Set when Ash has troubles in his life, and Misty has to help him overcome them.  Gothicism ahead.  You have been warned.

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 They've all left me.  Mom, Dad, and Brock.  I have no life.  Sure, I'm the Pokemon Master, but it doesn't matter to me anymore.  Can't I have my life back?  Is it so hard to give me that?  Oh well.  Another challenger down.   Time to go back into my room.  Black hangs everywhere.  All I wear now is black.  I've been cooped up so long, my skin has turned white.  All that is left of any other color is my eyes.  Pikachu left for lunch, so I'm alone again.   Silently, I pull the sleeve of my long cloak up.  Scars cover the back of my arm.  I take out the knife, the same one that made the scars, and slash my arm.  Now there is more color.  Now I know that I'm still living.  Blood pours from the cut.   I let it bleed uncontrollably.  I don't care about my life.  All I care about is& her.



 She walks in, gasping.  Misty, ah, what an angel.  She scolds me, and then takes me to the bathroom.  No& she's washing the color away.  Bandaging up my cut, she asks me:  "Why did you do that!?!"



 I say nothing at first.  "Because& "



 "Why?"



 "I can't tell& "



 "You can't tell what?"



 "If I'm alive& "



 I look into her ocean blue eyes.  She then whispers: "Oh Ash& "



 She hugs me, tears streaming down her face.  I sit there, doing nothing.



 "Ash& why do this to yourself?"



 "I& I need to feel the cut& "



 "Ash, how long have you been doing this to yourself?"



 I take off my black fingerless gloves and show her the oldest scars.  "Ever since my father passed away.  I was only eight then."



 She says nothing.  She just sits here holding me.  I don't dare break this embrace.  As ten-year-old Ash Ketchum, I made myself as happy as possible.  But when night came, I took the knife out.  It was my only way of releasing my anger.   Now Misty knew what I do to myself.



 "Ash, don't you ever do that again, you hear me?" she asks.  I nod my head.  Tuning out the world, I fall asleep in Misty's lap.  Before I sleep, I whisper: "I love you."



 "I love you to Ash.  I love you too."