Me: The new chappy is here! :D I drew Mikuru, in both her normal form and mew form! And also as a little chibi! She's sooo cute in as a little chibi! I also drew Kuri and scanned them all onto the computer! Yay! I love how their mew forms came out!
Kish: Now, on with the story!
Disclaimer: StrawberryKousagi does not own Tokyo Mew Mew nor anything related to it, just her OCs
Pai was still sitting in a chair in the computer room, sighing every now and again, thinking over what he should do.
Tart and Sherbet walked into the room rather timidly. "Um…P-Pai…?" Tart said.
Pai craned his neck to look at the small boy. "Yes?"
Tart took in a breath, "Well, Sherbet and I think…um, you-should-admit-that-you-like-the-green-mew-and-we-should-stick-with-Kish-and-Kuriimu!" He clamped both hands over his mouth, staring at Pai with wide eyes as his cousin stood next to him, silent.
Pai leaned on the arm of the chair and massaged the bridge of his nose. "Believe it or not, I have actually considered that."
The two were surprised. "You…have?" Sherbet asked.
Pai nodded, "Tart, do you remember a while ago, something Kish said only a few days before Kuriimu joined us?"
"Um…" Tart thought back to then, "Pai, you're gonna have to be more specific, Kish says a lot of things." Sherbet kept down a giggle.
"About not always trusting Deep Blue-sama." Pai said.
"Oh, yeah!" Tart said, "I remember that!"
Kish, Pai, and Tart were in the alien dimension, discussing what they would do once Kuriimu arrived.
"We should ask Deep Blue-sama." Pai said.
Kish rolled his eyes, "That's what you always say. But he's my brother, he'll stick with me, at least most of the time."
"We should still ask Deep Blue!" Tart said, "He might have something planned!"
"What if Deep Blue is off his rocker?" Kish asked, folding his arms behind his head. "I mean, he has three people trying to take over a whole planet."
"Soon to be four." Pai corrected.
"Whatever," Kish said, "And our enemies' leader is adorably cute and irresistible, how are we supposed to beat them?"
Pai and Tart both rolled their eyes.
"It'll be four against five," Kish went on, "If he weren't a total nut case then he would have planned this out better!"
"Kish!" Pai said, "How can you say such a think about our master with such casualty?!" Kish childishly stuck his tongue out at him.
"What about it?" Tart asked.
"I think…Kish may have been correct about Deep Blue." Pai said. Tart and Sherbet's eyes widened.
Ichigo was in the kitchen of the temporary Café Mew Mew, washing dishes though that was far from being anywhere near what was really on her mind. Kish had said he couldn't wait for their first date…but what would it even be like? Would it be like the dates she had with Masaya, or something a little different?
Ichigo shook her head, "This is Kish! Why am I so nervous?"
"Something wrong Kitten?" She heard Kish's voice right by her ear as he wrapped his arms around her waist to hug her from behind. He was supposed to be upstairs with Kuriimu, but like always Kish didn't follow the rules to well.
"N-nothing!" Ichigo said, blushing madly.
"Are you sure?" Kish asked, "You're being awfully quiet."
"I'm doing the dishes!" Ichigo said in protest, "What do you expect me to do? Talk to myself?"
Kish giggled, "No, of course not! You're really are a silly kitty!" Ichigo let out a breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. "But really," Kish went on, "I saw the look on your face, you looked worried about something."
Ichigo stopped scrubbing the pot she'd been trying to clean, letting it drop to the bottom of the sink. "Um…when you said "first date"…what exactly did you have in mind?"
Kish laughed softly, "Is that what you're worried about? That I'll want to do something you wont?" Ichigo nodded. "Kitten, remember what I said? I won't try anything I don't think you'll approve of…with the exception of making out."
"Kish!" Ichigo exclaimed, slamming her hands into the dishwater and making it splash everywhere.
Kish snickered, "Kitty Kat, you're going to get yourself soaked!"
"Everyone!" Ryou called from the top of the basement stairs. "It's closing time!" He sounded serious, like it was an urgent matter. Ichigo knew what this meant, Kish however, did not.
He raised an eyebrow, "Why's he sound so serious?"
Ichigo sighed, smirking, "Because, this is a secret base, with all the costumers in there, he can't just come out and say "alright girls, it's time to experiment on Kuri!"" The two laughed.
After everyone was ushered out of the café the mews and Kuri all went to the basement wit Keiichiro and Ryou, for safety measures Kish and Kuriimu were told to stay in the front room.
Kuri whistled as she came down the stairs, putting a hand on her hip, "Wow, you turned an old wine cellar into a lab? I must say, I'm impressed."
"Miss Kuri?" Keiichiro called, "This way please."
"Uh, sure." The mews all sat around a table, along with the two guys and Kuri. "So…how do we start this?"
"Well, first of all," Ryou said, "We'll need a blood sample."
"Excuse me!" Ichigo said, "But I don't remember you taking any of my blood!"
"That's because I didn't," Ryou said, "I need a sample from Kuri for a test, you six weren't tests, you just happened, remember?" Ichigo glared at him, Ryou rolled his eyes, "But we got lucky and missed the animals we were intending to infuse and got you five."
(A/N: I don't remember if this was explained in the anime or not, but incase anyone doesn't know, in the manga they were actually aiming for animals, but because of the earthquake hit the girls instead.)
Kuri raised and eyebrow, "I'm confused, you said that these six just happened, but five weren't on purpose, how does that work?"
"Well, when I injected your sister…" Ryou started.
Ryou was in his lab, trying to find a way to enhance the mew mews' powers. He held up the ray gun, reaching behind himself without looking and grabbing a test-tube from the small table, sliding it into the gun. Tweaking with it a bit, he finally shot it off, intending to hit the mews with it but it shot off somewhere else instead, somewhere outside the café.
"Oh…shit!" Ryou cursed. Imidiatly, he began to search for the girl…
On the screen appeared a picture add for a place out in the country.
BERRY SKY FARM
FARM-FRESH: MILK, EGGS, MEAT
COME FOR VISIT!
Ryou was confused, so he continued to track the DNA he had accidently sent out further…he ended up with not one girl on the farm, but four. All of which could be the girl, though all he had to go by on his screen was a white dot that kept moving.
"So…Mew Milk was a complete accident?" Kuri asked.
"Yes," Keiichiro answered, "That is what we told you before."
"And the other five are also accidents?" Kuri asked.
"Yes." Ryou answered.
"You guys make a lot of…accident." Kuri said.
"Look, I know none of this was planned, at least not very well," Ryou said, "But just trust us."
Kuri heaved a sigh, "Fine. Since it's for Mikuru, I'll trust you."
"You…you really think Deep Blue might be a loon?" Tart asked.
"Yes." Pai answered.
"But…why?" Sherbet asked.
Pai sighed quietly, "It was an order to target Mew Milk, he said she is the weakest of them and I also had proof by way of her diary, though Kuriimu stole it and has probably returned it to her…anyhow, he said that all will be lost soon, though he was laughing and would not explain it."
"Weird…" Tart mumbled, furrowing his brow.
"All will be lost…" Pai kept repeating in his head, over and over, "What the hell does that mean!?" He had to know. Maybe he should ask someone, but whom? Then it hit him, though he could only hope that the person would give him an answer, let alone a strait one.
She was surrounded by a brown light, her clothes gone and her hair blowing gently in a breeze she couldn't feel. A small horse appeared in front of her, it was the smallest horse she'd ever seen, like what you would see on baby clothes.
It galloped over to her and leaped, disappearing into her chest…it felt good, it felt…warm…
Kuri fluttered her eyes open, she felt different, like she had more energy suddenly or something. She was lying on a bed, it looked like a hospital bed.
"Kuri-san?" Keiichiro called, "How are you feeling?"
"Great!" Kuri answered, sitting up.
"Good, then look over her." Ryou instructed.
Kuri did and gasped at what she saw staring back at her in a full-length mirror that was hung on the wall.
She was wearing a brown tank top that had light brown straps that trailed all the way down to her hips where the top ended, she had tight, brown short-shorts under a brown skirt that had light brown pleats, knee-high light brown boots that looked somewhat like horse riding boots with small, one inch heels, brown fingerless gloves that had brown ribbons crisscrossing up to her elbows and tied into a neat little bow, and the bands around her left thigh, neck, and arms were light brown with brown edging. What was the most interesting though, was the black horse tail she had and the black horse ears.
"I'm…I'm a horse!" Kuri exclaimed.
"The rare Cleveland Bay to be exact," Ryou said.
"Oh…wow!" Kuri grinned at herself, turning this way and that so she could see her mew form front and back.
There was some yelling from upstairs, then they heard Kuriimu yell down, "Uh, you might wanna come up here!"
Everyone raced up the stairs, gasping at what they saw in the front room. Kish was floating in the air, glaring down at Pai who was simply standing in front of the doorway, trying to ignore him.
"Pai!" Kuri shouted, "What'd you come here for?!"
Pai raised an eyebrow at her, "Yet another mew?"
All to ready to fight, Kuri felt the words come to her. "CHESTNUT LUCK!" Kuri summoned her weapon and a rusty looking horseshoe appeared in her hands, it had little, pink jewels lining it –sort of like the bumpy things on Purin's weapon-, and a pink ribbon around the top that tied into a little bow with excess ribbon hanging down a few inches. She thrilled beyond words but also a little confused. "What do I do with it?"
"Just listen!" Ichigo answered, "The words will come to you, just like transforming!"
Kuri stood there, holding her weapon, after a minute she pulled it back and threw it, aiming for Pai's head.
"Ow!" He exclaimed once it hit him right on the back of the head, he glared at the girl, rubbing where she'd hit him.
"I don't that's quite right…" Ichigo said. Kish and Kuriimu were snickering.
"CHESTNUT LUCK!" She summoned her weapon again, trying not to laugh at herself. "RIBBON…CHESTNUT CRUSH!" A brown blast shot off at the Pai but he dodged it.
"Would you stop attacking me?!" He exclaimed.
"You nearly killed my sister!" Kuri shouted up to him.
"It wasn't that bad!" Mikuru said.
"I am merely here to speak with Kish!" Pai stated.
Kish narrowed his eyes at him, crossing his arms over his chest, "Why? If you're here to try to get us to come back, I won't-"
"That is not the reason." Pai said, interrupting him.
Everyone fell silent and surprisingly Retasu was the first to speak up, "T-then why are you here?"
Pai took in a breath and turned to Kish, "Kish, I know things have been…unstable between us-"
"You think?" Kish interrupted.
Ignoring him, Pai went on. "But I think you may have been…somewhat correct…about Deep Blue."
Kish smirked and raised an eyebrow, "What? No "-sama" anymore? Wow, Pai, I'm surprised."
Pai resisted the urge to glare at him. "Anyhow, my reason for targeting Mew Milk was that I was under orders from Deep Blue. That is my only excuse."
"Who the hell's the Deep Blue guy?" Kuri asked, "And what the hell does he want with my sister?"
"He…" Pai stopped, scanning over the mews, his eyes landing on Retasu for a few seconds longer than the rest, "He wishes for all the mews to be destroyed, it is not just her."
"And…do you, Pai-san, wish for the same?" Retasu asked timidly, almost afraid of the answer.
"…not as much…as I thought I did." Pai answered her.
Kish was surprised, "So then, you really don't hate the mews after all, eh?"
Pai looked up at him, "No."
"Um…w-what exactly does this mean then?" Retasu asked. "If I may ask."
Pai tried not to smile, she was by far the politest person he had ever met, "It means…I will be looking farther into Deep Blue, see what his real intentions are, this does not, however, mean that we are no longer enemies."
"And that's all you came here to say?" Kish asked.
"No, I also would like to ask you something." Pai said. Kish gestured for him to go on. "Deep Blue told me not to long ago that "it will all be lost soon", does this mean anything to you?"
"Um…" Kish blinked, "Well, how'd he say it?"
"He seemed to be humored by it," Pai said, "As though he were, like you said, a "loon"."
"Then he's a loon." Kish said, "Only a loon would say something like that and find it funny. But I have a question for you now, why'd you ask me? You're smarter than I am and you know it."
Pai turned to leave, "I just thought I'd ask."
As he teleported away, Retasu saw something in his eyes, the same look she saw in her father's eyes when he was worried about her or her younger brother. "So that's it then…" She thought, "He just wanted to make sure he was okay…I think he really does-"
"Well," Ryou said, interrupting her thoughts, "That was…interesting."
"Yeah… and also kind of weird." Minto agreed.
Me: Yay! Kuri is now a mew mew! And a horsey ;D
Kish: Ichigo and I still haven't gone on our first date yet!
Me: Yeah, I know, but no worries! I have something in mind for that!
Kish: Really? What?
Me: Psh, like I'd tell you!
Kish: Dammit! Tell me woman!
Me: *sticks tongue out at him* No.
Kish: *glares at me* Read and Reveiw please! I want to know what she's gonna have us do for our first date. And it better not be anything prissy like going to a ballet or something!
Me: Dude, you're in the middle of nowhere, where the hell would you go to go to a ballet? Besides like, a recital for preschoolers?
Kish: I don't care! Just don't do it!
Me: *rolls eyes*