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Humon?

-Chapter 16-

-Last Time-

But still, how do we even do that?" Matt asked as he stood up and started pacing. "We're not even sure who's causing this mess, and what if it's a force that's too big for us to handle."

"Well, to answer that first part, Devimon is the main cause of all this evil. To save this island, you will have to defeat him." Leomon stated while pointing to Infinity Mountain.

At this, Tai stood up with a brave face as turned towards said mountain. "Then let's get going. The sooner we get this over with, the sooner we all get to go home."

…

Allowing the binoculars to drop back into his lap, Kitsunemon stood up and pulled a large empty movie theater popcorn bucket out of seemingly nowhere. "Well, best to get a refill before the big finale. Oh! I hope one or two end up dying in the end, that would just make my day." The dark fox digimon said to himself as he walked away.

-And Now-

A grim silence enveloped the group of children and digimon as they marched along a cliffside. It had only been a few minutes ago that they had reached land and started reclimbing Infinity Mountain.

Everyone was on guard as despite it being the middle of the day, the sky was already darkening at an alarming rate and several black gears were flying past them and up the mountain side. The only ones seemingly unaffected were Naruto and Leomon, but if you looked close enough you could see the subtle stiffness in their movements that belied their alertness.

Their worry was justified as just about half way up, the entire mountain started shaking suddenly before a gigantic crashing was heard. Following the sound, everyone's jaw hit the ground as they saw a now ginormous sized Devimon burst out of the mountain top.

"It's him! Devimon!" Leomon yelled as said digimon stood up and stretched out his equally massive wings.

"Damn! He's even bigger than boss toad." Naruto said while gentle rubbing a terrified Mimi's shoulders as she clung to his tail again.

"Classic villain logic, always thinking bigger is better," Izzy stated, shivering slightly with most of the others as Devimon gazed down at the with his glowing red eyes.

"Don't underestimate him," Leomon said, drawing everyone's attention back to him. "The power Devimon now wields is both immense and dangerous."

"Enough with the chit chat, here he comes. Kitsumon digivolve to… Teumesemon!" Naruto stated, digivolving as the others looked up to see that he was right. Devimon had taken to the air and was now rapidly descending to where they were.

Within seconds he arrived, landing in the forest below with a crash, knocking T.K. over from the quakes. Even then, as he stood back up, his full height had him easily towering over them by a few stories.

"I'm pretty sure Naruto has the right idea, you guys should hurry up and digivolve already." Tai said, getting nods from the digimon except Patamon and Leomon. With speed that caught all of them off guard though, Devimon pointed one of his arms at them and released a blast of dark energy. Only Leomon and Naruto, whom was now carrying Mimi as she was the closest to him, were able to avoid the attack in time thanks to their battle honed instincts while everyone else was pushed into the mountain side.

"Do you think me a fool!?" Devimon demanded as he continued to pin the group against the wall with one hand as the other attempted to do the same to Leomon and Naruto. "Did you honestly think I would just stand around and let you reach your full strength!? I shall not play childish games with you! I am much too smart for tha-GAH!"

So focused on his task, the devil themed digimon never noticed as several missile like projectiles flew up into the sky until they were exploding against his back. "Direct hit Ikkakumon!" The familiar voice of Joe called out as him in his boxers and said digimon were seen walking in from the beach.

At the same time Birdramon flew into sight, dropping Sora off by the others before charging at Devimon. "Meteor Wing!" Balls of fire flew from the phoenix like digimon's wings and struck the dazed dark digimon in the chest, making him stumble back a few steps.

"Hurry up guys! We have to hit him all at once!" Sora said while also trying to keep as much of her underwear clad self as hidden as possible.

"You heard the girl! Get your asses moving!" Naruto yelled, landing back down next to them and setting Mimi back down. He didn't bother waiting for a response as he charged back into the fight.

"Agumon digivolve to… Greymon!"

"Gabumon digivolve to… Garurumon!"

"Palmon digivolve to… Togemon!"

"Tentomon digivolve to… Kabuterimon!"

By the time those four had finished digivolving, Naruto was riding along Birdramon's back as he charged up a Seirei-en Rasengan with as much power as he could. "Alright, I'm ready!" He said as he held the brightly glowing flaming sphere in hand.

"Here we go then!" Birdramon called as she divebombed straight at Devimon while he was focused fending off simultaneous attacks from the others. Just as he swatted Togemon and Kabuterimon away and Ogremon emerged from the devil digimon's back to bash a surprised Leomon in the head, Birdramon made a sharp turn in mid-air, launching Naruto at ridiculous speeds.

He flew straight towards Devimon's back, right at where Ogremon was, who was too busy gloating about his master's supposed unstoppable strength to notice the incoming threat in time. With a battle cry that caused Devimon himself to freeze up, the blonde hybrid slammed into his opponent and dug his attack right in the surprised ogre's face.

Naruto smirked as his rasegan literally smashed Ogremon out of Devimon and into the distance with a scream. Now all he had to do was keep up the heat and victory was thei-

PAIN!

Naruto bit his tongue in shock as huge amounts of pain suddenly flared inside his chest, breaking his focus long enough for his attack to disperse. Clutching his chest in agony, he was eft completely open for Devimon who reached through the newly formed hole in his torso and grabbed him before he could recover.

"You have certainly been a major thorn in my side! I may not know what you, but I know what you will be and THAT IS DEAD!" Devimon yelled, throwing Naruto into the mountainside before smashing him with his fist several times.

"Naruto?!" Mimi screamed in horror as she and the other digidestined could only watch as their friend fell to the ground after Ikkakumon drew Devimon's attention away from him. Seeing him standing back up, they were at first relieved to see him standing, only for their eyes to widen as they saw that one of his arms bent at an unnatural angle, most of his tails all crumpled up, and blood was slowly oozing from his lips.

Instead of screaming in pain or outright passing out like a normal person, Naruto simply grit his teeth and snapped his arm back into place and stretched his tails back to normal with several sickening cracks before focusing back on the fight. Greymon, Ikkakumon, and Kabuterimon had devolved back into their rookie forms from taking too much damage while Togemon, Garurumon, and Birdramon looked to be on their last legs.

Devimon himself was covered in bruises and cuts, along with still having a gaping hole in his midsection, but they were already rapidly healing away and he wasn't showing any signs of slowing down any time soon. While trying to think of a way to beat him, Naruto felt his blood run cold as the titanic dark digimon suddenly shifted his attention towards the most defenseless members of their group, T.K. and Patamon.

"The legends say the smallest amongst you shall destroy me! So by destroying you, I shall have nothing to worry about!" He declared while reaching towards the terrified child with a wicked grin. "Just hold still and make this easy on the both of us!"

"Howling Blaster!" "Stay away from him!" Thankfully, Garurumon managed to blast the hand away before it could reach it's intended target and even jumped onto said limb, biting as deeply as he could. Birdramon and Togemon followed his example and latched onto his face and leg respectively, trying to cause as much damage as they could while keeping him restrained.

While this was happening, Naruto was doing something odd. He had his tail curled around him with the flaming tips lined up in a circular formation in front of him, lined up directly with Devimon. 'I doubt I can do this more than once, so better make it count.' He thought while lining circle with Devimon's chest while raising his hand up.

A Rasengan easily twice as large as any he'd ever made before formed between his two hands while the flames coming from his tails and hands were sucked into it. Within seconds, the orb of spiraling energy looked almost like a miniature blue sun with a ring of blue fire rotating around it.

Right as he finished, Devimon blasted away his three unwanted passengers with an explosion of dark energy and his hand was enclosing around T.K. and Patamon. "Eat this you Teme! Taiyō no Seishin! (Spirit of the Sun!)" He yelled as the attack flew at Devimon just as a sudden blast of light erupted from the dark digimon's hand.

This caused Devimon to recoil, which in turn ended up making Naruto's final attack only lightly graze against his side before flying off into the distance. *Sigh* "Damn… so… close…" Naruto panted out as he reverted to his chibi form. The last things he saw before everything went black was Patamon's new form of Angemon and everyone's stunned faces when his attack hit the mountain side and completely vaporized a huge chunk of it.

-Unknown amount of time later-

Naruto groaned softly, snuggling his face deeper into his pillow as sunlight glared through his eyelids. Hearing a soft giggling, he froze up slightly before raising his head with his eyes slowly blinking open. 'Déjà vu,' He thought groggily when he saw Mimi's blushing face looking back at him.

It then took approximately .0001 seconds for him to decide he was too tired to care about his current position, opting to go back to leaning against her chest as he lazily looked around. Sora, now fully dressed, Biyomon, and Gomamon were leaning against a rock tiredly, with Sora occasionally fidgeting with her the scabbed over scratches littering her hands. Joe, also dressed, was going around treating any injuries that needed attention..

Izzy was back on his computer, the sound of furious typing filling the air as Tentomon sat beside him, dozing away if the comical snot bubble was to go by. And finally, Matt and Gabumon were over with T.K., who was holding a large white and orange striped egg, trying to cheer the down looking boy up.

"Uhhh, how long was I out this time?" Naruto asked, reaching up to scratch his ear only to end up cringing as a jolt of pain shot down his arm.

"Three hours, seven minutes, and twenty-nine seconds," Izzy stated without looking away from his computer, missing the slightly weirded out looks he received.

"…"

"…Anyway, what did I miss?"

"We beat Devimon thanks to Patamon sacrificing himself…" Sora said quietly, glancing sadly at T.K. as he hugged the egg tighter to his chest. "…but then learned there are even more evil digimon we have to beat somewhere across the ocean."

"Of course there are," Naruto grumbled, it was never that easy for him. If his track record with missions were to go by, every time it looked like they were just about to finish and go home without much a problem, there was always that Kami damned catch. Every time!

"How are you feeling by the way? You got pretty messed up in that fight." Joe told him bluntly as he walked up to Naruto and Mimi and started looking the blonde over.

"Sore as hell, but otherwise fine." Naruto said, doing his best not to squirm or flinch to much as Joe examined his arm and tail thoroughly. "But my freaking chest keeps flaring up at the worst of times though." Joe paused at this comment as everybody but Izzy and Mimi turned their heads toward him.

"Your chest keeps hurting?" Joe asked with concern.

"Yeah, got one of those stupid gears lodged in it while we all separated." Naruto said getting several gasps. "Thankfully, Mimi and Palmon here were able to pull it out of me before I could go all crazy and stuff."

"Unfortunately, due to his half organic bodily structure, the gear caused a large amount of damage to his pectoral and upper abdominal muscles instead of just coming out like normal." Izzy added in, making everyone but Joe to blink in confusion.

"And you're just telling me this now?!" Joe demanded as he suddenly pulled Naruto's shirt up, reveling a thin black scar across his upper chest. The blonde chibi giggled lightly and squirmed around as Joe ran his fingers over the affect area.

"The injury had already healed up just fine by the time we got here so I didn't think it would be that big a deal." The computer whizz retorted with a shrug, still not looking up from his computer. Joe looked ready to say something back, but was cut off by a loud cracking noise.

Out of the ground, an odd circular machine burst out of the ground and began emitting a rainbow of light. In the middle of the light show, an image of a mostly bald, hunched over man with squinted eyes was revealed. [Hello? Hello? Is this thing working?]

Distracted by this sudden event, Joe looked away just as the scar on Naruto's chest pulsed ever so slightly. Because of that, he also missed as Naruto's eyes gained a light red tint for a split second before fading back to normal.

-End Chapter-

AN: Devimon is defeated, but Naruto and his new friends journey has only just begun. You may have questions such as what is happening to Naruto? Will Mimi get over her trauma? Will Kitsunemon cause even more problems for our group of heroes? Read more to find out. Thank you for reading and please review.