You know, I think this is the only story of mine that has never missed an update. I mean the only one. And I like them all, even now. Also, this Valentines Day was my best day ever. I hope everyone else had a great one too. Anyway, enjoy.
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Aside from technically being a holiday, the day was the same as any other. Holidays only have meaning if you give them meaning. Green couldn't care less about Valentines Day. Nothing wrong with it, he just didn't care. In fact he could probably count the things he did care about on his hands if he lumped them into general groups. Like friends. Specifically Yellow.

He was walking through the Viridian Forest looking for her. He'd gone to see her and she wasn't there at her house, which usually meant she was in the forest. He always got ever the slightest bit worried when he couldn't find her. Not that she was ever in danger, and not that she couldn't handle herself if she was. Call it paranoia if you must but he just took the girl's well being upon himself. She was a citizen of Viridian City, and he was the Gym Leader of that city.

But even with irrational fears set aside, his simple reason for hunting down the green eyed blond was that he was bored. He looked for her just to have something to do. Still, it was a big forest, and there was a chance that she was somewhere else. But at least the forest was beautiful. He probably wouldn't have stopped to think about something like that before meeting Yellow in fact. She was born in this forest.

Speaking of which; "I know you're there Yellow." Green said stopping in his tracks before saying it.

Yellow dropped down from a branch a few steps behind Green, hanging off the ground by her hands, "You know Pisuke, I don't think I'm cut out for this ninja thing." She said to her Butterfree, who was in the tree with her before dropping down to the ground.

She walked over to Green, "Were you going to spy on me?" He asked with a smile.

"No. Actually I was planning to yell 'surprise'."

Green kept smiling, "How are you?"

"Good, thanks for asking. Wanna go sit by the river where I go fishing?"

"Okay."
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"Is that it?" Green asked, overlooking the river.

"Yep." Yellow replied.

"Were you going to fish?"

"No. We don't even have to go down there, right here is good." She said leaning back and falling into a sitting position by a tree.

Green raised an eyebrow but walked back a few paces and calmly sat down against the tree, sitting next to Yellow. Yellow looked at Green and then at the ground, holding her hands together. There was a blush on her face but it was so faint that you'd need to be up in her face to see it. She twiddled her thumbs, summoning some of her courage. She knew it wasn't that big of a deal, she was just bashful was all. Green barely noticed these signs but pretended not to.

"Hey Green."

"Yeah?"

"Remember when I was training with you, and when nights were really cold we'd huddle up by the fire and..." She paused.

But Green seemed to know what she was getting at, "I don't have my cloak on me. But sure."

Yellow looked at him for a second without changing her expression, then she crawled on top of him letting out a quiet but excited; "Yay."

Green folded his legs and Yellow sat hers on them and turned her upper body so her back was against him. Green had a raised eyebrow, eyelids lowered and a small smile on his face. Yellow was a very unique person, and sometimes she asked for odd things. He didn't mind though. It was his own fault anyway, to train her the way he wanted he needed to get close to her. He put his arms over her like he used to.

Yellow pulled a Poké Ball from one of the holsters on her belt and released her Pikachu, Chuchu. When released her back was turned to her trainer and her trainer's friend. Yellow clapped twice in quick succession to grab the Pokémon's attention and held her arms open. Chuchu turned around and joyfully scampered into her trainer's arms. There was some silence afterward, but Yellow would have none of that, she wanted to talk to her friend and former instructor.

"Chuchu is basically my cuddling Pokémon. I told you how I found her injured in these woods right?"

"Yes you did." Green answered.

"Well remember that whole fiasco when we were turned to stone?"

"Only one of us could put that sentence into a casual conversation."

Yellow warmly chuckled, "Well earlier that day, before Team Rocket got to the city Chuchu and I tried to challenge your Gym."

"Really."

"Yeah, that feels like it was ages ago. I thought you would be there but, well I know the story. Chuchu really wanted to try it. It didn't go very well but that was my fault, I didn't give her the right commands a good trainer would." Yellow explained, "Under different circumstances I think she could've done it."

"I believe you. She participated in the battle immediately after we returned to normal and was one of the three Pokémon that dealt the final blow." At this point Chuchu was looking curiously at the Gym Leader, "She has a lot of potential. In fact with the right guidance she'd be Pokémon League material."

Chuchu's faced beamed at hearing that. It turned its head to its trainer with excitement, "Does that sound like something you'd want to do Chuchu?" Its expression faded when it saw the hesitance in its trainer.

"Is something wrong?" Green asked.

"Well, I'm not much of a battler. Ah!" Yellow gasped as Chuchu leaped out of her arms.

She ran a few steps in front of them and stopped. She looked upwards at the sky, she seemed to be thinking about something. Yellow, with a concerned look on her face stood up and walked over to confront her.

"Are you mad at me Chuchu?" She asked.

Chuchu shook her head. Pokémon generally needed to learn human language and body language but they were fast learners.

Yellow kneeled down, "If it's something you want to do we'll look into doing it okay? Even if you need to go with another trainer."

Chuchu turned around and rubbed her head against her trainer's knee and grabbed onto it with her front paws giving her a look that said; "I might want to do it but not if you're not there to watch me."

Yellow smiled softly and picked up her Pikachu, cradling it in her arms like a child, "Think hard about it okay. We'll talk about it later. But I'll do everything in my power to make you happy either way."

Chuchu nodded contently. And with that Yellow returned her to her Poké Ball. Green had taken the opportunity to stretch out his legs. He wore a look of deep thought. Yellow didn't need to turn around to guess it was happening and smiled.

"Trying to analyze everything that happened Green?"

"I'd appreciate it if you didn't use your powers to spy on me."

"I didn't. I just know you." She said standing up and walking back over to him, "You knew I was a girl right from the start when I masqueraded as a boy. You figured out Red was injured when he took the Gym Leader aptitude test. You have a good eye for detail." She sat down next to him, this time on his other side, his left, "But it won't figure out everything for you."

"You know, I've known you for three or four years," Green began.

"And you still can't figure me out, is that what you were going to say?"

"I was going to say 'and there's still a lot I don't know about you' but that works to."

"Well that's part of the adventure." She leaned over and laid her head down across his legs just above his knees, "If you want to know about me, then spend time with me silly. I know you well enough I'll let you in. Just live life."

Green smiled, he pat Yellow on her head and as he dragged his hand off he brought it past Yellow's ponytail, pulling it lightly.

Yellow let out a small yelp and shot up, "What did you just do?"

Green was taken aback, "I pat your head?"

"No. No after that."

"I ran my hand across your hair?"

"Y-you stroked my ponytail."

"Did that bother you?"

"No no. I, well um... Would you do it again?" She shyly requested.

Green, true to form, thought this was strange and his face showed it. But he did as she asked anyway. A smile formed on her lips, her shoulders raised up, her face flushed, her muscles became loose. Green didn't know what shampoo Yellow used but her hair was very soft, and it was brushed very neatly. Yellow usually wore a hat but on days when she really liked her hair she would forgo it. As this happened Green heard an odd noise. He looked around but he was quickly able to determine the source of the noise.

Not that it was any less surprising; "Yellow are you... are you purring?"

Yellow froze where she was. A deep red came onto her face as she looked into Green's eyes. They were unmoving for a few seconds. They suddenly laughed in unison. For different reasons, mind you. Yellow laughed to shake off the embarrassment, she didn't mind making light of herself. Green laughed because it's just impossible to keep a socially tense atmosphere with Yellow around.
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They were strolling home and had just reached the edge of the forest and were almost back to town. Yellow, her character never wavering, hated to walk with someone through such a big forest and not say anything. But she had almost run out of things to talk about. There was one she was reluctant to bring up. Up until now she mostly danced around the topic. But she had thought hard about it and decided she needed to speak up now.

"So Green." She began and paused, Green looked at her, waiting, "It's Valentines Day."

"I'm aware."

"Well, I mean... No plans right?"

"I found you. That was my plan."

"I was your big romantic plan?"

Green didn't show it but he was a bit bashful at what she had just suggested, "It wasn't supposed to be a romance thing."

Yellow stopped in her tracks, allowing Green to get a few steps ahead of her, "It could be."

Green froze, and after a second turned around. He looked surprised, not horribly so, his eyebrows were raised, his eyelids were in their normal spot, his mouth was open slightly, showing his teeth. Yellow looked at him intently, her head was ducked down but her eyes were up, looking dead ahead, standing firm with her arms lifelessly hanging. Her heart felt like it was trying to break her rib cage, and the longer Green went without answering the more Yellow started to think she had made a mistake.

"Yellow... I'm not really looking for someone right now." Green said hesitantly.

Yellow looked disappointed at first, almost hurt even. Her shoulders slumped and she averted her eyes away, "Oh." She said with a forlorn voice.

She suddenly found Green right beside her with an arm flung over her, "But I'm open to trying new things."

She brightened up, she grinned from ear to ear, and though she fought the urge as hard as she could she stretched her arms out and held on to her friend for dear life.

"What made you decide on me?"

"I just like you a lot." She answered and took a few seconds to enjoy where she was right now.

Holidays only have meaning if you give them meaning. Green and Yellow gave this one, a lot of meaning today.

Suddenly there was a cry, "AH!" There heads shot in the direction of the scream, "Beedrill swarm!"

There was a man and a young girl, surely enough running full speed in the opposite direction of some angry looking Beedrill. Yellow frowned, five years and the damage done to the forest still wasn't over with. Sometimes it felt like Team Rocket's influence was never going to go away.

"It never ends does it?" Yellow asked.

"Nope." Green replied contently, pulling out a Poké Ball with his Charizard in it, "Though if your Pikachu wants to beat Gym Leaders..."

"I gotcha." She pulled out her retractable fishing rod, sticking Chuchu's Poké Ball on the end of it, "D'ya hear that Chuchu."

Her Pokémon nodded feverishly, and without another word the Gym Leader of Viridian City and his student dashed off in the direction of the Beedrill swarm.
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And then they went home and they did naughty things, the end. No but seriously. I wasn't sure if I wanted to include that ninja comment but the hey, the Pokémon world does have ninjas in it so it worked. The idea of Green and Yellow huddling up with each other over a campfire is an idea I got from some fan art. I hear a lot of people say FeelingShipping is crack because "he just trained her". My retort? Exactly, he trained her, that can be a very close relationship, and we may not've seen the whole or maybe even the bulk of Yellow's training. If I could rename FeelingShipping I would call it SandboxShipping, because like a sandbox there's a lot to play with and you can get creative. And the scene with Chuchu is basically a softer version of the scene with White, N and Bubu on the Ferris wheel in Black and White, which I'm loving every minute of so far. Though the idea of Chuchu wanting to challenge the league may deserve a fic unto itself.

The scene with Green "petting" Yellow. Well this might sound weird but have you ever had someone pet you? It feels REALLY nice. Seriously, ask someone to pet you, you'll see what I'm talking about. I can also purr, yes like a cat, but I've never purred for any reason without meaning to, so I've never purred on the rare instances when people have pet me. Well, Happy Valentines Day... I love you... you should forget I said that... here's eight dollars.