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Humon?

-Chapter 8-

Naruto groaned tiredly as a bright light shined on his eyelids. With a yawn, he pulled his blanket around himself tighter and nuzzled deep into his pillow making it to giggle softly.

…

'Wait a second, pillows don't giggle,' He thought blearily as his eyes flickered open to reveal nothing but pink. Confused, Naruto looked up and saw Mimi's lightly blushing face. "Mimi? When did you get so big?" He asked as he craned his neck, then blinked in confusion when his voice sounded much higher than usual. "And why do I sound so funny?"

"Um, Naruto," Tai started to say as his head popped up by Mimi's shoulder, only to get cut off.

"Tai!? You're a giant now too!" Naruto exclaimed, getting a nervous look from the boy.

"Actually, we are the same height and mass as when you last made visual contact with us." Izzy said as he and Tentomon came into sight from behind Naruto.

Pausing to mentally translate what the computer whizz said, his eye's widened dramatically once it hit him. "But that would mean…" Naruto trailed off as he finally looked down and saw his hands. Panicking, he squirmed around wildly trying to see himself more clearly, causing Mimi to lose her grip on him. As he landed on the ground, he continued to look himself over before finally screaming out, "WHY THE HELL AM I A CHIBI!?"

Sure enough, Naruto now stood at exactly one foot tall from foot to ear tip, with a somewhat large head with big round eyes, short stubby arms with little nubs for fingers, equally short legs that had barely seeable feet, and an extremely fluffy tail that was a few inches bigger than he was. His outfit had changed to a simple black t-shirt with an orange spiral in the middle, orange pants, miniscule black shoes, and a black and orange harness that kept his sealing scroll strapped to his back. All in all, he looked absolutely adorable, even as he rolled around on the ground freaking out.

It took nearly ten minutes for the now chibified blonde to get it all out of his system, which by then the rest of the kids and their digimon minus Joe and Gomamon shown themselves and witnessed his little episode. Taking several deep breaths to help himself calm down, Naruto slowly got up, wobbling a bit as he struggled to balance on his tiny legs.

"Okay… I'm good… I'm fine… … … Now can someone explain what the hell happened to me?" He asked while attempting to walk towards them only to end up falling backwards after a few steps from the weight of his tail. Unable to get up, he flailed his arms and legs uselessly, making him look like a turtle that's been flipped on its side. "And could somebody help me!?"

Faster than anyone else could react, Mimi leaned down and scooped him up into her arms and held him tightly to her chest. Surprised by his position, Naruto squirmed around trying to get free, again to no avail, before sighing and resigning himself to his fate. "Not what I meant exactly, but I guess it will do for now." He mumbled to himself.

What he didn't know, do to him being to busy panicking at the time, was that the whole time he'd been on the ground Mimi's face had become a mask of anxiety and her body shook slightly. He also missed how the instant she had him in her arms again though, she seemed to immediately relax albeit slightly flustered. While he was utterly oblivious, everyone else apart from T.K. noticed the odd behavior.

While the majority of them just shrugged it off as concern for Naruto, Izzy's gaze narrowed as a much more serious possibility crossed his mind. Since they had higher things to be concerned about for the moment though, the computer whizz mentally filed away the thoughts.

As they continued walking, the group filled Naruto in on about what happened after he'd passed out. After he had fought the Kyuubi, or Kitsunemon as they knew him, they had returned to the hot-spring to rest for the night, making sure to take turns as lookouts in case of more trouble. Unfortunately, while on their shift, Joe and Gomamon had the ever-brilliant idea to try and climb Infinity Mountain by themselves to 'ensure it was safe' while everyone else was sleeping.

Naturally, they had yet to return so the rest of the group now found themselves halfway up of said mountain looking for the idiots. "You still haven't answered my question." Naruto said, his eyebrow starting to twitch from lack of answers.

"My best theory is that when you digivolved last night it exhausted your current reserves of energy, forcing you to revert to a weakened state to recuper… You tired yourself out and shrank, you should return to normal after resting for a while." He began explaining before quickly simplifying himself when he noticed the blank/annoyed look Naruto was sending.

Seemingly satisfied with the answer, Naruto settled into Mimi's hold with a sigh. "It better be temporary. Now let's go find those two dumb-dumbs."

*Boom* "AHHH!"

"… … seriously?"

Joe and Gomamon were several yards above them, screaming at the top of their lungs as they were chased by a large white horse-like digimon with tattered grey wings, wearing a horned blood-red helmet, and had a large black gear sticking out of its back. The horse digimon, Unimon, was clearly tired of said chase as with an audible yell of 'Aerial Attack' it blasted the ground in front of them with a sphere of energy shot from its mouth, effectively cutting off their escape.

"Their trapped! We need to get up there now!" Tai yelled as they watched Unimon circle around the duo like a cat toying with a mouse before it pounces. Sora gripped her digivice tightly in her bandaged hand and looked to Biyomon who nodded.

"Biyomon digivolve to… Birdramon!"

Sora, Tai, and Agumon clasped onto the giant fire-bird's legs as she took off into the air. "Alright, my tu-*crash*" Tentomon was getting ready to digivolve himself, but was cut off as Birdramon recklessly rammed into Unimon, accidently causing a rockslide.

"Get to cover!" Matt yelled as the group scrambled apart to get out of the way.

Mimi, Naruto, Palmon, and Izzy took cover behind an outcropping as the avalanche of stone slid past, shielding their faces the best they could as dust was kicked up into the air and stung their eyes. Once it passed and everything settled, all four of them could be seen coughing heavily as their bodies desperately tried to clear their lungs.

After recovering for the most part, they remained in place as several more explosions and impacts could be heard. While they sat there, Palmon and Izzy helped each-other pull out several small shards of rock that had dug into their bodies. Naruto did the same with Mimi, he himself completely fine as Mimi had ended up covering his entire small form with her own. Though the whole thing was a somewhat awkward as she still refused to let him go the entire time, which Izzy silently noted.

Yanking out the last fragment from her arm, Naruto suddenly slid to the ground when her grip loosened on reflex. Wobbling slightly, he just managed to keep himself balanced before pulling out his scroll and unsealing a few bits of cloth, passing some to the other two before stumbling back over to Mimi and helping her wrap her own wounds.

By the time he finished, the sounds of battle had stopped entirely, allowing the quartet to cautiously peek out from their cover. Seeing that the coast was clear, Naruto reluctantly allowed Mimi to hold him again as he still couldn't walk well by himself in his current state.

Clambering over and maneuvering around the debris, they managed to regroup with Matt, T.K., Gabumon, Tentomon, and Patamon. They were in the same condition with the addition of a small gash on Matt's forehead. After Naruto passed out some more bandages, they had Tentomon scout for a safe path up the mountain.

While they hiked, Naruto grew slightly bored and decided to check if his jutsus would still work in his current condition. The first thing he tested was his henge, which worked fine but startled Mimi when the chibi fox boy she was holding suddenly turned into T.K. for a few seconds in a puff of smoke before turning back, earning him a bonk on the head. Kage Bunshin also worked but was tired out from making just five clones.

When they did reach the top, it was to the sight of Tai, Sora, Agumon, Biyomon, and Gomamon peering into the distance with awe as Joe kneeled on the ground moping and slightly cradling his arm. Biyomon was the first to hear them approaching and turn to greet them only to end up squawking in surprise as she was dogpiled by the previously mentioned clones.

"This is for almost turning us into pancakes!" They cried simultaneously while pummeling away at the pink bird, drawing the others' attention to the somewhat comical sight. Sora was about to help her partner out, but paused as she heard them yelling about rockslides and close calls. Looking to the others for clarification, she flinched when she caught sight of their haggard and beat up appearances.

"Uhhh, hey guys, what have you been up too?" She asked nervously, though she had a pretty good idea at the answer from what the writhing pile of blondes in front of her were yelling.

"Oh, nothing much. Just having a relaxing climb, enjoying the view, almost getting crushed by falling rocks. You know, the usual." Matt said in a casually sarcastic tone as everyone else glared at the sheepish girl and the equally nervous Agumon and Tai.

"…oops?" Tai's response was obviously not satisfactory as the clone squad swarmed him next, leaving a dizzy and ruffled up Biyomon laying on the ground. Sora and Agumon tried to avoid their own impending doom but failed epically as they clones split up, two charging the girl while three tackled the digimon. Meanwhile, the original Naruto and the rest of the group went over to Joe and saw what he was upset about.

"We're on an island? Well that's just great, we've been wasting our time all along." Matt grumbled while rubbing his temple.

"I knew we were lost, I told you all we were lost, and now we're lost and stranded." Joe muttered back as he hugged his knees, accidentally pushing up his sleeve and allowing them to see the large bruise forming on his shoulder.

Watching as the second oldest of the group slowly rocked back and forth in a fetal position caused the others to sweat-drop. "I think Joe broke." Gomamon said bluntly as he not-so-gently poked the boy with one of his claws without response.

While they talked, a scuffed-up Tai stumbled to the edge with a piece of paper and a pen that he got from who knows where and started drawing as a just as battered Agumon peered over his shoulder curiously. This soon got the others' attention, whom went over to see what he was doing.

"What… the hell… is that?" Naruto asked with a deadpan, a look most of the other shared as they looked at the scribbled mess on the page.

"A map of the island so we don't get lost." At Tai's explanation, the deadpans deepened and large sweat-drops appeared as Joe's ranting about being lost got louder.

"There is no question man, you are the dude of doodles." Matt was on fire today with his witty remarks today.

"If you follow that map, it'll lead right to a headache." Sora not far behind as she dusted herself off from her beatdown.

"Hey, at least I can read it and that's all that matters!" Tai shot back as he folded up the 'map' and tucked it into his shirt pocket while standing up. "Let's go, we should get down from here before someone gets hur- seriously hurt, before someone gets seriously hurt." He corrected as everyone gave him pointed looks.

After getting Joe to snap out of his panicked state, the group began their long trek back down the mountain. They didn't get far though, not even reaching the path yet, when a loud growl came from ahead of them causing them to freeze. "W-w-w-w-what w-was that?" Mimi asked in a quiet voice as she clutched Naruto tightly to her chest.

Her question was swiftly answered as a tall, muscular, humanoid lion digimon rounded the corner. It had bright orange fur and a blonde mane, it wore black pants and had black belts wrapped around it right forearm and hand, a sword strapped horizontally across it's lower back, and blank eyes that stared at nothing.

"Oh, it's just Leomon, he's a good digimon, a just and fair leader." Gabumon said as he happily waved to the newcomer.

"He sure has big teeth." Sora commented nervously as he got closer and closer to the group.

"Yeah, but he mainly uses them for smiling, he's a great guy once you get to kno-"

"Must capture the children." Leomon stated in a cold an emotionless voice.

"… … … …crud."

-End Chapter-

AN: First thing, Mimi does not have princess fever! Her need to have to hold Chibi-Naruto is not romance related at all and will be explained fully next chapter. Other than that, thank you all for your suggestions for Naruto's champion form name, I honestly had a bit of trouble picking the one I thought was best and that one is… *Insert drumroll* … Hcharper131 with Teumesemon. Thank you for reading and please review.