I've been waiting to right a PaixRetasu fanfic for a while now, but I've never got round to it until now. Which is a pity really, I love this couple so much!

Anyway, this story is going to be set several months after the end of the series, and though PaixRetasu is definitely the main couple in this, there will probably be a tiny bit of others in it, probably IchigoxKisshu and PuddingxTaruto.

The title probably isn't so good, but oh well, that title isn't that important right? *looks worried*

Out of all the mews, she had stood out the most, somehow, she had seemed more important than the others, like the single person who really deserved happiness on that planet full of useless, selfish humans.

Pai did not know when he had begun to think of Retasu that way, but perhaps that was because as far as he was concerned, it had never started at all.

It was almost completely unnoticeable unless you were looking for it, but, however slightly, Pai had noticed Retasu than any of the other humans. They had always just been "humans", and the mews had always just been "those annoying mews". But he remembered the porpoise girl, and when he learned her name, he remembered it.

When he had fought her in Tokyo bay, at the time when he created the pollutant chimera, there was something she had said to him.

"You also have something important, something you want to protect!"

He had responded by saying that she should not compare him to humans. This was what he thought, that humans were annoying, stupid creatures, and to be compared to one was an insult.

But Pai was not stupid, he was far from it, and he knew that the humans, especially the blonde one floating in the water behind him, thought the same of his race, that they were the ones in the wrong, the cruel ones doing what they did without reason. So what Retasu had said was the same as if he had admitted that the mews were also fighting to protect what they loved, wasn't it? And she would have had as much right to react as he had, and say that the aliens were foolish for comparing her to them. But she didn't, she understood. She understood much better than anyone else did.

But that did not change anything.

He had to do everything he could to protect his people. The understanding of one person was insignificant, it would take so much more to make Pai choose a different path.

And something did happen. Right at the end, after he had even gone to the length of killing his friend and comrade, he saw his master Deep Blue for what he really was and made the choice to help the mews. And it cost him his life.

In those few brief seconds before he died, he'd looked back at the mews, and seen Retasu's face, her shining emerald eyes wide with shock and fear, and he'd remembered what she had said to him in the sea.

Moments later he was dead.

Was it coincidence that out of the five people there, his gaze had moved to her?

No, it wasn't.

But Pai had not thought at all about that once he his life was restored by the mew aqua. He and the other two aliens could save they're planet, Deep Blue was gone, and nothing else mattered, either in they're world or his.

But, months after they're former masters defeat and they're return home, even though Pai was happier, and more comfortable than he had ever been now that they're planet was slowly becoming a much more inhabitable place, there was something wrong. He didn't want to spend the rest of his life there. Kisshu and Taruto felt the same, after experiencing an adventure like theirs, no one could possibly agree to living a normal life, as the mews had already learned.

So what better for the three aliens to do, than go back to Earth? Kisshu had never stopped obsessing over that pink cat mew, and even though Taruto had plenty of friends where he was, none of them could ever be as friendly, or understand how he felt better than the monkey girl had.

So, 4 months after the mews had thought them gone forever, Pai, Kisshu and Taruto returned to Earth.

Pai, waking up on his second morning of being back on the planet he had once attempted to invade, thought how strange it was being here now, no thoughts of destruction or fighting, just happiness and curiosity.

Pushing back the purple blanket and stepping out onto the cold floor, he saw something green lying under the bed. He bent down to pull it out, and realised what it was.

A doll that had rolled away from the stall when the mews had been participating in a sale near the café. He had just teleported into that area when the round, squashy green thing had come rolling towards him. Taking it back to the ship, he had left it in his room, it had something to do with those annoying mews, and could give him ideas for future chimera animals.

If he'd had any other motives for taking the doll, then he had hidden them from even himself.

Of course, Pai had always chosen purpose over his actual feelings, and Deep Blue wouldn't appreciate him possessing something like that for any other reasons than being able to destroy the mews.

Then, looking down at the doll in his hand, Pai felt that he wanted to go and see its maker.

Teleporting to the café, he found himself standing in front of a pink sign. It read "CLOSED." Well, perhaps it was closed for the day, if it was no longer open at all then the building would probably no longer be there.

On several more occasions Pai attempted to see Retasu, and for all but the last he was unsuccessful.

But when he did see her, her beautiful azure orbs reflected another person.

Ryou Shirogane.

Please review and tell me what you think! I know this chapter is a little short, but the others will be longer, I promise!

Also, I know there aren't any of those grey line things in here, but thats because they don't seem to be wroking for be at the moment ^^;