Chapter 2: Lost

Touko had fallen asleep while N directed Reshiram to somewhere. Here dreams were haunted by her injured pokemon the loss she had received at Ghetsis's hand. And it had not been a good loss; her team had been pretty much crushed by Ghetsis's second pokemon. His damn Hydreigon had destroyed her team. Her Lampent, and Zebstrika had lost to his Cofagrigus while Samurott, Zebstrika, Swoobat, Lilligant, and finally Zekrom had lost to his Hydreigon. Touko have never had such a crushing loss before. She would barely loose a pokemon or two to fainting, even in triple and rotation battles. She had thought she had trained so hard, but even training hard had not been enough.

As she slept tears began to roll down her cheek. She felt so awful for letting her team down like that. She had needed to be more prepared… somehow.

Finally, after some hours flying, she felt a gentle hand shaking her shoulder. "Touko, are you awake?" A familiar voice asked nervously.

"I was… until you shook me." Touko said groggily. "N, what happened?" She really didn't remember much. The shock of loss had left her in a daze. Had Ghetsis tried to kill her? Had N really flown away with her? She could not be sure of anything right now.

"Well." N started slowly, "After my… father… defeated you, you blacked out I guess. Became completely unresponsive for a while there. And I grabbed you so that we could just… run." He blushed a little when he said the last word.

Touko blinked, "Where are we?"

"I have no idea." N replied with a shrug.

Touko was not sure if she should be mortified or shocked. So she chose to be silent. The idea that they had no idea where they were freaked her out a bit. After a moment of silence Touko said, "So… where lost." She said simply.

N replied with silence. Clearly he was not so happy with the idea either. But he was able to recover faster than Touko. "I needed to get you out of there. Ghetsis would have killed you otherwise."

Touko could not argue with that. The remainder of their trip was left to silence and the occasions roar. Touko looked out at the dark landscape as she clung to N. She felt so shaken and confused and scared. N was looking ahead, never once looking back at Touko or even further back. Touko desperately wanted to look back but she scared of what she would see.

Finally Reshiram began its descent into the wooded landscape below. Touko watched closely as the ground grew closer. Her eyes were having trouble getting used to the darkness. When Reshiram landed Touko slipped off and fell graceless to the ground. N seemed to have had an easier time and landed with grace next to Touko.

He bent down next to her and stretched out his hand. "Can I help you up?"

It was a good thing it was so dark, otherwise the crimson blush that was now covering Touko's face would have become beyond obvious. "Thanks." She muttered.

Once she was on her feet her legs wobbled like mad. N held her until she was truly stable. "Thanks."

N shrugged and looked away, as if he was embarrassed. Why on earth would N be embarrassed? In fact he had barely said a word to Touko, mostly just shrugs and grunts really.

Touko moved closer to N. She tried to place on his shoulder but he shuffled away. "N, what's wrong?"

N did not reply for a while. He was looking away, somewhere in the distance. Touko could not be sure what he was looking at. Finally he said, "I failed. I failed to free all pokemon. I failed to save everyone. And I failed… to protect you." He turned back Touko, his eyes slightly red and his face tearstained.

Touko was taken aback. But was not able to say anything as N continued. "I was trained to be a king. To free Pokemon from their evil masters. I was taught that all trainers were controlling and cruel. But then I met you and your friends and my life got all crazy. Things I had learned and knew from before made no sense now. And you are so, interesting…" He turned slightly pink as he said that, "And I wanted to know about you and why pokemon seemed to like you. I felt compelled to protect you. It was like our connection was stronger than apposing heroes."

Touko did not know what to say, but she felt like she understood what N was trying to say even though he did not seem to have the right word for his feeling. She knew, because she felt the same way, mostly.

"N…" Touko tried to start but N cut her off.

"Touko, what my father tried to do… that was not right. Pokemon should never be forced to do anything like that. If anything happened to you…" His voice broke. He was gripping Touko's shoulders tightly and tears had started to fall down his face. "If anything happened to you I think part of me might have died. Your like the last piece to a puzzle. If I lost you than I would be incomplete."

Touko smiled gently at N. Yeah she understood what he was saying. She hugged N in return and closed her eyes. She no longer cared that they were lost, out in the wilderness; they had each other. "N, I love you too." She did not speak as eloquently as N but it was enough.

He stepped away from Touko for a moment and stared at her. "Love? Is that what this is called?"

Touko laughed brightly, maybe this night could get better.

End Chapter two

So here we go folks. I plan on making this a bit more fluffy. Oh and it will get darker. Just you wait and see. It has an M rating for a reason.