"Gah...that was a boring mission." Naruto sighed.

"It wasn't too bad." Kakashi replied.

Sakura bonked Naruto on the head "Be thankful on what you can get baka!"

"Naruto's right though." Sasuke said.

(AN: Sasuke didn't betray the village, Naruto knows rasengan, and this is pre shippuden)

Suddenly a vortex appeared and sucked them all in, leaving no trace.

In a Forest

"Ow... my head..." Naruto complained "Wha...? WAKE UP GUYS!"

Sakura, Sasuke and Kakashi started to wake up but when they looked at each other, shock was evident in their eyes.

"Why am I some kind of blue, yellow, and black cat thing?" Naruto shouted.

"Well I'm a green thing with a leaf on my head!" Sakura yelled.

"And I'm an orange lizard with fire on my tail!" Sasuke told them.

"How come Kakashi-sensei is still human!" Naruto growled.

"How should I know, but let's find a town and get some answers before we do anything." Kakashi commanded, they nodded.

They walked until they found a big white building, they met someone called Prof. Rowan. They explained their situation to him and he hypothesized that a legendary pokemon must have done this because some have power over time, space, and creation, shocking the ninja.

"Well, it seems you have a Shinx..." Rowan said pointing to Naruto. "A Chikorita..." Pointing at Sakura. "and a Charmander, hmm a shiny one too..." Pointing at Sasuke.

Kakashi was still confused. "Shiny?"

"It just means that his coloring is different than normal, that's all. Now then…Shinx is an electric type pokemon, Chikorita is a grass type and Charmander is a fire type..." Rowan explained then continued to tell Kakashi about the different types of pokemon and what they can do.

"Why don't you become a trainer? It will give you something to do until you find your way back." Rowan suggested.

"Sure." Kakashi nodded interested in battling.

"Great! Here's a pokedex, it's updated to the most recent information and heres how to use it..." Rowan explained again telling him about it. "And here are some pokeballs, you can buy more at a pokemart and you heal your Pokémon at a pokemon center. I'll also give you a special pack to store your things." Rowan smiled and went and gathered the items. "You can only hold 6 pokemon at a time so if you catch a 7th pokemon, it will be immediately and automatically sent to my laboratory, so catch as many as you wish, I have plenty of room for them all."

"Thank you." Kakashi smiled.

Kakashi then walked out after 'capturing' his genin in their own pokeballs and followed a path on the map Kakashi obtained from the prof.

Naruto, Sakura, and Sasuke released themselves so they could walk along side with their sensei. They all tried out their attacks that they suddenly knew and the attacks the learned before when they were still human. They found out that they all worked and grinned.

They continued along the path until they saw a white dog like pokemon with a horn on its head.

Kakashi whipped out his pokedex and scanned the pokemon.

'Absol, the Disaster pokemon...' the pokedex continued to give them information.

"I want to catch him, you guys up for a battle?" Kakashi smiled.

"Me! Me first!" Naruto jumped up and down. (Kakashi can only understand his students, he does not understand all Pokémon, but Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura can talk to Pokémon and translate for him)

"Maa Maa, calm down, of course you can go first." Kakashi eye-smiled.

"If he gets knocked out, I'm going next." Sasuke stated.

Sasuke and Sakura backed off to let Naruto fight.

"Naruto! Use quick attack with spark!" Kakashi ordered.

"Coming right up Kakashi-sensei!" Naruto grinned and swiftly charged the Absol.

Absol attempted to dodge but Naruto was too quick and was hit at his side, the spark that Naruto produced had packed a painful punch. Absol started to charge up a shadow ball and launched it at Naruto.

"Quick! Dodge that Naruto!" Kakashi called out. Naruto narrowly dodged the shadow ball. "Rasengan!"

"Yeah!" Naruto cheered and charged up a rasengan and plunged the ball of chakra into Absol's side again, making Absol cry out in pain and get blown back into a tree.

Kakashi threw a pokeball at Absol and a red light surrounded it and sucked him in. The ball wiggled twice then clicked, signalling it was caught. Kakashi then released Absol and used a super potion he had gotten from Rowan.

Absol stood up, fairly healed. "Absol..."

"Hmm...what should I name you? How about Obito?" Kakashi suggested.

"Ab! Absol!" Absol cheered, stating that he liked the name.

"Obito it is!" Kakashi smiled and returned Obito into his Pokeball.

The continued through the forest, seeing a lot of wild pokemon which Kakashi took note of registering each one in his pokedex. They came upon a clearing and Kakashi decided to train.

"Okay guys, we are going to train here for a week, I'm going to paint some gravity seals on you." Kakashi smiled and started to paint the seals on all of them. "Level 3!" Kakashi says and they all go under level 3 gravity.

Naruto, Obito, Sasuke, and Sakura have trouble moving.

"Good good, now give me 50 laps!" Kakashi grinned. They grumbled and got to work.

1 week later

The 4 pokemon improved dramatically through literal blood sweat and tears. Their physical capabilities improved greatly. Sasuke and Naruto even evolved to the next level. Absol and Sakura in turn learned new moves.

"That wasn't training...that was torture..." Sakura panted, the others could only nod.

They had past Jubilife City, but Kakashi didn't like the stuffy high tech town and left as soon as he could.

They trained for a few days after leaving.

"Well we are done our training...for now." Kakashi smiled and they groaned. "Well we'll visit a pokemon center before we challenge the gym leader. The nearest city is..." Kakashi paused while checking his map "Oreburgh City."

Too tired to walk beside Kakashi, was recalled into their pokeballs.

For the entire time he was in the forests, he saw a lot of starly and bidoof. He noticed the bidoof looked an awful lot like beavers, after a few days, he was frustrated at the lack of variety, he got lucky with Obito, but nothing seemed to be eye-catching to him. The bidoof and starly were EVERYWHERE, he swore that the forests were absolutely overpopulated with them. They may have been cute, but only starly seemed to have any true battle potential.

He swiftly leapt through the trees like a real ninja until he saw the city, in which he just ran and spotted the Pokémon center and entered it.

"Hello, how may I help you?" Nurse Joy asked Kakashi politely with a smile which Kakashi returned.

"Can you check up on my Pokémon please?" he asked.

"Of course! Just leave your pokeballs with me and I'll have them ready for you in a moment." She smiled as Kakashi took them from the belt they were clipped on to and handed them to her. She took them and disappeared into another room.

Kakashi shrugged and decided to sit down on the bench and read his book while thinking about some things. Hmm, whoever sent us here, obviously has a reason for doing so, but why turn my students into Pokémon? Maybe to prevent us from separating by keeping me human? Sakura is a grass type, Sasuke is Fire, Naruto is an electric type, and Obito is a dark type. So I definitely need a water type Pokémon, Sasuke can fly when he evolves again so that eliminates the real need for a flying type. Perhaps a rock or dragon type, I guess when I find the right Pokémon during my journey, I'll catch it, but I'm definitely getting more than just six, I need some variety in my team, especially for gym battles and tournaments.

Kakashi opened his pokedex and scrolled through the various Pokémon discovered. Hmm, Lucario, a fighting type, interesting… if I ever come across one, I'll try and catch it. Houndoom…another fire type, but unlike Sasuke, this one is much more agile on land. Hmm, I want all my Pokémon to be agile and speedy for dodging and mobility, I have no need for tanks like Venusaur and torterra, they are too slow and bulky for my style. Gyarados, this one despite its size, is fast in the water, then again, all water Pokémon are speedsters in water. But the only ones that catch my eye are Gyarados, buizel, and totadile.

Kakashi continued to scan the multitudes of Pokémon. Blaziken and sceptile are excellent Pokémon, if I can find them in this region, I'll go for them. Salamence, Skarmory , Pidgeot, Swellow, and Aerodactyl are good flying types. Garchomp…hmm. The eevee evolutions are all great, I should try for an eevee and propably get the espeon or glaceon for a psychic or ice Pokémon. So many choices… what the? Latios? That is one heck of a Pokémon, it's also apparently super rare too…sigh, I'll be lucky enough to even see one let alone catch one…

Kakashi was cut out of his musings when Nurse Joy's voice called out to him "Here are you're Pokémon sir! They are in tip top shape!"

"Thank you." Kakashi smiled and took back the pokeballs and clipped them on his belt. He walked out of the Pokémon center and went for the gym.

He walked inside and looked around. Rock type arena, I should use those boulders to my advantage…

"Hello? May I help you?" A man with a mining helmet asked.

"Yes, I'm here to challenge the Gym Leader." Kakashi replied.

"Oh! That's me! My name is Roark, and you are…?" Roark asked.

"My name is Kakashi." He smiled.

"Okay! I accept your challenge." He said and they stood at the opposite ends of the arena and a referee came out to judge.

"It's going to be a 3 on 3 battle, are you ready?" Roark asked.

"Ready as I'll ever be." Kakashi answered.

"ok! Go! Geodude!" Roark shouted and tossed a pokeball. Geodude appeared and Kakashi scanned it.

"Hmm, okay then, Sakura!" Kakashi called out and tossed Sakura's pokeball, allowing the chikorita to come out. "Kai!" he muttered.

"I'm ready Kakashi-sensei!" Sakura said and felt relieved when Kakashi released the gravity seals.

"Sakura! Petal Dance and Razor Leaf!" Kakashi ordered. Sakura did as she was told and swiftly used petal dance and razor leaf together.

"Dodge Geodude!" Roark yelled and Geodude tried to dodge, but Sakura's attack was too diverse to dodge and was hit repeatedly.

"Now! Use vine whip!" Kakashi commanded. Sakura unleashed her vines and lashed Geodude until it fainted.

"Geodude is unable to battle, the round goes to Kakashi!" The referee said and Geodude was returned to his pokeball.

"I choose you! Onix!" Roark said and unleashed Onix onto the field.

Kakashi narrowed his eyes at the large rock snake Pokémon. This is going to be a problem…

"Sakura! Leaf storm!" Kakashi shouted.

"What!" Roark gasped, too shocked to do anything other than see the small chikorita perform a powerful move.

Leaf storm did a huge amount of damage on Onix, but Roark could see that it was taxing on the chikorita as he watched it pant from exhaustion.

"Onix! Rock smash!" Roark called out and Onix swiftly executed his move.

Kakashi widened his eyes "Dodge Sakura!" But Sakura was tired from the powerful move and was hit when she tried to dodge.

"Chikorita is unable to battle, the second round goes to Roark!" The referee said.

"Kuso!" Kakashi cursed and returned Sakura into her Pokeball. "Your turn Sasuke!" and a charmeleon came onto the field.

"This thing won't stand in my way, I'm ready Kakashi-sensei." Sasuke smirked.

"Sasuke, use flamethrower." Kakashi ordered and Sasuke swiftly ran up and jumped towards the Onix and used Flamethrower right in its face, doing a large amount of damage and knocking it out.

"Onix is unable to battle, the round goes to Kakashi!" The ref announced.

"Onix Return! Rampardos! I choose you!" Roark shouted and a dinosaur like Pokémon appeared and Kakashi quickly scanned it.

"Sasuke, flame wheel now!" Kakashi commanded instantly and Sasuke unleashed a flame wheel.

"Dodge it Rampardos!" Roark yelled and Rampardos rapidly dodged.

Fast… Kakashi and Sasuke thought.

"Sasuke! Grand fireball now!" Kakashi shouted and Sasuke unleashed a massive fireball towards Rampardos, who tried to dodge at the command of its trainer, but the fireball was too wide and was engulfed in the flames. "Finish it with Iron Tail!"

Sasuke charged the charred Pokémon and brought down a powerful iron tail straight to the side of the face, sending Rampardos hurling into the wall knocked out.

"Rampardos is unable to battle! Kakashi wins!" The ref shouted.

Rampardos was returned to its pokeball and so was Sasuke. Roark went up to Kakashi and held out his hand which contained a coal badge. Kakashi smiled and took it and held out his hand for Roark to shake, which he gladly did. "Congratulations Kakashi that was an amazing battle." Roark grinned.

"Thank you Roark, well then, I better get going, bye." Kakashi waved and exited the gym to head back to the Pokémon center for healing.

After his Pokémon were healed he left for Eterna City for the next gym battle.