Naruto: Johto Journeys
Chapter 7: Fool's Goldenrod
"Pokemon" Normal speech
'Pokemon' Normal thoughts
"Pokemon" Pokemon that can talk
"Pokemon" Flashbacks
"Pokemon" Pokedex speech
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The group entered the bustling city and were wide eyed at the sight. Towering buildings, with a few smaller buildings that were used as houses, many people runningback and forth between streets, Pokemon running in order to keep up with some of their trainers...it was really a busy city.
"Alright, let's go find the gym!" Naruto said. Quilava nodded as it followed its trainer.
"Wait, Naruto!" Akatsuchi said causing both fiery souls to pause in their quest for the Goldenrod Gym, "Why don't we look for the Pokemon Center first, we'll book a room and then we can go and look for the gym"
"It would be nice to plan ahead" Hinata added.
"Vee vee" the Evolution Pokemon yipped. Naruto and Quilava looked at each other and frowned.
"Fine" "Lava"
Both trainer and Pokemon followed the other two trainers and Eevee as they looked for the Pokemon Center. After a long few minutes, due to the fact that they had to go through a large amount of people rushing to get to their jobs or to the Goldenrod Department Store, they finally reached the red and white building. It was rather fancy looking too. A red neon sign with the word POKEMON CENTER in the same colour. It was made of pure shatterproof glass so even before they entered the center they could see inside it. Atop the center's curved roof was a rotating pokeball.
(A/N: Think of the Unova Pokemon Centers from Black and White the games, not the anime, only with a giant rotating Pokeball atop it. Also if some people are thinking, Goldenrod's not that big, the game says so. Well if you put things in a certain view such as if YOU were your player, Goldenrod would seem a lot bigger to you, after all it is the Veilstone City of Johto)
Upon entering the Pokemon Center, the three trainers gaped at the large amount of people already in it. This Pokemon Center was by far the largest one they had ever seen. The group walked towards the Nurse Shizune that ran the place and the black haired woman smiled at them.
"Hello there, how may I serve you three today?" Shizune asked.
"Umm h-hello" Hinata greeted, "We would like one room with three separate beds please"
Shizune quickly went through the computer and scanned the logging accounts for all those who had ordered rooms. She frowned when she looked back at the three and their two Pokemon.
"Gomen nasai, but it seems that we only have a few rooms with two beds. Due to the contest taking place here, many coordinators have already book rooms" Shizune apologized.
"So does that mean t-two o-o-of us w-w-will have to sh-share...a bed" Hinata turned red at the thought of having to lie next to Naruto. Shizune nodded.
"Sadly, yes"
"Awww man" Naruto said, "Well guess someone's sharing a bed" Akatsuchi narrowed his eyes at the blonde as he noticed the dejected look on Hinata's face.
"Naruto, listen...here's the deal. You and Hinata share a bed, because I'm obviously too big to sleep on a bed with another person" Akatsuchi explained, "Besides...Hinata could always give her nice massages to you" Naruto thought for a while...sleep by himself and get no mice massage from his friend who had the hands of a goddess..or undergo the opposite.
"Alright, I'll do it. Come on Hinata-chan, you're sleeping with me" Naruto said. Hinata's eyes widened at Naruto's statement before she fainted at the rush of blood to her face. Naruto quickly caught her and lightly shook her.
"AGH HINATA-CHAN!" (A/N: The fainting and Naruto going AGH HINATA-CHAN is gonna be sort of a running gag for whenever Hinata faints)
Shizune chuckled and poked Akatsuchi. The large nosed man turned and grinned at the woman.
"You're a vile person you know that?" she joked.
"Awww come on, who can deny the young love?" he replied. Once they finished setting up their things in their room, after Hinata woke up of course, the trio of trainers and two starter Pokemon headed for the streets of Goldenrod.
"Hmmm now where's that gym?" Naruto asked.
"Ummm Naruto-kun?" Hinata poked her index fingers together. Naruto turned and his blue eyes focused on his blue-black haired friend.
"Hai, Hinata-chan?"
"Ummm I don't think I'll be able to go with you to the gym...I have to go and g-get s-s-some things for Eevee to p-prepare for the contest. Gomen nasai" she bowed in apology. Naruto frowned a little, he had really come to like Hinata's presence being there when he went to go battle. It some how gave him drive, and he couldn't explain how or why.
"Oh...ok, well have fun" he said putting up a fake smile. Hinata nodded, but looked back at him before running off with Eevee to go look for the department store.
'I wonder if Naruto-kun is going to be okay?' she thought. She had seen through that fake smile the instant he put it up and she felt bad for her blonde travel companion.
"So what about you, Akatsuchi? Or do you have things to do too?" Naruto asked. Akatsuchi nodded.
"Yeah, sorry pal. I have a friend here and I want to pay her a visit" Akatsuchi said. Naruto grinned widely at that and then raised his pinky.
"A friiieeend" he drawled out the word to hint at what he was thinking. Akatsuchi blushed at that but shook his head and raised his arms in an X in front of him.
"NOOO nothing like THAT!" he announced, "She's just a good friend"
"You know that's what they all say" Naruto grinned.
"Quilava" the fire type agreed. Akatsuchi smirked at that.
"So what about you and Hinata then, you guys are good friends...does that mean you two are secretly..." the rock type trainer wiggled his pinky. Naruto's face turned red at that.
"Huh, WHAT NO? She's a good friend"
"That's what they all say" Akatsuchi fired back, using Naruto's own quote against him. The blonde turned and glared as he saw his laughing partner roll on the ground in laughter.
"Et tu, Quilava?" the Volcano Pokemon paused before going back to laughing. Akatsuchi chuckled before ruffling Naruto's already messy hair.
"Don't worry, Naruto. I'm sure you'll fine, after all...you're the future Johto Champion right?" the red dressed hiker added. Naruto nodded with a foxy grin.
"Damn straight, come on Quilava!" the Volcano Pokemon nodded and took off after the blonde as Akatsuchi walked off to look for his friend. The blonde trainer and Quilava had no idea how to get around this large city, so the pair decided to just wing it and look for a giant building that would look like a Pokemon Gym. Naruto scanned the city, turning left, right and every which way in order to try and find the Goldenrod City gym in this large expanse of infrastructure. However, as he was walking he looked to see a man walk out of a rather medium sized building with a dejected look on his face.
"Hey, mister. Are you okay?" Naruto asked. The man sighed and raised the empty suitcase that was in his hand and opened it.
"I lost nearly all my coins in the Voltorb Game in the casino. I'm not going there anymore...so blondie, why don't you take it?" the man said. Naruto sweatdropped.
"Isn't gambling illegal for people under eighteen or something?" Naruto asked. The man laughed before shoving the Coin Case in Naruto's hands. Naruto observed the suitcase. It was completely black with a gold handle. It had about twenty or so gold tokens of some kind inside of it and it seemed to be the size of a large dictionary in terms of length.
"Nah, don't worry about it. It's just a little card playing game, nothing like poker or anything like that" the man assured the blonde trainer. "Well I'm off. Hopefully, you'll do better than I did, see ya gaki"
Naruto and Quilava watched the man run off before looking at each other.
"What do you say, Quilava? Wanna take a run at this game before going to the gym?" Quilava rose up on its hind legs and so that it could perform a shrugging action.
"Quil, Quilava" the Volcano Pokemon.
"What do you mean it doesn't matter?" Naruto asked before blinking, "Hmmm I think I'm getting better at understand you"
Quilava smiled, "Quil Quilava Lava Quilava Lava Lava Quil"
"I'm not that good, buddy" Naruto said patting the Volcano Pokemon causing it to narrow its eyes at its trainer.
"Quilava" the fire type walked into the casino with Naruto following it, holding the coin case in his hands. Upon entering, Naruto saw that the place was rather decent. A tiled room with a few leather couches here and there and in the center of the room was an old man wearing a brown suit and fedora sitting at the table. The man was rather old looking as he had a greying mustache and wrinkles on his face. The man was smiling to himself as he tossed a coin up and down in his hands. Naruto walked up to the man at the table.
"Ummm ohayo, mustache-san...I heard this was the place to play the Voltorb Flip Game?" Naruto asked. The man nodded.
"Yeah, sure take a seat. Try your luck and maybe you can win something if you get enough points" the man said, not taking his eyes off the coin.
"Ummm would you mind explaining the rules of this game?" the man nodded, still not taking his eyes off the coin.
"Sure thing, the aim of the game is to flip the cards on the table and avoid getting a Voltorb card. The cards each have points numbers written on them. One, Two and Three. If you get a one, you get one point, if you get a two, you get two and if you get three, your get three points. After that, say you have just flipped a two point card on your first turn, depending on the second card you flip, your points will multiple by that number. So say you flip a two and you flip a three after, you got a total f six points right there. The more points you have, the better prizes you win. Capeesh?"
"Hai"
"Then let's pla..."the man paused as he caught the coin and stared at Naruto who was ready to play, "Hey...you're just a kid, what are you doing in a place of gambling?"
"The man who gave me this Coin Case said it wasn't really much of a gambling place since all you do is flip cards. Now Poker...THAT is a gambling game" Naruto smirked. The mustached man's eye twitched.
"You know...just because you don't know the game, I'm gonna let this slide. But mark my words, once you run our of coins in that case..you're through blondie" the Voltrob Flip Game dealer said. Naruto smirked and Quilava sat up on its hind legs to see its trainer play. The dealer shuffled the cards before setting them out in a 5x5 square.
"Prepare to lose your coins, sucker!" the dealer laughed.
Ten minutes later
"You cheated!" the dealer yelled. Naruto smirked as he tallied up his points to about 500 and bought the Abra from the Prize Exchange table.
"Nope, I'm just that good. This was fun, I might come back again. See ya, mustache-san" Naruto waved as he and Quilava walked out with the Psychic Type Pokemoms ball. The Pokedex beeped as its registered the new data on the Pokemon.
Abra the Psi Pokemon. A Psychic type Pokemon. If it decides to teleport randomly, it evokes the illusion that it has created copies of itself.
Once Naruto's little gamble with the mustached card dealer was over, he stored away the coin case in his backpack. Naruto and Quilava continued their search for the gym. He quickly spotted a large tower of made of blue-black coloured glass and many satellite dishes and antennae were place around the majority of the roofs of the tower.
"Maybe they will know where the gym is" Naruto wondered.
"Quilava"
"Well probably is better than nothing at all" Naruto replied to his starter. The fire type and the blonde walked into the tall tower.
"Hello!" Naruto and Quilava stepped back in fright at the sight of a brown haired woman. She wore a pink dress with an aqua coloured scarf around her neck and pink high heels.
"Ummm hi" Naruto said nervously, "I was wondering where the..."
"Welcome to Goldenrod City Radio Tower, please come right this way" the woman didn't even give Naruto much of a choice as he was grabbed by his arm and dragged across the floor. Quilava tilted its head in confusion at the behaviour of the female human. The two humans and one Pokemon were suddenly placed in front of a desk. The man at the desk sighed as he looked up.
"Mimi...please tell me you didn't drag another person from outside to take my quiz... AGAIN!" the man asked. Naruto looked at the woman, now identified as Mimi, as she blushed in embarrassment.
"Well I might have" she answered causing the man at the desk to sigh again.
"Alright...ok young man. Here's the thing, I'm having a little quiz going on and if you answer my questions correctly you will win a handy little prize. You have one minute to answer each question" the man explained, "You up for it?"
"Sure, but after I need to ask you something" the man nodded.
"Fairy enough now let's begin" the man said as he pulled out a few flashcards from his pocket.
"What is the evolved form of Bulbasaur?"
"Ivysaur, obviously" Naruto answered the easy question. The man nodded and switched to the second card.
"Correct. Next question, who created the Pokedex?"
"Professor Sarutobi, renowned Pokemon professor from the Kanto Region" Naruto replied.
"Third question, this one is a multiple choice question. Fire beats Grass, Grass beats Water, Water beats Ground. What does the Ground type Pokemon beat? Flying, Bug, Electric or Ghost?"
Naruto smirked, "Electric"
The man nodded before pulling out the card for his fourth question.
"What Rock type Pokemon move is a move that is able to increase in strength as it repeatedly used?" Naruto opened his mouth, but paused as he began to think.
'Hmmmm, rock type move...repeatedly used, but it gains power during those repetitions...' the man at the desk smirked. The plan always worked, give them a false sense of hope that they could get through the quiz easily, but by the time they reach they end...BAM! Drop the tougher questions on them. Naruto's face was scrunched up in thought.
"Thirty seconds" the man stated. Naruto gritted his teeth as he continued to think back to his days that he was taught by Iruka in class. He knew it, the move was on the tip of his tongue.
"Twenty seconds" Naruto pounded his head, but then looked down when he saw Quilava pulling at his pants leg. Quilava curled up into a ball and began to roll around. Naruto smirked.
"Rollout!" he stated. The man smirked.
"Good, that is the correct answer" the quiz man said before taking out the card for his final, fifth question.
"There is a legend in Johto concerning the identity of a Pokemon able to travel through time. Few have ever spoken its name, luckily for you, I know the name of this Pokemon so I am able to use this question. Now then, what is the name of that Pokemon?" Naruto thought again. He remembered back in Illex Forest when he, Hinata and Akatsuchi had helped the two Kimono Girls. They had talked about such a Pokemom.
'It was a legendary Pokemon too...ummmm oh great, I forgot' Naruto thought for a while. His brow began to gain a thin layer of sweat as he continued to rack his brain, looking for the answer within it.
"You have ten seconds" the quiz man said. Naruto thought for a while before looking at Quilava. Quilava was lying down on the ground, bored out its mind. Its body was in the shape of a 'C'. Naruto frowned...but then his eyes widened.
'C' he thought. 'Ce...Celibi'
"THAT'S IT!" he yelled. "IT'S CELEBI!"
The quiz man nodded as he packed away his cards, "Well done. You have passed my quiz. Now as a prize you get this little Radio Card"
Naruto opened his hand to receive the small little chip, "What's this do?"
"It allows for you to listen to the Radio on you Pokegear. Just insert it into the same places where you would insert the Phone and Map cards on your Pokegear and Ta Da. You'll be able to listen to radio stations from this tower wherever you are, well except if you are out of range of our frequency of course"
Naruto nodded, "Arigato" he inserted the card and his Pokegear beeped as a wire frame shaped globe appeared on his Pokegear's screen. The radio started to play music before he began to hear a familiar voice.
"Is that...Professor Sarutobi?" Naruto asked. The quiz man nodded.
"Hai, the professor does a little poetry here and there so he comes down to Goldenrod to broadcast them. He also gives little bits of information on Pokemon as well" the man explained as he saw Naruto switch off the radio. Naruto pocketed his Pokegear before looking up at the man.
"I almost forgot, ummm where is the Goldenrod City Gym?" Naruto asked. The quiz man looked at the young trainer and his Quilava, who had just woken up after Naruto had yelled out his answer for the Celebi question.
"Hmmm, oh yes right. The gym is near the edge of the city. Just head straight onto the main road, and keep going north. You'll reach the gym in no time, it's a big building so you can't miss it" the quiz man. Naruto thanked the man before running out the door with Quilava. Once they exited the Radio Tower the two followed the man's instructions. They walked along the main streets of Goldenrod. It was about noon, so the streets were relatively clearer now due to the lower amounts of people and/or Pokemon on the street. They continued heading straight up the brick street before stopping when they finally reached the large building.
It was rather plain looking, no fancy look like Shinno's or Shibi's gym. It looked like a regular two story building, painted in a cream colour and had a dome shaped appearance much like the other gyms. On it was the symbol of the Pokemon League. A golden Pokeball with the words POKEMON LEAGUE written across the half way mark of the Pokeball. A shiny Pikachu sitting atop the Pokeball and looked as if it were waving due to the arm actually moving side to side. Below the symbol were the words GOLDENROD CITY GYM.
"Looks like we're here" Naruto said.
"Quilavaaaaa" the Volcano Pokemon sighed. Both trainer and partner Pokemon entered the large building. The inside was large, just as the two had suspected. However, the layout of the gym was what caught their interest. It was so...simple. There was a just a regular battlefied and after seeing Shibi's gym in Azalea, Naruto and Quilava had instantly began expecting pre-challenges before they fought.
"Ummm HELLO?" Naruto yelled out. The sound of a door opening was heard to Naruto and Quilava's left and both looked to see a young woman walk out of a door. Her clothing consisted of a dark-pink and shoulderless gi-like shirt with loose arm-warmers reaching her upper arms and light-purple spandex-shorts. She also consisted of black low-heeled boots with an olive-green tipping. She had two simple earrings covered by her hair. She had blue eyes and long red wavy maroon hair, which stretched down to her waist, and fair skin with a beauty-mark under the left side of her lip. She looked to be around nineteen years old.
"Yes?" the woman asked.
"Uh yeah, I'm Naruto Uzumaki. I'm here to challenge the gym leader"
"Ah, a challenger...and a cute one at that" the woman winked causing Naruto's face to flush.
"Mhmmm *cough* yeah, so are YOU the gym leader?" Naruto asked. The woman nodded.
"That I am" the woman said brushing back her red locks, "My name is Fuka, but you can call me Fuka-chan"
Naruto blushed once more, this woman...
"So is there a pre-gym challenge like what Shibi-san does or is it a plain battle like with Shinno-san?" Naruto asked. Fuka shrugged.
"I don't really care for challenges, so it's a plain battle. Three on two battle, a majority of my challengers tend to fail at beating my second Pokemon so I like to give them a little chance" Fuka explained. "Also, as an added bonus, my challengers get a kiss from yours truly if they win...though I should warn you..." Naruto and Quilava backed up a bit when they saw her hair suddenly flair up and a dark aura surrounded her, "I get a bit feisty when I battle"
Naruto's eyes hardened as she said that, "Bring it on"
"Ah, a man with no fear...I like that" she withdrew a pokeball from within her gi and twirled it on her index finger.
"GO CLEFAIRY!" she threw the Pokeball. Naruto looked as a small little fairy Pokemon came out of the Pokeball. It was rather large, large as in fat, with round black eyes. Its mouth contained a few teeth, with four sharp canines. On its back was a pair of small wings and a curled looking tail.
"Hmmm Cleafairy, Normal type. Ability Friend Guard, but that wouldn't do much considering this is a one-on-one" Naruto remembered the information on Clefairy. He took out a Pokeball.
"Hmmm, I wonder if dragon types are as strong as they say!" Naruto threw the Pokeball and the dragon type appeared in a flash of white light from the red and white sphere.
"Draaaa" the dragon type cried out. It looked around before spying Naruto and wrapping around his arm and snuggling against him.
"Awwww, but as cute as that is, please get it on the field" her hair waved around. It reminded Naruto of how his mother's hair split off into nine 'tails' when she was angry.
"Dratini, come on, on the field" Naruto goaded the baby Pokemon. The serpent nodded before crawling off of its 'parent' and onto the field, a fierce gaze in its eyes.
"I never fought a dragon type...not since the time I tried to take on the Champion"
"You took on HIM?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah, lost miserably, both of them knocked out by his weakest Pokemon too, anyways, let's go" Fuka said as she cracked her fingers, "CLEFAIRY DOUBLESLAP!"
Clefairy rushed forth and lashed out, slapping Dratini multiple times across its face. The dragon type teared up before crying out in anger. It went towards Clefairy and wrapped itself around Clefairy's body and began to squeeze.
"Um yeah, ok, Wrap attack works" Naruto scratched his cheek in confusion at Dratini's sudden lapse in behaviour, "NOW USE TWISTER!"
"DRAAAAAAAAA!" a large wind circulation system suddenly appeared out of nowhere. The twister engulfed both Pokemon and Clefairy was sent soaring upwards before being spewed up as it reached the top of the twister. Clefairy floated down before rolling into a ball as it performed Defense Curl.
"Alright, use Doubleslap again!" Fuka commanded. The Normal type slapped Dratini across the face once, then appeared to the side and slapped it again. Another strike had its cheeks burning from the pain. A fourth and final doubleslap had it wailing on the ground as it tried to soothe the pain in its cheeks.
"Dratini, come on!" Naruto cheered his newest team member, "Use Twister!" The dragon type nodded and then unleashed the powers of the storm. The giant twister made its way towards Clefairy.
"Dodge it and roll on the ground using Defense Curl!" Fuka commanded. Clefairy nodded before rolling along the ground out of the way of the Twister before heading towards the dragon type.
"Slap it back with your tail!" Naruto commanded. Dratini twisted and slapped the rolling pink sphere away from its location and Clefairy flew back. Dratini panted and Naruto could tell that it was already tired. Being a baby Pokemon had its stamina very low, but for a baby Pokemon to last this long meant that it was very strong.
"Dratini, come back" Dratini nodded before slithering back to its master. Naruto took out another Pokeball and threw it out.
"Alright, go HERACROSS!" Naruto called out the dual type Pokemon which landed with a loud slam on the field.
"Heracross" the blue beetle let out a cry as it faced off against Clefairy.
"Ooo, smart move. Alright, Clefairy Sing!"
"Aerial Ace!" Naruto shouted. Just as the Fairy Pokemon was about to sing, Heracross had just about completed the loop-de-loop and crashed into Clefairy.
"AHH Clefairy!" Fuka yelled in alarm at seeing her Pokemon take on the damaging move.
"I may be young, but I know my way around the battlefield. Sing, a move that prevents a Pokemon from attacking by putting them to sleep. Ways to counter, use speed to reach the Pokemon before it sings or have a Pokemon with Insomnia as its ability" Naruto informed his opponent.
"Alright, Heracross use Brick Break!" Heracross's arms glowed white before slamming a powerful punch to the face on Clefairy. Heracross then spun and crashed its elbow into Clefairy's face and then spun around again and caught Clefairy on its horn. Using the horn, it launched the Fairy Pokemon into the sky. The Horn Pokemon spread its wings and flew up after the pink Pokemon before flipping to build up momentum. Heracross let out a cry before performing a downward chop. The attack crashed down on Clefairy's head sending it to the ground.
"CLEFAIRY!" the Normal type met the ground with smoke cloud forming upon its contact with it. Heracross landed and smirked as the smoke cleared and revealed a twitching Clefairy. The harsh blows from the fighting type move causing it to faint.
"AIEEEEE CLEFAIRY!" Fuka cried out in shock. She quickly held up its Pokeball and returned it in a flash of red. "Well Naruto-kun...you did well, but can you face my final Pokemon"
Fuka threw her Pokeball in the air and in a flash of white light a large pink cow appeared. It had brown spots on its back, black leathery skin surrounded its face and went along its back.
"Miiiiltank" the cow Pokemon mooed.
"Another Normal type, Heracross BRICK BREAK!" the dual type Horn Pokemon flew at Miltank and raised its glowing white arm. Heracross flew up into the air before diving down positioning the arm for Miltank's head. Fuka chuckled at the blatant move.
"Catch it" she stated. Heracross and Naruto were shocked when they Miltank raise a hoof and caught the glowing white arm.
"Heracross redirect!" Naruto commanded. Heracross quickly leaped into the air and flipped, lashing out with its foot catching Miltank in the face before landing on the ground as the Milk Cow Pokemon's grip was loosened. Heracross then spun and landed a powerful uppercut using Brick Break. Miltank fell backwards from the blow.
"Nice counter, Miltank Milk Drink!" Fuka commanded. Miltank excreted some of its milk and used its healing properties, drinking the milk from its hoof, to heal itself. Miltank was then healed before it leaped into the air.
"STOMP!" Fuka commanded.
"Heracross dodge, then use Aerial Ace!" Naruto commanded. Heracross flew into the air and performed the loop-de-loop, avoiding Miltank as it descended, before diving down leaving a trail of white behind it.
"Miltank, Execution by Kiss!" Fuka commanded. Miltank nodded before holding out its hooves and used its high level of strength to catch Heracross by the horn before swinging the dual type into the ground. Miltank then raised Heracross to eye level and kissed Heracross between the eyes. The male bug/fighting type suddenly gained hearts in its eyes as Miltank used its variation of Attract. Miltank then grabbed Heracross and performed a suplex, causing Heracross to release a cry of pain.
"Now throw it sky high and follow up with Rollout!" Miltank complied with its trainer's command and threw up Heracross.
"HERACROSS FLY, SPREAD YOUR WINGS!" Naruto yelled, but he gaped when he saw Heracross' eyes become hearts once more. Miltank then ran forward and curled into a ball before rotating. The rolling pink wheel raced across the battlefield and at just the right moment, struck with the rock type move. Heracross flew back up before descending in time to be hit by another Rollout. As Heracross descended one last time, Miltank used the speed from its rotation to leap into the air and grabbed Heracross before flipping as the two Pokemon descended.
"MIIILLLLTANK!" the Milk Cow Pokemon cried out as it slammed Heracross into the ground in a makeshift body slam.
(A/N: It is not the actual Body Slam attack)
Once the small dust cloud that formed cleared, Naruto gritted his teeth as he looked at his twitching Pokemon. The dual type had fainted from the powerful string of blows.
"Heracross, return!" Naruto pulled out his Pokeball and a red stream of light latched onto Heracross converting it into energy and then sucking it into the Pokeball. Naruto looked at Dratini who was now asleep. The young Pokemon was much too tired to fight so Naruto turned to the only Pokemon able to take on that bovine monstrosity.
"QUILAVA!" the Volcano Pokemon leaped onto the battlefield, flames ignited.
"Quick Attack!" the yellow and blue Pokemon rushed towards the opposing pink one.
"Miltank, dodge!" Fuka ordered. The large pink cow stepped aside, but was caught offguard at the sudden turn that Quilava took and slammed full force into the udder of the Miltank. Miltank skidded backwards from the blow and clutched its udders.
"MILTANK MIL!" the Pokemon snorted like an angry Tauros and charged.
"STOMP ATTACK!" Fuka cried out. Miltank jumped and descended upon Quilava.
"Quick Attack to dodge and then use Ember!" the Volcano Pokemon complied and used the upgraded speed from the use of the attack to appear behind Miltank and fire a storm of small fireballs at Miltank.
"Miltank drop!" the Milk Cow Pokemon fell onto its stomach and ducked beneath the fireballs before getting back up and rushing Quilava.
"Rollout!" Fuka cried. Miltank rolled on the ground becoming the dreaded pink wheel of doom.
"Quilava, dodge and then use Ember!" Quilava performed the act and launched the small fireballs at its opponent causing the Normal type to skid along the battlefield from the blow.
"Stomp!" the red haired gym leader yelled. Miltank raised its hoof as it reached Quilava and stamped down. Quilava rolled on the ground to avoid before performing Quick Attack and slammed into Miltank's face.
"Now Flame Wheel!" Quilava's flames increased in intensity before spinning into a wheel of fire. The fire attack crashed into Miltank sending the Normal type flying. Miltank backflipped and regained its footing.
"MILTAAANK!" Miltank ran into a Rollout Attack.
"Match it with Flame Wheel!" Naruto said. Quilava performed the attack and rushed towards the large cow. Both attacks collided before they separated and clashed again. The clash occurred several times before they finally met at a stalemate in the center of the battlefield. Both Pokemon struggled for dominance and in an explosion of flame and smoke the struggle ended.
"QUILAVA!"
"MILTANK!"
Both gym leader and challenger stared at the smoke cloud as the dust began to die down. Once the cloud cleared Fuka frowned while Naruto gritted his teeth in rage as he saw Quilava panting, its flames outed. The fire type glared at the wheezing Miltank.
"Miltank, STOMP!"
"Use Quick attack!" Miltank raised its hoof and stamped down on Quilava causing the fire type to cry out in pain, but it ignited the flames on its head causing the Milk Cow Pokemon to back up from the fire before being smacked in the chest by the full body tackle from Quilava.
"Miltank, EXECUTION BY KISS!" Miltank grabbed Quilava and held it there, grabbing the Volcano Pokemon by the side of its head before kissing it on the nose. Quilava's eyes became hearts and the fire type became dazed.
"NO, QUILAVA!" Naruto yelled as he saw Miltank performed a suplex and slam Quilava on its back earning a cry of pain from the Pokemon. Miltank then performed Stomp, slamming its hoof down on the downed starter of the blonde trainer before throwing it upwards. Quilava's flames were out, its eyes closed from the pain.
"NOW ROLLOUT, FINISH IT!" Fuka cried out. The Miltank nodded as it rolled along the ground to build up some speed before it was to hit the descending Pokemon. Naruto clenched his hands into fists.
"QUILAVA FLAME WHEEL!" Naruto cried out. Quilava's eyes snapped open, the attraction wearing off. Its eyes burned with a fire unlike any other, the flames on its head and rear re-ignited. The flames were more intense, however.
"ALRIGHT BLAZE ABILITY!" Naruto smirked. Quilava rotated and slammed into the rotating pink blob that was Miltank. Flame Wheel and Rollout collided in a powerful clash causing a shockwave to reverberate across the battlefield. Both attacks clashed before an explosion resulted. Quilava and Miltank flew back towards their respective trainers before rotating again and heading towards each other...however, due to the larger body mass of Miltank it was able to hit with a much larger force. After all, Force is Mass times Acceleration. Quilava let out a cry as the super effective attack struck it and it fell to the ground.
Miltank stopped rolling and panted, falling onto the ground in exhaustion...exhausted...but conscious. Which I wish I could say was the same for Quilava. Quilava was unconscious, the flames gone from its head and rear. Bruises and dust covered its body and the most prominent bruise was shown on its back where the Rollout had made its mark.
"QUILAVA!" Naruto ran towards his starter and clutched it in his arms. His most powerful Pokemon...defeated.
"Hey, Naruto. You still got one Pokemon left, though I doubt Dratini would be able to handle Miltank!" Fuka said. Naruto gritted his teeth and bent his head low. He held Quilava close to him before standing up. He recalled Dratini to its Pokeball and turned away from the red haired gym leader. He unconsciously dug his nails into Quilava's fur out of anger for his own stupidity. He let a young Pokemon fight instead of one of his more experienced Pokemon. He could have sent out Mareep for its Static ability, Pidgeotto for its speed or maybe Wooper for a high defense...but no he was arrogant and thought that a dragon type would be able to handle it all. He let Heracross become defeated because he underestimated his opponent's Pokemon and his prized Pokemon, his starter, his partner, his friend...had went down.
"You left you and your partner wide open for a counter attack..."
"You're not invincible"
Naruto held back the tears as he remembered Kakashi's and Akatsuchi's words to him after his loss to the silver haired trainer and then Naruto walked out and turned back to Fuka. Saying the two words that one would never have thought to have been uttered by the blonde.
"I forfeit"
Goldenrod City Pokemon Center
After healing his Pokemon, Naruto and Quilava became extremely depressed as they thought about the loss. Quilava's physical wounds were healed...but the blow to its pride would take more time to heal. Naruto and Quilava entered the room that Akatsuchi and Hinata had booked. The two travel companions smiled at Naruto's entrance.
"Hey, Naruto how was the..." Akatsuchi paused when he saw the expression on both trainer and Pokemon. Hinata frowned and walked up to the blonde.
"N-Naruto-kun?" Naruto didn't reply to the female trainer. He fell onto the bed and Quilava lay down atop its trainer.
"Vee Vee" Eevee jumped onto the bed and nudged the larger Pokemon, but Quilava made no effort to respond.
"Hinata...Eevee" Akatsuchi spoke causing both to turn to him, "It's obvious what happened. Leave them alone, how's about we go into the cafeteria and something to eat. We'll bring back some ramen for Naruto"
The two females looked at their depressed friends, but left the room with Akatsuchi. Hinata glanced back at Naruto as he shifted and hugged his starter.
'Naruto-kun' Hinata closed the door.
Naruto sighed when he heard the door close.
"Quilava?"
"Quil?" the Volcano Pokemon replied.
"Do you think we'll be able to beat that Miltank of hers?" Naruto asked. Quilava frowned.
"Quil La"
"I don't know either" Naruto sighed before he and Quilava fell asleep. After a few hours of sleep, Naruto had gotten up to find Akatsuchi and Hinata were still in the cafeteria so he and his partner decided to take a little walk. Naruto and Quilava looked at the bright lights of the city. Goldenrod certainly was a beautiful sight at night. They admired the large flashing neon signs on some of the buildings and walked into a small diner that allowed Pokemon no bigger than a Miltank to enter.
'Miltank' both thought as they took a seat at one of the booths. A waitress walked up to them and smiled.
"Hello, young man. Do you want anything?" the woman asked. Naruto looked over the menu on the table.
"Ummm just some vegetable fried rice for me, oh and if you have extra charcoal or something that is used as fuel for fire, give it to him" Naruto said. The waitress nodded.
"Vegetable fried rice and charcoal coming up" the waitress relayed the order to herself before leaving. Naruto and Quilava sighed. A set of footsteps paused when they reached the pair's table.
"Hmmm, you look a bit down" Quilava and Naruto looked up to see the one eyed trainer.
"Kakashi?" Naruto exclaimed. Kakashi ran his fingers through his hair as he sat down, "What are you doing here?"
"I'm going to eat obviously" Kakashi said as he called over a waiter and ordered his the waiter left, Kakashi turned back to Naruto.
"So care to tell me what's on your mind?" the silver haired man asked. Naruto and Quilava looked at each other.
"We lost" he said, "I was overconfident, I underestimated my opponent and I lost" Kakashi nodded.
"I see, Fuka-chan's Miltank was it?" he asked. Naruto and Quilava nodded.
"How'd you guess?"
"Many trainers who come here often lose to Miltank. Clefairy is easy once you take it down quickly and before it uses Metronome, but Miltank is a tough Pokemon. Its strength coupled with the speed brought out during a Rollour usually takes down most trainers" Kakashi reached over and tapped Naruto on the shoulder.
"Don't feel bad about it" Kakashi said.
"Quil Quilava Lav-a!" the Volcano Pokemon agreed with Kakashi.
"True, but I let you guys down. I shouldn't have underestimated Miltank"
"QUILAVA QUI LAVA LA!"
"What do you mean "it's not my fault"? Did you not FEEL how badly you got hurt out there?" Naruto growled at his own Pokemon. Quilava's sharp teeth bit down on Naruto's hand.
"QUILAVA QUIL QUILAVA LAVA LAV QUILA!" Naruto looked down and sighed.
"Yeah...but.."
"QUIL!"
"Hey..."
"QUIL!"
"Let me.."
"QUIL!"
"Finish...Quilavaaa!"
"QUIL!" Kakashi laughed at the pair before the waiter arrived with their food. Once the waiter left, the conversation resumed.
"You should listen to your Pokemon" Kakashi stated.
"Yeah, I know" Naruto said as he stroked Quilava as it ate its charcoal.
"You are actually one of the few trainers I've met that can actually understand their Pokemon though" Kakashi added. Naruto shurgged.
"I'm not all that good, though I am getting better if I can understand Quilava to that degree" Naruto grinned sheepishly. The silver haired trainer nodded.
"Kakashi, how did you get so strong?" the blonde trainer asked he ate. Kakashi thought for a while.
"Well actually I was always a good trainer, after all my father was a gym leader and I am a member of the Elite Four" Kakashi said. Naruto's eyes widened as he looked at Kakashi. Kakashi...Hatake?
"Wait a minute...Hatake, as in Sakumo Hatake from Vermillion? The White Fang of Kanto and YOU'RE an Elite Four member?" the silver haired man nodded.
"Yup, too laid back to be an Elite Four right? Well I'm just that way. My father was strict so I became laid back to help relax myself. Sakumo taught me nearlyeverything I knew, but then as I went out on my journey I met another man. The greatest trainer I had ever met" Kakashi said with a smile.
"What was his name?" Naruto asked, "Maybe I can try and find him and he can teach me" Kakashi shook his head.
"You'll find out soon enough, in fact you remind me of him as for the second part...Sorry, but he disappeared for a while...I tried to find my sensei when he disappeared, but I could never find him" the one eyed man sighed. Naruto's shoulders fell at that before Kakashi got up and walked over to Naruto and ruffled his hair.
"Listen here Naruto, you're a great trainer and I'm sure someone once told you, with losing you can become better at winning" Naruto's eyes widened before narrowing.
"How do you know my Okaa-chan?" Kakashi chuckled.
"It's kind of obvious your Kushina-san's son. You both have the same attitude...well I'm off" Kakashi glanced back as he secretly placed a note on his plate so Naruto could see it.
'He'll be a great trainer, just like you...Minato-sensei'
"Wait, you didn't finish your..." Naruto and Quilava gained confused looks as they saw the empty plate, but there was something on the plate, minus the money for the food of course. Naruto picked up the piece of paper that lay on the plate and raised it up.
Route 34-8:00 a.m sharp. Don't be late
In the corner of the note was a small chibi drawing of Kakashi giving a thumbs up causing both trainer and Pokemon to sweatdrop, but then realized what the man was saying.
"He's going to train us!" he turned to Quilava.
"QUILAVAAA!" the two laughed in happiness before running out to the Pokemon Center to go and get a nice rest for tomorrow. For tomorrow...
They train with a member of the Elite Four.
(A/N: Well that's the end of this chapter. Not much with Hinata I know, but her chapter is the next one. In the next chapter, Naruto trains with Kakashi and takes on Fuka once more. Will he succeed? Also Hinata is going to take part in her contest the next day. Will her self-training pay off? Also in the heat of her battle, something astounding happens. If you want to find out, tune in next time for Naruto: Johto Journeys, Chapter 8: I Rise with the Sun. Please review and don't forget to vote on the poll)
Pokedex: Seen-43
Caught-39
Naruto's Team:
Quilava(Male)
Pidgeotto(Male)
Dratini(Male)
Heracross(Male)
Wooper(Female)
Mareep(Female)
Hinata's Team:
Espeon (Female)
Butterfree(Female)
Bellsprout(Male)
Hoppip(Female)
Sentret(Male)
Togepi(Male)