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Recap
Mint gasped. "Ichigo – it was Hanison who stole the Wish!" she accused. Pai and Tart hadn't any time to think about how lucky they were that the girls didn't see that Kish was the one who had the Wish. At least they had something untrue that they could believe now.
Hanison's eyes lit up with glory. The Wish. Maybe she could use it to bring back Deep Blue right away. Moaning, she began to drool. Hanison was mad.
"The Wish!" Ichigo screamed. "Quick – get it!"
Immediately, the girls reacted to Ichigo's command, screaming as they charged for it. Though they ignored Pai and Tart's yell, they heard them yell. "NO! Don't go toward it!"
Terrifying and confusing them all as they charged, a high-pitched, horror-filled scream sounded. It wasn't anyone of them – it was inhuman. Before any of them could stop to wonder what it was, a thick, black cloud engulfed them all.
Ichigo let out a scream, swiping at the unmoving cloud of darkness. "What is this?! What's going on?!"
"What is this!" she thought, freaking out. "Why did Pai yell stop?! Is Kish alright?! The Wish?! Where is it? Who got it?"
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Chapter 11
After hearing the cries and screams of her companions, the black fog was sucked away into the sky. Now it was a perfectly clear day.
Feeling slightly dizzy, Ichigo stumbled and stood up, trying to keep her balance. Everyone was getting up – Pai had already rushed over to the unconscious Kish who had the deep gash in his back. Looking around, Ichigo noticed two things – two things that brought meaningful thoughts into her mind. Hanison was gone, she had escaped. And the Wish was nowhere in sight.
Now the temptation was gone. Ichigo actually felt relived to know burden was lessoned. She felt stronger some how – happier… more alive. It was official that her quest on finding Masaya was now on hold. As for now, she was free. Free. What could that mean? She had been thinking of finding Masaya these last few days as a duty. Duty…
Zakuro's voice caught Ichigo's attention. "Ichigo…"
Turning, Ichigo's glossy pink strands of hair whirled when she faced her friends. She didn't know what to say. For the first time in awhile, she felt as if she could connect with her team. They were hers again.
Still, she had a lot of questions to ask. What was that scream? Did Hanison get the Wish? Where did she go? What did she tell Kish? Would…Kish be alright? And why had he been alright anyhow? He was deathly sick. How could someone recover so fast? And what could Hanison's project be…?
Ichigo's head ached and Zakuro caught on. Clearing her throat, she spoke. "Come, Ichigo. We have to get back to the café. Let's go…"
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Lettuce sighed, placing her nervous hands in her lap. "I don't understand" she said. "What was that scream and black cloud…?"
Tarts napped slightly, surprising Lettuce. "Pai and I warned you all not to surround and jump it! You scared it!"
Mint smirked. "Scared it? I knew you were strange, being aliens, but I think this is pushing it! You're talking about the Wish as if it's a dog." Mocking them, she asked. "Is it housetrained?"
Tart stuck out his tongue at her. In return, Mint did the same.
Giving an explanation to Lettuce, Pai's mysterious eyes wee set peacefully on her. This caused her to blush slightly. "Let me inform you that the Wish is alive." Ichigo rolled her eyes, believing it bur annoyed that he never mentioned it before. "It lives like us all. Essentially, it is simply another species of water aliens that were blessed with phenomenal powers. There are, as I told you, only been five."
Raising an eyebrow, Ichigo asked. "So the scream…?"
"It was the Wish who let of the cloud and cry. Like many animals that I have studied in your world, it contains its own type of defense mechanism. This way it can get away. So if the Wish feels threatened, it will act quickly by protecting itself with cries and clouds of smoke."
Pudding preformed a cart real with a fancy round off rebound. Her arms still in the air, she shouted. "Like an octopus!"
Tart nodded. "Yeah! Exactly!"
Zakuro spoke up, leaned against the wall. "Isn't this a problem though? Our one weapon is gone and could possibly be in the hands of Hanison…"
Pudding leaped in the air, energetically. "We'll just have to get it back!"
"Gee, that sounds like fun…" muttered Mint, irritably.
Surprising them all, Pai spoke up once more. "You've all forgotten something extremely important." Surprised, they all looked at him. "…We don't know if Hanison captured the Wish herself. However, we will soon discover if she does. We are all aware of what she'd use it for – to directly bring back Deep Blue instead of performing her long scheme. Still, we are unsure of what that scheme is. Nonetheless, the point is …Hanison is unsure herself if we have it ourselves. You can see that this is a vast leverage for us. Now we have the ability to deceive her…"
All the girl's eyes lit up with excitement. He was right. Smiling, Ichigo stood. "Pai's right. This is an excellent chance of winning against her." Everyone nodded, agreeing.
Raising her hand, Mint rolled her eyes. Everyone turned to look at her. "I hate to be 'put downer' but I have a question." Acknowledging her, Ichigo nodded as to tell her to go ahead. "About the project that Hanison has, is it true we really don't know anything?"
Tart replied as if to purposely annoy Mint. He was younger and wanted to bug her by rubbing it in that he had answers. "On our way to bringing Kish to the café, he stirred a little bit. Pai heard him grunt something about a 'project' and time. Once Kish wakes up, we're going to ask him."
Casting him a disgusted glance, she raised her chin. "Thank you, Mr. brainy but I wasn't asking you!" Tart rolled his eyes.
Sighing out of stress, seeing she was leading a team of seven, Ichigo started. "Well what do we know, Pai?"
Respectfully, Pai replied. "Somehow, she believes she will resurrect Deep Blue."
"But… we really all defeated him…" Lettuce sighed. "We all worked so hard. We killed him."
Pai reminded the girls of what Hanison had said the night she came to perswade him, Tart and Kish to join her.
Flashback
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Turning, she sighed passionately. "Deep Blue…" she said softly, looking dazed. "Yes… yes he was killed. When you cleanse something it can seem clean to the eye… but sooner or later, infection will come again. Even if you can't see it.
You can kill germs, but they always return, no matter what. That is what Deep Blue is. A germ… an infection. You can cleanse and kill him all you want, but defeat is something that will never come to his spirit. So really it's a blessing for us. We'll never have to give up. We'll never know failure, we'll always win… in the end…"
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Pai sighed as well, understanding that she felt like they let the world down. "You haven't failed" he stated. "Deep Blue hasn't returned yet but knowing Hanison to ever be truthful, I think it is true he will come." Folding his arms over his chest, he gazed at them all. "Hanison said Deep Blue's spirit is still on earth, attempting to reincarnate into a new host... She said he doesn't die - that he can be defeated but never killed. At least, not killed by weapons."
Zakuro's voice was calm. "What about the Wish…? Could we wish his death?"
The thought was rather sickly riveting. Should anyone have that power?
Replying, Tart reminded her. "We don't have it!"
"What if we found it though?" asked Pudding, excited.
Out loud, Pai exhaled. "What if, what if, what if. Yes, it is a Wish. It would be possible. But we can no longer put our trust in it. We don't have the Wish in our possession anymore. We would have to come up with a new plan of defeating Deep Blue."
Tart grumbled, angrily "But I don't even understand! It's gonna take 3,000,000 years for Deep Blue's spirit to sooth itself into a body."
Ichigo bit her lip, deep in thought. "We'll just have to wait until Kish regains conciseness and ask him what he knows."
Startling them all, Pudding screamed. "I GOT IT!" Immediately, everyone stared at her. "I know how we can defeat Deep Blue!" she cried.
Running over to her, hopeful, Tart gasped. "How?"
"You said that that alien lady, Hanison, said Deep Blue's spirit is a germ! An infection! Right? You said all that right?"
Impatient, Tart nodded.
Smiling brightly, she shouted. "LYSOL! Clinically proven to DESTROY all germs, viruses. Mold and mildew! 99.9 % of bacteria are guaranteed to be killed!"
Dropping their heads, everyone groaned.
"What?!" Pudding said. "It makes sense, doesn't it?!"
Surprising them all, Ryou slowly came walking down the stairs. At once, the room fell silent and stared. Pai and Tart were craving news of Kish.
Jumping up and down, Tart shouted. "Is he okay? Is he alright? Tell me, blonde! Tell me!"
Sitting down into of the plushy, heart shaped chairs, he sighed. Ichigo felt her stomach ache when she saw fried blood on his hand. Kish It was Kish's blood.
She felt so deeply guilty. The only thing that had been on her mind was Masaya. Maybe she should have said something to Kish. But what? Anything she'd of said would have come out wrong and Kish would take it the wrong way. And that would only result in Kish experiencing more pain. Hadn't Kish felt enough pain? He had been in contact with death three times now, one of them actually taking his life. All these chances were too much. How could a person bare so much? What was he living for?
Breaking Ichigo out of her thoughts, Mint snapped. "Well! Is it good or bad?"
Now ready, Ryou answered. "Good… the news is good" he sighed. "I don't know how the hell he could be but… Kish will be fine." A sigh of relief filled the room from all the mouths.
Still, even Tart and Pai looked surprised that Kish was okay. Why?
Coming down the stairs as well, Keiichiro smiled. "Pai, Tart, he's awake."
"YES!" shouted Tart, flying as fast as he possibly knew how to see him. Nodding at them all as id farewell, Pai turned and went as well.
Walking over to them, Keiichiro's smile brightened. "I don't know how but Kish's wound seems well. Very well. To well."
"Maybe it's just his freaky alien powers" commented Mint, casually as she stood.
Ryou and Keiichiro seemed doubtful. Speaking up but sounding uncertain, Ryou muttered. "…I'm not so sure… but I suppose you never know…"
"Hey, Ryou!" called Tart. "Kish wants to talk to you about what Hanison said. He'd rather not repeat it a lot of times for the Mews so can you come and listen? After that he was wondering if you could tell the girls on your own time. Pai says it's best that it's quick though. Kish seemed tired. Do you mind?"
Calling back up, Ryou answered. "I'll be right up." Turning back to the girls, he said. "Make yourselves useful and clean up down here." At that, and before Ichigo and Mint could snap at him with a protest, he had already gone.
Rolling her eyes, Ichigo groaned. "Hah! Clean up" she said, mockingly. "What's the use?" After sighing, she muttered. 'Well girls, let's get this over with."
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Ichigo's heart beats pounded in her ears and her eyes were extremely wide with disbelief. If it wasn't enough of a shock for Ryou to explain Hanison's plan, it was worse when he told the girls how much Hanison had allowed to pass when molding memories into time.
"…3,400,000… years…?" breathed Ichigo. She couldn't fully take it in. It felt like trying to swallow and ice cube. "…But that's… that's…"
Ryou asked, taking words that couldn't come out of Ichigo's mouth. "Unbelievable? Yes, it is." In shock, Ichigo fell into her chair. "It's also tremendously far in years. This means we're closer to Deep blue's awakening then we thought…"
Concerned, Mint asked, grumpily. "Well, what do we do?"
"Pai and Tart are trying to figure that out now" Ryou stated with an overwhelmed look on his face. "Now that we all know Hanison's plan, you're dismissed. Oh, Pai and Tart are down stairs in the basement now. If you'd like to help them I'm sure they could use it. How about…Lettuce and Pudding." Selecting them, he went on. "Head down there and see what you can do. The rest of you I'll get back to you later." Once again, he said. "Dismissed."
Blushing nervously, Lettuce stood. Over excited, Pudding was the exact opposite in attitude when she, hastily, grabbed Lettuce's hand and pulled her. "Come on! Let's go!"
The voices of her friends faded in Ichigo's ears when she drifted off into her thoughts. "I wonder how Kish is doing…?"
Standing, Ichigo inhaled deeply. Before looking to make sure no one was watching, though she didn't know why, Ichigo ascended the stairs. It wasn't long at all before Ichigo was in the hall staring at his room. Slowly, she went over to it and peeped her head quietly and curiously in it.
Kish saw her at once. Teasing her at how she had looked in so sneakily, Kish asked. "What are you doing? Playing games?"
Ichigo blushed and came slightly in the room but not anywhere close to the bed. "No… I was just…"
Interrupting, Kish smiled. "I'm glad you came, honey. I was just going ask someone to get you. Not that there's anyone around" he snickered, playfully. "It's just us upstairs, isn't it…?"
Nervously, Ichigo asked. "…What did you need…?"
"I wanted to thank you, sweetheart. You saved me earlier." Teasingly, he chuckled. "Yes, my kitty in shinning armor." Ichigo blushed. "Can you come here?" he asked.
Afraid, her voice trembled as she asked. "W-why?"
Chuckling, Kish's eyes glittered brilliantly. "Don't worry, I'm not going to try anything perverted" he said. Her head down and her hands fidgeting nervously together, Ichigo slowly came over, her cheeks blooming into a pink shade. She stopped at the edge of the bed. Rolling his yes, Kish smirked. "Oh come on you, scardy-cat. Will it kill you to sit on the bed?" Tensely, she did so, not making eye contact.
"Well…g-go ahead…" she whispered. "…W-what is it?"
Surprising her, Kish slowly leaned in and kissed her cheek very softly. At once, her cheeks flamed and she moved her face away. "Kish!" she snapped. "You said you wouldn't do anything!"
Grinning, Kish reasoned. "That was my thank-you. And what are you talking about? That was perfectly behaved kiss! Usually, I'd kiss you with my own playful method but all I did was a nice and soft one. It was perfectly appropriate so I'd thought you'd like it."
Ichigo blushed. Kish? Appropriate? Those didn't even belong in the same sentence. Ichigo couldn't help but think this. If Kish is going to kiss me he should at least do it HIS way. Trying to kiss me in a style that isn't at all his weirds me out. I think I prefer th real Kish that has his own style.
Kishs smirked, amazed. "Really?"
Quickly, Ichigo felt her cheeks burning with fire and her eyes widening. Squeaking embarrassingly, Ichigo asked. "I said that out loud?"
Kish was more than amused to see her this way. "Yeah, you did. Problem with that…?"
Humiliated, Ichigo tried to change the subject. "So how are you feeling anyway? Ryou and Keiichiro said you were doing well."
Kish grinned and sat up, looking like he hadn't ever been hurt. The way he moved – he was healthy – uninjured. "I'm perfectly and 100% well. But something tells me Pai and Tart aren't going to get off my back about getting well. I don't know what they're so worried about" he yawned. "I'm not going to die."
Ichigo understood what Pai and Tart were feeling. They were concerned. "It's because you died before that they're so worried!" she snapped.
Kish chuckled. "I know that. But they need to lighten up. I mean come on, look at me!" he smirked. Sitting further up, Kish leaned close in Ichigo face. "Don't I seem okay?" he snickered, evilly.
Pulling away, she blushed, annoyed. "Yes, you seem perfectly fine – the same Kish!" Kish couldn't help but laugh at her. Frustrated, she asked. "Don't you think you're a little TOO fine? Don't you find it strange how you got deathly ill and nearly died in my house and then you got stabbed and you're able to still flirt with me?"
Tilting his head to the side, curiously, he smiled. "When miracles happen learn to except and not ask questions" he teased. Ichigo rolled her eyes. Kish's ear perked and his eyes filled with wonder when he looked out the window at the balcony. The sun was setting. Smirking slyly, Kish asked. "Hey, can we go outside?"
"What?" she asked, confused that he would even ask.
Not letting Ichigo give her consent, Kish snickered as he jumped out of bed, grasped her wrist and pulled her over to the glass doors. Rapidly, Kish opened them and pulled her out with him over the railing of the small balcony. Ichigo blushed when he didn't let her go.
Sighing in a relaxed way, Kish asked softly. "…Isn't it pretty?"
Wanting to go back in, she stuttered. "…Uh…well…yeah. It's great, but I really think…" Ichigo's voice trailed off when Kish's arm leisurely wrapped around her lower waist and rested on her hip. Slowly, Kish turned to face her and wrapped his other arm around her. Pulling her close, Kish smirked at her red cheeks.
Just when Ichigo thought he was going to kiss her, Kish chuckled and floated up to the roof that wasn't very higher up from the balcony. Landing on it, Kish gently placed her down so she was sitting. Doing the same, Kish smirked at her. Playfully, Kish asked. "What'd you think I wag ping to do?"
Ichigo didn't answer his question and tried to make excuses. "Yeah, it's really pretty, Kish. But you've seen once sunset than you've seen them all. Can we get down now? I don't want you or I to get in trouble with Pai and Tart." beginning to crab walk slowly and nervously down to the edge, she went on. "Come on, let's-"
Ichigo was cut off by her own screech when she slipped and almost fell. Acting quickly, Kish's arm grabbed her, his arm lopped strongly over her pounding chest. Ichigo panted, alarmed, as Kish pulled her back up with a, "Whoa now, Kitty-cat. You gotta be careful."
Ichigo blushed, embarrassed at how dumb and clumsy Kish must think she was. Not that she cared what he thought of her. Or… did she? What did it matter anyway? "I…I did that on purpose…" she lied.
Smirking playfully at her, and knowing she was lying, Kish replied. "Yeah, sure you did."
Ichigo glared at him, angrily. Why did he always have to know her? Rolling her eyes, Ichigo grumbled. "Why do you have to be so witty and cleverly charming?"
Kishs' eyes widened at once. Startling her, Kish pushed her so she was lying on her back and climbed over her. Astonishment filling his face, Kish asked in complete shock. "What? Did you just call me clever?"
"Cleverly charming" she corrected directly, not wanting him to get the wrong idea. Realizing that that didn't back up her mess up, she stuttered. "I mean charming!" That made it worse. "No! I mean…uh…well…what I meant was… was -!"
Moving in her face, Kish's face filled with delight. "You know that's the first time you've ever complimented me?" Ichigo cheeks burned and her heart pounded as Kish's eyes fluttered closed as he moved in.
Acting quickly, Ichigo stopped him and by putting her hand over his lips. His face filling with curiosity, Kish raised an eyebrow.
"Y-you don't need to- to – you know…" she stuttered, confused.
Kish smirked even though her fingers were over his mouth. "But I wanna thank you… and also I just want to." Playfully, Kish engulfed one of her fingers in his mouth and laid a short suck on it. Then he released it. Freaked, Ichigo tried to sit up but Kish pressed her back down, snatching her wrists.
Grinning down at her, he chuckled. "Fine. If you're not in the mood then we can hold off… for now." Getting off, Kish snickered, his eye turned to the setting sun.
Her heart still pounding, Ichigo slowly cat up, gazing at it herself.
Eyes dazzling, Kish turned his attention back toward her. Her let down, strawberry hair was blown by the gentle, cool, winter breezes. Her eyes burned like pink stars. Her skin was so soft and baby-like. Kish wanted to grab her and wrap her up like his pet. He wanted to giver her his warmth. He wanted to give her love. But he couldn't…not right now. Kish sighed again, smiling at her.
"Oh, kitten" he thought. Smirking, Kish looked back at the sunset, enjoying it.
AHHH! LONG CHAPTER! Heh, I hope you liked it though. Go Kish! Thanks for reading! Review. Bye-bye, my Kish and Ichigo lovers!
