Chapter four
Last time:
"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.
Now:
Sakura stared at the opposition across the field from her. "The match between Sasori Akasuna and Sakura Haruno will determine the winner of Palkia City's Contest this year. You have five minutes, BEGIN!" shouted the MC. Sasori grabbed two poke'balls from his belt and threw them into the air. "Donphan, Manetric, your up!" he called calmly, making fangirls squeel and faint at the sound of his voice. "Eevee, Houndour, HIT IT!" Sakura yelled as she threw her poke'balls. "Donphan!" "Manetric!" "Eev!" "-growls-" each pokemon came out of their respective balls and got into a battle stance. "Donphan, rollout on Eevee, Manetric use charge" Sasori ordered. Donphan rolled into a ball and charged towards Eevee while Manetric gathered energy. "Eevee get out of the way with dig, Houndour, use smog!" Eevee dug into the ground just in time to avoid collision with Donphan's larger, heavier body while Houndour filled the stage with a poisonous gas. Sasori held a sleeve to his face to avoid inhaling it and squinted, trying to see where his opponents pokemon were as well as his own. He noticed some of his points go down on the scoreboard. "Eevee, mudslap and Houndour odor sleuth on Manetric!" he heard Sakura yell. 'Shit…mudslap is only a 50% accurate move but with Houndour using odor sleuth…I can't avoid it. Smart girl' Sasori thought. "Netric!" he heard his pokemon cry out in pain as the attack hit dead on. More points from the score board lost. "Manetric, Thunderbolt!" Manetric sent a large volt of electricity out of its body, hitting Houndour. "Houndour! Are you ok?" Sakura asked, worried. "Dour.." it replied weakly, getting up. "Eevee, get to defence in front of Houndour!" Sakura ordered. "Eev!" Eevee jumped infront of Houndour and growled at its opponents. "Houndour, solar beam!" Houndour began to absord energy from the sun, charging up for its attack. Sasori's eyes narrowed, 'if Eevee doesn't dodge it goes down. If it does then Houndour is out. She must have something up her sleeve, but what?'. "Manetric, hyper beam and Donphan rollout." His pokemon launched their attacks straight to Eevee. Sakura waited until their attaks were close enough before shouting, "PROTECT, NOW!" A large green sphere engulfed both Eevee and Houndour as their opponents attacks were repelled. Donphan crashed into Manetric but managed to regain its footing, Manetric however took the hit hard and struggled to stand. "Dour!" Houndour was ready for its attack. "Alright Houndour, use solar beam!" the solar beam hit Manetric and it collapsed. Sasori returned his pokemon to its ball. He frowned but then noticed Houndour was panting. 'That's right…her Houndour took a hit earlier on and no doubt launching an attack like solar beam had its tole on him.' "Donphan, take out Houndour. Use magnitude followed by gyro ball!" The ground shook hard and knocked Houndour of its feet. It didn't get a chance to stand as it was hit by his opponents gyro ball. "Houndour!" Sakura returned her Houndour to its ball and smiled. "You did great Houndour, I owe you." She looked up, a determined look in her eye. "Alright Eevee, its up to you." "Eevee!" it nodded and crouched down, ready to pounce or evade. "Use rapid spin and thunder fang Donphan!" Sasori told his pokemon. "Phan!" Donphan spun its body in Eevee direction, only to stop when close enough to use its thunder fang technique. "Eevee, use endure and wish!" Sakura ordered. "Vee!" Eevee braced itself for the attack and cried out as it hit its mark. 'Why didn't she avoid or use protect? She had the time…and what the hell is wish?' Sasori wondered. He then noticed the score board. He knew that he would have lost more points than her but was surprised when even his points went down again when hers did. 'What…and her pokemon should be down from that attack…' Sakura grinned. Guess you didn't know that endure makes sure the user withstands the next attack and that wish restores its hp" she called out to him. Sasori's eyes widened. 'Smart girl…' "Donphan, hyper beam!" "Eevee, secret power!" The two attacks collided in mid air, perfectly matched. A loud explosion sounded and the screen was hidden from view by large amounts of smoke as the buzzer sounded. They were out of time. They turned and Sakura felt her breath catch in her throat as she waited in nervous anticipation for the result to show. Finally, the smoke cleared, revealing the winner. Her points passed that of Sasori's but just barely. She finally released the breath she had been holding and glanced at Sasori whilst the MC declared her the winner. He stood there, calm as ever with a smirk on his face. She walked over to him, Eevee by her side and held out her hand. Sasori turned towards her and offered her a small smile before taking it in a firm grasp. "Now, that's true sportsmanship there ladies and gentlemen!" the MC shouted, gesturing to the pair. Sakura blushed at the attention and Sasori chuckled, pushing her towards the MC to receive her ribbon. "Thank you very much and I want to congratulate and thank Sasori as well for an intense and memorable fight" Sakura said, smiling genuinely. The crowd cheered and the judges clapped.
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"Thank you Nurse Shizune." Sakura took her poke'balls and released her pokemon. "Hey, you guys hungry?" They all sounded their response and she led them over to a table where she had set up their food. "I'll be right back you guys, I want to call Proffesor Iruka and get him to send over one of my pokemon for my next contest" she told them. They nodded before continueing on their meal. Sakura made her way over to the public video phone on the opposite wall and dialed the number. "Hello?" came a males voice, his image appeared on the screen. He looked fairly young with spiky dark brown hair, brown eyes and a scar running across his nose. "Hey Proff. Iruka!" Sakura greeted, "Ah! Sakura! How may I help you today?" he replied. "Um, can you please send me my Togekiss? I'm going to use her in my next contest!" Sakura said happily. "Sure thing, congratulations on winning the contest over in Palkia today" he said. She blinked. "How'd you know that? OMG are you like, psychic now? Or are you using my Alakazam to tell you in some way?" Iruka sweatdropped. "Erm no. I saw you on T.V" he told her. "Oh…my bad" she grinned innocently and he had the urge to hit his head on the nearby wall. "Anyway, I'm sending Togekiss over now." As he finished saying that, a pink coloured poke'ball appeared. She picked it up carefully and let out her pokemon. "Togekiss!" it said happily, greeting its trainer. "Hey there girl! Long time no see! Thanks proff. I'll talk to you another time, bye!" she hung up the phone. "Come on Togekiss, lets go to the others and get you some food." "Toge! Toge togekiss!" /Yay food! I can't wait to see the others!/ Togekiss flew ahead and landed next to her Houndour. "Kiss!" it greeted. The other pokemon replied back happily while Sakura took out some food for the new arrival. "Togekiss, this is Eevee, Eevee, this is Togekiss" she introduced. "Eev eev Eevee!" Togekiss like this Eevee, it had such a happy aura.
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ELSEWHERE
"You have a report on your progress?" came a cold voice. "Yes Leader-sama. There is a girl, pink hair, green eyes. She's a co-ordinator who just won her first ribbon here in Sinnoh at the Palkia City contest. She's strong and intelligent. Her pokemon are strong too and still haven't reacher their full potential. She defeated me in the final round" replied a calm voice. The other male nadded, his ringed eyes closed in thought. "I want you to keep an eye on her, act as her rival as well as friend and if possible, persuade her to join us. If what you say is true, she would indeed make a great addition to our organisation." "Of course Leader-sama." "Good, you are dismissed…Sasori." The redhead bowed his head in respect before cutting of the transmission. 'Sakura Haruno…someone such as you I should have heard about atleast…who are you?' he thought, deciding to do some background check on her. He made his way down the halls of the pokemon centre and spotted her with her pokemon, eating an early dinner. Sasori walked up and sat down next to her. She turned and greeted him politely. "Hello Sakura-san." She frowned slightly. "Just Sakura will be fine Sasori-san. I don't like people treating me so formaly." He smirked. "Only if you call me Sasori, no suffix's attached" he bargained. She grinned. "You have yourself a deal. Would you like any food?" He shook his head. "I'm not quite hungry yet." They talked for a few hours before she finally left to go to sleep. She had said she'd be leaving early tomorrow because she promised to meet some new companions of hers at the pokemon centre at the end of the forest ahead.
Sakura stretched before getting into bed, her pokemon laying around her body. She smiled softly and closed her eyes, slipping into a dreamless slumber. She woke up to the sound of her phone beeping. She groaned. It only felt like she'd been sleeping for five minutes. She sighed and carefully got up, walking into the bathroom she slipped out of her black silk night dress and got into the shower, singing.
I don't
want this moment to ever end
Where everythings nothing without
you
I'll wait here forever just to, to see you smile
'Cause
it's true, I am nothing without you
Through it all, I made my
mistakes
I stumble and fall, but I mean these words
I want
you to know
With everything I won't let this go, these words are
my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you know, 'cause I'd
bleed my heart out to show
And I won't let go
Thoughts read
unspoken, forever in doubt
Pieces of memories fall to the ground
I
know what I didn't have so, I won't let this go
'Cause it's true,
I am nothing without you
All the streets where I walked alone,
with nowhere to go
I've come to an end
I want you to
know
With everything I won't let this go, these words are my heart
and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you know, 'cause I'd bleed my
heart out to show
And I won't let go
In front of your eyes,
it falls from the skies
When you don't know what you're looking to
find
In front of your eyes, it falls from the skies
When you
just never know what you will find (what you will find)
I
don't want this moment to ever end
Where everythings nothing
without you
I want you to know
With everything I won't let
this go, these words are my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this
moment you know, 'cause I'd bleed my heart out to show
And I won't
let go (I want you to know)
With everything I won't let this go,
these words are my heart and soul
I'll hold on to this moment you
know, 'cause I'd bleed my heart out to show
And I won't let go
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TIMESKIP – Yesterday with Sasuke and Naruto
"Teme, we're FINALLY here in Floaroma City!!! Let's go to the gym now!!" Naruto screamed. Sasuke walked up to him and proceeded to hit him on the head. Extra hard. "Owwwww, what was that for?" anime tears streamed down Naruto's face. "Hn. Dobe. We need to get to the pokemon centre and mart first to heal our pokemon and restock on supplies." "Oh yeah…" As they made their way to the pokemon centre, they were ambushed by fangirls. "Omg, you guys are like so hot! Have my babies!" yelled a random purple haired girl. "Back of Ami the black haired ones mine!" yelled a white haired girl. "You guys can have him, I want the blonde dude" drooled a blue haired girl with pale green eyes. Sasuke and Naruto backed away slowly before turning on their heels and running. "Hey where'd they go?" asked the Ami, looking up from strangling the white haired girl. "It's all your fault Kisa!" screamed the white haired girl. "What the FUCK did I do you grandma?" screamed Kisa. "I'm not 'grandma' stop calling me that!" "Then explain why the HELL you have WHITE hair!" They continued their pointless aguing, completely forgetting about Sasuke and Naruto.
Naruto was panting by the time they reached the pokemon centre. They had taken the longer route, void of any fangirls. "That was scary!" Naruto exclaimed. "Hn." "How the hell are you not tired from that run?" Naruto demanded. "Hn. Cause I don't eat boxes and boxes of ramen at one sitting." Naruto glared and stomped towards the glass doors of the pokemon centre, only to forget to slide them open and walking straight into it. Sasuke face palmed himself. 'How the Hell am I still sane with this guy around?' he thought to himself. He walked to the entrance calmly and opened the door. "You coming in or going to just lye there" he stated more than asked. Grumbling, Naruto got up and walked in after Sasuke, ignoring the giggling girls and making his way to the counter where a Blissey was standing with Nurse Shizune. "Hey Nurse Shizune!" Naruto yelled. "Hello, welcome to Floaroma City pokemon centre! Do you require a room and some treatment for you pokemon?" she asked politely. "Yes please! Then I'm going to beat this cities gym leader, BELIEVE IT!" WHACK! "Dobe…" Naruto was now sporting a large lump on top of his head. The Blissey beside Nurse Shizune sweatdropped. After their pokemon were healed and they had both taken a shower in their rooms, they made their way down to the cafeteria to get some late lunch. "Neh, Sasuke-teme. When are we going to battle the gym leader?" Naruto asked. "We'll go after lunch. I don't want to stay here longer than necessary." Naruto grinned. "YES!!! I can't wait! I'm going to get my SECOND badge BEFORE you!" Sasuke was tempteed to roll his eyes.
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OUTSIDE GYM
Sasuke and Naruto stood outside a large, glass ceilinged building which was shaped oddly like a Vileplume. Naruto gaped at it. "Holy shit teme! The building looks like a fucking glass pokemon! That's so awesome! I'm gonna make MY house like that one day!" he exclaimed. "I'm glad you like it. Now whats your name cutie, and of course your hot companions too?" cam a girls voice. Sasuke winced. To him, her voice sounded a LOT like nails being dragged slowly down a chalkboard. 'Unlike Sakura's…her voice is so heaven…WAIT! What the HELL am I thinking? STOP!' Sasuke inwardly shook his head to rid himself of such thoughts. "I'm Naruto Uzumaki, believe it! That's Sasuke-teme over there and we're here to challenge you to a battle for the…" he trailed of and whispered to Sasuke, "what badge does she give us again?" Sasuke face palmed himself AGAIN. "Dobe…we're here for the Solar badge." "YEAH! What he said! The Solar badge!" Ino raised an eyebrow. "Well I have plans for today. I need to get fitted for this beautifullll purple gown AND I have to go to the salon and get my hair and nails done. I have no time to battle both of you." Sasuke sighed. He really didn't want to do this but…he slowly walked up to Ino, a seductive smirk on his face. She practically had a nose bleed when his smooth voice reached her ears. "Don't you think you can make an exception for us Ino? Bend the rules a bit maybe?" She melted into goo. "O-ofcourse I can Sasuke –kun! How about a double battle? The both of you against me. You both use one pokemon each and I'll use two…" she trailed off to stare into Sasuke's eyes. He was resisting the urge to gag. "Won't that be unfair to you Ino?" asked Naruto. She thought a minute. "Well, I guess I could make it so you have to take out both my pokemon but neither of yours can go down. Deal?" "YES!! BELIEVE IT!" "Sasuke-kun…if you ever find the battle to hard…you can always swap to MY team. We'll have LOTS of FUN!" she attempted to sound seductive. He inwardly shuddered at her voice. "Hn. Lets just start the beattle."
Ino stood on one side of the grassy field inside the gym, Sasuke and Naruto on the other. "Ok, so you know ho it goes. I use two pokemon, you use one each, you have to take out both of mine without a loss on your side. Now, come on out Bella, Rosy!" Ino shouted. Two flashes of light appeared from the poke'balls, revealing a Bellossom (Bella) and Roselia (Rosy). "Vulpix, go!" Naruto yelled. "Vulpix!" it cried as it emerged from its ball. "Hn. Seviper" Sasuke said cooly, making Ino drool. A large black snake with yellow, red and purple markings emerged from the ball. It slithered up next to Vulpix, the small brown foxlike pokemon with six tails curled at the ends. "Alright dobe. Listen closely. We have to work together on this, no stupid head on charges on your part understood? If either one of our pokemon goes down, then we don't get a badge. Now, I'm going to create a cover, you use that chance to get close enough to Bellosom for an up close hit. I'll take Roselia seeing as poison types can't be poisoned" Sasuke whispered. Naruto nodded to show his understanding. Though it didn't seem like it, he could be serious when the situation demands it. "Seviper, create a cover with haze." "Vulpix, use it to get up close to Bellosom!" Seviper opened its jaws and released a black fog, blinding its opponents. Vulpix charged in the direction Bellossom had been, and got ready to use will-o-wisp. "Launch it now!" Naruto ordered. The hot fire attack made its way in Bellossom's direction. "Bella, use hyper beam!" Bellossom released a huge beam of light that was a perfect match against Vulpix's attack. Vulpix was forced to jump back next to Seviper to avoid being hit. "Naruto, your Vulpix ok?" Sasuke asked. "Yeah, he didn't get hit." "Good, now hyper takes up energy. Bellossom can't attack for one turn so this is our chance to take it out. Go to Bellossom again and when Roselia comes to its defence, I'll cut in front of it." "You got it teme." Vulpix and Serviper got ready to attack, hearing the conversation between their trainers. "Alright Vulpix, get up close to Bellossom by using you quick attack!" "VUL!" Vulpix charged at its opponent at high speed. "Rosy, defend Bella!" Ino shouted hurriedly, forgetting Seviper. "Get underground with dig, then use glare" Sasuke ordered calmly so that Ino couldn't hear. Seviper burried into the ground and sprang up in front of Roselia. It sent it a menacing look, paralyzing it. "Rosy!" Ino cried. "Vulpix, use heat wave now!" "PIX!" Vulpix let out a hot breath of fire on Bellossom, taking it out. "Seviper, use earthquake." The ground shook, sending Roselia flying backwards and into a wall. Roselia stood up shakily as Ino returned her Bellossom to it's poke'ball. "Rosy, use magical leaf!" Roselia sent an array of glowing leaves in Seviper's direction, hitting it. "Viperrrrrr" it cried. Sasuke grit his teeth. "Rosy, petal dance!" Roselia released pink petals from the roses on its arms, striking Vulpix and Seviper. Seviper was taking a lot of damage and looked ready to collapse soon. "Dobe, we have to end this. One more hit and Seviper could go down. We need to do a combination." Naruto nodded. "Seviper, use haze again" Sasuke ordered. Seviper opened its jaws and let out a foggy breath, covering the field. Vulpix began to charge toward the confused Roselia while Seviper burried below ground. They both appeared in front of Roselia. "Flamethrower!" shouted both Sasuke and Naruto. Both pokemon opened their jaws and let out the huge fire attack. Roselia was forced back and collapsed in a heap. "Rosie!" Ino ran over to her pokemon. Ino sniffled as she returned her pokemon. "I can't believe I loat the match" she whined. "Sasuke-kun…I need a hug. Please, comfort me" she gave him (well tried to) a cute (COUGHCOUGH) puppy eyes look. Sasuke cringed inwardly, outwardly he just said his trademark 'hn' and turned his head. "Cheer up Ino! You did awesome! You nearly took out Sasuke's Seviper!!!" Naruto grinned. Ino looked up and smiled slightly. "Thanks, Naruto…" she whispered, she cleared her throat and stood, walking towards them. "I present you both with your own Solar Badge" she handed them each a badge. It was a pale yellow and orange swirl in the shape of a sun.
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LATER
"So teme, what we gonna do tomorrow? Sight see? Buy ramen? Buy other stuff????? How long do we get to stay????" Naruto was jumping around excitedly. Sasuke glared at him. "No. tomorrow we wake up early, last minute healing and shopping for supplies, breakfast and then we leave." Naruto stopped jumping and put on a sad face. "Whyyyy? Whay can't we stay???" he whined. "Incase you've forgotten dobe, we're meeting SAKURA." Naruto's eyes widened and he started jumping around happily again. "Yay!!! Saku-chan!!!" Sasuke sighed. 'This is gonna be a loooong trip' he thought.
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AN: Yay! End of chapter four. Next chapter will focus more on Deidara, Itachi and possibly Sasori. Uh, incase I haven't explained, the story is ItaSakuDei with slightly onesided SasuSaku at times (on Sasuke's part). Sasori is her rival/friend/undercover antagonist. I'm going to edit the character profiles because I want to replace some of their pokemon for both Sakura's group and the Akatsuki. Plus I need to add Sasori. Can't believe I forgot him T.T thanks for reading and reviewing!
Wolfie