Author's note: I realize now that too many disclaimers are annoying to write.
"Hey mom, where do you think His Majesty went?" A brunette asked as she stared up at the billions of stars scattered all throughout thier Unovan sky. Her mother sighed. "I'd love to know that too." She said.
The brunette blinked, bringing her mushroom pokémon closer to her she sighed.
"Why do you think he left?" She asked again. Her mother shook her head.
"I'd love to know that too." She replied.
"Ah, Faitsu-chan good morning!" Rakutsu said, a hand up to greet his friend.
There was a subtle pause. Then a shriek.
And said person ran away from the scene, pokémon in hand as she skidded past the classrooms, students of various classes poked their heads out to stare at the commotion that broke their tranquil mornings.
"Whoa" Hugh muttered beside his friend in complete awe. He turned to Rakustu, " Did your love potion fail or something?" He asked, nudging him with an elbow. Rakutsu sighed, and turned To Hugh, "Or maybe she realized that we're far too perfect for each other." He said, face pulled into a serious look.
Hugh shivered and pushed the boy away, " I like Petashi better." He said , walking into the classroom. Petashi blushed furiously and ran away.
"Awww don't be like that Hugh~" Rakutsu cooed, following him into the classroom happily. Hugh growled at him angrily, "Stop following me!" He cried, Rakutsu laughed at him and said, "Tsundere". Which only seemed to anger the boy further.
"Can it Rakutsu!" He cried angrily. And there was a small pause, "Hey." Hugh said, looking around, "Where's Petashi?" He asked, looking behind Rakutsu's back as if the smallboy had hidden behind him. Turns out he wasn't there. Hugh looked at Rakutsu in the eye and the latter shrugged.
"Ra-Rakutsu... kun." They heard a voice call. Both turned to looked at the empty doorway of their classroom. The two shared a look together and simutaneously shrugged.
"A ghost?" Hugh whispered,, and Rakutsu immediately burst out laughing, slapping his embarrassed friend on the back. "Hilarious but I doubt that's the case" Rakutsu said, regaining his composure. Hugh growled and stalked back to his seat angrily. "Fine! Get cursed for all I care!" He said, arching his back for added effect, as he stomped back to his seat like a gangster.
"Rakutsu kun!" The voice said a tad louder than before.
He turned tl stare at an angry Foongus. "Wow, so the mushroom talks" He mumbled absentmindedly, Foongy raised his little arm, waving it at him. Squishy sounds were made and Rakutsu guessed that whatever the pokémon was saying to him was not for the ears of the young.
"Faitsu dear might that be you?" He asked, softly brushing the hand that held the mushroom pokémon up. The hand jerked violently, and out came a red Faitsu. She glared at him and said, "Idiot!, then pausing to remember what she was here for.
"Forgot?" He teased, stuffing his hands into his uniform pockets. She glared, "N-no! I've come to ask for my pendant please" She said, standing straighter as an attempt to act confident. Foongy puffed it's chest and slapped it a few times.
"Wow, desprate are we" He said, chuckling at her bravado. She frowned, confused at where he was getting at. He smiled, "Must have something important huh, the pendant I meant." He said, rustling around his pocket for something. A clink was heard.
Faitsu stared. He smiled. "Don't be a pickpocket~" He said with a smile, leaning closer to her face, in a whisper he said, "Or the police might get ya."
The girl's eyes widened in horror, images of her mother being tortured flashed by her mind and she frowned.
"Idiot" She mumbled, walking away from him to get to her seat. He smiled, "No, Faitsu. You are"
"Ah, Rakutsu just in time!" Black said as he caught his junior walk by him, the boy stopped when his named was called, and raised a careful eyebrow at his senior. "Yes?" He said, or asked, as his senior seemed to look around his pockets for something.
"Where did I... Aha!" Black exclaimed as he pulled a piece of crumpled paper out. Handing it to Rakutsu he continued, "The school's havin' a quiz competition next month, and I kinda need a partner right now." He said, pointing at the crumpled piece of paper that was supposingly the flyer for the competition. Rakutsu looked at him seriously.
"You're choosing me over White senpai?" He said, voice as serious as he can get, Black rolled his eyes and chopped him on the head. "Shut up" he said, face pink from the boy's question.
"You seem to be the only other person who knows... stuff." He said soon after regaining his composure, and after a small pause, he cut Rakutsu's question off, "Cheren's busy that day.", which seemed to stop the boy from asking his question as if Black had read his mind.
The boy stared at the flyer.
"Sure." He said, handing the flyer back, face slowly going back into a lazy smirk. Black smiled, "Thanks man, wanted to keep my winning streak" Black said, white teeth dazzling as he pat his junior on the shoulder.
"Ah, so that was the reason" Rakutsu said.
"Yeah..."Black said, keeping the conversation going, he smiled and looked at the boy, "I actually wanted to ask you another question" He said, looking at his junior in the eye. Rakutsu frowned, "What is it?"
Black stood straighter and said, "Your... Dad is Mr. Looker right?"
Rakutsu cringed and nodded, "A-adopted" he replied. Black nodded, and went on " Can you pass this on to him?" He said, taking a breath.
"A friend told me he, um. Saw some Team Plasma grunts around the area." He looked around. "He said, he um... overheard them." He continued, looking at his junior to see if he was getting all of this. They boy nodded, gesturing for his senior to continue.
And so he did, "Uh, they're maybe awakening the dragons y'know?" He said, then looked at the sky, and said, "Maybe!" He said. Then pinched his lips into a frown and shut his eyes tight. "Can you, sort of ask your dad to go look it up or something?" He said, voice tiny as a mouse.
Rakutsu smiled, "Sure sure, count on me." He said, giving his senior a pat on the back. "I'll deliver your message." He said. And Black thanked the boy for his understanding. "But" he said, looking at Black.
"I wanna meet your friend" He said, taking a look at his senior, whose face seemed to pale. He frowned, "You ok?"
Black breathed and shook his head slowly, "H-he's..." He cleared his throat. "I mean why do you have to meet him? Isn't it your dad who should see him?"
Rakutsu nodded, and said, "Yeah, but he's busy these few days, thought I'd collect more information so he won't have to investigate too much stuff." He paused for a few seconds, and continued, "I mean, he just complained to me that he was waaay too overworked."
Black nodded, feigning thorough innocence on the outside, but on the inside, everything was screaming for him to run and tell the boy that he made a terrible mistake. Rakutsu looked down, pointing at one of Black's pokéballs he said, "Uh, your Munna is going crazy"
"P-probably sensing something wrong with the Universe haha..." Black immediately snapped, looking at Rakustu, je cleared his throat again, realizing it was dry from all his nerves, he coughed. "Sure I guess, but y'know my friend is kiiinda shy and all and there are no garantees he'll meet" he said, answering the boy's question.
Rakutsu frowned, "Is that the case.."
"Yeah, I'll try to contact him though!"
"Ah, no need, just bring me to his house senpai,I'll talk it through to him. I mean, I am a people person!"
Black gasped, and hit a fist to his head to think, his Munna clattered noisily in it's pokéball.
The bell rang, indicating that class was starting, Rakutsu tured to his senior, "Well, I'll meet you after school senpai, see you then." he said, and set off to his classroom.
"Awh geez" Black muttered to himself angrily.
"Foongy, why are men idiots?" Said a sulky girl as she sat on the toilet seat in deep thought. Her Foongus raised an arm.
"Oops, okay, most men. You're okay Foongy, the girls love you," She quickly recovered after realizing her mistake.
Her Foongus nodded, and hopped. The girl frowned. "Stupid idiot." She said, looking at the ceiling solemnly. Her Foongus could only pat her arm reassuringly.
There was a rustling sound coming from the stall beside her, a thump, then a voice that said, "Faitsu chan? Is that you?". Faitsu flinched, and looked around. "Wh-White?" She asked, turning her head to the sound of the voice, she knocked the wall of the stall seperating them. Another knock resounded back.
"In the flesh" White answered. Faitsu sighed in relief, sliding down abit as she wondered if White was someone to trust.
"Whatcha' doing in there?" White asked, her head appearing over the wall between them, she blinked and 'ooohhhhed'. "Sorry, why else would you have come to a restroom huh?" She said, then hopped back down. "Sorry to bother!" She cried. "Well I'll be off now!" She said, and Faitsu heard the creak of the door from the stall beside her open.
Faitsu immediately made up her mind to trust her senior as she clicked the door open with such swiftness that even a Gredninja would be amazed. The look of absolute shock on her senior's face was hilarious, but that would be something she'd bring up on a later date.
"I need help!" She cried, a hand stopping at the sink as she took a breath to calm herself. White blinked at her. Nodded, and pointed at the door. "Sure? Outside?" She said, voicing her words into questions as she really did not know what to say at this very moment. Faitsu nodded vigorously.
White gave her a shakey smile and pulled the door open for them to walk out. Faitsu followed her lead outside.
Once in the hallway, Faitsu stared at the crowd of students wasting thier precious recess time standing at some certain spot of the school chatting with their friends. "Someplace quieter maybe?" She mumbled, looking around anxiously.
White laughed and brought ther to the stairs, Faitsu raised an eyebrow as they started thier ascent upstairs. "The roof! Best place I know!" She replied.
Foongy hopped onto her shoulder as they walked quietly up the stairs.
Black eventually walked past, said something about looking for Rakutsu and gave White poke on the cheek, which she returned with a slap to the shoulder. He then gave a pat on the head for Faitsu, which the girl replied with a pout of annoyance.
"Here,"White said, pushing the door to the school roof open, sunlight stremed in, illuminating the dark stairway the two came from as the two walked through the creaky doorway. The winds on the roof bellowed much more from when they were downstairs. Scince it was especially cold in the freezing winter, the two had to push thier skirts down to prevent it from flying all over the place. White laughed loudly as she made her way to the metal fence that prevented students from falling off the roof.
"So, what did you need help with?"She asked, leaning on the fence. Faitsu fidgeted about, looking around, anywhere but meeting her senior's eyes."Um... Ho-"She started, then swallowed a lump in her throat.
"How do you get back something that was stolen from you?"She quickly recovered, her mushroom pokémon rubbed her shoulder soothingly. White blinked, once, twice, and said, "Fight fire with fire."
Faitsu pinched her lips into a straight line, squinting at her senior, she said, "But he's much more cunning..."
"Oh? A he?" White immediately perked up, smiling at her little junior, she placed both her hands on Faitsu's shoulders. "I have an idea then!"She exclaimed. Faitsu flinched, swallowing another lump she said,
"I won't like this idea will I?"
"The most appealing dress I have?" Y said, turning to her friend in confusion. Her friend, White, nodded. "For a little friend of mine!"
Y pondered for a few minutes, tilting her head lef and right, she turned to her childhood friend, who huffed and turned away. She giggled, "Yeah, I do have this one dress. But I wonder about the size..."
White laughed as she pointed at Y's chest, the Kalosian blinked at her. White replied with, "Won't be a problem". The blonde immediately blushed tomato berry red. "Hey!" She cried, crossing her arms to block her chest.
"Awh, don't be like that Y~" White cooed, nudging the girl a few times, as she did, Black walked over and promptly took a seat in his chair, staring at the equation filled blackboard with blank eyes he said, "I hate Rakutsu sometimes."
The two girls blinked at him a few times, X turned to give Black a raise of his eyebrow. White walked to the front of his desk and squatted, "Black? Are you okay?" She asked softly. The boy groaned and placed his chin on the table, eye level with the girl, he said. "Kill me. Please."
X got up.
"Well, I should warn you now that, this will be a painful death.?" He said, face serious. Y snorted and pushed the boy back into his seat."I know I said I'd want to see you on TV, but I did't mean like this." She said, glaring at the boy.
"Black?" White repeated, giving the boy a concerned look. "Did Rakutsu take nudes of you?".
Black's face morphed into a disgusted cringe. "I know
I said we were close but we're not that close."he said, sighing. "Just, I just don't want him to meet someone, but you know him, will do whatever to meet, People I guess." he said disdainfully.
White giggled and got up from her crowched position. Patting his head she said, "Is it that bad? Letting Rakutsu meet him?"
Black nodded, groaned and slumped in his seat. "Gotta think of something." He said. Black stared at the class ceiling, processing random ideas in his brain as he waited for the class bell to chime, time passing ever so slowly as he squinted into the distance.
White, sensing her cue to leave, huffed and went back to talk to Y. X rolled his eyes, and immediately went back to sleep.
Sometimes, White wondered if Black ever trusted her at all.
"Faitsu chaaaaan~ See you tomorrow!" Rakutsu called out to her as she attempted to sneak past him. She turned to give him a look of total horrification. He frown, "Wow, am I that frightening?" He asked, Hugh, standing beside him said, "yes". Hugh was elbowed in the gut.
The pigtailed girl stood up straighter, looked around, then at her pokémon, who seemed to pet her shoulder as if he were trying to encourage her for something, she then breathed in, looked Rakutsu in the eye, and yelled at him. "Would you like to go out on Saturday maybe?!". She said.
The whole class immediately shut up, and turned to look at the pair. The girl, trembeling profusely as she awited her doom. The male, so shocked he couldn't even form a sentence. Hugh, the ever trusted friend snorted and slaped his friend on the back as he left the classroom and went on home.
"Uh," Rakutsu said, still confused. "Yes?".
As he muttered his 'yes'. The whole class erupted into chaos, "Awh Faitsu, beat me to it!" Someone said, "Dangit, It's always Rakutsu!" Another said, "I wonder if the world is ending tomorrow." Someone said.
Faitsu, red in the face nodded at him and quickly ran out the class doors, each step slapping hard onto the tiled floors as she exited the scene with the grace of a swanna. Rakutsu stood in bewilderment. And sighed as his class raged on.
"She's seriously going this far just to get back the pendant huh..." He mumbled to himself.
"Heya senpai!" Rakutsu called from his place at the shoe lockers ,he waved giddily as his senior approached. "I hate you." Was all he got from Black when the two headed down the street, walking straight to Black's apartment that he lived in by himself to find his friend, who Rakutsu assumed, lived nearby.
"Wow, so many have told me that today." Rakutsu replied, the awkward silence getting to him. Black raised an eyebrow at him, and Rakutsu said, "I hate you." And chuckled as he walked on ahead.
Black narrowed his eyes and walked to catch up with his junior.
"So, what's your friend like?" Rakutsu asked. His senior, Black pinched his lips into a tight frown, then opened it to say, "You'll know when you meet the guy."
"Much cryptic." Rakutsu replied.
As they neared the apartment, Black turned to Rakutsu, and said. "I trust you, okay?" Which confused the boy greatly, until he saw the reason why, standing behind Black, clad in a white shirt and jeans stood the Plasma king in all his glory, hair swaying slightly as the wind picked up, he said, "Well, well."
Black turned, eyes as wide as Chinaware plates. "N, what are you doing out in the open!?" He cried, but his friend seemed to ignore him.
"It's finally a pleasure to meet you Rakutsu, or should I say, Black 2?" N said. Rakutsu smiled, "Black 2? What's that?" He asked, tilting his head to the side as he attempted to pull off an innocent look.
Black looked at the two in confusion, "Black 2? What? Do you guys know each other? Rakutsu?" He said, turning to the boy, who merely shrugged. N chuckled and walked up to the two boys, his height easily towering them both. "Well then Mr. Superintendent," he said. "I've been expecting you."
Rakutsu snorted. "As if," he said.
Black rolled his eyes, "Guys, clear this up for me will you? Please. My head hurts and I hate it when you guys talk all secretive infront of me."
N turned to his friend. "He didn't tell you? Ah, I suppose it would blow his cover..." he mumbled, which seemed to fuel Black more. "I DON'T GET IT." He said, or yelled. Rakutsu sighed, "Nah, it won't blow anything, senpai trusts me. I trust him."
So the boy turned to his senior, pulled out a hand, smiled daitily and said, "Hi, I am the superintendent of the international police, codename: Black 2. And I'm here to arrest this man who was once the king of a group called Team Plasma."
Black stared at his outstreched hand in shock. "What." He said.
"The heck."
"Dear me, You've captured Kyurem!" Colress said in awe as he circled the massive dragon. The man with the bright orange hair nodded proudly. "Don't underestimate us you Plasma grunts, I have contacts all over the world." He said.
"Oh my, Me? Never." Colress said in reply. Ghetsis chuckled.
"It's amazing on how you found the ice dragon in such a short amount of time, we had to take years!" Ghetsis boomed happily, giving his partner a pat on the back. The man chuckled, "You underestimate us." He said.
"Well!" Colress said happily, a twirl and a hop later he pushed a few buttons on his machine and giggled. "We're so close! I can feel it! My research is finally bearing fruit." He said.
"Now, all we need is the pendant." He said, looking over his shoulder ,he smiled at Ghetsis, who gave him a cheery smile back.
"Now all we need is the pendant." Ghetsis repeated.
来了,同学们,来了。
*In deep navally voice*:We're close.
Anywho, I watched Goosebumps the other day, and they mentioned that a story is made up of 3 parts: The front part, The middle. And the plot twist. And I said to myself, 'Hmmm what if?" But my brain wouldn't compute at the moment. So let's just wait and see.
-X
