Kei had woken up in a strange room; his memory was hazy, he remembered seeing Kisshu and the others but that was about it. He shifted in to a sitting position on the bed and groaned when he felt pain of his chest area, he was bandaged there.

"I wouldn't move much if I was you."

Looking up, Kei saw a blue haired girl, she looked at him carefully as if she didn't trust him at all and handed him a glass of water. He couldn't help finding her cute "thank you."

Mint nodded, but didn't say anything toward him.

"Thank you for also bandaging my wounds."

"That wasn't me" she said coolly, crossing her arms "but take it as a thank you for saving our lives."

Kei nodded; looking down at his glass of water, with a sad expression "I… couldn't save everyone, I let them take the princess away. Tana that bastard" he gripped his glass of water tighter "his going to hurt her, and I-I was the one who led him to her! I must return to Cyniclonia, quickly."

Mint was about to say something, when another voice spoke first "Relax" both Kei and Mint looked up to see Ryou entering the room. The blond sat in front of the alien "I don't care about you aliens or whatever is going on, on your planet. But Kitty… the child, she was send to us for protection. Tell us who she really is and why she needed our protection."

Anyone would have taken Ryou's tone as offensive but Kei could notice the hint of worry on his voice. Kei sighed, he did know why the princess was send away for protections but as to why it had to be this humans, he didn't know "Cyniclonia has been taking over by one of my older bro—Deep Blue's follower. This traitor… Tana, awaited for our great heroes to leave our planet, for him to take over. He killed and imprisoned many of the elders from my planet, by luck I managed to escape to earth."

"Wait, you're an elder?" asked Lettuce surprised, by now most of the mews had entered the room, except Ichigo who still hadn't woken up.

Kei nodded "We elders are sort of leaders to our people, we keep the peace of our planet. Not all elders wanted that though, Tana wanted nothing but drive our people in to an unneeded war. As elders we fell to see the dark heart of one of our own."

Ryou crossed his arms "then if the elders where the ones with power, why did he need a four year old girl?"

"Even though we are respected by our people, the ones our people truly look up to is the three great heroes. They give hope and are seen as the true rulers of Cyniclonia, though they don't exactly like to be seen as such." Kei paused "he needs her not only because she is the daughter of Kisshu, one of the three great heroes but because she is living proof that we can get along with other races, especially humans."

Everyone in the room seemed surprised by what the blue cyniclonian had said "Kisshu is her father!" gasped Pudding surprised.

"So her mother is human?" asked Mint.

Kei nodded.

"Then… who is her mother?" asked Lettuce.

"I am."

Everyone turned toward the door to see Ichigo, standing there. All the mews stared at Ichigo surprised by what she just said, even Ryou looked a little taken aback by her statement. There was a long moment of silence before Mint spoke up.

"How can that be possible? We don't even remember you ever being pregnant!"

Ichigo opened her mouth to answer but another voice interrupted her "I can make everything clear" everyone turned around to see Taruto who was holding on to his shoulder as blood oozed out of its wound.

Pudding rushed to him, even though she didn't know why, she still helped him stand on his feet. Sitting him on the bed Kei had been a moment ago, since the blue cyniclonian has stood up to also help Taruto "what happened?!" asked Pudding while tears formed on her eyes.

Keiichiro had laid a hand on Puddings shoulder "let me" he said softly, letting her know that he was going to help the young cyniclonian.

"How do we know you still aren't under Tana's mind control?" asked Kei still a little wary of Taruto.

"I would think the wound is self-explanatory" even though Taruto was pale by the loss of blood he still smiled "Kei… your words… they made me remember… I don't know how but I just remembered everything that happened with my niece and… I tried to save her but… I failed."

Kei looked at Taruto with a sad expression "We'll save her."

Taruto nodded and looked toward the rest of the people who had quietly waited for him to start explaining. His gaze shifted toward Ichigo "You remembered."

Ichigo nodded "bit and pieces."

"Pai always said you would remember" Taruto winced as he felt Keiichiro put some alcohol on his wound "four years ago after Deep Blues death, we stayed on earth because… we had fallen in love with humans." All the mews seem to gasp in surprise except Mint, whose eyes just widen. From the corner of his eyes, he looked at Pudding, feeling a small blush creep up his face "we weren't planning on staying for long, after all our planet still needed us… we always hesitated on leaving" he smiled bashfully "and the day, we had actually decided to return home to our planet… well, it didn't go as planned" his eyes seemed to focus on to nothing, as he remembered that day.

*Flashback*

Taruto balanced on his chair as he held a pencil between his nose and upper lip "do we really have to return this week? I have a date with Pudding, I wouldn't like to cancel."

Pai who was typing on the computer of the ship, sighed "we cannot neglect our duties, our people are in first priority, we can always return later… is not like I'm not dreading leaving either" the last part was but a whisper that Taruto luckily managed to catch.

The browned haired Cyniclonian "I forget, I'm not the only one who has a girlfriend." Taruto noticed how Pai stopped typing for a second, a hint of red appearing on his cheeks. He couldn't help but smirk at his older brother.

At that moment Kisshu had entered the room, fidgeting as if he had done something wrong. Pai and Taruto raised an eyebrow but neither of them asked what had got him so on edge. Instead Pai decided to mention their return to Cyniclonia "we are to return to Cyniclonia later this week."

"W-What?" he stuttered, eyes widen "I-I can't leave!"

Pai ignored his loud voice, while Taruto continued to balance on the chair, trying to break some record. Calmly Pai answered "I understand the reason why you don't want to leave but we can't hesitated anymore, the reason we came in the first place is for our people. They need us Kisshu."

"I-I know that! Bu-But…" he trailed off, hesitating before loudly saying "I'm going to be a Dad!"

The loud crash of Taruto falling off his chair in shock and the eerie silence of Pai, made Kisshu stomach flip in a bad way. Pai turned around a deadly atmosphere forming "you… what!"

Pai's looming over Kisshu, made him shot his hands up, cringing back in fear "do you think mother will be happy?"

*End of flashback*

"A baby was – is – a big deal, so hearing Kisshu say he was going to be a dad, kind of shocked me and Pai" Taruto sighed, thinking about his next words carefully "those months… we stayed, we weren't exactly in good terms, with" he looked toward Ryou, but didn't finish his words "we were scared… we were scared, about how humans would react if the baby came out with certain characteristics…" his ears twitched "I guess Kisshu had other worries as well."

Ichigo slowed the lump that form on her throat when he mentioned that Kisshu had other worries.

"So, when he told us about erasing Ichigo's memory, about taking Kitty back to Cyniclonia" Taruto continued, closing his eyes "we hesitated… he told us we didn't have to erase, everyones memory" he choked, hoping that nobody asked who he meant by 'everyone' "and even though we hesitated, we still choose to follow Kisshu. The day we decided to erase everyones memory, we lost certain things but neither Pai nor I regret it."

"Wait, so you deleted everyones memory?" asked Zakuro, shocked.

Taruto nodded "That's why, you might find that some of your memories from four years ago are a blur."

"Could those memories ever come back?" asked Lettuced.

Taruto nodded again "like Pai would say, it would be highly unlikely but not impossible" he looked toward Ichigo "Pai once told me that… strong emotions cannot be erase, not even with… well, mind control."

Keiichiro finished patching Taruto's wound as the brown hair Cyniclonian finished talking "your injury wasn't that deep, but I would rest that arm for a couple of days."

"Thank you… I will, till I at least return to Cyniclonia" said Taruto getting off the bed.

"If you're planning to return then I'm going with you!" said Kei with determination.

"That's it? You tell us all this and you leave?" said Zakuro, crossing her arms.

"You haven't exactly explained, everything either!" added Mint with a glare.

Taruto sighed "I can't waste any more time explaining, my brothers need me, my niece needs me!"

"Then we are going with you!" everyone looked toward Pudding in surprise, no one expected her to say that.

"This is not your problem to meddle in" said Taruto looking away from everyone. How was it that, the older he got the more prideful he became.

"I think it became my problem the moment I discovered she is my daughter" said Ichigo who had stayed silent till now. Everyones eyes traveled to her, knowing that if Ichigo decided to go all of them would follow.

Ryou stepped up, arms crossed "I don't really like the idea of stepping in a planet full off filthy aliens" Kei and Taruto glared at him but he continued talking anyway "but Kitty was under our protection and I'll be damn if I let someone hurt her… plus I have a ship you might just be perfect enough to get us there"

Kei and Taruto looked at each other, they might not have liked the idea of taking Ryou with them but they couldn't exactly say no. Tana was no easy enemy after all