Chapter 4: Back to work
- I have been really busy this past month, so sorry for the late updates.
- Also, sorry that the next few chapters are short, but that's how I wrote them.
Disclaimer: I do not own TMM.
-A-
It was Tuesday afternoon and Ichigo was back at café mew mew now, she had been lectured by everyone for running away, and even though she wasn't sorry about it and still felt uneasy around her friends she kept her real state of mind to herself. She had told them a lie about what had happened and they had believed her, much to her amazement. Ichigo had told everyone that Kisshu had come for her and chased her to Tokyo tower where she hid out for a while until they arrived.
Ryou was still worried about Ichigo though, the others may have believed her story, but he certainly didn't. He just couldn't figure out what was wrong with her, he knew that she was grieving for the loss of her parents and that explained her psychological issues but he still didn't know what was wrong with her physically, why her wild cat DNA and her body were working together and killing her.
The way she was acting, as if nothing was wrong, it just wasn't right, he had to tell her, she had to know, she didn't need to be here, working with the other mews in the cafe, she should be out there doing anything she wants. He was stood by the staircase to his room with his head in his hands when Keiichiro came to tell him the new test results.
It wasn't good, Keiichiro explained that he still hadn't pin pointed the actual cause of Ichigo's sickness but he now knew that the reason for the illness was because her actual DNA was sick, it was like nothing he had ever seen before, her DNA was mutating, turning into something else completely, and it was going to kill her, she wasn't strong enough to live through whatever was happening to her.
When Ryou asked his friend about letting Ichigo have some time off, Keiichiro told him it was probably a bad idea, but he should go easier on her. They couldn't alert her to what was wrong with her just yet, otherwise it could have a bad affect on her.
Ryou eventually agreed with his friend and decided that him and the mews should take it easy on Ichigo for a while, until they knew exactly what was wrong with her.
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At the end of the day Ichigo realised that she had no where to go, how could she go back to her house knowing that her parents would never be there to greet her again. This made her feel even more depressed, but she couldn't ask the others because she didn't know if she could trust them anymore.
While Ichigo was changing, Ryou took the other girls aside and asked them to go easy on her for a bit, because in her state she shouldn't be doing too much work. The girls agreed with this and Mint even offered to do some actual work for once, which certainly shocked everyone.
Then the mews and Keiichiro left, leaving Ichigo to still get changed and Ryou to sit thinking about what to do. Suddenly Ichigo emerged from the changing room, deep in thought dragging her feet and mumbling goodbye to Ryou as she left the café with no where to go.
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Ichigo didn't know what to do, she didn't know who to trust anymore, where was she supposed to go now, whatever did she do to deserve this. She couldn't help but wonder about these things as she walked slowly through the park. Then when she was by the fountain where her parents were killed, she noticed the crime scene tape that the police had put up.
She simply ignored it, too deep in thought to be bothered by the world around her anymore. She kept seeing her parent's death; her memory was haunting her with those last moments that replayed in her head over and over.
She unconsciously moved to sit down on the bench inside the crime scene tape, in front of the cherry blossom tree that overlooked the fountain. When she finally snapped out of her thoughts, Ichigo found her self in the one place she really wished she wasn't, right near where her parents were killed.
She couldn't move though, she was frozen, today it had been snowing non stop, which was very unusual considering it was summer, what didn't help Ichigo though was that she was still in the clothes she had put on for Sunday.
Ichigo looked down at herself and noticed that she was a very unhealthy pale white colour with a tinge of blue creeping up on her skin. She still didn't feel anything though; she had locked her emotions away within herself and had vowed never to show them again to anyone but herself. This was part of her master plan, which no-one would believe she could com up with, but the hock of what had happened had changer her a lot, she had gotten rid of her old self and replaced it with an new Ichigo, one who wasn't happy and goofy anymore, but was smart and very much independent. She had let her inner darkness out.
She sat back on the bench just viewing her surroundings; she noticed it had begun to snow lightly again. But this didn't bother her; she had nowhere to go, so she would stay out here if she must.
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It was becoming very dark now and as night fell Ichigo was still sat there, casually leaning back on the bench, inside her won mind again, beyond the reach of the real world, on the edge of reality, almost beyond the reach of sanity.
Inside her mind was where she was most happy, thinking of her plan over and over, of how it had to be.
While she had been asleep in Tokyo tower, she had had a very weird dream. It was one that no one would ever believe, but in her mind she knew it was true. She couldn't tell anyone about it or they would think she was crazy. In her dream angels had come to her and told her that she was needed to save the world.
At first she hadn't believed them, but then they had explained about the aliens and deep blue, and since Ichigo was so full of revenge she listened to what they had to say. They told her of what she had to do to save the world, and that she was the only one who could do it. That was when she had formed the plan really, her pact with the angels, to save humanity.
Her plan was to stay in this world for a little while longer, a couple of weeks at most, she couldn't give anything away and she couldn't trust or tell anyone. She knew her powers were dying, that something was very wrong with her, and apparently this problem could only be fixed by her travelling to another dimension.
After a week or so in this world, Ichigo was to get herself captured by the aliens and held on board their ship, then she had to escape them and find their dimension teleport machine, which she was to use and destroy to get to the place where she could regain her actual powers to save the world. Once she had finished in the dimension she would be transported back to earth to save it from the aliens.
The only reason why Ichigo agreed to this deal with the angles in the first place was that she felt like she had nothing left to live for and so her life was worth risking for the lives of so many others.
Finally when Ichigo had gone through her plan in her head over and over several times, she snapped out of her thoughts.
She was still on the park bench, still alone, but she had a feeling that there was someone else here, watching her and she had a sneaky suspicion of who it was.
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Ryou couldn't stop shouting at himself about how stupid he was, how could he not realise that Ichigo would find it difficult going back to her house. It was several hours later after thinking to himself about what to do about Ichigo that he finally realised that he had forgotten to ask if she wanted to stay at the café for a bit.
The thing that had made everything worse was when the alarm for an alien attack went off, it was quite late now, but when Ichigo's transformation signal went off he realised that she hadn't gone home at all, she was still in the park and now there was an alien there too. One thought kept going through Ryou's head as he alerted the other mews and then rushed towards the Park to where Ichigo was; 'How did Ichigo always get into these situations'.
-A-
Well that's it for this chapter, sorry again that it's so short, but this seemed like a good place to leave it.
I hope y'all liked it. Thanks for reading and please review :")
Thanks,
….Anie