A/N well, my dear readers, this story is a challenge from writer Storylover213 has given to a Pokémon/Naruto cross-over. So I hope that you like it. Unfortunately, I do not own Pokémon/Naruto.

Legend "Talking"

"Thinking"

"Inner Sakura and Kyuubi"

"Pokédex"

Chapter: 1 A new world a new home

Sakura was running the fastest that she had ever done in her life so she could try and stop her two teammates' attacks. Sasuke with his Chidori and Naruto with his Rasengan, Sakura knew that they would kill each other with this attack. So Sakura did the only thing that she could think of when running and stopping them from killing each other.

"Stop it, you guys, we're friends!" Sakura yelled with tears in her eyes.

Kakashi saw this happening and tried to get to them in time and stop their attacks from killing all three students. But, unfortunately, Sasuke's Chidori and Naruto's Rasengan were now too close for him to prevent the two jutsus from combining and killing all three.

"No, I can't stop them in time; they're going to kill each other." Kakashi thought.

All Kakashi saw the Rasengan and Chidori hit each other throwing Naruto and Sasuke back, knocking Sasuke out. Naruto's Rasengan was stronger than Sasuke's Chidori, but Kakashi knew Sakura was in the most danger of the three, seeing as she had nothing to protect herself with, and closed her eyes. Before Sakura knew what was happening, the two attacks met, and a deep violet portal was forming.

Sakura had little time to do anything but grab hold of something, a metal pipe on the hospital roof. All Sakura could do now was hold on for dear life as she looked at Kakashi, who had hold of Sasuke while Naruto was a little closer to her and was trying to get to her. He could see that Sakura was losing her grip as she only had her left hand on it, and Naruto could see this.

"I can't hold on anymore, somebody, please help me!" Sakura yelled with tears as she lost her grip and was then immediately sent flying towards the portal and knew that this was the end for her.

"No, Sakura-chan, I'm coming!" He yelled as he dove in front of her and grabbed her left hand with his right hand.

Sakura just looked at Naruto right into his eyes, and she could see that he was not going to let her go. "Don't worry, Sakura-chan, I won't let you go!" Naruto yelled.

"Please, Naruto, if you don't let me go, you'll die too!" She yelled.

"I don't care. I won't let someone I love die like this!" He yelled, but Sakura knew that Naruto hurt his left arm.

"Naruto, you need to let me go, please!" Sakura yelled as more tears came down her face as she saw Naruto lost his grip.

Kakashi just helplessly watched as the two were pulled into the vortex, both screaming with their eyes closed. The two young Genins were soon gone as he saw the vortex closing, and Kakashi didn't know what to do next. He knew that other people must have seen what went on and must have seen the two Genins pulled in. Just then, two Anbu came to see what had happened. "What happened here? The Hokage saw this Vortex thing!" One of the Anbu in a cat mask asked.

Just then, two Anbu came to see what had happened. "What happened here? The Hokage saw this Vortex thing!" One of the Anbu in a cat mask asked.

Kakashi then started to tell the two Anbu what had happened with Sasuke and Naruto and that Sakura tried to stop them. Naruto tried his best to save Sakura from death, which's still pulling them into this vortex. Kakashi watched as Sakura and Naruto were getting pulled into the vortex because of Naruto and Sasuke's Rasengan and Chidori.

"We have to tell the Hokage about this; you take the Uchiha inside the hospital while I'll take Kakashi to see the Hokage." The Anbu said to the man with a bear mask on and looked to Kakashi.

With that, all four left the roof while the Anbu, who had Sasuke, went downstairs; the other Anbu, along with Kakashi, went to see the Hokage.

Later on, Kakashi told Tsunade the same thing that he said to the Anbu regarding what happened. Tsunade was angry at the two for fighting, but on the inside, she smiled that Naruto did everything he could to save her, even telling her that he loved her.

But something inside her heart told her that the two were still alive. "So, what do you want us to do, lady Hokage?" Kakashi asked, trying to mask the pain of his two student's death.

Tsunade could see this all too easily what Kakashi felt. "It must be hard for him, first losing his team and now his two students." Tsunade thought to herself.

"So, Tsunade, when shall we hold the funeral for my two students?" Kakashi asked.

Tsunade just smiled at Kakashi. "There is not going to be one Kakashi as something tells me they are not dead!" Tsunade said, smiling.

Kakashi was surprised at what she had just said to him that they were not dead. "What do you mean, Lady Hokage?" He said, still very shocked at what she said.

Tsunade only gave a light chuckle at this. "Naruto is too stubborn to die, and he would never let anything happen to Sakura."

Tsunade then got out of her chair and looked out the window. "I don't know where they are right now, but my heart tells me that they are alive!" Tsunade said to him.

"I just hope that you are right about that lady Hokage!" Kakashi said as he left the room.

Meanwhile, back with the two young Genins, they were still asleep or somewhat unconscious from what happened to them. Slowly Sakura started to wake up, and she slowly looked around her to only see a white corridor all around her. Sakura also saw the blue light swish past her like she was moving.

"Am I dead, and is this heaven?" She asked herself. Sakura then looked to her right to see Naruto, who, like her, was still unconscious.

"Naruto, Naruto, wake up, please are you alright?" She asked.

As she slowly floated over towards Naruto, she started to shake him, trying to get a response from him, but Naruto wasn't waking up. However, this only started to worry Sakura that something could be wrong with him, but what? Was all Sakura could think about right now were they dead or were they, not Sakura didn't know.

Sakura then remembered what Naruto said to her. "Did Naruto say he loves me?" She asked herself.

Just then, her Inner self appears in her head. "Even though Naruto can be an idiot, Naruto came through and risked his own life to save us!" Inner Sakura said while thinking.

"I know I'm just too shocked, but what should I do?" Sakura asked herself. "I guess I will have to wait and see what the future brings." Sakura thought to herself.

Just then, Naruto started to wake up, and like Sakura, he too looked around, but he didn't see Sakura at first. "Sakura-chan, where are you?" Naruto asked, not knowing that she was behind him.

Sakura just put her hand on his shoulder. "I'm right here, Naruto, and don't worry, I'm fine!" She told him with a smile.

Naruto only smiled at Sakura. "Well, I'm just happy that your alright, Sakura-chan. I don't know what I would do if something happened to you," Naruto told her when suddenly both he and Sakura found them self's in a long corridor.

Sakura then looked around and saw what looked like the basement of a boiler room or a power plant's sub-level, with pipes running across the ceiling and the floor being flooded over with water. Sakura didn't know what was going on, which scared her more than anything; she looked over to Naruto to see if he knew what was wrong. Sakura knew that just by looking at his face that Naruto knew where they were right now.

"Naruto, where are we?" She asked.

Naruto never got a chance to say anything to her as the two heard evil laughter coming from the darkness. Naruto looked back to Sakura, seeing she was still holding on to his right arm with fear in her eyes.

Naruto then looked at her. "Sakura, I want you to stay here and wait until I return, and please don't follow me, alright!" He told before walking off to the Kyuubi.

Once he was gone, Sakura didn't know why Naruto wanted her to stay here, but something told her that she had to find out what Naruto was hiding. So Sakura slowly went after him making sure Naruto didn't know that she was following him.

It didn't take long until she saw Naruto stop in front of a big caged door, which only confused her as to why he was here.

"Why is Naruto standing in front of this cage?" She asked as she looked on.

"What do you want, brat? I'm trying to sleep here!" An evil voice said to Naruto but only made Sakura tremble at the sound.

"I want to know what's going on here, fox. Why did Sakura and I get dragged in here? More impotently, why was Sakura-chan dragged in my mind?" Naruto shouted at the fox, asking what he knew.

All Sakura heard was laughter from the thing that was in the cage. "So that little pink-haired harpy is here too then? Oh, this is good. I may not be able to kill you, brat, but I can kill her!" The Kyuubi said, laughing, moving closer to Naruto, so he was now out of the shadows.

Seeing this not only scared Sakura but confused her at what Sakura's seeing, the Kyuubi or the nine-tailed fox demon that the Fourth Hokage killed. Sakura wondered what it was doing inside Naruto, but she didn't like how it talked about her or what it wanted to do.

Sakura then heard Naruto yell at the fox. "If you even touch her, I'll make sure that you die!" He yelled.

Sakura just smiled at what Naruto said, but the Kyuubi only laughed at him. "Don't forget, brat. The only way that I can die is if you die!" The Kyuubi said, laughing as he looked right at her with an evil smile.

"He knows that I'm here!" Sakura thought to herself.

"You are such a fool brat you didn't even know that she followed you here to me!" The Kyuubi said, laughing. "You might as well come out, girl. Not only can I see you, but I can smell you too!" He finished off with a laugh.

Naruto slowly looked back and saw the girl he loved was now looking at the Kyuubi in fear in her eyes. "Sakura, what are you doing here. I told you to wait back there." He told her.

"I wanted to know what was going on, Naruto, and now I know you have the Kyuubi in you!" She said to him. But the way Naruto looked at her, she didn't hate him or was scared of him. Sakura was mainly just hurt that he never told her.

Naruto then saw the tears go down her eyes. "Why didn't you tell me, Naruto? I thought we were friends?" She yelled.

Naruto just moved closer to her. "Sakura, I didn't want you to hate me as most of the village did!" He explained to her. "I thought that if I told you about the Kyuubi, you would hate me too and wouldn't want anything to do with me!" Naruto said to her, trying not to cry.

Sakura then knew why people always hated or ignored him; it wasn't because of his pranks or how loud Naruto acted. It was because he had the nine-tailed fox in him; that's why he did all the things that he did so that people didn't see Naruto as a demon but as a normal kid.

Sakura's still hurt that Naruto never told her about this, but she knew that if her life happened like Naruto's, she wouldn't tell people too.

"It's alright, Naruto. I don't hate you, Naruto. You're a hero that keeps the fox back so that he never gets free." She said to him with a smile. "I don't think that I would ever be able to handle something like that. I would be like Gaara or just let the fox out by now!"

Meanwhile, the Kyuubi was laughing at the two. "Is this over yet? All this emotion makes me sick get out of here, brat before I decided to tell the Pink haired harpy what you did!" The Kyuubi said with a chuckle.

"What does that Fox mean?" Sakura thought to herself.

The Kyuubi just laughed when he saw her confused face. "I guess you don't know, then, do you? Well, let me tell you then since I love to see the brat suffer!" He said, laughing at her and Naruto.

Naruto already knew what the Kyuubi was going to say. "Do you remember when the Uchiha brat wanted to kiss your forehead?" He asked her as Sakura remembered what he said to her.

Sakura then flashbacked to what Sasuke said to her when they had become a team so long ago it was a moment she loved. "Sakura, you have such a large and charming forehead. It makes me want to kiss it." She remembered Sasuke telling her. "Just kidding, that's something Naruto would say." It was what she remembered, and it still confused her a lot.

The Kyuubi only laughed even more at this. "You still don't get it, do you? Well, I guess I'll have to tell you then, it was Naruto!" He said with a foxy grin.

"He did what?" She asked. "Why would he do that to me?" Sakura asked but remembered what Sasuke or Naruto asked about him.

"He just wanted to know what I thought of him. Oh god, he heard that I hate him, and I told him that he was annoying! But he still nice to me; he must love me even after all I've done to him!" She thought to herself. "Why is he still so nice to me?"

"It's alright, Naruto. I understand why you did it!" She said.

The two Genins were pulled out of Naruto's mind and saw the same white corridor and the light blue light that passed them. Only then did the two noticed that the white passage was getting even brighter, so bright then they had to close their eyes.

"Naruto, I can't see!" Sakura yelled as she covered her eyes while Naruto did the same.

The next thing they knew, they were both on a dirt road with some trees around them; it was also a beautiful sunny day from what they saw. The two Genins just looked around, wondering where they were right now.

"So, Sakura-chan, where do you think we are?" Naruto asked, scratching the back of his head.

Sakura just looked around; she didn't know anything about this place. "I don't think we're in Konoha anymore, Naruto!" She said, thinking where they could be right now.

Both Naruto and Sakura watched as it started to rain, and it was raining hard, which only made Sakura angry. "Oh well, this is just perfect now; we're getting wet!" She yelled.

As this was going on, the two ninjas heard someone yelling at them. "Hey, get off the road!" the voice yelled at them.

Both Naruto and Sakura saw a boy who was ten years old riding an orange bike with a basket. The two couldn't see him that well, but they saw he had a hat on the also so that something was chasing him, which also caught up to him. It was then, the bike that he was on went over the hill, but he fell onto the road that Naruto and Sakura were on.

The two ninjas went running up to him to see if he was alright Sakura was shocked at the yellow animal she saw. On the other hand, Naruto went over to the kid who had just fallen to the ground. "Hey, are you alright?" Naruto asked.

Naruto saw that this kid had strange clothes on him. Naruto saw that he was wearing a red and white cap on his head. With green gloves on his hands, a blue and white jacket on him with a black t-shirt on, he also had light blue trousers on a pair of white and black trainers too, and on his back was a green backpack.

He then looked up at Naruto, and the blond ninja saw two z marks on his face. "Yeah, I'm alright." He said.

The kid started to look around for something until he saw Sakura holding what he was looking for and soon found it with a fearful look on his face. "Oh, no, Pikachu!" He yelled. "Is he alright?" He asked.

Sakura only nodded her head as everyone looked at the flock of birds that were coming at them. Sakura then saw that the boy with the cape took out a strange white and red ball with a black strip around it and a button.

"Pikachu; get inside!" He said as he pushed the button, making the ball bigger. While Pikachu just looked at him. "I know you're afraid of going in there, but if you're inside, then maybe I can save you. Please, Pikachu, please listen to me and go inside after that, then after that, trust me!" He said as he gave to Ball to Sakura. "Please make sure he goes in?" He asked while Pikachu just wondered what he was doing. "Pika"

Without speaking a word, he got up in front of the birds with his arms spread, protecting Pikachu and both Naruto and Sakura. "Spearow's, do you know who I am? I'm Ash from Pallet town, and I'm destined to be the world's number one Pokémon master!" Ash yelled at them. "So, I can't be defeated, you Spearow!"

Both Naruto and Sakura were shocked at what he said, and at the things he said, Pikachu was looking at his trainer.

"I'm going to capture and defeat you all you hear me!" Ash continued to tell all the Spearows, which shocked even Pikachu. "Come and get me! Pikachu, go inside the poke ball. It's the only way," He yelled while Pikachu just looked at the poke ball; with that, the Spearows all started to fly towards him. Everyone watched this in shock while Pikachu seeing this act happening, jumped out of Sakura's arms and went running to Ash, wanting to help.

Lighting was all anyone could hear right now. Everything went in slow motion as the flock of Spearows went for Ash, as was Pikachu, while both Naruto and Sakura tried to get Pikachu only to see him jump on Ash's shoulders, who looked back at his little friend. Acting quickly, Pikachu jumped right in between Ash and the Spearows just as the lighting hit Pikachu, and he used the Thunderbolt on the Spearows.

Watching this, Naruto and Sakura were right behind Ash, and they too got caught in the Thunderbolt along with Ash. However, this sent the three quickly flying backward all over the hillside; you could see Pikachu's Thunderbolt and how big it was. Soon the rain stopped, and the sun came out from the clouds. The three humans slowly woke up to the sun shining on them.

Ash just smiled at Pikachu. "Well, we beat them!" Ash said weakly while Pikachu just nodded. "Chu."

While Naruto and Sakura slowly got up, making sure they were alright when all three humans and Pikachu heard something above them. To see a bird-like Pokémon flying over their heads, the three noticed its body covered in a gold aura that was also heading towards the rainbow.

Ash then moved to look at it, not knowing that his Pokédex was out. "What's that?" He asked.

Just then, the Pokédex went off. "There is no data; there are still Pokémon not yet identified!" It said once hearing this, and Ash looked at that moment it started talking as the Pokémon went over the rainbow and disappeared.

The two ninjas just looked at the Pokédex, wondering what it was as they have never seen anything like this before. Sakura then looked at the bike that Ash was ridding before he met them; she then looked at Ash as he came over to the two.

"Hey, I just want to say thank you for helping me out!" Ash said, holding on to Pikachu. "Oh, by the way, my name is Ash Ketchum, and I'm going to be a Pokémon master," Ash said, smiling at the two.

Sakura just smiled back. "Well, I'm Sakura Haruno, and this is Naruto Uzumaki!" She told him.

"Nice to meet the two of you, so what town do you come from?" He asked.

Although both Naruto and Sakura just looked at each other, not knowing what they should tell him, the two looked at each other, wondering if they should even telling Ash since the two ninjas were, for now, at least presently trapped in this world without a way back home.

"Well, you see, the thing is Ash, we're not from this world," Sakura said to Ash as the three made their way to Viridian city to help Pikachu.

"What do you mean?" Ash asked the two.

"Well, you see, the thing is…." Sakura then explained what happened to them, where they were from, but they left out the Kyuubi Ash was shocked at what they had told him that the two kids in front of him were ninjas.

"Wow, so I guess that you're both stuck here then? Well, until we can find a way to get you back home, you can come with me!" Ash said with a smile on his face.

Sakura looked over to Naruto, who just had a big smile on his face. "Sure, we'll go with it. I mean, it could be fun!" Naruto yelled, still smiling. "But could you tell us what a Pokémon is?" Naruto asked.

"I want to know that as well, Ash?" Sakura asked, smiling.

Soon Ash told the two ninjas everything he knew about Pokémon and how he didn't get off to a good start since he had woken up late.

"Wait, so the only reason that you got Pikachu was that you were sleeping in late!" Sakura said, shocked.

Ash just laughed, "Yeah, just let's say when I got Pikachu, he decided to give me a Thundershock."

Sakura then remembered something about the bike she saw. "Oh, by the way, I'm sorry, but your bike got toasted!" Sakura said but saw Ash go pale in the face at what she said.

One thought was going on in his head right now. "That girl with the orange hair is going to kill me!" Ash thought to himself.

With that, the three humans went on their way to Viridian city none of them knew of the people they would meet. Or the evils that they would have to face on their adventures or the Pokémon they would see.

A/N well, this first chapter of this story is now thankfully done, and I hope you like it now; this fic will focus on the Kanto Sage, and it will go on like that. So please read and review and let me know what you think of it. Also, I need a beta reader, so please send me a PM; also, updates may take some time to come out but come up.

Okay, guys, so I am fixing up all past chapters right now before updating new chapters; thanks to Grammarly, as I fixed this chapter on 1/02/2021