Me: Yep! I'm back with a new chapter of Tokyo Angel's Friends! This chapter has been based on episode 3 of Tokyo Mew Mew.
Kisshu: *reading the script* Heeeeey! You are so mean Naomi! How come I'm only a shadow with the mysterious amber eyes in this chapter!
Me: *takes the script from his hands* Shut up! Who gave you permission to go through the text? And I'm only following the episode's scenes!
Kisshu: If you are, then where is the scene where I kiss my darling Koneko-chan?
Me: That is confidential sweetheart
Sulfus: Ha ha
Kisshu: Shut up before I make devil sushi out of you!
Sulfus: And you shut up before I make an alien barbecue out of you!
Raf, Ichigo: *back away slowly*
Me: You two aren't going to start again are you? *pulls on their ears*
Kisshu: Ow, ow, ow, owwwwww not the ear!
Me: You going to fight?
S,K: Weeeeell….
Me: *pulls more* Are you?
S,K: No ma'am!
Me: Good *releases them* now do the disclaimer
S,K: *sigh* Mika Ikisatashi doesn't own Tokyo Mew Mew or Angel's Friends
Tokyo Angel's Friends
Chapter 3 – Our humans are WHAT?
A couple of days went on since that event at the park between Raf, Sulfus, the mutant rat and the mysterious cat haired girl. After that whole scene the two eternal, still a bit confused with what had just happened, returned to school where Raf, without anyone else noticing, took care of the scratches Sulfus had on his arms due to the sudden attack and during that moment the two of them made a promise:
"Ow! Don't press on it too much, that hurts!" yelled the devil as the young angel held his wounded arm and disinfected the huge scratch
She sighed "Don't scream too much and stay still! You have been through worse things than a simple scratch on the arm!" she said as once again she pressed the cotton with disinfectant on his arm, he did his best to not let escape another loud 'Ow' from his lips and risking to have any of their friends or teachers happening to hear them and find out
"Raf…" he started, she looked at him which mean she was listening to him "I think we shouldn't tell this to anyone…" he said "About the attack from before I mean. At last not until we find out what was that thing and if there are more things like that around the city"
The blonde haired angel looked down as she began to wrap the devil's arm with a bandage "You are right…" she began "I don't know what kind of thing that was and I don't know if I want to find out. We should act as if nothing like this happened and keep doing our job as guardians" Sulfus nodded "I just hope…"
"Hope what?" he asked as she gently as she could, tightened the bandage in his arm
"I just hope what we saw today…won't be the beginning of trouble"
Both keep that promise and keep doing their job. However in the next few days they noticed that Ichigo started working on a café, the same café they had seen on the earthquake's day…they tried to ignore the coincidence but it became more difficult when suddenly from a day to another, Gabi and Cabiria's human, Mint Aizawa, started working on the same café and despising the arrogant attitude of the rich girl, she and Ichigo acted as if they knew each other for a long time…which in fact was a lie, the two of them had never met before; both the two angels and two devils had seen what happened when the two met by mere case, when both were returning home and Mint's dog decided to jump on Ichigo. After that scene the four guardians returned to school and when in the next days they noticed how close the two girls, who seemed like cat and dog a few times, had become…and none of them could say that this wasn't strange…
Another thing the guardians of the ruby haired girl had noticed were the new but completely strange attitudes of their human, she fell asleep a lot either on classes or on the parapets of the school's terraces, each time the lunch at school was fish she acted in such a weird way that sometimes she ended up grabbing the fish with her mouth! And another weird moment, a moment that almost gave a heart attack to both Raf and Sulfus, was when the girl was holding a photo in her hand and suddenly the photo was taken away by the wind, in a desperate attempt to try and catch the photo, the girl literally jumped off the parapet of the terrace she was standing and, obviously fell. Both her guardians closed their eyes, not wanting to see what for sure would happen but then…they saw Ichigo fall, yes that's for sure…but she had landed on her own feet, without a single scratch! And not mentioning the somersaults in the air she made!
Both the guardians knew this was far away from normal…
At the moment Raf and Sulfus were flying as fast as they could, trying to catch up with Ichigo who run really fast as she yelled at herself for being so late for school, she was running so fast that not even Raf's Speed Fly could catch up with her
"Wuaaaaaahahhh! How did this happen?" screamed the girl as she run down the street in high speed "I overslept by 30 minutes, dressed and ate breakfast in a hurry. I would have been on time too…but geez! After I walked 700 meters I noticed I forgot to bring something! At this rate, I will surely be late for school!"
The girl turned on a corner and saw not too far away from her a green haired girl, caught in two long braids, blue eyes, glasses, wearing a beige coat, a black skirt and leg-ins of the same color, holding four school bags in her arms, walking to the opposite direction of hers. Just like Sulfus and Raf, Ichigo knew what would happen if she didn't stop in time
3…
Both the girls' eyes widened in surprise when the saw each other
2…
Ichigo tries to stop her fast run
1…
Seeing they won't be able to stop the crash, both scream
BOOM
Both the girls fell on the floor after a big body to body crash with each other "Oww…" moaned the ruby haired girl as she rubbed her in pain butt. The green haired girl got on her knees, the school bags she had been carrying spread across the floor, she looked at Ichigo with a sorry look
"I'm sorry!" she said
"Wait a moment…I know that girl, that's Miki's human!" said Raf as she gave a better look at the girl with glasses who had stood up from the floor, helped Ichigo up, and was now saying the word 'Sorry' lots of times. Sulfus also looked at the girl
"Yes, that's Misha's human" he said
"Raf!" called a voice, the blonde haired angel looked up and saw that above her were Miki and Misha, the two guardians flew towards the two female guardians "What are you doing here?" asked Miki
"Obviously we are watching over our human, angel" answered in a scammer tone, the dark haired devil, Raf almost fulminated him with her eyes, how she hated when the devils used that tone on her friends or even on herself
"I thought so, that is your human, Miki" said Raf, Miki nodded
"Yes…but it hasn't been easy to deal with her…" murmured the blue haired angel as a sad look appeared in her blue eyes, who were staring at her human, Misha smirked
"On the contrary with me, it's so easy to take this little girl to the wrong paths" Sulfus also smirked happily while both the angel girls looked at them with the 'Go celebrate to another place' look. Raf looked with her sapphire blue eyes to her friend before she placed a hand upon her shoulder
"Miki…everything will be fine, you will see! I'm sure you will be able to take Lettuce to the good paths!" she said, trying to encourage her friend but Miki didn't seem very excited
"You don't understand Raf…those girls control her totally, just like teacher Mitsuki said, they make her their slave, they make do everything they should be doing! And she accepts doing those things because she believes like this they will let her enter their group! I have always failed! I tried lots of times to dissuade her from doing those things yet she always ends up taking the wrong decisions!"
"Miki…" Raf couldn't finish the phrase because right on that time they heard three girls approaching the corner where the two girls were. Those three girls were the most popular from Lettuce's school, that means, the ones who made Lettuce work for them; one of them had reddish-brown hair, short on the back but long on the front which covered her right eye, the second one had neck length black hair and the third and last one had wavy dirty blonde hair, both were wearing the same uniforms as Lettuce.
"Lettuce! What's taking you so long?" said one of them
"Hurry up! We are leaving!" said the other, Lettuce quickly picked up the four school bags that had been spread around the floor and turned to face the three girls
"I'm coming!" she said and then looked at Ichigo "I'm sorry. Goodbye!" and with that she run towards the same direction the three girls had taken
"I see you later, Raf" said Miki as she and Misha flew off after Lettuce, Ichigo stayed there staring at the green haired girl for a while until she disappeared from her sight but then she remembered…
"Whaaaa! I don't have time for this!" and she went back to her crazy run towards school
Later the girl was walking towards the café where she still would have to work till the end of afternoon, she returned from school. She had been able to get there in time, right when the bell had rung and right now she was walking, very exhausted….her guardians followed her silently, hearing her constantly complains as she walked…I mean…stumbled towards the café
"….I'm still sleepy and tired…" she complained "And all my joints hurt…" she keep "All of this...Everything…is the fault of those DEVILS!" hearing this Sulfus almost fell, Raf couldn't help but giggle at this, Ichigo remembered all the times, since she went to work at the café, where it was she the only one who worked for real. Ryou laying against one of the pillars of the café, Keiichiro at the kitchen, Mint sitting down by a table drinking her afternoon tea and giving her orders while she did NOTHING
"Somehow I…I'm afraid I'm being abused by everyone!" she complained and put a very angry look on her face "To be exact…they are just using me as a servant! This is all wrong! I have to fight…work…look…fight and work again! I'm the one doing all the work!"
Hearing the last works of the ruby haired girl, Ichigo's guardians looked at each other sort of confused, what did she mean by that?
"Fight? Is she is in some kind of karate club and we don't know?" murmured Raf
Sulfus laughed a bit "Yeah right! This girl barely knows how to run without stumbling on her own feet let alone practice karate!" Raf knew this time Sulfus had a point…the two went back to look at the red haired girl who was still complaining with the air
"Today, for sure, I must talk to them!" fire of determination appeared around her which made an anime style sweatdrop appear on both her guardians' heads "Now it's time to act! I will go now to the Café!" and she started running towards the pink café
Moments later…Raf was sighing and with a hand resting on her head, an anime style sweatdrop once again on her blonde head as she shook it…while Sulfus was trying his best to not burst in laugh right there and then due to the scene…Ichigo was working at the café…she has been there for almost an hour and she still hadn't talk to the others
"Great motivation she had!" said Sulfus as he keep trying to contain his laugh, Raf sighed and shrugged
"I'm starting to think this girl is a lost cause…."
"Unlike mine who knows perfectly how to give orders to others" said a female voice, the two guardians looked at their right and there were Cabiria and Gabi floating right next to them, Raf was going to ask what they were doing there but ended up not doing that since she quickly remembered that Mint also "worked" at the café
"Waaaahhh…everything is happening again!" the two angels and the two devils heard those words coming from Ichigo who was complaining again with herself for not being able to express herself AGAIN, a cascade of tears run down her eyes
"Well…your human is a bit…weird, Raf, is she always talking and acting like that?" asked Gabi, Raf only sighed
"And there is nothing I can do…I only can give her my advice but she already made her decision, it's up to her to take the will to speak to them…" they saw Ichigo quickly recovering from her cries and go take another costumer's order. Ryou was laying against one of the pillars with his arms behind his head while Mint stood in front of him, both staring at Ichigo
"What a hardworking girl" he said, Raf almost fulminated him with her eyes
"She is just oversimple" murmured Mint
A little later, the café wasn't very full anymore but still had some there, Ichigo was cleaning a recently used table while the two angels and the two devils keep there, looking at them, that was when all of them heard a whisper coming from the table in the corner. The four guardians both looked as well as Ichigo.
"Did you hear the rumor?" Ichigo looked and saw the three girls from this morning together with the green haired girl, all of them sitting in the table at the corner, the three oldest whispered a few things to each other as the other girl only sat there listening to them "There is a ghost of a young woman who wanders in the school at night"
"That girl…" murmured Ichigo
"The swimming pool dried up mysteriously! The water taps turned on by themselves!" said the reddish-brown haired girl "We have a lot of weird things happening at school lately. They say it's because of that ghost!"
"What's wrong?" asked Mint as she approached Ichigo "Oh, they are students from Okamura Junior High"
"Oh no…troubles are coming…" murmured a female voice that appeared to come from the other side of where the four other guardians were
"How wonderful!" said another female voice, a bit older then the last one, sounding really happy with was about to happen
"Miki! Misha!" said Gabi, Miki seemed to ignore the others' presences and keep staring at her human, feelings nervous…the brown haired girl that had spoken before turned to Lettuce as well as the other two girls, all of them with a cynical smile on their faces
"By the way, we have something to ask you…" Lettuce lifted up her face a bit to look at them "Why don't you take a look, Lettuce?"
"…And take a picture of it" said the blonde one
"Make sure you don't come back without taking it…" completed the black haired one, Raf and Gabi gasped when they heard the girls' request
"Those girls are crazy!" said Gabi
"But I…" murmured Lettuce, nervous...Miki tightened her fists
"Don't do it Lettuce…don't accept it…" she murmured
"I know you would never say you didn't want to, right?" said the black haired girl
"Of course. We are friends aren't we?" said the blonde one, Lettuce looked down defeated, it looked like she didn't have a choice
"No, Lettuce!" said Miki, angry. Suddenly they heard Ichigo who had approached the group of girls from the table in the corner; she had a fake smile on her face and was holding a tray with three bowls
"Thank you for waiting. Here is the mayonnaise and ketchup Parfait!" the dirty blonde haired girl turned her head towards the red haired one and stared at her as if she was crazy
"We didn't order such a thing!" she said, but Ichigo ignored her and faked she had stumbled on her own feet which made the tray with the three bowls of parfait fall off
"Oh no, my hand slipped!"
POOF
In seconds the faces of the three girls were covered with the parfaits, the devils started laughing a lot at the scene before their eyes, Raf and Gabi had an anime sweatdrop on their heads and looked astonished but then…they started laughing too, true to be told those girls were deserving something like that. The three girls stood up and glared at Ichigo
"What the hell are you doing?"
"Oh I'm so sorry!" said Ichigo but of course she didn't mean it, she actually had a very amused look in her face
The three girls were ready to jump at her "Why you…!" but Ichigo ducked just in time which made the three girls bump into one another and they flew to the other side, Ichigo turned her head to see them and smiled successfully. The three girls once again stood up, mad as ever "You…IDIOT!"
But suddenly…"Excuse me…" said a voice, the three girls turned their heads and saw Keiichiro standing there with a beautiful look "Please forgive my employer's clumsiness" the girls went from very angry to very in love, their started shaking their heads with a stupid look in their faces
"Oh it's nothing…it's no big deal"
"I'm glad to hear that" he said still with his charming look, the girls' eyes turned spirals as they keep looking at him, enchanted "Please come with me and we will clean up your clothes" the three girls now seemed robots since they immediately went to the place Keiichiro told them to go, Ichigo looked at Keiichiro who winked at her before leaving with the girls, she smiled happy
"A man's charm…I guess it never fails" commented Misha as she watched Keiichiro disappear from the room. Miki sighed in relief, Lettuce looked at Ichigo confused
"I'm sorry for being noisy, but I couldn't put up with it, and I acted without thinking…" she said, Raf smiled
"She may be clumsy but I always knew she had a good heart!"
"It's okay" said Lettuce as she looked down
"But why are you always with them? They don't seem to treat your very well…"
"I'm not so sure, but…I guess they are having a hard time…" Ichigo blinked her eyes at this "I suppose they criticize me in order to drive away their own sadness…maybe they and I will be good friends someday, when they pour out their own troubles and ask me for my advice." She said with a sad but hopeful smile at the same time, Ichigo smiled at the girl's kindness
"She can be so naïve…" murmured Misha, Miki looked at her mad
Lettuce hit softly her own head and smiled "So, I'm going to do what I can for them a little longer." Ichigo smiled again
"I see. By the way, I'm Ichigo Momomiya"
"I'm Lettuce Midorikawa" but suddenly the conversation of the girls was interrupted by the three girls
"Lettuce, let's go!"
The girls stood up from her chair and said goodbye to Ichigo "Well goodbye. For now" and she went away
"I see you all back at school" said Miki as once again she and Misha flew away from the café, following after Lettuce
"Miki is working really hard to guide her human to the good paths" said Raf, Gabi nodded
"That's true, it looks like it's being very hard for her since the girl seems to believe in things that have a very low chance of happening, but Miki is a strong girl and doesn't give up that easily"
The remaining four guardians went back to look at their humans who now were talking to each other but they barely could heard them since Mint was murmuring with Ichigo something really low and had a look…well a determinate look on her face while Ichigo looked very scared at whatever the dark blue haired girl was talking about. They approached slightly so they would be able to hear what they were talking about so low, wanting to know what so important nobody else could know about it
"So after work let's…" they heard Mint say but she was interrupted by Ichigo who still had the same scared look on her face
"No.." the dark blue haired girl looked at her partner with a confused look
"What?"
"No…" repeated the red haired girl
Mint still couldn't understand…and then Ichigo took a giant step back, still with the same scared look "I'm scared"
Mint followed her "What?"
The ruby haired girl took a smaller step back "No way…"
Mint followed her again "What?" she repeated
"No…I'm scared…no…I'm scared!" started saying the girl "Ghosts are scary…NO!"
Sulfus face palmed while Raf only sighed and shook her head, Gabi and Cabiria looked at them confused "Did she really believe in that ghost's story…?" murmured the devil
"Why are you being so childish?" said Mint
"AAAAAHHHHHHHH!" screamed suddenly the red haired girl, which startled not just the clients at the café but also the four guardians who looked at her as if she was mad
"Oh no, here comes the screaming…" murmured Sulfus
"What do you exactly mean by that?" asked Cabiria, that's when as if answering the devil's question, Ichigo started spinning around and moving like a crazy girl as she keep screaming
"I hate ghosts! I hate ghosts! I hate ghosts…!"
And then…
"I HATE GHOOOOOOOOSSSSSTTTSSSS!"
Both the two angels and the two devils had to cover their ears with all the yelling, a pained look on their faces
"Well Sulfus…your human is completely CRAZY!" said Cabiria
Later after work, Ichigo, after she had changed back to her normal clothes, walked out the café by the back door, Raf and Sulfus were there floating above the café waiting for her to come. They knew very well Mint wouldn't give up so easily in dragging her café partner to the school so they could investigate their "ghost" but they weren't sure if they should return to school or follow the two humans
"What's the big deal if we go?" asked Sulfus
Raf sighed "The big deal is that it's starting to get dark and we should return to school or our teachers will get worried as well as the others!" she exclaimed, Sulfus smirked
"You worry too much, angel, you talk as if we can't take care of ourselves"
"I agree with him, you saint people worry too much" said Cabiria as she and Gabi joined them once again
"I think some adventure won't hurt us" said Sulfus
"And what kind of adventure that will be, smarty one? The ghost doesn't even exist, they will only go there to waste time!" exclaimed Gabi
"MI-MI-MI-MI-MINT! What are you doing here?" they heard Ichigo scream suddenly, they looked to see what was happening. The ruby haired girl had tried to sneak away from Mint, sneaking by the back doors but completely failed…
"I thought you might try to sneak out of the back door" said the dark blue haired girl "Come on. Let's go"
"And…where are we going…?"
"Okumura Junior High of course!" said Mint with a fake smile, the devils turned to face the angels
"Do as you please but we are going with them" said Cabiria, Gabi and Raf sighed
"Alright, alright, we go…" said Raf
"No. I'm going home. I'm going home!" said Ichigo
"Do you insist?"
"Yes"
"Then I don't have another choice…" said Mint in a tone that seemed like she had given up on the idea of dragging the red haired girl with her, Ichigo made a 'V' of victory with her fingers and stupid but happy look on her face…."I will have to tie a leash and drag you there"
A couple of minutes later, it was already really dark…and all you could heard was Ichigo's complains
"Ghosts are scary…but still…" the two of them walked down the street, their guardians right after them and…Mint was dragging Ichigo with a leash…"You didn't really have to tie a leash on me!" the guardian angels sweatdropped
Sometime later they were at school…and looked very scary…
"This is Okumura Junior High…" murmured Mint
"This place is frightening…" murmured Gabi, Sulfus laughed
"You can always turn around and go back to school, little angel, nobody is stopping you" he said, Gabi glared at him
"Don't you even think I'm going to leave Raf alone with two devils like you" Sulfus and Cabiria rolled their eyes
"You say it like we are going to kill her…" murmured Cabiria, the subject was closed there and the four of them went on, following the two girls, Mint wasn't a single bit scared, Ichigo on the other hand…trembled…and whimpered
However, nobody seemed to notice the shadow that stood on the top of one of the roofs of the school…the two girls walked towards the pool…
"The pool is this way…" murmured Mint as she looked around
"I'm scared…I hate ghosts…what am I going to do if he appears suddenly…?" said Ichigo, Cabiria and Gabi saw that their human was starting to get tired of the girl's whimpers and they saw an evil smile appearing on her face
"This can't be g-" Gabi was interrupted by Mint
"Ahhh! What is over there?"
"AHHHHH!" Ichigo screamed
"There is an eerie voice coming from there!"
Ichigo started screaming and running around like a mad girl "AAAAHHHHH! I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING! I'M SCARED! MINT!" Mint approached slightly the girl's ear and…blew…Ichigo screamed even louder
"Oh I'm sorry, it must have been my imagination" said Mint in a joking tone
"I…I knew that…you did that on p-purpose…" said Ichigo in a trembling voice, the devils laughed, Ichigo looked around "What was that?" Mint sighed
"I didn't hear anything Ichigo, it must have been your imagination. Come on, let's go" the two of them walked around the pool "Nothing is here…"
"G-Great! We can go home!"
"No, we are going to check inside the school" the two of them walked inside the school, well…Mint would search while dragging Ichigo by her arm, the guardians followed them but outside the school, watching over them from a certain distance by the windows…however once again nobody seemed to notice the same figure that still watched them…this time from the sky…
Ichigo was scared of everything, from the wind that softly hit on the windows to the simple unmoving objects from the laboratories…the two of them keep searching until they reached a zone with washbasins, the red haired girl was by now totally dazed. Suddenly Mint stopped in her tracks which made Ichigo bump into her.
"This is weird…"
"W-What is it…?"
"We have looked at everything and we still haven't found anything"
Ichigo seemed relieved "That's because…there is no ghost"
"Silly, we are not looking for ghosts, we are looking f-" Mint was interrupted by a sound coming not too far away from them…it sounded like water drops…and right a few feet away from them was a small puddle
"It's water…" murmured Mint once she approached the puddle to look carefully
Suddenly…the taps of the washbasins turned on by themselves…the two girls heard it and turned around to see where it came from, they were startled when they saw the taps moving by themselves…and then…water started coming and moving towards them
"What in the world is this?" said Gabi when he saw the water moving
"The water is moving by itself, how is this possible?" said Raf
"It can't be one of those things again!" exclaimed Sulfus when more water came, this time from the ceiling, and formed into some kind of water monster
"What are you talking about, Sulfus?" but the dark haired devil didn't have time to answer Cabiria's question because they suddenly saw a shining blue light evolving Mint 'Mew Mew Mint! Metamorphosis!' they heard it come from the human girl, all of them watched the scene astonished and they became even more when the light disappeared and in the place of the dark blue haired girl now stood a turquoise haired girl, blue eyes, dressed in some kind of blue aqua clothes, the hairstyle was the same as Mint, two round odangos, and a pair of dark blue wings and tail came from the back of her body
"What in the world…?" murmured Gabi when the blue haired girl jumped out the window and run after the water that had flew away towards the pools, the girl screamed to water to stop
"That was…Mint…?" murmured Raf, still shocked…all of this seemed like a dejá-vu to her only with a different person…the day she and Sulfus had been saved by the mysterious girl dressed in pink and with features of a black cat. The angel looked at the devil next to her, he returned her look and both immediately looked at Ichigo who was shrinking in a corner, shivering with fear. Suddenly a shadow flew above them which caught Ichigo's attention, she looked up and then…she grabbed some kind of golden pendant
"Mew Mew Strawberry! Metamorphosis!"
The shadow who possessed golden orbs watched not just the now transformed girl but also the four beings that were under him, a few meters away from him…his eyes narrowed and then he smirked before he jumped in the sky and disappeared, leaving no trail behind….
Saying that Raf and Sulfus were shocked wasn't enough, they watched as the pink light that had evolved Ichigo disappeared and now, just like what had happened with Mint, in the place of human red haired girl now stood the same pink haired girl, dressed in pink, who possessed black cat ears and tail…the same girl they had seen at the park a few days ago, the same girl that had saved them…all of this was too weird and too confused to all of them….
Their humans were…mutants…?
TBC…
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