The Westermarck Effect

If there is one thing I can be certain of, it is that I hate Aniki. I don't want anything to do with him.

That's what I used to think anyway. If I really did hate Aniki that much than for one thing he would be Reiji, not Aniki. Satoshi wouldn't have annoyed me so much either. If I hated Aniki as much as I should do than I wouldn't support his business. I wouldn't call him all the time and I would be using the skills of some other Breeder. They're not that hard to find.

This stupid friend of his has invited herself over. She says that she wants to help me train for the league but it's clear to everyone but Aniki that it's a plan to get a date with him. Even that Gym Leader has said that it's low or something like that. I wasn't really listening. I hate them both, making eyes at Aniki like that. Just as bad as each other. Worst thing is that it's eating up my training time.

That's why I left Tobari City, despite Aniki's promise of extra training. He's usually reliable. Even when he was travelling, he would make time for me even though we'd only see each other once a year or so from when he stated training to when I started to travel with him. When I was a good distance away I started training my pokemon by myself. It was stupid since I was distracted. Is that why I'm thinking about Aniki now? Hope so. Anyway, in my distraction an misdirected attack hit me. I flew back and hit a tree. I was out for what seemed like seconds. Aniki says that judging by how worried my pokemon where it must have been longer.

How long was I out for? Why won't anyone tell me? I have to know so I know what to say to them. Who missed that attack too? They'll need to be punished or I will look bad. I can't even remember what type of attack it was.

Aniki wasn't the one to find me. It was, the Gym Leader I think. They crowded around me swiftly. I wish it had been just Aniki. Aniki shouldn't have called them all out to look for me. I'm not a weakling. Aniki shouldn't be treating me as such. He treats the actual weak with such... useless tolerance too. They call it kindness but how could it be? No one could possibly want to be weak.

Aniki wouldn't see it that way. He's such a fool. How would he see it?

It doesn't really matter what he thinks.

This girl, the latest friend of his is very annoying. She's too much like me. Having him like someone like me in that sort of way... it's the other end of annoying from Sumomo. Surely there are more options out there than weaklings and people like me.

The idea of him dating anyway...

I miss Aniki as a trainer. He was one of the strongest I knew. Before he gave up. It makes no sense. Jindai didn't do to him half of what he did to me. Aniki could have become amazing. He could have just kept the breeding as a hobby and become perfect. He was so close.

Aniki is Aniki. Aniki isn't the stunningly brave and powerful trainer that I was told about nor the ideal I wanted to achieve as I travelled with him. That said, Aniki isn't the doormat that everyone sees him as now. Especially that Gym Leader eating up all his time.

She's talking to him now. "Aniki. Get over here." I don't want her to think that I like people taking advantage of him. He's letting himself become a doormat. I'm the one who is so many years younger but I bet some would say the otherwise. "Aniki." Why isn't he coming? Can't he hear me? That stupid girl better not be distracting him too much.

I wouldn't mind Aniki being a Breeder if it wasn't for the fact that everyone's making him weak.