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Early update since it's my Mother's Birthday and I got my Highschool Diploma

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Humon?

-Chapter 10-

-Baths, Girls Side-

Sora, Mimi, Palmon, and Biyomon were all relaxing inside the hot water inside an artificial hot spring made of dull grey rock. Actually, relaxing may be a bit of a stretch. Mimi looked like she was about to have a panic attack, Palmon was worrying over Mimi, Biyomon looked confused, and Sora was thinking about the conversation she and Izzy had.

-Flashback-

"Can I speak with you? Privately?" Izzy asked, surprising Sora and the others but she agreed and they went into a nearby room.

"As I'm sure you noticed just now, Mimi has been acting… peculiar." Izzy stated as he paced the room.

"Uh, yeah, I guess so." Sora had noted the odd behavior, but at the same time, she'd only known Mimi for a few days now. Not exactly a lot of time to learn all of a person's quirks and behaviors, so she had simply shrugged it off as a combination exhaustion and stress.

"Have you ever heard of security blanket syndrome?"

"What now?"

*Sigh* "Security Blanket Syndrome, a common mental disorder where someone who has gone through a traumatic incident, latches onto a certain item, usually a blanket or stuffed animal, that they personify as a sign of safety and security." Izzy explained,

"Ooookay, and this is relevant how?"

"I believe Mimi as a stage two, borderline stage three case of this."

"I don't know what that means, but it sounds bad."

-End Flashback-

It was bad. Stage two was where the person would be highly uncomfortable in most situation without the item, Chibi-Naruto in this case, nearby at almost all times. Stage three is when the person would refuse to relinquish the item no matter what.

Sora at first thought Izzy was simply exaggerating, but then she saw Mimi's reaction when they went to the changing rooms.

-Flashback 2-

"Whoa, Mimi, I can't go in here! Put me down!" Naruto exclaimed as Mimi was about to enter the changing rooms with the foxy chibi in her arms still.

"Huh, what?" Mimi asked confused as she looked down at Naruto then up at the changing room before a small blush and a look of conflict crossed her face. "Um… um... um… well… I doubt it would… I'm sure it's fine."

Naruto's entire face burnt crimson. "What?!" He yelled out, then calmed down a few seconds later. "Oh, I get it. Your pranking me. Gotta admit, that was a good one."

This was the scene Sora walked into as she and Izzy finished talking. She was stunned to hear Mimi trying to reason taking Naruto into the changing room with her. "Not so farfetched now, is it?" Izzy whispered to her before walking over. "Hey Mimi, Naruto, what's up?" He asked casually as if he hadn't seen what just happened.

"Oh, hey Izzy Mimi was just pulling a good prank on me, you should have seen it." Naruto said as he finally managed to worm his way out of her grip and land on the floor with a dramatic bow. Now that she was paying attention to it, Sora easily saw what Izzy was talking about as Mimi quickly became uneasy the moment Naruto was out of her grip.

-End Flashback-

The entire time they were undressing till now Mimi had stayed the same, acting nervous, twitchy, and easily startled. Though, being honest with herself, she couldn't exactly blame her after the last few days they had. Just looking at her own hands reminded Sora of that, with the numerous deep scratches and cut that she was currently making sure were entirely clean.

Mimi was doing similarly with her own injuries along her arms and side, making Sora wince internally as it was her cockamamie idea that caused those. Another thing she noticed was that without the strap from her hat blocking the view, Sora could see light bruising around the brunette's throat, likely caused from her getting nabbed by Kitsunemon.

Izzy had suggested that being a girl herself (she'd almost slapped him for sounding sexist), she might be able to get Mimi to talk to her about what was wrong. Of course, that was all nice in theory, but she had no idea how to actually approach on this matter. She wasn't a phycologist for Christ's sake!

Panicking at what to do, Sora ended up saying, "Mimi, calm down. You're acting like your own shadows about to jump up and eat you." 'Stupid brain! You are useless!' She ranted mentally as she saw Mimi become defensive.

"Huh, Whatever d-do you mean, I-I'm completely r-relaxed." Mimi said unconvincingly with a fake smile. Knowing she already annihilated any chance for a gentle approach, Sora sighed as she continued with the blunt truth.

"No, you're not Mimi. In fact, you're anything but relaxed," Grabbing her by the shoulders, she forced Mimi to look down at the water and see her reflection. "Does that look like someone who's relaxed to you?"

Mimi didn't respond, just sitting there quietly as she stared at her reflection. "Ever since last night, you've been skittish, quiet, and just plain scared looking whenever Naruto's further than three feet away and not mini sized. I know we haven't known each-other very long, but I do consider you a friend and as a friend I am really starting to worry about you." Sora told her as she placed a hand on Mimi's shoulder. "What I'm trying to say is that I want to help, but I can't do that if you keep denying that somethings wrong."

Silence once again filled the area other than the sounds drifting over from the boy's side and some light splashing as Palmon and Biyomon moved to the other side of the bath to give the two some space. "I-I-I… I'm sorry, I-I didn't m-mean to worry you." Mimi stuttered softly, her whole body shivering slightly despite the hot water.

"It's okay, now can you please tell me what's wrong, did something happen while you were.." Sora trailed off as she gestured to Mimi's neck, and the girl nodded slowly.

"I-It's just, it-it-it… it w-was s-so hor-horrible!" Mimi suddenly exclaimed as she burst out into tears while she told Sora what happened.

-Flashback-

Mimi struggled desperately to pull off the fluffy appendage that was constricted around her throat as she was dragged along the snow-covered ground. It wasn't long though, before she was hoisted into the air and was brought face to face with Kitsunemon.

"Hello, welcome to my care," He said in a mockingly kind tone as he tightened the grip around her throat for a brief few seconds before slackening it, leaving her coughing heavily. "Now, before I have to deal with any possible whining, bitching, or screaming, I would like to make something clear."

Mimi had only just managed to regain her breath when an oppressive feeling flooded over her and stole it away again. She felt an all-encompassing primal fear drill itself into her body. Her skin paled rapidly as she trembled in fright, every fiber of her being told her to get as far away from this creature as quickly as possible.

Gruesome images flashed in her, images of herself dying in horrible and painful ways, her head getting torn off, her neck being snapped all the way around, being impaled by the various other tails that surrounded, having her limbs ripped off one at a time.

Just as quickly as these images started though, they stopped, but that oppressive pressure remained, threatening to make her heart burst itself out of her chest. "If you so much as mildly annoy me, I will not hesitate to put you in more agony then you could ever imagine before reducing you to a bloody smear on the ground." Once again, the tail around her throat tightened to dangerous levels, causing her to grasp at her throat desperately.

"If I felt so inclined, I could snap that pretty little neck of yours without so much as a second thought." The tail slacked again just as she was starting to turn blue. "So, you will not move, you will not speak, and you will not irritate me. Am. I. Clear?"

-End Flashback-

"…oh my god," Sora said in horror as she covered her mouth with her hands. Her mind was running a mile a minute as it visualized what the girl next to her described. Mimi herself had completely broken down into sobs as she finished speaking, eyes already bloodshot as she shook violently.

"J-just t-t-thinking abo-about it m-makes me- makes me…" Mimi didn't finish as she suddenly rushed over to the side of the bath and started vomiting. In an instant Palmon was beside her again, stroking the girl's back softly as she emptied out her stomach.

For several minutes, the only sounds to be heard were the distorted voices from the boys' side, retching, and the sickly spattering of puke hitting the floor. Finally, the vomiting died down to dry heaving then stopped all together as Mimi settled back into the bath slowly, wiping off a small bit of bile that had trailed down her chin. Moving slowly closer, Sora gently gripped her shoulder again and asked. "Are you okay?" While externally she kept up the same look of kindness and support internally… 'Are you okay!? Are you serious, brain!? Can you actually work right for once! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!'

"Y-yeah actually," Mimi's answer knocked Sora out of her mental reprimand of herself. Now that she was paying attention, she could see that Mimi did look, if only slightly, less tense, not twitching as much while breathing a little easier. "It… it was n-nice to finally get that off my c-chest." She admitted, her voice slightly hoarse from puking, but she was barely stuttering now as she gave Sora a small hug. "Thank you,"

"I really didn't do anything, but I'm glad you're at least feeling somewhat better." Sora said, hugging the girl back, "I think we're clean enough now, how about we finish up here and meet with the others?" Sora had barely even finished speaking when Mimi shot out of the water and wrapped a towel around her waist. "…guess I should have expected as much." Sora said to herself with a sigh. Mimi may be feeling a bit better, but she was clearly nowhere near fully recovered from what happened.

Heading into the changing room herself with Biyomon and Palmon not far behind, the trio agreed amongst themselves not to tell the others about what happened to respect Mimi's privacy. Now dressed up in robes they found, they met up with the boys inside the main room again, with Mimi walking straight to Naruto and scooping him back up into her arms, visible relaxing as she did so. Naruto didn't complain as he was still tired from over using his stronger form, instead he just made himself comfortable in her hold, and started dozing.

"So, how did it go?" Izzy asked quietly while casually walking up to her.

"It went okay… I think." Sora responded, the duo sticking to the back of the group as they looked for somewhere to sleep for the night.

"You think?"

"Trust me, you really, really don't want to know," Her face scrunched up in disgust as even now she couldn't get the imagery her imagination came up with out of her head.

"Noted," Was all Izzy said in return.

Eventually they came across a room full of beds and the group divided up into their respective digimon/human pairs. The only exception to this was Mimi who still held Naruto's sleeping form as she crawled under the blankets with Palmon. "Wow! These beds are absolutely divine!" She said happily as she sank into the soft material.

"I know, the only thing better would be bunk beds!" T.K. cheered as he jumped onto a bed, him and Patamon laughing happily as they bounced.

"Oi, keep it down, Ttebayo. I'm trying to sleep here," Naruto grumbled, raising his head slightly to glare at the noise makers before drifting back to sleep.

"He's got the right idea, I'm exhausted," Joe moaned as he flopped onto his back, "All this walking through burning deserts and starving through jungles has been a real pain."

Surprised when he was met with silence, Joe looked up to see all the other kids sitting on their beds with saddened expressions. It took him a minute to figure out why, and when he did he also grew somber. "We really are a long way from home, aren't we?" No-one answered him as they all were consumed by their thoughts. It was in that silence that they all laid down in their beds, one by one drifting off into uneasy sleep.

-Short Time Later-

"WAKE UP EVERYONE! OGREMON IS HERE!" Tai's voice rang through the air, shocking everyone awake just in time to see the robes they were wearing (in the children's case) and the entire room seemingly shatter like glass before fading into nothing.

"EEEEE!" Mimi and Sora shrieked as they covered themselves with blankets as their underwear was exposed.

"Because together you are strong, I shall use my touch of evil to scatter you throughout the digiworld!" An unknown male voice called as any of them had any chance to react, the beds they were on suddenly started floating and shooting around in the air. Everyone was screaming at the top of their lugs as the beds did hoops, loops, and swirls as they were barely able to catch glimpses of Tai and Agumon facing off against Leomon, Ogremon, and an unknown humanoid digimon with black tattered wings, long arms, and an orange bat symbol across his chest.

Then to all their shock, the island itself suddenly broke apart with a thunderous crack into a dozen or so segments that drifted away, leaving only Infinity Mountain behind. "How is this happening?!" Izzy yelled, only to go unanswered as the beds followed the Islands lead and shot off in random directions across the sea with their screaming passengers.

-End Chapter-

AN: I apologize for the multiple flashbacks and to anyone who thinks the scene with the Kyuubi was too dark. It may seem excessive but remember, Orochimaru could do the exact same thing to trained genin, chuunin, and some jounin with mild effort. Now consider the Kyuubi, who is many, many times more powerful, doing the same against an untrained and slightly pampered civilian. If he was even putting a mild amount of actual effort into it, Mimi's heart would have exploded from fear. Now that that is explained, I have an honest question, where the hell were these kids keeping their clothes during all this and how do they still have them later? Thank you for reading and please review.