Chapter 3
Mew Lizzy: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew or Power Rangers!
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Ichigo Momomiya's point of view
I woke up in the middle of the night but didn't move from my sleeping bag when I heard two voices talking in hushed tones. I could just barely make out who was talking and what they were saying. It was Zakuro and Sky.
"Part of me is telling me to go home but another part of me is telling me to stay here in Japan, with you... I can't lose you again." Sky said burying his face in Zakuro's hair.
"I've missed you, too, Sky." Zakuro replied as they tightened their embrace around each other. "Of course I don't want you to leave. I know that in the end no matter what happens you will go back to America. And when you do, I'm going to go with you."
"What?" Sky backed out of the embrace. "Are you crazy?"
She shrugged her shoulders. "I'm crazy about you." They kissed. "I can help the rangers in your battles. I can fight. Or if I must I can stay in the lab with Kat Manx. After all, she is my mother. And I haven't seen her in so long." Wait, Kat Manx is Zakuro's mother? "Just please let me stay at the base with you." Sky still looked reluctant to say yes. "You just said that you didn't want to lose me. I don't want to lose you either."
"But what about your modeling and the mew mews? Your team needs you and my team needs me." He leaned his forehead against hers. "You have to stay."
The next morning I thought hard about Zakuro and Sky's dilemma as I ate my breakfast. How did they know each other? Who exactly is this Kat Manx? Is there a whole other side to Zakuro that none of us knew about? "Strawberry?"
I dropped my ceramic cup and it shattered when it hit the floor. "Ryou, oh I'm so sorry. Let me clean this up." I leaned over to help him but Ryou grabbed my arm to stop me.
"It's no big deal. I'm used to cleaning up after Lettuce." He grabbed a broom and quickly swept up the pieces before handing me a new cup of orange juice. "Are you okay? Is something wrong?"
"No. I was just thinking about something I heard last night."
"What is it?" Ryou asked sitting down.
"Well, Zakuro and Sky stayed up late talking. This isn't the first time they've met. I'm not sure how they know each other but they do. And apparently Kat Manx is Zakuro's mother."
"Kat Manx? She sounds familiar…"
"According to Jack she makes weapons for the rangers. But there's more. Zakuro wants to leave the mew mews and go to America with the rangers. Sky talked her into staying but I'm not sure if she will."
"Thanks for the warning. I appreciate it."
A few hours later all of the mews and rangers were playing board games in the dining area of the café. "Strawberry," Ryou called for me. "Follow me." I did as he asked and he led me into his lab. "I found some information about Kat Manx on the internet. Take a look." He pointed at the computer screen.
I sat down and read the information out loud. "Kat Manx is a scientist who works at SPD headquarters in America as a weapons designer and creator. She has one daughter. The father was a drunk and walked out on the family when the daughter was young. When the daughter got older she moved in with her grandparents in Tokyo, Japan. After her grandparents died she moved out to live on her own. She got a job as a model and dancer and contact was lost between the mother and daughter." I sat down in the computer chair, soaking in all of that information. "Where is the father now?"
"Nobody has heard from him or seen him since he left the family."
"Wow…That's so sad. Poor Zakuro and Kat," I leaned back in the chair. "If this is all true then how do you think Sky and Zakuro met?"
"Zakuro probably met Sky when they were younger and he was training to become a ranger." Ryou guessed.
"You're probably right. But um, should we mention to Zakuro what I heard and saw?"
"Saw?" Ryou repeated.
"Well, erm, Sky and Zakuro sorta…kissed."
"If that's true then no, don't mention any of this. Zakuro would only feel betrayed by us and then she would definitely leave. Right now all we can do is hope that Zakuro will choose to stay with us."