Chapter 2-The quests

"Dawn? That's an odd name! And…what's a Pachirisu?" Neji asked nervously.

"THIS is Pachirisu!" Dawn held up her fluffy Pokemon. "And what's your name?"

"Hyuuga, Neji. No offense, but I've never seen something as strange as that!" he commented at the struggling Pachirisu.

"And you say my name's weird. Oh well. Hello, Hyuuga! You've never seen the Sinnoh region before, have you? Oh, duh! This is a different planet! So, what are your Pokemon like?" Dawn babbled.

"Umm. First of all, my name isn't Hyuuga. It's Neji. Hyuuga is my last name. And what in this existence are Pokemon?"

"YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT POKEMON ARE!!?!?!?!?" Dawn screeched, amazed.

"No," he said, confused.

"So what do you do to protect yourself and your country?!"

Neji grinned. "That thing can protect you?! But, to answer your question, we use Shinobi arts."

"What?!"

Suddenly, Sakura stirred. "Neji?" she asked.

"You're awake!"

"Umm..what happened? And who's that girrrlll…and what's that ADORABLE creature beside her!?!?" Sakura squealed, completely forgetting about Dawn.

"That's my Pachirisu! And I'm Dawn," she answered.

"Pachirisu? Cute name! Umm…where did it come from?" Sakura asked, nervously.

"Umm…" Dawn said, unable to answer the question.

"Sakura-san," Neji said, careful not to call her Sakura-CHAN, as nature told him to. "I think that…this girl…and her…Pokemon are from a different world. The worlds were clashed together. And, Dawn?" he asked.

"Yeah?"

"Do you have any idea as to how they got clashed?"

"Nope. I only saw your world about two hours before…IT happened," she said IT like the word was taboo.

"Did you see those things reaching out of your world? They looked like purple tentacles," Neji said, having a hard time from laughing at the way Dawn said IT.

"No. It looked like your world had weird 'tentacles', as you so put it."

All this time Sakura had been staring at Pachirisu. "Can I pet it?" she cried suddenly.

"Sure, but be careful. If Pachirisu gets scared, or doesn't like you, it'll zap you with lightning. Trust me, it's not pretty." Dawn had bad memories of that.

Too late, Sakura had already started trying to pet Pachirisu. "AHHHH!!!" Pachirisu obviously didn't like Sakura. Dawn's hair, and Sakura's ended up being spiked and smoking a tad bit on the ends. Neji laughed. He couldn't help himself.

Dawn and Sakura gave him similar looks, and he shut right up. If looks could kill, he thought, I'd be dead, roasted over a pit, with my body wrangled a thousand times. He shivered inwardly. "Well…ummm…Sakura we better go and find Kakashi-sensei and the others now, right? Let's go," he grabbed Sakura and dashed off.

"Neji! We CAN'T! We don't even know if they're alive! They might be on the other side of the world for all we know!" Sakura yelped as Neji tried to drag her away.

"This might come as a shock to you two…but I think all of the regions and lands of both worlds combined are here, either smooshed together or the world itself grew to make space for both, so all the regions are here," Dawn said.

"How odd," Neji said, contemplating.

"So, you're saying…we may NEVER find the rest…of Konoha?!" Sakura whispered, almost crying.

"…..Maybe," Dawn said, slowly.

"Hey, Dawn? Are you looking for anyone?" Neji asked her, suddenly.

She looked at him, surprised. "Yeah, I am. Their names are Brock, Ash, Buneary, and Piplup. Piplup and Buneary are my other Pokemon," she added quickly.

"Well, that's convenient, then! Dawn, Sakura, how about we look for the others, together?"

Dawn and Sakura looked up. Then, Sakura in her idiocy, asked Dawn, "Are the other Pokemon as cute as Pachirisu? And can I get my own?"

Dawn grinned. "I wish, but I bet you could get a Pokemon or two, if you search hard enough. But, just so you know, Pokemon aren't all about cuteness, or beauty, or cool. They fight. That's how they can stand up to powerful enemies."

"They fight? Wow!" Sakura was excited.

"But will we travel together?" Neji repeated, a bit impatient this time.

"Well, ok. I'd say that's a good idea," Sakura agreed.

"I sure like it. It'd be safer for you to have Pachirisu around," Dawn stated.

Neji and Sakura stared at her like she was stupid.

"What? He'll be able to protect you."

"Didn't I tell you already? We have Shinobi arts. You'd be safer with us!" Neji declared. "We already saw what that thing can do. You don't even know what we do!"

"Well, then, if you're so great, how about you prove it?" Dawn said, angrily.

"Sakura. You and I were going to practice before this thing all started. What if we did that now?" Neji asked her.

"I…guess. It just seems a little rude to boast like that,"

Neji sighed. This would be a LONG search-and-rescue mission.

Next Chapter-The search begins!