"I'm late
again!" Tenchi panted as he ran up the
long stairway to the Masaki shrine. "I
hope Grandpa won't get too mad…." He stopped talking as he reached the door to
Grandfather's office. Throwing it open,
he stammered out excuses.
"Sorry,
Grandpa, I had to…" His voice trailed off as he noticed that someone else was
in the office.
"Hello,
Lord Tenchi." Ryoko said quietly. She
sipped on some green tea while she looked calmly at him.
"H-hello,
Ryoko." He said nervously. This is really weird. He thought, after a second. She's not throwing herself on me, or
anything!
"Why don't
you join us, Tenchi? Ryoko and I were
just talking about how nice a day it was."
Grandpa told Tenchi. And you
don't think there's anything weird about that, Grandpa?
"Sure." He
went to sit down next to Ryoko, so he wouldn't have to look at her directly,
but Grandpa stopped him.
"Tenchi,
come and sit over by your old Grandpa!"
He beamed at patted the ground next to him. Right across from Ryoko.
But Tenchi
couldn't really argue with his Grandfather, so he sat down there. Grandfather and Ryoko began talking again,
about some type of flower that Tenchi had never heard of. He sat, not really listening to what was
being said, just thinking about how nice it was to get some peace and quiet
while still being around Ryoko. He
liked what ever had happened to her.
He blinked
a few times and realized that he had been staring at Ryoko. And, amazingly enough, she was blushing,
like Ayeka would do when he looked at her for too long. Then it hit him.
Ryoko was
acting like Ayeka. Washu had to be
involved.
A quick
trip to Washu's lab verified this.
Washu was working at her computer, as always, when Tenchi walked
in. He stepped up behind her, and was
about to speak, when she did.
"Oh, so you
noticed my little experiment, did you?"
She said happily, whirling around on her floating cushion.
"What'd you
do to Ryoko?" He demanded.
"Just
Ryoko?" She frowned.
"There's more?" He said anxiously.
"Oh, only
Ayeka. You like what I did?"
"What did
you do?" Tenchi said, still worried.
"I switched
their personalities. I guess it's good
that you met Ryoko first. She turned
out the better of the two. Now we have
a screeching space-piratess who was running around the house."
"Was?"
"Oh, she
was getting annoying, so I stuck her in one of my glass capsules." Washu gestured to a cylindrical glass
container, in which an angry Ayeka was flattening her face against the sides.
"Washu, let
her out!" Tenchi cried, rushing over to
the capsule. Ayeka noticed him and
started kissing the glass closest to his face.
"Or, maybe
not…" He said hesitantly. Washu grinned.
"I told you
Ryoko turned out better." As Tenchi
turned towards her, she realized something new.
"Tenchi, if
you like Ayeka better, then why don't you choose her?"
"W-what?" Tenchi stammered. Washu squinted at him, then repeated herself.
"If you
like Ayeka better, why don't you choose her?"
"I don't
like Ayeka better…"
"Okay,
Tenchi. Which personality do you like
better?" Washu asked.
"I like
them the same." Tenchi's eyebrow
twitched and she knew he was lying.
"You like
Ayeka's better, don't you?" An
embarrassed look from him confirmed her guess.
"Then why bother with Ryoko? "
"Well, she's
very beautiful…" Tenchi managed to say,
turning bright red.
"Are you
that shallow that you'd choose my daughter only because of her looks? I'm ashamed of you, Tenchi." Washu turned back to her work angrily.
"Washu…what?" But she ignored him, and finally he walked
out of the door.
"Washu,
Tenchi told me what you did. I'm afraid
I'm going to have to demand that you restore my rightful personality." Ryoko flew into the lab.
"Do you
really want me to, dear?"
"Yes."
Tenchi
wrapped his arms around his beautiful wife.
It hadn't taken long to decide after his talk with Washu. He smiled at her, thinking how magical she
looked in her shimmering white dress.
Behind them, only a few people clapped.
She had wanted it that way- no media, not too many relatives, and just a
few friends. Only five friends,
including the cabbit. One had taken off
right after Tenchi had announced his proposal, almost angry enough to blow up
the planet.
Ayeka
smiled at him through her veil, and Tenchi forgot about Ryoko's rage. He wondered how he could have been
interested enough in her to deny Ayeka for so long. Ayeka was just as beautiful when she wanted to be, and that was
all that mattered.
Author's Note:
AHHHH! Some how I know that I'm
going to get burnt from all of the flames- but that's ok. Death threats will be deleted, sorry about
that. I think they're funny, but they
piss me off. Especially ones that are
about the stupidest things. (i.e.: I
have never gotten a death threat for a R+T or A+T story, but I got one because
Ryoko didn't kill Trunks in a weird little crossover I made.) Flames will be
laughed at, and then used to roast marshmallows and make me a nice s'more. ^_^
Some Tenchi Information for all of you: In commemoration of the Tenchi Muyo Fan
Fiction part of Fan Fiction.net reaching 1000, I have a cool little bit of
information for you…The 4th season of Tenchi will not be about
Tenchi! It's supposed to be called
'Galaxy Police', and will have nothing to do with any of the characters from the
first 3 seasons. I would tell you to go
see the message from where I got it, but animenetwork.com is down.
Wait! That's incorrect. I've gotten a lot of reviews about it, so
here's the other information.
From Hakubi Washuu:
"Actually, Galaxy Police is a completely different anime,
set in the OVA
contingency but about a year afterwards. Mihoshi's mother, along with
Sasami and Aeka's grandmother and a new character (a male -
though this
won't be a shounen anime...yeah right!) will be involved,
but not the
Tenchi cast (possibly some short cameos, but don't count on
it).
OVA3, which is being worked on right now, is about Tenchi
having to
choose (and I know who he chooses, no spoilers!) and also
the battle
between the 3 goddesses.
I won't tell you any more other than that you
are partially right...the 4th OVA, if there is one, won't be
a Tenchi
Muyo! anymore. It'll
be about the goddesses, or in particular (much to
my jubilation) about Washuu.
…………..
Here are my references (aka proof - and interesting reading
material!)
Parts 1 and 2 of Anime-Int's interview with Masaki
Kajishima, creator
of
the Tenchi Muyo! series:
http://www.anime-int.com/e/interviewpage/index_k.html Part 3 of said interview:
http://www.anime-int.com/e/interviewpage/index_k3.htm