Chapter 04: So from the Reviews I've seen you guys generally like where this is going and I had a few suggestions for love interests and rivals... and for that I thank you. Some of these suggestions are for pairings, Misty, Dawn, Hilda, and even some support for the Female Kurama, Arcades and Zinnia. For rivals I've had Trip and Yellow from the Manga. Like always I Do Not own either Naruto or Pokémon, they belong to Masashi Kishimoto and Nintendo respectively.
Naruto smiled as he continued down the road of Route 1 and onto Viridian City with Riolu right behind him, munching away on an apple that Daisy had given him for food for the Pokémon. That being said he needed to get some food in the next town if all he had to eat was some trail mix and fruit. Riolu may have liked it but that didn't mean he really did.
Besides food, he needed other things for his Pokémon. Potions, Antidotes, Poké Balls and maybe some ramen on his way. Riolu smirked as he finished his apple before stopping and looking to the left. Naruto stopped soon afterwards and looked at his partner in confusion.
"Huh, what's up buddy?" he asked before his answer came as he saw a girl around his age selling things. Curious, he decided to check it out while Riolu followed. The girl in question wore a black dress with matching colored boots and white gloves. She had brown hair and a smile, worthy of a saleswoman... or a con artist.
"Oh, oh is that a Riolu" she blurted, taken back by the Pokémon while Naruto smirked.
"Yeah, Riolu just hatched a few days ago" he said before the blue dog was snatched into her arms as she knelt down and hugged the blue Fighting type Pokémon.
"Oh, he's just so cute... so you're from Sinnoh" she asked as the blond looked away.
"N-not exactly" he said before she started her sales pitch.
"Well how about buying some Kanto goods from me" she said before gesturing to the shinobi, her merchandise. Looking at her with a sweat-drop, he decided to ask a question.
"Do you have any Poké Balls?" and the girl smiled and went to get something in her bag.
"She's up to something" Kurama said as Naruto nodded before she pulled out some different colored capsules. They were colored with a yellow and black design as the girl smirk.
"I have something better than Poké Balls. Behold the Ultra Ball" she said, holding one to his face with a smile. "With these things you can catch any Pokémon much easier than just using plain Poké Balls."
While Naruto looked interested, Kurama remained on guard. Something was wrong but he detected no lies in her describing those... Ultra Balls as she called them. Still he could sense something amiss and that was when his answer came to him in the form of the near-mute child from Pallet.
Screaming rather loudly at that.
"Hey, you con-artist" Red screamed as Naruto and the girl turned to him in shock before recognition was on their faces.
"Red? wait, con-artist?" the blond asked before the girl, caught jumped out of the way and brought out a Poké Ball and to their surprise she released a pink-creature with a swirl of hair and large eyes before she smirked.
"Okay, well then Jiggly, use Sing" she commanded as the Jigglypuff started to sing in a weird type of song. Naruto blinked before he slowly started to get sleepy while Red was scared. Whatever this thing was doing was slowly making him fall asleep...
"Stay awake you idiot" Kurama's voice echoed as Naruto woke up, his chakra... err... aura activating and keeping him awake as Red and his Pikachu fell to the ground, sleeping like a log. Riolu looked tired to before Naruto ran over to it and started shaking it. Red eyes widened and Riolu shook of his slumber, both addressing the girl and the pink Pokémon.
"What was that, who are you?" Naruto asked, eyeing both the girl and the genjutsu singing pink... balloon thing... The girl herself stared at the boy in shock that her Pokémon's attack had no effect and curse to herself. She hated to fight, but she knew how.
"My Jigglypuff can put people to sleep" she said a little annoyed before a small smirk appeared on her face as she held up another Poké Ball and out came what looked like a pink blob. Her Jigglypuff was a Normal Type and was at a disadvantage towards the blue dog.
"Oh, and my name is Green by the way" she said as Naruto stopped. Seriously, Green? So first Red, then Blue... now Green... was there a yellow? Was there an orange and if not would he be called orange?
"Good to know" he said as he looked at the pink blob in confusion before looking at Green and back to Riolu before he saw her pull something out. Naruto instantly froze as he recognized the device.
"Is that a Pokédex?" and if it was, how did she get one. Instead of answering, she pointed at the Riolu with it and scanned the screen.
"Known Moves... level... oh, a level 9 Riolu, my-my, so you are pretty strong" she complimented as she smirked. "Okay Ditty, now use your Transform" she ordered as the pink blob was covered in a bright light, its shape changing into Riolu's before in its place was a perfect clone of the blue dog.
"What the, how-"
"Use Quick Attack, Ditty" she said as Riolu was attacked and pushed into a tree from the fake. This wasn't the time to ask questions, this became a battle and Naruto glared.
"Riolu, you ok" he asked as the blue Pokémon got up and narrowed its eye on the fake. Seeing that, Naruto nodded. "Then take that thing down, Quick Attack"
"Follow up with the same" Green ordered as the two Pokémon ran at each-other. Naruto frowned as he pulled out his own Pokédex and pointed it at the former pink blob.
Ditto:
When it spots an opponent, its body transforms into an almost perfect copy of it
Great, so a copy-cat. Guess that just meant for him to kick its gooey ass back to normal. "Riolu, don't give in" he said before slowly inching his way towards Red. If he could wake the other trainer and his Pikachu up...
"Jiggly~" the Balloon Pokémon said as the blond turned around and saw the Jigglypuff in front of him while blocking his way to the other trainer.
"Yeah, I'm not going to let you wake him up" Green said with an amused grin as her Jigglypuff protected the sleeping trainer. Also if by some chance the kid did win then he'd be going to sleep with another lullaby from the pink Pokémon.
Everything was going to plan... or at least it would be if not for an explosion happening right next to them. Looking back, the kids noticed two figures dressed in white as Green froze and Naruto got into a fighting stance. Now what?
"Prepare for trouble" a woman with red hair started out before a blue haired man continued.
"And make it double" he said before the woman took over.
"To protect the world from devastation" she said.
"To unite all people within our nation" he replied.
Naruto just stared as he looked at the scene in confusion. This seemed familiar... has he been here before?
"To denounce the evils of truth and love" she continued.
"To aim our reach to the stars above." the man said now with a rose in his hand.
Oh dear god he has been here before... these guys were... what were they called again
"Jessie" the woman introduced.
"James" he said with a smirk.
"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light" Jessie said as Naruto remembered... yay...
"Surrender now or prepare to fight" he finished before what looked like some kind of cat with a coin on his head appeared before the two rockets with a smirk
"Meowth, That's right" he said as everyone stared at the newly introduced Rocket Trio.
"...Did that Pokémon just talk?" Naruto asked out loud as Riolu just walked over to Naruto, now that the fight was technically over with... Green ordered Jigglypuff to return to her in case she had to make a quick escape. Ditto returning to normal as seeing as the blue dog was no longer the main concern for it anymore...
"Oh great, what do you guys want" Green asked annoyed and a little nervous as Naruto looked at the girl, did she know them from somewhere.
"Listen little girl, we don't like being tricked." the woman said as the man spoke up.
"Those Ultra Balls you sold us were all fake, a sham" he said as Meowth nodded and smirked, claws out.
"And lying little twerps like you need to be taught some manners" the cat said as Naruto looked at her. She sold Team Rocket... an organization of Pokémon poachers... fake Ultra Balls.
Why could he believe that?
"Uh, hey" she called to him with a nervous smile as he became the center of attention. "You wouldn't mind helping me out here, right boss?"
Wait what.
"I mean, I'm just a lackey for the big guy here. And he's the brains of the operation..." she said, telling the curious Rockets this while slowly backing out of the fight.
...What! Oh that lying little-
"So he's the boss huh, seems rather scrawny" the woman said as she observed the boy with a calculative glance as the man smirked.
"I agree Jessie; this twerp doesn't look that impressive." Naruto frowned. They were what... 17 or something. Not even ten years older than him and they called him a... twerp?
"Don't worry, we aren't here for a refund" the woman said as the cat suddenly grinned.
"All we want are you Pokémon" he declared as he lunged at the Ditto, who was able to squeeze out of the cat's grip while Naruto glared.
"Riolu, Quick Attack" he ordered before the blue dog charged at the Scratch Cat Pokémon and sent him flying before he hit one of the trees and got up with a glare.
"Alright, what's the deal... huh, what's that Pokémon?" the cat asked before the two other Rockets looked at the blue dog. Naruto narrowed his eyes before he saw Green start to inch away. Not wanting to deal with this on his own and pissed he was just scape-goated by the pink Pokémon-using trainer; he ran to her and grabbed her wrist.
"H-hey, what the heck-"
"Oh no you don't. You tried to trick me, attacked my Pokémon and now make me have to deal with those guys" he said miffed as he nodded towards the Rocket Trio. "If you think you can just leave me here then I'm going to kick your damn ass myself." he threatened as his eyes slowly started to slit into more of a foxes.
Green froze as she nodded dumbly before the blond returned his attention to the Rocket Trio with a narrowed glare while Riolu quickly joined him.
Deciding to not risk getting attacked by the blond kid who started to scare her, she reluctantly agreed and called for her Ditto to battle.
"Glad to see you're done with that little lover's quarrel" Jessie said as their attention went back to Riolu.
"I can't say I've seen a Pokémon like that before... Hold on a moment" he said as he went through what looked like a deck of cards before he eventually smiled. "Aha, here we go... that a Riolu. The Emanation Pokémon... It's a Fighting type Pokémon found in the Sinnoh Region... and it's considered a Rare Class: C Pokémon" James said as Naruto was confused.
"Rare Class, what now?"
"It means your Pokémon is one not many people have or can normally find..." Green said as Naruto looked at her before nodding. He'd ask her more about that later, right now...
"Little boy, hand-over that Riolu right now" she demanded as Naruto frowned. Yeah... no, he was keeping his Pokémon and keeping them away from it.
"How about you guys get lost instead" he said as they looked annoyed before suddenly...
"Uh... my head..." Red muttered as Pikachu got up feeling drowsy from his nap.
"Another pest" the woman said, not even seeing the sleeping trainer as James sighed.
"Just like all the rest" he said overdramatically as Meowth smirked
"And he has a little mouse with him."
"Pikachu..." he said as he saw Naruto and Green before noticing Team Rocket and instantly got up. What happened, and what was going on... he didn't know but he'd ask Naruto later.
"Oh, look. Your friend's awake so now I can leave right-"
"You're staying here" Naruto demanded as he noticed the Rockets bring out their Poké Balls.
"Ekans, come-out/ Get them Koffing" came their cries as two purple Pokémon appeared in a bright light. One was a snake with a yellow rattle on the back of its tail and matching rings etched on its body while the other one was a floating rock with a smile and producing smoke.
"Koffing... and Ekans..." Green said as she checked her Pokédex as Red called her out on it, not getting an answer. "Level 10: Ekans... Level 10... Koffing... Level 10 Meowth..." she muttered before pointing it at Pikachu. "And a Level 12 for the Pikachu. And with my Level 10 Ditto..."
Naruto meanwhile muttered something about Riolu being the lowest level while said Pokémon looked confused. "Well I think we should be good to go" she said before looking at Naruto. "You should switch Pokémon; Riolu isn't doing the best... and is at the disadvantage here."
Naruto said nothing before Green guessed-
"Riolu's your only Pokémon... isn't he" she said instead of asked, the blond shinobi sighing with his hand on his face. "Then just stay out of the way, Blondie" she said as Naruto frowned with Riolu and him looking like they were struck with a glove.
Before he could reply..."Pikachu, Thunder Shock" Red commanded as Green got in the game.
"Ditto, Transform into Ekans"
"Ekans, use Wrap"
"Koffing, Smokescreen"
While the fight was going on, Naruto frowned before looking over to Green's stuff before seeing the white cat smirking. "While that twerp is busy with that battle, I'll be busy making a pay day" he said before he was attacked by Riolu, with Naruto starting to smile.
Meowth was, if he recalled, a Normal type. Normal was weak against fighting and if he wasn't going to be fighting the Rockets... perhaps a substitute would work.
"Hey, what's your problem you stupid mutt" the cat yelled as he brought out his claws and went into attack, a grin never leaving Riolu's face. This was going to be fun...
"Ekans, Poison Sting" Jessie demanded as the snake shot out several needles from its mouth while the yellow mouse avoided them and shot an electrical shot in retaliation.
"Pikachu, Thunder Shock" Red said again before he noticed Ekans get hit by Koffing, who was thrown by Ditto taking the Snake Pokémon's form. Seeing the two Poison Pokémon on their last leg, Red saw Ditto transform into a Pikachu while Meowth was kicked into the pile of Pokémon, Riolu looking proud of himself as Naruto looked at the girl.
"Disadvantage, huh..." he said a little cocky as Green rolled her eyes before an evil look crossed her face.
"Ditto... Thunder Shock"
"Pikachu, Thunder Shock"
With two Pikachu's using their attacks, the three Pokémon were electrocuted before the electricity mixed with Koffing's gas, and caused an explosion.
Jessie and James stared before they were hit by their Pokémon, who were repelled from the blast and caused them all to fly through the air.
"Darn...it, we got careless..." Jessie cursed.
"It was a setback... we won't underestimate them again..." James swore to her.
"Yeah... but for now..." Meowth said with swirls in his eyes from being kicked around by the blue dog.
"Team Rocket's blasting off again..." they yelled as they disappeared into the sky.
Green smirked as she saw the Rockets disappear from view, he Ditto being recalled and her day getting much better since they left.
"Ahem" two voices called out as she froze and turned around and saw too unsatisfied customers. "Oh yeah... they were still angry with her."
Naruto stood there with his arms crossed while Red stood there with his hands in his pants pockets. Green just gulped and took a step back. "Well that was fun but I really have to get going now so... I'll be on my way and-"
"Hold on... Red, you have Poké Balls... right" he asked as the boy nodded "How much did those cost?" after a silent estimation...
"$200: per Poké Ball" he said as Naruto nodded.
"As for you, Green" he said before reaching into his pocket. Green looked horrified at this before she saw him take out... wait, is that his?
"300,400,500" he said counting the money in his wallet before stopping at 1,000 Poké and smirking. "This is enough for five Poké Balls, right?" he asked as he held out the money to Green. Both she and Red gaped at the action before Green quickly spoke up.
"Y-yes, of course it is." she said before handing over the five "Ultra" Balls to him where he then spat on the tops of them, rubbing off the paint and revealing it was in-fact, just a regular Poké Ball.
"Ok then, you're good to go" he said as she went to get her stuff when Red tried to stop her. Naruto however stopped him, his face covered by his hair and shaking slightly.
"Well, it was nice meeting and doing business with you boys, but the Amazing Green has places to be. Things to do-"
"People to rip off" Red growled as the girl laughed and jumped off the cliff with a Poké Ball in hand before they soon saw hr float away on her Jigglypuff, using it as some kind of hot-air balloon.
"Whoa..." he muttered before he felt Red glaring at him."What?"
"Why did you let her get away" he demanded as Naruto just smirked. Before Red could say anything else to the blond shinobi smirked.
"I didn't" he said as he held an empty wallet, it wasn't his... and it wasn't Red's so the only other option was...
"...No way..." the hat-wearing boy said as Naruto laughed, both Pokémon returning to their trainer's sides.
"Yeah, don't worry, I'll give you your refund" he said as he paid the other trainer back. She would be pissed by the time they met again... but hopefully that would be quite a ways to go. Until then, he had some Pokémon to catch.
"Well, I guess this is where we split up again... see you later then, Red" the blond said before Red spoke up.
"Hey, Naruto... we're both taking the Pokémon League challenge... right" Red asked as the blond Jinchuriki stopped and turned to the other trainer.
"Yeah... I guess, why?" he asked before Red smiled.
"When we get there... I'm not going to lose" he declared as Naruto started to smile at that.
"Yeah well, I don't plan on losing either... right Riolu" Naruto said as Riolu nodded in agreement. He was excited for the Pokémon League, while he didn't like fighting that much, he could tell that he wanted to see the world and get stronger.
"Yeah... but Pikachu and I are going to go for the top" Red said as Pikachu hopped on his back and smiled. The two trainers just laughed about it while they continued their way to Viridian. A true friendship and a rival to boot. Not to mention a pay day and maybe if green didn't hold it against him... another new friend.
Chapter four is finished and I introduced not only Green from the Manga but our favorite Rocket Trio. Now we have two Rockets for the price of one and now with Red and Naruto traveling together, which won't be a permanent thing, we can get into Viridian Forest.
Also I decided to add Green as a pseudo rival for Naruto. Basically it's her quick-wit vs. his to an extent so while they won't be official rivals, she will be an acquaintance to the blond and has a reason to get back at him.
Also for Team Rocket. I'll be honest, whether it's nostalgia or just me actually liking these clowns... I just couldn't leave them out of it. Also I have plans for them in the story. They won't be as important as most other characters but still, they could become allies in certain conditions...
Parings... I decided I'm either going to go with Flannery, Zinnia, Female Kurama, a rival like May, Dawn or Leaf/Green or Arcades. Mostly because of the overall Timeline. I have an idea for it that would be an interesting twist but if I pull it off then that would cut out some ideas for paring possibilities. Also... no harem... as much as people might that.
That being said, The first shinobi will appear a little after Vermillion City so any guesses to who the person is and also what should the Pokémon he or she gets. It's not a legendary... but it might not be a Kanto Pokémon either.
Finally I have to thank all of you... I hope you guys like the story so far and since we're approaching Pewter City, I think it's time for Naruto to add to his Pokémon Team.
