Author's Note: What's up, folks? Sorry! Sorry! I know this is SUPER late and I am unbelievably sorry 'cause the one thing I can't stand are people who take FOREVER to post! I am so terribly sorry! Well, this one is sort of long, I suppose. I am focused on finishing two chapters today! So wait for it! Comments! Comments! Repeated commentors are much appreciated!
Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon, the characters, or a dating show.
"Why…why don't you come in."
She was falling apart. Her mind wouldn't think straight. She couldn't comprehend anything. Her actions were never thought out. These had only begun recently. She knew it. Haruka knew she was falling apart. She knew when it had started. She just couldn't understand why.
Haruka shook her head in answer to Shuu's question. She didn't want to fall apart. She didn't want to disappear. He was the reason. If she could stay away from him, then maybe she would be able to save herself. Maybe she would be able to save him.
Besides that, she felt a strong attraction to him. She didn't understand. Was it because he was the first friend she could see out of many years? It was. She always told herself that that was the reason. He was a friend.
He glanced over to her. She seemed troubled. She had been spacey for the last few minutes, so he had brought her in. He thought of how deep she was in her thoughts, as he fell deeply in to his own thoughts.
How did he feel? He was happy. He was sad. He was angered. It didn't make sense. It was crystal clear. He liked her. He hated her. No…that was one thing he was sure on, he did not hate her. Not at all.
She had an overwhelming power over him. Just one word could change his whole day. He knew. He just didn't understand. There were many things he did not understand about her. Sure, they had been rival coordinators when they were younger, but what were they now? He told himself that they were friends, as of their position, but was it not true that they had also been friends as coordinators? And where did he wish for their relationship to go?
He shook his head against that thought. He knew it was a topic he would come to at some point, but he would rather suppress it as long as possible.
Their position. Was it of just mere contestants in this show? Merely bachelor and bachelorette? Merely two rivals from the past meeting once more being nothing more than just that? Nothing more than rivals?
What did she want? Why did she think so deeply in such a matter? Did he matter to her that much? Did he withstand so much power over her to drive her to insanity?
Yes. He could control her under certain circumstances. She knew he could. She also knew he wouldn't. He wouldn't because they were…
He saw her in a different light from everyone else. It wasn't her fault. It wasn't his fault. So he had concluded it was everyone else's fault. That was what he had believed six years ago. Now, more mature, he knew that what he had said before couldn't be true. He couldn't blame it on the public for not being able to keep up with her. She was amazing and only a few people noticed her full beauty that she held.
Shuu had been in the few that noticed her completely and undividedly. He couldn't help the fact that she was filled with such a scent of purity and good.
He couldn't blame her. Although he would have loved to, he couldn't. He knew she knew nothing of how expelling her aura was.
So he came to a new conclusion, right then and there. If it wasn't the public's fault and it wasn't Haruka's fault, then it was only possible that he was the one possible at fault.
It was his fault, wasn't it?
Author's Second Note: Like I said, I am so SORRY!! Repeated commentors, please come in!