Hey everyone Toadettegirl2012 here and I'm back with another wonderful fanfiction! And as you know this is the 11th month of the year, and that means Thanksgiving! The only holiday I get to pig out on a whole bunch of mash potatoes, corn bread, turkey and other super yummy Thanksgiving foods! I love November not only because of Thanksgiving but also because my birthday is in November! It's in the last month of November and I'll be one year older so happy birthday to me and stuff! So I get turkey, birthday cake, and presents in the same week awesome! Anyway you guys have no idea how hard it was for me to write the fanfic for November, I mean I legitly changed my idea like eight times before settling on this one. But anyway enough talk; it's time to read this Holiday Fun fanfic! Enjoy!

Five Things

By: Toadettegirl2012

(Eleventh fanfic in the Holiday Fun Collection)

Summary: It's Thanksgiving and Cilan invites both Ash and Iris to Striaton Café for a Thanksgiving Feast! But what was supposed to be a peaceful evening chowing down on food with friends (and many annoying fan girls) it quickly gets turned into a night of romance after a little paper turkey with five things is read aloud. Negiashipping! Eleventh fanfic in the Holiday Fun Collection!

Ages: Iris: 15 Ash: 15 Cilan: 18 Chilli: 18 Cress:18

It was November. Brightly colored autumn leaves covered the cold hard ground that was barren from it's green grass, taking it's place were scruffy patches of stiff brown grass. The trees no longer had leaves and their bare branches creaked in the wind as cold November air blew by. And even though it was rather dreary and dead looking outside the sun still poked it's way through the small amount of clouds that were in the blue sky. It's bright rays of light living up the atmosphere and it was a good thing to since it was Thanksgiving after all.

In the Pokémon Center in Striaton City a certain raven haired teen was in his room rummaged through his backpack.

"Aw, man!" Ash groaned as he tossed his backpack aside and looked down at the few articles of clothing that he had dumped out onto the bed, "I can't believe this is all Mom packed!"

Pikachu jumped up onto the bed and started poking through the clothes, (You pjs, two pairs of jeans, three pairs underwear,) the electric mouse snickered as he held up one of his trainer's underpants

"Give me that," Ash demanded, snatching the pair from Pikachu and the two other pairs of underpants off the bed

(She also packed you some socks-Oh hey look here's a shirt!)Pikachu held up a black t-shirt, but then the Electric Mouse Pokémon quickly held it at arm's length with a look of disgust on his face, "PU! I don't think you want to wear this shirt, Ash, ugh it reeks like BO!"

"Ugh, that means the only other shirt I have to wear is this stupid sweater!" Ash groaned as he glared down at the sweater that was lying on the bed.

The sweater had white sleeves, the rest of the sweater was a solid red and had falling yellow leaves decorating it. Ash remembered when had tried it on the other day; his mother had said it was supposed to match the colors of the leaves outside which didn't make any sense because most of the leaves outside were brown and all dried up. She also said that wearing the sweater made the raven haired teen "charming", but in Ash's opinion he thought it was plain ugly.

"I swear I packed another shirt so I didn't have to wear this sweater," Ash said as he looked through his backpack again, only to find that there weren't any more articles of clothing in it, he then groaned in frustration and tossed the backpack across the room, "crap, Mom must of switched out that extra shirt I packed, with this sweater when she was upstairs in my room!"

(Geez, your Mom really wants you to wear that sweater) Pikachu said with a snicker (luckily for me I'm a Pokémon, and I don't have to worry about wearing ugly sweaters!)

"Oh shut up," Ash grumbled as he started to remove the shirt he was wearing, seeing that he had no choice but to wear the sweater, "the only reason Mom wanted me to wear this thing in the first place was because she said I had to look presentable,"

This being Mrs. Ketchum's only reason for packing her son this sweater was because Cilan had invited Ash to come to Striaton city. This was because Cilan wanted Ash to come and to the Striaton Café for the Thanksgiving Feast that him and his brothers were going to be hosting.

"I mean I'm just going to go and eat at the Striaton Café," Ash said as he pulled on a pair of jeans, "I don't see why I have to look presentable,"

(Well there's also the fact that Cilan also invited Iris to the Thanksgiving Feast,) Pikachu informed, (you want to look presentable for Iris don't you?)

Ash blushed a bit, knowing that Pikachu was the only one that knew about the special feelings he had towards the dragon loving Unovaian (tg2012: I guess that's what you call people from Unova…I guess) "Well…yeah but couldn't I've worn any other sweater? This thing makes me look like a little kid!" but just as those words left his mouth Ash couldn't help but feel a smile tug at the corners of my lips, "and that's probably exactly what she's going to call me when she sees me wearing this,"

As the raven haired teen thought about his purple haired friend he couldn't help but blush. Her chocolate brown skin, her long, silky, royal purple hair and those big dark brown eyes of hers. Those eyes, Ash could remember that every time she'd looked up at him with her pretty eyes, he'd always freeze in his place. And then his face would grow warm as those pretty eyes were always paired up with her beautiful one of a kind smile. Ash had this crush on one of his best female friends ever since they had traveled in Unova together, and even though he wouldn't ever admit it out loud Ash thought Iris was the prettiest girl he'd ever met. When he had traveled in Unova with Iris he wanted to tell her how he felt about her he'd always chicken out!

'I still want to tell her, I just don't know how,' Ash thought, 'I mean being around her makes me nervous and I just can't talk to her right'

(Well, now that I've seen it a second time) Pikachu said snapping Ash from his thoughts, (the sweater doesn't look that bad)

"You really think so, buddy?" Ash asked as he adjusted it slightly

(…Okay, it still looks ugly) Pikachu admitted, (but hey, it was either the sweater or the BO smelling-shirt)

"Ugh, Mom owes me big time for making me wear this sweater" Ash said as he shoved all of the clothes on the bed into his backpack

(Well there's nothing you can do about it now) Pikachu said as he hoped on Ash's shoulder, and then swiped off his hat

"Hey, Pikachu, give my hat back," Ash said reaching for it

Pikachu pulled it out of his reach, (You already look bad enough in that sweater) the electric mouse tossed the hat on the bed, (at least take you hat off so you don't look tacky)

"Ugh, you sound just like, Mom," Ash groaned as they left the room

(Hey, I promised your Mom that I'd look after you, before we left for Striaton City) Pikachu said with a smile, (I'm a Pokémon of my word and don't like breaking my promises,)

"Yeah, whatever," Ash said as they exited the Pokémon Center

As the two stepped out into the cool November air, Ash couldn't help but let a shiver run down his spine.

"Geez, what happened to the weather?" the raven haired teen asked as he rubbed his arms, "it was a lot warmer yesterday,"

(Yeah,) Pikachu agreed as he snuggled closer to Ash's neck, (this is why I hate November, it can never make it's mind up on what the weather's going to be like! It could be warm one day, and then cold the next and then it could decide to rain outside…)

Ash zoned out on his Pokémon's talking as he looked up towards the blue sky. He squinted against the glare of the sun as he thought about the purple haired girl that was supposed to arrive at the city soon.

'I wonder where Iris is?" Ash thought, knowing that he had come to Striation city two days earlier in hopes of battling Cilan and his two brothers, 'She said she'd be coming on the day of the Thanksgiving Feast, but she hasn't shown up yet,' quickly Ash glanced over to a street clock, it read 11:00, 'the feast is supposed to start at noon…'

"I wonderwhy she's not here yet," Ash mumbled aloud

(Ash, will you stop it?) the sound of Pikachu's voice made Ash jump slightly, (Iris will get here when she gets here,)

"Yeah I know i-it's just that…" Ash started, his face grew warm a bit as he started walking, "Iris said s-she's meet me in at the Striaton Café and now…"

(Ash we haven't even gotten to the Striaton Café yet) Pikachu said, (and besides Iris isn't the type of person to stand you up)

"Really?" Ash asked with a smile

(Yeah, even if you are a little kid) Pikachu said with a snicker

"Pikachu," Ash scolded

Up in the sky a large Dragonite flew over the woods, on it's back a girl with long royal purple hair held on tightly.

"Come on Dragonite, can't you go any faster?" Iris asked as the wind whipped and blew her ponytail hair style around

(No) Dragonite answered in his gruff tone

"Draognite, don't be lazy," Iris said, "Your wings are powerful enough for you to fly close to the speed of sound! So please go faster!"

(If I do, Axew will start complaining again,) Dragonite said as he continued to flap his wings at a steady pace, (he keeps saying that when I fly faster the wind makes him cold,)

"Axew, could you stop acting like such a little kid?" Iris asked to her mass of violet hair, where her Tusk Pokémon was hiding, "a little bit of wind won't kill you,"

(But the cold will!) Axew informed poking his head out of Iris's hair (and besides I don't know why your calling me a little kid, you're the one who's screaming every time a cold wind blows,)

Iris sweatdropped, "Well…so what, you have my hair to hide in to stay warm," she shivered as a cool wind blew by, "and all I have is this dress!"

Iris looked down at the dress she had picked out for her trip to Striation City. The dress was a honey yellow color. The skirt part of the dress was made out of material that was flowy and swished as Dragonite flew and the wind blew, the dress reached down to her knees. The dress had a slider white belt around the middle that was fascine with a small red leaf shaped buckle. The dress was long sleeves but the sleeves sat half way up her shoulders which allowed most of them to be exposed. The u shaped collar of the dress dipped down and stopped just at above Iris's breast and it had a pretty design of falling red leaves on the yellow material of the dress.

(Tg2012: normally I would do Iris's hair, but this time it's in it's normal style cause…IDK it just works…plus her hair ties match her dress I guess….meh I'm not much of a fashion person :p)

Normal the dress had always been too big on Iris which had always frustrated her. But thankfully when Iris had tried it on the night before it had fit her perfectly.

'And it's a good thing too, I was going crazy looking for something nice to wear for this Thanksgiving Feast Cilan invited me to,' Iris thought, 'I have to look nice for Thanksgiving, plus…Ash's going to be there-'

(Hey, Iris do you still want me to fly faster?) Dragonite asked, snapping Iris away from her thoughts

"Um, yeah, besides we can't be late," Iris answered

Dragontie flapped his wings and accelerated through the air; the purple haired teen couldn't help but let out a yelp as cold air rushed at her. Quickly she pressed her body as close as she could against Dragonite back to protect herself from the cold wind.

"Oh, I wish I didn't have to wear this dress," Iris grumbled as she shivered

(Then why did you wear it?) Axew asked from her mass of hair

"Be-Because…I-I have t-to look nice…it's Thanksgiving," Iris quickly answered, forgetting that Axew was in her hair

(You spent all of last night going through your closet and out of all your clothes you have you chose to wear this dress?) Axew question, (you could of worn your normal outfit)

"Yes, but like I said…I have to look nice for Thanksgiving," Iris said again

(Oh yeah right, Iris) Axew said, knowing his trainer's real motive for wearing the yellow dress, (you only wore it too look nice for you little crush, Ash!)

"Axew, shut up!" Iris snapped her cheeks growing warm as she blushed, "so what if I wanted to look nice, it's a girl thing you should know that by now!"

(Yeah, but does "looking nice" include, throwing have your closet on the floor in a panic frenzy?) Axew asked with a smirk

"Well…no, but so what! I overreacted yesterday!" Iris said defensively, "I worked really hard looking for this dress, and I just hope Ash likes it,"

(Ha, I knew you wanted to look nice for your crush!) Dragonite, who had been listing the whole time, said with a smirk

"Guys, will you stop it?!" Iris yelled at her two dragon types, "Besides the dress looked so much warmer on the hanger," both Pokémon just snickered

'I hope Ash likes my dress,' Iris thought pushing her flying hair out of her face, 'I spent so much time looking for it last night-oh I hope this ride doesn't wrinkle it! AH! What about my hair, the wind will make it look like a Pidove was living in it! Ugh, I should of brought my hair brush,' but then the purple haired teen just heaved a sigh, and gave a small smile as she shook her head somewhat, 'oh...what am I worrying about…Ash won't care what I look like. He'll be so focused on the food at the Thanksgiving Feast that he probably wouldn't care even if I wore a paper bag over my head! Ash, he's such a little kid…well a cute little kid…'

A cute little kid that Iris had certain feelings for. His tan skin, his jet black hair that stuck out in every which direction, those playful amber eyes, his funny z marked cheeks and that always friendly and charming smile. Ash Ketchum, he was the little kid Iris had fallen for the day he had pegged her in the head with a poke ball. Just the thought of her crush made her stomach all jumpy and her cheeks to turn bright pink with blush, but being around him was even worse. She's always stumble about, act horribly clumsy and totally embarrass herself!

'Ash is a great guy and he's an awesome friend,' Iris dreamily thought as the image of her raven haired friend entered her mind, 'he's so friendly, outgoing and so easy to talk to…well except when it comes to romance. When it comes to that topic he's as dense as a brick wall!' Iris couldn't help but sigh, 'I mean…I want to tell him I like him, but should what do? I do just come out and say: "Hey Ash I have a major big crush on you!"…UGH! That SOUNDS SO STUPID-"

"Pidove dove pidove!"

Iris suddenly let out a screech of surprise as a flock of migrating Pidove flew by. Being startled by the loud sound the flock of Tiny Pigeon Pokémon all scattered in different directions in a panic. In their hurry the gray feathers of the flying type Pokémon were shed and they rained down on Iris's head.

(Geez, thanks for screaming right in my ear Iris,) Dragonite muttered as he gave his trainer an annoyed look

"S-Sorry those Pidove…they just startled me," Iris said swiping the Pidove feathers that were in her hair and on her dress, she looked up and saw another flock of them coming but as she was about to shout at them, she smiled, and pointed, "Hey, looks like finally made it to Striation City!"

(That's a relief) Axew said as he popped out of Iris's hair, as the forest Dragonite was flying over broke into the large city of Striaton, (the soon we get to the ground the sooner we can head to a Pokémon Center to warm up,)

"No, Axew, we're not going to a Pokemon Center," Iris informed, "Dragonite, drop us off at the Stration Café, okay?"

(How come?) Dragonite asked, even though he knew the answer to that question

Iris blushed, "Well…y-you know…'cause I promised Ash I-I meet him there," she stammered

(Oh really, you did?) Axew asked in a teasing tone

"Yes, I did! And you two know that! So shut up!" Iris snapped, puffing her cheeks out in embarrassment, "I'm already late so…so hurry up! I can't leave Ash waiting forever!"

(We wouldn't have to be late if you hadn't accidently called Ash and accidently asked him to meet up with him at the Striation Café!) Axew said rolling his eyes

"Axew!" Iris snapped

(Hey, it was your fault that it happened,) Dragonite added, with a smirk

"Dragonite!" Iris whined, her face was bright red from blush, "I said it was an accident! Really it was!" but she slumped over anime style in defeat, knowing that there was nothing she could do to keep her two Pokémon from laughing.

Iris's face reddened as both her Pokémon laughed, about the incident that had happened three nights ago. That was the night Cilan had called and invited her to the Thanksgiving Feast, her connoisseur friend had told her the place and date but had forgotten to tell her the time in which the feast would he held. When the purple haired teen went to go to call Cilan back, instead of hitting his name on the video phone caller ID she had accidently hit her crush's name by accident!

Normally the simplest way to fix this problem would be to just press the little red end call button, but Iris was freaking out so much about the mistake she had made by the time this thought reached her mind Ash's face had appeared on the video screen. The purple haired teen's next move should have been to tell Ash that she had called the wrong number and hang up, but as soon as Ash gave a smile and greeted her in his friendly way, she just froze and her mind went blank.

She would of just sat there looking like an idiot if Ash hadn't started chatting away like the cute little kid that he was. It wasn't until Ash asked how she was doing is when Iris said something, she couldn't remembered what she had said (since she was focusing on making sure he didn't notice how hard she was blushing) but she must of mention something about the time of Cilan's Thanksgiving Feast. Because the next thing she knew Ash asked her if she wanted to join him and Pikachu in going to Striation, since he was heading there the next morning, but Iris, out of embarrassment, declined his offer. But after seeing how disappointed her crush seemed when she said no, she promised she would meet him in front of the Striation Café, on the day of Thanksgiving Feast.

'Meeting Ash at the Striation Café, wouldn't have been a bad idea, I mean spending a little time with Ash before the feast would be awesome' Iris thought blushing, 'but I totally messed it up since I overslept this morning and now was running late-' but then before Iris could finish her thought she heard a familiar voice

"Hey, Iris!" Iris smiled as she looked down at the ground and spotted her raven haired friend

He was standing right in the middle of the street, with that huge cute grin on his face, and waving his arms trying to get her attention, Ash hardly seemed to care that people were staring at him. Pikachu, who was perched on his shoulder, was hiding his face in embarrassment.

(Hey, look it's Ash and Pikachu,) Axew said snickering at Pikachu's embarrassed face

(Yeah, it's that little kid, which you have such a big crush on Iris,) Dragonite muttered, as he smirked at Ash's childish actions

"Yup that Ash, the only person I know who would be so much of a little kid to stand in the middle of the street and wave his hands around like a maniac, and not give a care," Iris laughed as she waved down to him.

(Okay, Ash, you can stop now) Pikachu muttered, (she seeing you, Iris sees you, so you stop with the arm waving now)

"Yeah, I know she sees me," Ash said as he watched Iris's Dragonite descend from the sky

(Then will you stop waving arms around?) Pikachu asked grabbing on of his trainer's flailing arms, (you look stupid!)

Ash opened his mouth to argue over that comment but he deiced against it as Dragonite landed on the ground.

"Hey, Ash," Iris called, from Dragonite's back she smiled and waved, "happy Thanksgiving!"

"Happy Thanksgiving to you to Iris!" Ash replied running up, he smiled up at his purple haired crush who was sitting up high on her powerful Dragonite, "and great to see that you could make it!"

(Hey what about me and Dragonite?) Axew asked, as he jumped out of Iris's head and onto Dragonite's head

(Yeah, what are we chopped liver?) Dragonite asked as he crossed his arms over his chest

"Oh guys don't be like that," Iris said to her two dragon types. She then turned to Ash and smiled, "sorry we were kinda late, Ash,"

(We wouldn't have been late if someone wasn't up all night freaking out about what she was going to wear) Axew muttered under his breath

(Yeah and then slept right through her alarm,) Dragonite finished

"You guys!" Iris said in embarrassment

"Oh, so you overslept," Ash asked as he laughed somewhat

"Yeah," Iris answered her cheeks turning pink, "but it doesn't matter because I'm here now!"

Ash watched as his purple haired crush carefully slid off Dragonite's back and landed on the ground, "Thanks for the lift, Dragonite," Iris said giving a quick hug to her large dragon type Pokemon

(Your welcome but, you owe me for waking me up and asking me to fly all the way to Striation city on such short notice) Dragonite huffed

"Yeah, I know," Iris said as Axew hopped down from Dragonite's head and landed on her shoulder, "I promise, I'll have Cilan make you a huge batch of those specialty dragon type Poke Puffs, and give them to you as a reward, okay,"

(Sounds reasonable enough) Dragonite said with a nod of his head

"Good," she took out Draogonite's pokeball, "return Dragonite,"

(So you flew from the Village of Dragons all the way here to Striaton City, on Dragonite's back?) Pikachu asked as Dragonite was zapped back into his red and white orb

(Yeah, we did) Axew confirmed, (and trust me it wasn't fun, it's freezing up there in the sky!)

"Yeah and the wind makes it even colder," Iris said as she rubbed her arms

"Iris, you didn't have to ride on Dragonite if you didn't want to be cold," Ash said to his shivering friend

"I-I know," Iris said as she blew warm air on her cold hands, "but I didn't w-want to be late, I promised I'd meet you here in front of the Striation Café," she indicated to the large building in that was labeled The Striation Café in which they were standing in front of, "I didn't want to make you wait-"

"Oh I wouldn't have minded if I had to wait," Ash said with a smile, "I'm very patient person,"

(Ha! Ash if you were a very patient person, then that would make me green!) Pikachu laughed

"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Ash asked his electric type Pokemon

"Ash, Pikachu does has a point," Iris said as she couldn't help but giggle, "you're the lest patient person I know!"

"So, I can be patient when I want to be," Ash said, slight offended by his Pikachu's comment

"Ash, I was just kidding," Iris said as she rolled her brown eyes, "you can be such a little kid sometime-OH!"

Suddenly a strong cool November blew by, whipping up the skirt of the honey yellow dress she was wearing. Iris gave a yelp of embarrassment as she quickly slapped her hands down on her dress to keep everyone from seeing what was underneath.

"Wow the wind sure is strong," Ash said

(Brr, and cold!) Axew said as he retreated into Iris's mass of purple hair

"Yeah, and it's exactly the reason why I don't like wearing dresses," Iris said as she let go of her dress know that the wind had passed, her cheeks pink with embarrassment.

(Then will you please explain to me, again, why you spent all night looking for this dress to wear?) Axew muttered popping head out of her hair

Knowing that her Pokemon already knew the answer to that, she ignored his comment. She then shivered, "Um since both of us a-are here now uh do you think we c-can we go in-inside now? You know to get out of the cold?"

"Yeah, that be a good idea," Ash said

The small group approached the café, when Ash and Iris got in front of the door they both reached for th door handle. The two gasped slightly as their hands met at the door handle, the touch of the other's hand made them both jerk away like they had been shocked by electricity.

"Er…um so-sorry I-I was just…" Iris stammered, her heart doubling in speed

"No, i-it's fine, you c-can go first…" Ash stuttered his face growing warm

They both stared at each other for a moment, forgetting all about the cool weather outside. Axew and Pikachu looked at each and rolled their eyes.

(Will one of you just please open the door?) Pikachu asked, slightly irritated, (we didn't come to just stand here and stare at one another)

(Yeah, for Arecus sake open the door, it's cold out here!) Axew added

"Y-Yeah, Axew's right it's not getting any warmer out here," Iris said as she hugged her arms close to her body and made a small squealing sound as a small gust of cold air blew by

(Ash, you heard the women open the door!) Pikachu whispered in Ash's ear as he poked him in the head

"Alright, okay, the door I got it," Ash muttered, he reached for the door handle and opened the door; he gave a lopsided smile at Iris, "um after you, Iris,"

The purple haired teen smiled, "Why thank you Ash," she said politely

Yeah I know this is a werid place to stop but I ran out of time and figured I'd have to split this fanfic up into chapters...so yeah

Bye: Toadettegirl2012

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