A/N: Okay, this may not be my first fic, but it is my first fic for TMM,
but than again not that there's a lot for there be a first of... Do you get
that? Cause I don't. Anyway, I just wanted to say that I really don't know
how regularly I'll be updating this. I was originally going to wait until I
had at least ¾ of it done, but I got too impatient so I'm doing it now. But
hey, if you don't like it then I won't update it at all. That's a hint to
review!
Disclaimer: I don't own it and if I did then Ryou wouldn't be a jerk and Kish would be sweet and Ichigo would be less of a ditz and... Maybe I should just stop there. BY the way, I really like having funny disclaimers, but I can't really think of a lot myself. Too lazy to, I guess. So please send me in your best and I'll try to put all of them on. And I'll definitely give you credit for it!
Yay! I talk too much, so I'll shut up and let you get on with my story!!
Where Was the Government? Ichigo hummed softly as she reached into the drawers for a spoon. It had been two long years since she had started working at Café Mew Mew and it still hadn't gotten any easier. Mint still slacked, Lettuce still spilled, Pudding performed and Zakuro glared. After a long day of working and cleaning, Ichigo enjoyed the occasional bowl of strawberry ice cream. She sat at the table and was just about to delve into her creamy treasure when the phone rang. Ichigo groaned as she pushed away from her chair to answer the detested call.
"Hello?"
"Hi Ichigo!" Moe's voice echoed through the line; as the cat girl sat back down to finally enjoy her pink sugary goodness.
"Hey! What's up?"
"Nothing. I was just wonder if you could..."
******
'She wants to be alone,' thought Kish as he peered into her kitchen from the dark abyss of night. 'Not like I'll ever let that happen.' He chuckled to himself as he perched on the wall surrounding her house, just out of her eyesight, but with a great view of his beloved.
"I wonder who she's talking to..." Kish mused as he watched her greedily gobble her ice cream, while still managing to hold a conversation over the phone. He suddenly sat up, disturbed by how little he really knew about her. Sure he watched her as often as possible, knew every statistic about her transformation and attack ability, but he didn't know about her personal life.
Kish tilted his head to the side, then glimpsing a small white fluff-ball speedily making its way to the Momomiya home. "Hello, maybe you can help me." He sniggered and staged Masha in his grasp, then turning back to watch his kitten. "Guess that's my new resolution; to get to know you a lot better..." the alien whispered to the glass and air that separated the two.
******
Ichigo sighed as she scraped her spoon along the empty bowl, wishing that she had more to help her endure the play-by-play account of Moe's date.
Ichigo's head snapped up, as a knocking sound echoed throughout her house. New energy coursed through her with a gracious reason to end the conversation. "Hold on a sec Moe. Someone is at the door."
"Okay, but I'm getting to the best part!" The cat chuckled. This was the thirty-sixth consecutive 'best part' of the date. She set her phone down and made her way swiftly to the door.
Pulling it open, Ichigo found three men in black suits, lead by a woman with glasses and tightly bound auburn hair.
"May I help you?" Ichigo took a step back from the entry, with a firm grasp on the door.
The woman spoke up first. "Yes you may. We would like to ask you a few questions. I certainly hope that's fine with you." Her bright eyes flashed dangerously, "For your sake."
The Mew Mew backed away slowly, arm tensing to slam the door, yet fearful of humans whom she couldn't attack. "No," she whispered, as she swung the heavy door to close it.
But the three men were ready. One of them, who had a broad nose and small green squinted eyes, rushed forward to slam the door into the wall behind it with a resounding crack. The other two, one with bushy eyebrows, big eyes and a small chin, the other with a hooked nose and a sneering gash for a mouth, advanced swiftly, handguns cocked and ready.
Smiling, the woman spoke. "You see Miss Momomiya, you really will be answering those questions. My boys know how to make you do so."
Ichigo gasped, frozen on the spot, with her eyes searching for Masha to call for help. But he was nowhere to be found. Unbeknownst to her, her ears and tail had been slowly showing themselves, and were now completely visible, much to Ichigo's dismay. A scream tore through her when the second man slammed her down, the butt of the gun shining with the unconscious girl's blood.
"Now, now boys. Better clean the up. We don't' want any of that precious Mew Mew blood to be lost." The woman motioned to the boys, who immediately moved to clean up their work; two working on the blood, while the other carefully lifted Ichigo onto his back.
The red head laughed and lead the way to the waiting black van. She opened the side door and grinned to the other occupants. "You'll see her in a minute!" she gaily sang to them, but stopped before they could answer.
"Umm... Miss Amerst? What's wrong?" the man with Ichigo questioned.
"Shut up! Do you hear... growling?" Miss Amerst spun around to survey the area. Her eyes widened with fear at the site coming closer to her and her boys. "Oh my god."
Three of the most frightening beasts she had ever seen were advancing steadily lead by a man with strange ears, wearing all black. She couldn't tell if the beasts were dogs, or something else entirely.
The man glared with sharp dark orange eyes, urging the creatures to be ready to attack. He called out, "But Ichigo down," in a calm devastating voice.
"Don't do what he says. This too important to give up for a little boys and his puppies," the woman said to the men, whom had stepped back frightened. "Who are you anyway? You don't look human," she continued bravely.
"Very smart. I'm Kish and I hope that I'll never be human. Now out my kitten down and rive away or my puppies as you called them may just have to kill you. And I'm sure that you don't want to know what they can do." Kish smirked, while the creatures edged closer.
"I'm actually sure that I do. Boys." She nodded to the men, who set down the cat girl and cocked their guns, ready for one more victim.
"That won't do anything," the alien sang out. "Not to my creatures. GO!" The animas sprang forward, pouncing on each of the men. Kish launched himself at the woman; his sharp nails ready to seize Ichigo from her.
When he reached her, Miss Amerst tried to strike at him, but Kish ignored her feeble attempts and shoved her into the van, slamming the door shut with his foot. Bending down to pick up the unconscious girl, he snapped his fingers, a sign for the kirema animas to retreat.
Kish jumped onto the Momomiya house, and then leaped from building to building, barely glancing back to check for his kitten's attackers. When he reached a school some miles away, Kish set her down and checked her vitals to make sure that she was going to be okay.
"Uhh..." The alien turned to look deep into Ichigo's groggy eyes. She blinked and pushed him out of her face before asking, "What happened? And what the hell are you doing here?" She tried to sit up, but her head swam with pain and confusion. Kish gently pushed her down to explain what had occurred.
"You were attacked, but I got you out of there with a few kirema animas. Don't worry, but you may not want to go back to your house for a few days." He reached over and grabbed a layer of her top skirt to clean her wound on her forehead.
She tensed as his hand hovered near the red fabric. "Pervert," she whispered without thought.
"Will you relax? I just need to wipe off the cut on your head." Ichigo frowned and lightly touched the afflicted area. She seemed dazed at the sight of her blood on her fingertips.
"I'd rather you didn't," she muttered coming back to her senses at the sound of the cloth ripping.
"And I suppose I'm going to have to clean up your little mess of kirema animas. Damnit. And what about my parents? If I'm not going home then I'll have to tell them something. And I don't think they'll believe me anyway! I'll bet that you set this entire thing up! OWW!" She flinched as Kish sweetly caressed the gash on her head with the small scrap from her now ruined skirt.
"Don't move. I'll need to get you to a hospital, or to the ship. But you wouldn't like that, now would you honey?" He smirked and lightly tweaked her cat ears.
Ichigo jerked out of his grasp and painfully pulled herself into a sitting position. Sneering, the cat growled, "Don't touch me you pervert! I just want to go home and I don't get it! Why does this always happen to me? I just want to be normal again!" She shook her head, trying to make the forming tears vanish before her enemy saw, but it was too late.
Kish set down the scrap of cloth and reached over to her face, whipping away the now falling drops. "Don't worry. You're a perfectly normal girl. And just for the record, we didn't do this!" He smiled at her, rejoicing in the small chuckle that he received for his efforts.
"Kish, I'm stalked by aliens, that means YOU! Do I seem like all the other normal humans?"
"Well, when you put in that way... Anyway, let's go. Where to?"
"The café please."
He looked at her with a confused look on his face. "Now why in the hell would a kitten like you want a cup of coffee at a time like this? I mean really..."
The Iriomote sighed. "You have to promise me that you won't tell Tart or anyone before I tell you why." She looked at him closely, waiting for him to respond.
"Oh! A secret! Please tell me more!" The alien winced under the sharp gaze that she flung in his direction. "Fine kitten, I won' tell even Deep Blue. Now will you tell me?"
"Deep Blue? Never mind. Café Mew Mew in our base of operations. Ryou lives there and we all work there. It's Ryou that I really need to see. Me may know something about this. I'd talk to him now if I could find Masha, but... Hey!" She yelled, noticing the guilty look on his face. "Give him back!'
Kish sheepishly grinned and reached into a hidden pocket of his outfit to produce a sleeping Masha. The fluff-ball came to life at once and started beeping in its owner's face. Ichigo blinked and asked, "Well, what?"
The machine backed off to show a hologram of the lab beneath the café. It was obviously a replay, because the clock in the corner showed just after seven, right after Ichigo and the rest left.
Ryou was sitting at the computer going over data when there was a knock at the upstairs door. He sighed reluctantly and pulled himself away from his work to answer it. The camera, which Ichigo assumed was on immobile, stayed put and played the sounds that came from the café lobby.
"Sorry, but the café's closed. You'll have to come back tomorrow."
"We have business to attend to regarding a Mr. Ryou Shirogane," came a man's voice, it seemed familiar, though neither the cat or the alien could place it.
"That's me. What do you want?"
"We would like a tour of your café."
"No, I'm sure that it can wait until tomorrow. I'm very busy at the moment."
"That's not all we want Mr. Shirogane." A cruel laugh followed, then a gunshot resounded through the lobby, as the hologram clicked off. Ichigo was too horrified to say anything at first, but soon regain her voice.
"Oh my god! Masha, is he dead?" she demanded of the robot, who raised his eyes, a signal for 'I don't know'
"Kish you have to help me find him!" She grabbed his shirt without thinking and pulled him closer, begging him with her eyes for mercy.
He glanced down at her hands and raised his eyebrows, causing her to snatch them back, embarrassed for her outburst. Kish nodded and said, "Of course I will. Now, once again, where to?"
"We should go to the café to look for clues or something. And to see if Keiichiro is around for us to talk to." Ichigo wiped her eyes one last time to free them of any remaining tears. "Let's go, I also have to see how my friends are. They may have been attacked too."
Kish nodded, gathered his kitten into his arms, and took off. Every now and then he winced from Ichigo elbowing him for putting hands in bad places.
******
Miss Amerst swore. On the rare occasion that she ever did swear, it was only when something went wrong. And things had gone mostly wrong. How could her boys fail her like that? She had planned everything right down to the last detail of how to attack. But there was still cause for celebration. She took a deep breath to regain her composure and smiled at her captives in the back of the van that she drove.
"Well, my boys will have to be punished for that now won't they? But don't worry; I'll make sure that you get to see your little cat friend sooner or later. I mean she can't run forever." A long pause passed, making her uncomfortable in the silence. She spoke again. "I don't know about any of you, but I just really hate silence. Let's have a polite conversation. So tell me how you did it! That I would just love to know!" When the blonde haired boy in the back didn't respond, she growled and flipped a switch. Screams filled the van as Miss Amerst whistled along with them. She stopped the van for a second and turned to the others, four girls and one handsome young man, all barely holding onto consciousness, and control of their fear.
"Now don't think that that won't happen to you. My office is no place for whiners or people who don't follow the rules. So let's just enjoy the ride for now. I feel like listening to some dance music, how about you? I mean if you're not going to answer me then, I might as well have some music." With that, the crazy red head flicked on the radio and sang the rest of the way to the 'Office' as she frightfully called it.
A/N: So what did you think? Please review and send me in some ideas for funny disclaimers!
Preview of Chapter Two: "Hee hee! Humans can be a lot of fun! But Kish, you know that Deep Blue's gonna be angry that you brought a human here. Especially her!" Tart sneered and drifted over to his comrade. "And just how are you going to explain this to Pai?"
Disclaimer: I don't own it and if I did then Ryou wouldn't be a jerk and Kish would be sweet and Ichigo would be less of a ditz and... Maybe I should just stop there. BY the way, I really like having funny disclaimers, but I can't really think of a lot myself. Too lazy to, I guess. So please send me in your best and I'll try to put all of them on. And I'll definitely give you credit for it!
Yay! I talk too much, so I'll shut up and let you get on with my story!!
Where Was the Government? Ichigo hummed softly as she reached into the drawers for a spoon. It had been two long years since she had started working at Café Mew Mew and it still hadn't gotten any easier. Mint still slacked, Lettuce still spilled, Pudding performed and Zakuro glared. After a long day of working and cleaning, Ichigo enjoyed the occasional bowl of strawberry ice cream. She sat at the table and was just about to delve into her creamy treasure when the phone rang. Ichigo groaned as she pushed away from her chair to answer the detested call.
"Hello?"
"Hi Ichigo!" Moe's voice echoed through the line; as the cat girl sat back down to finally enjoy her pink sugary goodness.
"Hey! What's up?"
"Nothing. I was just wonder if you could..."
******
'She wants to be alone,' thought Kish as he peered into her kitchen from the dark abyss of night. 'Not like I'll ever let that happen.' He chuckled to himself as he perched on the wall surrounding her house, just out of her eyesight, but with a great view of his beloved.
"I wonder who she's talking to..." Kish mused as he watched her greedily gobble her ice cream, while still managing to hold a conversation over the phone. He suddenly sat up, disturbed by how little he really knew about her. Sure he watched her as often as possible, knew every statistic about her transformation and attack ability, but he didn't know about her personal life.
Kish tilted his head to the side, then glimpsing a small white fluff-ball speedily making its way to the Momomiya home. "Hello, maybe you can help me." He sniggered and staged Masha in his grasp, then turning back to watch his kitten. "Guess that's my new resolution; to get to know you a lot better..." the alien whispered to the glass and air that separated the two.
******
Ichigo sighed as she scraped her spoon along the empty bowl, wishing that she had more to help her endure the play-by-play account of Moe's date.
Ichigo's head snapped up, as a knocking sound echoed throughout her house. New energy coursed through her with a gracious reason to end the conversation. "Hold on a sec Moe. Someone is at the door."
"Okay, but I'm getting to the best part!" The cat chuckled. This was the thirty-sixth consecutive 'best part' of the date. She set her phone down and made her way swiftly to the door.
Pulling it open, Ichigo found three men in black suits, lead by a woman with glasses and tightly bound auburn hair.
"May I help you?" Ichigo took a step back from the entry, with a firm grasp on the door.
The woman spoke up first. "Yes you may. We would like to ask you a few questions. I certainly hope that's fine with you." Her bright eyes flashed dangerously, "For your sake."
The Mew Mew backed away slowly, arm tensing to slam the door, yet fearful of humans whom she couldn't attack. "No," she whispered, as she swung the heavy door to close it.
But the three men were ready. One of them, who had a broad nose and small green squinted eyes, rushed forward to slam the door into the wall behind it with a resounding crack. The other two, one with bushy eyebrows, big eyes and a small chin, the other with a hooked nose and a sneering gash for a mouth, advanced swiftly, handguns cocked and ready.
Smiling, the woman spoke. "You see Miss Momomiya, you really will be answering those questions. My boys know how to make you do so."
Ichigo gasped, frozen on the spot, with her eyes searching for Masha to call for help. But he was nowhere to be found. Unbeknownst to her, her ears and tail had been slowly showing themselves, and were now completely visible, much to Ichigo's dismay. A scream tore through her when the second man slammed her down, the butt of the gun shining with the unconscious girl's blood.
"Now, now boys. Better clean the up. We don't' want any of that precious Mew Mew blood to be lost." The woman motioned to the boys, who immediately moved to clean up their work; two working on the blood, while the other carefully lifted Ichigo onto his back.
The red head laughed and lead the way to the waiting black van. She opened the side door and grinned to the other occupants. "You'll see her in a minute!" she gaily sang to them, but stopped before they could answer.
"Umm... Miss Amerst? What's wrong?" the man with Ichigo questioned.
"Shut up! Do you hear... growling?" Miss Amerst spun around to survey the area. Her eyes widened with fear at the site coming closer to her and her boys. "Oh my god."
Three of the most frightening beasts she had ever seen were advancing steadily lead by a man with strange ears, wearing all black. She couldn't tell if the beasts were dogs, or something else entirely.
The man glared with sharp dark orange eyes, urging the creatures to be ready to attack. He called out, "But Ichigo down," in a calm devastating voice.
"Don't do what he says. This too important to give up for a little boys and his puppies," the woman said to the men, whom had stepped back frightened. "Who are you anyway? You don't look human," she continued bravely.
"Very smart. I'm Kish and I hope that I'll never be human. Now out my kitten down and rive away or my puppies as you called them may just have to kill you. And I'm sure that you don't want to know what they can do." Kish smirked, while the creatures edged closer.
"I'm actually sure that I do. Boys." She nodded to the men, who set down the cat girl and cocked their guns, ready for one more victim.
"That won't do anything," the alien sang out. "Not to my creatures. GO!" The animas sprang forward, pouncing on each of the men. Kish launched himself at the woman; his sharp nails ready to seize Ichigo from her.
When he reached her, Miss Amerst tried to strike at him, but Kish ignored her feeble attempts and shoved her into the van, slamming the door shut with his foot. Bending down to pick up the unconscious girl, he snapped his fingers, a sign for the kirema animas to retreat.
Kish jumped onto the Momomiya house, and then leaped from building to building, barely glancing back to check for his kitten's attackers. When he reached a school some miles away, Kish set her down and checked her vitals to make sure that she was going to be okay.
"Uhh..." The alien turned to look deep into Ichigo's groggy eyes. She blinked and pushed him out of her face before asking, "What happened? And what the hell are you doing here?" She tried to sit up, but her head swam with pain and confusion. Kish gently pushed her down to explain what had occurred.
"You were attacked, but I got you out of there with a few kirema animas. Don't worry, but you may not want to go back to your house for a few days." He reached over and grabbed a layer of her top skirt to clean her wound on her forehead.
She tensed as his hand hovered near the red fabric. "Pervert," she whispered without thought.
"Will you relax? I just need to wipe off the cut on your head." Ichigo frowned and lightly touched the afflicted area. She seemed dazed at the sight of her blood on her fingertips.
"I'd rather you didn't," she muttered coming back to her senses at the sound of the cloth ripping.
"And I suppose I'm going to have to clean up your little mess of kirema animas. Damnit. And what about my parents? If I'm not going home then I'll have to tell them something. And I don't think they'll believe me anyway! I'll bet that you set this entire thing up! OWW!" She flinched as Kish sweetly caressed the gash on her head with the small scrap from her now ruined skirt.
"Don't move. I'll need to get you to a hospital, or to the ship. But you wouldn't like that, now would you honey?" He smirked and lightly tweaked her cat ears.
Ichigo jerked out of his grasp and painfully pulled herself into a sitting position. Sneering, the cat growled, "Don't touch me you pervert! I just want to go home and I don't get it! Why does this always happen to me? I just want to be normal again!" She shook her head, trying to make the forming tears vanish before her enemy saw, but it was too late.
Kish set down the scrap of cloth and reached over to her face, whipping away the now falling drops. "Don't worry. You're a perfectly normal girl. And just for the record, we didn't do this!" He smiled at her, rejoicing in the small chuckle that he received for his efforts.
"Kish, I'm stalked by aliens, that means YOU! Do I seem like all the other normal humans?"
"Well, when you put in that way... Anyway, let's go. Where to?"
"The café please."
He looked at her with a confused look on his face. "Now why in the hell would a kitten like you want a cup of coffee at a time like this? I mean really..."
The Iriomote sighed. "You have to promise me that you won't tell Tart or anyone before I tell you why." She looked at him closely, waiting for him to respond.
"Oh! A secret! Please tell me more!" The alien winced under the sharp gaze that she flung in his direction. "Fine kitten, I won' tell even Deep Blue. Now will you tell me?"
"Deep Blue? Never mind. Café Mew Mew in our base of operations. Ryou lives there and we all work there. It's Ryou that I really need to see. Me may know something about this. I'd talk to him now if I could find Masha, but... Hey!" She yelled, noticing the guilty look on his face. "Give him back!'
Kish sheepishly grinned and reached into a hidden pocket of his outfit to produce a sleeping Masha. The fluff-ball came to life at once and started beeping in its owner's face. Ichigo blinked and asked, "Well, what?"
The machine backed off to show a hologram of the lab beneath the café. It was obviously a replay, because the clock in the corner showed just after seven, right after Ichigo and the rest left.
Ryou was sitting at the computer going over data when there was a knock at the upstairs door. He sighed reluctantly and pulled himself away from his work to answer it. The camera, which Ichigo assumed was on immobile, stayed put and played the sounds that came from the café lobby.
"Sorry, but the café's closed. You'll have to come back tomorrow."
"We have business to attend to regarding a Mr. Ryou Shirogane," came a man's voice, it seemed familiar, though neither the cat or the alien could place it.
"That's me. What do you want?"
"We would like a tour of your café."
"No, I'm sure that it can wait until tomorrow. I'm very busy at the moment."
"That's not all we want Mr. Shirogane." A cruel laugh followed, then a gunshot resounded through the lobby, as the hologram clicked off. Ichigo was too horrified to say anything at first, but soon regain her voice.
"Oh my god! Masha, is he dead?" she demanded of the robot, who raised his eyes, a signal for 'I don't know'
"Kish you have to help me find him!" She grabbed his shirt without thinking and pulled him closer, begging him with her eyes for mercy.
He glanced down at her hands and raised his eyebrows, causing her to snatch them back, embarrassed for her outburst. Kish nodded and said, "Of course I will. Now, once again, where to?"
"We should go to the café to look for clues or something. And to see if Keiichiro is around for us to talk to." Ichigo wiped her eyes one last time to free them of any remaining tears. "Let's go, I also have to see how my friends are. They may have been attacked too."
Kish nodded, gathered his kitten into his arms, and took off. Every now and then he winced from Ichigo elbowing him for putting hands in bad places.
******
Miss Amerst swore. On the rare occasion that she ever did swear, it was only when something went wrong. And things had gone mostly wrong. How could her boys fail her like that? She had planned everything right down to the last detail of how to attack. But there was still cause for celebration. She took a deep breath to regain her composure and smiled at her captives in the back of the van that she drove.
"Well, my boys will have to be punished for that now won't they? But don't worry; I'll make sure that you get to see your little cat friend sooner or later. I mean she can't run forever." A long pause passed, making her uncomfortable in the silence. She spoke again. "I don't know about any of you, but I just really hate silence. Let's have a polite conversation. So tell me how you did it! That I would just love to know!" When the blonde haired boy in the back didn't respond, she growled and flipped a switch. Screams filled the van as Miss Amerst whistled along with them. She stopped the van for a second and turned to the others, four girls and one handsome young man, all barely holding onto consciousness, and control of their fear.
"Now don't think that that won't happen to you. My office is no place for whiners or people who don't follow the rules. So let's just enjoy the ride for now. I feel like listening to some dance music, how about you? I mean if you're not going to answer me then, I might as well have some music." With that, the crazy red head flicked on the radio and sang the rest of the way to the 'Office' as she frightfully called it.
A/N: So what did you think? Please review and send me in some ideas for funny disclaimers!
Preview of Chapter Two: "Hee hee! Humans can be a lot of fun! But Kish, you know that Deep Blue's gonna be angry that you brought a human here. Especially her!" Tart sneered and drifted over to his comrade. "And just how are you going to explain this to Pai?"