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Chpt.7-Because You Live

:Ryou's POV:

I was sleeping until I heard rain beating against my window so I looked at my alarm clock and saw that it was 2:00am so I turned on my other side and tried to get back to sleep, but then pictures of her came in my mind...pictures of my love of my life...Ichigo Momomiya 'Forget her Ryou, she's never going to end up with you, she hates you like crap,' I thought as I faced my face to the ceiling then I sat up and looked out at the rain that was falling for the fifth time that week 'Is this rain supposed to mean something, is God trying to express my mood in the weather?' I thought as I laid back in bed trying to get back to sleep by trying to erase all thoughts of Ichigo, then the sound of the rain drifted me to sleep.

Staring out at the rain with a heavy heart

It's the end of the world in my mind

Then your voice calls me back like a wake up call

I've been looking for the answer

Somewhere

I couldn't see that it was right there

But now I know what I didn't know

"Shirogane, wake up you bakayarou neko," I heard a familiar voice call making me wake up from my sleep and turn around to see the person with the familiar voice

"What do you want Momomiya-san?" I asked her rubbing my right hand against my right eye while closing them both

"You're the one with the keys to the cafe' and we need to open the doors, so get out of bed, put a shirt on and unlock the doors," Ichigo said then I felt my blankets leaving my body

"Okay okay, I'm awake, I'll be down there in a couple of minutes," I said sitting up

"Okay but if you're not down there in two minutes I'm sending Pudding up here to preform one of her tricks," Ichigo said walking out of my room so I got up to go to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face.

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

A couple of minutes later I went downstairs and unlocked the doors to the entrance "There I opened them, here Keiichiro, I need some sleep," I said handing the keys to Keiichiro so he could be the one to unlock the doors from now on and so Ichigo can just leave me alone, then I went back to my room, took off my shirt and climbed back into bed and fell asleep and dreamed about Ichigo.

It's alright, I survived, I'm alive again

Cuz of you, I made it through every storm

What is life, whats the use if you're killed inside

For what seemed like half an hour I woke up and I saw that the cafe' was going to close in less then two hours 'What's wrong with me? I've never been so tired before,' I thought as I put on my shirt then I went downstairs to see if everyone was working, and then I saw that nothing out of the ordinary was happening, Ichigo was doing all of the work, Mint was drinking tea, Lettuce was spilling plates, Pudding was doing performences and dropping the plates, and Zakuro was glaring at people

"Shirogane, please help me I can't do this all by myself!" I heard Ichigo whine so I sighed and decided to help her with the orders since I was bored and had nothing to do.

An hour later when the last customer left Ichigo came up to me, probably to ask me for another raise "Shirogane why'd you help me?" she asked me

"Because I was bored, why else would I help a baka strawberry like you!" I said hiding the real reason why I helped her

"Well you're so rude, tell me are all Americans as rude as you!" Ichigo said trying to start an arguement

"Just shut up and leave me alone, I really don't need this right now," I said starting to walk to the stairs but then Ichigo grabbed my wrist making me stop

"Unless you start being nicer to me I'll quit since there's no reason for me to be near you anymore," Ichigo said making my heart feel like she ripped part of it opened

"Whatever, but why should I care if you quit, quit now for all I care," I said

" Okay then, since you don't need me that badly, I quit, oyamnasai, good luck finding a good employee that'll work as hard as I did," Ichigo said taking off her apron and putting it on a chair then she walked to the changing room to change

'What did I just do?' I thought as I walked up to my room to take a shower, and hope that this is all a nightmare that I'll soon wake up from.

I'm so glad I found an angel

Someone

Who was there when all my hopes fell

I wanna fly, looking in your eyes

All night I tossed and turned in my bed, dreaming of never telling Ichigo how I felt about her then she married Masaya, and I know that once she's married I'll never be able to have my chance with her so I woke up feeling sweat all over my forehead and I saw that it was only midnight "God, I love Ichigo so much...but I know that I'll never see her again," I said under my breath as I took out a picture of her from a drawer in my desk, she looks so beautiful in that picture, I can't belive that today was the last day I would see her, then I put back the picture into the drawer and fell back to sleep, but I once again had a nightmare about Ichigo staying with Masaya.

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

Because you live, I live

A week later I started interviewing girls to take over Ichigo's job, but so far they all sucked on ice, all three hundred of them "Ryou why did Ichigo quit in the first place?" Keiichiro asked me after I interviewed the last girl of the day

"She quitted because I wasn't being nice to her," I said brushing my hands through my hair in stress and anger

"And now you regret it don't you?" Keiichiro asked me, I hate it everytime he's right

"Yeah...now I can barely sleep because of what I did...you're the one that always has a solution for everyone's problems, do you have a solution to my problem?" I asked him and smiled when he nodded

"Go to her house and apoligize," Keiichiro said which made me feel stupid considering that I haven't thought of it

"Arigato Keiichiro, I'll be back later," I said running out of the cafe' and to Ichigo's house.

But when I arrived I saw a for sale sign near the front door and when I tried ringing the doorbell no one answered so I walked away and walked towards the park to sit in a tree for a while.

Because you live there's a reason why

I carry on when I lose the fight

I want to give what you've given me always

'Ichigo...where are you...why did you have to take my heart when I first saw you?' I thought as I laid my head back on the tree and watched the sunset feeling my heart torn open with the thought of never seeing Ichigo ever again 'Maybe I should just move on...but she was the one that added light to my life...nobody can replace Ichigo, ever...I just wish there was a way to see her,' I thought "I love her so much that it's killing me," I said out loud

"Love who?" I heard a voice from under me ask me

"Ichigo, my ex-employee," I said then I heard someone climbing up the tree and sit next to me so I turned to see who it was and saw Ichigo

"Hi Ryou," Ichigo said with a smile

"Ichigo, what are you doing here...were you the one that asked me that question?" I asked with a surprised look on my face along with a little blush

"Yeah...but I was looking for you to ask you the real reason of why you're always so mean to me...so was it because you love me?" Ichigo asked me so I had no choice but to tell her the truth

"Yeah, and I'm sorry but I'm not the type to express my feelings that much...and when you quitted it killed me so much that I couldn't sleep anymore," I confessed as Ichigo gave me a sweet passionate look "Why're you looking at me like that?" I asked her and she just chuckled

"Because, you're the first man to tell me how he feels about me, and that they can't stand to be without me...not even Masaya ever said anything like that to me," Ichigo said leaning closer to me

"Ichigo, aren't you with Masaya, why are you this close to me?" I asked her since her face was so close that I could feel her breath and smell her strawberry perfume

"Nope, we broke up...he said that I was around him too much," Ichigo said then I did something that I've been wanting to do with her for a long time, I made our lips touch and we were bought into a deep passionate kiss, one that I never wanted it to end.

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has twice as many stars in the sky

A few minutes later we broke "That was the best kiss I ever had," Ichigo whispered to me

"But you know we kissed when we were nekos, was it the same?" I asked her and she shook her head

"Ryou can kiss better than Alto," Ichigo said sitting on top of me then we kissed once again, only this time it was a French.

Because you live and breathe

Because you make me believe in myself when nobody else can help

Because you live, girl

My world has everything I need to survive

Because you live, I live, I live

"So what was with the for sale sign at your house?" I asked Ichigo as we walked back to the cafe', hand in hand

"We're moving closer to my school and the cafe', so don't worry, we're staying in Tokyo," Ichigo said making me feel relieved

"Good because I don't want my little Koneko chan to go away from me."

THE END

A/N:Well there's the chapter, and I think this will be the last chapter, gomen but I already used too many songs, review please. Adios!