A/N: Okay, so this is the start of my serious mini-arc. Be prepared!

"What's his problem, un?" Deidara asked, pointing at Yahiko.

"I think he's mad at me…" Konan muttered.

"Why? What'd you do?"

"Well…"

"Yahiko, Nagato… Thanks."

The two of them nodded, telling her that it wasn't a problem.

"And… I know you were just trying to get him off, Yahiko… but, did you have to hit him so hard?"

Yahiko and Nagato stared at Konan, wondering if she was being serious.

"Not that I'm not thankful, but you did hit him kind of hard."

Yahiko glared at her, and decided that this was a stupid conversation. He left the room, and then walked out of the pokémon center.

"Hey, where are you going?" Nagato asked.

"Don't worry; I'll be back in the morning."

"Ah."

"Yeah…"

Yahiko was indeed kind of angry, and decided that today was a day for revenge. Raichu had just finished his breakfast, and was now walking across the lobby in the pokémon center. Because he was too busy talking to Ivysaur, Raichu walked right into Yahiko.

"Hello, Raichu." Yahiko growled, looking down at him.

"Um… Hi."

"Hey, remember last night?"

"Y-yeah, but I-"

"Time to get even." Yahiko interrupted.

"What are you going to do?"

Nagato and Eevee stood a few feet away, silently laughing at Raichu's ignorance.

"He has no idea what he's in for, does he?" Eevee whispered.

"Nope."

"Come with me, Raichu."

So, Raichu followed Yahiko all the way to the other side of the pokémon center, to one of the lounges. The door was closed, and Raichu began to get nervous.

"Close your eyes."

"What?"

"It's a surprise, Raichu. Close 'em."

The little electric pokémon obeyed, and let Yahiko push him into the room.

"Okay, you can open your eyes."

"Huh?"

What stood in front of Raichu was a room full of very angry female pokémon, most of them with eggs or some kind of baby pokémon.

"Um… Well, this is awkward." Raichu squeaked. "Hey, how are all my… uh…"

"Kids?" One of the girls asked.

"Yeah, those."

"I'll leave you guys alone, then." Yahiko laughed, closing the door behind Raichu.

"Wait, what?! Don't leave me in here with them!"

"I still cant believe you spent the whole night looking for Raichu's… I guess they're one-night-stands, huh?" Eevee asked.

"Yep. That's probably not all of them, either."

"You've gotta be sleepy…"

"I'm fine."

"Well, we're just heading over to Maiden's Peak today… you could just sleep on the way there." Nagato suggested.

"I told you, I can wait until tonight."

"It's seven in the morning, I don't think you'll be so awake later…"

"I'll be fine, trust me."

Deidara sat across from Tobi, staring quite intensely at his mask.

"What are you looking at?" Konan asked.

"It's breakfast… He has to take his mask off to eat."

"And?"

"I've never seen what's under that guy's mask."

"You know that the mask is part of its face, right? It can't take that off."

"What happens if you yank the thing off?"

"Premature evolution, usually."

"Evolution?"

"Into a Madara… but, it'll probably be much shorter than most Madara, because it'll be premature."

"Hey, Mankey…" Deidara whispered, edging toward the pokémon next to him.

"Mank?"

"Help me get his mask off, will you?"

"key."

"Tobi, come here, un."

Tobi stood up, and walked over to its trainer, curious as to what he wanted.

"NOW!"

Poor Tobi had absolutely no time to react to his two attackers, and quickly found himself getting his mask pulled. He tried to keep it on, but Mankey and Deidara made a good team.

"Deidara!" Konan yelled. "Why are you-?"

Before Konan could finish, Deidara and Mankey managed to pull Tobi's mask right off his face. They held it up triumphantly, and watched their victim cover its face with its hands. Tobi began to glow, and Deidara watched as his hair grew longer, and armor seemed to grow right out of his skin.

"…Mada…"

Madara –being a much more vengeful pokémon than Tobi– looked up at Deidara and Mankey, deadest on revenge.

"Is that… the Sharingan?" Deidara asked.

"Of course it is, I've explained that!" Konan yelled.

Mankey dropped right off Deidara's shoulder, too distracted by Madara's sexiness to care where she landed.

"Mankey, un?"

"M-mank…ey…"

Madara marched up to Deidara, and ripped the mask out of his hand. However, this Madara didn't look quite as threatening as the others, since he was barely taller than Deidara. A normal Madara would be at least a foot taller.

"Um… Madara, look at it this way… maybe Deidara forced you to evolve, but you are a lot more powerful now, right?" Konan asked, attempting to calm it down.

"Sakura, what the hell!?" Sasuke yelled.

"What?"

"Why are we in a pokémon center?! Where is Itachi?!"

"Itachi is in the lobby, calm down… your foot is pretty much broken thanks to the explosion."

"Unplug all these wires, I need to go kill Itachi."

"Sasuke, your foot-"

"Shut up."

"Look, Itachi is going to leave in a few minutes, and I think-"

"WHAT?!"

"He's only leaving for a little while… Listen to me!"

Sakura shoved Sasuke down on the hospital bed, and held him there until he stopped trying to talk over her.

"Okay, here's my plan. We stick with the blonde guy and the blue-haired girl… When Itachi comes back, we… you… kill him. Besides, this'll give you time to fix up your foot."

"Konan, Jiraiya is calling." Nurse Joy said.

"Again? Did something happen?"

"I don't know, he just said he wants to talk to you."

So, Konan cautiously moved away from Madara and Deidara, watching to make sure they wouldn't rip each other's throats out when she left.

"Hi, Jiraiya."

"Hey, so you guys are heading to Maiden's Peak?"

"How'd you know?"

"Nurse Joy told me when I asked why you weren't in Celadon yet."

"Oh."

"No. No. Stop that, and listen!"

"What's going on?"

"Oh, remember how Kakashi was trying to set up that group of shinobi pokémon for the ANBU?"

"Yeah… all of them were dog pokémon, right?"

"Yeah… He even went all the way to Sinnoh to find some more of them. But, this one Growlithe hasn't been cooperating. His name is Chibi, and it is possibly the most ADHD pokémon you'll ever meet."

"You can't have a shinobi pokémon like that… not in the ANBU, anyway…"

"Yeah, we're trying to get someone else to take it, but-"

"I'll take it."

"You want Chibi?"

"Why not? If you can't find anyone else to take it, I could always use a fire type on my team."

"It'll be hard to train, you know."

"That's fine. Just send it over, will you?"

"Whatever you say."

So, Jiraiya walked off screen to get Chibi, and save Kakashi from getting too frustrated. The little fire pokémon wore a Konoha headband that was slightly too big for its head. It covered the top of Chibi's eyes, but didn't seem to bother him.

"Okay, Chibi… listen, you have to stay inside the pokéball until you get to Konan, okay?" Jiraiya asked.

"Lithe!"

Konan walked over to the transporter to wait for her new pokémon. However, the instant the pokéball dropped onto the table, Growlithe jumped out.

"Nice to meet you, Chibi."

Growlithe barked in response, and quickly began exploring every inch of the pokémon center.

"Is that a Growlithe?" Eevee asked, watching it walk by.

"I think so." Nagato replied.

"Why is it here?"

"It's a Pokémon Center, it probably got hurt."

"Oh, yeah."

Konan followed Growlithe until it walked into the lobby, and jumped up on Deidara.

"What's this, un?"

"Growlithe… it's name is Chibi, and it's my new pokémon."

Deidara pulled Chibi's headband off, and started to dig through his bag.

"What are you doing?"

"Well, if Chibi is going to stick with us, he's got to look like us, right?"

"And?"

"Have to scratch his headband… Just like the rest of us. Me, Itachi, Leader-sama, and y- wait… "

"What?"

"Never mind…" Deidara muttered, noticing that her headband wasn't scratched quite yet.

"Okay…"

Deidara finished fixing Chibi's headband, and put it back on. The pokémon dashed away, looking for something else to do.

"James, was this storm even on the map? You said it was supposed to be nice today!"

"The weatherman said it was supposed to be cloudless!" James whined.

"Doesn't matta now, does it?!" Meowth yelled. "Just keep dis t'ing floatin'!"

"I don't know if we can!" James told him.

The wind was currently throwing the Meowth-head balloon in every possible direction, making everyone on board quite sick.

BANG!

"Thunder now, too? There better not be lightni-"

Jessie was cut off by the very thing she was trying to talk about. Lightning struck the balloon, leaving a large hole in it. Air flew out, sending the balloon hurdling toward the ground. Charmeleon's cage flew off, and landed in some mud a few feet away from the balloon, and the unconscious Team Rocket. The impact left the door broken, allowing Charmeleon too find some safety under the tree canopy. Rain wasn't exactly its favorite thing in the world.

"Calm this storm down before we get hit with something." Sasuke growled.

"I told you, I can't. I can't control it."

"You created it. You stop it."

"It doesn't matter. We're close to that Uzumaki boy, and his pokémon. That is our task." Pein said.

A/N: Alright, so that wasn't too serious, but the next chapter will start being less crack-ish, and more serious. And Konan's headband wasn't scratched because her evolutionary stage at this point is from her group of rebels during the Amegakure civil war, where her headband was still fine. Also, I don't think she even wears a headband anymore… I didn't ever see one after she joined Akatsuki.