Wow….I am really sorry that I haven't updated in over like four months…(I think that's about right). But anyway….please forgive me because of my absence with the story. I've been playing scenes in my head for a while now so I think I might actually have something to write about. (It's hard to be me! I have so many other obligations that must come first….aka school, family, dance, friends and their problems so…..don't think it's because I've been lazy and I didn't feel like writing another chapter.)

Anyways, the story will start off where it ended, but I'm having difficulties coming up with the verbatim of the Legend of the Balancers (aka…the Moon, Sun, and possibly Star). So what I will do is just have Yakato coming out of his memories and on to more plot scenes.

Oh ..and from your helpful input …I've changed Christina Pine's name from Christina to Cassandra….(thanks!)

Thanks for being patient…..and please review….or else I won't have any encouragement to continue this story

And thanks for reviewing…you people are like my energy boost.

MoonTearGirl.

Don't own Pokemon…(hehee……not now at least…but alas…ONE DAY!)

Chapter 21

Yakato's back slid down the wall of the Oak's Mansion; his body seemed to freeze for a moment as his bottom reached the fertilizer dirt floor of the exuberant flowers outside the window. Did he really just hear what he heard? Can there be a way to become the most powerful man on Earth? Yakato shook his head and cleared his mind. Was the Legend for real? Yakato eyes stared at the flowers in front of his vision; his eyes focused on some abnormally big ones.

As Yakato continued to look at the "flowers" until one of them moved and ran away. Yakato slightly jumped in his spot on the ground and all of the sudden, a rotten smelling perfume settled in the area. His initial reaction was to scream profanities, but he remembered his father was right inside the window. So what he decided to do instead was crawl away and go back to "baby-sitting", cause at least there, he wouldn't have to be around what seemed to be the excretion of a Gloom. Once Yakato exited the flower bed and the Gloom "perfume", he turned the corner of the house and rammed into some small child, knocking whoever over in the process.

"What the hell do you think you are doing? Watch where you are fucking going next time!" Yakato said as he wiped the dirt of his pants from being in the flower bed earlier; his way of getting "rid" of any evidence of being in the flower bed at all.

He looked towards the fallen person and noticed a light celery-colored haired, dull grey-eyed young girl, standing up to clean off her dark brown dress. "Don't tell me to watch were I'm going. You are the one who fucking ran into me! Ketsunoana!" The girl stood up, looking Yakato straight in the eye. Yakato looked at her, pondering what that word meant. He didn't want to look stupid not knowing what she called him, so he just ignored it completely.

"Well, fuck you! You are the one who was running like a Zubat outta hell!" Yakato yelled. He stopped for a moment and scrutinized the girl. Besides her celery-colored hair and her strange brown eyes, she looked as if she was at least thirteen years old at that. Her height at least proved to be something of a thirteen year old, and her face was, in a sense, more mature than those other thirteen year olds at the party. Hell, she even talked like one or talked more like she was in high school.

Out of curiosity Yakato asked her age. "How old are you anyway? What? Thirteen or something? Cause of all the thirteen year olds here, you sure do speak like you are a high school student or something. If so, you should learn your god damn place in the society, you little bitch." He said in a stern and know-it-all tone not knowing that she might bitch back at him or not.

"Well EXCUSE me, Mr. I-am-the-King-of-the-World. Who died and made you boss me around like that? And just who do you think you are talking too? Hmmmm?" She stomped on the ground with her foot to emphasize her pissed off attitude. 'Who the hell does he think he is talking to me like that?'

Yakato glared at her. "Watch you tongue you little wench. You are talking to the only child of Professor Samuel J. Oak and Professor Rosalina M. Oak. If you know what's good for your own health, you should grumble at my feet for my forgiveness. Maybe, just, maybe I'll pardon you for your stupidity." Yakato said as if he were demanding her like a Lord would direct a serf to clean the land.

The girl smiled and said, "No fucking way in hell would I ever grumble at your disgusting high-classed feet." The girl spat on his nice newly bought brown dress shoes. She walked up to the shocked Yakato and stood next to him saying, "I don't fucking care your parents are anyways. Oh and the name is Cassandra and I am only NINE years old." With that, Cassandra walked off the scene of the fall towards the smell of the Gloom.

'What the hell just happened?' For the first time in his life, someone he didn't know, younger than him, and a GIRL, just got the last word in the fight. He lost the battle of the wits. 'Damn! She's good. If she was only my age and more developed, I'd date her. But man, she's only nine fucking years old. How is it possible to look that mature at that age?' Yakato looked at his soiled shoes and sighed. Then he realized he just sighed for no reason and shook off the spit with loud but silent curses. 'Fuck that little bitch!'

Yakato heard a light bell ring from the inside of his abode; following that, all the children that were outside walked into the dining area for the Thanks-for-Coming-Enjoy-your-Meal speech that his father would deal out to the guests. He followed suit after the children, glancing back to where the incident with 'her' happened. 'Cassandra….what a bitch.' He still was in disbelief about the whole ordeal, but at least now he knew something more about her, like her first name and her age.

After finally reaching the dining room, Professor Oak gave a dynamic speech thanking each and everyone of them for joining the Oak's residence for the Annual Pokemon Research Gala. Following the speech, the adults sat at large thirty person table and we served their appetizers, soups, salads, entrees, and finally dessert. The kids on the mean time sat outside in a designated spot with kiddy tables and plastic utensils (for their safety) and ate away at their finger foods like fries, hamburgers, and chicken tenders.

Yakato sat at the head of the kiddy table, not enjoying his meal, and stealing glances at Cassandra during bites. He had managed to take a bottle of vodka from the open bar and pour it into his fruit punch, so the dinner was a little bit more tolerable. Once he was finished, he stuffed the half empty vodka bottle in his jacket and headed towards the grown-ups' dining area. Since they'd finished their meals and were now enjoying their coffee and tea, he wanted to meet this Professor Pine character. But before actually leaving the table, he took one more sip of his spiked fruit punch and held it up towards Cassandra all while smirking in her direction.

Cassandra sarcastically smiled in his direction and finished off her cup of punch. 'What an ass! Who does he think he is playing at? I guess two can play at whatever game he wants to call it.' With that being thought, she left the table a few minutes after Yakato did. Once she entered the Oak Mansion, she saw him talking with his father and with another man. A smile crept up on her face. 'He has no idea what he's getting himself into…hahaha.'

Yakato was talking with his father when Professor Pine walked up to him.

"Well hello again Yakato. My, you sure have grown since I've last seen you. I guess it's been ten years or so. You were only about hmm…about five years old when you last saw my wife and I." Cagato said heartily, slightly patting Yakato on his shoulder.

Yakato put on a fake smile, inwardly rolling his eyes at Cagato Pine. 'Oh god, this is so pathetic. What ass kissing do I have to do in order to get the information out of him?' Yakato looked directly into the professor's eyes. "It's nice to see you again I guess. Hahaha, I'm sorry. I don't remember you at all. I was, after all, only five years old when we last saw each other." Yakato scratched the back of his head and feigned a laugh.

"Aw, well, I suppose you are right about that. I'll re-introduce myself then. Hello, my name is Professor Cagato Pine, leading researcher in legends about Pokemon and mankind." Cagato extended his hand to Yakato, who, in turn, shook his hand and introduced himself as well.

"Pleasure to meet you sir. My name is Yakato Oak, son of the infamous Professor Samuel and Rosalina Oak." Yakato stated, putting emphasis on the infamous part about his parents.

Cagato laughed. "Hahaha…infamous indeed. I've known your parents for quite some time now. Your father and I went to college together at the Pokemon Institute of Kanto. We also were married around the same time, but we held off children for a while. Which reminds me…" Cagato looked behind him. There, his wife and Yakato's parents stood talking to one another. "Hey, Nellie."

His wife, who looked to be in her late thirties, turned around and smiled, "Yes dear?"

"Where is our lovely daughter? I haven't seen her since we came into this house." Cagato questioned.

"Well, I don't know. She might be outside playing with the Pokemon. You know how she is. She doesn't like to be in anyone's presence during occasions such as these, darling." Nellie stated. She knew that her daughter was just like her father. When they were dating, Cagato would always just talk to one friend at any festivity, and that friend would usually be his girlfriend or Pokemon. So, apparently that trait was passed on to their daughter and left her husband completely.

"Well, I guess I'll just have to introduce you later to my daughter then. It's a pity you couldn't meet her right now. As soon as I find her, I'll introduce you. She is beautiful angel, and she absolutely adores her Gloom, although, it does smell quite awful." Cagato turned around and waved his hand in front of his nose to dramatize the smell of a Gloom. But soon, disappointment filled his dull-grey eyes. As Yakato looked into his eyes, something hit him. His eyes looked just like someone else's he knew, but he couldn't put his finger on whom.

Yakato was about to turn around and leave, but was stopped when Cagato merrily said, "Oh there you are pumpkin! We were just talking about you."

A young girl walked up next to Yakato, then headed straight into a hug with her father. Immediately, he regretted ever wanting to speak with Professor Cagato.

It was her.

"You!" Yakato exclaimed.

"Why hello again Yakato Oak." Cassandra faked a smile.

"Cassandra, I've see that you've already meet Professor Oak's son, Yakato." Cagato excitedly stated. "Well, I guess no introduction is needed, but I'll do it anyways."

He continued, "Yakato, I'm pleased to introduce you to my lovely and intelligent daughter, Cassandra Naga Pine."

Yakato silently cursed as he extended his hand to Cassandra's, who almost immediately shook it with over-exuberate force. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Cassandra Pine." Yakato said with a hint of sarcasm and rivalry. "My name is Yakato Oak, but I guess you already knew that."

"Well it's an Honor to meet the one and only child of the great Professor Samuel Oak and Professor Rosalina Oak." Cassandra said with some emphasis on the word honor.

They released each other's death-grip handshake, and each put on a fake smile. Cagato on the other hand was rapturous that the children already knew each other. He turned away to get the other adults, leaving the Pine vs. the Oak.

Cassandra, after her father's absence, quickly changed her appearance; going from faking her enthusiasm of meeting the 'great and wonderful' Yakato Oak to a repulsive and foe expression. "Well, it seems that my family knows you somehow. How…" She smirked, "enthralling to hear that my parents just love you and your so-called parents. I wonder if I should tell them the real reason why you wanted to meet my parents, or should I say Father?" The young green haired girl crossed her arms and propped her right leg out to shift her weight to her left leg.

"Cut the crap. You don't know anything. Maybe the reason why I said hello to your father was because my dad told me to." He said sarcastically, while lifting his arms with palms pointing up, and then he moving his shoulders slightly upward. "Why else would I have said 'hello'?" The young Oak said calmly.

His mind on the other hand wasn't as calm. It was actually in frenzy. 'Does she know that I overheard our fathers talking about that legend?' Whatever it was the nine year old was thinking, it had the young Oak a wee bit frightened (which he wasn't accustomed to).

"Well, that could be a reason, but I think it has to do with what my dad was talking about while you were hiding outside the window in the flower bed." She pointed to her chin, and tapped her fingers twice. Her head bobbed towards the direction of the window, where previously, she saw her father and Professor Oak speaking and spill some wine.

Yakato lost his impudence, and said, while quietly as he leaning forward, "How do you know about that!"

Cassandra looked straight into his eyes, "Oh! So you did eavesdrop on our fathers' conversation! HAHA! I guess you fell straight into that trap. I guess I have no other choice, but to tell my father that you listened in onto his top secret tête-à-tête." She continued to laugh until Yakato grabbed the nine-year old by the arm and dragged her to a deserted hallway, all while she was trying to get away from him, practically shouting, "Let go of me! Ouch! That hurts! I said let go! Where are you taking me!"

People around them stopped their chattering and looked at the scene. Yakato noticed so he spoke up, "Don't worry, she's just in performance. The kids and I are playing cops and robbers. And I'm taking this one to jail!" He beamed.

The professors around them "awed" and went back to their bantering about Pokemon research.

She started to scream even louder as he made his way down the hallway, "Pedi…Hmph! MMMM! EMMMM!" But before she could, Yakato dragged her into a guest bedroom with his hand now covering her mouth to muffle out her raucous.

"Look! Shut the hell up! You are going to get unwanted attention!" Yakato silently scowled.

She stopped muffling after he took his hand off of her mouth. He turned around to lock the door. She glared at him and spoke. "What was the meaning of that? You know that if you touch me anywhere you'll be charged with sexual assault and be charged with the name pedophile?"

"Yeah, yeah I know…wait…" He spun around and stared at her. "How do you know about that kind of stuff? Who are you really? You must be lying about your age or something, cause no nine year old I've ever met knows legal terms like that."

"I already told you, I'm Cassandra Naga Pine; the only child of the World renowned Pokemon researchers of Cagato and Nellie Pine. And I AM only nine years old. Maybe you haven't heard, but I'm practically a child prodigy. I know everything there is to know about world of humanity and Pokemon. My parents taught me from a young age to speak my mind and not take any crap from other people, especially people like you, who think they're all high and mighty." She stated.

"Wait? You're calling my family stuck up?" Yakato inferred.

"Well, I guess I am. No wait, I AM calling your family stuck up." Cassandra vexingly spat back to him, as if she wasn't telling some reason why she felt that way.

Yakato had the urge to beat the girl to a pulp, but forced himself not to. She had just insulted his family and himself. And he wasn't about to take lip from a nine year old girl he's just meet. So instead of physically fighting, he asked, "And why do you feel that way? What about my family has your panties in a twist?"

Cassandra pursed her lips together, and then murmured without thinking, "I guess it has to do with the fact that your family refuses to help with project..." She slapped her hands over her mouth and gasped. "I mean…" she stammered, "that…uh…"

"What? Project what? Spit it out!" Yakato exclaimed, hoping that she was going to say something about the legend.

"It's nothing! I'm kidding. The real reason my family thinks your family is stuck up is, because your family has so much money and donates most of it to charities, therefore, your name is known for being the 'good guys. Even though your parents are just as corrupt as mine!'" Cassandra tried to hide the real truth with a lie as anyone else would do.

"Bullshit. What's the real reason, because it seems like our parents are really old friends and are pretty nice to each other. Well, at least on the outside they are." Yakato folded his arms. He then, after a moment, put his hands in his pockets and stepped towards the bed.

Cassandra looked at the floor contemplatively as she leaned on a desk in the room. 'I guess I have no other choice, but to tell him the truth.' …..

"The reason why I say that is because your parents refused to help my parents a long time ago with this excavation, claiming that my parents are just going to destroy this underground city for fame and fortune. Oh, and also for this legend that my parents discovered a while back about the most powerful force…"

"Yeah?" He said excitedly.

She looked up at his face, and it hit her. "So that's the reason why you eavesdropped on my father! To learn more about that legend! You bastard!"

Yakato answered, "So what? I have every right to know about it if my family goes and works with your father and mother. Plus, I want that power." Cassandra collapsed underneath his zeal for the power for which he understood to be the most powerful in the world. Her dull grey eyes shifted to her hands that were nicely laid in her brown sundress.

"I don't know what you are talking about. There is no ultimate power. And if there was, you wouldn't be the one getting it. It would be me." She spat out, but did so very calmly.

"You know damn well there is that power. I heard it straight from the Ponyta's mouth, your father." He left the bed area and went over to where she was leaning. "Tell me everything you know about the legend."

For once in her life, Cassandra was scared to death. Every inch he stepped closer to her, her heart pace picked up a notch. His eyes were demanding and tyrannical, and he was physically much stronger than herself. But she couldn't tell him. She'd be sworn to secrecy. Plus, if she did tell him, then that would mean that another person would know about the Balance of Powers.

"I already told you. I don't know much about it. All I know is that my father is researching this lost civilization from a long time ago, and it has to do something with a huge war against the gods. Your father isn't going to help anyways. He never wants to get involved with my father's experiments or research unless it has to do mainly with Pokemon." Cassandra flinched inwardly for saying that much. If her father, Cagato, found out about this, she'd get into a heap of trouble.

"I think you're lying. Little wench. I don't have time for your childish games. Tell me the truth. Or else…" Yakato took off his sports jacket and rolled up his sleeves in a threatening manner. Cassandra opened her mouth, "AHH….mmmph!" Her screamed was once again muffled by the quick hand of the teenage Oak.

"I said stop yelling! I wasn't going to hurt you! Damnit!" Her pale-grey eyes looked trembling underneath his scolding glare. She finally looked her age; a scared nine year old being frightened by a teenage fifteen year old high school boy. "All I was going to say was that, if you tell me what the legend is all about, I'll get my father to help your parents in the excavation of the legendary new Pokemon."

Cassandra's emotion went from fear to surprise. So all he was doing this whole time was to get her to tell him about the legend. The purpose of him bringing her into this room was solely to get the information out of her. "Is that it?"

"Yes." He backed away and rolled his sleeves back down.

"Why do you want to know about this legend anyway?" She asked, half expecting him to lie about the truth, but surprisingly was disappointed by the truth that rang out of his ever-changing moods.

"I want that power for myself….. I want to be the most powerful person on Earth; therefore, I don't have to listen to anyone any more." He had looked out the window that was above the bed, then at his balled fists. Flexing them, his eyes seem to burn through the window and stare straight towards the atmosphere. Cassandra's eyes wondered to his fists. She scrutinized them carefully and noticed his manicured fingernails digging into his own flesh.

"Stop! You're hurting yourself!" She exclaimed and pleaded with him; surprising herself in the process. She usually didn't care about other people or things for that matter, except for her Pokemon of course. But for some reason, this Oak boy was getting under her skin. It was scaring her. No one ever made her petrified.

Yakato turned around and stared at her. "Tell ya what. If you tell me everything you know I'll stop." Cassandra looked at his fists once again noticing a drop of blood falling down his palm.

The young prodigy spoke. "Stop…and I'll tell you what I know. But if I am going to do this, you have to swear on your grave that you will tell no one. If other researchers or people in general find out about this…I don't even want to know what would be the repercussions of it. People will try on their own to get the power of the heavens." She walked towards him, extending her hand out to his bleeding one. "Do you swear on your life that no one will ever know the real reason behind the Balance of Powers?" Her grey eyes dominated her speech.

"Fine. I won't tell a soul about this." Yakato extended his bleeding palm towards Cassandra's small petite hand and shook it. His blood sealed the promise that would forever change his life.

Yakato drifted back to his present reality. He swirled around in his chair and faced his black rectangular shaped desk. His fingers tapped a nameless tune on his desk, as his thoughts ran rampant in his mind.

He really didn't know what he was doing. He had kept his promise not to tell a single soul on how to get the ultimate power nor the real reason behind Team Exile. He told Minor only a few things that he knew. Minor knew almost as much as Gary, except Gary knew a little bit more simply because of his research, but it still wasn't everything.

"Cassandra…" Yakato whispered out loud to no one special. "Why did things turn out so acerbic between us?"

He thought again, but this time, in silence, 'It's because I got married, had two kids, was in charge of a corrupt business, head of Team Exile, and had an affair with you. And to top things off, my wife found out that I could be having an affair in Viridian City. That night, she got so drunk, left the house, and Mae almost killed herself because of her parents fighting. Thank the heavens Gary was old enough to use the phone and speak to the police.'

'Still….that time I spent with you, Cassandra, was more important to me then anything else, except the legend of course. My relationship with you was more intimate because of what we shared together…the legend. I held no secrets with you. But with everyone else…it was always a lie. Eventually, that lie is what killed my marriage and intimate love life forever. The only reason I even married Harumi was because I had gotten her pregnant on the night of prom. Once I have the power, I'll go back in time and choose you as my wife.'

Yakato, although mostly cold-hearted, monster-like, and ruthless when it comes to getting something that he wants, had a human side to him that no one would've guessed he had. Even his son didn't know of his human side. The only other person who ever knew Yakato for being Yakato was Cassandra, and she had her own secrets as well as he did.

Cassandra, now about thirty, was intelligent, ruthless and selfish as Yakato is, beautiful, but to a forbidding effect and was all-knowing about the legend. Her light moss colored hair had vixen-ized her body and her pale-grey eyes sparkled whenever she talked about the legend. She would stop at nothing to get the ultimate power from the Balance of Powers.

It was only a matter of time before Yakato and Cassandra's dreams of controlling the world would come true, but at a costly expense.

Yakato stood up at his desk. Looking towards his touch-dial telephone, he entered in ten numbers. Immediately following there was the ringing on the other line.

Ring one……

Ring two….

Ring three….

"I knew you would call." A deep-musty feminine voice sang in Yakato's ear.

"Cassandra…" Yakato's words slipped out in nostalgic memories. Memories of when he and Cassandra would wake up in his Viridian office, both content in each other's arms, and he kissing her neck as she would sigh in pleasure.

"What do you plan to do, now that the legend is unfolding in front of your eyes?" She asked seriously, but with a hint of sarcasm as well.

After a few moments of silence, he spoke. And with confidence streaming in his voice, he said. "I plan on taking you back and sharing the riches of power with you. Rule with me like we once planned Cassandra?" His voice built with many emotions: confidence that she would, anticipation for acceptance, fear of rejection, and demanding of her company. "Just tell me yes or no. Don't give me an explanation now, for now is not the time."

An anxious minute passed without word. Then, as if the midnight bells rang through Cerulean City, she answered "I would love to."

End of Chapter

Okay here are some notes for you. If I tried to explain this by paragraphs…it would get to long. So here is just a review for ya'll

Y-Yakatothe ages are next to each person.

C-Cassandra

H-Harumi

M-Mae

G-Gary

First met Oak and Pine meet Y has girlfriend H

Y 15 Y and C meet. Y had girlfriend H.

C 9

H 15

First married

Y. 18(early) First years are fine. H is pregnant because of Y.

C 12 A "quickie" marriage to hide up shame of pregnancy.

H 18 (early) ,

Mae born

Y: 18 (late) things are ok …Yakato is working on the legend.

C. 13 (early) No relationships yet b/t Y and C

H: 18 (late)

Gary born

Y: 20 Y starts work in Viridian—Yakato goes on his own for

C: 14 legend and does not see Cassandra for a while.

H: 20

M: 2

Affair begins to unfold

Y: 22

C: 16 Y-C meet up again –a growing relationship, not yet though

H: 22 Starts to become obsessed with Legend

M: 4 Family life disrupted…H knows

G: 2

Affair begins

Y: 24 Y & C begin to have an intimate affair. Y leaves often

C: 18 for Viridian. H gets angry. Incident with M happens.

H: 24 Police get involved, but nothing happens yet.

M: 6 Team Exile begins.

G: 3(late)

Marriage ended

Y: 28 Y wants to move to Viridian permanently to be with C

C: 22 H suspects of affair, but never knows for sure.

H: 28 H Loses kids in custody battle due to irresponsibility

M: 10 H Moves to Orange Islands and remarries

G: 7

Affair ended

Y: 29 Y fully developed Team Exile/ corruption/ Obsession

C: 23 M and G live with Prof. Oak for two years before

M: 11 going off on their own. M moved to Viridian for 7 years

G: 8 Then G came back from research in Hoenn at age 14 to Viridian.

Now (present time)

Y. 36 Yakato looks to begin relationship with Cassandra again.

G. 16 Balance of Powers Legend begins to unfurl with plans

M: 19 kill one or both of them.

C: 30 Gary seeks revenge on Misty and Ash for Misty's decision.

OKAY. So I finally finished this little tid bit behind Yakato Oak, our most formidable male met thus far in the story.

I just wanna say that I'm sorry I haven't updated in like forever. But you good readers are too kind and leave me messages that really help me write. You people are my inspiration. Thanks.

I'm going to attempt to start where Misty was left fainted and Ash went running after her. I had that chapter completely done….then stupid me saved this chapter over it on accident and forever lost the 10 pages I had. So..yeah…that's the main reason for the over due delay of this chapter. I was soooo bummed that I lost that chapter (cause I loved what I wrote) that I went into a writer's block/depression. But now with ya'll, I can actually write again.

So question for ya'll

I was planning on having Misty's guardian Pokemon be an Arcanine and Ash's either a Rapidash or Ninetales..but I've decided that having a guardian Pokemon might not be that great. I mean…yes ..it would be cool…but nah. I'm just going to give them Pokemon to control or command in the wild. And they'll still have their regular ones…but you'll see what I mean.

Much love to you readers

MoonTearGirl

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Ps. I hope my well thought out notes on Yakato's life helped….it was a lot of thinking to do.