I don't own TMM or any of it's characters, I only own Midori.
Oh my God. I finally updated this thing after years. My reason? We were moving when I first published this and lost everything I had on this. I just now found everything, and I have now started to work on this again. I'm sorry to everyone who was so sweet to me, and gave me a review or alerted this. Thank you so much from the bottom of my little heart.
I hope you can find something new in this because my wirting style has changed a great deal. Don't worry I don't think I'll leave this fic because I never want to do that with a fic. I will never give up. I've got more chapters on the way so don't worry.
Enjoy.
"Ribbon Lettuce rush!" Mew Mew Lettuce yelled as the enemy in front of her fell. She sighed and looked around. No one else was there.
Lettuce looked out to the sea, which was right next to her. It's beautiful out here. I don't know why I don't come here more often. Lettuce thought to herself.
"Lettuce!"
She turned around quickly. How does he know who I really am? She thought.
She turned around to see the man from the alleyway. He had a sinister grin on his face as he ran over to her quickly.
"Ribbon Lettuce rush!" Mew Mew Lettuce yelled as she tried to fire her attack, only to have it bounce off of him with no damage done.
"What?" Mew Mew Lettuce asked in disbelief.
The man caught her, wrapped his hands around her neck, and pinned her to the floor. He wrapped his legs around Lettuce's young waist and smiled.
"This time I will have you." He said with a smile.
"No let me go!" Mew Mew Lettuce yelled as she felt herself transform back into her normal self. "Let me go!"
"Not this time sweet stuff." He said as he unzipped his fly.
"No!" Lettuce yelled. She struggled around, hoping to get away but the man was too strong. She couldn't even stop him when she was in her Mew Mew form. She tired to get her arms lose but it was no use. She was stuck, and she was going to get raped this time.
Tears formed under her eyes as she opened her mouth to scream but only one thing came out. The only thing she could think of at the time.
"Midori!"
"Midori ain't here baby." The man said as he opened Lettuce's thin legs. "She ain't gonna save you this time."
"S-Stop." Lettuce whispered. "Just stop."
"Just stop!" Lettuce yelled as she woke up in her bedroom covered in sweat. She held her head as she wiped the small tears from her face. Everything had seemed so real, like she was there.
"Lettuce!" Her Mother's voice yelled from downstairs. "Lettuce!"
"Yes Ma'am?" Lettuce yelled back after taking in a big breath of air.
"You're going to be late for school!"
"Okay! Thank you!" Lettuce wiped the tears from her eyes. She never wanted to be late for school again.
School went on and rather then stimulating her mind, it brought boredom to Lettuce. Everything she had gone over today she had already memorized so the day was rather boring. But in her boredom, it left her time to think about things. Midori.
Why Lettuce couldn't do anything but think about Midori was beyond her. She figured that it was all out of some kind of boredom, not wanting to think of anything else like her liking someone out of knowing her for only a few moments. But no one had ever defended her like she had. No one had ever really treated her that well expect for the other Mew Mews.
I'm getting ahead of myself. Lettuce thought as she looked out of the window by her side.
She looked back down to her blank piece of paper only to notice that her hand was shaking. Blinking, she looked harder down at her hand and tired to see if she was doing it on purpose or perhaps her arm was falling asleep but she wasn't. Her hand was shaking on its own, and the pen in her hand fell onto the paper.
What's wrong with me? She asked herself as she grabbed her hand. Why am I shaking? I didn't eat anything this morning so maybe the lack of sugar is getting to me. I'll get something to eat at lunch.
After Lettuce had finished school, she walked over to the café, looking around as she did. Once inside of the café and once she had changed into her work outfit, she walked into the kitchen and began to nibble on a small pastry.
"Are you feeling alright today?" Ryo asked as he walked over to her.
"Yes." Lettuce answered as she blushed. "I'm feeling much better today."
"That's good." He smiled. "Why don't you go work with the other girls? Maybe that will cheer you up a bit."
"Thank you." Lettuce bowed and walked into the dining room where she saw the other girls running around, serving food to random people.
They work so hard. Lettuce thought with a smile.
"Lettuce!" Pudding yelled playfully as she jumped on the green haired girl's back. "You're finally here!"
"I'm sorry I'm a bit late." Lettuce said with a slight giggle.
"Lettuce!" Ichigo called out. "Come help me please! Mint doesn't want to do anything!"
"It's my tea time!" Mint argued with Ichigo.
"It's always your tea time!" Ichigo argued back playfully.
"I can't help it if I'm a lady." Mint smiled and began drinking from her cup once more.
"Please help her." Zakuro asked as she walked by with a tray full of dirty dishes. "We're a bit behind on orders as it is."
"Of course!" Lettuce ran over to where Ichigo was working and began to clean the empty tables.
Being here made Lettuce forget about everything that had been happening in her life. Here she could just be with her friends and work her mind off of school and anything else that was bothering her. Here, she could be normal.
After work, Lettuce was walking home with Ichigo, and Mint. They were going over to Mint's house for a sleepover, and to cheer up Lettuce because of everything she had been going through lately. On the way, they stopped at a small convenient store to pick up foods they could eat late at night together.
"Get something good." Mint said as she looked through the aisles. "Maybe you can find something, I can't."
"We'll find something." Ichigo said, puffing up her cheeks.
Lettuce went up an aisle alone and found something she liked. She picked it up off of the shelf, and came around the corner to tell Ichigo when she slammed into someone. She felt herself falling, but the person grabbed her and pulled her back up.
"You okay Lettuce?" The person asked gently.
Lettuce blinked, recognizing the voice and looked up to see Midori and a smile on her face.
"Midori?" Lettuce asked.
"Yeah." Midori let go of Lettuce and stepped back. "Are you okay?"
She looked up and down Midori to see that she was dressed differently from the last time they had met. Her hair was back in a messy bun, and she was wearing a black dress shirt and plain brown pants with a blue apron covering the front of her outfit.
"Lettuce?" Midori asked, wondering if something was wrong.
She shook her head. "I'm sorry," she bowed, "I didn't mean to bump into you."
"It's alright." Midori laughed gently. "I wasn't watching where I was going either."
"Lettuce!" Ichigo called out as she came around the corner. She saw her friend talking to Midori, and stopped in her tracks.
"Hey Ichigo." Midori said, closing her eyes. "How are you?"
"Fine." Ichigo answered back, twitching a bit.
"What's wrong?" Midori asked.
"Nothing!" Ichigo brought her hands up and scooted away from the two, leaving them alone.
"That was strange…" Midori blinked. She looked back to Lettuce. "I didn't hurt you at all did I?"
"No." She shook her head and lowered her head. "Uh…do you work here or something?"
"Yeah." Midori smiled. "I work part time here to help my family out with paying the rent."
"Oh." Lettuce's hands moved down to her skirt and grabbed the hems.
For some strange reason, Lettuce couldn't look Midori in the face. She didn't know if it was because she liked her or if she was just embarrassed about everything that had happened when they first met. She just couldn't look her in the face, and she couldn't get the blush to leave her face.
"Is everything okay with you?" Midori asked, placing her right hand on Lettuce's shoulder. "Do you need me to walk you home or something like that?"
"No." Lettuce shook her head once more. "I'm going over to Mint's house tonight."
"What about in the mornings?"
"What?" Lettuce looked up towards Midori.
"Do you want me to walk you to school?"
Lettuce hadn't really gotten the chance to be alone with Midori and learn anything about her because they hadn't met up other then the times they had bumped into one another at random times. But this, this would be a set time where Lettuce would be able to talk to Midori one on one every day.
"I'd like that." Lettuce said, looking Midori in the eye.
"Alright then." Midori reached down into her apron and pulled out a notepad and a pen. "Why don't you give me your address and phone number?"
"Phone number!" Lettuce's face lit up.
"Yeah." Midori blinked as she handed the younger woman the pad and pencil. "What if you aren't going to school? You could call me…" She stopped talking and twitched. "Well I guess I need to give you my number instead. Sorry I spaced out."
Lettuce brought her right hand up to her mouth and began to giggle a bit. Midori smiled from seeing Lettuce react in such a way, and began to laugh with her.
Meanwhile, Ichigo and Mint stood watching from the next aisle over. They had pushed over a few items enough so that they could see what was going on between the two.
"So what are they talking about?" Ichigo asked, wiggling closer.
"I don't know!" Mint wiggled against Ichigo. "They're talking so low! I want to know what Lettuce is blushing about!"
"I didn't know you liked to gossip so much." Ichigo said, looking over towards her blue haired friend.
Mint sighed. "And I didn't know that you were so interested in this."
"What do you mean?"
"Oh nothing." Mint smiled and looked away from Ichigo, teasing her.
Ichigo puffed up her cheeks once more. "Tell me."
"No."
"Come on!"
The two wiggled around, trying to push one another in order to get one to tell the other. As they pushed, the bread sitting in front of them began to fall off of the shelves. Loaf after loaf fell off of the shelve until all of the bread fell off, catching Midori and Lettuce's attention.
"Uh…" Ichigo blinked.
"I just finished putting those up." Midori twitched as she looked at all of the bread that had fallen on the floor.
"I'll help you pick them up." Lettuce walked over to the fallen bread and began to stack them back onto the shelf.
"Thank you." Midori walked over and began stacking the bread as well.
"Come on." Ichigo tugged on Mint's outfit.
"No way." Mint turned away from the red head. "That's commoner's work."
"Fine."
Ichigo broke away from Mint and began to pick up a few loafs of bread that the other two had missed. Once Midori had checked all of the bread and made sure it was in the right place, she looked back towards Lettuce.
"Did you give me your number and address?" She asked.
"Yes." Lettuce held out the notepad with another heavy blush on his face. "Here you go."
"Thank you." Midori placed it in her pocket where it originated. "I'll be at your house on Monday morning."
"Thank you." Lettuce bowed.
"Come on," Mint sighed heavily, "lets pay so we can leave already."
"No need." Midori moved her right hand back and forth. "Go ahead and leave if you're in such a hurry. I'll cover whatever you bought."
"Really?" Ichigo said happily.
"Yeah, anything for Lettuce and her friends."
"Thanks!" Ichigo bowed.
"Come on." Mint said once more.
The three left with Lettuce waving to Midori as she walked out. Her heart was pounding away in her chest, and she felt as if she couldn't catch her breath. A strong feeling was running through her but she couldn't find the right words to describe exactly how she was feeling. Whatever feeling it was though, she wanted it to last as long as it could.
"So you do?" Ichigo asked, placing her face next to Lettuce's.
"I don't know!" Lettuce moved a pillow in her face to hide her blush.
The three, Ichigo, Lettuce, and Mint were sitting in Mint's large bedroom discussing what had taken place earlier in the day. Mint, however, was sitting in a corner of her room, drinking tea off of a small desk.
Lettuce was dressed in a plain, light yellow outfit while Ichigo was in a pink outfit that had small kittens printed on it. Mint was sitting in the corner wearing a small pink dress that cut off a bit above her knees.
"You looked so comfortable with her!" Ichigo teased with a grin. "Are you going to write her a letter?"
"I don't know!" Lettuce answered once more. "I don't even know if I like her or not!"
"I think she likes you." Ichigo narrowed her eyes and moved closer towards Lettuce.
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
Lettuce shoved her face into her pillow once more. "I don't think we should talk about this anymore!"
"Why not?" Ichigo sat back.
"Because."
"It is getting rather annoying." Mint said, surprising Ichigo.
"How can you say that?" Ichigo asked as she turned to the woman.
Mint stood up. "I'm going out for a moment. Talk about what you want while I'm gone."
Without saying another word to the two, Mint walked out of the room. Ichigo blinked as she watched Mint close the door, and waited a few moments to see if she would come back to talk about what was wrong.
"What's wrong with Mint?" Ichigo asked out loud.
"I don't know." Lettuce said, bringing the pillow down from her face. "I'm sorry if I've been annoying her. I didn't mean to do anything like that."
Ichigo looked back towards Lettuce. "I know you didn't, don't feel bad about anything."
"Thank you." Lettuce smiled, even though inside she was still upset about what happened.
Mint walked outside of her large mansion and into the garden. She walked around, looking up at the moon and the flowers growing around her before she began walking back to her house. As her hand moved towards the doorknob, she stopped herself.
"I think she likes you."
"Did you give me your number and address?"
She pulled her hand away from the doorknob and changed her hand into a fist as she thought about what Midori and Lettuce had been talking about. She looked down towards her fist, and then looked away, clenching her eyelids to one another.
Midori… She thought.
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