Sorry this took so long, I had writers block.

Edit: which wouldn't have happened had you planned out the story beforehand, idiot.

This is mostly just some character exploration and flashbacks/foreshadowing.

Note: this chapter has been revised. though the story is pretty much the same, some words and sentences have been changed, added, or deleted.

also, i changed an entire paragraph and added a new one. both of these changes were made to foreshadow events that have i have changed slightly since last writing this.

Disclaimer: still don't own Pokémon. Dang it!


I won. Kuna couldn't believe it. He won. He gave a potion to his pokémon and sat down on the ground.

He let Shinx and Yu out of their pokeballs. They looked at him.

Kuna remembered what Tobi said about his pokemon being scared of him, and decided to test to see if they were scared like most other pokemon.

"Come here." He moved rapidly toward them, hands outstretched. Yu's eyes widened and she backed away. Kuna stomped in frustration, causing her to back away faster. Kuna felt tears welling up. Then he felt something against his leg. He looked down.

Shinx was rubbing against Kuna's legs. He patted Shinx's head, smiling. Tears of joy flooded from him. He never had a Pokémon treat him with kindness before. All the wild Pokémon in his home town had always ran from him. This was great.

For a while he just stood there enjoying Shinx's company.


Tobi grumbled to himself.

"Stupid Kyoryokuna, don't you know that a fight is not fair if the other can't fight back?" he kicked the wall.

Tobi sighed and went to pick up his Pokémon from the counter. "We hope to see you again!" the nurse said. Why does she say that? Does she want my Pokémon to be hurt again?

"Thank you." He smiled fakely, as he had grown accustomed to doing back home, to fool his parents into thinking he was ok.

Tobi needed a way to train his Pokémon. He couldn't leave the town because the grass on the next route was unavoidable, and he couldn't risk a fight. But he couldn't stay here or Kuna would get ahead of him.

Out into Trawa city, Tobi looked for a hotel or restaurant. He needed somewhere to stay for the night.

The town was beautiful, with flower gardens in people's yards, long green shining grass, and the sun was bright and filled it up with light.

He turned to one of the people walking in the streets. "Excuse me, but can you tell me where I could stay for the night?"

"All trainers sleep in the pokecenter or outside in tents." He walked away.

Sighing, Tobi went back into the Pokémon center to rest for the night. His first day away from home was not working out for him

Not at all.


"Team rocket kids don't get to play with Pokémon!" The other kids jeered. "You'll just mess it all up!

The only kid not glaring at him was a certain black haired, blue-eyed boy. He just stood there with distant eyes, staring into the background.

"Why don't you scram, thief? We don't want you to play with us!" the kid yelled some more.

They left the area, leaving him all alone. All except one little black haired boy, kneeling over the grass expectantly, obviously hoping for wild Pokémon. He didn't know whether or not to talk to the boy, so he just walked home.

Tobi couldn't make friends and Kuna, though also lonely, wouldn't go along with the bullying.

At least, not yet…

Tobi woke up from his dream. Great, I am going to keep dreaming about stupid Archi town, aren't I?


Maybe he should never have left. But it was too late: he wasn't going to admit defeat. He couldn't bear to see everyone's "I told you so!" faces as he walked backed home, or to know that Kuna beat him. He had nowhere to go but to move forward.

He released Magikarp and Chairo from their pokeballs. Sighing, he laid down some off his food for them to eat: he needed to get money for pokechow soon, or he wouldn't be able to feed them. But the only way to get money without selling things was to battle, which obviously was out of question.

Chairo curled up by Tobi's lap, causing him to smile. Magikarp just flopped around, so, being careful not to startle Chairo, he helped it eat some of the food. Once there was a small bit leftover for Chairo, Tobi put the fish Pokémon back into his pokeball.

Then he fell asleep again.


She admitted that it was dangerous, but she had to get away from them.

She didn't know what they were planning, but she knew she was glad they decided to leave her out of it.

She brushed her silver hair out of her face. She didn't know where she would stay, but she knew she'd have to find a way to live on her own.


she smiled at the frightened mayor before her.

"You wont go asking for help now, will you? I'd hate for a rockslide to happen."

"Of course not. You are free to do whatever you want in the mountains, just leave the village alone."

She was so busy threatening him, she didn't notice the little kid sneaking away with a concealed bag of pokeberries.


When Tobi woke up, Chairo was still asleep on his lap. He smiled and put the eevee back in his pokeball.

Just then, Kyoryokuna walked into the pokemon center. He took his pokeballs to the front desk.

Tobi glared at him but didn't say anything. Kuna obviously didn't notice him, and he didn't want to cause a fight.

Kyorokuna turned around, and noticed Tobi. He shot Tobi the meanest look he could, then walked out.

"You two really don't like each other, huh?" Tobi turned around to see a boy about his age. He was pale with freckles, and his cinnamon hair was short.

"No, I don't. Why?" he couldn't see why the boy would care.

"I just don't think you two should fight. Hate isn't good for you." The boy looked at him with big brown eyes.

Tobi ignored that comment. Why should he pay attention? If the boy knew Kyoryokuna, he would feel the same.

"Well, I got to go. The gym won't beat itself. Bye!"

That reminded Tobi. He still needed to find a solution to his magikarp problem.

Sigh. I wish I Professor Willow didn't hate me so much.


Kuna had been training up both Yu and Shinx for the whole day, trying to get their levels up. But for some reason, even though he won the battle with Tobitasu, he couldn't seem to beat a lot of wild Pokémon without losing health.

Of course you can't win. The only reason you won that battle was because you were fighting an unfair fight.

Kuna shrugged off his guilty feeling. It didn't matter. As much as Kuna wanted to deny it, Tobi had great potential as a trainer. Losing one stupid battle wouldn't make that much of a difference, and he needed the EXP!

It doesn't matter; you still only won because the opponent was weak, not because you were strong. Your useless, don't you know that?

Kuna shivered and then went back to the grass. A rattata appeared. He sent out Shinx.

"Use tail whip".

He was getting his badge soon, he could feel it.


Tobi had a spark of inspiration.

He knew what to do! He knew exactly how he could get a Pokémon to win the gym!

He only needed to find a trainer willing to trade with him.


He watched as the Dark-haired boy reached out to the small ratata in the grass, and saw his disappointment as the ratata ran away with fright.

Tobi went over to comfort him, but Kuna had already got up and ran back to his house.

Tobi hoped they could be friends soon.

To be continued.


Yep, that's right I'm not dead! Im sorry it took so long. I want to promise it won't happen again, but I know it will so I won't even bother.

So anyway, I noticed that this doesn't have any reviews. Can you please review it? Even if it's just you yelling at me for having horrible grammar/spelling, as long as it's constructive I will appreciate the chance to improve my story telling (this story is much better than other stuff I written but it's still not that great either. it just screams "noob"!)

Maybe I should have waited until I could get my thoughts out in story format, but too late now! Oh well.