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The Galar Pokemon Champion

Hendery spent every minute he could in the basement now. He was there a lot before, but now that Leon had come into the picture, he somehow managed to be there more. His Mom even had to come down and take him back home one day because they had a family dinner with his grandparents he had forgotten about.

Mrs. Suh almost fought her for trying to take him until she remembered she wasn't his actual Mom.

When they had gone out to get supplies for Leon, they also ended up getting a few things for Bella too. Just because if Hendery was over more, that meant Lucas was over more, and Bella tagged along too. So now the usual amount of living creatures in the basement was a lot more.

"Who's sleeping over tonight?" Johnny ruffled his wet hair, sending mini water droplets to annoy Kun.

"I can stay, but I have to go home later. Mom wants to talk to me in the morning." YangYang huffed, upset he had to break his streak of not spending more than an hour in his own house at a time.

"I can't either. Parents are getting suspicious." Doyoung added, causing Jeno to groan.

"I hate it when you come back smelling like smoke."

"Wait, so only the people that actually live here will be here?" Jaehyun questioned, checking the room to see if he was right.

Kun, Chenle, Jeno, and Haechan were almost never allowed to spend the night, Taeyong and Jaemin had a volunteer event so they probably weren't coming over, and the others chose their beds over the floor most of the time.

"No, WinWin." Mark reminded him.

"Your Dad's still sick?" He nodded and Kun frowned. WinWin had been kept out of his house for almost a week now, and it's not like he hadn't gone over to make sure that was still in place.

"You can take my bed, then."

"I was going to."

That was another thing that had been added to the Leon shopping trip. A bed for Doyoung. Well, it was technically there for anyone who was sleeping over, Doyoung just took it a lot. And if YangYang was lucky (he almost always was), Doyoung shared the bed with him.

"Hey Haechan, isn't it getting late?"

"Shoot! Thanks, Jae!" Haechan started frantically grabbing for his backpack and making sure he had everything, unable to finish the picture he was coloring with Chenle. "Bye guys!"

As soon as he was gone, Jungwoo took over his place next to Chenle, taking the crayons away from the younger. He knew he hated coloring, so he was doing him a favor by making him stop. In return for saving him, Chenle crawled into his lap and almost started to fall asleep.

"It is getting late, kiddos." Kun reminded them, looking mainly at those who still had to walk home. Which was almost all of them.

"Come on, Nono, I'll walk you home." Doyoung got up from the bed he was sitting on, holding out his arm so he could put it around Jeno's shoulders as they walked.

Hendery then placed a kiss gently on Leon's head, gathering his things to leave too with Lucas. Except Lucas had to stop YangYang from continuing to play with Bella before he could leave. Kun walked them home with Jungwoo who was now carrying Chenle, leaving YangYang as the last to go home.

"Don't you want to walk with someone?" Johnny asked.

"Nah, I want to stay a little longer." 

Mark patted the space next to him on his bed and YangYang came over to sit with him. Johnny and Jaehyun started up a conversation on different types of coffee, losing the interest of the younger ones.

"You know, Leon is the name of the Galar Pokemon champion." Yuta interrupted, having remembered that fact when said kitty jumped onto his bed and curled up with him.

"So he's like an extra extra warrior now." YangYang mumbled, rubbing his eyes to keep himself awake.

"You're going to fall asleep walking." WinWin said with a laugh, though it was probably true.

"Yeah, it's kinda late."

"Fine, I'll go." YangYang reluctantly got off Mark's bed and left the basement, the cool air waking him up when he got outside.

He was back in less than fifteen minutes, though, waking everyone up right before they were about to fall asleep.

Title credit to Crimson (my little brother)