A.N. -Finally I'm able to post a chapter. Sorry it took so long. A few problems happened and the chapter got deleted _ So this chapter is based on episode 35. I don't own it. I just added a twist to it...the way I think it should have gone. But it's fine. It was a good anime :3 And I'm not sure what to call the thing that Kisshu uses to see if something will react to Mew Aqua p, so I will just call it Blue Aqua.
Me: Okay Pudding, now that thats cleared up you get to do the disclaimer
Pudding: Yay, I feel special, na no da! Wolf13sd doesn't own Tokyo Mew Mew or the characters. She only owns the idea of the story na no da~!
Me: Okay, since you have been so patient... ON TO THE STORY!
The children laugh and giggle at the daycare. Smiling faces are everywhere. Everyone had someone they were playing with. Except Momoka. She sat in fron of the TV watching a show that starred Zakuro Fujiwara. The child's eyes gleamed with excitement as she watched the beautiful model. 'Zakuro Fujiwara, Momoka loves you!' The child thought.
"Ah., it's soo cute, na no da!" Pudding cried out i. The cafe. In front of Ichigo, Keiichiro, Lettuce and Pudding sat a strawberry birthday cake. " I wonder who's birthday it is," said Ichigo with a smile. Lettuce replied " If I'm not mistaken, it's for the daycare down the street." That's right," Keiichiro said. "It's for Momoka's 6th birthday. Could you deliver it now Ichigo?" "Sure!" With that, she put the cake in a box with a bow on it and headed out.
'Man I should have brought a jacket or something!' Ichigo thought to herself as she continued towards the cafe. A light cool breeze sent chills up her arms and legs. A door to a bookshop that she was in front of opened and out came Aoyama. "Huh? A..Aoyama-kun!" Ichigo remarked happily. He turned and smiled when he seen her. "Ichigo! What's wrong?" "Oh..n..nothing!" A small sneeze escaped her. "Are yu alright?" "Ah! Y...yea I'm fine" Aoyama began to take off his jacket and put it around Ichigo's shoulders. She blushed deeply at his actions. "Better not catch a cold," he said with a smile. "Aoyama-kun..."
"Sorry for the delay! This is from Cafe Mew Mew!" Ichigo said happily. A little girl stood with the yeacher in fron of Ichigo. Her hair was maroon and was quite long. She had pretty brown eyes. "Are you Momoka?" Ichigo asked her. The little girl simple nodded without a smile. "Great," Ichigo remarked, quickly untying the red bow and opening the box. "TADA!" She cried happily, lowering the cake to show Momoka. "It's a Cafe Mew Mew Special, a Strawberry Birthday Cake."
Momoka stared at the cake. "These things are high in calories, aren't they?" Ichigo stared at Momoka with an extremley suprised look on her face. "Momoka-chan!" The teacher said, suprised as well. "Momoka-chan,why are you worrying about calories at your age?" Ichigo asked with concern. "My dream is to be like Zakuro Fujiwara!" Momoka replied proudly. "If i'm not careful, wont I end up like you?" Ichigo couldn't believe what she heard. "Why you little...! " But Aoyama cut her off. "There,there," he said trying to calm her down. Momoka turned around and stuck her tongue out at her. "NOT CUTE WHATSOEVER!" Ichigo cried out.
Aoyama and Ichigo headed out of the Daycare, when they heard the kids inside yelling "Happy Birthday" They walked past the large window, and seen all the happy kids enjoying the cake. Ichigo smiled happy that they liked it. "Huh?" She seen Momoka standing alone in front of a mirror imitating Zakuro's modeling poses.
"Ha! Momoka is imitating Zakuro-san's poses...But she won't even eat the cake I brought her." A little annoyance tied into her voice. "On top of that, she doesn't even seem to interact with any of the other children. Ichigo thought about it for a minute. Aoyama was right. She was a...loner.
"Hey so I just delivered a birthday cake to a little girl who is a big fan of Zakuro!" Ichigo exclaimed when she got back to the Cafe. Zakuro, who was eeading a book at the moment, barely took note of what Ichigo said, and simply turned the page. Ichigo continued on about Momoka. "You just can't help but notice that she's a loner." With that Zakuro looked up from her book her book for a moment, then went back to reading it. Momoka a loner...it seemed to have reminded Zakuro of something...or someone.
The beautiful sun was setting, making it almost dark outside. "Ha ha ha! Mint you're so nice to give us a ride home in your car!" Ichigo happily cried out. "It's just a ride home, no big deal," Mint replied, looking over at Zakuro. "I was only planning on Zakuro'neesama a ride home." Ichigo continued to giggle.
"Grr... You just invited yourself! Mint snapped at her. The car began to slow down for a red light. "Hey, this is where I delivered the cake this afternoon." Then, Ichigo noticed someone on he swing. "Ah, it's Momoka- chan." Mint and Zakuro looked out the window. "Looks like nobody came to pick her up yet...even this late," Mint commented. Zakuro began to feel similiar feelings stir up inside of her. 'This child...so lonely' she thought.
Zakuro and her 2 agents walked into the fancy resturant for a staff meeting. She followed them to a table but stopped when she seen a familiar face...Momoka-chan. Zakuro stared at the young girl. There were 2 chairs at the opposite end of her table, yet they were empty. The little girl was just sitting there...all alone. That's when feelings surfaced in Zakuro. She remembered when she was younger. Her parents were always busy, and were barely ever around. They didn't even have time to have dinner with her. Zakuro snapped back to reality, gentley shook her head, and went to the table with her agents. Momoka sighed and sat down the menu. She took out a photo of Zakuro. A young looking waiter came up to her. "Momka-chan, your father and mother are still at work, so after dinner, you will be driven home." Hurt and anger welled up inside Momoka. "Momoka doesn't want any! Afterall i'm on a diet!" She cried out, jumped out of her seat, and ran outside.
Zakuro, who had heard her, quickly excused herself from the agents, and went outside to find Momoka.
Tears fell from her brown eyes. Momoka was huddled up against a large tree, crying softly. "We already agreed to have dinner together on my birthday. Papa and Mama both don't like Momoka." "What's wrong?" Momoka turned her head slowly to see Zakuro standing there. "Huh? Z...Zakuro Fujiwara? I..is it really you?" Momoka turned to look at her. "It's me," Zakuro said with a smile, kneeling down. "Wow!" She pulled out a purple silk hankerchief, and handed it to Momoka.
"Here lets wipe away those tears. Momoka gentley took the hankerchief and wiped her eyes.
"What's your name?"
"I'm Momoka. I'm one of Zakuro-san's biggest fans!"
"I see. Thank you. Why were you crying?"
"Today happens to be Momoka's birthday. However, due to their busy schedules, Papa and Mama couldn't make it." Her eyes grew sadness in them.
"I see. I'm sorry to hear that...but, how about I tell you something that will make you feel better?"
"Huh?"
"Even though your Papa and Mama couldn't make it, they actually love you a hundred times more than that."
"Really? Do you promise?"
"Ya." Zakuro held out her pinkie finger, for Momoka to take. She took it and they chanted together:
'Cut your finger and promise, break it, and you'll have to swallow a thousand needles. It's a promise!'
They giggled and Zakuro stood up. "Well, now lets have some dinner so we can go home." "Momoka doesn't want any." Zakuro looked at her, puzzled. "Why not?" She asked. " Momoka wants to be just like Zakuro-san, so I've been on a diet." Zakuro just smiled.
"Personally, I don't believe in diets. Having proper meals and exercising reguraly, one can have a natural healthy, beautiful body. Understand?" Momoka smiled and nodded. " Good. May I have dinner with you?" "Really?" Zakuro nodded. She turned to go back into the resturant. " Wait what about this hankerchief?" " You can keep it. Consider it a birthday present from me," Zakuro replied. "Wow!" Zakuro and Momoka went back into the resturant. Zakuro explained to her agents that she must leave, so she could spend time with Momoka on her birthday.
Momoka awoke the next morning, and went into the living room of her house. "Good morning, Momoka!" Her parents happily greeted her. "Good morning," she replied dully.
" We're sorry we couldn't make it to the resturant last night," her father began.
"However your mother and I have prepared a present for you."
The little girl stared at them with curiousity in her eyes. Her father handed her a beautiful pendant, with a shiny blue-white stone in the middle.
"Wah! It's so pretty!"
"Althought it's a day late, Happy Birthday," Her father said, putting the necklace on her. "Thank you!"
"As for the daycare picnic today, we are definetly going to make it," her mother told her. Momoka couldn't believe. What Zakuro told her was right..they really did love her.
Little did Momoka or her parents know, Kisshu was outside the window. Pai had told him, that the pendant might be a piece of Mew Aqua.
'Now,' Kisshu thought, ' I just have to get that pendant.'
Ichigo and her friends walked through a beautiful forest. Ryou had told them that Mew Aqua was most likely there somewhere, and that Mew Aqua would react to their bodies. They came into a large clearing near a river.
"This place is so beautiful," Lettuce said with aw.
" A little smaller than my inner courtyard, but otherwise decent," Mint bragged. Just then they heard Pudding yell out. They looked up in the trees to see her happily jump around from branch to branch. She finally jumped on to a tree hugging ti tightly.
"Ah, so is so fun, na no da!" She cried out with joy.
"Let's all have fun with mom and dad!" The teacher said to all the children.
"Yes!" They all cried out happily. The teacher walked up to Momoka. "Momoka-chan, until your parents get here, why don't you let the teachers take you around?"
Momoka silently replied "They aren't coming at all..."
"Huh?"
"Momoka will go play alone!" She shouted, then ran off, away from anyone else. "MOMOKA-CHAN!"
"Girls, I think we should split up," Zakuro said. "I'll search upstream."
"Good idea," Ichgo replied, then walked off.
Momoka walked alongside the river, on the verge of crying. She felt that her parents didn't like, but she also knew that Zakuro wouldn't lie to her. She promised. A cool gust of wind snapped Momoka back to reality. She looked around, not realizing how far she had walked away from the other kids and adults. Momoka began to get scared.
"Where is everyone?" She began to freak out. She ran in a random direction, yet she tripped and fell. When Momoka fell her precious hankerchief fell into the cold river. She gasped in fright as the hanker chief started flowing down stream.
"Zakuro san's hankerchief!" She cried as she stood up and ran alongside the bank, trying to catch up with it. But alas, she was too slow. The hankerchief caught up with the current and flowed faster down the river, out of Momoka's sight.
'No...' She thought silently.
Unknown to her, Kisshu silently floated down behind her.
"Hey young lady. What are you doing out here?" He asked.
"Huh?..Who are you?" She replied.
"My name is Kisshu. What seems to be the problem?"
"First Momoka got lost. Then a precious hankerchief fell into the river and I can't get it back."
"Oh, that's terrible. Would you like me to help?"
"Really?"
"Sure! But in return, you must give me that beautiful pendant."
Momoka looked down at her pendant, then clung on to it protectively.
"No! This was a birthday present from Papa and Mama!" Kisshu simply shrugged his shoulders. "Well that's to bad," he said. "You're not getting your hankerchief back and you're not going to leave here either." Momoka's eyes widened. "No way!"
Zakuro continued upstream, walking silently. Then, something strange caught her eye. She seen a purlple thing floating in the river. Curious, she ran down to the bank, and retrieved a hankerchief from the cold water. 'This hankerchief...' She thought. It then hit her who it belonged to."Momoka-chan!" Zakuro took off running.
Momoka stood there crying, scared that Kisshu would never let her go home.
"That's too bad," Kisshu began. "If you hand lver that pendant, I'll immediatley send you back to your parents. Momoka calmed down her crying.
"R...really?" she asked."
"Of course."
"Ok, I understand, so, Momoka will give this to you," she said taking off her pendant. "Thank you, there's a good girl." Just as Momoka was about to place it in his hand, they heard someone yell "Hold it right there!"
They looked across the river to see Zakuro there. "Just what are you doing with that girl?" "Zakuro-san!" Momoka cried happily.
"Kisshu, get away from her right now!" Angered, he ignored Zakuro and yanked on Momoka's arm, ripping the oendant from her.
"I'll be taking Mew Aqua now!" He said victoriuosly, ignoring Momoka's reach and jumping, attempting to get her necklace back.
Even more irratated now, he through Momoka down to the ground, knocking her out. "MOMOKA-CHAN!" Zakuro yelled. She was pissed off now.
"MEW MEW ZAKURO! METAMORPHOSIS!"
Zakuro transformed and landed on the same side of the bank that Kisshu was on.
"She's only a child, but you still..." She grittered her teeth in anger, baring a sharp canine tooth. Kisshu jumped back near Momoka, kneeled down and put her in a choke-hold.
"If you use your Mew powers, this kid might lose her life," he said, sounding intimidating, slightly putting pressure upon her throat.
"What are you doing?!" Zakuro yelled at him. Pai and Taruto (i think thts wut his name his.) teleported there.
"Heh, not bad Kisshu," Taruto praised.
"Momoka-chan!" Zakuro ran towards the young child.
"FU RAI SEN!" Pai yelled sending electric ground down towards Zakuro, causing a thick layer of smoke and making Zakuro back off, covering her eyes.
"Go! Chimera attack!" Taruto yelled making the grass arpund Zakuro come to life. The smoke cleared, and immediatley afterwards, thick vines came up and trapped Zakuro, making her completley helpless.
"Ha, that oughta quiet you down some," Kisshus smirked."Now lets see if this source will react."
He stood and held the pendant next to Blue Aqua. A little light in the glass began to to form, but quickly faded.
"It failed? So it wasn't Mew Aqua afterall? Huh." He nonchalatley threw it down to the ground, like a crumpled ball of paper.
"What the hell? All the recent findings are like that." Taruto complained.
"This is a waste of time. Let's go back first," pai said as he and Taruto teleported away.
"Ah wait!" Kisshu called, but he was ignored. He sighed and looked at Zakuro.
"So, what am I gunna do with you?" Zakuro gritted her teeth.
"Unforgivable!" She growled.
"Heh, you have to be stronger than that."
"RIBBON LETTUCE RUSH!"
Lettuce aimed the attacks at the ground, right behind Kisshu, missing Momoka, and throwing him off, making him fall forward. The Blue Aqua flew out of his hand, as Ichigo caught it.
"RIBBON MINTO ECHO!"
An arrow of energy shot out of Mint's weapins, slashing the vines and freeing Zakuro. Zakuro shook the loose vines free, summoning her weapon. She shot the energy whip out, latched onto Momoka, and brought her back, Momoka gently falling into Zakuro's arms.
The other Mew Mews landed behind her. Kisshu stood up, brushing off some dirt.
"This time, and next time around, you will keep picking on children." Zakuro growled gently setting Momoka down on the ground. "To let you do that freely, is completely unacceptable!"
"Heh," Kisshu said. "If it's not related to Mew Aqua, then it is pointless. Bye bye!"
He flew up, a portal forming behind.
"Wait!" Zakuro yelled jumping up as well.
"Hahaha! Until the next time we meet!" Kisshu turned to go into the prtal but before he could make it all the way in, Zakuro shot another energy whip at him, wrapping arpund his ankle.
"Wha!" He gasped in suprise when Zakuro yanked him back down to her level. When he was close enough, Zakuro brought her left fist back and Falcon Punched him in the face, with a great amount of strength, sending him flying backwards.
Kisshu rubbed his cheek, and stared at Zakuro, shocked at how violent she could be.
'She hit me?!' He thought, enraged.
Zakuro landed on the ground, and sent a death glare at him.
"Just you wait!" He yelled, pulling up his pants, and teleporting away.
"Man Zakuro really went berserk this time," Ichigo commented.
"In reality, Kisshu had long fallen into Zakuro-onnechan's snare," Pudding replied.
"What does that mean?"
"Well, I'm not so sure myself."
"Either way, look at what Kisshu had dropped when Lettuce attacked him," Ichigo began, holding up the Blue Aqua.
"Hey, I remember this," Minto said, as she took the Blue Aqua to examine it.
"Isn't this what Kisshu uses to see if something reacts to Mew Aqua?"
"Hey, you're right," Lettuce said.
The girls, save for Zakuro who was making sure Momoka was ok, circle around the Blue Aqua. A bright glow in the middle began to form, the dissapeared, just as it had done with Momoka's pendant.
"Maybe we should take it to Ryou, na no da," Pudding suggested.
"Ya," Ichigo said.
" Momoka-chan. Hey, wake up," Zakuro said calmy to the little girl. Momoka stirred a little in her arms, as her eyes fluttered open.
"Huh?" She looked up at the beautiful model.
"See your pendant? I got it back for you," Zakuro said, setting the little girl down. "I also got your hankerchief back for you."
She reached into her pocket, and pulled out the silky material.
"Wah! Thank you!" Momoka said, taking the hankerchief.
"Momoka met a bad guy and Zakuro-san in my dream. Zakuro-san was really amazing! Momoka wants to be really strong like Zakuro-san! So that when Papa and Mama aren't around, Momoka won't feel lonely."
"MOMOKA!" They turned to see Momoka's parents and the teacher, running towards them.
"PAPA! MAMA!" She cried out, running to them. Her father and mother gave her a giant hug. The teacher smiled as the headed back to where the other children were.
"I don't think they will ever leave Momoka alone again," Ichigo smiled.
"Niether do I," Zakuro said.
"Hey, we should probably head back now," Lettuce chimed in.
"OKAY! PUDDING WILL HEAD BACK ON THE TREES NA NO DA!" She yelled happily, jumping pass Minto, who dropped the Blue Aqua do to the impact of Pudding.
"Hey, be careful!" Mint snapped as she headed back, not realizing that she had dropped Blue Aqua. Lettuce and Ichigo were also oblivious to that fact, as they ran to catch up with Pudding.
Zakuro just smiled as she also began walking. But, something had caught her eye. A bright relfecting light in a patch of grass. Curious, she walked over to it and picked it up. Zakuro immediatly recognized what this was. No sooner had she picked up Blue Aqua, had a birght light begin to shine within the glass.
Yet, it hadn't disappeared like it did. The light began to grow, and became brighter. Soon the light was extremly bright, that Zakuro could barely look at it, without blinding herself.
"What? Why is this reacting to me this way?" Zakuro shoved Blue Aqua into her jacket pocket, trying to regain her sight back. Zakuro started heading back, pondering the reaction.
'Ryou said that as Mew Mews, WE would all react to it. And I seen the other girls. They were standing right next to it. Yet, the light hadn't reacted to them the way they did to me...so why?'
Zakuro remained puzzled, until she found herself at the front steps of Café Mew Mew. 'I must discuss this with Ryou,' she thought as she headed inside.
- Man this took forever to do _ Ok so I hope you guys like it. I've been busy with school lately, so I'm not sure when I will be able to do the next chapter...so go ahead and leave a review if you really like it. It's not required though, so you don't have to do it if you don't want to. And as for any Zakuro haters, please don't leave a mean review or anything!