Even if I've been inactive for years, that means nothing mwahaha. Enjoy this fluff.

It was silly. How he even got caught into doing this silly thing, he would never know.

About a year ago, when the shop first opened, Café Mew Mew was getting their sidewalk redone. In honor of their waitresses, each one got to put their hands in the soft cement to leave their handprints, and sign their name underneath.

After all the girls had gone home one day, Ryou found himself admiring all these handprints.

And ah, there were her dainty prints. Quite the opposite actually, as, when Ichigo was attempting to leave her mark, Ryou had come out at that very moment and made some comment telling her not to mess up. Being Ichigo and not taking any kind of remark from Ryou well, she freaked out, uncarefully removing her hands to flip around and yell at her blond boss. In her frustration, her mark in the sidewalk now looked like an alien's foreign marking.

Ryou had realized that she was going to be upset over this, and without saying anything, joined Ichigo crouching over her territory of sidewalk.

"Well this is different," he whispered, "But I like it. It's different and has character, just like you."

This was a year ago. This day, Ryou found himself again, crouching over the messed up handprints, and, without thinking, put his hands down into Ichigo's prints, because he knew, that was probably about as close as he was going to get to holding her hands.

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