Trade Up
I Don't Own Digimon or Naruto!
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Naruto Uzumaki
Chinese New Year
He places Henry's little sister, Suzie, on his shoulders without much effort before walking into the apartment following his good friend Henry. Suzie seems thrilled to have a piggy back rid as he 'guesses' her age. "So, if you're not a grandmother, are you a teen?" He asks the young girl on his shoulders.
Suzie replies with a giggle while Henry's older siblings share amused looks, barely suppressing their own giggles. "No, guess again!" The little girl on his shoulders chirps cheerfully. "Are you sure? You have the look of a rebel." He counters, very much enjoying this little game that they started barely two minutes ago as he takes off his shoes since it's too cold out to be walking around wearing sandals.
One of Suzie's sisters stifles a chuckle on hearing the word 'rebel.' "I'll have you know I'm a princess, isn't that right daddy?" Suzie asks her father who's just entered into the living room; he studies the head of the Wong family as the man turns to answer his daughter. "Yes you are, you're daddy's little princess." Janyu Wong answers his youngest before addressing him.
"I'm Janyu Wong, welcome to our lovely abode." Janyu says and he introduces himself as he shakes the man's hand. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, and thanks." Soon enough introductions go around the room as he's introduced to Henry's older brother, Rinchei and Henry's other sister, Jaarin.
He helps Suzie get off of his shoulders so she could go sit on her father's lap, their little guessing game over as Suzie chats away with her father. He sits down on a chair that's next to Henry, soon enough he's pulled into Henry and his old siblings discussions about a video game that's going to be released in a few weeks.
As supper draws near, he found himself to be relaxed and highly comfortable among the members of the Wong house hold. It also caused a familiar ache within him, but he's determined to enjoy this while it lasts since one never knew what the future would bring, though he hopes that this won't be the last time he's invited over. It makes him feel bad that he never pushed Ryo into coming with him, but then, it seemed as if neither Henry nor Ryo were destined to met.
'Or met when I'm not around to introduce them, after all, for all I know, by tomorrow that voice will show up and collect on that debt.' He thinks sourly as he recalls just what was responsible for getting him away from that situation. While he felt a bit like a coward for feeing in that manner, he couldn't help but think up reason why it was for the best.
It takes him a few minutes to wrench his mind out of that circle of thought, after all, he's having a good time at the Wong's, why drudge up the past here and now? With a slight shake of his head, he focuses back into the discussion going on between the older Wong children, though it would seem that Henry, too, had become lost in thought while he had turned his gaze inwards. After a few seconds of thought, he places his hand on Henry's shoulder, causing the vest wearing preteen to become slightly startled.
A small reassuring grin causes Henry to relax and to return the grin. "Hum, dad? I'm going to show Naruto my room, ok?" Henry asks, turning to look at his father, it would seem that Suzie has gone from sitting on her father's lap to sitting between her older siblings. With a nod as Janyu is busy talking on his cell phone, Henry gets to his feet, he follow suit within a few seconds.
Henry leads him to a slightly open door. The room within seems to be filled with computers, or to be more specific, filled with computer monitors. He turns his attention to the rest of the room; he notices a few game packages and CD cases littering the floor. There wasn't much in the way of cloths lying around the room, although Henry seems to sigh before trying to clear up the game packages and scattered CDs.
"I guess Suzie's responsible for the mess?" He asks and Henry just sighs even more heavily. "Be glad you're an only child." Henry says in a bland tone. He chuckles slightly as he moves to help Henry clean up. It didn't take too long before the items were back where they belong.
As Henry turns on the tower, he settles down on the bed as he waits for Henry to say something. "If I recall correctly, you somehow blew up one of the school's computers." Henry muses thoughtfully as amusement taints his tone. "Don't blame me! How was I supposed to know that soda pop and keyboards don't mix?" He says defensively.
Henry turns to look at him with an eyebrow raised. "… Fine, it was a water balloon hitting the computer's plug in." He corrects himself and Henry snorts. "But I didn't bring the water balloons into the room, I just happened to find them. I don't know who's they were." He adds and Henry shakes his head slightly, clearly finding his defensive attitude to be amusing.
"Didn't they try to call your uncle?" Henry asks and he shrugs. "They might have, but knowing my dear uncle, well, he's pretty busy so he sent one of his subordinates in his stead, which is usual Riley. Tally sometimes tags along just to see what I did this time." He tells Henry before asking, "Why'd you want to know? It happened, what, in some point in December?"
"Well, since you're computer illiterate, I've decided that as your friend, to keep you from blowing up or crashing any more computers. So, get over here and take notes." Henry orders and within a few seconds, he's standing behind Henry, listening to his friend as he goes over the what, hows, and whys. Some of his unspoken questions were answered without him having to voice them.
About an hour after they've been in the room, Henry's brother Rinchei stands at the door way, calling them for supper. He pauses at the door way, waiting for Henry to finish shutting down the computer monitor. Henry turns off the lights before closing the door. He then heads for the kitchen table, his mouth watering already at the scents that were drifting out of that room.
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Sasuke Uchiha
Training Ground
He takes a break after breathing out roughly six or eight giant fireballs. His throat and a great deal of his mouth were aching from some burns he likely received over doing his favourite jutsu, the one that marks an Uchiha's right of passage. A scowl fixates on his pale white face, his coal coloured eyes glare at some tree trunk before him.
He hates how he felt just hours ago, being hunted down like some fox fleeing a pack of hounds. The hatred of knowing that nothing he did seemed to deter those blasted, turncoat parasites that are always trying to latch themselves onto him that are also known as his fan club. 'And it just keeps getting worst!' He thinks darkly to himself over the latest antics that keep getting worse and worse.
'The funny thing is, it all started to go down hill when that idiot Uzumaki vanished.' He muses as he recalls the blond who was at the bottom of the class. There were plenty of rumours of what happened to the class clown but none of them were ever confirmed. Many of the rumours do agree on one point though, the blond clown managed to beat up Mizuki after learning some forbidden jutsu from the Forbidden scroll that he stole from the Hokage Tower. What happened beyond that point varies from then on.
More then a few people believed that Uzumaki had switched loyalties from Leaf when one of the other Hidden villages offered to promote him straight to Chuunin rank. There were a few who say that the blond was offered the ranking of a Jonin from Hidden Cloud. Hell, some say that Uzumaki was recruited by a criminal organization that's so secret that the Kages were in an agreement to keep any information relating to this group a plus S ranked secret.
Then there were a few rumours about packs with demons, some going as far to say that Uzumaki made some kind of deal with the ghost of the Kyuubi, who plans on first overthrowing the god of death, and then getting his vengeances on the village that killed him. On the flip side, a few say that some god took pity on the blond and carried him away to some secret monastery to be trained as the god's personal avatar on earth. There were stories that Uzumaki is a key figure in deciding whether or not the world is coming to an end.
He had only scuffed at those kinds of rumours; after all, what's so great about that blond clown anyway? He personally believed that somebody just came along, got the idiot to follow them out of Fire Country, and then did away with the annoying blond pest before taking off with the scrolls the blond had stolen. 'Besides, if anyone's going to try and recruit academy students, I'd be the one they'd work on.' He thinks to himself, unaware that he said it out loud.
'You'd like to think so, do you?' He stiffens on hearing that. "Who's there? Show yourself coward!" He snarls out, a kunai already in his hand as he takes a fighting stance as his eyes scan the area.
'Such pride, it reminds me of why I hated Lucemon so. Ah, that brings back memories…' The voice muses, he has no idea who Lucemon was but he didn't like being compared to anyone, especially to his ex-brother. "Whoever you are, you don't want to miss with me!" He counters and whoever it was, just laughs softly which causes the hairs on his neck to rise.
'How do you know that you can take me on? You can't even see me and already you assume you can defeat me. I can't believe you're the top student of your class. That Uzumaki boy, now, he's someone that should have been made the grade, he might have acted the role of the clown but it's clear that the village was holding him back. After all, he's been gone from this world in less then a year and already he's mastered more forbidden jutsus then most of this village Jonin could ever hope to get their hands on let alone pull off. Such a bright boy, young Naruto turned out to be.' The voice muses in a wistful tone.
Bale threatens to creep up his throat and into his mouth on hearing somebody praising the blond idiot. "Come out and say that to my face, if you dare!" He roars as his whole being shakes with barely controlled outrage.
Once more laughter echoes through the clearing, if he weren't shaking from rage, he might be shivering from the eeriness of this guy's laughter. 'You're not too sharp, are you? Oh, you do fine when it comes to controlled learning experiences, but when it comes to thinking on your own, you just keep stumbling around. You even allowed your own brother to chart out your future as well. Perhaps I should just withdraw my interest in you now, boy. It seems you're all surface without any depth…' The voice says.
He grinds his teeth as he clutches his other hand into a fist. He glares straight ahead for a few seconds before asking, "If you're not here in this clearing, then where are you located?" He swears he could feel this guy smiling as the guy replies in an approving tone, 'Finally, an intelligent response. To answer your question would take too much time; let us simply say that I am in a different dimension, one that my enemies hopes to remain my prison.'
His interest perks on hearing the word 'dimension' and bits of his outrage ebbs out of his system, leaving him emotionally drained. "If you have Naruto, then what do you need me for?" He asks slowly, trying to keep his exhaustion from his tone.
'Oh, the boy is doing fine, but he's currently occupied with doing something for me and I fine myself looking for someone to open the door of my prison. Someone capable of the same feats as Naruto but will act in the shadows as he acts in the light. Naruto's more then enough to keep my would be wardens attention away from noticing my interference as I dabble with portals leading to other dimensions. Seeking out promising young warriors such as yourself.' The guy informs him, he frowns slightly, but he's thoughts were on the fact that according to this… entity, the blond whisker marked idiot has access to some highly valuable scrolls. Scrolls that might be able to help him kill his brother…
"So if I sign up, I'll get the chance to look at this jutsu scrolls that the Dobe has access to?" He asks the being. 'I can give you better scrolls then what Naruto has.' The being says and he finally asks after a few minutes, "So then, I guess I'll just have to show you which ninja-in-training is the more superior choice." With that being said, everything shifts around him until he passes out as his field of view goes black.
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Daemon
Dark Ocean
He truly can't believe how much of an idiot this Sasuke is, but then, the boy had been hounded non-stop by groups of girls that were members of his fan club. Another contributing factor might also be the constant stream of praise the boy receives, he'll wager that his previous teacher even went so far as to praise the way the boy would hold his pencil. The boy lived a very comfortable life, well other then a bit of emotional hardship that occurred when his elder brother kill off his clan on the order of those old men sitting on the council of Hidden Leaf.
He's had plenty of practice dealing with emotionally preteens, be it those that were his underlings and then those that were standing between him and his objective. 'Now it's up to that Gazimon to keep the whelp in line. Besides, if Sasuke does find a way to betray me, I could always call in Naruto to do away with him.' He muses as he recalls how Taichi had been bounded and determine to stop Neo. It's more then likely that it'll be the same way between the two preteen ninjas.
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Gazimon
Tamer Digital World
He sneers at the fallen form of what seems to be a human child. While he did owe Daemon from keeping him from ending up on display with IceDevimon's other 'collections,' he wasn't looking forward to partnering up with a human. 'Besides, I might as well put a neon target on my back; I'd be deleted in a much more honourable fashion.' He scowls as he recalls the rumours about how downloading a partner Digimon will give one a one-way ticket to the real world.
With a sigh, he bends down and pokes the human. It would seem that the boy fainted during the trip between worlds. With a groan as he realised that he'll have to carry the boy out of the area since it's more then likely that one of the Sovereign's servants were on their way to investigate the dimensional portal. 'Knowing my luck, it'll be a Deva.' He grumbles as he picks up the head and shoulders of the human, moving his body under the boy's chest area before dragging the boy away from the entry spot.
Muttering curses about every five minutes, he finally begins to pant after about forty minutes of dragging the unconscious human to the closest shady spot. Another twenty minutes and he lets go of the pale human's shoulders and kneeled in the cooling shade, panting heavily. Ears drooping down, almost covering his face, he can't help but be amazed at how heavy the boy was.
'Who'd thought that humans of that size could be so heavy? Stupid, big headed Megas with plans of grandeur that they lack the tiniest bit of common sense.' He thinks darkly as he finally turns to face the resting human, sitting down with his tail twitching ever so often. He glares at the human boy, wondering which way would lead to a slower deletion, going up against that IceDevimon or being an underling to some villainous Mega who's confident enough to challenge the host computer…
A minor sandstorm brews up, but doesn't last very long. Just after night sweeps through the land, a bag that likely contains things for the young human that he's forced to look after. Other then sniff at the bag, hoping that there might be something that he could eat, he hadn't had a meal in weeks, but otherwise he pretty much left the bag alone.
Finally, the human finally begins to show signs of life by groaning and balling his hands into a pair of fists. As he gazes at the pale human, the boy rolls onto his back for a few seconds before sitting up right. He watches as the boy shakes some sand out of his black locks.
"So, you're finally up. I was beginning to wonder if you went brain dead or something." He says in a dry tone. The boy's head snap around and the human glares at him, not that the glare really affects him, not when he's faced off against more threatening opponents then this boy. "And what the heck are you suppose to be?" The boy growls at him as the human gives him a quick look. "I'm a Digimon, but to be specific, I'm a Gazimon." He tells the human in a boring tone as he gives the boy a flat look.
"…" The boy just stares at him, trying to intimate him into giving out more information then that. He keeps the bore look on his face, while he's getting slightly annoyed that this human thought that he could be bossed around so easily.
As the boy tries to intensify his glare, he snorts at the look. "If you think you're a tough guy, think again. I can beat your pale white ass from here to the real world." He states with a slight hint of amusement. "You think so, monster?" The boy sneers, getting to his feet.
"Oh yea, definitely." He answers as he, too, gets to his feet with his tail swishing slightly in anticipation for a fight. Though he didn't stand as tall as the human, he smirks as he flexes his fore claws.
He watches as the boy takes a ready stance, he doesn't bother to do so; he just waits patiently for the human to lose patience and charges him. It wasn't long before the human charges him with some kind of knife clasped in his hand. He sidesteps the attack, punching the preteen in the stomach before elbowing him in the back.
He moves about a foot away from the boy, waiting for the boy to recover from the combo. A few seconds and the boy stands back up, the boy's black eyes narrowing as the boy's face concords from a mask of pain to outrage. With a yell, the boy charges once more, this time much more focused on what he's doing, not that it helps much as he blocks the punches the boy throws.
As the remains on the defensive, he makes mental notes of the boy's faults. After all, while rage was an ok fuel, it shouldn't be what sustains one through a fight. Even now, the anger was beginning to grow and starting to overwhelm the boy's consciousness and judgement. The boy's movements were becoming sloppy, less graceful then they were just a few heart beats ago.
As the boy leaps away, something he wasn't expecting, he watches as the kid's hands seem to blur and then the boy lands, taking a deep breathe as he brings on of his hands to his mouth. His eyes bulge in surprise as a stream of fire comes out of the guy's mouth. While he didn't move out of the way of the stream of fire, he does bring his arms up and covers his face.
"So you want to use special attacks? Take this! Paralyze Breath!" He shouts, charging towards the human. Yellow dust comes out of his mouth as he flips over the human; the boy gets a face full of yellow powder. The boy falls to his knees and he then knocks the guy out with a hit to the back of the head.
"Bastard." He growls at the fallen human, he's now all worked up and the kid can't take one of his special attacks without being able to endure it. He mentally adds spoiled to the boy's faults, since it seems as if the boy's never suffered any real physical hardship before arriving to this world.
"I hope you suffer when Daemon tires of you." He snarls as he flips the boy onto his back so that the boy doesn't breath in too much sand. He rather not deal with an injured human on top of it all.
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Dorumon
Shinjuku Park
He sniffs the concrete wall, wondering what it is that smells so familiar that it causes a slight ache in his chest. He racks his claws across the back wall, pondering how much trouble it would be to not only break through the wall, but the reaction that it will cause in Yamaki. Pulling his forelimb away from the wall, he heads out of the shed.
With his Tamer busy at Henry's place, celebrating the Chinese New Year, he grew bored of staying within the apartment, so he left. Though he remembers to take that sling pack that Naruto put some money into so that if he ever leaves the apartment, he could buy stuff, be it food to some game that catches his eye as he window shops through the shopping district.
While he rarely leaves the apartment when Naruto's not around, he does appreciate the thought behind the gesture. He smiles slightly as he remembers that one tourist group that had him pose for those pictures. They had only thought him some guy dressed up in a costume and that he was advertising for a local game shop.
As he closes the gate leading into the shelter, he looks around the park as he notices how late it's gotten. With a shake of his head, he walks down the steps, his thoughts circling around his hunger. He knew a nice bakery that wasn't far, one that he's passed a few times but never entered. 'Might as well see if they're still open and if they're not, I could always go that MacDonald's that's closed to the apartment complex.' He muses thoughtfully, he recalls how good their burgers were as he daydreams as he walks through the park.
It seems that he arrived just in time as it would seem that he's got about ten minutes before the bakery closes. He walks through the sliding door; he notices a young bore looking kid seated behind the counter. A quick sniff reveals that the boy likely knows his Tamer, so with a shrug, he begins to examine what's on display.
Soon enough, he's got a general idea of what he wants to buy, so he walks up to the counter. He notices that the boy is busy doodling something on a pad of paper. "Excuse me, but I don't suppose you can help me? I'm kind of buying in bulk so I'll be needing some help getting it all into this pack." He says as he pats the sling type pack that's hanging around his upper body. The brown haired preteen looks up and his eyes widen in surprised. "Cool costume! What kind of Digimon are you posing as?" The boy asks as the boy gets off the stool. "A Dorumon." He answers as he turns to show the kid what he wants.
He's careful not to swish his tail as well as keeping jaws slightly parted; he'll have to try to talk without moving his jaws too much since he's sure that costumes weren't capable of that kind of movement from what he recalls seeing on TV. "It must get pretty hot walking around with such a thick coat of fur." The boy muses as the boy puts some pastries into a box for him.
He chuckles slightly before answering, "A bit, but then, it's still slightly chilly this time of year." The boy nods in agreement as the preteen moves to the next case. "Guess so, it is only February after all." The kid replies, he hums his agreement, though truthfully, he's never been anywhere beyond the dessert plane in the Digital world so the whole drastic change in the climate is pretty new to him.
One the boxes of pastries were in his bag, he pays the kid what he owes and heads out of the shop calling out, "Well, Happy Chinese New Years." The kid looks startled before smiling brightly as he nods his thanks. "You too." The kid replies as the door shuts behind him.
'Nice kid, he'd be a great Tamer if he ever hooks up with a Digimon.' He muses to himself as he heads back to the apartment. It's unlikely that Yamaki would be home and Naruto's likely going to be home late. 'I wonder what Ryo and Cyberdramon are up to tonight? I haven't sensed any Bio Emergance tonight so I'm pretty sure that's not it… Ah well, it's not important, after all, everybody desires some privacy.' He muses to himself, knowing that Naruto and himself have things they don't want people to know about.
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Ryo Akamiya
He sighs as he lies on the couch, slightly bored out of his mind as his partner, who's currently in his rookie form of Monodramon, hums along to this Disney movie's song. The movie is called Oliver and Company, he's not sure if it existed back in what had been his home dimension or not, since he never really paid much mind to American shows and movies. A soft smile graces his face as he watches his partner enjoy the kiddie movie about how a stray kitten ends up with a pack of street wise mutts and how their friendship is tested when the kitten finds a nice home with a slightly rich girl.
At the thought of his home dimension, he frowns as the few memories he has of the events that lead him to leave that dimension. His memories of the Chosen were kind of steeped in emotional then any recall of what they've done to evoke those emotions. He also gets a slight lump on thinking about his previous partnerships with two very special Digimon.
This brings him to his current dilemma with his current partner, Cyberdramon. Unlike Veemon and Agumon, Cyberdramon's hunger goes more towards a lust for battle then a lust for food. Something that his partner isn't getting enough of while they're in the real world since for one thing, there isn't that many Digimon living in the real world and for another, it would seem that Cyberdramon has a slight obsession on fighting Naruto, a friend and fellow Tamer who's very much human.
At first, he thought that it was just a passing thing, something that the great humanoid dragon would grew out of, but if anything, his partner hasn't gotten over it and he's not sure how long it'll be until Cyberdramon acts on his own and goes after the blond. A cool weight settles in his midsection when he imagines the outcome of that. After all, Naruto's become a really good friend to him, one that he needed after all that he's gone through.
'One that I really don't want to lose… Though I can't help but wonder, why Naruto and not Dorumon? I mean, it would make more sense if Cyberdramon was focused on battling Dorumon, after all, he is Naruto's partner and a Digimon. I wonder if Monodramon would like to explain that for me.' He wonders to himself as he stares up at the ceiling.
"Hey, Monodramon?" He calls out. "Yea, Ryo?" The small dragon replies. "How come when you're Cyberdramon, you keep looking for a fight with Naruto instead of with Dorumon? It's been bugging me more often lately." He says to his partner as he shifts his gaze from the ceiling to here his partner is sitting.
Monodramon blinks before frowning as he crosses his arms across his chest. "There's something that just calls to… him." The purple coloured rookie finally says after a few minutes of thought. A slight chill makes its way down his spine. "Great, just what we need, for him to start up his plans for domination." He says with a scowl.
"Actually, I think something's already happening, but it doesn't involve him at all. I'm not sure, but, well, there's a feeling that Naruto's kind of involved with something that's stirring up the multi-verse. Early this afternoon, something arrived from another dimension; they didn't land here in the real world but in the Digital one connected to this world. Whether or nor whatever it was survived the trip..." The purple dragon with fins on his arms shrugs as he adds, "Who knows? If it's weakened from the trip and if the native Digimon are as aggressive as we think they are, then it's likely already been deleted and it's data has been loaded."
He nods in agreement, they both know that those few Digimon that managed to Bio Emerge, as those at Hypnos coins the term, were pretty violent individuals. Though, why these Digimon keep Bio Emerging and what they're searching for is something that escapes not just him, but also Hypnos as well. Although if anyone ever asks Naruto, the blond Tamer seems to believe that they're crossing over to find a partner or to get some kind of power increase before returning to the Digital world.
Either way, this was distracting him from his original question. "So, you really don't know what it is that causes you, as Cyberdramon, to challenge Hige?" He asks and Monodramon nods in agreement, he sighs as he shakes his head, disbelieving that there seems to be no real reason why the two want to fight each other, since Naruto never seemed to be afraid of fighting his partner when he's an Ultimate level Digimon.
"You're both nuts, Naruto for willing to accept the challenge and Cyberdramon for issuing it." He declares after a few minutes, a slight grin appears on Monodramon's face; it seems that his partner found his wording to be amusing. With a dramatic sigh, he lets his head hit the pillow with a thud, and then looks up at the ceiling.
He received a few answers and now he's got more questions swimming within his head then before. 'Maybe next time I should ask Hige about it, maybe I'll get why he's willing to fight Cyberdramon.' He muses as Monodramon turns up the volume of the TV.
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