Prologue

"What is love without hate? What is hate without love?"

"Why won't you say yes and come with me, damn it? I confess my love to you over and over, in ways that that bastard never could! Why? WHY?" yelled Kisshu, looking into the frightened eyes of his beloved pinned beneath him.

She said nothing as she stared into Kisshu's enraged and hurt eyes.

"Answer me!"

"I-I...", stuttered Ichigo, gaining the courage to finally answer her tormentor.

"Well?", Kisshu desperately yelled, tightening his grip on Ichigo. Once again, he was met with silence. He was starting to lose it as he stared into those beautiful caramel eyes, searching for any hint of affection he wanted so badly to be returned. As he tried to look deeper, all he was found was terror and outright fear.

Ichigo could not, and would not, answer him. She was too scared to even think of a plan to escape. Her pendant was in her jacket's pocket, very easy to reach and call for help, but...she didn't even try.

She was done. Plain and simple, she was done with all of this. She couldn't handle it anymore, yet she refused to give up to the one she "hated".

"Why won't you answer me? Why? I show you how much I love you to no end and all I get in return is rejection after rejection filled with nothing but rage and hate! You have to feel something for me, anything, anything at all, that is not hate or anger. Please! I am begging you for the last time! There has to be something..." Kisshu trailed off, finally knowing how hopeless this all was, yet he absolutely refused to leave without an answer.

Ichigo just continued to look into Kisshu's eyes, noticing that he was on the verge of crying. Truthfully, she was looking for the answer also, wondering whether she did feel something for the heartbroken alien under all the usual anger and annoyance.

After many minutes of intense silence between the two, Kisshu came back to reality and a couple of things dawned on him. First, Ichigo wasn't putting up any resistance against him, even when her pendant was in a easy spot to reach and call for help. Second, he noticed that Ichigo's mind was obviously somewhere else, for she looked like she wanted to say something, but didn't know what to say exactly.

"Ichigo...?" Kisshu attempted to cautiously bring her back to reality. Forgetting what he wanted from her at the moment, he was starting to get worried, for she was still just staring off into space, doing nothing even though he unclasped her wrists.

'Do I feel something for Kisshu? I mean, truly feel some...affection for him...?' thought Ichigo as she stared up at the night sky, unaware that Kisshu had removed his hands from her wrists and was trying to get her attention.

"Ichigo!" snapped Kisshu, trying to get her to look at him again.

She finally realized what was going on and suddenly sat up with a start, putting her hand into her pocket to grab her pendant.

Kisshu noticed the sudden movement Ichigo made towards her pendant, and reluctantly pulled back, standing up while slowly distancing himself from her.

Even though Ichigo had the perfect opportunity to getaway, she hesitated when she took out her pendant from her pocket. She just looked at it, not knowing what to do with it even though it was obvious she should transform and get the hell out of there. Instead, she kept glancing between her pendant and Kisshu. And, then finally, she just let the pendant slip from her fingers and let it fall onto the hard, cold concrete sidewalk.

"I-I...don't know anymore. I..." Ichigo trailed off, finally releasing her dormant voice, as she collapsed onto her knees with a defeated look in her eyes.

Tears started to flow freely down Ichigo's flawless face,as she stared at the ground, making no attempt to escape from Kisshu.

Meanwhile, Kisshu watched everything that had just happened with astonishment clearly written on his downcast form. He cautiously stepped forward a little ways, so as not to scare Ichigo, but to see what the hell was wrong with her. He knew for a fact that this was not how Ichigo normally acted. She just looked so, defeated and helpless right now, that it scared the living daylights out of Kisshu.

As he got closer, Ichigo suddenly tensed up, as if waiting for him to attack. He stopped, as to assure her that he wasn't going to do anything. He leaned down slowly and grabbed her forgotten pendant, carefully extending it towards her.

But she never took it, only continued to stare at the ground. Still tensed up though, she slowly got to her feet, still ignoring the fact that Kisshu was trying to give back her only defense against someone like him.

"Ichigo? What the...? Why are you...?" started Kisshu, slowly standing up, wondering why she was acting so unlike herself.

"I just don't know anymore." Ichigo stated clearly for the first time that night, though it came out weak in her defeated state.

"What don't you know anymore Kitten?" Kisshu softly said, knowing that this was supposedly an answer to his earlier question. He carefully started to approach her, but she suddenly went rigid and took a couple of steps back.

"Ichigo. I'm not going to..." Kisshu started, trying to assure her that he wasn't going to go anything to her.

"I know!" Ichigo said, a little loudly than was necessary, but right now, it didn't really seem to matter to either of them.

All of a sudden, Ichigo broke down into heart-wrenching sobs, that nearly killed Kisshu with worry and anguish. He hurried over to her side, gripping her shoulders, and forcing her to look at him.

"Ichigo! What the hell is wrong with you? Whatever I did, I'm sorry! Just stop acting like this! You're really starting to scare me! Please, tell me what's wrong! What did I do? Ichigo!" Kisshu said, shaking Ichigo.

She didn't answer him. She just kept bawling, until she forced her way out of Kisshu's grip and running off, not once looking back.

'I just don't know anymore.' Ichigo's words echoed into Kisshu's mind as he watched her run away from him, leaving him in an unbearable state of confusion.

He didn't even try to go after her. He remembered he was still gripping Ichigo's pendant, wondering why she wouldn't take it from him. Kisshu wanted so badly to go and comfort her, but he was so confused he didn't know what he should do for once.

Instead, he waited and listened to Ichigo's fading sobs until he couldn't hear them anymore, even though it pained him greatly not to go to her. Just something held him back, but he didn't know what.

As he was teleporting somewhere else to think of the night's events, he clutched Ichigo's pendant to his chest, silently vowing that he would go to Ichigo and find out what happened tonight.

Yeah! The prologue is finished! Please review and let me know what you think! Advice will be accepted with open arms because this is my first fanfic! If you have any questions about the plot of this story, just message me, and I'll explain in further detail for you! I'll try to update soon, but only if you guys think I should! Oh, and I do not own anything of Tokyo Mew Mew or its characters!