A/N: OracionMist here, sorry for last time's hasty exit. So I'll explain a few things that you may be confused about. This story is Naruto and Ayumi centered.

First about Ayumi; I am aware that I'm making her seem over powered, but it really isn't too surprising considering she started out a lot sooner than Naruto did; along with the saying, girls mature faster than boys. The strength gauge between these two won't be too far apart, and how these two are getting strong so quickly is like I've said, I will be using the Pokémon I actually have in my games and I honestly have a habit of not leaving a town until my Pokémon get as strong as possible before moving on. She will be very straight forward, honest, and have a tendency to say and do some of the things that pop into her mind.

The last chapter was admittedly Ayumi-centric, so everyone would be able to learn more of her character and make sure there's a good grasp on her. As for her mom being a Top Ranger, I had to add it for both future chapters and explain why her mother hasn't been brought up until recently. Her mom is just the female main character from the Pokémon Ranger game, "Guardian Signs" except her eyes are red. As a Ranger she wouldn't be in a nearby region and would probably not make an appearance any time soon.

Her dad; as shown, is the more protective one, as most fathers are, and even though he is president of the Sinnoh branch-which I decided to make the corporations run by family- he intends on doing whatever possible to make his daughter happy, even though he will mostly try to bargain when Ayumi declines the gifts. How Ayumi was allowed to train in Kanto without supervision was his wife's faith that everything would be okay. As for the Pokémon that he sends as rewards after a gym battle victory, the level for every one of them will be ranging 10-30, so she can give the training and the Pokémon are selected at random.

As for Naruto; he is honestly the more level headed of the two, and more often than not, he will be the one that pushes the story further than Ayumi will.

As for those saying that Ayumi is beating Naruto at everything; they have very different goals, so it is too be expecting that they beat the other in certain areas. Battle and training wise, Ayumi will focus on overall abilities and focus on offensive attacks unless otherwise, while Naruto will be dominant in making his Pokémon have strength, speed, and good reflexes and be able to use their moves as many ways for both contest in battles.

These two will show that even though they have strong, influential and doting parents (Naruto's are still just as doting, the first chapter is evidence), Naruto and Ayumi can still get strong on their own hard work and perseverance. Also for legendary Pokémon and starters, there will be special circumstances that won't be showing up quite yet.

Now that that's done, please enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Pokémon, just Ayumi!

Chapter 5

"Ah, it feels kind of good to be back in a Pokemon Center after camping out for a while. I've been wanting to switch out some of my Pokemon to train for a while, what about you Naruto?" Ayumi asked as she stretched her arms while the two traveling trainers were taking a break at a Pokemon Center that wasn't too far from Vermillion City after they'd reached it overnight.

The blond nodded, "Yeah, my other Pokemon could use some training too, I'm happy that Umi and Falco evolved too; they both got stronger quickly along with everyone else." His Magikarp and Spearow evolved in the middle of training, making it a very pleasant surprise. The red female Gyarados did gain a bit of a temper, but she wasn't too different from before she evolved, and the Fearow still had his old battle scars, making him appear quite intimidating. Haru hadn't evolved yet, but it seemed that the Eevee wanted to get as strong as he could before evolving like his Leafeon twin, while the little Pichu was determined on not evolving at all. Taiyou and Aki were doing well in their training, learning new moves as all them reached around level 30 or so, with Rhapsody being ahead as expected. He also managed to catch a shy Oddish from a Pokemon refugee they'd passed by; it got attached to the blond pretty quickly and the girl that overlooked the place thought the little one would be best for each other.

Ayumi seemed to be on a good track as well as she evolved her Prinplup into Empoleon and training her Pokemon to be around level 40, and was now anxious to train the Pokemon back in her ranch to balance her team out. "I really want to work on Clefairy, Sneasel, and Skarmory; I can't do much for Horsea since those portable tanks don't have much excess room."

"That's a good call; I'll be doing the same with Aoi, Mao, Hoshi, and Oddish. I really want to make everyone is in top form for our gym battle." The whiskered boy said as he made his way to the PC to give a call to Iruka to exchange his Pokemon for the first roundabout with the silver-haired breeder making her way to another PC to do the same.

As the two had made their way out the Pokemon Center to start training their female Nidoran and Clefairy respectively, a boy that had sunglasses that sat on his blue hair and wore a pink shirt with a cowboy-like vest over it pointed at Naruto as he declared, "Hey you, the blond in orange! The name's Damien and I challenge you to a one-on-one battle!"

Naruto stared at the boy and nodded, "Sure, you're on." He agreed and the trio walked away from the Pokemon Center.

Ayumi stayed a few steps behind, "How come I wasn't challenged? I'm just as good as Naruto…" She mumbled under her breath.

Ayumi stood as referee as she announced, "Alright, this is a one-on-one match between Damien and Naruto! When one Pokemon is no longer able to continue, the match is over and the Pokemon left standing is the victor! Call out your Pokemon."

Naruto hesitated slightly before shaking his head, "Do your best in our first match, Aoi!" He exclaimed as he called out the blue Poison Pin Pokemon that wiggled her ears and looked at her surroundings before getting serious for her first ever battle with her trainer.

Damien sneered at the blonde and his choice of Pokemon, "Really? That's the first time you used it? You're just making this match too easy for me. Go, Charmander!" The bluenette called out.

The blond and silverette eyed the fire type to see it wasn't trained that much; actually it looked like its trainer expected it to be strong on its own or something. The former's eyes softened as he remembered how Taiyou was when he'd first met the now very brave Charmeleon, but knew there was nothing he could do as he took a quick look over in his Poke-dex for his Nidoran's moves. "Aoi, start off with Growl!"

"Raa!" The female Poison Pin Pokemon did as ordered as she made herself look intimidating as she growled at her opponent as the Charmander did indeed flinch and take a step backwards.

The bluenette snarled at his Pokemon, "Don't you dare wimp out me Charmander! Get in there and use Scratch!"

Charmander did at it was ordered and ran towards Aoi with its claw raised. "Aoi, combat it with your Scratch!" Naruto ordered with his Nidoran falling in sync with the Charmander and both scratching each other approximately at the same time. The blond could only hope that his opponent would take the bait and try to make his Charmander over power the little poison type.

"Charmander, what you doing?! Having a slap fight?! Overpower that blue rat already!" Damien yelled as he looked like he wanted to stamp his feet with Ayumi just giving him a hardly noticeable blank face.

The cerulean-eyed trainer hid a smirk as he called out, "Now get behind Charmander when it raises its claw and use Double Kick!" Aoi quickly dashed out of the way of the attack and went behind the fire type, giving it a kick with her hind legs before Charmander could retaliate. It gave a surprised scream of pain as Naruto gave another order, "And let's end this with Beat Up!"

The Nidoran didn't need to be told twice as she made sure Charmander couldn't get up with her sitting on it as she repeatedly punched the fiery lizard six times before getting up to see that it hadn't fainted yet, but was still pretty injured as its flame got a little weaker than before. Damien, not wanting to lose, ordered, "Get up, Charmander! Get up this instant and fight!"

The blond and silverette were shocked with how the Charmander tried to follow its master's orders, and how uncaring the bluenette was to his own Pokemon. Ayumi called an end to this as she announced, "That's enough, the match is over! Charmander is unable to continue; Naruto and his Nidoran, Aoi are the winners!" She ran to the fire type to help with its wounds as best as she could.

Damien wasn't happy with the outcome and stomped forward, "What do you mean, I lost?! Charmander could've kept going!"

Naruto praised and returned Aoi before stepping forward to respond, "If you looked at your Charmander's flame, you can see that it could've been seriously injured."

After doing what she could to make the Lizard Pokemon's flame a little brighter and healed up, she scowled at the Charmander's trainer, "You should take better care of your Pokemon, at least take Charmander to Nurse Joy in the Pokemon Center. I only did what I could."

Damien glared at the two before sneered and recalling his Charmander, "What I do is none of your business!" With that he walked away in the opposite direction of the Pokemon Center.

Ayumi stared at the very arrogant trainer's back, "You're worried about that Charmander, aren't you?" Naruto asked, already knowing the answer.

"Of course I am, but I can't do anything about it. You feel the same, don't you?"

The blond nodded as he pulled out Taiyou's Poke-ball, "Taiyou was in the same situation when I picked him up after he was abandoned; I really don't want that to make a repeat with that Charmander. The little guy looked like it would've done anything to make its trainer happy."

The silverette agreed, she really did see its perseverance during that battle. "Well if that guy does something stupid to Charmander, I'll show him my Beat Up attack!" She said as she raised her fist with fire practically glowing in her eyes, making Naruto sweat drop a little. Ayumi stopped after a few seconds and started walking, "Well let's start training, we have a good couple of hours to train and our next gym focuses on electric types."

The Unova native caught up easily and walked beside her, "Do you have any information on the gym leader's rules? I only know his name is Lt. Surge and he usually has a Raichu with him."

"Reminds me of a gym leader in Sinnoh. Let's see… from what I know, he prefers one-on-one battles. Well that means I'll be all set with Nidoking." The albino breeder responded with a smile.

Naruto chuckled, not surprised that his travelling companion was happy to battle with her very first Pokemon, and thought over his choices, "I think I'll go with Aki. I'm sure he'd love to have a battle."

"Right! Now let the training commence!"

Time flew by for the duo as they really worked on their newer Pokemon; Naruto managed to have his Oddish and Nidoran evolve with the now Gloom deciding that he'd wanted to be a Bellossom and enter for contests someday; Aoi agreeing as well. His Pichu, Cleffa, and Igglybuff doing just as well. Mao making good improvement as Rhapsody helped to strengthen the Igglybuff's lungs for her vocal attacks. Aki, Haru, Taiyou, and Falco getting stronger, with the Charmeleon now nearing his final evolution point, and Umi and Horsea staying inside their Poke-balls with Exp. Shares to gain some experience as well.

Ayumi was doing just as well; she made sure her Sneasel, Skarmory, and Clefairy caught up with her team before anything and decided against having her Clefairy and Gloom from evolving just yet; in favor of strengthening them as much as she could, and with her own stubborn Gloom in favor of evolving into a Bellossom as well for some reason unquestionable reason. The two helped each other with new moves that the other weren't too known with like Naruto helping with Dragon Pulse for the Silverette's Nidoking and Ice Beam for the blonde's Nidorina.

The two were now taking a break in the Pokemon Center as they ate ramen and udon while their Pokemon were being healed with it being near dusk and it seemed like there would be overnight rain. Right now, they were discussing over a certain topic that the red-eyed girl brought up. "I'm fine with persuading Team Rocket and all, but how would those three listen to us? They're look pretty stubborn, even if it looks like their boss couldn't care less about them." Naruto said as he slurped up his noodles between sentences.

Ayumi chewed on her chopsticks as she thought for a moment before replying, "Well, why don't we wait until they see that their boss won't help them? That way, it'll be easier without having to worry. After all, I still think they just got dealt a bad hand of fate, and we can help them have a better route."

"We can only hope." The blond sighed as he drank his broth.

"Hey, Naruto! Ayumi!" A familiar voice called, attracting the two non-local trainers' attention.

It was Ash and his friends; it had been a while since the two had last seen them. "It's good to see you two again. It seems you two have quite an appetite." Brock greeted with a sweat drop at the eight towering ramen bowls and three udon bowls; the latter not appearing that much compared to the former, but it was still surprising for a girl like Ayumi to be able to eat that amount.

Naruto sheepishly scratched the back of his head, "The two of us spent a really long time training that we forgot about lunch. Brock, I forgot to mention my Charmander and Spearow evolved since the last time you saw them. They're as strong as ever."

At the mention of the fire type Pokemon, the three were a little saddened, the silver haired breeder asked, "What's wrong? Did something happen on your way here?"

"On our way here, we found a Charmander sitting on a rock." Ash started.

"Its flame was weak and it looked really worn out. It even refused our help and wouldn't leave from that spot." Misty continued.

"It said it was waiting there for its trainer, but I just hope they come back for it soon. It's really getting late." Brock finished as he looked out the window in worry.

Naruto and Ayumi glanced at each other, both hoping they were wrong and that this Charmander the three spoke of wasn't who they thought it was. Nurse Joy came up with the two's Pokemon, and after thanking the pink haired nurse, Ayumi mentioned, "There was a trainer with a Charmander; he challenged Naruto and lost. He stormed off, after we asked him to go to the Pokemon Center. The opposite direction from here that is."

Ash was confused, "Why would he do that? If he had an injured Pokemon, it's only natural to come here." His Pikachu agreed.

Brock frowned as he thought aloud, "The opposite direction from here would be from the way we came. Could that trainer that challenged you have abandoned that Charmander, Naruto?"

The blond looked down, "I can only hope he didn't do something like that. Ayumi's a breeder and did her best to help it, but its flame was still pretty weak. And it's raining outside now, an injured fire type won't last too long out there."

"Do you remember what that Charmander's trainer looked like?" Misty asked the two, trying to get information to help the possibly injured Pokemon.

"He-"

As the silverette was about to answer, she was interrupted with obnoxious laughter. The five turned to see a group of boys near the heating area with the familiar boy to the two foreign trainers, Damien in the middle with a large pile of Poke-balls on the table near them, "Look at all the Pokemon you have, Damien!" One of the guys said in awe.

"Yeah, these are a cool collection." Damien replied coolly with a smirk as what seemed to be his group agreed.

"Hey didn't you have a Charmander too?" Another asked.

"Yeah I had one, but the puny thing couldn't even win that many matches."

Misty frowned as the group of boys' loud conversation, "What a jerk, I don't like his attitude."

Brock agreed as he mentioned, "Charmander are weak against water Pokemon, but they can get very strong with enough training."

"That's the guy." Ayumi muttered with her voice low.

"What?"

Naruto explained, "He's the guy we were talking about. About my battle, I think the reason he was upset was because I beat him with a Pokemon I haven't given any training for yet."

"He probably did the unforgivable." The silverette mumbled vaguely as she clenched her fist while everyone continued to listen to the loud conversation.

"So what'd you do with it?"

"Stupid thing kept following me around so I just left it on a rock and said I'd come back for it. No way I'm going back for a weak excuse of a Pokemon!" His smirk widened as he laughed along with his group.

Misty and Ash were shocked by the attitude of the blue haired trainer, "How awful!" Misty said as she noticed the two breeders go towards said trainer. "Brock?"

"Ayumi?" Naruto wasn't surprised when they left at the same time; he was sure that if Iruka was here he'd do the same thing and probably beat the bratty trainer to a pulp. From what he learned from Iruka; if there was anything a breeder will never tolerate were the abandonment and abuse of any Pokemon, and what he was seeing definitely proved it to be true.

With twin frowns on their faces, the two stood in front of the laughing boy, making him stop after noticing their presence with his group backing away from slight fear of the two. Recognizing Ayumi from earlier, he wore a scowl, "What do you two want?"

Ayumi glared down at him, "Why did you abandon that Charmander? Only because of a loss? You don't even deserve to be a trainer. Especially for not even bringing it to a Pokemon Center after I treated it. It was still hurt."

Brock grabbed him by the collar and snarled, "Go and get it. That Charmander is still waiting out there for you."

The bluenette glared back, "Why should I? It WAS my Pokemon, I don't care what happens to the thing."

"It'll die because of you if its flame goes out in this weather." Ayumi growled as the older breeder squeezed threateningly tighter.

Damien pushed Brock away, "What I do is none of your business!"

"Do what he says!" Ash yelled.

"What did you say?"

Naruto walked up as well with a disapproving look on his face, "You have no right in punishing a Pokemon for your loss. I won't forgive you if something happens to it."

"Forgive me? I'm soo scared!" He said sarcastically, "What are you gonna do? Threaten me?"

The silverette wasn't above using that card, "I can do that, though. One call, and I swear your life as a trainer is over for charge of Pokemon abuse." She stated with her hand over her Xtransceiver. She didn't want to bring her father and mother's connections into this, but she wouldn't let a person like him get off scot-free after hurting a Pokemon.

Damien narrowed his eyes, "You're bluffing. A girl like you can't do anything."

"Try me."

Tension was in the air as Nurse Joy yelled, "Alright, that's enough! Break it up! Violence between Pokemon over personal matters is not allowed!"

Everyone backed off, but as the blue haired trainer walked away, Ayumi gave him a solid punch to the face before leaving as she calmly stated, "I said I'd hurt him if he did something stupid with that Charmander. I'm keeping my word." And headed out the door and into the rain.

"Ayumi, at least take a raincoat or something!" Naruto called out at the rash breeder as he ran after her.

"The only thing we can do is make sure the nocturnal Pokemon don't get it. And protect it as much as we can from a distance; we can't risk one of our attacks hurting Charmander." The silverette said seriously as she had out her Empoleon and Kadabra that were attacking random Pokemon guarded the Lizard Pokemon after she covered it in a bundle with her jacket giving it whatever item she had that could give off heat and did her best to ignore the pounding rain.

The blond nodded as he had Aki and Haru out that were attacking Pokemon that tried to come and attack. "We can't Teleport back either. Who knows what it might do to Charmander in its condition." The two fought hard, but was getting hard to see in the darkness and rain, and was worried when he heard his Eevee yowl in pain, "Haru!"

Naruto and his Leafeon brother called out in worry as a thud was heard. Haru had been hit and he couldn't see in this weather, but even so his twin was doing better, at least being able to avoid the hits. It just reminded the Eevee of how evolving would help; his father figure and twin brother would be proud the twins could easily work together in their combination attacks again. "Vee…" Haru shakily stood as he looked up at the night sky and roared as loud as he could with determination as he started to be enveloped in light. When the light died down, it revealed a dark fox-like Pokemon that had red eye and illuminating rings on his body; it was Umbreon, the Moonlight Pokemon.

"Haru…" Naruto and Aki stared in surprised as the blond looked over his poke-dex to see the newly evolved Umbreon's stats to see that he was level 45 thanks to all the accumulated training, and knew the moves: Shadow Ball, Iron Tail, Trump Card, and Moonlight. "Congrats on evolving!" He smiled.

"Um!" Haru barked at the praise.

Aki took his place at his twin side as well, "Lea!"

"Scram, you pesky Spearow! Leave Charmander and my jacket alone! Hey, let go of my hair!" Ayumi yelled as she swatted as the bird Pokemon that had gotten close enough and were trying to now peck at both the fire type and breeder that was protecting it while one was pulling her hair with its beak.

The blond sweat dropped, "At least Charmander's okay. Ayumi on the other hand…"

A rock was hurled near the Spearow, making them fly a short distance and everyone to see that it was Ash and company. "Leave them alone, Spearow!" Ash's Pikachu immediately stood in front of the three with sparks coming from its cheeks, both soaking wet trainers knew that wasn't a good thing. "Use Thunderbolt!"

"PIka…"

"Wait, that's not-!" Naruto yelled.

"CHU!" Lightning shone bright, scaring the bird Pokemon as well as shocking the three.

"A good idea." Naruto finished as he stared at the stunned trio.

"Hey, now's not really a good time for a nap! We need to help Charmander!" Ayumi called as she now had her Kadabra use Psychic to prevent rain from hitting it and having to remove her now drenched jacket and replaced it with a thick small blanket that was gently placed, not to do any sort of harm to its tail flame.

Brock was very concerned at state of the diminishing flame, and took the weak fire type in his arms with Ash holding onto the edge to protect the flame. "Ayumi, can you Teleport us to the Pokemon Center?" He asked as he looked between the albino and her Psi Pokemon.

She shook her head, "I can't do that, I don't know what it could do to its flame."

The older breeder nodded at the reasoning, "Then can you two alert Nurse Joy right away? She'll be able to help."

Ayumi nodded as she and Naruto returned their Pokemon and vanished to tell the pink haired nurse of the extremely injured Pokemon that was on its way here.

Naruto watched from a distance for the entire morning of Charmander running off to return to the rock, the trio falling into one of Team Rocket's pitfall traps, the Lizard Pokemon coming to their aide and helping with a power Flamethrower, even Damien having the nerve to try and reclaim Charmander only to have the fire type char him up instead and literally make him run to his mommy. With finally Ash capturing Charmander, from Brock believing he helped just as much.

"It was really a shame that you didn't get to see all that, Ayumi. I'm sure you would've taken a picture; if you hadn't caught a cold that is." The blond said with Rhapsody out of her Poke-ball as the two continued on their way.

The silverette wore a sick mask on her face with her eyes narrowed, "Be quiet." She grumpily sniffled.

"It's not surprising that you got sick, you wore thin clothes and got soaked in last night's storm to help that Charmander. I'd say it's a miracle that you only got a small cold."

"Achoo! You were too, so how come you aren't sick too?"

The spiky-haired blond shrugged, "Apparently my family has really strong immune systems."

"It's true! I've never seen Daddy or his mom and dad get sick!" Rhapsody added without missing a beat.

Ayumi only sighed sadly, "Not fair."

A/N: Alright, that's chapter 5 with Naruto catching an Oddish with his Oddish, Magikarp, Spearow, Nidoran, and Eevee evolving, and Ayumi's Prinplup evolving. Ash also caught Charmander, along with my idea of how Damien abandoned it along with a scenario of them aiding the Charmander and reactions, and Brock and Ayumi showing their breeder natures. Also as a quick mention, Brock is slightly aware of Naruto's status, thanks to Misty, but only knows that Ayumi is a breeder. For those that wonder why Ayumi didn't catch Charmander; aside from being sick in bed (currently am right now thanks to my little brother sneezing and coughing on me) , like Brock, she thinks it'd be happier with Ash as its trainer.

Now onto Naruto and Ayumi's Pokémon:

Naruto:

Meloetta;female (Rhapsody)

Fearow;male (Falco)

Leafeon;male (Aki)

Umbreon;male (Haru)

Charmeleon;male (Taiyou)

Gyarados[Shiny];female (Umi)

Pichu;male (Teru)-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Nidorina;female (Aoi)-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Igglybuff;female (Mao)-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Cleffa;female (Hoshi)-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Horsea;female-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Gloom;male-currently at Uzu-Nami Ranch

Ayumi:

Nidoking;male

Empoleon;male

Gloom;female-currently at Devon Family Ranch

Mothim;male-currently at Devon Family Ranch

Kadabra;male

Machoke;male

Clefairy;male-currently at Devon Family Ranch

Horsea;male-currently at Devon Family Ranch

Sneasel;male

Skarmory;female

The next chapter will be the Vermillion City gym battle with Lieutenant Surge, and it won't disappoint!

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