Here's the next chapter! Mostly Romantica-centric or not. Sorry, it's a bit long.

And hints to what Ritsu, Misaki, and their group went through on their journey.

I don't own Pokémon, Junjou Romantica, and Sekaiichi Hatsukoi.


'I guess I should wake him up now...?' Misaki thought. It was morning now, and he got all the Pokémon eating their breakfast- all that was left now was the sleeping rabbit.

...

"Sensei...?" Misaki calls out, peering into the room. "Wake up."

Curious, he tiptoed quietly to see what the so called 'Usagi' looked like. He never got to meet him since he was out on a journey.

Before he could even see the man's face though, he spotted something around his wrist that made him stop and stare.

'That bracelet...' He widens his eyes having recognized its dark green pattern, and he goes to grab the wrist close, not realizing the consequences. 'I made this! How did he get it? I made this for Aki...' he frowns. 'What was his full name again?'

"Who are you?" calls a cold voice, creating a disturbed aura, and Misaki flinches. Letting go of the wrist he steps back and bows frantically.

"I'm sorry! I-" He looks up and freezes, remembering those violet eyes as they glare sleepily at him. 'Don't tell me...'

'Aki is Usami Akihiko?!' Misaki gapes at him like an idiot.

"...What?"

"Nothing!" Misaki cries, retreating to the kitchen. "I made eggs!"

"...I like eggs," Misaki hears faintly from the man before he goes back to sleep for a few more minutes.


'Wait...' Misaki sits at the table waiting for Akihiko to come down and eat. 'So when Celebi came from the past and Aki with it, it was 10 years in the past? I guess that explains why he was around Shinobu and I's age.'

'He kept the bracelet, though,' Misaki smiles a little. 'I'm happy. Though he probably forgot who I am...'

Feeling like he was being watched, he looked to see Akihiko just standing there, dressed up and fully awake.

"W-what?" Misaki asks, hesitant seeing that the man looked confused. Then he wondered if the man even knew that he was staying with him. "I-I'm Takahiro's little brother, remember? I'll be staying with you for a while- do you remember?"

After a while, the man nods before getting seated. "Yes, I remember... Misaki."

"Yes, that's right, Sensei!" Misaki praises, before starting on his breakfast.


"Are you sure you wanted to come, Sensei?" Misaki asks Akihiko as they enter the aquarium.

"Of course. This is like our first date."

"W-what...?" Misaki stutters as he blushes, "I'm just here to see my friend perform. Our other friends are busy, so I'm going to record it."

Once they entered and paid for the fee, Misaki started a bit as his Pikachu came out of its Pokéball. "Pika!" She greets, before running off and gawking happily at the fish passing by the glass.

"This is so cool!" Misaki catches up to her, with Akihiko following. "Isn't it, Chupika?"

"Pika!"

"She hasn't changed a bit since she hatched from her egg back then as a Pichu, huh, Misaki?" Akihiko quietly comments.

"Yeah! She-" Misaki pauses before looking over at Akihiko to nervously turning back to watching the fish. 'He remembers...' "Yeah..."

Some moments of silence pass until Misaki jolts as Akihiko grabs his hand to pull him closer. "Misaki..."

"Akihiko." They turn to see the person who called, and Akihiko glares at who ruined his attempt at a romantic atmosphere.

"Haruhiko."


"What are you doing here?" Akihiko asks.

"I should be asking you that." Haruhiko looks up at how the glass holding in the water was structured. "I designed this place, and had time to come watch it's first show. What are you doing here?"

"On a date-"

"M-my friend is performing here!" Misaki jumps in, blushing from the mention of the date. "She's the mermaid!"

Haruhiko blinks for moment. "I see," he looks up at the glass. "They told me she could last long in the water."

"Yes," Misaki begins. "Sometimes though, she'll go past her limit- she can be very stubborn."

"Pika!" They turn to look as Chupika calls for Misaki to look at the glass, and Misaki beamed at the mermaid waving at him.

"Amazing!" Misaki says, going closer along with some other children. "She put sea stars and shells on her hair and everything!"

"That long wig must have been hard to put on to have it flow like that under the water," Akihiko comments, and Misaki shakes his head.

"That's her real hair." Misaki says, "She likes it long."

"Ah! Usami-san!" A man in a suit comes over to Haruhiko and gestures to the mermaid. "This is her! Isn't she a natural? She seems very popular with the kids."

"I see..."

"There's one problem though..."

"Eh?" Misaki looks to him. "What?"

"She scared of the Octillery. It's fine, and all, but sometimes I think she's going to freak out to the point where she forgets to breathe."

"A-ah," Misaki looks down to the side, ashamed on her behalf. "Yeah, she doesn't like anything octopus..."


'On a date with a boy...?' Haruhiko thought as he finished washing his hands in the bathroom. 'Father will not be pleased.'

He goes to dry his hands. 'Although, since when did Akihiko-' Suddenly he was held back and a damp cloth was forced to his face, knocking him out unconscious.

...

A little dazed, Haruhiko blinks his eyes open. He can see that there were people wearing the same uniform and that he was in the security room because they were using the surveillance.

'What happened to the...' his question was silently answered once he saw the knocked out, tied up security members in the corner across from him.

"Ah, you're awake!" He glares at one of the grunts that was addressing him. "Usami-sama~"

"What is the meaning of this?" Haruhiko asks coldly.

"You'll be a valuable asset in our group, and if that doesn't work out, a good ransom..." he looks to one of the other grunts in the security chair. "Are we in the clear to get him out?"

"Tch... because of the event there are other rich people here and their security- there's no escape!"

"Hmm..." the more important looking grunt grins. "Unless..."

"What?" asked the other grunt.

"We have some of us working the event- and they have to clean out the tank when everything's done. There's a corner where some of the more private Pokémon hang out and it isn't seen- it's perfect!"

"But... that's in the water," says another grunt, confused.

The grunt grins at the other grunt sitting and Haruhiko tenses. "Exactly."

"Wait-" the other grunt sitting and looking over the surveillance zooms in two of the cameras to Misaki and the mermaid. "Those two are here! And that one," referring to the one working in the event, "She's going to find out! You remember how many times she found us out?!"

"No problem," important grunt says, "Look," he points to the Octillery trying to play with her and she gets up on the platform in fear despite that she's slightly flopping around because she's wearing her mermaid tail. "She's flipping out on the Octillery. There are like a couple of them here- just have them around where we hide them and she won't get close, simple as that."

A female grunt takes out a laptop and types something in. "Should we consider this another bit of information on her?"

"Sure." the grunt replies, and Haruhiko wonders what his brother's companion and the young woman had to do with this group.


"Wow!" Misaki gazes around the audience. "There are so many people!"

After they sit down closer to the front, Misaki takes out a small camcorder and looks through it.

Akihiko looks him over, raking his eyes down Misaki's form and back up to his slender fingers holding the camcorder. Just a few hours with him, Akihiko already felt intense impulses to touch him, hold him close, take him away from the aquarium, and go on a proper date, alone.

"Really guys?" Misaki complains half-heartedly, Akihiko snaps out of his trance to see that two more of Misaki's Pokémon came out of their Pokéballs. "Okay," Misaki addresses his Glaceon and Politoad, "Don't get closer to the stage than necessary, okay?" The two cheer before running off with Chupika.

"I thought you both wanted her to be a Leafeon," Akihiko comments, with her referring to the Glaceon herself.

"Yeah, we both thought that... but then..."

Flashback some 6 years ago:

"This forest is so beautiful!" Ritsu comments, and Misaki looks around for the mossy rock. "How do you think they're doing up there in the cave?"

"They'll be okay!" An says, giggling upon seeing her Beautifly fly carefree in random patterns in the air. "Shinobu promised he wouldn't go off alone like last time."

"That's right," Ritsu says, "Misaki, try not to go off as well-" he looks around, "Misaki? Misaki?!"

"Found it!" Misaki cheers from a little bit away. "Come look, come look!"

"Wow, good job!" Ritsu says, as he and An go to him. "Please, though, don't run off like that again..."

"Oh, sorry..." Misaki scratches the back of his head in embarrassment before taking out a Pokéball. "Here we go!"

As the Eevee comes out, Misaki smiles at her. "Okay, Haruha, let's..." He trails off.

"Ee?" The Eevee cocks her head to the side, and they both stare at each other in confusion before they freak out that they were switched.

"Calm down," Ritsu says, laughing a little. "You and Sumiko-chan probably switched them accidentally when we had lunch."

"Eeh..." Misaki frowns. "Should we just wait and-"

An shrieks, and they look to see that a familiar yellow-brownish cocoon had fallen on her. Ritsu looks down at it before sighing tiredly and looking up to the swarm of Beedrill. "Again...?"

"We'll scare them away!" Misaki boldly announces, with Sumiko's Eevee nodding in agreement as they look to each other. "Ready, Fuyuha?"

"Remember, don't touch the rock or she might evolve," Ritsu warns before attending to a shivering and freaked out An. "An-chan, it's not that-"

"Can w-we go to a Pokémon center after this?" An asks, "I want to wash my hair..."

"Okay," Ritsu guides her to sit down. "It's not that bad..." He looks to see the cocoon blinking at him and goes to pick up, holding it in his arms and looking up at the trees. "Let's see which one you fell from."

"Bzz! Bzzz!" He looks to see a Beedrill come at him threateningly and holds it out. It stares at him for a while with its glinting red eyes before taking back its baby and retreating.

"We did it!" Misaki cheers, and Ritsu looks to see him and Fuyuha cheering together seeing that the Beedrill swarm retreated and smiles. But then...

Fuyuha steps back a bit unknowingly towards the rock and her tail touches it.

"Aah!" Misaki hurriedly tries grab her, but it is too late, as the now blinking Leafeon spins around looking at herself in curiosity.

"You too?" They look to see Sumiko walking towards them, Chiaki and Shinobu tagging along behind.

"You're back," Ritsu greets, and Chiaki goes to sit next to An to ask her what's wrong.

"We tried to come back as fast as we could..." Sumiko sighs, before looking to her Leafeon and grinning. "Guess this means you can come ambush unsuspecting people with me in the trees since you blend in now, huh?"

"Leaf!" Fuyuha chirps happily before jumping into the arms of her trainer and nuzzling her.

Misaki looks around a bit in worry not seeing his Eevee before spotting the her peering out at him from behind Shinobu's legs.

"Sorry," Shinobu says, his eyes downcast, feeling guilty. "We forgot about the evolution thing and I kept touching it because it was so smooth and she ended up touching it too..."

"It's fine..." Misaki trails off, and notices the sad look in the newly evolved Glaceon. He approaches her. "Haruha?"

She softly whimpers as she approaches him with her head downcast, depressed.

"Hey, it's okay!" Misaki goes to carry her in his arms. "This means you won't get brain freeze when we eat ice cream!"

"What are you talking about, Micchan?" Sumiko huffs, "That's the best part!"

Misaki laughs before noticing that his Glaceon cheered up a little and hugs her close. "Don't be sad, okay?"

"And that's what happened," Misaki says to Akihiko after his flashback ended.

"What about-."

"WELCOME, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN!" shouts the announcer. "We will begin in 15 minutes!"


'There are so many people watching, huehue...' Sumiko peeks out from the water a little bit away out of the audience's sight. 'This will be so much fun!' She dives under the water to practice a little.

'Wait...' She looks around and hugs herself. 'That Octillery hasn't tried to bug me with its arms,' she shudders, 'But I don't see it at all and-' she pauses her search upon seeing the red mass of them at the corner away from the audience.

'Is... Is it mating season?' she thought, sort of disturbed out seeing them unusually all over each other. 'What are they doing?'

Then she saw it: something brown and white. Curious, she swims towards them.

...

'This is as far as I can go...' Haruhiko looks back at the strong chains holding him back on his legs while his hands were tied together; he was wearing one of those underwater breathers.

"Ooo..." He turns to see one particular Octillery approaching him curiously. It touches his head before taking his glasses and examining it before cheering and taking off with it, ignoring Haruhiko's glare.

'Wait...' Haruhiko thinks for a bit before looking after the Octillery. 'He's going to either hide it or show it to someone...'

...

'If I show this to her, then she'll play with me!' the Octillery thought, thinking of Sumiko. 'And she'll hug me!'

...

'Oh no...' Sumiko stops upon seeing that particular Octillery coming at her happily. 'It's coming after me!' She holds back her breath, turning quickly and fleeing.


"Is your brother going to sit with us?" Misaki asks Akihiko.

"No." 'Although...' Akihiko looks up and around the masses of people. 'I don't see him. Did he have something urgent to attend to?'

"Akihiko-sama!" They turn to see Tanaka. "You're here?"

"Ah, yes."

'A butler...' Misaki thought, "Sebastian?" he asks aloud.

Tanaka greets him with a smile. "I'm Tanaka."

"O-oh..."

"What are you doing here, Tanaka?" Akihiko asks.

"Haruhiko-sama seems to have disappeared. No one hasn't seen him leave the building either- that's all the security could tell us."

"That's all they could tell you?" Akihiko frowns. "Some security."

"I'm going to the bathroom," Misaki announces abruptly, beckoning back his Pokémon into their Pokéballs and leaving.

'To think that they're here...' Misaki reads the wall map for the security area. 'If they took Usami-Ani, there's a chance they might take Usami-sensei...'

"Misaki?" He turns to see Chiaki.

"You got to make it?"

"Yeah," Chiaki grins as he holds up his sketchbook. "Out for references! Great excuse huh?"

"Oh," Misaki hands him the camcorder. "In case I won't be there when it starts."

"Huh? What's up?"

"I think they're here. Someone sort of important went missing."

"I see... Okay then," Chiaki takes it with some seriousness. "I'll keep my eye out. They might try and mess up the show."


Sumiko squeaks upon seeing the red octopus Pokémon emerging next to her. She eyes it warily with a disturbed smile as it nudges her playfully. 'It means no harm, it means no harm, it means no harm, it means no harm...'

"Ooo..." It brings out and arm as he shows her the glasses.

"Eh?" She holds out her hands as the glasses were dropped. "Glasses...?"

The Octillery nods happily, before nuzzling her and, feeling obliged, she pets it hesitantly. "T-thanks..."

'Glasses..?' Sumiko thinks for a bit. 'Boss told me they don't have toys like this so why...?'

She remembers the mass of Octillery. 'Were they hiding something?'

"Ne..." She looks at it. "Can you show me where you got this?"

It nods before going under the water and she follows.

'About 5 more minutes, until the show starts with introduction, Pokémon tricks and then me and the other Pokémon...' Sumiko thought. 'Is something going to happen?'

Upon coming closer, she tries her best to pass the Octillery before widening her eyes seeing the man tied and chained up. 'Why is he down here?'

...

'So the Pokémon brought it to her...' thought Haruhiko as Sumiko examined the chains. He watches as she goes to his feet, taking out a bobby pin from her hair and picking the locks.


"Damn, the mermaid disappeared with the Octillery. She must have figured it out," the important grunt mutters before turning to two grunts, "Get in gear and stop her!" They leave, and he doesn't notice Misaki sneaking in after them and undoing the ropes around the now wide-awake security guards.

"The show's beginning," one of the grunts sitting at the security cameras said, "Still want us to start the netting when they show the Lapras and the Dewgong?"

"Yeah-" He turns to see Misaki. "How did-"

"Go," Misaki orders once he freed them and turns back to the important grunt. "Did you guys take Usami-Ani?"

"...What if we did? Either way, your little friend is going to get in a little trouble soon."

"Why here though, of all places?"

"Why not?" Seeing that Misaki wasn't satisfied the grunt huffs. "Orders from the boss."

Taking a deep breath, Misaki takes out a Pokéball and tosses it. "Go, Takaki!"


'The show's starting,' Thought Sumiko as she tried to rid of the ropes constricting Haruhiko after unchaining his feet. 'This knot is so tight...' she thought, before holding back a cough and remembering she was around her limit. 'I can hold it... just a little longer.'

Suddenly, she felt a nudge and turned to see Chiaki's Vaporeon, who had been released by Chiaki to survey the water for anything amiss. 'Kai?!'

Coming forward, the Vaporeon bites his way through the rope. Seeing something from the side of her eye she glanced to see two grunts, wearing their own breathers, swimming towards them.

Kai tries his best to rush as they each release a Poliwhirl. Just as Haruhiko was release, one Poliwhirl does Water Pulse, resulting in Sumiko taking the hit after she pushes Haruhiko out of the way, causing her to hit the wall and sink, choking for air.

The other Poliwhirl couldn't even do anything as the Octillery piled themselves on it and its assigned grunt. While Vaporeon dealt with the Poliwhirl who managed to attack, Haruhiko went down and helped Sumiko up, temporarily giving her his breather.

Finally able to breathe and get her senses clear, Sumiko took some breathes before giving it back to him as he couldn't breathe as long as her. Since the grunts were distracted, they managed to swim around and head towards a safer place.

...

'Where is Misaki?' wonders Akihiko, looking around for the young man he wished to call his lover. 'It's not the mermaid show yet, but-'

"ZZZZzzzz!"

Akihiko grabbed his ears as he and the audience suffered from the announcer's screeching microphone. Trying to see what was wrong, he looked to see a huge hot air balloon. As the screeching continued, everybody wasn't able to move as a net was released down at the Lapras and Dewgong.

...

'This hurts like crap!' Chiaki thought, dropping his sketchbook as he got up. He hoped his Vaporeon was doing better down there than here. Eyes aimed towards the announcer's microphone that a grunt was currently manipulating near the water stage, he took out a Pokéball and threw, "Destroy that microphone, Rio!"

And of course everyone gapes at the innocent looking bystander with the ferocious looking Feraligatr.

They all watch as it shoves the grunt out of the way and sigh in relief as Rio crushes the microphone with its foot. Afterwards, Rio goes to the edge and tugs hard at the net, going into a tug-of-war with the ones pulling up the net from the hot air balloon.

It was all abrupt though, as the net was cut through with a Leaf Blade. They watch as the Skeptile and Feraligatr come together as they pull away the net and gather it into a pile. Everyone begins to act as this happens; not exactly act, but they cheer for the helpful and cool looking Pokémon. Some try to go down there, but the security and announcer orders them to stay where they are.

As Akihiko watches the Feraligatr's trainer go down there, his eyes widen seeing Misaki rush down there to the Skeptile.


"Good job, Takaki!" Misaki praises the Skeptile, who grunts in reply.

"I see her," Chiaki exclaims, and they look to see his Vaporeon and Sumiko swimming towards them with Haruhiko.

"Usami-Ani, are you alright?" asks Misaki as they help him out of the water.

Taking of the breather, Haruhiko pauses to relax a bit before answering. "Yes." He looks to Sumiko. "Thank you."

"Don't mention it," Sumiko says before a particular Octillery rises up to nudge her, handing her the glasses. "Oh," she then hands the glasses to Haruhiko. "Here you go."

"Aww, you seem close," Misaki notes to the happily nuzzling Octillery. "Getting over the octopus?"

"No way," she scoffs, before eyeing the Octillery warily. "As long as the suction cups aren't involved and I don't have to eat any, I'm good."

"Thank you," Haruhiko says to the Octillery, and it salutes to him, happy, before departing to the other Octillery.

"Are you guys alright?!" asks the suited man from earlier, running to them with a bunch of other people from the staff. Haruhiko is given a towel to dry himself off.

"We're fine, Boss," Sumiko says, her arms propped up on the surface and leaning her head on them. "Just tired."

"Will you be able to do the show, Hirakawa-chan?"

She nods. "Yeah."

"OY, don't think we're done here!" They look up to see the grunts in the hot air balloon.

"Sorry!" Chiaki shouts at them, before turning to his Feraligatr. "Rio~"

Nodding with a grin, Rio blasts them off with Hyper Beam... again, as this isn't the first time they blast them off.


"I'm sorry, Usami-sensei," Misaki says as they leave the aquarium since the show ended. "You had to see all that."

"It's no problem- it was a very interesting experience."

"So, what do you want for dinner tonight?"

"Anything's fine," Akihiko replies, looking down at Misaki. "Do you need to go shopping?"

"Shopping?" Misaki wonders aloud, "Maybe."

"Okay then- we're close by as it is, so we'll take advantage of that."

"Akihiko." Frowning at the voice, Akihiko turns to see his brother.

"Haruhiko. What do you want?" 'Ruining my Misaki and me time...'

Haruhiko ignores him and turns to Misaki. "That group... who are they exactly?"

"They... they're this organization that has been around for a long time now- they conduct experiments on Pokémon and steal them. We- They actually never spoke of what they're called so I can't help you with that."

"I see..." Haruhiko trails off for a moment. "They seemed to know who you guys were."

"Ah, well, we've stopped them many times," Misaki turns to Akihiko. "You remember, don't you Usami-sensei? That time with Celebi?"

"...That was them?" Misaki nods.

"They told me," Haruhiko begins, "That I would be a valuable asset, and if not, a good ransom."

"You should be careful then, Usami-Ani."

"Eeh, still here?" Sumiko joins them, her long hair tied up in a ponytail. "I thought you guys would be long gone by now."

"Succhan, do you think it's likely that Usami-Ani will be kidnapped again?"

For a while, she stares at Haruhiko in thought. "He'll be fine. I don't think they'll go after him personally. Maybe a bodyguard once in a while."

"Will you be working here regularly?" Haruhiko asks.

She starts the question, but nonetheless answers him. "I guess so. Two shows a month, and I come every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 3PM to 8PM to come practice and help with the Pokémon. Why?"

"All the other days?" he asks, as if her question wasn't ever asked.

"Either random jobs or just hang around. Why?"

"I see."

'Is... Did he not hear her?!' Misaki thought, noting that she was most likely thinking the same thing from the look on her face.

"Anyway," she begins, sort of frustrated at Haruhiko as she walks off and waves. "See you guys later."

"Do you need a ride home?" Haruhiko asks.

"No thanks. I'm hungry after all that so I'm just going to eat dinner out early and take some home with me for-"

Suddenly, she is pulled into a car, and then looks to see Haruhiko addressing the driver. "The restaurant two blocks away that just opened."

"Whaaaat?!" She turned to try and get out, but to no avail since it was locked.

"The restaurant serves a multitude of cuisine from Europe and South Asia. Takeout is free when you order over-"

"Don't try and win me over with that!"

...

"Should we go after them?" Misaki asks, a bit lost at what just happened.

"No," He grabs Misaki's hand and heads into the car. "Let's go."


The day later after lunch...

"So, Usami-sensei," Misaki begins as he puts up the dishes. "How often do you wear that bracelet?"

"I never take it off."

Misaki stares at him in surprise. "What?" He laughs nervously. "No way!"

"I really do-" Hearing the phone ring, Akihiko goes to pick it up.

'Sensei is so strange... still though, I'm happy he likes it,' he thought fondly, wiping his hands and about to leave the kitchen area until he spotted a book hidden on the corner of the counter and picked it up.

And 4 minutes later he was shut in his room, his face becoming slowly horrified as he read through the book with the main characters looking like his brother and Akihiko. 'What the hell?!"

And then he remembers:

"Um.. Aikawa-san," Misaki begins, watching as the woman set out the cream puffs she brought, "What kind of novels does Usami-sensei write?"

"All kinds, Misaki-kun~" She goes to make tea, "In my bag next to you, I have some of his works. You can take a look if you want."

"Ah, okay," He looks through it. Minutes later as Eri comes to pour the tea, she looks to see Misaki flipping through a book looking disturbed and confused. Once she saw what he was reading, she pales and snatches the book away.

"T-that... um..."

"Aikawa Yayoi..." Misaki looks at her, "Is your sister a writer as well?"

"N-no! This is Sensei's penname..." she trails off, watching the poor young man's expression look even more disturbed. "It's not like what you're thinking! Sensei tends to have a wild imagination, and the only way to get rid of those is to write them all out... haha..."

"But these men look familiar..." Misaki frowns. "I feel like I've seen this person before," he points to the one who looked like his brother.

"Well, it's like those random spouts of imagination people get once in a while, you know, like imagining a crowd in their underwear."

"I think I get it..." Misaki chuckles. "He's kind of a pervert, huh?"

"Also lazy," Eri complains, before sitting next to Misaki, "Watch over him well, please. Sometimes he'll try to run away to another country, so be sharp."

"Okay."

Flashback over.

...

'I think I remember reading an article about something like this, where it's normal to imagine your friends and relatives naked and other stuff,' Misaki thought, 'And Usami-sensei probably thought this up before Nii-chan married,' he looks over the book to find the date and found that it was the last volume, set a little after his brother announced his marriage.

'Yeah, Sensei stopped after that.' Misaki sneaks out of his room and into Akihiko's study to the book up. After that, he walks downstairs, looking over at Akihiko who continued to have a conversation with someone. 'It's probably Nii-chan,' Misaki thought, seeing Akihiko sort of smiling and happy to converse.

'He's probably lonely...' He pauses a bit before taking out his cell phone and thinking of his best friend. 'I should probably call him... he doesn't admit when he's lonely at times, but-' He starts when it rings and he picks up. "Hello?"

"Can..." he hears a shallow intake of breath. "Can you meet me at the park?"

"What's wrong?" Misaki asks, worried. "You sound like you're going to cry."

"I'm not!" He hears a sniff, "Just come."

"Okay, I'm coming," he hangs up. After getting his Pokémon together he grabs his wallet and puts on a jacket, heading to the door.

"Where are you going?" asks Akihiko, finished with his phone call.

"I'll be gone for a bit, Shinobu needs me," Misaki smiles, "You remember Shinobu, right? I'll be back!"

As he leaves, he wasn't able to see the look of distaste on Akihiko's face as he remembered the brat that kept taking Misaki's attention away from him back then.


Next time is the mostly Sekaiichi side, and some Junjou.

Yeah... I gave them some badass Pokémon mixed in with the cute or the not as badass.

I found it really fun, giving Misaki a Glaceon and Sumiko a Leafeon, like an opposite effect kind of thing.

It's probably sort of confusing, since I haven't updated in a while, and I'm sorry.

Anyway, next time:

- Ritsu goes on a date with Masamune!

- Shinobu is having some problems about his love life, and Shouta finds himself relating to an abandoned, strangely colored fish Pokémon!

- And in attempt to rid of their sudden stalkers, Chiaki and Sumiko find themselves going through city in an unusual fashion, bumping into Hiroki, who is also being stalked by a friendly giant of a man...