Alright, my story, to put it all into one word: sucks. So go ahead, read, criticize, have fun. This will most likely be deleted later just like my other stories.

Oh and one more thing, if some of my Japanese translations and/or grammar is off, tell me, I like to know these things.

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"Onee-san, mou! Onegai!" Masato whined begging Onee-san.

"Yada, zettai yada." Haruka stated bluntly, refusing to budge. It had been too long since she had to relax like this without any Pokémon Contests and she was not going to let it end until she had 'shopped 'til she dropped.' Not that Pokémon Contests were a burden for her, far from it. She enjoyed them a lot but too many of them can tire a person out.

"Nah, Haruka, don't you think we've been to enough stores?" Satoshi complained as well especially since he had to carry some of the 20 bags she had.

Haruka stopped and put a finger to her chin as though pondering the thought then turned toward Satoshi with a blunt, "Iya." And on that note, Satoshi, Masato and Takeshi sighed in defeat as Haruka hummed a happy little tune to herself as she continued shopping.

"We should have never agreed to let her go shopping like this," Takeshi sighed again.

"Wakata…demo…it is her birthday today…" Masato reasoned, a little unsure if that reason was enough to convince the two that they should just let Haruka go on a shopping rampage.

Suddenly, they realized that they had gotten separated from Haruka while talking.

"Ano…where's Haruka?" Satoshi questioned.

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Haruka looked around with a childish smile plastered on her face. She turned her head toward one store and saw a really cute cell phone trinket. It was a tiny little plushie of a Skitty playing with a ball. She started giggling a bit and was about to walk toward the store when…

"Abunai!"

Haruka turned to her left to see lots of people running away from a pack of angry Zigzaguma (Zigzagoons) and Massaguma (Linoones.)

"Kyaahhhh!" Haruka screamed as she almost got run over by the group of people. Oddly enough, the angry pack didn't even bother with her and she watched as the group of people ran off with the pack at their tales.

"…okashi…" was all she could say about the strange incident.

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"Kuso, where's that baka?" Shuu cursed under his mouth. He had been looking everywhere for a week and still no sign of her.

When he realized he was back where he started, he sighed. Taking a break, Shuu sat on the bench nearest to him and leaned his head back in annoyance. "What does that baka think she is doing?" Shuu mumbled to no one in particular.

"Da re?"

Shuu's eyes shot open in surprise and lifted his head up to come face to face with his brown haired rival.

"Haruka, what do you want?" Shuu asked regaining his cool and slightly annoyed. "If it's about the contest here, I'm not going."

"Hey, that's not a very polite way to greet m-There's a contest here?-I mean…I'm going to win this contest and there is no way you-wait, did you just say you're not going?" Haruka responded, not missing a beat but a bit slow.

"Hai, I won't be entering this contest…" Shuu sighed disappointedly.

"Demo…did you get all your ribbons already?" Haruka asked. She would have been amazed if he did. The last time she saw him, he only had 2.

"Iie, let's just say something important came up…" Shuu turned to leave, not exactly in the mood to explain anything. But just as he does, Haruka grabs his arm. "N-nani?"

"I wanna know." Haruka pouted.

"Not going to tell you." Shuu answered. He tried to leave only to be pulled back.

"Onegai!" Haruka begged curiously. She pouted once more.

"Yada." Shuu answered once more brusquely and once more he tries to leave only to be once again pulled back by Haruka.

"Nani!" He yelled.

"Tell me!" Haruka whined like a little kid.

"Let go of my arm!"

"Not until you tell me!"

"Yada, now let go!"

"Yada, now tell me!"

They started growling at each other.

"Fine, you want to hang onto my arm? Be my guest!" Shuu started walking off without Haruka's consent.

Considering Haruka was not as strong as Shuu nor was she compliant enough to let go of his arm, she got dragged along. "C-chotto! Shuu!"

They walked in complete silence.

Finally, Haruka's curiosity couldn't take it anymore.

"Neh, Shuu, who exactly are you looking for?"

"It is of no concern to you." Haruka was taken aback by the coldness in his voice.

"Onegai? I want to help you." She smiled sweetly at him. He turned around only to greet Haruka with cold eyes.

"I don't want your help."

"What's wrong with you? Daijoubu desu ka?" Haruka asked timidly. She had never seen his eyes so distant and cold. It was almost murderous.

"Bezuni," he answered bluntly.

Haruka bit her lips. 'Why is he being so cold?' Then she got an idea.

"Neh Shuu, maybe you can just tell me what she looks like! Then, you don't actually have to tell me who she is but I can help y-"

"I don't want your help! Now if you let go, I can actually start looking!" Shuu snapped at her.

Haruka was now no longer timid, nor happy. She gritted her teeth and burst in an outrage. "What is the matter with you? I'm just trying to help you and what do I get? Why do you always have to isolate yourself from everyone else and make yourself feel all high and mighty, Mr.…I'm-so-much-better-than-you-are?" She frowned.

Shuu turned around to yell at Haruka. But then he stopped when he saw the hurt in Haruka's eyes. He sighed. "Gomen Haruka. I'm just really frustrated right now." He hadn't even realized he was being so cold. In fact, he hadn't realized a lot of things. Taking a good look at Haruka, he had realized that she didn't look much like she did 5 years ago. Well, he must admit, she was still Haruka, but her hair had grown much longer. Even in a high ponytail, it still went down to her neck. Her outfit had changed. She longer wore the red, white and blue spandex but a short-sleeved sweater shirt half-cut with a thin mid-sleeved navy turtleneck, and knee-cut high white capris. Her gloves were even different and she no longer wore her bandana. (A/N: Alright, if anyone got that, I"m surprised. For those of you who didn't, maybe I'll draw you a freakin' picture. Not my fault I'm the worse writer in the world. Sheesh.)

Haruka stared at Shuu for sometime, still frowning. Then her frown turned into a smile. "Daijoubu! Now, let me help you."

Shuu looked at the ground and thought for some time. He didn't want Haruka to get dragged into his problems. But it was probably the only way to get Haruka off his arm. Wait a minute, he looked at his arms and realized she let go! He didn't even notice. Seemed as though he won't need to get her involved after all.

"Sure, Haruka!" He answered with a smirk.

Haruka opened her mouth and smiled. "Hontou?"

"Tousen!" He flipped his hair. "Demo…I have to…" and with that he took off leaving a very surprised Haruka.

"Shuu! Argh! I'm gonna kill you! Matte!" Haruka started sprinting after him.

"Just try and catch m-"

Before Shuu could finish what he was saying, he tripped over something and fell. He started rubbing his head which he hurt in the process of falling.

"Haha! I got you! Now I'm gonna kill y-" Haruka growled only to stop and notice why Shuu stopped (or tripped) in the first place. Shuu, who thought he had tripped on some sort of cloth, realized that he had tripped over a person. He got up on his feet and saw that it was someone wearing a black cape with their back facing him lying on the ground.

"Gomen nasai," he mumbled bitterly at the person as Haruka was able to leech on to his arm again refusing to let go until he let her help him. Just as he was about to walk away, Haruka refused to move and just stared at the ground.

"Mou, Haruka, nani?" Shuu groaned in frustration. But then, he finally got a good look at her face.

Terror, her eyes were huge and watery. The hand that wasn't squeezing the life out of his arm, which he is now unable to feel, was covering her mouth. Fear, the second thing, her eyes were telling him.

He finally followed her eyes to see what had shaken her so much. His expression became similar to hers and he realized why Haruka had become so petrified.

The reason why he had fallen, not only because of the cape or because there was a random person lying on the ground, he was afraid to find out. His stammering hand reached over to the person and slowly began to pull away the cape, hoping it wasn't what he and Haruka both thought it was. He had hoped it was just water or soda, some sort of liquid other than...

Blood, a puddle of it.

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NAMES

Shuu - Drew

Haruka - May

Satoshi - Ash

Takeshi - Brock

Masato - Max

TRANSLATIONS

Onee-san - Older sister (said with respect…err…ish)

Mou - Hard to describe, basically it's just the person groaning or "man"

Onegai - Please

Yada - No way; don't want to

Zettai - Absolutely

Hai - Yes

Iie - Formal way of saying no

Iya - Informal way of saying no

Wakata - I understand

Demo - But

Abunai - It's dangerous; look out

Okashi - Strange

Kuso - Darn, damn

Baka - Idiot

Da re - Who?

Nani - What?

Chotto - Just a minute

Matte - Wait

(Chotto matte - Wait just a minute)

Daijoubu - Are you alright; I'm fine

Daijoubu desu ka? - Formal way of saying are you alright

Bezuni - Nothing

Gomen - Sorry

Gomen nasai - Formal sorry

Hontou - Really

Tousen - Of course