"That's not a very nice greeting, don't you think."

Lo and behold, his sister was indeed doing one of those stereotypical activities one usually sees on training montages on films featuring martial arts. He figured that she'd rather run around and break a sweat, though meeting her outside of her sweaty goodness was much more favorable. At least with her doing that meditation thing, he doesn't have to deal with a warmed up, adrenaline-filled Ashley.

"Well, that's alright. You don't seem busy anyways."

Still toxic and aggressive, just as he remembered her. He didn't dare come near, knowing full well that she was the type to get physical with the smallest teasing. He wouldn't say that he missed having her around, though sometimes, he wondered if he'd eventually see her in some juvenile detention center for assault and battery without anyone controlling her.

"Wanna smile for this one?" He took out his phone and pointed its camera to Ashley, his Electrike still on his legs and watching his trainer do his brother things. "Need to send this to Mom. She says I need to bring her evidence that you're still alive." Without even waiting for a response from the girl in front of him, a click sounded along with a flash, capturing a candid picture of his sister in a meditative pose.

"Ah, I forgot to turn it off..."

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"Wait, I need to add stickers and all on this thing before that. Need to make this commemorative for, you know, Mom."

He started dragging tiny icons across the screen to the picture he just took, particularly ones that resembled girly accessories that he could never imagine his sister ever wearing. Truth be told, he wasn't too experienced in these kinds of apps anyways, simply doing it for the sake of spiting Ash, as all older brothers tend to do with their younger siblings. At some point of fiddling around his phone, his sister eventually looked more like a clown on it with everything he has included on it.

Kyle stopped running his fingers on his phone with his sister's sudden statement. It left him confused for a while, trying to decipher what she meant with her words. "Cause you wanted to give it to me?" he guessed, raising a brow at her before appearing enlightened within the next seconds. "Oh! Aww, you shouldn't have." His expression softened as he spoke, though the smirk on his face fails to cover his intention of teasing.

His Electrike, though having listened to their conversation for the whole entirety of it, did not seem to grasp his trainer's way of things just yet and had his tail wagging, accompanying Kyle's last remark with a playful bark.

"So, what Pokemon is it?" His tone did not sound excited, but the certain look on his face would still show his curiosity for the matter.

She hadn't mentioned it, but he trusted her enough to know his preferences when it came to Pokemon. While Kyle had been teasing, one who knew much about him knows that he still was genuinely interested with whatever Ashley caught. Whether she had been planning to give it to him or not did not seem to matter at the moment, as all Kyle wanted to know was the dumb and stupid Pokemon she had caught.

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An excitable "Hey!" came from Kyle when Ash mentioned Poochyena. He already had one, and he wasn't particularly interested in adding another one in his party, though that did not mean that he wouldn't entertain the idea. The smile died down as she offered the Poochyena in exchange for something. "Not a gift, huh?" He had not expected her to be the kind that shows off their softer side anyways.

He wasn't really surprised, considering they weren't tough, nor were they powerful. Compared to the likes of large hulking Pokemon, Poochyena were more fit to be pets than anything else after all. Being the barbarian that his sister was, he supposed she didn't care whether a Pokemon was cute or not. "Big bro doesn't like his compassion being taken advantage of, but I'll bite." He knew she probably wasn't joking about the last part after all.

"How about him?"

His eyes landed on his Electrike beside him, motioning him to his sister. It was one safe recommendation as he knew she wouldn't be interested in something as soft as it. Besides, it was untrained and most likely unfit for real fights, which was something he has to work with soon. "Reminds me of you in every other way: Boundless energy, an unstoppable force, uncontrollable in every other way..." His voice trailed of, before his tone changed, along with a slight upward curve of his lips. "Destroys indiscriminately, abusive of my kindness, those kinds of stuff."

"No? Alright, you can have this one instead."

He took his Phanpy's ball out of his belt and replaced the Poochyena on her hand with it before she could even make any objections.

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"Somewhere near home," he answered. "Why? You don't, uh, like it?"

He was thankful that his sister's words were as vague as it can get. She looked as interested to it as he could've imagined, though Kyle could simply act like he wasn't picking up her minor quirks that made the fact obvious. He frowned, looking disappointed as he watched his sister inspect the Phanpy with utmost curiosity. He had only thought that she'd like it based on its typing alone, and not through its appearance after all.

He released an exaggerated sigh, picking up the ball that he promptly latched onto his belt back to his palm. "Here's your Poochyena then." He dangled his hand in front of her within her reach, the ball containing the Poochyena she caught hanging lightly on his fingertips. "I'm getting my Phanpy back for this Poochy if you really want it back."

Kyle would not even think of relinquishing it easily from her though. Despite the obvious physical advantage that Ash had over him, he'd be willing to wrestle her just to keep it in his possession. Besides, it wasn't like she'd actually do it, he figured. Despite the rather carefree approach he had, his eyes remained sharp and attempted to anticipate the next move she would take. One can't be too careful when dealing with her after all.

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Cute. He'd tease her for that, but he decided to leave it be.

A triumphant, but by no means haughty, grin was on his expression. He did not expect her to yield too soon, but a victory was still a victory nonetheless. "Thank you for your patronage." He kept the ball on his hands, tempted to release it there and then just as Ash did on his Phanpy to confirm its authenticity, as she asked a question that would force a sigh and then a groan from him.

"Maybe you should check on them and see."

Although he understood the level of worry they placed on their daughter, he wouldn't deny getting annoyed by how they handled it. "They're fine. Annoying, but fine." Perhaps he was just jealous about the attention Ashley has from them since then, but Kyle was a proud boy that wouldn't mention his thoughts out loud.

"Are you mocking me?" he raised his voice, taunting her. "There's-" He interrupted himself, contemplating on what kind of comeback he could make up against her claims. Kyle started scratching his chin, before essentially giving up. "Y-Yeah, I suppose that's true." He couldn't really lie as there was no point of doing so. Aside from some periods of time when he'd go take on part-time jobs when he runs out of cash, he hasn't really had any plans of leaving home.

"So, do you have any concrete plans of where you're going after this." He'd pull out his phone once again gluing his eyes on the screen, before feeling the need to explain himself and shifting his gaze back to Ash. "Just a little something something that I can send with this pic. Work with me here so I don't have to keep hunting for you."

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"Nothing? I guess I can't really judge you for that."

He proceeded to send everything right then, with Kyle verbally mentioning, albeit in a slower pace that matched his typing speed, whatever note he decided to bunch in with the picture. "Don't worry. She told me she won't die anytime soon." Ending the message and pressing the send button, he exhaled a sigh, quite happy for ending the whole task that his parents assigned him to do. "They'll probably still pester me after that, but that'll do for now."

Keeping his phone back to his pocket, he diverted his sights to his sister, seeing her most likely judge him by extension on how she views his Electrike. He can't blame her though, seeing as they are both in conjuncture that the canine wasn't, in any shape or form, looking like a reliable member of his team. "You can probably wrestle him to death," he answered with brutal honesty, his indirect insult to his own Pokemon partly mixed with a jab at Ash's rather barbaric demeanor.

"He's not really strong, but apparently, he's my highest leveled one at the moment."

Taking a quick review of his team, he was pretty sure both of his Poochyena, one that he caught beforehand and another that he just got from the earlier trade, weren't going to contribute in battles any time soon. If he was lucky, he'd could maybe use the one his sister got, though she just mentioned it as worthless and he'd trust her judgement on that given her competitive nature. His Rhyhorn's alright, at least, though his Electrike was definitely better on the battlefield at the moment.

"Don't tell me you're actually planning on fighting this thing?"

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