Well this chapter kicks off a lot of things and is also where I start playing fast and loose with anime and game canon to fit my views of things. Also more KHR! peeps even if only mentioned in passing, and if you're not happy with how I placed them into this story I'm sorry but it was how I felt to best use them. So fair warning they won't act the way you expect them to act (yet) because they're not really who they were in KHR and didn't live those lives again in this world. How that will react when they possibly start remembering mafia life is also still a bit off in the future. Until then I hope most of you enjoy their current fate and what that means in the future.

Once again disclaimer and general warnings in chapter one.

A Lackadaisical Rain

Everyone in Iki town knew who Hau was. It was hard to not know the family of Kahuna Hala, especially in a town that was barely forty people strong.

However, for the twins, they knew who Hau was and even happily chirped greetings at him when they saw him, because Hau was one of those big kids that always was willing to give out a piece of candy if he had extra to share. But Hau wasn't a friend because Hau was three years older than they were and was two grades above Rayne in school, concepts that to a five year old meant Hau was too old to play with little girls even if he was really nice.

Aunt Mary at first cooed about puppy crushes when one day Rayne seemed to have gained a Hau shaped shadow that would follow her around. Something that had never happened before and an event the twins had no idea what to do with when an eight year old and a boy at that was suddenly helping them find pretty rocks or pushing them on the swings because he was interested in playing with Rayne and thus with Hazel and Ash since Rayne always chose the twins first in everything.

When Hazel witnessed Hau laugh a certain way and go "Maa Maa" to calm down an irate classmate in the school yard one day, the part that was Harry had a small heart attack.

The Mist Effect

Harry realized something had drastically gone off the rails when Hazel and Ash turned eight and thus more aware of their impending Trial Challenge if they could pass their tests well enough when they were nine to be allowed a pokemon early. From what little of what would have been if he had not intervene Ash would have arrived in Alola due to a lucky draw for a vacation for the family and become a student of the Pokemon School due to meeting Tapu Koko one day.

Harry's spiritual mind suffered a migraine attempting to figure out how that entire time fiasco came to be considering Ash was supposedly still at the age of ten when that went down but there was no way a ten year old could travel and compete in six, eight if you count the Orange Islands and Battle Frontier, competitions in under a year. Likely some minor deity of time had done something weird and Harry was just going to pretend that didn't exist because outside of the logistical nightmare it also meant that a lot of the actions of certain love interest took on a shade of dirty to my soul to witness regarding their throwing themselves at Ash. Thank all that is and will be his manipulations had pushed that particular set of events into a minor alternate reality in the grand scheme of things.

But that was not the main issue. No Harry recalled that if things had followed that odd timeline before his intervention then several of those Ash would have had as classmates would have been such and not current trial captains the twins were feverishly learning about in order to be prepared to take their challenge and fight the totem pokemon they raised. That meant something had tilted sideways that he hadn't expected.

The arrival of another family from Kanto, moving into the little house near Uncle Kukui's lab and thus much closer to Hau'oli then Iki town was, set off another major warning of chaos Harry had not created flag.

The eleven year old boy Sol and the ten year old girl Luna were dark haired and dark eyed, and typically happy siblings with their cheerful mother who had felt a new scenery would fit the family better. Both happily settling in and becoming instant friends to an always friendly Hau and the three deciding to take their island challenge together. Though all three had been a bit put out that Rayne had 'missed' a key question on her last test that would have let her get a pokemon at age nine and thus would get one at ten when the twins would hopefully pass their own tests to prove they could take care of a pokemon at age nine.

Harry's small heart attack became a stroke when he felt the Mist nature of the siblings within the very core of their souls and realized who they had been before.

A Stormy Skull

It wasn't until the trio currently on their trial challenge had been almost done, and had apparently got caught up in some weirdness that involved Legendaries, wormholes, and aliens, that the twins and Rayne had been made aware of the maybe friend but was also the prickly rival of the trio even existed. Harry had sat backed and just contemplated how all of that was apparently going down and the only sign of such felt in Iki town was when one of those ultra beasts had popped up nearby and ended up fighting Tapu Koko. He then promptly thanked whoever was watching out for them and let the older kids deal with that madness, he already had a full plate in the future considering the various major crisis of world ending importance Ash would be involved in, in about three years.

Gladion was prickly, obsessed with being strong, overly protective of his sister and of the pokemon Silvally, and somehow was always being dragged around by Hau and Luna or trading training tips with Sol. It was an odd sort of dynamic that most got used to, especially considering Lillie was known to the residents of Iki town considering Uncle Kukui and Aunt Burnet had been helping her for a few months now. Everyone liked Lillie so they learned to ignore Gladion when he bristled at them and accepted that he was going to be around a lot more if Hau had any say in this.

When Gladion seemed a bit star struck by Rayne, Harry became wary. When Hazel and Ash watched in amusement as Gladion began to berate Hau for treating pokemon battles like a game Harry despaired and asked himself just how many souls had followed Rayne's bright soul to this world and would all of them suddenly appear in this tiny town at some point?

The More Things Change

Life as it always does settled down after the whole Ultra Beast Fiasco and the twins had to buckle down and study hard to get their trainer's license. Thus the two barely noticed the six older kids dancing around one another in odd ways. Well more Hau and Luna were circling a flustered Gladion while Sol added oil to that fire and Rayne and Lillie just watched. Rayne in slight amusement because she found the puppy crush Luna and Hau had on Gladion funny considering Gladion at thirteen was realizing what hormones were so was reacting in funny ways to said crushes. Lillie was more concerned, but she was naturally a worrier and after seeing the adults finding such funny settled down to spectate as well.

Hazel and Ash were just confused by it all when the dust of exams had settled and they had walked back home after returning the two rattatas they had to take care of for a week to show they knew how to use their knowledge to care for pokemon and not just write the right answers down. [The twins were a bit too focused on Pokemon that it would take until their mid teens to realize what hormones and crushes were.]

A week later a smugly grinning Kukui, who also threw a knowing look at the softly smiling Rayne standing next to the almost vibrating twins,was doing all he could to draw it all out and see if one would finally burst and demand an answer. Finally when it seemed Ash was contemplating throwing herself at his knees while Hazel looked ready to help her twin do so, he finally broke the tension in a flourish as he held out three trainer licenses to the waiting girls. Much to the amused pride of the rest of the extended family. There was much jubilation from the twins and a large and bright smile from Rayne as they all affixed said licenses in their travel cases that would also hold their Challenge passport and other important items like money and if they decided to do so later in other regions, gym badges or contest ribbons.

This along with the travelling equipment they had earned through chores and small jobs to neighbors, or gifted to them on birthdays or other special events, meant that only one more thing was needed before they could go off and try the trials themselves.

[Harry fervently hoping that the madness that the older kids had dealt with on their trial journey meant this one would be calmer and thus the training wheels for his helping keep Ash on course.]

A starter pokemon.

Unlike most regions where the vast majority of new trainers get one of three standard starter pokemon. Alola and it's widespread population over the four islands made such trickier to do, and thus while there were three starters recognized by the Pokemon League as the starters of Alola, most new trainers usually started out with something else and usually found a wild version of a starter on their journey. It also didn't help that Professor Kukui may be the league recognized professor for the region, but he freely admitted that pokemon breeding was not a skill he had thus why he didn't take care of trainer's pokemon (Though with how Alola viewed pokemon partners and their lack of an actual league this wasn't as big of a deal since most locals only ever had one or two pokemon they could easily care for on their own and not full teams or teams in the double digits.) and thus why it was rare for him to have a set of starters on hand since another person was in charge of breeding them while maintaining their population at a healthy rate in the wild. So while Sol, Luna, and Hau had been the lucky draw for a standard starter; Rayne, Hazel, and Ash had been told and had accepted months before they would likely get unconventional starters. This usually meant young pokemon old enough to be trained or a pokemon caught by a relative who thought said pokemon would work well with their child.

In the case of Rayne and Ash it was the former as Professor Kukui had been watching a young male Litleo and a male Pichu that had been given away by a breeder that had been hoping for some indication of what egg move they could learn and not happy with what would likely be the result from said breeding experiment. While Hazel was the latter in that Delia had noticed a Mimikyu that had been all but stalking her eldest daughter for weeks now.

Ash had instantly fell in love with the Pichu and when the Pichu realized how much Ash would cater to him in regards to attention and treats he was just as in love. Rayne and Litleo had taken a bit more time to warm up to one another, but like most people that have met Rayne the two were just as attached as Ash was to Pichu. Hazel, to those watching, had also attached to Mimikyu as quickly as Ash had to Pichu even nicknaming him with barely any hesitation.

In reality Harry had felt Death from the small ghost and fairy type as it wobbled in front of her. She had felt the tendrils of such for a while now, but it was only now that she fully realized just what that meant. Even as her arms had reached out to cuddle this small fragment of Death and her voice without any consultation of Harry or Hazel had blurted out one word.

"Mort."

That had led to Rayne contemplating for about ten minutes before asking her Litleo if it liked the name Natsu and receiving an affirmative. Ash admitted she was bad with names so her and Pichu would look through some books to see if anything caught his eye for her to call him.

Harry once again despaired because that name and the fact a certain box weapon was a tiny lion made of sky flames was not a coincidence at all he was certain of it. Though cuddling this tiny being of Death helped a little because Death was a greedy thing when it came to affection and it didn't take long for Harry to give in to such on various worlds when Death would take the form of a pet for Harry to cuddle and fuss over.

Death sat back and allowed 'Mort' to bask in the affection of a nine year old Hazel as he settled to see how this would turn out.

So yes, I made people from KHR into actual people in Pokemon. Mostly to avoid trying to shift around everything and anything in the Pokemon world to make them fit in as easily as Rayne. It also gives me a nice stepping stone for Harry to manipulate connections down the road to keep Ash alive, even if that means dealing with insane flame users that now have deadly creatures to do their bidding as well. Not all who may pop up will be such and I'm trying to not drag the entire KHR cast into this since this is supposed to revolve around Harry/Hazel and Ash with big sis Tsuna/Rayne helping or hindering things depending on her mood. Though being cameos and side characters could be interesting to break up long sections. I'll have to think on that or see how you readers feel about such.

Also I think it's obvious who is who but let me know if it was that easy to spot the mafia kid in this and your thoughts on what this could mean down the line.