The Truth is Speaking to You, Ichigo!

by Tsukiko AlienWitch

The sequel to my first. It's been five years since the mews and aliens fell in love and married but now their wives leave them and they were pregnant. Fourteen years later, the three kids meet this other kid who is just like them. What happened back then?

25. Saving Time

A/N: Hello everyone!! I have an announcement to make about the song that I'm using in here. You guys know the song 'You Can't Stop the Beat'? Well when I first heard it, I thought 'Wow! This song fits perfectly for this scene; almost.' You see, that one part when the mother is singing, I'm sorry but I'm cutting that out because it doesn't make sense. I'm so sorry and I don't mean to offend anyone.

I do NOT own TMM or the songs that I use in my stories. Thank you all for the wonder reviews and please keep them coming! They're so wonderful! This story is almost over too. Thank you and please enjoy!

Ch. 25: Saving Time

Right in front of cell number 1000, three people appear through teleportation; Kisshu, Pai, and Taruto. At first, they were surprise to see each other but the smell of the blood and the decaying bodies hit them like a ton of bricks. In at least four seconds times after inhaling it in, they turn to the side and vomited it all out.

Bleeaa

Bleeeaaa

Bleeeeaaaa

Taruto turned around to vomit on the non-bloody side as Kisshu was closer to his cell so he vomited near the door and Pai turned to the wall and vomit. Not even they can take the smell.

They all started coughing as Taruto lets out, "Oh my god!" when he could. Both Kisshu and Pai couldn't agree more.

After a bit, Kisshu wipes away the excess vomit that was still lingering on his mouth and heads forward at full speed. Both Pai and Taruto notice his departure and soon fallowed. No words were exchanged to know that the other is here for their kids. They flew down the hallway as fast as they can and with no more eyes in that cell that Melissa is in with Ichigo and the others, they won't be noticed. Their only hope now is that their wives can hold on just a little longer so that they can save their kids, if they're still alive.

After a bit, they came across piles of rocks from the ceiling right next to the river of bodies and blood. Seeing those rocks, instantly brought more fear and worry to the guys. Please, be alive!

"Kokoro!" Kisshu calls as he flies over to some piles and then to the others. "Kashu?!"

"Kanjo! Kanjo!" Taruto calls, going to one pile and starts to take that hill apart.

Pai goes over to one pile and calls, "Hannya!" Then he takes a moment to sniff the area but with the blood and the decaying bodies taking up the air, that was not helpful and it made his stomach turn.

Then Kisshu hears something as he goes up further. He asks them, "Hey, do you hear that?"

Both Pai and Taruto look up in confusion and then they try to listen. Being too far, Taruto asks, "Hear what? Stop being delusional for a change and look for your kids!" If Kisshu wasn't so interested in the sound he's hearing, he would get angry with Taruto's command.

Kisshu flies farther up where some of the big piles are as the sound gets louder. It almost sounds pitchy, like something an animal would hear but it has a certain melody to it. When he passes the farthest pile, he turns around only to see a bloody hand sticking out from a pile. It looks like a girl's hand. He kneels down to that hand and touches it to find any warmth or even a pulse. From the smell and the look of blood on it, he can tell that it's his daughter's.

"Kashu! Answer me! Kashu!" he calls. Pai and Taruto look up from that after Taruto sees that the pile he destroyed is empty. Moments later, there was silence and nothing. The hand feels cold.

Then the hand grasps Kisshu's grip. He gasps in surprise as then the rocks explode off. He uses his free hand to cover himself from that before looking back and seeing his daughter sitting up and coughing. This girl just used sound waves from her voice to free herself; amazing control. But Kisshu doesn't care at the moment.

"Kashu!"

Kashu looks up at her father in surprise and it took a moment to process the thought of her live father in front of her and holding her hand. The hand feels warm against her cold hand, blood covered hand.

'Father?' she wonders. 'Father!' Then she jumps on him and hugs him. Thankful that she's okay, he holds her back. Pai and Taruto are surprise to see her as soon, rocks from the pile next to Kashu's rises up.

Then the rocks were thrown to the other side of the room and Kanjo emerges. He coughs as Kashu and Kisshu look towards his direction to see him okay. He coughs and mumbles, "Oh man, ow! Those rocks hurt." Taruto stares at him in surprise as Kanjo leans over and continues to cough. From his work with the seeds and the trees, they probably won't be surprise to think that Kanjo has the power over the earth element period!

Without another word, Taruto flies from his failed attempt to save a kid and goes over to his son. "Kanjo!" he calls. Kanjo looks up, just in time to see his dad hug him. He's surprise as the hug is tight and then Taruto pushes him away to scold, "Don't you ever scare me like that!" Then he hugs his son again. Kanjo looks behind to Kashu and her eyes tell him to hug him back. So he does when he notices that his dad is shacking. Probably from deep concern that he almost lost him and great relieve to find out that he didn't.

Then Pai hears something. It sounds like rushing water. He looks down and he sees water running to one pile. He turns around to see that the water is coming from the bodies. Those bodies ended up drying up as the water continues to leave them. Humans are at least seventy-five percent water so seeing water coming from a body is no surprise, logically. Seeing it and the bodies end up drying up is another thing. Pai fallows the water's path and sees the pile that the water is going to. In one surprising second, a long funnel of water comes shooting out from the pile and the rocks scatter to the sides. Kisshu, Kashu, Kanjo, and Taruto look to the side to see Hannya stand where the funnel was and she has a water pouch in her hands. The water that came from the bodies then goes inside the small pouch and from the amount that went it, it's hard to believe that water would fit in there and not enlarge the pouch or break it.

"Done, done," she mumbles after she closes it.

Right before Pai would move, the pile next to her ends up turning to gravel and Kokoro emerges from that pile of gravel. He sits up from being buried on his back side and coughs. Did he…did he just use his own brainwaves to break up the rocks?

Kashu lets go of her father and runs up to Kokoro. He took a minute of blank thoughts to catch up with her. She runs to Kokoro and hugs him instantly. Kokoro turns red from the hug but looks down at her and hugs her back. Kashu breaks away after that and turns around right when Kisshu comes to his side and hugs his son next.

Hannya sees that and is surprise to see Kisshu. Right after that, she feels arms around her and she looks up to see Pai's purple hair. She hears, "Thank goodness you're okay." Then his legs went weak and he pulls Hannya down with him as they sit on their knees and Pai holds his daughter close. Hannya's eyes soften as she tries to hold her papa back as best as she can.

After hugging his son for a bit, he pulls away and Kokoro calls, surprise, "Father? Did you find Ichigo yet?"

Kisshu just tells him, "Oh shut up for once, you smart ass." Then Kisshu hugs both of his children and Kashu hugs him back instantly while Kokoro took a bit since he was just swore at.

But hearing the name 'Ichigo' reminds Kanjo and Hannya about their own moms. Kanjo pushes away from his dad and asks, "Did you find mom?"

Taruto answers, "Found her and found out what cell she's in but I couldn't get her out because when I arrived, she was right over the entrance." Remembering that little scene, Pai lets go of his daughter and turns her around.

He asks, "Hannya, I want you to tell me who did this to you?" Hearing that question made Kisshu let go of his kids and all eyes were on them.

Hannya answers, "Another alien, papa. Or maybe not a whole alien like Kokoro-kun. Maybe half human since the parents are Sara and Deep Blue. Hannya didn't get her name. Kokoro-kun and Kashu-san was here before Kanjo-kun and Hannya." Then eyes went to them after she answers that.

Kashu looks at Kokoro and it looks like he has to answer. He says, "Her name is Melissa and she seems to be a shape shifter. She looked like this woman one moment and the next, she was her real self. The form she was before looked like Ichigo but with shorter hair and a crueler expression."

Kisshu points out, "That's why I heard Sara's voice in that cell."

"And that explains that when I smelled the blood, it smelled familiar," Pai mentions. Taruto and Kisshu smelled that blood as well but Pai was the one who really focused on that smell.

Then to Kisshu's surprise, Kashu grabs his arm lightly and shakes it. He looks at her in confusion but she doesn't say anything. Kokoro decides to answer for her.

"Kashu-san says that they have to save the others now because if Melissa is in the same room as them and she's that unstable, then they are going to get hurt." The others think that Melissa might actually do worst than hurt them. She'll kill them in that state.

Kisshu asks, "So why are we sitting here, chatting?"

"Hold on, Kisshu!" Pai tells him before Kisshu made another move. "I know you're anxious but we're dealing with someone who took us by surprise by killing us and she was able to burry our kids when Kashu was unstable herself." Both Kisshu and Kashu gave him a glare for that but Pai chooses to ignore that as he adds, "Also, there is a good chance of her having the same powers as Deep Blue. You know what he could do twenty-four years ago." That thought actually made Kisshu shiver a bit and it caused Kashu to look up at him in surprise.

Then Taruto proclaims, "But there is no way that a child could master that much power."

Then Kanjo gets his attention by tapping his shoulder. He tells him, "Just to let you know no matter how old she acts, she looks like she could be in her early twenties." The causes dread to drop down on Taruto, Pai, and Kisshu like a piano falling from the twentieth floor.

Then Kisshu lets out a sigh and ruffles his hair a bit in clueless-ness. He asks, "So does anyone have any ideas on how we could stop a young girl who is highly intelligent and has mastered the terrible powers of Deep Blue?" Things were all silent after that. They were all thinking and it seems to be a bit hard. Not even Pai or Hannya could think of anything right away.

The first time they defeated Deep Blue, his other self- Masaya stabbed him and unleashed the Mew Aqua. The second time, Kisshu was able to stab Deep Blue after he fought a difficult battle with Ichigo and Kisshu was able to stab him by surprise. That method actually turned a light bulb on over Kashu's head and Kokoro heard her. He looks at her when she got an idea and she knows that he heard her so she turns to him to give him the details.

After a few moments, Kokoro asks her, "How can that work?" The others look at them as it looks like Kashu and Kokoro are having a silent conversation. "But I don't know how to do that!...How do you know how she could really feel?...I'm still unease because I never tried that before….But Kashu-san!"

"Excuse me!"

Both of them look up as Kisshu asks, "Mind sharing with the class?"

Hannya asks, "What do you have in mind, Kashu-san?"

Kashu turns to them and she looks like she's getting her hands ready. Kokoro seems a bit too unease to say and she doesn't want to use him as a telephone. "Here's what I had in mind!"

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"So tell me," Melissa says, looking at her last three victims. "Who should I start with first? Since your lovers and your kids are dead, wouldn't they be happy to see you for when I deliver you to hell? Or do you wish for me not to kill you know and slowly torture you?" Lettuce flinches in fear as both Pudding and Ichigo are glaring at her; Ichigo looks the most dangerous.

"We're not as weak and you want us to be, Melissa!" Ichigo yells. "Even if you start hammering nails into our fingers all at once, we would not yield!"

Melissa then gets a very interesting idea as she grins wider. "Well who said that I was going to torture you all at once? Sure that would have been possible when I have my men but since your daughter killed them, I'm going to have to kill you all one at a time. The torture bit was just a way of asking if you want death later. I can give death to you now if you want, but not all together." Then she turns to Lettuce and she flinches in total fear. Now Ichigo understands what Melissa meant.

"Momomiya Ichigo!" she calls. She looks back at her and asks, "Your lover was the one who killed my father and made my mother suffer, right? So how about I torture you first?"

Ichigo gains back her strong eyes as she tells her, "I will not yield."

"Yeah, I know. You told me. But what if I did this?"

In too quick of a movement, she raises her hands towards Lettuce's direction and then lightning shots out from her hand. The lightning goes right pass the glass and it travels through the water, with Lettuce in it as the living being.

"AAAAHHHHH!!!!" she screams in pain of the electricity. Both Pudding and Ichigo look at her in surprise as then Melissa makes a swift movement to Pudding's direction.

"Or this?"

A ball of her powers goes to Pudding and when it hit her, it expands and shocks her just as multiple times as the lightning still inside of Lettuce. But unlike Lettuce, Pudding is trying to keep her scream inside just like how Ichigo proved but that's not possible.

"AAAAAAHHHHH!!!!"

Ichigo's eyes widen in fear as she tries to break the chains. She pulls and pulls but nothing. Melissa takes that as interesting. When Ichigo has a different feeling than her power feeling, she's not as strong. When she was hateful, she could break the chains if she had enough hatred. But when she's scared and desperate for her friends' safety, she can't break them.

Melissa smirks and tells her, "All you have to do is say three little words at least one hundred times and I'll stop." Ichigo looks at her as Melissa tells her, "Yield to me, wild cat." Ichigo looks from Melissa to her friends but she says nothing as she can see that Lettuce and Pudding cries are beginning to get softer. She doesn't have a lot of time and even if she does say those three words, she won't have time to say them a hundred times. She tries harder to pull the chains but they are still not budging or even cracking.

Melissa chuckles at this little victory. She's enjoying this but then, she senses something. She looks up right when one small ceiling area explodes.

Boom

Ichigo sharply looks up as Lettuce and Pudding try to see and four things come gliding down from out of the smoke and dust that the even Melissa is surprise to see. They land right in between Melissa and the vampires and Melissa takes a couple of steps back in shock of seeing them. Actually she was shocked so much that the electricity dies around Pudding and Lettuce. They collapse, Pudding laying on the ground and Lettuce flouting a bit and they try to have a better look at what's shocking Melissa so much. Ichigo is wide eye as Melissa can hardly believe this.

Hannya bows and greets, "Hello, Melissa-san."

Kanjo tells her, "You shouldn't underestimate us because you're not the only half-breed here."

Kokoro chuckles nervously as he says, "Well they are the half-breeds. I'm just the son of a sick minded king and a very kind maid."

Lettuce and Pudding are surprise as they rise up, or flouted back down to have a better look. It's amazing, their kids are alive!

Kashu gets something out from under her finger nail and then smirks as she looks back at Melissa's surprise face. Then just like that, the music starts.

Right after the music started, three things cracked and burst. On moment Ichigo was hanging on a wall and the next, she nearly collapses on the ground for not expecting that but two strong arms catch her. To Pudding all of her sudden, her chains started to fall but they were caught. Then to Lettuce, she hears a crack in her bowl and then a big hole appears below her tank and she comes rushing out with the water. But instead of sliding through the ground, someone catches her. All three look up for another shocking surprise. Since Melissa heard those cracks, she looks pass the kids and her eyes couldn't be wider.

"Gotcha," Kisshu tells Ichigo, smirking at her and using that same carefree voice she thought she wasn't going to hear anymore.

Pai smiles at Lettuce and tells her, "I told you that the glass wasn't indestructible from the outside."

Taruto kneels down to Pudding's level and he has her chains in his hand. He tells her, "Even here, they're not nailed very well. Easy disconnecting."

Melissa takes more steps back, mostly out of fear than disbelief. "Impossible," she mutters. But the smirk on Kashu's face only got wider as she walks up to her and starts singing; dancing to it as well.

You Can't Stop the Beat from Hairspray

KASHU

You can't stop an avalanche as it races down the hill
You can try to stop the seasons, girl, but you know you never will
And you can try to stop my dancing feet, but I just cannot stand still!

'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round
And my heart's keepin' time to the speed of the sound
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
'Cause you can't stop the beat

When she started singing, their mothers look from the surprise of seeing their aliens and to her. Then Kokoro goes up to her and grabs her hand. Kashu looks up at him and they're both smiling as they start dancing together; forgetting Melissa as she starts holding her head in pain.

KASHU AND KOKORO
Ever since the whole world began
A woman found out if she shook it, she could shake up a man
And so I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today
'Cause you can't stop the motion of the ocean or the sun in the sky
You can wonder, if you wanna, but I never ask why
And you can try to hold me down, but I'll spit in your eye and say
That You Can't Stop the Beat!

At the end of the verse, Kashu twirls towards Kokoro and gets really close. Almost kissing range but all Kashu tells him is, 'Told you that positive feelings hurt.' Kokoro looks side eyed towards Melissa and Kashu is right. She's holding her head in pain, unable to bear with the music. Kokoro looks back at Kashu and smiles at her. Then he hugs her and twirls a bit. She smiles and hugs him back.

Then Hannya takes Kanjo's hand and he looks at her in immediate reaction. She tells him, "Hannya's and Kanjo-kun's turn. But please excuse of what Hannya is going to sing."

Kanjo is confused as she asks, "Why?"

To show him, Hannya lets go of his hand and does a little sexy salsa twirl. Lettuce's and Pai's eyes widen and their heads drop a bit as the shy timid Hannya transforms into someone else as she sings and dance.

HANNYA

You can't stop the river as it rushes to the sea

Kanjo puts on a half smile from seeing how Hannya is dancing and singing. It even caused Kashu and Kokoro to look at them. Then Kanjo takes Hannya's hand and dancing with her; making Taruto and Pudding raise a brow.

KANJO
You can try to stop the hands of time, but you know it just won't be!

HANNYA

And if they try to stop us, Seaweed, I've got the n double a .n.p

Now he knows why she said please excuse. Oh well.

HANNYA AND KANJO

Cause the world keeps spinnin round and round
And my heart's keepin time to the speed of sound
I was lost 'til I heard the drums, then I found my way
Cause you cant stop the beat!

Ever since we first saw the light
A man and woman like to shake it on a Saturday night
So I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today
Cause you cant stop the motion of the ocean, or the rain from above
you can try to stop the paradise were dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay
Cause you cant stop the beat!

"Stop it!!" Melissa screams, sending a blast at Hannya and Kanjo. They look at her in surprise but before it could hit them, Kashu goes in front with her back to it and does a back flip so that she could hit the blast right back at her. It didn't hit her, it hit the wall above her. Good thing that the blast is too weak for the wall to collapse.

Then Kashu goes up to Hannya and Kanjo and reminds, "You know, your parents are watching you." Seeing that causes Hannya and Kanjo to turn to their parents. Lettuce and Pai are still pretty surprise as it looks like Taruto and Pudding has their arms crossed and they have their brow raise. Both Kanjo and Hannya turn red from that as Kashu tries to contain her laugh.

Kashu goes back to Kokoro and thinks, 'Now they're going to have to go through parent's guidance about dating!'

Then Kokoro asks, "You think that's bad?" He points to Ichigo and Kisshu and Kashu turns to look at them. The only one who looks worst than the other parents is Ichigo. Kisshu looks at her as flames are being visible around her. She's turning into her father and like before, Kisshu doesn't seem to mind that and neither does Kashu. She's surprise that her mother is acting like that while Kokoro looks a bit shaken up from her. Kashu sees that too.

Kashu lightly hits Kokoro's arm and tells him, 'Don't look at that. We have one more thing to do before she can go on and on about that.' She turns to Melissa and Kokoro fallows her. Melissa looks like she's in a lot of pain as her back is to the wall and she's kneeling down as her head is pounding and pounding from the music. Kashu looks back at Kokoro and tells him, 'You can do it right?'

'I'll try,' he tells her, a bit nervously.

'Want me to hit your head so it can be easier.'

'Please no!'

Kashu smiles at him proudly and then she runs to Melissa. She grabs her hands and forcefully lift her up. Melissa is surprise and a bit confuse, but not so much as Kashu starts singing to her again. When she started to sing, Hannya and Kanjo went back to work and all three kids sing the back up (their bit are the words between [ and ]).

KASHU

Oh, Oh, Oh
You can't stop today [No!]
As it comes speeding 'round the track [oooh, child yes!]
Yesterday is history [be gone!]
And it's never comin back! [Look ahead, cause...]
Tomorrow is a brand new day, and it don't know white from black [Yeah!]

Then to Ichigo's, Lettuce's, and Pudding's surprise, when Lettuce's tail turns back into legs, their aliens grab their wrists lightly and lift them up. They're confused, but not so much when they started dancing and singing with them like how other kids are doing.

EVERYONE
'Cause the world keeps spinnin' round and round
And my heart's keepin time to the speed of sound
I was lost till I heard the drums, then I found my way
'Cause you cant stop the beat!

Ever since we first saw the light,
A man and woman like to shake it on a Saturday night
So I'm gonna shake and shimmy it with all of my might today!
Cause you cant stop the motion of the ocean, or the rain from above
They can try to stop the paradise we're dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay
You can't stop the beat!

Aah, aah, aah,
Ahh, ahh, ahh
Ahh, ahh, ahh ahh

Then after a bit, the girls decide to dance with them and sing as well. While they are being distracted, Kashu decides to finish this. She pushes Melissa forcefully and Kokoro is behind her. Before she knew it, Kokoro's hands are both sides of her head and then blank, for her. Her eyes widen for one moment before they slowly closed and she collapses to the ground. Hannya and Kanjo look at that scene hopefully as Kokoro looks a little dizzy. Kashu jumps over Melissa's body and catches Kokoro right before he collapsed himself. Slowly, Kashu puts him down with his back to the wall and he looks like he's panting. Her hands go to his face to move some strands of hair away to see if he's okay and he looks back at her, weakly. He smiles and nods. She smiles at that before hugging him. He hugs her back shortly after. Hannya and Kanjo smile a bit from that and since there are still some music still left playing, they decide not to waste it and to give Kashu and Kokoro some privacy.

EVERYONE

Ever since we first saw the sign
It seems Vantussle girls are always tryin to be someone
But now we're gonna shake and shimmy it and have some fun today!
Cause you can't stop the Motion of the ocean or the rain from above
You can try to stop the paradise were dreamin of
But you cannot stop the rhythm of two hearts in love to stay!
Cause you cant stop the beat!
You cant stop the beat
You cant stop the beat
You cant stop the beat!!

During the last four lines, the guys played a fast one on the girls. Kisshu, Pai, and Taruto pull their girls closer and then they kiss them, straight on. They held them close and it wasn't long till the girls relaxed and kissed them back. Ichigo took the longest but she kissed him back, no alcohol. Kashu, Kanjo, Kokoro, and Hannya saw that and now things are a relief. Melissa is down and their parents are together. Soon, two more people fallowed. Hannya makes Kanjo face her and to his surprise, she leans up fast enough to kiss his lips. He's surprise but kisses her back and holds her just as close. Then to Kashu's surprise, Kokoro pulls her back with one arm wrapped around her head and pulls her close, making her lean close to his chest and she ends up hearing his heartbeat. She's a little red while Kokoro uses his other arm to wrap around her waist. His head leans on hers and they just laid there for a moment. For once, Kokoro wasn't the one who was blushing; only smiling.