Sesshomaru growled as he attempted to keep up with the fleeing Naraku, the Tai Youkai's eyes were tainted red with his fury. Once again, the cowardly half breed had used Kohaku and Rin to make his escape; with the knowledge that his mutt brother's companions were rescuing the children he ran full out to capture his fleeing prey.
The demon's lithe form was covered with wounds, the worst being a large gash from his left shoulder that ran all the way down to his right hip. His kimono was singed and slashed open revealing the wound. Naraku's miasma hissed as it ate away at his open flesh countering his natural healing enzymes.
Inuyasha cast Sesshomaru a sideward glance as he slowed himself to a halt, "Sesshomaru! He's gone!" The irate demon growled as he sheathed his father's fang. The younger demon shook his head as he watched his brother's form as it disappeared into the darkness of the surrounding forest. "Baka…" Inuyasha grumbled as he turned and began heading back to Kagome and the others.
Sesshomaru snarled slightly as the fog that was clouding his normally calm mind relinquished its grip. "…Damn you…. Naraku." He muttered his amber eyes locked onto the moon.
The powerful demon straightened as his eyes scanned the surrounding area. His sharp ears could still hear the annoying buzzing of Naraku's poisonous insects; sheathing Tokijin he headed towards the sound, his stoic expression returning to its rightful place as he stepped out into a rather large clearing. His eyes narrowed as he took note to a crater off to his left, he could sense an odd aura about this place.
Naraku's scent seemed to cling to the very air that surrounded it, he could see some miasma that had leaked from the fleeing demon's wounds as it smoldered into the mossy ground. Suddenly a purplish light shot up into the sky not 100 meters from where Sesshomaru stood, he quickly shot off in the direction of the pillar.
"Naraku!" Sesshomaru snarled as he saw the pathetic creature pulling himself into the shelter that was the glowing cave, a cocky smile pulled across Naraku's pale face.
"You've failed to capture me yet again, Sesshomaru… For such a great demon to be out maneuvered so many times by a half-breed… You should be ashamed." The man's voice mocked as he dissipated into the strange light with a loud hiss of escaping miasma.
Sesshomaru grit his teeth, and against his better judgment charged into the cavern after Naraku his eyes engulfed in the crimson that belayed his rage.
Two amber eyes lock angrily with reddish pink, "Ohohoho! How the mighty have fallen Ryoko! Did you really think you could best me? The youthful, attractive, and smooth skinned Princess? I should think not!" Aeka laughed heartily at Ryoko's misfortune and Tenchi simply looked back and forth between the two of them a look of exhaustion clouding his tanned features.
"B-but Tenchi! How could you ask her and not me?!" Ryoko howled in anguish her disappointment more than evident in her expression and tone of voice. Tenchi heaved a sigh; he didn't understand how these two could possibly turn something so trivial into a bought for his attention.
"Ryoko… I merely asked Lady Aeka if she'd accompany me to the grocery store… Why is this a big deal to you? Would you like to come along as well?" Aeka flinched at this, her hearty cackle catching in her throat as Ryoko folded her arms across her chest a smug expression crossing her features.
"The grocery store…? What happened to a 'romantic' day on the town, Princess?" The ex pirate scoffed, her tail flicking back and forth in a quick jerking movement. "Hahahaha, how pathetic Aeka! Go then Tenchi, I'm sorry I kept you and the pack mule waiting!" She said teleporting away from them, to be honest she felt a bit foolish for having fallen for such a poorly laid trap. She knew that they might have a chance to talk while on their little outing but nothing so serious as to lead to Aeka properly pulling one over her and winning Tenchi's favor for good.
Besides she had an appointment with Washu, she wasn't all that intimidated by that fact for once either. There would be some testing but for the most part she knew her venture into the hellish laboratory would be worth it this time, Washu was unlocking some of the abilities that Kagato had long ago sealed away in her.
Tenchi fought down a chuckle as he heard Ryoko teleport away, he had to admit, though their antics were tiring, they could at times be rather amusing. Their comebacks and actions were often quite witty, though he believed victory had definitely been with Ryoko in this match. "ARGH! You vile beast! Get back here!! I'll have you know I am no mule! If anything you are an ass!!!" Aeka cried out, Tenchi had the biggest urge to point out how late her retaliation had come but figured he could do without adding fuel to the fire. And if he was stupid enough to do something that foolish Aeka would think he was outright siding with Ryoko and she would never let him live that down.
"Come on Aeka, I'll talk with her about it when we get home ok? Though to be honest… You did sort of bring it upon yourself with that lie…" The young man said placing the empty burlap bags back over his shoulder and starting down the road that would lead to the closest bus stop, Aeka bowed her head seeing his point.
"I-I suppose you're right Lord Tenchi, I'm sorry that I uh… Said you were doing that, it was out of place." She said quietly her eyes suddenly seemed very interested in the small cover of dirt that was building up on her shoes as they walked.
His eyes softened, it never ceased to amaze him how very different the girl's living under his roof were. But Aeka and Ryoko were probably the most different out of all of them; they were complete foils of one another. One was quiet and respectful while the other was loud and at times very rude. But he knew that both of them cared very deeply for him, and it was partially that fact that made it so hard for him to pick between them.
"It's alright, but do you understand why I will have trouble 'scolding' Ryoko?" He asked calmly as they stopped to stand by the main rode and wait for their ride into town, the Princess nodded and raised her head slowly to look into his deep and compassionate eyes.
"Yes Lord Tenchi I understand, but… At the same time I worry that then she feels as though she can get away with whatever she wants, and we can't have that… can we?" She added with a soft smile, though he could see a slight vindictive glint hiding in her kind, pink eyes.
Sighing he averted his eyes, "Yes, alright… I see your point." He said as the door to the bus opened before them, he allowed her to get on first, a gentleman as always…
"… Yo! Washu, where are you?! Come on! I wanna be done by dinner at least… You always take forever." Ryoko grumbled as she floated casually through the seemingly cluttered lab of her genius of a mother.
"Over here my darling daughter, how's my lil' angel today, hmm?" Washu asked in her normal cheery tone, she hopped down from her floating red cushion to properly greet the now scowling Ryoko.
"Ugh, you make me wanna gag, you know that? Anyway, come one, strap me up, I'm ready and willing… For once." She grumbled, glancing around at all the strange machines and tools her mother had close by, a slight shiver rolled up her spine as unpleasant thoughts of what Washu could do with all those gadgets forced themselves through her brain in the form of a Saw like dramatization.
Washu pouted for a moment, she felt her chest tighten slightly at her daughters comment but tried to act indifferent, believe it or not she actually did want Ryoko to think of her as a mother… And truly wished she could go back and correct all of the horrible things that had happened to her most precious creation, but alas, even with her powers as a goddess she could not abuse them to fulfill such selfish needs. Ryoko seemed happy enough, and to be there with her was the most the diminutive scientist could hope for.
"Alrightie then, have a seat," As the red head said this she hit a small transparent black key on her mysterious keyboard, several seconds later a rather comfortable looking chair appeared from no where. "Now, I know that you have no sense of taste… In food, not clothing geesh, don't glare at me like that… Anyway, are there any other things?" Washu asked twirling one of the pieces of hair that hung in front of her ear between her thumb and forefinger.
Ryoko arched a slender brow at her mother's question, "Other? Like what?" She asked in a confused tone, besides the sense of taste she didn't really know what she lacked that any normal being functioned with. And to be honest she doubted that if she didn't possess them that she would even know they existed.
"Well, sense of smell comes with taste, so you don't have that…." A small note pad and pen appeared with a snap of Washu's fingers she quickly jotted a few things down on the paper before continuing. "And you aren't ever hungry, we'll change that for now, maybe that will keep you from eating too much…"
"ARE YOU CALLING ME FAT?!" Ryoko howled jumping up from her comfortable seat; her mother frowned and shook her head.
"Well… I wasn't going to say anything but let me remind you… Your breasts and ass are sagging slightly darling, so maybe if you wouldn't sit around all the time after eating so much your metabolism could keep your body at its normal stable composition. I don't see how you can get fat; I gave you the highest metabolism possible! You see, this is why I always take forever… You people always get me off topic, anyway… To be perfectly blunt, you always talk about how you want to 'make love' to Tenchi, yet, I often keep a mental link open with you… And well, you have no sexual drive what so ever my dear."
Ryoko blinked, "Sexual… Drive?" She asked sounding a bit miffed by the whole topic; she had always been a tad touchy with sex. Mainly due to her past while still under Kagato's control, she wasn't a virgin, she had been with several men… But she never really got anything out of sex, everyone always said how great it was but she had never understood it, she never felt anything, and the men would always insult her after their 'sessions' together which often lead to him losing his head. (You can decide which head I'm referring to… though with Ryoko it could be either or even… both!)
"Ryoko…? Well, I'll run those tests then too, we'll do those uh… First before and after tests for that one, we already confirmed the taste and smell. So we'll test your taste and smell and your sexual charge after the seals are lifted, the hunger will show itself in time."
Ryoko stared at her mother for several minutes, the smaller woman was just sitting there and seemed to be spacing out, finding this rather annoying the ex pirate cleared her throat. "A-HEM, today MOM…?" Washu blinked and then chuckled lightly, she really wasn't looking forward to checking how Ryoko was affected by the many experiments she had to test whether or not her daughter could become aroused.
She had no problem using such devices on the other members of the household, women included but… It was a bit different with Ryoko; she didn't really need nor want to hear her daughter moaning in ecstasy due to an experiment of hers. Rising from her cushion once more, Washu temporarily disappeared behind a rather large machine, Ryoko could hear her pull out a rather large collection of keys and sift through them. After about another minute she heard a heavy drawer slide open, and heard some more clinking and rustling as her mother dug through its contents to find whatever it was she was looking for.
When Washu had returned to her seat she was a rather becoming pink not far off from the color of her hair, she held out a long slender box to Ryoko who accepted it curiously. The box was shiny and obviously had never been opened, the lettering on the box was a crisp black and yellow and quite boldly spelled out: 'P!nk Vibe, the number one cure for your wet dreams!' She then handed Ryoko a second slightly thicker and wider box, this one had various images and said something about adjustable fixings to suit your 'every naughty need', she sweat dropped slightly. She'd heard about these… Things, it was a vibrator, of that she was sure. She'd owned one, but it had been stolen and she never quite understood the point of it. She'd thought that maybe hers was broken since it had been the display at the store she'd stolen it from.
"Now…" Washu started with a rather nervous voice, "I want you to keep this up in your room for now and in about 48 hours or so you can give it a….erm….go." She then cleared her throat and jotted a few more things down before looking back up at her mystified daughter.
"Now I need to hook you up to this machine over here for a few minutes, at longest it should only take fifteen for it to find and unlock the damaged seals that damn bastard put on you. Then I want to make sure that I run a cross check and give you a small physical, by that time Lady Aeka and Tenchi-dono should be home and then Sasami will probably finish up her cooking. And oh! Speaking of which, you should be able to cook much more easily once your senses of taste and smell are restored. Then you can make Tenchi a good meal without any help from Sasami." Washu added with a wink, Ryoko's face immediately lit up and she ran over to the odd, blinking machine.
"LET'S GO YOU OLD FART!" She cried giddily earning a quick glare from her mother before the scientist began to place the sensors onto various parts of her body in sets of two. They were placed on her chest and stomach, her temples, the inside of both of her elbows and right at the junction of each hip to her legs. Once the sensors were aligned properly she typed rapidly on her floating lap top before warning Ryoko of a slight tingling sensation. Sure enough only seconds after the warning Ryoko felt a slight buzz throughout her entire body, it steadily grew warmer as the seconds passed into minutes.
The ex pirate's breath hitched as an odd sensation flowed into her, the thick 'smell' of the machinery all around her clouded her senses. Metal, chemicals, plastics, rubbers, and many other things assaulted her new found sense of smell sending her reeling. She blinked as tears began to form in her eyes, her mother smiled, seeing as the smells in her lab weren't exactly the most pleasant this beautiful planet had to offer she decided she'd let her off a bit early.
"Huh, well, you know what? I'll just give you that physical some other time, why don't we go take a bath?" Washu asked as she removed the sensors from her daughters body, the younger woman nodded before grabbing her new 'toy' from the seat she'd been using earlier and heading off towards the door. Washu smiled softly as she watched Ryoko's form disappear behind one of her larger machines, she was often very simple… 'But I wonder how Tenchi and the others will react to this new Ryoko? Will they realize how she was treated back then? Or will it mean nothing to them…?' As she debated the answer she hit a key on her holo top that closed any operations she may have left running and after heaving a small sigh she hit another and her bathing items materialized before her.
"COME ON WASHU! You wash me; I'll wash-u… Hahahaha" Ryoko laughed merrily as she stood smiling in the threshold to the lab, her mother smiled back a warm feeling filling her chest at the thought of bonding with her now cheerful daughter.
"Yes, yes I'm coming… And my Ryoko, that was quite 'witty'…" The two women laughed in unison as they exited the dark laboratory, both of them failing to notice Washu's holo top returning to view as it beeped a warning about a dimensional breach not far from the Masaki Shrine…
I started this SOOOO long ago and just found it and was like "OMG MUST FINISH BEFORE I LAZE OUT AGAIN AND COMPLETELY FORGET ABOUT IT!", but seriously, I dunno… I feel like maybe if there was another man thrown into the mix maybe Tenchi would grow some balls and step up to the plate a little better. I mean seriously, anyway I really do like the whole Inuyasha/ Tenchi crossover idea; the stories are already pretty similar… To be honest I feel as if maybe Takahashi was influenced by Tenchi Muyo! It was out first…
Anyway, so yeah RYOKO HAS NO SEX DRIVE! Get it through your heads! Any stories where she's making out heatedly/getting' it on may be hot, I will admit. I've read a few and thoroughly enjoyed them, but if you're going off of the OVA then she has NO. SEX. DRIVE. Ok? Ok.
This is sort of a more light hearted and humorous story if I dare to call it that, I don't intend for it to be long, I want to make you laugh, maybe cry and go "awwww" or be like HAWT DAMN but as for the ones that aren't laughing? They'll come later, maybe there was a bit of Awwing for the Washu scenes, and for the record? The "You wash me, I wash-u" is one of two jokes me and my mother constantly used to say after watching the Tenchi series. The other I will reveal at the end of the second chapter :o okies?
Hope you enjoyed, please review, and there will be more of the Inu cast soon I promise!