He leapt through the trees and sensed a presence nearby, so he naturally went to check it out, confident he could handle whatever it was concerning he WAS a ninja after all. He looked to see an injured Latios on the ground, heaving and panting. Either the gods are smiling down on me or Naruto's insane luck is rubbing off on me…It's a shiny one too…Kakashi thought as he slowly went up to it, but the Latios glared at Kakashi. (A shiny Latios is turquoise instead of blue)
Kakashi sighed and took off the pokeball belt and extracted a super potion he got from the pokemart and threw the backpack away from him and held up his hands. "See, I got no pokeballs, nothing to try and catch you. All I have is a super potion, I just want to heal you ok? After that, you can leave alright?" Kakashi said and slowly approached the Latios, who was still cautious of him.
Kakashi gently sprayed some of the potion onto the wounds and watched with fascination as they healed before his eyes, so he continued to spray more on the rest of the wounds. When Latios was all better, Kakashi backed off.
"Okay Latios, you can go now." Kakashi smiled and turned away from Latios as he put the potion back into his backpack and put on the belt again. He hoisted the backpack onto his back and turned to look at Latios who was still there, staring at Kakashi. "You know, you can leave right?"
"La! Latios!" Latios said.
"Are you challenging me to a battle or something?" Kakashi asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Lat! Latios!" Latios nodded in agreement.
"Alright then…" Kakashi said as he reached for Obito's pokeball, but was stopped by Latios' cries of disagreement.
"You…don't want me to use Pokémon? You want to fight me?" Kakashi asked incredulously while pointing to himself.
Latios nodded.
Kakashi sweatdropped. At times like these I'm glad I'm a ninja…
Kakashi dropped his backpack on the ground and got into a stance. "Ready…set…go!" Kakashi shouted and blurred into action the same time as Latios.
Latios tried to tackle Kakashi, but Kakashi dodge and managed to kick Latios' side. They clashed together, again, this time Latios getting a hit on his arm, which was now a bleeding cut. Kakashi barely noticed and blurred through a set of hand seals. "Fire Style: Phoenix fire flower!" Kakashi yelled and blew a bunch of small fireballs towards Latios, who was surprised a human could actually keep up with him and use fire moves.
Latios was about to dodge but Kakashi was already done another series of seals and crying out "Wind Style: Great Breakthrough!" and a large gust of powerful wind hurled towards the fireballs, now enhancing their power and making the fire white hot 2 times larger and faster than before. Latios let out a shriek of surprise and tried to dodge them all but one hit its wings directly, sending it crashing to the ground.
Latios tried to get up but Kakashi swiftly pinned him down. Latios looked up into Kakashi face with pure awe and admiration. Kakashi smiled "Maa, it looks like I win Latios."
"La…" Latios groaned as Kakashi let him go. Latios suddenly got an evil grin on his face and went for Kakashi's pokeballs. Latios tapped an empty one and was immediately captured.
Kakashi just blinked owlishly, Latios just captured itself just because it wanted too. Should I be proud of that?
Kakashi just chuckled and hoisted the backpack on his back and leapt through the trees and noticed it was getting dark out, so he settled for a clearing near a body of water and set up camp and released his Pokémon, his students immediately got along with their new teammate Latios.
"You know, what should I name you Latios?" Kakashi wondered then got an idea. "I'll call you Ace, how about that?"
Latios nodded vigorously at his new name.
"Okay guys, get some rest because starting tomorrow, we are going to have a week of my special 'training'" Kakashi smiled innocently as Naruto, Sakura, Sasuke, and Obito froze and looked at Kakashi fearfully. Ace had no idea what this training was but if his other Pokémon had reactions like these, he wondered if coming along with Kakashi was really a good idea…
When Kakashi was eating a can of meat ravioli, he suddenly stopped mid-chew. All the animals in the world were Pokémon right? So what on earth was he eating? He knew because of Pokémon, there weren't normal animals like chickens and cows…so what was the meat? He sweatdropped as he looked at his meal. If I'm eating Pokémon, I think I'll consider being a vegetarian for this entire trip…
He grimaced and continued to eat his food, not wanting to waste it. He made a mental note to start packing vegetarian foods from now on until he found out what exactly was killed for the meat.
He went into his sleeping back and drifted off into a light sleep, being a ninja made you a light sleeper.
Morning…
Kakashi woke up and washed his face in the pond. He changed into one of his spare uniforms and went back to camp, he saw his Pokémon, still sound asleep.
"WAKE UP!" He shouted loudly, his genin and the Pokémon woke up with a start.
He painted the gravity seal on Ace and set it to level 5, along with the others.
"Okay my cute Pokémon, time for my training!" Kakashi sang as he saw the looks of horror.
"GIVE ME 100 LAPS NOW!" He commanded and they scrambled to do as he ordered.
1 hour later…
The Pokémon dropped on the ground, exhausted, Kakashi was only slightly winded since he ran the laps as well, since he couldn't allow his body to become rusty after all!
"Okay, water break for 15 minutes, then we start again." Kakashi smiled and went for a bottle of water as the Pokémon and his students immediately went for the pond and greedily drank their fill.
After 15 minutes, they were rested enough to start training again.
"Now I want you guys to use your best moves over and over, I want to see you speed up your execution time so GET MOVING!" Kakashi ordered and they did just that.
For the entire week, they did harsh training. Their gravity seals went up to level 8 as their stamina and strength increased. They became much faster. They sparred a lot, sometimes teaming up against Kakashi as he needed to keep his training up. Sakura evolved during one of their battles and they all learned a few new moves and tactics, unknown to them a small Pokémon watched them train from the bushes.
"eevee…" The small brown fox Pokémon said as she was entranced by their power. Eevee was what you could call, the runt of the family, she was the smallest and weakest, but dreamt to be strong one day. She decided to join this human and his Pokémon so she ran out into the open.
Kakashi and the other stopped as an Eevee ran up to them and yipped.
"Uh, Kakashi-sensei, she says she wants to join us." Naruto translated.
"Ee! Eevee! Eev!" Eevee yipped.
"She says she wants to be strong too." Naruto grinned. "Can she come? PLEASE?"
Kakashi chuckled and gently tossed a pokeball towards Eevee, who allowed it to hit its head and catch her. She immediately released herself and ran up to her new trainer.
Kakashi crouched down and pet the small fox Pokémon. "Welcome to the team eevee, I hope you know what you are getting yourself into…I think I'll call you…Kushina, how does that sound?"
"Eevee!" Kushina purred.
"Okay Kushina, stay still, I need to put on a gravity seal." Kakashi smiled as he painted on the seal and put it on level 3 for now. Kushina struggled to move around properly but was not going to give up her dream of being strong.
"Okay guys, I've decided that we will stay for another week for more training. So get ready for hell." Kakashi smiled brightly as all the Pokémon shuddered.
1 week of tor-training later…
"Okay guys, back in you go!" Kakashi smiled as he returned all of his Pokémon into their pokeball, except for the fact that Naruto kept dodging his.
"No way Kaka-sensei! I want to stay out!" Naruto huffed.
"Fine fine." Kakashi shook his head and put away his pokeball. He was still tired and he wasn't in any rush, so he decided to walk the rest of the way.
"Hmm, the next gym leader is a grass type, so Sasuke is ideal, but Latios, Obito, and Kushina need their turn in a real battle…decisions decisions…" Kakashi sighed.
"Wha? What about me?" Naruto whined.
"Naruto, electric type attacks don't work very well on grass types, you'll get your turn next time, or perhaps in another Pokémon battle against a trainer." Kakashi chided.
Naruto just pouted and grumbled and with Naruto's insane luck…again, they met ANOTHER rare Pokémon.
"SCYTHER!" The bug Pokémon growled.
"Yeah…Naruto you can handle it." Kakashi waved absently.
"Woohoo!" Naruto grinned.
"Naruto, use thundershock." Kakashi commanded and Naruto created a thundershock and released it with impeccable speed, but Scyther was already using agility to dodge.
"Use dig Naruto." Kakashi said.
Naruto immediate started digging a hole.
Scyther stopped and looked around for Naruto.
"Now!" Kakashi shouted and Naruto burst through the ground like in his chuunin exams and did a head butt right under the chin, sending scyther flying and crashing to the ground. "Thundershock!"
This time, the electric attack hit scyther dead on, electrocuting it and knocking it out. Kakashi quickly threw a pokeball at it, the pokeball only wiggled once before it clicked signalling it was caught. The pokeball then vanished in a flash of light.
"Huh, I'm guessing it went back to Rowan's lab, oh well, I get a chance to train scyther another time." Kakashi shrugged and went on his merry way with Naruto trailing behind him.
The finally arrived at Eterna city, it was quite beautiful here. He quickly went for the Pokémon center to get his Pokémon healed up. He read his book like usual while he waited, soon his Pokémon was ready. He decided to make a call to Rowan.
He quickly dialled the number in the video phone, soon the call was answered and Prof. Rowan appeared on the screen.
"Ah, hello Kakashi, I received your new scyther a while ago, a very nice catch I must say. So what have you called for?" Rowan asked.
"I wanted to show you some of the new Pokémon I caught. Ne, Ace, Kushina, Obito, come meet Prof. Rowan!" He called out as he released his Absol, Eevee, and shiny Latios.
Rowans eyes widened dramatically at the sight of the legendary shiny Latios. "How on earth did you manage to catch a Latios? Not to mention a shiny one at that!" Rowan shouted.
"Ace was injured, so I took care of him. He challenged me personally to a battle and I beat him, then he went for my empty pokeballs and captured himself." Kakashi explained.
"Hmm, send Ace over when you don't need him, I simply must have a chance to study such a rare Pokémon." Rowan said.
"Of course Professor, well I have to go, thanks for taking care of scyther for me!" Kakashi waved as Rowan nodded and the call ended.
He recalled his Pokémon back into their pokeballs and left for the Gym.
He entered the gym to see a huge meadow like arena.
"Hello? How may I help you?" A woman asked.
"I'm here to challenge the gym leader for the gym badge." Kakashi smiled.
"That's me! My name is Gardenia, and I accept your challenge!" Gardenia grinned.
"My name is Kakashi." Kakashi said and they went on opposites sides of the arena and the ref came in.
"This will be a 3 on 3 battle between the challenger and the Gym leader, please send out your first Pokémon!" The ref said.
"Go! Turtwig!" Gardenia smiled and sent out the tiny turtle Pokémon.
Is that a turtle with a little tree sprouting on its head? Kakashi sweatdropped. "Alright then, Obito! Time for battle!" and sent out his Absol.
"Hmm, an Absol huh?" Gardenia muttered. "This is going to be tough."
"Begin!" The ref called out.
"Absol! Charge and use Night slash!" Kakashi commanded.
"Dodge it turtwig and use tackle!" Gardenia shouted.
Turtwig barely dodged Night slash and tried to tackle, only to have Obito evade it completely and use night slash again, this time, a full direct hit.
"No! Turtwig!" Gardenia said worriedly, Turtwig struggled but got up. "Razor leaf!"
"Flamethrower!" Kakashi countered, and Obito launched a powerful flamethrower, incinerating the leaves and hitting Turtwig with full force.
Obito let up his flames, and a smoking Turtwig was on the ground, down and out.
"Turtwig is unable to battle! Absol wins!" The ref called out. Gardenia winced and returned Turtwig.
"Cherubi, I choose you!" Gardenia said.
Are those cherries with faces? Kakashi thought with an incredulous look on his face.
"Cherubi! Use magical Leaf!" Gardenia shouted.
"Obito! Dodge and use slash now!" Kakashi ordered. Obito immediately obeyed and did an effective dodge and leapt at Cherubi and slashed it, making Cherubi shriek in pain. "Finish it with Shadow claw!"
Obito swiped Cherubi with shadow claw, sending the poor Pokémon flying and down for the count.
"Cherubi is unable to battle! Absol wins!" the ref yelled.
"Ab! Sol!" Obito barked proudly.
"Awesome Job Obito! Keep it up!" Kakashi praised.
"Sol!" Obito barked happily.
"Roserade! Use Poison sting!" Gardenia shouted.
"Evade it Obito and use shadow ball!" Kakashi ordered, very thankful the speed training was paying off, even now; Obito still had his 8x gravity seals on, and moved normally. Kakashi made a mental note to increase them since they were all used to them by now.
Obito narrowly evaded the poisonous needles flying at him and instantly charged up a shadow ball and launched it at Roserade at shocking speeds.
Fast! Gardenia thought. "Use Protect Roserade!" she commanded, knowing that roserade was not fast enough to dodge the attack.
Roserade just made it in time to use protect, but the shadow ball was powerful and still took on a third of the damage.
"Ice beam!" Kakashi commanded seeing the opening.
"No! Roserade! Dodge it quick!" Gardenia shouted desperately. Roserade dodged, but one arm was encased in ice.
"Roserade! Try and use weather ball!" Gardenia said. Roserade tried, but with one arm it took longer, allowing Obito hit it with his next move.
"Shadow claw while it charges its attack Obito!" Kakashi said, taking advantage of the slow speed.
Obito pounced and used Shadow claw on Roserade.
"Roserade is unable to battle! The challenger wins!" The ref called.
Obito went up to his trainer, hoping for praise.
"Fantastic Obito!" Kakashi happily praised and pet the Absol, who practically purred "you deserve a good rest." And Kakashi returned Obito to his poke ball.
"That was a great battle Kakashi, you've raised a powerful Absol." Gardenia smiled when she saw the bond they had. "This is the Forest Badge, you've earned it. Congratulations." She said and handed him the Forest badge.
Kakashi took the badge and held out his hand, they shook hands, he left the gym afterwards.
Gardenia giggled with a small blush evident on her face. If he wasn't a challenger, I might've asked him on a date, he's quite handsome, not to mention friendly. He's going to go far… I know it.
