"What kind of pokemon is it?" asked Naruto as he and Sakura both grabbed devices off of their belts and switched them on.
Naruto's gadget bleeped. Sakura's played a little tune.
"How'd you get yours to do that?" asked Naruto.
"I read the manual," answered Sakura. "Kakashi-sensei?"
"According to this, it was a turtle of some kind," said Kakashi.
"Might be a squirtle," said Sakura, clicking on a few things. "I think I saw one or two."
"I didn't get a good look at any of 'em," admitted Naruto.
"Of course not," said Sakura, still fiddling with her device. "You were the one they were all over AND you were concentrating on teleporting us across interstellar distances. Whereas I was simply trying to keep from getting knocked across the boundary of your teleport."
"That could have been bad," admitted Naruto.
"Squirtle!" announced Sakura's device. "Water type. Also known as 'zenigame' in Edo. One of the three starter pokemon assigned to trainers in the Kanto League area. This Tiny Turtle Pokémon draws its long neck into its shell to launch incredible water attacks with amazing range and accuracy. The blasts can be quite powerful."
Naruto's spoke in a different voice. "It shelters itself in its shell, then strikes back with spouts of water at every opportunity."
Sasuke frowned.
"Ah, so as a Water elemental type, it knows the Water Gun Jutsu?" asked Kakashi. "I see."
"What do you see?" asked Naruto.
"Why those summons are considered useful," said Kakashi, turning his attention back to his book.
"Uhm, right," said Naruto.
There were a lot of indicators going.
Someone seeing her, a twitch of the outer lips, followed by that person looking quickly away.
A prisoner, a traveling merchant from appearances, who saw her and turned three shades paler and started shaking.
A missing-nin who turned up her sneer two notches on Anko entering the room, but her eyes tracked every movement.
Anko entered the little office that Ibiki Morino maintained and leaned her back against the little motivational poster he had on one wall. Only idly noting that this one was 'If the prisoner is too scared to talk, you're doing something WRONG.'
"Let me guess, a new 'Mitarashi rumor'?" asked Anko, apparently inspecting her nails.
"Yes, and it was started by you doing that," said Ibiki, sounding more tired than anything else.
Anko looked up. "What?"
"You started doing that regularly, whenever you're feeling irritated," said Ibiki. "The current story is that you're checking for bits of family members under the nails."
This was worth a facepalm. "Mine or someone else's?"
"Stubborn intel source's," answered Ibiki.
"This is getting out of hand," complained Anko. "I know the sadistic nymphomaniac torturer persona is fairly effective but come on - isn't that sort of ridiculous?"
"It's still better than the one last week," pointed out Ibiki.
"I do NOT and never HAVE hung fresh genin in gimp suits from the ceiling of my apartment," said Anko. "The landlord wouldn't ever stand for it for one thing. And I don't even own any sextoys intended for use by six people at a time. I don't think they even MAKE things like that."
Ibiki shrugged.
"Oh and that merchant out there? Merchant. Hands are too soft to be a ninja or craftsman, squinty eyes are probably from being out in the sun too long. What's he charged with?"
"Trafficking in contraband beans."
"Why are we wasting time and space on THAT?!"
"Slow day," said Ibiki with a shrug. "Was thinking of catching a nap later."
"Let's see here," said Sakura, pressing a few buttons on her device. "Tall grass, stream of mostly clear water. Fallen logs. Yes, this is the sort of environment a squirtle likes."
"All right, Vulpix!" said Naruto.
"No," said Sakura.
"No?" asked Naruto.
"No," explained Sakura. "Vulpix is a Fire type. Squirtle is a Water type. Water is strong against fire."
"Oh? What about Riolu?" asked Naruto.
"Riolu or Machop are okay, so is my Pidgey," said Sakura, still reading from her pokedex while gesturing for her Pidgey to stop circling and approach. "It would be better if we had a Grass or Electric type."
Kakashi managed a vaguely affirmative noise while leaning against a tree.
Sasuke waited a few moments. "Naruto? That rock you're sitting on? It's moving."
"Eh?" asked Naruto, looking up from his own device. "What?"
Sakura pointed her device at the rock.
"Grotle," announced the device. "Evolved form of Turtwig. It lives along water in forests. In the daytime, it leaves the forest to sunbathe its treed shell."
"How did it evolve to second stage?" asked Naruto.
"The pokedexes can't answer, and I don't know," said Sakura. "I do know this much though. Pidgey! Tackle!"
"-seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six," counted off Rock Lee.
"One finger push ups? It doesn't matter how many you do, it will not be enough to change your fate."
"What if I did them with my tongue?" said Rock Lee, not stopping.
"It... why would THAT matter?" asked Neji. "It wouldn't."
"It would then be your fate to be popular with women when you are older," said Maito Gai. "Though such behavior is very unyouthful and I must express some disapproval of such speculation."
"Yeah right," said Tenten, not seeing it. Just more insanity from her sensei and both of her team. Just more... "Who's there!" Throwing knives shot out into the brush.
"Tenten?" asked Maito Gai. "What if that was a civilian or innocent animal?"
"Oh," said Tenten. "Not likely is it?"
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" A large pudgy rodent with a couple of throwing knives stuck in it ran screaming past the group.
There was brief silence.
"Tenten-san? I think that was most unyouthful," said Rock Lee.
"Uhm. Well. Oops?" tried Tenten.
"What the hell was that?" asked Neji, never having seen something like that before.
"A tanuki?" tried Tenten.
Rock Lee leapt to his feet. "I will find it and try to bind its wounds. And if I cannot do that, I will run around Konoha on my hands!"
It ran. Not all humans, it appeared, wanted to be friends.
It didn't understand. Humans were normally friendly and could be approached for little treats. It was just if they pulled out one of those ball-things that one had to flee.
This one had ATTACKED it! With quill-things!
Blood loss caused it to stagger, and it found a dark place to lick wounds.
Perhaps this new world was not as inviting as it had first sounded to be.
The bird was only one foot in length, but it had hit the turtle-thing with enough force to stagger it.
The bird was also agile enough that it was avoiding the blasts of water and bubbles that shot out from the turtle.
"So you beat down one of these creatures in order to be able to summon it later?" asked Sasuke of Naruto.
"Well, that's one way," said Naruto, sniffing the air.
"Pidgey!" called out Sakura. "Try that manuever I showed you this morning! Gust!"
The air roiled in a visible distortion from the bird's wings to slam into the turtle's shell.
"So... Wind techniques," said Kakashi.
"You've got him staggered, now finish him off!" called out Sakura. "Tackle him again!"
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