Disclaimer: I am dreadfully sorry, but I have to announce the truth. I… do not… own Tokyo mew mew. There I've said it. Anyway, if I did, the series would have more Kisshu Ichigo love, would show more of the other mews pasts and loves, the same for the other characters. Aoyama-san would have more attitude, and the series would probably be a little less sweet, if ya catch mah drift.

Chapter: 3

"Simple, I'm here to take back what's mine." The green haired boy said in an angry voice. Just because things had not gone his way for most of the day, doesn't mean he can make things go his way.

Purin and Retasu looked up at him for a split second, not used to him actually being angry, but they shook it of and yelled their transformation words. Ichigo quickly jumped out of Purin's grip and quickly hid behind a few trashcans.

Their bodies engulfed in yellow and green respectively. Slowly, their animal features were taking shape on their bodies and their usual clothes were switched with their mew uniforms.

"There's no way we will give Ichigo-OneeChan to someone as mean as you Na No Da~" Mew Pudding shouted, and Mew Lettuce nodded in agreement. Ichigo was their friend and leader, losing her to the aliens would be disastrous.

Kisshu merely grinned, and let loose a Parasite infused with a spirit he had gotten from a musician in the park. It may not be the purest spirit yet, but it was merely for distraction so it had to do. And it did. The spirit and Parasite created some sort of wild dog, probably the humans' favourite animal. But unlike any normal known wild dog, this one stood only on its hind legs and was holding a violin. Also its fur was dark brown with purple streaks seemingly dyed through it, and its tail was full of painful looking spikes. You know the ones you really don't want to run into.

Mew Lettuce took a defensive stance, her hands, holding her green and golden castanets, in front of her upper body. Her feet were one foot away from each other and her right somewhat in front of the other. She was scared, as big dogs had never been her strong point. Small dogs, like Minto's dog Mickey were fine, not too big and especially fuzzy and cute. But for example the dog of Aoyama-san, while probably having a nice character, was already a bit too much for the fish infused girl.

Mew Pudding on the other hand took on a fighting stance. Her brown and golden rings clenched in her hands ready for her renowned Pudding Ring Inferno. Pudding wasn't afraid of a little doggy, since she often did her performance in a zoo, she had seen far more dangerous animal, and she had seen that most animals, when growing up with humans, can become rather soft and acquire pet characteristics. Also, this wasn't a real Animal, but a Chimera Animal created from a spirit. There were no animals involved, just a poor soul who happened to have a run in with Kisshu.

"Lettuce-OneeChan," Pudding began in a whispering tone "I'll attack him first with my Pudding Ring, and then you do the same with your attack Na No Da~, afterwards I'll make sure Ichigo-OneeChan returns to normal so she can help us Na No Da~" Lettuce looked at her younger companion, thinking the plan over for any obvious flaw, and, upon discovering none, nodded, and got ready for her attack.

Pudding jumped up in order for the Chimera Animal to follow her, and not her green haired friend. She headed to the other wall of the alley before taking a quick turn. She quickly headed towards the dog, and as the wild dog started to slash at her with its tail, the monkey girl ducked and jumped again, finally firing her attack.

"Pudding Ring Inferno~!" The yellow haired girl yelled loudly as she felt two energies surge from her head and heart towards her two arms and meeting each in one of the rings. She lifts her hands and right before the Animal can hit her again she feels enough energy and as quickly as she can, brings her arms and thus her weapons down. The energy flies off and upon touching the animal become some kind of puddingy substance, like the name might have given away.

Somewhere, deep in Lettuces mind, the thought 'this is too easy, something is terribly wrong.' passed by, but she shook it off quickly as Pudding yelled that she had to attack now.

With a quick yes, Lettuce took of, hoping that if she would get away from Ichigo's hiding place Kisshu wouldn't look there. She was ready for her attack as she felt the familiar energy surge through her veins like a fast gliding river. But just as she was ready to fire her attack realisation struck her faster than water would hit a stone in the middle of the fast gliding river. Where was Kisshu?

The fish mew couldn't help but look up, hoping he was still there, as usual. For as far as Lettuce knew Kisshu had never attacked one of the mews before. He always used a Chimera Animal to do the dirty work. What he did was just sitting there, and most often enjoying the show. And if he wasn't doing that, then he was flirting/annoying Ichigo or just simply not there. But now, Lettuce couldn't be so certain he would just be sitting there, and enjoying the show. The look he had shown earlier would even give an idiot a different idea.

And it was as she had feared but had desperately hoped was not a fact. Kisshu was not there. Well sure, it could be that she just couldn't see him, and that right she was probably looking like an idiot. First getting all pumped up for an attack, than stopping mid-way, and looking up and about was quite silly if one doesn't know the situation.

The Yellow coloured Mew, on the other hand, was quite unaware of the silly looking act of her friend. After she had shouted towards Lettuce that it was her turn, she hadn't really paid attention towards her, even when they had shortly passed each other when Pudding headed towards their leader. To her it wasn't so important either. The only she had to do was getting Ichigo, kissing her (thoughts related to this were also for a later moment), and then getting rid of the Chimera Animal. Not even the thought of 'this is going WAY too easy', which she had too, had really bothered her.

But it should have bothered her, and she should have paid attention to her companion. Looking back, Pudding could have done a lot of things actually. She maybe could have thought up a whole different plan. But it was in the past already, done already and thus irreversible.

Mew Pudding stopped, dead in her tracks, because there he stood, in all his glory, with an unconscious and turned-back-into-human Ichigo cradled against his chest. His infamous smirk plastered on his face, and it grew upon seeing the monkey girls' look of confusion and anger. She didn't understand it. How could he have done it so quickly? He only had a few seconds at most. Unless Lettuce hadn't been paying attention, which Pudding highly doubted, could he have had more time. It was just impossible, even for him.

But as impossible as possible can get, the he really stood, proving that it had really happened and that it wasn't some kind of hallucination.

But Pudding quickly managed to get out of her stupor, realising that wondering how it happened was of later worry, and she was ready to tackle the green haired alien. She pointed an accusing finger and yelled "Let go of my friend Na No Da~ or face my wrath Na No Da~" Which probably would've sounded a lot more threatening had it not been for the 'Na No Da's' but that's not important.

Kisshu couldn't help but laugh at that, the little girl had a funny sense of humour if she thought he would actually be scared by that. He was working for a seemingly heartless deity, so a little monkey girls' wrath was probably something he could handle. Plus, that girl was gonna have enough trouble with the Chimera Animal. She was no threat at all.

Suddenly, Pudding heard Lettuce cream out in pain, and she instinctively turned around towards the sound to see her friend being thrown away by the Chimera Animal. The Fish Mew flew into the wall, and was immediately unconscious because of the impact. Pudding just stared, once again unsure of what to do. She wanted to run towards her hurt friend, but if she did that, Kisshu could easily escape with Ichigo.

But faith had it that she didn't have to choose at all. A loud screeching noise hit her ears, and she felt her knees losing power as she hit the ground. In the corner of her eye she saw that the dog was playing on his violin.

"Musical…" A boyish voice rose from the open mouth of the dog "Disaster!" And the sound took on a more solid form of wind, and threw the young mew away towards the wall, but the trashcan luckily broke the road towards it.

And Kisshu was floating just a few inches above the earth, watching with glee as his distraction worked wonders. In a matter of seconds the two mews were wiped out instantly. It was as Pai always said; the mews are weak on their own.

But that wasn't of Kisshu's concern, as his prize was already in his hands, quite literally so. He silently gave the Chimera Animal to cause some ruckus elsewhere, and to leave these two alone. He knew they were important to Pai and Taruto, and didn't want their wrath upon him, especially not Pai's. He held Ichigo closer to him and started to teleport away as he heard the blue birds' frantic yelling from afar.

Mew Mint had been running as fast as she could, but it wasn't fast enough. She had seen Kisshu teleporting away with something red, which she assumed was Ichigo. But she had to continue going there, because her other friends might still be there. Hopefully they were okay.

When she finally rounded the corner of the alley she saw to her horror that her two friends were not okay. Mew Pudding lay in the midst of trash cans, obviously hurt but still conscious. Mew Lettuce, or Retasu, on the other hand was in a much worse shape. Her transformation had gone off due to her being unconscious and maybe because of blood loss. She needed medical help and quick. She called out to Mew Zakuro that she had to come to her quickly to help Retasu. Afterwards she rushed over to Pudding who was silently crying, out of pain and probably the loss. Mew Mint felt the tears stinging her eyes as well, but she ignored them and hugged the monkey mew tightly, not caring about the fact that she would usually not do this. She knew Pudding needed a shoulder to cry on, and right now, Mint was the only one available.

"Don't worry, Pudding. I promise everything will be alright very soon." Mint felt herself saying, and heard her voice crack. She knew it would be a hard promise, but one she would keep. Just like Ichigo always would. She heard Zakuro coming towards them in the distance.

Yes, no matter what, everything always turned out alright.

AAAAaaand cut, that's a wrap folks

Minto: You made ME seem like a crybaby, you know that right?

CC: Aww, come on, we all know you care. Plus Ichigo was obviously unavailable, Retasu was unconscious, and between you and Zakuro you ARE the biggest crybaby.

Minto: What do you mean with that?

CC: Exactly what I said, why? It is the truth after all. You can't exactly call Zakuro a crybaby, now can you?

Minto: I guess…

CC: Well, readers, I sincerely hope I haven't made the characters, except for Minto, to OOC. And also, I hope the delay wasn't too big either…

Ichigo: WHY DID YOU LET HIM KIDNAP!*Points accusing finger towards a happy looking Kisshu

CC: Why not, it was bound to happen. Plus, I let you off the hook for three chapters.

Ichigo: WHY NOT? HE'S A PERVERT, THAT'S WHY!

CC: Don't worry he wouldn't do much perverted, this story is not about any of that. It's about you two bonding.

Kisshu: Aww, I was hoping for some better things for me and my Kitten. But bonding is also okay. *Glomps Ichigo*

Ichigo: *Face as red as her hair * I-I Refuse!

CC: That's it!

Minto: She's obviously enjoying it. *Takes a sip of her tea*

CC: Yeah.