Catty: Grrr! I now hate my lovely daddy! I wanted to Update yesterday but he threatened me that if I don't stop writing I will be grounded ... nice conservation yesterday... -.-*
Ichigo: Ha! You deserve it!
Catty: Oh! Deserve! It's present-time!
Ichigo/Kisshu/Masaya: YATTA!
Catty: Ichigo's present; A little present from Mew-Star-Mew! She said I should give you this! °gives Ichigo slice of special strawberry cake° Mew-Star-Mew told me that she is so happy that you broke up with Masabaka!
Ichigo: *-* WOW! Strawberry cake! Now I really don't regret that I broke up with tree-huger! °giggles while she eats cake°
Catty: Kisshu's present; A little present from Mew-Star-Mew, too! I should give you this, Kisshu! °hands extra-large double chocolate chip cookie to Kisshu° She said she likes you ssoooooo much that you deserve this COOKIE!
Kisshu: THANK YOU, Mew-Star-Mew! °takes Cookie and gives Mew-Star-Mew a kiss°
Ichigo: IIIIEEEEE! NO ONE KISSES MY KISHY! °hiss°
Catty: Calm down, Ichigo! Oh and say thank you to Mew-Star-Mew!
Ichigo: THANK YOU FOR THE SLICE OF CAKE!
Catty: I thank you too, Mew-Star-Mew! I really enjoyed eating the cake while I wrote the Chappie! °chuckles° Oh and Masaya you get the prize to hug a tree-pillow!
Masaya: °squeals and hug tree-pillow°
Catty: -.- °mumbles° Baka …
Kisshu: °speaks with cookie in mouth° C4ttY24 DOES NOT OWN TMM! IF SHE DID EVERYONE WILL BE A COOKIE!
Catty: Ahhhh *-* COOKIE!
Ichigo: ON WITH THE STORY!
My strange life
"We will go on a meeting with father in two days. You should prepare yourself for the worst." Pai smiled at his, now stressed, brother. Kisshu smiled back, a sad smile. He then stepped into his room and before he closed his door he said.
"Thank you, Pai. Do I have anything to do, right now?" Kisshu asked. Pai shook his head 'no' and Kisshu let out a sigh of relief. "That's relieving ... I'm not feeling so good. I will go get some rest. Good night ... Pai ..." Kisshu then closed the door and Pai looked for some seconds at the, now closed, door.
"Good night ... Kisshu-sama ..." Pai then walked down the hallway into his own room.
TBC:
Chapter 11:
At the Café:
"Pfiiiuuu … I did it …" Catty sighed while she went her hand through her pink hair. Ryou came down with a cup of coffee. He went over to the computer table and put the cup next to the pink haired girl.
"Here. I thought you want a something refreshing …" Ryou said as he sat down next to Catty. Catty smiled to herself and nodded to the blonde teen.
"Thank you … I need some energy. Well … I have some good and bad news. What news first?" she said as she took a sip from the hot coffee.
"The good news first." Ryou answered as he looked on the computer screen, trying to figure out what it says.
"The good news is that I succeeded to hack into the aliens' technology. I thought it would be harder but it was really simple. And well the bad news …" Catty trailed off. Ryou gave a little sigh after he read was stood on the screen. He looked once again over the program and then looked at the pink haired girl.
"The bad news?" he asked, already knowing the answer.
"Well, I somehow opened up a program and I figured out that it is a very bad virus. It will take some time till I figure out how to deactivate the program. But while I was looking after a loop-hole to escape the virus I found some really interesting information's." Catty said as she started to run her fingers over the board. Ryou looked with interest as more and more screens popped up on the computer-screen.
"I found an entry on the aliens' computer that says that they will leave for a very important meeting on their planet. I somehow figured out that it will be in three days. We can't let them go without anything to see what they are doing! The question is … how do we find something that will be in contact with the aliens' all-time?" Catty informed while she showed at a letter on the screen.
Ryou looked at the letter that had strange things written on it but gave up after the 4th time re-reading it. He thought about what Catty said and an idea popped up.
"So … you mean we need something that will always be with the aliens'?" Ryou asked.
"Hai, that's right … something that will be every time with them like … their clothes or some charm or something they don't put away like …" Catty said but was cut off from a smirking Ryou.
"Or a pet." He said.
"A pet? What do you me-"Catty's eyes went wide as relation hit her. "You mean?"
"Exactly. A pet … or better said … a cat." Ryou smiled as he walked out of the room. Catty sat in the chair and stared at the screen before her. She slowly looked towards the door and mumbled to herself.
"Please let it work …" she whispered.
At the Cafes' guest room:
Ichigo began to stir and her eyes slowly opened at the sun that was shining on her face. She sat up and first was startled that she didn't recognize the room. Memories from the past twenty-four hours flooded her mind and she could feel the anger and sadness rise in her body.
She stood up and walked towards the door of the room. Exactly as the door flung open a little thud could be heard on the other side. Ichigo slowly opened the door to see what she had hit. Her eyes went wide as she saw Ryou sitting on the floor rubbing his nose, which began to slowly bleed.
"I'm so sorry, Shirogane-san! I didn't know you were there!" Ichigo apologized as she knelt beside the blonde teen and looked at his bleeding nose. Ryou looked up and only blinked before he spoke.
"It's … It's alright but … do you mind if you get some tissues?" Ryou said as he held a hand over his nose to stop the bleeding. Ichigo stood up as she nodded and ran into a bathroom, took a cloth, held it shortly under water and ran back to the blonde guy. Ryou was standing up as Ichigo came back with the cloth in her hands. She handed it to the blonde boy and he nodded a 'thanks' and put the cloth over his nose.
"Please be so kind and go down into the kitchen. Tell Keiichiro that I need his help. After that I need to speak with you, understood, strawberry?" Ryou said in his calm voice.
"Hai!" Ichigo nodded and went downstairs into the kitchen. She found Keiichiro preparing some pastries.
"Akasaka-san! Ryou needs your help! He wanted to come into the room but I opened the door and hit his nose. Now he is bleeding and he said that he needs your help!" Ichigo blustered out.
"His nose is bleeding? Well, I will go look after him. Would you do me a favor and bring these pastries to Catty in the lab? She was the whole night down there and I think she might want something." Keiichiro said as he held up a plate with pastries. "Of course you can eat something too, Ichigo-san!"
Ichigo smiled and took the plate, walked out of the kitchen and towards the basement. She opened the door to the lab and entered slowly. Catty looked up from the screen and smiled at her shortly new sister.
"Hey, Ichigo! What are you doing here?" she asked kindly.
"Akasaka-san said that you might want a snack and asked me if I could bring you these." Ichigo said as she showed her sister the pastries.
"Mmm … they look very good but … what I need now isn't a snack … I need you, Ichigo." Catty said in a more serious voice.
"What do you need me for?" Ichigo asked, confused.
"Well, I found out that the aliens' are leaving tomorrow and we need to keep an eye on them. Ryou and I thought about something that would give us a view at the aliens'. First we thought about special clothes or some items that one of the aliens' would have with them but then Ryou suggested something more realistic." Catty said is she leaned back in the chair and hopefully looked at the cat girl.
"And what is it?" Ichigo asked, curious.
"You."
(Dramatic pause)
"You." Catty said, simply.
"I?! How can I spy on the aliens'?!" Ichigo asked/shouted as she blushed.
"We thought about turning you into a cat. We would then put a little spy-cam and a micro on your necklace and then we could figure out what's going on with these aliens'. Would you do that? Pllllleeeeaaaassssssssse!" Catty said, as she made puppy-eyes at the last word.
Ichigo sweat dropped at first but then shook her head and thought about the whole thing.
"Okay. But only when you inform me what you figured out after the whole thing … deal?" Ichigo said as she held out her hand.
"Deal!" Catty said with a big grin as she shook the cat girls' hand.
At the spaceship:
"Pai?" Taruto asked as he popped his head into his older brothers' room.
"What is it, Taruto?" Pai asked, in his usual tone.
"Do you think Kisshu is alright? He didn't come out of his room since he is back and he doesn't answer when I call his name. I slowly get worried about him …" the little alien said as he shifted from feet-to-feet.
"Hmm … I will check on him, right now. Do you want to come with me?" Pai asked his little brother who lit up at Pai's words.
"Hai!" Taruto said, simply.
Pai nodded and walked towards Kisshu's room. When they arrived his door he knocked on it and waited for a moment. No answer. Pai knocked again and called Kisshu's name. No answer.
"Kisshu! Are you alright?" Pai said as he leaned his ear against the door. He only could hear a weak voice. "Kisshu, we are coming into your room now!" he said but waited for a moment again. Again he only heard a weak voice but couldn't understand it.
"Okay! That's enough!" Pai said as he put his hand on the doorknob. He tried to open the door but it was looked. "Kisshu! Why did you locked the door?!" Pai asked, now slightly worried.
"Pai … please … go away …" he heard from the other side. Pai frowned at the strange tone of the voice and turned around to face Taruto.
"Taruto. Go and deactivate the ability-blocker for a while. We will teleport into his room." Pai said. Taruto nodded and ran into a room. A few minutes later he teleported to the oldest aliens' side and nodded to him. Pai nodded back and the two vanished from their spot.
The two of them teleported into Kisshu's room and what they saw made their eyes went wide.
Kisshu was lying on his bed with flustered cheeks. His forehead was covered in a little bunch of sweat and he looked a little paler than usual.
"Kisshu!" Pai called as he ran over to his brother side. "Kisshu! Are you okay!?" Pai said, losing all his calmness and replaced it with worry and fear.
"I said … you should go away, Pai!" Kisshu said, trying his best to speak.
Taruto looked like on the edge of tears and Pai mentioned to him to leave. Taruto didn't have to be told twice and teleported into the communicate room.
Beep Beep Beep
Taruto looked up to a screen and saw that someone called them.
"Who, on New Earth, needs to call now?!" he grumbled to himself as he went over to sit down on the chair. He pushed a button and a pink haired girl with a blonde boy appeared on the screen.
"What do you two need?" Taruto asked, annoyed.
"Wow … nice to see you two, midget …" Catty said, looking bored.
"Don't call me midget! You're not better than that old hag so shut up!" Taruto shouted, angrily.
"Please stop it you two … Anyway … Taruto? You know the little black cat with a red bow on its tail?" Ryou asked the little alien. Taruto took a deep breath and calmed down as he nodded.
"Well … we found out that it is a stray and no one is searching for her. Would you like to take care of her?" Ryou asked while Catty held Neko Ichigo to the screen to show the little alien.
Taruto's face lit up and a smile appeared on his face. After a few seconds he vanished and re-appeared in the basement. Ryou and Catty jumped at the sudden being in the lab but relaxed as it only was Taruto.
"You mean I can take her back?" Taruto asked, hopefully.
"Yeah … as long as you don't hug the life out of her." Ryou said as he handed Neko Ichigo to the little alien. Taruto's smile grew bigger as he held the little cat in his hand. Neko looked up to the brown haired boy and meowed happily.
"I will take good care of her! Thank you!" Taruto smiled and teleported back into the communicate room. He winked happily at Ryou and Catty and cut the connection.
"NEKO IS BACK!" Taruto shouted as he hugged Neko, softly.
"You need to stay with me for a while because Kisshu can't take care of you right now. He is really sick when we found him …" Taruto trailed off as he remembered how his brother looked like. Neko saw tears slowly form in his eyes.
"Nyuu …" Ichigo meowed softly. Taruto gave her a watery smile as he said.
"It's alright. He is strong enough otherwise father didn't have chosen him."
"Nyaa?" Neko said.
"Sorry, I can't understand you. What do you want to do now?" Taruto asked as he put Neko, carefully, on the ground. Neko looked at him and then walked down the hallway. Taruto followed the little cat, curious. She looked at each door they went by and as she found a greenish door she walked over to it and scratched it lightly. Taruto frowned but as he looked at the door his ears dropped slightly.
"Sorry, Neko. You can't go inside there. First reason: Pai will kill me and second reason: Kisshu is too sick to play with you now …" Taruto said, sadly.
"Nyyuuu …" Neko meowed as she laid her ears against her head and looked hopefully at the little alien. Her hot pink eyes locked with his honey eyes. After a minute Taruto gave in and let out a sigh. He walked over to the door and slightly opened it.
"Walk in but don't say I didn't warn you …" he said, not looking at the little cat. Neko looked for a few seconds at the brown haired boy but then walked into the room. She saw Pai sitting in a chair next to the huge bed. Ichigo saw his worried face and sad eyes looking at the bed. Neko walked over to the chair and, softly, rubbed her head against Pai's leg.
Pai looked down at the little cat and let out a sigh. He reached his hand out and stroke Neko softly on her head. Neko began to purr, sadly.
"You shouldn't be here, Neko …" he whispered.
"Pai? … Who is there?"
Neko looked in the direction from the voice and sadness filled her heart. The voice sounded so weak and fragile. She could see Pai smile at the bed.
"Neko is here, Kisshu …" he said, sadly.
"Neko?"
"Hai … do you want to see her?" Pai asked.
"That would be great."
Pai reached out and grabbed Neko, carefully. Neko Ichigo blinked as Pai lifted her from the ground. He softly put her on the bed and Ichigo looked up to Pai. Then she looked to her side to see a sick Kisshu. Kisshu smiled, tiredly and Neko Ichigo walked closer to his face.
"Kon'nichiwa, Neko. How are you today?" Kisshu asked, smiling slightly.
"Nyuu …" let her ears lean against her head and her eyes filled with sadness. She walked over, closer to Kisshu's face and licked his nose softly. Kisshu let out a little chuckle and petted Neko on the head.
"I'm fine, Neko … What are you doing here?" Kisshu asked.
"Ryou said that no one missed her. That means she is a stray. Ryou called us and ask me if we would take care of her. I said yes because she makes me happy …" Taruto said softly as he stood in the door way.
"Thank you, Taruto. Neko makes me happy, too." Kisshu said, tiredly.
"Take some rest, Kisshu-sama. You need it." Pai said, calmly.
"I told you to not call me 'sama' … we are brothers and even if father chose me … I have more respect for you than you for me, Pai." Kisshu said, a little angrily.
"Hai … Kisshu." Pai smiled, sadly.
"That's … better …" Kisshu said as he closed his eyes and went to sleep.
"Come on, Ichigo … You surly are hungry, aren't you?" Pai whispered as he took Ichigo into his arms.
"Nyaa …" Ichigo looked down to her stomach as it growled slightly.
"Pai? Did you say 'Ichigo'?" Taruto asked, frowning.
"Taruto … imagine Mew Ichigo …" Pai said as he quietly closed the door. Taruto nodded and Pai looked at him as he closed his eyes.
"Okay." Taruto said.
"And now look at Neko …" Pai said as he held Neko Ichigo in front of the little alien. Taruto opened his eyes and looked at a blushing cat. Taruto blushed scarlet as he backed two steps away.
"You mean …?" he asked, nervously.
"Yes, Taruto … this is 'the old hag'." Pai smiled slightly as Taruto's whole face went red.
"Oh … my … gosh … I said that the old hag makes me happy! Ewwwww!" Taruto ran down the hallway and vanished behind a door. Neko Ichigo let out a small cat sigh and looked up at the oldest alien.
"Don't worry … you can sleep in my bed." Pai said, looking at the door from Kisshu's room. As he looked back at Neko he frowned as she had a scarlet blush on her furry cheeks. Then relation hit him and he shook his head.
"Don't hyperventilate! I have work to do so I don't have time to sleep. You have the bed all for you alone. If I really need to sleep I will take the sofa. I prefer it more than my bed." Pai said as he walked towards a room. Ichigo relaxed and looked as Pai opened the door. He put her on the ground and walked out of the room. After a few minutes he came back with some fish, put it on the ground and watched Neko Ichigo eating the fish.
As Neko finished her meal she walked over to Pai and rubbed her head against his leg. He took it that she was tired so he decided to put her to sleep. He picked Neko up and walked over to a dark-purple, almost black, bed and put her down on it. Pai petted her head, softly. Ichigo started to purr and slowly drifted off to sleep.
'Poor Kisshu …' was her last thought before she joined her friends in dreamland.
TBC:
Catty: Sooooooooo ... I RUINED MY SURPRISE! °whines°
Kisshu: What are you talking about?
Catty: My readers almost guessed what's up with you! °cries°
Kisshu: Whoaaa! Stop it, crier-baby! They only almost guessed that I'm a-
Catty: °put hand over Kisshu's mouth and hiss at him° I might be not a real cat but I still can bite!
Kisshu. °mumbles trough hand° OHAY! OHAY! I WON'D DELL DHEM!
Catty: °takes hand of his mouth° Please! Even if the readers figured it out I want to keep it a secret ... T~T even if some people know what it's up with Kisshu-sama. Ignore my coughing, please ^_^ Coughsamacoughspecialcough
Ichigo: °sneak behind Kisshu and start to tickle him°
Kisshu: WHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
Catty: Awwwww ... young love! ^_^
Ichigo: REVIEW PLEASE IF YOU WANT THAT KISSHU IS STILL ALIVE IN THE NEXT CHAPTER! Hehehehe °tickles Kisshu harder°
Catty: YEAH! Please Review and save Kisshu from that Devil! °point at Ichigo who ignores comment°
Kisshu: HELP! JAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA
Catty: °throws COOKIES to all readers° I promised super-duper-yummy-holo COOKIES! *-* Awww … COOOKIIEESSS!
MATTA NE, MINNA!