Ichigo's Illness Chapter 17:

Ryou's Attack

A few days after Ichigo was fully recovered, Pai ran into the training room and said, "We've got to go back to Earth! Ryou and the Blue Knight are attacking Café Mew Mew!"

Ichigo and Kisshu were shocked, but Ichigo took her pendant out of her pocket and transformed. Then Kisshu grabbed her hand, and he and Pai teleported to Café Mew Mew. Taruto was already there, and the other Mews had transformed and were fighting. Ichigo summoned her Strawberry Bell and ran to help, followed by Kisshu and Pai, who had also summoned their weapons.

Ryou was currently fighting Mint, but as soon as he saw Ichigo coming, he suddenly kicked Mint out of the way and charged at Ichigo. Ichigo dodged sideways, and Ryou turned. Then he tried to stab her. She jumped over the sword and shouted, "Ribon…. Strawberry SURPRISE!"

Ryou dodged the attack, but it still managed to graze his arm. However, he didn't let go of the sword he was using. As soon as Ichigo landed, he charged again. This time, she took a chance, and dodged to the side, then kicked his wounded arm. He lost his grip on the sword, and it skidded over to Ichigo, who picked it up and said, "What will you do now, Ryou?"

Ryou snarled, and pulled out a long knife. He charged at Ichigo, and she dodged, then met Ryou's blade with the sword. He tried to push the sword back at her, but she held her position. She pushed back, then suddenly broke the contact, causing Ryou to stumble. Ichigo saw an opportunity in this, and lunged forward. Just before she could attack, though, Kisshu shouted, "Ichigo! Behind you!"

Ichigo turned, just in time for the Blue Knight to bring the hilt of his sword down on her head, knocking her out. Kisshu immediately teleported to her side, and while kicking the Blue Knight out of the way, picked Ichigo up and teleported into Café Mew Mew, where he found Keiichiro. "Take care of her," Kisshu ordered, and teleported out after Keiichiro nodded.

Kisshu teleported behind Ryou, who turned and attacked him. Kisshu brought his blades up, and trapped Ryou's sword again. Unfortunately, he couldn't send it flying without hurting someone, so he thought of another idea. Kisshu quickly wrenched the blade out of Ryou's hand, let one of his Dragon Swords disappear, and grabbed Ryou's sword.

Ryou got out his long knife again, and attacked Kisshu. "You're through!" Ryou shouted, pushing Kisshu back with his knife.

"No, you're through," Kisshu said, as he kicked Ryou's arm, causing him to drop the knife.

"Why did you have to take Ichigo away from me?" Ryou shouted.

"So that's what this is about," Kisshu said. "You never had a chance on her anyways, Blondie. You were always nasty to her, and since you never acted like you cared, she didn't believe you did. You heard her before; she hates you. Even after Keiichiro told her the truth about you, she still said she never would have fallen for you. She loves me now, and you should just get over it."

"I'm going to find a way to make Ichigo love me, and then you and the rest of your race can go to hell," Ryou said.

"Sorry Blondie, but you can't do that if you're dead," Kisshu said. With that, he took Ryou's sword, and drove it through Ryou's heart, killing him. Then he turned to the others, who were watching. "Hey, what happened to the Blue Knight?" Kisshu asked.

"He vanished when it looked like he was about to lose," Mint said. "Coward."

"Well, Ryou's dead, so that's a plus," Kisshu said. "What are we going to do with the body?"

"Call the police and have them haul it away?" Mint suggested.

"We'll all get arrested for murder," Zakuro said. "Let's go ask Keiichiro."

They all went inside, and found Keiichiro upstairs, watching over Ichigo, who was still unconscious. "What's up?" he asked.

"Kisshu killed Ryou and we're wondering what we should do with the body," Pai said.

"We could burn it," Keiichiro said.

"What will we tell the police?" Zakuro asked. "They're still looking for him, right?"

"Actually, I think they've all got orders to shoot him on sight," Keiichiro said. "We might as well tell them we found the body here, and make it look like the Blue Knight killed him."

"That's a good plan," Kisshu said. "But we should get Ichigo out of here before they show up."

"Okay," Keiichiro said. "You guys should go back to your ship with Ichigo. I'll contact you after we work this out."

"Will do," said Pai. Kisshu picked up Ichigo and teleported, followed by Pai and Taruto.

Okay, I just ran out of ideas. If you've got any, please let me know! I want to put Deep Blue in at some point, btw.