You Are Not Alone
By: Mew Ami
Chapter Twenty-four: An Everlasting Promise
Note:
Ne: in the beginning of a sentence it can mean hey and at the end it means right. It's like how we say huh at end of a sentence when we want people to agree with us.
The alien aims for his target and thrust the sword forward. The weapon hits its target and the cat girl lets out a loud horrible scream. The scream goes on for awhile, but her mouth is soon covered by a hand.
Ichigo's eyes were close, when he hit her so she opens them up and sees him sitting there in front of her. She looks up and sees the dragon sword right above her head almost toughing her hair. She glances back at the alien with a confuse look on her face.
"Didn't have to scream that loud," he finally speaks to her.
The girl removes his hand off of her mouth. "Well, excuse me for thinking that I was going to die."
"Sorry," he mutters and stands up.
"Where are you going?"
"To stop Deep Blue," he answers and begins to walk away.
"Kisshu, wait!" She cries out and stands up. She tries to run to catch up to him, but since she's injured she falls to the ground.
The alien glances back her and rushes over to her. "You shouldn't move."
"I wouldn't be in this situation if some one didn't stab me that hard in my side," she growls at him. Ichigo didn't mean to say that the wound in her side is kind of making her grumpy.
Kisshu looks away. "You shouldn't be here with that kind of injury." He then stands up and gets out one of his swords. The alien takes the weapon and tares a hole in the air to make a portal.
Ichigo knows what he's up to when the portal opens up. She tries to get up to get away, but the alien grabs her and lifts her up into his arms. The girl starts to struggle, but he won't let go of her.
"This is for your own good, Ichigo," he says as they walk towards the portal.
"But I can't let you fight alone!" she shouts.
He lets out sigh. "I'm tying to make my mistakes up to you…"
Ichigo stops struggling to look at him. She can see the guilt in his eyes.
"You probably hate me by now," he says quietly.
"Kisshu, that's not…" The girl is cut off, when the alien pushes her gently into the portal. He then goes off to find the dark alien.
The green hair alien walks back to the room where he last talked to Deep Blue. He stands in the center with both of his weapons out. He stays on his guard just in case the dark alien comes out of no where and attacks him.
"You really are hopeless fool," says a voice that echoes through the room.
Kisshu twirls around and sees Deep Blue standing there with his long sword out. He puts up his swords up in front of his face to prepare for an attak on Deep Blue.
The dark alien laughs at him cockily. "Do you really think you can beat me?"
"It's worth a shot," he snaps back at him.
"Fine, I'll fight, but it won't take very long. Then once I kill you then I'll get rid of that girl myself."
Kisshu just puts his swords together and a blue light comes out and aims at the dark alien. The blue alien just flies up in the air and lands behind the green hair alien. Then he slashes Kisshu from the behind.
The green alien is knocked into one of the walls. He lets a terrible cry of pain and the dark alien laughs at him.
"This too easy!" he shouts in a smug voice.
Meanwhile, the cat girl lands on the ground of the basement in Café Mew Mew. She puts her hand on the side that hurts. She then takes her hand off of it and looks at it. The girl sees that there is blood on her hand. The wound had reopened from her moving around so much.
"Ichigo!" cries a voice.
The girl turns her head around and sees Keiichiro standing there. He then rushes over to her side and bends down next to her.
"What happen to you? Where did you go?" he asks her in a concern voice. "We were looking for you all afternoon."
"I got kidnapped by Kisshu, but he let me go and went off to fight Deep Blue," she answers.
"All by himself?"
The girl nods and tears start to fall from her eyes.
"Ichigo, don't worry. I'll call the others to inform them that you are okay and then we'll go to that location of the portal from earlier that leads us to Kisshu and the other mews can help fight Deep Blue," says the cook when he saw the tears coming out of the girl's eyes.
"You do that," she mutters quietly.
The cook leaves the room and goes upstairs quickly to get some items to tend the cat girl's wound. The moment after he left Ichigo stands up and walks over to the computer. She's going to see if Ryou has anyway to contact the other two aliens. The girl's hoping that she can convince one of them to help her.
She shakes the mouse and the computer screen glows. She just awoken the computer from it's screen saver. The girl is happy that blond boy forgot to lock the computer because she doesn't know his password. Once the screen turns on she goes into his email which he left open and looks for aliens' email addresses. The girl sees Pai's and tries him first knowing that Taruto probably wouldn't help her. Ichigo clicks on his name and d a screen pops up that allows her to compose an email. She types it up explaining the current situation and that's urgent that he came back to earth. The girl sends it right away and then prays that purple hair alien is on his computer.
Luck is on her side at the moment and the purple hair alien appears right behind her. He walks up to her and taps on her shoulder. This action makes her jump and she twirls around quickly. A smile of relief appears on her face, when she sees him standing there.
"You said Deep Blue has awaken?" he asks her. The cat girl's email only said that the dark alien is alive and that she needs his help.
The girl nods. "Yes, and I need you to take me to his dimension. Kisshu is there fighting him right now all alone and there is no way he can defeat him."
Pai sighs and says, "He really is an idiot."
"Will you do it?" she asks him.
The purple alien was about to answer, but the cook comes back into the room with some bandages in his hands. He stops in the doorway, when he sees Pai standing there with Ichigo.
"What's going on?" asks the chef looking at the girl.
"Pai, is going to take me to Kisshu," she answers.
"Ichigo, you can't go you're too weak."
"I don't care! Kisshu thinks I hate him! Even after I told I still love him, when he was about to kill me! I need to make things better and save Aoyama!"
"Aoyama?" says Pai in a puzzle voice.
"Aoyama is Deep Blue's host," the girl explains to him.
"Ichigo, I'm sorry, but you can't go," says Keiichiro drawing the attention back to main subject of the conversation.
The girl just shakes her head. She's going to go no matter what. "I can't let Kisshu get hurt."
The cook then looks at the purple hair alien. "So what are you going to do?"
The alien thinks for a moment before he answers. He's unsure what to do since Ichigo is hurt and Kisshu would murder him for allowing her to go in that condition. On the other hand his friend could be killed by the dark alien. He makes his decision and grabs the girl by her arm and they teleport.
The two people appear in the blue domain a few seconds later. The girl gets out of Pai's grip and transforms into Mew Ichigo. She then runs off to search for her love one and Deep Blue. Pai follows close behind knowing he may need to take part in the battle.
Moments later, they both reach the two aliens that are fighting. Ichigo puts her hands over her mouth, when she sees how injured Kisshu is. The green hair alien has been stab in several places causing blood to pour out a little bit around his stomach area.
The girl gets out her weapon at once and shouts, "RIBON STRAWBERRY SURPRISE!!" The attacks hits Deep Blue into a wall which he didn't see coming because he didn't notice her and Pai appearance.
Kisshu looks over and sees them. "What are you guys doing here?"
"She made me bring her here," answers Pai.
"And you listen to her?!?" he shouts at his friend in anger.
"Like it matters anyway. You all are going to die," says the dark alien and stands up from the ground he land on. He then walks forwards towards the people. "And she's first to go!" He then disappears and reappears right in front of Ichigo. The girl didn't see that coming so he hits her with his sword to the floor.
"ICHIGO!!" Kisshu screams on top of his lungs and rushes over to the dark alien. Once he reaches him, the alien stabs his swords into the dark alien's right side.
Deep Blue grabs the weapons at once and pulls them out his side. He then lifts Kisshu somewhat in the air and kicks him in the stomach. The impact of that blow sends the green hair alien flying in the air. He was about to hit the wall, but Pai appears behind him to catch his fall.
Ichigo uses her arms to push her up from the ground slightly and she looks behind her. She sees Deep Blue standing there right behind her. She tries to get away, but he grabs her by her hair on the top part of her head.
Meanwhile in Ryou's lab, Keiichiro is explaining to the other mews and the blond boy about what happen to Ichigo. The blond boy is angry at him for letting Pai take her to Deep Blue.
"How could you!" he shouts.
"Ryou, calm down, okay? Just listen to me for one more second."
The blond boy stops talking and waits to hear what else he has to say.
"Masha is with her and we'll be able to see what's going on because of his web camera," he goes on. He then turns on the web cam and everyone sees Deep Blue has Ichigo in his clutches.
"Girls, do you remember where the portal is?" Ryou asks the mews.
"Yes," answers Minto.
"Good, now go help her!" he commands them in an urgent voice.
"Wait," says the chef and the attention turns back to him. "The computer has detected Mew Aqua in that area."
"Are you serious?" asks Ryou.
Keiichiro nods. "Take Ichigo the Mew Aqua Rod."
Ryou leaves the room for a second and comes back in with the rod in his hands. "Here make sure Ichigo gets it."
"We will," says Minto. They take the rod and leave the café. Then the four girls hurry on over to the portal.
In the meantime, Deep Blue still has a hold of Ichigo. He has very evil smile on his face and grabs her to hold her against his chest. He then turns around to face the other two aliens who were coming to save Ichigo. They both stop running, when the dark alien puts his sword to her throat.
"Now, if you two move one more step, she'll die," he says.
"Don't!" shouts Kisshu.
"Hmm I might as well kill her though. There's no point using her as a hostage since you two are next," he says in a dark voice.
"Please don't!" the green hair alien begs.
The dark alien lets out an evil laugh and while he's laughing the Ichigo bites his arm. She bits him so hard that she release from his grip. Then Ichigo runs over to the other two aliens before Deep Blue can get a hold of her again.
"Damn you!" he shouts as he looks at his arm. She bit him pretty badly for blood to come gushing out. Then a small glow of white light comes into view from his arm that got hurt.
"ICHIGO!" screams a bunch of loud voices.
Ichigo, Kisshu, and Pai turn around and see the mew mews running up to them. Zakuro who is holding the rod throws it towards her.
The cat girl catches it and looks confuse.
Pai understands what's going and makes his fan appears. He then flies towards the dark alien and uses his weapon to knock him into another wall. He then gets out of the way and looks back at the cat girl. "That was Mew Aqua that came out of him! Use now before it disappears!"
The cat girl rushes over to the area where the drop of Mew Aqua landed. She holds up her weapon and shouts, "Mew Aqua Rod, Shining!" The rod shines and she continues to shout, "RIBON AQUA DROPS!"
The cat girl glows and she beings to twirl around in a circle. She holds up the rod straight into the air and the attack goes everywhere. The Mew Aqua tares apart Deep Blue and Aoyama making the alien leave the body. Deep Blue vanishes and Aoyama falls to the ground. The Mew Aqua is also destroys the blue domain and all of the people return to Earth. They appear safely on the ground in middle of the park that's right outside of Café Mew Mew.
Ichigo stops glowing and turns her back to face the others. She sees Pai helping Kisshu sit down under a tree to rest. She dashes over there and comes to a stop, when she reaches them. The cat girl then sits beside the injured Kisshu.
Tears fill her eyes in relief to see that he isn't seriously hurt. Ichigo hugs him, but Kisshu pushes her away lightly. She then looks back in him in surprise and gives him a baffle look.
"You still love me?" he asks her, when she gave him that look.
"Of course, Kisshu, why did you think I didn't?"
"Because I almost kill you and you…kiss him…"
Ichigo sighs. "Man, I thought you figure that out when I shouted that I still love you." She hits her forehead slighting as she talks. "I only pretend to like Aoyama to try prevented Deep Blue from coming out."
Kisshu looks the other way. He feels ashamed for not trusting her. The alien doesn't face her until she pulls his face towards her with her hand. Then the girl kisses him gently on the lips.
"Kisshu, don't worry I'll forgive you for mistrusting me. People make mistakes," she says softly and stokes his hair after she finished kissing him.
"But I fell for Deep Blue," he protests. He thinks Ichigo shouldn't forgive him.
"Hey," says Aoyama. The both of them look up and see the boy standing there. "If I were you I would accept her forgiveness and stay with her as long as you can. You're lucky to have a girl like her."
"Aoyama..," Ichigo says softly. "Do you really mean that?"
He nods. "Yeah and I hope you two will be very happy together."
"Umm I'm really sorry about what happen two years ago. I should have talked things out with you then maybe any of this would have never happen," Ichigo tells him.
"Like you said people make mistakes and I'll forgive you. Now, I hope we can just be friends," he says with a smile on his face.
"I would like that ne, Kisshu?" Ichigo asks the alien looking at him.
"Yeah that would be nice," he answers. "But you have to promise that's she mine forever and you can never have her back." The green hair alien puts his arms around her waist gently and pulls her close to his chest.
"I promise," the boy chuckles.
"Kisshu!" Ichigo shouts at him.
"What? When you said you love me automatically makes you mine forever."
"Then I should have never fallen love with you."
"Koneko-chan your words hurt me."
"Kidding!" she says happily and kisses him again, but his cheek.
Aoyama bids them farewell and hurries home knowing that his family is very worry about him. After he's gone, the others help Ichigo and Kisshu into the café so they can get heal. Once inside, Lettuce puts some bandages on Ichigo, while Pai does the same to Kisshu.
"Pai, that hurts!" he whines.
"Would you shut up and hold still."
"No!" he says and moves him body to prevent his friend from healing his wounds. "Only, Ichigo can heal me."
"I'm little busy right now. Lettuce isn't done yet."
"Hmp!" Kisshu crosses his arms and begins to pout.
Pai rolls his eyes and grabs his arm. He then continues to heal him spite his protesting. "You're such a baby."
"But, he's my baby," says Ichigo and giggles.
"Hey!" Kisshu says.
"There done at last," the purple alien says.
"Yay! But now I need to place to stay," he says happily and looks at the cat girl.
"That won't happen, Kisshu," says Pai before Ichigo could respond.
The alien looks at his friend in confusion. "Why not?"
"After, I told you Ryou and Keiichiro found Ichigo your mother wanted me to tell you something," he repiles. "She's wants to stay on our planet to focus on your studies. She wasn't happy, when your school call telling her that you were skipping."
Kisshu sighs and looks at Ichigo. "I'm sorry, but I have to leave again. But I will come back will you wait for me?" he asks her.
Ichigo nods. "I'll always wait for you."
"Good, put just in case," he says and reaches into his pocket and pulls out a little black box. "I have been keeping this for awhile. I hope it didn't get damage during the fight." He then gets up from a table he was sitting on and walks over to cat girl. He hands her the box.
The cat girl opens the case and sees a ring inside. The ring is sliver and has a small blue gem in the middle of it. The alien grabs the box back and takes it out it. He then places it on her left ring finger.
"It's pretty, but why are you giving me this?" she asks him gazing at the ring.
"It's a promise ring," he answers.
Ichigo smirks. "I see. You just want the boys to know I'm already taken."
He nods and returns the smirk. "Of course. So do you accept?"
"Yes," she says and stands up from a chair she was sitting on and kisses him on the cheek.
"I'll miss and I love you," he says.
"Same here and I love you too."
He looks back at Pai and purple hair alien walks on over to him. He then grabs him by his shoulder and they disappear.
Ichigo feels her arm being yank and she looks down. She sees Minto holding her hand looking at the ring. "Wow, this looks real."
"Minto!!" Ichigo yells in anger.
"Umm please don't move her. I'm not done tending to her wounds," the fish girl says interrupting the conversation before it turns ugly.
The bird girl just walks away and leaves.
"Must she always be a snob?" Ichigo asks Lettuce.
Lettuce chuckles a bit. "She may envy you bit since you're promising a boy that you'll marry him."
Ichigo smirks. "Finally I have something she doesn't have."
Meanwhile in the dark shadows a figure is lurking there. The figure just makes a fist with its hand. "They will pay for what they have done to me. I'll return someday and Earth will be mine!"
An: That's it! The story is done! But don't be sad because there will be a sequel! Now, for those who have never seen the anime. Mew Aqua Rod can only be use by Ichigo and in one of the episodes Ryou gave it to her. Thank you so much for all your reviews and I hope you will all read the sequel. I should have the summary post next week on my profile. I just want don't want to give away the ending for those who haven't read this chapter yet. The story itself will be posted either in the next month or the end of this month. Once again thank you so much for all the reviews. I can't believe how popular this story got. See ya all in Eternal Love! Please review!