Chapter 8
Mew Lizzy: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew or Power Rangers!
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Zakuro Fujiwara's point of view
I laid in my bed and stared out my window. I know it never really seemed like I cared much for the other mews, but right now I really was missing them; Pudding's craziness, Lettuce's clumsiness, love-sick Ichigo, obsessive Mint, overly polite Keiichiro, and even cold Ryou.
Suddenly there was a knock at the door. "Come in."
Z stepped into my bedroom. "Hey, girl! How do you like America so far?" She sat down on my bed beside me.
I merely shrugged my shoulders. "It hasn't changed much since the last time I lived here."
"You used to live in America?"
I nodded. "I'll tell you the story if you promise not to pass it on."
"Of course I won't tell! What kind of friend would I be?" Z settled in for my story.
"Okay well first off, Kat Manx is my mother."
"Seriously? That's amazing!"
"It was amazing growing up with her. But my dad was a total creep. And one day he just disappeared. We had no idea where he was nor did we really care. But I did miss him some. So I did some digging and eventually I found out that he had gone to Japan. I moved in with my grandparents who also lived in Japan so that I could look for him."
"Did you ever find him?" Z inquired.
"Sort of. You see apparently my father is…my enemy."
"Your enemy? This could make a good soap opera."
I smiled slightly. "Kat told me about him a few weeks ago when I arrived here."
"That really stinks." I nodded slowly. "So are you going to go talk to him?"
"I don't know. Maybe I should. I'll go back to Tokyo and I'll talk my friend into bringing me to him."
"Well whatever you decide to do, good luck."
"Thanks, Z." We hugged.
Just hours after discussing going home, I was walking up to Café Mew Mew with all my luggage. When I stepped inside all of the mew mews gasped. "Zakuro!" They shouted in unison.
"Hi, girls; I'm not staying long. I'm only here to find my father."
"Your father?" Ichigo repeated.
"Yes. I talked to my mother and now I know where to find him. I'm sorry but I have to leave again. I'll be back soon." I tossed my bags into the corner and walked back out of the café. The mews reluctantly watched me walk away. "Mew Mew Zakuro metamorphosis!"
Using the usual route, I made my way onto the alien ship. "Pai!" I shouted causing the alien to turn around in shock.
"Mew Zakuro," His fan appeared in his hand.
"I'm not here to fight. I'm here for my father."
His weapon disappeared. "Your father?"
"Yes. Deep Blue; bring him to me."
"Deep Blue is your father…?"
"Yes! Now please go get him!" I practically yelled.
"But you don't understand. He's my father, too…"
"What…?"
"I'll be right back." Pai disappeared into the next room with a look of shock plastered on his face.
"Brother…?" I whispered.
"Zakuro!" A voice boomed only a minute later. I looked to my left and there stood Deep Blue in the doorway. "I figured that I'd see you here eventually."
"I've been searching for you for a long time." I started to walk towards him. "I saw mom."
He froze suddenly. "Kat…" He whispered and then quickly cleared his voice. "How is she?"
"Better. It was good to see her."
"I'm sure it was." Deep Blue began to walk towards me.
Pai Fujiwara's point of view
I hid in a doorway and watched as my father and Zakuro walked towards each other. "How long has it been since you left Kat?" Deep Blue asked my younger sister.
Zakuro Fujiwara's point of view
"Many years," I answered icily.
"I hope you know that just because you are my daughter and Kat is my ex-wife it doesn't change what I am going to do to the world." Deep Blue told me with a smirk.
"I will die a thousand deaths before I let you take over the Earth." I said through clenched teeth.
"I can arrange that." Dad lunged at me while pulling a sword out from his belt. I stumbled backwards and fell to the ground.
"Zakuro Whip! Ribbon Zakuro Spear!" My whip hit his sword causing it to fly back with his fist still wrapped around the handle. He swung the sword at me again. This time I didn't see how I could avoid getting hit.
"Fu Shi Sen Stormy Fan!" Pai jumped out of nowhere and his fan's attack sent dad and his sword across the room. Pai held his hand out to me to help me up. I took it graciously. "Are you all right?"
"I'm fine, thank you." He nodded.
Slowly dad managed to stand up and glare at the two of us. We stood side-by-side and didn't back down. "Pai, get away from her!"
"No! Zakuro is my sister. I am on her side now."
"You're on the mews' side?"
"I never thought that I would say this but, yes."
I patted Pai on the back. "Welcome back, brother." We shared a friendly hug between siblings.
"This is all wrong." Dad mumbled before standing up and rushing at us.
"PAI!" I screamed as Deep Blue's sword hit my older brother in the arm. He collapsed to the ground in pain. "PAI!" I kneeled beside him. Suddenly Kisshu and Taruto appeared in the room. "Kisshu, Taruto, help Pai!" They ran to Pai's side and looked him over.
"What happened to him?!" Taruto exclaimed.
Deep Blue smirked at me before teleporting away. "It's a long story."
"We have time." Kisshu told me firmly.
The three of us sat around a table in Pai's bedroom. Pai laid his bed a few feet away unconscious. "Now tell us everything." Kisshu said.
"It all started when I was about five and Pai was ten. We had been best friends since I was born and our father was usually the main topic of our conversations. He was a druggie and he abused our mother. We told our mother, Kat Manx, that she should call the police. Eventually she did. But there was no way that dad was going to jail. So he ran away. Where, we had no idea. But as Pai and I aged we always talked about how someday we would find our father and see what had become of his life.
"Then I turned ten. Pai was fifteen and asked if he could move to Japan to live with our mother's parents. Kat reluctantly said yes. She knew how much we hated our father and the last thing that she wanted was for Pai to hate her, too. Two years later my grandparents called and told us that Pai had been kidnapped. I never saw him after that."
"But he wasn't kidnapped! He's right here!" Taruto exclaimed and pointed at Pai's bed.
"I know; the story isn't over yet. When I turned fourteen—two years after the supposed kidnapping—I moved in with my grandparents. I got hired to be a model and my career began to soar by the time I was fifteen. But I never thought of anything but Pai and how much I missed him.
"Then I became a Mew Mew. When I heard that there was an alien on your team named Pai I figured that it was just a coincidence. Now I've been a mew and have been fighting you all for five years. The Power Rangers showed up in Tokyo and I thought that it would be the perfect opportunity to go home to America and see my mother again. I saw her and she told me who my father was. So I came here, Pai told me that he was my brother, and Deep Blue attacked him."
"So Pai is your brother?" Kisshu clarified.
"Yes."
"Then who is your father?"
"Deep Blue is my and Pai's father."
"What?" Taruto and Kisshu exclaimed in unison.
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Mew Lizzy: Yes, I told her life story again. But this time I added even more details and explained things more thoroughly. Plus I gave you guys a longer chapter. R&R!