Hello Every, this is my second story. i haven't yet completed my first one but I know I will write this story a lot longer than the first one. So ENJOY!
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Pokémon .
That being said, Pokémon attacks and abilities are in bold.
A blonde boy, barely seven years old was lost in the forest. Tears were running down his face, just like he was, across the forest. He didn't know what happened? Or how did he end up here but one thing was for sure. He needed to get out of here fast or Pokémon will attack him and eat him up. He closed his eyes, it was not like he could see anything in the dark. It was full moon night but the trees blocked any kind of moon light. With the amount of effort he was putting in his running, he tripped and fall down a little slope. He finally opened his eyes and looked around checking his surroundings before he took a look at himself. His knee was scrapped. It was hurting but nothing like he couldn't handle.
He was startled when he heard loud explosions coming from his left side. With the curiosity getting the best of him, he decided to check what it was all about. It was something that scared him worse than the forest, he was in.
Two Pokémon's were fighting each other. One shadow like, with white fog-like head, scarcely visible in the dark. It was like the dark of the night was his alley, his shadow stretching to impossible lengths. The other had a swan like body. It was blue, with yellow underside and pink colored wings, which looked more like rings. Those two were undeniably powerful if the amount of explosions and the damage to the surrounding area was anything to go by.
The dark type Pokémon (though he didn't know the actual type) charged up and fired a move at the light* type Pokémon, which was easily dodged. The move, it felt horrible to Naruto. The second Pokémon charged a well-known move Hyper Beam and struck the dark one. It seemed that the dark Pokémon was already injured from all of the fighting and could not dodge quickly. Two rings of white light surrounded the light Pokémon and them formed a sphere in front of it and shot it at the already downed dark Pokémon. When it confirmed that the dark type will not get up, it left.
Naruto approached the defeated Pokémon, his fear forgotten, now replaced with worry for the floored Pokémon. He walked slowly towards the dark Pokémon and carefully checked if it was still conscious. It wasn't. It was injured, bruises and cuts covered its body. Naruto cautiously pulled out a hankie from his pocket and started cleaning him. He realized it was futile and needed some water. Naruto picked the downed Pokémon and somehow dragged it to the base of the tree and hid it with some bushes. He left to find some source of water.
After walking around for some time he finally found what he was looking for. A small stream of water. He dipped his hankie and returned to the Pokémon he was hiding. He cleaned the wounds as much as he could and then returned to the water body. He repeated the procedure several times and finally cleaned all the wounds. He was tired of all the running he did and finally fell down next to it, sleep almost immediately consuming him.
He woke to some Pokémon chirping. He realized it was late morning. His stomach made a loud noise and he signed. He had not eaten since lunch yesterday. He needed to find something to eat for himself and the Pokémon, when it woke up. His dry throat reminded he needed some water too. He picked himself up and walked slowly towards the stream of water he found in the night. Now he could really see how beautiful it looked in the daylight. Few water Pokémon he didn't recognize were playing in it even. He looked around for something to carry water with, to the dark Pokémon and he was in luck because he did find a large enough hollow log to fill with water. He did just as planned and found some bushes with berries and decided to take some with him. He just hoped they were eatable and did not have some side-effects.
He returned to the spot where he had hidden the dark Pokémon and thought it was time for him to wake it up. He wished it wouldn't be startled upon seeing him. He took some water from the log and sprinkled it on its face. The dark Pokémon woke up with a start but grimaced with pain. The fight with the other Pokémon had damaged it more than it thought. It (the Pokémon of course) looked up to see a child, a human child no less, sitting beside it. And by the looks of it, he was the one to sprinkle water on its face. It began growling, which put the blonde child on edge.
"Are you the one to throw water on my face?" It said with a menacing voice.
The blonde boy was really surprised that the Pokémon was capable of human speech. Having been never coming across such a Pokémon he was amazed.
"WOW, you can talk. So COOL!" he exclaimed.
The Pokémon couldn't even cover its ear (does it even have ears), so they were ringing with the unexpectedly loud voice. 'The boy sure have some lungs on him.' It thought.
"What are you doing here?" it asked again, then looked around and found himself surrounded with some bushes as if the boy was trying to hide it. "What happened here?"
"You and some other Pokémon were fighting last night. It was sooo cool but you got injured and lost. You were unconscious "he said struggling with the big word "so I dragged you here. I looked around for some water, but didn't wanted to leave you unprotected, so I hid you in the bushes and then cleaned your wounds. Then I was too tired to do anything so I slept. But I got up early and got us some food and water." He said pointing to the hollow log filled with water and few berries in his hands.
Whatever the Pokémon was expecting, it was not this, but he thanked the boy nonetheless. "Thank you for the help but I need to get going." He stood up, with some noticeable efforts and started to float towards some random direction.
"Hey wait up." The boy exclaimed. "Where are you going?" he asked showing concern on his face. It surprised the dark Pokémon, it had never met such a human before.
"What is it to you?" the Pokémon asked.
Naruto was suddenly nervous and laughed a little "You see I am lost and have no idea where to go."
The Pokémon decided to return the favor and pointed him to direction towards the nearest town. The boy thanked the Pokémon and started walking towards the direction given to him. The dark Pokémon turned around and started floating in the opposite direction. Only a few seconds later there was a loud scream and a lot of flying type Pokémon screeching. He sighed and decided to help the little one that has helped it not a long while ago.
He charged a Dark Pulse and fired it at flying type Pokémon's making them scatter. The boy was already running and didn't even bother to look back. He sighed and started following him, without being seen.
The boy reached the town and from there asked Officer Jenny the direction of Sandgem Town, where Professor Rowan's lab was located. The kind officer took pity on the lost boy and dropped him off to where he was going.
Naruto was in Professor Rowan's lab before the sundown. He quietly opened the door but was surprised to see his adoptive Uncle already there, glaring at him. Now, Professor Rowen may look a little bit intimidating but is actually quite mild tempered and kind. But the moment boy eyes met him, he knew he was in trouble. A lot of trouble.
"Naruto, would you explain what happened and where you were since yesterday?" he said. He voice was stern, instead of usual gentle. That sealed the deal, he was officially mad at him.
The boy now name Naruto began sweating. "You, see… I… I was wondering around, chasing a Pokémon when I got lost and didn't know where to go." He signed and resigned to his fate. He knew he was up for a severe tongue lashing. "Some time later I ran into some Pokémon and they pointed me towards the nearest town, then Officer Jenny dropped me here." He dropped his head.
Rowen didn't know what to say to that. On one hand he was extremely angry that Naruto recklessly ran behind a Pokémon, on the other hand he was happy that the boy returned unharmed, from wherever he was lost. He shook his head, it was not for him to decide, and he will let his mother deal with him.
"I don't know what to do with you Naruto, so I will let your mother deal with you." Said the Professor.
The blonde paled at the thought. While everyone knew his mother, Sandgem Town's Nurse Joy was a kind woman but Naruto knew she had a fiery temper when it came to handle him. He had done some pretty stupid things in his small life and was punished for it after all.
He didn't get the chance to think of some excuse before Nurse Joy came running in and embraced Naruto. He was about to say something when he noticed his mother was crying. Now he felt like a jerk, his mother was worried sick about him, and here he was foolishly chasing a Pokémon to an unknown location.
"I'm sorry mom. I won't do it again. I'm so sorry." He apologized softly, embracing his mother. His mother held on to him and cried for few more minutes, before finally calming down.
"Please don't do that again Naruto, I don't know what I would do without you." She spoke softly still sniffing.
"I promise mother, I won't." he said, as he wiped his mother's tears.
Nurse Joy looked at him, her eyes were red from all the crying and face still wet from tears. "I know how much you love to learn more about Pokémon's, so I have decided." She took a deep breath to calm her raging nerves. "Professor Rowen is going to different regions to learn from different Professors and at last will head to Kanto region to study under Professor Oak and you, Naruto, are going to go with him."
Both Professor and the boy were shocked to hear that. They couldn't understand how she was allowing him to go with the Professor when she had refused all other time before.
"But mother…" he didn't get to finish before he was interrupted by his mother.
"No Naruto, it's not your punishment." She said with an exhalation. "I know how much you love Pokémon and want to learn more about them or see a new species, so you will accompany him." She hugged him once again. Naruto returned the gesture and agreed.
"I will mother and thank you." He said quietly, thanking his mother.
Naruto knew how much his mother loved him and never allowed him out of her sight. For her to let Naruto go would be too painful for her, and the boy understood the fact clearly.
Naruto was sitting in the backyard garden, watching all the Pokémon play and compete with each other. All he ever wanted was for his mother to allow him to learn new things by journeying across the region but she refused every time, arguing that he was too young, which he admitted he was. But now that he knew that his dream was coming true, it felt hollow somehow.
He was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't noticed someone sneaking behind him until it spoke.
"Something troubling you?" it asked.
Naruto was startled out of his thoughts by the deep sounding voice. He jerked his head around and noticed the same Pokémon he had helped last night.
"Why are you here?" Naruto asked. He was surprised to see the dark Pokémon again.
"I was just going my way, when I heard you screaming and decided to follow you to make sure you reach, where you were going safely." It said, surprising even itself with the answer.
"I… Thank you." He didn't know what to say to that. He was grateful that it decided to follow him, otherwise it would be… difficult to say at least, to reach his home town. "Name's Naruto by the way." He said.
"I am Darkrai." It said, simply, without disclosing any other information about itself.
"Who was the other one you were fighting that night? And why were you fighting" he was curious as to why they were fighting in the first place.
"The other Pokémon you saw was Cresselia. We are arch enemies, we fight each other all the time. This time I was already wounded from my previous battle, so she thrashed me around." It said, while it was bitter to accept that he lost, it was due to his earlier combat.
"So… you are trying to say that you would have won if you hadn't been already injured." He asked. Knowing that pried may not allow then to accept that.
"I don't know." it said straightforwardly. "We are equal in terms of power and abilities, so the fight could have gone either way." It admitted. "So then, why are you so down?"
Naruto's face immediately dropped and looked away before answering. "I was chasing down some Pokémon, when I got lost, then you know the rest. It's just that my mother was so worried about me. Now she wants me to travel with Uncle Rowen to the different regions and learn more about Pokémon's. It has always been my dream but that's now how I wanted to do it." The boy said, his voice barely a whisper. But the dark type Pokémon heard him clearly.
"Maybe, maybe not." It started "but time has already passed for you to worry about that. You have been given the chance you wanted all your life. Now the question is, will you take it or let it go?" it asked.
Naruto pondered the situation again, sure it was not under the greatest circumstances that that happened but why not make the most out of it. He took a deep breath, calming himself and finally smiled.
"You are right. I should not waste this opportunity." He said but got a fantastic idea. "Hey, why don't you come with me, we could learn so much from other and maybe then you could beat that Pokémon." He tried to coax it to join him but the Pokémon saw right through the act but before he could respond, it noticed something which made it stop.
The boy, no, Naruto was just like it, a loner. Sure, he had people who cared about him but he was without friends. No one could connect to him at such a personal, like a friend, just like it. He was so desperate to make a friend, no matter human or Pokémon that he was practically ready to do anything to please them.
"Alright. I will do it." It said.
"Thank you." The boy said. He didn't expected the Pokémon to actually accept his offer, he was grateful nonetheless. It was his first friend in a long time, well lifetime.
Tomorrow Morning
Naruto was getting ready for his trip in the other regions, packing his clothes and other necessary items when he heard footsteps coming towards, looking up he was his mother was coming with something in her hands, wrapped up in the gift paper, with some other items.
"Hey sweetie, I have some things for you. Here, this is for you." She gave him a large item wrapped in gift paper. "And here are some Pokéballs for you, when you are ready to start your journey." She said giving him a strained smile, trying to look happy for him. "Well, open it up." She pointed towards the wrapped up item.
Naruto gently picked up the item and carefully removed the wrapping, inside was an egg, more specifically, a Pokémon egg. Naruto was surprised, his mother was giving him a Pokémon egg, let alone considering it.
His surprise must have been evident on his face, because his mother gave him a warm smile and said. "I know what you must be thinking, but Professor Rowen are going to be there with you to take care of the egg, so I think I can trust you with such a great responsibility. And one more thing, this egg is from the Kalos region, so some professors would like to study it a bit."
Naruto just nodded, not sure what to really say, but was happy that his mother trusted him so much. He put all the extra things in his bags and picked up the egg before giving his mother a one armed hug. The Nurse returned the embrace and few tears fell from her eyes.
They remained like that for nearly a minute and then headed to Professor Rowan's laboratory. The mother son duo was walking in a comfortable silence and reached the lab few minutes later. Professor Rowen was already there with some other girl, who looked to be ten year old.
Professor noticed both Naruto and Nurse Joy approaching him and waved his hand in greeting. "Hey there Naruto, Nurse Joy."
Naruto returned the wave while Joy gave his a small smile, but it was the boy who spoke "Hello Uncle Rowen, who is she?" the blonde asked as he pointed towards the girl. She was blonde, wearing yellow colored… dress, he was never actually good with telling their different garments apart.
Nurse Joy just, sighed "Naruto, it's impolite to point." Before looking at the girl. "I'm sorry, looks like I still have to teach him some manners." She gave him a glare that had him sweating "Naruto. Apologize. Now."
Naruto quickly bowed his head in an apologetic manner "I am sorry." He said. It was easier to just agree with his mother, then suffer punishment later.
The girl just smiled at him, not at all minding his initial rudeness. She put out her hand "I'm Cynthia, I'm just starting as a trainer."
Naruto stared at her for a moment and smiled in return. "So have you already decided which Pokémon you are going to choose?" he asked the fellow blonde.
"I'm not here to get a Pokémon, you see, I already have one" showing him, her Pokéball "I'm here to register as trainer and then be off on my way."
Naruto was not really surprised to hear that, while not common, it was not that rare either. "So you already have a Pokémon huh, can I see it?"
Cynthia smiled at his eagerness and pulled out a Pokéball. She pressed the button on the table-tennis size ball and it soon became baseball sized and a red light escaped from it. "Come on out Gible." She said. And came out the ground/dragon type Pokémon. Naruto was excited to see the pseudo-legendary type Pokémon, it was his first time seeing that particular species. Even though it was not uncommon to spot them in wild, Naruto was rarely let out on his own.
"Wow so cool." He exclaimed.
The small Pokémon, let out a happy noise, jumping all the while.
"I'm glad you think so." Then she noticed a Pokémon egg in his hand. "It seems you have a Pokémon egg. And the one I'm not familiar with." She said.
Naruto gave her a big smile, he was always happy to talk about Pokémon "It's from the Kalos region, even I am not sure which Pokémon will come out of it."
At that exact moment Professor Rowan came out of the room or lab, whatever, and gave Cynthia, her Pokedex. It was dark blue and purple in color. "Now Cynthia, you are all set, from now on you are a registered trainer." The professor said, smiling.
Cynthia accepted the device and immediately it was turned on.
"Hi, I'm a Pokedex programmed by Professor Rowan for Pokémon Trainer Cynthia of the town of Celestic. My function is to provide Cynthia with information and advice regarding Pokémon and their training. If lost or stolen, I cannot be replaced." A voice came from the device.
Cynthia closed the hand-held device and pocketed it along with five other Pokéballs. She returned Gible to his Pokéball and then said goodbye and left.
Naruto stared at her back for some time and decided then and there "I too am going to become a trainer soon, well as soon as I can, that is."
Professor Rowan smiled at his words, "I'm sure you would, now are you ready for your journey?" he asked.
Naruto who was nearly jumping with joy, returned the smile and answered "I'm ready when you are."
Rowen didn't wasted any more time and said goodbye to his assistants while also giving them a last minute advice and instruction. He picked up his bag and made his way towards the car which was waiting for them outside. The Pokémon professor hopped in the car and Naruto quickly joined him on the second seat. Both said good bye to their friends, assistants (in Professor's case) and mother (in Naruto's case).
When the car finally zoomed out of view, did Nurse Joy stopped waving and left for the Pokémon Centre.
When they had been driving for at least few hours, Naruto finally asked, "Where are we going Uncle Rowan?"
Rowen kept his focus on the task at hand but answered "We are first going to Celestic Town, I have to collect some research documents and then to Hearthome city, where we will take the Plane to the Hoenn region."
The blonde was surprised to hear that, "I thought we were going to Kanto region because you wanted to study under Professor Oak."
Rowen then answered "Yes, we will go there, eventually. But first, we will make a few stops, along the way in each region, so I can meet different Professors and share knowledge among us." Rowen smiled and looked at the boy, "Don't worry Naruto, think of this as an opportunity, you will learn a lot about Pokémon of different regions and what the Professors of the region specializes in."
Naruto was excited at the prospect of learning more about Pokémon, but at the same time he like on-hands approach not reading from books. He was silent for the rest of the journey, while carefully holding the egg he was given and examining it. It was unlike any other egg he had ever seen, and while learning from Uncle Rowen he had seen a lot of them. His mother did said it was from the Kalos region, but Naruto took this as a challenge. He will learn all there is to learn about the egg and the Pokémon, even if he had to go to the region himself.
Naruto was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't noticed when the information about the Pokémon and the egg started flowing in his head, his eyes turned red for the moment but went unnoticed by both of them. The blonde was surprised when he realized that he already somehow knew whose egg, this was. He shook his head, he will think about this some other time, now was not the time, as they had already reached their destination.
Some Time Later, On the Way to Harthome City
Naruto was introduced to Professor Carolina, who he later learned was Cynthia's grandmother, and also the one who gave her Gible. She was very outspoken and cared for her grandmother very much and was very proud of her.
Professor Rowan didn't waste any time in getting the documents he wanted and then both the Professor and the blonde started off for their real journey. They were currently going to Hearthome city from where they would take the airplane to the Hoenn region.
After some hours of driving the finally arrived their destination. It was still few hours before sundown so Naruto decided to look around town a bit.
Hearthome City, Naruto knew was fifth largest city in the world but he was quite annoyed with all the noise and traffic and settled for a peaceful clearing. It was not far just a few minutes' walk away from the main road. He settled against a tree and picked out a sandwich his mother had packed for him. Suddenly the dark Pokémon appeared in front of him.
"So this is where you were." He stated.
Naruto was startled at first but quickly settled, knowing it was just Darkrai.
"Yeah, I wanted some peace and a break from all the travelling." He extended his other sandwich to the Pokémon to which he accepted.
They both were sitting in silence when they heard a loud noise coming from some distance and decided to check it out.
Several Zangoose were attacking a Chimchar. He was about to interfere when the small fire type activated his ability Blaze and charged a super-powered Flame Wheel, it took out almost all of them but two were still remaining and were growling at it. Chimchar was too tired to continue and was injured. The Zangoose was about to pounce at him when he shouted.
"Darkrai, Dark-pulse."
The dark type didn't know why but it compelled to the boy's command and fired the Dark pulse at the remaining normal type Pokémon, scaring them and making them run away.
Naruto then approached Chimchar and noticed how it flinched. He lifted his hand to show that he was not going to do anything to it and gently picked it up from the ground and ran to the nearest Pokémon Center. He was getting some weird looks from the people, who saw him carrying an injured Pokémon.
He reached Hearthome City Pokémon Center few minutes later and immediately approached Nurse Joy.
"Hey, Nurse Joy." He nearly shouted. "I found this Chimchar like this, can you please help him."
Nurse Joy took the Pokémon from his hand and without any delay, proceeded on to the hospital room. All she said to him was to "Wait here."
The boy was worried about the small fire type Pokémon. He waited for quite some time when Nurse Joy finally appeared, bringing Chimchar with him. When she was the boy she smiled and said. "Your Chimchar is fine, he wasn't injured much but was very tired after using Blaze. All you have to do now is take it easy for a day or two and he can finally begin training again." After hearing that Naruto sighed in relief, but the pink haired Nurse frowned "Aren't you too young to be a Pokémon Trainer though?" she asked.
Naruto chuckled and replied, "It's not really my Pokémon, as I am not a Trainer yet, but I found him at a state like this and immediately bring him to the Pokémon Center."
"So now what are you going do with him, oh dear nephew of mine." She asked playfully.
Naruto was surprised to hear that. "Your nephew? You know about me?"
The Nurse giggled at his expression. "Of course silly, all of us Joy know about you, and why wouldn't we, one of our sister has a son."
Naruto smiled at that, he didn't know why but the thought of his extended family really made him happy. Like it was what he craved all his life, but he knew he was never alone so these kinds of thought was really confusing at times.
"So, do all of the Nurse Joy know me, or just this region's?" he asked.
The Nurse was thoughtful for a moment before she answered. "I don't know." She admitted. "But I think all of the Sinnoh Region's Nurse Joy know you, you will have to find out for yourself, I guess." She gave him a real warm smile before asking "So what are you going to do with him?" pointing towards the Chimp Pokémon.
"I'm not a Pokémon Trainer yet, but I'm sure Uncle Rowan wouldn't mind him coming with us, if he really wants to." He looked directly at the Fire type Pokémon "Do you want to come with us?"
The small Pokémon was really happy that someone was asking him to come with them and accepted without much thought. Naruto pulled out a Pokéball from his backpack and captured Chimchar.
"Well now that's out of the way, I really need to get going or Uncle Rowan would be worried about me. It was nice meeting you Aunt Joy." He said.
The Nurse dropped to his height-level and hugged him, Naruto was taken aback for a moment before the returned the embrace.
"Bye." She said softly.
The boy nodded, smiled and left.
He was in deep thoughts, as he was returning to the Hotel, he were staying for the night with his Uncle. His was debating on the matter, whether or not he should tell him, his Uncle, about the Pokémon he had caught. In the end he decided against it, if he found out, well he would not find out until they reach Hoenn. He hoped.
