Name Notes!

Hayato is Falkner

Nagi is Winona

Asuna is Flannery

Silver Shards

Hayato sat at the Olivine Dock to meet the girl who was coming from Hoenn. Nagi was supposed to be a bird user, so he was interested. They had met at the Hoenn Pokemon Finals, and talked quite a bit. She was a pretty tough girl, she had no interest in boys, and Hayato was the first one she ever actually took the interest in talking to. Her father, a man of high standing, had asked Hayato to watch after for a little while, which was a bit strange, considering she was already 18. It was supposed to be about ten minutes till the boat came in, but he heard a strong flapping sound from above. He spun his head to the sky to see a giant Skarmory come down next to him.

"Yo!" she saluted with her fingers. Nagi had RODE her Skarmory all the way to the Johto region!

"Geez, I expected you to come on the boat, but this is cool too." he smiled to her. She laughed really cutely, and Hayato blushed.

"Sh-She's really cute when she smiles..." he thought to himself.

"It's good to see you!!" she glomped him. His face went as hot as burning metal.

"Wh-Whoa!" he laughed nervously and let her off. She kept smiling at him, like he was the only thing she could see.

"Why don't we head back to my house?" he suggested, and she nodded.

"All right!" Nagi clamped his arm around hers.

"Wh-Whoa man, chill man, chill..." Hayato had to keep his cool. Her father was counting on him, and trusted Hayato not to make any perverted moves on his daughter.

"Think they're dating?" asked one person on the street to their friend.

"They're a great couple!" another speculated. Hayato thought he would die of embarassment.

Once they got back to his house after a long drive to Violet City, the small white house on a quiet road, Nagi sat down in the back yard.

"It's beautiful out here!" she smiled. It's true, it was beautiful. The reason Hayato bought a house in that area was to have that back yard of a big forest. He loved to be near the bird pokemon, and this made it easy. Nagi smiled as a Natu flew through the air. She started to sing a heart-wrenching melody...

Who has seen the wind?

That flows through the sky?

Neither I nor you

But when the leaves

Hang trembling in the trees

The wind is passing thro'.

"What's that song?" Hayato asked her. She looked up to him and saw his beautiful hair flowing in the wind. She was thrown off for a moment. Who was she looking at this entire time...? She shook it off and smiled.

"A song my brother taught me. "Who has seen the Wind"."

"It's very pretty."

"Isn't it?"

"Oh, the song too, but... Your voice... Is dazzling..." he put his hand over the bottom of his face, trying to conceal his blush.

"Thanks..." she looked down into the small pond that was a few feet from her body. Suddenly, she jumped up and smiled, "Whatcha wanna do next?!" she laughed.

"Let's go inside. We'll talk for a little bit. The wind is making it a bit chilly out here." he started walking towards the house.

"Oh? I'm not cold at all." she informed him.

"Well duh, that's 'cause you have on all that flight gear." he chuckled, "Go get changed. I'll wait for you in the living room."

"OK." she nodded and ran inside to unpack her bags and change. He smiled, happy that she was. Nagi was a really spunky girl, different from the rumors.

"I'm just warning you," Asuna told him over the phone before Nagi came, "She's a bit... Gloomy. She's very serious, and doesn't smile much."

"Why's that?" Hayato asked her.

"Well..." she sighed, "She has her reasons."

"What... Are those reasons...?" hewondered to himself as he walked back inside. There, he found a sparkling cute girl. Nagi was in a blue sun dress, but she still had her flying cap on.

"You..." he turned bright red again, "Look really cute..."

"Really?!" she smiled and hugged him.

"Whoa...!" his stomach tied up into a knot. Sure, Hayato had a lot of female fans, but this was his first time being so close a to girl that wasn't his mom! He let her hug him, and then she seperated, "Why don't you take off your helmet inside?" he chuckled and was about to take it off her head, but she pulled away from him as fast as she could and held it on.

"S-Sorry..." she blushed, "This is... Really important to me."

"Ah... OK..." he said in shock. But then he realized. He could ask her all those questions he had in his mind now! She had obviously been pretending to be cheery only around him, and he wanted to know the reason, "Why is it important to you?"

"Well..." she trailed off, and just... Stopped talking.

"And you don't usually act like this, do you? You usually don't smile, and you're very serious." he confirmed.

"Th-That is..." she put her fingers together. She wasn't going to tell him ANYTHING. He had to try and lie his way.

"I know everything, Nagi. Asuna told me." Wow, Hayato was a great actor!

"Asuna did...?!" she jumped back.

"Yup."

"She told you... About my brother...?"

"Y-Yeah..." OK, she hadn't, but hey, if he got caught now, she'd be PISSED.

"I-I just think... You look and act so much like my big brother...!" she cried, "Three years ago, I met you at the Hoenn finals. I was comfortable talking to you because you're so much like him...!" she let the tears drip down her cheeks, "But a year after that... He died...!" Nagi tried to hold in her true sobs, but she couldn't. She ran over to him and hugged Hayato tight, like she would never let go, "Kazuya... He... Wanted to make traveling on bird pokemon easier on the bird." she sniffled, "And during one of his experiments...!" she held her face on his shirt, "I gave him... A silver wing I made myself when I was a little kid. When he he was taken to the hospital, laying on his shirt was the silver wing. I tried to pick it up, and it... Shattered into silver shards...!" she cried. He stroked her hair.

"Is... That all you think of me...?" he pulled her away, "Do you only see me for a shadow of someone who's already gone..." he whispered in anger, "I was so happy that you came here! But... You don't even see me for me..."

"Hayato-kun..."

"I'm gonna go take a walk..." Hayato told her, "I'll be back later..." he exited his house and went into the forest.

"What... Have I done...?" Nagi cried. She needed to think. Sure, he did look like her brother... But that wasn't all! She remembered the way he smiled at her and the wind flowed behind his face. She felt so different... Of course! She realized it now...

"I... I'm in love... With Hayato..." Nagi blushed. She knew she had to tell him! She jumped outside and ran through the dense forest.

"Hayato!!" she called his name, but no answer, "Haya-!" she gasped, and a rock crumbled under her foot.

"Nagi!!" he grabbed her hand right before she fell and pulled his arms around her. They fell to the ground below, and Nagi landed on top of him.

"Hayato! Hayato!!" she cried, but his eyes remained closed. Her eyes welled up with tears, "It's all my fault...! I just thought of you as a replacement...!" she cried, and then realized something. She put her hand underneath the neck of her dress and pulled out a small bottle necklace, with silver shards, "I'm really in love with you Hayato! And I'll prove it to you!" she popped the small cork off the bottle and released the cheap silver shards from the silver wing she made into the wind, "I really..." she sobbed, "I REALLY love you." She thought she was alone, but he raised his hand to hers.

"Nagi... Me too." he said weakly.

"Hayato...!" she smiled brightly. He raised his back up, even with Nagi still on him, "Hayato, stay still! You're hurt!" But he kept going and looked straight into her eyes.

"Nagi..." he asked her cooly, "Will you take off your helmet for me...?" Nagi just looked at him, and then smiled.

"Yeah." she nodded. She placed her hands on the leather helmet and goggles. Nagi lifted the burden that had been on her for a long time. Her beautiful long, silver hair flew in the wind. They closed their eyes and moved their faces blindly forward, but they felt their lips reach each other. They both smiled to each other.

"Do you... Want me to get off you...?" Nagi asked him. After all, she was STILL on top of him.

"Nah, it's fine." he layed his back on the grass. Nonetheless, she hopped off and snuggled next to him on the fragrant forest floor, "By they way... Why don't we make something too?"

"Like what? A new silver wing?"

"No, how about..." he turned over to look at her, "How about a bottle of silver shards of each of us?"

"OK!" she smiled, "Let's make it together."

"Totally." he reached his face towards hers again to kiss her. Through the wind, the powder from her brother's necklace went to the sea.

"Hey, Hayato?" Nagi came closer to him.

"What...?" he whispered.

"I'm... Really glad I met you..." she closed her eyes and started to fall asleep.

"Me too..." and they fell into their happy slumber together, feeling the breeze on their faces.

END OF SILVER SHARDS