"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 16: A day in the village

Menma stood on an empty street with an angry look on his face as he faced his enemy: Sasuke Uchiha. "Why'd you do it teme?"

Sasuke had an indifferent expression until he heard the question. He smirked as he tilted his head upwards but never taking his eyes of Menma "because I wanted to."

Menma got into a fighting stance, ready to take Sasuke down "than I'm taking you down."

Sasuke got into his own fighting stance, activating his Sharingan "you can try."

The wind blew, rustling their clothes and as a leaf began to make its way from the tree, the two tensed their muscles. The leaf now floated a few feet above the ground and as it finally touched down, they made their move

Menma pushed off the ground and towards Sasuke.

Sasuke was so shocked by the speed that he couldn't react in time

Menma punched Sasuke hard enough to send Sasuke flying back

Sasuke gritted his teeth from the hit but was able to flip himself in the air, plant his foot hard into the ground and launched himself back

Menma was stunned by the maneuver and was rewarded with a fist to the face. He somersaulted backwards before planting his feet in the ground and threw a kunai at Sasuke.

Sasuke threw his own and ran behind the kunai.

Menma charged in as well

Both of the kunai hit each other and fell to the ground as the two met

Sasuke threw a left hook at Menma who caught it with his left hand

Menma used his right to attempt to punch Sasuke but it was caught as well.

Both had not let go of their opponent's fist and brought them down.

Blood spilled from both of their mouths on their right side as they glared at each other.

Pulling their heads back they headbutted each other two times.

After the second head but they each let go of the fist and each threw a punch hitting the other in the cheek hard enough to be sent back

Both got back into fighting stances after they wiped the blood from their mouths and got ready to continue until

"And cut!"

Both boys got out of their stances and looked to the one that spoke. It was Kasumi with Betamon on her head and a camera in her hands

Kasumi walked up to the two, looking at the screen on it watching the footage she got. "This will work perfectly."

Menma sighed as he slumped down "why did I agree to this again?"

Sasuke smirked as he crossed his arms "because she promised to buy you ramen for playing the part." Sasuke then looked behind him to see Gazimon coming with a water bottle. As he thanked Gazimon, he looked back to Menma "I'm more surprised that the Digimon even let you do this at all."

Menma slumped down onto the ground "It took a lot of convincing and they still wouldn't let me do this without supervision." he looked around the empty street and he could see a lot of Digimon staying out of sight and watching him. He was suddenly glomped by four Digimon.

Mikemon and Meicoomon were on the side of his head

Lunamon was on top

And Ranamon just hugged all of them

Renamon walked up to them with a sigh "sorry Naruto but I could not hold them back anymore

'Menma' looked up to Renamon and spoke as Lunamon was using a handkerchief to wipe the blood off his chin "it's ok Renamon. In fact, I'm surprised that you held them this long." He then grabbed a water bottle that was offered to him by Ranamon. After he took a drink he looked to his sister "hey how come Menma isn't the one doing this? Isn't he the one that was originally going to do this?"

Kasumi nodded as she rewound the footage and played it again as she bobbed her head "yes but he is in the middle of a date with Hinata so there was no way I was going to ask him to do this. Besides, you two look almost Identical so no one will notice when I switch you two."

Naruto began to rub his forehead and removing the cover-up they put on his symbol, much to the relief of all the Digimon around. "Well I guess but it still feels weird putting on his clothes and doing this. And with all the Digimon watching me, it feels like I'm a celebrity and all my bodyguards are making sure I don't get kidnapped or something."

Kasumi withheld a wince as she knew why the Digimon were like this. Heck if it wasn't for the fact that the other teams were on missions or had responsibilities of their own, some of them, namely the DigiDestined, would be here making sure that he didn't get into trouble.

Sasuke finished his water bottle as he turned to Kasumi "so you got a song for all this?"

Kasumi was thankful to be brought to another subject "yes it's a song from a group called 'Starmon Set'. The song I chose is called 'My Virus' and with some help from Andromon, I can get the timing right."

Sasuke nodded his head, "I heard that song before. I don't know how you will make the fight go with it but that's up to you, not me."

Naruto now found himself surrounded by many Digimon now as he spoke "hey Sasuke, why are you doing this anyway."

Sasuke shrugged his shoulders "Itachi told me that this could be helpful in training my Sharingan. He said that if I can learn how to predict not only my opponent's moves but my own, I can become more proficient in using it. I had to make sure that I hit the spots that I was told to hit and where the kunai you threw would go so I can intercept it."

Naruto nodded his head as Mikemon and Meicoomon fought over who he gets to pet first

~Kushina~

Kushina was pacing back and forth as she looked to the door. She wanted to go make sure that Naruto was still ok but she knew that she gave her kids the day off and that she would see him again. "He's fine. He is home with his siblings and the Digimon are going to make sure that nothing bad happens." she kept telling herself that as she went into the kitchen and started making lunch for herself

~Hokage monument~

Menma and Hinata were right now having a picnic on top of the monument.

Hinata was leaning on Menma's shoulder as they looked out to the village. She had enjoyed the food that they brought and was extremely happy spending time with her boyfriend. However, throughout the whole picnic, she could tell that something was bothering Menma and she was concerned about it. Building up some courage she asked, "Menma, what's wrong?"

Menma tensed a bit as he was not expecting to be asked that. He relaxed a bit as he looked down at his girlfriend "was I that obvious?"

"You are not very good at hiding it."

Menma sighed as he brought his head to his forehead "It's just that the last mission my team went on turned out more complicated."

Hinata looked to the far side of the village, towards the Digimon section "is it the mission where you brought back that big teddy bear Digimon, right?"

Menma nodded "yeah but during that mission we got an urgent message….." he began to tell her about what happened in wave and what happened to his brother including the Kyuubi chakra outburst. Once he was done he looked to Hinata with a sad look on his face "I thought I lost him Hinata. My only brother. And I wasn't there to protect him."

Hinata placed her hands on both his cheeks and brought his head to lay on her chest. She hugged Menma's head and ran her fingers through his hair "it's ok Menma. He's alright. He is here, safe and sound in the village. You didn't fail him."

Menma closed his eyes willing the tears away "but...I…."

"No. you are strong Menma and you have the strength to protect those you care about. You need to think of the here, the now, and the real. Don't think about 'what ifs' or 'it could have been'.

Menma just sat there with his head on Hinata's breasts and think about what she had told him.

~Choji and Goblimon~

Choji was in his family kitchen with Goblimon. Both at the stove, going through a possible new recipe that Goblimon would write down in a personal book he had.

Goblimon was throwing in some spices in the rice dish he was working on. He grabbed some chopsticks and took a small bite of it "hmm the spice does add some kick to it but not the kick I think would work." he put the chopsticks down before grabbing a pen and scratching out the spice's name that was in a much smaller book with a list of spices, sauces, and other potential add ons for the dish

Choji used his own chopstick and had a somewhat larger taste. "Mmm hmmm? What about adding some paprika?"

Goblimon thought about it for a second before grabbing the paprika. He shook the pan, getting some of the rice to flip out of it before landing back, and added some of the paprika in the dish. Taking another taste he nodded, "that's a lot better than the rosemary." he shivered a bit as when they added rosemary to the last one they worked on, they added too much and the dish was borderline uneditable. He grabbed his pencil and put a check next to the rosemary.

Choji looked at the dish and was trying his hardest not to eat the dish in front of him as it was meant for testing and practice. He looked to Goblimon and asked, "so how many recipes do you have?"

Goblimon thought about it for a second while moving the rice with a spatula "hmm I should have enough for a few chapters. I still need a lot more before I have a full book of recipes though,"

Choji nodded as they went back to working on what they were making

~Kiba~

*ARF ARF*

"Get back here Akamaru! You can't get out of this!"

Kiba was running around his compound, chasing his ninken around.

Gaomon sat on the porch watching in amusement. He brought up his paw to shout out "you might as well give up Kiba! He will outlast you in stamina and you know it!"

Kiba grit his teeth and continued the chase

After thirty minutes of chasing Kiba collapse on the ground in front of Gaomon "*gasp* I *gasp* ...give…."

Gaomon smiled at his friend "told you he would outlast you."

"Too bad he couldn't get away though"

Gaomon looked behind him to see Kiba's sister Hana holding Akamaru by the scruff. He wasn't all that surprised at how well she caught the pup "well too bad Akamaru. Maybe next time you'll get away." he got up and began to walk away but he was stopped when he felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked to see who it was and saw it was Hana

Hana gave a sweet smile as she spoke "don't think you can get out of it, Gaomon. You know that it is time for it."

Gaomon began to sweat "uh no I can do it myself." he tried to get away but the grip on his shoulder was strong

Hana began to drag Gaomon away "now come on you two. It's time for your bath"

"No Hana really I can do it myself! Kiba? KIBA!"

Kiba just laid there on the ground catching his breath "I'm just going to lay here and rest."

"Get up pup! If you couldn't last that long chasing down your ninken partner than you won't last very long in the ninja world. I'm going to make sure that you have the ability to actually live out there."

Kiba lifted his head to see that it was his mom that spoke and she was glaring down at him and tapping her foot. He dropped his head back down and mumbled to himself, "Now I know why Shikamaru always says 'troublesome'

~Shikamaru and Hackmon~

"Achoo!"

"Bless you and thanks to that sneeze, you moved your piece." Hackmon smiled as he moved a piece on the shogi board. "Why are we playing this again?"

Shikamaru looked down at the shogi board as he spoke "troublesome, it's good for thinking about tactics and how a move you do can change to flow of the game."

Hackmon just grimaced at this "ok but can't we do it for real or something and not on this board game?"

Shikamaru shook his head. "It would cause too much trouble for everyone. Oh and I win." he placed his final piece claiming the king

Hackmon looked down at the board with wide eyes "oh come on! Why can't I ever last more than seven turns!?"

Shikamaru just rubbed his head at the shouting "troublesome."

~Kari and Gatomon~

"Come on Gatomon, try and keep up!"

"Kari you know I'm not that fast yet!"

Kari was hopping from rooftop to rooftop with Gatomon doing her best to keep up.

Gatomon was able to maintain a steady distance behind Kari by one building but she kept trying to keep up.

After a few more roof hops, Kari decided to give Gatomon a break. She smiled at the now panting cat Digimon "You are getting better at keeping up."

Gatomon fell on to her back as she tried to catch her breath "why *pant* are we *pant* training so hard again?"

Kari's smile turned into a sad one as she knelt down to Gatomon "because I'm afraid Gatomon."

Gatomon lifted her head and looked up at her partner

"We all felt that horrible feeling while Naruto was on his mission. I'm used to feeling where he is at all times and when it happened, not only did I feel what all the Digimon and Digidestined felt but when I could no longer hear the voice telling me where he was. It felt like something in me died and I don't want to feel it again. That's why I want both of us to get stronger so if ever Naruto faces something dangerous we can be there to help him."

Gatomon was now on her feet, looked up at Kari and with a determined look, she nodded her head.

Kari regained her happy smile and got back to her feet "well how bout we head home for now. I can make some fried fish for you, for going on so…." she didn't get to finish what she was saying as Gatomon had jumped down from the rooftop to the streets and ran home. Kari smiled as she followed her partner.

~Shino and kokabuterimon~

Shino lifted his head to see Gatomon and Kari running past the park they were at. He went back to examining a group of insects that were on a tree trunk.

kokabuterimon was upside down on said trunk looking at the same group

"..."

"..."

They stayed there for a good while in fascination with how the insects work. Shino because he enjoyed studying insects and kokabuterimon because he thought it was impressive how the human insects act compared to insect Digimon

~Tai, Agumon, Matt, Gabumon~

Tai took a swig at a water bottle before he wiped off some sweat from his forehead. "Thanks again for this Matt."

Matt just sat down on the ground as they were at a grassy training ground. "It's fine. Besides, it's not like I have any missions right now and this is a good way to relax a bit." he then turned to the other side of the field "though I guess I can't say the same for them."

"Blue Blaster!"

"Pepper breath!"

Agumon and Gabumon were right now sparring with each other in order to improve their own skills and speed.

Tai sat down next to Matt as they watched their partners go at it. "Yeah, they haven't really relaxed after what happened. Honestly, I still feel like we failed at something and we weren't even there."

Matt put his hand on Tai's shoulder "I know what you mean but there wasn't anything we could do and the little guy came back, with more Digimon than when he left."

Tai smiled at this as they sat there in comfortable silence until Matt had to ask

"How's she taking it?"

Tai looked to the ground as he answered "she tries to hide how much it hurt her but I can see it in eyes and in the way she comes home from training. It hurt her a lot to feel what we all felt and she wants to make sure that it doesn't happen again."

"We all feel the same way. Isn't that why you asked me to help you with this? We all felt it and we all want to be sure it doesn't happen again. Heck, Joe is pushing himself into his medical studies and Sora is going all out in training now. Our Digimon partners are trying to get stronger too. T.K is actually thinking of asking for some ninja training. All of us ...don't want to lose the kid."

Tai chuckled "don't call him that or else he'll throw a tantrum. Honestly, I don't know which he hates more. Being called a prince or being called a kid."

Both laughed as they continued to watch who would win the spar

~Sora and Biyomon~

"Spiral Twister!"

"Earth style: Earth Wall!"

The Digimon attack impacted on the earth wall until said wall burst and shattered into pieces.

Sora leaned on her knees as she tried to catch her breath. "Working on an element that isn't my own is a lot harder than I thought."

Biyomon flew down and sat on the ground "but it helps to practice it right?"

Sora nodded "yeah. I just gotta keep going, if I want to get stronger."

Biyomon nodded "we both do."

Sora took a deep breath and stood up straight "alright a few more rounds before we call it a day."

"Right!"

~T.K., Patamon, Yolie, Cody, Davis~

T.K and Patamon had run into Yolie and Cody as they were making their way to Ichiraku ramen for some lunch.

Davis was at the counter as Ayame had to go out and get some more ingredients "so what was that whole thing about a few days ago? All the Digimon eating here just suddenly stopped and left the restaurant. Some of them left without paying and some just left way too much and all they did was stand outside looking in the same direction."

Yolie nodded "hey yeah, it was the same where I was. Mimi looked like she was having a panic when the whole thing started. Ino and I tried to get her to calm down but it was like the world had ended with her."

Cody looked concerned "is she alright?"

Yolie nodded "yeah after a few minutes she was back to normal but she looked like she lost someone important to her. Heck, all the Digimon looked like that."

T.K sighed as he slumped in his seat and sighed "it's because something happened to Naruto."

Everyone looked to T.K in a bit of shock.

Patamon had his wings droop down as he sat on T.K's head

"The Digimon felt something bad happen to Naruto and me and the rest of us felt it too."

Davis put his hands on his hips "what do you mean 'the rest of us'?"

T.K grabbed his digivice and brought it up. "All of us that have this could feel something bad happen and although none of us know what it was. We all know that we almost lost him."

Davis dropped his arms to his side at what was told.

Yolie and Cody were stunned at the idea of one of their friends dying. They heard about how dangerous being a ninja was but it just never clicked with them until now

~Izzy and Tentomon~

Izzy was busy working with Andromon and a few other mechanical Digimon on the project that they had come up with. "Ok Tentomon, give a small jolt."

Tentomon flew over to a couple of large cables and aimed at one of the ends "Super Shocker!"

Izzy put on a pair of goggles to block out the light from the attack and he turned to what he was working on. Light shined on his face and a smile came upon his face. "Prodigious! It works!" his smile fell a bit when the light died down "well almost worked."

Tentomon flew over to Izzy and patted his shoulder "don't worry, you almost have it."

Andromon came up behind them "indeed. This new device will help out the village immensely."

Izzy nodded "that's the idea."

~Mimi and Palmon~

Mimi was laying her head on the counter as she fiddled with her hat.

Palmon was worried about her partner "come on Mimi. please cheer up."

Mimi moved her head to look at Palmon "I don't know what to do Palmon. I want to be able to help out with the village and to help Naruto but I don't have any skills that can do that."

Palmon walked over to be behind Mimi "come on, you can help by being his friend. You know that's all he would want from you."

Mimi sighed as she did feel slightly better "I know Palmon. Thank you." at that moment the bell that told her that someone came to the shop chimed. She got up to welcome who arrived and was surprised to see who it was "oh hi Ino, Lalamon!"

Ino walked up to the counter and placed Lalamon on it "hey Mimi. you feeling ok?"

Ino had come bay several times in the last few days to check up on Mimi since the incident. She was worried about her and wanted to make sure she was alright.

Mimi nodded "yes I'm alright. We all are." she said looking at Palmon and Lalamon

Ino put her hand on Mimi's shoulder "come on Mimi, if something is bothering you, you should talk about it."

Mimi sighed "I just don't know if there is anything I could do to help out in the village. You saw what happened to me and the Digimon. We know that something terrible happened to Naruto and we all want to help him out if something bad happens again. But I don't have any talent that could help. All I can do is make clothing and cook."

Ino smiled sadly at Mimi "well Naruto would like either of those. He loves to eat and if you make clothes for him than he will cherish them. Just because your not a fighter doesn't mean you can't help."

Mimi felt a little better at what Ino told her "thanks Ino."

~Haku~

Haku was in the middle of the Hokage office finishing up a meeting with Minato as they went over her registration for being in the village

Minato had put her on the reserves list for now until he could truly assess her abilities and what rank she should get. "Well, so far all the paperwork is in order so all that's left is to set up a date for your assessment."

Haku nodded, eager to see how she fared in this village

Minato got up from his seat and moved to be in front of Haku "well I am pleased that you are now part of this village and hope you serve it well." he brought up a leaf headband which she gently took

Haku looked at the metal plate before bowing to the Hokage "thank you lord Hokage"

~Tsunade~

"GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE IMPS!" Tsunade was at the moment running through the hospital hallways chasing down both Impmon and Dracmon.

Impmon was right now holding a large bottle in his hands "why did we do this again?!"

Dracmon smirked at Impmon "because it's funny to see the old lady go crazy!"

"WHAT'D YOU CALL ME?!"

The three continued to run through the halls and past several rooms.

One of the room doors opened to show Joe looking out to see who was making so much noise. Once he saw who it was he shook his head "oh it's just Tsunade chasing the troublemaking Digimon.

~Jiraiya~

Jiraiya was once again sitting in a tree, peeping on the woman in the hot springs as he scribbled down some notes in a little notebook. After an unintentionally loud perverted giggle, he found himself being tied up by a few snakes. Before he could react he was pulled down and soon loud girlish screams of pain were heard and they were not coming from the women.

~Sakura and Terriermon~

"Terrier Tornado"

Sakura jumped out of the way of the mini tornado that her Digimon friend sent at her. She felt that some of her clothing was ripped because of it but right now she was more focused on what they were doing.

"Bunny Blast!"

Sakura freaked out at the incoming ball of energy and shifted her weight to the right to barely dodge it. She didn't have time to launch a counter-attack as she heard.

"Bunny Blast! Bunny Blast!"

Sakura had to shift her weight to the left for the second one but for the last one, she bent backwards as the blast flew over her. From this angle, she was able to see that the three blasts had destroyed a tree and left a scorch mark on the ground. She got back up and looked to Terriermon who was panting a bit. She lifted her hand when she saw that he was about to launch another attack. "Why don't we take a break?"

Terriermon just groaned as he fell face-first into the ground "not soon enough."

Sakura wiped some sweat off her forehead and sat down next to Terriermon "sorry about pushing you so much."

Terriermon didn't move as he answered "momentai Sakura. I just need to get better at this."

Sakura nodded before she asked, "hey can't you fire an attack without shouting its name?"

Terriermon finally got up to look at Sakura "well yeah, but it's stronger when we do say it."

Sakura tilted her head "but why?"

Terriermon shrugged as he mumbled an "I don't know" sound

Sakura felt like she wouldn't get a solid answer for that question and got to her feet "well wanna keep going?"

Terriermon fell onto his back as he whined: "do we have to?"

"Terriermon."

"Alright alright."

~kakashi~

Kakashi stood in front of the memorial stone as he looked at the names of his teammates

Obito Uchiha

Rin Nohara

"Wonder what you two think if you saw the village now." he smiled at the thought "you probably would be ecstatic at all the Digimon Obito while Rin would try and keep you from making trouble." he was brought out of his musing as he heard something in the air. It was a hawk and Kakashi knew what it was for "well looks like it's that time again."

~hidden location~

"That's a very interesting development. Is there anything else about him that you wish to report?"

Sai looked up from his kneeling position "no sir. That is everything I have witnessed."

Danzo nodded as he thought to himself 'facing an ice wielder and suddenly attacking with a rain of light. Very interesting indeed. The boy is proving to be just as valuable as the Kyuubi brats and the Uchiha."

Danzo had observed the three kids for all their lives and he realized that the only ones that had any hint of the Kyuubi's chakra were Menma and Kasumi. He figured that Naruto was not given any part of the beast since all he had shown was this unusual power.

Sai was at the moment confused about his report. He kept out the part of angel wings and the fact that Naruto had died during the battle. Normally he would have given every detail to Danzo but his time with Menma and Kasumi started to change his idea on how the village should work. Now he was ...conflicted. But he chose to keep this to himself as he for some reason wanted to find out for himself

Danzo looked to Sai "you have done well. You are dismissed."

Sai nodded and left the room.

Danzo sat in his chair and thought to himself, "I must get them in my grasp. But how. Menma and Kasumi are to high profile to just take and Naruto is constantly protected by the creatures around the village. The Uchiha child is just as protected. I must think of a way." he looked over to a piece of paper that caught his interest. He picked it up and smiled as this gave him an idea "well this just might be what I need."

~unknown~

Blue eyes shined in glee as they looked at what was in front of him "it's stable."

"It's ready to send my agent. Bout damn time."

"Then send it! NOW!"

"L'right already!"

"M~m hurry. I can't wait."

End of chapter

SO. MANY. CHARACTERS! Man I had to make a list of everyone to make sure I at least got all the rookies and the Digidestined

The reason the Coronamon and Kudamon didn't make an appearance is that they would obviously let their friends enjoy their date

The beginning part was kinda something I did as a sort of whim. It was kinda inspired by an AMV I made a while ago and I just thought why not throw a tribute in there. If anyone can figure out who the music group and song that I referenced gets a cyber cookie :P

This will be the last chapter of the year. So, happy New year! And look forward to the chapters that come in 2020

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