Hey guys here's chapter 4! Sorry for not updating in a while. Now what I've read from my reviews some of you guys hate Misty and enjoy me showing that red head's mean side. While some feel like I'm putting Misty out of character and I was a bit torn if I should continue this fanfic. So to compromise this I decided to tell you guys why I chose Misty for the mean girl 1)Misty was in the episode Princess vs Princess so it would be weird if i use someone like Georgia or Dawn 2) I just wanted to show some hate on Misty because (in my opinion) she's a red head bitch 3)People say Misty is a tomboy…um I don't see it the only tomboy I saw in her was nagging and yelling all the time so…

Now no one's judging if you don't want to read this fanfic anymore so you can read it or you don't have to your choice. Anyway for those that are reading please, enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon

Ages:

Ash:14

Iris:14

Chapter 4: Memories

"Come on, Iris, where did you go?" Ash panted as he forced himself to run faster through the nearby woods that were outside Startion city and where he assumed Iris had run off to. Plus when he had asked around about if anyone had seen Iris they all pointed towards the woods before laughing at how ridiculous Iris looked with food covering her.

"Tomboy," Ash muttered to himself, it was the word all the females were shouting (along with some other mean and nasty words) at Iris as she fled the café, "what's wrong with being a tomboy?" he wondered aloud as he stumbled along the overgrown path of the woods which was littered with bits and pieces of food telling Ash that Iris had gone this way.

"IRIS!" Ash called loudly, "COME ON IRIS! WHERE ARE YOU?"

There was no answer besides the sound of his voice echoing off into the woods and the sound of a few Pokémon.

The raven haired teen sighed as he slowed his pace to a walk but before he could get too far he felt something pelt him right on top of his head, "What the hell?" he reached up and ran his fingers over the top of his Pokémon League hat only to pull away with his fingers stained red. Blood? That was his first thought but quickly removing the hat he saw that it was:

"Tomato sauce?" he said aloud as the aroma of the sauce hit his nose, he looked up and noticed a nearby tree lingering overhead, that when he heard muffled crying, "Iris? Iris are you up there?"

"…G-Go away…" came a muffled sound, before a meatball came flying down just barely missing him, "you just came here to laugh like everyone else,"

"What, no I'm not," Ash said as he started to climb the tree Iris was in, "why would I do that?"

There was a bit of silence, "…I-I don't know…" a shaky sounding breath, "A-Are y-you going to laugh at me Li-like everyone else?"

Ash pulls himself up onto a branch, "No, of course not. Um…i-is it okay if I come on up-OW!" a chunk of bread covered in cheese sauce hit him square in the face.

There's a bit of a sniffling from Iris, "S-Sorry" she said with a sniffle, "b-but…um yeah…Ash you c-can come on up,"

Ash climbs up higher into the tree until on one of the tall branches he spots her. Iris's back is turned but he could still see the food that covered her cloths and stuck in her violet hair. She looked a mess.

Pulling himself up to the branch Iris was on the raven haired teen stayed silent for a few seconds as Iris continued to sniffle and allowed stray tears run down her face and every so often a shaky sob left her. She would try to wipe them away only to smudge her dark skinned face with food this only made Iris cover her face and cry loudly.

Ash felt his heart hurt, he hated to see Iris cry, so he stammered, "I-Iris…what's the matter?"

She didn't look up, she didn't answer.

Ash started to pick strands of spaghetti and a few vegetables that were in her hair, "Come on…you can tell me Iris,"

Iris raised her head and slowly turned her face to look at Ash. Her big brown eyes were red and a bit swollen from sobbing and her face was smudged with food articles and tears couldn't seem to stop dripping from her eyes.

"Iris…" Ash said frowning her appearance and her expression of sadness made his heart twist he hated to see iris like this, "a-are you-"

He didn't get to finish as Iris pulled her knees to her chest and buried her face in them he could see Iris was very upset.

"They hate me!" Iris said her voice muffled, "everyone hates me!"

"What? Iris w-what are you talking about? No one hates you, Iris," Ash reassured her reaching out a shaky hand and touching her shoulder

(TG2012: BTW for all the tomboys out there (which I am one myself) what Iris is going to say in this next part is NOT true… it all just part of the story so just go with it! Plus if I didn't add this the negaishipping couldn't happen)

Iris nodded causing a bit of salad that stuck in her hair to fall out, "…Y-Yes they do…M-Misty and all those girls in the café…t-they all think I'm…I'm a freakin' f-freak!"

(TG2012: Freakin' freak, ha alteration!)

Ash felt confused, gently he reached out both hands, held Iris's shoulders and pushed her up so he could at her, the big brown eyes glistened with tears but no the less it made his stomach feel all fluttery…or maybe it was because he was hungry.

The raven haired boy shook head to remember what he was going to say, "Um, wait Iris I don't understand…why would everyone hate you?"

Iris let her eyes look down at her hands, he could see tears drip form her eyes onto her hands which were covered with might be honey or barbecue sauce, "I-It's because…I'm a tomboy…"

Like on floor eight she had said the last word in a hushed voice, "A tomboy? What's wrong with that?"

Iris turned her head away, her eyes still down cast, "You shouldn't worry about it Ash…I-I mean you just wouldn't understand,"

Ash sighed with slight frustration, he really wanted to know what this tomboy thing was about, "Iris…um I want to make you feel better…but I can't if you don't tell me,"

Iris shifted a bit as if to be uncomfortable, "Okay…I'll tell you…" she looked up some of the substance that was on her hands was now present on her let cheek.

"Well? What the deal with this tomboy thing?" he inquired, "I mean isn't a tomboy just a girl who just does guy things?"

"Well yeah…b-but that's what all guys think," Iris answered

"I don't think I'm following you," Ash said getting more confused by the second

The raven haired teen hears Iris sigh, "Well, when a guy's hears the word tomboy he would think of a girl that does…you know skateboarding, video gaming and other stuff," she stopped as if to hesitate, slowly she continued, "but when girls hear about tomboys they say and think re-really mean things,"

"Like w-what?" Ash asked when she had fallen silent

Iris pulled her knees to her chest, the knees of her pants were stained a reddish brown substance, after asking the same question a second time Ash sat and listened to Iris tell how girls think about tomboys. Apparently girls thought tomboys were aliens and if you were classified as a tomboy you were badly shunned. Iris told of here time in Opelucid Academy where none of the other girls there would let her participate in any of their activities such as outdoor picnics, sleepovers, playing house, not even a simple Pokémon battle all because they had labeled her as a tomboy. They'd always complain about Iris being too rough, or she was playing the wrong way, she was messy but worse of all they would just rudely state that "your weird, we don't want to play with a weirdo like you," before going off and leaving the purple haired girl all alone all my herself. The boys also avoid Iris as well; they would say that she was too good at all their games, and that she would always win at games like chase, hide n' seek, water balloon wars and many of their favorite sports.

"I w-was always so lonely there, at Opelucid Academy" Iris said her voice shaking as a fresh flow of tears started down her food stained cheeks that she quickly brushed away with her sticky hand, "no one like me…I wa-was always left out and no one but Martha cared about me! I-It hurts to even think about it- I hated it there so much! I hated it! I hated it! I hated it!"

Ash didn't know what to say so didn't say anything as Iris continued, and told of her story of her experience of Princess Festival Day at Opelucid Academy which stunned Ash the most. The girls that would originally shun her from their group allowed the purple haired girl to join them in their day of fun on Princess Festival Day. They let Iris take part in their large and plentiful picnic, she was also allowed to pick the movie they watched that day, and when they went to other activities like dressing up Pokémon and getting ice cream Iris was allowed to have first pick on everything!

It was when these girls invited the normally outcast girl to finish off the all girls' day with a sleepover is when things started downhill. During the sleepover the girls started a game called Target. It was a game they made up where the group wrote down items and other objects down on slips of paper and after putting them in a hat one person would sit in the middle, this person in the middle was the Target. The Target had two choices to make, the first one was "hit me", meaning that someone would draw a slip of paper and whatever was on it the person in the middle, or the Target, would get no matter what. The Target's other choice was "switch" which allowed the Target to switch places with someone on in the outside group. During the game Iris was the Target and in the first round the slips of paper read rather pleasant things, like cupcakes, candy, teddy bears and many other lovely items that pleased Iris very much and was lucky to say "hit me" to all of them. But when it was time to refill the hat and added new slips of paper for round two that's when the trouble began. The girls had changed the rules slightly, instead of letting the Target say "hit me" or "switch" first they read the slip of paper first, with that rule in place the first slip of paper read.

"You must say hit me to all the slips of paper in the hat,"

Iris, assuming that more good things were coming her way she happily cried "hit me". Unfortunately Iris choose wrong, it went from candy and cake to having swallow a concoction of blended up Figy berries and lemons, getting hard pinches on the arms, having to give up her favorite teddy bear, and allowing them to put make up on her in a horrible and ugly fashion making her look like a creepy clown only ten times worse! Each time she was force to do these crazy thing or allow the other girls to do crazy things to her all they would do was laugh and point fingers, and at first Iris followed along and laughed with them. That was before the slips of paper started to read humiliating things for her to do and at by the last slip of paper she was choking back tears as she forced herself to utter "hit me"

The last slip of paper was by far the worst, it read only four words.

Have your hair cut.

At first the Iris was confused about this message on the paper but then quickly understood when the girls' lips curled into smug and mischievous grin as they whipped out pairs of scissors. That's when it hit her that these girls weren't trying to befriend her or be nice in any way shape or form, all this time they just plotting to remove one of the most precious and valuable thing to her, her lovely dark violet hair! At that moment the tomboy outcast leaped up from her spot on the floor and bolted for the door. The purple haired girl went running down the hallway yelling for someone to help but those girls cornered her, two grabbed a hold of her, one clamped her hand over Iris's mouth and the last one had the pair of scissors. Iris desperately tried to shake them off but nothing worked.

"No! No! Please don't cut my hair! Please!" but her muffled words only fell onto deaf ears, tears started down her face as the girl inched the scissors closer to her head, "Please, no I'll do anything I-"

SNIP!

The soft sound was enough to make Iris's heart stop. Her tear filled eyes widened saw as a chuck of her hair and one of her yellow hair ties fluttered down to the floor, half of her long pigtail (that ran down her back) had been chopped off, gone forever!

"NO! NO!" Iris cried with rage, humiliation and sadness as the girls' began to laugh. She could see the pair of scissors coming close to her head, its blades hungry for her hair, "NO DON'T DO IT PLEASE!" Iris cried moving to the right slightly.

SNIP!

Iris screamed, but not only because the scissors had chopped off had half of her right pigtail (the one that sits atop her head) but the blade also sliced there way from the top right side of her forehead all the way down to the top of her right ear! The group of girls screamed also as blood splattered into their faces and started to pool onto the hallway floor. The girls released the screaming purple haired girl and being petrified by what they had done they fled the scene, leaving Iris laying there in the dark hallway holding her head and screaming in pain as blood streamed from the cut on her head. Iris didn't know exactly how long she laid there on the floor but all she knew was that Martha came to her rescue and the next thing she knew Iris was at the hospital getting seventeen stiches in the side of her head.

Iris finished her story sobs shaking her body and tears rushing down her face with no expectations to stop.

"Oh…I-Iris I don't-" but he was abruptly cut off when Iris suddenly threw herself onto him and buried her head in his chest. The raven haired teen couldn't help but blush, being so close to Iris made his face burn red, he could feel Iris's arms tightly wrapped around his abdomen and her hot tears starting to seep into his shirt.

"M-My hair…i-it was n-never the sa-same after that…" he heard Iris mumble. Looking more closely at Iris's dark purple hair he noticed a slight difference, the right pigtail was maybe an inch or more shorter than the left and the long one that flowed down her back he saw that one side was a lot shorter. It made the long ponytail in the back look lopsided, he frowned Ash had never noticed this before and probably never would have if he hadn't seen it up close. He continued to examine Iris's hair only to notice a line on the right side of her forehead, he felt his heart drop into his stomach, he shifted slightly to get a better view the line was a bit lighter than Iris's skin complexion and it ran from her forehead…down to the top of her right ear. Ash quickly realized it was a scare left behind from the scissors incident at Opulcid Academy he felt bad for the girl seeing how much trouble she had gone through trying to make friends. It made sense to him now why Iris was so hesitate to become friends with him and Cilan in the beginning of their adventures, as Iris continued to cried he couldn't help himself but to pull Iris close to comfort her and each second Ash couldn't help but enjoy being so close to her even though she was covered in food.

He let the girl cry for a few more moment before slowly continuing "Is this why you don't like Princess Festival Day?" Ash asked quietly the sadden girl started sob louder but still was able to mutter a small, yes.

Ash once again sat as Iris cried, his thoughts tumbled over each other as they swarmed like a mass of Combees in his head, 'I get it now…it all makes since why Iris didn't want me to tell Misty about what we did today and why she got so nervous when that red head was questioning her…' he looked down at Iris he couldn't see her face but it was obvious that the pain she felt inside was horrible, 'Misty, you bitch, why the hell did you have to make Iris feel this way? Why did you have to make her remember all that shit Iris went through?! …I-I wish I could find a way to make her feel better…'he let thoughts trail off as remembered something.

Reaching into his jacket pocket the raven haired teen pulled out the sparkly pink bracelet that Misty had left behind on the table back at the café, "I-I don't know if this will make you feel any better Iris but…" he slowly pushed the girl off her in a gently manner. Iris's head still dropped downward as she covered her face with one hand as she cried, slowly Ash reach out for her other hand that rested limply on her lap, "but I picked this up at the café, since you left it," he slowly started to slip it onto her wrist, but Iris's hand jerked up and she slapped it out of his hand.

"I don't want that piece of shit, Ash!" she yelled as the pink accessory clattered through the braches and to the ground

Ash cringed, 'Well that didn't work,' he thought as Iris crumpled up her knees to her chest and tried to subdued her crying, 'damn it, what am I going to do? Iris is so upset…I just wish I could help take all those memories away…' that's when an idea hit the raven haired teen and he remembered the promise he had made to himself earlier this morning, he then looked over at the crying girl, the girl who made his heart throb and made his heart all meltly. He had to tell her.

"Um…Iris everything we've done today," he said not really knowing how to start, "it's been very fun and I loved spending time w-with you" Iris looked up slowly her brown eyes wet and horribly sad, "n-no let me start over I…I mean uh…" he could see a small faint smile curl on Iris's mouth his felt his face burn, Ash took a breath hopping to calm his pounding heart.

"A-Ash do you need to say something?" she asked, her voice still slightly shaky the small smile widening somewhat, "I'm listing…y-you can just say it,"

Ash opened his mouth, "Uh I um ever since this morning I told myself I'd do something for a certain um person she I mean-" he stopped slightly as his voice suddenly cracked his face burned, but it made Iris laugh a bit.

"S-She? This person's a she?" Iris suddenly asked her smile falling from her face.

"Uh, yes but-"

"Who is she?" the girl started to get upset, "it better not be that Misty bitch!"

Ash swetadropped, "No, no I swear it's not her, Misty is the last person I'd to anything for, but she is very important to me,"

Iris lowered her legs, "Why is she important to you?"

Ash felt his fingers starting to drum against the tree branch, "She's important to me because…I kinda…no I…" his face felt like it was on fire, "….I um I…Ihaveareallybigcrushonher…t-that's why," he said quickly.

"Oh…really?" Iris said wiping her noise her brown eyes looking right at him.

Ash could feel his heart pounding in his chest, "Y-Yeah and I also promised myself that…t-today I'd make her feel really important and made sure she had the best day ever on Princess Festival day…"

Out of the corner of his eye Ash could see Iris mood change. It went from deeply sad to now deeply sad and worried, "Who is she?" Iris asked coldly, looking away from him as if she might start to cry again, "who is this girl you're talking about?"

"Well, she nice and fun and beautiful," Ash started, "she has also travel with me and hates to be lonely-"

"Ash I asked who is she not for you to describe her-" Iris said her tone suddenly angry he could see a few tears drip form her eyes, he could hear her mumble under her breath, "I bet it's that Dawn girl,"

Ash was silent for a moment, "Um…t-this girl…uh t-this girl is…" Iris turned to look at him her eyes they were really red but still manage to produce tears and they shooting him a glare.

"Ash I'm already feeling bad enough, and you don't want to test my pacentices so I suggest-"

"It's you," Ash blurted, he could see Iris suddenly turn and look at him her mouth slightly opened, "I always wanted to tell you Iris, but I didn't know how and I just couldn't…a-and I love how you're a tomboy I mean it's awesome to have a friend that will have a race with you and go swimming without worrying about fifteen thousand things and the way you're ready for any adventure just-"

The rest of his explanation could come out as he felt a weight slam into his body then he felt something soft and warm press against his lips. The raven haired boy could feel his

eyes almost pop out of their sockets. Her lips, her soft lovely lips…w-were they actually pressed up against his. Iris…s-she was kissing him! And her hands were hands were slowly moving through his black hair and it felt…i-it felt so…so good, really really good. Even though this was his first kiss it almost for natural to him to press his lips back against hers. The raven haired teen never remembered his face burning so much or his heart pounding so hard or the flow of excitement rushing through his veins so fast making this lower parts starting to act up.

Iris slowly pulled away, her eyes were twinkling and her face was aglow with a smile that only she could produce, "M-My first kiss," she whispered before pulling him close into a hug, "Oh Ash, you no idea how much I've been waiting for you to say that,"

Ash opened his mouth but only a small squeaking sound was produced.

Iris laughed as she pulled away tears were starting down her cheeks again.

Ash didn't think his face could get any hotter but it did, "I-Iris why are you crying…I didn't upset you-"

"No Ash, I'm crying because I'm so happy!" Iris cried and started to laugh, "no one has ever loved me…well you know loved loved me!" she gave an excited squeal.

"S-So y-you love me back?" Ash asked slowly as he tried to comprehend everything and trying to ignore the bit of activity that was going on in his pants, he pressed his legs together.

Iris nodded, "Oh Ash! I love you too!" she wiped her face, "Ash you always find a way to make me feel better even when I'm at my lowest! Thank you telling me! You make me feel like the happiest girl on the plant! I love you so much" more happy tears fell from her eyes

"Y-You welcome," Ash said feeling stunned he squirmed slightly.

Iris laughed, "I'm sorry I kinda rushed into that kiss," she then gave a small smile, "um a-are you okay Ash? You look a little uncomfortable-"

"I'm fine!" he quickly said before taking a small breath hopping to calm himself down and stop the ignore the tightness in his pants.

"Ash your so goofy," Iris said with a wink and moving a bit closer to him and slip her fingers around his, before giving a smile

"Iris…" he started but his voiced cracked, "ugh damn it…m'so nervous"

Iris giggled, "You don't have to," she gave an attractive grin, Ash gave a nervous laugh, "it's still me,"

"Yeah I-I know, I've just never been so close to someone so beautiful," Ash said, 'And I never remember getting this big of a boner before either,'

"So is there anything else you want to do for Princess Festival Day?" Ash asked.

Iris shook her head and rested her head on his chest, "No because when you said you wanted to make today perfect for me, well you're doing it right now…now I just want in to stay in this tree and stay next to you all day-"

"PIDOVE! PI! PIDOVE! DOVE!" out of nowhere three Pidove swooped down and started to peck happily at Iris's head that still was littered with food.

"AW! OW! OW! OW!" iris cried flawing her arms in the air, "WHAT THE HELL!"

"HEY GO AWAY YOU STUPID PIDOVE" Ash yelled waving his hands at the flying type Pokémon, "BUZZ OF BIRD BRIANS YOUR RUINIGN MY MOMENT WITH IRIS!"

"Ash!" Iris said with a laugh, before a Pidove pecked at her for a piece of bread, "OW, DAMN IT GET AWAY YOU PIDOVE-AAHHHH!"

"Iris!" Ash cried as his special purple haired friend fell from the branch he only had enough time to reach out grab her by the wait before her weight and gravity brought them both falling toward the ground. Leaves slapped their faces and their bodies were rammed into branches but eventually they hit the ground with a loud thud.

"Uggh…that hurt-" Ash started then he gasped as her realized the position he was in. He was almost on top of Iris and one of his hands rested on her rather large breast, he heard a giggle. He looked only to see Iris staring at him her brown eyes twinkling as she slowly sat up.

Ash started to move his hand away from her breast, but Iris grabbed it, "Oh Ash…" the raven haired teen braced himself for her to ell but instead she just laughed, "your just so lucky that your awalys so clumsy!"

Ash sweatdropped and laughed too, "Sorry," he hopped to and helped Iris to her feet but Iris stopped short.

"Wait w-what's…" she reached into her pocket and pulled out a crumpled piece of pink paper.

Ash rolled his eyes, "Oh it's that stupid Princess of Unova Paget paper that Nurse Joy gave you,"

Iris was silent for a moment, as she stared at the paper then smiled, "That bitch…oh she's gonna get it,"

Ash arched an eyebrow, "Who's gonna get what?" he asked hopping that Iris didn't noticed the small lump at the crotch of his pants.

"Misty, that's who," Iris said with a laugh, "I know exactly how to get her back for what she did to me,"

"How?" Ash asked

"Don't worry you'll find out," Iris looked down at her soiled cloths, "but first, I'm going to have to get some new cloths, looks like were going shopping after all Ash,"

She started off back towards the path that lead back to Startion but turned when Ash wasn't following, "Ash, come on," she flashed a smile followed by a wink, "aren't you coming?"

Ash felt his face burn the excitement was still going on in his pants, "Erm, uh yeah I'm coming," he said giving one of those head bobs only guys can pull off (TG2012: it's true no matter how hard I try I can never pull off the head bob thing =() "but I need to uh, go and-"

"Take a piss?" Iris finished

Ash gave a sheepish nod, that wasn't exactly what he was think of but as long as it gave him enough time to calm himself down he'd take it, "Yeah, right, um I'll be right back!"

Huh a weird way to end a chapter but I'll go with it! Stay tuned for the next chapter of A Different Kind of Princess to see what Iris has in store for Misty!

Okay there we go chapter four is complete! To be honest writing about Iris's bad experience at Opuliced Academy almost made me cry! Damn I made Iris's past suck! Anyway I hope you enjoyed this chapter! This fanfic might run into June even though it's a May fanfic but I think it'll be okay.

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