Sword- WHOO! My FIRST fan-fiction! I hope you like it... BOOM BOOM! HAHAHAH!!

Kish- Get on with it!

Sword- Alright, alright! In this fan fiction I come in... watch out!

Kish- as an actual CHARACTER? I'm scared...

Sword- Don't be, no, roll it MOE! (Always wanted to say that!)

By the way, all of the girls are in England visiting Masaya and Ichigo, because in the first A La Mode manga, we find out that she went there with him, I think... and all of the girls (with the exception of Pudding- I'll call her Purin, Mint= Minto, and Lettuce stays the same because I forgot her Japanese name) are thirteen!!!

Purin tugs on Zakouro's hand.

"Zakouro, you said you can read English, right? What does this say?" She asks in a shrill tone, pointing at her tourist guide. Going to England had gotten her more suger high and giddy than ever! (-Gasp- Is that even possible?)

" 'Tourists, be sure to visit our tourist shops dotted along the streets' " Zakouro read, quite stiffly, if I say so myself.

The girls reached the town house (or at least I think that's what they call them) Ichigo had given them before leaving on the plane for England. Painted red, pretty tall, the building looked like nothing they had ever seen before. Before they could knock, Ichigo burst out, pretty much the same as she had left, still her bouncy, peppy, pink self.

"Guys! I missed you all so much!" Ichigo jumped up and down, eventually bounced her way down the front steps, giving them a big hug.

"How long are we staying again...?" Lettuce asked, twisting her braid slightly.

"Four weeks, silly!" Purin exclaimed, bouncing around Lettuce, singing a song made up of her favorite word and only that word. "NOOO DA! NO DA! NO DA NO DA NO DAAH!" Practically choking, Ichigo started to crack up.

"I forgot how much you make me laugh! Not that E-E-England is b-b-boring or anything, but there's no one like Purin to m-make me l-lah-laugh! It's like I'm in Japan again! Oh! I have to tell Masaya your here! Omigosh!" A few seconds later, Masaya came out behind Ichigo.

"O.K, O.K! Hey, how are you? Have a nice trip?" Masaya rubbed the back of his head, which her had bumped on a low shelf for obvious reasons- he had grown to be so tall! Compared to Masaya, even Zakouro, the tallest of them, looked like an insect! (-GASP- No, really?) Minto broke from her streak of silence.

"Ichigo!" she cried (or called. Or whatever. Yea, Minto WHATEVERED), running up to Ichigo and giving her a hug... well, you have to admit, it's been about a year since she saw her... and Minto was the first Mew Mew Ichigo found... the bond goes on!

A few hours later...

Purin leaned across the table in the kitchen. Surprisingly, the section of the townhouse Masaya and Ichigo lived in was very large.

"So, you've beat around the bush enough, Ichigo... how's it goin' with Masaya, and has K--" Purin was cut off as Minto put her hand over Purin's mouth.

"Don't mention you-know-who! Ever since she almost saw him die..." Minto hissed quietly, but Purin didn't listen.

"Has Kish visited you at all while you were in England?!?!" She blurted out suddenly after pretending to be quiet for a little while.

"Oh... Actually, he came here once to say hello, but... we haven't heard from him at all after that..."

"Um... oh... I'm sure he found an alien girlfriend!" Minto tries to cheer up Ichigo, eventually getting a laugh with 'How many girlfriends has he had by now, I wonder? Let's jump rope to find out!' (Unusually comedian-ish for Minto, don't you think?) Masaya enters upon this lurve-leh scene, and following him is a girl. (NOTE This girl is based on me in personality, but not in looks!!) Black hair with thin, blue streaks every here and there fell to her shoulders, and two black eyes stared back at the world, but to their horror, couldn't look at the freckles across her cheek bones and nose. Fearing the worst, Ichigo was first to stand up and ask him.

"Who... is this?" Before Masaya could answer, the girl cut in.

"I'm Sword, the daughter of the owner of a red data animal research lab, which is international, by the way. Mother wanted me to help Masaya with his research, so of course I had to rush over from our lab in Nagasaki and become Ms. Study Mate or something, and when I refused... as punishment I have to stay here longer than planned,"

"Oh..." Ichigo sighed, putting a hand over her chest for a moment, then instantly lowering it so Masaya or Sword wouldn't know what she had been thinking. Minto, Lettuce, Purin, and Zakouro all looked down and pretended to be busy.

"What'd you think she was here for...? Didn't I mention it yesterday?"

"No,"

"Oops! Sorry, Ichigo! Besides..." Masaya hugged her with a smile on his face, (it was a tease hug, and the following will be in a teasing voice) "You're the only one!" he flicked the bell on Ichigo's kitty collar up and it made a jingly noise. And... like all the other time this happened, Ichigo turned as pink as her Mew Mew cotume- no, pinker than- and started to stutter.

"Uh... oh... erm... well--"

"You could just say 'aw!' and hug him back, you know, Momomiya!" came the voice of Sword, a little squeaky at first, but eventually she recovered, "Sir knows how to tease, doesn't he?"

The day went on like that, you know, Sword pushing her lines between other's sentences. It took a while, but the group got used to Sword acting so different. One moment she was laughing around, and the next she became... dark and quiet, every word she said ticking like a time bomb, not even trying to mask them with fake innocence...

Sword was just about to go to bed when a small animal made it's way out of the corners, shivering slightly. Lettuce's voice broke in.

"What is that?!?!"

"Mouse, of course... mew!" staring at the mouse almost hugirly, Ichigo murmured. (Lil mousie goes 'squeak!'! Kitty kitty, kitty kitty....)

"Aw!" Sword squealed, "It's so cute!" and crouched down next to it.

"Ouch!"

"What is it?"

"It bit me!"

Indeed it was true. Sword's finger was looking very hurt, and a trickle of blood ran to her fingertip.

"Can I get you something for that! Ee, he looked like a nasty one!!" Ichigo, worried a little- if worried at all- at the site of blood, (But you were about to eat him! -Tsk Tsk-) scurried around looking for a band aid, something to clean it with, all sorts of things and FINALLY, a band aid somehow found it's way onto Sword's finger- no blood leaked through, the cut wasn't to deep. Despite all of this Sword felt like she really needed some sleep. So... tired... what happened to me? It's just a mouse bite... she thought, and walked to the spare room.

In the bedroom.... })i({

Sword tossed and turned, not daring to believe it. Only a few minutes ago, she had woke in cold sweat, with the feeling somebody was in the room with her...

"I know!" Sword muttered. About to say 'I'll pretend to sleep and catch em in the act!', her nose surprised her. Sniff, sniff, it seemed to urge her! Sword was going mad, wasn't she? Just as she decided to listen to her nose, her ears went into super hearing mode. Something was in the wardrobe... and it was moving around as quietly as it could, whispering;

"Dang it... I knew I shoulda found a better spot... but the girl, the girl... can't wake her up..."

Sword made her way to the door, flung it open, and inside she found...

I'm sure you know who she'll find! But I hope this wasn't to big a... cliffhanger, I believe they call it? Well... until my next chapter (which should be out very, very, soon!) Bye! })i{( Sword })i{(