DISCLAIMER: This story is my own, but if any ideas or contents belong to a published group or label, I do NOT own it. Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and Hamtaro belongs to Ritsuko Kawai. I would not be writing this if I owned them. Same thing for any other thing from any anime or manga, etc.
Warnings: It's rated T for a reason
Legend:
"yo" speaking
"Foolish Mortal" Demon talking/spells
"Kai" Inserts, flashbacks, scene changes, etc.
Ham-Ham the Wandering Black Hamster
Book 1: Journeys
Journeys in the New World Arc, Chapter 2: An Unexpected Turn
Ham-Ham traveled for nearly two days before he reached the end of the cave. Immediately, he was amazed by the great expanse of land with great tall trees every now and then. The bright sun and crisp blue sky was pleasant to Ham-Ham after days in the cave. In his amazement, he somehow stumbled upon a main road. A day later, Ham-Ham finally found civilization. Ham-Ham's former village was spread over a wide area, but this civilization that he found was slightly more compact with a population many more times his former village. He had found a hamster town!
As Ham-Ham walked into the city, he was slightly uncomfortable because of how congested the town was compared to his former village. One good thing about his grandfather's travelling cloak was that is hid all of Ham-Ham's black fur. He was almost downright shocked by how busy the market was with all the buyers and sellers chattering. While Ham-Ham was taking in his surroundings, he was looking for places to restock on fire-to-go kits, food, water, and other supplies. Eventually, he found the market vendors that sold him the necessary supplies that weren't creeped out by his brown-yellow eyes. Before he could find an inn to stay for the rest of the evening, a hamster that was running like the wind ran into Ham-Ham. Unfortunately, Ham-Ham's hood was also knocked down in the process along with most of his food. The people of the town who thought that black hamsters brought bad luck quickly took arms and ran Ham-Ham out of town.
Before Ham-Ham knew it, he was run out of town for about halfway and immediately became depressed. However, he would not resort to suicide like he did earlier, since he still remembered his conversation with his grandfather. Ham-Ham quickly set up camp, because it was getting late, but he realized that he only had a little bit of food now. Since the surroundings consisted of only trees and meadows, there was no food that he could gather. In about a day, he started to starve. It would not be for another day until he saw other hamsters on the road.
Warily, a starved Ham-Ham walked down the road, but stopped when he saw a carriage. The carriage looked like it belonged to a wealthy hamster since there were two buff hamsters moving the carriage. As he got closer, he saw what was truly happening. The carriage was being attacked by five hamster bandits! He saw a cute female hamster child and couldn't resist helping them, after all Ham-Ham always had a soft spot for child hamsters, as they reminded him of his younger sister. Although he did not know it at the time, his new body was somehow enhanced from the basil he ate. He quickly closed the distance between the bandits and easily knocked out three of the bandits with his grandfather's stick before they realized what happened. By then, the two buff hamsters took out the other two bandits who were caught off guard. A middle-aged hamster came out of the carriage and said,
"Thank you dear traveler, we would have been goners had it not been for you. I must thank you somehow. Ah, I know come with me to the village, you shall be a Guest of Honor."
Ham-Ham could not protest as the hamster girl was grabbing onto to him quite tightly.
Travelling by carriage was much faster than travelling on foot and they made it to the village in little time. The villagers were more opened toward Ham-Ham when they found out that he saved the town's mayor from Bandits. That night as the village's Guest of Honor, Ham-Ham enjoyed an assortment of fruits and hamster berry pies.
"Thank you for this wonderful feast, Mayor Tipper," said Ham-Ham.
"No, no thank you, since you saved us from bandits."
As Ham-Ham went to rest for the night, he was glad that even if things were bad, one good turn can lead to another good turn. Thus begins his adventure in the New World.