Aha! My fifth day writing this story! Hope you like this chapter!

Chapter Five: The Power of Water

"Ichigo…I love you, and I won't let you go!" said Kisshu. Ichigo looked at him with stars in her eyes.

Then Kisshu slapped Aoyama with a glove. "I challenge you to a duel!"

"I accept! Ichigo is mine!" said Aoyama.

"Rock, paper, scissors…"

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"Ichigo! Ichigo! Can you please explain to me and the rest of the class why you're playing that annoying game with yourself?" said the teacher.

Ichigo woke up reluctantly. "I wanted to see who'd win…" she whispered.

"Obviously not you! Pay attention this time." snapped the teacher.

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Yes, the aliens were hypnotized for an entire day. Taruto slowly made his way out of the alter-dimension to perform the task Pai told him to do ages ago. He didn't know where he was going, and bumped into poles repeatedly. Finally, he bumped into Pudding's house and fell unconscious on top of an unsuspecting Pudding who was bringing in groceries.

"Taru-taru! You'll hurt the groceries, na no da!" lectured Pudding. She hurriedly got up from under Taruto and moved him aside. Then she put the groceries back in their bag.

"Taru-taru? Why are you sleeping na no da?"

Taruto didn't respond.

"You're invited to dinner na no da! Wait here while I pick up my sister na no da!" said Pudding.

Taruto was incredibly injured and even quite bloody. Even if he were conscious, he would not have moved.

Pudding went on her merry way to pick up Heicha.

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"Masha wants to stay with you!" said Masha to Lettuce.

"Sorry Masha, but aren't you Ichigo's?" asked Lettuce.

"Ichigo doesn't want Masha anymore." Replied Masha sadly.

"Nonsense! I'll bring you back to her right now!"

"Nooooo!" screamed Masha, as Lettuce dragged it with her.

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(Author's note: believe it or not, this took me a while to come up with…It works best when you sing along, I did!)

"And now, Zakuro will sing a tribute to chairs!" said an announcer.

We sit on them everyday!

We laugh on them, we talk on them!

Never do we ever saaay—

Thank you in a way!

Suddenly, Zakuro changed the tune of the song to a sadder one.

What if they did not exist?

Do you even get my gist?

With no chairs in the universe,

Not even pews in a church…

Ever wonder how we'd survive?

No, we wouldn't be alive…

Then Zakuro changed the tune to a happy one again.

Chairs are the best!

Even in the far west!

Life couldn't get any better

Even if they were made of feathers!

So next time you see a chair

Re—mem—ber!

To say thank you!

Everyone clapped and patted their chairs lovingly.

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Once having brought Heicha, Pudding hurriedly cooked a meal, called her siblings to the table, and set up a chair for Taruto. Then she dragged him in and propped him up on the chair. His head kept drooping, so she taped it to the chair.

Then she served the food. Since Taruto was still unconscious, he didn't touch any.

"What's the matter, Taru-taru? You don't like my food na no da?"

All of Pudding's siblings gasped. No one seemed to notice Taruto's closed eyes and injured body.

A vein popped on Pudding's head. She grabbed a bucket of water and poured it over Taruto.

"C-cold…" muttered Taruto. He opened his eyes. "Eh? Where am I?"

"Pudding's house, na no da! I invited you to dinner remember?" Seeing Taruto's blank face, Pudding recapped everything that happened.

"I can't stay, I have to make an incredibly long plan to destroy the mews with Kisshu and Pai!" stated Taruto and tried to get up. He couldn't because his head was taped to the chair.

"You have to stay for dinner na no da!" said Pudding happily.

Taruto ate a bite experimentally. It was actually pretty good.

"Fine, I'll stay…but only for the food!" he said, and dug in.

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Kisshu stopped wandering around aimlessly and stared at the "ceiling".

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"So the last thing I remember is looking up at that sky thing in my dimension." explained Taruto. Dinner was over and Pudding's siblings were elsewhere.

"It must have mind-controlled you na no da! And the water I gave you must've cured it na no da!"

"Eh? What if Kisshu and Pai did the same thing as me?" asked Taruto. He started to panic.

"Bring water with you, na no da. The water eats away at the mind-controlling monsters living in your sky, na no da. Then everyone's happy na no da!" declared Pudding.

Pudding got two more buckets of water out of nowhere.

Taruto tried to get up again but the tape prevented him from doing so.

"Do you need help with that, na no da?" asked Pudding. Before Taruto could reply, she grabbed an end of the tape and pulled hard. Taruto's head stung.

"I don't get why you taped me in the first place you runt."

Pudding handed him a lemon drop. "Here's some candy to make you feel better na no da!"

Taruto then proceeded to lift the ultra heavy buckets of water and started to teleport away.

"I dropped in my good luck weights! They're 200 pounds each na no da!" said Pudding. Taruto angrily left without saying bye.

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Lettuce handed Ichigo Masha.

"Masha! I missed you!" Ichigo hugged it tightly.

"Liar, liar!"

"Masha, how rude." said Lettuce. "Say sorry."

"Sorry, Ichigo, sorry."

"Ichigo-sama to you!" snapped Ichigo.

"Sorry Ichigo-sama, sorry."

Ichigo and Lettuce grinned. This was all a super complicated plan to get Masha to call Ichigo Ichigo-sama. Why they did it, no one will ever know.

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Mint was at the park with Aoyama.

"…People should take care of the environment more…Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to start talking about this. I apologize if I bored you Mint-san." said Aoyama.

"It's okay. You made me think. You're right, we should take care of the environment more. Let's take action. You can help me rally people. Then we'll offer prizes to whoever picks up a certain amount of litter and good things like that. I have the money, you know!" Mint winked.

Aoyama suddenly kissed her, something that he didn't do that fast to Ichigo in the original series.

"Thank you." He breathed. "You'll help me make my dream possible."

"Let's meet at the park tomorrow after school. Bring as many people as you can. I'll have flyers ready to hand out by then. Don't be late." Mint turned around and began to leave without saying bye.

"Thank you, Mint-san…" said Aoyama again.

"You're welcome, Aoyama-kun." She said without turning around.

"You can call me Masaya if you'd like." said Aoyama, a little flustered.

"And you may call me Mint only. Good day."

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"As I suspected…Aha! You are mind-controlled!" stated Taruto.

He grabbed hold of Pai. Then he poured some water on him.

Nothing happened.

Taruto then had a thought—the weights Pudding added!

Taruto used all his strength to pour all the contents of the bucket out.

One large weight bonked Pai on the head.

"Ouch." He said without any emotion.

There was a big red bump on his head.

"Great! You're not mind-controlled anymore! Help me wake up Kisshu!"

After Taruto hurriedly explained the details, Pai helped him lift the bucket and poured everything on Kisshu.

Another large weight bonked HIM on the head.

"Are you trying to kill me?" yelled Kisshu. Other than that outburst, he seemed fine.

Except for a rather large blue bump on his head…

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"Ichigo-sama, Ichigo-sama!" said Masha.

"Yeah?" Ichigo was a lot more tolerant of Masha now.

Masha didn't reply. It fell asleep.

Ichigo slapped it awake. "What'd you want to tell me?"

"You're my best friend Ichigo-sama, my best friend."

Ichigo grinned, and then turned up her radio. Zakuro's 'Tribute to chairs' was playing.

Ichigo started to sing along.