Hi. Figured it was best to get this definitely final part before the journey begins out of the way as fast as possible so here you go.

Prologue part 4: The final one.

Despite the fact that Naruto's life was a proverbial 'shit show' that went from bad to worse up until he was eleven and things finally began to look up only to be thrown back to square one by a monster she was vaguely aware matched Palkia's description. Despite the fact that she honestly loved him and loathed to see him feeling down. Despite the fact that his happiness should have been her top priority.

The young Lass that had left Cerulean City all those years ago on a search for love, who she had thought long dead since she joined Team Rocket, refused to let her wish he hadn't been thrown into Kanto to begin with. That old part of her latched onto three simple words and shredded whatever empathy she might've had in a fit of jealousy at the thought of him not being there and never meeting her. A colder and cynical part of her that festered in a Warehouse on Five Island agreed, having been the reason she threw her lot with him in the first place after he killed Giovanni and gave her a real task befitting her Executive status.

So rather than shedding even a single tear or apologizing for the legend stealing him away from his life she simply continued to hug him through his story and the rest of the day after.

Now a night had passed and while waking up with the blond practically glued to her side was a nice feeling it was overshadowed by a disgusting stickiness coating her pelvis, thighs, and parts of her ass.

'I need a long, warm bath.' She inwardly groaned. That was the only way to get rid of it all for sure. 'And I need to make sure no one screwed anything up.'

With that thought she reached as far as she could over the blond towards her purse on the floor. Thanks to the seats being the same as very comfortable couches to make living in a cabin for a day or two acceptable and the blond having somehow turned them over during the night to be closer to the edge it was nearly impossible to reach it.

Only determination allowed her to finally reach it, pulling it closer so she could root around for her phone. Once she had it and checked a groan escaped her. So many business emails and messages had racked up.

Getting the messages out of the way was easy. A complaint about Grunts being mentally disabled from Petrel, a question from Domino as to the Boss's whereabouts, a report from Cassidy that the Clefairy quota was fulfilled, and a message from her little sister Maria asking how she was.

Petrel was given a retort about him being the one that chooses the mentally disabled and Cassidy was given a notice that she'd earned a bonus. Ten clefairy could take three months to find let alone capture, that she did it in half the time spoke for her skills. Domino was informed of their departure yesterday.

And her sister...was given a general message that she was very happy at the moment. She could have a long, detailed talk with her once her assignment abroad was over.

The business emails were skimmed and at least showed that no one had any accidents, just some deals that could be made but required her approval that she could give later.

Just as she was about to toss the phone back into her purse and wake the blond it rang aloud. He snapped awake completely tensing up for a second before relaxing and pulling her closer. The short silence afterward that she stared down at him during was broken when he looked up into her eyes. "Are you going to answer that?"

A glance at the display made her sigh and nod. "Yes Domino, what is it?"

"What do you mean you and Boss left for Viridian yesterday?!" The Elite Agent practically screeched. "He promised to go to Celadon with me yesterday!"

Ariana barely recalled the blond answering a call the day before and trying his best to get whoever it was out of his hair without sounding rude. Now she knew who it was. "He was very...stressed after dealing with a Galactic Grunt so I decided it would be best to take the vacation he had planned early." She explained dully. "Why are you so angry? We should get to Celadon by the time you return from Johto."

"Ah...well, you see..." Domino stuttered from the other side of the call. "I...might have...borrowed one of the planes."

She palmed her face gently. "You took a plane?" Of course the sixteen year old would take one of them, she could never just take one of the Pidgeots. 'Jet fuel is expensive damn it!' She raged to herself. "Then think of the wait until we get to Celadon as your punishment."

If it was anyone but her, they'd be hung by their toes and beaten half to death for such an egregious misuse of resources. Petrel was also exhempt because as frivolous as the man was he wasn't stupid enough to waste such an expense without a damn good reason.

"Can I come?" The younger girl begged.

"You'll only get into a contest with the Boss that you'll lose, again." It was standard between the two blonds. Domino would challenge him to a physical contest of some sort and Naruto would respond to the challenge with all he had, usually crushing her if it wasn't something skewed in her favor like flexibility exercises. "What do you hope to accomplish?"

"Nothing that you'd understand old lady." A twitch of the eye was the only outward sign of her irritation and indignation. She was twenty! "And it's not a challenge this time! It's a date!"

The smugness in the girl's tone might've enraged her if she wasn't being held close by the blond with the remnants of a very hot half hour from the day before sticking to her thighs. "A date?" She really doubted it. "How exactly did you manage to get him to agree to a date?"

Naruto's curious look told her he had little clue what she meant.

"I asked him to take me out to shop and eat at one of the fancy restaurants as a reward for doing my job in Johto~" The elation in the younger girl's voice was palpable. "He said yes!"

"Are you sure? Given your past of having competitions with him so often, he might've taken it as you having found a new one."

Domino practically growled from across the line. Even if he did, I'll just make sure it's such a great date that he'll be begging for more! Nothing like how a lonely old hag like you would treat anyone."

She was tempted to burst the girl's bubble with the fact of what had happened but she knew that it would probably be best to have Naruto next to her to keep her from flying off the handle and destroying a room...or six. "Well...good luck with that. You'll certainly need it."

Without waiting for whatever retort she came up with, Ariana hung up.

"Should I...call her and tell her it's off?" Naruto asked hesitantly, unsure what the protocol was for such a situation.

"No need."

"But...you and I..."

"It's fine." It would be impossible to run all the businesses she'd planned so far or that Team Rocket already had and fight off the countless whores that would throw themselves at him in hopes of having an easy life as one of the Boss's mistresses. Giovanni's first and second wives had proven the futility of that even without having as much as she did on their plates.

"No it's not." He countered.

The thought of lying through her teeth and insisting it was crossed her mind but was thrown out when she saw the accusatory look in his eyes. "I don't like it." She admitted. "But I'd prefer if you did it."

"Why?"

"I'd rather know you have mistresses and have a say in who they are than to hope that I can keep you all to myself forever and be heartbroken that I couldn't." Seeing his hurt expression she continued before he could interrupt. "I don't think that you would ever cheat. I know that you would never cheat. But love is a flame that you have to feed constantly to keep it alive. We have time now on this vacation but what about when it's over? Can you say you'd be happy only having me for a handful of hours every day if I'm even in around?"

That made him hesitate. It was a low blow to bring up that the time they spent together had slowly decreased as the amount of businesses she had to deal with rose but it was a fact they'd have to face eventually. "What if we found someone that could take the work off your hands?" He tried to bargain.

"I love my job Naruto. Even if it can be annoying, tedious, and time consuming I love to do it. Please Don't make me choose."

"I...I..." The desperation and self loathing that warred across his face spoke volumes for how tempted he was to ask her to do it regardless. Eventually he deflated with a nod as his morals won out. "...Okay."

"Don't be sad." She said soothingly while wrapping her arms around him. "I don't love you any less and i hope you won't love me any less."

"Never." He grumbled. "But...I want to be with you. Only you. At least until we have to go back to work."

That made her smile. "I'd like that."

"Thanks." There was a comfortable silence after that, for about thirty seconds. "Is there a shower here?"

"Yes." She answered with a laugh. "Let's go take a long bath and get ourselves cleaned up."

XxX

The bathroom was oddly enough right next door to their cabin. Easy enough to slip into with nothing but a towel covering either of them and a change of clothes even though there apparently wasn't anyone else in the last car with them. There was a large bathtub up against the wall with a clear view through a window, a single toilet on the right side, and a sink on the left.

As Naruto relaxed in the tub, having enough space to lay submurged next to his favorite redhead, he had a thought run through his mind, "Did it cost a lot to reserve the last car?"

"It didn't cost anything." She answered with a relaxed sigh. "We've had a clandestine monopoly on railroads since the old boss's mother ran things."

He nodded, then paused. "We own the train?"

"No." She peeked an eye open to look at him, a smug smile on her lips "We own all trains." Then she pouted. "At least all of them in Kanto and Johto. The Stone family took over in Hoenn before we could have a chance, Sinnoh refused to fall to any monopoly - though I plan to change that, Unovans all use cars to get around so the business died there, and Kalos as a whole loathes the idea of 'ruining the beautiful landscapes'."

"Wow." Just wow.

"We also could've taken one of the private jets but then the ride would've been too short for us to have fun together."

He couldn't complain about that, he'd really enjoyed the trip even if things had spun out of control hard. He got to have sex and now had a sorta girlfriend...even if she wanted him to go and sleep around like he was some sort of progeny of his perverted godfather.

"We also have a few yachts so you won't have to worry about catching a Pokemon big enough to carry you over the water Routes."

Good to know, though if push came to shove he could just run over the water. It'd probably be faster than any Pokemon or boat too. Not that she knew, he had trouble just telling her his life story with his tenant edited out so she didn't see him as something less than human and he didn't want to overwhelm her with the fact that if necessary he might be able to handle one of the Elite Four's main Pokemon in a one-on-one fight.

"Are we going to take one when we go to Cinnabar Island?" He asked, trying to shake off his fears with excitement about riding a boat. Hopefully without some actress/princess that would be a mess of trouble this time. Now that he thought about it he didn't know how to feel about being on a train after almost getting run over and seeing a small army get massacred by the last one he interacted with.

...Nope, got laid and a lover. He felt good about it.

Said lover tilted her head thoughtfully. "We can, though it might take a few days. I'd personally rather take one of the jets so we can enjoy as much time on the beaches as possible."

"Jet." He conceded. The thought of Ariana in a swimsuit was too exciting to resist.

"Eager to see me in a bikini?" She asked with a sultry grin. "Or maybe a slingshot?"

"Are you a psychic and you didn't tell me?"

"No but," She reached and wrapped a hand around his growing erection, giving it a few lazy pumps. "This tells me all I need to know." Just like that the conversation ended and they'd spend the next hour vigorously cleaning each other.

XxX

"So do you have any ideas for what Pokemon you want to catch on our little journey?" The redhead asked once they returned to their room.

A shrug was his answer. "A Pidgey sounds nice." Perfect match for his wind affinity. "Maybe a Bellsprout or Oddish." The opposite of or copy of her favorite Pokemon, as well as something that could be seriously strong from what she had said during one of the times he asked why said Pokemon was her favorite.

The ability Chlorophyll and the move Growth during daytime sounded like the Wood Release equivalent of the Raikage's Lightning Armor thing. To say nothing of the fact that their various Powders could easily change the tide of a fight. Or the fact that they could heal themselves with Synthesis. Or that between their two typings they could easily defend against a lot of common Types.

The smile that bloomed on her face was beautiful, he wanted to see it a lot more often. "Are you getting one just to make me happy?" She accused happily.

"Sorta...I wanted an excuse to talk to you more too...and to see the way you always smile whenever you talk about them."

She rewarded him with a kiss on the cheek for that. "If you talk like that more often then I'll think about eloping with you."

"Is it too late to just do that?" Even though he desperately wanted to, he couldn't bring himself to rip her away from anything that made her happy.

"It is. But look on the bright side." Her teasing grin made a rush of excitement run through him, he didn't know what she had in mind but he was already willing. "There's so much hot, kinky things we can do in the office, sir."

The husky tone in her voice made him twitch and a part of him try valiantly to rise but the hour they'd spent together already was too much. He just didn't have it in him. "How are you still horny? I can't even get it up anymore..."

"Because I haven't had someone to help me with this in over three years." She was clearly frustrated with how long she had gone without. "Now that I have you, I'm going to make sure we do it until you can't as often as we can." She turned to him with a teasing grin. "Why are you complaining? If I remember correctly, yesterday you said 'who would ever want to stop'."

"Not me...im just a little embarrassed that I can't keep up." His family was known for vitality after all, it felt a little disgraceful to not be able to at least satisfy his lover without a break.

"You've had sex twice in your life. Just give it time." She neglected to mention that he was still only fourteen and had done much better than most could claim for their first time and even second time. "But enough about that for now, let's talk more about what Pokemon you want."

"So remind me, how was it that the room magically cleaned itself whenever we left?" It hadn't been until they had gotten off the train that he noticed the phenomenon but now that he did it really freaked him out.

He never had gotten over his fear of ghosts after all. Though that might be skewed by the fact that the only one he knew about was his world's Death God and that ghoul could probably scare Orochimaru.

Ariana shrugged while tapping furiously at her phone's screen to write up her conditional approval of one deal. "Chansey probably. There's a sensor on every train to monitor when a room is vacated and the passengers that were inside enter a bathroom, at which point a cleaning Pokemon is released into the room."

"That's good." The blond sighed as a fearful tension faded away. Then he looked around at the trees along either side of the dirt road they were walking. "So this is Route One? Not many Pokemon out today huh."

"Route One has been the easiest to traverse ever since Professor Oak took up residence in Pallet Town, his old team routinely patrols the area and scares of any of the more dangerous Pokemon that might hurt new trainers."

It was also the shortest if he remembered right. Only two hours of walking and they could already see the outskirts of the town on a far hill. Well he could, Ariana was busy with business.

"He wouldn't happen to be an old guy with halfway spiky hair in a labcoat would he?" That made the redhead look up from her phone somewhat excited but upon seeing no one of said description around she gave him a pout. He pointed ahead of them towards the outskirts of the town where a few small dots discolored the landscape. "He's outside of the town doing something with a few Pidgey."

The way she looked back and squinted hoping to see what he needed chakra sharpening his vision to perceive as more than a smudge of white on the green plains around the place. Still, it looked cute to him.

"How can you see that far?"

He didn't answer, a brow rising as some kid walked up and the professor turned around. They spoke for a moment and a small light flashed at their feet before they headed off into Town while the Pidgey scattered. "Some kid talked to him and they left."

"Another trainer." The Executive guessed. Those were the only kids she'd think would want to talk to him today with any sort of success. "He'll probably have saved you a starter Pokemon, he's rumored to be forgetful in his old age but he hasn't failed to hand out Pokemon that he's promised yet."

"I won't have to carry you so we can hurry up then."

"...You could've carried me this entire time?" There was a mourning tone to her voice.

His gaze flicked to her incredulously. "Do you really think I'd make it if I was carrying you?" He shook his head. "The second we were away from any other people I'd have started tearing your clothes off. If I didn't have you in a bridal carry, then I'd just take the longest detour I could so I could hold you longer."

"You better carry me all the way back to Viridian City like that." She faux demanded with an eager smile."Then we can get a hotel room and you can do the part where you tear my clothes off."

Equally eager, he nodded. "It'll be my pleasure."

Having a harem would be Jiraiya's dream. Naruto does not like Jiraiya. Naruto does not want a harem. But it's popular demand so it's happening and he has to deal with it.

Now for the usual responses and questions.

Team: One of you suggested Starmie to be used as a glorified shuriken. You're fucked up and I love it. Also taking someone else's suggestion of Sandshrew because the Starmie one made me wonder what else he could do and Sandshrew/Sandslash could probably recreate Kakashi's headhunter trick with Dig, Sand Tomb, and their ability Sand Veil. Plus sandstorm is pretty good for hiding them doing shit. Also Magneton so he has one soulless killer on his team at all times.

About Rocket Hierarchy: Someone asked why Ariana isn't promoted to Interim Boss or something over Archer and why Domino is just an Elite agent. First part's answer is she pretty much already is an interim boss since she runs day to day business while Naruto just enforces the rules...also he killed off Archer with Giovanni. As for why Domino isn't getting a promotion, like in Mewtwo Returns she has no Pokemon. If she gets some and trains them up she definitely gets one but i kinda like her as the only one besides Naruto who doesn't really need Pokemon so I'll probably leave her without.

So...what does everyone think about Naruto outright ignoring Gyms? The only ones I'm tempted on are Brock and Lt. Surge. Brock because it's fucking Brock and if anyone can talk Naruto into accepting the harem it's him. Even then he'd probably skip on the first visit and have to revisit to meet the ultimate wingman. As for Lt. Surge...I feel like making him the no mercy guy for a reason, like the war he was in really hitting him and the reason he chose to be a gym leader being to have a say in the standards for trainers that can roam the region. Like he decided he saw enough people die at war for stupid mistakes or lack of survival knowledge so he wants to impose that sort of training on trainers to keep mortality rates low. So that's why he's so punishing to anyone that makes the mistake of entering his Gym.

Thanks for reading.