Pokeshipping Week 2024 - Day 1
- In-universe Pokéshippers / Meeting the parents/relatives + FANFIC below
I have this idea since the day I watched the last Kalos arc episode and saw “kasumiso” flowers on the front view of screenshot when Ash comes home. Misty met him after Hoenn, why wouldn’t she do it again? But what if this time Pikachu won’t jump into her arms when she awaits it? And what could it be that would prevent Pikachu from such expected behavior? Answers are on the picture. And if you want more, I have more! After avoiding writing fanfics using English for many years, I’ve overcame myself to share a bit more pokeshipping ideas with you today. I hope, you’ll enjoy it. And if you find that something sound strange or tenses are wrong, please, tell me, I’ll fix it at least on DA. And I’m sorry in advance, English isn’t my native language and I didn’t fully mastered it yet.
It took her only a moment to understand what would happen next - quick enough to allow her to react, move down her hands to avoid THAT embarrassing situation, and look… stupid! Actually, how else could it look?! She, with welcoming smile, had opened her arms and suddenly changed her mind?! Never! She isn’t some silly girl with wind in her head, she is a gym leader after all and she doesn’t take her promises back even if they are result of total misunderstanding! She grabbed all her will to stay calm. Even if Ash ignored her, it would be his fault! Not that she secretly wanted to hug him after missing him for so long, not at all!
“Just a welcome-back-to-Kanto hugs…”She whispered turning her head to the left not to look into Ash’s face - it would be too hard to stay calm then!
Unexpectedly for herself she heard Ash stopped.
“Region’s welcoming… Are you okay if I…”his voice sounded tentatively, but the more time it took the more Misty was certain that she could not bear her embarassment any second longer!
“Yes, yes! Go ahead!”She interrupted him impatiently trying to sound as brave as possible. “I won’t stay here forever!”
Ash happily smiled and made step closer.
“If it’s you I would allow even a kiss…” she added in her thoughts just to feel warm kiss on her check next moment.
“What?”She was completely confused.
“What?” Ash was surprised by her reaction as well.
“What…”Misty only heard only the first word of Mrs. Ketchum speech before getting lost in avalanche of her own thought.
“Don’t be silly, Misty” she told herself “It is Ash Ketchum. Doing this he didn’t mean anything serious. He never think deeply about his actions. It just another misunderstanding. Don’t be naive.” But louder than her thoughts she heard her unwantedly excited heartbeat.
Meanwhile dragging her son by one ear - as Misty often did with Brock - Mrs. Ketchum disappeared in nearest room.
When Misty came to her senses, she spent few moments to remember to where they left and didn’t find anything better than following them.
Ash sat at the sofa and looked like scolded Seel.
“I’m sorry, Misty” he said “I had to ensure you’ve understood what I’m going to do…” It sounded more like Mrs. Ketchum words, but he apologized and it was enough. She thought so before he added one more phrase. “It is Kalos tradition…”
“Of course, something that usual.” only hearing her own voice Misty realized that she had felt more offended than before she entered the room. “Bianca, Melody and someone in Kalos I suppose… Nothing special, really, for friendly mister Ketchum”
“No! That’s different!” Ash jumped up from his seat. His mother quietly but quickly left the room. “The tradition is to wish a very good luck to the one you treasure when you say hello or goodbye. Melody, for example, treasured me as she thought I was a Chosen One. But I never did it from me to someone! Before today…”
Misty turned away. He didn’t saw her expression and didn’t know what to expect when she suddenly turned back and rushed to him. Justified cuff on the nape? He screwed up his eyes, but felt soft touch on his check instead. Moment later Misty already stood at some distance not looking at him.
“You are an idiot, Ash Ketchum…” she whispered as if she was saying it to herself, but by her tone Ash understood that the incident was over and now everything went back to how it was before. Or not? Deep and bright happiness filled up whole his existence from the check to every cell of his body.
“I should not doubt my intuition,, just recently I thought this idea flared in my mind on the escalator was a failure, but now I’m really happy that coincidences allowed to realize it!”
He didn’t say it out loud, so the Misty was the one who broke becoming weird silence.
“We’ve cooked some crockets. You love them. Let’s go while they are still hot.”
“We?” Ash was in a good mood again, and some silly jokes were what they really needed to defuse the tension.
“Do you plan to kill me by poison?”
“I plan to kill you by my hands if you remind me about that episode from our journey one more time!”
“And your mom controlled every step, so don’t worry…” Misty added after small pause.
“Oh, she can! Sometimes I think she has a power to control even every coincidence inside our house!”
And they hurried to a kitchen not realizing how true Ash’s last phrase was.
