Taruto's Feelings

'Wait wait wait, so lemme get this straight; you got exiled from your own planet for saving it and Pai nearly got executed so you came to Earth looking for a place to live?'

'Yep, pretty much.'

Three aliens, five mutant super girls and two humans sat in the empty cafe; on one side, a green haired alien and a cat girl sat together, the boys arm around the girl's slender shoulders. An older and more mature alien sat beside a girl infused with the DNA of a finless porpoise and held one of her small hands in his own, much bigger one. Then there was the younger two; a brunette boy floated cross legged in mid air whilst a monkey Mew sat precariously balanced on a beach ball to his right. These people had been telling a story, informing others of what they must know.

On the other side, sat those who knew nothing. Zakuro sat with a blank face and Mint sipped her tea with narrowed eyes, Keiichiro stood calmly by Ryou who was trying to absorb all he was being told. All that separated these people was a clean, white topped table.

'And how do we know we can trust you?' Ryou gave the three other-worldly beings a wary look.

'Our planet is restored; there is no need for us to take over this one.' Pai replied calmly.

Ryou kept his eyes narrow and tapped his chin a few times, finally coming to a decision.

'Fine, you can stay. But you have to work for me.' The Mews giggled as the aliens all sweat dropped.

'And the ears are going to raise some eyebrows around here. You'll need to find a way to cover them or something.' Keiichiro commented, smiling as usual.

'I'm sure I could figure something out.' Pai replied, and actually smiled.

'Wow, so he can smile.' Mint took another sip of her tea absently.

'Mint!'

'Well, it's not like he showed any emotion the last time he was here!'

A moment of silence issued as the others in the room thought about this, then nodded and murmured in agreement.

Taruto sniggered and turned to his older brother who was frowning,

'She does have a point Pai.'

'Hm.'

Two weeks later, everybody was settled. Pai was staying in the Cafe's spare room, Kisshu was living with Ichigo (much to her Father's dismay) and Taruto was living with Pudding and her hyperactive siblings.

The boys were also working at the cafe, they had to wear white shirts, black pants and shoes, and each had their own bow ties; Kisshu's being green, Pai's purple and Taruto's red. Pai had developed a tablet they each could take that minimised their ears so they were still slightly pointed but human sized. They lightened the Mew's work load noticeably and earned the establishment many more customers due to such good service. Although, most of it was likely due to teenage girls who wanted to gawk at the boys (mainly Kisshu.) As you can imagine, this did not go down well with a certain red head.

Everyone had just finished closing down the Cafe for the night-well, everybody accept Mint of course. After saying their goodbyes, Kish and Ichigo left the building hand in hand as Pai and Lettuce settled down at one of the tables, Zakuro and Mint leaving shortly after. Taruto followed Pudding back to her-their house.

He still couldn't get used to the fact he was living with her, not that he minded of course. The boy got on well with her brothers and sisters, even if they did sometimes use him as a bouncy castle...

He watched as Pudding skipped on ahead of him, a warm fuzzy feeling was building up inside his chest again, he noticed this happened a lot around her. He also noticed that no matter what she did he became instantly amused or fascinated by it, and every time she spoke he found himself hanging on every word. He'd even stopped complaining about the stupid nickname, even her siblings called him 'Taru-Taru'. But what is it? He wondered, what does it mean? He started drowning in his own thoughts, swirling emotions confusing him even more. Then, a thought struck him: what if these thoughts, these feelings, mean that I-

'We're home Taru-Taru na no da!'

The boy snapped out of his thoughts immediately and he noticed that they were, in fact, standing on the doorstep of their house.

'O-oh, right. Sorry, I was just...uh thinking...'

'It's okay na no da.' She grinned and swung the door open, revealing her family sitting around the living room with their aunt (she babysits when Pudding and Taruto are working)

'You're back! Hey guys their back!' Shouts and cries of welcoming and excitement were thrown at the pair who grinned at the children in front of them.

Their aunt smiled, waved goodbye and left them all to it.

Taruto was immediately glomped by Heicha, Hanacha, Chincha, Lucha and Honcha and Pudding giggled at the sight, calling to them to 'play nice' as she went to make dinner.

Two hours later and Pudding and Taruto were alone, after an exhausting day they had crashed on the sofa and Taruto's thoughts from earlier came back to pester him. But what if I am? There's nothing wrong with that is there? But what if she doesn't...? Oh I don't know what to do! Maybe I should just tell her...

Taking a breath, he turned to the girl seated next to him only to find that she had fallen asleep. He sighed and scooped her up, being careful not to wake her as he carried her to her bedroom.

He carefully laid her on the bed and covered her small frame with patterned blankets, smiling softly as she nestled into them in her sleep. He was about to leave but found he as suddenly unable to move. He was captivated by her. He swallowed and nervously, cautiously leaned forward and placed a small kiss upon her forehead.

'I-I t-think I love you Pudding Fong.' He whispered, stuttering even though she couldn't hear him.

'I love you too na no da.'

Taruto froze, oh my god she heard me! But I thought she was asleep?! The poor boy nearly started to hyperventilate. Whilst he was having his mini freak out the girl in the bed started to regain consciousness and realised what he had just said, and what she had said back. She sat up slowly and rubbed an eye, the turned to the alien at her bed side. He stood completely till, eyes wide and mouth slightly ajar.

'Taru-Taru, you're gonna catch flies na no da.' She giggled at him as he collected himself and shook his head.

'Um, so, you uh heard me.' He shuffled awkwardly and rubbed the back of his neck nervously.

'Yes na no da. And I meant what I said.'

He looked up at the girl he loved and smiled, receiving one of back of equal size.

'So did I.'

The pair continued to gaze at each other in the moonlight and realised just exactly what was meant by the word 'love'.

Yay fluff!

R&R if you want the next chapter people, will probably be the last one though, writers block ha struck -_-