STILL LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO SELLS TOKYO MEW MEW
MEW MEW METAMORPHOSIS
Chapter Eleven: The Beginning of the Unraveling
The next day at the Café was...different...then any day the building had seen. After the first few hours of opening had gone so badly, Ryou decided to shut down for the rest of the late morning and open up again around two o' clock.
"Where's Ichigo onee-san?" Pudding jumped around the Café in search of the girl, "she didn't show up today, you think something's wrong."
"Whadaya' think, stupid monkey!" Kami cursed the girl in a worse then usual temper.
Pudding looked up at the Tasmanian Tiger with watering eyes, "Pudding wants to go home, too. Pudding is tired of working."
"Go ahead!" Kami folded her arms, "Mint and Zakuro already left, why don't you go too!"
"Guys, please don't fight." Lettuce stood up behind Pudding almost defensively, "we need to keep things running."
Kami opened her mouth to shout at Lettuce, but decided better of it after Akasaka entered the room.
"Please, don't fight right now. Without the other three we need all your skills to pull off a successful day of business. You'll get to relax at the party in two weeks."
"Eh, that's right!" Lettuce exclaimed, quickly changing the subject, "you guys are inviting Miss McGuire over, aren't you?"
"Who's Miss McGuire?" Pudding's question sparked off a whole separate conversation, brightening things a bit as memories of the pianist came back.
"Speaking of which..." Kami turned her attention to Ryou after leaving the others, "where is that piano, Ryou-kun?"
Ryou was standing against the wall in his usual pose, "upstairs, in a room full of all sorts of odds and ends, and a few different instruments, why do you need to know?"
"Cause', I'm going to go play it." Kami turned sharply on her heal, the lace of her Café uniform flaring out behind her.
Shirogane let out a heavy sigh and walked into the kitchen. Where are you, Ichigo? He allowed his thoughts to wander away from the loud talking going on around him.
"Better make sure that girl isn't screwing up my Café." Ryou turned and headed in the direction Kami had gone.
On reaching the top of the stairs it wasn't hard to find where Kami had snuck off. Piano music reverberated around the main hall, it's source a room around the corner and behind a door.
Ryou waited outside the door for a moment, his worries of Ichigo transforming into focusing on the tune his ears heard. It seemed...familiar.
Once the song had ceased, Ryou opened the door and stepped inside. There was only one window in the room, it was small and high. Now, in the early afternoon, it didn't provide the room with much light. Nonetheless, Kami hadn't turned the lights on, so Shirogane didn't either.
"Where did you learn that song?" Ryou walked over to the piano and stared over Kami's shoulder at the empty music stand.
Kami glared up at him, "why do you want to know?"
"Miss McGuire played the same thing when she was here last."
Kami put a hand over her mouth to stifle her obvious laughter. "What's so funny?" Ryou asked, a slight hint of confusion in his voice. "It's Miss McGuire." Kami answered him in perfect English pronunciation with very little accent, "you said it funny. You were pronouncing it, "Muiss MicGwi-e." Kami finished her reply again in English. Shirogane scowled at her for a moment before speaking, "that doesn't answer my question, where did you learn to play that song?" Kami's eyes sunk in sadness, small tears forming at their base, "someone taught it to me, when I was really little." Kami paused, it was evident that she didn't like the topic of her past. After a little hesitation she continued, "how do you know Elizabeth McGuire?" "Elizabeth?" Ryou looked at her, "y...y...your sister?"
"Let's drop it." Kami walked past him and shut the door behind him. ---------------------------------------- (author's quick note: people are telling me that I need to introduce the blue DNA animals, which I wasn't going to do for quite a while, but I thought about it and I thought I'd start sooner, so this section is for all those people that encouraged me to post for the blue guys! (the following conversation is in English))
"Keiko?"
"Yes?"
"Has Kami reported back yet?"
"No."
"That girl better not be making friends. That wasn't part of her mission."
Keiko stood up from her sitting position and headed for a nearby door. "You want me to go check up on her, right?"
"Of course."
MEW MEW METAMORPHOSIS
Chapter Eleven: The Beginning of the Unraveling
The next day at the Café was...different...then any day the building had seen. After the first few hours of opening had gone so badly, Ryou decided to shut down for the rest of the late morning and open up again around two o' clock.
"Where's Ichigo onee-san?" Pudding jumped around the Café in search of the girl, "she didn't show up today, you think something's wrong."
"Whadaya' think, stupid monkey!" Kami cursed the girl in a worse then usual temper.
Pudding looked up at the Tasmanian Tiger with watering eyes, "Pudding wants to go home, too. Pudding is tired of working."
"Go ahead!" Kami folded her arms, "Mint and Zakuro already left, why don't you go too!"
"Guys, please don't fight." Lettuce stood up behind Pudding almost defensively, "we need to keep things running."
Kami opened her mouth to shout at Lettuce, but decided better of it after Akasaka entered the room.
"Please, don't fight right now. Without the other three we need all your skills to pull off a successful day of business. You'll get to relax at the party in two weeks."
"Eh, that's right!" Lettuce exclaimed, quickly changing the subject, "you guys are inviting Miss McGuire over, aren't you?"
"Who's Miss McGuire?" Pudding's question sparked off a whole separate conversation, brightening things a bit as memories of the pianist came back.
"Speaking of which..." Kami turned her attention to Ryou after leaving the others, "where is that piano, Ryou-kun?"
Ryou was standing against the wall in his usual pose, "upstairs, in a room full of all sorts of odds and ends, and a few different instruments, why do you need to know?"
"Cause', I'm going to go play it." Kami turned sharply on her heal, the lace of her Café uniform flaring out behind her.
Shirogane let out a heavy sigh and walked into the kitchen. Where are you, Ichigo? He allowed his thoughts to wander away from the loud talking going on around him.
"Better make sure that girl isn't screwing up my Café." Ryou turned and headed in the direction Kami had gone.
On reaching the top of the stairs it wasn't hard to find where Kami had snuck off. Piano music reverberated around the main hall, it's source a room around the corner and behind a door.
Ryou waited outside the door for a moment, his worries of Ichigo transforming into focusing on the tune his ears heard. It seemed...familiar.
Once the song had ceased, Ryou opened the door and stepped inside. There was only one window in the room, it was small and high. Now, in the early afternoon, it didn't provide the room with much light. Nonetheless, Kami hadn't turned the lights on, so Shirogane didn't either.
"Where did you learn that song?" Ryou walked over to the piano and stared over Kami's shoulder at the empty music stand.
Kami glared up at him, "why do you want to know?"
"Miss McGuire played the same thing when she was here last."
Kami put a hand over her mouth to stifle her obvious laughter. "What's so funny?" Ryou asked, a slight hint of confusion in his voice. "It's Miss McGuire." Kami answered him in perfect English pronunciation with very little accent, "you said it funny. You were pronouncing it, "Muiss MicGwi-e." Kami finished her reply again in English. Shirogane scowled at her for a moment before speaking, "that doesn't answer my question, where did you learn to play that song?" Kami's eyes sunk in sadness, small tears forming at their base, "someone taught it to me, when I was really little." Kami paused, it was evident that she didn't like the topic of her past. After a little hesitation she continued, "how do you know Elizabeth McGuire?" "Elizabeth?" Ryou looked at her, "y...y...your sister?"
"Let's drop it." Kami walked past him and shut the door behind him. ---------------------------------------- (author's quick note: people are telling me that I need to introduce the blue DNA animals, which I wasn't going to do for quite a while, but I thought about it and I thought I'd start sooner, so this section is for all those people that encouraged me to post for the blue guys! (the following conversation is in English))
"Keiko?"
"Yes?"
"Has Kami reported back yet?"
"No."
"That girl better not be making friends. That wasn't part of her mission."
Keiko stood up from her sitting position and headed for a nearby door. "You want me to go check up on her, right?"
"Of course."