Yup! Here I am again with a brand new chapter. It's the second part of the filler that started last chapter. And er… Please don't kill me.
I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew nor the Ikisatashi OCs except for Kēkki and Reijin.

One year later

Ichigo

The pink Mew decided to write a letter to her beloved, however she did it eighteen months after the trip to Cynnth. She was overwhelmed with sad feelings and Gohan was getting on her nerves, he wouldn't obey her wishes and started following her everywhere.

The seventeen year old girl couldn't go anywhere without her bodyguard on her heels, he even picked her up at school wearing his wig. Though his fangs didn't go unnoticed for Ichigo's friends were starting to refer to her as Twilight's Bella and Gohan was her Edward.

Ichigo sat at her desk, spread many draft papers and her letter sheets as well. She took a deep breath before taking a pencil between her fingers… After about four and a half hours, she had finished her letter to Kisshu. It was full of love and passion but she didn't know if she wanted him to read it just yet. She'd keep it with her and wait for the perfect moment to give it to him herself.

Even though chances are she'll never face him again, she still had that hope that one day she would face him again. She didn't know if they'd both be married by then, but she honestly didn't care that much because, well, she loved him.

That was a fact that she was certain of, Ichigo Momomiya loved Kisshu Ikisatashi with every fiber of her soul. She would never love anyone else because the only person that could make her hate Kish was the Cyniclon himself. Ichigo has never felt this way towards any other guy, let alone that Aoyama bastard who left Tokyo for his dumb studies. He was thousands of miles away and she couldn't be gladder about it.

Ichigo still worked at the Café with everyone else. It wasn't a cover anymore because there were no more fights with anyone. Café Mew Mew was just a place where five girls, two men and a Cyniclon that were united by fate used to spend time together. It was their own place, their home.

As a matter of fact, Pudding is actually living at the Café. Her siblings were taken care of by her father in China, he also offered to her to move there but she politely declined the offer saying that her friends meant a lot to her. He understood and felt guilty that his daughter had made herself a family because of his lack of presence in her life, he also understood the fact that she broke up her betrothal with Yuebin, who understood as well.

Ichigo kept in touch with Taruto by a cell phone she gave Gohan when he was visiting his family. The white haired alien did so twice a year since he was on Earth, once for the whole month of June and once for the whole month of December.

Tart asked Pai how he used his phone to communicate with Lettuce so that he could do the same with Ichigo and Pudding who called him as well. They spoke about once a Cyniclonian day which meant once every two days for Ichigo. She also called him to speak with his sisters, they kept in touch for the best and shared their secrets sometimes. They all became more of a family than ever to Ichigo's appeasement. But she still felt that burning hole in her chest, for the year that it lasted; she still hadn't heard or seen from Kisshu.

He was on her mind every single day. She'd often sit daydreaming about seeing him but her mind just made him hate her, she couldn't think of him in a good way because her heart sank each time she snapped back into reality to realize that he was missing.

"Ichigo!" Sakura called out "We need to pick up your dad from the airport, come on!"

"Do I really have to come?!" she whined wiping away her old tears.

"Yes! He hasn't seen us in a whole month he'll be sad not to see you there!"

"Fine, just give me a minute!" she said walking to her bathroom to wash up.

She was wearing dark tights and jean ripped short shorts with a black tank top. Her figure had grown to be more feminine, sexier. She wondered what her beloved looked like, by then. She went down the stairs not forgetting her pendant and cell phone, she took off her slippers to wear light brown ankle boots that had three and a half inches heels. Ichigo took her leather jacket before slamming the door shut and hopping into her mom's car.

They listened to music that they both liked and laughed reminiscing funny memories before picking up Shintaro. They kept on their full mood all together and Ichigo was glad that it was June and Gohan was light years away. Well it was the 27th so he'd be back in three days-time. She didn't mind because she'd have the occasion to spend some quiet time with her parents.

Sakura was driving in a highway when she suddenly started panicking; they zigzagged for about four seconds until the car rolled over itself several times before crashing onto an immense tree.

Without thinking, Ichigo clutched her pendant in her hand to transform into Mew Ichigo. She went out of the car and got both her parents out of it too before calling an ambulance. She de-transformed trying to find their pulse. Her eyes widened when she couldn't make out if they were alive or not. The emergency van arrived within ten minutes where she tried her best to stop her mother's belly from bleeding, ignoring the throbbing pain in her right wrist. Her father didn't show any bruise or wound until Ichigo saw a thin blood line flow from his temple. She went over to him and saw a pretty bad concussion. She didn't know if pressing it would damage his brains so she preferred not to touch him.

During all that time, she didn't shed a single tear. She was neither sobbing nor crying. She wouldn't allow herself to show any sign of weakness because crying meant that she might lose her parents. She wouldn't let that happen, God she would even stuff them with Mew Aqua if she knew where to find some. Then it popped up in her head! The Mew Aqua Rod might've had some leftover inside it. She was in the ambulance while she took her phone to call the Café.

"Café Mew Mew, what can I get you?" she heard Lettuce' voice say cheerfully.

That's when tears finally decided to come out, she started sobbing on the phone only able to stutter her friend's name "Le-Lettuce, m-my parents they…"

"Ichigo-Chan?" Lettuce asked surprised "What's the matter where are you?"

"I c-can't…" Ichigo said before she fainted.

Lettuce

"Who was that?" Ryou asked.

"Ichigo-Chan, I think. She was crying." the phone rang again and she answered "Café Mew Mew, what can I get you?"

"Moshi-Moshi, this is the Tokyo Memorial Hospital. We have just received Momomiya Ichigo, your number is one to call in case of emergency. She's here with her parents."

"W-We're coming right away. Arigato." she stuttered before hanging up on them "Ichigo's in trouble we must go to the Tokyo Memorial Hospital right now, get the customers out we're heading there with my car, Keiichiro will drive you there." she ordered.

He nodded and quickly proceeded to tell them that he'll pack everything for them. When some dared to ask why, he told them that it was a confidential emergency.

Lettuce just put a blazer on while Pudding didn't bother to change or hide her waitress outfit and Zakuro threw on her leather jacket Mint was at her dance practice so they'd pick her up in their way. And they raced to the hospital just to find Ichigo sobbing with a broken wrist, a slight concussion and some stitches on her right cheekbone.

The girls all hugged her careful not to harm her before trying to calm her down as the nurse instructed because it'd open up her fresh stitches if she sobbed any more. They all tried to get her to talk about something other than the situation until a tall man with reddish brown hair came in. They all looked up at him with eyes full of hope but he lowered his head grimly.

"Momomiya Ichigo?" he called.

"That's me… How are my parents doing?" she asked with a shaky voice.

"I—" he was cut off by Ryou and Keiichiro bursting in earning a serious death glare from Ichigo.

"Back to the point." she rushed.

"My deepest apologies… Your mother, Sakura Momomiya has lost more than four liters of blood, which is deadly."

Ichigo yelped at the pain she was suddenly feeling in her chest and felt the need to sit down.

"As for your father, his brains were seriously damaged after he hit his head against the car's roof and through the window glass breaking it…"

"Could you just go to the point?!" Mint suddenly shouted.

"He didn't survive either, I am afraid." he said lowering his head.

"No" Ichigo sat calmly on a waiting seat muttering barely understandably "No, no-no… Can't be. This can't be, no" her voice was growing louder with each word she let out "I won't let you say this, my parents aren't dead NO!" she finally yelled.

She ran towards the ORs but Keiichiro and Shirogane held her back. She struggled the hardest she could, yelling to her parents, calling them out with tears overflowing. She'd often feel the sting of salty water penetrating the wound on her right cheekbone. The nurse came in a sudden rush with a syringe shouting at them to steady her. She injected a transparent liquid in Ichigo's jugular before the cat girl instantly calmed down melting in Ryou's arms.

They took her to a hospital bed before all having a seat next to her. The doctor turned to them before stretching out his hand to Keiichiro.

"My apologies, I didn't introduce myself. Doctor Aoyama, Ichigo's doctor for that matter." he said making everyone's jaw drop.

"Y-You are Masaya-San's father?" Lettuce asked her eyes wide.

"I have a son named Masaya, but he's in America for his studies at the moment. Are you his friends?"

"Kind of, he's her ex so it'd be nice if you didn't mention your name." Mint said.

"Minto!" Lettuce hissed feeling outraged.

"Well alright, her parents didn't make it through this accident. Kisshu is light years— I mean miles away and won't respond to our calls and letters… And now her doctor happens to be her annoying ex's father. What could get any worse?" Mint said.

"Does she have any other family?" he asked ignoring the insult towards his son.

"No she doesn't, she always said that her parents were her only family…" Zakuro said grimly "Her mother didn't have any siblings, her father's adopted and she lost her grandmother last month."

"As she's still minor I don't see any—"

"I'll adopt her!" Keiichiro suddenly said.

"But you need to at least have a major sister to do so, sir. And I'm not talking about marriage yet."

"I'm major, aren't I?" Zakuro said.

"Are you both willing to take care of her until she can do so herself?" he asked.

"We're her only family, now. She's a sister to us." Mint said.

"And we all love her dearly." Keiichiro added.

"Well come, I have some papers that I need you to fill and sign." he headed out followed by Keiichiro and Zakuro.

"She'll live at the Café." Ryou said "She can't stay on her own in an empty house…"

"And I'll pay for everything she needs." Mint offered.

"And I'll spend all my free time with her, Pudding and I will try to cheer her up after the funeral…" Lettuce said sadly looking at her friend who was sound asleep by then.

"And she'll only work what she can at the Café…" Ryou added.

"Yes but the Café will sink if she's out of order for too long" Mint pointed out.

"We know but we can't be working her too hard." Ryou said.

"Shouldn't we let the Ikisatashi family know about it, na no da?" Pudding suddenly asked.

Everybody looked at her with round eyes not knowing whether to do so or not. They would ask Gohan in three days, it couldn't be done just like that.

"Pudding, they're at war. We'll tell them when the time is right." Lettuce said showing her wisdom.

"I know that Taru-Taru will want to know about it." Pudding mumbled.

"Should we send another letter to Kisshu-Kun?" Mint asked.

"We could but he won't answer" Ryou said "He didn't answer the last thousand he got, why would he answer now? We're not even sure that he reads them."

"Simply because he's the only person able to make Ichigo feel better." Lettuce said.

"Only she can decide." Ryou stated "You never know, she may not want them to know."

"You're right, Shirogane-San." Mint said "What do we do now?" she asked stroking Ichigo's hair that laid on her left shoulder in a fish tail messy braid.

"We take turns; everyone spends a day and a night with her until she's able to get out." Ryou said.

"That may not take longer than two days." Doctor Aoyama suddenly said.

"Perfect, it'll be just enough for her stuff to be moved." Lettuce said.

"She can't leave her house alone." Keiichiro said.

"I'll live there and take care of everything, only she can decide of what to do." Zakuro said.

"Aren't you putting a little too much on her?" Mint asked "Onee-Sama and Akasaka-San have taken her guardianship from now on they'll be able to decide, that's what it is here for, isn't it?"

"Minto Onee-Chan's got a point, na no da." Pudding said rubbing her chin.

"We will rent it, she needs money and even if Mint, Zakuro, Ryou and I pay there won't be enough for her school, shopping and other needs." Keiichiro said.

"Hey, hold it" Mint said "I said that you'd have to take a few decisions but you must ask for her agreement first."

"We'll take care of everything once she's awake." Ryou said.

"Best thing to do." the others said at once.

***
Three years later

Lettuce has grown up just like her friends. She, Mint and Ichigo were twenty years old. Lettuce' hair was longer than last time she had transformed so she gave up her braids to a single one that she held up in a messy bun, she still had her bangs on either side of her face. Her figure had grown to be a gracious woman with nice slight curves; she stopped growing high to have a bit more breasts, a defined waist and nice thin thighs.

Mint had grown a few inches getting thinner because of dance practice that she'd never give up on. Her hair got longer and denser so she wore it in two messy fish tail braids that sat nicely on her grown breasts, her bangs grew longer too so she shifted them to her right side. Her eyes went from dark brown to almost black which made her look like a French porcelain doll. She still lives at her parents' mansion.

Pudding was now sixteen years old, her hair in a high ponytail and her bangs thicker covering her Mew Mark completely. She had grown a foot and a few inches and was used to wear high heels. She didn't say "na no da" anymore but she still was a little energy ball. Her siblings were in China training with their father who was also their teacher.

Zakuro was twenty-three years old. Her body hadn't changed much, if it hadn't changed at all. She had cut her hair short like Ichigo's when they met for a movie and fixed it right after the footage so that it was short on the back of her head and her bangs were shifted to either her right, her left or held up her head with a pin. Zakuro wasn't living in the Momomiya residence anymore, with Ichigo's agreement she and Keiichiro rented it to a family of two boys and their parents. Zakuro has a flat in Tokyo in which she lives by herself.

Ichigo was a twenty years old independent young woman with red hair that she had dip-dyed to lighten it into a light pink, she often wore it in a high ponytail but her usual look was a fish tail braid on her right shoulder that went down to her waist. Her curves had evolved into those of a well-shaped female with just enough breasts that didn't look too provocant and a nice waist which was between slim and curvy. She wore, like her friends, more of American fashion and had her own style at that.

The cat girl lives at her own place, a flat of two floors which she shared with Lettuce and Pudding. However Mint and Zakuro spent most of their free time out of the Café with their three friends, they'd drop here after shopping and even have sleepovers on week-ends. Ichigo tried to make their rooms look like the ones they lived in on Cynnth but failed because the beauty of that castle couldn't be match, let alone by a Tokyo duplex.

Ichigo

It had been two years and six months since she last saw her parents and it was still hurting her so much, she couldn't think of them without having stubborn tears flowing on her cheeks. Ichigo felt guilty for not being able to save them and her wrist often reminded her of that day, for it couldn't completely heal and would hurt her at times.

Taruto had heard of what happened and of course went to visit her on Earth as well as everyone else for that matter; he and Pudding had exchanged their first kiss before he left. They were fourteen when it happened because Tart was too busy with war councils to visit sooner. He came with a childhood friend of his, Satō, who had silver hair and light yellow eyes, Pai and Kisshu being too busy to come. Or at least, it was their excuse.

Pai did apologize to Lettuce over the phone but Kisshu still pretended that he had never known Ichigo which hurt her more than ever because he was the only one that she ever loved. Kisshu is all that she has left, it's the hope of seeing him again that keeps her alive, and otherwise she'd just have joined her parents in heaven.

Ichigo woke up later than usual, that Sunday morning. It was nearly 3:20p.m and she didn't care that much. It was her day off after all, and she needed it badly. The Café was still the same building but the customers grew numerous because of Keiichiro's baking talent. They'd often run out of food when shopping wasn't taken care of.

She walked towards her bathroom and let warm water fill her pink bathtub before spilling a quarter of her bubble bath strawberry soap. She tied her hair up in a messy bun, which resulted in a light pink bun on dark crimson hair, and slid in her bath after taking her clothes off. Ichigo tried to relax but something was on her mind for the past month…

What has been onto me, lately? She asked herself. I mean, I know I'm maybe working myself too hard at the Café but it just doesn't match what my mood is like… I feel like there's something I need to do. She looked over at her pendant that sat on her washbasins marble surface, she never got out of home without it. Maybe I have to fight again… Reijin's troops are getting too serious; we need to help the Cyniclons fight him… Or is it that I just want to see Kisshu-Kun again? She shook her head as if it would get rid of that thought in the process before leaning her head onto the edge of the bathtub and closing her eyes. I miss him so much… Why can't he just— Wait, I don't have to think about him! That jerk's been ignoring my existence ever since that first fight with Reijin; it's not my fault that his cousin has the same deranged mind as he did when he first kissed me! I'm even glad that I never sent him that letter; he doesn't deserve my love anyway… She sank in the now chilly bath before yelling underwater: I LOVE HIM! And she sat back up before leaving her bath to being sucked into pipes and to wherever it was supposed to go.

She dried her hair and put it in a high ponytail before getting dressed up. She wore a white tank top with light blue jeans, a beige leather jacket and white platform shoes. She took her beige Longchamp handbag before leaving her home, not forgetting to take her power pendant.

The pink Mew was about to get to the elevator when she felt her phone vibrate in her right jeans pocket. She answered.

"Moshi-Moshi?"

"How's it going?" Taruto's grown voice asked.

"Not so bad, how about you?" she asked.

"Not bad for me, really bad for Cynnth."

"Reijin again." she sighed exasperated.

"Totally, he's using his own infusers this time. Kisshu has tried to control them like he did with his own and others' but he just can't this time… Onii-Chan won't admit it but we need your help." Tart said his voice low.

Ichigo's jaw dropped open, she couldn't get any word out "Are you still there?" the sixteen years old Cyniclon asked.

"Er y-yes, yes I'm still here… When are you picking us up?" she asked.

"You mean you'd accept?" he said grinning.

"Of course I'd accept, I hate Reijin and I love your family!" she said.

"Great, how about the others?" he demanded.

"I'll convince them, go to the ship right now." she ordered giggling.

"Right away, Onee-Chan." he said before hanging up.

This was it. She was going to see Kisshu again. Ichigo couldn't help but smile mumbling songs that she didn't know the lyrics to as she walked towards the Café ready to announce the trip to her comrades. It wasn't going to be easy, though, but she had to try… She just had to…

Dun dun dun duuuuuh! They're going back to Cynnth to help defeat Reijin and his Chimera Animals, how do you think it'll go? Even I don't know yet, so give me your suggestions. How is Ichigo and Kisshu's encounter going to be like? There are still chapters to go until they meet but you'll have a BIG surprise next chapter. Shhh, review pweaaase! Xx