Well, hello all! This fic, Colors of the Heart, is a collection of my fics for my 15pairings claim. So enjoy the 15 different pairings I write in the following chapters!
Pairing: Futabashipping (Jun/Barry x Hikari/Dawn)
Theme: #4 - Too good to be true
Notes: Jun is your rival in DP, btw…and I use a lot of Japanese names. I began this back when we only knew the English names of likes of Professor Nanakamado, which was a long time ago. If you have no idea on what I'm talking about, Bulbapedia is a great resource! Look it up there. I'd give a glossary, but I've used too many Japanese names. Sorry :D Also, for Mizuki, I completely made up the 'blonde' part from her sprite. I mean, Mayumi wasn't a brunette, like her sprite showed, so I doubt Mizuki is blonde. But since we don't have any Sugimori art, you'll have to bear with me.
Disclaimer: Pokemon isn't owned by me, but since that's pretty much given, let's get on with the story.
"Mana-chan, I'll be back this time tomorrow, so don't give me that face!". The young trainer whispered to her Pokemon through the faded white fence. The small blue Pokemon reached out its rounded hand to its trainer, a sad smile on its face. The trainer playfully poked the hand, then slung her bag around her arm and left the Day Care Centre of Zui town.
The Manaphy watched it's trainer until she let out her Donkrow and disappeared into the skies. Manaphy turned around and looked around at the other Pokemon in the large yard it was enclosed in. The Pachirisu were zipping around the small space and the Mimirol were off in a little circle, fluffing each other's fur and talking happily. Manaphy let out a small sigh as it slumped down by the fence and watched the sun slowly set.
Jun strutted into Zui town with a large smirk on his face. Slowly walking beside him was a large, space like Pokemon which the residents of Zui town had never seen or heard of outside of old legends, a Palkia. Jun tried to hold back a laugh at the amazed and horrified expressions of the town's people, but it was no use, and he let out a small snort of laughter.
As he neared the Day Care Centre, Jun looked up at his Palkia and winked at it.
"Metamon, transform will you?" he asked the large Pokemon. 'Palkia' nodded slowly, and then shape shifted into a small pink blob. The Zui town residents, who were still watching Jun, rolled their eyes and sighed in disappointment and frustration. Jun smirked and walked inside the Day Care, his Metamon plodding behind him. The old woman sitting behind the desk looked up as the pair entered the room.
"Jun-kun! How are you?" the aged woman greeted Jun.
"Fine, Ms Kobayashi" Jun said in reply, lifting his Metamon up onto the table "Can you look after Metamon? For about, a day?" Jun asked. Ms Kobayashi nodded and took Metamon off the table and let it out the door and into the evening's cool air.
"Is there any special needs Metamon has?" Ms Kobayashi asked, writing down Metamon's details on a sheet of paper. Jun shook his head as Ms Kobayashi set down her pen.
"I hope you have a good evening!" Ms Kobayashi said as Jun walked out of the small house and into the fresh air. He looked to his right to see what Metamon was doing.
"It's too dark" Jun muttered to himself "I'll just see him tomorrow" Jun yawned as he let his Mukuhawk out from its Pokeball and jumped on its back.
"To Yosuga City!" Jun cried as Mukkuhawk took to the skies and flew south.
And irritating beeping sound came from Hikari's Poketch, startling her out of her sleep.
"Aha! I got the Poketch to work!" a voice in the background called out. Hikari sighed as she remembered how late she stayed up last night with the person. She got up from the purple couch she slept on, stretching her arms a bit as she walked over to Mizuki sitting on her computer.
"I managed to sort all your Pokemon in boxes, according to their type, from highest level to lowest level last night!" Mizuki exclaimed. Hikari nodded and pulled up a chair and sat down next to Mizuki, and gazed at the bright computer screen as Mizuki showed off her night's work.
"Whatever happened to good morning?" Hikari asked, rubbing her eyes. Mizuki let out an airy laugh.
"Me setting the timer function on your Poketch to 11:00 am is my good morning" Mizuki smirked, and minimized Hikari's box.
"Did I really sleep until 11:00 am?!" Hikari exclaimed, finding the time function on her Poketch.
"Nope, I decided to let you sleep in and I reset it to 3:30 pm!" Mizuki cackled as she saw the horrified look on Hikari's face.
"I hate you so much Mizuki! I have to pick up Manaphy in less than an hour!" Hikari cried grabbing onto hair and running to find her bag and snowcap.
"Either way, you would've hated me" Mizuki giggled as she maximised a random trainer's box. Hikari spun around and glared at Mizuki.
"What do you mean?" Hikari asked the blonde woman.
"I mean, if I woke you up early, you'd be yelling at me for not letting you get enough sleep, and now that I left you to catch up on your sleep, you're yelling at me…so…" Mizuki trailed off as she noticed something on the computer.
"Oh wow! This person has a Leafia! I should show this to Masaki…" Mizuki exclaimed, opening up her Email program. Hikari sighed helplessly as she found her boots in the semi-mess that was Mizuki's house and ran out the door.
"I'll see you in a bit, Mizuki!" Hikari yelled out, closing the door behind her. She heard Mizuki's spaced out 'cya' from behind the door, but ignored it and let out her Donkrow.
"Okay, Donna, fly to Zui Town!" Hikari commanded as she hopped on the back of the large bird Pokemon and flew northeast.
"Ah, Hikari, here to pick up your Manaphy?" Ms Kobayashi greeted as Hikari ran through the door, panting. She saw a familiar blonde haired boy leaning against the counter, his Metamon sitting in his hair. His face turned from bored to absolutely flabbergast when he saw Hikari.
"Hikari's the owner of the Manaphy?!" Jun gasped "Out of every trainer called Hikari, she had to own the Manaphy?". Hikari gave him a friendly push as she walked over to the counter.
"Of course! The ranger wouldn't trust anyone else with the Manaphy!" Hikari laughed proudly. Ms Kobayashi had gone out back while Jun was talking, and had returned with an egg.
"So, which one of you wants this egg?" she asked. Hikari raised her eyebrow.
"What do you mean?" she asked.
"Well, when I found your friend's Metamon, I found it sitting next to Manaphy, with an egg of their own!" Ms Kobayashi said cheerfully. A stunned silence filled the air, before the two trainers shouted 'I'll take it!' and 'I want it!' Ms Kobayashi wasn't surprised at their want of a legendary's egg.
"I'll leave it up for you two to decide who gets the egg!" Ms Kobayashi smiled as she picked up a bag of Pokemon food and went out the back, blissfully unaware of the two trainer's bitter fight over the egg.
"I got here first Hikari! I should keep it!" Jun exclaimed, making a grab for the egg.
"Hell no! It's my legendary Pokemon that made the egg!" Hikari yelled back,
slapping his hand away from the egg. Jun was momentarily surprised at Hikari swearing, but the argument started up again.
"It wouldn't have been possible without my Metamon, hmm?" Jun retorted. Hikari sighed in frustration.
"Look, let's just go to Nanakamado…or Orchid!" Hikari said, rubbing her temple "They'll have some idea". Jun shrugged.
"Okay, we'll go to Nanakamado" Jun agreed, reaching for the egg "I'll take it there…" but the egg was snatched up by Hikari, who dashed outside.
"Race ya!" she called, letting out her Donkrow and ascending into the skies. Jun followed with his Mukkuhawk.
"Drop the egg and I'll fine you 10 million yen!" Jun yelled through the wind to Hikari, who decided to carry the egg in a much safer position after his comment. In less than ten minutes the two reached Masago town, raring to get to Nanakamado's lab before the other.
"Nana Hakase!" the two yelled out as they ran through the door. Nanakamado had no time to object to the girly nickname the two gave to him last year, as the two ran up to him, shoved the egg in his face and exclaimed 'Manaphy had an egg!' in unison.
It took seconds for Nanakamado to piece together the last few seconds before he laughed heartily.
"I'm not as stupid as you think!" He chuckled "It's April 1st, and I know what people do on that day…"
"But Ms Kobayashi told us it was made by Manaphy and Metamon!" Hikari objected.
"Yes, and she always follows April Fools Day" Nanakamado laughed, getting up from his desk and going over to his computer to complete his practical jokes for the day, leaving Hikari and Jun to wallow in disappointment.
"…Damn…" Hikari sighed, tossing the egg to Jun "It's yours, since Manaphy can't breed…it's probably a Mimirol…" she snorted, gloomily walking out of the lab. Jun sighed and followed Hikari.
"Well! I'm going to ride around the Cycling Road until this guy hatches!" Jun said, catching up to his rival before she activated her Running Shoes "Those Cyclers are boring to race…so you're coming along!" Jun exclaimed, grabbing onto Hikari's scarf and giving it a playful tug. Hikari brightened up.
"Race ya!" she yelled, flying away with Donna, being quickly overtaken by Jun.
"You can't fool me!" he cried as they soared over the forest to Hakutai City.
Sitting outside of the Pokemon Centre, unfolding their bikes, the two talked happily about the joke.
"I guess its karma, eh?" Hikari laughed, remembering their infamous reputation in Futaba Town when they were younger.
"Yeah! That has to be it!" Jun answered, having cheered up Hikari considerably. She looked like she was going to kill someone when she left the lab.
"Yeah, remember when they were so fed up that they banned from seeing each April 1st? That went on for 5 years, yet we still pulled awesome pranks!" Hikari laughed, finishing up her bike and moving onto Jun's.
"Admit it, you're bad with mechanics!" Hikari asked as she set up Jun's brilliant orange bike. Getting no answer from him, Hikari just smirked quietly at his reaction as she finished his bike.
"There!" she laughed, jumping on her own rusty and dirty bike, waiting for Jun to get on his own.
"It looks so new! I bet he runs so much he never uses it!" Hikari thought to herself, forgetting all about her dashed hopes for the legendary egg as Jun got in position.
"Ready…" he began, switching to the right gears "START!". The two zipped through the south of the city, with people jumping out of their way and ducking as the two flashed past. The bumpy road gave them uncomfortable jolts and itchy fingers that felt better almost instantly as they flew across the carpet of the entrance to the cycling road, then onto the smooth, sleek path. They flew past the other cyclers, as they raced, who were absent mindedly riding around the road, waiting for someone new to battle.
Hikari easily surpassed Jun, as she used her bike almost daily, and she continued to do so until late in the evening, where they ended up having legs so tired that they stumbled out of the Cycling Road and fell over right away, and just lay in the grass and looked up at the magenta sky, with just panting filling each others ears.
"That…" Hikari said, almost laughing after five minutes of catching her breath "Was incredibly fun!" she gasped, with Jun joining in her laughter.
"Yeah!" he exclaimed in agreement, sitting up against the tree they lay under "I hope that stupid egg is close to hatching…" he grinned, taking the egg out of his bag. It was making small, barely audible noises. Hikari didn't seem to care, as she sat up and yawned.
"Wake me up when it hatches, 'kay?" she asked drowsily, dozing off on Jun's shoulder. Jun smiled in accomplishment, to have Hikari being so close to him, and no matter how hard he tried to keep awake to look after the egg, he couldn't help but desert the egg momentarily to get his arm around Hikari's waist to pull her closer.
"Sorry I yelled at you before…"he muttered, feeling incredibly sentimental. Being outside, in the sunset, watching all the Garmeil buzzing around among the flowers of, obviously, Hikari's plants made you like that.
"Whatever" Hikari subconsciously answered, squirming in her sleep. Jun just smiled and picked up the egg again. But the egg gave Jun something resembling a heart attack when it began to crack.
"Hikari! Wake up!" Jun called. Hikari slowing came to her senses, but that wasn't enough time to catch the entire hatching process, as a blue Pokemon emerged from the egg.
Then, silence filled the air between them, until Hikari fully awoke and gave the curious looking Pokemon a stare.
"That's…a really messed up looking Mimirol…" Hikari gasped, prodding it slightly. The Pokemon squirmed, then relaxed in Jun's arm.
"It's adorable though…" Jun said taking out his Zukan and scanning the Pokemon.
"Phione…" he read out loud, still unaware that Hikari was still leaning on his head with his arm around her waist "The Sea Drifter Pokemon" Hikari laughed at this revelation.
"April Fools Joke my butt!" she snorted "It really was an egg from my Manaphy!..." she stopped mid-sentence.
"Shit! Mana-chan!" she cried, worming out of Jun's hold on her to fly on Donna.
"Remember!" she yelled at Jun before Donna took her back to get Manaphy "That Phiona, or whatever it's called, is ours! We're it's parents!". As she disappeared into the sunset, Jun smiled to himself, holding Phione up to the sky with both arms.
"Hear that? We're your parents!..." Jun said after a few minutes, grinning at Phione at the implication Hikari left him "Too good to be true, eh?"