Author's Note: OK so after a long while I have this for you. There's a bit I want to say but it'll come at the end for now enjoy the chapter. I do not own Pokemon.

Scattered Summer

Chapter 3

It was to early morning light Ash's bleary eyes opened to in the morning.

Blinking slowly Ash sat letting the covers pool around his waist, sliding out of bed and onto the floor Ash groggily made his way to the bedroom door not thinking about anything really but as he opens the door and steps into the hallway he scratches his bare chest and it is then that some thinking power comes to him.

Looking down Ash see's he's only dressed in his underwear, a pair of bright green boxer shorts adorned with golden yellow thunderbolts.

Blinking Ash thinks why am I in my underwear?

Then a chirpy noise sounds from down the hall to his left.

"Hey Ash, good morning!"

Ash looks toward the speaker and his eyes fly wide open as he suddenly finds himself staring at Cameron still clad in his underwear from the night before.

All Ash could do was focus on those black briefs as he thinks ohhhh… that's why.

Cameron meanwhile had put on a puzzled expression as he kept calling Ash's name.

It took three tries before Ash came back to himself and tore his eyes off the underwear and back to Cameron's face.

Shaking his head Cameron asked "Ash you okay man?"

Ash nodded rapidly and Cameron titled his head to the side before shrugging and walking past him saying "well if we start now we should be able to get the laundry done quickly enough and no one will see those cute boxers of yours" he finished with a laugh.

Ash blushed mightily at this looking down at what had been a gag gift from Gary looking back up at Cameron Ash's eyes gravitate to Cameron's rear for a few seconds before Ash's mind blanks and a sole thought fills it.

What am I doing?!

With that Ash flees to the bathroom and takes care of a usual early morning bathroom visit.

As Ash washed his hands his mind drifted back to his behavior and then to his idle dreams of late and with a blush Ash realized what he had been seeing.

The white briefs he had seen Cameron in the day he arrived here.

His face red as an apple Ash began to think about why he would even focus on this and then stopped short as a question drifted into his mind.

Do I like Cameron?

Ash's brain promptly shut down for a split second before starting back up again with his thoughts racing at high speed. At age 18 Ash had become long aware of boyfriend, girlfriend stuff properly where at a younger age he hadn't much more thought to it than what Brock and at times Misty did.

Growing up though had altered that view quite a bit and after an INCREDIBLY embarrassing talk with his mom he knew a fair bit about the birds and the bees whether it was boy-girl or boy-boy. It didn't matter which he chose Delia Ketchum had said as long as my son is happy and bringing home his love.

Ash thought that his blush would never fade that day!

Shaking his head he left the bathroom and already found Cameron had gotten onto the terrace and had strung laundry lines using the railings. By the glass door Ash saw Cameron had already piled all their stuff together.

Ash blanked out for a good solid five seconds seeing his boxers mixed in with Cameron's underwear and it was with a wretch he managed to just stop himself from looking.

Looking at Cameron who clearly used to this sort of procedure Ash focused on his face and not his body as he walked onto the terrace. Clearly Cameron was good at doing this by now and Ash was impressed.

When younger Ash had Brock, Tracey, Cilan, and then Clemont to help him with this stuff and when solo had had learned to manage but for someone so scatterbrained Cameron was doing really well.

Of course Cameron would trip over the laundry detergent right behind him proceeding to splash all his waist and going down.

"Aw man" he muttered looking at his partially shining lower body "now I'm gonna be all sticky."

Here of course Ash froze in something akin to shock at implication of what Cameron had just said. And of course he doesn't even realize what he just referred to Ash dimly thought as he stared at Cameron.

Again tearing his gaze away with a wretch he opened the door and stepped out into the early morning air.

Walking out onto the terrace Ash asked "you OK?"

Cameron looked up at him and Ash had to muster his entire willpower not to look down as he said "yup just spilled the soap but I'm OK. You ready?"

Ash nodded absently and Cameron just eyed him slightly as he said "well OK... let's get this done with so we're not giving the public a show."

And so just like that the duo began to wash clothes Ash trying to focus most of his attention on getting stuff done and was succeeding for the most part as he couldn't stop the occasional glance at his friend.

And after a while the idea that hit me came back at full force and since it wasn't going to go away on its own Ash decided to humor.

Glancing at Cameron Ash realized that he had never really noticed other guy's bodies before and recalling that embarrassing talk with his mom Ash admitted it to himself.

OK so I'm physically attracted to Cameron. I admit it but there's more to this stuff that just looking good.

Ash started scrubbing some shirts thinking. What about him? Can I see compatibility in him?

Ash took a few moments to mull that over. He's a good person but he's forgetful but I can be narrow minded myself so that's not a problem. He battles well….

Ash stewed and sighed okay there's compatibility but that still doesn't mean anything. I still have no clue what he likes.

"Ash?" A voice right next to him made him made him jump looking towards it saw wet black fabric and hurriedly look up at Cameron.

Cameron smiled and said "that's good enough Ash let's hang these to dry we should be done by the time the beach opens!"

Ash nodded.

But what the boys didn't know was that just a short distance away the three boys from yesterday Rick, Shade, and Tyrone were watching them.

The richest kid in town as called by the restaurant owner Frank, Rick was tall, big, and muscular with black hair and dark brown eyes.

Shades was tall and thin with a greasy look going along with sandy blonde hair and brown eyes.

Tyrone was short and stout with red hair and brown eyes. All three of them had binoculars and were currently watching Ash and Cameron.

Rick pissed off about yesterday wanted revenge and of course his loyal minions wanted it too.

"Look at the freaks up there! Just parading around like for the world to see!"

Shade and Tyrone nodded.

Rick continued his rant saying "we'll teach them no one makes a fool of me" and as he stared at the scene a smirk came to his face.

Looking at Tyrone, Rick said "I need to borrow your Pokemon…"

Meanwhile Ash and Cameron had gotten all their clothes up on lines blowing in the gentle sea breeze and Pikachu and Lucario had woken up and helped them.

It had been a few hours by then Ash and Cameron had each gotten a shirt and a pair of athletic pants to wear while they waited for their stuff to finish drying.

Just in time too as they had heard one or two wolf whistles at that point.

Ash had noticed that even Cameron had blushed at this.

As the two talked they were unaware of a Pokemon stealthily approaching.

Cameron and Lucario had rushed off to find a spare laundry basket he was sure they had seen somewhere in the house.

As the two waited Pikachu's ears started twitching.

Its ears were reacting to the sound of wings moving at high speeds producing a sound. The sound of a Scyther in flight.

Ash looked at his buddy "something wrong Pikachu?" He asked.

"Pika…" It said flicking an ear.

"Not sure buddy?"

Suddenly the noise became apparent as from over the railing a Scyther flew into the air and made right for the clothes at the back of the landing swinging its arms.

Needless to say Ash and Pikachu responded quickly with a Thunder attack.

It hit the Scyther but it got away and as it went off Ash heard the sound of laughter.

Looking towards it out over the railing Ash saw Rick and his cronies from yesterday he watched one of them return his Scyther and the three took off as Ash gritted his teeth particularly as Rick called a parting jab over his shoulder.

"Take that you freaks!"

Just than Cameron and Lucario came onto the scene opening the glass doors carrying two basket they had found. Cameron took a look and said "aw man, Ash did I just miss a battle?"

Ash just looked at them angrily and said "the jerks from yesterday just struck back."

Cameron's face fell.

Heading for the back they assessed the damage and much to their horror it was where they hung up their underwear.

Cameron let out a sigh when he realized his were untouched but looking at Ash he realized that wasn't the case for him.

All of Ash's boxers were cut up and unwearable henceforth and it wasn't just that either. Mournfully Ash held up his swim trunks from yesterday.

Ash frowned and said "aw man."

Cameron looked at him and said "don't have a backup pair?"

Ash shook his head.

Cameron said "then we gotta go shopping I guess."

Ash nodded before realizing what he'd be shopping for with Cameron and glancing at him Ash realized there would be no dissuading him.

Meanwhile back with Rick and the others the head bully was rubbing his hands together delightfully.

"That went better than I could have hoped."

Tyrone looked at his Poke Ball "I need to get to a Pokemon Center."

Rick just waved a hand at him "yeah, yeah fine just go. Shade you're with me for step two there's only one place they can go…"

Meanwhile Ash and Cameron having put up their clean stuff and Ash having thrown away the torn up clothes had set out. They left Pikachu and Lucario behind just in case Rick tried something else with their remaining belongings.

Asking for directions they found out there was only place in the entire town where they could buy what they were after.

Walking along to the store they noticed more than one townsperson giving them uneasy looks. It didn't take long to figure out why.

"Ash man we'll need to figure out something about Rick." Cameron said worriedly.

Ash nodded but tried for a smile saying "we'll figure it out."

As they reached the store though they went for the men's clothing section but came to a shocking discovery.

All the swimsuits that Ash might have gone for were gone! Looking at each other worriedly they went for the underwear section and much like the swimsuits they made another discovery.

All the boxers and boxer briefs regardless of size were gone. Ash stared at the totally bare shelves as Cameron went around to another aisle trying to puzzle out what this meant.

"Ash there's some undies over here!" Cameron called.

Ash went towards Cameron and rounding the aisle he looked at the packages and blanched a little bit.

Briefs, that's what he was seeing and he hadn't worn them since he was like six.

Looking at them Ash swallowed, the alternative was going commando at times or wearing the boxers he had on now the rest of the trip and he did know the meaning of hygiene no matter what Misty or his other female friends said when he was younger.

Ash swallowed a took a breath and looking for his size went to pick out a basic pack of white ones went Cameron grabbed his hand making Ash jump lightly "uh-uh" his friend said "when you buy white briefs you find designer ones these generic ones aren't very good."

Ash blushed at this, his face burning with Cameron's frankness and knowledge.

Cameron looked at the package for his size and then scanned the shelves with a look that went against his usually known normal attitude.

His hand darting out he grabbed a package and handed it to Ash who blushed at the label and the colors and style inside.

Cameron smiled at Ash and said "those will suit you much better than those tighty whities would have. It doesn't look they have the kind I go for so those will work instead."

Although here one would note Cameron's scatterbrained attitude was in effect as he didn't even notice Ash's present state of mind.

Looking around Cameron's eyes brightened and smiling he darted to it saying "cool they're having a sale I've been meaning to get a new pair anyway."

Ash looked after him and blanched seeing a small shelf full of speedos.

He had a sneaking suspicion about what going to happen next and sure enough…

"Hey Ash you need a swimsuit right? Why don't you try this?"

Ash went red again and even brighter if that was even possible.

Paying no attention to his current status Cameron went on saying "I mean I'm sure you'll look good in them. And you do need one we have a few days left and we'll be hitting the beach than so why not?"

Responding mechanically Ash found his legs moving towards the shelf and looked at the revealing swimwear feeling detached from his body Ash observed them and watched as Cameron pulled out a pair like the one had worn yesterday.

It was high cut a bit giving a bit more modesty it had a purple waistband while the rest of it was orange.

Swallowing and still having the sense of floating Ash found himself grabbing one that full cut like Cameron's but his was black with a thin red waistband and blue stripes going down the side.

Suddenly bringing him back to reality Cameron's voice said "great come one let's try these on." Ash blinked and suddenly found himself being shoved into a changing room with the door closing behind him (not all the way mind you not that he noticed).

Ash looked at the speedo in his hand and groaned internally but he knew Cameron had a point and he had worn short swim trunks when younger.

Disrobing quickly down to his boxers Ash took a deep breath and slid those down to his feet and quickly pulled up the garment and settled it all without looking.

Taking a deep breath Ash looked at himself in the mirror and couldn't stop himself from giving a small smile at the sight.

It did look good on him. Turning and twisting a bit he thought it looked good.

Suddenly though dear Scatterbrained Cameron came onto the scene with a call "these look good what about you Ash." Suddenly the door came open much to Ash's slight horror.

In came Cameron who at the sight of being bare-chested Ash applied his whole willpower to one, not turning as bright as a cherry and two, not to look down.

He managed to succeed at two barely and only had a slight blush on his face even as Cameron looked him up and down.

Cameron nodded and grabbing him the shoulders spun Ash around to look at the mirror.

"See you look good in this. We both do there's no need to be so modest."

Ash found himself smiling shyly as he glanced at his friend who grinning widely into the mirror at both of them.

Ash though didn't know what Cameron was thinking.

Much like Ash, Cameron had had learnt about the birds and the bees for all things later in life but his was compounded but an added factor throughout their times together in Unova Cameron had unknowingly carried a small torch for him that had just flickered down after this parting but now here with him again like this Cameron felt that flame glow brighter…

But after a few more minutes the two had redressed and headed for the cashier.

Getting there the lady looked at them and remarked "you boys are the second group I've seen today buying stuff like this."

Ash and Cameron shared a quick look and it was Cameron who asked "who was here earlier?"

The lady went on "oh it was Rick and his friend Shade." She didn't notice the uneasy look Cameron and Ash had given each other at this…

Author's Note: OK so this chapter is done after a long while so sorry for the wait. But as I was writing this chapter I ran into a problem I think I may have turned Ash into a peeping tom from out of nowhere but I'm not sure about that since I got Cameron to be a bit devious in this chapter too so meh. This chapter was 7 pages total so I'm really pleased about the length. I didn't see a need for a filtered version here so that's something too. I hope you like the chapter. Next chapter will be a while as I need to work on Companionship. I also have a drawing that goes along with this chapter up on some of my sites if you want to take a look for all it's low quality. I do not own Pokemon. Feel free to comment. No yaoi bashing please.