Hello all, Morgan here. I have been getting into Pokemon again recently. It was one of my favorite games during my childhood and thought I should do a short story about it. I don't intend this to be any more than a three shot of the before middle and after of Cynthia's rise to champion. I may do a longer pokemon fic in the future after The Blood Hound but that will just depend on my preferences at that point.

Anyway I hope you enjoy the story but first is a couple of disclaimers:

I do not own in anyway Pokémon or Naruto, they are owned by geniuses who we all owe our childhood too.

As for warnings, not many except for light bashing and a bias against Konoha. This is a pretty light fic compared to my others.

The Wayward Champion

Chapter 1: The Beginning

A blond haired man slowly walked towards the towering gates in front of him. His spiky hair swaying in the wind as he stared apathetically at the location of his birth. He had not set foot in it for over twenty years.

He would have preferred it to stay that way but he would not run from his problems. Especially one that desperately needed his help.

He still remembered the day the letter arrived at his doorstep with its plea for help.

Dear Uncle,

You may not know who I am, but I am your niece. My father, Minato Namikaze, died when I was a child, leaving a terrible burden upon me, the Nine Tailed Fox, Kyuubi. Ever since I have endured the hatred of my village, your birthplace. They neglect my education, deny me food, and sabotage my training.

It took me three years longer than my classmates to graduate, not due to my lack of intelligence, but due to the teacher's bias against me. Even now that I graduated and have joined a team do I still face favoritism and bigotry. My teammates receive all the training while I am left as a scapegoat to encourage them to work harder.

I only recently learned of my heritage and your own existence from sources I do not risk naming in this letter, for fear of their safety. I do not ask for much, perhaps just a person to write letters to, or a friend. But I hope you will read this and be sympathetic.

Sincerely,

Cynthia Namikaze

He had long since stopped thinking about the place he was born. He had put that decrepit pit of violence and corruption behind him when he left his twin who refused to leave.

The fool had thought he could change the place. Make it better.

The naïve fool.

But family was family and he refused to let another suffer in that cesspool.

With these thoughts in mind Volkner Namikaze, The Shining Shocking Star, walked into the Hidden Leaf Village.

(Hokage's Office)

Tsunade Senju, the Fifth Hokage, rubbed her forehead, frustrated out of her mind at the current situation.

Yesterday, Sasuke Uchiha had betrayed the Hidden Leaf Village and went rogue to study under the apprenticeship of Orochimaru. Thankfully, the traitor was stopped by her favorite brat, Cynthia Uzumaki.

But Cynthia's victory was proving to be much more complicated than she would like. A clanless orphan had defeated a clan heir for the third time. This caused many politicians and noble clans to become angry with the girl.

Normally this would not be a problem, but in Cynthia's case…

She was a demon container, which made the situation ten times more complicated.

Not only did she anger many of the clans, but the general populous hated her as well. And now she had defeated their golden boy Sasuke.

The general public was in out roar and the clans were using this to try and get rid of the source of their embarrassment.

As Hokage she could not show favoritism to any of her ninja and the pressure to do something about Cynthia was overwhelming.

She would have to do something fast before the civilians rioted.

It was only fate that at that moment the door was slammed open by someone she never thought she would see again.

(Volkner POV)

Volkner walked down the streets, listening to the various conversations as he went and grew angrier at what he was hearing. Nearly every conversation was how the demon brat had defeated the heroic Uchiha in some showdown. Normally he wouldn't give a damn but he had caught the name of his niece, Cynthia, used in many of the conversations.

It would seem this place had only gotten worse in the years he had been gone.

With a scowl he walked through the city, sparks of electricity flying off him at random intervals, demonstrating how angry he was.

Despite neglecting his chakra training over the years he was still one of the most powerful warriors to ever be trained in this village.

His training with his Pokémon only increased his strengths.

But that was beside the point. His sensei or his own strength did not influence the village's decision to force his master to suicide.

No, the only thing this city respected was blood. It didn't matter if you were Kage level, if you were better than the clans then you would never get anywhere in this village. The only way for a civilian or orphan to rise above their standing was to get a sponsor from one of the clans who you would have to suck up for your entire life.

The only reason people like Jiraiya and his own foolish brother had gotten anywhere was because Hiruzen Sarutobi sponsored them.

If what the letter said was true, then his niece didn't even have the advantage of having an Hokage as a father.

From what he was seeing this was the same situation that led his master to suicide.

He would be removing Cynthia from this situation immediately.

Which was why he was currently storming past the protesting secretaries and slammed the door of the Hokage's office open, ignoring any etiquette or protocol.

Volkner observed the room as he strode confidently into the office. It would seem that Hiruzen had finally bitten the bucket and had elected his only eligible student left in his place. Tsunade Senju, another example of how reliant this village was on the blood of clans.

Tsunade regarded him for a few moments, a vein throbbing on her forehead before speaking coldly "Volkner, it has been twenty years and you just barge right through my front door?"

He snorted, "I am not here on a social visit Tsunade. I am here for my niece."

Tsunade raised an eyebrow "The last of your family died ten years ago."

Volkner narrowed his eyes and spoke coldly "Do not try and insult my intelligence Tsunade. I am taking Cynthia back with me to Hoenn."

Tsunade's fake confused look shifted to a glare "She is a shinobi of Konoha, Cynthia cannot simply leave."

Volkner returned Tsunade's glare with interest before grounding out "That did not stop me from leaving. And do you really wish a repeat of the incident that followed my departure?"

Tsunade winced. She remembered that day when Volkner left Konoha all too well. It was one of the largest embarrassments for the village. One chunin defeating over twenty ANBU before leaving through the front door.

And that was when the man in front of her was 15 and the village was in the midst of a war.

Tsunade frowned as she considered the situation. The village was dead set against Cynthia and she could not simply change the people's opinion of the girl. Not to mention Jiraiya had mentioned a group called the Akatsuki hunting hosts. Perhaps it would be good for the girl to get away for a while.

Tsunade looked back at the spiky blond man who greatly resembled their fourth Hokage. Perhaps this could work…

"It is her decision. If she wishes to leave that is up to her. However, if she does choose to leave she will still be a member of the Hidden Leaf Village. Meaning that in times of war she will return to help her country. In addition, any children she has will be offered the chance to become a shinobi of the Hidden Leaf Village. Lastly, she will not betray any of the village's secrets or join a different hidden village." Tsunade said calmly, watching for Volkner's reaction.

Volkner regarded Tsunade steadily. The terms were definitely better than he had received. When he left the village he had to deal with bounty hunters and hunter-nin going after him for months before he decided to leave the continent to the hidden lands.

With a sigh he nodded "Fine. Now, where is my niece."

Tsunade winced "She is in the hospital recovering from her battle with Sasuke Uchiha."

With that he turned without another word and walked to the door.

Tsunade looked after the man with sad eyes before saying "Despite what you think of the village. We have gotten better."

Volkner paused at the door. He looked outside the large windows at the picturesque picture the village presented.

"All I see is the same place that forced my Sensei Sakumo Hatake to commit seppuku." With that parting statement he exited the building and made his way to the hospital.

(Konoha Hospital)

Cynthia stared up at the ceiling of her hospital room depressed. She had not had a single visitor ever since she had brought back Sasuke. Only Tsunade had come in briefly to hear her report before leaving. Of course her team had not visited her, too focused on precious Sasuke.

Did none of them realize the prick was a traitor? That she had stopped him from selling his soul to Orochimaru?

She was not stupid, no matter what she made people think. She was actually extremely intelligent. She always hid it under layers of air headedness and smiles to hide her pain. It was just easier that way.

She knew that by doing better than clan heirs she had made enemies of some of the major clans of Konoha in addition to the hatred that the regular populous held for her. The Hyuga clan in particular had been the worse so far after she exposed their clan's not so secret use of the caged bird seal and defeated their so called "prodigy."

Cynthia sighed and wondered if it would have been better to just simply forfeit those fights. But she could not help but admit that she refused to lie to herself saying that she would have if she had known the consequences.

She needed to prove to herself that she had gotten this strong on her own. She still remembered the month of training she had to do to be on a level above Neji in the finals of the chunin exams.

(Flashback)

"What do you mean you won't train me? I made it to the finals as well!" Cynthia shouted at her masked teacher, much to the ire of the hospital staff.

Kakashi looked bored down at his third student "I don't have time to train you. Sasuke needs all the training he can get to fight Gaara."

Cynthia felt her anger grow as she growled out "What about Neji? He is just as dangerous as Gaara? I need training as well!"

Kakashi looked irritated "Then you should just forfeit. Even if I did train you there is no way you would have a chance against Neji."

Cynthia grit her teeth before speaking "I will prove you wrong. I will train by myself then. I don't need you and I never did. I have to do everything by myself and I should just accept that. But know this. After this event is over I quit this team. You can have your precious Sasuke. I want nothing to do with him or you."

With that she turned around and walked out the hospital, leaving a shocked Kakashi behind her.

(Training ground 16)

Cynthia frowned as she stood in the middle of the training field. While she said she would train by herself she did not what was the best method to improve herself. She could try to learn powerful techniques but she would not be able to master them in just one month. Her only techniques were shadow clone jutsu and a few academy techniques, not nearly enough to defeat Neji with.

"I see your having trouble. Can I help?" A voice spoke from behind her.

She turned around with wide eyes to see one of the only people in the village she respected, Iruka Umino, standing at the entrance to the training field.

"Sensei?" Cynthia asked as Iruka walked forward.

"I heard you were lacking a teacher and since its summer I don't have much to do for the month so I thought I could teach you some tricks again." Iruka said with a kind smile.

Cynthia grinned. He may not be a jonin, but she would prefer no other teacher.

(Hot Springs)

Iruka stood before her at some of the hot springs that littered the village. He raised a finger as he began one of his classic teacher lectures "Now, the first step to making you stronger is to improve your chakra control. I know you have already mastered tree walking so now it is time to take the next step. You need to walk on water. To do this you need…"

Cynthia nodded along with Iruka's words and began practicing the technique. While she had a massive chakra pool she was still able to control her chakra moderately well after hours upon hours of chakra control training she did after learning the tree walking exercise.

Which was why she mastered the technique after only an hour and a half of practice.

Iruka looked impressed "Well done Cynthia! Now that you mastered this technique…" He trailed off as giggling was heard near the wall that marked the entrance to the woman's bath.

Cynthia narrowed her eyes as she spotted a white haired old man peeking through a hole in the fence. She walked over and stood behind the old man, who didn't appear to notice her. The man had the appearance of a shinobi but was obviously too distracted or didn't view her as a threat to react to her presence.

Well that worked out well for her.

(Woman's side)

The female side of the bath was very popular amongst the strong Kunoichi of the village who went to ease their aching muscles and the stress of the day.

It was quite peaceful and serene as everyone enjoyed the hot water.

That was until an old man was kicked through the fence by the demon host.

The girl looked apathetically at them before speaking "He was peaking. Decide his punishment at your discretion."

With that the girl walked back to her gaping teacher.

(End Flashback)

Cynthia smiled as she remembered that scene. After dealing out poetic justice to the pervert she trained relentlessly under the tutelage of Iruka. The man was a master of the basics to the point where he converted the basic three to advanced techniques.

She was surprised to learn that the famous Shisui Uchiha copied his famous shunshin technique from Iruka.

Her sensei also pointed out that her henge was not natural, becoming a real transformation that disregarded her own body's proportions rather than having to transform into someone or something with the same body mass as her.

This helped her greatly improve her training with her clones, which Iruka also pointed out can give her their memories as they dispersed.

By the time the finals arrived she had greatly increased in skill and power to the point where the fight was not even a challenge.

(Flashback)

Cynthia stood before Neji in her new outfit. She had decided to switch out the weighted orange jump suit that she had used for training and was now in a colorful kimono top and armored black pants and shinobi sandals.

In front of her stood the arrogant Neji Hyuga, so confident in his victory he was not even in his ready stance yet even though the proctor had already begun the match.

That was his first mistake.

"You should give up Uzumaki. You are fated to lose." Neji sneered arrogantly.

That was his second mistake. Never monologue in a fight.

"I do not even need my Byakugan to defeat you."

That was his third and final mistake.

She had visited the arena last night and trapped the place with shadow henged clones. Currently Neji was surrounded and he did not even realize it. If he had activated his dojutsu he may have been able to have forewarning but it was not to be as she motioned for five of the clones sitting around the boy to attack him.

Neji's rant was cut off as he was uppercutted from below and battered around by five different blonds. The real Cynthia rushed in and grabbed the boy's headband to drag him to her and kneed him in the stomach before kicking the Hyuga away, pulling his headband off as she did so, revealing the caged bird seal to the arena.

Cynthia stared apathetically down at the beat up Hyuga "Hm, so it is true that the Hyuga clan brands its own branch members into slavery. How disgusting. I would be sympathetic to you but I find you quite the dick so…"

A clone kicked the boy in the balls and another one knocked him out.

"I will just win here."

The arena was completely silent as she walked up the stairs back to the waiting room

(End Flashback)

That fight would always be one of her favorite moments. But what really made the day special was the look on Kakashi's face when he learned she had beaten Neji without even taking a hit.

Of course this conversation did not happen until after the invasion of Konoha. It was when she officially resigned from team 7 and gave her former team the finger.

Kakashi had tried to protest, obviously only wanting to make sure his Sasuke encourager was still on the team, but she had evidence and her claim went forward easily since she was promoted to chunin by Tsunade.

It was only a month later that Sasuke betrayed the village. However, by the time he fled it was far too late.

She had already long surpassed her contemporaries.

(Flashback)

Cynthia stood with her hands in her coat pockets as she stared at her former teammate. They were each standing on a head of one of the village founders.

Sasuke was spouting some crap about killing best friends and going over to gain power from the snake-pedo.

Honestly, why did all of her opponents find the need to monologue before each fight?

As Sasuke finally finished his half assed monologue she spoke coldly across the oddly silent waterfall "Are we going to fight or not? I do not care for your reasons or about your life. You are nothing to me. Nothing but an ant to be stomped."

Her words seemed to infuriate Sasuke as he dashed forward in a fit of rage "We will see who is the ant Dobe!"

Cynthia didn't move as Sasuke approached. Even as his fist was inches away from her face she didn't react.

*Crack*

Sasuke screamed in pain as his fist impacted solid metal. He stared in horror at the place where his fist impacted. Instead of the normal pale skin he expected to impact, the skin was now a solid metal.

He stared at his broken hand as he looked up at his former teammate in shock.

Cynthia snorted "Don't act so shocked, you have seen me do this before after all. It is only a refined version to be able to not transform my entire body.

Through his pain Sasuke thought back to their first real mission together when Cynthia turned into a windmill shuriken. He had not put much thought into it but he realized that it should have been impossible for his blond teammate to do that.

Cynthia smirked as Sasuke seemed to stunned that he had actually been injured that she punched him in the stomach with a metal fist.

As the Uchiha coughed up blood she grabbed his chest and threw him over her shoulder into a tree "It's amazing how weak I was with the tools presented to me. But now I have realized my potential. But that doesn't concern you doesn't it? All you care about is power."

She needled down until she was face to face with the arrogant prick "Too bad I don't give a shit about you."

She sucker punched him in the chest again and the boy passed out, his hand mangled and bruises littering his body but nothing life threatening.

Lifting him over her shoulder she paused as she heard rustling from the forest and a white haired boy came out of it, preparing for battle.

Cynthia frowned before dropping the Uchiha and getting into a stance "I guess there is one more battle to do then."

(End Flashback)

The only reason she was in the hospital was because of the fight after she had subdued the Uchiha. Of course the general populous thought it was the Uchiha who had fought her evenly, the morons.

With a sigh she prepared for another few days stuck in the hospital without anything to do. Just as she finished that thought there was a knock on the door.

"You may enter." She called out, sitting up in bed, mindful of her broken arm.

The door opens and enters a man with electric yellow hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue jacket and black pants. She stared confused at the man for a few seconds before it clicks and her eyes widen "Uncle?"

Volkner nodded, blue eyes glinting with interest "You know of me?"

Cynthia nodded "Yes, I recognize you from a picture that my source told me."

The electric specialist looked interested "And who is your source?"

Cynthia shook her head "I do not know, they just sent me letters. My note to you was incase if it was intercepted, I did not want people inspecting my mail."

Volkner nodded "Smart, but seeing as you know who I am just makes things easier."

Cynthia raised an eyebrow at her uncle.

Volkner, seeing the unasked question elaborated "I want to take you back with me to Hoenn. Away from this village."

Her eyes widened at that offer. To finally be free of this wretched village? The only reason she had stayed for so long was the threat of people coming after her and the fact she had nowhere to go.

But she knew it was impossible. With a sigh she turned to the blond man "As much as I would like to, they would never let me leave. Not when I make such a perfect scapegoat for all of their problems."

Volkner smirked "Don't worry. I already made a deal with Tsunade. Basically you will have the same rights as a sannin. You will have to return every now and then but you will largely be free to do what you wish."

For the first time in a long time Cynthia smiled a real smile with a glint of hope in her eyes as she looked up at her Uncle.

(The next day: Village Gates)

Cynthia stood at the village gates signing her Visa papers, preparing to leave the village for good.

The gate guards scowled at her as they read over her papers before grudgingly gave them to her. It amazed her that they wanted her gone so badly but when she was leaving people scowled at her as if they suddenly realized that with her gone they could no longer blame her for their problems.

With a sigh she signed the last of the documents before walking back to Volkner, who was staring back into the village with a faraway look, probably remembering his own time in the village.

She cleared her throat before speaking "Uncle, I am ready to leave."

Volkner shook himself out of his reminiscence and nodded "Alright, our transport is in Wave country so it will take a couple of hours to get there."

"Wave, huh." Cynthia muttered, remembering the mist duo she had encountered on her first mission.

Volkner nodded, having read her file the previous night and knew of her activities in the country "Ironic that your first mission will also be your last with the leaf."

Cynthia nodded as they began walking. However, before they could make it far a voice called out from behind them.

"Stop!"

Cynthia and Volkner turned to see an angry looking Kakashi glaring at Volkner with what she was surprised to see hatred.

Volkner stared apathetically at the son of his sensei "Kakashi."

Kakashi sneered "I am amazed you came back here after what you did."

Volkner closed his eyes and sighed "You always blamed me for his death."

Kakashi growled "If Sakumo did not have to rescue you on your mission then he would still be alive!"

Volkner sighed before staring down at his dead sensei's son. He had always hated the brat that Minato had taken in. The boy had hated him with every ounce of his being after his father's suicide, blaming him for his death since Sakumo had decided to rescue him instead of accomplishing the mission. An action that would lead to his harassment by the entire village, including his own son.

In truth Sakumo had killed himself because of the rejection by one of the only people in the village whose opinion really mattered to him: His own son.

Before he left he guessed he could resolve one last issue before leaving.

He turned to Cynthia "Watch closely, this is how the people of Hoenn fight." Cynthia nodded before stepping away, observing curiously.

Volkner turned to Kakashi "It seems that you won't let us leave without a fight."

Kakashi glared and got into a stance and pushed his headband up, revealing his Sharingan.

Volkner took out a red and white ball from his pocket and threw it high up in the air "Come on out, Electivire."

In a burst of light, a strange creature stood before Volkner. It was covered in yellow and black fur with two cable like tails.

However, what really caught Cynthia's attention was the massive amount of electricity the being was emitting. Anything too close to the creature would receive painful burns.

Volkner smirked at Kakashi's surprise "Electivire, Thunder."

The creature, apparently named Electivire, emitted a massive bolt of lightning into the sky, causing a black cloud to form.

Volkner glanced at Cynthia "I would avert your eyes."

Cynthia did without question and a massive flash of light shined out of the corner of her eyes. Blinking the black spots in front of her vision away she was shocked to see a large blast radius where Kakashi once stood.

She approached cautiously, careful not to get too close to the creature "Did you kill him?"

Volkner snorted "No, he is too cowardly to kill. He substituted away at the last second and ran away. But I can tell your curious. I will tell you about the world of Pokémon on the way to wave."

Cynthia nodded, burning with curiosity as the two left the village, leaving many gawking ninjas who arrived at the scene after witnessing the bolt of lightning come down from the sky.

(Ship)

Cynthia stared out from the ship at the slowly disappearing landmass that was what she now knew was known as the Forbidden Continent.

She had learned so many things already from Volkner. From the regions outside the elemental countries to Pokémon. After hearing about and seeing the Pokémon Volkner had she knew what she wanted to do the minute she got to Hoenn.

She had forsaken her dream of becoming Hokage long ago.

But now she had a new dream.

She would become a Champion.

Well I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. If you have any recommendations or questions, feel free to send me a message via PM or review. I will see you next time :)