A/N: Cheesy summary, yes, yes, I know, but I swear it's better than it sounds. Or it will be. Eventually.

Disclaimer: Masaya still exists, so obviously I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew :/

P.S. This story takes place right after the first season of the manga, so the second season is completely non-existent ^-^

Chapter 1:

Geben die Einstellung

(Giving the Setting)

Great, Ichigo thought heatedly, this is just great.

Stretching in her seat, the mew leader glared at the ever so slowly ticking clock that was on the other side of the room. Of course she just had to get detention when she needed to be somewhere important, and for being late of all things. She had made sure that she woke up ten minutes earlier this morning, so it was a wonder why she still ended up late.

'Maybe it was when I stopped to look at the really cute puppy that one little girl had…' Ichigo recapped, 'oh… won't the clock go any faster?'

Right now, Ichigo was supposed to be at the airport, not here sitting impatiently to be dismissed.

A few months after the love of her life had gone off to study in London, Masaya had called and said he was coming home for the summer break to visit her, to which Ichigo was super happy to hear. His school got out earlier than hers by a week, so he was coming over that day and was supposed to wait for her to pick him up. The flight was scheduled to land around thirty minutes or so after she got out of school, but here she was, waiting an hour and a half to get out.

The girl bit at her lip, 'Hopefully he doesn't get mad for having to wait…'

"You're dismissed."

Ichigo raised her head at the sound of the teacher's voice, dashing out of the room before any of the rest of the students could even rise out of their seats. Hurriedly, she sped down the halls of the somewhat empty school and ripped open her shoe locker, taking off the school slippers and sliding on her own shoes, tapping her toe against the floor, and rushing out of the building.

Quickly hopping on her bike, Ichigo zoomed to the airport at an inhuman speed, zigzagging through all of the traffic on the highway, earning surprised looks and several horns blaring in her ear.

Finally arriving at her destination, Ichigo skidded to a stop in front of the airport, chaining the bike down and fixing her windblown hair, running into the building with rising panic.

Shoving her way through the thick crowds of people, Ichigo tried to see if Masaya was anywhere around, hoping to the Lord up there that he had waited for her. Ichigo went to the gate that Aoyama had told her he would be arriving from and looked around for him. After several minutes of that, when the pinkette was starting to get depressed, someone came up to her.

"Oh, little girl, are you lost? Do you need to find your mother?" They asked in a concerned tone.

Ichigo turned around and smiled at them wearily, "N-no, I was just looking for my friend, they were supposed to wait for me here…"

The person cocked their head to the side, "In this area? If you're looking for someone from the flight, the plane hasn't arrived yet."

Ichigo blinked, "Really? Oh… thank you."

The person smiled and waved as they left, leaving the girl confused. If the flight hadn't arrived yet, then that meant that Masaya hadn't been waiting for her all this time and she didn't have to be embarrassed! While in the midst of her rejoicing, Ichigo heard the sound overhead that announced the landing of the plane that her boyfriend was supposed to be on.

Jumping excitedly to where she expected Masaya to appear, the strawberry themed girl bounced with delight when she spotted his familiar figure within the crowd of people, eyes almost starting to water when he smiled sweetly towards her.

"Ichigo." He called out to her with a sincere expression on his face.

"Masaya!" the girl responded, throwing herself at him.

The boy caught her with ease, and looked down at her guiltily, "I'm really sorry that my flight landing was delayed, I hope you didn't wait too long…"

Ichigo tried to cover the panic on her face, "NO! Hahaha, not at all, I barely even noticed the time passing!"

Masaya let his expression show his relief and smiled again, "That's great. I'd feel horrible if you were waiting here in boredom."

"But that's not too important right now," Ichigo started, "Let's go get your bags."

"Right."

Once they retrieved the Masaya's bags from the luggage conveyor belt, the couple made their way outside, and Ichigo motioned towards her bike (which conveniently was a two-seater and had a holder*).

"Ah, a bike!" Masaya exclaimed happily, "To help the ecosystem?"

"O-of course!" Ichigo stumbled.

Actually it was just because I didn't have enough money for a taxi…

Ichigo unchained the bike and allowed Masaya to get on the back seat, hooking the luggage onto the cart of the bicycle to ensure that the bags didn't fall off. It took a while, but eventually the pair made it to Aoyama's house (though, it probably would have taken less time had Ichigo been paying more attention to the road signs).

The maroon haired girl stopped the two-seater bike at the gate of the Aoyama residence, hopping off to stretch and get her boyfriend's bags, "Ah~ we're finally here!"

The boy smiled at her, though, for some reason it seemed just a little off, "Um, Ichigo… My parents are out of town at the moment, since I forgot to tell them I was coming home, and I lost my house key. Do you think we could go to your house since I have an extra over there?"

Ichigo blinked in confusion, it wasn't too much like Masaya to forget things like that, but she didn't think much of it, "Oh, okay, sure."

She slid back into the seat and they both began pedaling in the direction of her home. Though, it was slightly unnerving to Ichigo to think that Masaya's parents were away while he was home, they would surely be sad once they got back to find out that they missed their son's arrival. The good thing was that he was staying for most of the summer, so about three months, before he went back a week before school started up again.

Ichigo smiled, loving the feel of the wind blowing through her hair. Now that the whole fiasco with the aliens was over, save for the few chimera animals they left behind, the Mew leader could relax a little more and enjoy her time with Masaya. And the greatest thing about it all, she didn't even have to hide anything from him! Even better, he could even help her if they needed him! Oh, life was great right now, and the girl couldn't wait for her summer vacation to start.

Eventually, the bike slowed to a stop and Ichigo bounced off even livelier than she had in front of Masaya's house after all of the optimistic thoughts had run through her head. He slid off as well and kept his ever present smile on his face as she handed him his luggage.

"While you're here, why don't you eat something? I mean, it's almost five and mom's bound to be making dinner by now." Ichigo suggested, making her way towards the house.

"I'd love to." Masaya responded.

With a small blush running across her cheeks, the girl gave a large grin, "Awesome!"

"!"

An abrupt air of unease flickered in the air ship of the aliens. Pai's hand, which was entering codes into the air ship's data memory, froze; Tart, who was twirling his weapon around through his fingers, immediately stopped, not responding when the klackers echoed in the quiet room. Kish was lounging in the air and felt as his breath caught, furrowing his eyebrows together angrily before letting out a low hiss.

"Dammit…"

"Deep Blue…" Tart mumbled,

Pai's eyebrows knotted together, "He's back."

A/N: Wow, that was one long and sucky first chapter. I really hope that I can do a good job with this fan fiction, trust me, the writing style will get better, I was just having a really hard time wording things to flow out nicely. For some reason, I really suck at writing lighter works, like how this chapter is. I am way too used to writing serious storylines and angst… But don't worry, that comes later.

Since I'm a big music person, I like to listen to it while I write, so if you're curious (even though I know you're totally not), here are the songs I listened to. Who knows? Maybe if you check them out, you'll really like them :)

Songs:

One Reason by Fade (Deadman Wonderland OP)

Into the Darkness by PP Music

24 Effects 9 A.M. (Yume Nikki)

… Maybe that's why I always write depressing things, my choice of music is so dark D:

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