GIVE ME MY CINNAMON ROLLS. bestwishesshipping aaaand if you need a specifc prompt give me reuinion fluff but man I will take anything of my babies

Satoshi doesn’t seem to have aged a day and Iris hasn’t grown an inch anywhere (apart perhaps from her hair, but that’s hard to tell with her elaborate hairdo). It’s almost like they separated yesterday, until they start talking about everything they’ve accomplished in the last few years.

There’s a lot of laughing and yelling and shuffling photographs around and Pokémon being introduced and Iris whirling to show off her fabulous outfit, and Dent is just looking at them, smiling fondly. Eventually Iris elbows him in the ribs.

“And what are you daydreaming about?”

He laughs. “Nothing, sorry.”

“None of that! You’re quiet, it’s weird. What is it?”

He looks away, which is definitely odd. “It’s a little ridiculous,” he says quietly. “You’ve become the Champion, and Satoshi’s won a league, and I haven’t been doing much… but all I feel is proud of you both. Even though I did nothing to help you.”

“Yeah, that’s ridiculous,” Satoshi deadpans. “You helped us a lot.”

“I—”

“You always encouraged and supported us.”

“Yeah! Remember when you called me before I challenged Adeku-san? I didn’t want to let you know, but I was so nervous. You calmed me down.”

“We couldn’t have gotten here if you hadn’t looked after us all that time back then, anyway.”

“You made me understand how to make up with Doryuuzu.”

“And you made us make up.”

“You taught us to keep going when we made mistakes.”

“And to trust ourselves.”

“And — aww, don’t cry! What a child you are, Dent.”

... 9, BestWishesShipping

Iris wakes them all up one morning with screaming. Kibago falls off her tree on Dent’s face, Dent gets tangled up in his attempt to hurry out of his sleeping bag, Pikachu accidentally shocks them both in panic, and Satoshi sleepily asks where Team Rocket is.

"Are you okay, Iris?" Dent asks once he’s gotten Kibago off and established that there is no Team Rocket nor any obvious danger in sight.

"I’M FINE," she yells down.

Dent looks at Satoshi. Satoshi rubs his eyes and looks back at him, shrugs, and proceeds to climb up the trunk to check up on her, quickly followed by Pikachu.

"DON’T! Don’t, I’m fine, don’t come any closer!" she rants, which is really worrying. Satoshi heaves himself up onto her branch, and gets nearly shoved off for his efforts.

"Jeez! What’s wrong, Iris?" The only reason she hasn’t managed to push him away, he notices, is that she’s clutching her left wrist like letting go would be physically painful.

"NOTHING!"

"Oh, did you get your soulmate name-mark? That’s great! Can I see?"

"NO! DON’T EVEN TALK TO ME AND GET DOWN!"

There’s a pregnant pause of silence during which they can hear Dent, below, start smiling, and that’s before he starts singing about maturity and the delights of soulmateship.

Iris closes her eyes and sighs. She looks more than upset, she looks angry. Satoshi stares at her face and thinks about the mark of her name that’s been shining on his wrist for months; it kinda stings. He glances down, and carefully, he remarks, “Iris?”

"What."

"You’ve got one on your other wrist, you know?"

Iris yells again and falls off the branch.

The other one is Dent’s name. The first one is Satoshi’s. Dent confesses, rosy-cheeked, that he has had Satoshi’s name for years and initially followed him to see if he was that Satoshi, and Iris’ name ‹‹ bloomed on his other wrist like a fragrant promise of SPARKLING FUTURE ›› a few weeks ago. Satoshi is glad.

Iris is still taking the entire thing a bit hard, though. It’s fortunate for Kibago that he’s used to being hugged tightly.

"I don’t want to be bonded with a child!!"

"Who’s a child?! I got your name months ago, I’m totally more mature!"

"Or with a flowery train-maniac!! Or with two mates!!"

"It’s not unheard of," Dent tries, shyly. He looks upset, too, which absolutely won’t do. Iris is allowed to freak out, but not to be so selfish.

"What’s so hard about this?" Satoshi groans, starting to get pissed too now. "Please don’t act like it’s so bad to be bonded with us. Don’t you like us? These wouldn’t be there if you didn’t like us."

She blushes and doesn’t deny it, so that’s that at least. “Yes, no, just. What kind of person gets bonded to two people??”

"Oh, come on, it’s only two."

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, ONLY TWO”

Satoshi sighs and takes off his gloves to show her.

Of course, leave it to Iris to focus on the number of names he has going in rings around his wrists rather than on the fact that he has her name and Dent’s, too.

"Satoshi," she states very seriously, "you’re such a whore.”