Naruto: Johto Journeys
Chapter 9: I look Good in Black
"Pokemon" Normal speech
'Pokemon' Normal thoughts
"Pokemon" Pokemon that can talk
"Pokemon" Flashbacks
"Pokemon" Pokedex speech
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Poll result-Naruto gets both Silver and Rainbow wings. Now on with the chapter.
Last time our heroes had just managed to pull off the wins they so very much desired. Naruto defeated Fuka and Hinata had won her first Pokemon Contest. However, now Naruto, Hinata and Akatsuchi have discovered that a young boy by the name of Wallace who is shown to have strong feelings for Hinata, is a member of the notorious and previously extinct organization, ROOT.
Wallace looked around to make sure no one was following him before going into the Radio Tower. Once he entered, the others followed swiftly and silently behind the blue haired boy. However, just as they were about to reach the door, two female ROOT grunts, appeared from the shadows and blocked their way. One had red hair in a ponytail that draped over her left shoulder and red eyes and the other with dark blue hair also tied up in a ponytail, but it draped over her right shoulder and she had similarly coloured eyes.
"Woah there!" the grunt spoke, "This Radio Tower is strictly off-limits to civilians, only ROOT members are allowed inside"
"Mah Mah" Naruto waved them off, "But we just want to see the inside, we're tourists you see. Me and my girlfriend here from the Kanto region" he snaked his arm around Hinata's waist causing said Hyuga to turn bright red from the proclamation and the action that Naruto did.
"Our tour guide said the Radio Tower is open to all and he said he was here earlier this morning" the ROOT grunt scoffed.
"Yeah well listen here gaki, that option is no longer available. The owner of the Radio Tower is dealing with some...electrical problems within the tower so no one is allowed inside. Now beat it you three, you and your Pokemon" the grunt pointed them away from the tower, glaring at Quilava and Espeon.
"Fine, come on guide" Naruto said as he walked off with Hinata, his arm still around her waist. As the five walked off, they didn't notice the two grunts sigh in relief.
"That was close, they would have ruined the plan..." however the two grunts glanced to the side when they saw Wallace walk out the door.
"Ruby-san!" the blue haired boy saluted his superior.
"Wallace, I need you to make sure that everything is ready for the plan that is to take place this evening" the red head, now identified as Ruby, said to the boy. The young lad took a picture of the Pokelathon Dome that was handed to him by the woman. However, he was suddenly spun around and faced the death glare of the other woman.
"Now listen here, Wallace. You may be my otouto, but Leader-sama needs this plan to go perfectly" Wallace gulped and nodded to his older sister.
"Hai, Sapphy nee-chan...but, why are we stealing from TODAY'S Pokeathlon match. What's so special about it?" Ruby giggled.
"Really Sapphire, that's your nickname...sounds like someone would name their Meowth" the red haired girl laughed louder as her partner glared at her.
"Oh shut up, Ruby, at least otouto doesn't call me RuRu-chan" Sapphire smirked as Ruby's eyes suddenly burned with anger, anime flames replacing her irises. Wallace sweatdropped at the scene before turning back to his older sibling.
"What's wrong with your nickname, RuRu nee?" Wallace asked his other sister. Ruby's eye twitched at the nickname and saw Wallace smirking at her reaction, knowing he was riling her up. The blue haired boy then turned back to his other sister.
"So nee-chan, what is so special about THIS match?" Wallace repeated his question. Sapphire and Ruby stopped their staring contest and looked at the young twelve year old.
"Well otouto, there are going to be many Pokemon attending the match like always, but there is one Pokemon we spotted that the Leader has found to be very valuable in our quest to find Danzo-sama" Sapphire and Ruby took out a couple of photos of the area within the Pokelathon Dome. However, there were a few zoomed in pictures which revealed in the shadowed areas of the dome was a Pokemon.
The Pokemon was a Vulpix only instead of the regular reddish brown fur it had, this one's fur was a golden yellow colour, its eyes were a bronze colour and the tails and hair atop its head were a light orange colour. Its fur seemed to shine, even on the picture.
"It's a Vulpix, but...why is it a different colour?" Wallace asked.
"These are one of the legendary Shiny Pokemon that people have been known to see. There are very few present in the entire world, at least a few hundred of each species of Pokemon are present, which is quite small in comparison to the fact that there are more than 1000 members of each Pokemon species" Ruby explained.
"So what are we going to do with the Vulpix after we catch it?" Wallace asked.
"We're going to study it in our labs at the ROOT HQ in Mahogany Town. Shiny Pokemon have a special quality that allows it to become stronger than its original form, also they are said to have been Pokemon blessed by the Pokemon gods of the sky and sea of the Johto region" Sapphire told her little brother. The young, naive boy gulped as he was told of some of the more gruesome tests that were done in the HQ labs.
"So during the Pokelathon, we're going to cause a distraction by sending in a platoon, while YOU..." Sapphire jabbed her finger against his chest, "are going to find that Vulpix and catch it in order for us to study it" Wallace glanced down and nodded.
"I-I'll do my best" he said. Sapphire smiled and patted her brother's head.
"That's my otouto" the two girls then walked off with Wallace back into the Radio Tower to prepare for the plan.
A Zubat screeched as it flew through the skies before touching down in front of Akatsuchi.
"Zu Zubat!" the bat Pokemon dropped the small circular shaped piece of machinery it had on its stomach, in front of the large Hiker.
"Good job Zubat!" Akatsuchi graced the Zubat with a bag of Pokemon food which the Pokemon happily dug into, in return for its services. Naruto, Hinata, Quilava and Eevee then gathered around the older member of their group.
"Akatsuchi-san, what's that?" Hinata asked. Akatsuchi quickly reached into his pocket and retrieved another device about the size of a candy bar and placed the small circular device into the larger one.
"It's a recording device, the small circular piece..." he paused to make sure it was placed correctly, "is the part that records audio so I had Zubat listen in on whatever was going on outside the Radio Tower"
"Sugoi, Akatsuchi you're really smart" Naruto complimented. Akatsuchi grinned and folded his arms in pride.
"Yeah...unlike you" Naruto's head dropped.
"So mean" Hinata giggled at her blonde companion's actions before becoming serious as Akatsuchi told them to be quiet. The group remained silent as he replayed the entire conversation between Wallace, Ruby and Sapphire. Their eyes widened when they heard the part about how they planned to sabotage the Pokelathon match today, all for a single Pokemon, even if that Pokemon was a rare shiny Pokemon.
"We have to get this to the police!" Hinata exclaimed. Akatsuchi nodded before getting up before looking at Naruto.
"Naruto, in every city there is a police force building. This one is found on the eastern edge of the city, so have Pidgeotto deliver this recording to them" Naruto nodded and tossed out Pidgeotto's pokeball revealing the Flying type.
"PIDGEOOOOO!" the flying cried out as it was released.
"Pidgeotto, there's a Police Building on the eastern part of town" Naruto pointed to the east, "Deliver this to them" Pidgeotto nodded to its trainer as it took the recording device in its talons.
"Also, Pidgeotto...the Police building is a blue and white building that looks like this" Akatsuchi reached into his pocket and fished out his digital camera. He showed the flying type the building before it released a cry and sped off to look for the building.
"Wait a minute..." Naruto tapped his chin in thought, "The crest on that Police building...it looks just like the fan of the back of Sasuke's shirt"
"Hai, Naruto-kun. Sasuke's ancestors were the founders of the police force. The Uchiha Police Force, they are called. As a result, the majority of them comprise of those who bear the last name Uchiha" Hinata explained. Naruto nodded in understanding.
"Alright, come on we gotta get to the Pokeathlon Dome!" the blonde said raising his fist.
"Quil QUILAVA!" the Volcano Pokemon agreed with its trainer. The group turned and were about to go off to stop the evil organization's plot when Hinata stopped them.
"Wait...which way is the Pokeathlon Dome?" she asked. The two males and two Pokemon paused before sweatdropping.
"Ummmm...near the fountain on the far west side of the city!" Akatsuchi informed them. Naruto nodded.
"Okay, but I think we should stay with the ROOT members so that way we can keep track of their progress on this plan to catch the shiny Vulpix" Naruto stated.
"But we're going to need disguises then" the Hiker frowned as the group got into thinking positions. Hinata then snapped her fingers.
"I got it, Sakura-san had told me of a little fashion booth in the Goldenrod Tunnel. She said they can make ANY costume imaginable, and I'm sure ROOT uniforms are not that hard to make"
"Great idea, Hinata-chan" Naruto smirked. Hinata then led the way to the Goldenrod Tunnel and they descended down the stairs before coming to a halt in front of a desk where they saw two ROOT members behind a desk.
'Kuso' they cursed in their minds. Quilava and Espeon prepared for battle, but got confused, along with their trainers and Akatsuchi when the two grunts looked up and smirked as they the three of them.
"Ah, great you must be some of the new recruits we've been expecting. Come this way" the grunt stepped out from behind the desk and dragged the three of them over to the changing booths. The second grunt then walked over with a measuring tape and measured their height, waist circumference and foot sizes before going into the nearby trunk and retrieved three track uniforms, one blue, one yellow and one red, in their respective sizes.
"Here you go you three, now go in and change. We gotta pull off a big job this afternoon so hurry up, one of our Admins requested you guys get as much experience as you can in the field" the grunts pushed the three into the changing booths.
"Don't worry, we'll keep an eye on your Pokemon for you" the grunt glanced at the Volcano and Sun Pokemon as they narrowed their eyes at him. A few seconds later, the three returned in their new outfits. Hinata's was shown to have a black and red track suit with a white collar and white lines running along the sleeves and on the sides of the pants which came down to just above her knees. However, she wore her jacket over her figure as she was still a self conscious person and the suits were rather form fitting. Naruto's own and Akatsuchi's, were of the same colours and design as Hinata's. The only difference being that their uniform's were made for men, not women.
"I look awesome" Naruto said as he looked at himself in the nearby mirror. Hinata, who was to the left of the vain blonde, tilted her head to the side as she watched Naruto's ass and lightly blushed, a small trickle of blood came through her nose, but she quickly wiped it away.
"Alright, now here's the plan" one of the grunts spoke as he unfurled a blueprint of the Pokeathlon Dome. "Now you guys are Rookies, so we are having you three pose as contenders of the match. The Pokeathlon consists of a set of three tests in which you select three Pokemon from your team and use them to compete and there are separate areas for the human contenders to participate, thus you will be working alongside your Pokemon. We don't expect you to win of course seeing as you guys are at least twelve" the grunt looked at Naruto and Hinata, "and eighteen" he turned to Akatsuchi.
"Now then, Vulpix have high levels of speed, so we are hoping that the Track and Field events will be up. The Track and Field events consist of a variety of tests, but out of them all, they only choose three and these three tend to be the most common" the room suddenly darkened and a projector turned on revealing a slideshow of images.
"One is the Hurdles in which you have your Pokemon jump over a set of hurdles. The second most used Track and Field event tends to be the Disc Catch, which as the name implies, your Pokemon have to jump and catch as many discs as possible before the time runs out. And finally, the Relay race which is also as the name implies only with Pokemon " the grunt informed the three 'recruits'. "As the race is about to start, that is when we will jump in on our helicopters and drop down some smoke bombs to cover the field and take that Vulpix along with some other strong Pokemon we could find, per the Admins orders. We get in, we get out. Are we clear?"
Akatsuchi, Naruto and Hinata stared dumbly at the schematic, but managed a nod. The plan was well thought out.
"Great, good luck you three. The transport is waiting outside" the grunt saluted and the three left with Quilava and Espeon. As they exited, they paused when they saw a black car, most likely for them seeing as their was a chauffeur standing by the open door and was wearing a ring with the ROOT symbol on his left hand. The trio and the Pokemon climbed into the car before heading off to the dome.
Pokeathlon Dome
The group walked through the doors with Quilava, Espeon and Akatsuchi's now released, Geodude. As they neared the front desk, there was a loud commotion to their left and they turned to see a large man with white hair tied back in a ponytail and a bushy white mustache. He was wearing a blue shirt with matching pants which were decorated with silver stars. A dark blue jacket was worn over the shirt and finally a pair of black cowboy boots completed the look. His black eyes became upside down Us as he smiled at the people crowding around him, only to have the large, blue muscular Pokemon next to him, a Poliwrath, stamp its foot down in annoyance at having its trainer bothered.
"Now, now Poli...these younguns just want to meet me" the man spoke to his Pokemon.
"Poli Poli Poliwrath!" the Pokemon replied before taking a few steps away from the crowd.
"Who's that?" Naruto asked. Hinata took out her guide book from her backpack and flipped through the pages.
"That's Magnus" she spoke as she reached the page on the Pokeathlon Dome on the section about Goldenrod City. "He's the owner and maker of the Pokeathlon and was once said to be able to best a Machamp at arm wrestling back in his prime"
"Wow...that's a strong guy" Akatsuchi whistled in amazement. The three 'double agents' made their way to the front desk and registered their Pokemon for the Pokelathon. Naruto went with Quilava, Heracross and Wooper, since Pidgeotto was still gone. Hinata went with Espeon, Furret and her newly caught female Nidoran. Akatsuchi used his Geodude, his Onix and his Sandshrew. The three of them made the Black team.
"HELLO FOLKS AND WELCOME TO TODAY'S POKEATHLON! WE HAVE MANY STRONG POKEMON TODAY AND IT HAS BEEN TOLD MY OUR OWNER, MR. MAGNUS, THAT TODAY'S EVENTS ARE THE TRACK AND FIELD EVENTS!" the announcer cried into the microphone. "SO HERE'S OUR TEAMS FOR THE DAY; THE YELLOW TEAM..." the announcer gestured to a trio of people, all having flying type Pokemon such as Pidgey, Spearow and Skiploom. "THE RED TEAM..." this team was made of up of speedy fire types like Growlithe and our protagonists noted the presence of the golden Vulpix. "THE BLUE TEAM..." the team had a set of ground types like Sandshrew and Sandslash, "AND THE BLACK TEAM!"
The crowd roared in delight at seeing the event.
"AND NOW FOR THE FIRST EVENT...THE HURDLE EVENT!" the announcer gestured to the track nearby as it began to whir and suddenly a number of hurdles were shown. "TRAINERS AND POKEMON MUST LEAP OVER THESE HURDLES AND THE FIRST TEAM MEMBER TO MAKE IT TO THE END WINS THE EVEN FOR THAT TEAM!"
The trio performed alongside their Pokemon just like the other trainers. However, Naruto and Hinata were very young and Akatsuchi wasn't really built for jumping, but he was doing well. However, due to their being young, they were quite short and nearly tripped over all of the hurdles making them drag into last place and due to their height, with respect to Naruto and Hinata, and weight, with respect to Akatsuchi, they were unable to completely leap over a good number of the hurdles.
They crossed the finish line, the crowd still cheering for the event. After the points were tallied, they moved on to the disc catching round.
"Wow, unbelievable, the novice Black team is really taking it home. That Onix is really taking advantage of its height, while the Espeon and Quilava are performing a tag team jump, using each other to reach higher discs. Folks this is how a team should act" the announcer yelled as he saw Espeon throw Nidoran into the air to catch a disc before Quilava given a boost by using Wooper's hard head as a spring board. Heracross used its wings to fly up and catch numerous amounts of discs with ease while also helping Hinata's Furret as it stood atop its back. Zubat and Geodude were making good use of their wings/ability to levitate. The timer buzzed and our protagonists won the Disc Catching round.
"Hmmm we actually won" Akatsuchi said in surprise.
"YATTA!" Naruto hugged Hinata in joy before going to his Pokemon and doing the same. Hinata blushed like a tomato as she still felt the warmth from Naruto's short embrace.
After the brief intermission, the Pokemon began to line up along the starting line for the Relay Race.
"ALRIGHT FOLKS IT'S TIME FOR THE FINAL EVENT...THE COVETED RELAAAAAAAY RAAAAACE!" the crowd cheered louder than they had ever had as they watched the Pokemon's legs tense up, ready to run.
"ALRIGHT, ONE POKEMON FROM EACH OF THE THREE TEAM MEMBERS WILL TAKE PART AS THE RELAY TEAM!" Naruto, Hinata and Akatsuchi chose Quilava, Espeon and Geodude respectively.
"Okay, the race will now commence in...POKEMON ON YOUR MARKS!"
"The plan's about to start, where is Pidgeotto with those policemen?" Hinata whispered to her crush as she spied the shiny Vulpix off to the side, jumping up and down as a warm up exercise for the race.
"I don't know, but hopefully he'll come back quickly" Naruto replied.
"Also remember to keep an eye out for Wallace, he's the one going for the Vulpix" Akatsuchi reminded the two younger people.
"THE RACE WILL START IN THREE...TWO...ONE AND..." however before the announcer could say start, the sound of whirring helicopter blades made themselves known. Everyone looked up at the large blackhawks, a large red 'R' emblazoned on each of them. The helicopters opened hatches beneath themselves before releasing multiple black bombs.
The crowd went into a panic and Magnus, who was watching the Pokeathlon today, was in complete shock over what was transpiring.
"N-Nani?" he gaped, but then he saw the bombs fall. As they hit the ground, they released clouds of black smoke that covered nearly the entire field. Then ropes fell from the same hatches and ROOT grunts began to descend from the helicopters.
"ALRIGHT MEN, SEARCH FOR WHATEVER STRONG POKEMON YOU CAN FIND!" one of the grunts, obviously a superior one, yelled to the others.
"HAI!" the others grunts responded before running through the smoke to look for the Pokemon. One of the smaller grunts, a blue haired boy searched the stadium for the shiny Vulpix we was assigned to take. However, as he was running, he slammed into something.
"ITAI!" the person cried out in pain as they were knocked down. Wallace falling on top of them. As Wallace shook his head to rid himself of the cobwebs that now filled his head, he opened his eyes to stare into the pale purple eyes of one Hinata Hyuga.
"Wallace-san!" she gaped.
"H-Hinata-chan?" he quickly got up, Hinata following suit as she stared at him. That stare turning into a glare.
"You're with ROOT!" she growled and she whistled loudly. A few seconds later, Espeon appeared by her side, glaring at the blue haired boy. Wallace gritted his teeth before sending out his Squirtle.
"Gomen nasai my love, but we will have to meet another day. I will hope we see each other again" he winked at her and blew her a kiss.
"SQUIRTLE USE BLIZZARD!" the Tiny Turtle Pokemon complied and then a large wall of ice erected itself in front of Hinata, separating her from the enemy.
"K-Kuso" the normally shy girl cursed. "ESPEON BREAK IT DOWN WITH FOCUS BLAST!" Espeon nodded and launched forth the blue sphere of energy, however the resulting explosion only caused a large crack in it.
"It's a larger wall than I thought, and I can't tell how large it is with all this smoke" she turned to her Pokemon. The smoke then began to clear as the Yellow team, who had flying types, had one of their Pokemon use Whirlwind to scatter the smoke. Everyone gaped as they saw the ROOT members all surrounding a large net where the Pokemon were captured. The heavy metal weights attached to the ends of the nets kept them from getting up, even Akatsuchi's Onix was strapped down by the weight of the net.
"WALLACE DO YOU HAVE THE VULPIX?" Ruby shouted to the boy. Wallace ran up to the red haired woman with the unconscious Fox Pokemon. Its trainer gasped.
"HEY GIVE ME BACK THAT VULPIX!" the trainer was a young girl, about fifteen years old and had long orange hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a red track suit signifying she was in fact on the Red team. She then called out her other two Pokemon, a Weepinbell and a Quagsire.
"WEEPINBELL RAZOR LEAF, QUAGSIRE USE WATER GUN!" she commanded them. The two Pokemon aimed their attacks at the kidnapper of their fellow team member, but Wallace rolled on the ground to avoid the attacks.
"That's your Vulpix?" Naruto and Akatsuchi asked the girl as they were right near to her.
"Hai" the girl replied as she told hr Pokemon to take down the Zubat in an effort to find her Vulpix amongst the large flock of them.
"So, let's get your Vulpix back" Naruto turned to Quilava whose flames ignited. "QUILAVA EMBER!" Quilava unleashed a barrage of small fireballs at the grunts causing them to fly back from the small explosion, but they quickly recovered and took out some Pokeballs.
"GO ZUBAT!" a horde of the Bat Pokemon flew through the air and screeched. Naruto reached to take out Flaffy when he realized he had left his backpack in the team's room where they were to prepare before the competetion and his belt that had his Pokeballs were in the backpack.
"Kuso, fine WOOPER GO!" Naruto yelled, but he looked to see his water type was trapped beneath the net with Heracross along with everyone else's Pokemon. The only free Pokemon were the Pokemon of our protagonist trio.
"GEODUDE USE ROCK THROW!" Akatsuchi told his Pokemon. The floating boulder nodded before raising its arms and slamming them on the ground allowing its fingers to penetrate the dirt. Geodude pulled out two large rocks and then chucked them at thew Zubat horde. A large amount of them were hit with the super effective attack causing many of them to faint.
"QUILAVA USE FLAME WHEEL!" Naruto commanded. The Volcano Pokemon morphed into a rotating wheel of fire and rushed towards the Zubat.
"Zubat use Confuse Ray!" a few grunts commanded. The sonic waves flew through the air only to be disrupted as a blast of telekinetic energy struck the Bat Pokemon. The grunts looked to see Hinata's Espeon standing near to them. Its eyes were a startling electric blue colour signifying its use of Confusion. While the Pokemon were battling, Wallace was running back to the helicopter and saw his sister waiting for him.
"Here you go, nee-chan!" he said handing the Fox Pokemon over to Sapphire.
"Great job, otouto. Now come on, we gotta get out of here!" Sapphire said as she grabbed her little brother and tugged the rope. Another one of the blackhawks used a rope with a hook at the end to take up the net containing the other Pokemon and began to raise it up. The group then saw a red flare shoot up from one of the helicopters and it exploded.
"RETREAT!" one of the grunts bellowed. Naruto looked around and gritted his teeth as he watched the helicopters descended to pick up the rest of the grunts, however they were headed off when a wall of fire suddenly streaked across the field. Everyone in the stands and on the field turned to see a large squadron of policemen, each of them with Growlithe, the lead one had an Arcanine. Above them was Naruto's Pidgeotto.
"PIDGEOTTO!" Naruto called out to his flying type. The bird flew back to Naruto and perched atop his shoulder.
"ALRIGHT MEN, TAKE DOWN THOSE COPTERS MAKE THEY DON'T ESCAPE WITH THE POKEMON!" the officer with the Arcanine yelled.
"HAI!" the Growlithe and their trainers then ran into the fray and began to take down the Zubat horde with their Growlithe's all using Flamethrower. The power of the fire type attacks showed that they were extremely well trained.
"Kuso, get us out of here!" Sapphire yelled to the pilot as Ruby pulled up the rope to the copter. The pilot nodded and the copters began to rise, but not before Pidgeotto's Gust attack sent the one containing the net of Pokemon flying away. The net landed with resounding boom before it was torn apart by the combined might of the confined Pokemon. The Pokemon released their cries of joy and ran up to their trainers.
"WOOPER, HERACROSS!" Naruto was tackled to the ground by his two Pokemon. Nidoran and Furret jumped into Hinata's arms and licked her face with joy causing her to laugh at the tickling feeling while Akasuchi's Sandshrew latched onto his face in happiness as Onix nuzzled him. The happy moment was later ruined however, for the sound of a helicopter still filled the air.
The helicopter containing the shiny Vulpix was able to escape Pidgeotto's powerful Gust attack. Hinata looked up and saw Wallace looking at her with a look of regret causing her eyes widen in surprise. The blackhawk took off and left the area for Mahogany Town.
"No... MY VULPIX!" the trainer of the shiny Pokemon fell to her knees as the Uchiha Police Force helped her up.
"It's alright miss, we'll do whatever we can to ensure that you get your Vulpix back" the officer said, "Now come we need to take you in for a few questions and then you can go home" The girl nodded before pausing as she saw Naruto, Hinata and Akatsuchi. She walked up to them and looked them in the eyes.
"Gomen nasai" Naruto said. The girl looked confused.
"For what?"
"I said I would help you get your Vulpix back from ROOT...and I failed" the blonde dropped his head in shame causing the girl to reach out and grip the younger boy's shoulder.
"It's no problem, you did what you could. I mean look what you three did. You helped in taking down one of the three helicopters of those people and the majority of them are going to jail" the girl smiled at Naruto. Naruto grinned and scratched his head sheepishly.
"Nah, I didn't do much. The police did..." he was interrupted by a few officers and the commanding officer, the two Growlithe and one Arcanine alongside them.
"Excuse me young man, I am Commanding Officer Hikaku Uchiha... are you the owner of that Pidgeotto?" the commander asked gesturing to the Flying type on the blonde's shoulder. Naruto nodded.
"Hai"
"You are commended for your actions in helping to prevent a great crime in our fair city"
"Aww shucks, I didn't do it myself...Hinata-chan and Akatsuchi helped too" he turned to his friends. The officers nodded and bowed to the three.
"Arigato, for your help" Hikaku said before turning and walking back to help his men get the caught ROOT members to the jail car and take them to the actual prison. The Pokeathlon was then cancelled for the day due to the actions of today. The competitors and the members of the audience began to exit the dome. The trio, along with their Pokemon, went back into their team room and changed back into their regular clothes. Naruto returned Heracross to its ball, but Wooper decided to remain outside for a while as it rested atop Naruto's head. Hinata and Akatsuchi returned all their Pokemon, minus Espeon and Geodude, to their balls as well.
As the group was about to leave they were met with a slightly familiar face. It was the trainer of the shiny Vulpix. She walked up to Naruto and looked down at the shorter boy.
"Oh hey, you're that trainer of that shiny Vulpix" Naruto said. She nodded.
"Hai, I just wanted to thank you three again for trying to help me get my Vulpix back, unlike other people..."she looked at the other contestants who were too stupid to have not done anything.
"So...what's your names?" the girl asked.
"Hinata Hyuga"
"Oh right, I remember seeing you on the television. You won the contest yesterday, really cool job" Hinata blushed at the praise.
"Arigato" the pale eyed girl replied.
"I'm Akatsuchi Miyake" (A/N: Last name comes from his Japanese voice actor's own last name)
"Naruto, Naruto Uzumaki. The next Champion of the Johto region" he replied. The girl giggled at the boy.
"Johto Champion huh? Well I'm Suzuki Reish, one of the many people that are going to stand in your way of becoming the Champion" Suzuki grinned.
"You're going for the Johto League too?" the blonde asked. Suzuki nodded and held two fingers.
"I have two badges right now, I'm going to challenge the Goldenrod City leader soon. How many do you have?"
"Three" he stated with pride.
"Quilava QUIL!" the Volcano Pokemon nodded.
"Woopa Woopa" the Mud Fish Pokemon tilted its head to the side causing everyone sweatdrop at the blank look on its face.
"So, three badges huh?" Naruto nodded.
"He lost the first time" Akatsuchi informed Suzuki causing Naruto to become enveloped by a dark cloud of shame.
"Her Miltank beat all three of his Pokemon that time" Hinata added causing the cloud to become larger and rain and lightning bolts came from the sky. Suzuki blinked as she saw Naruto's thundercloud of shame.
"I don't think he likes to be reminded of that" Suzuki commented as she waved away the thundercloud from over Naruto's head. Suzuki then tapped Naruto and he raised his head.
"Here's my number" she said. Naruto looked to see the girl's Pokegear displaying her number.
"Why?"
"So that way we stay in touch. You're obviously going to find Vulpix before me since you have three badges and are going to be heading for Ecruteak City soon enough"
"Oh, ok" Naruto said as they exchanged numbers. After that Suzuki smirked at the younger trainer.
"Well I best be going" Suzuki said, however as she turned Naruto called out to her.
"SUZUKI!" the girl turned to see Naruto's eyes staring at her, unbridled determination burning within them, "We WILL find your Vulpix, I promise you that" Suzuki giggled and nodded.
"I'll hold you to that promise!" she called back before leaving. Afterwards the group left the dome only to once again be halted. Before them was Magnus and his Poliwrath.
"I was told by the police that a young blonde boy with spiky blonde hair helped alert them of the tragedy that befell my wonderful arena" Magnus spoke as he walked up to the trio. Naruto glanced around before pointing at himself.
"Me?" he asked stupidly causing everyone to sweatdrop.
"Of course it's you, baka" Akatsuchi said.
"Geo Geodude" the rock type shook its head at Naruto's stupidity.
"Hai, you. I just wanted to thank you and your friends for helping to put a stop to the organization from trying to steal the trainers' Pokemon" Magnus said with a grin.
"Poliwraaaath" the fighting/water type hugged the three in a bone crushing hug, along with their Pokemon. Their cracked at the force of the hug causing them to comically faint from the pain, drool falling from their mouths and their eyes becoming circular and completely white. Magnus chuckled at that as Pliwrath rested them all back down on the ground.
"Your Poliwrath hurts" Akatsuchi said as he pushed his back into place.
"Gomen, Poli gets excited by people he likes" they all turned to see Poli crying a river of tears as he nuzzled Wooper. Naruto returned Wooper to its ball so as to save it from the wrath of Poli's nuzzling.
"Anyways, as a token of my appreciation...here's a rare item I had back from when I was in my youth" Magnus reached into his pocket and pulled three pieces of candy wrapped in blue wrapping paper. He placed one in each of the three trainer's hands. The three looked confused as they looked at them.
"These are just pieces of candy. What would these do?" Naruto asked. Magnus smirked.
"They just seem like regular pieces of candy, but the truth is that these are actually special types of candy known a Rare Candy that help increase the level of your Pokemon and thus make them stronger" Magnus explained causing them and their Pokemon to gape in shock.
"REALLY?" Naruto quickly reached for Dratini's Pokeball when he realized something. "Oh right, I left Dratini at the DayCare Center like Kakashi-sensei told me"
Naruto shrugged and then took out the next best thing. The orb shook and opened it to reveal his Wooper.
"Your Wooper looks well trained" Magnus said now that he got a good look at the Pokemon. Naruto ignored the man's compliment and gave Dratini the Rare Candy. The water type sniffed the delicacy before opening its mouth and crunched down on the candy. Wooper released a cry of happiness before it froze. Naruto's Pokedex beeped and he took it out.
Your Wooper has now gained the ability to use the attack Mud Bomb. Would you like to forget a move to learn Mud Bomb? Naruto gaped.
"AWESOME!" Naruto grinned as he chose Yes on the option box that appeared on the Pokedex. Mud Bomb was a powerful ground type move and would surely aid him in his battles.
Please a choose a move you would like to forget: Water Gun, Slam, Leer and Mud Shot
Naruto chose to forget Leer ad suddenly a blue beam of energy rocketed from the Pokedex. The blue beam then retracted back into the Pokedex.
Your Wooper now knows Mud Bomb. The Pokedex spoke before beeping and went into Sleep Mode.
Wooper blinked before it suddenly opened its mouth and released a powerful sphere of mud. The attack was extremely powerful as shown by it sending Magnus' Poli skidding backwards from the force.
"Poli Poliwrath Wrath" the final evolution of Poliwag shook its fist at the Mud Fish Pokemon. Wooper shrunk away before making its way to Naruto and rested against his shoulder.
"Wooper" it said in an apologetic tone. After that little show, Hinata gave her own to Togepi allowing it to learn Sweet Kiss while Akatsuchi gave his own to his Sandshrew allowing it to learn Rollout. After that Magnus left and the trainers returned their Pokemon to their Pokeballs.
"Come back any time" he told the group. The trio nodded before walking off. Naruto sighed as he placed his hands behind his head.
"So we beat Fuka-chan, we won a contest, beat ROOT and got Rare Candies...the only problem with that is that we didn't get to save Suzuki's Vulpix" Naruto frowned.
"Well then, we're just going to have to get stronger then" Akatsuchi said with a smirk. Hinata giggled.
"Hai, to Ecruteak City then?" she asked her blonde friend. Naruto grinned his infamous foxy grin.
"To Ecruteak City!" he yelled and ran off with Quilava at his side. Hinata and Espeon followed after. Akatsuchi shook his head as he looked at Geodude.
"So Geodude...what do you think?"
"Geo Dude Dude Geo" the rock type replied.
"Yeah I think they're a fun duo too...HEY GUYS WAIT UP!" Akatsuchi said as he ran after the two pre-teens and their starters.
Mahogany Town- Team ROOT HQ
Deep beneath the floors of a disguised PokeMart, the large complex of ROOT's HQ lay. There were many grunts roaming the hallways. Some doing work while some were on a break and were just chatting with their fellow grunts.
However, deep within the base a lone figure sat in a comfy leather chair. A laptop open displaying the Home Screen, but the chair was facing the television screen within the office room.
"Good afternoon Johto, this is Rukia Kuchiki here to tell of the latest in news updates. The notorious group known as ROOT, an ancient organization thought have been extinct for the past thirty years, had resurfaced during today's Pokeathlon in Goldenrod City. The organization nearly got away with stealing the Pokemon. One of their helicopters was caught by the powerful Gust attack made by the Pidgeotto of a young trainer who remains anonymous as told by the Uchiha Police Force and the owner of the establishment, Mr. Magnus. The ROOT agents caught are currently in prison, but now the Johto region knows what is happening and the Police Force is doing its best search for the evil criminal organization and stop them from committing whatever plot they have planned. Now to Ichigo Kurosaki with the weather"
The doors suddenly opened and a grunt walked in. The person sitting in the chair turned off the television and faced the grunt, although his face was hidden by the shadows of the room.
"Leader-sama...the group has returned with the special cargo" the grunt said with a salute. The leader nodded.
"Arigato for informing me of this. Given the news update I just saw, I would have thought we had failed" the grunt nodded in agreement.
"Hai, Leader-sama" the grunt was about to leave when the automatic doors slid open and revealed Wallace with his sisters, Ruby and Sapphire. Wallace walked up to the desk and bowed alongside his sisters.
"Leader-sama...we apologize for not retrieving the other Pokemon other than the Vulpix. There were interferences" Ruby said.
"Gomen nasai" Sapphire added. The leader raised his hand and waved them off.
"It is no problem, Ruby...Sapphire. The Vulpix is all that I REALLY wanted" the leader watched as Wallace walked up with the golden furred fox.
"The rare shiny Vulpix you requested" Wallace placed the unconscious golden Fox Pokemon on the head of ROOT's desk. The leader nodded before speaking in a male voice.
"You have done well, Wallace...my son" the leader spoke. Wallace nodded and bowed.
"Arigato...Tou-san" the leader reached forth and took the Vulpix in his hands. Ruby and Sapphire then walked up.
"Tou-san?" they spoke simultaneously.
"Hai?" their father replied.
"Just a question, but what are you going to do with the Vulpix?" the red haired girl asked.
"Other than study of course, but what do you hope to find from studying it?" Sapphire added after her sister. The leader smirked as he rose up from his chair and stroked the unconscious six tailed Fox Pokemon.
"As I have told you two before and I'm sure you have told your brother this...these odd coloured Pokemon, the Shiny Pokemon, are said to be blessed, becoming stronger and much better than their original coloured brethren, by the Pokemon gods of the region...one of the sky and one of the sea" the leader paused as he looked at a large picture on the wall showing the painting of a what looked like the stained glass images one would see in a church. There was the image of a rainbow hued bird surrounded by three beasts. One yellow, one red and one blue. Next to that was the image of a silver hued bird surrounded by three other birds and like its sister picture, these birds were red, blue and yellow like the beasts. Between the two was an image clouded in green and surrounded by what looked like pieces of foliage.
(A/N: This picture will be shown on my profile for those who wish to see it)
"This process would take energy from those two gods...thus their energy lies within the Shiny. I aim to find this energy, and then I will use it track down the two legendary Pokemon and capture them so that I may fulfill the dream of ROOT and revive Danzo-sama...but also to find the that I hope to gain for this is the way to find... the Beast of the Sea and the God of the Sky and through them will I find the one who travels through time" the Leader's eyes snapped open to reveal the dark violet irises within them and a grin similar to that of the Chesire Cat.
"I will find you...Celebi"
(A/N: Well guys what do you think? This is just a bit of a filler episode kind of thing, but it is a major part of my plot and what ROOT plans to do other than trying to find their lost leader. I know there wasn't much action here, but not all chapters require action. So anyways, the painting in the Leader's room, the link will be posted on my profile at the bottom somewhere so if you want to see it, check there.
Now then, ROOT has gotten its hands on the rare Shiny Pokemon, but what does the leader plan to do with the legendary Pokemon of time. Naruto, Hinata and Akatsuchi race towards Ecruteak to get Naruto's fourth badge and also so that he and his friends can train and get stronger along the way. If Naruto conquers this Ghost type gym leader he would be half way to getting all eight badges and making his way to the Johto League Silver Conference and the Elite Four. However, something odd is said to lie within the ancient Burned Tower. The once proud resting place of the ancient 'Rainbow hued Pokemon'. Just what awaits our heroes in there...and how did Sasuke reach there so quickly?
Find out all of this and more in the next exciting chapter of Naruto: Johto Journeys, Chapter 10:Ghosts of the Past.
Note that Akatsuchi's Sandshrew and Naruto's Wooper are all at a level just before the level of their evolution so Naruto will soon get a Quagsire and Akatsuchi will soon get a Sandslash. Woohoo for them.
ALSO I WILL NOT BE UPDATING ANY TIME SOON. MY EXAMS ARE COMING UP THIS MAY AND SO I WILL NOT HAVE ANY TIME TO UPDATE. SO PLEASE BE PATIENT IN MY UPDATING. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING AND WISH ME LUCK, I'M GOING TO NEED IT)
Pokedex: Seen-58
Caught-44
Character Bio: Sakura Haruno
Eye Colour: Green
Hair Colour: Pink
About: Sakura has lived in New Bark Town her entire life with both her parents and even though she comes off as shallow, she has a great need to protect her Pokemon, is a good friend when she wants to be. She is a strong trainer in her own right as the use of her great intellect to aid her in battle to come up with quick strategies on the fly comes in handy, but there are times when the strategy fails because of Sakura's inability to come up with quick backup plans, something that she is constantly working on doing. Sakura was bullied when she was younger because of her hair colour and her seemingly large forehead, but found a friend in Ino Yamanaka. Sakura then became Ino's rival for Sasuke's "love" and the two, although still good friends, drifted apart a bit. Sakura aims to become a top coordinator, much like Hinata and Ino. She hopes to somehow break through Sasuke's shell of 'emo-ness' and become noticed by him.
Naruto's Team:
Quilava(Male)
Pidgeotto(Male)
Dratini(Male)
Heracross(Male)
Wooper(Female)
Flaffy(Female)
Hinata's Team:
Espeon (Female)
Butterfree(Female)
Nidoran(Female)
Hoppip(Female)
Furret(Male)
Togepi(Male)