Authors Note: Hello everybody. This is my first fanfic. I am writing on Tokyo Mew Mew as a request for a friend :) (Hope you like it).
Summary: When Ryou and Keiichiro's new invention shows a suspected target of the aliens, Zakuro reacts strangely. Can the other mews get to the bottom of the situation before its too late?
*inner thoughts* I'm forgetting something...um...oh yeah, the disclaimer
Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew. I do however own the OC characters in this story
Just as she did every morning, Zakuro walked down the little path and pushed open the decorated pink door of Cafe Mew Mew. As soon as she entered the room her eyes searched the room for the other mews. Lettuce was cleaning tables, Pudding was juggling with the vases as she put them on the tables and Mint was drinking tea. Nothing unusual there. She then searched for the final mew, their leader, who wasn't there at all. Nothing unusual there either, she thought to herself, Ichigo is always late for work.
Just as that thought had left her head, the pink haired girl burst through the cafe doors. Her grey and black school uniform was untidy and she looked like she had been running. At the sound of the doors opening, Mint looked up from her tea. "Why, look who is late, again" she commented. Pudding ran right up to her friend and exclaimed "You were with Aoyama-oniichan again weren't you no na da". The cat mew looked up at her friends and blushed slightly, as if to confirm Pudding's prediction. Lettuce looked away from the scene and busied herself with the tables, not wanting to get involved in an argument between her friends. Mint got up from the table and walked towards her two fellow mews. "Ichigo" she teased "You should remember your mission is more important than your little boyfriend". At this Ichigo started to flame up. "Mint. May I remind you that you are the one who sits and does no work all day" she replied in a taunting tone. The two girls started arguing and mouthing at each other with Pudding trying to separate the two and Lettuce pretending not to notice. Suddenly, the cafe fell silent as Zakuro spoke loudly. "May I remind you two that this cafe opens in ten minutes and nobody but Lettuce and Pudding has done any work". Ichigo and Mint both turned to look at the purple haired woman. They looked at the clock and saw she had indeed been right, they had just ten minutes to do a mountain of work. "You lot better get going then" Minto said as she made her way back to her table. "YOU HELP TOO!" the other four shouted. At this the blue haired mew relectantly turned towards a mop and bucket in the corner of the room and began to work. As if this was a cue for them, the other four jumped into action sweeping, dusting and dressing the tables. After about eight minutes the cafe was in order. The five mews walked into the kitchen and flopped down on the floor. All that hard work was exausting. At this point the kitchen door opened and Keiichiro Akasaka entered. "There you all are. We have decided to close the cafe until the afternoon as Ryou has an important development to the mew project we want to explain to you all" he explained in his usual soft voice. "WHAT!", the five girls chorused "after all that work". The baker looked down at the girls and just smiled in their direction. "Sorry girls but Ryou wants all five of you downstairs". Keiichiro led them out of the room and the six of them headed downstairs into the basement of cafe mew mew.
Just as expected, Ryou Shirogane was stood at the bottom of the room by a large screen. At the sight of his companions he walked towards them. "Aha, there you are" he spoke as the girls filed into the room and drew their attention to the big screen at the back of the room. Ryou saw what their attention was drawn to and went back towards the screen to explain the new development the team had been called down for. " Me and Keiichiro have been working together with our computer smarts for several months now and I am happy to say we have finally finished what we were walking towards. It will be a great help to the mew project and will help us get to the innocent people the aliens target before too much damage can be caused." At this point he changed the visual on the screen to show what was on his computer. He opened a program and started to talk the mews through it. "The program is used to hack into the aliens feeds of earth and it can detect patterns in the footage. We have set it to alert us if there is a regular pattern that we have not programmed it to ignore. I have programmed all five of you, me and Keiichiro into the system as they are bound to be regularly watching us and we don't want false alerts. Through this system we can keep an eye on people the aliens are appearing to target and have someone nearby incase of an emergency. What do you girls think?". The girls had been absorbed in his speech and it took a minute for them to answer. They were impressed with the program and were happy that it would help them. "Now, we should get ready for the cafe opening this afternoon" Keiichiro announced. At this the five girls trudged up the stairs into the cafe to put the finishing touches to it and get in place ready for opening. The cafe opened and the customers started to arrive. It was a typical afternoon at the cafe with lots of customers, Pudding's entertainment and Mint's reluctance to work like the others. After a tedious four hour shift the girls locked the cafe doors and started to do their cleaning routine. Halfway through they were interupted by Ryou running into the room. He looked round at the girls and took a deep breath before speaking. "We have a pattern. We might have found the aliens next target" he announced to the room. The girls turned in their tracks and rushed down the stairs to the basement where the program was already running and there was a picture on the screen. Looking at the image, Zakuro felt that the face was familiar but she couldn't remember who it was. Ryou walked up to his computer and clicked the link underneath the photo. "It seems the aliens have been closely observing a young man called Yoru Niji".
The name rang in her head and a lightbulb flashed in her mind. No, she thought, it can't be him. She walked slightly towards the screen as Ryou brought up a profile on the man in question. She eyed the details carefully. When she saw his date of birth she quickly compared it to her own. When she was 8 that would make him...10. That isn't good, she thought again, the age is exactly right. Then her eyes crossed to the section on his family. Mothers name was Dr Hana Niji. It was him. Zakuro realised this and put both her hands over her mouth in pure shock. Why?, she asked herself, Why him of all people? She was suddenly alerted to the confused looks she was getting from the other mews and their two mentors. "Do you know him Zakuro-san?" Ichigo asked kindly. Although she knew her pink haired friend's intentions were good the very last thing she wanted was to be probed by her friends all afternoon. Knowing there was no other way to avoid her fate, she turned towards the basement door and ran as fast as her legs would carry her until she was away from the cafe and her friends, ignoring the shouts that had followed her
"Zakuro-san?"
"Zakuro!"
"Oneesama!"
Authors Note: Well, that is the first(short) chapter. I put it in to set the scene and introduce Yoru into the story. Stay reading to find out just how Zakuro knows him. I hope you enjoyed the start of the story and I promise it will get better (and longer) as it goes along. Please review, it will really boost my confidence.
Name translations (I choose names carefully and try to get them to match to the character's personality or significance):
Yoru = Trust
Hana = Flower