OK, I finally am updating this fic! So, taking off where I'd left you guys, here's the next, beautiful chapter! Also, Kish gets to meet the Momomiyas! RxR!
"Are you two up, sleepyheads?!" so close...I was so close to her. My arms held her, as if she were the most important thing in the world to me. I had scooped her over to my side of the bed, and had enclosed her within my arms. I knew she wouldn't try and escape, but the warmth she gave me was soothing. My muscles ached some, from the battle with my rival, and I felt grumpy.
Coincidentally, Gramps poking me consistently, while chuckling in amusement, hadn't helped much at all. It was then that I realized that my arms were empty, lying sprawled across the bed sheets.
"Ngh...huh?" having not enough strength to fully open my eyes to the dawn that flooded through the thin white curtains, my eyes remained half-lidded, and my voice remained gruff. "Gramps, where's Ichigo?" finally fully realizing why the bed felt so empty, and why it felt so cold, I twisted and turned my head in a different number of directions, blankly in search of my princess.
"She and the other two went down to join us for breakfast. Ichigo said you might feel kind of sore for a while, from training so diligently last night, so we let you sleep in." shrugging nonchalantly in the incoming sunlight, Gramps simply turned on his heel and plodded off.
Thus, as he did this, I realized that it was Saturday. My reasoning being that Gramps never wore his slippers during the week. He hadn't worn them yesterday either, so I assumed that yesterday had been Friday.
"Oh, I'll be right down then." muttering what seemed, even to me, to be incoherent grumbles of weariness, I slowly stalked to my feet, willing my body to wake up. Afterwards, I swiftly snatched up a random black button up and blue jeans from my drawer, along with fresh boxers and socks, before finally heading to the bath, located just outside my room.
It had only been, however, when I had met eyes with my princess, that I had fully awakened to full awareness. Right then I could feel it...Gold met chocolate, and suddenly I was filled with a spark of energy.
So, as calmly as I could possibly manage, I silently took my seat at the table, leaning over and kissing her lovingly on her cheek. Throughout the bond, I could sense the warm flutters rise from within her stomach.
"You two love birds have a room! DON'T ACT LIKE THAT AT THE TABLE~!" shooting the two a look of childish pestering, Tart went back to calmly sipping his juice, as Pudding ooed and ahhed at the couple.
Meanwhile, Pai sent Tart an annoyed sort of look that clearly shut him up. It was one of 'those' looks. Something along the lines of don't mess around! You're acting like such a child!
As he did this, Lettuce couldn't stop blushing and staring up at him, as she nibbled intently on her strip of ham.
"Good morning, Kish." smiling in that loving warmth that I've come to love and cherish even more, Ichigo leaned over and returned my kiss with a peck on the lips. It was short, yeah, but it lingered, none the less.
Through the bond, her love surged through me, and left me immobilized, for what seemed like forever.
"If you guys are going back to earth, then I wanna go too!" bouncing in untamed, wild excitement, Harmony couldn't seem to sit still, let alone focus on eating her meal.
I'd been about to stop her, saying that no, she couldn't come, because this was an important family reunion, when Gramps, in all his dark humor and amusement, piped up to answer her.
"Only if you can finish all of that breakfast that's sitting there on your plate." motioning lightly with his fork, never taking his eyes from my own, it seemed as though Harmony had settled down, completely content with the response as she went to town on her food.
Though, Gramps and I remained sitting, totally silent. It was obvious that he was toying with me, just by the look in his eyes. If looks could kill, my anger could have KO'd him. However, that dark humor of his might have strangled me.
...
"Well, we should be going then...We'll see you guys Sunday night." as I stood there, a pleasant smile stretched across my lips, my arm having wrapped instinctively around Ichigo's waist, holding her close to myself, I continued to wave.
By now, the goodbyes had become so long that my arm had begun to feel as though it were robotic, waving back, then forth, back, then forth, for a full five minutes. Ichigo, on the other hand, had simply hugged Gramps and Grams before walking over to me, wrapping around me once more.
"By Gramps, by Grams!" Harmony, who had, for no apparent reason, latched onto Ichigo's wrist, continued in her frantic, tireless waving and chanting of hearty goodbyes.
This had drawn on for nearly an entire eternity, and I was now totally worn and bored. What were we even waiting on, anyways?!
As if having heard my thoughts, the object of my ever growing impatience appeared. Though, as I stared angrily before me, at the two tots that had FINALLY decided to grace us with their presence, I couldn't help but to grin some and shoot Tart a brief look of mocking I told you so, before finally piping up.
"Now that Pudding and you have FINALLY gotten done with the restroom trip, can we leave?" raising a single brow in anticipating casualness, I watched Tart and the steam that flowed from his ears.
"S' not my fault! Pudding took forever in the bathroom, and I nearly wet myself! And then..." turning, he began to glare irritably towards the bouncing monkey girl. Who, in turn, simply grinned at him and acted as if nothing had happened. "SHE had to scrub her hands...FOR FIFTEEN WHOLE FREAKIN' MINUTES! Finally, I gave up and telaported to the bathroom in the west wing."
"Let's get going, you two." standing there, totally silent for the entire time, was Pai, whose arm had found its comfortable position on Lettuce' shoulder. He seemed irate as well, considering the string of events that had just taken place.
However, the mighty seem to fall, all too easily, at the hands of the the one they love. For, just as his anger and irritation had sparked, one calm, loving glance from the mermaid girl had been all it took for his face to morph, into someone I was quite positive wasn't Pai.
Though, having experienced a changed heart, due to love of my own accord, towards my own beloved princess, I could most definitely understand what Pai was now going through.
Although they were young, I knew that I'd need to apply that same theory to the two love bugs over there. Pudding, who was riding Tart like a horse, and poor Tart, who's face shown bright with embarrassment at the hyper monkey on his back.
"You all have a safe trip now, ya hear?!" waving after us, Grams and Gramps too embraced, both oddly happy to watch as we left. It appeared to me, that even old people still know what love is.
"Akasaka-San...still no sign of them?" leaning over the boy's shoulder was the wolf girl, and beside the boy was the bird chick. They'd not taken any notice to us yet, so we were still in the clear.
"No, I'm afraid not, Zakura-San...I can't find any one of them here on earth." shaking his head a bit, his ponytail following suit, Akasaka Keiichero sat staring at the screen of the computer, for what seemed like ages.
"Come to think of it...we haven't been attacked for awhile. It's kind of odd, how they just disappeared like that, along with the aliens. They could possibly be in danger, but I'm not sure..." the bird chick had now leaned over his shoulder as well, pondering just what could have happened to their three missing teammates.
Her face twisted in deep, concerned thought as she stared blankly at the flashing map on the computer screen.
Suddenly, however, an alarm began to sound, and a red flashing light filled the room. I was only mildly surprised, however, seeing as how I've dealt with worse.
My main amusement, however, was being privileged enough to watch in content satisfaction as all three humans jumped back, startled and confused.
Keiichero was the first to calm his jumping reflexes, sighing heavily. Soon, a look of relief spread across his face as he turned from the screen, to stare calmly at the two remaining mews.
"Well, they're back." with that, he stood silently and pointed in our general direction, with the two mews soon following his gaze.
"Well, I guess they really missed you, Ichigo-Chan!" I couldn't help but to chuckle some as my arm unraveled from around her tiny waist, allowing her to join the others in their hearty reunion.
"Oh, we missed you three so much! I'm so relieved!" sighing for the umteenth time since we'd arrived, Mint and the others celebrated heartily with one another, while Ichigo and the other two explained what had been going on.
That is, she WAS, until blonde had to walk through the door and ruin it all by yelling at her!
"ICHIGO NO BAKA~! Where have you been these past few days?! Do you realize just how worried I've been?!" stomping up to her, his eyes sparkling in anger and relief at the same time.
"Cool it...I stayed with Kish all this time. It wasn't worth getting so angry about, you know!" casually brushing him off, she simply stepped aside and continued her previous conversation with the other mews.
"YOU DID WHAT~!" face paling considerably, Blonde anime face planted where he stood, obviously not fully comprehending her sanity. It was either that, or the obvious reason: He didn't trust me one tiny bit.
Still though, that's no reason for him to yell at her like that. So, as I ended the deep debate within myself, on weather or not I should step in and stop the two from killing each other, I finally had made my decision to help, when I was suddenly halted.
THUD!
Swiftly I turned my head, only to watch in bemused shock as Blonde hit the floor, Harmony towering over him, hands on hips, with her foot triumphantly placed on his side.
"Stop making such a fuss. She was perfectly safe. You must be the annoying blond that Kish keeps nagging about. He says stuff like 'the damned blonde keeps getting in my way of seeing Ichigo.' and, my favorite, by far..." clearing her throat in a professional sort of way, she then continued in mocking him, both of us thoroughly enjoying it. "'His hair's so damned bright yellow, you'd think he was queer! Honestly, it puts the sun to shame and is the number one cause of blindedness!'"
"..." he'd obviously been struck dumb, thus giving Harmony space to continue.
"'Heck, he could stand by a solar panel and charge it with enough power to give the entire world a new fuel source!'"
"Hey! What do you mean by that?! Pudding's hair's just like mine!" growling in protest to these words, he struggled to get up, only to simply give up and continue to lay there, hands behind his head.
"Yeah, but it suits her. She's a sweet little chibi. Honestly, even if you were to dress like a chibi though, you'd scare away all living things! For you, well...to put it bluntly, you're queer!" finally deciding to get off of him, she went to turn around, and had run into Ichigo, who appeared quite displeased.
"Harmony, there's a point when things go from being funny, to being really hurtful. Now, turn around and apologize to him for what you just said. It was really mean. If someone were to tease you about a flaw that you might have, you probably wouldn't like it very much, now would you?" pointing behind her sternly, she had Harmony follow suit, walking over to Blonde, who was just now sitting up.
"I'm sorry, mister...I really am. I didn't mean to hurt your feelings, but this is what Kish says all the time." bowing politely, genuine apology spread across her features.
I had to admit, I didn't feel too hot now either, having pretty much been chastised by Ichigo myself, for teaching Harmony these things.
"S' not a problem. I forgive you, kid." waving it off casually, his entire mood changed. Was he having moodswings, or was he on drugs?
"Come on, everybody, we can talk more over cake!" motioning to the door, Keiichero lead the band of people into the closed dinning area, where we all proceeded to sit; Myself and Ichigo, Tart then Pudding. Lettuce by Pai, followed by Blonde then Keiichero, before Mint and Zakura.
"I'LL CUT THE CAKE, NA NO DA!" quickly swiping up the knife, Pudding was about to tear into the cake when we all jumped up, hastily trying to save the poor cake.
"PUDDING, NO!" fortunately, she missed, instead simply swiping off some icing before Keiichero took back his knife and proceeded to cut.
"PHEW! That was close." heaving out a heavy sigh of relief, I couldn't help but to slump forwards, over the table. For someone so tiny, that Pudding's going to end up killing and or maiming someone.
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