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Chapter 4
Return to the Dark Ocean
It has been three days since Kari had ended it with Naruto, the blonde found it awkward in the classroom. He sat next to TK but Kari didn't sit with them, instead she sat with Davis and another girl, she mostly talked with the girl rather than Davis. Naruto still stole glances at her throughout the lesson, he was called out on it twice by the teacher, mostly to answer a question to see if he was listening, luckily Kurama had his back and he was able to answer the questions.
"Naruto-kun, are you okay?" Sakura asked she was sitting on the other side of TK, who was between the two. TK had the same question only he was saving it for later, but glad the new girl brought it up.
Naruto sighed out, "It's" He looked to Kari again, she saw him, but didn't really spare him a glance. "It's complicated." Naruto turned back to look at his book, it was the end of the day and usually Naruto would be talking with Kari, they would be laughing and having fun, but now it's just TK watching his friend stare at his book.
"Hey man, if you need to talk about it or need anything, let me know okay?" TK patted him on the shoulder.
"Naruto-kun, would you like to talk about it on the way home?" Sakura asked.
"No, I have a meeting for the upcoming festival. After that I have an archery club meeting, the teacher is out sick so I have to lead it." Naruto sighed out the sound of depression obvious in his voice. "TK, do you mind walking Sakura-chan home?" Naruto asked getting up from his chair.
"Uh, yeah sure man." Naruto turned to leave.
That's when he almost hit Kari, "Oh, Kari-chan, I'm sorry."
"its fine, Naruto-san." She walked around and pass him, Davis came up to the blonde.
"Dude, what did you do to get Kari so mad at you?" He asked the blonde.
"None of your business Davis, just leave it be." Naruto snapped he walked out of the classroom ignoring the stares of his peers.
"What's wrong with him?" Davis asked looking to TK, the other blonde just got up and left without a word along with the new girl. "What's wrong with them?" He asked but noticed there wasn't anyone around. "Who am I talking to?"
"Well," TK looked to the pink haired girl, as they exited the classroom. "Would you like to get going Sakura-san?" TK asked.
"Sure." She nodded and smiled, this caused the boy to blush a bit, he had to admit she was cute.
XxX
Naruto was sitting at his desk at home staring at pictures on his computer of him and Kari. He sighed with depression. "Naruto, are you still upset about Kari?" Wormmon asked from his position on the boy's bed.
"Yeah, still am." He sighed again when he saw a picture of Kari and him together eating ice cream. "I remember that day; gosh she was so beautiful in that pink sun dress." He sighed out again.
"Why don't you tell her how you feel?" Kurama asked from the blondes mind.
"I would, if I could ever have like two seconds with her." Naruto said out loud, this caused Wormmon to perk up.
"What did he say?" Wormmon of course knew of the fox and of him being inside the blondes mind now.
"He said I should tell her how I feel." Naruto answered not looking away from his computer.
"That's good advice why not do that?" Wormmon asked.
"Like I said before I would if I could, besides she thinks I'm still in love with Sakura-chan and think I've lied to her. Damn it I don't know what to do." Naruto rubbed his head upset, he clicked out of the pictures and turned in his swivel chair.
"Naruto, is everything alright?" Minato asked knocking on his son's door. Wormmon quickly got under the bed hiding form his dad.
"Oh, hey dad." Naruto turned in his chair, "What's up?"
"Well I heard you talking in here, were you on the phone?" He asked, looking around.
"Uh, yeah, well I was just talking to TK, it was about a project." Naruto said.
"Naruto, I'm a writer, you know that, I know what a lie is." He sat on his bed, "So tell me what's up."
Naruto sighed, he decided to tell his dad about his fight with Kari and how it caused them to break up. "Now she won't even look at me, and TK said I should try to tell her how I feel." He half lied, switching TK out for Kurama.
"I see," Minato hummed, "Look, the best thing to do now is to give her some space and time, when the time comes tell her how you feel, it will work out."
"When will I know the right time?" Naruto asked.
"It will present itself don't worry." Naruto nodded, he decided to listen to his dad and do as he says.
"Thanks dad."
"Glad I could help, now why don't you get some sleep okay?" Minato got up from his spot on the bed.
Naruto turned back around and faced his computer, the background of the screen was of Kari and him kissing. He smiled at the picture, it brought back some good memories. He picked up his digivice and that's when something strange happened. When he brought it by the screen a digi port opened up. He stared at the screen in shock. "What the hell?" He mumbled.
"Hmm, so it seems that your digivice can open a digital port that just might come in handy." Naruto nodded at that, when he walked away the port closed, he decided to test it out later.
XxX
It has been a little over two weeks since Naruto and Kari broke up. Naruto tried to keep himself busy as much as possible, doing club activities, doing extra assignments, and even destroying a few dark spires in certain areas. But in the end when he goes to sleep his thoughts always go to the brown haired girl.
He was sitting in class, the school had just let out and Naruto was alone in the library working on the details for the upcoming festival. It was just around the corner and he had to have all the details sorted out in the next few days. 'I wish I could do the shadow clone jutsu right about now.' It was at this thought that his phone went off, it was a call, checking the caller ID it said unknown. He answered it, "Hello?"
"Hey kid what's up?" Datamon's voice came into the receiver.
"Datamon, how did you-you know what never mind, what's up with you did you finish decoding that stuff?" Naruto asked.
"Not all of it, but I was able to get enough of it to hack into their systems. I can now control the security measures, but so far it's only for one base. How soon can you get to the digital world?" Naruto looked around at that, no one else was in the library, just him and Wormmon.
"Right now actually, I'll meet up with you in a bit, we'll talk then." Naruto was actually excited he was finally able to do something to get his mind off of everything that has happened.
"Okay see you soon." With that the call was ended and Naruto got out his digivice.
"Ready Wormmon?" The digimon nodded. He held up his digivice to his computer screen, "Digi port open." With that said he and Wormmon were sucked into the digital world.
After appearing there Naruto pressed the button on his wrist band, instantly sending him to Datamon's new lab. "So what do you have so far?"
"Like I said on the phone I can hack into one of the bases, I tell ya that emperor was really cautious when it came to his bases security."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, from what I can tell from the information on the flash drive, he has different access codes for each remote uplink to each base. I was able to crack the one to the base you had recently gotten into. So far I've shut off the security and the power adapter that powers the dark spires." Datamon summed up.
"Cool, so now what?" Naruto asked.
"We destroy the base, it shouldn't be hard after turning off the power source the digimon were set free." Datamon answer the question while turning in his chair to face the blonde. "Also I can put you right in the base so you can do your whole bombing thing, just remember they go a long way."
"Awesome, let's get to it then." Naruto knew the drill from last time, he stepped on the transporter and waited for the digimon to send him away.
"Good luck." With that Naruto was whisked away in a blur.
XxX
Naruto had just finished putting the bombs everywhere they needed to be to blow the place sky high, thus guaranteeing the area to be safe from the spires as well as the dark rings, but before Naruto could get out of blasting radius, he saw the Digimon Emperor flying overhead.
"And just what do you think you're doing?" The masked person asked.
"Saving the digital world, you tyrannical fiend." Naruto glared at the other person.
"Oh, but you know I can't let you do that, for you see I have a plan for this world." He simply stated. Naruto's reply was to shoot an arrow at him, the emperor caught it, "That same old trick again?" The blonde smirked, that's when the emperor noticed the arrow started to beep. The masked boy threw the arrow away but the blast was enough to send him and his digimon partner off of their ride. The two landed on the ground near one of the control spires.
"It was slightly new this time." Naruto commented smiling at his victory.
The masked boy started to laugh loudly at that. "Do you know that there is actually two functions for these spires?" He asked, as he started to place his hand on the one near him. "The first is to of course send the needed signal to the dark rings. The second…" He finished the sentence by causing the spired to turn to dark data, which was then absorbed into his black digivice. "It also allows me to do this."
"Impmon, digivolve to…" The imp digimon started to glow before he changes shape into a black fiendish creature that stood at roughly the same height that Stingmon would stand. "Devimon."
"Now destroy them." The emperor ordered.
"Don't tell me what to do-" The digimon started but suddenly his eyes went wide and he clutched his head, then he shook it off. "As you wish." His tune dramatically changed.
"What the huh?" Naruto was shocked to see this. "You're a digidestine then?"
"I prefer the term Dark Digidestine." The emperor started laughing.
"Well whatever you call yourself doesn't matter, Wormmon." The digimon nodded, he too soon digivolved into his champion form Stingmon. "Let's take him down." Naruto was about to join his partner in fighting Devimon, but the masked boy stepped in. He started to throw expertly precise kicks and punches at the boy. Soon the two were in a martial arts fight with one another.
"You're not the only one willing to get in on the action." The emperor stated.
Stingmon was left to fight the other champion alone, but he didn't mind he was tough with or without the blonde. He started to put up his own against the other champion, but the digimon seemed to dodge his strikes, he even threw in his own attacks. Stingmon was able to dodge some, but not all. 'Better change up my attacks.' He started to use more feints then strikes causing him to get the upper hand.
"You're a competent fighter." The other digimon stated, but he sucker punched the other digimon sending him up. "But not that good." Stingmon was soon held up by his wings stopping his assent.
The battle then turned to an aerial one, the two matching blow for blow. Stingmon did one more fake hit, causing Devimon to dodge into the position of him taking a purple glowing spear to the face sending him to hit the ground hard. That's when he de-digivolved.
Naruto was in the same boat Stingmon was, being a match blow for blow with the dark digidestine. He changed up his strategy and switched to his partners strategy, by using more fakes then actual punches. He had gotten a few good hits to the ribs like this but not much else. He took more damage than he dished out.
"Is this really the best you can do?" The masked boy asked.
"I'll show you a thing or two." Naruto instantly went in for the attack pulling out his omni weapon willing it to become a sword. He went in for the attack. The boy was able to dodge most of his attacks bout a couple got a little too close for his comfort. He then dodged another stab but this time he kicked the sword into the air.
Catching it he gave it a look over, "Interesting weapon, so does it just work on brainwaves?" He asked, mostly to himself.
"Give that back." Naruto yelled, he pulled out his twin trench knives going in for the attack. The emperor used the sword, expertly, to block the blondes strikes.
"I think I'll keep this," He kicked the blonde away after dodging the last attack. "Thank you for this amazing gift, but this is farewell I'm afraid." He signaled his ride to meet up with him and Impmon, who was upset that he couldn't defeat Stingmon.
"Naruto, are you okay?" Stingmon asked.
"Yeah, just a bit bruised up." Naruto stated. "Let's get out of here." Stingmon nodded, he picked up his partner and took off, Naruto pressed the button on the remote detonator; thus blowing the base out of existence.
XxX
When Naruto returned home he told his parents that he was jumped on his way home. His mom asked if he knew their names but he said he didn't recognize them. He told his dad that he fought them off but still ended up bruised. When he got into his room he placed his laptop on the desk and flopped onto his bed, Wormmon came in through the window and sat next to his partner.
"Will you be okay?" Wormmon asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. This is really nothing compare to how I feel about Kari." Naruto sighed again.
"Why don't you try to call her?" Wormmon asked, Naruto shrugged.
"She probably won't pick up." Naruto reached into his pocket to get his phone out, he went to Kari's number and pressed send. He placed it to his ear, it went straight to voicemail after a few rings. "I figured as much," He hung up the phone, he didn't see the point in leaving a message she probably won't even listen to it. "She doesn't want me to talk to her at all." He sighed again, his phone went off though, he answered it immediately. "Kari-chan?"
"Uhm, no, it's Sakura." The voice of the pink hair girl came, "were you expecting a call from her?"
"Uh, no just jumped the gun I guess, so what's up?" Naruto asked.
She paused, Naruto wondered if she was still there, he checked his phone it was still in the process of a call. "Uhm, well, it's uh, it's about TK." She asked, Naruto could hear hesitation in her voice.
"Uh, yeah, what about him?" Naruto asked, curious on where this was going, Kurama started to chuckle apparently getting exactly what the girl was going with this.
"I was wondering, uhm does he, is he you know, uhm seeing anyone?" Sakura asked, very awkwardly.
"Uh, not that I know of why?"
"No reason," She started to laugh, almost forcefully, "I was just curious and since he's like your best friend I figure you know. I mean I was just wondering if he was free, no no what I mean is…Yeah mom?!" She paused for a moment. "Gotta go, bye." She hung up soon after that.
"That was weird." Naruto stated, he shook his head, no Sakura didn't have a crush on TK, did she?
"I think she does Kid." The fox started to snicker.
Naruto's phone went off again this time he checked the ID to see it was TK. "Hey, what's up?"
"Hey man, how are you doing?" TK asked.
"Okay I guess…" Naruto said with hesitation in his voice.
"Great so you know your friend Sakura?" TK asked not even realizing the way Naruto said his sentence.
Naruto sighed, "Let me guess you want to know if she is seeing anyone, right?"
"What? No I wasn't going to ask that, but since you brought it up, she isn't is she?" He asked.
"No," Naruto said rubbing the bridge of his nose.
"Cool, cool. So yeah, uh, how have you been?" TK asked.
"I think you asked that." Naruto said.
"I did, oh right I did I did." He laughed nervously. "Uhm well I'll let you go you're probably busy."
"Not really," Naruto smiled, he started to enjoy this. "I got time to spare."
"Oh cool," He paused, "Oh hey look at the time I got to go do research, for a class, yeah, I'll talk to you later. Bye." With that the line hung up.
"Okay, this is kind of funny, TK and Sakura-chan are interested in each other. And they ask me about it." He laughed more. "Wait 'til I tell Kari-chan this." But then he remembered. "Oh right she's not wanting to talk to me."
"Cheer up kid, I'm sure things will work out for the better soon." Kurama tried to help the blonde console with the matter.
"Thanks Kurama," Wormmon by this point was asleep, Naruto petting the digimon like he would a cat, just rubbing his hand across his smooth yet slightly fuzzy skin. "I think I should get some sleep too." With that he just fell right to sleep in his clothes.
XxX
The next day Naruto was just arriving at school, usually he sees Kari at this time with her friends. Today it seems that she wasn't there, at least not yet. He looked around for a second, 'That's weird; Kari-chan is usually here by now.' He gazed at the spot where he would usually see her. "What's up?" He asked out loud to himself.
"Naruto!" He turned upon hearing his name, his eyes widen when he saw Gatomon appear in the walk way.
The blonde looked around to see if anybody saw the talking cat. "Gatomon what are you doing here you know you can't be seen."
"Kari's gone." It took the blonde a minute for that to register, mostly 'cause it was so shocking.
"What?!" He shouted, "What do you mean she's gone, where did she go?"
"I don't know, she's been in a strange daze the past few days and then she just randomly went to the beach." Gatomon started to get tears in her eyes. "When I went to catch up with her to see what was up, she just disappeared."
"What do you mean just disappear?" Naruto asked.
"Like she was there one minute then she was gone the next, all that was left was her bag." Gatomon cried at that.
"Calm down, think you can show me where it is?" The cat nodded, "Good, Wormmon." Naruto called out, suddenly the digimon was at his partners side. "Let's go." He picked up Wormmon and took off following Gatomon.
In his running Naruto ran right by Sakura and TK who were walking the last few distances of school together. "Hey Naruto." TK called but the other blonde ignored him and kept running.
"Why was Naruto-kun chasing a cat?" Sakura asked, "And why was he carrying a bug plushy?"
"I don't know," TK laughed awkwardly, "I'm going to go see if he needs help, I'll meet you in home room." TK took off heading for the cat chasing blonde. "Hey Naruto wait up." TK called catching up to the blonde. "What's up, where's Kari, and why are you following Gatomon?"
"Kari's missing, I have no idea, and Gatomon might have an idea of where Kari-chan is." Naruto answered in order.
"Say what? Kari's missing?" TK asked shocked. "Since when?"
"Since now, according to Gatomon, hang on, Gatomon!" Naruto called out to the Digimon. "Pause for a second." The cat stopped but looked confused; not answering her unasked question Naruto looked to his best friend. "Listen, from what Gatomon tells me it sounds like she was sucked into a place, it could be the digital world or could not be. I don't know, what I do know is that I can't check out both places at the same time." He paused for a moment, "Listen can you and the others go to the digital world and see if you can find her there? I'm going to check out the beach to see if I can find out anything."
TK nodded, "Sure thing man, leave it to me." He took off for the direction of the school, "Good luck!" he called back.
"Thanks you too!" Naruto called, "Let's get going Gatomon." Naruto said taking off after the digimon.
Gatomon lead them to the beach where she last saw Kari, there was no one around. He saw off in the distance Kari's backpack. "That's where she was?" Naruto asked, the digimon only nodded following the blonde to the sack. He picked up the sack, "Strange though, she just disappeared but her pack stayed." He looked in front of him until he saw a distortion in the scenery in front of him. "What is that?" He put his hand up to it that's when his hand passed through the distortion. "What the hell?" Naruto asked aloud.
"It's a rip in space and time." Kurama answered.
'I know that.' Naruto thought. "Okay, she must have been pulled in through here or something." He looked to the digimon, "Let's go." They walked through the portal, to someone who was watching just saw them disappear. "No way…" Naruto looked all around at the same dark sand and the dark water. "The Dark Ocean. It's been years since I saw this place, I thought it was gone forever." Naruto glared out at the water. "Let's find Kari-chan." Naruto turned and that's when he saw something that made him have a curious stare.
Across from him up above on the cape was something that he was sure was not there last time. A light house, only this one was different. Instead of producing light as bright as day, it was light as black as night. "What the hell?" Naruto studied the lighthouse more.
"I hear something." Gatomon suddenly stated, "This way." She took off in the direction of the light house. Naruto followed after her keeping close as not to lose sight of her. "It's coming from that cave." She pointed one of her paws at the opening of the cave in question.
"You mean the one with all the Divermon surrounding it?" Naruto asked the rhetorical question. He walked to the entrance getting the Divermons' attention. That's when he noticed the dark rings around their arms and the glowing red eyes. "Their under the emperor's control, then that means." He looked up to the light house. "Wormmon, let's go." Wormmon armored digivolved, Ketteimon then went in to fight the horde of Divermon. Naruto went to grab an arrow out of instinct. He grabbed only air. "Shit, I didn't go through the portal so that means I don't have any of my gear." Naruto groweled. "Guess it's the old fashion way then." He leapt in throwing punches and kicks at the digimon, Gatomon was right with them the Champion trying to hold her own against the Digimon.
When they were all taking out they ran back to the ocean. "Ketteimon destroy that dark spire." Naruto ordered, the digimon followed and in seconds the light house was gone. "Now, let's see what's in here." Naruto walked in to see Kari laying on the floor out cold. "Kari-Chan!" Naruto yelled running to the girls side. He slid on his knees to be by the girls side. "Kari-chan? Kari-chan?" Naruto asked over and over, she wasn't responding.
"She's not…" Gatomon started but couldn't finish the question.
"No, she's breathing, Kari-chan, wake up." Naruto lightly shook her, but it didn't work. "Wait, maybe…" Naruto had an idea, it was a bit fairy tale-ish, but he was willing to try anything. He placed his lips on hers giving her a light kiss, at first their was no movement, then she started to stir and return the kiss. That's when Naruto pulled away.
She tighting her eye lids before they slowly opened. "Naruto-kun?" She asked then she saw his face. "Naruto-kun!" She grabbed hold of him and started to cry in his shoulder. "I was so scared, when I realized where I was the Divermon started to attack me, then then they chased me in this cave. I was so scared." She cried more, "Thank you, thank you for coming for me." She slowed her crying, "I'm sorry for what I said to you and how I've been these last few days."
"Kari-chan, it's okay. You had every right to be angry with me. I was never completely honest with you. See I was in love with Sakura-chan from my old world, before I died we were going to go on a date finally. When I saw the Sakura of this world, at first I was shocked and happy to see her. I will admit I did feel some of those old feelings, but their nothing compared to how I feel about you." She widen her eyes at this. "You mean more to me then anything else. I should have been honest with you from the start and told you, but I didn't and I am truly sorry about that. But these past few days, not having you with me…It was hell for me, honestly it was. I missed you and I when you I heard you were missing, I got scared, scared that I would never see you again or have a chance to tell that,…" He paused, this is the first time he has ever really told a girl how he felt. "I love you, I love you so much."
"Naruto-kun…" She looked up at him. "I love you too." They then shared a kiss.
"Uhm, guys" Ketteimon said from the cave entrance, "Not to ruined this tender moment but we got company." He pointed out to the dark ocean. The came out of the cave entrance, Naruto was still carrying Kari in a bridal style.
"They're coming back?" Naruto asked shocked by this. "But their free, why aren't they…"
"Naruto-kun remember last time, they just kept coming until we got out of their?" Naruto nodded. "I think something else is controlling them, and I think it has to do with me."
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"Well, for the past few days I've been hearing a voice call out to me, I didn't know where it was coming from until I wondered upon the beach. Next thing I knew I was here at the Dark Ocean." Kari explained.
"Why do they want you anyway?" Naruto asked.
"I don't know." Kari was still weak from the Divermon trying to get at her.
"Let's get out of here while we still can." Naruto stated heading towards the portal.
"Hurry, I think its closing." Kurama stated from his mind.
'I know.' That's when Ketteimon picked the blonde, the cat, and the blondes passenger up and flew the last few distance away, making it out of the portal just in time. "Thanks buddy." Naruto said to the now Wormmon.
The digimon smiled, or tried his best. "No problem." Gatomon then hugged the worm digimon making him blush.
"Thank you so much." She kissed his cheek making him blush more then faint.
Naruto and Kari laughed at this, "Let's get back to school."
"Naruto-kun, you know I can walk right?" Kari asked.
"I know, but it's been over two weeks since we held each other, I just want to enjoy this." Naruto stated smiling, this caused Kari to smile. She leaned on his shoulder and rested her head on him.
"Okay." She closed her eyes and was finally able to get some rest. The two walked like this toward the school.
(A/N:This is rare for me. To have an update so quick, well in part was that this was half way done by the time I posted the last chapter. I'm going to be taking a break from writing for a while, I have to focus on school. Once I get back into the swing of things I will get back to writing again and continue to update this story. Or might update it sooner I don't know really it all depends on what I feel like. So the Conflict is resolved, you have a taste of what the emperor can do and you've seen the second reason for why I brought Sakura in. By the way Sakura was not causing direct conflict between Naruto and Kari. The fact that Naruto kept his feelings about her a secret was what caused the conflict. Also never really telling Kari how he feels about her which is why Kurama was saying that. Also how did you like TK and Sakura's reaction to Naruto when they were asking him about the other? The two will get together probably in the second chapter. By the way I will be doing a funny moment with Kari, Naruto, Sakura, TK, and Davis. Well I think it will be funny but whether you guys think so, well yeah. Also someone mentioned something about giving Wormmon another armor form, well I thought about it and will answer that in the next chapter. Don't guess who the emperor is, I plan on revealing that soon. If you're right I don't want it to be ruin for the other readers. Other than that leave a review the good ones really motivate me to finish these chapters. So keep them coming, also if you haven't already favorite this story, follow, favorite and follow me if you want to keep reading rare and unusual Naruto fan fics. Well that's all for this note, ttfn ta ta for now.)