MEW CHERRY
Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew. I also do not own the anime's plot, characters, etc. I only own my OC.
A/N: This starts off before Pudding and Zakuro were discovered as mew mews.
Chapter 1
"I'm sorry Aoyama-kun. I'm kind of busy tomorrow. I can't go."
"I see."
"Gomennasai." Ichigo ran out of the classroom without knowing that someone was about to walk inside until she crashed into them. "Gomennasai. I didn't know you were in front of the door."
"It's okay, onee-san."
Just like her, Ichigo's sister had the same brown eyes as her. She also has the same cherry-red hair except hers was down to her waist; and instead of tying her hair in pigtails, her sister left it down and usually wore a white headband.
"I guess it's also my fault too since I shouldn't have stood in front of the door." Ichigo watched her younger sister get up and brush the dust off her uniform before holding out her hand towards Ichigo. "Dai jyo bu ka, onee-san?"
"Hai. Ano…how come you're not with your friends, Yuki?"
"Ayumi-chan and Reina-chan have afterschool meetings for the clubs they're in. I'm waiting for them to be done so we can go to our favorite shop. Onee-san, are you working today?" Ichigo grabbed Yuki's hand and got up before nodding her head. "Ano…is it alright if I go to your work some time. I've always wanted to watch onee-san work."
"Mochiron. Jyaa, I have to go before I'm late. I'll see you at home, Yuki. Jyaa ne."
Yuki watched Ichigo run down the hall before walking towards the opposite direction.
The next day wasn't as busy as it usually was on weekends, but that didn't mean that the mews had a day to relax. Ichigo, Mint, and Lettuce were cleaning up the large pile of broken dishes. While Lettuce and Mint were sweeping up the rest of the broken dishes, Ichigo accidentally dropped some more dishes and started to depressingly pick up the pieces. Getting annoyed by Ichigo breaking more dishes and causing more work, Mint stopped sweeping and walked over to Ichigo.
"Ichigo, please get a hold of yourself!" Seeing that Ichigo didn't listen to her, Mint pulled Ichigo's cheek to get her attention. "Ichigo."
"Huh? What is it, Mint?"
"What do you mean 'what is it'? Look!" Mint pointed behind Ichigo as the said mew looked behind her to see Lettuce standing next to a large pile of broken dishes. "Do you plan to break all of the dishes here?"
"That's not good, Lettuce. You shouldn't do that."
"Lettuce isn't the clumsy waitress, Ichigo. You're the one who broke all of the dishes."
"And…I'm sure my heart is broken too!"
"What's wrong, Ichigo-san? Did something happen?"
"WAA~!" Lettuce and Mint backed away a bit from Ichigo when the said mew started letting out her tears. "I was supposed to go on a date with Aoyama-kun, but I can't now!"
"Then I'm sure that you shouldn't be acting like that, right? He'll dislike it."
"Yeah…but it's DIFFERENT! I…I got kissed by a stranger—" Realizing what she just said, Ichigo tried to cover it up. "No, it's nothing. Back to work, back to wo—AH!"
Ichigo slipped on one of the broken plate pieces and slid all the way towards the door until she crashed into it. Ichigo had her hands on the top of her head where she hit the door with as she got up and sat at one of the tables. Mint and Lettuce just finished cleaning up all of the broken dishes and looked at Ichigo who was just sitting while looking at the ticket Masaya gave her. Ryou walked out of the kitchen with Masha in his hand and placed the said robot on the table in front of Ichigo.
"The others are done already." Ichigo looked up at Ryou with a confused look on her face since she too busy thinking to hear him. "Hey! Instead of daydreaming on your free time, go out and look for aliens. Get going already."
"Just when a cute girl is down!" Ichigo looked upset as she got up and picked up Masha. "Oni! Demon!"
Ichigo ran into the locker room so she could change out of her uniform and leave, not hearing the front door open or noticing the person who walked in. The girl had cherry-red hair and brown eyes like a certain feline mew mew. She was wearing a white headband, a pink long-sleeved dress that was down to above her knees, and brown sandals. Lettuce looked towards the door and saw the girl standing in front of the cash register.
"Ichigo-san? I thought you just left?" The girl looked at Lettuce who realized that the girl wasn't Ichigo. "Ah! Gomennasai. I thought you were someone else. Welcome to Café Mew Mew."
"It's okay. Sometimes people mistake me as onee-san. Watashi wa Motomiya Yuki." Sakura walked over to one of the tables and sat down in the chair. "Where's onee-san? I thought she was working today."
"Ichigo-san just left to run an errand for Shirogane-san." Lettuce walked over to Yuki's table and gave her a menu before taking out a notepad and pencil. "While you're waiting for her to come back, would you like anything?"
"I'll have a cherry cheesecake and orange juice please." Yuki gave back the menu to Lettuce as the said girl walked into the kitchen to tell Keiichiro her order. "Onee-san has been pretty busy lately. She's also been acting a bit strange ever since her first date with Aoyama-san. It's almost as if she's turning into a cat." Hearing what Yuki just said, Mint almost spit out of her tea and Lettuce almost spilled the plate of cherry cheesecake and glass of orange juice. "But I'm probably just imagining things."
"Here you go." Lettuce placed Yuki's cheesecake and juice on the table in front of her. "So you and Ichigo-san are sisters. I can see the resemblance. Are you twins?"
"Not really. Onee-san is older by about ten months." Yuki took another bite of her cheesecake and immediately enjoyed the taste. "This cheesecake is delicious! Now I know why so many girls from my school come here every day after school. This and the kawaii design of the building."
"Girls." Mint and Lettuce turned their attention towards Ryou who just walked out of the kitchen. "Ichigo hasn't come back yet. Go out and look for her."
Mint and Lettuce nodded their heads before heading into the locker room to change out of their uniforms before heading out. Ryou looked at Yuki, who was still eating her cheesecake, and walked over to her table. Yuki stopped eating her cheesecake and looked up at Ryou and wondered what he wanted.
Ichigo was pinned down by the giant paw of the chimera anima that used to be a lion cub, keeping her from transforming into Mew Ichigo. Kishu floated down to stand in front of the helpless Ichigo and held her chin to force her to look at him.
"Well I'm finished here. Why don't you just die now? Too bad, just when I thought I found myself a cute toy. But it'll be a problem if I let you go." Kishu had an evil gleam in his eye as he smirked. "Bye bye neko-mimi-chan."
"Stop right there!" Kishu looked back and saw Mew Mint preparing her attack. "Ribbon Mint ECHO!"
"Hn." Kishu flew up into the air to dodge Mew Mint's arrow right when the chimera anima jumped back for the same reason. "Ah you still have friends."
"Mew Mint! Mew Lettuce!" Ichigo got up when she saw Mew Mint and Mew Lettuce running over to her. "I'm so glad you guys are here."
"Ichigo, what are you doing slacking off at work?"
"What are you saying?!"
"Really, cause this is Ichigo."
"Nani! You're the one who's always just drinking tea and not working!" Ichigo was upset about what Mew Mint said about her but then realized something. "Oh yeah, how did you know I was here?"
"I saw your ticket while you gazing blankly at it."
"Shirogane-san told us to check on you."
"Shirogane did?" Hearing the chimera anima roar made the mew remember the current situation. "Right, this is hardly the right time to talk! Anyway, we've got to turn that chimera anima back into a lion cub."
"Alright, it's time to transform."
"Right." Ichigo took out her mew pendant before kissing it. "Mew Mew Strawberry! METAMORPHO~SIS!" Now transformed, Mew Ichigo pointed an accusing finger at Kishu. "You! I don't' care whether you're Kishu or Kiss, but I won't forgive you for stealing my innocence!"
"What's that about?"
"Nothing!" Mew Mint and Mew Lettuce were still curious about what Mew Ichigo meant, but they decided to let it slide for now. "For spoiling the fun of these people spending their time with animals,"
"And for the future of the earth!"
"We are at your service Nya~!"
"The other toys are also cute."
With a snap of his fingers, Kishu ordered the chimera anima to attack the mews. The chimera anima started charging at the mews, and with its quick speed, the mews had a hard time trying to dodge its claws.
"We can't just dodge it."
"Let's split up and attack when it's chasing one of us!" The mews started running in the same direction before splitting up as the chimera anima started chasing after Mew Ichigo. "AHH~! Why must it be me?!"
The chimera anima started closing in on Mew Ichigo and was about to grab her with its claws. Mew Ichigo looked back and started to panic until she was grabbed and carried out of the chimera anima's path. Mew Ichigo looked back at the person expecting the person to be either Mew Mint or Mew Lettuce, but she was surprised to see a mew with white fox ears and a bushy tail.
"Dai jyo bu ka, onee-san?"
"Y-Yuki?!"
"Ima watashi wa Mew Cream."
In her mew form, Yuki had white wavy hair and silver fox-like eyes. She also had white fox ears and a white bushy fox tail. Her outfit consisted of a white sleeveless kimono that was down to above her mid-thighs, a black ribbon tied around her waist with a bow with long legs (A/N: not sure what that part of a bow is called), and black calf-length boots with white laces. She was also wearing a white garter with black lacings around her right mid-thigh, as well as a black garter with white lacing around her uppers arms. The black choker around Yuki's neck had her mew pendant hanging from it.
"You're the fourth member?" Sensing something coming at them, Mew Ichigo looked up and saw the chimera anima's paw. "Look out!" Mew Cream looked up before she and Mew Ichigo jumped high into the air to dodge the chimera anima's paw. "Let's go, Mew Cream!"
"Hai! Ice Scepter!" Mew Cream stuck her hand out as a 14-inch white scepter with a silver tennis ball-shaped orb on top appeared in her hand. "Ribbon~" She held her Ice Scepter back over her shoulder as the orb started to power up until it was glowing brightly. "Cream SPARKLE!"
Mew Cream threw her arm straight out in front of her, holding her scepter so that the orb was facing the chimera anima, as the orb unleashed its glowing energy in the form of a powerful barrage of sparkling snow. The attack hit the chimera anima head on and knocked it down on its side, giving Mew Ichigo the chance to summon her Strawberry Bell.
"Ribbon…Strawberry CHECK!"
The chimera anima reverted back into a lion cub before Masha devoured the parasite alien. Mew Cream walked over to the lion cub and picked it up to make sure that it was okay. Mew Ichigo walked over to pet the lion cub as it started to purr.
"I can't believe that this cute little lion cub changed into a house-sized chimera anima. I just hope it won't do that again."
"Don't worry. It won't. Masha got rid of the parasite alien that caused all of this. And it looks like Kishu got away, which is a relief." Mew Ichigo noticed that Mew Cream was still playing with the lion cub. "Welcome to the team, Mew Cream"
"By the way, Ichigo-san how was your date?"
"Oh no! I forgot about Aoyama-kun!"
"You'll get used to Ichigo running off a lot after battles." Mew Cream was watching Ichigo leave before looking at Mew Mint. "So how did you find out you were a mew mew?"
"After you left to find onee-san, Ryou-san asked if I had any strange new marks. I told him about the mark I found this morning. He said it's called a mew mark and that only the four of us and our other two teammates have one."
"Where is your mew mark, Yuki-san? What does it look like?"
"It's on my left thigh. I think it looks like a pink snowflake."
"I wonder how Shirogane-san figured out that you're a mew mew like us."
"Wasn't that hard, actually." The three mews looked and saw Ryou walk up to them until he was standing in front of the three of them. "Since Yuki is Ichigo's sister, I figured that there was a chance that she might be qualified to host a red data animal's DNA. And by the looks of it, she hosted the DNA of the artic fox. Now that you have another member on the team, I'm sure that things will be easier for you girls."
"Ryou-san explained everything to me earlier at the café. I start working with you at the café on Monday. I look forward to working with you."