Chapter 2: New home sweet home.
"Ichigo, honey its time to wake up" her mom said patting her head "Ryou is here to help you start packing and moving into your new…home" She sighed "honey, careful of your father he is in one of his ….cry baby moods." Ichigo walked out of her bedroom and her father came running over and hugged her
"My baby girl…is moving out at age thirteen why…" he sniffed her mother walked out of her bedroom and pried her dad away from her
"See I told you?" Ichigo's mom pointed out. That's when Ichigo noticed Ryou she heard him chuckle "hey Ryou" Ichigo said "ready to start packing?" he had brought some boxes. Ichigo and ryou went into her room. Ichigo walked to her barrow and started taking her clothing out and folded them and put them into boxes. Ryou meanwhile was packing up books he picked up a notebook and a photo of him and her dancing fell out of it.
"Hey, that's me?" Ryou said aloud accidentally 'oh god what have I started' ryou thought to himself as Ichigo turned around
"Oh yeah" she said slightly blushing "Mint snapped a photo of us when we were dancing and gave me a copy…I thought she gave you one too"
"Nope" he said slipping the picture into the notebook and put the notebook in a box he noticed that the front of the notebook had the word 'Journal' on it. He slightly wondered that if there was a picture of him in the notebook was there anything written about him. Soon ichigo's room was very bare. Ryou had a driver come and pick up her stuff.
"Bye mom and dad I'll call you tomorrow morning" she smiled and waved as she got into the car.
"Hey Ichigo" ryou started "I'm glad that you are comeing to live at the café "
Ichigo looked up "huh? What you are?" she blushed
"Yeah, you can't be late for work" he smirked
"Your mean" Ichigo sulked
"Oh stop sulking, you know I was kidding" he chuckled
Ichigo stuck her tongue out at him.
"Strawberry, don't stick your tongue out unless your going to use it" he mused
The car slowed to a stop in front of café mew mew.
"Okay, now the guys will bring in your stuff"
"the guys?" Ichigo said confused forgetting she was mad at ryou.
"Yeah, the ones I hired to bring in your stuff"
"oh?" she smiled at that "thanks"
"I'll show you your room" ryou brought Ichigo upstairs and brought her to a room that was down a door from his room "I painted it pink and put a strawberry border around the room, hope you find it comfortable ." ryou smiled "I worked very hard on the room, and I did it my self"
"Thank you! Ryou!" Ichigo said surprising him with a hug "I love it" ryou grew tense. But the girl didn't notice
'Oh god how will I hide how I feel' he loosened up a bit and hugged back
"Hey strawberry" he said in a low voice "your hair smells like your name" Ichigo giggled
"Is that a complement?" she said looking up
"yeah I suppose it is" Ryou said in a sarcastic voice "oh yeah I got you a present to celebrate you becoming my co-partner he took out a small pink box with a silver bow she opened it and found a small bottle that looked like a mew aqua bottle except it was clear pink and had a glass pink heart top the bottle all together was gorgeous .. There were words on it and it said "Heavenly Ichigo Perfume"
"I….Ryou It's so pretty…thank you "Ichigo looked up and Ryou was gone she heard him close the door to his room.
Ryou sat on his bed in his room remembering the feeling he had when Ichigo hugged him. He suddenly remembered the picture of him and her dancing falling out of her journal….
'Maybe there is something about me in there… I just have to figure out how to get at it…' he walked out of his room and down to Ichigo room where they were moving stuff in.
"Hey Ichigo do you want your pay check?" as soon as Ichigo heard that he bounded over and held out her hand ryou handed her her paycheck "hey this is more then my weekly salary,…"
Ryou looked at her like she was an idiot
"You are my partner now this is what you get for research"
"Two hundred dollars?!" Ichigo exclaimed "holy…shit..."
"Yeah I can get my driver to bring you to the mall if you would like"
Ichigo nodded she still didn't know why ryou was being so nice.
"Ryou thank you for the perfume" she hugged him
"Yup, I figured you're a strawberry so you need to smell like one" he chuckled
"Yeah I suppose" she looked at him with a grin "now about the mall"
