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Summary: Pai loves Lettuce, but she loves Ryou. What will happen when Pai's lost control?

Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew or any of the characters

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Chapter Nine

Heart Broken

Lettuce lay down on her bed after a hard day's work at Cafe Mew Mew. It had been a week today since she broken into the aliens spaceship. Since she'd kissed Pai. Lettuce still blushed thinking about it. It was odd, because even though she'd kissed Ryou, it wasn't really a proper kiss. He hadn't kissed her back or even been aware of the kiss. You couldn't really say that it had been mouth to mouth, just under water. But with Pai...it was so different. It was amazing and romantic. Lettuce still couldn't believe he'd kissed her; it seemed like a un-Pai thing to do. However he had and not just a kiss on the lips, but an adults kiss with tongues. Lettuce placed her fingers to her lips. That was the perfect kiss to her, but that was something she didn't understand. Pai'd been the one to kiss her not Ryou. Although she would have liked Ryou to, she did enjoy it when Pai kissed her. Lettuce sighed deeply. She hadn't seen Pai since then, but she couldn't stop thinking about him. How much he must have to sacrificed for his planet. All the people that lived there were expecting Pai to save them. Their lives were in his hands. Then if he failed and everyone dies, he's still be living on earth. He'd have to hold all the guilt on his shoulders. Also who was this Deep-blue person Pai had mentioned. Was he the one that had chose Pai to save their planet and why had he chosen Pai? Lettuce had so many question's that she wanted answering, but no-one to answer them. All she could do was think about possible answers. This normally kept her up half the night.

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The next day at Cafe Mew Mew had been one of the busiest they'd ever experience. So, even though it was her day off, Lettuce had gone in to help. She been working non-stop all day, along with all her fellow Mew's. For some reason business had really picked up that day, so by the end of the day there was lots of cleaning up to do. However as they'd ran over their normally working hours some of the mew's had to leave. Pudding had to go pick her siblings from their childminder, Mint had ballet practice and Zakuro had a photo shot. So this left Ichigo and Lettuce to clean up the mess, which they did.

"Lettuce thank you so much for coming in today, I'm not sure if we would have gotten though it without you," Ichigo had said as they came near the end of their cleaning.



"Oh, you're more than welcome Ichigo-san." Lettuce replied. They were both washing the dishes in the sink.

"How you ladies doing?" Ryou, who'd just entered the room, asked.

"Almost done," Ichigo replied, smiling as she washed the last dish.

"Good, cause I'd like to talk to you Ichigo," Ryou said, leaving the room.

Ichigo sighed, handing Lettuce the dish to dry. "I wonder what he wants now." She moaned, following Ryou up the stairs. Lettuce smiled watching Ichigo leave. She dried the last dish and placed it into the cupboard. Now she'd finished, thank god, she thought. I best go tell Ichigo and Ryou that I'm leaving now. So, without a second though, Lettuce removed her apron and walked upstairs. However the sound of arguing stopped her.

"I've told you, I'm not interested." Ichigo's voice was heard. Lettuce raised an eyebrow questionably. She crept slowly until she came to Ryou's bedroom. The door was slightly open, so she could see inside. Ryou was leaning against the window and Ichigo had her back to Lettuce.

"Well it's not like you're with anyone," Ryou replied, crossing his arms.

"Yes, but I do like someone." Ichigo replied. Her voice was sharp.

"Well you haven't even given me a chance," Ryou said. "Maybe if you do might like it."

"I doubt it," Ichigo scoffed.

"Come on I bet you would," Ryou said in a seductive manner. He moved close to Ichigo, leaning down and kissing her. Lettuce froze. Ryou liked Ichigo? How could this be happening? When had this happened? All this time and Lettuce had never suspected anything.

Ichigo pulled away from Ryou and slapped him across the face. "Ryou I've told you once and I'll tell you again, I don't like you that way. So stop annoying me!" she turned towards the door to leave, which made Lettuce panic. She quickly ran down a few steps then pretended to be walking up them. Ichigo stormed down the stairs, she stopped when she saw Lettuce.

"Hey," Lettuce said casually, pretending she hadn't heard anything that had gone on. Although she could feel tears in her eyes and was trying so hard to not let them fall. "I was just coming to tell you I'm heading home now."

"Oh, well ok. See you Lettuce," Ichigo walked past Lettuce down the stairs. Lettuce slowly followed her. She didn't really want to go and see Ryou. She felt like her heart was falling apart. All this time and I thought I had chance. Lettuce though. She felt so stupid. A tear slowly fell down her face. But then again, it's no surprise Ryou-san like's Ichigo-san. She's beautiful. I'm not, I'm ugly. No-one would ever like me.

With that, Lettuce walked to the changing room, changed and slowly walked home. For her love seemed so unreachable. The first person she'd ever felt like she loved, was out of her reach. Then another thought hit her. What about Pai? Pai? Lettuce didn't like Pai, he was the enemy. She did, however, fell something for him. But that can be anything, she told herself. I could pity him or hate 

him or... Lettuce sighed. Even if she may have liked Pai in any manner, he was the enemy; nothing could or would happen between them. It just seemed love wasn't on her side. So when she arrived home, she did the only thing she felt she could. She cried.

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