Name Notes!

Wataru is Lance

Ibuki is Clair

You Dummy!

"Excuse me? Have you seen Wataru? The Elite Four leader?" Ibuki of Blackthorn City asked the nurse Joy of her town.

"Oh, no, not recently..." she told her, "What's wrong?"

"Looks like he forgot..." Ibuki sighed.

"Ibuki-san...?"

"Nothing. I'll go ask someone else." she waved and left the building. AGAIN, she thought. AGAIN! He had the NERVE to forget about his former teacher-- and cousin-- on his birthday! She looked sadly to the ground. He never visited anymore. He never showed her that dazzling smile. She would be able to confess her feelings SO easily, but he was SOOO dense!

"Wataru-sensei, how's this?" a girl of about sixteen asked. Ibuki swung her head around to see her cousin, Wataru with a girl!

"Yeah, just make sure that you're on the correct position, or else-"

"Ah!" she screamed as she fell from the dragonair.

"Keiko!" he called and scooped her up in his arms. Ibuki's body went limp. She felt her heart squeezing the life out of her. Keiko looked at him with longing looks, and he smiled.

"Good. I'm glad you're OK." It was like one of those moments in a Shojo manga. Sparkles surrounded the two, and then a dark aura came from Ibuki.

"Oh, hi Ibuki!" Wataru called to her. She shook it off and smiled.

"Hi! And who might this be?" she was acting WAY too cheery, and he could tell.

"Y-You all right, Ibuki...?" he felt disgusted.

"I'm K-Keiko... I want to get better at raising dragon pokemon..." she blushed.

"Can you guys stay right there? I need to grab a harness."

"Wataru!" she called after him, but dense as usual, he didn't notice.

"Um... Ibuki-san..."

"Yes?"

"I hear you're Wataru's cousin... Would you mind, um, helping me?"

"With what?" she asked.

"I... Want to confess my love to him!" she let it out. Ibuki gasped, but thought about it. All she wanted was for Wataru to be happy. If that was possible, then everything was fine. And he looked really happy with her.

"All right." she gave in.

"Sorry guys! Here-!" but when he got back, they were both gone. He just stood there alone as a tumbleweed went by.

"OK, Keiko. First we'll do some tests. What do you know about Wataru?" Ibuki asked her back at her house.

"Well, he's kind, handsome, strong, isn't afraid of anything..." Keiko blushed.

"WAHAHAHAAHAHA!!" Ibuki laughed insanely, "HIM?! Not afraid of ANYTHING?!" she laughed.

"Wh-What's so funny about that?!"

"When we were kids and he studied under me, the reason I, Ibuki Ryuzaki, his cousin of same age had to teach him about dragon pokemon was because he was scared of EVERYTHING, hun." she wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes.

"R-Really...?"

"Yeah, like when we were training one time..."

"Hey, how much longer...?" Wataru held onto Ibuki's shirt.

"Quiet down!" she scolded him as they walked through the dragon's den, "We're here to get you a dratini."

"W-Why...?!" he asked.

"'Cause you need one." she pointed over in the water, "Stay quiet."

"R-Right."

"Ready... Set..." Ibuki smirked, "JUMP!!" she pushed him into the water, and he screamed.

"I-Ibuki!!" he cried.

"SWIM, YOU IDIOT!!" she yelled.

"I-I can't...!!"

"For God's sakes!!" she scolded and made a perfect dive into the water, "You're a BOY! You should be able to swim by now!!" she held him with her arms.

"I-I know... I'm... Scared..." he said sadly. She smiled and patted him on the head.

"Wataru..." she pointed towards a dratini, "I'll keep on paddling my feet under you. You just try and coax it to be your pokemon."

"O-OK..." he agreed, "Dr-Dratini, please, be my Pokemon!" he begged, but the little sea serpant shook it's head.

"Please! Ibuki is counting on me! I want to be strong like her!"

"Wataru..." she awed. But suddenly, something tugged at her leg, "Kya!!" she screamed.

"Ibuki!!" he called for her, and she was just barely holding him up. At her last moment, she threw her Pokeball up to the surface. Her dratini knew what to do. The little dragon lifted the same way Ibuki was before.

"Ibuki!!" he resisted the dratini and jumped into the water. He dog paddled as fast as he could to the bottom where Ibuki was knocked out. It was some stray rope that had grabbed her leg. With great haste, he undid the twines and pulled her back up.

"Ibuki!!" Wataru cried to her at the surface. He looked quickly around for the dratini he wanted. It left. But it was fine, because his friendship with Ibuki was more important, "Please...!" he cried, "Please wake up...!" he put his head on her chest.

"Why're you crying, Wataru...?" Ibuki coughed up some water.

"Ibuki!!" he cried and hugged her tight.

"Oi, oi, calm down, I'm fine!" she laughed, and then saw something, "More importantly, someone's waiting for you." Ibuki pointed to a little stray dratini in the middle of the lake.

"Why... Did he come back...?"

"He was impressed. Even though you can't swim, you saved my life." she leaned over and kissed his cheek, "You're a hero." his face went as red as if he were in an oven, "Want me to swim you out?"

"No, you're too tired! I'll go." he told her and jumped in. To her surprise, he paddled in the water perfectly fine, "Dratini," he smiled, "Let's be friends." the dratini nodded, and Wataru slipped the Pokeball out of his pocket, "Let's go." he clicked the button on the ball, and the red light sucked in the little dragon.

"You did it!!" Ibuki cried in joy and hugged him tight.

"Isn't that... Brave...?" Keiko asked her.

"Hm? Oh, yeah, THAT. But I could do anything better than Wataru. Training, cooking, swimming..." she giggled evilly, "But there's one thing that Wataru's REALLY afraid of. It's-!"

"THAT'S QUITE ENOUGH, IBUKI." Wataru put his hand on his cousin's shoulder.

"Aw, I was just telling stories about how cute you were."

"Like HELL you were!" he yelled at her.

"My my, aren't we violent? But you're sure not violent when a pokemon uses DRAGON BREATH!" she laughed.

"That's because you were a big BULLY to me as a child!!" he retaliated, "You got your dratini to use it on me!!"

"But it was so funny!! The smell didn't come out for weeks!!" she held her stomach in laughter.

"You're a total SADIST."

"Aw, I wasn't THAT bad..." she chuckled.

"You were a DEVIL!!" he scolded, "Every day it was something new... Making me your servant, almost getting me killed on mountain excursions..."

"But it made you a stronger person, didn't it?"

"Oh... I guess so. So... All that bullying was actually training?" he asked, believing her.

"Nope! You were fun to tease!" she told him dead blank, and he fell over in the loss of his expectations.

"I bet you don't even know what today is... I was gonna come visit you right after Keiko's lesson to remind you-"

"Hey, Wataru!" Ibuki smiled, "Happy birthday!" Wataru blushed a little bit at her genuine smile, but turned his face away.

"Y-Yeah right. You're just saying that so you have dibs on my cake if I get one." Ibuki just looked at him hurt, heart broken even.

"O-Oh... Sure..." she sighed. Keiko walked up to him next.

"I-I..." SHE WAS GOING FOR IT?! "I, for a long time, I've... Been in love with you!" she yelled, and he looked surprised, "A-And... Happy Birthday..." she blushed. Wataru started laughing REALLY hard. Harder than Ibuki had seen him do in a long time.

"Thanks, Keiko." he hugged her softly. Ibuki's heart shattered into pieces as she watched him hug her.

"Don't touch her...!" she whispered in fury.

"Ibuki...?" Wataru looked at her.

"Stupid Wataru!!" she yelled at him with tears in her eyes.

"Ibuki-san...?!" Keiko started to run after her, when Wataru stopped her.

"Keiko..." he looked at her with serious eyes, "About your confession..."

Ibuki ran to the most lonely place she could think of. Dragon's Cove. She remembered a time she was teasing Wataru, but also training him.

"I-Ibuki..." Wataru stuttered, "Thi-This is..." his face was pink with blush. In front of him he held a red stainless steel box.

"Hey," she told him, "Give that to me for a sec." He nodded happily and handed it over, only to be THROWN INTO THE LAKE!!

"WH-WHY DID YOU DO THAT?!" he screamed.

"Someday, when your dragon pokemon and you bond better, you'll be able connect minds and that makes it so you can breathe underwater. You'll be able to go get that box. I know you will." she grinned and patted him on the head, but he just kept crying, "Wh-What's the matter?"

"Ibuki, you dummy!" he yelled at her for the first time.

She always wondered why he was angry. Usually, he would have agreed with her. It was for his own good!

"I'm gonna go find it..." she told her dragonair as they found the tree she threw it from. The female dragonair nodded, and they both closed their eyes.

"Bond!" Ibuki called, and a glow surrounded her. It was a glow of their friendship. Now she could dive down to the furthest deeps without any problem. The goddess of a gym leader removed her dress and cape, and all the rest of her clothes. All that was left was a dark blue bikini swimsuit. Since she worked with dragon pokemon a lot, and many of them went in the water, she always had to be ready. She made another perfect dive into the pure water, and her dragonair followed.

"It was around here..." Ibuki picked through the rubble far under the water. She could even talk underwater due to her bond with her pokemon. Suddenly, she saw a small red sparkle, "There it is!" she smiled and swam over to it, only to have it taken away by a GYARADOS!! "Gyarados, please give it back!!" the girl pleaded, but was pushed back by the waves made by the tail of the dragon. It growled at her immensely, angry that this woman was trying to take away it's treasure. With one paddle of her foot, it viciously swam to her and tried to headbutt her into the rock, "Gyrados, calm down, please!!" But it didn't heed her words. It turned quickly around and succeeded in bashing her into a rock. A spurt of blood came from

Ibuki's mouth. She knew there was only one thing she could do, and she really didn't want to do it.

"Dragonair..." she called weakly, "Get Wataru...!!" and Ibuki jumped off the rock to try and avoid the next attack, "Please, HURRY!!" she screamed. She knew she couldn't handle this on her own anymore. The dragonair nodded and flew to the surface. It hovered as fast as it could back to Ibuki's house, where Wataru was just coming out with Keiko.

"Ibuki's Dragonair? What's up?" he asked, but there was no time for questions! She looked at him with scared eyes and nudged him fiercely towards the Dragon's Cove.

"What happened to Ibuki?!" Wataru sort of knew what it was. She had gotten herself into trouble. AGAIN.

Back at the Dragon's Cove, Ibuki was really tired from dodging. Blood flowed from her mouth and arm, making a red stream through the water.

"I'm finished...!!" she closed her eyes.

"Ibuki!!" Wataru yelled to her. A dragonite did a mega punch to the gyarados's face, and Ibuki saw a scale fall from Dragonite's skin.

"Wait!" she called. Ibuki picked up the shiny, thick scale and went over to the Gyrados laying on the ground, tired from charging, "Here, I'll let you have this for that, OK?" she smiled softly. The gyarados looked very guilty for hurting her. He sniffed gently at a Pokeball, "Oh, you want this?" she laughed and took it out, "You can have it." It shook it's head and looked Ibuki in the eyes, "Wait... Do you want... To be my pokemon?" It nodded, and she giggled, "All right. Let's go with each other, Gyarados." she smiled and clicked the button on the ball, and with the red flash of light, it went inside.

"Ibuki...!!" Wataru hugged her tight in the water. She was so happy. He had come to rescue her!

"Here!" she picked the red box off the ocean floor, "I got it back for you! Happy birthday!" she smiled, and he put his palm to his face, "...Wataru...?"

"Let's go back to the surface..." he told her, and they paddled back. On the grassy land, she sat down and wrapped her scarf on her shoulder to hold back the blood. She slipped back on her dress and cardigan, and kicked on her boots.

"So, why do you look so distraught?" she asked. His face boiled with fury.

"You IDIOT!! What do you think I want for my birthday?! Not you getting killed, that's what!!"

"What the hell?! I go all this way to make you happy, and you give me THIS crap?!"

"That was a present for YOU, Ibuki!!" he yelled at her.

"Wait... What?" she looked at Wataru with blank eyes.

"That was a present I was going to give you, but you decided to throw it in the water!"

"Oh..." she whispered, "So THAT'S why you were mad..."

"Why can't you be more reserved, like Keiko?" he sighed and put back on his cape.

"Keiko...?!" she asked in fury. He didn't like Ibuki, she knew that. But it was so painful... She grabbed his shirt and pulled his face close. Ibuki had forced his lips to hers in a passionate kiss. She threw him down after to the ground.

"Wh-What...?!"

"I'm in love with you, you dummy!!" she yelled at him and ran outside. Wataru just sat there in shock.

When she arrived home, she sat down on her bed and opened the box. Inside was a beautiful thing. A hair barrette with a star on it. Ibuki took out her hair brush and went through that hairstyle of hers. She used some styling products, and combed it out again.

"Ibuki... You there...?" Wataru knocked at her house. She opened the door, and there was someone beautiful. It was Ibuki, her hair down and long, it went to the middle of her back. And in the back, holding away her bangs was the barrette he got her. She wore a new black dress.

"How... Do I look...?" she asked. He blushed really hard.

"Amazing... I see you found my present."

"Yeah... Thanks." she blushed the same as him.

"I'm sorry... I lost my temper... I just was so scared that I'd lost you...!" he hugged her tight.

"What about Keiko...?" she asked and hugged him back. He held on tighter.

"I... Turned her down. Ever since I was a little kid," he looked at her, "I've been in love with you!" he kissed her on the lips.

"Wataru..." Ibuki gasped. She looked deep into his crimson eyes and kissed him again, "Mm..." she breathed.

"So... Is it OK for me to be by your side?"

"You dummy. I just want to be with you."

And so Wataru and Ibuki made a bond of their own. A bond of love.

END OF YOU DUMMY