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by gothic satan-wolf

AU Pokemon naruto Xover Sakura is an aspiring co-ordinator who dreams to be the best can she do it with the help of sasuke and naruto when two members of Akatsuki insist on following them? ItaSakuDei OCSaku

4. New pokemon, Sasori and contest appeals

Chapter three

Last time:

"Yes! I caught Vulpix! I told you I would teme!" Naruto gloated. "Dobe. I never said you couldn't or wouldn't." Naruto's grin faultered. "….stupid teme…" he mummbled.

Now:

TIMESKIP – One day

Sakura grinned as she entered Palkia City. The people were so cheerful and welcoming, as she made her way through the large, elaboratly decorated entrance gates she was bombarded by residents offering her assistance and flowers. "Umm…thank you, they're really pretty" Sakura smiled, taking a bouquet of daffodils from an elderly woman. She made her way to the Pokemon centre to get her team healed, they had encountered a trainer on the way and he had demanded a battle. She had been victorious with three out of five matches but all her pokemon were exhausted. She entered a large building with a giant 'P' atop the roof, marking it as the place she was looking for and walked in. "Nurse Shizune?" she called. A young woman in her twenties poked her head out. "Ah, hello. How may I help you today?" the dark haired woman asked. Sakura smiled politely. "I need my pokemon healed and I also require a room for the next three days." Nurse Shizune smiled back. "That's no problem dear. Bring your pokemon here and I'll heal them while you drop your stuff off. Here is your key, you'll be in room 304" Shizune said, handing her a card key. "Thank you." Sakura made her way to the room to put away her bag while Nurse Shizune recovered her pokemon. She stretched and jumped onto the soft bed, thinking about her upcoming contest, Naruto and Sasuke. She sighed. 'Man I'm so psyched for tomorrow. I can't wait. I hope I'll do ok though. I haven't entered a contest for such a long time. Last one I was in was back I Johto sometime last year…' Sakura smiled. She had received a pokemon egg back in the Johto region for winning a contest that tested the bond between pokemon and trainer. She had been so excited when it hatched into her first Eevee and even more thrilled when it evolved during her battle for her final contest ribbon, winning her the match. It was special to her because it was also on the one day that they had held a contest at night. Getting up, Sakura freshened up in the bathroom before making her way back to the main part of the pokemon centre to get her pokemon.

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Sakura walked in the park, enjoying the scent of flowers and the sound of flying type pokemon. It was relaxing. The forest and rivers she passed to get here were too, but this had a more homely feel to it and for that she was greatful. She missed her family. She didn't see them for almost a whole year when she had gone to Johto and now she was here. She had only stayed with them for a few months and it had gotten lonely on her travels without another human companion. She smiled again as she remembered Naruto and Sasuke. 'It won't be like that this time though. This time I'll have companions that I can talk and joke with.' Sakura continued walking until she caught a glimpse of clear blue behind the bushes. Curious, she went through and gasped at the sight. A large lake was hidden from view by trees, canopies and shrubs, making a refuge for wild pokemon in the city. The grass was, if possible, even greener than the one she had been previously walking on and the flowers bloomed in such abundance that she could barely see her feet. 'This would be a great place to train but…' she looked around at th pokemon all sleeping and playing happily, 'it would disturb and scare them and I couldn't possibly risk any damage to this refuge' Sakura thought. She sat down beneath a tree and enjoyed the suns rays on her pale skin. 'It's so nice here…I'm sure I could spare and hour or two.' She fell asleep after that thought.

By the time Sakura woke up, it was already dark. "Shit…" she said to herself. 'My contest is tomorrow and I haven't trained at all today' she thought. Suddenly, her pokeball opened, revealing her Eevee. "Eev! Eevee eev!" it said happily in greeting. Sakura smiled and picked up her pokemon. "Hey there, here to keep me company?" she asked. "Eevee!" /You bet!/ She laughed. "You up for some nightime training then? The contest is tomorrow and we need to fit in some practice. Everyone should be asleep by now so we won't be disturbed." "Vee!" /Ofcourse, let's train!/ They made their way to a clear field a little ways from the centre and began to practice their appeal. Sakura also called out her Houndour as Eevee was paired with him for the double battles. They practiced for a few hours before calling it a night and going for a well deserved sleep.

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Naruto and Sasuke – Earlier that day

"Teme! Where are we heading next?" Naruto asked an irritated Sasuke. "Dobe. Do you know any of the cities we have to go to for our gym battles?" he asked. "…" Naruto was silent and Sasuke faced palmed himself. He muttered a few inaudible curses before continueing. "Next gym is in Floaroma City. Grass type and the gym leader is some girl called Ino Yanamaka. Her family specialises in grass types and has several chains of flower stores throughout Sinnoh." (AN: I was going to use Ino as Sakura's rival but I think that's been done enough and I'd rather make an OC or use another character – I have one in mind. As for the city I know that it should be Eterna city but I think the name 'Floaroma' would suit better considering..) Naruto grinned. "Grass types eh? This is gonna be easy, BELIEVE IT!" Sasuke raised a brow. "Oh? Just how may I ask is it going to be easy when you very nearly lost to the first gym leader?" "Well, I have Starly and Vulpix. Flying and fire types are good against grass typed neh?" Naruto asked, unsure now. "Dobe. Just because you have type advantage doesn't mean you should get cocky. Her pokemon are probably more experienced and know more attacks than yours, not to mention she could have taught them moves to help defend themselves against their weakness'" Sasuke told him, annoyed. Naruto frowned. 'Stupid teme. How does he know all this stuff?' he thought. "Dobe, I know this because I didn't goof of or sleep during the academy. Not to mention, common sense" Sasuke snapped. "EHHH??? Are you like, psychic? How did you know what I was thinking???" Naruto freaked at the prospect of his companion being able to read minds. 'oh no! what if he knows about all 'those' thoughts???' "Hn. Dobe. You were thinking out loud." Naruto fell down anime style.

4 hours later…

Sasuke looked up at the darkening sky. "Hn. Dobe, we'll stop here for the night, it's getting dark." Naruto stopped walking and turned back to look at Sasuke. "Teme, lets just keep going! I'm not afraid of the dark!" Naruto announced. Sasuke resisted the urge to roll his eyes. "Again dobe, common sense. You don't go wandering around in a forest at night. Besides, don't you want to eat your precious ramen?" Naruto's eyes lit up. "RAMEN??? WHERE????" he yelled, looking left, right, up then down. Sasuke really did roll his eyes this time. "In your bag dobe. You have to cook it." Naruto dove for his bag and was about to devour it raw before Sasuke snatched it away. "What the hell teme?" "I told you, you have to COOK it." Naruto pouted. "How? There's no fire and we don't have matches. Figure out that problem GENIUS!" Naruto snapped. Sasuke smirked. "You really ARE a dobe. Did you forget your Vulpix? You know, a FIRE type?" Naruto turned bright red. "Sh-sh-SHUT UP TEME!" he screamed. Naruto called out his Vulpix and ordered it to use its ember to light some wood. "What about water teme?" Naruto questioned. Sasuke's eye twitched. "You DO have a Piplup don't you. What type is THAT?" Naruto turned red again before saying smugly, "you sure are relying on my pokemon a lot aren't you teme? Imagine where you'd be without me!" "I'd probably be fine. Its you who'd be in trouble, you don't even remember to use your pokemon for survival." Naruto's smug smirk was wiped of his face. He pouted, again, causing more inward twitching for Sasuke. "Dobe. I'm going to survey the area while the food cooks…and catch some REAL food from the stream back there before it gets too dark" Sasuke announced, standing up.

Sasuke called out Grotle upon arriving at the river. "Use seed bomb to knock out some fish for us to eat" Sasuke told his pokemon. "Grot!" The attack went some of the fish out of the water and to Sasuke's feet. "Now use cut to finish them." The fish now lay at Sasuke's feet, dead. He bent over and placed them in some plain brown wrapping he had brought with him. "Magneton!" Sasuke turned abruptly and came face to face with a Magneton. He called back his Grotle, and sent out his Sableye. A strange purple cloured pokemon with gemstone eyes came out of its ball. Sasuke waited for the Magneton to make the first move. Magneton charged at Sableye with tackle. Sasuke smirked as Magneton ran right through his pokemon. Sableye was half ghost, so normal type attacks had no effect what so ever. "Use nightshade followed by a quick fire punch" Sasuke commanded. "Sableye!" Sableye released the nightshade and while Magneton was recovering from the attack, Sableye got up close and hit it with a fire punch. Magneton was sent backwards into a tree. Sasuke grabbed an empty pokeball and threw it. Magneton was pulled in and the ball began to shake as it tried to escape. It stopped blinking for a moment before starting up again. Sasuke frowned. It was a determined one that was for sure. Again it stopped blinking and he waited in case it decided to start up yet again. It didn't. He walked up and pocketed the ball silently before walking back to camp with the fish he had caught with Grotle, Sableye at his side.

"Teme, what took you s long? Did you get lost?" Naruto grinned. "Dobe, I caught a pokemon." Naruto blinked. "eh? ANOTHER one??? But…that means you have….SIX now, I only have FOUR!" he whined. "Hn. Glad you can add up dobe." Sasuke sat down by the fire and skewered the freshly caught fish, two for each of them. He then set out some food for their pokemon. "Hey teme, what pokemon was it?"

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Itachi walked calmly through the dense forest, Deidara at his side. "Are we ever going to stop yeah?" Deidara complained. "Hn." "What yeah? Can you say any other words yeah?" "Can you say a sentence without adding 'yeah' at the end?" Itachi snapped back. "Yes I can…UN!"

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Itachi sighed. "How the hell did I get stuck with Deidara…" Itachi said to himself. "What was that un?" Itachi twitched. 'The blonde dipshit just replaced his 'yeah' with 'un', I don't know which is worse…' "Helloooo un! Itachi un? It's getting dark, we should stop…UN" Deidara waved his hand in front of Itachi's face. Itachi's eye was twitching madly now. 'Must not kill Deidara…Must not kill Deidara…Must not-' "ITACHI UN!" Itachi snapped. "SHUT UP!!!! Argh! Stupid Kisame on a STUPID fucking solo mission…stuck with Deidara….adding un to his sentences now…" Itachi stormed of, leaving a shocked blonde behind. Deidara's face slowly slipped into a sly grin. 'I think I just found a new way to piss of the Uchiha, UN! UN POWER!...un.' He ran to catch up.

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NEXT DAY

Sakura woke up with a yawn and stretch. "Mmmmm…good sleep" she murmurred to herself. She glanced at the clock. '9:30am. I have three hours to get ready. Better start' she thought. She walked over to her black punk dog backpack and pulled out her toiletries and the dress she was going to wear for her contest. After her shower she slipped on the dress. It was black and grey checkered with a plaid skirt that ended a bit past her butt. It had a silver zip going down the front, from the top of the dress to hip level. Both sides of the zip had studds and had two thin straps going over her shoulder. The dress covered her back and drew attention to her slender figure, perfect curves and long legs. She grabbed some fishnet gloves and put on a pair of Mary Jane chain strap heels. Quickly applying her dark blue eyeliner, she nodded in approval at her reflection and made her way down the hall with her pokemon for some breakfast.

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TIMESKIP – Contest appeals

Sakura nervously wrung her hands as she watched appeal after appeal on the screen backstage. She was beginning to feel slightly intimidated by all the amazing presentations and she could only hope that the judges liked her performance. While she was thinking, she was approached by a male around 17. He was handsome with red hair and dark brown eyes. His skin was lightly tanned and you could see his muscled ripple through the fabric of his shirt. He sat down next to her and introduced himself. "I'm Sasori Akasuna" he said. She turned and smiled kindly. "Sakura Haruno, have you done your appeal yet?" she asked. He shook his head no. "I believe I'm after you" he told her. She blinked. "Really? I can't wait to see it. You look like the type who puts a lot of thought into their work and takes pride in the result, no matter what others hink." It was his turn to blink. 'She's smart, and it seems she can view things in ways others cannot or do not appreciate..' he thought.

"Our next co-ordinator is SAKURA HARUNO!" the MC called. Large cheers erupted from the stands at her name. She smiled. "Look like I'm up." "Best of luck Sakura-san" Sasori said.

Sakura ran to the entrance of the stage, jumped high into the air and performed a triple flip before throwing her pokeball. Her Eevee came out and they landed in perfect sync with one another on the ground. "Eevee, use shadow ball and keep em coming!" Sakura called. Eevee opened it mouth, a large black and purple blob formed. With a cry it released its attack, only to launch more. The shadow balls rose into the air, forming a perfect circle and span around at high speed. "Ok, now use a single large swift!" Eevee did exactly as Sakura ordered, rather than many small stars launchng from it, a single, giant golden star formed and went into the centre of the spinning shadowballs. "Let's finish this Eevee! Up in the air then dive with iron tail!" "Vee!" it cried. Eevee ran towards the centre of the stage and jumped high into the air. It angled itself so that it was propelling downwards right above the large swift and shadowballs, its tail began to glow with power. The crowd and judges gasped at the order and risk. If the tactic screwed up, Eevee would be seriously hurt and Sakura would have no chance in this contest. As Eevee drew nearer, it began to spin even faster before flipping at the last second with such incredible speed that the force of its iron tail caused its other attacks to explode and form brightly coloured fireworks. Eevee landed gracefully on its feet, unscathed and not the slightest bit dizz, in front of its trainer. The crowd screamed their approval and cheered so loud it was deafening. Flowers were thrown to her as well as the odd phone number from her fanboys. "Simply beautiful. I feel honoured to have witnessed such a display!" said Nurse Shizune. " A risky dive and final move pulled of with extreme precision and elegance, it was an unforgettable experience" said a feminine looking boy with long black hair and dark eyes. He was Haku, one of the most respected co-ordinators in the world. "My favourite performance of the day, you keep coming up with daring routines that capture the attentions of trainers and co-ordinatores alike!" Sarutobi, president of the pokemon fanclub, praised. Sakura and her Eevee beamed with joy and bowed politely to the audience and judges before exiting the stage. "We did it Eevee!" Sakura said happily. "Vee! Eevee eev!" /Yeah! I told you not to worry!/ Sakura grinned, "and you were right." Sasori approached them with a smirk on his face. It wasn't mocking, more of a 'congratulations' kind of smirk. "Good luck Sasori!" Sakura said. Sasori nodded his thanks before exiting the room.

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AN: Ok! So chapter three is up. I know I said end of next week but my art study noted are on a different computer and my dad can't get them to me until tomorrow evening so….that means I'll spend some time on my stories tomorrow (as well as study). I decided Sasori will be an undercover Akatsuki. I can't be bothered writing up his appeal or their battles so next chapter I'm skipping to the finals. Sasori Vs. Sakura. Not sure who should win yet though. I'll let you vote on who should win but if I don't get any then I'll just decide. Thanks for reading and for the reviews!

Wolfie