Sugar: Nyani! I'm sorry fans of my past story, that' s on hold while I work with my friends on Tokyo Mew Mew Reborn ee;

Ichigo: I leave the team? oo;

Sugar: Yeah. I didn't want you around.

Ichigo: HMPH!

Sugar: YAAAY! Please read and enjoy, folks! Also, a BIG thank you to my buddies who helped me plan the fic and designed characters! Uh... Guys? Could you comment so I know what your pen names are? xx;

Chapter 1 - Satou's Injection

Weather was usually very nice in Tokyo. Nicest, actually, right before the start of the Mew Project. Ryou had figured to start the project on a sunny day but right now he had no choice. It didn't matter when he wanted to start this project, what mattered as that he did.

"Ryou! Just press the darn button!" Ichigo yelled angrily at Ryou as she put her uniform away for the last time "Zakuro installed the tracker program into your injection-thing for a reason. It' ll just inject the first person who has matching DNA."

"You really know how to spoil a mood... Oh well. Here it goes." Ryou pressed the little red button and almost instantly a girl screamed outside the cafe and fell over. "That's probbly the first one. Go fetch her, Ichigo?"

"I AM NOT YOUR SLAVE! Work hours are over.... But whatever." Ichigo sighed and walked outside the pretty cafe to find a girl who looked almost just like her KOed on the ground. It was an... Iiiinteresting find. Ichigo reached down and plucked a needle out of the poor girl's ankle and then lifted her up. This a man's job, not hers, but maybe she' d get paid extra. But, then again, this was her replacement.

It had all started the night before, as far as Ichigo knew. Ryou had picked up Deep Blue's signal but Ichigo and her friends were too busy with school now to pick up super hero life so Ryou had decided to start the project from scratch. Deep Blue was making his own mews and, Ichigo hated to admit it, these new mews were too strong. She plopped the girl on a couch and walked back over to Ryou, peering over his shoulder.

"So... It's ok. They' re all injected? Now to find them..."

"Ichigo, you just go home." Ryou said simply. He looked over at the girl who looked kind of dead on the couch and heard 2 disturbing stounds before turning around to find two more needles stuck in the girl's foot.

"OH CRAP!" He yelled, rushing over and pulling them out. Too late. The injections had been made. The girl's mark was made up of 3 injections and Ryou realized it was double sand cat and scarlet macaw DNA. "Oh great... Who' s this poor girl? I guess she will be Ichigo's replacement afterall..."

"Nyaaaaah! What happened nyu?" Hours had passed since the injection and Ichigo's little brown haired twin was waking up. The young girl had Ichigo's hair style, only her hair was brown, anf brown eyes. She wore her a white t-shirt with a red heart on it and red skort. The young girl looked around the cafe and then her eyes met Ryou's, who was sitting on a chair across from her. What the heck? Who's he? The girl thought in alarm. He was scarey! And looked perverted... But then again, she called nearly all men perverts.

"How are you nya?" The girl asked. She didn't realized her random cat sounds yet.

"My name's Ryou Shirogane and you are....?"

"Satou Kuroneko nya! Eh? I just nyaed nya! Nyaaaa! Make it stop nya!" Satou screamed, waving her arms frantically. Ryou sighed and listened to her babble on for a while and then she shut herself up. "Nyuuu... So... Why am I here nya?" Satou asked sheepishly.

"You are a super hero now." Ryou said with a grin as he spun around in his chair to face a computor screen. He brought up a page on Satou's DNA and leaned back again, now facing her once more. "You've got doulbe sand cat and scarlet macaw genes inside you. Welcome to the Mew Mew Team."

Satou frooze and stared. "Mew... Mew...? Nya? Huh? The ones on TV? Whoa! Where' s the cute monkey one nya?"

"Vacation."

"The birdy nyo?"

"Dancing Lessons."

"The green one?"

"Beach."

"Uh... Wolf girl!"

"Modeling."

"Ah... Ummm... Cat girl?"

"Having a life of her own again..."

"THEN WHAT DO I DO NYA?!" Satou screamed angrily "TAKE NOTES?!"

"No." Ryou said calmly, staring at her like she was crazy, which she kinda was. "You are the first member of the team. There are 4 others like you. They have marks on their body... Like yours."

"Mine? Huh? I got a mark nya?"

"Yeah, on your ankle." Satou instantly put her foot on the couch and rolled down her socks a bit. Yup. Right there on her lil'ankle was a mark. Like a heart with wings and a halo.

"Cool nya. you got one?"

"No."

"Really? Awww.... I won't tell."

"Uh... You just go put this one." Ryou said with a heavy sigh. He threw a copy of Ichigo's waitress outfit and Satou and she ran off to change.

"Ugggg... This is going to be harder then I thought..." Ryou moaned as he watched her leave.

Minutes later, Satou returned in Ichigo's old waitress outfit. She smiled and posed a bit before turning quickly to Ryou. "Cool! Can I work here nya?! Puh-leeeease?"

The door opened to the cafe and Satou heard chatter as the second wave of evening customers poured into the cafe, or rather one person came in. Without a word she turned around and marched out of the back room. Ryou was about to stop her when he heard her greeting the customers like a pro.

"Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew nya! How may I be of service nyu?" Satou asked in a hyper way. There was a short pause before the customer sadly spoke up. "Oh... Just a cup of tea, I guess.... Caffine? I just fainted a while ago... I guess work finally got to me..." The voice was so soft, quiet and sad. The cafe was kind of empty other then her and Satou felt a bit bad. The young girl had long hair in a braid and green eyes.

"What happened to make work so bad nya?" Satou asked quietly. The young girl, about 14 years old like Satou was, lowered her head shamefully.

"I got fired for yelling at work..."

"Oh..." Satou said softly, looking a tad bit sad "Why'd you pass out?"

"I dunno. Someone threw a dart at me."

"Ooooh! What kind?" Satou asked happily, being a major fan of darts. The girl pulled an empty needle out of her pocket and showed it to Satou before showing Satou the palm of her hand and sighing. "It hit me right here... It hurt..." Satou looked at the girl's hand and gasped. It looked like a mew mark, at least she thought it did, and was just there.... No real shape to it.

"RYOU! Come quick! I think I found a mew!" Satou cried out happily. Yes! She' d done soemthing right! Ryou walked in and looked at the weird girl's hand. "Ah. It's the snow leopard."

"Eh? What are you crazy people talking about?!"

"What's your name?" Satou asked cheerfully.
"Cupcake..."

"Great! You' ll be working here as of tomorrow." Ryou declared "Done."

"EH?! WHAT THE HECK!?" Cupcake screeched "TOMORROW? HUH? HERE?! Ok. See you tomorrow uh..."

"Satou Kuroneko! Bye Cupcake! Wow, Ryou, that was easy."

"Whatever, Satou. Go home. tomorrow's a day off, right? Fall break right now, isn't it? Come to work tomorrow."

"Ok! I will! Thank you, Ryou!" Satou called as she dartted out the door.

"Good morning nya!" Satou looked up from sweeping the floors to see Cupcake was walking towards her. She smiled and waved cheerfully to her friend who got her outfit off a table and walked into the back room. It was early in the morning, almost time for the Cafe to open, and the only 2 waitresses were cleaning up a bit. Satou was still disturbed over the fact that the original Mews had been too busy and half wondered if they'd purposely made it impossible for them to work without making Ryou feel bad.

"Satou-chan? Where do you keep the brooms?" Cupcake asked as she hurried over to Satou. Cupcake was wearing Lettuce's old green outfit, or at least a new copy of it. Ryou hadn' t expected to need new mews so didn't bother changing the uniforms.

"I dunno. Use this one, I' m going to go clean some tables." Satou said as she handed Cupcake her broom. Cupcake smiled and kept sweeping while Satou went into the sotrage closest to get a broom.

"YEEEEEEK!" Cupcake screamed, following by a smashing sound and some guy yelping. Satou poked her head out of the closest and then simply got out and ran out into the front room. Cupcake was thawcking some weird guy who was dressed kinda skimpy with her broom and he seemed a bit surprised.

"Ummm... Cupcake stop! I' m sorry, sir... The cafe isn't open yet..."

"Ichigo? Hiya, honey."

"Eh?! Sir, I think you' re mistaken..." Satou said quickly. Too late. the weird green haired boy had flown over to her, the first surprised, and kissed her, the second and less important one. Satou looked horrified and Cupcake hit the boy on the back of the head with her broom, looking seriously angry. "YOU CREEP! PERVERT! CREEP! IDIOT! AND EVERYTHING ELSE! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING?! IN THE NAME OF PASTRIES I SAY 'GO AWAY!'"

Satou was released and backed away, watching Cupcake pound the weird guy with her broom until he vanished. "Eh?! Ohmigosh! Where' d he go?!" Satou asked, looking around "Cupcake, did you just kill our customer?!"

"You're worried about the customer?! HE JUST KISSED YOU!" Cupcake screamed angrily, waving her broom until she hit Satou in the face. "AAAACK! I' m so sorry! Don' t fire me!"

"It's ok... Where'd he go?!" Satou looked around and, for some reason, decided to look up. And there he was, the poor, battered, perverted customer.

"Who are you and who's Ichigo?!" Satou screamed angrily.

"Who are you and WHY are you dressed like Ichigo?!" He screamed back.

"MY QUESTION FIRST!"

"NO MINE!"

"MINE!" Cupcake cheered "Who are youu?"

"Kish." Replied the boy miserably, gflaring at Cupcake "And you hit me with a broom... You are?"

"Cupcake Daisuki! And this is Satou Kuroneko!"

"Eh? You love cupcakes? What's your name?" Kiash asked, a bit confused by the mix between Cupcake's odd last name and first name.

"Huh? I do love Cupcakes. My name's Cupcake Daisuki." Cupcake said proudly, looking excited. "Pssst! Satou! I like this guy! Does he come by often?"

"Puh-lease! If I knew him I wouldn' t be asking his name, now would I?!"

"Oh right..." Cupcake blinked a few times, trying to get on track, and then looked back up at Kish. "Why are you here? Why'd you kiss my friend? Details, details, DETAILS!"

"Whatever. Where's Ichigo?"

"Answer my questions please."

"No. Answer mine. Where. Is. ICHIGO?!"

"Mine first! Then yours!"

"ANSWER HER QUESTIONS DANGIT!" Satou screamed as Kish as a pair of black cat ears and then a second set of creamy brown cat ears poped out of her head.

"Koneko? So you ARE Ichigo. why do you have 4 cat ears now?"

"I AM NOT ICHIGO! Answer Cupcake's questions NOW!" Satou screamed at the top of her lungs. Ryou finally decided to come in and was holding two transformation charms for Satou and Cupcake. He looked up at Kish, then at Satou and then at Kish. "What are you doing here, Kish?"

"Looking for Ichigo. I need to talk to her."

"Kish, she's dating Masaya."

"I don't care. This is urgent. It's about being a Mew..."

"Ichigo isn't a Mew anymore. I let her go have her own life." Ryou said simply, crossing his arms and looking over at Satou just as Kish pointed accusingly at her.

"THEN WHO'S THAT?!"

"That's Satou Kuroneko. She's going to be replacing Ichigo as a Mew Mew as of today. If you need to talk to Mew Ichigo talk to her." And that was all Ryou really had to say to explain enough. If only he'd said that eariler, eh?

"Oh... Well... Deep Blue's back and he's called together all the aliens, threatening our dearest person or thing. So I came to warn Ichigo... But... Seeing as she's not a Mew I guess Deep Blue won't care anymore..." Kish explained. He got ready to teleport away but Ryou grabbed his shoe.

"Satou, go get our guest some tea."

"TEA?! After what that creep did to me?!"

"Saaatou-chaaan? May I see you for a minute?" Cupcake asked. She grabbed Satou by the arm and dragged her into the back of the Cafe, blushing. "Satou." She hissed urgently "Don't mess this up. I want him to visit more often."

"What's that supposed to mean? Cupcake, he's a perv..."

"Satou, I really like him! He... He reminds me of someone I know.." Cupcake's eyes suddenly seemed to get larger and Satou backed away from her friends and hurried into the kitchen to put on some tea. What was up with Cupcake? She was acting like such a spazz over that dumb jerk... But Satou had never been kissed before, she was kind of happy.

"NO NO NO. I didn' t like it!"

"SATOU?! Are you talking to yourself?" Cupcake called. Satou turned red and clapped her hands over her mouth. "N-N-No... Just taking the the kettle?"

"You talk to kettles too?" Cupcake asked with a smile "Too cool! I thought I was the only one!"

"Cupcake, you're scaring me know..." Satou said softly. Then she just sighed and poured some boiling water into cups with tea packets. "Cupcake, get me that serving tay over there..." Satou said softly.

"Oh... Sure thing, Satou-chan. One serving tray, here we come!"

Satou then put the cups on the tray and carefully walked out to the main room. the Cafe would probbly be opening a bit late today...

"Here's your tea nya."

"Thank you, Satou. Mind sitting down? We' ve got some stuff to discuss." Ryou said. He and Kish were at a table so Satou and Cupcake decided to just sit at the same table rather then go to a new one. "Eh... Wazzup?" Cupcake asked, very happy to be using a word with z's in it. Satou sighed and Ryou shot her an odd look that forced her to be a bit more serious.

"Kish has kindly informed me that Deep Blue wants revenage on the Mews from before." Ryou explained. Satou nodded slowly, not making a connection between this and herself. "And??"

"Well, I think he' ll be disappointed that he can't find Ichigo, the one who pretty much destoried him." Kish said with a wicked smile "Which'll be sad for Master Deep Blue but I myself am kind of happy... He can't hurt Ichigo now."

"Yeah, but I think he's going to have a new target. Satou, Cupcake... Take these." Ryou handed each girl their golden transformation pendent and they stared at them.

"Just wait and focus. The words'll come... Mind standing away from the table?"

"Sure..." Satou said softly. She and Cupcake got out of their seats and stood a couple feet away from the table. Kish yawned and directed his attention to a fly whizzing about but Ryou watched them.

"Satou-chan... I hear words in my head... No... My heart's calling out to me, Satou..."

"Me too..." Satou whispered back. She closed her eyes and tried to focus harder, get the silly words out of her head and hear the real magic phrase. Her tounge was itching, head bubbling...

"Mew mew Cupcake! Metamor-pho-sis!" Cupcake screamed next to her, unable to take the urging of her body. Satou listened to the words, so similar to the ones in her head, and tehn decided just to call out her own.

"Mew mew Sugar! Me-ta-morpho-sis!" She cried. She noticed Kish was now watching Cupcake and her her in shock as a display of bright light erupted from her pendent. She felt herself spinning around, her body moving on its own to the sound of music in her head. Cupcake heard her own music as ribbons warpped her up and faded into clothing. Puffy genie pants and a top like that of Mew Ringo's replaced Cupcake's cafe uniform and her hair was bright pink with neon ribbons tied in it and flowing like hair. Satou's outfit was a lot like Mew Ichigo's with a puffy bottom but she had sleeves to her pink top. Her hair was bright pink and 4 cat ears, two black and two brown, poped out of her hair just as snow leopard ears appeared on Cupcake's head. Tails for both girls, Satou's black and Cupcake's white, and then scarlet macaw wings oon Satou's back.

The light faded and Satou looked at Cupcake who returned her stare. "Wow, Satou. You change clothes faster then boy bands losing their shirts..."

"You too..." Satou said. Kish walked over to Satou and stared floating in circles around her until Satou couldn't take it and punched him. "What's that for you creep?!" She screamed. "You really do look like Ichigo..."

"You see, Kish, I think Deep Blue might find Cupcake and Satou interesting targets. Cupcake is almost like Lettuce and Satou looks similar to Ichigo..." Ryou started but Kish also had a say in it.

"I see your point. Lately, Deep Blue has been making his own mews and talking about upgrades... He might take these new looks as the old ones with an upgrade..."

"Your point?" Satou asked as she took a red glove off to check if her nails were suddenly painted like Sailor Moon's.

"You two just became ultimate targets for Deep Blue to attack." Ryou said simply. Satou blinked and then looked at Cupcake. "Who's Deep Blue..."

"You're hopeless... He's the big bad alien behind all this. Once we gets all his power back he could destory your puny planet... Too bad Ichigo's not here..." Kish murmered "But You'll have to do. Don' t take this visit as a peace treaty of any sort. Deep Blue wants me to work for him so I have to, I' ve got no choice, but I' ll do my best to buy you some time for Ichigo." And with that Kish teleported a way.

"Uggg... What a jerk!" Satou murmered "Welp... Let's open the Cafe, Cupcake..."

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Sugar: Well... Dat's all for now! Review please, okies?