Today's Amourshipping Day! And for such a day, we have a special theme: Kiss! We all know how XY&Z Ended, right...?


Ash Ketchum frowned. He never hesitated right? Then why was this door intimidating him so much?

"Pikapi…?"

He knew why. Behind this door was his house. And in his house? His wife.

They hadn't been married long, and there was still a part of Ash that was getting used to the idea of being in love, much less being married. But things were always changing, even when they didn't seem like it. He wasn't ten years old anymore, that's for sure. But even he knew that being married meant a new responsibility to be there for each other. A responsibility that he fumbled when it came to defending his title as Champion of Kanto.

And so there he was, Ash Ketchum, world renowned hero, the strongest trainer in Kanto, a Pokémon Master, frozen by fear because he wasn't sure how his new wife would take him coming home late.

"I don't have anything to fear, right?" he asked, looking at the familiar sight of his partner, the Electric-Type Pikachu. "I mean… Serena never gets mad at me, and I'm sure she can understand being a little late. I bet she caught the battle on TV and she's still awaken even."

He said all of this in front of a small house with absolutely zero lights on. Not even one over the door, as if she was awaiting Ash's return. Pikachu gave Ash a look as if to say, 'you know her better than I do.'

He checked his watch. "23:50," it reads. Ten minutes until midnight. He groans again.

"Pikapi!" Pikachu said, nudging Ash with his head.

"I know, I know… might as well face the music." Resigned to his fate and quickly trying to formulate an apology in his head, Ash opened the door to his house and stepped inside.

It was a clear night, the full-moon shining overhead. Even without a light on, it was fairly easy to see inside the room, the ethereal glow of moonlight still shining in the living room of the Ketchum house. But Ash's eyes were drawn to the couch. There, sleeping, a blanket swaddled around her, was Serena. The room was eerily silent, the sounds of the Pokémon that lived their lives at night in the wilderness around Pallet Town were the only thing Ash could hear for miles.

Seeing his wife there, asleep, gave Ash mixed emotions. At first, he mentally kicked himself for not being home in time, leaving Serena to fall asleep without him. But he realized quickly that this was a silver lining: Serena probably wouldn't be upset if he comes in and gently wakes her and they go to bed together.

He takes a step in, and the floorboards creak under his weight. Normally, it'd be barely noticeable. But right now? In this almost sacred atmosphere? It felt like he would wake Professor Oak all the way down at his lab. He looked up at Serena, and she was still sleeping sweetly, almost cherub-like.

Ash turned to Pikachu and nodded. The Mouse Pokémon, realizing the added weight probably didn't help matters, leapt off of Ash's shoulder and darted into the house, into the dimly-lit darkness. Ash himself hunkered down on his hands and knees and very slowly began crawling across the floor towards the couch where the woman he married rested, trying his hardest not to disturb her rest. With his weight more evenly distributed, the creaking floorboards aren't as much a problem, and he quietly made his way across the room to where Serena lay.

He sat up and looked at her face. Serena always had a glow about her (as far as Ash could tell, anyway), but the pale moonlight brought out an otherworldly shimmer that made her look even more beautiful than Ash remembered when he left that morning. He began reaching a hand towards her, but he stopped, wanting a few more moments to take in her beauty before he disturbed her slumber.

Starting at the top of her head, Ash first saw the blonde locks as they lay tussled against the couch. They were still short from when Serena cut her hair for the wedding. When he saw her again after so long (she had simply turned up in Pallet Town one day, at his mother's house, saying that she wanted to visit her and see him again), he was surprised that she had grown her hair out once again. He never admitted it, but he preferred her hair short. Perhaps she realized it, and that's why she cut it for the wedding?

Next were her eyes, and though they were shut, Ash remembered her clear, bright blue eyes, like a bright cerulean sky, or a clean running river. They were eyes that reminded Ash of purity, and his youth, a time he spent travelling and adventuring both with her and without her. In the pit of his stomach, he felt a longing to gaze into her eyes once more.

And finally, Ash saw Serena's lips. Her mouth was slightly ajar, her plump lips beckoning him closer. He had seen her lips so many times before, but no time stood out in his mind more than the first time he tasted them.

It was the day he was leaving Kalos, after his journey there had ended. A lot had happened, and he and his friends were saying their goodbyes. Especially rough was saying goodbye to Serena. He knew they were friends from way back, and he knew that he and Serena pushed each other to greater and greater heights. He cared about her a lot, and knew he would always be supporting her, no matter where life took the two of them.

But he had no idea he felt that strongly about her.

When Serena ran up that escalator towards him, he was caught off guard. She said she had one more thing, but she came rushing in close. And then, she grabbed the front of his jacket and pulled him close, and those lips got closer than they ever had. He felt the soft caress of her lips against his, tasted a sweetness in her mouth that lasted only a moment before the moving escalator took the girl away from him. But as the escalator took Serena away from him, she transformed before his eyes. He had always seen Serena as a bright, cheerful girl, but it wasn't a girl that stood before him that day, but a goddess. Serena was stunningly beautiful to him as his mind finally put the last pieces into place, and his actions and feelings suddenly made since. This gorgeous, blushing girl who stood on the escalator as it took her away… he loved her. He had loved her for a long time. The ribbon he gifted her was perhaps the first real proof he had ever offered that he did.

She still wore that ribbon on her chest, even now as it moved with her breathing, the pale moonlight making Serena glow. Ash looked at his bride with joyful eyes. She was even more beautiful now than she was the day of their first kiss.

Ash could feel his desire to feel the warmth of her skin growing, and he raised his hand to gently cup her cheek. She felt as warm as the glow on her skin looked, as if she was emanating love.

"…Ash…" Serena said, a giggle escaping her lips.

Ash froze. He looked at her, but she didn't react further. He smiled to himself. She must have been dreaming. Of him, no doubt.

He grinned. Might as well make both their wishes come true, right?

He leaned in, and pressed his lips against hers. The familiar softness sent a pulse of electricity through him. His other hand finds her other cheek, and he begins to kiss her more fervently. As he does, his mind races into the past. He remembers the cool summer air against his skin on the night Serena reunited with him in Pallet Town. He remembered kissing her after a date to Viridian City, the sounds of the city surrounding him. The look of joy on her face after she kissed him when he invited her to live with him. The smell of breakfast cooking the first morning they kissed after she made her residency in Pallet Town.

His senses were all lost in this myriad of kisses. A kiss for each battle, for each victory, for each defeat. Each kiss tasting as sweet as the last, filling his mouth and life with a sweetness he wasn't even sure existed before then.

Ash pulled back and Serena's eyes fluttered open, their clear, clean gaze fixing on Ash's face. "Ash…? What's gotten into you?" she asks, a giggle on her lips.

He smiles back. "I love you, Serena."

"I love you, too, Ash."

Ash stands, scooping up the woman he loved in his arms. "C'mon," he said, holding the now-blushing Serena close. "Let's head to bed. It's late."