The story will once again be told by Yuki

After everyone left I looked back at Mikio and blushed some more.

"Yuki…?" Mikio asked quietly.

"Yeah Mikio?"

"I… I need to tell you something…" Mikio took a deep breath and said quietly, "I-I love you… I loved you since the first time I laid eyes on you. I know you have a boyfriend, and I kn-.." I put my finger to his lips and looked into his eyes.

"I love you too Mikio… I feel… safe when I'm with you… like nothing and no one can hurt me when I'm with you… and I feel… I don't know what I feel… I guess this is how you feel when you're in love…" Mikio moved in and kisses my lips softly.

'Thank you god' I thought, 'Thank you for not making me loose my mew powers and losing my memory… if you had I would never have been able to see Mikio again…' suddenly I remembered something.

"Um… Mikio? What time is it?"

Mikio looked confused but looked at his watch and said, "Um… 2:00… why?" My eyes widened.

"Mikio… I have to go… you see… I have a date with Akinori and he was mad at me the last time I saw him…"

Mikio hung his head, "Oh… okay…" I took a deep breath, "And I don't want him to be in a bad mood when I brake up with him." Mikio's head jerked up and his eyes were wide.

I hugged him, "I want to be with you Mikio, nobody else but you." He hugged me back and then we walked over to the door. I pulled it open and THUNK. All the mews fell onto the ground in a heap. They smiled up at me and Mikio and I felt my face warm up. How long had they been listening?

"Um, I'll see you later Mikio…" I said nervously and kissed him on the cheek. Stepping over the mews I walked out of the room and down the hall. I climbed down the stairs and quickly slipped out of the café before Keiichiro or Ryou could see me. Jogging down the street, I thought of what I was going to say to Akinori. I had never broke up with someone before, and I wasn't sure how to do it so it sounded sincere. Before I could think of anything I was at the park and I could see Akinori waiting for me. I slowed to a walk, praying that I wasn't late.

"Um, hi Akinori…" I said as I approached.

He smiled at me, "Hey Yuki." It was obvious that he wasn't mad at me anymore, or that he wasn't as mad.

We walked down a path in silence for a little while. I was thinking of how to brake up with him, but I wasn't sure what he was thinking. Was he planning to brake up with me? Had we both found someone new but just didn't know how to tell the other one? On the path we came upon a bench. I was feeling really tired after the long day, even if I was asleep threw most of it. The poison had made me weak and it was going to take a couple of days before I was as interjected as usual, I could tell.

I looked at the bench longingly and Akinori must have seen this because he asked, "Do you want to sit down?" I looked at him and then the bench and gave a small nod. We sat down on the bench and were quiet for a while again.

Finally I couldn't take the silence any longer and I turned to Akinori and said nervously, "Um… Akinori I have to tell yo-.." I was cut off by Mikio kissing me. He pushed me down so I was laying on the bench and then laid on top of me. I was in shock. What was he doing? Why was he doing it?

I finally pulled out of my shock and gave Akinori a push off me, "Stop it Akinori, get off!" I said as a scrambled off the bench.

"What's wrong?" He asked.

"It's just… the reason I came tonight…" I took a deep breath, "I don't love you Akinori. I love Mikio." I couldn't believe I had just said that. I looked down and said quietly, "I was going to brake up with you tonight…" I looked up at Akinori. At first his face was confused, and then it looked hurt. Then it changed completely. To something I hadn't expected it to look like. He looked enraged. He got up from the bench and walked over to me. He pulled his arm back and then hit me in the face. I fell to the ground and my head fell into a patch of grass. I shakily stood up. How could he do this? He didn't love me, or at least I didn't love him back. This wasn't at all how I thought this would go down. I looked at him with my eyes filled with tears.

"How could you?" I asked.

He snarled at me and said, "You bitch, how could you do this to me? I came here to tell you I loved you. And what do you give me in return? You tell me that instead of loving me, you love some……. Some little….." he was getting flustered. His face was bright red with rage. He lifted his arm and punched me right in the eye. I toppled down and he kicked me in the side. An explosion of pain threatened to swallow me in. I clutched my ribs as I tried to stand up. He slapped me across the face again and I fell back down. I just laid there sobbing until Akinori ran away, making sure that nobody saw him leaving.

I stayed still until the sun started setting in the distance. I attempted to pull myself up, but couldn't support my weight on my bad arm. I fell down hard on my hurt ribs. Red splashed over my sight as I clutched myself shuddering with pain. I tried again and I finally got up. I stumbled to Café Mew Mew. I half knocked half leaned on the door. It pulled open and I fell right into Ryou. I looked up at him and everything blurred.

He said in a worried tone, "Dear lord what happened to you?" He pulled me in and I sat on a padded chair. I didn't even know they had one. Ryou yelled for Mikio to come in. He stopped at the door and gasped. Sprinting to my side, he attempted to hug me but was stopped by a painful scream from me about my ribs and some other nonsense about me never breaking up with someone again. I have no control over what comes out of my mouth at these times. Mikio sat next to me and looked at me. He locked in on my puffy eyes. I didn't want to look at him. I wouldn't love anyone again. This is what happens.

My eyes locked on his and I really did; I tried to pull away but he had me hooked. He was reeling me in like the catch of the day. I couldn't stand it any more. I stood up and attempted to run for my life. All I could pull off was a half skip jump. Mikio caught me five feet into my escape.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa Yuki; come on over here. We won't hurt you. You're safe now just calm down." He said soothingly. This was too much. I was so mixed up inside that I couldn't focus. I leaned my head on his chest and cried. Cried doesn't even come close to describing it. I stood there, sobbing on Mikio for longer than I could remember. Mikio's head was on top of mine, his lips on my hair as I cried my soul out. A knock sounded on the door. Ryou went to answer it. There standing right in front of me was Newnan. Her eyes were huge as she looked me up and down.

"OM MY GOD WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU! DID AKINORI DO THAT! I KNEW THAT YOU WERE GOING TO…….. BUT AKINORI?" I nodded and her eyes got even bigger. "I'm going to go……… I'm not sure but I'm going!" she yelled as she stormed out of the café. I gulped. Newnan was sensible enough, but she was her mother's daughter. When she was mad, she could go crazy-mew-mew on your butt. Mikio looked at me. He brushed a piece of hair from my face.

"How could this happen?" he asked me. I felt tears welling up again. Mikio looked over at Ryou. "Um… I don't think that she's ready to go home." Ryou nodded.

"I know Masaya's a good guy, but he wouldn't handle this well." He picked up the phone and dialed my number. How did he know my number?

"Hey Ichigo, it's Ryou! I was wondering if Yuki could stay here for a while. Yeah. Yup. Yes I understand. Okay. Bye." He hung up and turned to me. "Your mother says you can stay here for tonight. I have full access to any amount of medicines. I think you might be safer here." He pulled me aside and started running his fingers down my frame. I screamed and hit his hand away.

"Calm down, will you? I'm just checking for any broken bones." I winced when he got to my ribs. "I'm afraid this might be bruised or even broken. We need to get you down stairs." He said. Ryou called Mikio in and they both helped me get down the stairs in one piece. They sat me down on a table.

"This will sound a little weird, but I need you to take your shirt off. That rib really needs to be looked at." Mikio looked at his uncle with wide eyes

"WHAT!" he squawked.

"WHAT!" I squawked right after Mikio. Ryou looked at us as if we were freaks or something.

"This is medical. It's not like I'm making you do this for no reason. Gosh what do you people think of me?" he said. He gave us a hurt look and started walking away. Mikio and I looked at each other and he ran after him.

"We're sorry," we said on cue.

Ryou smiled and said, "I forgive you." He gave us a sly smile and started for the door. "C'mon," he said to a still wide-eyed Mikio, "let's give the girl some privacy."

"R-right, precisely, exactomundo," Mikio said, holding up a finger to make him look like he knew what he was doing (he didn't). Ryou threw in an examining shirt; the kind that shows your butt if you don't hold it yourself. I hated Ryou for making Mikio do this. I hated Mikio for not running a million miles away from his crazy uncle. I realized that I knew nothing about Mikio. What if he wanted to get married……………. Or even worse, what if he didn't? Does he want to be a scientist? What happened to his parents anyways? A knock on the door sent me back to earth. I stripped off my tee but kept my bra on. I put on the gown and lay down on the table. This was all too much too think about. Ryou and a calmer looking Mikio came in, but he started to get nervous again when he saw me. Ryou had apparently talked to him. Ryou handed me some pain killers. I swallowed them down with cool water and everything immediately started getting fuzzy around the edges. I remember thinking 'OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD, OH MY GOD!'

I looked over at Mikio momentarily and heard him whispering to himself, "Oh my god, calm down Mikio, ohhhh my god, it's okay. Everything's fine. Happy place. Ocean, cool breeze, seagulls, NO, no seagulls. Just an ocean nice cool breeze. Yes no yucky crab- yucky YUKI! NO! Just all alone beach cool breeze…….." It went on like that for all five minutes. Finally, Ryou backed away from me and pulled up a chair beside me. "Okay, your ribs aren't broken." He said. I sighed.

'Thank god…' I thought. "What's wrong with them then?" I asked as I stole a glance at Mikio. He seemed to still be muttering about his happy place. I held back a smile.

"They are bruised. You need to take it easy for a little while so it can heal up a bit."

I looked at him as if he were crazy, "How the heck am I suppose to take it easy when Kimera Animas show up all the time with no warning?" Ryou didn't seem to have anything to say to that.

"Um…" He looked at his watch, "It's late… You two should probably go to bed. Yuki you'll be sleeping in Mikio's room." My eyes widened. I took a quick look at Mikio. He looked just as shocked.

"WHAT?" I squawked.

"Someone needs to keep an eye on you to make sure you're okay tonight." Ryou said as if it people always slept in the same room as there boyfriends. I gulped. Ryou was really laying it on me that night. First he made me take off my clothes and then he was making me sleep in the same room as Mikio.

Ryou got up from his chair, "Okay Mikio, lets give her some privacy." They walked out of the room again, leaving me to change. I pulled off the examining shirt and pulled on my clothes as fast as I could. I was never doing that again. I heard a knock on the door and they came in. Mikio grabbed a bundle of blankets.

"You should probably sleep on the bed tonight. It might be easier on your ribs." I would be sleeping on his bed AGAIN! This was all too much for two days. Everything started coming back to me. I again felt the bruises on my face and my head started hurting. Akinori………… Akinori! He loved me. He had…… Tears started running down my face as I felt myself give in to exhaustion. I felt myself fall into strong arms, but I didn't know who's they were.