Arwen1299: Hey. I had SUCH a boring day today, so I spent all day NOT listening to my PE teacher and thinking about this. Why are my chapters so chibi? If I write in down on paper, it's FOUR PAGES. Then I saw it was around 500 words on this.

Ichigo: Wow. Short.

Arwen: Didn't I JUST put you in the closet?!

Ichigo: Aoyama kun freed me... Oh, Aoyama kun...(dreamy)

Arwen: (Rolls eyes) OMG. Shut UP about the treehugger already.

Taruto: Yeah. It is SOOOO boring.

Pudding: Taru Taru's right, na no da!

Taruto: Don't call m-!

Arwen: ANYWAYS, SonicXMinagirl, life would be boring without the whole rejection thing, but I was just establishing the Masaya hate. Kisshu should at least have someone... And also, I'm dropping one of the sub plots, in case it gets too complicated.

Lettuce: That sounds about right.

Pai: I agree.

Lettuce: (Blush)

Ichigo: Am I the ONLY SANE ONE?!

Arwen: Remind me WHY you aren't dead?

Taruto: Heh Heh. Exactly my point.

Arwen: Which one?

Taruto: ...

Arwen: You are just adorable.

Taruto: WHA?

Zakuro: Speaking of Taruto... does anyone prefer Tart? Or Pie and Kish?

Pudding: Yummy foods... Pies, Tarts, Mint, Pudding... Na no daaa...

Ichigo: They are ALL wierd.

Arwen: That's it. CLOSET!

Taruto: HAI! I prefer Taruto. It has a ring, y'know?

Arwen: On with the story... I don't own TMM.

Chapter 4: You saved me?

Zakuro was just finishing her last order of the day at Cafe Mew Mew, when Ryou burst in through the basement door, lokong determined. The Mews looked at him, confused.

They had just been doing their own thing, Mint drinking tea, or SAMPLING it, Ichigo mopping the floor, Lettuce sweeping some broken plates and Pudding clearing up her big yellow ball cheerfully.

The last customer went out tactfully, thinking this was something like a family problem, as Ryou said,

"Chimera Animal! In the woods! Go!" he shouted.

The Mews dropped their items and transformed quickly.

"MEW PUDDING! METAMORPHOSIS!"

"MEW LETTUCE! METAMORPHOSIS!"

"MEW MINT! METAMORPHOSIS!"

"MEW ZAKURO! METAMORPHOSIS!"

"MEW ICHIGO! METAMORPHOSIS!"

The Mews ran out of the Cafe quickly and ran to the woods, which was one mile away from Cafe Mew Mew. Everyone was running and screaming from the woods in panic, and Zakuro could see a horn sticking out from the middle of the woods.

"There's a clearing right ahead!" shouted Lettuce.

They ran to the nearest clearing, getting closer and closer to the horn, running so fast, that to anyone else, they would have seemed like blurs of pink, blue, green, yellow and purple. Finally they reached a wide empty clearing, except for the people inside.

Pai, Taruto and Kisshu were there, each floating in hight order, staring haughtily at the Mews below. Beneath them was a huge Chimera Animal, half rhinosaurus and half lion, the horn pointing out of the lion's head menacingly.

The Mews gasped.

"It's about time you came. We were thinking that you lost the will to live or something!" Taruto laughed.

"Tsk. Even Ichigo said before, a puny runt like you should stay at home." Mint smirked teasingly.

"WHA?!" shrieked Taruto. "URUSAI! You are just like the old hag-"

"Enough chatter! Chimera Animal, GO!" shouted Pai.

The lion/rhino Chimera rushed towards them, with the lion's speed, and the Mews shrieked and scattered, as Kisshu and Taruto laughed sadistically. The Mews then turned to the CA (Short for Chimera Animal :P) and Mint shouted,

"Ribbon... MINT ECHO!"

The other Mews began to stage their attacks, and slowly, the aliens began to notice that the Chimera Animal was weakening. Ichigo rushed forward quickly.

"Ribbon... STRAWB-...!" Ichigo was cut off by Pai flying at alarming speed at her, a concentrated expression on his face, and Miss Piggy-(Urm... Ichigo. Sorry.) knew that he would kill her if she carried on concentrating on the CA. She turned towards him and blocked an attack by Pai's thunder fan, but was unprepared for the second one, and was sent flying to the floor as she slowly got up.

"Ichigo san!" Lettuce cried, and ran to aid her. Taruto hmfed in irritation and flew towards her, throwing his click clack weapon at her.

She cried out in pain as it binded around her, but she quickly got loose, while the battle between Pai and Ichigo was still going on, Lettuce turned to fight Taruto. Mint and Pudding concentrated on getting rid of the CA, but Zakuro was left open, as she ran to help Mint and Pudding.

"Kisshu! Get Zakuro, we can take them down one by one!" Taruto shouted at Kisshu, trying to block himself from Lettuce's castanets (A/N: That sounds really silly, right?) .

Kisshu, who was floating in midair absentmindedly, flew at Zakuro, who looked up from the CA, and changed her target.

"Ribbon.. ZAKURO SPEAR!" Zakuro shouted, flinging her neon purple whip back and throwing it at Kisshu.

Kisshu threw the whip off himself and flew towards the inner woods, Zakuro following closely behind. Zakuro arrived in the middle of the woods,having lost sight of Kisshu and, as she looked around her, no sign of the ongoing fight either. It was a dark, secluded place, where the trees sheilded the sun from reaching it.

She stopped and paused against a tree, trying to regain her breath, as someone's dragon swords flung themselves around her neck. Zakuro stood still with an emotionless look, her eyes turning to see Kisshu looking triumphuntaly at his 'catch'. Zakuro waited for mere seconds, as Kisshu was about to make his last killing move, ducked under the loose daggers, and whipped the swords out of his hands, leaving Kisshu looking shocked in midair.

She didn't hesitate as she flung out her whip again, wrapping itself around Kisshu's torso, and threw him at the tree angrily, and as he slumped against it, she held him by the neck with her hands, and brought back her weapon once more to deliver the final blow.

But she didn't. Her expression suddenly softened from a look of anger to a look of sadness. She didn't know why, but she didn't want to kill him. His shocked expression alone had been enough to stop her anger. Her hand on his neck loosened, as the neon whip went back into it's hilt. Kisshu's eyes widened. Wasn't she going to kill him?

She retracted into a standing position, and the hilt vanished in her hand. Kisshu got up into the identical position, still very shocked. Zakuro turned away with her back to him, head bent.

"Go. Now." she muttered.

Kisshu stood still, not having believed what she had just said.

She turned her head quickly to look at his surprised face.

"GO! Now!" she snapped quickly.

The air around Kisshu shimmered and he vanished, his dragon sais vanishing with him. Zakuro sighed. Why had she done that? The battle would rage on, and nothing would change now. She could find no idea why she had done that. Suddenly, her head whipped up to see the four Mews running towards her, panting. Ichigo and Lettuce had one or two bruises.

"Onee... sama?" Mint panted.

"Zakuro san? Are you... okay?" panted Lettuce.

Zakuro stiffened and nodded, waiting for the Mews to catch their breath. When they did, Mint said,

"Where's Kisshu, Onee sama? He didn't hurt you, right?"

"Gone. He escaped." Zakuro lied. "I'm fine, though."

The Mews relaxed.

"What happened?"

"We got rid of the CA, with Kisshu absent, it wasn't as powerful." said Ichigo.

"And Ichigo onee chan gave Pai a big punch he'll never forget, na no da!" grinned Pudding happily.

Zakuro didn't smile, even as they told her about how they defeated them, she just wanted to get to the Cafe to tell Ryou, and go home. Today was too complicated.

Kisshu vanished to the ship again, in the main room, where he saw Pai and Taruto sitting on chairs. The room was very big, with a couple of chairs, a television picking up over 40 TV channels, and a big control computer. Pai had a huge bruise on his jaw line, but Taruto seemed reletively fine. They looked up at him.

"Oi. Pai. Are you Okay?"

Pai stiffened. He obviously didn't like being seen in weakness.

"Yes."

"You have a huge bru-"

"I've noticed, Kisshu."

Kisshu shrugged.

"So how was it?" he asked them.

"The old hag gave Pai a big punch. I ALMOST took out the fish, but they just managed to get rid out the CA because YOU weren't there." Taruto said accusingly.

"Sorry, but YOU were the one who said 'go after Zakuro', right?"

Taruto grumbled.

"So how did you get along with wolfie? Because last time you came back from a fight with her, you had a huge bruise, just like Pai!" he guwaffed.

"Fine. I fought back. I went back because the Mews came along." he lied.

Taruto's mouth gaped. Usually Kisshu would retaliate against Taruto's teasing of weakness.

"Hey, are you SURE you're okay?"

"Yes."

Pai and Taruto watched Kisshu dissaparate(can I use that?) carefully. Something was wrong with Kisshu. He was very distracted, which was usually a bad thing.