K.M:
Hey kitties! We're up to level 22, good job...
I hope you guys have had a wonderful day so far, I have~
Disclaimer: The new base is from Rabbot, in Deviant-art, the art done by me, I don't own Pokemon, but Kunie, her family, the gang, and the idea for this story belong to me.
Enjoy!
The 5:58 morning sun filtered through the window's see-through blue curtains, the roof opened to show the clear morning sky, and loft clouds floating by, the floor was in half, one side a cream carpet, the other of dark wood flooring, the back of the room leading to a step that was much like an observatory, a desk filled to the brim with papers, pencils, old coffee mugs, and files, the other side of the room, the carpeted side, had a large canopy king sized bed, with brown and grey comforter set, a side-table of the same set holding a small lamp, and alarm clock, set to go off at 6:00.
Pictures cluttering the wall of past times.
A girl with a soccer ball under her foot and a large trophy next to her, another of her with a soccer team behind her, the coach standing above them proudly, another was of her with a brown haired boy and bright blue eyes, another was of her with a blonde haired teenager, a brown haired teenager, and a black haired teenager standing in a soccer field, another of the girl in front of a classic car with a small group of people, a small baby in her arms, a small sad smile on her face, others were of her blowing out birthday candles, or playing with a black and red fox, another was of her surrounded by a group of Pokemon, another one with her hugging a white furred, blue faced dog with a scythe on his forehead, one was of her standing in an old mansion next to a tea-green haired boy with a wide smile, Pokemon of all variety surrounding them, another was of her, the green haired boy, a blond haired girl, and a pink haired girl, all smiling widely, another was of her, with a black haired man, a brown haired woman, a brown haired boy, and a black haired girl.
In all the pictures she was young.
The room silent besides soft snores, and breathing. A groan was heard from the king sized bed, the large comforters shifted messily, strands of black, and violet poked out. Large forms strewn all over the bed in different colors.
At exactly 6:59 the teenage girl slowly shifted into a sitting position and stretched her arms high over her head with a crack, wiggling out from underneath three of her companions. Finally she managed to get to the edge of the bed, she slipped out of the comforter, shivering as her bare feet touched the cold hardwood flooring, she blearily rubbed her eyes with her fists childishly as she blindly toed for her slippers, finding one she slipped it on sleepily, before doing the same with the other.
Her hand turned off the alarm a second before it went off.
The clock changed to 6:00.
Sluggishly she slipped into the bathroom to start her morning routine, do her business, take a quick shower, brush her teeth, and chin length hair, and put on her work uniform, which was really only a lab coat, underneath it she wore a black tank top, and jean shorts, usually she would bring her leather jacket, but she knew it was warm enough to leave behind, she then slipped small white flats on her feet.
She put on a red star clip on her head, making sure it clipped her bangs away from her left eye, and added a stroke of mascara to her lashes.
With that done she walked out of the room and turned right in the hallway to get to the stairs, at the bottom she did a right u-turn and headed to the second door to the left. There was a fridge, stove, microwave, a large round table, four chairs, an island, a pantry, and lots, and lots of cupboards.
The kitchen.
She instantly readied a pan and poured a small amount of oil in, readying plates as she dropped a whole packet of eggs into the oil, shifting and prodding them absently as she milled about the kitchen, and set the table. She then pulled a toaster out of a cupboard and started on the toast, starting the coffee maker as well, and a small bottle of milk, seeing the eggs done she put the dozens of eggs on a plate high, and started pulling out packets of bacon out of the fridge, dropping all of it onto the pan, she shifted the pan with a well practiced hand, after the bacon was done she dropped it all onto a large bowl, going to the fridge she got glasses, and orange juice, last but not least pouring two cups of coffee.
It was 7:13
Slowly the other occupants of the house came down, first a scruffy man with a thick beard, dark hair, and bright blue eyes, next was a large wolf that towered over the teenage girl, a smaller white dog with a blue face and scythe, a large and long green snake, a tall black and blue bipedal dog, a tall flaming monkey, and last but not least...
A tall black bipedal fox with a scruffy red mane and blue stones hovering around him.
The girl smiled at each one as they sat around the table tiredly, filling up their plates slowly, the teenage girl planted a swift kiss on each of their heads before sprinting back upstairs to get the last occupant of the house. She went to the first door on the right and opened it gently, the walls were painted a soft yellow, and the floorboards has a fluffy blue carpet filled to the brim with toys strewn around the room.
The girl carefully tip toed by each, picking up some and dropping it into an open trunk of toys that was half empty, until finally reaching a small twin bed, the comforter was designed with race cars, and the bed filled with stuffed animals.
"Izumi, wake up sweetie, it's morning." She whispered softly, shaking the shoulder, the boy didn't even move.
She walked to the window and threw open the curtains, letting the air in, only a groan of annoyance.
She smiled in amusement before jumping on the bed and sitting on top of the owner, there was another groan from beneath the blankets.
"Izumi!" She enunciated each vowel in his name.
"Sissy...top it..." She only chuckled at the slurring voice.
"Come on, I made softy eggs, and yummy bacon, and crunchy toast, and there's some tangy orange juice on the table~" She tried to while at the small boy on the bed.
"Wha du tangee mean..." the voice slurred as he sat up and rubbed his eyes, yawning widely.
"Uh...it means... what orange juice taste likes..."
"So oran ju-" yawn, "-is wha tangee means..."
"Yeah sure..." the girl said as she scratched the back of her head, and nuzzled the boy's nose teasingly, she leaned back and took a good look at him.
Chocolate spikes of hair stood every which way, looking slightly like a mad porcupine, the blue eyes were faded slightly due to sleep, who looked like an Pokemon pulled out from under the porch.
But the sleepy and dreamy smile on his face made him look perfect.
The teenage girl couldn't hold back her smile.
It was 7:25
She picked him up, letting him lean sleepily on her shoulder as he yawned, she sat him on a chair as she pulled out a pair of jeans, and a long sleeved button up shirt, dressing him as fast as she could in his sleepy state, though she didn't let it annoy her. She took him to the bathroom, and brushed his hair back as he sat on the toilet, and brushed his teeth. Leaving the bathroom, she walked to the corner of the room, slowly opening the chair that was there.
Setting the small boy on the wheel chair.
"Kun-sissy do I ge a candee if am goo wi my omeworc?" The boy asked as she walked to the door, and opened it.
"Uh huh, you get lots of candy, which ones do you want sweetheart?"
"Chocole ie cream...wi cawame syru..."
"Chocolate ice cream with caramel syrup it is kiddo."
The teenage girl pushed the wheel chair out of the room, and turned right. Pushing the wheelchair left down the end of the hallway, then sliding into a small elevator they had made especially for the boy, the small ding sounded and the doors opened, they only waited a couple seconds for the door to open, but the boy softly whispered things he was excited for that day, the girl pushed the boy around the corner to the right, before opening the third door to the right.
There was a fridge, stove, microwave, a table, four chairs, an island, a pantry, and lots, and lots of cupboards, also an older man, a Lucario, an Arcanine, a Serperior, a Infernape, an Absol, and a Zoroark with blue glowing stones.
The kitchen.
The teenage girl wheeled the boy to an empty space at the table, picking up toast, she plopped two eggs and two slices of bacon on, she placed it on the plate in front of the boy, the bottle of milk next to it, the boy smiled sleepily as the family members kissed him good morning.
It was 7:30
"We gotta head to work soon Kunie." The man grumbled slightly as he took a large gulp of his black coffee, the girl nodded absently, wiping some runny milk down her brother's face.
"I know, but I need to leave him with Jen before I go." She said as she lovingly brushed the boy's hair back before finally starting on her breakfast.
The man sighed before nodding, smiling slightly at his son, who grinned at him with chipmunk filled cheeks.
"Hey Kunie, me and the guys are going back out to train."
"'The guys and I', Rune. Remember your grammar." The girl reminded absently as the large fox rolled his eyes before nodded.
"Hey Kunie, the guys and I are going back out to train." he repeated with an over-exaggerated tone.
"Of course, be sure to put all the training equipment where you found it when you're done." The girl reminded gently as she stood from the table and put away her empty plate, having finished eating. She downed her cup of coffee which she had drowned in milk and sugar, and quickly soaped and rinsed.
"Finish your breakfast in the car sweetie." Kunie said as she pulled the boy from the table, putting his breakfast on his lap. Their father stood, placing his half-eaten plate in front of the other Pokemon who ate it vigorously.
"Bye Kunie, bye little guy!" Flash, the Arcanine said as he waved with his oversized paw.
"Have a good day trainer." The snake said emotionlessly.
"Have a good day boss." The old Infernape called good-naturedly.
"Keep your auras relaxed!" Adolfo reminded haughtily.
"Be careful out there..." Takeshi, the Absol reminded.
"See ya later Kun, Izu, dad." The large bipedal fox called lazily.
"Bye everyone." the girl said, smiling softly, a small bit of longing in her eyes as she watched the group of Pokemon walk away to the back of the house...
"Well. Let's get you to your tutor." She reminded herself as she pushed the small boy to the baby blue truck.
It was 8:00
"Thank you Jen, have a good day. Izumi be good..."
"O-tay Kun-sissy."
"Don't worry about a thing Kunie, I'll take god care of him, and he's so well behaved."
"Eh I was never worried. You're good with kids Jenny. Anyway give my regards to Yuri."
"Of course, but you know how he wishes you'd come over more often."
"Yes, forgive me, I'm just so busy..."
"There's nothing to forgive, I understand that, it's my husband that doesn't."
"...Uh y-yeah... Anyway... see you Jenny..."
"Morning." The group of scientists called.
"Morning everyone." Kunie repeated, her father ignoring them as he walked lazily to his chair and plopped down, immediately starting where he had left off the day before. Kunie felt her smile falter, she brought it back up strong and plopped down on her chair, turning the computer on, and starting on her research.
The mind of Pokemon, and the possibility of humans understanding Pokemon speech.
The H.U.P.S program to be exact.
She was the youngest there, the brightest there.
And she hated it.
Never once in her life did she think hat she'd spend her life on a computer desk.
Not. Once.
Yet here she was. Typing numbers, equations, fractions, possibilities, speaking to Pokemon, seeing how much they knew.
It wasn't easy. In fact it kept her mind busy.
But her body ached. She wanted to run around, kick a ball, have a Pokemon battle, finish collecting her gym badges, anything but this.
At first it was different. She had to be a new person for her family. She had to be the mom, the older sister, the anchor tying her family together. How did her mom do it? Because every day she felt like she was falling apart. She had to learn how to raise a baby properly, not just any baby.
A baby with a disability.
Izumi would never walk. They said his legs were working perfectly, that it was something in his mind stopping him from walking. Raising a baby with this disability wasn't easy, it meant he had to sit down on his wheelchair while the kids played in the playground at school, it meant he had to sit down on his wheelchair when they invited him to play, it meant he had to sit down on his wheelchair and watch every other kid run, jump, play as he politely said he couldn't...
While on his wheelchair.
Kunie had refused to put him through that, so she had Jen tutor him.
It wasn't easy.
Not the tutoring, no, Izumi was brilliant, a wonderful boy who was so smart that it made her proud.
But it wasn't easy pulling him away from school. Basically telling her precious baby brother that he wasn't like the other kids.
That he couldn't play with them because she was scared he'd get hurt.
And that hurt her.
She wished she could see him run, jump, play.
She was looking for a cure, a secret project of hers that she hadn't told anyone about, not even her father, but she wanted to understand what was holding her brother back from walking, what stopped him? It's not like he had some traumatic incident which he couldn't recover from, he was only four, he had lived a perfectly healthy, and happy four years, nothing bad had ever happened to him, he got sick like any other child, he ate like any other child, talked like any other child, acted like any other child.
But he couldn't walk.
Raising a child wasn't easy, her father had tried, but he seemed to want to avoid having anything to do with Izumi, she couldn't understand why, but she never brought it up, her father was still sensitive to her mother's death, she could only guess that was the reason, she could still see he loved Izumi very much, but he didn't want to be around him. Nonetheless she believed she did a good job.
She had taken tutoring classes with Juniper so she never fell back on her homework, and of course she graduated high school early to get that over with and have more time to do things she needed to do.
Haku had taken Luca and had gone traveling around Sinnoh, Unova, then Kalos, Jen and Yuri of course got married, so he only went with the guys on small excursions around Unova, which he had moved to to help out with Izumi, which was a relief for Kunie, she had asked Haku to help out with training Black, and the others when they wanted to train and she couldn't make it.
Which he gladly did.
Red, and Gold had left back to Kanto, and Johto, but Red had left his dad's car in their garage so whenever he came over to visit he could drive it then, of course she did the maintenance on it to make sure it still worked well, and was getting her driver's license the next year, so she'd be able to travel easier by using Red's car instead of making her dad wait for her to finish with whatever she was doing to head to work.
It wasn't easy handling a part-time job, and college, which she started at four in the afternoon, she only had Sundays free from work, but still...
Of course when she had come back Black had been on her case about teaching him what she knew, so she sort of took him and his two friends under her wing, and taught them what she knew, which wasn't much... But was still refreshing.
So with her job, her baby, her baby's cure, the car, training, Black, Bianca, and Cheren, staying in contact with everyone, reminding herself to give the guys a call, bills, making sure the house was in order, making sure her baby was doing well in school, and-and everything else...
She was exhausted. She never wanted this. Become a mother/older sister figure to her brother came with the lack of anyone taking the job, the job was so she could learn more about herself, and her Pokemon friends, the training she had to do with the three kids.
And her job, she hated her job, it's strange, how just years ago all she wanted to do was become a soccer player, a good one, now she was a Pokemon scientist, juggling college, a kid, a family, a job, and friends.
She was ready to faint.
Four years. She still wasn't used to it...
But what right did she have to complain? This was her fate. It's not like she could just say she was tired and quit. This was for good. This was her life.
She knew she had promised that boy N that she'd visit again...but she only got to visit once more before she just never had the time to again...
It made her feel guilty.
But she pushed it away. That boy wasn't her first priority, and he seemed to have been doing fine.
She had more important things to do.
"Hey Kun-sissy." I looked up at that a boy with spiky dark brown hair (it had turned brown with all the time he spent in the sun) forced into a white and red hat with a black poke ball sign walked towards me, his dark eyes lighted with happiness, and a wild intelligence.
"Hello Black, what brings you and your craziness here? You know if you're here 'Trouble' is probably not too far behind..." I ask with a teasing grin, slipping his hat of his head I ruffled his hair.
I was a foot taller than him.
Thank all that is good in the world.
He pouted at me, snatching his hat back, dropping it on his head.
"Ha-ha-ha." he laughed sarcastically, rolling his eyes, "you didn't even bother to remember?" he asked, sounding hurt.
I pedaled back to try and remember.
What did I forget?
Wait. Observe the situation, he's wearing his good sneakers, he only wears those if he's going to be out long, he's wearing durable black jeans, much like most of his jeans, since he rips them so often, a tough hoodie, meant for breaking the cold, and finally a travel back back slid across his chest.
Journey.
Oh right!
"Eh, nope. Don't know whatchu talking about." I drawled with an uninterested shrug.
"Seriously!? Come on! I'm finally fourteen! That means I get to go on a journey!"
"Eh...? Really? I thought you were twelve?"
"That was two years ago!"
"Oh...Yeah I guess you're right, look at you! Doing math, and everything!"
"Honestly..."
"Hey don't get mad at me! I didn't really make it a point to bother remembering..."
"I think that means I have a right to be mad at you..."
"Huh? Really?" I teased, faking confusion.
"Kunie! Stop treating me like a little kid! You're only a year older, we're not that far apart!"
"Alright, alright, alright... anyway, where are the other two?" I asked, turning back to my work, I leafed through five files, each one with a finger on the page to check it later, I pulled out my pen when I noted something different on one page, writing it down on my notes.
"They're supposed to be here."
I looked up in shock. "Really? I never noticed."
Okay, that was a lie, I noticed, but I was too busy with a couple of things to say hello.
"Come on! You have to see us off?"
The truth was I was already planning to, these kids were kids I helped train, and man was I proud of them, especially Black, he had so much potential, if nothing, I wanted to at least be there for him...
But he didn't need to know that.
"Eh...whyyyy? I don't wanna, I'm too lazyyyyy!"
"Gah! Come on! As if you have a choice." I pouted as I was dragged away, Black muttering in annoyance, I saw the shining red Pokeball at his waist and felt my smile grow.
I saw Cheren, Bianca, and Prof all there.
"Hi there! we've been waiting for you! Let me introduce myself again. My name is-"
"Professor Juniper? We know your name." Cheren rudely interrupted. I covered my face with my hand so the Prof wouldn't see the grin of amusement, or the snort of laughter wanting to escape. Though Black beside me didn't hold it. I could hardly believe Cheren grew up from that shy and obedient boy to this mature and blunt young man.
I'm so proud!
But still, Cheren has a point.
"He has a point, I don't think there's anyone in town that doesn't know you prof." I said jestingly as I swaggered and stood next to her, looking at the three kids I had trained. Bianca looked adorable. Not someone who was about to go on a journey, but I didn't have the heart to tell her to change. Besides, I knew about the situation going on in her house.
She definitely wouldn't want to go back.
"Come now, Cheren, Kunie! This isn't the time to take things lightly. Today is a day to remember always, so it's best to behave with some formality." I rolled my eyes, formality was murdered, and thrown out the window years ago, "That being so, once again, my name is Professor Juniper, and I am researching when and how the creatures called Pokémon came into existence." Then she turned and looked down at the three's Pokemon, her nose scrunching up in confusion. "Oh, that's strange! You've already had a Pokémon battle! So maybe that's why..." The three stared in confusion, I could hear the three Pokemon muttering at how funny the professor was, I hid my smile, "It feels as though your Pokémon have already begun to trust you! By the way Black, would you like to give your Pokémon a nickname?"
The professor speaks so weird.
"Hmmm... from now on your name is Tep!" Hah, Black and his funny way of shortening a Pokemon's name as their nickname.
Nonetheless I smiled at the small black, and red pig, "It's a pleasure to meet you Tep." I said as I extended my hand to the pig in Black's arms.
"But didn't you meet me before?" Of course I met him before, he used to live here...
"Yeah, but now you have a new name, so I'm reintroducing myself." I drawled as the small pig questioned me.
"But still...we know each other."
"Look pig stop questioning, and shake the hand." I said with a dark edge, the pig fearfully shook my hand in his hoof and hastily let it go.
Black, Bianca and Cheren chuckled.
"Oh yeah, here!" I call out as I toss a small pouch in each of their directions, they yelp as they hastily catch it, I frown slightly, "kids if you're going to be catching Pokeballs you're so gonna need better reflexes..." I say as I shake my head in fake disappointment.
"Hey don't make fun of us!" Black yells.
"I'm sorry! I'll train harder!" Bianca squeals.
"Well it's only now that we get our Pokeballs, it's not our fault we don't know how to catch Pokeballs." Cheren says in annoyance as he pushes his glasses up.
"Don't make excuses Cheren, I know your parent's have Pokeballs." I say as I point at them in suspicion, they all sweat-dropped and leaned away.
I smiled widely as I saw the large arch leading out of the town.
"You know you guys will be walking everywhere, when I went on my journey I just drove everywhere." I bragged as I pat their heads.
"This just means we won't be as fat as you chubby." I growl as i punch Black on the head.
"Respect you brat. Something else I hope this journey teaches you."
Man I sound like Prof.
"Hey, what are these anyway?" Asked Black curiously, I smiled, putting my hand to my temple in a small salute.
"Don't open it till you're out on the road, kay?"
"Now you're keeping secrets!?" Black shouted in annoyance.
I grinned.
"Just a surprise! Don't worry. You'll enjoy it!" I assured, walking away from the arch, leaving the three.
"Good luck you three!"
"By big sis!" Bianca squealed.
"Yeah bye!" Black suddenly reminded himself.
"We'll call!" Cheren promised.
"Hi Jenny, I'm here to pick up Izumi." I said to the woman who smiled brightly, my white lab coat hanging over my arm, my bag next to me, dad of course had gone straight home after dropping me off here, it was fine, I always got Izumi an ice cream on the way home, and the sun was good for him.
"Ah of course, he's outside playing with my husband's Pokemon right now."
Ah yes, Torterra, Yuri's chosen Pokemon before he moved here, he said he wanted someone to stay with Jennifer if he was gone for some reason.
Though of course he doesn't call it Torterra.
Rather Torty.
Yes. It's a female.
I followed the woman through the slightly familiar house, reaching a glass door leading to the backyard, she pushed the door open and smiled brightly, I walked out, staring at the fenced backyard.
Izumi was at the center of the yard, under the base of a tree on top of Torty's shell, reading a book, Torty leaning against the even larger tree behind her, also with a book in front of her.
"Torty can read?" I ask in confusion
Jen laughed, covering her mouth, "No, no, she likes to pretend she does though." I chuckled at that.
"Izumi! Time to go honey!" I called, causing the boy to look up from his book with a grin.
I smiled brightly and walked to him, "Hello Torty." I said as I pet the large Torterra on her head,
"Hi Miss Kunie! Are you and Izu leaving?"
"Yeah. Time to say 'see ya'." I said as I ruffled the brown spikes on Izumi's head, I lifted from Torty's shell by grabbing under his armpits and gently placed him on his wheelchair, which was next to the tortoise.
"What did you do today Izumi?"
"I learned how to sutret-sutrack-no-subtri-"
"Subtract." I corrected gently.
"Yeah! Subtract!" he said enthusiastically.
"That's great kiddo!" I said happily, he was accelerating so fast, that only made me worry more, "Hey it's time to go now, so say 'see ya' to Torty, okay?"
"Okay!" he said as I pushed his wheelchair closer to the large obese turtle that groaned happily.
"He's such a great kid." Jen said from behind me as Izumi started saying goodbye to Torty by rubbing his nose with hers.
I smiled at him, "I know."
"He's ready for a real school."
I felt my mood sour, but I forced a kind facade, "He is. The kids there aren't. I don't want him bullied Jen."
"He'll never have any friends."
"He can have Pokemon friends." I tried to keep the anger out of my tone.
"He needs human friends." Jen stressed.
I knew she was right. In fact I always knew it. I didn't need someone to tell me that. I already know. But it's easy to talk about it. Doing it was so much harder. I didn't know if my baby brother was ready for the inevitable hurt he would go through. I was scared.
"Not yet. When he's older." Jen sighed in defeat, knowing I was his guardian, and what I said, goes.
"Ready to go?" I asked cheerfully, pretending the conversation with the strawberry blonde didn't happen.
I sigh as I set my bag down, Izumi was now in his room resting from the walk, taking a nap.
I walked out to the glass door leading to the large backyard, I could see my Pokemon joking around with each other. I could feel the sense of longing fill me.
I couldn't believe I was saying this but...I feel like I've gotten farther away from my Pokemon.
Rune and I? We hardly talked now...With me being so busy and hectic...I haven't given them the time of day.
Except of course the actual time of day in which I made breakfast for them...
And dinner...
I could see that Flash was telling a joke, causing the others (besides Em) to laugh.
Every part of me wanted to go over there and joke around as well.
But I had already tried before.
It only ended in awkward silence, and attempts at small talk.
Everything I did, work, college, housework, Izumi, dad...it wedged some sort of hole between me and my Pokemon, I would sometimes find myself not being able to understand something they said suddenly, and have to concentrate and ask them to repeat what they said, of course I hadn't told them that...
I felt like I was losing them.
I think that was really the worst part of all this.
I was barely fifteen.
I wasn't ready for all of these problems...
Especially for losing the people important to me.
I had once told myself that if I ever lost them I wouldn't survive, and it was true, I felt like I was drowning under all the stress and problems, I was exhausted, and all I wanted right now was for things to go back to how they used to be. Back when all I had to worry about was helping Rune control the stones, when my mom was the one that dealt with the problems of housewife, and dad took care of work.
I wish I could find time in my life to make things as fun and normal as they used to be.
Seeing my Pokemon reminded me...of all that I had...
And all that I'll never get back...
But that's fine.
My feelings don't matter.
That's not what's really important.
P.O.V: N
I sighed as I walked through the silent forest.
Silent.
But not really.
Bird Pokemon squawked and chirped. Bug Pokemon squeaked and squealed.
Nonetheless it was silent enough for me. The Pokemon's loud sounds soothing to my ears.
I looked up at the sky through the trees.
There were clouds, white...
They reminded me of her porcelain skin...
I shook my head and looked away. I hadn't had dreams of her since she last visited.
Which was four years ago...
Four long, agonizingly, prolonged years...
And I haven't been able to get her out of my head.
What if she was the one? The one meant to be my rival. My opposite. My other half.
The shadow to my light, the Yin to my Yang.
Every part of me told me she was the one.
And yet she seemed like she felt nothing. She saw no connection. She avoided me. Avoided this place. I waited. Every day I asked if she came back, I was always given the same answer by my sisters.
Eventually I stopped asking.
It didn't stop them from telling me she hadn't come by.
Somehow that soothed me.
Yet worried me.
She had promised years ago, the last time she visited...that she would visit again.
How long would I have to wait to see those neon green eyes...?
I'm tired...
But I can't find myself to stop waiting.
K.M:
So that's it. Apparently Kunie got a new Pokemon, yup, it's Absol, or Takeshi, if you read the one-shots you'll find out where he came from. Kunie has become a mother/sister figure to Izumi, and eventually drifted away from everything she cared about, and the stress seems to be piling up. Of course Kunie just repeats the phrase "that's not what's really important", which is also what connects to the title for the chapter.
Anyway...
This is the last chapter of the story my kitties, thank you so much for sticking by me so long, it's been almost a year since I first posted this story on 6/16/16, so I think it's good to end it here, don't worry, there will be a sequel, this is the last chapter of part one, which is the start of the game. If you have any questions, or requests that you want to make, please feel free to ask, also be sure to check out the companion story of one-shots, I'm sure you'd enjoy those! Anyway, we've had a good long run, Kunie, Rune, the gang, and I, it was fun, and I really enjoyed making this piece, I will be rewriting some of the chapters though from any mistakes I might have made, so be sure to read the remade parts too!
Again like I said before, keep reviewing, I'll still answer your questions for the sequel, as long as it doesn't ruin the story for you guys, there's no way I'll spoil you that much...
A shout out to all my followers, and reviewers:
AveragePichu, RedIronFang, Madame. Viper, EvergreenParadise, TeamPiperM, Guest (u no who u r), Nyabear, MagicWarriorDragon, Kingex11, Y-ko, and last but not least Flusion,
Thank you so much for reading my story, I'll bring out the sequel as soon as I can! Love you kitties! See ya next time! Signing off!
-XKittyMasterX