Angel's Note: 1. err..eto..uhh..I KNOW ITS BEEN SO LONG BUT UGH. uni's been a complete tard. ;A; true i had a month vacation now that the fall semester ended BUT I WAS ENJOYING DEAR LIFE. Dx so yes, im truly sorry. T.T
2. thank you so much for the reviews, they really mean a lot! TnT the reader's opinion about the story is what makes him motivated, or helps pointing out the things that need to be fixed or worked on for a better story. :3 so, please review when possible!
3. for those who wonder, i always put the meaning of the japanese words i use up here. xD its just when im imagining these in my head i think of the dialogues in japanese and not in english, and some stuff are better off said japanese. *nodsnods* for this chapter, "are" means "huh" or "hmm?", "yā" means "hey", "hanase" means "let me go", " hayaku" means "hurry" or "quickly", "ite" means "ow", "kawaii" means "cute" but that should be known.. xD
4. disclaimer: some parts of this chapter were taken from episode 25. modified of course.
5. hope no mistakes were done, its 3: 06 am afterall. ._. enjoy!
Unexpected
Chapter eight: Paradox
Ichigo's glares did not budge off Kisshu. Even when she blinked, she was still glaring at him.
Why? Just why?!
She still couldn't understand why he was there. There was no Mew Aqua. What's the point in wasting his time in such place when he could be searching for one? Was he that stupid? Wasn't he supposed to focus on his goal?
Maybe he's trying to distract you out of doing your job in kicking their butts! An inner voice suggested, but another look at the pathetic, helpless, sleeping form of the alien dismissed that thought.
Kisshu was sleeping, of course.
She didn't expect him to be otherwise.
She slowly slid down on her desk, still scowling.
Ugh! And why are people praising him? He caused the whole fuss! God it's not fair!
The thing because which Ichigo was really disturbed was the fact that everyone forgot the help Aoyama contributed in. His act was genuine, unlike someone else.
Enjoy your time now Kisshu, when Aoyama-kun gets back he'll show you who's the boss! Hmph!
Ichigo thought it was finally time to leave that bastard alone and just close her eyes to rest. It didn't seem he would be awakening any time soon. She took a deep breath to clear her mind that had been occupied with millions of thoughts for the last couple of days. She opened them again and contemplated the sky, all signs of annoyance gone.
I wonder how Aoyama-kun is doing…
She closed her eyes in an attempt to relax, but—
"This is no place for you to sleep, Momomiya-san! Wake up." And the book the teacher had in his hand met Ichigo's head in a gentle, yet unexpected way.
Ichigo clutched her head with both her hands as she quietly wept in pain.
"Itee itee itteeee Igarashi-sensei!" Ichigo cried looking innocently up to her teacher. "..It's not fair!" She pouted, laying back on her chair and folding her arms.
"You're in school, Momomiya-san. Do you see anyone else sleeping in class?" The teacher sighed, suppressing a chuckle.
"As a matter of fact I d—"
"No, so let's just focus okay? C'mon There's only 35 minutes left." And with that he gave her a kind smile and walked away, resuming his work.
Ichigo had the same look anyone would give if he sees a three-eyed chicken floating towards him.
But Kisshu is sleeping right in front of you!She wanted to say. The girl looked back to make sure the alien was indeed sleeping. And he was.
Then what the..?
She looked around the classroom. No one seemed to pay the thing any heed. She looked back again at the alien.
Still asleep.
What?!
Wasn't anyone noticing him? Or, even if they did, what about the teacher? Did he put some sort of a spell on him?
What are you aiming at, Kisshu? She pondered, narrowing her eyes.
o-o-o
"That was it for today, class. Don't forget you have a test on Monday. Have a nice weekend. You are dismissed. "
"Dismiss." A student spoke, and with that the others stood up, putting their books back in their bags or taking out their food. Some were just stretching after long three hours of studying.
"Eeehh, I'm so not ready for a math test, I'm sure I'm gonna fail." Moe complained addressing to her friends and rubbing the back of her neck. "So, which one of you will volunteer to help me?"
Ichigo arched a crimson eyebrow.
"Really? You expect me to help you with math? I need all the help I can get!" Ichigo sighed, head hung over her shoulders.
Both the redhead and the blond looked up at each other then grinned, turning their gaze to Miwa.
"Mi-wa-chan~" They both sang, hands behind their backs and wearing the most innocent look they could ever pull.
Said girl shook her head and giggled.
"Of course. When did I ever not help you guys?"
That said, they all began laughing. Looking up calming herself down, Moe caught a glimpse of brown and green behind Ichigo that were not very common between the school walls.
"Are…" She mumbled, tilting her head to the side. Walking closer to take a better look, her eyes widened in surprise. "..Kisshu-kun is still asleep?"
The other girls turned around towards Moe, following her.
"Wasn't he sleeping from the first period? I mean…we just finished the third…" Miwa wondered as well, slightly worried. Ichigo merely shrugged, apathy clearly showing. Well why should she care?
A. She knew he was perfectly fine and that he was just bored and had nothing to do. After all, he was only there to annoy her.
B. It was Kisshu for heaven's sake! Of course she wouldn't be bothered. If anything she should be trying to kill him to save the planet, not worry about him!
"Didn't' he do that yesterday too? Why does he keep sleeping in class? He must be staying up too late at night, but why? It's not like he is plotting world domination or anything." Miwa made sure her joke was low enough not to wake him up, but Ichigo's nervous laugh was a bit too loud. Her friends looked at her questionably, no doubtfully oblivious of the fact that what Miwa had said was partially true.
What are you talking about Miwa, world domination? That's ridiculous! IT'S ERADICATING HUMANITY. Ichigo wanted to shout, but of course that was out of the question.
"Maybe he's an orphan who lives alone with his poor siblings so he stays up all night working and taking care of them!" Moe snapped, eyes widening at her suggestion and taking her hand in the other. Soon little stars began to sparkle in her eyes as she kept staring sympathetically at him. "…aww Kawaiii~!" she squeaked, voice still kind of low.
For the second time that day, Ichigo had a very confused look on her face. For a second, she tried applying that theory on him; Kisshu running around between rooms with a milk bottle, giving Taruto a bath, cooking, cleaning the house, doing the dishes with the classical apron on… The redhead found it hard to hold back a laugh. Instead, the corners of her mouth lifted up in a suppressed smile.
"Moe, what are you doing?" Miwa's voice snapped her back to see the blond bending down next to the alien.
"I wanna see how his hair looks like from the back!" She whispered, hand tugging carefully on his hood.
Ichigo rolled her eyes, sighing at the simplicity of her friend.
Before something clicked in her mind and her eyes widened.
"N-NOOO DON'T!" She shouted, pulling her back immediately. Noticing her odd, unusual outburst, she continued. "…it's rude and he may not like it, plus you might wake him up!" She argued, hoping she would be convinced enough to let it go and not see his alien ears.
"Eehh? Ichigo I thought you didn't care about him." Moe replied, moving closer only to be blocked by Ichigo standing between them.
"Y-yes! I don't! But I don't like the idea of invading someone's privacy in general!" The Mew-Mew answered, still hindering her friend's movements.
"Out of the way Ichigo!"
"No!"
The girls kept fighting, with Moe trying to reach Kisshu's hoodie, and Ichigo pushing her away. All what Miwa was able to do was staring worriedly at her friends, mumbling their names as if that would make them stop.
That was until…
Slip
Ichigo slowly blinked, opening her eyes to see a shocked Moe in front of her. She blinked again, wondering what was wrong, then turned to her left to realize two things.
1. She had slipped and fell back on someone.
2. That someone turned out to be Kisshu.
The redhead felt a blush growing on her cheeks when she saw the alien staring at her with sleepy, half-open eyes. She was too stupid to only attempt to get up when he recognized her, and she knew that by the big grin he wore afterwards.
"Yā Koneko-chan~! If you wanted to lay in my arms you could've just said so!" He exclaimed, wrapping his arms around Ichigo's waist and pulling her back towards him.
"H-hanase yo!" The redhead struggled, trying to free herself from his grip.
As all her ways of pushing the alien away from her failed, the Mew-Mew stomped his foot and got up, ignoring his cry of pain. The girl stumbled a bit forward but she didn't care, instead she dusted her uniform as if nothing had happened. As soon as she looked up to her friends, she tilted her head in confusion at the sight of her puzzled friends.
"What?" The redhead asked. She dropped the question when nothing but a sigh from them was heard as an answer.
Kisshu stood up from his seat and stretched his arms, absent-mindedly flying off the floor a couple of inches when doing so. At noticing that Ichigo panicked, so she just started a random topic while nervously waving with her hands in front of them, interrupting their apologies.
"Well let's go eat!" She suggested dragging her best friends towards the door. She looked back and stuck her tongue out at Kisshu, who only smirked at her.
"Guess I'll see you guys later." He waved before vanishing out of the room.
"Why don't you come with u—" Moe turned back, her eyebrows rose up considerably when she didn't find him where he was last seen. "..are..? Where did he—"
"AHAHAHA SO MIWA HOW ABOUT WE MEET UP AT THE LIBRARY TOMORROW?" Ichigo quickly started. She was grateful her friend was easily distracted by the question.
"Hey Pai." A childish voice reverberated in the tunnel Chimera Mole was digging underground.
"Yes?" Said-man replied automatically, eyes not budging off the monster.
Taruto looked at the elder with his hands crossed behind his head.
"Kisshu is acting strange, isn't he?"
Pai seemed to consider the question for a couple of seconds.
"He is too aggressive in this operation, that's for sure."
"I think he has an agenda." The juvenile proposed, somewhat interested in that idea. Since it included Kisshu, that devious, scheming step-brother of his, it had to be exciting.
"Well let him try." Pai replied, obviously not sharing the same thoughts of his younger brother. "…I am not gonna do anything without reliable information."
"So this is Ikisatashi-kun's girlfriend?" Another whisper did not go unheard by the redhead.
This time, Ichigo's hand, that held her spoon so firmly in annoyance, slammed the surface of the table almost scaring the whispering girls behind her away.
"No. We are not together!" She shouted once again, causing her friends to drop their own spoons out of surprise.
Ichigo sighed for the fifth time and sat down, losing the appetite she once had. Her friends looked at each other worriedly then back at her.
"You can't blame them…by the way he acts and fought that monster for you, it does seem like it…" Moe spoke apologetically.
"Plus why are you so mad about it Ichigo? He really seems to like you. He's not that bad, he's the hero of our school…" Miwa queried, locking eyes with Ichigo.
"But I like Aoyama-kun!" Ichigo snapped, face dropping again. "I don't want rumors to start…If Aoyama-kun comes and hears all of this, he'll think—"
"Actually, this would be perfect for you," Moe began, an eyebrow raised with amusement. When the blond got the attention she wanted her smirk grew bigger. "…when Aoyama-kun sees the affection Kisshu-kun has towards you, he can't help but feel jealous or in a way, threatened."
Ichigo and Miwa stared at each other then blinked, turning their gaze back to Moe for more clarification. Seeing her friends confused, the blond facepalmed, waving carelessly.
"Just trust me with this guys, when Aoyama-kun sees how desired you are, he will want you more than ever!" She assured her like the typical teenager she was.
"But they have already met, they didn't seem to get along with each other…"
"Even more perfect! His rival is stealing his girl, oh what will you Aoyama-kun do?"
You watch way too much TV… Miwa sweatdropped.
Ichigo looked down at her plate.
"If you say so…"
"What's that light?" Taruto wondered, untangling his arms to point at the glowing Chimera Mole.
"Is it possible…" Pai spoke, getting suspicious.
Before the elder could carry on, a figure appeared right in front of them, luckily right on time.
"What's up?" The casual voice of Kisshu, adding his sudden appearance at that time, increased Pai's suspicion.
"We got a signal from the Chimera Anima!" Taruto exclaimed, excitement written all over his face.
"Probably…" Pai spoke, eying Kisshu.
"Bingo, looks like it found a Mew Aqua." The green-haired alien smirked.
"How about your cocoon?"
"Don't worry, just in time." Kisshu stated. His golden eyes were shining more maliciously than ever. "An adult moth will come out before the Chimera Anima reaches the Mew Aqua. Now, I'll go to Tokyo Tower, I'll leave the Mew Aqua to you two."
Kisshu was all set to leave, but the feeling of being watched caused him to turn around to meet Pai's stare.
"What?"
Pai turned towards the Chimera Anima. "No nothing. Let's begin the operation."
"It's show time." The snicker accompanied him while teleporting.
Ichigo turned the faucet to stop the water from running. She looked at her reflection in the mirror; wet bangs sticking at her newly-washed face. Many thoughts ran through her mind but she didn't know which one she should focus on. The girl sighed and straightened up, walking towards the box on the wall to get some paper tissues.
"When Aoyama-kun sees how desired you are, he will want you more than ever!"
Could that possibly work..?
Beep Beep
The redhead was startled out of her thoughts at the sound of her cell phone's ringtone. She pressed the answer button and put it on her ear.
"Hello? Ichigo?!" Said-girl stiffened after hearing Shirogane's alarmed voice. Just by the way he said her name, her heart almost stopped; he had unmistakably bad news.
"We need you to come to the café right now, we have received many reports about damages affecting the city like..everywhere..we still don't know their origin, we need all of you! Hurry up!" And with that he hung up.
What? What the hell is goi—
In a matter of a second, Ichigo found herself painfully pinned to the wall with both her hands incapable of moving, while her head was forced to look up at the attacker whose fingers were holding her chin.
"Gotcha~!" Kisshu said, leaning closer.
"K-Kisshu! Y-you—!"
Between her attempts of freeing her arms and trying to look away –he was holding her wrist with a hand and fixing the elbow of her other arm with his own- Ichigo had trouble breathing dear air for she was already tensed due to Shirogane's call, and the amount of pain Kisshu had caused by throwing her to the wall was by no means low. Not to mention he was suspiciously too close to her.
Although instead of going for her mouth like he usually did, he leaned closer than that. He hissed something in the redhead's ear, but she couldn't make it out. Even when he finally removed his hand off her face, she still didn't move her bewildered eyes off his thrilled ones. It was only when she felt something in her pocket that she looked down, after being released from his grip.
"Hayaku hayaku, Koneko-chan!" He whispered urgently. If that grin of his wasn't there she could have mistaken his tone for a troubled one, as if his life was depending on her.
"Wh-wha—"
The girl soon found herself left alone sitting on the bathroom floor, no sign of anything of the previous. She scrutinized the place for any other presence, but she was indeed alone. It was after holding the item he gave her between her hands that his previous words sunk in.
"Tokyo Tower," he had said.
What is he…?
" we have received many reports about damages affecting the city like..everywhere..we still don't know their origin"
The Mew-Mew got up and stared at her metamorphosis charm, shining every time she turned it around between her fingers.
If what he has just said turns out to be true…then Kisshu…why are you…?
Ichigo's grip around the pendant the alien had just given her tightened. She rushed outside the school bathroom towards the exit.
No time to think about it. I have to go to the café.
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