Well, I felt like with all the Valentine's Fics popping up I'd throw a humorous one in.
I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew, or Disney (since this after all a Disney song)
Love? Love is what we read about in books, my dear.
"Here comes the bride" is a lovely little ditty
But marrying for love is a foolish thing to do
'Cause love won't pay the mortgage or put porridge in your bowl
Dearie, marry the mole
Ichigo was now 23, her red now shoulder length hair was in total disarray at this early time in the morning. She was thinking of her beloved Masaya as she looked out the window on the spaceship at her home planet that her boyfriend loved so much. She sighed and looked in the mirror, she was more than a little upset about the state of her hair and began to brush it. She put on a pink knee length dress and walked out the door to get her friends who had also been captured up.
"Mint, Pudding, Lettuce, get up or we'll get in trouble," Ichigo said, they all looked at her oddly, she never got up on time, and here she was, the one to get them up.
"Thanks, Ichigo-san," Lettuce said and went into the bathroom, Pudding just pulled the covers over her head, and Mint grabbed an outfit to change into and took Ichigo into the red head's bedroom.
"Ichigo, we need to talk about getting out of here," the blue-haired girl said gravely.
"But the only way we can do that is-"
"If we marry certain aliens, and then they've agreed to leave Earth alone indefinitely, I know. I think we should do it," she told her friend.
"WHAT?! You're seriously considering marrying Kish?" Ichigo shouted in total shock.
"Yes, and Lettuce is giving serious thought to marrying Pai, and Pudding doesn't think marrying Tart would be such a bad thing."
"But I'm not in love with Deep Blue, and you guys aren't in love with the aliens either!" Ichigo protested.
"We all dreamed of finding a Prince Charming, one whom would sweep us off her feet, but the fate of all the Earth is more important than four girls marrying someone they don't love, " she said with a harsh stare at the red-head.
Ichigo stared at the floor, feeling ashamed for feeling so selfish, and yet she knew even if she agreed every time she looked out into space she would think of her Masaya, and the thought that she'd have to send word, and she knew she'd have to tell Masaya to fall in love again, and she didn't know that she could do that.
True, it's a fact that he's not exactly witty
He's blinder than a bat but at least his eyes are blue
His breath may be alarming but he's charming, for a troll
Dearie, marry the mole
"Ichigo, you'd be doing the right thing," Mint told her.
"But he's ugly!" she protested, stalling time, trying to think of something, anything, to get them home.
"Really, Ichigo, that's the best you can come up with? He's not that bad, he's sickly pale, but his eyes are pretty. He's creepy, but he'll love you, even if you don't love him. He may not be the sweetest, but he's not that dreadful, for an alien, ya know?"
"Minto, I just can't!"
Romeo and Juliet
Were very much in love when they were wed
They honoured every vow
So where are they now?
They're dead, dead, very very dead
"Ichigo, you're being selfish."
"I don't care! Every time I look at him all I'm going to be able to think of is Masaya, you think he'll be ok with that?!"
Mint glared at her, "Ichigo, relationships can't all be perfect, you're going to have to suck it up!"
Mint saw a book on Ichigo's bed and smirked, "Romeo & Juliet, really? That' s what you've been reading?"
"So? It's a great love story?"
"Ichigo, Romeo & Juliet were idiots, they were very much in love, and they killed themselves, is that what you want? Death? Because that's what's going to happen to everyone if we don't marry the aliens!"
"Mint! How could you slam a classic love story like that?!"
Poor Thumbelina, your brain so itty bitty
I hate to seem a pest but I know what's best for you
Just think of all the ways that you could decorate a hole
Take my advice, I'll bring the rice
Dearie, marry the mole
"Ichigo, you're being as dimwitted as they were, I may seem like I'm being insensitive but this is happening to me too, and I have to go through it too. The difference is I'm accepting it as what I have to do to save my planet! I'll be your maid of honor, I'll plan the entire thing, all you'll have to do is show up and say 'I do' just marry him!"
Marry the mole
Marry that mole
M is for money
Oh...
L-E!
"Mint, I just can't, I won't ever be able to look at him and I I'll be miserable!"
"Marry him, you may hate it, but one day you'll realize it's not that horrid and it's not going to change, your blessed Masaya would approve of sacrifice for the greater good. In fact he did that and you brought him back."
"M is for Masaya and Marriage, Deep Blue has no part of the letter M!"
"M is for martyr, and M is for maintain, you a responsibility to maintain order, so be a martyr with us and marry Deep Blue!"
"I want to talk to Ryou and Masaya first," she said and then walked into the room next door, they conferred with each other for an hour. She went into the throne room alone.
"Ichigo-chan," Deep Blue said with a smile that came across as very creepy, "what can I do for you, my dear?"
"I need to talk to the humans Shirogane Ryou and Masaya Ayoama, it's about a possible acceptance of your proposal."
He frowned, but said, "Of course, dearest, I'll have Pai contact them at once and after you're done we'll talk about it," he smiled creepily again.
"Right," she said, doing her best to smile, and not cringe. Pai showed her to a room and then left as Ryou's face appeared on the screen. He looked awful, there were bags under his now dull blue eyes, he looked like he had lost weight, he hadn't been taken the disappearance well at all.
"Ichigo, how are you girls holding up?" his tone was desperate, and his voice was hoarse.
"All right, we've just about reached a conclusion about the alien's proposal, I wanna talk to you about if first, then Masaya," she said.
"You aren't considering it, are you?" he asked.
"Yes," she muttered, shaking her head no, tears welling up.
"Why, Ichigo? You guys can't!"
"That was my initial reaction, but we all still need to consider the fate of the world, versus our feelings, and we had to weigh it like that. We can't really be that selfish, but I can tell you none of us are jumping with joy at the process. We all feel like we're betraying our boyfriends, or fiancés back home."
"Will I at least be able to say good-bye to Lettuce?" he asked, slamming his hand down on table before him.
"Yes, now I'd like to talk to Masaya," she said, wiping tears from her eyes, "you know, I'm going to miss you too, and Keiichiro," she said and he nodded with a weak smile then left and Masaya entered in rather with a rather confused expression.
"Ichigo, what's wrong?" he asked, he also showed signs of exhaustion.
"Before I start, I love you," she said, no longer to keep the tears from silently falling.
"I love you too, don't cry, Ichigo, please, don't cry," he said, his hands pressed against the monitor, desperately trying to reach her.
"I'm sorry, I just, I wanted to tell you that to save the world we're going to accept the proposals, and I wanted you to know that while I'll be loving you from out here, but I want you to be free to fall in love again and have fun, and not worry about me. Just, please, promise me you'll forget me and move on," she begged him, trying to stop the sobs threatening to rack her body.
"Ichigo-"
"No, Masaya, please just do that for me, if you ever loved me, please forget me," she told him, she hated this, she was breaking her heart, and his.
"I don't know that I'll ever be able to forget you, but if that's what you want, I'll do my best," he was doing his best not to cry, "I understand what you're doing, but now I know what you went through when I was going to do the same, and I wish I could just do what you do, I just want to jump in and save you, and I just wish I knew how."
"Masaya, please-" she was now openly sobbing and was trying to stop herself but just couldn't, "just, I love you, now, I have to go, I'd send back the ring if I could so you can give to someone else, but space you know?"
"I'll miss you, I'll do my best not to, but I know I'll miss you," he told her, she wanted to die, she was hurting him so bad and it was killing her.
"I'll miss you too," she said and then let Lettuce come in to talk to Ryou, and Mint talked to Keiichiro, Pudding talked to Yuebin, they all had their heart-felt good-byes, and none of it was easy, and before they all could go talk to their new fiancés they got together in Ichigo's room and cried themselves dry.
I'm planning to do an epilogue, and wow this light humorous song turned into something really deep and depressing… not the expected or desired result but oh well. Happy Valentine's Day!