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Laundry.

Traveling didn't mean you did not wash your clothes, that was a fact of the matter. Bea did the laundry, that was something that she just refused to allow Naruto to do.

Not because she was a woman.

She had a multitude of reasons, for starters, Naruto hunted down pokemon, fought them, and killed them for food. She just did not have the heart to do that, so since he provided food for them, she was happy to cook the food to the best of her ability when it was her turn, and to do laundry when they found a water source. So the starting reason, not her main reason, was so that she could divide the work between the evenly and fairly.

Reason two, was the fact that she did not want Naruto washing her bra and panties with his bare hands. She did not mind if he saw them, when she was not wearing them on her body, but him having his hands on them just made her feel awkward. She trusted him, but trust did not mean that there was no awkward moments or topics.

"Okay, Heracross... can you please help me out?" Bea asked Heracross nicely.

The pokemon had been unhelpful, though it was respectful in that it did not attack them or make their lives harder, it didn't obey her. It would stay away from them physically and emotionally, and just send them looked down and again. Machoke was helping, but Heracross seemed to lack the respect for her to help her hang the laundry from a tree branch. The laundry needed to dry out, and the more tree branches they could use, the more laundry that could be done at one time.

Naruto gave Heracross a look as he passed by, and he slapped Machoke on the back.

Naruto was soaking wet, as if he had jumped into the river, and he was carrying what would appear to be a stack of steaks. He had a grin, so she could tell that he had jumped into the river to get the blood off of him, and the bloody smell was gone for sure.

Bea didn't ask what pokemon it was.

"Protein, berries are nice, but nothing beats a good source of protein to grow muscles." Naruto tossed the cuts to Petilil. He stopped using Oddish during the day, since his feisty pokemon was more fond of when the sun went down. He wasn't truly opposed to sunlight, but he was slower, less active, and overall didn't enjoy the sun as much as he enjoyed the moon. So he planned to make it a point to keep his second pokemon in his pokeball whenever possible during the day, purely out of respect. "Isn't that right Heracross?" Naruto tossed another steak onto the pokemon's horn.

Heracross grabbed some laundry and started flew up to a tree branch, before hanging it on the tree.

"How did you get... you didn't even ask it to help?" Bea questioned, since her pokemon didn't listen to her or show her any respect. Machoke listened to her faithfully, but the one she caught seemed to have absolutely not faith in her at all. Yet Naruto was getting it to help, just by giving it food. "... How did you do that?" Bea was a little upset if she were to be internally honest with herself.

"Do you want me to explain?" Naruto asked her.

"No, I'll earn Heracross' respect."

"Well, then I couldn't help you anyway. Heracross doesn't respect me either, he's just being prideful. I mean, he did lose to a pokemon weaker than him. My best bet is he won't listen to you until you prove yourself worthy of commanding him... at least... that is the feeling I get." Naruto explained anyway, since Bea was going for the wrong thing. Building respect could come later, but first thing she needed to do was to build trust, and show her pokemon that there was a reason why she was his trainer.

"Eh, how do I prove I'm worthy?"

"Don't ask me, I don't explain my wise sayings, I just say them."

"So, you want me to show you that I'm worthy of you... even though you already lost to my trainer skills?" Bea asked Heracross as she stood up. She took her shirt off, she was wearing her one piece suit on, and she took a stance. "Go on, try me... do it, give me your best charge, and I'll stop you with nothing but my body." Bea was ready.

Her feet were dug into the ground, and she had her weight centered. If Heracross came at her, she was sure that she could stop it. Heracross jumped out of the tree and landed on the ground with a loud thud, staring her down. It sat down and showed it had pulled a berry out of the tree, and it tossed the steak back at Naruto, before it started to suck the juices out of the berry. Then it turned away from both trainers, but kept a watch over Bea from the side of it's eye.

Bea was not ready for that.

By that, she meant when Petilil jumped at her and tackled her right in the lower gut. She had dropped her stance when Heracross refused to fight her, but Petilil was happy to take up the challenge. She recovered quickly as her feet were pushed deeper into the grass, and the heels of her feet touched the water behind her.

"... That is great training, that really hurt... Naruto, give me a good punch in the abs. Lets get in some sparring while the laundry dries... Naruto?" Bea asked in confusion when Naruto just laid back on the grass. He smiled and looked up at the sky, before he yawned and waved her off. "... you don't want to train?"

"I just fought a... well I was just in a life or death battle. I kind of want to relax, anyway, I got hurt during my fight. Training is good, sometimes the best training is just taking some time off." Naruto could see the value in pushing yourself beyond your limits, but when you were injured, you needed rest as well. He was injured, so he would keep his training lighter, and there was no chance in hell that sparring with Bea was going to be light, or easy. "... anyway, if both of us aren't at full strength, would you even want to spar?" Naruto glanced towards her.

Petilil looked at Bea, and then at Naruto, before she jumped on top of Machoke with the aura that she was upset.

She wanted to see the spar it would appear.

"So... you got injured, do you mind showing..." Bea stopped when she noticed that Naruto was already asleep. She had wanted to tend to his wounds, but he seemed to be doing what he needed to be done, and resting up. She looked over at Petilil and Machoke, before she took up her fighting stance again. "... Machoke, time to go through your practice. Show me what you can do now." Bea was ready to train with her pokemon.

Bea looked at the clothes, and saw it would be awhile before they dried.

She grabbed a berry, before she chucked it up into the air at an angle. Then she ran after it, going full speed, before she jumped and caught the berry before it could hit the ground. Throwing the berry again, she raced towards where it was going to land, and caught it, rolling across the ground, she threw the berry again mid-roll. She went back to her feet and gave chase to the berry in an instant, only she wasn't fast enough to catch up to the berry this time, and it hit the ground with a splat. Looking around, she went for another berry and started to practice her running by herself, since nobody was going to train with her.

"Ow..."

The next berry she failed to catch hit somebody.

A young woman in a black uniform with a red R on the front of it, bright blond hair and a single pokeball on her belt. She was in the middle of looking through Naruto's backpack, while he slept peacefully nearby, not paying her the least bit of attention.

"Uuuuuuh... GLOOM!"

Naruto actually grabbed the woman's ankle and yanked on her leg, causing her to trip, throw her pokemon up into the air, before it came back down and hit the top of her head. She knocked herself out cold with her own pokeball.

"... That is a stupid uniform." Bea deadpanned when she saw the woman on the ground, knocked out cold.

"I'm going back to resting... might want to tie up the thief girl, we can drop her off at the police station in Mahogany town. Good night." Naruto just went back to resting without a care in the world. Bea just sighed, before she nodded her head.

"Okay, why didn't any of you 3..." Bea saw her Machoke taking a nap, and Heracross didn't care what happened to their stuff. Petilil didn't seem to care about the value of material goods either, so had just allowed it to happen, even though she had been awake. She returned both of her pokemon to their balls, and tossed Petilil on top of Naruto. "I'm going to train, so you look after this thief... or cook dinner." Bea was a little annoyed overall by the situation.

She punched the tree.

Her jaw dropped when her panties dropped from the tree and landed on Naruto's face, but he snoozed away. Petilil was a problem though, before she used her leaves to wear the panties on top of her head and mock Bea.

"Pffft... okay... that is pretty..." Bea didn't speak louder than that, and contained her laughter, before the image of Petilil wearing her panties on her head was just too much for her to stay mad at. She couldn't stop herself when her own spandex fell on top of her head as well, and suddenly her mood went from bad to okay once again.

She kicked the thief awake.

"What is-"

"Get out of here... and don't steal anymore." Bea stated as she moved her spandex off of her face to say that, and the criminal scrambled to her feet, sneezed a couple of times when she got too close to Naruto and Petilil, before she ran off into the forest.

She wondered what the big R was all about.

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