Chapter 12

In Ash's Pallet Town base, Lillie has been looking around the scene and she says, "You know that I have been here for a lot of times, but it is still the best place in the world."

"I know." Ash says, liking how Lillie is lying on him like he is her personal pillow. "So when are you going back to your family?"

Lillie says, "I just need to be there before the sunset, since my aunt is visiting. And what about you?" Lillie asks.

"Three o'clock, but I don't need to worry being late, after scaring them with my punches I am sure they won't try to do anything to me." Ash says, feeling lucky that he has a wonderful girl to spend time with.

Lillie then asks, "You know, Ash. I have a question to ask you."

Ash says, "A serious question I assume? Then ask away."

"Before that, how do you know that I am going to ask a serious question?" Lillie asks in confusion.

"You will always look at me in the eye when you want to ask me something, that's the reason." Ash says.

"You know, I want to know more about your father." This causes Ash to flinch and she notices it. Ash accidentally unleashed the aura as Pikachu, Gabena and even Arceus notice it. "I was afraid you ask that..."

"I am sorry if I brought a sensitive topic...you don't have to answer..." Just then, Ash gives her a kiss, and Lillie feels that the kiss is not the same kiss they had, it is full of sorrow and sadness. It also brings sadness to Lillie as well.

"No, it is fine." Ash says as Lillie can feel the tears from his face. Lillie says, "Ash, I am not going to force you..."

"It's fine, I may be needed this." Ash says with tears in his eyes. "You see, my father is the best father I could have. He is adventurous, but very kind of Pokemon as well as all kinds of stuff. My mom and I really enjoy the times when he battled, because it makes us smile and full of joy."

"Your father sounds like an excellent trainer, like you." Lillie smiles.

"Yes, he is an excellent father that I could ever have. But...he just disappeared in my life after I became 7. It was thanks to my Grandma that I knew what happened to him...Team Rocket has been targeting my family since I was little...and at that time, they opened up the wormholes and he, along with my other family members, have been victims of it...leaving me and Mother alone..."

As Ash is going to drop a tear again, he says, "All the other family members had called to affirm that they are safe...but yet he is the one that didn't...my father love me like my mother does, and my mother loves him while he loves her. But his disappearance really affected us, and my mother has never been happy ever since. Under the smile, I can see the grief and it pains me to see her like this..."

Lillie also feels teary after listening to Ash's story, she hugs tighter as tears also falls down in her eyes. "Oh Ash...I can't believe you have to endure this...my Dad were also being taken by the wormhole and I can feel the sadness in my mother's eyes... I can't believe I am not the only one..."

Ash nods and continues, "From that day...I didn't care too much about Pokemon training, I didn't want to cook, sew or even do those that makes others happy...because it pains me and my mother..."

"Me too...I couldn't touch Pokemon because of it as well..." Lillie says while they try to wipe out their tears. "How ironic...we are experiencing the same things...that's what makes us together..."

"Yeah." Ash says, but as the two think of it again, the tears are forming again and this time they don't care if they wet the others clothes. Pikachu and Gabena notice it and they also give them a hug.

Gary is watching the whole scene happening, and he was shocked about it, he never heard him mentioned about his father...not to mention that he didn't tell him anything about the sorrow of his father. Not only that, he can't believe that the girl over there knows the real Ash, he doesn't know how they meet, how close those two are, but he agrees that this Lillie girl is the best for Ash and understands why he didn't want to tell others about what they are doing.

As for Adam, he was listening about the conversation in plain sight, but with the help of his aura, the two didn't spot him. When he hears how Ash told Lillie about him, he feels a lot guiltier. His son isn't hating him and so is Delia. Hearing how Delia is depressed also made him sad as well, he starts to blame himself for giving Ash much grief and sorrow. Not only that, he also knows about Mohn being missing, after all, Mohn is considered a brother to him and he can tell why Lusamine and Lillie doesn't want to talk about it. What he didn't know is that it is such a big deal and it could be the reason why Lillie wasn't able to touch Pokemon back then.

"Delia...Ash...I am really sorry...for giving you this much pain...I should have contact you after I got teleported to Aether Foundation..." He turns around and says, "My son...Lillie...you two sure are interesting pair...I am sure that Gladion wouldn't want to see this happening..." Then he leaves.


After the two of them comfort each other, they are feeling better and then Ash says, "Thank you, Lillie. You really know how to cheer me up."

"You cheered me up and it is mutual that I do the same." Lillie smiles, their tears are now dry.

"Do you remembered that I told you that I didn't want to have more of a friendship to another girl because of Serena's death, right?" Lillie nods and he says, "There is another reason that I did that...it is because I was scared...what if something like wormholes happened to us as well? We are forced to leave each other just like Romeo and Juliet? I don't think I can endure that pain."

"Me too." Lillie says. "But we should have a promise: we are not going to let each other go."

"Yeah." Ash says with a smile, "By the way, Lillie. Do you want to dance? I am very sorry that you lost to Aria back in Gloire City, but can we have our own special performance to enjoy each other?"

Lillie smiles and says, "Oh Ash, you do know how much I love to dance with you."

Then they turn to Gabena, who nods and teleports a radio, then she helps playing the music as the two of them start to dance. At the same time, the other Pokemon are watching in surprise as Oshawott asks Krookodile. "Did they really dance that often?"

"More than I can even count." Krookodile says as he adjusts his glasses. "In fact, Ash has been a Top Coordinator in secret."

"When? And how?" This causes Torterra to get curious. Pikachu says, "In Sundays, you see, when you were sent to the Professor's Lab, Ash has been taking us to Contests and eventually partake the Grand Festivals. But the truth is that the time when we partook the Sinnoh Grand Festival, we did use a disguise and we are very sorry that the one who beat Dawn in the semi finals is us."

"Wait, that Red guy is you?" Torterra asks and Pikachu nods. Oshawott says, "I really wanted to be a part of it as well... so I can show that Piplup who is the best water type."

This causes everyone to sweat drop as Torterra asks, "He has a rivalry with Dawn's Piplup?"

Pikachu sighs, "Yeah, ever since Meloetta appears in his life..."


"WHERE THE HELL IS HE?" Misty is getting impatient as they are at the door of the Department store. "He has been late for an hour and there is still no sight of him."

"Trust me, it is really normal for him to do this." Brock sighs.

"Yeah, he always have a strong flavor of getting late." Cilan says.

"ARE YOU EVEN WORRIED ABOUT HIM WHEN HE DISAPPEAR?" Misty retorts back as the other girls just sigh and frown, they don't want to anger Ash as it looks really scary to them.

Gary is also back at the group, but he is looking weird after he comes back and the others are worried. May asks, "Gary, did you find out what Ash is doing?"

Gary looks at them and he says, "I didn't. He wasn't like this when we are little, I don't actually know if this Ash is the childhood friend that I knew."

Before they can ask more, Ash appears and MISTY YELLS, "Ash Ketchum, where have you been?"

Ash just smiles and says, "Sorry, I was training so much that I forget the time, remember me next time I should bring a watch."


As Lillie goes back to the camp site, she is tackled by two girls and she is surprised, "Amber, Kristen? What are you doing here?"

"What do you mean what we are doing here? Your mother asked us to visit you guys." Amber says.

"Though we were supposed to arrive yesterday, but mom has some other things to do." Kristen says.

Adam is talking to a woman who seems to be the sister of Lusamine. "So Ruka, Lillie is back, you shouldn't need to worry about it."

Ruka sighs and says, "That's great. Though I wonder what takes you too long to get back here, Lillie?"

"I am sorry, Aunt Ruka. I have been training for some while." Lillie sighs. "You know, as the Champion of Alola, I have to be in the best shape."

"Is that so?" Lusamine arrives and she sits down on the table. "Now that you are back, how about we have some dinner?"

"Sure." The girls say in union and they all sit down. At the same time, Ruka decides to ask Adam, "So now that you are back in Kanto, are you going to find your missing son and wife?"

This causes Adam to almost spit out and coughs, after calming down, he says, "I would try to find them after we researched about the Ultra Beast that we caught in this area."

"Is that so?" Lusamine says. "And I do really hope that Mohn is here as well..." She frowns a little as the two adults know the reason.


Once they are back home, the group are having dinner with Mohn and Professor Oak also in present. Brock notices how Gary is awfully quiet, but he didn't say anything until Ash says that he has to go for a walk outside. He asks, "Gary, so what happened when you are spying Ash? You feel weird after you come back so I want to ask if he caught you and use Aura on you?"

Gary says, "No, he didn't hit me, heck, I didn't find him anywhere in the mall. I don't know why, but somehow he shows better hiding skills than those idiot trio that we face."

"I see..." Max says with disappointment. "I would never think that Ash would be this hard to figure it out."

Gary says, "I wonder what causes him to be like this..." But this is a lie as he already know what makes him like this.

At the same time, Delia stops eating and she decides to go for a walk, so Mohn decides to join her. Mohn asks, "Delia, you have you have a lot of things in your mind, what's wrong?"

Delia says, "It is nothing, it is just that Ash has finally stayed back home this longer...I just really missed Adam..."

Mohn frowns and he says, "I know...Adam is a wonderful person. But right now we have no idea where he is..."

Delia cries and says, "Just what have I done to punish me by separating my husband from me? I wish I could know..."

Mohn gives her a comforting hug and says, "I feel the same way to Lusamine if you ask me. If only I refused to conduct that experiment, maybe that I would be with my family all this time...and I would be a father that my children deserved."

Delia just continues to sob, and unknown to them, Ash has noticed it and he feels his heart aching again. Pikachu asks, "Ash?"

Ash says, "I am fine, Pikachu. Let's go." Then Ash leaves the two adults alone.


Now here is another chapter, and as a lot of comments say that my story is similar to another story in the net, and I can say that it is based on that story, but it is different. And I hope you like it.