(This is one of my favorites. I really love Classicshipping but it doesn't get enough love and it makes me sad. ): All the fics I write for them are sad though I need to stop oops;; hehe)

Red wasn't one for talking that much was very evident. He had been raised to be a good, quiet boy that never spoke out of turn and only did when it was something he really needed or had to get out (which, you guessed it, wasn't very often). Being like that frustrated a lot of the people that would normally try to talk to him on a daily basis to the point where some even got fed up and stopped talking to him. Some asked his mother if he was truly just a mute boy, however she would simply just giggle and shake her head and tell them that Red was just a boy that chose his words and people wisely and those who bothered to stay by his side were the ones he deemed acceptable.

And of course, mother always knew best. That was assured when Red would constantly hang around a girl with long brown hair and bright blue yes, whose name matched those bright blue orbs that would twinkle in happiness or shine with mischievous intent.

Her name was Blue Leaf Midori.

Blue was a girl who wouldn't stop doing something until she got what she wanted, was never seen NOT being happy, and she did whatever she could to annoy people like Shigeru who she had long since deemed an easy target the day she befriended the two of them when she moved into town when she was ten years old. Red never complained about her at all. As a matter of fact, he enjoyed her company. No, scratch that. He loved her company. Whenever Blue was around him, he would smile ever so sincerely in a way that would shock even his own mother. Though, naturally, it was a good kind of shock for the woman knew that look. Her son was in love with that girl that was the complete opposite of him more than she would probably ever know, and she couldn't help but grin the day they actually became something more than just friends.

She did, of course, when Red came home one day and declared suddenly while eating dinner that he had asked Blue to be his girlfriend and she accepted. The look on his face looked so happy; so peaceful; so ecstatic that he looked like the happiest young teen on Earth that had finally found his first love. He most certainly seemed that way when he would walk with Blue hand in hand, placing gentle kisses on her lips before they departed for each others respective homes and went to bed, and embracing her ever so warmly and nuzzle into her head of thick brown hair to inhale her sweet scent that always smelled faintly of blueberries.

'I never want to leave you, Red.' Blue would say whilst hugging him like that, giving one of her signature giggles and nuzzling into his shoulder playfully. 'I always want to be by your side no matter what happens so I can always make you happy.'

And Red would always tell her the very same thing back. However...

"Red, I think it's time we broke up."

There were times when the girl's honesty were the hardest things in the world for him.

"...What? Why?" Red questioned from where he sat on his bed next to the brunette, namesake eyes widening slowly as he mumbled the words as a reply.

Blue nodded, keeping her gaze locked with his and showing so signs of faltering with her words. Though, she did let a weak laugh and a crooked smile escape slip through her lips. "It was fun while it lasted, you know, Red, but I think it's time we stopped."

"I don't..." This didn't feel like the Blue Red knew... Why?

"I'm sorry." The female trainer said, leaning towards him to place a kiss on his cheek and smile sadly from where he couldn't see. "But really, it's for the best. You'll find someone better, anyway, right Mister Champion?" At that, she stood up and ruffled his mess of red hair a bit before walking out the door and leaving Red sitting there to stare longingly at where she had been once standing in the doorway.

… … …

"Blue's still not here." Red mumbled under his breath as he sat next to Shigeru under one of the trees in Pallet Town just like they used to do when they were young children, gaze falling to his shoes as he shifted how he sat ever so slightly.

"Hah? Of course she isn't! She's in the hospital, remember? She's been there for about two weeks!" his spiky haired rival replied irritably as if the other should have known something so obvious, one hand moving to shove him a bit. "Jeez, Gramps and I actually went to visit her a few days ago! She's still acting as dumb as ever even though the doctor said she-"

"Shigeru."

Said boy stopped in his rant, turning his head to meet the wide frightened eyes of his best friend and he couldn't help but feel his blood run cold. Red had never known...?

"Blue's in the hospital...?"

"Oh, Red, I'm..."

He had just made a horrible mistake, hadn't he?

… … …

Blue sighed wistfully from where she sat on the bed, blue eyes- eyes that were once shining with life that now seemed like dull puddles of water- focused emptily on the sky outside. How many times had she looked at the same sky in her life with happy thoughts, she wondered? Though, of course, the answer was obvious and a sad smile couldn't help but creep onto her face. Of course, it was always with Red. He had always lightened up her day despite his quietness (she found it cute, to be honest), and being around him made her feel as if she had never had a sickness like hers in the first place.

"Sir, please, calm down-" a nurse shouted from outside, which was then followed by the slamming open of Blue's hospital room door and forcing her head to jerk in the direction of where it was located.

"... Red?"

Red said nothing to Blue's words, simply walking over to her and staring back into her namesake eyes with just as much fear as he had done with Shigeru (the look had never left his face since he heard about it and ran over, to be honest). "... Blue, I'm... Here..."

The girl was quiet for a moment, though one of her gentle smiles appeared on her face as she sat up completely and patted beside her where she was sitting, which Red automatically replied with sitting where she had been ushering for him to do so. Her happy demeanor returned as if it had never left her, and she thus proceeded talking to him as if they had never broken up and Red couldn't help but wonder why. He didn't question it, though, for he just listened to her talk about how she was doing and why she was in the hospital in the first place. Apparently she had heart problems he learned, however Blue would always laugh in a way that sounded painful and called it 'battery failure' instead. She talked and talked about how much she had been going through her health issues, and pointed out the things he had missed and never thought anything about until now.

He almost felt like a bad boyfriend for it... If he could still call himself that to her.

They talked until visiting hours were over, and when the nurse came and told the young champion he had to go, at first he refused with everything he had to leave Blue's side. Such was to be expected from a caring person like him, but Blue knew how to handle him. She knew what would reassure him and what would be able to make him leave for the night and go home and come back some other time.

"Red, you can come back tomorrow, okay?" Blue said in a soft, reassuring voice as she patted his shoulder. "We can talk more then, okay? I'll wait for you!"

"You definitely will?" Red questioned back with a childish look.

"Definitely."

The raven sighed, standing up and walking towards the exit after giving Blue one last glance and leaving. Once she heard no more footsteps outside, the brunette just laughed and laid her head back down on her pillows to stare up at the ceiling and close her eyes.

"Just kidding, hehe... Like I said, Red, we had a good run..." she muttered before drifting off to sleep with a smile.

However, the next day when Red came back to see her, Blue had never woken up.

"Blue? Wake up, Blue. Blue...? Come on." Red called from her bedside, leaning close to her and far back in a childish manner only she had gotten to know, a confused frown evident on his face. "Blue, he-" At that, the boy reached out and grabbed her hand in his, only for the color to drain from his face and his heart stop completely. Her body was ice cold...

"Blue, say something. BLUE, WAKE UP..."

He got no response.

"BLUE!"

Nothing.

"You... IDIOT...!" he whispered in a hoarse voice as tears started to fall down his cheeks, bending down to hold her in his arms and cry. "You're the biggest idiot I've ever met. The worst in the world!"

He hadn't talked so much at one time, so surely if someone other than Shigeru and his mother was here, they'd be rather shocked to hear him talking right now.

A quiet sound escaped his throat, and there was no other way to describe it other than a sound one would make when your heart was ripped out of you and shredded to pieces. "And I still love you..."