A/N: This is a short chapter this time around. I'm thinking of doing this more often to make my production faster, but we'll see in the future.
Anyways, welcome again to chapter 4 of my first ever terrible written story. I truly enjoy writing these things despite my laziness, so I'll keep trying to force myself to finish this story/
I'll keep the introduction brief. So again, thank you so much for even reading this far. I hope I can continue to write more again.
Disclamier: I don't own the world of pokemon nor the actual pokemons. This is a story of original characters in the fictional world of pokemon. Have a nice day.
Chapter 4: Reunion
"8:30 am, right on schedule." I said to myself as I rode on top of Flygon. I turn my attention to the rising sun as the light began to cover the land of Twinleaf Town. "It's been a while since I've seen this place. Not much has really changed since the last time I was here. Though, I don't think I ever saw it from this view before." I smile at the thought of it, looking down from the sky as the wind pushes back against my hair.
A grumbling sound came and I could feel a small nudge from Flygon when it happen. "I know Flygon," I said reading her thoughts, "don't worry; I'll get your breakfast ready once we're settle in."
"WHAT ABOUT ME?" shouted a annoying voice that rang inside my head, making me jump.
"Rotom! How many times do I have to tell you to stop yelling at me when you're in your pokeball! I can't tell when you're going to talk."
"Heh, you know you love it when I do this Boss." Rotom replied.
"Shut it, your idiotic voice has ruin my slumber."
"Nobody asked you Vol!"
I couldn't help but chuckle a little as the rest of my pokemon began to wake within their capsule.
"Guys, can you not do this when it's still morning?" complained a sleepy Mawile.
"Rotom started it."
"I DID NOT talk first I only shouted first."
"Why on earth does Esprit still work when we're still inside our pokeballs?" complained Floatzel. "I don't want to listen to these amateurs all day."
"Says the one who's a novice at controlling his ego." Replied Mawile.
"Hey! Why don't you get out of that pokeball and say that to my face!
"Quite down guys," I said calmingly, "We're already here so I'll turn off Esprit okay?" They all sigh in relief.
We flew down quickly towards the gate of the village. After we landed, I returned Flygon back into her ball and began walking around the town. There were changes in the village, but nothing too major to talk about showed up. Besides some newly built houses and a couple of trees, the village hardly looked any different. As I walk down the road, I could see some familiar faces walking out of their houses. One of the neighbors that I recognize was Brian's dad Mr. Tristan, who looked at me with a mix of curiosity and confusion as I walk up to the his front porch.
"Hello there," he greeted not recognizing me. His voice was more rough and he seemed to be a little thinner than he was the last I saw him, but he was still an imposing man. "I haven't seen your face around here before. You a visitor or you got a family moving here?"
"Well," I said pretending I didn't know him, "I guess you can say I'm a visitor. I'm mainly here for a short reunion with a family that I know."
"Oh, which family are you seeing? Is it the Keys or the Hayes family?
"Don't worry, you'll find out eventually." Brian's dad gave me a slight frown at my answer, but then dismiss it soon after.
"Ok then, you need any directions?" He asked.
"No thanks, I kind of know my way around this place."
"All right well have a nice day." He said as I walk away from his house.
"Bye! and say hello to Brian for me again Mr. Tristian!" I said waving back at him. wave back in obliviousness until it took him a good ten seconds for him to come to the realization.
"Wait, again?" He said before it dawned on him. After that, he rush back inside his house and went for the stairs shouting, "Brian! Wake up, I think he's here!"
Brian lifted his body from his bed in a daze as he heard his father shouting. "What?!." He shouted back sleepily and slightly annoyed. His father finally barged into Brian's room with a wide grin on his face.
"Kato's here!" he said eagerly, "Hurry up and get your clothes on, I don't want to miss Stout's reaction when he sees this!"
"Wait, he's here already?" Brian soon stumbled out of his bed in surprise and reached for his pokètech. "Hold up I need to tell the others about this."
"It sure has been a long time since I've seen this place." I said to myself as I stood in front of my old house. "I'm glad this house is still here. Let's just hope that everyone else is still in it."
"Stop being so negative partner." Torterra transmitted from within his pokeball. "I'm sure your parents are still in one piece after all of this."
"I don't know." Joined Floatzel. "Your dad was still pretty piss the last time we saw him.
"Floatzel, that was over three years ago!"
"What's your point?"
"You're not helping." came Flygon.
"Technically, it was actually three years, four months and twenty-"
"Nobody cares!" Shouted everybody. I smiled from that and took a deep breath again.
"Don't worry Kato," said Mawile, "if anything happens, we're here for you."
"Yeah, cheer up partner! After everything we've been through this shouldn't seem so bad."
"Young Lord, always remember that no matter what happens, we will be with you."
"Exactly, so gather your courage and face this!"
"We'll be right behind you boss, so don't worry about us."
"Thanks guys."
I gathered up all of my courage and walked up the porch with my head hung high but with a feeling of terror deep in my body. Ever since I left this place I had always thought of what I should say when I eventually get back. Now, nothing came into mind. I froze at the door and took a deep breath.
I knocked on door softly, wondering if my parents were awake. There was no answer so I knocked again but louder. Still no answer, and a sudden thought came into mind that scared me. What if they left this place and moved somewhere else? What if they left the region and abandon me? What if they divorced and-? No, I shouldn't think this way. I shook away the thoughts and knocked again for the third time and waited. Yet the door did not open. I gave out a sad sigh when it was clear that no one would answer and started walking out of the porch. Until a door suddenly swung open and I froze in my tracks.
"Kato?" came the unsettling voice of my mother. I slowly turn around and our eyes met. Other than looking older, not much has changed about her expect for her messy black hair. My body was shaking at the sight of her and my tongue felt dry. I opened my mouth but nothing came out. But I found that I didn't need to as her eyes became filled with water and she rush towards me.
"You're finally home!" she cried out loud, squashing me with her hug. I recover from my brief state of shock and return the hug with a smile. After all these years my height has grown far beyond my mothers, but she didn't seem to care.
"Nice to see you again mom. I hope it wasn't too hard being here without me." I said with a shaky voice.
"So you finally decided to come back after all these years." Came a voice that I was far too familiar with. I look up from my mother and saw my dad leaning against the door. He had new square glasses this time and he seem somewhat leaner than the last time we met. "To be honest, I was beginning to think that you would never come back."
"Dad," I said looking down in shame with a bit of tears, "I know it's been a while, but I'm really am sorr-" I wasn't able to get the words out when my dad came at me with hug of his own.
"You, don't have to say anything." He reassured, "If anyone has to apologize then it's me." My dad then took a step back with a serious expression. Throughout my life, he never seemed like a tough guy. He was more of a quite man that didn't speak his mind much. Yet now he seems so much different.
"Kato, in the days that you were still here I was the one being selfish. I never wanted you to go on this journey in the first place. And after that incident with the Staraptors, that's when the it came to me that maybe you were just not made for this. I never had the chance to go on an adventure, and I realize that seeing you do it made me a bit jealous of you."
I look at him with surprise. He was way better at this apology talk than I am.
"When you left that day, I was angry for a real long time." He said this with a hint of laughter in his voice, as if he was embarrassed. "It took me more than a year to get over it."
"Correction," said my mother joining in from the hug. "It took me more than a year to get him over it."
"Yeah," my father admit, "I did had some help. But in the end I was wrong. Look at you now! You're almost as tall as I am."
"Five years will do that to you." My mother said.
"Well," I said soon after, "It wasn't really five years; it was more four years, nine months, three weeks, uh, and two days ago that I left."
"You're fifteen aren't you?" my dad asked.
"Well, yeah but-"
"Then it was five years, don't argue."
I let out a soft laugh, "Yes sir."
"Well, just to let you know Kato," My mother said walking back and standing next to dad. "You aren't the only one that was busy these past years."
"What do you mean?" I asked confuse but curious. Before she could answer, a running noise came from behind me and our attention turn towards the new person that I recognize as Sophie. She came towards us out of breath with her hands on her knees.
"Dangit," she said out loud, gasping for breath "Did I miss it?"
"Miss what?" I asked.
"Oh don't you worry," My dad said ignoring me, "You haven't missed everything yet."
"What are you talking about?"
He turned to my mother. "Is she still asleep?"
"Let me go see." I watch my mother walk back into the house again and went upstairs.
"Hold on, what's going on-"
"YOU!" Roared a voice interrupting me. I turn for a look, only to feel the force of a fist colliding with my face while simultaneously hearing a man yelling at the top of his lungs om the way.
"So you finally decided to come home, idiot!" I looked up in shock as Brian stood before me with a fierce expression. "You really think that you can just walk back in here and expect-"
"Empolion use Hydro Pump." Sophie said plainly releasing her pokemon.
"WAIT WAIT DON'T-" Brian yelled out before being sent flying out of the porch in a stream of water, screaming on the way.
"Brian! How many times do I have to tell you to stop!" Sophie rushed over to the daze Brian. "There's not even a reason to fight with Kato he's already home!"
"Ugh, why did you have to use hydro pump like that, you know it hurts!" complained Brian trying to sit back up.
"Oh would you rather I use hydro cannon instead!?"
"No wait! That'll literally kill me!"
The pair continue to argue as my dad and I watch idly by.
"So Brian's still mad at you for ditching us all those years ago?" my father asked.
I nodded in response and looked again to the fighting pair. "Out of everyone, he was the only one that kept trying to get me to come home. He battled me whenever we meet, betting that if he won I would do what he wanted me to do. Though, I shouldn't really be mad. I feel like this is his own way about caring about me."
"Wow, he must be really stubborn. So not even Brand challenge you?"
"Nah, he just didn't care about me at the time." I looked towards my father again, now feeling resolve, "Dad, I'm really am sorry for leaving you and mom four years and nine month ago. I know I left without your permission, but I just couldn't resist going out on this adventure. And now that I've seen what it is like, I can say for sure that I don't regret going, but I do regret leaving you guys."
My dad looked at me with a warm smile. "I never imagine you saying those word to me like that. You really have grown from that shy son I had before."
"But you don't need to worry about any of that." came my mother's voice. When we turned to look, my mouth fell open in shock.
Sophie's and Brian's argument all came to a stop once my mother came. Silence filled the air.
In my mother's arms was a young girl of long black hair and pale skin, looking no more then the age of two. I looked on in disbelief, never even expecting this to happen.
Brian and Sophie came up beside me and each place a hand on my shoulders, smiling as my eyes became filled with water.
"Kato, say hello to your little sister, Minerva." This girl, my little sister, slowly opened her eyes and looked up at me, and I took her in my arms for the first time.
A/N: Yay! That is the end! Again, a shorter chapter than usual, but it does speak volume talking about the reunion of Kato and his family,
Before I'm getting ahead of my self, I just wanted to say right now that if I ever do continue to write more in the future, the next story I may or may not do would in fact be a prequel to this story talking about the adventures of Kato when he was still ten years old.
But again, that won't be until the near future. Hopefully I can improve my writing till then.
Question of the chapter! Let's do something a little fun. What story genre do you like the most? I mostly like stories with a action adventure type with a hint of romance in it but it isn't the main focus. Kind of like Avatar the Last Airbender. Did I mention I like Avatar the Last Airbender already? I could have sworn I did. Not legend of Korra though, I don't like that.
Anyways, thank you all for even reading my story in the first place. Feel free to review back and help me out with my writing. In the end, I hope you all have a nice day and stay safe.
-Signed the Grand Enchanter