A Collection of TMM Songfics

A/N: After my first song fic, Howls of the Wolf, I decided to embark upon a challenge: to write a one-shot, romantic songfic for each TMM character using the Lettuce/Ryou, Mint/Keiichiro, Pie/Zakuro, Pudding/Tart, and Berry/Tasuku pairings and the Masaya/Ichigo/Kish triangle. However, I need your help, readers. I have song ideas for Ryou (below,) Kish, and maybe Lettuce, but I still need everyone else. (Ichigo, Masaya, Mint, Keiichiro, Pudding, Tart, Zakuro, Pie, Berry, Tasuku). So submit your song ideas PLEASE. Thanks, and first up is Ryou!

Disclaimer: Lettuce Midorikawa, Ryou Shirogane, and all of Tokyo Mew Mew belong to Mia Ikumi. The song "What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful)" belongs to the Backstreet Boys.

What Makes You Different

A Ryou/Lettuce Songfic from Ryou's POV

Ryou Shirogane had never really known a "normal" girl. At least not society's definition of normal. The six females he employed to work his and Keiichiro's café weren't normal. They were superheroes created by Ryou himself to save the world. Each was infused with the DNA of an endangered animal. They were—an interesting bunch, to say the most.

You don't run with the crowd
You go your own way
You don't play after dark
You light up my day

So, spending that much time around six of the strangest girls in Tokyo, Ryou could safely say that a girl's being "different" attracted his attention. But there was one "different" girl who caught his blue eyes in more ways then one.

Got your own kind of style
That sets you apart
Baby, that's why you captured my heart

He hadn't wanted to accept it at first. But eventually he'd realized that the gentle, shy, and unique Lettuce Midorikawa, the Mew injected with the DNA of the finless porpoise, made his heart lift in a way nobody else did.

I know sometimes you feel like you don't fit in

And this world doesn't know what you have within

Ryou knew that Lettuce had always been the "outcast" of the Tokyo Mew Mew group. She was shy and clumsy, constantly breaking plates and stuttering over her greetings to customers. But there was something about her that Ryou had seen, something none of his other friends had seemed to notice.


When I look at you, I see something rare
A rose that can grow anywhere (grow anywhere)
And there's no one I know that can compare

It was true alright. There was something about Lettuce that set her apart from any girl he'd ever known. Maybe it was her constantly wanting to help others, even if they were rude to her. Ryou didn't know, but whatever it was—it made the mermaid-girl beautiful in his eyes.

What makes you different, (alright) makes you beautiful (alright)
What's there inside you, (alright) shines through to me
In your eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh girl
What makes you different, makes you beautiful to me

There was no doubt about it. While at first he had thought why would the Mew project choose her to inject? and admittedly considered Lettuce a failure, his opinion had changed. She might not be like any girl he'd ever met, but her difference attracted her to him…and so now he liked her. A lot.

Hey, yeah yeah yeah
You got something so real
You touched me so deep (touched me so deep)
See material things
Don't matter to me

No longer did he care how many plates she broke, or how many times she tripped, or the fact that she wore large glasses all the time. She had affected his life in ways he couldn't even begin to describe. It had taken time, to get used to Lettuce's strange ways, but now…he wouldn't have her any other way.


So come as you are
You've got nothing to prove
You won me with all that you do
And I wanna take this chance to say to you

He didn't, and might not ever, have the courage to tell Lettuce how he felt. But it was his secret hope, his secret dream, to someday tell her what he felt…

What makes you different, (alright, yeah yeah) makes you beautiful (alright)
What's there inside you, (alright) shines through to me
In your eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh girl
What makes you different, makes you beautiful

It would drive him crazy, Ryou knew. That different, beautiful girl was always the one in his thoughts these days. She was so—so—so many things! And he wanted to be something to her…after all, she had touched his life so many ways. Didn't he owe her back for that? He'd like to think so.

You don't know (you don't know) how you touched my life (touched my life)
Oh in so many ways (so many ways) I just can't describe
You taught me what love is supposed to be
You saw the little things that make you beautiful to me (so beautiful)
Oh yeah, yeah

"Lettuce?" Ryou asked, nervously, after the other Mews had left for home. "Hey, Lettuce, can I tell you something?"

"Sure," the porpoise Mew said, turning around, a curious look in her bespectacled green eyes.

"Lettuce…um…you are the most different girl I've ever met, and—that's saying something, because I work with so many strange girls. But you—you don't care about fashion, or looks, or anything. You're really different—but I think it's cool. I guess what I want to say is…"

What makes you,
What makes you different, (what makes) makes you beautiful (to me)
What's there inside you, (there shines) shines through to me
In your eyes I see, all the love I'll ever need
You're all I need, oh girl
What makes you different, makes you beautiful to me

Later that night, Ryou stood hand in hand with Lettuce, looking out at the shining ocean. All he could think of was that she really was the most beautiful girl he'd ever been lucky enough to meet.

Everything you do is beautiful (so beautiful)
Love you give shines right through me (shines right through to me)
Everything you do is beautiful (ooh, ooh ooh ooh oh)


Oh, you're beautiful to me (to me)

Well, that was the first chapter. Did you like? PM or put in your reviews any song ideas for Ichigo, Mint, Pudding, Zakuro, Masaya, Keiichiro, Tart, Pie, or Tasuku. I also might need more suggestions for Lettuce, as my idea right now is really tentative.

Thanks!

ILH