A/N: School is preventing me from updating quick. Sorry! I'd say this is the longest it's taken me to update. Shame on me. Please still R&R!

Ichigo rubbed her crimson eyes. "What do you mean, Ryou? I'm just napping, okahhh…?" She yawned in the end of her sentence. Ryou hurried over, putting the back of his hand on her cheek.

"How did this happen to you?" He asked Ichigo, his worried eyes looking into her confusion.

Ichigo pulled his hand off, standing up, Ryou getting back up too. "I have no idea what your-" Ichigo had to tilt her head up to meet his eyes. "When did you get so tall?"

Ryou shook his head. "I believe the question would be; When did you get so short?" Ichigo looked down at herself and squealed. She pulled at her over-sized shirt, catching flies in her mouth. Ichigo's pants sagged low, and her bra straps fell to her shoulders' sides.

"I'm… young!" She exclaimed, stroking her long, pink hair.

Ryou thought for a second, and then said, "I think, considering your characteristics, you're thirteen again. Like when you became a mew." Ichigo tried to take a step, failing and tripping on her pants, and hitting the floor with a thud.

"Owie ow oww," she moaned. There was a stirring across the battered room, a person lifting their body off the floor.

"What's all the commotion?" Kuri asked, attempting to stand, wincing from her beating. She looked at Ichigo strangely, than at Ryou, the other conscious person in the room. "Who's that?"

Ryou laughed slightly, angering Ichigo. "It's not funny! You are so ignorant!" She sputtered, stomping in his foot.

"Someone's acting like a little kid, now aren't they?" He taunted, facing Kuri. "Hey, that's your mom."

Ichigo smiled apologetically at her daughter. "Must've been Tart's potion that made me thirteen again."

Kuri smiled back, but it was more playful. "I've always wanted a sister! But wait, didn't I drink Tart's potion too?" Ichigo nodded, pointing out Kuri's large clothing. "Eh? No, I don't want to be thirteen again! Wait, what about the other people?" All of the three looked around at the drowsy room. It was like a picture of sleeping beauty's kingdom, as she slumbered away. Everyone was back to their thirteenth age, innocently dreaming, not aware of what had happened to them.

Mika turned in her chair, flopping to the ground. Her eyes jolted open. "Oh hello, everyone. And, um, you are…" She looked at Ichigo, a lot like Kuri did. "Ichigo?" Mika guessed, squinting. "Is that you?"

Ichigo did a spin, landing with her hands on her hips, making a pout, but slightly smiling. "Meh-be!"

Mika giggled. "It is you! What happened?"

Ichigo gave her an 'excuse me?' look. "Um, exactly what happened to you? Or, exactly what happened to the person in front of me?"

Mika's eyes widened, and she checked her shoulders for her pale hair, which she didn't see. "No!" Mika yelled, grasping the top of her head, her hands landing in a big bushel of dark brown, curly hair. "Not my old hair!"

Kuri stifled laughter. "You look like Annie! But with brown hair, of course." Mika sobbed softly into the chair she lay by. Kuri skipped over, hugging her. "I didn't mean like that! I think your hair is awesome!"

Mika flipped around to face Kuri, her face lit up. "Really?"

Kuri's expression quickly changed to a smile again. "Well sure!" When Mika stood up and walked away, Kuri wiped her forehead and let out a phew.

"The others are young too! But why thirteen? That was the last year of this wretched hair style." Mika complained, pulling at a super tight curl.

Tempo groaned and woke up, going over to the group. "I'm taller." He stated bluntly.

Kuri clapped slowly, saying, "Good job, Tempo! You can be a group of one. We all got shorter."

Tempo noticed Ichigo, who was close to knotting off at any second. "Oh, hello." He said, acknowledging that she was his age. Ichigo looked up from her small cat nap, and smiled in amusement.

She playfully punched his forehead. "Not in a million years, kiddo."

He laughed at the young woman (heh, get it?) and looked at Mika. "Err, what's up, um, Shirley?" Mika stomped on his foot with full strength. Tempo grabbed his foot and hopped a few times, but tripped on one of Ryou's dropped items, falling on a different person.

"Get… off of me!" groaned Luna, who painfully lay under Tempo. She pushed him over, putting him right in front of Sara. (And when I say right in front, I mean nose-to-nose) This made Tempo blush hard, and he transformed, dark green hair messily falling down his shoulders and back, bangs sitting in his eyes. Sara opened her eyes.

"Pervert! Just because you're a girl doesn't change anything!" Tempo rolled away, whimpering to add, not wanting to be hurt.

"No, that's not what happened!" He protested, putting his hands up in protection.

Sara rolled up her sleeves, "Why I outta- wait, why are you, like, my height?" She stared straight at Tempo, who was actually eye-level with her.

"We're teens!" He excitedly answered, motioning to Ichigo, Kuri, and Mika. "Them too."

Kuri huffed. "I was a teen before! I was sixteen! Just before I get my license, too… I am going to KILL Tart!" Ryou cut into her rant.

"That's something I need to talk about. Someone wake up Anabell and Sahara please." The calmest one at the moment, Luna, kneeled down and shook the sleepy girl.

"Wakie, wakie, Anabell!" She chanted. Anabell moaned and turned over.

"ten more minutes, granny, I need to beat this damn addicting guitar game! Just five, ten more notes, nana…" Anabell was rambling on about random things, before Luna leaned down near her ear.

"WAKE UP LAZY BUTT!!!!!" She screamed, and Anabell jumped, cursing at Luna's obscenity. She stood up, slowly.

"What's the emergency, officer? Has the giant bumble bee stolen all the pigs again? Are the precious pies safe? Please not the pies! " Anabell asked with a slurred voice, obviously still half-asleep.

Sara dumped a bucket of water on her head. "Oh don't worry, the pies are just fine." Anabell was finally awake now. Sahara walked over, rubbing sleep from her eyes.

"Jeesh, you guys are so loud! Now what's the whole deal here?"

"Listen up, people!" Ryou said loudly, annoyance taking over him. "You all are clearly not strong enough for one alien, yet alone two, or maybe even more. We need to train!"

Sahara put her hands on her hips, giving Ryou a look. "Are you saying we're weak?"

Ryou crossed his arms, staring back at her. "Well, duh." Sahara fumed, but stayed fairly calm. Anabell looked at herself for the first time in her waking up.

"Why am I younger?" She asked, just like everyone else.

Ryou was extremely frustrated, because no one was really listening to his nags. "BECAUSE YOU ARE, OKAY?!?" He roared, his face turning red. Ichigo reached up and patted him on the shoulder.

"Chill, Ryou. Don't want your blood pressure to get too high, right?"

Ryou swatted away her hand, continuing to yell. He passed out. Ichigo shrugged. "I told him, didn't I?"

Tempo cleared his (or her) voice. "ANYWAYS, what I think Ryou is trying to tell us to train for whatever the aliens are planning."

Luna's shoulders dropped and she frowned. "But what are they planning? That's what we need to know!"

Two figures formed at the front of the room, focusing into Kish and Koi. But something was different about them, and it was what happened to everyone else, of course! Kish grinned his mischievous young smile. "We know… Hmm, what will you do for the answer?"

"Quit it, Kish! This is serious stuff," Ichigo complained, "and why were you kidnapped?"

"We over heard Pai and Tart talking about everything, and they knew we would try to tell you guys." Koi explained.

"So they locked us up and drugged us so we couldn't teleport us away." Kish added, making a puppy dog face. "I missed you, kitten!"

Ichigo sighed. "Kish, you know that we aren't actually thirteen again. We are still our older selves!" Kuri hopped up and down for a few seconds.

"My mom is younger than me? That's not right!" She said, pondering her mom's appearance and those things.

"Back to the situation at hand," Koi said, tapping his hand on his thigh. "Christmas is coming up, as you all know."

The girls exchanged looks. "And what exactly is bad about Christmas?" Sahara asked, the others nodding their heads.

"Well, nothing normally…" Koi started, Kish sighed, his playful mood evaporating.

"…Except for that Pai and Tart are going to rig all the toys into being their soldiers. And guess what everyone is going to be buying this season? Presents. And presents are…" Kish quizzed, taking a break for their answer.

Anabell snapped her finger, but then frowned and dropped her hands. "Well, toys."

"Exactly." The two aliens said at once, in a melancholy tone. How chaotic this day was going to be.

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"One, two! One, two!" Ryou bellowed at the girls, ordering out push-ups. Sara groaned and rolled over onto her back.

"How is this practicing ours powers? I want to learn how to make things ESPLODE!"

Ichigo huffed a bored breath. No one heard her, so she huffed louder. Ryou raised an eyebrow. "I didn't know you had asthma!"

She growled, baring her teeth. "I'm bored! What can I do? Aren't I the right age to do something?"

"Omigosh!" Kuri exclaimed quickly. "Be a mew! Be a mew! Auntie Mika, too."

"That's not such a bad idea. Recruiting would be a good word." Ryou said, digging through his pocket and pulling out a necklace with a charm on it.

Ichigo gasped, reaching for her old heart lavaliere. Grasping it in her tan palms, a bright pink light filled the room, blinding the poor spectators. Ichigo lifted in the air, holding her knees. She let go, a familiar outfit spreading onto her body. Black ears sprouted for her soft locks, and a silky tail waved.

Ichigo felt all the power rush back to her. Youth felt so good! She had wished for another chance to be a fighter; the glory uplifting. Ichigo laughed, "Oh yeah!"

Ryou smiled genuinely, almost sadly, but quickly went back to a hidden emotion face. He then turned to Mika. "I'm out of any animal injections, sorry.

Mika sighed and her eyes fell to the floor. Her lip quivered and she whined, "I wanted to be a deer! One of those endangered ones…"

Mika's face was so precious, it tore Ryou to pieces to see her so sad. This didn't display across his face, though. Ryou was still ironing his face out with the best of his ability.

Barring a forlorn Mika, the girls continued training with jumping jacks. Mika didn't care. Who needed them? She pulled out her sketch book and started a design on what her outfit would look like if she was a deer mew.

A/N: I bet your thinking, 'Deer aren't endangered you silly little authoress!' Whelpers, I'm talking about the Manipur Brow-Antlered Deer. SO HAH!! Look em up, they're adorable :P Err… on with the story….

Ryou blew a whistle that got there because… because the authoress said it did, of course! "That will suffice for now. Take a break if you'd like."

"If we'd like?" Sahara said, gasping for air. "More like if we need!" She dived for a water bottle Mika had set out in her time sitting around. "My name's Sahara, but that doesn't mean I live in the desert. Oh glorious water, you are so tasty"

Koi motioned for Ichigo to come over. "Be right back." She said to everyone and followed him. Kish raised an eyebrow (even higher than Ryou) at the two departing and wondered what his friend was planning. Curious, he trailed after them.

"Yes?" Ichigo asked when they were alone (or so thought).

Koi stared her straight in the eye. "Ichigo, go out with me."

Kish silently gaped, clenched his fist, grimaced, turned back to the previous room, and stormed off. Koi knew Kish liked Ichigo! But Koi would win that argument with a statement like, 'Hasn't it been such a long time since then? How would I know?' Well, he couldn't get Koi back like that, there was another way.

"Kuri," Kish called, waving his hand back to tell her to hustle over, "Come 'ere."

She tilted her head, confused, but followed him as he lead her to the traitors/traitor. This wasn't really Ichigo's fault. Kish put a finger over his lips to tell her to be quiet, then she peeked around the corner to see a confused Ichigo being pulled into a kiss by Koi. Kuri gasped loudly, taken back. Ichigo quickly drew away and her eyebrows sunk back in a saddening face.

"Kuri-" She said, reaching her hand out in an apology. Kuri closed her eyes and puckered her brows, slapping away the hand.

"Whatever."

With that, Kuri turned on her heel and 'calmly' walked away, but once out of sight, she burst into a run. Tears escaped from her petrified eyes. She stopped, legs parted. What was there to run from? If your mom cheats on your crush, it is sure as well awkward. She let out a bitter, short laugh. The stars smiled down on her; barmy her mood won't you? Too happy. Foot steps compressed the soft snow behind her. Kuri stayed immobile, for showing her face would reveal a soggy red expression of anger and sorrow.

"Kuri, it wasn't me. I promise!" An apologetic feminine voice broke the crisp air of early winter between Kuri and her mother.

"Oh really? I'm thinking being young gave you a rush of wants to do things fun."

Hot tears warmed both their cheeks as they silently cried. "You know that's not true. Koi kissed me. I didn't kiss him!"

Kuri was flushed with anger and veered towards Ichigo, snow covered hair whipping her crimson face.

A/N: End of chapter. So sorry!! It's just a humongo block just fell, crushing my toes… so um bite your nails and ask for more, give ideas, etc etc. Just please review some how ;p Toodles readers!