Kitten Love Chapter 10:

Turning Back

Ichigo sighed after Lettuce put her down, and walked toward Kisshu. Apparently she hadn't noticed him, because she squeaked when he walked over to her. "Sorry I startled you," he said softly. "And I'm sorry I hurt your feelings, I was just a bit unhappy about being scared awake."

"Myu," Ichigo said, nodding. "Myuu, mya nyan nya."

"She's sorry she scared you," Lettuce said, coming over.

"It's okay, but please don't do that again," Kisshu said. "Lettuce, you can understand her?"

"Hai, but I don't know why," Lettuce said. "My Mew animal is about as far from a cat as you can get."

"Maybe it's because you're both Mews," Kisshu said. "Where's Pai?"

"Contacting Keiichiro," Lettuce said- right as Pai teleported in.

"Pai, what did Keiichiro say?" Kisshu asked.

"He developed something that will probably turn Ichigo back, but Ryou's vanished," Pai said. "We'll have to be careful. Let's go to the Café."

Kisshu nodded and teleported to the basement. Pai and Lettuce teleported in right as he did. Keiichiro was there, and he said, "I found a cure, but we'll have to be careful afterwards. Ryou could do this again, and we'd be back to square one."

"Alright," Kisshu said.

Keiichiro nodded and picked up a needle with a canister attached, and Ichigo squeaked. "It's okay, it'll get you back to normal," Kisshu told her softly. Ichigo still seemed nervous, but let Keiichiro put the needle in her leg, and push the serum he had developed into her bloodstream. When it was all gone, Keiichiro said, "Put her down, she should be back to normal in a few minutes."

Kisshu put her down on the floor, and as they watched, she started to transform back into a human. When she was fully transformed back, she was sound asleep. "Take her home," Keiichiro said softly. "She'll be fine when she wakes up."

Kisshu gently picked her up and teleported to Ichigo's house. He landed in the living room, and Shintaro looked up from his paper. "What happened?" he asked.

"Keiichiro turned her back, but said she needs to rest," Kisshu said. "She should be fine when she wakes up."

"Okay," Shintaro said.

Kisshu took Ichigo upstairs, and to her room, then tucked her into her bed and sat down in her desk chair.

Two hours later, Kisshu was still watching her, when she started crying out in her sleep. Worried, Kisshu went over and shook her. "Koneko-chan, wake up," he said softly. Ichigo woke up with a start, looking scared. "Did you have a nightmare?" Kisshu asked her gently.

Ichigo looked confused. "Who are you, and why are you in my room?" she asked.

Kisshu's eyes widened. "You don't remember me?" he asked shakily.

"No…" Ichigo said. "Who are you?"

"I'm Kisshu, your boyfriend," Kisshu said.

"What happened to your ears?" Ichigo asked.

"They always looked like this," Kisshu said gloomily.

"Why are you sad?" Ichigo asked.

"Because you don't remember me…" Kisshu said sadly.

Pai teleported in just then, and Ichigo said, "Hi Pai."

"Wait, you remember Pai, but you don't remember me?" Kisshu asked, confused.

"No," Ichigo said.

Pai sighed and said, "Keiichiro just realized his serum had a little problem. It has a weird side effect of causing the person it's used on to forget the person they care about the most. They remember everything else, except that person."

"NOW what do I do?" Kisshu wailed.

"Well, for starters, you could calm down and listen to the rest of it," Pai suggested dryly. "I think I can reverse that side effect, but Ichigo might get kind of clingy afterwards. You'd better go tell her parents you'd appreciate if you could stay, and explain why."

"Okay," Kisshu said. As Pai put a hand on Ichigo's forehead, Kisshu walked downstairs, and to the kitchen. He found Sakura in there, and she said, "Oh, hi Kisshu, what's up?"

"Pai's reversing the side effects of Keiichiro's serum, but he says Ichigo's going to be clingy to me for a while, and I was wondering if I could stay here so she doesn't start thinking I don't like her," Kisshu said.

"Sure," Sakura said. "You can have the guest room."

"Thanks," Kisshu said, and went back upstairs.

Pai was still standing over Ichigo, a hand on her forehead. She was asleep again, and Kisshu remained silent until Pai took his hand away. Pai looked at Kisshu, and said, "That should do it, but stay with her, okay?"

"Of course," Kisshu said. "I'll look after her, you go play with the fish."

"A Finless Porpoise is NOT a fish," Pai sighed. "It's a marine mammal."

"Yeah, whatever," Kisshu said. "Go play with the marine mammal, then."

"She has a name, you know," Pai growled.

"Yeah, but don't you think a nickname would be a good idea?" Kisshu asked. "How about 'Little Fish'? 'Little marine mammal' doesn't have a very nice ring to it…"

Pai growled at him. "You could call her Fishy-chan," Kisshu suggested, smirking.

Pai snarled and lunged at Kisshu, but before he could start strangling him, Sakura walked in, saw them, and said, "Pai, do I need to tell my husband that he can beat you up now? NO FIGHTING IN THE HOUSE!"

Pai sighed. "Sorry Mrs. Momomiya," he said. "I think I'll be going now."

"Don't forget the nickname," Kisshu said as Pai started to teleport. Pai just snarled and teleported out.

"Nickname?" Sakura asked.

"Yeah, I was telling him he should give Lettuce a nickname, like how I call Ichigo 'Koneko-chan'," Kisshu said. "I suggested Little Fish, and Fishy-chan, and then he tried to strangle me."

Sakura sighed, but they noticed Ichigo was waking up. Kisshu went over and sat next to her on the bed. "Koneko-chan?" he asked.

"Kishy?" Ichigo asked. "Do you still love me?"

"Of course, I'll always love you," Kisshu said. "What would make you ask that?"

"I thought you didn't like cats…." Ichigo said.

"I love cats," Kisshu said. "And I love you."

Ichigo perked up a bit, and hugged Kisshu. "I love you too, Kishy," she said happily.

"Kishy?" Kisshu asked.

Ichigo ruffled his hair. "That's you!" she said. "Do you like your new nickname?"

Kisshu smiled. "I'm glad you gave me a nickname," he said.

Ichigo smiled happily, and ruffled his hair again. Then she jumped up and pulled Kisshu up too. Totally ignoring the fact that Sakura was still there, she kissed Kisshu passionately. He kissed back with equal passion, despite the fact that Ichigo was acting pretty different, and it kind of worried him. She had gone from sad to extremely happy pretty quickly.

Ichigo broke off the kiss for air soon after, and noticed Kisshu looked a bit dazed. "Kishy, are you okay?" she asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," Kisshu said. "You're good at kissing, Koneko-chan."

Ichigo smiled happily, and said, "Let's go eat ice cream now!"

"O-okay," Kisshu said.

Noticing his hesitation, Ichigo said, "You don't like ice cream?"

"I've never had ice cream," Kisshu said.

Ichigo perked up. "I love it, you should try it," she said. "We've got some strawberry in the freezer, come on." She took his hand and dragged him downstairs.

Shintaro looked up as they passed. "Where are you going?" he asked in a forbidding tone.

"The kitchen, Kishy's never tried ice cream before," Ichigo said.

"Not too much before dinner," Shintaro said, and went back to his book.

Ichigo smiled and dragged Kisshu into the kitchen. "I'll get it, you can sit down," she told him. Kisshu sat at the kitchen table and watched as Ichigo got out bowls, spoons, and the ice cream, and started scooping some into each bowl. Then she brought the bowls to the table, and put one in front of Kisshu. "Try it!" she said, sitting down with her own bowl.

Kisshu hesitantly tried the strawberry ice cream, and looked surprised. "This is really good," he said.

"See?" Ichigo said. "I love ice cream!"

Kisshu smiled and continued eating, finishing before Ichigo did. "Thanks Koneko-chan, that was really good," Kisshu said.

Ichigo smiled happily. She finished up her own bowl, and said, "Let's go somewhere!"

"Okay, but we have to be careful, Ryou's still out to get us," Kisshu said.

"Okay," Ichigo said. "Let's go to the park!"

Kisshu smiled at her enthusiasm, and said, "We have to tell your parents first."

Ichigo ran into the living room and said excitedly, "Kishy and I are going to the park, Dad!"

Kisshu came in as Shintaro said, "Fine, but be back before dinner, which is at six."

"Okay!" Ichigo said cheerfully, and looked at Kisshu. "Do you want to walk, or teleport?" she asked.

"Let's walk," Kisshu said. Ichigo smiled and took his hand, then went out the door. They walked hand in hand to Inohara Park, neither of them noticing the pair of eyes watching them jealously.

Whose eyes are watching them? Is it Ryou? Or someone else? Review and find out- next chapter!