Loopyfist here! One day a while back I wanted to make a Pucca fanfic that would be a one shot, but as time moved on I had more ideas for it. I was wondering if this should just stay a one shot or not, so I'll let you decide at the end!

If this gets good reviews, this will become a very interesting fanfic!

Also, as a side note, Pucca and Garu don't talk in my fanfic… makes it seem more like the show.

Disclaimer: I don't own "Pucca" or anything related to it…so don't ask…

Chapter Summary: Sometimes a different approach can have better results…or not…

Unlikely Allies—Pucca fanfic

By LoopyFist

It was just a normal day in Sooga village…well, as normal as a village with ninja and martial artists gets.

In speaking of ninja, two of them were having a heated battle in the forest. Garu, a serious, silent, pigtailed ninja, was fighting Tobe, an "evil" ninja that is Garu's self proclaimed arch rival.

As they fought, Tobe surrounded Garu with his ninja henchman to make sure he would not escape. Both ninja blocked as quickly as one attacked the other. For one of the few times in his life, Tobe was actually fighting as well as Garu was. Throughout the battle, Tobe had a confident look on his X-scarred face.

"This is it, Garu…" Tobe said with laughter, "The day that I finally defeat you!"

Garu sighed. This was the 8th time that they had fought this week, and each time wasn't any different. Garu always had the upper hand in the end. Either way, it was about time for HER to show up…

"Any last words, Garu before I—oh no…" The abrupt stop in Tobe's rant was because he spotted a familiar red wearing girl running at top speed at the fighting ninja. In a flash, she knocked down all of Tobe's henchmen and quickly headed for him.

Tobe pleaded "Not the face, NOT THE FACE!", but it was in vain. A straight-punch connected to his nose and sent him flying into a tree.

The girl in red, who is known as 'Pucca' in Sooga village, looked at Garu and smiled.

Garu sighed again, he knew that would happen. As stated before, it was the 8th time he and Tobe fought…and the 8th time that Pucca had interrupted the fight and knocked Tobe out. The reason Pucca would usually do this is because she had a crush on Garu (well…a crush that borderlines on stalking and obsession…but who's judging…) and wanted him to concentrate more on her. Garu, on the other hand, didn't really want a love interest and only wanted to focus on training.

Pucca apparently doesn't get the message…

She quickly pounced onto Garu and began to repeatedly kissing him. Garu was more than annoyed at this point and squeezed out of Pucca's death hug and quickly hurried off.

Around that time, Tobe was getting up and rubbing his head.

"Ughhh… my head…" Tobe moaned "I may have been defeated this time, but next time I will defeat you, Garu and-huh?"

Tobe stopped because he had noticed something odd. He finally noticed his arch rival had left, but that wasn't what was odd.

He noticed Pucca was on the ground, crying her eyes out.

He usually would laugh at anyone's misfortune (especially one who was friends with his enemy), but for some reason he began to wonder why she was sad. If anything I'M the one who should be sad! Tobe thought. What's her problem then… Why do I even care?...either way, I'm not going to ask her! ...well, I guess if no one is around…He continued.

After silently watching the sobbing girl for a while he finally managed to choke out "Uhh…Pucca?"

The girl quickly snapped her head toward the ninja, her face a mixture of sadness, anger and tears. Tobe didn't have enough time to react to Pucca rushing toward him and grabbing him by his shirt, her other fist ready to pummel him into the ground.

"OHMIGOSHDON'TKILLME!" Tobe screamed, protecting his face before she would strike.

Tobe opened his eyes for a spit second to see his end, but was amazed that Pucca had relaxed her fist and her grip on him. She only sighed with a look of depression on her face, dropped Tobe, and began to walk away.

Tobe thought that this would be the perfect time to disappear, but for some reason he…

"Pucca!" Tobe suddenly yelled at her. WHAT AM I DOING?! Tobe asked himself I DON'T NEED TO SAY ANYTHING TO HER! But still he continued, stuttering as he went on…

"W-what's your problem? Why should you be crying? I mean your boyfriend beat me and-"Before Tobe finished, Pucca had begun a whole new round of tears.

"Jeez…all I said was that Garu was you're…" Tobe stopped himself for a moment to look at the sorrowful Pucca. "…well isn't he?"

Pucca shook her head. "Oh…" Tobe replied "I thought he would have given up running away from you by now…"

"So…" He continued "I'm guessing chasing after him isn't working right?" Pucca .nodded her head again

The two stood in silence for a while until…

"Maybe you should try something different…" Tobe suggested out of the blue

Pucca was confused. It was strange enough for Tobe of all people to talk to her while she was crying, but she was more interested in what he meant by "something different"…

"I mean… maybe you should try thinking outside of the box or something…" Tobe continued. He was surprised that he was helping Pucca get Tobe (even more surprised that he was actually getting into it)… but whatever causes distress to his rival.

"Like-uhh- instead of you chasing Garu…why not get him to go after you…or something like that…"

Pucca had finally stopped her crying and was very interested in Tobe's idea. Almost instantly, she had a plan to get Garu…but she needed one extra thing.

"Well I guess you already have a plan or something, so I guess I'll leave…" but Tobe didn't get enough time to go before Pucca had stopped him. Tobe suddenly had a bad feeling in his stomach.

"….wait…don't tell me I'M involved in this crazy scheme of yours, 'cause I won't -"

It was already too late. Pucca began dragging Tobe further into the woods to begin her plan. Looks like I don't have a choice… Tobe thought. SEE TOBE! THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR BEING NICE! YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST LEFT HER CRYING!

Meanwhile, Garu was meditating in his house with his cat, Mio, sleeping near an open window. Suddenly a rock flew through the window heading for Garu, but he caught it in midair without getting out of his meditation pose. When he looked at the rock, he noticed that there was a note attached to it.

It read:

GARU, I HAVE CAPTURED PUCCA AND I AM HOLDING HER INSIDE THE FOREST!

COME AND GET HER IF YOU CAN!

SINCERELY TOBE

P.S.: BE READY TO FIGHT!

Garu finished reading and quickly jumped out of his window and headed into the forest. Mio suddenly woke from his nap and let out a small meow after seeing his master had left.

Tobe quietly waited in annoyance while his "captor" hung atop of a branch in a cage. I can't believe that I've sunk so low as to help Pucca get her love interest …Tobe thought. Pucca wasn't thrilled to be in her situation either, but it was all part of her plan.

Pucca's overall plan was simple: to setup a fake kidnapping, to which Garu would respond to, and Garu would fight with Tobe, and Garu would win and save Pucca (and ultimately fall in love with her… or something like that).

Tobe only had two conditions to finally agree with this (as if he actually had a choice), 1st to fake the fight because he didn't feel like getting his butt kicked twice in one day and 2nd, something in return. Pucca had decided to offer him a coupon for free noodles at the Goh-Rong restaurant, to which he, or his stomach, had reluctantly agreed to.

Garu had appeared, looking furiously at Tobe. Oh boy…Tobe thought, he knew that Garu would probably pummel him into the ground for taking Pucca. Tobe knew that Garu cared about her, but he just didn't show it often, save for this time and a few others.

Tobe pulled out his two swords, ready to fight."Well, well, well…" Tobe said, "It seems that you want to save your girl after all…but you have to fight me first!"

At that moment, Garu didn't really care about why Tobe had captured her, or why he wanted to fight twice in an hour, he was mostly focused on saving Pucca, which meant defeating Tobe (not so hard, right?).

Although Tobe had an intention of loosing this time around, didn't mean that he wouldn't fight his hardest.

The two clashed their swords vigorously, not stopping to rest or recover. For every attack one of the ninja made, the other made two more attacks. At one point sparks had started to fly from the swords connecting together. The heated battle went on for 15 minutes. Pucca had started to get annoyed, sitting in the cage for so long; she didn't expect that Tobe would be doing better than his usual. She wondered when Tobe was finnaly going to lose.

Tobe was getting exhausted, so he guessed it was time to let Garu defeat him. He knew that if he just carelessly lunged forward, that Garu could simply counter with a quick punch to the gut and it would end the fight (and definitely hurt). He ran forward with his sword in the air, believing his little scheme would work, but unknowingly tripped on a rock. Garu, who was less tired, surprised by Tobe's trip and was too tired to react.

The result: Tobe and Garu ended up knocking into each other's heads. The two ninja held their heads in extreme pain.

Pucca was distraught when seeing this and opened the cage (they didn't bother to lock it) and jumped down to help Garu. It was around the time she was in mid air she noticed that she was higher up than she thought and she would eprobably end up landing on Garu…which happened… which knocked Garu out….

Tobe stopped holding his head to notice that Garu was unconscious. This took a while for him to soak it, but when it did he let out a big yell.

"WOOHOO! I BEAT GARU!~" He exclaimed happily, "I finally beat him! This will be great for my self esteem!...huh?"

He noticed that Pucca was standing away from Garu, getting ready to cry again. It seemed that she wasn't too happy about her plan going awry. For some unknown reason, he didn't feel as good "beating" Garu now. COME ON! I BEAT MY NEMISIS! I DON'T WANT TO FEEL BAD! Tobe thought, then he sighed... darn…I'm gonna have to do the "right thing" aren't I? Ugghh…

Tobe picked up the unconscious Garu and threw him to Pucca, who, surprisingly, caught him.

"You know, I REALLY don't like being nice but… I guess you deserve this anyway…" Tobe said walking away. "Just don't TELL anyone that this happened okay?"

Before he left, Pucca ran up to him, took his hand and gave him the free noodle coupon.

"But-the plan didn't go right and-"but something stopped him. Pucca simply smiled at him and took Garu back to the village.

It was around evening when Tobe began to walk back to his secret hideout. He thought about all of the previous events of the day…it felt like it was all a dream at one point…he just didn't understand it. He took out the coupon from his pocket and just stared at it…

He thought back to when Pucca gave it to him…he had thought he had heard something… it sounded like…

It doesn't matter…thanks for helping anyway…

Perhaps it was just his imagination…or the wind…

Perhaps….

Shall I Continue?

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