XSain:First fanfic rated T for blood gore and darkness. I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew or the people in it, I am working on a way to own Kisshu though so he'll do my bidding. KXI fanfic here people. Rating may go up later Im not promising nothing,
Chapter one, "Night Run"
The leafs rustled on the side walk and blew all the way down the dark street the full moon showing brightly through the haunting gray clouds yet a some how black starless sky prolonged everywhere above the clouds only adding to its outrages yet sinister looking beauty.
A sixteen year old girl walked down the empty street the moons beams showing features brilliantly as she walked.
She had beautiful strawberry red hair, lush pink lips, and big gorgeous brown eyes, the moons light seemed to be absorbed by her soft skin.
Her heart thudding loudly in her chest feeling like it was going to burst. Her breathing rapid.
"Just a little further and Ill be home soon. That's it just a little further."
Even with the black starless sky, the moons light seemed to give the girls surroundings a pale blueish sheen.
From the trees to the buildings she passed all the way to the sidewalk she walked on as her feet made soft pats upon it.
That and the sound of her heavy breathing were the only things keeping her comfort on this silent night not even a night breeze would grace the hot summers sticky air.
The sound of a twig snapping behind her made her jump and twist around blood pounding in her ears.
She stood still, awaiting the expected horror chanting prayers in her head hoping it was just some animal like a small rabbit.
Nothing came not a small animal not even another sound from the darkened trees.
The girl sighed in relief trying to calm her racing heart. she pushed her red crimson locks away from her sweaty forehead.
She again started down the lonely street letting all her terrifying thoughts slip away from her troubled mind.
"Crack!"
A shriek escaped from the girls pink rose colored lips.
The teenage girl ran towards a street lamp stopping underneath it.
She lent against the cool bar of metal the bright street light shining down on her showing her fully as she glanced around feverishly.
Nothing came in to her line of sight as she looked straight ahead where the noises were coming from.
The hairs on the back of her neck and her arms stood up sweat dripped down her cold face all the way down to her fire hot neck and cool shoulders. Her body trembled, chocolate colored eyes welled with silent unshed tears.
"Please don't..." She thought as another crack and crunch was heard. "...let it be..." She whimpered as more came getting louder.
She clutched her head biting her lower lip trying to drowned out the endless sound of soft padded foot steps on the not to far away forest floor that were getting nearer and nearer with each step her heart sped up. "Th-thump, th-thump, th-thumpth-thumpth-thump" It echoed in her ears.
Her palms were sweaty she took one hand that she was using to hold her head and instead clutched it over her chest her breath quickened. "...him."
Whatever it was, was about to erupt from the trees right in front of her.
No she couldn't, she couldn't do this it was so terrifying why couldn't this all just stop? In two seconds she was going to me facing the creature of her nightmares. The creatures who's face she had never even seen.
"No..." She whispered screwing her eyes shut a tear leaking through them. "NO!" She yelled turning the opposite direction and bolting away.
She ran as fast as she could her mid-back hair whipping around as she ran hitting her in the face. She heard him yes "him" She knew it was him it always was, come through the trees and start to run after her hearing his foot steps fall in after her own.
She turned the streets corner her feet crunching and grinding fallen leafs into the pavement.
"Run, run, run, run!" Her head screamed. She ran and ran street lamps, houses, and trees were all but a blur as she flew past them.
Her throat was dry her eyes watered her chest was begging for air that it would not get. She didn't dare turn around even when she thought she heard him gain speed.
She had never seen him not once had she ever laid her eyes on her monster that followed her almost everywhere she went. She was to afraid to find out what she might see when she looked. Who's face it would be that she had seen so clearly in her nightmares yet when she awoke she couldn't remember what it was she had saw only to be afraid incredibly afraid.
Her jean skirt clung to her. The now light breeze of the night felt like ice to her and cut through her dark pink long sleeve shirt as she tried to gain speed herself in vain.
Running and taking long jumps and strides trying to gain the advantage were also in vain.
Suddenly she heard the footsteps behind her stop she thought he might have given up on her for tonight, but she kept going not wanting to take any chances just in case it wasn't all true it had happened to her before after all.
As she continued on she was reminded of the day when this all started the day a little over a year ago when her whole world began crashing down just when it had started building it's way back up. Yes that single day is when her nightmare had truly started when she began to know the worst terror beyond anything mankind could ever truly know, not until it happened to them that is.
(Flashback)
It was a Thursday afternoon nice and sunny a truly beautiful day at school all the students were eating outside for lunch. A certain red haired girl was sitting under a big old oak tree in the soft green grass trying to be free from the suns hot rays, already have eaten her lunch.
She leaned up against the tree closing her coffee colored eyes letting the cool spring breeze run through and over her as she dozed of into a gentle sleep of sweet dreaming.
The sounds of birds and small insects helping lull her to sleep. This of course was part of what had woken her up. Suddenly all the noises stopped up until then they had been playing a rhythmic tune in her ears as she slumbered, and to have them stop so suddenly without any explanation was more than just odd.
Slowly she opened her eyes half way.
Half lidded she turned her head slowly looking around for anything that could of caused it, she saw nothing.
Deciding to not worry about it she closed her eyes attempting to fall back into dreamland when she felt it.
Someone watching her...looking at her up and down, their eyes burning into her intensely scanning over her again and again, like they were taking all of her in.
Her lips, her eyes, her whole entire face and figure every inch of her every last bit of her. It felt as though some one was drinking her in with their eyes.
A cold shiver ran down her spine.
She Jolted in shock and became fully awake in the process the young red head looked around another time looking into shadows and hiding places .
That's when she noticed the feeling wasn't coming from in front of her... it was coming from in back of her.
She turned her body looking in back of her into the bushes. "Hello?" She whispered. Nothing, "Is someone there?" Again nothing, She got up "Hello? Is any one out there?" She called louder.
No reply came.
The young teenage girl wrapped her arms around herself tight suddenly feeling cold.
"Show yourself right now this isn't funny!" She yelled. The feeling just continued to grow stronger as she talked. Fear rushed through the girl.
What could be watching her. Was anything watching her at all or was it all just in her wild imagination? Could she really be imagining something like this?
Taking a step back her eyes scanned over the bushes and few surrounding trees once more and again spotted nothing.
"Whats...going on?." She whispered taking another step back hugging herself tighter...
"ICHIGO!!" "Huh?" The girl suddenly felt the burning feeling disappear.
"What the?..." She whispered again. "Ichigo?"
Ichigo turned around to face a lime green haired girl with blue eyes who was looking very concerned.
"Lettuce?" "Ichigo are you okay?" "What?" She blinked in surprise
"Its just you." The other girl Lettuce started. "...Looked, well scared...you were hugging yourself and it seemed as though...you were talking to somebody." The polite girl spoke softly. (Duh!)
"No I'm fine really nothings wrong." Ichigo smiled trying to look honest not wanting to worry her friend about what just happened...or might of happened.
"Are you sure?" Lettuce asked concern still in her voice.
"Hai, is there something you came over to tell me Lettuce?" Ichigo asked trying to change the subject as quickly as possible not wanting to think back to it.
"Oh yes sorry!" She apologized. What a typical Lettuce thing to do.
"I came to tell you it's time to come in lunch is over Minto and the others are already inside heading to are next class. It took me a while to find you."
She spoke softly again, a gentle smile on her face.
"Really? Already? I must have been sleeping longer than I thought! Thank you Lettuce-Chan!" Cried Ichigo energetically a bubbly smile appearing on her face as she bowed in appreciation and picked up her school brief case that held all her school supplies. (You now the ones they walk around with all the time in manga.)
"Your welcome." Her reply a little louder this time but still very soft and polite ocean blue eyes shining matching bright coffee brown ones.
"Ichigo we better hurry or will really be late." "Hai!" She said following the slightly older girl.
She took one more look back before catching up with Lettuce still finding nothing she decided to discard it from her brain it probably was just her wild imagination.
"Stupid Ichigo" She thought in her head. "Your just being paranoid calm down for Gods sake..."
She did not notice two burning melted gold orbs looking through the leaves of a tree directly behind hers staring after her longingly. Passion burned with in them.
The person who was the owner golden eyes spoke which was very unusual for them.
The voice came out in a raspy whisper. "...Ichigo..." As the eyes continued to burn the dark figures heart beat uncontollabley through it's holders body.
Hey...Ichigo?" Lettuce suddenly stopping in mid step causing Ichigo to almost run into her
"Hm?" Questioned Ichigo turning to face her friend slightly surprised by the sudden stop.
"Well um I w-was um just wonder-ring-g how have y-you been s-since your...parents..." She stuttered over the words afraid to cause her dear friend any pain by the up coming question, she was unable to finish the sentence.
Sadness sprang over Ichigo at those words reminding her of the worst news she had ever received in her life the familiar pang of pain filled her heart causing the ache to form in her chest all over again.
She smiled a broken smile and unshed tears began glistening in her big brown eyes. "Ive been doing okay...better you know than I was." She whispered softly.
"Oh that's good so your doing well right?" Lettuce pressed gently though how very uncommon it was for her she wanted to make sure Ichigo was truly doing better.
"Kinda, I kinda am it's been hard, six whole months and I still wake up sometimes thinking its all just a dream." Sighed depressingly Ichigo,
"Yes it was tragic news when we all heard about Mr and Mrs Momomiya-San's deaths in that car accident oh so long ago."
"Yes the stupid car accident with that damn drunk driver." Her fists clenched so hard that her knuckles turned white. "Took them away from me Ill never see them again in this life." She continued her words were almost hateful causing Lettuce's eyes to widen then soften with sympathy , "Maybe not even in any other life."
"But" Her voice suddenly almost cracked "I know that their looking down on me. My Mom and Dad are watching over me, watching all the things I have accomplished and all the things I'm trying to do. Their looking after me, and I thank God for that." Her voice came out so raspy like she hadn't drunk in days.
Ichigo's face became slightly happier as she looked over at her friend which she had spent so may hard times with. Lettuce hugged her.
"You always have us Ichigo don't ever forget that." She whispered comfortingly
Ichigo's smile grew and she hugged the normally extremely shy girl back.
"I know." She whispered back...
(End of flash back.) (Sorry it wasn't terrifying but it wasn't suppose to be it was just to show you when it all started. Not to mention that it was dull and fucking long!)
Ichigo saw the top of her apartment complex in the distance.
She again pushed her legs as new adrenaline filled her body. The sight of her home giving her slight hope as it always did when she was in this situation which was basically in fact every night.
Just then it started to rain droplets poured down hitting her in the face as her clothes started to get wet. Thunder and lightning clashed in the sky ringing in her eardrums.
She ran across the street and all the way up a flight of metal stairs. She slipped on the third step on her way up almost smashing her head into the rail. She caught herself and continued running up until she reached the sixth floor of the complex.
"113...115,116...117 and 118! Yes thank you!." Ichigo's mind screamed in gratefulness.
Skidding to a stop she looked at the plain white door which had the numbers 118 painted in red chipped painting across it.
Ichigo hurriedly took her keys out of her skirts jean pocket playing around with them desperately trying to get them into the keyhole.
When she had finally gotten the right one and had put through the key hole she stopped.
Now came another hard part, don't get me wrong she was happy to be home of course, but there was always what she might find in the apartment ever since these incidents started to happen she would come home and find things like gifts. Such as perfume, dresses, jewelry, and roses...yes there was almost always a rose...with every gift. Once she had woken up with hundreds of rose petals scattered across her bedroom!
Most girls of course would find that to be so very romantic except the fact that most girls boyfriends did it, Ichigo did not have a boyfriend. Not to mention all the doors and windows had been locked.
They were always locked no matter how much of a hurry she was in she always made sure locked them, but somehow he always got in nothing worked.
She even tried changing the locks, but on her low salary she could only afford to do it a couple of times her attempts to keep her stalker out were futile nothing could stop him.
Ichigo took a deep heavy breath. "Okay here we go." She whispered and turned the door knob.
She stepped through the doorway into her dark apartment, lighting flashed out lining everything but other then that it was almost pitch black.
Ichigo hesitated again fear racing through her veins all over again.
After a moment she closed the door behind her and began using the storms lighting to make her way through the apartment and into the kitchen where she stumbled around looking for the light switch.
Once she found it she quickly turned it on light flooded the cozy little Kitchen. It was small with only two cabinets a medium sized frige also a stove, sink, and a little cheap microwave she had bought at a garage sale with her very low salary. It was painted a cheerful sunny yellow with strawberries imprinted around the border of the walls, and white trimming. Ichigo took some comfort in the happy colors.
She wished she could stay in her soft colored kitchen but sadly she needed a shower and the bathroom just so happened to be in her room away from all the light and pretty colors so cautiously she headed down her hallway.
She walked slowly not wanting to go into her room it was where most of her terrifying memories lay.
Once she was in her room she looked around everywhere her bed her desk all the corners of the room and she smiled.
Nothing that's what she found nothing absolutely nothing, nothing out of place or out of the ordinary not one single gift it was like a miracle. Ichigo was almost bubbling over with pure joy.
Maybe he was starting to give up on her? They thought was over whelming.
Ichigo felt so happy that for the first time in ages she began to actually undress in her own room.
She carefully unsnapped the three buttons of her shirt before gently pulling it over her head and placing it on her bed.
Next were her shoes weird I know but ever since she was little she would always take her shirt of first then her shoes and socks her mom would complain about it until no end whenever it was time to give younger Ichigo a bath.
Ichigo sighed as she laid her jean skirt next to her shirt. She was left in only in her pink bra and underwear she didn't want to test her luck in getting completely undressed no it was way to soon for that.
She was about to head for the bathroom when an idea struck her something else she hadn't done in a very long time.
Ichigo began walking across her room to a body length mirror that was propped up near the corner of the room.
She stopped right in front of it and looked at her own reflection.
She stared at her body and its changes she was taller than she remembered only about half an inch though she didn't believe she could get any taller now , and her body had matured more since the last time she looked at herself.
She hadn't done this for at least three years, look at her self see what had changed what was new, how tall she had gotten, you know how almost every girl does once they hit puberty.
She had changed so much that she had to move her hand back and forth in front of her and watch the mirror imitate her movements to see that it was really her and not someone else.
Ichigo leaned in and stared at her eyes. She looked deeply into her brown colored orbs.
They to had changed, not only were they not filled with happiness and joy as they had once been before terror had ripped it's way forcefully into her life, but they were also tired and sad
Sad because she was alone, all alone and left to wallow in fear by herself no one to comfort her to tell her that everything was going to be okay again someday like her parents would of if they were still alive.
Ichigo reached her hand up to touch herself just below one of her eyes using two fingers to brush across the skin underneath it like you would see someone doing when they were trying to fix smeared eyeliner or mascara.
"I look like mom." She sighed.
That was the first thought that came to her mind, she looked like her mother, and she did too.
Her mothers same color hair her mothers eyes, her mothers whole look. She didn't take on her mothers full appearance though she could see some characteristics of her father to like the shape of her eyes and ears.
Her skin tone was split right down the middle. She didn't have her mothers pale moon skin, and she didn't have her fathers dark peach skin.
Her skin was a beautiful pale peach fuzz color. The kind of color you want to reach out and touch to see if any of it will rub off onto your fingers or the kind you want to kiss all over just to have the feel of it pressed against your lips.
Ichigo sighed once more before she turned and headed for the bathroom to take a shower...
XSain: Well I would Like to say I am disapointed I dont think I did a really good job. I had more to this first chapter but I decide to put it in chapter two.
Kisshu: If there is a chapter two.
XSain: Gives evil death glare What is that sopose to mean?
Kisshu: Nothing! Screams as XSain pulls out flame thrower and starts to chase him around.
XSain: Please review! Get back here Kisshu!