Amnesia Chapter 30:

Pai's Finally Gone Insane

Ichigo woke up the next morning before Kisshu. She was going to get up, but then noticed that Kisshu's arms were locked around her waist. She didn't want to wake him, so she carefully lay back down, and started stroking his hair. He sighed in his sleep and snuggled up to Ichigo, causing her to blush.

A little while later, Kisshu started to wake up. The first thing he noticed was that Ichigo was playing with his hair. It felt nice, so he decided to pretend to be asleep a while longer.

Ichigo kept stroking Kisshu's hair, unaware that he was actually awake- at least until she stopped and Kisshu said sleepily, "Do you have to stop? That feels nice."

Ichigo squeaked and asked, "How long have you been awake?"

"About ten minutes," Kisshu replied. "I like that sensation."

"How are you feeling this morning?" Ichigo asked.

"To be honest, not any better than yesterday," Kisshu admitted. "I don't think I'm sick though."

Ichigo put a hand on Kisshu's forehead, and said, "You don't have a fever, so I think you're probably right. Are you able to sit up yet?"

Kisshu pulled away from Ichigo and tried to push himself up, but fell back again. "I guess not," he said. "This is annoying."

"I guess you need more time to recover," Ichigo said. "Don't worry, I'll be here for you."

"Thanks, Koneko-chan," Kisshu said.

Ichigo smiled at him and sat up. There was a knock on the door, and Ichigo called, "Come in!"

Pai opened the door, and said, "How are you two doing?"

"I'm fine, but Kisshu still can't sit up," Ichigo said. "Is there anything you can do about that?"

"I can try," Pai said. He came over and put a hand on Kisshu's chest, closing his eyes. Finally he took his hand away and sighed. "There's not really much I can do," he said. "Kisshu, you used up too much energy giving Maya a power transfer. I can give you some of my power, but it'll only help a little. You really should have told me you didn't have enough strength to do a power transfer. You really drained yourself this time. It's going to take more than healing to get you back to full strength. I can give you some of my strength, though. Give me your left hand."

Kisshu obeyed, and Pai took his hand, then began to glow. The glow flowed into Kisshu, but stopped a few minutes later. "That should help, but that's all I can do," Pai said. "I am worried about this, though. We have to meet with the Kuritara in six days. If we don't think up something by then, we're pretty much screwed."

"Even if we think up something, it's not going to help if I can't move," Kisshu said.

"You'd better rest up, then," Pai said. "At this point, that's the only thing that will help you recover. Don't push yourself."

Kisshu groaned. "I hate it when you say that," he said.

"I'm well aware of that," Pai said. "But you and I both know that pushing yourself won't help you recover; it'll slow down the recovery process." He turned to Ichigo and said, "You can stay with him, but try to avoid questions like 'Can you sit up?' He'll try it, and then we'll be back to square one. Right now, he needs to rest until I or Maya can sense that his energy has come back."

"I understand," Ichigo said. "What will the rest of you do?"

"We'll try to work out a plan," Pai said. "I'll inform you of what's going on, but you really need to stay here and make sure Kisshu doesn't do anything stupid."

"I'm still here, you know," Kisshu said irritably.

"Very well, Ichigo and I will talk elsewhere," Pai said, and before Kisshu could say anything else, Pai took Ichigo by the shoulder and teleported to his and Lettuce's room, leaving Kisshu pretty much steaming.

In Pai and Lettuce's room: Ichigo sighed. "You do realize it's going to take a while for me to calm Kisshu down now, right?" she asked Pai.

"I know how to calm him down," Pai said. "And it's not something I should tell you in front of him."

This peaked Ichigo's curiosity, and she said, "What is it?"

"Do you know what Kisshu's weakness is?" Pai asked.

"No," Ichigo said. "Does it have something to do with calming him down?"

"Yeah," Pai said. "If you scratch Kisshu behind the ears, for some reason he gets all calm and happy. My mom used to do that when we were little and Kisshu was still getting over his parent's deaths."

"That makes him sound like a cat," Ichigo said. "He told me this morning that me stroking his hair felt nice."

"Cats like their ears being petted?" Pai asked.

"Yeah, I love it," Ichigo said. "It sometimes puts me to sleep, though. It's such a comforting feeling."

"Who pets your ears?" Pai asked.

"No one at the moment, but the only reason I put up with Ryou scaring the living daylights out of me and being so nasty to me was that he'd pet my ears when they popped out," Ichigo said. "Those were the only times I didn't completely hate him."

"Do your ears come out in human form?" Pai asked.

"Yeah, but only when I'm startled or my emotions are really heightened for some reason," Ichigo said. "My tail comes out then too. I wish it didn't; cats' tails are really sensitive, since they're attached to the spine."

"So it would really hurt if your tail got pulled?" Pai asked.

"Yeah," Ichigo said. "You're not planning anything, are you?"

"No," Pai said. "I wonder if anything would happen if I scared Lettuce?"

"You'd better hope not, she might get a porpoise tail, and she'd think that was awkward," Ichigo said. "Besides, I thought you weren't into scaring her."

"I'm not, I was just curious," Pai said. "I was wondering if you were the only Mew who had that."

"I'm not sure, but I wouldn't try it on the others," Ichigo said. "Especially not Zakuro."

"I suppose," Pai said. It looked like he was thinking, then suddenly he teleported. Ichigo shrugged and was about to walk out when something cold touched her neck. "NYA!" Ichigo shrieked as her ears and tail popped out. She spun- and saw Pai actually laughing. "Are you feeling okay?" she asked crossly. "And why on Earth did you just poke me?"

"I wanted to see what it looked like when you had cat ears in human form," Pai said.

"Your hands are like ice," Ichigo said grouchily. "I'm going back to scratch Kisshu's ears."

Lettuce walked in about then and said, "What are you two doing?"

"Tell your boyfriend not to poke people with his ice-cold hands," Ichigo said grouchily, and stormed out, leaving Lettuce very confused.

Ichigo went back to hers and Kisshu's room, and found Kisshu grumbling to himself. He looked at her, and said, "I'm seriously annoyed."

"That makes two of us," Ichigo said.

Startled, Kisshu said, "What happened?"

"Pai decided he wanted to see what I look like when my cat ears come out in human form, so he teleported and poked my neck, and his hands were like ice!" Ichigo said grouchily. "And then he started laughing at me. I hope he's not sick, but if he isn't, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind the next time he comes in here."

"If he was laughing, he's probably come down with some incurable disease," Kisshu said. "Better go tell Maya."

"On my way," Ichigo sighed, and left again. She went down to Maya and Rikia's room, and found them playing cards with Mint. "What's up?" Maya asked.

"Pai was laughing at me, and we need you to go see if he's sick or something," Ichigo said. "Kisshu seems to think that he has some kind of incurable disease."

"Maybe he's finally lost it," Rikia suggested. "Maya, do you know how to cure insanity?"

Maya rolled her eyes and sighed, "I'll go have a look, where is he?"

"Last time I checked, in his room," Ichigo said.

Maya nodded, and Ichigo followed her to Pai and Lettuce's room. They found Lettuce and Pai in there, and Lettuce appeared to be lecturing Pai. Maya walked in and said, "Ichigo claims Pai was laughing, so I'm just going to do a check up on you, since Rikia and Kisshu are convinced you've lost it. Lie down."

Pai gave Ichigo a death glare, but obeyed. Maya put a hand on his forehead and closed her eyes. Finally she said, "I don't see anything wrong, which means that Pai really has lost it, since there's no way to sense insanity. It's obvious enough that you don't need to sense it. I was just checking to make sure Pai wasn't sick."

"I AM NOT INSANE!" Pai shouted.

"Actually, you've been insane for years, we just didn't like to mention it," Maya said with a smirk. "But something must have pushed you over the deep end today if you were actually laughing."

"Is there something wrong with laughing?" Pai asked grumpily.

"When you do it, yes," Ichigo said. Pai glared at her. She simply snickered and said, "I'll see you later, I'm going to go inform Kisshu of your diagnosis."

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Pai said. "He'll never let me hear the end of it!"

"That's what you get for poking me," Ichigo smirked, and left. She went back to Kisshu, who looked up at her. "Maya examined him, and said he's insane," Ichigo said. "But then she said he's been that way for years. Did you know about this?"

"Oh yeah," Kisshu said. "How did he take it?"

"Not well, he glared at me because I was laughing at him, and shouted, "I am not insane!"" Ichigo said.

"Oh well," Kisshu said. Then he smirked. "Now I can tease him nonstop!"

"Can I help?" Ichigo asked.

"Sure," Kisshu said, his smirk getting wider. "Go tell Taruto, he'll help."

"On my way," Ichigo said, and ran to Taruto and Pudding's room. She found them playing some game and said, "Taruto, Kisshu wanted me to tell you that we all can tease Pai nonstop about being insane. Maya examined him after I told her he was laughing, and said he's finally gone off the deep end."

"YES!" Taruto shouted. "Hey Pudding, wanna help tease Pai?"

"Sure, let's go!" Pudding said eagerly. "Ichigo-oneechan, are you coming?"

"No, I'm going back to Kisshu," Ichigo said. "Have fun!"

"We will!" Pudding and Taruto chorused, and Taruto teleported off with Pudding. Ichigo smirked and walked back to hers and Kisshu's room.

I decided to put some humor in here, so I hope you like. Review plz!