Forever a Rurouni

Mayonaka Hitori

(Disclaimer: Yeah, and I own the whole friggin' world, too. *rolls eyes* Gimme a break here, I only own Arisa for cripes' sake, and maybe a battle or two here and there.)

Gee, I just realized the cheesiness of the title for this fic. Oh well, no other inspiration at the time.

Writer's Block sturck me during the typing of this chapter, so that is one of my excuses for not updating for about two months. *nodnod*

Anywho, review responses:

seirei queen of darkness- No, you can't vote twice you little cheater. ^^ Just joking. And I like shounen-ai! It ROCKS! I always use it to torture my friends, too. If my printer had ink, I'd print out shounen-ai pics and show'em to my friends! Oh, it's WONDERFUL for revenge, too. *nodnod* Yeah, just think that you're Arisa and you might be able to fool yourself that you're with him. ^^

yashgirl- Gee, isn't that wonderful. ^^ Kay, kay, your vote's added. Yes, I noticed. I did that purposely. I wanted to see who could notice the change first. Tee hee. ^^ Looks like you did. Yay you! You get a free lesson on Japanese! Actually, not really, but hey, you get the chance to... uh........ *blink* HerE! *shoves a bag of sweets into your arms and looks at the next name on the list of reviews*

Rath- Intersting name you have there.Okay, your vote's been counted. And here's you update!

Lian- Thanks! Okay, your vote's been added. And yes, not all of us are so fond of rivals. But hey, I don't complain since I had that guidebook to help me in the Gold/Silver/Crystal versions, so I got to prepare and I never lost once to meh rival! Bwah!

Shining Charizard-Yay! YEs, I know, but hey, what can you do when you have such a busy schedule? O.o Erm. . . .no problemo. ^^;;

Okay, reasons for not updating are the usual: School, homework, busy schedule, yadda yadda..........Oh, and minor depression.

You get it. Okay, *strikes dramatic pose* on to the fic!!

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Coupling Vote Tally:

Arisa/Rival: 2

Arisa/Lance: 4

And Arisa/Lance takes the lead by two votes! Say what? Oh, you like the Arisa/Rival pair better? Then go vote for them so they'll win! But for you Arisa/Lance lovers... you'll need to vote too, don't want your pair to fall behind. ^_~ Voting closes after Lance appears, whenever that may be.

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Arisa yawned as she stretched out on her bed. She was tired and wasn't in the mood for doing anything today. Yes folks, today Arisa wanted to slack off.

And she did slack off. Well, until that newly-hatched egg pokemon elekid hatched on her stomach, causing her to wake up from the small jets of electricity from its own shock of being in the room with noone to greet it.

Arisa had been in Goldenrod for about a week now. She had been training all week with her pokemon by running around Goldenrod's less busy areas and then running out into the areas right outside of the city to fight wild pokemon. Her training plan had been working perfectly.

Now that it was the end of the week, she had time to just kick back and relax for a while. Sure, she knew a real trainer would be training every waking moment of their life, but who said she was a REAL trainer? For all she knew this could just be a dream.

Just as Arisa was closing her eyes, she felt a movement from next to her.

'Oh, the egg....'she thought idly, peeking one eye open to look to her left.

Turns out the egg was glowing, none of the striped markings on it showing, nor the yellow shell. The light faded after a second.

After Arisa had gotten the egg, she had figured it to hatch some form of Electabuzz, seeing as Electabuzz had these stripes. Or a Pikachu form, seeing as Pikachu also had stripes.

She was hoping for something like the electric rodent, but she didn't really care as long as she got to see what was in the egg. Who knows, she may even get a rare pokemon if she's lucky.

Arisa closed her eye again and yawned, shifting slightly to become more comfy so she could fall asleep. (That sounds like a good idea right now. *yawn*)

A faint ringing from her bedside dresser's table made her sit up, glaring at the drawer where the ringing was coming from. She hated being distrubed from her peaceful time of sleep.

Flinging the bedside drawer open, she thrust her hand into the small compartment and pulled out her PokeGear, which was ringing madly with the screen flashing slightly. Arisa glared at the small contraption, wondering how such a small thing could create such a big noise.

Arisa pressed a button and a voice was heard on the other line.

"Hello?"Arisa asked groggily.

"Hey! Oh, uh..... Did I disturb you from a nap or something?"the voice of Anthony the Hiker asked.

"No, no, I was just lying down to rest a bit. Tiring week. Too much training. Need rest....."Arisa mumbled out, stifling a yawn.

"Oh? I was going to challenge you to a battle, but I guess that won't be possible, eh?"

"I doubt it. I have no quick way, besides my bike, to get down there, and even that'll take about three or four weeks. Too muich pedaling....."Arisa cringed at the thought of it.

"I understand. Well, how's it going?"

"Fine. Too much training."

Anthony laughed on the other line. "Yeah, you said that already. Well, call me when you're in the area."

"I will."Arisa yawned.

"Bye then."

"Bye."Arisa mumbled, closing the link.

Arisa turned the device off so she could get some sleep and stuffed it into a spare sock, stuffing that sock into another sock and balling it up with a rubberband, stuffing it back into the drawer. Hey, you can never be too careful.

She fell back onto her bed, ready for a nice, long nap until she felt the need to awaken. She closed her eyes when yet another noise caught her attention.....

.... the noise of a Pokeball opening from the corner of the room.

Arisa growled low in her throat, ready to bash anyone and everyone who got in the way of her nap. Sitting up, she looked around for the culprit who decided they needed to escape their pokeball confinement.

And she found the escapee, sitting on the dresser with the innocence of a four year old. A four year old who had done something they shouldn't have done and know they'd get in big trouble for it so they'd act innocent.

Arisa glared at her seemingly-innocent Abra who continued to act innocent.

"Abra... Why exactly are you out of your pokeball?"Arisa asked, glancing at the small psychic creature.

"Abra!"Abra called out.

Arisa sighed. Maybe she should raise Abra into a Kadabra sometime tomorrow.... Then the little sucker wouldn't sleep so much and it would be a little more prone to staying in it's pokeball.

"Please, just let me sleep and then we can do whatever you want......"Arisa pleaded, looking at Abra tiredly.

"Abra."Abra sighed, teleporting to it's pokeball and tapping the button to let it in.

Arisa sighed and closed her eyes letting sleep take her over.

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Arisa woke up to the persistant sound of DJ Mary's voice over the radio, announcing the latest news for the Pokemon world and any of the latest battles.

"..... and today we have someone daring enough to challenge Whitney, our top-league Gym Leader! Today's challenger is Arisa, who already has a good arsenal of Pokemon, but, will it be enough for her to win? And now, onto other news, people are giving reports about strange men in black outfits resembling Team Rocket's unifroms hanging around the Radio Tower. Police are saying........."Mary only got out that much before Arisa promptly shut off the radio.

"Hmph, no need to announce to the whole world I'm gonna be challenging Whitney. For the sake of every heavenly god or goddess out there, she can't be all THAT high and mightly."Arisa grumbled, rubbing the sleep from her eyes as she yawned, swinging her legs over her bed and standing up, stretching.

She yawned again and headed to the bathroom to freshen up.

After a few minutes, she came out wide awake and refreshed. She walked over to her pack and fished around it for the pokeballs of her pokemon. Finding all siz, she held them all together in her hands, pulling them out of the pack and clipping each one to her belt.

With that done, she zipped up her pack and slipped on her jacket and then the item, heading outside and getting ready to lock her room's door when she realized she had left her PokeGear in there. Mumbling something about the evilness of things and karma, she headed in and grabbed said, item locking the door.

She walked down the halls, heading down the stairs and waving to the Joy as she headed for the sliding glass doors. She stepped out, letting the sunlight hit her face.

Glad that she had explored the city and gotten used to it, she confidently headed off to the gym, prepared for a nice, long and refreshingly cool battle.

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"Okay, ready Muscle??"Arisa half shouted at her fighting type Pokemon.

"Maaaa!"Muscle replied.

"Good! Low kick!"Arisa yelled.

"Rollout, Miltank!"Whitney commanded.

Arisa smirked confidently. "Okay, this is just what we've been training for! Jump up on it and go with the roll!"

Every person listening procceeded to sweatdrop at that last phrase, but the battle continued.

Muscle jumped onto the cow Pokemon and began to run in tune with the rolling.

"Okay, Muscle, get ready for that special combo trick!!"Arisa yelled, watching for the right moment. "On my signal!"

"Maaa~aa!"Muscle yelped, sturggling to keep up with the rolling now.

"........Okay, NOW!"

Muscle excecuted a combo of fighting attacks on Miltank while still riding on the cow-like Pokemon.

Miltank, on the other hand, wasn't handling the assault too well and ended up coming to a halting stop from the attacks berating it.

"Yes! Okay, Muscle, ready for the finishing move?!"Arisa called confidently.

"Maaa!"Muscle replied enthusiastically.

Muscle was a bit caught by surprise when a surprised tackle hit it from behind, causing Arisa to panic a bit.

"Muscle!! You okay, bud?! C'mon, get up, I know you can! Or are you too tired??"Arisa yelled, a bit frantic. She didn't want to lose this match, it was too much risk, plus her tiny reputation would be ruined.

"Maachooop."Muscle struggled a bit before getting up.

"Good! Now, Low Kick!"

A couple of good, strong kicks from Muscle and Miltank was officially down for the count.

Arisa let out a a 'Ha!' of victory and jumped up and down happily.

"Way to go Muscle!!! Wonderful show! WE DID IT!"Arisa cheered, happily doing a little victory dance before striking the familiar pose with her hand holding out the V for victory sign.

Whitney then burst into tears, causing Arisa to sweatdrop as she recalled Muscle.

"You're mean!!! You shouldn't be so serious! You... you child, you! Waaahh!"Whitney sniveled and hiccuped, "You meanie!"

The junior trainer nearby gave Arisa a sympathetic look.

"Oh, no, you made Whitney cry. It's okay. She'll stop soon. She always cries when she loses."the Junior trainer grinned slightly.

"Oh, um, okay....."Arisa blinked, shrugging and leaving with the faint impresssion of forgetting something.

Once she had gotten out of the gym, she paused and realized what she forget.

"The Badge!!!!"

After muttering a string of curses in every language she knew she stomped back into the gym and went up to Whitney, who sniffed a bit.

"What? What do you want? A Badge? Oh, right, I forgot. Here's Plainbadge."Whitney handed Arisa the simple piece of plain metal.

Just as Arisa turned to leave, Whiteney told her to stop and handed her TM 45.

"That's Attract. It can be used to stop a Pokemon of the opposite gender of yours from attacking for a certain amount of time."Whitney explained as Arisa examined it.

"I see."Arisa stated before nodding and heading out of the gym, ready to continued on her journey.

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Arisa gave a 'humph' of confusion as she stared at the strange tree blocking her from getting to the next route.

"Baka tree! Um, um, what am I supposed to do....?"Arisa asked herself, thinking of trees and plants.

"Wait, trees are plants and plants need...sunlight? No, this thing gets plenty of light. Water? Yeah! Water! What do I have that has water?"Arisa asked, digging through her pack and finally pulling out a waterbottle.

"Aha!"she crowed triumphantly before sprinkling some on the tree and stepping back to see what happened.

The tree moved. As in twitched, jerked, and started walking.

Arisa 'meep'ed and tried to decide what would work. She resorted to pulling out her Pokedex to scan the danged thing.

'Dude dangit, no info.'she thought, deciding that she might as well give Muscle a workout for the day.

"Go, Muscle!"she called, tossing said Pokemon's pokeball out.

Muscle sprang out and got ready to battle.

"Okay, aim for the tree! Low Kick!"

Muscle jumped up, low kicked the tree, and knocked it into yet another tree, thus effectively knocking it out.

"Ha! Pokeball, go!"Arisa called, tossing a Pokeball at the tree and watching as it disappeared in a red flash of light.

The pokeball twitched once, twice, three times, and stopped.

Arisa blinked, paused, and ran up and grabbed the new Pokemon's pokeball.

"Woot! I caught a...."she paused and pulled out her pokedex, leting it scan the ball and get the reading for the Pokemon.

"Sudowoodo."the pokedex beeped.

".... a Sudowoodo! HA!"

And the Pokeball disappeared, off in a flash of light to Prof. Elm's lab. Arisa recalled Muscle and continued walking off, noting the split path led back to Violet.

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HA! I got over some of my Writer's Block! Okay, so, I'll try to update sooner, but I'm getting weighed down by school and a bunch of other things. @.@ Gah, too busy.

Anywho, hope you all enjoy this chapter! REview, and send in scripts from the game to help me (guidlines in the last chapter, read it and send in any scripts for me)!