Description: While on the way to meet Lettuce, Ichigo is ambushed by an evil alien. When she is attacked, it isn't Masaya who comes to save her. Pai takes her back to the ship and heals her injuries, but how will Masaya react to this once she comes back to Earth?

Rating: T

Couples: Ichigo x Masaya (don't worry, it won't last long. ;D), Pai x Ichigo, Kish x Ichigo, slight Ichigo x Keiichiro, Kish x Lettuce, Purin x Tart, and Ryou x Zakuro.

MewMid: I never stop with the crack pairings. x3 So please enjoy! And PLEASE leave reviews, I don't know if people like it if I don't get some feedback.

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The sky was dark and threatening to rain. It had been rather stormy lately, a tropical storm was about to hit the coast from what Ichigo had heard. She walked briskly through the park trying to take a shortcut to the cafe. Her plan was to meet Lettuce at the cafe and go shopping with her this afternoon. Thunder rumbled in the distance causing the cat mew to shiver and put a little more spring in her step. A familiar sound caught her attention. Ichigo whirled around and looked around behind her, there was no one around. She couldn't see a single person. She shook her head and turned back and continued walking.

She only took a few steps and a sharp pain suddenly struck the back of her skull, she yelped and the force of the blow threw her to the ground. Her purse crashed to the ground beside her and the contents spilled all over the cobblestone path. Ichigo winced and got up on her knees, clinging to the back of her head. Hot liquid seeped out of a cut from the blow. Ichigo turned and looked around, there was no one there. Ichigo looked at her left hand, there was blood all over the palm of her hand. She flinched and fell back onto her rear when someone teleported in front of her.

He was tall and had light cream colored hair, he leaned down and grabbed her jaw before she could move to get away. His grip was rough and hurt her jaw, she winced. He leaned in close, the sudden proximity made her stomach lurch.

"Well, what do we have here? A lone mew? The one responsible for Master Deep Blue's death?"

Ichigo felt her whole body get cold. Her skin crawled at the mention of that evil aliens name. It had been a year since that incident, what was this alien's problem? Were there people that were truly upset about the death of the cruel leader?

Ichigo winced and grabbed at his hand as he slid his hand to her throat and squeezed her small neck as he lifted her from the ground. Ichigo kicked her legs as he held her there, she whimpered in pain,

"Why are you doing this?"

The alien grinned and released her, she fell back onto her rear and as she reached for her pendant, he summoned his weapon. He swung it down and slammed the weapon down on her hand, something inside her hand cracked from the impact. It was then she realized his weapon was a giant hammer. A shrill scream filled the air as Ichigo retracted the injured limb to her chest, holding it delicately with her good hand. The alien lifted the hammer above his head once more and swung it down, Ichigo rolled aside and dodged, still holding her wounded hand. The alien was fast, and swung the hammer around from the side, hitting the calf and ankle on her left foot. Her leg was knocked out from under her and she screamed as she fell onto her back. She winced and her eyes teared in pain, how could she be this weak against just one alien?

Her thoughts were interrupted by bolts of bright lightning explode above her, the lightning hit the alien that had attacked her. The alien yelped and flew across the small clearing and crumpled to the ground like a dead leaf. He groaned and attempted to pick himself from the ground but someone appeared beside him and grabbed his wrist. A tall violet haired alien yanked the surprised alien from the ground, holding his wrist in an unnatural position behind his back. The alien whimpered as Pai lifted his arm, causing his shoulder to creak in agony.

Tears rolled down Ichigo's cheeks in pain as she watched. Her hand was bleeding and ached from the wound, her ankle hurt as well. Ichigo did not sob, tears rolled freely down her flushed cheeks as she watched Pai swiftly yank the other alien's arm. A terrible crack was heard and the alien's arm fell limp beside him and he collapsed to his knees. The cream haired alien groaned and shook his head,

"I'm sorry Pai! Don't kill me…Please don't kill me!"

Pai scowled down at the back of the alien's head. He knew this alien. This alien feared him greatly. Pai surprised him and delivered a swift kick to the back of the alien's neck, causing his upper back and neck to crack as he collapsed forward. He screamed and rolled onto his back, holding his shoulder. Pai looked over at Ichigo, she just stared over, looking from him to the injured alien.

The tall alien stepped forward and held his foot above the wounded alien's ankle. Pai smashed his foot down and broke the other alien's ankle. The alien screamed out and attempted to crawl away, dragging the injured limbs. It was truly a pathetic sight. Pai then walked over to Ichigo and held out his hand to her,

"Are you all right?" His tone was cold and felt like a shock to her. She stared at him blankly for a few moments, her tear stained cheeks flushed pink. Pai slowly lowered his hand and stared down at the injured cat girl. Ichigo stared as he swept her purses contents back into the small handbag and walked back over to her. He then swooped down and lifted her bridal style, keeping her purse on his wrist.. Pai then flew into the air high above the city, so that it wasn't obvious that there was someone flying. Ichigo winced and favored her injured hand, letting her ankle hang limp. Everything ached, especially her throat. That alien was ruthless and had severely hurt her.

Rain began to pour from the sky in a downpour. Ichigo looked up into the dark grey clouds, they looked so close, as though they could be struck by lightning at any moment. She whimpered and clutched her hand as they flew. Both silent other than her small whines. Why hadn't Masaya saved her? Where was he? Was he hurt? Did he have something better to do? Where was Pai taking her?

Pai landed silently outside the cafe, everything was dark. Ichigo slowly shook her head, her voice barely able to be heard, "It's closed today… Lettuce and I were going to meet here to go shopping… I wonder where she is…" Ichigo trailed off, the pain in her hand was agonizing. Pai looked down at the upset cat girl, "Then I will treat you myself on our ship."

Ichigo didn't protest, she just winced and dropped her head against his chest, at least it was raining so he couldn't see her crying. The two appeared on the ship in a big steel room with lots of medical equipment in it. There was a door up on the far wall and Pai carried her through it. The steel doors opening and closing behind them automatically. It looked like a hospital room, only slightly smaller. Ichigo whimpered when he put her on the medical bed and set her purse aside. He then walked over to her left, sifting through various tools and objects. Ichigo shook her head weakly, it hurt so much. Blood trickled down her fingers and onto her school uniform. She looked up, the doors had windows in each of them and she could see into the other room. She wondered where Kish and Tart were briefly.

Pai then walked over to her, holding a few rolls of bandages. Ichigo's breath quivered as she tried to fight the urge to cry. Pai stood at the foot of the bed looking up at her with no real expression on his face, "I'm going to have to remover your footwear Mew Ichigo." She weakly nodded, biting her lip as he placed his hands on her shoe.

Ichigo winced as he slowly untied it, and gently wriggled his long fingers into the sides of it. In all honesty, it kind of tickled. Ichigo stared at Pai's face as he worked on loosening her shoe. She had never seen this side of Pai. He just saved her in Masaya's absence, and is even treating her wounds. Where was Masaya anyway? Pain surged up her leg as he gently tugged at the shoe, pulling it halfway down. Ichigo winced and clenched the sheets below her with her good hand, closing her eyes. Pai finished removing the shoe, and then looked up at her. Ichigo exhaled, letting her jaw loosen and she stared up at him with a hurt expression. She was wearing a pink tank top with a white skirt and thigh high pink stockings. She looked down at her stockings and blushed slightly, but he couldn't have noticed, her cheeks were already flushed from crying.

"I have to remove your stockings as well, they're wet, so I can either cut them off, or to save them I can just pull them off."

Ichigo waved her good hand slightly, "Just go ahead and cut them off…" She trailed off. The red head felt bad, these were some of her favorite stockings and she hated to have to cut them, but she didn't want to deal with the pain of pulling over her now quite swollen ankle. Pai grabbed small surgical scissors and began snipping off her stockings. Ichigo laid her head to the right, looking at the door that was partially behind Pai. Hot tears boiled out of her eyes and seeped down her cheeks. It hurt, and she was thoroughly embarrassed. She wasn't able to grab her pendant fast enough, and Masaya didn't even show up. Her thoughts were interrupted by two peeking faces in the windows of the door.

Kish and Tart made their way inside and observed the scene. Pai ignored their presence. Kish looked completely surprised, "What happened kitty cat?" He sounded genuinely concerned. Tart just stared in surprise and curiosity. Ichigo weakly smiled,

"I was attacked"

Kish's kind expression changed to a mixture of anger and surprise and he looked over at Pai. The violet haired alien ignored him and took the last snip of her stockings off, revealing the swollen skin to cold crisp air.

"It was Cray." Pai said with no real emphasis or emotion. Kish seethed and clenched his fists and jaw,

"I'm going to0"

"I took care of it." Pai stated, looking up at Kish as he unrolled one of the bandages. Kish scowled,

"Did you kill him?"

The oldest alien shook his head calmly and focused his attention on her ankle. Tart made a disgusted face at Ichigo's bleeding hand. Kish turned to face Pai completely,

"Are you fucking kidding me? After he did this to her?"

Pai still refused to look up while he carefully wrapped her ankle, "No, Never did I once joke about what happened. Had her injuries been worse, I would have considered it. But I stopped him before things got out of hand."

Kish scoffed and looked over at Ichigo with his concerned look once again, "Want me to kill him? I really hate him, I always have, so it's no trouble."

Ichigo almost wanted to laugh at his statement, Kish was always so protective, even though she wasn't his. She weakly smiled and shook her head, feeling dizzy from all the energy spent. Pai finished bandaging her ankle and clean her hand. Kish took a deep breath, and happened to notice that her shirt was rather transparent since it was wet. Kish averted his eyes so that she wouldn't see him look, he knew she didn't need this right now. Tart rolled his eyes and left the room,

"Get better hag." He mumbled as the doors slammed behind him. Pai looked down at the girl as he finished wrapping her hand,

"I will go find you some dry clothes, and be back shortly."

Ichigo smiled warmly at the alien as he turned and exited the room. Kish sighed and pulled a small chair up beside her.

"So how's life? Other than running into that waste of space Cray?"

The red head chuckled and turned her head to face him, "I've just… been working at the cafe… spending time with Masaya before he leaves for England… That's about it.. My grades have gone up since I don't have to fight you aliens anymore."

Kish ran his hand through his hair and grinned like he had made a mistake, "Yeah… Well I'm glad you're doing better. "

It wasn't long before Pai came back and gave her dry clothes. He then motioned for Kish to leave the room with him. Ichigo held the clothes with her good hand, wondering how on Earth she was supposed to do this. She frowned and looked over at the two aliens as they moved to exit the room.

"I-" She hesitated, her cheeks flushing a bit pink, the two turned toward her, "I can't really.. do this myself…" She said, lifting her injured hand. Pai looked over at Kish who now seemed quite interested. Pai shook his head and pointed toward the door,

"No. You leave."

Kish gave Pai a dirty look before glancing at Ichigo, and exiting the room as he was ordered to. He knew neither of them would want him in the room. Pai walked over as Ichigo sat up in the medical bed, her cheeks were still flushed pink. She kept her eyes down, she felt so embarrassed. Pai stood beside the bed and held his hand out, slowly, Ichigo met his gaze.

"It's all right Momomiya Ichigo, you don't need to fear me. I'm not Kish."

Ichigo felt guilty for some reason when Pai said Kish's name, as if it was her fault for his behavior. The cat mew turned slightly to get her back to face him. Her cheeks felt hot, her entire body felt hot and nervous. She hadn't undressed in front of anyone before, not even Masaya. Pai calmly grabbed the bottom hem of her tank top with his finger tips and pulled the wet fabric up. The violet haired alien didn't let his expression change, although he felt uncomfortable. He knew this was probably the first time she undressed in front of someone, and he felt almost guilty for doing this. But in all honesty, he just wanted to help her, and get her home.

Ichigo slowly worked her arms out of the wet tank top and kept her hands clutched to her chest, very embarrassed. Pai looked at her last piece of clothing covering her upper body, a small pink bra. He calmly set aside her wet shirt and stood behind her. He knew it would be soaked as well. Ichigo's cheeks were bright red, her face felt as though it was on fire. She felt the soaked bra with her arms and knew if she didn't take it off it would soak the dry clothes Pai had gotten her. Ichigo hesitantly turned her head to get a glimpse of the alien,

"If you just unclip it, I'll take it off myself."

Pai nodded and unclipped the small clip on her back, then turned around. His cheeks felt a bit warm, he tried to fight his embarrassment. He knew this was strictly business and nothing more. He didn't want anything more. He just wanted to help her and get her out of their ship so Kish didn't drive everyone crazy. Ichigo now held her arms pressed to her chest, covering her upper body.

"O-Okay…"

Pai turned back around slowly to face the girl. Her back facing him, he barely glanced at her before grabbing the dry shirt he had retrieved for her. It was a shirt of his own, since they had no females on board the ship. It was a violet tank top looking shirt, and he knew it would be a little big on her. Ichigo's face continued to get darker and darker, she thought she would pass out she was so embarrassed. The red head lifted her arms and Pai slid the shirt over her arms and down to cover her body. Ichigo then pulled her arms in close to her chest again as if she could hide.

Pai then walked around to the other side of the bed, where her legs hung loosely over the edge. He had brought her some sleeping pants he used that had a tie string so they would stay on her hips. Pai slid the pants over her feet, and took great care of not touching her ankle that much. He handed her the waistband so she could stand and pull it up herself. Ichigo struggled to stand on one leg, she wiggled around and then fell forward. She used her good hand and took a strong grip on Pai's shirt yanking it down to support herself.

"I'm so sorry!" She yelped as she finished pulling the pants on underneath her skirt. Pai turned and held his left arm out parallel to the ground,

"Hold my arm."

Ichigo did as she was instructed and clenched her small hand around the alien's muscular forearm. She observed him closely as he pulled her skirt over the pants down onto her legs with just his right hand. His arm wasn't as warm as she thought it would be. His skin was rather cold through the small arm-sleeves. She squeezed his arm as she stepped out of the skirt with the hurt ankle. Ichigo sat back onto the bed and let the skirt fall off onto the steel floor, Pai grabbed it and put it on the wet shirt.

Ichigo knew her undies were a bit wet from the rain as well, but that was one thing she sure as hell wasn't going to take off here. Pai looked at the red head, but before he could ask if she needed anything else, he noticed her looking down at the drawstrings to the pants. Pai felt slightly amused, this girl, at the moment, was completely helpless. He leaned over and grabbed the strings and began pulling them to tighten the grip on her waist. Pai seemed lost in his thoughts. Almost anyone else would taken advantage of the situation and perhaps molested her or gawked at her nude form. Pai figured there was about an 89% chance that this girl had been completely innocent, and had never been nude in front of anyone, except him. He couldn't care less. Pai stood upright once more after tying the drawstrings, Ichigo weakly smiled up at him,

"Thank you Pai."

The way she said his name intrigued him. Her words were suddenly so tender and affectionate. It made his face feel warm again, but Pai dismissed the feeling and held his hand out to her,

"I will escort you to a place where you can sleep, it's getting late. You may sleep here and I will take you back to the cafe in the morning."

Ichigo thought for a few moments and then agreed that it would be the best choice. She reached over and grabbed her purse, sifting through it to find her cellphone. She was going to tell her parents she was spending the night with Lettuce tonight so they wouldn't worry. Ichigo frowned when she opened her phone to text them,

"Will I be able to send a text to them?"

Pai nodded, "We are close to Earth and a few satellites you humans use for you cellular devices. " She nodded and texted her mother. When she was done, Pai put his arm around her waist and supported most of her weight and escorted her to her room. When they rounded a corner, Pai led her into a dim room with a large computer in the corner. Ichigo made a relieved sound as she collapsed back onto the large bed. She took a deep breath and shivered, the room was very cold.

"So who's room is this?"

Pai seemed distracted while turning off the computer in the corner of the room, "Mine."

Ichigo felt a nervous chill run up her spine, she sat up and looked worried, "Where will you sleep?"

"I won't."

Ichigo shook her head and shifted her weight to fully face him as he approached her, "But- I can't take your room Pai!"

Pai nodded and turned on the lamp on the nightstand, he pointed to a button on the side of the nightstand. He pressed it and a hologram popped up just above the surface of the nightstand, it was the time.

"This is how you tell what time it is, if you press the button and hold it for ten seconds, Kish, Tart, or myself will come to assist you if you need help. Ichigo nodded, still bewildered by the hologram. The tall alien turned and walked over to the exit, "Goodnight Mew Ichigo, I will take you back to the cafe in the morning."

Ichigo looked around the room, curious about it's contents, she smiled at Pai as he looked back at her before closing the door behind him. Ichigo laid down on the bed, and felt a shock run over her body. She had forgotten something. Where had Masaya been when she was attacked?

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MewMid: Yay! x3 So cute! And yes, Kish will be flirting with her, and later on he will be flirting with Lettuce. ;D