A/N: I will probably be updating very slowly… sorry, but I have been very busy… and will be for a long time… Enough of me wasting your time though, onto the story…

Pudding wiped the tears from her eyes and felt a small breeze blow by, the warmth of the gentle wind made her feel a little bit better. She sniffled a little bit, but soon felt a vibrating in her pocket. She didn't have a cell phone, so she knew it was her mew pendant. She carefully pulled it out and stared at it as it shook.

"Pudding!" Ryou's voice sounded urgent as it echoed from the pendant.

"Yes NaNoDa?" Pudding was getting a little worried.

"We need you at the café! Now!"

"What's wrong NaNoDa?" She shouldn't have asked.

"JUST GET OVER HERE! THIS HAS TO DO WITH YOU!" Ryou screamed. A couple beeping noises came from the pendant that was held firmly in her hand, then all was silent except for a couple crickets chirping and a bull frog croaking in the distance. She sighed and put the pendant back in her pocket and began to bolt off towards the café.

She was heading down town as fast as she could. Her mind was wandering off on what might be wrong, so she wasn't paying much attention. Did they need to stop a mass murderer? Were her siblings hurt? Did the kitchen somehow catch fire? That was what she had originally been thinking, but slowly images of Taruto entered her mind. She missed him so much, but did he miss her? She loved him so much, why did he hate her?

She stepped onto the asphalt of the street, so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't notice the streetlight turn green, she didn't notice the cars start, she didn't notice the honking, or the tires squealing as the driver slammed on the brakes, hoping not to hit her. "Look out Pudding…!" she heard a voice, it sounded far in the distance, but it brought her out of her thoughts, and that was what was important. She saw the truck heading her direction and her blood ran cold.

Thinking fast, she jumped up as high as she could, springing through the air and landing on the roof of the truck, holding onto the bars on the top, and screaming as a turn came. She was sent flying off and she smashed into a wall, she heard her back crack, her bones screaming at the impact. She slid to the ground, blood dripping from the back off her head, she didn't really notice it though, nor did she stop to wonder if her back was broken, she just continued to run to the café.

"What happened to you Pudding!?" Ichigo screamed, running her direction. Lettuce gasped and passed out while Keiichiro, Mint, and Zakuro ran off to get her some bandages for her head.

"I…" Pudding tried to speak between gasps, it's not easy to run with injuries. "I almost got ran over by a car…"

Ryou just sighed. "It wasn't that important…"

Pudding glared at him. "THEN WHY DID YOU MAKE IT SOUND THAT WAY NANODA!? PUDDING GOT HURT BECAUSE OF YOU NANODA!"

"Calm down… I just wanted to inform you about your animal genes." Ryou began to explain. "As I said earlier, the red data animal DNA will disappear once they have no reason to remain. Being that we have defeated the aliens, they will disappear… and you, Pudding, being the youngest, your powers will disappear first… so in about a couple months, it should start to hurt when you transform."

Pudding remembered the pain she was feeling recently. "Pudding already is…"

Ryou was shocked. "This is happening a whole lot faster than I imagined! When did this first start happening?"

"When Taru-Taru left…" Her voice was a mere mutter and she turned away, as to not let the other see her cry.

"So that was about three weeks ago… so you only have about a month of being a mew mew left at the latest… at the earliest, ten days."

"NO!" Pudding loved being a mew mew, it was one of the only things she had left to remind her of Taruto. "Is there anyway to stop it NaNoDa!?"

Ryou let out a long sigh, "Not that we know of, but we will keep searching, 'till then, everyone! Go home!"

With that, the five mews wandered out of the café. Pudding should go home, it was getting dark, but something in her heart told her not to. So she began to wander around the city, starring at the stars every once in awhile. They looked like glitter in the dark indigo sky, with slightly darker purple swirls spreading throughout. She eventually wandered across the park and slouched against a tree, soon falling asleep.

Pudding was running as fast as she could, the world seemed so grey, but why was she running? Aren't dreams supposed to be happy? Well that was because this was no dream, this was a nightmare! She ran as fast as she could, she had no clue what she was running from, but she knew she had to run, so run she did. "Pudding's a mew mew! So Pudding shall fight NaNoDa!" Pudding grasped her pendant, and then things went wrong. (Warning: Things get a little, violent you could say) Pain shot through her, it felt as though someone was firing at her with a gun. She looked towards her hands and saw the skin start to erode, only to reveal her bare bones. "NO!" She screamed, her skin then began to disappear from her entire arms and legs. She heard cracking noises and she felt herself being crushed, all the bones in her body breaking. "I don't want to die!" Pudding screamed. Was this what was to become of her when the genes leave?

She felt a sheering pain in her chest as she saw herself being ripped open, exposing all the vital organs, including her heart which was ripped out of her. The pain hurt so much, how was she still alive!? She went to scream, but when she opened her mouth, blood came rushing out and pouring onto the cold sidewalk which she now laid upon, more blood began to rush from her eyes and ears. She feared what would happen next. Then she felt her head start to compress, this was the end. Who in their right mind would want to die like this? She knew what was going to happen, her head was going to explode. "NO! NO! NO! NO! NO!!!!!" She screamed, the pressure building on her head.

"Pudding…"

She could hear a voice call from a distance, it seemed to be coming from heaven. "Are you God NaNoDa?"

"Pudding… wake up!" The voice called again.

Pudding whimpered at the pain on her head, then everything faded to black.

She felt a sharp sting on the side of her face as her eyes shot open, she looked down, she was perfectly fine, it was just a nightmare after all. Then she realized what had woken her up, someone had slapped her!

"Geez!" She followed the voice and her heart skipped a beat when she saw who it was. His burnt umber hair was barely blowing in the breeze, his arms were crossed and a frown upon his face. The moon casting shadows all over him. "That was so annoying! You screaming in your sleep, I felt like my head was going to blow up! Do you know what that feels like? Now that I'm back will you give me my candy?" Pudding didn't respond, she just stared at him in amazement. "You do have candy with you right? Or did I come back for nothing?" A huge grin spread across Pudding's face as tears began to roll down her cheeks. "Yo! Monkey-Girl! Are you even listening to me and-"

He was cut off by Pudding jumping at him and tackling him to the ground in a huge hug. "TARU-TARU NANODA!"

"Yeah! Now get off of me! And the name's Taruto, not 'Taru-Taru' okay!?"

A/N: This ends chapter two, sorry about that little bit of violence, anyways… 'till next time…

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