Flash: Konichiwa! How are my favourite readers today?

Kish: Why are you so happy?

Flash: Because I just had ice-cream na no da!

Pudding: Hey! My three words na no da! Give them back!

Flash: Fine then, I'll say my Kobocha word ume!

Kish: I'm going to regret this but, what is a Kobocha?

Flash: If I told you that, I'd have to kill you! Actually, that isn't such a bad idea ume…

Kish: Help! Mad woman! Lunatic on the loose! runs away

Flash: You can't escape me ume! runs after

Pudding: I guess she forgot to tell you she doesn't own Tokyo mew mew. Oh, and happy reading na no da!

Scowling, Pudding turned to Kisshu and Ichigo with an amused look on her face, and turned back to Taruto.

"Why do you keep running away from me Taru-Taru na no da? Taru-Taru and pudding are friends, the aliens and the mews are friends na no da!"

she practically screamed it, surprising everyone by the tantrum she was throwing, and surprising the other four mew mews by the fact she had started saying it again. Three words that explained everything to them.

Na no da

They suddenly understood why Pudding had stopped being… Pudding-like. She missed Taruto. She tried to hide it, still performing for the customers, still being nice to people, but recently it had shown more and more, and now they knew why. Why she was always daydreaming, why she wasn't happy on the three year celebration, and why she had stopped saying 'na no da'.

They were all just stood there, eyes wide, completely oblivious to the fact the aliens were about to kill them. Kisshu was waving a hand in front of Ichigo's face, as she had not yet shouted retaliation at him. Pai was frowning at the mews, and his gaze hovered for a moment on Lettuce, and he sighed, his gaze softening, before glaring at Taruto, and saying.

"Why are you wasting time blushing? Kill her."

The mew mews gasped in unison, suddenly realising what was going on. Kisshu rolled his eyes, flew up to Pai, and muttered something to him, to witch he growled and nodded his head. Kisshu's dragon swords appeared, Pai got his fan, and Taruto reluctantly brandished his clack-clack toy. Pudding stepped back, and gasped in horror. Why were the aliens trying to kill them again? What was going on!?

Sighing, Pudding looked up at Taruto, tears in her eyes, startling him for a second.

"Fine then, if we must fight, then we must."

Everyone gasped at Pudding, but they realised it wasn't her who had spoken. It was Lettuce, causing even more surprise, as she was the most peaceful of the five. Pai's eyebrows furrowed, as he sighed, and nodded his head at Taruto, who then nodded back, and glanced at the now fuming Pudding.

Soon they were all engaged in battle.

Kisshu was fighting Zacuro and Ichigo, Pai Lettuce and Mint, and Taruto just Pudding.

"Why Taru-Taru?" Pudding cried, tears streaming down her face as he threw his weapon, and she dodged.

"You are somehow a danger to our planet!" he shouted back at her, his doubt in the plan clearly showing in his voice.

"But, how? We were your friends! We were very good friends na no da! Pudding was in l…"

Pudding threw her hand over her mouth before she could finish the sentence, and glared at her former friends, and love of her life, before shouting.

"Ribbon pudding ring… INFERNO!!"

Everyone stopped fighting for a second, amazed by the anger in Pudding's voice. They then glanced to see Taruto trapped in the pudding ring.

Everyone gasped, including Pudding, who then collapsed, and proceeded to burst into floods of tears, before turning to the other mews and saying.

"Finnish… him… off..."

Pudding stood up, but her legs collapsed beneath her, so she was just knelt there, crying.

Ichigo nodded, having never liked the 'midget' anyway, got her strawberry bell, and was about to attack, when suddenly, Kish somehow got one of his dragon swords held to Ichigo's neck.

"I can't let you do that I'm afraid, you see, Taruto here is only fourteen, as you have most likely guessed. How about this then for a treaty, I'll take Ichigo hostage, and you can keep Taruto, and then we can both be sure not to hurt them. Deal?"

He didn't even give them chance to agree, before teleporting with his favourite mew mew.

Pai followed, and Pudding just sat there sobbing. Lettuce was staring at where Pai had been, and Mint was shouting something. Zacuro was looking slightly worried.

"Well, we can't kill him… Pudding, how do we get him out?"

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After a lot of confusion, they had finally got Taruto out of the pudding ring, and so he was sat in the café, looking very worried. Pudding was hunched up on a chair, tears still running down her cheeks, but more like a trickle now than a stream.

"Pudding, I…"
"Pudding does not want to talk to stupid annoying aliens who pretended they were Pudding's friend to upset her, and promised they would come back but didn't bother till they had to kill her na no da."

The mews eyebrows went up, but said nothing. Pudding was obviously trying to hide the fact she loved Taruto, but was failing miserably.

"Oh. I'm sorry Pudding, I…"

"Pudding said she didn't want to talk to you! And stop using Pudding's name, because alien scum do not deserve to! Call Pudding Monkey Girl like you always did na no da!"

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Pudding's Diary

Well, we now have Taru-Taru as a hostage, and they have Ichigo. He tried to kill me. I nearly killed him.

Haven't heard from Matt-san for a while, maybe I should take him up on that date he keeps offering, coz Taru-Taru is stupid, and I'm stupid for liking him in the first place.

I'm such an idiot.

We were all friends, I don't get it. Why are they trying to kill us? And why didn't he come back before like he promised!? He is so evil, they are so evil

I'm never going to think about him again.

…

But he did seem pretty reluctant to…

No, I must follow my resolution. I will not think about the scum. At all. Whatsoever.

God I love him so much.

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On the alien ship, Ichigo was attempting to get out of Kisshu's steel-like grip, but had not yet succeeded in doing so.

"You fool! We could have killed them!"
"Yeah, and they would have killed Taruto! At least we got a hostage out of it!"

"And so did they you dunce! They have our comrade! Remember?"

"He'll get information out of them, turn it to his advantage, he's clever like that. And the monkey girl is sweet on him anyways."
"She tried to kill him you idiot, or did that certain thought escape you?"

Pai shouted at Kish, causing both alien and hostage to wince. Ichigo sunk her teeth into Kisshu's arm, causing him to screech and let go of her.

"And now I'm free"

She shouted, sticking her tongue out at Kish.

"Not quite Ichigo, you see, if you attempt to harm us, then we will kill you, they kill Taruto, Pudding becomes depressed and the whole mew team falls apart, and our mission is complete."

"Oh, okay then. What do you want me to do while I'm here?"

Kish smirked.

"Well…"

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Pudding was lay in her bed in her parents' old room, a certain alien asleep on the mattress on the floor. For some reason, she was given the job to keep an eye on him, Ryou reminding her if she hurt him the aliens would kill Ichigo.

Sitting up, and rubbing her eyes, the teen stepped out of bed quietly, and walked down the stairs to make breakfast.

She no longer cared for her siblings, as they now lived with her father in China. He had wanted her to move also, but she didn't want to leave her job at the café, or her friends, so she stayed and lived on her own. It was a lot more peaceful than before.

Hearing a noise upstairs, she figured Taruto was awake, and so she climbed the stairs, and said in a voice so devoid of emotion she sounded like Pai.

"Breakfast is on the table."

Flash: Is that short ume?

Kish: Don't you already know you twit?

Flash: Why are you calling me names! I'll hit you again ume!

Pai: Hmmm

Kish: When did you get here?

Pai: When Flash decided to insert me hmmming. What am I hmmming about again?

Flash: glares at him How should I know? I didn't even tell you hmmm ume!

Pudding: I know!!!!!! I gave him the idea na no da!

Pai: Ah, yes, now I remember. You are correct young Pudding, they are very so.

Taruto: Yeah, even I know!

Pudding: Taru-Taru na no da! tackle hugs

Lettuce: Looks at Pai and blushes for no known reason
Kish: I'm surrounded by idiots.

Flash: hits Kish Please R&R, and give advice and stuff, it makes me happy ume! glares at Pai what's all this about 'being very so' with Kish ume?

Pudding: well duh, you're in love na no da!

Kish + Flash: Faints