It
was a busy day at Café Mew Mew...for Ichigo.
"Ichigo,
table eight is waiting for their order," Mint said.
Ichigo
rushed to table eight. "May I take your order?"
"Ichigo,
can you take this pie to table one for me please?"
Ichigo
hurried to table one with the pie.
As
Mint kept giving orders to Ichigo, she finally got tired and ran to
Keiichiro and Ryou for help.
"Look
what Mint's doing!" she complained.
"I
see she's doing all the work, while you're not!" Ryou teased.
"DOING
ALL THE WORK?"
"I'll
leave you guys alone," Keiichiro muttered, backing away.
"How
can I work when a certain yellow haired person is always distracting
me on purpose?" Ichigo yelled.
Pudding
happened to be walking by and, thinking that she was the yellow
haired person Ichigo was complaining about, got a bit out-of-control.
"Who,
me? What did I do? Why are all you always blaming it all on me? I
don't distract you do I?" she argued jumping all around.
"Get
back to work," Ryou snapped while Ichigo said, "No Pudding,
a certain yellow haired with blue eyes person and there's only one
person who fits the description of a yapping boss in this place!"
Pudding
went back to work, quite pleased that she wasn't getting blamed.
-----
On
the other end, Lettuce and Mint were planning on throwing a Valentine
Dance at Café Mew Mew at Valentine's Day.
Keiichiro,
how 'bout we throw a special Valentine dance at Café Mew Mew
on Valentine's Day?" Lettuce asked Keiichiro as he was walking
by.
"Sounds
great! Let everyone else know, and maybe hanging posters will also be
a good idea," he suggested.
The
girls beamed at him and continued talking. The customers overheard
them talking and started talking amongst themselves of who they were
going to go with.
"Who
are you going to go with?" one girl asked another.
"I
don't know...hey what about that blonde guy standing next to the red
haired girl? He's pretty cute don't you think?"
Ryou
and Ichigo heard them and Ryou made a face. He looked at Ichigo and
walked away blushing.
-----
Zakuro
walked over and asked Ichigo to hang some "Valentine's Day Dance
at Café Mew Mew" posters around.
"Could
you hang these posters? I don't want to have to do it or I might get
glue in my nails. Thank you," she said walking away.
Ichigo
took all the posters and started to cover them in glue. She hung up
most of the posters and then just had one last to hang. She covered
it with glue and happened to see Masaya walking by Café Mew
Mew. She stared at him, not knowing where she really was putting the
posters on and looked up only to find that she had glued it all over
Ryou's face.
Some
girls started giggling near by.
"Close
the cafe and tell the girls to come to the lab," he said between
gritted teeth.
After
closing the cafe, the girls headed to the lab.
The
guys told them about their new enemy.
"...And
that's it so you all could go home now except for you Ichigo,"
said Keiichiro.
All
the girls gave her a questioning look but walked away.
"I
need you to pick some flowers for the party tomorrow from the
garden," he explained.
"What
garden?" she asked. "I never noticed a garden here before."
"That
garden," Keiichiro told Ichigo, pointing.
Ichigo
walked into the garden, which was apparently behind the restaurant,
but didn't notice Ryou spying on her from a tree.
"Wow
it's pretty!" Ichigo said.
"These
flowers should do."
She
bent down and started picking some flowers. When she was done she
stood up and started to walk back when Ryou jumped down from the
tree.
Ichigo
gasped, "Ryou!"
"Here's
some more," he said handing her some more flowers from the tree.
"These
will do perfect! Thanks," she said walking away but Ryou grabbed
her arm, holding her back.
"Do
you want to go to the dance with me?"
Ichigo
was shocked and was thinking of the answer she'll give him when she
started to think about Masaya and if he'd ask her.
"I'll
think about it," she said.
"Ok,
you have 5 minutes!"
Ichigo
was about to say something when the cyniclons attacked.
Ichigo
transformed and started attacking.
"Hey
Koneko, when's the Dance?" Kish taunted her.
A
vein popped out in Ryou's forehead. "I'll take care of Kish and
you can fight the monster!"
"Sounds
good!" she replied.
Ichigo
used her rose bell to finish off the chimera animal.
The
next day she was at the park with Masaya.
"Hey
did you hear about the dance at Café Mew Mew?" she asked
him, hoping that he'd ask her to go.
"Sounds
like fun," he said and to her surprise changed the subject.
"Boys,"
Ichigo muttered.
-----
At
the dance...
Ichigo
looked stunning in her dress while Ryou looked very cute in his
tuxedo. Every girl was staring at him. Ryou started a conversation
with Keiichiro, though he kept glancing at Ichigo. Everytime Ichigo
looked at him he turned away.
Mint,
Zakuro, Ichigo, Lettuce and Pudding were sitting at a table.
"Why
doesn't he just ask her?" Pudding whispered to Lettuce.
"Why
don't you do something about it?" Zakuro asked Pudding.
"I
have the perfect idea you guys!" she exclaimed.
Heads
turned to their direction.
Mint
pulled Pudding down from her seat. "Not so loud!"
Ichigo
wasn't paying any attention to them.
"What
idea?" Lettuce whispered to Pudding.
"You'll
see," she said getting up from her seat. "Just watch
Pudding the great!"
She
walked up to Ichigo and pushed her off her seat so she went sliding
into Ryou.
Ryou
caught her, surprised. Keiichiro went away talking with someone else.
Ichigo
muttered a word of sorry and realized that they were getting shoved.
"We're
in the middle of the dance floor," she said.
Since
they were left with no choice, they started to dance.
As
they danced they didn't notice that that everybody was watching them
dance beautifully.
When
they stopped the cafe roared with applause.
Ichigo
and Ryou blushed.
"Kiss,
Kiss, Kiss," Everyone else chanted.
That
made the two go even more red. They had no choice but to...
When
they broke apart they all cheered again and Ichigo, getting all
nervous, just walked quickly towards the garden in the back yard.
She
noticed a pond and stood beside it.
When
she looked back she noticed that Ryou was inches away from her face.
She
nearly fell into the water when Ryou caught hold of her and pulled
her back.
"Good
dancing, but you could have done better," he said.
"And
just what do you mean by that?" Ichigo snapped.
"I
mean not stepping on my toes and sweating on my shoulders with your
hands," he said.
"I
never stepped on your toes," she said.
As
they talked Ichigo was too busy thinking of a retort that she didn't
notice Ryou drawing closer to her.
"So
you're saying that you were sweating on my shoulders?" he said.
Ichigo
was about to say something when she found herself being kissed by
Ryou.
To
his surprise, she started to kiss him back.
After
all she did like Ryou better than Masaya...in secret.
The End
