"Thanks for returning the book Dawn."

"Hey, it really helped." Ash made his way to leave for Dawn's tent.

"Wait Dawn." Ash turned around, "Can we talk for a minute", Ash made his way to sit around the campfire.

"Whats up?"

Brock knew it was late, so he decided to cut to the chase. "Dawn you have been acting really weird. Especially around Ash, do you have a crush on him?"

"Brock where is this coming from?"

"It is just something I have noticed since the beginning of the journey." The beginning? Ash thought, he now became a bit more interested. "I have noticed you have been acting really strange since yesterday."

"Like how?" Ash was wondering what Brock was thinking, since he had no idea how Dawn may have had a crush on him since the beginning of his Sinnoh adventure.

"Well lately, you have been acting like Ash. Such as getting an Ash amount portion for meals-"

"Ha, no I mean, well, start from the beginning."

"Okay?" a little confused, "well, how about that night we met Nando."

"Oh"

"And the times when you dress up for Ash's gym battles."

"Oh"

"And the time when-"

"Okay I get it."

"So..."

"What? I don't know. To be honest, I don't feel like myself." Ash got up, a thought entered his head that he had never thought of before, "Brock is Dawn better than Misty or May?"

"Well Brock doesn't know the answer to this question as well" Brock was confused as to why Dawn would talk about herself in third person, but decided to go with it. "But Brock thinks you should think about it. Night" he went off to his own tent leaving Ash alone.

Ash spent time outside thinking for a while, does Dawn have a crush on him. No that can't be it. She has always been supportive, but a friend kind of supportive. Right?

Brock was up already making food for everyone including the pokemon. Dawn woke up next.

"Your up bright and early aren't you Ash, that's a first." Brock mused.

"I'm just trying to put my best foot forward."

"Morning guys." and out came Ash along with a sleepy yawn.

"Whoa Dawn!" Brock actually stood as he shouted this, Ash came out with extreme bed head.

"What?"

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOUR DOING!" Dawn was hopping mad. She paused and looked around, all the pokemon just stared at her. "Yo-Your hair. Its messy, don't you always keep it groomed. Always!" she stressed the last always.

"My hair? Don't worry", he put on Dawn's white beanie. "There fixed", he sat down to eat. Dawn went over, got him up, and dragged him around a few trees.

"What are you doing! Could you at least act like me! Even Brock is getting suspicious!" Dawn came at him.

"Sorry! It's hard you know. I keep forgetting I'm you. It would help if you acted more like me!" he came back.

"Well lets not let it happen again. Now go fix yourself up." They both left a little mad at the other, and joined everyone.

Ash but on an overly perky smile."Sorry guys, let me get myself cleaned up" He went into the tent.

"Dawn sure is...up this morning" observed Brock.

"Um yeah, I guess she is." said Dawn wondering what Ash was up to.

"Excuse me guys!" Ash came back out wearing nothing but a towel, and carrying a few toiletries. Brock turned red and turned away. Dawn was white with horror. How dare he!

"Hey Brock where was that stream again." She came towards Brock and leaned over towards him a bit.

Brock turned even redder and leaned away still not looking in his direction. "I-It's ov-over th-there" He pointed away from him.

"Thank you" he made sure to say it extra high pitched. As he skipped away.

"That was..." Brock couldn't even finish that sentence. Dawn was still in shock. There was an awkwardness silence that followed lasting as long as Ash's bath, and when he came back.

"Okay guys its time to eat." Ash sat down smiling an fake, over exaggerated, happy smile toward Dawn.

"Um sure" Brock went over to get the food. "OH NO!"

"What happened?"

"I accidentally let the food burn, really bad." Brock brought it out to show them.

"Well put it on my plate I will eat it anyway." Dawn came over with her plate.

"You sure?" Brock was a little skeptical of giving away such burned up food.

"Oh why throw it away when I can, and will, eat everything"She helped herself from the food held by Brock. And made her way to eat it in the most messy way ever seen, even swinub stopped eating to stare and disgusted Ash.

"How does it taste Ash?" Brock asked a little scared to even ask the question, much less here a response.

"Oh wait hold on a moment" Dawn went over to a nearby tree and relieved himself, "much better" and went back to eating.

"Won't you even wash your hands!" shouted Brock.

"Why? There is no time to waste while I desperately try to become a pokemon master."

Ash took Dawn around the corner this time.

"Truce?"

"Fine." Dawn replied after a long time. They both returned to camp.

"Well now that...I'm not quite sure what happened. But now that it is over. Shouldn't you be training for the next gym battle and contest." Brock said.

"Right!" Both of them agreed.

Dawn reluctantly went over to Ash's pokemon, not quite sure what to do with them, and Dawn's pokemon gathered around Ash, with buneary holding a sketch book.

"What's this for?" Ash took the sketch book from buneary. He looked it over and saw costume designs and ideas for new combinations. Obviously today was a day for Dawn to think up new things for contests, her pokemon were awaiting orders. "Okay...Let's try contest battling for a bit. You guys pair up and I will check up with you in a minute, one of you be a referee or something." Ash went back to looking over the sketch book he was a little interested in it and ended up giving his full attention to it. The pokemon were not used to this lax training and just played around with each other instead.

Over with Dawn, instead of training their attacks and speed, she trained them on how to appear pretty and look good. This conflicted the pokemon about everything they know, but who were they to refuse orders. Dawn looked over in Ash's direction, shocked that her pokemon were having a free day and saw Ash drawing something in her booklet. She had forgot about that booklet. She went over to Ash to see what he was drawing.

"That better be something productive."

Ash looked up and quickly closed the book. "Of course it is."

Dawn snatched the book and opened it. She was appalled by what she saw.

"What the hell were you drawing!" She showed him what he was drawing. It was a giant tyranitar getting attacked by a group of togekiss as though they were fighter airplanes, while torterras were attacking from the ground as though they were tanks with random pokemon running away from the scene.

Ash started fidgeting, "I got bored."

The group finally packed up and went on the road again.

"Oh Brock we need to head toward Snowpoint city" Dawn announced.

"I thought you wanted to try Sunyshore city next"

"Well I did, but I thought it would be better to head that way. I hear there are more contests that way. For Dawn of course."

"If you say so. Any objections Dawn?"

"None over here"

The group then changed their course at a fork in the road. The traveling was pleasant but then it became dark.

"Looks like this might be a good place to camp" said Brock. As soon as everyone put down their stuff they heard a voice.

"Hey over there!" It was Kenny. He was walking up to them.

"Kenny?" said Dawn.

"Hey Ash, hey Brock." he replied. He went over to Ash. "Hey Dee Dee, did you miss me?"

Ash looked a little awkward to being treated with this special attention from a guy. "Hey Kenny, what's up?"

"Oh nothing just heading up to the next contest in the nearest town. You as well?" he was a little confused that she didn't get mad this time, it only meant one thing...

Dawn felt a little relieved to be in Ash's body. She liked Kenny only as a friend, but sometimes he can be so attentive to her and only her, he felt a little bad for Ash, as Kenny was getting his flirt on.

"Well if you would excuse me, I have to tend to my pokemon." Ash said.

"Do you need some help?" He continued to follow him.

Does Dawn go through this all the time. "No thanks it really isn't a two person job, and it builds trust between trainer and pokemon."

Everyone set up camp and enjoyed Brock's cooking, nothing burned this time. When Ash went over to the pokemon. Kenny began talking to Dawn and Brock.

"Guys I know its really obvious, but I like Dawn. How could I, you know, get her" he was a little embarrassed to saw this.

Dawn squirmed as he heard this, she never thought she would be talking about this.

"I really don't know how to custumize my profile on this site. so i use author notes to let the readers know about me and my thoughts, it might be in bad form to do this, if people dont like it, dont read author notes. It could be worse though. I honestly don't prefer stories that have the author making comments during the fic especially when they aren't in it. I did say earlier i like to keep some canon. no offense to you writers who do this. I am thinking of writing an oc fic, but doing it differently. Most i have read start the same as the game or anime. But the world of pokemon is big and there are many options to follow, i would like some originality in my fics. If I do make it will you check it out, and give an honest opinion of whether it's got a chance of being succesful?"

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