Sparks of Love Chapter 3:

Aoyuck's Demise

Kisshu was completely shocked by this confession. He hadn't expected Ichigo to actually tell him, even if she did love him. "Y-you do?" he asked. "Or is this another dream?"

Ichigo smiled. "It's not a dream, I promise," she said.

"Does that mean I can kiss you?" Kisshu asked hopefully.

"Can we do that later? I'm tired again," Ichigo said.

"Sorry," Kisshu said. "Do you want me to stay?"

"Yes please…." Ichigo said, sounding sleepy. She settled back against the pillows, and Kisshu pulled the blankets over her as she fell asleep. He carefully sat on the bed with her, and started stroking her hair again. She started purring a few minutes later, and Kisshu smiled.

By nighttime, Kisshu was getting worried, because Ichigo hadn't even stirred. Finally he called Pai, who came in a few minutes later, and said, "What's wrong?"

"Ichigo's been sleeping all day, I'm kind of worried about her," Kisshu said.

"It's probably a combination of the blood loss and her cat genes, but I can take a look," Pai said. He gently put a hand on Ichigo's chest for a few minutes, then said, "She's fine. Cats need nineteen hours of sleep per day, so it's not unusual for them to sleep all day. Ichigo shouldn't normally need nineteen hours, since she's only half cat, but she needs rest after what she's been through."

"Wow, that's a lot of sleep," Kisshu commented.

"Speaking of sleep, it's already almost eleven, so you should go to bed as well," Pai said.

"K," Kisshu said as Pai teleported out. He slid under the covers next to Ichigo, who seemed to sense him, because she cuddled against him, purring. I wonder how she senses I'm here…. Kisshu thought as he fell asleep.

The next morning, Ichigo woke up feeling stronger, and decided to try standing. She noticed Kisshu was sleeping next to her, so she was quiet as she sat up and put her feet on the floor. When she tried standing, however, she didn't get very far before falling to her knees. And on a hard floor, that hurt. She cried out as pain shot through her legs.

The sound immediately woke up Kisshu, who sat up and looked over at Ichigo, who was kneeling on the floor. Kisshu jumped out of bed and ran to her, asking, "What happened?"

"I thought I could stand up, but apparently not," Ichigo said. "My legs really hurt…"

Kisshu gently picked her up and put her back on the bed. "Can you stretch your legs out?" he asked Ichigo gently. "It's going to hurt more if you stay in that position."

Ichigo slowly stretched her legs out in front of her, wincing. It hurt Kisshu to see her in this much pain, and he decided he would make the treehugger pay for this.

Ichigo noticed Kisshu was looking sort of angry, and asked, "Kisshu, what's wrong?"

"That jerk's going to pay for hurting you," Kisshu snarled- then teleported, leaving Ichigo worried.

With Kisshu: Kisshu teleported to Earth, then closed his eyes, trying to sense where the treehugger was. He didn't want to deal with a lot of other humans. Unfortunately, he saw what looked like a room full of screaming girls, and mentally groaned, knowing it was at Ichigo's school. Then an idea occurred to him, and he teleported to the roof of Ichigo's school- only to flinch when he noticed there were two girls on the roof. For some reason, they looked familiar. Kisshu thought, then remembered that Ichigo had two school friends. They looked startled to see him, but strangely, they didn't seem scared. The blonde one said, "Can you bug someone else? Aoyama's going down, and we don't need interruptions while planning his demise."

"You hate him too?" Kisshu asked, startled.

"Of course we hate him, he's the reason Ichigo disappeared," the brown haired girl said. "So unless you want to help us take him down, I'd suggest going away, before we decide to take you down too."

"Actually, I do want to help," Kisshu said. "I came here to kill him."

"For what reason? That's our job," the blonde girl said.

"He beat Ichigo up with a knife," Kisshu said- then got nervous as the two girls' eyes turned into lasers.

"HE'S GOING DOWN!" they shouted together.

"I have an idea," Kisshu said. "Why don't you two lure him out here, and we can go somewhere else to kill him?"

The girls smirked, and said, "We're on it. Wait here."

Kisshu nodded, and watched them run down the staircase into the school. They came back not even ten minutes later, dragging Aoyuck, who was disgruntledly saying, "Okay, so what did I do now? You beat me up yesterday; wasn't that enough?"

"Nowhere near," the brown haired girl said evilly. She looked over at Kisshu, then said, "So where are we going?"

"Somewhere else, where there aren't any humans," Kisshu said. "Grab my shoulders."

The girls dragged a now very nervous Aoyuck over, and Kisshu grabbed him by the neck as the two girls grabbed his shoulders. Kisshu teleported to the training room of the ship, and threw Aoyuck on the floor. He looked over at the two girls, who promptly leaped on Aoyuck and started beating him to a pulp.

After a few minutes of the treehugger screaming for mercy, Kisshu said, "My turn."

The girls reluctantly got off as Kisshu took out his swords. The treehugger tried to scramble away, but Kisshu was faster, and stabbed him through the heart. Then Kisshu created an energy ball, and incinerated the treehugger.

When he was finally a pile of ash, the two girls shouted, "YAY!"

Kisshu smiled, but his smile quickly faded as he heard from the door, "Kisshu, would you care to explain what you're doing?"

"Killing the treehugger," Kisshu said nonchalantly. "These two wanted to help." He turned to look at Pai, who had one hand over his face. "What?" he asked.

"You're insane, Kisshu," Pai said dryly. "And you will be cleaning up the mess you made, got that?"

"Yeah, yeah, whatever Pai," Kisshu said. He turned back to the girls and asked, "Do you want to see Ichigo?"

"What's she doing here?" the blonde one asked.

"I found her after the treehugger beat her up and brought her here to care for her injuries," Kisshu said.

"Is she okay?" the brown haired girl asked.

"She still can't walk, but she should be fine in a few days," Kisshu said. "She lost a lot of blood from her injuries."

"Can we see her?" the blonde girl asked.

"Sure," Kisshu said. "I can clean the floor later." He took both of them by the shoulder, and teleported to his room.

Ichigo looked up, startled, and said, "Moe? Miwa? What are you two doing here?"

"We helped him kill Aoyama," Miwa said, pointing to Kisshu. "He found us plotting Aoyama's demise, and said he'd help."

"You two are going to get arrested!" Ichigo moaned.

"No they're not, we killed him here," Kisshu said.

Ichigo sighed. "Thanks," she said. "Now he can't hurt me."

"That's what we're here for," Moe said. "Seems like your new boyfriend thinks the way we do, so I guess we'll let him live- for now."

Kisshu gulped, and Ichigo giggled.

Moe and Miwa giggled too, and then Miwa said, "We should get home, is that okay?"

"Can I teleport to that park with the big sakura tree?" Kisshu asked. "I'd rather not teleport back to the school."

"Good plan," Miwa said. "Ichigo, we'll see you when you're better, right?"

"Yep," Ichigo said. "Bye."

"Bye," Moe and Miwa said. Kisshu took them both by the shoulder, and teleported to the park. They landed in front of the sakura tree, and Kisshu said, "Thanks for the help."

"Sure, but just be aware that we take down anyone who hurts Ichigo, physically or emotionally," Moe said.

"I got the picture, and I would never do that," Kisshu said. "No matter what Ichigo's evil blonde boss may think."

"That guy who owns Café Mew Mew?" Miwa asked.

"Yep," Kisshu said. "He hates both Ichigo and me."

"Should he be going down?" Miwa asked.

"If you feel like it, he did try to drag Ichigo off the other day when she still couldn't sit up," Kisshu said.

"We'll see you around, he obviously needs a lesson," Moe said, and she and Miwa headed in the direction of Café Mew Mew, bearing a striking resemblance to hungry wolves. Kisshu chuckled quietly as he teleported back to Ichigo.

When Ichigo saw him, she asked suspiciously, "Why are you snickering?"

"Moe and Miwa are headed for Café Mew Mew to annihilate Blondie," Kisshu said. "They looked kind of like hungry wolves…"

"Kisshu, did you have to? They're going to get arrested!" Ichigo wailed.

"Sorry, but they asked if he should go down," Kisshu said.

Ichigo sighed. "Don't encourage them," she said. "They got suspended once a week until the principal gave up on them. They beat up anyone who hurts me in any way. I'm not even surprised they decided to help you kill the treehugger. They're so overprotective it's not even funny."

Kisshu sat down with her on the bed, and trying to change the subject, asked, "Are you feeling any stronger?"

"I still don't think I can stand," Ichigo said. "It's frustrating. And my legs still hurt from this morning."

"Can I see?" Kisshu asked. Ichigo nodded, so Kisshu took the blanket off her legs. Some of the cuts had bled through the bandaging, and Kisshu was worried. "I'm going to ask Pai if he can do something about this," Kisshu told Ichigo. "He knows how to heal, but I didn't really think it would take this long for the cuts to heal. But since Ryou reopened some, and your fall reopened some, I think it might be better if Pai healed the cuts. He can't heal blood loss, though, so you'll have to tough out not being able to stand for a while, k?"

"K," Ichigo said.

Kisshu teleported to Pai's lab, and knocked on the door. No response. Great, he's ignoring me again, Kisshu thought. Then he started banging on the door, and yelled, "Open up already!"

"FINE!" Pai shouted back, and Kisshu opened the door cautiously, then dodged a blast of lightning from Pai's fan. "What do you want?" Pai asked angrily. "I was busy!"

"You're always busy, but I think this time you were daydreaming about Lettuce again," Kisshu said. "What I had to ask was if you could come look at Ichigo's injuries; they're not healing, and she's in a lot of pain."

"Fine, but after that, you will be cleaning the training room floor," Pai said. He teleported to Kisshu's room, followed by Kisshu.

Ichigo was still sitting up when they teleported in, and Pai went over to her, then said, "I need to take the bandages off."

"Okay," Ichigo said. "I can do the ones on my legs." She reached out, and unwrapped the bandages on her legs, flinching. Kisshu and Pai both winced; her legs were really slashed up. Pai took the bandages off her arms, which were basically in the same condition. "I need you to lie down," Pai told Ichigo. She obeyed, and Pai put a hand on her forehead. She fell asleep, and Pai put his hand on her left arm. His hand began to glow, and the cuts started healing. When they were gone, with a few small scars, he repeated the process with her right arm, then did the same with her legs. When all the injuries were healed, Pai put a hand on Ichigo's chest for a minute, then said softly, "She needs to sleep off the healing, and that might take a while. I noticed that she might be having nightmares, so you should stay with her. You still have to clean the floor, but that can be done when she's awake."

"Okay, thanks Pai," Kisshu said. He sat down on the bed next to Ichigo, but before he could stroke her hair, Pai stopped him.

"It's not a good idea to touch her right away," Pai said. "The healing's still sinking in. Give it about an hour, then you can play with her hair."

"K," Kisshu said. He tucked the blankets in around Ichigo, and settled down to wait as Pai teleported out.

I know I said Ichigo would get better in this chapter, but I felt like killing someone, so I decided I'll try to get her better next chapter (I hope…) Review!