Café Mew Mew

It was like everyday clean up the place and keep everything in check the girls kept to their duties on their cover-up workplace (except for mint who is always doing no work) while Ichigo was in the kitchen designing a cake. As she decorated the top with the pastry she was using the thoughts came into her mind. Sometime after Ikuto left she kept conceiving of him, some may call it a crush but to her it could be something stronger but she couldn't tell either for she didn't know if she really did love him or he was just another boy showing up and going. It was clear to the girls she was thinking of him.

"Hey Ichigo you don't seem well why the long face?" Lettuce asked

"Oh nothing." Ichigo answered still kept her expression.

"I know she's thinking of Ikuto." Pudding guessed

Ichigo shot a surprised attitude. "Oh no it's not that!"

"I know you are thinking of him."

"And how is that?"

The innocent ten year old member of them pointed to her decoration which surprised Ichigo when she unknowingly was designing a perfectly fine picture of Ikuto's face right in the middle of the top area of the cake.

"Oops dammit I messed up." Ichigo astonished

"No you didn't that was great artwork you did." Pudding enlightened

"It wasn't supposed to be Ikuto-kun."

Ichigo then realized. "Nyaa! Did I say Ikuto-kun?"

"It's alright Ichigo we all thought he was pretty. It's no shame to like him." Lettuce patted

"Yes it is!" Mint came in making the girls turn their attention to her.

"Why don't you clear your mind of him Ichigo. He's gone and we may not see him again." Mint said angrily at Ichigo.

"Didn't you like him too?" Ichigo shot back.

"Maybe but the sooner you forget about him the better we all can be." Mint retorted forcefully

"Why don't you let me have my choice or are you still jealous that Ikuto paid more attention to me than you." Ichigo replied strongly.

Both Ichigo and Mint gave a death glare at each other and kept it like that for a few seconds until Zakuro stepped in. "Both of you stop it."

Mint and Ichigo did what she said when she came in.

"There is no use fighting over a random handsome boy. He's gone and there's nothing we can do about it except move on." Zakuro said with her arms crossed.

Mint pouted then she left leaving the others to do whatever they did.

Ichigo turned her attention back to the cake she made. "I don't know guys, I have a feeling I might see him again. I don't know but it feels like I can and I want to."

"Well Ichigo the odds of seeing a complete stranger like him again are not common. Please just try to not let him get to your head I know he's a rare kind of guy but a stranger is a stranger nothing more." Zakuro explained

Ichigo wondered "Didn't you like Ikuto?"

Zakuro turned her back a Ichigo and said "I don't need to answer questions like that."

Zakuro then walked off then she thought "I don't often get attracted to men especially ones like him, I guess I do have maybe alittle bit of feelings for Ikuto after all he is my age."

The next day again after school Ichigo walked down the streets, the thought of Ikuto was disappearing from her mind but there was still a small amount of him she was still thinking but the fact that her memory of him is fading she had to move on. Right now she was doing what she does regularly that was going back to the cafe as her job and saving the world from the former earth inhabited aliens.

"I wonder what Kisshu and his friends are planning now? There hasn't been any activity from them for almost a week, it's not like they have anything better to do." Ichigo thought.

"Where are you heading?" Ichigo hear a familiar voice which made her stop to find it.

From the very tall wooden fence on Ichigos left next to her she saw the boy she helped yesterday firmly sitting on the planks.

"Oh Ikuto I thought I wouldn't see you again." Ichigo said in surprise.

Ikuto effortlessly hopped off of the tall fence and landed on his feet; an agility Ichigo was very familiar with.

"Whoa how did you do that?" Ichigo said

"I am quite an alley cat aren't I." Ikuto said sentimentally making Ichigo blush a little.

"You sure do." Ichigo replied then said in her mind "Except I'm an actual cat."

"You off to work at that café?" Ikuto asked.

"Oh yeah I am actually."

"Can I come with you?"Ikuto suggested

"Oh of course why not?" Ichigo agreed

The two of them continued where Ichigos destination was, it was at this time Ikuto wanted to get to know her a bit more.

"So why are you working at the café? Do you like it?" Ikuto asked

"I do like working there, I first came in when Keiichiro and Ryou introduced themselves to me, so I agreed to work there. At first I didn't like it because I was the only one working but when more of my friends you saw back when we were nursing you started to join I liked the job much more and now I see it as place of regrouping."

"Oh I see."

"May I ask you something?" Ichigo said

"Yes."

"Why does your hair feel so much like cat fur? I mean it's like real cat fur."

"When did you feel my hair?" Ikuto asked

"When you were unconscious I was trying to feel your head but suddenly I had this weird feeling in your hair it was then I figured immediately it was fur from a cat like maybe a wild cat if I had to guess it would have to be a lynx." Ichigo explained

"As I've said, I'm quite an alley cat."

"What does that mean? Did you make your hair like that or something?"

"May I ask you this? How is it you know my hair feels exactly like the fur of a lynx let alone a cat?" Ikuto faced her. "No one has ever made a good guess without me saying anything, how is it you've figured?"

"Uh Nya?" Ichigo choked

Ikuto stopped walking to question her more.

"Did you just say Nya? You sounded like a cat there in fact if I had known any better I'd say you were one." Ikuto pushed

Ichigo couldn't say a thing so many question she couldn't answer because it was scaring her that she would have to reveal her own secrets to him; which was that she was a cat person and that's how she made such unique estimations.

Luckily or rather unluckily Masha appeared right in front of her.

"Alien! Alien!" the furry pink robot warned.

"What alien?" Ikuto asked

Out of nowhere an elflike being floated above Ichigo and Ikuto.

"Ha Ha Ha! Nice to see you here again Ichigo." He said

"Kisshu!" Ichigo yelled knowing the name of him.

"Oh and who is this a friend of yours?" Kisshu noticed Ikuto

"Ikuto you must leave now!" Ichigo notified him of the danger.

"Mew Mew Strawberry METAMORPHOSIS!" Ichigo yelled out the words which confirmed her transformations.

A light surrounded her entire body and her clothes started to change from her ordinary ones to something her transformation was giving her; a short carnation pink dress with matching arm garters and a leg garter on her right thigh as well a matching choker around her neck, rose red gloves, and rose red knee high boots. Her hair turned hot pink as well as her eyes, her ears not only changed catlike with black on the back of them but they moved to the top of her head as a real cats would, and she had a black tail with a red decorative ribbon tied to it with a bell.

As the transformation ends she gave her traditional Mew Mew pose "For the Service of Earth, at your service Nya!"

to be continued

Yeah I'm gonna leave it a cliff hanger here because it's too much to write for this chapter. I fixed the last chapter for anyone who saw the problem, sorry about that.