.Naruto: Johto Journeys
Chapter 20: The Ultimate Moves
"Pokemon" Normal speech
'Pokemon' Normal thoughts
"Pokemon" Pokemon that can talk
"Pokemon" Flashbacks
"Pokemon" Pokedex speech
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A/N: Alright, here's the next chapter. Hope you guys like it and remember to review when you finish reading this chapter. Thank you and enjoy the show.
Mahogany Town
It had been one week since the fall of ROOT in Goldenrod City and so the group decided to take a break and relax in Mahogany Town during that time.
Haku placed the iced teas on the table.
"Thanks, Haku-chan." Sakura, Akatsuchi and Hinata said politely while Naruto and Sasuke just glared at each other.
"Bet I can finish this before you?"
"Don't bet on it dobe." The two glared at one another again before slurping down their drinks. The three girls sighed at them while Akatsuchi and the Pokemon surrounding them all sweatdropped.
'Boys will be boys.' They all thought. A loud laugh broke the silence as Naruto and Sasuke were now clutching their heads from the brain freezes they had just inflicted upon themselves. A laugh resounded through the air causing all the young trainers to look at the perverted godfather of Naruto. The man was talking to Kushina on Naruto's Pokegear and was catching up with the female Uzumaki.
"Yes Kushina-chan, I promise. No...No ma'am." Jiraya's eyes widened at that, "WHAT?! But Kushinaaaa...alright fine. Yes..Yes ma'am. See ya Kushina, nice to hear from you too." Jiraya ended the call and handed the blue Pokegear back to the blonde.
"Kaa-chan tell you not to corrupt me?"
"Yup."
"She told you not to take me anywhere near the hotsprings in Ecruteak City?"
"Yup."
"To not read your smut?"
"A big yup for that one."
"To not make me have my Pokemon do anything perverted as well?"
"Uh Huh."
"Well it must have been nice to talk to Kaa-chan again!" Naruto grinned widely. Jiraya beamed at his godson.
"Of course!"
Everyone sweatdropped at that.
'Those two...they're so similar.'
"I can see how they could be related to one another, even if it weren't by blood." Haku stated.
"Ain't that the truth." Sakura said.
"Hn." Sasuke grunted. Sakura, after spending many years in a classroom for most of her young life, raised her hand on instinct as she decided to ask one of the Three Great Pokemon trainers something.
"Jiraya-san?" Sakura asked one of the Three Great Trainers in existence. The white haired man blinked as he stopped laughing.
"Huh, what is it pinky?" Sakura's eye twitched at that.
"Ero-Sennin, her name is Sakura." Naruto informed his godfather.
"Okay...what is it, Sakura?"
"Well, Jiraya-san, I was just wondering...well I don't mean to sound rude, but umm...wh-"
"What am I still doing here with you gakis?" He interrupted. The green eyed girl scowled at the man calling them gakis, but she nodded in confirmation.
"Yes. Shouldn't you be travelling or something? Tsunade-san is busy with the Celadon Gym and she is being a judge for the Pokemon Contest in other towns." Jiraya shrugged.
"Well, I haven't seen my annoying godson in a while so I thought I'd spend some quality time with him and his friends." Jiraya ruffled Naruto's already unruly hair. Naruto groaned as he slapped away the hand. Hinata giggled at the two as they glared at each other. Jiraya turned in the direction of the sound before grinning.
"Oh, well aren't you a pretty one. Are the 'Hina-chan' that my godson fought his way through ROOT grunts and their Pokemon for when he left us behind?" Naruto and Hinata blushed crimson at that. Naruto because of how Jiraya made it sound and Hinata because she didn't realize that Naruto had done that for her sake.
"Umm...yes?" She asked, unsure if that was the correct answer. "Though I'm sure Naruto-kun rarely had anything to say about me."
"Are you kidding? The boy wouldn't stop rambling about how you were this amazing coordinator and how you were an even more amazing person. Even said you could diagnose a sick Pokemon on sight and how you could be a great doctor if you went into the profession." Hinata blushed at the compliments Naruto had kept to himself.
"D-D-Did he?" Hinata asked as she watched the blonde look out the window of the Pokemon Center acting as if he wasn't hearing anything.
"Yes...Yes he did. You know...he said he couldn't leave you behind. Sounds like he cares for you quite a bit." He winked causing Hinata to blush even more. Naruto growled as he stood up and kicked Jiraya in the shin.
"Shut up, Ero-Sennin!" He roared. "Hina-chan, ignore my idiot godfather will you?" Jiraya grasped his paining leg before scowling at Naruto.
"Ummm, Naruto-kun...did you really do that?" Hinata asked. Naruto blinked in confusion.
"Do what, Hina-chan?"
"Fight through ROOT grunts and their Pokemon for...me?" Naruto scratched his cheek and looked at Sakura, Sasuke, Akatsuchi and Haku. The two girls were snickering while Sasuke gave an amused smirk at the boy's predicament while Jiraya merely expressed his amusement more openly with a laugh.
"Well uh...ummm...well actually I had beaten them all before I met Ero-Sennin and the hostages so I didn't really have anyone to fight off." Hinata's shoulders dropped at that.
"Oh. I see."
"But...I'm sure if there were any, whether it would have been one or a thousand, I would have fought through them all to get to you, dattebayo." Naruto gave his trademark foxy grin. Everyone stared in shock at Naruto's statement. Sure he cared for his friends, but to make so blatantly obvious what he would do...especially for Hinata...it was rather inspiring.
Hinata giggled with a small blush, "Thank you, Naruto-kun. It means a lot to hear that."
"Way to go, gaki." Jiraya whispered as he nudged Naruto with a sly wink. The blonde growled at his godfather once more.
"Will you shut up." He whispered back. "But really though..." He spoke louder this time, catching everyone's attention. "Why ARE you still here? You leave for what, seven years and barely visit me and Kaa-chan and yet you choose now, when the region was in a state of crisis, to come back and make yourself known." Jiraya gained a serious look at the blue eyed boy's question.
"It does seem rather odd for you to show up at that time, Jiraya-san." Hinata added.
"Alright...the truth is I had come back when I heard that ROOT was back in action. I began to use my spy network to learn what I could and with the Pokemon League Association I managed to gain the information to learn what I needed."
"What did you learn?" Akatsuchi asked.
"I will tell you...but first you need to hear this little story. It is about my students." The four trainers and one Gym leader all stared at the sage with wide eyes.
"Your..." Sakura paused.
"Students?" Haku finished for the pinkette. Jiraya nodded.
"It was a long time ago, back when I was a travelling trainer. I was going through one of the back end streets of Sootopolis City in the Hoenn Region and it was raining pretty heavily since Sootopolis tends to get a lot of rain during certain months. I had found three orphaned children who were starving and homeless. Their names were Nagato, Konan and Yahiko. I took them in, though it was only temporary. I taught them how to be trainers, I gave them supplies and Pokeballs and I helped each of them catch their first Pokemon. After teaching them and traveling with them for a few years, having gone through Johto and Kanto to train...I had decided they were mature enough to do their own thing. I left them."
"What happened after you left?"
"Well...I heard that after I left, my three pupils had done rather well for themselves. They were excellent trainers by then, one of which was an expert in Psychic type Pokemon. That was Nagato. Nagato ended up marrying Konan, which was a surprise because she always had a thing for Yahiko when I was training them." He laughed as he reminisced.
"After that, the three continued traveling. Yahiko had told me of what had went on and he said how Nagato and Konan had decided to settle down. Yahiko had continued to travel, stopping by every now and then to visit the kids they had. But then...I was notified by Konan that Yahiko had died."
"What?!" They all exclaimed.
"What happened, Ero-Sennin?" Naruto asked.
"Apparently Yahiko had gone to do some training in Mt. Silver where there are said to be many powerful Pokemon. His body had been hit by a Dark Pulse attack from a Tyranitar was what the doctors had said. Five of his ribs were broken and a few of those had punctured his lungs."
Sakura, Hinata and Haku were holding their hands to their mouths in shock while Naruto and Sasuke just looked down at the ground.
"So what happened?"
"Well...Nagato, Konan and I made a funeral for him. We kept our spirits up knowing that Yahiko wouldn't want us to be depressed and what not. In the end, Nagato and Konan had had children. Twin girls...and a boy. Konan had been rather weak for a few days afterwards and Nagato and I thought it was just from the stress of giving birth for the third time." Jiraya said as he gripped his knees tightly.
"But it wasn't...was it, Jiraya-san?" Haku said. The old man shook his head.
"No...apparently Konan had been taking some anti-depressants from when Yahiko had died. After she had run out of her usual supply of anti-depressant and realized they weren't working after she gave birth to the twins, she began to take...other things. It was a miracle that the drugs didn't affect the boy she had. Anyway, apparently she began to develop an allergic reaction to the drugs since she had began to take more than what would be clinically necessary. She died six years later with Nagato being alone to raise the children after that."
"Those children..." Hinata spoke. "They didn't happen to be the twins...one having red hair and the other with blue while the boy also had blue hair." Jiraya raised an eyebrow.
"Yeah...why? How would you know?"
"Their names...what were their names?!" Hinata asked with urgency in her voice. "It was Ruby, Sapphire and Wallace! Wasn't it?!" Everyone's eyes focused between Hinata and Jiraya. Jiraya's dark eyes widened before they narrowed.
"How do you know them?"
"I battled Wallace...he said how Ruby, Sapphire and he were the children of the Leader of ROOT. Jiraya-san, what you learned from your spy network...since Yahiko and Konan are dead then it is only logical that...your student Nagato is the leader of ROOT."
"Hina-chan! How did you...How did you figure that out?" Naruto asked.
"I didn't. After Wallace and I battled and I won...I forced him to talk, though it was against my nature. He told me the reason behind Project Time Travel."
"The one where they have to capture Celebi?" Sakura asked. Hinata nodded.
"They are going to use Celebi to rip open a portal in space-time." She said.
"But what for? Do they plan to bring back Danzo?" Naruto asked. Everyone else in the room shook their heads.
"No Naruto-kun. I'm sure everyone else knows that the Project Danzo file was merely a ploy to distract us from Project Time Travel. However, it could be possible for them to have wanted to bring back Danzo since Nagato needed to earn their trust. Anyway, Naruto-kun, the reason why Nagato would want to rip open a portal in space-time...is so he could go back to the days before Yahiko and Konan had died so that he would be able to prevent it all from happening."
"But wouldn't that cause like, I don't know, the universe to go all out of whack?" Naruto said. Jiraya nodded.
"It could, but it depends on how deeply one will try to alter the time stream. If Nagato tries to bring back Konan and Yahiko, something which I would like to see, but I know I cannot let happen due to the inconclusive results of what might happen, the time stream could fall apart and things may not appear the same way they were originally." Jiraya explained.
"So what do we do?" Sasuke asked.
"Sasuke-kun, I don't think there is anything we can do now. I mean ROOT collapsed and Nagato, Sapphire, Ruby and Wallace would have gone into hiding by now." Sakura explained to the Uchiha. "ROOT IS gone, right?"
Jiraya shrugged. "We can only hope, but Nagato might still have a bit of resources in ROOT at his disposal, but he will still need to think things through and come up with another plan. It may take months before that is even accomplished given that we've handicapped him with that loss in Goldenrod City."
"So what...we carry on like nothing happened?" Naruto asked as he scratched his cheek. The man nodded to his godson.
"Exactly that. With ROOT out of your hair for a while, you gakis can get on with what you originally planned. Naruto, Blackthorn City is not that faraway so you and the Uchiha boy can go there. Sakura and Hinata, since you two are doing contests, there is another contest happening in Ecruteak City and some of the other smaller towns in Johto like Lilipad Town and Gardenia Town. Haku, I would suggest you go back to the gym and prepare yourself for those challengers."
Haku nodded before Akatsuchi walked up to her.
"Haku-san, there is a trainer called Shizuka who may pass through here. She is the owner of the Shiny Vulpix we found in the ROOT HQ so please..." Akatsuchi handed Haku the Pokeball in which he kept the Vulpix, "hand it to her should she arrive."
Haku stared at the Pokeball and nodded. "Of course."
"Thank you." Akatsuchi smiled.
"Alright, let's go!" Naruto whooped as he leaped through the doors. The group all sweatdropped and Haku smiled as she waved goodbye to her new friends.
"See you guys soon! I'll be sure to catch you guys when you make it to the Pokemon League Johto Silver Confernence Victory Tournament." Naruto and Sasuke gave a mock salutes to the girl. "And I want a single battle rematch against both of you!"
"And we'll kick your ass again!" Naruto yelled back. Sakura suddenly wrapped Naruto in a headlock.
"Don't say that to Haku-san, baka!" Sakura growled as she tightened her grip on the blonde's windpipe, turning him blue from lack of air. Hinata quickly tried to pry the wailing banshee of a coordinator off of her crush, Akatsuchi trying to aid the young girl in her task.
Haku laughed as she continued to wave to them before shaking her head. "I'm going to miss those knuckleheads."
Route 45
"Alright, now then...I'm going to head off from here you five. So here's the thing...we can never know when Nagato will rear his head again, but just in case I'm going to give you a guys some gifts." Jiraya said as he reached into the red traveling pouch he had with him.
"Alright...for you Akatsuchi. You're primarily a rock type trainer with the exception of your Golbat so I'm giving you a Hard Stone." Jiraya handed the silvery-grey rock over to the Hiker. "This increases the attack power of Rock-type moves."
"Thank you, but a correction Jiraya-san. I have a Crobat now since my Golbat and I had a strong bond to begin with, due to all the fighting it gained enough experience to evolve." He said as he opened the Pokeball which contained the formerly known Golbat.
Crobat was a four winged bat of a Pokemon with angry yellow eyes and red rings surrounding the irises. Its mouth was closed, showing all of its teeth unlike its pre-evolutions which had their mouths open. Its wing membranes were an aqua colour.
Crobat the Bat Pokemon. A Poison/Flying type Pokemon and the evolved form of Golbat. It flies so silently through the dark on its four wings that it may not be noticed even when nearby.
"That's really cool, Akatsuchi!" Sakura and Naruto chorused.
"Congratulations." Hinata smiled at her friend's accomplishment.
"Hn." Everyone turned to the Uchiha.
"Is that like a universal word in Uchiha?" Naruto deadpanned.
"Hn."
"Is that all you can say?"
"Hn."
"Sasuke you suck Walrein balls!" Sasuke glared at Naruto.
"Hn."
"OH WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
"Well now that we've passed the point where the Uchiha gaki is beginning to use the trademark one syllable word of his people...Hinata, I have your gift right here." Jiraya reached into his pouch and handed Hinata an aqua coloured stone that appeared to have something shining within it, but was actually the light being refracted through the smooth feeling stone at all angles.
"That's a Shiny Stone." Sakura said. "They are said to be able to cause certain Pokemon to evolved like with Fire, Thunder and Water Stones."
"Yes, that is it precisely, Sakura. Iruka has been researching Pokemon evolution his entire career and when you hatched Togepi, he was thrilled. He said how he was even more surprise when you told him how it had evolved through the use of a strong bond a.k.a, high level of friendship with the Pokemon."
"But what does the Shiny Stone have to do with Togetic?" Hinata tilted her head in confusion.
"Well, during the study of Togetic's anatomy through the Pokedex scans you sent him, it was revealed that Togetic's wings are still in an undeveloped stage and that's its body still has more changes to undergo. After running dozens of simulations, Iruka came to the conclusion that your Togetic would evolve through the use of a stone since the bond with your Togetic is already at a high enough level, but it still hasn't evolved."
"But what about training it to a high enough level?" Jiraya shook his head.
"He said how that Togetic's body will grow stronger if you train it, but it will not achieve evolution due to it lacking the proper catalyst to cause the evolution. Hence, the Shiny Stone. Now the reason we thought it was a Shiny Stone out of all the stones in the world is because the energy signature that radiates from the Shiny Stone lies on the same wave length as that of Togetic's."
"I see. I understand what you're saying." Hinata said as she took out Togetic's Pokeball.
"Well don't just stand there, see if the Shiny Stone will evolve it." Jiraya said. Hinata nodded and opened the ball revealing the Happiness Pokemon.
"Toge?" The winged Normal/Flying type looked around before smiling at its trainer. "Toge Togetic!" Hinata bent down causing Togetic to look in confusion at the girl in front of it.
"Now Togetic, I'm going to try something. If it works, you may be able to evolve and become stronger." Hinata said.
"Togetic?!" Togetic stared at the Shiny Stone in Hinata's hands and blinked. "Toge Togetic Tic Toge Toge?" They all turned to Naruto as the blonde translated for them.
"Togetic asked if you were sure you wanted it to evolve because it's not sure if the evolution will come out as how you may expect it to be." Hinata bit her lip as she began to think about the effects of having her Togetic evolve. On the plus side, it could get stronger and that way she'd be able to do better in battle portion of her contests. The cons of this though were that she had no idea of what may happen to Togetic after evolving since some Pokemon have a tendency to become more stubborn and disobedient at times. Something of that nature once occurred to a trainer who had evolved their Charmander into a Charmeleon and then a Charizard and the Charizard refused to obey its trainer for quite a while.
"I'm sure of it."
"Toge Togetic."
"It said, as long as you're okay with it, it will go along with it." Hinata smiled at the Happiness Pokemon.
"You're very brave, Togetic." The winged egg-like Pokemon nodded before it reached out and touched the Shiny Stone.
"Tooogetic?" Togetic was suddenly enveloped in a blinding white light. Its body suddenly grew larger, a size which appeared to be a bit bigger than that of a Donphan. Like its pre-evolutions, it had the blue and red triangular shaped markings, but they were much smaller and located only on the underside of the Pokemon's body. Its body was rather oval-like, similar to that of an egg's. A pair of tiny feet were located on the underside of its body. Attached to its body were a pair of large wings and three tail feathers formed behind it. Its large head had three spikes jutting out of it. The center horn was the same pale white colour as its body, the one of the right was tipped with red and the one on the left was tipped blue.
"TOOOGEKISS!" Hinata's Pokedex beeped as it registered the data for the Pokemon.
Togekiss the Jubilee Pokemon. A Normal/Flying type Pokemon and the evolved form of Togetic. As everyone knows, it visits peaceful regions, bringing them gifts of kindness and sweet blessings.
"Whoa...it worked." Jiraya said as he took out a small camera from his pouch and took a few pictures of the evolved Togekiss to show to Professor Iruka.
"Togekiss!" The Pokemon smiled as it flew high into the air before diving back down, halting in front of its trainer.
"It really evolved!" Sakura exclaimed in amazement.
"Way to go, Hina-chan!" Naruto cheered for the girl. Hinata looked at her Pokemon's wider wingspan before getting an idea.
"Naruto-kun...you still have that Hidden Move, HM02: Fly?" Naruto nodded. The HM was given to him by the former Gym Leader's, now member of the Elite Four, wife after he was told of defeating Lee. A consolation gift for him and Sasuke for defeating the Fighting type gym leader.
"Here." Naruto handed the HM to Hinata as she took out her Pokedex. She opened the disc drive in the machine and placed in the greyish-white disc.
Your Togekiss is able to learn Fly. In order to learn Fly, your Pokemon must forget one of the moves it knows. Which move would you like Togekiss to forget?
The Pokedex revealed Togekiss's move list; Ancientpower, Sweet Kiss, Yawn and Metrenome. After a bit of thinking, Hinata chose to forget Sweet Kiss. A blue beam then launched itself from the Pokedex and into the memory storing area of the Pokemon's brain.
Your Togekiss has forgotten the move Sweet Kiss and has learnt Fly.
Hinata closed the Pokedex before smiling at her newly evolved Togekiss.
"Alright, now that that is done with, it's time for you three to receive your gifts." Jiraya said as he reached into his pouch. Sasuke, Sakura and Naruto all stood in front of the perverted sage of a trainer before Jiraya removed three golden bracelets. One bracelet had the kanji for fire, another with the kanji for water and the third had the kanji for grass.
"Hold out your arms." He instructed. Without question, the three did as they were told. The 'grass' bracelet was placed on Sakura's wrist, Meganium inspecting the piece of jewelry. Feraligatr looked curiously as the 'water' bracelet was placed on Sasuke's, while Typhlosion merely snickered immaturely as it saw its trainer put on a piece of 'girly' jewelry.
"Typhlosion Ty."
"It's not girly." Naruto said as he whacked the fire type over the head. However, before the trainer and partner Pokemon could begin arguing, the bracelets on the three trainers' hands suddenly shrunk around their wrists. Small enough so that it wouldn't be able to be yanked off, but large enough that it wouldn't cut off blood circulation.
"WHAT THE...?!" They all cried out as they tried to take off the bracelets.
"OI, ERO-SENNIN WHAT GIVES?!" Naruto yelled at his godfather. Jiraya raised his hand and stared at the three with a gaze that Professor Iruka had given them when they were students in the Trainer's Academy. A stare that made them silent out of pure respect for the man before them.
"These bracelets are ancient enchanted pieces of jewelry made for those who have been capable of training a single member or all three members of the Water-Fire-Grass trio of each region in the world. They were constructed by the sage known as Kimberly on Four Island in the Kanto region's Sevii Isles."
"Kimberly?" The five trainers and their partner Pokemon stared questionably at the white haired man. Jiraya nodded.
"Yes. She was the one who gave these bracelets to my student, Minato Namikaze, the former Kanto League Champion who was able to tame and train all three Pokemon of the Kanto region's Water-Fire-Grass trio."
"Wait a minute...you taught Minato Namikaze?" Sasuke and Sakura gaped in shock. Naruto stared at the bracelet on his wrist with a hard gaze, a gaze that Typhlosion caught notice of.
"Ty Typhlosion?" Naruto blinked as he registered the Pokemon's voice.
"Yeah...I'm fine, Typhlosion...just...thinking." He muttered as the name Minato Namikaze began to cause bells to ring in his head, however the reason as to why never came to him.
'Minato Namikaze...that's the guy Kaa-san told me about in her story on the night before I became a trainer...but why does it sound so familiar...as if I knew the guy.' He pushed the thoughts to the back of his mind as Jiraya spoke again.
"The wearing of these bracelets signifies you three as being the trainers who would be able to learn...the Ultimate Moves."
"The Ultimate Moves?" Sakura asked. Jiraya nodded as he looked at the pink haired girl.
"To the Gentle Grass-type Pokemon; Venusaur, Meganium, Sceptile, Torterra and Serperior...the Ultimate Grass-type move...Frenzy Plant." Meganium and Sakura suddenly gained a greenish hue in their eyes as the kanji for 'grass' glowed on the bracelet.
He turned to Sasuke now, a blue hue forming in his and Feraligatr's eyes as the 'water' kanji on the bracelet he wore, glowed.
"To the Calm Water-type Pokemon; Blastoise, Feraligatr, Swampert, Empoleon and Samurott...the Ultimate Water-type move...Hydro Cannon."
He finally turned to Naruto and Typhlosion, a deep crimson hue forming in their eyes as the 'fire' kanji glowed on the bracelet.
"And finally...to the Blazing Fire-type Pokemon; Charizard, Typhlosion, Blaziken, Inernape and Emboar...the Ultimate Fire-type move...Blast Burn."
The glows died down from within the trainers' and their Pokemon's eyes. The bracelets however, retained their shining kanji and suddenly the trainers all heard their Pokedex-es beep. Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura retrieved them from their pockets and a message appeared on the screen revealing a fifth move box showing their starters being able to have learned a fifth move.
Your Pokemon Typhlosion has been gifted with the ability to learn a fifth move, Blast Burn. Naruto read from his Pokedex.
"The same thing is said on mine, except it's for Meganium and being able to learn Frenzy Plant." Sakura said.
"Mine as well, only it's with Feraligatr and it having learned Hydro Cannon." Sasuke added.
"Ero-Sennin...what are these attacks?" Naruto asked his godfather.
"As I had stated before, those three moves...Frenzy Plant, Hydro Cannon and Blast Burn, they are the ultimate and most powerful moves of their respective type. However, though your Pokemon have been gifted with the ability to learn these moves as a fifth move, not requiring having to forget a move, that does not mean you can just use the move when you can. These moves are extremely powerful and as such...you will have to train in using them and master them."
"How will we know if we have mastered them?" Sasuke asked. Jiraya pointed to the bracelets.
"Those bracelets are what will tell you if you have mastered them or not. The sage, Kimberly, she told Minato that the glowing kanji on the bracelets will die down and they will be removable. Only when that happens is when you will have mastered the attacks."
The trainers of the Johto starter trio stared in awe at the bracelets on their wrists before Naruto spoke.
"Can we try them out now?" He asked. Jiraya shrugged.
"I don't see why not? We may want to take a couple of steps back." Jiraya said as he grabbed Akatsuchi and Hinata. The pale eyed Hyuga returned Togekiss to its ball while Espeon and Crobat followed behind the man and their flailing trainers before stopping...five miles away from the three trainers.
"DO YOU REALLY HAVE TO BE THAT FAR AWAY?!" Naruto yelled to him. Jiraya remained silent and just gave a thumbs up in return.
"Why do I have a feeling this might not go well?" Sakura asked more to herself than her two male companions.
"Hn." Sasuke said causing the blonde and pinkette to sweatdrop.
"Alright, who wants to go first?" Naruto asked. Sakura and Meganium took a few steps forwards.
"We'll go. Watch this, Sasuke-kun." Sakura cooed. Naruto and Sasuke rolled their eyes at the green eyed girl before she faced away from them.
"ALRIGHT, MEGANIUM...USE FRENZY PLANT!" The kanji on her bracelet suddenly shone brightly, her green eyes gaining an even brighter green hue to them. Meganium's yellow eyes gaining the same hue. A bright green aura, similar to that from when Meganium activated its Overgrow ability, surrounded the Leaf Pokemon.
Meganium then reared up on its back legs and slammed the forelimbs down on the ground. Suddenly, a numerous amount of thorny, brown vines rose up from the ground, twisting around each other into the likeliness of a tree trunk. The makeshift tree bent backwards before slamming down on the ground, creating a large crater.
Sakura covered her eyes as she watched the large dust cloud clear to reveal the thorny roots waving wildly at the edge of the crater. However, the roots suddenly lashed out and slapped away both the user and its trainer. Meganium and Sakura flew backwards, rubbing the small scrapes that formed on their bodies.
Meganium's green aura then died down along with the glows from their eyes and the bracelet.
"Guess that's why Jiraya-san said we had to master them." Sakura voiced out loud.
"Meg." The Grass-type tried to stand back up only to suddenly freeze as if it couldn't move. Sakura noticed that and she remembered such an effect only occurred in one known move.
"Sakura-chan, are you okay?" Sakura stood up and rubbed the slightly bleeding scrape.
"I'm fine, Naruto."
"That is quite a powerful move." Sasuke commented as he took out some disinfecting wipes from his backpack. Sakura thanked him as she took them to nurse her wounds.
"Yeah...we need to learn to control power like that. The power is great, but it comes at a price." She said. Naruto and Sasuke stared at her, waiting for her to continue. "It seems that Meganium's body freezes up due to the amount of energy used to perform the attack, meaning Meganium has to recharge if you will."
"So what you're saying is that these moves are like elemental Hyper Beam attacks?" Sasuke asked. Sakura nodded and Naruto was gaping like a Magikarp.
"That sucks." Naruto said. "Consecutive usage of moves like this would be awesome if we mastered them."
"That's going to be a rather tough challenge to master them." Sakura added.
"Well...I'll go next." Sasuke said as he and Feraligatr took their stand. Having seen Sakura's move in action, Naruto, Sakura, Meganium and Typhlosion wisely decided to move away from the blast zone.
"Alright Feraligatr..." The kanji for water shone brightly on the bracelet as his and Feraligatr's eyes gained the same kind of glow in theirs.
"USE HYDRO CANNON!" Feraligatr's body was surrounded by a blue aura before it dropped down on all fours, its large mouth opened wide. A powerful blast of water was then shot forth from its mouth and by the sheer size and speed at which it moved at, all viewing it could tell that this was no Hydro Pump attack as it was obviously much more powerful.
The Hydro Cannon stormed through multiple trees before meeting the rocky wall of a nearby mountainside. The blue glows all died down and Feraligatr froze in place from the amount of energy the attack had used up. Sasuke stared in amazement alongside his Pokemon. The trees that were struck were all knocked down and where the mountainside was struck...there was a large hole the size of a fully grown Tyranitar present. A few Zubat and Golbat poked their heads near the hole before flying away.
"That was amazing." Sakura and Naruto commented, though Naruto said his comment with less enthusiasm. Feraligatr recovered from its use of the most powerful Water-type move before they switched places with Naruto and Typhlosion.
"Alright buddy...let's show them what you can do."
"TYPHLOSION!" The bipedal bear-like Pokemon stood up on its hind legs before a red aura surrounded its body. Naruto's and Typhlosion's eyes gained a crimson glow along with the 'fire' kanji on the blonde's bracelet.
"ALRIGHT TYPHLOSION...USE BLAST BURN!" Typhlosion's neck flames suddenly sprung to life before changing in colour. Orange-yellow to bluish-white before finally settling on a pure white colour. The white flames rose into the air before Typhlosion unleashed the flames from its neck in the form of a powerful stream of white fire. The attack burnt a trench in the ground before impacting with the ground near the area where Sasuke's Hydro Cannon had made its mark before a large explosion of white fire formed.
The light generated from the fires died down as the fire burnt itself out after Typhlosion felt the after effects of using the attack. The red aura around its body and the glowing eyes and kanji vanished with the flames revealing a large area of scorched land.
"Woah." Everyone gaped in shock at how powerful Blast Burn was. The other members of the group and their Pokemon ran up to Naruto and Typhlosion, who was panting on the ground.
"Naruto-kun...that attack was great!" Hinata congratulated her friend.
"Hydro Cannon is better." Sasuke commented, however, much to his surprise, Naruto didn't make any comment in return. The blonde was too busy staring at the result of Blast Burn before he began to laugh. Everyone watched him like he was insane before he stood back up.
"We are SO going to kick ass with this move, Typhlosion. Now we just gotta practice to master it and I'm sure we'll be able to kick even more ass." The Volcano Pokemon nodded with a fiery look of determination in its eyes.
"TYPHLOSION!" The Volcano Pokemon cried out as it stood back onto all fours. Jiraya smirked at his godson.
"You three be careful in your training." He said to Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura. "Same goes for you two." Akatsuchi and Hinata nodded. Jiraya then took out Gamabunta, his Politoed and climbed atop the smaller, but surprisingly stronger, Pokemon's back. Gamabunta then took a few powerful leaps and in a matter of minutes, the white haired pervert was out of sight.
"Well guys...let's head to Blackthorn City." Naruto grinned. He and Typhlosion began to walk only for them to pause when they didn't the hear the sound of footsteps following behind them.
"A-A-Actually, N-Naruto-kun..." Hinata stuttered, "Sakura-san have something to tell you." Naruto and Typhlosion blinked.
"Hmm, what do you mean?" He asked. Espeon and Hinata looked at each other before turning back to Naruto.
"Well Naruto-kun...you see, due to there being contests in different locations in Johto with respect to where you and Sasuke-san are going..."
"We'll be splitting up Naruto. From here on out, it's just going to be you guys." Sakura said with a frown.
"Wh-What?!"
"TY TYPHLOSION TYPHLOSION!"
"Espeon Espe Eon."
"Espeon's right, Naruto-kun. You can't expect us to always be there beside you because we both have our own paths." Hinata said. Naruto stared down at the ground, his bangs covering his face.
"I see."
"But don't worry, once Sakura-san and I get our five ribbons, we'll be sure to meet you, Sasuke-san and Akatsuchi-kun again." The pale eyed girl walked up to her crush and placed her hand on his face in reassurance. Naruto sighed before nodding.
"I gotcha, Hina-chan." He said bearing his foxy grin. The blue-black haired girl nodded with a smile.
"Naruto, I'll be leaving too. I realized that unlike you and Hinata, that I rarely get any chance to train my Pokemon so I'm going back to train. I heard the Ruins of Alph near Ecruteak City is a good place, so I'll be heading there to train for a while."
Naruto nodded. "You come back stronger, alright?" The Hiker smirked as he bumped fists with Naruto.
"Count on it." Akatsuchi said before he turned and began to walk off.
"Sasuke-kun, try not to get into too much fights with Naruto and Naruto, the same goes for you. I'm not that biased towards Sasuke-kun anymore so I'm willing to hit you BOTH on the head if I hear you've been fighting with each other again." Sasuke and Naruto turned to each other with nervous looks on their faces.
"Mega Meg Meganium." Typhlosion and Feraligatr watched the shadowy aura coat the Grass-type as it stared them down causing them to bow to the Pokemon.
"Typhlosion."
"Feraligatr."
Meganium smiled as the two starter Pokemon obeyed her wish for them to stop fighting like their trainers. Hinata then took out Togekiss's ball and revealed the large Normal/Flying type. Returning Espeon and Meganium to their balls so that the load would be lightened, Hinata and Sakura got ready to go to Ecruteak City where the Pokemon Contest was.
"See you when you get back, Hina-chan! I'll have my eighth badge by the time you and Sakura-chan get back." Naruto said with a small wave. Hinata nodded before pausing as she was about to get on Togekiss's back. The three other trainers looked in confusion as Hinata jumped off of Togekiss and jogged over to Naruto.
"By the way, Naruto-kun." She whispered into his ear, "I know a lot has happened so I'm sure you still need to gather your thoughts, but...did you make your decision?" Naruto blinked in confusion.
"Ummm..."
"Have you decided what your feelings towards me are?" She clarified. Naruto's eyes widened before he frowned and shook his head. Hinata frowned as well before leaning up and kissing the taller boy on the cheek.
"I'm still not going to wait forever, Naruto-kun, but...maybe that will help you decide." Naruto blinked as he touched his cheek before Hinata jumped back onto Togekiss.
"Use Fly!" She told her Pokemon. Togekiss flapped its wings, taking to the skies before flying away towards the ancient town of Johto. Naruto stared at the place where Hinata previously stood. Typhlosion, Feraligatr and Sasuke all looked at the blonde as he was standing there with a blank look on his face.
"Come on dobe. You can think about your Hyuga girlfriend when she gets back." Sasuke said hitting the blonde over the head. Naruto snapped out of his daze before growling at him.
"SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND, TEME!" Sasuke rolled his eyes as he and Feraligatr walked off.
"Well then, you got a lot of time to decide whether or not that's true for you, but we all know in the end, dobe." Sasuke said. Naruto blushed at the thought of Hinata and him together, but he still was embarrassed and leaped at Sasuke.
"SHUT IT TEME!"
"GET OFF OF ME DOBE!"
Typhlosion and Feraligatr sweatdropped at their trainers. Getting to Blackthorn City might take longer than they thought.
Route 17-DayCare Center
A lone Pokemon looked up at the blue skies, its piercing black orbs wondering just what is going on with its trainer.
"You want to go, don't you?" The DayCare lady asked as she walked up to the Pokemon. The Pokemon twisted its serpentine body to face the elderly woman and nodded. She smiled before removing the Everstone and gave the Pokemon a piece of Rare Candy allowing it to evolve. The serpentine Pokemon grew larger, thinner and more powerful as its evolution was finally complete. It began floating in the air using the tiny pair of wings attached to its head.
"Now go...he's waiting for you." The DayCare Lady said. "And tell him he owes me 4000 Poke in payment for raising you." The Pokemon nodded before taking off.
"DRAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The Pokemon took off through the skies...in the direction of Blackthorn City to reunite with its trainer.
(A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. With the story nearing to an end, I just have a few more pieces in the final arc of this chapter. I will only be focusing on Naruto and Sasuke's point of the story since I find doing contests boring for me. What Akatsuchi will be doing at the Ruins of Alph will be just like what you do in HGSS, in which he will be training against the Unknown but also helping the researchers there by finding all 28 members of the Unknown. All I have left are the Blackthorn City, the journeys to the Bell Tower and the Whirl Islands where I will put into effect the scenes from the Pokemon Adventures manga with respect to Lugia and Ho-oh's appearances. I also have the journey through Victory Road and then finally, it will the Johto Silver Conference Victory Tournament.
Now then, Sasuke and Naruto are heading to Blackthron City for their eighth badges, but it will be a single battle for each of them. With their training in the art of Blast Burn and Hydro Cannon, Sasuke and Naruto aim to master the Ultimate Moves of Fire and Water, however they are met with some powerful Pokemon when they have to go through the Icefall Cave. Also, it appears that an unknown Pokemon is heading for Blackthorn City, but whose Pokemon is it? What IS this Pokemon?
Find out in the next exciting chapter of Naruto:Johto Journeys, Chapter 21: Blackthorn City, Birthplace of Uchiha
Before I go though, I am rather confused as to whether or not I should include the part where someone is able to get the Dratini that learns Extremespeed. Should I include that?
Also, should I have Naruto and Sasuke lose their first battle against the Blackthorn Gym Leader and then get their second wind and pull off a win or should it just be a first battle win for them? Answer in your reviews and be sure to review the CHAPTER as well instead of just posting your answers.
See you guys, next chapter.
Pokedex: Seen-134
Caught-87
Character Bio: A
Eye Colour: Black
Hair Colour: Light Blonde
About: A was a trainer who was very talented and the rival of former Kanto Champion, Minato Namikaze before he was said to have disappeared. A had chosen an Eevee as his initial Pokemon, evolving it into a Jolteon so as to prove against his rival which Pokemon was stronger, his Jolteon or Minato's Pikachu. A eventually defeated the Pokemon League and became its Champion, however...Minato had defeated the Pokemon League as well thus earning him the right to challenge A for his title. A lost in the end and Minato became the Kanto Pokemon Champion. Due to the fall of ROOT thirty years ago, the Viridian City gym no longer had a gym leader so after taking a rather harsh examination from the Pokemon League Association, A was granted the title of Viridian City Gym Leader. However, he still wonders where his rival had disappeared to after resigning as the Pokemon League Champion and handing the position back to Izuna Uchiha.
Naruto's Team:
Typhlosion(Male)
Pidgeot(Male)
Heracross(Male)
Quagsire(Female)
Amphoros(Female)
Umbreon(Male)
Hinata's Team:
Espeon (Female)
Butterfree(Female)
Nidoqueen(Female)
Jumpluff(Female)
Furret(Male)
Togekiss(Male)
Sasuke's Team:
Feraligatr(Male)
Sneasel(Male)
Gengar(Male)
Rapidash(Female)
Red Gyarados(Male)
Rhydon(Male)
Sakura's Team:
Meganium(Female)
Azumarill(Female)
Porygon2(No Gender)
Jigglypuff(Male)
Vulpix(Female)
Pikachu(Male)
Akatsuchi's Team:
Golem(Male)
Steelix(Male)
Sudowoodo(Male)
Crobat(Female)