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“I’ve never been enough for you Red.” Red paused in his walking as Blue tightened his grip on his hand in the way he did when he was upset, “don’t look at me like that, you know it’s true.”
Blue. You’ve always been enough. Blue laughed harshly, yanking his hand away from Red’s own.
“Why’d you choose me to go on this journey with you?” Because he loved him and Red loved travelling with him. Travelling with Blue was eye opening, it felt like he saw a whole new version of the world when Blue was travelling by his side.
You’ve always been a good travelling companion. “I’d rather travel with you more than anyone else.” Being with anyone else while constantly on the road would bore him before long. Blue was always opening his eyes to new places and new experiences. Without Blue he would find himself lost and alone before long. Blue had always been his guiding light, wherever he went, Blue was by his side leading him forward.
“But I’m not worth anything, not to you and not to anyone.” Why was Blue always like this? He’d always had such a complex over being inferior when the truth was that he never had been. Red was the one following him, not the other way around. He had beat Lance first, he had always been one step ahead of Red, leading him forward towards his next goal.
“You are Blue, you’re everything.” Blue had always been his everything, since they had first met. A young child, scared and alone had met another – one much louder and outgoing who would manage to drag him out. Blue had become everything to him on that day, because he was the only one who had made that child feel like life was worth living again. He had made him determined, made him never want to lose to the world again.
“Red…”
“I mean it Blue, you mean everything to me.” He didn’t even have the words to encompass how much Blue meant to him, the feeling was that deep and unknown. All he knew was that somewhere in there was an undying love for the gym leader. A love that was passionate and would never fade as long as Red was alive with Blue by his side. Together they could do anything, they would never lose as long as they were together. So yes, travelling across the regions with Blue was the right choice, he never would have done it with anyone else. No one else would understand him in the way that Blue did, Blue was more than happy to lead him forward into a better future, into a tomorrow where they would never have to be apart.
“If that’s the way you’re gonna be, I won’t lose to you Red!” That was more like it, that was the Blue he knew. The Blue who was always too overconfident, who had stood back up no matter how many times Red had beat him. No matter how annoying he could be, that was the Blue that Red loved more than anything. He just wanted to see him be the best version of himself that he could be, and to Red, it was the version of Blue that he had always been. He had never needed to change a single thing, and he never would. He was already perfect no matter what he thought of himself. He was perfect to Red and that’s all that mattered, even if Blue didn’t know that. In the end, they would balance each other, because that’s just the way the two of them were. Perfect opposites and yet the perfect pair.