Title: Naruto's Pokèmon Adventure
Rating: T
Pairing: None
Summery: Tsunade sends Naruto and the rookies (including Gai's team) to the Pokè-islands. Contests and Tournaments a wait, as new rivalries and friends spring up in the Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh regions. Naruto/Pokèmon Crossover!
Disclaimer: Every aspect of Pokèmon belongs to Nintendo and Satoshi Tajiri. Naruto and all its characters belong to Masashi Kishimoto. I am not writing this to make a profit, just for my own amusement.
Author's Note: YES FOKES I HAVE UPDATED THIS FIC... And it's Ino's turn to shine! This chapter and all of the chapters with Ino will be dedicated to my beautiful and caring wife Joy. I love her so much, and she loves Ino so much. So Ino will be a star in this fic! Next chapter is on the way soon. ENJOY!
Chapter Six: The Third Team – Ino and Tenten
Ino wouldn't shut up as they walked away from the other teams. Every other word out of her mouth was something horribly bad about their friends, and Tenten was starting to get annoyed. Tenten just didn't understand why Ino couldn't be nicer to some of the others. The girl wasn't all bad. She had a brain, good looks, talent, and nearly every boy in Konoha after her. So why did she have such a negative attitude towards everyone?
"Ino, why do you ask like this? I know it can't be the real you. I mean, come on your perfect." Tenten sighed heavily before slipping down next to a rather large tree. Ino had stopped just a bit a head of her and was staring off into space. The blonde didn't know what to say or do. Tenten, a girl who was stronger that her, understood people better than her, and was a year older than her had just called her perfect. Her! Out of all the people that Tenten knew, she was calling Ino perfect. Did she even know what that word meant?
"I'm not perfect. If I was I would have Sasuke by now." Ino turned bright blue eyes towards the sitting girl. She wanted to scream. Sakura, the big dork she was, was perfect. She wasn't! She was selfish and stubborn and loud. Ino seemed to wither, she had just described Naruto! She was just like Naruto. Tenten noticed her teammates look of shock and stood up quickly wrapping her arms around Ino. If it was one thing she learned from dealing with Lee it was never let someone stew in their own depression.
"To me Ino, you are perfect. Sure you can stand to gain a few pounds, maybe cut back on the snarky comments, get rid of the nasty obsession you have with Sasuke, and actually listen to some people like oh I don't know Naruto and Lee. But you are perfect. You have friends who care for you, you're strong minded and willed, you have awesome hair, and nearly every guy wants to be with you." Tenten smiled as Ino locked eyes with her. Tenten knew that she was getting through to the blonde, now all they had to do was work a little bit and Tenten was sure Ino could get a guy just right for her.
"You really think so? You really think I'm perfect?" Ino couldn't believe her ears. Okay so the gaining weight comment was harsh, she was trying to be skinny cause Sasuke liked skinny girls. She was completely capable of not making a snarky comment, and as for Sasuke. Okay that one she was lost on. And why did she have to talk to Naruto and Lee, they were both complete idiots.
Tenten nodded her head and smiled brightly before turning Ino and starting to walk down the path. Maybe she could talk Ino into joining the Pokèmon League with her instead of the Contests. That would do Ino a lot of good. Fight with the boys for a while, leave the girly girl things to Sakura and Hinata.
Two weeks had passed by since their little talk and Ino was doing much better. She had gained a bit of weight, more like muscle, but was looking better and better every day. Tenten was very proud of the girl, and even though she had mentioned Sasuke six times that day, it was still and improvement from six times an hour. Tenten moved closer to the blonde as they over looked the field below them. They had decided to try to get to Pokèmon training, after two weeks of working on their figures.
Tenten's Piplup had been a wonderful help with fishing. The two girls had food every night thanks to the small blue penguin. And Ino's Chikorita was rather good with cutting down fruit from the tops of trees. Tenten watched silently as Chikorita and Piplup ran circles around the two girls. They had watched the girls for two weeks training in the same way they were doing now. Running, dodging, throwing kicks and punches, throwing weapons. It had all looked like fun to the two Pokèmon, so they had started to copy them.
"I think your Piplup is going to evolve before mine Ten." Ino's voice whispered into Tenten's ear. They had looked up the evolved forms of both their Pokèmon, but neither was looking forward to loosing the two cutest before them. Tenten shook her head, she was about to comment that Chikorita was learning moves faster than Piplup was when a funny looking plant started to move towards them. Ino leapt to her feet and gasped.
"It's a Bellsprout!" Tenten blinked and watched as Ino motioned for Chikorita to come over to her. The leaf Pokèmon did and soon Ino and Chikorita were battling with the Bellsprout. Tenten picked Piplup up into her arms and started to walk off. But before she got far Ino's happy cry caught her attention. "Chikorita, you evolved!" Tenten couldn't believe her ears and ran over to see that Ino's cry had been right. Standing beside Ino was Bayleef, Chikorita's second form. Tenten laughed and cheered for Ino as the blonde went back to her battle with the stubborn Bellsprout.
"Bayleef use tackle than Razor Leaf!" Ino's cry was followed by the Bellsprout's defeated cry. Tenten watched as Ino threw an unoccupied Pokèball at the fallen Bellsprout. Ino's jumped around happily when the ball's button stopped flashing red. "We did it Bayleef! We caught our first Pokèmon!" Ino hugged Bayleef tightly and Bayleef wrapped two vines around Ino's waist in a hug of her own. Tenten smiled down at Piplup but frowned at the look of despair on her Pokèmon's face.
"Don't worry Piplup, you should rush your evolution." The small Pokèmon chirped happily up at Tenten and nodded. Tenten was glad for that; she didn't want her Pokèmon to be sad. Today was a happy day, Ino's first Pokèmon evolved and she was able to capture her second. Tenten was very proud of her best friend. Very proud.