I don't own anything besides my ideas.
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"Oh, my, god," Naruto whispered slowly.
"What is it?" Red asked her companion. She walked over to see what he was looking at and saw a Vulpix, not only was it an extremely rare find out here, but it was also shiny.
"It's like Kurama but with only six tails!" Naruto shouted, causing all three of the other living beings to look at him like he was crazy.
"Um, Naruto, what's Kurama?" Red asked politely.
"Kurama is the nine-tailed demon fox," Naruto said matter-of-factly.
"Okay, so Kurama is kind of like a Kyubi?"
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Why the hell do people keep saying my name? That was what Kurama was thinking as the two were talking about the Vulpix.
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"Well, are you just going to stand there, or are you going to catch it?" Red asked him.
"Oh, right," Naruto replied.
Let's see, what do I know about Kurama that might help me figure out a stratedgy , he's red and loves causing destruction, so what chakra nature would I establish that with? Fire, definatly fire.
"Okay, Kunai, use your water gun on it!"
Kunai jumped into the air and released a stream of water from its mouth. The Vulpix attempted to dodge, but failed, getting hit on the left side of its face with water. That wasn't enough power to stop it though and it came at Kunai using its claws, presumubly to scratch the poor turtle. Unable to dodge the attack, Kunai got hit with it.
"Kunai, use your water gun one more time!" Naruto shouted.
Kunai obeyed and this time, the Vulpix wasn't able to dodge at all, so the water hit it dead on. Naruto fumbled to get a Pokeball out of his bag. When he did, he threw it at the Pokemon and it entered the ball. The seconds seemed to pass by slower as the ball wiggled once, twice, three times, then it clicked shut.
Naruto let out a breath he hadn't known he was holding and then walked over to pick up the Pokeball.
He let it out, and the Vulpix looked up at him expectantly,"Your name is Kurama now," Naruto said, patting the Pokemon on the head. The Vulpix just made a huffing noise at him and turned away to look at a tree that it had suddenly found very interesting.
Naruto laughed,"Okay, Kurama, inside the ball or out?"
Kurama looked at him for a second before jumping up and crawling into his jacket.
"Well, I guess that answers that."
Meanwhile, the real Kurama, overcome by curiosity over why his name had been said so many times, called Naruto to him.
Hey Naruto, do you need something?
"No," Naruto replied, totally oblivious,"Why?"
Well, you kept saying my name, so I assumed that you needed something.
"Oh, that was because I named a Pokemon after you!"
After me...why?
"Because it's a fox and even though it only had six tails, it still reminded me of you."
Kurama tried to imagine what it looked like, the image in his head was quite disturbing, it was a cross between him and the six tails, Saiken. Let me tell you, foxes and slugs don't mix well.
It sounds ugly.
"Well, it's not, dattebayo."
Fine, get back to your Pokemon journey or whatever it was you were doing.
The kitsune sighed and curled up into a ball, almost instantly falling asleep, he knew he was doomed to have terrifying nightmares of a fox-slug.
With that, Naruto returned back to himself and just continued as if nothing had happened.
"Hey Naruto, are you alright?" Red asked him.
"Yeah, why do you ask?"
"Well, you just kind of spaced out for a few seconds there."
"Oh that, that happens occasionally, I wouldn't pay any attention to it if I were you."
"Okay," she said, not sounding convinced.
After that, they all just continued walking through the forest, Kunai riding on Naruto's shoulder and Kurama nuzzled up inside Naruto's jacket.
(Two Hours of Boring Walking Later)
"Hey, Red, do you want to stop for lunch?" Naruto asked, noticing his rumbling stomach for the first time.
"Oh, sure," Red said, also noticing that she could use some food as well.
"Okay," Naruto said. There'd been a stream flowing near to the path, so they decided to take their lunch break there.
"So, what do you want to have? I have food ingredients if you want to make anything."
"Oh, I was thinking ramen," Naruto replied, he hadn't had a single bite of his favorite food in three days, so he had developed and extrememe craving for it.
"Okay," she laughed,"I have a pan we could boil water in."
"Okay, and I have the ramen," Naruto said back.
Red fished the pan from her bag and brought it to the river where she filled it up with water.
"Hey Naruto," she called,"Would you go find some wood that we could burn?"
"Oh, sure," the blonde boy said then walked off a little into the woods to find wood. He returned quite swiftly with and armful of small sticks and twigs. He dropped the wood onto the ground next to Red.
"Is this enough?" He asked.
"Yes, it's more than enough,"Thank you." She smiled at him.
Next, Red called out her Charmander,"Okay Charmander, use ember on the firewood."
Before the Charmander could react, Kurama popped its head up from Naruto's jacket, blew a small flame at the wood, effectivelt catching it on fire, then went back inside the jacket.
"Um, I guess that works too," Red said, staring dumfouned at the lump in Naruto's jacket that was the Vulpix. Then, quickly, as to not waste the wood and the fire, she placed the pot over it and then held it there, waiting for it to boil.
All the while, Naruto was laughing at the Vulpix, it kind of reminded him of himself when he was younger - always trying to show off and get people's attention.
After about two minutes, the water had started to boil. Red then poured the it into the instant ramen cups that Naruto had gotten out, being careful not to spill it. While they waited for it to finish cooking, Red opened her bag and started digging through it until she found a large cylindrical container.
"What's that?" Naruto asked upon seeing it.
"Oh, Pokemon food for the Pokemon."
"Really, they make food for Pokemon?"
"Yep, I'm surprised you didn't know that."
After that quick exchange, Red took out a sheet of plastic and dumped a few pieces of the food out onto it in four different piles. Upon doing that, she called out her Pidgey, Charmander was still out from earlier.
"Okay guys," she said,"It's time to eat."
After hearing that, all the Pokemon walked up to the plastic and each started eating from their own pile of food. By the time the Pokemon were eating, the ramen was also ready to eat. So Naruto and Red both grabbed one and started eating. Against his instinct, Naruto refrained from eating the entire thing in one bite as he knew that this would be all that he was getting. Instead, he ate it slowly, savoring every bite.
"So," Red said as they were eating,"I've been meaning to ask you, what that thing on your forhead is."
"Oh, this?" Naruto said, pointing to his headband, "It's my hitai-ate."
"Okay," Red said, not 100% sure what that meant,"What's the symbol on it?"
"It's the symbol of the village that I came from."
"What village is that?" Red asked.
"Konagakure no Sato, The Village Hidden in the Leaves."
"Hmm, I've never heard of that before, what do people do there?"
"Oh, we're ninjas!" Naruto replied cheerfully.
"Ninjas?" Red had heard of there being ninjas here before, but had never once considered an entire village of them.
"Yep, I'm one too!"
"Wait...you're a ninja?!" He certaintly didn't seem like one with his bright orange clothes and hyper personality.
"Yep," He said again, smiling at her shock.
"Wait, give me proof," Red demanded.
"Okay, all right," Naruto said, setting aside his now empty ramen cup. He walked over to the nearest tree, concentrated his chakra into his feet, he started walking up it.
Red gasped as he was standing there upside down on a branch. Naruto smiled and jumped down, doing a sumersault in mid-air.
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Thank you all for reading this, I appreciate it a lot. Sorry if this chapter is a little bit short, but my only real goal for this chapter was to get Naruto a new Pokemon. I know that at least one person is happy about what Pokemon it is, and they know who they are. Also, I tried to tone down Red's cheeriness in this one, the main reason she was really happy in the last chapter was that when I play the game, I usually think of the protagonist of that game really happy and cheerful, but I guess to someone who doesn't play the games with that mindset, she was coming on a bit too cheerful. Anway, enough rambling, thank you again for reading this!