Naruto – Waves of Confusion

Hello guys, welcome back to another chapter, in this chapter will be a small timeskip... anyway, I'm glad y'all are enjoying this book so far, please keep on reviewing, following and favouriting.

How would you guys feel about Courtney from Team Magma being interested in Naruto? Let me know... she may or may not be in the Harem... but having an obsessed Admin from an Evil Team will be quite funny to see.

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Chapter 4 – Birthday Boy

It has been an interesting week for Naruto and Cassidy at Professor Oak's Summer Camp. While it has been a fun time with plenty of activities to perform, along with meeting many others around his age, he found the time in some subjects to be a little dull; mainly the one that was all about studying them and researching every single thing about them. He didn't hate the class, but he didn't enjoy it as much as the others. Naruto's favourite activity by far was the battling simulation class, along with the Physical and Mental courses, which involved exercise and small forms of mental activities, such as meditation.

He did make some friends that were from the Johto region and had the same interest in battling as him, but... he also made some heavy rivals as well, they were mainly the haughty ones that had an annoying ego, this wasn't limited to males either. One of them was named Giselle, a rich girl from a rich family who had some influence in the schools in Kanto and some in Johto.

For Cassidy, it took her a short amount of time to warm up to everything that was happening around her. She still hung around Naruto as she felt most comfortable with him, however, after some help with Naruto, she was able to make friends her age. While she didn't mind the Physical and Mental courses that Naruto did, she enjoyed the coordinator classes, in which instead of battling with brute strength, they utilised the Pokémon's beauty and technique... it was an added plus that she could dress prettily along with it as well.


Naruto was wandering around in the small area of forest that was allowed to be explored by the campers, while it may seem large to the smaller kids, to the adults, it was barely 15 meters deep, which was the maximum limit they could travel through by themselves, any deeper and they would need adult supervision.

They really didn't need to have a child go missing and get attacked by a random Pokémon now did they? It nearly happened when Serena got lost and it was up to Ashley and Cassidy to help bring her back, along with Naruto being the emotional support as he was dragged along for the ride.

He shivered at the stern talking to they received, one that lasted nearly twenty minutes and a phone call home... he was not going to enjoy that conversation... especially if Sabrina was to hear of it.

The reason why he was searching this little place, was because of a small note he received from one of his cabin friends, which simply read 'Meet us in the forest', he at first thought it was a joke, until he read who it was from. It was from Cassidy, and that certainly changed his mind, thinking of her not to pull jokes as she still wasn't that sociable.

Naruto was currently wearing a dark green T-shirt that had an image of a Beedrill, with its pointed hands in a guard position and its small wings flapping behind its back, creating little wave lines on the shirt, along with wearing a simple pair of dark blue shorts that finished above his knees, and to top it all off, he was wearing black sneakers.

As he continued to wander through the bright forest with green grass and leaves, along with some flowers growing, the sounds of nearby Pidgey cawing and flapping about, until he heard very faint whispers.

He stopped completely still and tried to strain his ears to try and pinpoint where the noise was coming from or what was being said. Grumbling quietly to himself as he couldn't do either of them, he trudged forward, before pushing his way through a few shrubs nearly as tall as him and eventually making his way to an open clearing, one directly in a middle of a clearing seemingly in a perfect circle with the trees and nature surrounding them.

He blinked a couple of times looking at the area, before moving further into the clearing. As he did, he suddenly felt something brush against his arm. Nearly yelping in surprise, he quickly moved his line of vision to where he felt the touch, and he saw a small letter attached to a small piece of string, which was hung around a lower level tree branch.

'What the?' Naruto thought to himself, looking around the clearing, before shrugging his shoulders as he gently took the letter from the piece of string and opening it. He did see his name on it after all, which made him even more confused than ever.

As he tore open into the rather poorly done covering for the letter, he was greeted with a small piece of tinted paper, with some Pokémon designs around the side.

"Turn around?" Naruto murmured quietly, confusion laced in his voice as he saw the big letters of the words, before shrugging to himself and deciding to humour the piece of paper he just read.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!"

Naruto jumped out of his skin when he heard the collective shout coming from four other people older than him. So much so that he fell backwards on his ass and placed a hand on his chest, trying to calm his thumping heart that got the jump scare of its lifetime.

He sat there in a daze, his mind running through many thoughts, along with his face going through a myriad of emotions as he sat dumbfounded at what happened. How did others know? He only told Cassidy... unless she told her friends... but how did his shut-in friend know about it?

"Ha! Got you." A boy's voice called out, one that seemed to be near emotionless and extremely blunt, but still have some sort of amused undertone to it.

"Aww~ poor Naruto. He fell down." Another sweet and girly voice said between her giggles, holding onto her sides as she tried to stop the tears flowing down her face from giggling so much.

There was another couple of giggles, this time it was belonging to a girl that had long, raven black hair with soft chocolate brown eyes and had two 'Z' like birthmarks on her face.

Naruto faintly heard the footfalls approaching him, he looked up and saw that his first friend outside of Saffron City was looking down at him, concern in her lilac eyes as she extended her arm down for him to take. "Sorry Naruto... I didn't think you would be that surprised." She said, embarrassment clear in her voice.

While it wasn't necessary to wear the shirt of the cabin you were placed in, Cassidy decided to wear it, as the shirt fit her better than her old clothes and was more comfortable to wear. It was creamish-pink shirt that had longer sleeves than the boy versions and had an image of a Jigglypuff singing on it, with small musical notes around the Pokémon.

Naruto blinked once, before giving a small smile. "It's not a worry. Just got me off-guard is all." Naruto said as he grabbed her hand, and with the combined effort of them both, he managed to get up quickly.

"Luckily this doesn't happen to me." The only boy that surprised Naruto earlier spoke out, his blunt way of speaking sometimes irked Naruto greatly.

Naruto turned his attention to the boy, who stood a couple of inches taller than him, he had rather spiky crimson hair that went down to his shoulders, along with piercing silver eyes and he wore a navy-blue jumper with dark red trims and blue jeans.

He was Silver, who was a little snobbish and short-tempered and had a blunt way of talking to others. The only thing Naruto knew about him was that he was from Viridian City.

As Naruto was about to say something to the person who he somehow managed to befriend, he was interrupted by the tomboy of the group.

"The look on your face was priceless! I wish I took a picture of it." Naruto looked over to the person who said. The girl had long, raven black hair that looked like it had a lot of care placed into it, the soft chocolate brown eyes looking at him with amusement clear in them, along with a small smile tugging at her features.

She wore a simple black tank top that had an image of a Gastly on it with the purple mist around it, she was also wearing long grey pants that had purple trims around the pockets and down the sides of the legs.

This girl was Ashley Ketchum, a resident of Pallet Town who had a couple of dreams, in case one failed and she could fall back on another one. Her dream was to become a Pokémon Master and be one of the best trainers that there are... however, if that failed, then she wanted to become a member of the Elite 4 in any of the regions.

"Ha-ha, Ashley. I still remember you waking up with bed hair that made you look like a Gust from a Pidgey woke you up." Naruto shot back at the girl, before her face was overcome with a fierce blush at that memory... everyone was laughing or giggling at her for a couple of hours before it died down.

"Hey! That is not funny! It took so long to fix! Luckily Serena helped me... unlike everyone else." She said, her voice getting softer at the end as she tried to get her blush under control.

She also happened to be a tomboy and cared about her hair greatly... which sort of made sense for the girl. Girls always seemed to have great care for their hair... Naruto shivered when he saw his mother have a tantrum when she came home one night, and it suddenly started raining.

Serena blushed at the attention that was thrown onto her, before stuttering out her answer to her. "A-actually, y-you made me do it." She said, her voice as soft as ever. Naruto could tell that she would grow up to be a heartbreaker, and the person who she would end up with would be very lucky.

Serena had honey blonde hair that went to her upper back, along with having blue eyes as bright as the sky. She wore a pink sundress that ended at her knees and wore cream coloured shoes, on top of her head was a straw hat, which was easily bigger than her.

Seeing the betrayed look that Ashley was giving Serena and the awkward silence that came about, Naruto decided to let himself into the conversation. "So... why did you do this for me? Silver how did you know it was my birthday?" Naruto questioned the group, he watched as the girls started to look anywhere but him and played with their hair or twiddled their fingers out of embarrassment.

Seeing as how the girls weren't going to answer the questions, Silver decided he would. "Well, it is a birthday and we are friends... and I also overheard the loud gossiping between those three, so I decided to join in." Silver said, crossing his arms over his chest and sending a look to the three girls.

Naruto turned his attention to the girls, with an almost deadpanned stare, which was met with nervous giggles and waves. He sighed, shaking his head and stating another question that would hopefully get the girls out of their spunk.

"So, what are we doing then?" Naruto asked with a small tilt of his head, wanting to know what his first birthday celebrated outside of his home city and family would be like.

"Well, we prepared a small picnic just further in the clearing, then we will think of something... I guess." It was Cassidy that spoke up, since it was her to plan this little surprise party with her friends and with Silver, so it was only fair she got to decide.

Naruto nodded his head in understanding, before he was suddenly yanked forward, deeper into the clearing as out of boldness, Cassidy ran forward with him, the others following them.


As Naruto was basically dragged deeper into the clearing with a surprise show of feminine strength, he eventually found himself at the place where the picnic was to be at, along with a new guest there who must have stayed there in order to keep a look out on the food and not be stolen by a wild Pokémon.

It was a female who was with them, one that Naruto had maybe seen once or twice within the camp. She had bright blonde hair and captivating green eyes that were full of love and happiness, she had a soft pale face and a heart shaped face.

She wore a rather large sunhat that covered most of her blonde hair, only allowing a small section of it being seen, along with one bang framing her face and going down to her chin, she wore a simple light green clothing with yellow trims and images on them, she also looked to be about nine years in age, making her the oldest in the group.

"Oh, hey guys." She said softly, with a small wave of her hand as she gazed upon the others arriving in the clearing, looking a little puffed.

"Hello, Yellow." Cassidy greeted with a smile, meanwhile Naruto snickered about the greeting, it nearly rhymed and sounded the same.

"Ooof." Naruto grunted out in a small amount of pain as he was introduced to an elbow to the side, curtesy of Cassidy as she gave him a stink eye about snickering like that. Giving a small pouted look to Cassidy that made her look away, he then turned his attention to Yellow, who was still sitting upon the picnic blanket with her legs crossed, she was giving him a friendly smile. "Hey, Yellow good to see you." Naruto greeted as he waved his hand towards her.

"Same here, and Happy Birthday." She replied with a nod and started taking a more relaxed posture and sitting along the edge of the rather large blanket that was red and blue with some green trims.

Naruto suddenly saw another few shadows fall over him, and as he looked up, he saw that Ashley and Silver were up in a small tree, tying a banner between both trees that read 'Happy Birthday' with many balloons and party hats as the image.

"Aww, thanks guys." Naruto said as he wiped a stray tear coming out of his eyes, before looking towards the shy and reserved Serena.

"I hope you enjoy it; it wasn't the best as it was last minute... but it's something." She said, a small smile as she scratched her cheek in an embarrassed fashion.

Naruto was about state that it was perfect, before he was dragged closer to the picnic basket, this time, it was by Ashley, who somehow made her way down the small tree and get in front of Naruto without him knowing and started dragging him.

"Come on! Let's get this started!" She said enthusiastically with excitement clear in her voice as she all but threw Naruto down on the picnic blanket and plopped herself down... she was drooling while smelling the delicious aroma of the food they prepared... she didn't make any of it, when she tried, she nearly burnt down the cabin she was in.

How does one set the microwave on fire?

"Ashley, it is Naruto's birthday, he can have first choice of the food, and apologise to him for throwing him down." Yellow said sternly... well as sternly one can get when it is a nine-year-old girl talking.

Ashley had a cold sweat run down her face when she saw the stern expression on Yellow's face, it was almost as scary as her mother's one when she caught and was about to get punished.

She gulped a little before turning her attention to Naruto, who was finally getting up and rubbing his elbow, the one where he landed on first, so all of his weight came crashing down on it. "Sorry, Naruto." She apologised, rubbing the back of her neck with a sheepish expression plastered on her face.

"It's fine, just don't do it again." He replied to the apology, before he was suddenly joined on the blanket, with Cassidy and Serena sitting in the middle on both sides, and Silver taking a spot next to him, completing the circle they made on the blanket.

"Now, since it is Naruto's birthday, he gets the first choice of food, and because of Ashley's move, she has to go last." Yellow said, giving Ashley a small look that made her shut up when she was about to retort with an unfair.

Yellow than opened the three small picnic baskets and the food that was wrapped up in kitchen towels, when she did, a whole new aroma of deliciousness lingered in the air, making everyone lick their lips in anticipation, even Yellow did it.

The food that was there, while not at all special, with some sandwiches ranging from Magikarp meat, tomato lettuce and cheese, some cupcakes and a couple of lolly bags. Naruto gingerly took one of the tomato sandwiches, and took a small bite out of it.

Almost instantly, his taste buds were assaulted with the taste of the juicy tomato and lettuce, with the cheese being the solid and tasty cheddar kind.

As if a floodgate had opened, everyone took turns in taking what they wanted first, with Ashley being the last one to get one, before they all dug into their feast and lost track of time when they started telling stories about what they wanted to be when they were older, and some even passing out in the later stages of the picnic birthday.

They never noticed an Eevee hiding in the bushes, except this was no regular Eevee, it was one that had silverish fur and white main of hair around its neck and on the tip of its tail. It was watching Naruto with curiosity, for some reason, it felt drawn to him, and it was going to find out why.

END CHAPTER

Alright guys, I hope you enjoyed this chapter, I promise when the Summer Camp and 'Prologue' parts are over, the chapters will be slightly longer than what they are now.

Anyways, I hope you liked the additions of Silver and Yellow in this part.

I'm not that great with writing child characters, so forgive me for that if it seems strained... I'm just not consistent with writing chapters with young main characters that are not teens.