Naruto's

Pokémon Journey

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Chapter 1

Journey of a Thousand Miles...

In a vast and strange world there are creatures known as Pokémon. Pokémon, creatures used anywhere from battling to show ones strength, showing off the beauty of these creatures, or just as friends and playmates. For young trainers who are just starting out receive a starter Pokémon. A starter is a Pokémon who has already been tamed and is at low and acceptable level for fresh trainers. The age for a trainer to receive their first Pokémon and trainers license is thirteen, the age used to be ten, but in the Elena region they have the age standard set higher than the Kanto or Hoen regions. The age for Unova is sixteen so as you can see it's not that bad. Anyway back to the topic at hand.

Naruto Namikaze just turned thirteen and he is more than looking forward to starting his journey. "I'm going to be the best trainer their ever was." He declared aloud in his room. 'Just you wait dad, as soon as I'm ready I'm going to defeat you.' Naruto than began to picture the fight he would have with his father, the Elena Region champion, Minato Namikaze.

Naruto and his father are at a stadium in front of millions of faceless people, "All right old man, today is the day I take over as the new champion." He then held up a red on top white on bottom spherical device, a poke-ball if you will. He held it in his hand with his arm out stretched pointing at his father in a challenging pose. "All right, GO Groudon!" He shouted and threw the round device in the air, with a 'pop' the ball open to let out a large amount of bluish white light. Soon the light took form in the shape of a gigantic red and black bi-pedal dinosaur like creature. "Let's go Groudon, show them who the new champion is." With a roar from the creature known as Groudon, the battle was over, in Naruto's mind.

His father was now crying, "You have bested me my son," he started with a choke. "You are truly a champion."

It was at these words that the crowd began to chant his name.

Naruto

Naruto

Naruto

NARUTO!

Naruto was ripped from his thoughts at the very familiar scream of his name. He turned to see a slightly ticked off long red haired woman, with the same facial features as him, grayish blue eyes, narrowed eyebrows, and a scowl in place. Her figure is very slim for a woman her age. Her arms were folded, ruffling the dark green apron she wore over her light green pajama shirt and pants. The apron had many food smudges, indicating that she was cooking before she took notice of her son shouting his own name.

Naruto scratched the back of his blond spikey head, with a huge grin on his whisker marked face. "Sorry mom," he chuckled, "I guess I got a little carried away."

"Why are you in your clothes I laid out for tomorrow?" She demanded her features unchanged by the grin, except for the tapping of her foot.

"Well," Naruto started, "I'm just so excited about tomorrow I just can't sleep."

Kushina's features softened, he was just anxious about his journey how could she argue with that? Still she put her poker face on and proceeded with her scolding. "And why couldn't you just wear your pajamas instead of the clothes you're going to be travelling in?"

Naruto didn't have an answer for that, so instead he just hung his head and put his arms around his back. After muttering a 'Sorry' he started to get dressed for bed. As he grabbed his bright orange pajama pants and night shirt, Kushina left his room for him to get dressed.

As Naruto lay in bed he couldn't help but think about his imaginary fight with his father, sure he knows he won't win with just one Pokémon, especially with a legendary such as Groudon, but still he could dream. 'Just you wait dad, I'm going to get an awesome team of strong Pokémon, and when I do, I'm going to finally prove that I'm not just as strong as you,' he looked over at the picture of him and his dad when he was nine years old, 'but that I'm stronger.' With that he shut his eyes, and began to dream of his fight with his father.

The next day...

People would say that in the Elena region, the morning sun is a gorgeous sight to see. The one person who wouldn't know this, however, is currently sleeping through the morning sun. As well as the mid-morning sun. With a loud yawn that would rival that of a Snorlax. Naruto Namikaze woke up; still a little sleep sand in his eyes, his spiky blond hair was even spikier and messier. He looked around his room, average size with a bed, a desk with a computer, side table with an old alarm clock. This alarm clock had been his since he was six; it still had those old flip numbers to indicate what time it is. With age, however, the numbers tend to get stuck at certain times. This was the case when Naruto looked over at his device. It was set to go off at seven 'o clock, but the numbers read 6:39 A.M. He knew something was up, what with the morning sun being brighter than it should have been. To check his suspicions he did what he normally would do when the clock was stuck, he pounded it, and suddenly the numbers began to spin rapidly. The device finally stopped on the correct time, 10:29 A.M.

"CRAP"

He immediately sprinted out of bed, rushed around his room grabbing his socks and shoes. He didn't even register that he was still in his bright orange pajamas. He ran off toward Professor Sarutobi's lab, leaving a huge dust cloud behind him. He wasn't late; he was SUPER late, if he didn't get to the Pokémon lab now. No he didn't want to think about it, he just kept on running. He could see the lab off in the distance. It was very noticeable, with a huge red dome like top, a tall observation tower right next to it, and a white bottom. Instead of being square, like most buildings, the bottom was circular, and was roughly the size as half a football field. With the roof and white building itself, the whole looks a kin to a gigantic poke-ball. The lab was getting closer and closer now. It was only a matter of time, he just might make it. "Almost there, almo-

THUD

Naruto was cut short of his chant, by the sudden appearance of another person. He couldn't stop in time, so only manage to lessen the power of the collision. The two were sent to the ground with a loud bump, and a shout from both. "I'm sorry about tha- He cut himself off when he saw who it was. Actually I'm not sorry." He said folding his arms and turning his head away from the person.

The one he ran into was someone he knew and hated. Sasuke Uchiha, Naruto would recognize that black hair, style to look like a ducks back side, the cold onyx black eyes and that aura of superiority. He took notice of his traveling clothes. Black long sleeve shirt, white shorts and red and black shoes. "Whatever, loser." He made sure Naruto heard the 'loser,' in which he did. Naruto began to fume at that, as soon as he got up, he was walking over towards the black hair boy. An icy coldness in his blue eyes.

"Let's not fight, okay?" The nervous statement came from a green eyed, pink haired girl. Wearing a red sleeveless vest like shirt over a light pink one, a light pink mini-skirt over black bicycle shorts, that stopped four inches above her knees. Black almost knee high socks, and pink and black shoes. The scarf she wore was a hot pink color to sort of compliment her long pink hair that reached to the small of her back, Sakura Haruno. She was also laughing nervously, as well as holding her hands up trying to get them to stop before it was to get physical.

Naruto had immediately stopped after Sakura nervously uttered the statement. His tense body soon relaxed as he let his arms fall to his side. "You're right, sorry Sakura-Chan."

Sasuke smirked and chuckled, "Once a loser, always a loser," he looked at Naruto with amusement in his eyes, "so, idiot, you late for a slumber party?"

This caused Naruto to immediately get angry, "Shut up, asshole, once I get my Pokémon I'll kick your ass!" Naruto shouted the last part at his rival, he tends to cuss when he gets angry or riled up. Sasuke merely smirked as he walked by Naruto.

"Sorry, about that Naruto-Sempai, I gotta go I'll see you around." With that apology Sakura ran off to catch up with Sasuke. Naruto couldn't help but smile, he liked it when she called him sempai, but at the same time he doesn't. It's mostly because of whom his dad is that she and everyone else uses the formality. Most people call him that or Sama, he didn't like either really, because it wasn't earned. He's not some egotistical asshole, in his words, like Sasuke, who doesn't believe in earning a title. He couldn't think on that anymore. He had to get to Professor Sarutobi, so he can get his new Pokémon.

After entering the door he ran into one of the professor's aides, literally, Iruka Umino. Naruto tried to stop himself, but still manage to hit the person. "Sorry about that Iruka-san."

Iruka only smiled at the boy, while dusting off and straightening his lab coat. "It's alright, Naruto." Iruka waved it off, "so, what's the hurry?"

"Well," Naruto began to scratch the back of his head, a trait he got from his mother. "I wanted to get a starter from Professor Sarutobi."

Iruka nodded, with a thoughtful look on his face, he cupped his chin. "Well, you better hurry then."

Naruto's lateness once again dawned on him, with a rushed good-bye sent towards the assistant, Naruto ran to where the professor would be.

"Be careful, Naruto!" Iruka called after him.

Naruto waved as he kept on running and going around a corner.

Naruto was almost too where he was supposed to pick up a starter Pokémon. He could tell thanks to all the times he and his mom visited the ex-champion. The professor certainly was like a grandfather to Naruto. Unfortunately as he was reflecting on the past he didn't notice the purple clad girl he was about to run into.

THUD

"Ow, watch where you're going, idiot!" Shrieked a voice, "Oh, hi Naruto-kun."

Naruto recognized that voice though, when he got back to his feet. It was one Ino Yamanaka, wearing a purple zipper vest, over a black short sleeve shirt, also wearing a tight purple skirt over black shorts. Black socks and black and purple shoes were worn upon her feet. Her platinum blonde hair was in a long pony tail, while wearing a purple bandanna with a poke-ball design. She was blushing furiously under Naruto's gaze. Naruto always noticed how Ino is quick to show herself off by wearing tight clothes. He always thought tight clothes would be too restricting in a Pokémon battle.

He then looked away from the down blonde girl and took notice of his two longtime friends. One was Shikamaru Nara, wearing a gray hoodie and tan shorts, with white socks and gray sneakers. His hair was in a spikey pony tail, making his hair look like a pineapple. The other boy was Choji Akamichi; he was a portly boy who could always be seen eating. He wore a red button up shirt unbutton, over a white shirt with a Snorlax sleeping picture. Brown shorts and red and brown shoes. Unlike Shikamaru, he had a red clothed head band, like you would wear for tennis, with a Snorlax head on the front. The band kind of blended in with his red-orange hair.

"Hey Shika, hey Cho," Naruto greeted walking pass Ino to talk to his two best friends.

"Hey, who's going to help me up?" The blond girl asked annoyed.

The trio of boys simply ignored her. "Hey Naruto," Shikamaru said smiling to his friend; he then noticed the boys attire. "What's with the pajamas?"

Naruto looked down; a shock look appeared on his face. "Uh, I kinda overslept." He began to scratch his head and laugh sheepishly.

"Figures," Shikamaru sighed. Naruto simply hung his head in shame, muttering about stupid old alarm clocks. "So," he got Naruto's attention, "you going to get a starter?"

"Yeah," Naruto answered quickly, out of his depressing mood.

"Better hurry, I don't know if Professor Sarutobi has anymore." Choji finally spoke up.

"What?" Naruto asked a little too loudly.

"Geez watch the volume will ya, you're almost as loud as Ino." This got a 'Hey' from the blonde girl. "Yeah I think we might have gotten the last ones." Shikamaru continued ignoring the glare from Ino.

"Better hurry Naruto-kun, he might have one more." Ino said at an actual normal volume trying to lighten the boy's spirits. The 'kun' is because she did have crush and desire for the spikey haired blond. Mostly because of whom his father is. That's right Ino is superficial.

"See ya around guys." Naruto yelled after running past them.

"Bye Naruto-kun." Ino shouted to her crush.

Choji and Shikamaru merely waved to the boy, silently laughing at Ino's fan-girliness.

"Shut it!" She yelled to the two.

Naruto finally got to his destination, once there he was breathing hard and trying to catch his breath. He was also trying to request a Pokémon. "Starter *huff* poke*huff*mon, *huff**puff*please." After getting that out he fell to the ground, repeating the request over and over.

Professor Sarutobi smiled amusingly at the boy. The professor's attire was how it always was, a white button up shirt tucked into brown khakis, wearing brown loafers, and of course the signature lab coat. A curved smoking pipe in his mouth, he took hold of the pipe. "So you want a starter, eh?"

Naruto nodded still trying to catch his breath, but was shocked by the professor's next statement.

"I'm sorry but your too late, all my starters were taken." He put the pipe in his mouth and began to puff.

"What?" Naruto shouted upset with the results the man gave him. "Are you sure you don't have any starters?"

The professor took upon a thoughtful look, "Hmm." He then spoke with some good news. "I do have one Pokémon, he's stronger than a starter should be and not quite tamed yet."

"I'll take him!" Naruto shouted.

"Are you sure, he is quite the handful, even for me."

Naruto nodded his head a huge grin almost breaking his face, "I can handle anything." He said enthusiastically.

"Okay." He is not yet sure how the boy will handle the Pokémon he has in mind.

After he put his pipe down, the professor then went over to a machine that looked as though it recently had poke-balls in it. He pressed a blue button on the side of the machine and then with sparks and a white flash a poke-ball was in one of the slots. On the red half of the ball was a red and orange flame design. "Here you go Naruto, good luck." He handed Naruto the poke-ball and took a couple steps back.

The boy was confused at first, but soon shook it off. He looked at the poke-ball getting a good feeling about the Pokémon inside. "Come on out!" He shouted throwing the ball in the air. With a pop and a release of blue light, an oddly colored Vulpix appeared. He was a golden color while his tails, paws, and the tuff of hair on his head being more of a yellow orange. Naruto blinked and then kneeled down to the Vulpix's level. "What's wrong with him?" This seemed to be the wrong thing to ask, on the count that as soon as the words left his mouth. The Ember attack left the Vulpix's, successfully burning Naruto's face. "Gah!" Naruto fell over while clearing the soot off his face.

"It's a Shiny Pokémon, a very rare one in fact." The old professor stated.

The Vulpix seemed to laugh as it curled up and began to sleep. "Alright you, back in your ball." After Naruto recalled the Vulpix, it suddenly popped back out of the poke-ball.

"Interesting." The professor hummed. "It seems Vulpix likes to be outside of his ball."

"Guess so." Naruto answered staring at the fake sleeping Pokémon.

"So, what will you name him?" The professor looked towards Naruto.

"Uh, well I was planning on naming my starter Kurama." He said scratching his whiskered marked cheek. "So, I guess I'll call him Kurama."

The professor nodded as he went to his desk. He grabbed something and began to fiddle with it, once done he grabbed something else and then walked back over to Naruto and the Vulpix now known as Kurama. "Here you go." He said handing the objects to the blonde boy.

The first object was an orange rectangular device with a black poke-ball design near the bottom, and a white button in the middle of the ball. The screen was green and when activated a second screen slid from the back to the top the same color as the bottom. He noticed a picture of himself with a determined look along with basic info. Such as how many Pokémon obtained and seen both reading one. Info on said Pokémon like type, name, and nickname along with original trainer. As well as identifying how many badges the owner has obtained. The second object or rather, objects, was six regular poke-balls.

"The first thing you have is a poke-dex, or Dexter," The professor began to explain. "This is the newest model, it has several features, such as Trainer I.D. scanner, which will scan a trainer and give you the basics on said trainer's stats." Naruto ahh-ed at this, "the other objects are the standard poke-balls, be sure to use them well."

Naruto nodded, "Thanks Prof." He said using his nickname for the old trainer. "Come on Kurama let's go." Naruto started to walk off but then noticed that the Shiny Vulpix hasn't moved at all. "Come on Kurama let's go." Naruto picked up the Pokémon and began to carry him. Even though Kurama struggled, it couldn't get away so it just decided to go limp, which made it harder for Naruto to carry him. He then began to leave the lab.

Naruto was on his way home when he met up with his mother. "Mom?" Naruto was shocked to run into his mother. "What are you doing here?"

"Well," she started, "you left in such a rush you forgot to change into your traveling clothes."

The boy hung his head in shame, which caused Kurama to laugh at his humiliation. "Oh, who's this cutie?" Kushina gushed.

"Oh yeah," Naruto almost forgot to introduce his mom to Kurama. "Mom, this is Kurama," he held up the fox Pokémon. "Kurama this is my mom." Kurama leapt out of Naruto's looser grip and began to sniff the woman. "Watch out!" Naruto exclaimed when he saw his mom reaching out to pet the shiny Pokémon. Ignoring his warning she kept reaching to pet Kurama. When she did Naruto was shocked when the Vulpix didn't spit fire at her. Instead he purred and snuggled into the touch. "I guess he's okay then." Naruto said more to himself than his mom. However, when he went to pet Kurama, the little beast spat fire at the whiskered face of Naruto.

"He seems like such a sweetie." His mother cooed. Naruto mumbled a 'to you' as he got up from the ground. "Well, honey, I brought your clothes and I packed your bag to last 'til you get to Boulder City." She held up the items. "I also packed a survival guide, a map, a first aid kit just in case, a couple cook books, your sleeping bag, and I made sure to pack lots of Pokémon food."

"Thanks mom." He took the items from the woman, after making her turn, and made sure the coast was clear, he began to change. "'Kay you can turn around now." When Kushina turned she gasped, she swore he looked like a younger version of her husband. Naruto's attire consisted of a blue sleeveless turtleneck, with a dark orange button up shirt. A white zipper hoodie unzipped, with two blue stripes going down the sleeves, dark blue jeans and finally black and white sneakers.

"You look just like your father." She commented, which caused Naruto to look embarrassed.

"Thanks mom." He said scratching his head with a slight blush on his face.

"Oh, I almost forgot." She stated pulling an object out of her purse. She bent down towards Kurama again and began to put something around his neck. Naruto could see a black collar with a soothe bell and a name tag with the word 'Kurama' etched in white on the blue tag. She stood back up with a smile on her features. "There. Now you and your starter are ready to go."

"Thanks mom." Naruto said smiling towards his mother. Meanwhile Kurama is scratching at the new object around his neck. Slightly ticked and slightly calm at the sound the bell made.

Naruto then picks Kurama up, who isn't too happy about it, and begins to head out of Leaf Town. "Bye mom, see you on my birthday!" He shouts out as he heads for Dark Forest.

Dark Forest

Dark Forest is an extremely dense forest, one would get lost if they didn't know the way through, but luckily Naruto knows this forest like he knows his name. He's been through it many times when he would travel with his mom to visit his father. So he knew all the shortcuts and all the best places to camp. This is where he is headed so he can do some training with Kurama so they can be ready for the Boulder City battle. He just hopes that the Pokémon would listen to him at least for some training. How does Naruto know how to train Pokémon? Well his dad is the Pokémon champion and his mom is an ex trainer and coordinator as well. So he was bound to pick up a few things from them.

After finding a decent size clearing he set Kurama down, who seemed tired as he just curled up and went to sleep. He began to set up camp, laying out his sleeping bag and getting a fire started. Because another reason why it's called Dark Forest is that if it wasn't for the little sunlight you would think it was night time. So the fire is for a little more light and to keep warm on the account that it also gets cold in the Dark Forest.

Once the fire was set and everything was ready to go, Naruto decided to get some training done with Kurama. "Alright, Kurama, let's get some training done before lunch." The shinnies response was to yawn and readjust his laying position. Naruto's shoulders slumped and a pout found a way on his face. 'This is going to be troublesome.' He didn't even berate himself for sounding like Shikamaru. He sat down and began to get lunch for himself and his Pokémon.

After lunch, he tried to get the Pokémon's interest in training peeked, but it still did not want to train. 'What do I do about a stubborn Pokémon?' He could find no answer to the question, mostly because he has never heard of a Pokémon this stubborn before. He tried to poke the sleeping Pokémon, but all it did was spit fire at his face and went back to sleep.

Sure Naruto was upset, but he thought that if he could catch a Pokémon, maybe that would help entice Kurama's interest in training. With the plan set Naruto ventured out while carrying Kurama in his arms. Ignoring the protesting Pokémon, he kept an eye out for any possible teammates for Kurama. His eyes finally caught site of a Pidgey. He took out his poke-dex and scanned it, just to update it a bit; he already knew what a Pidgey was.

He set Kurama down and pointed at the other Pokémon, "Go! Kurama use Ember." It was more like Kurama used rest, on the account of that's what he was doing. "Come on Kurama get your lazy butt in gear." The Pokémon merely fake snored loudly to hint that he wasn't listening. "Garr, fine I'll do it myself." After those words he threw a small rock at the Pokémon, but all it did was to cause the Pidgey to fly away. "Darn it!"

He turned to head back to camp, but when he did he saw a Spearow looking around. 'Cool a Spearow that might come in handy.' Instead of a rock, this time he threw one of his poke-balls. Once the ball hit the Pokémon, it changed into a red light and was sucked into the spherical device. The ball began to twitch and twitch until...the Spearow busted out of the ball and flew away. "Darn, it was close too."

He was about to head back to camp, but he suddenly heard screeching when he turned, his eyes widened. He sees several Spearow flying towards his location with the one he tried to catch out in front. He screams and begins to run to look for shelter away from the furious Spearow. While running he runs past Kurama. "Kurama-run-its-a-flock-of-angry-Spearow!" He shouted a warning but it was to jumble up for anyone to hear.

Kurama heard the screeching sounds and looks to see several Spearow coming towards him. He begins to fire an Ember attack after Ember attack. He managed to take out a few but more seemed to take its place. He heard a louder deeper screech and turned to see a Fearow with a few more Spearow's coming to his location. He scowls and continues his volley of Ember attacks.

Naruto, hearing the sounds of battle, turns to see multiple Ember attacks coming from where Kurama was. He was on his way back to help his partner when he heard the deep loud screech of a Fearow. He saw the Fearow heading to where the battle was and knew that Kurama was in way over his head. He ran to Kurama as fast as he could so he wouldn't be alone. Unfortunately when he got there, that was also the same time the Fearow got there. "Kurama use Roar." The Pokémon ignored him and continued to launch his preferred attack. "Stop being stubborn, and listen to me I'm trying to save you."

Kurama gave him a disbelieving look, as well as taking his eyes off his opponents, so he didn't see the Razor wind heading right for him. "Look out!" Kurama turned to see the attack, but he couldn't act in time so he shut his eyes to bare the pain. When Kurama opened his eyes after feeling no pain, they immediately widened in shock. Naruto had taking the force of the attack for Kurama, he looked as though he was in pain but he said nothing except, "Hn, I guess I am a bad trainer, you okay Kurama?" He waited for no reply for he fainted from the shock of the attack.

"W-Whiskers!" Kurama called in shock, but only other Pokémon could really hear what the yip of its name really meant. 'He saved me.' Time seemed to freeze as Kurama was in thought. 'I did nothing but cause him trouble and he saved me.' He began to think of the short time he had with the only person to really give him any time and patience. Now he was alone again, he let the only one to show any kindness any signs that he actually cared about him... He couldn't even finish the thought. "I'm sorry I let you down Whiskers." He began to shed tears as the flock of Spearow's and one Fearow closes in on him

"Aww, how touching the week little kit misses his stupid human." The Fearow Cawed.

"He was not stupid!" Kurama shouted as he leapt to defend his trainer, he let out a Roar attack. The result was the flock all flying away scared of the loud attack.

Once they were gone Kurama went over to Naruto's face and began to mourn softly at the loss of his only friend. He wasn't always such a nuisance, but a few times before Naruto came along, he was always abandoned. Left behind because other trainers thought he was too weird cause of his color, or not able to find anyone to show kindness to him. The first one to come along to do so, he spits fire in his face, ignores his advice on how to get stronger, ignores his commands, and what does it get him? The only one to show him kindness to show that he cares is gone.

He suddenly hears a groan coming from beside him, when he opens his teary eyes, he sees Naruto getting up. His reaction was to pounce on him and began to lick his face.

Naruto, who had just gotten up from his black out, was shocked to see and feel Kurama's soft yet sandy tongue licking his face. He didn't know what to do; he thought he was dead or asleep. "I'm fine Kurama I'm fine." He said getting the Pokémon to get off him, and then he sees tears in the rare Vulpix's eyes. "Were you crying?" Kurama looked away and began to yip its name, as it rubbed its eyes with its front leg. Naruto laughed as he got up, a groan coming from his throat as he did so. His back was killing him, when went to feel, he felt a minor scratch on his back along with a slight tear in his clothing.

'It's not that bad at least.' He hears Kurama yipping at him and he looked to see a concern look on its face. "I'm fine buddy." He assured the Pokémon who seemed to yip happily. 'Boy his mood took a one eighty.' He shook away the thought, "Come on let's head back to camp." Surprisingly the Pokémon listened and began to follow him. 'Wow, I still don't know what happened, but I like the results.'

Their camp

Naruto groaned as he wrapped the bandages around his torso while talking to his mom on the XTranceiver, which she had given him the other day for his journey. "I'm fine mom; it's just a minor scratch."

"Are you sure?" His mom asked worried for her little boy.

"Yes mom, I'm fine, I just need some new clothes."

"Okay, I'll have a delivery man meet you in the nearest poke-mart with some."

"Thanks mom I'll talk to you later, bye." After her 'Bye sweetie' Naruto turned off the device and put the dark orange sleep shirt on from earlier that day. He could wear it until he got to Boulder City poke-mart and got his extra clothes from his mom. He then noticed Kurama giving the XTranceiver a few sniffs, and a strange look. "This is an XTranceiver, I can use it to talk to my mom, or Professor Sarutobi, or any of my other friends who have one." Kurama still gave it a few strange looks before curling up next to Naruto's sleeping bag. Naruto began to scratch behind his ear softly getting a soft purring sound from the shiny.

As Naruto laid there he began to tell Kurama about himself, his dad, his friends, and his dream. He didn't know if the Vulpix was listening, but he still kept going. Although Kurama was listening, even though he had his eyes closed, he was still paying attention to what the boy had to say. 'I swear I will never ignore you again Whiskers.' When he heard Naruto's ambition to get a team of Pokémon and train them to be the strongest ever, he couldn't help but smirk. "I'll help if I can, Naruto." Soon they both fell asleep.

Hey Naruto here, oh, it seems that next time I get to catch some more pokemon. What's that Kurama a battle where? Oh boy sure cant wait, check back next time to see the continuation of my pokemon journey. Chapter 2 Welcome to the Team, oh I can't wait to see what happens next.

(A/N:Hey 2shadowwriter2 here, how did you like it? Good? Bad? Let me know. This is just a spare time type thing, I'm trying to think up new ideas for some of my original work, and a friend of mine told me to work on my grammar. So let me know if i made any errors, I tried to catch some myself before posting, but i can over look somethings. Well try not to flame I'm new to writing fanfiction so I don't really know the rules all that well. Anyway there is a challange on my profile, check it out and see if it something you would like. well ttfn, ta ta for now.)