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I, Nilla Mew Mew, do not own Tokyo Mew Mew in any way shape or form. I only own the inspiration for this story and the stupidity to keep my readers waiting.
9. Finding the Truth
Ichigo ignored the other four chasing after her, all she could think about was saving Shirogane and Lettuce. Zakuro was going to kill them next if she didn't stop her.
She had forgotten about the other two. She had forgotten to try and find Pai and Keiichiro.
Pai sat at his desk, reading through different books that were spread out on his desk. He was trying hard not to fall asleep.
"Any luck?" A voice behind him asked. There was another desk in the room, and it sat Keiichiro.
"No, I still don't know what is causing this problem." Pai said, "Have you found anything?"
Keiichiro sighed, "No, and if we don't figure it out soon, we have to get everyone out of here."
"There's no doubt they've already figured out something's wrong with Zakuro, I don't know why she insisted on inviting everyone here if she was just gonna try and kill them in the first place." Pai said.
"Perhaps she thought they could help." Keiichiro suggested.
"Maybe...Or maybe she's already murdered everyone. I know I'm not the only person who heard screams." Pai said.
"Yes, I heard them too." Keiichiro said, "But there's nothing we can do. I only wish I had discovered this sooner. I'm surprised with Ichigo's side-affects that Ryou didn't think anything would go wrong with the other four. Even after both Mint and Lettuce showed side-affects as well."
"He's only a teenager." Pai said.
"And so are you."
"On your planet." Pai muttered.
"Aren't you concerned about your brothers?" Keiichiro asked.
"Yes, I shouldn't have brought them here, especially when I knew what was going to happen." Pai said, he hoped is brother's were fine.
"I know Kisshu could probably handle things himself, or at least try to, I'm more worried about Taruto. He's only a kid."
"I understand." Keiichiro said, he took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. "Let's just hope they all can handle themselves."
"Well, there's only one thing you can do when there's a deranged wolf Mew on the loose, and that's hope you live." Pai said. He looked up at the clock, it was only 3:34. Usually there would only be another half hour of Zakuro's madness left, but Pai knew tonight would be different.
Ichigo had finally reached the library doors, the other's followed behind her, panting. Mint was leaning on Kisshu for support because her injuries left her feeling light-headed after chasing Ichigo down.
"Are you insane!" Mint said angrily. "What if Zakuro is in there!"
"If Lettuce and Shirogane are in there being murdered or raped would you leave them to suffer?" Ichigo asked. Mint couldn't help but look away.
"A-are you sure w-we should go in there?" Taruto asked.
"P-Pudding doesn't want to be sc-scared anym-more..." Pudding said. Ichigo knew the little girl was scared to death, she was pale and she didn't use her cheery catchphrase anymore.
"Ichigo, you can't go in there by yourself." Kisshu said.
"Then come with me." She said, he looked a little taken aback. "Kisshu, please, I'm scared too, but my friends might be in there. And like you just said, I can't go in by myself."
"I-" Kisshu wasn't sure what to do now, normally he would have jumped at the chance to be alone with her, and with that Aoyama guy dead now, there was nothing stopping him from winning over his kitten.
Except a murderous purple wolf Mew on the loose.
"Please." Ichigo begged him.
"I... Alright..." Kisshu said, "But what about you three?"
"We'll go and find Pai and Keiichiro." Mint said. "Then we'll try and get out of here."
"Be safe!" Ichigo said hugging Mint.
"You too, baka." Mint said, jokingly, Ichigo made a small laugh.
Kisshu and Ichigo waited until the other three were gone, then Ichigo turned the handle on the door.
It opened without a problem.
It was pitch black inside. Even with her cat senses, Ichigo was blind. She bumped into a table as they walked and reached out and grabbed Kisshu's arm. It was a good thing they couldn't see each other's faces, because Ichigo turned bright red and Kisshu couldn't help but grin at the fact she was holding him.
"S-sorry..." Ichigo whispered.
"It's fine." Kisshu said.
"Maybe I should just hang onto you for now, you know, incase I bump into something else..." Ichigo said.
"OK." Kisshu said, still grinning.
The library seemed to go on forever in the darkness. Kisshu nearly ran into a chair, and Ichigo stubbed her toe on a book that was laying on the floor.
Kisshu picked up the book. "What the heck is this doing on the floor?"
"Trying to break my toe." Ichigo said, Kisshu chuckled.
"It's too dark I can't read what it says." As if on cue, a candle on a nearby table lit itself.
"Who's there?" Ichigo called, but the dim glow of the candle didn't light up much of the area, so she couldn't make out much.
"It's blank." Kisshu said looking a the leather bound book.
"That's weird..." Ichigo said staring at the book. Kisshu opened the book,
Ichigo read the first page and her eyes widened. "It's Zakuro's Diary."
"No way." Kisshu looked down at the first page of the book.
This book is property of
Zakuro Fujiwara
And it was written in the same handwritting as the note they found in Lettuce and Shirogane's room. "Mint was right." Ichigo said turning the page.
They stood there flipping through the pages, Zakuro must have had this diary for a long time because there was stuff written in it from when she was ten. It talked about how her parents left her alone all the time, and about a boy at school who was her best friend, but she had always wished for them to be more. They even learned that the person Zakuro knew who died was her older brother, and that he died right before she moved to America.
"Wow, so, she wasn't an only child, not always." Ichigo said, trying not the cry, this diary was really depressing.
They continued to read the diary. When they got to time during their battles with the aliens, Zakuro's thoughts got a little more cheery. It seemed like the girls really brought out the best in her. Ichigo smiled.
It wasn't until after Deep Blue's defeat, maybe a few months after, her thoughts began to get darker. Darker than they had been before, and stranger.
"Listen to this one," Ichigo said, "'I've been reading up on my family history, and according to family legends we are descendants of wolves. And I just so happened to end up infused with the DNA of a gray wolf. Funny, huh?
"'I've been feeling different these past few days. I've been more interested in the behavior of wolves. Wild and independent, vicious, creatures. Their mating habits, they are one of the few species of animals that mates for life. Yet winning over a female is a deadly process for a male, like it is with most animals. It just shows me how much humans and wolves are alike. Men try to show off, impress us women in so many ways. They are animals, we all are. And women pick the strongest, handsomest, the bravest, or the smartest of them, only to find out they are nothing they expected. Men are vicious creatures.
"'Yet us women are the true protectors, we are the strong ones. Men are only there for us to reproduce, that's my belief. I've become more interested in women, in many ways. I've yet to meet a man who can have the same compassion, the same love, of a woman. The girls have proven that to me, especially Mint.'"
"I think we can stop there." Kisshu said as he turned the pages, trying to find a different entry.
"Zakuro's starting to sound crazy." Ichigo said.
"Here's a different one." Kisshu said finally stopping on one. "'I have invited everyone over for the banquette, I just hope I can control myself this time. Pai said he is still working on finding a cure.
"'Keiichiro is useless, even though he's offered to help. But he only knows as much as Shirogane, and that idiot didn't even think that I would have a problem like this.
"'Yet they anticipated Ichigo getting cat ears and a tail when she got excited, or turning into a cat when she was kissed, even that she could talk to cats! They also guessed Mint's ability to talk to birds was a side-affect of her infused DNA. Lettuce couldn't swim, but because of her powers she can breath underwater. Pudding, well there's nothing unusual about Pudding that we know of, other than being over active. They never guessed I'd turn into an actual wolf at night.
"'I can't understand if this even has anything to do with my wolf DNA, or maybe my ancestors. I don't know why it just started to happen recently. I don't know why I suddenly decided to move back into my parents old Mansion. I don't know why I trust Pai with finding my cure, I don't know if he'll ever figure out why this happened. I just hope is that I can control myself, I don't want to wake up again and find another person in my home dead.'"
Ichigo and Kisshu sat there staring at the page. Kisshu flipped the page and saw that everything else was blank.
"Well, that explains why Pai has been acting so strange." Kisshu said
"Wait, if she knew she was turning into a wolf and killing people, then why did she invite us in the first place!" Ichigo said.
"Just thought it was a good idea." The voice made them both freeze.
*gasp* CLIFF-HANGER! Well, this one shouldn't be as bad as the last one because the last one kept you hanging for like FOUR FREAKING MONTHS! I'm a terrible terrible person who deserves to be thrown into a pit with man eating spiders. *shiver* But at least I finally updated this story. This chapter is probably kinda suckish considering I had major writers block when I wrote it. The next chapter will be the final chapter of this story, and now that my writers block is starting to go away maybe I will get it out a bit faster so I can finish this story. After this is officially completed I am not sure if I'm going to start one of my other stories I have on the waiting list, or if I'm going to wait until I finish one of my other stories before I add any new ones. Speaking of new stories, the paragraph where Ichigo and Kisshu started reading Zakuro's diary and they were reading about her childhood, well that's kind of a sneak peak into my future story Zakuro's Past. And just because it's been so long since you, my dear readers, have read anything I've written, I'm going to give you a first look at chapter 1 of Zakuro's Past...
'They're not coming home...again...' The little girl thought from her place alone at the dinning room table. Most six year olds would be crying their eyes out if their parents weren't gonna be there for their birthday. Not this one, she was used to being abandoned by her parents.
The little girl's name was Zakuro Fujiwara. She had long dark purple hair and dark blue eyes. She was a very pretty six year old, smart too. She had inherited her mother's beauty and her father's brains.
Too bad neither of them were ever there to know it.
The lights in the room went out, then a glow showed from the door way. Zakuro gave a small smile when her fourteen year old brother Kei walked into the room carrying a small white cake with purple icing flowers, six purple candles, and the words 'Happy Birthday Zakuro' written in purple icing. Kei had short hair that was dark red, but his eyes were the same dark blue as his sister's.
"Happy birthday to you! Happy Birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Zakuro! Happy birthday to you!" Kei sang and set the cake down in front of Zakuro.
"Kei your the best!" Zakuro said, beaming up at her big brother. He was the only family she ever saw. And the only person, other than the maids and the nanny, who noticed her.
"I know! Now hurry up and blow out your candles before they melt on the cake!" Kei said. Zakuro squeezed her eyes closed and made a wish. Then she took a deep breath and blew out the candles. Kei clapped, and turned the lights back on.
Kei cut two slices out of the cake for him and Zakuro. It was red velvet cake, Zakuro's favorite.
"It's too bad mom and dad couldn't be here." Kei said. Zakuro frowned for a second, then smiled again.
"I'm glad I've at least got you, Kei onii-sama!"
Yes, so that is chapter 1 of Zakuro's Past. That's the only thing really written for that story right now other than some notes I've been writing. I didn't want to start writing too much on that story since I have other fics that need to be tended to first. But, anyways, I hope you enjoyed this chapter and are happy to see I'm back up and writing for my stories! I've decided to separate my next TOD chapter into either 2 or 3 parts since I've gotten so many reviews on it and it's taking me so long to update. Chapter 4 for A Lot to Live Up To is about halfway done. Chapter 10 for Did You Miss Me, Kitten? is still in the works and probably only a quarter of the way done. And as some of you, if not all of you, know, I've postponed writing on Criminal until I get more inspiration. Well, enough with the author's note. Thank you all again so much! I hope to get the final chapter up soon and before another 4 months pass by. Keep on reviewing like you wonderful people do so I will keep writing! I love all you kittens so much!