Hullo peoples! This is me. (again) Sooo sorry it took so long. Weeeell hope you like the new chapter!

---- Flaming Bananas of Doom

Chapter 2 : The Next Mew Mew

"Wakey wakey, Cherry! Time for school." Ichigo bellowed, opening the door to Cherry's room. When light entered the dark room Cherry mumbled gibberish and threw her covers over her.

"Come on." Ichigo giggled as she played tug-o-war with Cherry and her sheets.

"Noooo!" Cherry groaned. She sat up and looked at her clock. "Oh no! I've got school!" She exclaimed.

Ichigo looked sternly at Cherry and said. "That's why I was waking you up!"

But before Cherry could answer, she flew out the door, dragging her uniform with her. Ichigo heard the bathroom door slam as she shrugged and went on her way.

After doing chores; Cherry opened her garage and took out her sky-blue moped, that she had saved allot of yen to get. She stared at it thoughtfully; all those pet care jobs really had paid off. Cherry smiled as she got on. She could feel the leather conjoined with the metal, underneath her. Cherry put on her helmet, revved up the moped, and went speeding down the street.

Cherry slowed to a stop at a red light. While she waited a stretch limo pulled up beside her. She tried not to stare, but it was kind of hard not to when the window is down. So, Cherry peered through the window and saw a girl, about her age with short blue hair, sitting in the farthest seat from the window. The girl shot a glare at Cherry and snapped. "What are you looking at? Freak!"

Cherry quickly looked back at the street and drove off when the light turned green.

The school bell rang and Cherry set off to lunch. She looked for a table that she could sit at alone, then finally spotted one. She was almost to the table, when she bumped into someone.

"I'm sorry." Cherry said, picking up her bagged lunch.

"It's okay." Was the reply. Cherry looked up to see Hidaki standing in front of her.

"Hidaki!" She said in surprise, dropping her lunch again. Hidaki looked at her strangely, as if he didn't know her.

"Excuse me?" Hidaki said. "How do you know my name?"

"Don't you remember me?" Cherry asked sadly.

Hidaki frowned and answered. "You don't look like anyone I've met." He bent down and picked up her lunch. As he gave it to her, he whispered something in her ear and walked away. Cherry didn't know exactly what he said, but it was something about going to the café. There is about thirty cafés in Tokyo, which one did he mean?

Cherry was at a daze. Did he remember her or not?

"Well I'm not doing any good by just standing around thinking about it!" She told herself and started for her spot, but noticed it was occupied by a 'click' of people.

"Oh." Cherry stated out loud as she stopped short. A dark haired boy with amber eyes, who had been watching her, came to her rescue.

"There's a seat at this table." He said as he hastily escorted her to a seat next to him. When Cherry sat down, the skirt she was wearing scrunched up revealing the mark on her leg. The boy glanced at the strange feature on her leg. Cherry blushed and pulled down her skirt.

"Oh sorry ... I just noticed your ... tattoo?" The boy apologized.

"No it's not a tattoo it's a ..." "I guess I shouldn't tell him it's a mew mark.." "... My birth mark, uh huh, my birth mark." She covered up quickly.

"Yeah." He answered, but inside he scoffed. He knew it was mew mark. "By the way, I'm Ryota; it's a pleasure to meet you." Ryota said, lending a hand to Cherry.

"Nice to meet ya too. I'm Cherry Aoyama." Cherry smiled as she shook his hand. "Are you new here?"

"Sort of ... My father insisted that I moved here, so I moved here because I had to..." Ryota sighed, looking at the ground.

"So ... Do you not like it here?" Cherry asked concerningly.

"It's not all bad." He replied as his gaze met Cherry's.

"Why is he looking at me like that? Does he ... like me !" Cherry pondered and blushed hard.

Just then someone knocked into Ryota. He turned to see who had done it, as Cherry's blushing caused her cat ears popped out.

"Oh no !" Thought Cherry. Ryota looked back at Cherry, who was now under the table.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Uh... Yeah, I just dropped my fork." She lied. Ryota smiled. If it wasn't that her tail had come out also, he would've believed her.

"Think normal! Think normal !" Cherry told herself. Her cat ears and cat tail disappeared as she shouted. "Found it!"

"That's good." Ryota smiled.

Cherry and Ryota finished lunch without any more conversations. Cherry got up to leave when the bell rang.

"Could I, perhaps, see you after school?" Ryota asked, with his eyes fixed on Cherry.

"Sure..." Answered Cherry. Then She walked off blushing.

Cherry walked out the classroom thinking of why Ryota would 'want to meet with her after school'.

"I'm sure he likes me... Maybe..." Cherry thought, as she put in the combination for her locker. Cherry put her books away and then trotted out the door.

Then she waited, and waited, and waited, for Ryota to come. She had waited some time, until she decided it was time to get home.

"Oh well. I bet it was nothing." She said aloud. Cherry went to her moped, and found a rose with a note tied to it, on the seat. She opened the note and read,

'Dear Cherry,

I'm Sorry to say, but my father called me home from school early. Do not fret, I will see you tomorrow.

Sincerely yours, Ryota'

Cherry smiled. "So he didn't forget me." She folded up the note and placed it, along with the rose, in the basket on her moped; then drove off.

Cherry pulled into her driveway and turned off the moped. She hopped off and walked toward the house.

"I'm home!" Cherry called as she walked through the front door.

"Hi, how was school?" Ichigo greeted.

"Pretty good." Cherry replied and placed the rose behind her back, but Ichigo spotted it.

"What's that? ...A rose!" Ichigo exclaimed, snatching the flower from Cherry. "Oooh, is it from a secret admirer?" Ichigo asked in awe as she examined it more.

"Something like that." Answered Cherry, taking the rose back and starting up the stairs to her room.

"Oh Cherry, Ryou called and he wants you to start today." Ichigo said.

"Start what?" Questioned Cherry.

"Start working at the café."

"I get a job at Café Mew Mew!"

"Sure you do... You better go now." Ichigo closed and glanced at the clock.

"... Okay ..." Cherry said feeling a bit unprepared. "Just let me go change my clothes."

"No wait! Here you go." Ichigo stopped Cherry and handed her some old clothes. "This was my old uniform, Ryou said you could wear this till he orders new uniforms."

"Oh, it's so cute." Cherry said as she unfolded the outfit.

Cherry changed quickly, then headed out the door.

"This is it." Stated Cherry when she parked the moped at a small pink café. Cherry smoothed the ruffles on her uniform and took a slow stride to the door. To her surprise, the door opened by its self. Or so she thought.

"Nice to see you again, miss Aoyama." Keiichiro greeted warmly, holding the door open for Cherry.

"Hello." Cherry greeted back when she had walked through the aroma filled café.

"So there's our new worker." Ryou smiled.

"Hi. Sorry I'm late." Cherry apologized.

"We'll let it off... This time." Ryou sneered and walked toward the kitchen door. "Since we have all new employs," Continued Ryou. "Then I thought we should have an all new assistant manager. So Cherry, meet my son." Ryou then opened the door and a boy, that resembled Ryou in his 'younger' days, walked out.

"Hidaki's your son!" Exclaimed Cherry.

Ryou raised an eyebrow and asked. "You know him?"

"Yeah, we go to the same school... and I was at her first kirema anima fight." Answered Hidaki. That comment made Cherry angry.

"I thought "you didn't know who I was"." Cherry said, shooting a glare at Hidaki.

He just smiled and simply replied. "Whatever gave you that idea? Of course I know who you are."

That did it! Cherry was now ready to slap the heck outta Hidaki! Lucky for him, she contained herself by taking it out on a napkin.

"I'm ready to start." A voice called from the entry way. Cherry turned to see the girl from the limo, wearing a uniform that looked almost like her's.

"You!" Cherry exclaimed.

"Freak!" The girl yelled.

Ryou and Hidaki roared into laughter while Keiichiro perplexly asked. "You ... Know each other?"

"Kinda..." Cherry mumbled.

"Yeah! She was the girl that, rudely, looked through my limo's window! Remember, I told you about her this morning." The girl answered.

"Now Pepper, don't get your feathers in a ruffle." Ryou chuckled.

"Freak. That was classic." Hidaki stated, still laughing.

"Har, har, har..."Cherry pouted.

"Sorry Cherry, but that was hilarious. By the way this is Pepper Yano, the next mew mew." Ryou introduced.

Pepper's Profile:

Personality: Spoiled brat, but can be nice when you get to know her.

Eye color: Navy blue.

Hair: Shoulder length, navy blue.

Height: 5 ft. 3 in.

Favorites: Tea, art, birds, dogs, and Soap operas.

Dislikes: Being looked down on, not being noticed, and not having her credit cards with her.

Hobbies: Shopping and dancing.

Pets: A dog (Towa) and a Lorikeet (Aurora).

Animal she's fused with: The Blue Bird of Paradise, of the 'Paradisaeidae' family. The Blue Bird of Paradise is native to New Guinea. Their color is blue, obviously. Also their diet consists of insects and fruit.

Dear readers,

Good? Was it good? I thought it was, but that's just me.

Also here's a funny story about my character Ryota: Okay, so I baby-sit my neighbors, and before I put them to bed I would read them this story. But, when I wrote the part with Ryota, he ... Didn't exactly have a name yet. So, I would always read it like this: ------ said, this and that. My neighbors would not except him not having a name, so I had to call him; Blank. But, when I finally gave 'Blank' a name and I read it to them, I'd say: Ryota said, this and that. And my neighbors would always reply; who said that? I'd have to say; Blank said that! So, to them Ryota will always be, Blank.

Anyway, thanks for waiting patiently for this chapter! And I hope you look forward to the next one!

---- Flaming Bananas of Doom