I'm such a bad writer. I keep writing everything else other than what I should be (my ongoing stories - god damn it). I will...eventually...I promise...just not saying when, because I don't really know - oops'ies!
Anyway, bit of a dark hint in the middle but nothing happens otherwise the rating wouldn't be T it would be M...but its not, so its okay ;) But theres the warning anyway.
Its not all that cutesy in my opinion but I still kinda like it...I think...please review...I'm tired...zzz
*~ To Know him ~*
"Ready?" their blond boss looked between each girl making sure they each had the same look of determination and blind hope they always did. He flung his arm out, fingers spread wide and the girls took off before he even breathed the first word, "Tokyo mew mew, go!"
The girls transformed as they ran through the dark night streets of Tokyo. Their faces looking a little more aged than they normally did after all this time, with the angular sharp edges of darkness that the street lights high above caused to form across their cheeks. Background noise full of the humming engines of cars, car horns and the gravel and concrete under all of the vehicle tires. The sound of their steps on the pavement also echoed around the streets that they navigated. Just waiting for a signal.
Each of their family or friends thought that they were safely at a sleep over at one another's house just so that they could put this plan in to action.
They knew there was going to be an attack tonight, Tart had taunted Pudding about it last time they had fought them. So they devised a plan.
That was when they heard a roar; it was close but still more than a mile and half away. Ichigo looked to Zakuro and Mint over her shoulder, "You know what to do!"
The purple and blue mew nodded and split from the rest of the group. The two mews went in the direction of the evident chimera anima - nothing on Earth could naturally make that noise, not in downtown Tokyo. The remaining mews dashed as fast as they could to a point of the city that they had only been to once because they had only needed to go there once.
In amidst the tall city buildings, roughly more than half way up a particular office block there was an invisible slip in to the alien's alternate realm. That was the destination of the remaining mews.
As they climbed the building as fast they possibly could they could hear the roaring continue in the background and also a faint crash. Once at the place where they needed to be. Pudding jumped first, never one to be shy. Next Lettuce flung herself from the building's side in to a seemingly empty space of air. If they hadn't known the door was there it would be like climbing a building only to jump off and fall straight down in to the busy night street below.
Ichigo paused and looked in the direction the commotion was coming from. She could see the chimera anima - good, only one - but, Jesus, it was huge. Just then she saw a blue shockwave hit the side of the monster and it shrieked with pain and annoyance. Her comrades had arrived.
"You can do it Mint. You can do it Zakuro. I believe in you," she said quietly and then leapt in to the night sky.
There was a moment of free fall and just when Ichigo thought that she may have missed calculated the jump and had somehow been a little off with her location, the air around her shimmered and the solid buildings and street below rippled and fazed in to a dimly lit amber hallway.
Her body seemed to slow as she approached the ground and her feet met the ground softly, with a small click of her heels.
Pudding and Lettuce looked to Ichigo awaiting orders.
"Okay, so we're looking for information," Ichigo reminded them, "Any little thing can help. Let's try first looking for...err...some sort of computer and or any kind of books we can find."
"I wonder if the aliens have any manga, na no nada!" Pudding cried with a silly grin on her face and giggled.
Lettuce then remember something, from that time they had been so long ago when saving Masha, "Ichigo, do you remember the console that Pai used to lock us in the oxygen cage? It was round and seemingly made of glass but it acted somewhat like a computer would."
"You're a genius Lettuce!" Ichigo cried with a wide hopeful smile. They started running down the corridor towards the big open room at the end, "We'll see what we can find using that thing."
"Ichigo onee-chan is clever knowing how to use alien gadgets," Pudding chimed along side Ichigo.
The pink mew felt a stab of worry but shook it out of her head almost immediately - she could only try her best.
The three mews got to the room and straight away locked eyes on the platform and panel with the translucent glass sphere suspended in mid air above them. That's all it seemingly was - glass - but the girls knew better.
Ichigo walked over to and after a slight hesitation stepped up on to the platform. The orb glowed faintly and then words began to scroll across the screen in a language that she couldn't read. She felt her heart drop. More and more strings of foreign letters and words and symbols threaded across the orbs surface.
Ichigo groaned and cried, "Urgh! I can't understand any of this!"
Just then a voice filled the room and the girls froze, "Please wait," it wasn't a voice they recognised and it sounded slightly tinny and robotic causing the girls to assume that the computer had heard her.
"Maybe its voice activated as well?" Lettuce suggested, looking around the room to make sure they definitely were alone.
Just then the panel opened and a smaller orb floated out. The hatch closed again. The voice spoke again, "Please place hand on the information transferal sphere."
The pink mew looked down at the smaller orb then looked uncertainly at Lettuce who looked just as unsure as her.
"What are you waiting for, na no da?" Pudding cried, the younger mew clearly not worried in the slightest and rather excited.
"Well," Ichigo sighed turning back to the alien devices, "Here goes nothing."
The moment her shaky hand connected with the cold glass of the ball, her vision blackened and then lit up brighter than she had ever seen before. She gasped, she wasn't seeing in front of her anymore, she was the seeing the screen of the orb as if that's all there was and suddenly the foreign unknown words weren't so unknown anymore. They hadn't changed at all but she could read them now. But even saying that she needn't read them so carefully for as soon as it appeared on screen it was already in her mind, like she already knew it.
"Um, Ichigo?" Lettuce asked with concern.
"This is incredible!" Ichigo breathed. Just then images from the alien's world started flooding in to her mind and even video clips. Her face contorted from excited awe in to sadness then. She watched children crying while they were ushered under ground because of particularly bad storm happening on the surface of the planet. She saw teens who stood quiet and solemn with the adults forced to act older than their age. They lived this way? "How awful."
"What?" Lettuce asked. Ichigo's initial statement had intrigued her but calmed her worries that second statement however cause a little anxiety to flare up again, "What do you mean?"
Ichigo was so engrossed in the footage she was absorbing she didn't hear Lettuce, not entirely - maybe in the back of mind at least.
Just then she came across videos that weren't like the once she had seen. They didn't seem like the informational sort, these seemed personal and she knew instantly why as they played out before her.
The first she saw a young boy around Pudding's age - maybe only a little older -holding a baby and another even younger child next to him. They were smiling at the camera and a woman's voice spoke from out of view.
'So boys, what's the occasion?' she sounded cheery and the boys looked between each other and then down a the baby in the older boys arms. The smiles on their faces were huge and to say excited was understatement.
The younger cyniclon boy cried happily and it caused a catch in Ichigo throat, 'It's Taruto's birthday!'
'Yay' they cried and the mother laughed happily and then asked the children, 'So, what was that you wanted to say to your brother for so long?'
The older child smiled down at the baby in his arms, he kissed his forehead and said sweetly, 'Welcome to the world, little brother.'
'It's nice to meet you, Taruto!' the other boy cried happily.
The clip ended there and another began playing. The boys were older here, only by a few years. They looked a little worried in this one and their was a woman sat with the youngest child - most likely Taruto - on her lap with her arms around him. The next voice was of a man's.
'Hey,' he called their attention. The boys, with exception of little Tart who seemed too young to understand what was happening, looked to him with uncertain gazes and their sitting postures a little tense. The woman turned to the camera as well and then smiled warmly. The man continued, 'Anyone wanna go find something to eat while we wait?'
The young teen gave the camera an unimpressed look, 'We just finished dinner, Dad.'
'Well, I didn't,' the man said from behind the camera, 'Alarms went off just as I bit in to the best potato I've ever eaten and now its getting cold on the table back on the surface.'
'If the house is even there,' the boy grumbled, looking away.
The woman who was sat next to him, nudged him with her shoulder and he looked up at her, 'Don't be so pessimistic Kisshu. Home will still be there when the storm passes.'
There was a pause while their father seemed to be in thought. Then the camera turned around and a man's face came in to view. He smiled and looked cheery. He began in a strange but funny voice, he held his free hand to his face but there was nothing in it, 'Hello and welcome to the Ikisatashi Show. I'm your host Amondo Ikisatashi and our first guest today is..." he turned the camera back around to face the others.
The woman, who now Ichigo realised was their mother, had a wide amused grin on her face watching her husband make light of what appeared to be a rather dismal situation. Kisshu who sat with his arms crossed, rolled his eyes and shook his head.
Their father held his clasped yet still empty hand out in front of the eldest boy who hadn't said anything yet. He looked too worried up until this point but when this father directed his attention to him he gave him a small smile, 'Really, Dad?'
'Hey, don't break character Tart's watching the show and currently he is our only viewer!' the father scolded half-heartedly.
The boy gave a soft laugh and glanced at his youngest brother who was indeed watching with big eyes full of wonder ignorant happiness. The boy turned back to the camera, sighed and then played along, 'Hey! My name's Pai! I'm the oldest child in the Ikisatashi family and I'm definitely the smartest as well.'
'Hey!' Kisshu cried and shoved his brothers side causing Pai to chuckle at his reaction.
Their mother chuckled as well. The father then held his hand out in front of the other brother and asked, 'And who are you?'
'Me?' Kish asked and then smiled mischievously, 'Well I'm Kisshu Ikisatashi! I'm the second oldest! I'm also the most attractive one! Far more than Pai who who isn't cool in the slightest and he can't even tell Keki that he has the most severe crush on her just so she can turn him down. Ahh!'
Ichigo couldn't suppress the smile that crept on her lips as she watched a young Pai tackle a young Kisshu who was laughing uncontrollably. So was their father from behind the camera. Their mother was shaking her head at him but even she couldn't stifle her giggles.
The clip ended and yet again another played.
It began with a close up of Kish who seemed to be setting up the camera, 'There,' he said and then ran to join his brother's side. The boys looked more familiar here but still younger than there were now. They were wearing their uniforms and holding their weapons, all three of them.
They posed together and after a while Pai's eyes shifted to Kisshu and he asked, 'How long did you set the timer for?'
'Ten seconds,' Kisshu narrowed his eyes at his brother.
'It's been ten seconds,' Pai rolled his eyes, 'Are you sure you clock the right buttons?'
'I'm sure I know how to use a simple camera, Pai!' Kisshu complained as he walked up to the camera.
'Told you we should have waited for Dad to come home,' Taruto sighed bringing his legs up to sit crossed legged in mid air.
Kisshu got the camera and turned it over, 'Oh, its recording.'
'You idiot,' said Pai's voice with a laugh before the clip yet again ended.
The next clip of their mother and father dancing with other adult cyniclon couple in a large gathering it seemed. Ichigo watched as they stared in to each others eyes full of love and twirled together, hand in hand to the music that played in the background.
There was a muffled voice and then Pai's voice asking loudly above the music, 'What?'
'Do I have to dance with Morro?' Tart voice sounded whiney.
There was a laugh which wasn't Pai's but she could still hear a smile in his voice when he replied, 'Its a tradition Tart, of course you do.'
'Look, you're not alone,' came Kisshu's voice followed by two lots of laughter, 'She doesn't wanna dance with you either.'
After a few more moments the music stopped and the couples all stopped dancing. They started making their way back to the groups of people around from the inner circle which was the dance floor. The aliens' mother and father shared a moment as they gazed in to each others eyes before returning to the family.
There was a shift in movement the vague mention of them looking beautiful and then the camera was angled forward again and the children were making their way to the inner circle. Teenage cyniclons and young children cyniclons filled the space finding the partners and posing to begin the next dance.
Ichigo could see Pai with a girl about his age she gave him a half-hug and they greeted each other before they took their positions hand in hand facing each other smiling. It seemed more friendly than what the parents shared though. Ichigo couldn't see Kish but she could see Taruto a few rows back frowning at a girl who was glaring back at him. They didn't hold hands just stood facing each other with their arms crossed.
The music began again, a different song a similar dance.
As they moved around Kisshu then came in to view closer than Tart but further than Pai. He was with a girl as well and they were just talking the entire time they dance, again there was no evident affection except friendship in their gazes. Though Ichigo could see as they twirled and she caught a glimpse of the girl's face that she was blushing and looking up at Kish through her lashes.
Ichigo smirked at the though, he had an admirer.
She could hear the mother, 'I'm so proud. Worried but proud.'
'Me too,' Almondo agreed and although she couldn't see them Ichigo could just imagine that he had his arm around his wife and she was snuggled up against his side watching their children dance with the others.
Just then there was a sharp stab in Ichigo's hand and everything went black.
The room faded back in to focus and she was on her back on the ground looking up at the ceiling. Pudding and Lettuce's worried faces looming over head.
"What - what happened?" Ichigo asked uncertainly.
"I pulled you away from it," Lettuce explained, helping Ichigo up to her feet, "You weren't responding to me. Like you couldn't hear me. But it's okay now and you were only out for seconds but we need to go."
"I saw so many things," Ichigo breathed looking back at the console in amazement.
"How? You were only plugged in for two minutes," Pudding pointed out.
"No, I wasn't," Ichigo frowned at Pudding, it had felt so much longer. Twenty minutes at the least.
"Yes, you were Ichigo," Lettuce confirmed.
Ichigo's eyes yet again trailed back to the machine, "Maybe there's more."
She took a step but Lettuce stepped in front of her, "No, Ichigo, we have to go. We have to go!"
"Oh, what? The fight's over already?" Ichigo asked confused, Mint and Zakuro were meant to prolong this attack to make sure they had enough time look around.
"No, but Kisshu left them and he might come back here, na no da," Pudding explained.
"Zakuro contacted us, to warn us," Lettuce pointed out touching her pendent lightly.
"Okay," Ichigo nodded and the girls began to run out of the room and down the hall, the way they came, "Let's go quickly."
They quickly found the crack in the dimensions and Pudding and Lettuce leapt in to the void. But just as Ichigo jumped a hand closed around her wrist and pulled her back.
Her heart leapt in to her throat as she was pulled in to strong arms and a voice purred in to her fluffy cat ears, "So nice of you to drop by, Koneko-chan."
"Kisshu!" Ichigo cried and struggled in his hold to try and get free. She growled as she writhed about, "Let go of me."
"You do know its rude to enter someone's home without their permission, right? Even more rude to use their stuff, right?" Kisshu pointed out. His hand traveled beneath her neck and grasped her chin turning her face roughly towards his. They locked gazes. He wasn't smiling and it scared Ichigo, "What were you doing with the console? With the transfer at that?"
Ichigo took a moment to respond, she took a breath, "I taught myself how to read your words."
"Really?" Kisshu replied indicating that he wasn't sure he believed her, "Anything else?" Ichigo didn't respond her lips pursed in a rigid line. He narrowed his eyes at her and shook her a little, his grip tightening and slightly blocking her airways, "Well, Ichigo? Anything else you learnt?"
She rasped looking up at him with a sad look, "What's wrong with your world?"
His eyes softened dramatically looking almost scared at the reminder. A moment later and he was angry again, "You're a bad little cat and I think I should punish you."
The air around them rippled and they teleported suddenly to another yet similar room. Same high ceiling, same dim glow lit by two fire places on opposite sides of the walls. The room wasn't quite amber more of a reddish hue instead.
Kisshu pushed Ichigo back and she staggered, her knees meeting a cold railing and toppling over it. She landed with a soft thud on a sponge surface and realised with a grim feeling that it closely resembled what she would have called a bed. It was a bed and he was pushing her back while climbing over her.
"I'm sorry," Ichigo squeaked, terror firing through her quicker than it ever had before.
"What was that? You're sorry?" Kisshu asked mockingly with an evil smile and then it fell off of his face as he leaned close to her. His warm breath brushed her cheeks, "Then maybe you shouldn't have come here."
"I'm sorry," she repeated herself and closed her eyes. She took a deep breath and announced, "I saw some other things as well."
The terrified mew decided she would try to prolong what he was clearly planning to do and the only thing she could think of to catch his attention was probably going to make him even more angry. Maybe she could stall until someone came to save her or maybe it would make him so angry that he would just kill her instead of what he originally planned. Right now she wasn't sure which was worse.
Kish was glaring at the mew waiting for her to continue, he lifted his face away slightly and growled, "Of what exactly?"
Ichigo shivered in fear and kept her eyes closed scared of what he looked like. She whispered, "Of you...and Pai and Tart," she felt him tense above her and finally opened her eyes a little. His eyes were wide and almost insane, his jaw tight and clenched. He sat up with his weight on his hunches as he straddled her. His fist were balled at his sides. Ichigo almost didn't continue but she could tell the he already knew and added in a small voice, "And your mother and father."
His eyes flickered away from her for a moment then down at her stomach and then away again. He growled and huffed, "You shouldn't-" he bit his lip and growled loudly, his sai appearing instantly in his hand and he threw it across the room aggressively with a grunt. It hit the wall, implanting itself halfway in the concrete with the force of his throw.
Ichigo jumped, she knew that she wasn't far off of being the next thing that it was going to be implanted in. Her blood ran cold at the thought.
"I didn't mean to," Ichigo offered in a small voice. She stuttered as she tried to explain herself, "I-I didn't know how to use the bloody thing. I still don't! I just know that after it taught me your language i-it started to show me images of your world and video clips of your people and then it started showing me videos of you and your family. That's everything I saw but I didn't look for it. The computer just showed me all that stuff. I didn't mean to-"
He interrupted her, "The transfer works with your mind," he explained distantly, cold, like he wasn't currently with her. He was glaring at the mattress beside her head with almost hatred, "It shows you things based on what you're thinking about at the time. It depends on what was running through your head while you were hooked up to it."
"I suppose that makes sense," Ichigo exhaled a shaky breath and tried to wriggle out from underneath him.
He realised this and leaned down over her again, pulling her arms above her head and locking eyes with her again, "What were you thinking when you started using the console?"
Ichigo's breath hitched again and she panicked a little. She knew she had to answer him though so she breathed in and answered as evenly as she could, "I couldn't understand what the words meant. It told me and then it occurred to me that Cyniclons have their own...things that we don't really know about."
"You wondered what we as a race were like, which is why it showed you the planet and the pictures," he said aloud as if explaining it to himself rather than her. He nudged her, "Then it showed you footage of the world, why?"
"I saw pictures. Some of the storms, I didn't know how you all coped. It told me," she squeaked. Tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes, "I saw how scared everyone was. How scared you were."
He frowned and his eyes looked alight with rage, "I didn't ask you what you saw," he hissed, "I asked you what you were thinking about."
"I wondered about what happened during the storms," Ichigo responded feeling a point in her side and she knew exactly what it was. He was holding the other sai in his free hand positioned just under her ribcage. It may not kill her - if it missed her stomach and she didn't bleed out, that is - but it would be the worse pain she would have ever felt and it horrified her. She whimpered and closed her eyes in fear, "After it showed me clips of your people, I thought about you. I wondered what it was like for you and it showed me your family," Ichigo breathed in and out, in and out and then added quietly, "More than once."
"Do you realise those videos were personal belongings? Reminders of out childhood. Our parents. You were never supposed to see them. How dare you!" he shouted in her face. Ichigo turned her face sidewards but couldn't exactly turn away being pinned down, "What did you even think you would find? What were you hoping to find by snooping?"
"Something on the Chimera Animas! Anything that would help!" she yelled back at him in panic. She opened her eyes and tried to glare back at him but she looked more scared than angry. She continued to shout back at him biting back as much fear as she could - which was not very much, "I'm sorry I saw what I did but I didn't know that was in there and I didn't look for it specifically! I tried to find information on the animas initially I just...I didn't know how to use the computer and I was clearly distracted, okay! I'm only human!"
"What a stupid phrase! 'Only human'," he mocked her.
Ichigo growled at him, "It means I make mistakes!" She then got annoyed and used as much force as she could and actually managed to roll them so that she was on top of him holding him down. She knocked away his sai and shouted in his face, "Why are you so angry anyway? There was nothing bad in there! I still know next to nothing about you from what I did see! Its not like I suddenly know how to defeat you all or something!"
"You delved in to our private life," Kish hissed and he was stronger than Ichigo and had them sitting up then. She was still on his lap but now he had her arms again and he was holding them behind her back, "How would like it if I suddenly watched footage of your childhood and the other mews? Maybe I should!"
"In all honesty, I wouldn't care!" Ichigo shrugged with a glare, the silent tears get jostled off of her face and landing on her arms that were wound around her back currently, "I'm the same as I've alway been. Just older and a mew!"
"Yeah, well I'm not!" Kisshu shouted and then shut his mouth tight. He clenched his eyes shut and dipped his head.
Ichigo felt his hands loosen his grip on her wrists behind her but she was too curious to use this as her get away. She quietly pointed out, taking a risky gamble to begin actually talking about the memories, "You seem similar enough."
A cold short unamused laugh slipped through his lips, he still did not look up at her, "I don't know which clips you saw but they were all a very long time ago. We all changed."
"Pai smiled more, thats for sure," Ichigo commented unable to stop herself. She held her breath worried that she would cause him to lash out but instead he slowly nodded.
"Things didn't change when we joined the Elite Defences. Nothing changed when our father became one of the Elders. Nothing changed when Deep Blue chose us. It only changed on that day," Kish's voice was low and quiet. Again it was like he wasn't quite here. He was distant again, somewhere else, "There was a storm. They were becoming increasingly regular. They often...took lives. This one did."
Ichigo's heart stopped, she understood. She sounded awkward, "Kish, you don't have to tell me anyth-"
He glared up in to her eyes but didn't raise his voice, "Why not? You've already seen the clips. You saw her. What does it matter what I tell you now? You already know about them."
"I'm sorry," Ichigo said yet again.
"The worse part...is that she wasn't really my mother," Kish confessed looking down at her lips just so he didn't have to see her sad shocked eyes looking back at him. He explained, "Oh, I knew the whole time. They didn't keep it from me. But I lost my parents when I was three. I remember them vaguely. Cream and Almondo took me in and raised me as their own. I loved them...and then I lost them. Dad's fine, but he's not here...and there's no guarantee he'll be there when we get back either."
"I'm so sorry," Ichigo said and then dipped her head so that she could catch his eyes with her own, "But you can't think like that, Kish. He's probably just as scared of losing you as you are of losing him. But you have to have hope that you'll both be okay. You have to believe in him."
Then he broke her heart in to a million pieces with just one broken sentence. He looked her dead in the eye with no hope in his eyes, deflated shoulders and a crack in his voice, "But I believed in her."
The mew had no words, she didn't even know if any words could ever have been necessary in that situation. After she remembered to breathe again she did the only thing she could do and wrapped her arms around him pulling his head against the place between her shoulder and her chest. The alien didn't hesitate for a second, the moment he felt her embrace him, he encircled his arms around her tightly and almost crushed her against him.
The redhead wasn't sure how long they had been there in that exact position but it felt likes hours. Finally Kisshu's voice made her jump out of it being unexpected. It didn't sound broken but it still wasn't his usual jokey tone, "I don't think I can fight you today."
Ichigo contemplated replying but sighed and admitted, "I feel the same way."
She actually heard the smirk in his voice but it wasn't his usual grin yet again, it was a sad smirk, "No, you don't but I know you didn't mean it that way."
Kisshu shifted them, loosening his hold on her and she on him. She relaxed, still on his lap, and he looked at her face. He sighed and she had to bite her lip to stop herself from gasping or looking too shocked; his eyes were red and slightly puffy. He gave her a smile that was too weak and too small to be the real Kish.
"You're a pest, but I love you," he sighed and then let himself fall back on to the mattress behind him with his arms askew above him. He stared up at the ceiling, "I'm sorry that I brought you here. I don't think I really would have...I promise I won't ever bring you here again. Not unless you want to anyway," he laughed sadly and sighed deeply, "That'll be the day."
There was moment until Ichigo realised that finally she wasn't being held against her will yet she was still planted on his lap, straddling his legs - on a bed at that. Her face flushed red as she slipped off of him and sat down on the bed beside him instead.
She looked around then and noticed it wasn't as empty as she first recalled. There were books in a bookcase and table with a chair, also half eat food on a plate on the table. There was a big mirror above the left fireplace making the room look much bigger than it actually was. Above the bed and actually across the whole high ceiling there were lots of tiny white marks which looked like stars. She laid back beside him to get a better look at them.
"Is this your room?" she asked looking at the stars on the ceiling.
Kisshu smiled and continued to gaze at the ceiling as well, "You're learning too much about me today, Ichigo."
"You brought me here," she pointed out turning her face to him.
He looked back at her and replied, "Yeah, I did," he stared back up at the stars again, "I've wanted to bring you here for a while now. Always failed until you made it halfway here yourself today."
"Not to be rude but its not really the paradise you've always promised me," Ichigo commented looking around.
Kisshu laughed, loud and it really sounded like him. It made her feel a little better that he was returning to normal - another part of her mind wondered if that was such a good thing. She shushed that part of herself.
A hand then drew her eyes to his. He smiled at her sweetly and brushed his fingers over her cheek, "I suppose not. I'll find a better place then ask you again. How's that sound?"
"You still think I'll say yes?" Ichigo asked looking almost sad at the idea.
His smile faltered and he broke their gaze and stared at her lips instead, still stroking her cheek, "I'm hoping you'll at least consider my offer one day," he frowned then and lifted his head propping it up with one of his arms and looking down at her beside him, "What memories did you see exactly?"
Ichigo thought about it trying to recall all of them after all that had happened since she had seen them. She began, "I saw what I think was the day Taruto was born, you and Pai were happy. Very young as well."
Kisshu smiled remembering it and looked down at the mattress between them in thought, "I was eight, Pai was ten."
"Pai was cute," Ichigo smirked at the way his eyes locked with hers and he looked shocked.
"And I wasn't?" he asked almost offended.
Ichigo laughed, "Hm, you were...okay."
Kisshu realised she was playing with him and smiled widely. He rose to his knees in a movement like a hop and brought his hands to her sides and began tickling her, "Okay? So Pai was cute and I was just okay? Thanks Ichigo."
Ichigo laughed and tried to shove his hands off as he dug them in to her sides. Not too much to hurt but enough to cause ripples of giggles to wave through her system, "No, stop it! Stop! Kisshu! Stop it! You were adorable! Ah!"
He finally stopped and leaned down close to her face. He smirked, "Really? Adorable?"
She let out a few short breathed laughs and gave him a halfhearted shove. He smiled at that loving her playfulness. "There was a clip of everyone together. You seemed to waiting for something. You were all worried until your Dad started joking around which resulted in a play fight between-"
"Me and Pai," Kish nodded.
"Pai having a crush on anyone is shock? Who's this Keki?" Ichigo cried wondering if there was any gossip to learn.
Kish laughed but shook his head, "Ah, nothing became of that. She was a girl who was in our education group but she didn't really feel the same way. My endless comments about his rejection actually came true. I felt bad when I saw him upset," Kisshu sighed, "I made him fan as an apology. It may seem weird to you but it was a significant-to-oneself kind of gift. He liked fans, later designed his weapon on the one I made him."
Ichigo not wanting to make him sad again remembered the next memories, "I saw a clip of you all together which can't be too many years ago. With your weapons. You thought you were taking picture but you accidentally filmed it instead. It was quite funny."
"Oh yeah, I didn't realise we still had that video," Kisshu smiled sideways at nothing in particular then explained, "I've tried to delete it numerous times but it makes Taruto laugh and he loves it for some reason."
Ichigo smiled and then told him, "Last thing I saw was a dance. Your parents looked beautiful I'm not gonna lie."
Kisshu sighed closing his eyes and smiled, "Yeah. I remember that and I watch it over and over. Not where me and the others dance with the girls, just them. The first time I watched them dance like that I realised that it was exactly what I wanted," he opened his eyes and leaned close to her again, their faces inches apart, "I wanted someone to look at me the way my mother looked at my father."
Ichigo leaned forward and then whispered, "I'm sure you'll find someone some day."
Kisshu smiled wide again and sat back chuckling loudly, "You're so harsh, Koneko-chan! I mean, I was so smooth then and you completely steam roller'ed over it," he fell on his back beside her again as Ichigo also laughed. He sighed and said, "It's true though. I really do want that."
"You know what?" Ichigo thought about it briefly and agreed with him, "I want that too."
They stayed like that for a while again just staring up at the night-like ceiling until they fell asleep. When Ichigo woke up she was in bed in her own room, alone. She was unharmed and untouched. Maybe he wouldn't have done what she thought after all. He just wanted to scare her like always.
The mew leader was suddenly eager to learn more about him from what she had thus far found out. I want to know him.
Fuck knows where this came from. I just kinda had an idea - and I still changed it as aways - and kinda ran with it. I hope its not complete drivel and I know not everyone would agree with how certain things happened. I also understand if the tone changing drastically at times annoys some people - I'm not always good at that - apologies...
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