Gotta ketchum all: Ash Ketchum Fanfiction~

Chapter 7: 3 Familiar Faces

I wake up earlier than I usually do. I guess all of the excitement from the gym battle is still not gone yet.

I climb out of bed to see ash feeding his pokemon. I decide to feed Finn and Belle too. After I'm done I walk over I Ash to see how he's doing. "Morning!" I exclaim, and he jumps.

"Jesus Val, you scared me. I was just feeding pikachu. Poor little guy, he got fed last today."

"Well he seems happy now." I say, staring at the furry pokemon. Ash gets up and brushes off his knees.
"Hey Val, wanna go take a walk?

"Sure, let me just get my shoes. Hey, where's Misty and Brock?"

"Oh they're out shopping. I figured if they could do something fun, we could too."

"Oh okay, sounds good!" I put on my shoes and we're out the door, leaving our pokemon to eat breakfast.

We walk down the streets of Cerulean city, talking and laughing until we reach the forest. "Shall we?" He asks and points.

"We shall." I enter the forest. It's just as I remembered. We walk for a bit through all of the leaves and bushes, until we got lost.

"Ash, I think we're lost. We've been walking for an hour."

"I think so too... What should we do?"

"Let's try to retrace our steps."

"Okay, sounds good." He says, and we try to go back, only leading us further into the forest.

"Well now what?! We're screwed aren't we ash? I'm going to die here!" I say, crying my eyeballs out. I just really want to get back to my pokemon, and I'm sure Ash feels the same way too.

"Hey, hey, shhhhhhhh. It's ok Val, I'm sure Misty, Brock, and our pokemon are looking for us. It'll be ok." He says as he's rubbing my back. This is one of the reasons why Ash is so amazing. He's always there to put up with you. I really admire that. I'm not patient with people and pokemon at all. I just hug him and sob in his shirt, as he's trying to comfort me.

"Ash."

"What, Val?"

"Why do you put up with me?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well, it's just I'm a pain in the ass sometimes. Okay, a lot of the times. So why haven't you given up on me yet?" He stops hugging me and looks me straight in the eyes.

"I haven't stopped "putting up with you" because I'm not putting up with you at all. You're an amazing person and I have yet to think otherwise." He puts a piece of hair behind my ear and wipes away the tears from under my eyes. He smiles. "Your beautiful." I turn bright red.

"Thanks Ash. Your pretty handsome yourself." I start giggling, and he joins in. About 5 minutes later I start to hear voices calling my name.

"Vallery! Ash!" I recognize the voices, it's Brock and Misty! I start calling out, and so does ash. Soon we spot them. I watch as they come running over to us. We give each other hugs.

"Val, ash, what happened?"

"Well me and Ash went for a walk, and got lost."

"Well at least you're ok. But we have some bad news."

"What happened?" Asked ash, looking worried.

"The pokemon, they've been taken." Right then and there I get really pissed.

"What. Did you say?"

"I said the pokemon got taken." Misty looks down at her feet. "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME YOU AND BROCK WERE FROLICKING AROUND THE CITY LOOKING AT SHIT, WHILE OUR POKEMON WERE TAKEN FROM US?! YOU TWO ARE SO IRRESPONSIBLE IT KILLS ME! CANT YOU JUST STOP LOOKING AT CLOTHES FOR 1 DAY AND WATCH THE DAMN POKEMON?!" I start hyperventilating. "Finn, Belle... My babies. No. I need them back...." I drop to my knees and cry.