-Chapter 2-
He looked over to find that Ichigo had fallen off the bench they had been sitting on. Since her parents would think he drugged her or something, he decided to pick her up and carry her to Cafe Mew Mew.
"So, uh... What now?" Lettuce was asking.
"I'm not sure. Just do something." Ryou answered. There were no customers all day and no one knew what to do. So they just sat around and tried to keep themselves entertained.
Moments after Lettuce's question was answered, Aoyama came bursting through the door while holding Ichigo in his arms.
"What happened?!"
"Is she okay?"
"...?..."
All these questions hit him as soon as he came in. "I-I don't know! I can't wake her up!" he said. And to prove it, he shook her a little. And he was right. She wouldn't wake up.
Ryou grabbed her and told Aoyama to stay put. Ryou then called Akasaka to come in a tiny room with several medical equipments and a hospital bed. The room itself was actually large, but so much stuff was crammed into it that it looked much smaller than it really was. There was even a CAT, X-Ray, and an MRI.
The others followed, except Aoyama, into the room where they found themselves watching Ryou set Ichigo down on the bed. Ryou moved the bed under the X-Ray and turned it on.
The large screen showed nothing abnormal in Ichigo's skeletal structure. Every bone in her body was completely normal.
Then Ryou ordered Zakuro to transform into Mew Zakuro.
Zakuro did as told.
"Bend over. With your tail facing me." he demanded.
Zakuro blushed and retorted, "What kind of woman do you think I am?!"
Now it was Ryou's turn to blush. "I-It's not like that! The hair on your ears is too short and I need a DNA sample! The long fur on your tail should do it!" he explained.
"Oh... Okay. Sorry." Zakuro bent over, but was still a little wary of Ryou.
"Akasaka. Get me the tweezers. I want to make this as painless as possible." he instructed.
"W-Wait?! Painles- YIPE!" Tears formed in Zakuro's eyes and, with her tail between her legs, she scrambled off. "I-If that was as painless as possible... Then I don't even want to know what's as painful as possible..." Zakuro muttered. This statement definitely had a great amount of truth to it.
Ryou stuck the few hairs he'd pulled from Zakuro's wolf tail under a microscope. The Mew Mews, well, almost all of them... Ichigo was still out cold. All watched in wonderment as they observed him putting on a serious face, obviously trying to find something.
"Well... I guess that settles it." he finally concluded.
"What settles it? What're you talking about, Ryou?" Mint asked.
"I need a DNA sample from Ichigo's cat tail. Without it, I can't be sure if my theory is right or not. But with Ichigo still passed out... She can't transform, so... There's nothing I can do." he explained.
As though on cue, Ichigo started to awaken. She looked around, still a tad dizzy from getting up too fast. "Wh-Where?" she started.
"Are you okay, Ichigo?! Did you get hurt?" a worried Lettuce asked her.
"Huh? Oh, hi, Lettuce! Hey! Everyone else is here, too! And... You all look worried... What happened?" she replied.
"You can't honestly say you don't remember! Ichigo, what's going on?!" Mint said back.
"R-Remember what? Am I missing something here?"
"Oh... You're missing something, all right! Ichigo, don't you understand? It's about you!" Ryou stated.