Keita was like any other student at the Melemele schools, however only during the school hours, else he would be lost in his own head, formulating different medicines using various herbs. During times like those, he often lost focus of others, and found himself alone most times of the day.
Another day came to an end at the Pokémon school as Keita trekked through the shallow forest for his personal shortcut home. That was his usual route since he lived in Iki town and it was a lengthy distance between. A couple mintes in, he had encountered a strange staff. It was perfectly straight and smooth despite some odd engravings found in an odd language. That of the Unown. He was able to somewhat translate a few letters as it was rough and withered on a few parts. He began to feel the engravings. It's been like that for years.
"V...E...E... I wonder what that means... Maybe that's what the owner's name is" He said lifting it up and examining it. Keita then swung it around like a staff then put it down leaning against a tree. Keita then looked at his Pokétch seeing that he was about to miss dinner.
"I better hurry!" he exclaimed starting to run as fast as he could just barely making it up the steps which was the way into the town. He was only a few feet away from his house which he ran towards and opened the door walking inside
"Mom! I'm home!" He said taking off his shoes and putting them in their rack, but not before backtracking to ensure they were straight.
"Welcome home sweetie! Dinner's almost ready, Go wash your hands Keita," His mother's voice could be heard from the kitchen. Keita began walking to the bathroom, a bit fatigued by the day before him. Even then his mind was preoccupied, who's staff was that? How long has it been there?
"Maybe I should check it out again tomorrow?" He asked himself taking a step inside and washing his hands while humming some music from a game he liked. Keita was about to dry his hands before he looked in the mirror seeing two Eevee ears on the top of his head.He slowly reached both hands on the ears feeling it from top to bottom and then pulling one just to be safe
"Ow! W-w-wait, Does that mean...Its real" He gulped hard then slapped himself in the face to knock him out of it. He took a deep breath, splashed water in his face before rexamining. They were real, his first reaction was a loud, ear-piercing scream, which his mother quickly ran to the source of the noise, seeing the ears and giving a sigh of relief
"Ah...C'mon Keita, it's not like you to try and scare me like that... You about gave me a heart attack"
"Huh? But don't you see them!?"
"The ears? They're cute, but not so much your style,"
"Mom...Th-they're real, I can't get rid of them!" He tried pulling them but it was to no avail.
"Oh beedrills, already!?"
"Already? Mom, did you know about this?"
"I'm afraid it runs in our family, it'll wear off in a few days"
"So...I'll be stuck with these ears for a few days?"
"I'm afraid so, it looks like you were lucky so it won't be a full transformation. Here, just put on a hat to hide it from the public, alright?"
"Y-yes mom...But what's for dinner?" He asked, still pulling on it occassionaly to check it he was dreaming.
"I know it feels odd at first, but you'll get used to it. Oh, andngrilled cheese sandwhiches with MooMoo milk" His mother said then leading him to the table. Keita grabbed the forks and plates, Which there were three since he had a younger sister
"Wait, What will Katie say about the ears" Keita asked. Katie was Keita's Younger sister, and was obsessed with Eevees.
"Just say they're fake, knowing her she might freak out more if she knew they were real." His little sister walked down the stairs happy as can be.
"Hi Mom whats for dinn-" She began to say then seeing the ears"Oh my gosh, those are so cute! Let me try it on!" She squealed trying to grab and pull them off of his head. Keita winced trying not to look like he was in pain, He did not hide it very well. After a few seconds he cracked.
"Ow! Would you let go!" He shouted jerking his head away from Katie "Look these are real, I'm not sure how or why, but they're here now, Okay! So please stop pulling them!" He said loudly, sitting down afterwards.
"Look sweetie, For low lets leave it be, it's a little trait our family members have, but with Keita, it'll wear off in a few days." Their mother said then sitting down as well.
"Okay..." Katie sighed touching it again" But it's just so soft..."She said lightly petting the ears
"H-hey don't do t-that!" He said as his foot began patting on the floor multiple times like a Growlith when scratching its favorite spot.
"Sounds to me like you like it when I do that." She smirked.
"Can we just eat!?" He really wanted to get that day over with, It could not get any weirder...at least he hoped so.
After dinner the two ran upstairs to brush their teeth then he noticed that some of his teeth seemed to be sharper, Kind of like an Eevee, But he shrugged it off, after that they headed to bed having bed bunks.He had the top while Katie had the bottom.
"Do you know how I can have ears like that too?" Katie asked him as Keita was trying to sleep.
"I don't know, Just leave me alone. I'm trying to sleep." He said rolling over onto his other side then a small Eevee tail popped out barely hanging and waving over the side of his bed visible to Katie
"Big Brother, You have an Eevee Tail! Its sooo cute!" She shouted quickly reaching out to grab it.
"Hands off" He rolled to the other side of the bed so she couldn't reach it.
"Aww you're no fun!" She whined
"Just go to bed, We can discuss this tomorrow..." He yawned, rolling over to sleep.
