A/N: Hobey ho!!!! Welcome to the fourth chappie of A World Apart!!! Yayy I'm so proud of myself! lol. Anyway, this might be sort of confusing. This chapter takes place at the same time as chapter 3, but with different characters. So if you get confuzzled, just remember that this coincides (oooh waahooo big word) with the last chapter!!!! Now on with the story!!!

Meanwhile....

Kish and the others continued on their way after Pudding and Lettuce stepped outside. They finally found Ichigo's room after asking for help from a nurse. They quietly shuffled into the room so as to not wake her. She looked so small on the large hospital bed. Seeing her lying there, so still and sick-looking, caused Kish's fears to rise to another level. Ryou sat down gently on the bed. He carefully picked up one of her hands and gave it the tiniest of squeezes. At seeing this, Kish became extremely jealous. He felt like he needed to compete with Ryou over HIS Ichigo. "Hey, buddy, what the heck do you think you're doing?"

"Um, I dunno... maybe, holding her hand?" asked Ryou sarcastically.

At this, Kish snapped. He picked Ryou up by the collar of his shirt and hissed in his face, "Ichigo is MINE. I love her more than life itself and I hope she still loves me. But no matter what you touch her, you die. And I will be watching, and I know every move you make."

After hearing this, Ryou acted extremely weird and let the subject go. He knew Ichigo still loved Kish, and he wasn't going to try to get in the way of that anymore. "Fine, fine, just let me down. And she does still love you." Ryou turned away before Kish could respond.

Just then, four more people came into the room. Pudding and Tart were holding hands, Lettuce looked sad (again), and Pie looked shocked. Ryou and the Mew Mews sent questioning glances towards Lettuce and Pie, but both refused to meet anyone's eyes. Kish pulled Pie into a corner behind everyone else to get the full story. As Pie related what had happened, Kish started to understand the look on Lettuce's face. When Pie was done, Kish asked him, "And you just stood there silently?! Come on, stupid, even you know better than to do that. No wonder she looked so sad: she thought you didn't return her feelings!"

Pie gasped. "Oh crap, you don't think that's what she thinks, do you? That couldn't be farther from the truth!"

"You know that, and I know that, but she doesn't."

Pie's face turned determined. "I will talk to her as soon as we know Ichigo's okay."

Suddenly, everyone rushed to Ichigo's side: she had stirred. As everyone except Pie and Kish (who were still in conversation) crowded around, Ichigo's eyes fluttered open. "Where, where am I?"

Ryou responded, "You're in the hospital. You blacked out about an hour ago. We've all been worried sick! Oh, speaking of, the doctor came in and said you haven't been eating or sleeping properly and it's gradually been killing you're body. When were you going to tell us that you weren't eating?"

Kish, hearing this, quickly pushed his way through to Ichigo's bed. He hadn't heard the doctor say this, only that he didn't know if she would be okay. "Kitten, why haven't you been eating?! And why aren't your eyes sparkling like they use to?!! What's wrong, Kitten?!"

Ichigo couldn't believe it. This had to be a dream. "Kish?!? Kish!!" she said as he nodded his head.

A/N: ok, kind of a lame chapter, but this is my story and I wrote it the way I wanted it. So there! HA! This story is going to be pretty much fluff from now on. I mean, no more interesting plot. Just happiness. At least in my opinion. If you want a second opinion, ask chocolateistheworld. So until next chapter, we're done.

Hana-chan