Chapter Four – Trouble in Petalburg Woods
Haruka now had a buzz of excitement running through her, she had no idea why but she started to race ahead of Yuki who just watched ahead smiling and told her jokingly that she's going to trip over any minute, surprisingly enough she didn't so she ignored him laughing. They were just about to exit Petalburg city until Haruka bumped into a tall someone.
"Oops sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going.." Haruka explained apologising while the tall someone turned around to reveal that his eyes are covered by black sunglasses, in fact he's wearing summer clothes when it wasn't even summer yet.
"And so you should be little lady, can't you see I'm busy looking for talented trainers?" he replied impatiently while Haruka cursed silently in her head trying not to lose her temper.
Well there goes my giddy mood she sighed as the stranger in sunglasses spoke again.
"Ah now that I take a closer look at you though, you actually are a trainer.. You must be a newbie or else your clothes would be absolutely filthy by now which means-! Wait a minute now look here little lady this is a perfect example of a talented trainer right here!" The sunglasses man stopped talking as he pointed out Yuki behind Haruka, she was now giving this guy the most deadliest look she could possibly give someone simply because she didn't like the name "Little Lady" and she would understand if she got insulted for looking dirty but because she didn't she was downgraded for it? Man this guy is weird..
"Told ya something would happen if you ran ahead and uh, why are you pointing at me?" Yuki asked warily as Haruka decided to back away to Yuki so she didn't end up punching this guy.
"Hmm yes, I would expect Yuki Birch to look absolutely, disgustingly filthy as he is a talented trainer, yep" Sunglasses man nodded, Haruka looked wide eyed and terrified who wished she didn't move next to Yuki now as he looked completely stunned by those comments,
"What the?! What the hell's that supposed to mean?! Just who are you and how do you know my name??" Yuki asked angrily as the Sunglasses man gave a grin as he started to walk off saying,
"That's for me to know, and you two to find out! Maybe we'll meet again soon" and that was the last they heard of him as he disappeared into the fields up ahead.
Hopefully not for a long time creep they both thought as they too started to carry on leaving the city and to the woods.
Both of them fought trainers and faced pokemon battles as they were both silent, both in huffy moods. Not looking where she was stepping, Haruka's left foot suddenly felt a soft lump underneath and Yuki heard a muffled cry.
"What did you do now?" Yuki asked sighing as Haruka looked worried now, hoping she didn't kill an innocent Wurmple or something..
"Eep! Oh no no no! A Marill! I stepped on a Marill!! I'm so so sorry!!!" Haruka cried out in a panic begging for its forgiveness even though it was quite obvious that it was knocked out. "We better go back to the Pokemon Centre!" she told Yuki now looking up at him who gave her a "No way..!" look,
"We've already walked right up to the entrance of the forest, why don't you just carry it and wait until we get to Rustburo city?" Yuki suggested now taking a look at the injured pokemon, then Haruka had an evil grin and a sneaky idea which is strange for her usual kind attitude,
"Go Pokeball!" she called out as she threw the pokeball at Marill and it escaped from Yuki's hand, gave three clicks and it was caught!
"Hey that's cheating Haruka! And unfair, did you even need a Marill?" Yuki said surprised as he gave Haruka a whack on the head.
"Ow! Can I please explain? The reason I caught was so I could give it a potion and I was hoping for a water pokemon so.." Haruka trailed off looking a bit sheepish while she ruffled through her bag.
"Sheesh your getting pokemon like crazy, what are the next two gonna be?" he asked as he looked over her shoulder,
"I've been thinking about that and I decided I wanted a Flying and Electric type.. Found it!" she called out happily when a funny thing happened, when Haruka turned her head to face Yuki, who was very close to her, both banged their foreheads and Yuki backed off both hands clutched protectively over his forehead and cursed silently while Haruka did the same but dropped her Potion.
"Ouch.. Now my head hurts even more, but that'll teach you to look into my bag!" Haruka told him defiantly as rubbed the bump on her forehead,
"Maybe you should watch what you're doing more instead of being a klutz as usual!" Yuki retaliated now annoyed, taking his headband off to relieve some tension from his forehead, oddly enough when his hair isn't pulled back it falls down nearly touching his shoulders. Which made a certain someone blush.. Badly.
"Uh.." she mumbled now staring, not knowing what to say anymore.
He, he looks completely different! In a GOOD way.. Wait? What am I thinking? He's still a sometimes jerky Yuki under that that.. Argh I better just.. Haruka flushed as Yuki now caught her staring and not continuing to argue as usual.
"What's the matter? Did that hit really hurt you? Lets have a look.." Yuki asked with concern as he walked over and gently placed a bandage on Haruka's bump and patted her on the head,
"Heh, looks like I'll have to be more careful and watch out for you now clumsy" Yuki joked smiling, that must be his own way of apologising I suppose,
"I-I guess.. Thank you and uh heal Suke, yeah heal the Marill.." Haruka stuttered as she quickly turned around and picked up the Potion while Yuki wondered why she called the Marill Suke..
And so, Suke the male Marill has unwillingly become a new member of Haruka's Pokemon team when she healed him and told him what happened. Suke was down fallen at first but decided to just cope with it since he hardly had a choice did he? Now our two trainers were walking through the woods facing more trainers and wild pokemon and while doing so, Haruka got into a battle with a Taillow and used Yena against the bird, it put up a really good fight, especially considering Yena only knows Growl and Confusion at the moment but in the end she managed to catch it and named her Terra. Now Haruka only had one pokeball left which is saved for her final teammate.
"Finally, you actually caught a pokemon properly" Yuki stated while Haruka just stuck her tongue out at him,
"Yep and now I'm happy to know that I must be getting better as a trainer!" she said happily as she decided to start off a conversation both starting to walk once more, "So Yuki, this might sound weird but do you not like your long hair? Since you wear your headband?" she asked thinking about how much she liked the way his white hair would go over his black hair underneath.
"I could ask you the same thing about your bandanna.. Why, did you like it?" he asked smirking while Haruka started to go pink.
"What? No I didn't mean it like that! I just wondered that's all-!" Haruka explained looking at the ground until she was interrupted by a pat on the shoulder.
"Hi there! Could you two perhaps help me by showing me where the Shroomish are in these woods?" The man in the business suit asked as Yuki pointed to a grassy area where Haruka and him had just seen a few a minute ago when suddenly another man came out of no where and started shouting at the three startled people.
"Dammit! What's wrong with you?!" The angry looking stranger shouted angrily at the businessman who took the courtesy of hiding behind the two teens as the he continued to rant,
"I thought I would be able to jump you and get off with the Devon goods but noo, you had to dawdle and then get talking to these two kids so now I, a Team Aqua member in the Grunt status will just force it out of you now since I'm tired of waiting!" The Aqua Grunt finished off angrily as he started to march over.
"Ack! You two are Pokemon trainers right? Please help me! He can't steal these off me!" The businessman begged, Haruka gave him a nod of encouragement about to challenge the Grunt when Yuki beat her to it,
"A grunt huh? That's means you'll only have one pokemon.. Alright lets have a battle!" Yuki challenged him as the Grunt gave a laugh full of arrogance and accepted the challenge.
Hmm, now I'll finally be able to see what other kind of pokemon Yuki has, all he's been using up to now is Sapphire.. Haruka thought hopefully as the battle commenced. However, to Haruka's disappointment Yuki sent out Sapphire once more!
The Grunt sent out a Poochyena who attacked first with a Tackle, which Sapphire dodged and hit him with Water Gun, next, the Grunt ordered the Pokemon to use growl which weakened Sapphire's attack, now both Yuki and the Grunt went on the offensive for the rest of the match as Sapphire kept using Water Gun and Poochyena kept Tackling her, near the end of the battle Yuki finished off the Pooch with one last Water Gun as the Grunt returned Poochyena back into the pokeball and backed off.
"Shit! Stupid brat! Team Aqua won't forget this! Damn, I better get to Rustburo City!" The Grunt snarled as he ran off further into the woods.
"Thank you so much! You two have been so helpful to a stranger that I must repay you somehow.." The businessman thanked now searching through his pockets, Haruka was about to say its okay but the man walked over to Yuki who seems to be silently distracted, holding out a Great Ball, now the man could see what was distracting Yuki in amazement.
"Hey, Haruka come look at this quick!" Yuki called out to her who came over curiously and her eyes widened at what was happening, Sapphire was evolving into a Marshtop!
"Wow, I've never seen a Pokemon evolve before!" Haruka said excitedly as Sapphire grew bigger in a blinding white light as it changed form,
So that's why he's been using Sapphire, to evolve it. Haruka realised when Sapphire finished evolving and gave a "Mar marsh top!" in happiness, while Yuki looked like a proud father,
"Aww yes! Look at you now! Now I'll defiantly get the first badge!" Yuki hugged the pokemon in triumph when the man finally remembered about the Grunt heading to Rustboro city and gave a quick goodbye as he headed out quickly.
"Guess we'll be seeing him in Rustboro then, here Yuki you deserve this." Haruka said giving Yuki the Great Ball who just returned Sapphire for a good rest.
"Thanks, come on lets get to Rustboro then!" Yuki said beaming and now grabbing Haruka by the hand and pulled her out of the woods running, now he has a buzz of energy now.
"Whoa!" she laughed, seeing a side to Yuki she hasn't seen before as she let herself be led quickly to city.
"Pant pant.. Who knew you could run so.. Fast.." Haruka sighed breathlessly as she sat on one of the benches. Both of them have now arrived in Rustboro City in a tired state, well, Yuki wasn't as tired that's for sure.
"Yup, and it even got past all the trainers!" he laughed, choosing not too sit down,
"And the Flower Shop! I wanted to go there.." she pouted,
"Oh yeah.. Sorry Haruka we can go now if you -!! – Oof – Celeste?!" Yuki gasped looking up at a girl who just pounced on Yuki's back and hanging off from his neck, Haruka gave a yelp in surprise at the scene while this over energetic girl just had this happy loved up look on her face,
"Ooh Yuki it's been ages since I've seen you! I've missed you soo much dearest, we should stay in touch more often, after all we are going out with each other!" Celeste cooed over Yuki, oblivious to Haruka,
"WHAT?! Yuki is your boyfriend?!" Haruka gasped, blushing and holding a hand to her mouth…
TO BE CONTINUED!!! PLEASE REVIEW AND LOOK FORWARD TO CHAP 5 SOON!!!