Author: Tuliharja

Title: Future's strawberries

Disclaimer: Characters belongs Mia Ikumi and Reiko Yoshida. I don't own anything, expect the idea of this fic.

A/N: Thanks for The All Real Numbers Symbol betaing this. ^^ I also want thank everybody who have commented, favourited and added this into their subscribe alert. I hope you'll enjoy for this chapter! ^^

Chapter 10

Father and daughter talk

She shook her head. She wasn't going to listen anymore those lies. No, not anymore. She had had enough of it all.

"That woman…in that picture…she was my mother, wasn't she?" She finally shouted, glaring her sensei. "So all the talk about my roots was true! You knew it! And…and…"

"Raspberry, be quiet."

"Why? Why? Why should I be quiet? What's so shameful about the fact that my mother isn't an alien?" The Girl asked angrily. Her sensei suddenly stood up in his chair, the younger alien next to him alert. The Girl flinched little bit as her uncle glared at her.

"Humans…are dirty. They cheat and just use us…did you ever wonder where she is now?" Her sensei asked her coldly. The Girl could only stare him. Now that he mentioned it, she really wondered about it.

"Pai…" The younger alien said to her sensei as he circled his table and now walked in front of her. His deep purple eyes drilled in hers, as though he could see inside of her. Even into her soul.

"Think about it. I'm sure you'll figure it out," He said to her as the girl fell to her knees, coughing badly. It was shameful she was so weak. And now she knew why. Because she was only half alien.

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Raspberry glared at the horizon from where she was sitting on top of the huge building, trying her best to ignore Kish, which was actually pretty hard to do. Sighing, she finally turned to look at him, biting her lower lip. It seemed, everything she tried seemed to fail. She felt miserable; because she had been sure she would in no time at all be able to handle Ichigo and then leave. But of course, everything seemed to be working against her. The young alien girl snorted, which finally caught Kish's attention.

"So…how…how did…I die?" he finally asked quietly, which surprised the girl. Slightly shocked and amused she looked at her future-father.

"Why…why you want know?" she replied, equally quiet, now looking down at her feet.

"Well, wouldn't you be interested to know how you were going to die?" Kish tried joke as Raspberry turned to look at him. Her eyes were dull and dark. But Kish could still see pain in those eyes. A pain which she had held for so long.

"Or maybe I'll be just quiet." Kish decided, sighing. Raspberry just stared at him. She didn't want him being quiet.

"No…tell me…why you're here…back on Earth…" She began. Kish leaned now against his hands, letting out a lazy smile.

"Funny that you asked…we wanted come back and see if humans have really tried to change their behaviour…Not to mention, we needed some stupid plant-stuff-blaadi-blaadi-blaa! I didn't actually listen to that oh-so-uber-smart technical reason why we had to came here when Pai explained…it was rather boring. You probably know how he is?" Kish asked now, turning his golden eyes to the brown ones. Raspberry lifted her eyebrow.

"No…not really…" she whispered, and Kish rolled his eyes. "Uncle Pai…was really strict. He liked to keep his distance."

"Well, Pai has always done everything by the book, so I can understand that…did he take you after…you know…" Kish asked now quietly. Raspberry looked interestedly at Kish. She could easily see the topic was getting more and more awkward and bizarre from his angle. She couldn't really blame him; after all, the time travelling hadn't even invented yet. Well, it would be soon, what Raspberry knew about it.

"Yes," she just replied. She didn't want talk about it. After all, Kish and Pai had been friends. And even though Raspberry had hated her uncle for most of her life, she had learned it wasn't fully his fault what he was or would be.

"So…was I good father?" Kish asked now, flushing a little bit. Raspberry let out now a laugh. "What? It's not funny!"

"Oh, yes it is!" Raspberry argued back, starting to laugh harder when Kish crossed his arms front of him and looked little bit hurt. He looked like a real drama queen, sticking his nose up and trying to hold in his temper which was bad. The green haired alien girl just shook her head as Kish mumbled 'and I'd to get a daughter who doesn't respect her dad at all!' Even as everything seemed more and less surrealistic, Raspberry still enjoyed the time with her future-father.

Now she let out a sad smile. She dug out her pocket watch and looked the time in it. She knew she should enjoy time what she had now with him, since when she would had to go back he wouldn't be there. In fact, she wasn't even sure if there would be any place to go back. But Raspberry knew she should go back. She had to.

"Hello!" Kish voice brought her back to the moment, when he waved his hand front of her. "You're spacing out. Bad habit. I once crashed into a lamp-post when I was dreaming of my koneko-chan…"

Raspberry frowned. Indeed, she didn't have all that much time to be anymore here. Quietly, she stood up, giving Kish an odd look.

Sighing, she gave him a small smile.

"I have to…" She mumbled when Kish stood up too, grabbing her arm, his eyes now darker.

"No, you can't. I won't allow-…" Kish started when Raspberry slapped his hand away, stepping in the air.

"I have to! I don't have much time anymore! Please, father, don't try changing my mind! I have to do it! If I don't, I can't ever forgive myself!" The alien girl shouted, then Kish shook his head.

"Raspberry…" He whispered as the girl summoned her sai and looked at him.

"I won't back away. Not now," She murmured and disappeared.

Even though she just wanted stay and enjoy the warm evening with her future-father.