Disclaimer: I do not own anything from the Naruto or Digimon franchises. Comments/Criticism is fine as long as it isn't straight up hate or flaming. If you do not like, no one is forcing you to read and can just leave.

Also, sorry for forgetting to add this in the story, Mimi is still wearing the dress Naruto made for her, only now she has her hat, gloves, and shoes with it.

Thank you for reading and please enjoy

Humon?

-Chapter 19-

The sound of splashing water gently filled the air and sunshine streamed through the air as Whamon calmly swam through the ocean. Upon the exposed portion of his head, all the digidestined except for Tai were grouped together with their digimon, peacefully sleeping. Tai on the other hand was idly talking to Whamon while scanning the horizon with his telescope.

"It's been days since we left File Island, we have to be close to server by now, right?" Tai asked as he lowered the scope with a tired yawn, having not quite fully woken yet.

"Yes, in fact, it should be coming into sight any second now." Whamon told him, making the boy jump up in excitement, suddenly completely awake as he scanned the horizon again with his scope.

"Where? Where? I don't see it any… nevermind, there it is!" He cheered happily as he finally spotted the approaching land mass in the distance. "Wake up everyone! Rise and shine, we're finally here!"

"I was just resting my eyes," Matt said as he sat up with a quiet yawn, his movement waking up T.K whom was resting his head on his older brother's chest.

"Yeah, well your eyes were snoring pretty loudly last night." Joe retorted, raising his head slightly to give the 'cool guy' a bland look before allowing his head to fall back onto his satchel. One by one the others slowly woke up and gave their various grumblings and complaints.

"Guys, quiet down." Sora said in a loud whisper, making them all turn to her and see her pointing at Naruto and Mimi. The latter was the only one still asleep with her head resting against the fox boy's chest. His tail clutched tightly in her arms as he carefully sat up and rubbed the crust out of his eyes. The scene itself would have been quite adorable… if it wasn't for the dark bags that were apparent under the pink loving girl's eyes.

"Oh right, sorry." Tai whispered back with a cringe. After about a day or so of sailing with Whamon and no longer able to keep her mind distracted, Mimi had started having severe nightmares about her experience with Kitsunemon. Of course, only Sora, Biyomon, Palmon, and Izzy knew this as the others had just assumed that all the stress from the last few days had finally gotten to her.

Thanks to his fast thinking, Izzy managed to convince Naruto to stay near her when she was sleeping with the excuse that his tail could act as a teddy bear of sorts that would make her more comfortable. And it worked somewhat, and the few nightmares she still had were much less severe. This in turn had been making her increasingly reluctant to even want to sleep. Heck, last night it took Naruto and Palmon almost the entire night to finally coax her enough to try.

Careful not to wake her up, Naruto gently scooped Mimi up into a bridal carry, adjusting it so her head rested against his neck while his tail curled around the sides of her head and covered her ears. By the time he was done, Whamon had made it to the shoreline and the others were getting ready to depart.

"There is a Koromon village a few miles east of here, they should be able to help you get the lay of the land." The whale digimon informed the group as they jumped off of him and onto solid ground. "But be wary young ones, though there are likely no black gears here, not all digimon will be friendly. So keep your wits about you."

"Got it Whamon, we'll be careful." Tai said as he and everyone but Naruto (for obvious reasons) waved the digimon goodbye as he sank under the waves. "Alright, let's go!" The goggled boy declared once Whamon was out of sight, pointing to the distance as he marched off… to the west.

"…not even here five minutes and he's already running off in the wrong direction," Izzy said blankly as he palmed his face. "What else could go wrong?"

-Several hours later-

"Me and my big mouth," The computer whizz grumbled as sweat poured from his forehead. Turns out the route to the Koromon ended up crossing through a freaking desert. And just like the last time the group had to cross through a desert, Naruto, Gabumon, Gomamon, and Biyomon were the worst affected as the temperature rapidly started to rise.

Naruto had it the worst as Mimi had only woke up an hour ago, thanks to the heat, and the added weight he had been carrying until then had compiled with the mild dehydration, leaving him almost completely exhausted. Thankfully Mimi, who was feeling much better after her long nap, and Tai volunteered to help him walk as they traveled.

*Kst* "Come on Naruto, you need to drink," Joe said as he held a freshly opened bottled water to the blonde's lips.

"No, *hah* I've already had *hah* one a little while ago, *hah*" Naruto said stubbornly between pants as he weakly pushed the bottle away.

"And you'll drink this one right now, you need to keep hydrated." Joe said back adamantly. "Now you either do so willingly or so help me I will have the others hold you down while I force it down your throat." The firm way he said this stunned everyone, but got the results he wanted as Naruto reluctantly accepted the bottle and swiftly drained its contents.

"See, was that so hard? Joe asked rhetorically, taking the empty container and putting it in his satchel along with several other empty bottles that he planned to refill later. "Now let's keep moving, the last thing we need is to doddle around until we all get heatstroke or something."

"Yeah, what he said," Tai agreed as the group continued moving. Their little trek continued for another hour or so, with everyone becoming increasingly sweaty and tired, when Agumon suddenly stopped mid-step and started sniffing the air intently. "What is it Agumon?"

The digimon didn't respond right away, opting to rush around in random directions here and there for several seconds with his nose held high. "…I smell Koromon! This way!" Agumon said, suddenly charging ahead of the group.

"Whoa! Wait up Agumon!" Tai yelled, letting go of Naruto as he chased after his partner. This left Mimi alone to carry Naruto as she and the rest of the group struggled to keep up with the run off duo. As they ran, the desert swiftly gave way to grassy plains and then thick forests. Eventually, they finally caught up with Agumon and Tai at the top of a large cliff overlooking a village of small dome houses surrounding one large one.

"Hey guys, nice of you to wait up for us." Matt said sarcastically, making the two look at him in confusion.

"What are you talking about? Weren't you guys right behind me?" Tai asked.

"Yeah sure*huff* right behind *wheeze* you," Mimi said while she and a slightly recovered Naruto leaned on each-other for support, breathing heavily as she glared at the sheepish goggled boy. "It wasn't like *Huff* I needed your help or anything."

"Ohhh… right, sorry," Tai apologized, earning himself an angry huff from the girl as she marched off.

"Whatever, let's just go say hiiIIIIIIIII!" Mimi screamed as the ground suddenly crumbled out from beneath her and Naruto, sending them tumbling down to the village below.

"MIMI!" Palmon screamed as she ran after the falling duo.

Smashing through the thick foliage and roots, Naruto acted fast by pulling Mimi close to his chest and curling into a ball around her. He did his best to ignore the loud screaming in his ear as he crashed into several trees, roots, bushes, and rocks, a grunt escaping his lips with each impact. Then as if to add insult to injury, when they finally reached the bottom of the hill, they landed right smack in the middle of a large pond-sized pool of mud with a loud *splat*.

Silence filled the area for a brief few moments before the two burst to the surface, coughing and hacking as they crawled out of the pool of liquid earth. *Crack* "Ow… let's not do that again." Naruto groaned, his back and joints popping loudly as he stretched before he suddenly froze up.

"Blegh, this is not the kind of mud bath I was hoping for," Mimi groaned as she tried unsuccessfully to shake the brown goop off herself, not noticing Naruto's tenseness.

"Mimi, get behind me, now." Naruto said sternly, making the girl snap out of her little moment and finally notice their company. They were surrounded by dozens of little grey furred, legless bunny creatures with dark red eyes that held a dark mischievous smiles that set both of them on edge.

"Hello~! Welcome~! Welcome~! To our humble village~!" The little things said in a happy sing-song tone. "How can we assist you on this lovely day~?"

While this cheery welcome would normally help put most people at ease, including Mimi, Naruto remained slightly on edge as he held a feeling of wrongness. He didn't know why, but something about these digimon was just setting his internal alarms to code red. Yet, seeing as they hadn't done anything wrong (yet) he decided to give them the benefit of the doubt for now. Didn't mean he wouldn't be keeping a very close eye on them.

"Well," Mimi said as she looked down at muddy herself with a grimace, "You wouldn't happen to have a nice warm bath around somewhere would you?"

"Why we have better! A hot-spring! One of the best in all of Server in fact!" One of the bunny things said as it waved over to his buddies with his ears. Swarming around them, the small digimon used their number advantage to hoist Naruto and Mimi off the ground and carry them off.

"Mimi, are these things Koromon?" Naruto whispered in Mimi's ear as they passed the small buildings and straight to the main one in the center.

"I… I don't think so," Mimi whispered back unsurely with a shrug, "I'm pretty sure Agumon used to be one and he didn't look like these guys at all. Or at least I think he didn't."

'Great, surrounded by unknowns and in bad condition cause of the desert. Now I know what that bad feeling is. Every time I'm in this kind of situation, it ends up with something going to shit. Literally every time!' Naruto thought in frustration. "Keep your eyes peeled then, just in case."

They were carried up several floors before finally being set down in a small changing room. "The spring is right over here!" The same little digimon said, pulling a curtain out of the way to reveal the pool of steaming glittering water. Just as quickly though, the digimon closed said curtain and turned to them with a wicked grin. "But of course, there are some rules before you enter! The key one being… NO DIRTY CLOTHES ALLOWED! GET EM!"

"Say wha… EEEP!" Mimi yelped as she and Naruto were dogpiled by the group of digimon. Faster than either of them could react thanks to their exhaustion, the bunny things somehow managed to strip the duo down in only a few seconds before tossing them both straight into the warm water.

Naruto was the first to recover, bursting out of the water sputtering as he looked towards the retreating digimon. "Oi! Get back here with my stuff you little… little… little…" He trailed off as Mimi popped up out of the water right in front of him.

…

…

Both of them stared at the other in shock for several moments, their brains not quite registering what they were seeing as their eyes roamed the other's nude form. It wasn't until Mimi's eyes finally locked on 'little Naruto' that she finally snapped back to reality and blushed so deep it would make rubies jealous.

-Outside, outskirt of the village-

"We gotta hurry guys! Naruto and Mimi could be seriously hurt!" Tai yelled as he scanned the surrounding area with his mini-spyglass.

"I'm sure Naruto is fine, it'll take a lot more than that little fall to hurt him. Mimi in the other hand I agree with." Joe said while searching through a field of tall grass.

"Yeah, he did pretty much shrug off getting smashed into a mountain… and through several steel walls… and being blown up… and being crushed by several barrels," Izzy started listing off, making everyone in the area wince slightly at those memories.

"We get it, Naruto's really tough." Matt cut in, his hands covering T.K.'s ears. "Let's just focus on figuring out where they are-''

"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEKK!"

"That was Mimi!" Tai said as they all ran towards the source of the scream.

-Back to Naruto and Mimi-

'Oh my God! Oh my God! Oh my God!' Mimi thought, her face practically melting as she sat on her side of the spring with every part of her below her nose completely submerged. She wanted nothing more than to get out of the hot-spring right then and there, but the digimon took all their stuff, including their clothes. So her options were either stay in the water where she was at least partially covered thanks to the bubble bath bomb she'd just used and hope someone brought her clothes back, or climb out and try to get them back herself while completely exposing herself.

You can guess which option she took.

"I am so, so sorry Mimi! I didn't mean to stare, I swear!" Naruto apologized from his side, his own blush having subsided some. 'Oh Kami, if Tsunade-baachan ever finds out about this she'll turn me into a narutomaki!' He mentally screamed, the terrifying thought succeeding partially in stopping the blood rushing to his face… and other parts.

"It… it's fine… wasn't your fault." Mimi said, briefly allowing her lips above the water to do so before re-submerging herself. 'There is no way this can get any more embarrassing,' She thought as she used her hands to slowly wash the mud out of her hair.

"Mimi! We're here to… Oh my god! Sorry!" She was wrong.

Tai, Izzy, and Sora charged into the room with their digimon ready to save the day, only to end up gaping in surprise at the sight they were met with. Tai had been the one to speak, his hands quickly going up to his face to both block himself from seeing anymore and to protect himself as a screaming Mimi hurled various bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and other such bathroom amenities at them. She continued to do so until the males in the room retreated after getting clonked across the head several times.

"Um, so… how did this end up happening?" Sora asked awkwardly, her and Biyomon glancing between Naruto, who'd mostly recovered from his embarrassment, and Mimi, who looked just seconds from trying to drown herself just to end said embarrassment.

"Those stupid fuzz-balls outside stole our clothes before tossing us in here." Naruto told them, glancing at the still embarrassed Mimi and making a hand-sign for some reason. "Oiroke no Jutsu (Sexy Jutsu)!" He said as he was suddenly engulfed in a puff of smoke. When it cleared though, Mimi nearly did drown as her, Sora's, and Biyomon's jaws hung wide open.

Instead of the blonde haired whiskered face boy that was there literally a second ago, an equally blonde whisker faced girl sat in his spot with a wide smile. "Is this better Mimi?" She asked in softer, feminine toned version of Naruto's voice, "I figured you'd be more comfortable with me like this."

Mimi popped her head out of the water coughing and sputtering for a few seconds before focusing her attention on the new girl. "N-N-N-Naruto?" She asked shakily, getting a nod in conformation.

"Yep, so what do you think?" She (Naruto will be referred to as she while like this) asked while doing various poses, her new 'assets' jiggling dramatically. Naruto's hair was also much longer and set in two pigtails that sloshed in the water. Even the fur on her arms and tail seemed thinner, smoother, and glossier, but that could have just been the water soaking them.

"You can turn into a girl." Sora stated with a dumbfounded expression, continuing to stare for several moments before shaking her head clear. "Just when I think this place can't get any weirder." She said with a tired sigh, getting a laugh from the transformed blonde.

"Ah, don't be mean Sora-chan," Naruto said with a mock pout before a wide grin crossed her lips, "You're just jealous that my girls are bigger than yours now." She emphasized this by wiggling her chest slightly making the globes of flesh there jiggle even more.

Sora squawked at that, a small blush crossing her face as she rambled out denials until she heard Naruto's boisterous laughter. Realizing that she had just been screwing with her, Sora grumbled sourly before leaving with Biyomon. "Hey! Don't forget to find our clothes please!" Naruto called after her.

Once she was gone, Naruto settled back in the water, a contemplative look on her face before another wicked smile cropped up. "Hehe, that just gave me an idea."

-Half an hour later-

"I wonder what's taking them so long, Sora went to bring their clothes up ten minutes ago." Tai wondered as he and the others minus Sora, Mimi, and Naruto enjoyed the food the Pagumon served them. The reason it took so long to get the clothes to them was due to the act they had to be washed first.

"Girls always take forever to get ready, Naruto's probably just being nice and waiting for Mimi to finish before coming back down himself." Matt stated, getting a few nods of agreement from Tai, Joe, and Izzy. It did sound like something Naruto would do.

"You know, some girls might find what you just said extremely offensive." An unknown feminine voice said, making the group jump in surprise and look towards the source. There by the doorway, stood a now fully dressed Naruto with a teasing grin, still in her Oiroke form with Mimi and Sora behind her.

Just like said two girls and Biyomon, as soon as their eyes landed on the now female blonde, everyone's jaw dropped in shock as they gawked at her in shock. "What's up guys, what'cha staring at?" Naruto asked casually, acting like there was nothing wrong.

"…"

"N-Naruto?" Tai finally managed to ask after a long, stunned silence.

"Well duh, who'd else would I be?" Naruto asked rhetorically as she sat herself down by a plate of food and started chowing down. After yet another long silence though, she could no longer keep a straight face and fell over laughing. "Oh my Kami! The looks on your guys faces is priceless!" She yelled, falling onto her back as she was enveloped in a cloud of smoke. Once it cleared, it showed that Naruto had reverted to normal as HE continued to laugh his ass off.

So into their shock, most of them barely even noticed as Poyomon digivolved into Tokomon in T.K.'s arms.

It was actually T.K. himself who snapped out of his stupor first, rushing over to where Naruto laid and started asking him how he just did that. Meanwhile, the rest of the gang slowly calmed down, Tai, Izzy, and Joe joining the youngest with his interrogation while Matt just sighed in exasperation as Naruto told them all 'The history of the Oiroke no Jutsu'.

When he was finished, and after they had a brief celebration for Tokomon's digivolving, the sun had vanished beneath the horizon and the group agreed to call it a night. Thankfully, Mimi was still much too tired to consider avoiding sleep and had already drifted off… that or she passed out due to Naruto's close proximity, no one was sure which.

Still somewhat suspicious of the Pagumon however, especially since Agumon kept insisting he could smell the lingering scent of Koromon all over the place, Naruto managed to convince the others that one of them should stay up to keep watch. Unfortunately, the person they chose to keep watch, Matt, ended up dosing off himself halfway through his shift, just as several Pagumon hopped into the room with sinister smiles.

-Morning-

"Tokomon! Tokomon! Where are you!" T.K. hollered as he rushed around the village, the rest of the digidestined not far behind. The small in-training digimon had vanished while everyone was sleeping and now they were all out looking for the little guy.

In order to find him faster, Izzy had them divide up in to groups. Matt, T.K., Tai, Agumon, and Gabumon were taking the west half of the village, Sora, Izzy, Joe, Mimi, Gomamon, Tentomon, and Palmon searched the east. Finally, Naruto was on top of the main building with Biyomon high in the sky getting a birds-eye view of the entire area. The blonde fox boy was also tempted to make a few clones to help search but decided to conserve his strength for now.

"I don't see him anywhere," Biyomon said tiredly as she fluttered down next to Naruto.

"I've got nothing either," Naruto said back while still carefully examining the area. "I think Agumon has something though, he's going off on his own." He pointed to the yellow lizard as he split from his group without anyone noticing and wandered off into the forest.

"Do you think he saw Tokomon?" Biyomon asked getting a shrug in response.

"Possibly, I'll go check it out. You tell the others where I went."

"No problem… right after a little breather." Biyomon said as she plopped down on her rear. Naruto just nodded in confirmation before tensing his legs and jumping high onto the air, clearing the entire village in one leap and landing in one of the trees. Then with a bit of tree hopping, he swiftly caught up with Agumon and landed next to him, causing the lizard digimon to jump in surprise.

"Yikes! You really can get the jump on someone Naruto." He said, making the blonde laugh lightly at the wording.

"Yeah, I guess I can." Naruto said with a smirk before quickly becoming serious, "I wanted to see why you were all the way out here. Did you see our missing buddy?"

"No, but I swear I can smell Tokomon and Koromons around here. And my nose is never wrong." Agumon said as he went back to sniffing the area.

"What about that time with the food at Devimon's mansion trap?"

"… … … …Almost never wrong." Naruto chuckled again at his friend's quiet response before playfully flicking him on the forehead.

"Next time don't go wandering off by yourself, last thing anyone needs in for you to go missing as well." He said, causing Agumon to look at him sheepishly. "Good thing I told Biyomon which way we were going anyway so the others should be just behind us, so lead the way."

"Got it," Agumon said as he took several more sniffs, "This way!"

With the excited dino digimon leading the way, the duo eventually arrived at a river with a moderately sized waterfall where Agumon suddenly lost the scent. While he struggled to find it again, Naruto paced around the shoreline looking for anything unusual.

This paid off as he found several dozen round impressions and some claw marks left in the soft earth and sand. "Agumon, over here! I think I got something!" Naruto called as he followed the trail to the side of the waterfall, where he and Agumon discovered a hidden cave… A hidden cave with Tokomon tied up inside a cage along with dozens of caged up round pink digimon with large red eyes that Naruto assumed to be Koromon.

"Tokomon! What happened to you?" Agumon asked as he and Naruto wrenched the cage open and freed the little digimon.

"The Pagumon captured me and threw me in here! Their working for Gazimon!"

"That's right," An unknown voice said behind them, making Naruto and Agumon turn around to see two large rabbit digimon with grey fur and long black claws. "And with their help we'll serve those little human freaks to Master Etamon on a silver platter." The one on the left said.

"Unfortunately, you now know too much," The right one added, "So we'll just have to dispose of you." He said while holding his claws up menacingly.

Naruto looked at the two digimon with a blank expression, his body slowly turning to face them properly. "So, let me get this straight, you kidnapped my friend…" He takes a step forward, "…are planning to hurt both him and my other friends…" He raises ups his hands and cracks his knuckles, "…and now intend to kill us so we can't warn them?"

"Uh duh, that's what we just said moron," The right Gazimon said.

"Oh good, then I won't feel bad about this next part." Naruto said as he held his hand up in his favorite hand sign. *Poof*

-With the Others-

"Are you sure this is the way they went?" Tai asked Biyomon as he and the rest of the digidestined arrived at the waterfall.

"Mostly," The pink bird said sheepishly. It had taken her awhile to gather everyone and they had gotten a little sidetracked when Mimi had found a Botamon, the newly hatched form of a Koromon. This in turn revealed that the Pagumon had been lying about the village being theirs and the little buggers had made a quick retreat.

"Okay, everyone split up and start loo-"

"OH GOD PLEASE NO!"

"UNCLE! UNCLE! UNCLE!"

"…Or someone will cut me off again and conveniently reveal which way we should go." Tai said in a deadpan as the group turned to the waterfall just as two beat up Gazimon came flying through the torrent of water and off into the distance.

"AND DON'T COME BACK ASSHOLES!" Naruto yelled as he stepped out from behind said waterfall followed by Agumon, Tokomon, and dozens of Koromon. Upon noticing his audience, Naruto smiled while giving a wave. "Hey guys, what took you so long?"

Before anyone could respond, a giant hologram of an orange monkey holding a microphone and a Monzaemon doll attached to his hip. "Hello! You measly little digidestined humans! Hello!"

-End Chapter-

AN: Etamon makes his appearance. Poor Mimi and Naruto see a lot more than they ever thought of the other. For those who think Naruto got over his own embarrassment too fast A. He has bathed with the opposite gender before at a hotspring and B. It's Naruto, the inventor of the Oiroke no Jutsu, the new Oiroke no Jutsu, and the Haremu no Jutsu.