Disclaimer: Nothing really… if I did own Tokyo Mew Mew, I wouldn't be writing here would I?

Prologue

There are many stories that begin with "Once upon at time..."

But this story

Is a story

Like no other

It happens not only once

Upon a time

It happened twice

It is a story with a Romeo and Juliet

Struggling so that they could

Be together

And live happily ever after...

But that once... that love failed

And the spirits of the two lovers...

Came upon their children's children

Generations later...

They are just in hope,

That they won't make the same mistakes

Again...

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Chapter 1

"Ichigo…wake up… It's time to get ready!" said a girl with a monotone voice.

Ichigo was wrapped up in her covers like a burrito. She was definitely not looking forward to this party.

"Mint… leave me alone… you know on how I highly dislike going to the parties of the Ryou descendents. I thought our families were enemies…besides, its a lot of hours until that party! It won't take that long to get ready!" Ichigo replied, keeping her eyes shut.

"Ichigo… I know how much you hate these parties… and so do I… but it's said that these parties were the sake for our mothers' mothers' mother's…whatever… but they were best friends…besides.. It would surprise you on how long it would take to get into that dress…" Mint replied in a know-it-all voice.

Strangely enough, though these parties only happen yearly, there were so many celebrations shared between the Ryou descendents and the Mayasa descendents.

Ichigo's eyes bolted open, though showing reluctance to get up glistened in her chocolate brown eyes. Her pink hair was all over the place, giving her a really wild look. She glared at her blue-haired elder sister, with blue-eyes filled with loathing and boredom.

"I see that you're excited for the party…" Ichigo smiled sarcastically, showing her pearly teeth. Mint just smiled back with a mischievous grin.

"Hurry up! We need to get you ready and beautiful…Maybe you'll see Mayasa there!" teased Mint.

Ichigo's pale cheeks from sleep tinted with a healthy pink, as her eyes were filled with happiness and the corners in her mouth slightly went up. Then, her eyes filled with panic, and her smile turned into a frown. Mint stifled a laugh as she saw her younger sister bustle about and panic.

"OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS, OH MY GOODNESS… WHAT IN THE WORLD AM I GOING TO DP? OUCH!" she squealed as she tripped on one of her pillows and landed on her hard stone floor. Luckily, it had a rug over it to prevent scratches and scrapes.

"Calm down Ichigo… you dress was already laid out for you… you were just dumb enough not to notice it…" Mint said strictly. She was getting quite annoyed of her sister's childish actions over a boy yet…

Ichigo's chocolate brown eyes grew wide, as they filled with tears. "I just wanted to look really good for Mayasa…" she cried. She felt quite dumb that her dress was on her bed and she just threw it of in her state of panic.

"And since your not a young girl anymore… you will have to start wearing a corset!" Mint said, with no emotion whatsoever. Ichigo looked at her like she was crazy.

"You are not getting me in a corset! And that's final!" Ichigo huffed.

A FEW MOMENTS LATER…

"I can't believe you got me into a corset!" Ichigo whined, as Mint pulled tighter on the strings. She'd taken a nice bubble bath…put on skin cream… and now this!

"That was quite easy younger sister," Mint said with a huge breath. She was struggling to tighten the corset, for it was cutting her fingers, "All I needed to say that Mayasa would notice your beautiful body and curves if you'd worn it…" Mint said.

"FINALLY," Mint said in triumph as she finished lacing the corset without it loosening.

"How…do…people…breath...IN THESE THINGS!" Ichigo yelled, trying to get enough air in her first few words.

"Yes… you'll faint quite easily if you get scared in corsets but… they'll look great in the dress… now let's put on the dress!" Mint smiled.

Ichigo whined inwardly, knowing that she couldn't say no.

"Fine…" she mumbled.

"You're finally being a good girl…" said Mint sarcastically.

It took quite a while to get the dress on… there were so many layers! But still… it was a beautiful design. She had white gloves with a ribbon to tighten it at the wrist. It was sleeveless, and was tight around her chest. Her dress itself was the colors of white, pink, light pink, and hot pink. To complete the dress, her hair was put into pig tails, and a bell was tied around her neck. During that process, Mint told her a little bit of the family.

"You know what's weird? They say that our ancestor's name was Ichigo! You guys have the same name. They always had storied that Ichigo was beautiful, yet when you were born, they said she looked like you! That's why your name was Ichigo!" Mint said, though there was an irritation in her voice.

"Well… that's nice…" Ichigo said thinking about what Mint was saying. She'd seen pictures of her ancestor "Ichigo", did look like her.

"Thank goodness I have longer hair though…" replied Ichigo happily. She didn't like her ancestor's style of short hair. Ichigo's hair was a few more inches beyond shoulder length.

"Yeah thank goodness… though I would say I'm prettier than you are…" mumbled Mint. Mint didn't hate her sister, but she hated the fact that her klutz of a sister was like their graceful ancestor.

"I also heard that the bell that you're wearing now was the famous bell that symbolized Ichigo's true love's love for her," Mint sighed dreamily.

"Don't worry Mint… I know you're more graceful… more beautiful… yet lazier than I am!" said Ichigo, half complementing and half teasing. Mint just laughed at what Ichigo said.

"Who did your outfit anyway, I notice that YOU are ready…" said Ichigo.

"Mother helped me… and she told me to help you so we could have more "sister bonding"…" replied Mint with a slight irritation in her voice.

"Oh…" said Ichigo. Mint was almost finished with the dress, all Ichigo needed to do was wear shoes and make-up.

"Ichigo, I'm putting on light pink blush and eye color okay?" Mint asked. Ichigo just nodded, already closing her eyes.

After a few minutes, Mint said that Ichigo was done. Ichigo's last stop was putting on a high heeled open sandal with gold straps holding her foot.

Ichigo tried to put on her first shoe, but failed miserably. As she put her foot in and reached down to put on the strap to secure her foot, she fell over.

"BE CAREFUL ICHIGO! YOUR DRESS WAS VERY FRUSTRATING TO PUT ON!" replied Mint.

"Mint… can… you… help… me… with… this…" Ichigo said breathily. The corset was finally taking over her.

"Okay…" Mint said. Some could say that she was starting to hate her sister, but others would say that she was just hiding her laugh she wanted to let out.

After a few MORE minutes, Ichigo was ready.

"Oh my goodness Ichigo… you look beautiful… you don't look like that klutzy sister of mine anymore!" Mint said, not sarcastically, but seriously.

Ichigo closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She recalled Mint having a hard time with her corset… what if she looked fat? She turned around, but still kept her eyes shut. She could feel the cold hair coming from her open windows touch her bare skin on her shoulders.

"I'm not kidding Ichigo… look in the mirror!" Mint demanded.

Ichigo opened one eye slowly, and then opened the other eye. She looked at herself with awe. "Is that me?" she asked herself, yet not realizing she said that out loud. In the mirror she saw Mint's beautiful and graceful figure, her head nodding.

Ichigo's supposed childish pigtails gave her the look of youth, and enjoyment of life. Her pinks were a very light pink, which just showed that she had life in her face. Her dress made her and her body look matured, and there were nice curves. Ichigo being still young, thankfully did not have huge breasts, but were big enough to be there and fit in her dress. For the first time in Ichigo's life, she looked like a young woman, not a young child.

Out of all, her chocolate brown eyes stood out of her whole outfit, for they were the only ones not related to pink or white. Ichigo's hand went to her bell, which rang as she turned around to look at herself, not believing that it was her.

"Mint… thanks you…" Ichigo smiled gratefully towards her sister, who smiled back.

"I'd still say I looked prettier than you…" Mint huffed. Ichigo just smiled, and hooked her arm around her sister's and started walking out of her room. It was time for the party.

"DEARS, YOU LOOK BEAUTIFUL! Mint, as graceful and headstrong as ever… and Ichigo! As excited, and more matured!" squealed their mother as she walked up quickly to meet them at the stairs.

Mint, you have great artistic abilities! You have finally made her sister into a young woman!" said their mother happily. Mint blushed. She usually wasn't noticed of her mother because of her sister's uncanny likeness to their ancestors.

Their mother's dress was simple, a sparkling dress of blue. Her face shined with youth as Ichigo's, yet there were a few wrinkles on her forehead showing that she was getting old herself. Their father was just in a normal suit of black and white, obviously not wanting to go that party written all over his face. His face was creased with worried, and stress during work. Yet his wrinkles of age did not disrupt his overall handsome looks.

"I don't see why you let them dress up for our enemies!" scoffed their father.

"Henry! They're not only our enemies, our cousins and friends are also coming there! I heard that charming young boy Mayasa will come! Besides, my sister may have married that Ryou descendent, but their family if very nice. I can't even believe that we have an enmity against them… but then, that is family!" said their mother happily.

The two sisters watched in awe as their mother's blossoming personality and beauty cracked their hard shell of their father. He smiled at his wife, thinking second thoughts and maybe the party would be good for his daughters to find suitors.

The couple was exact opposites. Their mother was well-rounded and a social butterfly, while their father was conservative and not very sociable.

"Now let's get into the carriage shall we?" said their mother, smiling as their father took out his arm and offered it.

"May I, Silvia?" he asked, and she just laughed, saying that he was acting as if they were young again.

The two sisters followed their mother and father to a white carriage rimmed with gold. Their driver was a nice man, who directed their white horses in front. Their driver's name was Haru, who Ichigo noticed winked to Mint, and Mint slightly blushed.

"Do those to have a special relationship?" thought Ichigo to herself. That thought was eventually lost into a deep pool of worries and thoughts that swirled in Ichigo's head.

Her stomach felt full of butterflies, and her mouth felt cottony. The thought of seeing Mayasa again was making a wreck out of her! She could remember the first time she saw Mayasa. His black hair always getting in the way of his eyes, his dreamy onyx eyes… he always loved nature. Maybe even more than her… could Mayasa stop paying attention to what's out there and look what's in front of him?

Ichigo was worrying as she looked outside and trees… she didn't mind Mayasa becoming a scientist and liking biology… but for once to look at her and notice her.

"Aren't most of those scientists mostly whacko?" a thought popped up into Ichigo's head. She shook her head and told herself that Mayasa was not going to turn into somebody weird and look ugly.

Ichigo spent most of her time worrying, that she hadn't noticed that they were finally there yet until Mint pinched her.

"OW!" Ichigo squealed and glared at Mint, who was already outside of the carriage.

"Ichigo, go inside right now! Mama and Papa already went inside so it wouldn't appear that rude! Thank goodness we arrived early or we would've been late with you bumbling and worrying!" Mint said, pointing to a huge mansion that the carriage stopped right in front of them. Ichigo glared at Mint, but went outside anyway. It was cold, really cold. Thank goodness for the many layers on her dress and her shawl (her shawl was pink as well).

Ichigo went outside, and waited for Mint. But Mint said she needed to pay the driver. Ichigo thought that it was something else, but didn't exactly want to see Mint and the driver kissing if they did so she left.

She hadn't noticed how bumpy the cobblestones were leading up to the mansion, or how long and how many gardens she had passed. The wind was very strong as well, and if Ichigo's hair weren't in pigtails, or even up, her hair would be all over the place.

"Dumb shoes…" Ichigo kept muttering to herself as the heels eventually went into a crack. Walking on a rough terrain isn't fun with heels either.

"I wonder how Mint and Mama survive this torture…" Ichigo thought to herself as she continued her chant of dumb shoes. First, the corset and now painful high shoes… Sooner or later, she was going to faint.

"Sadly…" Ichigo thought to herself, "The corset even ups the percentage of me fainting!" Ichigo stopped for a moment to look up at the mansion. It may be early, but in the winter, it gets dark very early. She looked around for Mint, but there was no sight of her. Maybe her first guess was right… Mint was kissing the driver. Now that thought made her laugh… but they did look kind of cute.

If it weren't for their age differences and his relationship with her older sister, Ichigo might've had a crush on their driver. But she didn't, and that's all that mattered.

Her deep thought once more made her not pay attention to what was happening, so her grip around her shawl loosened. This made it easier for the wind to take it away.

"SHAWL… WAIT… COME DOWN!" Ichigo commanded of her shawl. But a shawl being an inanimate object, and it being weak against the wind, it did not come down.

Therefore, Ichigo chased it into the descendent of Ryou's gardens. There was where she started repeating history once more.

A tall form of a man jumped and caught Ichigo's shawl. Ichigo stopped for a moment as he caught her shawl and observed it, but then walked up to him.

"Thank you for catching my shawl…" she said shyly. Ichigo was definitely not good with talking to strangers.

"You know… telling your shawl to come down won't do any good…" the boy chuckled, making Ichigo feel embarrassed and annoyed.

"Well… anyway, I thank you… now can you please give me back my shawl now?" said Ichigo angrily.

"Fine, that's a nice thank you-" said the boy before Ichigo got angry.

"A NICE THANK YOU, I GAVE YOU A NICE THANK YOU DEAR SIR BEFORE YOU RUDELY SAID THAT TELLING MY SHAWL TO COME DOWN WOULDN'T DO ANY GOOD!" fumed Ichigo in outrage.

"Whoa, whoa, calm down!" said the boy, saying the words that you normally say to a horse.

"Do not treat me like a horse! I am a descendent of Ichigo and Mayasa! HUMPH!" said Ichigo, snatching her shawl back rapidly from the hands of the boy. But not before she noticed his features.

The boy was charming. Blonde hair and ocean blue eyes that were filled with mischievous plots no doubt. His mouth was curved upward in a smirk, showing that he was enjoying Ichigo's outrage.

Though the boy's features were charming, his eyes and smirk angered her even more that made her leave the boy as soon as possible. This anger fueled her to go up to the mansion, without noticing how cold or how rough the road was.

"ICHIGO! What happened and why are you so late?" scolded Mint. Ichigo got the gist that she had been gone for a while. She somewhat got lost in the gardens but got to the mansion as quick as she could.

"I had to get my shawl which went into the gardens and I got it…" mumbled Ichigo, "How was your session with Haru?" she sneered.

Mint's expression softened and just smiled, "Let's brush your hair, your pigtails are getting tangled…"

Mint pulled Ichigo to the side and sat her down at the chair to brush her hair. Ichigo was far from bored as she was getting groomed, she watched in wonder like a little girl again as she saw others dancing the waltz and other ballroom dances.

Of course, she'd seen these dances many times herself but to see it, and know that she would finally be able to dance, that is after she gets her hair brush, excited her to know what steps to do.

While brushing her hair, Ichigo and Mint were approached by a certain boy Ichigo did not want to see exactly.

"Hello Miss Mint, Hello Miss Ichigo… may I ask you to dance?" said a familiar blonde-haired boy.

Mint greeted him with a smile, obviously not knowing who he was or what he did to anger Ichigo, but Ichigo gave him a weak smile. She knew that she had to be polite and her parents wanted her to dance with every bachelor in the party.

Before Ichigo said yes, which Mint was pressing her to, Ichigo started looking around the party, hoping to see that the annoying boy was not single, but indeed engaged, and she did not have to dance with him.

Ichigo saw no one, and saw Mint from the corner of her eye glaring at her, so she reluctantly took his hand, as he wrapped his arm around her waste to dance.

How is it? PLZ TELL ME! I want to know… I'm still a beginner at writing these fics, so please go easy! NO FLAMES! I just want some tips, compliments, and maybe light critism…

Aphros