"Normal speech"
"Echo/duel/special 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 18: The start of it all
Minato was alone in his office. No Anbu, no advisors, no meeting, no secretary, nothing. He sat at his desk with his forehead leaning on his folded hands. In front of him were two pieces of paper. One was two lists of people. One for those confirmed dead and another with people who are MIA. the other piece of paper was an order that he wanted to throw away or burn. In between the two pieces of paper was his headband and although his eyes were locked on the three, he was not looking at them. He sat on his desk deep in thought until, at such great speed, he pulled out one of his kunai and slammed it into the desk just above his headband. His face gained an angry pained look on his face. "Damn it! It was supposed to be a good thing. A way for the villages to put some of our differences aside and come together to watch the next generation go beyond what the previous generation had shown. But then all of this happened!" he let go of the kunai and slammed his fist into his desk "...what am I going to tell them?"
~hospital~
The Rookies of Konoha, Kushina, the DigiDestined along with all of their Digimon partners were at the moment visiting Naruto in the hospital. Fortunately, he was placed in one of the hospitals that were located in the digital section of the village and in one of the rooms that was designed to accommodate some of the larger Digimon so it was plenty roomy for everyone to visit.
"Look at him. Sleeping like nothing was wrong." spoke Ino as she looked at the sleeping boy that was in a bed that was slightly too big for him.
It had been a couple of days since the attack and Naruto had been in a deep sleep since. Neither the human doctors or the Digimon ones knew what was the cause. The doctors had come up with the theory that this was a similar case of chakra exhaustion as he showed the same signs like it. This did not stop everyone from visiting him each day.
Kasumi shook her head at what Ino said "I'm sure that he will act like it was nothing when he wakes up."
Menma crossed his arms as he glared at his brother "well he better wake up soon so I can beat him back into a coma for doing something this stupid AGAIN!"
Terriermon, who was on the bed lifted his ear at Menma "Momentai Menma. He did what he thought was the best way to deal with this."
Tai folded his arms as he sighed "still he put himself in danger when he didn't have to. We were lucky that Agumon digivolved into Greymon to deal with Parrotmon." he looked towards Koromon who was at the edge of the bed.
Matt nodded as he looked to the younger boy "by the way, he looks like he is a toy display set."
What Matt was referring to was the fact that all the Digimon were surrounding Naruto on the bed as if he was buried in stuffed animals.
Kiba was laughing at the sight "anyone got a camera I can use? There is no way he would be able to live this down."
Sasuke smirked "I'm pretty sure you could sell the pic to his Fanclub. Even after we graduated they still chase us on occasion."
Sora put her hands on her hips as she looked at him "that's what happens when you are the popular kid of your class."
"Hn it's not like we tried to become popular."
Kasumi couldn't help but sigh "we just tried to become stronger but it seems that everyone just took it as a sign that we should be praised and fawned over."
Lee pumped his fist in the air "it just shows how brightly your flames of youth burns!"
Tenten sighed as she pulled on Lee's ear "Lee we are in a hospital. Try not to cause problems for us."
Falcomon, who was on Neji's shoulder, shook his head "indeed. There are many Digimon that were injured during the attack and are here trying to recover. Let them sleep without your prattle on youth"
Renamon, who was leaning against the wall had a sad look on her face as she thought to herself. 'They sent him here. They found a way to make it here but why. For so long we have lived here in this world and only now do they send someone through.' she looked to Naruto as he slept peacefully. 'Why does he have to have this burden thrust on him?' she knew that she was being a little selfish right now as she knew about Menma and Kasumi's burden as well but right now the one that was dealing with the consequences was her prince.
Kari had been sitting in a chair and talking with the rest of the DigiDestined as they talked about what had happened during the first day of the Chunin exams. After a few minutes, she suddenly stopped paying attention to the conversation as she heard something. Looking around to see where she heard this, suddenly felt this pull on her mind and soul. She clutched her chest as she began to emit a bright light that caught the attention of everyone in the room
"KARI!"
Suddenly the light became too bright and everyone had to cover their eyes. Once they could, they looked over to the girl as she walked over to stand beside the bed Naruto rested on. Kari's body was emitting a faint light that gave off a warm feeling.
For some unknown reason, the Digimon all moved back to their partners with the only ones that remained with Naruto were Mikemon, Meicoomon, Lunamon, Ranamon, and Renamon.
Kari turned to face the DigiDestined, with a face that showed little to no emotion and began to speak "it is a pleasure to finally be able to speak with you all. Although I wish it was under better circumstances."
Tai had noticed that although it sounded like Kari, there was another more mature voice speaking over it "who are you?! and what did you do to my sister?!"
Kari lifted up her had as to stop any acts of aggression "I mean you no harm and have done nothing to Kari that would cause any injury. As to who I am…..you could say that I am the spirit of the Digital World itself."
All the Digimon were somewhat shocked at this but some of them were a bit disbelieving.
Terriermon stepped forward and raised his ears in indignation "what do you mean you are the 'spirit of the Digital World'? I've never heard of someone being called that."
Kari smiled as she knelt down and patted Terriermon on his head "I am sure that you have not as I have never appeared in front of any Digimon. I am as old as the Catalyst itself."
Renamon pushed off the wall and moved to stand in between Kari and Naruto. She knew that it was Kari's body but Renamon was not going to take any chances after what had happened "what do you mean you are as old as the Catalyst? What are you?!"
Kari smiled as she could see the protectiveness Renamon had for who she could consider a brother "as you well know that the catalyst has been in the digital world for a long period of time but what no Digimon knows is that both the Catalyst and I had existed before the Digital world came to creation."
This shocked everyone even more. No one knew what to say to a revelation like that.
"Before any of you were created, both he and I merely were. We had no concept of time, space or being. We knew just of each other, while not know each other at all. Over time we began to communicate. Not with words but with feelings. We first experimented on what we could feel, what could be portrayed and what could be made. Soon in one of our moments, we created something. We were unaware of what it was but soon, we made more and more. It was after some time that we found that we were crating data and forming it into its basic form. What you see as ones and zeros. I had learned that it was a separate process I would create the data and he would shape it into a new form. After a century of doing this, we had created the world itself and although it was barren, we were happy about it. We spent the rest of our time filling it with trees, oceans, mountains, and air. Unfortunately due to our naivety, we had not realized that through the creation of all this I slowly began to fade from that plane of existence. We had finished making the world but soon found it lacking as everything we created had no sense of self. We wanted something to enjoy our beautiful creation, to be a part of it and so we made the first Digimon."
The Digimon had fallen back and sat down either on chairs or the floor as they continued to listen.
"The first that we made became what you Digimon called Sovereigns but they were not the last we made. We made more and more. Each being different from the last and soon the world was filled with different kinds of Digimon. Sadly when we were finished I had completely faded and left him alone. I had become part of the very world we created and have watched over all the Digimon since then. He had no idea as to what had happened to me and he did not understand the thought of 'lose' so he continued as he was. Over time he learned the feeling of yearning. He had watched the Digimon interact with each other, smile, play, and love each other. He yearned to be a part of it and so he began to use his own power to become that which he had created. He became a Digimon himself. He became Calumon."
Kiba broke everyone's silence when he waved his hands in the air and gestured "wait! Are you telling me that you and this Calumon were the KAMIs of their world!"
Kari shook her head "we merely began the start of the world. We never thought about being a being of higher status. We just started their world and let it become what it had become. During his transition into Calumon, he gained a personality. He became that of a playful child and his power had become more attached to the Digimon. It had become what is now known as Digivolution."
"Prodigious"
Tai uncrossed his arms and looked concerned "ok that explains what you are but how did you get here and why did you take over Kari's body? Couldn't you have taken over Joe's instead"
This got a chuckle from some of the rookies a "hey!" from Joe and some disapproving looks from the female Digidestined.
"I had to take Kari, she was the only one I was able to communicate with. The digital world is no longer the beautiful world that we created and when the Digimon had chosen to escape to another world that had found a connection to ours I had chosen to go with them by storing myself into Kari's Digivice."
Shikamaru sighed as he put his hands in his pockets "troublesome. You are the reason that Kari can sense where Naruto is all the time since you have a connection with the power he wields." seeing Kari nod he continued with his theory "and you showed up now because you know something about that big bird Digimon that was sent to get Naruto."
The humans in the room looked to Shikamaru in surprise while the Digimon drooped a bit as they knew about this.
"I noticed that while we were trying to stop the thing, it only ever focused on Naruto's location. I would have thought that he was after you two but the reaction from all the Digimon here when you told them what you were tells me that most likely Parotmon didn't know either. So the only other one with a connection to the Digimon would be Naruto with that digivolving power he has.
"Yes. That Parrotmon was sent from the digital world in order to retrieve him. The ones that had caused the Digimon to come to this world, want the power he wields….."
"It doesn't matter!"
Everyone was startled at the outburst and they looked to the one that yelled it. It was Renamon
"We came to this world to get away from them. Naruto should not have to worry about our problem! I'll make sure that he won't have to deal with them!"
Many of the Digimon felt the same way as her but a few of them felt that it wouldn't matter what they try. They will keep sending Digimon after Naruto and they made a silent personal vow that they would protect him form what they send.
Kari smiled at the conviction that she could see in the Digimon's eyes. She walked up to stand next to Naruto and she reached out and placed a finger on the Zero Unit on his forehead. The symbol pulsed a bit before she ran her hand through his hair "I thank you for your dedication in protecting him. I had watched Calumon's life in the digital world and was very saddened when I knew of his coming deletion. I am happy though, knowing that my other half, continues to live within this boy." she turned to face everyone and speak to them all but with her gaze solely on Renamon "I ask that you continue to protect him in my stead."
Everyone nodded at this and even if she did not look behind her, she knew that the Digimon that stayed with Naruto also agreed with this.
"When the time comes, I will give you my aid as best I can." the light began to fade and she started to wobble on her feet.
Before she fell to the ground, Tai was able to catch her and bring her to lay on the second bed on the other side of the room.
T.K grabbed his digivice as he looked at it 'why do I have a bad feeling about what we just heard'
~Meanwhile~
Minato was standing in front of his house, staring at it as he was about to do the hardest thing he ever thought he would do. He wanted to go inside and get it over with but his feet wouldn't move because he felt that if he could avoid it, he would be able to postpone it. At the very moment he hated being Hokage, he hated the decisions he had to make and more than anything….he hated himself for doing this. He finally moved his feet ever so slowly to the front door and for once he was not happy to be home.
Kushina was in the kitchen making lunch for everyone that was in the hospital visiting her son. She was worried about her son but after Tsunade and a Digimon doctor had examined him, they said that he was just out of energy from both chakra and his digital energy. She wanted to stay with him but she knew that he would be alright since all of her children's friends were there. She heard the front door open and she poked her head out of the kitchen to see it was Minato. With a smile, she came out and greeted him "Minato! Welcome home I was just about to finish making lunch for everyone and then I was about to go see how Naru-kun is doing…" her smile dropped when she saw the look on his face. "Minato? What's wrong?"
Minato was using all his willpower to not look away from his wife's eyes. He clenched his fists and took a deep breath "I came back from a meeting with the council."
Kushina didn't like the dead tone he was using. Her instincts were screaming at her to not ask what the meeting was about. Her heart was telling her that she should go back and finish the food for the kids. Her mind was telling her that she should act like everything was normal. "...What was it about?" she didn't know what compelled her to ask that and she knew that she would hate the part of her that made her ask
Minato took a deep breath and spoke words that would be the death of his soul "it has been decided that Naruto Namikaze Uzumaki….is to be banished from the village for its safety."
Kushina looked at him in horror at what he had just said. She heard what he had said and her mind was trying to find a second meaning to what he had said…..but it came up with nothing. "Wha…..What do you mean Minato!" he slowly grasped his cloak gently "why are you saying this?" her grasp became more aggressive and she gripped his collar with both hands and her tone slowly grew into anger "why are you banishing my baby when he did nothing wrong….!? Why is my Naru-Kun beING PUNISHED WHEN HE HAD SAVED THIS VILLAGE FROM THE THREAT! TELL ME MINATO! TELL ME!"
Minato did nothing but stare into her eyes but on the inside, he felt like he was dying
Kushina was glaring at Minato and hated the fact that he said nothing "it's that damn council! If they think they can do this to my baby than I'm going to bury them!" she let go of Minato and walked passed him towards the door
"It's an order from the Daimyo!"
Kushina paused as she heard this and stared at the door
Minato didn't turn to face her "most of the council was against this but the final verdict was from the Daimyo himself and he gave this order…."
~flashback~
Minato was in the council room as he, the clan heads, the elders, Leomon, the Mizukage, Kazekage, the fire daimyo, and the wind daimyo were discussing what had happened the first day of the Chunin exams. He was listening to the reports that the clan heads were giving about the damage that was done to their compounds as well as the surrounding area.
Hiashi gave his report and was fortunate in not having that much damage done to his compound as well as having very little clansman injured.
After that report Danzo chose to speak up "now that we have gone over the damage reports, we must discuss the cause of this unannounced attack."
The clan heads, Minato and even Leomon glared at the man as they felt that he was up to something.
Koharu who was standing at Minato's left nodded "yes. We must know why we were attacked during the time we should be at peace with the other villages."
Shikaku leaned on his arms as he looked at the elders "well we can't really interrogate the creature since it was destroyed completely." He tried to keep the fact that it was a Digimon to himself to see if they could steer the conversation away from them. He didn't trust Danzo and he knew that the man had some interest in them since they arrived. He didn't know how far the man would go and he and the rest of the clan heads really didn't want to know.
Danzo nodded but spoke up still "nevertheless, we must know why it had attacked. Form my sources have told me that the creature was in search of something…."
Sarutobi looked at Danzo with an accusing look "and what would it be searching for? And how would you know about this?"
Danzo shook his head "I have my sources but that doesn't matter…."
This caught everyone, except the daimyo and the other kages, attention. There were little to no shinobi close enough to notice it looking for something. The jonin that were aiming to get close to it were blown away before they could get close to it. They should be the only ones that know about this since their own kids were the ones that were lucky enough to get to it and attack.
Leomon was eyeing the man with great suspicion. He trusted his instincts and they were telling him that this man should not be trusted. He knew why Parrotmon was here, in fact, all the Digimon that lived in this world would know why. 'They have found a way to this world and sent Parrotmon to retrieve him. It would seem our peace has come to an end'
Danzo continued speaking "my sources have told me that during its attack, young Naruto Namikaze was found on the battlefield. Once the large Digimon noticed him, it changed its tactics from causing damage to retrieval. It made its way towards him without attacking him. This makes me believe that the boy was its target from the start."
Inoichi spoke up next "yes but now the creature is gone and won't show up again."
"I doubt that it will be the last one sent. It appeared out of the air, just above the village. We had no chance of preparing for a counter-attack. What if another creature comes again. The size and power of it was comparable to the summons of the sannin. We don't know what the next one will look like and we won't be able to create appropriate countermeasures."
The fire Daimyo frowned at this "that is a very concerning thought."
The wind daimyo shook his head "it sounds like you are insinuating the boy being the one to call these dangerous creatures to him."
Danzo nodded "that is indeed what he is doing."
Rasa spoke up after Danzo "he is merely a boy, I doubt he is the reason for this attack."
"Than why is it that when the Digimon saw him it spoke and stated that he had found what he was looking for."
Minato was not liking where this conversation was going "Danzo you are pushing towards something and right now what you are insinuating will come back to harm you so please stop making accusations as if my son is attacking the village himself."
Danzo slammed his cane into the ground as to show the gravity of what he had to say "we cannot allow a beacon for spontaneous attacks from such dangerous creatures to stay here."
Minato stood up from his seat and slammed his hands on the table "you wish for me to send my own son out of the village!" he unleashed a certain amount of KI that caused some of the seasoned ninjas began to feel nervous.
Danzo was not intimidated at the display "he is a beacon for more of those monsters to come attack us!" he looked to the fire daimyo and spoke while making eye contact "this single attack had caused immense damage and many citizens to be injured or dead. We cannot have such a dangerous being to remain in this village."
Mei who kept quiet was the next to speak "although I can see where you are coming from, you are asking to send out a boy out in the world on his own for something that he was not the direct cause of. This may have been an unwarranted attack but this is no different from another village attacking with no provocation. This is far too cruel no matter how you see it."
Tsume leaned forward "this is more like a personal strike against the Hokage since you are sending one of his pups out. I don't see any benefit in doing this."
Chozo crossed his arms as he nodded "I am against this."
Shibi put in his two cents "although I see the logic in what you are saying, it is illogical for such extremes."
Mikoto, who was the tempory head until Itachi accepted the position glared at Danzo "there is no real reason for sending the boy out! Not only that, this would cause major issues with the Digimon population. They practically worship the boy! If you send him out then the population of this village will drop as they will most likely go with him and all the possible advancements that they are coming up with will go with them!"
Danzo did not move his gaze from the daimyo as he spoke: "there would be no advancements if the village is burned to the ground."
The Fire daimyo then took his gaze off Danzo as he spoke in a neutral tone "I have to agree with Danzo. If these monsters are attracted to this boy and these attacks will continue, then it would be unwise for him to remain in this village."
Minato looked at him in horror "Daimo please there such a thing does not need to be done. We can come up with measures that protect us from these attacks!"
"Ths is no longer up for debate Minato. As daimyo, I must think of the well being of all the people in my territory. You should be in the same mindset for those in the village. Sacrificing one for the many is the best course of action."
Minato was internally panicking 'don't say it. Don't say it!'
"As Daimyo, I hereby order that Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze be removed from the leaf village as soon as possible."
The clan heads and Sarutobi were looking at their Hokage and saw the look of utter defeat and horror at what was just said
Leomon was furious at what was just decided. He was glaring at Danzo, who was looking at Minato, and wanted nothing more than to pull out his blade and cut the man down. His ire and suspicion grew when he saw that Danzo had a small victorious smirk on his face. 'He is up to something. If he is so keen on harming our prince than I will personally put him down.'
~End Flashback~
Minato had finished telling Kushina what had happened. They had remained in their position with Kushina facing the door and Minato facing the inside of the house.
Kushina had tears in her eyes since she knew that if the daimyo had given an order then even the Hokage has to follow it. She fell to her knees as she no longer had the strength to stand "why my baby….why does this have to happy to Naru-Kun. What did he do for them to do this to him *sob*"
Minato could not face her. He had no right to as he was given no choice but to break his family apart. He could no longer hold the tears back and let them fall the side of his face. 'I don't have the right to call myself his father if I have to banish him from his home.
~Root~
Danzo was standing in front of a squad of his root agents "when that boy leaves this village I want him captured as soon as possible. Without the protection of the Anbu, he shall be far easier to capture. I want him in my grasp, failure is not an option!" he saw that they all nodded before vanishing away. He turned to walk back to his desk "you have no chance at winning this Minato. If you choose to ignore this order then you lose faith in doing what must be done and I can take the seat of Hokage and if you follow the order than I get the boy who has control over all those interesting creatures. To make these small creatures turn into monsters the size of summons. I must have this power and now I finally have my chance." he sat at his desk as he smiled "I no longer need the snake to kill Minato. I will still get what I want."
End of chapter
Soooo yeah I did this. I hate myself for this but I have to. I had to think of what a political decision would be and this came to be
No, I can't kill Danzo so easily…..well I can but then it would seem so random and cause the story to just become dumb in my eyes…...still hate the man though
Now you guys know what the connection is between Kari and Naruto. I tried to think about what the spirit was that took over Kari's body and there was nothing that gave it a purpose or designation so I gave it one. A sibling of sorts to Calumon or rather the power that Calumon had which was passed to Naruto. I think that it makes sense in a weird sort of way and I hope you guys can accept it and not say that it was stupid or something.
PS I have a workaround for all this so please don't hate me and be patient to see what happens next time. I assure you I am not going to make Naruto suffer. this Naruto doesn't deserve that
Now I have two things to ask you guys
1. Who should go with Naruto? The Digimon are a given but I feel like there are some people that would go with him.
2. What should be the next Digimon that is sent after Naruto? Champion levels only please, no Ultimates. I just chose Parrotmon because I really like the scene of Greymon in the movie
Speaking of which the Greymon that Agumon turned into is called Red Greymon which, I don't know, a variant of Greymon. Although he kinda looks like Greymon from the Tri movies (which I haven't watched completely). But that's just to let you know about it.
KakeruPB: the reason for Naruto not Digivolving any other Digimon was because it drains him of energy. At the moment he could barely digivolve two Digimon to champions. Also, it might not have been clear in the previous chapter (sorry) but I had the Digimon lower than champion to run off to the shelters as well so Naruto didn't have anyone that could help
DanielKeany: glad you liked my story and yeah, the other fics have Naruto turn into Digimon or half (which I still love cause they are still good :P) so I made a change to it. I didn't make him a Digimon but I gave him abilities that help. My own spin on it, which is what I try to do with all my stories :P
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