Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start

"Lets have a good match." Naruto said with a small smile on his face, because so long as he didn't actually have to deal with the ghost types face to face then he would be fine with going against them in a battle. This would be the most important battle he had in a long time, so he was going to have to make sure that he made this match as fun to watch and have as possible.

"I hope you don't mind... I didn't mean for..." Phoebe trailed off with a nervous glance around them. It would seem that the Ghost Master of the Hoenn Elite Four going up against the urban legend of the Pecha Tree Sage had spread VERY fast. When people heard that they were going to be using the training field behind the pokemon center, the masses had quickly come to watch their match. Naruto had recently heard of this, he knew he had a title because he lived under a Pecha tree in the middle of a lake, but apparently a few years back somebody had seen him training with Gyarados and had spread the rumor around that Naruto had tamed his friend with his bare hands.

Not false, but not true either.

"Yeah, and I could do without the camera crew." Naruto said with a deadpan as he pointed towards the crew getting ready to broadcast their pokemon battle live. Really, was it THAT big of a deal that they as semi-celebrities were going to have a pokemon battle? They were just normal... semi-normal people that wanted to test their pokemon, and by extension themselves, against each other in hot blooded combat.

"Like I said, sorry." Phoebe said with a light bow, and Naruto waved it off as nothing. He just didn't want people to get hurt, but they were in slightly protected stands so it should be okay. She started to chuckle, before she turned serious. Naruto looked at his belt, while Phoebe looked at the pokeballs she had behind the flowers on her head. Naruto went over the mental list of his team he was going to be using for this match.

'So Charizard, Raichu, Slowpoke, Hitmonlee, Gyarados, and Gengar.' Naruto thought as he pulled a pokeball from his belt and enlarged it to throwing size. He did NOT have the best team for going against a ghost type, but his best bet was to use his Gyarados to completely wipe the floor with her in one go. He COULD do that, but that wasn't as fun as giving his other guys the chance to train.

'Heh, this guy beat a Gyarados bare handed... I need to treat him like a League Winner, otherwise I might lose.' Phoebe thought with a smirk as she enlarged her own pokeball and sent him a look of challenge in her eyes. Normally she used her team filled with nothing but ghost types, but she did in fact have one pokemon that had nothing to do with ghosts that was given to her by the Champion of her region. Steven, the name of the champion, had given the entire Elite four a Steel Type pokemon born from an egg to raise. She would confuse him with using this pokemon as her first choice, then she could feel him out.

"Okay! This will be a six on six battle with no substitutions allowed! The winner will be decided when they knock out all of the opponents pokemon!" The referee shouted as he raised a red flag towards Naruto, and a green flag towards Phoebe. Phoebe and Naruto smirked at each other and prepared to throw their pokeballs, before they heard the sound of the announcer for the camera crew.

"Here we are at the Vermilion City Pokemon center with this exciting live event! The Urban legend of Pallet Town, the Pecha Tree Sage, has been formally challenged by the Ghost Master of the Hoenn Elite Four Phoebe! I'm your host Marcus Evergreen, and this is Pokemon Spotlight bringing you this COOL battle!" Marcus shouted with excitement, and Naruto started to sweat lightly.

'Urban legend? I lived in a forest, in the middle of a lake... I wasn't that hard to find. They make it sound like I was some kind of hermit who avoided the city like the plague.' Naruto thought with a twitching eye, before he forced himself to calm down and start smirking again.

"Ahahaha! I'm Phoebe of the Elite Four. I did my training on Mt. Pyre. While I trained, I gained the ability to commune with Ghost-type pokemon. Yes, the bond I developed with Pokemon is extremely tight. So, come on, just try and see if you can even inflict damage on my Pokemon!" Phoebe yelled towards Naruto, or rather she put on a show for the camera so that she could make this even more exciting for the people that were watching this show.

"Ha! I'm Naruto Uzumaki of the Route 1 Forest, the Pecha Tree Sage! I have trained with my pokemon, together I have gained the ultimate bond of trust with my Pokemon! You say I can't inflict damage, well lets see you face the iron will of me and my pokemon!" Naruto acted it up as well, his slight nervousness of being in front of the camera vanished when he and Phoebe threw their pokeballs and jumped to the opposite ends of the field.

"I choose you! Slowpoke/Metang!" Naruto and Phoebe yelled as his Slowpoke appeared in his side of the field, and her Steel/Psychic pokemon appeared on her side of the field with a flash. Metang was a floating blue pokemon with black and red eyes with only two arms with three steel claws on it.

"Metang! Lets start this of with a full powered Metal Claw!" Phoebe shouted as Metang started to fly towards Slowpoke with it's claw glowing bright silver. Naruto was sure that people would be questioning his choice on using Slowpoke, but despite what others said, it was a pretty sturdy pokemon in it's own right.

"Lets have a little fun! Slowpoke, show some speed with a Watergun!" Naruto ordered with a grin, and Slowpoke just opened his mouth and started to gush water from his mouth. The water hit the ground in front of him, before Slowpoke went flying backwards just as Metang crashed and clawed three long strips of earth from the ground with it's Metal Claw. Slowpoke landed on the ground and it stopped using Watergun, and a small amount of mud formed on the ground between Slowpoke and Metang.

"Take him down with Take Down!" Phoebe barked out before Naruto could give another order, and Naruto watched as Metang rushed Slowpoke with a glowing full body blow that sent his pokemon flying through the air and slamming into the ground a few feet away from him.

"You good to go Slowpoke?" Naruto asked when his pokemon started to stand back up, showing that he could take the damage that he had gotten, but the wobble in his legs showed that the move was powerful enough to take a good chunk of his stamina out. When Slowpoke nodded, Naruto stared at Phoebe with a good serious look. "Perfect, then use Yawn!" Naruto ordered, and Slowpoke did just that.

He yawned.

"Huh? Yawning... Metang, use Take Down and end this!" Phoebe shouted out, and Metang started to glow before it began to rush after Slowpoke.

"Slowpoke, use Ice Beam!" Naruto shouted out, and in turn his Slowpoke started to charge up a bright blue ball of power in front of his mouth.

'What? Ice moves aren't very effective against a Steel-type?' Phoebe thought in confusion, and then her eyes widened when Naruto's Slowpoke shot the Ice Beam at the mud in front of him. The mud completely froze, and spikes up frozen mud shot up into the air in front of Slowpoke and blocked Metang's path. Her eyes widened, before she saw Metang CRASH through five layers of frozen mud. Take Down caused damage to the user as well, and the harder the object they crashed into the worse the recoil damage was. Five layers of mud wasn't to bad, but it slowed down Metang enough for Slowpoke to run out of the way when Metang slammed into the ground.

"Good job Slowpoke! Now use Disable." Naruto said calmly, and in a small flash Slowpoke's eyes glowed, as did Metang's when the Disable hit and made the move Take Down impossible for Metang to use for the moment.

"Metang, use Metal Claw and finish this up now!" Phoebe yelled out, before nothing happened despite her giving her pokemon an order. Her eyes widened when she saw her pokemon had it's eyes closed, and the light sounds of it sleeping rang to her.

Yawn, a move that causes pokemon to grow more tired after awhile. Her Metang had fallen asleep, and Metang crashing through the mud barriers had given Yawn enough time to take effect.

"Slowpoke, use Flamethrower." Naruto said with crossed arms. It wasn't a well known fact, but Slowpoke were handy pokemon because they were one of the few Water-types that were able to learn Fire-type moves with enough of the proper training. As it were, Naruto had a good number of pokemon able to help teach Slowpoke how to use Flamethrower. Slowpoke started to spew flames from his mouth at point blank range right at the sleeping Metang, and Phoebe started to grit her teeth.

"Metang! Wake up NOW!" She yelled in the hopes that her pokemon would hear her voice and wake up. She was happy when the flames stopped spewing from Slowpoke's mouth, but she frowned when she saw Metang was still asleep.

"Dream Eater Slowpoke." Naruto said, and light energy bubbles started to come from Metang's body and flat towards Slowpoke's open mouth. As they entered his mouth, the damage on Slowpoke's body started to lessen and lessen. Psychic moves might not be very effective, but they could still help him heal the damage that had been done to Slowpoke earlier. Metang started to stir lightly, and Naruto was annoyed that he wouldn't be able to win this before Metang woke up from it's nap. "Slowpoke, use Flamethrower again." Naruto said, and Slowpoke jumped on top of Metang and started to use Flamethrower right into Metang's face again.

'Using even a Slowpoke to this level, despite the huge difference in the power of our pokemon. This level of trust, and his ability to understand his pokemon's strengths and weaknesses... just amazing!' Phoebe thought when Metang started to float into the air, only for it to come crashing down when the long lasting point blank Flamethrower knocked him right out into lala land once more.

"Good job Slowpoke, you won your first real battle!" Naruto said with a big grin on his face when Slowpoke jumped from Metang and started to wobble over to Naruto. He was still in what Naruto would assume was the red from that one landed attack, even with the healing, but he was still awake after a battle against a member of the Elite Four. Naruto got down on his knees, before he scooped Slowpoke up into a warm hug to celebrate a victory in his first real match that wasn't sparring.

"First battle... good job Metang, you put everything you had into that." Phoebe said with a small smile when she returned her knocked out pokemon to his pokeball. Her pokemon had been far stronger, but Naruto had used the area to his advantage to make Metang defeat itself in that round.

"Amazing all you folks at home! Using the most unexpected pokemon, Naruto has pulled out an amazing win against the first pokemon that Phoebe sent out! Scoring himself the first point of this match! How will Phoebe counter this startling development, and how will she turn this around, or will Naruto's skills keep him the lead in the exciting Pokemon Battle!?" Marcus shouted out with an excited look on her face, and Naruto face palmed. He would have rather just continued the battle without a commentary, but this was going to make him even more famous that he already was apparently.

"We'll see about that, that was only a warm up. The real things begins with this girl." Phoebe bragged with her next pokeball in her hand, while Slowpoke went back to the battlefield when she threw her pokeball onto the ground and Naruto shivered when her pokemon came out of it's confinement.

"Dusclops!" The pokemon chanted it's name, and Naruto felt that this one was FAR stronger than the Metang he had just defeated.

"OH! Phoebe sends out a POWERFUL and unknown Ghost-type pokemon! How will Naruto respond to this?" Marcus shouted, and Naruto twitched in annoyance again, before he grinned and stared at Phoebe, while she stared at him. They were both grinning at each other, and in no time at all it was like they could each feel each others aura as well.

Warm up time was OVER!

The real battle had just begun!

"Kick her... WIN!" Rose shouted towards Naruto as she waved a banner with a Pecha berry on the front of it, openly mocking him by using a flag with a Pecha berry to show his own nickname. Erika next to her was holding up TWO banners just to mess with Rose, and she even had a small headband on in the color orange. The two were still trying to outdo each other no matter what the thing was, even when they were trying to cheer him on in his battle.

"Zzzzz." Erika snored lightly, and even asleep she was waving the flags around out of a trained instinct.

...

"Idiots." Naruto muttered to himself, before he became serious again and looked at Phoebe looking at the stands as people continued to come and make the numbers of those watching grow. She looked towards Naruto, and both of the out pokemon were looked in an intense staring contest.

"Dusclops, the Slowpoke is already weak! Finish this off with Shadow Punch!" Phoebe ordered quickly, and Naruto narrowed his eyes at the rash move being made to his pokemon. Naruto knew that hit would be more than enough to put Slowpoke down, but he could also tell that she wanted his pokemon out as quickly as possible, more than likely to even up the score as quickly as possible. Her Dusclops on the other hand, didn't seem to be all that fast. Even Slowpoke was able to jump out of the way of the first shadow fist with ease, Naruto's 'dodge' training against Gyarados had surely paid off when running away.

"Slowpoke, Yawn!" Naruto yelled, and Slowpoke turned around and yawned loudly as a puff of smoke came his mouth and hit Dusclops right in the face. Just as Dusclops knocked Slowpoke out with a fist to the face that sent Slowpoke flying far out of the battlefield. Naruto quickly grabbed his pokemon's pokeball, before he returned him to the inside of his carrier before he could hit the ground.

"Amazing! This Dusclops that Phoebe used knocked out the Sage's pokemon with a single hit! What does he have up his sleeve NEXT!" Marcus shouted with a grin on his face, while Naruto sent the announcer a slightly annoyed look that was out of frame, meaning that it wasn't on the camera. Naruto shook his head, before he placed Slowpoke's ball on his belt, and pulled another pokeball off and tossed it up into the air high enough that Phoebe had to close her eyes to avoid the sun.

"Come on out Charizard, lets show her our fighting SPIRIT!" Naruto shouted, making a ghost pun while he was at it when the orange dragon shaped pokemon came from his pokeball and roared flames into the sky. Flying down the the ground, the very earth cracked when the Charizard landed. Flames trickled from the Fire-types jaw, and the flame on his tail burned even more brightly than ever before at being in the presence of a powerful opponent. Naruto and Charizard grinned towards Phoebe and Dusclops, while their opponents sent them challenging looks right back at them.

"A Fire-type native to the region... and a powerful one. A nice strong flame on that tail, and those battle scars... this guy isn't to be underestimated Dusclops." Phoebe whispered to her pokemon, while Naruto nodded to Charizard. The two trainers nodded, and without a sign needed they decided to begin again. Phoebe swung her arm out, and made the first move. "Dusclops, use Shadow Punch!" Phoebe stated loudly, and the pokemon nodded before it began to run towards Charizard with it's fists coated in shadows. It chanted it's name very slowly as it grew nearer to Naruto's ally.

"Charizard, use Tackle!" Naruto ordered, and Phoebe took a step back in shock when Naruto ordered his pokemon to use a Normal-type move that would have zero affect on her pokemon. He was sending his Charizard to his doom, and making such a rookie mistake! She couldn't believe that THIS was the guy that she had traveled all the way from her own region to battle!

"Come on, don't go making rookie... WHAT!?" Phoebe shouted in shock when Dusclop's Shadow Punch went right through Charizard when it should have hit the Fire-type pokemon. Naruto smirked as Charizard passed through Dusclops, the Normal-type move forcing both Duclops attack to pass through Charizard without harm, and Charizard the gaining the advantage of being behind Dusclops. Charizard turned around so that he was facing Dusclops back, before Naruto and the pokemon both had wide battle grins.

"AMAZING! Dusclops attack missed!" Marcus shouted into the camera with an astonished face.

"Charizard, use Fire Blast!" Naruto demanded with a great amount of authority, and Charizard shot flames in the shape of the kanji for fire right at Dusclops at point blank. That was Naruto's strategy, get in close and then use point blank attacks at critical areas to deal the most damage. Dusclops only managed to look behind her with one big wide eye, before the attack smashed into him, and the fire based attack exploded wildly and sent Charizard skidding back, while Dusclops went flying and skidding on her back with her eye closed in pain.

"Get up Dusclops, get up and use Confuse Ray!" Phoebe yelled when she was still in her shocked state that her pokemon had been hurt. Dusclops floated back up to her feet, before she held her hands in front of her face and sent a beam towards Charizard.

"Use Tackle on the Confuse Ray." Naruto ordered, and Phoebe gasped in shock when Charizard glowed white slightly as it covered itself in Normal-type energy and ran towards the beam. Her eyes narrowed when Charizard passed right through the attack AGAIN before heading right towards Dusclops with a look that told her that she had been outsmarted.

"What!? It would seem that this ultra cool Charizard has just RUN through the confuse ray!? What will this unique trainer have his pokemon do next!?" Marcus shouted in joy at the good battle. Naruto just huffed, before he looked at Charizard with his grin returning full force.

"Use Flamethrower, and then get in close." Naruto ordered, with his pokemon opening his mouth wide so that he could start spewing ouyt flames towards Dusclops while still running towards the pokemon. Dusclops wasn't given enough time, and neither was Phoebe, to react before the flames hit Dusclops without any mercy at all.

"Dusclops, quickly, use Protect!" Phoebe shouted, and a green energy shield appeared around the slightly injured pokemon. Just as Charizard slammed into the shield with a large thud, before stumbling back on his feet and shaking his head with a wince. Naruto winced as well, because Charizard had been much just ran head first into a wall. "Use Shadow Ball!" Phoebe yelled as Dusclops dropped the barrier and held up a ball of shadows in her hands. Naruto grit his teeth, before he saw that Charizard had recovered from the head trauma by now, and was ready for more.

"Use Tackle and then Fly, take Dusclops with you!" Naruto ordered, and Charizard phased through the Ghost-type move by using his Normal-type move once more, before he jumped off the ground and flapped his wings. He grabbed Dusclops, before flying high into the air with the Dusclops with him.

"... Curse!" Phoebe shouted, and Naruto's eyes widened at the extremely risky move. Curse, when used by a Ghost-type, would sacrifice half of their stamina and power in order to inflict a stamina draining curse on the enemy. It was a suicide move only used when your pokemon was about to be knocked out, so that you could curse your opponent with the last of your stamina. In you had under half of your stamina, then it was an automatic faint right then and there. If Dusclops had less than half, then she would be fainting while Charizard could still fight, even though the curse would eventually get to Charizard as well.

"Let go NOW and Take Down!" Naruto shouted, but it was too late. Both Charizard and Dusclops started to glow, before his pokemon yelled out in pain as both pokemon fell out of the sky and smashed into the ground hard enough to shatter the earth and leave small rock filled craters with smoke clouds. When the dust cleared, Dusclops was on the ground with a heaving chest and trouble standing, but WAS on both feet anyway. Charizard on the other hand was standing proudly with his chest puffed out and glaring at Dusclops.

"Tough dude you got... he is weaker than my pokemon, but he has a great trainer." Phoebe muttered with narrowed eyes. She still had NO clue what had been happening with that strange tackle move from before, or why she couldn't hit her opponent with any of her Ghost-type moves. She had seen it, at the last second the Charizard hadn't screamed in pain from the curse, but instead it had used a Take Down and caused damage to itself. The curse has completely missed somehow, meaning that the sacrifice had been in vain.

"Amazing, Dusclops looks like it is on it's last legs! Will Naruto take advantage of the damage and keep up the pressure though!?" Marcus said with a quick speech, and Naruto face palmed. Of course he would be taking advantage of this moment.

'I was right... if you hit a Ghost-type move with a Normal-type move, it is the same as hitting a Ghost-type with a Normal-type. You just phase through if you time it right, but you have to react at the right time.' Naruto thought with a slight victorious expression. You would have one to if you found the perfect counter to defeating your opponent. She didn't seem to have trained this Dusclops to know much more than Ghost-type moves, which was good for him. Though, if she figured out his trick against Ghost-types then she might learn a way to counter it, so he needed to use it sparringly and try to dodge more. If she timed her attacks right, then she could wait for his Normal-type moves to fail and then hit his pokemon with the Ghost-type moves.

It was ALL about timing.

"You're good... Brick Break!" Phoebe yelled out the Fighting-type move, and her pokemon ran at Naruto with glowing fists in the chopping motion.

"Catch it." Naruto said with a shake of his head. Dusclops was moving slow from the low amount of health, meaning that for a pretty fast pokemon like Charizard catching such an attack would be child's play. His pokemon caught the attack with his claws, and the orange pokemon narrowed his eyes at the now frightened Dusclops.

"Dus... CLOPS!" The startled pokemon shouted when Charizard set her on fire with a large bout of flame coming from his jaws again. The ghost pokemon stood no chance at all, and was sent across the field and face down into the dirt. Knocked out by the powerful pokemon.

"ROOOAAW!" Charizard roared with flames jutting into the sky with wild abandon, while Phoebe returned her pokemon to it's pokeball with a surprised expression. Twice, twice Naruto had beaten her with a pokemon weaker than her own pokemon using strange tactics and his own commanding skill. Naruto's pokemon weren't something to sneeze at either, even though they weren't as powerful as her own were, he KNEW how to use them correctly.

"I choose you Banette!" Phoebe said with slightly grit teeth, before she saw her doll-like pokemon come out of her pokeball and start to float with a lot of feminine giggling coming from the doll pokemon. Naruto looked at the pokemon, before he looked at and saw Sabrina pulling on a robe with three people wearing black tied up towards the stands, as fishing rod hanging over her shoulder.

What the hell had happened to her?

"You ready for another go Charizard?" Naruto asked, already knowing the answer to the question. Charizard only huffed out smoke, but looked towards the doll pokemon with challenge in it's eyes.

"Banette, use Thunder!" Phoebe ordered, deciding that using Ghost-type moves against this pokemon would be treated like using them against a Normal-type pokemon. Naruto blinked in shock when lighting hit Charizard right away, and when it cleared it showed that his pokemon had taken some serious damage from that one super effective attack. His eyes widened in surprise, mostly that Charizard was still standing, but they then gained a bright look.

"Dragon Rage, then Dragon Rage and Dragon Rage!" Naruto shouted out, and Charizard sent three green fireballs towards Banette. Phoebe smirked at his quick triple attack, before she started to give out an order.

"Banette, use Thunder again!" Phoebe shouted, before Naruto grit his teeth when Banette glowed with electricity and started to shoot lighting towards the green fireballs just before they could strike her pokemon and explode. They exploded away from her pokemon, but before she could see where Charizard was she saw a jet of flames strike at her pokemon. The jet of flames turned from orange to green, before she saw sparks jumping from her pokemon.

"Charizard, use Dragon Tail." Naruto ordered as Charizard jumped from the dust and smacked Banette in the face with a brightly glowing blue tail. Phoebe was surprised though when Charizard grabbed Banette by the sides and opened his mouth. "Charizard, hold him with Fire Punch and use Flamethrower!" Naruto shouted, and Charizard started to spew flames into Banette's face with the most powerful flames he could manage with this much damage.

"Break free Banette, quick!" Phoebe shouted in desperation, while Charizard's flaming fists held onto the smaller pokemon tightly, using his bigger size and physical strength against the smaller pokemon to make sure that she couldn't break free. The flaming fists kept her from using that ghostly phasing ability.

Naruto was afraid of ghosts, so he learned ways to fight Ghost-types with frightening effectiveness.

"Banette, use Hyper Beam!" Phoebe shouted, and seconds later both pokemon were engulfed in a giant explosion that sent them both skidding backwards into their own craters. Naruto and Phoebe both frowned sadly when they saw that both of their pokemon were knocked out cold. Naruto and Phoebe recalled their pokemon to their pokeballs with small smiles on their faces.

"Good job buddie, you showed them whose the boss." Naruto said with a smile, knowing that Charizard would be proud that he took out two Elite-level pokemon before being knocked out himself. That made Naruto feel good about his pokemon's training, but then Naruto frowned lightly. Charizard would take it hard that he lost, meaning that he would be expecting harder training than before.

"Mister Sage, do you have a moment!?" Marcus shouted as he and the cameramen started to run towards Naruto before he could pull out his next pokeball. Naruto raised an eyebrow, before he saw that Phoebe was taking a small break to go take her already hurt pokemon to the Pokecenter so they could be healed by she came back to battle.

'I see, so we are going to take a break before continuing.' Naruto thought with a small smile, a break would be good, before he turned towards Marcus. "Yeah, I have a moment." Naruto answered, before a microphone was shoved into his face.

"GREAT! First question, where were you born?" Marcus asked, invading Naruto's personal space with almost glowing eyes. Naruto leaned back away from what was most likely a fanboy, before he scratched the back of his head and laughed lightly.

"I was born in... the Forest that I trained." Naruto said, referring to how he was reborn in this world in a young body again in that forest. Not where he was actually born.

"COOL! Is is true that you beat up a Gyarados and captured it with your bare hands?!" Marcus asked, and Naruto sweat dropped.

"Yeah, but-" Naruto said, before he was cut off by the boy.

"AWESOME! That is so cool, and is it true that you are currently a single man playing the field of romance with the same skill that you play the battlefield with?" Marcus asked while wiggling his pinkey around suggestively, and Naruto twitched lightly in annoyance.

"I'm single yes." Naruto said simply, not wanting to give out the impression that he was looking for anyone at this moment. Marcus turned towards the camera with a grin, before he pointed at Naruto with his free hand.

"You heard him ladies, this hunk of epic is single and looking for a cutie that loves pokemon and Pecha berries like he does. Hurry up girls, because this guy could be scooped up at any moment. Sorry for taking up your strategy time, now I am OFF to interview Miss Phoebe!" Marcus shouted as he ran off before Naruto could correct him on the mistakes that he had made.

'What... what the hell just happened?' Naruto thought, before he started to scratch his head with a confused expression.

What. The. Hell?

"Now that our trainers have taken their breaks, lets get back to some battling goodness!" Marcus announced with excitement when Phoebe and Naruto stood across from each other once more with their pokeballs in their hands. They had each taken a trip to the pokemon center so that they could get the pokemon that were already hurt taken care of while they finished their battle. Naruto looked down at his pokeball with a nervous expression, before he shook a little with his nerves being slightly shocked.

"You ready Naruto?" Phoebe asked with a grin, and a small sheen of sweat on her forehead. The heat was starting to get to her, and not only that but a good trainer that had a deep bond with their pokemon would feel their own pokemon's exhaustion when in a battle. A trainer used up copious amounts of their own stamina when their pokemon battled, something that came with having a very deep connection to pokemon. This strengthened both trainer and pokemon, because the pokemon used the trainers energy in a battle to strengthen themselves. A strong trainer had strong pokemon when their bond was strong.

"Heh, should you be asking that right now?" Naruto questioned her with a smirk, but he did it in a good-natured way. Pre-battle taunting was a must to get both trainers pumped up so that they could do their best. It took away their desire to hold anything back against the opponent, something that Naruto didn't want her to do.

"Come on out Gengar/Show yourself Banette!" Naruto and Phoebe yelled as both of their Ghost-type pokemon came out of their pokeballs and landed on the field that their trainers stood on. Phoebe's eyes widened in shock at seeing one of the more powerful breeds of Ghost-type pokemon being her opponent, while Naruto raised an eyebrow at her using another Banette when he JUST defeated her other one using Charizard. He already knew the weakness of this pokemon because of that, and could use it to his advantage for this round. She on the other hand had no clue what his Gengar already knew, and if it had any weaknesses not related to species.

Unlike Banette, Gengar was both a Ghost and Poison type pokemon, giving it a wider array of moves at his disposal.

"Gen gen GAR!" Gengar shouted as it jumped through the air and grabbed onto the startled Naruto. Naruto froze when Gengar licked Naruto across the face with a slimy tongue. Naruto shivered, before he felt Gengar jump off of Naruto when it noticed that it had a strong opponent in front of it ready for battle. Gengar started to cackle with wild abandon, while Phoebe raised an eyebrow.

"You have a very... affectionate Gengar. Lets get this started with Psychic!" Phoebe started out with a strong Psychic-type move, something that would be Super Effective against Gengar's poison part. Naruto grit his teeth when Banette's eyes started to glow blue, and then he smirked.

"Gengar, use Hypnosis." Naruto said, and just before Banette could use her attack on Gengar, Naruto's pokemon's eyes started to glow as he stared right into the other Ghost-type's eyes. Banette's eyes began to stop glowing very quickly, before it stopped floating in the air and began to sit on the ground with her eyes closed. Naruto nodded with a smirk, before he frowned at having to think out his next move right away. With Ghost-types, you never knew how long they would stay asleep, because they didn't need as much sleep they could wake up much quicker. "Gengar poison it with Toxic." Naruto said, just as Banette started to stir Gengar shot a glob of poison liquid that struck it's aim true and knocked Banette back into the land of the awake.

'Dammit, now Banette is poisoned with a very potent poison!' Phoebe thought with her teeth grit. Toxic worked and did even more damage the longer it was working.

"Gengar, use Disable!" Naruto yelled when he realized that Phoebe was distracted, and Gengar glowed before in a flash the move Psychic was sealed away so that Banette wouldn't be able to use that super effective move for awhile. Phoebe had a very annoyed look on her face when she saw this Gengar use a move that it could only know through good breeding, meaning that one of Gengar's parents had to have known that move.

"Banette use Thunderbolt!" Phoebe yelled, before Naruto started to smirk very lightly.

"Gengar, use Sucker Punch." Naruto stated, and Phoebe gasped when Gengar appeared in front of Banette before the lightning finished charging with his fist already punching Banette in the face, stopping her pokemon from completing it's move in time. Naruto and Gengar weren't finished there though. "Use Thunder Punch followed by Lick." Naruto ordered, and Gengar pushed Banette with a lightning coated fist. Before Banette could go flying though, Gengar grabbed Banette by the sides and licked Banette in the face just like he had licked Naruto earlier.

"Banette use... grrrr... Banette use Shadow Ball." Phoebe said when she remembered that she couldn't use the best choice of move to defeat Gengar with. Though, she was able to confirm that this Gengar had a Dusclops as a parents since it know both Disable AND Thunder punch. She had known that Gengar was a tough pokemon, mostly because she knew a secret about this kind of pokemon that almost nobody else knew. Out of all of the Ghost-type pokemon, this one had the potential to become the very strongest Ghost and Poison-type that wasn't a true Legendary pokemon. Combine that with this pokemon's talented trainer and it's good breeding, and you have a Pseudo-Legendary pokemon in it's own right.

"Gengar, show her your own Shadow Ball!" Naruto said as both pokemon began to charge up their shadow attacks. Gengar proved to be faster, but Banette had begun her attack before Gengar, so they both launched their balls at the same time.

The explosion caused by the attacks collided make a shock wave that almost blew Naruto and Phoebe from their feet, but both trainers stayed in their positions. The audience cheered loudly when the dust settled and both pokemon were showed staring at each other with creepy grins, while their trainers gave off matching grins.

"Banette, lets show off what we have been holding back on!" Phoebe said as she moved the flower on her right ear away to show that she wore an ear ring with an interesting gem on it. Naruto could feel the gem started to react to something inside of Phoebe, before he felt a similar reaction coming from Banette. With wide eyes, he saw Banette unzip her mouth and show that she had a smaller gem on her tongue. With the two gems glowing, Banette was surrounded by an aura that engulfed her body with white energy flowing from Phoebe and entering Banette.

"What... what the?" Naruto questioned with wide eyes.

"Gen?" Gengar questioned as well with narrowed eyes, not having seen anything like this before either. It was like evolution, but the color was more rainbow and not pure white. The energy also felt different as well, not like regular evolution.

"Did you really think I made it to the Elite Four without some tricks up my sleeve! I trained on Mt. Pyre, and there I was given stones to help certain Ghost-types reach their full potential! Sadly, only Banette on my team can use this stone... the Mega Evolution stone." Phoebe explained with a smirk, and when Banette stopped evolving Naruto's eyes narrowed when he felt a very significant power increase coming from Mega Banette. Her appearance also changed, her hands had gotten bigger and pink ecto claws came from the hands. The bottom opened up as well with zippers and pink legs. Banette gained another zipper over the right eye, and her color darkened.

"Banette!" Mega Banette shouted, and Naruto felt the power surge at full force now. The power increase was much higher than Naruto had first thought.

"When a trainer and pokemon with a strong bond use these stones, they can reach new heights of power... I had wanted to keep this a secret and use it to beat Steven and become the new champion, but I guess a trial run would be okay." Phoebe said while huffing lightly. Banette, or rather this Banette, was the only one of her pokemon that could use this stone to Mega Evolve.

"You heard it here folk, Banette just evolved through an unknown method! How will the Pecha Tree Sage deal with this startling new development!?" Marcus shouted, while the audience started to cheer for Phoebe, considering she just had a pokemon evolve by choice Naruto could see why she would have the audience cheering for her.

'Powerful or not, it is still poisoned and slightly weakened.' Naruto thought, while Gengar started to chuckle darkly as it glared at Mega Banette with challenge. With a grin, Naruto understood that Gengar wasn't about to give up until it was knocked out.

"Banette, use Feint Attack." Phoebe said, and Mega Banette came in close to Gengar without Gengar even noticing, before slugging Gengar HARD. Gengar was sent flying and slammed into a tree, before the pokemon hit the ground with a thump. Naruto had felt a small shock wave appear from that attack, and with wide eyes Naruto saw that Gengar wasn't getting back up from that powerful attack. Phoebe was smirking, Mega Evolution had been a trick that she picked up in her travels before becoming an Elite Four member, and she had gotten the stones needed from her home. She never had a reason to use it before, but she had to say that she was happy with how much more powerful Banette had gotten from this trick.

"GenGAR!" Gengar shouted as it finally DID get back up, but with a large amount of damage and breathing heavily. Phoebe was surprised, but not all that surprised. Gengar was a sturdy pokemon, and even though the power difference was there in large amounts, this Gengar was standing through sheer force of will. Mega Banette was surely surprised by Gengar still standing, while Naruto grinned and gave his pokemon a look when Gengar vanished from the tree and reappeared in front of him. Even a super powered, super effective move wasn't enough to bring this stubborn bastard down with one shot.

"You okay buddy?" Naruto asked in concern, and Phoebe could see that Gengar was shacking while standing. She wanted to see if this pokemon would stand firm, or if it would fall down and faint.

"Lets end this!" Phoebe said when she finally had enough of the waiting, and Mega Banette could be seen glaring at gengar for still standing even though it should be knocked out.

"Gengar use Destiny Bond/ Mega Banette, use Feint Attack!" Both trainers yelled at the same time, and Phoebe gained very wide eyes when she heard the name of the attack that Naruto just happened to call out. Gengar just stood still as Mega Banette came forward to give Gengar a good finishing blow, and before Phoebe could call her attack off, her pokemon slugged Gengar in the face.

Destiny Bond, if used right before being knocked out, it can force the enemy to run out of stamina and get knocked out as well.

That was what happened, because the second that Mega Banette punched Gengar in the face, she turned back into normal Banette and fell to the ground without getting back up. Then Gengar fell backwards and landed on the ground with a thump.

"Both trainers pokemon have been knocked out, draw!" The referee yelled, and both Naruto and Phoebe returned their pokemon to their pokeballs. Phoebe was looking at Naruto with wide eyes, while Naruto was giving his pokeball a proud smile.

"Good job buddy, well get her next time without fainting." Naruto promised, and Phoebe sighed before she pulled out her second to last pokemon. Naruto still had three left, while she had two pokemon left. Her trump card had been defeated, but she still had two very powerful pokemon left, even if they weren't as strong as Mega Banette.

'He beat a Mega Evolved pokemon his first time seeing it... his pokemon trusted him completely. This guy...' Phoebe thought with a small smile as she threw her pokeball, and when it opened it showed another Ghost-type pokemon. This pokemon was small and purple, with gems for eyes. This one was her second strongest pokemon, without Mega Evolution... Sableye.

'That Mega Evolution thing... I still have a lot to learn about pokemon. I have never even heard of that existing before.' Naruto thought with a smile as he tossed a pokeball up into the air, and when it opened the pokemon that came out was none other than his Fighting-type pokemon Hitmonlee.

Fighting vs. Ghost, mortal enemies.

"Hitmonlee! Start it would with Foresight!" Naruto shouted, and Hitmonlee looked at Sableye and started to narrow it's eyes.

"Crud, not good. Sableye, use Feint Attack!" Phoebe shouted, because now Naruto had gained a HUGE advantage over her with his Fighting-type.

Foresight, it made it so that Ghost-type pokemon were no longer immune to Fighting and Normal-type moves, while Ghost-type moves would still phase through Fighting and Normal types. Not to mention that Fighting-type moves were super effective against Dark-types, and Sableye was half-Dark, meaning that without it's fighting immunity it would now take super effective damage to Fighting-type moves.

"Use Meditate and Endure!" Naruto yelled, and Hitmonlee nodded before it sat down and took on a cross legged position just as Feint Attack hit and pushed him far across the ground with that single attack. Sableye was still much stronger than Hitmonlee, so the advantage wasn't going to promise victory to him.

"MON!" Hitmonlee yelled as it stood up when it finished, this strategy wouldn't work on a person like Phoebe, who would stop her attack when it looked like it was failing. The small boost in power was more than enough.

"Sableye, finish this NOW with Feint Attack." Phoebe said with a grin, seeing that Endure wouldn't be working as well, or at all, a second time in a row. Naruto shook his head, since this pokemon must have been so focused on Ghost-type moves that Phoebe wouldn't be able to hit Hitmonlee with any of her other moves with this pokemon.

"You really do specialize with Ghosts. Take away the ghost moves, and you are at a close range contest... with a close range fighting type. Hitmonlee, use Double Kick." Naruto said with Hitmonlee kicked Sableye in the chest, before kicking her a second time in the face hard enough to knock the pokemon away before it make contact and finish Hitmonlee off.

"Darn, I never really thought I would have to fight against a Fighting-type with Sableye... Sableye, use Feint Attack again. Only this time dodge Hitmonlee's legs!" Phoebe ordered, and Naruto shook his head in annoyance at how this particular match up was truly in his favor.

"Hitmonlee, Endure." Naruto said, and Hitmonlee took the Feint Attack and was launched back, only to remain standing with damage showing on his body. Phoebe grit her teeth at how Hitmonlee was able to use Endure again, before se tried to think of a plan to use her Sableye's one useful attack against Hitmonlee. If she used Double Team, then Naruto would just negate it by using Foresight again, and then he would be able to have Hitmonlee use Endure again without it failing.

Great, she was backed into a corner. Naruto had the type advantage, the skill advantage, the field advantage, and the situation advantage. The only thing that she had was that if she actually landed a hit, then she could knock his pokemon out in one shot.

"Sableye, go ahead and use Feint Attack." Phoebe said through grit teeth, while Naruto smiled at how she realized that she was backed up against a corner. Normally in a fighting vs ghost, it was the ghost trainer that had the advantage, the use of the move Foresight changed that very quickly. This was only increased by Sableye being a Dark-type as well as Ghost-type.

"Use Blaze Kick and then use Mind Reader." Naruto said when Hitmonlee kicked away Sableye using a flaming foot, before his eyes narrowed and he started to read the next move that Sableye was going to make.

"Gaah, just use Feint Attack!" Phoebe shouted in frustration at the only move that she was able to use right now. Seriously, she hated this situation, and she couldn't switch out pokemon at the moment because of the rules of the match. She was stuck using one move that Naruto could counter easily, because all her other moves would do nothing or were just a way to stall for a second or two.

"High Jump Kick." Naruto commented dryly, and Hitmonlee grabbed Sableye and threw her into the sky, before using powerful legs to jump up and kick her with his most powerful kick based attack. Sableye was sent soaring and crashed into the ground, with a dust wave being kicked up just as Hitmonlee landed on the ground and started to throw phantom kicks at nothing. When the dust cleared, Sableye was shown not getting back up, with her eye gems glowing dimly.

"Huff... I guess this one was just a bad match up." Phoebe said with her eyes closed, before she pulled out two pokeballs. One was used to return Sableye, while the other one was used to throw into the air.

Another Dusclops, that was stronger than the first one.

Her final pokemon, while he had a weakened Hitmonlee, his Raichu, and Gyarados... this battle was his.

"Hitmonlee use Foresight/Dusclops use Earthquake!" Phoebe shouted, and just as Hitmonlee started to focus on Dusclops. Dusclops stomped her feet on the ground, before the entire battlefield started to shake and spikes of earth shot up from the ground and slammed into Hitmonlee, and the ground just kept shaking. The audience were screaming in amusement, while Hitmonlee was sent flying. Naruto jumped back and caught Hitmonlee with his arms, and Hitmonlee sent Naruto a grateful look, before he passed out. With Hitmonlee knocked out, Naruto pulled out the pokeball and returned his injured pokemon.

"Good one Hitmonlee, take a nice long rest. You earned it these passed few days." Naruto thanked with a small smile, before he frowned and looked towards Phoene. Now he only had Raichu and Gyarados left in his arsenal... he had never truly been pushed this far by anyone before. His two power houses were his most powerful pokemon for a reason. They were each pokemon that were his true trump cards.

"I look forward to seeing what you have up your sleeve Naruto." Phoebe said, and Naruto closed his eyes, before he reached up at the pokeball on his necklace instead of one of those on his belt.

"Phoebe is backed into a corner, but she still has her strongest pokemon yet! How will the Sage keep up with her, and are his remaining pokemon strong enough to take on this monster of a pokemon!?" Marcus shouted, and the crowd roared in approval. They were all pumped up to see how this battle was going to play out, and what Naruto would be sending out next. Naruto kissed the pokeball in his hands, before it enlarged and a smirk came to his face.

"I choose you Gyarados!" Naruto shouted as he threw his pokeball into the air, and in a bright flash Naruto's huge blue serpent pokemon appeared on the field in all of her glory. Their were tons of loud gasps, and even some screams over the size of the pokemon, while Marcus had fallen onto his butt from surprise.

'That... is one huge Gyarados.' Phoebe thought as she and her pokemon took a step back out of fear, before Gyarados looked at her and roared. Both her and her pokemon started to scoot back from the wind force behind the roar. She had to place her hand in front of her face, while Naruto placed his hand on the side of his Gyarados and she stopped roaring, before she coiled up around Naruto and lifted him into the air. With an affectionate lick that left Naruto covered in slobber, she started to show her love for her trainer.

"Hahaha, nice to see you too!" Naruto said as she let him back down onto his feet, before uncoiling and getting onto the battlefield with determination in her stare. Dusclops flinched back at the appearance of the powerful, and huge, pokemon.

Things had just gotten real!

Two words.

Two words was all it took for Phoebe to meet with her defeated, and they were two words that she never expected would be the end of her winning streak. Two years she had gone undefeated by challengers that wanted to go against her, and in those two years she had become the undisputed master of ghost pokemon. Who knew that two words were all it would take to end her two year long undefeated streak.

"Hyper Beam." Naruto whispered lightly as he looked at the horrified Dusclops looking at his giant of a Gyarados as she charged up an orange colored beam in her mouth. Foresight was still in effect, meaning that Hyper Beam would be able to hit the poor pokemon. Dusclops' single eye widened, before in a flash a huge beam or orange energy shot out of Gyarados' mouth and slammed into and around Dusclops. A crater formed on the ground under the Hyper Beam, and the move continued and crossed the ground so quickly that it was merely a flash. The Hyper Beam crossed over the lake, and huge waves formed when the water was forced to split from the power of the attack. Shock waves from the over powered move forced people to cover their eyes or risk getting large amount of dust in their eyes. Phoebe had literally been knocked from her feet and landed on her butt ten feet away from the shock wave, while Naruto stood standing right next to Gyarados with no trouble at all.

The sheer power behind the Hyper Beam had split the lake in two, and carved the ground. The Hyper Beam hit down in the middle of the lake, and a huge splash and wave was sent all around the lake.

The unrelenting power behind the huge Hyper Beam had been enough to knock out and at least several dozen pokemon that were now floating on the surface of the water in the lake. Pokemon that had been unlucky enough to be in the way of the attack. When the attack cleared, one thing was for certain.

Dusclops had lost.

In one shot, Phoebe's Elite level pokemon had been defeated. Those two words would be forever engraved in Phoebe's mind as the words that had ended her two year long undefeated streak. Dusclops was clearly in VERY bad condition at this moment, and the pokemon's single eye had rolled to the back of her head. Smoke was pouring from Dusclop's skin, and large amounts of scraps and bruises were already forming on the skin of the pokemon. Dusclops was a sturdy pokemon, and this one was extremely strong, but for Phoebe's strongest pokemon to be knocked out with only one attack... that would mean that the level of this pokemon had exceeded that of the Elite. This Gyarados was a Champion strength pokemon, meaning that it was more than likely the strongest pokemon on Naruto's team. A pokemon that was more than likely stronger than her entire team combined.

'What... what just happened?' Phoebe thought with wide eyes as she returned Dusclops to her pokeball on instinct. She knew she had lost, that was for certain. She had nothing left, and even if she did... she was to afraid right now to even think of going against this behemoth of a pokemon. The raw power, the sheer terror she felt facing it down. She had never in her life been this scared, and she had fought against many of this species before, but never one so... so huge! This Gyarados was stronger than any other Gyarados she had ever seen in her life.

She had seen a lot of Gyarados, but this one took the cake.

"Whoops. I guess we need to learn how to hold back a bit more. I thought that she would be able to take that a bit better. Sorry girl, I guess we should have used some weaker moves to make this more fun for you. Hyper Beam may have been a bit to much of a power house move for the start of a battle... my bad." Naruto said with a bow towards his pokemon, and everyone around that was hearing that was stunned. The audience didn't take much longer before they started to roar in awe of how awesome his strongest pokemon was, while Marcus was still stunned into absolute silence over what just happened.

'That is his strongest pokemon... I can see why he doesn't use her more. That would have defeated all of my pokemon in a single move. He wants his other pokemon to grow stronger as well.' Sabrina thought from the stands, before she noticed that the Team Rocket grunts that she had tied up had all wet themselves at the sight of that uber powerful Hyper Beam. It made since, because that was more than powerful enough to give an elite four level pokemon a one hit KO. If it was that powerful, then it was far beyong their ability to steal, and they were not willing to mess with a trainer that had just beaten an Elite Four in a fair battle.

'Holy SHIT! That was... I don't even have the words.' Rose thought in utter shock at how powerful the pokemon she most wanted to battle was. Well now her plans had changed, because she was pretty dam sure that she could train the rest of her life and never get to the level of that pokemon. She knew when she was beat, and with her team as weak as it was she had no chance at victory.

"Zzzzzzzz." Erika snored lightly with a bubble of snot coming from her nose, and her eyes close. It was funner because she had drawn two black dots on her eye lids to make it appear than she was awake at the moment.

"She was asleep!?" Rose shouted in shock, and it was completely justified shock. Erika had just slept through the most amazing thing that she had ever seen in her life, no, the fact she was able to sleep through it was more amazing!

"Yo-y-you saw it here folks... challenger Phoebe has lo-lost to the Pecha Tree Sage..." Marcus stated, before he fainted and hit the ground with a thud. It would seem that he had been completely shocked beyond all reason by Naruto's scariest pokemon.

"Good match." Phoebe said as she stood in front of Naruto with an embarrassed blush at how she had been knocked onto her butt. She and Naruto started to shake hands, while he used his other hand to return Gyarados to her pokeball.

"Thanks, my pokemon had fun. That's all that matters to me, sorry about hurting Dusclops so badly. I thought that she could take the damage better than that." Naruto said with a sheepish smile, but Phoebe only shook her head.

"Don't say sorry, what happens in a battle stays in the battle. Sometimes pokemon get more hurt than they should, and it wasn't like you knew that would happen. You weren't cruel, you honestly thought she could take it. There is nothing to forgive in this case." Phoebe said maturely, while Naruto nodded in understanding. That didn't make him feel any better about it though.

"I gue-" Naruto started, before Phoebe placed her finger on his lips to shut him up.

"Close your eyes." Phoebe demanded, and Naruto closed them after a moments thought. He couldn't see it, but while his eyes were closed Phoebe showed that she had a matching set of Mega Stone earrings. She took off one earring, before she looked at the left earring that Naruto had on. Long story short, he had once gotten his left ear pierced so that he would be able to have an earring that had a magatama on it so that he could stay connected with his old status as a sage. It was better than getting a tattoo, that, and he was able to pierce his ear on his own and hand make this magatama charm.

'Huh?' Naruto thought when he felt her take off his ear decoration, before he felt something else take it's place. Opening his eyes, he saw Phoebe giving him a small smile as she showed him her Mega Evolution earring.

"Become an even better trainer Naruto. One day I am going to want a rematch when I get stronger, and it would be unfair if you don't have a level playing field when that day comes. So use that to become even stronger than you are." Phoebe said, and Naruto felt the earring that was on his ear. He sighed in relief when he felt that this wasn't a girly earring, but a lot like his older magatama earring. It was simple, small black metal ring connected to his ear, and connected to that black metal was something connected to the small stone. Phoebe looked at him for a moment with a hand on her chin, before she looked at the necklace that had Gyarados' pokeball on it.

'it's like she is trying to find a better place to put it.' Naruto thought in amusement at the strange gesture of making him stronger, before Phoebe reached out and touched it.

"If you hollow out your other earring you can put them together and make it look like a fang with a gem in it... yeah, that would look pretty cool and manly." Phoebe said, before she punched her own open palm as if she just remembered something. "OH! Here, give this to Gengar so that it can one day Mega Evolve as well. I don't have a Gengar, so I never really had the need for this." Phoebe said as she handed Naruto the stone that would react with Gengar and allow him to Mega Evolve to his hax potential one day. She had originally planned to get a Gengar, but this seemed like a much better use of the stone than on herself.

She wanted to get the most out of Naruto the next time that they met up and had a good battle... when she had a pokemon that she was sure could last at least one Hyper Beam from Gyarados.

That pokemon... was so freaking strong!

"So, I guess you are going to go back to Hoenn now huh?" Naruto asked awkwardly, and she nodded while the audience started to thin out. With a smile, she held out his balled up fist for Naruto. Naruto's eyes widened, before he bumped his fist against hers just as his friends started to gather around them.

A new bond of friendship had been forged.

"Yeah, but I expect you to come to Hoenn for my rematch... just give me a few months or years to train myself before you do. Lets make a promise, the next time we meet we will have an amazing battle?" Phoebe asked, and Naruto nodded with a bright smile on his face. He was sure that all of his pokemon would just love to battle against Phoebe again!

"Yeah, but don't think the result will be any different!" Naruto said with a smirk, and not only had friendship been born that day, but also the flames of rivarly.

Naruto had found a true rival, somebody that could push him into using one of his two strongest.

He couldn't wait for that rematch!

"Oh my GAWD this ship is great." Naruto said as he layed on his back right in front of the pool on the St. Anne, the most luxuries ship in the entire Kanto region. At first he would have thought that he would have to pay for his ticket, but as it would turn out he had been given an invitation to participate in a small battle tournament on the cruise ship against some other trainers in return for him, Sabrina, Rose, and Erika being allowed on the cruise ship. Actually, both Erika and Sabrina were being given free rides as well thanks to being Gym Leaders that would bring even more fame to the cruise ship should they televise their own battles against some rookie trainers that had to pay to get on the ship.

"Rai rai rai rrrraaaai." Raichu agreed with his trainer as he layed out... in swimming trunks of his own with sunglasses like the ones Naruto was currently wearing. This was a major case of a trainer and pokemon acting and being similar, the fact that both trainer and pokemon were wearing matching clothes was something that had Rose next to Raichu sweat dropping with a nervous chuckle. She didn't say anything about it though, because she had little doubt that Raichu was zap the living hell out of her for any stupid comment that she could make about them.

"This is the St. Anne, the most impressive ship that Kanto has ever produced. Also known as the ship that can take a thousand Hyper Beams and remain floating." Sabrina informed Naruto, a large sunhat on her head as she sipped at a cool drink. Though the drink seemed to be strangely purple in color, but wasn't grape flavored either. He didn't care though, because he couldn't smell any alcohol coming from the liquid, so he was okay with it. Naruto looked at the pool to see what his other pokemon were doing, and even though Gyarados was bigger than the pool, she was taking a nice swim in the actual ocean while the boat was sailing towards Cinnabar Island. He was happy that she could finally swim deep in the water, deeper than the lake and that was for sure.

"The said was said about another ship, and it sank. Don't tempt fate Mind Reader." Rose grumbled, because now she wouldn't be able to enjoy this ship with the impending feeling of doom that she was getting. Rose blinked when she felt a furry lump land on her stomach, before she saw her Mankey jumping off of her and chasing around her Squirtle around the deck with an annoyed look on it's face.

"I'm not tempting fate, for I have a Krabby." Sabrina said as she pointed to the small red and white crab pokemon spewing a small amount of bubbles onto her stomach. They were the same kind of bubbles as a Bubble attack, so they weren't very unclean. Naruto and Raichu looked at the water pokemon, and then at the psychic pokemon trainer with a surprised look, they hadn't been amazingly aware that she had caught a Krabby. That would explain why she had more confidence in her fishing skills, catching one of those outside of the city must have been what she had been doing all day the other day, and the day after.

"Gen gen genGAR!" Gengar chanted as it swam inside of the pool, making the trainers pay attention as they watched Gengar swimming with Erika on top of it's head, sitting with crossed legs and a relaxed smile on her face. She seemed to be happy, or very much asleep with her eyes open from the relaxing rocking of the waves. Naruto looked at the other side of the pool, and he saw Hitmonlee looked at the ocean in front of them, determination in his eyes as he leaned over the railing, remembering the last battle that he had been in, and actually being used to help defeat one of the trainers that made it to the level of an elite. How he had been knocked out when he should have been the final pokemon Naruto needed to use, and how he could have done better.

It was time to increase his training.

"What does a Krabby have to do with sinking or tempting fate?" Rose asked with a twitching eyebrow at the strange statement, even more so the emotionless way she said it.

"If we sink, Krabby will help me swim... Krabby's are cute." Sabrina gave a flat answer, and Naruto looked at the little crab pokemon before shrugging. Sure, it was kind of cute, but nowhere near as cute as his Slowpoke was. The plump pink pokemon was sure a handful, but he was reliable in a battle, even though a good hit could take him down. Naruto looked up into the sky, and he could see his Charizard flying around the air freely. He was letting all of his pokemon take nice relaxing breaks at the moment, but before he knew it he heard the sound of Gengar throwing Erika into the pool, and Mankey jumping in and landing on her face before she hit the water.

She gave a brief scream, before splashing in the water and coming up moments later while Mankey rushed to Rose and high-fived his trainer. Rose was nodding with a smug look on her face, before she layed back and soaked up the rays of the sun.

"Hey Mister Sage, can you have a pokemon battle with me!?" A young trainer begged, maybe around 11 years old in age. Naruto sat up, before he looked at her with a slightly annoyed look, before nodding. The girl was young, and wearing a one piece swim suit. Stretching out, he jumped up before he looked around at his pokemon to see which one would be around the right level for the younger child, who hadn't had her pokemon that long it would seem, since she was holding a Bulbasaur in her hands.

"Hey, why don't you battle my friend here. She doesn't battle very often." Naruto suggested when he saw his pokemon were having too much fun doing their own things at the moment to battle, and Raichu didn't like picking on the weak, so he wouldn't want to battle.

"I don't want to battle a brat." Rose said moments later, not really caring what she said now that she was nice and relaxed. The challenger looked at Rose for a moment.

"I don't know who she is, I am a big fan of yours Mister Sage. I'm Green by the way." The young brown haired girl said with a light bow, and Rose was twitching with her fist clenched at the blatant disrespect she was being shown. So what if she wasn't some elite level battler like Naruto, or had the most intimidation Gyarados in the world. Her pokemon didn't obey her in battle, and her Mankey was a quick tempered pokemon with ADD, but that didn't mean she wasn't a good challenger.

"How about me, my Krabby could use some experience?" Sabrina suggested, seeing that she could tell that Naruto's pokemon were still in need of the rest after the battle with Phoebe the other day. Only a few were in peak condition, and using Raichu or Gyarados on this little girl was way overkill.

"Not thanks, I don't know who you are either." Green said, and for a brief moment Sabrina felt a flash of emotion she was not familiar with. She didn't like this girl, she really didn't like this girl, and by that, she almost hated this girl more than she disliked Rose most of the time that she was being a child and arguing with Erika over nothing. For some reason, she felt like she couldn't trust this girl not to steal from her the moment her back was turned.

"Hey Erika, you want to battle this girl!?" Naruto called out, only to get a splash of water to the face in response. Naruto twitched in annoyance, before sighing at how it would seem that he was going to have to do this. Okay, not it seemed that he couldn't get out of this challenge without making himself look bad. Naruto turned back to the girl, before he placed his fingers at the sides of his mouth and let loose a loud whistle. All of Naruto's pokemon besides Raichu started to gather, and he returned them all to their pokeballs without trouble.

"Hah, this is going to be awesome Mister Sage. I am going to beat you, and then I am going to be famous! So why don't we make this super interesting!?" Green bragged with a cocky grin on her face, before she pulled a small case out of the bag at her waist and opened it to show it off to Naruto. Naruto raised an eyebrow when he saw that she had both the Bolder Badge and the Cascade Badge, two badges that he hadn't gotten to collecting yet. Though he heard that those two badges were the easiest to get that even rookies could get them. It was the third and on that were challenges. Only the hopeless trainers couldn't defeat the first two gym leaders with enough training.

"Look Mind Reader, she thinks that she is good enough to beat the idiot. Even you couldn't beat the idiot and you are the third strongest gym leader in Kanto." Rose remarked with a smirk, but her words were unheard by the smirking Green, while Naruto shrugged. If this girl was going to bet what he thought she would be betting, then it was her loss. He didn't care if she would have to go back to those gyms and beat them again.

"I will bet these two badges, and in return I want you to bet the badges that you have earned up to this point!" Green said with a grin on her face, while Naruto did the math. "Not only that, but when I win you have to be my boyfriend. If I lose though, I will give you something good." She finished with a smirk.

He had three badges, and she had two. When he won, he would have five of the eight badges he would need to compete in the next Indigo League Tournament.

"Sure, why not." Naruto agreed without putting much thought into it, and the girl nodded. She suddenly seemed a little older than she was a few moments ago when she lost the innocent look from her face and let go of the Bulbasaur... plushie? With that no long keeping her chest from view, she showed that she was just short for her age. She had been playing from by making him think she was younger, and less experienced so that she could get him to agree to her bet. Now she seemed to be around 14 instead of 11 like he had guessed, something that was annoying him because she might actually have somewhat challenging pokemon.

Normally that would be a great thing, but not when four of your pokemon were recovering from a fierce battle.

"You have no chance of winning, since I watched your pokemon battle on the TV here I know what your moves and strategies are. Now I choose you Kame-chan!" Green yelled when she threw her pokeball into the pool and a Blastoise erupted from the water and started to stare at Naruto with narrowed eyes. Raichu suddenly looked very interested when he saw a fully grown pokeball in the pool, ready for a battle. Naruto yawned, before he realized that this would be a lot easier than he first thought now that Raichu was interested in this battle. Naruto looked at the storm clouds in the sky, before he saw the dark clouds giving off a strange feeling.

Something bad was going to happen.

'Better put this on, just in case.' Naruto thought he he grabbed his red jacket and placed it on his chest and took his green backpack and put it on. The rest of his clothes were in the backpack, so in case of trouble he would be prepared. You never know when you are going to be on the go.

"Blasty, use Hydro Pump!" Green let out a shout, and two hard jets of water came out of the tanks on it's shell and struck Raichu in the face. Green smirked, before she noticed that Raichu wasn't even flinching as it took those attacks head on with a smirk. The force behind the attacks were moving him back, but other than that he wasn't being overly hurt by the attack. Naruto punched a lot harder than what he was currently being hit with.

"Raichu... Thundershock." Naruto said, saying the name of one of the weakest electric attacks known to pokemon. Raichu gathered a small amount of electricity, before shocking the water pokemon that was inside of a water filled pool, smart move on Green's part, nope. Blastoise was out like a light moments later from the powered up shock. Naruto and Green both returned their pokemon to their pokeballs, because Naruto could see that Raichu wasn't amused with the weak pokemon anymore.

"Go Jiggly!" Green said, and out came a Jigglypuff moments later at the other edge of the pool. Naruto shook his head, before he randomly tossed up a pokeball, and mere moments later Charizard appeared.

"Sing!" She shouted, knowing that this was a strong pokemon. Her pokemon was about to start singing, before it was engulfed in the flames that Charizard spewed in it's direction. Naruto sweat dropped when she put her pokemon back in it's pokeball, before he put his own back in his pokeball. She grit her teeth, before she selected another pokemon and tossed it onto the deck. Naruto laughed a little when a Clefairy appeared in front of him, meaning that this was a girl that captured cute pokemon over strong ones. Naruto tossed his own pokeball onto the deck, before his Gengar appeared with a dark chuckle.

"Fire Punch." Naruto ordered, and the fast ghost type moved in front of the Clefairy and punched it in the face with a flaming fist, knowing the pokemon out with a single punch. Naruto and Green both returned their pokemon to their pokeballs again, before they both lost their balance when the ship suddenly jerked to the side. Naruto hit the back of his head against the steel railing, before he groaned in pain, looking around, Naruto saw all of the people rushing towards the life boats, with his friends being caught in the crowds and forced from the ship. Naruto heard a yell of shock when the boat jerked again, before he saw Green started to fall off of the ship. Running over to the railing, he made a grab for her hand, only to miss by several meters, a big miss, and have to watch her fall towards the ocean.

He grit his teeth, before he jumped from the boat and kicked off on the ship so that he could sail towards her even faster than before and grab the girl before they hit the water... and then they hit the water. Green looked almost thankful, before she grabbed her head and looked around to see that the boat was honestly starting to sink.

"Unsinkable... not." Green muttered, before a huge wave made Naruto hold onto her tighter than before when they were thrown under the water and he crashed into the side of the ship. Naruto kicked towards the surface, before he felt himself being pulled back in the water by the ship sinking. Only his vast swimming skill, he had to have skill to swim on par with his strongest pokemon, saved both of their lives when Naruto broke the surface of the water and saw the boat was completely under the water, and the life boats were way off in the distance.

'Sabrina will know to have the others meet me at Cinnabar Island, that is where we were headed to neck after all. Just got to... make sure to swim to the nearest island. Dammit this waves are huge.' Naruto thought as he and Green, she was helping him kick, stayed afloat despite the hard waves pushing them even farther from the life boats, and the life boats farther from them.

Could he bring Gyarados out in this situation? Yes, but it would be a bad idea. In this storm Gyarados could be sent crashing into the life boat and kill a lot of people with her size. Not a pleasant way to die, so for now he was going to trust his own skills, and chakra, so that he could meet up with is friends again soon.

Time for those survival skills to come in handy.

"I have no clue where we are, but I don't like the look of this place." Naruto said with narrowed eyes as he and Green washed up on the beach of a very small island, at least it seemed like it was an island. Even from their current location they were able to see a building at the center of this island, a single building on the entire island. Well, beach was a strong word, Naruto had used chakra to climb up the side of the cliff, and he was currently forcing Green to hold her head down to avoid being detected by the silver magnet shaped pokemon, Magnemite, floating around the island seeming to search for any intruders.

Green tossed Naruto her badges that she figured she owed him, before she looked at him with an accusing look.

"Sorry, but you are on your own. You see that sign with the red R, this is a Team Rocket base, and I am NOT getting caught up in this. Me and Blasty are going to take our chances with the ocean and find another island. If you don't want to end up dead, you may want to consider doing the same." Green stated as she took out a pokeball and jumped from the cliff and landed in the water, with both her and Blastoise popping out of the water mere moments later before swimming away as fast as they could. Looking at her leaving, he couldn't help but be very disappointed in her lack of a sense of adventure. Most people would be dying to know what was inside of that island base, but shrugging, he placed the two badges she gave him with the rest of his collection, adding up to a total of five out of the eight badges he would need.

That would mean he only had to get three more of the badges before he would be able to compete in the Indigo League... which was over nine months away from this month at least. He was going to have a LOT of free time on his hands after he got the next three badges. Naruto thought about the things he could do in that time, before he made a hand sign and focused his chakra... then his body started to vanish from view when he used the jutsu that had been made by his own teacher Jiraiya, bending light around him by making an aura of chakra that would reflect light, he could become completely invisible... sadly, because he needed light to his his eyes to see, he wasn't able to make his eyes invisible. This jutsu left his eyes completely visible unless he closed them.

What? Did you actually think that Naruto had been skipping out on practicing his jutsu? Just because Kurama was fast asleep in the seal, doing something, didn't mean that Naruto wasn't able to use his own chakra. He just never had a reason to use his chakra, not when not using it was letting him bond with others better than before. He would rather not allow this world to find out about his abilities in a way that would have researchers after his ass in the hopes of dissecting him, because every world had their own Orochimaru, those mad scientists that would go passed the lines of decency to achieve a twisted goal of their own, causing chaos if they had to in order to achieve said evil desire.

If Orochimaru had never used the Impure World Reincarnation, then Kabuto would never had learned about it and used it to bring back Madara. If Madara had never been brought back, then a whole bunch of shit would not have went down. The Akatsuki would have been brought down quickly, and Obito would have lost before he could even try to put up a decent fight against the Alliance. If the Second Hokage had never even invented that jutsu, then the same could very much be said. It all came down to people that didn't care about normal morals, and going far over the line in the goal of power.

Naruto jumped over the edge of the cliff, before using his chakra to stick to the side of it. Pulling out a pokeball, he tossed it towards the water. It opened up, and Gyarados came bursting out of her pokeball before the ball flew back to his hand. Naruto took out another pokeball, before he tossed it into the air and Charizard popped out moments later, while Naruto made himself completely visible. Both of his pokemon were hidden from the view of the magnet pokemon. Both of his pokemon were looking at him, and wondering why he was hanging from a cliff.

"Charizard, I want you to use my scent to go follow a girl on a Blastoise, make sure that she stays safe and gets to land before coming back. You have permission to use lethal force should you encounter anyone wearing a big red R on their clothes... please make sure they are Team Rocket before hurting them though." Naruto ordered softly, not because it was a tender moment, but to avoid getting detected by anyone that could be listening to them. Charizard flew next to Naruto, before sniffing him. It flew away, before nodding at Naruto and soaring off in the general direction that Green had her pokemon take her. Gyarados looked at Naruto eagerly, and he knew she was waiting to finally be of actual use to him in a situation outside of friendship.

"Groooaaah, groah groah." She groaned out silently, and Naruto nodded before he peaked over the edge of the cliff.

"Gyarados, go underwater and ask any pokemon you can where the nearest island or land mass is. Then go there and come back when you have the route from there to here memorized. I am putting a lot of trust with you, don't let me down buddy." Naruto said with a thumps up, and with a nod his pokemon ducked under the water with a large wave splashing Naruto so hard that it almost knocked him off of the cliff.

THIS was why Naruto didn't use her during the storm. Just by diving she made huge waves, and swimming near the life boat would have knocked it over, drowning everyone that had been on the boat. Sure, Gyarados could easily handle the waves, but the people in those life boats surely could not, and you could never underestimate the force of the ocean. If those waves could knock over a ship even bigger than Gyarados, then it could knock over Gyarados a few times. It was just to dangerous for the other people there to use her, while Naruto could literally swim for days if he wanted to thanks to living with water types and training with them.

Shaking his head, Naruto reached into his backpack to grab a berry to eat... before he twitched when he saw half of the stuff he had was missing. Naruto saw a note inside of his bag, so pulling it out, he twitched in annoyance.

Stole your shit - Love Green
P.S. You need to carry around money, all you had were berries, pokeballs, and a pokedex with an extra set of clothes.

"... I am going to kick her ass. No pokemon battle, just a good old ass kicking. Then I am going to track down that red sports car boy and kick his ass." Naruto said through grit teeth. Naruto took a pokeball from his belt, before he released Gengar from his confines. The ghost pokemon licked Naruto right across the face, before sensing his bad mood and floating a fair distance away. "Gengar, I want you to go to Charizard... and bring back the girl he is tailing. She has an ass kicking coming to her." Naruto said through grit teeth, to with a grin and a salute his pokemon got to work and started to fly away.

He was going to hurt Green, take his stuff back, and then make her pay him back for stealing from him in the first place.

She, a normal girl, stole from him, a fucking ninja.

His pride stung a little, so turning invisible he jumped back onto land and started to walk towards the building without a care in the world over what he was getting himself into. Walking up to the front doors, he waited for about thirty minutes before a male walked out wearing a lab coat, so Naruto took his chance and walked inside of the building now that the door had been opened for him. He had no idea what could have happened if he opened the door, so slyly being a pick pocket, he stole this person's key card and started on his way with this guy being none the wiser to his loss.

Naruto looked around the halls, before he blinked when he felt something start to awaken in his mind... not Kurama, but something inside of this base was starting to wake up, and Naruto could feel the waves of it's power entering the beginning stages. Naruto turned a corner without making a noise, before he chopped a Rocket employee in the back of the neck when she came up to him. Catching her and placing her on the floor, Naruto looked around before he dragged the woman into the nearest bathroom. This woman had short blue hair that spiked up on the sides and lightly in the back, with a very lightly toned body that showed she wasn't completely fit. Just enough to pass as lean, while not being overly healthy. She emptied to the woman's pockets, before he started to strip her to her underwear. Taking some wire from his pocket that he had come to this world with, his ninja wire, he tied her hands and feet together before locking her inside of the stall, completely tied to the toilet.

Slipping her pants over his swim trunks, and putting her shirt over his jacket he saw that her clothes were a bit tight on him, but that didn't matter when he placed her lab coat on his body to complete the disguise. Naruto reached down, before he yanked up on her underwear to give her a fierce wedgie to look forward to when she woke up. Taking her key card and things, he placed them back into the pockets of the lab coat and made his way out of the bathroom. This disguise was completed when Naruto placed his thump over the key card and used his chakra to imprint HIS face and other information onto the card, making him seem like a real employee.

Now he could walk around more freely, and with that right he started to wonder the halls without raising even a single eye at his appearance out of nowhere. Naruto looked at every single door he passed, but none seemed to need the cards to enter. Naruto took left before he saw that the door at the end of the hall needed some kind of key card to unlock. Naruto swiped the card, before the door automatically opened for him, not very surprising since the code on the card was still the same, and the ID portion of the card had no part in opening the door, just the code at the bottom. Walking into the room, he saw plenty of other scientists crowded around tank with a floating pokemon inside of it.

Those voices...

Naruto blinked when he heard the sound of a male voice inside of his head, so walking closer to the ground he saw that inside of the tube was a purple of a light purple skin color, with a dark purple tail that started in the groin area. It was strange with it's paw-like hands with three fingers that ended in balls. It had a thin neck, and from it's back to the back of it's head was a sort of connecting... something. It was skinny, and it was looking around very lightly. It's eyes opened wider, before glowing blue in the center of the pupil. The golass began to crack, and Naruto entered the group of scientists without sticking out.

The glass shattered and the wires connecting to the pokemon were cut by a flash of power. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw something he had only seen once in his life.

A relation to Mew, this pokemon reminded him SO much of that annoying little Legendary pokemon that seemed to never stay in one place for very long.

"Radio Giovanni's helicopter, tell him what's happened!" One of the scientists shouted, before the leader, well who Naruto assumed was the leader, an elder man with strange wavy and long hair with a big nose and a long beard on his chin stepped up with a smirk.

"Quiet, let us hear it's psychic powers!" He said with interest in his tone, before Naruto silently started to move around in a way that nobody would notice as he created clones of himself behind every single person inside of the room besides the pokemon. This was a psychic pokemon it would seem, and they could be very unpredictable, so he would take precautions before he went any further with his infiltration.

'Psychic... powers?' The pokemon questioned in it's mind, and Naruto blinked at how it was projecting it's thoughts without even trying to do so.

"For years we struggled to successfully a pokemon to prove our theories, but you're the first specimen to survive." The man explained, before he gestured to a stone tablet depicting Mew hanging from the wall inside of a case. Naruto nodded to one of his clones, who knocked out the scientist at the back with a chop to the back of the neck while covering her mouth to keep her from making a noise. The clone started to pick her up and take her away to the corner of the room... the pokemon noticed this action, and it's eyes widened for a moment, before it returned to the depiction of Mew. "This is Mew, the rarest of all pokemon. From it's DNA we created you, Mew 2." The man explained, and Naruto grit his teeth.

That was just sick.

'Mewtwo? Am I only a copy, nothing but Mew's shadow.' Mewtwo asked with a slight... irritation in it's mind projected voice, while Naruto frowned and nodded to his clone to take out the next person from the back as silently as possible.

"You are greater than Mew, improved through the power of humanity ingenuity. We used the most advanced techniques to develop your awesome psychic powers." The man stated calmly, before Naruto signaled to his next four clones to instantly take out the next four scientists, while he himself took out the last two behind the main scientist in the room.

'So I am simply the end result of your experiment? What becomes of me now that your experiment is over?' Mewtwo questioned with a small amount of... sadness leaking into it's thoughts, not that it seemed to know about it. Naruto nodded to Mewtwo, and the pokemon's eyes widened for a second when it saw that Naruto was sending it a thumbs up gesture, though it had no idea what that gesture meant.

"Oh our experiment isn't over yet, its just beginning. Now the serious testing begins." The man said, before he started to turn around while Mewtwo's eyes narrowed at the man's statement, just as Naruto slugged the man so hard across the face that his glasses and nose broke with glass cutting into his face, and blood gushing from the knocked out man's broken nose.

"Fuck that was satisfying. Hey Mewtwo, ignore what this asshole just said. I don't know much about you, because I just snuck in here today out of boredom, but you aren't just a clone or an experiment... this is coming from an expert on clones. You are just as real a person as me... or them. You can do with YOUR life what you want to do, but I suggest getting out of this base." Naruto explained as he tossed the older man's body into a pile with the bodies of the rest of the scientists, not really caring what state they were in when they woke up.

'You... are not like them?' Mewtwo questioned, and to prove his point Naruto ripped off his disguise to show his clothes under it.

"Not really, I just snuck in here because I was bored. Not all people are like these guys, just do what you want to do with your life now." Naruto explained as he started to get ready to leave the room, before he heard Mewtwo's mental voice again.

'What is my purpose, was I just an experiment to them? What do I do now that I am free?' Mewtwo asked Naruto, while Naruto turned back around and walked in front of the sitting pokemon.

"Hmm, hard question. Nobody really knows what their purpose is, but we don't have to. We make up for this with free will and getting dreams and goals of our own, some more grand than others. Get yourself a dream buddy. These guys may have viewed you as an experiment, but all that matters is how YOU view yourself. I'm Naruto Uzumaki by the way, nice to meet you Mewtwo." Naruto greeted as he extended his fist at Mewtwo, just like how Killer Bee used to extend his fist at him, or these days how Naruto would greet others to understand them.

Naruto was powerful, and with his fist he could understand others who touched their fist to his.

Mewtwo looked at the fist with a critical eye, before it raised it's own three fingered hand to it's face and flexed his hand into a fist shape of his own.

'Buddy? This term, and your action... what do they mean?' Mewtwo asked Naruto, in a slightly demanding tone, seeming to be confused by the action. Naruto grinned lightly, before he made sure to keep his fist extended.

"Buddy, pal, ally, or friend. You are special Mewtwo, just like every person on this planet in their own way. I would like to be friends with you, and this is a fist bump. You touch your fist to mine. A sign of trust, and understanding, between friends who view each other as equals. As a Sage and Pokemon Trainer I have to understand them and see them as equals so that we can fight together." Naruto explained to the pokemon, who looked at it's own balled up three fingered fist again and stared at Naruto in the eyes.

'Will you help me find my purpose? Naruto Uzumaki, do you want to be my equal... my friend?' Mewtwo asked as the powerful clone pokemon slowly started to extend his arm without thinking about it.

"Sure Mewtwo, I would love to be your friend. If you don't know your purpose, then you and I will find it together. I am on a journey to travel the world with my friends, and battle against the strongest Pokemon Trainers in the land." Naruto said with his always wide grin, while Mewtwo's eyes widened when the pokemon felt touched to... his very soul by the truth behind Naruto's words. Deciding that he was going to trust this human, this friend, he extended his fist all of the way.

Human and pokemon bumped fists.

A bond was formed.

Chapter End!
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