Chapter 4 – In Another Life

" What do mean dead? Maybe she just wounded and are sure it was even her?" asked Ryou.

" Yes I'm sure it was her and I had feeling she wasn't alive. The only difference was she looked a little bit older than she is and she was wearing a black gown," she said with panic in her voice. She was scared, not just for Sugar. What did the other things in her dream mean?

"Well I'll ask Keiiercho and the girls to keep an eye on her. Is there anything else that happened that you forgot to tell me?" he asked. She told him about the other images except for the one of him and her.

It seems like yesterday that my world fell from the sky

It seems like yesterday I didn't know how hard I could cry

"Anything else," he asked ' I could tell him but then it would be really awkward between us' she thought

"Nope nothing else," she said"

Keiiercho walked toward Sugar's room with a tray of food. It was strange that Ichigo would just give up her identity to some random girl. He opened the door and went in. The young girl was still asleep. She was kind of cute though. Her long straight hair was now wavy and a bit frizzy. Her makeup was all over her face. He smiled; she looked so innocent and yet so fierce at the same time.

"Sugar? Sugar? Come on and eat your breakfast," he said. He tried to shake her but was hit with a blast of images. A baby girl, a girl that looked about five years old twirling around in a pink tutu and a tiara, Sugar smiling, the two of them kissing passionately. Then a slightly older Sugar lying on the ground, dead and covered in blood and wearing the strange necklace. Then a flash of white light.

Keiiercho was panting and covered in sweat. 'What the fuck was that?' he thought

"Ugh" he saw Sugar slowly get up and stretch.

"H- Hey, how are you feeling," he asked.

"Who the hell are you and where is Ichigo," she said

"Oh sorry, I haven't introduced myself. I'm Keiiercho and I own Café Mew Mew. I'm also close friends with Ichigo," he replied. He looked onto her bright blue eyes was hit by wave of déjà vu.

Everywhere you go is everywhere I've been

You finish all my sentences before they begin

And I know that look in your eyes

It's like I've seen you before about a million times

In another, in another life maybe

In another life you must have been mine

"Hey are you hungry? I made you breakfast," he said

" Starving, haven't eaten since yesterday," she said sitting. There was knock on the door.

"Keiiercho? Are you in there?" asked Ryou.

"Yeah coming," he said. He closed the door. Uh oh, the look on Ryou's face was not good.

"What's wrong he asked.

"I'm actually not sure myself," said Ryou. He explained what Ichigo had seen in her dream.

"This just doesn't make any sense," said Ryou. Keiiercho then told him what happened when he tried to wake Sugar. Leaving out the part about the kiss though. 'Could something be trying to warn us about Sugar" though Keiiercho. Was she good or evil?

Back in Ryou's room Ichigo was still shaking from the dream. Why would anyone want to hurt Sugar and what had the other parts meant? Suddenly the window flew open and a dark figure jumped. Ichigo screamed but her mouth was covered.

"Be quiet or you'll regret it," said the figure. Ichigo's eyes widened with surprise. It was Pudding but she was all grown up. Her gold hair fell to her mid back and she wearing a strapless skin-tight cat suit with black boots with at least a four inch heel and went up to her thighs.

"Pudding? Is that you?" she asked.

"Yes, you idiot it's me. Now be quiet or world will be no more in a matter of weeks.

" But why, how, where, when," Ichigo said very confused.

" Those questions will be answered soon. But I'll tell this much, things haven't gone as they were supposed to, she said. Someone future accidentally came here and we are trying are best to locate them. But enough of that, come hold my hands and we will begin the grand tour," she said and grabbed Ichigo's hands. Suddenly she and Pudding were flying over a dark city. 'Wow' she thought as saw everyone running for their lives.

" What happened to city and how far in the future are we?" she asked.

" We are about five years from your time," Ichigo's raised her eyebrows. "I go through a major growth spurt which will happen in about a few months in your time," Pudding said. 'On your fourteenth birthday probably' Ichigo thought.

" Ichigo, I am sorry to tell but all this misery. This chaos is because of you," 'What? But that can't be'

" You see it is because of your daughter. The Cyniclons wanted her because she held so much power and you refused to give her up. They went a rampage slowly killing the town and the people you loved. Eventually you will be killed in battle and the Cyniclons will take over the earth.

Too much time is taken up watching people suffer Now I've got to take these drugs So I don't see it over and over

Ichigo was know ready to explode or cry or even do both

" But what about you," she asked.

" I was the only one who survived and I live on a nearby planet and fight to win back the earth from the Cyniclons. But Ichigo listen to me you must not have the child. It will bring misery to this earth and be the death of everyone you love.

"Pudding can you tell me what her name is or who the father is?" she said quietly.

" I'm afraid not Ichigo. I've already said too much. But remember this Ichigo. I love you and will always be the best friend I can be," and with that she gave Ichigo a kiss on the forehead. Ichigo was back in the room. Then Ryou burst in.

" Ichigo, are you all right? What was the scream for?" he asked.

" Uh I just saw a mouse and it surprised me," she lied.

" Really? That's odd since you are part cat," he replied.

"Well it just surprised me that's all. Did Sugar wake up yet?" she said.

" Yeah and apparently when Keiiercho tried to wake her up he had a flashy thing like yours. What do you think all this could mean?" he asked.

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- Ashlee Simpson 'in another Life

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