More than Friends.

Yeah, corny title, I know. I have a weak imagination, get over it.

This is my clingyshipping fanfic. For those of you who don't know what clingyshipping is, it's basically BarryxLucas or JunxKouki, which means yes, guyxguy. *gasp from crowd* That's right, two guys. Got a problem with it? Read something else. But if your someone who likes clingyshipping, (much like myself) then please take the time to read. I have upped their ages to 15. Yeah, they're a bit out of character, but I'm trying my best.

And, to help me with the bits of it that aren't in the story, such as this intro, is none other than Lucas!

Lucas: Hi.

Me :In this, Lucas and Barry start their pokemon journey, but I'm ading lots of twists to it. Thank you for listening to me ramble, and now, on with the show!

I do not own Pokemon, nor do I own Barry or Lucas.

"Come oooooonnnn, come on, come on, come on! Hurry up Lucas!" These were the words of a very hyper, very excited, 15 year old blonde boy from Twinleaf Town. "Come on, we gotta get going or we'll miss the red Gyarados!"

"Barry" replied the other boy, still half asleep, "we don't even know if we'll see the red Gyarados at all." The boy was dressed in his standard outfit; black slacks, a red, long-sleeved shirt, white scarf and his blue jacket. He had a red baret perched atop his dark blue hair.

"We won't see it with that attitude. Come on, hurry up already!" Barry said, getting frusterated. He was dragging his friend down the dirt path to Lake Verity. But as Barry could walk faster then Lucas could even run, it was taking what seemed like, at least to Barry, forever.

He was wearing a long sleeved, white and orange shirt with the collar tturned up, grey jeans and had a green scarf wrapped around his neck. He also had a brown bag over one shoulder.

"Barry, why did you have to drag me here at 6:00 in the morning? Couldn't you wait until later?"

"Nope! The Gyarados might not be there later. We gotta get there now, so hurry up! come on, I'll race you! If you win, you can walk home as slow as you want!" and with that, he took off running towards the lake.

Ugh, why does he always have to be such a pain in the ass? thought Lucas. Still though, at least nothing is ever boring like this. And it's kinda cute when he does that. Surprised at what he just thought, he shook it from his mind. Giving up any hope of being able to take it slow, Lucas took off running after his friend.

After about ten minutes of running, Lucas finally arrived at the lake, where Barry was waiting for him. "Took you long enough" he said. He was staring into the lake, looking for any sign of a pokemon. He took a deep breath and plunged his head into the water. After a minute, he pulled his head out and sucked in air. "Crap, can't see anything." he said, shaking his head off.

"Thanks.....for waiting for me...Barry..." Lucas panted sarcastically, out of breath. "What are you doing?" he asked, seeing Barry plunge his head in the water again.

"I'm looking for Gyarados, what does it look like?" he replied. "This is useless, I'm going in" he said, standing up.

"Barry, it's frezing cold, you could get sick-" Lucas started, but Barry had already stripped his shirt, jeans and shoes off and dove in. Rising to the surface, he let out a loud cry, signaling that the water was as cold as Lucas had predicted.

"S-s-oo coooold" Barry said, shivering. "I'll b-b-be right b-b-b-back", and with that, he dove under the water.

So stupid. Why does he insist on doing such rediculous things? Lucas thought to himself. Still though, gotta appreciate the attitude. And he looks sooo cute like that. There was that thought again. For the second time that day, he called Barry, his best friend since as long as he could remember, cute. But he couldn't mean it, could he? Barry was his friend. And he was also a boy. Lucas was straight, wasn't he? He never found himself being attracted to woman in town, or on T.V. But that didn't mean he was gay, did it? He always loved Barry, but more as a brother. Nothing even relatively "romantic".

Lucas thought it was better to just brush this thought away, but he couldn't get it out of his head. He looked over at Barry as he came out of the water.

"Crap, couldn't see the Gyarados at all. I really thought I would see it. Oh well, at least I get to go swimming!!" he called out, but Lucas was in a sort of trance, just staring at Barry, his mind miles away. "Lucas? You ok?" he asked, climbing onto shore. "Damn, should've brought a towel." he laughed. This seemed to snap Lucas awake again. He looked at Barry, who was sitting on the edge of the lake with only his soaking wet boxers on. He felt his face turn red and quickly looked away.

"Come on, get dressed. We should go soon" he said, trying his best not to look at Barry again. Dammit, why am I feeling this way? I can't even look at Barry now without blushing. What on earth is wrong with me?

"Lucas! Look out!" Barry called out to him. Looking over his shoulder, Lucas saw two angry looking Starlys swooping down at him. He jumped out of the way, landing on the ground next to Barry. "What do we do?" he asked panicking.

"I don't know! We don't have any pokemon!" Lucas replied. The Starlys turned and came at them again, narrowly missing them. Without realizing it, Lucas had stepped in front of Barry, as if to protect him. The Starly's took off at full speed, beaks aimed at the two boys. They both closed their eyes and prepared for the worst, but then the unexpected happened.

A ray of glowing stars struck the two small bird pokemon, sending them crashing into a tree. "What was that?" Barry asked, opening one eye. They then herd a faint cry. the cry of a pokemon.

"Spriiiiit!" the cry sounded, and as the two teens looked around, they saw the origin of the cry. It was a small, pink and blue pokemon with two glowing tails, that was floating in the middle of the lake.

"Is that...a pokemon?" Barry questioned.

"Spriiiiiiiiiit!" the pokemon called out. It then swiped a tail across in frnt of it, sending another spray of stars, which flew past the two boys and struck the Starlys as they were preparing for another attack. The two small birds figured it would be better to leave, and took off.

"Wow. That pokemon saved us..." said Barry, sounding astounded. "Thank you! Thanks for helping us!" he called out. The pink pokemon slowly sunk into the water before disappearing completely. Barry looked back, expecting Lucas to be just as amazed, but instead saw that his friend was crying on the ground, curled up in a ball.

Lucas:WHAT? YOU MADE ME A CRYBABY?!?! YOU BASTARD! HOW COULD YOU!?!?

Me: Jeeze, sorry, I just needed it for something in the future. It's not like your gonna cry over everything.

Lucas: You could have at least asked me you know....

Me: Just shut up and enjoy the story, will you?

"Lucas? What's wrong?" Asked Barry. "We're ok, see? Neither of us got hurt thaks to that nice pokemon."

Although he was crying, his words came out clearly. "That's not why I'm crying." he snifled.

"Then what's wrong?"

"I can't say. I'm sorry, I just can't." Lucas wouldn't take his head ayaw from his hands. He was terrified, confused, angry and relieved all at the same time. But he couldn't possibly explain this to Barry. He couldn't even look at him, in fear that he would blush upon seeing him again, or something worse.

"You sure? Well, ok. I won't force you to tell me." Barry said. He picked up his clothes, hauled them on again, and put his arm around Lucas' shoulder. "Well, whenever your ready, we can head back to Twinleaf". He looked worried. For once, he wasn't in a rush to take off running. He was worried about his friend.

Wiping away the tears with his sleeve, Lucas stood up, looked at Barry for a moment, and looked away, realizing his face was red again. "Can you, um, not mention the part about me crying?" he asked Barry.

"You were crying?" he replied. "You sure? I didn't see you cry at all." And with that, they headed back into Twinleaf.

Me: Ok, well, didn't quite come out the way I wanted it too.

Lucas:I'm not going to forget this.

Me: Oh, blow it out your ass, will you? It was one time, ONE FREAKIN TIME!

Lucas: Whatever.

Me: Thanks for reading. Criticism and comments are encouraged. Keep in mind, this is my first, so it's not very good.

Lucas: I'll say. _

Me: *picks up baseball bat* That's it, get over here!