Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon or any of its characters.

(A/N: This is going to be a random one-shot that came to mind at 5am during exam week, sorry about the inevitable incoherence that might result. I don't have a proofreader or anything of the sort but I really couldn't sleep so I'm going to write what comes to mind. It is written from Red's perspective though if I ever choose to change it I'll say which POV I'm using)

Chapter One...shot?: Ache

Growing up, it was always Blue and I.

The local housewives in Pallet Town would always comment about how cute we looked together because we were inseparable.

We were both average kids for the most part, besides the fact that Blue's parents had died in a forest fire and my father had left Mom after I was born.

Mom decided to take in Blue as her own when she was only 4 because my mom was good friends with Blue's parents. At the funeral, Blue clung to Mom the whole time and Mom looked down at her tear-stained skirt and vowed that she would raise her like she was her own child. This left Mom the burden of having to take care of both of us, but thankfully Pallet Town helped take care of our living expenses as well as our schooling.

Blue was always with me, especially when we were at school.

In elementary and the first part of middle school the kids were especially mean. They would always tease Blue for not having parents even though the teachers reprimanded the kids every time. Since Blue was my closest friend I would always stand up for her. When the boys pulled her hair I would fight each and every one of them. If the girls sent her mean notes about how she was unwanted, I would confront each of them face to face and make sure they apologized.

This went on less and less until the second half of middle school where most kids had matured enough to stop picking on Blue and the others who hadn't I had already dealt with anyway.

Of course, this didn't exactly make me popular with everyone in my grade. I had a big mouth growing up and always talked about becoming the greatest Pokemon trainer. Along with my confrontational tendencies I definitely made some enemies. Those who hadn't matured and were still looking for a target for their bullying, turned their attention away from Blue and towards me.

I didn't mind though, from a young age I lived with the philosophy that there's no point in caring about the opinions of those that don't matter to me.

As such, I went through my youth happy enough. I always had Blue by my side and she always depended on me as her shield from the outside world. I felt wanted and was happy that I had meaning in my life. Blue was my sky, my water, and my precious friend above all.

But this changed when we entered high school.

During the later part of middle school, I started changing and along with seeing Blue as my precious friend, I began to also see her as something more. She was the one who I could always talk to about my problems, the only one I had ever let see my tears, and the one person in the world that I felt I could be myself around the most. Naturally, I developed feelings for Blue. I thought all would be good since a lot of the guys had bullied her growing up so I didn't worry about having competition.

However, Blue was starting to mature into a woman and she began to grow into a real beauty. She wasn't like the women you would see in magazines, but she had this simple natural beauty to her that I could only describe as being comparable to a clear sky after a long storm. She never wore makeup and preferred to let her long brunette hair down naturally with only the occasional bow resting upon it.

She was definitely an eye-catcher. The boys who I had to deal with when she was growing up were no longer mean to her and instead some were trying to ask her out now. It was pretty ridiculous now that I look back to our time in middle school.

Guys who had pulled her hair only two to three years ago were now sheepishly asking her to go out with them. Luckily, she politely refused them all stating that she wasn't ready for a relationship. At the time, I took this as a hint that she might also have feelings for me as well as the fact that she never said that she didn't like someone.

Oh how wrong I was.

Even though Blue was becoming more beautiful by the day, her timid personality had not changed. The fact that she stayed the same even despite the huge change in social status that she experienced through her outward appearance changing, made me fall more hopelessly in love with her. She would never fail to tell me how grateful she was for always being there for her, and I always remember the grateful smile she would have whenever I stood up for her.

Those smiles would haunt me.

Although we lived together, we were still like regular childhood friends at the same time besides the fact that we would have every meal together and that we lived together

Sometimes she would enter my room and ask me advice on how to deal with troublesome classmates, or some help with her battle theory class. It was our routine to be completely open with each other about everything and seek the other for advice about anything and everything. She always kept that promise with me, especially when it came to how to turn down boys gently and related things. I also always kept this promise as well, except with my feelings for her.

Ironically, our closeness is what made the beginning of high school a nightmare for me.

End.

(A/N: I might continue, I might not, depends on how the feedback is and how I feel. I will definitely have more dialogue later on but this chapter is more prologuey stuff. )