Another update! See? I told you I would update on my birthday!
Dawn: Happy birthday!!
Me: Thankies!
Me :…( glares at Paul)
Paul: What!?
Dawn: Say happy birthday to her!
Paul: Why should I!?
Me: (begins typing out loud) Paul glanced over at Dawn and his eyes couldn't help but travel down to her-
Paul: ALRIGHT STOP! HAPPY 14th BIRTHDAY!
Me: Aw, you didn't have to! (smiles) Alrighty now, Dawn you do the disclaimer this time!
Dawn: Okay! HARVESTGIRL10 DOES NOT OWN POKEMON OR THE CHARACTERS! SHE DOES OWN SAKURA, DAMAR, AND THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN HOWEVER!
Me: On with the story! Oh and in this chapter, you'll find out why some parts in this story is rated T!
"Now tilt your head back, Sakura." Dawn instructed to the small girl as she pour water over her head. Sakura shivered as the cold water slashed on top of her body.
"I-It's coollllddddd!" Sakura complained as she shivered in the water.
"I know," Dawn said sympathetically, "But we're almost done, just try not to think about it so much, okay?"
"O-Okay…"Sakura managed to say through her shivers.
Dawn poured more water onto Sakura's shampooed head; however, she saw the girl's shivers and began to sing a song to cheer her up, she sang:
Rub a dub dub
I'm in a tub!
"…Make….the dirt…wash away…" Sakura sung under her breath, too low for Dawn to hear. Oblivious to the girl's singing, Dawn kept singing.
And now let's play!
A mermaid in her own sea
"…Best friends forever, you and me!" Sakura sung out loud, causing Dawn to look at the girl, surprised.
"You know the bath-time song?" She asked tilting her head to the side, bewildered.
"Uh huh! Mommy sings it to me every time I take a bath!" Sakura explained, splashing around giddily in the water.
"Really? Wow! When I was your age, my mommy sang the same song to me too!" Dawn commented, a smile on her face.
They both laughed, and Dawn continued to help bath Sakura. She washed away the last few bits on suds in Sakura's hair and wrapped a towel around the purple-headed girl.
Watch out!
Now I'm all clean!
Dawn finished as she poked the girl's nose playfully.
"Now let's show off to the world for all to see!" Sakura sang happily. She took Dawn's hand and was led back to the camp. However, on the way there, Dawn's mind kept racing.
"How does Sakura now that song? How could she? Didn't I make it up with mom? Oh, stop over exaggerating Dawn! I'm sure there's a logical reason to it all…"
Dawn led back to the camp, only to find an annoyed Paul working over a pile of sticks.
"Something wrong, Paul?" Dawn asked as she sat Sakura down to comb out her hair.
"None of your business!" He shouted as he tried to start a fire.
Dawn pouted and stuck her tongue out at the boy; she grabbed a comb from her bag and began combing Sakura's hair.
"Excuse me." Dawn retorted as she kept her sight on Sakura, who looked worried.
Dawn looked at Paul and her eyes softened, "He must've been so used to Chimchar starting the fire for him…"
Finally, a huge flamed sparked and Paul got the fire going. He stood up and began walking away.
"Hey! Where are you going?!" Dawn yelled after him, annoyed.
"Going to get fire wood, troublesome girl! Do you honestly think the fire would stay for the whole night?" Paul retorted back towards Dawn, annoyed as well.
Dawn stuck her tongue out again and returned to combing Sakura's hair.
"Why is he such a meanie?" Sakura asked as she sat patiently while her hair was being combed.
Dawn sighed, "If you ever find out, tell me." The thing was Dawn really wanted to know that as well. Why was he so mean? There had to be a reason behind it, right? Besides becoming a top coordinator, Dawn's second biggest dream was too break Paul's ice wall.
But then again…if that was even possible…
Dawn did the last touches on Sakura's hair and sat her near the fire for it to dry.
"OOhhhhh, why did I have to leave my blow-dryer back with Ash and Brock?" Dawn complained as she looked through her bag. "It would have made this so much easier!"
"Ash?Brock?"
"Oh! That's right; you'd never met them before! Well they're my traveling companions who I travel throughout Sinnoh with!" Dawn happily replied as she dug harder into her bag.
"Eh? You mean you don't travel with Paul?" Sakura asked, confused.
Dawn's face turned red and looked towards the girl.
"I wish!" Dawn's inner-self pleaded.
"N-N-No!" Dawn quickly explained, waving her hands in the air, "You see, when we fell off that cliff, I got separated from everyone and Paul just happened to fall off too!"
"Then…why was Paul there?"
"Oh, he's Ash's rival. We occasionally run into him from time to time and he battles Ash…" Dawn voice drifted off into a dreamy state as closed her eyes, visualizing her words.
Sakura rolled her eyes, laughing. "She's so silly!" Sakura giggled in her head.
Dawn snapped back to reality and turned pink from how embarrassing she must sound.
" Well Sakura, I'm going to take my bath now, so please stay here and wait for Paul to come back. If he asks were I am, just tell him that I'm taking a bath, okay?" Dawn said as she stood up towards the direction of the lake.
"Okay!"
"Oh, here" Dawn said as she handed Sakura her poketch. "You can play with my poketch while I'm gone. It'll be fun because it's one of the latest!" Dawn sweetly said as she watched the girl fumble around with it.
"Silly!" Sakura giggled as she played with the poketch. "This isn't the latest; this one is really really old! My mommy has a newer one!" She giggled as Dawn's jaw dropped.
"Note to self: Buy the latest poketch next time we're in town!" Dawn noted quickly in her head. She just laughed it off and began walking towards the lake.
"Remember Sakura, Don't move a muscle!" Dawn called out behind her.
"Don't worry, I won't!" Sakura shouted back, eagerly amused by Dawn's Poketch Coin-toss feature
After about 10 minutes, Paul returned with a load of logs in his hands. He settled them by the fire and looked at Sakura, then around the camp, then at Sakura again.
"You." He said to the girl, too careless to even acknowledge her name. "Where's Dawn?"
Sakura pointed her finger towards the direction Dawn headed, without even keeping her eyes off the poketch. Paul brushed it off and walked towards the direction the girl pointed.
"Wee! This is so fun!" Sakura shouted with glee as Paul left, referring to the amusing coin game.
"I should ask for one when-" Sakura began but was cut off by a screeching scream.
"AHHH!! GO AWAY! YOU PERVERT! GET OUT, PAUL! GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!"
Sakura looked up from the small device just in time for Paul to come running out, completely red in the face. He looked at Sakura and gave her an angry glare, causing Sakura's spine to shiver but she just let out a laugh instead "Heehee! You're as red as a Cherri berry!"
"Why you-"Paul began but was cut off by huge stomping feet, approaching quickly behind him. Dawn appeared behind him, soaking wet from head to toe, her clothes wrinkled. You could tell she slipped them on quickly. Her hat was clutched in her hands, her hair soaking wet, not even put back in clips.
"H-H-HOW DARE YOU! I WAS TAKING A BATH AND YOU JUST WALKED IN ON ME! DIDN'T SAKURA TELL YOU?!" Dawn fumed as her eyes turned a flaming red.
"LIKE I KNEW! ALL SHE DID WAS POINT TOWARDS YOUR DIRECTION AND I JUST ASSUMED-!"
"A-Assume what?!" Dawn screamed back, her tone becoming less aggressive and more embarrassed. "That I would be naked?! To get a good look?! "
"No! GOD! "Paul shouted back, sitting down next to the fire.
Dawn gave him an angry glare and sat down next to Sakura, helping her getting changed back into her freshly cleaned dress. But as Dawn did, her mind kept returning to the memory.
--Flash Back--
Dawn poured more water onto her body, completely washing out all of the suds.
"Alright now, I better return to the camp soon." She said to herself as she walked out of the lake and reached for a towel.
Just then, Paul walked in and saw her, nude. His eyes widened and for a few seconds, Dawn just stood there as her mind processed the situation.
"AHHH!! GO AWAY! YOU PERVERT!! GET OUT, PAUL! GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!" Dawn screamed into realization, flushed with the deepest red you could imagine.
Dawn turned red just thinking about it. She brushed Sakura's hair after it dried, hoping to calm herself down.
"Kya!! I'm so embarrassed!" Dawn cried in her head as she looked towards Paul, who seemed just as embarrassed. "I can't believe he saw me naked!"
Dawn set the brush down on the grass and stared at the fire, deep in thought.
"I know that I'm only ten and that I really shouldn't have anything to hide but still!" Dawn shouted in her head, but the thing was Dawn actually was one of the few girls her age that did have something to hide.
"Damn it! Damn my body and its early developing!" Dawn cursed in her head as she hung her head low.
"I don't get it! Hmmm, what's wrong with seeing someone naked?" Sakura naively asked, causing both Dawn and Paul to jump up, completely red.
"S-Sakura!" Dawn began, completely startled by her topic chose.
"What! I wanna know! Mommy and Daddy see me naked all the time!" Sakura whined, completely and totally naïve on how delicate the topic was.
"T-T-That's different!" Dawn began, looking over at Paul, who had shut his eyes, annoyed. Sakura tilted her head to the side in
an I-don't-understand gesture.
"Y-Y-Y-You see," Dawn began, stuttering on every word. "Only people who you really love and trust should see you er...um…well you know! Your parents will probably explain it when you're older!" Dawn rushed in a sentence, not completely excited on explaining such a thing to a five year-old.
"UGH! No, they won't! Cause the last time I asked them something, they said that 'They'd tell me when I'm older'!" Sakura complained. She paused for a moment, and then looked at Paul and Dawn with hope.
"Hey! Maybe you guys can tell me!" Sakura rejoiced, happy to think of a way to find out whatever she wanted to know.
"Leave me out of it." Paul said, completely annoyed. He was still, however, recovering from the little peep-session he had with Dawn a while ago. Dawn shot him an annoyed look and turned her attention back to Sakura, who was eager to ask the question.
"Okay…" Dawn sighed, "What is it?"
"Yay! Okay, well, it'll make sense if I tell you the whole story!"
Sakura's eyes snapped opened as she awoke from her dream. Well of course it was hard for her to sleep; her father had just come back from another region! She was anxiously awaiting the next day, were they'd all go do something fun together!
She tried to go back to sleep but she just couldn't! She looked out her window and noticed how dark it still was; she sighed and rolled out of bed. She took a look around her bedroom, filled with stuffed pokemon dolls and such. Her pikachu night-lamp gave the room a yellowish tint in the moonlight, which made it easy for Sakura to reach her door. She walked into a huge hallway and ran across the red carpeting and into a big bathroom.
Inside the bathroom was a shower/bath with pink poke ball patterns splattered across, a white porcelain toilet with a cute pokemon seat cover, and a white sink. Smiling, Sakura stepped on a small set of yellow stairs to reach the sink.
She filled up her wailmer mug and walked down. Yes, the girl did have her own bathroom since her parent's had their own in their own room. Sakura was really happy with it though, that meant she could decorate it any way she could!
After gently closing the door behind her, Sakura, with cup in hand, began walking down the huge hallway towards her room until she heard a noise. Curious, Sakura walked towards her parents' door and heard the noise again, they she heard her mother spoke:
"Ugh, Honey. I don't think this is such a good idea."
"Hmm? Really? You're the one who practically begged for it." She heard her father smirk.
"What! You're the one who practically grabbed me after Sakura went to bed!"Her mother began but was cut off by her father.
"Shh! You're going to wake Sakura if you're going to be so loud!"
"Humph. Fine, I'll try to be quieter."
Sakura took her ear off the door and returned to her room, laughing quietly to herself.
"Heehee! Mommy and Daddy are just so silly!" She whispered to herself in between giggles. Sakura closed her bedroom behind herself and set the mug on her nightstand. She laid herself in bed and instantly fell back to sleep. Completely oblivious to how naïve she was.
Sakura finished her story and looked at Dawn and Paul with eager ears. However, Paul and Dawn both had EXTREMELY red faces when she finished.
"Okay so, what did Mommy and Daddy mean? I asked but they turned all red and stuff! Hey! Just like you two are now!" Sakura laughed, causing the Dawn and Paul to blush even harder.
"U-Um S-Sakura, that's something you really need to talk to your parents about." Dawn stuttered, she really did not want to give the child the starly and the combee talk!
"B-But they won't tell me! I really wanna know!" Sakura whined.
"Hmm, I'll tell her." Paul stated bluntly.
Dawn shot Paul a worried look and mouthed 'Go.Easy.' Paul looked back at her and smirked.
"Sakura, do you know were babies come from?" He smirked. Dawn gasped her jaw wide open.
"NOT THAT APPROACH!" Dawn screamed at him, wrangling his neck. He was NOT going to scar a poor child so early on in her life!
"Uh huh! Mommy and Daddy said that I came from Mommy's tummy!" Sakura happily answered, completely unaware of Dawn's outburst. She thought it was now just normal for Dawn and Paul to fight.
"Do you know how you got in your mommy's tummy?" Paul managed to say through Dawn's "death-choke". This caused Dawn to grow even more furious as she wrangled him even harder.
"H-Huh?" Sakura asked.
"THAT'S IT! I'M TAKING CONTROL OF THIS TOPIC!" Dawn yelled as she threw Paul to the ground and instantly containing her composure as she faced Sakura.
"Sakura sweetie. What your Mommy and Daddy were doing is something very special that two people do when they're in love and it's also very a private and delicate matter." Dawn said gently, aiming the last few words in a harsh tone towards Paul.
Sakura giggled, "Okay, that's all I wanted to know!"
"Thank GodDawn thought as she wiped her forehead that had been sweating.
"Whatever. I'm going to bed." Paul said as he sat himself up against a log and closed his eyes.
"Sakura, I think it's time for you to go to bed too." Dawn said as she pulled out her sleeping bag from her bag.
"How many things do you have in there?!" Paul shouted in astonishment.
"Just about everything, even a ten-" Dawn gasped.
"Oh God. Here we go." Paul smirked, Sakura sighed as she knew what was coming next.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT I LEFT BEHIND MY TENT!"
That took longer than I thought! I guess I won't be able to update my other story until next time but oh well!
Paul: Was it really necessary to write that about Sakura's parents?!
Me: Write what?
Dawn: (sighs and points to Sakura's story)
Me: Oh! HAHA! Um, no I guess not…
Dawn and Paul: Then why add it!?
Me: Cause it would be hilarious! There's a reason why this story is rated T! I tried to down-play it a lot; I mean c'mon, lemons are just the grossest things ever!
Dawn: Then why were you blackmailing Paul about writing that fic?
Me: Oh, I was just playing with him (giggles).
Paul: WHAT!
Me: Who wants birthday cake!
Dawn: Oh OH! I DO I DO!
Me: Until next time and please review! (hands cake out to reader)