So, Soccer-Geek's gone crazy again, and is making a vignette series based off of those 'A Friend will do this, but a BEST FRIEND will do this' things that she sees everywhere on people's profile pages, but all with the Mew Mews, all taking place post series.

Soccer-Geek does not own Tokyo Mew Mew, na no da.

Vignette One: Birthday Surprise

FRIENDS: Helps you find your prince.

BEST FRIENDS: Kidnaps him and brings him to you.

"Okay, girls, Lettuce's birthday is tomorrow," Ichigo said, looking at her team (minus the green haired girl in question). "And we're all still present-less. What should we get her?"

"Books?" Mint suggested.

"No, it's her sixteenth birthday, it needs to be something memorable," Zakuro argued.

"Hmm, something memorable that Lettuce Onee-Chan will really love…" Pudding said thoughtfully, tapping her finger to her chin.

The four girls sat in thought for a long time, then each suddenly smiled mischievously.

They grabbed their pendants, a bundle of strong rope, a roll of duct tape, ribbons and wrapping paper.

The next morning, Ichigo, Mint, Zakuro and Pudding all grinned at Lettuce as she entered the Café. Behind them was a large box wrapped in light green paper with a large purple ribbon with several holes punched into the cardboard.

Pudding leapt on the birthday girl and hugged her.

"Happy birthday, Lettuce Onee-Chan!" Pudding said happily.

"Thanks, Pudding," Lettuce said, returning the hug. Her brow furrowed at the box. "Um, what exactly is that?"

"Your present, silly," Ichigo said with a grin.

"We had no idea what to get you originally," Zakuro said, leading Lettuce over to the box.

"But then we put our heads together, and thought, and thought, and thought," Mint said.

"And we think we've got you something you'll absolutely love," Ichigo said, grinning brightly.

"So go ahead and open it, na no da!" Pudding said excitedly.

A little hesitantly, Lettuce reached for the box's lid and opened it. Her hand flew to her mouth to stifle her giggles.

Sitting in the bottom of the box with his knees to his chest and his arms behind his back was a very confused and annoyed purple-haired alien with a piece of duct tape over his mouth and ropes dotted with different colored bows tied around his arms and legs.

"We brought you your prince charming!" Ichigo said cheerfully.

Lettuce chuckled as she carefully took the tape off of Pie's mouth, who gave her a look of gratitude for doing so.

"Thanks, girls, I love it!" Lettuce said, going to hug her teammates.

"I will kill Kishu and Taruto for letting you into my lab to kidnap me!" Pie growled at the four Mews, all grinning proudly.

"What can we say?" Kish said, teleporting in with Tart. Each was holding a paper plate with a piece of cake on it and a fork and wearing wide grins. "They gave us an offer we couldn't refuse."

"They bribed you with cake, didn't they?" Pie asked, his eyes narrowed as Lettuce undid one of the knots in the rope, freeing him.

"Yeah, but we also did it because we knew it would be fun to watch," Tart said, licking frosting off his fork. He turned to Lettuce. "It was awesome. They chased him around the ship for an hour before Zakuro finally got her whip around his legs. You should have heard him scream."

Lettuce just chuckled as the other girls beamed. Pie fumed, but soon was scarlet as Lettuce threw her arms around his neck.

Fine, He thought. I will be her 'prince'… Just for her birthday.

Little did either them know, that was just the start of a beautiful relationship.