WARNING: Do not read if you have ever experienced a fluffy break down! If you start to feel woozy then take a long break until you are feeling 100 better! If this story leaves you scared for life then you have my sincerest apology, because there isn't anything I can do about it.

Piece's of Love

By Hilary Gentry

Piece Three

Kish entered the space ship at four in the morning. He snuck through the door and in to the white colored wall, hallway. The walls were very plain and boring. They're where a maze of doors lining the blue carpet. Kish looked each way before turning down every turn. His fear of Pai catching him was immense. Who knows what he would do if he found out. It was worth the risk to see his Ichigo, but he would probably do better not to parade where he had been. Suddenly there was a soft crack and Kish froze. That's the noise that they make when they teleport. Kish spun around. No one there. He slowly started walking backwards. His eyes not wavering from the spot where the sound came from. Tart or Pai was here a second ago. He ran into something. It was hard and breathing. Kish flashed around, but was knocked down by Pai's fan. He didn't attack him, he just whacked him over the head.

"Ow! Why you going around hitting people?" Kish asked rubbing his head.

"Why are you only just getting back?" Pai asked emotionlessly.

"I can come back when ever the hell I feel like it" Kish snarled. "Why are you awake?"

"I was waiting for you to come back. I was only curious to why you sneaking around the ship." Kish didn't say anything. "You've been come back late for awhile lately."

"I wasn't tired so I went for a walk" Kish said stubbornly.

"A walk with that cat girl I suppose?" Pai asked raising an eyebrow. Kish let out a low growl.

"Why do you care?"

"Kish, you can't go getting attached to them. We are going to have to destroy them sooner or later"

"You won't touch Ichigo! She belongs to me and no one is going to get any where near her!"

"Kish! There humans! They will all die! And you will fight for your race!" Pai said in a contrary voice. Pai looked very smug and unthreatened. "If you don't want to, I'll get rid of Ichigo. She's a distraction anyway."

"I will kill you if go anywhere near her" Kish said in a deadly tone. "I love her and nothing means more to me then her." Pai just glared. Kish wasn't kidding. "I'll fight you."

"What?" Pai asked shocked.

"I'll fight you. If I win you don't have a say in who I love and you can't go anywhere near Ichigo." Pai considered this for a moment then smirked.

"I'll win"

"You wish"

Kish and Pai flew to the training area of the ship and squared off. Kish summoned his dragon swords and took a stance. Pai just stood there with his fan held loosely in his hand. Kish started first, he circled around and jumped into the air. Pai moved right and called his lightening. It missed Kish by inches but forced him backwards. Pai attacked this time, he charged forward and there was a flash of light followed by a load crackle of thunder. Kish jumped into the air as lightening again came down. Kish used his super fast agility to flash around Pai and attack. Pai saw it but didn't see the copy of Kish coming from the front. Pai hit the fake copy but was sliced by Kish's daggers from behind. Pie momentarily lost his balance and stumbled backwards. That was all Kish needed. He tripped Pai and appeared before him with his sword at his throat. Pai lost. Both panting from the effort.

"I win" Kish said.

"How?" Pai asked. Kish could never beat him before, why now? Kish was weak and distracted, how could Pai lose to Kish?

"Pai, you've been with out feelings for a little to long." Pai looked at Kish questioningly. "I have my love, Ichigo as my inspiration. You have nothing." Kish put his swords away and sat down next to Pai. "There was no way you could of won. You have been deprived of love, hate and everything else." He shook his head. "I love Ichigo, she's what I live for. If I had let you take away my reason for living, I wouldn't be worthy of her." Kish then smiled as a dreamy look came over his face. "Not that I'm worthy anyway. Man, she's awesome."

"Love makes you weak. It is a human feeling, which we should not harbor. You are a fool to let a human take your heart." Pai said. Kish snapped out of his daze and his smile widened, reveling pointed teeth.

"Yes well, this 'fool' just kicked your emotionless butt. So you have to steer clear of Ichigo from now on." Kish stood. "That Zakuro girl, she wants to see you. And some book you have."

"Zakuro? When did you talk to her?" Pai asked.

"Ichigo told me to pass it on. She was half asleep at the time so she might not of been thinking straight, but you should go talk to her anyway." Kish said stretching. 'Half asleep?' Pai thought sweat dropping. "I'm going to bed, see yah." He said and disappeared beyond the door. Pai stayed in that spot thinking over what Kish had said. It would seem that Kish and Ichigo have come a long way in their relationship sense he had last heard. There was absolutely nothing Pai could do either. He had been defeated, therefore he would live up to his word. It was an honorific thing to do. He let out a cold chuckle. 'I just had my emotionless butt kicked'. He sighed and got up following Kish's lead to go to bed.

Tart had been watching the strange actions between his older comrades and the mew mews. Kish and Ichigo had been getting really close but seemed afraid to take things a step further. Pai was acting odder then even Kish. Tart had seen him talking to himself. He seems less sure that he was doing the right thing. That scared him because Pai was the strong one out of the trio. Pai always encouraged faith and never thought twice about what he did if he believed it right in the first place. Tart thought Pai was the only thing that held them together. Kish would willingly go be with that stupid old hag till the end of time. And as much as he hated to admit it he was starting to become fond of monkey girl. He had once gone so far as to call her by her name and he'll never hear the end of it. But Pai seams to have been enlightened by someone or something as to how wonderful humans can be. Not that Tart thinks that humans are wonderful but something happened when Pudding took him to that amusement park. He wasn't sure what it was but it felt really good. He was planning on seeing Pudding sometime again soon. Maybe that feeling would come back.

Tarts POV

Last night I stayed up late to talk to Kish about the way he felt around Pudding. Pai wouldn't understand about this kind of thing. And if I told him I would probably get punished. I heard the fireworks when Kish finally got back to the ship. I've been going against the rules in seeing Pudding so I felt kind of bad. I walked out just in time to hear Kish challenge Pai for Ichigo. I always kind of idolized Kish for sticking up for what he believed in, even if I didn't think it was the right way to go about things. While I was away from my family Kish kind of became an older brother to me. I thought fighting Pai wasn't wise but he truly loved Ichigo and wanted to be with her so that's what he did. I would never get the nerve to fight Pai so I could play with Pudding. And even if I did, there was no way I would win. I watched the battle between Kish and Pai. Kish was much faster than usually and his technique was much more developed. I could hardly believe it when Kish won. What he said interested me the most. He said that Pai needed to show some emotion soon or he would explode. I fully agreed in that. Pai can be all scary while battling, but he doesn't need to be so frightening back at the ship. Kish told Pai he was going to bed and walked toward me. He closed the door behind him before he spotted me.

"Tart? Why are you up?" He asked as surprise registered on his face.

"That was pretty cool" I said. "Fighting Pai for that…. cat thing." I smiled inwardly at my smooth recovery, knowing that Kish might not help if I called that ugly witch a, well, an 'ugly witch'. Kish smiled and ruffled my hair.

"Mans got to do what a mans got to do" He simply replied. "Why are you up?" he asked again.

"I wanted to talk to you" I said I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. Kish's eyebrows shot up into his bangs.

"Oh?" He asked. I nodded slightly and looked away. My ears perked up as I heard foot steps behind the door. Kish seemed to have noticed because he picked me up and teleported us to my room. "You probably don't want Pai to know your up."

My room isn't that big. It has a lamp, a bed and a table with a cabinet. Inside there is some of the candy Pudding gave me. There's a small dresser containing my clothing and there's a book on my nightstand and a first aid kit hidden behind my bed. That's basically it except a box of stuff my family gave me before I left.

Kish flopped down on to my bed and leaned against my pale blue wall. He stared at me and waited for me to do the same. I sat down next to him and gathered my pillow up and hugged it to my chest.

"What's up runt?" Kish asked resting his eyes.

"I'm just confused" I replied truthfully. He nodded for me to continue. "Well something happened yesterday, and I don't understand"

"What happened?" He asked.

"I went to some kind of festival with monkey girl yesterday and there was this strange feeling I got and I don't know what it is" I saw Kish smirk.

"What did it feel like?" He asked with a hint of amusement in his voice.

I started to panic, that's not a good sign from Kish, "Well, it didn't hurt so I don't think she attacked me. All in all it kind of felt nice, I never felt like that before. I want to know what it was" I said quickly.

"What happened to make you feel that way?" Kish asked his smirk not leaving his face.

"Pudding wanted me to go on a ride with her and I didn't want to. She pleaded a little and I finally gave in and went on it. She smiled really a really big stupid smile and that's when it happened" I explained. Kish let out a small chuckle and opened his eyes and looked at me. "What is it?" I asked desperately.

"Don't worry Tart." He said, "It's natural, all it means is that you're becoming better friends with Pudding" He got up off my bed.

"This doesn't mean I'm going to start swooning over her like you do to Ichigo, does it?" I asked looking at him carefully, making sure I was giving him my best grimace.

"If it was love, only you would be able to tell that. But from your description, it sounds like a crush" Kish said yawning. "But if you don't watch yourself you might just might find yourself swooning"

"I just… don't want to hate her" I muttered, mentally kicking himself for how strange that sounded. Kish smiled a friendly smile.

"Try calling her by her name. I'm sure she'll like that" Kish said.

"Thank you" I said grudgingly not looking at him. He just winked then disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Ekks! The OOCness!

Thank you to all of my wonderful reviewers! 10 already? Wow! I didn't think I would get anything from this story. Ok this chapter's done and the next ones on it's way. Thank you so much for reading!

Til Next Time,

Llamachick