Samara: Ok, Mew Chi is trapped with in her subconsious mind as I control her body, so I'll be talking for her

(Mew Chi's voice heard coming from head)

Mew Chi: Let me out you baka neko!!

Samara: No!

Kish: Where's the authoress?

Mew Chi: In my head!

Samara: Shut up you!

Mew Chi: Let me out or no story!

Kish: but what about me and Ichigo? (pouts)

Mew Chi: Samara! Let me out NOW!!!

Samara: Fine, fine, I'll go back in your head.

Mew Chi: (now in control) I can finally start the story!

I bet you're all wondering how it's going with Taruto, well read this chapter to find out. This is starting from the beginning of the day from last chapter.

Taruto awoke on a couch, he slowly opened his eyes to see Pudding standing over him.

"Taru-Taru! You're awake, Na No Da" Pudding said happily.

Taruto now wide awake yelled" I told you to stop calling me that!"

"You're late for breakfast" she said happily, unphased by his yelling.

He was glaring at her as he sat up, "Why is she always so happy?! It's so annoying" he thought to himself.

Just then a voice in his head said "Oh, you know you like her"

He mentally yelled at the voice in his head "No I do not, I want to make her cry!"

"No you don't, you'd be sad if she cried." the voice said, mocking him.

He shook his thoughts away to still find Pudding staring at him "Are you ok, Taru-Taru?" she asked him.

"Huh, yeah, I'm fine" he mumbled "I'm just mad at Pai"

"Why" Pudding asked, as if not understanding what had happened yesterday.

"He lied to me and Kish, I always knew he was the most loyal to Deep Blue, but I didn't think he would lie to us for so long, or even lie to us at all, we all thought Deep Blue was dead, but Pai knew, he knew and he kept it a secret. Kish and I recently found out that Deep Blue has a large group of followers who knew about him being alive, and when Deep Blue was alive he tried to break the old hag's spirit, so he could control her, so he could use her to destroy the world" Tart said solemnly.

Pudding was now near tears. "That's what happened to Ichigo onee-chan?"

Taruto nodded, but then saw that Pudding was about to cry. "No, don't cry, Deep Blue is dead, don't cry" he said to her frantically. "Wait, I always wanted to make her cry, but now I'm trying to comfort her, what's happening to me, I don't like her" he thought to himself, more like tried to convince himself.

Pudding hugged him "Taruto you're so nice" she said now just as happy as she was before.

"Please stop hugging me" Taruto said, the air being squeezed out of him.

Pudding pulled away, and then her little sister came.

"Pudding, hurry and eat, we want to start decorating!" she said in a small whine.

"Ok, coming" Pudding said happily, grabbing Taruto by the arm and bringing him to the kitchen. He saw a few little kids sitting at the table.

"Hi" they all cried in unison.

(A/N: Sorry, I don't know the names of Pudding's siblings)

One f them saw Taruto and laughed "Why does he have such big ears" the little boy snickered.

"Well, why do you have such small ears?"Taruto replied to the little boy mockingly. The boy didn't know how to respond to that, he just returned to eating his breakfast.

Pudding said to them sternly "Don't be mean to people because they're different"

"Sorry Pudding" they all said hanging their heads.

"Good, now let's decorate!" she said happily.

"Decorate, for what?" Taruto asked. Everyone gasped.

"For Christmas" Pudding said.

"What-mas" Taruto asked.

"You've never heard of Christmas!?" Pudding's little sister gasped, as the others stared at him wide-eyed. Taruto felt as if he just said something extremely bad, he began to sweat. "What are they gonna do to me? Is it so bad that I dont know about Christmas? Will they sacrifice me? Have I disgraced their culture?" He began to twitch.

Finally Pudding exclaimed happily "Christmas is a time of presents, and happiness, and fun, and candy, and lights and sharing, and-"(The list goes on) A few minutes later after Pudding explained her list of Christmas Taruto was the one staring at her wide eyed. All that went through his head at that moment was "What the heck..."

Pudding once again said happily "With that in mind, let's get started" All of her siblings cheered as they ran to the attic and came back with a few large boxes carried on their shoulders. They began to unpack all of the boxes quickly, like a machine, or elves, little smiling elves. Taruto was still thinking "Why are they so excited over Christmas?"

"Come on Taru-Taru, Decorating is fun!" she said as she pulled him by the arm in to the fray of red and green tinsel and lights and other various decorations.

"What am I supposed to do?" he asked

Pudding thought "Oh, I know! You can hang lights around the house, you can put them up high since you can fly!" she said finally as she dumped a large chain of lights attached to a wire in to his arms. He flew upwards and hung all the lights aroung the house, attaching them to the ceiling.

"Good job Taru-Taru!" Pudding exclaimed.

He turned his head to see her watching him "I told you to stop calling me-" he hit a wall in front of him before he could finish.

"Taruto, are you okay" Pudding asked coming looking up at Taruto, his face against the wall. Taruto peeled himself away from it and looked around checking to see if anyone else saw his not so graceful move.

"I'm fine" he mumbled as he hung up the last of the lights and flew back to the ground.

"That's good" Pudding said relieved. They then heard snickering from the other room. Then they saw a few heads poke from around the wall, voices saying,

"Pudding and Taruto sitting in a Christmas Tree" the kids sang

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G" Pudding's little sister sang out. As Taruto heard this his face turned extremely red. Was he mad, or was he just blushing, or both. Whatever it was he glared at them and they ducked back in to the other room. Pudding just smiled, as always she never paid attention to yelling or mocking.

Pudding noticed how embarrassed Taruto was, so she tried to change the atmosphere by finally saying "So, do you think Kish went back to the ship"

"Probably not, after he found out how Pai was part of Deep Blue's plan, he probably was too mad to go back. He probably isn't very mad about the lying part, but the hurting Ichigo part. It's sickening how obsessed he is with that old hag" Taruto said, annoyed.

Pudding then said "Oh, I think it's nice"

Taruto looked at her smiling face "Why? It's just creepy, and after she rejected him so many times, why did he still love her?"

Pudding pondered this thought. "It's nice how in love he is with her, and I guess that's why he kept trying, because he loved her so much"

Taruto looked at her "Well, I just wonder where Kish is staying, if he didn't go back to the ship"

"I bet Ichigo knows!" she said as she went to the phone. She left him alone for that second, and before he knew it, he was being tackled by her siblings, who were armed with some shiny paper.

"Hey, get away from-" They wrapped his head on the shiny paper. They were laughing, very hard. Taruto could hear Pudding on the phone.

He tried to ask for help, but it was pretty hard to hear him, his voice muffled by the wrapping paper.

"Taruto, you look so funny" Pudding said, then she said bye to Ichigo who was on the other end of the phone.

He struggled trying to get out of his cocoon of wrapping paper, feeling pitiful for having been beaten by a few kids. Pudding pulled the wrapping paper off his head. allowing him to talk.

"Let me at 'em! They are gonna pay!" he said angrily.

Pudding laughed. "They were only having a little fun"

Taruto pulled the rest of the paper off of him..

"Also, Kish is at Ichigo's" she said.

"How do you know, I didn't hear you ask her." Taruto replied.

Pudding smiled "But I could tell because she sounded happy"

Taruto looked at her confused "Well, she could have been happy about something else"

Pudding then frowned a little "Ichigo hasn't been happy a lot lately, although she often smiles, the smile never reached her eyes"

"What do you mean?" Taruto asked.

"Just because she would make a smile with her lips, her eyes always seemed so sad, and her voice always seemed so depressed" Pudding said frowning. Taruto frowned too. But then her expression lightened a little.

"But, she seemed really happy on the phone, and she always seems happy when she sees Kish, so I know that Kish is staying with her." Pudding said.

"You humans are wierd" he said semi-jokingly.

"You aliens are weird" she said back, but she heard a crash from the room next door, so she ran in to the next room. Taruto followed. They ran in to the next room to fing Pudding's siblings covered in fake snow, the box it was in was toppled over. Pudding began to laugh, and her siblings also happy she wasn't mad began to laugh too.

Taruto gave a slight smile, seeing her so happy. But he was also wondering "How could she be so sad, but so happy so quickly? What if it's the same as Ichigo, does she really mean it when she smiles, or is it a lie?" His eyes stung "Is she really happy?" He shook his head. "She couldn't hide that sadness so well, she is happy" he tried to convince himself. But he again heard the voice in his head.

"You hide your love for her so well, so she could be easily hiding her true feelings" it said.

"Shut up, I don't like her" Taruto thought, not totally beleiving himself.

"She may smile, but have you ever checked if she was really smiling, or do you not pay attention to what her eyes say." the voice asked him.

"I guess not, but that's absurd, if she smiles she's happy, if she frowns she's sad! Humans shouldn't be so hard to understand" Taruto thought.

He shook away his thoughts. Pudding was scooping up the fake snow from the ground and putting it in the box, with a smile on her face as always. Taruto began to pick up some of the snow too. His thoughts kept echoing through his head, no matter how hard he tried to get rid of them, they lingered.

"I know, I'll just ask her" he thought to himself.

"Pudding?"

"yeah?" she lifted her head meeting his gaze.

"Are you...Happy?" he asked her.

"Yeah, why? should I be sad?" she asked smiling.

"Huh, no, just wondering?" Taruto said as he continued to pick up the snow.

"Ok" Pudding said. Finally the snow was all picked up, and it was getting dark.

"It's eight, I need to put my brothers and sister to bed" she said as she got up and led her siblings to their rooms. A few minutes later she came back. Taruto was looking around him, at the house that just hours before looked like any regular house, which was now decorated with green, red and gold. It looked so different, so pretty. He turned to see Pudding.

"Pudding, why is everyone so excited about Christmas?" he asked.

"Because it's a magical time" she said, gazing upon the beautiful colors around her house.

"What's so magical about it?" he asked.

"Because, it snows and everyone is happy. People exchange gifts between their friends and family, and the world is so pretty" she said, a dazed tone in her voice.

"Sounds nice" Taruto said.

"It is" Pudding said back, "It's late, good night Taru-Taru" she said as she headed to her room.

"I told you..." Taruto was about to yell, but just went to the couch and tried to close his eyes and sleep, but he couldn't. His thoughts still haunted him. They bothered him so much, he just couldnt sleep. He lay awake for a while, in the silence, but he soon heard a small noise coming from somewhere in the house. A small noise, it sounded like whimpering. He sat up.

"What's that?" he thought. He stood up, trying to follow the noise. It got louder and louder as he headed up the stairs and down the upstairs hallway, closer to the room at the end of the hall. He stood outside the door, the noise he could clearly hear now was crying. He opened the door a crack, but it made a creekaing noise. He saw Pudding, crying, looking at a picture in her hands. She turned her head to see Taruto's brown eye looking at her through the door.

She tried to wipe away her tears before she said "Taruto, I thought you were asleep" she said, her voice cracked from her crying. Taruto opened the door more.

"Pudding, were you crying?" he asked, although he already knew she was, it was obvious from her tear stained face.

"No, it's nothing" she said, as she tried to smile, but it did not reach her eyes.

"Yes you were" Taruto said "Why?"

Pudding shook her head "It's nothing"

"You barely ever cry, so it must be something" he said, now serious. He saw the picture in her hands, there was a woman in it, that looked a little bit like Pudding, just older. "Who's that?" he asked pointing to the picture.

Pudding turned her head, looking at the picture also, "That's my mom" she said, tears began to flow again.

Taruto approached the crying girl "Are you sad because of her?"

Pudding shook her head "It wasn't her fault" she said, still crying. "She just couldn't stay here"

"what do you mean?" Taruto asked.

"She was really sick, there was nothing the doctors could do" Pudding said sobbing.

"oh" Taruto said sadly, his large ears hanging low. Pudding's head was hanging, as she cried.

"Are you sad, even when you smile?" he asked her.

She looked up at him "Sometimes"

Taruto began to cry silent tears. "And you hide it?" he asked.

"I guess so, I just don't want to make people around me sad" she said.

What Taruto did next surprised him. She hugged her, as he said "Don't cry" over and over again. Pudding's head was resting on his shoulder.

"Thank you Taru-Ta-...Taruto" she corrected herself. Her crying died down.

He let go of her "You can call me Taru-Taru if you want" he said to her, smiling.

She smiled back to him, and that smile reached her eyes.

Mew Chi: oh that was a cute chapter.

Kish: (hic) (sob)

Mew Chi: Are you crying?!

Kish: NO!!! I just have something in my eye.

Mew Chi: sure you do, you over emotional alien.

Kish: I'm not over emotional, it was just so sad

Taruto: I don't like her! Why are you putting me and her together?

Samara: You do too like her! I can sense it in your aura.

Kish: WTF...

Mew Chi: Samara has the power to sense emotions just by being around people because of their auras.

Taruto: What...no...I just...urg.

Mew Chi: HA! You do like her!

Pudding: YAY!! (hugs taruto)

Taruto: I'm going to kill that cat demon.

Samara: Silly alien, you can't kill a demon.