Shameless Self Indulgence

The Non Joy- a cadre of people who aren't of the Joy family who wish the heal.
They began with two girls, Jessie and Amile, who are turned away for not being Joys as every one knows that only Joy's heal and heal is what Joys do.
Rather than give up, the two girls put out an add seeking a Joy who does NOT want to heal. They struck heh, joy with a Joy who wanted to be a Pokemon Master. She is being pushed to heal and she. Does. Not. WANT to.
They make a deal. She goes, learns the basics and teaches them as she goes, they in turn will go on their Pokemon journeys but teach her as they go. When she's done enough to keep her family off her back, get a copy of everything they teach the Joys and leave. They'll take her to someone who won't quibble if she wants to get a starter pokemon that isn't a version of Chansey.
They draw in a young Heir who is dodging his alliance Marriage.
The Joy gets a Pokecenter far off the beaten track where she begins to teach and train up the Non Joy.
They are JUST as good. Better even than most Joys.

They are soon joined by the Anti Jenny. Jenny's who DON'T want to be cops!
They aren't quite as exclusive as the police, also accepting males who aren't of the Jenny family.

The Joy discrimination is made known and the Non Joy movement begins to rise. They don't have ANYTHING to do with Team Rocket. They loathe those abusive asses.
As they aren't doing anything against the law, they can't be arrested or legally stopped.
The orginal Non Joy, who prefers to be called Sadie, dresses like a grunge punk in ripped clothes, black, chains, patches, pins and cut short, wildly coloured hair. All of her clothes sport the Non Joy logo. Basically a silhouette of a standard Joy head in gray or black, with a red 'banned' circle and bar over the top. The words 'Non Joy' are written across the bar of the 'banned' circle.
Anti Jenny, or just Jen, wants to be a healer and she is quiet and shy. Growlith's scare her but she's decent with her Chansey and she was directed to the same place to get her Starter as Sadie was.

But you're not a... is the bane of their existence. What does it MATTER if they aren't a Jenny or a Joy. They are no less talented for all of that it's just people don't give them a chance because everyone expects a member of those houses to be in place. It's discrimination of the highest order...

Sadie drops by the pokecenter, now staffed with her trainees, from time to time but she's having a blast as a pokemon Master.

James, Jessie and a Meowth who taught it'self to speak human speech form a team with Amile... who promptly caught the Meowth. As a wildie ANYONE could catch him and take him. With her holding his ball, even if he's never inside, they can't and she won't order him around either. He can do as he pleases, this is just surety that he won't be taken away.
In fact, she hands him his own ball. This way, he's his own Master. He keeps the marble-sized ball on a collar around his neck like a charm.

They travel around spreading the word of the Non Joy and the Anti Jenny.

In a town not far from that Pokecenter, far off the beaten track, their movement has given one of the locals 'radical' ideas. Ideas the very, very uptight, steeped in sour grapes Professor objects to strenuously. That is NOT how it's done!

Seriously, she is tempted to just ditch her town entirely and got to the free trade center to get her first Mon.
It's kind of dodgy even if it's still legal... ish.
The problem with that is it's not safe to travel by foot unless you had a pokemon or were in a group with someone else who had one and the free trade center was through a thickly forested section, crawling with pokemon.

Thus, she's likely stuck with the hard arse. She'll... try, but it grates.

She didn't try hard enough and began her Pokemon Journey without a starter pokemon as she wouldn’t take one who didn’t go with her willingly and the professor was something of a stickler.
She would go with a beginner pokemon or none at all.
Despite the fact a couple of the lab-born pokemon would have gone with her, she still ends up with going with none at all, because screw him and the Rapidash he rode in on!

The professor sniffs. She’ll be crawling back soon enough he’s sure.

She was not and did not and that professor soon found himself under investigation.

She was properly Registered though and had her pokedex, pokeballs and equipment otherwise.
Her entire crew ends up being pokemon she’s found injured that need more care than she can give and, after they’re healed she gives them the option of leaving if they want.

So won’t have anyone with her that aren’t with her willingly. Those that want to leave, she’s willing to take them to an area they want or back home and let them go.
She has a few abandoned Pokemon that she’s picked up too.

She’s less interested in winning Gym Battles. No, she’s content to wander, explore and learn.
There’s so much to do and see out there still.

As her beginner Proff was a douche, she doesn't trust Proff’s much so she keeps far more than six Pokes on her at once. In fact, she carries all twenty seven she has to date.

She finally ends up at the NJ/AJ gym/ training center/ poke center and very much likes their style. All Hail to the peaceful non conformers… who are actually doing a pretty good job of things actually. Better than some of the actual Joys/ Jennys.

They’ve even attracted a couple of both those families who don’t WANT to be in pokemon care/ healing or law enforcement.
Your family name/ look should NOT dictate what you want to do with your life! There is now a pokemon trainer Joy challenging the Gyms and making her way to the league battles and a Jenny who is a poke tech engineer and loving it.
There is a male Joy who wants to be an archeologist but no one supports him except the rebel family members.
There is a Jenny who identifies as a Jonny despite the female packaging and NONE of his family get it. He runs away to the NJ/AJ gym. He wants to study stars and learn more about them. Maybe one day go into space.

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So much later she’s wandering in a different world. She’s eating at a nice little Raman Booth when a scuffed, grubby little kid comes in, followed by the glares of the citizenry.

She buys him some Ramen.

Wherever she goes, she feeds the strays when she can.
She’s been there.
Maybe not as bad as these kids have had it but she’s been there while on her travels.
It might not mean much in the grand scheme of things but at least there’s one meal they won’t have to steal or miss.

She didn’t expect the grubby blond to start following her or to spy on her training with her Mon.
She ends up feeding him a second time.

That was a mistake. He won’t leave her alone now and she sits him down to discuss things.

He demands that she take him with her when she goes… then he begs.
He’s DESPERATE to get out, to get away from here.

She knows the kid is watched and she says as much. It’s not like she can tuck him into one of her pokeballs.
(Yes, she knows how to make ‘em. She had to do SOMETHING with herself since she wasn’t interested in gym or league battles. So she learns bits and pieces, working her way around.)

She worked her way around her own world, much the way she is here. She goes hungry as often as she doesn’t as food her Mon can eat is more important but but she does well enough.

The kids snatched at one but she dodged and ducked away, calling apologies over her shoulder. She’d love to help, she WOULD, but that’s a can of worms she does NOT want to open. Not for love nor money.
Did she feel guilty?
A bit but she was a stranger in this world and there was only so much she could do without drawing unfortunate attention.

She hadn’t noticed a ball get knocked off her belt when some ass in a rush knocked her on her arse without so much as an appology.

She picked herself up, collected what of her dropped stuff she could find and moved to the side and down an alley, up turning a box so she could set her stuff down and count it out.
She was a ball or two short and sent a couple of her Mon to track them down.

Odd, she’d thought her number of empties was bigger than that?
Had she caught an ally cat or something by accident?
She hadn’t known they’d even work here?
She’ll check later.

Where’s the kid though.
She’s not seen him since yesterday… when he apparently set off a dozen or so pranks to pull attention away from him. Smart lil brat.

She went back to the Ramen guy and asked if he’d seen the kid.
He was following her almost everywhere and then he just… wasn’t.
He looked like he wasn’t being looked after like he should too…Was he a street kid?

Apparently not. He had secrets attached. It was one of those political situations where if anyone took the kid it would be looked on as favoritism so the kid was left to languish.

Fecking typical. Politics bolloxed everything up.
Still, none of her biz and it wasn’t like she could take him, wandering as she did.
Best she could do is pay for a meal or two.

He waved her off. Someone else picked up the tab and she’d already bought the kid a meal. She was good.

She shrugged.
Maybe he should get someone to teach the kid how to cook a bit.
After all, good as ramen was, he’d need more than that to grow.
If he did a few hours working in the back he could help out and learn at the same time.
Just a thought.

She leaves a few days later with any sign of the kid.
She’s a little worried but she can’t get involved.

A few towns away, in her broom cupboard of a room for the night, she remembers the newly filled pokeball and activates it.

To her utter shock, it dumps her little political stray out on the bed.

The kid yawns, blinks and stares around before his eyes widen and he bounces excitedly.
They’re out of Konoha. ‘Tebayo.

She goggles.
She isn’t sure what ‘Tebayo means but sure?
Meanwhile she’s completely freaking out inside.

What… What the ACTUAL fuck… just… what? That’s a KID, not a Mon.

She’s so, SO confused.
Should she… go back and tell someone?
Well, it wasn’t like anyone was taking care of the kid despite the fact he was watched…
Fuck.
Um… she wasn’t much of a baby sitter and she wasn’t sure where to go from here. She can… release him if he wants?

He does not! Not even a little bit ‘tebayo. That’s the warmest and most comfy he’s been like… ever. He’s sort of hungry though but he’s never slept better.
He’d like to get cleaned up though… which, fair enough.

They’ll need to dye the kids hair though and cover those whisker marks at the least. Luckily, she’s got a couple of Mon who can give him a makeover.
He’ll be going out as a ‘she’ though.
And NOT in this village.

She recalls him and sees about getting food both for the Mon and for herself.
Mon in their balls were essentially in stasis so they didn’t need feeding.
The kid wasn’t a Mon though. She’d have to keep track of that.

Rather than stay the extra couple of days she’d planned on, she bought twice the supplies she normally would, Released a Ponyta and put the saddle bags over it’s back as she walked along beside it.

She knows she could ride it as well but eh, she’s enjoying the road trip.

Looks like she’s accidentally caught a little apprentice.
Maybe she should see if she can catch other kids, just to make sure this sort of thing doesn’t happen again.
(It would also be a good way of getting someone out of harm’s way in a hurry and she could release them as soon as it was safe too.)
Should probably road test it on adults too.

She certainly hadn't expected the kid to snatch up one of her few empty balls, push the button and tap it on the red haired chibi. She CERTAINLY didn’t expect it to actually WORK!
The ball rocks viciously and violently and far longer than it might have for a normal Mon but then it stops and settles as if it was normal.
O-kay? What the fuck?! Or was the brat trying it on every stray he came across?
Oh well, whatever. Looks like she had two pokebrats now?
Eh, at least her Desert Mon would enjoy it.
She’d found the kid, Naruto or some such, could go for about four days before he needed feeding inside his ball. She only put him back when she was tight on funds, she had to travel fast or there was limited food. Most of the time he was walking with her.
He wanted to go to Uzushio, even though it was wrecked. He’d learned about it in school and now he wanted to go there.
She had no issue with that but she was in no rush.

It turns out she can only ‘catch’ those with really strong bloodlines. Something that brings out the ‘other’ in them. Few of the humans around are purely human anymore. They all have a little alien in them now, tying the to some Chakra-producing tree fruit and a ‘rabbit goddess’? Actually an alien but still…

She isn’t sure what a ‘jinchuuriki’ is when it's at home but apparently they’re the easiest to catch.
She has four now… and three other random kids.

One who is also and Uzumaki and her first ‘catches’ relative. She does healing, apparently, and the current host village forced her mother to overuse her abilities, killing her.
The kid, Karen, was happy for a chance to escape.

She has another called ‘Haku’... JUST Haku whose father killed his mother, simply because she had an ability her son inherited.
But that was in Kiri where the entire country is turning on itself.

She picked up her fourth Jinch there too… one who was being controlled by something or someone else. He was actually the boss, of Kage, of the Village and she has NO idea how her 'apprentice' even got close to the guy.
Naruto is very skilled at finding good catch targets.
The two new ones are Yagura, who is near unresponsive, and Isobu because apparently the 'Inners' that are called 'Bidju' have names too... and most of them aren't happy to be stuck inside of human hosts which... fair enough.
She's come a long way from the headstrong brat who refused to have ANYONE unwilling with her... okay, not that much.
She can live with 'caught for their own good' or 'caught for the good of all' for now.

The third non Jinch is called Kimimaru and he’s not well at all. They plan to go looking for a Tsunade sama, who is apparently a ‘Sanin’ whatever that is.
There is another called Juugo but they haven’t caught him yet.

Fuu was the third Jinch caught and seems fine with it. Her 'inner', Chomei is a sweetheart and the two work well together but just want freedom. Something she can get behind for sure.

Maybe if she finds her way to another world she can let them go there.
It’s WEIRD having people in her pokeballs.

After picking up Juugo and finding Miss Tsunade for Kimi kun, Naruto wants to go back to THAT Village. He knows some more people who could use taking away.

At this rate, she’s going to have to make more balls. She didn’t think there’d be anything here to catch!

From Konoha, there is Hinata, Neji, Sasuke, Itachi and Shisui.
There’s a mean old man called ‘Danzo’ too who has done some really bad stuff. Like, Team Rocket but far, FAR worse bad.

A boy called Sai and another called Shin were unexpected but okay…

Wow, the kid has caught himself practically a team of his own, if he was going by the standard Pokemon team number.

Someone called ‘Orochimaru’, who is also, apparently, a ‘Sanin’ and his apprentice, Kabuto are added.

Along the way, Itachi’s ‘partner’, some sharky looking guy with a sentient sword, are also caught - though the sword needs her own ball.
And some one-eyed, silver-haired porn-readying dude who came with his own pack of creatures called dogs... she's a fan. They aren't Mon but damn, are they smart.

Really, Naruto’s having TOO much fun with this.
Brat.

They left a fifth Jinch, inside a young man, in the care of two others of their sort. One older man who was extremely short and a big guy wearing red armor.

The sixth they found was badly, badly hurt and wants to go back to her Village but knows if she does, they're likely to pull her 'Inner' out which will kill her or throw her on another suicide mission.
There is another like her in the Village but he is the Kaga's adopted brother and so has far more protection.
Miss Yugito is more... disposable and her Inner, Matatabi with her. And that's just awful and horrible and NOT good enough.
Once she finds a way off this craptastic planet, she's taking any who want to come with her well, with her.