Silver Artic Wolf: This is a sequel to Wild Strawberry.
Disclaimer: I don't own TMM; I don't even own the character that shows up in this and some following chappies.
Ichigo: What's her name.
Silver: Not to be revealed.
Ichigo: Darn.
Silver: Okay now on with the show! This is placed on the Monday following Valentine's Day. Or at least this chapter is.
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Confessions of a Teenager and Her Boss
Chapter 1
It was Monday after their date Ichigo and Ryou were together in the same room, working. She kept looking at him and smiling and he smiled back. They didn't fight, they didn't poke fun at each other, and Ichigo didn't trip or anything. "What's up with Ryou and Ichigo?" Lettuce asked Keiichiro. Keiichiro only smiled and said, "They'll tell you when they're ready," Lettuce looked at Keiichiro and cocked her head shrugged and left the kitchen. Ichigo was in the lobby greeting and seating customers. They left big tips and a note it always read, 'Give that nice girl up front in the red uniform half.'
An hour before closing time a girl with long black hair, amethyst eyes, and a short Chinese styled black dress with a royal blue dragon wrapping itself around the dress walked into the cafe with two other girls. One had strange silver hair with light blue, white, and blood red highlights in her hair, and light blue eyes that were so light they were almost white, and she was wearing a long royal blue version of what her friend was wearing but the dragon was silver and had golden stars for eyes. Their last friend seemed more normal than the other two; she had blond hair, green eyes, and was wearing jeans and a t-shirt that said, "I'm not listening no matter what you say," and had a pair of white sneakers on. The silver haired girl and the black haired girl asked Ichigo, "Where does Masaya Aoyama go to school?" "He goes to school with me and I go to the school down the street," Ichigo answered and then seated the girls.
They sat together and chatted the black haired one and the silver haired one seemed to be planning something, but what Ichigo couldn't tell. When Zakuro gave them their order the silver one and her recognized one another. "Hey Wolf," Zakuro said to the silver haired one. "Hello Lone Wolf," The silver haired one replied. "Oh sorry, I mean Silver Wolf, but, Shara what are you doing in the area with your band?" Zakuro asked. "Not much, hey Zakuro, this is Amaya," Shara said pointing to the black haired girl, "And this is Natsu," Amaya and Natsu bowed in turn. "Soooo I was wondering. My boss told me to find this Shirogane Ryou and I thought you might know who he is," Shara said. "Yeah he's got something our boss signed us, me and Shara, up for. Said something about DNA..." Amaya said. "Uh sure, actually he's my boss, I'll go get him. But you might not want to do what your boss signed you up for," Zakuro said and went downstairs. Meanwhile in the basement...
Nobody had noticed when Ichigo slipped downstairs to see Ryou. They were now sitting in front of his computer completely intertwined, kissing, tongue and all. Zakuro walked in on this scene and when she saw it she was totally shocked. So naturally she ignored it and said, "Ryou, there are some girls, friends of mine, that are here to see you about something their boss signed them up for," Ryou and Ichigo hurriedly untangled themselves and Ryou said, "Um bring them on down and Ichigo go back to work," And as soon as Zakuro was out of ear shot he whispered, "Please." Ichigo did return to work and Ryou righted himself while Zakuro led the leader of the band The Black Pearl Dragons, and their guitarist into the basement.
"This is your lab?" Shara said lifting her right eyebrow and lowering the other, "Boring. Even the one in my house is more advanced than this," She yawned. "Yeah but can you inject DNA into people?" Ryou said thinking he could outsmart her. "No but I can create a whole new animal from DNA I've collected," Shara said and Ryou looked mad and then calm, "Well you two are about to become Mews," Shara sighed and rolled her eyes, "Dude if our boss had said so I could have told him this, MEW MEW STAR MEWTAMORPHI-SIS!" Shara transformed in a burst of silver sparkles and before them stood Mew Star. She was in a silver version of Zakuro's Mew outfit but her tail and ears were white and her tail of a fox, also over her stomach was a piece of see through fabric that had sparkles and a few star beads and such on it. "What I thought you said you couldn't inject people from your basement!" Ryou said. "I did, true, my lab is on the 5th floor, and I used a needle," Shara said bluntly. "Oh, well then I suppose Amaya is also a mew," Ryou said.
"Yup! MEW MEW ECLIPSE MEWTAMORPHI-SIS!" Amaya yelled and she transformed, her dress spilt into a top and skirt with legging that went over her knees they were black her dresses' dragon turned into a panther and a pair of panther ears and a tail with a black bow and a silver bell popped out of her body. Also she had boots like Ichigo's but black. "Okay, well, show me your weapons and you're done," Ryou said and Shara rolled her eyes. "Whatever, STAR STAFF!" A long silver staff appeared in Shara's hand. It had a large Star at the top it was covered in snowflakes and at one point looked like it broke off and had holes she decided to give Ryou a Demo, "COSMIC MUSIC!" Her staff broke apart and rearranged itself to look like a silver flute and microphone headset. The headset rested in Shara's hair and the flute floated to her hands. Shara started a melody into her headset and then took her flute and played the song that went through her head.
"ECLIPSE DANCE!" Amaya yelled and a large tambourine that was black, and in the middle was a picture of an eclipse halfway through. Amaya started tapping her tambourine to her hip and yelled, "ECLIPSE TUNE!" And her tambourine turned into a violin and a microphone headset. The bow of the violin threaded itself through Amaya's right hand and the violin came to rest in her left. The headset rested in Amaya's hair and she started singing the same melody Shara had and suddenly she started playing with Shara and the whole basement was filled with their music. Kishu appeared, drawn to the sound, as was Taruto and Pai, along with Masaya. Shara and Amaya smirked Shara started singing,
"Love is the power of the world, so don't you forsake it! It rules the world no matter the way people feel, Love is the power of the world."
"Let it over take your senses, there's no opposing it, it will control your every move for the rest of your life." Shara started playing again and Amaya started singing.
"Want, it's the evil of the world, so kill it! It will overpower you if you're not careful, so be careful of your love. Yeah, watch what you do with your caring, passion."
"If you give in it will destroy and wreak your life. It will slowly kill what you are and turn you into something you're not. So move on with your life. Yeah, yeah, oooh." Here background music came in as Natsu came in playing a saxophone in a yellow Ichigo costume with a pair of lion ears and a lion's tail sticking out as well, and Shara and Amaya started up again.
"The two opposites, yin and yang, the emotions of the world. So wonderful yet so dangerous. Don't you forget this key fact, love only the people that love you back!" Here Kishu, Taruto, and Pai fell asleep and Masaya clapped. Shara and Amaya bowed and said, "That was to put the people, who the ones they love, love them back, to sleep," Then Shara continued, "Taruto and Purin, Kishu and Minto, and Pai and Retasu but no one for Masaya!" "Can we do whatever we want with him?" Asked Amaya. Ryou nodded and an evil smirk was cast between Shara, Natsu, and Amaya. "Wait, then shouldn't I be asleep too?" Ryou asked. "No, we weren't facing you so you didn't get the whole impact you'll just have a migraine for 24 hours," Shara said. At that Ryou felt this hhhuuuuuuuuugggggggeeeeee migraine coming on. "ICHIGO CAN YOU GET RYOU AN ASPIRIN?" Shara yelled upstairs. Ryou clutched his head and groaned as Ichigo came running down the stairs with an aspirin. She almost dropped it when she saw the three mews, silver, black, and yellow. "Natsu what are you doing here!" She said excitedly. "Hey Cuz, I thought I saw you at the door," Natsu said as Ryou exchanged funny looks with Masaya who was still standing there. Shara and Amaya just smiled and turned their headsets and instruments back into their original forms. "Shara? Amaya? You've grown! What's up?" Ichigo asked, "And why are you mews?" She looked at Ryou and glared at him, "WHY THE HECK DID YOU TURN MY COUSIN AND HER BFF'S INTO MEWS!" She yelled at Ryou. "He didn't," Shara said in her usual Zakuro-like tone, "I did, they thought the TMM were so cool so here we are, I'm Zakuro's cousin's sister-in-law," Shara said and pointed to Amaya who shrugged, "I don't really care that she's my cousin we have a gig here tonight. It was set up by some Akasaka Keiichiro," Amaya finished.
"Are we going to drive Masaya into the ground or not?" Asked Natsu. "Yeah as soon as your weapon goes to its original form," Amaya said. "Hey he's my ex let me help!" Ichigo said, "MEW MEW STRAWBERRY MEWTAMORPHI-SIS!" Ichigo transformed and pulled out her Strawberry Bell. Zakuro appeared out of nowhere in her Mew form with weapon. "Shara looks more like Zakuro than Amaya does," Natsu commented. Shara and Zakuro shrugged and Shara said, "COSMIC SHOWER!" And Masaya was covered in stars that exploded in a shower of snowflakes. He was burned and then frozen, "Owuch," Amaya said then smirked, "ECLIPSE SMASH!" Amaya yelled as she banged her tambourine to her hip and sent huge waves at him that broke the ice and knocked him off his feet. As he stood Natsu got ready with her weapon, "SUN SHOCK!" Natsu yelled as her yellow katana's sent out a shock wave that shook Masaya to the core and blinded him with light. "And now for the final touch, STRAWBERRY CHECK!" Ichigo yelled out and hit Masaya so he was knocked unconscious. "Hehehe," Shara snickered and then said, " Your turn Lone Wolf," And smirked as Zakuro stepped forward, "Should we finish this off with a song?" Zakuro asked. "I'll start us this time," Amaya said as her tambourine once again turned into a headset and violin and it did what it did the last time.
She started a different song this time though; she hummed it for a little bit and then started her violin up. "SUN SONG!" Natsu said as she started playing her saxophone and her head set when on her head. And Amaya started the song.
"If you're feeling sick and lonely it's only going to get worse, unless you decide to change it yourself. Cause I don't care, and I was supposed to live with you forever, but I hate you and I despise you, decided you wouldn't listen to me so I hit you and I packed up and I ran off with my lover," Amaya started playing again as Natsu started singing.
"If you're happy well, it's never going to last because the world it ain't perfect and well, that's not going to change. So find a single thing that makes you happy and no matter how tight you hold it you need a back up because... OH OH OO!" Natsu said as Shara came in and started singing with Zakuro while Natsu and Amaya played, Zakuro also had a piccolo in her hand.
"The world could change while your holding so tight. It still rotates and it goes on, nothing stops for one person. It doesn't stop at all, sooo Stop holding on to false dreams and fall back into Chaos it won't be like that for very long cause, It's gonna be just fine! Now sleep and tomorrow will be another day and wake up when it's time to play so go to sleep and when your love comes and wakes you up with the love in her heart you'll feel so much better my friend," Zakuro and Shara stopped singing and joined in with Amaya and Natsu for a few measures and then ended the song with a bow.
"He won't be awakening very soon, soo do what you want with him Ryou he's yours to use in experiments and such," Amaya said. "Good, but now, you have to talk to Keiichiro," Ryou said as Shara returned to her normal state but for some reason her fangs remained elongated. "Not again, give me a sec.," She said as she concentrated and with a look of pain her fangs returned to human canine teeth, "Sorry. The injections have a few side affects like that. Amaya's tail will stay out sometimes and Natsu's ears stay out," Shara explained, "It takes a lot of strength to make them go away," She sighed and looked at her feet. "Hey that's okay, my tail and ears pop out when I'm ultra embarrassed or scared," Ichigo said and patted Shara on the back who snapped and whipped around in the process she smacked Ichigo. "THAT'S NOT IT YOU IDIOT! MY FATHER WAS RACING TO BEAT SHIROGANE'S FATHER AT THE MEW PROJECT WHEN SOMEONE SET OUR HOUSE UP IN FLAMES AND HE AND MY MOTHER DIED IN THAT FIRE!" Shara screamed and fell to the ground as Amaya and Natsu blew darts with a sedative into Shara's neck.
"Sorry about that, She has a tendency to snap when someone talks about the problems with her project," Amaya said. "It's okay," Ichigo said, "But, Ryou doesn't that sound almost exactly the same as your story of how your parents died and you were drawn to the Mew Mew Project?" "You're right, Ichigo, I have a feeling someone did that on purpose," Ryou said when he had a strange flash back.
Flash Back"Daddy!" He saw a little girl yell out and jump into what looked like a twin to Ryou's dad. "Hello Shara how have you been getting along with your cousin Ryou today?" "He's boring, all he wants to do is talk about turning people into half human, half animal, super-heroes," A young Shara said as she squeezed her dad's finger. "Oh really, well Princess you realize that's my job, too, right?" Mr. Shirogane said. "WHAT!" Shara screamed and ran off to a tall woman with silver hair like Shara but she had long ears, long fangs and gold eyes. "What is it my little Princess?" She asked as she picked up Shara who was in tears by now. "Daddy turns people into half animal hybrids!" Shara exclaimed.
"Princess, you know that's how your daddy gets money to support us since no one will hire me because of my... heritage," The strange lady said to Shara. "But can't he do something else in that lab of his?" Shara asked. "I'm afraid not but how about you write a letter to your dad about why you think he shouldn't conduct those kinds of experiments and not send it," Shara's mom said. "Then what was the point of writing it?" Asked Shara cocking her head to one side. "To get out your frustration," Shara's mom said. "Oh," Shara said and headed to the backyard when she heard a voice coming from the library that she had never heard before. There was no other way into the library than the way she just left but she didn't see anyone so Shara turned around and ran back to the library.
A man with long black hair and wearing a blue long jacket that had long pointed ears and golden eyes like her mother was standing there. He had Shara's mother backed up into a corner and when she saw Shara she yelled, "RUN!" Shara looked hesitant but she did run when the strange man started to kick her mother. "DADDY! SOMEBODY'S HURTING MOMMY!" Shara screamed as she ran to her room. Her father heard and ran to the library as Shara continued up the stairs. She took all her father's notes, her stuffed animals, the songs she had written, a book or two, some clothes, and her pictures of her parents and put them in a blue backpack. She zipped the bag and started down the rose latticework just as she heard her mother scream and the library went up in flames, soon the rest of the house followed. Shara stood outside the house looking at it and crying.
Ryou was teleported to another scene where someone in a place that looked like an orphanage was talking to Shara. "You can't keep the things you brought," A lady was telling Shara but Shara just growled and held her backpack closer to her and said, "FIRST MY PARENTS DIE IN A FIRE AND NOW PEOPLE ARE TELLING ME I CAN'T KEEP WHAT RIGHTFULLY IS MINE!" She screamed and ran out the door as a young couple headed for the orphanage were about to open the door and she ran right into the woman's open arms. "Inu look, this poor girl, she's so cute," The woman said. "Yes she is isn't she Aki," The man said as Shara peered over her backpack and when she saw they were staring at her she hid her head again. "What's wrong?" Asked the lady when she noticed Shara had been crying. "My house was set on fire today and my mommy and daddy died in the fire, I only got out because I was going to run away and burn my daddy's notes for a project he was doing when this strange person burned our house down. I had packed a backpack full of my stuff and that lady in there wants to take it from me," Shara sobbed.
Inu and Aki looked at each other and went inside and told the lady, "We'll take her," When they had signed the papers Shara was no longer Shara Shirogane she was now Shara Mitsuki.
End Flashback"Her fangs aren't a problem from her Mew Project they are her real front teeth!" Ryou said. "How do you know?" Amaya asked. "I got inside her head some how and learned a lot about her, but anyway she needs to talk to Keiichiro," Ryou said.
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Wolfie: I have to say that got a little off track but it's a pretty good chapter. You'll understand Shara, Amaya, and Natsu's roles eventually. R&R!