Always Means Forever

Chapter Two:

SailorKagome

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"Ribbon Strawberry . . .CHECK!" Ichigo screamed out her attack before flipping backwards to escape the claws of the oncoming anima. Fortunately it returned the poor giant . . .rat . . .thing back to normal. Unfortunately, there were about a million more, give or take. And for some reason, they were always after her. Sure she liked being popular, but this was just too much.

Inwardly groaning, the schoolgirl turned super-hero(ine) gritted her teeth and burst into the fray.

"Ribbon . . .strawberry . . .check!" she muttered, dodging through the multitudes, whose only purpose, it seemed, was to maim her and drool all over her. Eeping very un-super-heroine like, Mew Ichigo bent over in half backwards to avoid a set of claws quite intent on decapitating her. Twisting right and straightening, she could hear her bones snap back together. Taking a deep breath . . .

" . . .OW!" she jumped and landed on the head of an anima, narrowly dodging the millions of swiping claws and snapping jaws aimed at her. Why WAS that? Couldn't they try to kill someone ELSE? Like Ryou. It's not like he ever did anything useful, the bum.

As Ichigo hopped from head to drooling, smelly head, 'strawberry checking' them as she went, our cat-eared hero failed to notice the extremely large and angry anima creeping up behind her, and as such, it was a very painful surprise when she felt the huge paw crash into her backside and fling her to the rocky ground. Whimpering as the bear anima (WHERE did that come from!) attempted to grind her bones into dust, she could faintly hear the voices of her friends and comrades, yelling their attacks, vainly trying to come to her rescue.

Oh . . . She thought, not entirely conscious, that was nice of them . . .

She thought, not entirely conscious,

But while their effort was appreciated, there were far too many anima and far too little Mew Mews.

"Ichigo!" she heard Minto yell. "We're going to combine our powers for the strawberry surprise! Do you think you can handle it?"

Ears and eyes flickering up at the sound, Ichigo mumbled what may have been a yes, but seeing as they could neither see nor hear her, the Mew Mews just went ahead, praying that she was able.

"Ribbon Mint Echo!"

"Ribbon Lettuce Rush!"

"Ribbon Pudding Ring Inferno!"

"Ribbon Zakuro Spear!"

Closing her eyes, Ichigo mumbled her incantation and went back to her happy state of semi-consciousness, not even really caring when a large flash covered the area, destroying the anima, except to note that her back didn't hurt all that much anymore.

As the dust settled, the Mew Mew's did not see the crushed (and hopefully alive) body of Mew Ichigo. Instead they saw Kisshu holding the limp body of their leader and smirking ever so cockily at them.

Feeling her body being lifted off the ground, which was actually quite comfortable, thank you very much, Ichigo groggily opened her eyes to see what was bothering her this time, interrupting her from her nice . . .concussion?

"Oh!" She blinked and smiled. "Hey, Kisshu!" Attempting (and failing) to wave, she nestled deeper into his arms, before vaguely remembering that she was supposed to try to escape from him, because he was her enemy, even though he really wasn't, but no one else knew that, and so they were supposed to pretend that they still were (enemies, that is). Trying, and deciding that it was too hard, Mew Ichigo went back to sleep, and boy did she feel bad for the next person that tried to wake her up.

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Umm . . . Well, I guess that's the next chapter . . .

I'm sorry it was so lame. : And short. But I wanted to get a new one out, and now that I actually have a plot for this, the rest of the chapters should be longer, and be ready more quickly.

. . .and you know what? The last chapter was sooo serious, but this one was actually kinda not . . . And so I guess it's just kinda weird, but whatever. This was actually supposed to be a one-shot, too, until everyone all decided they wanted me to write more. Which, aside from the fact that I have more work to do now, that is totally COOL:D I am making a happy face now, because I am so happy . . .because everyone wanted me to continue and all.

But I'm going to stop talking and go write some more fanfiction. :D I've got writing mojo, which I fully plan to use and abuse. XD

SailorKagome

Ps, AHHH! Why was this so LAME? And SHORT!