Subarashii!

Title: Childhood
Author: Shadow/Phantomness
Pairing: Championshipping (Lance x Ash/Red)
Fandom: Pokémon
Theme: #36, Teasing
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: Pokemon belongs to Nintendo and Shogakukan Comics. This non-profit, non-copyright infringing fanfiction belongs to me under international copyright laws and taking it is plagiarism. Thank you. *Phantomness bows*

Notes: <> for telepathy, ** for thoughts, italics if a pokemon talks

Warnings: AU, Shonen-ai, implied incest, shouta

Red isn’t teased very much at all. Partially, it’s because he’s the child of a very famous person, and those children – though they may be teased – almost always carry a little cloud of awe around them. The second reason was that the famous person was his Father, who was Champion of the Kanto League, and everyone knew that Lance the Dragon Master controlled all the trainers, and those few poor souls who had teased Red when he went home in tears early on, found that their journeys were exceptionally difficult, even at the point of obtaining a starting pokémon from their kindly neighborhood Professor.

So Red wears jeans and a t-shirt even when it’s not in fashion, and he really is a nice, friendly child, and the teachers all smile, and ooh and aah and don’t see that even a famous child can be lonely.

Red invites children to his house to play, sometimes, but they’re too busy playing with his toys to pay any attention to him, so he’s decided that other children are rather boring and he’d be much better off training pokémon instead.

Every weekend, Father flies home from the Plateau, and they can play together. Father always asks how school went, and he’ll show his grades and receive a smile and often a treat if he does especially well. He works hard at his schoolwork because sometimes he has nothing else to do, and anyway it’s important if he wants to become a great trainer. Why someday, he’ll be Champion himself!

When school ends, Red gets to spend an entire year with Father, ‘catching up’ or as Father says, learning stuff the schools don’t teach. They’re mostly camping and first-aid skills that will be useful on his journey, and even though boys his age tease him about being a Momma’s Boy, he doesn’t care or listen.

Mother is dead after all.

So he lives with Father, and holds him close at night, and sometimes, they kiss, and he feels all shivery inside, and so when he waves goodbye, he promises to win all the badges.

And on the day he defeats his Father and becomes the new Champion, no one dares to tease him anymore, and this time, it’s on his own merit.

He smirks at the camera, and pretends not to hear the jealous whispers.

That night, Father holds him close and kisses him, enough to make him drown, and he says nothing.

Inside, he is glowing.

End Fic

Completed 9/14/06

*Smirky grin* Sorry, but I like incest in fantasy. In real life I find it creepy and disturbing and think people should go to jail for it, but in fanfic, I like it! Just to make things clear!

Lance: *Narrows eyes*

Phantomness: *Yawn* Tired…

Red: If your eyes are blurring the keyboard, perhaps you should take a rest?