hey! this is the longest chapter I've ever written so enjoy!

Gary cut off the Professor by whirling me out the door, by pulling my arm. Before we exited, I yelled, "Bye, Professor! Thanks for everything!"

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR, OAK?" I yelled the minute he dragged me out the door.

"I was in a hurry. You, being a girl, would hang around to chat, so I wanted to get started right away." He yawned.

I smacked him at the back of his head.

"WHY?" he yelled.

"you annoyed me" i stated simply and walked ahead,

A half hour of silent walking later i was starting to feel really bored so i took out emerald's Pokéball and released her

She immediately started talking (should have seen it coming really)

"Ruby! Are you a trainer now is Emerald going to evolve?"

Gary who was walking behind us heard her and ran towards us picked her up and started talking faster than I've ever heard emerald talk.

"Wow amazing how can she talk? Did you teach her, is she yours? Can I catch her, can I show her to gramps? "

I replied quickly shattering any possible dreams about Emerald he might have had "i don't know how, no, yes, no and no defiantly not!"

"Why not!" he whined

"well if i gave Emerald to a bunch of scientists we wouldn't be able to finish our search.. I mean Pokémon journey"

"Whatever" he said and resumed sulking behind me.

A vein popped in my head. I took a deep breath to calm myself down, and instead, changed the subject. "Where's the map?"

Gary blinked his eyes. "Map?"

Oh no… "The map. The map of Kanto. The map of Kanto I gave you thirty minutes ago. That map." I said.

"You never gave me a map."

"Yes I did! You were all, 'hey, when are we gonna reach Viridian? You know, gramps is an old friend of the Gym Leader there' and all that crap and I gave you the map and said, 'see for yourself' and I walked ahead. Ring any bells?"

"…"

"You lost it! You lost the map and I am about to lose my sanity right now, we have been walking for half an hour and ALREADY you lose the map! How the heck do you think we're going to make it through Kanto, huh?" I screeched.

"Arrogant bastard." Gary and I glared at each other. on my shoulder, Emerald rolled her eyes. I turned my back to him. "You are being SO impossible right now, OAK."

"I would've left you AGES AGO if I'd had the chance."

"Then leave!"

"You know I can't do that."

"Then I'll Do It."

Gary glared at me one last time. "Fine." He turned around; he stared at me, long and hard. "Let's see how long you can last alone, Ruby."

I walked ahead of him, and turned to the right of the path. Gritting my teeth

"That… little… brat!" I yelled, kicking stones in the trail. "I am so PISSED right now!"

"Emerald has gotten a lot smarter since she evolved but Ruby is still far too violent! Maybe Ruby should evolve too" Emerald said scrunching up her face as she thought hard.

Gary's POV

(Gary DOSENT understand his Squirtle he just likes to talk to it)

I released my new squirtle introduced myself and started to vent to it, after I'd calmed down a bit I stopped and slapped my forehead

"You think I'm an idiot too, huh? Yeah… it's my first journey away from home and I fight the only girl willing to help me – as much as I find that hard to believe – and now she's gone. I'm reeeeeal smart, Squirtle, can't you see?"

"Squirtle squirt squirt squirtle." –I can see that, believe me.-

"Doesn't it just make you MAD when she talks like that?"

"Squirtle? …" –you've known her for less than an hour. And you already know what makes you mad?-

"But… I don't really feel good about yelling at her… that was stupid…"

"Squirt." –like you.-

"But I can't just go back there and say sorry! She did something bad too!"

"Squirt squirtle..." –she yelled at you cause you lost the map…-

"I know it was my fault, but I mean… it's also hers!"

"Squirt Squirtle?" –Can you hear yourself talking right now?-

Suddenly, Gary dropped his voice down to a whisper as he knelt down to talk to Squirtle. "But – don't tell Emerald or that charmander of hers if we meet up with them again – I secretly think she's cute. And well…I don't exactly see what's wrong with a talking metapod"

"Squirtle squirt!" –sure, sure… trust me! –rolls eyes—

Back to Ruby's POV

C'mon Emerald. I think we should go in that direction."

"Ruby you do know you're going in the OPPOSITE direction of Petalburg if we go there, right?"

"Don't sound so sceptical! I'm sure that's the correct way!" I smiled at Emerald. "Oh come on, trust me!"

"Are you sure that's a safe decision? Ruby does remember the fat man and the scared boy right? " emerald stated nervously

"of course i remember and i also remember You being the one who got us lost in the first place! I know you don't trust me! Well, come on! I'm gonna prove you wrong!"

Gary's POV

"!"

Squirtles's ears pricked up. "squirtle squirt?" –is that your Ruby?-

Gary blinked. "That could only be Ruby, What should I do?"

Squirtle stared at it's owner, and suddenly started banging its head on the ground. His trainer was honestly, so dense, in matters of the heart.

"What do you think got her so scared, Squirtle?" He asked, patting the Pokemon's head.

"Squirt -squirtle!" –Help her, idiot!- Since, unfortunately, Gary couldn't understand him, Squirtle rolled its eyes and pulled on Gary's pant leg.

"You want me to save her?"

"SQUIRT!" (Okay, I think we all know what Squirtle meant by that…)

Ruby's POV

"N-No! Bad rats, bad rats, BAD RATS!" I screeched at the two dozen PLUS Rattata who were practically biting my ankles. Emerald hopped by my side, being useless against that many Rattata.

"Squirtle, Tackle attack!" Gary then appeared out of nowhere. Squirtle tackled the Rattata nearest to me, and started on the others. Blinking away the shock, I called to Emerald.

"Emerald! Help Squirtle out! Tackle!" Emerald hit the Rattata closest to her. "G-Gary! It's not enough!"

"Well, it shouldn't be… I can't believe you disturbed about 29 Rattata in such a short period of time…" He sighed sarcastically.

"JUST STOP BEING AN ARROGANT MESS AND HELP ME!" I yelled.

"Fine, fine…" he murmured. "Just release your charmander!"

"Go, Charmander, scratch!" in a flash of red, my Pokémon cleared out about three Rattata in one go.

After ten minutes, we had cleared them all out except for one. And this Rattata was getting closer to me. "charmander, ember!"

"You taught it ember already? Nice." Gary said, impressed.

I shot a look at him. "If you're apologizing, at least do it properly. Don't bug me. I want to catch this one." I then concentrated on the Rattata, which growled at Charmander, then ran towards her for a Tackle. "Charmander! Dodge it by jumping in the air, then use an airborne ember!"

Charmander jumped up and used ember, hitting the Rattata in the face. Rattata growled, then jumped up, ready to jump on Charmander.

"Charmander! Get out of the way, and use scratch!"Charmander, with precise timing, hit Rattata. Stumbling a bit, Rattata tried to stand up, then failed.

"Nice one, Charmander!" I grinned and pulled out a Pokeball. "Go, Pokeball!" but my aim was a bit off and the pokeball flew into the bushes, hidden from view

"Char Char Charmander!" –wow, I won a battle at last! It was awesome!-

I walked over and picked up the Pokeball but I noticed it felt much heavier. "Go?" A spearrow appeared... "Ohhh, you're so adoooorable!" I squealed.

"Uhm… Ruby?" Gary said, sounding uncertain.

"What?" I said coldly, not taking my eyes off my newest Pokémon.

"I'm sorry… for being a jerk… and losing the map… and being a show-off… and trying to prove I was better than you… and splitting up with you… and calling you those mean names… and-"

I grinned and sprung up to hug him tightly. "It's okay. But I know we'll be fighting again sooner or later… and… I'm sorry too." I let go of him, and realizing how red he was, I turned the same color.

"Char char charr." –Awww… how touching.-

"Squirtle squirt!" –I know! They are so…-

"charr." –Yeah.-

"Squirtle!" –They are so cute together!-

"Char char charmander char." –The perfect match… always fighting.-

"rooow? Spearrow!"–The girl's my new master, right? Ruby? That's a pretty name!-

"Squirtle Squirt." –Oh boy, now this is a party.-

"Char Char Charmander!" –I have an idea!-

"Squirt?"

"Roow?"

(I guess you can guess they're all asking what)

"charmander char char mander char char char charmander Char!–Let's get those two together, they're so right for each other, they're made for each other, they deserve each other, and I reeeeeeeeeally want Sam to be happy!-

"Squirtle squirt!" –We're Pokemon, not matchmakers!-

"Charmander"!" –Don't be such a pessimist! We can do this!-

"What are you four talking about?" I demanded.

"Rooow." –Nothing… much.-

"This is one of the times when I wish I could understand Pokémon." I sighed, frustrated.

"Me, too." Gary agreed.

The Pokemon looked strangely sinister as they started talking amongst themselves.

After about ten minutes of total silence, (with occasional whispers of Pokémon language that made no sense at all) I lost it. "Okay, would you guys just… TELL us what you're whispering about?"

Charmander, Spearrow and Squirtle looked at me innocently, mouths shut.

"Arrrrrgh!"

"Just chill, Ruby, okay? They couldn't tell us even if they wanted to." Gary said, rolling his eyes.

I turned on him. "And YOU!"

Gary held his hands up in front of him. "What did I do this time?"

"You're so… damn… quiet!" I said, crossing my arms. "Just because I get mad at you when you act so arrogant and bastard-ish, doesn't mean I don't like it-" I blushed, and covered my mouth, all the while staring down Gary.

Gary smirked. "Oh… so you do like it."

"I…" I blushed harder. "I so do not!"

"Do too,"

"Do NOT!"

"Do too…"

"Do not do not do not do not do not do not do not do not!"

Gary's smirk grew even wider. "Judging from the blush that's on your face, I'm guessing that…" he leaned in close to my face."You do."

I glared at him. Suddenly I realized that our faces were much too close to each other. I immediately looked in the other direction, pretending to look at Spearrow. "We should be in Viridian in about ten minutes. Or so."

Gary looked at me. "Oh… okay."

Was that chance just wasted?

...

Our walk continued. I carefully wrote in my notebook

*Number 2:*

*Name: Gary

*Look: red-haired. Beautiful eyes.

*Favourite Dinner: haven't asked. Will ask at dinner tonight

*Favourite Movie: I don't know yet. Something with Pokémon probably.

*Most Used Words: me, me, me, me

*Approved By Emerald: no he wanted to give her to the evil scientists

*His problem: very vain and self centred

*Relationship Duration: 0 years, 0 months, 0 hours, 0 minutes.

*My Perfect Love: no? Okay maybe..

...

"YES!" Ruby collapsed on her knees as she entered Viridian. "I got here without murdering you, Gary! My temper is under control!"

Emerald was equally as happy "WAFFLES! COOKIES! FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD!"

Gary rolled his eyes. "Yipee." He said, in an undertone.

Ruby glared back at him. "And yet, somehow, I can't figure out why."

Spearrow, who was out of her ball, suddenly charged at her knees, and nearly knocked her down. "Hey!" Ruby rubbed her knees. "That's a pretty strong Tackle attack you got there. What is it?"

"rooow spar spearrow"

"Spearrow says she's hungry and so is emerald so take us to some food!

Gary shrugged. "'Mkay."

Ruby picked up Emerald and cuddled her. "Don't worry, emerald, you'll have some rest and food in no time." She cooed, and kissed her on the forehead.

I wonder what it would be like if I was Emerald… WAIT, WHAT AM I THINKING? Gary blushed. Squirtle nudged him with his hand, and raised his eyebrow at him.

Gary looked at Squirtle. "It's none of your business."

...

Ruby lounged comfortably in one of the tables in the Pokemon Center's canteen, and sipped a can of Coke. She reached for the magazine she had pulled out of some random rack, and started reading it.

"Well? Are you just gonna sit here and drink Coke, or are we going to explore Viridian?"

Ruby turned around to look at Gary, who had a bored look on his face. "Look, I have been walking around for about three hours in some random woods or whatever, dealing with your crap, and now you want me to walk around the city with you? . I am staying here, and I am going to rest before the Gym battle."

Gary shrugged. "Suit yourself. I'm not buying you anything, though."

"Do I look like the kind of person who would want to buy something? No."

Gary stuck his tongue out at her, and left the canteen.

Ruby sighed contentedly, and just leaned farther down in her chair. Peace and quiet.

...

Half an hour later...

Ruby twitched as she sat… alone… in the canteen. It was quiet. She sat upside down on the chair, then five minutes later, she lay down on the chair. She crossed her legs, then she uncrossed them. Cross, uncross. Cross, uncross.

Emerald was the one to break the silence "um ruby.. Charmander and Spearrow were sort of wondering if you were going to name them"

Ruby could have cried with relief in thanks for the distraction.

"sure um how about..

Lynessa? They both shook their heads

Kassi? Another no

Ruby sighed this was going to take a long time

In the end (which was TWO HOURS later) they decided on Arianna for charmander and Skyla for spearrow

Ruby walked back to the room, her Pokémon clipped onto her belt, She reached the room, and opened it. When the door was fully opened though, she was shocked to see Gary standing right behind the door. "Ah. Gary…?" she said, blinking rapidly. She stepped backwards, surprised. "What happened?"

He closed his eyes. "We can't have a Gym battle today. the Gym's closed, and it won't open for a few weeks. We were advised to go to pewter city, though." He said, eyes closed. And a scowl firmly in place

Ruby was silent.

Then she started laughing really hard, clutching her sides. Gary's expression turned from anger to confused. "What are you laughing about?"

"You…" she laughed, wiping a tear from her eye."You're upset about this aren't you!" she choked out, laughing harder. "You don't like it when everything doesn't go your way!"

Gary blushed, glaring at her all the while. "I didn't say anything like that!"

Ruby just laughed harder. "Even if you didn't…" she said smugly, crossing her arms. "It proves that you're a selfish, greedy little boy." She said teasingly.

Gary glared at her again. "Oh, shut up, Ruby, how could you know what I'm thinking?"

She sighed, exasperated. "Boys are predictable, Gary, remember that."

Suddenly, Gary leaned forward, and pressed his lips to the top of her head. He stayed there for a moment, and leaned back, a satisfied grin on his face as Ruby's eyes widened and she turned red. "We're not that predictable…"

Ruby blinked. "Did you…"

"I did."

"But that means that you…"

"I wanted to prove to you that boys aren't exactly predictable." He said, trying to hide the blush that was coming up on his cheeks, too.

Ruby blinked again. "Um… okay, then." She said, sort of dazed, and walked into the room.

The fact that their backs were turned to each other, however, didn't stop them from smiling at what had just happened.

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