The Person I Love : The League Champion

Determined to face Green again I journeyed through Victory Road. Hmm…strange name. Rather than that it should be called wasting-all-your-max-repels-because-a-pokemon-that-you've-already-caught-shows-up-every-2-seconds cave. Anyway I had to go through that place, which was more troublesome than anything, I wonder where Green was though. He shouldn't have been too far ahead of me…Maybe he ran really fast through that maze of a road because he was embarrassed. It took quite a while to get through that cave I'll have to admit. Anyway following my journey through Victory Road I arrived at the Indigo Plateau…very big place. After I've healed my Pokemon and fully packed my bag full of Full Restores, I was ready. To face the Elite Four. I've read about them…I knew who they all were but I have no idea who the Champion was though. You'd think they'd have something like that down in writing. Anyhow I defeated the first 3 Elite Four but not as easily as I thought. When I finally defeated Lance and his pain-ass of a Dragonite. He told me while I was standing there.

"That's it! I'd hate to admit it, but you are a Pokemon Master!" Lance exclaims loudly as if he's talking a crowd filled with thousands of people. "I still can't believe my dragons lost to you, Leaf."

"Mhmm, how does it feel losing to someone's as young as me?" I ask conceitedly.

"You are now the Pokemon League Champion." He yells enthusiastically.

"…..Are you sure? I don't think this is how this works." I ask feeling slightly perplexed.

"…Or, you would have been, but you have one more challenger left." Lance dramatically raises his palm in front of my face as if he was too afraid to see a heartbroken face.

"Thought so." I comment indifferently.

"His name is…" He pumps his fist into the air with vigor. "GREEN!"

I stand there shocked. At his over-dramatic hand gestures or at the fact that Green became Champion so quickly, I don't know. Still, he only left a littler earlier than me…and then he became Champion ALREADY? Is that even possible? Ugh…so this is going to be my final confrontation with Green, huh? How fitting for rivals; a battle between the newly crowned Champion and his childhood adversary.

"He beat the Elite Four before you." Lance continues. "He is the real Pokemon League Champion."

I nod at Lance before I go into the door behind him. I made sure I was fully prepared to face the greatest battle of my life. However, if it's been like all our previous battle then I'm definitely going to wipe the floor with him BUT he did defeat these four…so I guess he must've miraculously gotten better in a matter of hours. We'll I'll just have to see for myself. Okay, this is not going to be the time for fawning over him…not matter how gorgeous I think he is. I took a deep breath as I entered the door and walked along the path towards Green who was standing there…smirking at me, as always.

"Hey, Leaf! I was looking forward to seeing you, Leaf" Green smiles conceitedly at me. 'Looking forward' he says. Crap I'm getting happy and I even know that he only wants to battle.

"It's nice to see you too, Green." I say sarcastically. "Never thought you'd be here. I feel kind of honored."

"My rival should be strong to keep me sharp. While working on my Pokedex, I looked all over for Pokemon. Not only that, I assembled teams that would beat any Pokemon type." Green gloats.

"Yeah…but I still beat you every time we battled." I mumble imperturbably.

"And now…I'm the Pokemon League Champion." Green grins and declares condescendingly. "Leaf! Do you know what that means?"

"That the size of this chamber is roughly a quarter of your ego." I comment wittily.

"I'll tell you." Green smirks while pulling out his Poke Ball. "I am the most powerful Trainer in the world."

[Champion Green would like to battle. Pfft Champion? Compared to whom? To Brock maybe, to me hardly.]

"NO! That can't be! You beat me at my best!" Green fell to his knees in anger. "After all that work to become the League Champ? My reign is already over? That's not fair!"

"Hmm…did you want to strong that badly?" I ask myself quietly.

"Why? Why did I lose? I never made any mistakes raising my Pokemon." Green slowly stood back up but I could tell his was still very affected by the loss. "Darn it! You're the new League Champion! Although I don't like to admit it…"

"Hey, I don't care about being the League Champ. If you want it so badly then…you can keep the title." I look at him sympathetically.

"What? Are you trying to insult me?" Green looks up at and glares.

"No, because from the beginning…I was never interested in power or fame." I confess. Somehow now that I've officially become Champion, I feel like I can finally tell him everything.

"Then why'd you come here? Why'd you ruin my effort? Why are you here?" Green exclaims furiously.

"Because you are here…" I answer honestly.

"What?" He seems taken aback.

"From the very beginning… I never had any intention of being the League Champion. I merely became a Pokemon trainer to help your grandfather and to satisfy my curiosity a bit." I tell him seriously. "However, there was another reason…because you wanted to become one."

"What? So you became a Trainer just to annoy me? To ruin my dreams? Huh? Is that it?" Green grabs my shoulders forcefully. I have never seen such a distressed side to him before.

"No, that's not it." I look at him affectionately. "I just wanted to be with you…I suppose not in that sense. Do you remember when you said you wanted to go on a journey? You said you'd only come back every one in a while to give me a souvenir… and just how many times did you returned home since our journey"

"….Not even once." He answers obediently.

"Thought so…" I smile. "And how long has it been since that day?"

"Over a few months." He replies.

"Right. Then answer this one. How often do you ever think of returning to Pallet Town?" I ask sincerely.

"Not very often…actually I haven't thought about it at all." Green doesn't seem to be thinking he was just answering honestly.

"Then…did you really expect me to wait that long for you? Just who do you think I am?" I started to tear up a little. Did I really have that much emotion surging inside me? "Wouldn't it be easier to be together if I did the same thing you did?"

"Leaf, why do you care about what I do so much?" He draws his face closer to mine in curiosity and shock.

"So I can finally say it, huh? It's because I…" When I was about to confess my feelings something cut my words off.

"Leaf!" Feeling startled I yank away from Green and turned around to see Professor Oak walking towards us.