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Chapter 2

Momomiya Household

"Ichigo, Ichigo… Can you hear me?"

Ichigo found herself running in the direction of the voice. She wasn't sure why, but there was something familiar about it. She ran until she abruptly stopped in front of a dark entrance to a forest. The voice called out to her again.

"Ichigo… "

Suddenly a ghastly form appeared in front of her. She found it to be herself as Mew Ichigo.

"Why have you been calling me?" Ichigo asked

"You must know the truth you must awaken your true power. Submit yourself to your dormant side.

"What does all of that mean?" Ichigo cried

"You will know in time."

"I don't understand, WAIT!"

But in the twinkling of an eye her Mew Ichigo form disappeared.

"What could all of this mean?"

Ichigo suddenly felt her body give way and as she awoke she found herself lying in her bed under her sheets.

"It was only a dream? I wonder what it means. I should tell Shirogane about this at work. It may mean something."

So Ichigo jumped out of bed, and prepared herself to leave for work. She ate breakfast with her parents and headed out.

At the cafe

Keiichiro found himself staring at clock in the cafe's kitchen

"It's almost mid-day and I haven't seen Ryou. I wonder if anything happened to him."

Keiichiro was about to look for Ryou when Ichigo ran into the kitchen.

"Oh, good afternoon Akaksaka-san. Is Ryou here?"

"Good afternoon to you too. I was just about to go up and see what he's up to. He hasn't come down all day."

"I'll go look for him. I need to talk to him about something important anyway."

"Thank you Ichigo."

"No problem Akasaka-san"

Ichigo dashed up the stairs and barged right into Ryou's room to find him fast asleep.

"Geez, it looks like I'm going to have to wait a while to tell him about it." Ichigo said to herself. Ryou's eyes began to flutter and he started to get up. He glanced up to find Ichigo staring at him.

"Ichigo?' he said rubbing his eyes."What are you doing here?"

"I I needed to talk to you about something" she stuttered

She then notices how red his face looked and she leaped towards him placing her hand on his forehead. It was very warm.

"What the hell Ichigo..?"

"Ryou you have a fever and you need to lie down."

"Mind your own business. I'm just fine."Ryou said swatting away her hands

"You're not fine. You need to rest for today" Ichigo said as she stretched out her arms to push him back in the bed.

Ryou wanted to push her hands back, but he didn't have enough energy to fight against her. He had finally gone to sleep 4 hours after Keichiro had left and was truly exhausted.

He succumbed and went back to bed. Ichigo had tucked him in and placed a wet cloth over his forehead.

"I'm going to tell Akasaka-san that you're sick. Please just stay in bed and rest for the rest of the day Ryou.

Ryou sighed "Don't worry, Ichigo I will."

"Okay I'm going down now."

"Ichigo?"

"Yes Ryou?"

"Thank you."

"Anytime." She said with a smile.

She then closed the door and began walking downstairs Ryou knew he was lying to her telling her he would stay in bed all day , but he had much more to worry about than his fever. He then got up off the bed, moved over to his computer and began going through his data again hoping to find some clue he missed before.

"I will protect every one if it's the last thing I do."