Author's Note: Tokyo Mew Mew and it's characters don't belong to me so you have no right to sue!!!!!

Mew Mew Metamorphosis
Episode five: what shall come of tomorrow?

Ichigo drummed her fingers across the pink-topped table monotonously. A slight ray of orange sunlight poured through the window, and dissolved at her feet.
"This is so boring!" she mumbled to no one in particular, "why do I have to stay here and do absolutely nothing again?"
Mint sighed and hit Ichigo across the nose, "just be quiet already, you're making this whole thing worse then it needs to be." Mint sighed and took another sip of fragrant tea, "besides, if Akasaka or Shirogane can narrow down our search any it would be a big help, wouldn't it?"
Ichigo sat down in the heart-shaped chair across from Mint and lay her head down on the table, "we've looked for the past week, and this is even more boring then looking for Mew Aqua."
Mint smiled and sipped her tea for a second time, "then, the faster you find Mew Kami, the faster you can go look for more Mew Aqua and the faster you can go out and look for Chimera Anima and go back to your usual schedule."
Ichigo stood up and glared out the window, "I don't think my life will ever go back to normal again." she let out on exasperated sigh and turned to the door, "come, on, let's go out and find this Mew Mew fast." Ichigo left alone, while the other four stayed behind.
"Ichigo onee-chan seems depressed, Na no da." Pudding stared at the door, "we all seem pretty depressed, Pudding is sad now too."
Lettuce nodded, "I haven't even talked to my mom for three days now, I've been so busy."
Pudding nodded, "let's go and find the silver stranger so Ichigo will be happy again and everyone will be happy! Na no da! Pudding thinks that would be a nice idea."
Mint nodded and followed Lettuce and the now ecstatic Pudding out the door.
"Aren't you going, Zakuro?" Ryou looked up from his laptop research and turned to the young women.
"No." Zakuro leaned against her closed hand in thought.
Ryou smiled and returned to his work, "I thought so."
"You thought right." Zakuro stood up and began to sweep the Café floor. "Maybe I'll help them later." she paused, "maybe."
A minute later Zakuro left to go and give a hand to Akasaka with the dishes. Ryou leaned on his palm, the words on the computer screen blurred under the pressure of his tired eyes, all he seemed to do now was research- for that was really all he knew how to do.
"What are you looking at?" a female voice talked into Ryou's ear loudly.
Ryou continued to work without looking up. "We're closed." he ordered harshly, "leave."
Ryou saw the girl sit down across from him from the corner of his eye. She leaned against her to hands and impertinently starred at him.
The blonde boy couldn't stand it any longer, slamming the laptop's lid down he glared at the girl for only a moment, then he stood up in shock.
"M...M...Mew Kami?" he stuttered quietly as he looked over the girl. "What are you doing here?"
"I'm sorry," she took Ryou's computer and turned it to face her. "I just wanted to check this place out. Make sure I wasn't assisting the wrong side." Mew Kami smiled slightly and began to rapidly type at the computer.
"Are you going to stay with us?" Ryou asked, returning to his seat.
"Mmmmm..." Mew Kami seemed very hesitative and somewhat cautious. "I could lead you on a dramatic wild goose chase. But eventually then, I would join you. Or I could fight against you, but I know your strengths, you would beat me. And then..."
She pressed one finger to her lips and smiled. "I could just tell you who I am, be employed in this Café and help you."
Ryou looked at her impatiently, "I have little time."
"Oh, but you do have plenty of time. Your Café is closed, right? Your research is only to find me, right? You graduated from college and school and what not, you do not to go fight any Chimera Anima."
With every one of her words, Ryou's eyes continued to narrow. He wasn't beginning to like this girl.
Mew Kami smiled, "however, maybe you do need to be somewhere." she sat on the table and examined her nails.
"Where?" Ryou demanded, "As you say, nothing is happening."
Mew Kami stood up and stared at Ryou, she was equally his height, allowing her to stare right into his blue eyes, "your supposed to protect someone, aren't you? She's out all alone." Mew Kami looked at the Café doors for a moment then put her face close to Ryou's and whispered in his ear, "defenseless, her friends split up. For all you know she's..."
"Ichigo's fine!" Ryou took a quick step backwards and glared at Mew Kami. "I know...she's fine."
Mew Kami smiled. She examined the look on his face with interest. He was wondering how she got there, how she had discovered the hideout. Shirogane wanted to know who she was, and why she had come.
"You seem..." Mew Kami broke the silence, "to have a lot of confidence in that girl, Ichigo? Poor thing, such an emotional life and then thrown into this..."
"No one was forced to do anything. All five of them chose to come here."
The Silver Stranger stared at him, every minute she tried his weaknesses, hoping he would make a mistake. Why she wanted such things was a secret only she knew.
"That's not true." Mew Kami took on a very serious tone and turned away from the Café owner. "You didn't choose to come here, did you? Neither did Akasaka...you were chosen. That goes for everyone involved in this business, it goes for me, my allies, and both enemies."
The boy glared at her briefly before speaking, "you have no right to say those things."

Mew Kami's next reaction was uncertain to Ryou. She was either taken- aback or please with his remark. But he wouldn't find out for a long while, as Mew Kami disappeared into nothingness.
"I didn't ever think it would come to this." Shirogane turned and called to Akasaka, "we better talk to those girls tomorrow I think the load is too stressful."
Akasaka smiled from his spot in the kitchen and called back, "that would be a good idea. Though he doesn't want to admit it, that poor boy really does care about them...but what is he going to do? What will come of tomorrow?