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Okay! This chapter is comin at you fast, since I don't have the ability to post as soon as I finish a chapter. Anyway~ Enjoy the chapter.
Naruto payed attention to his surroundings when he and his team exited the village. It wasn't so much that it would be dangerous, them not only being ninja, but having pokemon, but he wanted to memorize the trails they took. They would see the occasional trainer, and Naruto took every chance he could to challenge them and really work his Beldum and Vulpix. His teammates and Jounin sensei had been surprised at first, to learn that he had not one, but two humanoid pokemon, but once they met them both, they quickly got over it, though Droite did gush a bit over Vulpix. Naruto was happy to say that Vulpix had gone up one more level, making her level 10 now, while Beldum had gone up two, being used in more battles, making it level 7.
Yeager took them into a clearing for lunch soon, Naruto helping by offering to cook for the group, as it seemed that even though they had been on the road previously, none of them knew how to cook. He had seen Droite try to offer help, only to be pulled back and restrained, getting a sweatdrop from Naruto. The blonde released his pokemon, Beldum attaching itself to a tree, Swadloon hid among a tree, making a dress from various leaves she retrieved from the tree. Vulpix simply contented to play with Droite, a game of tag, with Droite using the game to let the girl practice dodging around the trees. Naruto liked it, it taught the Vulpix to think on her toes because when Droite was it, the girl would draw her sword and attack the humanoid pokemon.
Naruto continued cooking, making a small meal of rice and fish with miso and tea. It wasn't much, but apparently his new team had forgotten to restock when they returned to the village to get him. They would be restocking in Flare City, the same city Naruto would be going for his first ever gym badge at. "Ne, Yeager-sensei, what badges do Gauche and Droite have?" The blond boy asked, getting his sensei's attention. "Zey have ze Boulder Badge, ze Cascade Badge, and ze Bolt Badge. I plan to have you get the same ones." Naruto nodded, "The Boulder Badge shouldn't be to hard to get, I think I'm set with Swadloon, same with the Cascade Badge, though I would like to capture a Ground type for my Bolt Badge."
Yeager silently applauded Naruto for this thinking, before clapping his hands, "Gauche, Droite, bring out your pokemon, it would be impolite to not allow them to share the food our new comrade is preparing for us." The two girls snapped a salute, "Haaai!" They both pulled three pokeballs from their belts, releasing their contents. Droite had a Nidorina, a shiny Minun, and a Krokorok. Gauche had a Nidorino, a Plusle, and also a Krokorok. This made Naruto blink, looking between the girls and their pokemon, before smiling and letting out a small chuckle. Yeager held his own pokeballs, releasing them to reveal a full team of six. He had a Krookodile, a Houndoom, a Shiftry, a Hydreigon, a Crawdaunt, and a Spiritomb. Naruto was awed by the line up, though he surprised his team when he made a solid clone to finish making the meal. Yeager, Gauche, and Droite inspected it while Naruto inspected their pokemon.
The trio turned, expecting some form of negative result to Naruto's actions, but were again completely surprised to find Naruto completely at home among the pokemon, seemingly giving them all short check ups, if the inspecting he was giving them all was anything to go by. "Naruto-san, you are a pokemon doctor?" Naruto looked back at his team, shaking his head and patting Yeagers Houndoom on the head. "Grew up with pokemon... They were all I had, so I learned to care for them." His own pokemon seemed to feel left out, seeing him do check ups on the other pokemon, and even his shy Swadloon came down from her tree to get one, though she hid behind him, making it abit difficult. The clone soon broke the mood, calling everyone for food, for which they were all greatful, both that the subject was changed, and that they had a good meal once more that didn't come from a store bought box lunch.
Droite played with her pokemon quietly as they ate, being told multiple times by Gauche to stop and actually eat. Naruto had to deal with his Vulpix showing her Naughty nature by seating herself in his lap for the duration of the meal, his Swadloon opting to eat up in a tree, his Beldum... Well, his Beldum ate whatever it did, but had so far only come down for a check up from Naruto. It was in fine health, and seemed to have a calm nature. His Swadloon obviously had a timid nature. Naruto quickly cleaned up when everyone was finished, having Yeagers Crawdaunt help him with cleaning them, which still baffled his team at how well he handled even higher level pokemon.
They all recalled their pokemon, except Naruto kept his Beldum out so he could continue training it. He wanted it to at least catch up with his Vulpix, since the growth rate for the psychic type seemed to be a bit slow. He used Beldum in every other fight from then till they finally arrived at Flare City, and not just on trainers, there had been a few wild pokemon as well. Ofcourse, being the kind heart he was, he didn't leave any of them simply passed out in the path or whatnot, he made sure to move them somewhere safe till they could heal. When finally they arrived, Naruto stretched, his Beldum floating beside him, his team simply glad to finally be off the road again. Traveling at a civilians pace was peaceful, but it often times got boring.
"Okay, we will split up here. Naruto-kun, I want you to have the Boulder Badge by the time we meet back up again, ja?" Naruto nodded, giving a small bow and rushing off, not even throwing down a smokebomb. His Beldum followed him, giving an eyesmile at the fast pace. Yeager, Gauche, and Droite all looked at eachother, before disappearing ninja style, leaving no indication that they had ever been there. They were off to watch Naruto from the shadows, see how he dealt with things. They were surprised by the blond boy, yet again, when instead of heading straight for the gym for an easy win with his nimble, high level Swadloon, he went straight for a small clearing right outside the city.
"Okay, Beldum, I want you to try and learn Iron Head, and Iron Defense. If you can, I will use you in my battle against the gym leader here." The pokemon responded happily, vibrating happily, sending out soft sounds. "Now, I don't know much about the moves... But you are supposed to be smart, do you think you can try Iron Defense first? Maybe that will give you more knowledge to learn Iron Head." The Beldum bobbed up and down, eye smiling as it floated. It sank to the ground, attaching itself, seeming to be in thought. Naruto got the impression of a person sitting on the ground with their legs crossed and their head in their hands. Naruto sat down right next to his pokemon, going into thought as well, though he doubted he would be smarter than the phsychic/steel pokemon next to him. It took them a few hours, but between both of their thoughts, and Naruto's encouragement, Beldum finally managed to learn Iron Defense. Naruto estatically hugged his pokemon, both looking really happy at the moment. "Okay. Now that you have that down, try to get Iron Head. We don't have much time."
Beldum bobbed in acknowledgement, having gone up a level simply from learning a new move, making him level 8. Naruto encouraged his pokemon, even when it mistakenly used Iron Defense instead of Iron Head a few times. The boy simply told his pokemon to shake off the failure and try again. Soon, even though the sun was beginning to set, Naruto's Beldum finally managed to learn Iron Head. Naruto was estatic, but didn't have time to celebrate, simply grabbing his pokemon and running off towards the gym. He made it in time to see a woman coming out of the gym and locking it up. She was tall, about six feet, with long white hair and amber eyes. She had on an extra large black shirt with a pair of cargo pants and dark brown boots.
Naruto ran up, his Beldum floating beside him. "Excuse me, why are you locking up the gym?" The woman turned and looked at him, giving the young Genin a once over. "It's closing time kid. Why? You looking to challenge me?" Naruto blinked, before realization hit him, "Y-You're the gym leader?" The look the woman gave him made him take a step back, "Is there a problem with that?" Naruto shook his head vigorously, "No no! I just wanted to challenge the gym, I didn't know who the gym leader is." He held his arms up defensively. "I apologize if I offended you..." The woman grinned, looking Naruto over again. "My name is Iwako. I stand for rock hard determination! If you want to challenge me, I think I can squeeze you in for a battle. But you'll have to do something for me afterwards, and if you try to rescind on the deal, I'll hunt you down till I get what I want, and I won't be gentle about it." Naruto gulped, but nodded, eager to earn his first badge.
Iwako grinned and motioned for Naruto to follow her, leading him out towards the edge of the city, towards the clearing Naruto had actually been using for training. "This will be a three on three battle. Just like in the gym, I won't be able to switch pokemon during the battle, but you will. Are you ready to begin?" Naruto nodded, motioning his Beldum onto the field. Iwako pulled out a ball, sending out a Roggenrola to the field, watching as it faced off against the Beldum. Naruto started off, "Beldum, Iron Defense. And keep it up!" The pokemon complied, glowing as he used the move, its defence skyrocketing. "Roggenrola, don't let it continue, quickly use Smack Down!" The rock type complied, shooting a rock seemingly from its own body at the glowing Beldum. Due to the move being relatively new to the pokemon, it wasn't able to dodge, but its defense had risen so much that the already not very effective attack didn't do very much damage at all.
"That's good! Now Beldum, use Iron Head!" The pokemon stopped glowing, though now its head started doing so, before it rocketed itself towards Roggenrola. The pokemon dodged the first go, but couldn't dodge the second one. Beldum was a surprisingly speedy pokemon, and made fairly quick work of Iwako's Roggenrola. She returned it and grinned, sending out her second pokemon, a Geodude. "Go Geodude! Use Defense Curl, then follow it up with Rollout!" As soon as the Geodude appeared, it glowed and rolled into itself. It went right from the defensive move into a Rollout. Beldum took the attack in stride, the first go not being very strong. The pokemon turned and started coming in for a second go. "Iron Head again! Keep it up Beldum!" Naruto called out.
Beldum charged at Geodude, their attacks meeting head on, creating an explosion that sent both pokemon flying away from eachother. Both pokemon were knocked out, their eyes like little swirlies. Iwako laughed hartily and returned her pokemon, Naruto doing the same with his one. Iwako crossed her arms, holding out her last pokeball. "Last one kid. Make your next one count!" Naruto smiled, holding up his next pokeball, the one holding his Swadloon. "Let's do this." He eyesmiled, before tossing his ball towards the middle of the field. "Go Swadloon!" Iwako threw her own ball, "Go Aron!"
Both pokemon materialized from their pokeballs, taking human forms, Naruto's Swadloon hadn't changed in look, though she had added a pair of shin and forearm guards made of leaves. Iwako's Aron came out, a girl with a metal helmet that covered most of her face, short silver hair barely visible, wearing grey shorts and a tube top, over which she had a breast plate, gauntlets, faulds, pauldrons, grieves, and boots. Naruto sweated a little, seeing as the humanoid was also a steel type, but hopefully that wouldn't cancel out to much damage from his Swadloon. "Quick, Swadloon use Seed Bomb!" Iwako grinned, "Aron use Metal Claw! Swipe those seeds from the sky!" Both girls burst into motion, Swadloon doing her best to do good for her new master. He had treated her well, much better than Mizuki, and she wanted to repay him by helping him earn his first gym badge.
She used the attack ordered, but as Iwako had ordered hers, the Aron girl simply used her attack to deflect Swadloons Seed Bombs. Naruto grit his teeth a bit, before smiling, "Swadloon, use Seed Bomb again, but this time us Air Slash to give them some speed!" It was risky, because the Air Slash could just cause the seeds to detonate prematurely. He was willing to risk it though, and his risk paid off, as his tactic had an unexpected effect. When the Seed Bomb attack flew towards Aron, as soon as they were close enough Swadloon would use Air Slash, speeding them up and giving a bit more force behind them. They blew up just before they hit the Arons Metal Claw attacks, and Naruto grinned. "Alright. Now get in close and give her multiple Air Slashes." Swadloon gave a small smile and complied, pulling up a leaf face mask she had crafted for herself.
Her higher level paid off for her in her new endeaver, her speed outclassing the Aron, who was slow in all her armor. All Swadloons air slashes chipped away at the girls health, though she gave no outward appearance of being hurt. "Aron, use Headbutt! Don't let her take you down so easily!" The girl complied, lowering her head a bit, and on Swadloons next swoop in, she dashed surprisingly fast, catching Swadloon off guard with the attack. Swadloon flinched, taking damage from the attack and being unable to stop it. Aron kept up the attack, headbutting her into a tree before moving away, leaving Swadloon clutching her stomach in pain, a bit of spittle falling from her lips. "I believe in you Swadloon! Don't give up! Use Giga Drain!" Swadloon looked at her trainer, before smiling under her leaf face mask, and dashing a bit wobbly at the Aron girl, wrapping her arms around the steel types midsection.
Swadloon glowed, and Aron cried out in pain, finally, as her health was syphoned off to heal Swadloon. Said pokemon girl jumped away after her attack finished, her stomach looking much better, a bruise having not had time to form. Then, without any incentive from Naruto, she took some initiative and used Seed Bomb again, pelting the weakened Aron even more. "Aron No! Use Head Smash!" Naruto's eyes widened, the Aron glaring at Swadloon, helmet glowing brightly as she rushed at the girl. "Swadloon, use Seed Bomb again!" Both girls used their attacks, Swadloon trying to avoid the Aron while pelting her with Seed Bomb. It was futile however, and Aron smashed into Swadloon with its attack, again ramming her into, but then through, a tree. Both girls fell to exhaustion, fatigue, and pain.
Naruto and Iwako quickly recalled their pokemon, before Iwako gave a smile, "Well kid, it seems you have quite a team. And you have one left, so that means you win. Congradulations, you earned yourself a Boulder Badge." She reached into one of the pockets in her cargo pants, pulling out the small badge for Naruto. "With this, higher level pokemon will obey you, level 30, even those you get in trades. Or that's what I'd say, but you seem to have a way with pokemon already. That Swadloon of yours was way higher level than my Aron. Maybe some day I'll ask for a rematch, and at that time, I'll use stronger pokemon. This is just the set I use for gym battles with the kids that come from Hi no Kuni. Anyone coming from somewhere else, chances are they'll be strong enough already that I don't need to tone it down."
Iwako walked forward, taking Naruto's hand and placing his new badge in it. "Here you go kid. Now, it's night time, so I think I'll collect on that favor you owe me for working after hours." She gave a grin and pulled Naruto closer, nestling his face between her clothed breasts. Naruto blushed heavily, but didn't fight it, allowing the woman to drag him off to her house. That night was really one to remember, and Naruto learned a neat new phrase too. Old enough to kill in the name of your village, old enough to do everything else that comes with being an adult.
Yeager, Gauche, and Droite came out of the shadows as Iwako was dragging Naruto off. Droite was blushing, Gauche had a small scowl on her face, and Yeager had the same infuriating smile on his face as usual (You know which one I'm talking about, ye who play Tales of Vesperia). "Oh well, it seems we shall have to wait until tomorrow to congradulate our new comrad on his victory, ja? Now mein students, let us retire for the night, ja?" Gauche and Droite saluted, before all three left in a ninja fashion, heading towards the pokemon center for the night. They gave discounts to trainers, though Naruto wouldn't need it at the moment, being where he was.
The next morning, Naruto met his three team members at the exit of Flare Town, seated in the lap of the gym leader while they waited. He had a blush on his face and he was refusing to make eye contact with anyone at the moment, but he seemed to be glowing. It could have just been them, but then again, they knew what the two before them had done the night before. They approached, and Naruto stood up, though for some reason both him and the gym leader had a limp. Yeager smiled, "Vell now, it seems that you two had some fun last night, ja?" Narutos face turned scarlet, and he stole a glance at Iwako.
Naruto was eager to get going, though he did get Iwakos number.
Once they were on the road, Droite and Yeager started to tease the boy mercilessly. They were coming up on their next destination, a dense part of Konohas forest that was actually named the Forest of Fire. It was named such because it seemed like it was always Autumn there, and the leaves were all the colors of fire. It was famous for its dual type pokemon. Someone was even said to have found a Larvesta in the forest. Naruto finally got his teammate and sensei to stop teasing him, doing so by getting Gauche to make them stop.
When they came upon their destination, Naruto was in awe over such a beautiful place, immediately rushing in like a kid in a candy store. His team calmly walked in after him, knowing it wouldn't be that hard to find the boy, for they simply had to follow the sound of battling. And indeed, they caught up with the boy to find him winning against a bug catcher and his Kakuna. Vulpix really was getting stronger already, and that Beldum of his was pretty strong too. Naruto saw his team coming and waved at them, the bug catcher walking off. "Hey, did you see my win?" They nodded, "You're pokemon are all fairly high level Naruto. However, I believe they should be stronger. Would you permit me to borrow your Beldum for a while? I promise to have it back as a Metang by the time I get back." Naruto sweated a bit, the feel Yeager was giving off at the moment making him fear for his pokemon.
However, he did want his team to be strong, so he handed his sensei the ball holding the pokemon. "Very good. Team, continue into ze forest. Stay here for the day, and tomorrow, I will return with Naruto-kuns pokemon." Gauche and Droite nodded, and Yeager disappeared. They turned to Naruto then and looked at him, making the boy sweat again, "Okay Naruto, time for some training of your own." They both shared an evil grin, and Naruto took a step back, before taking off running in the opposite direction. Gauche and Droite chased after him, drawing their swords and attacking him at random, but in sync with eachother. Naruto was struggling to keep up, since they were more experienced than him.
When finally they cornered him, they came at him from different paths. "Ready Droite?" The green haired girl nodded to her red headed partners question. They held their swords infront of themselves, and Naruto noticed with fear that the area had darkened. "In an instant, we echo and our hearts meet." Both girls spoke out, eyes closed, before their eyes snapped open, and they pulled their arms back. "Impact Cross!" They moved. Gauche and Droite flew across the clearing, meeting at Narutos body while creating a path of energy behind them, the shape they made was a giant cross. Naruto was caught in the middle of the attack, getting hurt when they passed him with their swords. And then the energy trail exploded.
"UGH!"
Naruto collapsed, and Droite high fived Gauche, both girls smiling devilishly. However, they did help him out, pulling the boy to rest against a tree. "Don't worry Naruto, what doesn't kill you, will no doubt make you stronger. And besides, we know this won't kill you." Naruto just groaned, not moving from where the two girls had dragged him. "How does beating me up count as training again?" He asked finally, "It teaches you not to stop at dead ends. You're a ninja damnit, not some civilian, when you come to a place that would be a civilians dead end, you ninja your way out. We never truly had you cornered, you're a ninja, you could have ran up the damn tree!" Spoke Gauche, before Droite came to a realization, whispering to Gauche.
Both girls looked at Naruto, who had a look of contemplation on his face. "You don't know that exercise do you." It was more a statement than a question. Naruto shook his head, looking down again. Gauche came over and pulled him up, dusting the boy off. "Okay, we'll teach it to you, these trees are perfect." Droite patted one, feeling the sturdyness of the tree. "Start slow, we're not in any hurry. If you put to much chakra, you'll be repelled from the tree, but if you put to little you'll slide right off. The key to this excersize is finding the right amount, and using it to stick yourself to he tree firmly. Now, place one foot on the tree, and practice getting the right amount. You will make it to the top of the tree by tomorrow, or you'll make us mad."
Naruto gulped as he started, focusing only on his foot on the tree, though the first few times he blasted himself away from the tree anyway. It wasn't his fault, he had way to much chakra. Slowly though, he managed to get to the point where he didn't put enough chakra and his foot didn't stick, and by the time he got to just the right amount of chakra, Gauche and Droite had given him all the tips they knew, and it was already night time. The two girls diligently stayed up to supervise his training, something Naruto greatly appreciated. By the time the sun was rising, both girls had smiles on their faces as Naruto finally made it to the top of the tree. Naruto was panting, as he had used quite a bit of chakra, but he was happy, because he had been tought a new chakra control exercise.
Now he was able to catch a few hours of rest along with Gauche and Droite, all three laying next to eachother, with Naruto in the middle. This is how Yeager found them, and he gave a small smile before removing a camera from seemingly nowhere, snapping a picture of the trio. They all woke up to the flash of the camera, only to see Yeager putting away a camera. They blinked for a moment, before looking at eachother, then bolting away from eachother. Yeager let out a small laugh, his three students blushing heavily, even Gauche, who was usually more serious.
"Well then, Naruto I have you pokemon right here. Your new Metang is quite strong now, but it will be up to you to train up your Vuplix." Naruto nodded, accepting his pokemon back from his sensei, "Thank you sensei..." The man nodded, before looking to Gauche and Droite, who saluted him. "Yeager-sensei, we managed to teach him the Tree Climbing exercise after finding that he didn't know it. Since he didn't know that, we figure he doesn't know Water Walking either, but we don't have a body of water to teach him with, and so decided to put it off till we could reach one." Yeager smiled, "Very good, mein students. Flood City should have such a place, and atop of that, we may meet Hinoon'na, the creator of the PC system for all of Hi no Kuni."
Droite turned to Naruto, whispering to him, "Hinoon'na lives up in Cape Cascade, north from Flood City, and she created the PC for Hi no Kuni. There are others too, and they made the PC boxes for their countries." Naruto nodded, curious, but unwilling to ask more as Yeager had turned to them. "Sorry Yeager-sensei, just filling Naruto in." The man nodded, seeing no harm in imparting knowledge. "Well then, why do we not go now? If we leave now, maybe we can make it to Flood City before nightfall. Flood City is a very popular place in Hi no Kuni, as it is the only place in the entire country that has an actual beach." Naruto blinked, and then tilted his head, "What's a beach?"
His teammates looked at him, simply staring at him, making him give a small bow, "S-sorry." Gauche growled and grabbed his hand, "C'mon. We're leaving! You're impossible Naruto, not knowing what a damn beach is... What has that village done to you!?" Naruto blushed lightly, but was happy that his team wasn't mad at him. He was truely curious though, because he didn't know what a beach was, infact, he didn't know what a lot of things were. He wasn't allowed alot of things within the village. But now he was out of the village, and he already learned new things. It seemed he was going to greatly enjoy his time as a ninja, and a pokemon trainer.
Here is the end of the second chapter! First story I have that's gonna debut with two chapters. I feel great... but also sad. I have many different stories, and yet I struggle with chapters after the first chapter. I'll get over it but yeah. It's whatever, ya know?
Now then! I guess I'll take requests. Should Gauche and Droite capture another pokemon? Should I get Naruto's Swadloon to evolve next chapter? When should he obtain a Fire Stone? Obtain, not use yet. I don't plan for him to use it till he gets to the grass type gym. Anyway!
If you have a request for a story, tell me about it, either through review or PM, and I will get it and see about making it happen. Not just for Naruto though, I know a mariade of other anime/manga/games enough to write stories about them, kinda sorta for some of them. Just ask, and if I know it, I'll consider it.