KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
Zakuro knocked the door.
'Are you sure this is their house?' Ryou asked.
'Yeah, what if this isn't their house na no da? What if they aren't home na no da?' Pudding asked worriedly.
'It's too late for us to be saying that don't you think?' Zakuro looked at Ryou and Pudding. She was right. There was no turning back now.
They all waited but the door didn't open.
KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK!
There was no answer.
Zakuro knocked again.
'Maybe they aren't home,' Lettuce said quietely.
Zakuro sighed, 'Maybe this wasn't their house after all.'
Everyone sighed helplessly and decided to leave. But just when they were about to go and move away from the door, the door slowly opened.
Everyone's eyes widened, they all looked at each other and then they looked at the door. And out from there, came Taruto. He slowly opened the door signing for them to come in. So everyone went inside and watched Taruto quickly close the door the moment everyone was in.
'What are you doing here?' Taruto hissed.
'Taru-Taru! You are here na no da!' Pudding smiled at Taruto who didn't smile back but stuck out his tongue at her instead.
'Taruto, that is no way to treat guests,' Kisshu gave a sigh as he came into the room.
'Well I must certainly agree,' Mint looked at the little alien who didn't look very happy to see them.
'Great, more humans,' Pie also came into the room.
'We need to talk to you,' Lettuce said urgently.
'It's about Ichigo,' Zakuro added.
Pie and Taruto looked at Kisshu. They were worried that just the mention of her name would make him angry.
Kisshu looked at Pie, 'Let them talk whatever they want to talk about, I've got better things to do than listening to some stupid humans.'
'Wait, don't leave, please!' Lettuce protested.
'Yeah, how can you say that after Ichigo could be in great danger?' Mint cried.
'You call us stupid humans, well then let me tell you this. These 'stupid' humans gave you the Mew Aqua a year ago which helped your planet. Your planet would have been destroyed by now if it weren't for us! This happened only a year ago, guess you have forgotten about it,' Ryou growled angrily.
'Our planet wouldn't need the Mew Aqua in the first place if it weren't people like you!' Kisshu growled angrily as well, 'Do you have any idea how many people died in there? How many innocent children? How many mothers and fathers risking their lives for their children but knowing that there was no point because they will die as well? Do you?'
'Well you guessed wrong! We have never forgotten, we are very grateful for what you did but you seem to still hate us after we have saved you from dying in the final battle with Deep Blue! Maybe you have forgotten that!' Pie yelled.
'Well maybe if you hadn't taken Ichigo away from us, we wouldn't hate you so much!'
'What?!' Kisshu exclaimed, 'We have done nothing of that kind!'
'How are we meant to believe you?' Ryou asked.
'I love her! I could never bring myself to hurt her!' Kisshu glared at Ryou.
'If you love her so much then why did you break up with her like that?'
'Break up?' Kisshu laughed, 'You need two people to love each other in order to call it a relationship, no matter how much I love her I won't be able to make her love me. She needs to do that on her own.'
'If you are trying to say that Ichigo doesn't love you then you are wrong, Ichigo does love you. She cried a lot after you told her you hated her,' Lettuce said trying to make the alien understand.
Kisshu looked away, 'Shut up. If she loved me she wouldn't have feelings left for someone else.'
'You idiot, all of that was a misunderstanding!' Ryou shouted.
'Just stop everything!' Zakuro shouted having enough of the arguments, 'Listen, it is up to you and Ichigo to clear all of that out but right now we have a bigger problem. Ichigo has been missing for days and we can't find her anywhere!'
Kisshu stared at Zakuro in shock.
'And we need your help to find her. Please,' Zakuro pleaded.
'We had nothing to do with this, we don't know where she is,' Taruto said.
'We don't know either na no da, so we need your help to find her na no da. Please, anything could have happened to her!' Pudding cried.
Kisshu looked at everyone for a moment before giving a sigh in defeat, 'Fine,' everyone – except for Ryou – smiled thankfully.
'But that's only if it's okay with my brothers,' Kisshu added. He already worried them enough; he doesn't want to drag them to any more problems.
Everyone looked at Pie and Taruto waiting for their response.
'Fine,' Pie and Taruto mumbled.
So it was decided that they were all going to look for Ichigo.
Ichigo was still inside the room waiting for that door to open. She was a little bit hungry but she didn't dare to eat anything from the back table. She knew that she was being stubborn but she also knew that there could be anything in that food. Anything. What if it had poison in it? What if it had something that could kill her? After all, anyone who kidnapped her like that wouldn't mind killing her or hurting her in a way.
Much to her annoyance she still couldn't remember how she got kidnapped. She knew that something happened in the beach. Ichigo was so lost in her thoughts that it took her a few seconds to realise that there was a noise in the room. A noise of a door opening and someone walking into the room. Ichigo turned around not knowing if she was going to like what she will see. The door was opened and there he was. Standing.