KEY
DEMON/ HIGHER BEING
Pokemon speech
JUTSU
DISCLASIMER: I OWN NOTHING BUT MY O.C's.
Professor Birch's lab, Professor Birch POV
I still couldn't believe it. The boy who saved me just three days ago had caught sick when the pokemon who was attacking me scratched him, and today he was dying. To distract myself, I'd been working on a new invention to detect whether a wild pokemon had hostile intentions. It would save lives, I was sure of it. Suddenly I heard a sound like thunder, crackling, and of something being torn coming from outside. I looked out and saw what looked like a closing hole in the sky a few feet from the ground over where I knew there was tall grass. My curiosity was great, but I wasn't about to go unprepared like I had those long days ago. I grabbed my Torchic and a Squirtle I had won from Professor Oak last year in the annual Pokemon Professors' Poker Night, clipped their balls to my belt, and headed off at full sprint.
Grass outside LITTLEROOT, Naruto POV
Darn, my head hurts. Oh well, at least I have four new Jutsu and the workings of a fifth. Time to check if I have everything. Taijutsu scrolls, Check. HIRASHIN scroll, check. Okay, time to check out what this world has to offer. Then I noticed that seven mean looking dogs were behind me when one of them howled. Then they lunged at me almost as one. Oh well, time to try a new jutsu.
Professor Birch POV
I arrived at the scene just in time to see a pack of Poochyena surrounding a young boy. I could see he had no Pokemon of his own, but he didn't look worried. He put his hands into an odd shape and cried out KATON: KARYU ENDAN and to my utter shock, he started spitting out fireballs. They were extremely efficient at dispatching the Poochyena pack, two of them were knocked out, a third was heavily wounded, and the rest fled with minor burns. I decided right then and there to learn all I could about the kid. With that in mind, I approached him and said "Hello there. My name is Professor Birch, what's yours?"
"Naruto Uzumaki Namikaze, sir. "
"Well, Naruto, could you do me a favor?"
"What sort of favor?" the boy asked, suspicion and past hurt in his eyes.
"Well, I ordered a Pokedex for a friend, but he's fallen ill. I want you to journey the region and collect info on the Pokemon of the region for me. I also want you to be a tester for my new invention. It will tell you if a wild Pokémon has hostile intentions toward you. From what I've seen, you wouldn't need Pokemon for your protection, but it might be best if you have some with you just in case you need backup. For that reason I want you to have this." With that I tossed him the Pokeball with Squirtle in it.
"What's this? Oh, and what's a Pokémon?"
those questions made me stop cold. It was impossible, Pokemon lived in every corner of the globe. "That is a pokeball. Pokemon are basically animals with superpowers. Push the button on it and your Pokémon will come out."
Naruto's POV
I decided to do as the Professor guy told me to, and lo and behold out came a bipedal blue turtle with a spiraling tail. Then it said "Hello, are you my new trainer? You don't smell like a normal human, why is that?"
"I'm not sure what a trainer is. As for your second question, what do I smell like? Oh, and are you a boy or a girl?" I replied. The turtle seemed taken aback.
"Oh I'm a boy and you smell… wait a minute, you can understand me? That's awesome!" The turtle threw his right front paw up in the air as a cheer.
"How do I smell?" I reminded him.
"You smell of fire, lightning and wind. No human smells like that."
"You must be smelling my chakra. It will enable me to fight alongside you, that's for sure."
Professor Birch then interrupted. "Wait a minute, can you understand Pokemon? That's incredible! No one is supposed to be able to understand their language. Are you part Pokemon? It would certainly explain how you can breathe fire, but, if your part Pokemon, then you would have more Pokemon features then just attacks and being able to understand Pokespeech. And…"
"Relax." I soothed "I'm 100% human. As for my abilities, they're Chakra powered. Chakra is a combination of physical and spiritual energy, and judging by your reaction, I am either the only one in this world with the ability to use it or I am the one whom has the ability unlocked."
"Regardless, I want you to go meet my daughter, May. She should be on route 103 collecting data for me on the Pokemon that live there. Ask her to give you some Pokeballs. Now, I don't ask favors and give nothing in return, so I am giving you this Pokedex and my new invention. I'm calling it the Pokemon Intentions Radar or PokeIntadar for short, but when you point it at a wild Pokemon, it should light up red if it has hostile intentions, blue if it is uninterested in you, and green if it wants to join you. Keep in mind that it hasn't been field tested yet, though.
"Thanks, Professor."
Time skip: 1 hour later General POV
Naruto had spent the last hour both looking for May and talking with his Squirtle, which he discovered was named Tony, Naruto finally found May. Upon making his request however, she replied "How do I know you're good enough to have impressed Dad so much? He swore he wouldn't give away the Squirtle he won from Oak unless he was incredibly impressed with someone, and that is your first Pokemon. So did you impress him enough, or did you steal it?"
"Hey, I've only ever stolen food!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Then you admit to being a good for nothing thief! Give me that stolen Squirtle, and I'll make sure it gets back to my dad!" shouted May. Then she felt a chill like death itself, and her knees began to shiver.
Naruto was unconsciously releasing KI, even if it wasn't much due to him not realizing that he was doing it. "Send out your Pokemon, and I'll show you what impressed your father. I'll even go one better. If you can defeat me, I'll give you Tony. If not, I keep my hard earned friend."
May decided to comply. "Go, Treeko and Mudkip!"
Naruto took the initiative and put his hands into a cross shape and said "KAGE BUNSHIN NO JUTSU" and then five shadow clones poofed into existence. The first then made the tiger handsign and cried out "KATON: KARYU ENDAN" and began spitting fireballs at Treeko and Mudkip. Treeko was knocked out by a couple hits, but Mudkip countered with Water Gun, which then hit the shadow clone and made it destabilize and poof away in a cloud of smoke. Then, the original Naruto and his clones rushed at the Mudkip and made a telegraphed feint to the left. The Mudkip put all its effort into defending his left, and so never saw the shadow clone on his right until it was too late. The shadow clone kicked it into the air. Then the Mudkip scratched the second clone and caused it to poof, but this came at the price of a third clone sneaking up and barraging it with powerful strikes. The Mudkip now had half his hit points gone and was in shock that a human had hurt it so badly, and this was all the opening the original needed to unleash the jutsu he had prepared. With a cry of "RAITON: SANDABARUTO" twin bolts of Lightning slammed from Naruto's hands into the Mudkip, making it faint. "Still think I'm a 'good for nothing thief', May?" spat Naruto.
"No. I was wrong to call you such, and I'm sorry. I see now why my dad gave you that Squirtle. I mean, you two just met, and he obviously likes you. Here's ten pokeballs, just for you. If you want, I'll even go with you on your journey. I can keep your Pokemon at full health except during a battle, and I'm a great cook, so you'll never go hungry. Plus, I know all the edible plants and meats in the entire Hoenn region."
"Tony could tell you what is or isn't edible, and I made sure you could cook as well."
"Thanks, but I'll be fine. If I get a traveling companion, it won't be someone as quick to jump to conclusions as you are." Naruto said with finality.
"Well, okay. But I do want to tell you that the nearest city is Petalburg, although the gym leader, Norman, is probably going to be at the Petalburg hospital visiting his son."
"I'll head there right away."
CHAPTER END