I'm sorry that I'm a bit late with this chapter but I had some connection problems with my computer :( luckily it's sorted out now... Thanx for all the reviews, this chapter is a little shorter than the others, but I hope you enjoy it :)

Chapter 4:

"Will we help you?", Ichigo repeated still having a hard time taking everything in. In her mind she thought and probably looked like an idiot right now, all she needed was for her mouth to hang open as well.

Mint face palmed and turned to Ichigo, irritation clearly etched on her face.

"Of course we need to help them and you know that!" she turned to Kish giving a bit of a yell.

Kish shrugged.

"The bad people are coming to earth Ichigo, they wanna take over our world and then destroy the mew aqua so Cynnth will have to depend on them again", Mint said summing everything up for Ichigo.

"We will have to fight again", Zakuro agreed.

"But... It's different this time", Lettuce said and blushed as everyone turned to stare at her with confused looks on their faces, except for Pudding and Taruto, the former still sobbing into Tart's chest getting him wet and the latter desperately trying to calm her down, because he didn't want anything else 'accidently' getting on his shirt.

Lettuce collected herself and continued still blushing from having everyone's attention, "You know... We're gonna fight together this time... protecting both our planets, we have the same goal this time".

Kish and Pie smiled nodding in agreement and the mews also liked this part of the whole problem. It was nice to think of them working together as comrades.

"Well this is enough for today, I can see Airi is exhausted again so I think, we'll all see each other again for work tomorrow", Ryou said interrupting the mews and cynniclons' discussion.

"Well that's one way of ending our discussion", Ichigo said with a huff.

"What do we do while you work?" Kish asked.

"Why don't you go grab some of Keichirou's suits and Tart can have Masaya's old uniform and you start working as well. Airi can sleep a bit to recover before she starts working. Looks like your gonna be stuck here a while so might as well make yourselves useful", Ryou said.

/ The next day at work/

After a hard day's work they were all slumped at tables not really having the will to get up, cynniclons not having the will to float. Keichirou came in carrying their cakes he always gave them at the end of the day and all of them perked up immediately starting to dig in to the cakes.

"Wait these are more cakes than usual", Ichigo said then turned around to stare at Ryou behind the counter, "what's going on? You usually soft soap us before something big", she completed her voice muffled by the amount of cake in her mouth.

"Wow Koneko-chan I never knew you ate like that and spoke even with a mouth full", Kish said musingly.

Ichigo turned scarlet at the comment but didn't make contact with him, she just kept her eyes on Ryou waiting for the inevitable response she knew they were going to get.

"Yeah what gives Ryou onii-chan na no da?", Pudding also asked.

Mint, Lettuce and Zakuro also turned to look at him and murmured wondering what was going on, and what job was waiting for them. The cynniclons also turned to look at him now, interested as to why the mews thought something was up.

Ryou sighed, "Okay look, you know I've been doing more and more experiments with the red data animal DNA's".

Everyone nodded waiting for the rest of the story.

"Well I found the girl who got the snow tiger DNA I sent out recently".

"So what's the problem with this girl?" Zakuro asked him with an eyebrow raised.

"Well... She's kinda far from here", he replied scratching his chin absentmindedly.

"Waiit... How far is far?" Ichigo said already starting to worry about the situation, she didn't know if her parents would willingly let her go on a trip at the moment. She was grounded from coming in late the one night and not having a valid excuse, all because she couldn't tell them that she had turned into a pinked up cat girl running around catching bad guys.

"We have to go to the wonderful... Africa, the South part to be exact", Ryou finished not looking in the least concerned.

"WHAAAAAAAAAT?" the mews all shouted at ones and started speaking of how and why they couldn't go all at the same time.

Kish, Pie and Tart looked confused not really understanding what the big problem was about, so they had to go somewhere to get another me what was the big deal it's not like they would be gone forever.

"Wait a minute", Ichigo said holding up her hand and silencing everyone around her, all of them wondering why Ichigo had a 'thinking' face.

"You just said you found this girl right?" Ichigo asked turning once again to Ryou.

"Yeah I did why?" he said looking at her also confused now.

"And you know her exact location?" Ichigo asked again trying to mask her irritation in her voice.

"I found that as well yeah, why?" Ryou asked not catching the irritation.

"How long exactly have you been able to do that finding thingy?", Ichigo asked again now a strong irritation in her voice.

"Well since day 1 I guess, I found you easily enough".

"Ryou you baka!", Ichigo yelled running over to him ready to chase him around the cafe, "do you have any idea what I went through trying to find all of them", she gestured to the mews, "and you knew all along where they were! I even lost my first kiss to that baka", she gestured at Kish who scowled at being called a 'baka', "and you knew all along where everyone was..."Ichigo stopped with her hands next to her sides clearly fuming then she grabbed her mew pendant, Ryou seeing what was coming started to run. "For your crimes against me you will pay Ryou", and she was after him.

The rest of the mews returned to their cakes in silence listening to the far off shouts of Ryou. Kish was still moping about being called a 'baka' by Ichigo, but this was all a normal day for them all.