father "so what are you going to call the bridge."
Tazuna scratched his head in thought "not sure but maybe we should keep what that kid said as part of it."
Inari smiled as he nodded "Yeah, it sounds cool."
~ a few days later~
The group had made better time heading back home than they did going to Wave but they did have to stop a few times as Renamon needed rest due to becoming exhausted.
Mikemon and Meicoomon had gotten good at holding on to Naruto's head during his fast travel but he did have to slow down a few times in order for him to move their paws or tail as they either covered his eyes or held too tightly around his neck.
As the group made it to the road that lead to the main gate, the group had slowed down to a walking pace.
The leaf ninja were happy to almost be home. Even Kakashi wanted to get to his home and grab another one of his books since Kushina didn't return the one she took.
Haku was somewhat anxious to be arriving at another hidden village. But she hid it well.
The group were now able to see the walls of the leaf and none of them could keep the smile off their faces. But soon they grew confused when they saw a massive group waiting at the gate
Naruto was the first to notice that it was the Digimon and the Digidestined "wonder what they are waiting for?"
The group of Digimon were looking anxiously for the one they all felt disappear and while they did feel it return they were still anxious to see it.
Kari was the first to see them and she smiled at this. She took a step forward which was followed by another.
She wasn't the only one as the DigiDestined followed suite as well as the Digimon
The returning group saw that there was now a stampede coming their way and most of them noticed that they were most likely coming for Naruto. They moved away from him to get out of the way
Naruto looked left and right as he noticed that they were making more space between them, even Mikemon and Meicoomon left his shoulders to get space. He looked forward and saw the Digi-destined were now on him. Kari, Sora, and Mimi jumped at him and he was thankful for his physical training that he didn't collapse. But it was the addition of the rest of the DigiDestined bulldozing him that he fell to the ground in a big group hug.
The dogpile was surrounded by what seemed to be every Digimon of the village.
Naruto's head was the only thing that was visible as the rest of him was covered by his friends but that changed when Lunamon hugged the top of his head
"Thank the sovereigns your ok."
Ranamon came up next and brought her hands to his face and smiled with a few tears coming down.
After a few minutes of the hugging and a bit of crying from some of them, Naruto was finally able to get out of the hug and smiled sheepishly "thanks for the warm welcome." this got a chuckle out of everyone but it so died when they heard
"Bada Boom!"
Naruto lept into the air as he felt his ass burst into flames "Aaahhh hot hot hot!" he was able to put the small fire out. He looked up into the tree and to see another Digimon "Impmon! That hurt!"
Impmon glared at him "oh that hurt huh? Well, how about this?!" he launched another ball of flames
Naruto jumped out of the way and began to run away from the little Digimon who began to chase him "Aaah why are you trying to burn me!"
"Because you're an idiot!"
Everyone watched this and smiled as this was something that had happened before. They knew that Impmon was doing this more out of being relieved that Naruto was alive rather than real anger as Impmon, Dracmon and Naruto were pranking buddies.
Overall the returning leaf ninja were happy that they all made it home with a few extras.
Haku was just astounded at the amount of Digimon that lived in the village. This was one interesting way to be greeted into the village
"Did you send him yet?!"
"Hmph not yet, but he will be sent"
"I WANT IT SENT NOW! Did you not feel that it disappeared?! I want him in my hands NOW!"
"Hm~ I am also concerned about our pet. But I also have a plan that will bring him into my loving embrace mmhmm."
"Grrrrmmmmm"
"I must agree with our companion here, you must not let your own personal interest in it to disrupt our goal."
"A~w but I can't help myself mmmm to have our pet in my arms, just…..excites me so~ much."
"Hmph just keep all that away from me. I'll send my lackey in the second the portal is open."
"Good!"
End of chapter
I'm going to be honest: I hate the fact that I put in the wave ark cause it makes me feel like I am just going a retelling of the original story and even if the events change due to the Digimon it still bugs me. And I know there are stories that do that but in my head, it's telling me that if I wanted to do a retelling of the original I should just stick to my first story "Fox in the Leaf". That's the end of my self doing rant.
I also want to hit myself as I realized that in the last chapter I forgot to add Lunamon. I have gone back and added her bit but still felt stupid for forgetting a character that I made one of Naruto's close friends
For Haku, I just wanted to put her in the leaf. I just felt like it.
DragoonSensei: yes I am evil. Mwahahaha. If I wanted to kill off a character than I won't hold back on that. Besides, it builds drama and can be used for weird and unforeseen events
Aclux: had a reviewer give me the idea of the dark digivolution especially since I forgot about it.
Born2BeGodLike: glad that you like it so much, yeah pairings are still not on my mind but I am open to suggestions. I felt that there are enough fics with Hinata and Naruto, I love the pairing but I have the opportunity to go another route so Menma gets her (close to the original without being the original :P ). Kasumi is also an open field
KakeruPB: yep I killed him. SURPRISE! The revival skill was something I did in Cybersleuth. A skill that revives a Digimon from fainting and I had my Seraphimon have that skill, so that's where I got it. I know that Digimon could digivolve on their own I just felt like adding a bit more importance to the Zero unit and I gave an explanation on how they could do it in the digital world as that is where most of it happened. At least I am hoping that the explanations are a bit understandable
Two things before I end this
To those that Pmd me and helped me out with the MLP story, thank you very much as my cousin contacted me and told me it was good she even liked the cover I did or it so yay I got some points in her book. Though she wants more of it and I need to come up with a story for it but still thanks and if any of you have a concept that I can use apart from the one I have in it let Pm me with it.
Anyone got any ideas for the bridge's name so I can announce it later in the story.
Please read, favorite, follow and review