Thank you for tuning in. This is my retelling of Clannad through Pokemon characters. I'm working really hard to make this, so I hope you readers enjoy. I tried to match up each Clannad character to the closest Pokemon anime character I can think of. Not everyone can be perfectly accurate, but I did my best. This is the result:

Tomoya- Ash

Nagisa- May

Sunohara- Barry

Mei- Bonnie

Tomoyo- Leaf

Ryou- Dawn

Kyou- Misty

Kotomi- Bianca

Fuko- Lyra

Tomoya's dad- Giovanni

Akio- Norman

Sanae- Caroline

Ushio- OC

Yukine- Serena

Misae- Erika

Yusuke- Reggie

Kouko- Maylene

Toshio- Rowan

Katsuki- Brock

Kazuto (Though he's only mentioned)- Calem

That should be enough for now. On with the story. (Told from Ash's POV)

I hate this city. I hate Pallet Town. It's full of memories I want to forget about. My schedule never changes. Go to school every day, chat with friends and Pikachu, and then go back to the home I don't even want to go back to. Will something eventually change doing this?

I just kept walking, pondering the subject as I walked slowly to school. I was wearing the usual uniform, some geeky tan outfit. My only true friend, Pikachu, rode on my shoulder, making what sounded like a sighing noise as well. He too, must be getting sick of doing this.

I let out a long sigh too as I arrived at the hill leading up to the school. Beautiful sakura trees lined the road, their petals falling and swirling in the wind, but looking at that didn't ease my pain. If something different could just happen. A day that can change my whole life. Will that day come?

I continued waking, staring blankly as I strode up the hill. I'd probably be late for school again. Not that I cared. Not that anyone cared. I was well known as a delinquent. They'd rather not have me around anyway. And no one was that concerned about me. I was late every day in fact.

I thought I heard someone taking a deep breath, so I turned to face them. It was a girl with brown hair pulled back by red barettes. She wore the usual girl uniform, the tan outfit with a miniskirt. She also wore long socks. She looked extremely nervous, though I couldn't tell why. I just kept staring at her.

"Sweet bean bread!" she suddenly called out, startling me a bit. A Torchic brushed against her feet.

"Do you like this school?" she then asked out of nowhere. "I really, really love it. Torchic loves it too. But nothing can stay unchanged."

A girl I've never seen before. The words weren't directed at me. I knew that. She wasn't even facing me. She must be talking to someone in her heart.

She continued on, her voice a soft whisper, sweet and beautiful. "Fun things...Happy things...They can't all possibly stay unchanged. Even so, can you keep on loving this place?"

I know she isn't talking to me, but I feel like I need to speak.

"Just find them," I instructed.

Startled, she turned around and stared at me, observing me and my Pikachu. Her Torchic cooed up at Pikachu. A sudden gust of wind blew some leaves from the trees and the unknown girl's hair whipped around in the wind. She didn't fuss about her hair getting all messed up by the wind though. She kept her gaze fixed on me.

"Just find new fun and happy things," I continued. I don't know why these words were coming out or why I was talking to this girl in the first place, but I couldn't stop now.

"C'mon, let's get going," I told her, ending my cheesy speech. I started walking, expecting her to follow. She stood there silently and gazed at me for a while longer. Then, her Torchic squawked and she got out of her trance, chasing after me.

This girl was kind of cute, following me like this. She was shorter than me and her strides weren't as long, so she had to run to keep up with me. She followed me like Ducklett after its mother. We start to walk up...the long...long uphill climb...Could this be the change I'd asked for?

_Pokemon Clannad_

Before I knew it, it was the end of school again and I was heading to Barry's dorm. Barry is my best friend, but he's sort of an idiot and to make things worse, a pervert too. Plus, he sort of picks fights with the wrong people...which is what is happening right now.

Barry cried out in horror as the rugby team surrounded him, one of the guys coming behind him and grabbing his arms from behind so that he couldn't escape. It looked like they'd already shaken him up a did he do this time?

"Have you learned your lesson now, Barry?!" one of the guys on the team screamed at him.

"What do you think you're doing playing your CDs so loud every day?!" another guy hissed in anger.

They were angry that he was playing his music too loud? That's a bit harsh. Suddenly, I realized his Empoleon wasn't there to protect him. What had happened to it? And then I saw Empoleon was helping the team beat him up. I sweat-dropped. I'd told Sunohara that everyone would get sick of his crappy music eventually.

"But if I don't listen to it, I don't get rolling," Barry protested weakly, cowering as the players started tossing out their Pokemon. This was getting bad.

"Scum!" the guy holding him shouted, lifting him up into the air. Someone's Servine prepared a vine whip attack.

"They don't get tired of doing that every day, do they?" I sighed, knowing I had to help him out somehow.

"Ash! Stop watching and help me!" Barry cried out when he saw me. He screamed as someone gave him a wedgie and then Servine started vine whipping his butt. This was a bit awkward.

I suddenly lost the desire to help him. "I'll get infected by your idiocy, so no."

"Pika," Pikachu agreed.

"You're so heartless!" Barry whined.

The guy gave him a worse wedgie then threw him onto the ground. As Barry rolled across the ground, the guys and their Pokemon started kicking him like a soccer ball. Once Barry lay defeated, another guy kept his torture going, picking him back up, throwing him in the air, and giving him one hard kick to the back, sending him flying. Then, another guy caught him and they started throwing him around like they were playing a game of hot potato. Dang. I thought they'd be done with him by now. The last guy in line, gripped Barry and then threw him on the ground, pinning him.

"Shut up!" a certain woman shouted. Everyone was in trouble now.

Erika, the lady running the dorm, came running at the athletes, spinning a broom faster than any human should be able to spin something. All the guys looked terrified every her and they had every right to be.

Erika easily managed to break them up without having to hit anyone. Everyone ran out of the dorm as quickly as they could, screaming like little girls. Come on, Barry. If Erika can scare them off, you should be able to.

Erika growled and threw down the broom. "For crying out loud! I'm the one that has to deal with the complaints from the neighbors."

"Dorm mother sounds like a tough job," I agreed, picking up Erika's Purrloin and holding it in my arms.

Barry moaned and hugged Ms. Erika's legs. "Ms. Erika...come save me earlier, please," he whimpered.

She kicked him off of her lightly and scolded him. "You're the one at fault, aren't you? Why don't you learn your lesson?"

Barry groaned as he sinked into the floor. "Yes ma'am," he wheezed, exhausted.

"Damn that rugby club," Barry snarled once we were safe inside his room. We were sitting at his table, him and one side and me on the opposite end, facing each other. "And you too, Empoleon. Why didn't you defend me?"

The Pokemon crossed its arm and "hmph"ed. Even his partner that Barry was at fault here.

"If you mumble, the rugby club won't hear you," I teased. "Damn that rugby club!" I then shouted, adding effect.

Barry panicked as someone responded, "Who just said that?!" The thrust themselves into Barry's wall, knocking over one of the pictures on his wall.

Barry screamed in fear, but tried to stay as quiet as he could. Maybe I'd taken the joke too far?

"Are you trying to kill me?!" he screamed at me, pouncing on my and wrapping his arm around my neck. She choked me and I struggled to push him off of me.

"You're wimping out," I replied with a "hmph".

"I wouldn't be backing out if it were one-on-one," argued Barry. "But there's just too many of them."

He released his grip on me and stood back up. He suddenly had a determined look on his face. "Just you wait! When graduation comes around, I'll pay them back in full! When the time comes, Ash, I trust you to watch my back. And you too, Pikachu."

"Lucky! I'll be sure to stab you as well," I replied, smiling and giving him a thumbs up.

Pikachu gave a fake smile as his cheeks sparked with electricity.

"Don't come after me!" screamed Barry, gritting his teeth in anger. "Go after them!"

"But I'm on the rugby club's side," I responded, crushing my friend. "Pikachu is too."

"Pika," he agreed with a nod.

"Since when?!" cried Barry, tears forming in his eyes.

"Only for that."

"Keep it down!" a rugby club member warmed us, screaming through the wall. He then kicked the wall as well. Barry almost jumped out if his pants in fear. He jumped back over to his seat and cowered a bit under the table. Were they that scary? I bet Pikachu and I could take them on.

"Should I kick back?" I laughed, standing up and pulling my foot back for a kick.

Barry screamed, running his fingers through his hair, about to pull some out. I knew it was a bit mean to mess with him like this, but it was how our relationship worked.

And just like that, another same-old-day ends. It's not like I have a goal or something to devote my passion towards. What a bland day...

_Pokemon Clannad_

POV SWITCH: UNKNOWN

This is a world that has ended. Nothing is born and nothing dies. Even time does not exist. If I were searching for a place to be born, I realize it should not be here. There is a person in a world like this. A girl. She has long brown hair that flows to her waist. She wears a plain white dress. She lives in this world, where all I've seen is a wooden floor and table.

Could she see me? I am not born to this world. The girl who lives alone in the world that has ended. The girl who lives in a vacant, unmoving world. For some reason, she interests me.

_Pokemon Clannad_

Ash's POV

I was back in school yet another day. I walked down the long, blue hallway to my classroom. Pikachu yawned in my ear, he hadn't slept much last night. I was about to open the door when I heard someone talking within the classroom.

"Ash and Barry aren't here yet?" the voice asked. "What are they thinking? They're seniors, so don't they have their exams and their futures to worry about?"

"Forget about them," another voice snorted. "We don't have time to worry about others, do we?"

I pulled the door open and stepped in, trying not to take their words to heart. I heard Pikachu's cheeks spark, and I shook my head, letting him know that they didn't bother me at all. The guys had shut up once I'd walked in anyway. I heard one of them sneer though.

I pulled out my chair and put my bag on my desk. I stared down at my bag, not thinking about anything in particular. Pikachu came down onto my chest and I patted his head.

"U-um...Ash?" a small female voice called out to me.

I looked up, seeing it was only Dawn, a girl in my classroom and also our representative. "Huh? What is it Dawn?"

"You came in late today too," she said, stating the obvious. She tried to smile at me.

"So?" I challenged, wondering if she planned to scold me.

"Um, I think you should come properly to school every day," she suggested. That wasn't happening.

"So you talk like a class representative, eh?" I chuckled. Pikachu stared down at Dawn's Buneary with a smirk and Buneary blushed, turning bright red.

"N-not just "like,"" she replied weakly, looking like she didn't know what to do now. "I am the class representative..."

"Hey, Ash, don't make the class rep cry," warned some random guy within my class. "Her sis is gonna come running in here."

"I'm fine!" Dawn bursted out at him. "I'm not crying!"

"Fine," I said to her with a sigh. "Let's just say it'll depend on tomorrow's mood."

"Th-Then um...I'll read your fortune for tomorrow," she suggested with a smile. She reached in her pocket and pulled out a deck of cards. "Fortune telling is my hobby after all."

She slowly shuffled the cards, looking focused, but then fumbled and ended up dropping all her cards. They all scattered everywhere across the floor. She whined and started collecting them. I sighed and got down to help her.

"Come on," I mumbled.

"Ash, you'll be late tomorrow," she predicted just as I was about to pick up a card.

I fell out of my chair. "Are you picking a fight with me?!"

She shook her head furiously. "That's how the cards came out! I think this is how this sort of fortune telling works."

I narrowed my eyes at her. "Think?"

She continued reading the scattered cards. "On the way to school, you'll have a romantic meeting with a kind girl, forget about the time passing by, and therefore be late."

Buneary giggled and inched in closer to Pikachu. "I don't think the romantic meeting is for you Buneary," I laughed.

I then turned back to Dawn. "That's really detailed, isn't it?"

"A-A maiden's inspiration-" she started to say.

"-ASH!" Dawn's sister interrupted. She threw a large book at me, at least 1,000 pages and I narrowly avoiding it, ducking as it flew out the window. It was Misty. She carried no Pokemon with her, but Pikachu was still willing to fight her, glaring up at her in anger.

"Sis," said Dawn, surprised by her sudden appearance.

"Misty..." I sighed.

She stormed in at me. "You've got some nerve, picking on my sister!" I grunted as she grabbed me by the neck tie, choking me a bit. Pikachu growled up at her, but she ignored him. "You loser!"

"I was only taking to her!" I screamed, defending myself so I could get her off me quickly before Pikachu roasted her.

Dawn chimed in and helped me out. "Yeah, sis! He wasn't picking on me or anything."

Misty gave me one last look and released my tie. "Then fine." She looked down at the cards spread out on the floor. "You had Dawn read your fortune?"

"Yeah, apparantly I'm going to have a romantic encounter with a kind girl tomorrow," I responded, skepticism lining my voice. Did I really want to believe in what some cards were saying? Did Dawn even read them right?

Misty chuckled at me with an evil look on her face.

"What's with the grin?" I snorted.

"Nothing~!" she sang. She placed her hand on my shoulder. "Well, good luck!"

She then burst out laughing as she turned around, walking out of the room. She looked a bit too joyful. She was definitely making fun of me.

_Pokemon Clannad_

"So where should we go eat?" I asked Pikachu as we walked through the hall. Lunch break had just began.

Before Pikachu could answer me, I stopped, listening to a group of guys talk.

"A ghost?" one laughed.

"Yeah," said the second guy. I heard it appears. The ghost of the girl that got in a car accident."

"I bet its something else," the third guy said in disbelief.

"A ghost, eh?" I passed them by then waited for Pikachu's answer. "So, lunch?"

Pikachu was unable to answer once again as I abruptly stopped, looking down and seeing that girl from yesterday. The one who'd silently followed me up the hill. Pikachu turned and stared at her too. She was alone down there except for her Torchic. She ate bread in complete silence while her Torchic munched on what looked like hand-made pokeblock.

"Want to go talk to them?" I asked Pikachu. "I'm sure Torchic would share her food with you."

Pikachu smiled and nodded. I headed out the door and approached the girl. "Hey. You alone? Why not eat in class with your friends?"

She didn't answer me. She just kept mowing on the bread. It was...sweet bean bread? Thinking back...didn't she mumble something about sweet bean bread when I passed by her?

"Hey? Are you listening?" I asked, getting impatient.

"I'm sorry," she told me. "I'm eating right now."

"Okay," I said, sitting beside her. I could respect that she didn't want to talk right now. I didn't really talk while I ate either. Pikachu came up to Torchic and greeted her. Torchic smiled back at him and offered some pokeblock. Looks like I was right. They were fast friends. What about the girl and me though?

Eventually, she finished the bread, folding up the wrapper and throwing it away. She then took Torchic's empty bowl and placed it neatly in her bag. Then, she sipped the last drop of her juice box and threw that away too. She sure savored her food.

I'd started eating too, having picked a hot dog for lunch. Pikachu didn't eat the food I'd made A) because I'm a bad cook and B) because he'd already eaten plenty of pokeblock already. The girl was finally finished with all her food and she turned to me.

"Um, how can I help you?" she asked.

"Wanted to ask why you're eating out here alone," I responded.

"Do you like this school?" she asked me, dodging my question.

"Not particularly," I growled with my mouth full of food.

"I really, really love it," she said, but her eyes looked sad though. It didn't match what she was saying. "I used to have friends and teachers I got along with, but now..."

"Did something happen?" I asked, actually curious. Usually I didn't bother talking to anyone, but I guess she was a bit different...somehow...

She sighed. "Last year, I was away from school for a long period of time. So I'm..."

"You're repeating the year," I finished for her.

"Yes. I'm repeating," she said back to me, giving me a weak smile. "All the people I knew graduated and the people I don't know fill this school. I feel sort of alone...Oh! I'm sorry! What am I saying to a person I just met...?"

"So that's why you were mumbling that...you weren't involved in any clubs?"

"No," she breathed sadly. "I originally wanted to join the Pokemon Theater Club with Torchic, but I have a weak body, so I don't think I can properly participate in the activities."

"Participate to the extent you can," I suggested. "Why not go to the Pokemon Theater Club after school?"

"But..."

"Hey. Look over there." I pointed at some people in the window. "They're looking over at us. If you always look so sad, you won't make friends. Smile and wave your hand. With a big smile."

She seemed unsure at first, but she slowly raised her hand and smiled up at the people, waving her hand slowly. They left though, not having noticed her.

"I guess they didn't notice," I sighed.

"I don't have much of a presence in class either," she said.

Suddenly, a strange noise rang out.

"What is that sound?" she asked.

We both ran out to the soccer field together where two bikers were riding on their motorcycles and stirring up the dirt.

"Wow! So cool! They're wheeling over," Barry called out among the spectators.

"Barry, what's going on?" I asked him, praying my idiot friend could give me some decent info.

"I think they're here for a fight," he chuckled. The brown-haired girl looked alarmed. I should really learn her name soon.

Suddenly, some girls started screaming really loud. I turned to see what was happening. A girl with light brown hair that stuck out a bit spiky in places starting walking out onto the field, her Machop standing beside her.

"Is she going to give them a lecture?" I asked aloud.

_Pokemon Clannad: To Be Continued_