Okay, I swear, this is the last Kenji chapter (For a while at least.) Not sure the length but stuff needs to happen so its gonna happen-
Soz for any mistakes –I swear I need to get my eyes checked cos I know I've been making way more than I used to (Probs should wear my glasses for once-) anything big that gets through, please point it out ^u^
The boy was sitting on that good old kitchen island, his blank stare set on the two girls who sat on the sofa laughing and giggling as Philia shows the younger one all the forced photos of her and Kenji's past dress up 'games.' Next to him sat the lovely Mareep and the peeved Litleo, both ignoring the rules that apply when the aforementioned sister is home but none-of them really cared. Litleo twitched every time the eldest sibling spoke, this twitch was unnoticed by the other two however, it was an extremely obvious movement, Mareep on the other hand was notably worried; likely due to the closeness of the two girls, and Kenji? He was sipping Mocha through a straw despite how late it was because let's be honest, caffeine was the only way he was going to survive the night.
"Oh!" Philia let out through her rather corrupt smirk, "This is when I entered him in a contest as 'Kendra'" Susie tried to hold back a laugh but looking up to the deadpan male caused her to bust out, almost screaming at first as she held her stomach, "He makes a much better girl than boy, don't you think?"
"Litleo!" The putty tat snapped catching only the attention of her fellow team member, "Lit lit!" She let out looking to Mareep with her angered face as she seemed to dance out of desperation to murder the Hanachi Champion. "Leo! LITLEO LIT!"
"Mareep-" The electric type calmly replied although the look on her face was like telling her 'do it.' "Eep" Litleo's dance calmed and she sat back down but closed her eyes and looked away leaving Mareep looking rather sad, "Mareep, mar mar!" She got up and walked around her trainer to her fiery friend. Mareep nuzzled Litleo which seemed to calm her, not much but enough for her to look at her properly.
"Litleo! Leo leo!"
"Mareep." Her stern face seemed to make Litleo lower her head in shame.
"Lit...leo..." The fire type shook her head to subdue any remaining murder plots for the time being- The two then proceeded to look up to their trainer whom seemed somewhat... zombified?
Kenji just sat there, completely still with the straw in mouth but not being used and eyes drained of what little shine they had in the first place. To be honest, the two would have been convinced he had died if it wasn't for the extremely subtle breathing movement.
"Did he win?" Susie's curious voice broke through the Pokémon's daze,
"Oh no-" Philia replied, withholding some more giggles, "He lost in the second round, even with my Pokémon and a type advantage; battling is just not his forte-" And thus the two girls laughter returned.
Litleo rolled her eyes and put her attention back on her statue of a trainer, Mareep doing the same. Honestly this wasn't the first time that stopped responding like this, however, this was the longest it had lasted for- The floofy topped male still seemed to be listening as when Philia had spoken of him, his cup-filled hand jolted.
Susie looked back to the boy, although she didn't really pick up on his current dead state, she was curious as to the two Pokemon poking his sides, "Wait so he didn't have Mareep and Litleo?"
"Hm?" Philia mumbled, looking for another incriminating photo of her brother, "Oh no, I think Mareep was still an egg and he didn't get Litleo till much later."
The younger girl hummed to this, having not realized the boy didn't even have a starter like... Well the majority of the world, but she brushed this off to pet Chimchars head –whom sat in her lap- her attention was then completely taken when a photo of the boy and his two sisters dressed up as the Alolan starters was shoved in her face.
-For those curious, Kenji was forced into a cute little Litten outfit complete with ears and tail-
This did actually stick to Litleo whom had stopped jabbing her trainer. She sat and thought for a moment...'Litleo lit lit... Leo lit leo litleo litleo leo lit lit!'
...That thought translates to 'She's right... only her and Kenji know what actually happened in that photo.'
"Lit!" She called and quickly grabbed the attention of her floof friend, "Litle! Le le leo! Litleo!"
"Mareep?" Mareep turned back to her trainer, realizing that he had only bit the dust when that photo came up, she nodded "Mar mar, mareep epp mar."
Philia looked over Susie's head to the boy and let her smirk grow when she saw the results of this experiment. Not only did she find a use for this kid but also all these stupid photos Trinity took when they were traveling Hanachi... And with the latter realization, why didn't Kenji show these to her to help with her amnesia? Great, now her actions have motive, Philia really does love how much her brother's stupidity helps sometimes.
"Mareep!" The floof cloud jump, knocking the cub out the way with her tail. She had decided to take action with the one thing that scared Kenji more than his sister... Electricity. She turned away from the boy but looked back to him as she pushed her tail to the exposed part of his hand, "Marrrrr-" Mareep then proceeded to send a small current though the boy, "-eeeeeee-"
The boy looked at himself in the mirror as a fancy looking eyepatch was placed on his newly bruised eye. Philia tied it in a nice bow as she hummed to herself, "See wasn't it worth it Kenny?"
"..." The boy remained silent as his hair started getting played with. He wasn't exactly sure what to feel at the moment so instead fiddled with the frills of his... his new skirt.
"Now we can compete together," She continued, having now shaped her brothers curls into a nice bob, "You can use Aron and I can use Kirlia." Without warning, she turned the boy by his shoulders and smiled at him rather sadistically, "And Trinity is going to record it all," she started adjusting his bangs in an attempt to cover up the eyepatch, "And we can see how beautiful my Pokémon are over and over."
"But-" The boy finally aired out as he released the frills and looked down to his gloved hands, "…. Why-… Do I have to be a girl?"
Philia giggled and tilted his head up to apply some mascara to his visible eye, "Because I love my adorable little sister and I'd love you just the same if you were a girl too. Not my fault you were born a mistake but it's my job to fix it for me and the rest of the world; it's best to cut corners when and where possible and now is one of those corners." She patted his head and pushed a pink pokeball into his hand, "Now you be a good girl and do your best Kendra," She smiled, tilting her head innocently, "And don't even think about taking that off or telling anyone because you won't get off as easily as you did this time. Ciao!"
Kenji just watched as she skipped back into the changing room. He was still trying to understand why she wanted him to do this when they actually had a perfectly good female sibling in the first place but really what felt the worst was how she went about doing it.
It hurt.
And it wasn't the fact that she had KOed him in the face-
It hurt inside.
Like his heart now had a hole in.
It almost felt like when he found out he w-
"No-" He shook his head to rid the thought, not wanting to think of that. He then looked back to the mirror and recalled the threat, "Just- just do as she says-" He mumbled to himself, "Nothing happened. N-nothing happened-"
…
"And our second battle will be Kendra and her Aron vs Philia and her Kirlia!" The crowd cheered as the two siblings walked to the battlefield. Kenji still looked extremely lost with himself, in all honesty, he didn't even know how he passed the first round but Philia was happy about it. Her smirk told the world that she was even happier to be battling him, especially seeing as- "Now this battle will be interesting as Kirlia is at a disadvantage-"
"Don't worry," The actual girl stated, "I got this!"
Kenji, jerked as she made a triumphant fist –which he assumed was what made the crowd roar- he then calmed himself, remembering what he was doing... What was he doing? He looked to his sister whom had already gotten Kirlia out. The boy fumbled around, ending up dropping the Pokeball but this seemed to have released Aron so all was good.
'All' ignoring the boy's current distress, not to mention the fact that he had NEVER battled before this.
"If both trainers are ready?" Philia and Kirlia both gave overly confident nods, the girl then also sent a wink in her Arons direction who gave a shout in return. Kenji just became even more lost and confused than he already was and was also apparently the only person to notice their exchange- "Okay so let the battle... BEGIN!"
"KIRLIA MAGICAL LEAF!"
"Kirl!" Aron started to run around on his own while Kenji tried to understand life. Kirlia on the other hand twirled around, creating a few magical leaves that swirled around her then chased after the iron type.
It was at this point that the siblings eyes met –or eye in the floof heads case- and Philia winked to him. He was hesitant but nodded in return, not really understanding what was happening but afraid to do anything else. But was that really his best option despite everything? I mean like... He was standing, being watched by thousands of people while not only in a forced girls outfit but also with a fresh, pained black eye that the aforementioned sibling had nicely presented him with.
'It didn't happen'
'Nothing happened'
'Philia is nice'
'Philia is my sister'
"Kirlia! Magical leaf, go!"
'Philia would never do wrong'
Aron suddenly jumped in front of the boy as the blades shot towards him.
"Philia would never hurt me-"
Suddenly everything went black.
Screams echoed around the boy as he stumbled back. In all honesty he had no damn clue as to what just happened but whatever it was, it had left him hunched over with his face in his hands. The sound of a mic dropping nulled the sounds all the people were making and before the boy even had a chance to react multiple sets of hands where on him.
"Kendra are you okay?" The host?
"Do I need to call Nurse Joy?" Camera woman?
"No she needs a human doctor!" Judge?
"Omg I am so sorry, its all my fault!" Philia. Though the concern from her sounded forced- "I'll take her back stage-"
"Right!"
Suddenly only one pair of hands remained which dragged him someplace, it was only then that the pain kicked in. Kenji stumbled back and out of habit covered his mouth with his gloved hand to scream- Philia continued to drag him though, patting him on the back with her now free hand.
Thankfully it wasn't long before Kenji was pushed and sat on something soft, although he was shaking and crying rather violently from the pain, Philia's hands now sat on both his shoulders, he presumed she was in front of him but fun fact... He couldn't see- "Kenji, sweetie," Her voice had a calm overtone however was rather intense, "I want you to tell the host that you want me to move onto the next round okay?"
"Wh-… wh- at?" It was hard to speak through a hand and sobs but Kenji managed to pull through, "Y-you want me-me... to?"
"I want you to tell them to put me through okay?" He slowly opened his eye, it was hard and all he could really see was red but he managed to open it half way with was enough to see his sisters 'worried' face. "I'm really sorry you got hurt, I didn't mean to- You're just a little runt you see so really it should have been your body that got hit- ...I would hug you but I don't want to get blood on my outfit-" As apparent compensation for the lack of affection, she patted his head, "Just please, do this one thing and I'll get you as much pudding as you want-" He instantly closed his eye as the pain became too intense; Kenji simply nodded his head to the girl because really, he was in too much pain to care.
"An ambulance is here!"
"-EEP!"
Kenji jolted from the shock, instantly dropping his mug. It smashed to the ground and the hot liquid splashed on the counter side but the boy was too busy blinking and trying to work out where he was to notice, "Oh nice going-" Susie playfully scolded.
"What? Wha?" He looked at her utterly confused. Susie just pointed to the smashed china bathing in hot liquid, "Oh... Ohhh- No, oops, sorry-" He span himself around and jumped off the other side of the island to get some gloves and what have you to clean the mess up, "I-I'm so- I'm sorry I- I musta dozed off-"
"Dozed off and caffeine don't tend to go together Kenji," Susie replied as she set Chimchar aside and got up to help.
"Char!"
"That better had been one of yours," Philia bitterly mumbled as she herself got up and sashayed over. Mareep and Litleo both glared at her as she did this, "Just clean it up and go to bed-"
Susie took some of the kitchen roll off the boy as he himself shakily pulled a pair of gloves on, mumbling to himself the whole time. Susie gave a curious look to this but was cut off when Philia said she could stay the night.
Litleo gestured to Mareep, probably telling her to stay there as she herself jumped off the counter and ran towards Chimchar, "Lit!"
"Char?"
"Lit, leo!"
If you want my complete honesty... This is not how I intended the chapter to go XD Seriously, it was just gonna be filled with some fun shenanigans with Susies Pokémon but then I was like 'I wanna test flashbacks' cos ya know... The title is literally 'Remembering' I'm gonna need to get good at the whole 'remembering' part of it-
...Don't get me wrong, I love it XD I love writing for Philia and Kenji, especially in this chapter- I just... XD Completely different direction to what I originally intended- Oh but hay... Pokémon personalities coming out, at least there's that XD
Like always ….Oh stuff it, its gone eleven at night when writing this, you all know who owns who at this point, I'm going to bed and this'll be edited and posted in the morning XD Bai!
-Post edit note: When I clicked save after editing/spell checking the flash back, my internet went boom so IDK if it saved. I did check some areas I knew I changed which did keep but in all honesty, I'm tired AF and my eyes hurt so damn much so I aint checking again. Soz- (I also want to point out that I am from the UK (Thus my use of 'mum' instead of 'mom') but my laptops spell check refuses to change from the US version (I assure you, I've tried many times but then like five minutes later, it just auto changes back) so if some english seems broken, its genuinely down to that (Best example is the word 'realisation', damn spell check always changes the s for a z-) so sorry for any confusion this has caused.)