Hi. This is my first fanfic so don't you dare send any flames. It's hard enough coming up with an idea that people might like them over coming writer's block. So pleas some respect. I got this idea after reading Complications of love. Love the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew; I own the idea for the story

Opening the Past

By: Beloved Kitten

Chapter one: All this over a recite!

. Business had been booming and I had I had been working all day at the Cafe no idea why. It wasn't like Keirrochiro's desserts were that wonderful that they'd all decide to come at the same time on the same day. I walked into the lab and looked around. Ryou's computer, Keirrochi's equipment. Where was that recite?

I had left the customer's recite down in the lab by accident. I pulled out Ryou's chair and looked underneath it. When I couldn't see I got down on my hands and knees and crawled under the desk. But my head bumped into the underside. I yelped in pain and ducked down. My back hitting it this time causing Ryou's drink to fall off the desk and right onto my new outfit.

I shrieked as I slid out and stood to examine the damage. I had changed before I came down because my shift was about over and I wanted to be early for my date with Masaya. My red skirt now had a stain. I then looked to my right and saw the metal table basking in the light. I blushed as I remembered what had happened this morning.

Flashback

"Here you go, have a nice day!"

"Hum Miss this is incorrect"

"What?"

"No I'm saying that my bill should be $7.95 not $17.95."

"What? Let me see." I lent over the counter and tilted my head towards the piece of paper in the women's hand. My hair fanning over the sides of my face.

"No it's correct." I said leaping back behind the counter flashing her a big smile. "That would be $17.95 please." She frowned. Her red eyes piercing and black bangs dropping over her face.

"I'm sorry Miss but its not correct" I smiled as brightly as I could.

"Ma'am but it is. You bought three not one." She glared at me.

"What do you mean? Your menu says three for $7.95!" I stared blankly at her for a moment.

"No," I said slowly. "It said three of our most famous smoothes for only $7.95. As in all three separately caused that not all three together."

"What game are you playing at here? I want to speak to the owner of this place!"

"No! No! I'll do it!" I said as I jumped forwards and snatch the recipe from her hands and headed towards the lab. It'd be better if I explained instead of having that wack job twisting things around. Any way Ryou hasn't yelled at me in like two days. He wouldn't mind. Would he?

I walked down the stair and into the lab. He was sitting at his laptop just staring at the screen. I walked up to him. I had to admit he did look cute when he was deep in thought. I came up beside him and he lifted his cheek off his hand.

"Ichigo? What are you doing here?"

"I wanted t-"

"Shouldn't you be working" he said coolly.

"Yah, I was but-

"So why aren't you up their?"

"What!" I shouted. "I've been working since seven in the morning.-

"Seven-thirty" he corrected. I glared at him.

"So what if I was late at least I work my butt off when I'm here." I said.

"That is if your here." He said placing his cheek against the back of his hand.

"That was once!" I screamed. Why was I getting so mad? "Just because I forgot I had a shift that day doesn't mean-

"You mean you decided to have your date with Masaya instead of coming in." I growled

"Stop interrupting me. You don't know a thing!" I stomped. A sharp pain jolted through my leg and I winced sloping over to one side for a moment. I then took a breath as I held back a yelp and steadied myself before I felt like collapsing. Suddenly Ryou was at my side.

"Get on the table." He ordered.

"What!" I was saying that a lot lately. Ryou let out a breath.

"Get on the table so I can examine your leg." I stared at him fearful. My eyes wide.

"What? What's wrong with my leg?" He glared at me.

"Don't think I don't know what happened yesterday night. When Kish got you by surprise."

"How do you know?" I had tried to keep it a secret. Kish had sent out another predisite the instant I was done with the first. And right when I turned to attack it as well Kish came from behind with his daggers in hand. I leaped out of the way but stumbled from shock and he cut me across my thigh. I had managed to hide it from the other mews. I had been getting hit a lot by Kish lately and I was really starting to hate him. Now the mews always asked if I was hurt or not after a mission. It got on my last nerve.

"Masa told me. He caught it all on tape." I glared towards Masa who I had just notice floating around Ryou. His eyes bulged big within his pink puffy fur. Traitor.

"Ichigo angry! Ichigo angry! Ichigo angry!" He repeated. Suddenly I was lifted off the ground and being brought towards the metal table where a light hung over it. I blushed. Ryou was carrying me. He set me down. I scooted back a bit.

He then took hold of my leg.

" Haaaayyy!" I screeched as I pulled my leg back making it ach even more. It had me wish I hadn't jumped when I was arguing with the customer. Just then I remembered.

"Ryou-

"Ichigo I'm just trying to check your leg now don't freak out." He said with a serious look on his face. I shut my mouth as he took hold of my leg and gently tilted it to the side. My cheeks were burning. He examined the cut on my inner thigh just opposite from my mark on my other leg. He looked at it for a moment making me uncomfortable.

"It's going to have to be bandaged. I'm surprised you hadn't done so all ready." He said as he went towards the counter to get the first aid. I held my leg in place. I didn't know what to do. He returned with bandages and disinfectant and started wrapping my thigh. I sucked in my breath and stayed still. This was a very uncomfortable moment.

When he was done he looked up at me. His face was right next to mine! His eyes piercing into my own. They were such a blue I felt as if I was about to fall into them. I then realized I was still holding my breath. I then slid away from him and got down off the table leaping as far away from him as I could without injuring myself.

"Well I better get back to work. See you later!" I said in a rather high voice as I high tailed it out of there. I couldn't believe it I was this close to kissing RYOU! I WAS THIS CLOSE TO CHEATING ON MASAYA! The thought of him had me feel bad. It was starting to get really hard to hate Ryou lately. And I had no idea why.

End Flashback

It wasn't till later that I realized that I had forgotten all about the customer and the recite. It happened that I took so long that she went looking on her own and had just came back with Keirrochi asking for the recite. I must of left it in the lab.

I took a tissue from a box beside the computer and started scrubbing viciously at my skirt. I didn't have another outfit other than my uniform. I groaned. What was I going to do?

Zzzoooomm

I jumped and looked towards the corner. It wasn't lit so I couldn't see anything. My heart was pounding. What was that? I inched over towards the corner.

"Ryou!" I said. "If that's you I swear I'll kill you for scaring me like that." No answer just a constant zooming noise. I gulped. I inched ever closer.

"Ryou stop playing around!" But it couldn't be Ryou. He went up to his room about an hour ago...unless he came back down. As I got closer the sound got louder. Ok time to go! I backed away and tripped over something. I screamed as I hit the solid floor hard. Suddenly the corner was flooded with a bright light. I gasped.

Right there was a machine that went at least a third of the way to the ceiling. It was shaped like a tube and a purple light illuminated from it with blue stubs sticking out randomly out of the clouded translucent glass. Large bulky cords extended from it, thick and gray-green, coiling around its base and stretching forth across the floor forming some kind of cross pattern. I looked around to see I was right in the center of it. And that I had tripped over one of the cords.

I was shocked. How could I have just blindly avoided each of the bulky humps of cording till now? And how come I hadn't noticed it here before? I then tried to stand up but the cording was as thick as my ankle and my foot got caught on it and I fell over a bundle of them. Its course, plastic covering rubbing painfully against my skin. I accidentally bit my tongue for I had ripped the cord right out of its socket at the side of the machine.

I screamed and ducked as it went sparking through the air. It then struck Ryou's computer flicking it on with a jolt of electricity opening up the last file he had opened. All of a sudden numbers went flashing across the screen. The zooming noise turned to a zumming. The machine illuminated an even stronger and brighter purple as a bright white light grew from inside it. I stared as the cord flew side to side in the air sparks jetting from its ripped cording.

The light inside the Glass casing began to grow an intense white. And the lab was filled with an over whelming zuming sound. I covered my ears and squinted my eyes shut. It felt as if the whole lab was right underneath an earthquake.

Then just as suddenly as it had happened the numbers on the computer screen came to a halt. The light died down and the zumming became lower and softer on the ears. I opened my eyes. The cord was still swinging around in the air with sparks dancing in the air from its tail.

Most to my surprise the door was open to the machine and a fog oozed from inside of it. I tried to jump out of the way but my leg prevented me along with my foot still being caught in the cording.

As I tried to untangle my foot the fog began to lift and my eyes bulged. Right in front of me laying on the ground was – ME! My red hair fanned across my unconscious face. I then looked up to see another me. Lifting herself off the floor and holding her head, one hand placed on the machine for balance. Not only that but Kish stood up from INSIDE the machine and was also shaking his head. Letting me see yet another me laying also inside on the floor her hair covering her face and hand limp over the side of the opening. My mouth dropped open.

What was going on here! Then Kish lifted his head and his gold eyes stared straight at me. His olive green hair damp over his forehead. I then scrambled at the cording leaping away from the unconscious Ichigo next to me. I then turned and high tailed it out of there no matter how much it hurt my leg. I stumbled up the stairs tripping all the way. The door was open and I burst out tripping once more out into the cafe with a scream.

The mews turned to face me. They were all standing next to the counter along with Keirrochi. All the customers had left.

"Ichigo what's wrong? Did you get the recite?" asked Keirrochi politely. I lifted up onto my feet just as Ryou and Masa came from his room.

"What's going on here?" he said emotionlessly with his arms crossed.

"Ichigo are you ok?" asked Pudding as she came towards me. I got up on my feet out of breath. My knees burning from tripping so much. I started waving my arms around and pointing towards the lab. At the same time as speaking while getting over shock and being out of breath.

"in –the malab ladl ldie-. No in- me ls la, aww." I wasn't making any sense. So all I could do was wave my hands like a maniac and point towards the lab. Ryou frowned.

"What were you doing in the lab?" I gapped at him. Zakuro turned to him.

"She left the recite of a customer down there. She was supposed to bring it back."

"So did you get it?" He asked turning towards me.

"Noooooooooo!" I screeched. Everyone froze and stared at me for a moment. Ryou still frowning.

"Then what were you doing down there so long?"

"Noo! I was looking but something happened. Flash! Light! Zoom! Purple! Numbers! Sparks! Me!" I gasped. Mint laughed to herself.

"I think Ichigo must have hit her head on something." I glared at her.

"No. Something wrong happened I went looking then I heard something, then I checked it out. Then Lights, zooming, numbers sparks! And I found three me's and Kish down there!"

"What?" everyone said at the same time?

"Is he trying to steal information about us?" Asked Lettuce.

Was 'Kish' the only part of my sentence they had heard? Every one started talking at once. I couldn't take it not after hearing that zumming so loudly.

"Noooo! Isn't anybody listening to me? He came out of the machine! Along with three of me!" Every one stared at me as if I were crazy.

"What machine?" asked Pudding. Keirrochi looked worried. Ryou's eyes widened.

"What machine Ichigo?" He said rather roughly to me. I froze.

"I didn't know it was there" I said slowly.

"What machine Ichigo?" He was now yelling and standing right in front of me. I gulped. His eyes were burning with blue liquid flames.

"The big one in the corner...shaped like a tube...and with bulky cording sticking out of it." Ryou and Keirrochi's face both turned pale they both then brushed past us down the steps towards the lab. The mews and I right behind them.

All the while we went down those steps I felt as if I was walking into a horror flick. Did I some how clone myself. But then how did the machine get my DNA and why was Kish there too?

That's if for chapter one. Hope you enjoyed it so far. Sorry it's short. Please review. I'll continue as soon as I come up with something. I'll try to update at least every day – Beloved Kitten