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CHAPTER TITLE: The truth isn't always what it seems
AUTHOR: Ryoko-chan
CHAPTER: 1
PUBLISHED: 2/4/02 (edited 2-11-02)
OWN STORYLINE: Heaven & Earth
A/N: This story has tons of plot lines formed in my head and I hope it makes sense. Here goes the first chapter...
* Means note at the end of the chapter.
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12 years after the Epilogue of Unknown Feelings
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"Dear diary, I heard Terran ask Asha to go to the dance with him today. You don't known how much that hurt. I was kind of expecting Terran to ask me since Asha and I know that he has feelings for me. What I couldn't believe was that Asha, my best friend in the whole world, had said 'yes' to him. It's not that I'm jealous, it's just that... well, I don't know. I've known Terran since we were in the first grade and I know that he has had a crush on me ever since the day I saved him from those bullies," laugh, "those were the days. Well, I hear father calling me so I'm heading home. See you tomorrow at the same time as usual."
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Masaki residence, Washu's lab
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"Washu! Come on! It's time for me to help Sakura with her homework!" protested a 32-year-old Tenchi Masaki who was strapped to one of the many machines that the small scientist, Washu, had in her lab.
"Tenchi!" Washu protested in return, "Sakura can wait! We have to finish the sperm test before I let you go."
"Why do we have to do this every year?!"
Washu smirked, "well, just to make sure that if you and Ryoko want to have another child, your sex cells are perfectly fine."
"WASHU!" echoed an extremely annoyed voice throughout the enormous laboratory. It's owner, Ryoko Masaki, tired of the countless times she had to come to her mother's lab to drag her husband away. "How many times have I told you NOT to do your fucked up little experiments on MY Tenchi?"
"Hey now! I'm just making sure that he's sexually capable to perform..."
"I don't fucking care! Just leave him alone!"
"Ryoko," Tenchi started as he freed himself from Washu's machine a moment before Ryoko was getting reading to throw Washu to one of her machines. "Come on, dear, let's go to my room before Sakura gets home."
"I swear to you, Washu," Ryoko said putting down her mother, "if I find you doing anything and I mean ANYTHING to Tenchi ever again, you will have to answer to this," she said pulling out her yellow light sword.
Washu just rustled the collar of her shirt and folded her arms across her chest, "I was just trying to help."
"Whatever!" Ryoko said as she had pulled Tenchi and made herself and him teleport to their room.
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Upstairs
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"I swear, that Washu's gonna ruin all that we have built with her stupid little experiments!" Ryoko huffed. What Ryoko meant was that Tenchi and herself had decided to give Sakura a normal life without the worries of her knowing that her mother is an ex space pirate. This was Ryoko's ideas to give her daughter a good life. Tenchi had objected because he had always wanted his daughter to meet the rest of the family. The last time the whole group had gathered in Jurai was when Sakura was five years old and Washu had to erase her memory after that last trip. Mrs. Masaki had given everyone from that family specific instructions to not come to Earth.
Tenchi sighed, "I think it's time for Sakura to know about the rest of the family." As he started to get dressed, the door to his room shot wide open.
"Sorry!" Sakura yelled as she quickly shut the door.
"How many times have I told you to knock before you enter!" Ryoko shouted back.
"Sorry, mom. Am I late, dad?"
Tenchi opened the door and hugged his daughter. "Don't worry about it, sweetie. So what's your homework today?"
"Well, I got these killer algebra problems and I got to write an essay for my English class *. That class is such a drag! Do I have to take it?"
"Of course you have to!" Ryoko answered.
'Sheesh, mom, why do you have to be so mean?' Sakura thought to herself without knowing that her mother could hear her thoughts.
Ryoko looked at Sakura and just started downstairs. "I'm heading out to do some thinking," she told her family.
Tenchi watched his wife heading downstairs and disappearing after she was no longer visible to her daughter.
"Mom, I..." Sakura looked at the stairs realizing that her mother wasn't there anymore. "Where did she go?"
"Your mom sure is fast, isn't she? Let's go and start with your homework, okay?"
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On the roof
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'Why do I have to be so rough on her?' Ryoko asked herself.
'You did want her to have a normal life...' interrupted Washu in her daughter's head.
'Why do you have to barge in on my thoughts?'
'I'm just trying to help you, Ryoko.'
Ryoko sighed, 'I know. I'm sorry. It's just that, I've been trying so hard to conceal my true identity from her.'
'Why don't you just tell her?'
'Tell her what? That I caused the destruction of many lives and planets 700 years ago? That I don't even have a father because I was one of your many experiments--'
'Shut up! Damn it, Ryoko! Why do you have to be like this? I'm sure that Sakura will accept what we are. Why are you trying to keep the rest of the family apart?'
'I don't know...'
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Planet Jurai
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"Setsuna!" the voice of Ryo-ohki echoed throughout the royal palace of Jurai. "Now where did she go?"
An older Sasami came running behind her, "that kid is going to give me a heart attack one of these days!"
"SETSUNA!" this voice now came from the imperial queen of Jurai, An'ya Jurai, wife of Yosho Jurai and daughter to Washu Hakubi. "Where in hell is that child?"
"An'ya, settle down!" started Ryo-ohki.
"She's as wild as Ryoko! I can't get her to settle down," stated Sasami.
"Great, just what I need! A brat like Ryoko that doesn't even want her family visiting her. Setsuna! If you don't get here in three seconds, I swear to you that you will be grounded for the rest of your life! I'm giving you till the count of three! One, two, thr--"
"Alright, alright!" called a voice from behind her that had just appeared out of thin air. Setsuna was a 14 year old wild teenager. If people saw her, they would say that she didn't look or act like her mother although she was mistaken quite often as An'ya's younger sister to people who didn't know of the Juraian royalty. "You never let me have any fun!" she whined.
"You are a princess and you are supposed to behave as such! Now go to your room and listen to your Aunts! You have to take responsibility for your actions!"
"Yes, mother..." Setsuna said giving up since she knew that she wouldn't be able to win this argument.
As the three females left for Setsuna's room, Yosho entered from a side of the palace. "You shouldn't be so hard on her. That will make her rebel more against you."
An'ya sighed, "I'm supposed to mold her into a great queen. She can't just slack off and start acting like Ryoko does!"
"You don't even know if Ryoko still acts this way..."
"Well yeah because that capricious brat decided to cast the rest of the family from Earth. And what was her excuse again?"
"She just wanted Sakura to have a normal life."
"Why would she want that? I swear that I will never get her."
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Planet Jir
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"Alright now, you guys have to give me all of the candies you own or else I wont play with any of you!" this snotty young voice belonged to the adopted son of Ayeka Jurai and Maia Andra *. His maine of marine blue hair hanging just below his shoulders.
"Tsk! Why should we listen to a stuck up brat like you?" protested another youth.
"Oh come on, Andrew! Why do you have to act like this?" wondered Andrew's best friend, Tira.
"Andrew," called Maia, "your mother wants you to come home right now..."
"'Oh Andrew, come home to your mommies!'" mimicked the youth that had pestered him before. "Why do you want to hang out with a loser that has lesbian parents?* The fool doesn't even have a father since he was adopted!" the rest of the kids left with Anthony, Andrew's worst enemy.
Andrew didn't seem to care that he had two mothers and that he was adopted. He was simply happy that he had a loving family and Tira on his side. "Wanna come to my house?" he asked Tira.
"Yeah, I want to keep hearing the stories your mom tells. I like the way she talks about her past!"
"Yeah..." Andrew muttered.
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The next day
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"Dear diary, I upset mother again last night. You know, I always feel like she's hiding something from me. She never seems to talk about the past and gets upset when dad and grandma bring it up. Some times I feel like mom is at some place one minute and she's gone the next. Like she disappears. And every time I enter grandma's room, there's this flicker of light and then it's all perfect. Why do I feel like my family's hiding something from me, diary?" sigh, "I'm currently not speaking to Asha and she keeps wondering why. I swear that I wish I didn't live here. I've always wanted to live in another planet since I know there's life outside of this one. I've heard that planet Jurai's quite interesting..." *
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* Well, the gang lives in Japan right? So Sakura's studying English since she wants to be an actress when she grows up and live in Hollywood.
* Why do you ask is he so snotty? Because one of his mothers, namely Ayeka, molded the kid to be like this.
* Don't go on assuming that I'm like this. The kids in planet Jir are pretty biased so...
* In case you haven't figured out who's writing the diary, it's Sakura Masaki.
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Next time: Sakura wonders about her life, continues to suspect that her family's hiding something from her and she asks Washu about the true meaning of love. What will Washu tell her granddaughter about "love" and will this tamper with her relationship with Ryoko? Join me next time in chapter two: The true meaning of love
Ryoko-chan
CHAPTER TITLE: The truth isn't always what it seems
AUTHOR: Ryoko-chan
CHAPTER: 1
PUBLISHED: 2/4/02 (edited 2-11-02)
OWN STORYLINE: Heaven & Earth
A/N: This story has tons of plot lines formed in my head and I hope it makes sense. Here goes the first chapter...
* Means note at the end of the chapter.
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12 years after the Epilogue of Unknown Feelings
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"Dear diary, I heard Terran ask Asha to go to the dance with him today. You don't known how much that hurt. I was kind of expecting Terran to ask me since Asha and I know that he has feelings for me. What I couldn't believe was that Asha, my best friend in the whole world, had said 'yes' to him. It's not that I'm jealous, it's just that... well, I don't know. I've known Terran since we were in the first grade and I know that he has had a crush on me ever since the day I saved him from those bullies," laugh, "those were the days. Well, I hear father calling me so I'm heading home. See you tomorrow at the same time as usual."
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Masaki residence, Washu's lab
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"Washu! Come on! It's time for me to help Sakura with her homework!" protested a 32-year-old Tenchi Masaki who was strapped to one of the many machines that the small scientist, Washu, had in her lab.
"Tenchi!" Washu protested in return, "Sakura can wait! We have to finish the sperm test before I let you go."
"Why do we have to do this every year?!"
Washu smirked, "well, just to make sure that if you and Ryoko want to have another child, your sex cells are perfectly fine."
"WASHU!" echoed an extremely annoyed voice throughout the enormous laboratory. It's owner, Ryoko Masaki, tired of the countless times she had to come to her mother's lab to drag her husband away. "How many times have I told you NOT to do your fucked up little experiments on MY Tenchi?"
"Hey now! I'm just making sure that he's sexually capable to perform..."
"I don't fucking care! Just leave him alone!"
"Ryoko," Tenchi started as he freed himself from Washu's machine a moment before Ryoko was getting reading to throw Washu to one of her machines. "Come on, dear, let's go to my room before Sakura gets home."
"I swear to you, Washu," Ryoko said putting down her mother, "if I find you doing anything and I mean ANYTHING to Tenchi ever again, you will have to answer to this," she said pulling out her yellow light sword.
Washu just rustled the collar of her shirt and folded her arms across her chest, "I was just trying to help."
"Whatever!" Ryoko said as she had pulled Tenchi and made herself and him teleport to their room.
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Upstairs
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"I swear, that Washu's gonna ruin all that we have built with her stupid little experiments!" Ryoko huffed. What Ryoko meant was that Tenchi and herself had decided to give Sakura a normal life without the worries of her knowing that her mother is an ex space pirate. This was Ryoko's ideas to give her daughter a good life. Tenchi had objected because he had always wanted his daughter to meet the rest of the family. The last time the whole group had gathered in Jurai was when Sakura was five years old and Washu had to erase her memory after that last trip. Mrs. Masaki had given everyone from that family specific instructions to not come to Earth.
Tenchi sighed, "I think it's time for Sakura to know about the rest of the family." As he started to get dressed, the door to his room shot wide open.
"Sorry!" Sakura yelled as she quickly shut the door.
"How many times have I told you to knock before you enter!" Ryoko shouted back.
"Sorry, mom. Am I late, dad?"
Tenchi opened the door and hugged his daughter. "Don't worry about it, sweetie. So what's your homework today?"
"Well, I got these killer algebra problems and I got to write an essay for my English class *. That class is such a drag! Do I have to take it?"
"Of course you have to!" Ryoko answered.
'Sheesh, mom, why do you have to be so mean?' Sakura thought to herself without knowing that her mother could hear her thoughts.
Ryoko looked at Sakura and just started downstairs. "I'm heading out to do some thinking," she told her family.
Tenchi watched his wife heading downstairs and disappearing after she was no longer visible to her daughter.
"Mom, I..." Sakura looked at the stairs realizing that her mother wasn't there anymore. "Where did she go?"
"Your mom sure is fast, isn't she? Let's go and start with your homework, okay?"
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On the roof
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'Why do I have to be so rough on her?' Ryoko asked herself.
'You did want her to have a normal life...' interrupted Washu in her daughter's head.
'Why do you have to barge in on my thoughts?'
'I'm just trying to help you, Ryoko.'
Ryoko sighed, 'I know. I'm sorry. It's just that, I've been trying so hard to conceal my true identity from her.'
'Why don't you just tell her?'
'Tell her what? That I caused the destruction of many lives and planets 700 years ago? That I don't even have a father because I was one of your many experiments--'
'Shut up! Damn it, Ryoko! Why do you have to be like this? I'm sure that Sakura will accept what we are. Why are you trying to keep the rest of the family apart?'
'I don't know...'
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Planet Jurai
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"Setsuna!" the voice of Ryo-ohki echoed throughout the royal palace of Jurai. "Now where did she go?"
An older Sasami came running behind her, "that kid is going to give me a heart attack one of these days!"
"SETSUNA!" this voice now came from the imperial queen of Jurai, An'ya Jurai, wife of Yosho Jurai and daughter to Washu Hakubi. "Where in hell is that child?"
"An'ya, settle down!" started Ryo-ohki.
"She's as wild as Ryoko! I can't get her to settle down," stated Sasami.
"Great, just what I need! A brat like Ryoko that doesn't even want her family visiting her. Setsuna! If you don't get here in three seconds, I swear to you that you will be grounded for the rest of your life! I'm giving you till the count of three! One, two, thr--"
"Alright, alright!" called a voice from behind her that had just appeared out of thin air. Setsuna was a 14 year old wild teenager. If people saw her, they would say that she didn't look or act like her mother although she was mistaken quite often as An'ya's younger sister to people who didn't know of the Juraian royalty. "You never let me have any fun!" she whined.
"You are a princess and you are supposed to behave as such! Now go to your room and listen to your Aunts! You have to take responsibility for your actions!"
"Yes, mother..." Setsuna said giving up since she knew that she wouldn't be able to win this argument.
As the three females left for Setsuna's room, Yosho entered from a side of the palace. "You shouldn't be so hard on her. That will make her rebel more against you."
An'ya sighed, "I'm supposed to mold her into a great queen. She can't just slack off and start acting like Ryoko does!"
"You don't even know if Ryoko still acts this way..."
"Well yeah because that capricious brat decided to cast the rest of the family from Earth. And what was her excuse again?"
"She just wanted Sakura to have a normal life."
"Why would she want that? I swear that I will never get her."
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Planet Jir
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"Alright now, you guys have to give me all of the candies you own or else I wont play with any of you!" this snotty young voice belonged to the adopted son of Ayeka Jurai and Maia Andra *. His maine of marine blue hair hanging just below his shoulders.
"Tsk! Why should we listen to a stuck up brat like you?" protested another youth.
"Oh come on, Andrew! Why do you have to act like this?" wondered Andrew's best friend, Tira.
"Andrew," called Maia, "your mother wants you to come home right now..."
"'Oh Andrew, come home to your mommies!'" mimicked the youth that had pestered him before. "Why do you want to hang out with a loser that has lesbian parents?* The fool doesn't even have a father since he was adopted!" the rest of the kids left with Anthony, Andrew's worst enemy.
Andrew didn't seem to care that he had two mothers and that he was adopted. He was simply happy that he had a loving family and Tira on his side. "Wanna come to my house?" he asked Tira.
"Yeah, I want to keep hearing the stories your mom tells. I like the way she talks about her past!"
"Yeah..." Andrew muttered.
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The next day
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"Dear diary, I upset mother again last night. You know, I always feel like she's hiding something from me. She never seems to talk about the past and gets upset when dad and grandma bring it up. Some times I feel like mom is at some place one minute and she's gone the next. Like she disappears. And every time I enter grandma's room, there's this flicker of light and then it's all perfect. Why do I feel like my family's hiding something from me, diary?" sigh, "I'm currently not speaking to Asha and she keeps wondering why. I swear that I wish I didn't live here. I've always wanted to live in another planet since I know there's life outside of this one. I've heard that planet Jurai's quite interesting..." *
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* Well, the gang lives in Japan right? So Sakura's studying English since she wants to be an actress when she grows up and live in Hollywood.
* Why do you ask is he so snotty? Because one of his mothers, namely Ayeka, molded the kid to be like this.
* Don't go on assuming that I'm like this. The kids in planet Jir are pretty biased so...
* In case you haven't figured out who's writing the diary, it's Sakura Masaki.
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Next time: Sakura wonders about her life, continues to suspect that her family's hiding something from her and she asks Washu about the true meaning of love. What will Washu tell her granddaughter about "love" and will this tamper with her relationship with Ryoko? Join me next time in chapter two: The true meaning of love
Ryoko-chan