A/N: Sorry for taking so long. I was at my friends house for a week and she doesn't have a computer. I hope this chapter turns out okay. Enjoy!
Satoshi sat out on the balcony looking up at the night sky. Since it was late, the 8 rocket members, him included, had found a large hotel, a room for each one. They had enough money to be able to do this many times over, and they didn't have too much of a time limit on their mission, so there was no point in discomfort. Satoshi looked down; in his hand was a clipboard stuffed with papers concerning a certain threat. The man named Wataru would not elude them for long. And the raven haired boy couldn't wait to get his hands on him. He heard a grunt entering his room and turned to see Mika, the only girl involved with the mission.
"I came to see if you need anything, Satoshi-sama," the female grunt stated, staring at the ground.
"There is something you can do. Tell the men to get some rest because we will be leaving early, perhaps around four," Satoshi ordered as he turned back to gazing up at the sky.
"Of course, Satoshi-sama," Mika said, leaving him to inform the others. Satoshi heard the door close behind her. He studied the information they had already collected on Wataru, a lot considering they had only been in Kanto two days. He had some basic information on the man. Wataru was tall, 6'1" to be exact. He was a master of dragon type pokemon and his cousin, Ibuki, used dragon types as well to run the Blackthorn gym in Johto. He and some brats had been ruined Project R some years ago and he had fought against team magma and team aqua. However, this information did nothing to reveal his current whereabouts. He assumed though that it would take only a little over a week to do so.
The pale boy looked back up at the dark sky. He couldn't help be drawn in by the black sky, the glow of the full moon. A swarm of Butterfree flew across the Celedon sky. It was the first time he had seen the night sky. Or was it? He could not remember. He only knew he had not seen it in a long time. The red eyed boy felt unusually calm as the cold air attacked his skin.
A light caught Satoshi's attention. A shooting star fell through the darkness, its sparkle brightening the dark space. Satoshi sighed as he watched the beautiful star fall closer to the horizon.
"They say if you wish on a shooting star, your wish will come true." The star began fade. "What a bunch of a crap. That a comet entering the atmosphere could grant a wish to someone who happens to wish while looking at it. Only those without hope turn to something as ficticious as that," Satoshi laughed as the star disappeared into the dark, forever gone.
Suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his head. He clutched his head tightly as he breath was began ragged. He reached into his pocket and pulled out one of his tablets. He popped it into his mouth and the pain dulled away. He didn't understand why his head pains were getting more frequent now that he had left the base. This was the fifth in two days. Maybe it was a reaction to something. He wasn't too sure. He pushed it to the back of his mind and closed his yes. Under his orders, they were going to leave at four, and he wanted to be well rested.
There was a young boy sitting on a grassy hill. It was dark out. The boy looked about 15 years old with messy black hair and amber eyes. He looked happy star gazing. Satoshi couldn't put his finger on it, but the boy looked familiar to him. He wore a red and black hat and had a blue hooded jacket. Black and green gloves covered tan hands. Next to the boy was a small yellow Pikachu. Satoshi watched the two as the breeze played with his own long black hair.
Where was he? This place was not one he had been to before. A crunch of leaves caused both Satoshi and the boy to turn around, although the boy did not seem to notice him. Walking up the hill was a brunette girl with deep blue eyes. Satoshi recognized her immediately. The bandanna'd girl from Celedon Mall. Only this girl seemed younger and was dressed in red and blue. What was her name? Haruka? Why was she here, where ever here was?
"Satoshi, are you going to come in anytime soon?" Haruka asked the boy who had gone back to stargazing. He was now laying flat on his back in the grass as the girl stood in the same place.
Satoshi? But that was his name? Why did he and this young kid have the same name? What was going on. The girl made her way up to the younger Satoshi, passing through the olders body, like he wasn't there. So this was a dream. But this dream of his made absolutely no sense to him.
"Nah. I'm going to relax here for a little longer," the boy said lazily. Haruka sighed and laid down next to him. The other Satoshi looked at his friend confused. Haruka smiled brightly.
"Then I'm going to stay with you. I've got to make sure you don't get a cold or anything, Satoshi," Haruka laughed. The young Satoshi smiled warmly. He enjoyed Haruka's company.
Satoshi stood from a distance looking at the two people, yet he could hear every spoken word. He felt like he was watching an old movie that he forgot the title to. But with each passing second, it felt like his heart was about to tear into pieces.
"So, looking for anything in particular up there?" Haruka asked her stargazing traveling companion. She was interested in what had brought him out. The older Satoshi walked closer to the talking two. Each step felt weird. The grass, the air, the way the stars twinkled; everything felt so familiar to him. He eventually was standing over them.
The younger Satoshi's face turned bright red as he looked at her.
"Promise you won't laugh?" Satoshi mumbled. Haruka nodded, giving her most convincing face.
"Well, I was hoping to find a... shooting star," Satoshi hesitated on the last part. But to his relief, Haruka did not burst into laughter or snicker. She simply smile, understanding. "It just, you know what they say about shooting stars? That if you make a wish on them they come true?"
"What's your wish Satoshi?" Haruka asked curious, although she had an idea of what it was. Satoshi gazed up to the sky, seeming in a daze for a moment before answering.
"I want to be the greatest pokemon master there ever was." Haruka knew he would say that. Typically Satoshi. His mind on pokemon and food and nothing much else. But Satoshi didn't stop talking. "I want to be the best, because I want to prove something to someone I once knew. That I'm not a failure." Satoshi spoke soft as his hand touched under his eyes.
Satoshi gasped when he saw what was below the boy's eyes. Z shaped scars. Exactly the same as his. How was that possible. That they both have those scars and they share their name? Satoshi's mind was spinning as the dream continued.
"You're not a failure, Satoshi. Not to your mother. Not to Takeshi or to Masato. Not to anyone. Not to me," Haruka whispered reassuringly, taking his hand into hers. The two smiled slightly and looked up at the sky once more. Haruka gasped and pointed up into the night.
"Look Satoshi! You might get your wish after all!" Haruka pointed up at a star that was begining its descent down through the dark. The two closed their eyes hard and wished for their dreams. Satoshi watched the two close friend when the world started to blur. The grass began to turn into green dust, being carried off by the wind. Haruka's body began to turn into dust slowly from the legs up, flying everywhere. The two didn't notice that they were disappearing. Soon Haruka had vanished, leaving the two Satoshi's alone in pure whiteness. Even the sky had somehow disappeared. The younger Satoshi opened his eyes and looked at where the brunette girl had been mere moments ago. The boy smiled.
"Haruka, what did you wish for?" Satoshi urged nobody. He didn't see that his friend was gone? Was he blind or something? The boy's legs turned to dust.
"Come on. You know you can trust me." the black haired boy responded to no one. Most of his torso was gone.
"Fine. But I'll find out eventually. And when I do, I'll make sure that we can make it come true!" the floating head promised to empty whiteness. He disappeared with the wind. Satoshi stood alone in the white until he felt himelf turning into sand himself.
"Sir?"
"Sir?"
"Huh? What's going on? Where am I? Where did they go?" Satoshi mumbled as he opened his scarlet eyes. His head hurt and he felt dizzy. His hand reached up to his cheeks where he could feel the scars etched into his skin.
"Where is who, Satoshi-sama?" Satoshi looked up to see Mika, waiting for him. He looked down at his watch and saw that it was now 6:42. He had overslept and had lost intelligence gathering time. He felt like he could kick himself for being so foolish. He quickly stood up and fixed his clothing so that he would look decent.
"It's nothing. Get everyone now. We're leaving," Satoshi ordered to the female grunt. With a bow, she left immediately. Satoshi rubbed his temples trying to clear his mind. He knew that it had been a dream. There was no possible way that it could be true. But it all seemed too real to be just a dream. He vaguely knew that girl, Haruka, but who was that boy? Why did he seem so- No! It was only a dream. Something was irrelevant to him. There was no need to question what it was. All he needed to think about was the mission, eliminating Wataru from the picture.
It was simply a dream.
Nothing more.
A/N: So this is chapter 10. Satoshi is remembering a little, although he doesn't know what it is. The shooting star scene was born from too much Paramore. Not very exciting though. And the proving he's not a failure thing; I reread the last chapter and wrote the sobby scene with Kasumi talking about Satoshi's dad. So Satoshi wants to prove to his dad he wasn't a failure, wherever the man is. Well, review if you don't mind. And the next chapter will be here eventually.