The Future - Chapter 1: An Introduction
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: Tenchi & the girls belong to Pioneer Entertainment, AIC, and TV Tokyo (who should consider the idea of a 3rd OAV ::wink, wink::). I don't own them and I'm not entirely sure I would want to. Okay, I would want to, but I don't. That's how life is sometimes, ya know?
Author's Note: To the person who had the nerve to threaten me if I read your stories again...it would be helpful to know who you are so I know who to avoid. You didn't bother to give me your name when you threatened me.
To everyone else: I'm starting a new series! Yay me. I hope you guys like this one as much as the ones in the past.
THE FUTURE - CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION
By: Ryoko-chan
Tenchi was tired. The night before, the girls had kept him up all night with the karaoke machine. Finally, around the break of dawn Ryoko, Aeka, Washu, and Kiyone finally passed out drunk and Tenchi quietly stepped around the already sleeping forms of Sasami, Ryo-Ohki, and Mihoshi. Right now, he had no desire to get up and go plow the fields. In fact, he didn't even want to open his eyes.
Eventually, Tenchi rolled out of bed and picked himself up off the floor. He could hear people moving around downstairs. The sounds of voices...female voices. More particularly Ryoko, Aeka, Kiyone, and Mihoshi. Ryo-Ohki and Sasami were probably in the kitchen making breakfast and avoiding whatever was happening in the living room. Tenchi couldn't understand what was being said. Although he knew, as he got dressed, that he would find out soon enough.
"My hangover is all *your* fault Ryoko!" Aeka's voice was clearly identifiable as Tenchi opened his bedroom door.
"*My* fault? I don't remember pouring two and a half bottles of sake down your throat!" Ryoko said in her defense.
"Why don't both of you just sit down and be quiet...please." Kiyone said, most likely dealing with her own hangover.
Tenchi simply sighed and closed his bedroom door and started for the stairs. This was going to be a long day.
"You were trying to give me alcohol poisoning so you would have Lord Tenchi all to yourself!" Aeka screamed.
Ryoko only scoffed loudly.
"If I was worried that you were any competition, then I would have incinerated you by now, Princess. I wouldn't waste my time with alcohol poisoning."
"Ryoko...Aeka. Stop it please." Mihoshi pleaded.
Tenchi slowed his pace to the stairway. He *really* didn't want to go downstairs right now. He was too tired for this.
"Breakfast is ready, you guys!" Tenchi heard Sasami's voice.
Good, breakfast. Maybe that'll slow them down. Tenchi hoped silently.
"Someone should go wake up Tenchi." Sasami said quietly, probably knowing what would follow.
"I'll go!" Ryoko said, starting up the stairs.
"No, you won't!" Aeka said, diving toward Ryoko.
"I'll go. You two are ridiculous." Kiyone said, stepping over them and starting up the steps.
Tenchi took a deep breath and started down the stairs.
"Tenchi, you're awake already..." Kiyone said, stepping over Ryoko and Aeka again, clearing the stairway.
Tenchi nodded and yawned.
"Yeah, I am."
"Tenchi!" Ryoko said, teleporting away from Aeka, causing her to fall to the floor. She wrapped her arms around Tenchi's neck and hugged him tightly.
"G-good morning Ryoko." Tenchi said, gasping for air.
"Ryoko, release Lord Tenchi at once!" Aeka shouted, standing up and brushing herself off.
Ryoko just looked at Aeka and blinked.
"What's your problem Princess?"
"My 'problem' is that you are harassing Tenchi!"
"Aeka, Ryoko, Tenchi...breakfast is ready." Sasami said, attempting to diffuse the situation before it started.
"Girls, let's just eat breakfast." Tenchi said, already moving toward the table with Ryoko still latched onto his back.
Eventually everyone sat down to eat the breakfast Sasami had prepared for them. Tenchi's father Nobuyuki and his grandfather Katsuhito had sat down before any of them.
At the end of breakfast, Aeka and Ryoko just happened to reach for the same, and last, deep fried rice ball. Everyone at the table tensed up at once.
"You can have it Aeka." Ryoko said, waving it away as if she had never been reaching for it. "I know you've only had three of them today. Not your usual four or five."
"You ate three of them yourself, Ryoko! I don't know what exactly you're implying!"
"I'm implying that you eat too much for a princess of Jurai." Ryoko said coolly, leaning on Tenchi's shoulder.
Aeka stood up defensively.
"How DARE you!"
Ryoko stayed at Tenchi's shoulder, watching Aeka's anger rise with a sadistic glee. She smiled at the princess nonchalantly.
"Come on, Aeka...calm down. She didn't mean anything by it, did you Ryoko?" Tenchi said, looking over at Ryoko to help him calm Aeka down.
"Of course I did."
"Ryoko!"
Aeka clenched her fists tightly, her defensive logs surrounding her.
Tenchi watched this and looked to Ryoko again.
"Ryoko, apologize to her! You two have to stop this!" Tenchi said.
"Tenchi's right! You guys can't keep this up forever." Sasami said.
"Miao!" Ryo-Ohki replied in agreement.
"What do you girls plan to do five years from now? Is everything going to be like it is now? Someday you two are going to have to grow up!" Tenchi said, standing up and going back up to his room.
Everyone looked at everyone else. Tenchi had actually stood up to the girls. He had succeeded in stopping one of their fights.
Ryoko and Aeka looked at each other.
"Hey...Aeka?"
"Yeah Ryoko?"
"Do you ever think about what Tenchi said?"
Everyone who was still sitting at the table blinked in disbelief.
"You mean about what we'll be doing in five years?"
Kiyone's mouth dropped open.
"That's all it takes to stop you two from fighting? Ask a rhetorical question?"
"Well, do you ever think about it, Kiyone? Will you still be here in five years, being a resident officer in the middle of nowhere with Mihoshi as a partner?"
Kiyone blinked. She hadn't really thought about it.
"It would be great if we could actually see what our lives will be like in five years." Sasami said with a sigh.
"There is a way." Washu said suddenly. Nobody had even noticed that she had awakened from her hangover induced coma.
"Really Washu? How?" Ryoko asked, her curiosity peaked.
"With my time machine. What else? The same machine that I used to send you all back twenty years to help Tenchi's mother Achika. It can be used for the future as well. Of course, if you *do* witness your future, you have to realize that it might not turn out the same."
"Who cares? Let's go!" Ryoko said, standing up.
"Yeah! This'll be great. What do you think Ryo-Ohki?"
"Miao!"
"Yay! Maybe you and I will be running the Galaxy Police in five years, Kiyone!" Mihoshi said.
Kiyone simply sighed.
"All right then." Washu said, picking up the rice ball that had started all of the commotion in the first place. "We'll go once I'm finished with breakfast."
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End Chapter 1
Next:
Chapter 2: A Princess of the Ages
By: Ryoko-chan
Disclaimer: Tenchi & the girls belong to Pioneer Entertainment, AIC, and TV Tokyo (who should consider the idea of a 3rd OAV ::wink, wink::). I don't own them and I'm not entirely sure I would want to. Okay, I would want to, but I don't. That's how life is sometimes, ya know?
Author's Note: To the person who had the nerve to threaten me if I read your stories again...it would be helpful to know who you are so I know who to avoid. You didn't bother to give me your name when you threatened me.
To everyone else: I'm starting a new series! Yay me. I hope you guys like this one as much as the ones in the past.
THE FUTURE - CHAPTER 1: AN INTRODUCTION
By: Ryoko-chan
Tenchi was tired. The night before, the girls had kept him up all night with the karaoke machine. Finally, around the break of dawn Ryoko, Aeka, Washu, and Kiyone finally passed out drunk and Tenchi quietly stepped around the already sleeping forms of Sasami, Ryo-Ohki, and Mihoshi. Right now, he had no desire to get up and go plow the fields. In fact, he didn't even want to open his eyes.
Eventually, Tenchi rolled out of bed and picked himself up off the floor. He could hear people moving around downstairs. The sounds of voices...female voices. More particularly Ryoko, Aeka, Kiyone, and Mihoshi. Ryo-Ohki and Sasami were probably in the kitchen making breakfast and avoiding whatever was happening in the living room. Tenchi couldn't understand what was being said. Although he knew, as he got dressed, that he would find out soon enough.
"My hangover is all *your* fault Ryoko!" Aeka's voice was clearly identifiable as Tenchi opened his bedroom door.
"*My* fault? I don't remember pouring two and a half bottles of sake down your throat!" Ryoko said in her defense.
"Why don't both of you just sit down and be quiet...please." Kiyone said, most likely dealing with her own hangover.
Tenchi simply sighed and closed his bedroom door and started for the stairs. This was going to be a long day.
"You were trying to give me alcohol poisoning so you would have Lord Tenchi all to yourself!" Aeka screamed.
Ryoko only scoffed loudly.
"If I was worried that you were any competition, then I would have incinerated you by now, Princess. I wouldn't waste my time with alcohol poisoning."
"Ryoko...Aeka. Stop it please." Mihoshi pleaded.
Tenchi slowed his pace to the stairway. He *really* didn't want to go downstairs right now. He was too tired for this.
"Breakfast is ready, you guys!" Tenchi heard Sasami's voice.
Good, breakfast. Maybe that'll slow them down. Tenchi hoped silently.
"Someone should go wake up Tenchi." Sasami said quietly, probably knowing what would follow.
"I'll go!" Ryoko said, starting up the stairs.
"No, you won't!" Aeka said, diving toward Ryoko.
"I'll go. You two are ridiculous." Kiyone said, stepping over them and starting up the steps.
Tenchi took a deep breath and started down the stairs.
"Tenchi, you're awake already..." Kiyone said, stepping over Ryoko and Aeka again, clearing the stairway.
Tenchi nodded and yawned.
"Yeah, I am."
"Tenchi!" Ryoko said, teleporting away from Aeka, causing her to fall to the floor. She wrapped her arms around Tenchi's neck and hugged him tightly.
"G-good morning Ryoko." Tenchi said, gasping for air.
"Ryoko, release Lord Tenchi at once!" Aeka shouted, standing up and brushing herself off.
Ryoko just looked at Aeka and blinked.
"What's your problem Princess?"
"My 'problem' is that you are harassing Tenchi!"
"Aeka, Ryoko, Tenchi...breakfast is ready." Sasami said, attempting to diffuse the situation before it started.
"Girls, let's just eat breakfast." Tenchi said, already moving toward the table with Ryoko still latched onto his back.
Eventually everyone sat down to eat the breakfast Sasami had prepared for them. Tenchi's father Nobuyuki and his grandfather Katsuhito had sat down before any of them.
At the end of breakfast, Aeka and Ryoko just happened to reach for the same, and last, deep fried rice ball. Everyone at the table tensed up at once.
"You can have it Aeka." Ryoko said, waving it away as if she had never been reaching for it. "I know you've only had three of them today. Not your usual four or five."
"You ate three of them yourself, Ryoko! I don't know what exactly you're implying!"
"I'm implying that you eat too much for a princess of Jurai." Ryoko said coolly, leaning on Tenchi's shoulder.
Aeka stood up defensively.
"How DARE you!"
Ryoko stayed at Tenchi's shoulder, watching Aeka's anger rise with a sadistic glee. She smiled at the princess nonchalantly.
"Come on, Aeka...calm down. She didn't mean anything by it, did you Ryoko?" Tenchi said, looking over at Ryoko to help him calm Aeka down.
"Of course I did."
"Ryoko!"
Aeka clenched her fists tightly, her defensive logs surrounding her.
Tenchi watched this and looked to Ryoko again.
"Ryoko, apologize to her! You two have to stop this!" Tenchi said.
"Tenchi's right! You guys can't keep this up forever." Sasami said.
"Miao!" Ryo-Ohki replied in agreement.
"What do you girls plan to do five years from now? Is everything going to be like it is now? Someday you two are going to have to grow up!" Tenchi said, standing up and going back up to his room.
Everyone looked at everyone else. Tenchi had actually stood up to the girls. He had succeeded in stopping one of their fights.
Ryoko and Aeka looked at each other.
"Hey...Aeka?"
"Yeah Ryoko?"
"Do you ever think about what Tenchi said?"
Everyone who was still sitting at the table blinked in disbelief.
"You mean about what we'll be doing in five years?"
Kiyone's mouth dropped open.
"That's all it takes to stop you two from fighting? Ask a rhetorical question?"
"Well, do you ever think about it, Kiyone? Will you still be here in five years, being a resident officer in the middle of nowhere with Mihoshi as a partner?"
Kiyone blinked. She hadn't really thought about it.
"It would be great if we could actually see what our lives will be like in five years." Sasami said with a sigh.
"There is a way." Washu said suddenly. Nobody had even noticed that she had awakened from her hangover induced coma.
"Really Washu? How?" Ryoko asked, her curiosity peaked.
"With my time machine. What else? The same machine that I used to send you all back twenty years to help Tenchi's mother Achika. It can be used for the future as well. Of course, if you *do* witness your future, you have to realize that it might not turn out the same."
"Who cares? Let's go!" Ryoko said, standing up.
"Yeah! This'll be great. What do you think Ryo-Ohki?"
"Miao!"
"Yay! Maybe you and I will be running the Galaxy Police in five years, Kiyone!" Mihoshi said.
Kiyone simply sighed.
"All right then." Washu said, picking up the rice ball that had started all of the commotion in the first place. "We'll go once I'm finished with breakfast."
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End Chapter 1
Next:
Chapter 2: A Princess of the Ages