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Nothing to do…
Nothing to see…
Nothing to hear…
So here I am….
Writing for you.
Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew. (Man I'm really getting tired of saying that)
Opening the Past
By: Beloved Kitten
Chapter Four: Just a walk in the park
I woke up the next morning to meet a shaft of sunlight blinding me. I groaned and slowly lifted myself off the bed. My covers were on the floor. And pillow feathers were every where. Two was buried deep in her sleeping bag and Three was sleeping on top of her's. One had moved her sleeping bag to the far corner. My stuff was scattered across my bed. From when Three was pelting Kish. What happened to him anyway. I looked down to see him tangled up in my covers on the floor. I sat there staring at him sleepily for a moment. Slowly my mind began to clear away the morning fog. And my eyes began to narrow into thin slits.
"Oh Kish." I said in a faint sweet voice, eyes narrowed. He moved. "Kish." He slowly opened his eyes and looked up at me. When he saw my face he stiffened. He then slowly raised a hand and waved.
"Hay pretty kitty."
"Did you have a nice sleep?" I said in my most loving voice. He looked into my narrowed eyes. He smiled. His fangs showing.
"Yah I guess I did. Better than that broom closet." I was still glaring at him. My fingers grabbing hold of an object I always had hidden were my bed met the wall.
"Glad you liked it." I raised the wooden bat up in the air. Kish's eyes widened.
"Hay wait just a minuet!"
BAAANG
One jumped out of her sleeping bag and looked around. She looked towards us and her mouth dropped open.
"Kish! Ichigo!" she screeched.
"Get back here you bastard!" I screamed. He fell on top of Ichigo Two's sleeping bag. Holding the spot on his head were I had whacked him. Two woke with a start, screamed and shoved Kish off her. As he swung by I got him in the gut. He toppled over and hit the ground with a hard thud waking Three. She took one look at him and her face darkened.
"Still here?" she said quietly.
"Still here." he said trying to smile through the pain.
"Good." She grabbed her pillow and whacked him as hard as she could in the face. He was about to scramble upright when my bat met his knee and Two's foot kicked his side.
"Guys!" One hollered as we continued to pound him. He suddenly teleported and was hovering over my bed. All three of us turned to face him.
"Sorry kitties but having one Ichigo bashing me all the time is enough. Yet alone three others." He then vanished. I was breathing hard. My hair all over my head and my bat touching the floor. My fingers loosely holding it. Dumb Kish.
I walked into the bathroom, tossing my now knotted hair. I stood in front of the mirror and tried to untangle it. Three walked in and cut on the shower she then walked out. I took out my brush and started brushing out the knots. Two came in and was looking at the sink. She then turned to me.
"What tooth brush do I use?"
"I don't know?" I said fighting with the brush. "Um, just use mine."
"What?" She frowned. "You've got to be joking." She looked down sourly at the marble counter and the cup that held the tooth brushes.
"We're the same person you know. So we might as well use the same toothbrush. We're all ready living in the same house." She turned to me.
"You've got to be joking." She repeated.
When we finally got down for breakfast I was rummaging through the cabinets. I didn't know what I would make. We all might be the same person but our personalities were all so different. Two was a snob the other was dating Kish and the third was rich and distant. And I was declared the tacky one. I frowned to myself just thinking about it. Me. Tacky. As if.
I took a box of cereal out of the cabinet and set it on the table were Three was flipping through one of my magazines. One walked in dressed in her strange black and red out fit that I now realized was what a female alien would wear. No wonder it looked so strange to me at first.
"So you don't live on Earth anymore?" I asked as she took a seat at the table. She looked up at me.
"No. After we defeated Deep Blue I left to live with Kish in his world. For the past year I've been helping them rebuild their world on a new planet we found. It's covered 80 percent in water and the other 20 percent is hills of beach sand and shells. It's quite nice." I thought about it. Me leaving Earth….With Kish. No way.
I poured a bowl of cereal for each of them. I had just got done pouring my own bowl when Two finally walked in. In the same outfit as yesterday. To avoid her critizing me about how I dressed I wore a simple white dress with small pink strawberries all over it. A pink ribbon wrapped around the area below my chest and tied into a small bow in the back. I wore simply gold sandals that laced up to the middle of my shin. My hair pulled back in its normal pigtails.
"We have to go shopping. I'm not going to wear the same outfit everyday. Yet alone anything in your closet." She said waving her hand around.
"Well I'm sure not paying for it!" I snapped.
"What! Why not! I don't have any money." She said offended.
"You should of thought of that before you decided to be pulled into a different dimension."
"It's not my fault that you forced me to end up in this place." I looked up at her holding the jug of milk in one hand and the other at my hip.
"Sorry. Maybe I should take classes on how not to trip over cords and set off a time machine when it's dark." She stuck her nose in the air and took the set next to One. I sat down next to Three who was flipping through pages while spooning cereal into her mouth. Eyes not once leaving the paper.
"What's this?" said Ichigo Two looking at the bowl of cereal in front of her.
"Cereal..." I started eating.
"Come again."
"Its fruit loops." I kept my eyes on my bowl.
"I know that but why is it in front of me." I looked up at her and glared.
"Because that's what were having for breakfast."
She gasped.
"How could I have cereal for breakfast. I eat that as a snack food. I want blueberry bagels with cream cheese and an apple cinnamon muffin with a class of milk and a glass of orange juice."
"I hate orange juice." I said pulling back in my chair. "It makes me sick."
The morning then continued with me and Two fussing over breakfast. Me glaring at her while shoving spoonfuls of Fruit loops into my mouth while she continued on about the importance of a balanced meal. As if I gave a damn.
When we reached the café I was far ahead of them all as I marched up the steps to meet Ryou standing there with he's arms crossed. He was smiling. I brushed right past him. He followed.
"Your actually early that's a first." I turned to face him and gave him a look. He just smiled back. I passed the other mew mews that were all ready there. Even an aching Kish who sat on a stool with an ice pack to his head. Mint was also grinning as she followed me into the changing room.
"So what happened?" She asked.
"What?" I said with a sigh as I opened my locker and pulled out my red uniform.
"How am I supposed to know? Kish is the one who went missing last night to return this morning with bruises all over him."
"What do you think happened?" I said slamming my locker shut, pulling my ribbons out my hair and tying on my apron. I stepped out of the dressing room.
"Let's just say we had a little visit from him last night. Had a little pillow fight – our target being him. Woke up this morning he's still there. We treated him like a piñata." Mint was giggling to herself. I was still in a very bad mood.
"Where are they?" I asked putting my hands to my hips as I stood there in front of the rest of the mews and Ryou.
"Their in the Kitchen with Keirrochi." Said Lettuce.
"Yah," chimed in an exited Pudding. "He said he's going to turn them into cooks." I smiled at the thought of seeing Ichigo Two cooking. Getting herself covered in flour then having the stove blow up. Falling to her knees crying her eyes out.
"Ichigo" said Lettuce as she waved her hands in front of my face.
"Ooo. Ichigo has that wicked grin on her face. I wonder what she could be thinking." Said Mint. She started laughing. I came out of my dream and glared at her.
"I don't know maybe your head falling off." She continued to laugh.
"Oh and Ichigo when your done with your shift your responsible for helping me out in the lab for all the trouble you've caused." Said an amused Ryou.
"ggrrrrrrrrr" I said. Then I turned and smiled at the first customer that entered the café.
"Hello and what can I do for you!" I said in my most pleasant voice.
Later on that afternoon. I was worn out. I slumped up against an unoccupied table while I listened to Lettuce break another dish and Pudding put on her performance. Mint was sitting down sipping her tea. I had tried to avoid the three other Ichigo's all day. And I was surprised by how I hadn't seen Kish at all. He must be really hiding himself well. I heard my name being called. I perked up and looked about. I heard it again. Someone was calling me.
"Ichigo?" I groaned and laid my chin down on the table wrapping my arms over my head. It was Two. Why did she have to be bothering me now?
"Ichigo where are you?" I got up and ducked behind a few tables' even ones with people still at it. They stared at me as I moved from table to table. What was I going to do? I looked franticly around and spotted the door to the lab. I darted for it, swung open the door and closed it as fast as I could behind me. I held onto the door knob as I crouched down on the floor. I listened through the door. And heard Two asking Mint were I was. I even overhead a few customers wondering to their selves how did I just get out from over there when I just went into that room. I smiled to myself. But then I wiped it clean when I head Two's footsteps near by. I then darted down the steps and burst out into the lab.
I looked forward to see Ryou turn in his seat to face me.
"Ichigo what are you doing here? Your shift isn't over yet."
"Uh. Oh I thought I should come down early and help you out." I said standing up straight placing my hand behind my head and the other behind my back. He just shrugged and turned back in his seat.
"Fine with me."
When it was towards the end of my shift I headed back upstairs. I was back in my perky mood. Ryou had shown me how to plug the cords up into the machine. He said if I ever trip again I'd know how to plug it back in again. I smiled to myself. Ryou wasn't half bad. He was cute too.
I was some what humming to myself as I walked by the kitchen entrance. Ichigo Two stepped out.
"And where have you been?" She asked placing her hands on her hips. I turned to face her. For once she had her hair up in two pigtails at the side of her head in a uniform identical to mine. But it was a darker red. Almost like blood.
"As if I'm going to tell you." I stared walking off.
"Well I guess you don't want to know about the call Masaya made today." I froze I then turned to face her. She had that trademark of her's. That identical evil smile to Mint's.
"Come again." I said hoping I was just hearing things.
"I tried calling you earlier but you ran off some where. So I talked to him for you."
"You did what!" I completely faced her. She'd gotten my absolute attention.
"Well..." she said shrugging her shoulders so that they touched the tips of her pigtails. " We didn't know what to do. But then I came up with the marvelous idea. I'm you so I talked to him for you." My eyes were bulging. "After I apologized for missing our date he was sweet enough to reschedule it for this afternoon. At three. He wants to take you to the movies to see that flick you've so desperately wanted to see."
I felt my blood boil for a second before it froze over. I couldn't believe it. This girl was more of a devil then Mint. I couldn't help it, a small spark of pride rose in me. To think me out doing Mint. I then came to my senses.
"I can't believe you did that! Why!" I almost fell to my knees as I wined. She looked at me strangely.
"Don't be a baby. I just set you up for the greatest moment your going to have all day. You should be thankful." She smiled as she folded her arms over her chest. I growled.
"You bitch!" I screamed. The café fell silent. She stumbled back. Blinking a few times.
"What!"
"Fuck you!" I pounced on her. We started rolling on the ground. I was tugging as hard as I could on those pigtails of her's while she reached up and grabbed my neck. I chocked but I still kept my hold on her hair. We rolled over and over. As I screamed, her yelling at the top of her lungs curse words at me. I rolled her over and slammed her back hard on the floor. She let out a gasp for air. The impact was that hard. I lifted my fist and aimed it for her snobbish face when suddenly a pair of arms wrapped around my waist and lifted me into midair. I kicked and swung my arms through the air as my back came in contact to something firm.
"Stop it you two!" It was Ryou. He was the one holding me. But I didn't care I was too busy trying to get my grip on that bitch that was now being dragged on her back from where she was by Mint and Lettuce. She was kicking and screaming. Her face flushed red.
"Let me have that fucking bitch! That ass!" I snapped as I still tried desperately to reach her while still being held by Ryou.
"What's with you Ichigo?"
I calmed down. What was with me? Why had I gotten so mad? She had only rescheduled my date with Masaya. I should be grateful. But I just couldn't hold back this anger that swelled inside me at the prospect. But why? I took deep breaths. My hands grabbing onto Ryou's arms that held me. After a moment I realized that the café was silent and everyone was staring at me. Ryou set me down and I stood there stiff. My arms held firmly to my sides, my face red.
"Why don't you go and get some groceries, Ichigo. It'll give you the chance to get some fresh air. And calm yourself down." Said Ryou with his arms crossed. I nodded not looking up at him and walked out the door. I knew already what we needed. And I really did want the fresh air.
I jumped two steps at a time and walked at a fast pace down the walkway looking at the ground. My shoulders tense. Kish teleported beside me.
"What happened?" He asked. "I heard you screaming even from my spot on the roof." I kept walking. He hovered beside me. After a while I realized he wasn't going to leave and took a rout through the park that barely any one knew of. That way no one would see him. We walked in silence. After a while I looked up at him.
"So how long?" I asked. He looked at me.
"How long what?" He asked.
"How long have you and Ichigo been together?" Kish got this weird look on his face. He smiled. He then turned away from me and looked ahead.
"Two years." He seemed real exited about it. He must really like me. Or that is he must really like that other me. We continued to walk in silence.
"You know you four are really different from each other." He said. I looked at him at a side glance. His gold eyes sparkling in the shafts of sunlight that slipped through the leaves.
"What do you mean?" I already know what he meant. I just wanted to hear it from his side.
"Well, one of them seems to be a master mind at twisting people into giving her information and making them mad. She's really sarcastic. The other is drawn back and seems to have lived a fancier life. Her hair is longer along with other two things that are massively larger." He grinned. My checks turned red.
"You perv!" I halted. "Have you been staring at the other Ichigo's chest all this time?" Kish hovered a distance away.
"And you have a harder swing than my Neko-chan. But you're also the most like her. Personality wise." I walked faster catching up with him. I kept looking forwards away from him.
"You know even in another dimension you're still the same from our Kish. Except your appearance is different. Like the rest of us are from Ichigo Three."
"Who?" He asked.
"The one with the boobs. That's what I call her: Ichigo Three."
"Oh, so you gave them numbers." He swooped up closer to me.
"What number is my Ichigo?"
"She's One." He smiled.
"She is number one isn't she?" I looked at him with question.
"Well, how am I different from your Kish?"
"Well…" I said turning a bend. "To put it simple it seems that our Kish hasn't completely reach man hood yet." He looked at me confused.
"What?"
"Nothing just that-
"Hay Kitten!" I looked up into the tree in front of me. Right on one of its branches was Kish. Our Kish! My blood ran cold. What in the world kind of freak accident was going to happen now? He teleported next to me. I jumped back.
"Hay I thought you were at the café." He said eyeing me. "Your hair was different though. It was pinned up. What are you doing here? I just came from there." I stood there for a moment sweat beading on my face. Suddenly my face went blank
"What! Are you saying you were spying one me! Rrrrrrrrrrr!" I screamed. He swooped back up into the air.
"No. I wasn't. I just was checking up on you." A jellyfish creature suddenly appeared in his hands. He was smiling at me with that smile of his. I ground my teeth together. "Now Kitten lets have some fun!" He swung his hand back getting ready to toss the glowing creature when he suddenly froze. I stood there ready for the attack but he just stood there…staring. I raised an eyebrow and looked back to what he was looking at.
"Eeek." I squeaked. The other Kish was standing right behind me. How could I have forgotten in just two seconds that he was here! His feet were planted on the ground, arms to his sides. His intense gold eyes focusing on those of Kish's. I turned from my Kish to the other. They really did look different. Like I said this one was cutter. And some how he looked less like a perv.
"What….what in the freak is going on here?" said Kish hovering back. I looked up at him.
"Um….its….its kind of….its you." Kish looked at me in horror.
"You cloned me!" He yelled. I swung my body completely towards him.
"No! That not it! Rrrrrrrrrrr." I was still pissed about what had happened between me and Ichigo Two. And Kish was just making it worse.
"Mew Mew Metamorphosis!" The next thing I knew I stood there in front of Kish in my pink mew outfit with my black cat ears and tail.
"What!" Kish cried as he moved back still holding the predisite in his hands.
"SUTORO BELL BELL!" I cried as my weapon appeared in my hands. Kish threw one of the jellyfish and it exploded right in front of me. I leaped out of the way flipped in mid air and landed on a branch of a tree. Another ball of glowing light came towards me. I jumped down grabbed hold of the branch below and swung myself up onto it. I got rid of my bell. I couldn't jump with it in my hands.
Kish teleported next to me and his fist came for my face. I moved back and flipped off the branch and went falling through the branches. I landed on my feet then just as he teleported beside me I leaped up into the next tree. The air was still filled with smock from Kish's first two attacks. My blood was boiling. I was so mad and I didn't even know why. Which made me even more frustrated!
I jumped from branch to branch. I glanced to my side. He was following me. A grin on his face. I gave him such a dark look that he hovered back, a clear distance from me. Leaping to the highest bough on the next tree. The instant I landed Kish was beside me. I lifted my fist and aimed it right for his grinning face. He grabbed my hand in his and leaned over and snuck a quick kiss.
"Arrrrrrrgh !" I reached forwards and kneed him in the place no guy likes. He fell forward holding himself. I then attempted to leap away but he grabbed my waist. Suddenly the bough snapped and we were falling. I screamed as I couldn't twist myself around to land on my feet because Kish was still holding on to me. We landed hard in the bushes below.
"Ow!" I held my teeth tight together. The pain that ran through my leg was threatening to have me pass out. It was as if I had split it open again. And i had hit my head as well and was beginning to feel light headed. But a certain voice brought me out of my haze. Kish was on top of me. My eyes bulged.
"Get off me you sick ass perv!" I managed to scream through the pain. I shoved him off me. I then stumbled to my feet panting. Kish got up I could tell his back was aching him, along with what I had done to him. I was still mad though. But now I was more upset with him for giving me my injury in the first place.
"What's up with you kitten?" He said also panting. "You've never fought me hand-to-hand before." I ran up to him and hit him in the face. He then tried to grab me again. I kicked at him even though it seemed just to make it worse on my leg.
"Let go of me!" He was smiling. And then I did something I wish I hadn't done. I leaped back ripping out of Kish's grasp. I then pounced back on him feeling the muscle ripping in my thigh. Kicking him in the stomach so hard that he burst through the underbrush twelve feet away. I then landed on my feet crying out as it brought pressure. The back of my head throbbing like crazy I stumbled back into a tree. My head held down. My chest rising up and down. My vision was going blurry.
My back to the tree I spread my finger against the trunk trying to hold myself steady. At the edge of my eye I saw Kish coming at me. But I couldn't move. It hurt that bad. Then all of a sudden I heard a yell. And the other Kish came crashing down on our Kish. He had his daggers in his hand and Kish's eyes were wide in shock. They started fighting and I fell to my knees. I tried to take in breath but the agony from my leg and the throbbing ach of my head was making me sweat bead on my forehead.
I heard clashing of metal against metal and shouts. But after a second it all turned to mush in my head. The situation reminded me some what of when the Blue Night had first appeared….When Masaya had first appeared. I then couldn't hear a thing. It was like a dream. A faded, whispering dream. I then collapsed…but I never hit the ground…instead I fell into a pair of arms. Kish's arms. He lifted me up and with out looking at me shoot up into the sky.
I kept fading in and out. It was a moment before I had realized that I had transformed back into my normal self. The wind was brushing through my hair. The canopies of tree flashing by. It was then that I saw it. It looked as if a thread to the sky was being gently pulled. Each removed stitch revealing a different blue. A blue that was so strong it was almost unbearable to believe it was blue. But soft to the point you couldn't look away. Inside this ripped piece of sky was purple lighting that flickered only within the rip. No Thunder accompanying it. It was beautiful yet frightening at the same time. But then I faded back out.
Softly…slowly I was rising out of the fog just to be dipped back in. I heard cries. Stomping…people running. Just to be dipped back into the fog. When I came back out I though I saw a faint image of a girl with dark blue hair and in a blue uniform. Her hair up into two buns. Her hands came over her mouth. Another voice from the side cried out 'blood…she's bleeding!' The voice was soft and distant. Suddenly there came a face over me. A face that I recognized. With hair that looked as if it were star dust spindled into fine strands of lushes gold. A pair of bright aqua blue eyes. Everything was blurred into nothing but splotches of color. It was his face that I saw last before I was completely captured by the fog and blacked out.
End of the chapter. Hope you liked! – Beloved Kitten
