"Uh…. Thomas? Hello? You there?" I heard Naruto say and saw a puppy paw wave in front of my face.
I blinked and flinched a bit in shock. I must've spaced out from thinking about what I had mentioned in the last paragraph from the last chapter. I shook my head and looked at Naruto, who was smirking a bit at me and Sasuke with a smile on his face.
"Oh, uh, sorry," I chuckled embarrassed, "I must've zoned out…"
"Well, I can't blame you," Sasuke said, as Naruto laid back down, "You went through quite a shock and experience all in one night."
"Yeah, I'll say…" I muttered, rubbing my arm and remembering the (excuse my language) hell I went through, "That hurt so much, I thought was gonna die…"
Naruto lowered his ears a bit and apologized, "We're so sorry, Thomas. We did make the wish, but we honestly didn't think you'd have to go through it and feel it."
"We thought that Jirachi would've at least put you to sleep, so you wouldn't have felt it," Sasuke said.
"Nah, it was incredible. I mean, I wouldn't want to do it again, but if it was necessary to live with you guys, it was worth it," I said smiling.
This statement caused both their faces to turn bright red. I grinned at them, chuckling as I took a breath and started to speak again.
"So, I guess I'll ask… how did you guys get to my world, if you guys lived here?" I asked.
Both smiled at each other and then back at me. I figured that this would be a big and long answer. I sat back and started to enjoy them getting ready to tell me a story.
"Okay, but before we begin that, we have to start with a legend of the Pokémon world that ties into us going to your world," Sasuke explained.
"A legend?" I asked interested.
Naruto nodded and said, "It's the legend of Ninetails."
Ninetails… that fire-type fox with nine tails that looks beautiful? It has a legend?
"Oh, okay… Wait a minute…. How did I know about that Pokémon if I've never seen one?" I asked confused.
It was a bit baffling. I've heard of that Pokémon, but I never saw it in real life or even pictures of it, yet I could see what it looked like in my head.
"I can explain that," Naruto said proudly, "When you transformed, you obtained the knowledge a Pokémon would from this world."
I get it now! Those pictures when I first started falling make sense! Those Pokémon pictures were information of all the Pokémon that are known to date! I get it now! However, at the time, I didn't understand that those pictures showed future events that would happen to me. However, I nodded.
"Okay, so go ahead and continue with the legend," I said, anticipating what this would be.
Sasuke nodded and began to tell the tale, "A thousand years ago in the human world, there was a young boy who was foolish and disrespectful. He caused nothing but mischief and had no respect for the rules. One day, he came across Ninetails, taking a quiet stroll near his home. Thinking it would be a joke, he snuck up behind her and touched one of her tails. That caused great anger in her and made her attack him with a curse."
"Wait, attack him? What do you mean?" I asked, extremely confused about what Sasuke meant.
"Touching one of the Ninetails' tails can cause bad luck and curses," Naruto briefly said, "And Ninetails is a woman here, but she keeps herself hidden. Nobody knows where she is."
"Anyways," Sasuke continued, "Ninetails attacked the teenager and struck in order to kill. It was then the trainer's two Pokémon stood in front of him and took the attack. As they suffered and died, Ninetails asked the human if he wanted to save them. But as she asked that, the human turned and ran away, leaving his two Pokémon to die alone. Thus, Ninetails cursed the human."
"What was the curse?" I asked.
"The curse was this boy in a thousand years would be reborn as a Pokémon and cause havoc on the Pokémon world by causing natural disasters and chaos," Naruto answered.
"Whoa…" I muttered.
"I know; it's pretty big stuff," Naruto said.
"So, then, how does this apply to you?" I asked.
Sasuke answered, "Well… we had a lot of natural disasters of late. Big ones, like hurricanes, tornadoes, and big thunderstorms. So, we made a decision to go to the human world and investigate to find out who was the human being in the legend and perhaps stop it."
"But… how did you get from this world to mine?" I questioned.
"The same way you got into ours from yours, Thomas," Naruto barked happily, "Jirachi!"
Ah, I get it now. They traveled between our worlds to stop the natural disasters. They just had to go…. Back…. IN TIME!? WAIT A MINUTE!
"Wait!" I exclaimed, "You mean that my world-!"
"Yes, Thomas," Sasuke nodded and said smiling, "Your human home is a thousand years in the past to our Pokémon world."
Holy cow… I never would've thought. My home, my TIME even… was the beginning of their legend. It makes sense now. So, they went to investigate this. Hmm…. Wait, the word 'investigate' caught my attention when he said that.
"You guys said investigate. Are you guys like some sort of police or something?" I asked, impressed by them.
"Not exactly," Sasuke answered blushing, "You see, in our world, there are groups called the Pokémon Rescue Teams."
"Rescue Teams?" I repeated in confusion.
Naruto nodded and said, "Yeah. Rescue Teams respond to many dangerous things, like rescuing somebody in trouble to fighting bad guys and natural disasters. In fact, Sasuke and I are one of the best teams!"
My eyes widened and I asked, "Really?"
"Hee-hee… yeah, although we're technically rookies, we are actually just a few rescue points away from obtaining a higher rank," Sasuke said grinning.
So that's how Sasuke and Naruto have such amazing strength and phenomenal speed. They are some of the best and strongest Pokémon in this world! That was so amazing, I couldn't help but smile.
"And just for the record," Naruto said annoyed as he sat proudly, "We could've wiped out those Pokémon of Mr. Pepperridge if we wanted too!"
I laughed at Naruto, who smirked, and said, "Then… why didn't you?"
Sasuke sighed, "To be honest, we were scared. I mean, at the time, you and that nice old man were all we could take for humans. But then to have one attack us with a bunch of humans surrounding us was frightening."
Both stood up and walked over to me. They hugged me out of the blue really tight. I blinked in surprise, but then smiled and slowly wrapped my arms around them. They snuggled into me as Sasuke rubbed his head on mine.
"Thomas… I'm sorry… about that day… we should've dodged it," he said regretfully.
"It's okay," I comforted them, "It's not your fault."
"But Thomas…" Naruto whined, closing his eyes, "If we had only fought better and you hadn't gotten hurt-"
Before he could go on, I had slipping my hands underneath his belly and on Sasuke's face. I began to scratch gently, causing their eyes to close and a smirk to come across their faces. Naruto slowly laid down and rolled over, allowing me to scratch and rub his belly more. Sasuke leaned his head towards my hand, so I was able to scratch it more. I giggled as they moaned in happiness.
"I see you like it when I do this," I said, barely able to say it from chuckling.
"Yeah, we love it so much…" Naruto said dreamily.
"Whenever we're alone, you're welcome to rub and scratch us all over whenever you want," Sasuke said smiling.
After a while, I stopped rubbing and they were able to sit again facing me. We smiled at each other; I loved them with all my heart. But now, it was time to hear the rest of the story.
"So, how did you get in touch with Jirachi?" I asked, "I thought Legendaries like to be secluded from public notice."
"They do sometimes," Naruto replied, "We went on a journey to a place near Wish Cavern, the rumored home of Jirachi. After searching for a long period of time, we finally came into contact with Jirachi. We asked him if we could have a wish to go back into the human world around that time and find Ninetails, so we could warn her and prevent it from happening."
"He permitted the wish," Sasuke added, "but he gave us only two months. We agreed, and he even was willing to put us on the human world where it actually happened. He told us it was called Kilyla."
"My island!" I exclaimed in shock.
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