Yatta, here is another chapter for this fic... can't belive that I'm able to get
the next chapter out so fast after having writers block so long before last
chapter. Oh well, on with the fic and let the fun begin.
Eyes of a Child
By firehedgehog
Chapter Thirteen
"No, no... it can't be," Gary whispered once those eyes were fully open,
he was looking into beautiful amber eyes... Satoshi's eyes... his Brothers eyes.
Amber eyes, Satoshi's eyes... Ash's eyes.
Gary felt as if everything he knew was falling away from him, of all
things this was not something he had expected.
All these years he had searched for his little brother... and here he was,
the irony was that he had been right under his nose all this time.
He wanted to cry in frustration, here was his brother and he knew that
Ash didn't know he was Satoshi or he would of said something.
"Gary, what's wrong?" Ash asked his voice filled with concern, Gary
blinked coming back to reality.
Ash... his brothers face was filled with concern, Amber eyes looked in his
direction with childlike innocence. (He knew where Gary was because of his
voice).
"Its nothing Ash," he lied forcing his voice to remain calm, he sighed
silently in relief when he didn't stumble on those words.
"Are you sure?" Ash asked a smile on his face, Gary nodded before he
remembered that ash was blind at the moment. He blushed embarrised, how he
could of forgotten was beyond him at that moment.
"I'm sure, he said out loud, Ash nodded.
But still Gary felt guilty for not telling the truth, but he knew that
he couldn't just blurt out the truth without proof.
For one thing Ash would probably react wrong, also he had to see if
certain things he thought were true.
It was then that he noticed the strange look pikachu was giving him, he
sweatdropped knowing the uncanny intelligence this pokemon had.
Once his grandfather had done an intelligence test on the pikachu, it
rated in the genius category... no other pokemon had done this before.
"Its getting late out Gary and I'm getting tired, why don't you head
home while I grab some sleep," Ash suggested hiding a yawn with a slim hand,
Gary frowned at this not really wanting to go after discovering that Ash was
his brother.
He knew that Ash slept a lot especially when he was healing from
something, and he was still healing some from the knife across his eyes and
probably emotionally also.
"Sleep well Ash, I'll see you tomorrow," Gary said, Ash smiled and
climbed under the covers of his hospital bed.
"Goodnight Gary," Ash said and was asleep as soon as his head hit the
pillow, Gary smiled as he watched pikachu fall asleep beside his trainer
looking like a bright yellow fur ball.
"Love you Satoshi," he whispered once both were deep asleep, then with a
sad smile he walked out of the hospital room and then the hospital.
'Grandpa, we have a lot to talk about' he thought feeling angry, he had
a feeling that his grandfather had known that Satoshi was Ash all along. He
didn't know why he had never been told, but he planned to find out.
***
~Dream/Memory~
"Wait up, I can't run as fast as you can," Satoshi called, Shigeru
giggled and slowed down for his sibling could catch up to him.
"Slow poke," he teased once Satoshi was right at his side, Satoshi
giggled his amber eyes bright.
"Am not," Satoshi giggled, he then proceeded to give his brother a
raspberry.
"Brat," the older child said, then to Satoshi's surprise his older
brother shoved him into a pile of leaves. It was from a neighbor raking the
fall leaves, but at the moment they didn't care that they were making a mess.
"Shigeru," Satoshi laughed, the smaller child then pulled his brother
onto the leaves also. Soon they had a nice leaf fight going on, it was
starting to get dark when there sister May Came.
"Its time to go home, momma will have supper done soon," May said, as it
was she was the moor calm of the three Oak children.
"Yeah supper," Satoshi said and his stomach grumbled, the other two
exchanged looks and giggled.
"Supper time," Shigeru giggled, then the three of them ran in the
direction of home.
~End Dream/Memory~
***
Gary woke with a start, looking at his alarm clock he saw it was about
two in the morning.
With a sigh he sat up and wiped sweat from his forehead, it had been
awhile since he had dreamed of the past. Especially that day, only a few days
before Satoshi had been taken away.
He knew he was remembering those days so clearly because he had finally
found his brother, but he wanted to cry at the realization that Satoshi had
been in front of him all along.
'I wonder where Grandpa is, when I got back hoping to talk to him he
wasn't home... and he still isn't home' Gary thought, leaning back he listened
to the familiar sounds of the house.
The creaks of the floor and sounds of pokemon around the complex, the
one sound missing was his grandfathers snoring.
"Grandpa, when I find you next you have a lot to explain... especially
about Satoshi," Gary whispered sadly, he lay down again and after what seemed
like hours he fell into a deep dreamless sleep.
***
Early morning:
Ash woke slowly with the feeling of the warm sun on his face, he smiled
and wished he could see it. But soon he would be able to enjoy the sigt again,
he couldn't wait for the surgery to take place.
But still he felt fear, what if the surgery went wrong and he was blind
for life... he had to not think about it.
"Pi," a familiar voice said, Ash smiled as he felt Pikachu move and
nuzzle his face slightly.
"Morning Pikachu, since were on our own today.... Do you want to explore
this floor of the hospital?" he asked, he really wanted to explore... as it was
the only times he left the room was for meetings with doctors and other small
things.
"Pika," Pikachu said happily, Ash giggled and climbed out of bed.
Carefully he moved around the room using his hands to find the small
dresser the room contained, he knew there was normal clothing (not hospital
clothing) inside it because of his mother had told him.
"Is the door closed?" he asked his pokemon, he blushed heavily at the
thought of some stranger seeing him change while he couldn't see them... a
creepy thought.
"Pika," pikachu said, ash smiled for Pikachu had told him the door was
closed. Still smiling he opened a the dresser and pulled out clothing. His
mother had thankfully put each set of clothing in a plastic beg, this way his
outfits wouldn't look strange.
It took awhile but Ash finally pulled his clothing on correctly, with
that he went back to the bed and felt around for something the doctors had
given him.
"Aha," he said finding it, it was a staff the blind gave... they had also
told him that it had a symble on it to tell people that he was a patient of
the hospital.
"Lets go pikachu, I can't wait till I can see and don't have to use this
staff to get around," he said, opening his rooms door and he started down the
hall using his staff to guide him.
***
Professor Oak sighed as his car pulled up the driveway to his lab, he
had gone to the next town to help another scientist with a small problem.
He hadn't wanted to go with Ash in the hospital, but it was his job and
people would want to know why he had great interest in Ash's health.
"Finally home," he said as he brought the car to a stop, finally he got
out of the car and walked up to the door to the house part of the lab.
To his surprise the door opened before he reached for it, he blinked as
he came face to face with his eldest grandchild.
"Hello Gary," He said, Gary sighed and Professor Oak blinked as he saw a
confused anger in them.
"Why?" Gary asked, he blinked at his grandson.
"Why what?" he asked, full anger flashed across Gary's face.
"Why didn't you tell me that Ash was Satoshi, how could you do that to
me!" Gary demanded and tears slipped down his face, Professor Oak froze.
'He knows' he thought, as it was he didn't know if that was good or bad.
TBC
Next chapter: The adventures of exploring the hospital (evil laughter) and
confrontation (duh duh dah!!!)
Well here was the next chapter, I hope you enjoyed, thankfully you didn't have
to wait so long as last time... writers block didn't stay long.
Ja Ne