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The Hybrid Tamer
-Chapter 14-
-Last Time-
"That's probably Naruto now." Renamon stated while sipping at her OJ as the elderly woman left to answer the phone.
"Yeah right, that idiot barely knows how to turn the TV on, let alone operate a phone." Rika said while plopping her now empty glass down.
"Twenty bucks says otherwise."
"You don't even have twenty bucks."
"I will when I win."
"Oh that's it, you're on."
…
"YOU WERE WHAT!?"
"Dang it," Rika groaned while pulling out her wallet.
-And Now-
[Stay right where you are Naruto! I'll be right over!] Seiko said over Tally's cell before the call ended, making Naruto sigh. Sinking into the couch he was on inside Riley's apartment, a moderately sized place with a large living room a door-less entryway into a spotless kitchen to the right and a short hallway at the back, he handed the device back to it's rightful owner while softly rubbing one of his still ringing ears.
"Man, for such an elderly lady she really has a set of lungs on her." Riley said with a chuckle, having heard the entire conversation since Naruto had to put the phone on speaker. Just one of the downsides of having your ears on top of your head instead of the side.
"No kidding." Naruto muttered before he pushed himself onto his feet with a hiss. "Where's the bathroom? I really need to wash u-OI!" An indignant shout escaped the blonde's lips as Riley immediately grabbed him by the armpits and hoisted him up.
"What part of no walking around do you not understand?" The woman demanded sternly as she held up the boy at eye level. "
"Oh come on, I'm fine Riley-chan." Naruto grumbled with a huff.
"You're missing a chunk of bone in your leg. Not to mention the numerous deep tissue incisions done to just about every inch of your body." Riley stated in a dull tone. "Even with your ridiculous healing it's going to take a day or two for you to recover. Until then, you need to stay off your feet. If you need to go somewhere, me or Tally will help you. Got it?"
As she spoke, Riley brought Naruto closer until their faces were only a few inches apart and stared at him straight in the eye intensely. Unfortunately for her, she was dealing with Naruto, number one stubborn knucklehead, and he easily held her gaze.
At least, he was until she pulled out a woman/child's number one trump card, the dreaded puppy dog eyes. Sniffling softly, her lips curled into an adorable pout and her eyes started to water slightly.
'Damn it… must resist,' Naruto thought, his eyebrow starting to twitch as he continued the staring match. However, not even a second later his will broke as Tally nervously peeked over Riley's shoulder, unknowingly raising the moe factor to eleven in the process. "Alright! I give! I give! Just stop looking at me like that!"
"Good boy," Riley said with a smirk of victory, before adjusting Naruto into a bridal carry as she walked towards the hallway. "Now, let's go take a bath together."
"Fine, that's what I was going to…" Naruto started to say before trailing off as his brain fully processed what the lady holding him said. "Hold on, did you just say together?!"
"Yep, you need someone to make sure your injuries are cleaned properly. Besides, I need to clean up anyway, I'm all smelly from last night." Riley said with a casual shrug as they entered the bathroom, a spacious room with a sparkling clean toilet, sink, and an expensive looking three-seat jacuzzi tub.
"Alright, fair e-enough." Naruto said, stuttering slightly near the end as his face gained a light blush while his eyes darted around nervously.
Noticing this, Riley couldn't help but raise an eyebrow in curiosity as she set him down on the toilet seat and started preparing the bath. 'There it is again. He's acting so fearful.' Most would just think that Naruto was just embarrassed or nervous, but after working with Tally for so long Riley could easily spot the difference.
He was tense, but in a jittery way instead of wobbly and his eyes would flicker from her feet to her fists, completely ignoring her bust and rear, then towards the doorway in a clear sign of wanting to escape. Mulling over this for a bit as she added some medicinal bath salts that helped prevent infections to the water, Riley could only come up with one answer for this reaction.
'Mild Gynophobia?' She thought, testing her theory by getting overly close to Naruto while grabbing a few shower poofs that were hanging nearby. As she expected, he flinched minutely to the side away from her outreached arm the moment it got within a foot of his position. 'That's a definite yes, he must've had a few bad experiences with women in the past.'
Pulling the limb back with poofs in hand, she quickly backed off and went back to tending to the bath. After a few more minutes, the tub finished filling up and Riley turned the tub from fill to circulate. In that time, Naruto had managed to relax a bit and was just finishing stripping down to his boxers.
Staring at the bandaging around his forearm and wrist, he dragged one of his claw-like nails across it, easily slicing through the fabric to reveal the multiple incision and/or bald spots covering the limb. Repeating the process with the rest of the bandages revealed identical sights on his chest, waist, legs, and tail, the worst being the stitched section of his leg where the bone piece had been removed.
Thankfully, while it wasn't a pretty sight his regeneration had already fixed up the open wounds enough that only the tiniest trickle of blood oozed from a few of them while the rest had stopped entirely. Finally, with no small amount of reluctance he pulled off his underwear and quickly wrapped a towel around his waist to cover himself. "Okay kid, the waters ready."
"Stop calling me kid. My name's Naruto-Ttebayo." Naruto said in annoyance as he glared at Riley in annoyance… only to quickly look away again with an atomic blush when he saw the woman completely nude before she covered herself with a towel.
"Aww, you got yourself a verbal tic, heh? Isn't that cute." Riley said teasingly as she playfully pinched Naruto's cheek, making Naruto sputter in embarrassment. However, he was quickly snapped out of it when her hands tucked under his armpits, lifted him up again, and carefully set him into the closest seat in the tub, which was a bit tricky thanks to his tail.
A hiss escaped the boy's lips as the hot and slightly salty water seeped into his various cuts and contusions. After this wore off though, he sighed in relaxation as the microjets kicked on and started massaging his back with small blasts of water.
"Oh… my… Kami… this feels amazing." He moaned while sinking deeper, his tail peeking out of the water slightly as it happily wagged back and forth.
"Yeah, well for 300,000 yen (2,724 USD), it had better or I'd want a refund." Riley said with a sigh of her own as she got into her own seat.
-Meanwhile, At the Nonaka Residence-
Rika grumbled in annoyance as she sat on the couch and watched some cheesy drama show that she already forgot the name of. Renamon was seated beside her, who despite her seemingly calm appearance was equally irritated as she read a book. Seiko and Rumiko were nowhere to be seen, the former already on her way to go pick up Naruto and the latter had gone into her room with the phone saying she had to check on something.
The reason for the pair's foul moods was for two reasons, the first being that Seiko had banned either of them from leaving the house until further notice. This meant no going to the store for new cards, no patrolling for digimon to fight, hell they couldn't even go in the back yard. Though on the plus side, Rika had a legit reason to skip school and not get in trouble.
As annoying as this was though, the elderly woman's reasoning for this was undeniably understandable, and also the second cause for the two females' unease. A government sect was going around hunting, experimenting on, and destroying digimon and anything related to them, with Naruto being their latest victim.
This was particularly disturbing for Renamon since, no matter how much she didn't want to admit it, Naruto was a better and stronger fighter than she was… currently. If this group was able to defeat and capture someone of his caliber so easily, then there was little doubt in her mind that they could do the same with her.
Shaking her head to clear it of those thoughts, the fox digimon idly flipped the page of her book with a bored sigh when the sound of knocking reached her and Rika's ears. Perking up slightly in wariness and curiosity, the pair glanced at each-other in silent debate before standing up as the knocking repeated.
Following the sound to the front door, Rika got her digivice and several cards ready as she got closer while Renamon slunk behind her in a defensive stance. Once she was close enough, the redhead peeked through the peephole cautiously, ready for anything…
"Hellooo? Is anybody home?" …except seeing a brunette girl her age with a dog puppet covering one arm and a slip of paper in her free hand. "Fluffy-kun?" Jeri called out nervously while knocking a third time.
Raising her eyebrow in confusion, Rika was about to turn around and ignore the girl when she was suddenly brushed aside by Renamon. "Hey, what's the big idea?" She demanded in a harsh whisper as the blonde fox as she looked out the peephole.
"I know her." Renamon said, swiftly opening the door and pulling Jeri in before she could blink, getting the girl to give a startled yelp that was cut off by the digimon's other hand clapping over her mouth.
"You're the girl that Naruto saved last night from the idiot and his newborn digimon." She stated plainly, pushing the door shut with her tail before setting Jeri down and uncovering her mouth. "I'm assuming you're here to see him again."
Jeri didn't respond right away, opting to stand completely still from shock as she stared at Renamon. After a few seconds passed though, her surprise wore off and she blinked a few times to focus before smiling brightly. "Yep, Fluffy-kun said I could come by and see him whenever I wanted. Are you friends of his as well?"
"Roommate and acquaintances, friend is stretching it." Renamon said matter-of-factly while turning around and heading back to the living room. "Naruto isn't here right now but he should be back soon. You're welcome to stay and wait for him if you want."
"Thanks, it's a long walk home." Jeri said as she followed after the digital fox, leaving a deadpanning Rika standing in the hallway.
"Yeah, sure, just come on in. It's not like this is my house or something." She muttered sarcastically as she left the entryway as well. Going back to the living room, the redhead flopped back into her seat with a grunt and went back to watching… whatever the hell this show was in boredom.
Renamon was reading her book once more but was now seated in a recliner off to the side since Jeri was seated in her original spot. Said girl was trying to focus on the show as well, but her eyes refused to stay on the screen and would consistently wander over to the fox digimon. "Sooo, are you and Fluffy-kun related or something?" She asked, trying to strike up a conversation.
"No." Wasn't going to be easy though if Renamon's brisk answer had anything to say though.
"Really? But you and Fluffy-kun have so many similar features." Jeri murmured with a tilted head.
"It's complicated."
"How-"
"Why the heck do you keep calling Naruto Fluffy-kun?" Rika cut in, the question nagging at her a bit.
"Oh that, well it's just what I'm used to calling him when he was pretending to be my teacher's pet fox." Jeri said sheepishly, earning a dull look from the redhead Tamer.
"…I'm not going to ask."
Turning her attention back to Renamon, Jeri glanced at the book in the digital fox's hands curiously. It had a bright orange cover with the title 'Icha Icha Paradise' was blazoned over the entire top half while the bottom had the depiction of a generic looking man and an equally generic looking woman running with wide smiles. "What're you reading?"
"That's a good question," Rika added as her head turned towards a bookshelf in the corner that was full. "That's not one of grandma's books."
"Naruto gave it to me. He got it in one of his letters from home and asked me to get rid of it." Renamon stated while turning the page. "It's a romance novel, though a very unusual one, I find it rather intriguing."
"Please, you can't actually be enjoying that kinda junk, right?" Rika asked disbelievingly, only to sweatdrop as Jeri got behind Renamon and started reading over her shoulder. Her disbelief swiftly turned to surprise and confusion though when the brunette's face almost immediately turned a vibrant shade of red.
Her curiosity peaked now, the redhead got up and moved over to the pair and started reading herself. Barely even a second later and she was doing a perfect imitation of a tomato, her eyes widening to the max as her brain registered the words and images on the paper.
"I had no idea that human reproduction was such a complex affair." Renamon's comment was the last straw, in near perfect sync blood flew from both Rika and Jeri's noses as they fell to the floor in a dead faint.
A few minutes later, Rika's mother walked into the room, having just finished talking to her doppelganger to make sure it and the Naruko clone were doing alright. Satisfied they were good, she'd decided that now was a good opportunity to spend some more quality time with her daughter.
Instead, she found said daughter passed out alongside an unknown girl, both red-faced and trickles of blood flowing from their noses. All the while, Renamon sat in the recliner, reading her book like everything was fine.
"…Do I even want to know?"
"Probably not."
-Back with Naruto-
"I'll admit, that was one of the best baths I've ever had." A now clean, rebandaged, and fully dressed Naruto said as he was carried out of the bathroom by Riley and set back onto the couch. "But I still say the whole carrying me around thing is stupid."
"Objection noted and ignored." Riley retorted as she flopped down next to Tally. "Now get ready, if my calculations are right then your ride you should be here right about-"
*Bang* *Bang* *Bang*
"…now. Tally, could you get that please?"
The meek woman nodded before standing up and hurrying over to the door as it rattled under the heavy knocking. Opening it, Tally was almost bowled over as Seiko rushed past her and after a brief look around headed straight for our whiskered protagonist. "Naruto!"
"Hey Seiko-baachan, good to see you too." Naruto said with an exasperated chuckle as the elderly woman checked him over thoroughly.
"You just can't go more than one day without seriously injuring yourself, can you?" Seiko asked rhetorically as she fiddled with the bandaging around his chest a bit before backing off. "What is this, the eight time this month?"
"It's not my fault… this time, I was just minding my own business when those jerks jumped me." Naruto said with an indignant huff.
Rolling her eyes at this, Seiko turned to the two other occupants in the room and bowed. "Thank you for helping him, it's much appreciated. I haven't known Naruto long, but I can definitely say that he's grown on me, even if he's giant trouble magnet."
"OI!"
"It was no problem Seiko-san, it was no problem." Tally said quietly while Riley chuckled at Naruto's reaction.
"Just make sure he stays off his legs for at least a day," Riley told the woman, ignoring Naruto's pointed glare. "That's how long we estimate it should take for his femur to regenerate."
"Thanks for the heads-up, I'll make sure that he does." Seiko said with a nod as she straightened up. "Naruto, disguise yourself, we're heading out."
"Hai baa-chan." Naruto said with a mock salute before he made a ram sign and his body was enveloped in a puff of smoke. When it cleared, he was revealed to be in his fox form that Seiko quickly scooped him up into her arms.
"Once again, thank you both." She said while bowing to Riley and Tally again. "What will you two do now? I doubt that your bosses are going to be very happy with what you did?"
"Don't worry, we made sure that nothing could be tracked back to us." Riley said while smirking evilly.
-Hypnos Building-
"Hey! Let go of me! I haven't done anything!" A lanky man with greasy brown hair and a dirty blue janitor uniform was dragged off in cuffs by a pair of police officers.
"Sure you didn't, the stolen items that were stolen during the power outage just happened to magically appear in your office." Another cop said sarcastically, carrying a large cardboard box filled with women's undergarments and personal items in his arms.
"I honestly don't know how those got there! I'm innocent I tell you!"
"Yeah, yeah, that's what they all say. Now come on you pervert."
Mitsou watched all of this happen from his office window with a blank expression on his face, before turning to the computer that sat on his desk. On the screen of this computer, two different videos played. The first was of Riley as she broke out Anomaly after knocking out his executioner, and the second was of her and Tally driving off.
Unknown to anyone but him was that there were three different sets of cameras inside the Hypnos building. There is the primary set that were plain for everyone to see, the discreet set which were only known to the higher ups such as himself and Riley, and a secret set that he had installed himself that had their own power source and were only linked to his computer.
Watching the surveillance video play once more, the sunglasses wearing man sighed in irritation. 'You owe me for this Riley.' He thought while clicking the 'delete all' button with the mouse.
-End Chapter-
-Omake: Anko's Mission: Operation Fanhunt-
It was late at in Konohagakure, with the full moon shining brightly over the village, alighting the entire place with a soft silver glow. It also helped a large group of girls of various ages between twelve and sixteen see as they gradually awoke on the cold hard earth of a large fenced-in field littered with sparse vegetation.
"AHH! Where am!?"
"What the hell?"
"This isn't my bedroom!"
Multiple other cries of shock, fear, and indignation rang out as the girls started to become aware of their surroundings. Just as quickly as it started though, the shouting stopped as a single figure seemingly fell from the sky and landed in the middle of them all with a torch in hand.
Said figure was a woman with light purple hair done up in a spiky ponytail and brown pupil-less eyes wearing a long tan open trench coat with fishnet mesh armor underneath and brown shorts that did nothing to hide her figure. This was one Anko Mitarashi, one of the head torturers of the I&T division and the second scariest woman in Konoha.
She is also Naruto Uzumaki's greatest competitor for the title of Prankster from Hell who referred to her affectionately as 'The Terrifying Snake Lady'.
"Hello ladies, glad to see you're all awake." Anko said with a wide grin that sent shivers down all their spines, especially the ones who knew the woman already. "I'm sorry if your accommodations aren't up to par, but I only had so much time to prepare and budgeting can be a real bitch."
"Who the fuck do you think you are!?" A short girl with similarly colored hair demanded as she pushed past the crowd until she was right in front of the woman. "Do you have any idea who I am? I am Ami Tori! My father is in the council! When he gets word of this, he'll have you are-Heark!"
The girl was cut off mid-sentence when Anko's free hand shot and grasped her by the throat and lifted her up to eye-level. "I don't care if who daddy is, not even if he was the fucking daimyo of the land fire." The purplette said coldly before tossing the girl back into the crowd.
"As of this moment on, all of you here are my little play things, and you will remain as such until you break, or I get bored, whichever comes first." Anko said, getting many terrified looks at the words 'until you break'. "Now, how about we start with my favorite game?"
"A-and w-w-what would t-that be?" One of the braver girls managed to ask.
"Oh, it's really simply and fun. And it only has one rule…" Anko said as a sadistic grin formed on her lips and the torch in her hand suddenly went out just as clouds obscured the moon, bathing the entire area in darkness. "…don't die."
-Hokage's office-
"EEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Ah, music to the ears," Tsunade said with a smirk as she sipped at a saucer of sake.
-End Omake-
AN: Sorry for the filler chapter and I hope the Omake made up for it. As i stated in chapter 9, it really amazes me that Naruto doesn't have gynophobia in canon, I mean seriously, more than one time Sakura has pummeled him just because she was mad at something and wanted to blow off steam. Don't believe me, look up Sakura punches Naruto on youtube and you'll see what I mean. Thank you for reading and please review
