TQL: Hi, everyone! Today, we have Pudding and Lettuce with us!
Pudding: HELLO!
Lettuce: umm… hi.
Pudding: Will Tar-tar be in this chapter?
TQL: You'll have to find out when you read it
Lettuce: Be patient, Pudding.
(Kish teleports into room)
Kish: Why am I here? I thought I was teleporting into Ichigo's house!
TQL: Shut up. I would like to thank ALL my reviewers who took the time to submit a revie-
Kish: Shut up! Let's read the chappie!
TQL: (grumbles) Fine. I don't own TMM, only Yuzumi!
Chapter 4: Confessions of a troubled teen"Why are you calling a truce with me?" asked Yuzumi, "I'm a Mew. The ENEMY. Won't Pai and Tart get mad you or something?"
"Probably," answered Kish, "How do you know about them?"
"Pudding told me." Said Yuzumi, "Now, get to the point before I kick you in the face." Kish smiled.
"Feisty, aren't you? Ichigo is the same way. That's what I like about her, she's always playing hard-to-get."
"Puh-lease!" snorted Yuzumi; "You are in SUCH denial! She doesn't like you! She likes that Mr.Perfect, Masaya Aoyama." Kish grumbled. Yuzumi continued very quickly, "He looks weird to me and in my opinion she'd be better off with you- huh!" She covered her mouth with her hand.
"What did you say?" asked Kish.
"Nothing." She said nervously, "Nothing you need to know." She started to back away. Kish smiled,
"You agree with me, don't you? That I should make Ichigo mine, right?"
"I didn't say anything!" she screamed as she tried to kick him. He was faster. He ducked and grabbed her wrists, pushing her to the ground.
"You fight well, little one." Kish said smirking, "Now, tell me what you said."
"Never!" she screamed as she tried to get loose of his strong grip. Finally, she gave up and sighed. "If I tell you what I said, will you take me back to Café Mew Mew and swear to never tell a single living soul what I said?" Kish pondered this a moment,
"Deal," he said, "now, tell me." Yuzumi took a deep breath and said,
" I said that I think Masaya looks weird and that Ichigo would be better off with you. Now take me back to the café, you brainless idiot!" As he released her from his grip, he said,
"You know, I like you."
"What!" she said, surprised.
"I do," he insisted, "You're blunt, but honest, strong, independent and you have one hard kick!"
"Well, I admit that I fight pretty well," she said smugly "which reminds me, if you don't teleport me back to the café, you'll get a taste of some more of my kicks!" Kish sighed,
"Ok, a deal's a deal after all." And with that, he picked her up, bridal-style, oblivious to the fact that she was yelling at him to stop carrying her and teleported into her room. When he put her down, she was still yelling at him.
"Kish!" she screamed, "Never EVER do that again or you're in for the butt-kicking of your life!" He sighed and did the only think he could think of to make her shut up. He knocked her unconscious. After he had put a gag on her mouth, (in case she woke up and started screaming again) he tied her wrists too. Then, he floated downstairs where Ryou and the others were moping. "Looking for this?" he asked as he held Yuzumi up to show them.
"Give her back!" said Ryou; "You had NO right to take her!"
"Sure," said Kish as he rolled his eyes, "You can have her. But I advise you NOT to take the gag off, she screams. A LOT." And having said that, he teleported back to his ship, leaving the mews, Ryou, and Keiichiro, utterly clueless.
"Why didn't he throw some Kirema Animas at us?" asked Berry.
"AND he completely ignored Ichigo." Added Mint.
"Yeah," said Ichigo, "He did. Wonder why?"
"Maybe Yuzumi knows." Said Lettuce.
"We should wake her up." Said Zakuro as she untied the gag and rope around Yuzumi's wrists.
"I'll do it!" exclaimed Pudding, taking out a gong. When she struck it, Yuzumi awoke. Immediately, she started to scream, just as Kish had said.
"Where the heck is Kish! He's going to pay for this!" The mews smiled.
"Glad to see you weren't affected by the capture." Chuckled Keiichiro.
"Nope! Not one bit!" smiled Yuzumi as she yawned, "but I am a bit tired." All of a sudden, Mint looked at Yuzumi and said,
"What happened on his ship? He was acting weird, he was acting kind and he ignored Ichigo. That's a first."
"He did?" asked Yuzumi, " I'm not sure why he ignored Ichigo, but I did beat him up on the ship. But later, he pinned me, so I made a deal with him and he teleported me back here." She said the last part very fast.
"What?" asked Berry, " A deal? What kind of deal?"
"Just a deal." Yuzumi said nervously as she squirmed.
"What was the deal? You can tell us. Come on." Coaxed Ichigo.
"Ok," Yuzumi sighed, "I told him that I thought you'd be better off with him than Masaya and I also said that Masaya looked weird."
"You did what?" seethed Ichigo, "How dare you say that!"
"Hey!" said Yuzumi, "I HAD to say it! If I didn't, I wouldn't be here right now! I'd still be on that stupid pervert's ship! But I did mean it! I mean come on! No one is that perfect! It's sickening!" Everyone stared at her sudden outburst. She yelled, "Leave me alone!" and ran to her room, where a certain green-haired alien was waiting for her. "Kish!" she seethed, "What are you doing here!"
"I heard how you stood up for me down there." He said simply.
"I didn't stick up for YOU I was defending my rights of freedom of speech." She answered.
"You've got an answer for everything, don't you?" he smiled coyly, trying to charm her.
"What are you doing in my bed?" she asked, not falling for the act, " Trying your moves on me?" she cocked an eyebrow.
"Are they working?" asked Kish.
"No," she answered bluntly, "Why are you trying anyway? Ichigo's downstairs, go bother her. I want to be alone."
"Why?" asked Kish, "It's no fun being alone, I'll keep you company." He said as he patted the space on the bed next to him.
"No," she said, " I told you, I want to be ALONE. A-L-O-N-E. Alone! By myself, without anyone! Including you."
"Well, I just can't allow that, after all, you're still my hostage."
"What?" she asked, "But I'm here, not on your ship, and you can't take me back there!" "The deal was that I'd teleport you here, there was nothing in the deal about me leaving." He said slyly.
"So, you found a loophole, so what?" said Yuzumi sarcastically, "There was also nothing in the deal about juggling oranges or eating fire, was there?"
"No," he said, "I'm guessing the truce is over?"
"You bet your life it is." She said, "You're in for the beating of a lifetime."
"Ooh. I'm so scared. I'm bigger and stronger than you are. You're no match for me." He laughed.
"Well, I'm a Mew Mew." She said, "That enhances my strength and agility!"
"Oh yeah!" sneered Kish, "Where was that strength and agility on the ship?" Yuzumi thought hard.
"Well, I hadn't transformed, so I was at a disadvantage!"
"You really do have an answer for EVERYTHING. Don't you?" he said, "It's sickening."
"Get out of my room Kish! NOW!" she ordered.
"But why?" he playfully whined, "We were just about to have some fun!"
"Fun!" she said, "Fun! You call this fun? I get kidnapped, pinned onto the floor, knocked unconscious, interrogated by my friends, and on top of that all, I've got a perverted alien freak in my room! Why did this have to happen to me?" She was breathing heavily now. Then, she did something she had never done before. She fainted. Right there, on the floor, just collapsed.
TQL: Ha ha ha! I love cliffies!
Kish: Too many cliffies! No!
TQL: Shut it! I'll have Yuzumi beat you up!
Yuzumi: Yay! Please review!