The Last Memory: Touko and N

     He left me.
     Left me where I was standing after Cheren and Alder left.
     After the Sages ran away.
     After Team Plasma went missing.
     He left me at the castle window.
     The window that stood open to the world where he flew away on Zekrom's back. How could he? After everything? After everything that has happened? His words rang in my head, the color of his eyes and hair and lips stuck in my mind.
     He left me.
     The words ran loud and banged around in my head, like drums. Each word getting its own note. Reshiram stood behind me, watching the evening sky from the window just like me. He was long gone, nowhere in sight and having no place to go. I stumbled back away from the window and ran into his throne. I slammed my back into the golden throne and slowly slid my back down it until I was sitting on the floor with my back turned away from his throne and our battlefield.
     Something warm slid down the curves of my cheeks. I pressed my hand to it.
     There it was.
     Shining beautifully in my hand.
     A tear.
     It has been a while since I cried. I cried when my father disappeared, cried when my mother didn't let me go begin my journey.
     My heart crumbled.
     I was broken.
     I sobbed against the throne, the salty tears falling like rain drops. They made my vision blur and sparkle. My breathing quickened and my throat constricted.
     I lost N.
     The one man who could make me feel like I lost everything when truly I lost nothing. The one man who could make me act clumsy and make my heart flutter and skip.
    I banged my fist against the throne, crying into it.
     Reshiram glanced at me sadly, he could feel my pain, practically taste it. He bent his head down to comfort me. I threw my arms around his head and cried on him.
     "I love him!" I cried to him. Reshiram cried out gently to me, his eyes watering for my loss, my pain.
     I felt like I was dying, my body was shutting down.
     I slumped against Reshiram's head and he lay down beside me, covering my body with one of his wings. His warmth poured into me as all I felt was cold.
     I wasn't dying bodily.
      I was dying emotionally.
     I clenched my hands into fists and shuddered, the cold traveling up and down my spine.
     I remembered my last memory of him.
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    He jumped onto Zekrom as Zekrom locked eyes with Reshiram. I raced toward N as Zekrom launched out of the castle. The two were floating with the heavy wing beats. I stood on the edge of the open window. Zekrom lowered himself with slower beats of his wings as he attempted for N and me to make eye level. I reached out for him as he reached for the tips of my fingers.
     The tips of our fingers ignited as we touched each other.
     My blue eyes stared into his green eyes, begging.
    Please don't go.
     He read my thoughts I so clearly portrayed on my face.
     "I'm going to make you a promise," he said softly to me as his hair blew in the wind.
     "Don't go," I said to him. He shook his head.
     "I have to, but I promise you this, if I ever come back, I promise to come back as a better person. You see, I have to rethink everything. My ideals, my promises…I even have to rethink you," he said, soft as a whisper.
     "Me?" I asked, confused. Tears were burning my eyes. My world was crashing.
     "Listen to me, I love you. I love you so much. But I don't want to hurt anybody I love," he said. My insides were dying.
     "I rather feel pain than feel loss," I whimpered.
     "Loss is temporary, scars are forever."
     "N, please. Please don't go!"
     "I can't promise I'll come back, but you're my magnet, always pulling me to you every time I'm away," he said sweetly. He looked at me with sad eyes. Zekrom began to pull our fingers tips away as I teetered on the edge of the window.
     The both of them flew off into the setting sky.
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     I huddled against Reshiram, the moon hanging up in sky.
     "Please, don't go," I said a final time.