CHAPTER ONE: DAZED AND CONFUSED
BY VANYA ATMA
AN: I do not own Naruto or Pokemon
Sleep had me within it's deep grasp, there was a dream just in the back of my mind, I knew it's memories made me smile in my sleep but I could not remember why. Something cool kept pressing harder and harder against the side of my cheek, dragging me slowly but surely from my slumber. With heavy eyes I awoke, surprised to see a clear blue sky above me.
"Naruto even if you are Hokage, this kind of prank is not funny." I growl out, lifting my upper half so that I now sat, my eyes were blinking again and again to chase away the last of the sleep. I noticed two things simultaneously, both of which had me jumping to my feet like a fool. There was the sharp scent of salt on the air and the lazy sound of waves lapping against the shore.
"What the fuck..." I utter in wonder, as far as the eye could see was a churning turquoise of an ocean. The only reason why I even knew what a beach looked like was from that mission to wave. Back then things had been hard but so much simpler. I was not in Konoha any longer.
Confusion darkened my thoughts only to be interrupted by something knocking against my left leg. There was a small creature, I couldn't call it anything other than that, for it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. Whatever the thing was it barely came up to my knee as it wavered on the sand by balancing on a curved tail. It looked as if it was on deaths door. The creature obviously came from the sea, if I had to relate it to anything back home I would say a seahorse but that's where the resemblance ended. I liked my Sashimi and Sushi any day but the kelp like growth on it had expired days if not weeks before.
"Alright Sakura you're going insane. Illusion Technique Cancel!" But even with my perfect Chakra control I could not make the little creature or the beach disappear. Looking up at me with gaunt red eyes I felt something move within me. I was such a bleeding heart. Bending to one knee in the soft sand I called forth a healing green chakra to my palms and aimed it at the seahorse. In reply the thing made a content sigh in the back of it's throat, a sound that I could relate to nothing I knew, but it's outwards appearance did little but ruffle in the soft wind.
"Hey you!" A male voice called out from behind me, I turned my upper half to look behind me and saw a man running full tilt at me, he had a long red headband that flapped behind him as he raced over the sands. Before I knew what was happening there was a bright glow that I had to shield my eyes from. "I challenge you to a battle!"
I was on my feet, hands already forming seals when I came face to face with another weird creature. This one had similar features to a human, arms legs head and all that but it's skin was a pale blue with big red eyes.
"What is going on here?" I whispered to myself.
"Machop use Leer!" The man yelled, pointing to the sea creature beside me.
My mouth gaped open like a fish on land when those red eyes started to glow. The creature beside me made a strangled sound, shaking it's crested head back and forth like something was attacking it's mind.
I still had my mouth open waiting for a fly to find a home inside a good thirty seconds later, much to the man's mirth. Laughing deeply the crazy man spoke. "This is where you attack me! But if you're not going to take your chance here I come! Low Kick now!"
Growling in it's throat the humanoid shot for the sea creature, letting it's foot shoot out to take the sea creature's tail from under it. A spray of sand shot up as the blue thing dug in to the ground to help slow it down.
The creature beside me flailed wildly on the sand, yelping and screeching in pain. I couldn't just stand there, slapping my palms together I once again started to make the seals that would flatten this little man who dared hurt an obviously sick animal.
"Ah that's what I like to see!" The man said, making my eyes draw to the sand where the sea creature no long was. Twisting on my heel I saw that the little kelp covered thing had grown some balls of it's own.
A light purplish liquid was shot from it's mouth, covering the humanoid from head to toe. Under the liquid the pale blue thing gurgled, trying to breath without getting a lung full of it. While it was distracted the sea creature released a violent burst of water that hit the humanoid square in the chest, the creature went flying back a good five feet.
In another weird glow of light nothing but disrupted sand was left where the oponant had once been.
"Ah! To see a team such as you two! As a trainer who considers himself one of the strongest out there I was quite impressed! You didn't even have to tell your Pokemon what to do and it simply attacked! What a gamble! I'm Cadoc." I really needed to cause myself some pain to get myself out of this illusion. "Remember my name for the next time we meet my Machop will be just as strong as me and your Skrelp will be nothing but pulverized meat!" The next thing I knew a wad of bills were being pressed into my hand and he was walking away.
"Kel?" The sea creature intoned, head arched up to search my face as I still stared at the cash.
AN: Alright, so I've been wanting to write something like this for a while now. Sakura is 17, this is right after Sasuke leaves during the 'blank' so no marriage and no kids. She's going to start in KALOS, but who knows where she will end up? More characters will be found on her Journey along with the reason why any of them are here in the first place! Reade and Review.