Ever since he woke her up from that dream, she started living in a reality.

She hoped so badly it was a fake reality. It was just a nightmare, she says in her sleep, her small frame aching from the from the mentality of reality.

She couldn't be a Mew like this! She couldn't show her marred body to anyone! Not even the aliens.

She was a disgrace to the human race. How dare she think she can save her kind, when she no longer even acts like them? Let alone look like them?

It all started after that stupid wreath had been placed over her head, that moment when she fell into a the dream chimera's curse.

When Kish woke her up, and screamed at her, trying to kill her.

From there, everything swung backward.

Ryou had decided to close the cafe early that day. After the chimera had invaded Ichigo's dreams, and their adrenaline left them weary, they all thought it was time to call it a night, and hit the hay.

Locking the door as she went out, Ichigo walked outside in the cool night air. Kisshu's actions had frightened her. Like he actually wanted to...hurt her. But she shook off the thought. He was always trying to kill her, right?

As she walked outside, her pink phone started to ring, and awoke Masha, who had been sleeping soundly next to it in her purse. Looking at the 'Unknown I.D' made her wonder. Who would call her at this time of day? Especially after a chimera attack? She giggled as she remembered her father's voice message.

ICHIGO! I UNDERSTAND YOU NEED TO WORK, BUT PLEASE NOTIFY ME WHEN YOU GO AT NIGHT! NO, NOT PLEASE, YOU MUST TELL ME WHEN YOU GO OUT AT NIGHT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE GOING OUT WITH AYOMA-KUN! ICHIGO, DO YOU HEAR ME?! I KNOW YOU'RE THERE PICK UP THE PHONE!

~Honey calm down, she'll be just fine.

I WILL NOT CALM DOWN! SHE'S MY LITTLE GIRL! IF ANYTHING WERE TO HAPPEN TO HER LIKE W-

The phone cut off then. She didn't understand who this guy/girl that started with a 'W' and how she was related to them but all she wanted to do was actually get a good night's rest in her bed, not in the air with a bunch of aliens trying to kill her.

She flipped the phone open anyway and put it away from her ear, her sensitive ears catching all muffles and shuffles from the phone. "Hello?" she asked into the phone, stopping at a bus stop.

"I-Ichigo? P-Please...c-come home...W-We need y- AH, PLEASE, I BEG OF YOU, NO!"

Her mother's voice had NEVER cracked like that unless she was crazy angry, or crazy sad. "Mom? What's wrong?" she said quietly into the phone, honing her ears on that one sound instead of the cars going past her.

The phone cut off and the bus was right around the corner, her worry for her mother growing to new heights.

Ya know that saying; "Curiosity killed the cat?"

Well, in her situation...let's just say...

It did.

She didn't dare take that slow bus, instead she ran as fast her long legs could carry her, not even stopping to take a breather. When she got to her house, it was utter chaos.

Police were swarming around the house, neighbors in their robes coming out of their doors to see what had woken them up in the middle of the night.

Two ambulances were parked outside her door, and as she watched in horror, two stretchers came out.

The sheets covered her father's head, but she could hear his groans of pain.

"P-Papa? W-What happened?"

"I-I-Ichi-"

He didn't say a word after that, but only passed out. At least, that's what she hoped.

The next stretcher held her mother and a bunch of paramedics surrounding her. She was holding her bleeding chest, and would not allow anyone to touch her. "Mama?" she cried, she ran over to her mother, whose eyes were closed, but she heard all. "I-Ichigo." she rasped. "I...I wish I would have told you this sooner. I wish so badly..." she said slightly, tears starting to stream out of her eyes.

"If we don't come back alive to day, my daughter-"

"DON'T SAY THAT! MAMA, I KNOW YOU'LL BE ALIVE! WHO DID THIS TO YOU MAMA?! MAMA?!" she whispered loudly, a tear slipping out of her eyes.

"Go inside the basement, and go into the room that we told you never to go in. There, my daughter, you will see files among files. Y-Your...h-he's after you. Darling, go look into those files. I promise I will live long enough to write a will." she said with a rasp, a small smile coming across her face. "And don't worry. You don't have to explain anything." she coughed lightly, blood coming out of her mouth, and the tears were mixing with her already infected wound, the paramedics trying to grab Ichigo away from her daughter. "I know who you are...Mew Mew." she said, and her eyes closed, and she let out a pleasurable sigh, tears streaming out of her face. "I love you so much Ichigo. And Daddy does too."

No...it couldn't be happening? What was going on? What happened? Who would ever do such things to her parents?

The paramedics pushed her out of the way and hopped into the van, hitching her poor mother's body to IV's and heart rate checkers.

Ichigo let out a strangled gasp that sounded similar to a cat, and ran into the house. She quickly ran into the room where the police had been examining the weapons and blood spilled on the floor.

Ichigo backed herself away from the room and ran out,her eyes streaming with tears as she ran upstairs. Her tears blinding her vision, she clumsily slipped on red blood, her nose giving off the terrifying "CRACK" she had not wanted to hear.

Ignoring the flowing liquid rapidly coming from her nose, she ran into her room and locked the door, despite police attempts to get in. She didn't take off her dirty clothes, and only pressed her face firmly against the pillow, a raw pain gnawing against her timid heart.

She felt primal.

She wanted...to...to hurt whatever sick being who could do this.

That raw feeling of pain and primal thoughts came back and she shook her head violently, her blood messing up the pink perfection of soft feathers know as her pillow.

For the first time in her life, she felt a feeling she had never experienced before.

Suffering.

Hiya guys! Sorry about the 'Remember Me' but I lost intrest in it, and it is DISCONTINUED. But, on the happier note, I'm opening a new one that came into my dream once! So, I hope you enjoyed, leave feedback, and I'll get back to ya soon. ;D