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Humon

-Chapter 20-

-Last Time-

"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!"

-And Now-

"Oh no, it's Etemon!" The Koromon screamed in horror before retreating back into the cave they'd been caged in.

"You little brats messed up all my beautiful, carefully laid plans," The now named Etemon said while the hologram lifted up a purple and black electric guitar. "So I need to punish you all by playing a little number I just wrote called Wrecking the Whole Place!" He declared while fiddling with the tuning pegs.

"Wreaking the whole place?" Tai repeated in confused shock.

"Do you think he can really do that?" Izzy asked but nobody bothered to answer him.

~BWAAAARE!~ "Dark Network Concert Crush!" The ground shook violently following Etemon's shout, the earth suddenly cracking open to reveal a web of dark black cords that rapidly rose up into the air.

"Shit! Get to cover!" Naruto yelled as bolts of reddish-black electricity shot down from the cords and blasted apart random chunks of the forest and town while narrowly missing the exposed group. This knocked the kids and their digimon out of their stupor and they started booking it towards the cave.

Not one to just stand by and do nothing, the foxy blond created several Kage Bunshin that rushed out and leapt in the way of any incoming blasts until they all made it to safety. "Thanks for the help Naruto," Tai said before pulling out his digivice, "Now let's get on the offensive, time to digivolve guys."

"Took the words out of my mouth." Naruto said as he started to glow. "Kitsumon digivolve to… Teumesemon!"

"Agumon digivolve to… Greymon!"

"Gabumon digivolve to… Garurumon!"

"Tentom-"

"Oh, you say you want some digivolution huh? Well the answer is NOOOOO~! Dark Network Concert Crush!" Etemon yelled with another loud strum of his guitar, causing a massive wave of dark energy to wash over the area.

When it collided with them, Greymon and Garurumon suddenly devolved back into their rookie forms while the rest stopped digivolving all together. The only one not affected was Naruto, though if you looked closely you could see a slight grimace on his face while one of his hands started to rise up to his chest before he stopped it. "Oh yeah, Dark Network! Ha Ha oh gotcha!"

"What just happened?!" Tai asked in shock.

"Concert Crush took our power somehow." Agumon said as he and the other digimon hurried back into their respective partner's side.

"Does rock and roll have that affect your world?" Tentomon asked.

Sora was about to respond, most likely with a witty quip, but was cut off when one of Naruto's tails smacked her back just as a stray jolt scorched the place she was standing. "Now's not the time for chatter!" He said with a serious expression, "Either figure out how to fix it or a way out of here while I keep him busy!" He said before running back out into the open.

Tree-hopping as high as he could and putting a fair distance between him and the others, Naruto flared his tails out like a peacock. 'Hopefully he takes the bait,' He thought as the flames on his tail-tips doubled in size before a multitude of fireballs were launched from them into the sky.

"Oh ho ho, I got those little brats trapped nice and good~!" Etemon said with wicked grin from atop a train car that had his face emblazoned across the front. Beside him, a Gazimon who was operating the hologram projector was nodding along in agreement before he spotted something in the corner of his vision.

Getting a better look, his eyes widened before he quickly turned to his master. "Uh sir… you might want to take a look at th-GAH!" HE was cut off mid-sentence with a harsh punch that knocked him clean through the machine he was manning and off into the distance.

"How many times have I told you morons not to interrupt me during my victorious moments?!" Etemon yelled in irritation, ignoring the fact his underling clearly couldn't hear him. "I was just about to give them some false hope by saying they wouldn't be hurt if they surrendered peacefully and all that jazz, now I'll have to think of something… What the heck!?" Etemon exclaimed as he finally noticed the shower of blue fire that was torching his precious dark network.

Instead of getting angry though, he ginned widely for some reason while cracking his knuckles. "So, some little upstart wants to challenge me on my own turf. Well then, why don't I go show them why I am the big boss around these parts?" Etemon asked himself rhetorically as he climbed off his cart and ran off in the fires direction, completely forgetting about what he had just been doing in his eagerness for a fight.

Naruto stopped what he was doing once the hologram vanished in a burst of static and he saw a Gazimon go flying off with a pained cry. Standing on his perch silently, he didn't have to wait long before Etemon came bursting through the foliage below. "Oh ho, there you are!" The monkey digimon called, looking Naruto over thoroughly with an intrigued gleam in his eye. "Well what do ya know, I ain't ever seen a mon like you before. You must be a new one around the block. Am I right my man?"

"You could say that, names Teumesemon and this here is my turf now." Naruto said, putting up a front of casually disgruntlement. "So, you mind telling me why your wrecking my property?"

"Hahahahaha! That's one heck of a sense of humor you got there my amigo, but I guess I'll humor you for a bit. I'm Etemon, king of digimon, and last I checked this little backwater area was in my domain." Etemon said, holding his sides slightly from his laughter until he managed to calm down. "However, I am also a rather reasonable mon. You want this here plot of land, you can have it… if you can pry it from my cold dead hands." He stated with a wide grin.

"Interesting proposition you have," Naruto said while cracking his neck. 'Perfect, he bought my bluff.' Naruto had figured that with how Etemon had addressed the group earlier, he knew about the digidestined somehow, likely from the legend Leomon told them about. However… since the foxy blond wasn't technically one of them, he'd gambled that the rock-star wannabe wouldn't know a thing about him, which thanks to his devil's luck turned out to be true. Instead, he thought Naruto was just some random digimon trying to muscle in on his territory, which the blonde hadn't been expecting on but could work with. "You got yourself a deal."

(Insert preferred battle music)

As soon as the words left his mouth, both he and Etemon exploded into action simultaneously. In the blink of an eye, they met mid-air and their fists collided with a deafening boom and a visible shockwave that blasted away everything within a large radius.

This was followed by many other as the duo exchanged a plethora of punches and kicks at a blindingly fast pace. The duo appeared to be on even ground with each-other and destined for a stalemate when Naruto suddenly changed tactics, when Etemon went for a sweeping side kick the blond allowed it to hit. Wincing as from what felt like an elephant crashing into his side, he quickly surprised the monkey digimon by grabbing onto the extended limb and spinning around like a top.

"Whoa! Whoa! Let! Me! Go! I'm! Gonna! Hurl!" Etemon yelled with a green face before screaming when Naruto complied and he ended up being smashed face first into the round below. This ended with the digimon buried into the ground up to his waist while his feet kicked in the air comically.

"Kitsune no sōgi!" Naruto called as he also dropped from the air and slammed his tails into his opponent, pushing Etemon even deeper into digital earth so that only the tips of his toes stuck out. He didn't get much time to celebrate the small victory though before being forced to jump away as the entire area suddenly exploded.

When the dust cleared, it revealed Etemon standing inside a decent sized crater with barely a scratch. "Well, well, well, I must admit, I actually felt that one, uh huh." He said with a smirk while dusting off a bit of dirt on his shoulder. "However, now it is my turn. Dark Network!" Naruto leapt out of the way as a large spear of dark energy was launched at him, obliterating the ground he was just standing on.

Unfortunately, this left him wide open for the straight punch to his stomach and the following kick to his chest that sent him crashing through several trees until he managed to catch himself. Just in the nick of time to as he just managed to deflect another punch, this one aimed at his head.

Using the brief gap in Etemon's defenses to his advantage, Naruto quickly formed a familiar ball of swirling blue energy. "Seirei-en Rasengan!" He yelled, smashing the sphere into the orange monkey's torso.

"Dark Network!" Unfortunately, Etemon wasn't completely helpless as he managed to form a small ball of dark energy and smash it into Naruto's chest just as both attacks exploded, sending them flying off in opposite directions.

(End fight music)

Naruto found his own flight cut short when he collided right into Etemon's train car, embedding himself several inches into its metal surface. "Owwwwwwww… okay, not my brightest move there." Naruto groaned as he slowly pried himself free and landed back on the ground in a crouch. Cracking his back with an audible sigh, he straightened out his tails and was about to charge right back into the fight when he paused when he caught sight of something odd.

"What… the… hell?" He said while raising his arms up. The vibrant blue flames around his hands now had a sickly purple mixed into them while pitch black streaks now stained the normally pristine white fur around his lower arms. Naruto didn't have long to ponder on this however as he glowed brightly and reverted to his Kitsumon form, with his arms back to normal.

"Kuso, I don't have time for this. I hope the others figured a way out of this mess by now." Naruto thought aloud as he ran back towards the waterfall, just missing Etemon appearing with an annoyed expression as he held his mildly burned stomach.

"Where'd the hell do you think you're going? We aren't finished yet." He grumbled before freezing when he spotted the large indent in his ride. "Ah, son of a Monochromon! Look what you did to my wheels! That's gonna take forever to buff o-"

*CRACK* "Konohagakure Hiden Taijutsu Ōgi: …" A second Naruto burst out of the ground directly beneath Etemon with his hands held in a tiger seal and covered with chakra while the one Etemon was just yelling at disappeared in a puff of smoke. "…SENNEN GOROSHI!"

In that moment, the whole world seemed to come to a standstill, with the only sound being the almost silent scream Etemon was giving as his face contorted to one of pure agony and embarrassment. All of this was thanks to Naruto… whom currently had his fingers jabbed straight into the orange monkey's ass.

-With the others-

"Naruto's been gone for too long, we should go help him." Tai said as he started marching towards the exit of the cave only for Matt to grab his arm.

"And do what exactly? In case you've forgotten our digimon are currently powerless and we aren't exactly fighters ourselves." He said, trying to reason with the goggle wearing boy.

"Matt's right, the most logical thing we can do right now is wait and have faith that Naruto can take care of himself. We are talking about the guy who mostly shrugged off being repeatedly smashed into a mountainside after all." Izzy added in.

"I know that, but still…" Tai trailed off with a sigh, before he and everyone froze up when a blood-curdling scream filled the air. Everyone remained completely still as they processed the sound.

"Oh god, was that Naruto?" Mimi, being the first to snap out of her stupor, asked while she cupped her hands over her mouth.

"That's it, Agumon lets-" *Splash*

Tai was cut off mid-sentence as a familiar figure came flying through the waterfall and skidded to a stop before them. "For the love of Kami, please tell me you guys have a plan to get us out of this mess, because I'm pretty sure I just pissed that guy off… a lot." Naruto stated while wringing the water out of his tail.

-End Chapter-

AN: I apologize for the short and rushed looking chapter. I am really far behind schedule cause I lost the original drafts to several chapters thanks to my campus evacuating from the fires, and am still trying to catch up with all the lost work. Now, for those confused on the 'finish' of Etemon's fight with Naruto, during the fight Naruto discreetly made a clone that buried itself and then Naruto switched with it using Kawarimi. Using the Sennen Goroshi on Etemon was suggested to me by PM and I say thanks to the person who gave me the idea. And for those saying he wouldn't act like that, have you seen Etemon? He would probably fall for the 'oh shiny!' trick. Thank you for reading and please review.