Finally the four kids reached the road to Viridian city. It was certainly a long road. They say it takes about two days to get to Viridian from Pallet. Well, might as well get going as soon as possible. All of them were itching to finally release their newly obtained Pokemon, when suddenly-
"Het guys, i-i 'm not going with you. my d-dad decided it would be better for me to travel alone, so he bought me a ticket to Cinnabar Island. I-i'm leaving on a ship that leaves in three hours so I gotta go to the port-" Ichigo said.
The three other kids looked at him silently. Then Bruno spoke.
"Good luck. I hope someday we meet and battle each other." And they shook hands.
And Ichigo ran away. When he was quite far, he turned around and yelled,"Next time we meet, I'll be the Champion!" And then he disappeared.
"Well, that was unexpected. Let's get going already." Leaf said.
"Y-yeah." Delia replied. But Bruno also wanted to say something.
"Hey, wait. Actually, I'm leaving you too. I... want to travel alone. So I'll leave you two just right away. I'll train with my Nidoran in the nearby mountains in my own village. Then I'll go, but on my own path. I don't want to depend on other people and be restricted by their company. No offense." Then Bruno turned around and left in the direction of the mountains. Delia and Leaf just looked silently at his back, until he ,too, disappeared.
"That means it's just the two of us from now on, unless you're planning on leaving me alone..." Leaf made a fake tears sad face."By the way, never caught your name, cutie pie."
Delia slightly cringed with an animated sweatdrop. "Actually, I never... Whatever. My name's Delia Hanako. And you're Leaf Midori, right? Personally, I don't really want to travel alone, especially considering we're girls. So, umm.. let's travel together? " Delia smiled and tilted her head to the side.
...
Leaf and Delia travelled all day, and bonded with their new Pokemon Feebas and Ponyta. It was really great, living in the fresh air... and just the two of them. They barely managed to escape a flock of angry Spearows, they escaped by jumping into a small river, the current took them far away from the road so they got lost by the time sunset came.
They set up a camp. It turned out that Leaf was experienced in camping. She used her Ponyta to set a fire and cook some food for them and their pokemon. They also dried their clothes. Since they were both girls, it wasn't awkward for them to sit in front of the fire in their underwear while their clothes were drying. Or so it was for Leaf. Delia, on the other hand, still felt slightly disturbed for some reason that Leaf could see her body without clothes even though she knew it was alright and she could see undressed Leaf too.
When night came, it got really cold. So cold, that neither of the girls could sleep. "H-hey L-leaf, do you feel the c-cold?" Delia asked, her teeth shivering from the low temperature. "Y-yeah m-me too... h-hey D-delia, don't g-get me wrong, but... h-how about we s-sleep in one sleeping bag? I mean, that way w-we could warm up each other. Don't you agree that's b-better than catching a c-cold out here in the wild?"
(That was a very reasonable offer) Delia thought. At the same time, she felt really embarrassed that she would have to sleep while basically hugging another girl. But falling ill definitely wasn't a better option.
"O-ok, are you going to go in my sleeping bag or me in yours?"
"I'll come to you."
Delia's face was red like a tomato when Leaf finally layed down alongside Delia in her sleeping bag. Delia was lying on her right side and so was Leaf. So basically Delia had to hug Leaf from behind for her to fit inside. The closeness of their bodies for some reason couldn't let either girls relax properly. "Why is this so embarrassing? We're just saving each other from the cold, right?" Deila calmed herself down, but got more excited when she smelled Leaf's hair.
"Y-your hair smells nice."
"Thanks."
The girls fidgeted for half an hour, adjusting to the feeling of touching each other's body. Leaf never expected that something would catch her off guard, but this was her first experience of sleeping with a girl, or any person for that matter, she was just as embarrassed as Delia, except she tried to hide it better.
The sensation of their bodies finally warming up each other was divine pleasure after the awful cold that they suffered from.
Soon they both fell asleep.