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Kish teleported into the main hall of his ship and stood with his back against a wall. "Pai," Kish called out weakly as he held one hand to the wound on his side and the other to his missing ear. A few minutes passed before Pai came into the room.
Pai took one look at Kish and sighed in annoyance. Glaring at Kish, Pai asked, "You want me to heal you, don't you?" Pai smiled as Kish collapsed on the ground. Kish mumbled something about how wolves have no sense of humor as Pai grunted with slight amusement before walking to stand over Kish. "Maybe this will teach you not to mess with the human females," Pai suggested before Kish grabbed Pai's ankle and growled low in his throat, obviously angry at the suggestion. The grip wasn't very strong, indicating that Kish was weak from both pain and loss of blood.
"Please, just heal me," Kish said softly, the room spinning in his eyes. Pai thought about it and decided that Kish needed help.
"Fine, I'll get healing then," Pai said with mild anger as he reached down and put his hand near the wound on Kish's side. Kish gritted his teeth against the pain as Pai put two of his fingers into the bleeding hole and said with disbelief, "If I didn't know any better, the object that caused this injury was a dagger, the type of which is meant to cause a slow, painful death."
Kish only grunted his response. Pai closed his eyes and started to transfer some of his energy into the wound, accelerating Kish's body's healing process and therefore healing the wound. After a few minutes, Pai took out his fingers and watched as the bloody hole closed and left a slight scar on his skin. "Better to have a scar then to have a messed up kidney," Pai commented as he looked at Kish's head and laughed harshly. Kish touched the side of his head to discover that half of his ear had reformed.
"Re-grow it completely," Kish demanded as Pai continued to laugh. When he finally was done laughing, Pai wiped some laugh introduced tears out of his eyes and placed his hands gently on each side of Kish's head. Pai closed his eyes again and transferred a huge amount of energy this time, re-growing not only the skin of the ear, but also the bone and cartilage. After ten minutes, Pai took his hands off Kish's head before sitting down, sweating and panting hard. Kish held out his hand before a psi sword appeared in it, which he used to look at himself in the sword's reflective metal.
"Nice one Pai," Kish complemented as he admired his new ear. It was exactly like the old one, which was good in Kish's mind. Pai stood up, now drenched in sweat, and walked to his room to sleep. Pai started to softly curse at Kish's foolish behavior as he went into his room. Kish heard the comments and shrugged as he said softly, "I hope that doesn't happen again…otherwise, I don't think Pai will heal me."
Kish looked at the room where he was at the moment. It was the main meeting room, with the floor covered with a thick red carpet and the walls painted a golden color. Several paintings of their god, Deep Blue, were hanging on the walls. Kish didn't pay any attention to the paintings, instead looking at the door of his room. He slowly walked to it and noticed that some of the food he had given Ichigo a few days ago were laying on the floor. Frowning, Kish picked up a piece of the hard food and flipped it into his mouth.
A sudden surge of energy burst though Kish, and any weariness that he may have had earlier was now gone. "Ichigo…don't tell me you didn't eat my special medicine," Kish said sadly to himself as he picked up more of the food. "Only I know how to make the special food, and it really is the strongest vitamin ever created. I gave it to you hoping that it would cure your soreness, but I guess I was wrong." Kish sighed and carried the food into his room, where he sat in the middle of his bed before he began to eat some of the medicine. After eating thirty of the surprisingly tangy medicine pellets, Kish felt like he was his normal self.
"Ah, much better. Now, I think I'll go pay Ichigo a visit and get her to eat some of these medicine pellets." Kish said with a smile as he picked up the rest of the pellets and put them in a small, brown bag. Kish put the bag in his pocket as he teleported to a tree near Ichigo's house. He looked around and cursed as he saw Lettuce standing almost ten meters behind him.
Lettuce was transformed into her mew self and had a stunned look on her face, but she quickly recovered as she yelled out, "Lettuce rush!" Kish was thrown into a tree when the tidal wave hit him.
"What you did was wrong Kish," Lettuce yelled in a determined voice as Kish carefully knocked some of the water out of his ear. "From now on, Ichigo will be guarded around the clock by one or two of us, so you might as well stay away or you will be attacked." Lettuce cried out, stunning Kish with the amount of sadness in her voice.
Kish looked at Lettuce and noticed that a single tear was going down her face. "Then why are you so sad?" Kish asked mildly, his thoughts on how he was going to have to get tricky to avoid detection in the future.
Lettuce sighed and said as she wiped the tear from her face, "I'm sad because I know what will happen to you if Zakuro gets her hands on you. She has told all of us what she will do if she gets you…and none of them involve you living afterwards."
That brought out a nervous laugh from Kish, but his mouth was filled with water when Lettuce attacked him again with another tidal wave. "Kish, I don't like you, but I don't want anyone to die…even you," Lettuce softly said as Kish floated into the sky and away from both Lettuce and Ichigo's house. As he spit out the salty tasting water at a bird who flew too close to him, Kish glanced down to see Lettuce watching him. After a little while, Lettuce went into Ichigo's house.
"Damn, I guess I'll have to try again later…" Kish started to say as he spotted a purple energy whip coming towards his ankle. Somehow, Kish was prepared for it and moved his foot in time so that the wipe missed and fell back to the ground. "Nice try wolf, but I'm not easy like you. Maybe some other time," Kish called out and smiled when he heard an angry howl.
Kish knew that he shouldn't try and push his luck, but it was fun to gloat at other people. Fortunately, Kish decided that it would probably be bad for his health if he continued to float around, so he teleported back to his ship to wait for tomorrow.
"That green haired girl wasn't kidding when she said Ichigo would be guarded at all times," Kish mumbled to himself as he watched Ichigo walk to school with Lettuce. He had been secretly following Ichigo for the past few days, and this was the schedule: Lettuce would walk with Ichigo to school, Pudding would be with Ichigo when she walked to work, and Mint was with Ichigo when she went home at night.
While Kish was sure he could handle Pudding, Mint, or even Lettuce alone, he felt unsure of how he would do against Zakuro. She's like a damn ghost, Kish thought. She appeared when ever Kish got within a few hundred meters from Ichigo. There would be a slight rustling sound before the attack…that was the only clue that she gave before it was too late.
It had been pure luck that all the times that he ran into Zakuro he didn't get caught or injured. Her anger got the better of her so that she didn't wait to silently get close to Kish, trying instead to attack Kish from behind. She didn't seem to know that Kish's ears could detect the faintest of sounds and allowed him to get out of the way before she could grab him.
Kish floated above a white and puffy cloud while he waited for Ichigo to get done with school. He had watched with growing grief as Ichigo's physical condition didn't seem to get any better. Kish was going to have to give her the medicine soon, that much was certain to him. What bothered him though was the fact that he might get killed while trying to deliver it to her. "What's life without a few risks?" Kish asked himself in order to calm his rapid heartbeat. The scar on his side was a silent reminder to how one moment of inattention could lead to his death.
When Ichigo was done with school, Kish watched as the young girl, Pudding, came over to Ichigo and the two of them began to walk to work. Pudding was wearing her mew outfit and Ichigo was wearing her school uniform. Pudding walked a few meters in front of Ichigo, so she couldn't see Ichigo without turning around. Her monkey tail swished from side to side, showing she didn't expect any trouble. "Now or never," Kish said softly as he teleported behind Ichigo. Kish floated over so he was almost touching her back, but before he could say anything, something…or rather someone, tackled him into some bushes.
The smell of lavender filled Kish's nose as he looked into Zakuro's light purplish eyes. A hungry look was in them as she licked her lips and said, "I finally got you..." She forced his hands to the ground and was also sitting on his stomach so he couldn't move his legs. Their faces were no more then a couple of inches apart.
Kish's eyes narrowed as she slowly brought his hands together and wrapped them with her energy whip. Kish would have broken free if it wasn't for the fact that he had underestimated her strength and realized that he was now was at the mercy of Zakuro. "Now then…what to do, what to do…" Zakuro asked herself as an evil smile spread across her face. "Ryou did say bring you back alive so he could study your teleporting technique, but I've got the feeling that he may want to torture you himself." She hesitated and added with a grin, "good thing he promised that I get first crack at you, so I think I'll take you to him before I begin."
It came as a nasty surprise to Kish when Zakuro took out another energy whip and tied up his legs. "Well wolf girl, I guess you win this time," Kish said before sighing in false defeat as she lifted him off the ground like a sack of grain and started to carry him towards Café Mew Mew.
Kish looked at Zakuo's wolf ears and saw them twitch with annoyance. "You just don't know when to shut up do you, bastard?" she asked mildly as her tail wagged slowly side to side. Kish didn't know what that meant, but it probably wasn't good. Kish tried to break free of his bonds, but it was pointless. They were just too strong for him to break.
After they arrived at the café, Zakuro dropped Kish by the entrance as she went inside to get Ryou. Kish was able to sit up straight when the doors opened and both Ryou and Zakuro came out to look at Kish. "Well done Zakuro," Ryou said as his hands slightly twitched with anticipation. His blue eyes seemed as hard and cold as ice.
Kish smiled at the look and said in a childish voice, "I'll guess this means you don't want to hug me for taking care of Ichigo." Ryou started to come forward with clenched fists, but Zakuro grabbed him by the shoulder and forced him back.
"No Ryou…Kish is mine first; you can have what's left," Zakuro growled, her eyes flashing evil thoughts. Kish had to gulp at the look.
"What's going on?" Ichigo's voice asked as she opened the door and gasped at the sight of Kish bound up with Ryou and Zakuro standing in front of him. "Kish?" Ichigo asked with confusion and slight anger.
Kish looked at his pocket and said with a calm voice, "Ichigo, please take what's in my pocket here. I think I might have just given up my life to give it to you, but if heals you, then it was worth it. The pellets will heal you, I swear it."
Ryou immediately came forward and searched Kish's pocket and took out the small brown bag. "It's probably some sort of poison," Ryou said angerly as he forced open Kish's mouth. "Let's test it," he said as he put one of the pellets in Kish's mouth and forced him to swallow it. Kish felt a sudden surge of strength and broke the bonds holding him. In a blink of an eye, he grabbed Ryou by the throat and lifted him off the ground.
"Thanks for the help boy," Kish said in a cheerful voice as he heard Zakuro growl in anger. "Now, now wolf, stay back or your master will be hurt," Kish calmly said to Zakuro, causing her to step back, but her eye's were filled with such hatred that it caused Kish to instantly regret his words.
"Ichigo, come here," Kish commanded as he slightly tightened his grip on Ryou's throat. Ryou coughed and struggled against the grip, but couldn't break free of it. Ichigo hesitantly came forward as Kish pulled out some of the medicine pellets. "Now, eat it," Kish commanded again. Ichigo shut her eyes and ate the pellets.
Almost instantly, Ichigo opened her eyes and exclaimed, "I feel great!" Kish let go of Ryou, who fell to his knees and started to cough. Zakuro started to come forward, but Kish picked up Ryou by the back of his shirt and threw him at Zakuro and knocked her off her feet, with Ryou landing on top of Zakuro.
"I will earn your trust Ichigo, but I think I will give you some time alone..." Kish said as he kissed a stunned Ichigo passionately on the lips and put the bag in her hands. He released her from the kiss as Ryou got off of Zakuro. When Kish looked at Zakuro, her face was filled with a wild hatred. Zakuro snarled as she started to pull out her whip to attack Kish. "Bye," Kish laughed as he teleported away, narrowly being missed by the energy whip.
If you noticed any words that need spaces between them, it wasn't done on purpose. My computer seems to randomly eliminate spaces for some reason, and I spent an hour trying to fix it to no avail. On a different note, please review, thanks!