Ichigo's Illness Chapter 30:
Secrets Revealed
Sakura woke Kisshu and Ichigo up in time for dinner, but told them to make it an early night. They did so, and woke up the next morning feeling fine.
Both of them were nervous about going back to school, but they walked there nonetheless. Moe and Miwa met them at the front gate.
"Kisshu, are you okay?" Miwa asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Kisshu said. He and Ichigo knew they had to pretend that he was still injured, so he said, "It wasn't that bad."
"I'm glad you're okay," Miwa said.
"Thanks," Kisshu said. "Should we get to class?"
"Good plan," Ichigo said. The four of them went up to their first class, and sat down together. Their history teacher walked in, and said, "Ichigo, Kisshu, Moe and Miwa, the principal wants to talk with you. Don't worry, you're not in trouble, but you should go. I'll save your work for you."
Ichigo and the others stood and bowed, then went to the principal's office. The principal looked up as they came in and said, "Thanks for coming. I wanted to inform you that Kairi Anko, the girl who stabbed Kisshu, has been expelled. I'm going to be keeping a closer eye on the girls I suspended when they come back, too. I'm sure none of us want a repeat of yesterday."
"Thanks for letting us know, sir," Ichigo said. "Was there anything else?"
"Yes, but first, Kisshu, are you okay?" the principal asked. "I heard that Anko stabbed you."
"I'm fine," Kisshu said. "It wasn't that bad."
"Good," the principal said with relief. "The other thing I wanted to talk with you about is the other students' reactions to this incident. Many students' parents have been calling me, asking if it's safe to send children to this school. The bullying issues with Haruki Momo are concerning, simply because bullying is against school rules. Up till now, we haven't had any problems, but I'm concerned about this, because it started after Ichigo and Kisshu started school. I'm not saying you two are the cause of this, so don't worry about that."
"Sir, is there something we could do to help with this?" Ichigo asked. "This bullying thing is a problem, and if we start get bullied like Momo, I'm concerned about others' reactions."
"You mean Moe and Miwa, right?" the principal asked. He turned to the two in question and said, "I'm well aware that most of the school is somewhat afraid of you two, because of how you react when someone hurts Ichigo. I don't really mind as long as you don't get too violent, since you're protecting your friend, but are you two actually okay with people fearing you?"
"We'd rather be feared than see our friends hurt because we couldn't stop it," Moe said.
Miwa continued, "It doesn't bug us; we don't want to be underestimated. It's better that we be feared, so we have the ability to protect those who can't always protect themselves."
"We've always looked out for Ichigo," Moe said. "And now we'll look out for Kisshu too."
"I'm impressed," the principal said. "I didn't realize you two thought that way. I have to admit that although I knew you were protecting Ichigo, I though you also like fighting."
"We don't really like fighting," Moe said. "But if that's what it takes to protect our friends, we'll do it."
"I hope it doesn't often come to that," the principal said. "But now that I know more about what you're thinking, I think I'll stop suspending you- provided you try not to get too out of control."
"Thank you, sir," Moe and Miwa said in unison. "We'll try not to beat anyone else up."
The principal nodded, and said, "I'd like to talk to Ichigo and Kisshu alone, so you two may go back to class."
Moe and Miwa bowed and left, waving at Ichigo and Kisshu on the way out. After they were gone, the principal sighed. "Have a seat, this might take a while," he said.
Ichigo and Kisshu glanced at each other and sat down. The principal said, "I received a phone call from Aoyama Masaya's mother yesterday. She had some very interesting information on the both of you, apparently from Masaya's diary. She apparently read it to find clues on what may have happened to him. She claims that Ichigo is in fact the Mew Ichigo from the news, and Kisshu is an alien who tried to take over the world. Later on in the diary, she found that there were a lot of mentionings of someone called Deep Blue, as well as someone called the Blue Knight. To her surprise, the Blue Knight appeared on every wall in Tokyo on a Wanted poster, soon after Masaya disappeared. She believes that you two have something to do with her son's disappearance, and asked me to talk to you, since she is a complete stranger to you. Is it possible for you to tell me more about this?"
Kisshu and Ichigo were dead white. If this came out, they were both doomed. They looked at each other, and the principal said, "I'm not going to tell anyone, if that's why you both look like that. I want to help you, and I think that learning the truth will help me handle Mrs. Aoyama, who seemed very unhappy with both of you."
Finally, Ichigo whispered, "I think I need to call Keiichiro. Kisshu, is Pai in school too?"
"Yeah, he goes to school with Lettuce," Kisshu said. "But Keiichiro should know what to do about this."
Ichigo turned to the principal and said, "I need to make a phone call, preferably on my cell phone."
"Okay, go ahead," the principal said.
Ichigo took out her cell phone and dialed Café Mew Mew. After two rings, Keiichiro picked up and said, "Ichigo, shouldn't you be in school?"
"I am in school, and Kisshu and I need you to come here, we've got a problem," Ichigo said.
"Does it concern the Mew Project?" Keiichiro asked warily.
"Yes," Ichigo said. "Can you come?"
"On my way," Keiichiro said. He hung up.
Ichigo turned to the principal and said, "Keiichiro should be here soon. Can it wait until he's here?"
"Yes," the principal said.
A while later, there was a knock on the door, and the principal said, "Come in."
Keiichiro came in and said, "I got a call to come here. What's going on?"
"Keiichiro, the Mew Project is in danger of being found out," Ichigo said. "Aoyama's mother found his diary and read it."
Keiichiro sank into a chair. "This is bad," he said. "If you girls are found out, everything's going to go to hell in seconds."
The principal said, "I don't really get what's going on right now, but am I to understand that Ichigo and Kisshu are a bit different from the rest of the students here?"
"I'd say that's an understatement," Keiichiro said. "What did Mrs. Aoyama tell you?"
"That Ichigo is Mew Ichigo, and Kisshu is an alien," the principal said.
Keiichiro sighed, and said, "Those statements are true. I need to impress on you the importance of keeping this quiet, though. If too many people find out, Ichigo, Kisshu, Kisshu's brothers, and the others involved in this will be in grave danger."
"I understand," the principal said. "I think I can keep Mrs. Aoyama silent too. I'll work on that, but can you tell me a bit more about this?"
"I'm sure you heard the news reports, correct?" Keiichiro asked.
"Hai," the principal said. "A group of girls with superpowers were fighting the aliens who were trying to take over the world. But a while ago, the news reports stopped, and started focusing on other things."
"Hai," Keiichiro said. "The news doesn't know this, but the reason they ran out of material is because Ichigo and Kisshu brought our groups together to form a truce. The aliens stopped attacking, in return for the means to save their home planet. Their leader had supposedly disappeared, so they agreed to the truce, and kept it even after they found out their leader was still alive."
"Forgive me for interrupting, but what does this have to do with Aoyama's disappearance?" the principal asked.
"Everything," Keiichiro replied. "We discovered that Aoyama was, in fact, the leader of the aliens. He was not truly a human, he was a puppet in the plot of the alien leader Deep Blue. Aoyama eventually was taken over, and became the Blue Knight, whose sole goal by that point was to destroy our two strongest fighters, Kisshu and Ichigo. Needless to say, he didn't succeed, and we're all safe, now that Ichigo killed him. Had he continued on, he would have fully become Deep Blue, and the world as we humans know it would cease to exist."
The principal looked shocked. After a few minutes of complete silence, he said, "Thank you for telling me all that. I swear that no one will find out about Kisshu and Ichigo from me, and I'll make up something to keep Mrs. Aoyama quiet too. Is there anything else I should know?"
"I think that's it," Keiichiro said. "I just hope no one startles Ichigo too much around here."
"Why is that?" the principal asked.
"My cat ears and tail come out when I'm startled," Ichigo said. "I can usually control it, though."
"Alright," the principal said. "Keiichiro-san, thank you for coming in."
"You're welcome," Keiichiro said. "I have to go back, but I'm sure Ichigo and Kisshu will be fine here."
"I'll make sure of it," the principal said. He turned to Ichigo and Kisshu as Keiichiro left and said, "If anything happens, come to me, and I'll handle it. Do Moe and Miwa know?"
"No sir," Ichigo said. "I think it's safer that way."
"Probably," the principal said. "Alright, you can go back to class." He looked at the clock and said, "Or recess, as the case may be."
Ichigo and Kisshu bowed, then left.
So now the principal knows. I imagine Moe and Miwa will find out soon too, but I thought I'd tweak Soccer-Geek's idea a bit. Review plz!
