AN: Thank you Mojavekoopa for your review, you're my first ever reviewer! Jgs237 your suggestion for his next Pokemon has been noted and although it might not be his next I would definitely love a Garchomp or previous evolution in his or Cynthia's party. And on the topic of legendary Pokemon I believe it's way too soon to catch any but they can make appearances throughout the journey, mainly because Naruto is an anomaly in their world so of course they'd be curious.

Chapter 2: Jubilife City

We find our heroes surprisingly still on route 202 meandering through some tall grass. Luckily Cobalt was fairly intimidating for a Pokemon and kept wild Pokemon at bay.

"Naruto, I've been wondering, If you don't particularly care for the champion position, why do you train so hard?" Cynthia questioned her companion.

"I made a deal with Cobalt, so long as he joins me on this journey I'll ensure he gets strong. Really it's just a form of fun for us, and it doesn't hurt to have power to back up your words." Naruto replied.

Meanwhile just out of range of Naruto's passive sensing skills a small pink Pokemon was observing. 'Mama said to observe the anomaly, but he's not doing anything, I'll have to start something on my own.' thought the petite Pokemon. 'brothers, sisters, charge the blonde man! he's got rare berries!' she broadcast to the surrounding Pokemon.

"Cynthia, how far are we to Jubilife City?" Naruto nonchalantly asked as Pokemon roars suddenly sounded off from all around.

"About thirty minutes give or take, whats going on?" Cynthia replied nervously.

"Seems we've walked into a trap, don't make any sudden moves." Naruto seriously replied. "Just look around and you'll understand the situation we're in." he said.

As Cynthia carefully observed her surroundings she began to feel sweat trickle down the back of her neck. Perched in nearly every tree were flocks of Starly, headed by Starvias, each with a dangerous glint in their eyes. On the ground were many brown plump mouse-like Bidoofs, flanked by the blue/black mouse Shinx. Overall it was not a good sight. 'We're going to die' she thought.

Thinking fast, Naruto quickly decided what to do. "Cobalt we need a diversion! Big Spiraling Aura Sphere at the ground on my mark!" Naruto yelled over the Pokemon roars closing in. "Wait for it, charge it up!" he said. Cobalt began pumping energy into his aura sphere and spiraling it rapidly, creating one of his favorite moves. The surrounding Pokemon prepared to pounce at this point. "Now slam it at the ground!" Naruto commanded. Cobalt complied and created a large explosion along with a massive dust cloud obscuring all vision.

Naruto swiftly placed his hand on Cynthia and Cobalt's shoulder's before using his body flicker technique to move them past the incoming Pokemon, the Pokemon in their confusion, greed, and low visibility quickly descended into an all out brawl where our heroes once stood.

Landing safely on the ground further up the trail Cynthia seemed okay for a moment before promptly emptying her stomach on the trail as Naruto patted her back. Cobalt seemed fairly queasy but his master had trained him for this moment.

Flashback no jutsu

"Okay Cobalt today we're training you to withstand the body flicker technique in case we need to get a quick getaway!" Naruto practically cheered enthusiastically.

'can't be so bad' Cobalt thought.

Naruto placed his hand on Cobalt's shoulder, and the world suddenly faded for Cobalt. With a crash he was back in the training field emptying his stomach of everything he's ever eaten across his entire life it seemed. This unholy training couldn't be real, just a bad dream.

"Good, round two!" Naruto cheered reaching for Cobalt's shoulder again.

'Sweet Arceus have mercy on my soul' was Cobalt's last thought before passing out.

Present time

"What" Cynthia squeaked out in between spilling her guts. "was that" she finished wiping her mouth with a convenient handkerchief Naruto handed her before handing it back to him, which he promptly placed behind his back and incinerated with fire chakra.

"Just a high speed movement technique I learned over the years Cynthia, what do you think?" Naruto asked with a megawatt smile.

"I hate you, go kill yourself. But seriously that was ridiculous, don't ever do that again without asking me!" Cynthia ranted while feeling rather weak.

'Naruto-sama the cause of that attack could still be around, I advise we move away from here at speed.' Informed Cobalt through the link now that his stomach calmed down.

'Not to worry buddy, I can sense a kage level energy source moving away at high speed now, seems to be bugging out.' Naruto reassured his friend.

"Cynthia, we should be a quick ten minute walk to Jubilife at this point, lets get a move on before it gets dark." Naruto noticed the setting sun and realized they've taken far too much time on this route for his liking.

"Alright, just let me sit down for a few more minutes..." Cynthia struggled to say as her entire body felt like jelly.

"No can do princess, come on, up you go." Naruto spoke as he picked Cynthia into a bridal style carry much to her shock and began jogging down the route, Cobalt quickly followed.

'I'll get you for doing this to me Naruto, but for now this is really too comfortable, just a short nap will be fine.' Cynthia blearily thought as she passed out in her arms unconsciously snuggling in to his warmth as Naruto tightened his hold on her.

The next day, Jubilife City Pokemon center.

Cynthia awoke on a soft bed and rubbed the sleep form her eyes, once more she yawned and stretched her back and pushed her assets forward and up like before as if in a habit of doing so. Looking around she found herself in a rather nice poke-center room with her backpack sitting off by the table and her lone pokeball sitting in a tray on the desk of the room. Finding no Naruto she realized he must be in another room or in the center somewhere assuming he hasn't run off on her. Checking the time she realized it was already early morning.

Quickly changing clothes, packing up and performing her morning routine, Cynthia made her way out and down to the Poke center main desk. "Could you tell me where my companion is Nurse Joy?" she politely asked the pinked haired woman behind the counter.

"Not a problem young lady, the gentleman who carried you here is in Jr. professor room 2 in the back." She said with her patented joyful smile, gesturing to one of the hallways leading into the center.

Moving deeper into the center Cynthia found the indicated room and politely knocked twice. Surprisingly the door opened rather quickly to reveal Cobalt as if he knew she was coming, although considering what she knew of Lucario's he probably did.

"May I come in to speak to Naruto?" Cynthia asked Cobalt as the Pokemon stared at her.

'stareeeeeee' Cobalt projected towards Cynthia uselessly before moving aside and allowing her entrance to the room.

Looking around the room she noticed part of it was set up similar to a small scale lab, while the two doors must lead to a bedroom and bathroom respectively. Realizing this room is a fair scale nicer than her own Cynthia pouted slightly but quickly wiped it off her face to talk to Naruto with a smile and exact her revenge for making her lose her meal yesterday, just the thought of that technique sent shivers through her body.

Leaning over Naruto's distracted figure, she realized he was working on an in depth study on Lucario but it didn't really make much sense to her. Much of it was discussing aura mechanics and the possibilities to make new moves through training aura manipulation, overall it seemed extremely high leveled for someone who didn't look any older than she did.

Next to the computer he was working on appeared to be a small container with to her disbelief a small aura sphere contained inside. Watching it closely she realized it was changing colors from red, green, yellow, brown, and blue. It was truly mesmerizing that she didn't realize Naruto had already begun packing up his supplies while she wasn't looking. Looking at the container closer she realized it was covered in strange symbols she failed to recognize, perhaps a dead language. Before she could touch anything Naruto promptly grabbed the container and unceremoniously threw the potential explosive into his backpack.

"I was looking at that Na-ru-to! How'd you make that anyway, and you better have a way to make it up to me for yesterday or I'll hold it against you.' Cynthia huffed with her hands on her hips staring up at him as he was slightly taller than her.

"Not to worry Cynthia, I'll allow you to make one request of me, anything you want, and I'll accomplish it, believe it!" Naruto enthusiastically replied while giving a nice guy pose with a thumbs up.

'Anything I want… yes, this will work perfectly!' Cynthia thought. "Naruto, I've decided I want you to accompany me on my journey indefinitely and help me grow stronger so I can become champion!" she declared.

'Well I am immortal, I can spare the time. Honestly, company is always welcome.' Naruto thought it over before nodding and holding his hand out. "Partners then?" he asked

She grasped his warm hand tightly, giving it a firm shake. "Together!" Cynthia declared.

They maintained a serious mood for a few moments before each letting out a sigh, Cynthia glad he accepted and Naruto glad she didn't ask for world domination or the like as he'd need to stay true to his word and carry it out.

Naruto completed packing up and the two trainers and Cobalt returned to the front desk to return their room keys. "Here are our keys Nurse Joy, thank you for the use of your facilities while we were here." Naruto thanked the centers nurse joy.

"Any time trainers, if you want to make it to the trainer school you should hurry, it tends to get rather crowded in the afternoon." Nurse Joy smiled joyfully and sent them on their way.

Jubilife City Trainers School

Arriving across town, our heroes found the school to be open and running with little to no trainers outside at the moment. They did however see a white hatted scarfed girl in red but she seemed to be throwing glances at them before moving inside herself.

"Well Cynthia, you wanted to come here, I'll follow your lead on this one." Naruto smiled at Cynthia while saying.

"As it should be, wouldn't want you blowing up the place." Cynthia haughtily replied jokingly.

Moving through the school halls they noticed some younger trainer classes being conducted, but clearly this was not for them, so they ventured towards the mock gym the school had constructed hoping for some experience.

Opening the door to the mock gym they noticed the white hatted girl from before seemed to be in battle but she wasn't doing very well. She made several rookie mistakes causing her Piplup to be sent flying all over the gym grounds. Recognizing the Piplup and now the girl as well Naruto gave a friendly wave while calling out "Go Dawn!" towards the girl.

The fight lasted a few more minutes but ultimately the now identified Dawn lost the battle and proceed to sulk momentarily before finally acknowledging Naruto, Cobalt and Cynthia whom she did not recognize. "Naruto, It's wonderful to see you again, I'm sorry you had to see that, I'm still learning." Dawn hesitantly spoke to Naruto. "Who's your friend? Are you two going to battle here?" she asked.

"Dawn, meet Cynthia, Cynthia, meet Dawn. Dawn was there the day I got Cobalt and officially started my journey. Cynthia met me during a storm and we've begun traveling together. I'm happy to see you again Dawn, how has your journey been?" Naruto small talked with Dawn

"It's a pleasure to meet you Cynthia, and sadly my journey has been rough, Piplulp and I have been having trouble against stronger Pokemon. I feel my heart break each time Piplup has to be rushed to the Pokemon center." Dawn replied depressingly. "But enough of the depressing talk, I've been meaning to ask you, I ran after you because the professor forgot to give you a special gift! I saw you training with Lucario, how did you make an aura sphere? Are you an aura guardian?" She stared into Naruto's eyes and asked carefully while handed over a small package which Naruto stored for later.

"You could say that I am, It's why myself and Cobalt bonded so well together." Naruto answered with a half truth.

Cynthia narrowed her eyes realizing he's been holding out on her still it seems, although it does explain many things such as his speed yesterday. 'I'm traveling with an aura guardian, things are looking up for you Cynthia!' She thought with a little happy dance.

"That means you can heal right? Can you please heal my Piplup! She's quite hurt and I heard aura guardians can heal better than the centers!" Dawn said with hopeful eyes a little too loudly attracting other trainers.

'medical ninjutsu should do just fine for this' Naruto thought before running his hands over Piplup as they glowed a soft greenish blue causing Piplup to visibly recover. Naruto had to thank his rinne-sharigan eyes for his extra control to allow such feats for a change knowing he'd never be able to do this with his god-like chakra capacity normally.

"Pip, piplup, PIPLUP!" Piplup suddenly woke up invigorated, clearly expecting to of been in the Pokemon center before looking around in confusion.

"Wait so you could've healed my Glaceon and you didn't even think to of done so Na-ru-to? I'll forgive you this time, but don't hold out on your teammate!" Cynthia mock glared and said.

Naruto rubbed the back of his head and apologized to Cynthia before turning to the surrounding trainers eyeing him curiously. "So, Cynthia here would like to battle, do we have any takers?" He asked.

Suddenly the crowd parted to reveal a pair of male twins who Dawn had been fighting one of earlier. They suddenly struck a pose and shouted "We are the Jubilife City electric duet, and we challenge both of you to a battle!" They declared. "Unless you're scared mr. all powerful aura guardian!" they taunted in unison.

Cynthia was easily riled up, feeling they only challenged her to get to Naruto. "We accept, prepare yourselves we won't go easy on you!" she shouted back.

Naruto merely groaned at this but deciding to be a good sport went along with it.

"I'll referee the match, the match will be between the Electric Duet against Cynthia and Naruto! There will be no substitutions and only one Pokemon per battler. Ready? Begin!" Dawn announced.

"Troublesome, go Cobalt!/Battle dance, go Glaceon!" Naruto and Cynthia declared.

"Shine brightly Luxio!/Shock them Shinx!" The Electric Duet shouted together.

The battlefield was electrified with tense glares between Cobalt and Luxio a black gold and blue sparking Pokemon. Along with heated glares between Glaceon and a Shinx a lower evolved form of the Luxio.

"Cobalt keep in close and show them what taijutsu can do!/Glaceon start off with quick attack until you can hit him with ice beam!" Naruto and Cynthia ordered

Cobalt and Luxio began a fast paced battle for supremacy on the left side, while Glaceon moved using quick attack and firing ice beams freezing anything they hit.

"Counter his martial arts with tackle, break his footing!/Dodge shinx! And follow up with spark!" The Electric Duo yelled.

Luxio charged right into Cobalts set of punches taking significant damaged before launching them both to the ground through a tackle. At this time sparks met with ice beams in a vie for dominance.

"Hold him in place and headbutt him down Cobalt!/Break off, dodge his sparks, and finish it with ice fang!" Naruto and Cynthia ordered.

Cobalt grabbed the opponents Luxio and began smashing his head against his opponent until they both had swirls in their eyes unable to battle. Glaceon successfully threaded through the sparks and tore into her opponent with ice fang knocking shinx out of the battle.

"Lucario, Luxio and Shinx are unable to battle. The winner is team Cynthia!" Dawn announced.

Looking quite riled up the Electric Duet marched over to Naruto "What sort of moves were you using mr. guardian, that was ridiculous and suicidal!" They demanded.

"No moves, just martial arts, wouldn't want to truly hurt your Pokemon over something so petty." Naruto smiled and said.

"We'll get you next time, better watch your back! Because the Electric Duet shines brighter with each moment!" The Duet cheered.

Leaving the school Dawn, Cynthia, Naruto, and Cobalt were stopped by a teacher who was kind enough to give them TM device Hidden Power as a reward for their battles.

"I hope to see you two again! Until then let's all grow stronger with our Pokemon. Good luck on your journeys Naruto and Cynthia! Don't forget to open the professors gift Naruto!" Dawn yelled while waving as she ran off into town.

"Are we done here Cynthia? I'm itching to travel again." Naruto asked his companion

"That's everything, next stop, Oreburgh City! Gym battles here we come!" Cynthia enthusiastically declared.

And so our heroes stepped on to route 203, continuing their grand journey in the wonderful world of Pokemon!

AN: Team suggestions? Already got Garchomp evolution line suggested for his team, always open to ideas if anyone wants to participate in shaping the story! Thanks for your time!