Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor Digimon. I wish I could.

Well, now, one could ask me why I decided to write a Digimon story while I have a Pokemon story already as a rival. Well, because… I like Digimon more. I mean, compared to Pokemon, they are based upon more important matters. They're more adult, to describe it in few words. So… Here you go. Let's see what troubles will Naruto and company face. And maybe someone could find some references to certain series. Enjoy!

Prologue

One of the most boring duties for a mist-nin? Guard duty on the fog peninsula. It was just a little peninsula near the Hidden Mist, but no one could come from the only thing in front of it: water. It was the ocean, damn it. There was another whole continent miles forward. How could anything come from there? This, the thoughts of two shinobi on guard duty, who were playing a game of dices in the cold winter mist.

"Damn it! You won again! Are we sure these guys aren't fixed or something?!" Said one of the two. The other just answered…

"It's just that you're bad at these games. Nothing else." He replied like chuckling. The other just sighed.

"Damn it… I wish something happened to break this boredom." His companion, in response, chuckled.

"What would you want to happen, here? That a hole suddenly opened in the sky?" The other ninja was about to answer to the tease, when… He heard like an electrical noise.

"Hey… Did you hear that?" He said, getting back to his feet. The other imitated him, a bit perplexed.

"Hear what? Are you…" Another time. The same electrical noise. "Uh? Hey, what was that?"

"See? It was kind like… An electric shock, but there's nothing electrical, around here…"

"Then, what the hell… !"

"Above!"

The electrical noise was in the air one more time. But this time, it didn't want to end. It didn't. The two ninjas looked up, above their heads, and they cursed their mouths. Up in the sky, a hole had opened. A hole that looked like an entrance to a tunnel. A tunnel with black walls decorated with strange emerald green flashing writings. And from the tunnel… Something was coming.

"… What the…"

"! Watch out!"

Something fell from the sky. An enormous figure. The two chunin got out of the way, and dodged the impact. They noticed that it was not the only one. More and more figures, bigger and smaller, were exiting the hole. But they preferred to focus on the one in front of them. It looked like… An enormous dinosaur, but they had seen them just in story books. This one was alive, though. But… Which dinosaur had red skin except for a white stomach? And a normal dinosaur didn't erupt flames from his mouth.

"! Aaaargh!"

"Aaaaah!"

The cries of the two chunin being scorched alive echoed in the night air, with no one to hear them. Except for the figure that had killed them and the many others that were descending from the sky. The invasion had begun.

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It had all started in a single second. A moment before the village was surrounded by quiet and fog, like always, at night. And then… A second after, an inferno started. A bunch of monsters entered the village. No, not a bunch. They were a much bigger amount. They were… An army. And it was not like they were on the loose… They were organized. And they had a goal, it seemed. They attacked every human in sight, but they tried to not destroy the buildings. For a Mizukage, it was easy to see. And while he was preparing to go and battle… Another monster appeared in front of himself. This one was very small, compared to some of the others that were battling in the rest of the village. It looked like a… Monkey. A big, bulky monkey with orange fur, a pair of black glasses, and… A teddy tied to his waist with apparently nothing. The Mizukage got into a battle stance, drawing a scroll from his robes and opening it. The scroll unleashed a Katana.

"Woooah! Quite a pointy thing you got there!" … The monkey. Talked. What was going on? And it was using a mocking voice as well!

"Who are you, monsters? What do you want from my village?" Said the Mizukage, clenching his sword with both hands.

"Well, mizu-pookey, we needed a base of operations. And your village happened to be the biggest human settlement near the digital gate. That's all."

"Human settlement? Digital gate? What are you? A summon or what?" Asked the Mizukage, while the monkey began to look around his office. He found what he was searching for, apparently. It was… The machinery that he used to diffuse his messages trough the whole village. "What are you doing?"

"Well, one of the other humans told us that in your office we could find something like this…" The monkey pushed the button, and then… Drew a mic out of practically nowhere. "TO DIFFUSE MY LOVELY SINGING! CONCERT CRUSH! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!"

"! What… The…" Suddenly, the Mizukage felt his strength… Being drawn away. Disappearing. Sucked out. And in the whole village, the same thing was happening to the entire population. All the humans began to fall to the ground, without any strength left. After a few minutes of singing, the monkey stopped.

"Yeeah! What a lovely tune! I've done my best, today! Now that all the humans are harmless, we can stop this rampage. They will be useful as slaves…" Said the monkey. The Mizukage tried desperately to raise back to his feet.

"You… You damn monster…" But before he could continue, the monkey punched him in the stomach, making him fly towards the wall… And past the wall, and then out of the building. And since the Mizukage's office was situated at the highest floor of the tower… Well… You can guess the outcome.

"Digital monster! And the name's Etemon! Stick that into your mind! Yeeeeeeah!"

Naruto! Sinka!

Chapter1: The one who inherits courage

A week later

"Ahhh! This new recipe of yours is delicious, neechan!"

And here we found our favourite ninja, doing what he does best: eating ramen. And this particular bowl of ramen was a new special recipe of Ayame, who was now flushing for the bunch of compliments the blond ninja was giving her.

"Ahhh! Naruto-kun, you're just flattering me…" Said the girl, turning around, embarrassed to no end.

"No, really! It's marvellous! You'll make a great wife, one day, neechan!" With that 'ultra-reddening' phrase, Naruto asked for seconds. The tomato named Ayame filled the bowl with more ramen. Naruto was about to launch himself into it when…

"Naruto! Naruto!" Naruto turned around. The voice belonged to no one else but Sakura Haruno, who was running towards him. He waved one hand to her.

"Sakura-chan! Want to join me?!"

"Naruto, haven't you heard?! It's terrible!" Sakura was panting from all the running, and she had a newspaper in her right hand.

"? What's terrible, Sakura-chan? And what's with the newspaper?" Asked the blonde shinobi. Sakura regained her breath a little, and showed it to Naruto.

"Since I know that you don't read them…" Naruto caught the newspaper, and began to read the news on the main page…

"… !!!" The main article was about… The Hidden Mist being taken in a single night? "The many refugees that managed to escape to other countries talk about an army of monsters that managed to take the village and to kill the Mizukage. What… What's this?"

"I don't know… But I think that maybe Tsunade-sama could know something more."

"…"

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Being an Hokage doesn't mean taking care of your village only. You get involved into other countries affairs as well. Well… Not that one could be silent or at least unimpressed by what had happened. A hidden village taken over in a single night. That had never happened before. And what about the story about monsters? Not a single ninja… Just monsters? What the… And while she was absorbed in those thoughts, she was interrupted by her favourite interruption. Naruto Uzumaki.

"Baa-chan! What's happened?! What's this story about this army of monsters?!" Shouted the blonde nuisance. Tsunade didn't throw the usual desk after him because she had a slight headache.

"Naruto… Lower your voice… Or I swear that I will rip off something off your body…" Said the Hokage in a low voice. Naruto cringed at the mental image. "Now that you're silent, the answer is… We don't know."

"WHAT?! Ehm, I mean… What do you mean?" Naruto instinctively reacted to his own tone of voice, lowering it.

"I mean what I said. We don't know what happened, exactly. We only know that a bunch of monsters took over the Hidden Mist. But they're not summoned monsters."

"Eh?"

"First, not even an entire village could summon an army of monsters trough the Kuchiyose. Second… Those who managed to escape told us that these monsters didn't disappear in a cloud of smoke, when they died. They… Turned into an egg."

"An egg?" Naruto had a puzzled look on his face. He crossed his arms.

"Yes. An egg. We don't really know what these monsters are. So… We'll have to wait. We'll have to gather more info on these new enemies and their goals. And then… We'll decide."

"Decide on what?" Naruto was more and more confused by the second.

"On our defence strategy. Because… We don't know about their line of thoughts, but… If they have enough power to take over one of the five greatest Hidden Villages, I don't think they will stop there."

"…" Naruto gulped. That was enough news, for the day. "Ok… I'll take my leave, baa-san."

"…" Naruto opened the door and got out, closing slowly behind him. Tsunade sighed. How troublesome… AND DAMN SHIKAMARU'S SYNDROME!

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"Uff… What a mess… Monsters coming out of nowhere that take over hidden villages… What a mess, for my poor mind…"

Naruto always did one thing, when he was confused. No, not ramen. That was when he was hungry, exhausted, tired, sad, etc… When he was confused, he did the same thing that he did when he wanted to relax. He went to his secret place. An hot spring in the forest upon mount Hokage. It was his secret place because he had asked the third Hokage to keep it hidden, and the Hokage granted him that wish, by making it unapproachable trough a Genjutsu to anyone but Naruto, himself and whoever held Naruto's hand while walking into the place. The water was thermal, hot, full of bubbles. Naruto loved it.

"Sigh… Well, thinking about it it's no use, for now. But when the time comes, I'll kick every monster's ass!" He shouted to no one, pumping his fist in the air. Then, he let his body be submerged almost completely by the hot water. "Ahhh… But for now… Reeeeelax… Uh?" Naruto opened one of his eyes. He had heard like… An electrical noise. He turned around. Nothing. "Ok. That was weird…" More noises. He turned around one more time.

Above his personal hot spring had appeared… A digital gate. Of course, Naruto didn't know it was a digital gate, but making the same description each damned time is tiring, you know? Naruto had an half idea to get into a battle stance or at least back away from it, but… Something got out of the digital gate. Something little, compared to his body, but it got a considerable splash out of the water. The digital gate closed right after. Naruto observed carefully the point where something had fallen. The object began to float. Naruto approached it, slowly… A egg?!

"An egg? What is an egg doing here?! And what kind of egg is this, by the way?" Naruto observed the egg. It was a little bigger than his fist. It had a strange pattern of colours decorating it, and a strange crest in the middle of it. And on top of that, it had a metal spike coming out of it. Naruto grabbed it. "Mah… It's hot… ! HEY!"

The egg began to shine, and hovered up, high in the air… And then fell down in the hot spring one more time, implanting itself in the ground under the water.

"… OK! THAT'S IT! I'LL NEVER TOUCH YOU AGAIN! HEARD ME, STUPID EGG?!" Naruto shouted to the said egg. The egg, of course, didn't answer. "… Now, don't be offended…" No response. "Ok, Ok. I'll take you with me." Naruto got on his knees. The water wasn't deep. He touched the egg… And grabbed it, lifting it off the ground without effort. But then… A light that looked like a stream of fire came out of a hole that was into the ground, splitting the water. One ray hit Naruto… In the hands? "WHAT THE RAMEN… Uh?!" In the hands of Naruto had appeared something. It was like… Some kind of technical device. But it looked much more advanced that anything Naruto had ever seen, blue and white coloured. "What's this thing?"

In the meanwhile, a shadow began to appear in the middle of the stream of fire…

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"Now, pay attention, kids. From here you can observe the Hokage's from a much better point of view."

One of the teachers of the academy was on the top of the Hokage's mountain. It was history lesson, and what better place than the top of the heads of the previous Hokage? In the crowd of student, figured a well known character. The now 11 years old Hanabi Hyuga. Even if she has always been trained by her father, she had to attend at least one year, the last one, at the academy, to become a full fledged ninja. So, that 'tour' was boring the hell out of her. How she wished for something to happen… And suddenly… Something happened. Hanabi was the first to notice. In the sky… Above their heads. It had opened a digital gate. And Hanabi could swear to see two red eyes in there.

"S-Sensei!" One of the other students noticed the thing as well. "What's that?!"

"Uh?" The teacher raised his head, and got startled. After all, it's not everyday that you see some kind of black and white dinosaur coming out of a hole in the sky.

"Ahhh! It's one of those monsters that the TV talked about!" Shrieked one of the little girls, while the enormous dinosaur landed, making a little earthquake ensue. But it was enough to distract the teacher enough to let the monster hit him with a swing of his wip.

"! Aaaaaaaaaah!" The hit made him fall off the Hokages mountain, towards certain death. All this under the petrified glances of the little students. They broke out of it when the monster turned towards them.

Hanabi was the first one to get back on the analysis' side. She had to do something. She screamed to her companions…

"Run! Seek for help! I'll keep him occupied!" She said.

"B-But…"

"I'm the strongest, here! Run and search for help while I try to slow him down! Or do you want to die?!" She continued. In the meanwhile, the monster roared.

Hanabi got into her battle stance. But she had the suspect that she would need more than the Hyuga style to take that monster out.

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"W-What…"

The shadow took more and more shape by the second… Till it jumped out of the stream of fire, and into the water, right in front of Naruto. It looked like… Like… Like… Naruto didn't know what. It was an almost completely blue thing standing on his feet, with two hands, and yellow markings on his face, two small ones right under the angle of his eyes and one bigger in the shape of a 'V' on his forehead, and a small horn as a nose. As first thing, he eyed Naruto for a second, and then began to run around him, in circles.

"Yahoo! Yahoo! You moved the Digimental!" The strange creature shouted. Naruto, for the surprise, almost let the said thing fall along with the strange device in the water. And he knew that technology and water didn't mix. The strange little thing stopped in front of him one more time, eyeing him with his big red eyes. "I'm V-Mon! Who are you?"

"Ehm… Naruto…" Now, I'm talking to him back? What the…

"Nice to meet'cha, Naruto! I've been waiting a lon…" Before the Digimon could end his sentence, Naruto got distracted by another noise… An enormous growl, not of that world, in his opinion.

"What was that?!"

"A Digimon! But it seems angry…" Said V-Mon, looking in the direction where the scream came from. "But I heard a human scream as well!"

"A Digiwhat?! Damn it… So much for the relax!" Naruto got out of the water in a flash, and took his clothes. He put on just his pants and his black shirt, his necklace hanging from his neck as always. He ran towards the direction of the roar. He noticed that the blue thing had followed him

"Why are you following me?!" He screamed.

"Because you're my partner! I can help you!" Answered V-Mon. Naruto inarched an eyebrow. How could that little blue thing help him in any way?! While he was thinking, he got out of the forest. And he saw an enormous monster… Facing a little girl around 10 years old. The girl was full of scratches, and was panting. And the monster was… Gathering fire in his mouth?!

"Damn… Monster!" Naruto rushed at the monster, enveloping his right punch in chakra. He punched the monster's side with all his strength… And it barely moved. But it was enough to make him stop preparing his fire attack. Not… Not even a scratch…

"Naruto! Watch out!" Said V-Mon.

"!" Too late, thought Naruto. With a swing of his tail, he had sent the blonde shinobi flying and rolling on the ground. Hanabi approached him. V-Mon did the same.

"Are you alright?!" They said at the same time. Then, they acknowledged each other's existence. "! You're another monster!"

"Eh? B-But I don't want to hurt you…"

"Ahiahiahi… What a hit… Darn! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Naruto got back on his feet, and he created ten copies. Two of the copies prepared a Rasengan… But the monster suddenly shot out some enormous fireballs from his mouth. The copies disappeared in an explosion of flames and white smoke. Naruto covered Hanabi and V-Mon from the shards of rock that came flying towards them.

"… There is no way to fight him?" Said Hanabi, starting to feel fear for the first time in her life. Naruto turned around as well.

"… There must be a way!"

"There is, Naruto!" The blonde haired shinobi turned his attention to V-Mon. "You just have to say 'Digimental Up!' while holding the Digimental of courage in your hand!"

"Eh? Now that I think about it…" Naruto checked his pants. He had taken along with him both the strange egg and the technological device. "You mean… This egg?"

"Yes! The Digimental! Hurry up!" V-Mon said, while the black and white dinosaur prepared to attack one more time.

Naruto just couldn't bare to accept the absurdity of the thing. A monster attacking them. A monster appearing out of a egg… No, from a hole in the ground under a egg. A strange thing appearing in his hands. The strange little blue thing that says to shout out loud a ridicule phrase… The hell with it.

"The hell with his!" He raised the hand holding the Digimental above his head. "Digimental up!"

The Digimental began to shine. And V-Mon got enveloped by the same yellow light that now enveloped the Digimental.

Evolution cut-scene. "V-Mon armor shinka… The fire of courage, Flamedramon!"

When the light died out… V-Mon had changed. He was bigger, taller… Just different. And it was strong, that was certain. He stopped the rush of the big Digimon with his claws. Naruto couldn't help but gasp in shock.

"I told ya I would be useful… Naruto! Ooooaaaah!" Flamedramon began to push away the other digimon, before lifting from the ground and throwing him away.

"A-Amazing… Hey, you're hella strong!" Said Naruto. His partner, hn? That was good to hear! "Now, finish him!"

"Yes!" Flamedramon runned towards his opponent one more time, who charged as well. The armor Digimon stopped him and used a suplex on him. "Take this!"

Flamedramon jumped high in the air, and enveloped himself in a shroud of fire. "Fire… Rocket!" Then, immediately after, he began to descend towards his enemy. The other Digimon launched more fireballs, but Flamedramon went trough them like they were made of butter. And in the end, he hit his enemy, with enormous strength. The dinosaur like Digimon got enveloped in bright light… And he turned back to an egg? Flamedramon landed to his feet, and he got enveloped by a flame-like light. The light got like absorbed by Naruto's new device, which then shot another beam of yellow light towards his pant's pockets. Naruto put a hand into it and… He got out another strange device.

"What the… Bah! The important thing is that… Uh?" Naruto noticed that the little girl was very familiar… White eyes… "Hey. Are you a Hyuga?"

"Hyuga Hanabi… But… Tell me something…" She said, while observing V-Mon who was going back to Naruto's side. "How come this monster, unlike the others… Helped you?"

"Because Naruto is my partner! He was the one who lifted the Digimental of courage!" Replied the small Digimon. In the meanwhile, Naruto eyed the egg.

"Now… What happened to the other Digimon?" He said, approaching the egg, poking it with his right index finger. "Why did it turn into an egg?"

"Digimon do not die! They just turn into eggs!" Said V-Mon, excited. "When they turn back to eggs, they don't remember anymore what they did in the previous life. They start again, they can say."

"Uhm… Then, we should probably hide this thing. And we should hide your companion as well." Said Hanabi. Naruto turned towards the young Hyuga.

"Uh? Hide it? Why?" Asked Naruto.

"It's obvious. With what's happening recently, they will probably destroy it, to prevent it from hatching and releasing another Digimon."

"!"

"As for your partner…" Hanabi eyed V-Mon. "He will probably be chained, tortured, and then killed."

"AHHHH! NARUTO, I DON'T WANT TO BE TORTURED!" Said V-Mon, while running around in circles.

"CALM DOWN! I KNOW WHERE TO HIDE YOU! BUT…" Naruto glanced into Hanabi's direction. "You will not say anything?"

"Why should I? I'm not narrow minded like the major part of this village. V-Mon… Right? He saved my life. And that's enough, for me."

"That's good to hear… Uh?" Naruto heard footsteps. "DAMN IT! PEOPLE COMING! FOLLOW ME!" Naruto practically dragged away V-Mon and Hanabi, while four ANBU came back to the place along with two of the students.

"Here! They're… Uh?" One of the students looked around. No trace of Hanabi or the monster. "But they were here!"

"… There are traces of battle… Let's search for them!"

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"Are you sure they will not search for us here?"

"Don't worry, Hanabi-chan. This place is protected with a Kage-level Genjutsu. It was the third that placed it." Naruto glanced in the direction of Hanabi… Who was glaring back.

"Nobody gave you the permission to calm me Hanabi-chan." She said with an angry tone of voice. Naruto sweatdropped, while V-Mon hid behind his back.

"Naruto… Your friend scares me…" Whined the Digimon.

"Eheheh… Don't worry, she doesn't bite… By the way, V-Mon… Could you be more clear?" Said Naruto, after putting the egg in a little hole near the hot springs, that covered it for an half. "I mean, you said that you and this other guy, here, are Digimon. But what are Digimon? And why have they attacked our world?"

"Well, Digimon are the inhabitants of Digiworld! The Digital world! And for the second question… I don't know." Answered the Digimon, sitting on the ground.

"What?! But you come all from the same world, right?! Then…"

"I was born from the Digimental just few minutes ago, Naruto. I don't know anything…" Answered the Digimon. Naruto sighed.

"Well… I suppose you can't even tell me what the hell are the things that suddenly appeared…"

"It's ringing."

"Eh?" Naruto turned towards Hanabi, who was pointing towards one of his pants' pockets, the one holding the second device that had appeared.

"I don't know if it's a phone or something… I just know that it's making a sound." Continued the Hyuga girl. She was right.

Naruto picked up the strange device, and clicked a button, that he guessed was used to open it. Bingo. The device opened, revealing a small keyboard and a display. The display turned on. There was written: 'No video'. But… They could hear a voice coming from it.

"Hello, there. Hey, Chosen one. Are you there?"

"Eh?! This… This thing can talk?!" Said Naruto. Hanabi just shook her head.

"Baka. It must be some kind of transmitter. You're talking with another human."

"Ah? Really?"

"… Sigh… Another Taichi. I guess it can't be helped, after all. Oh, well…"

"Eh? Hey! Who are you?! What are you talking about?! And what are these things that have appeared here?!" Screamed Naruto. Hanabi sighed and hit her forehead with an open palm.

"I can hear you, you know. No need to scream. Now, listen well. You're probably wondering why V-Mon has appeared in front of you, and what are these devices."

"Actually… Yes." Naruto calmed down. This was interesting and useful. He sat on the ground. V-Mon and Hanabi did the same, sitting to his sides.

"First, Digiworld. Digiworld is another world, where the Digimons live. Digiworld is connected with a lot of other worlds. Mainly the ones where technology is very advanced, because they are made of data. This connection makes so that sometimes Digimon travel to the Human world or humans travel to the Digiworld."

"But… Our world isn't very technologically advanced." Hanabi decided to take a part into the conversation. "So, how come that an entire army of Digimon entered our world?"

"Well, as I said, that Digimon and humans travelled between the worlds happened. But this… This situation has never happened before. This time, the Digimon deliberately chose to travel, to invade your world."

"… But… But why? I mean, they already have their own world, right?!" Said Naruto, one more time with an high tone of voice.

"Yes! We do!" Continued V-Mon. Hanabi stayed silent. She tried to think about the matter.

"We don't know… We noticed this with too little notice… God, what did I say? However, like has happened before, a solution has come."

"Really?! And what is it?!" Said Naruto, eager to know about a solution.

"You. You, V-Mon, and the other Chosen ones."

"Eh?" Naruto raised an eyebrow, confused.

"Only a Digimon can defeat a Digimon. You should have noticed. V-Mon and other Digimons keep inside them incredible power, but they can't unlock it on their own. They need the assistance of their Chosen ones, humans that will join forces with them and fight with them every battle. You are a Chosen one. The proof is that you were able to lift the Digimental of the courage, releasing V-Mon, the Digivice and the Digiterminal that you are now using to talk to me."

"Digivice?" Naruto pulled out of his pocket the other device.

"The Digivice is what makes the link between you and your Digimon, and it holds the power of the Digimentals. The Digiterminal is like a computer. It allows you to go on-line, see maps of the Digiworld, send e-mail. On top of that, it allows you to display data on the Digimon you meet. And the Digivice… Try to push the button on the right side."

"Uh? Like this?" Naruto did as told. V-Mon got enveloped by yellow light and… He became a smaller and much cuter version of himself.

"Wow! I'm back to Demi-V-Mon, now!"

"Hey! What happened to him?!" Screamed Naruto. In the meanwhile… Hanabi was observing him with sparkling eyes. And then… Come on. Hyuga or not, Hanabi was still a little girl. And she loved cute things. She grabbed Demi-V-Mon, embracing him tightly.

"KAWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAI!"

"AAAAAAAAAH!"

"Push it another time to make it go back to the Rookie level. This way, it will be easier to get him to go unnoticed in public, right? You can say it's a stuffed toy or something."

"Actually… Yes. Thank you… Oh! Wait a minute! You talked about Chosen ones, before. Does that mean that there are more people like me?" Naruto asked, suddenly realizing the sense of the words.

"Exactly. And more Digimons and more Digimentals. I hope you meet as soon as possible. Now… FZZZZ!"

"Uh?" Naruto observed the display. It said: 'CONNECTION LOST'. "What happened?"

"Ahhh! So kawai! Naruto-kun, let me keep him!"

"NOOOO! NARUUUUTOOO!" Demi-V-Mon escaped Hanabi's clutches and jumped towards Naruto.

"Eheheh… Come on, Hanabi. I need to keep him around, in case something happens. Like another Digimon attacks…" Said Naruto, while holding Demi-V-Mon with one arm and scratching the back of his head with the other. Hanabi pouted.

"Uff… Understood." She got back on her feet. "Well, that means that we will be spending a lot of time together, Uzumaki."

"NANI?!"

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"Damn it! Keep searching!"

"But we still haven't… Uh?"

The ANBU team, along with a worried Hiashi Hyuga were searching trough the entire hear in the nearby of the Hokage's mountain. But they couldn't find anything till… Hanabi decided to appear on her own. She got out of the forest along with Naruto, who was now holding… A strange, but still extremely cute stuffed toy. They hurried to them.

"Hanabi! Are you alright?!" Asked her father, who looked extremely worried.

"What happened to the monster?!" Asked one of the ANBU.

"I'm alright, tou-san. Naruto protected me and took care of the monster, and…" Before Hanabi could finish the phrase, her father slapped her hard on the right cheek. Naruto's eyes widened, while Hanabi remained silent, her glance towards the ground. Demi-V-Mon just continued with the part of the stuffed toy.

"Fool! Your first duty is towards your clan! Against stronger enemies, you must escape! You almost died to protect a bunch of kids!" He shouted. Naruto couldn't believe his ears. Hanabi just replied…

"Yes, father. I'm sorry." Her voice was marked with submission and obedience, while before was the complete opposite.

"Hmph." He turned towards Naruto. "Thanks for taking care of my daughter. And congratulations on being able to dispose of such a monster on your own."

"Oh, it was nothing…" Replied Naruto. But he did not stop there. "Personally, I think that just a coward would run away leaving weaker and defenceless people alone, in moments of peril."

"…" Hiashi caught the obvious hidden message. And Hanabi did too. Amused that Naruto would take her defence. "… Let's go, Hanabi."

"… Yes, tou-san." Hanabi walked away, and Naruto sighed. Suddenly, he noticed that there was something inside his pocket. A little piece of paper. He opened it.

Meet me tomorrow at 02:00 PM in the Academy's garden. I'll tell everyone about V-Mon, if you don't.

Hanabi

"… So much for defending her…" Naruto said, with a frown.

"Uzumaki-san, please come with us. We'll need your help for the report."

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And with report, they meant taking him to the Hokage. After their part of the report, the Hokage dismissed them. Naruto would fill in the rest. He told Tsunade about how he had 'kicked that overgrown lizard's ass' in quite a theatrical manner. Tsunade knew better than that, though. He wasn't telling the truth. And where did he take that incredibly cute stuffed toy?

"… What about the egg? It left an egg, right?" Said Tsunade.

"Oh, yeah. It fell off the cliff. By now, it should be just an omelette…" Answered the blonde shinobi, observing his fingers like he had not a thought in his world.

"…" Tsunade stared at Naruto, and Naruto stared back. "Naruto, you should hand it over, you know."

"I don't know what are you talking about…" Replied Naruto. He was so not going to hand over the egg and Demi-V-Mon.

"… Ok. I'll trust you with it. After all, if you don't want to say anything about the matter, I think you have your reasons." At least I hope… "You can go." Said the Hokage, waving her hand in a manner that said 'Shoo'.

"Thank you, Hokage-saaaaama. See ya!" Naruto was out of the office in a flash. Demi-V-Mon whispered to him.

"Naruto… I'm hungry."

"Don't worry. We'll have a lot of good ramen, when we get back home." Naruto whispered back. It was the start of a new life.

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In the meanwhile, another person was trying to decide what to do with his new Digimon and his Digivice. He didn't want to take care of such a useless creature who resembled a worm. At least, he could use those devices. But his former sensei was persuading him to not do such a thing.

"Now, now, Sasuke-kun. Don't be so hasty." The flicking of that tongue sent shivers trough Wormon's inexistent spine. "Why would you want to get rid of such a cute and useful creature?"

"… I don't see any use in this… Digimon." Replied stoic the Uchiha. Orochimaru chuckled in his usual way. The little Digimon was trembling.

"B-But I am useful, Sasuke…" Replied, with a low voice. The Uchiha just observed him like he was some piece of something to remove off his shoes.

"Uhuhuh… I know, little Wormon. It's just that Sasuke still doesn't acknowledges that." Said Orochimaru. "Should we show him how useful you can be?"

"Y-Yes! Of course, Orochimaru-sama!" Said eager the Digimon.

"Good. For example… Give us informations. I have a few questions about you Digimons." The little Digimon nodded with his little head. "For example… We've seen other Digimons, but they were bigger and… More aggressive than you. How come?"

"For their aggressive mood… I suppose it's because they chose to be aggressive, since they're invading your world. For the size… It's because their on a superior level of Digievolution."

"Digievolution?" Said Orochimaru. Sasuke just listened silently.

"Yes, Orochimaru-sama." Wormon nodded. "The Digimons have various levels of Evolution. For example, I am a Rookie. Then, there is the Champion level. And so on. They're various. Each time a Digimon Digievolves, it becomes bigger and more powerful."

"Uhuhuh… So, it's a natural thing?"

"Yes and no, Orochimaru-sama. All Digimons have the ability to Digievolve, but not everyone of them manages to do it. And for me and other particular Digimons, is different." Continued the little Digimon.

"Different, my little friend?" Continued Orochimaru. He had to know everything he could, on those creatures. A plan was starting to form in his mind.

"Yes. I am one of a group of particular Digimons that only those humans called Chosen ones can awake. The proof is the Digivice they receive when they do so. Sasuke is one of the Chosen ones, and my partner." Wormon glanced in the direction of the Uchiha, who was listening to the Digimon's speech with interest. Chosen… Chosen for what? "I can evolve just with my partner's help, when he shares his energy with me."

"Uhm… And I suppose that your evolution should be particularly strong, then. Uhuhuh… You're indeed useful, Wormon." Said Orochimaru. Wonderful… "Now, another question. As we've already told you, our world is being invaded by Digimons. So… Do you know how a way to… Prevent their evolution? Or to control them, in any way?"

"Well, I…" Wormon paused while talking. It was like something suddenly came to his mind, from nowhere. "Yes, there are… The Dark Rings… And the Control spires."

"Uhuhuh… Continue."

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Naruto couldn't believe this… He had found someone as ramen-addicted as him. Demi-V-Mon seemed to love the stuff, even if he didn't eat as much as him. In the morning, Naruto had training. So, he decided that it would be best for him to stay home. When it was lunch-time, Naruto went back to his home to pick him up. Time to go the Ichiraku. Usual greeting, but when Ayame noticed the stuffed toy Naruto was carrying around…

"KAWAAAI!" Ayame suddenly forgot about her duty as a ramen-cook and launched herself on Naruto, embracing him and Demi-V-Mon. "NARUTO-KUN, YOUR TOY IS SO KAWAI! AND YOU LOOK KAWAI TOO, WITH IT!"

"Ehm… Thanks, Ayame-chan…" All the girls go crazy for cute things or what?

"…" Help… Suffucating…

"Ehm… Ayame-chan, what about getting off me?" Said Naruto. Ayame then noticed the position they were into, and got back on her feet blushing, while old man Ichiraku was crushing a pair of chopsticks with his right hand.

"Sorry, Naruto-kun… But you have such a cute stuffed toy!" She said, giggling like mad. "Where did you buy it?"

"Ehm… I didn't buy it… I found it in a certain place… I liked it, so I decided to bring it home." Good one, Uzumaki. You're good.

"Oh… Too bad. I wanted one too…" Replied Ayame, pouting a little.

"Eheheh… Sorry, Ayame-chan. So, how about six bowls of your new, marvellous ramen? To take away." Said Naruto, while getting back on his feet as well. Ayame eyed him strangely.

"Uh? You want to eat it somewhere else?"

"Well, I have to eat it with a friend of mine. We have an appointment." Replied Naruto.

"Ohhh… A date? And who's the lucky girl, Naruto-kun?" Said Ayame, teasing him a little.

"Don't be silly Ayame-chan! It's just a friend! And she's 11yo, on top of that!" A very pesty 11yo…

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2 PM. There he was. And there was Hanabi too, sitting under the shade of a tree in the academy garden. No one was around, it seemed.

"Hey. How come no one's around?" Asked Naruto, while his copy let the ramen on the floor.

"Today the academy is closed, because of yesterday's incident. I guessed that it would happen, so I decided that this was the better place to talk without the risk of being discovered."

"Okay. Do you mind if we talk while I have lunch? I'm kinda hungry…" Said Naruto, dismissing his copy and starting to open a bowl of ramen. Demi-V-Mon approached the bowls as well.

"Me too! Me too!" Said the little Digimon.

"It's fine with me. Just don't talk with your mouth…" Suddenly, a growl echoed in the air. Naruto immediately took a kunai and his Digivice in hand, trying to figure who was the thing that had emitted it. And the winner was… Hanabi's stomach. The Hyuga girl blushed bright red, while Naruto, after a moment of disbelief, began to snicker. "… I just didn't have lunch…"

"Eheheh… You could have just said so." Naruto handed to her a bowl of ramen. The 11yo eyed it carefully. Naruto smirked. "It's not poisoned or whatever, you know."

"… Arigato." The girl took the offer and began to eat. She slurped a bit of noodles. And she had to restrain herself from shouting 'THIS IS DEFINITELY BETTER THAN ANY CRAP THAT I EAT BACK AT HOME!'. "Well, now, we need a plan to disguise yourself."

"What do you mean?" Asked Naruto, opening another bowl for himself after handing to Demi-V-Mon his one.

"I mean, since you're probably the only one who has a Digimon on our side, you'll probably have to intervene, in case another Digimon attacks." Another few noodles. Hanabi stopped, full of good manners lessons. "But you can't fight alongside him as Naruto, otherwise they'll immediately recognize you. And you know how narrow-minded can the people of this village be, right?"

"… Right." Naruto sighed. He knew maybe too well. Damn Kyuubi-obsessed bastards…

"So, I think that we must do something to disguise yourself. Like a costume, or something…" Hanabi took out of practically nowhere a set of coloured pencils and a block of white papers. "After designing it, I suppose you could just Henge into it during battles. You're legendary for your techniques of Henge, in the academy."

"Eheheh… I suppose the Sexy-no-Jutsu helped." Naruto rubbed the back of his head with his right hand. "But… Why are you helping me?"

"…" Hanabi took a sheet out of the block… Which already had a drawing on it. Hanabi in a… Super-hero costume. "Because I want to be your partner."

"…" Naruto sweatdropped. Hanabi's eyes were sparkling, but her face remained emotionless. It was probably her plan all along… Who had ever thought that she had a Super-Hero dream?

Continue…

In the next chapter…

Konoha welcomes a new trio of super-heroes! The Digi-Tamers! And in the meanwhile, two new chosen ones appear in Konoha! Who could they be?! Stay tuned!