Kazuhiko stands there in disbelief.
Hatoko stands there in silence.
Neither of them dares to blink.
Finally, though, Kazuhiko clears his throat and manages to say, "H-Hatoko… What are you doing here?"
"Was it not alright for me to come?" she asks quietly.
"No, no – it's perfectly fine, I just.. Well. I never expected to see you again, Hatoko," admits Kazuhiko, "But, ah.. Won't you come in?" Kazuhiko steps aside. Hatoko nods a little and walks into the house.
"So… This is where you live now, Kazu-san?" asks the girl while looking around the living room. Kazuhiko doesn't answer at first. He observes Hatoko thoughtfully and even takes a mental note that both of them are wearing the exact same outfits that they were wearing the night that has been haunting his dreams lately.
"Ah, yes – yes it is," says Kazuhiko with a nod, "I don't spend a lot of time here, but I try to come back and live in it occasionally."
"I see," she says with a nod. She continues to walk around and look.
"So, Hatoko," starts Kazuhiko in an attempt to break the awkward silence, "Why did you come all the way to Hoenn? I—" His sentence never quite completes itself verbally. Taken by surprise as Hatoko suddenly hugs onto him, Kazuhiko finds himself completely unable to speak.
"Kazu…Kazu- san… I'm so sorry! I've been looking all over for you! I searched all over Kanto, Johto… Now Hoenn, too!" she says in a desperate rush, "I.. I.. I needed to find you.. I had to talk to you.. I.." Unsure of what to do, Kazuhiko carefully brings a hand up and strokes the girl's hair. He does hug her back too, but it's not a particularly tight hug. It's meant as more of a comforting gesture than anything.
"I don't understand, Hatoko," admits Kazuhiko, "Didn't your husband object? Shouldn't you have been looking after your baby? I figured you had settled down in Kanto and…"
"No!" she exclaims, "That never happened! I… I wasn't pregnant! The test was.. The test was wrong.. I never married David.. When he learned about the false test results, he left me. He was desperate to be free and not be a father that… Oh, Kazuhiko, I haven't seen him since! And then I heard that you left, but I didn't know where you went and… And…" Unable to speak anymore, she just cries into Kazuhiko's shirt. All of the loneliness and desperation that she's felt crashes down in a flood of warm, salty tears.
Kazuhiko looks down at her with pity in his eyes. He's not sure what to do, but there's a thick layer of surprise lingering in his gaze. Uncertainty lingers there as well.
"Come on, Hatoko," says Kazuhiko softly, "Let's go for a ride. I have some work to do, but we can still talk." Hatoko looks up at Kazuhiko, sniffles and smiles weakly.
"S-Sure… Kazu-san. Anything you want."
Kazuhiko leads Hatoko outside then and pulls a pokeball from his lab coat. Tossing it down, he releases a massive Salamence from its depths.
"I really should show you off more," chuckles Kazuhiko while helping Hatoko onto the pokemon's back. After they're settled, the Salamence leaps up and carries them off into the sky.