(Do you know what Classicshipping is, guys? Probably not so I'll tell you... Classicshipping is for Classic!Red and Classic!Blue from Pokemon RBY. Originally, there was supposed to be a girl in RBY but they changed it at the last minute and our precious Blue girl didn't get to make her appearance. Nonetheless, there is art of her and Classic!Red, and there's even a ship name, which is what I wrote about in this particular drabble. It's sad and angsty, but it's one of my absolute favorites.)

If it wasn't already obvious when you entered it from Route 1, Pallet Town was a small place with not many people inhabiting it. No one bothered to live there and mainly stuck to the cities due to how far away Pallet Town was from the rest for some reason, but if you were to ask the townspeople what they thought about that, they'd simply shrug their shoulders and say 'they didn't mind'. After all, the smaller the town, the easier it was to notice that everyone knew each other.

One of the few townspeople included in this was a little girl at the mere age of ten.

She had long chocolate brown hair that flowed down her back like a waterfall, straight bangs brushing over her eyebrows that were just above her bright blue eyes that would always shine like a sapphire jewel in the sunlight when you told her something that made her happy. Everyone in Pallet Town loved her, especially Red and Shirgeru, who quickly became her friends not long after she moved into town.

The three of them were inseparable. They declared it as so themselves.

However...

One day, the girl disappeared. She was no longer there anymore and left town without a trace within the timespan of a blink of an eye. It was a mysterious thing, her disappearance, but nobody questioned it at all.

Mainly because once she left, no one even remembered her name.

Shigeru was his same arrogant self, only the girl's name was replaced with Red's everytime he boasted and Red simply stared back or smiled. After SHE left, they went on as if she was never their friends at all. Even when they turned twelve and went on their journeys, no one asked who they should've given the last pokemon that was left to.

Red ended up becoming champion and went up to a mountain. He stayed up there for a long time, not saying a single word to anyone that talked to him or asked for a battle. No one could- as Shigeru put it from where he stood as an assistant professor aside his grandfather- reach his heart. The only thing that got close to that was one trainer by the name of Kris that beat him after three long years of being up there; that's when he suddenly decided to go down the mountain and go home for a visit.

And then...

That girl had come back.

"Oh, Red!" A brunette cheered as she soon as she saw him, one gloves hand lifting and waving at him cheerfully before running up to him to give him a quick hug and a soft smile. "It's good to see you again!"

Red was too stunned to speak- not that he ever usually spoke now at this point-, simply staring at the girl that had greeted him so warmly. Who was she? He hadn't seen her before. As far as he knew, they weren't friends. "...Who are you...?"

Her smile simply softened to a more melancholic one at his question, fingers lacing as she held them up in front of her in a feminine manner. "You probably don't remember me, do you, Red?" she asked, a quiet giggle escaping her. "Hehe, well that's okay though since I still remember you!"

He just kept on staring, not entirely sure of what to say to her.

The blue eyed girl laughed, bringing a hand to rest on the red eyed boy's shoulder. "You'll forget again after I tell you this, but, my name's Blue. You and me, we used to be best friends you know." At that, she laughed again, retracting her hand and stepping back to spin in a slow circle. "But then they decided that I was't allowed to be here anymore! So they said I had to leave, haha~"

"'They who'...?" Red asked, taking a step towards Blue. What was she talking about? And how were they even friends?

"It doesn't matter!" Blue reassured him with a quick wave of her hand as she walked up to him, wrapping her arms around his neck to pull him into a sudden- yet gentle- hug. "I don't have much time to stick around anyway... I just wanted to tell you one last thing before I can't come back again..." Now, all her voice was was a low murmur into the young Kanto champion's shoulder.

Having no other good answer to come up with, Red simply lifted one hand to pat Blue gently on the back as he listened to her speak. After all, if she had something to say, he was going to listen... Since they were "friends"...

"I'm proud of you, Red." Blue continued, moving one arm to wipe at her nose and sniff. "You're really strong and great, just like you always said you would be when you were little. You got really quiet after I left, but that's okay you know! That's okay... Because you're still the Red I know and love... Don't ever stop being that Red, I came here to tell you that." She released him from her, hold, stepping back to put both hands on his cheeks, ignoring the way she watched his namesake eyes widen when he noticed she was fading- he could see right through her! "Keep getting stronger for me, okay!? Don't ever stop! And... And most importantly, Red, you... To me..."

However, the brunette never got to say the rest before disappearing completely and leaving the raven haired teen standing there to stare where she had last stood. He didn't know this girl or remember her at all, her voice wasn't familiar to him, he didn't even think her NAME was one he knew, yet somehow... He knew what she was trying to say to him.

'You're worth disappearing for.'

Red lowered his head, watching one tear drop to the dirt under his feet before mumbling, "...I'll miss you."

He didn't have the faintest idea who he was supposed to be telling that to, though.