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The Hybrid Tamer

-Chapter 19-

-Last Time-

Staring at the space before her with wide eyes, Rika collapsed to her knees as disbelief flowed through her like a tidal wave. So deep in her shock, the redhead didn't even notice as Naruto sighed deeply and left.

"Congratulations Rika, you just threw away your Tamership."

-And Now-

Stepping out of his room and closing the door, Naruto didn't even flinch as ear-piercing screams of rage suddenly rang out behind him, nor did he stop when Jeri and Renamon popped out of Rika's room in front of him.

"I'm going out, don't wait for me." He said in a blank tone as he brushed past them before vanishing into a static blur just as a very, VERY, pissed Rika burst out into the hallway, literally taking the door down with how hard she smashed into it.

"Oh no you don't!" She yelled as she ran down the hall, not even noticing her now ex-partner or Jeri as she shoved past them in her pursuit of the whiskered blonde. "Get back here you bastard! I swear when I get my hands on you, I'll rip off your fucking tail and stuff it down your god damn throat!"

Watching the angry redhead burst out the front door and vanish from view, Jeri gulped nervously and looked to Renamon. "Should… should we go after them?"

"I will, you stay here." The foxy digimon stated before also disappearing from sight.

…

"…This isn't going to end well." Jeri mumbled as she shuffled back into Rika's room, flinching slightly as each step made her back flared in pain.

-Thirty Minutes Later-

Naruto sighed tiredly as he landed in the middle of a familiar forest clearing and sat down, raising a clawed hand to rub his head in a vain attempt to stave off the headache he felt forming.

"Dammit," He muttered under his breath, anger and regret in his voice as he clenched his free hand. "Why do you have to be so goddamn stubborn?"

"Are you talking about yourself or Rika?" Renamon asked as she appeared behind him in a sitting position, her back pressed against his.

"Both." Was the whiskered blonde's blunt reply as he leaned against the foxy digimon. "Let me guess, you are here to see if I can fix whatever it was I did to Rika's digivice."

"That would be preferable, yes."

"Well sorry but I don't even know what I did, let alone how to undo it." Naruto stated while staring down at the digivice embedded in the back of his hand.

"Then you will just have to take responsibility." Renamon retorted, making Naruto look back at her with a raised brow and narrowed eyes.

"And what exactly do you mean by that?"

Matching his gaze, Renamon reached over and grabbed his hand with the digivice in it, intentionally rubbing her fingers over the deceptively powerful tool. "I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about."

"Really? Not even a wild digimon for five whole minutes and you're already trying to make me your Tamer?" Naruto asked dully while trying to pull his hand free, only for the fix digimon to tighten her grasp.

"'A girl's gotta keep her options open' as humans would say," Renamon said with a shrug before flipping over Naruto and landing in front of him so they were face to face. "Besides, unless I heard wrong, Rika was the one to abandon me. So should I really feel bad about moving on to someone else?"

"It was an accident Renamon, and even if I wanted to be your Tamer I can't, I'm already Jeri's partner." Naruto said while once again trying to pull his hand free to no avail.

"Accident or not, that doesn't change the fact she still did it or how I am in need of a Tamer," She countered with a smirk. "And who's says you can't be both?"

Gritting his teeth in annoyance, the whiskered blonde finally managed to yank his arm free and promptly stood up. "Just drop it Renamon, I'm not gonna be your-Oof!" Naruto started to say, only to be cut off when Renamon suddenly tackled him across the field.

"Bada-Boom!"

A good thing too as it was just in time to avoid the barrage of pinkish red fireballs that peppered the area, leaving small craters and scorchmarks.

"…Thanks." Naruto muttered after a small pause.

"Dammit!" A somewhat high-pitched male voice yelled angrily as the short form of Impmon stepped into the clearing with an absolutely livid expression. "I finally found ya! I'm gonna roast ya bastard for what ya did to me!"

"You know this Impmon?" Renamon asked Naruto as they got back to their feet, to which Naruto shook his head

"Never seen him before."

"Oh really?!" Impmon exclaimed as he stopped walking and glared at Naruto hatefully, several more fireballs forming on his fingertips. "So ya don't remember zapping mah head last night!? Cause I sure as hell do! Bada-Boom!"

"Sorry but you definitely got the wrong guy then. Last night I was busy trying not to get snacked on by a Sangloupmon." Naruto said, raising a brow at what the virus digimon said while jumping out of the way of the new rain of fireballs.

"Bullshit! I know it was you!" The imp yelled as he continued to fire at the blonde, completely ignoring Renamon who quickly noticed this and simply watched from the sidelines. "Did you really think that just because ya changed your colors doesn't mean I wouldn't recognize ya?!"

"Again, no idea what you're talking about." Naruto stated before suddenly going from dodging to charging straight at Impmon, surprising the virus type.

"Gah, stay away! Bada-Boom! Bada-Boom! INFERNAL FUNNEL!" Impmon yelled as he launched attack after attack at the approaching blonde. While easily avoiding the smaller spheres of flame, Naruto was briefly caught by surprise when the imp fired a massive torrent of fire and ice at him, thus unable to get out of the way as it washed over him at near point-blank range.

Panting heavily as the storm of death died away, Impmon let his arms fall to his sides as sweat poured down his brow. "Hahaha! How do ya like that ya cocky bastard!? I put everything I had into… that… What the hell!?"

The digital imp's question was directed towards the smoldering log that currently lay on the ground in front of him with no sign of Naruto anywhe-

"Rasengan!" Impmon only had enough time to recognize the voice of his opponent from behind him before Naruto smashed the glowing sphere in his hand against the digimon's back. Luckily for said imp though, this sphere had much less power in it then it normally would so when the attacked detonated like with Snimon, he was merely sent flying into a nearby tree while Naruto anchored himself in place with chakra.

Groaning in pain, Impmon peeled his face out of the indent he made in the tree and weakly spat out a mouthful of bark before falling to the ground with a grunt.

"Well then," Naruto started as he stood over the defeated digimon with a serious gaze. "Now will explain what the hell that was all about… Impmon was it?"

"Ugh… Bada…boom…" The imp muttered out while weakly raising his hand with a tiny ball of flame, only for it to putter out a second later as the limb fell back to the ground. "…Grrr… I'll get ya back… for what ya did… if it's the last thing I do."

Sighing in annoyance as his eyebrow started to twitch, Naruto grabbed the digimon by the bandana around his neck and hoisted him up to eyelevel. "Okay seriously, what the fuck are you talking about? I've never even seen you before and yet you keep talking about something I supposedly did to you. Either you start making sense right now or I'll pummel your ass across this clearing a second time."

This statement seemed to do the trick as Impmon stopped moving and blinked a few times before his gaze narrowed as he stared straight into Naruto's eyes.

…

"Ah dammit… ya really aren't the bastard that jumped me last night, ya don't have the same douche 'I'm betta then ya' look in your eyes." Impmon groaned after a full minute of silence, his whole body seeming to deflate a bit upon realizing this.

"That's what I've been saying this whole time." Naruto said with a roll of his eyes as he set the virus digimon back down on his feet and taking a few steps back.

"Well excuse me but it's not mah fault ya look just like the bastard that tried to roast mah brains," Impmon huffed as he dusted himself off, calming down a lot now that he knew this wasn't the Mon he was after. "How was I supposed to know that there was more then one of ya around this stinking city?"

"There shouldn't be, he's one of a kind." Renamon said from the sidelines, gaining the imp's attention as he looked at her with what she assumed was supposed to be a suave expression.

"Hate to break it to ya hot stuff, but if he's telling the truth than you aren't," Impmon stated confidently… that faltered slightly as a thought suddenly hit him. "Well… unless the guy who jumped me was a Chamemon. Would explain the color difference now that I think about it."

"Chamemon?" Naruto repeated questioningly towards Renamon.

"Champion level digimon capable of imitating the forms of other digimon almost perfectly." She explained, getting her fellow blonde to frown deeply.

"Great, so there's some jerk running around that looks just like me?"

"Not entirely, while they can change their forms with ease a flaw in their coding prevents them from being able to do the same with colors for some reason," Renamon said with a shake of her head before turning her attention back towards Impmon. "Can you tell us anything about this Chamemon?"

"Well toots, last I saw he looked just like this guy," Impmon said, pointing at Naruto while not-so-casually stepping back from the pair. What? Did you forget what most digimon do to other digimon on a daily basis? He knew that he stood no chance in a fight right now, so his only option was to delay, hopefully appease them with some information, then flee. "He stuck to the shadows though, so best I can tell you appearance wise is he had purple fur on his arm and glowing blood red eyes that feel like they can pierce right through ya with just a look."

As he spoke, Impmon couldn't help but shiver slightly as he remembered those crimson orbs when they were boring into him.

'Huh, sounds kinda like the Kyuubi,' Naruto thought with a tiny smirk, remembering the times he'd stared down the massive beast sealed in his gut. If there was one compliment he was willing to give the fox, it was that he definitely knew how to scare the shit out of someone with just a look. 'Though is voice helps a bit I guess with how-'

"Oh, and his voice was really gravelly and deep, like ridiculously so for a bastard his size."

'-Deep and gravelly it is… wait, what?' Naruto cut himself off midsentence, his eyes widening slightly when his brain registered what the virus digimon just said. "Say that again."

Blinking a few times in surprise at the request, Impmon didn't respond right away. "Uuuh, he's got a really deep voice, almost booming in a way, like he was speaking through a megaphone yet without it actually being loud." He said after recovering, struggling slightly to come up with a good way to describe it.

'Why does that sound so familiar?' Renamon thought before shaking it off as she turned her attention back to her fellow blonde and couldn't help but quirk a brow when she noticed Naruto gain an incredibly nervous look on his face.

That brow promptly rose even higher a second later when the whiskered blonde seemingly zoned out, his face losing all emotion for several moments. Her curiosity starting to get the better of her, the foxy digimon reached over to get the boy's attention-

*Fwoosh*

…Only to freeze mid-way when Naruto suddenly snapped out of his stupor with a horrified look on his face before sprinting out of the clearing at such a high speed the ground beneath him cratered and created a powerful gale of wind that buffeted the area.

Renamon wasn't an experienced digimon for nothing though, and quickly shook off her surprise so she could follow after the blonde.

…

"Sheesh, what's got them in such a hurry? Was it something I said?" Impmon wondered aloud, before shrugging to himself and wandering off to go nurse his wounds and plot revenge… especially the latter.

Meanwhile, back with Naruto, he was running as fast as he physically could, panic and worry in his eyes. The reason for this…

-Seal-

Deep within the sewer-like tunnels of Naruto's mindscape was a massive gate held shut by a sheet of paper with the kanji 'Seal' written on it. And behind this massive gateway, in a dimly lit cage easily big enough to hold a few skyscrapers, was NOT a certain several story tall nine-tailed fox.

Instead, there was just an equally large blob of incohesive transparent red energy floating in the exact middle and multiple deep scratches in the bars of the cage.

-Back in Reality-

'How?! How!? How!? This doesn't make sense! The seal is intact so how did he get out!?" Naruto thought as he shot out of the park like a rocket and started zipping around the city like a crazed rocket, not even caring about the multiple people he knocked over or startled in his wake, before shaking his head.

'Forget about that, need to find Rika. Need to get her home. Need to warn Seika-baa-chan. Need to-THERE!'

The whiskered blonde left a shallow trench in the asphalt beneath his feet as he skid to a stop just outside an alleyway when he picked up Rika's scent, something Renamon showed him how to do, and spotted a flash of red in the corner of his eye.

His eyes zeroing in on the source, Naruto felt his blood run cold upon.

Pinned to a wall by a small pitch-black crystal with nothing else attached to it was a familiar red ponytail…

…with the words Come Get Her Ningen scratched into the wall below it.

-End Chapter-

AN: To quote on Michael J Caboose: Bum bum bum… Cliffhanger! Anyway I hope you all enjoyed the new (Albeit short) chapter for Hybrid Tamer. Thank you for reading and please review.