1. [New Bark Town] Backdated: 11th January

[illusioning]

[When the PokeGear clicks on, it probably doesn't seem as though it should. Yes, this new trainer is in New Bark Town, like the rest of all the trainers. The question is, why is this so off?

If it even appears to be.

So, standing there, outside of 'Mum's House' is someone who looks like THE MIDDLE GUY. Cap and all. It's not the real one, mind you, but it's close enough. It just doesn't have the text on the front, plain black, nice and shiny and new. It's purpose is kind of ruined though, as Niou is not at the end of year party at all, instead he's in Johto.

Just in case anyone here will know him though, he's going to have a little fun. He takes a moment to tug the bill of the cap down a little, straight facing at the camera.]

Tarundoru.

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[usedlaserbeam]

[Except that then Yagyuu stops, and looks, and something twinges in the back of his mind--some unconscious, intuitive acknowledgement founded on some equally vague stimuli that he can't quite name--that no, it's true that it really can't be, because it's not.

It's hard to say what precisely it is, save for the fact that he's spent years learning to see through his partner's tricks, that he's probably the most uniquely qualified person of anyone in the world to spot how he plays them. Maybe it's the height, the subtle slant of the shoulders. Maybe it's that he's seen him become Sanada before, enough times that some recognition is set off there. Or maybe it's simply something lurking behind his eyes that Yagyuu has long since learned to recognize anytime, anywhere, because it's the same thing he sometimes sees behind his own.

No. That can't be Sanada-kun.

But he thinks he knows who it is.]