Gary stuck his head out of the tent cautiously, he sighed with relief as he saw Pikachu and Umbreon snoozing quietly under a tree.
"Ash its safe!"
"Mmmpllglgsrgd…."
"Huh? Oh you're joking!" Apparently Ash had decided he wouldn't wake up for more than two minutes
"ASHY BOY!" Gary bellowed, a few Pidgeys took flight in fright.
Ash turned over and muttered "iateaflower….hmheigftwib…..rattatatatatatatatataaaaaaaa"
Gary face palmed and picked his way over his sleeping bag and over to Ash's, his foot hit Umbreon's pokeball lying empty on the ground and he went tumbling through the air, arms flailing wildly.
He landed right on top of Ash who gave a muffled squeak and opened his eyes. Gary groaned, that had hurt a bit. At least he seemed to have landed on his sleeping bag….mmmm warm…he gave a contented smile and snuggled deeper into his sleeping bag….which was….. breathing? His eyes snapped open and was met with the sight of wide, chocolate brown eyes staring right at him.
"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH!" Gary leapt backwards off Ash and stumbled out the tent flap he kept backing up until he hit a tree and smacked his head rather hard against the bark. He let out a yelp of pain and yelled at the tree "YOU SHOULDA MOVED OUTTA MY WAY DUMBASS TREE!"
He turned around and saw Pikachu and Umbreon staring at him in a way that plainly said that they thought he was insane.
"Well at least I'm not the one who had sex last night! Did you see me making out and having passionate sex with Ash?" He growled at them.
Pikachu's hands went to her mouth to stifle giggles and Umbreon flicked her ear to the side, Gary turned around and saw Ash standing at the mouth of the tent his mouth hanging open in surprise.
"OH COME ON!" Gary roared at the sky, "WHAT THE HELL DID I DO TO YOU ARCEUS?"
There was frantic scrabbling sound and three figures tumbled out of a tree nearby, Jessie, James and Meowth sat blinking on the ground and stared at Gary.
"Well, that was unexpected." James said, with his wonderful talent for stating the obvious
"MY EARS! DAY SHOULDN'T BE TALKIN' LIKE DAT! I'M STILL AN INNOCENT MEOWTH!"
"Shut up you two!" Jessie shrieked, then cleared her throat "TO PROTECT THE WORLD FROM DEVESTATION!"
"TO UNITE ALL PEOPLES WITHIN OUR NATION!" James took up the familiar mantra
"JESSIE!"
Gary broke in "A COMPLETE AND UTTER ANNOYING FAILURE!"
"JAMES!"
"THE GAYEST PERSON I HAVE EVER MET!" Ash said mock seriously
"Hey! You can't mess with our motto you little twerp!" Jessie screamed
"I am not gay!" James protested feebly
"Please! You wave a rose around and sometimes dress as a Moltres…." Ash said
"THAT ROSE HAS BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS!"
Jessie looked at James perplexed "That doesn't make sense at all…"
"Are you questioning me?"
"Well it's a stupid flower anyway!"
"HOW DARE YOU!"
Jessie and James started screeching at the top of their lungs and Meowth just looked on in stunned silence.
Ash groaned "Pikachu….Thunderbolt please."
The crackling and sparking electric attack hit Team Rocket before they even had time to turn round.
"This is all your fault! James said as they flew through the air.
"Mine? IF YOU HADN'T GOTTEN SO DEFENSIVE ABOUT THAT DUMB FLOWER WE WOULDN'T BE IN THIS SITUATION!" Jessie retorted
"WOOOOBAFETT!"
"Get back in your pokeball you annoying blue menace!"
Meowth said "DERES ONE THING YA BOTH MISSIN' HERE!"
"TEAM ROCKET IS BLASTING OF AAAAAAGAAAAAAIN!" They all screamed and vanished from sight.
"Well that was pathetic." Gary said
"Yep, but come on? Who the heck carries a rose around with them?" Ash rolled his eyes and then shivered "Ugh this morning air is freezing!"
"You have a furry dressing gown on!" Gary said incredulously
"I only have boxers on underneath this!" Ash replied
Gary felt his cheeks ignite at the thought of Ash in boxers and muttered "Oh…."
Umbreon and Pikachu giggled and pointed at them
"PIKA CHU CHU!" Man, just jump him already!
"BRE, BREON UMBREON!" Damn. I shoulda brought a camera
"I think they're laughing at us…." Grumbled Ash
"Chu Pikachu Pika?" Use the plan we worked on last night?
"Umbreon!" Hell yea!
Pikachu jumped at Ash and tugged hard on his dressing gown
"Hey! Pikachu cut that out!"
"CHUUUUUUUUUUU!" I NEED BACKUP OVER HERE!
Umbreon leapt gracefully over to Ash and pulled so hard on the dressing gown that it completely slid off him. Pikachu Thundershocked it and Umbreon Dark Pulsed it for good measure.
"CHU CHU!" BOO-YAH!
"Breeeeoooooon!" AWWWWW YEEEEEEEAAAAAAH!
"What the ffffffffffffffffffffffff-udge guys?" shrieked Ash
Gary stared at Ash who was now only clad in purple silk boxers. Man, he looked good. The blood started to rush south. Oh no. Not good. Bad. Bad. Bad.
"Uh…I left something inside the tent!" He gabbled and raced past Ash and started rooting around his pack, putting a pillow over his crossed legs.
He heard angry yells from outside and then Ash stomped in, his hair delightfully mussed, his cheeks flushed and, of course, barely clothed.
"Can you believe them?" He raged "That dressing gown was EXPENSIVE! It was from a designer shop! I am so annoyed right now!" Ash flopped down on his sleeping bag and stretched out. The boxers slid dangerously low on his hips.
Gary whimpered slightly then clapped a hand over his mouth in horror. Oh shit. Ash looked at him and said
"Er…you ok over there?"
"Fine. Absolutely fine. I don't remember ever being this fine in my life!" Gary blurted and then blushed vivid scarlet, since when had Ash been able to turn him into a babbling idiot?
Oh yeah. A voice in his head told him. Since the time you fell in love with him.
"Shut up!" He told the voice sternly and then realised he had said it out loud.
Ash got out and knelt down next to him "Gary? Are you feeling ok?" He reached out to put a hand on Gary's forehead.
Gary backpedalled away from Ash as fast as he could, if Ash touched him he knew he was going to whimper or do something even more embarrassingly obvious.
Ash followed him looking alarmed "Gary? I'm not going to hurt you."
Gary backed up until he felt the tent wall behind his back, and still Ash kept coming closer. He felt Ash's breath ghost over his cheek and shivered. Gary realised how close they were and let out an embarrassed squeak, he saw something change in Ash's eyes, and suddenly Ash's mouth was on his. Gary froze, his brain went into a meltdown and he felt like fireworks were going off inside his stomach. The Ash pulled away as if burned.
"Oh my god. I'm so sorry. What have I done?" His voice was rising, getting higher and more high-pitched by the second. "Oh my god. Gary I…..oh god. I need fresh air." Ash turned and sprinted out of the tent.
Gary sat there dazed and paralysed for a few seconds before his brain rebooted "ASH! WAIT!" he yelled and chased Ash out of the tent.
The clearing was deserted.
"Pikachu! CHU?" You dumbass! What happened?
"Which way did Ash go?" Gary asked frantically
Umbreon rolled her eyes and sent a Shadow Ball to the left. "Umbreon! Breon!" Seriously! You two are hopeless!
"Thanks!" Gary called as he dashed off in the direction Umbreon had indicated.
After ten minutes frantic searching Gary found Ash slumped against a tree, his eyes closed and looking utterly dejected. When he saw Gary his face morphed into one of fear and horror.
"Look Gary…I'm so sorry about that. I really…..I didn't…..It won't happen again." Ash finished in a small voice.
Gary decided that to fake confidence was his best bet here, fake it till you make it and all that.
"Really? Oh that's a shame." He said cockily and stalking forward
"Huh? What?" Ash looked up confusion written all over his beautiful face.
Gary pointed at himself "I liked…." He pointed at Ash "….you kissing…." He pointed back to himself "..me."
"WHAT?" Ash's eyes were wide with shock and disbelief
"Yeah I've wanted you to do that for ages…..you see I was afraid Ash. All these years and I've been terrified of you finding out that I had fallen for you. All those insults trying to cover what I really felt….." Gary shook his head, all sense of cockiness gone. A sort of vulnerable honesty was present in his green eyes now and he looked dead serious as he focused on Ash.
"That time…I don't know if you remember this but we were on a boat going to Cinnabar Island….."
"I fell in…." Ash whispered
"Yes you did. And as I saw you fall I realised that I felt more for you that friendship…it terrified me Ash. You were my rival. We weren't even supposed to be friends and here I was feeling attracted to you! I jumped in and saved you, I berated myself so many times for saying the things I did as I walked away. The look you gave me Ash….filled with hurt and confusion….I felt awful. I couldn't go back and say 'Heh, whoops my bad. I actually like you!' so for the rest of that year I was a complete asshole to you." Gary's eyes filled with tears suddenly
"And then I saw it, the thing that made me decide to stop being a jerk. It was Misty and Brock, they were sitting next to each other and talking with each other. I had turned up earlier in the day and really given you a verbal bashing for your Pokémon skills. They were worried about you because you hadn't talked for the rest of the day and Misty had sworn she had seen you crying when she had stuck her head into your tent to say goodnight. I felt so guilty and horrible that I decided to leave you alone and just get the hell out of your life."
Ash remembered how he hadn't seen Gary for almost a year before he saw him cheering for him as he won the title of Champion.
"Then I saw that you would be competing to win the Championship, I came along to watch you compete and you had changed so much Ash! Gone was the adorably naïve boy I had taunted, you held yourself with pride and you had some inner confidence that made you and your Pokémon a seamless, unbeatable machine….you also were incredibly hot." Gary felt his face begin to blush again.
"I decided that maybe I should try to make friends because that was all I thought I could ever be to you, what I saw in that contest impressed me Ash. I realised I had made a big mistake in teasing you and made an even bigger one in trying to avoid you. And this is going to sound incredibly mushy and cliché but….I need you Ash. You make me a better person and you light up everything around you with some kind of cheerfulness."
Gary smiled slightly "I just sounded gayer than James didn't I."
Ash stood there stunned for a few moments and then said "Yes. Gayer than James. And thank god for that." Ash's eyes blazed with happiness and he was suddenly running at Gary and kissing him full on the mouth again.
Gary melted into the kiss and he whimpered as Ash drew away slightly to let them both breathe.
"A..again." Gary managed to choke out and was rewarded with Ash's lips decending on his own.
About ten metres away…
"Pika pika pi chu…." They should be around here somewhere….
"Umbreon….breon…bre." Unless….. they've fallen off a cliff…..that would be just like them…
"Pika! Pi Pikachu!" Wait! I hear something!
Both of them looked towards the sound and their eyes bulged
"Um….Umbreon breon….bre bre breon….UMBREON!." Ok….I think we should move away now….give them a little privacy…..DEAR SWEET LORD MY EYES!
"PIIIIIKKKKAAAAACCCCHHHHUUUU!" AAARRRGH OMIGOD HELLP!
Umbreon and Pikachu sprinted back to camp as fast as they could go and collapsed on the ground gasping for breath.
"Umbreeeooon…..breeon bre Umbreon." I say…. we wait until tomorrow to congratulate them.
"Piiiikachuuuuu…..chuuuuuu….." Yeah….I like that plan….
Wow..its finally done! I know it's been hideously long since I updated and I am sincerely sorry! My life has been like this lately….
Teachers used 'ten thousand tons of homework' .It's super effective
Internet used 'crash' .It's super effective.
Computer used 'break'. It's super effective.
Real life used 'U mad, bro?'. It's super effective
ViBookWorm fainted and couldn't complete the story for ages…
Please review I know I don't deserve it for being such a horrible updater but please do…..