Perhaps running around the shinobi world would give him a new perspective. That's what Lord Third suggested to the empty shinobi, broken from a war's worth of recon and blood. Take the waterdog and throw him in a land of brick and clay, see if that Will of Fire will still burn in his heart.

After wrangling her number from Clemont, because Chloe wouldn't tell unless he gave her the answers to questions he didn't even understand, Ash and Serena have a friendly, late-night phone call. A little amourshipping one-shot set post Journeys episode 105.