"Before I was Champion though, and even a little bit after that." Sakura sighed "You see my dad loved me very much and his job very much so he would often take me with him when he went to study Pokemon at a very young age. Because of this exposure to Pokemon at such a young age I learned how to understand what Pokemon were saying. I loved the fact I could do this and I made a lot of friends, but not human friends.
Kids were jealous of me, they called me a Pokefreak, and talked about me behind their back. There were times that I cried when I came home from school after some of the kids picked on me and bullied me and I didn't get why. I was at least fortunate that my parents were very loving and supportive of my talents and I still had the scientists and Pokemon from the lab, but it still left a hole in my heart and for a while I was pretty misanthropic for a long time. One of the reasons I went on a Pokemon journey in the first place was because I wanted to get away from Littleroot town, I was going crazy there.
I wanted to use my talents to achieve something and the league challenge gave me that opportunity, no one knew who I was, no one thought I was some sort of freak, I could do something and be proud of it. I also actually made some human friends and got connections because of the league challenge whether it be from Gym leaders or even normal trainers. I was happy I wasn't being judge, although it took awhile for me to actually open up to people and treated a lot those relationships on a business level until I felt more comfortable with them.
Eventually I was fighting one of my good friends for the title of Champion, Steven Stone the Vice President of Devon Corp, and the current President now. It was one of the toughest battles of my life, but I triumphed and was inducted in the Hall of Fame. I was ecstatic and rushed home immediately to see my parents and tell them about my journey. The town's people were excited when I came home and praised me.....but something wasn't right about it.
When those people talked to me I felt sick inside, they didn't seem sincere, their smiles were fake, they didn't see me as Sakura Birch, they saw me as Sakura the Champion. I knew they were only talking to me because of my status Champion, but I knew they still saw me as the freak they all were jealous of, in fact they might have been even more jealous of me.
Eventually I snapped at them, told them to leave me alone, shove that fake sincerity up their huge asses, and ran home crying like I did when I was a 6 year old. I ran straight into my room and shut the door not talking to my parents and lied in my bed in a sorry pile of misery. The next morning I told my parents what happened and they suggested I continued to explore the world and learn about new places and Pokemon, my father suggest the Sinnoh region for my next destination. I agreed and within the week I was in Sinnoh aiming for my next Champion title.
Then I went to Unova and finally stayed in Kanto just to avoid coming home to that again. After the [parasitic bomb] in Kanto 3 years ago happened I decided that I couldn't stand staying there anymore and went back home at last to my loving family. However this time the towns people we're smothering me in fake praise and sincerity, they actually apologized for the crap they put me through and after a bit of convincing I forgave them.
After 3 years of staying home I finally came to love Littleroot and stayed there for 3 years until this Team Flora crap happened."