Love Fury Passion
By PikaDarkness
Chapter 1
Misty Returns
"Ship has now docked in Cerulean city! Hope you all enjoyed your cruise! Remember to take all belongings with you!"
Ash Ketchum sighed, that voice had repeated over the loudspeaker over a hundred times already.
Brock Slate nudged him. "Come on Ash, we have to go. We promised Misty we'd visit her!"
Earlier that week, Ash had called up Misty. It was just a catch-up call, which ended in Ash promising a visit.
Of course Ash took no heed to the excited squeak in her voice when he said he was coming. Instead he thought she was happy just to see him then about that 'icky love stuff' he still couldn't handle.
"Pika Pi!" Pikachu's voice interrupted his trainers thoughts.
"Wha'? Sorry, lets go!" Ash ran off the boat and down the ramp. He heard the huff of his best friend pumping his legs to keep up. "Come on, Brock! I thought you were fast!"
"You'd be slow if you ate three pies and four sausage rolls! I'd be lucky not to get indigestion!" Brock shouted back, chuckles breaking through his speech.
"Now who's the pig?!" Ash asked, humour in every syllable.
"Shut up!" Brock barked, puffing loudly.
Ash laughed giddily, and worked his legs faster. Brock moaned. "Come on Brockie, you can use the exercise!" He shouted over his shoulder.
Brock was too tired to reply to that, Pikachu leapt off his trainers shoulder, and ran faster then his two friends.
"Pi pika pi!" Now he was the one doing the commanding.
Ash understood that. "I'm coming. You have four legs, I only have two." Major disadvantage. "Slow down will ya?"
Pikachu shook his head, managing to quicken his pace. "Pi cha! Pi Pi Pi!" He was calling for Togepi, after ages of not seeing his best buddy, he was itching to get to the gym.
There was no reply, the two boys had no oxygen to call back.
After minutes of endless running, they stopped. Brock had fallen to his knees, Ash was bent over grasping his thighs. Pikachu however, was fighting fit.
"Ash! Brock! Pikachu!" A female voice called. All three looked up.
Cerulean City Gym. They ran the whole way.
"Misty!" Brock cried.
Ash could only stare at her as she ran towards them. It had been to long. Misty stopped infront of him. She had grown, especially her hair.
"Hi, Ash," she mumbled, stuffing her hands in her pockets.
"H-hi Misty," Ash muttered, smiling a little. "Where's Togepi?" He looked around for the egg Pokemon, who always travelled in her arms.
Misty jerked her finger to the gym. "Sleeping. She was so set on seeing Pikachu again, but it couldn't wait to conk out either." She chuckled, and for some reason a faint blush crept on her cheeks. "How was Sinnoh?"
"Not much different to Kanto and Hoenn... met this girl named Dawn..."
Misty felt jealousy burn her insides. Brock looked at them interestedly, he loved the moments his two best friends had had frequently when they were travelling. "Was she nice?"
"Ah, yeah I guess so." Ash reached up to scratch his head, oblivious to the reason why Misty was asking this. "How has it been here?"
Misty gave a noise of disgust. "Its been horrible! Paperwork, fight, paperwork, fight. Its a daily routine here. All the trainers are whingey little babies when my Staryu beats them."
Ash laughed. "Still got that?"
"Yes I have, Staryu is a loyal Pokemon!" Misty retorted defensively.
Brock couldn't stand being left out anymore. "Hello Mist, been a while."
"Oh hi Brock! Yeah it certainly has, like... I don't know, two years maybe?" The red-haired girl estimated, her math had gotten a tad bit stronger, because of the gym's bills.
Ash smiled. "Two years has gone fast."
"I know," Brock sighed. "Seems like yesterday we all split up."
That brought a lot of memories for Misty. She hated having to leave them, especially Ash. "Yeah... and then I had to go back to this rotten gym." She stuck her tongue out in distaste. "You want to come inside? I just had an inspection, so its in tip-top shape- and Ash, don't even think of messing it up!" She added in warning.
"I wasn't going to," Ash chuckled, holding his hands up defensively. Brock grinned secretively, he missed this a lot. May and Dawn were fun, but they weren't like Misty... Ash never had that zing with them, there were no arguments between him and the two girls. No entertainment at all.
He expected them to have grown out of it, seeing as Misty was fifteen and Ash was fourteen. Old habits didn't die hard in their case.
"Brock hurry up!" Misty cried, already she and Ash were ten feet infront of him. "I'll lock you out you slowpoke!"
"Hey! I'm comin', I'm comin'!" Brock shouted, speeding up. "Geez! Never give a guy a chance to walk slowly now do you?"
Ash laughed. "Nope!" He looked at Misty and grinned, getting the same reaction back. "I'm hungry!" He suddenly wailed.
"Ash! You ate lunch two hours ago!" Brock pushed his friend, as they walked inside the gym. "You shouldn't be hungry!" The stomach on that boy never ceased to amaze him.
"Brock, your joking! Ash is always hungry, he has the stomach of a Gyrados!" Misty reminded him jokingly, looking at Ash the entire time. "Not even my Gyrados gets hungry every hour!"
"No, yours gets hungry every minute!" Ash remarked angrily, nobody comments on his eating habits and gets away with it. Not even Misty.
"Does not!"
"Does too!"
"Does not!"
"Does-"
Brock stepped in. "Alright break it up! My god, we haven't even been talking very long, and you two are arguing. Give it a rest!"
The younger pair turned away from each other with a little 'humph'.
Misty was smiling to herself. Something's never change. That's how she liked it.
"Can I have something to eat now?" Ash burst out, his stomach giving a painful twinge.
"Its like feeding a black hole," Brock remarked. "Misty... where's your kitchen?" It had been so long since he'd been here, he'd forgotten where everything was.
"Down the hall, last door on the right," Misty instructed, punching Ash's shoulder.
"Ow! What was that for?"
"Being so hungry all the time," Misty guessed, having no idea why she had hit him. Ash tutted and turned away. "A-Ash... how was Sinnoh really?" She suddenly asked, needing to know that his journies with her were not the same as the ones she wasn't there for.
"It was ok I guess... not as fun as Hoenn," Ash admitted.
Misty felt a pang of worry. "Was Sinnoh and Hoenn better then all the other regions?"
"No. I enjoyed travelling Kanto, Orange Islands and Johto. Why are you asking this?"
Brock heard their conversation from the kitchen, for some reason the hallway brought the echoes through. Ash! You idiot! She likes you! Brock shouted mentally to his friend. He stirred the noodles vigorously, hoping Ash would realise.
"N-no reason... I was just wondering."
"Ok..."
There was silence after that.
Misty got to her feet. "I'm gonna check on Brock..."
Pikachu jumped on Ash's lap. "Pika pika pi!" He was angry that his trainer had missed her intentions. How did he get stuck with a great Pokemon trainer... and a fool in everthing else?
"Oh she does not!" Ash differed, pushing his Pokemon's face jokingly. "You must be out of your mind. Did you hit your head on the ship?"
Pikachu gave him a stern look, before shaking his head and leaping away from him.
Ash sat contemplating his best friends words. Misty like him? Did the world end already? There was just no way someone like her, could possibly like someone like him. She could have been interested in his travels, she didn't really care who he'd been travelling with. Preposterous.
Then why'd the puzzle pieces fit? What he just thought had fit. But being Ash, he just ignored it. Exhaling loudly, he got to his feet and into the kitchen.
Misty was standing right beside Brock, looking over his shoulder at the noodles. She didn't glance up as the black-haired boy walked through the door. She felt oddly angry at him. His denseness got on her nerves. She wished she could shake sense into that boys large head.
"That smells great Brock!" Ash commented enthusiastically.
"Thanks Ash, it should be done in another minute. I just have to strain them."
And I have to strain Ash! Misty thought darkly, working her facial features into a bright look, if she didn't then she'd have an incensed expression. Her shoulder brushed into Ash's as they walked to the table, but he made a detour to a cupboard and pulled out three bowls.
"How'd you know where they were?" Misty asked, surprised. "You haven't been here for three years!"
Ash grinned. "I'm not as stupid as you make me out to be." He set one bowl infront of her, one where he was sitting and the last where he wanted Brock to sit.
"Humph... says the guy I heard walked into a tree."
"It was big!"
"It was a baby tree," Misty reminded him shrewdly. "How is that big?"
Ash blushed. "It was big."
Brock was shaking from silent laughter, he had informed Misty on that. "Bon appetite," he shouted, balancing the pot of noodles in his hands, trying not to burn himself.
Misty put a tea towel on the table, marking the place where he was to put the pot on.
Within minutes, they were eating Brock's fabulous food happily. Misty had forgotten how good his cooking was. She had lived on processed foods and take-away. If it wasn't for the excersise sessions with her Pokemon, and swimming laps of the pool, she'd be as fat as an Ursaring.
"Like, Misty, we're home!"
The fork in Misty's hand cluttered loudly to the table. "My sisters!" She gasped. "I forgot they were supposed to be coming home today."
Ash's face brightened. She can come back to Pallet with me! "That's cool," he commented, trying to mask his excitement. Brock however, let his loose.
"Oh what beauty!" He cried, jumping to his feet. "I swear I have never met three people with extravagant-"
A Pokeball burst from his belt. "Croakanau!" it shouted, and zapped his trainer, who immediately fainted.
"Wow, I've been replaced. Hi-five," Misty smiled at the Pokemon.
Croakanau slapped his paw against Misty's hand.
Ash couldn't help but laugh, attracting the Sensational Sisters eyes.
"Like, Misty what is he, like, doing here?" Daisy asked, narrowing her eyes at the embarrassed boy.
Misty growled. "He's visiting! But now you've come back... I'm travelling with him!" That sentence sent a good shiver down her spine. What goes around had finally come back around. Suddenly she was twelve and had just met Ash after fishing him from a lake.
Ash's heart skipped a beat. Daisy, Lily and Violet's jaws dropped.
"Misty, we have, like stuff planned!" Violet objected.
"So do I, and they've been on hold for two years! I kept the promise I made when you left. Now its my turn on freedom. Good luck with the gym girls... you'll need it," Misty sneered, loving that she now lost control of the stupid gym that imprisoned her.
"Mist! We haven't had the pleasures of catching up with our friends!" Daisy groaned, a wave of longing came over her. Her boyfriend had been on her mind since she left.
"Oh your alcoholic, sex-driven friends?" Misty laughed, bringing blushes to her sisters faces. "They don't miss you guys, I bet they haven't even called."
The sensational sisters were humiliated. "They were busy."
"We all know what they've been busy doing. Ash, Brock, Pikachu come on."
Brock had recovered from the attack and recalled Croakanau, Ash leapt from the table, chewing the last of his noodles. The boys slid past the girls and followed Misty to the stairs.
"I just have to get my bag and Togepi, wait here!" Misty shouted, already half-way up the stairs.
Daisy, Lily and Violet walked out of the kitchen and stared insolently at the boys. They just ruined their return.
"Togepriii!" Whined Togepi, its eyes begging for more sleep.
"Its ok Togepi, you can sleep on the way to Pallet Town," Misty soothed, shouldering her bag and getting a tighter grip on her best friend. She looked at Ash and Brock and smiled. "Lets go."
The old days had come at last.
To Be Continued...
I hope that wasn't much of a drag... it gets more interesting as this story progresses. The summary probably gave the person away... but oh well! This story has already been written, I just have to post weekly or three day chapters. It won't be like my Whisper In The Wind story, where Chapter 24 was posted five months after the last chapter had been done :) I swear that thing is going to be done soon. I hope your not getting sick of me posting every story with Misty in it, but if your a May or Dawn fan then The Return Of Ashley is for you! Lol I'm advertising my stories on this one. Oh and by the way, I made Togepi a girl... coz it seems female! And Pikachu is obviously a boy LOL!
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