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Chapter 9:
They were all ready and packed up to go, the cyniclons (Kish and Tart) in their human clothes. Ichigo frowned when she looked at Kish, she thought that he probably didn't pick any of the clothes she had chosen for him to try on the day before. She couldn't understand why he was being such a jerk towards her. Ryou came up to them, his arms folded and a big frown also starting to form on his face.
"We really need to do something about your ears", he said while looking straight at Kish and Tarts ears.
"I think plastic surgery is the only option there", Mint said with a wave of her hand.
"Nooooooooooooo! You can't take of Taru-Taru's ears, they make Taru-Taru, Taru-Taru na no da", Pudding said furiously, clearly upset by Mint's suggestion.
Kish and Tart, who had been standing there trying to figure out what exactly this 'plastic surgery' thing was, hands shot up to defensively try and cover their ears. Ryou sighed in defeat seeing that not even their hands could cover their ears completely, Ichigo and Lettuce were trying to stifle their laughter, and failing miserably, while looking at the scene. Kish looked at Ichigo with embarrassment his face going slightly pink and it even moved up to his ears.
"I don't think even the best props you use in blockbuster movies, will be able to help you with this problem", Zakuro said walking up to their group.
"Zakuro, what are you doing here, you're not coming with us are you?" Lettuce asked her a little confused by the model's appearance.
"I'm not, I'm just seeing you guys of and wishing you luck. Bring that girl back to our team", Zakuro said smiling at all of them. They all nodded with determination.
"By the way, which airport are we going to?" Ichigo suddenly thinking it was weird that they could all just stand there and talk casually instead of rushing to make the flight.
The mews and Kish and Tart looked around at each other, none having the answer. The aliens didn't really know what she was talking about in the first place and just pretended that they were wondering the same thing so they didn't look as clueless as they felt.
"Who said anything about an airport?" Ryou asked with a very smug look on his face.
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"Wow Pudding knew Ryou-oniichan was rich, but Pudding didn't know he was this rich na no da? Pudding as she stood up to walk around in the plane for a bit.
"Not even I, have my own plane", Mint said a bit bitterly, because of the fact that she wasn't the richest as she had thought.
" So this is what you humans use to fly around?" Kish asked looking around in amazement.
"Yeah, we are not lucky enough to have the ability to fly and teleport like you guys", Mint answered him bitterly again, "isn't there any help on this plane, I want my tea", she finished in a huff.
"I can't have help like that on the plane now you silly bluebird, we are going on a mission for the mew mews, can you imagine an outsider on the plane? They will know all of your identities and twitter and facebook about it and in a matter of minutes the whole world will know everything", Ryou said matter-of-factly from the chair he was lying on that kicked out like a bed.
"Ummmm Ryou-san... what about the pilot?" Lettuce asked him a bit nervously.
"Oh him... I can trust him don't worry", he said closing his eyes and yawned.
"I-chi-goooooooo", Mint began, but Ichigo cut her of, " get your own. I'm on holiday, Nya", she said stretching out a bit.
Mint stood up and muttered something all the way as she went to the place where all the foods and drinks were held.
"So this is really how humans fly?" Tart asked trying to continue the previous conversation.
"Yeas, na no da, but not all humans can", Pudding said happily.
"So not all people have one?" Tart asked.
Lettuce, Ichigo and Pudding started laughing and then realised that Tart was actually being dead serious as they saw the confused expression on his face wondering why they had started laughing so much.
"Ryou is the only person I know of that has his own plane", Lettuce answered still giggling a bit but trying to hide it, but Tart was oblivious.
"Usually people go to airports and then pay people to fly them somewhere", Ichigo said trying to make it sound a bit simpler.
"It's like very expensive public transport, na no da?" Pudding said also trying to make it easier for the alien boys to understand.
"So it's basically like our ships, except the cyniclons who work for the military get their own one from our government, if we need to go do something for them, like when we came to eart a few years ago to claim it back," Kish said.
"I'm sorry to be rude for interrupting your talk about planes and spaceships, but there's some bit of information I need to tell you, since I just realised it's a lot of you's first time on an aeroplane going to a different country," Ryou said just as a flustered and clearly very irritated Mint entered with a cup of tea, pink spots on her hands and neck were just starting to vanish from hot water she had spilt on herself. 'It must be nice being so extra rich and all, but it has to be horrible not being able to do anything for yourself', Ichigo thought with sympathy towards Mint.
"What information are you talking about?" Lettuce asked Ryou.
"You see, we are going to another country and their time is going to be different than ours, so you will probably experience jet lag, but if for some reason you don't, because of the genetic manipulation we've done to your bodies, coz I've never really heard of animals getting jet lag... now that would be interesting to see..." Ryou carried on a bit to himself pondering the idea.
"Hey earth to Ryou continue please", Ichigo called to him.
Ryou looked up a bit surprised, but coughed and went on as if nothing ever stopped him," you will have to look for the girl on your own for the first few days", he finished and looked around at the mews.
"But you said you know where she is," Ichigo said indignantly.
"I know... I can pinpoint her location for a 200m radius, but that's it, so if there's 200 people in that radius we wont know which one she is... I can't even track her completely because she has no pendant", Ryou finished looking around at them all looking a bit embarrassed for not having all the answers.
"Well for the first part you don't have to worry about us cyniclons," Kish said with a smug look on his face, his hands on his hips, having stood up for some reason, "even our planets times are different, but it doesn't affect us."
"The YOU can definitely look for the first few days," Ryou said nodding.
"Do you at least know what she looks like?" Lettuce asked, hoping that at least this time they would know who they were looking for.
"Not a clue, I just know she has snow tiger genes in her so those ears and tail might pop out?" Ryou answered without a care.
Pudding had been quiet the whole time and her brow was furrowed showing that she was clearly in deep thought.
"What's wrong Pudding?" Lettuce asked her friend seeing how deep in thought she was.
All of the mews turned their attention to Pudding now. The cyniclon boys and Ryou also turned to look at Pudding. All of them were shocked by the seriousness in Pudding's face, she rarely looked serious at all, only during battles or when she was pretending to be a detective did she look this serious.
"Pudding was just wondering...", Pudding began putting a finger on her chin, "what language do they speak there?", she asked them looking at each face waiting for an answer from someone.
"Well if I remember correctly they have 11 different languages", Ryou answered.
"NANI!?" , they all yelled together horrified by this little piece of new information.
"Is... is Japanese by any chance one of them?" Lettuce asked looking like she was ready to faint at that point all colour had drained from her face.
"No, I don't think that's one of them", Ryou said after thinking a bit, "I know English is though."
Ichigo paled now as well, remembering the last time she had tried speaking English to an American woman, she had failed miserably that time and even though she had gotten better, it still wasn't one of her strongest talents.
"We were taught all of the Earth's main languages before we were sent here," Kish said happily.
"But how are we, Ichigo, gonna understand the new mew mew?" Mint asked happily seeing that Ichigo had definitely heard her name slip in. Her cheeks were puffing up and she was turning red.
"We'll just teach her Japanese, luckily I can also talk English", Ryou said.
"How on Earth will she learn a new language fast enough?" Ichigo asked incredulously, "I mean our way of writing, reading everything", she threw her hands in the air to emphasize the 'everything' that was different.
"It didn't take us that long", Kish said pointing at him and Tart, Tart nodding.
"Yeah well you... you are special", Ichigo huffed.
"Oh, don't we know that", Kish said his signature smirk creeping up his mouth.
"Of course they're special their names isn't Ichigo Momomiya", Mint said happily.
"Pudding can't speak it either na no da", Pudding said a bit sadly and Lettuce nodded as well. Ichigo calmed down after Pudding said that thinking she would get Mint back later for all the problems she was making for her.
"Well as long as I don't get randomly kissed by another strange boy again while we look for the girl, I guess then it's all fine", Ichigo said.
"Don't speak too soon Ichigo", Kish said looking at her.
Ichigo was a bit taken aback, yes he had joined the conversation earlier, but this was the first time in days he had actually spoken to her directly and looked at her.
The rest of the flight everyone was chattering happily to each other except for Ichigo, Ryou and Kisshu. Pudding and Tart were happily enjoying each other's company. Pudding playfully pulling on Tart's ear causing him to respond by grabbing it back and muttering some irritable words to her, only to cause her to laugh and then grab for the other ear. Lettuce was happily chattering with Mint, excited about the trip to a different country, Mint's mood having diminished. Ryou was slightly snoring in his seat, obviously having fallen asleep from doing nothing. Ichigo was getting bored and started swinging her legs a bit. She heard her stomach growling and her hand moved naturally to it. 'I think I'll go get something to eat', she thought and stood up. She felt herself getting a bit dizzy from standing up too fast and fell forward, but she didn't fall to the ground. She pushed against the soft seat to stand up again only to find that it wasn't the seat she had fallen into.
"Really Ichigo you must find a new move to make on me", Kish said a bit sarcastically.
"You feel like a soft chair", was all she could answer as she went past him blushing a bit. She imagined him standing the gaping like a fish as she entered the kitchen area, looking for something to eat.
"So you're also hungry and bored", Kish said behind her and made her jump a bit. She had been so busy looking for food that she hadn't noticed him entering behind her.
"Yeah well, what can you do?" she answered him, not looking at him instead focusing on all the sweet cakes she had found. 'Keichirou has outdone himself', she thought.
"Not much I guess", Kish answered also starting to look around for something to eat.
Ichigo picked a pink cake with strawberries and turned to exit, but felt Kish's hand lightly on her shoulder and stopped.
"What?", she asked turning around and realising a little late that it had come out snappy.
"Just wanted to know if I could join you, that's one of my favourites", he muttered looking down feeling a bit hurt by her snappy tone and cold eyes.
"Why now all of a sudden Kisshu?", Ichigo asked him a bit irritatedly.
"What do you mean?", he asked a bit confused by her tone and the way she was acting towards hime.
"What's going on? You ignore me and don't even choose anything I chose for you, but now I'm good enough again", she took a breath, it was a mouthful to say all at once, "what's going on between us?", she asked before she could stop herself, eyes widening with the realisation of what she had just said, she wanted to clamp her hands over her mouth, but couldn't because of the cake she was holding.
He looked at her a little surprised and answered her, sounding a little unsure of himself, something she hadn't heard before, "I don't... know... Koneko-chan."
They were just standing there, staring at each other, not one knowing what to say to the other.
"Pudding needs some food for Pudding and Taru-Taru", Pudding sang happily as she ran into the kitchen and knocked Kish against the back, not having enough time to stop herself. He arched forward his face inches away from a surprised Ichigo.
"Gomen-neh, Kish onii-chan", Pudding said hitting him on the back few times.
Kish already having lost most of his balance from the first bump's face fell forward, completely towards a startled Ichigo, his lips landing solidly on hers.
"Na no...DAAAAA?" Pudding said as she went around him seeing what was happening. She clapped both her hands over her mouth to stop herself from shouting to everyone about the kiss.
Kish and Ichigo's eyes widened while they realised what had happened, they pulled away simultaneously and immediately rounded on Pudding. Ichigo set the cake aside and Pudding began worrying about the murderous look in her and Kish's eyes.
"On second thought Pudding and Taru-Taru can wait, na no da", she said quickly, waving her hands in front of her and backtracked out of the kitchen.
Ichigo had half a mind to go after her and strangle her, but instead took a few deep breaths and turned to Kish.
"Is that the fate or something humans always talk about?", he asked her wondering a bit.
"I don't know... and that just made things even more awkward for us", Ichigo sighed and turned to the cake, wondering if she wanted to eat it now or rather just not yet eat his kiss f her lips, she blushed slightly about the thoughts going through her mind. 'This time it wasn't him being forceful and he didn't even try to take advantage of the situation... he tried to stop... wait he tried to stop?', she thought now getting a but horrified.
"Neh Koneko-chan", he said, her attention went back to him.
"Yeah?", she said.
"Before this thing happened now, I was wondering and I wanted to tell you...", he stopped trying to think of a good way to say it, not wanting to complicate their already fragile relationship even more.
"Maybe we should, you know, try to be friends", he stopped, seeing her shocked expression, he sighed and went on, wishing she could only know how much this was hurting him and then maybe rethink a bit about him, "look, you know I love you, but all this is actually getting a bit much for me, the arguements, the fights... I think we must just try to figure out what our true feelings are first and then let each other know."
There was a silence as he saw Ichigo starting to think a bit, processing what he had just said.
"You know Kish, you really have changed", she finally said after a few minutes thought, "I think it's a good idea but for the record I liked the old you better actually."
"Well then Koneko-chan, thanx for the kiss", he said smirking a bit.
She smiled at him and then said," same here Kisshu, I see the kiss part in your name counts for something."
He laughed a bit and Ichigo smiled happily, enjoying to have the happy Kisshu back.
"So let's go kill some Pudding and eat some cake", he said stretching out his hand, but then pulling it back again fast and beckoned to her with his hand instead.
