-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Naruto's Kanto Adventures-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Demon Talking"

'Demon Thinking"

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A/N: For some reason, I've got a Naruto x Pokemon xover stuck in my head. I'm not really sure why, but I've got the idea, might as well put it on paper. I don't know everything about Pokemon, so please don't be to harsh if and when I screw something up. This should be an...interesting ride though. If Naruto seems a bit...off in this story its because of this. In this story, Naruto still wants to be Hokage because he wants people to recognize him, his meeting with Haku never happened here. He really only went after Sasuke because he thought people would love him if he brought back the last Uchiha. Because of this, there is very little actually tying him to the leaf village, so leaving it doesn't really effect him as much as it would canon Naruto. I know its another "Naruto gets transported to a new dimension" but its really the only decent way I can get him in the Pokemon world. This story will be more based upon the anime than the games. Naruto is thirteen in this story. As for a time-line, ummm...Ash should be in Johto, or maybe early on in Hoenn. It doesn't really matter, Naruto will be on a separate adventure from him.

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Chapter 1 : Sealing for Dummies...FAIL!

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Sealing was the most delicate art in the shinobi world. It was more destructive then ninjutsu, required more control and patience than genjutsu, and was more draining then taijutsu. Only a select few were were able to learn even the basics, and only a fraction of a fraction of those went on to become sealing masters.

Of course, as luck would have it, Jiraya was such a seal master, and his current student was an idiot who was "attempting" to learn his craft. The one unfortunate thing however, was that fact that Jiraiya often mistook his current student for said students father. While as noble and powerful a person the young man was, he just didn't posses the natural inclination towards sealing that his father did...or the natural intelligence his father had as well.

The white haired sage gave a sigh as he looked at his student disregard the books he tasked him to read. Oh boy, did he feel a headache coming on.

"What do you think you're doing brat?!" he yelled at his blond student in annoyance. "Get back to those books!"

"But Ero-Sennin" he heard his student whine. "Reading is for losers, not future Hokage's!" he finished, yelling and punching the air as he said "Hokage"

Jiraiya could only smack his face as he heard this. It was three months after they had departed Konoha to train. He had been shocked to discover the brat didn't know the so called "secret" to the Shadow Clone jutsu. 'What the hell was Kakashi thinking?' he thought to himself with a frown. 'The kids skills were terrible, with the benefits of Shadow Clones, he wouldn't have had to rely on luck to stay alive so far. The last three months or so we've had to be spend on him relearning the basics. What a waste of time.'

"Oi brat" he said, watching his student using a sealing brush and a scroll. "What do you think your doing?"

"Making a seal, are you THAT senile you can't see anymore Ero-Sennin?" the blond asked with a snort and a not so subtle roll of his eyes.

"Don't call me that!" Jiraiya exclaimed. "And don't joke around, you refuse to read those books, where would you learned the make a seal idiot?" he asked mockingly.

"I stole that scroll of cool seals you have in your pocket" Naruto said carelessly, continuing to write on his scroll, not bothering to see the ashen face of his mentor. "I can't believe you wanted me to learn that boring stuff when you had all those cool seals with you." he said, shooting a quick glare at the sage before returning to his work. "When I finish this, I'll be one step closer to becoming Hokage" he exclaimed.

Jiraiya's face was white in shock and horror. 'Those were Minato's notes on his projects that failed' he thought to himself dread flooding into his body. 'How did he get those away from me?'

"Naruto" he said, how voice as serious as it had even been in his entire life. "Put down that brush and come here RIGHT NOW!" he said, yelling the last bit out.

"Yeah right" Naruto said, not hearing (or maybe ignoring) his teachers horror. "I just need to add some chakra and it will be done!" he yelled in glee as he pumped as much of his energy into it as he could.

"NARUTO NO!" Jiraiya yelled as he say the array light up in a brilliant flash of blue.

Chaos was the only word that could describe the seen. Chakra, an enormous amount of unstable chakra flooded into the area. There was no being in the entire elemental nations that didn't not sense it. Around the scroll, bolts of blue light shot out, incinerating everything that fell into hits path.

"Gah" the sage yelled as he narrowly dodged a beam of blue light, watching horror at his destroyed a tree behind him. "I'm sorry Naruto" he muttered, before preforming a set of hand signs and vanishing in a puff of smoke before another bolt of light hit where he was previously standing. The last thing he heard before he fled was Naruto's screams of agony.

Several hours later, Jiraiya returned to the scene, which had finally settled down, to find a crater a hundred meters wide and fifty meters deep. The only thing left was a bloodied, burned, piece of an orange jumpsuit.

--(Who knows where)--

"This didn't go like I planned" Naruto muttered, finding himself in front in the gates in his mind that held the great Kyuubi no Kitsune.

"Ya Think?" a booming, sarcastic voice spoke out from the gates.

"No need to be annoying" Naruto said with a frown looking at the huge fox on a cage. "I'm still trying to figure out what I did wrong."

"Being born was what you did wrong!" the deeo voice snarled in rage. "You tried to create a seal without any knowledge of them you nimrod. Seals are manifestations of the power of the gods themselves, even I wouldn't be so bold to dabble in them as nonchalantly as you just did."

"Errr...opps?" Naruto offered sheepishly. "It can't have all that bad though, that seal was made the the Yondaime" he said, cheering up as he mentioned his idol.

The gigantic fox slammed one of its paws into its head. "You really are mentally challenged" it said, ignoring the indignant cries of its container. "Do you even know what that seal was?" it asked, arching an eyebrow.

"Errr...something about a prototype Hiraishin seal" Naruto said, scratching his head. "So what, it didn't work, I'll just have to deal with Ero-Sennin later" he said, sighing as he thought about his teacher and the tongue lashing he was going to receive.

"YOU TRULY ARE A MORON OF EPIC PROPORTIONS!" the fox bellowed, looking at the human in front of it in disgust. "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT SEAL DID TO YOU BRAT!?"

"Ummm...It hurt?" Naruto asked, shrugging his shoulders. "I mean, the pain had noting compared to chidori, what's the worst that could have happened?"

"That seal" the fox forced out through gritted teeth. "Was meant to breach the space time continuum in order to allow for instantaneous movement." it explained, trying to be civil. For some reason his fate was tied together with the brats, if nothing else, the Kyuubi no Kitsune was good at one thing, staying alive.

"Eh?" Naruto said, tilting his head on confusion. "What does that mean you dumb fox?" he said, confused.

"It means" the fox said, eye twitching. "that you used an incomplete, space time seal, can you guess what happened next?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.

Naruto frowned as he recalled the first thing Jiraiya said about sealing. "Seals are dangerous" he remembered, for once in his life listening carefully. "A misused seal can cause more destruction than even the most formidable ninjutsu. Remember this Naruto, never, ever mess with seals you have no knowledge of. If you do, there is a good change they will explode, and you will go along with it."

"Ummm...boom" Naruto offered weakly, chuckling slightly trying to hide his horror.

The fox blinked once, twice, and let out a roar of laughter. "Boom?" it said, still laughing. "Not boom brat, that makes it sound like one of those pitiful exploding tags you ninja use. What you did was cause the prototype seal to immediately drain all of my chakra, which was then converted to human chakra, which then incinerated your chakra coils. Of course, with my near infinite chakra confined to an infinitely small area that is the sealing matrix, a quantum singularity was opened which immediacy sucked you in and then propelled all of the excess chakra into the surrounding area." it explained. "It was only the functional part of the seal you created that stopped your body from ripping into a billion pieces."

"Errr...what?" Naruto asked, his eyes holding a confused look.

The fox growled, restraining himself from trying to kill the blond fleshbag. "It means" it said slowly and deliberately. "That by stupidly using an untested seal, you broke space-time and transported yourself to god knows where."

"Ohhhh...okay" Naruto said, finally understanding. "So where could I be? It better not be in Iwa, because Ero-Sennin said they would want to kill be for some reason."

"GAH!" the fos screamed, its patience gone. "NO YOU BRAT, it means your stupidity has landed you a new dimension."

"A new dimension?" Naruto asked, a bit weary from the foxes ourburst. "What is a dimension?"

The fox took a deep breath and calmed down a bit. It was being a tad unfair, the ninja world knew next to nothing about the various dimension, hell it didn't know a whole lot about them. The knowledge he had came from the sage of the six paths all those years ago.

"A different dimension is basically a universe that is different from your own. Imagine that every choice and action that ever could have happened has its own version of reality. For example, lets say there is a universe where you chose to kill that Uchiha instead of aiming to just scratch his headband, that would be one example. Then again, there could be a reality where chakra itself never existed, there are infinite possibilities."

After this rather...basic description, Naruto's eyes were wide. "So I'm on one of these...alternate realities?" he asked, his mouth hanging open in shock.

"Now he gets it" the fox muttered under its breath, to faint for the human to hear it. "Yup" it said louder. "I don't know where you are, but I can tell you this, this world is nothing like ours, the energy I can feel is very...strange."

"So..." Naruto trailed off, looking nervous "How do I get back?" he asked.

"You don't" the fox said simply, taking pleasure in the look of shock taking over the humans face. It wasn't often he could do something to get back at the brat, it was rather...enjoyable.

"WHAT?!" Naruto screeched, causing the fox to wince. "What do you mean I can't get back!?"

"Simple" the fox said, trying to shake off the ringing in his ears, damn that kid could shriek like a little girl, "I am drained of chakra, which was the only force that allowed us to get here. Also, I have no idea how to select our native dimension from the infinite others in existence, even if I did have chakra, your quantum resonance frequency has changed to match this worlds, and NO I'm not expalining that that means. Also, to compound this, you no longer have chakra coils, for me to even flow my chakra, if I had it, out of."

"Wait" Naruto cut off "I have no chakra coils?" he asked, before running around screaming "Oh no, I'm gonna die"

The Kyuubi felt it last bit of resolve slipping as he forced himself not to try to kill the blond idiot. "No you idiot!" he yelled. "You can live without chakra coils perfectly fine, what do you think people did before the sage of the six paths discovered chakra? People only die with what's known as "chakra exhaustion" because they overdraw chakra, and the body starts to take the natural energy from their cells and forcibly converts it to chakra which taxes the body immensely."

"So I'm not going to die?" Naruto said, hopefully, "well thats good" he mused, stroking his chin with his hand. "So...what should I be doing now?" he asked, tilting his head slightly in confusion.

The fox couldn't help but roll his eyes, the kid really must be bi-polar or something, though, he was a bit impressed that the brat wasn't freaking out to much. "How should I know?" it asked, sneering. "You got yourself into this mess, just don't die brat" it said, regaining some malice. "now..LEAVE" it said as Naruto felt himself being pulled away from his mindscape.

There was only one think Naruto could think of. 'Well, this should be interesting.'

--(Somewhere in the Kanto region)--

"Ugggg..." Naruto groaned as he felt his head give a nasty throb. "My head"

"Oh...You're awake, good." A male voice spoke up from across the room he was in.

Looking up, Naruto caught sight of a man, who looked around fifty or so with brownish gray hair wearing some sort of white coat.

"My name is Professor Samuel Oak" he introduced. "And who might you be young man, you were found in my coral with a nasty head injury, can you remember what happened?" he asked kindly.

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki" Naruto replied, trying and failing to sound cheerful, the splitting headache made that impossible. "A-and...I don't remember what happened to me." he said, sounding confused.

'Those acting lessons Koyuki taught me sure are coming in handy' he thought to himself, glad the several hours with the princess from Spring Country weren't for naught. Not that he minded spending time with the princess. In fact, he found it quite enjoyable, she was one of the few who seemed to like him and not belittle him whenever she could. Naruto may be...errr...a bit dim, but even he knew the talk about alternate worlds would get him the loony bin, he was better off playing dumb...though considering that's how he normally acts, its hard to tell the difference.

"I see" the man, Oak or something said sadly. "I was afraid of this. Your head injury was quite severe, I thought there was a chance of memory loss. I'm very sorry young man" he finished with a small bow.

Naruto was a bit flabbergasted to be honest. In his short life nobody had ever said sorry to him, especially not someone who did nothing wrong. "Its okay, really" he assured him quickly, feeling guilty for making the old man sad. "I'll just have to get reacquainted with things"

"That's the spirit" Oak said with a smile. It had been a long while since he had met such a well mannered boy. "You are free to stay here as long as you need, and even help take care of the pokemon if you like"

"Pokemon?" Naruto asked, head cocked questionably.

Oaks eyes widened as he heard this. He had figured the only memory damage would be to the very short term memories. For the long term memory to be effected, he pitied the poor boy.

"Yes" he said, eyes softening. "We live in harmony with creature called pokemon. These pokemon are extremely diverse, and we still don't even know everything about them." he said, giving the short explanation. "Wait for one second" he said, exited the room and going who knows where. A minute or so later, he entered the room with a large book tucked under his arm. "Here" he said, placing the book by the nightstand by his bed he was laying in. "Read this, you shouldn't move around for a few days, so you can try to catch up on some things." he said kindly. "Now if you don't mind, I need to go tend to the pokemon." With that, and a small bow, the older man exited the room, leaving the blond alone.

'This sucks' Naruto thought, glaring at the book, willing it to burst into flames. 'First I can't get out of bed, and now I have to read a book.'

With a hefty sigh, he picked up the book and laid it in front of him.

"Pokemon and Our World, Who, What, When, Where, Why" he muttered to himself, reading the title. "Oh well" he said turning to the first page. "Its not like I have anything better to do" he said grumpily beginning to read.

--(Four Hours Later)--

Naruto was somehow STILL reading the book. It was amazing, pokemon were like creatures Naruto had never even imagined possible to exist before. Sentient creatures that were awesome friends and partners. He had never been able to have a pet, or even a real friend, he would love to have one of these pokemon. This was the longest he had ever been able to focus on any one task.

"That would be my doing" a deep, voice spoke up in his head.

'Kyuubi?!' Naruto thought, thoughts racing as he absentmindedly marked his reading place. 'How can you talk to me?' he asked, worried.

"Easy Brat" the fox said smugly. "Since you no longer have chakra coils and I no longer have chakra, the seal has changed a bit, allowing me to communicate with you."

'I see' Naruto thought with a frown. Having an evil, immortal demon fox being able to talk to you wasn't his idea of a good thing, but if anything Naruto could roll with the punches life threw him. 'So mind telling me how I can concentrate so much. It used to be like trying to catch water with a fork' he thought, mentally snickering at the conjured image.

"Quite simple really" the fox said. "At least, simple for me. Your brain actually devotes a lot of its processing power to controlling and regulating chakra, your brain more-so because of your sheer chakra capacity and the fact that my chakra was constantly leaking into your own. Since you no longer had chakra, and I seem to have fairly free reign in here, bearing doing anything that my harm you of course, blasted seal, I reworked in the parts of your brain that controlled chakra back into memory and other proceeds."

'I see' Naruto thought, mulling it over. And indeed he did, while he still wasn't able to follow some of it, simply due to a lack of knowledge, he got the gist of it. 'Are there any other things that will be effected?' he asked suspiciously.

The fox gave a roar of laughter as he heard this. "I see it was a good move" it said "You actually saw that possibility. Good, it means you won't die so quickly, or at least, you better not brat. Yes, there are some other mental facilities that will be effected. As for what they are" he said trailing off. "You can figure that our yourself." it said before cutting off the mental link, which Naruto could feel somehow. What the Kyuubi didn't mention however was just HOW much of Naruto's brain had been devoted to focus his chakra to prevent it from blowing him up. With 40% of his brain now freed and actually active, the fox almost shuddered as he thought about the possibilities. The kids brain was well beyond that of a normal human, it hoped it didn't do something stupid. Going against the natural order of things was never the best idea, but something told it the change had to be done.

Giving another sigh, Naruto looked back at his book, and was shocked to discover that he had managed to read the entire thing. 'Woha' he thought to himself. 'There must have been two thousand pages in this book. Its obviously not only memory recall that has been effected, I could never even pretend to read this fast before.'

"Oh, you finished?" the voice of Professor Oak spoke up from the door way in surprise. "Very impressive" he said as he walked towards Naruto. After checking a couple on instruments and taking Naruto's pulse, he had a bewildered expression on his face. "You seem to be doing remarkably well" he said, still looking quite shocked. "It should haven taken a couple days for you to recover to this extent, but you seem fine."

"So I can get out and about?" Naruto asked, eyes alight with hope. Boosted brain power or not, he did not like being cooped up.

"I suppose" the professor said, frowning slightly. "But I want you to take it easy."

"I can do that" Naruto said quickly. "Would it be possible to see some of these pokemon?" he asked with excitement.

"Yes, yes of course" the professor said with a smile and a small chuckle. "Like I said earlier, you are free to stay as long as you like. In fact, I insist on it. You have such a severe case of memory loss, I wouldn't feel comfortable letting you roam the wild like you are."

"Hehe, thanks" Naruto said, rubbing the back of his head as he sat up in the rather comfortable bed he was laying in. He was touched though, nobody had ever expressed so much concern over him before, let alone a complete stranger.

'I think I may like this place' he thought to himself, pretty much basking in the attention he was getting. 'The book said trainers were held in high esteem...if I became a top notch trainer, I could get everybody to recognize me, and I would even have lots of pokemon to be friends with.'

"Oh yes" Oak said, placing a folder bundle of clothes on the nightstand. "Here are some clothes my grandson Gray, who is now a trainer, had. Your clothing was shredded beyond repair somehow" he said, giving the boy a sympathetic look. "I guess some wild pokemon got a little to curious while you were unconscious. I had to cut away the remainders of your clothes to check for any additional injuries. Don't worry, they're yours to keep."

"Thank you" Naruto said with a smile. While he would miss his orange jumpsuit, it was no means the end of the world. "So once, I get changed, I can see some pokemon?" he asked with a huge smile.

The professor couldn't help but smile as well. "Of course" he said, "I'll just be outside the door" he said walking out the door. "Come on out when you get changed."

Naruto took some to look at the clothes as he head the door close. They were nothing really special, the shirt and pants were a dark blue color with a couple yellow accent stripes. They were made of high quality cloth, obviously durability was in mind when they were designed. Quickly taking off the white tee-shirt the professor must have put on him, he slipped on the shirt and pants. Seeing his sandals, luckily intact, he put those on as well and quickly exited the room, exited to see some of these pokemon.

"That was fast" the professor mused in surprise.

"Hehe" Naruto said sheepishly, scratching the back of his head. "I guess I just want to see some of these pokemon, the book made them sound so cool."

"Oh they are" Oak said as he guided the blond around his faculty to the back door where they would enter his corral. "Just remember" he said, gaining a serious tone. "Pokemon have feelings and they belong to other trains, please be polite."

"Of course" Naruto said, shaking his head violently. "Do all the pokemon here belong to other trainers?" he asked.

"Mostly" Oak answered. "Some are my pokemon from my years as a trainer, but most of the others belong to other trainers. My grandson Gary, who is trying to decide if he wants to become a Pokemon Researcher like myself, and a boy named Ask Ketchum are responsible for most of the pokemon here. Though..." he trailed off. "wild pokemon get in here as well, like those that likely went to town on your clothes. Anyway, not all of the pokemon used by trainers are out here, most of those are in storage inside their pokeballs back in the lab."

"So why do you care for some trainer's pokemon?" Naruto asked, curiously.

"Well" Oak said a bit sheepishly. "I can't keep track of every pokemon trainers send me, so many have to be put into storage. While they are in their pokeballs, they are in a state of suspended animation. We are not entirely sure what happens in them, but from what we can tell, the pokemon experience an environment that they find enjoyable, do its not cruel to leave them in their pokeballs. Of course, they cannot train or improve themselves while they are in them. Obviously I look after Gary's because of he is my grandson, as for Ash, I've known him and his mother for years. Besides, their the only trainers to come out of Palet Town since myself." he said, puffing up in pride a bit as he thought about Ash and his grandson and the wonderful trainers they had both become.

As the professor opened the door the the back of his lab, Naruto eagerly looked out into the sunlight and felt his eyes open wide in amazement. First off, the flora was amazing. Plants and flowers of every which color were everywhere. Of course, Naruto being Naruto didn't care about some plants, no what he cared about was the pokemon out and about.

A couple little purple rats were scurrying about, playing a game of tag. A trio of small birdlike pokemon flew overhead. Overall, there were to many things for Naruto to describe them.

"Amazing isn't it?" Oak asked with a chuckle. It had been a long time since he had seen such a look of awe on somebody's face regarding pokemon. "Why don't you go on and explore" he suggested gently. "I've made sure all the pokemon that are here are well behaved, they have have some arguments, but they get along peacefully. Even the wild pokemon are kept in line here."

"You mean it?" Naruto asked, stunned that someone would just let him wander around.

"Sure" the professor said with a laugh, seeing the look of disbelief. "You're a good kid, I can tell that much. Just make sure to be careful and avoid hitting your head." he said with a smile.

"Thank you!" Naruto said with a small bow to the man. Not only for letting him explore this awesome place, but for saying he thought he was a good kid. As terrible as it sounded, nobody in his entire life had ever treated him like this...like a person.

"Oh wait" Oak said as he remembered something. "Here" he said, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a strange rectangular device. "This is a cell phone" he said, seeing Naruto's dumbfounded look. "Its okay if you don't know to work it. It just has a GPS build in so I can track you down in case you get lost, just keep it in a pocket and you'll be good to go. I can also send messages through it, you'll be able to tell because it will vibrate"

Taking the strange devise and placing it into a pocket in the pants he wore he felt his hand brush a spherical object. "Eh?" he said, seeing Oak retreating and deciding not to bother him, he pulled it out. It was about three inches in diameter. The top half was red and the bottom was white with a button like thing in the middle. 'This is a pokeball' he thought to himself, recalling the book he red. 'Oak said these used to be his grandson's, it must have been left in here' he mused, idly pushing the center button and watching it change to its expanded form. 'So Cool' he thought as he began walking around, tossing the ball up and down.

He was broken out of this thoughts as he felt a pair of eyes on him. Turning around he caught sight of another of those purple mice.

"Rata" is said to him, tilting its head to the side observing him.

"Errr...Hi" Naruto said giving a little wave and offering a hand. Oak had said all the pokemon here were well behaved, and he believed him.

The mouse came a little closer to him and gave his hand a little sniff and a small lick.

Seeing this, Naruto reached out and gave the head of the creature a little pet, feeling the soft fur.

"Rat Rata" it said in happy contentedness as it began to...purr? After a few seconds, a second mouse came into the area and the one Naruto was petting moved to face it.

"Rata Rat" it said happily as it began to give chase to the other pokemon.

Naruto could only watch with a smile as the two forms became harder to make out as they fled into the grass.

Taking a quick look around, he tried to thing of where to go. 'Hmmm...' he thought. 'There is a forest to the north, and grassland is to the east. The lab is back south.' Looking to his left, he caught sight of a shimmering body of water and several more pokemon playing in it. 'A lake' he thought. 'Sounds like a good place to go.' he concluded before heading over there with a quick job, pokeball still clutched in his hand, forgotten. 'This corral really is immense, this place seems like it could hold thousands of pokemon.'

'It's scary how quickly I've accepted this place' he thought as he came up to the lake. 'I know I should miss it back...ho...the leaf village, but it just seems like I belong here' he thought, not noticing that he had even stopped referring as the leaf as his home. 'Everything is so awesome here' he thought wistfully as he caught sight of a tadpole looking pokemon splash itself with water giving squeals of delight. 'People don't hate me, and nobody is trying to kill me. Is it wrong to want peace?' he wondered, now finding himself gazing into the blue depths of the lake.

Naruto almost gave a squawk of surprise as a giant crab like pokemon game out of the water.

"Kingler" it said, looking at Naruto and hurrying over to him, moving surprising fast considering his short legs.

"King" it said, wrapping Naruto in its claws in a tight hug....a very tight hug.

"Please stop" Naruto gasped out, turning blue. "Can't...breathe."

Sensing the humans distress, the crap immediately let go and gave an apologetic look.

"You're a friendly guy aren't you?" Naruto said in amusement as he regained his breath.

"Kinger" the pokemon said happily with a smile as it clicked its claws together before returning to the water.

Naruto could only watch with a smile and a big laugh as the giant crap like creature went back in the water and began to splash around with a turtle looking pokemon and the tadpole looking one as well.

Naruto closed his eyes and gave a deep breath of air. It smelled so different than back in his world. It felt...cleaner and freer if that were possible. Back in his world, everything always had a faint smell of blood and death. It was like the earth and the plants had all absorbed the blood that had been split over the years and the scent still leaked into the air.

As he opened his eyes again, he jumped backwards in surprise. A floating, snake looking pokemon, about three feet long was staring him in the eye. It had two vaguely winged shaped things sticking out of its head on either side with a white dot in the middle of its forehead. It was a dark blue color with a white underbelly.

"Ummm...Hi" Naruto said, felling his heart rate calm down, talk about the invasion of someones personal space.

"Dratini" it said, though Naruto couldn't really tell how it could talk, he didn't see a mouth on the thing.

Carefully reaching out an arm, he ran his hand across its body, felling the silky smooth scales. It was hard to believe pokemon were so powerful and durable given how soft most of them were.

"Drat" the snake, thing, hummed in pleasure.

Before Naruto could do anything else, he felt his pocket give a vibrate. Taking his hand off the snake shaped pokemon, not noticing the slight hiss of disapproval as he did this, he reached into the pocket and pulled out the phone given to him by the professor. 'Please return to the lab' a message said, flashing across the screen.

"I gotta go" he said to the snake pokemon and seeing its saddened look said, "Do you want to come with, I'm sure the professor won't mind."

"Tini" the pokemon squealed in delight, and to Naruto's confusion, flew to his hand and bumped its head to the ball he was holding. In a flash of red, the pokemon vanished into the ball. Naruto couldn't help but stare at the pokeball as it vibrated three times before settling down.

"Okay...." he said, still stunned. "Something tells me that shouldn't have happened" he murmured before beginning his trek back to the lab. "Why do I always seems to get in trouble" he muttered with a sigh.

Professor Oak was sitting on the steps at his back door pondering his new guest. He couldn't help but feel guilty about the boy's situation, it did happen on his property after all. After meeting him, he immediately liked him. The blonds smile was infectious, and his fascination with pokemon was astounding.

"Hello Professor" a voice called out from a ways away.

Oak looked up and caught sight of the boy...holding a pokeball?

"Hello Naruto" Oak said, "It seems like you have an...adventure" he stated blandly, motioning towards the pokeball.

"I can explain" Naruto said quickly, wanting the professor to see it from his angle. And explain he did...

--(Thirty Minutes Later)--

Okay, the story didn't exactly need to take half an hour, but Naruto often went off about all the pokemon he had seen. Eventually though, he did get to the important stuff.

"Then I asked if it wanted to come with me up here and it went into the ball" Naruto said, waving his arms around. "Why would it do that?"

"That is interesting" the professor mused to himself. He didn't think that the boy did anything wrong of course, knowing Gary, he wouldn't be surprised if there were things scatter all around his clothing that he had forgotten about. This was NOT what he expected however. "Dratini are know to be very rare and shy, so much so that they are thought of as legends in many parts of Kanto." he explained. "Plus you said it was levitating" he continued, tapping his chin in thought. "While its not well known, some Dratini can gain the ability to levitate before they evolve into Dragonair, but its highly unusual."

"What should I do with it?" Naruto asked nervously, it was quite obvious he wanted to keep it. He did a fairly good job of masking it though. Well, good for a normal person, it was a pretty crappy job at hiding emotions for a ninja.

"Its yours of course" Oak assured him with a smile seeing the blonds nervousness. Even if he could, he would never separate a child from their pokemon. "The Dratini is obviously very attached to you, even in the short amount of time it saw you. Its rare, but not unheard of for humans and pokemon to form bonds in such a short amount of time."

"I can really keep it?" Naruto asked in excitement, eyes shining in delight. "Thats so cool" he said.

"Yes, Yes" Oak said with a chuckle. "I would like to take a look at it if you don't mind Naruto, its not often I get the opportunity to study such a rare pokemon."

"Sure" Naruto said, nodding his head. "As long as Dratini is okay with it that is." he added.

"Of course" the professor said reassuringly. "I would never do anything a pokemon didn't approve of."

"Okay then" Naruto murmured looking at the pokemon and remembering what he had read about them. "Come on out, Dratini" he said as he pressed a button on the pokeball and held in front of him.

In a flash of red light, the blue serpentine shaped pokemon appeared.

"Dratini" it squealed in delight as it wrapped itself around Naruto's neck and rubbed its head to his cheek.

"It certainly seems attached to you" the professor remarked, smiling slightly at the interaction. It always warmed his heart to see such friendship between a pokemon and a trainer. "Its quite surprising to see such a shy pokemon like Dratini be so affectionate."

Hearing the professors voice, the Dratini's eyes went wide and it quickly ducked behind Naruto's head, hiding almost its entire body from view.

"Okay..." the professor trailed off. "Maybe I spoke to soon."

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Okay wow, this was way longer than I initially intended. Well, this is the first chapter of my new story. Its an interesting idea I know, but for some reason, the idea appeals to me. Well, please tell me what you think and I hope you continue reading.