Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew!

This is going to be my first story, so don't expect too much from me! I'm from Germany but I want to try writing in English because all ideas pop up in my mind in that language and it's difficult to translate it before writing it down. Am I strange? After all, that makes it possible that my grammar or word using might be strange; please forgive me for that, ne!

I'd be happy if you would review, ne!

Ages:

Purin: 13

Taruto: 13

Ichigo, Minto, Retasu (Lettuce): 16

Zakuro: 19

Kisshu: 17

Pai: 20

Ryou: 19

"…" speaking,

'…' thinking

Onee-chan – big sister

But let's start, ne!

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Sweet Candy Promise

Chapter 1: There's no way he forgot, na no da!

2 years had passed since the aliens who attacked Earth left. Many things changed since that day. Ichigo decided to follow Aoyama-kun to England because she just couldn't live anymore without him. She already left half a year after End of Mew Project, but she often wrote SMS so the other Mews knew how she was doing.

Zakuro wasn't around anymore too; she worked as a professional model in America. The first time after she left Minto was very lonely, but she was a strong girl and being the little bit of a snob that she was she never let the others know when was sad.

Retasu was now Ryous girlfriend. She was still very shy and timid and apologized all the time, but slowly (thanks to Ryou) she was gaining more and more self-confidence.

The three Mews that were left in Tokyo still worked at Café Mew Mew.

Purin grew a bit, but instead of that not much changed in her life: Heicha was now in school too, so she didn't have to walk her everyday to the daycare and back anymore. That was also very good because school wasn't getting easier and she also had to do most of the housework so she didn't have a lot of free time.

But there was something that helped her still being able to smile even though the fact she had a terribly hard life…

"I'm home, everyone!" yelled the monkey mew when she entered the house. Just a few seconds later her five little siblings came down the stairs to welcome her sister home.

"How'd your day been, na no da?" Heicha asked while the two girls started preparing dinner.

"Oh, quite normal, na no da" Purin said. "How was your test, Honcha, na no da?"

The boy didn't answer and just started to mutter something. That spoke more than thousand words. Purin sighed. He was the worst pupil of her younger siblings. But fast her natural smile came back on her face.

"You know what to do Honcha, na no da? We just train it the weekend, okay, na no da?"

The boy smiled. He was glad his sister was never mad with him. Well, she never seemed to be mad with anybody, after all. 'I've got the best onee-chan in the world' he thought while happily putting the salad on the table.

A few minutes later a six voiced "Itadakimasu" followed by a two voiced "na no da" flew through the house.

After the meal and washing the dishes Purin went up in her room doing her homework. She heard the kids playing outside her room and wished that she'd join. A sigh came out her mouth. Childhood innocence was a great thing, but she felt that time was slowly ending for her.

She checked her watch: Already 8:12 pm! She stood up from her just finishd work, opened the door of her room and yelled outside so everybody inside the house felt the ground vibrating: "BEDTIME, NA NO DA!!" Five voices answered her "YES" showing her they noticed it (besides – it was impossible not to notice, though).

Purin closed the door again. Luckily she didn't have to help her siblings anymore with getting dressed or brushing their teeth.

For Purin began now the most important part of her day. She walked over to her cupboard and opened the huge candy box standing there.

'Hmmmm… which one will I choose today, na no da?' She looked inside the box and decided for a bonbon covered with orange and blue striped paper. 'That's good, na no da!'

Happily she walked over to the window, the candy still covered with her hand. A nice wind blew outside, making her hair flow when she held her head outside. 'That feels good, na no da…'

Then she looked up at the sky. The sun just vanished behind the horizon, what meant that soon… It couldn't take long…

"Ah!" Purin happily noticed the first stars. She waited a little while, watching more and more stars popping up at the sky. About half an hour later, when she thought that all were now shown, she opened her hand that covered the bonbon.

"Taru-Taru, you see, Purin didn't forget about you, and she never forgot that you wanted more candy from her, na no da! Can you see it? Oh, you don't know how much I wish that you would come back to me, na no da!"

Her eyes slowly began to fill with tears. "You didn't forget about me right, na no da? Perhaps you're also thinking of me right now… Do you know how much I miss you, na no da? But Purin isn't sad because she knows that Taru-Taru will come back to her, na no da…"

Even though she didn't like to cry she couldn't stop a few tears running down her face, dripping on her hands. "You see this candy? I'll put it here, so you can easily get it… oh please, hurry and come back to me, Taru-Taru, na no da…"

She couldn't speak any further. Instead of that she took the candy and placed it on the windowsill.

"Just for you, na no da…" She closed the window again and whipped away the tears from her face. After that she went to her bed and lay down. It'd been a long day for her.

She opened her eyes again, looking at the candy outside the window. Every single day since Taruto left she had put a candy there so he knew that she waited for him to come back. Every day, but he never came. Every morning when she woke up the candy was still there, untouched, so she had to eat it herself. She liked candy, but she was never able to enjoy this morning bonbon, because it meant that Taru-Taru didn't come back yet.

Every morning, but tomorrow not, then he would have come back for sure.

A cynical voice that first showed itself about a year ago - and became louder every day - said in her head 'He isn't coming back. Accept it already. He forgot about you and your promise and he'll never come back…'

"No! Stop!" Purin realized that she had spoken the last words out loud and that she said now in her bed instead of lying.

She let herself fall in her pillows again, closing her eyes while looking at the candy and the flashing stars above it. Before falling asleep a last sentence escaped her mouth: "There's no way he forgot, na no da!"