The One With Apathetic Eyes

*Warning: Smart, Abused, Morally Grey, Selectively Mute Ash. This story may also contain some triggers in the beginning*

Ash has always been in pain. Random moments where pain burns into his body and blood rises to his mouth. His treatment at the hands of his mother, Delia, doesn't help anymore with the feeling of being burned inside out, he's grown numb to the pain given to him by his mother. Even as she treats him worth as he's grown to become like his dad according to his mother, he will never tell her how proud that makes him on days he can feel things again.

He had ignored his interests for five years after the pain grew too much. Being forced to have a friend that forced themselves into his world was strange but it helped him ignore the pain for a while. Still he felt empty most days.

The pain returned like it had been waiting for him with open arms when the friend that had forced themselves in forced themselves out of it. He welcomed it too he felt far to numb he missed his interests.

But now he wonders how far his interests will take him. If he escapes his home and goes on a journey like many others will he find the cause of the burning, the boiling of his blood? Will he find his dad, the only family he ever loved?

He wasn't sure but he had a feeling that as long as he was with his Pokémon everything would work out even if not in the way he believed.

Join a different version of Ash Ketchum after growing up under the abuse of his mother and subject to a mysterious pain that seems to come and go randomly. Will ash learn the cause of his seemingly mysterious illness? Will he be able to escape the results of the abuse he's suffered?

This is a fanfic I do not own Pokémon! Nor do I own any of the photos or videos that are shown in the fanfic.

Some elements of this story come from the fanfiction Renegade by 0 Jordinio 0 on fanfiction.net