Genkianimegurl: Hello everyone :)! My friend, MeDarkNeutralLight (so long! You're now MDNL, sry) has been in England sight seeing and she is the one editing my story, (and I REALLY need her editing) so I don't want to push her. I know that I've been updating I think every-other-day but after this I won't be able to update for at least 5 days. Sorry about that.

Kish: Oh ya! More time away from you!

Genkianimegurl: Hey! Meanie! Grumps we're officially not friends now!

Kish: When were we friends? Why was I not informed!?!?

Ari: Everyone should be friends! :D

Genkianimegurl and Kish: O.o?

Kish: Where the hell did you come from?!

Genkianimegurl and Ari: Don't swear!

Kish: Hell...

Genkianimegurl: Twitch

Kish: Hell, Shit, Damn...

Genkianimegurl: twitch, twitch, twitch Okay that's it! Uses almighty authoress powers Sorry Kish but you pushed me. So...

Kish: Is now standing on a very thin line, and if he falls he lands in water... shark-infested water! :P Eep! I'll be good!

Genkianimegurl: Now that's what I wanted to hear! Uses almighty authoress powers

Kish: standing on solid ground Bitch!

Genkianimegurl: I'll pretend I didn't hear that because if we talk more then I lose my readers interest! I don't want that to happen! So I want to say thank you to those that reviewed before I go on with the chapter :)!

Thank you Neooh for your review :)! I'm really sure you can write dialogue better then me! Remember I get a LOT of editing !

Thank you to Kikyouko! I loved your story and I'm glad you liked mine :)!

Thank you to my friends MDNL and... TheVampirePoet? I think I'll just stick with calling ya Laura :)! Anyway, thank you for sticking by me all this time and listen to me complain sometimes and other time be really, really hyper, and helping me when I had writers block! I feel honored that MDNL gave me cookies! (She is very, VERY protective about them, and almost never gives 'em away) I'll always keep it :)!

Tart and pudding: munch, munch

Genkianimegurl: Did I hear someone munching?

Tart: Ya. Pudding and I found some cookies just lying around. Cool, huh?

Genkianimegurl: Cookies? COOKIS! Whaaaaaaaaaaaaa! My cookies!

Pudding: Oops! Well here take the rest! Looks at empty hands Umm...? You want some candy drops? Sweat-bead

Tart: snicker

Genkianimegurl: Whaaaaaaaaa! My cookies! why? whyyyyyyyyy!?! sniff, sniff Oh whatever! On with the story!

Tart and Kish: mutters Crybaby! -.-


Chapter 3: The Evils of Violence

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Pai: Being as it seems that this pathetic girl has forgotten to do the disclaimer, it looks like I'll have to do it. Disclaimer: Genkianimegurl doesn't own TMM, thank-goodness. Neither does she own cookie (the character).

Genkianimegurl: right! Thanks for reminding me, also from the last chapter I don't own Dark, Neutral or Light (cookies three personalities) my friend owns all of 'em! MDNL owns them, so thank you to her for letting me borrow them :)! Oh! By the way she has put up the most awesome story in the TriGun section witch I HIGHLY recommend! You should go read hers if you like TriGun :)! Now to the story! For real.


Chapter 3: The Evils of Violence

Suddenly Ariana was woken up by a loud bash. Sitting up straight Ariana looked around, but there wasn't a living thing (except plant life) near her. She heard some sort of battle cry with a 'lettuce rush' followed by the noise of a small explosion.

"Lettuce rush... Lettuce rush. Now where have I heard THAT before?" Ariana said to herself. It dawned on her that that was part of the green haired Mew Mew's battle cry.

'Oh dear. I don't want to get mixed up in this!' she thought 'violence is every where but this is the worst kind!' getting up Ariana looked around. 'Now. What is the right direction to the path?' After having a nap Ariana had lost her sense of direction. Finely deciding on that a right is where she had entered the clearing, she headed towards it... then tripped on a rock, which sent her flying. She fell on to the ground and was relieved that she didn't get hurt but to her dismay she found that she had landed on the slope and was now proceeding to tumble down the hill at full speed.

Minto didn't understand what was happening. All of the infected animals were attacking Zakuro, Pudding, Lettuce and her self but leaving Ichigo alone. The three of the aliens were attacking Ichigo not caring what was happening with the other Mew Mews, and Ichigo was barely holding up. Pudding was desperately trying to get to Ichigo's side but more monsters always blocked her off.

A scream cut through Minto's concentration and she was nearly cut by a large beetle's pinchers. She looked over to Ichigo, who was fine. Looking over to the other Mew Mews she saw that they were also looking for the cause of the scream and not one of them was hurt. They were the only girls in the area and that scream had most definitely had come from a girl.

"HELP MEEEEEEE! I'M GOING TO DIIIIIIIIIE!" the same voice came again as a girl tumbled down the hill headed for the fight. Pai took this opportunity to teleport behind Ichigo, ready to abduct her. He was about to reach out towards Ichigo. His hand close over her mouth and all was doomed for the Mew Mews. Pai started to- BAM! A girl with very short brown hair, a yellow T-shirt and jeans had crashed into Pai, and was now lying on him, ending the possible abduction.

"Owwww...oh, hello!" the girl smiled down at Pai "thank-you, you broke my fall. Woo hoo, I'm still alive! You see, I had a very far way to fall and without you being here... well of course---"she was cut off short by a very annoyed looking Kish.

"What are you doing here? Where did you come from? When did you become a part of this fight? And who do you think you are?" Kish questioned, seeing all his plans for Ichigo's abduction disintegrating.

"You forgot 'why,' Kish." Tart added and then immediately regretted saying it as Kish gave him the death glare.

"What am I doing?" the now confused girl repeated slowly, "Well I'm talking to you, duh! Woops! And sitting on this guy. Sorry about that." The girl stood up and brushed herself off. "Where... umm, I came from up the hill. Didn't you see me? Just then? Oh yes, and I most certainly have NEVER been a part of this fight, or any other! What is it with people and violence? It's so wrong. Everything can be worked out peacefully and happily war and pain hurts too much. But whatchya gonna do? I mean it's everywhere, have you ever really looked at movies? Not one lack violence, and if it does, you've never heard of it or it's a sing-along for 2-year-olds! People are always asking 'why are there so many killing, robberies, rapes and other evil stuff?' well it all starts on TV right at---"again the girl was cut off by Kish.

"THAT'S ENOUGH!" screamed a very pissed off Kish "Now answer the question. Who are you?"

"Oh! Right, right, right," the girl smiled up at Kish "how rude of me. My name is Ariana. EVERYONE calls me Ari for short though. But that's not important, what's important is you temper. You really need to work on it." Ariana said waving a finger back and forth tisking "If you want to stop violence in your neighborhood, that's no way to start." From out of her pants pocket Ariana produced a small brochure, the title reading 'Stop Violence'. She then proceeded to give it to Kish. "Here ya go. Read that, it will help along your way to achieve a kinder world and a happier you!"

Pudding leaned close to lettuce and whispered in her ear "Do you think she has just a TINY mental problem?"

Kish stared at the brochure in his had with utter disbelief "Do I look like I care? No wait let me rephrase that," Kish said. Who, by the way, looked like he was about to flip his lid... or already had. "Do I look like I'm from this planet!?"

"Oh don't feel depressed, everybody belongs, even you! Of course you're from Ear-"Ariana stopped her self this time as she looked real close at the three aliens for the first time "Hey! You've got HUGE ears and you float!"

"You just noticed that NOW?" everybody shouted. Startled, Ariana looked around and noticed the others that weren't part of her debate on violence.

"Cool! You've got ears and tails and you look just like the... ohhhhhhhh." A look of recognition came over her face. "You ARE the Mew Mews, and you ARE the invading aliens."

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Pudding couldn't help it anymore. She burst out laughing.

"Hey this is serious business!" Ariana said snatching her 'Stop Violence' brochure out of Kish's hands and replacing it with a 'Redeem Yourself In The Catholic Church' brochure. "You and your 'friends' here will need that. The crime rate in Tokyo went up 7% when you came here!"

"You're incorrect. The crime rate went up by 7.351% when we came." Pai said not really caring for the conversation. "Cool! You know every percentage, or something like that?" Pai looked at Ari with an odd expression on his face. "Anyway, that's not what I want to talk about right now. As I was saying because of you our beloved Tokyo has become a wreck."

"7.3-whatever-% isn't really that much" Minto said getting very annoyed with the talkative girl.

"It's more then 0%!" Ari argued back "But you really shouldn't be the one to talk. The aliens may be the ones that cause the boost in crime, but you're also at fault. You support the fighting by participating in it. If you didn't fight then there would be no crime boost."

"So what do you propose we do? LET them take over Earth!?" Ichigo asked very sarcastically, though Ariana didn't seem to get the hint.

"No, no! Of course not! Peaceful negotiations are the way to go. Because the aliens are obviously smarter then us they could tell us some of their secrets of technology and we could let them stay on Earth. Also, I've noticed that they can speed up the process of pollution effects. If they can do that they could also slow it down. We could all live happily, them helping to keep the world clean and teaching us how to preserve it, us learning from their great knowledge and giving them a now better world to live in." She finished off looking quite proud of herself.

"You're even stupider then Ichigo!" Tar exclaimed "And I thought that that was as bad as you could get."

"Well that's rude!" Ari said a little shocked.

Both Ichigo and Kish glared at Tart. Then Ichigo noticed what Kish was doing. He was being protective towards her! Even after she had told him off he still persisted. She had told him off but obviously not harsh or bluntly enough. He had no right to be protective towards her, no right at all! Masaya was the only one that could do that! Why did Kish always ruin the time that she spent with Masaya? Why did he still have to even exist! This was the final straw!

"Kish!" Ichigo yelled up to him "don't you dare glare at Tart for what he said to me! I told you to leave Masaya and I alone. That means don't be protective towards me. Don't love me anymore. Don't have anything to do with me! Go off alone and live a sad and lonely life, I don't care. There is no happy ending for you including me or anyone-else. Why would someone love a perverted alien? There is no 'one more try' nothing you can do will change my mind. Go and leave your delusional thoughts behind! Go shrivel up in a corner and DIE for all I care!"

Kish couldn't believe the harshness of her words, never had he ever heard her say such things. Moisture gathered in his eyes like small dew droplets gathering into one so to fall from the leaf they were on. Had Ichigo meant every last one of those words? Did she really not care about him, not even a bit? He was thrown into the utter despair of darkness never to see the beauty of life in all its glory as he had when he had seen Ichigo. Never to see light quite as bright or as radiant as had had when he had seen Ichigo. In that short remark Kish felt every word drive into him like a dagger, yet no visible mark had been made. Pain pulsed through all of his body with every torturing heart beat, from a heart that was now stone and ice. His fingers went numb, as with the feeling in his heart that he once had, going numb, never to be revived. The sun seemed to dim casting a showed upon his weakened form, the wind picked up creating a cold that was no cold compared to the ice of his heart and Kish's body slumped. The wind howled and grew stronger as time seemed to slow, stretching out Kish's torture for all to see. That was it, Kish had said that was his last try and it was gone. Kish couldn't bear the pain of sadness or despair any longer.

No, it was deeper then that. Not only was there hopeless despair and sadness there was a burning flame of hate. It was blazing fire of hate for this... this... this pathetic... vulgar... despicable, servile, (worst words Genkianimegurl can't think of right now. Sad ain't it?) human! Ari had ruined everything! All his plans and work. Ichigo... Ichigo was gone, too far beyond his reach, even for his zeal towards this sort of thing. It was all gone, lost, lost forever in a storm created by Ari that had slung Kish aside leaving him the mercies of the wrathful waves. Hate burned deep in Kish creating a flame of scorching heat. The girl would pay. Ari's life was soon to end.

"We're going," Kish said hoarsely "NOW"

"But Kish... the plan?" Tart asked confused

"I said, we're going" Kish glared down at Tart and teleported away. Pai and then a reluctant Tart soon followed him.

Ari turned to Ichigo with unshed tears in her eyes. She walked slowly up to the cat girl and stared her in the eye. This was the first time since they had met that the Mew Mews saw an expression that didn't show complete happiness in Ari's eyes. Only hardness and sorrowfulness was shown when looking at Ichigo.

"That... that was horrible! How could you be so heartless?" Ari asked utterly confused, tears spilling down cheeks "If he l-loved you, then Th-that p-p- paragraph alone would be... be enough t-to hurt him s-s-so deeply for th-the rest of h-his life!" with that she tuned around and ran up the hill back to were her bike was.

When she had found it Ariana had already started mentally erasing the depressing fight from her memory. 'No use having that haunt me forever' she thought as cheerfully as she could manage. Ari was about to get on her bike when a rustling in the trees behind her made her turn around. Was someone following her? As she peered in the dense foliage she saw a dark figure approach.

END (of the chapter)


Minto: Ari is so... annoying.

Ari: what? Hey! That's mean, we should all be nice to each other! Pulls out brochure reading 'Love One-An-Other' and hands it to Minto

Minto: Riiiiiight.

Genkianimegurl: wonder where she keep them all... anyway, that don' matter now! Because the beginning was so long the ending will be short! All I'd like to do is thank those who reviewed, once again. And I'd also like to plead for them to review again! If you haven't reviewed before, NOW is a good time :)! Reviewing tells us odd authoresses and authors that we are appreciated and we should keep going. Also if your thinking this is a kinda boring story hopefully I'm making it better latter on! I know I'm getting better at writing, so that part is good :)! Anyway, please review and I'll be updating soon enough.