Yay! Story time.
Chapter One: Loving Little Ms.Lonely
The day started out as it usually does. Every mew showed up right on time (with the exception of Ichigo, who was about 2 minutes late, which gave Ryou a reason to pick on her once more) for work at Cafe Mew Mew. The weird thing that day, was that Pudding was late. The strange thing about this was that Pudding was usually early, practicing some trick.
"Where do you think she is?" Ichigo wondered.
"I'm sure she's fine," Keiichiro re-assured.
Ichigo glanced out the window. In a minute or two, she saw Pudding running towards the Cafe.
"Oh there she is!"
Pudding busted through the doors.
"I'm not late am I? PLEASE don't take money off my pay if I'm late, Ryou!" she beggedm
Ryou sighed. "Fine. But only because you've never been late before."
"Thank you Ryou!" She ran in the back room to get changed into her outfit.
"WHAT! You get ticked off at me everyday I'm late, but Pudding gets off so easily!" Ichigo complained.
"Psh. She was never late before. You on the other hand..." Ryou shot back.
"Grrr...whatever! I swear, this is an injustice!" Ichigo exclaimed.
Ryou laughed a bit.
Pudding came out of the back room, in uniform.
Still wondering why Pudding was late, Ichigo walked over to ask.
"So, what's up Pudding? You've never been late before,"
"Pudding had to walk her little brothers and siser to the airport to meet their auntie!" Pudding responded, cheerfully, as always.
"Where are they going?"
"They're visiting for the summer!"
"The ENTIRE summer!" Ichigo was astounded.
"Yes, I would have gone too, but I knew I had to stay here to help everyone else with the cafe and mew mew work! So I told her I had important 'work' to do with my friends!"
"But don't you live alone in your house with your siblings? If they're gone, you'll be all alone!"
"I know that, but Puddings not scared. It will be nice not having to make dinner for everyone, clean up after everyone, and do everyones laundry," Pudding replied, still cheerful.
Ichigo sighed. Pudding was so optimistic. It was only the first day of summer (June 1st), so Pudding would be alone for a while.
"When will your siblings come back?"
"September first,"
"Pudding! That's three months!"
"I know! I get a long vacation!" Pudding said with a smile.
Everyone else had now over heard her story.
"Oh Pudding! That's sad!" said Lettuce.
"Why is it sad?"
"Because you'll be all alone! I'd hate to be alone like that..." said Lettuce, sadly.
"It will be fine, lettuce oneechan, Pudding needs a break anyway!" Pudding said, still happy.
"Just be careful, Pudding," Zakuro said, "Living alone like that could make you an easier target for the aliens,"
"Pudding will be extra careful, so don't worry!" Pudding re-assuered them.
DING! A customer walked in.
"Welcome to Cafe Mew Mew!"
After a hard, long day of working at the cafe, Pudding practically dragged herself home.
When she got inside, she made herself some dinner, and colapsed on her bed. Not sleeping, just resting her body.
Part of her wished that she had said yes to her aunts offer and went with her family, but then who would look after the house? Who would help save the world as Mew Pudding? Who would make money for when her family returned? She convinced herself that she had made the right decision of staying home.
Plus, she would miss celebrating her birthday with her friends. August 7th she would turn 11! She couldn't wait.
She got up after laying there for a bit and looked out the window. Rain. And the clouds looked as through it would be a thunderstorm.
She didn't like thunderstorms.
And that's when it hit her.
She would be ALONE while the thunderstorm was happening.
Thunderstorms has always scared her, though she failed to find the reason why. Even when her mom was right by her side she would jump at the lightning and yelp at the thunder. Usually her mom would sing or read to her while she was frightened, which would calm her down. After her mother died, she found a new way to calm herself, by reading or singing to her younger siblings. But both those choices were not options right now.
It was times like these when she wished she were Ichigo, and that she could go to her boyfriend Masayas house and have him calm her down. She wanted someone like that. Someone who loved her and held her and calmed her down. The only person who she would like to do that for her was Tart, and she couldn't see him coming over and hugging her, though she would like it alot.
She giggled at the thought of it.
BOOM
Her thoughts were interrupted by the thunder, which she jumped at once she heard it.
No no NO! she thought, Why does a thunderstorm have to come on a night when everyone is gone?
A flash of light shot through the windows, and a huge crash followed.
And that's when the worse thing possible (for her) that could happen, happened.
The power went out.
The house was completely pitch-black. She felt her way to the kitchen drawer to get the flash light, which was broken anyway.
"Well doesn't this just SUCK!" she yelled.
She picked up the phone. Dead.
She was really scared now. She jumped back under her bed covers, hoping the rain would stop or the power would come back on.
Niether did.
She tucked her head under her blanket.
"Oh comon! You're not afraid of my Chimera Animas, but you're afraid of a little water coming from the sky? You are so weak!"
She recegnised the voice and popped her head out of her blanket.
"Tar Tar? What are you doing- eek!"
Thunder boomed, which made Pudding yell and hide under the covers again.
Tart laughed.
"You're afraid of thunder too? Wow."
"Why are you here Tar Tar?"
"Stop calling me that! I'm here to kidnap you, duh,"
"Last time you tried that, you let me go,"
"Grr...that's NOT gonna happen this time!"
CRASH-BOOM
The loud noise made Pudding jump out of bed and hug Tart very tightly.
"Let...me...go...I can't...breathe!"
"But I'm scared!"
Tart managed to push her away.
"I'm sorry! I was just so scared,"
Tart sighed.
He snapped his fingers which made a lantern appear on the ground, emitting light all around the room.
"Better?" he asked.
"Yes, thank you Tar Tar!"
"Your welco- I mean NO! Why did I do that!"
Why? Tart thought, Why did I help her? I want to kidnap her!
'No you don't' said his inner self.
'Yes I do!' he thought back.
'You want to believe that, but you know it's not true,'
'Uh...'
'You like her'
'No I don't!'
'Yes you do. You probably even lov-'
'DON'T SAY IT!'
'But it's true. You love her.'
'Stop it!'
'(singing) You love her, you want to kiss her, you want to-'
'SHUTUP!'
'But that's why you came here, because you wanted to make sure she was safe.'
'No, I wanted to kidnap her!'
'Liar.'
'What?'
'You heard me. You're a liar, and a bad one. Pudding knows it, too'
'I won't give in to you!'
'But you will sometime...'
"Uh Tar Tar? Are you okay?" Pudding chimed in.
Tart snapped out of his huge day dream conversation with himself, still a little out of it.
"Uh...yeah, why?"
"You've just been sitting there silently for a while..."
"Oh I'm fine."
They were sitting by the lantern together.
"Even though you came to 'kidnap' me, Tar Tar, I'm glad you came,"
Tart looked at Pudding, her face glowing from the lantern.
"I was all alone, and it was storming and...(sigh) I dunno how I'll make it through the rest of the summer. But talking to you made me less scared. Thank you lots!" Pudding smiled at him.
Tart didn't know whether to just give in to her and act like a friend, or keep trying to convince himself that he hated her.
"What is it about the summer that is hard for you? Not that I care or anything..." he asked.
"I'm gonna be all along this summer. Usually it's me and my 5 siblings, but they're at their aunts and I had to stay here. Now that I realise that, I'm not sure if I'll be up to being alone every night...oh I dunno...it's just gonne be hard." She explained.
She put her face in her hands.
Something about seeing Pudding this way made Tart want to do something to help. She was pretty much his first (and only) friend. He kinda wanted to repay her for being so nice...but then that throught of betraying Kish and Pie and his race came...he was so confused. But if Pudding was going behind the other mews backs to be his friend, maybe he could go behind Kishs and Pies. One thing was for sure, his true self took over, and he wanted to do the first thing nice for the girl he liked.
"Uh, Pudding?"
"Yeah?" she looked up at him.
"I...I give up."
"Huh?"
"I give up trying to kidnap you."
"Oh that. Not like you ever could kidnap me, you always let me go cause we're friends!"
"Yeah. Friends..."
Pudding was confused. This was the first time he had actually admitted that they were friends. Then she smiled at her progress.
"Well, since we're friends, we should play sometime!" she said.
"P-play?"
"Yeah! You could come over so I wouldn't be so lonely. And I won't tell Ichigo or anyone, and you won't tell Kish or Pie! Deal?"
Pudding stuck out her hand for a handshake.
"Uh...sure...deal,"
Tart shook it, still kinda confused.
He didn't get it. He just didn't get it. It was the same feeling he got when he saved her from her death. Why? Why did he like her? But that wan't a very good question, because he already knew exsactly why he liked her. He also hated to admit it, but he liked to like Pudding, if that made any sense at all. Kish liked Ichigo and made sure to let everyone in the world (besides Pie) know it. Tart thought he was old enough to like or love someone now, since Kish could, and Kish could be very immature about it at times. So Tart decided to forget about trying to hate Pudding, since he knew that had never worked anyway.
The lights flickered, then went back on.
"Yay! Finally!" Pudding said happily.
She got up and loked out the window. The rain was slowing down, and the storm seemed to be over.
"It's over! Now I can get to sleep tonight!" Pudding cheered.
Tart was still sitting by the lantern, until he snapped his fingers and it disappered, and he got up.
Pudding walked over and hugged him.
"Thank you again for coming, you made me not afraid!"
Tart blushed. Then she stopped hugging him and got an idea.
"Wait, I'll give you something as a thank you!"
She opened her top drawer and pulled out a bag. She reached in and grabbed a candy drop.
"I know you like these, so here, take it!" she handed it to him.
Tart took it. "Thank you I guess."
" WIll you come tomorrow? I don't have to work at the cafe, and we'll have fun! Plus, I'd feel safer if you did."
Tart thought about this. He wanted to some, and Pie and Kish don't usually ask where he's going anyway, she he decided it would be okay.
"Sure..."
"Yay!" Pudding jumped up. "You're a good friend, Tar Tar!"
Tart smile and blushed.
"Yeah well I'm gonna go now." he said.
"Okay come tomorrow! Don't forget!"
"Alright."
"See ya!"
"Bye."
Tart teleported back to the ship.
Pudding sighed, with a smile still on her face. It was a weird coincidence that just when she was thinking about Tart coming, he came. He obviously did not come to kidnap her, since he looked like her completely forgot about it. So he must have come just to be with her.
Just the thought of that made her giggle.
She knew that Tart was gonna give in to her and tell her he liked her sometime, she just didn't expect it to be this soon.
She smile and jumped in to bed, trying to get some sleep.
ON THE SHIP
Tart teleported into the main control room, not thinking anyone would still be in there...
...but he was wrong.
"So, you've finally decided to come back?" said Kish, sitting on a tall platform. "You're lucky Pie's not here,"
Tart looked up, surprised.
"Why are you here? You're usually spying on Ichigo at this time!" Tart said.
"It was storming out, I couldn't stay outside. Which is why I'm wondering where you were..."
"Why would I tell you?" Tart started to walk down the hall to his room, but Kish teleported in front of him.
"You would tell me because I'm wondering. I usually don't care where you are, but I could get some dirt on you if I found out."
"Now I'm definitly not gonna tell you," Tart teleported in his room.
Kish teleported as well.
"Can I guess then?"
"No, GET OUT OF MY ROOM!"
"I bet it was at that one girls house, whats her name? The girl who calls you Tar Tar..."
Tarts face turned deep red.
"Judging by your face, I believe I am correct," Kish smirked.
"JUST GET OUT OF HERE!" Tart yelled.
"Fine. I won't tell Pie either, if you still keep your promise not to tell him about Ichigo. So we're even."
"Whatever, just LEAVE!"
"Geez someones touchy. I just wanna know her name."
Tart was mad. Kish had guessed it. And now he knew where he was, and that he liked her.
Tart was tired of yelling, though. He sat on his bed, still angry.
"Has little Tart discovered that he loves someone?" Kish teased. "AW YOU'RE GROWING UP SO FAST!"
"Grrrr...STOP IT!" Tart yelled.
"Ya know Tart, you can ask me anything. I've been there, loving a human I mean."
"You still do, you idiot."
"Oh right."
Kish jumped up.
"I REMEMBER HER NAME NOW!"
Tart covered his ears with his hands, but Kish pulled them off just so he could tease him some more.
"Aw! You love the monkey girl, don't you? And her name is Pudding, right?"
Tart blushed even more.
"CUT IT OUT! JUST LEAVE!"
"Okay fine. But remember, any questions, just ask me."
Kish teleported out.
Tart laughed. He definitly would not ask Kish anything. His human hated him! She wanted to kill him, and dispised him completely.
And then there was Pudding. Wanting to be friends with him, even though he tried to act as though he hated her. But he knew she could see right through him. She was so kind, and sweet. Even though he was attacking her, she still liked him. Those reasons made it impossible for him to hate her, which is why he was giving up on telling himself that.
IN A DIFFERENT ROOM
"Now we can find out if he really does like her," Pie said as he tied up Pudding and threw her in a closet.
"Tart!"
"What?" Tart yelled back.
"Get over here!"
"Coming..." Tart walked in.
"Tart, um, we're really sorry there was an accident and the little monkey girl is dead,"
"WHAT!" Tart yelled in shock, and teleported to her house, where she was no where to be found. Then he teleported to the cafe and she was not there either! He went back to his room, sat on his bed, and began to cry.
As he was crying, Pudding walked into his room and started to sing "Dreams we all have dreams, what we can be what we can do" (don't ask me!) Tart looked up and Pudding gave him a gentle kiss on the lips.
"Thanks for worrying Tar Tar,"
"H-How can you be alive!"
"I was never dead,"
"Pudding...I, I-I L-" he tryed to say.
"Lasignia?" she guessed.
"No."
"Language?"
"No!"
"Leather sh-"
"NO! Just be quiet and let me talk! (you're spoiling the moment!)"
He waited a moment.
"I-I I love you okay?"
"Tar Tar...I love you too..." Now Pudding started to cry. They both smlied at each other with tear-filled eyes.
Pie ran in the doorway.
"HOW DID YOU GET OUT?" He yelled.
"You underestimated me! While you were watching Tar Tar on the screen, I quickly escaped and cut the rope with a knife I found in the kitchen." Pudding explained.
"Grrr...NO ONE ESCAPES FROM ME AND LIVES TO TELL ABOUT IT!"
Pie lunged at Pudding with a knife. She cringed and screamed, but she was pushed out of the way by Tart, who only got a small wound on his arm from the impact.
"You deserved that, Tart, loving a mere human..." said Pie.
"I DON'T CARE! I'M GLAD YOU KNOW THE TRUTH!" Tart yelled back.
"Then leave. I do not want you here if you are not willing to fight and kill this girl."
"Of course I'm not willing to kill her! I...I love her!"
"Then get the hell outta my ship!"
"FINE!"
Tart grabbed Puddings hand, and they both teleported back in Puddings house.
END (for now)
This chapter was getting too long. But read on to the next one! IT IS SO FUNNY!
I love PuddingxTart pairing. It. Is. So. Cute! Don't you agree? (who wouldn't?)
Elizabeth!
