Hi everyone!

Mint's acting like a regular person, not like a snobby princess anymore, so :P I feel like angst today... this chapter tells what her family was like and what caused her to be like she is in the 'present' of this story. lol :P There is some blood, but it doesn't last for long, That's why it said -Rated for safety- in the description, peeps! Anyways, enjoy:

Tricked? Chapter 3

-Mint's dream-

She opened her eyes. She was drifting in a colorful, breezy area where she wasn't touching anything to keep her from falling to the ground.

If there was any ground, that is. She looked around, calmly curious about her surroundings. She noticed that .. there wasn't anything really special about this place, except there were bubbles.

From the size of her performance tutu at the dry cleaners to the size of Miki's dog-tags. And they were shifting color like a light shining on them was changing.

One moment they were a bubble-gum pink, the next, they were a lime green. Then the scenery around her began to change.

She woke up where she wasn't where she had fallen asleep in her bed. She looked around the room and saw a pretty dresser with a mirror and assorted drawings, made in crayon.

She hurried over to the mirror and looked at her self, scared what the 'reality trip' had done to her. She took a glance and she looked like 'normal' and sighed, hanging her head low.

Glancing at the mirror again, she found that.. she had long blond hair, bright blue eyes, and was now about 4'1", with a Long-sleeved PJ shirt and long pants. She was calmly looking at observing her fave in the mirror, not really intimidated or frightened, like in the 'alternate dimention' she had been in about thirty seconds ago.

She turned around, and on the wall, it had the name "Cho, my little angel" in cursive, wooden letters, painted with glitter and a white, plastic hibiscus on the 'C'. She looked down to the foot of the bed she awoke from, and saw something tied there.

She reached out and held some small, white, ballet shoes. She began to search though the contents in the dresser drawers, then heavy footsteps echoed through the hall outside, and the door burst open, revealing a tall man.

Mint gasped and froze. Then she heared something in her mind. 'Daddy?' Then Mint stared to figure out what was going on.

"This must be someone else's memories. Then why am I living through them?" She thought with her side of her brain.

The man stepped forward and grabbed her by the arm, she could smell alcohol in his breath. Then he forcibly lead her out of the room and into the hallway, then down some stairs into a foyer, apparently. Being tugged on roughly by the wrist her head unknowingly turned, and her eyes saw a tragic sight.

(Be warned again, blood TT-TT)

A young woman, with long, pale hair in a white nightgown, lay on the floor, a slowly growing puddle underneath her, staining her clothes. Her eyes grew wide as another word went past her mind. 'MOMMA!!'

'Mint' crashed to the floor, unable to move, living through the little girl's memories. She started to cry, screaming for the woman to open her eyes, to do something to assure her daughter that she was alive. Then the man leading her told her to shut up, and after a moment, He pulled something out of his pocket at Mint heared a 'Chi-clack' and froze.

Then he picked her up and held an arm around her stomach, pinning her back to his side. He then pulled her to a room underground with a high ceiling and short windows really high on the wall, almost touching the ceiling.

Then he strapped Mint to a chair, right in front of a machine, pointed directly at her. 'Daddy' walked to a table and picked up a bottle, drank it in one gulp, and threw it at the ground, where it shattered. She tried to get up and run away, to help Momma, but she was packaged in rope too tightly.

He typed something in a computer, ignoring 'Mint's' cries now quieter by a cloth tied around her head, covering her mouth. Then the machine started to glow and 'Daddy' spoke up.

"Your mother wanted me to stop my work!"He started to say, still typing furiously at the computer. "She just wanted to keep the discovery for herself! But I've tried too hard to get this research and I've tried too hard to not get whispers about "Brother dear's" experiments to go to the Government."

Mint, having no control over what her body was doing, looked at him. "But that's not what she thought. She was on the phone with the Pentagon, telling them all about her brother-in-law's work!" He yelled angrily, with one last 'click' of the computer, the machine He got up from the desk and walked over to her.

"But I don't want all of my work to go.. " He said, leaning over 'Mint', holding her chin up. She nearly gagged at the stronger alcohol smell. "...After all, they'l' have to find you first.." He walked away to the machine. He closed his eyes for a second, then opened them and pulled a lever. Mint gasped as the light steadily but quickly growing brighter, whirring, and then..

"Don't let them find you, little butterfly..." He said as he pressed a button.

Then everything faded to black.

-Cho's POV-


I'm still asleep on a bed of clover, in the park where Mamoru-baka chased me last night. I squinted at the sun peeking through the trees above me, I rolled over, and stared at a wishing flower beside me, moving slightly in the breeze.

I thought about the signal I sent out last night, wanting to find the last person in my family. I remember what happened to my mom and dad.

I started to cry, remembering what he said to my Mother and to himself when he was drunk at nights, with me in the hallway, crouching beside the door frame, behind a plant, as he went off to his lab to do some more work on his brother's research.

I gladly brought myself away from memory lane and opened my eyes, sitting up and wiping them on her wrists. I got up, bringing back memories about 2 weeks ago in Hawaii, when 'he' left, breaking his promise to stay with me. I stopped at the fountain, tears dripping off my face into the water below.

I looked up to the sky as a familiar tune went through me.

"Hontou ni .. taisetsu na ..mono igai

subete, sutete

shimaetara... ii no ni ne

genjitsu wa tada zankoku de.."

And I just stood there, showing my tears, letting my past go. After my song, I left to find what I left my previous home to find. But I hadn't gone far on the street when a
"There you are, Cho-cho" reached my ears.

-Back to Mint-

"Kyaaaa!" Mint screamed as she sat up in record time, panting. She just sat there, not really remembering what happened. She felt... like something was calling her. Something to help another. Then her alarm clock snapped her out of her head and into reality.

She shook her head, noting not to drink black tea right before bed. She got out of bed and got ready for work, cursing Ryou in her mind to make her come to the café so early. She trudged down the stairs, still in her reverie.

"Ohayou gozimasu, Miss Mint. Did you sleep well? Her nanny appeared, wearing a white kimono, with her hair in a bun and a decorative, white flower in it. It was a white hibiscus. "Miss Mint?" Mint blinked. Her nanny was at least three feet in front of her. "I- I I'm sorry, sobo-san, but I have to leave!" Mint said, running through the doorway and a moment later, a chorus of
"Sayounara, wakai shufu" rang out, then the door opening and closing. While her granmother was still standing there, frowning. She started to walk with one of the maids and told her quietly:

"Tell the chef to not let Miss Mint have black tea at nights.."

YA! Third chapter done! Wh00t! lol.

Songs: 'Dearest' The 3rd ending to Inuyasha. It suits her a bit, cuz in one part of the translation for the song, "Reality is just cruel" so... ya. :)

Notes: a Hibiscus is the flower you see on the tourist Hawaiian shirts. Link on Wikipedia: www(dot)Wikipedia(dot)org/wiki/Hawaiianhibiscus

-Funny bits while writing:
A grilled cheese, and a strawberry soda served as my lunch one day. (Looks like Kishu and Ichigo were meant to be!) :D
i had a little cup of rose petal tea when writing the dramatic part, now I'm really mellow and relaxed... lol...

-I have many MP3 files of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Picchi /Pure and Tokyo mew mew. Email me if anybody wants some! Ja Ne!

P.S.: REVIEWS KEEP ME WRITING, PEEPS! -heart-