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Gym Leader!Sukuna who’s been a plague in your life since your teenage years, he was always waiting for you at the next town along the route and challenging you to a Pokemon battle, always using his carefully curated team of fire-type Pokemon to annihilate your team.

You tried everything to defeat him, starting to build your team around water-types just to take him down a peg. But he adapted to you perfectly, always making sure he had a couple of non fire-types in the bag to put you in your place.

It was frustrating, and it went on for years as the two of you collected all of the Kanto gym badges. His presence never ending, always there grinning at you, taunting you, cooing mockingly at what a cute little team of pokemon you’d built before sending all of your cherished partners straight to the Pokemon centre.

You despised him. 

Or at least, you thought you did. As you both grew older you found your heart pounding erratically whenever you’d see him waiting up ahead for you on the route, shivers running through you at the sound of his voice teasing you. It was almost like you wanted his attention.

Gym Leader!Sukuna who took great joy in bothering you. You were slow at moving through the gyms, you were much weaker than him after all - but he’d make sure to take his time and wait for you, loving that look of concentration you’d get when the two of you would battle, drinking up all your cute little reactions.

He knew that you probably hated him, going off that sweet look of panic in your eyes whenever you encountered him, but he didn’t mind - as long as he had your attention that was enough for him.

Gym Leader!Sukuna who worked his way into becoming the Fire Gym Leader in an impressive amount of time, being voted in by the Pokemon League and taking over from his predecessor at just 21 years old.

You were left trailing behind, and feeling an odd sense of loneliness at Sukuna’s absence. He’d no longer appear in the town ahead of you, instead settling into his own new gym on Cinnabar Island, and you found yourself yearning for his presence.

But with all of your gym badges collected, you had no choice but to remain at Victory Road, fruitlessly fighting the Elite Four like any other trainer with all the gym badges. Struggling day after day with no real pay off while Sukuna got to spend his days crushing weak trainers and getting the recognition he’d always wanted.

It was lonely, and it was tough. You were grateful that you had your team of six Pokemon to keep you company - it was better than nothing, even if you yearned constantly for Sukuna to appear and challenge you to a battle.

Gym Leader!Sukuna who would never admit it aloud, but he yearned for you as much as you yearned for him. He’d always wanted to be a Gym Leader - but he found himself considering giving up the post, eager to go to Victory Road, convincing himself that it was so he could take a shot at becoming Champion, but really it was because he just wanted to see you again.

Luckily for him, after just over a year of challenging the Elite Four, all of your effort finally bore fruit. Through rigorous training, the Magikarp that you’d looked after for years evolved into a Gyarados and supported you in defeating the Elite Four, allowing you to challenge the Champion.

You lost to the Champion of course, but your victory over the Elite Four put you on the radar of the Pokemon League and you were voted in as the new water-type Gym Leader, allowing you to move to Cerulean City and settle into your new gym. Finally you were Sukuna’s equal.

Gym Leader!Sukuna who took every opportunity to come and visit your gym, always pretending that he wasn’t there just because he wanted to see you. He’d arrive under the pretense that new Gym Leaders needed testing, that he was there to assess you to make sure the Pokemon League weren’t just letting any old riff-raff in. 

And you always gave him the battles that he wanted. You were much stronger than you’d ever been back when the two of you had just been Pokemon Trainers, even managing to best him - your water-type Pokemon far too strong now to fall to the under-leveled grass types that he’d usually bring out when he fought you. 

You’d really grown strong, and he had to admit that he was impressed, heart pounding with desire for you as you destroyed his team with a proud smile on your pretty face. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who insisted on treating you to a nice dinner after you finally defeated him, claiming that it was only fair when you tried to insist that he didn’t have to. 

He took you to one of the best restaurants in Cerulean City - a BBQ meat joint where the chef’s Charmanders and Charmeleons cook the meat in front of you. It was a little high profile for you, considering that everyone there was elated to see the fire-type Gym Leader, but Sukuna led you to a secluded seat in the corner away from all the riff-raff. He wanted to have you all to himself. 

It was a pleasant evening, and the two of you stayed at the table for hours talking and laughing about everything and nothing. It felt surprisingly easy to be around Sukuna like this - after years of battling him at every turn, encountering him in every place you went, he was probably the person that you knew best in the world and vice versa. And sitting in that restaurant with him had your heart racing. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who walks you home after dinner, arm brushing against yours as you wind through the streets back to your place. For the first time ever he feels a little nervous around you. When you’re battling, or when he’s teasing you, he knows exactly what he’s doing, but he’s completely at a loss on what to do now that you’re here at his side, smiling up at him as if you like him. 

And he really hopes that you do, because he likes you too. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who is absolutely fearless in battle, who spends his days crushing the dreams of little Pokemon Trainers, and yet feels terrified as he stands before the door of your house, your pretty eyes peering up at him with interest as he struggles to find the words to say to you. 

So he says nothing, throwing caution to the wind and doing what he does best - he acts. He slips an arm around you and pulls you close, relishing your surprised expression as he presses his lips softly against yours. 

He’s never been sure whether you hated him or not, so he can’t help but feel a little bit relieved when you lean into the kiss, your hands pulling him closer rather than pushing him away. The kiss is fiery, passionate, just like all your interactions leading up to this point, and he can’t help but notice just how right this felt. 

You invite him into your house that night, and from that moment on the two of you become inseparable. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who is unbelievably sweet to you now that you’re his. He still makes the two of you battle regularly, never losing his enjoyment in teasing you, but he also goes out of his way to look after you. He kisses you so tenderly, always making sure that he has his hands on you when you're together, hands clasped tightly in public so that everyone knows you’re his.

The two of you travel to visit each other’s towns as regularly as you can, and it becomes common knowledge to Pokemon Trainers that they’ll likely have to wait around to challenge the water-type or fire-type leaders - although, sometimes they’ll get lucky and find both of you in town at once. 

Your relationship becomes popular amongst Pokemon League fans, with the two of you often being bombarded by questions, your photos being taken regularly, people drawing fanart of you and spamming it on social media. You were the hottest couple in Kanto and you both knew it. 

But Sukuna liked to keep your relationship private, having dates in your gyms after closing time, visiting quieter areas throughout Kanto where the two of you could hang out with your Pokemon, often just chilling out at each other’s houses. 

He loved visiting your house, it was decorated so cutely - the whole place reminding him of you. It was clear from your decor that your love of cute Pokemon hadn’t faded over the years, pictures of you and your favourite companions lined the walls, and you had endless plushies littered around the place. It was far more soulful than his apartment in Cinnabar Island, which he had hardly bothered to decorate since moving in. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who decides quickly that he’s tired of being long distance with you - he’d spent enough time not seeing you back when you were stuck at Victory Road, he didn’t want to waste another second. Besides, it wasn’t like he was all that attached to Cinnabar Island anyway. 

So he moves in with you, transferring his meagre belongings to your home. He figures that you’ll just put most of his stuff in storage, since you already have the place so nicely decorated, but he’s surprised to find that you dutifully find a place for all of his things - his lava lamp positioned next to your jellyfish lamp, his childhood Growlithe plushie sitting on the bed beside your Snorlax, photos of him with his team lining the walls with yours. 

You’d made every effort to make this his home, and it felt far more like he belonged here with you than in that sad little apartment back on Cinnabar. Sure, he had to commute to the Gym each day on the back of his Charizard, but that was a small price to pay to wake up with you in his arms each morning. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who adores seeing you around his Pokemon, loving the care and attention that you show to his companions, treating them as though they were your own. It's cute to see your Pokemon and his interact - there were a couple of scuffles between them at the start of your relationship, but they quickly calmed down at the realization that they weren’t really rivals anymore. 

Your Vaporeon would often curl up on the couch with his Flareon, your Psyduck would pull at his Arcanine’s tail affectionately, your Slowpoke would sometimes catch a ride on the back of his Rapidash - you’d all merged into one big family, and neither of you could be happier. 

Gym Leader!Sukuna who wouldn’t mind adding another to that family one day. He loves looking after his Pokemon, but more than anything he wanted something that was half you and half him, a kid who would no doubt become the world’s strongest Pokemon trainer one day considering how strong their parents were. 

But that could wait - for now he was more than happy just enjoying being with you. Besides, he wanted to be married before you added to your family. 

Although if the ruby ring he’d just bought was anything to go by, it wouldn’t be long until you were making everything official and taking his name. Maybe he’d take you back to your home town to do it, propose to you in the same place that the two of you had first met all those years ago. 

Oh, how you’d hated him back then. 

Who would’ve thought that you’d come all this way? 

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