Time gone buy

(Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew if I did Ichigo would be with Ryou and not Masaya. But to each is own. Enjoy the story.)

It's been years about thirteen years give or take a year since I last steps into the café mew. I just started my freshmen year in collage when I heard from Pudding that Ryou was going to close down the café and move away. She asked me and the others if we come down one last time to say good buy to him and the other mews. I just hung up the phone with the air lines to order me a plane ticket back home. I sigh as I lay back on my bed and think of the great and not so great times we had in the café. I smile as I remember the time I saw Ryou with out a shirt on. He never knew I saw him like that. I got up and went about packing a bag to get on the next flight. Lucky me it was still summer for me and my room mate. I still can't believe of how things had changed for us all. It still seems like yesterday when we took on Deep Blue and learned the truth about him and Blue Knight.

"Deep Blue your going to go down you loser." Deep Blue chuckled as he pulled out his sword. The mews were on there knees as he got ready to attack. "You're the ones that will lose Ichigo." The mew's all blinked and looked from Ichigo to Deep Blue. "How do you know my name?" Deep Blue smirked a nasty like smirk "Because I am your little Masaya you twit." Alto jumped out from behind a bush and started to bite Deep Blue's hand. Ichigo stood up and pulled out her strawberry bell and attacked Deep Blue with it along with the other girls as they took him down. After words everything was a blur for them all. Ichigo found out that Masaya was going to England and wasn't going to be back ever.

I put my stuff in the taxi and sit there as he drove me to the airport as I sigh thinking about the look on Ryou's face when I told him weeks after Masaya left that I and he were broke up. He seemed almost happy about and that was weird. I even asked the girls about it. They said if Ryou did like me he would ask me out in a couple weeks. Other then that not to worry about it. But yet I seemed to still worry about it. Life after Ryou first kissed me on the lips never seemed to be the same again for me. It felt like the start of something new for me to love about then my ears and tail coming out again.

Ryou walked up to Ichigo and pulled her to him as she looked up at him as a child would look up at a giant person. "What is it Ryou?" He smiled a nice friendly smile as he bent his head and kissed her hard on the lips. The kiss seems to last for ever and I would be happy if it did. I wouldn't really care if it did. I was happy being in his arms with his lips on mine. Ryou broke the kiss and grinned when Ichigo's ears came out. "Guess the Mew DNA isn't gone yet." Ichigo stood there glaring at him as he turned and walked away from her. "What was the kiss for Ryou? Just to see if it was still there Alto." Ryou put his hand on the door and turned and looked back at Ichigo "To see if the DNA was still there." Ryou vanished threw the door way. "Jerk." Ichigo swore then that he would never kiss her again ever.

I got out of the taxi and walked into the airport with my bag. I got my ticket and headed for the dermal with a sigh. I did get my wish after that. I was only sixteen when he kissed me. On my birthday no less. I never let him kiss me after that and he never tried to after that. Guess he figured it out when I called him a jerk. I stood there looking out the window with a sigh. I haven't been home for years. I came to America to go to high school to learn what I was best at. That is singing strangely enough. My cell went off then and I picked it up. "Hello Ichigo here." I smirked when Pudding laughed in the other end of the phone. "You on your way here Ichigo. The others are here waiting." I laughed "Yeah. Oh got to go there loading the plane. I will call you once I'm in the air and they let me have it on. Bye Pudding and girls." And with that I hung up the phone with a bye from them.

I sighed as they checked my ticket. I walked on the plane and put my bag away and sat down in my window seat as I looked out the window and let my mind remember Ryou the last time I saw him. Wearing his normal black vest thing looking yummy in it as always. But with his blond hair down to his shoulders. That was back when she got on the plane and headed to America. I heard someone sit down beside me and I looked over at the girl and smiled "Your first time headed to were." I felt like making small talk not trying to think about Ryou right then. The girl smiled "I'm on my way to Tokyo and your self." I couldn't help but smile "I'm heading home. That being in Tokyo." The girl smiled at me. "That's great maybe I will see you around. I was told when I get there I should go over to café mew for the best dessert." I smiled "That's were I am heading. My friends are going there because are ex boss is closing it down. Going to say good bye."

The girl blinked "Oh my brother said he wasn't going to close it down." I blinked and looked at the girl "Your brother isn't Ryou is it?" The girl shook her head "No. My brother is his partner. I guess Ryou hasn't been the same for five years. After as my brother calls the girl Ryou's Strawberry." I couldn't help to blush "There was one girl that Ryou called Strawberry and you're sitting beside her." The girl blinked as she looked me up and down from her seat. I knew my hair had grown out and when I let it down it went to my behind. And I did have a strawberry tattoo on me but not were she could see at that point in time. "The names Linda. And yours miss?" I smiled as I looked at her "The names Ichigo." Linda smiled at me "You're the strawberry." I nodded my head "Yeah what's wrong with Ryou." Linda looked down and was blushing slightly "You will have to see for your self. I shouldn't say anything more about it." I leaned back against the seat as I closed my eyes and tried to get some sleep.