You Are Not Alone

By: Mew Ami

Chapter Ten: Goodbye Mew Ichigo

Note:

I'm very sorry: Gomen nasai

Ryou turns around in his chair and faces her. He holds out his hand and says, "Hand me your pendant."

"Why?"

"Because you're off the team," he says coldly.

"Nani!?!?"

"Like I said you're off the team," says Ryou and gets out of his chair. He walks over to her and holds out his hand in front of her face waiting for her to put her pendant in it.

Ichigo shakes her head. "No."

"Give it to me!" he yells at her.

"Why should I? Do you want me to get kill? What if one the alien…"

Ryou cuts her off and says, "They won't get you since Kisshu is with you."

"What?"

"I saw you two in the park the other day. You help him up from the ground and took him home with you."

"How do you know that?"

"You two were walking in the direction of your house," he answers her.

"I still won't give it to you!" She yells at him and slaps him across his face. Before he could react to her action, Ichigo blots out of the lab and goes back upstairs to leave the café once and for all.

As she's running upstairs, Ichigo can hear Ryou calling her name. She doesn't respond and keeps running. When she reaches the door, Ichigo stops in front of it as soon as she hears her name being called right behind her.

She turns around and sees Ryou standing there in fury. Ichigo gives him a cold glare and puts her hand on the handle of the front door.

"Ichigo," says Ryou.

"What!" she yells at him.

"You don't have to give me your pendant if you bring Kisshu here," he says in almost nice tone. He's trying to get her good side.

Ichigo stares at him with anger in her eyes. How dare he say something like that! She would never turn Kisshu in like that just keep her pendant! That would lose her trust with him that they just built recently together.

"Well?" asks Ryou.

"I will never agree to do such a thing! I won't let you harm Kisshu!" She yells at him and tries to slap him again, but Ryou grabs her hand before she could hit his face again.

"Why do care about him? I thought you hated him?" he asks with a serious tone in voice and still holding on to her hand so she can't get away.

"That's not of your business!" Ichigo shouts on top of her lungs. She's trying to get out of his grip, but fails.

"Ichigo, he has been living at your house hasn't he? That's why you couldn't come to work or fight when aliens attack. Ichigo are you falling in love with him?"

"Get away from me!" yells the cat girl and pushes him away with all her might with her free arm. Ryou is pushed back just far enough to allow her run away.

Ichigo takes this chance and leaves the café before Ryou can get her. She runs in the opposite direction of her house. She wants forget about everything that has happen to her the past months. She wishes that she never became a mew mew.

Ichigo stops running when she reaches the middle of a forest on the other side of the city. She falls to her knees and beings to cry. She put her arms around her stomach and rests her head in the ground hoping that falling snow will burry her.

Back her house, Kisshu is looking out her window waiting for her to come home. It's getting late. Even though she didn't tell when school let out he knows it has to be over by now.

Masha flies up to him. He nudges his shoulder and says, "Ichigo."

Kisshu looks down at the little robot and for once doesn't bully him. "Should I go look for her?"

The pink little robot sometimes has a hard time understanding full sentences when you speak to him, but not this time. He nods his in agreement.

"Alright, let's go," he says and grabs the robot and opens her window. He then flies out of it, but before leaving her house completely he closes the window right behind him.

Him and Masha fly around Tokyo, but there's no sigh of her. Kisshu is starting to feel tried and rests in some random park in the city. He sits down on one the park benches. Kisshu knows that people will be able to see him, but he could careless. All he cares about right now is finding Ichigo.

Masha lands on his shoulder and looks at him sadly. He also worried about Ichigo. She has always treated him so nicely.

Meanwhile, Ichigo is still on the ground letting the snowflakes covering her up, but as the time passes she stands up.

"What am I doing?" she asks herself. "So what if I'm off the team? I never wanted to be a mew anyway."

Ichigo starts to walk out the forest. She stops when she sees a stream blocking her way out the wood. She realizes that she went the wrong way from where she came from.

"Damn it. The cold must be getting to me," she says to herself. Then she sits down in front of the stream and looks at herself in the water. She surprise that it hasn't frozen over yet since it's been so cold lately.

"Ichigo, are you falling in love with him?" asks Ryou's question again inside her head. It keeps repeating itself and gives her a headache. She puts her hands on her and yells on the top of her lungs, "SHUT UP!!!"

Back in the park, Kisshu's ears perk when he hears her voice. Aliens have very acute hearing and can hear things from a mile a way. He stands up and starts to fly away, but a spark of thunder gets in his way. Kisshu turns around and sees Taruto standing there with his weapon out.

"Kisshu," he says.

"What's it midget?" he asks with a smirk across his face. "I thought you would leave me since I defend Ichigo."

"Please come back. I haven't told Pai about you being with that girl," he says and tears begin fill his eyes.

"Taruto," says Kisshu as his smirk fades away.

"You can't just leave me and Pai like this. Also, your leaving our people," he says and tears escape from eyes and run down his cheek.

Kisshu turns his back to him. "I'm not leaving our people. I won't let them die on the horrible planet. I'll just find another way to save them," he says and flies away.

Taruto watches him fly. He allows his tears to keep falling down his face. Even though Kisshu is traitor he believes he'll save their home and won't tell Pai that he's with the cat girl.

Ichigo gets her pendant out of her pocket and holds it up. She stands up and transforms into mew mew form. Ichigo wants to get a better look at herself in the water. She bends back down on ground and leans forward to look at her reflection. Ichigo sees her pink hair and eyes. Also, she sees her big fuzzy black cat ears.

"Do I really want to be like this anymore?" she asks her. Ichigo hits the water with her hand to make her reflection disappear. "Maybe I should quit the team. I mean how can I fight anymore when I'm in love with…"

Ichigo hits her forehand with her hand. "I can't love him. I can't love him… Aoyama.." She buries her head in her legs.

In her mind an image of her boyfriend's hurt face appears. Tears start to flow down her face. "Gomen nasai, but I don't have feelings for you anymore."

Ichigo lies down on her back and looks up at the winter sky. She detransforms back into her human form and puts her pendant in her skirt pocket. "I don't have feelings for you anymore because…I…..becasue..I…."

Kisshu is flying towards the location where he heard Ichigo's voice. He's worry that there something wrong with her. He was about to come near to the forest, but purple hair alien appears in front him.

"Pai," says Kisshu when he comes to a complete stop.

"You're with them?" he asks.

"Did Taruto tell you?"

"No," he says and points to Masha with his fan.

Kisshu sees his monition to the robot and says, "I'm not with them."

"Then why is he with you?"

"Why are you asking and how did you find me?" asks Kisshu.

"I been looking for Taruto, but saw you flying around the city with that little robot. I then I saw you in the park with Taruto," he answers.

"I guess then know I quit fighting on your side," says Kisshu and flies past him. "I like said earlier I'm not on the human's side."

Pai holds up his fan and gets ready to attack, but then suddenly put it back down to his side. He could never hurt Kisshu no matter how much a traitor he is.

Kisshu looks back and sees that his weapon is next to him. Kisshu smiles and is glad that Pai still cares about him and Taruto. He then flies into forest and land. He sees tracks in the snow.

Ichigo sits up and gets out her pendant once again. So much is going through her mind right now, Ryou asking her if she loves Kisshu, breaking Aoyama's heart, and if she should leave the team once and for all. Ichigo looks down at the pendant and finally answers to come to her.

She stands up. "Goodbye…" There's a short pause and then she says, "Mew Ichigo." Then she throws the pendant into the stream.

Shortly after this Kisshu comes running up. "Ichigo!"

She turns around and looks at him, but before she could respond to him Ichigo passes out. Kisshu runs over to her and sits down next to her. He picks up her head and put it into his lap and then puts his hand on her forehead and it's very hot.

"Ichigo, your sick….," he says very quietly.

An: I was going to post this Saturday, but since I'm a nice authoress I'll give you guys a treat. I been wanting her to get sick for long time in this story, but didn't how to do it. This chapter made a great opportunity. Wow, Ichigo and Kisshu quit their teams. I wonder how Kisshu will save his planet now and what feeling Ichigo has for him. Also, now it's Kisshu's turn to take care of her. One more thing, for the next chapter I'm going to quote something from Fruits Basket so don't think I'm stealing anything when you read it. It's my favorite line in the whole story and I think it can help anyone when they have problems in their life. Dang this a long author note….so I'll say this please read my profile. I have very important news. I would tell you now, but this a long note. Thanks for reviews! Please keep it up!