Disclaimer: No, it's true: we don't own Tokyo Mew Mew. Reiko Yoshida y Mia Ikumi own TMM.

Zakuro Pure: Hello! Here it's the second chappie! Hope you like it :). We will answer the reviews at the bottom.

miley-nanami: We have decided to write a mini-dialogue at the beginning and at the end of the chapter. Hope they'll be funny :D

Aoyama: (gets in the page) where am I?

Zakuro Pure: this is the second chapter of the fic (rolls her eyes)

miley-nanami: I don't like you.

Zakuro Pure: don't worry, it's nothing personal. Oh, and I hate you too.

Aoyama: O.o Why?

Miley-nanami: you are a Gary Stu

Aoyama: ¿?

Zakuro Pure: (takes dictionary and hands it to him)

Aoyama: (reads) sickeningly perfect character… (Blinks in surprise) Wow! There is a photo of me ^^!

miley-nanami y Zakuro Pure: yeah, this dictionary does have good examples ¬¬

See you at the bottom!

Chapter 2

—RETURN—

Taruto was sitting in a big terra-cotta rock. He was wearing the same clothes as always: a baggy shirt which covered just the top of his bust, leaving her belly in the open, and a pair of short baggy trousers with two ribbons hanging from them. His chestnut hair was tided in two girlish ponytails. He had spent all the time looking at Pai, waiting to help him if he needed it. However, it had been a while since they were down there and Pai was so immersed in the investigation that he didn't even remember Taruto was there. He lied back on the rock and started to play with one of his ribbons.

Pai also was wearing the same as always: his long baggy trousers and a shirt that covered his entire torso. He was holding a little black sphere. He was touching it everywhere, then looked around him and frowned. And that was what he had been doing all the time, going back and forth.

Taruto sighed. He complained Kisshu wasn't there. It would have been more fun. He wondered, like he always did, where he had gone. He suspected Pai knew where exactly was him, even if he denied it every time he asked.

Then, a series of little beeps rang from the sphere, making jump both aliens.

"What was that?" Taruto asked, straightening up.

"It's a message," Pai answered.

"From Kisshu?" Taruto inquired.

"No… wait…" He ran his fingers through the tactile sphere and answered, surprised: "It's from Shirogane."

"Shirogane? Wasn't he the Tokyo Mew Mew's boss?" Pai nodded. "What will he want?"

"We'll see now."

The sphere projected an image, a hologram of Shirogane who started to talk:

"I hope you remember me. I'm Ryou Shirogane, the Tokyo Mew Mew's boss," he introduced himself. "Strange things are happening in the Earth. A chimera animal has appeared and I'm afraid it won't be the only one because… well, I think it's better to talk in person. I think this will interest you and we need help…" Someone interrupted Ryou.

"Hello, Taruto!" Purin gatecrashed in the image, smiling. "I want to play with you again!"

"Tsk," said Taruto, blushing and crossing his arms.

"Purin!" Shirogane exclaimed, getting her out of sight. He cleared his throat. "Well, as I was saying, you will be of great help to us. Please, send an answered."

The image disappeared; the message had finished. Pai was thoughtful and Taruto, seeing he isn't saying anything, urged him:

"Well? Are we going or not?"

"Yeah. It could have something to do with what's happening here."

"And Kisshu? ¿How can we tell him?"

"Leave him alone." Pai moved away to pick up all the little devices he had brought underground. "Get ready to leave."

Taruto disappeared in a bad mood, knowing Pai's tone meant 'and no answered back.'

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"It seems they have already answered," Shirogane said to Akasaka. "They'll arrive tonight."

"That was fast," Akasaka said, impressed. "You sent that message a few minutes ago."

Both guys were at the basement, trying to find out all they could about what had happened some days ago.

"By the way, how's Ichigo?" Shirogane asked after her state of mind. "Lettuce has told me she is in very low spirits."

"You have been getting along with Lettuce lately, eh?" Akasaka rised his eyebrows, but Shirogane sent him a death glare and he didn't keep on. "Right. Ichigo does almost nothing at the café. She is just absent-mindedly all the time."

Shirogane sighed, despondent. It was his fault the girls had to get through things like that. He was responsible for that; he was the one who had turned them into what they were now without their consent.

"It'll be better she get over it fast," he commented. "We need the leader being concentrated in this matter."

Up there, at the café, the girls were working like always: Zakuro was serving the guests coldly so they won't recornised her, and Lettuce was trying to hold the plates without breaking them and trying to take the orders without getting nervous, but she didn't do it very well. Mint was cleaning the tables, complaining about how she should be drinking her tea, and Purin was juggling with plates on a ball for the guests at the same time she served them happily.

Meanwhile Ichigo was sitting on one of the café's chairs, looking absent-mindedly. Since she had found out Aoyama had changed sides, she couldn't do anything right. She wasn't like herself; she had lost the energy she used to show to the others and the happiness with which she smiled to them. She hadn't cry since a few days ago, like if she had accepted what had happened, but couldn't help being sad.

"Onee-chan!" Purin called, trying to make her look her way. "Look what Purin's doing!

Purin made a somersault in the air and landed on the ball without letting the revolving plates fell down. Ichigo smiled at her sadly and came back to her own world. Purin seemed disappointed because her juggling hadn't worked.

Then, Ichigo felt someone was pulling her to make her stand up.

"Ichigo!" Mint shouted. "I'm fed up with you! You've been like this for days. I feel bad too, but I have to carry on."

"You don't understand," she answered, downhearted. "He was my boyfriend, Mint! I loved him so much!"

"Well, I know he was just my friend, but I…" Mint stopped dead and covered her mouth with her hand.

"You what?" asked Ichigo, curious.

"Nothing, forget it!" she shouted out of fury and turned around to keep working.

Zakuro followed Mint with her eyes, thoughtful, while Mint started to clean a table. Then, she looked at Ichigo, who was again immersed in sorrow. Lettuce just stood up, looking the scene. She didn't like seeing her friends fight. Then everyone resumed to work.

When it was time to close, Shirogane already had informed the girls about the alien's arrival, so they had made an excuse to arrive home late. They didn't know how or where they will appear, so they remain inside the café. When it was almost nine, Taruto and Pai appeared just where they were, in mid air, and then landed. Shirogane was thinking hard about how to break the tension when Purin made the first step.

"Taru-Taru!" She shouted, running enthusiastically to give him one of her hugs.

"I've aleady told you not to call me that!" He exclaimed, tomato red, even if deep inside he was also happy.

"Let's play!" Purin invited him.

"It's not time to play, Purin," Shirogane told her, and turned to the aliens. "Thanks for coming." Pai nodded, crossing his arms, while Taruto was trying to get off of Purin. "Where's Kisshu?

"He didn't come," Pai answered drily, looking at Ichigo out of the corner of his eye.

"Ok," Shirogane answered, thinking it was better not to ask. "Let's go to the basement."

Once they were there, Shirogane sat down on his chair and showed them the video of the fight, which Masha had recorded, in the huge screen. Pai and Taruto watched it in disbelieve.

"Deep Blue is alive?" Taruto asked incredulously.

"That would explain the reduction of energy in our planet," Pai commented.

"Reduction of energy?" Akasaka repeated.

"That's what you were investigating, isn't it?" Taruto said with curiosity.

"Yes. A lot of us have started to live underground again. The conditions are getting worse."

"Are you suggesting Deep Blue could have taken that energy?"

"Probably."

"And what happen to Aoyama?" Ichigo asked. She couldn't contain herself longer. "Why is he with Deep Blue?"

"I don't think he's possessed," Pai answered a moment later.

Shirogane didn't seem convince.

"That's what he said, but that doesn't mean it's true."

"I know, but if the alien trail you found was Deep Blue's, he should be very weak. I don't think he has the power now to possess him."

"Then why?" Mint inquired, frowning.

Pai shrugged his shoulders.

"What that human thinks or not it's not my business."

Ichigo couldn't believe it. That would mean Aoyama was with Deep Blue on his choice.

"He isn't like that; he can't possibly become bad out of the blue." Ichigo assured.

For a moment, nobody knew what to say. Nobody wanted to contradict her.

"Do you have any idea of what he's up to?" said Zakuro, finally, changing the subject quickly. "Apart from revenge, of course."

"That's almost impossible to know with just a few data," Pai answered.

All of them agreed with him. Nobody could imagine what Deep Blue plans were.

"Maybe Kisshu knows something," Taruto said to Pai. "He knows better Deep Blue's way of thinking."

"Taru-Taru's right!" Purin exclaimed.

Taruto nodded.

"He was the first one who didn't trust him, isn't he?"

"But we don't know where he is," said Pai, sharply.

"I think you do." He stuck his tongue out, flying over him.

"Do you know it or not?" Shirogane asked, impatient.

Pai said nothing, but his silence was more than enough to answer the question.

"If you know it, say it," Zakuro urged him, crossing her arms. "The future of the Earth is more important than anything."

Pai thought about for just one second and then he had to admit she was right.

"I'll go for him. Taruto, stay here."

A little annoyed but feeling triumphant because he was right, Taruto nodded, reluctantly. Then Pai disappeared.

Pai teleported out of the café and took out his black sphere. It was a minicomputer with which he could control the two main computers: the one in the spaceship and the one he had in his planet. He looked for Kisshu's sign and found it in the other side of Japan. Better. He was nearer than he thought. Last time he checked, he was in France. He remembered the day he had gone, a little after coming back from the Earth.

Pai was updating the data base of the computer when Kisshu came in. As always, he was wearing his baggy trousers above his knees and his baggy shirt which left his belly bottom uncovered. Pai saw how he made disappear his daggers after sharpening them.

"Pai, I'm leaving," he told him.

For a moment, Pai thought it was one of his stupidities, but then he noticed he was more serious than he usually was.

"What for?"

"I need to forget certain things, but I'll be back, of course," he smiled mockingly. "You won't get rid of me that easy."

Pai showed one of his unusual smiles and nodded. He was started to understand what all that was for.

"Where will you go?"

"No idea." He shrugged his shoulders, unworried. "But I'm going to ask you a favour. I know you can locate me, but don't do it. I don't want anybody knowing where I am. I'll come back when I feel like it.

"Ok," Pai agreed. "I'll tell Taruto later."

"Thanks." And he just disappeared.

Now he had to find him after promising he will leave him alone. He hated he had to do it, but there were no other solution. The wolf-girl was right. With that last thought, he teleported to the other side of Japan. It wasn't hard to find him. He was sitting on a house's roof, almost as if he was waiting for him, looking at the round moon. He hadn't changed at all.

"Ksshu," he called.

Kisshu turned around and squinted at him with his golden eyes.

"What are you doing here? Didn't I tell you that…?"

"I know," Pai interrupted him. "But something had happened.

Now Kisshu paid attention while Pai brought him up to date.

Aoyama: (keeps reading)

miley-nanami: what are you doing? O.o

Aoyama: looking for words.

Zakuro Pure: ? What words?

Aoyama: recycling, environment, nature… ¡What a beautiful words^^!

(A cricket sounds in the distance… crii, crii!)

miley-nanami: this is worse than that time you were reading a book about recycling ¬¬

Zakuro Pure: I think Aoyama is kind of hippy ¬¬

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Taffy Gregorovich: thanks for the answers! I love you love this story^^. About if Aoyama is under Deep Blue's influence or not… you will have to keep reading to know the answer! But I can tell you there is a reason for him to act like that :D. And here you have the aliens in this chappie. Hope they aren't OoC :S. Hope you like this chapter and hope I'll see you in the next one! Bye!

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