You looked at me

I smiled.

You grinned at me

I blushed.

You held me

I felt safe.

You kissed me

I loved you.

Excuses the stupid little non rhyming poem I wrote. I do that when I can't think of anything to say. I think a few parts in my last chapter was stupid. Maybe I was rushing to get it down I wasn't paying attention. Oh, well.

Disclaimer: I do not own Tokyo Mew Mew

Opening the past

Chapter Six: I looked to the sky

We walked down the street. The street lights were on and the roads were still rushing with passing cars. We turned to enter the park. Three had gotten over the kiss and I still felt strange. Kish One kept looking at me half expecting me to walk up to one of them and kiss them too. But I didn't have the energy to be worried about it. I was tired and it was only the first day. The way we were walking to my house reminded me of just last night when I brought them home. It was hard to believe so much had happened. And God I had fought with something three times. First Kish, then Two, and the anima.

The girls were having a great time chatting with each other as I looked to the sky. And there it was. It was that split form earlier...It was still there. As the rest of the sky looked a black with dark purple and blue splotches that rip was the same blue as earlier. Instead of the purple lightening bolts flickering inside it, it had purple and pink sparkles flickering softly. I stopped as the rest continued on. It looked bigger than it had earlier. And I still didn't know what in the world it was.

Kish and Ichigo Two stopped and looked back at me.

"Hay, what's going on?" She asked. I tore my eyes away from the sky and looked towards them. I went up to them and started digging in the pocket of my white dress.

"You guys go on ahead," I said. I then pulled the house keys out my pocket and handed them to Two.

"Where are you going?" She asked.

"No where special. But you should be able to handle it. You did say this place is just the way it is where you are. So you should be fine." She eyed me for a moment then closed her fingers over keys.

"Fine." She then turned and started off with the rest of the group. I headed off down a different path almost at a run. My eyes stayed glued to the spot at the sky. It was so strange. No one seemed to notice it except me. I then rushed down the path and turned at a bend. When I came out at the clearing were the cafe stood. I looked back up at the sky. I could still see the tip of the split. I then headed down the hill.

As I approached the cafe the lighter were out. I slowed to a walk and casually walked around the cafe. When I saw that the light was on to Ryou's room I turned back around and went to the front of the cafe. The door was unlocked. That was odd. I pulled it open and stepped inside the darkened cafe. Slowly closing the door behind me.

I then paced my way across the marble floor and went down the corridor where the door to the kitchen stood to one side. At the end was the gray-blue door to the lab. I opened the door and to see a light illuminating at the end of the stairs.

I quietly walked down the steps and peered into the open room. Maybe Ryou was up working after all, I thought to myself. And he was. He was seated at his usual desk and was doing something on his laptop. The screen was black and the numbers and letters were flashing the same shade of green as the frozen screen on the computer next to him. He must not of gotten it to work. I watched his back as he worked then glanced over to the computer screen. The same three rows of numbers were light a bright green rather than the dark green as the rest. But this time a couple numbers on the other rows were lit as well. When had that happened?

I was about to step into the lab but I back down. I then slowly let my fingers fall from the side of the wall and fell to my knees in the stair way. I was so tired. But I really wanted to tell Ryou about that split in the sky... I turned my head around and peered back inside. He had gotten up and walked over to an area in the lab that I couldn't see from where I was. I then sat up and popped my head out just a little. Where had he gone?

Then with out warning a hand came out of no where and grabbed hold of my shoulder from the other side. I jumped about to scream till I spotted Ryou standing to the other side of me.

"Ryou!" I said in a low frazzled voice. He looked at me with question.

"Ichigo, what are you doing here?"

"How do you know that I'm actually Ichigo?" I asked him. He crossed his arms over his chest.

"I can tell which is which Ichigo. And you're defiantly the baka I know." My mouth dropped open as I glared at him.

"I'm not a baka. If any one is one it's you! Airhead!" I snapped at him. He started walking away.

"Nice comeback." He said sarcastically. I frowned. I knew it was kind of stupid but I still didn't enjoy that fact that he knew it too. I followed him.

"Why are you still up anyway?" I asked him as he stopped at a metal cabinet and opened it. He didn't answer. But I guessed it was about getting the four troubles back were they belonged. I looked towards the machine. It hadn't been re-plugged yet. It looked like a vile of dark fog. I didn't like it.

"Get on the table." He said. I turned to him bewildered.

"What?" I asked confuses. He turned to me.

"I have to change your bandages again. You got into another fight and you tend to wear them down." I cocked my head to the side.

"How did you know I fought another anima?"

"Masha." He said simply. I should have known. Masha was Ryou's former owner. And it was hard to get the little puff ball to keep its mouth shut. Especially when it had cameras in its eyes and sent the film to him through his computer. I then walked over to the metal, doctor-like table and sat down. It was cold as usual. But what was I to expect from a laboratory.

Ryou came over and set down a bottle of some unknown substance beside me and examined my injury. As the first time. I could help blushes. It was odd. And the feeling of his fingers on my leg made it worse. When he removed the bandages I noticed that I had worn them down a bit. Maybe from all that running I was doing. He then picked up the bottle and hovered it over the injury. Letting a single drop of its sparkling blue liquid to touch the wound. My eyes widened when I saw it. It was mew aqua. It didn't even sting. In fact I didn't even feel my injury even there.

"What." I said half to myself. I then bent over and took a peck at it myself. I gasped. The wound was gone. I should of expected that but it still left my jaw opened.

"Neat." I said seating up straight with a smile on my face. I started swinging my legs back in forth over the side of the table.

"Why didn't you do that before Ryou?" I asked as I continued to swing my legs. Ryou smiled at me.

"I didn't think it was necessary. But the way you were going it would of gotten worse rather than healed." For some strange reason him smiling too made my smile bigger. I felt the best I had all day. And all over a newly healed leg…or was it because of something else. Ryou looked at me for a moment and I stopped swinging me legs. I just stared back. It was the same thing that happened that first time. Just staring at each other. I felt the pink coloring returning to my cheeks. He turned and walked off back towards the computer. I hopped off the table.

"You know you look almost tired." I said coming up behind him.

"You look more tired than I am." He stated. My smile returned.

"Of course I am. I barely even get any sleep with those three around."

"Then you should go get yourself to bed." He said down at his desk and started working at his computer again. I looked around till and spotted and stool and pulled it up beside him. I then set down and looked at him. The corner of my lip curved upwards as he continued to type and study the computer screen. After a moment he stopped and looked towards me.

"Why are you doing that?" He asked.

"Doing what?"

"Staring…and smiling like that."

"I'm not smiling. And I'm not staring. I'm watching."

"Why are you watching?"

"You need to sleep."

"No, I don't. You need to stop staring or 'watching' and you sleep."

"Well I'm not."

"I'm certainly not."

"You need it more than I do."

"Just drop it."

"So, I'm going to help you. Then we both can go to sleep," I said with a broad smile on my face.

"What?" I knew he would be taken aback. That's what I was going for. I jumped down off the stool.

"I'm going to help you. After what ever it is your trying to get done tonight is done. We can both sleep. But until then I'm staying up." He looked at me for a moment. I placed my hands on my hips.

"Come on now, Ryou. What do I need to do?" He let out a sight then got up off his chair.

"All right, but first we've got to at least get this thing rebutted." He said walking past me. I smiled smugly at his back. For once in a kind of stupid small way. I felt I had just won an argument.

Sorry it was soooooo short. I had nothing else to think of to write. And school starts back up in the morning and I haven't done my one assignment yet. Oh, well. I'll do it in first period. It's just drawing a human body anyway. If you guys have any suggestions I'm open for them – Beloved Kitten