YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WARNED, THIS STORY HAS SPOILERS IN IT FOR SUN AND MOON.
And with that out of the way, here you go.
It had been a while since she'd returned to Alola, and she was not exactly ready for it.
Sure, she knew that at one point that she would be coming back, but it had been so long. Six years, to be exact, and she had a small challenge she wanted to go through.
Knowing that he most likely wouldn't recognize her, she walked out of the port of Hau'oli city, seeing if she could remember how to get there.
She knew it was more to the south east side of the island, so she started to walk on the road, keeping a brisk pace, thinking back to how exactly it all started.
Wandering around Iki town, Hau wasn't doing much of anything.
True, his grandfather was no longer kahuna of the island, but that didn't mean he was. Instead, it was Ilima, and he had taken the position of Elite Four as well, leaving him as a trial captain. But he didn't mind; after all, it was his next step to become island kahuna.
Sitting down on a bench, Hau just relaxed a bit, thinking on how to make changes with the Totem Pokémon he was training or the trial, when he saw someone come up to him.
She looked vaguely familiar, dressed in a sun dress and seemingly cheep hiking boots, but he didn't know from where, and she was walking in a shy manner, her sunglasses and hat hiding her eyes and hair.
"Um, I was told that you are familiar with the Champion," she started, a small flush on her face, standing in front of the captain, looking around a bit.
"Yeah, I know the champ, is there something that you need from him?" Hau responded, an easy grin on his face.
"I would like to meet him, and, I know that ….." she started, but was cut off when something flew by, causing the hat to come off, revealing long blonde hair.
With both of them looking at what flew by, they were surprised to see Tapu Koko, with the hat in its beak hand, before flying off, seemingly headed to the Ruins of Conflict.
"Hey! Tapu Koko! I know you have a thing with hats right now, but you can't just take traveler's hats!" Hau yelled, running off into the distance to the guardian Pokémon's ruin.
Looking at her bag, she pulled at a Pokéball, and with some determination, opened it.
Running on for some distance, Hau quickly took a break to catch his breath.
Was it him, or did he accidently run off into the wrong direction? When he tried to head to the ruins, he seemed to end up back to the entrance of the village where he started to run. Deciding to not be confused by the guardian's behavior, Hau simply gave up, and started to look for the person that he left behind, only to not find her.
Scratching his head, he looked down and saw some foot prints in the ground, along with hoof prints.
What Pokémon was it? It wasn't a Mudsdale, as it was too small for that, but it wasn't a Mudbray either, the shape was different.
Trotting along the path, she and her Pokémon weren't having any problems of returning to the village, and eventually reached the Ruins of Conflict, where she saw someone napping there, as if taking a break from whatever he was doing.
At his feet were all of his Pokémon, and the one that caught her attention was his beautiful Primarina, who had taken to lean her head on the body of a very familiar Pokémon.
"Nebby!" she called out, returning her Pokémon to its ball and placing her bag down, running to meet the giant lion like Pokémon resting there.
Her call had alerted most of the Pokémon resting there, as they quickly jolted awake, prepairing for something to happen.
However, Solgaleo leapt ahead of every one of them, before it started to growl at the young lady, stopping and putting its face up close to hers, rubbing the sunglasses off of her face.
The young gent, now eighteen, woke up from the commotion created by his Pokémon, rubbing his face before only stopping part way.
Feeling a different pair of eyes on her, she turned around to see someone there with a familiar face, even if it had grown a little bit.
"Lillie?" the boy asked as if not knowing who it was.
Nodding her head, she rushed to the teen, hugging him.
"I'm back, Tai," she responded, as he started to hug her back, holding as if he didn't believe it.
"I've missed you," Tai said, as he started to break from the hug, looking at Lillie in the face, before doing something rather unprecedented and unexpected; kissing her.
It wasn't on the lips, but it still got the message across, as she kissed back, giggling.
"It's been six years and you still can't kiss me on the lips?" she asked, putting a finger on his lips, seemingly teasing him.
Blushing a bit, Tai looked the other way, as if to ask his Pokémon for help. Solgaleo just lay there, looking at both of them with lazy eyes, and Primarina decided to help, wriggling between the two, asking for attention from Lillie.
"Yes, I remember you to, Saoirse. Thank you for looking after him and the rest of his group," she said, rubbing its long nose and poking the ball on the end, causing it to sneeze, with a large bubble coming out, before popping over both of them.
"Right, I forgot about that," Lillie laughed, as Tai scrambled to find a towel, not wanting Lillie to be too wet for too long, despite the rather warm summer sun.
After seeing that his towel in his refresh kit wasn't too dirty, he turned around to give it to her, before he quickly turned around, a bashful blush on his face.
The splash of water from Primarina on Lillie had shown how much she had grown, it was fair to say that age had benefited her a lot.
Giggling again, Lillie smiled at how little he had changed in that aspect; there were times where he couldn't walk on a beach because of all of the swimmers there would cause his little mind to flush so much he couldn't think strait.
"Well, at least I know you wouldn't have gone and cheated on me in my absence," she said, taking the towel, and rubbing herself off a bit.
Sitting away from Lillie, Tai looked over to the sky, and saw Tapu Koko with the hat Lillie was wearing in its hands, before dropping it to the ground, and flew back to its temple, waiting for something else to happen.
Looking at the hat, Tai pondered for a second, before asking, "So are you here to stay?"
Being somewhat relatively dry, Lillie sat down next to Tai, and took the hat back from him.
"Yeah, I am. Mother will still be in Kanto for a while, but she's fine, the process worked to a certain degree, but it couldn't get all the toxins out of her body. She'll be there to watch for any possible side effects and such," she said, placing her hand on his.
Tai had a small jerk upon the action, but kept his hand there, a tiny blush still present.
Sitting like that for a few minutes, they both sat there, looking at the clouds move, when Lillie decided to ask her question.
"Hey Tai, would you battle me?"
"What?" he asked, as if she had just a limb grow from her head.
"While I'm not one hundred percent confident on my skills yet, I spent the last two years of my time in Kanto working with Pokémon, and I managed to catch a few of them," she said, standing up and grabbing her bag.
Shaking his head a bit, Tai gave up with the look on Lillie's face, as it was the same face she made when she said she was going to save her mother.
"Fine, but just because I love you doesn't mean I'll go easy on you," he said, as Saoirse slid into position, with a small flush on Lillie's face.
He never said that he loved her out loud before, but it didn't keep him from showing his feelings.
Getting her first ball out, Lillie braced herself to fight the champion of the region, and smiled.
AN: Well? How was it? When I finish my current major work, Fire Emblem Awakening: Repurposed, I plan on writing two stories at the same time, and if you see where this is going, a Sun and Moon fic is going to be one of the big stories that I plan on writing. I might add more on to this if I need to take a break from my big stories, so if you want to see something, please let me know.
And if you're wondering where the name Tai comes from, taiyo is sun in Japanese.