A/N: Hello, dear fans! Here is the third chapter of this story and I have made a decision that not only involves this story but 'Betrayal Reveals Love', too.
Inuyasha: Since she's pretty much don't have to worry about 'Betrayal Reveals Love' too much, she decided that she will release the same number of chapters as the other so they are both equal. In other words since there are about four chapters for 'Betrayal Reveals Love', she won't let out any more chapters for that story until 'Heaven and Hell' catches up.
Tsukiko: I understand that the wait will be painful but there is something you must know. We all started school, right? It might take me longer than before to unleash the chapters but bear with me here! I go to a private school that gives a chuck load of homework!
Inuyasha: No whining.
Tsukiko: Sorry.
Inuyasha: Tsukiko does not own TMM or the songs she uses in her stories. Thank you for the reviews and please, keep them coming. Please enjoy.
'When you need comfort, who do you go to?'
Ch. 3: Knowledge and Death
When Ichigo saw the big pink building in front of her, she was nearly speechless. A two story building that's shaped like a miniature castle, made with pink stones. On the first floor, there were windows the shaped of hearts, bordered with dark pinky stones. The second story looked like it has the same windows and there's a balcony. The ceiling looked like the same color as the window borderers and the outside is decorated with different girlish color hearts.
"This building…" she mumbled, still surprised. Then she smiled and said, "A cute café!" Ryou had the face of 'this is the hero?' looked.
Keiichiro told Ichigo, "This café will open in a few days. We're waiting for the food to come in."
'Food? I wonder what kind of food are they going to sell?' Ichigo wondered.
"Ichigo-san!" She turned her attention back to Keiichiro and Ryou. Keiichiro greeted, "Welcome to Café Mew Mew, as well as…"
"Our hideout," Ryou finished. They opened the door and Ichigo looked more stunned of the inside then the outside.
She entered the café, fallowing Ryou and Keiichiro, and she stared at the ceiling, the walls, the tables, and the chairs. The ceiling was painted gold with a layer of green and then blue under it. Some of the walls are painted dark pink like the windows and some of them were painted a lime green. Against the wall are some white skinny pillars that are only a three of four feet distance from each other. At the top of each pillar, is a pinky light heart. The white tables were skinny legged and on in the middle has a table cloth on it with empty glass dishes on it. That's probably where the food is going to be presented when the customers come in. The chairs are white but the resting cushion for the back is red and it's a heart shape. Everything just looked so cute.
Ichigo happily, complimented, "What a beautiful store!" Ryou sat down on one of the chairs and Keiichiro presented a present for Ichigo.
He offered the box to her and said, "This is for you, Ichigo-san. There's a dressing room down the hall. Can you please change into it?"
She raised a brow and asked, "Why?"
"Just hurry up and do it," Ryou told him. At the corner of her lip, Ichigo's mouth is twitching and she was glaring at Ryou. But she calmed down hr glare and accepted the box. "I'm only doing this so you can explain to me what the heck is going on!"
'And for helping me save Kisshu.'
Ichigo rushed to the dressing room but before she opened the door she, yelled, "How do I turn back into a human?!"
Keiichiro answered, "Just think about turning back into a human!" Ichigo closed her eyes and thought of her human form. When she opened them, she looked and she turned back into a human. No more ears, no tail, and no wings. She was even back into her PE uniform. She got her answer so she went inside the dressing room and changed into the present.
"So it finally started, hasn't it?" Keiichiro asked Ryou. "The Mew Angel project?"
Ryou answered, "Yeah. And the Dark Agent plan started too."
"Do you believe that maybe she's ready?"
"She has to be. I just hope that none of the agents are anyone she knows."
"That's my hope too."
What stopped their conversation is the sound of Ichigo's squeal. "Awwww! What is this?! Kawaii – kawaii! – kawaii!!" She went out and presented her new outfit to them.
It looks like a maid outfit but it's cuter, like Ichigo squealed. The red skirt is at least three inches longer than the waist. The red top has puff sleeves and a pink ribbon as a tie. She has on a white apron that's heart shaped on the bottom part of it.
"Fabulous," Keiichiro complimented. "It looks great."
"R-Really?"
"One of the best designs," Ryou said. "The costume at least."
'Why you!!' Ichigo was back to glaring at him.
Keiichiro distracted her, like always. "Please, my prince. At least be nicer to her. We are going to be working together for a while."
"Working together for a while?!" Ichigo asked. She started fuming. "Okay! That's it! I want answers now! Who the heck are you, why was that monster after Kisshu, and why was I left to fight it by myself?!"
Keiichiro smiled and said, "Please forgive me, Ichigo-san. But I promise you that we are you allies. My name is, as I told you, Akasaka Keiichiro and I am one of Prince's Ryou loyal servant. I have been serving him for the past three thousand years."
'Three thousand?! But he looks like he's only in his twenties! Wait! Then how old is this guy?!' Ichigo wondered.
Ryou answered, "I'm at least sixteen thousand years old."
'No way! Now he can read minds?!'
"My name is Shirogane Ryou and I'm the prince of the Heaven Kingdom."
"Heaven…Kingdom?"
"Yes," Keiichiro answered. "You see since the beginning of time, heaven and hell have been in war with each other. Hell's king is known as Deep Blue."
"Deep…Blue?" Ichigo questioned.
Ryou said, "A long time ago, Deep Blue and my father fought against each other in what looked like the last battle of the war. My father was the king of the Heaven Kingdom and a great warrior. My mother was the queen of the Heaven Kingdom and a great sorceries. Using the last of their powers, they sealed Deep Blue in the depths of hell where he belongs; never again to rage demons or himself in Heaven or earth. In short, they destroyed his body and his soul is forever in hell. But he found a way that he could wreck havoc on earth with using that of chosen souls."
"Chosen souls?" Ichigo asked.
"Similar to you, there are three humans out there who have been infused with the hellish powers of Deep Blue, or what you humans call it, the devil. Those humans now are known as agents," Keiichiro answered.
Ichigo asked, "Then was that monster from before one of the three agents?"
"No," Ryou answered. "Agents aren't destroyed that easily. What you just fought is a kirema anima."
"Kirema anima? But you called it differently last time. You called it a demon!"
"He was trying to use human language for you to understand," Keiichiro defended. "You should be lucky, Ichigo-san. Demons or kirema animas are really souls of humans that have been deceased. Yesterday, the devil infused three humans and since night time is when they are at their strongest, they couldn't control themselves. We were trying to come to earth as humans so we don't know who they are. What we do know is that last night, three people were found dead with having the blood sucked out of them."
"Three? But there was one when I saw the news this morning. Wait! You mean to tell me I just destroyed a human soul because it was turned into a demon?"
Ryou explained, "You purified it actually. Last night they found one body but during mid day, they found two more bodies like that. The agents first bite their victims and if they suck every last drop of blood, then not only will they get more powerful but they also get to do whatever it is they want with the soul. Once they get the soul, they infuse it with some of their own power and let it loose. That was another reason why they suck blood and the victim has to be dead. Your job is to purify the agent's powers from the soul. Then the demon will be demolished and the soul can rest in peace."
Ichigo asked, "So every time I end up fighting one of those things, I know that someone died?"
"Yes, but the agents have another trick. They can also possess a human. Turning a human into a demon takes a lot of time and power so possessing a human is easier and they can control it better. If a human is possessed, then you can save that life." Ichigo let out a sigh of relief, but then she remembered something.
"Hold on! If there are three agents and only one of me, how am I supposed to fight them?! Also, what was with the cat ears and the tail?! You didn't explain that!"
"If you let us, we would have seconds ago," Ryou told her. A vein popped out of her head this time. "First off, you're not alone. We infused four other girls with Red Data animals. Since Red Data animals have a strong power to protect their species which is a no brainer that we would use them. You Ichigo Momomiya are fused with the genes of Irimote cat."
Being reminded of that, Ichigo remembered that dream she had with the cat with wings entering her body. Then if that's real than Kisshu's scream…
She shook that thought out of her head and thought of other matters, like the fact that she's infused the genes of a cat.
"Then are you telling me that I'm going to turn into a cat?!"
Ryou answered, "It can't be helped. It all comes with using the powers of the Red Data animal."
"That that explains why I was so sleepy today! Cats are depress when it rains and they're tired most of the day! I was barely wake for school today!"
"Can't be helped."
Okay, now Ichigo is started to have enough of this guy. She marched towards the dressing room and when she came out, she had on her PE uniform on instead of the outfit she got. She went to the table and put the box there.
"Thank you, but I'm not going to do it!" she told them. Then she started marching towards the door.
"Wait, Ichigo-san!" Keiichiro called, but she didn't listen. When she opened the door and she was already half outside, Ryou sensed something.
"Get back in here, you idiot!"
"No way!" she told him. She left the door open as she stormed out of there. Then when she was about four feet away from the door, she felt very cold arms wrapped around her from behind.
"Good choice," she heard someone whisper in her ear.
"An agent!" Ryou yelled. The agent turned around to the café and faced his palm to them. The door immediately closed and locked both Ryou and Keiichiro inside. Ichigo was paralyzed from his touch a long time ago but when he hugged her back, she was shivering.
"You made a very wise choice, little kitten," he told her. "Wouldn't want people important to you to get hurt now do you?" Her eyes widen in surprise and then she felt a tongue against her skin on her neck. "I can save you. All you have to do is trust me."
Shivers went down Ichigo's spine and she remembered Ryou's words.
The agents first bite their victims and if they suck every last drop of blood, then not only will they get more powerful but they also get to do whatever it is they want with the soul.
Ichigo pushed the figure behind her away and yelled, "No way am I going to let you take my soul!" But the moment she turned around to face her attacker, her eyes widen in surprise.
The doors of the café suddenly opened but when they saw them, they were just as shocked at Ichigo. The agent's hand is under Ichigo's chin and his lips were occupying hers. He kissed her a little while longer and then broke it.
"My name's Kish. Thanks for the kiss," he told her.
Ichigo stared at her kisser and he's actually a looker; if it weren't for the red eyes bit though.
He smiled at her like some kind of kid playing a game and asked, "Why are you so shocked? You must have really liked it. My kiss that is. Want to try it again?" The mention of the kiss, woke Ichigo up and she tried to kick him.
"Not on your life, creep!" she yelled. He jumped up and her kick missed him.
He's up in mid air, staring at Ichigo and said, "You know, I like it when you're feisty. You're so much cuter when you're all flustered like that." Ichigo got angry.
"Come down here and fight, you coward!" she yelled.
He disappeared and reappeared right in front of her. "Okay!" Surprised to suddenly see him so close, she backed away and threw a punch at him. He caught it with his bare hands. "Doesn't it bother you?"
"Uh?"
"You mean that you don't feel any pain when I'm touching you?" His smile grew wider and he cheered, "Must be because we are meant to be. After all, I really liked that kiss we shared." Ichigo got really angry at that.
Keiichiro yelled, "Ichigo-san! Don't let him make you angry! Anger and hatred is what makes an agent more powerful!"
"What?" Ichigo mumbled.
Kish got a bit upset by him and let go of Ichigo's hand. A black and green guitar suddenly appeared in front of him and he started playing. He's actually pretty good. His hands and his finger moved around the strings like he's been playing for years. Ichigo stared at his fingers in amazement, but then she heard two cries. She turned towards Ryou and Keiichiro and they both were on their knees, gripping their head in pain.
"What are you doing? Stop it!" Ichigo told him. When she touched Kish's shoulder, an electrifying pain shocked though both of their bodies. They both let out a small cry and then back away from each other. Ichigo gripped her wrist and tried to breath. That pain… It felt almost exactly like when she touched that ring from before.
"Interesting."
Ichigo looked up from her hand to Kish and his guitar is gone. He placed his hand over his shoulder where she touched him and he grinned. "You tried to save them even though you walked away from them. I like that, actually." Kish jumped up in the air and stayed there. "Take my kiss as a greeting for today. I'll see you soon, koneko-chan. I promise." He teleported away and Ichigo was left wide eye and her heart started beating.
Keiichiro and Ryou got up and Keiichiro asked, "Ichigo-san, are you okay?" She didn't say anything. She was…remembering something.
'Can I give you a nickname?'
'A nickname?'
'Yeah. You know something that proves our friendship with one another.'
'But I don't want to give you a nickname. I like your name. Do you not like my name?'
'No, of course I do! It's a very beautiful name. I just thought that maybe I can call you something cute.'
'Oh, yeah?! Like what?'
'You act like a cat sometimes, and it's cute! How about… koneko-chan?'
Lightly, Ichigo had shivers all over her body. But from afar, she looked like she was just standing very still. Keiichiro didn't exactly noticed it, but Ryou did. He walked up to her and placed his hand on her shoulder. She automatically looked at him and he said, "Stay the night here." That woke her up.
"What? No way, buddy! I know exactly what you mean and I ain't falling for that!"
Ryou rolled his eyes and told her, "It's not like that. I only told you to do that because since there's an agent out there and he knows what you look like. It's not a good idea to go anywhere otherwise he'll find more love ones to play with." What he said could be the truth. Ichigo looked down at the ground and thought about it.
"What about Kisshu? Is he okay?"
Keiichiro said, "We'll call R2000 and ask him about your friend."
"So stop worrying and get to bed. You're going to need all of the rest you can get."
"Now hold on! Who said I was going to join this little club thing?!" Ichigo demanded.
All Ryou answered is, "Since the day you got that mark on your body."
"Mark? What mark?"
"Look at your leg."
She did and she saw a light pink little mark on her upper thigh. She started to freak. "What the heck?!"
Keiichiro answered, "Please, Ichigo-san. It's nothing serious. Having a mark to show that you're an angel will make your job a whole lot easier. Every human who got infused has a mark. Even the agents have a mark."
"Then how am I supposed to tell the difference between an agent and an angel?"
"You didn't see it, or were your eyes to wide from the kiss?" Ryou asked, getting on her nerves again. "That agent had a mark on the right side of his neck. It looked like a circle with a squiggly line on it's left and right side of it. It also had a triangle on the opposite side of the lines. If you find someone with that mark, then you'll know it's an agent."
'You have got to be freakin kidding me!'
"I'm not kidding."
"Stop reading my mind!!" Ichigo yelled.
He told her, "I'm not reading your mind. Unless your mind is your face. You're so easy to read."
"What?!"
"Everyone, please. Calm down, calm down."
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Around five o'clock in the morning, Ichigo woke up. She looked at her surrounds and all she could see is white; white walls, white curtains, white floors, and the white covers she was under. When she sat up on her bed, even her PJ's are white.
She thought, 'These guys need to have another color than white.'
She looked up at the corner of her room and saw her clothes, folded nice and neatly on the white chair. Defiantly need to get a better color than white. She looked outside the window and she could see the sun starting to rise up from the sea. She stared at the scenery for a bit before she got up. She walked over to her clothes and started changing.
'First they tell me that I'm now some superhero who is supposed to find her comrades, I have to fight the devil and some agent jerk who just kissed me, and I have to save all human kind! What is this? Sailor Moon remix version?' she wondered as she changed from her PJ's to her PE uniform.
After she changed, she went to the bed and neatly made it. She folded her borrowed PJ's and left them on the chair. She walked out of the room, as quietly as she could. She went down stairs and then out the front door.
'They said that agents are at their strongest at night so maybe they don't come out when it's day time. Perfect time and reason to escape.'
After she closed the front door, she ran. She ran from the middle of the park to the side walk. She fallowed the sidewalk and the turns to get to her house. When she finally arrived at her house, she had to lean on the mailbox to breathe.
"Finally! Home at last!" she breathed out.
'Now I just hope that dad isn't all excited by a sudden sleep over that I had to go to. Why worry about my dad? I should worry about my mom who practically cooks for three people at five! I wonder why they didn't answer the phone when I called them.'
Ichigo looked up from the mail box and her eyes fallowed a house right next door to her house. An old empty house that looked like it hasn't been used in years. In truth, no one has moved in for the past seven or eight years. Ichigo stood up straight and stared at the old abandon house. In her head, she could still hear the sound of a little boy no older than six calling for her.
'Koneko-chan!'
Ichigo continued to stare at the old house and she wondered, 'Eight years you've been gone. Eight years…' Trying to shake the feeling away, she rapidly shook her head and slapped her cheeks a couple of times. She looked back up at her house and let out a frustrated sigh.
She walked up to her house and turned the knob. "Mom! Dad! I'm home!" she yelled in the house. When she entered, it was dark and no one answered yet. Her mom and dad are usually up at this time. That was confusing.
"Mom? Dad? You home?" she asked again. She took off her shoes and walked around in her house. Still nothing.
Then she got into the living room. "Mom? Dad?" It was still dark in there. She went to the light switch and turned it on. She looked back into the room and her heart just stopped. Her eyes widen in shock, terror, and disbelief. She took a few steps back but that was about all she could for the moment. Her body was shaking violently and she was having a hard time to breath.
On the floor, there are two bodies. Or rather about four of them. Both of her parents looked like they were chopped in half. Spilled food and ripped up newspaper decorated the floor stained floor. Finally, Ichigo couldn't hold it anymore.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!"
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'Ow, my fricken head!'
That was Kisshu's first thought when he woke up. He fluttered his eyes open and stared at the wall. Man his head hurts to high heaven. He didn't even care that he was staring at a wall, or that he's under his covers in only his boxers.
He sat up on his bed and held his head in his hands. He looked at his alarm clock and it's about five fifty in the morning. Not the time he usually gets up at.
Ring
Ring
Ring
'First this headache and now a phone calls? What the hell!' he wondered, reaching for his phone on the counter. Wait! Counter?
After Kisshu grabbed his phone, he looked all around. He really is in his room, but how did he get there? When did he get there? Being distracted by the rings, he looked at his phone and the caller ID is…Ichigo?
He answered, "Ichigo?" Instead of an answer, he heard the sound of other people, sirens, and sobbing. Ichigo is sobbing on the other side of the line. "Ichigo? Ichigo honey, what's wrong?"
She let out a few more cries and answered, "Kisshu…" That was all he needed to hear.
"Hold on, okay? I'll be right at your house! You are at your house right?"
She cried again, but said, "Yeah…"
"Okay, I'll be right there." He hung up after that.
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When Kisshu got there, there were people everywhere, an ambulance, and at least three police cars. People were all crowding around to see what the hell was happening. Kisshu went into the crowd and pushed his way to get a closer look. People were complaining but right now, he doesn't care. When he got to the 'no passing' rope, he looked at the police on guard and when they weren't looking, he went under the rope and ran for it.
"Hey stop! You can't be here!" a police man yelled.
'Like that's stopping me.'
Kisshu kept running until he got to the sidewalk just in front of Ichigo's house. He saw four ambulance wagons carrying away something and he saw that one of the wagons were showing a female hand. He knew who it was immediately. It shocked him and disgusted him at the very sight of it. Then his attention went towards something else when he saw Ichigo.
Ichigo was sitting at the edge of the sidewalk, crying, and holding her legs close to her. An inspector was talking to her but all she did was shook or nodded her head. She shook it most of the time. Then there was also two more people there. The adult had long brown hair and he has the usual Japanese color skin. Then there was someone that Kisshu did not improve of. A blond boy with tan skin and blue eyes; he must be hapa or something. But what made Kisshu upset was the fact that he had his arm on Ichigo's shoulders.
A bit upset to see that, he called, "Ichigo!" Ichigo's head perked up and three more pairs of eyes were on him.
"Kisshu…" Ichigo softly called. Without warning, Ichigo got up and ran to him. She jumped on him and hugged him. Kisshu hugged her back and Ichigo started crying on him.
"Shhh, shhh. I'm here, Ichigo. I'm here," he told her, trying to comfort her. Seeing that Ichigo, the victim's daughter, hugged Kisshu, the police didn't try to take him out.
Ichigo sobbed on his shoulder as she tried to say, "It's terrible… my parents! They're-"
He didn't let her finish. Saying those words might have destroyed her. "I know, Ichigo. I saw. I promise I'll hunt down whoever did that to them. You have my word." The promise was ridiculous, but Ichigo nodded her head and continued to cry on his shoulder.
When Ryou saw Kisshu like that, he got a bit suspicious. He looked a lot like the agent from last night. But seeing that Ichigo needed this, he tried to push the thought away. After all, why would he be an agent? But then again, why couldn't they detect R2000 when they wanted too?