Pokemon is owned by Satoshi Tajiri. I'm not him. If I were… Hehe… Lala yaoi laaaand!

Remember the episode (I think it was three) with the crazy "samurai" kid… Remember where they go to protect themselves from the Beedrill? I don't know how I remember that, but anyway, this takes place there…

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This is the chapter where Kenji shows up.

About a month later…

"Thank you very much for letting me work with you as your apprentice, professor! Kenji, black hair and red headband, bowed at a ninety-degree angle.

"You're welcome, but you thanked me ten times already, at least."

"I know, I'm just so glad to be here!"

"It gets pretty lonely being the only human here." (AN: That was normal before Kenji showed up in his life in the anime, right?)

"What about miss Ketchum?" (AN: The last name's the same, right?)

"I visit her from time to time, but ultimately, I'm all alone here. Or, I was until you showed up."

"Thank you…" Kenji clutched his treasured sketchbook closer to his chest.

"Oh yeah, you're a watcher, right? May I see your pictures?"

"Oh, yes! I mean, if you want… It would be my honor!"

"You don't need to be too polite."

"I'm sorry, it's just that… First I get here, and then you, my own hero, wants to see my drawings! This is probably the happiest moment yet!"

Yukinari simply chuckled.

They have been looking at the pictures for a while outside. They lost track of how long exactly. There were comments made back and forth after the professor decided to show Kenji his old sketchbook to compare drawings. Then they stopped to stare at one picture for a while.

"That beast, the water guardian…"

"I had to draw it by memory, so it might be a little messy."

"I think it's perfect, from what I can tell. You have a very photographic memory. In fact…" He tore the picture off the sketchbook and went inside the lab.

"Wh… What…? He just… My baby!" He hugged the sketchbook very tightly to protect any more pages from being torn. (AN: I'm sorry. I thought of it, decided against it, but I just had to do this!)

"There we go, here." The professor handed the picture back. He neatly cut the edges straight and laminated it.

"Oh… That's… Thank you!" Kenji reached out, but the wind caught up and blew the picture away! "NO!" He ran after the picture without thinking.

"Hey! Kenji!!" Kenji didn't seem to have heard him. He was just too focus on getting the picture back.

Life's been a repeat everyday for Jirarudan. Work, eat, sleep, work, eat, bath in a near by stream, (AN: Just pretend it's there.) sleep… He's been repeating the process for a few weeks now.

He was getting water from the stream with a water bottle he was given. He doesn't like living in a place where he could barely see the sky, but he enjoys the usual quietness, plus he could clearly see the skies when he went to the city.

Jirarudan spotted a blue ball floating in the water. 'That's gross. People should really learn not to throw away items… For no reason.' He reached and grabbed it. 'That's odd…' He lifted the ball up to reveal a blue mouse attached to the ball. "Oh, I'm so sorry!" He put the Mariru down gently. "I thought you were a ball, an inanimate object…"

The Mariru studied the guy for a while, as if it knows of this person.

"Mariru, did you find any-" Kenji stopped his running when he saw Jirarudan. He definitely wasn't inspecting to find him, nor was Jirarudan inspecting to find Kenji.

"You're… The Chosen One's friend right?"

"G-get away from Mariru!" He took out a red and white ball. "Return." The blue mouse turned red before disappearing into the ball.

"I wasn't hurting you're Mariru intentionally…"

"Intentionally?" What is that suppose to mean?" Kenji looked ready to kill.

"I found a blue ball floating in this stream, well, I thought it was a ball, at least, so I picked it up."

"Whatever. I'm too busy to talk to you." He ran off as quickly as possible, not really caring that he just talked to a wanted criminal at the moment.

"That was… Interesting." He started walking back before something caught his eyes. A white sheet of laminated paper with a creature drawn on it.

"Ryujin…" He put down the water gently before running up to grab the picture. He looked at the back to see the name "Kenji Sketchet" written on it.

"It's… The closest thing I can get to having Ryujin…" He said sadly. "I'll accept this gift that I hardly deserve... At least, for a little while."