Kite flew out of his bed covers and unsheathed the knife he had under his pillow. His entire body was covered in sweat. He was breathing heavily. He looked around and saw nobody was in the room with him; even Dean's bed was empty. He looked at the clock and saw it was eight in the morning. He dropped the knife and tried to control his breathing.

The nightmares have been getting worse. They feel more real each and every time.

There was a knock on his door. Kite sighed, pulled himself out of bed and walked over to the door open it.

He opened it up to find a very concerned looking May. Over the past two days the girls had usually used Kites room instead of their smaller room to hang out in.

"What's up May?" He said while trying not to look her in the eye. He failed miserably.

"I heard you yell…you sounded in pain"

I yelled in my nightmare? That's new

"I uhhh…fell off my bed" He lied.

"Oh, well since you're up, would you like to head to the gym with me? I hate working out alone, usually Ash goes with me, but I think he still has a hangover from last night." Kite grinned at the memory. That guy could not hold his alcohol for crap. He looked down at May again. Part of him was telling him to slam the door in her face. The other half of him was telling him not to hate someone based on who they looked liked. That side one.

"Ok sure, let me get changed" He flipped on the light to his room, Giving May a better view of his face. She gasped when she saw his eye color. His entire Iris was snow white with tiny flecks of grey. As she focused on it, she suddenly thought that his eyes could have been carved from diamonds. Kite quickly closed his eyes.

"Sorry" He managed.

"Kite your eyes are..." May started to say.

"Look you're not the first person to tell me my eyes are unsettling"

"…beautiful" She finished. Kite opened his eyes and looked at her. He could tell she was telling the truth. She smiled.

"I've never seen eyes like that, you shouldn't be ashamed."

Kite stared at her.

The way she said that….it's almost like...

"Kite are you ok?"

"What?"

"There's a tear in your eye"

Kite jerked his hand up and felt a wet stain on his cheek. He quickly wiped it off.

"It's umm…I've never been told that" He lied. May smiled.

"Well I think you have pretty eyes"

Kite smiled. It was a genuine smile.

"Thanks May….I'll be out in a moment."

A few moments later, Kite came back out dressed in shorts and a plain T-shirt.

"Shall we?"

May smiled and began walking but she noticed something about Kite

"Why are your eyes blue now?"

"Contacts, not everyone likes my eyes" He said in a tone that also told May to drop it. May shrugged and opened the door. The two of them began walking down the hallway.

"So when do you think Ash is going to wake up from his hangover?" May asked.

"Hell if I know, he passed out after only one margarita"

"But didn't Sange spike his drink with whiskey?" May was still getting used to the talking Lucario. He usually spent his time making sarcastic remarks to everyone or was out getting drunk in some part of the ship.

"I don't have a clue what he did, but the point still stands that Ash can't handle his booze"

"What about you?"

"I hate alcohol"

They arrived at the gym and Kite pulled open the door for May. They Ships gym was a large open room with a running track and small soccer field. The room was deserted, except for A man and Pokémon in the middle of the soccer field.

"Is that Dean?....fighting a Blaziken?" May said. Kite looked over and sure enough he saw Dean sparring with his Blaziken. The two of them walked closer towards them. May looked a little concerned.

"Isn't sparring with him kind of dangerous?"

Kite laughed "The two of them spar all the time, and for all of Blaziken speed and power, Dean still has the upper hand"

May gave him a quizzical look "How does that work?"

Kite gestured to the two of them "Watch young lass"

Dean was in the process of staring down his Blaziken. His Blaziken was crouched down in to a fighting stance, yet he was still taller that Dean. Dean was standing with his arms at his side. Quickly his Blaziken launched towards him and unleashed a flurry of punches and kicks. May's jaw dropped as Dean, without even moving a foot away from were he was standing, dodge every blow effortlessly.

"Show off…" Kite muttered. "Now May, watch closely, you're about to see something very few have seen"

"What?"

"Shh, just watch"

Blaziken jumped backwards but then quickly pulled back his fist to ready a massive strike. Blaziken's fist shot forward. May almost let out as a scream as it descended towards Dean. In a single quick move, Dean held up a single finger in the fists path. The next part caused May's jaw to drop as Blaziken's fist connected with his finger. She had expected for Deans hand to practically crumple under the force of the Fire Pokémon's fist.

It stopped its fist in the air. Even more, Blaziken appeared to be in pain. Dean smiled, backed away and bowed. Blaziken did the same.

"Good try my friend, but you still have much to learn"

"Blaze.." The Blaziken then let out a sound that could have been a sigh. He sat down and started to massage his knuckles.

"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?" May yelled. Dean spun around took one look at May and got angry.

"KITE!"

"Yeah?" He said in a voice that was laced with amusement.

"WHY DID YOU TAKE HER DOWN HERE WHEN YOU KNEW I WAS TRAINING"

"I didn't know you were training"

"SHE SAW ME USE FOCUS!" He yelled pointing at May.

"Focus?" May asked dumbfounded.

"You we're practicing in a public place, quit getting all angry about it" He turned to May "Deans a martial artist, what you just saw must not be discussed to anyone"

"Ummm…I don't think anyone will believe me anyways" She said managing a small laugh. "But can you tell me what just happened?"

"Nope, I don't even know how to explain it, Dean keeps to himself about it" Kite looked over at his friend who was busy talking to Blaziken.

"Don't you have a Blaziken?"

"Yup, He was my first Pokémon, Started way back as just a Torchic. We've both grown a lot since then" She said with a smile. "I originally didn't want anything to do with Pokémon…but that changed quick"

Kite walked over and sat down on a bench, May sat next to him.

"What changed it?"

"Well when I started traveling with Ash he showed me what it was all about and how to care for your Pokémon…"

"Sounds like Ash really helped you out"

May seemed to blush for a moment "well yeah he did…"

Kite smiled. He was actually enjoying his time with May. In contrast to what he thought would be a relationship built on Kite not looking her in the eye and avoiding her every chance he got, it was quickly becoming a fast friendship.

Maybe I was wrong judging her because she looks like Gene…

Time to bring on the embarrassment shit-storm, He thought to himself.

"I'm glad he helped you May, sounds like you two would make a good couple"

May just stared at him for probably half a second or two.

5…..4….3….2….1….hey look she just evolved into a tomato……wait….uh oh.

"WE ARE NOT A COUPLE" She screamed. Kite covered his ears as the vocal tornado crashed over him.

"Who's not a couple May?" Came a voice from near the door. The two of them turned around to see Ash with a pair of gym shorts and a plain basketball jersey on. May turned a deeper shade of red, much to Kites surprise. He had at first thought she was just turning red from anger…but he know thought it was from something else…

May started sputtering complete nonsense "I uhhh…well see, here…uhhh…workout with kite and durrr….umm….Ahhhh" May would have continued if not for someone else entering their conversation. Someone with a large yellow straw hat.

"Hey Kite; I haven't seen you down here before" Kite turned to see Kiri. She was wearing a long white dress that reminded him of a Gardevoir. In fact it could have been an exact copy of what the psychic Pokémon wore.

"First time I've come down here" He said smiling. Beside him, May had managed to return her face color to normal.

"Oh wow! I love your dress!" She exclaimed and moved forward to get a closer look.

"Thank you, Designed it myself. It's mostly for contests but I use it in the tropics because it's made out of light material"

"You're a coordinator too?" May exclaimed.

Kiri adjusted the hat on her head "Yup!"

Kite and Ash watched as the two of them transformed from a 'random stranger' phase of a relationship, to 'best friends forever". Only teenage girls have been able to master that forgotten art. They began talking about everything from Contests, Pokémon, dresses and even Kiri's hat. Then out of the blue May turned towards the two boys.

"I'm going to go top-deck with Kiri for awhile" She quickly grabbed Kiri's arm and began to run off. Kiri waved good bye and ran with her. It was quiet for a few moments.

"What the heck just happened?" ash said.

"That….is what women do Ash…..don't question it…that way lies madness"

Ash shrugged and picked up a towel, he threw it over his shoulder. Kite looked around.

"Hey Ash, fancy a few laps?"