A LITTLE PUSH, a Pokémon fanfiction

Hey guys, how are you? Well, Jennifer here and I've got an AAML fanfiction for ya all. This is my first fic so please don't flame me. Reviews and constructive criticism are highly appreciated. So without any further ado, on with the story…

Disclaimer- I don't own anything except the plot and the characters I made up. I don't own 'Why do I love you' by Westlife

These are the Pokémon they're going to have for my story-

Ash- Pikachu, Bayleef, Totodile, Cyndaquill, Noctowl

Misty- Psyduck, Starmie (I know she has Staryu, but bare with me), Corsola, Togepi, Politoed, Gyarados (Yes, she's having it early)

Brock (honestly, I don't have any idea) - Vulpix, Crobat, Geodude, Onix, Fortress

Oh and one more….

Jennifer- Ditto, Eevee, Pikachu, Growlithe, Bayleef, Suicune (yeah, the legendary one)

Now, finally on with the story…..

Breaking apart

Narrator- We follow our heroes as they continue their journey from Olivine city. After ash has won his sixth Mineral badge, they decide to take a little break…..in a forest?

Uh-oh, looks like our heroes are lost again….

"Oh Ash, I swear you are so dumb sometimes", whined Misty "can't you get us outta any forest without turning the map 360 degrees three times or holding it upside down for the last 30 minutes and leading us just to the opposite direction?"

"Well, I would like to see you do a better job than me," shot back Ash, albeit angrily. "Well, I could, if you would leave the map to someone else you know?" countered Misty, a bit surprised at his angry tone. "Pika Pikachu", said Pikachu, drooping his ears and siding with his Pikachupi.

"See, even Pikachu agrees with me", said Misty "c'mere pika-pal". Pikachu perked up and climbed all the way to her head and dropped cutely over it. "Toki toki priiiii", Togepi jumped from Misty's arms and tried to join Pikachu up on her mommy's head, but stayed at her shoulder.

"Pikachu! You're supposed to be on my team", whined Ash, a sudden darkness spread on his face. "Pikapi, pika kachu pichu pika", lectured Pikachu, waving its little paws about, frantically. "Come on Ash, chill! You shouldn't mind, it's just Misty", said Brock kinda enjoying the amusing scene before him. 'Yeah just Misty, go tell that to her' thought ash.

"Brock! I'm not a dense, bike-wrecking, Pokémon master wannabe!" hissed Misty, glaring daggers at Brock, who backed away. Angered beyond rage at this comment, only ho-oh knows why, Ash shot back,"Oh yeah? Well at least I'm not a scrawny runt who goes about stealing other people's Pokémon."

All four pairs of eyes widened at his outburst and demanded explanation 'What was he saying?'

"Huh?" was all Misty was capable of. 'Scrawny runt? Thief? When did I steal anyone's Pokémon?' "What are you saying Ash?" exclaimed Brock, having recovered from the shock. His tone was stern and wanted clarification, now. Blinded by his anger, he yelled in her face, "Remember when we fought for Togepi back then? I won fair and square, but you….you stole it from me!" He shouted, "You stole Togepi from me back then and that's exactly what you're doing with Pikachu right now! You're nothing better than a pathetic Pokémon thief!" It took a full minute for Misty to comprehend what Ash had said in a go. 'Thief? Me? Stolen Togepi? Pikachu now?'

"Ash, you better shut up now!" commanded Brock, feeling the anxiety growing in the air. "Pikapi, pikachupi pika chu chupi pika" warned Pikachu, flashing his apple red cheeks. "Toki toki priiii" cried Togepi, frightened by its daddy's outburst. It had always thought of Misty as its mommy, Ash as its daddy, Brock as its uncle, and Pikachu as its big brother.

"No! I didn't start just to stop now!" yelled Ash, whose face had gone very red from anger. "You" he said, pointing to the stunned redhead standing before him, "you were never wanted anyways here, so just leave! Because I don't need you! I never did! You just followed me for your stupid bike. I will pay you the day I come back from the Johto Silver Conference, okay?"

This was the last straw. She dropped to her knees and immediately Brock, Pikachu, Togepi were at her side. She kept her head down and her eyes portrayed the emotions of confusion, hurt, sadness and most importantly, betrayal. 'I can't believe I travelled with this person for 4 and a half years and he is acting like he doesn't care, doesn't know me. Are we really that bad of enemies? How could I like someone like this? Stupid me!' She mentally slapped herself and shakily got up on her feet.

"Pikachupi, Pikachu?" whimpered Pikachu while trying to comfort his Pipipi, who had at least stopped crying. "Misty don't worry. He doesn't mean it. You know, right?" whispered Brock, but these words held no meaning for her now. 'I never thought it would come to this. I knew he didn't like me, but thief? How could he have said anything like this?' were the only thoughts running through her mind. 'I love-loved him.'

Unnoticed by all, Ash went and sat on a log, facing his back to all of them. Her aquamarine eyes flashed for a bit, before she put her head down again. Slowly, she picked Togepi up, cradled her to sleep for a moment in her arms, kissed its forehead and went and put her down on the very log that Ash was sitting on beside him. "If you think that I stole Togepi, then maybe you deserve it more than I do", she whispered softly.

As Misty bent over, Ash could feel drops of water on his right arm and sure enough, they were her tears. Those few drops of water were enough to bring him back to his senses.

Realization hit him like a stampede of Tauros, but he was too stunned to retaliate immediately. As she was walking away from the log, from him, he managed to utter, "Mi-Misty….wait…..wait please. I-uh….I…..I-I-I didn't mean it. I didn't mean any of….it."

Her back turned figure became hazy to him as his eyes filled with tears at the thought of his best friend going away from him. "Sure as hell you didn't mean it ash" she muttered, "You…..you never mean…..anything. Things always….happen."

Misty couldn't bear anymore of this. A lone tear escaped her eyes and down to her cheek until it finally fell down in the grass below. Determined not to let her guard down, she picked up her drawstring bag and began to leave the place. Unknown to her, the zip of her bag was not completely close and her pink handkerchief fell to the ground.

"Misty, what are you doing?" said Brock, concern evident in his voice. "Giving Ash Ketchum what he wants, solitude from me", Misty basically whispered.

Before anyone could say anything, Misty sprinted away from the camp without another word and finally the tears she was holding back for so long freely flowed from her eyes. She didn't know where she was going and she didn't care, she just wanted to get way from everything, from ash.

Back at the camp

"Pikachupi" Pikachu called out and ran after her, but not before shooting his trainer a viscous glare.

"You went too far Ash", said Brock, shock, disappointment and hatred evident in his voice, "never expected this from ya. What the heck did you even mean? Did you mean to tell me that the girl you've been crushing on for, like, 4 years means nothing to you? Her feelings mean nothing to you? Is that it? Was she just any girl who followed you for her bike? If that's what you think Ash, then I seriously recommend you to go to a psychiatrist for your overwhelming denseness." He wanted to follow Misty himself but he couldn't leave Ash behind, his supposedly best friend.

"What have I done?" whispered Ash. "What?" asked Brock, having not heard the question.

"What have I done?" Ash exclaimed out loud, "I just accused my best friend of stealing my Pokémon! Oh gosh!" with that, tears started to build in the corners of his eyes as he felt the hurt of a million pricks digging into him. His mind shut down for a moment and he felt the hurt that Misty must've been feeling. No one knew, but he saw the mixed emotions that filled the aquamarine eyes, which he was absolutely head over heels at, when she had bent over to put Togepi beside him. He had hurt her in every possible way. He never stopped to think about her feelings. She must be so hurt. She must be hating him by now and he decided that he deserved every ounce of it. He wouldn't complain if she didn't want to see his face ever in the future. What he did was extremely hurtful and he did this to the girl he secretly adored.

His heart was aching tremendously from the burden of hurt and guilt it was taking and pain slowly spread through his whole body, controlling every nerve until he fell to his knees. The tears were now falling down his face and he made no effort to stop or hide them.

Seeing Ash fall to the ground, Brock immediately kneeled over to him, putting a reassuring hand on his shoulder, and waited until he calmed down. Thank god Togepi had fallen asleep. He wouldn't want it to witness this scenario.

"I messed it up big time Brock" Ash managed to tell between sobs, "what kind of a person does that to their friends?" "Ash, I'm not gonna say its okay because it's not", consoled Brock, "but we can set it somewhat right. Just tell me why you did it."

"I don't know Brock", whimpered Ash, "I like her, liked her from the very first day when she fished me out of that river. She saved my life and Pikachu's too, and I accused her of stealing Pikachu. Brock, what can I do?" said Ash, feeling helpless.

He had stopped crying but one could see the sadness behind his chocolate brown orbs.

"Come on Ash, sit and let's comprehend it for a minute." urged on Brock. "No Brock, I have to go find her. She could be in some kind of danger!" Ash exclaimed getting up, but Brock held his right wrist firmly. "I don't think you are the first person that she wants to see now." "Yeah maybe….." and with that, he slumped down again to continue his reverie on what had happened as a comfortable silence left those two to their own thoughts.

His eyes were red and blurry from all that crying but as he felt himself crouch down, he caught something pink among the green, moist grass. It looked like…Misty's handkerchief. Ash picked up the object and gazed longingly at it, expecting that it would show her face which he truly loved. He held it close to his heart and gazed into space in a melancholy state. 'Why did I do that Misty? Why did I do that to the one I love? Why do I love you Mist?'

Suddenly she's leaving

Suddenly the promise of love had gone

Suddenly breathing seems so hard to do

He remembered all the adventures they had, starting when he had 'borrowed' her bike and destroyed it. How she had offered to help him against Brock in Pewter city Gym, till the time when they travelled with Brock to Valencia island and he decided to stay there. And when team rocket mentioned that they were lovebirds, he had blushed and knew he felt something for this particular redhead which went beyond the walls of mere friendship.

Why do I love you?

Don't even want to

Why do I love you?

Like I do?

Then his thoughts drifted to today. How they had fought again but he took it too far and led into him and misty drifting apart.

"Maybe it was the force of all the pent up emotions of 4 years which led to the eruption of today." he mused out loud. "It makes sense I guess", answered Brock absently, thinking how he would get Misty and Ash to get together now that Ash had totally blew his chance off.

Meanwhile

As Misty was blindly running to, ho-oh knows where, her mind drifted off to what had happened today. Did he really hate her that much? His words had stung her like Arbok's poison sting attack, but she's never gonna show it.

Ain't gonna show no weakness

I'm gonna smile and

Tell the whole world I'm fine

I'm gonna keep my senses

'Maybe what he said was true. Maybe I did steal Togepi from him. He did win fair and square.' This guilt started pricking her insides again and she couldn't stop the fresh hot tears cascading down her face.

But deep down when no one can hear me

Baby I'll be crying for you

She heard a faint sound of a Pikachu nearby. She stopped for a moment and her legs gave away. She fell to the ground as she heard a squeak "Pikachupi" from behind. Pikachu came and jumped from behind and threw his paws tightly around her neck, no intention of letting go.

"Pikachu?" Misty asked, without making eye contact with him and gently put him on the ground in front of her. She could see his little beady eyes getting watery. "Why aren't you with Ash and Brock?" she asked, putting on a brave face.

"Pi kachupi pichu pikakachu pika pipi" cried Pikachu, pointing at her, indicating that he wanted her too, considering he loved her almost as much as he loved his Pikapi. They shared a special bond which no one knew or understood.

"No Pikachu, I can't go with you but I want you to take care of Togepi for me", she said, "you'll do it for me, wont ya?" Pikachu nodded "Pi". "Come here, pika-pal", she cried while opening her arms. "Pika" Pikachu cried while running into her arms, crying softly. They embraced for a long time, neither of them wanting to let go. Finally Misty broke the hug.

"Take care of yourself, Pikachu. Say bye to Brock for me and don't let Togepi know what happened. I don't wanna ruin its childhood. You know what I mean?" "Pi" Pikachu nodded. Misty planted a quick kiss on one of Pikachu's red cheeks, they stood up.

"Pika chupika pi Pikachu?" asked Pikachu. "I'm going back to the Cerulean gym. Its not the best place to go, I know", Misty admitted, "but at least I am a little wanted there."

"Pika pichu pi", mumbled Pikachu, feeling sorry. "Oh, don't be sorry Pikachu, I know you would never do that to anyone" reassured Misty, putting on a smile, even though forced. She couldn't let him feel bad for a thing he never did.

"Goodbye, Pikachu", said Misty softly, "take care of ash too." "Pikachupi pika" said Pikachu. They gazed one final time into each other's eyes and left simultaneously. Misty, back to the Cerulean gym and Pikachu, back to the camp even though he detested his trainer right now.

A/N: So guys, that's it for this chapter. I know its short but it gets interesting from here… Now it's time for the aim. IF I GET AT LEAST 5 REVIEWS, I'LL POST THE NEXT CHAPTER. Because the chapter is written and I only have to type it. This is my FIRST POKEMON FAN FICTION so PLEASE DO REVIEW. ALL REVIEWERS get a personal shout out in the next chapter. Constructive criticism and other words are highly appreciated. also do tell me what you think of this chapter. Should I continue like this or do you want a few changes….. AGAIN PLEASE DO REVIEW.

THANKS GUYS. LOVE YOU ALL. TILL THE NEXT TIME…