Um, heh, hey guys! Let me start, by saying how sorry I am! Yes, yes, I know I've asked for your forgiveness a hundred times by now, but as always the stupid computer (Which hates me I'm sure...) has got yet another problem, I'm not sure what happened but the stupid thing wouldn't connect to the modem, so there was no way in posting this and I've been kind of lazy, lol, I've been putting bit by bit everyday and up until now I've finished. So please forgive me and thanks for you patience and reviews I love all of them and all of you guys! So now without further ado here's chapter 2!!! Oh and this has nothing to do with anything but what the heck: Harry Potter rules!!!


Chapter 2

It'll be easy, er, or not...


A passenger? Ash shifted his gaze from Suicune to see what Misty was talking about. He couldn't stop his jaw from dropping once he saw the little girl staring back at him with bright blue-green eyes. His older friend Brock obviously couldn't either as he too stared in bewilderment. A little girl? A little baby girl...?

"What on earth is a baby doing on Suicune's back?" Asked Ash, as Misty reached out for the little girl who was staring at all of them with confusion as well.

"I for one have no clue, Ash. I mean what would a legendary pokemon want with a toddler?" Brock said. Nobody knew what to make of it. " I mean for all we know, Suicune could have taken the baby away from it's parents..."

"You don't think Suicune would do that do you?" Misty asked her two friends as she balanced the little girl in her arms, who had taken a liking to her side pony tail.

It was a possibility, but no one could be sure. Why did Suicune have a baby on his back? It didn't seem anywhere near normal to the three teens. "No," said Ash, " he wouldn't do something like that, I know he wouldn't..."

"Then why did he bring her? I thought that Suicune didn't want to be with humans unless necessary," contemplated Brock.

The massive blue pokemon just stared at them. He knew they were confused, but there was no way in telling them anything, and even if there was he wouldn't be able to tell them everything. He knew that the future could be altered with just one sentence. No, he wouldn't be able to tell them much even if he could talk... But there was a way of telling them only what they needed to know...

He spotted the little electric mouse right besides it's trainer, looking up curiously at the little girl as well. The legendary pokemon bent down and got Pikachu's attention. Knowing that the bond it had with it's trainer would allow him to at least tell them something...

"Sui, sui cune," it said, filling the pokemon with the only information he knew he could let out. Pikachu listened and absorbed everything that the legendary pokemon was telling him, nodding once in a while to show that it understood what it had said and what he must do.

The three trainers were still deep in thought, each trying to find an explanation as to why this happened, but were cut short as they heard the little rabbit like pokemon trying to get there attention by jumping up and down. Once it was sure that he had gotten all of them to turn towards him, he started pointing at Suicune to try and start his point.

"What is it Pikachu?" Ash said as he bent down so he could see his little friend closer.

"Pika, pikachu!", it said while pointing towards both Suicune and the little girl in Misty's arms.

"Your going to tell, er, show us what Suicune told you?", the Pikachu's trainer and best friend asked eagerly. The little pokemon nodded, frantically, and then began doing gestures with his hand in a mime like sort of fashion. He started by pretending to be holding something and then giving it to an invisible person. After that he jumped over to where the invisible person was and started looking every each way with one paw to his forehead as if searching for something.

"Um, ok, uh someone gave this baby to Suicune, and told him to search for something..." Ash said, trying to decipher what his pokemon had just done, and got a nod and a big toothy grin in reply.

Pikachu then started by pretending to search again, while afterward pretending that he had found it and then pointing at the three trainers (who were watching his every move afraid they might miss out on something) in front of him.

"So, your saying that Suicune was searching for us?" asked Brock looking skeptical. Pikachu nodded once again and then Brock continued, "Why does he want us to do look after her?" Pikachu looked at the legendary pokemon beside him to make sure that what Brock had just said was what he wanted and was answered with a nod, then looked up towards it's three human friends and did the same thing.

"It wants us to take care of her? But we can't take care of a baby..." Misty said doubtfully.

"Sure we can, if Suicune says we can do it. -" said Ash confidently as always believing that it would be no problem at all and definitely no harder than pokemon training.

"Ash, we're not talking about some match that you can either win or you can't and everything will be ok, we're talking about taking care of a baby that appeared from who knows where with a legendary pokemon." exclaimed Brock.

"Maybe, but Suicune came to us and I say we should help him out," Ash said while ignoring the sarcastic remark of "Oh what else is new" from Misty.

Brock still wasn't convinced, he looked down at Pikachu and asked, "Is Suicune sure it wants us to do this? Is he sure he can't look for someone else?" His reply was yet another nod from the electric pokemon.

Brock and Misty still looked unsure about the whole thing and Ash saw this. "What are you guys so worried about? I mean, Brock, you have your experience with your siblings, and Misty has Togepi, and I've got all my pokemon. I'm sure we'll be able to handle it, we might not have to do it long either. Once her parents are finished doing whatever it is that they are doing, we won't have to worry about it."

"Do you honestly think that taking care of a baby is as easy as taking care of a pokemon, Ash? Of course I have experience with my siblings but we're in the middle of a forest not my house..." said Brock still not believing how lightly his friend was taking this.

"With the three of us and Suicune here I'm sure we can manage, besides we're heading towards Pallet to rest a while aren't we? We can explain it to my Mom, she's a sucker for babies..."

"Ash it'll be days before we get to Pallet Town, what on earth are we going to do until then?" exclaimed Misty while shifting the baby girl in her arms as she was starting to get heavy.

"We're passing through Cerulean and Pewter aren't we? We can stay for a while at your home and then at Brock's" said Ash, trying to convince them. He didn't know why but he knew they had to stay with that baby, something inside him was telling him that saying no to Suicune's request was not the right answer.

Brock turned to Misty and asked, "We're not going to win this are we?"

"Knowing Ash and his bighead? No." she said with a sigh of defeat, "All right Ash if your gonna be dead set on this then fine." After hearing his friends' answers, Ash couldn't help but jump with a loud shout of triumph. Misty shook her head at her overly hyper friend, but even though she wouldn't admit it, she had secretly been hoping that Ash would win the argument.

"Well, if we're really gonna do this, I'd suggest that we go and buy the necessary things for her..." concluded Brock.

"Um, well we'll need diapers obviously, some baby food, maybe a couple of toys just in case she gets fidgety, a baby brush, some sippy cups, a bottle just in case, a little towel, baby shampoo..." Ash and Brock just stood listening to Misty, neither believing that she knew this stuff by heart.

As Misty counted down the things necessary, Ash leaned closer to Brock and whispered so that she couldn't hear, "Since when is Misty an expert at babies?" Brock just shrugged and said that it might just be what they call motherly instinct...

"I mean have you noticed that she hasn't let go of her this whole time?" Ash could only nod, knowing that this was the only explanation that he would be getting in the matter. It was just surprising to see that his usually short tempered friend was being this, well, sweet. Of course this wasn't the only time, but those where rare moments nonetheless.

"All right then Misty since it looks like you know your stuff, and from what I can tell, I'm gonna need you to come with me," said Brock, " I doubt I'll be able to carry all of that myself..."

"But I can't take her with me..." Misty said while glancing down at the child in her arms. " We're not going to take her, you can leave her here with Ash."

Misty looked surprised by what Brock had just suggested, "Brock think about what you just said will you?" she said unbelievingly, "I'll stay and Ash can go with you, that way I won't have to worry if she's still alive or not..."

Ash, having recognized what Misty was insinuating, put on a determined and angry look on his face and asked, " You think I can't take care of her?!"

"I don't think, I know" Misty replied with a knowing grin.

Brock seeing where this was going tried to change the subject by telling his two friends that they still didn't know the little girl's name, "I mean, we can't just keep on calling her, baby or little girl..." The other to frowned as they thought of what he had just said.

Ash looked down at Pikachu with a questioning look. Seeing this, Pikachu turned to Suicune and did the same. Suicune thought for a while and then remembered something that could help him out. He knew that by just telling Pikachu the name, that the yellow pokemon wouldn't be able to tell it to it's trainer. Very unlikely of course unless it knew how to write, but the legendary pokemon doubted it. He bent down and told the little pokemon what to do, and received a nod afterward.

Pikachu wasted no time and started to make its way up to Misty's shoulder, and then to the little girl. The others just stared and waited, perplexed as to how they were going to find out the babies name. Pikachu gave an excited "Pika" and started pointing ecstatically at her foot. Everyone came in closely still not getting how they were going to find out by looking at a foot...

"Wa!" They all said as they saw Pikachu's discovery. The letters were right there, formed into a simple little word, on the edge of the little girls socks. Kaci.

"Kaci, well I guess that answers that question..." Brock concluded.

"Aaaw, Kaci, what a sweet name..." Misty exclaimed while rubbing her cheek on the little girls violet red hair, ignoring the gagging noises that where coming from Ash still not believing how sweet his friend could get. "Well, you guys have a nice trip to the store then..."

"Wait a second, I can take care of her as good as you can." Ash said, having remembered their earlier argument.

"Ha, well I'll bet you a box of pokemon cookies that you can't and by the time we come back you'll be begging me to take her back." This only made Ash angrier, did she really think that he was so useless that he couldn't take care of a little kid for a couple of hours?

"Your on!"He said as he went over and took the baby from her and into his arms. "And I want the chocolate kind!"

"All right, kids, that's enough." Brock interjected boringly, already used to their little fights. "Come on Misty, better get going before they close the store. It's the only one near here that's close enough."

"All right," she said as she sighed, then followed Brock with a worried expression on her face. Looking back she could see the triumphed look on her friends face as he waved good bye. "Are you sure that letting him stay with her is such a good idea?"

Brock only shrugged and said, " I'm sure he'll do fine, besides there's no way you'll be able to make him reconsider, you've already got him determined to prove that your wrong. Just don't worry about it to much, I doubt he'll get into too much trouble, especially since we'll only be a couple of hours."

Misty stopped in her tracks and pointed out, "Brock this is Ash that we're talking about here, with a baby that we have no idea in knowing what will happen to her in his care..." With that said Brock stopped too and turned around to face the red headed trainer. They both stood there, and then silently agreed to one thing...

The sooner we get there the sooner we get back. Which sent both of them at and Olympic run towards the town ahead.


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"I'll show them I can take care of a baby," Ash said as he looked at Kaci, " it can't be that hard, right Pikachu?" He got an enthusiastic "Pika" in reply, yep this will be easy. He set Kaci down and smiled to himself for his accomplishments. First he persuaded them to help Suicune out and now he'll get to prove to Misty that he could take care of a baby just as good as she could if not better.

He looked over to Suicune who was now laying down on the green patch of grass obviously exhausted from the run it had made. Ash still had more questions to ask, but decided not to bother Suicune right now. He was just glad that the legendary pokemon trusted him and his friends enough to choose them for his mission. With those thoughts in his head he looked back to where he had set Kaci down, only to find that she wasn't there anymore...

"Wa?!" He shouted as he looked around franticly trying to find the little girl. If he lost her Misty would be sure to kill him, no doubt Brock and Suicune would too. He looked over to the legendary pokemon and saw to his relief that he was asleep, then looked passed him and saw Kaci, crawling ever closer to what looked like a very angered Tangela. "Kaci!" Ash ran forward just as the Tangela was putting two of it's many blue vines up getting ready to attack. But Kaci just kept on going her curiosity in high gear, until she felt two hands grab her and hold her in the air just as the Tangela striked and rapped the vines around Ash's legs this leading to him falling backwards with Kaci still clutched in his hands and in the air in front of him. Once he heard the Tangela stomp away furiously, he put his arms down and placed Kaci on his stomach. 'Maybe'' he thought as Pikachu came scurrying to see if both it's master and the baby human were all right, 'This wasn't going to be as easy as I thought...'


To be continued...

All right finally finished! Let me hear ya say YAY, whoop whoop! Heh heh, ok I'll stop. But anyways sorry again for taking too long in updating this thing, and thanks to all of my reviewers and of course my beta reader Rosy! I love ya Sista!