A/N: I'm happy to see that so many are enjoying this story. As someone has pointed out in a review Yagami does originate from Digimon. However I was having trouble coming up with a good last name for Nozomi so I used a name that I knew would be a Japanese last name. So if you notice anything like that, please note that I do NOT own anything except for any OCs that may or may not pop up. Not only that but the original plot belongs to WizardsGirl so if you want to read that, look for the Interferes series-When a Phoenix Interferes and When a Stranger Interferes. Please review!

Nozomi woke up slowly to soft sunlight that filtered through the tree leaves on her eyelids. With a soft moan, she rolled onto her side and curled up into the fetal position while gripping her now pounding head. I feel like I just got my head slammed into several of the lockers at school, she thought grimly. Multiple times by the severity of the pounding that's going on. Nozomi opened her eyes slowly, allowing them to get adjusted to the light before fully opening them, and sat up while looking around curiously.

She was obviously in a forest but not one of her usual hide places for when Dudley and his gang decided to play 'Hope Hunting'. While she was looking around, something bumped into her back and she froze, reacting somewhat naturally from her time with the Dursleys. She turned around slowly so that whatever it was didn't become angry. When she saw what had run into her, she simply stared at it. It looked like a purple bug that was similar to a caterpillar. However the only difference was that this…creature… was roughly the size of a small cat. For a while, both of them stared at each other when Nozomi blinked and suddenly the bug-cat creature made a weird sound, almost like a happy trill, before launching itself into her arms.

It was only pure reflexes that made her catch the creature. As Nozomi carefully cradled it, she noticed that it was wearing a light pink collar that stood out against the purple skin of the creature. She slowly held up the creature and regarded the tag.

"Cho? Your name is Cho?" The Caterpie, as the tag declared it to be, trilled at her again while wiggling around happily. Nozomi laughed in mystified delight. "Well, Cho, let's get you to this…" She squinted at the tag looking for an address. "'846 Pallet Town'? Where's that?" Cho merely trilled and she cradled the Caterpie to her chest with a soft sigh. "Well, now we'll just have to look for it won't we?" Cho nodded while trilling before snuggling into her chest and once comfortable, promptly fell asleep. Well, she thought as she started to look around for a path or another person to give her directions to Pallet Town, this isn't what I expected but I'll just have to go with the flow…

Seeing no one, Nozomi picked a random direction and just hoped she picked the right direction as she started walking.

It took Nozomi four hours just to find a road and then another two hours before she was out of the forest, standing in front of a signpost with arrows pointing in different directions. Nozomi saw that the way she just came from was Viridian forest, which in turn would lead her to Pewter City…

Following the signs, she quickly figured out how to get to Pallet Town and happily turned that way to start walking. Cho woke up once Viridian City was out of sight and wanted to be set down. Nozomi sighed but placed the Caterpie on the ground. She merely smiled as she watch the Caterpie letting out trilling laughs while rolling around in the grass.

Fun! a soft almost childlike female voice said. So much fun! Cho looked up at Nozomi with eyes shining happily. Nice human! Nice human nice to Cho.

Nozomi stared at the Caterpie as it ran… or would a better term be crawled?... over to a bush that had small blue oval shaped berries on it. Cho happily plucked one and ate it while trilling in delight. Suddenly, Cho looked at her. They stared at each other, Cho with an almost shy look in its' eyes while Nozomi had shock in hers. Silently, Nozomi slowly sank to the ground as she lost herself to her thoughts. She looked and blinked at Cho, who was now holding one of the berries up to her while still looking shy.

Human hungry? Nozomi nodded, slightly startled, before take the berry carefully. She looked at it curiously and with caution before looking up and smiling at Cho.

"Thank you, Cho. I was just about to get kind of hungry, actually and my name is Nozomi." Nozomi said absently before taking a small bite of the fruit. It was a mixture of spicy, dry, bitter and sweet but it made her feel less tired slightly than she could ever even remember being. She happily ate the rest of it, wanting to feel even less tired. Cho trilled happily before bringing her several more until it had made a good medium-size pile. Once the pile had been made, the Caterpie joyfully climbed into Nozomi's lap and started eating the berries with her.

When the pile was gone, Nozomi yawned widely before getting up while carrying Cho and curling up at a base of a tree that was within easy sight of the road. Cho curled up on her chest and quite soon the two of them were both fast asleep.

Nozomi woke up as the sun was going down several hours later and stretched carefully trying not to wake up Cho. She carefully sat up even more, moving Cho slowly so that she, as the voice that Nozomi could hear earlier had sounded like a Ung female, wouldn't wake up. Looking at the bush, Nozomi quickly picked some more of the berries and placed them into one of the cavern-like pockets on her too big pants. Cradling Cho to her chest, she set off once more for Pallet Town.

Within an hour, dusk had finally set and she could see a small town. With a sigh of relief, she started walking faster before accidentally stumbling over a small rock and inadvertently waking Cho, who immediately started to cry.

"Shh, shh, it's alright, Cho," she softly crooned, trying to calm the crying Caterpie. "Shh, shh, you're safe, small one. Nozomi's got you. It's okay, shh, shh." Cho calmed down quickly but was sniffling and trilling softly in anxiety before snuggling into her arms once more and looking around curiously. "See, sweetheart? you're almost home!" Cho brightened up almost immediately making Nozomi chuckle softly.

As she drew closer to the town, she could feel hope rising in her chest causing her to furrow her eyebrows in confusion because it wasn't her own. Would someone be able to tell her what was going on? She quickly thought back to what the three Legendaries had told her before she came here. Nozomi was confident that she hadn't been able to feel anyone else's emotions back in her old world. She mentally shrugged, but was concerned about Cho because she rather liked the Caterpie, even with her shyness and childishness. It was like caring for a younger sibling, something that she had always wanted back in her old world but would never have thanks to the car crash she and her parents had been in when she had been younger unless the Dursleys had another child which wasn't likely. Nozomi decided as she looked around at the house numbers before finding the right one finally.

She walked up to the gate and carefully opened it before making sure it closed behind her. Nozomi started tickling Cho's belly as she made her way to the porch, causing the Caterpie to trill and squirm in a helpless fit of laughter. Chuckling softly to herself, Nozomi pushed the doorbell and waited patiently. A tall man with russet brown hair, a strong jaw and friendly amethyst purple eyes answered, smiling.

"Hello there, can I help you?" he looked at Nozomi curiously as he asked that and Nozomi smiled softly at him, suddenly frighten as well as shy.

"Um… yes, hi. My name is Yagami. I was wondering if this little one belonged to someone in this house. If not, do you know where they moved or if they left a contact number so I can contact them about this little one?" She carefully held Cho up, who wiggled in her grip and trilled at the man who blinked then beamed at Nozomi.

"Cho! Where have you been hiding, ya scamp? Aiko has been searching everywhere for you for days now!" the man carefully took Cho away from Nozomi who found the sudden loss of her little friend kind of saddening.

"Tou-san?" came a soft voice from behind the man. "Who is it?" The man turned and Nozomi saw a little girl, no older than six, with lilac purple hair and the man's purple eyes, standing down the hallway shyly in a baby blue nightgown while holding onto a toy butterfly-looking stuffed animal. While looking at the stuffed animal, Nozomi was reminded vaguely of Cho.

"Look who this nice young lady brought home, Aiko!" When the little girl, Aiko, saw Cho, she cried out in happiness and leapt forward. Cho jumped from the man's arms into her arms and Aiko hugged Cho tightly.

"Oh, Cho! you scared me half to death!" the girl cried. "Don't you ever ever run off like that again! I was so worried when Tou-san couldn't find you!" The man looked at Nozomi as Aiko continued to hug and talk to Cho. Nozomi tried her hardest to hide the longing from her face but the man had already seen it and smiled at her in understanding.

"Why don't you come in for a minute, Yagami-san? We were just sitting down for dinner, and we have more than enough for one more." Nozomi quickly shook her head, though she thought she might have shook it a bit too quickly.

"I really don't want to intrude, Mr…." The man smiled slightly.

"I'm Akito. Makino Akito." He held out his hand. Nozomi merely shook hands with him, knowing that her family wouldn't be able to find her now.

"I'm Nozomi. Yagami Nozomi." When they shook hands, Nozomi felt how firm Akito's handshake was in surprise. He didn't look like a strong man but Nozomi could tell that Akito had s kind of strength that very few men possessed including her cousin and uncle.

"Come on in, Nozomi-san." Akito smiled and Nozomi shyly smiled back, before slowly and carefully stepping into the brightly lit and colored hallway. Suddenly Nozomi found herself with an armful of little girl and Caterpie. She stiffen at the contact.

"Arigatō , arigatō, arigatō, arigatō!" Aiko squealed before kissing Nozomi on the cheek. Cho trilled, too happy for words but rubbed her head under Nozomi's chin. Nozomi just gave a startled laugh.

"You're quite welcome…Aiko-chan, was it?" The little girl just nodded, causing her lilac curls to bounce. Nozomi smiled slightly at her. "Well, I was just happy to have some kind of friendly company. I think I had gotten lost while I was in Viridian Forest. However, I'm not too sure if I did get lost or if I was just left there on purpose. Somehow, I think I lost the majority of my memories," Aiko looked at Nozomi with concern filled eyes. Somehow, Nozomi knew that Jirachi made it so that she could speak and understand the language of the world that she now lived in.

"Are you okay?" Nozomi merely nodded before setting Aiko down of the ground and smiled softly at Akito.

"I remember…a few important personal details like name, age, birthday, things like that and a few unimportant details. I had no clue what forest I was in but…I knew that there were more creatures similar to her. However, I couldn't remember if they were similar to her in size or not…" Nozomi trailed off, hopeful for information. Akito was quick to give it.

"Oh, sure, there are more like her and others not like her." That led to a long discussion that basically repeated what the three Legendaries had told her before she came here. He also explained while they were eating lasagna after Nozomi was introduced to Rei, Akito's wife, what gym badges were and how you got them, which the three Legendaries hadn't told her about.

"Nozomi-chan, here," Akito said about an hour after Aiko went to bed while handing Nozomi to books. "I've had these since I went on my first Journey. Don't get much use out of them these days but anyway this one," here Akito pointed the blue one, "is about what can harm and help your Pokémon. The other one," now he pointed to the brown one, " is one that I wrote myself, mostly about what Pokémon like and dislike as well as about the region." Nozomi nodded somewhat eagerly, not used to things being willingly given to her.

"Nozomi-chan…" Rei said while coming up behind her husband. "You're welcome to stay here for the night, that is if your parents don't mind…" Akito nodded, but Nozomi looked down at the ground before answering Rei.

"Mum and Dad are dead," she said in a soft monotone. Rei gasped slightly while Akito winced. "I never knew them, I think, past my first birthday…My Oba-san and Oji-san…took me in, I think, but…I ran away to protect myself…from them, I think." They didn't ask what she meant by that and she was extremely glad for it. She knew that if they pushed her, they would get more of the true story about herself.

"Oh, you poor child," Rei said before enveloping her in a hug. Nozomi stiffened at first, not used to any physical human contact that wasn't for a beating or from a bully, before very slowly relaxing and buried her face in Rei's shoulder while taking a deep choked breath and try desperately not to cry.

"You can stay here for as long as you like, Nozomi-chan," Akito said firmly while placing a hand on her shoulder. Nozomi nodded silently while still trying to hold back tears. Rei leaned back, looking over Nozomi critically.

"I agree with Akito and we'll get you some clothes that actually fit as well as make sure that you eat at least five square meals a day. You are much too thin." Akito grinned at his wife's antics.

Nozomi couldn't help the small smile that appeared on her face. Things were looking up already!

A/N 2: OK, translation time! Oh, and before I forget...due to a weekly changing work schedule as well as trying to balance school, work and try to have a social life (plus dealing with a muse that tends to bounce around different ideas for me to do...) I will try to update my stories at least once a month. I MAKE NO PROMISES on when chapters will be up! So please do not try to encourage me to publish more when I am going to be busy trying to write chapters, doing homework and trying to catch up on sleep for those late nights studying/working!

-chan=diminutive used for girls

-san=basically Mr./Ms./Mrs.

Oba-san=aunt/grandmother (in this context aunt)

Oji-san=uncle/grandfather (in this context uncle)

Tou-san=one way to say father