AN: Another important message... Naruto got another name change. I would like to thank KitsuneNoYomeiri for calling me out on my mistake and informing me that the correct word I want is Hisame. So now Touketsu Naruto is no more and in his place Hisame Naruto is born.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Pokemon.
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Last time on The Rise of Chaos: The battle for the Cerulean City Gym Badge began with Naruto's Krabby facing off against Misty's Goldeen. Krabby was able to pull out an easy win, when it hit Goldeen with Water Gun and Bubblebeam simultaneously. The next battle was between Naruto's Staryu and Misty's Seel. The battle ended with a relatively easy win for Staryu after it was able to slam Seel into the bottom of the pool with a powerful Rapid Spin. After a brief exchange in words between Naruto and Misty, that left Misty infuriated, the next battle between Naruto's Krabby and Misty's Staryu began. After an intense battle that left both pokemon unable to continue Naruto was declared the winner.
Once Naruto received his badge and was ready to leave, however. Misty surprised everyone by asking Naruto to join her, Ash, and Brock on their journey. Ash and Brock quickly agreed on this idea and encouraged Naruto to as well. Not willing to turn them down, Naruto accepted Misty's offer and joins the group on their adventure.
Now Naruto's true adventure has finally begun to unfold.
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After staying the night in Cerulean City, Naruto, Ash, Misty, and Brock set off towards the next gym in Vermillion City.
"I'm tired." Ash complained as hunched over and allowed his arms to dangle down below him.
"That isn't really surprising, seeing as you ran the first five miles." Naruto commented.
"Well I didn't think Vermillion City would be this far away." Ash responded.
"You thought that two major city's would be less than five miles away from each other?" Naruto asked with genuine curiosity.
"Yes."
"Hey Ash, there's a Pokemon Center only about a mile away from here." Brock said as he looked at his handbook. "Its by some of the best farmland in the Kanto region."
"Well then what are we waiting for!" Ash yelled as he instantly straightened up and ran down the trail.
He failed to notice, however, that no one was following him. Even Denkou was walking with the rest of the group.
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"How much farther away is Vermillion City anyway?" Ash asked as he munched on his hamburger, having finally gotten up after nearly collapsing upon his arrival at he Pokemon Center.
"About sixty miles." Brock answered nonchalantly, almost causing Ash to choke on his hamburger.
"Sixty miles!" Ash yelled, causing everyone in the Pokemon Center to stare at him."There is no need to yell." Brock said.
"I thought you walked to Cerulean City too." Naruto said. "How can you be that surprised about he distance when Pewter City is thirty miles away from Cerulean City with a mountain in between?"
"Well I never really thought about the distance because so many things happened along the way that I never really worried about how long it took." Ash explained.
"And you think that nothing will happen from here to Vermillion City?" Naruto inquired.
"Good point." Ash said thoughtfully.
Naruto didn't even comment on that.
"Is something wrong? You've been uncharacteristically quiet."
Naruto heard Brock's whisper as clear as day.
He looked away from Ash and at their two companions across the table.
Misty was absentmindedly twirling her pasta around her fork with a far away look in her eyes, while Brock looked at her with obvious concern.
Now that he thought about it, Misty had been silent since their departure from Cerulean City. What's more, he always caught her taking glances in his direction and opening her mouth as if to say something, but closing it and backing out seconds later.
"You do seem to be unusually quiet." Ash commented.
Apparently he had been paying attention for once.
Strange.
"No I'm fine." Misty said quietly without even focusing her eyes.
"You could just ask your question." Naruto said, causing Misty to instantly snap back into the conscious world.
"H-how did you know?" Misty stuttered as she stared at him in shock.
"You weren't exactly secretive." Naruto stated simply.
By now both Ash and Brock were listening intently, wondering what had been causing Misty to act so weird.
"Well spit it out." Ash said impatiently after a full minute of silence had past between them.
Misty sent a silent glare at Ash, but spoke none the less.
"Well." Misty began slightly unsure of herself. "Naruto, I was wandering if you could teach me how to be a better trainer?"
"Sure." Naruto answered.
"I..." Misty instantly cut herself off as her mind processed what Naruto had said.
"Awesome!" Ash yelled in excitement. "Can you train me too? I've just been dieing to learn how you taught your pokemon attacks that have never been discovered."
"Misty asked first, so you'll have to wait, but if I can I will train you with what's left of the day." Naruto said.
"Sweet!" Ash exclaimed taking a victory chew of his hamburger.
"I wouldn't get your hopes to high." Naruto commented. "The most I will be teaching you will probably less than you would like."
"If your trying to make me back out, you have another thing coming." Ash declared, with his voice muffled by the hamburger in his mouth.
"Very well." Naruto remarked with a hint of amusement in his calm voice.
Without another word he rose from the table and beckoned Misty to follow him as he left the Pokemon Center.
"Good luck." Ash encouraged as he watched Misty rise out of her seat in the booth. "Remember, the sooner you get done the sooner you become a master of water pokemon."
"You mean the sooner she gets done, the sooner you get to have your own training session." Brock remarked as he took a sip of his soda.
Misty simply ignored them, with her mind on one thing as the doors of the Pokemon Center opened in front of her.
The training session that was just ahead.
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A soft breeze floated lazily though the afternoon air, causing small ripples to form on the surface of the placid lake.
Misty savored the soft touch of the breeze as it gently glided across her face. The refreshing feeling served to calm her nerves as she walked to the edge of the lake, just behind Naruto.
The lush grass on the edge of the lake barely made a sound as Misty walked, and as soon as she would lift her foot the grass would spring back into its original position.
Misty stopped on the very edge of the lake right as another breeze washed over the area, once again, sending tiny waves over the surface of the lake and causing a few strands of Misty's hair to flutter out behind her.
She lightly placed a hand on the back of her head to control the rouge strands and stared at the lake in front of her in somewhat of a trance.
She allowed a small smile to grace her face as she stared at the small body of water with longing eyes, allowing her mind to loose itself in the blue-tinted reflection.
"Why do you want to be, solely, a water pokemon trainer?" Naruto questioned, bringing Misty back into the conscious world.
"Because they are my favorite type of pokemon." Misty responded, almost unconsciously, as she turned around to face Naruto.
"Fair enough." Naruto remarked "But that wasn't my question."
"What do you mean?" Misty asked curiously.
"What do you want to accomplish by becoming a master of water pokemon?" Naruto clarified. "What is your goal? Are you just going to become the best water pokemon trainer in the world and then go back to the Cerulean City Gym saying "I did it" or are you going to use your skills for something else?"
Misty was taken back by the question. It was an obvious one of course, but the problem was the answer was not nearly as obvious. That caused Misty to realize that she had never actually asked herself this question in the first place.
Because of this, Misty said the best thing she could come up with to answer Naruto's question.
Nothing.
"I see." Naruto uttered as he decrypted Misty's silent message. "Make sure you think about the answer to that question, but I believe it is time to train right now."
Nodding her head slowly Misty pushed Naruto's question into the back of her mind and focused all her attention onto Naruto.
"Since you asked for water pokemon training specifically, I will only give you a quick overview of the basics unless you ask for extra clarification." Naruto informed, receiving a nod of conformation from Misty.
"First, always control you emotions. Second, capitalize on all opportunities that the opponent allows. Third, be perceptive. Fourth, be patient. Fifth, know all the type advantages and disadvantages. Sixth, use the environment to your advantage. And seventh, think before you act." Naruto concluded.
"What did you mean be perceptive." Misty asked.
"Know where your pokemon, your opponents pokemon, and key points of interest are relative to each other." Naruto explained, gaining a slow nod from Misty.
Without another word Naruto withdrew two pokeballs from his person and threw them near the edge of the lake just past the shore.
Misty silently observed as Krabby and Staryu were deposited into the lake and the pokeballs returned to Naruto, where they disappeared somewhere under his cloak.
"First, I'm going to teach you about some of important properties of water that you should always keep in mind when fighting in an aquatic environment." Naruto explained, receiving yet another nod from Misty.
Taking the nod as a sign to continue, Naruto motioned for Krabby and Staryu to dive.
With a small splash both pokemon were soon hidden beneath the surface of the crystalline lake.
"What do you notice." Naruto asked suddenly as soon as the quick scene played out.
Focusing hard, Misty observed the spot that the two pokemon submerged looking for any irregularity.
Misty searched for a full minute, without coming up with so much as a clue.
With her nerves beginning to get the best of her, Misty looked back at Naruto for any kind of help or support, but only receiving silence in return as he waited for her answer.
Realizing that Naruto was not going to help her, Misty turned her attention back to the lake.
Then it hit her.
Maybe the fact that she was focusing on only the spot that they submerged was the problem. Naruto had said only a few seconds ago that she needed to be more perceptive, so maybe he wanted her to looked at the whole lake.
Regaining her confidence, Misty observed the lake with renewed vigor searching every inch of the water's tranquil surface for a clue to the two pokemon's whereabouts.
One minute passed and she found nothing.
Two minutes, still nothing.
Six minutes, a whole lot of nothing.
And, just when Misty passed the ten minute mark, she finally found... nothing.
Depressed, Misty slumped her shoulders and looked back at Naruto, finally giving him the answer he so patiently waited for.
"I don't know." She muttered quietly.
"Don't know what?" Naruto asked in the same calm voice he always uses.
"I don't know what the answer is." Misty responded getting slightly agitated.
"What was the question?" Naruto inquired.
That left Misty dumbfounded.
"The question was did you notice anything." Naruto answered for her. "So did you?"
"No." Misty answered dryly.
"And do you realize the significance of your answer." Naruto questioned.
"No." Misty answered.
"It means you noticed that Krabby and Staryu can no longer be seen." Naruto explained. "Now, do you realize the significance of that?"
Misty was nearly struck speechless, she stared at the lake for over ten minutes looking for some kind of sign of the pokemon, but the whole point was to notice that there was no sign of the pokemon. It was so incredibly simple that no one that was anything short of a genius or anything more than a idiot would never be able to answer it.
So did that mean Naruto's next question was any different?
"The water hid Krabby and Staryu from view?" Misty more asked than answered.
"Exactly. The point of this was for you to notice that water even the clearest of water has the ability to completely hide anything more than one foot under its surface." Naruto explained as he motioned for Krabby and Staryu to resurface. "Do you know the significance of that?"
"If your in a pokemon battle all you need to do is have your pokemon dive a foot below the water to hide from the opponent." Misty answered beginning to catch on.
"Correct." Naruto said as Krabby jumped on to the lakeside, a few inches in front of Misty.
Right after Staryu laid flat on its back on the surface of the water and submerged just enough that its whole body was no more than a inch under the water.
"Krabby, use Water Gun." Naruto ordered.
Krabby shot a surge of water out of its claws and into the center of the once tranquil lake.
As soon as the tip of the water surge touched the surface of the lake, hundreds of ripples almost instantly filled the surface of the lake, causing the once perfect reflection to become indistinguishable as it danced on the small waves.
"What do you notice?" Naruto asked once again.
'Lets see.' Misty thought as she turned her attention away from the point of contact between the Water Gun and the surface of the lake, towards the spot where Staryu had submerged.
"Staryu's body has become completely undistinguishable." Misty observed.
"Right, and this means?" Naruto inquired.
"That any serious disruption on the surface of the water will cause almost anything submerged under the water's surface to become hidden." Misty answered.
"Right." Naruto confirmed as he made a motion for Krabby to cancel its attack.
A few seconds after Krabby canceled its attack, Staryu resurfaced once again and the surface of the lake regained its peaceful state.
"You know that light bends when it hits the water, right?" Naruto questioned, receiving yet another nod from Misty. "Onto the next thing then."()
It was about six o'clock by the time Naruto and Misty returned from their training session, and to say Misty was happy would be an understatement. By the time she entered the Pokemon Center she was absolutely beaming, feeling more proud of herself than ever before.
"So how was the training." Brock asked as they finally settled down at a booth to eat dinner.
The question caused Ash to immediately lift his head from the pasta he was eating and focus all his attention onto Misty. He wanted to ask the question himself, but by the time they got back from training he was too hungry to even produce coherent thoughts let alone sentences.
'Curse Brock from banning me from food until they got back.' Ash thought bitterly as he finished chewing his noodles.
"It was great!" Misty nearly yelled, she had been waiting for this question for the past ten minutes and she couldn't hold in her excitement any longer.
"I think I learned more in the six hours than I could have ever expected!." She exclaimed. "If I had known any of this a year ago, I would have easily been able to beat at least four fifths of the trainers I battled before. Including you Ash."
Ash wanted to feel angry at Misty's insult. He really did. But the excitement that had built up in him just wouldn't allow it.
In less than half a minute, Ash practically inhaled the rest of his pasta, chugged the rest of his soda, and yelled for Naruto to hurry up before he bolted out the Pokemon Center almost breaking the doors as they nearly failed to open fast enough.
Misty and Brock watched Ash run around outside in anticipation with a sense of awe, while Naruto simply continued eating, seemingly unaffected by Ash's outburst.
And it was only when he had completely finished his meal ten minutes later, that he calmly stood up from the table and walked out of the Pokemon Center with Denkou and Pikachu close by his side.
It was only after he left that Misty turned away from the Ash's now semi-unconscious form towards Naruto's empty plate and asked a question that just now presented itself.
"How did we not think to look at his face?" She asked Brock."I have no idea." He responded.
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"You goal is to become a pokemon master, correct?" Naruto asked as he finally came to a stop after having lead Ash to the same area he had trained Misty.
"Heck yeah!" The ten year old yelled enthusiastically as he jumped and pumped his fist into the air.
The act nearly caused Naruto to release a chuckle, but not quite.
"I see." Naruto remarked with a hint of amusement present in his calm voice, as he watched Ash return to the ground.
"Let me ask a question then." Naruto requested, effectively peaking Ash's interest.
"Okay, shoot." Ash encouraged.
"What are you going to do once you have become a pokemon master?" Naruto inquired.
That threw him for a loop.
"After I become a pokemon master..." Ash mumbled to himself as he tilted his head toward the ground, in deep thought.
'What do I want to do?' Ash asked himself. 'I've never asked myself that. Even if I do become a pokemon master, what will I do after that? Sure, I'll probably be famous and have lots of fans, but so what? Do I want to just sign autographs for the rest of my life? I could probably continue battling, but I would have no real goal. The rest of my life would just be extra, post-adventure, useless, goalless. Pointless.'
'I won't stand for that.' Ash thought as he rose his head to face Naruto once more.
"So?" Naruto asked genuinely curious.
"I don't know." Ash answered with his voice laced with determination. "But it sure as heck won't stay that way.""Good answer." Naruto congratulated as he turned to look at the tranquil lake. "When you find out what you want to do then make sure to tell me. I actually find myself excited to hear your answer."
"Sure thing!" Ash happily responded.
"So, I believe we have some training to do. Am I correct." Naruto asked receiving a eager nod from Ash. "Okay, then we'll start with the basics."
Ash barely suppressed the groan that began to exit his mouth and instead sat down in the grass focusing all his attention all onto Naruto, knowing that if he got this over with now, he would be able to move on to the real training even faster.
"There are six basic principles that you always need to keep in mind as a pokemon trainer." Naruto began. "First, control your emotions. Second, capitalize on all the opportunities that the opponent presents. Third, be perceptive. Fourth, think before you act. Fifth, be patient. Sixth, know all the types, their advantages, and their disadvantages. And seventh, know your environment."
"Now, did you hear all that?" Naruto asked after pausing long enough for Ash to thoroughly process the information.
"Yes." Ash answered slowly, with skepticism clearly evident in his voice.
"Did you understand all of it?" Naruto followed up.
"No." Ash answered almost immediately.
"Did you understand anything?" Naruto questioned.
"Well, that depends." Ash replied slowly. "What did you mean by be patient."
"Okay then. I'll just go over all of it." Naruto concluded, making Ash scratch the back of is neck sheepishly.
"The first rule is to stay in control of you emotions, which is pretty straight forward, always keep you emotions in." Naruto stated. "Sure, getting angry and attempting to insult you opponent may make you feel slightly better about being insulted yourself, but it won't allow your thoughts to be any clearer and it often causes you to think irrationally and ultimately lose the battle."
Naruto paused in his speech as he stared to Ash's raised hand in curiosity."Yes." Naruto inquired.
"If that is true then why did you purposefully make Misty mad in your battle?" Ash questioned.
"Even though Misty wasn't able to think as well as she could have if she were calm, it was better than letting her plague her mind with negative thoughts, because then she wouldn't be able to think at all." Naruto explained as he got ready to continue his lecture.
"Wait." Ash interrupted. "If that's the case why did you provoke Misty even more after you beat her Seel. I bet that she wasn't even able to produce coherent thoughts after that, let alone think straight."
After a few seconds of silence Naruto spoke.
"The second rule is to capitalize on the opportunities that the opponent presents. This means that whenever the opponent has an opening in their defenses exploit it and attack." Naruto continued.
Ash nodded his head from his seated position in the grass. His mind tripped over a few of the words Naruto had used, but he was still able to get the gist of it.
""For instance," Naruto continued, taking note of Ash's puzzled appearance, "during my fight with Misty, early in the fight between Staryu and Seel, Seel was able to get behind Staryu while it was unable to evade. But Misty failed to capitalize on this and as a result Staryu was able to turn around and attack instead Seel."
"I see." Ash mumbled in realization.
"Now, the third rule is to be perceptive. And to be perceptive means to know where your pokemon, your opponent's pokemon, and key points of interest are relative to each other on the battlefield." Naruto explained as he through two pokeballs into the air.
Scyther and Pidgey to appear near the edge of the lake.
"Based off what I just said. What should you observe in this if situation, granted that Scyther and Pidgey are opponents?" Naruto questioned.
'Lets see. Naruto said that you need to know where the pokemon are relative to each other and key points of interest. Relative means compared to each other... so then he wants to know where the pokemon are compared to each other and important places.' Ash concluded, proud of his vocabulary skills.
"Scyther and Pidgey are about ten feet away from each other and they are only about a foot away from the lake." Ash observed.
"Good. Now can you tell me the relevance of those calculations?" Naruto asked taking the training a step further, but only receiving a blank stare from Ash.
"Relevance means the importance of something." Naruto clarified after a few seconds.
"So you want me to tell you why the distance between the two pokemon and the distance between them and the lake is important?" Ash inquired.
"Correct." Naruto answered.
Ash tilted his head toward the ground in deep thought blocking out the physical world as he searched every aspect of Naruto's question and evaluated the battle scenario once more.
One full minute passed before Ash's conscious returned to the physical world and Ash refocused his eyes on Naruto, who was patiently waiting for his answer.
"The ten feet in between Scyther and Pidgey indicates that they are well within striking distance of each other, and the foot between them and the lake indicates that there is a good chance that a pokemon can be pushed into the lake either on purposefully or due to a accidental slip." Ash answered seriously.
'Well.' Naruto thought. 'Wasn't expecting that.'
"I'm truly impressed." Naruto complemented, showing the most emotion he had since he came to this world. "That is a excellent deduction, but can you take it a step further."
"How so?" Ash asked, sounding quite eager.
"There is a second part to being perceptive, and that is to note specific traits one both you pokemon and the opponent's that could effect the battle." Naruto explained, gaining a nod of understanding from Ash. "Using the same battle scenario name the traits and explain their relevance."
"Well." Ash began after about half a minute of thought. "Both Scyther and Pidgey have wings that can allow them to fly over the lake if they have the time before they fall in. But if they did fall in, Pidgey's wings would have a soaked up a lot more water than Scyther's and the extra weight would make it hard to fly. Also Pidgey's wings would take a lot longer to dry than Scyther's and Pidgey would probably have a hard time getting out of the water in the first place because it would have to rely on its wings to swim, while Scyther at least has feet to propel itself."
"Impressive." Naruto remarked, giving his approval. "You have got the concept down, but you took a while to think about it. You need to be able to think about all of this in a matter of seconds, because in a real pokemon battle that is all you will have."
"Right!" Ash yelled dutifully as he gave Naruto a salute.
"Now then," Naruto began continuing his lecture, " the fourth rule is to always think before you act. By that I mean take in every single possibility presented by a situation before you decide what to do."
"That seems pretty straight forward." Ash commented.
"It is." Naruto agreed. "The fifth rule is be patient, which means you need to be able to wait."
"What?" Ash asked, still confused.
"Instead of wanting everything done exactly when you first think about them, you need to be able to slow down and do them at a manageable pace. And if what you want done is somehow delayed you need to be able to remain calm and not get irritated." Naruto explained. "For example when you tried to run all the way to Vermillion City this morning. If you were patient and walked like the rest of us you wouldn't have gotten tired as fast, and as a result we would have actually gotten farther than we did."
"I get it!" Ash exclaimed happily.
"Good. Now, the sixth rule is to know all the pokemon types, their advantages, and their disadvantages." Naruto continued. "Fire, Water, and Grass are the three basic types, while the others are: normal, electric, ice, fighting, poison, ground, flying, psychic, bug, rock, ghost, dragon, dark, and steel. As for the advantages and disadvantages shared between the types, I will leave you to find out most of them. But I will tell you that, fire has an advantage against grass, but a disadvantage against water; water has an advantage against fire, but a disadvantage against grass; grass has an advantage against water, but a disadvantage against fire, and, Pidgey, a flying type, has and advantage over Scyther, a bug type."
"Did you get all that?" Naruto asked after a short pause.
"Yeah." Ash responded. "Most of it was review, it's just a matter of memorizing a few of the types and all of the type advantages and disadvantages outside of the basic circle of fire, water, and grass."
After one brief nod of approval Naruto continued his speech.
"The seventh and final rule is to know your environment." Naruto recapped. "In other words you need to know the advantages and disadvantages that come with each individual environment."
"I get it." Ash state.
"Okay then, how about you tell me the advantages and disadvantages of a forest." Naruto suggested.
"I might need an example." Ash said sheepishly as he rubbed the back of his neck in embarrassment.
"Sure." Naruto obliged. "A forest environment: contains a large amount of cover from most attacks, the limbs of the trees allow for multiple elevations of solid footing, the canopy provides good cover and a nice hiding place, and the random placement of trees makes it easy to lose opponents when running. However, a forest environment also: provides a massive amount of fuel for fire attacks, makes any wide spread water attack almost impossible to dodge if your pokemon isn't in a high elevation, makes almost any long range attack useless, and makes it very hard for a pokemon to move with speed if it is not agile enough to dodge the tree trunks or jump from branch to branch."
"I think I get it." Ash remarked, after allowing himself a minute to process the new information.
"Then can you do that for a forest clearing?" Naruto inquired.
"There's a difference!" Ash yelled as he jumped to his feet, merely receiving a nod from Naruto.
"This is going to be a long lesson." Ash mumbled to himself as he slumped his shoulders and fell onto his butt.
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"There he is." Meowth whispered from behind a few nearby bushes.
"We finally found that brat and his precious Pikachu." Jessie whispered insidiously.
"I say we jump him." James piped in.
"Yeah." Jessie agreed.
"Wait, hold on since when did the twerp get two Pikachus?" Meowth questioned as he observed Pikachu and Denkou rolling around in the grass though some second hand binoculars.
"Two Pikachus?" James asked as he stole Mewoth's binoculars and shoved his head through the bushes.
"Its true." James confirmed as he retracted his head and handed the binoculars to Jessie.
"This is a great opportunity!" Jessie exclaimed in a forced whisper. "If that twerp trained that other Pikachu nearly as good as his first one, then we've found two perfect power packed pokemon to poach for the boss."
Both Meowth and James, responded to Jessie's statement by crossing their arms and nodded their heads sagely.
"So how should we go about this?" Jessie asked.
"I still say we jump him." James suggested.
"Nice plan." A new voice said from outside Team Rocket's group handle.
"Thank you. I thought s..." James began.
James's next statement was cut short however by a flutter of movement and a solid object that caused him to bite his tongue and loss consciousness.
After giving Jessie and Meowth the same treatment and throwing the entirety of Team Rocket in the bush they were supposable hiding behind Naruto's clone quickly dispersed itself.
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"Well now seems like a good time to stop." Naruto concluded as he turned to head back to the Pokemon Center, while looking at the setting moon and taking his best guess at the time.
'About three o'clock.' Naruto thought as he began to leave the area.
"That... was freaking intense." Ash commented as he stumbled after Naruto, mentally exhausted.
Pikachu and Denkou seemed to be in no better shape then Ash as they both rode on their respective trainer's shoulder holding on unconsciously as they slept soundly.
Before Naruto and Ash left the training area, however, he made a quick hand sign under his cloak. A few seconds after Naruto released the hand sign and took a discrete glance backwards just in time to see a small rustle in the bushes.
'Genjutsu, the only thing keeping me from dieing.' Naruto thought offhandedly as he faced forward once more, heading toward his final resting place for the night.
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AN: Chapter 10! That sure took a while, but at least it didn't take longer.
Sorry for the complete lack of action in this chapter, but it gives you a reason to look forward to the next one, right? Speaking of the next chapter... it should be out in a week at maximum. I already have it pretty much completed so the only thing left to do is tweak a few things here and there and it should be ready to go.
Until next time...