Hi everyone, it's Toadettegirl2012 and I'm back with the next story in the Perfect Together Collection! Sorry it took me so long to post it, it's just that school has been giving me homework up to my eyeballs and I have like no time to type anything up! To be honest I wasn't planning to post this until like late June but people have been sending me tons of PMs and reviews about it so why not and get it posted early? Anyway I hoped you liked Sick with No Cure, it took me like eight months to finish that one, but this one will more than likely be a bit shorter. Any way let me go ahead and get you guys going on this fanfic! Here's the first chapter of Give Me Your Hand! Enjoy!

IMPORTANT: All the fanfics in the Perfect Together Collection follow the same timeline, unlike my Holiday Fun collection, these fanfics are connected to each other…if you don't understand just PM me about it!

Also: Make sure you read the first story in this collection, it's called Sick With No Cure, if you don't this fanfic will be confussing to you! So make sure you read it, please!

Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own Pokémon

Ages:

Ash: 12; Iris:12; Cilan:14 (ages will go up in later fanfics in this collection)

Give Me Your Hand

By:Toadettegirl2012

Chapter 1: A Little Recap

"Ash, Iris! Slow down!" Cilan called up to his two friends.

(Yeah, not everyone has long legs you know!) Axew added as he ran as fast as his short dragon legs could go.

But the two up ahead paid no mind to the connoisseur or the dragon type Pokémon; they were having too much fun. What had started out as playful teasing soon turned into an all-out chase when Iris had swiped Ash's Pokémon League hat from his head.

"Iris give it back!" Ash yelled up to the girl who he was chasing, "I need it!"

Iris laughed and looked over her shoulder, "Do you need it or do you want it?" she giggled as she ran a bit faster.

"IRIS!" Ash said half laughing half yelling.

(Ash, slow down!) Pikachu said to his trainer, the electric mouse Pokémon wasn't used to riding on Ash's shoulder at this intense speed, and he was starting to lose his grip, (If you go any faster I'm gonna-AHHHH) but as he tried to finish his sentence the Pikachu lost his grip on Ash's shoulder and went tumbling backward into the dirt.

"Pikachu are you alright?" Cilan asked as he and Axew caught up with the fallen Pokémon.

(Oh I'm fine) Pikachu said dusting himself off (but they aren't going to be in a few seconds!)

Up ahead Iris had slowed down just enough for Ash to catch up with her, and now she was just having a ball teasing jumping from left to right wearing Ash's hat on her head. While Ash tried to follow each of her darting movements begging for his hat back.

"Iris!" Ash said stopping to catch his breath, "give it back, it's not fair!"

"But Ash it's looks so good on me!" Iris giggled, remembering the last time she had tried it on back at the camp they stated at a few day ago when Ash was sick from stun spore.

Ash smirked, the way his hat sat lopsided on her head looked cute, for the Tree Fairy, "But I look even better in it," he lunged for it, but before Iris could jump out of the way both trainers were halted in their places as a powerful Thunderbolt was unleashed onto them.

"WAHHHHH!" they yelped as the electricity made them glow bright yellow from the powerful electric type attack, before they collapsed to the ground twitching.

"Pikachu!" Cilan said in a slightly scolding tone as he looked down at the electric type Pokémon

(Yeah Pikachu that was an awesome shot!) Axew exclaimed with a giggle (you got those two good!)

"Ugh…Pikachu what was that for?!" Ash asked looking up at his Pokémon who approached him.

Pikachu just gave a snicker (Hey I was just trying to stop you before you made a fool of yourself!) he said as the raven haired boy picked himself off the ground

"Oh stop it Ash and I were just having a bit of fun!" Iris said hopping to her feet, she removed Ash's hat from her head and handed it to him, and started to try to smooth out her now frizzled hair.

"Thanks Iris," Ash said taking the hat and dusting some dirt that was on it

"Are you guys alright?" Cilan inquired seeing how Pikachu Thunderbolt had messed up the trainer's hair

"Yeah we're fine," Ash said

"Well my hair's not," Iris said with a sigh, "it's going to need a major brushing now that Pikachu gave me such an electrifying hairdo!" the dragon type trainer was looking into a puddle that was on the ground and her reflection looked back at her. The image of her hair wasn't very pretty, her long ponytail that ran down her back was now looked like the backside a Whismacott was stuck to her head and for her front pigtails there were two giant poof balls!

"Oh great, it's going to take me forever to get it back to normal!" Iris said and then took out her black Drantini brush and started to undo her hair ties franticly.

"I don't understand why girls fuss over their hair so much," Ash muttered, he rubbed his hands through his hair and it quickly went back to its messy style where strands stuck out in every direction and placed his Pokémon league hat back on, "all girls do is stand in front of a mirror for hours on end brushing their hair in 20,000 different ways when all their really doing is wasting time,"

"Actually Ash that's just a stereo type," Cilan informed

"No actually Cilan some girls actually do that," Iris said she had her hair ties slip onto her wrist and was now brushing her mass of hair as a whole, "but that only those super stuck up, bratty, spoiled girls who don't care about anyone but themselves! Ugh, girls like that are such little kids,"

"But Iris you're not stuck up or anything," Ash said as they continued to walk.

"Oh…I know i-it's just never mind…" Ash could see a bit of blush on Iris's cheeks, "I only brush my hair so much so Axew can ride in it and so it doesn't look crazy…but Ash why do you care, you know nothing about hair,"

"Hey, of course I know about hair," Ash protested

Iris laughed, "Ash you don't even comb your hair! That why it's so messy all the time!" Iris said with a laugh as she reached up to ruffle Zigzag face's raven hair, even though he didn't brush it suited the boy perfectly so much so that the Tree Fairy found it cute.

(TG2012: I realized that the word zig zag is actually one word and not two so that is not a typo. So if you're wondering it's now Zigzag face and not Zig Zag face)

"So, what if I don't comb my hair besides what does that have to do with anything?" he asked, pulling away from the Tree Fairy, "beside I like my hair just the way it is!"

Ahead of the two was Cilan, he chuckling to himself, "Those two always find a way to agree about something," he stole a glance over his shoulder to see the trainer's Pokémon walking beside them, Axew and Pikachu seemed rather annoyed by all the useless talking they were doing. The connoisseur then shrugged, 'Well at least it's better than the way argued before,' he thought, which was true a month before those two would sometimes be at each other's throats when they got it into a heated argument about something pointless, now the trainers seemed to have figured out that arguing was pointless, it was just a shame that it took the so long to figure it out though.

Along with the decrees in auguring the two twelve year olds seemed closer in a way and they had the adventure from about a month ago to thank. A month earlier Ash had fallen ill after breathing in Stun Spore, it could have been quickly cleared up if any of them had some Paralyze Heal to cure the boy with, but in the end everyone was glad they hadn't. Over the course of three days Cilan had saw his friends change a bit, he had learned about how Iris was easily panicked when a person grew sick and she didn't know how to help them. As from Ash the connoisseur had learned that he couldn't stand being sick, he hated making people worry about him and he despised medicine! But overall the connoisseur had confirmed that both trainers were attracted to one another and had confessed to each other…in an awkward way, but none the less they did. And now without any secrets to hide everything had turned out nicely for everyone…well besides the Pokémon who got a really bad scolding from their trainers when Cilan had ratted out there little secret keeping to Ash and Iris later on.

The connoisseur made a face; he no longer heard any arguing from his two friends, he glanced over his shoulder; the sight he saw made his chuckle again. Behind the connoisseur was his friends sporting the walking style they had been doing for a while now, Ash and Iris walked side by side, hands extended with their pinkie fingers linked together. Cilan could see the large amount of blush that blotted both trainers cheeks, it was a weird way to show love, but Ash and Iris seemed to be satisfied by it. Cilan watched the sight; they swung their linked pinkies back and forth and occasionally looked up at each other and smile before looking away. The whole time they were oblivious to their Pokémon who were laughing and making faces as they mimicked Ash and Iris's actions, Cilan just shook his head with a smile as he turned his attention back to the map he had in his hands. Over the past few weeks this whole pinkie holding thing had been going on between his friends and he couldn't remember how many times he had caught them with their fingers linked together. He found their fingers linked together when they sat up in a tree together, during lunch when they would hide their hands underneath the table and even sometimes right before bed they would look up at the stars together and then suddenly he spotted them with their pinkies linked. But every time the connoisseur would catch the two with their pinkies linked, they'd get all embarrassed and try to cover it up, especially since he started calling his friends by the term 'love birds' which they really disliked.

Just then a loud rumble came from behind the connoisseur, he sweatdropped as he already knew what that sound was.

"Well I guess that the lunch bell everyone!" Iris said laughing, Cilan turned to see his two friends pinkies were no longer linked, and Iris was laughing while Ash sweatdropped and blushed at how loud his stomach rumbled.

"Sorry…" he muttered, rubbing the back of his head feeling embarrassed as Pikachu and Axew faced palmed

After a bit more of walking the trio found a nice open clearing to settle in for lunch time, being that it was such a warm sunny day Ash and Iris deiced to let their Pokémon out so they could enjoy the weather and have some play time. Axew, Emolga and Scraggy quickly started up a game of pretend where they we're strong and stylish (recommended by Emolga) superheroes who saved the world, while wearing leaf capes they had made for themselves. Snivy and Unfezant sat nearby to chat and watch the younger Pokémon's amusing game. While Pikachu was stealing as many glances as he could at Snivy and hoping that no one would notice while siting and half listening to a disagreement between Pignite and Oshawott on wither poffens or Casteila cones were the better dessert. Snoozing in the warm rays of the sun was Krookodile and Excadrill and lastly beneath the shade of a tree stood Dragontie. As the large orange dragon type watched over his group of friends play, chat…and sleep, he would ever so often glanced up into the branches and leaves of the tree where his purple haired trainer sat up in a branch combing her hair and humming to herself. While a few branches below her the raven haired boy, or Zigzag face Iris would call him at times, sat rummaging through his backpack.

Dragonite started up at the boy, he knew Iris had feelings for him…but what bewildered him was, why, why did his trainer like him so much? It was a question that had lingered in the Pokémon's mind for a quite some time now. Sure the two were 'cute' together and all but for some reason Dragonite felt a bit uncomfortable knowing that his trainer and Pikachu's trainer had certain feelings for one another. He didn't know why he just did.

'Maybe it's just because I don't know Ash very well yet…I haven't learned to trust him like I have Iris…' Dragonite thought and nodded with satisfaction, 'yeah, that's it….to get comfortable with that 'little kid' I just need to get used to him first…' he glanced back up at the boy, then frowned as he pondered how he would do that task.

"There another pigtail done," Iris said happily to herself as she gave a satisficed tug on her left pigtail that sat atop her head, "Only one more," she said referring to the ponytail that ran down her back, just as she started brushing with a her black Drantini brush there was a loud rumbling sound which was quickly followed by a pitiful sounding groan.

Iris looked down and snickered a bit, below her sat a miserable looking Zigzag face who had his hands on his stomach and was sitting limply on the tree branch he was on.

"Ash will you stop that?" Iris said as she brushed, "I know your hungry but you don't have to act like you're dying,"

Ash looked tiredly up at Iris, "But Iris…I am dying!" Iris rolled her eyes as she started to put in her last yellow hair tie, "if I don't eat something soon…I'm going to melt into a pile of…ugh…nothing!" he said with a loud groan.

"Well just grab something from your backpack to munch on," Iris said looking down at Zigzag face.

Iris saw Ash's face redden a bit, "I-I would but…uh…I kinda ran out…so…uh,"

"Oh Ash your such a little kid," Iris laughed, leaping down to the branch Ash was seated on.

"Am not," Ash muttered with a slight pout, but couldn't help but smile again, as much as he disliked it when Iris called him 'a little kid' each time she would it made his heart throb a bit faster and his cheeks warm a bit. His stomach rumbled again, "Ow….oh…can't Cilan cook any faster?" Ash whined holding his stomach.

"I bet he could cook faster," she said sitting beside him, "but the last time I asked him about it he said 'you can't rush perfection'" Iris said while striking a dramatic pose like their connoisseur friend would do.

Ash gave a small smile at the Tree Fairy humor, "Well I'm not asking him to rush perfection I asking Cilan to hurry up!" Ash said in a loud voice in hopes that Cilan would hear.

The purple hair girl laughed, "Well if you that hungry why don't we go find some apples to eat? I remember seeing an apple tree in the woods somewhere,"

Ash sat up with a smiled, "Alright, Iris," he stood up, "let's go!" he started to climb down the tree, but Iris stopped him as she grabbed his wrist.

"No, Ash, your such a little kid, don't you know? The best way to spot apples is by climbing through the tree branches not by walking on the ground," Iris said.

"Well, what's wrong with walking on the ground?" Ash asked sheepishly, knowing that he wasn't the best at running through tree branches

"Nothing's wrong with it, it's just a better way to spot apples, now will you just come on," Iris said tugging on him to follow.

Ash bit his lip, and then nodded with a smile, "Alright let's do it, Iris!" the raven haired boy climbed back up and started following the Tree Fairy who already starting to leap her way through the trees, "hey, Iris if we're going to do this you're way you're gonna have to slow down! Iris!"

"No, you're just going to have to speed up, Ash!" she called over her shoulder

And with that, the sounds of Iris's laughing and Ash's shouts for her to slow down could be heard. The sound made the Pokémon (minus Excadrill and Krookodile who were still fast asleep) look up from their activities, they all smile slightly, since they all knew about the new found love in their traveling group. They all (well except, Emolga, Axew and Scraggy who still had a bit to go before they fully understood love and were having too much fun playing pretend) smiled and snickered, they found it cute that their trainers were spending time with each other.

'It's about time they spend time with each other anyway,' Cilan thought as he continued to make the sandwiches for lunch, 'I told them to go ahead and find some time to "hang out" but thy kept procrastinating…' the connoisseur watched with a smile as his friend's and thier voices drifted off as they ventured deeper into the forest, 'well at least they finally did it,' he chuckled, 'those two lovebirds …they sure are cute together…'

As a new whispering about Ash and Iris started between the Pokémon and throughout the picnic area no one noticed the way Dragonite, who was still standing quietly in the shade, looked in the direction the trainers had gone. And no one noticed how Dragonite gave a nod of his head and with a silent flap of his wings went to follow Ash and Iris.

Well that's the end of the first chapter! Did you like it; sorry for it being a bit short but the next chapter is just about already finished, all I have to do is edit it and I'll posted it sometime this week…if I remember that is…

So until the next chapter

BYE: Toadettegirl2012

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Chapter edited: 6/15/13