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Neoko: It's been awhile! Sorry for the random updates… This chapter will have just about all the shippings shown so far! If you guys haven't been paying attention it's: Oldrivalshipping, Luckyshipping, Specialshipping, (some) Feelingshipping, and MangaPokeshipping. I might even throw some MangaGymshipping into the mix to keep it interesting. Just so there is no confusion this chapter takes place while Blue started talking to Green in the last chapter. Then it'll continue to the final waltz.
That Special Feeling
After bumping into Red on the dance floor, Yellow franticly bowed as Red simply laughed it off.
"I'm really sorry Red!" Yellow cried, her face almost as red as a tomato. "I should of watched where I was going!"
"I-it's okay Yellow!" Red replied, getting a little flustered by the girl's constant apologizes. Red looked around the party as the music changed to a more upbeat tempo.
"It looks like they made things more fast paced…" Red whispered to himself as he stared at Yellow with a worried look on his face.
"Will Yellow be able to keep up with this?" Red thought in his mind. "People will be dancing around wildly to this song…"
"W-what is it…?" Yellow asked, the more Red stared the deeper her blush became.
"N-nothing!" Red answered, snapping back to reality. "Maybe we should go back now? The floors getting kinda crowded…"
Yellow looked around nervously at the surrounding crowd people and nodded. Unfortunately the flood of beat hungry dancers rushed the dance floor incasing Yellow and Red in the middle of the platform.
"Shoot!" Red exclaimed, failing to get through the wall of people. "Now what!"
"R-Red!" Yellow cried out franticly The crimson-eyed boy turned around to see the small girl getting sucked into the crowd.
"Y-Yellow!" Red yelled in horror as he pushed through the crowd to get to her.
Meanwhile, Misty stood near her fellow Kanto gym leaders and looked to the dance floor. "I can't see him anymore…" Misty sighed, unable to find Red within the dancing crowd.
"See who?"
The Cerulean gym leader jumped to the side, facing the rock gym leader. "B-Brock!" Misty exclaimed in surprise.
Brock lifted one eyebrow, curious about his fellow Kanto leader behavior. "Were you looking for someone?" Brock guessed.
"Ugh…" Misty groaned in her mind, "I gotta stop talking to myself…!"
"W-what makes you say that?" Misty nervously answered, trying her best to keep her composure and failing miserably.
"Well," Brock continued, unsure why the girl was acting so weird. "You did just say 'I can't see him anymore'." This caused the water-loving carrot-top to flinch.
"I-I'm just spaced out that's all!" Misty quickly answered, one of her arms behind her head. "Maybe I've been in the pool too long!" Pewter Gym leader grew even more suspicious.
"You've been acting strange tonight Misty." Brock stated causing the orange-haired girl to sweatdrop. "First the lights and now this?"
Misty looked away from her fellow gym leader to hide the flustered look on her face. "I-I guess I'm just in a bad mood…" She answered, glad she was able to think of a good excuse this time, but it wasn't exactly a lie. She felt weird seeing her old friend with another girl, let alone dancing with her. "I don't feel too well."
"You wanna talk about it?" Brock asked, his hands now tucked in his tuxedo pockets. "It might help."
Misty looked up at her fellow gym leader, but before she could speak she was interrupted by the sound of the DJ.
"Ladies and gentleman, this is now the final waltz!"
Soon a crowd of couples passed Brock and Misty, eagerly getting to the dance floor. One couple even managed to push the squinty-eyed boy against the orange-haired beauty, causing both gym leaders to slightly flush. Misty then pushed herself off of Brock and flashed him with a small smile.
"Don't worry about me Brock." the girl finally responded, now feeling more relax after the sudden interruption. "I think I'll just hang out with Erika for awhile."
As soon as she finished that sentence, the Cerulean city leader walked off to find the holder of the rainbow badge, leaving Brock behind. The spiky-haired boy merely watched as the girl left.
The boy looked up into the night's sky and sighed to himself. "Maybe the lights are a little too warm…" He then walked off with his head faced to the floor.
"Are you alright Yellow?" Red asked after finally fishing the girl out of the crowd as the slower music played
"I-I'm… fine…" the girl answered, gasping between breaths. "I'm sorry, all those people took me by surprise and you had to…!"
"Nah, don't worry about it Yellow." Red said with his usual smile once again appearing on his face. "Who would have known the people of Kanto were such dance-crazed lunatics!"
Yellow weakly giggled at Red's statement, but then starting coughing, still trying to fill her body with the air she lost being trapped in the middle of those 'dance-crazed lunatics'. This made Red more worried for the poor blonde.
"We should probably leave now." Red suggested, holding up the girl, making sure she stayed stable. "You sound like you're gonna faint." Red then start to support the girl up so they can leave the dance floor, but was interrupted as the Yellow gently pulled back.
"W-wait!" the blonde-haired beauty meekly cried, still holding Red back. The boy looked back at the young girl, unsure why she resisted. "I-it's the final dance after all…" Yellow continued after loosing her grip on Red. "I'm sure one more dance wouldn't hurt."
"Are you sure?" Red asked, still concern with the girl's well-being.
Yellow then turned her focus to the ground for a brief moment turning her attention back to Red. "Y-yes!" Yellow finally replied, her face was completely flushed, but her eyes glowed with determination. "Just one more dance!"
Red eyed the girl warily before finally realizing that she wouldn't take no for an answer. "Okay." He began, hesitating to see if the girl would change her mind before continuing. "Would you like to dance?" Red asked as he playfully bowed, now back to his casual self.
"Yes…" the blonde-haired girl happily answered as she once again took the raven-haired boy's hand, and motioned back to the dance floor.
Meanwhile, on another part of the dance floor, the spiky-haired gym leader and the cunning evolver continued their dance as other party members stared, either out of jealousy, or out of simple curiosity.
"See?" Blue suddenly said, her mouth shaped into a small smirk. "This didn't turn out so bad now did it?"
"I guess…" Green sighed under his breath as he turned head to hide the small hint of blush on his face. Even though most people thought that the Viridian gym leader always kept a calm and collected look on his face, he wasn't immune to the basic illness of embarrassment.
Despite turning away, Blue noticed the soft shade of red appear on Green's face and her mouth shaped into a tiny grin. "Hehe" the long, brown-haired girl giggled in her head, "I got Green to blush!" She didn't get to see her normally stoic companion fluster very often and decided to milk it as long as she could.
"Even though…" Blue continued to say, trailing off in a mocking way. "You have two left feet!"
With that being said, Green's eyes widen into two saucepans, completely thrown off at the unexpected insult he had been given. "What's that supposed to mean?" Green finally replied with a hint of anger in his tone.
Seeing her 'prey' taking the bait, the mischievous girl's smirk grew larger. "Well if you thought you were a great dancer," She began to say, showing great enjoyment from the conversation. "Your gonna have to think again!"
Green opened his mouth, ready to counter the smart aleck girl, then he immediately closed it and once again turned away. "Don't get too roped into this Green…" the Viridian gym leader told himself, "That's just what she wants you to do…"
Blue's smile fell once she realized Green wasn't answering anymore. "Is he mad?" She thought, worryingly. Then her eyes settled on the serene look on her dance partner's face. "Nah, he probably just caught on…" Blue corrected herself as her grin began reforming. "Which means he could take a little bit more…"
"It's true y'know!" Blue continued, even adding a fake disappointed sigh for more affect. "I've been practically leading you this whole time…"
A grunt came out of the sixteen year old boy's mouth. Unsure whether the girl's complaints were truly justified, or if she was just trying to be a pain. It's not like he fully expected to know how to dance right off the bat, but hearing the girl dribble on and on about his poor ballroom skills irked him a bit.
Though now that he thought of it, he probably wouldn't even call himself a decent dancer. It was a pain to stay with the beat of the music and he had to glance at his feet once in a while. Heck, he may have felt something that could have been the girl's foot a few times. Now thinking the there was some truth in the girl's insults made Green even more annoyed.
Having no other way of countering Blue's criticism, Green could only think of two words to say back the girl. "Tch," the boy scoffed, closing his eyes, showing the lines between them. "Pesky girl…"
Blue couldn't help but chuckle at those words. For as long as she's known the green-eyed trainer he had always called her a 'pesky girl'. At first she really didn't care if the boy found her annoying, but soon those words began to mean something to her. Sure he most likely meant them as an insult, but she didn't take it as one.
Instead, those two words meant that he was paying attention to her. That he was listening to her. That he fully understood what she meant and her sometimes misunderstood ways. Even though he was calling her a 'pesky girl' at least he accepted that was just a part of who she was.
That was probably one of the reasons why she…
"Green?" Blue softly called in an uncharacteristically low voice.
The spiky-haired caught his name and turned to the girl, wondering what brought this suddenly shy, 'out-of-character' tone she had. "What?" he replied.
"There's something…" Blue continued, looking down to hide her now rosy cheeks. "Something I wanted to tell you…"
The boy blinked a few times waiting for the Blue to continued. "Well?" he shot back, unsure of what came over his usually charismatic friend.
"Green." Blue repeated, now having better control of the volume of her voice. "I just want to say…" the blue-eyed beauty took a deep breath and looked back up into Green's eyes. "I lo-"
"Green? Blue?"
Blue had to resist the every urge she had not to fall over.
Neoko: You must hate me for doing that! XD I'm sooooooo sorry this took so long. (More than a year) But I promise all be more tentative with my fic! (Or at least I'll try) The writing of the next chapter is already about halfway done. Please hang in there! Like I said before the next chapter will be the last one so make sure to look out for it. I promise this won't take another year to finish! Please review.
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