The Past Bites

Inspired by Kishubabebeams A fight of Passion.

Disclaimer: I do not own TMM/MMP or any refrence to A fight of Passion.

Summery: She ran to her car, and what she saw made her cry tears of agony. Scratched onto the side was the word SLUT, all in caps. Would she ever escape her daughter's hatred?

Chapter 1

Ichigo lay in the hospital bed, a full three days after labour, staring at the bundle in her arms. It was a little girl, her hair ice-white and eyes golden, like his. Her ears were...huge.

Ichigo gritted her teeth. I never should have taken that battle with Kish to that extreme. How was Mayasa going to react when he found out she had given birth to a child that wasn't his? He'd never forgive me. What if he breaks up with me? Her world would collapse if that happened. She couldn't lose him. Not for anything.

So what was she going to do?

"I hate him." Ichigo muttered, glaring at the girl. "I never asked for this...thing..." She pondered what to do. She should leave the girl at the orphanage, but what about her alien blood? She'd be discovered at some point, and with all the blood tests they'd preform on her, she'd eventually be linked to her and everyone would know her secret.

"I have to get rid of her." Ichigo declared, leaving the hospital. She ducked into an ally and paused in the middle, looking down at the girl's face. "She's my child by Kish. I have to get rid of her!"

You know she won't survive this. A voice in Ichigo's head said softly. Is Mayasa really worth ending this little one's life?

"Mayasa is worth anything." Ichigo said out loud, trying to shake off doubts. "Anything and everything." With that, she plunked the girl down and walked off, closing her eyes tightly, sealing her ears to her bewildered child's cries.

That night, as Ichigo lay in bed, she tossed and turned, unable to sleep. Her daughter's face plauged her, her cries accusing her mother as she tried to sleep, calling her a child killer. She had ended a baby's life for her own desires. What have I done?

/Ten years later

Ichigo finished cleaning at Cafe Mew Mew, bid her friends farewell and walked out the door in silence. It was the anniversery of the worst choice she had made in her life. She remembered going back for her baby and finding her gone, probably eaten or taken away by raccons or some other city animal.

She cried herself to sleep every night. She stared out the windows and didn't respond to anyone for weeks. Mayasa got fed up with her supposedly meaningless self-pity and declared a break-up 'until she got her head on straight agian, if ever'. That was just great.

Masha suddenly popped up, out of her keychain. "Ichigo! Chimera Animal!"

"What?" Ichigo exclaimed. "Where?"

"Park!" Masha exclaimed.

Ichigo nodded. "MEW MEW STRAWBERRY, MEATMORPHOSIS!" She rushed into the park. Sure enough, there was a giant wolf-chimera, randomly slashing at trees, benches, and people.

"Halt!" Ichigo ordered, standing tall. "This park is a sanctuary for lovers! I won't forgive anyone who messes with them! For the future of our planet, I will be of service, nya!" She declared, going into her signature pose.

Two glittering eyes watched from the shadows. "My trick worked! She's here." She drew back, waiting.

"RIBBON STRAWBERRY SURPRISE!" Ichigo shouted, trashing the chimera animal. "That was easy." She exclaimed.

"No surprises there." A new voice replied, making her jump. "It was still in the experimental stage. I'd be more surprised if you had lost, considering your rep."

"Who's there?" Ichigo demanded, looking around wildly. A cloaked figure stepped out of the bushes.

"Just me." She replied calmly.

"Did you create that Chimera Animal?"

"Are you stupid or something?" The stranger sighed. "I just said it was one of my experiments."

"Who are you?"

"Don't know? I'm not surprised. After all..." The girl pulled her cloak off. Ichigo gasped. The stranger was a ten-year-old, decked out in a white-and-ice-blue armoured Mew outfit that looked somewhat like Zakuro's. White wings extended from her back. Long silver hair reached her waist. A white choker graced her neck, holding a blue-and-white pendant with red lines on it. Her eyes were a molten gold, but cold as ice. She had the ears of a cat. There were a bunch of daggers in a pouch on her side, and she also had a sword and a blaster strapped to her belt. "You didn't keep me in your life for very long. You threw me away for your precious relationship!"

Ichigo's jaw worked but no noise came out. She stared at the girl so long and hard she was surprised she didn't start smoking. Shock made her arms fall uselessly to her sides. Her mind darted back ten years to the snowy day she deposited a mewling child in the ally.

"Y...Y...Y...Yo...You...You're..."

"Hello, mother." The mew said icily.

/Cafe Mew Mew

"Chimera animal attack?" Lettuce asked in shock.

"Yes, at the park."

"But the aliens said that they would leave us alone after they got the Mew Aqua!" Mint protested.

"This isn't them." Ryou replied. "I'm not picking up alien signals anywhere."

"Then who...?"

"What I AM picking up are the signals of Mew other than you girls or Mew Ichigo." Ryou's eyes darkened. "You better go and back her up. And don't let age, size, or blood relationship fool you."

Lettuce felt a chill run down her spine. Blood relationship? She didn't know what that meant, and it frightened her.

/Ichigo's P.O.V.

Ichigo stared at the mew, too shocked to speak or move. Her mind swam furiously. Her daughter. Her daughter survived, and was looking back at her. But something was wrong. She didn't understand the coldness in the girl's eyes.

Finally, she forced herself to speak. "You survived?" Her voice was barely audible. She began to walk slowly towards her. It was a miracle. She could make up for the mistake she made. Ichigo was almost joyful...until a dagger whipped past her, grazing her face and drawing blood.

"No thanks to you." Her daughter spat hatefully. Her hand was resting in her dagger pouch. There was a heavy pause. "Was it worth it?" She asked with a sickly sweet tone.

"Wh...wha..." Ichigo stammered, frozen.

"Was it worth it?" Her daughter repeated. "Abandoning me in order to keep the favour of your precious Mayasa Aoyama. I'm guessing you guys live life on cloud 9? Perfect relationship? Have a couple children to replace me after you LEFT ME TO DIE? WAS IT WORTH IT ICHIGO MOMOMIYA?"

"My daughter...I...I just..." Ichigo didn't have the chance to dodge the next dagger, which pinned her to a tree. The girl stormed up to her and grabbed her mother's neck.

"Don't call me that." She spat. "My name is Kalaa. Since you decided there wasn't a point in naming a throwaway child I named myself! My life obviously means less to you than your man, yet you have the nerve to call me DAUGHTER?"

"Kalaa...you don't mean nothing...to me..." Ichigo felt Kalaa's grip on her neck tighten painfully.

"Oh really?" Kalaa snarled. "You must have thought that since I was a baby, I wouldn't understand or wouldn't remember what you said. I mean, I heard and I quote 'I have to get rid of her. She's my child by Kish so I must get rid of her!" She repeated the words in a mocking tone, her grip on Ichigo's throat tightening. " 'Mayasa is worth it, he's worth anything and everything'. And here you are, acting all surprised when I want payback! My chances of survival were 1 on a billion! You knew that and you still left me there! I know everything there is to know about you! I've checked your files, I've read your journals. You think you're queen of earth and heaven above, but all you really are is a hopelessly spoiled, stupid, tree-hugging, small-minded, self-indulgent, suck-it-up, selfish BRAT! Your utter stupidity is so immense it isn't funny!"

Ichigo felt like there was an invisible sword cutting into her flesh at Kalaa's every word as the girl continued to rant.

"My father gave everything for you: his being and ultimately his life, and the end of the Battle for Earth, and that means absolutely NOTHING to you! Yes, all you care about is your precious Aoyama-kun and how earth's every little function affects your relationship! You would have let Deep Blue destory earth to save that idiot tree hugger! Even if you didn't like my father, why did you take it out on me? I was your child! And that meant NOTHING TO YOU! NOTHING AT ALL! You threw me away like yesterday's bread. Not even at the orphanage. Not even as a person, as an 'it', a thing that cries, smiles, breaths. You think your so special, don't you? Everyone has to have you approve their plans and worship the ground you walk on! You only liked Mayasa because he was the school heart throb. Because he was smart and quiet and tree-hugging and all that other stuff. You followed him around like a drooling lapdog, and you still do! You gave him everything, and everything that belonged to everyone else! Think about the Battle for Earth. You went at the battle as slowly as humanly possible, and tried to save Aoyama-baka, not caring that people were dying in the world around you! Giving their lives, their dreams, their all, which you used it to make YOURSELF happy again! AND YOU STILL DO THAT! TO THIS VERY DAY! You threw my life away without a backwards glance! Heartless! Imbecile! Worthless piece of garbage!"

Ichigo wept hard. "K...Kalaa...it's true...I did you wrong...but I regretted it. Always...I cried myself to sleep every night...and every night I'd dream about your cries in the snow..."

"Lies!" Kalaa spat, eyes flashing. "Don't play words games with me Ichigo Momomiya, I am not an idiot. You don't care, and you never will. I will never know happiness until you're out of my life!" She released Ichigo's neck, stepped back and drew her sword. Sunlight glittered off its cold silver blade.

Ichigo stared blankly up at the weapon ready to end her existence.

"Mew Ichigo!" Kalaa's eyes snapped open and she spun around. Mint, Lettuce, Pudding and Zakuro were standing by the water fountain, transformed. They were staring at the scene in front of them, somewhat baffled, as well as worried and angry.

"Look, we don't know who you are...but we won't let you hurt Ichigo." Mint said firmly, taking out her bow.

Kalaa whirled on Ichigo and glared at her. "So, you called your lapdogs to come save you? That's rich, very rich indeed!"

"They're not..." Ichigo started protesting.

"Ribbon Mint Echo!" Mint yelled, firing her attack at Kalaa. The girl simply knocked the arrow aside with her sword.

"Wha?"

"So, she'll have to learn the hard way." Kalaa murmured, almost to herself. She whipped forward with impossible speed and swiped at Mint. A large cut appeared on her stomach.

"RIbbon Zacross Pure!" Kalaa rolled her eyes as Zakuro's whip wound around her hilt. Her free hand went into her pouch and with a couple of daggers, she nailed Zakuro to a tree.

"Ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno!"

"Ribbon Lettuce Rush!" Kalaa saw the attacks heading for her and spread her wings. She took to the sky. In one swift motion, she sheathed her sword and pulled out her blaster. It glowed green with a sudden intake of power.

"Helical Shock!" She yelled, and a blast of white-blue energy hit Pudding and Lettuce, who were hurtled in opposite directions.

The Mews were in shock. They, who had saved the world and battled countless foes, were just royally trounced by a girl far younger and much less experienced than them.

Kalaa landed and turned to Ichigo again. "Do you see now? I'm out of your league. There's nothing you can do to stop me." She raised her blaster again, aiming carefully.

"Wait Kalaa." A voice said. Kalaa froze upon hearing it. She looked over her shoulder. Two males dressed in cloaks, one much taller than the other, were standing nearby.

"Why do you stop me?" Kalaa demanded. "She betrayed and abandoned me, she deserves death!"

"It's true. This woman is a self-serving whore who can't see beyond her nose." The first boy said pointedly. "But you were abandoned for ten long years. Would it not make sense to drag out her punishment, as opposed to just ending it all at once?"

"Yeah." The second boy added. "If you kill her straight away, you'd be letting her off easy."

Kalaa paused and looked at Ichigo for a long time, scanning her with those hate-filled eyes. "You're right Azzuen. I should take my time." She took a step towards them, then turned around and spin-kicked Ichigo in the head. Satisfied, she turned and ran to the two boys. She held on tight to the shorter one as the three of them vanished.

Mint finally got up and set Zakuro free. "That girl...she's deadly..."

"Who was she?" Lettuce asked, walking over to Ichigo and removing the dagger from her shoulder. "She acted like she knew you."

Ichigo stared dully at her friends. Kalaa had just beaten them up, they deserved to know what was going on. "She's my daughter."

End Chapter

Author's Note: Wow, Ichigo's really getting it. Warning: this story will contain Ichigo aghast, so if you don't like Ichigo aghast, don't read. Kalaa's rant sorta reflects my option of Ichigo, I mean she just seems so self-centered and only cares about her relationship with Aoyama-baka. Kalaa is my OC, so I own her, but if you'd like to use her in a story, let me know. R&R please!

NOTE: Kalaa gets her silver hair from Kish's side of the family, which will be explored later. Can't spoil anything!