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Chapter 3
BANG! Boulder City
Boulder City
Naruto was overwhelmed by the size of this city, even though he has been through here before he is still in awe. The buildings are all twice the size to what he is used to in his home town. He looked to Kurama, who was on his shoulder, he looked tired, just like his other pokemon. After the battle with the Spearow and their leader, Kurama along with the others were tired. Naruto didn't really have enough Oran Berries, which is why he was glad he was in Boulder City now. Before he goes off to battle the gym leader he needs to rest his pokemon. So when he looked up he saw the Pokemon Center, the building where you can fully heal your pokemon. This way they would be prepared for his battle, or more training.
The glass doors binged before they slided open, Kurama seemed to be a bit surprised by the doors. "Don't worry buddy their just automatic doors." The pokemon seemed to be a bit relaxed after that, so Naruto made his way towards the front desk. Where he saw a woman with short light red hair, wearing a pokemon nurse uniform.
"Hello, my name is Nurse Joy, how may I help you?" Naruto smiled at the woman, he than noticed a Blissey, which was the evovled form of Chansey, wearing a nurse hat.
He put Kurama on the table along with three poke-balls. "My pokemon need to be healed and could use a good rest. Maybe a check up to."
The pokemon nurse smiled, "sure thing we will have them back to you in about an hour." She than jestured to a set of stairs going up. "Feel free to use one of our free rooms for pokemon trainers." She than jestured to a hallway on her left, Naruto's right. "Also we have a free buffet for all pokemon trainers." She looked to Naruto, "if you need a room or you want the free buffet you will have to use your trainer I.D."
Naruto held up his poke-dex, "will this work?"
The woman smiled, "yes that is perfect, to register for a room, or to partake in the buffet just follow the directions on various sighns that will help you."
"Thanks Nurse Joy." Naruto smiled, "Please take care of them, and Kurama here," He gestured to the Vulpix, "he doesn't like poke-balls."
"Oh, no problem, we will take good care of your pokemon, now I just need to see your trainer I.D."
"Sure thing," he handed her his poke-dex, "here you go."
"Thank you." She bowed as she took the device. She then stuck it into a small slot on her terminal computer. The screen behind her lit up with Naruto's information. "Oh, your the champion's son, it's a pleasure Namikaze-sama."
Naruto imediatlly had a depressed look, as the nurse had stars in her eyes. "Uh, yeah sure. Anyway my pokemon."
She got a surprised and embarassed look on her face. "Sorry Namikaze-sama." She began to press a series of buttons. Than the poke-dex ejected, "here you go, I got all I need if we need you one of my assistants," she pointed to Blissey, "will be able to find you through your poke-dex."
"Okay, thanks Nurse Joy, later Kurama, you'll be safe here until you're all better." With a wave from Naruto, Kurama and the three poke-balls, were wheeled to the back on a silver tray.
With that done Naruto made his way out of the Pokemon Center, he was looking for the city's poke-mart. Which really was a task easier said than done, the city was huge. However, luck was on his side, he saw a blue roofed building and knew that was the poke-mart. When he got into the building, he saw a delivery man looking around. The man saw Naruto and went straight for him, smiling.
"Naruto Namikaze?" At Naruto's nod the smile on the man's face grew, "great, I have a package here for you from your mother." He handed the package to Naruto, than pulled out a type of PDA. "Sighn here please." The man handed Naruto the device, who sighned near the X. "Great, well have a nice day, sir." He tipped his hat and was out the door.
"Weird." Naruto muttered. Beofore he left he saw a book, titled 'Guide to Elena.' When he looked on the back of the book for information, he saw that this book contains all the basic information on the eight Elena Gyms. Including info. on the leaders themselves. So he went and bought a copy. It couldn't hurt to do a little research on your opponents. With that done he went back to the center to get himself a room so he could change out of his dirty clothes.
The Pokemon Center
When Naruto got to where the rooms were he saw a long hallway with various doors on either side. Above each one was a light, the way he saw it, meant that a red light is to indicate that the room is taken. Green light meant that a room is open. So going to the nearest green lit door he read the insturctions that were on a screen above a rectangular slot. It was on the right side, next to the door knob. 'Insert poke-dex into slot below.' It sounded simple enough, so he took out his poke-dex and inserted it into the slot. He was shocked slightly when the screen lit up and a computerized voice sounded. "Welcome Naruto Namekaze." With that the door opened and the light above switched to red. "To re-enter your room just stick your poke-dex back into the slot." The poke-dex poped back out. "Good bye and have a nice day." Naruto grabbed his poke-dex and went into his temporary room. When he closed the door he flicked the light on. The room was nice, a lot of white though, the walls were white, the sheets were white, even the door was white.
"Wow, that's a lot of white." He threw his pack onto the only bed in the room and sat on the edge, then oppened the package from his mom. The first thing he noticed was a note on top of the clothes. He unfolded it and read it silently.
Naruto,
Sorry I couldn't find exact replicas to your clothes, but I hope you enjoy these. I feel like you will. I'm really glad your okay, and call me when you open this package so I know that your okay. I'm also very sorry your original traveling clothes had gotten torn. Well I look forward to hearing from you, stay out of trouble and please be safe.
Mom
Naruto had to smile, he looked at his new clothes, which also included new pants. So he went into the small bathroom in the room to take a shower.
A Few Minutes Later...
Naruto was now clean and dressed in his new outfit. A black shirt, with a fire emblem on the front chest area. A sleevless orange hoodie, with a black hood. Dark blue cargo pants, along with his original pair of shoes. The other new additon to his atire was a pair of green strapped goggles around his forehead. He than left his room to make his way towards the cafeteria, making sure he had his pokedex he left his room. When he did he noticed something he didn't before, a small netted hamper for dirty clothes, a screen above it lit up when he noticed it. "If you like, you may put any dirty clothes in here and they will be put back in your room when cleaned." Shrugging he decided to grab his dirty clothes and put them in the hamper and left the room area.
It wasn't hard to find the eating area, all he had to do was follow his nose. The cafeteria was pretty big, on one side there was pretty decent buffet for both trainers and pokemon it seemed. And across from that was a lot of tables and booths. So he took out his poke-dex and went to where he was supposed to insert the device into the scaner. When he inserted his poke-dex into the slot, a plate and an empty glass popped out of the holes on the table. Shrugging off his surprise he grabbed his poke-dex, once it was released, along with the plate and glass.
Once he had his food he got into a booth, picked up his chopsticks, and was about to eat the shrimp dumplings. Before he could eat the bite the doors leading to the outside in the cafeteria opened. Then a group of familiar people came in. The bite never got to his mouth.
"I'm just saying it's kind of wei-"
"*gasp* Naruto-kun!" The voice of Shikamaru was cut off by the sudden shriek of Ino. She was suddenly at the blondes table slipping in to the seat in front of him. "When did you get here, Naruto-kun?"
"*sigh* Just a few moments ago Ino." The dumpling fell to the plate. Suddenly he didn't feel like eating. "When did you guys get here?" He asked, more so to Shikamaru and the others than to Ino.
"Yesterday, why did it take you so long to get here?" This was Shikamaru that answered.
"I was training my pokemon along the way so I took a lot of breaks." He turned to Shikamaru and noticed the other people behind him. Aside to Choji was Kiba Inuzuka in a red pull over hoodie, a black and yellow ball cap worn backwards on his head. Tan cargo shorts, and red and black tennis shoes. Next to him was Hinata Hyuga, a light blue sleevles shirt and a light red skirt was her clothing. Along with long blue socks that were pushed down slightly and red and white tennis shoes. On the other side of Kiba was boy wearing a long sleave coat, that was a lightish gray, round sun glasses, even though he was inside. A pair of brown shorts and white tennis shoes. This was Shino Aburame, he was kind of weird and always silent, it was kind of creepy whenever he did talk, to Naruto that is.
"Speaking of, where is your pokemon?" Shikamaru looked around for any sighns.
"Oh, well they're being treated, we kinda just got through with a pretty big battle against a flock of Spearow." He scratched the back of his head.
"Whoa whoa, wait, 'they're' as in 'they'?" Kiba asked unsure, "How many do you have like two?"
"No, actually I have four."
"FOUR!" It was a collective shout amongst the group.
"How did that happen? How did you catch four pokemon?" Kiba was still bewildered.
"Uh, with poke-balls, duh." Naruto couldn't resist.
"Gah! You know what I mean."
Naruto laughed a bit, "yeah, yeah cool your jets."
"Whiskers!" They all turned to the direction to where they heard a Vulpix yip it's name.
The Vulpix jumped into Naruto's lap getting a 'oof' out of the blonde, and stayed there. Soon a Blissey showed up, pushing a tray with three poke-balls. "Hello to you too Kurama," he turned to the Blissey, "thank you." The Blissey chirped a response and took off once Naruto got all his poke-balls.
"Aww, he's sooo cute, Naruto-kun." Ino cooed as she scratched the Vulpix behind his ear.
'Oh, I like her, I wonder if this is that Sakura girl, Whiskers keeps mumbling about in his sleep.' The golden fox thought.
"Uh, thanks Ino." Naruto didn't exactly know what to say.
'Huh, guess not.' Was the after thought of Kurama.
"What's wrong with his fur." Kiba asked aloud to everyone. The result was a face full of flames. "Ow, what the hell man."
"Uh, yeah, he doesn't like it when people make fun of his fur."
"Aww, you poor thing is Kiba-baka being mean to you." Ino once again cooed as she scratch the Vulpix's favorite spot.
"You made him do that didn't you, Naruto-teme." Kiba accused.
"No I didn't, I told you he doesn't like having his fur talked about or anything."
"Okay that's it, you and me two on two pokemon battle right now." Kiba pointed a finger at Naruto.
"Uh, I'm eating, besides I was planning on challenging the leader."
"Don't bother," Shikamaru started, "we just got back from trying to challenge him, he isn't taking any challangers."
"What?!" Naruot shouted, causing Shikamaru to cover his ears.
"It is true." Shino spoked up for the first time causing Naruto to cringe. "It seems as though he wants to work on his sculpting."
"Yeah," Kiba took over, "something about not having enough inspiration or something. I don't know, all I heard was 'No battle' so that's good enough for me." Kiba folded his arms across his chest. "So we gonna battle or not?"
"Ugh, can you give me like an hour, I kinda wanna eat." Naruto groaned.
"Fine, you have one hour, meet me outside of the pokemon center when the hour is up."
"Yeah, okay."
"Prepare to go down." Kiba laughed.
"Sure, whatever." Naruto rolled his eyes as he finally ate his shrimp dumpling.
"Can I stay and eat lunch with you Naruto-Kun?" Ino spoked up, with a bit of hopefulness in her light blue eyes.
"*sigh* Okay." Naruto didn't like to be rude. Don't get him wrong he liked Ino, she is cute, in her own way, but he just always had eyes for Sakura. Maybe she would be okay if she would take a chance to get to know him, by more than his reputation as the champions son, then maybe. Then again maybe not, his heart, to him, belonged to Sakura, even if she doesn't return his feelings. He still holds hope for that day to come when she will, but until then he would wait and try to accomplish his goals. His guess on Ino, however, would be that she would never change. Still he couldn't just be rude to the blonde hair girl, she is still considered a friend.
"Great I'll go get a plate." She got up and walked over to where she could get a plate and a glass.
"You two wanna join us?" Naruto turned to Shikamaru and Choji as he took a sip of his ice tea. They looked at each other and shook their heads.
"No, she has been talking non stop about going on a date with you. If we stay, she'd never let us hear the end of it." Shikamaru sighed.
"You traitors." Naruto huffed.
"Hey, our dads are making us travel with her, and we don't want her to be even more annoying than she already is. She talks all the time about you." Shikamaru turned about to walk off. "'Sides, I wanna take a nap."
"Bye man, see you around." Choji called as he joined Shikamaru. When they left, is the same time Ino showed up. On her plate was a plain salad with little dressing, another one of her diets.
"So, Naruto-kun, what do you think of my outfit." She put a finger to her pouty lips and stook her chest out a bit.
Naruto was trying so hard to fight back both a blush and a nosebleed. 'This is going to be a long lunch hour.'
'Hmm, I think Whiskers and this Ino girl are wanting to mate.' Kurama took in both Ino and Naruto. 'Well more like the girl wants to mate with him poor, poor Whiskers.' The perverted fox than snickered at his thoughts.
An hour later..
As Naruto walked out to the front of the center from his room, he began to wonder which pokemon he whould use against Kiba. He didn't really know what kind of pokemon Kiba has, so he will just have to use his gut. 'I think I'll start with Valor than switch to Kurama.'
"I thought you were going to chicken out." Kiba called out when he saw Naruto exiting the Pokemon Center.
"You wish." Naruto smirked. He looked around and saw that all his friends were there, except for Sakura, which he was a bit upset about. Sasuke wasn't there either, but he didn't care about that. He stood across from Kiba, "well let's do this, choose your pokemon."
"You first." Kiba countered.
"Fine," he reached fo a poke-ball from his belt, "GO! Valor." He threw the ball forward, it popped open releasing bluish white light that took the form of a small Riolu.
"Whoa, who's that pokemon?" Kiba took out his poke-dex, which looked like Naruot's but was brown instead of orange. When he scanned the pokemon his eyebrows rosed. "Where the hell did you get a Riolu?"
"You going to ask idiotic questions or are you going to battle?" Naruto crossed his arms.
"Fine," Kiba threw a ball, "GO! Cynder." When the blue light took form a Cyndaquil appeared looking around confused.
"Uh, Kiba, have you let your Cyndaquil out since you got it?" Naruto asked taking in the pokemon's confusion.
"No, I haven't had to until now." Kiba answered confused by Naruto's question. "Look forget the questions and just battle."
Valor looked to his trainer. "Tell me what to do Naruto-sensei."
"Fine, alright Valor prepare yourself." Valor nodded and got into his stance, his paws glowing slightly.
"What's going on?" Cynder looked around confused.
"Cynder, use Ember on that Riolu."
"Alright." Cynder fired sparks of fire towards Valor.
Valor flung himself to the side dodging the attack. He then performed a Quick Attack on Naruto's command. The Cyndaquil tried to escape but he couldn't follow the pokemon's movements. Even though the Quick Attack wasn't even fully completed yet, it was still pretty effective when Valor strucked the fire pokemon.
"Cynder, cover the area with Smoke Screen." The small fire type let out a huge amount of smoke, covering the whole field.
"Valor!" Naruto called out, "find his aura then use Force Palm." Naruto instructed.
"There isn't anything your pokemon can-" Kiba was cut off by the sounds of flesh being smacked repeatedly. Suddenly Cynder was sent rolling out of the smoke, fainted with multiple bruises. "What the? But how did he lose?"
"Simple Kiba," Naruto started as the smoke cleared, "you haven't trained your Cyndaquil since you got it. While I was training Valor ever since I caught him." The smoke was finally cleared showing Valor breathing hard, his eyes and paws both losing their bluish glow. He was still in his fighting stance, prepared for anything. "It's like I always say Kiba, there is no such thing as weak pokemon, only weak trainers." Naruto stated sagely.
"I thought thats what your dad always says, Naruto." The blonde face falted after Shikamaru's statement.
Naruto rubbed the back of his head a sheepish grin on his whiskered mark cheeks. "Yeah, well it's a good moto to go by so I say it to."
"This isn't over yet Naruto, Go! Akamaru." Out of the next ball came a Growlithe. This one seemed more sure of himself.
Naruto looked to Valor, even though Cynder was untrained, the use of the unfinished Quick Attack that was done as fast as he could. Combined with detecting the pokemon's aura, along with Force Palm took a lot out of the small Riolu. "Valor, return." He held up Valor's ball and sent him back in the device. "You did great, take a good rest." He said to the ball before putting it back on his belt. "Let's have a real battle now, Kurama your up." Kurama jumped forward, he growled back at the growling fire dog pokemon.
"Akamaru, use Ember." The dog pokemon let lose the attack, the attack hit home, but did nothing to the fire fox. "What the? Why didn't the attack work?"
It was Shikamaru who answered. "Even though the Vulpix is a shiny, it still has Flash Fire, meaning that fire-type moves will have no affect on him if anything you made his fire-type moves even more powerful." Everyone looked at Shikamaru bewildered. "What? It's basic common sense."
"Kurama try a Quick Attack." Naruto called out.
The fire fox shot off to the dog pokemon, but Akamaru narrowlly escaped the attack. Akamaru then performed a Tackle that succesfully hit Kurama. The fox wasn't down for long, he shot up and performed another Quick Attack only this time it hit the dog pokemon.
"Good job Kurama, now use Tackle." The fox hit the dog pokemon with the attack that Naruto called out. The fire dog then got up and tried another Tackle attack, but this time Kurama dodged it. "Now use Tackle to get him in the air, then jump and use Stomp." Kurama nodded as he got in close and hit the pokemon sending the dog up in the air. He then jump above him and came down on the defenseless fire dog with a hard Stomp attack that forced Akamaru down faster. The dog hit the ground with a loud THUD with Kurama still on top. Akamaru had swirls in his eyes and was whimpering slightly.
"Good job Kurama." Naruto scratched the pokemon's head after he walked over to him. He looked at Akamaru than at the worried Kiba. "Is he going to be okay?"
Kiba nodded as he pulled out Akamaru's ball. "Yeah, he just needs some rest at the Pokemon Center. Both him and Cynder should be fine."
Naruto nodded his head glad to hear the news. "That's good to hear."
"Wow, Naruto-kun, you were great!" Ino shouted as she glomped the blonde male.
"Uh, thanks, but can you get off me please." He asked with a blush thanks to the close contact with the blonde girl.
"Oopsey, sorry Naruto-kun." She said childly, as she got up.
Naruto got up too dusting off his new outfit, he then glared at Kurama when he heard the fox pokemon laughing. "Well I'm going to head back to the center. Uh, but first where is the gym?"
"Don't bother going there," Shikamaru started, "he isn't in the gym, he's at his art gallery."
"Where is that?" Came the next question Naruto had.
"It's a couple blocks behind the gym, you can't miss it. It's got a huge display on the outside." Shikamaru then put his hands in his pockets, "but don't bother he isn't taking any challenges. We were going to stay here for another day or so to see if he changes his mind."
"Oh, well I'm still going to try, it couldn't hurt to try right?"
"Whatever." With that they all went there separate ways, Naruto decided to wait on the center and hurry to try to ask the leader for a battle.
While him and Kurama were walking they saw two figures coming from the direction that they were heading in. One was a pink haired girl, the other was a black haired boy. It was Sakura and Sasuke, they were headed towards the blonde. "Hey Sakura-chan!" Naruto called, the pink haired girl looked towards Naruto and her face brighten.
"Hey Naruto-sempai." She called back as she hurried to the blonde boy. When she caught up to him she was smiling brightly. "When did you get here?" She asked once she was in front of Naruto.
"Today like a couple of hours ago, you?" He smiled at Sakaura.
"We got in yesterday." She looked to Sasuke who had a scowl on his face as he just walked by both her and Naruto.
"What's wrong with him." Naruto pointed his thumb towards the back of the black haired boy.
"Oh yeah, he's upset 'cause the leader denied him a battle." She said looking at Sasuke's back sadly.
"Oh, well he'll get over it." He looked towards the Uchiha, "honestly though, I don't see what you see in him Sakura-chan." He looked towards Sakura. She blushed under his stare and looked down.
"Oh, who is this?" She said both shocked by the pokemon and wanting to change the subject. She knelt down, "he's so cute." She gushed as she scratched behind Kurama's ear.
'Oh, so this is who Whiskers is dreaming about.' Kurama thought when he saw the pink haired girl. 'Oh I like you pinky.' He thought when she began to scratch behind his ear.
Naruto knelt down with Sakura allowing the change of subject. He began to pet the fire fox, "His name is Kurama, he's my starter."
"Oh." Sakura looked to Naruto, she then felt a hand on hers, she looked down to see Naruto slightly holding her hand. When she looked up she saw worry and concern in his eyes, and sadness, but for what? The stare did make her blush a bit and turn her eyes away.
"Sakura-chan," Naruto was trying to figure out how to say what he wants to. "I-I*sigh* just, be safe, and whatever happens I'll be there for you." Sakura blushed again.
"Thanks Naruto-kun." She whispered, but blushed again slightly when she added the 'kun'. She then stood up. "I should get going." Naruto let go of her hand before she stood up, Naruto stood too. "Bye, I'll see ya later." She tried to hide the blush on her face, as she took off for the Pokemon Center.
Naruto had a sad look on his face as he watched the pink haired girl walk away. "I love you Sakura-chan." He whispered to himself saying what he wanted to say to Sakura.
Kurama looked up to Naruto. 'Why didn't he tell her that?' The fox wondered as he looked at his trainer sadly.
"Let's go Kurama." Naruto said with a slightly sad look on his face and a pain in his gut. He began to walk towards the art gallery again.
The Art Gallery..
"Shikamaru was right, you can't miss it." Naruto said noticing the very big and tall building. The huge display was just a couple of blown up pictures of statues that were carved to look like pokemon. He made his way inside the building, his mouth was open in awe at the look of the place. There were numerous of masterly carved statues of pokemon. He was looking around trying to take it all in.
"Can I help you?" He turned his head toward the female voice. It was a woman in her late twenties, wearing a white blouse under a small tan suit jacket, and a brown suit skirt. She had a clip board in one hand a pen in the other, her ash blonde hair was up in a tight bun. "This gallery is closed young man, come back in a week maybe we'll be open."
Naruto shook his head to get his thoughts straighten out. "No wait, I'm not here for the gallery, I was told the gym leader would be here."
"Oh, another trainer come to bother Deidara-sama? Sorry but like he told the others he is not taking any challenges right now, so scoot." She tried to get Naruto to leave but neither he nor Kurama were budging.
"Listen lady, I'm not leaving until I talk to the gym leader." Naruto said standing his ground.
"Fine, and my name isn't 'Lady' it's Miko." She pointed to the name tag on her right brest pocket.
"Great, thanks Miko-san." Naruto smiled as Miko led the way to where the gym leader, Dedara, was. "Don't take too long, I hope you can find your way out when he tells you 'No'." Naruto huffed but nodded.
He entered the door they stopped at looking around, Kurama doing the same thing. It was a huge room with multiple statues that were either not finished, cracked, or just completely destroyed. "No, no it's still not right." He heard a voice. He looked towards the center of the room. He saw a tall blonde man with his long blonde hair in a high pony tail, about in his late teens or early twenties. Blue almost grey eyes. He could only see one 'cause the man had one side of his face covered by hair. He had a black shirt on under a black zipper hoodie, and blue jean shorts. Sandles are what he wore on his feet, he was sitting on a small stool, glaring at the unfinished stone statue. He got rid of it and brought a new block of marble. He then noticed Naruto was there, he pointed the chisle at the younger blonde, "you! Who are you?" He got up and made his way towards Naruto. "Well?" He stopped in front of the younger blonde.
"Uh," he shook his head to get rid of his shock. "I'm Naruto Namikaze, a pokemon trainer."
"Namikaze? Are you by chance related to the champion?" He asked after thinking over the blondes name for a while.
"Yeah, he's my father." Naruto said feeling rather small, like he usually does when people talk about his father.
"Oh cool, well before you ask, no I'm far too busy for a battle right now." He went to walk away.
"Busy with what?" Naruto asked as the man walked away.
He stopped, "art. I'm busy trying to create a masterpiece."
"Well, do you need any help?" Naruto asked trying anything to get a battle.
"Help? Can you sculpt, or do you even know anything about art?" Deidara asked examining the blonde.
"No."
"Then go away." He made a shooing motion with his hand.
"Wait, isn't there anything I can do to help?" Deidara stopped and turned around to face the young trainer.
"Hmm." He was studying both Naruto and Kurama. "Is that Vulpix the only pokemon you have?"
"No, I have four including him." Naruto held up four fingers while motioning to Kurama.
"Bring them out, let's see them." Deidara went over to the new piece of marble that he had placed in front of the stool.
Naruto let out the rest of his team, when they were all out they all looked around the room marveling at all the unfinished or damaged statues. "Here they are."
"Wow, two shinies, a small Riolu and an Oshawatt, not a bad team kid." Deidara was studying both pokemon and trainer now.
"Uh, thanks, I think."
"Now stand over there with your pokemon." He pointed to a spotlighted area that Naruto didn't notice before.
"Okay, but what's-"
"If you want a battle stand over there." Deidara said impatiently.
Naruto complied he got in the spot light his pokemon with him. "Like this?"
"Yeah." Deidara nodded, but got up after studying him a little bit. He walked over to the blonde and his pokemon, he grabbed Naruto's left hand and put it in the air parralleled to the ground. "Now point." Naruto complied pointing off to the left. Deidara then turned the younger blondes head to face where he was pointing. He then turned Naruto's body to the right, "spread your feet." Again Naruto listened and spread his feet.
Naruto now stood with the front of his body facing where Deidara was sitting moments ago. His feet pointed to the block of marble, with his left arm up. He was pointing to the left and his head was turned to where his finger was pointing. He was looking off into the distance. Deidara took a step back and studied the blonde, he then looked to the young trianers pokemon. He pointed to Kurama, "you, stand right there." He pointed to the left side of Naruto, Kurama looked to Naruto who nodded. The fox pokemon listened to the tall blonde, "now turn and face where your trainers pointing." Kurama turned and faced where Naruto was ponting. Deidara knelt down and lifted the shinies head up a bit, pushed his tails down. "Stand proudly."
He then turned to Valor, "stand here and act like your looking for something, but don't move." Valor listend and stood on the right of Kurama and slightly behind him, he had his left paw above his eyes looking into the distance. "Kneel down." The small Riolu listend and knelt down on his left knee. His right arm on his right knee. "Perfect, now don't move, now you," he pointed to Neptune, "stand like your trainer." Neptune listened, he was pointing and looking off into the distance standing directly behind Valor but directly in front of Naruto. He had his right hand on his hips, trying to stand as proudly as he could. "Now you," he looked to Puka, "I want you to get on your trainer's shuolder." Puka complied and crawled up to Naruto's right shoulder. "Now lean forward and look to the left." She did so, Deidara took a few steps back, "perfect."
"Uh, whats this for?" Naruto asked trying not to look away from where he was pointing.
"Be my model and maybe I'll give you a battle."
"Really?" Naruto turned his head.
"Stay still!" Deidara yelled, Naruto turned his head back to where he was pointing. "I said 'maybe' and thats if you stay still." Naruto remained still only his chest was moving due to his breathing.
'I'll take it, it's better than a 'no'.' Naruto thought trying not to move, his pokemon doing the same thing.
Deidara walked back over to his stool, and got a sketch pad and a sketching pencil. "I'm going to sketch you first than I'll try sculpting." He kept glancing to the blond while drawing on the sketch pad, "this could be my best work." He mumbled to himself.
An Hour Later..
Naruto and his pokemon were starting to get tired, his arm was trembling. He glanced to the older blond who had just put away his pad. "Okay, you can move now." Naruto and his pokemon relaxed. Deidara walked over to the door that Naruto and Kurama came in from. "Now leave." He motioned to the open door.
BOOM
The loud explosion was heard by both Naruto and Dedara, "what was that?" Naruto asked walking to the open door to figure out the answer.
"I don't know." He satrted to exit but turned back to Naruto, "stay here." He left to go check out the disturbance.
"Tch, yeah right, lets go guys." Naruto and his team followed after the gym leader, also heading towards the disturbance. When he caught up he saw two people, a male and a female. The male looked to be in his early twenties. Black beady eyes, with black gravity defying spiky hair. Wearing a gray long sleeve shirt over a black shirt that was tucked into gray pants. The shirts sleeves were stuffed into black leather gloves that extended up to a few inches below his elbows. His gray pants were tucked into black leather boots that went up to below his knees. On the front of his shirt was a musical note.
The female had long black hair that extended to the middle of her back, and coal black eyes. She seemed to be in her early twenties as well. She wore a similar outfit to the male, only her black shirt and gray long sleeve shirt showed off her toned belly. The black leather gloves she wore covered her entire arm, stopping just below the shoulders. Instead of gray pants she had a tight gray miniskirt, and her leather boots covered her legs stopping only about two inches below her skirt. She too had a musical note on her chest, only it was slightly bulging out due to her breasts.
"Who are you?" Deidara demanding from the two.
"Who are we?" The male questioned.
"We're part of the great and mighty group, Team Sound." The Female said.
The male gestured to himself, "I'm Zaku," he motioned to the female, "and she's Kin."
"Uh, never heard of ya." Naruto said catching the attention of Dedara and Team Sound.
"I told you to stay put." Deidara glared at Naruto.
"Okay, but do you have your pokemon?" The gym leaders face went white along with his eyes. "Thought so." Naruto stepped forward facing the male and female, now known as Zaku and Kin. "Hey Team Note-"
"It's Team Sound!" Zaku and Kin shouted simultaneously.
"Whatever," Naruto crossed his arms. "Anyway what are you doing here."
"Glad you asked little boy." Naruto frowned at Kin's statement, she laughed. "We're here to take all this priceless art."
"What?!" Deidara shouted.
"We're going to take all this art and give it to our boss." Zaku answered, smirking dvelishly.
Naruto stepped forward, "no your not." He stood confidently.
Team Sound began to laugh hysterically at the blonde teen. "Who's going to stop us? You, little boy?"
"Yeah, me and my pokemon." Naruto glared at the two Team Sound members. "Puka, Kurama, let's go." The two shinies stepped forward.
"Let's take these idiots down." Kurama looked to Puka.
"Let's do it, Kurama-kun." Sparks came off Puka's cheeks.
Zaku began to laugh, "check it out Kin, his pets want to fight us." Zaku had a cocky grin on his features.
"Let's show them some real pokemon." After Kin's statement they each took out a poke-ball.
"Go! Venom." Out of the poke-ball Zaku threw came a Gligar. It soared for a bit before landing infront of its trainer.
"Go! Mamba." Kin's Pokemon of choice was a Seviper, the snake pokemon began to glare at the smaller pokemon.
"Venom, use Aerial Ace." The Gligar went for the Pikachu colored Pichu with it's wings glowing.
"Puka dodge it!" Naruto yelled but he knew his pokemon wouldn't be able to get out of the way in time.
"No you don't." Kurama called as he hit the Gligar with glowing tails, that turned to metal for a split second when it hit the Gligar.
'Did he just use Iron Tail?' Naruto thought when he saw the attack hit.
"Mamba Poison Tail." The Seviper's tail glowed purple as it sent the attack toward Kurama.
"Quick use Quick Attack to dodge." Kurama obeyed but took it a step further. He used the attack to get around the Seviper and attack it when it was confused on it's miss. The snake pokemon was sent back to it's trainer knocking Kin down with Mamba on top of her. "Good job Kurama."
"Ah, Mamba get off me!" Kin shouted to the dazed pokemon.
"Venom use Poison Fang on that annoying Vulpix." The Gligar listened to its trainer as it glided towards Kurama.
"Puka, use Thunder Bolt." Puka's cheeks sparked for a bit then shot a large amount of electricity towards the bat like pokemon. Gligar, who was too focus on getting its revenge on Kurama, didn't see the electricity coming right for it until it was too late. Venom let out a shriek as it was electrified, he was then sent back towards his trainer. Venom hit Zaku with enough force to send him to the ground.
"Venom get the hell off of me!" Now both Team Sound members were knocked down with dazed pokemon preventing them from getting up. Ironicly enough they never thought to just send the pokemon back to their respective poke-balls.
"Alright Kurama finish it, use Ember." The golden Vulpix prepared to send out sparks of fire. However, due to his anger towards the pokemon that tried to attack his friend, he put more force behind the attack. So without thinking about it, a stream of very hot fire shot out towards Team Sound and their pokemon. When it hit it sent the criminals and their pokemon flying out of the giant hole they made in the wall.
While flying through the air Zaku began to think out loud, "Ugh, the boss isn't going to be happy when we tell him that we failed."
Kin crinched as she thought of their sadistic boss, "well, I sure as hell am not going to tell him."
"What? I ain't telling him either." The two kept bickering as they flew off with their pokemon.
Deidara stared at the blonde and his pokemon in shock. "You just saved all of my art from being stolen." The gym leader was ecstatic by the blondes heroics.
"Uh, yeah, say uhm sorry about the wall though." Naruto rubbed the back of his head as he looked at the large hole in the wall.
"Pfft." Deidara waved it off, "that can be fixed, but my art is irreplaceable." Deidara approached the young trainer. "If there is anything I can do for you just name it."
Naruto grined as a thought came into his head, "well, you could give me that battle I want."
Deidara chuckled, "you got it."
"Yes!" Naruto cheered, as did his pokemon.
"Calm down, calm down," Deidara made a motion with his hands, "we'll battle tomorrow, at one thirty."
Naruto nodded, "great." Naruto returned his pokemon, "let's go Kurama. Bye, thanks again Deidara-san." Naruto waved as he ran off towards the exit.
Deidara chuckled, 'such a unique trainer.' He than looked from the hole in the wall to the room he and the young trainer were in. 'I think I just got some great insperation.' He took off towards where the block of marble was, 'this will truly be my greatest work of art. Yeah.' He nodded to himself as he entered the room to begin on his new project.
The Pokemon Center..
Naruto entered the Pokemon center with a grin on his face and Kurama on his shoulder. He ran up to the front desk. "Oh, welcome back, how may I help you?" The Pokemon Nurse asked seeing Naruto aproach the desk.
"Yeah, can you heal my pokemon I want to do some trainer before it gets too late." Kurama hopped onto the front desk, less nervous than he was the first time around. Naruot then put three poke-balls on the desk.
"I'll be glad to, I just need to see your poke-dex." Naruto nodded and handed the device over to the nurse. She inserted Dexter into a machine, once again Naruto's image and info. appeared on the screen on the wall. "Thank you, Namikaze-sama." She bowed as she handed the device back to him, Naruto frowned slightly, but it left his features quickly. "It will be about an hour."
"Thank you, and take your time." He looked to Kurama, "behave, I'll see you soon buddy." Naruto scratched Kurama behind his ear. The nurses assistant, Blissey, wheeled Kurama and the three poke-balls to the back for treatment. Naruto went over to where the video phones were, 'I almost forgot to let mom know that I got her package.' Naruto sat down at one of the video phones and dialed his mom's number. Soon his mom's image came onto the screen.
"Naruto Namikaze, why the hell didn't you call me sooner! Do you know how worried I was when I heard from the delivery man and not you that you got my package?!" Kushina yelled nearly blowing out Naruto's ear drum, when she saw who was calling her. Naruto had to hold the phone away from his ear when she shouted
"Mom, I'm sorry, I got distracted with all that's happened that it slipped my mind." Naruto answered meekly.
Kushina sighed, "okay, but don't let it happen again or I will come for you and show you why I was nicknamed the 'Red-hot coordinator'." Her threat did not go on deaf eaars, for Naruto turned ghost white when he heard that, he knew of all the stories.
"O-okay, mom, I promise I won't ever forget again to call you."
"Okay," she than took upon a sweet look on her face. "So how are things going now?" Naruot smiled as he began to tell his mom of everything that happened ever since he got to Boulder City.
About thirty minutes later..
Naruto was sitting on a couch in the Pokemon Center, reading the guide he had bought earlier that day. He was looking at the information it had on Dedara, 'so he uses three pokemon that can use either Explosion, or Self-Destruct.' Naruto sighed laying back into the couch looking up to the ceiling. 'I suppose I could try teaching my pokemon Dig to try and evade the attack.' He than thought of who he should use. 'I know I'm going to use Kurama, but I think I should save him for last. Who to choose though?' He knew of pokemon that can use one or both of the attacks. 'I know of some, but there are just too many possiblities.' He looked back to the guide, 'this guide is seeming like a waste of money, either it's this vague so it won't be considered cheating, or the author is just a total douche-bag.'
Naruto looked at the authors name for the first time. His eyes widened when he saw the name, "Pokemon Master Jiraiya?" Naruto was shocked, he's the one that took his father under his wing for a while. He was also one of the three that challenged and had almost beaten Proffesor Sarutobi when he was champion. Their battles were so intense and so amzaing, that him and the other two were giving the title of Pokemon Master. It was a step below champion but they were considered to be on a whole nother level. Since then they each went their separate ways. Jiraiya, after a few years, took Naruto's dad under his wing. It's Naruto's belief that it was because of this training that his father was able to become champion. He was also Naruto's hero, aside to his dad, he would give anything to train his pokemon under the masters tutelage, even for an hour.
"Naruto-sempai?" Naruto turned away from the book to see Sakura.
"Hey Sak-"
"Naruto-kun!" He was interupted by a shriek and a blond blur next thing he knew he had something soft against his chest and in a tight embrace. His face was turning red, both from the feeling on his chest and the lack of air.
"Ino. Choking. Not breathing." Naruto barely got out. Ino giggled as she let go, but she was still straddling Naruto's lap.
"Sorry Naruto-kun." She smiled sweetly.
Sakura, however, was glaring at the blonde female. 'What does she think she is doing? Why is she sitting on my Naruto-' Her eyes widened when she relized what she thought. 'Wait, why did I say that, I mean think that.' She was blushing furriously at her thoughts.
"Say uh, Ino, can you get off of me?" Naruto said trying to fight back the nosebleed and the blush on his face. She giggled and got off of Naruto, who crossed his legs trying to hide his problem caused by the blonde girl. She sat next to him, as his other friends, including Sasuke, came over.
"Say, Naruto-kun, how did it go with the gym leader, you were gone for a long time." Ino asked curiously.
"Oh well it's kind of a long story." Naruto rubbed the back of his head while sheepishly grinning.
"Well let us hear it man." Shikamaru said sitting on the floor getting comfortable, Chouji joined him. Sasuke got in close to hear while Kiba got in closer. Sakura sat on the otherside of Naruto on the couch, sitting close to her male blonde friend. Ino glared at the pink haired girl and Sakura glared back. Naruto looking between the two had no idea what was going on between them, or why they were glaring.
"Okay, well let's see where to start?" He then began to tell his friends about the events starting with when he entered the gallery.
Another Thirty minutes later..
"YOU GOT A GYM BATTLE?!" Sasuke uncharacteristically shouted. Shocking everyone in the area.
"Yeah." Naruto answered as he was stroking Kurama who was laying peacefully curled up in his lap. Kurama and his other pokemon were returned to him when he was almost done telling his friends of his tale. "Yeah, it was because I stopped the idiots of Team Sound from taking his art." Naruto explained, he was about to explain that part when he was interupted by Sasuke. "Dedara-san was so happy that he said we can battle tomorrow at one thirty."
"Wow, can I come and watch Naruto-kun?" Ino asked trying out the puppy dog look.
Naruto smiled, "sure you all can come to cheer me on if you want." Everyone agreed to go to the gym tomorrow to see their friend's battle. Naruto got up causing Kurama to have to jump down, "welll I'm going to go train my pokemon for a bit then head to bed." He looked at Kurama, "we'll also be doing some training tomorrow."
Naruto waved to his friends, "see you all tomorrow."
"Bye Naruto-sempai/-kun." Sakura and Ino said together getting Ino to glare at Sakura, which caused Sakura to glare back. Naruto was unaware of a tall man with long white spikey hair following him to his training area of choice.
When Naruto got to the area, Kuramas ears pricked up, he lept from his perch on Naruto's shoulder. He landed behind Naruto which caused the blonde to turn around, the golden Vulpix than beagn to growl at a figure. "Who's there? Show yourself." A tall man with long white spikey hair came walking out. He was wearing a white button up shirt tucked into blue dress pants. The long sleeve shirt's sleeves were rolled up to the man's elbows. On his feet were black loafers, on his face were two red lines one on each side of his face. Each starting from underneath the eye going down to his jawline. He had a smirk on his face and wisdom in his eyes.
"Calm down kid, I was just interested in seeing who you were." He had his hands up in a surrendering fashion. "I over heard the nurse say that your name was Namikaze."
"Maybe," Naruto was catious, one of his hands instinctively going to one of his poke-balls. Kurama never moved, he was waiting for a command from his trainer on wether to engage or not. "Depends on who is asking."
The man laughed heartedly, his hands falling to his sides as one slapped his right knee. "Oh man, you remind me so much of your father when we first met." He controled his laughing, "He didn't recongnize me at first either." The man then pointed to the book Naruto still had in his hand, "I wrote that book when he traveled with me." Naruto got a shock look on his face as realization sunk in, "of course it's not a best seller like my 'Poke Girl Paradise'." The man then got a perverted smile on his face.
"Y-Your, J-Jiraiya, Pokemon Master Jiraiya." Naruto finally found his voice, "oh, I have been wanting to meet you for so long. Please can you help me train my pokemon, please, please." Naruto was, well basicly geeking out, he was finally getting to meet one of his idols.
"Why do you want me to help you?" He than folded his arms across his chest. "And why, should I help you?"
"You helped my dad, and if it wasn't for you he wouldn't have become champion, please I would give anything to have you help me." Naruto held his hands together in a begging motion.
"Anything?" He then looked to the golden Vulpix. "How 'bout you give me that shiny Vulpix there."
Naruto looked to Kurama, than back to Jiraiya, he then got an angry look on his face. "Hell no, when I said anything I wasn't including my pokemon."
"Why not? I said I would train you if you gave me your Vulpix, how about a trade then?" Jiraiya asked.
"No way, no trades either, if that's what it takes to get you to train me, then forget." Naruto stood proudly.
"Why?" Jiraiya prodded.
"Because, my pokemon are my friends, and I never abandon my friends." He looked to Kurama then glanced to the balls on his belt. "I'll find my own way of getting stronger, just you wait, one day I will be the new pokemon champion of Elena."
Jiraiya than began to laugh boisterously, before Naruto could comment, the older man beat him to it. "Oh, you deffinently are Minato's kid." He looked down to Naruto, 'I have a feeling that with the proper guidance, you would become a great champion.' He patted Naruto on the head, "Okay kid, I'll help you train your pokemon."
"Really?" Naruto's face lit up when Jiraiya nodded. "Yes!" Naruto began to jump and cheer.
"Now hold on there kid, you still got a gym battle tommorow, so don't celebrate just yet.." Naruot calmed down and nodded his head, "okay let your pokemon out and lets get started."
The next day at one thirty..
Naruto was nervous, he was standing on the challanger side of the battlefield, Kurama standing by his feet. He was waiting for the gym leader to show, he looked up to the upper level where his friends stood by the railing. They were shouting out words of encouragement. He then looked under the upper level out of the sight of the spectators. He saw Jiraiya leaning against the wall, he gave the blonde a thumbs up. Then Naruto's eyes darted to the doors, on the side across from him, when he heard them open. The Boulder City gym leader, Deidara, came in he was still in his clothes that he had on yesterday. They seemed to be a bit wrinkled.
"Sorry I'm late, I stayed up half the night, I kinda slept in," he yawned, "I only got up an hour ago." Naruto and just about everybody else sweatdropped.
Naruto held up a poke-ball in his right hand, he extended it out towards Deidara, "gym leader Deidara, I challenge you to a gym battle for your gym badge."
"I accept, this will be a three on three battle." Deidara looked to the referee, who had a red flag in his right hand and a green flag in his left. He was standing to the left of Dedara, to Naruto's right.
"Challanger, chose your first pokemon." The referee called out, Naruto nodded and threw up the ball he had in his hand.
"Your up, Valor." The small Riolu stood proudly in his fighting stance.
"Come on out Rodin." Out of the ball came a pokemon that Naruto hasn't seen before. It looked like it was jaggedly carved from stoned. Dark blue on the outside, in the middle the rock seemed to be carved inward, the color was yellow. Yellowish stone feet and a long piece of stone on its head that was the same yellow color. Naruto brought out his pokedex and scaned the rock creature.
Bing!
Roggenrola-the mantle pokemon-Its ear is hexagonal in shape. Compressed underground, its body is as hard as steel.
"Cool," Naruot said to himself, "You ready Valor?" Valor nodded and got ready for any attack.
"Rodin, use Rock Blast." A series of glowing rocks came out of the ground and were flung at Valor.
"Quick use Double Team," as the rocks were about to hit mutiple copies of Valor appeard. When the attack hit it kicked up a lot of dust, obscuring the Riolu from vision.
"Take this Teme!" The Roggenrola was shocked when Valor came towards him, his front paws were glowing blue. Valor hit the rock pokemon and sent him flying into the air. He lept up and kicked the pokeomn back down to the ground. The gym leaders pokemon hit the ground so hard it left a crater. Valor landed next the whole standing triumphantly.
"Use Rock Throw." Valor was too shock to dodge the rocks that were sent flying towards him. He was sent flying across the field skidding to a stop.
"Come on get up Valor you can do it." Naruto called, as he watched Valor get up he sighed. 'I think only one move can even hope to do any damage to that pokemon's defense.' Naruto sighed defeatedly, "Valor, use it." Valor looked to Naruto as if to see if he meant it, to which the blonde nodded.
"Okay if you think I can do it Naruto-sensei than I can do it." The pokemon whispered to himself. He put his hands behind him, a paw over the other. When the aura sparked it started to form a ball. Valor began to run towards the rock pokemon. As he did the ball grew in size, thus causing everyone to gasp in shock. "Eat this Teme." Valor thrusted his hands forward, with the average size Aura Sphere being shoved into the rock pokemon's hexagonal face. The force was enough to cause Rodin to cry out in pain the pokemon was sent flying towards the wall.
The rock pokemon was embeded into the wall, while Valor was breathing hard. Suddenly, and to Valors shock, Rodin came out of the wall heading straight for Valor. He did notice a slight crack in the pokemon which means that it did some damage. But as Roggenrola was getting closer the pokemon's body was glowing slightly.
"Do it Rodin." Deidara called out.
"Oh no," Naruto relized what was going on, "Valor get out of there! It's going to use Explosion!" Naruto called out.
Valor tried to get away but his earlier attack left him very drained of energy. 'Forgive me Naruto-siensei.'
BOOM
When the dust cleared both Rodin and valor were out cold. The referee put his arms over his chest making an X. "Both pokemon are unable to battle."
"Valor!" Naruto called as he ran to the pokemon. He knelt down with Kurama sniffing the small Riolu. Valor opened his eyes for a second to look in his trainers eyes but he didn't see dissapointment in them, but concern and proudness instead. He then passed out. "You'll be okay buddy," he held up Valor's ball, "You deserve a good rest." Valor went back in the ball with a smile on his face. Naruto walked back to his side of the field.
"Are you going to be okay kid?" The gym leader asked.
Naruto nodded, "yeah, let's go!"
"Challanger choose your next pokemon." Naruto threw another ball in the air.
"Let's go, Neptune!" Oshawott came out and got ready, by taking hold of the shell on his belly.
"Da Vinci, your up." When the ball popped open a Pineco appeared, it shook a bit beofre glaring at Neptune. Neptune glared right back at Da Vinci.
'Pineco, that one will probably use Explosion too, Neptune should focus on long distance attacks.' Naruto looked to Neptune, "Neptune try to stay away as much as possible." The water pokemon nodded.
"As you wish, Naruto-sama." Neptune whispered as he prepared himself for anything.
"Da Vinci, Rapid Spin." The Pineco began to spin rapidly heading straight towards Neptune.
"Use Protect." Neptune held up his shell and a greenish force field appeard around him. The deffense was enough to stop the attack.
"Nice move kid." Deidara smirked, "but what about this, Bug Bite." When Neptune's shield was down the bug pokemon used the attack which caused Neptune to cry out.
"Neptune blow him back with Water Gun." Neptune nodded ignoring the pain, he gathered water in his mouth then uleashed it at the close pokemon. Da Vinci was sent back but only about fifteen feet from Neptune.
"Rapid Spin now." The bug pokemon listened and began to spin rapidly towards Neptune.
"Quick counter with Aqua Jet." Neptune flew off towards the spining Pineco, water swirling rapidly around the Oshawott. The two attacks cancled each other out, but manage to kick up some dust. Neptune couldn't see anything while he was looking around for his opponent.
"Bug Bite." The Oshawott heard the command, but he couldn't see where either his trainer or the oppenents trainer was. Suddenly he felt a pain in his shoulder, he saw Da Vinci latched onto him. "Self-Destruct." Neptunes eyes widened when he heared the chose of attack, the Pineco started to glow.
BOOM
It was a while before the dust cleared finally, "Both pokemon are unable to battle." The referee called out crossing his arms into another X.
"Neptune!" Once again Naruto and Kurama ran out to the field, Neptune was fine, but he really needed a rest. "Good job buddy, you deserve a long rest."
"Let's go kid." Deidara said cleaning out his ear, the last explosion was pretty loud due to Da Vinci being closer to him.
"Right." Naruto went back to his side of the field.
"Challanger choose your next pokemon." The referee called.
"Okay," he looked to Kurama, "you ready to win this?" Kurama yipped and jumped foraward ready for anything.
"Oh so I get to see for myself what this Vulpix can do." Deidara smirked, he threw out his last pokeball, "Van Gogh, let's finish this." Out of the ball came an Exeggutor, it shook slightly causing the leaves on it's head to shift.
Naruto couldn't help but smirk, but it went away as he thought. 'Hold on, it's the only one he has tats evolved, that can only mean that this one is his strongest. Oh man I hope we can handle this.' Naruto shook his head he couldn't doubt himself or his pokemon. 'We can do this Kurama.' It almost seem like the pokemon heard his thoughts, due to the shiny turning his head towards Naruto and nodded.
"Alright, use Flamethrower." A huge stream of fire came out of Kurama's mouth shooting for the grass type.
"Energy Ball." Deidara called. The attack got in the way of the Flamethrower which caused them to cancel each other out. "Now use Egg Bomb." Multiple eggs were being flung at the golden Vulpix.
"Kurama, use Quick Attack." Kurama ran out of the way of the exploding eggs at a fast rate, he came up behind the Exeggutor and sent it forward. Kurama then gathered fire in his mouth and breathed out another Flamethrower at Naruto's command. This time the attack hit home, Van Gogh cried out due to his weakness to fire. After the attack the grass type got back up, but with some diffuculty, it was still shocking to Kurama.
"Now use Psychic." Deidara comanded, Van Gogh's eyes glowed white as Kurama was lifted and flung to the far side hitting the wall underneath the spectators. He was embedded into the wall from the force.
"Kurama!" Kurama came out, slightly dazed, but shook it off. "Let's do it buddy finish it with Iron Tail." Kurama ran towards the Exeggutor, his tails glowing before they all turned to metal the attack sent Van Gogh down into the ground creating another crater in the field. Kurama was slightly winded from the attack but otherwise fine. But he was shocked when he saw the grass pokemon get back up, although with difficulty.
"Hey Naruto, when this battle ends in a draw, you don't get the badge." Naruto's eyes widened when he heard that he knew what was going to happen.
"Kurama get out of there!" Naruto yelled as Deidara called out his final attack.
"Explosion." Each of Van Gogh's heads glowed one by one.
"Shit." Kurama cussed, tyring to think quickly, he thought back to his training with the white haired man and his trainer, an idea strucked him.
BOOM
There was so much dust from the attack that no one could tell what happened. The dust was starting to clear to where everyone could see a passed out Van Gogh. "Hn, it's over. Call it ref." Deidara said to the referee.
Suddenly the ground in front of Naruto began to crack. Deidara's eyes widened. Every jaw in the building dropped and hit the floor. Jiraiya had a smirk on his face. But Naruto was the most shocked of all. Shooting out from the ground was Kurama, he was breathing hard and his tails were slightly singed. Otherwise the quick thinking shiny was fine.
"Van Gogh is unable to battle." The referee held up the green flag towards Naruto and Kurama. "The winner of the gym battle is Naruto Namikaze from Leaf Town."
The ones watching cheered for Naruto's win, Sasuke had a scowl on his face as he made his way out of the gym. Naruto and Kurama were jumping with joy, both were excited for their first gym battle win. Even though it was close and by sheer luck, it was still a win.
Deidara made his way towards Naruto. "Well, congradulations, Naruto Namikaze, on behalf of the Boulder City gym, I present to you the Clay Badge." The small metal object Naruto was handed was round, with two bumps on top looking like small round ears. Two small leg like pieces sticking out of the bottom. It was all white in color, with two small black circles making eyes, and four small black squares making an almost smiling mouth.
Naruto held up the badge high the object shining slightly in the light. "Yeah, I got the Clay Badge." Naruto cheered, Kurama jumping and cheering with his trainer. Suddenly all of Naruto's friends were surronding the blond all commenting on how awesome the battle was. Sakura and Ino each gave Kurama an Oran Berry, and either stroked or scratched the golden Vulpix.
"Wait, wait," Deidara called getting everyone to calm down, "Naruto I got something else I want to show you."
"What is it?" Naruto cocked his head slightly wondering what the gym leader had in mind.
"Come with me to the gallery, you all can come." He then led the way to the gallery, Naruto and his friends followed.
When they got to the gallery, and to the display of Deidara's newest sculptor Kiba started to snicker. Sakura and Ino were both wide eyed, along with the rest of Naruto's friends. Jiraiya, who followed them, smircked when he saw the statue. Naruto, however, was embarassed as was made obvious by the blush on his face. The statue was an exact match to the pose that he and his pokemon were in when Deidara sketched them. He didn't know that Deidara was going to do this. Although it was cool, and expertly made with not a single imperfection.
"Future Elena Champion?" Naruto read the inscription on the golden plaque, that was attached to the base of the statue.
"Yep," Deidara smiled, "suits it right?"
Naruto's embarrassment went away, he smiled determinedly as he nodded. "It's perfect." He began to laugh in excitement for his journey ahead, his friends, Deidara, and Jiraiya joined in.
Hello it's me Kushina, Naruto's mom. Next time my little boy is offered more help with his training from Jiraiya. Also Naruto is challenged to a battle by Sasuke. So next time parts of the training is covered, and it seems that my little baby catches a new pokemon. How will the training go? Will Naruto be able to defeat Sasuke? What pokemon will Naruto catch? Guess we better check back next time in Chapter 4 The Pervert's Training. That pervert better not corrupt my little baby.
(A/N: Sorry it took me so long, a lot is happening in my life that I really don't want to get into. I am sorry to say this, but until I get chapter four outlined, and atleast started on chapter five, I won't be updating for a while. But don't worry, no matter how long I am away I will update this story, I love it too much to abadon it. Also if you could, I would like some ideas for the training in the next chapter, to kinda help me out, what would you like to see done? Tell me and maybe I'll use it. I will try to give you credit if I do. I also have been bombarded with multiple story ideas for other stories. Sorry about that false update, I don't know what I was thinking, but thanks to a guest review I rethought the Team Sound idea. The update was just an AN which I'm not proud of. Anyway thank you to the one that sumbmitted the review I did rethink the idea of Team Sound and I think it will make my story better than I thought. Also, another guest review suggested the Roggenrola for Dedara, thank you for that idea. The name 'Rodin' is the last name of a sculptor, he's the one that did the 'Thinker' also you noticed that Dedara's pokemon were named after artsy people, yeah. Also I have a poll going on a side project that I will do when I'm not doing this story. The poll is on which Naruto based story should be done, and each one has a different pairing to it. The details of the story are on my profile, and you can find the poll there too, I suggest you read the details first. Also, if your having a hard time picturing the Clay Badge, I have a link to my Deviant Art account on my profile that shows a colored drawing of each of the Elena gym badges. Now don't critisize my drawing, I did them all free handed. Also incase you haven't geussed it, yes each of the eight gym leaders is one of the Akatsuki. When you see the badges you can pretty much guess who Naruto will fight. Now I have never seen this done in some of the Pokemon/Naruto fanfics, I think it is pretty cool. Now don't worry, Kakashi, Gai, and two other leaf Jonin, I won't say who, will be in the Fic just not until later on. Now if anyone has an idea for a Pokemon, for either Naruto, Sakura, the gym leaders, Kakashi, Gai, or just random pokemon for someone to have, send me a PM. Be sure to include a nickname as well, if not then I will think of one myself. A big thank you to The Keeper of Worlds, he has giving me some ideas to make the small romance side to this story better. Another thing is ideas for side stories, just random towns with some situation that Naruto and company get mixed up with, it can be based off a filler from Naruto or Pokemon, or just something you would like to see done. I will do my best to either make a chapter out of it or add it to a future chapter to fill in space. I will really appreciate any and all help with either the pokemon or side story idea. No I don't really need them, but I'm a people pleaser. Thanky you, ttfn ta ta for now.)
