I did have a new adventure planned, but I decided to get this little mini-story done. It haunted me telling me which one I should do. Finally, I said Hey, it sounds cool, so why not? If you have a problem with it, don't take it out on me. Take it out on a dead squirrel or something.

I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew

Ariel was sitting in the seats at the air-port getting ready to leave. Luckily, the fans couldn't get into the airport because of security. Their stay had been shortened by about a month, but luckily, she managed to change dates for her and her friends. She sat there, bored. Suddenly, her old manager, who just happened to be boarding a different flight but was a gate next to her, saw her and went over toward her.

"Ariel, baby, I heard the rumors but I didn't think it was true. You are alive!" he said enthusiastically. Kish, who was nearby, spotted this and wasn't amused. "Is this another boyfriend?" he asked annoyed.

"No, this guy used to be my manager…..but not anymore…come on," she said, grabbing Kish by the hand. "Ariel; you're flight doesn't leave for another hour, and you probably don't board for another half hour. Stay and chat," her manager said. She unwillingly sat down.

"Now look; I think our next concert should be in Arkansas….."

"Hold up! I am not doing any more concerts," said Ariel angrily. Her manager got to his knees in a begging position. "Please Ariel. I mean, it's not fair to the fans that you didn't even have a farewell concert, now is it?" he asked. Ariel rolled her eyes. "God, the only way to get him off my back is if I just have one last concert," she thought.

"Alright. But just one," she said. Her agent beamed. "Great; we'll get to planning and we can just set the date to….oh, about eight and a half months from now," he said. "well, see you around then….and you might want to come up with some new material."

"Uh….Ariel…..i didn't catch most of your interesting conversation, but I heard the we'll have a concert in about eight and a half months from now," butted in Ryou.

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" she asked. Kish slapped his head. "God, this woman can be so stupid sometimes! Ariel, what do you not understand about when and male and a female get together and…."

"Oh man! I am going to have a baby by then!" she shouted. Kish slapped his forehead once more. "And now she gets it," he stated. "What do I do? What do I do?" she panicked. "I usually am not that how I look obsessed, but I can't go out there!"

"Ok Ariel, settle down. Now, I'm sure I could come up with some hologram I could just put on you to make you look like you're not pregnant….now I just have to make one," stated Ryou. Ariel settled down. "You're going to be fine snake-girl," whispered Kish.

Eight and a half months later……

"Do i….really look like I'm not pregnant?" asked Ariel to Kish behind stage. The concert was set in New Zealand, and she was allowed to bring three guests. So Keiichiro and Zakuro were baby-sitting Riley, Kaguya, Naieesha, and Ichigo's twin baby girls Sirena and Kimi. "We've all told you a million times Ariel; you look like you did five years ago," stated Ryou. Ichigo looked around excitedly. "Woah….i thought I would never go back stage before," she said with stars in her eyes.

"Well; here I go," she said. Kish smiled, and as he pulled back the curtain, said "Good luck snake-girl," and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"Hey, how are you guys doing tonight?" they heard her say backstage. Ryou smirked. "I thought maybe that thing would've stopped working because it malfunctions under extreme heat. But I guess its ok."

Half way through the performance…..

"Alright, this is a song you probably all know.

Give me one good reason I should believe you

When you never believed in me

Always a screw-up

And yet I never gave up

But you still insisted on putting me down

Well I don't know why you always did that

Always speaking lies and never truths

Saying I was worthless

I'll never amount to anything

But that was only in your eyes

Well, if you could only see me now

And back then when you hurt me

I just was never good enough for you

Yeah never good enough for you

I've tried my hardest, and done my best

But I still wasn't good enough for you

Yeah I wasn't ever good enough for you..."

Something happened. Ariel collapsed. And it wasn't because of the extreme heat. She clutched her stomach in pain. The hologram device she wore was started to malfunction under the extreme heat of the lights. Everyone could see that Ariel was pregnant. And that she was going to have her baby in the middle of a concert.

Kish ran out onto the stage. "Don't worry Ariel; we're going to get you out of here." Ariel was sweating really bad, breathing really hard. "Kish…..please…don't teleport…..in front of all these people," she whispered between breaths. Too late, Kish had already teleported offstage and to the nearest hospital.

Ryou was going way over the speed limit. "Ryou; watch out! Slow down!" Ichigo shouted. Ryou slowed down a bit and Ichigo caught her breath, realizing she wasn't going to die. "She's early; she still had about half a month left," Ichigo stated.

"She'll be fine. Ok, so she is early and had a contraction during a concert and her manager is probably going to be furious seeing as he's already a complete jerk, but she'll be fine. The deal with her manager; she's gotten out of situations that were a lot more hopeless. Like when she was on the space ship for a long time with Pai, Kish, and Tart."

"Yeah; I mean, she was probably arguing with Kish 24/seven on that space ship before he fell in love with her," she agreed. "Actually, now that I think about it, wasn't she the one to fall in love with him; I mean, she did kiss him." Ryou thought about that for a minute. "I don't know…..she said it was to make his go away….but then again, the first step is denial."

"Do you know what hospital Kish could have teleported to?" asked Ichigo. Ryou looked confused. "Uh….no," he stated.

"How do you think the kids are doing?" asked Ichigo. Ryou sighed. "You asked that about 15 times on the flight and 12 times before the concert. I told you; Keiichiro can take care of them. Yes, he has to take care of Naieesha, Riley, Kaguya, Sirena, Kimi, and Yuki…."

"Maybe we should have asked Lettuce and Pai; I mean; they recently got married a couple of weeks ago, and Lettuce seems to be really good at taking care of kids," said Ichigo.

"Hopefully, she's better at taking care of children then she is at handling plates. Do you know how many she broke? And I think you turned out to be a good mother, seeing as you two were the expert plate-breakers at the café. Plus, now that Riley and Kaguya aren't scared of Pai anymore….."

"Why do you have to be so negative sometimes! And I did not break that many plates!" she yelled.

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"Ariel…..if you can hear me…"

"Of course I can hear you Kish. But if you don't mind, I'd like to get five minutes of sleep before the next contraction," said Ariel sarcastically. "I don't know how Ichigo can go through it twice and come out alive!" she said.

"Umm….are you her brother?" asked the doctor.

"No, I am her husband," Kish angrily replied. The doctor looked back and Ariel nodded her head. "I see…..so sorry, but I thought maybe the green-hair meant you two were siblings. Never-mind that though," stated the doctor.

"When will she have hr baby?" asked Kish.

"Well, you can never be sure. I mean, some women are in labor for hours, in very rare cases, days." Ariel moaned at the thought of being in pain for that long. "Why did I let him do that to me?" she thought to herself. As she contemplated that last thought, the pains returned. She shrieked in pain and Kish quickly ran to her side.

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"You think she's at this one?" asked Ichigo.

"We've tried every other hospital; she has to be in this one," Ryou stated. The walked up to the desk and rang the bell. "Hello, what can I help you with?" asked the woman.

"We're looking for Ariel Konaga; we think she's at this hospital," stated Ryou. As the woman chewed her gum, checked the computer. "Yes, she's hear. What's it to you?" she asked.

"Well, what room is she in?" asked Ryou. The woman turned away. "I'm sorry, but we cannot let you go. One, all guests aren't allowed in the room when a woman is in birth. Two, Ariel Konaga is a super-star and the paparazzi are not allowed," she said.

"But we know Ariel personally," said Ichigo. The woman chewed her gum some more. "I'm sorry, but there is no possible way we can let you into room 162."

"Come on Ichigo; lets go," stated Ryou, holding his hand over her mouth. The woman turned her back to the two as they snuck around the corner.

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"Ariel is going to be ok. So is the baby," the doctor stated. A sweaty Ariel laid her head against her pillow as she drifted off into a quiet sleep. But seconds late…..

"Ariel….wake up," whispered Kish. Ariel turned over. "Kish; please leave me alone; I'm tired," complained Ariel as she turned the other way. (important; if you want to see a preview of a new fic, please read the bottom)

"We need to think of a name," he added. "If you weren't listening, you had a baby boy." Ariel turned over to him. "Later, ok. Please, let me sleep. In fact, you can decide," she added. Kish didn't have to give it much thought. "How about…Nanba?" he asked. Ariel smiled as she closed her eyes and yawned. "That's a great name…goodnight," she added. Kish smiled and climbed into the small hospital bed and held her close before he also drifted off into a peaceful sleep.

Ok, so maybe this wasn't a mini-story. In fact, its about 2:00 AM and I started writing this at 12:00 AM. I am so tired! I had to think about the wording; I need to find some more words for said, replied, stated, and asked. The MW thesaurus is really crappy. But, just as i promised, here is a preivew of a Ryou/Ichigo story i might post on I has no title yet.

"Mom! Dad! No!" shouted the little girl who was about ten at the time. She was crying hysterically too. Deep Blue pointed his gun at the little girl, and once Ryou saw this, he decided that he had had enough. He ran in front of the little girl, shielding her. "Don't you dare! I don't want to see anyone else die!" he shouted. Deep Blue smirked. "Fine; you can suffer in her place," he coldly said before firing. The silver bullet pierced through Ryou's stomach as he fell to the ground.

One more not before i close.

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