Chapter 12: Balance Never Looked so Sweet

White looked up at Dialga tears still running down her cheeks her blue eyes filled with sadness as she asked, "So this is the event that Arceus foretold that would tear Balance apart permanently?"

She looked down toward N's lifeless face in her arms even if time wasn't frozen she would never feel him breathing again. She leaned down her forehead against his whispering, "You promised you would leave me..."

'Daughter of man,' Dialga's strong voice filled her mind making her look back up toward him, 'Stand before me child, Balance must be restored but I can't do anything without your command.'

White nodded carefully placing N's cold body onto the floor standing walking toward Dialga who loomed over her by several feet. She couldn't feel fear though all she felt was sadness as she looked up at Dialga asking, "My command? My commands have been lack a luster today or is the face I lost my most important battle against Marcia mean nothing. If N didn't try to save me he would still be alive, I would be the one on the floor cold as stone."

'If you knew the moment that created this reality, would you, if you could, change it to prevent this reality where Balance is gone forever?' Dialga asked looking down at White his red eyes staring into her very soul.

"Yes of course I would but how would I change Marcia's com... wait that wasn't the moment that caused all this or the past 5 years, was it?" White asked her mind clicking realizing the moment in an instant. The moment when balance started to fall apart as well as when Kyurem started to awake.

Dialga nodded knowingly looking at the girl saying, 'No it isn't, you know the moment speak it out.'

"It was when N left me after our battle 5 years ago," White said looking down her vision blurry from all the tears., "If I had only realized what he was doing, I could have stopped him from going. I could have told him to stop being an idiot and he didn't need to change to deserve my love because I already loved him. I started to fall for the sweet, innocent, child-like boy when I first met him that day in Accumula Town. He was a mystery I just had to solve, every meeting and battle we had I fell for him more and more. Him telling me that he was King of Team Plasma on the Ferris Wheel in Nimbasa hurt more then anything ever had but in some ways I was glad he could be honest with me even if he thought that I was going to hate him for it. He hadn't realized I could never hate him, even if he was part of that group my heart would never allow me to even dislike him. If I could go back and prevent him from leaving I would without a second thought."

'Then state the command, Daughter of man,' Dialga said looking down at her, 'State the words that will give you that second chance.'

White looked up at Dialga wiping the tears from her eyes realizing what he meant, he was guardian of time after all if anyone could give her that second chance it was him, saying, "Dialga, guardian of time, send me back to right after our battle between Truth and Ideal. Let me stop N and save the Balance from being severed."

Dialga nodded letting out a powerful roar, the Roar of Time. White stood there perfectly still watching the world around her morph. This was different then it had been with Celebi sending them back. This was as if time itself was rewinding, memories from the past 5 years past before her eyes as she grew younger and younger. She saw the past few days fly by before seeing the moment she received the letter, the day she gave up her title as champion, her battle with the fake Cheren a month before and his confession, going to the mall with Bel in Castelia City, all the times she rode the ferris wheel hoping that if she rode it enough that she would see N, her trips all over the world repersenting Unova as Champion, meeting Lyra, Silver, Brendon, Leaf, Green, Lucas, Solana, Lunick, and all the rest of her friends, the day when she defeated Alder, the moment when she started wearing a hoodie and jeans throwing away her old cloths from her journey, and finally the moment when she watched N flew away from her life into the horizon.

Suddenly as it began she heard a roar in the back of her mind, she was 15 again and N was in midst of his farewell speech to her.

""White! You said you have a dream... That Dream... Make it come true! Make your wonderful dr... Omph," N was stopped mid-sentence as White tackled him to the ground hugging him tightly them sitting on the floor of throne room. He looked at White who had her arms around his neck his face heating up not seeing her face since she had it barred in his chest asking, "White?"

White hugged him tighter having hugged him before she completely recovered from seeing the 5 years again her mind was racing. She slowly took a deep breath looking up into his gray eyes with her own blue ones saying, "N, do you always have to make some long drawn out speech? I don't want you to leave, my Dream is you, if you leave me now after all this it will do nothing but cause us both pain. I know you think you don't deserve me but you couldn't be farther from the truth. We need each other, N, don't you see we were never meant to just fight. The Heroes of the past were brothers long before they were enemies. The dragon was once one and that is how they should live, together with us in harmony. Don't you see, I love you!"

N was quite as he let what White said sink in before wrapping his arms around her back saying, "You're right, White. I love you too."

"I was hoping you say that," White whispered leaning up kissing him deeply and passionately her hands running through his green hair. She knew she would have to relive the next 5 years but she could careless. She finally had N with nothing standing in her way. Also reliving the 5 years she had spent without him like this was a wonderful thought.

N blushed a deep red before pulling White close kissing her back the same way she kissed him. He couldn't believe that White loved him too. That thought made him wonder why he ever wanted to leave her side.

Reshiram and Zekrom looked from there heroes toward each other. Reshiram spoke first, 'Well it looks like our masters are together once more.'

'You are right my sister, Balance happened all on its own this time,' Zekrom responded with a nod.

Balance was restored or, the better more accurate way to put it, never severed to begin with. As long as N and White were together Kyurem could never awaken and Marcia could never realize her role in this story. 5 years when your alone is a long time, 5 years when your with the one you love with every bit of you being takes no time at all.

5 years of memories, 5 years of fulfillment, 5 years of happiness, 5 years of closure, and 5 years for him to build the determination to ask one simple question.