"You just couldn't resist, could you?"
Nope.
"Another romance story...why do you always write these, anyway?"
I dunno, Eefi. Maybe I like just these kinds of fairy tales.
"A hopeless romantic."
You got it. But you know, there are true romances in the world.
"Yeah, just not here."

Ok I see your point. Anyways... There's a shift in this chapter. It's more focused on Haruka not Misa.

ice-phoenix-chan: Sorry about that. As far as I know okasan means mother and otosan means father. In my notes I have 'kurukuru-pa!' as crazy. As expected I misinterpreted my notes. It turns out it means crazy in the sense of calling someone crazy. Like saying someone is 'coocoo' with the swirling finger gesture by the head. So I guess it didn't work... I barely know any Japanese, so I'm most likely to be wrong even with my notes.

Before I forget, here's the character list. (In case it get's confusing.)

Haruka=May

Yuuki=Brendan

Mitsuru=Wally

Misa=Own Character

Ricko=Own Character

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon.

Chapter Four: It's In Your Eyes

"Looks like I got everything on the list. Now I just have to...Oh!" Haruka stopped in her tracks when she spotted some oran berries growing on the tall tree that shaded that harsh sun from her.

"I am running low on oran berries and I didn't bring any pocket money for potions. Better stock up!" Haruka reasoned to herself as she started to climb the tall tree.

"This should be enough," Haruka said, satisfied with the quantity of oran berries she retrieved. She started to climb down the tree but lost her footing.

"Aaaaaaaaah!" Haruka braced herself for the crushing end. "Oof!" She opened her eyes only to find herself caught in the arms of someone strong yet gentle at the same time. Haruka looked up only to be staring into the crimson ruby eyes of the boy that caught her.

"Daijobu? [Are you ok?]"

"H,hai...[y,yes...]" Haruka choked out. She seemed to be hypnotized by the boy's majestic eyes. There was a slight angle that suggested he was a foreigner from a distant region. A slight blush tinted Haruka's cheeks. The boy then gently put Haruka down on her feet.

"I..." Haruka started still in a daze.

Bing Bong! The city's clock tower rang the hour.

"It's already past five," Haruka said. She turned to thank the boy only to see that he was gone.

"Where'd he go? I still haven't thanked him...Past five! I hope the shrine is still open!" Remembering that was where she was going to before seeing the oran berries, Haruka broke off into a run.

The Next day at the academy....

"Hello? Haruka-chan? You look like you're miles away," Misa said as she waved infront of the daydreaming Haruka.

"Oh! Hi, Misha! How are you?" Haruka asked trying to cover the blush she had remembering yesterday incident with the boy.

"I'm good," Misa replied. "I won't worry her of the nightmare I had. I worried a lot of people yesterday and I don't want to be anyone's burden. Even Ricko doesn't know about the mirror nightmare," Misa thought to herself.

"Um...Haruka? Could I talk to you in the hallway for a moment?" Mitsuru asked.

"Uh, yeah. Sure," Haruka replied as they both left the classroom to talk privately.

"Is he?" Misa asked doing an aside to Ricko.

"He is," Ricko answered also doing an aside so Haruka and Mitsuru wouldn't hear.

"So what did you want to tell me?" Haruka quesioned.

"Haruka I just wanted you to know that I..." Mitsuru then looked at Haruka in the eye.

"Yes, what is it?" Haruka naturally asked sweetly. Her voice taking Mitsuru's breath away.

"I...I...Haruka, I like you!" Mitsuru finally let out. Haruka seemed a little bit shocked but then she said," Oh, Mitsuru! There's no need to be all nervous. I like you too and I'm glad we're only friends."

"Oh, burn!" Ricko exclaimed doing another aside to Misa as they both spied on the two. It was evident that Mitsuru was trying hard to keep a straight face but his eyes clearly shown his hurt deep inside.

"Poor guy didn't even know what was coming," Misa added.

"Is she really that dense?"

"No, acting oblivious is only a cover up and at the same time her way of turning him down," Misa explained whispering back to Ricko who nodded in understanding. Mitsuru and Haruka then headed back inside the classroom not wanting to be scolded by any of the teachers in the hallway. Ricko and Misa quickly resumed to what they were doing before Mitsuru and Haruka could suspect anything from the two siblings.

The teacher then entered the classroom and the students stood behind their seats and chorused the usual greeting. As usual the teacher would gesture them to be seated as procedure. A knock on the door came and the teacher went to answer it.

"Well, it's always nice to see a new face. I'm Ms. Tsutsumi and welcome to my pokemon strategy class," the teacher warmly welcomed the new student who was still hidden from the students' view.

"Class, we have a new student from the Johto region. Say hello to Yuuki!" Ms. Tsutsumi announced to the class revealing the student who stood at the door. It was a boy who wore the school uniform like all the other students. He also wore a black band with a red pokeball silhouette design on his forehead to keep hair back.

"Hey, Misa! Does thay guy have white hair? If so, he must have been stressed out a lot," Ricko joked doing another aside to Misa.

"I don't know. If you look on the side infront of the his ears he has black hair. Maybe only the top part of his hair is white and the bottom part is black," Misa whispered back. Haruka then nudged the two to shut up. Yuuki then took the open desk that was infront of Haruka. When Yuuki was drawing near Misa noticed that Haruka was begining to get uptight and tense.

"Oh ho! So that's it!" Misa grinned realizing Haruka's feelings.

After class the students bustled out for lunch break since it was already noon. Many hanged around the locker while others went outside on the turf. Misa quicklly caught up with Haruka before she disappeared into the sea of students.

"So what do you think of the new kid?" Misa smirked as she interrogated Haruka.

"You mean Yuuki? He seems nice...." Haruka shyly replied.

"There he is over there! Hey, Yuuki! Get over here!" Ricko waved as Yuuki made his way towards the three.

"Oh, you guys were in my strategy class. Nice to meet you," Yuuki said showing no harm.

"Ah, no need for formalities. I'm Ricko and this is my sister, Misa and this is our friend Haruka."

"Um...hello again." Haruka greeted getting all nervous.

"Nice to see you again too," Yuuki smiled.

"Oh, so you two have met already! Interesting...." Misa said quickly catching on.

"Enough with the chit chat! How about we welcome you to your new school with a gang battle? What do you say?" Ricko eagerly asked.

"You're on. Let's go!" Yuuki immediately shot back accepting Ricko's challenge.

"Alright! How about us siblings against you two?" Misa asked giving Haruka a wink.

"Sounds good to me," Yuuki replied not noticing Haruka going beat red.

"Nigh, go!" Ricko called out his murkrow.

"Let's go, Swablu!" Misa commanded.

"Here we go!" Yuuki sent out his mudkip.

"Go!" Haruka brought out her torchic onto the battle field.

"A mudkip? Do they have mudkip in the Johto region?" Misa asked.

"Nope, I just got him today from Prof. Odemaki." Yuuki replied.

"C'mon already! Let's battle. Nigh, start things off with pursuit on Torchic!" Ricko ordered as his murkrow swooped down to attack.

"Torchic, counter it with ember!" Haruka instructed in defense. Her torchic fired a direct hit on Nigh.

"Swablu, put that mudkip to sleep with your lullaby song. Sing!" Misa pointed at towards Yuuki's pokemon.

"Don't listen to that noise, Mudkip! Hit it with water gun!" the little mudkip opened it's mouth shooting out a powerful blast drenching the swablu. Misa's swablu struggled to fly back up with it's heavy soaked cotton-like wings.

"Faint attack, Nigh!" the murkrow seemed to disappear but then reappear infront of mudkip to deliver a critical blow.

"Torchic, use fire spin!" Haruka ordered expecting Misa to loose confidence. Instead Misa smirked even though her swablu was trapped in a tunnel of fire.

"Mirror move," the swablu then let out a blast of fire that trapped the torchic in the same trap. Yuuki's mudkip tried to help its ally by extinguishing the fire trap but the fire was too much for the mudkip's water gun.

"It's ok. We can handle this," Haruka said kind of annoyed that Yuuki was showing signs thinking that she couldn't take care of this. She reassured him to focus more on the battle.

"Mudkip, use bide," Yuuki commanded as his mudkip bottled in energy.

"Nigh, use nightshade," Ricko called as an unsettling darkness hit mudkip. Yuuki's mudkip couragously took the blow and added it to his bottled energy.

"Torchic, scratch that bird!" Haruka pointed to Misa's swablu. The flaming torchic scatched the swablu across the face but that didn't stop Swablu or Misa.

"You haven't beaten us yet! Swablu, time for perish song!" The tension of pressure started to build on the trainers hearing the morendous song that was a death sentence to all pokemon on the battle field.

"Did you have to use that attack?" Ricko whinned.

"Well, lunch is break is almost over. Three!" Misa replied starting the countdown.

"Nigh, attack with mean look," Ricko said returning his focus to the battle. Torchic froze in fear unable to attack. The fire trap that burned torchic and swablu vansihed.

"Swablu, fury attack!" the bird started to pecking the mudkip who again bottled in the pain.

"Mudkip!" Yuuki called as his pokemon glared at Nigh. His mudkip then released all the energy stored and knocked out Ricko's murkrow.

"Yikes, You're strong!" Ricko yelped and complimented at Yuuki's strength as he retrieved the murkrow into its pokeball.

"It's all up to you, Sis," Ricko encouraged as he thanked his murkrow for a job well done in battle.

"Two! Swablu use fury attack again!" Misa instructed. The swablu delivered a four time hit on torchic.

"Ember, Torchic!" Haruka's torchic opened its beak with flickers of light that became into fire that was aimed at Swablu. On the other hand, Swablu was able to avoid the attack.

"Water gun!" Unfortunately Misa's swablu wasn't able to evade mudkip's water gun attack. Swablu then let out a cry in defeat before fainting.

"Aw... we were just about to reach one. Oh well. Good job, Swablu," Misa said as swablu went back in its pokeball.

"You were pretty good out there," Yuuki complimented on Haruka's battling skills.

"Same to you too," Haruka smiled back.

"She's right. You're pretty tough. Guess you were paying attention in strategy class," Ricko added.

"Unlike you..." Misa provoked her brother who glared back.

Ping! Ping!

"Warning bell. Guess it's time to go. See you guys later," Ricko waved good-bye.

"Ricko, wait! I need that text book you borrowed from me! Wait up, I said! Haruka-chan, I'll meet you in class. Bye! Ricko!" Misa yelled leaving Haruka and Yuuki together.

"Um...sorry about yesterday," Haruka started.

"No, I should be the one sorry for running off like that."

"But wasn't I....?"

"Don't worry about it. It's not like you were heavy. Infact you were as light as a feather," Yuuki said causing Haruka to look away, flattered by his comment.

"And..." Yuuki started drawing Haruka's attention back. She started into his cinnamon cloured eyes as his eyes locked on to her satin blue eyes.

"...You were like an angel that had fallen into my arms from the heavens," Yuuki finished.


"That sounds so cheesy and too good to be true."

Yeah, I know. But aren't all romances cheesy at one point?

"True, very true."

Anyway, did anyone recognize the tree incident and Yuuki's last line? It's from CCS the manga.

"Also the teacher's name"

Oh yeah, that too!

"Better add it to the disclaimer."

Disclaimer: I do not own CCS

"That's better."

Now about Yuuki's eyes and hair...at first I thought it was just a hat! But then after seeing this at netkun (the link is included in my profile) Erm...there's a great side view picture of Brendan under Ruby's story. No, I can not ready Japanese. Ok time for futuresight insight!

"Next time on 'Go!'...Looks like a festival! Oh that looks so much fun! Let's see charms...pokedolls...and....pokemon contest! I see Kireihanna, Misa's bellossom, and ribbons and... oh it looks all so fun!"

Well, that's what I have in mind for the next chapter. I'm not sure how this is all going to work out but that's the plan. O-K Bye-bye!