A/N: Due to a mass amount of free time and the seemingly good reception of this story I decided to post this Chapter. Also I forgot to touch on this but if you want to suggest something than feel free to do so. Reviews of any kind are greatly appreciated and help motivate me to write. Now that I'm finished rambling it's time for the tale of our hero to resume. Enjoy :)

Chapter Two: Enter New Friends, New Rivals, and New Challenges

Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura were currently walking along Route 202 having easily passed route 201 and Sandgem Town. They had all been attempting to train their Pokémon but the ones they had fought had been incredibly weak. This was highly annoying to Naruto and Sasuke, both of whom were also on the lookout for a Pokémon they could add to their collection. Sakura however while doing some training wasn't as serious as Naruto or Sasuke when it came to catching Pokémon. As they continued to walk they heard a loud screech.

"That sounded like a Pokémon." said Sasuke as he ran off to go investigate. Naruto and Sakura started to followed him, but a small greyish brown bird Pokémon suddenly blocked their way. Naruto pointed his Pokedex at the Pokemon.

Starly the Starling Pokemon

They flock in great numbers. Though small, they flap their wings with great power. This Starly has the ability Keen Eyes. Moveset: Quick Attack, Wing Attack, Steel Wing, Growl, Tackle.

"Sakura go on ahead, I want this Starly." said Naruto impressed at it's moves. Sakura nodded her head then ran towards Sasuke's direction leaving Naruto behind. "Alright ya dumb pidgeon let's see how you handle Shinx." Shinx was released from it's Pokeball. The Starly started off with a Quick Attack, a trail of white streaking behind it. "Shinx when it gets close use Spark!"

Shinx tensed it's muscles and waited for the right moment. Starly continuing it's descent toward Shinx didn't stand a chance when Shinx's body became shrouded in electricity and it crashed into it. Starly was sent flying back and while the attack was super effective it wasn't taken out.

"Tough little guy aren't you, neh? Find let's see how tough you are when we use Ice Fang." Shinx decided it was it's turn to take the offensive and rushed towards Starly with it's fangs glowing a light blue. Starly decided to copy Naruto's strategy but this time it's wings had a metallic glow to them. When both Pokemon were about to meet. Starly ducked under Shinx's fangs and slammed it's wings into it's stomach area. The force of the impact was so strong that Shinx was sent back several feet.

"Shinx you okay?" called Naruto in worry. Albeit a bit wobbly Shinx was able to stand on it's feet. It gave Naruto a reassuring smile and turned back to starly ready for action.

"Alright pal, use Quick Attack to get up close and follow up with Thunder Fang!" Shinx ran toward Starly as fast as it could and started to charge up a Ice Fang. Starly flew up high in the air and came down using Steel Wing hoping to match Shinx in air. Shinx jumped ready to bite down on the bird. Right as they were about to meet Naruto called out a new command. "SHINX USE SHOCKWAVE!"

Shinx unleashed a massive shock wave that Starly couldn't dodge due to proximity. It was shocked out the air and fell to the ground defeated and unconscious. Naruto walked up to the Pokemon and used a potionto heal it's wounds. When Starly opened its eyes, it saw Naruto's smiling face looking at it.

"Hey the names Naruto, I was wondering if you would like to join my team? You see I wanna be the worlds greatest trainer and to do that I need Pokemon who I feel I can make a life long connection and your one of them so what do ya say?" Starly looked up at Naruto for a few seconds before chirping happily. It was always looked down upon for being a common Pokemon but here was a boy who wanted to be it's lifelong friend. Naruto pushed the button on a Pokeball and it sucked Starly right in.

"YES, I CAUGHT A STARLY." yelled Naruto happily before running to go catch up to Sasuke and Sakura.

Meanwhile, Sakura was running to catch up to Sasuke when she saw some kid with 3 Bidoof bullying a small orange dog pokemon. "HEY STOP BULLYINNG THAT POKEMON." yelled Sakura at the kid. She ran in between the attacking Pokemon and their victim. The small dog Pokemon looked up at Sakura strangely. Why was this stranger helping it.

"Oh yeah make me!" retorted the Kid

"Fine let's battle, I win you leave this Pokemon alone you win I give you all my money." said Sakura as her Oddish and Turtwig both came out

"Fine. Bidoof Squad stand by for a triple battle." The three Bidoof all stood in front of Sakura ready for battle.

"But, I only have two-" started Sakura, before she was interrupted by the small dog Pokemon who barked and stood along her Pokemon. "You wanna fight with me?" asked Sakura. The Pokemon just turned backed and looked Sakura in her eyes it's response clear. Sakura nodded her head and pointed her Pokedex at the Pokemon. Growlithe the Puppy Pokemon. While loyal to its master, the Growlithe will drive away enemies by barking and biting. It has the ability: Flash Fire. Moveset: Flame Wheel, Roar, Odor Sleuth, Tackle, Ember.

'Wow I didn't this Growlithe knows some awesome moves.' Thought Sakura. "Oddish use Stun Spore, Turtwig Seed Bomb, Growlithe use Roar." Oddish's Stun Spore hit home and paralyzed two out of the three Bidoof. Turtwig's Seed Bomb connected with the paralyzed Pokemon and Growlithe's small but intimidating Roar sent the finally one scurrying.

"Pull yourselves together Doof use Take Down, Bid use Bite and Food use Tackle." All three Bidoof tried to do what their trainer ordered but between two of them being paralyzed and one of them being a coward their attacks weren't executed.

"Alright guys lets finish this, Turtwig use Energy Ball, Growlithe use Flame Wheel, and Oddish use Razor Leaf." All three attacks hit and all three Bidoof fainted. This prompted the "Bully" to return his Pokemon and run away screaming and crying while doing so. Sakura then turned around and kneeled down in front of the Growlithe.

"You and I make a great team, and with that being said I would like to make you apart of my team. What do ya say?" asked Sakura. Growlithe looked up into her eyes and nodded its head furiously. This girl just saved him what type of pokemon would he be if he didn't repay her.

"Great." squealed Sakura as she captured Growlithe. "Now that my buisness here is done where can I find Sasuke?" she said to herself.

Speaking of Sasuke he was currently battling an extremely powerful Absol. The scream that he heard was a wild Nidoran(m) that was protecting a Seedot who seemed to be badly injured. After a little convincing Sasuke had captured both of them while he sent Piplup and Houndour out to battle Absol. Things were not going well at all Houndour's Flamethrowers couldn't hit Absol due to it's speed and Piplup's Bubblebeam also couldn't deal sufficient enough damage. Right when the Absol seemed to be charging up another Dark Pulse that would surely finish off his team, Naruto's and Sakura's loud voices became within earshot. The Absol looked him in the eyes once more before vanishing in a blur of speed.

Naruto and Sakura ran into a forest to find Sasuke tending to his Pokémon. Sasuke turned and looked at them before returning his Pokemon and walking back to the dirt path that led to Jubilife City. As he walked past them he asked "You guys coming?" With that the group continued on their journey.

After a few more hours of traveling the group managed to reach Jubilife City. They went to the Pokemon center and dropped off their Pokemon before going to check out the amenities, due to it being a one hour wait time. Sasuke had decided to check out the global trade station and looked to see if there was any interesting Pokemon to trade. Sakura walked around town before seeing a picture for a contest being held in about a week and a half. She decided to go to the contest hall to register. Naruto however ended up going to the trainer school where he saw a poster that said a tournament was being held the next day to commemorate the founding of Jubilife. The rules stated that teams of three would compete in best 2 out of 3 matches. The prize was an Eevee for each member of the winning team. Each Eevee was said to have a special but different Moveset.

Naruto ran back to the Pokemon center and signed up his team. 20 minutes later, Sasuke and Sakura come back to pick up their Pokemon and Naruto tells them what he did. Unsurprisingly Sakura reacts by punching Naruto and calling him a baka, which is something she has bee doing since they were little kids. Sasuke just grunts and tells them that if they want to win then they better start training and walks off with his Pokemon in tow to go train.

All three Trainers go to route 203 and start to train. They decided that the main contenders would be Naruto's Chimchar and Starly for speed purposes, Sasuke's Houndour and Piplup for power and Sakura's Oddish and Turtwig for support. While training Sakura managed to find and catch a wild Kirlia while Naruto and Sasuke both caught an Abra and a Cubone respectively. When they finished training they all went back to the Pokemon center to drop off their Pokemon. After that Sasuke and Naruto went to the GTS while leaving Sakura to rent the rooms. Sasuke traded his Cubone for a Tauros and Naruto traded his Abra for a Munchlax.

"Naruto what Pokemon did you get?" asked Sasuke when they met back up seeing as they had to go to different sections of the station to trade.

"I got a has the ability Pickup. He knows Focus Punch, Metronome, Solarbeam, Ice Punch, Water pulse, and Gunk Shot." said Naruto as he released Munchlax so Sasuke could see Sasuke jaw dropped when he heard all the powerful moves that Naruto's Munclax knew. Damn Naruto is lucky. "What about you?"

"I got a Tauros. He has the ability Sheer Force. He knows Zen Headbutt, Horn Attack, Iron Head, Hyper Beam." said Sasuke a smug smile on his face as he took pride in the fact that his Pokemon knew an attack as strong as Hyper Beam.

"Neh, Munchlax is still cooler. So I guess we should go back and introduce Sakura to the new guys eh?"

"Sure."

Naruto and Sasuke made it back to the Pokemon Center and introduced their new friends to their teams, Sakura and her team. After introductions were all taken care of they all decided to retire to bed.

The next day the group woke up early to get some breakfast and last minute training before the Tournament started to begin. Naruto and Sasuke both discovered something about their new Pokemons that morning. The first being that Tauros doesn't listen to Sasuke and the second is that Munchlax can't fully control it's Solarbeam or Gunk Shot. This upset both teens but they knew it was just another obstacle that they would have to overcome.

After doing a few more rounds of training the group made their way over to the tournament ground. Once there they verified their registration and went over to the competitors box. As they sized up their competition they heard someone call their names.

"NARUTO, SASUKE, FOREHEAD OVER HERE."

"DEADLAST, EMO-KING, BUBBLEGUM HEAD OVER HERE."

Naruto and Sakura ran towards the voices intent on destroying whoever said that about them. Sasuke however just calmly walked towards them, albeit on the inside he was highly annoyed. When they arrive at the spot of who said those things they saw Kiba, Hinata, Chouji, Shikamaru, Shino and Ino all standing there. Naruto and Kiba instantly started argueing while Sakura and Ino did the same. Chouji and Shikamaru were just watching the whole thing, while Shino was just standing there.

Sasuke decided to ask Shino a question that's been on his mind for a while. "Hey Shino if someone were too want to find a powerful Bug type Pokemon to challenge an even stronger Dark type where would he find one?"

"Most Bug Pokemon can be found in forest some can be found near Honey Trees though."

"Tha-" started Sasuke before he was interrupted by the intercom.

"Will Team 8 and Team Gai report to battlefield 1. Will Team 10 and Team 6 report to battlefield 2. Will Team Natsu report and Team Thunder Legion report to battlefield 3. Will Team 7 and Team ROOT report to battlefield 4. Will..." this continued on for the next four battlefields.

The Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura all hurried over to battlefield 4. There they saw that they were going up against a pale kid with a shirt that was way too small, an orange haired guy who they recognized to be Ino's cousin, and a guy dressed up in all black who was Shino's cousin. The group huddled to formulate a plan.

"Let me go in first I'll squash em!" said Naruto.

"Naruto-baka that's too risky especially since we know that one of them probably uses Psychic types and the other Bugs, but we don't know what the other one will use and they'll probably capitalize on that fact."

"Sakura's right. That's why I'll go first that way if they start out with the two we know then that will give us an advantage and if they don't then we can finish the other two quickly."

"Fine but you better not screw up Sasuke."

"BREAK!" they all said at the same time.

Sasuke plan worked perfectly in the first round and the group advanced. Though the group almost lost in the second round when Sakura's Kirlia was taken down by a vicious Mightyena. Thankfully Naruto's Starly was able to win against it's opponent which was a Kricketot. They were currently fighting against Team 8 first up was Sakura vs Shino.

"Growlithe I choose you."

"Nincada battle stance."

"Growlithe use Flame Wheel to start things off." said Sakura as she was cleared to have the first move before the battle began. Growlithe body was covered in flames as it was started to roll towards its opponent. Nincada's body tensed as it waited for it's opponent to reach it.

"Dig, then counter with Mud-Slap and finish it with Night Slash." Just as Growlithe was about to reach the Pokemon it quickly burrowed underground. It then waited for a few seconds for Growlithe to stop rolling before shooting up mud from directly below it. For a finisher it jumped out of the ground with it's claws surging with black energy and launched a devastating slash at Growlithe under belly. This sent Growlithe flying back and as it crashed down on the ground the swirls in its eyes were clearly evident.

Sakura ran and picked up her Pokemon before running back to her side of the stage tears falling from her eyes. When she got to her team she whispered "Avenge me please." Sasuke and Naruto just nodded before Sasuke went up to the battlefield where Hinata stood across from him.

"Go Piplup."

"Enter the stage, Misdreavus." Once both pokemon were on the field and the ref signaled the start of the battle, Hinata issued the first move. "Use Shadow Ball to start off the show." For a slight moment Sasuke was shocked at Hinata's sudden transformation. Key word slight.

"Dodge and counter with Ice Beam then use Drill Peck to finish it." Piplup skillfully dodge the incoming Shadow Ball and launched a rigid beam of blue energy that struck Misdreavus. While Misdreavus was recovering from the attack Piplups beak had elongated and was now spinning like a drill right towards it.

"Misdreavus use Shadow Ball!" Misdreavus shot another Shadow Ball this time connecting but even so Piplup was able to continue its attack and struck Misdreavus resulting in an instant KO. When it landed back on the ground it turned to Sasuke and gave him a thumbs up before fainting.

Sasuke returned his Pokemon in disbelief and walked back to where the rest of his team was. His arguably most powerful Pokemon was taken out by one hit. Naruto walked up and passed Sasuke on his way and whispered "They won't get away with this I promise." Sasuke could only grunt as his friend went up to fight what could be their last opponent in this competition.

Naruto got to the battlefield and stared down at Kiba who had an arrogant smirk on his face.

"Chimchar I need you for combat."

"Poochyena crush the deadlast."

"Chimchar we have the first move so let's go use Flamethrower." Chimchar released a large stream of fire at Poochyena.

"Poochyena counter with Dark Pulse." Poochyena released a surge of dark energy that met with Flamethrower. This created a stalemate between the two which in turn created a massive explosion. When the dust cleared, Chimchar and Poochyena were both still standing.

"Chimchar quick use Thunder Punch!"

"Counter with Thunder Fang." Like before both attacks canceled each other out.

This continued for about an hour and both Pokemon were starting to feel it. Naruto was starting to worry for his Pokemon and so was Kiba. They both knew that the next attack would be the last. That's when Kiba made the biggest mistake he could. "Hey Naruto give up already will ya I mean you can't beat me."

That's when it happened Naruto felt that spark again. He then closes his eyes and pulls out his Pokegear. He turns on his song (insert: Before My Body is Dry). He thens opens his eyes to see his trusty pal Chimchar waiting for his command. Before Naruto can give it though in a sudden flash of blinding white light Chimchar disappears. In its stead is a taller monkey with a longer tail with more fire. Monferno.

"You evolved..." said Naruto in awe. "Well then, show me what you got use MACH PUNCH." Monferno took off at blinding speed with a glowing white fist and punch Poochyena so hard it went flying out the arena. After that the audience roared in approval.

Naruto and co were preparing for their final round when an official came in. "Due to official league buisness our other finalist must drop out however their leader would like to have a chat with the young Namikaze." With that Sasuke and Sakura were left to wonder why they wanted Naruto while also celebrating the fact that they would get a new pokemon.

Meanwhile, Naruto was led down a secret corridor where he was delivered to a room. After he got there the official left and Naruto was left there in front of a massive door. Naruto decided to hear the leader out and knocked on the door. The door opened to reveal a girl with butt length curl blonde hair and electric blue eyes. She was wearing a long sleeve brown jacket that wasn't closed over her black shirt which showed plenty of midriff. she also had black short-shorts with a skirt which was exactly like her jacket. Her body was toned and though she looked to be Naruto's age puberty was already half way done. Her beauty was so sharp that all Naruto could say was "Hi I'm Naruto"

The girl giggled. "I know who you are Naruto, and I'm shocked you forgot me. I'm your childhood friend and one of your new traveling partner. I'm also the first girl you ever kissed." At this Naruto's eyes widened as he remembered the girl in front of him.

"I can't believe its you... Yang Xiao Long."