Hey guys! New chapter!

Random news, so I'm going to Japan for 1 month this summer! It's gonna be awesomeee!

Luckily I already speak the language, and it was NOT easy to learn.

Anyways, I'm saying this because I bought an apartment for me to stay in a while back and I just got the billing and stuff in today, so I guess that sort of reminded me of this story, so I wrote!Just for you guys! :3

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Oh yeah, and I know Yellow is really OOC, she's normally shy and kinda wimpy I guess, but just go with it! Cool? Cool!

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Chapter 19

2 days later

I stared out the window at the moving world around me. It was dusk in the Sinnoh countryside. Everything was moving so fast; I barely had enough time to focus in on a single object. Things just passed right on by. This kind of reminded me of my life at the moment. Now that I though of it, it hadn't been very long since I moved from Pallet Town. Not even a month. And so much had already happened that I'd barely had any time to simply stay and focus in on one moment. Everything had happened so fast, it was almost unbearable.

I thought back of the life I had to give up. My mom's reaction to when I told her. School, the soccer team, all my friends. Sacrificed for the greater good. These weren't happy thoughts at all.

And then I thought of the incident 2 days ago. Maybe if Brock and Jasmine hadn't forced it upon me to tell her, things would have gone much more smoothly. Speaking of them, they seemed to have been doing just fine. They were going strong. Huh. They were lasting even longer than Dawn and I did. More than one day, at least.

But I had cooled down since that incident. It didn't affect me as much as it did a few days ago. Not that I didn't think about it a lot. I still thought about it, and even then I was thinking about how wrongly it went. And about how Dawn was taking it. Was she thinking of me? Was she as sad as I was? What was she doing?

"Hey…"

Huh? I suddenly escaped my thoughts and averted from looking out the window. It was dark now anyway. I then remembered that I was on a train ride to the "training base". And the person who called my name was none other than the beautiful Yellow. We were the only two in the cabin, and she was sitting across from me. I quickly turned around to see her starting at me, worriedly. How long was she staring at me for? I was looking out the window for quite a while…

She just stared worriedly for quite a while, but then closed her eyes and put on a slight smile.

"Don't worry. She'll come around."

"Huh?" I think I had an idea of what she was talking about, though.

"She'll forgive you. I know she will. In time. Actually, I don't think it will take her all that long to realize. So cheer up."

"H-how do you know all this?" I was still really confused.

I was hard to hold a normal conversation with Yellow. Up to then, I could pretty much only ask questions. I guess that's because I considered her to be my superior in every single way. She was my mission partner. She was an extremely talented trainer already. By far the best I'd ever seen. She was also very beautiful. And smarter than me, for sure. I treated her as if she was some sort of noble class, I guess. And I don't even know why.

"Hm." She looked out the window, still smiling. "Woman's instinct? Just trust me on this one, Ash." She looked down and blushed. "No woman in her right mind would pass you up so easily."

Huh? I leaned forward to try and get a better look at her face that was pointed downward. Her eyes were closed and she remained smiling. Red blush marks were visible below her eyes. She…

"GAH!" She immediately retaliated after opening her eyes and seeing my face so close.

"WHOA! SORRY! Sorry!" I apologized.

"I-it's nothing." She waved me off nervously. "No problem. N-no, n-no…"

What the heck. This girl was strange. She seems almost adult-like, mature, wise, all of the above and below. But sometimes, just around me, she acts strange. Like right now. My face wasn't all that close. Anyone else wouldn't have reacted so strangely. I had a hunch… nah, that couldn't be it. She's a professional, after all.

"By the way," she added, still retaliating and avoiding eye contact with me, "you should check your phone. It might be worth your while." She cracked a small smile.

I tilted my head at her, and decided to do what she said. I pulled out my piece-of-crap phone (I never really was big on cell phones) and, sure enough, to my amazement, 1 new message.

"You'll learn to trust my instincts as my partner, even when they don't make sense. Hehe." She giggled with her hand to her mouth.

GAH. Now was not the time for her to be cute and stuff. And what the heck was she talking about.

I scrolled my way to my inbox. The message was from some unknown number. It read: "We need to talk. Urgent. Get off at the next stop."

Hmm. Who could it be from? Well, whoever it was, they knew I was on the train. Probably someone from the council.

"Hey, how far 'till…"

"About 4 minutes from now" Yellow cut me off.

"Wha… how did you…"

"Hehe. Now do you see why you should 'trust my instincts'?"

Man. She was some girl.

So, as the train stopped at the next stop, I got up to get off. Yellow followed. I couldn't really stop her, and I kinda wanted her to come, just because I didn't know what heck was going on.

"Excuse me," I addressed one of the crewmembers. "How long before the train starts going again?"

"15 minutes." He replied sternly. I had to remember that everyone aboard this train was professional and experienced. I was pretty much the only person going who was a newbie, for the time being.

"Thank you very much."

I got off the train and sat on a nearby bench. I didn't know who or where I was meeting; I just assumed the person would come for me. Yellow didn't follow, however. She leaned nearby the train, watching me sitting on occasion, otherwise just staring down the tracks.

I sat there for about 5 minutes, waiting. I was sort of sceptical; I always thought someone would be behind me. But no one ever was. Until finally, I could hear heavy breathing behind me. I turned around to see someone hooded in an ugly, brown robe. It seemed like water was leaking out of the hood, and it was dripping all over me.

"GWAH!" I quickly scooted over. It actually didn't feel like water. I didn't know what the hell it was.

"S-sorry." A familiar, queasy, female voice notified me that this girl was crying. I could see a strand of pinkish hair. Who did I know that had pink hair?

Before I knew it, the person jumped onto me, causing me to fall down and lie across the bench. Finally, her hood fell off and I was able to see her face.

IT WAS DAWN! But, she had pink hair! Why? No matter, she was bawling her eyes out. She began lightly (almost desperately) punching me in the chest and sobbing.

"Ummm…" I didn't know what to say. I looked over to see Yellow staring, confused. She met my gaze and quickly looked away, blushing, but smiling, once again.

"Y-you, y-you, y-you…" I didn't know what to do here. I couldn't hold her close like I wanted to, because she was punching, um, no, more like tapping is how you would describe it, at my chest, so I just lay there and let her speak.

"Y-you…idiot." She said that last word so softly. I didn't expect her to say that. "W-why? Why did y-you leave m-me? Couldn't you s-see that I was i-in pain? Waahhh!"

She was crying and sobbing like crazy. "Dawn, you basically shut me down the other day. You said I could never be trusted."

"Ash! You don't understand! I-I didn't mean w-what I said! I d-didn't want to say a-any of it! I was told t-to say it!"

"What?" Even Yellow turned fast and not-so-secretively eavesdropped in on what was going on.

"Y-yeah. Ash, that night you left my house, someone came into my room at night. They said they were from the council. They explained everything to me. Your mission, everything. I knew about it at about the same time that you found out."

"So you already knew?" I couldn't believe this.

"They t-told me convincing you to g-go would be much easier if w-we broke up. At first I refused, they even offered me money, but t-then…" her voice became queasy again, "t-they threatened me. They said it was for the greater good, so I had no choice to accept. I thought it was the right thing."

"IMPOSSIBLE!" Yellow blurted out and approached us.

"Oh, you m-must be Y-yellow!" Dawn smiled. "Nice to meet you!"

Yellow was confused at a point, but then continued. "Someone from the council would NEVER do that!"

"I know that now…" Dawn mumbled.

"Huh?" Yellow and I both didn't understand.

"Last night, she came into my dream. The same one from your dream. She explained to me how that wasn't them. She explained how it must have been a work of Team Galactic trying to weaken you emotionally."

"I knew it!" Yellow exclaimed.

"Wait wait! But the girl from my dream said that I had to choose! I had to choose between being trainer and having a girlfriend!"

"I know…" Dawn replied, to my astonishment. "…But that was because she didn't think that I'd believe you. But now that I'm actually a PART of this, there's no way I couldn't believe!"

"Oh! Wait, you're a part of this? Does that mean…"

She smiled at me. "Yup. * sniff *. Since I know everything, she asked me to come along. I'm becoming one of your travelling companions, too!"

I caught Yellow roll her eyes from my peripheral vision. I don't know whether she was annoyed to now have TWO amateurs with her, or something else… NAH! Like I said, she was a professional.

"They've got spies everywhere, Ash!" Dawn continued. "I was told to dye my hair just in order to find you and talk to you about this! They'd recognize me! Apparently I'm well-known around Galactic!"

Ah. So that's why her hair is pink. It looks nice on her.

"Ash…" She began crying again. "I-I'm sorry! I-I didn't m-mean anything that I s-said! Of c-course I t-trust you!" She snuggled in closer, her tears beginning to fall. Jeez, we were still lying on this stupid bench. "I w-would never over-react like that honestly! A-and I would n-never accuse y-you of cheating so e-easily! E-especially after j-just one day!"

She snuggled in as close as possible, her tears now wetting my jacket. "I'm sorry, s-sorry, sorry…"

"Hey…" I whispered, and laid a kiss on the top of her head "Let's get back on that train now. And we'll get your hair back to normal in no time."

She nodded and I picked her up.

"Hm." Yellow mumbled. "I told you, didn't I, Ash? Soon enough?"

"Yeah, yeah, trust your instincts, don't rub it in…"

Yellow giggled.

I loved this. Yellow was an awesome, experienced, somewhat strange for some reason, trainer that I was excited to learn from. And now that I'd gotten my girl back, and she was coming along, everything was perfect. For now.

God knows what troubles were ahead on my journey as a trainer.

We sat back down on the train, now three in the cabin. It was completely dark outside when it left. Dawn was sleeping on my shoulder, tired from her long day of stress and crying.

"Hey, Yellow?"

"Hm?"

"Why do you carry that sword around with you? On your back?"

It's something I had noticed from the start, but was way to afraid to say anything about it.

"Oh this? Hm. It's been in my family for generations. It's a scimitar. Very quick, very powerful. You two'll probably end up getting swords of your own when you become good enough trainers. Whenever you fight evil organizations, it always goes further beyond pokemon battles, know that."

"O-oh!"

Yellow could obviously see the look of worry on my face, as she placed her hand on my shoulder.

"Hehe. Don't worry. You've got me. I'll train you…" she paused to look at Dawn, and lowered her head. "…both of you… to become the best possible trainers you can."

"Ha! Thanks, Yellow."

What a strange woman indeed.