Sorry for the late update, but things have been hectic. Thanks to all reviewers for your suport and interest, and sorry for any bad spelling or anything of the sort. I feel really bad for updating so late, but it couldn't be helped. Thanks to JPands for updating her magnific stories and Tauros-san for updating her pieces of art.
Once again:
"Speech..." - normal
"Speech..." - trainers talking mentaly with pokemon (only some trainers have this privilege)
"Speech..." - pokemon talking mentaly
"Speech..." - pokemon talking loudly and being understanded by those who can understand (to trainers who can't understand it will sound like the same old thing, like for example "Pikachu, Pika, Pi..." ') (hehe maybe it sounds stupid)
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Chapter 04
"Kino, table nine is waiting to be served."
"Right away, sir." She sighed. It had been almost two weeks, since she had first set foot in Lylicove and things had happened like a mad dash in the wild. She had found the Inn on that evening, and thankfully enough it had been a dreamless night.
Usagi and Rei had been there in the morning the next day, and even though she found it hard to admit, she had welcomed the company of the bubbly blond and the serious miko.
She hadn't questioned them as to why they had decided to tag along with her, but she had a serious suspicion that the blond had seen beyond her wish to be alone. Maybe she had seen the already lonely Makoto who wished nothing more than the support of friends.
Making her way to the table, she took note of what the young couple wanted for lunch. She had managed to get a job, thanks to the insistent help of Usagi and Ash in the following days. They had showed her the places that needed employees, and since she had told them she wanted something to do with cooking or serving, she had managed to get a job in a good restaurant.
Her employer had let her start with serving at tables, but soon enough she had started doing some part-time in the kitchen, and gladly enough her boss was considering transferring her to the place where she did a better job, both for the restaurant and her boss's pockets, the kitchen.
She smiled placing the drinks they had ordered on top of the table and turned around to go attend other customers while their meal was being prepared. She felt contentment when she thought about the happenings of the late two weeks; even the training with her pokemon had been sliding smoothly and better than ever.
The Chinese man had proved himself as fiery as Rei and if Rei wasn't his adopted sister, she would swear they were blood and genetically related. She already knew that Rei was an adopted child, but she never imagined that the annoying Chinese man would be her adopted sibling.
One other surprising discovery was that Usagi was also an adopted child, and she would never have imagined, even less than the situation with Rei, that Ash was her adopted brother.
It was really unexpected that the three of them had so much in common, and somehow she found that tiny unexpected situation quite comforting, as if a part of her found a connection with both girls.
"Mako-chan!" she turned in the direction of where her name had been shouted, and saw her new companions sat at a table. Usagi was waving enthusiastically at her, Rei by her side with an annoyed expression. Wufei, Duo, Ash and Heero were also there.
She approached the table where they were, and caught hearing of Rei scolding the blonde, telling her to be less noisy, Wufei also adding his point of view in one or other thing the miko scolded her friend about.
"Hi guys. Here to have lunch?" She smiled at them, noticing the Blissey that was by Usagi's side. It seemed that Usagi liked to help at the Pokemon Centre, the place where she spent most of her time. The blond had probably left the place some moments ago, hence the physical presence of her companion.
Strangely enough, the chubby creature seemed to compliment the bubbly blonde's nature. She found herself being offered an egg plenty of times when some of her bad memories took over her thoughts.
She found out that it wasn't just a myth the stories people talked about, concerning the small creatures that looked like nurses. People said that the small Blisseys were able to feel negative emotions with their fur, and that they offered an individual their eggs when they felt the sadness. That was what Usagi had told her.
"What do you think people do in a restaurant, onna?" she looked at the smirking katana wielder and smirked herself. Oh, this was something she had gotten used to; the snide remarks, the playful commentaries and the blazing fights.
He had become her sparring partner in less than a week, as soon as she showed him how weak she was, though she had to admit she never expected him to be such a good fighter, and somehow she had found herself comparing him with a soldier, not the same kind of soldier she had to defend her pokemon from, but the kind she had seen opposing the Black Moon.
"Wu-man, stop that and let her do her job." The hyper braided boy turned to her and smiled "We're here to have lunch indeed. Lunch for six, seven if you want to join us?" he wiggled his eyebrows at her, and she felt herself giggle.
The boy had a thing to flirt with everything he found in his way, even when he was training with his pokemon, though it all changed when he battled with someone else. He was pretty serious when it came to pokemon battles, and Makoto had found it the hard way when she had challenged him for a small friendly battle.
"Sorry but I'm still working and my lunch time isn't until two hours from now. So what can I get you guys?"
"Blissey, Bliss" she looked at the small creature as it bounced towards her. She kneeled and accepted the embrace of the soft pink nurse. It really was a shame that Electrike couldn't walk around with her inside of the restaurant, because now it would really be good to know what Blissey was blabbering about.
She heard Usagi laugh openly "She really likes you Mako-chan. She missed your presence yesterday." And like always, the girl talked as if she knew what the small creature said and felt.
Letting Blissey go she returned to writing down what they wanted to eat "Sorry but I was really busy yesterday, I had to do a double-shift in the kitchen." She sighed.
She had forgotten how hard it was to pay all the bills, and finally having a small apartment for her own had somehow helped relieve that tension and stress.
"Are you going to participate in the Coliseum battles in four days?" she looked at the owner of the deep voice, his Prussian eyes still smouldering and dangerous. He was always direct to the point, even when challenging her for a battle. Nothing of the small talks of hellos and nice to meet you, it was always the plain old let's battle.
She smiled; in his own way he knew how to show that he cared, just like she had her own way of showing people that she wanted to be alone, or for the correct reason, that she wanted company. She could always see a certain sparkle of interest in his eyes when she battled with Ash and Duo, or when she was helping prepare food at the shrine.
Yet she also noticed a slight glint of weariness and secrecy every time she set her feet on what was now known as her hang out place. Not only from him, but also from all the others that were open to her. She had a slight suspicion that they had secrets that they didn't want to share with her, and she didn't mind that, since she had secrets herself.
She believed that those secrets had something to do with the Preventors. No one knew the identity of all the Preventors, but it wasn't a secret; it was more like a cautious business, she thought, so that any remains of the Black Moon wouldn't seek some sort of revenge. Lylicove was the last base of the Preventors when the war had been brought to an end, and it was no secret either that many of the soldiers had opted to stay and live there.
"Are you kidding me? If I didn't decide to participate, Medicham and Electrike wouldn't let me hear the end of it." She breathed exasperatedly.
"Wouldn't let you hear the end of it?" Ash cocked an eyebrow at her.
She chuckled nervously "Yeah. You know, literally." He nodded at her answer, and she felt herself breath more calmly. Was he supposed to catch up to that little incident? Her sentence could have any meaning, why did he have to read it letter by letter?
She accepted their orders and went to get their drinks, painfully aware of the dark gaze that was following her. His dark onyx eyes always had a strange effect on her, and in many occasions she felt herself seeking peacefulness in the presence of the legendary trainer. In him and the others she had found friends, but she still felt herself pushing them away, has her wish to stay alone screamed louder than her dream of friendship.
She didn't want them to get in trouble with her, nor did she wish to lose control of her powers like that time so long ago, but like Treecko had said "You can't create a bond without the knowledge that it might hurt you, for friendship is a double-edged sword." Those had been his words when she had refused their invitation for a dinner at the shrine.
Somehow, his words had made her accept the invitation and she had had the best time of her life. One thing she had learned on that night, because the miko couldn't hold her tongue when the sake clouded her reason, was that Wufei's father had joined the Black Moon and tried to give Rei into their dirty schemes.
She had no idea why her adoptive father would have given Rei to the Black Moon, and she hadn't had opportunity to ask, because Wufei had taken her to her room with Usagi trailing behind him and excusing herself. Since then she had the slight idea that it was a delicate manner, she hadn't touched the subject ever again.
"Here are your drinks. Someone else will bring your food over, since my boss is ordering me to move into the kitchen, it seems the chef isn't feeling well." She smiled at them again and continued "Tomorrow I have the day free, so I'll see you then."
She turned around to go into the kitchen when the soft voice of the pink humanoid reached her ears "Blissey, Blissey, Bliss."
"Oh yeah. Hey Mako-chan, what about a picnic tomorrow?" she turned to Usagi and nodded, making the girl smile like the sun in all its glorious radiance "We'll pick you up at noon, make sure to be ready."
"I'll make something for the picnic, so that you guys don't have all the trouble, and anyways, Electrike eats more food than there is to eat." She replied.
"Yeah, that's a good idea, because I don't want to spend the day eating those pieces of coal my sister calls cookies." Ash started laughing when Usagi slapped his arm and stuck her tongue out at him as the others agreed with the statement, making the blond pout with indignation.
She felt herself chuckling at the heart-warming scene in front of her. Maybe her life could have been like that if her adoptive parents hadn't died or if they had had a son of their own. Who knew where she would have been on this day?
"Well, see you guys then." And she resumed her walk to the kitchen, her friends waving and saying goodbye to her retreating back.
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Ash sat in one of the cushions in the living room of the shrine. Heero was in the room as well, working with his poke-navigator. How long had it been since he joined the Preventors? He had been thirteen years old when his sister was targeted by the Black Moon, the time when he was trying to go around the world with Brock and Misty to become a better trainer.
Usagi had been the same age has him and she was travelling with them. She was so innocent and carefree that she hadn't noticed they wanted her because of what she was able to do. She had cried so much when Togepi was killed, that he was sure her cries would tear the world apart on that day.
It still made his blood boil the fact that there were people who could make the innocent creatures bleed. The Black Moon wasn't just content with knocking pokemon out of consciousness, they had to kill them and steal them of the essence that made them what they were.
He had been in the finals at the Johto League when that incident happened, and most of the trainers had been at the mercy of the soldiers and their pokemon. Their pokemon were different, as Usagi had said at the time, they had a dark aura around them, and their actions didn't come from the heart, for at the time they lacked one.
The Preventors had appeared on that time, since it seemed the Legendary trainers of the League were part of the organisation and they had called for backup. That was the time when he had met a fifteen-year-old Heero and Duo, and a sixteen-year-old Wufei.
That was also the time when the Preventors had seen what Usagi was able to do, and he got to know how Usagi had the powers she had and what she was, for it seemed that the Preventors knew more than what they led the people to believe. That was the time when that dreaded event took place and she was unable to save Togepi. It had been five years since then.
"What do you think of the girl?" he snapped his gaze up to the owner of the Prussian eyes that were watching him with interest.
"About Makoto?" he knew that the soldier could only be talking about the girl in question, since they hadn't met anyone new but her. Heero nodded at his question "Think of what about her?" he was puzzled now.
"Don't you find it a little bit strange that she's always very silent when one of her pokemon are with her, and that they seem to share ideas?" where was he trying to go with those suppositions?
"What do you mean?"
"Rei doesn't remember anything of what happened when the Black Moon attacked the town where she met Makoto, almost two years ago. Above all, she states that she's certain that they weren't after her at the time." Was the quiet reply.
"So you think that she's the same as Usagi and Rei? If so, how can you be certain? She hasn't shown any sign of possessing any special trait."
The other just shrugged his shoulders and moved to stand by the window, observing Rei training with Blaziken "I don't know, I was just supposing. After all, don't forget that Usagi and Rei aren't the only ones that have been mentioned, further more, the reports from the laboratories make mention of nine subjects."
He bowed his head in sorrow "I know, and there is nothing we can do to change their fate."
"We can." He looked up at Heero, his eyes darting to the reflection of the perfect soldier on the window "We can keep fighting to prevent anything bad from happening to them, after all the reports did state they are important in what their genes carry."
"Is that the only reason as to why you fight? Because a report says they are important?" his answer was silence, and he smiled at the set expression that was staring back at him.
"You already know that even though the war ended five years ago, the Black Moon hasn't set rest to its actions." Ash nodded at the indirect question "That's why they still go around trying to kill and capture pokemon," Heero paused "I've got notice that the Black Moon is planning something big, and it doesn't help the bad news that they now have a new weapon."
"New weapon?"
"There are no details about the subject, since our source isn't directly connected to those kind of happenings."
"So it was him who gave the information?" he was sure that his supposition was correct.
"Yes, but I'm starting to doubt the information we've been receiving lately. I'm sure he knows more than what he leads on, and if he is planning something that might affect us, things might get messy."
"Do you really believe that Quatre would do that to us?" he really couldn't see the Arabian man backstabbing them. Hell, Quatre had the same innocence and personality that his adopted sister had.
"I also don't know what to think of that, so we can only speculate, but better be prepared for any situation, and we have to keep an eye on Makoto as well." And with that Heero walked out of the room.
He was certain that the brown haired soldier knew something more about Makoto, that or he was suspicious of the girl and didn't want to break the news to his sister and Rei. Even he wished that Heero wouldn't be presuming bad things about the emerald-eyed trainer, for when the perfect soldier had a theory it was rarely wrong.
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The sun had set two hours ago and curious stars were blinking in the sky. Makoto dodged a series of punches directed at her face and stomach, analysing her opponent. She had on some black trousers and a comfortable white long sleeved shirt; her hair had been changed from her normal high ponytail to a braid similar to that of Duo's.
Her boss had given her the night off, and she had left the restaurant four hours ago to do some things at home. She blocked a high jump kick aimed at her head, and countered with some punches of her own. He was releasing all the energy he had been keeping to fight with her when she decided that it was time to start training with her companions again.
It wasn't her fault that Wufei always challenged her to a fight and that she always turned out exhausted from it, and it was even less her fault that he got jealous because he no longer was her only sparring partner.
They had been fighting in the forest out of the town since the sun had set. She had decided to fall to his whims just because she missed the time she spent training with him herself. It was much more rewarding if it was he or she correcting the movements of each other.
One of his flying kicks connected with her stomach and sent her staggering some feet backwards. She watched his laboured breathing that matched her gasps for oxygen, and got up from her fighting stance, her pink clad pokemon mirroring her actions.
"I guess that's enough for sparring today?" she managed out "I don't even want to think of the chaos those two created at home." she shuddered at the thought. Maybe it wasn't such a good idea to leave the two hyper pokemon out of their balls and with no one to watch over them.
"You worry to much, they won't cause any trouble." She watched him smirk "That was a good training session, that Chinese guy must really be good, because it seems to me that some of your techniques have improved quite a bit."
She cocked an eyebrow at him "Had problems keeping up with me today?" he snorted at her "He is good, really good for that matter." She started walking in the direction of the town, wiping her forehead in a white towel she had in her backpack.
"Is that why you decided to abandon me, and start taking lessons from him?" she looked to her side where he was maintaining pace with her, a deep frown on his normally collected features.
"Do you think that's the only thing you are for me? My sparring partner? My sensei in some way?" she saw his frown deepening at her words. This was his problem; if he felt he wasn't needed anymore, he just gave up.
"Medicham, how important do you think you are to me?" she was just rewarded by his blank stare "Does it still trouble you what happened in the past?" It pained her somehow that his confidence in her was, for lack of a better word, weak. She had to endure so much to get him to trust humans, to trust her, that she thought it had all been forgotten.
"Even if you want to forget the past, it doesn't mean you're going to forget it." She looked sadly at him, his pained voice affecting her more than the words he breathed "Somehow, the past always tends to catch up to you, be it in memories or dreams."
"Do you think I don't know that? You should know better than no one that the past can't be forgotten, but the actions that succeed that past can change everything." She looked softly at him.
"It won't change the fact that my trainer abandoned me just to save his life." She felt surprise has he looked at her in anger "I would have done everything just to save him, even give myself in, but he did it without hesitation." He looked at the ground, his mental voice sounding even more sorrowful "I would have stayed to fight with him, by his side, I would have given my life to save his. Some part of me wants to hate him for what he did, yet I hate myself even more for not being able to understand."
"So you think I'm going to do the same thing? You really think I would leave you guys behind, just to save my life?" she saw him looking at her regretfully and pleadingly "It's not your fault. He made his decision, and he lost for that." She paused and sat on her knees, looking into his eyes "He lost his dignity, and without knowing it, he lost a part of him when he left you behind."
She grabbed his shoulders and pushed him towards her, embracing his light and strong body "It's not your fault that they killed him afterwards. There was nothing you could do, and after all, he had died the moment he left you behind, for I know for sure, that once you have a pokemon he is part of you."
He was leaning into her, his exhausted muscles relaxing from the warmth. She didn't hear him cry, and even if she did, she would pretend she didn't hear anything. She was sure of what the image would give to others, a maternal embrace, but she knew beyond everything that her bond with her companions was strong and everlasting.
They had accepted her as a friend and as a companion, but above all, she was their sister and their hope. For her they were a reason to live and her light in the eternal darkness of a world she had learned to call void and empty.
"Just remember your own words," she paused, pushing him to stare into his eyes "the past doesn't determine who you are, but what you decide to do from there onwards. Actions can't be the only thing that characterises someone, nor can their appearance. I've learned that with you." And she smiled at him.
He nodded at her and smiled softly, stepping away from her to continue walking on the path towards their destination. She followed after him silently, enjoying the peacefulness that the night hung above them and bellow the moon.
This situation had never happened before, not to her. He was always so calm and so sure of himself during fights, that sometimes it was hard for her to remember that he had a weak spot. So hurt and bitter had he been when they first crossed paths, that his personality now made it hard to recover that memory.
She entered the town and continued on her way, passing the Pokemon Centre and other places that she had memorized with the help of her new friends. She stopped by the fountain and looked upon the silvery reflection of the moon in the water. Medicham jumped on to the ledge and sat down.
"Have you already decided on a strategy for the fights in four days?" he inquired, closing his eyes in his usual meditative state.
"I'm still not sure of who'll participate, but one thing is for sure, Rei and Ash will. I've already fought with Rei a couple of times during this past two weeks and she's changed a lot since the last time we had the honour of facing Blaziken."
Looking up at the statue of the legendary pokemon that were said to have created the land and the seas, she continued, "Ash has many strong pokemon, but the one we have to be careful with is Pikachu. Even if he is an electrical type we can't risk it, because you know that my influence in Electrike will affect him."
"If you could control your effect on pokemon when you're around them, than everything would be fine, but unfortunately you don't only affect your pokemon, but also those of others." He paused "We're just going to have to get used to it, and it's not like we're weak or anything, way beyond that." She watched him smirk and get up, ready to leave.
Smiling, she turned around to follow him, but stopped shortly as a ball of fire sent her flying some feet away from the place she had come from. She distinctly heard Medicham run her way and skid to a halt by her side to help her stand up.
"What the heck?" she looked at her stomach to see bits of her shirt gone and some darkened by the fire. She had somehow activated some of her powers at the last moment, which prevented her from getting serious injuries, but it sure hurt.
"Makoto, are you alright?" she nodded at him "Then get up, because our enemy isn't a trainer." She stared at him in surprise, silently asking a question to which he confirmed her fear "I saw something humanoid and I guess we're up to someone like that guy back in the forest."
"Great, just great. Another guy with freaky pokemon powers and humanoid appearance." She was looking at an alley entrance, where she knew the attack had come from and from there a woman with fiery hair came out.
"You are to came with me." Her voice sounded like an eternal echo, and looking into her glowing red eyes, Makoto knew that this person was very different from the man she had fought against in the woods.
"Who made you believe that I would go with you, and what the heck do you want from me?" Medicham was already in front of her, one knee bent in the air and his little arms stretched by his sides, his favourite offensive position set for an attack.
"That is my business alone, and I will not fail where that idiot did." That said, the woman charged at her. Her body had become a dark colour and her knuckles and feet were covered in flames, making a strange contrast with her fiery hair.
"I'll fight this one Mako, just give the orders and I'll take care of her." She nodded at his proposition even though his back was turned to her.
"Medicham, Double Kick." She watched as his attack connected with the defensive arms of his opponent, and both of them were sent away from each other. The woman didn't have any scratch on her, but Medicham had slight burnt marks on his legs.
"Fire Punch" as soon as she heard the roar from the woman's attack she directed Medicham to perform a Jump Kick. Both attacks collided with each other, her pokemon's move striked the woman in the face, while her punch connected with his lower stomach.
"Medicham, are you ok?" she was worried, after all it hadn't been that much time since they stopped training, and she was sure he still had injuries from said actions. She saw him move away from his opponent and nod, while the woman cleaned some blood from her shin.
"I don't have time for games. My orders are to take you in and kill whomever stands in the way, so if you don't want to see him dead I'll advise you to move him away." The blazing red eyes were directed at her, and she felt fear crawl from her core.
She could just stare at the woman as Medicham started attacking her on his own whim, assaulting from Low Kicks to Jump Kicks "Makoto, what are you doing? There's no time to daydream." She could just stare. Where had her courage gone? Where had her wish to never see her pokemon bleed again, dispersed to?
She felt tears well up as the woman made a Fire Spin and five consecutive hits connect with Medicham, sending him flying into a building and a crack forming in the concrete wall as he slid onto the floor. She felt desperate as the woman approached her fallen comrade, her knuckles blazing for another possible Fire Punch.
'It won't change the fact that my trainer abandoned me just to save his life.' His words from before were like an echo in her mind. Was she more afraid of loosing her life, than that of her friends? Was she going to let him go? 'I would have stayed to fight with him, by his side, I would have given my life to save his.'
She dashed in his direction as the fiery woman charged to punch the fallen pokemon on the floor. The next thing she knew, she was coughing up blood and her stomach burned like liquid fire. She stared into the red eyes that were looking with surprise at her, and grabbing the offensive arm by the wrist, she started standing up from her kneeled position.
Putting her own hand on the woman's chest, she let an electrical impulse go, the woman flying away from them "I can't…" she coughed up a little more blood, and her knees followed the force of gravity playing with the red substance that descended upon the earth.
"Mako… what are you doing?" she saw him sitting up, from the corner of her eye "This is my fight," he grunted, "look at you."
She whizzed and tried to clean the blood away, a task that proved difficult with both her shaking arms supporting her kneeling figure "Do you really think I'm like your trainer?" she coughed "I'm not going to let you go so easily, we still have lots of fights to win." She smirked at him, her teasing smile looking more pained than anything.
"Baka…" he came to her side and kneeled beside her "I know that, but look at you, what are we going to do now? I don't have any strength left, and neither have you."
"Such a touching scene, but I'm slightly sorry to announce that this is the end of the road for you two." She was cursing the woman with all the strength she still had left in her aching body.
The stranger stretched her hands and she saw a red ball of fire gather in between them. She guessed that this was it. The glowing ball of red fire roaring towards them, she did the only thing she could still do, she pushed Medicham away and closed her eyes, waiting for the oncoming attack.
"Earthquake!" she looked up in surprise only to see a giant rock blocking her view, and felt a slight vibration in the ground. She pushed herself from the ground, her curiosity giving her some sort of strength, and peeking from above the rock she saw a big Aggron standing firmly in front of the dissipating form of the woman.
She stepped away from the rock and joined Medicham, both of them staring in slight hesitation at the impressive figure. The remaining ashes from the woman were flying in the wind, and the ground showed the signs of the attack that had taken place.
She looked around for any signs of the trainer that had ordered the attack, and saw a tall blond figure standing at one of the sides of the fountain. The place where the figure stood was dark, but by her side she could distinctly see the figure of someone shorter. The other figure looked feminine, with short hair that reflected aquamarine and silver colours from the impact of the moonlight.
"Aggron, come back." she watched the brown rock type pokemon returningto his pokeball, and then she looked at the two people that were now evaluating her.
"I hope everything is ok.We weren't sure if you would need help, so we just interviened when things started looking grim." The aquamarine girl's voice was soft, and in it she found a caring tone along side one of strenght. She just nodded in the direction of the girl, and her throat felt unconfortably dry, stoping any of her impending questions to be openly voiced.
How much of the fight had they seen? "See if you're more careful next time, because you won't always have someone to protect your back." The deep voice of the blond figure made her glare at the ground "A trainer who can't maintain his pokemon alive, is not worthy of being alive himself, and do try to maintain yourself alive because there are people who need your help."
She couldn't budge and neither was Medicham trying to stop them from walking away. They didn't make mention to the display of her strange powers and neither did they mention anything about the strange woman.
The short woman turned around and smiled at her "We hope you can help us save Hotaru, and don't mind what Haruka said, but never hesitate to finish of any of your opponents if they are like this one that you saw moments ago, for they are not the same as you." And then she disapeared in the same direction of her companion.
"Makoto?" she turned in the direction of her home and started walking.
"We'll talk tomorrow. I want to treat your injuries and mine at home, there are some potions there. Electrike and Treecko are probably worried by now." That said, he followed in her steps, both of them to tired to talk and busy swimming around their thoughts, leaving behind the scars of the fight and the strange meeting.
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I know it was boring, but gomen, because I had to start filling you guys about certain things and situations, even though there is still much to be said. Anyway, next chapter is the picnic and a few revelations from Mako to Pikachu, and other things in between. Thanks again for the support and ja ne. ;-)