001 [Video!]

[used_friendship]

[The video feed switches on to provide a blurred close up on someone's face. The user moves back slowly, allowing the image to come into focus as it shows a blond teenager sat on the ground, eying the device suspiciously.]

Hey- This thing even on? [A tap on the screen, the teen sighs, exasperated, before looking over to the Poliwag sat beside him.]

You know how to make this work?

[Silence.]

....Didn't think so. Maybe we just...

[Grumbling again as he shuffles in his spot, Naruto holds out the Pokegear a little further as he puts on one of his biggest, brightest smiles.]

Uzumaki Naruto, reporting for duty! Hehe. So, I really need to get home, everyone is counting on me, but the weird lady who thinks she's my Mom said I can't, so since I'm here I'm going to get all the badges and have everyone acknowledge me as the greatest Pokemon trainer there is, you'd better believe it!

[He hops up to his feet, facing the Poliwag once again.] C'mon Gama-chan! Training starts now!

[His speech is interrupted by the loud growling of an empty stomach.] Er... after we eat, that is. Does this place have ramen?

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[usedswift]

Wait, wait, why does Tsunade-sama handle the missions, though? She came back to the village?!

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[believeit]

Ahhh! Why do you people not know anything?!

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[believeit]

She's been the Hokage for three years now.

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[usedswift]

Well excuse me for not being from the future, Rookie!

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[usedswift]

But she really becomes the Godaime?! I was so worried about what would happen after Sandaime-sama was killed but...

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[believeit]

Yeah! I guess you don't know, but after that I went with Ero-sennin to find her and bring her back.

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[usedswift]

Ero... what?

Wait, but do I meet her? Does she teach me to be like her? That's my dream, to become Tsunade-sama!

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[believeit]

I guess so? I dunno.. it's not like I know what you did all the time.

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[usedswift]

[Did you hear that sound? That was the most excited squeal to ever burst from her throat. Might want to check and make sure your ears aren't bleeding.]

I'm going to become a legendary kunoichi like Tsunade-sama in the future!! I'm going to be Tsunade-sama's student!!

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[believeit]

Well you weren't a medi-nin student like Sakura-chan, I know that much. Maybe she taught you things though, I dunno. How come you didn't ask her?

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[usedswift]

I tried studying medical jutsu once... I wasn't very good at that. I don't think Tsunade-sama's from the future, she didn't know who I was and she wasn't Godaime, either.

[Or she just didn't say so. Nothing's going to dampen her mood, except for--]

...Wait. Sakura got to be her student? What'd she do to earn that?

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[believeit]

[Shrug.]

I left with Ero-sennin for a while, when I came back I found out Sakura had been trained by her.

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[usedswift]

[Hmm...]

What am I like in the future? Am I strong and beautiful just like Tsunade-sama?

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[believeit]

Well- you're on Bushy-brow's team right? You're all a lot stronger.

[Not answering the beautiful part that's just WEIRD]

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[usedswift]

I've gotta tell Joonhee!

[But right, no dashing off yet.]

Uh, I mean... right, okay. What do you need to know about this place, still?

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[believeit]

Uhh.. Well Sasuke told me to go to some place called Olivine so that's where I'm gonna go.

How do we get more of these Pokemon? i know they're not summons, 'cause you can't summon anything here.

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[usedswift]

Yeah, Olivine's where Lightning-san is. She's got some kind of hideout that's fortified enough to be safe from Rockets while Sasuke's a target. And the hitai-ate? That marks you as one, too, and Bowser's already noticed you. Keep your head down.

And you can catch them or buy them as eggs them. Like... [Half a moment, she's abandoning the 'gear to grab one of her Pokéballs and release an almost six-foot-tall-razorbird who immediately nuzzles at her shoulder for attention before eyeing the 'gear. So bright...]

This is Feng, the guy I started with.

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[believeit]

Heh, that guy looks really strong. I've gt Gama-chan but he doesn't really seem to want to do anything..

[Moving the feed to see, the Poliwag is jsut.. well. Snoozing.]

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[usedswift]

Oh, it's cute! It'll be up to you to train him, and-- Hey!

[She's interrupted by Feng moving in to poke his beak against the 'gear, then opening his mouth to squawk into the speaker, trying to find out what this bright thing on the screen was. Loud. A new face and another Pokémon? He's not sure he's okay with that.]

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[believeit]

Too loud! TOO LOUD!!

[What sort of unholy noise was that, seriously?!]

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[usedswift]

Feng!

[It takes another moment of the Skarmory's suspicious eyeing before he finally backs off, taking position behind Tenten to keep watching her 'gear.]

Ugh... But anyway, like I was going to say, once this guy sheds? I can use his feathers as weapons! Obito-kun has a contact who can make him knives. It's illegal, so keep it to yourself, you got it?

[She's in a locked room, so she unbuttoned the first two clasps of her tunic and drew out a knife from within, rather small and wide with a blue handle -- and obviously well-made.]

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[believeit]

Why would having knives be illegal?

[Even little kids use kunai at home, not being allowed them just seems such a strange and foreign concept.]

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[usedswift]

Because it's one of the laws of this place. You get caught with weapons, they'll confiscate them and arrest you.

...Unless it's blunt, then you can argue about it. But yeah, believe me, it sucks. That's why you have to train your Pokémon -- they're kind of like living weapons themselves.

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[believeit]

This place is so stupid, not letting us use chakra was bad enough!

So that means I should try catching more right away, right? Since apparently they're the only thing we're allowed to use to fight.

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[usedswift]

Yeah, but don't forget you have to feed them and train them and take care of them, too. I've got...

[Let her do a quick count, Naruto.]

Fifteen, right now. It's a little overwhelming sometimes, but I make sure to get time in for all of them.