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Like I wrote last time, Naruto ISN'T a hanyou. No long life span, little control over Kyuubi's chakra, and no extreme healing ability, only what Kyuubi's chakra gives him.

The group of children and digimon stood on the beach, sadness still on their faces over the death of Whamon as the digital ocean disappeared. Koromon voiced the thoughts of everyone, "Spiral Mountain's ocean is returning to normal!"

"Why?" asked Takeru.

"It must be because we beat Metalseadramon who ruled over its domain!" said Gomamon

Koushiro replied, "So the power of darkness controlling it has disappeared!"

"Our victory got rid of the darkness in this world!" said Taichi

"Then let's keep up this pace and defeat the rest of the Dark Masters!" said Jyou

Tailmon then said, "That way, peace will return to Earth!"

Taichi raised one fist from holding Koromon, "All right, let's go!"

Half the group raised one arm giving a cheer. But before they could leave, Mimi said, "Wait!" The entire turned to see Mimi and Palmon patting mound of dirt with crosses in each of the four mounds.

Taichi looked at the mounds asking, "What are you doing?"

Yamato turned from Mimi to Taichi with a frustrated look on his face, "Can't you tell? They're making graves."

Taichi asked again, "Graves?"

Mimi finished with the cross, pointing to the grave farthest to the back of the mounds then pointing to the others as she spoke, "There's Whamon's grave. That one's Piccolomon's. That one's Chuumon's. And this one is for Wizarmon." Mimi finished, putting both her hands on the last grave.

Sora walked next to Mimi, resting her hands on her knees while bending over Mimi, "All of them were killed trying to protect us."

Tailmon held her head in a downcast as she spoke, "They all died. You could even say there were sacrifices to our cause."

Taichi took a step forward, fist in the air with a determined look on his face, "We have to work harder for their sakes, too! The enemy needs to go down at all costs!"

"NO!" Everyone turned to see Naruto glaring at Taichi with a stare so intense it could melt ice. Taichi backed away nervously from Naruto who was clenching his fist so it looked like his gloves would rip, "I never want to hear that again! No cause with worth the life of someone close to you!"

Taichi took a step toward Naruto, as if trying to reason with him, "But we need to stop to Dark Masters to save the world!"

Naruto stomped forward, swinging one arm out as his eyes turn red, "What good is that world if everyone you care for is gone!" At this point, everyone that was standing took a step back, seeing Naruto's anger explode.

Taichi quickly composed himself, stepping forward so he was right in front of Naruto, "What are you talking about? We can avenge their deaths by defeating the enemy!"

Naruto: "And what if avenging means losing Agumon, Hikari-chan, or anyone else of this group!? Did you think about that!?"

Taichi took a step back in surprise at Naruto's response as Mimi suddenly shouted, "No! I don't want anymore of our friends to die!" She lifted her hands of the grave, staring into her palms, "Why do we have to keep on fighting!?"

Naruto instantly regretted his out burst, walking over to Mimi, "I'm sorry Mimi, I didn't mean it that way. I just had to get Taichi to listen."

Yamato nodded at Naruto's words, "He's right Taichi."

Taichi turned away from Naruto to Yamato, "What do you mean?"

Yamato's stared hardened, "What you say is the right thing to do, I'll give you that." Taichi only stared as Yamato raised his hands from his sides, holding them open in an angry way, "But knowing what the right thing to do is doesn't mean we can just push our feelings aside and be done with it!"

Taichi was surprised again at what Yamato was implying as Takeru stepped next to Yamato with Patamon on his hat, "Onii-chan!"

Yamato simply ignored Takeru, continueing his rant, "We know in our heads that we should keep moving forward! But there are times when you want to stop and remember those we've lost, isn't there?"

Taichi raised one fist from holding Koromon as he responded, "If we keep stopping to do that, we'll never have enough time to save the world!"

Naruto simply stood in one spot, fist clenching tightly, "The world won't end in five minutes or it would have happened already!"

Sora intervened, trying to calm the three down as Palmon comforted Mimi, who started crying. Jyou stepped forward, taking the time to speak, "We're sitting ducks out here. Let's move someplace safer."

The group silently agreed, following Jyou into the forest. A few members of the group were having private thoughts.

Taichi was currentlt near the back of the group, "It's not wrong of me to act this way, is it?"

Yamato was in the middle of the group, "Do we have no choice in the end but to keep moving on like this? Without ever having a place to rest!?"

Takeru was next to Yamato, watching him, "I wonder why Onii-chan is like this…"

Koushiro was between Taichi and Yamato, "At this rate, our feelings of unity will scatter. I have to do something"

Jyou was second in line, looing towards the ground "I need to find a place where we can take a break."

Sora was in the front, doing the same as Jyuo, "Everyone's tired."

Hikari was walking next to Taichi, watching him as she walked, "Onii-chan." Hikari suddenly stopped, looking around for something. Naruto, who was walking behind the entire group, stopped at the same time as Hikari, ears twitching to the slightest sound.

Tailmon stopped, turning around when she noticed Hikari wasn't following. Tailmon ran up to Hikari as she continued to look around, "What's the matter, Hikari?"

Hikari turned to Tailmon when she heard Tailmon's voice, "Did you just hear something?"

Tailmon raised one paw, "Like what?"

Hikari raised one hand, index finger pointing out to the sky, "Something like a voice?"

Tailmon moved one of her paws to her chin when she heard the question, "A voice? No, not at all…"

Hikari mimicked Tailmon, moving her hand to her chin as well, "Oh…" Hikari then turned to Naruto, who was looking around as his ears twitched, "Did you hear anything Naruto-kun?"

Naruto looked at Hikari and Tailmon for a second before answering, "Maybe, but don't worry about it. Now let's catch back up to the others." Hikari and Tailmon nodded, the three jogging up to the group.

As soon as they rejoined the group, Taichi scolded his sister in a worried tone, "Where were you?"

Just as Hikari was about to answer, Naruto beat her to it, "I thought I heard something and stopped following. Hikari and Tailmon noticed, checking on me which stopped them from following."

Taichi looked unsure for a moment, as if trying not to anger Naruto, "Well… even if you can take care of yourself, be careful when you're alone."

Naruto only shushed him, his ears twitching again as he whispered, "We're being watched… quiet." Everyone watched as Naruto started to focus on one spot, slowly moving his hand to his kunai holster. As soon as he opened the holster, he threw a kunai to the spot he was focusing on. Everyone heard something between plastic and glass breaking, seeing a video camera fall from the tree with the kunai wedge through.

As Naruto went to grab the camera, Koushiro asked, "How did you know that camera was there Naruto-san?"

Naruto pulled out his kunai, sticking it back into his holster as he walked back to the group, "I heard that high pitch tone machines make, which made it easy to find." (You all know what I mean, that high pitch noise when you turn on something electronic, a.k.a. the annoying ringtone that everyone seems to love.)

Koushiro nodded as the group resumed walking when Naruto sneezed. "Heh, whoever was using the camera must be mad at me." The group chuckled as they walked as Naruto sneezed again, forcing more laughter. Hikari stopped laughing, turning to Naruto whispering, "Why did you lie for me?"

Naruto shrugged before responding, "I knew your Onii would get on to you and me if you said you stopped. So I took the blame."

Hikari smiled, grabbing Naruto's hand, "Thank you."

Naruto simply nodded when the scenery started to go by at a faster pace then usual. Everyone stopped to watch the moving scenery.

Taichi started looking around at the moving scenery, "What's this?"

Hikari, mimicing her Onii, responded, "The scenery is running past us!"

Naruto simply continued looking forward, "No, the ground we're standing on is moving!"

Taichi then pointed to the groups left, "Jump off on this side!"

The entire group jumped off the moving ground to the ground next to them, only to have that ground move. As everyone looked in the direction the ground was moving, Sora asked, "Hey… Where do you think this is taking us?"

Yamato clenched his fist, glaring ahead, "What other place is there? The enemy must be waiting for us ahead!"

Both Takeru and Jyou turned to Yamato, Takeru shouting, "No way!"

Jyou looked more nervous then anyone, "We can't just let ourselves fall right into enemy hands!"

Naruto rested one hand on his katana, looking forward as the group worried. He then noticed the trees around them weren't moving. Quickly he formed a t-hand sign, "Kage bunshin!" Shocking everyone as thirteen clones appeared, grabbing the group and leaping into the trees. Naruto grabbed the closet person to him, who happen to be Hikari, as he jumped, setting her on a branch as the clones did the same. As soon as the clones set the person or digimon they were carrying onto the branch, they dispelled themselves as Naruto stood on the side of one of the trees.

Taichi turned from where he and Koromon were placed, facing Naruto, "Warn us next time!"

Naruto simply scratched the back of his head, "Sorry."

Hikari started in wonder, pointing to Naruto, "Naruto-kun, how are you…?"

Everyone turned to Naruto, realizing he was defying gravity. As everyone stared, Koushiro pulling out his laptop and typing excitingly. Naruto sweat dropped at the many stares, scratching his head some more, "I'm using chakra to stick to the tree. Before you ask, I'll explain chakra when we have a chance to rest. And while I'm thinking about it…" Naruto threw three shuriken, each one in a different direction, nailing three more cameras, causing them to fall to the ground.

As Naruto suddenly sneezed again, Sora looked at the cameras before turning to the group, "I wonder if one of the Dark Masters is here."

Koushiro was sitting across from Tentomon, looking towards the middle of the group, "It's very likely."

Jyou was sitting next to Gomamon, clinging onto the base of the tree, "We were walking straight towards the enemy all this time."

Taichi turned his attention from Naruto to the entire group, "But we have to confront them some day. It's the same result either way!"

Yamato turned, glaring at Taichi, "We all know that! You didn't have to say that out loud, you know!"

Takeru placed on hand on Yamato's arm, looking at his Onii, "Onii-chan! Stop fighting!"

Yamato simply looked at Takeru with a sorrowful "Takeru…"

Taichi seemed unfazed by Yamato's attitude, "If we keep avoiding them, we'll just get slaughtered one day. Let's go find where the enemy is located!"

Naruto staed at Taichi, narrowing his eyes, "Taichi, everyone's tired and you want us to go straight to the enemy? Personally, I'd rather be slaughtered then commit suicide. But locating the enemy isn't a bad idea. I'll go look around."

And with that, Naruto leapt into the trees, quickly disappearing from the group's sight. Hikari watched Naruto leave with a worried face, "I hope Naruto-kun be ok…"

Tailmon simply placed one paw on Hikari's shoulder, "He'll be fine. He knows how to take care of himself."

Hikari nodded, turning to Taichi just to see him disappear, "Onii-chan!"

Everyone turned to where Taichi was sitting, only to hear Sora shout a second later, "Mimi-chan disappeared too!"

Palmon only stared at the spot where Mimi was sitting, "Mimi, where are you?"

Just at that moment, Sora and Koushiro disappeared followed by Hikari and Jyou, causing their partners distress as Takeru shouted, "Everyone disappeared!"

Taichi appeared in the middle of a clearing, "What the…?" Mimi then appearing in front of Taichi, surprising him even more.

Sora and Koushiro appeared in a different clearing, Sora appearing in front of a log, "Wh-What happen?"

Koushiro appeared on the log at the same time as Sora did, stepping off the log after and facing Sora after she asked her question, "Our enemy must be behind this!"

Jyou landed in a puddle of mud, causing him to shiver and scream at the sudden cold, "Ahhh! It's cold..."

As Jyou looked down, Hikari, who appeared at the same time as Jyou, looked over her shoulder, "Tailmon?"

Yamato was now sitting on his feet, holding the branch with his hands, "They're all gone!"

Takeru was doing the same, looking between spots where everyone was sitting, "How did this happen?"

Yamato: "I don't know. Our enemy must have done something to them." Takeru turned from the ground to his brother, surprise on his face as Yamato continued, "Takeru, I'll do whatever it takes to protect you, so stay close to me."

Takeru turned to Yamato, clearly upset, "Onii-chan… We were able to get this far because we worked as a team. So why am I the only one you keep giving special treatment to?"

Yamato looked at Takeru, completely shocked by his response, "Takeru…"

Takeru continued his voicing his thoughts, "I've fought alongside the rest of you all this time! Right? Do you think I'm just a ball on a chain? Am I unreliable? Is that why you keep saying you'll protect me?"

Yamato only stared at Takeru, completely caught off guard by his sentence, "Takeru… That's not what I meant… I… What I want to say is…"

Takeru only stared as Yamato as he asked, "What?"

Yamato turned away from Takeru, frustration clear on his face, "I… I…"

Jyou was still standing in the mud when he suddenly fell backward into the mud, holding his stomach in pain. Hikari heard Jyou's shout of pain, turning to see him fall in the mud, "Jyou-san!" As Jyou crawled out of the mud, holding his stomach in pain, Hikari ran over, stopping right in front of him with a worried look on her face, "Jyou-san, are you okay?"

Jyou opened one eye, still holding his stomach, "My stomach just suddenly…"

Hikari held her arms out slightly, offering to help Jyou up as she asked, "Does your stomach hurt?"

Jyou couldn't move, the pain in his stomach being to great, "Something shot my stomach!"

Hikari gasped in surprise, worried about her friend. Jyou then disappear, Taichi appearing in his place, surprising Hikari even more, "Onii-chan!"

Taichi turned to Hikari just as she disappeared, Sora taking her place. Sora took a second to look around when Taichi started floating, turning up side down. He then slammed into the ground, his head turning sideways making a nasty cracking sound, "Ouch!"

Yamato and Takeru were both still sitting with the digimon when Yamato disappeared only to have Koushiro appear in his place. Takeru then disappeared, being replaced by Mimi.

Takeru was floating in the air next to Jyou laughing uncontrollably as Jyou watched. When Takeru stopped laughing, landing back onto the ground, Jyou checked on him, "Are you ok, Takeru-kun?"

But before Takeru could answer, Jyou disappeared, Yamato taking his place and surprising Takeru, "Onii-chan!"

Yamato looked instantly relieved, kneeling down and hugging his brother, "Takeru!"

The digimon were currently scanning the ground, along with Koushiro and Mimi.

Piyomon looked from one place to another, "Where did everyone go?"

Tailmon simply looked up to the other digimon, "It's no use waiting here. Let's climb down and search for them!"

Patamon started flying, flapping his bat wing-like ears, "Okay! I'll go look for Takeru!"

Mimi simply held her head in a down cast manner, "I'm staying here."

Koromon turned from the ground to Koushiro, "Koushiro! Stay here with Mimi!

Koushiro nodded, "Okay. Please find the others."

With a loud group ok, all the digimon split up, looking for their friends.

Yamato was holding Takeru by his shoulders, still kneeled in front of him, "Takeru, are you okay?"

Takeru simply gazed at his Onii, completely ignoring Yamato's worry, "I think so… But I suddenly felt something tickling me and I couldn't stop laughing. Maybe something's wrong with me."

Yamato seemed to worry more when he heard this, "Are you sure you're not hurt?"

Takeru took a step back, raising his arms slightly as he shouted, "Hey, stop worrying about me so much! I can take of myself now!"

Again Yamato was surprised by Takeru's outburst, "Takeru…"

"Let's play~" Both Yamato and Takeru started looking around when they heard the voice.

As the voice started to sound closer, Yamato glanced at his younger brother, "Takeru, be careful."

Takeru stared furiously into the forest as the voice still approached, "The voice is getting closer!" Takeru was then startled as a pair of gloved hands covered his eyes.

Takeru quickly pulled the hands off, running forward and turning around to see Pinocchimon do a back flip, then holding his hands up, "Let's play."

Takeru was able to say anything, "You're…"

Yamato quickly ran in front of Takeru, holding his arms out in a defensive manner, "Just try and lay a finger on Takeru again! You won't get away with it!"

Pinocchimon simply stood there unfazed, pointing one finger at Takeru winking, "So you're called Takeru. Hey, join me in a game of war."

Takeru eyes widened, stepping out from behind Yamato, "Game? Like… pretend?"

Pinocchimon nodded, "Yeah." He then pulled out an Uzi, "Here, I'll let you use this!" Pinocchimon then tossed the Uzi to Takeru.

Takeru caught the weapon, thinking it was a toy and nearly falling over from its weight, "I-It's heavy…" Takeru then accidently dropped the gun onto the ground, causing it to discharge. Both Yamato and Takeru stood on one foot, away from the Uzi, Takeru with more surprise then Yamato. Takeru faced Pinocchimon, not amused by the weapon, "Th-This is a real gun! I'd die if I played with this thing!"

Pinocchimon turned away, clearly happy, "But of course! Dying for real is what makes the game fun! But don't worry. I won't let you die that easily." Pinocchimon continued, waving one hand like it was nothing. He then pointed that hand into the air, "It'll be pretty boring if you died right away, you know!" (… and this is in a kid's show in Japan why?)

Takeru looked nervous at Pinocchimon's definition of play, sweat running down his face at Yamato turned to him, "Takeru! Don't listen to what he's saying!"

"You stay out of this!" Pinocchimon shouted as he threw a red ball at Yamato. The ball exploded when it hit Yamato, turning into binding threads and wrapping Yamato from neck to toe. Yamato fell to the ground, unable to keep his balance from being bind. Pinocchimon ran up to Takeru as he checked on Yamato, "Now, let's get going!"

Takeru turned to Pinocchimon, standing his ground next to Yamato, "No!"

"You won't?" Pinocchimon then turned his head, looking up as he pointed to Yamato, "It won't be any fun if you don't come, so maybe I'll just kill him instead. Well?"

Takeru stepped forward, clealy upset, "You can't!"

Pinocchimon smiled again, "Then you're coming right?"

Yamato, still able to speak, looked away from Pinocchimon to Takeru, "Takeru! Don't listen you him!"

Pinocchimon simple slapped more thread onto Yamato, covering his mouth, "You shut up!" He turned back to Takeru, "Well, what do you say?"

Takeru walked back, picking up the gun and turning back to Pinocchimon, "I'll go. I just have to follow you, right?"

"That's what I like to hear!" Pinocchimon said, starting to walk away, followed by Takeru as Yamato struggled to get free.

While everyone was being shuffled around:

Naruto dropped another camera from it hiding place, crushing it in his hand before doing so, "Man this guy has a lot of cameras." Naruto proceeded through the trees, stopping short before the edge of the brush as he noticed a strange looking house. He watched as a walking puppet (Pinocchimon, but he doesn't know that) ran out of the house, "Hmm… Better check it out."

When the coast was clear, Naruto slipped into the house through a window. As he creped around the building, he checked the rooms using his ears to listen for any voices. As he passed one room he heard, "When is Pinocchimon-sama going to return with his new play toy?"

Naruto pressed against the wall as another voice was heard, "I don't know, but we sure are lucky that Pinocchimon-sama is a Dark Master."

Naruto smirked at the new piece of information as he quietly ran down the hall. After sneaking into a room with no one in it, he made a t-shaped hand sign whispering, "Kage Bunshin no jutsu." Four clones appear, each smiling at the idea they all formed as Naruto spoke, "All right, you know the plan. I want this place to look like a fire works festival during New Year's Day!" The clones nodded, running off to different parts of the building, paper bombs in hand.

Just then the door opened, forcing Naruto to duck into another room, waiting in the shadows for whoever was coming. His listened to the voices outside, ready for anything.

Pinocchimon was looking through the scope of his 44 magnum, stopping with Takeru came into sight, "There you are!" Takeru dropped to his knees, letting go of the heavy weapon in his arms as Pinocchimon shouted, "Bang!" Takeru shot back up, looking like he had a heart attack as Pinocchimon pointed the magnum away, "Hurry up and run, this is getting boring!"

Takeru stood back up, "O-Okay," then ran down the hallway, turning to a double door. He opened the door, seeing a mushroom and plant digimon. (Never said names, sorry.) Takeru looked at the two digimon for a second before running to a gap between a couple of shelves. He peeked one eye out to the two digimon, "H-Hey, don't tell anyone I'm hiding here, okay?"

Takeru hide again as Pinocchimon barged into the room, "Hey, did Takeru come in here?"

The plant digimon spoke first, "Takeru? Oh, if you mean the human boy, he's hiding between those shelves."

Pinocchimon ran to the designated spot excitedly, pointing the magnum into the gap, "Come out with your hands up!" Pinocchimon then lowered his gun, seeing the empty space, "He's not here!" The other two digimon run up still claiming Takeru was there, only to be shot by Pinocchimon, "Liars!" Both the digimon exploded into data as Pinocchimon ranted, "Man, they make me so upset!" Takeru watched the whole thing, having moved behind the door to the room quietly when the digimon were distracted. Takeru then ran out of the room in fear, cheering up Pinocchimon quickly, "There you are!" Takeru quickly ran up stairs, darting for the first room he could get too.

While this was happening, Naruto had started looking for Takeru as well, having heard Takeru's voice, "Why is he here alone?" Naruto then heard voices from the other side of the house, "Damn it!" Naruto quickly changed directions, running to the voices.

Patamon had flown to the building both Naruto and Takeru were in, wondering about said building, "What's a building doing out here? Maybe Takeru is inside!" With that, Patamon continued flying to the building.

Takeru had run into the room where Pinocchimon controlled the forest, stepping onto a remote as he tried to hide.

Everyone was startled as the ground started moving again then stopped with everyone except Takeru and Naruto reunited.

Jyou stood up, running towards the others, "What the heck is going on around here!?"

The group then became happy when their digimon surrounded them, Gabumon being the only one to notice Yamato tied up. Gabumon ran up to Yamato, raising his claw, cutting the threads and releasing Yamato. As soon as Yamato was free, he sat up yelling, "Takeru… Takeru was taken by Pinocchimon!"

Taichi screamed, "What!"

Hikari followed suit, "That's bad!"

Sora seemed more composed then the other two as she spoke, "We have to save him!"

Taichi shouted to Yamato again, "Where did Pinocchimon and Takeru go?"

Yamato turned away from the group holding the sides of his head, "I don't know!"

Taichi only yelled louder, "Get a hold of yourself Yamato!"

Koushiro stated calmly, "I'm sure the moving road we were on earlier leads to Pinocchimon!"

Jyou did the same, trying to keep the group from doing anything rash, "Yeah, that must be it! But…" Jyou looked at the surrounding area, "Which road is it? They all move."

Everyone joined Jyou in looking around. Hikari then spotted something shining on one of the roads. She walked over to see it was one of the hidden camera's Naruto had broken earlier. She looked down the road to see more cameras, leaving a trail into the woods.

Hikari ran back to the group waving her arms excitingly, "Onii-chan! I found a way we can follow."

Everyone turned to Hikari as she stopped in front of Taichi who looked simply said, "Where?"

Hikari pointed to the camera, "We can follow all the broken cameras. Remember, Naruto-kun went the same way as the moving road, so if we follow the cameras…"

Tailmon caught on, finishing for Hikari, "We'll find Naruto, and he might know where Takeru is!"

The group nodded, heading to the trail of broken cameras when a wingless bird with a skull on its head appeared, landing in front of the group.

Taichi took a step forward, holding out his fist, "Who are you!?"

Kiwimon ignored Taichi, stating, "Pinocchimon-sama is enjoying his playtime right now. Please don't interfere." Kiwimon then opened his mouth, shooting miniatures of himself like missiles, "Little pecker!" (Yes, you all can laugh at this attack, I did too.)

Koromon evolved into Agumon, helping the other digimon destroy the barrage of little pecker attacks.

Patamon flew in from an open window into Pinocchimon's toy room. He looked down, finding the remote that control the forest floor. As he pick the remote up, he noticed the dolls of the children except Naruto. "What are these dolls for?" Patamon asked as he tapped the Jyou doll, knocking it over.

Patamon looked onto the TV to see Jyou on the ground with Gomamon and Hikari looking over him. "Then what's this?" Patamon asked no one again as he pushed a button on the remote. He looked back at the TV to see the forest floor moving. He pushed the button again, stopping the floor, "I have to tell Takeru about this."

Takeru was currently running to the stairs that lead to the door of the building, only to have Pinocchimon walk up those same stairs, "I found you!" Pinocchimon started firing at the floor around Takeru's feet, forcing Takeru to dance around avoiding the bullets. As Takeru landed on his butt after dodging the last bullet, Pinocchimon smiled, "I think I'll start with your legs first." Pinocchimon pulled the trigger again, only to hear a *click*. "I'm out of bullets. Got to put in new ones~"

Takeru watched as Pinocchimon slowly reloaded the gun, humming as he did so, "He'll kill me at this rate! I have to do something!" Takeru then smiled, having come up with an idea. As Pinocchimon continued to reload the gun, he heard Takeru say, "Ahhh… This is no fun at all!"

Pinocchimon stopped reloading, looking at Takeru in shock, "What?"

Takeru was simply standing there, both arms behind his head, "I'm sick of the same thing happening over and over! I didn't expect to find out that you're a boring person."

Pinocchimon stood there, even more shocked then before, "No one's ever told me that before!"

"Ehhhhh… Really?" Takeru then quickly gave a sly smile, "It's because you don't have any friends, is it?"

Pinocchimon gasped in shock, looking away from Takeru, "I-I have friends."

Takeru moved his arms to his sides, "Then why don't you let me meet them?"

Pinocchimon turned away from Takeru, "I'll introduce you guys one of these days."

Takeru simply ran up to Pinocchimon waving his arms, "Not one of these days, do it now!"

Pinocchimon continued to look away, "Now… isn't a good time…"

Takeru simply leaned in, mocking Pinocchimon even more, "Ehhhhh… I bet you don't have any real friends at all!"

Pinocchimon turned back to Takeru shouting, "I do! I go get one of them right now, so wait here!"

As Pinocchimon ran back down the stairs, Patamon came flying out of the room, "Takeru!"

Takeru turned around to see it was Patamon, "Patamon!"

As Pinocchimon "went to get" his friend, Patamon lead Takeru to the control room. There, Takeru destroyed everything Pinocchimon used to control the forest. Just as they were about to leave, the door shut behind them. Both Patamon and Takeru turned around, ready to fight only to see a panting Naruto, "You know, this place is a lot bigger then it looks."

Takeru and Patamon laughed, before following Naruto out the door, explaining why he destroyed the room. Before they left, Naruto made two more clones, sending them into the room with paper bombs. Takeru only looked at the paper before asking Naruto, "What are those?"

Naruto simply grinned, "You'll see later, now let's get out of here!" Takeru nodded, the three running to the door. Unfortunately for them, Pinocchimon noticed the three of them leaving, dropping his handmade dummy and running after the three.

Just as they reached the door, Pinocchimon showed up at the top of the stairs, pointing his gun at Takeru, "Where are you going!?"

Naruto quickly threw shuriken with ninja wire attached to them at Pinocchimon, tying Pinocchimon tightly. Pinocchimon, unable to keep his own balance being tied up, dropped the magnum falling down the stairs. The magnum, hit the floor, discharging a bullet right into Naruto's upper arm as he left behind Takeru. Naruto grunted quickly in pain, holding his arm as the three ran to the others.

The children and their partners were still fighting Kiwimon, reluctant to destroy him since they needed to know where Takeru was.

Yamato was currently shouting at Kiwimon, "Where's Takeru!" Kiwimon only chuckled at Yamato, who became furious, "Answer me!!!"

Taichi looked from Kiwimon to Yamato, "Yamato! Just focus on attacking him for now!"

Yamato looked away from Taichi, clenching his fist, "As if you can understand how I feel!"

Taichi fully faced Yamato, waving one arm slightly, "If we don't beat him, we won't be free to go rescue Takeru!"

Yamato turned back to Taichi shouting, "NO! We have to find out where Takeru before we beat him! Gabumon!"

Gabumon nodded at Yamato's command, "Okay! Gabumon warp-evolve!" But nothing happened.

Gabumon turned back to Yamato, who was looking as his crest in shock and fear, "It won't glow…"

Gabumon watched his friend with worry, "What's wrong Yamato? I can't evolve!"

Naruto looked behind him, seeing Takeru and Patamon panting heavily. Naruto sighed, jumping behind them both, grabbing them, and surprising them with a burst of speed. As the forest blurred by, Takeru holding his mouth shut from the motion sickness. Naruto gazed in the direction, seeing the group appear. He also noticed they were fighting another digimon. Naruto sighed, holding Takeru with his tail as he unsheathed his katana with his good arm. He dashed by the group, setting Takeru and Patamon behind them as he charged Kiwimon, cutting through all his "little pecker" attacks, then Kiwimon.

Naruto sheathed his katana as Kiwimon burst into data, floating away. He turned to the group only to have Yamato grab his shirt, lifting off the ground, "Look what you did! Now we'll never find Takeru!"

Naruto simply looked at Yamato like he had grown a second head, "Are you blind? I set Takeru behind everyone before I destroyed Kiwimon." Yamato instantly dropped Naruto, turning around to Takeru. Takeru was currently sitting down, he and Patamon still trying to get over their motion sickness. As everyone checked on Takeru, Naruto checked the wound in his arm.

Takeru was currently chatting away with the rest of the group, "I was able to protect myself all on my own this time!"

Taichi simply looked confused, "Wait, what about Naruto?"

Everyone looked over their shoulder to Naruto, who was facing away from the group as he checked his arm, "Actually, Takeru did everything on his own. He had already taken care of the control room and was about to leave when I found him in Pinocchimon's mansion… speaking of which." Naruto the made a one-handed hand sign, causing a large explosion. Everyone turned to see a large mushroom cloud from deeper in the forest, then blown back by the shockwave the explosion created. Everyone looked at the explosion with a large sweat drop, then back to Naruto who was facing the same direction, scratching the back of his head chuckling nervously, "I think I used to many paper bombs…"

Everyone just looked shocked when the heard "paper bombs" but quickly brushed it off as something from Naruto's home dimension. Hikari then noticed a large red spot on Naruto's arm just as he turned back around. Hikari walked over just in time to see Naruto take a kunai and stab that spot on his arm. She screamed in shock, running over while gaining the entire groups attention.

Just as Hikari was about to grab Naruto's arm, she saw that the spot was a hole and something was being pushed out by the kunai. The entire group joined Hikari as Naruto manage to pry the bullet out of his arm, holding in the palm of his hand looking at it. He then looked over his shoulder to the group, completely ignoring the blood poring down his arm, "What is this?"

Koushiro was the only who seemed composed enough to speak, "That's a bullet from a gun. Don't you have these weapons in your original dimension Naruto-san?"

Naruto simply shook his head, "No, we have kunai and shuriken launchers, but not this "gun". Damn thing hurts though."

Everyone seemed shocked that Naruto took a shot from a gun and brushed it off as nothing. Jyou quickly snapped out of his shock, pulling out the first aid kit and cleaning the wound. Naruto winced from the stinging medicine he used, but didn't say anything since Jyou was helping.

Jyou then screamed out loud, looking into the kit, "I'm out of medical tape!"

Naruto simply shrugged, not caring, "Don't worry about it. The bleeding has nearly stopped."

The entire group looked back at the wound, seeing it was no more then a small trickle of blood, all the veins having healed. Everyone looked even more shocked, Koushiro stuttering, "H-how…?"

Naruto scratched his head, clearly nervous at all the stares, "I've always had and extremely strong healing ability. The only thing that I can guarantee that will kill me is cutting my head off or completely destroying my heart, but other then that, I'll be back on my feet in a weeks time at the most. Oh, and I can't be poisoned and almost never get sick either." The entire group simply stared slack jawed at Naruto's explanation.

Although the bleeding had reduced, Hikari stared at the wound, quickly taking the small cloth around her neck off and tying it around Naruto's arm. Naruto looked at her confused as she smiled, "Healing ability or not you still need to cover it, and you can always give it back when you don't need it anymore."

Naruto smiled back, "Thank you."

No one noticed Yamato and Gabumon leaving as the group chatted away, mainly asking about Takeru's adventure and Naruto's abilities.

Hey, few things.

1.) Someone whose name will not be mention sent me a pm pointing out something I forgot to mention in my previous chapter. Do to Hikari's age, she and Naruto will not partake in romantic activities until season 2. At the most, Hikari will realize she likes Naruto and the relationship will pick up over the gap between seasons. Now since Naruto was already experienced the magic of puberty, he will definitely realize he likes Hikari (with Kyuubi's help ha-ha) and a few other things since poll A. won.

2.) I stopped this chapter short because the next three episodes are chained together so to speak, and I thought that it would be better to put those three episodes in their own chapter together.

3.) Now I've had a few people suggest or ask to give Naruto a digimon partner. … I was against it, but since A won the poll I've decided to give some to those who voted B. Now Kyuubi will become Naruto's partner, but I refuse to turn Kyuubi into a Renamon. Mainly because Renamon was a female… Ok I'll be fair. Kyuubi will become Naruto's partner, now here's the poll.

Poll:

A.) Kyuubi becomes a Renamon, also showing it's a female. (N0 FEMALE KYUUBI X NARUTO ROMANCE! NEVER WILL HAPPEN IN THIS STORY)
B.) Kyuubi becomes some other fox-based digimon

4.) After this chapter, i will be fixing my previous "The Fox and the Cards" chapters over my Thanksgiving break. Please be patient for my next chapters.


Reviewer response:

Cybermage: I would answer your questions, but that would spoil the story.

I'm… an innocent bystander: Sorry, one, poll a won, and two, like I said, if Naruto becomes normal, he loses Kyuubi. I planned out a lot in a few days.

Tower of Romance: Well, if you finish the fan art, please let me know. I want to use it as my avatar so people will know what she looks like. (I'll pm you the details.)

Sonluth: Thanks for the idea, but A won. Still thanks, always welcome to an open mind.

Scione: Thank you! And like I said, A won

Chm01: Already chatted with you

Wiseman: No, Naruto isn't equivalent to Hinata, he speaks his mind but also knows when to keep his mouth shut.

Kazekatana: Thank you and I noticed that too. I just like to stand out!

OmegaRanger: Henge… Maybe since all of Japan, possible the world, knows about the digital world.

Diimmortal: I put your idea in a poll, so now we see how it turns out.

To everyone else who I didn't mention, you either flamed me, (which hasn't happened yet so don't worry) or simply complimented my work, so I thank you as well!

Please read and review!!!!!