Third chapter :) please enjoy
Truth Teller: Don't worry, there will be more fluffy couple stuff coming up in later chapters! Or are you asking me to add other couples besides those three?
The walls were a very pale pink and the floor was light colored hardwood with a black cat face shaped rug in the middle. Against the front wall, to the left of the door, was a gray dresser and a strawberry bean bag chair next to it in the corner. On the wall to the left, next to the window in the corner, was a gray desk and pink desk chair. On the opposite wall was a single person bed with pink sheets and a red blanket and pillow. Next to the bed was a small gray bedside table with a solar powered black kitten light, a strawberry alarm clock, and a pink book with a red pen. In various places above the desk were taped-up pictures of Ichigo and her Mew friends and one of her and Aoyama.
Kisshu smirked at the room, "cute."
"Just don't go through any drawers, and don't you dare think about reading my journal," Ichigo said as she sat down on the edge of the bed.
Kisshu disappeared for a second and reappeared a foot above her bed, allowing himself to fall onto it, "mm, this is comfy, Koneko-chan! Can I sleep here with you?"
"Of course not!" Ichigo exclaimed, jumping up and spinning to face him. "You can't be in my room whenever you want. My parents can't know you're here."
Kisshu gave her a questioning look and propped himself up on his elbows, "why not?"
"What do you mean 'why not'?" Ichigo said, "they don't know I'm a Mew Mew and they can't ever find out."
"So no one outside of the Mew Project knows who any of you really are?" Kisshu asked.
Ichigo shook her head, "only Aoyama-kun and Berry's boyfriend, Tasuku."
"Why?" Kisshu asked.
"It could put them in danger." Ichigo said as if he should have already known that, "and my parents would never let me fight if they found out."
Kisshu thought about it for a moment, "if you hated fighting so much, why didn't you just quit? Hand the job over to someone else."
Ichigo sat on her desk chair, "I had to. Mew Mews are the only ones who can protect Earth."
Kisshu laid back down with his hands behind his head, "that sucks. At least I chose to become a soldier."
"You're a soldier?" Ichigo asked, "I mean, I know there was the whole military thing but...I didn't think you were soldiers."
"Yeah, so's Pai and Taruto," Kisshu said. "What'd you think we were?"
"I don't know," Ichigo said, "I hadn't thought about it."
Kisshu started to look a little sad, "you don't think about me much, do you?"
Ichigo was about to say something when there was a knock at her door. "Ichigo, honey!" It was her mother.
"Oh no!" Ichigo jumped up and was about to try to throw Kisshu under the bed, but he was already gone.
The door opened and her mother poked her head in, "your father and I are going out to dinner. Would you like to come with us?"
"Oh, um, no thanks, not tonight," Ichigo said, "I'm kind of tired." She faked a yawn and stretched.
"Oh, all right, see you later then." Her mom smiled and closed the door.
"You look just like your mom, huh?" Ichigo jumped and shot a glare at Kisshu, who was now standing right behind her, for scaring her.
"What?!" They heard her father yell, "what do you mean she doesn't want to go?! It's sushi night at the buffet! She loves sushi!"
"Calm down, dear," Her mother said, "think of it as a date!" They went quite for a moment before calling up a goodbye to Ichigo and leaving.
Kisshu laughed, "your dad is funny!"
"Unless you're my boyfriend," Ichigo said, "then he might try to beat your ass."
"I'll be the same way if our daughter turns out as cute as you," Kisshu said, winking at her.
"Ew..." Ichigo stuck her tongue out. She headed for the door and Kisshu followed.
"What? You don't wanna make babies with me?" He laughed.
"Oh, my God, Kisshu! Please stop talking!" Ichigo headed down the stairs and into the kitchen. He laughed as her cheeks turned red.
"What do you want for dinner?" She asked, trying to change the subject.
"Ehh..." Kisshu thought about it, but he didn't really know what there was to eat on Earth. "Surprise me," he shrugged. Ichigo picked up the phone and ordered a pizza.
Ichigo couldn't wait for the pizza to arrive. Kisshu was flying all over her house, looking and poking at everything, and constantly making perverted remarks towards her. She just couldn't get him to sit still. And then the doorbell rang.
"I wanna get it!" Kisshu shouted and flew towards the front door.
"Kisshu, wait, you can't-!" But he had already planted his feet on the ground and opened the door.
"Um...h-here's your pizza," she heard the delivery boy say.
"Thanks!" Kisshu said. He grabbed the box and headed for the kitchen.
"You have to pay for it, Kish!" Ichigo marched to the door and pulled out her Hello Kitty wallet from her shorts pocket, handing the boy the required amount and a small tip.
"Thanks, Momomiya-san," he said.
Her head shot up and her eyes widened. "Masaki-san!" A boy from her old school. And not just any boy, but a good friend of Masaya's.
"Who is that guy?" He asked innocently, "are you doing some kind of cosplay thing?"
Ichigo laughed nervously, "yeah, it's um, something Shirogane might try for the cafe."
"Weird," Masaki said, "well, I hope it goes well. I'll see you around!" He waved as he walked back down to the sidewalk. Ichigo shut the door and sighed in frustration. She went to the kitchen to find Kisshu sitting at the table, sniffing the pizza.
"What's it made out of?" He asked.
"Food," Ichigo growled, "do you know what you've done?"
Kisshu looked up at her with a raised eyebrow, "what'd I do?"
"That was a friend of Aoyama-kun's!" Ichigo exclaimed, "and now he's probably going to tell him that I have some weird boy at my house and that we're alone!" She slumped into the chair across from Kisshu.
"I didn't know, okay?" Kisshu said, "and besides, what's the worst that's gonna happen when he finds out I'm here?"
"He could think I'm cheating on him!" Ichigo said.
"Want to?" Kisshu wiggled his eyebrows at her and gave her a suggestive look.
"Knock it off," Ichigo scowled. "I'm going to grab some plates." She got up and got two plates from the cupboard.
"So, where is your little boy-toy, anyway?" Kisshu asked, "I heard Ryou say he wasn't here."
"Don't call him that," Ichigo said, shooting him an annoyed look. She sat down and handed Kish a plate. "He's in Italy for his environmental studies." She sighed sadly, pouting, "one of the most romantic countries on Earth and he left without me."
"Well that's crappy of him," Kisshu said. "you know, I could take you anywhere you'd want to go. Just name it and we'll be there."
"You could really do that?" Ichigo asked and Kish nodded with a sly smile. Images of Paris, London, Spain, New York, and Hawaii flashed through her mind. She had been to England once before, but she got called back to the Mews before she could go to London with Masaya. She saw herself posing with the Eiffel Tower in the background, eating pasta in a cute little restaurant by a lake as she talked and laughed with Kish, walking down Times Square hand-in-hand with- she shook her head violently. She didn't want to image herself holding hands with Kisshu or having dinner dates with him.
"But I wouldn't want to go with you," Ichigo said, "I'd want to be there with Aoyama-kun." Kish snorted and rolled his eyes as he took a bite of pizza.
Kisshu was standing before Ichigo's dresser, looking at all the little things she had on it as he waited for her to come back upstairs. A small mirror with an ornate metal frame. A children's pink Hello Kitty hairbrush. Many different things of makeup in varying shades of pink and red and a few in green or black. Green elastic hair ties that had plastic strawberry bobbles, pink ones with black kitten bobbles, pink ribbons, red ribbons, and hair clips of black kittens, strawberries, and hearts. She had a tiny pink dish containing a few earrings. He fingered through them, finding more strawberries and kittens mixed with various dessert shaped ones and a few hearts and roses. He heard the door handle start to turn.
Ichigo walked in and closed the door behind her, leaning on it, "now that my parents will leave me alone for the night..." She looked at him, "you better not be going through any drawers."
He stuck his tongue out at her and then took a step to the his right, spun on his heel, and plopped himself onto the strawberry beanbag chair.
Ichigo pushed off the door and walk to her bed to sit on the edge. "So..." and awkward silence fell over them.
"I'm not leaving," Kish said after a minute or two.
"Well, you can't sleep here," Ichigo said, "there's only one bed and we're not sharing. Besides, Pai said you had that base."
"Yeah, but it's not close enough for me to get here fast if you get attacked again," he said.
"I can take care of myself," Ichigo said, "I have my pendent right under my pillow and if I could fight you off, I can fight him off."
"I'm supposed to-"
"Just go, Kish," Ichigo said firmly, "we could both use the rest."
"Fine," he said, standing, "if you need me, all you have to do is call for me." Ichigo looked out the window for a moment and then back to where he was, about to say goodnight, but he was already gone.
Ichigo was sound asleep in her bed, cuddled up under her comforter. The strawberry alarm clock read 02:37AM in bright red LED lighting. Her window was wide open and a gentle breeze blew in, ruffling the red curtains. A dark figure appeared next to the bed, smirking, with his arms crossed over his chest. He held his hands out in front of him and a *kusari-fundo appeared in them. He lifted the weapon, one hand higher than the other, preparing to strike. Faster than he could realize, Ichigo's eyes snapped open and her hand shot under her pillow.
*Kusari-fundo is a Japanese weapon. It is a long chain with a weight at both ends.*
"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY! METAMORPHO-SIS!" A pink light surrounded her, illuminating the room, and when it was gone, she threw off her blanket and lunged at the intruder, knocking him to the floor. Knowing he would follow, she jumped to the window and then her tree, leading him away from her family. She landed firmly on her feet on the ground and looked over her shoulder to see him high in the air above her, chain gripped in fists. She got a good look at him in the moonlight. His hair was about the length of Kish's but tied back in a low ponytail at the nape of his neck and was a lighter green streaked with black. His eyes were red and he wore an open black vest with knee-length black pants and slouchy black boots. Two green ribbons flowed from the back of his pants and he had black wraps around his wrists. He held his chain high with one hand and started to spin it rapidly. He threw it and Ichigo leaped forward, somersaulting to a stop on her hands and feet, facing him.
"Strawberry Bell!" She reached a hand out to grab her weapon that as it appeared in front of her. She stood straight and aimed it at him as he flew down to retrieve his chain. "RIBBON...STRAWBERRY CHECK!" He snatched up his weapon and dodged her attack. Ichigo turned and ran, heading for the park where she knew they would be more secluded and away from townhouses. Her attacker followed, although he did try to strike her every now and then but she always managed to jump away just in time. When she got the park, she heard him snicker.
"This is where I first saw you," her attacker was Suika, as she had already guessed. A rush of water blasted him to the ground.
Ichigo looked to the entrance of the park, grinning. The other Mews, aside from Purin, had arrived and ran to her side.
"Purin couldn't make it," Minto said, "with her siblings to take care of and all."
Ichigo gave a single nod, "I understand."
Suika got back up and two other figures appeared behind him. One was taller with somewhat long and loose sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes. He was wearing a tight-fitting dark brown tank top, dark brown pants with a black belt, and mid-calf high black boots. Black ribbons flowed from the back of pants and he had white wraps on his wrists. The other one was a little shorter than Suik. He had messy orange hair in two high and two low pigtails with pale orange eyes. He was wearing a loose yellow v-neck tank top with baggy tan colored pants and no shoes. Orange ribbons flowed from the back of his pants and he had orange wraps on his wrists. The blond held his hands up with his palms facing each other and a ball of fire appeared. He shot upwards, making the ball grow larger and threw it down at the girls.
"RIBBON...ZAKURO PURE!" Zakuro's whip of light extinguished the flame.
The orange haired one cackled and raised his palms to the sky, making roots shoot up from the ground. The Mews jumped away in different directions, leaving Ichigo wide open. Suika appeared next to her and whipped his chain around her, capturing her in a vice-like grip. He shot upwards and disappeared.
"Ichigo!" Berry exclaimed. The other two aliens disappeared soon after and the roots slithered back into the ground.
I feel like not much happened in this chapter until the very end. Oh well, at least Kish and Ichigo got to know each other more. The next chapter is more exciting. Please review!
