Me: I seem to be updating pretty fast. I guess it's 'cause I have a lot of free time ;)! Anyway, I have a question! What if I made another new mew? It would be like, Kuri or Cherry, but not Cookie because she's only five and Purin is supposed to be the youngest mew mew, so...yeah, I wanted to ask if it was a good idea before I made any final decisions about it! I'd love to know what everyone else thinks!
Kish: And I'm banished from my own planet.
Kuriimu: *grinning*
Kish: And I know what you're planning, idiot.
Me: Yeah, as far as Kuriimu goes, I have something in mind, but it won't really come up until about, the next chapter or so. Anyway, on with the story now!
Disclaimer: Strawberry Kousagi does not own Tokyo Mew Mew nor anything related to it, only her OC's!
"So…Pai is really gonna…" Tart paused, gulping, "Banish you?"
Kish sighed, nodding, "Yup."
"All because you won't kill the cat?" Sherbet asked. Kish nodded again.
"And you're gonna be hanging out with the mews now?" Tart asked, again Kish nodded.
"We're still not sure how to go about it though," Ichigo said.
Purin rested her head against her shoulder, still curled up next to her. "Purin thinks Kish-oniichan will do fine, na no da."
Everyone looked at the girl in surprise, "Did you just…?" Kish started, "Call me "oniichan"?"
Purin looked up at him, "Why not, na no da? Is that a bad thing?"
"Er…well, no," Kish said, "I just- it surprised me is all."
"Oh yeah!" Sherbet said suddenly, "Kuriimu sent me with this, it's for you!" He shoved his hand into his pocket, pulling out the letter and handing it to Kish.
He took it, eyeing in curiously, "What's in it?"
Sherbet shrugged, "Didn't read it, he said it was a secret."
"Huh." He unfolded it quickly, scanning over the words.
Kish!
I'm sorry. You're in trouble. You were with the Pink Mew, Pai caught you. It sucks. Can you get out of it? I guess not.
Kuriimu!
Then there was a rather badly done drawing of a barn with a few sheep, chickens, and a cow in front it, all drawn under the message. Kish chuckled, his brother couldn't draw to save his life, but he knew what the letter meant and he wasn't liking it to much, why did Kuriimu have to be so much like their uncle? Usually it was okay, but right now it was going to get him a lot of trouble.
Mikuru panted, running, with her white MP3 player in the back pocket of her denim shorts, bopping up and down with her fast movements. She was listening to Kana while going for a run down the gulf and she was already half way down it, almost to the horse pasture where she planned to stop and turn back to head back to the house.
Something purple caught the corner of her eyes, in the trees, and skidded to a stop, whirling around to see what it was…nothing was there. She already worried, Ichigo having disappeared and nowhere to be seen since the night before, and Purin had disappeared as well just recently. What had happened to them? That's why she had gone out for the run in the first place, to see if maybe they had gone down there, but so far there was no sign of either of the girls.
Rustle…rustle…
Mikuru stiffened, what was out there?
Clomp, clomp…
The sound of horse feet? Emerging from the trees was Macy, Kuri's Arabian horse; it was a pretty off-white with cream colored pinto markings. Suddenly, though, it grew ten times its size, morphing into something larger, deformed, and quite obviously evil with its glowing red eyes, hooves curved into daggers, and teeth as sharp as knives.
Mikuru gasped, it was a Chimera Anima! Which meant that one of the aliens had to be near, but whoever it was she had to transform.
Pulling out her pendant, she shouted into it; "MEW MEW MILK! METAMORPHOSIS!"
She watched with narrowed eyes as Pai landed on a tree branch not to far behind the deformed horse. "MILK MUSIC!" She summoned her weapon, if the other mews weren't coming, then she'd fight it alone.
On a candy pink piece of yarn around Ichigo's neck, her mew pendant started flashing, as did Purin's on her own neck, held on with a piece of yellow yarn. The two mews glanced at each other before standing up, the aliens confused as to what was going on the, they both shouted into their pendants.
"MEW MEW STRAWBERRY! MEATMORPHOSIS!"
"MEW MEW PUDDING! METAMORPHOSIS!"
"Kitten," Kish said, standing up quickly, "What's going on?"
"Why were your pendants glowing?" Tart asked.
"A mew transformed." Ichigo answered before she and Purin ran out of the hay loft and out of the barn, meeting the other mews, all of which were already in mew form, near the back of the house. Ichigo did a head count.
"Mikuru!" She gasped.
Kish, Tart, and Sherbet burst out of the barn door, "Ichigo, what's going on?!" Kish demanded.
"What the…?" Minto trailed off, the mews were clearly surprised by the three aliens being with their leader and youngest.
"I'll explain later!" Ichigo said, "Where's Mikuru?"
"Uh…d-down the- the gulf!" Retasu answered, stuttering and she shifted her weight from foot to foot nervously, her small hands curled into loose fists and pressing into her chest.
Ichigo took off again, the rest of the mews on her heels, and the three aliens following, still confused as to what was happening.
"RIBBON…MILK LULLABY!" A blast of white shot out from the gold cow bell on Mikuru's weapon. There was no one else, just her, fighting alone, yet she wasn't strong enough to beat it by herself.
The mutated horse anima reared up, kicking its feet, and charged for her.
"AAAAAAH!" She shrieked as it rammed headfirst in her, throwing her back into a tree, hard. She landed on her butt, right at the base of the tree, and tried to sit up, but there were to many scrapes and bruises, she was to banged up to do anything anymore and her weapon had disappeared.
She felt the air shift above her and looked up to see Pai, "You end now, filthy human." He summoned his own weapon, a fan, and aimed it for her. The small lamb mew whimpered as tears began to leak out of the corners of her eyes.
"STOP!" She and Pai whipped their heads around and saw the mews running towards them, it was Retasu who had screamed.
Pai floated back, away from Mikuru, a softer look coming into his eyes when he spotted the green haired mew mew. Then he noticed a darker green, not to far behind them. "Kish…" But what surprised him the most was that Tart and Sherbet were also with the mews.
Retasu and Purin ran to Mikuru, helping her get further into the trees and out of the way of the Chimera Anima. The girl whimpered more; sure that she had a broken bone somewhere.
"RIBBON…STRAWBERRY CHECK!" Ichigo shot off her attack at the Anima, killing it instantly, it having already been weakened by Mikuru's attacks.
Pai stood on the dirt path, Kish a few several feet in front of him, as they glared at each other. Sherbet and Tart stood close to each other only a foot behind Kish.
"Pai." Kish said monotonously.
"Kish." Pai said in the same monotone voice.
As the rest of the mews helped Mikuru to her feet, they could feel the heavy tension in the air.
Kuri was pacing around the kitchen, back and forth, back and forth, while Cherry was mixing a bowl of cupcake batter, and Cookie was sitting on the counter watching intently, hoping on getting to lick the bowl or spoon once her sister was done.
"Would you relax?" Cherry said, not even looking up at the girl, "I'm sure Mikuru is fine, stop worrying!"
"She's never been out for a run this long," Kuri said, felt more worried than she sounded, "Never!"
"Maybe she found a sunny place and decided to stay out longer than she normally does," Cherry said, "You know just as well as I do how much she loves to sunbathe."
Kuri stopped pacing, wirlling around to face her cousin, her hands clenched into fists at her mouth, "I swear, if any of those alien mother fu-"
Cherry stuffed the wooden mixing spoon in the mouth, giving her a look with an eyebrow raised, "Watch your language." She glanced over at Cookie who was still sitting on the counter, a slightly disappointed look on her face that she wouldn't get to lick the spoon, but at least there was still the bowl.
Kuri rolled her eyes and took the spoon, pulling it out of her mouth, "If they hurt her, they're so dead." She said darkly, just then the door nearly burst open and the mews walked in, no longer in mew form, Mikuru being supported by Ichigo and Zakuro, each arm over their shoulders. Kish was waiting outside while Pai had ordered Tart and Sherbet to go back to the ship and of course, being only children, they obeyed.
"Mikuru!" Kuri squeaked, tossing the spoon into the sink and rushing into the mudroom where her sister was being set down on the wood-made bench. "What happened?!"
"Pai is what happened." Minto answered.
"Pie- how did a dessert do this?" Cherry asked, walking in, Cookie following close behind.
Minto rolled her eyes, "P-A-I!" She snapped, spelling out each letter, "One of the aliens attacking us!"
Cherry just stared at her, a little shocked, "You didn't have to yell."
Minto rolled her eyes again, sneering and crossing her arms over her chest.
Mikuru looked up at everyone, smiling sweetly, "Everyone, I'm fine, really."
"My foot!" Kuri exclaimed, "Into the bathroom, now. We'll get you cleaned up and everything and then you will be fine!" Mikuru smiled again, her sister was always so overprotective of her and their cousins.
Cherry went back to the kitchen with Cookie to finish the cupcakes while Kuri and Retasu ushered Mikuru into the bathroom and got out the first-aid kit, Minto went to put on a pot of tea.
It was just Zakuro and Ichigo left standing in the mudroom, "What will you do about Kish?" The wolf mew asked.
Ichigo set her gaze to the ground, "I'm not sure. He is no longer with the aliens anymore and it's against a mew mew's rules to just leave someone out in the cold, unless it's necessary, so I guess…I'll have to talk to Ryou and Keiichiro about it." Zakuro simply nodded before walking to the kitchen to wait with Minto for the tea to finish.
Ichigo sighed before turning around and walking back out the door. She found Kish leaning up against the house to the right of the door, staring up at the sunset sky. The day sure had passed pretty quickly. When he looked down at her, he smiled.
"Hey," He said, "How's the little lamb?"
"Mikuru?" Ichigo asked. Kish nodded, "She's…better, Kuri and Retasu are taking care of her."
"I'm sorry about what Pai did," Kish said, looking guilty as though it were his fault, "He can be a real jerk sometimes."
"It's not your fault," Ichigo said, putting a hand on his shoulder, "He just wants to save his people, and so do you, and Tart, and everyone else on your planet."
Kish smiled at her again, taking her hand and kissing her fingers, making the girl blush, "So what about Blondie?" He asked, "And the baker guy?"
"What about them?" Ichigo asked, taking her hand from Kish and letting it fall to her side.
"Well, will they accept me as part of the group or not?" Kish asked, "I mean, I'm not joining the mews or anything but if I'll be hanging around you guys, and Purin is already calling me "oniichan"…" Kish said, "I think they'd know about it."
"Oh," Ichigo said, "Yeah, I didn't see them when we went in so, I'm not sure where they are."
Kish nodded, "So…if I can't go back to the ship, what'll I do for the night?" Ichigo bit her low lip, furrowing her brow.
"No. Freaking. WAY!" Kuri nearly screamed, leaning forward a little with her fists placed firmly on her hips.
"Kuri," Ichigo said, standing in front of Kish who was sitting in the armchair in the living room while the rest of the mews plus Cherry and Cookie were all squished together on the couch, Purin sitting on Zakuro's lap and Cookie on Cherry's. "Please, he has nowhere else to go."
"He's one of those damned aliens!" Kuri protested.
"Hey!" Kish said, clearly offended.
The brunette looked over Ichigo's shoulder to glare at him before looking back at the cat girl herself, "He's one of the ones attacking my sister and you girls, why would I let him stay here?"
"Actually," Ichigo said, "He's the one that got Pai to stop attacking."
Kuri flinched but loosened up a little, sighing as she crossed her arms over her chest, "Fine." She said rather harshly, "But he's sleeping on the couch and he has to wear a disguise, I don't want Grandma knowing we have an alien staying here."
Ichigo thought it was a little unfair that he had to sleep on the couch, but at least it was somewhere, and so she nodded in agreement.
Me: Okay, so that was the knew chapter! I hope everyone liked it!
Kish: I'll be near Ichigo a lot now! :D
Kuriimu: What're you going to do with me? Why is it being such a mystery?!
Me: *giggles* You'll find out soon! Read and Reveiw please!
