School Chapter 3:

Meeting the Friends

Kisshu teleported Ichigo back home, where they found Sakura with a bunch of bags. She looked up as she heard the teleportation, then said, "Good, you're back. Kisshu, I bought you a bunch of clothes. I just have to wash them, k?"

"Okay, thanks," Kisshu said. "This is really nice of you."

Sakura smiled and said, "You're welcome. I think we should go shoes shopping another time, though."

"I already have boots," Kisshu said, puzzled.

"I know, but part of the school uniform is different shoes," Sakura said. "You can wear the boots outside of school, though."

Kisshu wasn't looking very happy with that idea. "It's not that bad," Ichigo said. "And it's only for six hours five days a week. After school you can wear what you like."

Kisshu sighed. "If you say so," he said. "Hey, do your friends know about you being a Mew?"

"No, because I couldn't talk about it at school," Ichigo said. "I trust them, I just don't trust the others at school."

"If we're going to be together, you might want to tell them," Kisshu said. "It's going to be hard if they don't know, and I doubt you like keeping this from them."

"Okay, I think I'll see if they can come over," Ichigo said. "I don't particularly like the idea of telling them over the phone."

"Good idea," Kisshu said.

Ichigo took out her cell phone, and scrolled through her contacts, pressing Send when she reached Miwa's number. She waited as it rang twice, and then heard, "Ichigo? What's up?"

"I have something important to tell you and Moe, can you come over?" Ichigo asked.

"Sure, I've been looking for an excuse to get out anyways," Miwa said.

"Thanks," Ichigo said. "I'll call Moe."

"K, see you soon," Miwa said, and hung up.

Ichigo went through her contacts again, then pressed Send at Moe's number. This time it only rung once before Moe said, "PLEASE tell me you've got some excuse to get me out of baby-sitting my cousin! He's a terror!"

"Tell your aunt or whoever that I've got some really important news that you need to come over to hear," Ichigo said. "I need you to come; Miwa's on her way too."

"YAY! I'm on it," Moe said, and hung up.

Ichigo snapped her phone shut, and said, "They should be here soon."

"Good," Kisshu said. "I hope they don't beat me up, though."

"I won't let them, don't worry," Ichigo said with a smile.

Ten minutes later, the doorbell rang, and Ichigo opened it. Miwa was standing there, and she asked, "Where's Moe?"

"Trying to get out of baby-sitting," Ichigo said. "She said she'd be here soon. Come in."

Miwa came into the front hall and took her shoes off, then said, "It's been a while since I've been here."

"Yeah, it's been a while since we've gotten together," Ichigo said.

The doorbell rang again, and Ichigo opened it to find Moe, who was a bit out of breath. "Thanks for saving me," Moe said. "Although I did make it sound like someone was dying to get out of baby-sitting the terror."

"Well, at least you made it," Ichigo said. "Come up to my room, this is going to take some explaining."

"K," Moe and Miwa said, following Ichigo up to her room. They followed her in- and looked shocked, because Kisshu was sitting on Ichigo's bed.

Kisshu got up when he saw them, and said, "Hi, it's nice to meet you. I'm Kisshu."

"Um- hi," Miwa said. Then she elbowed Moe, who snapped out of staring at Kisshu, glared briefly at Miwa, and said, "Hi, I'm Moe, and the weirdo who just elbowed me is Miwa."

"I'm not a weirdo," Miwa said. "Ichigo, what did you have to tell us?"

"I'm Mew Ichigo," Ichigo said.

Her friends' jaws dropped, and Miwa finally said, "I suppose there's some reason you didn't tell us?"

"Yes, we were at school," Ichigo said. "You'd be beating up a lot more people if they found out about me, mainly because telling people would most likely get me killed. So you can't tell your families either, k?"

"They think we're insane anyways, we won't tell, even if we thought they'd believe us," Moe said. "So is there more to this?"

"Yep," Ichigo said. "The Mews and aliens formed a truce about six months ago, and now they're back to live with us! And Kisshu's my boyfriend, so don't beat him up, k?"

"Isn't that what you said about the last one?" Miwa asked, giving Kisshu a look that made him nervous.

"I never told you that you couldn't beat up Aoyama," Ichigo said. "And Kisshu's not like that anyways."

"He'd better not be," Miwa said. "We beat up anyone who hurts Ichigo- and we're not going to care if you have weapons, either."

"I understand, and I'll never hurt Ichigo," Kisshu said. "So please don't eat me. You two look like hungry wolves."

Ichigo giggled, and Moe and Miwa joined in. Kisshu looked puzzled. "What's so funny?" he asked.

"Hungry wolves?" Miwa gasped. "That's hilarious!"

It took a while for the girls to calm down, but when they did, Ichigo said, "Kisshu's going to be going to our school, so you guys might have to protect him too."

"Why me?" Kisshu asked.

"Fan girls," Moe, Ichigo and Miwa chorused.

Ichigo continued, "The girls at our school go for hot guys, and since you're totally hot, they're most likely going to try to get you to love them, like they did with the treehugger. They're mostly idiots, and they can get pretty competitive. And they're going to try every method under the sun to get me away from you."

"That'll never work," Kisshu said. "Besides, they're all human, and they'd be scared if they found out about me. You're not scared, so I'll only ever love you."

"I'm glad," Ichigo said softly. "I really missed you."

"I'm sorry I didn't come back sooner, but I thought you'd be happy with the treehugger," Kisshu said. "I guess I was wrong."

"The treehugger?" Miwa asked.

"Aoyama," Ichigo said.

"I prefer to call him Aoyuck," Moe said.

Kisshu laughed. "That's a good one," he said. "I think I'll switch to that as well."

"We could all call him that," Ichigo suggested. "I just hope he doesn't reveal our secret when we go back in September."

"If he does, he's going to get beaten to within an inch of his miserable life, and we'll make sure to cripple him so he'll never do kendo again," Miwa said.

"Can I help?" Kisshu asked. "Koneko-chan told me I can't kill him, but beating him to a pulp sounds fun too."

"Unfortunately, you can only do that if he does something to one of us," Ichigo said. "The principal gives Moe and Miwa free rein, but with two rules. No killing people, and they have to have a reason, even if it's just someone calling me ugly or something. I assume the same rules will apply to you."

Kisshu sighed. "Oh well…" he said.

"Yeah, it's a shame," Miwa said. "He should have died, but we didn't quite get that far. But the upside was that he had to miss the end-of-the-year kendo tournament, and we got to gloat about his misery."

"That does sound fun," Kisshu said. "But it's too bad I can't kill him. He tried to kill me a LOT while I was still fighting the Mews."

"How'd he do that?" Moe asked.

"Aoyama was the Blue Knight," Ichigo said. "And then it turned out he was actually the guy behind the alien attacks, and we all had quite the time defeating him. Yet another reason I missed Kisshu so much; he died in that battle, and I was actually dead too when he left, so I didn't get to say goodbye."

"You died too?" Miwa asked. "Then why are you both still alive?"

"Mew Aqua," Kisshu said. "It brought me and everyone else who died back to life. Ichigo died saving Aoyuck's life, which really burns me up, because he dumped her afterwards. Jerk."

"He's about to go down again," Moe said. "We'll leave you two alone, we'll be writing his death threat if you need us for some reason."

"PLEASE don't get arrested," Ichigo begged. "What if he recognizes your handwriting?"

"I've got an idea," Kisshu said. "Why don't I write, and you tell me what to say?"

"Okay!" Moe said happily. "Ichigo, do you have any paper?"

"It's on my desk," Ichigo said.

Moe went over and found a sheet of writing paper, then got a pen and said, "Kisshu, here." She handed him the paper and pen, and he took them to the desk.

"What should it say?" Kisshu asked.

Miwa and Moe thought, then Miwa said, "Aoyama Masaya, you have committed a grave offense on a fellow human being. You now have one week to live. Use it wisely."

Kisshu burst out laughing. "That's great!" he said, and started writing. A few minutes later, he had finished, and Miwa looked it over.

"Great," she said. "Ichigo, do you have any envelopes and stamps?"

"I have envelopes, not stamps," Ichigo said. "Envelopes are in the top drawer of my desk. I can ask my mom about stamps."

"Don't bother, we'll go get some at the post office," Miwa said. She took an envelope out of Ichigo's desk, and neatly tucked the death threat into it, then sealed it. "We'll take this to the post office and send it out," she said. "Thanks Kisshu!"

"I was happy to help," Kisshu said with a grin.

Moe and Miwa grinned back, and left Ichigo and Kisshu alone.

This ought to be interesting…. Review and tell me what you think!