Chiyo: Hey guys! Sorry for the slow upload. My computer won't boot up, so now I'm typing everything off of a tablet I've had for about 5 years now... It's actually in great condition for being 5 years old. So I'm rewritting all of chapter 16, since I lost it because my laptop won't turn on without getting a blue screen saying it needs to be repaired... So, that's why this chapter is uploaded slow. I would like you guys to understand what's going on, and I hope you guys are paitent with me! :) Well, I'll just stop and just start rewritting the story now XD
Chapter 16
Catnapped Subject
Ichigo sat down in a nearby chair, folding her arms on the table and resting her head on her arms. The girls had to pretend like they didn't know what was wrong, so they walked over to her and pulled a chair over. Ichigo wiped away her tears and just stared at the top of the table.
"Hey, Ichigo, you gotta talk about it. What's wrong?" Lettuce asked, sitting next to her friend. Although, since she became closer to Pudding, she did get mad a lot easier at Ichigo now, but that didn't mean Ichigo wasn't her friend that Lettuce cared for deeply.
"You won't talk to Ryou, hell you won't even LOOK at him!" Pudding yelled, jumping onto the table.
"Guys. I'm fine." Ichigo smiled, leaning back in her chair.
Izumi felt really bad, but a deal was a deal. "Ichigo." Izumi said walking over with her hands on her hips. "Are you still working?"
"What? I guess..." Ichigo said, looking over at Izumi. "But my shift is over."
"But you're working." Izumi replied, dropping her hands to her sides. "So work isn't over. I would call off the bet, but I don't think you would let me. Ichigo, do you know why I made this bet in the first place?" Ichigo shook her head. "To prove to you that you really do love him, even when you were with... The uhh..."
"Tree-hugger." Everyone said, slightly not in unison.
Izumi giggled, nodding. "Him. Did you forget? You told me everything, Ichigo. And you didn't want to accept your feelings, and I believe now you do."
"Y-you'll let me?!" Ichigo asked, standing up with hope filled eyes.
Izumi nodded, watching as Ryou walked out of the kitchen. Ichigo just smiled, running over to Ryou. He looked at her confused the entire way over. Ichigo put her hand on Ryou's chest, just underneath his shoulder, as she stood on her tippy toes. She pushed her lips onto his, kissing him passionately. Lettuce was smiling, Mitsukie was fangirling, Pudding's mouth was wide open, along with Mint's, and Zakuro was leaning against the wall, a very small smile on her face. Ryou was a little shocked, but immediately wrapped his arms around her waist and held her tightly as he kissed her back passionately. 'About time, Strawberry' Ryou thought to himself, enjoying every moment of the kiss. After 6, whole seconds, Ichigo and Ryou pulled away from each other. Ichigo pushed herself away from him gently, "I-I should have said this 5 years ago, Ryou..." Ichigo started, looking him straight in the eyes. Keiichiro poked his head out of the kitchen, a huge smile on his face. Ichigo had her hands infront of her, a slight blush appearing on her cheeks. "And you already know what I'm going to say..."
"Do I?" Ryou smirked, folding his arms.
"I-I love you, Ryou. And I should have realized my feelings for you sooner." Ichigo said, her entire face red.
"They're so cute." Mitsukie giggled, clapping her hands quietly.
Ryou smiled- and no not a smirk. A pure, happy, genuine, smile. "Didn't that take you a while to say?" Ryou teased, flicking her nose.
"H-hey!" Ichigo whinned, holding her nose. "So?! I-I still said it..." She said, turning her back to Ryou.
"We're glad you finally confessed!" Lettuce smiled. "Hey wait. Where's Keiichiro?" Lettuce asked.
Keiichiro chuckled, walking out of the kitchen holding a 3 layered cake. Well, more like three cake layered cake... There were three cakes, the bottom was the biggest, the middle was was the middle size, while the top was the smallest. (The idea of this cake goes straight to my best friend Cho. She may not know it, but she gave me this chapters idea. But anyway, all credit of the cake goes to Cho! :) ) The bottom cake looked like a city, but something was... Special. Ichigo and the others were gazing at the cake, standing around it. They were all able to point out where their school was, and where they lived. The city was of course candy though, along with the candy second cake had Izumi in the front, ahead of everyone and looking back with a playful smile on her face. Pudding was running on her ball, her mouth open and eyes closed as if she were laughing. Lettuce had a bunch of books in her hand, stumbling as she tried to keep up. Her mouth was open, as if yelling for them to slow down. Zakuro was leaning against the third cake with her arms crossed and eyes closed, along with Mint. Although, instead of closed eyes, Mint was looking up at Zakuro with sparkles in her eyes. The cutest to everyone though, was Ryou and Ichigo. Ryou was sitting on the edge of the cake, his left hand behind him to hold him up, since he was leaning back a little. He had his head down, a smile on his face. He was looking into Ichigo's eyes. She had her head on Ryou's lap, looking up at him with a big smile. Ryou's right hand was holding Ichigo's left hand, their fingers intertwined. Ichigo's right hand was resting gently on Ryou's cheek. Everyone was cute, yes, but no matter what you say, they all would have said Ryou and Ichigo were the cutest. Keiichiro was next to Ryou and Ichigo, taking a picture of the two with a smile. The third cake had a big strawberry on it. Except it wasn't sitting on the cake. All the mews were holding it up with their hands in their mew outfit. Talk about cutest cake ever, Keiichiro made it! "Keiichiro..." Izumi said quietly, breaking the silence. "It's... So cute... Why did you make this?"
"It's for all of us." Keiichiro chuckled a bit, looking at the cake on the table.
Pudding lunched herself towards the cake, mouth wide open and ready to devour the cake. Mint slid between Pudding and the cake, with a baseball bat in her hand. "NO WAY PUDDING! YOU HAVE TO SHARE!" Mint yelled smacking a homerun with Pudding.
Without showing it, Ichigo JUST understood why that bet was made... 'Wait... Izumi made the bet because she didn't know that I already told Ryou I love him... But why would she make a bet like that? I mean... If she really thinks it's cute- GROSS YOU SWORE TO YOURSELF THAT YOU WOULD NEVER FALL FOR HIM GEEZ...' She thought to herself. "Well, tomorrow is your big day, Izumi." Keiichiro smiled. "Your concert is tomorrow, so I was hoping you could relax a bit with cake!"
With a giggle, Izumi nodded. "Yeah." She smiled, sitting down in a nearby chair. "Thanks, Keiichiro!"
The girls ate the entire cake- well mainly Pudding did... But hey, she's a girl too! "So~" Mituskie giggled, slidding towards Ichigo. "Are you two dating~?" She asked excitedly.
The girls yawned and decided to go home. Ichigo went straight to her room and passed out after setting her alarm to 6 in the morning since she had to be back at the cafe at 7:30. Everyone decided they would all go to Izumi's concert for the day. That night though, Ichigo woke up to a loud crash in the kitchen. She ran downstairs, thinking it was morning. She walked into the kitchen, rubbing her eyes, followed by Mini Mew who took after Ichigo in a panic. "Mom?" She asked, looking at a darkened figure in the kitchen. Suddenly, a cold hand covered her mouth, muffling her scream. Mini Mew stayed quiet, tears filling his eyes. He stayed hidden, forcing himself to watch this. "MMMMMPPPHHHHH!" Ichigo screamed into her attackers hand, struggling to get free.
"Come on, be good and stay still, won't you?" A familiar, higher-pitched voice echoed in Ichigo's ears. "Come with me, Ichigo." She said, standing just right in the light so that Mini Mew was able to see the attacker. Suddenly Ichigo and the attacker was gone.
Mini Mew flew straight to Cafe Mew Mew, banging on the door as hard as he could. It was midnight, meaning only 3 hours passed. Ryou rubbed his eyes as he opened the door. "Mini Mew?" He asked, looking at Mini Mew confused.
"Ichigo! Ichigo!" Mini Mew whinned, tears in his eyes. "Catnapped! Catnapped!" Ryou's eyes widened a little. "Ichigo catnapped by alien with orange hair! Ichigo catnapped!"
Ryou was shocked, but he called the girls while Mini Mew was still talking. "Get to the cafe, now!" He told the girls. Mini Mew and Ryou were waiting inpatiently for the girls. Mint yawned as she walked up, Zakuro not to far behind her. Mitsukie, Izumi, and Lettuce were running full speed to the cafe.
Once all the girls were there, Mint folded her arms. "Ugh, where is Ichigo?" She asked, rubbing her eyes and yawning.
"Catnapped! Catnapped!" Mini Mew shouted, tears threatening to fall. "We gotta save her! We gotta save her!"
"Who kidnapped her?" Pudding asked, rubbing her eyes.
"Orange hair! Orange hair!" Mini Mew replied.
The girls looked at each other in confusion. "Why would Killi want Ichigo?" They asked.
Meanwhile, while the girls are trying to get to Ichigo, wherever she was, Killi kidnapped Ichigo and brougt her...
"MMMPPHHH!" Ichigo was still struggling to get away from Killi.
"Ugh, you're going to be hard..." Killi sighed, throwing Ichigo into a cage and locking it tight. "Welcome, Ichigo. To my lab." Killi laughed, spinning around in circles for a bit. There were a couple girls in the corner with a boy. They were also in a cage. "So." She started. "Let me just stop you from struggling." Killi whispered to herself, pushing a red button. Chains hooked around Ichigo's wrists and ankles, making her unable to move.
Killi walked to the bars of the cage and stabbed a needle into her arm. "Ow!" Ichigo yelled, trying to pull her hand away from Killi. She was poked with needles a couple times and was forced to stay there for hours.
"I'm hungry..." A black haired girl in the corner said, holding her stomach.
"Oh!" Killi teleported out of the room. And moments later, came back with a couple plates of food. "I need you guys at your fullest. So eat up." She smirked, setting the plates in front of the girls and released Ichigo from the chains. She walked back over to her lab table and started mixing some blood together with something else.
Ichigo ate slowly, waiting to be poisoned or something. "Killi, what are you doing?" A deeper voice then Ichigo heard lately echoed in the room.
"I have my tests to do, oh great scientist." Killi replied, holding her hand out to summon a jelly fish that is used to make Chimra Anima's.
"What kind of tests?!" He snapped. He was in the dark, but Ichigo knew that voice. But it seemed to have... Changed... "You're using my friend as some kind of subject! He was very angry, anyone could tell from his voice.
"Look, Pai, I didn't ask for you to come to say the tests I'm doing are wrong." Killi snapped, feeding her jelly fish some of the mixed blood. "We need you to make Kisshu andTaruto fight!"
"Ichigo and her friends saved our planet!" Pai snapped, stepping out of the shadows. "I don't care what Naoko-sama said, the Mew Mews are Kisshu's, Taruto's, and my friends."
"Ugh, what's so wrong with Naoko-sama?!" Killi asked, summoning another jelly fish after she made the other one dissapear. Ichigo stayed quiet in her cage while she listented to the Cyniclons argue.
"He wants them dead?" Pai asked as if Killi was stupid, but kept his voice monotone.
"Um." Killi turned around, her hands on her hips. "So did Deep-Blue. And his son, Ransurot, should have taken the throne." She snapped.
Pai sighed, folding his arms. "I won't let hurt Ichigo anymore. Let her go."
"No." Killi replied, feeding the last jelly fish another sample of blood. "My tests aren't done."
Pai opened the cage door and grabbed Ichigo's hand gently. "It's fine." He saight calmly, teleporting out of the room with her. The went to his lab room, no one knows what it looks like in there so she was safe for now. "You ok?"
"Y-yeah..." Ichigo nodded, stepping away from Pai.
"PAI I AM GOING TO MURDER YOU!" Killi screamed as a bunch of crashes sounded from down the hall.
Ichigo was scared, she didn't think the Mews would come rescue her, but the sound of Mitsukie's voice calmed her down. "What did you do to her?!" She shouted, stepping towards Killi.
"Did you hurt her?!" Izumi asked, stepping forward.
Lettuce took a step forward, glaring at Killi. "You better not have touched her." She said.
"Psh. Take her back. I can get samples another way as well. And plus... She fulfilled her duty anyway. Good luck getting into Pai's lab." Killi snapped. teleporting off.
Pai teleported out of his lab, his hand on Ichigo's shoulder. "Killi's working on a new Chimra Anima." Pai said, folding his arms. "I don't know what kind, but if I ever found out, I probably wouldn't live to tell about it."
"Thank you... Pai..." Ichigo smiled and ran to the Mew Mews.
After using the device that Mint brought along onto the ship, the girls went back to the cafe. Ryou pulled Ichigo into a hug, holding her tightly. Ichigo smiled and hugged him back, happy she was finally home. Izumi walked Ichigo home and the two fell asleep in Ichigo's room. Ichigo still had little red dots on her arm where Killi stabbed her with the needles.
Chiyo: :D Sorry, probably dissapointed people with this chapter... But hey, EVERYONE'S BACK :D And my laptop is still broken so... Please expect slow uploads, my tablet is pretty old in the first place so it's kinda dying XD and it's so much different typing on a tablet then a laptop... So, I hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! ^-^