Hi. Glad you like it. Took me awhile to think of how to get through this part so I could get on with the rest of it. I'm not going to have you waiting long for the next update.

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Opening up the Past

By: Beloved Kitten

Chapter two: Oops, my bad

We all rushed down the steps into the lab. The power was no longer running. The cord must have struck something and caused everything to shut down. Ryou and Keirrochi rushed towards the corner, the other mews close behind. I lagged behind a bit. Afraid of what we would find. I had been hoping by some chance I had been dreaming. And maybe the fog from the machine had made me hallucinate. I neared over towards the rest next to Ryou and looked over.

The only light source came from the machine. A very scary looking Kish standing in front of it. I was getting ready for the rest of the mews to call out their pendants and transform into mew mews when I realized something different about this Kish. He was taller and more muscular. His eyes amazingly more golden. And they seemed to focus on me!

It felt as if a spider was crawling up my back when the first Ichigo started lifting herself off the ground. Nearly everyone backed up a step. She shook her head and placed her hand to her forehead.

"What happened?" she looked up at us and she froze.

"How'd I get back to Earth?" She said more to herself. She then turned to face me. It felt as if I were looking straight into a mirror. Her eyes widened and her hair stood on end. She leaped up.

"What in the world is going on here!" she screeched. She stared at me in horror as if I were some disgusting mutant clone.

"Who the heck are you?" She said it as if I were something foul. My timid ness instantly left as I glared at the second me.

"I'm you, you ass!" I clamped my mouth shut. I had just called myself an ass. How stupid was that…Or was I really.

The other Ichigo gasped at me. She then glared back.

"I'm not an ass! If you are me then that means you are too! Ass!" She retaliated. The Kish started to Laugh. All of us turned to face him. His laugh was different from what I remembered. It was deeper. He was holding his sides while laughing. His eyes shut and kneeling over. I frowned at him.

"What's so funny?" Both me and the other Ichigo asked annoyed. He just kept laughing. Suddenly the other Ichigo rose. She also shook her head and blinked a few times. She then fluttered her eyes open and stared at us. She straightened and moved her head to person to person. She let her gaze rest on me, Ichigo, and Kish. She gasped and then looked to Ryou.

"Ryou…something is different. Did some freak accident happen or something? Cause that can't be clones of me over their. They don't look nothing like me. I'm not that ugly." The group behind me sucked in a breath. Mint stifled a giggle and Ryou stared back at her with an open jaw. My face darkened. What was up with these two calling me ugly? We look exactly the same. Kish started a new fit of laughter. She turned towards me.

"And what in the world is she wearing. I would never wear a red plaid skirt with a green shirt with black pock-a-dots. That's like so tacky." She made a face at me as if I were molding broccoli. This time Mint didn't hold back her giggles and I heard Pudding going along with her. The other me moved her hand to her mouth to stifle a laugh. Kish was still laughing. I turned, my face red with infuriation to see Keirrochi and Zakuro smiling and Ryou trying to keep his face straight. I turned back to the second copy.

"You think you can talk! You're dressed like a prep!" I said folding my arms over my chest. She stiffened her mouth open. She was wearing a puffy white peasant blouse (that was kind of cute) with a lime green puffy skirt, white socks that went up to her middle thigh, and brown leather shoes. She also had a lock of hair in the front with white beads strand though it. Her hair out. To tell the truth she looked better than me but still a prep.

Her face turned red as she fumed. For the first time I knew what I looked like when I was mad. It was scaring me. The first Ichigo started laughing along with Kish. Both me and the second one turned to face her. We were gearing up to say something about her outfit when my face drained and I noticed for the first time.

Her hand still at her mouth she was wearing a long black skirt with a red hue. It had a split on both sides that went up to her upper thigh. Along with black heal-less boots made of sued that bagged around the ankle with a red ribbon rapped around it. She was wearing a cropped shirt that showed her belly button with wav straps hanging off her shoulders. A red and black chocker adored her neck that matched a band at her thigh along with her wrist bands. I couldn't help but noticed. I looked really hot in that outfit! I felt my cheeks flush. I had never looked that good in anything. The whole outfit looked as if it were out of this world.

This slight pause gave Ryou and Keirrochi a chance to intervene in our little spat.

"All right we'll figure all this out upstairs away from all the experiment." Stated Ryou coolly. "Now why don't you all stop your bickering and head upstairs?" I watched him. I liked the way he folded his arms across his chest. His golden-blonde hair dropping over his forehead.

A moan caught our attention and we all turned to see the third Ichigo slowly rising off the floor at the bottom of the machine. She held her head in the same fashion as the second one had when she stood up. When she opened her eyes and looked up at us her face drained with little other effect. She looked winded.

Her sight focused on the four of us: Kish, the other two Ichigo and myself. Her eyes fell on me last and she frowned.

"What on Earth are you wearing?"

Mint buried her face in her hands trying to hold back while Pudding just let full rain her giggling as Kish smirked also holding back a chuckle. My face darkened. The other two ichigo's were slightly smiling as well. What was with these three critsizing my outfit. And with everyone laughing they seemed to be enjoying it at my expense. At the moment I hated everyone more than I hated the real Kish.

Later

"Still mad?"

"Still mad." Ryou responded back as he struggled to pull one of the cords out of its socket at the side of the machine. I sighed. We had been down here for about an hour. Since Ryou's computer was bent on staying on the same screen showing the same numbers with the flashing three rows we had to shut down the machine manually. I was so upset I didn't know what I would do. Even when we shut down the computer the screen still came back on with the same thing. Even when Ryou got frustrated and actually bashed it. It still flickered back on with the same numbers. I had to tell you that computer was just as stubborn as Ryou. And I thought I would never find anything more stubborn than he.

Once the rest finally managed to get the four of us Ichigos to be quite everyone rushed us upstairs to find out what had happened. I tried explaining but the last Ichigo kept interrupting. Saying that she'd never get that worked up over a skirt. ('That wasn't even cute' she had to add). When I finally got though Ryou was majorly upset. Not only had I ruined his machine, I had damaged his computer along with everything else in the lab had blown a fuss due to the power the machine sucked up. I also had brought three new Ichigos along with a Kish which the machine wasn't designed to do. So he blamed me for screwing it up and causing them to show up. I was glad to find out that I wasn't the only one insulted.

But since I had started this mess I was forced to help fix it. But since we couldn't get the darn $&# thing to work I was stuck with Ryou pulling cords out of a machine that were ten times longer than me and as thick as my ankle.

I stumbled as I tried to hold the heap of cord in my arms that Ryou was handing to me. This whole time I was feeling bad that Ryou was upset with me. I wished I hadn't tripped over that darn cord. I didn't even know why I even cared. It wasn't as if what he thought of me even mattered. He already thought me as a silly over sensitive teenager. Who cared if he thought me as dense too….but somewhere annoyingly I found out I did.

He tossed me the next cord and I rushed underneath it and caught it. He had been practically ignoring me the whole time. Just tossing things at me. Once he tossed a stack of paper at me that didn't have anything to do with what we were doing.

"Hay! What was that for!" I yelled back annoyed.

"Nothing. I just tripped!" He said sarcastically. I glared at him.

Jerk

Well that's it! Sorry this chapter was short!- Beloved Kitten