Disclaimer: I don't own Tokyo mew mew, it's getting boring typing that over and over again :( Also I don't own Astro boy he belongs to Osamu Tenzuka-sama :)

She was silent and simply looked into his eyes before looking at the moon outside the window, she only saw Deep-Blue's face in it and immediately decided the floor looked nice.

"Ebony…" She ignored him again and he grabbed her face and made her look him in the eyes, tears rolling off her face and onto his wrist.

"Ebony why can't you tell me, what's he going to do if you tell me?"

"He's going to kill me Kish!"

"Not if I'm here he won't," He saw how stirred she was and he wrapped his arms around her shoulders and put his chin on her head. 'No this is wrong…Kish…please get off me, I can't start falling for you again, it will be unfair on Ryou and I don't want you to hurt me again' Her mind was telling her body what to do however her body would not respond, she let Kish embrace her, she could smell his clothes, that same smell she smelt so many times whenever he embraced her, his warm breath trickling down the back of her neck as he had his head on top of hers. Eventually her arms slightly moved and she pushed Kish off her slightly. Kish had realised what he'd done and immediately began to apologise.

"Oh Ebony, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to if I made you uncomfortable I'm sorry, it's just…I guess…I forgot you hated me for a few minutes and the old possessive boyfriend attitude kicked in…gomen," He then looked at the floor obviously unable to look at Ebony.

"Kish I want to tell you…but I'd die and…if I don't then…one way or the other… one of us loses each-other…" Deep Blue never said anything about giving Kish hints about what he was going to do to him.

"So you mean…he's going to k…kill me?" He choked on that word, however she shook her head and Kish relaxed a bit.

"Let's put it this way…not just you,"

"No way…Pai and Tart as well," She just nodded her head and Kish's eyes widened then he stood up and went to teleport but Ebony grabbed his arm.

"Kish I don't care if he kills me, my life doesn't matter as long as your alive and safe with your two best-friends, then maybe once I'm dead…you can help the mews in defeating him for betraying you…he told me this 'oh by the way don't expect your filthy alien ex-boyfriend to be alive for a lot longer, as soon as I rule I will have no need for those three and they will be killed along with planet Earth, let them know of this and I shall kill you in an instant' so now when he's restored to full power I'm sure to be dead before the final fight, that's why I wasn't in that picture of the future he showed me…you love Ichigo anyway right? So you'll have her afterwards and then Ryou can go with…Anzu or Lettuce or Zakuro if he wants…I was never really meant to be a mew in the first place anyway I'm sure me becoming one was a mistake,"

"Don't say that Ebony, that's like saying me meeting you was a mistake!"

"It was though wasn't it?"

"No, you know it wasn't! I've got to go; you're safe until he wakes up right? Not sure if I'll come back alive again though…" He said with a light chuckle and so Ebony punched him on the arm.

"Don't joke about that!"

"Just get to bed, its way past your bed-time I'm sure," He pushed her back to her bed and pulled the covers over her, she didn't want to go to sleep, she wanted to go with Kish, tell the aliens everything and about how they would all die even if they obeyed their leader. Then he teleported away, Ebony almost fell asleep in an instant when she saw the air in her room ripple again, surprise, surprise it was Kish. She looked at him confused until he came over to her with a hand behind his back, he walked over kissed her fore-head and smiled gently placing a decorated box next to her on her bed-side table.

"Almost forgot that, Happy Birthday Ebony,"

"How did you know? I didn't tell you!" He just smirked and waved back at her as he teleported, he said one last sentence before the ripples faded completely.

"Don't open that till tomorrow," She could tell he was smirking as he said it; she drifted into unconsciousness and fell asleep. The curiosity killing her as she wondered what was in the box, why she wasn't in the image of the final fight with Deep-Blue, if Deep-Blue really would kill her now that he knew Ebony had told Kish…and realising if her feelings for Kish had changed.

Kish teleported back to his ship, he couldn't help but stare at Tart with sad eyes as he saw him playing on a human's hand-held games console; which he'd stolen from a human store, he couldn't play it with Pai around as he knew Pai would shout at him for have becoming accustomed to the humans way of living. He walked up to him placing a firm hand on his shoulder; as Tart looked up to him obviously annoyed, Kish smiled at him, fangs showing.

"Doing good Tart?"

"Why are you acting so weird Kish? Oh no, you've just come back from seeing one of the old-hags haven't you, what did they do to you?"

"Nothing, I just wanted to see how my favourite little alien friend was doing, is there a problem with that?"

"Yeah…it's creepy," With that Tart pushed Kish's hand off his shoulder and that was when Pai appeared in the room.

"Hey Pai, you haven't used that mind-control thing on Kish again have you? He's acting really…uh…I mean…later!" Tart shouted to Pai realising he had just revealed something to Kish he was absolutely not meant to, boy was he in trouble later. Kish however stood there with his arms crossed giving Pai a 'tell-me-now-or-die' look.

"So Pai…is there something you want to tell me about this 'mind-control thing'?"

"Hn," Pai tried to turn around to walk the other way but Kish teleported in front of him to stop him.

"Did you not hear me Pai? I asked you what this mind-control thing was about, and since it seems to concern me and you don't want to answer; now I just feel like your keeping something from me…"

"It was for your own good,"

"What was for my own good?"

"You were far to in love with those creatures and so I had to stop you some-how, you wouldn't have simply listened to me and left them alone by yourself,"

"What do you mean?"

"In order for you to focus on chimera animals and our actual assignment, I had to get you to leave those mews alone. I simply gave you a love-confusion pill and since you were so in 'love' with this neko first of all, your mind thought you loved her more, the Panda seeing was a complete accident at least now that you've fallen out, you have been more focused on the mission rather than your relationship," Kish didn't wait for Pai to carry on, he shoved him into the space-ship wall and summoned one of his swords, he held it up to Pai's neck and Pai could see the anger, hurt and confusion in his eyes.

"Why Pai, why would you do that to me? This entire mission was meant to be just me, you and Tart come to Earth to try and get some mew aqua and awaken Deep-Blue, and we've been like brothers, why all of a sudden just because this so-called leader has ordered you around you've changed so much? The old Pai, my brother, would never stoop as low as that, my brother the genius would simply laugh it off and ignore it if you thought it was so childish," Pai pushed Kish off of him and straightened out his clothes.

"You may only address him as Deep Blue-sama, where have your manners gotten to? We have gotten ½ the Mew Aqua we need and our mission is almost complete, we will all follow Deep Blue-sama's orders, he is saving our planet and the people on it!"

"No I will not address that scum as our leader nor will I call him Deep Blue-sama, as soon as he defeats those mew's he plans on killing all three of us anyway, we are just toys to him, once we've been used we're thrown out! If we keep awakening him he doesn't plan on saving our planet at all, just taking over Earth to rule and be a terrible ruler at that, he's making out he isn't awake yet, then how come he appeared at Ebony's house tonight and scared her to tears, he told her his whole plan about how he was going to throw us out and make sure Ebony was dead before the final fight and you know why? Because she is the only one with the brains to defeat him and he didn't want us too find out about it so we would kill her and do the job for him, don't you see Pai? He's tricking all 3 of us and our whole planet!"

"Silence! I will not allow myself to believe this Deep Blue-sama promised to rule the new planet once we conquer it, how did you know that Panda mew wasn't lying, to try and get us on her side? Kish, this world has changed you. Now excuse me, I'm going to notify Deep Blue-sama of your betrayal!"

"You wouldn't dare Pai! Why won't you believe me? It's the cold, hard truth!" Pai didn't say another word and made his way to the floating ruins where he would summon Deep Blue. Kish immediately teleported into Tart's room only to find him on his bed, wide-eyed, in fact he looked shocked.

"Is it true Kisshu?"

"Is what true Tart?"

"Deep Blue-sama really tricked us and he's going to kill us when he's done with us? I'm sorry I spied on you guys but when I heard you guys shouting I came out and heard all of it,"

"Well…yeah, Pai won't believe me and has gone to notify Deep Blue of my 'disgraceful actions' or something, I don't think he'll be too happy when he hears about it and he's most likely going to kill me for it and kill Ebony as well…"

"Was the old-hag the one that told you?"

"Uh-huh, Deep Blue came into her room tonight and told her all of his plans,"

"But why would he tell all his plans to the enemy? It doesn't make any sense,"

"Well he was really trying to scare her by showing her an image of the fight we're going to have in the future…she wasn't in it and he told her it was because she was dead by the time of the big fight, she wasn't meant to tell me but I went to see her a few minutes ago and she was so scared she told me everything, Deep Blue even knows about me falling in love with a human!"

"That's bad…I don't want you to die Kish!" Tart jumped off his bed and up to Kish putting a hand on his shoulder, Kish just smirked and shuffled his hair.

"Don't worry, we'll come up with something I'm sure, how about we pretend you don't know, that way you won't get into trouble with me, I pretend I was out of order and apologise to Deep Blue and when he forgives me and the final fight begins we can make sure Ebony is there,"

"Oh and I'm really, super, really sorry Pai used that pill on you and you forgot about Ebony and now she's really mad at you, don't you want to go tell her tomorrow?"

"No…somehow I think if I tell her tomorrow….it will ruin it for her, I don't want to hurt her or her relationships anymore…"

"Kish what do you mean? Man, teenagers and their relationship problems, I'm sure glad I'm not one!"

"Nothing, never mind…"

"S…sure I guess…"

"Awesome!" He ruffled Tart's hair and teleported off to who knows where, leaving Tart annoyed and confused. 'How is he going to get Deep-Blue to believe that he hasn't betrayed them after Pai goes and blabs everything to him? I'm not sure to believe Pai or Kish…

"Happy birthday to my favourite little daughter!" Ebony had heard her dad open her bedroom door and come over to speak to her slightly, waking her up. She rubbed her eyes and scooped her hair off of her face, smiling at her dad, her eyes wide as saucers, even in the morning.

"I envy the man that gets to wake up next to you in the morning and see those big, beautiful eyes of yours open," Ebony blushed slightly.

"Dad I'm your only daughter and don't, it's really embarrassing when dads tell you soppy, lovey-dovey stuff like that!"

"Well it's true; although I was the first one to see you smile as a baby so I win anyway!"

"Man, your so weird sometimes dad, you know that? I even have to hit myself sometimes to stop convincing myself you were born in a circus!"

"Well I'm just glad you slept well, me and your mother thought you were having some sort of bad-dream last night going on about a 'Deep-blue' person and you were talking in your sleep about an alien called Kish! Rather funny actually, we decided to just let you sleep anyway,"

"Oh…um thank you," Her dad looked around the bedroom and noticed a small silver box on the table next to her bed.

"Honey, what's that?"

"Oh I haven't opened it yet, it's a present I got yesterday off of Kis…uh a close friend at school,"

"Do you want to open that one first then? Since it is right next to you I'm guessing you thought it would be special so you put it there?"

"Yeah, um of course," She pulled the covers off of her legs and stepped out of her bed. She straightened out her ¾ length pyjamas trousers and grabbed a hair-tie, she quickly put it into a low pony-tail that was trailing over her right shoulder and finally walked over to the box. Ebony slowly un-tied the ribbon and read and re-read the label on it over and over again smiling to herself. 'I'm sorry for being such a jerk; I guess it's only human to be mad at me for what I did. You won't listen to me in person so I guess this is the only way…I'm truly, truly sorry Ebony, I don't know what came over me when I kissed Ichigo the other day but I don't love her anymore…Ebony I love you, and I want you to be happy with pretty-boy so I won't interfere anymore, unless you want me to. Guess I'll only see you in battle now; I don't smile, or even smirk that much anymore, if I see you wearing this though I'm sure nothing will be able to stop me. Xxx'

"Ebony, are you just going to keep reading that note or are you actually going to open the gift?"

"Yeah whoops, it's just so sweet I couldn't help but…never mind," She put the label down and took the lid off of the box.

"Whoa, that's some heavy bling!"

"Well what is it, let's see? Your mother's got your birthday breakfast downstairs!" Ebony could only stare in shock as she pulled a silver chain from the box which once was fully out had the letter 'E' on the end made of sapphire with a white and black diamond panda dangling next to it.

"That's so…beautiful…where did he get it, how did he get it?"

"Oh so the 'close-friend' from school that got you this was a boy? I thought you were dating Ryou, he won't be happy about this and how did a boy from your school afford that? It's sapphire and diamond for crying out loud!"

"It's from one of my old-boyfriends, he uh told me a while ago he'd been saving up for a car…oh don't tell me he got this instead…should I wear it if it's from my ex? Won't Ryou be jealous?" She faked shock; she knew Kish had probably stolen this from a jewellery store in an up-town place somewhere; she smiled and shook her head at his actions.

"Let me put it on you honey, see what your mother says I'm no good with all this boy stuff!"

"How can you say that when you used to be one? Pfft, dad's what are they good for?" He put the necklace on her and pulled her hair out the back, smiling he put his arms down again turning her around to kiss her fore-head.

"Well for one, if I wasn't here you wouldn't be either because-,"

"Ew, gross dad shut up! I've had this talk with the sensible parent and at school many times I don't need it from you,"

"But the birds and bees is a wonderful story-,"

"La, la, la Ebony isn't here right now please leave a message after the beep…which is never coming! I can't hear you now dad, blah, blah, blah!" She pushed past her father with her hands over her ears and made her way down the stairs, her dad smirked knowing she could still hear him.

"So you're 16 today and still acting like a 12 year-old?" He shouted down the stairs after her.

"Sorry what was that dad? I can't hear you with my hands over my ears like this! Don't put a downer on 12 year-olds either one of my best-friends is near that age!"

"Well if you can't hear me how did you know I was shouting you?" When he didn't get a smart remark back he smirked knowing he'd won this round and so he ran into the kitchen.

"Wahoo! Chalk one up fo' the daddy fools, cause I just got yo' sorry butt burnt!" He ran up to his wife and kissed her on the lips then took a seat next to Ebony who was staring at him with sweat-drops all over her head. He put an arm around her shoulder and smiled.

"Never, and I repeat never speak or dance like that ever again!"

"Oh come on Eb' lighten up you and I both know your fathers an idiot and we should both ignore him, now do you want eggs with you breakfast?"

"Eggs, are we having one of those big breakfast's they have in England?"

"Yeah, so egg or not?"

"One please…fried,"

"Okay honey oh and happy 16th birthday! Your dad's going to get your dress ready for you later and everything like that, and then he's hired a limo to take you to the café!"

"No. Way?"

"Way!" Her dad said with mock excitement on his face.

"You didn't have to do that really I already feel way too spoilt with the dress and everything! Now I know how Mint must feel…that must be why she's such a snob!"

"Mint?" Her mother asked.

"Yeah, she's like a really rich waitress at the café who doesn't work but just drinks tea all day, I'll introduce you later, she'll probably just go back to drinking tea after she shakes your hand anyway…if she even shakes your hand!"

"Well here's your breakfast! Eat up because it's…" Her mother looked at the clock on the wall and back at Ebony.

"9.45 Now and you need to have a shower, get your hair done, make-up and get you into your dress then we need to go and you have to be ready for the limo to take you to the café for 12pm so get eating! Oh and where's that lovely necklace from?"

"Oh yeah before I eat let me ask you something. What would you do if you had a boyfriend that you thought you loved but then he cheated on you and so you started going out with someone else. Then say it was oh I don't know your…birthday and your ex-boyfriend gives you a really nice present and you've been speaking to him often and he's apologised and given a reason for cheating, so you think your falling in love with him again and the current boyfriend doesn't know, should you wear the present the ex got you?"

"Hmm tough one, I suppose you could wear it and you'd have to tell the current boyfriend but explain to him that if he was a good boy-friend he wouldn't get angry because he'd know there was nothing between you and your ex. Then if you find yourself falling back in love with your ex more deeply but you don't feel it with the current boyfriend then let him down gently and make sure he's not hurt then try and find the other person he truly loves and set them up,"

"Sure thanks; I know what I have to do now…sort of!" Ebony stood up and hugged her mother, between the two females embracing, her dads head popped up from the side with a confused face.

"I have no idea what you two just said to each other but I'm guessing it's sorted?"

"Yup, I'm going to eat now!" She sat down and dug her fork into her bacon as her mother placed the plate down on the table. She seemed unfazed by last nights events, probably because Kish had come to comfort her and her parents were with her, she began to think if Kish hadn't been there she'd be a crying and upset mess today. 'I hope he's okay and Deep-Blue hasn't done anything to him and to add to my problems Akito and Anzu the party crashers are going to be there, there hasn't been any chimera attacks for a while either…I could really do without one today, although I know something will happen with Deep-Blue visiting me last night and Pai finding everything out!'

"Okay…Lettuce and Zakuro get two ladders from the store room and then Ichigo and Pudding can climb up either and hang all the banners where they're marked on the plan,"

"Sure thing!"

"Aye, aye Na no da!"

"Okay and Mint, can you go and help Keiichero set up the food-table then help him carry out what he's already made,"

"Excuse me Shirogane, what about us?" He turned to Ayame and Sakura who were stood by the doorway with two bags; supposedly their ball-gowns for later.

"Oh good you two came thanks,"

"No problem boss, so what'cha got us doing, ne?" Sakura said whilst picking some dirt out of her nail and flattening the cuticle.

"Oh Sakura, could you please set up some random balloons around the place and would you mind putting up all those canvases on the walls? The hooks are already in the wall and everything, then Ayame could you set out a table for all of Ebony's presents by the door?"

"Sure thing cap'in!" 'What is it with everyone and the saluting and 'captain' today?' Ryou thought.

"Yeah sure, I'll get right on it Shirogane,"

"Arigato,"

"Phew now…I need to…set up the music and the lights then I'm all done apart from…" Ryou looked at the big list in his hands and noticed nearly everything was ticked off apart from one thing which wasn't related to the party but had to be done; set up a double bed in Anzu's room. Keiichero must've seen this and placed a firm hand on Ryou's shoulder smiling at him.

"You'll be fine with Ebony here, trust me, I'll set the bed up for you," With that he smiled and took the list off of Ryou going up the stairs, Shirogane sighed and made his way to the newly set-up stage in the space where the tables were pushed back and plugged in the stereo. He then walked over to the panel with all the switches and buttons and began to mess around with the lights in the café.

"Shirogane we girls are all done so we're going to go get ready in the changing rooms now!"

"Don't disturb us Na no da!"

"Yeah, sure, whatever," He said waving his hand far too focused on the light panel in front of him.

"Do you think they need any help setting up dad?" Ebony asked her dad as she swallowed some egg and watched him read the newspaper.

"No don't think so I was told Ayame and Sakura went early to help,"

"Awww cute, that was nice of 'em got to love my girlies!" Ebony's mother came down the stairs and into the kitchen wearing a very light peach coloured dress that had spaghetti straps tied into bows at the top and a big slit down the front that stopped just below her chest area, there was a darker coloured peach ribbon tied around her waist in a bow at the front, the dress carried on to just above her knees with a slightly, puffy look to it, not very over the top just a few light ruffles. She was slightly tanned unlike Ebony and had caramel coloured hair, it was in a very neat bun at the back of her head with an orange jewel hair-grip in the shape of a flower holding it up, the one thing Ebony inherited off of her mother; her aqua-marine eyes shone in the light of the sun coming through the window, she also had a white pull over her shoulders and silver slip-on high heels.

"Wow, I didn't know you could look that nice! Your gorgeous mom!" Ebony said in amazement as she had never seen her mother look so dressed up.

"Whoa…that's hot!" Her dad said like he was a teen-ager again, and Ebony and her mother both whacked him on the head, Izumi bent down and kissed his lips lightly. Ebony wrapped a hand around her neck and made gagging references like her, her mother and her father were all about to see her breakfast again, and this time…her eggs wouldn't be sunny side-up!

"Oi shut up you! When you're lip-locking with Ryou later we're not going to do that!"

"Good because parents aren't meant to its okay when you're young…when you get old it's just, weird!"

"Haru shouldn't you go get changed now? I laid your suit out on the bed for you,"

"Thanks darling," Then he stood up and kissed Ebony's mother on the lips again, although this time she thought it was sweet and smiled, scooping the rest of her beans up with her fork and shovelling them into her mouth.

"I can't believe how nice you look! I never even noticed before but your eyes are brighter than mine!"

"That's because they were mine first and I shared them with you before you were born, yours a like…a copy of the original!" Her mother smiled and Ebony stuck her tongue out, half-smiling as she put her plate in the sink.

"I'm going to stay down here until dad's ready so I can say bye to you both and then I'm going in the shower,"

"Sure, don't suppose you want to finish this manga your dad was reading?"

"I thought he was reading the paper?"

"No, he's done it loads of time before, he even did it at school to get out of reading, and he hides this manga in the newspaper and makes it look like he's reading that when he's really reading…Astro boy, wow he really does need to grow up!"

"Astro boy?"

"Don't worry about it honey, it's before your time,"

"Oh, alright," Ebony stopped when she heard her fathers booming voice from outside the kitchen door.

"And now I present to you the best, most dashing and most handsome father ever…Haru!" Surely enough he slid into the kitchen stopping him-self just before he fell into the sink making Ebony and her mother snort to stop themselves from laughing, he straightened himself up and stood in front of Ebony and Izumi posing.

"Well, how do I look?"

"Oh did you change out of your pyjamas already? I didn't notice," Ebony yawned as she flicked through her fathers old manga. Her father turned as thin as paper and anime-floated to the floor with fake tears running down his face. When Ebony didn't hear a comeback she stood up with a fist in the air and a smile on her face.

"Oh yeah baby! Chalk the first one up for the daughter, 1 all on both sides!"

"She's joking dear; you look as handsome as when I first saw you,"

"Really?"

"Uh-huh, just a little older and you've actually got a bit of hair on your face," She said with a laugh and smiled as Haru embraced her.

"Well dad, I have to agree with her on that, you look very uh…sophisticated in your tux,"

"Arigato Eb'," He then pulled his daughter into the embrace as well then he let go and stood away from then.

"Go on then Dad, let me see you properly," He lifted his arms out to the side and Ebony smiled. He had taken off his glasses and his dark brown eyes shone out as they reflected the light like her mothers did, his glossy black hair was short and at the front his bangs were bushed to the left of his for-head and flattened out and at the front two long bits of hair stopped just below his ear lobes, it was ruffled but it didn't look messy it looked normal. He had a white shirt, black tie, black trousers and a black jacket over the top with a white hankie in folded in the pocket. Ebony went and hugged her father and her mother and then ushered them to the door.

"Hurry up and go you two I still have to get ready in case you didn't notice!"

"Right, see you at noon honey,"

"Yeah see you,"

"Later kiddo!" Her dad ruffled her hair as he walked out with his hands in his pockets and opened the car door for his mother to step inside then went to his own side and they had soon waved Ebony off as they drove out the drive-way.

"Shower time~," Ebony sung in a sing-song voice as she took the flight of stairs two at a time, she then quickly pulled off her pyjamas and stepped into her shower letting the warm water splash her face and run down her hair and onto her back.