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[Author's note:]
This is Chapter 2. This time Gary is narrating. Thanks for the quick response in reviews, to all who did. (that was REALLY quick.) Chapter 3 is already in the works. Please R/R this chapter. (oh, and about Ash's name and Ash and Gary's rivalry, it's explained in here.)
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Years passed, and things continued to change. Most against our wishes. Ash, Kiri and I were eight. We were almost old enough to go Pokémon training, and boy were we excited as ever. I was supposed to be an uncle, but May suffered a fatal miscarriage. Not only that, but Mother's MS had gotten the best of her, and she… she's singing her beautiful melodies in heaven. And I know she's walking… iwalking/i in the clouds…
Deep secrets that we thought we could hide forever started to surface, worse than before. I knew what happened to May. I knew what a rape was now… and I knew what a mistake was as well.
Mother and Father would continue to fight every night, and one night, Grandpa had caught him. I don't know why mom hid her bruises, cause everyone saw them. Still she didn't tell. However, that one night Grandpa did catch him, Grandpa kicked the shit out of that bastard, and forced him to leave.
I hated my father, and I wanted to see him dead. All I wanted from him was for him to once… just once… realize that I'm alive, and sadly, a piece of him. Something I vowed… I'd never become like him. Ever. After I got that stitches on my neck… after I came out of the hospital… I gave up. Now I just wanted him dead more than anything. And I wanted to see him die.
Perhaps I wished too hard… I got my wish. I learned too young what they mean when they say, "be careful what you wish for". Kiri's father returned. He was looking for her and Ash. Grandpa forced Kiri to stay with Auntie Ketchum for a while, and advised Auntie Ketchum not to let her and Ash outside.
When he couldn't get the whereabouts of them concluding that Grandpa was a bumbling old geezer, he turned to his brother… My dad. My dad didn't tell him shit either. Not because he wanted to protect Kiri and Ash… but because he always fought with him. Brother rivalry that went too far… and resulted in the death of my father.
Kiri and Ash's dad escaped, and continued the position of leader of team rocket. I hated Uncle Giovanni. More than I hated my father. Therefore… I started to hate Giovanni's children.
Ash was confused. Some things were easy to cover up… others were downright impossible. He couldn't understand why Giovanni was after not only Kiri, but himself as well. For all he knew, he didn't think he was Giovanni's child. All he knew was his father was a Pokémon trainer, and his mother was Delia Ketchum, and that he couldn't remember anything before the age of four.
Grandpa was afraid that Ash might find out the truth… that Ash would find out that his real name was Satoshi.
I mean, yeah, Gary's not my real name. My real name is Shigeru. I just had a hard time pronouncing Japanese, so everyone called me by my middle name, which is Gary. However… Ash's case was totally different. Satoshi, to him, was a totally different character. Not him…
Ash didn't find out, and didn't ponder long with the question of why Giovanni wanted him as well as Kiri. I was so full of anger after my father's murder, I developed a horrible attitude, worse than just the annoying little boy Gary.
Kiri decided to delay her journey, and left for Pokémon tech. She told me goodbye, despite my anger, and I dissmissed her. How I wished I hadden't. Ash and I became rivals, and I learned to get on his nerves a lot. When I saw his face, I became angered, not at Ash… but at uncle, because I saw Uncle's face in his.
We became rather distant, and upset, Ash stopped calling Grandpa as his own Grandpa. Grandpa wasn't proud of my recent attitude. Auntie Ketchum wasn't aware of it. Ash didn't make a big deal of it to anyone but himself and I. Every time I did upset him, I cried while no one watched. I was beginning to hate myself, despite the egotistical front I put up.
Two years later, we left on our Pokémon Journeys…
TO BE CONTINUED… CHAPTER 3 COMING SOON.
[Author's note:]
This is Chapter 2. This time Gary is narrating. Thanks for the quick response in reviews, to all who did. (that was REALLY quick.) Chapter 3 is already in the works. Please R/R this chapter. (oh, and about Ash's name and Ash and Gary's rivalry, it's explained in here.)
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Years passed, and things continued to change. Most against our wishes. Ash, Kiri and I were eight. We were almost old enough to go Pokémon training, and boy were we excited as ever. I was supposed to be an uncle, but May suffered a fatal miscarriage. Not only that, but Mother's MS had gotten the best of her, and she… she's singing her beautiful melodies in heaven. And I know she's walking… iwalking/i in the clouds…
Deep secrets that we thought we could hide forever started to surface, worse than before. I knew what happened to May. I knew what a rape was now… and I knew what a mistake was as well.
Mother and Father would continue to fight every night, and one night, Grandpa had caught him. I don't know why mom hid her bruises, cause everyone saw them. Still she didn't tell. However, that one night Grandpa did catch him, Grandpa kicked the shit out of that bastard, and forced him to leave.
I hated my father, and I wanted to see him dead. All I wanted from him was for him to once… just once… realize that I'm alive, and sadly, a piece of him. Something I vowed… I'd never become like him. Ever. After I got that stitches on my neck… after I came out of the hospital… I gave up. Now I just wanted him dead more than anything. And I wanted to see him die.
Perhaps I wished too hard… I got my wish. I learned too young what they mean when they say, "be careful what you wish for". Kiri's father returned. He was looking for her and Ash. Grandpa forced Kiri to stay with Auntie Ketchum for a while, and advised Auntie Ketchum not to let her and Ash outside.
When he couldn't get the whereabouts of them concluding that Grandpa was a bumbling old geezer, he turned to his brother… My dad. My dad didn't tell him shit either. Not because he wanted to protect Kiri and Ash… but because he always fought with him. Brother rivalry that went too far… and resulted in the death of my father.
Kiri and Ash's dad escaped, and continued the position of leader of team rocket. I hated Uncle Giovanni. More than I hated my father. Therefore… I started to hate Giovanni's children.
Ash was confused. Some things were easy to cover up… others were downright impossible. He couldn't understand why Giovanni was after not only Kiri, but himself as well. For all he knew, he didn't think he was Giovanni's child. All he knew was his father was a Pokémon trainer, and his mother was Delia Ketchum, and that he couldn't remember anything before the age of four.
Grandpa was afraid that Ash might find out the truth… that Ash would find out that his real name was Satoshi.
I mean, yeah, Gary's not my real name. My real name is Shigeru. I just had a hard time pronouncing Japanese, so everyone called me by my middle name, which is Gary. However… Ash's case was totally different. Satoshi, to him, was a totally different character. Not him…
Ash didn't find out, and didn't ponder long with the question of why Giovanni wanted him as well as Kiri. I was so full of anger after my father's murder, I developed a horrible attitude, worse than just the annoying little boy Gary.
Kiri decided to delay her journey, and left for Pokémon tech. She told me goodbye, despite my anger, and I dissmissed her. How I wished I hadden't. Ash and I became rivals, and I learned to get on his nerves a lot. When I saw his face, I became angered, not at Ash… but at uncle, because I saw Uncle's face in his.
We became rather distant, and upset, Ash stopped calling Grandpa as his own Grandpa. Grandpa wasn't proud of my recent attitude. Auntie Ketchum wasn't aware of it. Ash didn't make a big deal of it to anyone but himself and I. Every time I did upset him, I cried while no one watched. I was beginning to hate myself, despite the egotistical front I put up.
Two years later, we left on our Pokémon Journeys…
TO BE CONTINUED… CHAPTER 3 COMING SOON.