Tokyo mew mew

Ichigo x Kishu

It was the coldest time of the year and all the girls were excited. Ryo regretted agreeing to let the girls throw a party at the cafe.

"Pudding! Help me with the lights!" Mint called.

"Lettuce this tree will look so great with the string popcorn on it!" Ichigo said.

All the girls were so happy with this idea.

"Hello Mews!" Said a voice that made Ichigo's skin crawl.

"No." She said.

"Kishu! Taru! Pie!" Pudding was happy to see them.

"Good afternoon." Lettuce said.

"It's a good thing we haven't opened for the day." Ryo said.

"Sorry about that." Pie apologized.

"Why are you here?" Ichigo asked.

"We're here for research on this...Crist-mas holiday thingy." Kishu said.

"He just wanted to come. So did we all." Taruto admitted.

Ichigo sighed.

"Well come on in. The girls are throwing a party. You can help." Ryo said.

"NO!" Ichigo shouted.

"Ryo. Are you sure that's a good idea?" Zakuro asked.

Ryo shrugged. "No. But you all wanted this party." He said heading back down to the basement.

"Ryo!" Ichigo called him but he ignored her.

Just great. She thought.

"So where do we start?" Pie asked.

"Oh! Well..." Lettuce lead the way as Ichigo headed into the kitchen.

"This just got worse. I wish Masaya was here now." Ichigo sighed.

"We get to work together my little kitten." Kishu grinned.

Ichigo wanted to drown herself in frosting right now.

"Leave me alone." She said heading to the back.

"Okay so what kind of treat are you girls making?" Keiichiro asked.

"What treat?" Taru asked.

"The girls get to make a treat and give it a special name. Like a special in the menu for everyone to enjoy." He explained.

Pudding was happy as could be with this idea. "I have bubble gum frosting on my cake!" Not the best but Lettuce thought she was being creative. That is the whole point. "I'm making a sweet carrot cupcake with just a little chocolate. And the option for vanilla." She added.

"Why?" Pie asked. "Because not all girls or boys like chocolate. But that's fine. I'm making a sour treat. Lemon suckers" Mint said.

Keiichiro sighed. "You still want to do that?" He asked.

Everyone looked over at Mint. "Yes. I went to America on that trip with Ryo and you and what did I get? I got what they called a cake pop." She explained. "So I'm trying lemon cake. But in a pop form. And I'm going to use pink. Since yellow is so last year." She added before sitting for her tea.

"At least it beats her tea cake. It was so bad no one liked it." Pudding said.

"That was just because she forgot the sweet sugar." Ichigo said doing the dishes.

"You messed it up first!" Mint yelled. "You put out the salt and so it messed up my first batch!"

It was true Ichigo left out the salt. But the reason for that was because she was working on a salted caramel fudge with Zakuro for her treat.

"Sorry." Ichigo just said. Zakuro wanted it to be a surprise for everyone except Ryo and when he couldn't help Ichigo was the next best.

Don't ask. She somehow has gotten better.

"So what are you making kitten?" Kishu asked.

Ichigo glared at him. "A tart." She said simply.

"A tart? You aren't going to say what kind?" Lettuce asked.

Keiichiro smiled. "I'm helping her with it. I do need to go and get them actually." He said smiling.

"Thanks." Ichigo smiled.

"Oh!" Pudding smirked. "They're for Masaya. Aren't they?" She guessed.

Kishu felt like hitting something as she said that. But then something calmed him down.

"No. Actually, it's for my parents. They are going away to Paris for the new years so I'm home alone this year." Ichigo said.

Kishu felt calm but sad. "Why not go to London and see him?" Pudding didn't know. Mint figured it out and Zarkuro already knew.

"We just haven't been talking lately. He's busy with school and I have that AND a job to deal with. He still plans on coming down for spring." Ichigo added.

But with that fake of a smile, even Pie could see something was way off.

As Keiichiro was leaving Mint and Zakuro headed down for a break.

"Don't burn the place down." He said.

"I won't. Ryo helped me with the fire safety." Ichigo said. "It's Pudding who still needs to learn." She added.

Pudding puffed her cheeks. "Ichigo!" She shouted.

Taru laughed. And Kishu just smiled with a genuine smile. "Okay." Keiichiro was out the door and the two girls headed down with Ryo.

"Let's finish the lights." Lettuce said. Pie followed to help her and Taru patted Pudding on the back still mad over the kitchen safety thing.

Kishu stood in the doorway of the kitchen watching Ichigo as work.

"You are working hard." He says.

Ichigo doesn't look over or says anything.

"Look. I get we haven't been on great terms. But let's have a...clean slate?" He was trying to say the right words. "Start over! That's it. Please Ichigo. I want to try being...friends." He said.

Ichigo took a deep breath. "Kishu. Do you know long it's been for us? Since you three left." She said.

Pudding turned at the sound of Ichigo's voice. She knew where this was going.

"Oh. Guess times different here then..." Kishu was about to say something but Lettuce said it first. "Almost five years." She said.

Ichigo was in her last year of high school and Masaya was in collage. He never came home.

"Pudding, Mint and I are almost leaving school. You three... Everything changed." She said.

Pie sighed. "We would have come sooner but..."

"We had to explain about Deep Blue. And we had to fix everything with our own people." Kishu said. Rubbing the back of his neck.

"You at least," Ichigo headed right at him. "Could have sent a message." Ichigo was choking on her tears. She walked passed Kishu and headed down stairs to the basement.

Mint and Zakuro came up and saw Ichgio on the edge.

"What did you do?!" Mint yelled.

Kishu didn't say anything. "Friends is going to be a long shot. Especially, for Ichigo." Pudding said.

Mint sighed. "Five years. It really has been too long." She said heading to the kitchen.

Pie walked down halfway hearing crying he stopped.

"Why?!" He knew it was Ichigo.

"Why doesn't he EVER come back home?! Why doesn't he talk to me?!" Was she talking about Masaya?

Pie couldn't tell but that was his guess. "He's a fat ass." Ryo spoke.

"He's in collage. But he still cares for you." He said.

Pie was sure it was Masaya. "Why doesn't he love me? Like, Kishu says all the freakin' time?!" That caught him off guard.

Did she really say that?

"Don't look at me. I'm not the one who tried to send messages to them to have a talk with." Ryo says and is silent.

Ichigo cries more before falling asleep.

Pie heads back and is still shocked. It's not just Kishu she's mad at. It's all three of them.

So sorry!

But that's the end of part 1.

I've been working on this for months so I want to be done for now.

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See you in the next one!