DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN POKEMON! I own Misuki, Matiko, and Zato.
(A/N) SHOCK!
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"We got them from our clothes bags." Zato told him. Matiko just looked down at the floor. "Onee-chan? What's wrong?"he tensed a bit. "Those uniforms." May, Misuki, and Zato looked at him confused. "Those uniforms." he repeated himself. "Why do they bug you some much?" May asked him. Matiko did not reply, he reached into his coat and pulled out his case. He flipped it open and stared past all of his achievements, he sifted through the badges until he pulled up the cushion holding them. Under it was one large, golden badge with a mountain M etched into it. He flicked it over to May. She looked at in horror, "You run with MAGMA?!" he tensed up again. "Ran. I ran with Magma." he explained, "When the...incident...happened, I didn't know what to do. I went to Hoenn to figure things out. I found Maxie and he said he could help me, I was young, I didn't know what to do. I was lost, he offered me help." he paused, "I became one of the most powerful trainers in the entire team, noone could beat me, not even Maxie. But I hurt so many, I hurt a lot of people. One day, I got fed up with what I had done and quit, I knocked Max flat on his pompous ass and left, I was so disgusted with myself. I blocked out every memory of those times." May was furious. "How could you join them?! Didn't you know what their plan was?!" she threw the emblem at him, it landed on his sleeve, pin first. He took no notice. He pulled it out and placed it back to it's resting spot. Blood started to pour from the wound. "Why do you even keep that emblem anyway?" Misuki asked sincerely. "To remind me how much of a monster I was." he shot back. "To remind me that I still have blood on my hands," He looked at his hands, they looked more like claws to him. "innocents blood." a tear fell onto his gloved hand. "I'm sorry Misuki. I have shamed our family." Misuki rested her hand on his back. "Brother, It's not the past that make you who you are." she pointed and his heart. "It's how you live now that makes you, you." He sat still. He whispered something only he and Misuki could hear. More tears moistened his face. She looked shocked, she whispered something back, he nodded and wiped his face with his sleeve. Misuki got up and moved to Zato, she brought him around the corner. "What did he say?" he asked. She put her head onto his chest, She hoped noone else could hear what she was about to say, "He killed two innocent people." she sobbed quietly onto his poncho. Matiko looked at the floor.
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May tried to kick Matiko while he was down. "What kind of person are you? To run with thugs and then you offered me help? If I had known about your past-" her lecture was cut off as she was slammed against a wall. "How dare you! To kick a man while he is down is the worst insult!" May spat back, "Just like you and those two trainers?" He belted her across the face. She fell to the floor. He grabbed her by her collar, "Don't ever speak of that day to me! That day was a mistake! It was never meant to escalate to that! I have lived my life with recurring nightmares about that day! I have lived with my guilt, I don't need you to remind me of what a monster I used to be!" He snarled as he brought his fist up for a finishing blow, but he felt a small force holding his arm back. His siter was holding onto his arm with all her might, she pleaded with him in a whisper, "Please brother." The look in her eyes seemed to suck all forms of power out of him, he slumped the floor. His arms and legs useless. Misuki put her arms around Maitko's shoulders. "Please stop."
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May sat with Zato as he tried to calm her down and tell her that everything was in the past, Matiko had repented his ways. Matiko was slumped on the couch next to Misuki. She calmed his frazzled mind, she told him that if he was truly sorry, then he was already forgiven. The group spent two hours relaxing the moods and minds of the coordinator and the trainer.
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They did their best to calm them, all May and Matiko had to do was apologize. May walked up to Matiko's sitting form awkwardly, "U-um, M-Matiko?" He looked up a the sound of his name and grunted. "I w-wanted to say I'm sorry." she held out her gloved hand, Matiko looked at it for a second. He out his hand in hers and shook. "Sorry about belting you." Me mumbled. She rubbed her cheek that he hit, "It'll be fine, It's just a bruise." He snorted, then started laughing, May joined hin as well. "You're a good kid, you're gonna do great things one day, or did I say to a girl who looked like you already?" he shrugged "Okay, were not gonna get to the next city by sitting here now are we?" May jumped with joy, "Oh that's right! Veilstone is up next!" Misuki and Zato chuckled softly. Matiko shook his head, he pulled out on a pair of small, black circular sunglasses and looked at the group. He smiled widely. "Let's move out."