Ok, here's the next installment!

Thanks for the positive reviews! ^_^

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"Ryou!" yelled Keiichiro, in a panicked state, as he slammed into the room.

"I-I'm fine, Asaka-san," the deep, melodic voice of Ryou Shirogane came out perfectly from her mouth. Well, his mouth. It was all a bit confusing.

Then she realised what she had done. "I-I mean, Keiichiro..." it didn't feel right to be so intimate, but she was Ryou now.

Keiichiro smiled. "Are you sure that you're ok, Ryou? Why did you call out?"

"No reason..."

"Oh!" gasped Keiichiro. He stared at the crumpled heap that was Ichigo. "Oh, God- what happened?!"

Keiichiro rushed to the body of the mew mew's side.

"There's a pulse..." his voice trailed off, as Zakuro ran in.

"What's wrong, Fujiwara-san?" asked Keiichiro quickly.

"Shirogane-san, you have a phone call. Wait, Ichigo...?"

"Get Ichigo back home," said the Ichigo inside of Ryou. "I mean, get Momomiya back. I'll get the phone."

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(2 HOURS LATER)

"This..."

"Ryou, are you ok...?" Keiichiro intervened.

"IS A DISASTER!!!!!!!"

Ichigo yelped. Being Ryou was a lot harder then she imagined.

She had cleaned dishes, mopped floors, talked to businesses about advertising with Cafe Mew Mew- and lost half of them- handled the phone calls, checked up on Ryou's latest experiments...

All in the last 10 minutes.

"Ryou, we have a problem," Keiichiro's face was sombre. "Come to the lab."

Go to the lab? The lab which had turned her into... well... into...

"Hey, Shirogane-san," a girl looking just like Ichigo walked into the Cafe. Hang on a second... it WAS Ichigo!

The real Ichigo's mouth dropped open. Oh, God... so there was a temporary version of her to cover it all up.

This was a total nightmare.

Suddenly, some thing really strange happened (well, after comparing it to switching bodies with your boss, it really wasn't that odd...).

A red beam sunk through the temporary Ichigo, who appeared not to notice a thing. "I was feeling a bit sick, but I'm better now..." Temporary Ichigo's chirrupy voice filled the Cafe. She yawned.

A violent emotion thundered through the real Ichigo. It was anger, anger that Momomiya was always late, that she didn't understand how he felt, that...

The real Ichigo realised quickly- she was recieving the thoughts that would have been running around Ryou's mind.

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Ichigo was positively exhausted. Annoyed and bemused, she was at an all time low.

She softly padded over to the kitchens and looked into the window.

There were Zakuro and Keiichiro.

She couldn't hear them, but suddenly they hugged, holding the soft embrace.

Ichigo blushed, happy for them, now understanding why Zakuro had been working late the past week.

So there were good points to being Ryou!

Keiichiro came out. "Sorry about that, was just talking with Fujiwara..."

"It's ok, Keiichiro. I know."

Keiichiro's face flushed bright crimson, and he looked down at his shoes.

"It's ME, Keiichiro, why are you so embarassed?! I'm pleased for you!"

Keiichiro smiled fully. "Ah, I'm sorry Ryou... it's just... you seem so different today..."

Ichigo smiled, making Ryou's face light up.

"Maybe I'm just having a weird day."

"OH! The lab!" Keiichiro quickly remembered.

They both strolled over to the experiment room, Keiichiro worried like hell and Ichigo wondering what to expect.

Keiichiro opened up the screen and showed it to 'Ryou.'

"Oh my God..."

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This chapter has been EXTREMELY CONFUSING I know. Obviously, because Ichigo has become Ryou, it's hard to portray her. But I hope that it was a well written chapter. ^_^

I tried to get a good balance between humour, suspense and romance...

Did I succeed? Please review!!! No flames, but constructive critisism is always good :) x