AN: Hey guys! I have another chapter! This chapter idea came to me very quickly, which made me happy(: anyways, this chapter is a little different. It's not told from Ash's POV, or Gary's POV. This person I made a little… violent to one other character, and she swears like a sailor (a combo of a friend and I haha). Like, she says the word fuck a lot. So if you're not comfortable with this character abusing the word fuck, then you can suck it up and deal. Get it? Got it? Good(:

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokémon. I only own the plot idea.

CHAPTER 7 ~ HAUNTED PART UNO

TOUKO POV -

I hate Iris so much right now, it's not even funny. I want to be back in Unova, hanging out with Cress, Cilan, and Chili. Don't get me wrong, Sinnoh is a nice region. But the mountain through the middle (Mount Coronet?), it's lack of urban sprawl, and it's set-up isn't something I prefer. Plus, the routes here are labeled really weirdly. Like, we're walking down Route 202. Are there 201 other routes in the region or something? Seriously. Plus, these Pokémon are so weird. This little plant bud attacked us (A Budew I think), and then some stupid brown rat/beaver thing walked by (A Bidoof?), looking clueless. I don't get this region! Why did Iris bring me if she knew I fucking hate change?!

"We're almost there guys. We should be approaching Sandgem Town in a minute - that's where he said he lives. Or at least, I think."

"CHEREN!" I screamed. "HOW THE HELL DO YOU NOT KNOW!"

He winced. "Because he didn't give me a definite location yet! I don't know if he's moved in yet!"

"Hey, look!" Touya, my idiotic twin brother, said, pointing towards a building with a familiar sprawling layout, and a huge field behind it. "A Pokémon Lab. Let's go ask the Professor and see if they can give us to directions to Ash's house!" He started sprinting towards the building. I shook my head. A fucking idiot, like I said.

When we all caught up with him, and had regained our breath, Iris reached up and knocked the door. Touya stood on my left, Cheren on my right. Iris was in front of us naturally. We waited for a few heartbeats before a "HOLD ON! I'LL BE RIGHT THERE!" carried through the door.

When the door opened up, I almost gasped. The guy was tall, with brown spiky hair, and leaf green eyes. He had on a white lab coat, with reading glasses, and some Pokémon standing at it's feet, cheerfully crying, "EEVEE!" I elbowed Cheren hard in the ribs.

"Ow!" he breathed. "What was that for Touko?"

"That's him. That's our guy. That guy that Ash was talking about." Cheren's head whipped around to stare at the guy, and then gave a barely perceptible nod.

"Yeah, that's him."

While we were talking, Iris had been talking with the Professor, trying to get out of him where Ash was. When she said his name, his breathing faltered for a second, and then he said, "I have no idea who you're talking about. Now if you'll excuse me, I have resea-"

"Lies!" Iris exclaimed. She proceeded to argue with the brunette about where our friend was. I ignored the conversation, about to pick up my conversation with Cheren again when I caught sight of my brother. He was unfocused, and his eyes had a funny look to them. Oh shit, not again. Not here, not now Touya! I pinched him in the arm hard, and he hissed in pain, glaring at me. I smirked. Then we heard Iris say, "Finally! About damn time you told me where he is. Thank you so much Professor!" With that, she turned and proceeded to walk to Ash's house… which was next door.

As soon as we were out of the young Professor's sight, I gave Touya a huge slap to the back of the head. "STOP FUCKING THINKING ABOUT N!" He looked at me, and I huffed, stomping ahead of him. When we reached his house, we stopped. But somehow in 5 seconds, Touya got all wrapped up in his thoughts about N again, and didn't notice we stopped. He crashed into my back, knocking me forward into Cheren, who fell on Iris, knocking us all into the ground. "YOU LITTLE!" I said, getting really pissed off with that little shit faster than normal. "JUST YOU WAIT -" I was cut off by a familiar laugh.

"ASH!" Iris squealed, shoving Cheren off of her and sprinting to squish Ash into oblivion. Cheren and I snickered at Ash's horrified expression.

"Why are you guys here? I mean, I'd love the company, but seriously, I didn't get to give you all my address? How did you find my house?" He looked incredulous.

"Because we're totally awesome like that," came my response as I smirked at the coal-haired boy and flicked my hair with my hand. He smiled, and said, "Why don't you guys come in?" We all walked in, but Touya was still standing there, lost in thought. "Oh my fucking Arceus," I muttered, about to smack him harder than ever, when Cheren grabbed my arms. Ash walked up to Touya calmly, and snapped his fingers in his face. Touya's eyes focused again.

"Oh, we're going inside? Oops…" he turned a bit pink in the face, and it was so hard to restrain myself. I almost broke free of Cheren's grasp when his arm wrapped around my waist to drag me into Ash's living room.

"You need to stay calm and focused Touko. You said that to all of us, and yet, you're not doing either of those."

I huffed. "You know why I'm not doing that. Touya won't fucking stop thinking about N and probably imagining them making out or something like that!" Cheren's face twisted into one of disgust, and he shook his head, muttering something that sounded like too much information. I smirked, and that's when the rest of our party and our gracious host decided to show up.

Once we were all sitting, Ash said, "So, why are you all here? And why didn't Cilan or-" I cut him off with a glare, so he wouldn't say that name. "Where's Cilan?" he corrected himself.

"Cilan decided that four people was too many, and wanted to stay back. He'll come visit you eventually. 'It' isn't here so he," I pointed to my idiot brother, "would focus while we were here. And we're here cause why not? We wanted to come say hi and tour the region a bit." Ash nodded. An uncomfortable silence ensued, until Iris said something that completely broke it.

"So who's the professor next door?"

Ash's face turned bright pink, and it would put a Alomomola to shame. "Uhm, I don't know, I just moved in today. I haven't had a chance to meet anyone yet." I knew he was lying. He was avoiding all our eyes, especially me and Cheren's eyes. I felt a small tap on my back. Cheren was telling me that the professor definitely was our guy. I smirked at him.

"Stop lying Ash." He started to protest, but I cut him off. "I know you're lying." I glanced over at my brother, and he was fucking zoning out again. Holy shit, he must be fucking suicidal or some shit, cause he knows I'll kill him. I gave him another smack, this time to the front of his face.

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR!" he screamed.

"PAY FUCKING ATTENTION!" I roared.

"Hey, Touko, calm down. Here, do you want to battle? That is, if Ash doesn't mind at all, of course." Ash had no objections as usual, and then Cheren, being the genius I know he is, said, "Why don't you referee Ash?" Without waiting for a response, Cheren grabbed my arm and dragged me out Ash's front door.

"Lets go battle on Route 201?" Ash suggested once he was outside. Cheren and I both nodded.

While we were walking to a spot that Ash knew was good for battling, he asked us, "So what's going on between you two? You guys seem even closer than before."

I looked sideways at Cheren, my eyes asking for permission to tell the coal haired boy. He nodded, and I took a deep breath. "Alright. I'll tell you, but you have to keep your trap firmly shut about this. We're keeping it a secret, and we want it to stay that way." Ash nodded his head yes, and made a motion similar to zipping his lips. I fucking snorted at that. Then, I said, "Cheren and I may or may not be dating at the moment."

"WHAT?! No way, you're lying to me." Our faces must have told him we weren't, cause he said, "Oh Arceus you guys aren't freaking lying." He looked back at us and said, "You guys can, like, you know… hold hands or something if you want. I don't care. I mean, I know now so you don't have to hide it from me."

I felt Cheren's hand slip into mine and lace our fingers together, and I smiled at him. He's grown up a lot since the day we both began our journeys with our other friend, Bianca. You can get N to ask Cheren's Serperior if you don't believe me. He really has.

After our battle, which I won of course, we sat down in the grassy field that Ash found for our battle. All three of us did. I turned to Ash and said, "So what's the real deal with you and that professor next door?"

When Ash hesitated, Cheren spoke up. "You can trust us, you know. We're not going to tell anyone if you don't want us too. I doubt Touya would be listening anyways." When he mentioned my brother, his arm snaked around my waist and pulled me closer to him, and I rested my head on his shoulder comfortably.

After another few seconds of silence, he let out a huge breath. "Alright, I'll tell you. I'm not sure if you guys know, but that's him. Like, the guy I was talking about."

"We figured that much out when we stopped to ask where your house is when it was fucking right next door."

"Hah, really? Anyways, well, I spent a few days at his house cause my mom refused to send me my stuff and I needed furniture. The first day we kinda spent catching up about all the years we had missed in each other's lives, and kinda just spending time together, as friends. Oh yeah, and I went running around his house and almost fell cause he was 'chasing' me and he had to grab me to make sure I didn't smash my face in and that was pretty awkward. He got pretty pissed though when he found out that I didn't have any furniture and that we should have been looking for that instead, but whatever. But then, that night, I had nightmares about that," Ash visibly shuddered, and I frowned, "and I ended going up to sleep in his bed with him." His cheeks flushed. "I mean, nothing really happened, unless you count me somehow rolling over in my sleep and holding onto him like he was my damn lifeline, then yes, something may have happened." I was shocked. Wow, I guess Cheren looked shocked too cause Ash laughed. "That day we went furniture shopping. Gary thought I was getting the oak wood furniture because of him." He snorted. "As if. I'll have you know that I do like oak wood furniture, because it reminds me of the furniture in my room at home in Kanto. That evening was terrible though." I raised one eyebrow questioningly at that. It seemed to be going really well - what went wrong? "I was being an idiot, and decided to walk backwards through Gary's front door, where his Umbreon was waiting to ambush and trip me, and then Eevee, who ironically is the daughter of Umbreon and Pikachu, tripped Gary and he fell right on top of me. I did something extremely stupid and I don't want to say what I did, but I got out of there faster than a Charmander runs from a Squirtle's water gun attack. I spent the whole afternoon up there, because I thought he would kick me out after what I did, because he didn't like me like I did. I fell asleep and then he woke me up for dinner eventually. It was all awkward and silent until we had a small fight in the kitchen afterwords, and then I ended up crying somehow and then he was hugging me and it lasted for Arceus knows how long and it was amazing." His face flushed even brighter, if that was possible. "And then today happened. I got up before him, a miracle I know, and was ready before he was even up. I went on a Pikachu hunt because I had no idea where he was at the time, and my search ended up taking me to his room. I told him that my furniture was in and that I was leaving, and that I wanted a proper goodbye before I left. He said that he'd give me one after he took a shower, and then my mind went there. Like, N and Touya there. Like, I have no idea what the hell happened. Then I was pacing down in his living room waiting to say bye and I was muttering to myself I guess and he heard everything and then it escalated so quickly from there. He heard me say that… he heard me say that I was practically in love with him." He ducked his head, and I could see he was about to cry. "He ended up pinning me against a wall, literally centimeters from my face at one point. He even whispered stuff in my ear which gave me goosebumps, and that scared me. And then I had to fully admit to him that I liked him, and he just stood there speechless. Not wanting to hear him say the words, I shoved him and ran to my house, where I just let it out. And that's all so far."

I was speechless too. And then I reached over and lightly smacked Ash in the face. He looked at me like, what the fuck was that for? I said, "You idiot! He totally likes you. He was being nice and everything! Plus, when Iris mentioned your name, his breathing faltered for a second, and he immediately denied knowing you. It was quite funny." I smirked. "But he likes you. I can tell. You need to tell him Ash."

Cheren said, "I second that. As you were telling us what happened, I was analyzing Gary's behavior in my head, and concluded he totally likes you too."

I nudged Cheren with my shoulder. "Please don't go all geeky on our asses again, please?" He looked hurt, but was somewhat smiling, so I knew he didn't take it too seriously.

"I don't want to." Ash said quietly, and I frowned slightly.

"I have an idea." Cheren said. "How about Touko and I go over to talk to him? Get his story. Maybe bring Iris with us, because she managed to get where you lived out of him."

"Bring me with you guys where?"

"IRIS!" Ash screamed, horrified. "How much did you hear?!"

"Nothing, except Cheren's idea. Who's him?"

Ash let out a huge sigh and let his face fall into his hands. "Alright, but you have to swear like these two not to repeat a word I say or I will have to hurt you or something."

"I promise." came Iris' reply.

"OH MY FREAKING ARCEUS ASH YOU ARE SO DENSE!" Iris screeched, slapping Ash in the face also.

"What is it with people slapping each other today?" Cheren grumbled, and I lightly smacked his arm, smirking at him. He rolled his eyes dramatically.

"So let me get this straight. Cheren, Touko, and I are now going to go over to visit this Gary guy and get out of him how he feels about Ash, right?"

"Right," I said, nodding.

"Alright. Come on guys, we have some serious shit that needs to happen right now."

AN: Alright, this chapter is going to be in two parts, cause it seriously ran away from me. Therefore, there will be no song in this half, but there will be in the next half.

I will be answering reviews down here from now on.

Oh, and I don't have swim practices on Wednesdays, so I may be able to write a chapter on Saturdays, and then edit it and have it done to be posted Wednesdays when I come home from school!
So, some drama ensues. I told you guys Touko would be violent and would swear a lot(:

Here's a list of the side pairings I intend to reference in this story: Touko/WhitexCheren (Cheren has grown up a lot so Touko started to like him, and they ended up dating); NxTouya/Black (cause I freaking felt like it); IrisxCilan (I have no idea why but I want to, and its my story, so I will do as I damn please)

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Oh, and who else has been watching the National Zoo's Panda Cams as diligently as the can to see the cub? I know I have(:

I'll see y'all next week with the second half to this chapter!

Much love!

~ Shadows

6XxBladeXx9 ~ don't worry, it made me laugh too, when I went back and re-read it again(: and yes you did get mentioned(: ikr? Ash, he loooooves youuu come back to him(: the Ash monologue came out of nowhere. I had planned for the roles to be switched up until the wall part, but I decided the way I wrote it made much more sense. And thank you, you are too (: