1.1 "It kills me to see you so upset"
Disclaimer: This story is very friendshippy, it does have shishi, but it has AAML in it too. Oh yea and I don't own Pokemon, I really hope none of you are dumb enough to ever consider me owning it, or that anyone would waste there time suing me, but I guess its necessary. OH yeah and there may be some inaccuracies but I sculpted some things to fit the story better. Please R&R. oh and you have been warned about the yaoi that means that Gary is a homosexual and is attracted to Ash
"How long have we been in Ilex Forest? We must have been here for hours Brock! I thought you said that we weren't lost!" Misty looked toward the confused rock trainer menacingly.
"Yeah Brock I don't feel like wasting anymore time here, do you even know where we are?" Ash shot a glare toward Brock.
"Well… I think were back where we started…" Brock shifted the map to look at it in a different direction, "but honestly I don't know."
"You idiot! You've gotten us lost, I knew we shouldn't have trusted you with the map, we should have given it to Ash!" Mist crossed her arms and looked away from Brock to show her distain.
"Why me?" Ash seemed confused.
"Well your much more responsible than he is and I trust you more."
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Behind a near by bush, Gary looked at the three travelers but particularly at Misty and Ash.
"Oh they look so perfect with each other" Gary said sarcastically, his Eevee looked up at him sadly, her master seemed troubled. "Damn her…why did she take him away from me? We should be together, we would be together if not for her." Gary paused for a moment, "I'm so pathetic… how could we be together? He never once showed affection towards me like the way I did to him. We were friends, but I couldn't be friends with him if he didn't feel the same way toward me… and then he goes and replaces me with that loud mouthed idiot." Gary clenched his fists " Ill have to break up there little moment" and with that he motioned toward Eevee and they sprinted towards the trio.
"Well if it isn't Ashy boy and his loser friends." Gary placed his hands firmly at his hips smirking toward his rival.
"What do you want Gary?" Ash scowled at Gary
"What all Pokemon trainers want when they see an easy win, a Pokemon battle of course." Gary fingered on of the poke' balls on his belt. "Three Pokemon each last one standing wins, I challenge you Ash Ketchum Loser from pallet town."
"Fine with me!" ash grabbed one of his poke' balls and hurled it on the ground. "Go Bulbasaur!" A white flash covered the area as the small grass type appeared in front of Gary.
"Hmm, a grass type eh?" Without a thought he hurled a poke' ball towards the small Bulbasaur, "Go Arcanine!" The massive canine surfaced and roared menacingly at the tiny creature in front of it.
"Ash this doesn't look good, Arcanine has the type advantage, and he's fully evolved, be careful" Brock yelled to Ash.
"Yeah Ash you don't want Bulbasaur to get hurt, don't be rash." Misty cautioned Ash.
"Argh, Bulbasaur use your vine whip attack!" Ash commanded the Bulbasaur.
"Bulba" two vines extended from the green bulb on its back and struck the huge dog.
"Hah, a grass attack on a fire type don't you know anything? Arcanine flamethrower!" A large pillar of fire erupted from the Arcanine's mouth and slammed into the tiny Bulbasaur sending it hurtling against a near by tree. "Hah a one hit KO, looks like your Bulbasaur was no match for my Arcanine Ash! What do you have for me next?" Gary smiled cockily at Ash waiting for the smaller boy to send out his next Pokemon.
"Bulbasaur return!" Ash pulled out his next poke' ball "Fight Fire with fire is what I always say, go Charizard! " The dragon like creature appeared in front of the Arcanine.
"Another fire type eh? Arcanine use your takedown attack!" Gary pointed towards the Charizard as the Arcanine crashed into it sending it stumbling back.
"Hang in their Charizard! Use your seismic toss on that Arcanine!" Charizard grabbed the Arcanine and threw it into the air allowing it to fall hard on its back. The Arcanine struggled to get up for a moment until it stood up steadily.
"Are you ok Arcanine?" the dog nodded towards its master. "Good then use your quick attack hit that Charizard with all you've got!" the Arcanine sped towards the awaiting Charizard and crashed into its chest sending it sprawling towards the ground. The Charizard slowly got to its feet, seemingly dazed from the blow.
"Charizard your enemy is weakened, use your slam attack, finish that Arcanine!" the Charizard slammed into the weakened Arcanine giving enough force to knock it out.
"Arcanine return. That was pretty good Ash but not good enough!" Gary grabbed a new poke' ball and threw it towards his rival. "Go Nidoking!" The Massive Nidoking appeared next to Gary. "Nidoking use your horn attack!" the Nidoking charged forward headfirst slamming its pointed horn into the charizard's gut. The force was powerful enough to send the Charizard reeling back. Regaining its balance the Charizard roared ferociously rearing its head back.
"Nidoking, use another horn attack, finish off that Charizard!" The Nidoking with its head pointed forward charged at the Charizard.
"Charizard, Hit him with your best Fire Blast!" The Charizard nodded to Ash, as it sent a huge ball of fire hurtling toward the Nidoking. The blast smashed into the Nidoking causing it to halt its advance.
"Can you still battle Nidoking?" Gary called to his Pokemon, the Nidoking slowly picked up momentum, until it delivered a final blow to the Charizard. The impact of the creature's horn easily knocked out the weakened Charizard.
"Charizard Return!" Retrieving his Charizard he didn't hesitate for a second in his next choice. "Pikachu! I chose you!" the small electric rat darted forth enthusiastically. "Use your thunderbolt!"
"Chuuuuuuuu!" bolts of electricity shot from the tiny Pikachu and delivered a nasty blow to the Nidoking. The Nidoking gave a small attempt to get up but ultimately it couldn't battle anymore.
"Good job Ash you might be able to win this one!" Misty yelled encouragingly.
"Yeah Ash we believe in you!" Brock gave Ash a thumbs up.
"Alright Gary what's your last Pokemon? Or are you going to give up now?" Ash said, he was rather full of himself at the current time thinking he had beaten Gary's best Pokemon.
"Hm, you'd like that wouldn't you, ashy boy?" Gary twirled his last pokeball on the tip of his finger. "Go Eevee!" the Pokemon landed revealing an adorable little Eevee.
"Pikachu you can beat that Eevee easily! Just give it a good thundershock!" Ash motioned towards the tiny creature, using mock hand signals.
"Chuu!" the Pikachu's cheeks started to spark.
"Hurry Eevee use double edge!" Gary pointed at the Pikachu.
"Vee!" the Eevee crashed into Pikachu before it was able to use its thundershock sending the tiny rodent crashing into a rather sharp rock on the ground the Pikachu gave a small squeak before passing out.
"Pikachu!" Ash screamed as he ran to his beloved Pokemon, "Pikachu… are you ok?" the Pikachu didn't respond.
"Ash! You have to get Pikachu to a Pokemon center right away!" Misty ran to Ash's side.
"Yeah lets go!" Ash looked dumbfounded, "but which way is it to the Pokemon Center?"
"You'll never find it in time, ill have my Alakazam teleport you there." Gary said softly. All three trainers looked at Gary suspiciously.
"Why do you want to help? Haven't you caused enough damage for one day Gary Oak?" Misty sneered at the brown haired boy.
"I don't trust him Ash… be careful." Brock Looked at Gary.
"Why would you help me?" Ash sounded surprised. "I thought you hated me…"
"I uh… don't hate… I mean you uh… I mean you uh…" Gary mumbled looking at his shoes.
"Don't do it Ash he must be planning something!" Misty shot a glare at Gary while cautioning Ash.
"Gary…" Ash walked over to the slightly taller boy and placed his hand on his shoulder, "It doesn't matter why Gary is being nice, all that matters is that Pikachu needs help and right now Gary is the only one who can help us. We don't know where the hell we are and it took us hours to get here, I don't think Pikachu has that much time."
"I guess…" Misty and Brock still looked a little suspicious but nodded in agreement, for Pikachu's sake.
"Ok Gary Teleport us to the Pokemon center, as fast as you can!" Ash looked to Gary his hand still on his shoulder, "I trust you."
"You… do?" Gary looked up at Ash and blushed. "Alakazam go!" Gary tossed the pokeball in front of them, "Teleport us to the Pokemon center in Violet City!"
The Alakazam nodded and suddenly Gary, Ash, Pikachu and the Alakazam vanished from Brock and Misty's sight.
"I hope everything will be ok with those two." Misty looked to Brock. "We should set up camp here, that way when they teleport back we wont have to look for them."
With a flash of light Gary and Ash appeared in front of the Pokemon center in Violet city. Ash bolted inside and gave the Pikachu to the nurse joy who was stationed there.
"He's really hurt, please help him!" Ash was crying over the poor Pikachu, "Please you have to do something!" he yelled between sobs.
"Ok we'll do all we can just wait here." The nurse signaled and two chanseys rolled a stretcher up to Pikachu and carried him away into the Pokemon E.R.
Ash collapsed into a chair in the waiting room. Crying hysterically. Gary walked over to the boy and sat next to him. He hesitated a moment and then put his arm around the smaller boy comforting him.
"Im so sorry I didn't mean for anything to happen, he'll be ok don't worry." Gary placed two fingers under Ash's chin lifting him to meet his Gaze. "Don't cry Ash it kills me to see you so upset." Gary looked into Ash's red tear soaked eyes, and brushed away two tears off Ash's cheek.
"…Gary" Ash buried his head into Gary's shoulder and started to cry lightly. "Why are you being so nice to me? you always act like you hate me." Ash's voice was muffled by Gary's shirt.
" I don't know Ash." Gary shifted his head so it was touching Ash's, pulling him tighter into a warm embrace. " I just don't know…" the two of them sat there for about two hours when Nurse Joy returned with a bandaged Pikachu in her arms. Ash had fallen asleep and Gary hadn't moved from Ash's side.
"Excuse me. This is your Pikachu isn't it?" the nurse looked at Gary. Slightly taken aback from the implication of him owning a Pikachu, Gary just kinda stared at the nurse for a moment.
"Uh… no its his." He shook Ash lightly to wake him up. Ash snuggled up closer to Gary, until he realized the nurse looming over him. He looked up at her for a moment until the whole situation set in.
"Pikachu! Your alright!" He jumped from Gary's embrace and grabbed Pikachu from Nurse joy's arms.
"Hey be careful he's still recovering, you need to be gentle with him." She checked her clipboard. "He wont be able to battle for two weeks."
Ash nodded and looked over to Gary. "Ok Gary you can teleport me back to my friends now." He was still gripping Pikachu tightly.
"Oh… ok." Gary looked depressed and grabbed the Alakazam pokeball. "If that's what you want…" a single tear ran down Gary's cheek as he forced a smile.
"Gary what's wrong with you?" Ash looked concerned. "You seem upset."
"I was just hoping ya know we could grab something to eat first since it's really late…" Gary blushed, looked down and began to shuffle his shoes. "But if you'd rather go back with your friends I understand." Ash smiled
"You mean…" Ash seemed giddy. "You mean were friends again?!"
"Well I guess… if that's what you want." Gary looked up at Ash for a moment. "Do you want to be friends again?"
"Of course Gary, I always wanted to be friends again, you're the one who said you hated me." Ash placed Pikachu on to the chair next to him and ran over and hugged Gary, "all I ever wanted is to be friends again, you don't know how much this means to me!"
"No Ash you don't know how much this means to me." Gary muttered tears welling up in his eyes. A few moments later Ash broke away from the embrace.
" So where did you want to get that bite to eat?" he looked up at Gary and frowned. "You're still crying. Why?"
"Im just so happy you don't hate me for what I did to you." He looked down at Ash and hugged him again. This time Ash felt there was something more than friendship That Gary had in mind. Ash felt uncomfortable and had this confused look on his face. Gary pulled away wiping the tears from his eyes, and Ash picked up Pikachu with one hand.
"So I know this one place we could eat at, its not to pricey and the food is good. Lets go!" Gary grabbed Ash's free hand and pulled him to a near by restaurant. After a few moments they were seated and browsing through the menus on the table. The place wasn't fancy but it wasn't trashy It was very mediocre.
"So what are you getting, Ash?" he looked up at him smiling. Ash realized he hadn't seen Gary this happy ever before.
"Um I don't know." Gary hesitated a moment and thought about things that Gary had said to him back at the Pokemon center. "Hey um Gary…"
"Yes, what's wrong you seemed troubled about something." Gary looked at the dark haired boy with love and concern.
"What did you mean back at the Pokemon center when you said 'Don't cry Ash it kills me to see you so upset' and they way you hugged me back at the Pokemon center. It seemed different." Ash looked at Gary who now was blushing a deep crimson.
"Well I meant that I hate to see you so upset. Because I care about you. And not just as a friend Ash… I think I… I think that I… I think im in love with you Ash." Gary looked over to his former rival.
"Gary I think you have the wrong idea about me." Ash sighed. "I care about you too Gary but not in that way… im sorry."
"Oh uh ha ha ha… I was joking! Yeah joking I don't love you, you think I love you. I mean I cant believe you fell for that!" Gary said rather unconvincingly, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Uh my eyes are itchy, I think my allergies-" he quickly got up and ran to the bathroom in tears.
About an hour later Gary emerged from the rest rooms and returned to the table he and Ash were sitting at.
"Gary are you alright?" Ash got up and put his hand on Gary's shoulder, Gary quickly brushed it away.
"Im fine, we have to go meet up with your friends." Gary said coldly, he threw down enough money for the food that Ash ordered while Gary was in the bathroom and then both boys quickly left.
"Gary don't do this…" Ash tried to keep up with Gary, who seemed to be power walking.
"Do what Ash I don't know what you're talking about, we have to go." Gary threw the pokeball containing Alakazam. "Teleport us to Ilex forest, the same location we came from. Surely enough the two emerged in front of Brock and Misty who were sitting on two logs chatting about this and that.
"Ash, Gary is Pikachu ok?" Misty asked.
"Yes he's fine do you want to hold him?" Ash walked over to Misty and let her hold the small rodent. "Be careful with him he's still healing."
"Ok Ash…" Misty and Ash's eyes met and they shared a brief moment; both of the other boys noticed this, the only ones who didn't seemed to be Ash and Misty themselves. Gary wiped his eyes and walked away without as much as a goodbye.
"Hey Gary thank-'' Ash noticed Gary was missing and then took off after him. Do to Gary's rather calm pace it wasn't long before Ash caught up to him.
"Gary you don't have to leave! You could journey with me and Brock and …" Ash was interrupted.
"Yes I do…" Gary leaned in and kissed Ash lightly on the cheek, and with that he walked away into the night.
2 The End
I may write more chapters if enough people review and like it, but I think that's a good ending… probably be better to make a sequel for it rather than another chapter. Well tell me if you like it. Please R&R, now I don't mind criticism but theres a difference between criticizing and being mean please keep that in mind. All anonymous reviews that are mean will be removed so don't bother flaming me, it only gives me a good laugh.
Disclaimer: This story is very friendshippy, it does have shishi, but it has AAML in it too. Oh yea and I don't own Pokemon, I really hope none of you are dumb enough to ever consider me owning it, or that anyone would waste there time suing me, but I guess its necessary. OH yeah and there may be some inaccuracies but I sculpted some things to fit the story better. Please R&R. oh and you have been warned about the yaoi that means that Gary is a homosexual and is attracted to Ash
"How long have we been in Ilex Forest? We must have been here for hours Brock! I thought you said that we weren't lost!" Misty looked toward the confused rock trainer menacingly.
"Yeah Brock I don't feel like wasting anymore time here, do you even know where we are?" Ash shot a glare toward Brock.
"Well… I think were back where we started…" Brock shifted the map to look at it in a different direction, "but honestly I don't know."
"You idiot! You've gotten us lost, I knew we shouldn't have trusted you with the map, we should have given it to Ash!" Mist crossed her arms and looked away from Brock to show her distain.
"Why me?" Ash seemed confused.
"Well your much more responsible than he is and I trust you more."
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Behind a near by bush, Gary looked at the three travelers but particularly at Misty and Ash.
"Oh they look so perfect with each other" Gary said sarcastically, his Eevee looked up at him sadly, her master seemed troubled. "Damn her…why did she take him away from me? We should be together, we would be together if not for her." Gary paused for a moment, "I'm so pathetic… how could we be together? He never once showed affection towards me like the way I did to him. We were friends, but I couldn't be friends with him if he didn't feel the same way toward me… and then he goes and replaces me with that loud mouthed idiot." Gary clenched his fists " Ill have to break up there little moment" and with that he motioned toward Eevee and they sprinted towards the trio.
"Well if it isn't Ashy boy and his loser friends." Gary placed his hands firmly at his hips smirking toward his rival.
"What do you want Gary?" Ash scowled at Gary
"What all Pokemon trainers want when they see an easy win, a Pokemon battle of course." Gary fingered on of the poke' balls on his belt. "Three Pokemon each last one standing wins, I challenge you Ash Ketchum Loser from pallet town."
"Fine with me!" ash grabbed one of his poke' balls and hurled it on the ground. "Go Bulbasaur!" A white flash covered the area as the small grass type appeared in front of Gary.
"Hmm, a grass type eh?" Without a thought he hurled a poke' ball towards the small Bulbasaur, "Go Arcanine!" The massive canine surfaced and roared menacingly at the tiny creature in front of it.
"Ash this doesn't look good, Arcanine has the type advantage, and he's fully evolved, be careful" Brock yelled to Ash.
"Yeah Ash you don't want Bulbasaur to get hurt, don't be rash." Misty cautioned Ash.
"Argh, Bulbasaur use your vine whip attack!" Ash commanded the Bulbasaur.
"Bulba" two vines extended from the green bulb on its back and struck the huge dog.
"Hah, a grass attack on a fire type don't you know anything? Arcanine flamethrower!" A large pillar of fire erupted from the Arcanine's mouth and slammed into the tiny Bulbasaur sending it hurtling against a near by tree. "Hah a one hit KO, looks like your Bulbasaur was no match for my Arcanine Ash! What do you have for me next?" Gary smiled cockily at Ash waiting for the smaller boy to send out his next Pokemon.
"Bulbasaur return!" Ash pulled out his next poke' ball "Fight Fire with fire is what I always say, go Charizard! " The dragon like creature appeared in front of the Arcanine.
"Another fire type eh? Arcanine use your takedown attack!" Gary pointed towards the Charizard as the Arcanine crashed into it sending it stumbling back.
"Hang in their Charizard! Use your seismic toss on that Arcanine!" Charizard grabbed the Arcanine and threw it into the air allowing it to fall hard on its back. The Arcanine struggled to get up for a moment until it stood up steadily.
"Are you ok Arcanine?" the dog nodded towards its master. "Good then use your quick attack hit that Charizard with all you've got!" the Arcanine sped towards the awaiting Charizard and crashed into its chest sending it sprawling towards the ground. The Charizard slowly got to its feet, seemingly dazed from the blow.
"Charizard your enemy is weakened, use your slam attack, finish that Arcanine!" the Charizard slammed into the weakened Arcanine giving enough force to knock it out.
"Arcanine return. That was pretty good Ash but not good enough!" Gary grabbed a new poke' ball and threw it towards his rival. "Go Nidoking!" The Massive Nidoking appeared next to Gary. "Nidoking use your horn attack!" the Nidoking charged forward headfirst slamming its pointed horn into the charizard's gut. The force was powerful enough to send the Charizard reeling back. Regaining its balance the Charizard roared ferociously rearing its head back.
"Nidoking, use another horn attack, finish off that Charizard!" The Nidoking with its head pointed forward charged at the Charizard.
"Charizard, Hit him with your best Fire Blast!" The Charizard nodded to Ash, as it sent a huge ball of fire hurtling toward the Nidoking. The blast smashed into the Nidoking causing it to halt its advance.
"Can you still battle Nidoking?" Gary called to his Pokemon, the Nidoking slowly picked up momentum, until it delivered a final blow to the Charizard. The impact of the creature's horn easily knocked out the weakened Charizard.
"Charizard Return!" Retrieving his Charizard he didn't hesitate for a second in his next choice. "Pikachu! I chose you!" the small electric rat darted forth enthusiastically. "Use your thunderbolt!"
"Chuuuuuuuu!" bolts of electricity shot from the tiny Pikachu and delivered a nasty blow to the Nidoking. The Nidoking gave a small attempt to get up but ultimately it couldn't battle anymore.
"Good job Ash you might be able to win this one!" Misty yelled encouragingly.
"Yeah Ash we believe in you!" Brock gave Ash a thumbs up.
"Alright Gary what's your last Pokemon? Or are you going to give up now?" Ash said, he was rather full of himself at the current time thinking he had beaten Gary's best Pokemon.
"Hm, you'd like that wouldn't you, ashy boy?" Gary twirled his last pokeball on the tip of his finger. "Go Eevee!" the Pokemon landed revealing an adorable little Eevee.
"Pikachu you can beat that Eevee easily! Just give it a good thundershock!" Ash motioned towards the tiny creature, using mock hand signals.
"Chuu!" the Pikachu's cheeks started to spark.
"Hurry Eevee use double edge!" Gary pointed at the Pikachu.
"Vee!" the Eevee crashed into Pikachu before it was able to use its thundershock sending the tiny rodent crashing into a rather sharp rock on the ground the Pikachu gave a small squeak before passing out.
"Pikachu!" Ash screamed as he ran to his beloved Pokemon, "Pikachu… are you ok?" the Pikachu didn't respond.
"Ash! You have to get Pikachu to a Pokemon center right away!" Misty ran to Ash's side.
"Yeah lets go!" Ash looked dumbfounded, "but which way is it to the Pokemon Center?"
"You'll never find it in time, ill have my Alakazam teleport you there." Gary said softly. All three trainers looked at Gary suspiciously.
"Why do you want to help? Haven't you caused enough damage for one day Gary Oak?" Misty sneered at the brown haired boy.
"I don't trust him Ash… be careful." Brock Looked at Gary.
"Why would you help me?" Ash sounded surprised. "I thought you hated me…"
"I uh… don't hate… I mean you uh… I mean you uh…" Gary mumbled looking at his shoes.
"Don't do it Ash he must be planning something!" Misty shot a glare at Gary while cautioning Ash.
"Gary…" Ash walked over to the slightly taller boy and placed his hand on his shoulder, "It doesn't matter why Gary is being nice, all that matters is that Pikachu needs help and right now Gary is the only one who can help us. We don't know where the hell we are and it took us hours to get here, I don't think Pikachu has that much time."
"I guess…" Misty and Brock still looked a little suspicious but nodded in agreement, for Pikachu's sake.
"Ok Gary Teleport us to the Pokemon center, as fast as you can!" Ash looked to Gary his hand still on his shoulder, "I trust you."
"You… do?" Gary looked up at Ash and blushed. "Alakazam go!" Gary tossed the pokeball in front of them, "Teleport us to the Pokemon center in Violet City!"
The Alakazam nodded and suddenly Gary, Ash, Pikachu and the Alakazam vanished from Brock and Misty's sight.
"I hope everything will be ok with those two." Misty looked to Brock. "We should set up camp here, that way when they teleport back we wont have to look for them."
With a flash of light Gary and Ash appeared in front of the Pokemon center in Violet city. Ash bolted inside and gave the Pikachu to the nurse joy who was stationed there.
"He's really hurt, please help him!" Ash was crying over the poor Pikachu, "Please you have to do something!" he yelled between sobs.
"Ok we'll do all we can just wait here." The nurse signaled and two chanseys rolled a stretcher up to Pikachu and carried him away into the Pokemon E.R.
Ash collapsed into a chair in the waiting room. Crying hysterically. Gary walked over to the boy and sat next to him. He hesitated a moment and then put his arm around the smaller boy comforting him.
"Im so sorry I didn't mean for anything to happen, he'll be ok don't worry." Gary placed two fingers under Ash's chin lifting him to meet his Gaze. "Don't cry Ash it kills me to see you so upset." Gary looked into Ash's red tear soaked eyes, and brushed away two tears off Ash's cheek.
"…Gary" Ash buried his head into Gary's shoulder and started to cry lightly. "Why are you being so nice to me? you always act like you hate me." Ash's voice was muffled by Gary's shirt.
" I don't know Ash." Gary shifted his head so it was touching Ash's, pulling him tighter into a warm embrace. " I just don't know…" the two of them sat there for about two hours when Nurse Joy returned with a bandaged Pikachu in her arms. Ash had fallen asleep and Gary hadn't moved from Ash's side.
"Excuse me. This is your Pikachu isn't it?" the nurse looked at Gary. Slightly taken aback from the implication of him owning a Pikachu, Gary just kinda stared at the nurse for a moment.
"Uh… no its his." He shook Ash lightly to wake him up. Ash snuggled up closer to Gary, until he realized the nurse looming over him. He looked up at her for a moment until the whole situation set in.
"Pikachu! Your alright!" He jumped from Gary's embrace and grabbed Pikachu from Nurse joy's arms.
"Hey be careful he's still recovering, you need to be gentle with him." She checked her clipboard. "He wont be able to battle for two weeks."
Ash nodded and looked over to Gary. "Ok Gary you can teleport me back to my friends now." He was still gripping Pikachu tightly.
"Oh… ok." Gary looked depressed and grabbed the Alakazam pokeball. "If that's what you want…" a single tear ran down Gary's cheek as he forced a smile.
"Gary what's wrong with you?" Ash looked concerned. "You seem upset."
"I was just hoping ya know we could grab something to eat first since it's really late…" Gary blushed, looked down and began to shuffle his shoes. "But if you'd rather go back with your friends I understand." Ash smiled
"You mean…" Ash seemed giddy. "You mean were friends again?!"
"Well I guess… if that's what you want." Gary looked up at Ash for a moment. "Do you want to be friends again?"
"Of course Gary, I always wanted to be friends again, you're the one who said you hated me." Ash placed Pikachu on to the chair next to him and ran over and hugged Gary, "all I ever wanted is to be friends again, you don't know how much this means to me!"
"No Ash you don't know how much this means to me." Gary muttered tears welling up in his eyes. A few moments later Ash broke away from the embrace.
" So where did you want to get that bite to eat?" he looked up at Gary and frowned. "You're still crying. Why?"
"Im just so happy you don't hate me for what I did to you." He looked down at Ash and hugged him again. This time Ash felt there was something more than friendship That Gary had in mind. Ash felt uncomfortable and had this confused look on his face. Gary pulled away wiping the tears from his eyes, and Ash picked up Pikachu with one hand.
"So I know this one place we could eat at, its not to pricey and the food is good. Lets go!" Gary grabbed Ash's free hand and pulled him to a near by restaurant. After a few moments they were seated and browsing through the menus on the table. The place wasn't fancy but it wasn't trashy It was very mediocre.
"So what are you getting, Ash?" he looked up at him smiling. Ash realized he hadn't seen Gary this happy ever before.
"Um I don't know." Gary hesitated a moment and thought about things that Gary had said to him back at the Pokemon center. "Hey um Gary…"
"Yes, what's wrong you seemed troubled about something." Gary looked at the dark haired boy with love and concern.
"What did you mean back at the Pokemon center when you said 'Don't cry Ash it kills me to see you so upset' and they way you hugged me back at the Pokemon center. It seemed different." Ash looked at Gary who now was blushing a deep crimson.
"Well I meant that I hate to see you so upset. Because I care about you. And not just as a friend Ash… I think I… I think that I… I think im in love with you Ash." Gary looked over to his former rival.
"Gary I think you have the wrong idea about me." Ash sighed. "I care about you too Gary but not in that way… im sorry."
"Oh uh ha ha ha… I was joking! Yeah joking I don't love you, you think I love you. I mean I cant believe you fell for that!" Gary said rather unconvincingly, tears streaming down his cheeks. "Uh my eyes are itchy, I think my allergies-" he quickly got up and ran to the bathroom in tears.
About an hour later Gary emerged from the rest rooms and returned to the table he and Ash were sitting at.
"Gary are you alright?" Ash got up and put his hand on Gary's shoulder, Gary quickly brushed it away.
"Im fine, we have to go meet up with your friends." Gary said coldly, he threw down enough money for the food that Ash ordered while Gary was in the bathroom and then both boys quickly left.
"Gary don't do this…" Ash tried to keep up with Gary, who seemed to be power walking.
"Do what Ash I don't know what you're talking about, we have to go." Gary threw the pokeball containing Alakazam. "Teleport us to Ilex forest, the same location we came from. Surely enough the two emerged in front of Brock and Misty who were sitting on two logs chatting about this and that.
"Ash, Gary is Pikachu ok?" Misty asked.
"Yes he's fine do you want to hold him?" Ash walked over to Misty and let her hold the small rodent. "Be careful with him he's still healing."
"Ok Ash…" Misty and Ash's eyes met and they shared a brief moment; both of the other boys noticed this, the only ones who didn't seemed to be Ash and Misty themselves. Gary wiped his eyes and walked away without as much as a goodbye.
"Hey Gary thank-'' Ash noticed Gary was missing and then took off after him. Do to Gary's rather calm pace it wasn't long before Ash caught up to him.
"Gary you don't have to leave! You could journey with me and Brock and …" Ash was interrupted.
"Yes I do…" Gary leaned in and kissed Ash lightly on the cheek, and with that he walked away into the night.
2 The End
I may write more chapters if enough people review and like it, but I think that's a good ending… probably be better to make a sequel for it rather than another chapter. Well tell me if you like it. Please R&R, now I don't mind criticism but theres a difference between criticizing and being mean please keep that in mind. All anonymous reviews that are mean will be removed so don't bother flaming me, it only gives me a good laugh.