Chapter 3-The search begins

"Well, Sakura. Let's just do this." Neji assumed his Juken pose.

Sakura took a deep breath. Then she gathered charka into her fist. "Ok. Ready."

Dawn was surprised. "You fight by martial arts?" she asked.

"Yup," Sakura replied. "But, we call it Taijutsu."

"Can I referee?" Dawn piped.

"Uh, sure, I guess. Just say go."

"Ready?" Both nodded. "Go!"

Sakura attacked first. She sprung at Neji, but he evaded her easily, and Sakura ended up smashing a nearby tree into bits.

Dawn was shocked. How powerful were they?

Neji eventually gained ground on Sakura. He kept pushing her back. They did so for about ten minutes. After he finally got her almost unconscious, he stopped.

"Good job, Sakura. I got lucky. If you had hit me there at the end, you probably would've won," Neji told her, as he helped her up. Sakura did a healing ninjutsu on herself and got rid of the worst injuries.

"Wow," was all Dawn could say at the end.

"So. Do you think your Pachirisu could beat us now, Dawn?" Neji challenged her.

Dawn shook her head. Then she started laughing, almost hysterically.

"What?" Sakura asked nervously.

It took a few minutes, but then Dawn simmered down enough to talk. "Its…just…as strong as you guys are, it's funny that you guys want Pokemon."

"You mean we can't get any because we're so strong?!" Sakura cried.

"No. It's just, most people need them as partners to survive, these days. You guys don't!" She grinned again.

"What do you mean, these days?" Neji asked.

"Well, when I was first born, people battled just mainly to get stronger. But, when I was about two, groups called Team Magma, Team Aqua, and Team Rocket took over. They became in charge of all the resources, land and such. They would take the strongest trainers and let them join their teams, and give them-and their family-a place to stay.

"But the tiny problem was that those three teams hated each other. They were rivals since the beginning of time, practically. So, the teams each took over different regions. Team Magma took over Hoenn, Team Aqua took Jhoto, and Team Magma took over Kanto."

"But I thought you mentioned a Sinnoh region!" Neji said.

"I did. Sinnoh was the fourth region, and there were three teams. So they decided to leave Sinnoh, being the largest region, to the people that didn't join their teams," Dawn sighed.

"Well, that's good. Do you think Sinnoh is where we are? Sinnoh WAS where you were before, right Dawn?" Sakura asked.

"Yup. My hometown!" She smiled.

"So this is Konoha/Sinnoh," Neji concluded.

"Yeah. I wonder if Misugakure is also in the Sinnoh region." Obviously Sakura.

"Well, Dawn did say that Sinnoh is the largest." Neji said.

"Hey! That looks like a PokeCenter!" Dawn said. She ran towards it. (PokeCenter is what Dawn in this story calls a Pokemon Center.)

"A WHAT?!" Sakura cried. She and Neji chased after Dawn.

Dawn rushed inside the Pokemon Center. "Nurse Joy! Nurse Joy? Are you here?"

"Oh! Hello. Do you need me to heal your Pokemon? Are they hurt? Are you hurt?"

Dawn hugged Nurse Joy. "I missed you! A normal human being!"

"Oh. And we're not human beings." Neji/Sakura muttered.

"Nurse Joy?"

"Yes?"

"Do you know where one of the Pokemon professors is?"

"Well, Professor Rowan is visiting. He's down the street about three miles to the left."

"Thanks! Sakura, Neji, let's go!"

"Already?" Neji asked, surprised.

"Yeah. Just about three miles down this road! Come on! You can get your first Pokemon before nightfall!"

The three set off. About an hour later, they made it to the office. Dawn was tired. Neji and Sakura weren't.

"How it I'm dying, and you two aren't?!" Dawn complained for the thousandth time.

"Is this it?" Sakura asked.

"Oh! Yes!" Dawn dragged them inside. "Professor Rowan!"

"Hello? And who are you three?" asked a man with a kind face, wearing a grey suit.

"I'm Dawn. This is Neji and Sakura. They would like to get their first Pokemon!"

"Oh! Alright, then. Wait here. I'll be back in a moment."

"I SOOOOOO did not sign up for this…" Neji whined.

"Neji! Are you whining?!"

"Sakura! Why are you reading my script?!"

"Umm…no reason!"

Professor Rowan came in a few minutes later, bringing three little Pokemon with him. "You made choose one of these three Pokemon. They're the only ones left, though. I'm sorry."

"What are they?" Neji asked.

Next chapter-The Pokemon!

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Neji: oh great. Mail… goes to pick up mail.

Dawn: oh! READITREADITREADIT!!!!

Neji: sighs Fine.

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