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Humon?

-Chapter 14-

-Last Time-

"Now that that's over with, time to sleep." Mimi stated as she walked over to the closest patch of soft ground, plopped herself down, and almost instantly drifted off into slumber. Izzy didn't bother to argue, as it was getting dark again already and he was rather tired. Instead of going straight to sleep himself though, he helped Palmon and Tentomon collect palm fronds to make some makeshift beds and blankets first. When they finished, they carefully moved Mimi onto one without waking her or Naruto up, then finally settled in for the night themselves.

…

"Well, that was entertaining," Kitsunemon said in an amused tone, lowering a pair of binoculars from his eyes, leaning back into a fancy looking hammock while sipping from a fruity coconut drink.

-And Now-

The sun slowly rose into the sky, it's warm rays of light piercing through the sky as they traveled to the ground and onto the faces of our sleeping protagonists. Palmon, being a plant based entity, was naturally the first to rise as she felt the vitalizing rays be soaked into her skin. Yawning, she rubbed the remaining vestiges of sleep from her eyes as she pushed off the giant leaf she was using as a blanket.

Standing up, Palmon stumbled over to a small pile of food she and the others had collected before going to sleep last night. Stuffing down several mouthfuls of tasty red berries in a very unladylike fashion, the plant digimon sighed in satisfaction as she patted her belly.

"Well, time to wake up the others," She said to herself aloud as she spun around and headed towards where Mimi was sleeping. As soon as she got close though, Palmon froze, a shocked look spread across her face… before it quickly turned into a huge smile. "Oh my Sovereigns! That is just so adorable!" She gushed at the sight before her.

Sometime during the night, Naruto had digivolved back into his Kitsumon form while still snuggled up to Mimi. Her arms were still wrapped around his chest and arms holding him tightly to her chest, but now his tail had entwined itself around one of her legs. They were laying face to face, and looked like they were about to kiss as their lips were barely an inch apart from each other.

Not wanting to disturb such a 'romantic' moment between the sleeping duo, Palmon left them alone and woke up Izzy and Tentomon instead, making sure to have them stay quiet as she did so. "Uh, why do we have to whisper Palmon? Is there an enemy digimon nearby?" Izzy asked, rapidly becoming alert while glancing side to side, Tentomon floating at his side doing the same.

*Giggle* "Nope, just don't want to disturb the love birds," Palmon said with a smile, pointing to the still snuggling duo. Taking one look at them, Izzy quickly pulled his camera out of his computer bag, glad that he finally got the stupid thing working yesterday, and snapped several pictures.

"Normally I would be completely neutral about this, but even I have to admit that is photo worthy." The computer whizz said as he scrolled through the pictures he took before nodding in satisfaction and putting the camera away.

"We should wake them up now though, it's time to get moving on." Tentomon said, getting a reluctant nod from the plant digimon.

"Yeah, your right, I'll do i-AHh!" *Thump* Palmon had started to say, only to trip over a small root and crash face first into the ground while one of her leafy arms bumped into Mimi's head, causing it to scooch forwards.

"Hehe oops, guess I should have… watched…my…" The plant digimon had once again started to talk as she stood up and dusted herself off, only to trail off as her gaze settled back on Mimi and Naruto. "…oops…"

Mimi's mind slowly started to kick into gear as the sun's rays struck her face with a gentle warmth. With her eyes still closed, the pink loving girl's sleep addled brain sluggishly processed an odd feeling of something warm and soft pressed against her lips. Eyebrows furrowing in confusion, her eyes slowly flickered open, her vision slightly blurry.

Blinking a few times to clear it up, Mimi froze up as she finally managed to make out Naruto's sleeping face right in front of her. Suddenly having a very good idea what that soft feeling was, she felt her gaze drift downwards against her will until the lower half of her face came into sight.

'OH… MY… GOD!' Mimi mentally screamed as her face glowed crimson, nearly fainting. The soft and warm feeling was Naruto's lips, ever so gently pressing onto her own, every breath he took sucking the air out of her mouth then blowing it back in.

After a minute of eternity, she finally regained her wits enough to break the kiss and scramble backwards until she pumped into a tree. Mimi held a hand over her chest, her heart pounding so hard it was almost like it was trying to burst out of her chest. Looking around rapidly, her face, by some miracle, turned even redder as she saw Izzy, Tentomon, and Palmon all standing nearby looking at her with flabbergasted faces.

"I… he… we… It's not what it looks like!" She barely managed to sputter out while waving her arms frantically. Unfortunately for her, all that yelling caused Naruto to stir, his head slowly rising from the makeshift bed with a tired grunt.

"Wha's happing, sumtheng wong?" He asked with a heavy slur as he looked around blearily.

"NO! No! Nothing is wrong! Totally fine! Everything is totally fine!" Mimi shrieked out, waving her hands even more wildly as Naruto looked right at her with a befuddled expression. Slowly standing up and rubbing one of his eyes idly, Naruto meandered over to where Mimi was sitting.

"Are you sure? You look like you have a fever," He said much more clearly while casually pressing his forehead against the blushing girl's one. Mimi looked about ready to faint as she was forced to look the blonde right in his sleepy eyes for several seconds, before sighing in relief when he finally backed off. "Huh, no fever, guess you really are okay then."

"Yes, just like I said, completely fine!" Mimi said with a nervous smile, making Naruto tilt his head in confusion before shrugging it off and stumbling over to the pile of food was and digging in. Mimi meanwhile took several more deep breaths before finally getting her heart rate back under control.

After another minute or so of relaxing breaths, she got up on her slightly unsteady legs and also started helping herself to some of the food while failing to fight down a small blush from being so close to Naruto right after… that! Izzy and Tentomon joined them shortly after that and soon all the food was devoured.

The group then went back to the edge of the island, watching as they got closer and closer to the tall mass of land that was Infinity Mountain. "Judging by the height of the waves, the length of the shadows, and the amount of rapid erosion taken place, we should reach our destination in roughly three hours and eleven minutes." Izzy stated as he typed away at his laptop, which just like his camera he'd managed to get working properly without having to plug it in.

"I'm… not gonna even try to pretend I know how you got that answer but okay then. Anyone up for I Spy?" Naruto suggested as he sat down.

-Three hours later-

"I spy with my little eye… something gree-"

"It's a tree," Naruto and Mimi cut Palmon off at the same time in a dull tone as they sat at the edge of the island. After sitting around doing nothing for the last few hours, the duo were quite effectively bored out of their minds.

"Wha? How'd you guess so fast?" Palmon asked in a shocked tone as she almost fell over from her spot.

"Most likely cause it's the same thing you've chosen every single time it's been your turn." Izzy stated as he typed away at his computer with Tentomon peering over his shoulder like usual, making Palmon wilt a little in embarrassment.

Mimi sighed as she idly kicked her legs while snuggling Naruto's tail, covered in small amounts of dust and a few new scratches and scrapes. The slightest of blushes still adorned across her cheeks which would get rapidly deeper whenever she looked at Naruto as that mornings incident replayed through her mind. What made it worse was she couldn't simply put some distance between them until she cooled off. She had tried to earlier and… it didn't end well.

-Two hours, forty five minutes earlier-

"I spy with my little eye… something pretty," Naruto said as he casually looked around the cliffside before turning towards Mimi. The brunette felt her cheeks light up again, the traitorous part of her mind quickly drawing up a fantasy that it was her he was talking about. Shaking her head slightly to get the thoughts out of her head, unsuccessfully, she pointed to a collection of trees with blooming yellow flowers without saying a word.

"Nope, but you're close Mimi-chan!" Naruto said with a shake of his head and a big smile as he shifted his gaze to Palmon, missing as Mimi's face went nuclear.

"I-I need to go, uh…" Mimi fumbled with her words as she looked away. Trying to think of a reason to leave before Naruto noticed her blush again when she noticed her hands, her still blood encrusted hands. "…go wash my hands! Their still all yucky and ewwy! Bye!"

Naruto and Palmon barely had time to blink before Mimi whisk away into the jungle and out of sight. "Huh, guess she really wanted to wash her hands," Naruto said as he and Palmon stared in the direction she vanished into. "And no Palmon, it isn't the rocks over there."

"Drat,"

Mimi sighed deeply as she stopped after putting a good distance between herself and the others. Conveniently, she'd just happen to have reached a small bubbling brook and knelt down to actually wash her hands.

Cringing slightly as she gingerly dipped her hands into the cold flowing liquid, the girl did her best to scrub off the dried blood.

"I could snap that pretty little neck of yours without so much as a second thought."

"AAAH!" Mimi shrieked and fell back, looking all around herself in terror as she heard that terrifying voice again. Scrambling backwards until she hit a tree, her eyes darted all over the place as she tried to find the source of the voice, only to freeze up entirely as she felt something coarse but fluffy slowly wrap itself around her neck.

"I will not hesitate to put you in more agony then you could ever imagine."

Mimi's hands shot up to her throat, ready to fight just for the right to breathe, only to end up clasping at nothing but her exposed and still bruised throat with a wince. Mimi didn't even have time to ponder this though, as she felt a hot breath hit the side of her face as something metallic brushed against her ear and whispered.

"Am. I. Clear?"

To terrified to scream, Mimi just shot from the tree like a bullet and started to run only to end up tripping due to wearing Naruto's shoes still and crashing to the ground. Gasping in fear, she looked back expecting to see that horrible digimon again, only to be once again greeted with nothing. Unable to take it anymore, the poor girl finally broke down into tears as she curled into a ball.

-Present-

Thankfully for her, Izzy had gone looking for after about five minutes and had immediately brought her shivering form back to the others where she had immediately latched onto Naruto's tail. While not as effective as holding Naruto in his in-training form, it helped to calm her down enough to function normally again. Meanwhile, the computer genius quelled Naruto's worry by lying about her being frightened by a large spider digimon that had passed by while she was washing.

Sadly enough, it was her own shame at being so terrified just by being alone that helped stop the majority of the embarrassment she felt by being near Naruto.

"Finally! We're here!" Mimi was broken out of her thoughts by Naruto's exclamation. Looking up, she and the others were greeted by the sight of Infinity Mountain getting ever closer. The only problem was that another mass of land was floating right in their path.

"Everyone back away from the edge and brace for impact!" Izzy yelled. Grabbing onto nearby trees, everyone was ready for the inevitable collision, only to blink in shock as their island slowed down dramatically before gently connecting to the new area.

"This place just keeps bringing up more and more questions." Izzy said in a fascinated tone as he examined the collision area, completely missing the two dull looks Mimi and Naruto were sending him. Looking at each-other, they both nodded before walking to either side of the red-head and lifting him up by his arms.

"Hey! What are you doing! Put me down!" The duo ignored Izzy's indignant shouts and demands in favor of walking onwards, not wanting to deal with the genius kid getting caught up in his quest for knowledge. Palmon and Tentomon looked at the three then at each-other before shrugging their shoulders and following.

*BOOM!*

The whole group paused as they heard a loud explosion in the distance followed by a large cloud of black smoke. "How much you wanna bet that that was the others?"

-End Chapter-

AN: A filler chapter, I'm sorry but I felt that I needed to add in some more character development and to emphasis just how bad Mimi's mental condition is given that I've mostly glossed over it in the last chapters. Thank you for reading and please review.