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Humon?

-Chapter 18-

-Last Time-

This is farewell, we wish you luck on your travels!" Leomon called as to them as the island rapidly shrunk into the distance.

"Goodbye!"

"It was nice to meet you all!"

*Crack*

Everyone stopped their yelling as they heard something breaking. Looking towards the source of the noise, they were greeted with the sight of the egg in T.K.'s arms gaining several wide cracks before falling apart. In its place was a small white blob with tiny black eyes and a small mouth. "Poyomon!"

-And Now-

"Ugh, I didn't calculate that the waves would be this rough," Izzy groaned as he leaned against the crates of supplies with a green face, the ever-dreaded sea sickness digging its claws deep into his being. He wasn't the only victim of this as Mimi and Joe also sat around groaning in misery as they struggled to keep their stomach content where it belonged. All three had their respective digimon next to them trying to comfort them as best they could.

It had been two days since they had set sail and it had been a thankfully very quiet and relaxed trip so far, minus the motion sickness. T.K. was cheerfully playing with Poyomon, the newly hatched baby form of Patamon, under Matt's constant supervision. Sora was cooking up something to eat with Naruto's help, that help being him evolving to his champion form so she could use his tail flames to cook with. Finally, Tai was acting as a spotter with his mini-telescope while the rest of the digimon sat around chatting idly or napping.

"Are you sure you don't mind me doing this?" Sora asked with an awkward smile as she carefully stirred the contents a makeshift frying pan with a wooden spoon. Naruto sighed in exasperation at his as he palmed his face.

"Sora, for the dozenth time, it's fine. Hell, I was the one to suggest it in the first place so stop asking and focus on the food." He said, one of his tails un-lighting for a few moments and gently bopping the helmet wearing girl's head.

This caused the girl to stumble slightly and almost drop the pan before another tail rose up and stopped it mid-fall. Looking back up to see the smirk on his face, Sora gave him a playful glare as a mischievous grin crossed her lips. Using the spoon, she scooped up a portion of the food in the dish, several small fishes that Naruto and Gomamon had caught with some vegetables and spices that they had collected before leaving, and flicked it at his face with a light *Splat*.

"Oh! She got me!" Naruto cried dramatically while pretending to be knocked over, getting the girl and a couple of the others laughing as he sat up and wiped the food off his face. Calming down, Sora finished the dish, allowing Naruto to devolve back into Kitsumon as she served everyone up.

"Uhg, how much longer till we get there?" Joe asked as he slowly ate his meal with a grimace.

"Judging by the scale of the map, our current rate of motion, and the variables for wind strength so far… about eight or nine more days." Izzy said back, also struggling to forced down his food with a green face. This earned more groans from the other two members of the sea-sick trio.

"That's way too long," Mimi moaned before her cheeks puffed out and she was quickly at the edge of the raft emptying her stomach, the sound of her retching making Joe and Izzy swiftly join her moments later.

"Sorry guys, it's just how it is, there's not a lot we can do about it." Sora said apologetically, turning slightly green herself at the noises they were making.

"Well, actually…" "Tidal wave!" *Splash* Naruto had started to say only to get cut off by Tai yell as a larger than normal wave suddenly appeared out of nowhere and washed over them.

"Pffft! Headcount now!" Naruto cried as he spat out salt water, getting a mixture of yells, coughing, and more retching. "Good, your all here. Now brace yourselves, we got company!" He yelled while pointing to a large brown and blue whale like creature that burst out of the water a short distance from them. The sudden disruption of water making more waves that shook the raft even more.

"What is that thing!?" Matt demanded as they group as everyone clung desperately to whatever they could, the only exception being Naruto as he stuck himself in place with chakra. The whale digimon was jumping and leaping all over, stirring up waves that continued to crash into them.

"A Whamon! They are deep sea dwelling digimon! Some can be rather temperamental but I have never heard of one acting so aggressively before!" Tentomon yelled back.

"I don't care what it is, we are getting the hell away from it now!" Naruto stated as he moved to the back of the raft as a single rapidly spinning ring of chakra formed in each of his hands. Before anyone could ask him what he was doing, he stuck then stuck them into the water.

*FWOOOSH* "AAAAHHH!" Everybody screamed at the top of their lungs as the raft shot off like a rocket, leaving a large wake behind them as they zipped across the water. Behind them, Whamon did one last jump before re-submerging, leaving only a large shadow in the water that followed the group at high speed.

-Several hours Later-

The boat slowed down to regular speeds as Naruto fell onto his butt, panting slightly from exertion. The sun was just starting to set in "Damn… It…" He muttered tiredly, slowly standing back up on wobbly legs, almost falling back over when Tai patted him on the back.

"Great job Naruto! You lost it." The goggle wearing boy said happily, only to blink in surprise when Naruto brushed him off and kept his eyes focused on the water, his ears twitching rapidly.

"No, I didn't, I just bought us some time. Incoming!" As he spoke, Whamon burst back out of the water behind them with its maw wide open, their boat getting dragged in by the current of water flooding into throat. Naruto tried to boost the ship away again but ended up collapsing from exhaustion. Just as they passed its lips and started sliding down it's gullet, Naruto couldn't help but say one last thing.

-A day later-

"Why does that always happen to me?" Naruto asked as he laid against the fleshy wall of Whamon's mouth with the others. After getting swallowed by the large whale digimon, the children, digimon, and himself were assaulted by large translucent blobs of goo called antibodies until they arrived in the surprisingly well-lit stomach.

While there they found a black gear that they quickly destroyed, causing Whamon to revert back to his normal peaceful nature and spit them out before the gastric acid fully dissolved their boat. Unfortunately, said raft was destroyed in the process. Thankfully Whamon had decided to give them a ride on his back to Server as both a thank you and an apology. On the plus side, the smoothness of the ride meant that Mimi, Joe, and Izzy no longer had to worry about sea-sickness.

Along the way though, the whale digimon had overheard them talking about Devimon hiding the tags and informed them that he knew where that possibly was. So now they were back in his mouth as he dove deep into the ocean. "What keeps happening to you?" Mimi, who was sitting right beside him, asked as she brushed his tail to pass the time.

"Getting swallowed by large animals. Seriously first a snake, now a freaking whale, no offense Whamon." Naruto said, missing the pale look on Mimi's face as she stopped mid-brush.

"None taken," Whamon's booming voice called back.

"You were eaten by a snake?" Mimi asked in horror. Naruto nodded with a shiver as memories of that experience played through his mind.

"Yeah, it was a summon like Gamakichi only much bigger that this creepy pedo called Orochimaru set on me while he attacked… my teammates." He trailed off as images of the retrieval mission popped to the front of his thoughts. 'What's taking Gamakichi so long anyway?'

"You were on a team? Like a sports team or something?" Mimi asked with a tilted head.

"Uh no, a ninja team. I am a ninja remember?" Naruto said, getting an 'oh' from Mimi.

"Could… could you tell me about them?" She requested slightly reluctantly, worried she might be toeing at the figurative landmine.

Naruto blinked in surprise at the question for a few seconds before smiling brightly. "Sure, well first there's Kakashi-sensei…" Over the next few hours Naruto talked. First was of courses describing his team, such has Kakashi and his laziness and love of Ich-Icha, to Sakura his crush and her habit of bashing him on the head (Which caused Mimi and the others who were eavesdropping on the conversation to frown), and finally Sasuke, though he kept the him going traitor part to himself.

After that he went into depth on his home, such as the hokage monument, the ninja academy, Ichiraku's (Mimi had to cut him off mid rave), and the beautiful forests all around. Naruto even talked about some of the various pranks he pulled around the village, with the painting the Hokage mountain ending up giving away the 'hidden' audience as everyone broke into uncontrollable laughter.

He was just reaching the part about how he had manged to graduate from the academy, planning on how to tell it without mentioning the Kyuubi at all, when Whamon suddenly spoke up again. "Okay everybody, we're here!" To prove his point, Whamon's mouth opened wide to reveal the large cave they were now in.

"Phew, I am not in the shape I used to be," The whale digimon said tiredly, as everyone climbed out of his mouth. "I'm just going to lay here for a bit and take a nap, probably consider going on a diet and dropping a few tons while I'm at it."

"Hope you have nice dreams, let's go gang." Tai called to the large digimon before he and the others looked down the dark tunnel ahead of them, finally realizing the big issue at hand when Whamon's mouth fully closed. They could barely see anything. "Uh, none of you happen to have a flashlight on hand, would ya?" He asked sheepishly.

"I got it covered," Naruto said with a roll of his eyes as he started to glow brightly, "Kitsumon digivolve to Teumesemon! Now let's get going." He stated, his flaming limbs lighting up the place spectacularly.

With Naruto and Tai taking the lead, the group cautiously explored the undersea cavern for several minutes before stumbling upon the last thing any of them expected to find. "Is that a convenience store?" Joe asked incredulously as they all stared at the 'Deji-Mart' (Wasn't sure of if it meant to be DeJi or Deli with a funny L) sitting in the cave, with running electricity, and perfectly tiled floor all around it.

"Never seen one of those before, but this just smells of a trap." Naruto said, getting nods of agreement from the others as they all hid behind a cluster of stalagmites. "I'll go set it off,"

"Yeah, good ide- Wait what?" Tai squawked once his brain processed what Naruto said. By then it was too late to stop him as Naruto waltzed out from their cover and marched straight towards the Deji-Mart. As he expected, the moment he got within twenty feet of it something happened. In this case that something was the ground cracking open as a large purple and white mole-like digimon with a drill for a nose and more for fingers burst out with a black gear lodged in its back.

"By order of Devimon, none shall pa-ARRG!" It's villainous speech was cut short as Naruto swiftly hopped straight onto its back and incinerated the gear with a 'Seirei-en no Dangan'.

"And… done," Naruto stated as he climbed off the now confused digimon and casually walked to the store. "Are you guys coming or what?" He called back to the flabbergasted kids, snapping them back to reality as they rushed over, stumbling a bit from the ground shaking as the Drimogemon, according to Tentomon, tunneled away.

"Impressive display out there," Izzy complimented Naruto, getting a relaxed shrug in response.

"Not really, it's actually getting kinda repetitive in my opinion, especially when they just stand around talking during the fight." The fox-boy said back before entering the building. "Let's hurry up and see if those tag things are in here already."

Upon the others entering though, they were quickly distracted by the variety of goods and items stocked on the shelves. T.K. and Poyomon were naturally drawn to the candy section, Sora, Mimi, and Joe browsed around the medical and hygiene isle, Matt searched the canned food section with Gabumon, Gomamon, and Agumon, Tai was looking through the drinks with Biyomon, Palmon, and Tentomon.

The only ones actually focusing on the search were Naruto (though that was because he'd already looted all the ramen stocks into his scroll) and Izzy, who couldn't help but stop and ponder as he grabbed a bag of chips. "Why is all of this stuff down here anyway? It just doesn't make sense."

"It makes perfect sense actually," Naruto said as he walked up to the computer whizz with a small box in his hands that he handed over. "When making a trap, the more authentic the bait looks the better. Also, here are those tag thingies we needed, they were next to the jerky."

Opening the box to double check himself, Izzy smiled as he saw the seven necklaces held inside. "Prodigious! Now all we need are the crests and the digimon will be able to digivolve further."

"That's if Gennai was telling the truth." Naruto said while pulling out his scroll and some bottles of ink he had found on one of the shelves. "But we'll cross that bridge when we get to it, let's stock up a bit while we can. I'll make some more storage seals to hold some more stuff and keep it a bit more organized, you and the others figure out what we should take."

"Got it,"

After a short debate, a good amount of none-perishable foods, drinks, medical supplies, and soaps were sealed up and everybody had their pockets stuffed with a few goodies to go. With their little pit stop completed, they hightailed it back to a nicely rested Whamon and hopped back in for a one-way trip to Server.

"So can we go back to the story about how you finished the ninja academy?" T.K. asked with a excited expression.

'Crap…'

-End Chapter-

AN: Sorry, just a filler chapter. I did extend the time they were at sea though cause I figured it would be better than them instantly getting attacked as soon as they left.