A.N. Ooh, how exciting, finally a little action with the story! Now some of you may be questioning whether or not Naruto has a second Pokèmon, and the answer is… no.

Yup, Naruto still only has Kurama at this point. And he's going into a doubles battle. The confidence of a ten year old knows no bounds across all worlds, and it damn well holds true here too!

To the comments:

thor94: I can't wait either! It'll be interesting Indeed. :)

Thank you for commenting, it really helps me along!

Also, I am so sorry, I will be rewriting the chapter before this one after I finish this. That chapter felt too clunky after rereading it (in my humble opinion).

Anyways, please enjoy, Whirlpool Trainer - Bad Reputation!

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"Alright, Lechonk, Comfey, let's do this!" Shizune ordered, throwing out a Love Ball and Nest Ball.

Out of the Love Ball jumped out a small, green ball, a flower tail briefly trailing behind it. The green ball had a orange face with tiny arms, which took to grabbing the end of the flower tail.

Jumping from the Nest Ball, Lechonk in its round, pudgy glory, landed on its face, before flipping forward into a standing position and beginning to sniff the air.

"Alright, well, I'll send you, Kurama!" Naruto yelled, throwing his regular Pokèball with much gusto.

"... uh, hey kid, you know this is a doubles battle, right?" Shizune asked in mild confusion.

"I only have one Pokèmon."

'Great Groudon,' Both Tsunade and Shizune thought at the same time. 'There's no common sense in this kid, is there? No way he's a shinobi with those two brain cells!'

"Th-then why did you agree to a double battle?"

"Because then you can't complain about me beating you if you're at your best! There is nothing for you to refute!"

"... He does have a point… a very dumb point, but," Tsunade muttered in thought, eyes narrowed. "Fine, have it your way!"

Shizune shot a face of pure bewilderment towards, but instantly shook it off. Best not to look this gift Rapidash in the mouth!

"Okay, just get this over with, fight!"

~ Naruto V. Shizune: Start! ~

"Kurama, catch them flatfooted! Flame Charge, now!"

Closing his eyes, Kurama instantly burst into flame before charging in a blur, straight for Lechonk.

"Lechonk, Protect, Comfey, Vine Whip!"

Tamping its feet into a more defensive position, a blue barrier of hexagons appeared before Lechonk, Kurama smashing and cracking part of it with a headbutt and instantly putting the flames coating Kurama out! Comfey, appearing from behind Lechonk, makes a surprise attack with two Vines protruding from its backside like its flower tail, swinging itself in an arc, and successfully smacking Kurama away.

Briefly spinning midair, Kurama lands on his feet, shaking itself off the vines that had detached from Comfey, frustration instantly entering his expression.

"Woah there, keep a calm mind, Kurama," Naruto called out with a disturbing calmness. It had an instantaneous effect on Kurama, a calmness washing over both Trainer and Pokèmon.

"..." Tsunade watched Naruto with narrowed eyes, unresponsive to the world.

The field stood still for several, both sides waiting for action.

"Kurama, Flaming Volley!" Naruto commanded, pointing his index finger with great authority.

"Lechonk, Zen Headbutt, Comfey, Bind!"

With a pop of smoke, another Kurama dropped next to Kurama, linking their front paws. Instantly, the clone was alight with flames, spinning around Kurama while Kurama did his best to hold his ground and spin in place.

Unfortunately, however, a psionic wave bashed into the vulnerable spinning Kurama, causing him to let go of the clone prematurely. The clone rocketed toward the wall to the right of the battlefield, crashing into and ricocheting off of it and straight…

To the ground.

Where it crashed and burned, a plume of burning dirt shooting into the sky.

'...what is this kid doing?' Tsunade asked herself in bewilderment, through body language still neutral, watching Naruto's face morph into a face of focus.

"Uh… should we call the battle? I think your friend is done," Shizune called as the dust cleared, seeing Kurama limping on his front paw, left eye swollen. "There's no use, I think Your Pokèmon's done, Naruto."

"Don't you count me out yet, Nee-chan! I got a bag of tricks, and no injury is gonna stop us!" Naruto quipped, hands forming fists as he entered the beginner's fighting stance.

"What?! I'm not fighting you! Not in hand-to-hand combat!" Shinuze warned, her face

"And we won't be! Kurama will finish this himself."

"Again, I don't think-"

"Kurama, now!"

Shizune's eyes nearly popped out of her head as the Kurama in front of her gave a vulpine smile and popped into smoke.

'Oh, I see,' Tsunade thought with amusement, now seeing what had happened. 'The clone and original had switched points at some point. More likely, when the clone was made.

'Though it is curious how durable the clone is. I've never seen it that durable before,' Tsuande wondered, her head tilting slightly, as she watched the ground below her protege's Pokèmon's bulge outwards and explode, flames coating a smiling Kurama in large patches, sharp eyes filled with malice looking down at Comfey and Lechonk.

"Lechonk, Substitute!"

'Good to see Shizune wasn't too late with her reaction,' Tsunade thought, her mind wandering a little. Don't get her wrong, this was an interesting fight, but she got the feeling this Naruto wasn't really a Shinobi. At least in a way she needed to worry.

Tsunade only blinked in surprise as she watched Lechonk Substitute with a larger piece of the ground behind Kurama, Comfey still attached.

Kurama's eye widened for a split second before his head turned to look behind him, eyes sharpening as he viewed his prey. Landing atop on the ground Lechonk substituted with, Kurama turned and ducked like a cat waiting to pounce.

Lechonk landed hard on his back, before rolling onto his feet again. Comfey glowed briefly before the welts and burns on Lechonk's healed in a green glow.

"Healing? No fair, man! All that for nothing!" Naruto whined, making Tsuande raise an eyebrow.

"Comfey, Vine Whip!"

"Kurama, Flame Charge! Burn it away!"

Tsuande snorted as the vine whip was, in fact, burnt to a crisp. 'Her strategy doesn't work here. Maybe this battle was meant to be. I've told Shizune to not be struck in her ways, yet she still has. This'll be a good wake up call.

'Though, I do have to give Shizune some credit,' Tsunade pondered, lip downturning and her eyebrows raised, head tilting with mirth before returning to her neutral expression. 'Her fighting style is more towards subduing, it was not made for an actual fight,' Tsunade continued in her mind, watching as Lechonk used Protect as Kurama pounced. 'Though I'm certain this battle is gonna last a long time,' Tsunade thought with a little boredom, eyes glancing to a road to the left of the battlefield, her eyebrows quirking as she took note of two new watchers.

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"P-professor Magnolia, how are you feeling today?" Sycamore asked with a smile, though a twinge of fear was clearly heard in his voice.

The two Professors were standing to side in the foyer of Professor Sycamore's lab, but while other Professors began to mingle, these two remained silent.

The Professor in question stared at Sycamore with a deadpan expression. She had very light brown hair, graying just slightly with age, held back with a Periwinkle Hairband. Her skin crinkled ever so slightly at the sides of her eyes, the ridge of her nose dropping into a small, rounded, bottom-heavy, diamond shape.

Glasses sat on the ridge of her nose, glasses shaped like half-ovals, connected by a small yellow band going around her neck. On her neck sat a polished stone of black, red, and purple.

Professor Magnolia wore a simple yellow dress under her lab coat, barely reaching her ankle. In her hand sat a cane, delicately and lovingly carved into a Corvinight as the handle, its stick a Periwinkle like her hairband.

Professor Magnolia had been standing with both hands on her cane in front of Professor Sycamore, before she took her left hand off to grab part of the lab coat to stare at a stain on it.

"I-It's just a coffee stain, I swear!" Sycamore exclaimed, though unwilling to move from his spot.

"Mmmm," Professor Magnolia simply hummed in disregard of Sycamore's comment.

Sycamore could only gulp as a disdain crossed Professor Magnolia's visage before disappearing again. "You were never this anxious nor clumsy when you were working with me," Professor Magnolia murmured.

"Well, you had-"

"I got myself a new assistant," Professor Magnolia continued, disregarding Sycamore's words again. "Do you remember my Granddaughter?"

"Uh, not exactly?" Sycamore muttered, looking away in embarrassment.

"Fair enough," The Professor answered.

Silent once more as the two stood alone.

"Are… are you gonna introduce me to her?" Sycamore asked. "Do we need to go find her or-"

"Eh, you'll meet eventually," Professor Magnolia said, making Professor Sycamore sweat drop.

"... Well, I better go prepare my presentation," Sycamore muttered, making Professor Magnolia's eyes narrow slightly.

"Still needing to prepare now?" The Professor remarked plainly. "I've taught you better than That."

"Well, I've only recently discovered what I'm presenting about, like about a week ago kind of recent. Of course I still need time to Prepare."

"Tsk," The Professor looked away, right hand gripping her handle a little bit tighter. "You know, the Professor designation you've taken only allows you to study certain topics, correct?"

"Well, yes, but-"

"Professor Sycamore, we have allowed you to get away with studying on your own topics, but we have let you get away with this for far too long," Professor Magnolia spouted like they were rehearsed lines. "If you don't produce any results during this meeting, then…" Professor Magnolia breathed deeply before continuing. "We'll have to cut funding to your department."

"What?! But-"

"We've given you seven years," Magnolia answered. "Seven years, with each year still not giving results. We've given you resources, help, anything to help you, yet you refused, saying you had something in the works.

"Now, it's time to show what you've worked on," Professor Magnolia finished, walking away with a sigh.

'Oh shit,' Sycamore thought simply.

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And there we are. I have- I'm sorry, I started this chapter 5 weeks ago, but finally got to finishing it. I just couldn't figure out the fight, heck, it still doesn't feel like it flows right, there's just something missing!

I am really not a fight writer, which is dumb considering the universes I'm using. I can certainly plan On how to fight and maybe choreography, but writing fighting? Completely different skill.

Anyways, that's for reading, and I hope you found yourself in a happier place!