I heard voices around me, but my head was throbbing, and my neck hurt. I slowly started to open my eyes. I looked around at all the faced above me. All the mews were above me and to my surprise I saw one that I didn't recognize. She was wearing a belly shirt and a skirt that was down to her knees. Her hair was in a ponytail and her shoes were a lot like Mew Mint's. She was wearing all blue. She looked familiar from somewhere.
"New… Newnan?" I stammered. She smiled down at me and nodded. I couldn't believe it. I had known her since I was a little kid and had been friends with her for so long, and yet I hadn't even noticed that she was a mew. She should have been the first mew I found. I sat up and put my hand to my head.
"What happened?" I asked shutting my eyes because of the pain.
"Nariyuki was choking you and then Newnan transformed and attacked him and he let go of you and you fell down and he went away with his monster and here we are!" said Tade very quickly. I touched my throat and shuddered. It still hurt, he must have been holding on really tight. I stood up and fell. I felt myself land in the arms of Mikio.
"What are you doing here?" I asked looking up at him.
"Well Akiko gave me a call and told me you had past out and asked if I could come over and help get you back if you didn't wake up." He smiled at me and I gave a little smile back. He turned his gaze over to Newnan.
"And who is this?" he asked.
"Oh, this is my best friend, Newnan. She is the daughter of Mew Mint." I said pulling myself out of his arms and tried to stand stably. I fell again, and Mikio caught me again. It was no use trying to stand. I was too weak from the chocking to get the energy to stand.
"I think I'd better get you home… you guys go back to the Café, I'll meet you there." He picked my up and started to walk down the street. We stopped in front of a motorcycle and Mikio put me on the back. He then climbed on in front of me and I wrapped my arms around his waist. I leaned against him for support and closed my eyes. He started up the engine and we were off. The wind was blowing in my face and my hair was flying behind me.
I realized I was still in my Mew outfit and quickly thought about being back to normal. I changed back and I snuggled my head into Mikio's back. He felt warm and comforting. I opened my eyes and saw that I was on my street, approaching my house. He stopped on the curb and helped me off. I found that I could stand then and that I could walk, although I stumbled a little. Mikio helped me to the door and left before my dad could open it, but not before he gave my hand a little squeeze. I looked after him as he drove off and when he was no longer in sight I opened the door and walked up to the bathroom upstairs. I looked in the mirror and stiffened a sob. I saw red marks on my neck were Nariyuki had strangled me and they were unmistakably hand marks. I took out some cover up and put it over the marks. It helped, but I decided to keep my hair down the rest of the day to help cover the marks up. I decided to go for a walk to clear my head. I walked down the stairs and ran into Dad.
"Hey! Watch where you're going!" he yelled at me and continued up the stairs. I looked at him in astonishment.
'What was with him? He sure isn't acting himself…' I thought but shrugged it off and continued down the stairs. I opened the door and walked out into the sunshine. I wandered around, not knowing what to do, or were to go. I wasn't looking were I was going and ran smack into a girl much older then me, 16 or 17 maybe. However old she was, she didn't look too pleased with me running into her. She had brown, curly hair that went down to her mid back and sapphire blue eyes. She had on a black mini skirt and a black belly shirt. Around her neck she was wearing a black choker and she had on black boots that went up to her knees. She wasn't someone I wanted to get on the wrong side of.
"Um… sorry about that… I was just walking and…"
She cut in, "Listen kid, just stay out of my way and you won't get hurt, understood? No more bumping into me." I nodded and she took out a cigarette and lit it. She blew some smoke into my face and I held my breath. She laughed and walked away. I let my breath out and continued on my walk, although I couldn't help but feel as though I was being watched. I sat down on a bench and looked out at the park and sighed. I wished that my life wasn't so confusing and complicated. Before I had found out I was a mew my life was easy. Go to school, hang with friends, do homework, normal stuff. Now my life also consists of fighting evil aliens, making sure those evil aliens don't try to make out with me, hiding injuries I get when I'm fighting from my family and friends, and having mixed feeling for two different guys which wouldn't be happening if I hadn't met Mikio. I sighed and stood up and started walking again. Suddenly I felt someone's hand on my shoulder.
I heard someone say, "So you're the 'Brown eyed Mew Ichigo'…" I looked up and saw an alien was holding my shoulder. I swung my leg around and tried to kick him, but he must have been expecting it because he quickly jumped out of the way.
"You truly are Ichigo's daughter, she did the same thing the first time she met me." He snickered. I studied him closely. He had pigtails on with some hair still hanging down in the back, and he was wearing similar cloths to Nariyuki. His hair was a dark green like Nariyuki's too.
"Who are you?" I asked. The last time I had asked an alien that he had pinned me against a tree and started to make out with me, so I prepared myself for the worst, but he just laughed.
"I see Ichigo never told you about me… probably for the best considering I tried so hard to keep her away from your father and all… The name's Kish." I looked at him, and since I had gotten my answer I turned my back and started to walk away from him.
"Hey! Where are you going?" he asked. He made himself appear in front of me.
"I'm leaving. I have enough trouble with one alien; I don't need another one constantly pestering me."
He smirked, "Ah, but you never told me your name. Until you do I'll be pestering you twenty-four seven."
I glared at him and said bitterly, "Yuki" I tried to get around him, but he fallowed me everywhere I went.
"Listen, what do you want! Do you want to fight? Do you want me to give you something? Why wont you just leave me alone!"
He looked at me for a moment, with a smile on his face, and then said, "I would like to see your mother."
"No" I said strait away. No way was I going to let some alien who was trying to keep my parents from getting together see my mum. I turned around and headed in the other direction, trying to get the stupid alien to stop fallowing me, but he just kept on.
"Listen, I know you probably hate aliens by now, considering what you said earlier about you having to worry about one already and such, but I'm not like the others…"
I interrupted Kish, "Oh yeah, you're different alright! You actually haven't attacked or threatened to attack me yet!" I rolled my eyes and kept walking.
"No I mean it! Your mother and I are friends now, at the beginning we weren't, but after she defeated Deep Blue we became friends but I haven't seen her since you were born…"
I cut in again, "YOU WERE THERE WHEN I WAS BORN!" I looked at him in astonishment. He looked a little surprised at my reaction but nodded.
"How come you didn't know my name then?" I asked suspiciously.
"Because I only popped in when the nurse was out of the room to see what you looked like and then left before she came back. We didn't want to scare the woman." It made sense, but I wasn't going to let him off the hook just yet.
"What do you mean by 'we'?" I asked curiously.
"My son and I. He was only 2 at the time but he new what was right and wrong…" I groaned, if only the Nariyuki knew what was right and wrong, maybe then I wouldn't have a choking mark around my neck.
"If I let you see my mum will you leave me alone?" he nodded eagerly. "And will you promise not to pull any stunts with her? That includes kissing, flirting, trying to get my parents to break up…"
"Okay, okay, I get it" I looked at my watch then up at him.
"Be here tomorrow at 4:30, I'll bring her here for you to meet. I'm not going to bring you to my house. I would rather not have another alien know where I live…" I turned around and walked away, and this time Kish didn't follow me. I got home and walked into the living room were my mum was reading a book.
"Mum, do you want to go to the park tomorrow?" she looked up from her book and looked at me.
With a smile she said, "Sure sweetheart, but what made you want to go somewhere with me?"
I shrugged, "Nothing, just wanted to spend a little quality time with my mum, that's all…" she nodded and I went up to my bedroom to talk to Cherry.
