Chiyo: So, this chapter is going to be different. I'm going to explain what Mint is doing and then go to Killi, once that's done, the last paragraph of what Mint and Killi are doing is going to be resaid, along with the other endings of the fight scenes! So, sorry for the different style of this chapter!

Chapter 22

Fading Consciousness

Killi flew over to the boys while everyone was fighting and Mint fell asleep near a tree. Keiichiro shot a glare at Killi as he handed Ryou another glass of water. "Awe, Ryou, are you sick?" Killi asked, looking actually concered.

"..." Ryou glared at Killi as he took a sip of the drink.

"Hey, come on now, no need to ignore me!" Killi pouted, folding her arms. "I'm sorry that I care for him?" She asked, tilting her head in confusion.

"You don't care," Ryou said calmly, holding back another cough as he leaned against the near by tree. "you just wanted to kill me with whatever pill you gave me."

Killi looked truely hurt as she walked over to him. "Aw, baby, I didn't do anything like that!" She whinned, pushing Ryou to the tree with a smirk. "Come on, why do you think so lowly of me?"

Ryou gave Keiichiro the glance that told him 'I'm fine' as Ryou was pinned to the tree. "Well you want to destroy mankind." Ryou shurgged.

"Ouch." Keiichiro chuckled, watching the two carefully.

"But I'd love to keep you alive~" Killi giggled leaning in to kiss him. Thankfully for her, Ichigo was going crazy with Marin. But she was shocked when Ryou just pushed her away. "Oh come on... Why not?" Killi had tears in her eyes as Ryou rejected her.

"Because you're crazy." Ryou said simply, folding his arms.

"Hey! It's not my fault I have split personalities!" Saying that made Killi shiver. Seiko and Killi were related, but not sisters. Seiko was more of an adopted sister then anything, but Seiko was her cousin, so it made sense for the two of them to have split personalities. "..." Killi held the tears back from falling down her cheeks as she looked at Ryou.

With a sigh, Ryou closed his eyes. "There's medication, you know." He said coldly.

"No need to be so harsh! I can make my own medication..." Killi said quietly.

"Hah..." Ryou chuckled, causing himself to cough again.

"Oh my! You must be really sick, it's kind of cold-" Killi started walking towards Ryou.

With a glare, Killi stopped in her tracks. "You were the one that made me sick!" Ryou said, causing the sensitive, nice personality that Killi was in start to cry.

"You made her cry, Ryou." Keiichiro chuckled.

"You don't have to be so mean to me, how could I ever hurt you?!" Killi looked sad as she pulled Ryou into a forced hug. She had a needle hidden in her outfit, so she secretly took it out when she pulled Ryou into the hug. Because of where her hands were, the only place she was able to poke him with the needle was the neck, so she did. She quickly hid it again as she was pushed away. She brought her hands to her chest and put the needle back where it was. "R-Ryou..?"

"Ryou, you really hate me that much?" Killi felt her cheeks start to get a little wet as forced tears fell from her cheeks.

"Yes!" Ryou snapped, looking away from Killi.

Killi gently made Ryou look at her. She knew what kind of person Nanako was, she had stalked her for a while after listening in on the date that Ichigo and Ryou had when he talked about her. "Ryou..." Ryou stayed quiet as he pushed Killi away again. Killi sat on her butt, doing her best to act like his childhood crush. The drug she injected into Ryou seemed to have worked since he wouldn't even look at her. And the pill seemed to be not working in Killi's favor, which led to the drug. Although it would only last until the fights were over, she was still proud of herself. Without saying anything, Killi stood up with a pained look on her face, and moments later, the question in Keiichiro's mind was answered. "You don't even remember your childhood friend..." Keiichiro looked shocked, seeing only Killi there acting so much different then Killi would act. "Why... What did I do?"

"Y-you're not her." Ryou said quietly, coughing slightly.

"How could you say that...?" Killi whispered, actually, truely hurt at his coldness. "We were best friends!" This time, the tears weren't fake. Real tears fell from her eyes, anyone who she liked and was this mean to her, always made her sad.

"What did I do, Ryou?!" Killi asked again, stepping forward.

Ryou stayed quiet again, wanting to believe that Nanako was actually there, but he knew it was only Killi. "Keiichiro, you seem like you want to kill Killi. Not like you."

Keiichiro and Ryou were silent Killi questioned Ryou. "Ryou please... Answer me..." Killi whispered.

"No." Ryou's voice was cold as ice as the girls 'stopped' fighting...

Mint noticed Ransurot not doing anything, so figured she'd try getting payback on him. She shot an arrow towards him. But, he just ignored her, dodging her attacks. He got tired of Mint and shot a glare at her. "Well then at least fight me!" Mint demanded.

"Your potential is weak." Ransurot muttered, not moving from his spot.

"Ugh, again with that potential crap." Mint sighed.

With a heavy sigh, Ransurot summoned down a metoerite shower to attack Mint. He thought it would be too much on Mint, so he didn't think much about it. Mint was infused with a bird and still took ballet lessons, so she danced around the metoerites and shot another arrow at Ransurot. He didn't even look surprised or shocked as he moved slightly out of the way of the arrow. (Reminder - Ransurot isn't a big fan of Mint) Ransurot just turned his back on Mint, watching Killi to make sure she didn't mess up her genuis plan. Ransurot dodged all her arrows, so she wasn't much of a fight for him.

Pashibaru lunged at Zakuro, aiming for her shoulder. Zakuro was losing her speed, so the raiper cut her shoulder as she jumped out of the way. Pashibaru didn't give her a chance to rest, attacking here and there, left and right, attack after attack, and Zakuro wasn't really able to do much. She had scratched and cuts all over her body, though she wasn't bleeding all that bad. She fell to her hands and knees, hearing the sound of Pashibaru's raiper swoosh through the air. "ZAKURO!" Pudding and Lettuce screamed in unison...

Mitsukie didn't have an answer for him, but Rin's questions kept flying through her mind, when...

"Awee... Such cute love you have for him..." Marin giggled. She pointed her triton at Ichigo and a bolt of lightning came down, almost making Ichigo unconscious when...

Izumi's head hurt so bad she couldn't really focus on anything. She saw Seiko stepping towards her and in defense, she used her martial art skills. She kicked Seiko in the side and knocked her over, but falling to her hands and knees in the process. The grass seemed to be more fuzzy then ever, more welcoming then before. The feel of it on her hands made her want to collapse and lie in the grass. The extreme pain in her head yelled at her to fall over and sleep for a while. She felt something hot stab through her hand and she thought Seiko was just going to burn her. But when her vision focused on the thing stabbed through her hand, Izumi realized it was just a sword... Not any sword, Seiko's sword. She looked up at Seiko, her vision starting to get more fuzzy. Seiko smirked and whsipered; "Goodbye... Izumi..." and swung her sword down at Izumi...

A shadowy figure ran over to Marin. Marin was shocked and stopped what she was doing when the next thing she knew she was getting beaten up. Marin had dropped her triton and fell to her knees. She had no cuts or anything, the shadowy figure ran over and hit her pressure points- well. So Marin thinks. Marin fell to the ground. She felt her consciousness fading away. She had realized that the shadowy figure had hit her head hard enough with one simple chop to make her lose consciousness, possiably killing her. The girl ran over to Pashibaru and sent a strong whack to the back of his neck before he was able to hurt Zakuro. She sent a strong hit to his stomach with her knee. It was hard enough to make Pashibaru almost cough up blood or something. She ran off again, but over to Zephyr as Pashibaru fell unconscious from the pain and the wack in the back of the neck. Before Zephyr was able to do anything, the girl grabbed his shinai and whacked him in the head as hard as he did to Izumi, sending him straight to the ground. Seiko stopped her sword and flew in the air, hoping that the girl wouldn't hit her. The girl didn't even really have to do anything else to Zephyr as he fell unconscious as well. She ran over to Rin, but he fled from battle, flying in the air with the others, along with Killi. The girl noticed Seiko was lower, and was going to attack her. Seiko's strong glare with her dark red eyes shinned in the night and they all teleported off- well except for Marin, Pashibaru, and Zephyr.

Izumi struggled to get to her feet, everything blurry and her consciousness on the edge of leaving. The others looked at her in confusion, but couldn't get a good idea of what she looked like. She was in the shadows when she heard Lettuce ask, "Who are you?"

The girl didn't answer, knowing the other Mews had questions too. Ichigo was able to move now, so she wobbled to her feet. "Why did you save us?" She asked, looking at the girl.

"Stay! You're a Mew Mew!" Pudding yelled.

"No." The girl said simply, freezing everyone. "I'm on no one's side." She said.

"So why... Did you... Save us...?" Izumi asked weakly.

"..." The girl smiled to everyone, but no one saw it since she was in the dark. She waved to everyone and took off.

At the same time, Ichigo and Izumi fell to the ground. They caught themselves, but Izumi was struggling to keep the pain at bay while fighting to keep her consciousness. Zakuro, Lettuce, and Pudding ran over to Ichigo as Mitsukie ran over to Izumi. "Izumi, you're pretty beat up, you should rest." Mitsukie said, helping her friend up.

"Ichigo!" Pudding shook Ichigo like she was dead.

"I'm still alive, Pudding." Ichigo forced a smile on her face as Ryou ran over to Ichigo and Keiichiro ran over to Izumi to help Mitsukie.

The boys carried Ichigo and Izumi with the other girls following close to them, watching their two friends lay in their arms. Ichigo wanted to talk for a while so she didn't pass out, but Izumi was in too much pain from Zephyr whacking her head with some wooden stick of his that she couldn't really make out Keiichiro's face, her vision was too blurry.

Chiyo: Sorry that this took a little bit, I messed up writing *hits self with tiny toy hammer* but I went to upload this and I was like 'wait...' *hugs Ransurot* Sorry!

Ransurot: *Pushes away from me*

Mint: Hey, what about me?!

Chiyo: *fans hand at Mint* So, what happened, was when I wrote it, I had an idea at first... But then erased something, and accidently erased a LOT so I ended up doing a short crappy 'fight' with Mint and Ransurot again ... Sorry again for messing up on this!