Lone Wolf

Disclaimer: I don't own TMM. At all. If I did, the ZP pairing would have actually happened.

A/N: This will probably be a one shot. If 5 people tell me to continue, I will.

Summary: An encounter between Pie and Zakuro. The alien tells the Mew his opinion on her solitude. Will be one-shot unless 5 people tell me to continue.

"For your evil actions, I will make you pay!"

The clear cry cut through the Tokyo night. The lavender-haired alien named Pie smiled. A Mew Mew was coming to fight him.

Good. That's what he wanted. Ever since the aliens had left Earth, Pie's friends Kish and Tart had been popping back to see their girlfriends, the Mews Ichigo and Pudding. Pie missed Earth too, but not having a girl to go visit gave him no excuse to return to the planet.

But Pie was bored, and to tell the truth, he did miss Earth. So he'd decided to annoy one or more of the Tokyo Mew Mew girls by popping back down and setting a few Kirema Anima loose on the streets of Tokyo.

Now, the tall alien hovered above a skyscraper while the five Anima, long, thin, fanged ones that had once been snakes, writhed around him. It sounded like only one of the five Mews was coming. He wondered idly which one.

Thwapp! A cross-shaped whip struck the nearest Anima's back as a tall, purple-haired girl with the ears of a gray wolf rounded the corner. It was Zakuro Fujiwara.

Zakuro……Pie froze for a moment. There was more than one reason he'd avoided coming back to Earth for so long. The biggest was that his feelings were incredibly mixed up. Kish and Tart thought of him as the emotionless, cold-hearted, mastermind who dispensed Kirema Anima with deadly accuracy. But ever since his feet had last left the planet's soil, Pie hadn't been able to get Zakuro out of his head…Secretly, he'd been hoping she would be the one to come….

Kirema Anima? We haven't seen any of these in ages! I thought the aliens were our allies now…at least, that's what Ichigo said…Zakuro thought. The werewolf refused to show her nervousness as she peeked up to see who was sending the snake-creatures at her.

It was Pie.

Zakuro had hoped she'd never see the lavender-haired alien again. She'd been able to fight him when Ichigo and the others had told her to—but only using the calm façade years of being a model had taught her. Now, her feelings were just as mixed up as his—but she didn't know that, of course.

She was the solitary one of the Mew Mew group, the one with the least attachments. Sure, Ichigo and the others were her friends, and she cared about them, but she didn't form the same kind of emotional bonds as, say, Pudding or Lettuce did. Certainly, she'd never fallen in love with a guy…but Pie made her feel the way no other man, human or alien, could…

Snap out of it, Zakuro! she thought. While she'd been….she hated to admit it….daydreaming,….the five Anima had circled around her, binding her arms and legs to her side.

"Ribbon Zakuro Pure!" she yelled. One of the snakes fizzled away into nothingness, but the other four tightened their grips on her limbs, like a warning.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," Pie said coldly, "Hello, Lone Wolf. It's been a long time."

"Pie, I'm sure you didn't come down to Earth just to say hello to us Mews," Zakuro replied, trying to keep her cool while struggling against the bonds the alien was holding her in.

"Oh, Zakuro, you're just always so friendly, aren't you," Pie answered with a mocking laugh, "On the contrary. I was bored. But now, I feel accomplished."

"And why would that be?" the werewolf questioned, trying to sound sarcastic.

"I finally caught one of the Mews on their own, without the others. But I would have suspected it, being you. You're such a lone wolf, Zakuro. Always alone, nobody to care about…." Pie tried to keep too much feeling out of his voice. Inside, he was thinking, How can she be doing this to me? I'm alone with her, she's at my mercy…and yet I can't bring myself to hurt her. Even Tart was able to hurt Pudding when he captured her in the Tokyo Dome, and he loves her! Am I going soft?

"I'm not alone!" the Mew replied quickly. "I have Ichigo, and the other mews. They're my best friends! And I get along with plenty of other models at my agency…"

"But you're jealous," the alien stated. "You pretend you love being so solitary, Lone Wolf, but you're jealous. All of your friends have someone they care about more than anyone. Ichigo has Kish, Pudding has Tart, Lettuce has Ryou, Mint has Keiichiro. You have nobody."

"That's because I'm the lone wolf, like you yourself said," she shot back. "I roam the fields and mountains freely, with nobody to hold me down. I have friends I care about, but nobody permanent, nothing last me, no boy to impair me in times of need. That is how the werewolf has always been, even in legend. You know that to be true, Pie."

Surprisingly, he didn't respond. Zakuro had expected some sort of barb, some prickly comeback. Instead, he stepped slowly and cautiously closer to the bound Mew. The snakes tightened their grip in response to his slow forward motion.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Zakuro." Pie said in a level, calm voice, as he continued to approach her. "You will only hurt yourself. If you are so estranged from everyone, who will cry when one day a Kirema Anima gets the best of you?"

"I need nobody to cry for me. Tears are for sentimentalists like Lettuce."

"Oh?" Pie was only a few feet from her now. She could see a strange expression in his large eyes, something she couldn't comprehend. "Well, think of this, Zakuro."

He was two feet from her…one foot…now scant inches. His face was so close to hers…she could feel his warm breath…smell his unique-to-alien scent. If he was going to try and kill her, now was the time. She held her breath, showing no fear to the alien.

But he didn't. Instead, he leaned close to her wolf-eared, purple-haired face. He paused with his eyes about two inches above hers, and dropped his voice to a whisper.

"Even the lone wolf longs for someone to care for them, Zakuro," he whispered. Then, he lowered his face two inches and kissed her.

The werewolf couldn't believe it. Pie, her former worst enemy, the alien that had plagued the earth with Kirema Anima for them to fight, was kissing her? Electricity surged through her body, but she ignored it.

Before she could truly comprehend the fact that Pie had just kissed her, he lifted his mouth away from hers and took two steps back. Without another word, he snapped his fingers and the snakes lifted themselves from her arms and legs. A second later, he was gone.

As Zakuro turned away, back toward her home, she tried to forget the feel of Pie's mouth on her own. She looked back just once, glancing into the star-filled night sky.

She could have sworn she heard words, strained as though whispered over hundreds of miles, but still audible.

"Even the lone wolf longs for someone to care for them, Zakuro……"