I've always wanted to try a Hanahaki au. The art was always pretty and it seemed like a very beautifully tragic story.

For those of you who don't know what the Hanahaki disease is, it's a disease in which only a person who feels one-sided love can contract. The person then begins to spit up flower petals and flowers, which gets worse the longer it goes untreated.

The only way to cure the disease is if the person believes that the other has the same feelings for them, or if they have it surgically removed. The removal causes the patient to lose all feelings of love once associated with the other, and can sometimes result in losing memories with that person in it.

Warning: Angst with a happy ending

This chapter was requested by

Enjoy.

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She saw the first petal one day while they were battling.

A single, solitary, petunia petal as it floated to the ground.

She paid it no need as the battle raged on between them, her Pokemon just barely pulling through at the end.

If she had seen that petal then and there. If she had paid attention to that small foreboding sign, things would be different.

But she didn't.

The second ones came with a cough. Kotone had been talking with Silver when she felt a cough reverberate through her, and two small petunia petals floated to the ground.

She acknowledged them for a moment, wondering where they came from, and why looking at those petals brought such sorrow to her heart.

She decided to instead return her attention to Silver who was still ranting. He always seemed to cheer her up and make her feel better just by being around.

Oddly enough though the pain wasn't going away.

Then the flower bloomed on a starlit night by his side. His eyes sparkled in the moonlight and his hair blew in the breeze.

She felt her heart tug as she glanced to his smile, the softest look she had ever seen cross his face. She wanted it to stay there, but when he saw her gaze it faltered and changed to his old scowl.

"Silv, can I ask a question?" She asked. Sometimes Silver wasn't in a talking mood, sometimes he was.

"Sure." He shrugged.

"Do you like anyone?" She asked, which was a weird question. The prospect of Silver liking anyone was a little far-fetched, but she couldn't help but ask.

He stopped for a moment, and she could clearly see his features shift with discomfort. His brow furrowed in concentration as if he was having a great inner conflict.

"Yeah. I like them a lot." He started, this was Kotone's first time hearing about it.

"Why don't you tell her?" Kotone said, though the sentence felt a bit choked.

"Sometimes I cant even think straight when shes around me. She's a dumbass who makes everything harder for me, but I don't think I could have it any other way." The feeling behind his words made Kotone feel proud of the boy who had come so far.

Whoever he was talking about was a lucky girl, she was happy for them, but she couldn't shake the horrible ache ripping through her torso.

Seeing him talk about someone without a shred of anger or blatant hate was refreshing, but not in a way that Kotone felt comfortable with.

"Sometimes I think its it's more than like," she silently pleaded that he wouldn't say the next words she knew was coming, "I think its love."

Her gut wrenched painfully, doubling her over. The pain was unbearable, she needed to lay down.

"Kotone, are you okay?" He asked standing up as he tried to find a way to help.

"I don't feel good." She groaned and he helped her up, walking her over to her house.

"If you didn't feel good you should've just stayed home." He grumbled, leading her to the door, luckily they had still been in New Bark Town.

"Get better okay?" He said with the same scowl as she opened the door, "I hate to admit it, but it gets a little rough without my best friend around."

Her breath hitched, she was so happy that he had called her his best friend, but the words still illicited the pain in her center, it felt as though it was ripping her apart.

With tears in her eyes she smiled back at him, "Thank you, see you later!" She closed the door on a dazed Silver.

A deep-seated nausea overtook her as she stumbled to the bathroom. Petal's flitted from her mouth as she coughed, many more of then than there had been before.

She made it to the toilet, her eyes watering and blurring her vision as more flower petals escaped. Her stomach heaved and a pain ripped through her as this time, when her vision cleared, an entire Petunia flower fell into the water.

She scowled at it, and flushed it. Why couldn't she be happy with the way things were now?

She was the only one who knew about her sickness for a while, until one day while she was out with Silver and Hibiki, the black haired male noticed something was up.

"Hey Silv, me and Kotone are going to check something out, we'll be right back." He said. It wasn't the best excuse, but Silver had bought it, waving them off with a grumble of "whatever".

Once they were a considerable distance away, and hidden from sight by the shade of some trees, Hibiki prompted her with questions.

"What's going on? You haven't been yourself lately,ha you look miserable and sick, did something happen?" He asked and Kotone's heart raced, "Silver is worried too, but he's too, y'know, Silver to say anything."

She couldn't hold back in front of him as she felt another wave of pain erupt in her. She fell over, flowers of different sizes and colors pouring from her lips, stealing her breath.

Her throat screamed for relief but it did not come as quickly as the last few times. Hibiki crouched down rubbing her back and offering kind words telling her things like "just breath" and "it's going to be okay".

When she stopped Hibiki helped her up shakily.

"How long have you had the Hanahaki disease?" He asked sorrowful.

"A couple months..." she responded in a creaky voice, he looked at her with worried features.

"Who?" He asked, "Who do you like?" She could tell he wanted to help, but she knew there was no help for her.

"He already loves someone else. He told me himself." She said, her heart breaking. More petals drifted down and Hibiki looked broken too, she was one of his best friends after all.

"Look, I'm not saying this because I want you to give up your feelings, but I don't want you to die. Go get it surgically removed." He said in a stern voice, helping her up.

Kotone shook her head, "I cant give them up. You know that sometimes those patients forget who the person the love is. They forget everything about them and I cant afford to lose them!" She yelled running off. She released Pidgeot and flew off before he could argue.

But now, vines of the flowers began flowing out of her. It had gotten to the point that the lack of air had knocked her out before. Her lungs felt that they were always screaming for relief, and as much as she wanted to hate these flowers, she knew who they symbolized, and she couldn't hate him.

Not if it killed her.

"Kotone please, get the surgery." He told her through her locked door. She remained crouched in a fetal position on her bed, unresponsive to her friend.

"Think of how much that person will hate themselves when they find out you died because of them. How would that make them feel? How would everyone else who needs you in their life feel?" He pleaded.

Suddenly she stood up and swung the door open, surprising Hibiki, "Fine." She said with dead eyes, "I'll get the surgery. But only to keep myself from being any more of a burden to him. Its It's probably better this way." She cried.

And then, the day for the surgery came,surgery she sat in the hospital bed, petals now consistently falling from her mouth in a steady stream, She held them back as much as she could.

Blood now dropped from her mouth as another fit was about to start up, she looked to Hibiki who was at her bedside, "Tell Silv that I hope he can find the courage to confess to that girl." She said and a shocked look crossed his face.

"Wait! Hold off the surgery I'll be right back!" He yelled to the nurse who nodded, a little frightened by his sudden outburst.

He ran out of the room and down the hall and Kotone wondered what he could possibly be doing. After a moment her coughing started again and the nurses brought her a bucket to cough the flowers into.

They were now tearing at her throat, stopping her breathing as she cried. When the fit was over the nurse looked at her with worry.

"It's now or never, I don't think you can take another one of these." She said and Kotone nodded.

But at that moment Hibiki burst back into the room, heaving with exhaustion. He stepped to the side as a familiar red eyed boy made his way over to her bed.

His scowl was more present now than ever, and Kotone felt her eyes water from something other than the flowers.

"I'm sorry, I wanted you to be happy. I didn't want you to worry abou-" she was cut off when his hand connected to her cheek in a solid slap.

"Sir! What are you doing?!" The nurse shouted at him, but instead of heeding their warning he grabbed Kotone's cheeks and stared into her eyes with a sharp gaze that had her shrinking under it.

His thumb combed over her cheek lightly, and his face changed from anger to guilt. He leaned in, planting a kiss to her lips.

The action shocked her, she didn't register it at first, but when she had he had already pulled away.

"You don't have to pity me Silver, I'll be fine, I want you to be happy." She sobbed, but his mouth just connected with hers in another kiss.

When he backed away a second time she was going to say something again when he kissed her a third time, then a fourth, until she lost count.

"How many times are you going to kiss me? It already hurts enough." She cried.

"As many times as it takes for you to realize that you were the one I was talking about." He said, going in for another kiss, but longer this time.

She felt the familiar ache, though this time it felt as if it was untangling itself from around her heart. A weight lifted off her shoulder and she pulled away from Silver to sob into his shoulder.

"There's only one dumbass that causes me this much trouble and gets away with it. I just thought you'd figure out sooner." He whispered, holding her close to him

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