A/N: This silly little cliché story popped up in my head suddenly.

"Where could that Papa be?"

Sapphire jumped from desk to desk, sniffing out the papers and turning over books to find any trace of her plump and jolly dad.

"S-sapphire, would it be possible for you to search for him in a more… Discreet, manner?" Prof. Berlitz, a guest researcher from the Sinnoh region,
suggested as he fixed his spectacles with a pinch of his hand.

The girl simply sighed, followed by hopping onto the ground like a skilled ninja.

"Sorry Prof. Berlitz. It's just, Papa said he had something really important he wanted to show me!"

*DING DING* A bicycle bell suddenly rang outside the lab.

"SAPPH! Get your butt out here or we're going to be late for class!"

Sapphire looked out the window, then onto her watch, and then raised her arms onto her head in total shock. "DARNIT! I forgot we had a special lecture today… TORO!"

With one call, her Blaziken swiftly leapt towards her, bag in hand. It assisted Sapphire as she quickly placed her arms inside the bag, and scurried away towards the door.

"Thanks Toro, see ya later! You too Prof!"

"Have a n-nice day…"

*SLAM*

"-Sapphire… *sigh* such an energetic teenager, that girl. Quite different from my own daughter, wouldn't you say Toro?"

The bird-pokémon simply nodded, and left the Professor alone in his lab.

The professor took the opportunity to fix a few papers and check his cell phone for any updates on Prof. Birch's findings. He suddenly received a call, making him panic and drop his phone.

He managed to pick it up, and received it.

"Hey, Berlitz? It's me, Birch"

"Oh, Prof. Birch! How's the fieldwork coming along? Have you received it yet?"

"We have a slight problem…"

Prof. Berlitz gulped. "W-what, do you mean, Birch?"

"It seems to have been taken by something, or someone"

"B-but how could that have happened?"

The scientist gripped his dark-blue hair tight in anguish as he continued,

"We've been monitoring its progression for 4 months… For it to disappear out of the blue makes no sense!"

"Calm down, Berlitz! We'll find a way outta this. For now, we'll have to try and have another one made. Just keep your cool and do a checklist of places it might've ended up in"

*click*

"-Oh that Birch, always too casual about things like this…"

The scientist looked out the window, spotting Sapphire leading her bike to join Ruby.

"I wonder if his daughter will end up like him as well…"

"What took you? I cannot stand the heat nowadays, if I had failed to remind you"

"It's b'coz you wear two sets of pants; I mean… who DOES that?"

"Only those deemed worthy of actually pulling it off, bandana-girl"

"H-hey! Bandanas are timeless, so there!" She stuck her tongue out and hopped onto her bike.

"…Says Captain Birch and her band of scurvy pokémon! Have I also failed to remind you that blue is incredibly outdated.
Everyone's in for crimson nowadays" The boy was soon peddling beside her.

"You only say that because everything ya own is red"

"N-not everything!"

"Prove it!"

"Remember that plaid patterned polo-"

As the two of them continued their squabble, Sapphire's attention was directed away from their path.

"W-wait, I think I saw something weird just now!"
*SCREECH!*

She tightened the grip on the bicycle's brakes as she stopped her peddling.

"Hey! Need I remind you, Sapph, we are seriously late for the lecture on pokémon breeding!"

"Shush it! Come take a look here!" She waved her arms around, trying to get Ruby to come closer.
The boy had no choice but to comply, getting off his bike and dragging himself towards her.

"If this is going to just waste my ti- HOLY COW! Is that what I think it is?"

"Isn't it awesome? I thought I saw something unusual back here!"

Sapphire was kneeling while studying its form, as the egg sat quietly in a soft patch of leaves.

"Ya think it belongs to anyone?"

"An egg in the side of a bike path? Don't you think if anyone did own that thing, leaving it out here would be a bit risky?"

"I guess you're right."

She stood up and looked at it once more, a worried expression splashed across her face.

"What if we-"

Ruby's eyes widened at the thought, he waved his arms in front of her in response.

"Uh-uh, NO WAY am I going to help you take care of that thing!"

"But Ruby! It's helpless out here on its own! Let's take it with us!"

"I was just on my way to a lecture, Sapph. This is seriously something we should just walk away from"

The blue-eyed girl stomped her feet and pointed a finger accusingly at Ruby.

"What ever happened to, I've realized I've got to use my skills for good, huh?"

Ruby had his hands up in a defensive position, unsure of what to say.

DARNIT, she had to use that excuse; he said to himself, as he sighed and surrendered to his feisty companion.

"FINE; you win. Do you perhaps sense any pokémon around? It could just have been left by its mom not too long ago"

Sapphire looked around and sniffed high and low, without a trace of any other pokémon around.

"This is a cycling path, Ruby. Hardly any pokémon even come near here!"

"-How strange… HOLD ON I think it's moving!"

He flinched as both of them glared at the egg that was now moving around.

"I-Its hatching, I know it!" Sapphire panicked in place as she watched the egg shells chip away one by one. Ruby was equally worried,
not knowing what to do if ever the pokemon ended up hideously freaky.

The egg was busy chipping away, until a bright light shone suddenly. It faded after a few seconds, revealing a small, blue, dog-like pokémon. Its legs and torso where colored black, and it had piercing red eyes to boot.

Both Ruby's and Sapphire's eyes brightened at how incredibly cute and unique the pokemon before them looked like. It was a baby pokemon neither of them have ever come across before!

"AWWW! How incredibly adorable this little tyke is!" Ruby held it up and cradled it in his arms.

The blue pokémon chuckled in amusement, smiling away at Ruby's endearing gestures.

"H-hey! I wanna hug it too! I saw him first!"

"Get away from it, you don't even know if it's a girl or a boy! Besides, you'll probably crush it with your man-arms or something"

Sapphire gritted her teeth as she reached for her pokédex to reveal the pokémon's true identity.

She clicked a few buttons, as the gadget scanned the tiny creature.

"Riolu; An Emanation Pokémon.

A small, yet powerful Pokémon, it has been known to be able to endure a trek across two mountains in one night.
The aura it emanates from its body intensifies to alert others if it is afraid or sad.
It has a peculiar power of being able to see emotions such as joy and rage in the form of waves.
The origins of this pokémon are unknown as spotting one has proven to be almost impossible"

"Riolu, huh…" Sapphire blinked a few times, before reading the description once more.

"What an absolutely interesting description you have, little tyke! The ability to emanate auras, read emotions…"

"And on top of that, its endurance is as hard a rock!"

Sapphire snatched Riolu from Ruby's arms swiftly, as she swayed it left and right, mocking the movement of the mothers she's seen on TV. "Lullaby Riolu, on a tree top!" She sang in a tone-deaf voice, rocking it back and forth roughly.

Riolu was getting dizzy fast, as it had just hatched from its egg. Ruby was horrified at the display of violent affection from Sapphire; he quickly dashed towards her and tried getting a hold on the poor thing.

"You OBVIOUSLY know nothing of how to handle baby pokémon right! Hand him over, it'll hate me less!" Ruby smiled a most charming grin at the blue dog-like pokémon, before it reached out its arms to request Ruby's assistance. Ruby took the opportunity to let it get a hold on his arms, as he cradled it back into his loving and firm grasp.

"SEE? Told you so; you were too rough with it!"

Sapphire grunted and followed the two of them, eyeing the sleepy expression on the pokémon's face.

"N-now that it hatched, we should give it a name!"

Ruby smirked at the idea, and thought hard, still cradling it to sleep.

"I think it should be Rulu. You know, Riolu and Ruby put together?

"BLECHK, that's horrible!"

"Then I suppose you've come up with a worthy alternate?"

"How's about… Rilo?"

"Dono, Toro, Relo, Rono… And now Rilo? How ORIGINAL. Besides, Riolu doesn't belong to just you!"

The blue-eyed girl tightened her fists as she stopped in front of the boy.

"FINE! Since you claim to take part-ownership, we both should care for it! Don't hog him all to yourself!"

"Shhhh! It's finally asleep!"

Sapphire clamped her mouth shut as she watched the blue pokémon slumber calmly in Ruby's arms. Looking at the baby pokémon's peaceful expression made her calm down, her whole body relaxing shortly after.

"It… It's really cute when its asleep like that…"

Ruby sighed, and sat down on the grass. He gestured Sapphire to sit down shortly after fixing Riolu into a more comfortable position.

"Well, since it is obviously found by both of us…"

"Pfft… Yeah right, don't forget just a few moments ago, you wanted to leave it out here to rott-"

"SHHH! Sapph, can't you see it's still sleeping?"

Sapphire flinched and bowed her head, embarrassed.

"Well, like it or not, we both witnessed it hatch. Also, I am very confident I'd make a way more suitable mother for it. Furthermore-"

Ruby was interrupted by the girl's sad attempt to resist laughing. She placed her hands over her mouth and wiped some forming tears away from the corners of her eye.

"You? A MOTHER? I can see you nagging it about here and there, and dressing it the way you want but for you to finally admit yourself to be the girl of us both?"

Ruby popped a vane as he shook his head, trying to restrain his urge to scream at her.

"I was referring to the way mothers carefully nourish, teach and care for their offspring. YOU can be the father; you know, the most worthless of the pair"

As it was an attempt to lighten the mood and turn around the insult to her, a chord struck deep into both Ruby and Sapphire's hearts as they remembered their lack of their respective parents as a child. Sapphire was raised without her mother by her side and Ruby had a father that barely even spent time with him at all.

They had a moment of silence before Riolu woke up and emitted a blue-green glow from his body.

"H-hey, it's awake…" Sapphire said softly.

Ruby cringed as he tried to think of something to say to break the tension.

"…How's about we name it Rusa?"

"Rusa? Where'd that come from?"

Riolu woke up suddenly and smiled towards Sapphire, positioning itself on her lap trying to snuggle up shortly after.

Sapphire, reading her pokédex once more as it showed some data on the little tyke, happily exclaimed,

"Oh! Seems like we have a boy pokémon in our hands!"

"Rusa is a genderless name anyhow" Ruby continued, looking away to hide the blush forming in his cheeks.

"I still don't get it"

"*Sigh* It's Ruby and Sapphire pieced together. Ru and Sa. Rusa"

"How's about Saru?"

Riolu flinched at the sound.

"…Rusa it is then!" The girl chirped, hugging the blue pokémon tightly in her arms.

A/N: That was a lot of fun to write, honestly, I had this one idea in my head about both of them being surrogate parents for an egg; but that would be too boring. I also had a hard time deciding which pokemon the egg should hatch as. (Riolu was a perfect on-the-spot choice!)

So if you like it so far, please tell me about it through a REVIEW. I'll then decide if I should continue it or not! Thanks for reading!