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P.S. AND WARNING: HOPE NARUTO'S SWEARING IN HIS INTERNAL MONOLOGUE MAKES SENSE. I MEAN THINK ABOUT IT: HE *IS* A TRAINED SAGE AND FEELING THE RESULTS OF EACH AND EVERY MESSED-UP THING THAT HUMANS HAVE EVER DONE TO THE PLANET THROUGHOUT ALL OF HISTORY ALL AT ONCE...JUST PLEASE KEEP THAT IN MIND BEFORE ANY OF YOU DECIDE TO FLAME OR BASH ME OVER IT, OK?
Sitting in his makeshift room with Hakari, surrounded by Takeru Takaishi's novels; Naruto was pale all the way to his lips, his dilated eyes sunken and bloodshot, and his face gaunt and even his hair was drooping, dull, and listless. He looked like death warmed over. The research! It seemed to stretch on forever! The reading! The re-reading! The re-re-reading!
MAKE IT STOP!
He needed to be active right now! This was hell! Ok...he knew this was important, but still, he was a kinesthetic learner, he figured things out by doing, it was always harder to understand anything when he was just reading it!
The book was open, he was staring at the words, he was reading them, but the information all seemed to bleed together in one big ink blob that seemed to skid off the surface of his brain.
Finally, he set the book down and bolted towards the door from his sitting position. He couldn't take this!
"Lop-ear Ripple!"
As he neared the doorway, it burst open to show Pakura's partner as she twirled her ears, creating a vortex of bubbles, swallowing up and entrapped the displaced ninja as he crashed right into it.
"I am sorry about him, Senpai." Hikari said to Lunamon with a sigh.
"It's ok, I get it. He just learns in a different way than by reading...but I can't let him ditch." the Rookie-level said, feeling a bit odd at a Champion-level calling her that. Then the moon rabbit tapped her chin, "Know what? A break might do you both some good, though. Thirty minutes." she said as she ended her technique.
Naruto sighed and smiled at his senpai's Digimon, "...Thanks." he sighed before the trio walked out into the main area of Ginkiri, as the shop was closed for the day, causing Pakura to look up from where was facing and taking stock of the shop's inventory.
She rose a brow at her partner at the sight of the three of them.
"R&R is good for the brain. Too much workload and they snap." Lunamon shrugged. Pakura smirked at that and gave a small nod. As a former Jonin, she'd basically been born and raised in a private military contractor or mercenary lifestyle. So she knew how vital moments where one could rest and relax were.
"Fine."
As the two Digimon went off to occupy themselves, Naruto approached Pakura, looking nervous. "Uhh...senpai?" he asked, "...I know this is a weird question, but...do you still keep up with ninja training?"
"Of course I do. What kind of stupid question is that, Naruto?" Pakura said, frowning at him.
"Sorry...just...I need to get stronger if I'm gonna beat her...not good enough yet..." He sighed.
At that, the former kunoichi clicked her tongue in annoyance. Seeing as how he couldn't explain his situation and circumstances without explaining what exactly he was, he'd had to explain to her about the fox. To her credit, Pakura was more surprised on how he was actually quite well adjusted, given everything he endured, than any news of his being a Jinchuriki.
She knew the drill with Jinchuriki: they were to be kept as weak as possible so they were easier to control, yet the villages still wanted them to serve as guard dogs and living deterrents of war because they were powerful. It made Pakura be really annoyed since it was something that was either one or the other, but the villages wanted both at the same time. Not only that, but the people around them wanted to force them to end up mentally unbalanced, if not driven into being psychopaths who killed just for killing's own sake; but were expected to be loyal and fight to protect their tormentors for no other reason than "just because".
No wonder he felt his current level of ability was nowhere near enough to beat LadyDevimon and free himself with factors like that in his way.
"And your Jonin-sensei? What did they teach you? Need to know that so I don't end up repeating lessons with you."
Naruto sighed, "...That my element was Wind. Kakashi-sensei never taught me what else. Never taught me ANY jutsu either, matter of fact...unless you count tree climbing. Other than that, most he ever showed me was when he was standing off to the side while overseeing me develop my own jutsu and him telling me about the collective memory feature of shadow clones...Otherwise, he just passed me off to somebody else. It was how he worked when I needed training, but he never did that with the other members of my team."
The "Scorch mistress" nodded, frowning at that. "...I see..." Pakura said tightly, eyes blazing. They had work to do then...A LOT of work. She hated when Jonin that were inept senseis were put in charge of teaching like that! Being skilled in the field or with jutsu did not mean they'd be capable mentors, after all!
"Also...what's with that weird explanation on Kekkai Genkai? First he says you have to be born with inheriting those abilities in your genes, then he says having those kinds traits are just mixing chakra together? I don't get it..." Naruto shook his head, confused just thinking about it.
Pakura nodded; truth be told, it never made sense to her either. Kekkai Genkai were special powers passed down through certain families. The term literally translated to "Bloodline Limit" and was an anomaly of the D.N.A., resulting in special abilities or bodily constitutions passed down genetically to allow the wielder to use unique techniques.
Because of that, it always confused and annoyed her when people said Kekkai Genkai were the result of mixing two types of chkara together. If that were the case, then wouldn't EVERYONE have Kekkai Genkai just because they had chakra? The idea of the mixing of two types of chkara together being what made those abilities just completely undermined that concept of needing specific genes in order to have them at all.
Made no sense! After all, chakra was just raw energy that was tuned to a certain frequency to produce the effects of jutsu, like changing the stations of a radio. That was why it wasn't unusual for a person to have more than one elemental affinity.
"...Tell you what, Naruto. I'll go get us all some lunch, after we eat, we can work on training plans, ok? Can't work as well on an empty stomach, anyways." Pakura said, a hand being put on his shoulder.
He gave a small smile and nodded, before going to the shelves and checking the decks the way she had been. As he took over what she had been doing, Pakura smiled an shook her head as she left her shop while Naruto continued to work on making the shop as presentable and welcoming as it could.
After a few hours, Pakura entered the shop with a couple of bags in her hands which was the food she ordered for her, Naruto and their partners to eat, she was surprised since the shop was looking so good, you'd think the Building would have had just been freshly built! Naruto must have had more pent-up energy than she figured...well, either that, or access to one of the more useful variants of the clone technique (they did come from the same world, after all)...maybe both.
Finding him in the break room with both Digimon, she grinned.
"Chow time, everybody!" Pakura placed the bags onto the table and took her's and Naruto's orders first which she placed a beer mug in front of Naruto and poured a liquid that looked a lot like beer with ramen noodles in it.
Naruto's jaw dropped. The ramen...soiled! "Wha...wha...what is that?!"
"Something I figured you'd enjoy, given your diet." The former heroine of Sunagakure smirked.
"Beer...with ramen in it?! No way!" Naruto shouted, horrified.
"Oh, quit being such a baby Naruto, and drink it!" Pakura said as she tackled and held the struggling Naruto down while the two Digimon watched, even giggling to themselves when Pakura shoved the Beer Ramen into his mouth forcing him to chug it down against his will.
When Naruto finished the glass, he expected to start throwing up... but then he froze as his taste buds told him there was NO beer in the ramen at all!
"Heh...saw about it online. First, boiled ramen noodles get dunked into an ice bath, then they're added into the glass, along with a serving of chilled broth then they stir the noodles in the broth with chopsticks, and then they "foam" the Ramen Beer with a mixture made of egg whites and gelatin at the top. Nothing alcoholic at all!" Pakura laughed as she got off him. "Practically everyone at first thinks it's beer in the ramen!"
"...You just...pranked me...Wow, that was a good o-" Naruto trailed off as he sat up, eyes huge with epiphany. No...no way...! That was...! This was...! He couldn't believe...!
"...Prank Ramen...?!" He squeaked out, voice barely above a whisper, his eyes shining with unshead tears. A meal of ramen made as such that the way it pranked those who didn't know any better...
It...it was...it was beautiful! He needed a moment! He was just so overcome! Naruto wanted to —NO! HE NEEDED! HE WILL! HE MUST! HE SHALL!— engrave this sheer brilliance upon the very core of his heart to treasure forever!
He closed his eyes and bowed his head, as if in prayer, then his eyes snapped open. Grabbing the nearest mug, he instantly started chugging it down. As both a prankster and a ramen-lover, he found this amazing! Ramen pranks! He never would have thought of that! Seriously? "Beer Ramen"? Points for originality, he'd give them that! And how it WASN'T actual beer! It was a joke using ramen! How could Naruto not love how it mixed pranks and ramen together! He just HAD to salute, applaud, and admire that!
"Well...take it you like it?" Pakura's question was one of amused, yet morbid, amazement at the way Naruto gorged himself.
"Yeah..." Naruto sighed, setting down the mug. "Had no parents, no friends...no one to ever take care of me or even help me at all. I was forced from the instant I was born to raise myself and do everything on my own. My overly-developed sense of self-reliance from having to live that way caused trouble for me as a ninja, too; but that's another story...back on the topic and point at hand, not only was it cheap, but Instant Ramen only just needed a pot of hot water to make,, so I grew up on the stuff...then there was back when I first ate at the Ichiraku Ramen shop as a little kid..."
"What happened?" Hakari asked, interested in her partner's life and curious about it.
[Flashback]
While the owner of the Ichiraku Ramen Shop, Teuchi Ichiraku saw a young Naruto standing outside his shop while a heavy downpour rained outside, he saw the boy many times but the child dared not set one step inside as he feared to be chased out, just like before, just like all the others. And Teuchi called out to Naruto, "Hey little boy, would like to come in and have something to eat?", Teuchi said with a smile on his face, but the young boy jolted with a shock, his whole body was shaking, the cold and unforgiving winds slicing through his clothes right down to his very bones through his skin, it was past "Dinnertime" most families would normally have, so the shop was already empty he had always noticed this young boy constantly sneaking glances at his shop as was walking aimlessly through the streets, he hadn't just seen the boy today either, the boy had been walking around a lot the past few days, he'd gotten used to seeing this boy, and the boy would hesitantly walk towards the shop before quickly turning and running away.
Everday was the same thing, like clockwork, back and fourth, not actually coming inside the shop. Sooner or later, Teuchi had found himself become curious about the child, he was always alone, today was no exception either...
The boy was hunching his shoulders forward, against the unforgiving cold weather, sneaking quick glances into the warm and inviting shop, there weren't any other customers for him to deal with any way, he had called out instinctively towards the boy, the child slowly approached, trembling with nerves, avoiding eye contact, Teuchi then slid a bowel of hot ramen towards the boy whose tiny, frightend face instantly brightend up as he began to eat the ramen.
Teuchi then began to think to himself, 'Just what was this child doing being outside all by himself? All alone at this time of night, and in such horrible weather as well? Just what was his family even doing? Where in the world are this poor boy's parents anyway!? Where are they!? How can they be so irresponsible!?', Teuchi didn't understand, these thoughts and more passed straight through his mind. But he hadn't asked the boy any questions, he just watched the boy as he ate, he looked like was enjoying his meal, soon enough the small child lifted the great big bowl to his lips with his very tiny hands, tipping it back just enough so that he can drink all leftover soup that he could, making sure he drinks every, last, drop of it, as if this was going to be his VERY LAST meal he will ever have.
The bowl was so large compared to the boy, that the child's face dissapeared completely behind the side of it.
Then after he placed the bowel back on the table, the boy's eyes soon met Teuchi's and the boy grinned so wide that all of his white teeth showed...
[End Flashback]
"Found out later that, for a while, Ichiraku's was blacklisted by the rest of Konoha because they wouldn't let me starve—and they didn't let that stop them! They still saw to it I was never hungry, even WITH that...Been a regular ever since." Naruto smiled. Then it withered as he recalled what Pein had done. Psycho had leveled the village and killed nearly everyone...Teuchi and Ayame included...
"Is it wrong of me to feel that this Teuchi and Ayame deserve the blessings of any and all gods that have, do, and ever will exist for their kindness?" Hakari muttered.
Pakura and Lunamon shook there heads.
"Good...didn't want to be the only one..." the white feline said. They were blacklisted because Naruto was allowed to eat there at their shop. But Teuchi and Ayame STILL refused to let him starve as a child. Such was their level of compassion and sense of morality...No wonder Naruto was so addicted to Ramen—not only was it his first decent meal, but the first time he'd ever been shown any human kindness. It was the positive memory and the happiness it brought him he was really addicted towards.
After that, the group ate in silence, Hakari shooting glances at Naruto, noticing how quiet he'd gone, and from the look on his face, was lost somewhere in his own head and memory. And not in a pleasant way, either. It left her worried.
She knew her partner had scars due to that Akatsuki group and the way they'd practically gift-wrapped him for LadyDevimon and her manipulations, but his dwelling on things wasn't healthy. Still...how could she help him? The sense of helplessness from not knowing how to do that was maddening.
Still, it wasn't the time or place for that.
After the meals were finished and everything was cleaned up and put away, Naruto entered the bathroom after stuffing himself, and took care of his business from the broth in his system with a sigh.
All things considered, he felt...almost relaxed...right now. Roof over his head, warm place to sleep, a full stomach, and having those that cared about him with him...If it weren't for how the memory of Pein's attack and what it all led to, he would dare say he was happy.
As Naruto was about to pull his pants up, however, he froze. An unwholesome chill going up and down his spine. Like...like...
Like he was being watched.
But where...?
Then he saw his shadow on the wall darken and an unwelcome, familiar red claw shot out of it, clamping over his mouth and as he was knocked to the floor, his eyes widened as his blue eyes locked with the pure crimson ones of LadyDevimon.
"Surprise~!" She singsonged, pressing her body down on his to keep the whiskered teen pinned.
Naruto started struggling like a fish yanked out of water by a hook at the sight of his Mistress. Jumping a guy who was taking care of his business?! Oh, that was just low! Didn't even give him the courtesy of letting him pull up his pants, first! Come to think of it, that one bastard Rain ninja had done the same thing to him in the second stage of the Chūnin Exams back when he was thirteen...
"Ohhh yesss! That feels so nice! Feeling you thrash and squirm while pinned underneath my breasts like this! I love it! Keep going, Pet! Just like that!" The virus-type Digimon moaned sensually, pressing her assets deeper and closer into the Uzumaki she had claimed as her own.
"Well, well...Tell me...are you happy to see me or not, my little pet?" She said, glancing down as Naruto's face burned.
Well...he wasn't erect at the moment, so she could forgive, seeing as the full length was exposed when it was stiff; and the hair there had a way of covering that spot...made it hard to tell, anyways. Besides, as a female devil, she knew what mattered most was stamina, size was nothing but a bonus. Didn't matter how large you were if you exhausted yourself before the finish or if one's actual technique in bed left a lot to be desired, after all...
"Mmmm! Mow mid moo...?" He sounded through her palm.
"Umbrageous teleportation. Able to travel through shadows and darkness. And since you can't get away from your own shadow..." she trailed off, smirking at him. Was it wrong that LadyDevimon took pleasure in seeing the horror on her pet's face? Probably not. Then again, she didn't give a damn if it was right or wrong, anyways. "Now...I have a little something for you, Pet. Way to show everyone you belong to me...!"
Reaching into the rip of her top, her hand snaked between the mammaries Naruto was still unintentionally and unwillingly massaging with his attempts to free himself from being pinned under her (she made a mental note that her pet was excellent at making her breasts feel good like this...have to make that a main duty to her), she pulled something out between them and showed it to him with a smirk as his attempts to escape grew worse before she forced it onto him.
With a snap that made Naruto wince, LadyDevimon beamed triumphantly at him. Around his neck was nice tight, seamless, plane black BDSM collar, like a band or choker, with no visible lock or opening, and in the middle was a symbol in the form of a stylized bat's silhouette, the "The Mark of Evil". It was found on the body of a number of Digimon that possessed dark powers, such as on the chest of her male counterpart, Devimon; and LadyDevimon herself possessed it on both her left claw as well as her left foot. As the mark's name implied, they were commonly portrayed as evil Digimon that were cruel and merciless and do anything to achieve their desires. While the Mark of Evil came in different sizes and shapes, it was usually red.
Thus, it was the perfect thing to add to the collar and show Naruto was her's!
"Beautiful..." she purred, "Now, how about we celebrate?"
His eyes wide, Naruto slammed a hand on the wall, channeled chakra through it like he did with the Rassengan, blowing a hole in the wall.
"Naruto...!" Pakura, Hikari, and Lunamon shouted, attracted by the noise, then gawked.
How had LadyDevimon gotten here?! AND WHAT WAS SHE DOING WITH NARUTO?!
"GET AWAY FROM HIM...!" Hakari screamed, her and Lunamon lunging at the Fallen Angel as Pakura flashed through handsigns.
"...Get off on having an audience, huh?" The Ultimate smirked at him, then the pair began sinking into shadows as cold as the dark side of the moon.
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The transition was disorienting for the whiskered blonde. One minute, he was passing through a freezing, utter pitch-blackness, going so fast that it felt like his skin was peeling off; then the next, the shadows melted into a new scene. Where was...?
Before the teen could fully get his bearings, LadyDevimon raised her clawed left hand and a familiar dark violet aura covered her hand. Naruto yelled as dark violet sparks covered his form.
It didn't hurt like last time, nor was it as long; but when it faded, he was too numb to move. Why she had done that and wanted him that way became apparent as LadyDevimon shoved Naruto's face into her cleavage and began to smother and rub them relentlessly against his head. "Mmmm~mmmm! My...this is a yummy bit of playtime, Pet! Hope you enjoy it! You and my girls are going to be quite...heheheh...BOSOM with one another!" she laughed, reveling in what she was doing to him.
As she smirked to herself while enjoying "playing" with her pet, licking her lips as she continued to cause his noggin to be associated with her nice bust, the stray thought that she could do this forever if life allowed it passed through her mind, making her freeze for a second, then she internally shrugged it off, that thought was true enough anyways; and was about to resume bouncing, smothering and rubbing her boobs against his head.
However, that momentary laps in action caused her to see something that caused her to frown: a way off from the Tokyo Skytree broadcasting and observation tower the pair were at the very peak of, she noticed the the sight of the taletell thick fog created when Bio-Emerging from a digital field, LadyDevimon tsked. "...Just perfect; and right when I was starting to have fun, too. Some idiot just has to ruin our time together..." she growled, releasing Naruto's head and he fell back, gasping for breath.
"...And I'm assuming you want me to punish the 'idiot', then?" He snarled at LadyDevimon, unsure if he should be more annoyed at her or thankful to whatever Digimon was entering the human world right now.
Looking down at him, his Mistress growled, "...Fine!" she said, standing up and allowing him to pull his boxers and pants back up, "just make it quick; Once they're dealt with, you're going back under my breasts!"
Surprised by that, Naruto paled then coughed, "...Uh...you do know how boob play works, right?" he asked, cursing Jiraiya for drilling things like that into his head...Jiraiya was many things, and he had been the male role model the blonde had so needed at a time of his life that could have made or broke him, even taken three years of his own time to show Naruto the world and aid in his betterment for the course Naruto had plotted for his life. However, that didn't change the fact that at his roots, the famed Sage of Mt. Myōboku was an unrepentant, shameless, hopeless, good-for-nothing, immoral pervert.
"Don't be an idiot, of course I do!" LadyDevimon snapped, "but you remember I own every scrap of you! Now hurry up!"
While Naruto would have loved nothing more than to tell her to drop dead, he was more eager to put distance between her and him. So he leaped away from her, skydiving off the 634.0-meter-tall tower.
As he fell, he pulled out a summing scroll. It was one Pakura had made him that included a quick-change jutsu added onto it that automatically swapped his clothing with whatever outfit had been sealed into the scroll. Using it, he had his usual attire that he'd worn back in Konoha appear over his body; but what else came out of it made him blink. Oh, whatever! He'd need to disguise himself and keep his defining features from being seen if this new Digimon proved hostile, anyway!
Using one of the new additions to his shinobi attire as a makeshift parachute and glider to skid into a controlled fall and tumble onto a different building's rooftop, then he stood and dashed along the rooftops towards the fog. He had no weapons on hand, so he was going to have to do this with his bare hands and his chakra; which suited him just fine.
Continuing his roof hopping and running along power lines, Naruto made his way to where the fog was dissipating. When he had arrived, he saw the Digimon in question looked like a humanoid chimpanzee with it's whole body looking like it was covered in metal, like a chrome or silver statue brought to life. It had on a pair of black sun glasses on and a twisted-looking teddy bear toy attached to the right side of it's waist for some reason. It's left wrist had three belts wrapped around it, and it had screws in its ears like earrings, and one in it's right shoulder and knuckles. It had gold teeth and wore a gold medallion around it's neck. The characters tattooed in red on it's chest read "strongest".
"Get digi with it! MetalEtemon's in the house! A superstar like me deserves a little applause, don't ya think?" The Digimon said, voice proving it was male, while clapping his hands, giving himself an applause, "well, thank you; thank you very much, uh huh huh."
Hearing what this digital entity said, Naruto had to wonder if the shades were there to hide a pair of Sharingan; while drunk off grudges he wasn't, he could tell right off the bat that this guy had a REAL ego, enough to match an Uchiha's, easy! And he expected everyone to automatically know and adore him; along with his music...
As expected, the people around him just looked at him strangely, some muttering things like "Who?", "Weirdo." and "Lame street performer."
If the Uzumaki knew this bozo's type as well as he thought... "Hey, Mr. Steel-shitting Simian! Nobody knows who you even are! So do us all a huge favor and stop scarring the children with your bad Elvis impression, which completely sucks by the way, get a haircut and a real job!" Naruto shouted to the Digimon, who looked like he was struck through his heart with the sharpest arrow ever created, as he looked shocked at the fact no one in the human world had ever heard of him at all. Horrified because now he noticed how the humans were looking at him and over all stunned that someone pointed all this out to him, while holding a over dramatic pose.
"Whaddaya mean you don't know who I am?! That's it! Here's a little requiem and here comes the thunder, baby! Dark Spirits Deluxe!"
Storm clouds suddenly gathered overhead and Naruto's eyes widened.
Oh CRAP! Black storm clouds suddenly forming out of nowhere like that on a clear day and hovering over a spot where there weren't an others?! That had to be Some kind of Riton!
The Digimon didn't realize what had happened at first, only the moment he realized something was wrong was when he heard the whistle of the wind in his ears, felt the fact that his feet were no longer on solid ground, and became aware of the fact that he was in someone's grip and had been flying through the air to a rural country area.
Then he felt a fist sink itself into his jaw hard enough to send him flying through the air before landing hard at the foot of a grassy hill. He rolled out along the grass until his momentum finally came to a stop and he pushed himself back up.
Moments later, the perpetrator landed right in front of him. Somebody dressed a slim, form fitting orange tracksuit outfit with black on the upper shoulders area and the color extending from around the neck and shoulders, down the front and sleeves, as well as around the waist, a white swirl on the left side, a red swirl crest on the back, orange pants; sandals that covered the instep and ankles, yet left his toes and heels exposed. Over that was a dark blue-grey robe with grey lining and a fur collar, and a tattered grey-blue cape emblazoned with the emblem of a mandala comprised of nine reddish-brown circles of varying sizes atop a larger green-grey circle. Along with a white kitsune noh mask with three ringed eyes that were colored red.
Tsking and throwing one side of his cloak back to free up his movements a bit more, Naruto slipped into fighting stance. Taking in his surroundings, the blonde had to grin to himself under the mask. He'd never been much good with the Body Flicker technique—had always overshot his target when he had practiced it—but that had proven to be just what he needed in this instance. Got them both far from where other people could get hurt.
"Oh, just someone who saw that brought you here after I saw that basically, you're a tone-deaf hack who runs around in a chrome monkey suit while doing a really crappy Elvis impression to try and overcompensate for being a dickless looser." Naruto said flatly.
"WHAT'D YOU SAY?!" MetalEtemon all but roared. "THAT'S IT, BOY! LET'S TUSSLE!"
"Bring it on!" Naruto snapped before rushing forward.
"Bananna Slip!" the metallic, "really crappy wannabe-Elvis" announced, meeting the masked teen's charge by pulling out a peel of said elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – from...somewhere (Naruto decided he did not want to think on it), and tossed it in his path.
Naruto spun on his heel, avoiding the so-called attack killing his momentum. "Cheap cartoon gags? Oh come on! That all you've got?!" Naruto laughed, jumping and planting his feet in the Digimon's face and sending him crashing to the ground. "Pathetic!"
His sunglasses broken, MetalEtemon jumped to his feet. "Heavymon Kick!" MetalEtemon snarled, while the attack could be used as either a series of kicks, or a single powered-up drop kick, he went with a series of roundhouse kicks. Naruto backflipped out of the way of each of them, but as he did, his opponent's tibia on the final kick clipped his arm just before he landed.
"Aragh...!" Naruto nursed his forearm, the ulna and the radius felt cracked. Ok...this guy really was like a living metal statue! Taijutsu was out!
"Metal Punch!" a fist plowed into Naruto's gut, knocking the wind out of him and he doubled over, before the Uzumaki knew it, he was caught in a hold by the metallic monkey Digimon and MetalEtemon was attempting to snap Naruto's neck, until MetalEtemon heard something break, but to the Mega-level's shock, he was currently holding a large log in Naruto's place.
"What is this piece of firewood doing here!? I know I had that little bastard's neck in my hand just about to snap him like twig." MetalEtemon said in confusion until Naruto sucker punched him from the Digimon's left side.
"Hey! How'd you do that?!" The monkey demanded as Naruto rubbed his throbbing and scraped knuckles, rotated his wrist, and shook his hand to try ridding it of the pain.
There just had to be a way to bypass this guy's defenses. Easier said than done given his skin was metallic...
"No. 1 Punch!" the cyborg-class Digimon shouted, seeming to charge up a punch with all of his confidence put into the blow as a way to charge and amplify it.
In response, Naruto dug his heels in and tightened his abdominal area. A sudden idea coming to him. Please let this work...! It was going to suck bad enough if it did!
Uzumaki took the punch head on. He still doubled over, winded and feeling some of his ribs crack and just barely keep from breaking—if not shatter— from the mini wrecking ball that was that punch, though. Still...he'd been hit harder, had worse injuries...he grasped the arm, MetalEtemon's fist still buried in his gut. "...Gotcha, fucker..." he gasped out, tightening his grip on MetalEtemon's arm. As he did, the Mega-level fell to his hands and knees in sudden agony.
"GGGGRRRRAAAAAAAAAAARGH!...WHY YOU LITTLE...! WHAT'D YOU DO TO ME...?!"
In reply, glowing cracks appeared up the length of MetalEtemon's arm before his skin blew apart, exposing a spiraling, glowing blue energy enveloping the limb from wrist to just under the shoulder, shredding everything around the bone.
"I feel sick applying the steps for my dad's Rassengan technique like this, but I figured if you use something like what you did with whipping out mass kill-shot moves on civilians, you needed to to go down; hard." The masked blonde said, releasing MetalEtamon as he felt the fox mending his injuries.
Forcing himself to push the pain away and rip his limb free, the Digimon jumped back and away, more that a bit alarmed as he cradled the dead remnants of his arm. How had this guy done that?! His body's surface was coated fully in Chrome Digizoid metal, a super-rare and super-strong organic metal used by Metal-species Digimon, and was used mostly by Mega-level Digimon like War Greymon, Black War Greymon, the Dark Masters, and Metal Garurumon.
How had that...whatever it was!...bypass such an invincible defense?! Ok...close range was a no-go with this enemy. That was bad considering his fight moves, barring Banana Slip, Dark Sonic Boom, Dark Spirits Deluxe, and Dark Network and Concert Crush, were all close range!
Seeing his opponent hesitate, Naruto took the opening and cast his most signature jutsu to hopefully overwhelm the metal monkey Digimon.
"Shadow Clone Jutsu!" suddenly around a hundred shadow clones appeared and surrounded himself and MetalEtemon.
MetalEtemon whistled at the number of clones that suddenly surrounded him. 'A one-man, instant, any-size audience trick...gotta admit, nice!' He mentally praised, as one who enjoyed being in the spotlight, he always welcomed an audience...shame this kid pissed him off so much, otherwise, he would have liked him for this alone. "Impressive... However, too bad you never counted on this attack of mine, though! Dark Spirits Deluxe!"
Naruto saw the sky suddenly darken the way it had back in the city before he grabbed the metal monkey and brought him here, and pitch-black colored lighting (something which served to piss Naruto off as he remembered Sasuke's "Flapping Chidori" when drawing on the chakra of his Cursed Seal of Heaven and impaled him through the lung and left him for dead and cloaking on his own blood used black lightning as well) suddenly streaked from the sky and onto the area, instantly destroyed seventy-five out of a hundred of Naruto's clones. Naruto did not like what he learned from the clone's getting electrocuted by that.
THIS was what this egomaniac was going to blast civilians with?! That was deranged!
However apparently, MetalEtemon wasn't done, as a stage suddenly appeared out of nowhere and he grabbed a microphone while posing dramatically, "I'm actually surprised at least thirty of you are even still alive, but I'm gonna change all that, now! I'm gonna sing you all a very special song, Prepare yourselves for my ultimate move! Dark Network and Concert Crush!" MetalEtemon said as he suddenly started to sing a very horrible song that made Naruto and ten of his clones quickly covered their ears to block MetalEtemon's singing, however twenty of the clones weren't so lucky as he and the ten clones saw the other clones fall into deep depression and poofed themselves out of existence.
Seeing this, Naruto then had one of his clones grab him and started swinging him around but after five good spins the clone threw Naruto before it poofed away throwing Naruto at MetalEtemon and hitting him off his self-made stage and stopping the horrid song he was singing.
"AHHHH, SHADDAP!"
Crashing to the ground and his body digging a light trench in the dirt, MetalEtemon skid and stopped before raising his head, spitting out dirt and coughing. The primate turned and glared.
"Do you think you can get away with such a thing?! Do you realize who I am?! I'm MetalEtemon! The King of all Digimon!"
"You do realize this isn't the world Digimon are from, right? You're in a totally different world, and you think anyone here has ever even heard of you before?" The ninja he'd been clashing with said pointedly.
"So what?! They should still adore me or die, I am the king, baby! So what I say goes down like that!"
At that, the Mega-level suddenly found his throat caught in a grip that he felt through his Chrome Digizoid. "Then long live the king." Naruto glared. Feeling sick and angry, he formed a Rasengan with the hand around his enemy's wind pipe, causing the jutsu to form inside of the Digimon's throat. He applied more chakra, causing it to swell up until the orb of energy burst like a balloon, decapitating the self-proclaimed "king" in the process.
Naruto shook his head in self-disgust as MetalEtemon's body broke apart into upwards-floating pixels, which vanished and left no trace of the Digimon's existence behind. He hadn't wanted to kill him. But he couldn't let the vain psychopath just run wild.
So lost was he in his thoughts, he failed to notice his shadow had a pair of blood red eyes morphed into the middle of the dark image of himself, gleaming with delight.
While LadyDevimon would freely admit that she was, in her own words, cruel and heartless, one couldn't say she was dishonest, at least as far as Naruto was concerned. She had warned her pet she'd be keeping a much closer eye on him and that he couldn't escape his own shadow, after all. Having watched the entirety of the battle using her umbrakinetic abilities, she was pleased. So...her pet could handle Mega-levels on his own and with his own power as long as they were human-sized ones, huh? Good to know. And it felt validating since she'd been sure that he could possibly stand on even ground with a Mega-level Digimon. She really had found a rare gem in that Konoha place. And those idiots had wanted Naruto to stay weak?! No wonder that all it took were a few cadavers controlled by a sickly, malnourished cripple like puppets to level that village, then!
She briefly toyed with the idea of using her ability to travel through shadows to snatch him up and bring him back to the abandoned church she called home, but discarded the thought with a shake of her head. If her pet wanted to be away from her, then that's what she was going to let him be! Maybe aimlessly wondering around an island nation in an utterly foreign reality than his own for a while would straighten out his attitude towards her and teach him to obey his Mistress's command without question or backtalk!
A bit of revenge, sure; but also a way to show him he was better off with his Mistress than without! It would suck for getting to resume her fun with him (she swore her boobs seemed to tingle and prickle at that, as if in protest; she HAD said she was going to use them for her bit of "fun" with her pet, after all), but they did say "absence makes the heart grow fonder", and what owner wasn't fond of their pet already?
He could find his own way back.
With that decision, her eyes vanished from his shadow.
Unaware of any of this, Naruto looked around, realizing just now that in his haste to keep there from being a crossfire in their fight, he'd forgotten one important thing: making sure he knew a way back to where he'd come from after arriving where the fight had happened.
"Stupid of me...good intent, but stupid..." he muttered. Now what was he going to do? Pakura-senpai, Hakari, and Lunamon were doubtlessly worried sick given the scene they'd witness prior to his abduction from the card shop. He had to get back, but which way?
Humming in thought, Naruto was struck with a sudden idea: While in sage mode, his range of sense was spread over miles of land. Should make it easy to find out where his senpai and the two Digimon were!
Nodding at that, Naruto sat down, assuming a lotus position, fists pressed together, eyes closed, he concentrated.
Big mistake.
As soon as he entered sage mode, he started to scream as if he were being tortured.
Sage arts were an interesting thing. The energy it involved was created from thousands of years of interaction between the planet, its inhabitants and space. The energy was almost sentient in nature. It learned, adapted and took in everything around it. It could be healed and purified or it could be tainted with hatred and sadness. And the latter was exactly what had occurred with this planet.
In the earlier days of history, wars left the earth soaked with the blood of humans. As war advanced, the weapons that came along with it advanced and these weapons left even more of a mark on the planet. Nuclear weapons filled the earth and the sky with chemicals that only served to increase the damage that was being done. More and more blood was shed and the earth unwillingly soaked it all in.
That was just war. Other industries around the world had done just as much damage. Oil drilling and excavation left giant holes in the planet. Harmful chemicals were consistently pushed into the atmosphere by cigarettes while factories ripped holes in the ozone layer. Artificial dams and human structures made rivers run dry and took away habitats from aquatic animals.
Forests demolished, making it so plant life that was needed to produce oxygen were destroy...
Accelerated melting of ice caps...
Seas full of trash and poisons...
Countless wrongs committed out of sheer laziness, the notion of "convenience", and want of profit...and it went back so far...!
In the end, the earth felt all of this. Rather if it had a consciousness or not, it felt it all and it absorbed it all. It grew angry at the ones who were causing it so much harm. Its once peaceful and healing energy turned tainted with hatred due to the treatment that it had suffered under the rule of mankind. And every single inch of it was flowing with this intense, tainted, hate-filled energy.
And because the act of creating senjutsu involved drawing in an abundance of the energy from the surrounding natural environment and channeling it through one's own body and mixing it with the user's own life energy, also taking in the emotions behind it; that same energy was now currently flowing through every single drop of his chakra.
Overcome with sheer disgust and horror at all of the taint, Naruto grabbed his head, clawing at himself and banging his head against the ground, trying to make it stop as he collapsed and started to violently convulsed like he was having a seizure. He felt like his whole body was on fire. The pain was so intense, he couldn't even open his mouth to scream. All he could make was this strange, choking noise and clench his teeth, trying to drive away the pain but failing miserably. It spread through his veins like poison, and he could almost feel his bones melting in the heat of the pain. Sweat trickled from his forehead, and tears of pain were squeezed out from the corners of his tightly closed eyes. Other than the pain, he couldn't feel anything. When he opened his eyes a crack, everything was in a haze of black and red.
WHAT THE FUCKING GODDAMNED HELL WAS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?! DIDN'T THEY KNOW OR CARE THAT IF THE WORLD THEY LIVED ON DIED BECAUSE OF HOW MISTREATED IT WAS; THEY'D ALL DIE TOO?!
Sure, the people on his own world couldn't be called saints, but the things they had done to the balance of the planet and mankind were nowhere near this bad! Hell, they'd found ways to try blending living in somewhat modern lifestyles and the environments around them in a way that was at least somewhat symbiotic rather than just outright thoughtless domination like what he sensed this was like!
As he thrashed, he suddenly lost consciousness as a red aura suddenly burst from him. The red aura began to grow in size until it was the size of a large bonfire.
A hand twitched. Then a foot. Slowly but surely, Naruto began to move.
Naruto stood, head bowed as he remained motionless. His arms hung limply at his side. Suddenly much more quiet than moments ago.
Along with the shift in demeanor, likewise, the Uzumaki's features changed as he got to his feet and brushed himself off, brought about by the red aura of chakra.
He now sported what looked like claws on both his hands and feet. His lips had blackened and his canines had also lengthened and sharpened until they had turned into fangs while the pencil-thin whisker-like markings on his face had grown more pronounced, widening and darkening, until they resembled abysmal scars. His eyes had been the greatest change as, not only had his eye shape become more vulpine and had gained black eye rings around them like an animal, his once soulful blue eyes themselves had changed; becoming blood red with an animalistic, vertical black slit for the pupil.
"..Don't say I never did you any favors, little brat..." the fox muttered, even as his chakra worked to erase Naruto's memory of what the natural energy of this world felt like while imposing the idea NOT to use senjutsu here into the boy's mind in the memory's place.
Feeling that be done, he turned and frowned, tapping into his ability to sense emotions such as hatred and killing intent in individuals around him, and nothing was more hateful than humans; so if he went in the direction of the biggest mass of it, he was bound to find that part of the city the meat sack he was trapped in wanted to go back to. Kurama had used the ability to find Naruto's inner hatred, which had brought him close to breaking the seal which contained him numerous times before.
At that trail of thought, Naruto's face, controlled by the Nine-tails, warped into a snarl. He was so CLOSE! So close! He tripped at the finish line! Why? Because that clump of data that called herself a devil had to stick her damn nose into things! He would have been free by now, otherwise! THAT BITCH! And she destroyed the twerp's dark side!
The memory was infuriating! And Kurama had actually liked Yami!
Tossed out on your own, no family, no friends, and cursed, cheated, spat on, and beaten up for reasons you didn't even know, how would you react? What kind of person would you grow up to be? Yami was the result of that. All that pent-up negative emotion and experience had compounded and developed into a completely separate psyche in Naruto.
Everything Konoha had ever done, it was to make Naruto into a monster in order to grant themselves justification for all the suffering they caused him. So, if it was a monster Konoha had wanted...it was a monster Yami, as "Naruto Uzumaki", was going to give them! After all, how could so many people all be wrong about something for so many years in regards to "Naruto Uzumaki" being a monster!? So, if "Naruto" was a monster, then since slaughter of every living thing around them because they can was what monsters did, ensuring that was why Yami had wanted the seal broken as badly as the fox himself did!
Thing was, Naruto WANTED to be a "good person" and, as a result, the runt had suppressed that negativity so deeply, he wasn't even concisely aware of it. But the fox had been. And exploited it.
But that damned she-devil...!
Never in Kurama's entire existence had he ever thought he'd ever encounter a being that could match the tailed beast's sense of utter and absolute loathing that he regarded that bastard Indra and his descendants—the Uchiha clan, with...but LadyDevimon came close, so very close! It wasn't even funny!
The one good thing about her was that she gave Naruto and Kurama reason for a fragile alliance based on common ground—both of them despised LadyDevimon and the influence of the cursed pile of computer information had since she coerced Naruto into his terrible, selfish decision of accepting her power by promise of bloody retribution in his blind rage. "Pulling an Uchiha" as Naruto had so aptly put it.
As Naruto himself had admitted, it was no wonder he was so fucked now...
Oh, Kurama fully understood Naruto's malice towards Pein—how could he not? Seeing the Rinnegan's power—his father's power!—profaned by some deranged degenerate who followed Indra's doctrine: that hate, not resolve or understanding, was what made things better had utterly enraged the Tailed Beast!
When Kurama had been tempting Naruto to undo the seal, freedom had been secondary. His true motivation had been the desire to ensure the obliteration of that death merchant who was drunk off messianic delusions by Kurama's own hand-like paws for tainting the same power once used by the Six Paths Sage, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki. The man Kurama called his father!
And LadyDevimon had cheated him of making that false "god" pay in blood for that !
While he would have rather avoided the drama, or care if Naruto ended among the destroyed, the used, and the damned; bound together as they were, it seemed Kurama was condemned to unwillingly have a part to play in whatever attempts at rebellion the sack of meat he was trapped within would carry out.
Tsking and needing to silence all the unwelcome thoughts, the possessed boy pulled out that quick-change scroll and used it so rather than Naruto's ninja attire, he dressed simply in black jeans and a clean orange T-shirt, and a pair of track shoes before he started walking. Best he get moving before that bitch attempted to pull anything else. Kurama wanted no part in it. Naruto could be the one to have to deal with any spurs of inspiration LadyDevimon cooked up, but as for the fox himself, he actually preferred the seal to the false demoness' company...
Kurama then moved Naruto's body away from the area and began to look for a place his meat bag of a host could rest for a while, and went off towards the city. Arriving there was simple enough with his ability to sense the collective, hidden darkness in so many human hearts.
As he walked through the streets, Kurama was disgusted at the sight of so many humans, he truly never understood why his father loved them all so much and most likely never would, but he didn't want to think on that for too long; he had to get his worthless host to a spot to rest before Naruto resumed control, the twerp wouldn't stay unconscious forever.
Kurama then saw a gigantic pair of twin buildings that seemed like an interesting place to rest; so without a second of hesitation, Kurama made his way towards the towers.
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Feeling himself being lightly jostled, Naruto yawned.
"Hey, you ok?" Someone asked, prompting him to turn his head and he saw the person talking to him was a young woman, a few years older than him; with blonde hair In a bob cut, light brown eyes, and fair skin tone; she was wearing an orange colored jacket (Naruto's favorite color) with a green top over a yellow colored dress, with a black leather belt over a brown skirt and yellow colored boots with brown bottoms, and light green colored pantyhose on her legs.
"Yeah...just..." Naruto trailed off. Huh?! "Where in the heck...?" he asked as he looked around. "Ok...where am I and how did I get here?!"
"On top of the Hypnos building towers. Gotta say, odd place for a nap." The woman told him.
Naruto looked at her. The last thing he remembered was fighting. How had he gotten here? "Did that metal monkey give me memory loss in our fight or something?"
"Metal monkey?"
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, some clown calling himself "MetalEtemon"..." he said, causing her to gape. MetalEtamon?! This kid had fought a...?!
"You fought with a Digimon?!" she blurted.
Naruto jerked and looked at her, "Digi...you know about...?!"
Wincing at her slip, she nodded. "Group I work for monitors them emerging and deal with them so no humans get hurt..." she looked at him. So...he knew about them, too? No point in secrets, then, she supposed...but she was so fired if anyone learned this talk happened.
Blinking, Naruto filed that information away since it could prove useful in getting LadyDevimon out of the picture, "...You're slipping then, I had to stop that guy from doing anything that could hurt anyone then. Just wish I didn't have had to kill him, though..." Naruto shuddered. Last thing he'd wanted was more blood on his hands.
"Kill him? How could you kill him? All Digimon are just data and not real beings, right?" The woman asked.
Naruto found himself frowning at that way of thinking, "That's like saying humans are just meat. Does that make them any less "real" than Digimon are, then?"
At that, she stared, then opened her mouth, but closed it with a frown as she contemplated his point.
"So...what do you do with the ones that don't hurt people, if you don't mind my asking, miss?" Naruto wondered, his thoughts going to Hikari.
The woman frowned, "But they all do, don't they? Even if it's just crossfire, it still causes people to get hurt from what I've seen."
"What are you, fighting a war against them or something?" Naruto scowled. "You know...I may be new to this "Digimon" thing, but in every war; there's at least three factions when dealing with the other side: Enemy solders, allied forces, and the civilians, who may or may not become, refugees." Naruto said, holding up a finger for each he listed. "Important part is being able to tell which is which before the battle lines get drawn, otherwise, you end up making more enemies because you gave only the options of "fight us or die" to everyone else."
She stared. That...that was sick! Especially coming from a kid! "Wha...How can you say that?! I mean I get it, but what's wrong with you?!"
"Nothing" Naruto shrugged, putting his arms behind his head, "Just saying you can't fight a war without enemies...but you can't take a totalitarian "Us or them" view into it...you can't just take a whole race or whatever and say, 'they're all this or all that.' That's never going to be true. Choice exists for a reason after all. It's only sanctimonious fanatics out to embark on some genocidal, so-called "holy" crusade that are the ones who can't accept that kind of truth. Those kinda guys make enemies out of everybody."
The bob-cut blonde looked at him oddly "What are you, a child solider, or something? You talk like one."
At that, Naruto froze, then smirked a bit bitterly, sitting on the edge of the helipad and his eyes drifted to his left arm, focusing on the scar that circled his skin just below his elbow. Below the scar, the skin was an unnaturally pale color which he realized (with some disgust) was the same as LadyDevimon's visible skin, it looking even more-so when compared to his natural tan complexion, while the scar that circled the limb and divided the two tones was a dark red color. He sighed and absently rubbed it, "...you might say that. Was caught up in some bad stuff that could be called a miniature war of sorts...don't wanna talk about it..." he said softly.
A miniature war...that sounded about right to describe having to battle the Akatsuki back in his world...
She winced, a sudden horrible feeling welling up in her gut. "...I-I'm sorr...I didn't..."
"Didn't know. Now you do. Please drop it." Naruto told her.
Wincing, she nodded and did as bid. Not wanting to make the mistake again. Sitting down next to him, she felt the need to get his mind off what she had unwittingly made him remember.
"Tally Onodera."
"Hm?" He spared her a glance.
"My name. It's Tally Onodera." she clarified. It was a minor thing, her introducing herself, but she wanted something other than bad memories in his head, "I work here at Hypnos as a system operator."
"Naruto Uzumaki." he replied.
"Look, I get what you're saying...but you have to admit the fact that Digimon really are dangerous..." Tally said.
"True, but Digimon are a byproduct of humanity, same as just about everything else in the world, these days. And while I admit some are good and others aren't..." Naruto said, his mind flashing to Hikari and LadyDevimon respectively, "...it always makes me sick to think about the creations being hated and made to suffer for being unable to control if they exist or not while the creators who made them that way get off scot free. Hate that crap..."
She nodded at his point. Her mind going to her job at Hypnos. It had originally began back in 2001 to counter/rival other surveillance programs. The agency was originally created to stop computer crime by means of monitoring electronic communications for half the planet; and when Digimon begin to crossover, it was modified to protect the public from invading monsters, so the agency got stuck with the job of containing them. Her boss, Mitsuo Yamaki, believed that destroying all Digimon was necessary for the survival of humanity, even the Digimon that weren't evil.
Basically, information and intelligence were an absolute, all-important end-all-be-all "MUST" at that place, so she had to be good with being able to think there; because of that, she understood his point After all, if Digimon were data, who made their programs to begin with? Humans, seeing as computers and their programs were human inventions. But...if what this kid was saying was right, since Digimon were a byproduct of humanity, then wasn't it humanity's fault for making them into something that could cause harm in the first place? Tally sighed. "...I see what you mean about it being important to tell which is which before the battle lines get drawn...I've met some people that feel humanity needs to wage war of Digimon, but..."
"Grey area headache, huh?" Naruto said sympathetically, "black and white are easy; seeing the shades of grey, however..."
"...Yeah..." Tally rubbed her temples a bit before she frowned at him, "Why's this topic so important to you, anyways? Why care so much about how the Digimon issue is handled?"
At that, Naruto frowned with a far-off look in his eyes and took a moment to gather his thoughts, "...I guess...I guess it's because part of me can't help but sympathize. As far back as I can remember, people had always treated me like a monster and a freak. Everyday was a struggle just to be accepted by the world as a human being...I didn't even know why I was treated that way, either...so when I see these Digimon, I guess...I don't want to see anyone play god and kill them for being different, not when it was never their choice. Judge by their actions, ya know?"
She stared at him, lost for words.
"Well..." The Uzumaki stood and brushed off the back of his pants, "Nice meeting you, gotta go."
"Huh?!" Tally snapped out of her shocked thoughts "Wha-?! Hey, wait!"
But when she looked over at him, the whiskered boy was gone. Vanished as if he never been there at all.
How had he done that?
Naruto Uzumaki, huh? Interesting kid...only sixteen From the look of him, but his insight and viewpoint were beyond his years. And those points he made that she knew she was was going to be thinking over for a while now..."Definitely going to need to remember and keep an eye out for him." Tally nodded, committed to the action.
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Stretching as he walked after leaving that Hypnos place, the Uzumaki had to admit he was feeling good right now. All he had to do was find his was back to the Ginkiri Cards shop and he could put the events of this day behind him with a warm instant cup noodle ramen and just crashing on the mat of his makeshift room in the back room of the store, and he'd call it a day. Sounded like a plan to him for sure.
But it just seemed that Naruto was doomed to have an off day seeing as..."Oof!" Naruto said as he bumped into something. He bumped into none other than a truancy officer.
The officer turned to Naruto, giving him a stern stare, "Why aren't you in school boy?!" Naruto opened his mouth to answer, only to have the officer cut him off, "Ah, never mind why. Come with me!" The officer said, dragging Naruto with him to the nearest police station.
Naruto only sighed as he let the man pull him along, 'I could get away so easily… But then I'd become a wanted kid… I've already got enough troubles…' Naruto thought as they entered the police station and he was taken in the back.
The officer placed him in a chair before getting on a computer in a desk across from Naruto, "What's you name, boy?"
"Naruto Uzumaki." Naruto said in a calm tone as he leaned back in the chair. It wasn't they would find him in the system anyway.
The officer seemed to be shock as he looked at the screen, 'There isn't anyone with that name…' "Alright boy, give me your hand." Naruto did just that, letting the officer take his prints. The officer left the room for a few minute before coming back looking frustrated, "Ok boy, what's the big idea lying to me?! You're nowhere in the computer."
"I was born on the streets." Naruto said in a simple tone. He had thought up the story of his life for this world for a while and knew that those not born in a hospital didn't have a record unless caught committing a crime.
In that moment the officers stare soften, 'Born on the streets and no criminal record…? He's either a very good criminal or is trying to set his life straight…' The officer thought as he stared at Naruto, "His eyes… they hold a fiery determination. He seems relaxed but any martial artist can tell he never lowers his guard…" The officer thought to himself. He looked at Naruto before saying, "Wait here." The officer then left the room. He turned to a one of his coworkers, "Jayne, you remember that youth savior program?"
"Yeah, that program the chief started to help get kids off the street. It worked out better than everyone expected but not as much as everyone hoped. Why?" Jayne asked as she typed on the computer, stopping to move her ponytail back, "You find someone to add to the list, Gen?"
"No. He's being put in right now." The officer, Gen, said, "That kid in there has no records of any kind. Birth, criminal, anything. He's sixteen and nothing is on the computer about him. He's trying to set his life straight… I can feel it."
Jayne only smiled. She also had the feeling about the boy. She was already at work adding to the list, "And…. Done. Alright he's in." Jayne said with a smile.
"Thanks Jayne." Gen said before heading back into room, "Uzumaki was it? Have I got some news for you."