Naruto had been walking home when it happened. He had always been a normal kid, well, close to normal. His dad was the leader of a gym nearby and told Naruto a lot of stories about the gym. He also was constantly trying to convince his son to become a trainer and Naruto would always decline saying pokèmon were stupid. Everyone knew that was only because he couldn't catch them. He tried many times to catch one but never could. That's why he was so surprised when it happened.
Naruto had been walking home from the super market with large brown paper bag filled with groceries. "Darn that retarded old man, making me do chores for him and he only comes home to eat… how selfish! He practically doesn't even live there!" He kicked a rock, the motion causing the loaf of bread he had bought to fall out roll away. "Oh no!" he gasped and put the paper bag down to pick up the bread. "That old man… This would've never happened if he didn't make me do this kind of stuff." He mumbled as he jogged to the bread.
"He needs to get a girlfriend." Naruto said aloud as he bent down to pick up the bread. His hand was on it when he noticed two red eyes glaring at him through the bushes. He quickly picked up the bread and held it to his chest. "Wha- What?!" A Vulpix then stepped out of the foliage, mewing as it did so. Naruto sighed. "Oh. Just a stupid Vulpix." He was going to stand and leave but as quickly as it could the Vulpix jumped up and snatched the bread from Naruto's hands.
"H-Hey! That's mine!" He stood up and chased after the creature, following it into the forest. He winced as branches slapped his face and noticed that the Vulpix was too small to get hurt by anything he was being hit with. Naruto's eyes watered from the pain. Right when Naruto thought he had officially lost him, the Vulpix tripped over a rock and the food fell from its mouth. Naruto smiled and jogged over to the injured Vulpix and dropped bread. "Heh heh, big mistake for a small Vulpix." He picked up the bread and chuckled. "I win."
Then a huffing and puffing could be heard and then a roar. Naruto looked up to see an angry Tauros. "Waaah!" he shouted, jumping up and running as quickly as he could, the Tauros chasing after him. "Aah! I can't believe I'm out running this thiiiiing!" It didn't take him long to realize that the Vulpix was running next to him. It jumped up and grabbed the bread with his mouth, he used the momentum of the land to get a start for its mad dash home. Naruto growled. "Come back here!" he then went back to his previous task of chasing the Vulpix but this time with a mad Tauros still on his tail.
The Vulpix's little legs worked as it used its fear of being caught as motivation. Naruto had sweat dripping of his chin and he could feel his heart pounding. He then jumped and tackled the Vulpix. "Gotcha!" He grabbed the Vulpix and the food, holding the red creature in one hand and the bread in the other. Naruto laughed in victory once again. "You lose. Again." The Vulpix opened its mouth wide and bit Naruto's arm causing him to drop the bread and cry out in pain. The Tauros then ran up and smashed into the two, sending Naruto and Vulpix through the trees. Naruto screamed and Vulpix called out "Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiix!"
They landed by Naruto's paper bag. "Itai… hey, the groceries! Ack!" he watched as a Plusle ran off with a Minun and the bag in hand.
Naruto let rivers of tears fall. "I thought I would only have go get more bread but…"
He glared at the Vulpix whose fur stood up from the anger the glare emitted. Naruto's fingers leaped at the Vulpix's neck. He shook the creature around. "You stupid pokèmon! Do you see what you've done?!" The Vulpix's eyes then turned to swirls. Naruto blinked and loosened his grip. "Huh?"
At the pokèmon center…
A nurse walked out holding a happy Vulpix. "You're Vulpix will be just fine now. Have a good day." Naruto blushed as he took the pokemon. "I-it's not mine!" but the nurse had already walked away to go help other patients. Naruto sighed. He walked outside the pokèmon center and placed the Vulpix on the ground. It stared up at him. "Pix?" it mewed, confused. "Okay. Well, bye." Naruto said waving. The Vulpix frowned and its tails hung low as it walked away. Naruto sighed again. "Fine. You want food, don't you?" The creature then rushed back into Naruto's arms with a smile and wagging tail. "Vulpix!" it called happily. Naruto then proceeded to carry it home.
Naruto's house…
Naruto opened the door to his home and the Vulpix immediately jumped out of his arms to look around the place. Naruto automatically noticed his dad splayed out on the couch. "Dad?! You're back?" He shouted. He jogged in front of his father with a frown. "He's asleep…" He glared at the sleeping man slightly hoping that it would somehow magically wake him up. The small creature Naruto had brought home then jumped on the sleeping human causing him to wake up with fear and pain (and a little disgust) plastered on his face. Naruto's father looked at the Vulpix and it mewed. "WAAAAAH!!! Ninetales! You prevolved! I didn't even know that was possible! Waaah! My precious Ninetales!" Naruto slapped him. "Really, dad,"
His father stopped spazzing and sat upright with the Vulpix in his lap. Naruto sat down next to him. He closed his eyes and sighed, head sinking. "Sometimes I can't believe you're the great Yondaime of Konoha Gym." He opened his eyes to see his father playing with Vulpix on the ground, scratching its stomach. "You're so cute… ah, I wonder if Ninetales was ever as cute as you." Naruto threw one of the couch pillows at the back of Yondaime's head. "Were you even listening to me?!" Yondaime growled as Naruto ranted about him not listening then turned and yelled, "Why couldn't you have came out a girl?!" Naruto now wore a surprised look.
"If you were a girl, you wouldn't be yelling at me right now! You would be a sweet, young, caring, loving daughter who willingly makes me dinner every night and says good-bye when I leave and greets me kindly when I come home and takes care of me in sickness and all the way through health. She would only leave when death appears before me!" Yondaime cried, regretting praying for a boy for nine months. Naruto glared at the back of his father's head. "You came home early, old man, dinner's not until an hour."
Yondaime huffed. "What? You don't think I would come home just to spend time with my adorable little boy?" He squeezed his son's cheeks. Vulpix had been running in circles around them from hearing the word dinner. Naruto punched Yondaime in the face sending him into a wall. "DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY YOU WANTED A GIRL?!" Yondaime got off the floor and pointed an accusing finger at his son. "AND NOW YOU SEE WHY! Men are so violent…" Naruto leaped into the air and kicked his father where it hurts. Yondaime rolled on the ground in pain. "See! You're a man too!" Naruto shouted.
Vulpix was in the kitchen scratching at the refrigerator and mewing and growling. Yondaime and Naruto were too busy fighting to notice that's when a Ninetales walked in to the kitchen. It looked at Vulpix and cocked its head. It purred in a questioning way. Vulpix nodded and slammed into the refrigerator. Ninetales softly nudged it away from the device and opened it with her paw. Yondaime stopped abusing his child for a moment to watch the two. He whipped out a camera and took a picture. "How cute! That was adorable!" Ninetales then walked out of the kitchen and down the hall into Yondaime's room to rest.
Vulpix stood on its hind legs and began pulling random foods from the fridge. Yondaime took another picture. "That's cute too!" Naruto hit him in the back of the head. "He's going to eat everything! That's not cute!" Yondaime snapped out of his state of awe (or 'awwwwww') and grabbed the Vulpix while Naruto collected the food it removed and placed the items on the counter. Yondaime put the Vulpix down in front of him. "No! No!" he wagged his finger. "Bad! Bad, Vulpix, bad!" he stared at it intensely and its eyes shined and had water gathering up at the bottom. Yondaime bit his lip and…
"THAT WAS ADORABLE!!! YOU'RE STAYING HERE FOREVER AND I'LL LOVE YOU AND CUDDLE YOU AND COOCHIE COOCHIE COO YOU!!!! YAY!" Naruto then decided it was time his dad took a nap. He took out a frying pan and slammed it on to his dad's unexpecting head then watched as his father fell.
Later that night…
The father and son were sitting down eating dinner at the table while a small Vulpix ate from Ninetale's bowl. Naruto quickly noticed that his father had been glancing at him a lot and the room was surprisingly quiet. "So," his father said after long moments of silence. Naruto stopped throwing food down his throat to listen to his father. "Are you going to keep'im?" Yondaime stared at his son after he finished his question. Naruto twitched. "No! I already told you I don't want to be a trainer." Yondaime threw his sock at Naruto. "And why not?!" Naruto threw the sock back. "Because pokèmon just don't like me, you know that you disgusting old man!" Yondaime threw the sock in the smaller blonde's mouth. "Have you even tried?!" Naruto flinched and then frowned, eyes half lidded.
Yondaime sighed. "Well, I'm done. I'm going to bed." He then walked out the kitchen and to his room. Naruto took the sock out of his mouth. "Damn you, old man."
The next morning…
Naruto walked out of his room, still in his pajamas, and went into the living room to watch cartoons. He sat on the couch and put his feet on the coffee table. Then a rolling sound could be heard followed by a soft thump. The two noises woke up a sleeping Vulpix. Naruto looked by the table to see a pokèball. The boy smirked. Vulpix cocked its head in a confused way.
A little later…
They stood outside the house staring each other down. The Vulpix glaring angrily and was in an attacking position. Naruto's eyes were just as serious. "You're going to be my first pokèmon! No matter what!" He took the pokèball in hand and made it larger. "Here goes." He tossed the pokèball at Vulpix. The Vulpix moved from its position into a sitting position and mewed happily as it was caught. The ball shook only once and then shined and returned to normal. Naruto stared at the pokèball containing the captured pokèmon. "Vulpix… wanted me to catch it? Vulpix… likes me?" He ran to the pokèball and picked it up.
He then let the pokèmon inside out. Vulpix yipped when it was out and shook a bit then it leaped into Naruto's arms and licked his face. Naruto pat its head. "So you're my friend now right?" Naruto asked. It yipped once in reply. Naruto smiled and pat its head again. "Dad'll definitely be happy." The Vulpix then jumped out of Naruto's arms and ran inside the house. Naruto followed it with a big grin on his face.
Later that day…
"Okay, Vulpix, as you know, I need to redo all the shopping from yesterday. So I brought you along to see help me out, got it?" Naruto informed the Vulpix as they walked to the supermarket. Vulpix nodded its head. The duo went inside and Naruto whipped put a long list. "Okay, Vulpix go get some fish, eggs, and bread. I'll be getting everything else, 'kay?" The Vulpix nodded once again. "Meet me at that register line…and whoever gets their items the fastest wins! Ready set go!" the two zoomed off into the market, Naruto had a shopping cart and Vulpix had a basket in its mouth.
The small Vulpix went to the first aisle, not knowing how to read, it sniffed around for bread. It went under women's dresses and girl's skirts, through men's legs and leaped over children. After doing that for six aisles it found the bread. It pushed the basket by the shelf the item was located. It then hopped up on to the shelf and nudged the bread off, it landing in the basket. Everyone in the aisle clapped.
"What a cute pokèmon!"
"I wish my pokèmon would do that!"
"I wonder if it could to my chores?"
People commented. Vulpix merely hopped down and put the basket back in its mouth with the bread inside. He then padded off to find the fish, which was easy because of its strong scent. He saw two men working behind a counter covered in fish. Vulpix knew what to do. He carried the basket by the counter before jumping on top of it. The bigger man of the two become aware of it and told him to shoo. Vulpix made its eyes shine and water gather at the bottom. The large man could feel himself weakening to the power of cuteness and took a fish and gave it to Vulpix. "Here you go little guy." He said as he handed him the food. Vulpix took it and leaped off the counter placing the fish in the basket.
Last were the eggs. He couldn't do the eggs like he did the bread; they would break falling into the basket. When he found the eggs, the creature noted that it had grown colder. Vulpix shivered and teeth chattered. Vulpix quickly decided he didn't want to get any closer to the freezer and came up with a brilliant way to get the eggs rather than grabbing them off the shelf. He slammed his head into the bottom section of freezer causing one package of eggs to shake and fall. He caught them in his mouth on their way down. Vulpix placed them in the basket and happily skipped to the register he said he'd meet Naruto at.
He frowned when he saw Naruto purchasing the items he had said he would get. The blond boy smiled when he saw his pokèmon walk over with everything he was told to find. Naruto took the basket from the fox pokèmon's mouth and placed the contents on the conveyor belt. Naruto looked at Vulpix with a smirk and said. "I win. You lose. Again." The blond didn't know why but Vulpix hurdled itself into his arms and yipped joyfully. Naruto merely laughed.
