II. Chapter 2: Masaya "Dies"
Disclaimer: We don't own Tokyo Mew Mew. This is both good and bad. The bad part is that we don't own Kish or Zakuro's hat, but the good part is that we don't own Masaya either.
Semi-Diclaimer: Look, if you're a Masaya fan, just don't read it. Save yourself the trouble of flaming, because either way he's gotta go -
It is late August, and there's not a single dry eye for miles. The entire neighborhood has attended a funeral at the local church. Flowers and incense adorn the alter. Condolences are respectfully given. Everyone is reminding each other of all their favorite memories of him. Even those who barely knew him can speak of his good manners, kind nature, and diligent take to his studies. No one knew exactly how he passed away. He was absent from school for three days, and with no explanation. Two girls who referred to themselves as Carolina and Georgia began telling everyone that he had been eaten alive by Yogurt, his pet rabbit. Masaya was no where to be seen for the next two days. The neighborhood assumed that the girls were being sincere.
In the front pew of the church, five girls and two young men dab their eyes and hang their heads in respect for the late Masaya Romeo Aoyama.
What? . . . Don't tell me you all didn't know his middle name . . .
. . . While the employees of Cafe Mew Mew attend a beautiful funeral service, a family is on vacation in Hawaii! . . .
"Dear! Where's the sunscreen?" the mother asked, rummaging through their hotel room.
"Right there on the nightstand, Darling!" her husband replied, flipping through the television channels while stretching out on the bed.
"Ah, found it. Thanks, Dear. Where's our son?" she asked.
"Masaya's right behind the hotel, Darling, in the outdoor pool."
In aforementioned outdoor pool of a hotel in Hawaii, Masaya Aoyama was walking alongside the pool's edge and suddenly lost his balance, falling over. He splashed into the pale blue water which chilled his entire body. To a person of normal intelligence, this would have been a welcome change from the scorching heat of the day; however, Masaya took this as a sign that the polar ice caps were refreezing. So, he took a moment to shout in joy at the thwarting of global warming. People stared.
After a while, his eyes began tingling from the chlorine. He jumped out of the pool in terror, fearing that he was blind (totally disregarding the fact that he could still see). Masaya ran over to his beach chair and towel. Just about now, the chlorine stopped stinging and the entire incident was erased from his teeny, tiny mind. The civilians watching, however, would be scarred for life.
Masaya so-intelligently noticed that he was quite wet after falling in the pool, and so he picked up his towel to dry himself off. As he lifted the towel, his cell phone tumbled out. Masaya picked it up and realized with a shock that since his vacation was on such short notice, he'd never gotten a chance to tell Ichigo he'd be away. He decided to text message her: -Ichigo?-
His response from Ichigo was an abrupt: -Who's this?-
Masaya was surprised. Ichigo always recognized his number. He replied: -Me-
Silence. Masaya tried again and again: -Ichigo?- . . . -I'm in Hawaii- . . . -Sry I didn't tell u b4 - . . . -Ichigo?- . . . -U there?-
Despite his multiple text messages, Masay got no response. About 20 minutes late, he finally received an answer: -Masaya?-
-No-
Ichigo was confused. "No"? What did he mean by "no"? She saw his number on her phone. But . . . Masaya was dead, right? His Yogurt ate him. The rabbit was said to have finished him off in only seven bites. Could it . . . could she ACTUALLY be contacting the dead? This was SO COOL!
-R u in heaven?- she asked.
This, sadly, didn't strike Masay as odd. He does, after all, have a very small brain. Masaya looked around the outdoor pool. There was a bright sun, a cool breeze . . . why yes, it was like heaven. He answered: -Yes. It's very nice-
Another half hour wait followed, but Ichigo's response eventually read: -What's Jesus look like?-
Again, Masaya wasn't thrown off by the weird question. The clerk at the lobby happened to be a kind man by the name of Jesuis (pronounced: hay SOOS). Masaya didn't even stop to consider how or why Ichigo would know about a desk clerk in Hawaii, so he text messaged back: -Skinny. Got a beard.-
Masaya looked into the lobby through a window and decided to add a bit about the particular tee shirt the man had on. -He's wearing white-
Back in Japan, Ichigo was shocked. SHe'd never contacted the dead before! Did it ever occur to her that maybe, JUST MAYBE, Masay wasn't dead but instead actually in Hawaii like he'd said before? NO: ) She continued to text message her "late" boyfriend:
-I miss u-
-Me 2-
-Can you come home now?-
-No-
Ichigo didn't respond back after Masaya so-articulately explained that he could not return at the moment (because the next plane didn't leave for anouther four hours, duh).
Ichigo was heart-broken.
She ate some chocolate-covered strawberries. She took a walk outside in the warm sunshine. She went shoe shopping. Ichigo felt much better by dinner time.
As her mom passed her the rice, she asked Ichigo, "Are you feeling better about Aoyama-kun, Ichigo-chan?"
"Who?"
Demi-Disclaimer: There's a bit of Jesus references in here, but we didn't think it was so bad. We're Catholic ourselves, so we mean no disrespect.
