A/N: Yesh, hello one and all. This is my first TMM story. I usually write Teen Titans but I wanted to try something different. And TMM was my first anime series. I've probably read that silly story at least a zillion times. Anywho, I'm using the ages in the book, NOT ON THE SHOW. I'm also using the names in the book. Well I just wanted to say a little about myself before I go on with the story. Here you go.
Summery: Mint has gotten a boyfriend. Ichigo is a little jealous of her best friend, especially whenMint is datingher ex, Masaya. How can a certain blond hair, blue eyed boy help her of her envious ways? IXR.
Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew.
...Chapter one. Ichigo's POV...
Mint swung her legs softly back and forth on the park bench and looked up into the sky in a daze. The fall breeze shook the multicolored leaves from the tree above us and they slowly drifted to the floor. Mint plucked one out of her hair and went on looking at the sky.
Though everything may have seemed great for her, I clenched my fists tightly and murmured light curses underneath my breath. Zakuro let the breeze procure her hair and sift through it, sending strands of dark plum colored hair in my face. I brushed it away and stared at Mint. She sighed again as she had every two minutes. A light smile cascaded her pink lips and I rolled my eyes.
The three of us hadn't said anything to each other since Lettuce had left with Pudding to go feed the ducks in the small lake in front of us. I could see Lettuce shout in protest as Pudding went running in the lake after the ducks. They obviously had no interest in her breadcrumbs. Being 11, I would have assumed that Pudding would've grown up a little and would've learned not to be so careless.
Yes, the years had come and gone since the Mew Mew project and my powers were no longer needed. I did have to admit, I missed my powers. My team and I had attention with our super powers. We were in magazines, newspapers, and so forth. But that was almost 3 years ago and things had changed. Yes indeed, they had changed.
On thing was for sure, I dumped Masaya. He wasn't a bad fellow, really. I just found that with him studying abroad we were slowly becoming distant. When he found out how I truly felt, he came back to Tokyo to try to repair our relationship. Though, I was happy at first that he was back, our relationship was still slowly coming to an end. So we decided it was for the best if we just remained friends.
But, unfortunately over the past year Mint was becoming closer friends with Masaya. Then a couple of months ago, they started dating. I was happy and excited for Mint; she was my best friend, why wouldn't I be? At least, at first I was happy for her. I knew that choosing Masaya was either one of the smartest things she had done or one of the worst for me. It was both. They were a perfect match, but my jealousy about the couple had risen to a new level.
I have to oppose, I am not jealous. I just hate the fact that my best friend is dating my ex-boy friend. It was obscure and bizarre to me. A new feeling of loathe for Masaya had grown in me.
Mint sighed again.
"Mint, please stop it!" I said angrily. She turned to me; her wavy, indigo hair blew in the breeze as Zakuro's had earlier. She smiled. This hadn't been new to me; recently she had started smiling a lot more.
"I'm sorry, Ichigo. What's wrong?" She asked.
"You're sighing again," Zakuro answered for me, "Are you anxious about something?"
She shook her head, "No, I'm sorry I hadn't realized I was sighing. I'm fine."
I kicked my legs aggressively, my tennis shoes scraping across the dark green grass. Zakuro must've taken notice to me because I heard her smirk.
"What?" I asked and stared at her. She grinned in an evil way and the whipped her hair to the side, swiping it out of her way.
"I sense jealousy, Ichigo." She said calmly.
"Jealous," I laughed, almost cackled, "Of who?"
She nodded towards the dazed Mint, "Mint."
I laughed in a loud and mocking way, which I never did until now, "That's vague of you to say."
"I'm sure you heard me fine," She thought I didn't hear her.
"I did, I'm not jealous of Mint." I smiled.
"Ichigo, you've been acting a little more protective of Mint since she started dating Masaya." Zakuro looked across the lake at Lettuce and Pudding.
"Yeah, well shouldn't I?"
"No, you shouldn't be protective of Mint even if she is your best friend. She should have the right to date a person without you being right there pulling her away."
"I don't pull her away." I protested.
"You do." She replied.
"Only when we've planned something and Masaya ends up with us."
"That never happens Ichigo. Masaya is a nice guy, you should know, you dated him."
I didn't answer her. I knew he was a good guy and all, but I had this strange urge to just pull Mint away from Masaya when they were together around me.
I still wasn't jealous though.
I stared at Zakuro for a minute or two. Then I heard Mint gasp. Zakuro and I turned to look at what Mint was staring at. It was Masaya. I rolled my eyes as Mint grabbed my jacket sleeve.
"There's Masaya." She stated.
Boy, who knew Mint could be different all because of a guy. She had stopped drinking tea in the Café and started going out with Masaya to get tea, which was stupid. We had plenty of tea in the café and she was going out to buy some when she could get it for free.
"Good morning Ichigo, Zakuro, Mint." Masaya greeted us, but said Mint's name with more ardor.
Mint came out of her daze and replied, "Oh, good morning Masaya."
"It's more like the afternoon." I mumbled. Zakuro elbowed me and Masaya gave me a weird look. I smiled at him and he grinned back. When he wasn't looking I sneered.
"I know this is short notice, Mint but would you like to go the museum with me? If it's alright with you, Ichigo." Asked Masaya. Oh god, there he went again with helping the environment. He put on the act a couple of times with me.
Looking at displays of endangered species could tend to very boring. Mint even said she wasn't interested in the dead animal displays. I was going to protest and say she was spending the day with us but Zakuro beat me to it.
"She can go, we don't mind." Zakuro said in her normal tone.
"I'm going to get you, Zakuro!" I thought.
"Thanks guys. I'll see you later." Mint smiled to us and took Masaya's arm as he led her down the road. Lettuce and Pudding walked up to us a second later.
"Huh, is Mint going somewhere with Masaya?" Pudding asked when she and Lettuce walked up to Zakuro and I. Her body was half soaked and her blue jeans stuck her like a second skin.
"Yes," Zakuro responded.
"Oh, that's great. Did they say where they were heading too?" Lettuce clasped her hands together.
"The museum." I said through my teeth.
"That's wonderful." Lettuce smiled her usual shy smile.
"Yeah," Pudding laughed.
"Pudding, you're all wet." Zakuro stood up from the bench.
"Yeah, those stupid ducks ate all my bread." Pudding pouted.
I was wrong, I guess the ducks did want her breadcrumbs and Pudding didn't want them to have any.
"But isn't that why Lettuce took you over there?" Zakuro folded her arms.
"I wasn't finished with my sandwich." Pudding patted some of the additional water from her pants.
"We'll take you home to change Pudding." Lettuce suggested. Pudding nodded and they began to walk home. Zakuro was starting towards them but turned back to me.
"You need to lay off, Ichigo." She frowned.
"What?"
"You need to lay off and let Mint have her own relationship with Masaya. I'm saying this because I'm her friend as well and I've noticed you've been getting in-between her and Masaya. She's stopped to be with you whenever you've asked. Do you think she gets this often?" Zakuro said.
I hadn't really thought about that. Mint was very beautiful and could probably have any guy she wanted. But she never really had the time to go out and meet people. She was still in ballet and had a schedule to do things. I was also on her schedule, so it was probably hard to squeeze Masaya in and such. I looked to the floorwith a littleshame.
I shook my head, "I'm sorry, I didn't look at it that way."
"It's fine. Will you be joining Pudding, Lettuce, and I?"
"I'll catch up with you guy's later." I grinned. Zakuro grinned back and left, walking swiftly down the road.
I looked up at the sky and realized it was a very nice morning. The breeze blew again and the fall leaves fell from the tree above me. I pulled the red leaf that fell in my own crimson colored hair and twisted it in-between my fingers.
The only thing that I was really thinking about was that I still wasn't jealous.
To be continued…A/N: Thanks everyone for reading my story. I'm sorry if the characters seem a little OOC. I was kind of rushing but I promise they wont be so OOC in the next chapter. Anyways in the next chapter there will be Ryou! Yeah! Tell me what you guy's think. Oh and there's the 2 review count. If I don't get 2 or more reviews I'm not going to update. Sorry if that's harsh but it's not that hard to press the little purple button. - KTHM