"!!!"
"Ichigo, Matako is awake." Chuckled Masaya, noting the girl tripping down the stairs as he sat at the kitchen table, sipping tea before he headed to work.
"Masaya, you shouldn't be so sarcastic." Ichigo said as she stood by the cooker, making various foods for Matako's breakfast.
The aforementioned girl stepped into the room, her dark blue hair an unbrushed mess, her pinkish red eyes looked tired and her tanned skin was paler.
"A-are you okay, Matako?" Masaya asked his daughter, concerned.
"Not really, I think I have flu."
At the simple mention of flu, Masaya flipped,
"OHMYGOD, ICHIGO! MATAKO IS GOING TO DIE! HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!" The man wailed, completely out of his usual character.
"She isn't. She'll just have to stay off school today." Ichigo said, cooking sausages.
"But I can't stay here, the IUCN need me today, I'm giving a speech on T.V on the Iriomote wildcat population.!" Masaya whined.
Ichigo saw the love he held for said cat species, as he said he felt he was still protecting her by saving the Iriomote population, the mere 100 had risen to 469, and slowly rising over the past 13 years.
"And I have to work at the café. Oh well, Matako? Can you stay home by yourself yet?" Ichigo asked her daughter.
"Prob'ly…" She said, voice thick with the flu.
Masaya got up and kissed Ichigo while Matako blushed and sweat dropped.
"Bye bye, Ichigo."
"Hurry back home, my love."
Masaya kissed his daughters forehead and exited the house, slinging his suit jacket over him.
Ichigo served up Matako's breakfast. Just as she began to sip the green tea, Ichigo said something disturbing.
"Matako, do you love anyone?"
Matako's memory flicked on and off as she thought of Kotuku, the son of a man named Kisshu. His black hair, his pale skin, and those blue eyes that burned deep into her body.
Him.
She loved him.
"MOM! WHO WOULD ASK THEIR DAUGHTER SUCH A THING?!"
"Well, I wasn't afraid to talk to my mother about relationships. I even told her when your father and me started having se-"
"TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!!! !!" Matako screamed, running out the room and thudding her way back upstairs.
------------------------------------------30 minutes later-----------------------------------
"Matako, I'm going, don't do anything I wouldn't do!!" Ichigo called upstairs, smirking.
Matako barely responded as her mother left. The last time she'd been alone was when she was 7.
She got up from her bed and walked across the hall to her parent's bedroom. And entered.
Gazing round the room, it seemed boring and grown up. As she turned to leave, a small gold glint caught her eye.
She walked over to her mother's bedside table and picked up an odd golden oval. A pendant, maybe? It had an intricate heart design on it.
She walked around the room. She'd been forbidden to ever go in it. And now no one could stop her. She opened the wardrobe to have a small fuzz ball fly into her head.
Landing on the floor with a thump and a squeal, she looked at the fuzzy thing. It had cat ears, a tail and red wings.
"Hi, I'm Aoyama Matako, who the hell are you?" She joked.
"Masha Masha!!" It responded.
"What the hell?"
"Masha Masha Mew Ichigo!!" It said.
"Mew…Ichigo?"
Matako pulled herself up and scoured more of the room. She found a very long box under the bed and pulled it out, it was very tightly tied, with that annoying ropey string.
After ages of struggling, she got it all off. Her heart thudded as she opened the lid.
It was a long silver sword.
She gasped at its beauty, it's black hilt and black triangles going up the length, the ruby placed onto it shimmered like the morning sun. She wondered why her father would have such an item. And keep it locked away.
"Ao no Kishi!!!" The 'Masha Masha' screamed at her.
"Blue…Knight?" She said, craning her head to talk to said monster-kawaii-sidekick thing.
"MATAKO?! I'VE HAD TO COME HOME, I LEFT MY PURSE!" She suddenly heard her mother yell.
She sped across the hall, shoving the sword into the box, replacing the pendant and cramming 'Masha Masha' into the wardrobe again beforehand.
Ichigo entered her daughter's room.
"I'm sorry, Matako, have I woke you?" She asked sympathetically.
"No..no.." she gasped, exhausted from the clear up 10 seconds ago.
"Okay then, I'll be leaving." She kissed her daughters forehead and left.
As soon as she heard the front door close, she shot to the room like a cheetah and released 'Masha Masha'.
She sat on the floor, pendant in hand, sword on lap, Masha in front of her.
"So, you're Masha?" She said.
"MASHAAA!!" It cried out.
She placed the sharp sword onto the floor to explore the room again. She opened her father's wardrobe to be met by a long, bright blue cloak.
"What's been going on, Masha?"
"AO NO KISHI!!!" Masha screamed in response.
Matako's face settled on confused and left the beautiful jacket.
She opened a small box, which had started to shine as she approached.
She opened it and a blue light blinded her, sending her unconscious.
----------------------------------God knows when later------------------------------
"Ughnnn." She mumbled, opening her eyes. She was on the floor in her parent's room, but she felt very very odd.
"Ao No Kishi!" The fuzz ball yelled to her.
She had passed a mirror and stopped dead.
"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Her pyjamas had become a long, shiny blue cloak with short shorts, her hair came undone from her classic ponytail, her eyes were neon pink and she had…CAT EARS AND A TAIL!?!?
"Ao no Kishi! ALIEN ALERT!" The monster screamed as she felt everything go black around her.
'What's going on?'
Suddenly, from far off, she heard an explosion.