A/N: Hey, everyone! Sorry about the last A/N in the previous chapter especially if I came off as snappish. I just wanted everyone to know that I'll try to have chapters out despite being so busy. Here's Chapter 3 and again I own nothing except for my OCs that may or may not pop up. Original plot belongs to WizardsGirl. If you wish to read that, please look for When a Phoenix Interferes and When a Stranger Interferes. In answer to someone's review...yes, I just realized that Cho is a shiny Pokémon. Somehow I managed to get this done sooner than expected also my time is now going to be very limited since school has started for me so please remember that I'll try to get chapters out as soon as possible. Please read, enjoy and review!

Nozomi woke up slowly to something poking her steadily on the forehead. She'd tried to swat it away but the nuisance just continued. She opened her eyes and squinted at it. The nuisance place her glasses on her nose helpfully.

"Thanks," she mumbled out then blinked at the sight before her. She quickly rubbed her eyes and blinked at it again. It blinked right back at her. 'It' being a three feet tall bony faced bright red lizard-like creature that was standing upright with glaring teal blue eyes that were staring curiously back at her. Nozomi blinked again and saw at the end of its tail had a flame on it.

"Uh…Hello?" The lizard creature raised an eyebrow ridge at her

Hello to you too. Are you going to actually stay awake now? I've woken you up at least three times but you keep falling back to sleep Nozomi blushed lightly and smiled at it…er, him by the sound of it.

"I'll stay awake, thank you. No more poking." The lizard creature looked at her amused before nodding.

"Char…" it…he grumbled before turning and heading for the kitchen. Nozomi got up from her makeshift bed on the couch, neatly folded up the blankets and carried both them as well as the pillow over the closet and put them away. She then headed towards the kitchen and was startled to see that no one, other than the lizard-like Pokémon, was in there.

"Where is everyone? Oh, and before I forget, what's your name?" Nozomi blushed again and softly smiled at the Pokémon.

Agni's the name. I'm a Charmeleon. My Trainer's Rei, and for ya's first question, everyone else is still asleep The lizard-like Pokémon laid his head on his hands and impersonated someone sleeping. Nozomi beamed at the Pokémon.

"It's nice to meet you, Agni-kun. My name is Yagami Nozomi." She bowed to the Pokémon before she held out her hand and a very shocked Agni took it. They shook hands-or would it be claws?-and Agni shook his head firmly.

Ya can understand me? Nozomi nodded and helped the Pokémon get out bacon and eggs.

"Yeah, Rei-san might tell you later that I lost my memories somehow while in Viridian forest. Well, what she and Akito-san don't know is that I think I had a dream where I meet three Legendaries. I think they said that their names were Mew, Celebi and Jirachi?...I don't remember but…when I came to, Cho was about to run into me and when she spoke to me early yesterday I could understand her. However, that doesn't explain what happened to me as Cho and I were entering Pallet Town. I just felt hope that wasn't mine." Nozomi was now nervous. Has she done something wrong? The Charmeleon merely shook his head.

Ya gotta be slightly psychic in some way or other for ya to understand us. Most humans can't...though if they have enough of a bond with their Pokémon, but even then they can understand them to a certain level Nozomi nodded, lost in her thoughts, as she found the frying pan and a spatula. She grabbed a plate and placed a paper towel over it. Agni gave her a sly look, snatched up a piece of bacon, tossed it into the air and used flamethrower on it. The bacon was now cooked perfectly where it wasn't too soft or crisp and landed on the plate. Nozomi lightly clapped before turning to the stove.

"That was perfect, Agni-kun. Think you can handle the rest of the bacon?" Agni gave her a bow before starting to cook more bacon. Nozomi quickly made scrambled eggs and toast. She put the eggs back into the fridge, and dumped the cooked eggs into a bowl. Agni handed her a spoon and she smiled gently before adding a certain amount of salt.

"Something smells good," came Akito's voice, which was hoarse from sleep, from the kitchen doorway. The man was in some red stripped pajamas and an orange terry cloth robe. "Morning," he said through a yawn before starting a pot of coffee and stealing a piece of toast. He took a bite of toast before stretching. "You sleep well, Nozomi?"

"Hai," Nozomi said as she placed the bowl of scrambled eggs on the table along with the plate full of bacon. She buttered herself a piece of toast and sat down while taking a bite. "Agni-kun woke me up about twenty minutes ago." She sent said Pokémon a glare. "Though I would appreciate it if he stopped poking me on the forehead over and over again just to do so." Akito chuckled.

"He likes to do that. Anyway, these are really good, Nozomi," Akito murmured while shoveling scrambled eggs into his mouth with much gusto. He finished the plate off in record time before having another piece of toast. Akito then stood up and head outside. Nozomi wondered what he could be doing before he came back in with the newspaper. She quickly poured him a cup of coffee that had finished while he was outside, which he drank black while he read the paper.

"That time of year again." Akito said without looking up from the paper.

"What do you mean by that?" Nozomi asked curiously with her head tilted to one side.

"Simple really, Nozomi. The Prof. Oak's going to be giving beginning Trainers their first Pokémon or starter Pokémon in about two weeks or so." Both Agni and Akito said at the same time.

"Really? Um…I would like to see the Professor's Pokémon lab sometime soon." Akito just nodded.

"If you want, you can come with me since I'm going up there in a few days." Nozomi looked up from her plate eagerly. "Of course, you'll have to ask Rei-chan later on once she gets up and has had a couple cups of coffee." Akito sent the auburn haired girl a playful wink. "She's definitely not a morning person," he stage-whispered to her and Nozomi just laughed as Agni used a low powered Ember on him in revenge for his Trainer. She couldn't wait!

Nozomi was almost bouncing in place; she was that excited. Rei had said that she could go to the Professor's with Akito! Aiko and Cho could come with them, too. In fact the main reason why she wasn't bouncing off the ground was because the six year old had asked/demanded a piggyback ride. Not that Nozomi minded, though. Oh no, it was the opposite really. Nozomi care for the girl deeply like that of a younger sister and treated her as such. Cho was even perched on her head, trilling quiet happily as the two below her sang various children's' songs at the top of their lungs.

Akito trotted along behind them, smiling tolerantly. He was already seeing Nozomi as another daughter, just like Rei did. It was easy to see that Aiko was enraptured with her in such a way that it could be considered more Hero-worship than anything else. Akito didn't mind, though. Somehow he thought that it was both funny and adorable. Though the one time he brought it up…somehow his hair become a light blue and he didn't even use a dye on it!

"Look, look, Nozomi-nee-chan! There it is!" Aiko shouted pointing ahead as a tall building appeared on the horizon. Though as they approached the building, Nozomi noticed that it was only a couple stories high. A tall man (an inch or two shorter than Akito) with silverish-white hair wearing a long white lab coat was standing at the top of the steps that lead to the doors of the building. The man had dark eyebrows as well as warm grey eyes that were surrounded by lots of laugh lines. He smiled when he spotted them and waved merrily. Nozomi helped Aiko down to the ground before Aiko went rushing up the stairs with a happy squeal of delight.

"Professor Oak!" she happily cried as she glomped him. The older man just laughed as he stumbled back under the weight of the over enthusiastic six year old's hold around his waist. "Guess what, Professor! Cho ran away again and was gone for days and days but then two nights ago, Nozomi-nee-chan brought her back and I was SOOOOOOO happy, Professor! And then Nozomi-nee-chan stayed with us 'cause Kaa-chan and Tou-san said she could and she somehow got her memories lost and didn't really know what Pokémon were and she cooked breakfast and it was really good and-and-and" Aiko took a deep breath to continue but by that time both Nozomi and Akito had finally arrived.

Laughing, Akito said, "Easy, Aiko, easy! Don't try to confuse the old man!" Aiko let go of the professor while looking sheepish. Akito gently patted her on the head before smiling and shaking hands with the professor. "Hello, Professor. How's the grandkids?" The Professor merely chuckled before replying.

"Gary's off running around somewhere, Johto or Hoenn I believe. His younger sister is going to be an excellent Pokémon Trainer in a couple years… Oh, hello there!" He had spotted Nozomi who had hidden behind Akito while they had been talking. She blushed slightly as she stepped from behind Akito and smiled meekly at the professor before bowing to him. Rising up from the bow, Nozomi noticed that the professor had crouched down slightly to get a better look at her. "What's your name?"

"Y-Ya-Yaga-mi-mi…Yagami No-no-nozo-mi-mi…Yagami Nozomi, sir." Nozomi managed to stamper softly. Thanks to the Dursleys, she had very little to go on for interactions with other human beings. Animals she got along fine with but she had never been a "people person" (A/N: you have to admit that the Dursleys were more animal than human). It had been another thing that her old classmates had teased her about at elementary school without prompting from Dudley. The teachers, on the other hand, had thought that it was cute and obligingly let her read through classes since she understood her work so much faster than the others. She wasn't considered a genius at least to the Dursleys. However, many of her teachers had given her work that was a grade or two above her classmates and Dudley (who always...seemed...to get work that was a grade below their classmates). The professor smiled kindly at her sensing her uneasiness around him, and Nozomi likened him to be everyone's favorite grandpa. The professor stuck his hand out and Nozomi tentatively shook it.

"Well, Nozomi-chan, I'm Professor Oak. I research and study Pokémon." Nozomi nodded, quickly throwing away her uneasiness. The professor straighten up and smiled slightly, almost bemusingly, at Akito. "Let's go in and get settled, shall we?"

Akito merely smiled as he nodded his head and as the professor let them in. Cho trilled at the professor from her position on Nozomi's shoulder while nuzzling Nozomi's neck making her laugh. Professor Oak noticed that Nozomi's laugh almost seemed to be disused; like it was rarely used and was still getting used to it. Now that he really thought about it…he couldn't recall ever even seeing the girl in Pallet Town before…and it certainly didn't look like she had any Pokémon…Was she abandoned? Or could there be something else? He would keep quiet about it for now and until he could confirm his suspicions about her.

"This is the nursery where we try to keep the newly hatched or recently laid Pokémon," the professor announced as the group entered the nursery. Nozomi looked around in awe and shock at all of the large glass containers that were fitted to the wall as well as the rows of many different eggs that were sitting in what had to be incubators on one side of the room.

"Eggs, sir?" Nozomi asked quietly (trying to keep noise level down (several of the baby Pokémon were sleeping)), slightly confused as the three Legendaries hadn't gone over this with her. The Professor, remembering what Aiko had said earlier about the girl, happily explained.

"All Pokémon are born from eggs, Nozomi-chan. In fact no two eggs are alike even if they were laid by the same Pokémon and it doesn't matter what type they are." Akito nodded and gently lead the girl over to one of the many containers. Inside were to small dark purple creatures with a single large horn in the middle of their foreheads along with a lavender creature that looked similar to the two creatures but with a smaller horn. All three of them were rolling around and playing while being careful not to hit one another with their horns. The lavender one saw Nozomi and stopped playing with the others before hurrying over to the glass and started to stare at her with curiosity.

"The darker purple ones are male Nidorans. They'll evolve into Nidorinos and then into Nidokings. However, this little one is a female Nidoran. She'll evolve into a Nidorina and finally into a Nidoqueen. Be careful though, Nozomi-chan, both Nidorans are known to be extremely poisonous to all creatures and the poison can be found in their barbs that cover their bodies. Right now though, I'm going to take a guess and say that these little ones are not that quiet dangerous to others." Akito said as the professor nodded before coming up to the container and opening the glass. All three of them looked up with hopeful eyes but Nozomi carefully picked of the single female within the container. She cradled the small creature to her chest and stared down at it in awe.

"Anata wa gōjasude wa arimasen?" Nozomi whispered while she gently pet the creature around its horn and ears. It was a tad bit smaller than Cho but not by much. "My name's Nozomi." The Nidoran made a soft sound before snuggling closer to her, giving a soft hum of happiness. Nozomi turned to the professor with hopeful eyes. "Can I give her a nickname?" The professor smiled, unable to deny those bright hopeful green eyes.

"Alright and you can play with her for a bit. Somehow, that's the only girl from the batch of Nidorans we've had. Fifteen different Nidorans from several different parents and that one's the girl." The professor shook his head in amusement. Nozomi looked at the little Nidoran and thought for a moment.

"Haru," she decided on before looking at the professor, beaming. "Her nickname will be Haru." Haru made that happy sound again before licking her on the chin. Nozomi laughed and carried the little Nidoran with her as she followed the adults and Aiko from the room. Cho peered at Haru from Nozomi's head, where she had crawled in order to see everything better and clearly. Haru and her locked glazes, both curious about the other.

Kon'nichiwa? A soft curious feminine voice said from Haru's direction.

"Kon'nichiwa to you too, Haru-chan," Nozomi replied, slightly amused. "Oh, and this is Cho. Cho, my dear, meet Haru." The Caterpie trilled in welcome while waving from side to side. Haru seemed to smile and cooed right back at Cho, happy to make a new friend. Nozomi softly giggled as the two launched into a conversation on their favorite colors. She looked up as she walked out the backdoor to the huge pasture like backyard.

"This," the professor explained as he paused and waited for Nozomi to catch up, "is where we let the older Pokémon run around outside of their Pokéballs." Nozomi looked around in awe and stared as a whole range of Pokémon roamed around in fences and out. One such Pokémon was a lithe soft gold nine tailed fox with darker gold tips on all the tails and soft ruby red eyes. Said Pokémon seemed to feel her gaze, for it looked over at them, red eyes wary.

"That's Amaterasu," the professor explained. "She's new. A Trainer from Cinnabar Island caught her as a Vulpix and used a Fire Stone to make her evolve into a Ninetales. Amaterasu!" The professor shouted for the lithe creature, who came over slowly, still wary. Nozomi cuddled Haru closer, feeling both nervous and intimidated. When the lithe Pokémon was right next to her, Nozomi raised her gaze up to Amaterasu's face as Amaterasu sat down. Nozomi smiled timidly.

"H-hel-lo." She stuttered, ducking her head shyly. Amaterasu snorted, amused at Nozomi's reaction.

Hello to you, too. What? Afraid that I'd eat you? Nozomi looked up startled at the question Amaterasu asked. You're a bit bony for my taste, kit, even if I didn't eat humans…

"Hey! Watashi wa hone no naidesu!" Nozomi scowled while cuddling Haru closer once again. "I'll admit that I'm a bit thin…shikashi, watashi wa anata ga sonotame ni watashi no shinseki o semeru koto ga dekiru to omoimasu." Amaterasu seemed to bit back a growl at that.

Oh, that's rich! Kit, your ribs are out farther than your belly! Suddenly the nine tailed Pokémon narrowed her eyes. Where are your Dame and Sire, little kit? And why haven't you been eating properly? Amaterasu's voice had gotten a soft, almost motherly yet still had a deadly tone to it. Nozomi gulped, feeling the courage and righteous anger allowed leaving her fast under such scrutiny.

"Never really knew them...I think. I think I was told by my aunt and uncle that they died. Before you say or ask anything, I don't think that my relatives wanted me. Watashi wa watashi no kioku no ōku o ushinatte irai, watashi wa, shikashi amarini mo kakunin suru koto wa dekimasen…" Nozomi looked down, still acting as if she had no idea what her relatives had truly done to her, hunching in on herself. Amaterasu could tell that Nozomi was lying about losing her memories but wasn't going to pry at the girl's secrets. The nine tailed Pokémon made a soft noise before leaning in to gently nuzzle the girl.

It's alright now though, correct? Nozomi looked up with confused filled eyes. You're away from them, correct? Nozomi nodded slowly not fully understanding what Amaterasu was getting at as the nine tailed Pokémon sat up, nodding to herself as if that solved it. Then you can eat right and gain some weight She looked at Nozomi with an arched eyebrow. Anata ga jissai ni koeda no yō ni usui mono ga suki nai kagiri?

Nozomi immediately started protesting and sent the Ninetales into a fit of laughter. Grumbling softly about overbearing kitsunes, she turned around to see both Akito and the professor staring at her. Her face flamed in embarrassment and she quickly looked down. She should have remembered that they were right behind her.

"Nozomi-chan," Akito said slowly, not wanting to see the green eyed girl sad, and waited for the girl to look up at him before continuing. "Do you understand what Amaterasu's saying?" Nozomi, still blushing, looked back at her feet worried how they would take it.

"Hai," she said meekly, completely embarrassed and slightly scared. Worn yet gentle fingers took hold of her chin and lifted her face until she was staring into the professor's kind grey eyes. They were unusually solemn.

"Well," he said softly after a few minutes. "This is interesting, isn't it, Nozomi-chan?" The professor smiled softly, allowing for Nozomi to relax. "I think that you should keep it a secret, alright? I don't think you want anyone who'd use it against you to find out." Nozomi nodded, remembering her time with the Dursleys.

A/N 2: Alright, translation time!

Anata wa gōjasude wa arimasen=Aren't you gorgeous

Kon'nichiwa=Hello

Watashi wa hone no naidesu=I am not bony

Shikashi, watashi wa anata ga sonotame ni watashi no shinseki o semeru koto ga dekiru to omoimasu=But I think you can blame my relatives for that

Watashi wa watashi no kioku no ōku o ushinatte irai, watashi wa, shikashi amarini mo kakunin suru koto wa dekimasen=I can't be sure though since I lost a lot of my memories

Anata ga jissai ni koeda no yō ni usui mono ga suki nai kagiri=Unless you actually like being as thin as a twig

-chan=diminutive for girls

-nee-chan=one of several ways to call someone big sister

kitsunes=fox demons that are known for pranks, transforming into different forms, and finally being tricksters

Kaa-chan=one of several ways to say mother

Tou-san=one of several ways to say father

Hai=yes