Disclaimer: I still don't own pokemon, by any mean. Sad, I know.

For my table "TIME", which I took from the LJ community: 10iloveyou

#03. Days.

Summary: When they meet again, Ash realize a day is not enough, nor thousand of them.

Note: I didn't see N Arc entirely, but I do remember Ash interactions with N, so is loosely based on it. And is mostly a friendship thing than anything.

They have changed. Both of them.

Despite N wearing the same outfit that he did one year-or more- ago, there was something different about him, Ash realized. Something that obviously wasn't there when he met him in Unova all those months ago. Then again, Ash wasn't the same too; he was taller, now reaching N's shoulders, and he had traveled all the way through Kalos region with some friends.

Yet, when Ash started talking with him, listening about his adventures and then telling him some of his own, he realized that that thing between them hasn't change at all. The easiness between each other, the way N smile and talk and talk without noticing he had been doing it for too long (or more than he used to), not bothering a bit when Pikachu got closer. N could hold any pokemon, even embrace it and don't mind, or even think about doing it. It was all natural to him, they were part of him as he was part of them.

And just as Pikachu and any pokemon could get close to him, Ash could do the same every time, and everyday because that's how easy and simple was with N and he loved it. The teenager (older teenager) was honest, full of wonder and love for pokemon. He was real. And so far the only friend of his who could understand, in some way, that he could careless about the pokemon league and the title of champion if weren't for the fact that, to reach said title, he has to create a strong bond with his pokemon.

N understood, and acknowledged. But acknowledged before understanding, and since then both of them had been so close to each other even though being apart for so long...

When Delia call for him and N, he realized is supper time and that when the night falls both will be sleeping or talking. Whichever happens, that won't change the fact that N will leave at sunrise and only Arceus knows when they will meet again.

A day with him wasn't enough, Ash knows, but he can bet all his badges that neither thousand of them.

Any mistake, please let me know.