We exit the house and I begin to walk and the twins follow behind me with their two starters. The boy, Nate, catches up to me.

"Where are we going?" he asks.

"The gym to get my Pokémon back." He looks at me questionably. "Cheren is one of my best friends." He nods in understanding and walks back to his twin. We quietly continue along until we reach the gym. "You can come with or stay out here. It doesn't matter to me. I'll be right back either way."

"I'll go ahead," they say in unison and we all walk into the gym.

Once inside, the blonde girl from before walks up to me with an apologetic look. I look at her with a disdainful face like she's a lower life form, which is true compared to me. She bows repeatedly. "I'm sorry for the way I acted. It was totally uncalled for and I shouldn't have done it. I truly apologize."

"I'm glad you found the fault in your actions, make sure it does not happen again to me or anyone else. You understand?"

"Yes, ma'am," she says and bows.

I continue past her, ignoring the confused states of the twins, and walk into the gym.

"Cheren! Lucario! I have returned!" I call into the gym once I arrive.

"Talk about a quick change in attitude," Nate mutters behind me.

"Ha! I win!" Lucario calls out.

"Darn! How do you do that?! This is the third time!" Cheren fusses.

I walk up to the two of them sitting on the floor and lean on Cheren's shoulders peering over them. "Whatcha doing?"

"Playing Candyland," Cheren replies.

"Without me!? You guys are evil!" I exclaim. "I can't believe you would play without me! I love that game!"

"You left," Lucario points out.

I lift myself off Cheren and scoff. "Meanies! Anyway, I've come to get you, Lucario, and leave."

"Why? Have you already visited Rosa?" Lucario asks.

I point behind me. "Yep," I say popping the 'p' with a smirk.

Lucario looks, then looks back at me. "Who's the boy?"

"Well, it turns out she's a twin too! Can you believe that? Anyway, that's her twin, Nate," I announce.

"Huh, who knew?" Lucario says with a slight chuckle and stands up himself. "I guess we should get going?"

"Yeah," I say and turn to the now standing up Cheren.

"Leaving so soon?" Cheren says.

"Yeah."

"You gotta find your N?" he taunts.

My face heats up. "Don't make fun of me!"

"I'm clearly stating the facts."

"You're annoying, but I can't help but love you!" I say enveloping him up in a hug. I can feel him tense underneath me and he cautiously wraps his arms around my back. I squeeze harder and peck him on the cheek then let go and study his red face. Even the tips of his ears are red. "Payback..." I whisper enough for him to hear and he pouts, face still red. "Thanks for everything and I'll see you again soon! Tell Bianca I love her from me and you!"

"Y-yeah, I-I'll do just t-that."

With that we leave the gym and continue on our journey to Dragonspiral Tower.

...

"So I guess we'll fly to Icirrus City and walk up to Dragonspiral Tower?" I say, laying out the plans.

"Umm... Actually... I can't fly to Icirrus... I don't have a flying type or a Pokémon with the move fly or even the HM fly..." Nate says dejectedly.

"Of course you don't..." Rosa says, rolling her eyes.

"Then I recommend you get one," I snap. "Rosa, do you have one that your brother could use?"

"Sorry, I don't... I only have my own."

I sigh. "You can ride with me on Braviary."

"Sweet!"

"But that means we have to fly short distances. I don't want to overexert Braviary. Which means we can only fly from here to Virbank today."

"I'm okay with that," Rosa agrees.

"And we will stay there for about a week, I have to check on the gym leader in a week to see if she followed my orders."

"Orders?" they question synchronously.

"Well her gym is a complete dump and needs to be cleaned up or I'm shutting it down."

"Oma! Seriously!" they screech.

"Yes, the place smells along with the whole disgusting city. Air pollution does its worse to Virbank."

"That's true," they say simultaneously.

"Now I know how annoying it is when we talk together in unison..." I mumble to myself thinking about my twin. I throw out Braviary's pokeball and return Lucario and Serperior.

Nate looks at Braviary with confused faces. "Is your Braviary shiny?" Nate asks.

"You noticed, huh? Most people don't realize unless it's beside a normal looking one, good job. Yes, my Braviary is shiny."

"I can't believe I never noticed before, I feel so dumb! That's so cool!" Rosa cheers.

The twins return their starters and Rosa calls out her female Unfezant.

I climb onto Braviary. "We are going to have some extra weight. I know you can handle it though. We won't be traveling far just to Virbank," I say stroking his neck. He coos in confirmation. "Just a short distance, don't want you to get tired out. Also, we need to pay the gym leader a visit." He squawks with a laugh. "Alright, Nate, get on board!"

"A-alright..." he says unsure and wearily gets on behind me. He sits there unsure of what to do.

"You have to wrap your arms around my stomach," I say.

"Wha!?"

"You have to if you don't wanna fall off, unless you wanna sit in front of me and have my arms around you to control us."

"No! ...Okay..." He scoots up closer to me and wraps his arms around me rather loosely.

"You're going to have to hold on a lot tighter than that," I say, turning to look at him to see his ears tinted red. I snicker and grab his arms, pulling him closer to me. His whole upper body is now leaning against my backside and from the snicker from his twin I assume his face is completely red, I can feel the tension in him. "That's more like it, all you have to do now is hold on tight! Braviary, to the skies towards Virbank!"

With those words, Braviary, pushes down hard with his wings and lifts us into the sky. "Brav!"

Rosa's Unfezant copies us and takes off behind us. The grip around me tightens and I snicker, causing him to bury his face in my shoulder. This time it's me whose face turns red. I can feel his breath on my neck, it's kinda weird!

"You okay back there?!" I call out loud enough so he could, hopefully, hear me.

"Y-yeah..."

"You afraid of heights or something?"

"No, not usually..."

I laugh. "Are you embarrassed that you're the one holding on to me and not the other way around?"

"I guess you could say that..."

"Or is it because I'm the Champion?"

"Maybe..."

"Or is it that you like me?"

He stiffens. "N-no!"

"Bingo! Do you really?"

"I said no!"

"Whatever you say!" I roll my eyes, knowing full well that he can't see them. "Well hold on tight, things are about to get interesting! Braviary? Let's do it!" I adjust my legs to wrap around Braviary tighter than usual since I have extra weight. "Nate, wrap your legs around Braviary tighter!"

I feel him move shuffle. "Um... Okay! Why?"

"You're about to find out! Braviary, let's do this!"

Braviary picks up his pace and twirls around making Nate clinch even tighter, which I didn't think was even possible. We make a bunch of loop de loops, dodging other Pokémon and clouds.

"What are you doing?!" Nate screams.

"Training. We don't usually have another person to make more weight with."

"We could make it to Mistralton City if you didn't do this!"

"We could make it to Humilau City if we didn't do this, but we always do this!"

"You were planning this from the beginning!"

"Of course I was, I wouldn't be the Champion if I didn't!"

"I can't believe this!" he yells, clearly upset.

"Calm down." I laugh. "We've arrived at Virbank!"

Braviary descends along with Unfezant to the front of the Pokémon Center.

Nate hops off of Braviary rather quickly and I follow. Rosa jumps off Unfezant and recalls her to her pokeball.

"Those were some fancy moves back there," Rosa proclaims.

"You may not think I train, but every second I'm training even if it doesn't look like it," I announce and walk into the Pokémon Center.

We walk inside and I'm surprised by what I see. The whole place is full of loud people and their Pokémon.

"Wow, there's a lot more people than usual," Rosa says, eyeing everyone.

"It wasn't this crowded this morning..." I state while searching around for Nurse Joy.

The loudness of the room slowly lowers and all eyes set on me. Whispers go throughout the room.

"Isn't that the Champion?"

"What is she doing here?"

"Who are the kids with her?"

"Is she here for the convention too?"

"We need to get her autograph!!"

With those words everyone comes flying towards me with whatever they can find for me to sign.

"Lucario!" I yell, throwing out his pokeball. "Protect!" He uses the move and the four of us get surrounded in a blue force field. "Push to the front!" We maneuver towards the front to Nurse Joy. "Hello again! Three rooms, please."

"It's wonderful to see you again! I'm sorry to say but we only have one room left," Nurse Joy says apologetically with a bow.

I look at the twins. "That okay with you?"

"We're used to sharing a room, doesn't bother us," they both casually say. "As long as it's okay with you."

I turn back towards Nurse Joy. "We'll take it."

"Right this way then," she says, gesturing us towards our room. Once the doors closed behind us, she turns and looks at us; Lucario drops the protect. "I'm sorry, there seems to be an event happening somewhere in town."

"Don't fret. There are four beds in here, there's plenty of room for all of us," I say, looking at the two sets of bunkbeds.

"Oh good, I'm so relieved."

"Yeah, this'll be just like when I began my journey with Cheren, Bianca, and Black," I say, replaying the memories through my head.

Nurse Joy smiles and leaves the room. Once she does you can hear her yelling, telling everyone to get back. Resulting in a snicker from me.

"Black? The famous actor?" Rosa asks with an excited tone.

"Oh, here we go..." Nate complains.

"Yes, the famous actor, Black."

"OMA! That's so cool!" she fangirls. "How do you know him?"

I laugh. "You're a total fan over him and you don't know how we know each other?"

"What?" she looks at me questionably.

"We were born on the same day and we live together. Yin and Yang? Black and White?"

She continues to look at me as if she was hit with a supersonic attack. Nate snickers.

"We're twins."

"What!?" Rosa yells.

"Yep, she's a twin just like you," Lucario says.

"I even knew that," Nate says with a few escaped giggles. I begin to laugh along with him.

Rosa puffs out her cheeks out and plops her back on one of the top bunks. "I call this bed!"

"Then I'll take the one below you," I say, putting my things on it.

"You sure? I can take that one and you can have the other top bunk," Nate says.

I laugh. "What a gentleman! It's okay though, I like the bottom bunk better. If I have to go to the bathroom I won't have to jump, I can just stand up and go. Also, girls on one, boys on the other."

"That's a good point," Nate says, throwing his stuff on top of the other top bunk. "But I still like the top!"

Lucario takes the last bed and lies down. "Then I'll just take this one."

"I forgot! Thanks for the amazing protect, Lucario. I think it's was the best one yet," I say.

He laughs shyly. "Thanks!"

"Well then, we need to go check out the gym," I say and look around the room towards the window. "Come on." I walk to the window and open it.

"What are you doing?!" Nate fusses.

"Well, I obviously can't go the normal way unless I want to get stampeded and they'll also follow me."

"We're on the second floor!" Rosa exclaims.

"My Pokémon aren't the only ones who train," I say with a smirk.

"What kind of training do you do!?" they ask cautiously.

"Intense training. Now, come on, Lucario."

"Yes, Master..." Lucario says, lousily getting up from the bed and walks up next to me. "You first."

I nod and hop into the window's frame. "I'll be back soon," I say and jump to the ground then Lucario jumps down next to me. "Let's go!"

"She's incredibly unpredictable," Rosa says and Nate nods.

~~~

"Wonder if she's gotten anyone yet?"

"If she hasn't then there's gonna be some yelling, isn't there?" Lucario asks.

"Well there's gonna have to be, you have to set your priorities straight."

We turn the corner onto the street of the gym.

"I know and it's your responsibility as Champion to check on the gyms."

"I should probably do that soon..."

"Oh, master..." Lucario says, shaking his head.

"...Heh heh..." I scratch the back of my head awkwardly. We continue down the street and finally turn into the gym. Not a thing has changed.

"Oh no..." Lucario says.

Nothing bothers me more than someone not listening to orders! "She's gonna be getting a mouthful!" I storm down the stairs into the gym completely ignoring the white haired man's looks. I throw open the doors to the gym to the music blaring. Up on the stage is the same two band members on their respected instruments and Roxie singing away into the microphone. "ROXIE!"

"Oh shit!" the drummer yelps and drops his sticks on the floor.

I stomp up the stage to Roxie with Lucario trailing behind me. I recollect myself. "Do you want to remain gym leader?"

"Yes, of course I do!"

"Well then you better savor the time you have left if you keep this up," I snap.

"I thought I had a week!"

"You have a week to have it finished!"

"That's impossible!"

"Nothing's impossible. You better fix this place up or your rein as gym leader will end. I will check in tomorrow," I say, and with that I leave the gym.

~~~

"You okay?" Lucario asks.

I heave a big sigh. "Yeah..."

"Then let's hurry and get back to the Pokémon Center for dinner."

I sigh again and then smile. "Is it already that late?" I check my xtransceiver. "7:00!? Wow, it is late... Where did the time go?"

"Shall we be going?"

"I guess we shall! Let's go eat, I'm starved!" I grab his arm and dash to the Pokémon Center.

~~~

N

We are now in Driftveil City because I couldn't stay in Nimbasa City, too many memories. At least here we had no memories together, so I can relax somewhat.

"Let's go check into a hotel," I say.

~~~

White

We finish dinner in our room, all the stares from all the people were bothering me. Then after that, we all changed into our pjs and hop into our beds.

"I never got to ask, how's Roxie progressing?" Nate asks.

"She hasn't," I reply that follows with a sigh. "I'm rechecking with her tomorrow to see if anything is being done."

"She is a selfish person, but she does care, even if she doesn't show it," Rosa says.

"I know, I can see it in her eyes," I say. "That's just the problem though. She's so full of herself on the outside, but so caring on the inside. I know she doesn't wanna stop being a gym leader, but if she doesn't stop to make her gym more suitable for challengers then she will be shut down. I really hate doing things like that."

"Yeah," Nate agrees. "I understand. Man, being the Champion is hard work!"

"You have no idea..." Lucario says.

I laugh. "You're talking as if you're the Champion."

"Well, I do a lot of the work and I'm like your manager. Constantly having to remind you things is hard work--no, you're hard work."

The twins laugh.

I shrug. "I can't deny that, sadly."

We all laugh.

"Yeah, you can't," Lucario says.

I pout and look out at the starry lit sky. "We should get to bed."

The twins yawn at the same time. Do they ever notice that they do things like this all the time?

"Yeah, I'm beat..." Nate says tiredly. He lies back into the bed and automatically falls asleep.

Rosa and I snicker. She gets off the bed and walks over to his bed then pulls the covers over him. "Idiot... If you sleep like this you'll get a cold..."

I smile at the affection she gives to her brother. She reminds me a lot about myself. I would always tuck my brother in when we were on our journey together, as well as both Cheren and Bianca. Sometimes I even had to force Cheren to bed, he would stay up and read all about Pokémon. I snicker at the memories.

"What a sweet thing to do."

"Wha?" Rosa fusses and her face turns red from embarrassment.

"Don't worry I used to do it too."

"R-really?"

"Really, they were so reckless. I felt like the motherly figure."

"Me too... So... Can you tell me more about Black?!"

"What do you want to know?"

"Favorite color? Favorite tv show? Favorite pastime thing to do?..." Rosa says excitedly, naming off a bunch of questions.

I throw my hands up. "Alright, stop! How about you ask him yourself?"

"What!?" she screeches.

I wiggle my finger in my ear. "Oww... Okay... Let's just dial it down a little..." I say, twisting my fingers in the air as if I'm turning down the volume of a radio. "That's how I can repay you for helping me find N."

"Are you serious?!" she whisper yells.

"Yeah, I'll let you meet him. Now, go to bed and get some rest."

She removes herself from my bed and gets onto hers. "Thank you sooo much!"

"You're welcome, goodnight."

"Night."

After I hear her even breaths, I look towards Lucario.

"Your brother is going to kill you."

"I know... Anyway, goodnight."

"Night."

Then we both fall asleep.