WELL. I had a fail and submitted my orange idea as red, and couldn't think of one for orange until literally this morning. That's why I didn't update yesterday as planned, sorry. ^^;

Sorry if this idea seems lame, but it's the best which I could do. D:

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon or anything associated with it. (Don't hurt me for forgetting to put this in the last chapter. w )

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"C'mon Scyther, come back!"

The Scyther in question promptly ignored his new trainer's command, and headed off back into the tree which he had previously been sleeping in. Apparently he didn't like being woken up for training.

His green haired trainer gave out what seemed like the hundredth sigh that day, as he slouched down holding his head in his hands.

"What am I going to do with you..." he mumbled half heartedly, wondering if it truly was a good idea to add another Pokemon to his team.
Aaron, the first and youngest member of the Elite Four, looked up at his new Scyther with questioning eyes. "Alright Aaron, snap out of it!" he thought to himself angrily. " You're a member of the Elite Four for goodness sake, what are people going to think if you can't make a Pokemon obey you?" He finished his thoughts by slamming his fist onto the ground, desperately trying to think of a way to control the disobedient Scyther.

Realising that sitting on the ground wasn't going to solve anything, Aaron stood up and brushed himself down, before walking up to the tree which Scyther sat in.

"Scyther. " he started, his tone of voice going into one full of seriousness. "You do-" Aaron was cut off by Scyther swooping down from the tree, planting a well aimed and thought out x-scissors attack on the young boy.
Being too shocked to even let out a yelp, Aaron just sat where Scyther had knocked him down, staring at the Pokemon in disbelief, as it walked off into the forest surrounding them.

As soon as it was out of site, Aaron clutched his arm where he had been hit, blood covering his hands from the gash which the attack left. He glanced down at the floor, feeling his eyes go watery once again. "What am I doing wrong?" he said shakily, whilst picking himself up of the ground, and heading back to the castle of where the elite four stayed.

By the time the trainer managed to stagger his way back, he was feeling more than a little faint. He wasn't exactly the strongest of people when it came to blood.
As soon as he entered the building, he was swamped by the rest of the members, asking all the generic questions, such as; "Whatever happened to you?" "Are you okay?"
Why people asked if you were okay when you're clearly not was a mystery to Aaron.

Being surrounded by all of the people and their questions wasn't helping at all, and soon the boy found himself becoming more faint that what he was before. Just as he was about to snap and yell at them all, something extremely out of character for Aaron, he was quickly whisked away into a separate room by someone, the door being locked behind them.

"There, now you won't be disturbed anymore." A familiar voice gently spoke.

"Lucian?" Aaron spoke just as gently, not wanting to disturb the peace within the room.

"That's me." The purple haired man replied with a smile, before pulling up a chair for Aaron to sit on.
"Sit down, before you keel over." He directed Aaron over to the chair, before moving over to the sink in the room to run some water into a bowl.

Aaron figured he must have taken him into the kitchen, which maybe wouldn't be such a good idea considering Flint gets hungry seemingly every 5 seconds.

The youngest member of the elite four carefully watched the older member's every move, taking in every aspect of his perfect features, engraving them into his mind with the rest of them. Aaron couldn't help but admit he loved moments like this, moments in which he could just watch Lucian, without any curious stares from the other elites.

Lucian soon enough brought the water over to the table at which Aaron sat, almost instantly snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Here" he said gently, carefully unravelling the bug-type users' fingers from his wounded arm. Just the small touch made a faint blush appear across his cheeks, and Aaron was pretty sure that he could see one creeping up upon Lucian's face too. It was almost invisible, but it was still there.

It took a fairly long time to properly clean up the wound, and after he had done washing and sponging it down, Lucian wrapped it securely in fresh white linen bandages.

The whole process barely took about ten minutes, but to the oblivious pair, it seemed like an eternity. The older boy finished rinsing the bowl and sponge out, then returned to his younger colleague. Satisfied with his work, he took a seat in front of him, before looking at the boy with a serious demeanour.

"So..." he started, causing Aaron to look up at him. "Are you going to tell me what happened to you?"

Aaron wiggled nervously in his seat, having a mental argument with himself whether to tell the truth or not. He didn't want to get Scyther hated because of this, but on the other hand, lying to Lucian just wouldn't be right. Deciding that the truth is the best answer, he responded.

"I tripped. " He said hurriedly, clearly a bad liar.

Sighing softly, Lucian placed his hands firmly on Aaron's shoulders, one either side.

"Now tell me the real reason? There's no use in lying to me, Aaron." He stared into his green eyes intensely, fighting the strong urge to blush at how their faces were only inches apart from each other.

Aaron's heart melted as he gazed back into the blue-violet eyes of his superior. He mentally scolded himself for lying to him, then looked down as he muttered his response.

"It was Scyther."

As soon as he heard this, Lucian was up in a flash. "

"I knew it." He spoke sharply. "I always thought that it would cause you trouble, but never did I think that it would physically hurt you." He could feel the anger swelling up inside of him, and as he finished his sentence, Lucian stormed over to the door and fumbled with the lock, his anger making it hard to undo it.

"Where are you going?" Aaron stood up, rushing over to where Lucian stood at the door.

"I'm going to find that damn Scyther, that's what. " He finally managed to undo the door, but as he tried to step out, he felt something grab a hold of his shirt.
He turned around to see Aaron desperately looking up at him with teary eyes.

"A...Aaron?"

"Please don't hurt him. It wasn't his fault. I...I should have been a better trainer. If I wasn't so useless, he would have obeyed me to begin with, and none of this would have happened..." Aaron's shoulder's began to shake slightly as he looked down, his tears falling for a number of reasons. He wished he didn't lie to Lucian in the first place. He wished that he was a better trainer. And above all...he wished that he wasn't as much of a cry baby anymore.

As Lucian stared down at the now seemingly small and fragile child, his face softened, and his anger faded into guilt instead. He started to reach out to Aaron, before slightly pulling back his hands, not sure whether what he would do would be the right thing or not. I mean, he had read it all in books before...embraces such as this one, but now that a similar moment faced him in real life, he felt at a loss. Nothing he had ever read could have told him how to do this properly.

Quickly deciding that thinking wasn't really going to help here, Lucian rapidly yet gently pulled the sobbing boy into a tight embrace, being careful to avoid his wounded arm.

"Hey..."He spoke comfortingly, just as a Mother would to her scared child. "I'm sorry...you don't need to cry..."

A shocked Aaron peeked his head up, only for his gaze to be greeted by a friendly smile. One of warmth and comfort.

As he looked up, Aaron felt the back of Lucian's hand wipe away the tears on his face. "Aaron...you're a member of the elite four, you must be a good trainer for that to happen. Heck, think of how many people apply to become one. And then think of how many make it." He looked down to see Aaron still looking at him, a look of curiosity plastered upon his delicate, porcelain like face.
"Why does he have to be so cute...?" Lucian shook his head to shake those thoughts away. Now wasn't the time for them.

"Basically..." he continued, "It's not your fault that this happened. It was just an unruly Pokemon, that's all. It happens to all of us."

"Even you?" Aaron seemed shocked to hear Lucian's words, never did he think that Lucian, the strongest Elite next to the Champion, had his own problematic Pokemon.

"Even me. Several times in fact." He looked down through his tinted glasses to see the questioning Elite with a shocked look upon his face. He chuckled gently and ruffled the boy's hair lightly.

"Which also means that I might just be able to help you. " He finished with a grin, before gently standing up, lifting Aaron up with him.
"But first, I want you to get some rest. It's gotten pretty late now. In the morning we'll see what we can do about this Scyther of yours."

As he brought Aaron back to his room, Lucian could hear Aaron mutter something in his half-asleep state.

"Thank you...Lucian. You mean a lot to me..." the man in question stiffened and blushed slightly. He didn't know whether Aaron meant it, or was just that tired that he was mumbling nonsense. Either way, he decided that it would be perhaps best to not mention it to the younger elite when he woke.

But even after Lucian had put Aaron in his bed, and headed off towards his own room, those nine words kept on ringing in his head. He smiled downwards whilst thinking about them. "Heh...even if you didn't mean it, you will always mean that much to me." He thought to himself, before shutting the door to his own room, sure that he would be getting a good night sleep tonight.

The next day came about quickly, and Aaron and Lucian soon found themselves heading to the forest in which this Scyther lived.

With him, Lucian carried a small bag containing what Aaron assumed to be his plan. But however hard he tried; he just couldn't guess what could possibly be in there.

Walking in a comfortable silence, the pair quickly made their way to the tree at where yesterday's incident happened. As expected, Scyther was sitting in the tree. As soon as it spotted the two, it gave a look of disgust and turned his back on them.
"This one's got an attitude eh?" Lucian smirked, before starting to undo the top of his bag. He reached in and pulled out a smooth orange coloured berry.

"Here." He handed it to Aaron, who looked at it with confusion.
"It's a Pomeg Berry, when you feed it to Scyther, hopefully he will become more friendly to you." He stated, clearing seeing that an explanation would be needed.

Aaron gave him the look of 'I knew that all along', before proceeding to stand near to the tree.

Lucian kept one of his pokemon at the ready, just in case the Scyther attacked again.

Nervously approaching the tree, Aaron called out to the Pokemon.
"Umm Scyther!" he said, before extending the arm with the berry in towards him. "Come down and try some of these." He added "please" as an afterthought to that sentence.

As soon as Scyther caught on to the berry's smell, he was down in a flash. He tentatively looked at Aaron's outstretched hand, before taking the berry and eating it.
His trainer looked on expectantly, almost shaking from the nerves. This all changed however, when his noticed that Scyther was smiling happily, clearing enjoying the fruit.

Aaron broke out into a broad grin, whilst feeding it more of the sweet fruit, with Scyther happily obliging without any hesitation this time.

Lucian just looked on happily, thankful that his plan had worked. He watched the two start to finally bond with one another, the two having silly grins on their faces the whole time.

Today, Lucian had decided, proved to him that Orange was definitely a happy colour indeed.

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Rushed ending is rushed. D:

This one is probably not one of my best ones...but I really did get stuck on the idea. Don't question my eyesight either, the Pomeg berry looked orange to me okay? xD

Anyways, since I apparently can't stick to the date which I had originally planned for finishing this fic, I guess just expect an update whenever really. ^^; Hopefully it won't be much longer than what I originally said though. C: