"So um… Got any gas-x?" Arekkusu asked.
Pai, who had been covering his nose and trying not to throw up, just grabbed her arm and teleported.
"Hey, Hey! What are you-?!" she didn't get the chance to say anything else. A wave of nausea hit her as the landed lightly on the ground. Earth ground. They were right outside of the café.
Eh? What the-
"Arekkusu!!!" Great. Blondie's coming. Arekkusu pointedly turned away.
Pai, who had just been standing there, turned to face Ryou as he came running up.
"You can have her." He growled. For the love of Deep Blue-sama…NEVER would he try and keep a prisoner with……such stink problems again.
With those thoughts, he disappeared.
"Arekkusu! What happened?!" Ryou screamed, which wasn't all that good for Arekkusu's enhanced hearing.
"Well, once again, I was kidnapped; I almost got in a fight with Kisshu; I let the enemy know of my fart problem…And you just screamed in my ear. Anything else you wanna' know?" she asked sarcastically.
"…Why do I even bother caring?" Ryou asked himself before walking away.
Jerk. Though I guess I kind of deserved it that time. He was probably worried about me…
Once more, the image of the blond teenager popped into her head, and then it changed.
It was her friend…the one who could make her laugh when she was upset…the one who stayed with her when she was down…the kid who she was always with in school… He was so different from Ryou, but they looked so alike.
So why? Why is Ryou the image of Joseph? He died for the love of pancakes! Why do I need reminding…?
"I'll call of the others since you're obviously perfectly fine." Ryou growled.
"Geez, don't be a jerk! For all you know, I could have had a life changing traumatic experience that could leave me mute and crazy!" She yelled at the back of Ryou's head.
"Wow…mute…It would be a blessing in disguise."
"Why you little…!" clenching her fist, she decided that it wasn't worth it.
A few hours later, after meeting the remainder of her new team, Arekkusu got one last nasty surprise before hitting the sack.
"And what is this supposed to be?" Arekkusu asked, holding out the café uniform like it was about to bite her.
"It's your Café Mew Mew uniform. You start tomorrow. Oh, and you get a few weeks pay off because of your 'little helpless me just got captured by the enemy' act." Ryou smirked, it wasn't a nice smirk.
"WHAT did you say, Blondie?! You think I PLANNED that, did you? Well, no sir I did NOT." Each emphasized word was spiked with bat screech, and Ryou flinched while covering his ears.
"Okay, okay, just put the uniform on and I'll se if I have to resize it or anything!" he shouted.
Five minutes later, Arekkusu stuck her head out of the dressing room door.
"D-do I have to wear it?" she whimpered. Ryou shook his head, disgusted. That ungrateful child!
"Yes! We paid good money for all of the Café Mew Mew original waitress outfits. So get your butt in gear and get out here to serve the customers!"
Around that time, Ichigo walked in.
"What are you talking about?! Nobody's here yet! Can't you go and pick on someone else, Shirogane?" Ichigo asked. To her, it was annoying enough when he picked on her. And if he was picking on someone else, even if was that insulting girl who made fun of her nyaa's…well, who's to say girls shouldn't stick together?
"Okay, pick on someone else. Right. ICHIGO! You're three minutes late! THREE. MINUTES. LATE. Do you know what would have happened if-"
"I don't care! And I meant for you to not pick on any of us! Arrgh, you big, mean, insolent, JERK!!" she shouted in his face.
Arekkusu didn't know what to do. That slightly annoying meowing girl had helped her out…
Well, might as well help her before she get's in trouble on my behalf.
"Oi! Look, I'm out. Okay?" she said through clenched teeth. She hated frilly things. She hated thinks with skirts. And she hated having to work as a waitress for a café. A PINK. GIRLY. CAFÉ. Life was cruel….
Ichigo was the first to notice that she was out.
"Awww! You look so kawaii in that!" uhhg, the EXACT opposite of what I want to hear. She thought sourly.
"What were you complaining about? You look fine. Now get to work!" he barked at the both of them.
"Is he always this irritable?" Arekkusu asked, looking at her new grey café uniform. Now I stick out from the other colors like a sore thumb..
"Eh, sometimes. He's usually in the worst moods on Monday but-"
"Monday? Oh crap……crap, it's Saturday, isn't it?" Please say no…
"Yeah, sure is. Why do you ask?" Ichigo looked at her curiously.
"I'M GONNA BE LATE!!!!!!" She screamed in English.
Before Ichigo could ask what she was she just said, Arekkusu was already out the door.
"Tell Jerk-face I'll be back in an hour!"
"Umm…okay?" Ichigo stared at the empty doorway. "Well, what was THAT all about?"
"What!? Please explain to me again." Kisshu asked.
"Sigh, and I thought it was simple enough for even you to figure out…Listen, Kisshu. I let the kid go for two reasons. One: she stank worse than you with your failed experiment with the Chimera Skunk. Two: I happened to leave an eavesdropping device on her as I teleported her back to Earth. We can obtain necessary information about the mews that way."
"……So you mean you didn't put one on any other mew?" Kisshu asked after a few seconds.
"Kisshu, if I put something of that sort on Mew Ichigo, I know what you would be doing."
"And what would that be?" Kisshu asked.
"Something that would pertain to your usual perverted nature."
"You wound me, Pai. Why I would never-"
"Save your breath for someone who cares." Pai stated before going back to his computer.