**Note** - Happy Valentine's Day! I'm practicing with writing one-shots as opposed to multi-length fanfics, because I really, really need the practice. I noticed that there aren't any fanfics for this pairing, and while I can understand it, it makes me a little sad, because azanshipping is my guilty pleasure.
Right, so if you're wondering azanshipping is Gary Oak/Green Oak. I'm going with the gameverse Green, because manga!Green and Gary wouldn't get along as well as gameverse.

Rating: T
Warnings: It's Green/Gary, so there's slash and a nice, healthy, narcissistic romance (but if you know the Yugioh fandom, pairing two characters that look like each other together is pretty common).
Summary: Gary had a secret, one that he kept from even his grandfather didn't know. No one knew about the brunet boy who often visited through what he called the 'Entralink', and no one knew about his forbidden romance.

Azanshipping

Gary didn't like to label himself as 'gay'. He was a perfectly normal, straight, sixteen year old boy, who was only a little preoccupied with his appearance. He didn't like to think of this as the identifier of homosexuality, anyway; there were tons of guys he knew who took pride in their appearance! Like Drew! There was nothing gay about the co-ordinator (though he had heard a few rumours about he and a guy named Brendan being caught together... nah, it couldn't be true).

Gary brushed stray fur from his trousers. Thankfully, his grandfather had not questioned him on his smart trousers when he started on his research, and left him to it.

God knows what the professor would do if he found out...

Gary stood up from the carpet of his bedroom. He had been lounging around, waiting for his grandfather to go to bed so he could sneak out of his bedroom window, as he had been doing for the past few weeks. He used to go out wearing his cargos and a t-shirt, but after a week, he had felt compelled to dress a little smarter, Green did so, after all.

Green. The name made him smile. Just a month ago, Gary had snuck out of his bedroom to go for a quiet walk. He had been having doubts about his own skills, again, he thought bitterly. As a trainer, he had been overly-confident in his skills, which helped him win ten gym badges and come so close to his eleventh. The strange pokémon he and his cheerleaders were attacked by had been one of the reasons he wanted to become a researcher in the first place! He had never seen anything like it! Still, after his loss at the Indigo League, he began to doubt whether he was a truly skilled trainer.

It was Ash's fault, he had thought at the time. All that nonsense about being friends with pokémon! Like that would make any difference!

Of course, that opinion changed when Professor Oak sent him to a deserted part of Kanto for a year with Blastoise, Nidoking and an eevee the professor had just received from a friend in the Johto region. He became steadily closer to his pokémon without the need to impress those girls he insisted on having, and the pokémon themselves appreciated it as well!

Gary shuddered as he remembered the time when his nidoking was a tiny, low-levelled nidoran, newly-caught. One of his cheerleaders had gushed about how cute it was, and how she'd hug it, until he reminded her about its poison point. He had apologised to the pokémon later that night, but he was still embarrassed.

When Gary became a researcher, he thought it would be so easy. Ha! He had managed to help bring back an aerodactyl, sure, but he still lost out on a whole year's wages paying for the damage. Being defeated by Saturn while he was in Sinnoh... that was just humiliating...

So he had left the house, heading down the road to a secluded, sandy area by the sea. The beach had always been a source of comfort to him, if a little nostalgic; his parents used to take him there when he was a kid, before they left him with his grandfather to study in a far away region. Gary never saw the beach as a bitter place, instead reserving that for Saffron City, the place he had been born- it was why he never challenged the gym there; too many bad memories. He had been watching the horizon peacefully, admiring the way the moonlight reflected on the surface of the ocean. He used to tell himself that when it was the afternoon and the sun was high, and the tide was low, that if he squinted hard enough, he'd be able to see Cinnabar Island.

It was that reminiscent thought that made him chuckle at his own innocence.

And that was when Green had first spoken to him.

'What's so funny?'

Gary, always one for dramatics, spun around- kicking up sand as he did so. Beside him, only a foot or so away, was a slightly taller boy who looked almost exactly like him. They shared similar facial features and even hairstyles! Though, there was the fact that Gary was stood in his pale blue pajamas, while the boy in front of him wore beige cargos and a white shirt.

'Who are you? Why do you look like me?'

The taller boy laughed lightly. Dammit! Gary thought. Even his laugh was the same!

The boy smiled cockily. 'It's Green. Green Oak.'

'Never heard of you,' Gary told him, turning up his nose. 'My grandfather is the professor, I think I'd know you if we were related.'

Green's smile stretched, so it now met his eyes. 'Ah, that's because I'm not from here. It's probably a bit too confusing for you; I ought to leave.'

Gary had bristled at the insult to his intelligence, and demanded to know what Green meant. Apparently there was such thing as an 'alternate universe', where he came from, and where he was the grandson of the great Professor Oak. Gary had asked for more details, not quite believing him, but still curious.

'I came through using the Entralink. It's quite fascinating, actually. It was developed by Amanita as a way of extending the Storage System. It's all very weird, I don't fully understand it. Still, I told her that I'd test it, and here I am! I need prove of something though...'

He had eyed Gary for a moment, which led to the shorter boy pointing to the sand.

'Use that. Surely the sand in Pallet is different in your universe, right?'

'It's possible, but I was hoping for your shirt.'

He had been flirting with him. Right from the very beginning, and that had excited Gary. They had compared things about their universes, including their progress in the League, and their rivals.

'Wow. And the kid still wants to be a Master? That's dedication.'

'Better than living on the top of Mount Silver for the rest of his life.'

Gary remembered their first meeting fondly, especially the way that Green had been looking at him. Perhaps the two of them, with their over-enlarged egos, were attracted to the taboo idea of the closest kind of incest possible. How could you be closer to anyone than your counterpart? Or as Green had put it, 'Who better to love you than you?'

And so led to their first kiss, a little over a week ago.

Gary startled as he heard the click of his grandfather's light switch. He had not noticed the landing light go out. He decided- as always- to wait a few minutes before opening his window and climbing out, dropping onto the grass below his window with relative ease (he had jumped from higher before, after all).

He made the trek to the beach in record time. Maybe the anticipation of their meeting had gotten to him, but he didn't care.

Green was standing in front of the sea with his back facing him.

Gary grinned and crept up behind the taller, slipping his arms around Green's waist. 'Hey. How've you been?'

Green chuckled. 'You're so casual. I've been busy at the gym- couldn't wait to get away.' He turned around so that he could look into Gary's eyes, one of the few physical differences between the two of them. Gary's eyes were brown, matching his hair in more than colour; they were fierce, and untamed. Green's eyes were, well, green. He cupped Gary's face in his hands and kissed his lips softly. 'I've missed you.'

Gary smiled and leaned into the kiss. 'It's only been a week, Green.' But it was still the longest they'd been apart since their meeting.

Green pulled away, dropping his hands so that they, like Gary's did his own, held his boyfriend's waist. 'Amanita's getting a bit suspicious. I think I'm annoying her with how often I come to see you.'

Come to see you. That made Gary feel good. It fuelled his ego, at any rate. 'Have you told her about-.'

'No. I couldn't, not really. She'd flip; she'd already warned me not to meet potential relatives, and to know how close we are?'

He should have seen it coming. 'Are you going to be able to keep coming here?' Gary asked. He hid his hurt, as he knew that it wasn't something that Green wanted.

Green shook his head. 'I don't think so. She's looking for other people to test it out, to check of other people get the same place that I do.'

Gary forced a smile. 'Then... I guess we'll have to make the most of tonight, won't we?'

Green ran a hand through Gary's hair, pulling their bodies closer as he did so. 'We will, and I'll stay as long as I can.'

It wasn't anything different than what Green usually told him; something in the system always allowed him a short amount of time in the universe before he faded away. The first time it had happened, it had terrified Gary.

Now he was scared of it happening again.

He chose to pull away from his boyfriend and instead to sit on the sand, looking out at the ocean. 'What's it like in your Pallet Town?'

Green smiled faintly. 'It's a lot smaller than this. The beach back home is shorter, but then, we're a small town.' He sat down next to Gary, grabbing the front of his shirt and pulling him closer. 'It's certainly not as romantic as here.'

Gary snorted, but leant closer. 'That was so gay, it's not even funny.'

The taller teen smirked and yanked Gary closer so his face smashed into his own.

'Ow! Geez, what was that for?' Gary moaned, holding his forehead

'I didn't mean it! I just saw it in films and...'

Gary was staring at him incredulously. 'Seriously? You're a sap.' He pushed Green onto his back, and climbed on top of him. 'Let me teach you how it's done.' And he closed the distance between them, locking their lips in a short kiss, but still one that sent his hormones wild.

It was only his second kiss, after all.

And being here with Green, meeting each other again in something much more passionate, he never wanted the night to end.

**Note**- I'm sure that in the future, once my writing style improves (and when I'm actually awake; it's ten-past one here. At night), I'll rewrite this. I'd like to hear how you think it could be improved, so I can take it into account during the rewriting. I know it's abrupt, and that's more of the style of it. Just because it's Valentine's Day, doesn't mean that I'll write something happy, dammit.

So, I hope you review! Tell me what you think, please, and request a pairing! I go by any universe, accept crack-pairings if I'm familiar with the characters, and will even write for a prompt if given.

I won't write incest (apart from this sort of thing, but then, it's Gary and Green, so...), and if a pairing is really creepy (like a ten year old and someone older in a romantic relationship), I won't write it.

-SA