TITLE: Pokemon Style; Crossover Jutsu REDUX

Hey everyone… yeah, it's been a while. I decided to redo my Pokemon/Naruto story. Some things will be the same, such as each squad having a different generation's starters and trying to keep generic, obvious Pokemon choices to a minimum. Hopefully, my readers have better reception to this version.

Also, today at work; I started a Nuzlocke run of my old Pokemon Black cartridge. I went with the ID-determines-starter rule and ended up with Snivy, with I nicknamed Tokagemaru. I also caught a Patrat I named Patrick. I caught a Purrloin on Route 2, which I called Selina, however since she was knocked out in a trainer battle, I had to release her. For those of you unaware, in a Nuzlocke; fainting equals death and a fainted Pokemon must be released (or permanently boxed). Sigh. Not even to the first gym and I've already lost one. I'll keep you guys posted with my next chapter.

Disclaimer: For the record, I don't own either Naruto or Pokemon.

Chapter 2:

Sakura watched a group of Butterfree fly off, unaware that earlier, Sasuke had captured a rowdy Spearow that had been trying to give them trouble.

It would be nice to have a Butterfree, or a Beautifly… even a Vivillon, she thought.

She was brought out of her musings when she heard her traveling companion exclaimed, "you're going nowhere! You're mine!"

Sakura turned to see Bulbasaur emerge from his poke ball to confront a Zigzagoon.

The shaggy raccoon critter eyed the new arrival with confusion.

"Tackle!" Naruto commanded.

The Zigzagoon's eyes widened as Bulbasaur plowed into it.

Recovering from the hit, Zigzagoon fired a sand attack at Bulbasaur.

"Don't let it get to ya!" Naruto encouraged, "use tackle again!"

Bulbasaur leapt… and missed.

It then felt something slam into it's thigh and grunted in surprise.

"That was quick attack," Sakura commented.

"Tackle!" Naruto echoed as Zigzagoon started to charge again.

Bulbasaur made contact, pinning it's opponent's head between itself and the ground.

Zigzagoon squirmed, trying in vain to escape…

… only to be hit by a poke ball and beamed into the device.

The ball shook once, then twice.

Then stopped.

"Sweet!" Naruto chirped, picking it up, "I caught a Pokemon!"

He turned to Sakura.

"Once you catch a Pokemon, you want to have another battle?"

"Sure," she smiled.

After a few more minutes walking, they came across a small outpost where traveling trainers could stop for the night. Sakura ducked in to use the bathroom. While Naruto was waiting; a kid wearing a white "Gilligan" hat, yellow T-shirt, dark green shorts, and dusty white Keds approached.

"My name's Inari," he said, "anyone who wants to use my mom's outpost has to beat me in a Pokemon battle!"

"Heh. The name's Naruto… and I accept your challenge!"

They both threw a poke ball, unleashing Bulbasaur… and a Rattata.

"Rattata; use tackle," Inari commanded.

"Tackle," declared Naruto.

The two Pokemon charged at each other, with Bulbasaur knocking the purple rodent on it's back.

"Ra," it hissed as it got up.

"Use tackle again!"

"Tackle again!"

Rattata slid along the dirt whereas Bulbasaur wasn't even winded.

"You're outclassed kid," Naruto muttered.

"No I'm not!" Inari protested, "Rattata; use hidden power!"

Rattata glowed… and charged Bulbasaur with high speed, slamming into it's head.

This managed to push it back a bit.

"Bul ba!" Bulbasaur growled.

"Use leech seed!" Naruto declared.

A seed shot from the bulb, hitting Rattata and covered it with quick-growing tendrils that started sapping it's energy.

"Aw man!" Inari whined upon noticing his Pokemon was tangled up and would be unable to keep battling, "return!"

"Look at the bright side," Naruto smiled, "you managed to land at least one blow on Bulbasaur."

"Yeah, you're right," Inari sighed.

"Nicely done, both of you."

The two boys turned to see Sakura with a woman with long midnight blue hair who wore a pink pullover sweater, navy blue skirt stopping just past her knees, jet-black tights, and black suede flats.

This was Inari's mother Tsunami and she was one who complimented them.

"If you two haven't eaten yet, feel free to join us for lunch," she smiled.

While they ate, Naruto and Sakura talked about their plans and goals for their journey. Tsunami was impressed Sakura was going to take on gyms as most girls her age preferred to take part in Pokemon Contests.

About an hour after arriving; Naruto and Sakura set off to continue their journey, promising to stop by if they were in the area again.

Upon seeing a certain red worm, Sakura summoned Squirtle.

"Use tackle."

The blue biped turtle slammed into Wurmple, sending it rolling.

Sakura threw a poke ball… and managed to successfully catch it.

"Score! Now we all have two Pokemon!"

She turned and faced Naruto, "I believe we made a deal?"

She and her friend called out Wurmple and Zigzagoon, wanting to train their weaker Pokemon a bit.

"Sand attack!" Naruto called.

Zigzagoon shoved some sand and dust at Wurmple.

"Now use quick attack!"

"String shot!" Sakura countered.

Wurmple shot out a sticky thread from it's mouth, binding Zigzagoon's front legs to it's torso, causing it to stumble and flip over on it's back.

Sakura giggled, "looks like I win our rematch."

Naruto recalled Zigzagoon, "we'll see how that lasts."

"We'll have a proper three-on-three battle when we have more Pokemon," Sakura agreed.

At that moment, Naruto happened to spy a leaf stone. He bent down and picked it up.

"This could come in handy later," he said, pocketing it.

He suddenly realized something.

"So… where are we going? I never caught the name of the next town."

Sakura sighed, "Naruto… we're headed for Tanzaku Town. Not only will we meet up with Sasuke, we might see some of our friends there. If you remember; we're the last group to leave Konoha on our journeys."

"Oh yeah!" Naruto grinned, "it'll be cool to see Shikamaru and Choji again. I can't wait to thrash them and Sasuke in a Pokemon battle. And I bet you want to show up Ino, don'tcha?"

Sakura rolled her eyes and smirked, "you know it."

They eventually came across a stream.

"I could use a rest," Sakura said, planting herself on the ground.

"I'm going to catch another Pokemon," Naruto declared, noticing a Poliwag that was playing in the stream, "go Bulbasaur. Tackle!"

Bulbasaur rammed into the little tadpole like creature, knocking it onto the bank.

"Do it again!"

Once more, Bulbasaur slammed into it's opponent.

"Let's do this!" Naruto cried, tossing a poke ball.

All three of them watched as the Poliwag was sucked up… and stayed in the ball.

"Heheheh… another Pokemon for me," Naruto crowed.

Elsewhere…

A large guy sank to his knees as his Koffing fell to the ground, having been battered by a Spearow's fury attack.

Spearow's trainer, an all-too-familiar black-haired youth, scoffed.

"Pathetic… isn't there anyone who can challenge me?"

"How about me, you brat?" a woman spoke.

Sasuke looked to see an older woman with light blonde hair in twin ponytails. She was wearing a white lab coat over a yellow green short-sleeved blouse, gray skirt stopping just above her knees, and black heeled sandals.

"That's Tsunade," one person in the small crowd commented, "one of the three expert apprentices of Prof. Sarutobi."

"So you're someone famous?" Sasuke commented, "you don't scare me… let's battle!"

Both Tsunade and Sasuke sent out their Pokemon… which were a Loudred for Tsunade and a male Nidoran for Sasuke.

"Horn attack!" Sasuke ordered.

Nidoran lunged at it's opponent.

"Knock it aside with pound," Tsunade countered.

Loudred swung it's arm, looking more like a mega punch than a pound, making contact and sending the purple poison Pokemon skidding along the ground.

Sasuke grit his teeth, recalling Nidoran, "go, Spearow!"

Tsunade recalled Loudred, replacing it with a Doduo.

"Fury attack!" the two trainers called in unison.

Though a blur of thrusting beaks ensued; Spearow was eventually overpowered.

Sasuke cursed, "take care of it, Charmander!"

"Your starter, eh?" Tsunade remarked, "return Doduo. I choose you… Chesnaught!"

Tsunade smirked at Sasuke's wide-eyed reaction, "since you're using your starter, I see it only fair I use mine."

"Charmander: use ember," Sasuke ordered.

Charmander spat out a hail of mini-fire balls at it's opponent.

Despite being grass-type, Chesnaught shrugged them off.

"Use poison jab," Tsunade commented.

Chesnaught's hand glowed purple and it rammed said hand into Charmander's gut, knocking it flat on it's back… clearly unable to keep battling.

Sasuke angrily recalled his Pokemon and stormed off to the Pokemon Center.

After a while; Naruto and Sakura finally made it to Tanzaku Town.

"Oh wow!" Sakura awed, "Lady Tsunade in person! This is so cool!"

Tsunade stopped talking with her apprentice and smirked, "always nice to meet a fan."

"A fan I am," Sakura nodded, "my name's Sakura, and this is Naruto. We just started our journey from Konoha."

"Well you already know me. This is my apprentice, Shizune," Tsunade introduced.

Shizune was an attractive young woman with short black hair who was wearing a light blue long-sleeved blouse under a dark gray/almost black sleeveless dress stopping just below mid-thigh, solid-black pantyhose, and black heeled loafers.

"I just trounced another rookie trainer from Konoha a few minutes ago," Tsunade continued, "he needed a lesson in humility; what with him beating everyone else. He should still be at the Pokemon Center."

Naruto took off to meet up with the third member of their team while Sakura started conversing with her idol and her apprentice.

Hope you enjoyed and if you did, feel free to leave a positive comment on the way out.

Pokemon Log:

Naruto: Bulbasaur(male), Zigzagoon(male), Poliwag(male), poke ballx3

Sakura: Squirtle(male), Wurmple(female), poke ballx4

Sasuke: Charmander(male), Spearow(male), Nidoran(male), poke ballx3

Tsunade: Chesnaught(male), Loudred(female), Doduo(male)