A Black Story
By MewZyamu
CHAPTER ONE
"Returning to the Base"
"Kishu…?" Black appeared at the spaceship…
She turned around and flew down to a little Alien-boy with big, shiny, yellow eyes.
"Where's Kishu?" She asked without a smile.
"Ki-kishu is with Pai and Taruto, ma'am." The little boy answered with a hint of fear in his voice.
Black sighed and landed in front of the terrified little Alien-boy.
"And you have no idea where they are, I suppose…"
"No, ma'am. I'm sorry, ma'am."
"Sure, don't worry. I'll find them…" Black turned around to leave. "You can go now."
The little boy quickly ran away, and Black sighed again…
"I'll find him…"
"So… She's gone, again?" Ichigo asked, back at the Café.
"She attacked and now she's gone?"
"There was nothing I could do…" Ryou sighed. "Before I could react she'd left."
"How did Ryani transform into Black in first place?" Minto asked.
"She was transformed when I and Keiichiro came, so we don't know." Ryou answered. "Kishu must have activated her Red-DNA."
"But now she's strong enough, right?" Zakuro said. "Ryani is almost in the end of Black's transformation, isn't she?"
"She might." Keiichiro answered. "She could've transformed easily this time."
"The point is, we have to find her." Ryou said. "We can't lose Ryani. Especially not now."
"I think you meant that in a more personal way…" Minto said with a quiet voice.
"But what if she's not here on earth anymore?" Ichigo asked, ignoring Minto's commentary.
"We'll try to search for her. It might be hard since she's not Ryani anymore…"
"Kishu! There you are!" Black exclaimed when she got in to the spaceship's training center, finding Kishu training with Taruto and Pai.
When Kishu saw her, he disappeared away from his friends, who where still training…
After a few seconds he appeared in front of Black.
"Hello, missed me?" He asked with a little grin.
"Listen here, pervert." Black started, and she sounded quite irritated. "Neither Ryou or that Akasaka where at the Café when I attacked…! Why!"
"I don't have control over them, Black. They come and go as they want, what did you expect?" Kishu answered, without caring.
"I need to see if I'm strong enough against Ryani's boyfriend, Kishu!"
"Ryani's boyfriend: Kishu, I like that." Kishu said with a grin before walking past Black to the dark-blue corridor.
"This is serious…!" Black exclaimed before she ran after him.
"If I still can't fight Ryou because of Ryani's feelings, we'll have to make a stronger poison…" Black sighed while walking next to Kishu.
"Yes we will. And if you so badly want to fight that Ryou-guy, you'll just have to head back to earth…" Kishu answered with his hands behind his head.
"Why, right now?" Black asked surprised.
Kishu stopped walking, and so did Black.
"You've been nagging about battling Ryou since you got here, and now you don't want to!"
"I know, I know…" Black answered with a sigh.
"But what if Ryani is too strong…? I'm scared, Kishu. I really am."
"You? Scared?"
"Don't let it get to your head, ok?"
"Do you think Ryani is too strong?" Kishu asked seriously.
"I… I don't know. I've never had so much problem with hurting the others. But Ryou… I really can't understand why she likes him so much, and why wants to be with him so badly…" Black answered with worry in her voice.
"Wants to be with him? C'mon, Black, she sees that guy every day. How can she possibly wan…"
"I don't know." Black interrupted.
"There's something…" Black started and looked away as she started to shiver a little. "Something that she feels at night, when she's alone… Oh, I don't know!"
"You must be kidding…!" Kishu looked surprised to see Black so serious.
He snorted at Black's meaning look.
"Please don't tell me you're serious."
"What? Are you jealous?"
"No, I'm not!"
"Oh, yes you are." Black said with a scornful smile. "You are jealous. Kishu, the great warrior, is jealous of an earthling."
"Such nonsense." Black and Kishu heard a girl's voice.
Black turned around, finding an irritated Anani standing a meter behind her – with her hands on her sides.
"Oh, it's you." Black said condescending.
"I have a name, you know." Anani said without moving away from her spot, away from Black.
"Yes, I know that. I'm not stupid. Anani…" Black continued to sound condescending. "Oh, that sounded good. "Stupid Anani"…"
Since Black was taking Kishu's way of teasing, he felt kind of proud. But he didn't say anything.
He just gave both Alien-girls a little grin as they turned their attention to him…
"What are you smiling at!" They both exclaimed at the same time.
He shrug his shoulders and continued to have a little grin on his lips.
"My girls." He said shortly.
Black sighed as Anani blushed.
"She's too much." Black said with a quiet voice before she disappeared…
Ryou sighed…
It was late and he was sitting on his bed, in his lonely room at Café Mew Mew…
"She's been gone all day." He said with a low voice before standing up…
Ryou walked to his window and looked out.
It wasn't so dark outside at that point. But the sky was turning, from it's pink-purple color, to a dark-blue color…
No Aliens had attacked since Ryani disappeared, and everybody where getting really worried.
Especially Ryou.
"I wonder if she's ok…"
"Are you missing me?" A voice suddenly said.
Ryou turned around, finding Black stand on his doorstep.
"Black?"
Black nodded a little.
"Sorry to just come like this. You must be surprised, huh?"
"What do you want?" Ryou asked seriously.
"I really don't know why I came." Black answered, turning away her head.
"Are you going to fight me?"
"No."
"I… Just felt like coming here." Black said with a little confusion in her voice.
Ryou looked surprised at her.
"You… Felt like coming here?" He repeated, as if it was an impossibility.
"Stop repeating what I say. You'll make it sound crazy. It is crazy." Black said and walked up to him.
"Don't worry. I wont do anything." Black said, in a comforting way, when she noticed that Ryou seemed to be prepared for fight.
"What do you really wan…"
"I don't know." Black interrupted.
"I just know that I can find it here…" Black sighed.
"How's Ryani?" Ryou asked.
"Ryani is fine… She's just.. fine…!" Black sighed, before sitting down on Ryou's bed.
"She misses you, you know."
Ryou looked surprised at Black…
Black looked up at Ryou and tried to smile…
"I told you, I wont do anything."
Ryou nodded shortly before sitting down by Black's side…
"Besides…" Black started and looked down. "I could never hurt you. I guess…"
Ryou blinked surprised at Black's emotions and act.
"Really, why did you come? You must have any idea why, Black." Ryou asked, a bit worried.
Black smiled a little. "I guess Ryani wanted to come here… As I said, she misses you. Already."
"Black…"
"And the worst part is… I can't separate my feelings from hers… I don't know how I feel or think. And I can't transform back by myself." Black said with a sad tone on her voice.
She looked up at Ryou, that still seemed to be in a little chock…
But then… His look changed from surprised to understanding. With a smile.
"Do you want to change back into Ryani?" He asked.
Black nodded a little.
"I don't know why. But I'm just so sick and tired of all this Alien-thing… Strange, huh? I want to go back to being just Red-DNA. Or a person of my own. Or should I say Alien?"
"Nah, I think you'll fit as a normal human."
Black let out a small laugh… "I wish."
"Seriously, Black…" Ryou started. "Is there anything I can do? If there is any possibility that you can get Ryani back, I want to help."
Black sighed.
"I don't think so. The poison we used this time, to make Ryani transform, is quite strong. I don't know anything stronger."
"Not even…"
"No. I'm sorry but I don't think your, or my, emotions will work for this."
"But…" Black interrupted by putting her finger against Ryou's lips.
"Can we… Talk about something else? I think it would be for the best if we just talked. For Ryani, I mean." Black said and pulled back her hand.
"You really care for Ryani, don't you?" Ryou asked with an understanding smile.
"Let's just say I need her body." Black answered and laughed a little.
"You know… You seem quite different now… Not the same personality as I'm used to see you have." Ryou said.
And when Black looked up at him. She really reminded him about Ryani.
They do almost look the same. Just the ears, eyes and skin-color is different.
Well, Ryani's hair shines in red while Black's shines in a more gray, but still…
"You do act a little like Ryani."
Black's cheeks got a little red, but she turned her head away from him.
"I do?"
"Yes. Does it bother you?"
Black shook her head wildly.
"No, not at all."
"Right now, I feel like I don't have anything against Ryani, at all. Strange, huh?" Black smiled a little.
"No. You're both a part of each other. I guess it would be like having something against your self." Ryou answered.
"How much IQ did you say you have?" Black asked with a little smile.
"180+"
"Thought so."
They both laughed a little to that silly joke…
"I'm sorry I scared you…" Black said and her giggle, slowly, fainted away… "By coming here, I mean."
"It's ok. I'm kind of glad you did."
"Huh? Y-you are?" Black asked and her cheeks got warm and red.
Ryou nodded a little. "I'm happy to know that Ryani is ok… Besides, I got to know you better."
"Oh…?" Was the only response Black could give…
"Ryou…?"
"Hm? What?"
"You know about that thing I said… About not being able to separate my feelings from Ryani's?" Black started…
"Yes? What about it?"
"Well…" Black got closer to Ryou. "I think I'm having one of those moments… Now."
"What do you mean?" Ryou asked, pushing away the fact that Black seemed to be in loved with him.
Black started to listen carefully within herself, looking for a protest from Ryani…
When she didn't hear any, she thought it would be ok to give Ryou a kiss.
A tiny one, though.
"Ryou…" Black started, as she forced herself to get closer to him…"Try to see her in my eyes…" She said with a quiet voice.
"Try to see Ryani… In me." Just as she finished that sentence, she dragged him closer to her and pressed her lips against his.
Ryou didn't know what to do. Black seemed so sad, and she reminded him too much about Ryani to push her away.
He could just wait until Black got a grip of herself.
But Black knew in her messy mind that that would be impossible.
Inside she felt two different feelings. One that wanted to pull away and raise her weapon, and one that just wanted him to hold her and never let go…
But she did let go of him…
"Black…" Ryou wanted to say something to her but didn't know what.
Black clenched her hands and looked down at Ryou's light-brown cover as she started to shiver.
Her mind was a mess and she couldn't focus…
She looked up at Ryou with sad eyes, before she disappeared…
Black, carefully, landed on grass in the garden of the spaceship.
The Aliens' spaceship had a big, light-green, see-through, bubble where they kept their last flowers and trees.
It wasn't so big and the color of the grass wasn't so green, and fresh, as it was on earth.
Black sighed and jumped up to a tree, to sit on a big and thick limb, a big oak…
"Why did I do that?" She asked herself. "Why? It was so stupid!"
"What was stupid, darling?" Kishu appeared in front of her.
"I'm not your darling. And it's none of your business…" Black answered, she was already irritated and angry with him.
"Oh" Kishu whined. "Please tell me, tora-chan… C'mon…!" He said and glided closer to her, trying to look her in the eyes…
Black glanced, irritated, on him and snorted. "As I said, none of your business."
When Kishu still looked like a little three year old that wanted to know something, she got more and more irritated.
"…And stop calling me 'tora-chan'! I'm not Ryani, for crying out loud!" Black exclaimed and disappeared.
Kishu let out a little laugh. "No you're not… Not anymore."
And he disappeared too.
Black appeared at the spaceship's recovering room, "the rec. room", and sat down on a little light-green settee…
She sighed and closed her eyes…
She just had to talk to Ryani.
Black searched after the spirit of Ryani in herself…
"Ryani!" She shouted in her mind. "Ryani, get your ass down here and talk to me!"
After a few moments, Ryani appeared in front of Black, and her body was glowing in a really light white and her tiger-ears, and tail, where out.
But Black was glowing in gray, irritated and frustrated…
"What is it, Black?"
"As I said, I need to talk to you." Black answered.
"Oh? Is it about kissing my boyfriend?"
"Something like that."
"Why did you do it, Black?" Ryani asked. "Why did you even go to Ryou in first place?" And she seemed quite sad and worried.
"Why? You made me, you know!" Black exclaimed. "You didn't protest when I was about to kiss him and you wanted to go there!" Black was quite irritated. She hated to not have any control over her emotions. And who doesn't?
"I didn't do anything because I couldn't! Black, I'm disappearing! Don't you understand that?" Ryani answered.
"Disappear? Ryani, I didn't decide to go to Ryou and you wanted to kiss him! I just couldn't separate our feelings and thoughts!" Black said.
"And do you know why? Because we feel the same! We're the same person."
"Do you also have 180 IQ, or what?"
"Seriously, Black… You've fallen in love with him." Ryani said with a sigh.
"I've not! You're just confused, too! Our feelings are soon becoming just mine!" Black exclaimed.
"Then… You'll be in loved with Ryou, and the earth would be saved from all Aliens, right?"
"No!"
"I'm tired of you! I just wish you would go away! Disappear! Die!" Was Black's last sentences before she disappeared, while opening her eyes…
Black stood up, growling a little in her fury.
"I'm not in loved with Ryou, I won't give the earth up for him and I didn't want to go to him today!" Black exclaimed while walking past a couple of Aliens, out to the corridor.
"Wasn't that the new Alien? That powerful Black?" One of the Aliens asked.
"She must be. Look at the heat in her eyes…!"
Black landed in front of Kishu when he was just about to enter his room.
"Transform me back." She said shortly.
"Say what now?"
"Please Kishu…" Black started and looked sad. "Transform me back into Ryani. Let her see Ryou. Just for one day."
"Why? What are you getting out of it?" Kishu asked.
"Calmness. She and her stupid feelings wont leave me alone. Right now, she's more trouble than if she wasn't me. If you get what I mean." Black answered with a sigh.
Kishu also sighed. A long and heavy sigh.
"I'll see what I can do about it…"
Black smiled a little. "Thanks Kishu. It would mean a lot."
"Yeah, yeah… Can I at least get a kiss for it?"
"No."
The doors to Café Mew Mew carefully opened the next day…
A girl came in and closed the doors behind her…
Her eyes was in a ruby-red color and her hair was black, but shined in red.
She was wearing a short, white, dress with shoulder straps to a pair of red boots.
Around her neck she had a star, made of little, red, diamonds, as a necklace with a black chain.
She sighed an looked around at the Café.
Everyone was working as usual.
Suddenly…
"Ryani-oneechan, na no da!" Purin jumped up to her.
"Hi Purin." The girl, who was no one else but Ryani Zyamu, said.
"Ryani!" The other girls shouted surprised and walked up to her.
"How are you?" "Where did you go?" "Did Kishu treat you badly?" "Did you see Tarutaru, na no da?"
Ryani raised one hand so they all stopped talking…
"I'm sorry, but… I need to see Ryou." She said, looking sad because of interrupting them.
Everybody moved aside so Ryani could walk past them to the stairs…
Ryani stood in front of Ryou's door, looking at it for a few seconds…
She sighed and knocked on the brown door.
"What is it?" She heard Ryou's voice from inside the room.
"Ryou…" Ryani answered, hoping he would recognize her voice.
It was quiet and still for a few moments before Ryou opened the door, finding Ryani in front of him.
Before Ryani could react, Ryou had put his arms around her and hugged her tightly…
"I'm so sorry." He said, knowing that Ryani knew about Black's kiss.
"It's OK. I guess it's my fault." Ryani answered before hugging him back.
Ryani looked at her left side, finding the others standing next to them…
"Guys…" She said quietly and let go of Ryou, as he did the same.
Before Ryani got to say anything else, the other girls hugged her.
"Where so glad you're back." Ichigo said, smiling.
"Group hug, na no da!"
All of the girls laughed lightly at Purin's happy commentary.
"But, guys…" Ryani let go of her friends… "This is only temporary. Black asked Kishu to transform me back for 24 hours, mostly so I could see Ryou."
"Black did that?" Ichigo asked, surprised.
"I guess she did. Ryani is here, isn't she?" Minto said.
"Well, if you're here to see me…" Ryou suddenly said, putting his arms around Ryani's waist.
She blushed darkly and her tiger-ears and tail popped out.
The others laughed a little at her awkwardness and her blush.
"So not funny." Ryani said but smiled a bit at herself.
"So you're here to see Shirogane-oniichan, na no da?" Purin asked.
Ryani nodded. "Yes, but…"
"Then let's go, na no da!"
Purin turned around to the other girls.
"We'll go, na no da."
"Eh, but Purin…" Retasu tried while Purin turned them all around so they could walk down the stairs.
"Hurry up so they can do it, na no da!"
Ryani blushed darkly and ogled up at Ryou, while he just looked surprised at the others walking away – protesting.
Ryani sighed a little…
"Feels good to be back…"
Ryou suddenly hugged her more tightly and came close to whisper in her ear.
"It feels good to have you back."