"I'm worried. Riku hasn't been the same since my grandmother died," I heard my mother whisper to my grandmother. "Yes, they were very close," she whispered sadly. It was true, I was really close to great-grandma Ichigo. She died a year ago, and I missed her dearly. But ever since she died, everyone seemed to be acting carefully around me, whispering behind my back.
Great-grandma Ichigo hated when I called her that, she told me it made her feel old. So I just called her Ichigo. She would tell me stories of when she was younger, though I could tell none of them were true. She told me that she was once part of a group of girls, infused with the D.N.A of endangered animals. My mother and grandmother used to think she was crazy, and discussed putting her into a retirement home. But before they could, she died.
I couldn't stand to listen to my mother anymore, so I picked up my coat and I walked outside. Then I ran, because if my mother found out I'd left the house, she'd be furious. I kept running, until I realised I was at the endangered animal exhibit. Why did I come here? I went to walk inside, when a man stopped me, "may I see your ticket?" he asked. I flinched, "I'm sorry I didn't know that I needed one." "No ticket, no entry," he said sternly. "Here," a voice said from behind me. I turned around to see a brown haired boy holding out a ticket. "Oh no, I couldn't," I refused. "Don't worry about, I don't need it. I've seen this exhibit before," he smiled. I blushed and took the ticket, "thank you." I gave the man the ticket, and he let me through. I went to thank the brown haired boy again, but when I turned around, he was gone. I didn't even know his name.
I looked around for a bit. Then I came to the feline exhibit, and stopped in my tracks. There was a picture there. It showed a girl with pink hair, cat ears, and an adorable pink outfit. Next to that, a picture of the Iriomote Wild Cat. There was a caption underneath:
'Tokyo Mew Mew: Mew Ichigo. Leader of the Mew Mews, a girl mixed with Iriomote Cat DNA, so that she and her friends could save our world from destruction.' "Mew mew... that's what Ichigo used to talk about. And this girl, she looks just like... No way, impossible!" I shook my head. Then I read her birth and death dates. "No way, it's the same as Ichigo... So... it was all real? She wasn't making it up?"
To be continued...