p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''You! I challenge you to have a battle with me!'' The guy said with a huge grin on his face - which Ichimatsu can't see because the other male's clothes were covering half his face, but did see the sparkling eyes the guy had as he pointed at Ichimatsu./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''B-Battle?'' Ichimatsu was very confused. He glanced around himself some, but he really was the only person who was there. This guy really must be talking to him then. ''Oh- n-no, no, no. Y-You're mistaking. I don't do battles.'' There was no way he was going to mingle himself in a em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"battle/em. No way./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''I-I'm not a trainer.'' He tried to come up with excuses then. That was his only way out./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"An even bigger grin was on the stranger's face and he grabbed a pokéball, throwing it to let his Pokémon out. ''Alriiiight! I choose you, Chimchar!'' The ball opened and a monkey-like fire Pokémon came out of it. It made a noise and jumped a little, standing on its hands. As if it was showing off./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Oh, this was going to be fire against fire then. That won't really have much effect though... Ichimatsu looked at Cyndaquil and pointed forward. ''I choose you, Cyndaquil. Go.'' He didn't have any other choice anyways. Looking up to its trainer, Cyndaquil quickly moved to stand in front of its trainer and made a noise too. To try and show off its own powers a little, Cyndaquil blew fire out of its back./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Uh...Cyndaquil, use tackle!'' He commanded his Pokémon and Cyndaquil looked at its trainer some and nodded. The small fire-type ran on its two small feet towards Chimchar as fast and hard as it could./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Heh. Chimchar, dodge!'' Chimchar jumped right up when Cyndaquil was close to it and can jump pretty high. ''Now use ember!'' The trainer said as his Pokémon was still floating in the air basically and the monkey Pokémon did as it was told, spitting out fire out of its mouth which seemed to hit Cyndaquil since Ichimatsu was too late to tell it to dodge./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Struggling, Cyndaquil moved to roll over on its stomach and got up with shaky paws from pain slowly. Ichimatsu was pretty relieved his Pokémon seemed to be able to fight still. So was the other trainer, but he won't attack yet. He'll let Ichimatsu attack first now to see if his Pokémon can hit Chimchar./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Cyndaquil, use ember!'' Ichimatsu demanded then. His Pokémon opened its mouth and nothing comes out of it then. It looked surprised - so did Ichimatsu. ''What are you doing? I said use ember!'' He repeated. The small Pokémon quickly nodded, opening its mouth once more and again nothing came out of it. It brought a paw up to its mouth, being very confused about why nothing happened./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"And this made Ichimatsu pretty stressed and angry. ''What are you doing?! You're a em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"fire/em Pokémon, you're supposed to use this kind of attack! You can make fire on your back, but not out of your mouth?! What's the point in that!'' Cyndaquil only made a bit of an apologetic noise when its trainer started to yell. It scared the Pokémon./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Since Ichimatsu didn't seem to be going to attack (except for only yelling at his own Pokémon) the stranger told Chimchar to attack again instead. He was pretty much tired of waiting for his opponent to make a move. ''Use scratch!'' The stranger said as he pointed forward and his Chimchar immediately attacked the poor Cyndaquil which wasn't paying attention at all to its surroundings thanks to Ichimatsu yelling at it./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Cyndaquil got hit pretty hard too, getting a nasty scratch mark on its face after the other fire-type attacked it. Cyndaquil covered its face with its paws to defend itself some, but with no luck. Taking a few steps while covering its face, the poor fire-type tripped and fell on the ground for the second time, actually making a very soft whimpering noise and not being able to get up. Defeated./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Ichimatsu did try to demand for Cyndaquil to get up, but no response came from the fire-type and neither it moved. The stranger made a soft, laughing noise. ''It seems like we have won.'' He calmly said, but then he started to jump around and... em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"dance/em. ''We win! We win!'' The strange man jumped up and down, waving with his arms and his Pokémon joined. The monkey-type jumped around its trainer, dancing too./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''We win! We win! ChimChim, you're the best!'' The stranger complimented his Pokémon as he kept dancing and took Chimchar's tiny hands in his own to swing their arms together as they both kept jumping. This battle was way too easy for them, but they were still happy about winning./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''You...'' A trembling voice with anger was heard and Ichimatsu clenched his hand into a fist. The other male blinked and stopped jumping with his Pokémon, thinking he was talking about them. ''Why are you so useless?!'' Ichimatsu yelled then at the poor Cyndaquil who curled up in a ball from fear that its trainer was yelling and angry. Its body was shivering. ''You're such a weak Pokémon! You're a fire-type, yet you can't even use a move like ember?! What is the point in that?!'' And a whiny noise came from Cyndaquil then. It was only trying its best, yet its trainer didn't seem pleased about the results./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"A giggle - no, a laugh, came from the other then. ''You're funny, did you know that?''/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''You don't have to pay me - sure, I do know that is the rule and honestly, I don't refuse money. But I'll make an exception just for you. Ichimatsu-niisan.''/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Totally confused, the messy haired male stared in disbelief at the person who just called him his 'big brother'. But then it hit him. ''W-Wait- Are you.. could you be...?'' Nothing but a giggle escaped Chimchar's trainer. ''Jyuushimatsu?!'' /p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Still confused, Ichimatsu was honestly a bit speechless. ''How...what...when...'' He didn't understand. He knew that Jyuushimatsu had left the house before em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"he/em traveled, but honestly wouldn't think he would run into him here. And Jyuushimatsu was younger than him too, he can't believe someone who was younger than him beat him. Then again, he could have expected this no matter what: it was Jyuushimatsu after all. ''What are you doing here?''/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"A big smile formed on Jyuushimatsu's face hearing this and basically em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"jumped/em on his brother, hugging him tightly. ''You miss us!''/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Surprised by this action, Ichimatsu struggled and tried to push the younger off of him some, but he was so strong. ''J-Jyuushimatsu- o-off, get off of me- Calm boy, calm!'' With a shove, he manage to push Jyuushimatsu away and sighed some. Then he looked away since he was a little embarrassed about this. ''Yeah..I miss you...but don't you dare saying a word to the others about this, alright? I swear I'll kill you.'' He glared at the younger, who just nodded then./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Promise I won't!'' Jyuushimatsu responded to the elder and kept grinning the whole time. He was just happy to see again after so long. ''Ichimatsu-niisan, where are you going?'' He curiously asked./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"A shrug came from Ichimatsu. He wasn't sure himself. ''Uhm, I was kind of on my way to the closest town. But...I am kinda lost.'' He said with a small mumble. If Jyuushimatsu dared to laugh or anything, he'll kill him./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''B-Battle?'' Ichimatsu was very confused. He glanced around himself some, but he really was the only person who was there. This guy really must be talking to him then. ''Oh- n-no, no, no. Y-You're mistaking. I don't do battles.'' There was no way he was going to mingle himself in a em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"battle/em. No way./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Oh, this was going to be fire against fire then. That won't really have much effect though... Ichimatsu looked at Cyndaquil and pointed forward. ''I choose you, Cyndaquil. Go.'' He didn't have any other choice anyways. Looking up to its trainer, Cyndaquil quickly moved to stand in front of its trainer and made a noise too. To try and show off its own powers a little, Cyndaquil blew fire out of its back./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Uh...Cyndaquil, use tackle!'' He commanded his Pokémon and Cyndaquil looked at its trainer some and nodded. The small fire-type ran on its two small feet towards Chimchar as fast and hard as it could./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Heh. Chimchar, dodge!'' Chimchar jumped right up when Cyndaquil was close to it and can jump pretty high. ''Now use ember!'' The trainer said as his Pokémon was still floating in the air basically and the monkey Pokémon did as it was told, spitting out fire out of its mouth which seemed to hit Cyndaquil since Ichimatsu was too late to tell it to dodge./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Struggling, Cyndaquil moved to roll over on its stomach and got up with shaky paws from pain slowly. Ichimatsu was pretty relieved his Pokémon seemed to be able to fight still. So was the other trainer, but he won't attack yet. He'll let Ichimatsu attack first now to see if his Pokémon can hit Chimchar./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Cyndaquil, use ember!'' Ichimatsu demanded then. His Pokémon opened its mouth and nothing comes out of it then. It looked surprised - so did Ichimatsu. ''What are you doing? I said use ember!'' He repeated. The small Pokémon quickly nodded, opening its mouth once more and again nothing came out of it. It brought a paw up to its mouth, being very confused about why nothing happened./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"And this made Ichimatsu pretty stressed and angry. ''What are you doing?! You're a em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"fire/em Pokémon, you're supposed to use this kind of attack! You can make fire on your back, but not out of your mouth?! What's the point in that!'' Cyndaquil only made a bit of an apologetic noise when its trainer started to yell. It scared the Pokémon./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Since Ichimatsu didn't seem to be going to attack (except for only yelling at his own Pokémon) the stranger told Chimchar to attack again instead. He was pretty much tired of waiting for his opponent to make a move. ''Use scratch!'' The stranger said as he pointed forward and his Chimchar immediately attacked the poor Cyndaquil which wasn't paying attention at all to its surroundings thanks to Ichimatsu yelling at it./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Cyndaquil got hit pretty hard too, getting a nasty scratch mark on its face after the other fire-type attacked it. Cyndaquil covered its face with its paws to defend itself some, but with no luck. Taking a few steps while covering its face, the poor fire-type tripped and fell on the ground for the second time, actually making a very soft whimpering noise and not being able to get up. Defeated./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''We win! We win! ChimChim, you're the best!'' The stranger complimented his Pokémon as he kept dancing and took Chimchar's tiny hands in his own to swing their arms together as they both kept jumping. This battle was way too easy for them, but they were still happy about winning./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''You...'' A trembling voice with anger was heard and Ichimatsu clenched his hand into a fist. The other male blinked and stopped jumping with his Pokémon, thinking he was talking about them. ''Why are you so useless?!'' Ichimatsu yelled then at the poor Cyndaquil who curled up in a ball from fear that its trainer was yelling and angry. Its body was shivering. ''You're such a weak Pokémon! You're a fire-type, yet you can't even use a move like ember?! What is the point in that?!'' And a whiny noise came from Cyndaquil then. It was only trying its best, yet its trainer didn't seem pleased about the results./p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"A giggle - no, a laugh, came from the other then. ''You're funny, did you know that?''/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''You don't have to pay me - sure, I do know that is the rule and honestly, I don't refuse money. But I'll make an exception just for you. Ichimatsu-niisan.''/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Totally confused, the messy haired male stared in disbelief at the person who just called him his 'big brother'. But then it hit him. ''W-Wait- Are you.. could you be...?'' Nothing but a giggle escaped Chimchar's trainer. ''Jyuushimatsu?!'' /p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Still confused, Ichimatsu was honestly a bit speechless. ''How...what...when...'' He didn't understand. He knew that Jyuushimatsu had left the house before em style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box;"he/em traveled, but honestly wouldn't think he would run into him here. And Jyuushimatsu was younger than him too, he can't believe someone who was younger than him beat him. Then again, he could have expected this no matter what: it was Jyuushimatsu after all. ''What are you doing here?''/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Simple: traveling. ChimChim and I want to become the strongest trainers!'' At the word 'strongest', they both showed off their muscles and Chimchar jumped up high to sit on Jyuushimatsu's shoulder. ''What about you, Ichimatsu-niisan? I thought you always said you didn't want to travel, because of how much 'effort' that is or whatever that means to you.''/p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''It's not like that I wanted to travel or anything.'' Ichimatsu spoke. ''It's just...'' It's a little bit obvious now that he had trouble admitting his feelings here. ''...It was starting to get lonely. All by myself. So that's why...''/p
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p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"Surprised by this action, Ichimatsu struggled and tried to push the younger off of him some, but he was so strong. ''J-Jyuushimatsu- o-off, get off of me- Calm boy, calm!'' With a shove, he manage to push Jyuushimatsu away and sighed some. Then he looked away since he was a little embarrassed about this. ''Yeah..I miss you...but don't you dare saying a word to the others about this, alright? I swear I'll kill you.'' He glared at the younger, who just nodded then./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Promise I won't!'' Jyuushimatsu responded to the elder and kept grinning the whole time. He was just happy to see again after so long. ''Ichimatsu-niisan, where are you going?'' He curiously asked./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"A shrug came from Ichimatsu. He wasn't sure himself. ''Uhm, I was kind of on my way to the closest town. But...I am kinda lost.'' He said with a small mumble. If Jyuushimatsu dared to laugh or anything, he'll kill him./p
p style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; outline: none 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444;"''Oooooh! Such coincidence!'' Jyuushimatsu almost bounced up and down. ''I was on my way there too! Nii-san, nii-san, maybe we could go together?! That would be so much fun!'' The younger was cheering a lot there, being all excited already even though Ichimatsu didn't gave him a respond yet./p
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