Yatta!! Another chapter of my pokémon story :D Nyaaan! This chapter is a little longer than the usual chapters. (Usually 1 chapter is 1000 words) But this is chapter is double the usual lenght!! Hope you enjoy!

"Is it your pokémon?" the nurse at the pokémon centre asked.

"Eh? Uhm, no, it's not." Rachel smiled, "We saved him from Team Aqua yesterday."

"We?" The nurse asked.

"Ah," Rachel turned around and looked at a brown haired boy who sat on one of the red chairs of the pokémon centre, "him" she said and smiled.

"Ah, I see." The nurse said and smiled, "So, what are you planning to do with Totodile?"

"Well, I think I'm going to take care of him, since it seems that he doesn't have any trainer."

"Then I'll wish you the best of luck." The nurse said and smiled at Rachel. "You'll make a great trainer."

Rachel blushed a bit, "I-I hope so…"

"So you're planning to keep Totodile…" Hikaru said as they left the pokémon centre.

"Yeah, I'll just swing by the Mart now and buy a pokéball!" Rachel said excitedly.

"Pokéballs cost around 300 or 200. Can you afford one?"

Rachel stopped, "Eeeehh….." She thought for a moment, "Shoot, I used all my money to buy that sweater….Ehehehehe…." She sweat dropped.

"Heh!" Hikaru ran his fingers through his hair, "Knew it, you're typical that kind of girl who spends money on crap…."

Rachel clenched her fist, "What did you say?!?"

"You're a girl who spends your money on expensive clothes just because they're expensive and celebrity wear them and advertise for them."

"SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!!!" She tried to punch him, but he foresaw the attack and easily dodged. Then she tried punching him with the other arm, he easily dodged that one too. Last she tried to make an uppercut kick, he sidestepped to the left and laughed a little.

He poked her on her forehead, "You're too predictable! " he said with a playful voice.

She blushed a bit but quickly looked away and started walking home, ignoring him.

""Huh, where are you going?" He asked her.

She turned around to him and spitted out, "NONE OF YOUR BUSNIESS!!" and continued walking. 'Just who does he think he is????!?!?!'

"Hey…"

She turned around again, "WHAT?!"

"Don't forget that Totodile is almost fully recovered, don't forget that you must have a pokéball at the end of the day or the nurse will release him to the wild. F you really care about being a pokémon trainer, you won't let this opportunity go to waste." Then he walked the opposite direction of where Rachel was heading.

'He looked serious….' She continued walking home. Two steps later,

"Hey sis!!"

Rachel turned around once more and this time saw her little brother waving like crazy with his arms.

"Do you have any pokéball or money???" he asked her before she even could say 'Hi'.

"Uhm, no, but hey, do you have any pokéballs?" Rachel replied.

"Duh, no. I used up my last ones to try to catch pokémon, that's why I asked you if you had any pokéballs or money."

"Dammit!" Rachel crossed her arms, "What should I do now?"

"What's up?" Chris asked.

"Well, you see," Rachel explained, "There's a pokémon I want. It's currently recovering at the pokémoncenter. The Nurse said that I get to keep the pokémon if I return to the centre before 9 o'clock with a pokéball. If I don't show up, they'll release the pokémon out to the wild again."

"Wow!" Chris said excitedly, "What a once-in-a-life opportunity! That's so cool!!"

"Yeah, yeah!" Rachel sighed and waved her hand, "So, what am I supposed to do now?! I need a pokéball!"

Chris thought for a moment, "Why don't you try finding one?"

"Eh?!"

"Trainers accidentally drops items, maybe you'll be able to find one." Chris said.

"Hmmm…" she thought for a moment, "That will take forever. Can't you also help out in another way? Please? I'll give you Feebas if you do" she said playfully and hopeful.

"Okay, I can try fighting other trainers for money. But for that, I need Feebas."

"Here, sure thing!" Rachel did a thumb up.

"Alright, I'll just heal Feebas and then go fighting, I'll call you when I can afford a pokéball, okay? See ya!" Chris said before he started to run to the pokémon centre.

"Bye!" She said after him and headed home. 'I have to change clothes… I can't run in these shoes either…'

At home she changed clothes. "Alright! Let's do some searching!" She grabbed her bag on the way out. She climbed down the ladder and headed for the grass. 'Pokéballs, pokéballs, pokéballs' was singing in her head as she searched through the grass. As she searched, the time slowly passed and she'd searched for 4 hours before she took a break. She sat down on the bridge as the rain slowly started to fall. She looked down at the river where the surface of the water broke for each drop of water that fell.

"This is even harder than I thought…" she sighed and threw a rock at the water. Her reflection on the water broke and she buried her face in her knees. "I wonder if I'll make it in time…"

"Talking to yourself?" a familiar voice said, "And I thought you weren't that kind of person."

Rachel quickly turned around and saw a familiar person with brown hair. He was soaked wet even though he had an umbrella with him. "Hikaru?"

"Well, you still know my name…" he sat down next to her on the bridge. "I thought you were crying first, so I decided to see if you were doing it."

Rachel blushed, "I'm not crying!" She looked away, "And I wasn't either! Heh, what made you think that?..." She looked at her knees.

"Well… It just looked like it." He sighed and threw a rock in the river, "So, I guess you haven't found any pokéballs yet?"

"Nope," she said, "Not yet…" she sighed.

"Well, you won't find any if you just sit her doing nothing except for sighing…" He got up on his feet.

She looked at him. "I…" she began to say and started to get up, and then he reached her a hand to grab. She took his hand and got up. "I was just taking a break…."

"I've seen you sitting on the bridge for almost half an hour. I didn't see that as a break, I saw that as an almost giving up. That's the other reason why I decided to talk to you."

Rachel blushes a little, "I forgot the time… I was really tired and… I was starting to give up a little… I guess…"

"I see…" He handed over the umbrella, "You'll probably catch a cold or something if you stay in the rain."

Rachel blushed even more, "W-What about you then?"

"You have lesser and lighter clothes than me, and besides, you're dry, I'm already soaked so it wouldn't really matter."

"Th-Thanks…"

Hikaru didn't say anything, he started to walk away from there. Rachel held the umbrella tight and felt small under such a large umbrella. She looked after him as he walked away.

'"You'll probably catch a cold or something if you stay in the rain."'

She smiled as he disappeared in the high grass.

'Was he… blushing?'

Rachel walked at the opposite direction of which Hikaru had headed and continued the search after pokéballs.

Three hours later, Rachel was still searching. Then she got a call from her brother.
"Chris? Have you got enough money?"

"No. Not yet, I need 89 yen more." Her brother said.

Rachel sighed, "Well hurry up! There's only 2 hours left before they'll release him! I still haven't found any dropped pokéballs so I'm counting on you!"

"Roger!" Chris said before he hung up.

Rachel sighed and put her pokénav in her pocket. "I'm counting on you… you hear that, don't let me down!" She sighed once again. 'I should head home and search for some money just lying around.' She started to run. 'Too bad mom's not home… Then I could just ask her if I could borrow 100 yen!' She quickly ran over the bridge, almost knocking someone of the bridge. Rachel didn't really watch who it was, but she saw something red. Then she heard a large splash and a scream.

"Watch it! " Someone yelled after Rachel.

"Sorry!" She yelled back, "But you were in the way!!"

"Hey you!" The girl who Rachel almost knocked over had almost outrun her.

'She's fast!' Rachel thought, "What do you want?"

The girl stood in front of her, "I want an apology and money to buy me a new acrobike!"

"WHAT?!" Rachel yelled.

"Yeah! Thanks to you, you knocked my bike in the river! It's probably useless now! I would rather been knocked down than my bike!"

"Well, that can be fixe-" Rachel got interrupted by a sudden pain on her left cheek.

"Just accept the fact that you own me a new bike." The girl said.

'She slapped me?! That girl! She looks like she's 11! I got slapped by a kid?!' "Fine!" Rachel said.

"Until that time, I'll follow you wherever you go!" The girl said.

"EH?!?!?!!?!!?!?" Rachel was in shock.

The girl flipped her long hair, "My name's Yume. You?"

"Rachel…" Rachel replied, still in shock. She started to walk through the high grass.

"How old are you?" Rachel asked Yume.

"10" she replied, "I'm turning 11 in 2 months. I would like to have my bike before that time."

Rachel clenched her fist, "HEY! I'm only 13! Do you think I ccan get so much money in 2 months?!?!?"

"My brother. When he was 14, he returned every month and gave me 35000 so I could afford living at home. He always had more than double with him always, so I could always call him if I needed more money."

Rachel was amazed, "Wow! Is he the pokémon master or something?!?"

"No" Yume replied, "He enjoyed to battle a lot with other rich trainers."

"Eh?? Really?? You can make that much money just by battling with pokémon?"

Yume looked at Rachel, "You have to be a good trainer with strong pokémon to get that much money."

"Oh… I see…"

They continued to walk through the high grass. Then Rachel felt something cold touching her feet.

"Huh?" She looked down and saw something purple. "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!"

It was an Ekans, who slowly bind her foot and continued up the leg.

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! DO SOMETHING!!!" Rachel screamed in panic.

Yume quickly picked a pokéball from her belt, "Charmander!" she yelled as she threw the ball to the ground. As the ball bounced of the ground, Charmander got out from the pokéball in a white light.

"Charmander, ember! But watch out not to hurt the girl to much!"

"WHAT?!?!" Rachel screamed before she saw fire spewing at her right leg. Ekans fell unconscious to the ground. Fortunately, Rachel wasn't hurt. Unfortunately, her skirt had burned up a little so it was even shorter than a normal mini-skirt. And the even more unfortunately, a guy was standing there nearby, watching her. And the nightmare, it was a guy with brown hair and crystal blue eyes, Hikaru.

"Hi…..Hikar……u…." Rachel blushed as she had never done before.

Hikaru was blushing as well, "Uh….." he said, starring at her.

Then impropriate and of course, a wind HAD to pass by, lifting Rachel shirt even more.

She shook her head, "YAAAAAAH!" she screamed. She lifted up (with no problem) a big heavy rock and threw at him. "PERVERT!!!!!!!" Then she stomped on him. "YOU PERVERT!!! AND I ACTUALLY STARTED TO THINK THAT YOU WERE NICE?!?!!?!?! HOW STUPID OF ME! HOW COULD YOU!!!?!?!!?" she stopped stomped on him, "How could you?..." She started to run away from there. Yume ran confused after Rachel.

"I HATE HIM!!!! I HATE HIM, I HATE HIM!" Rachel yelled as she marched to the pokémon centre. She had gone home before and changed clothes.

"Why do you hate him?" Yume asked.

"Because he's a pervert!!"

Yume sighed, "It's not his fault you know, he just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time."

Rachel blushed, "I don't care! He's a pervert anyway!" she continued to march to the centre. 'I'll ask the nurse if I can keep him without any pokéball…'

They entered the pokémoncenter. Inside there they saw the nurse, Rachel's brother and Totodile. Chris ran up to her, "Sis, I'm sorry…" he said before he left.

Rachel sighed and slowly walked up to the nurse with a heavy heart.

"Good evening!" The nurse greeted her with a smile.

"Hi" Rachel said and made a fake smile.

"You've been waiting for this all day, haven't you?" The nurse asked.

"Oh yeah, you bet!" Rachel fake smiled

The nurse smiled again, "Do you have a pokéball with you?"

"Weell…" Rachel got interrupted by Totodile who was making funny noises.

The nurse smiled again, "He's been impatient and restless all they since I've told him about you and that he's getting a kind trainer."

Rachel blushed and felt even more guilt, "Uhm…" She clenched her fists and put them on the counter, "Joy, I haven't got…-"

"Hey…" a familiar voice said.

Rachel turned around and saw the same person who's been showing up all day. He handed over her a pokéball, "I…" he blushed and looked to the ground, "I thought that I had to make up for earlier so… So I used the last of my money to buy it for you…"

Rachel suddenly smiled, "Thank you!"

Hikaru blushed even more, he looked up at Rachel's face in shock that she thanked him and blushed even more, and then he looked away. "No problem…"

"No really! Thank you, Hikaru!" Rachel grabbed his hands.

Hikaru looked at her once again, then he pulled his hand away and put them in his pockets, "But, that doesn't mean I like you."

Rachel smiled once again, and then returned to the nurse and handed over the pokéball.

"What's your name?" the nurse asked.

"Rachel…" Rachel replied.

The nurse smiled and handed over the pokéball again back to Rachel. "Use it."

Rachel walked closer to Totodile who was sitting on the desk, Bent her knees a little so she could look at Totodile in the eyes. "Hello!" she said.

Totodile made a strange noise and smiled. Rachel smiled back and then bopped Totodile on the head with the pokéball. Totodile went inside the ball. Rachel looked at the pokéball.

"Congratulations Rachel" The nurse said. "You've become a pokémon trainer!"

Rachel smiled.

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