The Gilded Cage
A small bird cannot fly in a cage. There's hardly space enough to bat their wings so they must hop about the cage. The bird sings not of joy but of loneliness. A caged bird only longs for freedom.
Chapter 1:
Mint Aizawa was beautiful girl with black hair and brown eyes. She was talented and overly confident which, of course, to other girls came off as stuck up. She wore frilly and flouncy dresses and strutted like a swan every where she went. She was almost perfect and almost perfect girls are of course everything but perfect. It was a lot easier to point out her flaws rather than her good points.
Her friends, Ichigo, Lettuce, Pudding, and Zakuro, saw both the good and bad in her. Fortunately her good outweighed her bad so they didn't so much having her exist in the corner of the café sipping tea all day. Mint was also a short and thin girl, meaning she was easy to pick up. Her feather light body made it also much easier for her fly and pick up her own weight.
Yes she could fly. Mint was in fact, a mew mew. Her hair and eyes were a beautiful shade of blue and her outfit was sky blue. Mint had blue wings and cute little bird tail. It complimented her. She was an archer. Archery seemed nothing but perfect for her fighting style. She was able to fly up for better aim. Her eyes were very good so she had no problem aiming properly. She was very much useful to her team.
"Good night, Nana," Mint called as she shut her bedroom door.
"Good night, Ms. Aizawa, be sure to get a good night's sleep. You have a big performance tomorrow. Swan Lake is a big deal," the elderly woman replied.
Mint took a deep breath. She was performing as Odette. It was an honor to be Odette and she was, after all, a prima ballerina. Mint stretched herself out and yawned. She quickly crawled into bed after making sure her balcony doors and curtains were closed. Tomorrow was a big day. The star had to get her beauty sleep. Everyone, including her friends, was going to be there to watch her perform. She couldn't afford to mess up due to lack of sleep.
The next day after so much commotion and running around, Mint was almost ready to perform. She sat in her dressing room and took several deep breaths. She looked in her mirror and decided to give herself a pep talk.
"Today is your big day. Everyone is here. You can't mess up. You got this. It's okay and you're okay and you're gonna go out there and wow the crowd," she said as she finally stood up. She nodded and walked outside of her dressing room and onto backstage.
"Miss Aizawa, two minutes, are you ready?" A woman asked as she approached Mint.
"Yes, thank you," Mint replied as she turned her head.
She heard the music and she danced her way onto center stage. Her movements were flawless. Four long months of practicing and leaving work and other schedule classes early showed through her dancing. She worked hard and she wasn't prepared to miss one beat or step on opening night.
"Mint! You did so well!"
She heard her friend, Ichigo, exclaim as she ran over to her after the performance. Mint thanked her.
"Thanks guys. You don't know how relieved I was to see everything go fine," she replied happily.
Her friends praised her. There was nothing more flattering than the sound of her friends being happy for her. Any person could dish out compliments but when it was from a friend it meant so much more. They decided to celebrate her successful performance.
Hey all! I'm back and I know I didn't finish my other Tokyo Mew Mew fanfic, but that's because I was caught up in school. I graduated and I'm not attending college (gap year) and I don't have a job... so I have all the time in world right now so I get to prouduce crap like this! By the way this is, in fact, a Mint x Kish fanfic. The pairing is really, really, really starting to grow on me. There's something kinda hot about it. So if you're not a fan of the pairing then that's okay. I promise the most that'll happen is a make-out scene. I really don't want this become a smut fic but if it starts taking that turn I'll warn you ahead of time.
Chapter one is NOT finished. I'm actually very sleepy so I'll continue it later. But thanks for reading anyway.
EDIT: Chapter one is officially finished! I saw the reviews and the pressure is on now. So I will graciously finish this. Thanks for reviewing by the way. It means more than you think. In fact if there weren't any, I probably wouldn't have updated this so quickly.