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Notes: (Crossover, could be a crack!fic if you want) Here there be Naruto characters and Pokémon monsters! This is a collection of shorts which follows "A Wild Tomboy Appeared!". I have three pieces in mind so far (as the title implies, all are centered around fishing) and they all roughly happen in chronological order. If I come up with more and they happen out of order, they will be labeled accordingly.

If you're ever confused on the order that any stories in this series/fused universe should be read, just check out my profile! Everything is listed in order in my bio.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Fish Tail 1:
Lightning on the Line

Minato found it a paradox that loud, energetic Kushina Uzumaki could love fishing so much. Fishing was an activity that required a great deal of patience and sitting still and quiet for long stretches of time. Kushina was a tomboy and always in motion, always talking, always doing something. And yet she would fish…a lot.

Whenever they came to a stop near a body of water, she would settle herself down by it for a few hours a day and fish with her rod. Minato found himself looking forward to when she went fishing as it was the only time she shut up for more than five minutes at a time. So he did his best to make sure that they always camped out by some lake or stream or pond so that she could fish.

He'd resigned himself to the fact that he wouldn't be rid of the rowdy girl until she was good and ready to leave him. After their initial meeting on the way to the seashore, she just kept making excuses to follow him. Once he'd tried to ditch her by leaving the pokémon center early after an overnight stay without telling her, and she'd tracked him down and hit him, yelling at him at how mean it was to leave a buddy behind. Minato had not been aware that they were "buddies" but to avoid being hit again he didn't bother trying to lose her anymore.

Currently, the red head was fishing in a deep river, her body relaxed and calm as her rod dangled in her hands. Kiroi, his pikachu, napped by her side, while her kabuto crouched on her other side. Minato gratefully drank in the quiet while Hana, his bulbasaur basked in the warm sunshine.

He really didn't see why his pikachu liked the girl so much. A few nice scratches, a few little treats, and the yellow electric mouse seemed to be nearly as devoted to her as it was to him. Kushina declared the reason that she and Kiroi got along so well was that it was a "girl thing" and perhaps it was.

Minato laid back on the grassy ground and stared up at the blue sky as he thought. He had three badges already and Silk Town seemed like a good place to go to get a fourth badge. But before then, he wanted to acquire a few more pokémon.

In addition to his bulbasaur and pikachu, he had a poliwag and had recently captured a murkrow. That left him with two slots to fill at least. Considering that the gym in Silk Town was supposedly a bug-based gym, it seemed to be a good idea to get a fire-type to back up his flying-type murkrow.

I'd like a vulpix… Or a ponyta…that'd be even better. I could ride a ponyta once I train it enough so that I don't have to walk everywhere.

Once he triumphed in Silk Town, he figured he'd seek out one more badge before heading home. He wanted to have a strong experienced team when he went back to Myouboku Town and challenged his uncle for the Toad badge. Losing to his uncle would be a thousand times more embarrassing than losing to some gym leader that he didn't know.

Minato closed his eyes and started to doze off…

"Hee! I got something!"

The tomboy's shout jolted him fully awake. He sat up to watch her struggle with whatever was on the end of her fishing line. She tugged on the rod, periodically reeling in some of the line, dragging whatever water creature she'd snagged forcibly to the surface. With one final yank, she pulled something free of the water and flipped it behind her on the grass.

The pokémon she hooked most often when fishing were magikarp. She would then send out her own magikarp, Tsunami, to battle the other wimpy fish pokémon to build her experience so that she would become a fearsome gyarados. Other times she'd catch goldeen, barboach, shellder, clamperl, or krabby, and would send either her totodile or her kabuto to fight them. A few times she'd even caught ordinary fish, and did a lot of cursing at their uselessness as she threw them back.

He had yet to see her capture anything in a pokéball that she had fished up.

But what she pulled from the river was not a magikarp, a goldeen, a barboach, a shellder, a clamperl, or a krabby. It was a small blue thing the shape of a squashed ball, with two little fins on its rear and a little fin on each side. Its eyes were large and yellow with odd X-shaped pupils that gave it the appearance of a dead cartoon fish. Two long, thin, fleshy antennae grew out of its back with heavy, yellow teardrop shapes on the ends that seemed to glow.

Kushina stared at it for a moment, and then squealed in delight. "Ah, I want it! Kiroi!" She turned to the pikachu. "Pretty please help me!"

Kiroi eagerly agreed, and Minato's shoulders slumped.

Pikachu thief…

"Give it a thunder wave!" the girl instructed and the pikachu obeyed.

However, instead of the burst of static paralyzing the fish, it didn't seem to have any effect at all. If anything, the glowing tips of its antennae glowed a bit brighter. Minato pulled out his pokédex and did some consulting while Kushina had Kiroi try the attack a few more times with no better success.

"Chinchou," he muttered as he ran through the entry. "A dual water and electric type…" …Which is probably why she wants it. "…its special ability is…oh." Minato snapped the device shut and called out to his pikachu. "Kiroi, stop! You can't win that way!"

"What?" Kushina shouted back as Kiroi backed off, looking a bit dejected. "Why?"

"Its special ability is volt absorb," he told her.

She stared blankly back at him. "And that means…?"

"It means," he sighed, "that electric attacks don't reduce its health any; instead they restore its health. Hitting it with anything electric only makes it stronger."

"Oh." She turned hopefully to his bulbasaur. "Hana, would you help me?"

Hana, at least, looked up at him for permission, which was more than Kiroi had done. Minato glanced over at Kushina who, for a girl who normally looked so boyish, was giving him a very effective pleading pout. With a sigh, he waved his go-ahead and Hana trotted towards the odd electric fish, which had spat out the hook from the rod and was slowly crawling back towards the water and escape.

"Okay, Hana," Kushina grinned. "Give it a leech seed!"

The bulbasaur fired a single seed from the plant bulb on her back at the fish. The seed dug into the fish's smooth skin and then sprouted a vine-y plant that quickly covered half the chinchou and started sapping its strength. The strange electric fish squeaked in alarm, but couldn't get the plant off, or hit the more agile bulbasaur, no matter how much it flailed.

"Alright," the tomboy said as the chinchou tired. "Hana, give it a good stun spore and we should be done!"

Hana obligingly sprayed a glittering, brownish cloud of powder from her bulb and onto the fish. The chinchou's weak struggled slowed even further, and then stopped as the spores took full effect. And then Kushina dug an empty pokéball from her disaster of a bag and made her throw.

As soon as the red light went out, signaling a successful capture, she was celebrating…loudly.

"Yeah! Score!" she yelled and scooped the sphere up to do an impromptu little dance. "Gotcha! Thanks Kiroi! Thanks Hana!" She picked up her kabuto and spun around a bit before glancing over her shoulder at Minato. "And thank you, too, Namikaze."

"You're welcome," he sighed.

Kushina went about celebrating a bit more as she released her newly-caught pokémon and went about healing it. First the leech seed came off, then she had her kabuto gently rinse the stun spore off, and then she persuaded Kiroi to give it a jolt of electricity so that it could recover its strength. Then she sat down on the grass and let out her totodile and magikarp so that they could meet their new friend.

"…I think I'll call you Hikari," she decided as she cooed over the chinchou in her lap. "That means 'light' and those glowy things on your head make light, right? Yeah. You'll do great with us—you can defend everyone against electric pokémon! And…oh, I got it! You'll be great paired with Kiroi in a double battle! I can totally see it now! You can protect her against rock and ground types by drowning them! And what water pokémon can't learn some kind of ice attack? It'll be awesome!"

The blonde, twelve-year-old boy flopped backwards onto the grass and felt his heart sink. Listening to her go on about future double battles with his pokémon only reinforced the fact that she wasn't going anywhere. He was never going to escape the clutches of the loud, crazy tomboy.

I'm doomed…