Rain, Rain, Romantic Rain
by: LilCupid

***As you know by reading the last chapter, Ash and Misty are finally a couple. But, although unexpected, Pikachu's delievery date is going to be a little sooner than everyone thought... This may be a little shorter than my other chapters, but it is the last chapter of this story. The LAST chapter! Doesn't that just give ya goosebumps? Okay, I won't stall any longer. Read on AAML fans.

~~~~~Ch. 6- "Rain, Rain, Romantic Rain"~~~~~

"You know, I wonder what Brock thought of us when we had ESP..." Ash wondered.
"Oh, I know! He must've thought we were losing it!" Misty laughed.
Suddenly, Misty felt a few cold fingers on her backside. She gasped.
"What's wrong?" Ash asked.
"You're fingers are just cold."
"What are you talking about?"
"You hands, they're... AHHH!!!" Misty suddenly jerked around and saw Gary standing behind her, laughing.
"Gary?!" Misty screamed.
"What do you want?!" Ash yelled.
But before Gary could answer, Misty grabbed his collar tightly and held him about two feet in the air.
"Keep your nasty little hands to yourself!" she yelled at him.
"Fine! Let go!" he shouted.
"Say please." she growled.
"Go!!! Please!"
She dropped him to the dirt pathway and picked up the picnic basket and pillow she had been carrying earlier.
"I just wanted to challenge Ash to a match." Gary said as he stood and brushed the dust off of his shirt.
"A match? I can't battle you now, Gary. I don't have any of my pokemon with me." Ash said, rather disappointed.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot. Too busy kissing your girlfriend." Gary teased.
Ash and Misty just stared at him a while, then suddenly broke out laughing.
"Yep!" Ash said.
"Huh? What?" Gary asked, completely confused.
"He said 'Yep'!" Misty stated.
"Wait. What?!" Gary shouted.
There was a long pause.
Ash turned towards Misty. "Wanna go home?" he asked
"Sure. Let's go." Misty smiled.
"Wait! What?! You two are a couple? Wait?! What!?" Gary shouted as he watched Ash and Misty hold hands and walk away.

The sun was rising now, just peaking above the smallish rolling hills in the far distance. Yet, just about the entire morning scene was ruined by the many darkened clouds that roured overhead. That's when Misty felt a tiny drop of water land on her hand.
"Uh oh..." Misty muttered.
"Uh oh what? What 'uh oh'?" Ash asked.
"Um, I think it's about to rain." Misty said, pointing towards the clouds, partially covering up the sun, which was still busy rising.
"Don't worry, we're close to my house." Ash ensured.
"Okay, but I'm gonna run." Misty said, as she felt a few more raindrops hit her forhead.
Feeling this, Ash had no other choice but to agree.

They ran for no longer than five minutes when they stood in front of Ash's front door. He reached for the doorknob when Misty suddenly protested.
"Wait! What if your mom saw us on TV?" she asked.
"Oh..." his hand dropped. He licked his lips and thought a moment.
"I don't know, but what's past is past. We have no other choice, I mean, we can't stand out here forever."
"Your right, Ash. Let's go." she said taking a deep breath.
He sighed and opened the door. As soon as the living room came in sight, it disappeared, with Ash's mother standing in the way. She had a pretty angered face. Ash slunk immediantly, knowing excactly what was going on...
"I'm so proud of you! My baby's all grown up!" she shouted, hugging Ash. His eyes widened in suprise. Misty's jaw dropped.
"What'd I do?..."
"Come on in. I'll fix you up some of your favorite pasta!" she ran off into the kitchen.
Ash looked over to Misty, who stared back just as confused. She shurgged her shoulders and shook her head with that face that said "I dunno." They entered the house.
"Hey Pikachu! Take care of Togepi while we were gone?" Ash asked the pikachu, who was, of course, on her way to the bathroom.
"Heh heh heh... Why not ask Togepi?" Pikachu grinned.
Misty ran up the stairs to greet her togepi.
"Hey Togepi!" she said, walking into Ash's room.
"Hi mommy!"
"Did Pikachu take good care of you?" she asked, sitting down next to Togepi.
"She sure did! Hey... where's daddy?" the egg pokemon asked, looking around.
Misty blushed a bit.
"Uh.... he's d-downstairs." she smiled.
Togepi's face suddenly changed.
"Hey, I called Ash 'daddy'. Aren't you supposed to blush and start denying all possible chances of that happening or something like you always do?" Togepi asked.
Misty's eyebrows raised in suprise. She heard a chuckle from behind her.
"Nope. Not now, Togepi." she said quietly, not turning around.
She knew far too well who that was, wrapping his arms around her.
"Hello." Ash greeted.
"Hi daddy!" Togepi said in her babiest, sweetest tone.
Misty turned her head to face Ash's face leaning on her shoulder.
"What do we do today?" Misty sighed.
"I need some sleep." Ash said, walking over to his bed. "I woke up WAY too early."
"Same here. I was hoping you'd say you needed sleep."
"Why?"
Togepi hummed a short tune in random and walked out of the room by choice.
Misty smiled and jumped on the bed beside Ash, bouncing a bit. She grabbed a second pillow and clutched it to her chest as the back of her head lay on Ash's stomach. She threw the pillow over her side and rolled over to lay on her stomach, then on another pillow. Once she ended up with her head laying by Ash's feet, she gave up.
"I can't find a good position. I can't sleep." she mumbled.
Ash laughed.
"Whew! I was hoping that was what you was doing!" he joked. She kicked him in the head.
"What exactly do you mean by that?!" she asked angrily.
Ash sighed and turned around so that his feet were on the pillow and his head was down by Misty's.
"That you're the most prettiest, nicest girl in the world." *Hey, I'm trying to use kid-like words here...* Ash said, smiling warmly.
"But that doesn't have anything about what you said!"
"It doesn't matter, does it?" Ash asked after a short pause.
Misty stared at him a moment.
"I hate you, you know that?" she smiled, shoving his shoulder.
"Well, that wasn't the kind of answer I was expecting."
"What kind of answer were you expecting?" Misty asked.
"How about "I love you, too"?" he said.
"What?"
"Aw, c'mon, you know you can say it." Ash laughed.
"Huh? Say what?"
Ash mouthed the word 'I' and then 'love' while Misty repeated.
"I... love... you... Ash..." she finished.
"See? Was that so hard?" Ash asked.
"Well, I guess I never said it out loud before..." Misty chuckled.
"Nope, you just thought about it."
"And look where just thinking such things brought us." she smiled.
Their lips touched for the fourth time that day.
"Kids! Lunch!" Delia called from the bottom of the staircase.
They seperated and Ash stood from the bed.
"Come on Miss Romance." he said, extending a hand to help her up.


Ash stared at his Pikachu, eating as many bread rolls and pasta she could get to.
"Boy Pikachu, you sure are hungry." Ash said.
"I know! I can't help it!" she snarled.
"Excuse me!" he said.
"Sorry, it's just, I know this is gonna ruin myself, but I'm just so hungry!" Pikachu said.
"Well, it's no wonder. I mean, you've been losing all your food for the past few days." said Ash.
"That's because she's pregnant." Misty said, feeding Togepi a noodle.
"Oh yeah! Hehe... I forgot..." Ash said a little embarassed that he'd forgotten his Pikachu was going to have babies.
"You idiot." Misty joked.
Suddenly Pikachu jumped from the table and ran off.
"Hey! Where you goin'?" Ash called out.
"Bathroom!"
Ash shook his head.
"Misty? When do you think Pikachu will have her babies?"
"I'm not sure... I guess probably sooner than humans do, though."
There was silence.
"Where is Brock? I haven't seen him since at the lake." Misty asked.
"I don't know." Ash yawned. "But I sure am tired though."
"C'mon, let's go." Misty said and got up from the table, walking towards the stairs.
Ash followed her into his room. He turned off the light and jumped into bed.
Misty was about to lay down when she stopped.
"What? What's wrong?"
"Nothing. It's just, I forgot I was wearing your shirt." she laughed, looking down at one of Ash's t-shirts.
"You'd better change." he said.
"Yeah..." Misty ran to her shirt.
"Hey! Where's my shirt?!"
"Huh?"
"My shirt's gone! Togepi!" Misty yelled.
The little egg pokemon walked through the door.
"What's wrong mommy?"
"Where's my shirt?"
"Uh... I dunno..."
Misty sighed.
"Maybe Ms. Ketchum put it in the wash..." Misty muttered.
"It's okay. Just wear that one. I don't mind."
Misty smiled. "Okay."
She walked over to Ash. Heheheh, Togepi left, of course....
The egg chuckled evilly.
"I just love this..." she said, carrying Misty's shirt downstairs.
"Where you going with Misty's shirt?" asked Pikachu as she ran up the stairs.
"Uh..."
"You didn't steal it did you?"
"Uh... no..." Togepi lied.
Pikachu glared at her.
"Darn, I know the perfect place to hide it, too..." Pikachu grinned.
"He he he... then we could try the shorts..." Togepi chuckled.
*I know what you're thinking, "Togepi and Pikachu are just EVIL!" Well, no, not really... You'll understand...(Actually, I'm the only 'EVIL' one around here...he he he)*

Togepi walked into the room a forty-five minutes later and saw Ash and Misty sleeping.
"Wow, they sure do fall asleep quickly..." Togepi murmured to herself.
Then, Togepi left the room, satisfied with her little 'mission'. She walked into the livingroom to where Pikachu sat on the couch, holding her stomach.
"Oh, I wish they would just come out! This is worse than the stomach flu." Pikachu whined.
"Are you okay?"
"Huh?"
"Are you okay?" Togepi asked again.
"Yeah."
After a long pause, Pikachu's ears perked.
"You know what? I have a strange craving for mustard.." Pikachu muttered thoughtfully.
"You? Mustard?? You gotta be kidding me." Togepi said, shaking her head.
"No, I serious! I need mustard!" Pikachu yelled and ran into the kitchen.
Togepi could hear the clanging and banging of a few objects falling to the floor out of the refridgerator.
"Aha! Gotcha!" Pikachu yelled.
She walked out of the kitchen licking a bottle of mustard happily.
"You're crazy..." Togepi laughed.
"Ahh..." Pikachu sighed gleefully.
Togepi chuckled.
"And I am not crazy. I'm pregnant." Pikachu said sternly, nodding her head.
"Eh... I still vote for 'Crazy'." said Togepi.


Three hours laterMeanwhile, somewhere in the Bahamas