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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 Ten

Attack at the Park

The sun was shining brightly on the beautiful Saturday afternoon. Lettuce sat alone in the park reading a book. As Cafe Mew Mew was closed today, the girls could do what they pleased. Lettuce had laid out at blanket and was sitting peacefully on it. The wind was calm and everything seemed very relaxed. Normally Lettuce would be so pleased to be in an environment like this. So relaxing and enjoyable, but she couldn't. She couldn't even concentrate on her reading. This book that she'd been dying to read for so long just seemed so boring. She wasn't even really taking in what she read. All she could think about was Pai and Ryou. They were two completely different people and Lettuce was so confused about how she felt. The week had been so awkward after she'd heard Ryou and Ichigo in Ryou's bedroom. Lettuce couldn't really face either of them and tried to avoid them as best she could without them really noticing. She had noticed, however, that things between Ichigo and Ryou had changed. They weren't talking much or making any contact at all. God, how life was complicated.

"Lettuce-nee-chan!" A voice called. Lettuce turned to see the youngest Mew running at her.

"Hey, Pudding," Lettuce greeted as Pudding sat next to her on the blanket. "How are you enjoying your day off?" she asked, trying to sound happy. She'd been very fake happy lately as she didn't want people to suspect anything.

"I am enjoying it. My siblings are at their childminders so I've been spending the whole day to myself. I thought I'd like to have a nice play in the park, because I haven't played in so long. Then I saw you and I thought I'd come and see you. How you enjoying your day off?"

"Good, I'm enjoying reading a new book in the peace of the park. It's calming." Lettuce lied. She couldn't really tell Pudding what she was thinking as she didn't want to worry the younger mew.

"Well that's great Lettuce-nee-chan!" Pudding cheered, jumping into the air. "I'm going to play for a while, but when I'm done do you want to go for lunch?"

"I'd love to!" Lettuce replied feeling that having lunch with Pudding would make her feel better. She watched as Pudding ran into the playing area. She was so innocent. It made Lettuce sometimes wish 

she could be a child again, not having to worry about boy's and love. But then again that was a thing being a teenager brought.

Lettuce watched as Pudding climbed to the top of the jungle gym. She waved franticly from the top, which made Lettuce giggle. Then sometime happen that didn't make Lettuce laugh, but scared her. An enormous bang and scream's of fright. Wiping around, Lettuce saw a huge half dog half slug approaching the park. She turned to look at Pudding who nodded understandingly. Chimera Animal.

"Mew Mew Lettuce Metamorphose!"

"Mew Mew Pudding Metamorphose!"

Both girls changed into their Mew forms to defend the park. "It's a shame the aliens had to attack today," Pudding commented. "Maybe they knew it was our day off." Lettuce smirked. Pudding was properly right. There was another explosion from the other end of the park and more scream's.

"Must be another Chimera Animal," Lettuce said, turning to see the new beast, a mutated bird.

"Lettuce-nee-chan, we must hold them off until the others get here to help!" Pudding yelled, running towards the closest Chimera Animal, her voice suddenly serious. "I'll take this one. You take care of the other one."

"Got it!" Lettuce replied, whilst running over to the Chimera Animal. He swiped at Lettuce with one of its huge wings, but she easily jumped it. "Ribbon Lettuce Rush!" She yelled, using her attack on the beast. It hit and hurt it but didn't destroy it. Damn the aliens were getting better at this.

"Need a hand?" Lettuce turned to see Zakuro and Mint standing there.

Lettuce smiled. "Yes please." The two mews grinned and started fighting the beast. Lettuce looked over at Pudding. Ichigo had gone to help her and was successfully stopping the beast.

"Lettuce!" Said person looked over and saw three more Chimera Animals approaching. Mint and Zakuro were working on it but Lettuce felt the need to help them out. She ran over to them but was stopped by a sudden figure appearing in front of her. Pai! She tried to run past him but he blocked her.

"Please move!" she exclaimed. "They need my help or your beasts will destroy this park."

Pai smirked, "That's the point." So he's going pretend, Lettuce thought. Pretend it didn't happen, that he didn't kiss me. And when he did he held me close and his eyes. They were filled with sadness. All I want is to help him.

"Please don't do this!" Lettuce muttered. "I know you don't want to, so don't."

"This is exactly what I want to do, so I will do it!" Pai murmured.

"You're not a bad person, even if you think you are." Pai eye's widened slightly at Lettuce's words. "You may think you are but you're not. I saw the kind you. The kind you that kissed me and held me closely."



"Shut Up!" Pai yelled. "I told you to forget about that."

"But I can't," Lettuce moved closer to Pai as she spoke. "I can't forget about it and I don't want to. You let me go that night, when you should have killed me, because you are a good person and you're only trying to protect everyone back on your own planet. I can't even imagine how hard that must be for you, but I want to help." Pai lifted up his fan and hit it against Lettuce, sending her flying. She hit the ground with a thud.

"I don't need your help. I can and will do it on my own. The only reason I let you live was because I held some pity for you. But I will kill you know!" Pai slowly walked over to Lettuce on the ground. She tried sat up, but was obviously in pain.

"Then why haven't you?" She asked, winching slightly as she got herself into a comfortable position. "I haven't made any move to hurt you. If you wanted to kill me, I think you already would have. But I don't think you do want to or can."

Pai kneeled in front of Lettuce, smirking. "I could kill you if I wanted to!"

"Then do it," she muttered. For some reason, Lettuce wasn't scared. It was as if something deep inside knew Pai wouldn't hurt her. Pai leaned forward and grabbed Lettuce's chin in his hand.

"Fine, I will then!" Lettuce closed her eyes. He won't hurt me, she told herself. He won't hurt me, he's a good person! And he didn't. The pain and the hurt didn't come. She quickly opened her eyes and saw Pai's own eyes staring back into hers. Sadness, Lettuce hated that look.

"I can't," he muttered. "Why can't I bring myself to kill you?" he was talking more to himself then to Lettuce. He looked away from her. "Why can't I hurt you?" his voice sounded desperate. Lettuce felt her heart beating fast. Her and Pai's face's were very close and she really felt like she wanted to kiss him again, but why?

"Pai," Lettuce said, taking his head in her hand and bring them eye level. "You can't hurt me because deep down, you don't want to."

"I don't want to hurt you, but I have to" Pai leant forward, as if to kiss her again and Lettuce really wanted him to.

"Lettuce!" someone yelled. Both Lettuce and Pai looked over to see the rest of the mews running over to them. All the Chimera Animal's had disappeared. Pie teleported away and Lettuce slowly got to her feet.

"Lettuce, are you ok?" Ichigo asked. "Did Pai hurt you?"

Lettuce smiled slightly, shaking her head. "No he didn't and yes I'm fine!" the other four mews sighted in relief.

"Thank god, we were worried." Ichigo said, taking Lettuce by the arm and guiding her away from the park. "We're having some tea over my house. Want to come?"

"Of course!" and how could I refuse seeing as your dragging me there! Lettuce smiled, whilst begging pulled along to her friend's house. She couldn't help but feel somewhat better than this 

morning. Pai after all hadn't and didn't want to hurt her. That gave her some odd reassurance that maybe she could help him after all.

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Chapter Eleven ...Coming Soon...