Ohayō everyone! This is my very first fanfic on this site and my first one about TMM so I really hope that everyone likes it, I'd like some reviews about it though if you guys want any changes or... And also I want to present a deep apology to Soccer-Geek for using her OCs without asking it's because the baka that I was (and still am) thought that they were in the manga series as well as Berry and everyone else but they weren't and besides her stories are the best! (I mean the ones that I read, TMM fanfics, not the others but I'm sure they're good too!) So er...

Ichigo: How could you be so dumb?

Imène: What do you mean?

Ichigo: It's a bit obvious that it was her OCs, isn't it?

Imène: You don't know where my stupidity can get, it's high leveled!

Ichigo *looking down on me*: And you're proud of it, aren't you?

Imène: Just do the disclaimer, okay?

Ichigo *shrugging*: Anyway, Imène or MewImene doesn't own Tokyo Mew Mew which belongs to Mia Ikumi and Reiko Yoshida. She doesn't own-

Imène: I own the plot for the moment, there are no OCs involved for now, Koneko-Chan.

Ichigo *scowls*: Stop calling me that!

Imène: Bye-Bye!

Oh! And updates will be every Monday and Friday, simultaneously on my Tumblr Kishigoafterdeath.

Chapter One

Ichigo

Again, she was struggling to get a bit of sleep. She couldn't stop thinking about the last battle she's ever had as a Mew Mew. Particularly the last living moments of Kisshu, in her arms, attempting one last kiss… Which he wasn't able to, sadly. Well sadly for him because coming from her, she loved— and still loves Aoyama-kun. The only one she was glad to kiss was him. But she always felt so sad and troubled; Kisshu had told her that he loved her, while leaning in using his last bits of energy… It was all too confusing for her. Of course he kissed her the first time they met, and he had the nerve to thank her, she still felt pissed about it. But she also couldn't forget how his lips, alien as he was his lips were human looking… And the taste is the very same, but Ichigo couldn't tell because the only humans she's been kissing were Shirogane that one time he wanted to turn her into a cat and back, and of course Aoyama-kun. So one was teasing and the other just… Dreamy! But she remembered her first encounter with Kisshu very well:

"I'm glad we found the third Mew Mew, this should really lighten my work at the Café." she said to Masha walking home.

"Alien alert! Alien alert!" Masha suddenly exclaimed.

Ichigo held Masha in her hands, "I think you need a tune-up, there are no aliens here."

"No- no tune-up, no tune-up!" Masha rushed.

"Alien alert! Alien alert!" some strange, male voice imitated Masha. Ichigo looked all around her but there wasn't anybody, she was really confused. The voice chuckled.

"Yo-ho, up here sunshine!" she lifted her head up to notice a gold eyed, green haired alien. It looked rather human except for the 8' long ears. His clothes were strange too, not to mention that he was floating. He continued, "Your days punishing our chimera animals are coming to an end, so when you least expect it, expect it."

Having said that, he jumped down to her and kisse— Wait, KISSED her? She was bright pink and her school bag fell on the floor from shock, his lips were all human, his moves knocked her off her feet. It was her first kiss, and she felt it really good. However, he was still the enemy, and she mustn't show any sympathy to him, nor attraction. Because alien or not, he sure did look attractive from the fast glance she had before he jumped on her. He set sparks all over her body, tingles ran through her spine, her knees were shaking, so when he backed away she covered her lips with her hands, not touching them though… Not wanting the feeling of his lips to disappear from hers. She was still blushing in shock when she was finally able to talk…

"Who the heck are you!?"

"My name is Kisshu, kitty-cat." he said.

"You k-kissed me!" she let out.

"Yeah nice, wasn't it? Take it as my greeting for today! We'll meet again."

They sure did, countless times; they have also been bumping into one another during fights. She's always had shivers when their skins met, was it excitement? Or just disgust? One couldn't tell. What she knew was that despite her being in love with Aoyama-kun, she's always felt some sort of attraction towards Kisshu, she fought it as best as she could, but she was a bit hard the last time she did. He was dying in her arms, telling her he loved her, he was leaning using his last strength, if she just leaned in and… Curse these thoughts! She's dating Aoyama-kun, she wouldn't have, she didn't actually, but it was so tempting to taste those lips of his one last time. Leaving him a good memory— a better memory of her, and letting her get a precise memory of how he felt against her… But she couldn't, she was caught up into having Aoyama-kun to stop Deep Blue, she was also shocked to realize that Kisshu did care about her.

She tossed and turned, trying to get some sleep when she noticed a pair of stars that had a golden color, for a second she thought about Kisshu's eyes, but she brushed it off and tried to plan a date with Aoyama-kun instead, trying to think about him to get a bit of sleep. But how much sleep could she get? It was already 3:30 a.m. and she knew for sure she only had three hours to get rest. She closed her eyes and daydreamed about Aoyama-kun.

"Good morning sunshine!" Ichigo heard a light feminine voice say, just when she managed to fall asleep. That nickname caught her, though. She covered her face and turned to face the wall.

"I want to sleep." she let out, sleepy as she was.

"I know it's Saturday but the Café called, they need to talk to you about something important." her mother stated.

"Did they mention what it is?" Ichigo turned back to Sakura.

Sakura shook her head in response, and violently took off the covers from Ichigo.

"Mom! It's so rude!" she exclaimed balling up.

She chuckled "It's the fastest way to get you out of bed."

"Yeah right, I'll be downstairs in no time." she said sitting up.

"Breakfast is waiting for you." Sakura smiled before closing the door on her way out.

"So is the Café." Ichigo thought to herself, out loud, once she was alone.

Once at the Café, she entered the dressing room and put on her uniform. Everyone had already gathered at Mint's usual table, Ichigo greeted them with a groan, making sure they knew they chose the wrong day to mess up with her sleep. She put on her uniform fast and got back to the table. She sat on the chair between Pudding and Lettuce, facing Akasaka-san and Shirogane, on the right was Mint, her midnight blue eyes on the cup of tea she was sipping on, and on the left was Zakuro-san, her forearms crossed on the table, frowning like she was waiting for some bad news to be told. Ichigo got the hint from her facial expression and hers only.

"So…" Ichigo began, waiting for someone to tell her the important news, but it looked as though no one would respond so she spoke up, "What's the fuss all about?" Shirogane, whose head was hanging low, looked straight into her eyes, making her feel uncomfortable for a while.

"We have something important to tell you" Keiichiro started, "we thought it'd be good if we waited for you to recover from all those events that happened six months ago…"

"Please don't tell me that the aliens are back to getting the Earth for themselves?" she whined.

"No, we have been able to reach a signal and have sent R-2003, Masha's successor whose name is Usha, to their planet to get news. They're at peace. Everyone is, now. But it's still linked to those who saved us." he said, still not looking in her direction, like he felt guilty about something. He continued

"When you, um… Died, that day. And you woke up in Aoyama-san's arms…"

She cut in impatiently "Deep Blue is still—".

"Just let him speak, for God's sake!" Shirogane almost yelled.

"Well if he just told me what was going on, I wouldn't try to guess, now, would I?!" she yelled back.

"When you died, you resurrected the three aliens that died. Pai, Taruto and Kisshu. But they left after healing you, to reset their planet, for their people to recover from those horrible conditions. Usha is taken care of by Taruto and Pai, but Kisshu left their planet once everything was back to normal. Pai is worried about him; he wanted to verify if you had seen him these last few weeks… Have you?" he dared to ask her that…

They have all been lying to her by omission, they didn't tell her that Kisshu had survived, nor that Taruto and Pai had ever died. Kisshu was doing okay but he was now missing, why did she worry anyway? He's alive that's all that counts. But Akasaka had the nerve to ask her if she'd seen Kisshu.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN HAVE I SEEN KISSHU? I THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD SINCE NO ONE OF YOU MENTIONED TO ME THAT HE WAS STILL ALIVE, EVEN IF I DID I WOULD'VE THOUGHT IT WAS A HALLUCINATION HOW DARE YOU ASK ME IF I'VE SEEN HIM?!" she was bright red and she swore she could feel her heart beat in her ears, her ears and tail had appeared matter-of-factly.

Lettuce and Pudding had their heads low, Zakuro seemed like she was sorry, even Mint looked like her eyes were apologizing sincerely. Shirogane looked as uninterested as usual and Akasaka-san tried to explain himself many times during Ichigo's speech.

"Look, we really are sorry, all of us." he tried to say nervously, "but we thought that you needed time of your own before telling you and we forgot to do so with months passing by—"

She cut in sharply "Well I just forgot that I work in here!" she snapped as she went to change back her clothes.

She did it so rapidly that she forgot to take her Power pendant with her… It actually wasn't a bad idea, if she'd taken it Akasaka-san would've found where she was easily and she needed to be left alone. Plus, there's no need to transform. No chimera animals, no aliens— more or less. She also wouldn't answer the phone to anyone. She needed to see Aoyama-kun. Because he too was alive when Kisshu cured her, in some sort of way he was the one to kill him. With the will of Deep Blue of course, but he was one of Deep Blue's three being parts, along with the Blue Knight. She needed to confront him about Kisshu, for he's the only one she's spoken to about the guilt she felt about letting Kisshu die in her arms, doing nothing but seeing him end in her arms. Aoyama-kun tried to console her, by telling her that the good part was that, in the end, Kisshu was a good person. She called him as soon as she left the Café and waited for him at the park. She was sitting on a bench, daydreaming and trying not to chase the butterflies that were teasing her cat part. She managed to stay still until she felt a warm hand on her shoulder; she looked up to a smiling Aoyama-kun. No matter how many times she saw it, it always brought some sort of happy feeling whenever she witnessed his smile. But this time, it didn't. She was half pissed at him, and his smile soon vanished when it didn't meet hers. He sat on the bench as well while she was rejecting an umpteenth call from the Café, she turned off her cell phone and turned to her right, where Aoyama-kun's eyes were. She wanted to see his eyes, his face when she'll tell him. And there she went…

"You knew it, didn't you?" she prompted. He was taken off-guard, so he just frowned at her, letting her know they weren't on the same page. She made her topic clear "You knew Kisshu was alive all those months, and you didn't bother to tell me, even when I cried in your arms, feeling like the most horrible person -and let me tell you that you weren't helping me- and all you said was that no one could help it? You didn't tell me that he was alive?! Why?" she was yelling at him for the first time, he just looked pissed that she knew it…

"Because you would've wanted to see him again, and I wouldn't permit it!" he snapped back.

She looked at him; shock easily read on her face, "Why wouldn't you? And of course I would want to see him, last time I saw him he was dead!" she exclaimed.

He looked hard into her eyes, "Yes, and then? What would you do if you saw him?" he was attacking her with his questions; it looked as though he was starting to be possessive. It didn't disturb him when she worked with Shirogane or Akasaka-san, why would it bother him for her to see Kisshu?

"Well I would ask him how he's feeling, how—"

He cut in "Why do you care about him?! He's not your boyfriend, is he?!" That did it.

"I DO CARE ABOUT HIM BECAUSE HE WAS SAVING ME FROM YOUR EVIL SIDE, THE SIDE THAT GOT HIM KILLED FOR EARTH'S SAKE! HE ALWAYS MEANT TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE ALL HE DID, BAD AS IT WAS, WAS FOR A GOOD REASON AND YOU ALWAYS THOUGHT BAD OF HIM EVEN AFTER HE'S DIED FOR ME AFTER HE SAID HE LOV-…" she said too much, she never mentioned that little fact to him. His eyes were wide opened; it looked as if he wanted to burn a hole through her, using only his death glare.

He stood up, not facing her "Then we have nothing to do together…"

She snapped back into reality, she just understood that he was breaking up with her and she realized that… She didn't feel any worse without him. But she probably should look sad or something… She should at least look bothered. Although he was a being a douche bag at that moment, he sure did love her and she didn't want to hurt him… But she didn't want to endure this either. What could she do?

"Are you serious, Aoyama?" she dared to ask.

"I've been thinking about it… I know this isn't quite appropriate but, he's still getting on my nerves even after his death." she opened her mouth to correct him but he didn't let her "I know but to me, he is. And he should be to you too…"

She was forced to admit that Aoyama was pushing it, she stared hard at his back, and then she stood up and left. There was nothing else to say.
She walked up a sidewalk, slowly, with only her footsteps making the sound. This was quite a quiet street, especially on a Saturday, still so early in the morning. She thought of going back home for a second, to catch up on her sleep, but she thought that it would be a waste. The weather was delightful so she kept on walking. And she wasn't even sleepy anymore… Not knowing why, her feet dragged her to where she and Kisshu first met, where he kissed her. She just sat on the part of the sidewalk she was standing on when he introduced himself to her. She hoped to see him appear so badly, though she knew that she wouldn't let him know how she felt about him, for she didn't even know it well herself. She just knew she didn't want Aoyama anymore.

Taruto

It's been six months since he last heard or saw from his friend, Pudding. He missed her quite a lot, when he was honest to himself. But he didn't dare mention going back to Earth to Pai or Kisshu. Meanwhile, it's been three weeks since Kisshu disappeared. Taruto knew where he was and what he was doing. Well he knew it was linked to Ichigo but he didn't know how. Maybe he's told her about his feelings. Taruto sure was a Brat but he knew his oniichan very well, and he never saw him react like he did when something was linked to her. And he knew that Kisshu was missing that Earthling badly. Taruto understood Kisshu because he was feeling almost the same about Pudding, except he hadn't shed a single tear for her, when he heard Kisshu cry at night, once or twice… He felt bad for his brother and really intended on confronting him about how he felt when he knew he was missing, he went straight to Pai to let him know about their adoptive brother's disappearance. He hadn't even left a note. It was like him, he would disappear for days and come back, and no one would question it because he was either fighting the Mew Mews or trying to perfect his infusers for the next attack, but fights had ended then, and in Pai's opinion he didn't have any reason to go back to Earth, only Taruto knew about him.

This was the main reason why Taruto didn't warn Pai that he was leaving for Earth either. Taruto knew Kisshu's hideout places in Tokyo, even the ones that he kept secret, because he was following him under the rule of Pai when Kisshu started doubting Deep Blue. He never told Pai about them though. So Taruto took enough human clothes that he stole from young boys' homes when he wanted to spy on Kisshu, he put them in a bag and teleported himself to the base they had put a year ago. He left his belonging there, dressed himself as a normal boy, not forgetting the cap for his ears. And there he was, walking with all those people like he belonged to that society. He had something to do first, he headed to Café Mew Mew, hid there waiting for Pudding to get out… Almost an hour later, he saw her walking out, in her usual clothes holding a piece of paper. They probably sent her for the groceries. He waited for her to be out of sight from people, and he pulled her up to a dark alley and covered her mouth. She struggled at first but when he plated her against a wall and she saw his face, she stopped and was more like shocked.

"Don't scream it's me." Pudding nodded and he took his hands off her.

She took a breath before saying "Taru-Taru is that really you?"…

He took the cap off, letting his ears and hair pop out, he smiled weakly. That was before the hug she gave him, she almost cracked his neck but he hugged her back. They sure did miss one another.

"I came here to look for Kisshu but I thought that I'd drop by before. How is it all going since we last came?" he asked putting back his cap.

"Ichigo didn't know about Kisshu Onii-Chan until today, I'm scared she might not ever forgive us, na no da." she said with so much sadness in her voice.

He didn't quite understand though "What didn't she know?" he asked.

"That Kisshu was alive; you know I think Ichigo Onee-Chan missed him." Pudding said.

Taruto nodded, as if he understood exactly what she was talking about, and he did because he felt the same way about Kisshu Onii-Chan.

"Kisshu misses her too, I even think he loves her, you know?" he confessed.

Pudding's mouth opened and her eyes widened, "Then they must meet! Have you been looking for Kisshu yet?" she asked excitedly.

Taruto shook his head "No, I came to see you first because…" he couldn't get the words out, so he switched the reason to a more basic one. "Because I wanted to know if you had more of that candy you gave me the other day… Do you?" he said.

She smiled and nodded "I do, but it's in my locker at the Café. Do you mind waiting for me to go back inside and bring it here?" she asked awkwardly.

Taruto smiled and rubbed his neck, he started floating unknowingly "No it's okay, just don't be long!"

Pudding chuckled "Okay, and humans don't float Taru-Taru." she remarked as she left the dark alley. He went back down and blushed a bit waiting for her.