Chapter One
"Hello! Who are you?"
The boy shied away, his eyes wide and scared. She thought she had never seen such a bright green in someone's eyes before. It reflected the colors of the forest.
She had been digging for about an hour, searching for treasure, and then she gave it up and began searching for wild Pokémon instead. In neither endeavor was she altogether successful. But then she found this boy, wearing an orange shirt that was easy to spot amidst all the greenery and beauty of the woods.
"It's okay, I won't bite!" She laughed, her voice like a ringing bell. When she still got no response, she said, "Here, I'll go first. I'm Touko. There, it's easy!"
The boy looked as if he was about to say something; he opened his mouth, yet no sound came out. He had a small, black Pokémon in his arms: a Zorua, by the looks of it. It squealed happily when Touko looked at it and leaped out of the boy's grasp to sniff her ankle.
"Your Zorua is so cute! Where did you catch it?" She crouched down and tilted her head so far to the side that she toppled over, where the Zorua proceeded to lick her cheek.
The boy nearly cracked a smile, but didn't answer her question. Her mouth fell slightly open when she looked at him and noticed all his features at once: the adorable face, the light green hair, the strange necklace he wore, and the other strange cube-shaped artifact hanging from a chain in his pocket…
"What's this?" she asked excitedly, grabbing it with a hand that had just spent an hour digging in the dirt.
"No!" he yelped, his gaze horrified. Touko was so surprised he said anything that she nearly dropped it, but he snatched it out of her hand before it could fall.
Instead of becoming upset at being yelled at, Touko laughed aloud. "You're funny!" she crowed. "And weird. Let's be friends, okay? Where do you live?"
The boy frowned, put the cube back in his pocket, and looked away.
Touko paused. "…That's okay! I'll come back tomorrow. Same spot, same time? Great! Okay, bye!"
She rose to her feet and wiped her hands on her brand new white dress. Then, as she started to run off, he called after her.
"My name is N!"
Touko slowed to a trot and stopped in her tracks. Turning around, she flashed N the biggest grin he had ever seen, then turned right back around and began running again, into the darkness of the forest.
Author's Note: Hi guys, I really hope you liked my first ever fanfiction! I'll be posting more chapters to this soon, so keep a lookout for those! Hope you liked it~