Depression Chapter 4:
Embarrassment and Explanations
The next few days were pretty exhausting for Ichigo, who was trying to keep Kisshu from going out of control. He was really hyper, and like Pai had said, clingy to her. He was following her around like a lost puppy, and it wasn't exactly easy. She had also played about five million rounds of Hangman, and she had to keep going to Pudding for new game ideas. To make matters worse, Pudding was feeding off of Kisshu's hyperness. Not to mention that she had given Kisshu AND Taruto candy, and all three of them were bouncing off the walls for a full day.
On the fifth day since Kisshu had gotten hyper, Ichigo woke up and yawned, bracing herself for the usual, "MORNING!"
It never came. Puzzled, she looked at Kisshu, and discovered he was still sleeping. She put a hand on his forehead, but he didn't have a fever. Maybe he's finally gone back to normal- or at least, as normal as Kisshu gets, she thought. Then she noticed Kisshu was starting to wake up, so she asked softly, "Kisshu?"
Kisshu opened his eyes- and turned bright red when he saw Ichigo looking down at him. "Um… are you okay?" she asked him.
"Uh…. yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Kisshu asked, sounding nervous.
"Because your face is bright red, and you sound really nervous," Ichigo said. "You didn't do anything weird while I was sleeping, did you?"
"No," Kisshu said. He was still pretty red, and Ichigo asked, "Does this have anything to do with the way you've been acting for the past four days?"
Kisshu's face actually got redder, and then he teleported out without a word. Ichigo immediately got out of bed, did her hair, and put her shoes on, then went to find Kisshu.
One hour later, she had searched the entire ship, and couldn't find him anywhere. Finally she went to the one place she hadn't looked- Pai's lab. She knocked on the door, and Pai's voice called, "Come in!"
Ichigo went in, and said, "I can't find Kisshu anywhere, do you know where he is?"
"What happened?" Pai asked.
"He's pretty embarrassed about the way he was behaving, and he teleported off somewhere," Ichigo said. "Unfortunately, I've looked all over the ship, and I can't find him. I think he might be on Earth, do you have some way of finding him?"
Pai closed his eyes and concentrated, then said, "He's in Inohara park, in that big sakura tree. Do you want me to teleport you there?"
"Please," Ichigo said.
Pai took her by the shoulder, and teleported to the tree. Ichigo looked up, and saw Kisshu sitting on a large branch, his face in his hands. "Kisshu?" she called out. "Can you come down from there?"
Kisshu mumbled something into his hands that sounded to Ichigo's cat hearing like, "I've never been this humiliated…."
"Come on, it's not that bad," Ichigo said. "I hope you're not getting depressed again."
"I was acting like a hyperactive six-year-old!" Kisshu moaned.
"That was a side effect, Kisshu," Pai called up. "It wasn't your fault. Now can you come down?"
"No… I think I'll just stay here…" Kisshu said glumly.
Ichigo sighed, then jumped onto the branch using her cat skills. Kisshu didn't look at her, until she took his face in her hands, and pulled him towards her, then kissed him. As usual, he responded immediately, deepening the kiss while pulling her closer. They both heard teleportation below them, and broke apart. Pai had just teleported away. Kisshu and Ichigo burst out laughing. "I guess he can't take the heat," Ichigo giggled.
Kisshu smirked and picked her up bridal style, then teleported back to the ground. He set her down, and she smiled at him. Suddenly a shocked voice shouted, "ICHIGO!?"
Ichigo and Kisshu turned to see Aoyuck running toward them. "What are you doing here?" Ichigo asked. "Shouldn't you be with Mint?"
Aoyuck went pale, but tried to stay calm as he said, "I have no clue what you're talking about, I love you, Ichigo."
Ichigo took the picture Lettuce had given her out of her pocket, and said, "This proves that you never loved me, and were only using me to get to Mint." She showed him the picture of him kissing Mint, and he went dead white. Then he ran for it. "Too bad I don't have my pendant, it would be fun to see him get hit by my attack," Ichigo said.
"Where is your pendant?" Kisshu asked, puzzled.
"In my room, Pai knocked it out of my hand when he kidnapped me," Ichigo said.
"Let's go get it and kill the walking puppet together!" Kisshu said excitedly.
Ichigo smiled at his excitement, and said, "Sure. It's in my room."
Kisshu grinned and took her hand.
When they landed in her room, however, they soon realized their mistake. Both Sakura and Shintaro, for some unknown reason, were in there. They looked shocked when they saw Ichigo and Kisshu, who both gulped. "I'm in trouble, aren't I?" Ichigo asked.
"Depends on this time's excuse, but if it's not a GOOD excuse, you're grounded for eternity, got that?" Shintaro said.
"Yes, Dad," Ichigo sighed. "It's a long story. I should have told you earlier that I'm Mew Ichigo, but Ryou was pretty insistent on me not telling."
"Hold up, you're Mew Ichigo?" Shintaro asked. "Then what's he doing with you?"
"Kisshu brought me here to get my pendant so we can kill Aoyama," Ichigo said.
"But why did you disappear a week ago?" Sakura asked. "Didn't Kisshu kidnap you?"
"No, his brother Pai kidnapped me, because apparently Kisshu was so miserable about the fact that I didn't love him back that he was refusing to eat," Ichigo said. "Pai brought me to their ship, and I managed to cheer Kisshu up. I realized that I really do love him, and that he feels the same. But then something caused Kisshu's emotions to get messed up, so I spent the last four days after Pai fixed that trying to keep him under control, because whatever Pai did to him made him act like a hyperactive six-year-old. And then Pudding gave him candy, and that made things worse. Today's the first day he's been actually calm."
"What I got out of your long explanation was that you spent your time taking care of someone special to you, so I'm willing to let it go," Sakura said. "I suppose you two are dating now?"
"After we do something about the walking puppet," Kisshu said. "He was cheating on Ichigo with Mint. He's going down."
"I like the way you think," Shintaro said. "Anyone who hurts Ichigo goes down?"
"Pretty much," Kisshu said.
"Fine, you can date her…." Shintaro said. "But she has a curfew- no later than 11."
"Daaaad!" Ichigo wailed.
"We can work with that," Kisshu said. "I promise I'll have her home by eleven, sir."
"Good," Shintaro said.
Ichigo sighed, and said, "Can we go kill the walking puppet now?"
Kisshu smirked. "Transform and let's go," he said. Ichigo grabbed her pendant off her desk, transformed, and said, "I'm set, let's go find him."
Kisshu closed his eyes and concentrated, then said, "He's with Mint, is that a problem?"
"Not if we take him somewhere else to kill him," Ichigo said.
"Got it," Kisshu said, and took her hand, then teleported.
Sort of a cliffie…. Review plz! And don't worry, I'll have the next chapter out soon!