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DISCLASIMER: I OWN NOTHING BUT MY O.C's

DEWFORD, NARUTO POV

Mr. Briney had set sail with both myself and Jacob to Dewford, dropped me off, and then set sail with Jacob to Slateport. The letter was easy enough to deliver, all I had to do was go into a cave, walk up the cliff to the raised part, go into the opening in the wall, and there he was, looking for rare stones. He wanted to give me a TM, but I informed him I'd rather have a way off the island. "Well," he replied "I've only got one Pokemon with fly, and you wouldn't be able to use it until you get five more badges. Still, it's a useful move, so have my HM fly. A ship is coming to the island to pick up fish soon. I think your best bet for something to do in the meantime is to challenge Brawly's gym here on the island. Now, I must be going, so goodbye" and with that he gave me the HM and left.

DEWFORD GYM

Upon entering, the first thing I noticed was the fact that it was nearly pitch black. As I walked I heard a rustling, and then a voice came. "Ufufufu…."

"OROCHIMARU! DIE!" I exclaimed as I charged. "RASENGAN" I cried out, the glow of the ball revealing a very startled girl.

"wait, what? My name's not Orochimaru, it's…"

"A HENGE and denial won't fool me! Only Orochimaru laughs like that, now DIE! " I exclaimed.

Then Ino grabbed hold of me. "Naruto, I can see through a Henge, she's not under one."

"She's not?"

"No."

"Oh. It appears I owe you an apology, miss…"

"Lisa, and yes, you do owe me an apology. I have never been that scared in my entire life!"

"Sorry" I said, scratching the back of my neck with a sheepish grin on my face.

"Tell you what, explain how a human can use Aura Sphere and we'll call it even."
"It is called chakra, not aura, and it's an energy source that is usually confined to Pokémon. Anyway, the RASENGAN is not for beginners at all. The only Pokémon I know who has recreated it is my Ino here. If you tried to use it, you would die from exhaustion. It is made by three steps, the first is swirling it in one direction on the top half and the opposite on the bottom, the second is compression, usually until it is visible, and finally combining the two. It's usually taught by first trying to pop a water balloon while just holding it in your hand, then trying to the same thing to a rubber ball, and then you tell them to combine the two motions."

"Thanks, I'll try teaching that to my Pokémon."

"Don't be surprised if you have to take your Pokémon to the Pokémon center a lot while learning, and perhaps for quite a while afterwards. Also, may I see your Pokémon?" She nodded and sent her Meditite out of its ball. I took a good look at his chakra reserves, then said "this one should be capable of learning it, but only after expanding his chakra reserves a bit. Have him use a psychic attack for as long as he can, than have him exercise a lot. Together, these training methods will build up his chakra enough to be able to use the RASENGAN within a year

"Thank you, and goodbye." She said, and with that she hurried off.

After that, we had no further incidents until we reached the gym leader. We were even able to avoid a lot of conflict, mostly because Kurama had taught me not to solely rely on my sight. I now used what amounted to a chakra pulse sonar. While it wouldn't have picked up most humans, it was able to pick up their Pokémon. The gym leader said something about being toughened, we were kind of laughing at him in our heads. After all, your Pokémon being quite tough doesn't make you any tougher. Then his face turned a purplish shade, and he sent out four Pokémon. A Riolu, a little green man, which he called Machop, a muscular four armed purple man, which he called Machoke, a Meditite, and what looked a small yellow sumo wrestler. Then he said "Respect your betters. Pokémon, attack!" oops. I must have said that out loud. Thinking fast, I sent out Tony and asked "Think the three of us can take them on?"

"Easy!" Cried Ino.

"With Pleasure. I've been training in my Pocket Dimension Pokeball, thanks for expanding it so I can practice, Naruto!" Tony said happily.

GENERAL POV

Tony started flashing through handsigns and cried out "HYOTON: HYORYU" and a dragon made of Ice materialized, flash freezing the Sumo wrestler and Machop. The two of them were knocked out. Ino used Mind-body Switch on the Meditite and caused it to focus punch the Machoke, knocking it out, then leapt upon the stunned Meditite, shouted "RASENGAN" and shoved it into the enemy's chest. Then the mistake happened. The Riolu leapt and landed on Naruto, pushing him off balance so that he landed on his back and holding a fist to his throat. Then he shouted "Move and he dies!" both of them froze, unable to believe their eyes. Ino felt horrible, she had failed her best f… no, she realized, she saw him as more than a friend. He was by far the best thing that had ever happened to her, and she refused to let it end, it couldn't end, she wouldn't let it! With that thought, her form began to shift, light emanated from her, blinding everyone. When it faded, she was no longer a Ralts. No, she had now evolved, and to her newly matured mind, the feelings she had had since Team Aqua's ambush in Petalburg woods and still had about him made perfect sense, she was in love. Then the Riolu spoke again "I'm still quicker than you, Kirlia, do you really want for your trainer to die?" she slowly raised her hands in the air. The Riolu chuckled. "I figured as much, that they would do anything to protect you." Naruto laughed. The Riolu looked at him, wondering if his mind had broken, but Naruto said "Well I reckon that's your biggest mistake. Thinking I need them to protect me. RASENGAN" and with that, Naruto shoved the swirling blue ball of chakra into the unprotected crotch of the Riolu. The now female Riolu passed out from the pain of the unexpected and completely unwanted sex change surgery. Brawly, Tony, and all of Brawly's male Pokémon winced. "Well, you've taught me something today trainer, mostly never to anger you, but also not to let anger rule my judgement. Well, take the Knuckle badge, you have more than earned it." Then we heard a ship foghorn. The three of them rushed outside, just in time to board the ship.

En Route to SLATEPORT, NARUTO POV

I had noticed something off about Ino. She seemed put out about something, and it was bugging me. I mean, I'm her best friend, even if I want to be more than that… wait, where did that come from? I searched my feelings. After about five minutes, I discovered something. I loved her. But did she love me? Could she love me? As I was contemplating this, she came in. I didn't notice until she crawled up on top of me. "Ino?" I asked "What are you doing?"

She answered by kissing me full on the lips, and my mind shut off. Then she stopped, hurt in her eyes. "You don't feel the same way, do you? I get it, I'll just go away now." She said, depression already obviously creeping in. But before she could leave, my brain rebooted. I grabbed her arm, brought her back to me, and kissed her back.

"I was shocked, not disinterested. I think I love you."

"You think?"

"Well, I've never really had feelings anything like the ones I have for you, so I don't know if it's love or not. Heck, I grew up completely without love, so I don't know what it feels like, but if love is this incredible warmth that lights up and washes away the darkness of my heart, that never fails to come whenever I think of you, that urge to protect you with even my own life, then I never want to be without it."

"Good answer, now come on. Let's go enjoy the sunset."

I had seen many sunsets from atop Hokage Mountain, and while the colors of this one wasn't anything special, it would go down in my memory as the best sunset I had ever experienced.

CHAPTER END

POLL: Should I add a villain from Naruto's world? If so, should it be Itachi and Kisame, Orochimaru, or Pein?