Chouko was surrounded by a bright light and when it died down, she was wearing a different outfit, but it didn't look as though she had any animal DNA in her.

That's strange… I wonder what animal she has. I thought.

After she had transformed, a little blue butterfly landed in Chouko's hand. She smiled and it flew away.

Kishu disappeared and reappeared in front of Chouko. He kissed her and then left. I transformed back to normal and walked over to Chouko.

"Come on Chouko, we've got to get you back to the others." I said. "Oh, but you'd better transform back first."

"Okay." She said, transforming back to normal.

"Let's go." I said, dragging her all the way back to the café.

Chouko POV

"What the hell are you talking about Ichigo?!" Ryou yelled furiously. "There isn't another Mew Mew, I should know!"

"But Shirogane-san, how else would Kishu have been able to know about her?" Ichigo yelled back.

"Maybe he saw you two together and automatically assumed she was a new member!" Ryou yelled. "You know how stupid he is; I mean… he is your lover after all, isn't he?"

"Shut up!" Ichigo screamed. "Chouko, tell Ryou what happened."

"Um, well, all I remember is walking into that alleyway, the earthquake, some mutant snake, a weird guy named Kishu, a silver pendant… but then my mind goes blank. The next thing I remember was Ichigo dragging me back here." I said sweat dropping.

"Wait; hold up… did you say a pendant?" Ryou asked.

"Yeah, why?" I asked.

"May I see it?" he asked.

"Sure." I said, handing him the small silver pendant.

"That's strange… this isn't like the other ones." Ryou said. "Ichigo let me see yours."

Ichigo handed him her gold pendant.

"How can this be?" Ryou thought aloud.

"What's wrong with mine?" I asked, looking over his shoulder. "The only thing different is that mine is silver and doesn't have anything on it."

"That's the problem." Ryou said, handing me and Ichigo back our pendants.

"Whatever Ryou-chan, I'm going to bed." I said walking out of the room.

I walked up to my room, which was across the hall from Ryou's, and kept thinking about Kishu. For some reason, I just couldn't get him out of my mind.

"I guess I should just wake up and face reality… it'd just be the same as last time." I told myself.

I opened my door and froze. I quickly closed the door and let out an earsplitting scream.

"What is it Chouko?" Ichigo asked, as she and Ryou ran up the stairs to me.

"Oh, um, well… uh, spider. Huge ass spider." I lied quickly. "Scared me half to death."

"Where is it?" Ryou asked suspiciously. "I don't see any big ass spiders anywhere."

"That's because I, uh, I scared it with my screaming." I thought quickly.

"With a scream like that, you could've scared all of Tokyo." He said as he and Ichigo walked back down stairs.

I sighed and slowly opened my door. Nothing was there. I walked inside and told myself that it was just my imagination. I sat down on the bed and pulled out my pendant.

"I wonder what I'm supposed to do with this… oh well, it's not like I'm ever going to see Kishu ever again." I said, placing the pendant on my nightstand.

I closed my eyes and laid back on the bed.

"If only I could see Kishu one more time…" I sighed.

"I'm right here." A voice whispered in my ear.

A hand covered my mouth before I could scream again and another wrapped around my body, pinning my arms to my side.

"Why are you struggling? I thought you wanted to see me again." Kishu said. "Now, will you be a good girl and not scream?"

I nodded my head and Kishu removed his hand from my mouth.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him.

"To see you of course." He answered, slowly rubbing my arm, causing me to shiver.

"No seriously, what are you doing here?" I asked, trying to resist the urge to stomp on his foot.

"Okay, you caught me… I came here to take you with me." He said. "But only if you want to."

"And this is how you persuade a girl?"

"Pretty much, yeah."

"Well, it ain't working on me." I said. "So could you please let go of me and leave?"

"Aw, how come?"

"Because, idiot, I'm tired and need some sleep. I don't know if aliens need sleep or not, nor do I care, but whatever it is, you got to go."

"Fine, but I'll—"

"I'll be back, right?" I finished for him.

"How'd you…"

"Call it, a girl's intuition."

"What's an intuition?"

"Just go!" I said, managing to free myself. I spun around and saw Kishu teleporting away.

"Chouko, you okay in there?" Keiichiro asked on the other side of the door. "Who's in there with you?"

"Nobody!" I lied. "Nobody but me."

He walked inside and looked around. "I thought I heard voices." He said.

"Uncle Keiichiro, you're hearing things again. I'm all alone in here." I said, gently patting his shoulder. "Now can I go to sleep?"

"Oh, sure. Night." He said closing the door.

I turned off my light and quickly fell asleep.

"Morning!" I said as you came down the stairs.

"Morning." Ryou replied.

"Where's Keiichiro?" I asked.

"He had to go to the store, but he should be back later." Ryou said.

"Oh, ok. Well then, you want to do anything?"

"Actually, could you do me a favor? Go into the back room and take a look at what's in there?"

"Sure." I said walking into the back room.

I saw a waitress uniform like the one Ichigo wore, except it was purple and white.

"Oh God, please tell me this isn't for me…" I said, examining the uniform. I saw your name on the inside of the collar. "Man, it is! Well, at least nobody I know is going to see me like this."

I slipped into the uniform and saw that it fit you perfectly, which scared me a little. I walked back out and decided to piss Ryou off a little bit.

"Thank you SO much Ryou-chan!" I said, flinging my arms around his neck. I ran into him so hard that I had knocked him to the ground. "Oops, sorry. My bad."

"What is wrong with you?!" Ryou yelled, sounding pissed.

"Um… are we interrupting something?" came Ichigo's voice behind me.

I looked up to see Ichigo and the others walking into the café. My face turned scarlet and I got off of Ryou.

"Hell no!" I said. "I just accidentally fell on top of Ryou."

"Okay… well, we're just gonna go change now." Ichigo said as they walked into the changing room.

"I think I'm gonna go outside for a bit. You don't mind, do you Ryou-chan?" I asked.

"I don't care what the hell you do, just change out of your uniform before you do it."

I walked around in the park just to pass the time away.

"At least I don't need to spend my day in that pink hell." I said.

I saw a little girl run in front of me, and then she fell to the ground and started crying.

"Oh honey, its okay, Mommy and Daddy are here." A woman said, kneeling down beside the girl and helping her up.

Painful memories flooded back into my mind.

Flashback

I'm running through the park with my parents. It was raining lightly, and I was carrying a little umbrella. I slipped and fell to the ground and began to cry…

but nobody offered to help me up.

"Mommy… Daddy…" ­I cried looking around. But my parents were no where to be seen.

End Flashback

"Nobody was there to help me up." I whispered to myself.

I blindly walked into the forest part of the park. I didn't really know where I was going, but I didn't care.

"Yo, what's up Chouko?" Kishu asked teleporting in front of you.

"Nothing…" you replied, walking past him.

"Hey, I'm talking to you here!" Kishu said angrily, walking in front of me and grabbing my shoulders.

I stared at Kishu, frightened. For a second he looked exactly like my older brother.

"No! Stop it!" I screamed, pushing him away.

"What's wrong Chouko?" Kishu asked worried.

"Nothing! Just… just leave me alone." I said, turning away from him.

Without another word I walked away and left Kishu standing there confused.

"Chouko, you okay?" Ryou asked from the other side of the door. "You've been in your room all afternoon. What happened?"

I didn't answer him. I was wondering why those memories had upset me so much. I decided that it was best to avoid Kishu at all cost, in case those memories surfaced again… but I didn't know how I was going to do that.

"I wish Jake was here… he'd know what to do." I said sadly, laying down and falling asleep.

Kishu POV

I silently floated into Chouko's room. I saw that she was already asleep. ­I kissed her forehead gently.

"Sweet dreams… my little butterfly." I whispered softly.

Chouko POV

It's been a week since I last saw Kishu, and my memories stayed in the back part of my mind. I was sweeping up outside and kept having the feeling that someone was watching me, but you ignored it.

"Man, how'd I get dragged into working at this stupid café? I didn't come to Japan to work, I came here to be free, or something like that." I said. "Nothing interesting ever happens here anyway."

I felt an arm grab me by my waist and I was slung over someone's shoulder.

"Put me down Kishu, I'm not in the mood." I protested angrily, struggling to get down.

"Calm down Chou." A familiar voice said.

"Jake!? What are you doing here?" I asked, stopping my attempt to get free.

[A/N: Jake has ivy-green hair and gold eyes

"I came here to see you." He said, walking towards the café. "I was worried about you and wanted to see how you were doing."

He walked into the café, with me still over his shoulder, and everyone turned to look at us.

"Chouko?!" everyone exclaimed.

"Hey guys, what's up?" I asked, smiling innocently as my face turned red.

"Chouko… who's this?" Ichigo asked.

"An old friend." I answered. "Um, Jake, could you put me down now?"

"No, I'm not finished with you yet." He replied.

"Finished?" everyone asked sweat dropping.

"Uh, oh." I said, your face turning scarlet. "Jake, maybe that's not such a good id—"

"What's going on in here?" Ryou asked, walking out of the kitchen.

Thank God! Saved by Ryou.

He noticed Jake and stopped. "Who's this?"

"Name's Jake, who are you." Jake said.

"I'm Ryou Shirogane." Ryou replied. "What are you doing with Chouko?"

"Don't worry about me Ryou. Jake's an old friend and I'm kinda used to him doing this to me anyway. It's like his way of saying hello, or something. Right, Jake?" I said.

"Right. This is how I always greet Chou whenever I want to make her happy." Jake said.

"Well it looks as if you've only succeeded in embarrassing her, not making her happy." Mint said.

"No, its okay, really Mint, I'm not embarrassed." I lied. "Hey Jake, could you set me down now?"

"Only if you do it the way you always do." Jake said.

"Fine." I said. "Everybody, you might want to step back."

Everyone stepped back out of the way. I took a deep breath and did a forward flip, gracefully landing on my feet facing Jake.

"Perfect, as always." Jake said.

"So Jake, why did you really come here?" I asked, sitting down at a table. "Let me guess, the magazine isn't doing good, is it?"

"What magazine?" Lettuce asked.

"Back in America, Jake and his sister started a local magazine." I explained. "It was for stuff like what was going on in town and stuff. But nobody was buying their magazine, so they decided to try having a model on the cover. They couldn't afford one so they asked me if I would do it."

"You were a model?" Pudding asked.

"I think I remember seeing something like that when I was over there." Zakuro said. "They said that your magazine was really popular."

"It was." Jake said, sitting down across from me. "That's why I came, well, partly of why I came. Ever since you left, we can't find anyone else who'll be our cover girl. I was hoping you'd let me take some more pictures of you for the magazine."

"It's fine with me." I said. "Want to take some now?"

"Sure, but I don't think you'd like everyone at home to see you wearing your uniform." Jake said.

"I'll be right back." I said rushing off to change.

When I came back downstairs, all the girls were standing around something. I walked over and saw that it was Jake's binder that had all the pictures he had taken of me in it.

"Okay, you ready Chou?" Jake asked when I walked outside.

"Yep, all ready." I said. "Picture away."

Kishu POV

Who does that guy think he is? I thought angrily as I saw some boy with Chouko. He better not be trying to steal my butterfly away from me. Whoever he is…I'm not going to let him take my butterfly away from me. Not this time.