Chapter 7
The soft cooing of a flock Swellows, whimpering of Wurmples, and the running of the hot springs were all that could be heard.. It was a full moon that night and the beautiful and somber light of the moon was shining over the town; the picturesque hamlet of Lavaridge Town, nestled in the mountains of the Hoenn region, held in it an inn, tucked up on top of the cliff that the hot springs ran from. Ash and his friends were housed in the inn for the night, and while it was more expensive than staying at the Pokemon Center, May thought that staying there would be more of an enjoyable experience. May was staying in a room by herself, Max and Brock were in a room together, much to Brock's protest, and Brendan, the newest member of the group was rooming with Ash.
It was around 2 AM in the morning and Brendan and Ash were still up, having great conversations with each other. Despite there being two beds in the room, both of the boys were on the same one, as they enjoyed being physically close to each other. Ash was so drawn to Brendan's scent, and Brendan loved the warmth that he felt radiating off Ash. It had been about four weeks since the two of them met, and since then there had only been few moments where they had not been together. Both of the boys were so attracted to each other that the others in the group had their suspicions as to what their relationship actually was.
May, who had known Brendan for a long time, knew that he was openly gay, however she was still unsure about Ash. Max was still not well educated about sex so he had no opinion about it, and Brock did not care either way, but still wanted to know the full extent of the "friendship". Brendan did not fear having their relationship being discovered, whereas Ash tried his best to keep it closeted, but with all that being said, in moments like the one the two were experiencing currently, Ash did not care who knew about him and Brendan, as the only thing he focused on in these kinds of moments was Brendan.
Ash was particularly happy this night as earlier in the day he won his fourth Hoenn badge from Flannery the gym leader of the Lavaridge Gym. This put him in a good mood and being able to spend the whole night with Brendan was something that made he feel giddy inside as his favorite moments in Hoenn have been with long nights spent with Brendan. He felt amazing when around him; he felt something more with Brendan, something he did not feel in a while; Ash felt loved when he was with him, especially when he was in Brendan's arms. Brendan was recounting his first ever gym battle to Ash, who enjoyed learning about Brendan's past and getting to know him better;
"Of course I used Mudkip in my first gym battle," stated Brendan, looking at Ash with his cerulean colored eyes, "I would be crazy not to."
"Did you do good?" asked Ash smiling and looking back in Brendan's eyes.
"Haha, no!" laughed Brendan, "of course not, nobody does." Brendan was laying on the bed without a shirt, with Ash resting his head on his chest.
"That's very true, I totally lost my first gym battle against Brock," replied Ash.
"I guess long story short, it took me a couple times to get good at Pokemon battles, just not good enough to make it very far into the Ever Grande League," Brendan said. He tilted his head and looked at Ash with a grin.
"What about you? You've never told me about your time in Kanto! I wanna hear all about it," he told Ash.
"Oh," mumbled Ash looking down at the white sheets of the bed now, "I guess you're right, I haven't really told you anything about Kanto. Y-yeah I guess I did pretty decent. I had fun there."
"That's all you're gonna give me?" questioned Brendan, still with a grin on his face, "come on, it's your home region, and I've never been there. I wanna hear more about it!"
Ash knew Brendan was right; he had never told him hardly anything about his past, particularly in Kanto, but it was hard for Ash because he had bad memories from there. He sat up on the bed and looked down.
"I would like to tell you more about Kanto, it's just that I don't have very good memories from that place," started Ash, "that's why I spend hardly anytime there and instead travel to different regions. It's just difficult for me to be happy there."
"What happened?" inquired Brendan who was now sitting up on the bed. He put his hand on Ash's back to comfort him. "Is it something to do with how you did in Indigo League?"
"No, I would never get that upset about losing it," replied Ash with a little bit of an irritated tone.
"Then what was it?"
"I don't know if I wanna talk about it." Ash got up out of the bed, and faced away from Brendan.
"Ash, I'm not sure if you feel that we are at the point in our relationship where we can tell each other about the hardest things in our past, but I fell that way with you. Just ignoring your biggest shortcomings, the things you might regret the most, or the things that make you the saddest will never change that those things did happen. What you can do, instead, is talk about those things with the people who care the most about you, so that those things that make you feel terrible about your past don't haunt you for the rest of your life. Being tormented by what we've done in our lives is an awful way to live and we will never grow as a person.
"Ash, I care about you a lot, and I'm glad that you have come into my life and I feel it is my obligation to help you with the things that scare you the most, so please allow me to help you because I want to get to know you more, and because I really do want you to feel better."
The raven haired boy took in all that Brendan had to say. He felt incredibly comforted by what was said and felt a warm, buzzing feeling inside him. He turned around and faced Brendan
"The reason why I don't like Kanto is because I loved someone there..." began Ash, "... someone I really loved. Not only was he my boyfriend, he was the person I grew up with every single day... he was my absolute best friend. He did so much for me and genuinely cared about me ever since we were little kids. He asked me to do something, but I couldn't do it, so he left me and it broke my heart. Every single time that I'm in Kanto or think about it, all I can think about is him, and it hurts a lot. I've tried to move past it but I have such a hard time doing that, so that's why I never like to talk about Kanto."
Brendan got up out of the bed and walked over to Ash. He wrapped his arms around him.
"I'm sorry Ash," said Brendan, "I know it must really hurt."
"I-it really does," replied back Ash taking Brendan's scent. "I thought hooking up with a boy in Johto would help me get through it, but my heart still hurts when ever I think about him."
"What does that make me?" asked Brendan calmly and stepping away from Ash, "am I just someone you fuck to get you mind over him." Both boys looked into each other's eyes. Ash had a very sincere look.
"No," stated Ash confidently, "I feel something more when I'm around you. I feel something great that makes me happy inside. I feel like I am loved by you."
Brendan kissed Ash softly on the top of his head, and whispered, "That's because I do love you. Every day I get to spend with you is my new favorite day, and I hope I get to spend many more with you"
It was in that moment, with the utterance of those words, and in Brendan's arms that Ash began to feel incredibly comforted. He longed to feel this way in a long time. Ash leaned in to kiss Brendan on the mouth, and both of the boys' pink lips met each other; both of their tongues danced together in a pirouette of love. Brendan placed both his hands on to Ash's soft, sweet cheeks and Ash wrapped his arms around Brendan's muscular body. Ash felt Brendan's erection bulge out of his pants, and made him move to the bed. Ash laid Brendan down, making sure his legs were hanging off the bed and kissing his chest and navel. The raven haired boy rubbed Brendan's inner thighs and grazed the tips of his delicate fingers over the trapped erection. After a few moments of stimulating foreplay, Ash pulled down Brendan's black shorts and his golden boxers with both of his hands, finally freeing Brendan's seven and a half inch erection. Ash's mouth moistened as it normally did whenever he saw Brendan's erection, but this time so much so that he was practically drooling. With his right had he stroked the member, making sure to pull the foreskin all the way off. After stroking Brendan's member four times he placed his mouth on to the pink head.
Brendan let out a soft moan that Ash always found sexy. Brendan gently caressed Ash's head with his right hand; approval through physical touching was something that always turned on Ash. The raven haired boy could feel his member getting rock hard now and with his left hand he began to pull off his shorts and underwear. He slid his mouth down all the way on to the cock, with his lips reaching the base of the shaft and the tip of Brendan's member all the way in the back of his throat. Brendan closed his eyes and let out a loud moan.
"Ahhh! A-ash..." he groaned, " have you been practicing?"
Ash pulled his mouth off of Brendan's penis, which was now wet and shining in the soft light of a lamp. He stroked it a few times with his hands, rubbing the head with his hand as it went up the shaft.
"Only the multiple times I have the pleasure of having you dick in my mouth," replied Ash with a smirk on his face. Ash wrapped his mouth around one of Brendan's lemon-sized ball, licking the bottoms of it with his tongue. Brendan threw his head back and enjoyed what his lover was doing to him. Ash put the top of Brendan's shaft back into his mouth and wrapped his right hand around the bottom half and moved his mouth and hand up and down in one smooth motion; Ash's tongue licked the head of the penis each time he went up and down. The raven haired boy began to jerk his cock, which had been pulsating with excitement.
Brendan removed Ash's head away from his member and pulled him up on to the bed with him and pulled off Ash's shirt. Both boys' lips met to kiss each other; Ash rubbed Brendan's toned chest and Brendan stoked Ash's member with his left hand and put his other hand on the back of his lover's head to move it closer to him. Heavy breaths of passion were released by both boys and the bed was beginning to creak underneath their movements. Ash pulled away from Brendan's loving mouth.
"I want you inside me," he demanded.
"Fuck, I want to be inside you," replied Brendan with loving passion in his voice and eyes. Ash moved his ass so that it was hanging above Brendan's large member. The raven haired boy began moving down and Brendan guided his cock into Ash's pink hole. Ash slid all the way down on Brendan's moist cock and moaned with absolute pleasure as he did it, and began riding it up and down with Brendan grasping Ash's upper thighs to help him ride.
"Ah, f-fuck Brendan, I love this," moaned Ash, tilting his head back and closing his eyes, "I love you, Brendan."
"I love you too Ash, I'm so happy I met you," retorted Brendan, admiring his lovers body, which now had beads of sweat start to form on the forehead and chest.
Ash continued to ride Brendan's large member, enjoying each time he moved up and down and each time the tip of Brendan's cock tickled his g-spot.
"Let me fuck you another way," stated Brendan dominantly. He pulled his member out of Ash, lifted the raven haired boy off of him and laid him on his back on the bed. He pulled Ash's legs apart and steered his penis back into Ash's asshole, causing Ash to moan with euphoric pleasure as it went in. Brendan strongly grabbed on to the sides of Ash's torso and began to thrust his member in and out of Ash. The harder Brendan would thrust the louder the sound his large balls would make as they slapped against Ash's ass cheeks. Cerulean eyed Brendan grunted with each thrust, making Ash more and more turned on.
"O-o-oh fuck, Brendan, you're so unbelievably sexy like this. I-I-I love every inch of you."
Brendan picked Ash off of the bed with his hard dick still inside him. He enfolded his arms around Ash and the raven haired boy did the same with his arms and legs. Brendan began to fuck Ash's hole again. Ash began kissing Brendan bare and hairless chest, and licked his as well. Their lips met each other to kiss once more, and tongues danced together with amorous passion; Brendan loved the taste of Ash on his lips. Brendan pulled away and both boys looked into each other's eyes. Ash jerked his cock off once more, not being able to ignore its intense pulsing of arousal any more. Ash could feel Brendan's hot breath surround him and Brendan felt the tight walls of Ash's hole rubbed his most sensitive nerves each time his member moved inside him. Brendan continued to thrust for several loving moments, looking deeply in to the eyes of his lover.
"F-f-fuck," Ash moaned with his eyes rolling into the back of his head, "I'm so close."
It did not take very long for Ash's climax to approach as he was so incredibly aroused by everything Brendan was doing. Long white strings of cum began to shoot out of the head of Ash's penis, some of it landing on the ground with small thuds, and some of it landing on his chest. The beads of sweat on Brendan's body caused him to glisten in the soft light of the lamp. Ash looked back into Brendan's enchanting eyes for a moment, then tilted his head and then rested his head in Brendan's chest. Brendan too was close to cumming, so he laid Ash back down on the bed, pulled his member out of him and released the large amount of cum his balls had.
Four strings of cum shot out of Brendan's penis and landed on Ash's tan body. Brendan moaned one last time and then collapsed on the bed next to Ash, both of them having their legs hang off the bed.
"That was incredible," stated Ash who was short of breath.
"You felt incredible," replied Brendan who was also out of breath, "every day we get to spend together and every time we have sex I think I fall more and more in love with you."
"I feel the same way. I'm so happy you found me, Brendan. I feel unbelievable when I am with you. I don't even know how to explain it.
"You don't have to explain it," started Brendan who turned his head to face Ash with a grin, "because I know what you're feeling."
He leaned in and gave Ash a kiss. Both of them got off of the bed and headed into the bathroom to clean up. They both took a shower together, dried off and went back to the bed, and slid under the covers.
"Goodnight," said Ash with a soft voice, "I love you."
"I love you too," replied Brendan with a happy voice, "goodnight."
Ash turned off the lamp and the two of them cuddled together, closed their eyes and went to sleep in each other's arms.
The next morning Ash and Brendan woke up, put their clothes back on and made their way down to the dining room of the Inn where they found May, but not Brock and Max. They sat down at May's table.
"Good morning!" said May in a bright cheerful mood. Ash and Brendan, who had had a very late night did not share the same enthusiasm.
"Good morning, May," mumbled Ash, with his eyes barely open.
"Ash where's all your excitement, you won your fourth badge yesterday! You should be bouncing off the walls like normal!" proclaimed May, "but you do have bags under you eyes..."Brendan got up to go get juice.
"O-oh yeah," Ash muttered, trying his hardest to pay attention and not go back to sleep.
"Why are you so tired?! Did you not get any sleep last night?" interrogated May.
"W-well-" started Ash before being cut off. Brendan sat back at the table.
"Did you not get any sleep because Brendan snores?" May asked. This caused Brendan to choke on the juice he was drinking.
"Oh god Brendan are you a snorer?" You know, whenever we camp out I always think that it's Brock, but you know it's been starting to happen since you joined our group," continued May.
"Guilty as charged," said Brendan sarcastically and sipping on his juice.
"Where are Brock and Max?" asked Ash.
"Oh they already ate breakfast and they are packing their things. We are heading up to Mt. Chimney today and after that I think we will begin to make our way back to Petalburg for you next gym battle... at least that's what Max and Brock were thinking."
"Sounds like a plan," retorted Ash with his eyes fully closed now.
"Wake up and eat some breakfast you two, we want to leave in thirty minutes," demanded May while eating a pancake. Brendan and Ash went up to go get food which they ate quickly and then went back to their room to pack their stuff. They went to the lobby and met the rest of the group within the thirty minute deadline.
"Alright guys who's ready to do some hiking!" exclaimed Brock with his fist in the air. No one replied but instead looked at him with a slightly mean look.
"Geez just kidding we're actually gonna take the cable car up there." This made everyone happier. The five of them headed out of the inn and made their way out of Lavaridge Town and after a brief walk they made their way to the cable car station. The cable car took them all the way near the top of Mt. Chimney allowing them to appreciate the scenery of that part of Hoenn on the way up. Flocks of Swellows could be seen flying across the sky and herds of Numel and Spoink made their way across the base of the mountain. Large white clouds rolled across the sky and the sun shined a bright golden light across all that they could see; Hoenn was truly a beautiful place.
"Wow I really wish we had views like this back in Kanto," declared Brock.
"Me too," replied Ash.
The cable car arrived at the destination and the five of made their way up to the peak. Eventually, they made their way up there, and tried to stay together as a group, but that didn't work out as they all went in different direction. May saw a stand where an old lady was selling Lava Cookies, Max saw a Torkoal which he wanted to examine a little closer, and Brock saw a group of three ladies that he thought he would try to impress. Ash and Brendan walked to a viewing platform with some people on it that allowed them to see the caldera of the volcano.
"Wow this is really impressive," said Ash, looking at the red lake of boiling lava that laid before him, "this kinda reminds me of Cinnabar back in Kanto."
"Maybe you could take me to see it one day," Brendan said in reply with a smile on his face, "I'd love to see all of the beautiful sights in Kanto with you. Of course my favorite would be you naked in your bedroom."
Ash blushed.
"I would really like that," Ash stated, smiling as well.
"You could take me on a whole tour of Kanto," started Brendan, "after you're done with the Ever Grande League. I've never been there. You could take a break from all of you battling and focus on the smaller things in life."
"Like what?"
"Hmm... I don't know... maybe just sit back and enjoy this world that we live in and all of the unnoticed details that people forget... and focus on the people that we enjoy it with... you know smaller things like that. They're really important in being happy."
"Brendan, you're definitely not a small part of my world."
"I know it's just nice not to always be focused on major challenges or some endgame we're always trying to building to. It's nice to just look at everything that we've done so far and just admire those things for a little while and be proud of it."
"But sometimes we don't always have things to be proud of."
"What don't you have to be proud of in your life?"
"I don't know... I don't have a league championship to my name, and I'm not as knowledgeable in Pokemon as I want to be."
"But you have gym badges to be proud of, Ash, and you might not be as smart as some professor, but you really do know how to raise a Pokemon. Each Pokemon you have loves you and will always stand by you, that's also something to be proud of. Also aren't you proud of the people you have in your life, like Brock, May, Max, Professor Oak, and me?"
"Yes, of course"
"That's good, because I'm really proud to have you in my life. You're a great person Ash and I'm glad to have met you."
Ash stared out into the red sea of lava. He took in all of the words that Brendan said. He never really thought of stepping back from building towards being the greatest trainer ever for just a small moment to appreciate all that he had behind him. Brendan began another conversation.
"Ash, last night when we were talking about Kanto, you mentioned that you loved someone there and that he broke your heart because you couldn't do something for him. What was it?"
Ash's heart sank; he knew that this question might come up. He was still scared about his inability to come out to his friends and his mom, and he feared what telling Brendan about what happened between him and Gary might do to their relationship.
"I-I can't talk about it right now," stated Ash, "it still hurts. I know that it's been a really long time since that happened, but it really hurt me and I haven't really had anyone t-to help me through it. I still need some time... if you can understand."
"I do, Ash."
Hearing Brendan say that gave Ash a lot of relief.
"I'm sorry, it'll just take some time," replied Ash solemnly.
"It's okay, Ash, it really is. I've had my heart broken as well.
"Really?
"Yes. It was when I first started my journey. I met a trainer... well we met when he asked me to battle him. I of course said yes and I was able to win. He was older and more experienced than me so he was pretty impressed. I was 12 and he was 14. He was tall, had eyes colored like jade and had blonde hair with just a little bit of brown mixed in. I just realized that I was gay at that time and I thought that he was so hot. I asked him if he wanted to travel around with me for a little while and he said yes, so we traveled Hoenn together and he helped me with my gym battles, eventually he realized the feelings that I had for him. He told me he felt the same way and that he loved me. I had sex with him and we traveled together for a couple more weeks, but then he left. He didn't leave a note or say anything to me. He was just gone."
"Wow... I'm so sorry... that's must've felt awful. I can't even imagine someone leaving with out telling why."
"It was awful, and it took me a very long time to get over it, in fact this is the first time I'm telling this story, so that's why I understand why you don't want to share yours yet."
"Thank you Brendan. It means a lot to hear you say that."
Both of the boys looked each other in the eyes. The soft cerulean of Brendan's eyes always made Ash's heart melt. Ash leaned in for a kiss with Brendan; it was the first time he had done something like that in public. Ash pulled away and looked at Brendan's blushing face.
"I love you, Brendan."
"I love you too, Ash."
Both of them walked away from the viewing platform holding hands. Once Ash saw May he pulled his hand away from Brendan's.
"Hey there you guys are!" exclaimed May, "check out these cookies I bought, they're actually really good." Eventually the three of them met up with Brock and Max (who nearly had his face melted off by the Torkoal) looked around at Mt. Chimney together before heading off to Petalburg.