(A.N./ And we're back with chapter two! Enjoy!)
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As anyone who has watched or read Tokyo Mew Mew already knows, it takes a lot more that one rejection from Ichigo to get Kish to give up. In fact, he must've been rejected dozens of times, yet he's still at it. So here we find him, situated on top of one of the stone pillars in his dimension, coming up with another one of his "marvelous" plans.
But alas, the more and more he thought, the more and more he realized that nothing was coming to him that day. He just couldn't muster up a plan or strategy that he could mentally stamp "foolproof".
Something snapped to his mind at that moment. Why come up with some brilliant strategy when you can resort to a classic? All he had to do was rely on an older plan of his, and that would do, not to mention work in a better way to separate Ichigo and the tree-hugger.
Because, honestly, how hard can stealing kisses get?
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Ichigo had just had a wonderful dream.
In it, she was on a huge, wooden stage in front of a gigantic crowd. At first, in her dream, she felt nervous and scared. But then the people started cheering for her. She looked over herself to find she was wearing bell-bottomed, bubblegum-pink jeans and a studded black belt. She had on a white, horizontally-striped t-shirt, and a small, black denim fashion vest over it. She had her hair up in two thick pigtails, tied with long, white ribbons. She looked herself over again, admiring her costume.
Suddenly an electric guitar appeared in her hands. She stared at it strangely before realizing she knew all of the notes she would play. The music started up behind her, and she took a deep breath.
At the breaking point of the music, she started in with her guitar. She found she was playing it perfectly without any kind of hesitation at all. The crowd before her roared and cheered. She never felt so accomplished in her life!
Then, she woke up. But…she didn't bother to open her eyes. She just laid in bed, dozily recalling her wonderful dream to herself. She pulled her covers up to her face, fingering the warm fabric lightly.
"Good morning, neko-chan!" The pesky voice of her alien stalker reached her ears like a shrill whistle in dead silence. She shot up in bed to come face-to-face with none other than Kisshu. She did the first thing that came to her mind.
She screamed.
"Eeeeeeeek! Get OUT of MY ROOM!" Kish jumped back about five feet. Pounding up the stairs outside Ichigo's doorway was heard,
"Ichigo?! What was that, is someone in your room?" Kisshu realized it was Ichigo's dad and quickly teleported out of the room, but not before giving Ichigo a quick kiss on the cheek. Ichigo reached out to slap him, but he got away too fast, so her hand was left at an awkward position stretched out before her. Her dad just about blew down the door storming in,
"Ichigo?! Was someone-" Ichigo was quick to respond,
"No, dad, I just had a bad dream, that's all." Ichigo's dad eyed her strangely,
"You dreams about people in your room?!" Ichigo shifted her eyes,
"No, actually, I was dreaming I had this giant, hairy spider in my room, and it was crawling all over my bed!" In truth, I'm not lying. There was a giant hairy spider on my bed named Kisshu. Ichigo thought to herself.
"Alright then," Ichigo's dad said, rubbing the bridge of his nose, "I'm going to make breakfast, now that I'm already up." Ichigo nodded,
"Thanks, Dad. Could you make me some toast, please?" He nodded,
"Sure, anything for my sweet little girl!" with that, he marched off humming a tune down the stairs. Ichigo sighed and wiped her brow,
That was a close call. Kisshu had better watch when he- she happened to glance at her clock on her bed stand.
"5:49?!" she yelled in spite of herself. She quickly silenced herself and crawled, groaning, out of her bed.
At least I'm not going to be late for my date with Masaya again…
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"I can't believe I'm late for my date with Masaya AGAIN!" Ichigo yelled to herself as she sprinted down Tokyo's busy sidewalks, bumping into pedestrians and shoving through crowds.
Of course, what do you expect from Ichigo, who's never made it to a date on time. Meanwhile, directly above her, our favorite cocky alien was watching her from the rooftops above, taking extra precaution not to be seen by the people below.
"A date, huh?"
Ichigo approached the entrance of the movie theatre Masaya was meeting her at. She combed through the crowd with her eyes, searching for Masaya. She didn't have to look long to see him coming towards her out of the crowd,
"Ichigo! You're just in time! It's about to start!"
"I'm really super sorry I'm late, Masaya!" she said. He took her hand and led her through the crowd,
"It's fine, don't apologize!" She smiled, He's so forgiving…
Once inside the theatre, Masaya set down the popcorn bowl on his lap. The theatre seats around them were rather vacant, only a few other couples dotted the seats.
"What movie is this again?" Ichigo whispered as the opening credits were rolling.
"I think it's American, I'm not sure." he replied. With that, he turned his head back to the screen, "Excuse me for a moment." He got up from his seat and walked down the aisle, exiting the theatre. Ichigo sunk into the chair and and reached for some popcorn, only to find a hand already in it. Her eyes slowly trailed up it to barely make out a teenager in the dark of the theatre, but it wasn't just any teenager. A normal teen wouldn't have blazing gold eyes.
"What are you doing here?" she hissed in disgust. Kisshu grinned cockily,
"Just to wanted to have a little fun with Koneko-chan!" Ichigo made a disgusted face at his attitude. Kish grinned and leaned forward, giving her a light kiss on the cheek. Ichigo lashed out with her palm…
…and struck.
SLAP! Half of the audience turned at the loud noise. Kisshu was left to sit back and sulk in his seat, now imprinted with a red handprint on his cheek. Ichigo turned around and watched the credits, a straight scowl on her face. Masaya re-entered the theatre about two minutes later, taking his place in the seat next to her. Ichigo wiped the scowl off her face and resumed a perky smile. The movie was beginning to start.
The opening sequence was a pretty young girl walking down a sidewalk on a snowy night. She was carrying a load of packages with her, tied up with ribbons and wrapping paper for the Christmas season. As she went along, she crashed into somebody running on the sidewalk. She toppled over and spilled all of the parcels onto the snowy walkway. She stooped to pick them up, tears forming in her eyes,
"I'm sorry sir, I-"
"I'm so sorry, ma'am! Did I damage anything?" the stranger helped the girl pick up her packages, one by one. He had honey-blonde hair and striking green eyes. At last, the last parcel was back in her arms.
"Thank you so much sir!"
"My pleasure, miss!" he winked at her and kept walking down the street. She blushed and scurried in the other direction.
Masaya chose this to be the perfect time to hold Ichigo's hand. She blushed and gripped it tighter. Kisshu growled under his breath. Something had to be done about Masaya if he were to get to her. His last break-up strategy hadn't worked, so now what?
Whatever it is, he thought to himself, I'm going to make this date living heck for the tree-hugger.
The next scene consisted of the man casually walking down the sidewalk, it still being the snowy weather. Kisshu blew a hair out of his face.
This movie is boring and slow. Why couldn't they have gone to at least an interesting movie?!
Nevertheless, if he was to succeed, he would have to sit through whatever Ichigo and Masaya were sitting through, no matter how boring it was.
Kisshu made out in the dark that Masaya was passing Ichigo the popcorn bowl. When she was about to grab it, Kisshu made his move. He sent a small blue spark out of his hand to Masaya's palm, causing him to spill the popcorn all over Ichigo's skirt.
"I'm so sorry!" he apologized in a low whisper. He collected the popcorn bowl and found that it was all but a few kernels spilt. Ichigo shook her head,
"Don't worry, it was an accident! I don't mind. Popcorn's really bad for you anyways." she giggled and turned her head back to the movie. Masaya smiled and also focused on the screen. Kisshu scowled and sunk back into his seat once more. Plan failed. Back to the drawing board.
Ichigo glanced away from the movie for a few moments to open her handbag. Taking out a pen, she scribbled something down on a napkin. She replaced the pen and slid the handbag back down to next to her feet. Kisshu immediately got the hint when she casually slid the napkin into her seat cup holder. He leaned forward and grabbed it. Ichigo gave him a angered face before turning back to the screen. Kisshu, having better sight abilities than humans, was able to read the note clearly,
'I saw the blue spark, you jerk. Stay away from Masaya or you'll regret it.'
Kisshu read it over a few more times while coming up with a new strategy.
Sorry, Koneko-chan, but something has to be done about your boyfriend.
Ichigo stood from her theatre chair and whispered something to Masaya before she exited the row and the theatre. Kisshu took this as a brilliant opportunity to make some noise.
He spotted Masaya lifting his extra large soda to take a sip. Hm, that's perfect. he thought. He carefully shifted position in his seat, crouching almost level with the floor and aiming upwards, to the bottom of the cup. Taking care to aim in the right direction, he fired another small strike of blue energy. It hit right on target, bursting the bottom of the cup. Soda spilled all over Masaya, soaking his pants and lower shirt completely. He looked around the cup, hoping to find some evidence to what happened, but there was none. Slowly he got up from the chair and made his way down to the men's room, receiving stares from customers and employees alike.
Phase one, completed. Kisshu thought to himself.
About a minute later, Ichigo entered the movie theatre and moved to her seat to discover Masaya wasn't there. She turned to see that, much to her dismay, Kisshu still was.
"What did you do to him?!" she hissed. Kisshu shrugged,
"Don't look at me, honey, he spilled soda on himself." Ichigo glanced down to his seat to see it was completely soaked in soda. She glared back at him,
"I said, what did you do?!" Kisshu shrugged and leaned closer to her,
"I guess he's just not too graceful, that's all." He leaned in inches from her face before Ichigo's cat ears popped out. She struggled to keep them down, occupying both of her hands, meanwhile, Kisshu grabbed her chin and was leaning closer and closer to her. Suddenly he spotted Masaya returning out of the corner of his eye. He was able to steal a quick kiss before slumping back in his seat. Ichigo turned a radish red but quickly shook it off as she warned Masaya of his soaking seat.
Kisshu smirked and put his hands behind his head in satisfaction, licking his lips,
Phase two, completed.
Peace reigned in the movie theatre up until around the last part of the film. The young couple in the film both had realized their love for each other, but were too shy to confess it, so they patiently waited for the other to make the first move. Unfortunately for them, both were too shy and flustered to speak up.
This is so ironic… thought Ichigo, It took me so much courage to ask Masaya out on our first date, but it turned out he liked me too!
This is so ironic! thought Masaya, I was too shy to confess that I loved Ichigo for quite a while, but then I did, and here we are!
This is so painfully ironic. thought Kisshu, I'm always displaying my love to Ichigo on a daily basis, yet nothing ever spawns between us!
Ah, the irony of love triangles. Kish was getting tired of them,
Alright, time for plan three.
He quietly teleported out of his seat, trying to conceal any noise or movement. Ichigo felt the air being disturbed and turned to see had left. She threw a little party in her mind,
Yes! Finally!
Kish, however, was not gone. He had simply teleported to the screening room above the theatre where the projector was currently being operated. He proceeded to give the current employee operating the projector a blunt hit upside the head with one of his Dragon Swords, rendering him unconscious. He put away his sword and flew over to the projector. Studying the various knobs and buttons, he concluded that this would be the kind of thing that Pai should be studying, not him.
Ah well, he shrugged, I'm sure I'll get it eventually.
He turned a knob on the side of the projector and watched the movie screen. The screen's brightness was gradually decreasing. He turned it the other direction, and it brightened. Several of the people in the theatre turned around in confusion to his direction, but the slim window wouldn't allow any eye contact between the people inside and outside the room.
Musing at the complicated design of the projector, Kisshu proceeded to press a small, green button on the projector. The screen shrunk in size, but it was barely noticeable, so no one was aware of the change. He studied the various buttons around the green one, and pressed a red one next to the green one. The screen grew to the original size.
So what's this…? Kish asked to himself as he eyed the wheel-shaped film reel, as well as the bright light shining from the front. He put his hand in front of the light and noticed that his hand was blocking the picture on the theatre's screen. By now, most of the people in the movie theatre were turning their heads and making rude gestures to the room Kish was in.
So if this is where the picture comes out…and this is where the film is…
Kisshu's face slowly split into a cocky grin,
"Maybe Pai isn't the only smart one around here…"
Ichigo was thoroughly enjoying the romantic movie. It was coming to an epic conclusion, after the man of the starring couple had valiantly rescued the woman from a speeding car on the road. They were now on a romantic setting on a hill in a sunset, glittering rays of light streaming onto their faces, and brilliant colors of gold, reds, and pinks lighting up the evening sky. The couple leaned over to each other and shared a romantic kiss, after which the title, 'The End' appeared on the screen. The credits were expected to roll after, but this was not the case.
After the long shot of the couple in the sunset and the closing title, the movie faded to black and a sign appeared on the screen,
Ichigo, I love you.
Ichigo's eyes lit up and she gasped. She looked over to Masaya with delight and said,
"Masaya?! Did you do this for me?!"
In truth, Masaya had no idea what was going on at the time, but, nevertheless, why waste a perfect and open opportunity?
"Do you like it?" he said sweetly. Ichigo grinned and nodded her head energetically,
"Oh, thank you so much, Masaya! I love you too!" she threw herself in his arms and embraced him lovingly, he doing the same.
By this time, Kish was back in his seat after setting up his little surprise. He had seen the whole thing. He had heard the whole thing. And, quite frankly, it made him sick. How DARE Masaya steal Ichigo's love like that, after all the trouble he went through?!
Kish growled in disgust before teleporting back to base, thinking,
Note to self: Never try to separate the tree hugger from Ichigo, it only results in backfire.
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