Blue: Hey guys.

Mokuba: Hey. You got the next chapter up last time and didn't tell me.

Blue: Yeah well. I was lazy. No if you want another one you'll do the disclaimer.

Mokuba: OK. Blue doesn't own anything in here. Pokemon and Yugioh characters including.

Blue: Let's get on with it.

Mokuba and Rebecca laughed finally finding the trail.

"I-I win." Mokuba said catching his breath.

"Because you cheated." Rebecca whined.

"You challenged me to a race. You didn't say when to start." Mokuba stated. "Hey I see Leon. He's battling! Come on!" he took her hand running forward to see Leon battling a young kid with khaki shorts, blue shorts, and brown curly hair. He had a different Pokemon in front of him with zigzag spikes on it's back alternating in brown and beige. It's huge eyes were locked on it's opponent.

Leon's Pokemon looked like black dog with metal-looking highlights on it's back, legs, and head. It's muzzle and stomach an orange-ish red. It glared at it's own foe.

Rebecca was in awe. "It's so cute!" she said looking at Leon's pokemon and bringing out her own Pokedex.

"Houndour, The Dark Pokemon,

A Fire and dark type.

To corner prey, they check each other's location using barks that only they can understand."

"Wow that's so cool." Rebecca said.

Mokuba nodded while checking the other Pokemon.

"Zigzagoon, The Tiny Racoon Pokemon

A normal type.

A Pokemon with abundant curiosity. It shows an interest in anything so it always zigzags."

"I wonder who's gonna win." Rebecca wondered.

Mokuba smiled. He didn't doubt Leon's talent.

"My name is Austin and I'm gonna take you down." the brown haired boy said, now identified as Austin.

"I'm Leon and this is Houndour. I wouldn't underestimate me if I were you." Leon said slightly looking down, kinda ruining the effect of his comment. Houndour growled to try to emphasize Leon's point.

Austin slightly chuckled. "Zigzagoon use tackle." Zigzagoon ran towards Houndour and full speed.

"Houndour dodge and use ember." Leon said.

Zigzagoon was fast, but not fast enough. Houndour jumped before it could make make contact and launched flames at the Zigzagoon. It tried to dodge but got hit anyway.

"Houndour Bite."

"Zigzagoon use Sand Attack."

Houndour's fangs lit up as it charged the little racoon, Zigzagoon however had other plans. Turning around it launched a ton of sand at it's opponent with it's back paws. Houndour howled as it tried to get the sand out of it's eyes.

"Tackle again." Austin yelled.

"Houndour use Double Team." The little wolf made copies of itself as it ran around the Zigzagoon, effectively making it dizzy.

"Ember once more." Leon commanded. Houndour obeyed letting lose it's flames. Zigzagoon fell to the ground fainted.

"Yeah we did it." Leon cheered as Houndour jumped into his arms, licking his face.

"Zigzagoon return." Austin said. "Hey you're pretty good. Let's battle again sometime." he smiled before running off.

"Hey Leon that was a great battle." Mokuba complimented.

"Houndour is so cute." Rebecca said.

Leon turned around startled. "You were watching that?" he asked blushing lightly. Why did it have to be Rebecca and the new kid of all people watching him?

"Of course. It was amazing. I've never seen this Pokemon before." Rebecca said going in to pet the Pokemon.

Houndour growled a warning making her take her hand away.

"Houndour be nice." Leon said. "Sorry he doesn't really like strangers."

"Well I'll make him like me. You'll see." Rebecca said digging in her backpack "Aha." she pulled out a small container. Inside were some cookies shaped like Pokemon. "My Grandpa made them for me before I left." she explained then handed one Houndour, who was now on the ground.

He slightly sniffed it wondering what she was doing. When he caught the smell of sugar, however, he grabbed it from her hand and ate it in one bite.

Leon laughed. "You found Houndour's one weakness. Sugar."

Rebecca simply stared at him. "You know that's one of the only times I've heard you laugh." she commented.

Mokuba looked at her. "Really?"

"Yeah. He's so shy he normally doesn't say much."

"R-Rebecca." Leon whined.

"In fact this is probably the most I've ever heard you speak at one time." she continued.

"Rebecca stop it." he complained.

"What? Don't like the spotlight?" she teased.

"I'm serious." he said embarrassed.

"As usual." she sighed.

"Rebecca stop teasing him." Mokuba said turning the conversation to something Leon would be comfortable with. "How's your Pokedex coming along."

"Great actually. I have ten already." he said.

"Ten! I only have four." Mokuba said.

"I have one." Rebecca sighed.

"I'm better at his then I thought." Leon said. Me and Houndour are gonna get some more training in." He said walking off with Houndour by his side.

"Well that was interesting." Mokuba said.

Rebecca nodded as Mokuba brought out his town map. (Anyone know why it's called that. It should be the region map.)

"The map says to take a right turn at the next fork." he said.

"Why should we follow the map. Boring." Rebecca said.

"I'd rather not get lost. Again." Mokuba said. "Besides it'll still be fun, just safer."

"Oh alright. How about we play twenty questions to pass the time." Rebecca offered.

"Sure why not." Mokuba smiled. "So you start."

"Ok then. Hmm. What's your brother like?"

"Where'd that come from?"

"Well you were bragging about him earlier."

"I wouldn't say bragging."

"Oh please."

Mokuba laughed. "Ok. Well he's probably the best nii-sama you could ask for. He's kind, caring, and always there for me. He may come off as a little cold but he's my hero. We used to live in the Kanto region and back when I was little and he was around my age I was often bullied. But Seto always came to my rescue. He made them apologize and I wouldn't see them for a while. He took up Pokemon Racing, like mom, when I was around 8. He was 13. When he went to the training grounds for it I wouldn't see him for up to a month at a time. He always kept up to us with letters though. Mom would read them aloud to me since I couldn't read that well at the time. Apparently his partner was a Ponyta and I wasn't disappointed when he came back with it."

Mokuba chuckled. "I still remember the look on my brothers face when I tackled him to the ground. I'm pretty sure he scraped his elbow."

"Wow. Your family sounds amazing." Rebecca said. "But there is something that I was really wondering about."

"Oh and what's that?" Mokuba asked.

"Where's your mom?"

"..."

"Mokuba?"

"Sorry." he said running ahead, bangs covering his eyes, but Rebecca could have sworn she saw tears.

"M-Mokuba?" she was half tempted to run after him. She figured she knew what was up and knew he probably would want to be alone. She knew what it felt like to shut away from the world. She walked slowly ready to find him when he had a chance to be alone. She shook her head. "Mokuba." was all she thought at that moment.

Mokuba stopped at a small clearing and collapsed to his knees, finally daring to let his tears out. Why did she have to ask that of all things? He felt something on his face. He opened his eyes to Fennekin on his shoulder, licking his face. How did he get of his pokeball.

Pikachu then nuzzled against his hand. When did she get out of her pokeball.

"Fenne, Fennekin."

"Pika Pi."

They didn't know why their trainer was crying but he was and they wanted to help him. Mokuba let a sad smile. "Thanks you two. "

Pikachu hopped onto his lap and snuggled against his chest. Fennekin kept licking his face. Mokuba looked down his tears not stopping. He felt a hand on his shoulder. He looked up to see Rebecca with a small smile on her face. Mokuba wiped the tears from his cheeks. "H-Hey Rebecca. Sorry for you ditching you back there."

"It's alright. I'm the one who asked the question. But let's just say I know what it's like." She answered.

Mokuba nodded slightly, put Pikachu and Fennekin in his arms, and stood up. "Thanks Rebecca. I'm fine now." he sighed.

Rebecca knew he was just the opposite but knew he wouldn't talk so she left him at that. "Come on. We need to get out of this danged forest already."

Mokuba let out a light laugh. "Yeah, you're right."

They left that small clearing a understanding between the two of them while they wondered. "How lucky we are to have such great friends."

Blue: Ok now I know it got a little sad at the end there and I didn't plan that. I was just winging this chapter. I hope I did it right. I couldn't think of any other Pokemon for Leon since in the game he has a Pikachu and I didn't want him to have one. Did I do the Pokemon battles ok? Now I have a serious question. Do I put romance in this fic or not. I put a poll for this on my profile cause I wasn't really thinking to have it but now I'm on the fence. The poll will be closed this Friday. Thank you for voting.