Hey Brotherhood fans! Are you ready for another chapter, cause I sure am! And after you're all done reading I have a preview of a story my friend, Daughter of Kabegami, is writing for her fan fiction of Okami the video game! So if any of you are an Okami fan or interested it'll be below the chapter!

Oh, and do any of you remember the voice inside Touko's head when she first found her Blue Chain? It's making an appearance again! By the way, can any of you readers guess who the voice is? I've left hints throughout the past chapters, especially recently, but if you do know who it is, I'm not tellin' til this twisted tale of mine is finished!

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Pokémon or the characters in Kabegami's preview. And she does not own the Okami characters except for her own OC's! Enjoy and Review!

'Touko, there is an imbalance. You must wake up and make haste if you wish to find the perpetrators and bring them to justice. Touko, you bare my power, the power your caretakers taught you, you and the CHAIN …You must awaken now! WAKE-'

"-UP! Touko, wake up child!" Anthea called as she shookher student awake on the museum floor.

"Ah! Anthea?!" She hollered, launching up from the ground and stumbling to her feet. As Touko adjusted to the sudden movement, she saw that the museum was damaged, and among the rubble were innocent people who were still unconscious from some sort of knock out gas that was thrown by the grunts. Only some were awake and they were being escorted outside by officers.

'Oh Arceus no, Team Plasma did not just do what I think they just did!' She shouted in her head. Touko scanned the exhibits until she found the large skeleton in the center of the museum, which was now skull-less. Touko did not know what had happened next but she knew that she was already running out the doors of the museum. She bumped into someone as she took a sharp left, all she saw was green and red on the figure, not even bothering to see whom she pushed aside or apologize.

Was that Lenora's voice she heard behind her or Anthea's? Touko did not know and she did not care, all that was in her mind was finding Team Plasma. She felt it; the aura's of some of the grunts, and the trail felt thin, though they were not gone long, it seemed that they were traveling at high speeds. 'Cars or vans maybe? I thought I saw…' She skidded to a stop in front of the road leading to Pinwheel forest, tire tracks! She was right they did escape in automobiles! Without another thought she bounded into the forest.

Touko slowed herself to jog then stopped as she came to the end of the tire's trail. She kneeled down and examined them. They made a turn up to the double bridges that could be seen a few hundred yards ahead, she was about to follow the trail when she sensed something, an aura. Her head snapped to the left, into the forest side, and she could just barely make out the sight of a leather strap a small ways in front of her lying on the ground. Passing over the concrete road and its siding, she stepped onto the moist ground and walked towards the article.

When she picked it up she knew for certain what it was, a strap to hold the scabbards of the grunts's swords! Suddenly her eyes caught another sight in the wet dirt, boot prints, they must have jumped out of the automobiles at the last minute so they could distract the authorities by going in two directions. But which way had the skull?! Touko kneeled to the ground once more and studied the footprints, it was easy to tell which were female and which were male just by sizes alone, it was just as easy, for her trained eye, to determine their weights. Until she stumbled across a set of female grunts prints that sunk in lower than the rest. 'With how deep in the ground these prints went she must have been at least one-hundred and eighty pounds, but that shouldn't be possible. From what I've seen of the girl grunts from Accumula, they must range in heights from five' three to five' seven, making their weights vary from one-hundred fifteen to one-hundred forty-five. That means,' she got off her knees and brushed them off. 'They took the skull in through the forest!' She concluded, and then she decided the unthinkable if she was going to catch them in time… Shadow Sneaking. Touko disappeared.

Somewhere along the wooded path of Pinwheel Forest

"Haa! Wow it's so humid in this forest!" Black sighed with exhaustion. Though he was not complaining, he liked humidity, after all he lived near the ocean, humidity was always blowing in his face back then. Earlier he had found the river that runs through the forest and decided to dip his feet in the shallows. Black had also let his pokémon out of their capsules, but he was letting them stray around a bit, they needed to stretch their joints as much as Black wanted to rest his. He stretched his back and arms, and placed them behind his head, then lied onto the dirt as the water cooled his feet and calves.

"Ruff! Rufflet." A familiar call sounded. Black peeked open an eye and stared through what little bit of opening the canopy of the trees could give to the sight of sunlight. There, Rufflet was soaring around, playing with a couple of wild bird pokémon. He smiled at the fun his old friend was having, Black opened his eyes fully and let himself admire the beauty of the forest around him. Suddenly, for a split second, a shadow blocked his sight of the sky, passing right over his head.

"What in the?!" He yelled. 'What was that thing? Er… no. Wait a second… wasn't that a person?!' He gawked. 'But, I only saw it when it entered the light. Then... maybe a ghost-type o-or…' He did not know what to think, he could not comprehend anything because of the great shock.

"You there, young man!" A woman's voice called. Black turned his head and saw... Lenora! She looked quite upset as she ran up to him. She also had a large backpack sitting on her shoulders, it seemed like she was going on a trip.

"Lenora? What are you doing here? Is something wrong?!" He questioned as he stood up and walked away from the river.

"Is something WRONG?! Team Plasma broke into my museum and stole the skull of my Dragonite skeleton. Not only that, the friend you told me about, Touko, she was there and when Team Plasma ran away she began to chase after them like a Woobat out of Hell! Does she not know it takes two weeks to make it through the forested side of these woods?!" She explained.

"Holy-! I'm going with you Lenora!" Black exclaimed as he grabbed his shoes and began to put them on. Lenora took a step forward and stopped him as he placed his foot inside his last shoe. "No Black, I want you to head back to Nacrene for me. We don't know if Team Plasma will come back that is why I want you to head back and protect the Gym." She stated.

"I'm not going to let Touko take them on alone, especially if she's in a place like this!" He shouted, his voice reverberating throughout the woods and startling some bird pokémon to fly away. "She will not be alone; I intend to find her and defeat Team Plasma with her. On my way here I ran into an old friend who's decided on helping me out and he's searching for her and Team Plasma on the other side of the forest, please, head to my Gym." Lenora reassured. Black furrowed his brow. Lenora made sense, and if he did follow her he was sure him being there would only be a distraction to Touko. Yet, he wanted to help so terribly much, he felt his heart twist at the thought of Touko getting hurt by Team Plasma again.

"Darn it. Fine, I'll go, but you have to keep your word too! Touko is my best friend, a… sister to me, keep her protected." He said, staring down, or rather up, Lenora. She could see the threat of foreshadowing unforgiving hatred in this boy's eyes if she slipped up. What a glare from such a normally optimistic young man. Lenora nodded her head and moved to the side to make way for Black, who bolted at the moment he had room. As he ran he called for his pokémon, the sound of leaves moving and dirt shuffling being heard all over the area, his pokémon had never been too far from the start.

Back with Touko… (Arceus do not give her strength because she will only beat them with it!)

A Plasma grunt slammed to the ground with a thud and Touko stood over him, glaring. She had snuck up on the grunt from the shadows and knocked him unconscious before he would have the chance to call for reinforcements, though, unknown to her, he was one of the grunts from the museum that seemed to have gotten lost. Just as she was walking away she noticed a rolled up piece of paper slid in between his uniform and leather belt, cautiously she knelt down and grabbed the paper. Touko decided to keep moving as she made her way deeper into the forest, following the fading aura's, slowly she unrolled the… map. Studying the contents quickly she realized it was an old map… of Unova and certain area's across the map were circled in different colors. Whatever it meant, Touko would find out later, for now she shoved the article into her bag.

"You there, young lady!" A man's voice called. Her head shot right behind her to see a lanky man with light brown wavy hair, grass green eyes, and a… flashy green and red outfit covering his body, there was also a large bag strapped on his shoulders. A hiker… or maybe a backpacker?

"Um, who are you?" Touko asked raising a brow and crossing her arms as she turned her entire towards him to give him her full attention.

The flashy guy finished closing the distance between the two of them before speaking. With a huff of air he spoke. "Well first I am the man you roughly pushed aside as you ran out of the pokémon gym. No worries though, once Lenora told me everything I understood right away, so you don't need to apologize in the least darling! Oh and my name is Burgh." The flashy- err, Burgh said. Touko froze in place, she did knock over someone! She was mentally slapping herself for rudeness, how could she be so blind?! Kurai would disapprove of her 'Unlady-like' behavior.

"Oh Arceus, I am so sorry about that… um, Burgh? Yes, anyways, I really need to get moving; I'm following some people and… wait a second you said you know Lenora?" Touko halted. He nodded and suggested that if they were going to catch Team Plasma before they left the woods, the two of them would need to move on and meet up with Lenora. Not willing to dilly-dally anymore, he brushed past her, and told her to follow him. 'What the heck just happened?! Did I just get a partner for this expedition? Now how am I going to use my Shadow techniques?! Wait, it's a bit of a ways off but… a crescent moon is coming up, very little light; excellent for disappearing when he and Lenora fall asleep that night! Peerrrfect, mwahahaha!' Touko thought in the depths of the insanity that is the mind her brothers created.

2 Days,

5 Days,

7 Days,

11 Days Later

Later that night, at the Plasma Camp

"My lord Ghetsis." A Plasma knight greeted as she entered a tent and kneeled. "Your eldest 'daughter', Lady Anthea, arrived in Nacrene safely, but I regret to inform you she was at the museum during the time of the invasion. This plan that you wished to be unbenounced to her and Lady Concordia has been revealed." A grunt said as she bowed her head before the head sage.

"Leave me." It was all Ghetsis needed to say for the Knight to hurriedly leave the tent. "That damned woman. I save her and that useless blonde girl when they were children and she repays me by snooping around during our mission!" He whispered loudly to himself. "Once she returns to the castle, she will learn the meaning of punishment for good this time!" He spoke with acid in his tone as he grabbed an apple on the meeting table and crushed it within his palm, his mechanical crimson eye glowing all the while with his rage.

With N, he stared through the netted opening that acted as a window to his tent, all the way up to the waning crescent moon, and he did this as he sat against the headboard on his make-shift bed. Formulas of any kind rushed all around his mind as he let it wander in the blissful free-time he was managing to gain at the moment. It was late, yes, but he knew he had to start moving to… Castelia city, a human community overflowing with, well what he hated most, humans. He truly was against the notion but the Sages all opted against his wishes and requested he go on ahead of Plasma and observe the city. There he could personally evaluate either potential Plasma knights or trainers whose pokémon deserved liberation.

'It is always the same with these Sages.' N thought with an exasperated sigh. Slowly he let himself lie down and he tried to envision the world once his dream was accomplished, N could always lose himself and the threads of time thinking about it.

"My King, there is an intruder on the premises!" Called out a male knight as he came in running with his fist across his chest in the average bow, well at least he did not forget his chivalry. Upon the loyal knights intrusion N awoke with a gasp he was sure the man might have heard, if it was not for the shouting of commands from higher-up knights telling lower ranking knights what to do and where to go.

"Bring me to-!" N started but the man interrupted him.

"My King, I apologize for not hearing your commands, but I have strict orders from Ghetsis to tell you to head to the east edge of the cam, there the Shadow Triad will lead you to escape to Castelia." He explained before he abruptly stood and exited the tent, the ringing of his sword being heard as he drew from behind the flaps of N's tent. Staring irritably where the knight once stood, N rose himself out of the bed, put on his sneakers, and exited as swiftly as possible. He wanted to face the intruder and punish them personally but an order from Ghetsis is like an order from N to knight, it cannot be disobeyed.

As he finally made it to the woods in no time at all three figures apparated from nowhere and kneeled on one knee in front of him. "Our King, we've come to take you away from the danger here." The three men said in unison. N simply nodded as the Triad leader said, 'Come,' and outstretched his hand to the King. N hesitantly took it, when he did he felt himself sinking, falling into a black sea that was cold and sinister. He knew the men were carrying him through the shadows with their abilities; it was not the first time this happened to N but in the few times he had let himself be whisked away, he felt terrified of these men who acted like dolls with void thoughts and emotions. To be so close to them made him shudder like a frightened child, and he knew they noticed.

'You may be frightened of us, but we will never care, not from the likes of you, oh King. Once you are safe in Castelia we will return to aid in the fight of the intruder with Renegade powers.' They thought in unison, their minds being linked telepathically when using their abilities.

"The intruder has made it to the information hut!" A male grunt yelled out and knights from all around started running to the tent in disbelief, no more than two minutes ago was the target was across the camp!

"How are they moving so fast?!" A female grunt called out with her sword clutched in between her fists.

"Are we sure there is not more than one intruder?!" Another grunt questioned then- BAM! The roof to the tent shot open and a human figure popped up from the top, it gracefully descended to the forest floor, in front of all the shocked knights -men. At closer look the figure was a young girl, she was clad in all black, and her clothes consisted of a sleeveless half-shirt that stopped just over her bellybutton, a face mask that stretched over her face like a second skin, covering her face up to her nose. The rest of her clothing was a skirt that reached her mid-thigh, but was designed for movement so it did not stick to her and limit her movements when running, making it just sit with the length of her legs, and then it appeared she had warmers on her forearms and calves, with flat shoes that allowed her to move fast and light in combat.

"Capture her!" A higher up grunt commanded and the others soon jumped in.

Oh wow this was so short, if I feel let down about this myself, I don't think I want to know about you readers. Oh! But I still really want you to review, I need feedback, I like to hear what I can improve on and what does not need improving. Now then, time for that preview of Daughter of Kabegami's Okami story! Enjoy and remember to review on this too if you'd like, she wants some feedback as well you know! XD Here it is: "Bearer of the Great Demon!" sneak peek!

"Come out, Sora! I wanna see!" Mr. Chic said excitedly from the other side of the curtain. I rolled my eyes. He was a sweet guy and made such amazing kimonos, but he also loved to gossip and was probably dying to tell everyone about my night out with Waka. I slipped out from behind the curtain and Mr. Chic was looking at me, a big grin on his face.

The kimono he made for me was white as snow and had a much lower neckline than most women's, so you could see a little cleavage. The sleeves were detached, just barely hid my fingertips, and had a light blue ribbon laced near the top and bottom. It was stunning. I smiled and took a few steps towards Mr. Chic, the bottom of the dress gently brushing the top of my bare feet.

"I love it! And so will the lucky man you are going on a date with. I know you like him; I can see it in your eyes." I blushed and stared down at the floor. He was constantly insisting that I call it a date. We were just going out to dinner together! I DO really like Waka, but Mr. Chic wouldn't stop bugging me about it.

Mr. Chic began to shove me out towards the door, barely giving me a chance to grab my shamisen.

"You look beautiful! Now get going or else you will be late for your date!"

I still need to pay for the dress!" Mr. Chic pushed me out the front door and smiled sweetly.

"Beauty shouldn't cost yen. You can tell me how the date went later when you pick up your things and change back into your outfit. Now go! You don't want to be late."

He turned back into his store without another word. If he kept giving out free kimonos just because he likes how they look on someone, he is going to go out of business. I turned and began walking towards Yama's restaurant, only one thing on my mind. When I fell head over heels for Waka. When he kissed me in Agata Forest. I will never forget that moment.

End for now! Hope you enjoyed both of our stories everyone, please, if you are reviewing my story, add in some comments on Daughter of Kabegami's story too, we both want to learn what we need to improve in! You all are amazing and thank you!

Love, Bunny

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