Hello! Here's Tessa with the next chapter of "Mew Who?". This story may not seem like much to you. Hell, it may even seem overrated and clichè! But I have hope in this story and I think it's good! So, please read it to make a girl happy! Thank you to Starheartgalaxy and Pokechantixmewmew for being good friends and very inspiring people! Be sure to check out "Second Time Around" by Pokechantixmewmew! Thank you for the great OCs! I now have an Ichigo, Pudding, Mint, Zakuro, and Lettuce!

Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo Mew Mew. If I did, Taruto would have more romantic scenes with Pudding and Aoyaoma would be a less irritating enviornment freak!

ONWARDS TO THE STORY!

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Sakura's cheeks went bright red. Kazuki wants to go on a date... With ME?! , Salura thought, drifting dreamily away into many fantasies of their perfect date. Apparently, Sakura never answered because Kazuki started to wave a hand in her face.

"Umm... Are you okay, Sakura-san?" Kazuki asked. Sakura nervously laughed as she snapped back into the real world.

"Uh, sure! Kazuki-san, I would LOVE to go on a date with you!"

Kazuki shyly smiled. "How about directly after school, we meet at the train station at 6:00?" Kazuki suggested.

Sakura glanced at the clock before looking back at Kazuki. "Perfect! See you later, Kazuki-kun! I've got to get to Mr. Tahamoto's History class before I get in trouble!" Sakura said before running off.

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Sakura ran the corner of the street and stooped to check the clock. The clock proudly displayed the time as 5:45. Sakura sprinted to the park entrance, familiar brown hair coming into sight.

"Kazuki-san! I made it!" Sakura yelled, panting. She waved frantically to get his attention.

Kazuki turned and grinned at Sakurambo. "So I see that you've decided to go with a casual look this evening?" Kazuki questioned.

Now becoming self-aware, Sakura approached a building to check her reflection. Her pink shirt with purple leopard print slouched on her petite figure and it fell off of a shoulder. Sakura groaned.

"Sorry, Kazuki! I was a little pressed for time!" Sakura apologized, bowing her head repeatedly.

Kazuki laughed good-naturedly and extended his hand. "That's alright, Sakura! I think that you look perfect for a stroll in the park!"

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After they strolled the park to look at passing strangers and look for a proper picnic ground, Kazuki pulled a picnic basket as if out of thin air. Sakura was handed a checkered picnic blanket to hold.

Kazuki set the picnic basket down and was handed the blanket again. He unraveled it and set it on the ground, smoothing out the creases.

The purple haired girl placed the basket onto the blanket and proceeded to empty the baked goods onto the blanket. Kazuki sat beside Sakurambo, laughing at how her eyes widened everytime she pulled out a pastry out of the basket.

Sakura, keeping her eyes on a certain chocolate pudding that was in a purple container. She looked at Kazuki. "Kazuki, this is AMAZING! You've really outdone yourself!"

Kazuki smiled and took two containers out of the basket and popped the top off, revealing the contents to be steaming rice. "Well, this was an important date!" Kazuki insisted, pouring half of The rice into a beautiful porcelain bowl and handed it to Sakurambo.

Looking into the bowl, Sakura took it. She studied the pattern and gazed into the bowl, hypnotized by the colorful pattern engraved into the bowl. She finally broke her gaze from the bowl when Kazuki handed her a pair of wooden chopsticks. She noticed that he was eating out of the container of rice.

As if noticing her confused gaze, he pointed to her bowl. "One-of-a-kind bowl. I only brought one." He explained, going back to eating his rice.

"Oh..." Sakura mumbled.

Once they had eaten their rice, Kazuki popped the lid off of the pudding that Sakura had her eyes on. Kazuki handed the topless container to Sakura. "Here." He said, much to Sakura's suprise.

"What?" Sakuranbo ( I just found out that I spelled Sakura's name wrong. It's supposed to be spelled "Sakuranbo" instead of "Sakurambo". Sakuranbo means "Cherry" in Japanese. ) asked, suprised.

Sakuranbo reached for the container and was about to grab it when-

"EEEEEIIIII!" Sakura screeched as the pudding slid down her face. She wiped her hands over her eyes, trying to get the pudding off of her face.

Kazuki had a look of horror. "Sakura! I'm so sorry!" Kazuki said, bowing in apology before running off to get napkins.

Sakura stood up and tried to find a place to clean up.

She found a cute little cafe called 'Cafe Mew Mew'. The thing that stood out most to Sakura was a golden cat statue, that was perched on the very top of the building with ruby red eyes... It looked as if the cat was trying to look into her soul. Cute cafe... The cat statue must be their mascot! Oh well, it looks closed, though. I'll just use the bathroom in the museum! Nobody goes there, any way! , She thought, running to the nearby museum.

She opened the door to the 'Endangered Animal' exhibit and waved to passing people, crossing her other arm over her chest to hide the huge brown stain.

The colorful halls of the exhibit showed pictures of different animals... Horses... Dolphins... Tigers...

She shook the thought out of her mind and entered an archway that led to the bathroom...

What she didn't know was that stepping through that archway would change her life!

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The computer screens in the dreary basement sounded an ear-splitting alarm. Ryou and Keiichiro rushed over to the computer to see that a person's DNA was the same bionary code as a Red Book endangered animal.

Ryou smirked. "Perfect timing." Ryou said.

Keiichiro wasn't that amused. "The real question is, how will we know when to combine her DNA with her assigned animal?" Keiichiro stated.

Ryou typed on the computer. "We'll wing it." He stopped typing momentarily to put safety goggles on, then handed Keiichiro a pair; advising for him to do the same.

On the computer screen, a girl was running out of the museum, and into the park. The girl stopped to catch her breath, and Ryou took this as his chance to strike.

Grabbing a circular tube connected to the computer, with a red button on the top, it resembled a control stick from an arcade game.

"Mew Project..." Ryou started as Keiichiro typed a series of commands into the neighboring computer.

"Commence!" They both shouted at once.

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Sakura had stopped to catch her breath, and the moment she did, she heard earth cracking sounds behind her. She turned and fell over when the ground started quaking underneath her.

"NYAAAAA!" Sakura yelled, trying to force herself up. But she was soon knocked out when her head hit the ground hard.

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Sakura woke up in a strange place. She looked around and saw beautiful colors surrounding her.

"Wow!" She said, looking around. "Where am I?" She asked.

She looked straight in front of her to see a silver leopard cub sitting in front of her. She smiled. "Aren't you a... Clouded... Leopard?" Sakuranbo asked. At those words, the cub stood up and walked torwards her.

"Are you lost little Clouded Leopard?" She asked as the cub continued to approach her. "Do you need help finding your mama?" The cub rubbed against her leg affectionately.

Sakura giggled and picked the little leopard up.

"I don't think that my parents would mind me keeping a little leopard in my room!" She said, rubbing the cat's head.

Everything was going well... Untill the leopard raised its claws to Sakura before it started to shimmer as it dissappeared into Sakura.

Sakura stood, dazed. "T-the Clouded Leopard... Went... Into me?" She stood there, pondering the actions that had just happened moments ago. "I can feel it inside of me... And it kind of feels... Nice..."

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Sakura... Are you okay?

S-Sakura?

Sakura slowly regained consciousness as the voice in her head sounded to get closer... And closer... Untill she could swear it sounded like...

Her eyes darted open to see familiar blue eyes looking back at her. Her cheeks flushed when she saw who it was. " KAZUKI-KUN?! " Sakura shrieked when she realized that his face was only an inch away from hers. Her face turned red like a tomato, then scooted back, for extra measure. She put on a goofy smile.

"Kazuki-kun!" She retried, trying to sound nonchalant. "What happened?"

Kazuki looked at the sun... Which was now setting. "Well, after the earthquake, you must've blacked out. When I came back, you were next to a cafe unconscious." He said.

Sakura sat up and looked at the sunset, too. "I... See..." She said.

Was the thing with the Clouded Leopard... Real? , she thought as she glanced back at Kazuki. Maybe I should ask Kazuki... Nah. He'd probably call me a freak... I'd better keep this to myself! , Sakuranbo decided.

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... That night...

Sakura ran down the hallway of the school, clutching her purple bag that read loud and clearly 'If you think that you've got game, then Sesshomaru High will put you to shame!'

She was dressed in her cheerleading outfit, which consisted of a pink cheer top with purple letters that had 'SH' for the schools initials, and a pink cheer skirt that went down to her knee caps.

She ran untill she saw familiar black and red hair. "AIIIIIIRIIII! AYAMIIIIIII!" Sakura screeched, making the two girls stop to look at Sakura.

"Where have you been, Sakura?! We almost had to go on without you!" Airi said, putting her hair up into a high ponytail.

Sakura was pulled into the gym with her two friends. "It doesn't matter!" Sakura said.

"I hope that you're right!" Ayami said as they joined the rest of the cheer team.

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A jellyfish-like thing was floating in mid-air above a squirrel. Suddenly, the jellyfish's tentacles wrapped around it, squeezing the squirrel close to the jellyfish. Then, the jellyfish had the squirrel in it, it morphed the squirrel into a black monster with a tail made of thorns and it screeched as it grew to the height of the trees around it.

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Sakura smiled as she woke up in the morning. "Time to go to the park to meet Airi and Ayami!" She said as she threw on her pink loose fitting shirt with purple leopard print on it with her favorite jeans.

She grabbed a granola bar off of the counter and rushed out the door.

She was about to be at the park to meet her friends, when she heard an ear-splitting roar that made her change her direction.

She didn't even know where she was going, her legs were leading her without Sakura's consent.

Sakura turned a corner and stared at the monster before her. It looked like a squirrel... Or what used to be a squirrel. It was black with tail that looked like it was made of tiny thorns.

Upon seeing the beast, unfortunately it saw her, too... And made her the target for its attack.

Running towards her, then spinning around in a circle, throwing its tail around... Sakura thought she was done for. But when she opened her eyes, she was out of harm's way... And into the arms of a strange blonde boy that was staring at her.

Sakura did the first thing that came to her instinctive mind. Scream. "Wha-what the... WAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" She screamed, looking down. She was on a tree branch, being held around the waist by a stranger.

The stranger put a hand over her mouth. "SHH! You'll let the Chimera Animal know where we are!" He said.

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Ryou smirked at the purple haired girl's confusion. This situation reminds me of when I first spoke to Ichigo! , Ryou thought.

"W-who are you?" The girl asked, looking horrified.

Ryou picked the girl up and jumped to a tree branch. "Let's save the introductions for later!" Ryou said before taking a gold pendant out of his pocket. "First, you have to defeat-" He pointed at the mutant squirrel. "-THAT thing!"

The girl's eyes widened in disbelief. "You did NOT just seriously say that! Are you out of your MIND?! " She shouted.

"Nope. I'm very serious." Ryou handed her the pendant, then pushed her off of the branch.

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Seconds seem to pass by very slowly as Sakura fell to her doom. She closed her eyes and hoped that it would be over soo-

"Great! You landed on your feet! Now say 'Mew Mew Cherry... Metamorpho-sis'!"

Sakura opened one eye and saw that she was safetly on the ground. She let out a sigh of relief. Then she opened her hand to look at the pendant in her hand. "Mew... Mew Cherry... Metamorpho-sis?" She said, unsure of what would happen.

Sakura panicked when the air around her shimmered and engulfed her in light. "Wh-what's h-happening?!"

When the sparkles ceased and the light faded, Sakura had a whole new appearance. Her purple hair had gone hot pink ( Not ballet pink, like Ichigo. ) and her eyes were lavender. Her hair was down in a waist-length braid. She had pink finger-less gloves and a purple bubble dress with a ballet pink sash. She now had grey leopard ears and a long leopard tail.

" NYAAAAAA! What happened?!" Sakura screeched as she looked at her new appearance. "Is that a... TAIL?! "

Sakura, oblivious to anything that didn't have to do with her tail, didn't notice that the squirrel was swinging its tail to attack untill a man with a long brown ponytail pushed her out of the way and took the blow for her.

Sakura screeched as she saw the man trying to get up, falling down in the process. "Don't worry about me!" He said with a weak smile. "I'll be okay, just give me a while. It would've done more damage to you." He said before the blonde man jumped off of the tree branch to help the brunnette to his feet. "You'll need a weapon! Just say the first thing that comes to your mind!" The blonde shouted.

"Okay!" Sakura said. "Uh... Ribbon Cherry Wand!" She shouted. Then a lavender stick with a red jem surrounded by pink crystal petals. "Wow... Those words came out almost magically..." She muttered.

"Now, just trust your instincts!" The blonde shouted. The squirrel swiped at Mew Cherry again, only for Cherry to flip away.

Forming a heart out of the air with the wand, Cherry didn't know what she was doing. Especially when she aimed the heart at the squirrel and shouted...

"RIBBON BLOSSOM IGNITE!"

The squirrel dissappeared with one last blood-curtling screech. Then Mew Cherry dissappeared into sparkles, leaving Sakuranbo standing in her regular outfit.

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Ryou and Keiichiro led the oblivious teenager to the once-famous Cafe Mew Mew. Once Ryou had opened the front door to the cafe, he motioned for Sakura to follow. "Sakuranbo Ishimiko, welcome to Cafe Mew Mew." Keiichiro said, closing the door behind Ryou.

Sakura absorbed her new surroundings. Then she realized the pressing question... "Who are you people? And why did you bring me here?!" She screamed. Then her eyes went wide. "ARE YOU GOING TO RAPE ME?!" Ryou and Keiichiro stared at her with confusion. Not recieving an answer, she assumed. She ran for the door and started banging on it, not even trying the handle. "Oh shit ! You ARE going to rape me!" She said.

Ryou grabbed Sakura by the shoulder and turned her to face him. "Listen, we aren't going to rape you! We got you to come here to talk to you about joini-"

"Joining your gang?" Sakura squeaked.

Ryou raised an eyebrow. "Yes. That's exactly the first thought that popped into my head. I just left my license to rob people at home." He said sarcastically before returning to his serious tone. "No. Listen. Your a special girl that has combined DNA with an endangered animal."

"We'll need you to work here as a cover up. Because this is also where we keep all of our equipment." Keiichiro added.

Sakura sighed in relief. "Okay. Why not?" She said. "As long as you PROMISE not to rape me." They both gave her a look that said 'seriously?!' She held her hands up in defense. "Just checking."

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Sakura spinned around, modeling her new lavender waitress outift.

"How do I look?" Sakura asked, admiring the laces and ruffles.

"Like a million bucks." Keiichiro said, sweetly.

Ryou gave Sakura a bored look. "Don't you have some place to be?"

Sakura stuck a defiant tongue out at Ryou. "No, I don't have some pla- OMIGOD! I left Airi and Ayami in the park!" She said, rushing out of the cafe.

"Don't you want to change out of your uniform first?" Ryou called after her.

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Well, how'd you like this?! It took me all day! I'll get started on next chapter right away, na no da! I just hope that I'll get more reviews, na no da. Bye! ~Nyaaaaa!