Title: Cross Road

Author: Tsukino Aki (Akinos)

Rate: T

Summary: -Semi AU- A new decision was made in the hospital hall that day, and so a new path was opened for Naruto. A new world, a new beginning. Yet he let it all behind to came back to this world, to a place that once hated him, back to Konoha. But this time, he is no longer alone.

Pairing: No pairing yet.

Warnings: OOC.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and Pokemon.

AN: I have 3 chapters of this story writen, but after that I have no idea how to continue it, so any idea you can give will be very helpful.

The pic cover is not mine, found it in google.

Thank to my beta Fion's hard work, this story had finaly been posted. Hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1: How it all begin.

History is a series of paths taken and not taken, a series of thing that might or might not have happened. For every decision made, a dozen more could have been made. In addition, according to some theories, for every divergence, for every possible occurrence right down to the subatomic level, there exists an alternate universe.

Therefore, as we all know it in the Canon Universe, on the day Naruto asks Kakashi to train him for the Chuunin Exam final, he is lets with Ebisu while Kakashi goes to train Sasuke. Naruto was angry, but he accepted Kakashi's decision and thanks to it later become Jiraiya's student.

But what if Naruto hasn't accepted it that day?

Because, really, why should he? Naruto had met Ebisu before, and just by that short among of time, he could already tell that Ebisu is one of the many people that look down on him because of the Kyuubi. The man had only agreed to teach him because of Kakashi's request, if not for it, would he even pay attention to Naruto?

"Come on then, Naruto, we need to get to training soon; I still have a lot of important things to do after this." Ebisu was saying as he started walking ahead, but to Naruto his voice sounded annoyed and full of complaints.

"Why?" muttered Naruto in a small voice, but Ebisu heard it nonetheless.

"Why what? Speak up Naruto-kun," asked Ebisu, as he turned back to face Naruto. Kakashi had stopped and was now listening to what his student has to say.

"Why did you agree to teach me? Last time we met, you obviously didn't like me, so why the sudden interest now?" spoke Naruto louder this time, not the loudmouth voice everyone was accustomed to though. This time, it was just enough to hear and had a calm tone added to it, as if it was forced to be so.

"Well… It's because I owe Kakashi a favour, and it's not like I hate you that much…," answered Ebisu in a hesitant voice; even he has noticed that there was something wrong going on.

"So it is 'not hate me that much', not 'don't hate me at all'? At least you are honest," said a bitter Naruto, his eyes downcast.

"What…? I didn't mean that!" Ebisu quickly protested, but stopped as Naruto looked up. Those eyes seemed so dead that it scared him.

"Its fine, I understood. Thank you for trying anyway."

Ebisu was taken back by the defended tone in Naruto's voice. Why was the boy suddenly like this? Was being trained by him such a disappointment? For a second, Ebisu felt offended, and then he thought better of it, and realized there was more to it than the surface. It was not only defending, sincerity mixed in as well, and something he could not place. It made Ebisu question himself if he really knew Naruto at all. The life the boy had surely could not lead to a simple loudmouthed idiot; a cheerful boy without some dark parts hidden somewhere? Now that dark part was starting to emerge, Ebisu felt like he needed to watch it carefully, not only to understand, but also to witness an important step of Naruto's life. Being honest with oneself was also a step in growing up after all. As a teacher, he will do what he had to, even if Naruto had not yet been his student before. Therefore, Ebisu calmly looked Naruto in the eyes, nodded his head, accepting and stepped back to watch. He knew Naruto's aim in the beginning had never been him.

Just as Ebisu had thought, after his nod, Naruto quickly turned around to his real teacher, the man that had cracked his mask without knowing so, without Naruto wanting to. In addition, just like Ebisu, Kakashi was taken back for an instant by the look in his eyes, though not by the dead-like look, but by the fire that suddenly seemed to burn up in those ocean-blue eyes.

"I want the truth, Kakashi-sensei." Naruto said demanding, his voice was hard. "Why couldn't you teach me? And please don't tell me that nonsense crap about business you had to take care of."

"Now, Naruto looks here…" Kakashi tried to calm the boy down as he could also see where this was going, and he does not like it one bit. However, Naruto will have none of it.

"No, you look here, Kakashi-sensei." He quickly cut in before Kakashi can talk his way out of this. He had enough. "You always have some business here and some business there; you are busy, I got that. However, this time is different; Neji is excessively strong for me and I would lose if I do not train serious… for that, I need your help. Why can you not just take some time out to train me? And what about Sasuke, shouldn't you be helping him train against Gaara too?"

Silence fell after Naruto's outburst. For Naruto, it was because he was embarrassed, having admitted being weaker than Neji. He even used Sasuke as a reason to force Kakashi to answer him, which made him feel so low. For Kakashi, he did not know what to say after Naruto's words: lie or tell him the truth. In the end, Kakashi decided in the truth.

"Exactly… I will be training Sasuke," began Kakashi, hoping that honesty would help him in this, but he did not realize that maybe a lie would have been a better opinion here. As a result, something in Naruto broke at those words. "You know his opponent is Gaara, that boy is too dangerous and Sasuke will get killed without my help, that why…"

"That's why you have to train him?" Naruto finished for Kakashi, said man hesitated before nodding, and Naruto kept on speaking. "I know Gaara is strong; I've seen his fight, you know? Sasuke would needs all the help he can get… But so would I. You have seen what Neji done to Hinata too; don't you think I need help against that? Why train only Sasuke? It isn't hard to train the both of us, is it? So, just… why?"

This, Kakashi had no words to say. Because what could he say, really? The truth was that Kakashi had always seen Gaara as the dangerous one, the killer that would not hesitate to end Sasuke if he was not strong enough. On the other hand, Neji was a Konoha ninja, maybe even a Hyuga, but he was still nowhere as strong as Gaara and he would not kill a fellow ninja of Konoha. He almost did with Hinata, but that is because she was of the main house. He may injure Naruto, but surely, there were no chances of Naruto being killed. Moreover, there was doubt in Kakashi's mind of whether or not Naruto could even win against Neji. His fight with Kiba had only end with Naruto being able to win out of luck after all. Therefore, Sasuke needs his attention more than Naruto, the boy can just be fine with Ebisu, right?

Sometime during Kakashi's thinking phase, Naruto seem to realize the reason why Kakashi did not want to train him.

"You think I couldn't win against Neji, is that it?" asked Naruto slowly, as if he was waiting for Kakashi to deny it. However, when nothing came out, the world seemed to break down around Naruto and he was just barely being able to hang in there. He quickly said, "I should have knew, how silly of me. Oh well, if that is all, I have to go now. Bye, Kakashi-sensei, Ebisu-san."

Without waiting for a reply, he ran out of the hospital, ignoring Kakashi's calls for him to stop. He continued to run as fast as he could until he reached the training area of his team. The place was empty except for a few birds, but Naruto paid no attention to it as he finally let loose a loud cry; the mask finally broken completely.

"It's not fair… Not fair at all…," whispered Naruto a while after his emotional breakdown, having not moved all this time. Truth be told, he was too tired both mentally and physically to move away, so Naruto decided to just sleep right here, right now. However, what Naruto did not know was that, as he closed his eyes, a shadow came into shape right next to him and seemed to be watching him very carefully. The figure vanished just as quick though, so by the time Naruto woke up, which happened to be midnight that day, he had no clue of what is about to happen. All he knew was that as he looked up at the night sky, there were two feathers that were falling down right above his head. Naruto caught them easily and as he looked them over, he did not realize that he was about to walk in on a hole that had appeared in the ground a few seconds before. Thus, he did not have a chance to yell or do anything as he was swallowed by the hole and disappeared from the Ninja World, for a very long time.

For him anyway.

So, as you can all see, a single action can cause a chain of events to change drastically. In our case, that action caused Naruto to travel through an entirely new world. What world did Naruto end up in? Well... Two different Divine feathers fell into our hero's hands, enabling him to travel through time and space. Where do beings with that kind of power reside, if not in the Pokemon World? However, the tale of Naruto's adventure throughout the Pokémon world is a story for another time.

Maybe in other universes, Naruto would stay in the Pokemon World for good... No one can know for sure, there are a lot of 'What Ifs' involved, and a lot of choices to be made. For now, we'll focus on the universe where he came back, and the world that was about to welcome its newest member – one that Naruto brought with him

The last part was edited for me by Sevvyn, thank you! Hopefully it will not be much confuse for everyone.

So, review and review please.