The Past Bites
Me: Yay! Next chapter!
Kalaa: Hey! You weren't late for once!
Me: I was thinking about that, so I made sure to get this up as soon as possible!
Azzuen: Well, then let's get this show on the road!
Kaiyo & Melina: BladeofMoonlight does not own TMM or MMP, she is just a fan. .
Chapter 7 Discoveries and New Love
/Kalaa's P.O.V.
"I can't believe we're doing this." Melina muttered outside the gate. The building loomed against the black night sky. "It's unnatural. Breaking out of school I understand, but breaking IN?"
"We've got to." Kalaa hissed. "It's one of the only places that holds any form of our parent's files, and you remember what we saw at the hospital..."
Melina remembered the number of paparazzi vehicles waiting outside and shivered.
"Stalkers." Azzuen muttered. "Kaiyo, how's that lock coming?"
"Almost there." Came the reply. A few moments later there was a click, and the gates swung open. Kaiyo looked up and grinned, his eyes glowing like lamps in the dark. "Let's go." The kids turned on their flashlights and darted inside.
As Kalaa walked down the silent halls, she tried to envision her mother here, skipping and laughing and trying to hide her cat genes from everyone. It was almost impossible.
"Where's the main office?" Melina asked as they wandered through the gym.
"I think it's on the first floor." Kaiyo replied. The shadows danced as their flashlights traced the floor. They ran down a flight of stairs and eventually they found the office.
"I hate the dark." Azzuen muttered. "It's even creepier in here than outside."
Kalaa and Kaiyo were going through filing cabinets, looking for old school records. Kalaa searched the permanent record drawer and found a copy or her mother's and Lettuce's at the very bottom. She snatched them up and pushed the cabinet shut. Kaiyo lifted his head a few moments later, coming up with official records with Ichigo, Mint and Pudding's names stamped on them.
"Good. Let's get out of here." They shut the cabinet and ran outside.
/Ichigo's P.O.V.
Ichigo was sitting on a bench in the park long after she should have gone to bed. Anyone could tell from her posture that she was completely miserable.
How could my life end up like this? She wondered through her tears. Will I ever be able to smile again? Will anyone love me?
There was a soft breeze, and the sounds of feet touching the ground. Ichigo looked up, knowing who it was a second before seeing his face.
"Kish?" She murmured, half-thinking it was a trick of the mind, the other half knowing he was really there.
The alien just nodded, looking at her with a concerned look on his face.
"I...I missed you." Ichigo mumbled, straightening up into a proper sitting position. "I mean...without you around bothering me, everything seemed weird, wrong...incomplete...it was like there was something missing in my life." She looked up at him, brushing her tears away.
"I missed you too kitten." Kish replied, sitting down next to her. "I missed you so much, after a while I just had to see you." He frowned. "But this isn't what I was expecting to find. An Ichigo without a smile. Bunched up and crying like the world just came to an end." He held her hand and squeezed it gently. "What's been happening?"
Ichigo looked at him for a few moments, not sure how much to tell him. Eventually she replied, "it's Aoyama-san..." She then gave him a shorter version of what had transpired earlier that day, leaving out the bits about Kalaa. She just wasn't ready to tell him that story yet.
Kish's eyes narrowed in anger. "He thought you were cheating on him, so he beat you?" He clenched his fists, controlling his desire to chase down that miserable human and break all his bones. "I knew it! I should have worked harder to stop him from hurting you."
"Kish, it isn't your fault..." Ichigo shook her head. "Whatever happened, he's out of my life now." She shivered.
"Are you cold?" Kish asked in concern.
"Yes." Ichigo replied quietly.
"I'll get you home." Kish touched her arm and warped her to her apartment, a snug little home not far from her parent's place. (a/n this is ten years after the events of TMM, so Ichigo and the Mews are all 24-ish)
"Thanks Kish." Ichigo looked at the golden-eyed alien. "Um..."
"...Yeah?"
"There's a party downtown in a week...would you come with me?"
Kish's eyes opened wide. "Like...a date?"
Ichigo blushed. "No, not a date. More like a friendly outing. I'm not ready for another relationship so soon after..." Her voice trailed off.
Kish nodded. "I see, Kitten. See you in a week!" With that, he vanished. Ichigo stared at nothing for a few moments, before getting out her key and heading inside.
/The next day, 7:00 am, Kalaa's P.O.V.
"What've we go?" Azzuen asked as Kaiyo spread the records out on the table in their treehouse.
"It says here they were marked absent on several occasions without anyone knowing why, and were spotted off school premises in areas like Tokyo Tower and the park." Kaiyo replied, his eyes scanning the paper.
Kalaa pointed to Lettuce's permanent record. "It says here that Lettuce and mom skipped classes and days more than any other kid in the school."
Melina bit her lip. "Okay, so they constantly skipped school at random intervals to fight Chimera Animals. That doesn't tell us much about the whole alien attack thing."
"I think the only place we can get that kind of data is in Ryou's computer in Cafe Mew Mew." Azzuen slipped in darkly. "And I don't think he'd leave it unguarded."
"The best hope we have is for some of us to keep him and Alaska-san busy while one or two of us sneak in and copy all the data on Project Mew Mew."
"Will we be able to get mew forms too?" Melina asked, pointing to herself and Azzuen.
"Maybe." Kaiyo replied.
"So when are we gonna pull this off?" Azzuen asked.
"At about 11:00." Kalaa answered, her mind going over several different planes. "It'll be busiest then. Melina, Azzuen, do everything you can to keep Ryou busy. Anything will do. Meanwhile, Kaiyo can slip into the basement and open a window for me to get through. Then we can get to the computer and copy the data and get out of there." She placed a set of waki-talkies on the table. "Kaiyo will tell you with this when we're done. And remember, keep away from Lettuce-san and Zakuro-san, or they'll recognize you."
Her friends nodded tensely. "What do we do until then?" Melina asked.
"We're going to chase down any news reports about the Mew Mews or their battles." Kalaa replied. "Any information will do."
"I'll get a TV." Kaiyo said, climbing down the ladder. After a while he returned. Azzuen gave it a few whacks and it got started.
"BREAKING NEWS! TOKYO IN DANGER! WE ARE UNDER ATTACK BY EXTRA-TERESTRIAL BEINGS! OUR ONLY HOPE LIES IN FIVE TEENAGERS...THE MEW MEWS!"
Kalaa gawked at the screen. Whatever she had been expecting, this wasn't it.
End chapter
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