Strawberry Ice

Boy do we feel crap! It's been about 4 months since we last updated…WE ARE SOOOOOOO SORRY! There's no real excuse…apart from the fact we've just been too lazy too! So please forgive us and R&R!

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Monday, 16th March 4pm

"I can't see anything." Mew Strawberry said as she walked beck to where the other Mew Mews, the Aliens, Ryou and Keiichiro were standing. After Keiichiro had told them about the things he had detected on the computer, they had quickly closed the café and way their way to the place where the computer said there had been some trouble. To find nothing. This had then caused to decide to spilt up and look for trouble. Mew Strawberry guessed by look on their faces that they had had as much luck as she.

"This is weird." Keiichiro said. He was looking at his laptop. "The computer still insists that there is something here!"

"I've got an idea!" exclaimed Mew Pudding. "I'll go ask that little girl over there if anything bad has happened here recently." Before anyone could say or do anything, Mew Pudding was off, Tart not far behind her. Mew Mint looked across at Ryou. He was looking at the little girl Mew Pudding and Tart were talking to as if something was very wrong with her. She then moved her eyes across to Mew Strawberry, who was doing exactly the same thing. Mew Mint turned to focus on the little girl, and gasped. The little girl had blonde hair tied up in two bunches and red eyes. She was wearing a pink hoodie and pair of jeans, but the scary thing was, she had an uncanny resemblance to both Ichigo and Ryou.

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Unknown. Unknown

"You lost it Nickson?" The hooded figure actually rose from his seat, something that almost never happened before. Nickson gulped. He was for it.

"I'm very, very sorry master, one minute it was there, the next it was gone…" Nickson rambled; trying hard to postpone the punishment that he knew was inevitable.

"Nickson, you have one chance to get back Strawberry Ice! Do you realise that without it everything we have been planning for will be worthless? And if it falls into enemy hands, they could use it against us!"

Nickson grabbed the only lifeline his master was offering to him with both hands. "Trust me, master," he said, trying (and failing) to keep a tremor out of his voice. "Strawberry Ice will back before you know it."

The master sat back in his chair. "It'd better be," he hissed, "Or Nickson, you life will not be worth living." Nickson gulped once more and crawled back out of the room, being careful not to show his back to the master.

The minute he was outside, he stood up and pushed a button on his earpiece and began to talk into rapidly.

"We have a problem. The master did not take the news well, and we need to find Strawberry Ice." As the person on the other end of the earpiece spoke, Nickson scowled.

"I don't care what you are doing now, whether it is creating a cure for cancer or painting the lab, Strawberry Ice needs to be found- now!"

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Tuesday, 17th March 8.30am

Ryou woke to someone tugging on his duvet. He opened his eyes and looked blearily at the small girl sitting on his bed.

"Good Morning!" she smiled.

Ryou gave an unintelligible reply and fell back on his pillow. Why the hell was there a girl on his bed?

"Oh yeah," he muttered as the events of yesterday came back to him. After talking to the little girl, Pudding (she had transformed back) and Tart had brought over to meet ever one else. They had found out that her name was Kitty and she was six years old and had no idea what her surname was, she had never been told, and no she didn't know who her parents were, she had run away from the people who had looked after her because they had treated her horribly.

By this time, all the Mew Mews had fallen for her and had begged Ryou and Keiichiro to look after while they found out where she came from. Their argument had been it would be horrible for her in a Home, a combination of cute looks and the fact that they would work over-time for free for the next two weeks. Ryou sighed. Why had he agreed to look after a six-year-old? He forced himself to get up and smile back at Kitty. Well, he thought to himself, look on the bright side, looking after a six-year-old can't be that hard can it?

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Tuesday, 17th March 10.30 am

Ryou leaned against one of the Café's tables and tried to catch his breath back. He remembered the thoughts he had had that morning when he woke up. Famous Last Words.

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Tuesday, 17th March 3pm

"Remind me. Why did we agree to look after Kitty?" Ryou asked Ichigo and Lettuce as they walked in the Café's front door.

"Why?" was Ichigo's answer, "Has she been a problem?" She looked over to Kitty, who was sitting angelically in the corner of the café drinking a glass of chocolate milk.

"No, she's been an angel." Ryou said sarcastically. "She's been driving Keiichiro and I up the wall. It took us forever to get her to eat some breakfast and even longer to convince her to get dressed back into her normal clothes from the t-shirt we lent her last night." Lettuce and Ichigo looked over at Kitty who had now finished her milk and was now looking round the café. She smiled when her eyes rested on Lettuce and Ichigo. Kitty got down from the chair and walked over to where the three had been talking. When she reached them, she out her arms out and said to Ichigo,

"Cuddle, please." In complete and utter shock, Ryou watched Ichigo's face soften and bend down to pick her up.

Lettuce turned to Ryou, "Are you sure she was a pest Shirogane? She's acting like a little angel, aren't you Kitty?" she turned back around and said the last part to the child in Ichigo's arms.

Ryou stood there, speechless for once in his life, as the child which he had to chase all over the café at least 10 times and then force-feed breakfast snuggled into Ichigo's shoulder. And what was even worse was as Ichigo walked over to the changing rooms, still holding Kitty, Kitty looking over at Ryou, grinned and gave a little wave.

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Once again we're soooooooooooooooooooo sorry about not updating sooner, we hope you enjoyed this chapter, Please R&R!