Chapter 4. Lettuce POV

As all the Mews and Masha left Cafe Mew Mew, Lettuce saw a determined look on Ichigo's face. I think that means she's coming up with a plan, hopefully. "Well, when will we start spying on the other girl?" Mint asked interrupting Lettuce's thoughts.

"Soon. But first we have to think up of a plan. We just can't spy on her and not know what to do next." Ichigo replied, looking at Masha affectionately. "Now I saw Ryou and Keiichiro spying on the same girl this morning, and she was heading down this street. So if we follow her trail maybe we'll find."

"Or maybe we can just go to the Red Data Animal Show instead." Pudding added. "Chances are she might be still there. Na No Da." Masha flew around Pudding a few times, while she tried her best to catch Masha in her hands.

"You know Pudding I've always wanted to ask this, but why do you always put 'Na No Da' at the end of your sentences?" Lettuce asked. She had started wondering this ever since they met at the zoo.

"That's because it's fun to! See. Na No Da, Na No Da." Pudding chanted this for a while, until she decided to shut up for a change. "Uhh...weren't we thinking up a plan?"

"Can we hurry up with the thinking?" Zakuro asked. "I need to model soon, and don't want to miss that again." She flicked her hair over shoulder, and started to walk faster dragging Mint with her. The stared at her, amazed on how ambitious Zakuro is.

Lettuce started to pick up her pace, so she could keep up with Mint and Zakuro. She always wondered what would be model's life like, but she wouldn't ask Zakuro because she wouldn't want to tell anyone this little fact. Ichigo and Pudding also decided to try and keep up with Mint and Zakuro in the end.

"How long does it take to get there?" Mint complained, clinging on to Zakuro's arm.

"Oh stop your whining and focus on our task, please. It take much longer either, and we've only been walking for 3 minutes Mint." Ichigo implied, trying hard to keep in her giggles. Mint blushed a bright red, then Pudding started to laugh, then Ichigo and then Lettuce. Mint gave all of us a long and hard stare, before she turned her attention back to Zakuro. Masha started to twitter at Zakuro.

Lettuce always thought that friends had to be different, but the Mews were too different. Pudding was hyper and fun to be with, Mint was rich and wants a certain type of adventure, Zakuro was the strong but quiet type and was the most mature of all the Mews, Ichigo was a partly energetic girl and was very outspoken. And I'm a shy, clumsy and a kind girl, so the Mews tell her often. As I said before too different. "So what's the plan Ichigo?" Lettuce asked, turning her head around to look at their leader. Ichigo tilted her head to the side and spoke slowly.

"We we will have to try our best to hide ourselves from the New Mew and eavesdrop on her conversations with anyone she talks to. And if she sees us, we will tell her she has just won a free trip to Australia!"Ichigo smiled at this and continued. "We'll try our very best, and Pudding we won't need any of your old family tricks."

"WHAT! Why not? They're the best tricks there are." Pudding said hurt and proud. She puffed up her chest and walked in big steps, but later falling flat on her face. "I'm fine, Na No Da."

Lettuce helped Pudding back on her feet and turned to Ichigo so she could talk to her about the plan. "So that's all? No transformation and fighting?"

"Yep, unless a Chimera Animal or an alien comes along we will transform and we will fight." Ichigo replied looking up to see if Zakuro and Mint were still in front of them. Lettuce also looked up to also see if they were there. Pudding was still well in front of them, but Mint and Zakuro were way ahead. Lettuce started to run after them, leaving Ichigo and Pudding to trail behind her. Lettuce never wanted to be left behind in a mission, so she tried her best to keep up with the others, or try even harder to do better than that. She had to admit, Zakuro and Pudding were pretty fast walkers. Lettuce was slow and had to run, but she would have to run carefully or else she trip or crash into someone.

"Mint, Zakuro! Wait for us!" Pudding yelled. Pudding zoomed in front of Lettuce with her stuck out from her sides like an aeroplane's wings. Ichigo started to catch up with Lettuce in the end. Masha flew beside Ichigo making tweeting sounds all the way.

The two finally made to Zakuro, Mint and Pudding, after a lot of running. Ichigo stopped beside Lettuce, panting and out of breath. All the other Mews stopped for Ichigo to get her breath back before walking to the Red Data Animal Show. "How much longer 'til we get there Ichigo?" Lettuce asked, starting to feel tired from all the walking and running.

"Not much longer. Why ask?" Ichigo replied.

"Dunno. I'm just too tired to go on."

"We've only walked a full 7 minutes, and you're going to have to find the energy to move on, because we have to walk another whole 2 minutes until we get there. So you're going to have to live.

"WHAT! Why?" moaned Mint, stopping to massage her foot. Masha flew in circles around Mint's head.

"Because we're stuck walking there, so stop complaining and get a move on."

Mint groaned and let go of Zakuro's arm for a while, while she stretched for a quick sec. Masha flew back to Ichigo

"Don't worry about it Mint. We don't have that long until we arrive at the Red Data Animal Show. You can do" encouraged Lettuce trying to help Mint up. "Anyways, after all that complaining we only have a minute left until we get to the show. You can live." Mint smiled at her, and finished her stretching. She walked over to Zakuro and held onto her arm again.

Lettuce always wanted to know why Mint admired Zakuro. But if she did Mint might say 'Well, what I would ask you is why don't you admire Zakuro? Look at those eyes, they sparkle like black opals. And her legs are made for a dancer. Her hair sparkles like black ravens feathers. How can you not admire her with these features?" Lettuce smiled at this thought and followed the rest of the Mews to the street the Red Data Animal Show was on.

"Well now that we're almost there, how are we supposed to find the girl now?" Zakuro questioned, brushing her hair with her fingers. She slipped her arm a little out of Mint's grip.

"Well, she shouldn't be in the line anymore, and if we ask Ryou to ask the guards to find the girl using the cameras around the place we should find her fairly quickly." answered Ichigo, as they entered the Red Data Animal Show's grounds.

Tweet Masha piped. "Okay Masha. You can go find Ryou and tell him that." Ichigo told her. Masha flew off in the direction of Cafe Mew Mew. "Fly safely." Ichigo paused after she said that. "That felt wired to say out loud." Lettuce and Pudding laughed out loud.

"Com'n, we need to get tickets and stand in line 'til we can the New Mew." smiled Mint. She let go of Zakuro's arm and went to get tickets for all of them.

"It'll be fun to go back to the Red Data Animal Show again. That's where I first saw the Iromote Wildcat." Ichigo said proudly.

Mint came back with their tickets and handed each Mew a ticket, and then they lined up in the line. "This line takes forever! Can't it go any faster than it is now?" Mint complained.

"If you have any problems with the place, complain to Ryou not me. He owns the Red Data Animal Show." Ichigo told Mint. Mint glared at her in a menacing way. Lettuce decided to break it up before it got worse.

"There's no need to fight, is there. We're stuck together, so let's just get along shall we?" Mint broke her glare and started to chat with Zakuro. Ichigo turned to Pudding and Lettuce to talk to. "How are we supposed to find the girl in this large crowd? Even a giant could hide here." Lettuce asked. "Lying down that is." Ichigo smiled.

"Dunno. We might as well call her name out and see if she answers." Ichigo answered, shrugging her shoulders.

Lettuce saw a big flaw in this plan and decided to tell Ichigo what it was. "Uhh, Ichigo?"

"Yeah, what is it?"

"Umm... well, sorry to be a party pooper but I can already see a big flaw in this plan."

"What is it Lettuce?"

"We don't know her name. Simple as that."

"Shoot. I hate that Ryou."

"Wasn't it you who didn't ask? Na No Da." Pudding added.

"Shut up."

"Okay." Pudding cheerfully, as she grabbed Lettuces arm and started to pull down on it, as she usually did.

Lettuce sighed and thought that this would be a long day with the Mews for a change.