Pocket Monsters Chronicles was a doujinshi manga that my little brother (his screen name is Hiro, just like the main character) was working on, however, after just 3 chapters, he figured it's too much work and quit. He let me just write it as a fanfic, and shortly after that, he just handed everything onto me, I could do with what I like with the story now, just so long as I honor his wishes and keep in certain plots to the story. Since this was originally meant to be in manga format, this fic will describe certain things that you would be looking at if this was meant to be a manga, such as narration boxes and such. Also, this was originally posted on a site called serebii.net, so if you've seen it there, there aren't too many differences. Just last minute corrections mainly.
This is rated PG-13 because later on in the story, things get much darker and pretty gory at parts, especially when the main villian is introduced. For now, though, things are on a soft, comedic side with some perverted jokes and a bit of cursing. Before you read, I am going to use the Japanese names for Pokemon and locations and such, but don't freat, I'm putting up a name chart below each chapter that lists the things introduced in that episode only, so don't expect the same name to show up on every chapter's list even if that thing's been in that chapter. Now that I'm done with all that, please enjoy the first chapter, and when you're done, give a review if you can.
By the way, if anyone knows Japanese, I'd really like it if this was dubbed in Japanese, give some foreign penpals the opportunity to read this. Please contact me before you do it though.
CHAPTER 1: THE MYSTERIOUS IBUI
A boy with black hair pointing out from his yellow cap, shorts, and a red jacket walks up to a hill with a Magmarashi trailing behind him. From his point, he's able to overlook a large city.
"Finally, we made it to Enju City." says the boy.
The scene shifts to inside a classroom, where we see a black-haired teacher in glasses lecturing on Pokemon training, he's currently talking about feeding Poroks to increase Pokemon qualities for contests. All the students are in Japanese school uniforms, boys in gray suits, girls in sailor uniforms with long blue skirts. One particular student, a boy with short purple hair, is sitting with a book on Pokemon training propped up and opened in front of him, but unbeknownst to the teacher, he's actually reading a manga hidden in that book's pages. This manga involves a cute blue raptor creature with 2 black and red striped horns on the back of his head in some kind of battle (inside joke: this is Shimamon. Shimamon is fanmade Digimon of my brother's). The teacher notices he's doing this and thwacks him on the head with a ruler.
"OW!"
"Pay attention, Hiro-kun! You need to know this if you want to become a Pokemon trainer."
"I keep saying I'm not interested!"
The teacher is pretty steamed up with the boy, but looks at the clock.
"I need to go. This period's ending. See you tomorrow, students."
The teacher leaves the room, leaving all the students to have their free time before the next teacher comes in. Hiro picks up his manga again and resumes reading it. A blond boy goes up to Hiro to converse with him.
"Hey Hiro, why aren't you interested in becoming a Pokemon trainer?"
Hiro puts down his manga for a minute.
"I don't know, Chris-kun. I personally don't want to leave on some journey. I like it here in Enju. I'd prefer just staying here to help out my sisters. Besides, I'm 13 now, people are usually bugged to leave for their journey by the age of 10."
"That's only for trainers who only went through the basics of Pokemon training in school. By staying around longer, you get to learn more in-depth stuff. I'm one of those who decided to go that path. You do realize you get to take a temporary trainer's leave from school, right?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. I plan to leave in about a week. If you want, I can show you my Pokemon after school."
Suddenly, the literature teacher comes in. He's a gray-haired man who looks to be in his 50s. After all the students are back to their seats, they all stand up and bow to him.
"Thank you" says the teacher.
"Today, I want all of you to write me a little essay about you and your family."
Hiro pulls a sheet of paper and a pen out from his desk and starts writing. As Hiro does this, he begins to narate.
"My name is Kimono Hiro." You see a picture of Hiro in his casual dress, which is jeans and a baggy white sweater with a purple zigzag pattern at the end of each sleave.
"I live in a Shinto shrine with my grandfather, who's a priest there. I have no parents because they're both deceased, but it's alright with me because I was very young when it happened, so I never knew them that well, and my grandfather seems to be a fine guardian for me." A scene with an old man splashing pure water onto the stone walkway to a shine. The man is in priest's robes, his long gray hair tied up in a ponytail, and he has a shaggy beard that goes down to the bottom of his neck.
"I also live with 5 older sisters. Not many people believe me when I say this, but they're the Kimono Kyoudai, the 5 famous dancers who wear traditional kimonos on stage and perform with Ibui evolutions." We're treated to another picture with 5 girls, each standing next to the five Ibui evolutions, Showers, Thunders, Booster, Eefi, and Blackie. Just as Hiro finishes this last part of the naration, a ruler comes crashing down on his desk.
"Uwaaa!!" shouts a surprised Hiro.
"What is this bullshit?" says the teacher. It's revealed to us that Hiro's narration was in fact what he was writing on the paper.
"I will not believe for a second that you're the younger sibling to the Kimono Kyoudai" continues the teacher.
"But.... but I'm telling the truth..." says Hiro.
"Impossible. I know everything about them, I've been to every single one of those lovely girls' shows!" As the teacher says this, a ton of the students stare at him, and most of the girls have a disgusted look on their faces, and a murmer can be heard about him being a pervert. The teacher coughs into his hand.
"I mean, I'm a fan of Ibui evolutions" the teacher tries to correct himself.
"Anyway Hiro, I don't want you to write me a paper full of a bunch of lies, understand me?"
An annoyed Hiro holds up his fist, closes his eyes, clenches his teeth, and has a big X vein popping out of his forehead. In cartooney anime style, Hiro's head grows very huge and yells "THEY'RE NOT LIES YOU PERVERT!" to a now frightened teacher.
Hiro's head goes back to normal size and he storms out of the room. Hiro's then seen walking down a street with his arms crossed behind his head. He sighs.
"No one ever believes me about my sisters. I live here my whole life, my sisters are heard of by everyone, but not a single person could take note of me."
Notices a little girl with a pet Purin walking by her side. The Purin has a bow on its head.
"Perhaps I should consider Pokemon training, maybe I should get away from here."
As he's saying this, he feels something rub up against his leg, causing him to trip onto his face.
"Damn" he swears as he tries getting up. He looks back to see an Ibui behind him, likely the cause for his tripping just now. The Ibui runs up to be in front of Hiro's face. It has a very sweet smile on it as it closes its eyes and says "bui..."
"Well you're pretty cute" Hiro says as he scratches under its chin. Suddenly, the Ibui bites his finger. Hiro's eyes widen and he clenches his teeth, then you see the view of the city as you hear a "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hiro walks up to his home to find his grandfather coming out of the house.
"Huh? Hiro, you're home pretty early" says the grandfather.
"Konnichiha, Jii-san. I'm sorry, but I'd rather not talk about that" replies Hiro.
"Ah, I understand. Hiro, before you go into the house, I think I should warn you that a stray Pokemon wandered in there."
"What!?"
"I tried to get the thing out, but it's very resiliant."
Hiro holds granpa's broom as he slides open his bedroom door to see.....
"WHAAAAAAATTT!!!!!!??? YOU?!" Hiro sees that the Ibui from earlier managed to dash over here before he could. Hiro tries swinging the broom at the Ibui to shoo it away, but it keeps jumping out of the way of the broom. Eventually it jumps on top of Hiro's shoulder and starts nuzzling his face. Hiro lets out an agitated sigh.
"You are very wierd."
Hiro suddenly thinks back to what he said earlier, "Perhaps I should consider Pokemon training, maybe I should get away from here", and his eyes moves towards the Pokemon that's affectionately rubbing up against his face. He walks out of the house, he's changed into his casual dress now, puts on his wooden sandles by the door, and goes up to his grandfather with the Ibui on his shoulder.
His grandfather says "You... you befriended that thing?"
"Yeah. I met the thing earlier. It must've been so passionate towards me that it followed my scent to my bedroom."
"I see."
"Hey, Jii-san, I need to talk to you about something."
"What is it?"
"I... I want to leave on a trainer journey."
"Eh? Why'd you so suddenly change your mind?"
"I thought I liked it here with you guys, but the fact is, I only get pestered by everyone, because no one believes who my sisters are. I've just been thinking that maybe travelling away from this place would be nice for me, and I think I just found the Pokemon who could accompany me in it." Hiro points to the Ibui.
"So you want to journey? Hehe, you wouldn't believe how proud this makes me. I've never been a Pokemon battler myself, but I do admire them. Your sisters only danced with their Pokemon, they got my hopes up when they first got their Pokemon, but you, I'm finally getting a battler out of one of my grandchildren. Please, by all means, go register."
"Arigatou, Jii-san." Hiro changes back into his shoes and runs over to the Enju City Pokemon Center. He goes in and finds the registration counter. The woman there gives him a Pokemon's trainer test. Hiro, despite having ignored most Pokemon classes, managed to pass the test and get his trainer's license approved.
The woman notices the Ibui and says "Oh, I see you already have a Pokemon. Usually, we just give trainers a starter of some kind, but if you manage to get a Pokemon on your own before even becoming a trainer, you get a good start on your trainer ranking. Ibui are also pretty rare, I'd rank that specimen at B-rank at least. Congratulations on having such a good start."
"Wow!" Hiro awes. The counter lady hands Hiro a small handheld computer and six small red and white balls, all attached to a belt.
"Here, each new trainer is given a Pokemon Zukan to look up data on certain Pokemon. We also give 5 Monster Balls to catch new Pokemon with. As soon as you run out, though, you have to buy some more with your own money."
"Thank you" Hiro replies.
"So, are you gonna put your Pokemon in one of those Monster Balls?" The lady points to Ibui and Hiro looks at it.
"Actually, I'm kinda used to it following me. It seems to like me alot." Hiro walks out of the Pokemon Center after he says this. On his way home, he runs into Chris.
"Hey, Hiro." Says Chris.
"Hello. Hey, Chris, about me walking out of school, well, after I...."
"It's alright. I realize you couldn't put up with the teacher not believing you."
"That's not what I was going to say...."
"School's over, so would you like to see my Pokemon now?" Chris says as he takes a Monster Ball off his belt, and he's about to throw it when he notices an Ibui trailing behind Hiro, and that he's wearing a trainer's belt.
"What? You did become a trainer afterall?" Says the astonished Chris.
"That's what I was trying to tell you. After I ran out of class, I realized I don't want to stay here and go on a trainer afterall, and this Ibui here just happened to come up to me." says Hiro.
"Wow, that's amazing. Having your starter Pokemon find you sounds pretty nice, but this one's pretty nice too. They were only giving this one out to a few trainers, and I was one of the lucky ones." Chris says as he tosses a Monster Ball and an Airmudo comes out.
"Wow. I wish I had such a cool Pokemonl." As Hiro says this, Ibui takes it as an insult and starts nibbling on his head. "gyaaaa~~~~!"
"Magmarashi, Speed Star!" That boy and his Magmarashi from earlier seemingly appear out of nowhere. Magmarashi shoots a stream of tiny stars at the Ibui, knocking it off of Hiro's head and onto the ground. Hiro runs to it and picks it up.
"Ibui! Are you OK?"
"I'm sorry, judging from the way it was biting you, I assumed it was wild" says the boy.
"Hey, who are you?" asks Hiro.
"My name is Kenta, I come all the way from Wakaba Town. Who are you?" asks the boy.
"I'm Chris, and his name's Hiro" says Chris.
"Nice to meet you" says Kenta.
"You too. Chris and I are beginner trainers" says Hiro.
"Hey, I just realized, if we're both beginners, maybe we should leave together" says Chris.
"Good idea. How about you Kenta, would you like to tag along?" asks Hiro.
"Nah, I'm doing fine by myself so far." replies Kenta.
"Then would you at least stay for our farewell party next week?" asks Hiro
"I love parties. I guess I'll stay. I heard the gym leader here is very strong, so I'll need to spend a while training anyway."
"Glad to hear that, Kenta."
One week later, there's a party at Hiro's home with him, his sisters and grandfather, Chris, and Kenta. Hiro's being honored for becomming a trainer and for being ready to leave for his journey. The party starts off with Hiro's sisters setting off party poppers. After some eating and drinking, one of Hiro's sisters comes up to him. This sister has wavy blue hair.
"So Hiro, what do you plan to evolve your Ibui into? Is it gonna be a nice Booster?"
"No," interrupts a sister with pink hair and 2 pony tails at her side, "He should evolve it to an Eefi"
Eventually, all 5 sisters jump into a cartoony fight dust cloud where you hear shouts of "Blackie!", "Showers!", "Thunders!", "Booster!", "Eefi!", and Hiro just watches on as he gets a giant sweatdrop behind his forehead.
End of Chapter 1
NAME CHART
-Ibui=Eevee
-Magmarashi=Quilava
-Enju City=Ecruteak City
-Porok=Pokeblock
-the 'Kyoudai' in Kimono Kyoudai translates to Sisters, so Kimono Sisters
-Showers=Vaporeon
-Thunders=Jolteon
-Booster=Flareon
-Eefi=Espeon
-Blackie=Umbreon
-Purin=Jigglypuff
-jii-san=grandpa
-Pokemon Zukan=Pokedex
-Monster Ball=Pokeball
-Airmudo=Skarmory
-Speed Star=Swift
-Kenta=Yoshi (yes, this is the same guy from the Crystal Raikou special)
-Wakaba Town=Newbark Town
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-In Japan, students are required to wear uniforms much like the ones that were described. You'll see these all the time in anime.
-Japan has many suffixes said after a name. -kun is used to indicate someone being a boy or someone as a close male friend.
-Rather than students changing classes each period, the teachers are the ones who walk to different classes. In between these periods, students are free to walk around the class to converse with eachother or play around a bit.
-At the beginning of every period, students are lead by the class president to make a perfect greeting bow to the teacher in unison.
-The family name comes first and the common name comes last, so it's Kimono Hiro instead of Hiro Kimono.
-despite popular belief, it's 'konnichiha', not 'konnichiwa', however, the 'h' sounds alot like a 'w'.
This is rated PG-13 because later on in the story, things get much darker and pretty gory at parts, especially when the main villian is introduced. For now, though, things are on a soft, comedic side with some perverted jokes and a bit of cursing. Before you read, I am going to use the Japanese names for Pokemon and locations and such, but don't freat, I'm putting up a name chart below each chapter that lists the things introduced in that episode only, so don't expect the same name to show up on every chapter's list even if that thing's been in that chapter. Now that I'm done with all that, please enjoy the first chapter, and when you're done, give a review if you can.
By the way, if anyone knows Japanese, I'd really like it if this was dubbed in Japanese, give some foreign penpals the opportunity to read this. Please contact me before you do it though.
CHAPTER 1: THE MYSTERIOUS IBUI
A boy with black hair pointing out from his yellow cap, shorts, and a red jacket walks up to a hill with a Magmarashi trailing behind him. From his point, he's able to overlook a large city.
"Finally, we made it to Enju City." says the boy.
The scene shifts to inside a classroom, where we see a black-haired teacher in glasses lecturing on Pokemon training, he's currently talking about feeding Poroks to increase Pokemon qualities for contests. All the students are in Japanese school uniforms, boys in gray suits, girls in sailor uniforms with long blue skirts. One particular student, a boy with short purple hair, is sitting with a book on Pokemon training propped up and opened in front of him, but unbeknownst to the teacher, he's actually reading a manga hidden in that book's pages. This manga involves a cute blue raptor creature with 2 black and red striped horns on the back of his head in some kind of battle (inside joke: this is Shimamon. Shimamon is fanmade Digimon of my brother's). The teacher notices he's doing this and thwacks him on the head with a ruler.
"OW!"
"Pay attention, Hiro-kun! You need to know this if you want to become a Pokemon trainer."
"I keep saying I'm not interested!"
The teacher is pretty steamed up with the boy, but looks at the clock.
"I need to go. This period's ending. See you tomorrow, students."
The teacher leaves the room, leaving all the students to have their free time before the next teacher comes in. Hiro picks up his manga again and resumes reading it. A blond boy goes up to Hiro to converse with him.
"Hey Hiro, why aren't you interested in becoming a Pokemon trainer?"
Hiro puts down his manga for a minute.
"I don't know, Chris-kun. I personally don't want to leave on some journey. I like it here in Enju. I'd prefer just staying here to help out my sisters. Besides, I'm 13 now, people are usually bugged to leave for their journey by the age of 10."
"That's only for trainers who only went through the basics of Pokemon training in school. By staying around longer, you get to learn more in-depth stuff. I'm one of those who decided to go that path. You do realize you get to take a temporary trainer's leave from school, right?"
"Really?"
"Yeah. I plan to leave in about a week. If you want, I can show you my Pokemon after school."
Suddenly, the literature teacher comes in. He's a gray-haired man who looks to be in his 50s. After all the students are back to their seats, they all stand up and bow to him.
"Thank you" says the teacher.
"Today, I want all of you to write me a little essay about you and your family."
Hiro pulls a sheet of paper and a pen out from his desk and starts writing. As Hiro does this, he begins to narate.
"My name is Kimono Hiro." You see a picture of Hiro in his casual dress, which is jeans and a baggy white sweater with a purple zigzag pattern at the end of each sleave.
"I live in a Shinto shrine with my grandfather, who's a priest there. I have no parents because they're both deceased, but it's alright with me because I was very young when it happened, so I never knew them that well, and my grandfather seems to be a fine guardian for me." A scene with an old man splashing pure water onto the stone walkway to a shine. The man is in priest's robes, his long gray hair tied up in a ponytail, and he has a shaggy beard that goes down to the bottom of his neck.
"I also live with 5 older sisters. Not many people believe me when I say this, but they're the Kimono Kyoudai, the 5 famous dancers who wear traditional kimonos on stage and perform with Ibui evolutions." We're treated to another picture with 5 girls, each standing next to the five Ibui evolutions, Showers, Thunders, Booster, Eefi, and Blackie. Just as Hiro finishes this last part of the naration, a ruler comes crashing down on his desk.
"Uwaaa!!" shouts a surprised Hiro.
"What is this bullshit?" says the teacher. It's revealed to us that Hiro's narration was in fact what he was writing on the paper.
"I will not believe for a second that you're the younger sibling to the Kimono Kyoudai" continues the teacher.
"But.... but I'm telling the truth..." says Hiro.
"Impossible. I know everything about them, I've been to every single one of those lovely girls' shows!" As the teacher says this, a ton of the students stare at him, and most of the girls have a disgusted look on their faces, and a murmer can be heard about him being a pervert. The teacher coughs into his hand.
"I mean, I'm a fan of Ibui evolutions" the teacher tries to correct himself.
"Anyway Hiro, I don't want you to write me a paper full of a bunch of lies, understand me?"
An annoyed Hiro holds up his fist, closes his eyes, clenches his teeth, and has a big X vein popping out of his forehead. In cartooney anime style, Hiro's head grows very huge and yells "THEY'RE NOT LIES YOU PERVERT!" to a now frightened teacher.
Hiro's head goes back to normal size and he storms out of the room. Hiro's then seen walking down a street with his arms crossed behind his head. He sighs.
"No one ever believes me about my sisters. I live here my whole life, my sisters are heard of by everyone, but not a single person could take note of me."
Notices a little girl with a pet Purin walking by her side. The Purin has a bow on its head.
"Perhaps I should consider Pokemon training, maybe I should get away from here."
As he's saying this, he feels something rub up against his leg, causing him to trip onto his face.
"Damn" he swears as he tries getting up. He looks back to see an Ibui behind him, likely the cause for his tripping just now. The Ibui runs up to be in front of Hiro's face. It has a very sweet smile on it as it closes its eyes and says "bui..."
"Well you're pretty cute" Hiro says as he scratches under its chin. Suddenly, the Ibui bites his finger. Hiro's eyes widen and he clenches his teeth, then you see the view of the city as you hear a "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Hiro walks up to his home to find his grandfather coming out of the house.
"Huh? Hiro, you're home pretty early" says the grandfather.
"Konnichiha, Jii-san. I'm sorry, but I'd rather not talk about that" replies Hiro.
"Ah, I understand. Hiro, before you go into the house, I think I should warn you that a stray Pokemon wandered in there."
"What!?"
"I tried to get the thing out, but it's very resiliant."
Hiro holds granpa's broom as he slides open his bedroom door to see.....
"WHAAAAAAATTT!!!!!!??? YOU?!" Hiro sees that the Ibui from earlier managed to dash over here before he could. Hiro tries swinging the broom at the Ibui to shoo it away, but it keeps jumping out of the way of the broom. Eventually it jumps on top of Hiro's shoulder and starts nuzzling his face. Hiro lets out an agitated sigh.
"You are very wierd."
Hiro suddenly thinks back to what he said earlier, "Perhaps I should consider Pokemon training, maybe I should get away from here", and his eyes moves towards the Pokemon that's affectionately rubbing up against his face. He walks out of the house, he's changed into his casual dress now, puts on his wooden sandles by the door, and goes up to his grandfather with the Ibui on his shoulder.
His grandfather says "You... you befriended that thing?"
"Yeah. I met the thing earlier. It must've been so passionate towards me that it followed my scent to my bedroom."
"I see."
"Hey, Jii-san, I need to talk to you about something."
"What is it?"
"I... I want to leave on a trainer journey."
"Eh? Why'd you so suddenly change your mind?"
"I thought I liked it here with you guys, but the fact is, I only get pestered by everyone, because no one believes who my sisters are. I've just been thinking that maybe travelling away from this place would be nice for me, and I think I just found the Pokemon who could accompany me in it." Hiro points to the Ibui.
"So you want to journey? Hehe, you wouldn't believe how proud this makes me. I've never been a Pokemon battler myself, but I do admire them. Your sisters only danced with their Pokemon, they got my hopes up when they first got their Pokemon, but you, I'm finally getting a battler out of one of my grandchildren. Please, by all means, go register."
"Arigatou, Jii-san." Hiro changes back into his shoes and runs over to the Enju City Pokemon Center. He goes in and finds the registration counter. The woman there gives him a Pokemon's trainer test. Hiro, despite having ignored most Pokemon classes, managed to pass the test and get his trainer's license approved.
The woman notices the Ibui and says "Oh, I see you already have a Pokemon. Usually, we just give trainers a starter of some kind, but if you manage to get a Pokemon on your own before even becoming a trainer, you get a good start on your trainer ranking. Ibui are also pretty rare, I'd rank that specimen at B-rank at least. Congratulations on having such a good start."
"Wow!" Hiro awes. The counter lady hands Hiro a small handheld computer and six small red and white balls, all attached to a belt.
"Here, each new trainer is given a Pokemon Zukan to look up data on certain Pokemon. We also give 5 Monster Balls to catch new Pokemon with. As soon as you run out, though, you have to buy some more with your own money."
"Thank you" Hiro replies.
"So, are you gonna put your Pokemon in one of those Monster Balls?" The lady points to Ibui and Hiro looks at it.
"Actually, I'm kinda used to it following me. It seems to like me alot." Hiro walks out of the Pokemon Center after he says this. On his way home, he runs into Chris.
"Hey, Hiro." Says Chris.
"Hello. Hey, Chris, about me walking out of school, well, after I...."
"It's alright. I realize you couldn't put up with the teacher not believing you."
"That's not what I was going to say...."
"School's over, so would you like to see my Pokemon now?" Chris says as he takes a Monster Ball off his belt, and he's about to throw it when he notices an Ibui trailing behind Hiro, and that he's wearing a trainer's belt.
"What? You did become a trainer afterall?" Says the astonished Chris.
"That's what I was trying to tell you. After I ran out of class, I realized I don't want to stay here and go on a trainer afterall, and this Ibui here just happened to come up to me." says Hiro.
"Wow, that's amazing. Having your starter Pokemon find you sounds pretty nice, but this one's pretty nice too. They were only giving this one out to a few trainers, and I was one of the lucky ones." Chris says as he tosses a Monster Ball and an Airmudo comes out.
"Wow. I wish I had such a cool Pokemonl." As Hiro says this, Ibui takes it as an insult and starts nibbling on his head. "gyaaaa~~~~!"
"Magmarashi, Speed Star!" That boy and his Magmarashi from earlier seemingly appear out of nowhere. Magmarashi shoots a stream of tiny stars at the Ibui, knocking it off of Hiro's head and onto the ground. Hiro runs to it and picks it up.
"Ibui! Are you OK?"
"I'm sorry, judging from the way it was biting you, I assumed it was wild" says the boy.
"Hey, who are you?" asks Hiro.
"My name is Kenta, I come all the way from Wakaba Town. Who are you?" asks the boy.
"I'm Chris, and his name's Hiro" says Chris.
"Nice to meet you" says Kenta.
"You too. Chris and I are beginner trainers" says Hiro.
"Hey, I just realized, if we're both beginners, maybe we should leave together" says Chris.
"Good idea. How about you Kenta, would you like to tag along?" asks Hiro.
"Nah, I'm doing fine by myself so far." replies Kenta.
"Then would you at least stay for our farewell party next week?" asks Hiro
"I love parties. I guess I'll stay. I heard the gym leader here is very strong, so I'll need to spend a while training anyway."
"Glad to hear that, Kenta."
One week later, there's a party at Hiro's home with him, his sisters and grandfather, Chris, and Kenta. Hiro's being honored for becomming a trainer and for being ready to leave for his journey. The party starts off with Hiro's sisters setting off party poppers. After some eating and drinking, one of Hiro's sisters comes up to him. This sister has wavy blue hair.
"So Hiro, what do you plan to evolve your Ibui into? Is it gonna be a nice Booster?"
"No," interrupts a sister with pink hair and 2 pony tails at her side, "He should evolve it to an Eefi"
Eventually, all 5 sisters jump into a cartoony fight dust cloud where you hear shouts of "Blackie!", "Showers!", "Thunders!", "Booster!", "Eefi!", and Hiro just watches on as he gets a giant sweatdrop behind his forehead.
End of Chapter 1
NAME CHART
-Ibui=Eevee
-Magmarashi=Quilava
-Enju City=Ecruteak City
-Porok=Pokeblock
-the 'Kyoudai' in Kimono Kyoudai translates to Sisters, so Kimono Sisters
-Showers=Vaporeon
-Thunders=Jolteon
-Booster=Flareon
-Eefi=Espeon
-Blackie=Umbreon
-Purin=Jigglypuff
-jii-san=grandpa
-Pokemon Zukan=Pokedex
-Monster Ball=Pokeball
-Airmudo=Skarmory
-Speed Star=Swift
-Kenta=Yoshi (yes, this is the same guy from the Crystal Raikou special)
-Wakaba Town=Newbark Town
JAPANESE CULTURAL NOTES
-In Japan, students are required to wear uniforms much like the ones that were described. You'll see these all the time in anime.
-Japan has many suffixes said after a name. -kun is used to indicate someone being a boy or someone as a close male friend.
-Rather than students changing classes each period, the teachers are the ones who walk to different classes. In between these periods, students are free to walk around the class to converse with eachother or play around a bit.
-At the beginning of every period, students are lead by the class president to make a perfect greeting bow to the teacher in unison.
-The family name comes first and the common name comes last, so it's Kimono Hiro instead of Hiro Kimono.
-despite popular belief, it's 'konnichiha', not 'konnichiwa', however, the 'h' sounds alot like a 'w'.