A/N: Hey there! I know I said I would do a Teen Titans story but my friend started talking about Tokyo Mew Mew and I came up with this!!:D I'm pretending that Berry and Ringo did not exist(sorry I'll try a project with them later). Also: I do NOT like Aoyama at ALL!!!! Enjoy

Chapter 1:New Life

Ichigo looked at the clock hanging above the kitchen sink and sighed. It was 8:27. Chihiro was going to be late for school.....again! Just then, the red head heard someone running down the stairs. She walked to the staircase and saw her fourteen year old daughter grabbing her backpack.

"Chihiro! You're going to be late again!"

Her daughter looked up, her brown eyes full of disrespect."Well I wouldn't be late if I still lived in Japan and went to school in Tokyo!"

Ichigo just stood there. Chihiro opened the front door, her long black hair flowing a little because of the soft breeze that came in. The older woman went back into the kitchen and heard the door slam. She shook her head. Maybe her daughter was right. Maybe moving to California was a bad idea. Out here, Ichigo had no old friends and no family. If they had stayed, she would be heading to Mint's house or the Mew Mew Cafe. She sighed sadly and realized she missed her old friends. Mint, Lettuce, Pudding, and Zakuro were the best friends Ichigo had ever had.

"I'm so stupid. Moving here was a bad idea after all!"

She then thought of her poor daughter. Chihiro had no friends, her father was gone, and she has to adjust to life in Brentwood, California. Ichigo felt tears starting to well up in her eyes.

Chihiro reached her first period fifteen minutes late. The teacher looked up from his desk and sighed.

"Late again Miss Momoyia," he asked pronouncing her last name wrong.

"It's Momomiya," she whispered quietly.

She went to her seat and sat down quickly. A few people giggled at her and Chihiro's face turned beet red. Why did she have to live here? The girl gazed out the window and started day dreaming.

Mint Kanoko opened the front door to her home in Tokyo. She closed it softly behind her and crept quietly upstairs. It was really late and her son and husband would be worried about her. Once she reached her bedroom door, she took the hair tie down from her blue black hair and opened the door.

"Welcome home."

Her husband, Kaminari, was waiting for her as she expected.

"Hello husband dear," she said with a warm smile in her face.

Kaminari saw past the smile though,"Is something bothering you?"

Mint kept a happy, but tired look on her face and shook her head. Her husband walked towards her and held her hands."Your eyes give your true feelings away."

Her blue eyes closed slowly and she sighed.

"Lettuce! You do know that you don't have to stay here this late, right?"

Lettuce Midorikawa looked up from the papers she was grading. She smiled at the principal.

"Indeed I do."

Her boss just shook his head and walked out of the classroom. Lettuce smiled and started humming to herself. A piece of her dark green hair fell in front of her eyes. She brushed it away but it fell right back.

"Stubborn today?"

She laughed softly at her dry attempt at a joke and gathered her things. Once she was sure she had everything, she walked out of the classroom. When she got to her car, Lettuce looked up at the sky. The stars twinkled faintly and they seemed to send a type of message to the woman. The former mew smiled and nodded her head to them and climbed into her car.

Dark brown eyes gaze up at the ceiling, unable to close and fall asleep. Pudding Fong groaned. She kept tossing and turning over and over again. The young woman sighed loudly. Suddenly, something moved in the dark. Pudding sat up slowly and looked around. Nothing. She didn't believe that it was nothing though.

"Hello there?"

When no reply came Pudding leaned to the small table next to her bed. Her hand fumbled around until she found a remote. Once she had it, she pushed the biggest button and the ceiling fan's light turned on. The bedroom was empty. She giggled and turned the light off.

"Hey look at Pudding! She's searching the dark for a chimera or something! Maybe Pudding is still a mew mew!"

Pudding pulled the covers up to her small nose and giggled some more.

Zakuro pulled the apron of her Cafe Mew Mew work outfit off and sighed. Next to her, a young girl with short dark hair mimicked her movements. Zakuro smiled and the girl giggled and ran to the kitchen.

"Daddy," Zakuro called softly but sternly.

Ryou Shirogane walked out with the small girl in his shoulders laughing her head off.

"Daddy is funny Mama! He says he remembers when Mama had doggy ears!" the girl cried obviously thinking her father had made that up.

"Oh really," Zakuro smiled then winked at Ryou,"What if young Ringo had doggy ears too?"

Ringo's pale blue eyes shined happily,"Ringo wants doggy ears! Ringo wants doggy ears! WOOF!!"

Ryou laughed loudly, almost dropping his four year old daughter. Zakuro shook her head and went into the locker room to change.

Keiichiro watched the family moment between Zakuro and Ryou with their young daughter and sighed. He pictured himself with Rei, his ex-girlfriend, and instead of Ringo, a different child who would look just like his or her parents. The young man laughed when Ringo barked like a dog and he too remembered the Mew Project. Once again, he sighed. The Mew Project.

It was years ago when five girls were fused with the DNA of five Red List animals. Ichigo Momomiya, the leader, was fused with the DNA of an Iriomote Cat and she represented the fruit strawberry.

Hence her name, Keiichiro thought.

Mint Aizawa. She was fused with the DNA of an Ultramarine Lorikeet, and her fruit was blueberry. Lettuce Midorikawa. She was fused with the DNA of a Fin less Porpoise and her fruit was kiwi. Pudding Fong. She was fused with the DNA of a Tambourine Lion Monkey, but kept thinking that she was a lion. Her fruit was banana. Last but not least, Zakuro Fujiwara. She was infused with the DNA of a Gray Wolf and her fruit was pomegranate.

Hence her name again.

He looked back and saw that Ringo was now passed out in a chair and Ryou was watching her with caring eyes. Zakuro walked back in dressed in jeans and her jacket was covering her shirt and picked up her daughter. The three of them walked out the door leaving Keiichiro alone and lonely.

Kisshu sighed sadly and broken hearted. Ichigo has been gone for four years and he couldn't stand her absence. Yes, she did marry Masaya Aoyama and have a daughter with him, but he couldn't help but miss and love her. His mind flashed back to when they were younger and she was a mew mew and he was working Deep Blue. He shuddered. Deep Blue. Kisshu could not believe he helped that monster.

"You know you're not the only one who has a loved one."

The alien turned around to see Taruto, his young companion, glared at him. Kisshu laughed.

"No I'm not, but at least your love is still in Japan. I have no clue where my kitten is," he retorted.

Taruto's eyes narrowed and he turned away. Kisshu sighed and stared up at the sky and thought about Ichigo and if she was missing him.