Huh. This is definitely more crowded than Minnesota, I thought as I walked down the street, every now and then checking the piece of paper in my hand. Translating the Japanese on the street signs was a breeze for me. I never lived anywhere else outside of Minnesota, but thanks to the wealthy income of a doctor family, I had a superior education and learned Japanese at a young age. I was more concerned with my family. I was supposed to meet my cousin today at her job; she was going to escort me to her house after work. Both of my parents are dead now; Dad was in a car accident recently, and Mom had already died before I could remember. So, now I had to move in with my only remaining family: my cousins Mint Aizawa, Seiji Aizawa, and their parents. I've never met my uncle, aunt, nor Seiji in person. I was excited to see Mint, though. Mint and I have emailed each other since we were small. I even got to meet and hang with her for a day a little before my father passed away. He had brought me along for a special training conference in Tokyo. Mint was busy most of the time, but on the last day we were able to get together and visit the red data animal exhibit.

I have a strong belief that visiting that exhibit is what changed everything. I don't know about Mint since Dad and I had to hop on the plane right afterwards, but I felt strange. I passed out on the plane and had a weird dream about an island fox. Dad didn't think anything of it. I guess he just presumed it was jet lag. I did discover a mark on my right hand, though, that looked like a fox face along with a pendant. The mark didn't hurt, and the pendant looked nice. I didn't want to worry my dad, so I hid them from him. Since then I have always worn a black fingerless glove and white choker for my pendant. It wasn't long after the visit that I discovered my "abilities." At first, I was terrified, but, eventually, I grew accustomed to it and started using my power to help others. Since then, the media had been reporting about America's hero, "The White Fox," named after my fox tail & ears and white clothes & eyes. I've sent Mint articles about the White Fox before, without telling her that it was me, of course, and she'd send me articles about the Tokyo Mew Mews. I immediately noticed the resemblance between Mint and Mew Mint, but I knew there was no way she was going to admit it.

I shook from my thoughts as I heard my stomach grumble. Shut-up, stomach! I'm going as fast as I can! Oh, here's a park. Maybe this is the park that I had to go through, I thought as I looked at my slip one more time before entering. All right, now it says here that it's a restaurant and I won't miss it... What kind of directions are these?! Of course, I'll miss it! I thought we established already that I get lost in cities way too easily! I sighed as I looked around on top of a small hill. Woah! Just kidding. Look at that frilly place. Way too frilly for me, but that must be the place. I started heading towards the "Girl Palace" when I heard an explosion. I swirled around to see a huge smoke cloud come from the center of the park. People were screaming as they ran away. Oh, snap. Why now? I ran to a clump of trees and jumped into the branches, leaping from branch to branch towards the explosion. My pendant started to glow as I slowly morphed. Silver ears with red on the backs grew from my head as a tail with silver on the back, red on the bottom, and a black stripe grew on my back. My eyes turned white as my fangs and nails slightly enlarged. My clothes glowed white as they changed into a white dress that reaches from my shoulders to my upper thigh. In the middle of the dress was an aquamarine band with a light green string tied in front. The sleeves were disconnected as they covered half of my upper arm and half of my lower arm. All of the edges of my clothes were lined in aquamarine. My shoes became white laced ballerina slippers. My weapon, which is a white fan with my mark etched in red in the middle with gray lines swirling towards it, formed around my waist, held in place by the tie & band. I use to have to summon my weapon, but after enough training, it just appears when I morph. I finished morphing just as I approached the area where the explosion was, saw the Mew Mews, and jumped in front of them. All of the Mew Mews were shocked by my sudden appearance. I looked around to see three pale guys with pointy ears and a bunch of carrot monsters. I cocked an eyebrow as I examined the mutated carrots. What in the world? Since when can carrots walk? This would be a good headliner: "When Carrots Attack." I chuckled to myself only to be heard by the shrimp of trio.

"What's so funny?!"

"I've heard of people mutating animals, but mutating carrots?!"

That had done it. I was holding my sides as I fell into a laughing fit. I could just feel the little guy get flustered.

"And, exactly, who are you to judge?!" the shrimp screamed.

"Who are you to judge that I can't judge?" I shot back with a small smirk growing on my face.

It wasn't a very good comeback, but I knew it would make him angrier all the same. He grumbled and was about to yell something back when the green haired boy interrupted.

"Calm down," he said to the shrimp before turning to look at me, "I'm Kisshu, this here is Pai, and the shrimp is Taruto."

"I'm not a shrimp! I'm just…miniature…" Taruto said finishing his sentence meekly.

"The Americans call me the White Fox," I replied bowing like an actress just finishing her play.

"I know you! I read an article about you! You helped fight crime in America!" Mint said as she stepped up beside me.

I turned halfway facing the Mew Mews and replied, "I know you as well. You are Mint… I mean Mew Mint… and these are all the Tokyo Mew Mews. I have, um, also read an article about you all.

I had tried to sound like I had no idea who their real identities were. I mentally kicked myself for saying Mint's real name. I made eye contact with each Mew Mew to check if they had fallen for it. Only Zakuro looked questionably at me. Or should I say Mew Zakuro? Geesh, they didn't even bother to change names. How pathetic is this world for people not to notice the resemblance of a famous super model, not to mention the name?! I turned back to the guys and saw Kisshu quickly look away. What was he looking at?

"Alright, so if I read that paper right, these are the 'floating men' that send these 'monstrous creatures' to destroy mankind?"

"Correct," Ichigo nodded.

"Well, then, what are we waiting for?"

I jumped into the mass of carrots and started cutting them down with my claws without hesitation. I already had fifteen carrots down before the Mew Mews joined me. Easy.