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1. We Were Never Just Rivals by ChatsCanadiens11

   Fandoms: Pocket Monsters | Pokemon - All Media Types, Pocket Monsters | Pokemon (Main Video Game Series)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Oct 2025

   Tags

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   • Leaf/Ookido Green | Blue Oak
   • Leaf & Ookido Green | Blue Oak
   • Ookido Green | Blue Oak
   • Leaf (Pokemon)
   • Red (Pokemon)
   • Original Pokemon Trainer(s)
   • Rivals to Lovers
   • Emotional Constipation
   • Slow Burn
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Angst
   • Ookido Green | Blue Oak is a Mess
   • Post-Canon
   • Aged-Up Character(s)
   • They are 21 years old
   • Mutual Pining
   • Mutual pining but they're both too stubborn to do anything about it
   • Complicated Relationships
   • Selectively Mute Red (Pokemon)
   • Poor Red is their unpaid relationship therapist
   • Red knows everything
   • Blue Oak is so bad at feelings
   • Slow Burn but immediate tension
   • Rivals
   • Unresolved Romantic Tension
   • Unresolved Emotional Tension
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Actual pokémon battles take a back seat
   • Emotionally Repressed
   • Blue Oak is jealous and painfully unaware
   • "Your Honour They're Fighting (Flirting) Again"
   • Tournament Arc
   • Flashbacks
   • Emotional Growth (eventually)
   • Emotional Baggage
   • Reuinited After Years Apart
   • Blue Oak is so down bad and doesn't even know it
   • Leaf is also incredibly down bad but she's way better at hiding it
   • Red and Blue are not rivals
   • Blue and Leaf are rivals
   • conflictingshipping
   • Conflicting Shipping
   • Oldrivalshipping

   Summary

   “You know,” Leaf broke the silence, causing Blue’s thoughts to snap back to her, “do you ever wonder what comes after this?”

   “Like…what happens after all this Indigo League and Champion stuff is over?” She hesitated before continuing, her grayish-brown eyes filling with an emotion Blue couldn’t place, “Do we go back to living ‘normal’ lives? Or do we keep fighting until we’re at the top again?”

   Three years ago, Leaf, the Champion of the Indigo League, suddenly resigned and disappeared from the public eye without words of where she would be going--and Blue Oak is struggling with it more than he wants to admit.

   Blue has settled comfortably into his role as the Viridian Gym leader, but his memories of the past and the words left unsaid haunt him...and it only gets worse when Leaf unexpectedly reappears to participate in a doubles battle tournament partnered with her close friend.

   Blue decides to also enter the tournament to fight her for old times' sake, accompanied by his overly eager assistant. But as they're forced to confront the feelings they had--and may still have--for each other, Blue realizes that the most intense battles aren't always on the battlefield.

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   English

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