Editing Ash Ketchum/Relationships (section)

===[[Professor Kukui]]:===
While attending the Pokémon School, Ash resided at Professor Kukui's house. The two have an extremely strong, almost familial bond. In fact, their relationship is almost akin to a father and son since they spent a lot of time together outside of the Pokémon School and enjoy each others' company. Ash at times gets scolded by Professor Kukui like a parent does whenever their kid did something wrong or wandered off on their own. They also have a student/mentor relationship with each other that works two ways, since Kukui is his teacher in the school and Ash became a mentor to him when he unexpectedly ended up going back in time to when Kukui was five years old. Ash also admires Kukui's alter ego, the Masked Royal, and gets fired up when watching his matches on TV with his Pokémon and Professor Burnet since they are also huge fans of his. When fighting as the Double Royals, their battling coordination and teamwork were so good that James said, "Those two are so in sync, you'd never know it's their first time." After the grudge match against The Revengers, Ash asked the Masked Royal to have a final battle with him someday, which he accepted. After finding out his identity, Ash was shocked that the Masked Royal and Professor Kukui were the same person. However, Ash became excited about it since he didn't care about how long Professor Kukui kept his secret. Also, like with Professor Oak, Ash trusts Professor Kukui to look after his Pokémon alongside his wife and will always consider him the father that he never had.