Chapter 1

Love is in the air!

[Tuesday, 1:00 PM]

Buneary wasn't having the most fun time of her life right now. Heck, she was just this close to killing herself out of sheer boredom. Why oh why did she agree to do this again?

Buneary sighed and looked out the window of the room she, Dawn, and the other pokémon from her team were sharing for a few nights. She could see everyone playing around in the wonderful sunshine. The sunshine that she should be enjoying.

She sighed twice as loudly as before. He had to make her do this on the nicest day ever, didn't he? She could have been having fun with her friends outside, or working on her lovely tan at the very least. But nope, it looked like that wasn't happening anytime soon...

The sad thing was that she wasn't even here for a good reason. She came across Piplup using Dawn's laptop, he gave her a list of "super awesome stories" to read, and then that was her pretty much done for the day.

It sounded like a fun idea at the time, but she obviously wasn't thinking straight when she thought that accepting any 'fun' idea from Piplup of all pokémon would end well. These stories were long, boring, and totally lame.

She really really wanted to ditch these things, but she knew Piplup way too well. The next time they met, he'd no doubt quiz her on these silly things, she wouldn't be able to answer, and then he'd go into full drama queen mode. Really, going through these so-called "fanfictions" seemed like the best choice, as bad as they were. It beat getting an earful from that whiny penguin.

There was a plus side to reading these things though. He gave her a few stories with quite a lot of romance to 'em, which always made her smile. Unfortunately, heartwarming or not, they weren't that exciting; and worst of all, none gave her many tips on how to deal with her own love life! And oh jeez, if she took advice from that last romantic story she read, then she'd most likely be either proven clinically insane, or viewed as a big jerk at the very least, and she was pretty sure her beloved Pikachu wouldn't appreciate a crazy rabbit that punched him in the face every three seconds.

She sighed sadly as her thoughts shifted to another topic, the same exact topic that came to her mind almost every day. Would he ever start thinking of her as more than a friend? Or was this as far as their relationship was ever going to go? Heck, she even blatantly told him a few times about her harboured feelings for him, and yet he still didn't even bat an eyelid!

...Well, granted she was mostly just quietly mumbling into her fur bashfully, but still.

She shook her head to clear herself of the depressing thoughts and continued to soldier on through her current fic. The sooner she got them over and done with the sooner she could hop off and do something more worthwhile.

The fic in question starred some green guy in tights who fought stuff with a sword and had an annoying fairy companion to help him along. He was advertised as a "hero of time", but she didn't really see any time traveling or anything, so that was a letdown. Plus, all the talking and descriptions about rooms and stuff was boring the poor bunny half to death. Where was all the action, drama and, most importantly, romance from the other stories with this guy? Jeez, what Piplup saw in these things she would never know.

Thankfully though, the story was soon over, and she only had one more to skim through. She swore that after this next one, she would never read another word for as long as she lived. ...Unless Pikachu was into that sort of stuff, in which case she might make a few exceptions, maybe~

Not even bothering to look at the title or summary this time, she simply chose to dive straight into it. Once again, the sooner this junk was over with, the better.

"The sun shone brightly on a warm spring afternoon in the Sinnoh region..."

Ah, so it was a story set in the pokémon world. Huh, made a nice change honestly. All the other fics were based on other, weirder worlds, which was pretty cool, but still it was nice to see some familiarity for a change.

"It was here that a male Pikachu was gathering its lunch from a bush of Oran berries."

Her heart beat a little faster at the sound of a Pikachu being mentioned. Was it her Pikachu this fic was following right now? Reading onwards slightly quickly debunked that theory, it was just some random Forest Chu. Still, her curiosity was now peaked, so she read on.

The next part was mostly being all upset about his apparently dead family or whatever, which was a bit depressing to read, but not the saddest thing ever written on paper. Nope, nothing would ever be as bad as the time Brock decided to write a love letter to Nurse Joy... The memory caused Buneary to shudder. Some things were just best left forgotten.

As the story continued, the pikachu heard a loud scream coming from somewhere else in the forest. While it still left her vaguely curious, Buneary couldn't help but not really care. Seeing the sun climbing higher and higher into the sky outside, she was on the verge of just skimming through and picking up pointers from the story just to get outside quicker and in the sunshine. However, any ideas of doing that though were soon dashed after the next sentence, "Who'd made that noise? It'd sounded like a Buneary."

Buneary had to do a double take, the fic just mentioned a pikachu and a buneary in the exact same place! A pikachu, and a buneary! Ok, now she was curious! Deciding that this story was much more interesting than she initially thought, she proceeded to go back a page to have a gander at the story's details.

After reading the details and summary, Buneary's jaw pretty much refused to get back up from the floor. She was looking at a romantic fic that features a buneary dating a pikachu! No matter what happened now, Buneary decided that this fic, In Times of Danger, was now her most favourite story in the universe! Not wasting another second, she dove right into it.

[Tuesday, 2:23 PM]

Buneary's face was absolutely beaming, that was the best thing she had ever read in her entire life! It had left her with such a fuzzy feeling that she could practically feel her heart trying to beat its way out of her chest. Man, she was actually tempted to read it again!

It was funny though, the pikachu in this story was almost exactly like her darling Pikachu in so many ways. The buneary wasn't all that much like her though, at least not until the later chapters where she started to cheer up and stop being depressed all the time. But hey, it was close enough!

She did seem incredibly familiar though... Meh, oh well. Probably similar to somebody she knew once.

As Buneary reached for the back button, she realized that the story was so good, that she just had to do something for it, though she didn't really know what. The site didn't have a ratings system, and she couldn't favourite unless she joined... Oh, but she could make a nice little review. Yeah, most people loved these! She opened up the review writing window, and, after a moments consideration, began to write anything and everything that came to her mind.

'Nice story, I really like it! :3

The pikachu in the story reminds me of my boyfriend so much! Infact, it's just like reading about our lives together, right down to him being a pikachu too. Were you inspired by our love for each other, or something?'

Buneary stopped and thought about the last sentence a little. They weren't exactly dating yet now, were they? Heck, She had no idea if Pikachu even liked her as a teammate yet, let alone an actual mate...

Buneary giggled after giving that thought some... well, thought. It had been ages since she'd used the word 'mate', no thanks to hanging around trainers for so long, which had done some crazy things to the girl's vocabulary. But she loved how the term sounded; it made them sound like they were a part of a big family, and it made her feel so mischievous for saying it! She made a mental note to remember that word for later.

Back to the present though, Buneary didn't feel like deleting what she thought was some awesome writing just because of... technicalities, so she decided to just add something to it.

'Well actually, I guess we don't exactly live in the forest, but still. And, between you and me, we're not quite dating just yet, but we're working on that.'

There, no more confusion! After writing that, she reached for the 'submit' button. Before she could press it though, she slipped back into daydream land, and before too long her paws decided to join her there as started to type once again.

'(Sigh) I really hope he'll ask me on a date soon, he's just so hunky and kind and...'

All of a sudden, she snapped out of her daydreams as she remembered something important. That buneary from the story was too similar to one of her cousins from the time when she herself lived in a forest. In fact... she probably was!

Buneary's brother always complained about how he always ended up saving her, and she had heard rumors that the alpha lopunny in her warren absolutely hated someone in the group for no particular reason, so it just had to be! Before she could think about this any further, her paws had already finished the review for her.

'Wait a second, this buneary is my cousin! :O
Huh, always wondered where she got off to...'

Gosh, she really had to start watching those things. If she were writing something while Pikachu was around... man that would be embarrassing.

...Hehe, writing something, eh? She'd have to look into that actually, it sounded like fun! Though with this imagination of hers... yeah, Pikachu's staying well away from her folders.

After another minute of musing, she snapped out of it and checked her review again. She worried for a few seconds that maybe putting up information on her love life wouldn't be a great idea, but meh, whatever. It wasn't like Pikachu himself would be reading it anyway, or her cousin for that matter.

Satisfied with her reasoning, she finally pressed submit, and after a few minutes of waiting, her review was up! Perfect!

Happy with the result, she decided to give it a rest for the day. After reading so many stories, she felt that her head was going to explode! Still, it was definitely worth it for that last one. She got to warm her heart, learn dating tips and find out where her cousin was in just one fic. It was awesome! If she ever saw that buneary cousin of hers again, she was so getting a hug!

Looking out of the window, she saw that the weather was still bright and sunny. Buneary smiled. It was finally time to have some fun in the sun!

After closing the laptop, she made her way outside with the happiest spring in her step as she went along, ignoring whatever was shuffling about in the rooms behind her.

[Tuesday, 4:00 PM]

Despite looking around for him inside this town's park for the best part of almost an hour, Buneary could find neither hair nor hide of the Chu she loved. Hm, though she hadn't checked the lake yet...

Oh well, Buneary didn't mind way too much either way. She'd managed to avoid Piplup and his inevitable questions about the stories at least, and she was certain she could try out the things she'd learned later on when Pikachu showed up. For now, she was just gonna go find a spot on a hill somewhere so that she could rest and- ...Oh, wait a second, never mind, there he was!

Buneary's smile grew bigger and bigger as she hopped on over to him, ecstasy and excitement and other fun feelings filling her veins more and more as she got closer to the mouse who currently had his back to her. Finally, now was the time to put everything she learned from her cousin's adventure to the test!

After a few more excited leaps and bounds, she was close enough to catch his attention. Before doing anything of the sort though, Buneary slowed down for a second. What would she say to him? If she was going to look really impressive, she had to come up with a very nice and well thought greeting that would make him feel really happy to see her...

After a second or two of deep consideration, she shrugged and then glomped him.

Probably not expecting his best friend to tackle him out of nowhere, Pikachu yelped and tumbled forwards onto his belly. "Heya Pika~"

Pikachu stiffened up in surprise as he heard her voice. "Oh! Er, h-hey Bun!"

Still clinging onto him, Buneary took the opportunity to snuggle into Pikachu's fur. "Mmm, how are you today? I haven't seen ya for a while."

She expected him to say something witty, like, "You mean since yesterday?" but instead, his response surprised her a little. "Oh, I'm... fine thanks. Yeah."

Was something up with her Pikachu? He seemed so... tense today!

...Nah, he was probably just tired or something. The poor guy did a lot of battling these days, so she shouldn't be so surprised. Oh well, all the more reason to cheer him up! She finally hopped off his back and cheerfully looked at the mouse who was now watching her.

"I've been looking all over for ya! Where've you been? Heh, not hiding from me, I hope?" She said with a playful wink.

"Oh, sorry about that. Nah, I've just been around doing... stuff." Pikachu replied, seemingly not picking up on her good humour.

The air around them now feeling a little awkward, Buneary decided to speak up again. "Oh, ok. Well, er... Ohh, I just remembered, there's this big awesome lake I wanted to show you! It's so pretty and it's surrounded by berry bushes and... Umm, Pika, is something wrong?" Buneary couldn't help but notice that he was just staring off into space as she spoke. "You're looking a little-"

Pikachu gasped and then suddenly sprang to life. "N-no! I'm good!"

Buneary recoiled a little in surprise at the sudden outburst. "...Er, ehehe, nah I ain't upset at all, is what I meant to say." Buneary raised an eyebrow, but said nothing. He certainly was acting suspicious, if anything. Wait, when did she say anything about being upset? What did-

"Actually yeah, come to think of it, I don't really feel that well I'm afraid. Thought the fresh air would help a little, but yeah, guess not. Heh."

After hearing that, Buneary's concerns instantly changed. "Awww, really? Well would like me to do anything for ya?"

Pikachu looked thoughtful for a second, but then he shook his head. "Nah, I'm good.".

Buneary wasn't convinced. "But... y'know, I don't mind at all! I could get you something to drink, or a hot water bottle, or -"

"Naaah, don't worry about me." Pikachu interrupted, "I just need some rest and then I'll be back to kicking butt yet again! Pika-pinkie swear!"

A little worried or not, Buneary couldn't help but giggle at that. "TeeHee! Well... alrighty then! In that case, I hope ya get better soon, Pika~!"

Pikachu chuckled lightly, "Heh, thanks a lot! I'm sure I'll-" Not waiting for him to finish, Buneary closed the distance between them and then affectionately began rubbing her nose against his. After that, she began to look up into his super sexy... Wait, were those tears in his- ?

She jumped as he looked away and started coughing suddenly. "Ugh, yeah, as you can see it's getting worse, so I'm gonna just, y'know, go. Bye Bun!"

Well, that would explain it. She sometimes got teary eyed after a good cough too! ...Though not usually before the coughing part. Well, whatever. She was thinking about it way too much already anyway. "Yeah, see ya-" Pikachu bolted off before she could even finish speaking. "...later." Buneary sighed. Hmph, her 'perfect' day was nowhere near as perfect as she thought it'd be. Stupid colds...

Oh well, having a nasty infection is never nice, but she was sure he'd be back on his feet and ready to have fun again soon enough!

Now having nothing better to do, Buneary decided to take a little stroll. She had plenty of sunshine left to enjoy, after all!

[Tuesday, 4:25 PM]

Even though she was resting peacefully against a tree, Buneary just couldn't stop nervously fidgeting. Even after he insisted that he'd be fine after a little rest, Buneary still felt like she had to do something for him. He could be all alone in that room right now with a nasty bunged up nose. Or he could have a nasty runny nose. Or both! Poor, poor Pikachu...

Ok, she had decided. She could at least go and check up on him. And if he was asleep or wanted some peace, she'd leave. Simple as that.

...Well, maybe after seeing him sleep peacefully for a little- She shook her head violently, there was no way she was gonna start doing creepy stuff like that!

Though as she started walking towards the building, she couldn't help but start imagining how adorable her hero would be, blissfully sleeping, having adventures about who knows what while in his own peaceful little world of dreams...

...Gosh, she really could write one of her own fanfiction thingies with lines like that! Buneary snickered, now that'd be the day.

[Tuesday, 4:30 PM]

Inside the pokémon center, Buneary made her way up the flight of stairs that lead to Pikachu and Ash's temporary bedroom, which was mercifully quite close to the stairs. Inwardly thanking Arceus for the short walk down the surprisingly long hallway, she went up to the door and got ready to knock. As she raised her paw however, she heard a small muffled noise coming from inside.

At first she simply shrugged and again got ready to knock, but suddenly the sound became very sharp for just a split second, and then just as soon as it came, it went back to just muffled noises once more.

Her knocking position stalled as her curiosity started to grow. What was that all about? Did that noise come from Pikachu? She just couldn't tell. A few more seconds of pondering caused the sharp noise to start up again for a short time. Just what was going on in there? Buneary had to find out.

Carefully, she propped her favorite ear against the door and tried to focus as hard as she could. After a little while, it was very faint but she could swear that she could hear ... Sniffles?

Well, she supposed it made sense, what with him being sick and all, but why wasn't he doing it at all when she saw him earlier? Gosh, he must be unwell if he'd gotten that worse in just a few minutes!

Feeling sorry for her best friend, Buneary felt extremely tempted to go in with some tissues or some hot hot soup or... heck, anything that would make him feel better! In fact, if she had to snuggle up to him herself to keep him warm, then she'd dang well do it!

Well, of course she'd love to do that anyway, but still.

Before she went in though, she started to reconsider. After all, she was sick once, and all she could think about was Pikach-, er, napping. Would it really be worth it to interrupt his little sleep just to say hi? And he did say that he wanted to rest a while...

Buneary sighed, what to do...?

[Tuesday, 4:50 PM]

Buneary groaned in frustration, she was getting nowhere with this! She'd contemplated, debated, surfed the web, and even drew up a force field analysis diagram to look at all the pros and cons of barging in to help him, but she still couldn't decide what to do! Ohh... what would her cousin do?

...Forget it, she was going in! Quietly! Besides, it wasn't like he was getting changed into some clothes or anything, like that one time when Ash forgot to lock his door, and Dawn and Buneary saw his... Buneary quickly shook those bad memories out of her head.

Taking a deep breath, she gave the door a little push and quietly let herself in.

She couldn't hear him sniffling anymore, though she could hear him quietly breathing. Following the noise, she soon found him buried underneath the covers with his head poking out.

Normally she would have found the sight of him in mid-nap super adorable, so much so that she'd be joyously squealing pretty hard... but she couldn't. In fact, Buneary's heart nearly broke from the sight. He looked so unwell that she couldn't believe her eyes!

His eyes were all dark and baggy like he'd been rubbing them too much, his nose was all red and raw looking, and his cheeks seemed to have lost all their glow, vigor and awesomeness. This really was a nasty illness, whatever it was. Poor Pika...

Well, she couldn't really do much now. Waking him would only make things worse.

Oh well. The next time she saw him, she would do everything she could to make him feel better. Yeah, extra pillows, soup, tissues, a full body massage, hugs and kisses, you name it, he'd get it!

Satisfied with her decision, she turned and started towards the door. Before she got there though, her face flushed a little as she went over her little list again. Ok, maybe she was getting ahead of herself a little there. If she gave him even just a little peck on the nose then... gosh, her heart would probably flip, flop, and implode with embarrassment!

...Unless, he didn't notice it...

Buneary stopped moving towards the door and turned towards her sleeping crush's bed again. Maybe if she gave him just a little- No, she wouldn't, that was... if she did he would... But then again...

Ahhh, forget it! Buneary hopped onto Pikachu's bed, closed her eyes, and then gave him a big affectionate smooch on the cheek. Despite the static electricity causing her lips to tingle, she found herself so blissfully lost in the moment that she didn't manage to tear herself away for almost half a minute.

Now blushing furiously, Buneary quickly, but quietly, made her way out of the room, trying very hard not to squee at the top of her lungs all the while. She felt a little bad for doing something so creepy, but... ohh, it just felt so wonderful!

Now outside the room, and having gotten over her risky yet rewarding actions, Buneary had no idea what to do. She didn't feel like getting a snack, she didn't feel like going down all those stairs again just to go outside, or cheating by bouncing out the window. Heck, she didn't even feel like sitting around while daydreaming about you-know-who. Nope, she was plum outta ideas.

Actually, that fanfiction idea... maybe she could... nah, that would be a silly idea! Honestly, a pokémon writing a story? Let alone a sappy tale filled with fantasy, adventure, amazingly detailed locations, super cute romance, fun characters, sexy pikachu...

[Tuesday, 9:30 PM] (Later that night)

Buneary stopped for a second to admire how awesomely her story was coming along. Yep, so far so good!

She called it 'Moogy's tales in Lagomorphia', though she had no idea where the name 'Moogy' came from, and she didn't really know what one of these lagomorphy thingies that she'd heard about were, but hey, they both sounded pretty!

In any case, the story was going to be about the titular Moogy. A white, female buneary with a red pom-pom hanging from her head, who was on a noble quest to save the fair prince of forest Mimi, Sir Pikabun! ...Yeah, it was a work in progress.

Buneary yawned. As much as she wanted to continue, she was spent for the day. Besides, she could continue tomorrow after she finished her training session for the contest. After one more glance at the screen in satisfaction, Buneary saved her work, closed the laptop's screen and then headed off to bed.

Snuggling next to the already asleep Dawn, Buneary closed her eyes and started drifting off to sleep, all ready to start her voyage to the Dream World her mama once talked about. All alone with... her Pika...

...

And before her thoughts could continue, she was out like a light. Ready to round her day off with some pleasant dreams that no doubt would feature her idol.

While she slept without a care in the world, however, someone else's night was not quite so cheerful. But why...?

Author's note (March /04/2012)

Creepy Buneary is the best Buneary, don't deny it!

Anyways, thanks for reading chapter Uno of my randomly thought up fic!
It took way longer to make than I'd have liked, and it's as cheesy as all hell, but hey, 'twas fun to make in any case!

Ah well, while this is my first attempt at anything even vaguely romantic, you can say whatever the heck ya like in your review, provided ya feel like leaving one. It'll certainly help the next chapter along in any case. =P

After saying that, I bet that I'll get like 0 reviews for this fic's entire lifespan, but hey.

Oh, and before I forget, this fic is based on a couple of reviews made by the lagocouple themselves, which were found on a fic called In Times Of Danger, made by the wonderful ravengal. If you wanna find out more, go and check both the fic and its reviews out right now! I guarantee that you won't be disappointed in the least! She ain't called the Empress of Lagomorphs for nothing, ya know~

Anyways, now that the shameless advertising is finished, I'm off. See ya next chapter! (coughinayearcough)

Author's note (January 07, 2014)

Make that two years (almost). Ehehe.

Oh well. Anyways, as well as a new chappie I'll be uploading soon enough, I'm updating this one a little so that it looks slightly prettier too. If you see anything else that needs some fixing though, then don't be afraid to point it out! I can Fix it!™

Welp, have fun with the next chappie!

Next up: Time to delve into the psychology of another lagomorph!