AN ~ Herro! (: I wanna thank you qfaceq for the wonderful review I got. I know the prologue was short, but… ah well, it's hopefully gonna be made up ^^. Anyways, I was planning on making this fanfic mostly from Gary's POV, with maybe a few chapters here and there in Ash's POV. Oh, I'm planning to update this weekly on Wednesdays, unless I don't get at least a review asking for more... haha(: Oh, and I'm currently working on finding a way to draw a chibi Umbreon with a chibi Pikachu for the story picture ^^. HOW CUTE IS THAT?! Hahaha… spaz moment… haha…ha… uhmm anyways (lol sorry I can get weird…) without further ado, I present chapter 1!
Chapter 1 ~ Seeing You In a Whole New Light
Gary Oak pushed his reading glasses up his nose, reading the scientific report in front of him. A load of bullcrap, as usual. I hired terrible assistants. He sighed, removing the glasses that made him look even smarter and putting them into the pocket of his lab coat. He took one last glance at the Pokémon egg in the incubator close to his desk before shedding the long white coat and heading towards the door.
"UMBREON!" he called, flicking the light switch near the door to his office, enveloping his somewhat disorganized office in a veil of darkness. "IT'S TIME TO GO!"
"Um, umbre, breon!" came a small voice near his left leg, and he felt the black cat-like Pokémon brush up against his leg. Gary just chuckled and scratched his faithful Pokémon behind the ears as they continued the hike to the outside world, and then his home.
Once Gary had reached said home, he collapsed on the couch, exhausted from dealing with his assistants, all of whom weren't the sharpest Tauros of the herd. He pinched the bridge of his nose, hoping that Arceus could somehow turn his assistants into people who actually had brains. That's too much to hope for, though.
Getting up, he slowly dragged his fatigued body to the kitchen, or more specifically, his freezer. He picked out one of his favorite frozen meals and tore the box open, almost about to eat it frozen solid. After punching the amount of time needed to cook the food into the microwave and hitting start, he sat down at his, ironically, oak wood table, his head resting in his hands. Umbreon and a little Eevee climbed up next to him and cooed at him, hoping to divert his attention. But it wasn't the two Pokémon that did. On the contrary, it was the ringing of his video phone, the loud sound of a screaming Chatot filling the air. Who the hell is calling me at this ungodly hour?! He walked over, hoping he was at least decent-looking, and ran his hands through his cinnamon colored spikes.
"Hello?" he asked tiredly, not paying attention to the name on the screen, until the caller's face flooded the screen, illuminating my tired (yet totally sexy and handsome) features. I froze, leaf green eyes wide, unable to even speak.
"GARY!" said the voice of the boy on the screen. "Long time no see! How's Umbreon? Pikachu misses her a lot..." he trailed off as a large mass of yellow, brown, and red fur blocked the young researcher's view of his old friend.
"PIKA! Pi, Pika, pikachuuu," the Pikachu on the screen whined, looking for his love.
"U-u-uhhmm, Umbreon's fine, Ash. And hello to you too Pikachu." Gary said, his voice sounding more and more irritated the longer he spoke. "Why in the name of Arceus are you calling me at..." he paused, looking at the clock, "11 o' clock at night?!"
Ash looked guilty. "Ohhh yeahh... forgot Sinnoh time is different than Unova time, heh heh."
"Ashy-boy," I said, using the pet name I came up with that peeved off the boy in question so much, "You need to learn to remember the time zones, you idiot." I yawned, forgetting about the food that had long since been heated up. "Now if you'll excuse me, Ashy-boy," I said, watching him become annoyed. Arceus, is he cute when he's annoyed at – no Gary, not now. "I am going to go to sleep. Goodnight." And with that, I hung up. But not before Ash and Pikachu got a good look at the sleeping Umbreon on the oak kitchen table, the little Eevee snuggled asleep in her side, looking quite happy.
Instead of waking the peaceful pair and forcing them to go upstairs to their beds as I usually would, I just trudged upstairs to do what they were doing – sleep. While changing into my pajamas, my mind began to wander. But I only focused on one thing in particular – Ash. Why did he call me? I mean, not that I'm upset. I got to see his beautiful face again, those breathtaking sienna eyes... Suddenly though, I realized I needed to stop thinking about him. I'm not gay... I can't be. I will admit that Ash is cute, but I don't swing like that. Hell, I'll get some girl hanging on me like her life depended on it every other week. I sighed, knowing the truth, and the lies, in my words. Although I did get a girl dying over my smartness and my sexiness every week, no girl would tame me, no girl would satisfy me. There was one person, and one person only I wanted. Take a gander at who it is.
If you guessed the black-haired, sienna-eyed boy that had called me just to say hi, then you would be right.
AN~ So… whaddya think of this chapter? Just setting up some of the background for the main event of the story, if you know what I mean. (: Anyways, please rate and review. That's what'll keep me going! :)