School Chapter 1:
Prologue
It had been six months since the final battle with Deep Blue. Kisshu, Pai, and Taruto returned home to their planet, and healed it with the Mew Aqua. For a while, everyone had been grateful. Unfortunately, a small faction of Cyniclons had decided that Kisshu, Pai and Taruto were traitors for helping the Mews kill Deep Blue. The leader of this faction had brainwashed the Cyniclons' leader into banishing Kisshu, Pai and Taruto. So now the three brothers were on their way back to Earth, hoping they could find shelter there.
It was a normal day at Café Mew Mew. Lettuce breaking things, Mint sipping tea and ordering Ichigo around, Pudding doing tricks, Zakuro scaring customers- and Ichigo doing all the real work.
However, underneath the normalcy was a quite different feeling- at least for three of the Mews. Ichigo, Lettuce, and Pudding were often sad lately. They hadn't told the others why, but at least in Ichigo's case, they figured it had something to do with the aftermath of the final battle.
Not even a week after the final battle, Aoyama had dumped Ichigo for another girl. Naturally, he got beaten to a pulp by Ichigo's friends Moe and Miwa, but that didn't really help Ichigo much. She had slowly gotten over it, and her friends all helped. Her parents, who she had finally told her secret to, were also helpful- or at least, Sakura was. Shintaro spent a week ranting until Sakura locked him in the garage for twenty-four hours.
As Ichigo had slowly gotten over Aoyuck, she had been thinking about the only other guy who had ever said he loved her- Kisshu. After about a week of holding this inside, she went to Lettuce, knowing the porpoise-girl had had a crush on Pai.
Lettuce had comforted her, and Ichigo found out that Lettuce and Pudding seemed to be going through the same thing she was. They all missed the Cyniclons, and it was getting harder for all of them. The three girls spent a lot of time together, just talking about the ones they loved.
It was closing time now, and Ichigo, Lettuce and Pudding were about to go talk more about the possibilities of ever seeing the Cyniclons again, when Keiichiro and Ryou ran up from the basement, and Ryou said urgently, "The computers have detected alien activity!"
"Where is it?" Zakuro asked.
"Inohara Park, near the sakura tree," Keiichiro said.
Without a word to anyone, Ichigo, Lettuce and Pudding ran for the doors, flung them open, and ran out, leaving the others wondering what on Earth was going on with them.
In Inohara Park: "Well, we're back," Kisshu said. "I like this tree."
"Shouldn't we be going to that pink place?" Taruto asked.
"I have a feeling we're probably going to have company soon," Pai said, pointing to three figures running toward them.
Naturally, the three figures were Ichigo, Lettuce and Pudding, and they literally had to skid to a stop to avoid crashing into the three Cyniclons.
"What's the rush?" Taruto asked.
"Taru-Taru's back!" Pudding cried happily, launching herself at poor Taruto, who was then half strangled by Pudding's hug.
Lettuce came over and pried Pudding off, saying, "Pudding, Taruto can't breathe. Be more gentle."
"Sorry Taru-Taru!" Pudding said. "Pudding just missed you!"
"If I stay, will you stop trying to strangle me?" Taruto asked.
"Taru-Taru is staying!?" Pudding asked happily. "YAY!"
Meanwhile, Pai and Lettuce were watching this- at least until Kisshu teleported directly in front of Ichigo, and said, "Did you miss me?"
He was shocked when Ichigo threw herself at him, and buried her face in his chest, hugging him. Kisshu hesitantly hugged her back, and was even more shocked when she asked, "Why didn't you come back sooner?"
"Uh… we were kind of busy…" Kisshu said, slowly snapping out of shock. "You actually missed me?"
"Yes!" Ichigo wailed. "It's been six months! And I'm not the only one, either! Lettuce and Pudding and I spent months moping about how you guys were probably never coming back! And you didn't even say goodbye!"
"Uh… what happened to the treehugger?" Kisshu asked. "You were totally obsessed with him, and now it's like he never existed."
"He dumped me a week after you left," Ichigo said. "By which point I had realized that I really should have given you a chance…."
"Ichigo, are you saying you love me?" Kisshu asked uncertainly.
"Yes!" Ichigo said.
Kisshu smiled happily. "Thanks, Ichigo," he said.
To his surprise, she looked a bit sad, and said, "No more 'Koneko-chan'?"
"I thought you didn't like it," Kisshu said.
"I missed that too," Ichigo said. "You're not leaving again, are you?"
"That's actually what we need to talk about," Pai said, coming over holding hands with Lettuce, who looked really happy.
Ichigo looked at him, not letting go of Kisshu. "Did something happen?" she asked.
"Hai, and we also need to talk with your blonde leader," Pai said.
"Okay," Ichigo said, finally letting go of Kisshu. "Let's go back to the Café."
"Can we teleport?" Kisshu asked.
"Sure," Ichigo said. Kisshu took her hand and teleported, followed by Pai with Lettuce, and Taruto with Pudding.
They landed in the main room, and found Ryou, Keiichiro, Zakuro and Mint gathered around a laptop. Their heads jerked up as they heard the teleportation, and Ryou immediately looked unhappy.
Keiichiro sighed and said, "So what's the story? Lettuce, Ichigo and Pudding went tearing out of here two seconds after Ryou said the words 'aliens' and 'Inohara Park'. I've never seen them run that fast."
"We missed them," Ichigo said, shrugging.
"We came here with a request," Pai said. "A group on our planet brainwashed our leader into exiling us, and we had to leave our planet or get killed. We now have nowhere else to go, so we came back to Earth in hopes that you'd let us stay here."
Keiichiro, Ryou and Mint had their jaws on the floor, but Ichigo, Lettuce and Pudding had started looking insanely happy. Zakuro was doing her usual emotionless thing.
Keiichiro finally collected himself, and said, "We only have one spare room here…."
"Taru-Taru can live with Pudding!" Pudding said excitedly.
"And Kisshu can live with me!" Ichigo said. "We have a spare bedroom. You'd only need to house Pai."
"Ichigo, shouldn't you be asking your parents before you decide this?" Ryou asked.
"Maybe," Ichigo said thoughtfully. "Okay, come on Kisshu!"
"Your dad's going to kill me…" Kisshu moaned as Ichigo dragged him out the door. The others looked after them, shaking their heads.
"I cannot believe Kisshu is afraid of Ichigo's father," Pai said. "Is it okay for us to stay?"
"Fine…" Ryou sighed. "I have a feeling I'll get clawed or something equally unpleasant if I say no, so you can stay."
"YAY!" Lettuce and Pudding shouted together. Pudding suddenly seemed to think of something, and said, "Ryou has to be nice, too. Otherwise Pudding will bite him."
"PLEASE don't bite me, once was more than enough," Ryou said a bit desperately.
"I think I'm missing something here," Taruto commented.
"Ryou tried to take Pudding's candy away from her a few weeks ago, and she literally almost bit his hand off," Lettuce sighed. "And she used her monkey fangs."
"Monkeys have fangs?" Taruto asked.
"Either that, or Pudding is a vampire," Ryou grumbled.
Taruto looked at Pudding, who said, "I vant to suck your blood!"- in a perfect imitation of Dracula.
Taruto ran for it, with Pudding chasing him all over the room, yelling, "Taru-Taru, I was joking!"
"Aaah! Vampire monkey!" Taruto screamed, flying up to the ceiling and hovering there.
The other, more mature people in the room were watching this with amusement. "Taruto, Pudding isn't a vampire, they don't exist," Lettuce called.
"Maybe vampires don't, but Pudding is a vampire MONKEY," Taruto said. "And there is no way I'm going to live with a vampire monkey."
"Would you like to share a room with Pai instead?" Keiichiro asked.
"YAAAAAH! HELL no!" Taruto said. "That's WORSE than a vampire monkey!"
Pudding giggled. "So Taru-Taru is coming home with Pudding?" she asked.
"Yes… but please don't drink my blood," Taruto said.
"Don't worry, even if Pudding was a vampire, vampires only drink human blood," Pudding said. "You're not human, right?"
"Definitely not," Taruto said. "So you won't drink my blood because I'm not human?"
"Taruto, Pudding is not a vampire OR a vampire monkey," Pai sighed. "Were you eating sugar again?"
"Uh… maybe?" Taruto said nervously.
"Does Taru-Taru want candy?" Pudding asked.
Taruto literally started drooling as he floated back down to the floor. "Candy…." he said in a dreamy voice.
Pudding giggled, and before anyone could stop them, Taruto teleported her to her house. Pai groaned. "Taruto's going to be hyper for life," he moaned.
"Maybe we should find some cure for hyperness, like a little dart or something that will counteract sugar," Ryou suggested.
"Let's do that soon, or we'll all be doomed," Pai said.
The others sighed as Ryou and Pai started discussing possible ways to counteract sugar.
I am officially doomed. This was requested by Cute doctor, and while it's a great idea that she came up with, I think I really shouldn't have done this. But please review, and we'll see where it goes. The title will come into play later on. Review!
