Chouko and I were sweeping up outside together talking about how Ryou could be so cruel sometimes.

"And I got grounded again!" Chouko whined. "And this time he didn't give me a reason why! He just said that I wasn't allowed to leave the café today."

"That sucks. And he's making me stay after work to clean up because I got here late!" I added.

"So, what are you doing this weekend? Got any plans with your boyfriend?" Chouko asked.

"Actually, Ryou wants me to work here this weekend." I said. "But that's okay; Masaya's got kendo practice this weekend too. My mom doesn't mind that I've got a boyfriend, but when my dad found out he went all ballistic!"

Chouko and I laughed, but then I saw her face fall. She looked like something was bothering her.

"Chouko is something wrong?" I asked.

Chouko looked up at you and shook her head. "No, nothing's wrong. I'll just go and tell Ryou that we're done cleaning up out here."

Chouko POV

I ran back into the café and walked into the kitchen.

"We finished cleaning up outside!" I told Ryou.

"Good, but you still can't leave the café." He said. Then he noticed my tears. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Huh?"

"Why are you crying?"

"I'm not crying!" I said.

"Yes you are, just tell me what's wrong."

"Why do you care? It's not like you're my family or anything!"

"I care because you're my friend's niece and also because I want to help you!" Ryou yelled. "I know how it feels to be going through what you're going through right now—"

"Shut up! You don't know anything about me!" I screamed. "Kishu was right… there's no way that you could ever understand how I feel! YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LOSE SOMEONE CLOSE TO YOU!"

I ran from the kitchen and out of the café, tears flying from my eyes.

I ran into the foresty part of the park. I tripped on a tree root and fell to the ground. I buried my face in my hands and cried while it started to rain.

Kishu POV

"Where are you going Kishu?" Taruto asked as I started to leave.

"None of your business brat." I replied.

"Oh I see, you're going to see your girlfriend!"

I conked him on the head and turned to leave, but Pai was blocking me.

"Move it Pai." I said.

"Don't do anything stupid." Pai said.

"I never do anything stupid!" I said walking past him. "That would be the little midget over there that does stupid things."

I quickly teleported away to dodge Taruto as he charged toward me.

I teleported to the park and hid in the trees. I looked for Chouko, but she wasn't there.

Then I saw Chouko running from the café and into the foresty part of the park. I wondered what was wrong and followed her.

Chouko POV

"Hey bitch!" I heard a girl's voice say.

I sat up and looked around, but nobody was there.

"You're even stupider than you look." The girl said.

I looked up and saw a girl with long silvery-blue hair sitting up in a tree with a long tail hanging behind her.

She jumped down from the branch and landed in front of me. She pulled out a sword and held it up to my neck.

"Name's Kira… and my father sees you as a problem." She said, pressing the sword closer to my neck. "So he asked me to kill you."

Kira sat up and looked around. "Dammit! Well, I'll see you later bitch."

Then she teleported away. I stood up and Kishu appeared in front of me.

"Chouko, what's wrong?" he asked.

I wrapped my arms around his neck and pressed mt lips against his, tears streaming down my face. I broke the kiss and cried into Kishu's shirt.

"Take me with you!" I cried. "Please take me with you!"

Ichigo POV

"I wonder why Chouko was so upset earlier." I wondered aloud.

"She had no right to say that to me! I've lost both my mother and my father!" Ryou yelled from the kitchen.

I stopped and listened to what he and Keiichiro were saying.

"Ryou, listen—" Keiichiro began.

"Keiichiro, tell me the real reason why your niece had to come and live with you." Ryou demanded.

"She's an orphan." Keiichiro answered. "Just like you. Her parents died a couple months ago in a car crash, and her older brother was with them. Her parents died instantly, but her brother was in a coma for two weeks before he died. I'm the only family she's got left."

"Oh… I didn't know." Ryou said softly.
Ryou stormed out of the kitchen and walked right past me.

"Ryou where are you going?!" Keiichiro asked walking out after him.

"Going to find Chouko." He replied, walking out of the café, not looking back.

Keiichiro turned around and saw me standing there.

"Keiichiro… why didn't you tell us?" I asked.

"Because I didn't want you to treat her differently than you do now." Keiichiro replied. "Look, when you first met Chouko, you treated her like a new friend, right? You felt happy about making a new friend. You didn't feel sorry for her."

"You shouldn't have judged us like that!" I yelled at him. "Why'd you do that? Is it because you can't trust us?"

"It's not that," Keiichiro said. "It's just… I wanted her to be happy again."

FF Chouko POV

I was waiting outside for Kishu and the other two (already transformed). It was really late at night and that meant that all the Mew Mews would be sleeping.

I felt something wrap around your neck and felt a ribbon with a bell on it. I turned to see Kishu smiling at me.

"What's this for?" I asked him.

"So I don't lose you." Kishu said, flicking the bell. "I can't have you go wandering off alone without some way of finding you again."

"Arigato Kishu," I said, giving him a kiss on the cheek. "And don't worry… I'll never try to run away."

"Kishu, everything's ready." Pai said walking outside.

Kishu nodded and Pai teleported away.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Kishu asked me.

"I wouldn't be here if I wasn't." I replied.

I took his hand and he teleported to the top of Tokyo Tower. I summoned my Chouko Spear, which now had a black crystal at the end of it, and pointed it toward the sky.

A bolt of lightning emitted from the crystal in my spear and hit the sky. Storm clouds began to form and it started raining hard.

"Now all we have to do is wait." Kishu said.

Ryou POV

"Ryou… you're soaked!" Keiichiro exclaimed when I entered the café.

"Yeah, it's storming outside. The storm just came out of nowhere." I replied.

"Did you find her?"

"No, I couldn't find her anywhere. It's like she just vanished." I replied. "I'm sorry Keiichiro…"

"It's not your fault Ryou, I'm sure she's alright."

Just then, the alarm started going off and we rushed over to the computer.

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Kimera Animas are appearing all over the city." Keiichiro replied. "We need to get the girls."

I pressed a button on the computer and connected to Masha's communication system.

"Ichigo, Ichigo wake up!" I yelled.

"WHOA! Uh, what is it Shirogane? It's the middle of the night." Ichigo groaned.

"Listen, Kimera Animas are appearing all over the city! You and the others need to hurry and destroy them!"

"Got it!" everyone said.

"Shirogane?" Ichigo asked.

"What is it Ichigo?"

"Is Chouko alright?"

"I don't know Ichigo, but don't worry, I'm sure she's fine." I reassured her.

Chouko POV

"Man, this is boring." Taruto whined.

"You didn't have to stay with us you know." I said. "You're the one who chose to stay behind."

"I didn't think it'd be this boring."

"Shut up brat!" Kishu said, punching Taruto on the head. "It's your own fault that you stayed behind."

"Well, since nothing interesting is going on here, I'll just go help the Kimera Animas." Taruto said teleporting away.

"How do you live with such a pain in the ass?" I asked Kishu.

"You get used to it after a while." Kishu replied.

"You know Kishu, the other day, when you found me in the park… a girl who had silvery-blue hair, big pointy ears, and a long blue-ish tail said that her father sees me as a problem and he asked her to kill me. I think she said her name was Kira."

"Oh man! Not her!" Kishu groaned.

"You know her?"

"Know her? Of course I know her!" Kishu replied. "She's been yelling at me for ages for not destroying the Mew Mews quickly. She said that she could do better, but she's too much of a daddy's-girl to help us out! All she does is stay by her father's side all day, not helping out one bit! She's a much bigger pain in the ass than Taruto is, and that's saying something."

I giggled at his joke, and he started laughing with me.

"Well, well, what do we have here?" came a familiar voice behind us. "A traitor and a defective Mew Mew… how charming,"

"Shut up Kira!" Kishu yelled. "We're here on Deep Blue's orders, and you should know that!"

"Oh I do, but it's not so much that father can't trust you… it's that troublesome butterfly he's more concerned about." Kira said. "So he asked me to keep an eye on you two, in case you screw up again Kishu."

Kishu POV

"So he asked me to keep an eye on you two, in case you screw up again Kishu." Kira said.

"What do you mean he's more worried about Chouko?" I asked. "She's not going to turn on us, we can trust her."

"It's not a matter of trust, Kishu, it's about her powers." Kira replied. "From the look on your face, I can tell that you don't have a clue of what I just said. Well, this certainly is interesting, you admit you have feelings for her, but you don't even know what she's capable of."

She laughed, and then looked at me and smiled.

"Since I'm here, why don't we have some fun?" she summoned her bow and an arrow and aimed at Chouko. "I hope you're good at flying… butterfly."

Ichigo POV

"We've taken care of all the Kimera Animas on this side of town." I told Ryou.

"Same here." Came Zakuro's voice.

"Girls, we just got a strong signal from Tokyo Tower, it was only for a second, but it was strong." Ryou said. "Go figure out what it is!"

"Can't we take a break?" Mint whined.

"Sure, if you don't mind the entire world coming to an end, then yeah, you can take a break." Ryou said sarcastically.

"So the aliens are causing trouble at Tokyo Tower? Don't worry, Ryou, we'll take care of it." I said.

"Ichigo, there's one more thing… Chouko's there too."

End Part 4