Hi! Here's my Kenji fanfic. It takes place before Kenji met Satoshi and 
before he decided to become a Pokemon watcher. All the names are japanese. 
Tell me your comments: Luna_san1@hotmail.com
Luna =^v^=

                        Watching Over You


	It was a nice sunny day at the Orange Islands, but Kenji wasn't enjoying 
it. He was bored to death. His mother was of the overprotective kind. She 
was so afraid that her little boy would get hurt that she barely let him out 
of the house alone. But the thing was, Kenji was no longer a little boy now. 
Her mother wouldn't even let him keep a Pokemon since she saw in the news 
that a little boy got attacked by his own Raichu. So Kenji just sited there, 
watching the garden from the window. Suddenly a splashing sound was heard in 
the fountain. Kenji saw a little blue ball floating  in the water. Kenji's 
mother wasen't home that day but she told her son not to leave the house. 
Kenji got out of the house, thinking his mother wouldn't mind if he went in 
the garden. He grabbed the blue ball and pulled it out of the water.
	" Riru! Mariru!!"
Kenji had found a Mariru in the fountain. It didn't look too happy to have 
been picked up by the tail. It shooted a water gun at him.
	" Hey! Come back here!" Mariru had runned away.
Kenji heard his mother in the house so he hurried back home.

	Pokemon trainers could begin their journey at 10. Kenji had just turned 15 
last week and still wasen't allowed to go to the store on his own. His 
mother would never let him go on a journey! Kenji's mother wasn't a bad 
mother. She just had recently lost her husband and was so afraid to lose her 
son too. Since he wasen't allowed to go out, he spent his days in his room, 
drawing. He looked outside and drew anything he saw. He especially liked to 
draw Pokemon. But he couldn't see much because his mother put Pokemon Repel 
in the garden to keep them away of the house. Sometimes some Pidgeotto would 
fly over the house. Kenji admired how they could fly freely in the blue sky. 
Those Pokemon were free. In his room, Kenji tried to draw the Mariru he had 
saw. It was the first time he saw one, he didn't have enough time to look at 
it. He couldn't finish the drawing...

	The next day, Kenji noticed that Mariru was back, still swimming in the 
fountain. He decided not to approach it since it would probably run away. 
Instead he just watched Mariru playing in the water while he finished his 
drawing. When Mariru was done, it runned away again. But this time, Kenji 
could finish the drawing. From then, Mariru came in Kenji's garden everyday. 
Which was surprising when you know how much Repel Kenji's mother puts in the 
garden. Kenji just watched the Pokemon, sometimes putting food for it, which 
is why Mariru returned everyday. Kenji loved to watch it. Mariru knew that 
Kenji was watching it, but since he never moved, it didn't care. One day, 
Mariru arrived wounded, probably attacked by a bigger Pokemon. It looked 
very tired and collapsed in the garden. When Kenji saw this, he rushed out 
to help it. Kenji brought Mariru inside. He got the emergency kit and washed 
Mariru's wounds. Mariru slowly openned it's eyes but was to weak to move. It 
wondered how come it had bandages until it noticed Kenji, still watching it. 
But this time, Mariru was in the house with him.
	" Riru! Riru!" Mariru was a bit scared.
	" Don't be scared, little friend. I won't hurt you.
	" Mariru!!"
	" Calm down! You need to rest!
Kenij didn't look like a bad person so Mariru decided to trust him and it 
fell asleep on Kenji's bed while he was watching over it.

	A few hours later, Kenji's mother got home and Kenji had to hide Mariru 
under his bed. She went to check on Kenji. He pretended to be reading when 
she entered his room. She felt sorry for him, staying home everyday while 
the other kids were playing outside.
	" Kenji, I know you must be bored here but I don't want anything to happen 
to you!" she said.
	" Mom, what can happen to me? I'm fifteen! I can take care of myself!" he 
yelled back.
	" You never know what can happen! What would I do without you?"
	" Mom..."
	" Riru!"
	" What was that?" Kenji's mother asked.
	" Nothing...It must have been outside..." Kenji lied.
	" Anyways, please understand Kenji! "
	" Yeah...whatever..." he said, looking down
Kenji's mother left the room, a bit upset. Mariru came from under the bed 
and saw Kenji crying.
	" Mariru?" it said,worried.
	" She's the one who does not understand, Mariru! How can I grow if I'm 
overprotected from the outside world? How can I learn the ways of life?"
	" Riru..."

Mariru healed fast in the next days but now it was attached to Kenji and 
didn't want to leave him. Kenji had to keep him hidden from his mother all 
the time. Often Mariru would sneak out of Kenji room to find food in the 
kitchen, his mother barely missing it. It was getting annoying so Kenji 
decided to ask his mother:
	" Mom, can I have a Pokemon?"
	" We already discussed that Kenji! Pokemon are dangerous!" she replied.
	" No they're not, once they're tamed!
	" Remember that story about that guy's Raichu that...."
	" But that guy didn't take good care of it! It's his own fault!"
	 "Still, Pokemon are too dangerous!"
Kenji glared at her and went back to his room only to find that Mariru had 
sneaked out again. Then he heard his mother screaming.
	"Iiik! A big ugly blue rat!!!!"   She had seen Mariru looking for food in 
the refrigerator.
	" Actually, it's a mouse, not a rat." Kenji said, trying to remain calm.
	" You're the one who've been keeping this thing inside?! I told you no 
Pokemon!" she screamed at him.
	" But...."
	" How could you disobey me! You're grounded!"
	" Grounded? How can you possibly ground me when I'm already stuck inside 
everyday! I can't do anything!!"
With all this screaming, Mariru thought that Kenji was threaten so it 
attacked Kenji's mother.
	" Aah! You see? Pokemon ARE dangerous!" she said.
	" No! Mariru was just protecting me!"
	" Enough! Put that thing outside!" she ordered.
	" No!!"
	" What?"
	" I said no! Mariru is my friend and I won't leave it!
	" I won't accept that thing in my house! I'll get rid of it myself!"
She called the Pokemon Pound and told them to take that dangerous Pokemon. 
Kenji was forced to give Mariru to them.
He runned to his room and refused to come out. His mother tried to apologize 
but Kenji wasn't answering anything.

	This night, Kenji couldn't sleep. Who knew what could happen to Mariru? He 
was worried, that's why Kenji decided to run away to find it. He knew his 
mother would be very angry to see he had runned away but he didn't care. 
He'd run away forever if he had to. He wished he didn't but his mother was 
too stubborn. Kenji didn't get out to often, so he had trouble finding the 
Pokemon Pound. He entered the pound and began to look for Mariru. There was 
lots of Pokemon in cages,all doomed.
	" Poor things! I can't let this happen!"
Kenji oppened all the cages, freeing every Pokemon. In the last cage, he 
finally found Mariru.
	"Mariru! There you are! I was so afraid of losing you! I was so worried 
about you!"
	" Riru?"
That's when it hit him: he felt about Mariru the same way his mother felt 
about him. He felt bad about the way he's been acting.

Meanwhile, Kenji's mother had realized that Kenji had disapeared and was 
crying.
	" It's my fault...The way I treated him, no wonder he would run away!"
She continued to cry. She then heard footsteps behind her.
	" Mom."
	" Kenji!"
The woman hugged her son crying, from happiness this time.
	" I was so worried about you!! I'm so glad you're safe!" she said, still 
hugging him.
	" I'm sorry...but...Mom, I have to go..." Kenji said, slowly.
	" I know...I can't hold you back anymore. I guess you can take care of 
yourself now.
	" Thank you ,Mom. I love you."
	" Me too, Kenji. You grew up faster than I wanted you to. Promise me you'll 
be careful on your journey!"
	" I will. Mariru is there to protect me!" he said, holding out a 
MonsterBall.
Both of them had finally understand. Kenji's mother let him go on his 
Pokemon journey and he promised to be careful and write often.
The next day, Kenji was ready to leave for his journey with Mariru.
	" Kenji,before you leave, I want you to have this. That way you'll think of 
me everyday." Kenji's mother gave him her red headband.
	" Thank you, Mom. Don't worry, I'm not going forever! I'll come back 
sometimes."
They hugged a last time and Kenji left for his journey.

	Kenji spent the next months going around the Orange Islands, observing how 
Pokemon live, how they act. He drew a lot of them, sending his mother his 
best sketches. Until that day, where Kenji arrived on the scene where a 
boy,a girl and a Pikachu were about to fight a gang of bullies to save a 
Lapras...

                                 The End