Okay now, before you all run off because you realize this has pokemon in it, let me explain. One night while my younger sibling was watching the show (Cartoon Network had a Master Marathon, Yuck!) I challanged myself to see if I could write a story with pokemon in it without it being completely stupid. In case you're wondering when I made this challange, it was just after that girl Mai or May or however her name is spelled asked "what is time travel". Fortunately for you, and my sanity, she won't be in this story, although Ash and Pikachu might. After all, Pikachu is adorable and has some common sense. As for Ash, well, it seems that Pikachu can't leave him by himself. (I think it's because he doesn't have enough money for a babysitter. Hahaha) Anyway, on with the story!

Disclaimer: If you've heard of them before then I don't own them. The only people I made up are Aria and her Mom Sarah.

Chapter One: Shiro

Aria Cullen was something of a pokemon trainer. Mostly she kept the smaller, cutesy types, like Skitties and Pichus, however, yesterday evening, she found a more 'serious' pokemon.

"You think he'll be okay Mom?" Aria asked her mother as she quietly closed the door to her daughter's room behind her.

Sarah Cullen sighed again. "Yes dear, I'm sure your new friend will be fine. But you should probably let him rest so that he can recuperate faster." She told her daughter as she walked into the other room to finish washing the dishes.

After her mother left, Aria stood there wondering what to do. Usually after dinner she would go to her room to relax before she went to sleep. However, tonight she had a guest in her room, so she would have to stay out until she was ready to go to bed. It was almost like when relatives visited and her room automatically became the guest room.

"Well," Aria thought. "I can be quiet when I'm relaxing, except for maybe the music, or the singing, or the occasional squeak when my book gets exciting. Okay so maybe I should do something else, like take a walk." Aria quickly went to get her shoes.

The Cullen's house sat on the outskirts of a forest not to far away from the city of Botany. Through the forest, it was only a fifteen minute walk at most to the city. There were also numerous paths that zigzagged through the trees, leading to an assortment of caves, springs, and dead ends. Some of the trails also led in a wound about way to the ocean that crashed behind Aria's house. Over the three years that Aria had lived near Botany, she had explored most of the trails; at least she thought it was most of them. Somehow, there always seemed to be more.

Of course, one of the biggest advantages to having a forest in your front yard and an ocean in your back yard was that there were usually pokemon living in both areas.

As Aria walked in that fading daylight to the tree line, she listened to the roar of the sea behind her and the night noises that were beginning to emerge from the forest. She loved this spot, right in the middle of both worlds. Here, she could listen to the music that they both offered.

She paused briefly to listen, and then continued on her way between the trees in search of her Sweetheart. A few feet into the forest, Aria heard a rustling sound up ahead and to her right. She stopped to see if whatever was making the sound would come out into the open. Just as she was about to continue on her walk, a small, slightly furry, creature stepped out in front of her.

"Why hello there Sweetheart. I was wondering when you were going to come home." She reached out her hand and her white Skitty leaned into her palm for a pet. Aria picked her up and started back towards the house. Aria's Skitty, or as she was more often called, Sweetheart, was very curious and would often escape the house to explore the forest. When she was younger, she had sometimes walked to the ocean, but she soon gave that up when she found out that water was wet.

"Now your going to be nice to our new guest, aren't you Sweetheart?" Aria cooed to her pet as they entered the house. Sweetheart gave a short almost 'meow' in response.

"Yes, I know you will be. Now you're going to have to stay out of my room for awhile, okay?" Aria placed a little kiss on Sweetheart's head, who started to purr in response.

"Okay, there you go." Aria said as she put Sweetheart down and went to find something else to do now that the sun had gone down. Sweetheart quickly scurried away to claim her usual spot on Aria's windowsill, forgetting that Aria had just told her that their room was off limits.

Aria had just decided to sit and watch TV when Sweetheart started to cry loudly. Aria groaned as she realized why Sweetheart was upset. She dragged herself up off the couch where she had just sat down and headed toward her bedroom door.

"Don't let her in your room Aria." She heard her mother call from the other room.

"Okay." Aria called back. "No, no Sweetheart." She cooed as she picked her up again. "I told you, you can't go in there. Not right now at least. Why don't you come watch TV with me, just for awhile?" Aria and Sweetheart both lay on the couch and, somewhere during the commercial break, fell fast asleep.

"Hiei, Kuwabara, let's get out of here, now!" Yusuke yelled to his friends as he tried to drag the unconscious Kurama with him to the exit. The parking garage that they were in was starting to fall apart after those blasts that the demon they were chasing had thrown at them.

Fortunately, they were on the ground floor and the exit was not to far away. They all made it out before the concrete building came toppling down.

"That was too close." Yusuke said to himself as he watched the stone chunks crash together to the ground. "Hey," He turned to Kuwabara. "Help me would ya'?" He nodded towards Kurama who was still out cold.

"Right." Kuwabara said as he slung the kitsune's other arm across his shoulders and then waited for Botan, who had run up to them shortly after they had escaped, to open a portal to the Spirit World.

A few hours later, Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Hiei were in Koenma's office, explaining what had happened.

Koenma was silent after they finished. "Are you sure that the blast the demon released is what caused Youko to disappear and knocked Kurama unconscious?"

Yusuke nodded. "Yeah, I'm sure of it. As soon as that black wave touched him, he fell down in his human form."

"What if the wave just drained him so he switched from being Youko to Kurama?" Kuwabara asked.

Hiei glared over at the orange haired human. "Because even when Kurama is in his human form, I can sense his demon energy. Now it's like he's just a human with high spiritual powers."

"You got something against humans with high spirit energy shrimp?!" Kuwabara yelled at Hiei.

"Both of you knock it off." Yusuke told them as Botan entered the room.

"How is he Botan?" Yusuke asked, trying not to show his concern.

Botan sighed. "He'll be okay, but he's very weak. I don't know what that demon did to him, but he'll out of it for the next few days." She told them in a tired voice.

Koenma looked at the three boys in front of him. "Well," He said. "I suppose that that's a few days that you can rest before you go out to look for Youko and this demon. I'll see you in about three days?" He looked over his pacifier at them to see Yusuke and Kuwabara nod. Hiei, of course, did not answer.

"Very well then, I'll see you all later." The small prince said from his chair as he absentmindedly straightened a stack of papers that had been sitting in front of him all afternoon. He hardly noticed when the three remaining re-recruited spirit detectives left his office, even though the door closed loudly behind them.

Koenma sighed. Yusuke Urameshi, demon terror that he was, had been re-hired by Koenma's father, King Enma, after the unknown demon had sent him the letter. King Enma had neglected to show his son what the letter said and simply ordered him to get Yusuke and the others back. Koenma knew that his father thought that they were the only ones who could save the spirit, human, and possibly even the demon worlds, (that would mean though that the demon was out to destroy it's own kind too and, while Koenma didn't have a hard time believing that, he found that most demons preferred to at least keep Makai in tact so they could control it themselves. From what his dad had told him, whoever was doing this planned to wipe out the three worlds along with their occupants.) but after tonight's display of the demon's power, Koenma was worried and unsure. Kurama was not one to be taken lightly, but the stranger had blown him away after one battle. If he could do that to Kurama, what could he do to the others? Koenma thought hopelessly as he returned to his paperwork. The world may be ending soon, but if King Enma found out he had skipped out on his work, Koenma wouldn't need to worry about anything except his behind.

Aria woke up the next morning with a stiff neck and Sweetheart staring at her from the floor.

"How did you get down there?" She asked groggily.

"I jumped."

Aria stared down at her Skitty confused, and then shook her head; realizing she was still half asleep and had probably only imagined someone answering her question.

"Good morning dear," Called Aria's mother from the kitchen where she was flipping pancakes.

Aria's nose dragged her into the kitchen. "Good morning Mom." She said as she sat down. "Have you seen our guest yet?" She asked as she snitched some pancake batter from the bowl while her mom's back was turned.

"No not yet." She said distractedly, concentrating more on her cooking then her answer. Aria's mother wasn't very good at multitasking, whenever she tried, something usually ended up broken or burnt.

"Cool, I'll go see how he's doing." Aria said as she walked out of the kitchen towards her room. Just outside her door she paused and put her ear to the door. She didn't hear anything, so she quietly opened the door to peak through. Her usually bright room was shadowy and still. She glanced over at Sweetheart's bed which sat in the corner close to her own and saw that the pokemon wasn't there. She peered through the shadows in her room and saw that he had stolen her bed instead.

"Well it's nice to know that you're awake at least." She said as she came in and turned on the lights. The Nine Tails looked up at her with his amber eyes.

"Wow, aren't you a pretty one." Aria said as she approached the bed somewhat cautiously. He may be tired and calm, but that doesn't mean he's tame. Arai thought to herself.

The Nine Tails continued to stare at her as she came closer. When she was close enough to touch him, she reached into her pocket and pulled out a few pieces of pokemon food and held them out for him to sniff.

After investigating the stuff that she held out to him, the silver Nine Tails turned up his nose and sneezed.

"What? You don't want it?" Aria looked at him confusedly. Her mom may not be great at multitasking, but she was undoubtedly the best pokemon nurse and maker of pokemon food in or around Botany. All the pokemon that Arai had ever met had eaten her mother's special food, so she was shocked when she found this one didn't.

"O-kay then," Aria said. "What do you want to eat then?" She asked more to herself then to the Nine Tails sitting next to her. While she was sitting there thinking, the Nine Tails suddenly started sniffing the air vigorously.

"Hey!" Aria called as the silver creature stood up and jumped for the door. Aria quickly followed him out of her room and back to the kitchen where her mom had already placed a stack of pancakes on the table.

"Hey stop that!" Aria yelled as he jumped up on the table and began to dig into Aria's breakfast. Mrs. Cullen began to laugh as she put the dirty pan in the sink to wash later.

"Leave him alone Aria. I guess being washed up on the beach as a beat up mess made him hungry." She laughed a little as she came up to him and looked at him. The Nine Tails looked up from his smorgasbord to see what the fair haired woman wanted.

"Well, it looks like you're better, and after only one night of sleep out of water." She grinned at him as she reached out to stroke his back, and then jerked her hand back as he growled at her.

"I think he must be a wild pokemon Mom, but I don't understand how he got in the ocean."

"Well it's very simple dear," She told her daughter with a straight face. "He probably swam or jumped off a boat or something similar."

"Ha-ha, very funny Mom." Aria said sarcastically. "What I meant was that if he was a wild pokemon, he probably wouldn't be on a ship and if he lived on an island and suddenly found himself in the middle of the ocean, wouldn't he just swim back to his own home? Plus, the nearest island is like, 500 miles away. He wouldn't have been able to swim that, especially if he was hurt when he fell into the water.

Her mother sighed. "Someone has thought about this a little too much." She smiled at Aria.

The Nine Tails sneezed, attracting both women's attention. "I suppose if you're going to stay here we should call you something besides Nine Tails." Aria said to herself.

Mrs. Cullen looked at her daughter. "Okay, but keep in mind that he'll probably go back to the wild after he's well again."

"Don't worry Mom. I know that." Aria said in a slight whine. The Nine Tails sneezed again. "I think you might have a cold white one." Aria said then snapped her fingers. "That's it, I'll call you Shiro." Arai smiled at Shiro who was looking at her with what some people would call a frustrated and slightly humiliated look on his pointed face.

"Well, it's true. You look like a Shiro." Aria smiled wider and held out her hand for Shiro to smell. He took the opportunity and then ignored her. "I'm beginning to wonder if you aren't actually a Skitty in disguise." She said as she cautiously touched Shiro and began to pet him. Shiro glared up at her and she stopped.

"Okay, okay I get the point." She said exasperated, and then she giggled. "But I can't help it, you're too cute." Then Aria kissed his nose so fast that he didn't have time to get away from it. Once he realized what she'd done, he started to roll around on the table like a kid trying to get rid of cooties. Both Aria and her mom laughed, which only upset Shiro more and soon he left the room all together.

While both women continued to laugh in the kitchen, Shiro sulked back to Aria's room. After he had settled back into the covers of her bed, he started to mutter to himself.

"Girls." He humpfed, then closed his eyes and went back to sleep.

And there you go! The first chapter of . Even though that had pokemon in it, it wasn't so bad, was it? You should tell me if it really reeks or if it's not that bad and you would like to hear more. I already have the second chapter written, so I can post it if people like it. But I can't know if you like it if you don't REVIEW!!! So please REVIEW and I'll post the second chapter.

Thanks for reading,
Rose

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