Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew

Title: Opening Up.

Warnings: Maybe a slight bit of OOCness, characters ages have been changed ; so they're roughly all the same age apart from Akasaka-san and Ryou who're slightly older of course

Author: Mairi. (Dark Winged Angel Mairiel).

Proof Reader: Kaoru Saotome

Summary: Ichigo's boyfriend has been acting funny for the first month of the summer holidays. She's in for a terrible shock when she discovers the reason and Ryou doesn't take to it all that well when he finally manages to get her to tell him.

Pairings: Ryou x Ichigo.

Chapter 1 – Heartbreak

Ichigo was glad it was summer; it meant nice weather and relaxation time… of course, apart from the times when she had to save the earth - or in this case, work at the café for a while longer. They hadn't come across any enemies since Kisshu, Pai and Taruto. Today was a hot day, no cloud traces in the sky; maybe Shirogane and Akasaka-san would treat her and her friends to another vacation. She felt like she needed to see somewhere other than her own neighborhood every time she walked out the door.

"I'm going out, mum!" she said while opening the door, and then closing it behind her firmly.

'Ah, it's such a lovely day, just like yesterday,' Ichigo thought to herself as she began to walk down the street. She was headed to the park; hopefully, her boyfriend would be there. He'd been acting a little funny over the first month of the summer holiday, she hadn't had a call from him and whenever she called his mobile it was turned off, and when she tried the house phone his mother told her that he was out. These sudden events got her thinking. She thought she'd done something wrong to upset him and he wasn't telling her. She seriously wanted to talk to him, though.

She looked at her watch, still about three hours to go before she had to go to the café. Reaching the gates to the park she stopped at them and leaned up against the side looking about. Ichigo sighed a little, she couldn't see him about. She wandered into the park, sauntered on over to the nearby bench and sat down, sitting her bag beside her.

"I wonder where Aoyama-kun is." She sighed again, she was feeling a little more depressed than the other day. Only when she went to the café she managed to hide it, and a lot better than before to.

She decided to just sit back and relax only to let her eyes be drawn to the fountain in the middle of the park. Her eyes widened slightly, it couldn't be true… she wasn't actually seeing the scene in front of her, was she? She wasn't seeing her own boyfriend cheat on her with another girl. She closed her eyes and shook her head - it had to be an extremely bad nightmare, or a dream - it had to be! Opening her eyes she let her eyes wander over to where she saw Aoyama. No, it couldn't be… he was sitting there with another girl. She felt a pain in her chest, a lump in her throat and then she felt something she hadn't wanted to feel. Tears. Ichigo couldn't move her right hand covered her mouth as she tried to keep back a lot of the tears that were now stinging the back of her eyes and threatening to fall down her face any second. Eventually she managed to get up and run off out the park straight to the café, she didn't care how early she was.

Reaching the café in what seemed to be minutes, she opened the door and came to a halt after she closed it. Leaning against the door itself she slid down it onto her knees, tears streaming down her face.

"Ichigo?" A voice came from the other side of the room. Akasaka and Shirogane came out of the small kitchen into the main part of the café and looked at the upset girl.

Ryou's azure blue eyes widened slightly as a small hurt feeling overthrew him, he hated it when Ichigo was crying, or even hurt. He knelt next to her and moved some hairs that had stuck to the side of her face from the wet tears.

"What's wrong?" he asked before Akasaka could, his voice sounding concerned and gentle.

"A-Aoyama-K…un. He happened…" she sobbed, while wiping her eyes not looking up at the blonde haired boy.

"What? Ichigo, try to be a little more specific, will you?" He spat, sounding a little bit irritated when he didn't mean to. Mentally he kicked himself, cursing himself for doing it; he just hoped that she wouldn't run off now.

"He… I saw him with another girl…"

"He can have other female friends you know."

"Moron! He was kissing her!" She yelled at him, hitting him at the same time. Ryou had tensed up a little; she wasn't hitting him hard, she was too upset to use much of her strength. He did the first thing that came to his mind, taking each of Ichigo's wrists in his hands and grasping them firmly until he got her to look at him.

"Calm down," he said, even though he wasn't feeling all that calm now that she'd basically said her boyfriend was cheating on her. Ryou thought he'd never have a chance with her. Aoyama was extremely lucky to have such a caring girl in his case, but he instead discarded her like an old and unwanted item, the way some children get tired of pets and dump them any old place.

"I…can't."

Without thinking he sighed inwardly and pulled the red haired girl into a hug and kissed her forehead gently.

"Where did you see him?" He asked, deciding that he was going to pay little Aoyama-kun a visit.

"The park, about ten minutes ago…"

Ryou nodded then looked up to Keiichiro, his eyebrows in a slight frown.

"Keiichiro, look after Ichigo for a bit. I'm going out." Akasaka nodded to his friend.

"Come on Ichigo, we'll go get you all cleaned up, shall we?"

"Yeah…sure…"

Ryou's fists clenched as he watched his now saddened Ichigo gingerly wiping the tears from her face - which Aoyama had caused. He was going to pay for this. Ryou would make sure that he felt sorry for upsetting her. Opening the café door he stormed out and headed to the park at a quick pace, hoping to catch him and have a nice talk with him.

My second fic first one in the Tokyo Mew Mew section though. Reviews would be nice ) I'm starting on the second chapter already