Disclaimer: I don't own the characters or..um..anything of Tenchi Muyo. I wish I did though. Fanfic purely.

The sun rose and birds chirped as day dawned on the Masaki residence. The house was still for now at least..like every day by the time everyone was awake it would erupt in total and complete chaos, with Sasami trying to get her cooking done, and the usual fighting of Ryoko and Ayeka, and meowing of Ryo-ohki as she tried to steal carrots from the storage.

Tenchi yawned and sat up in his small bed. He of course, screamed as he woke up to the bloodshot eyes of Ryoko, watching him sleeo yet again. "Ryoko!" He yelled in angrily..but she didn't move at all. He sighed as he realized what was up. "She fell asleep with her eyes open again."

He wandered out of the bedroom, immediately for the bathroom. A few minutes after he had left, the bloodshot eyes blinked. Ryoko lowered herself onto Tenchi's bed, a heavy sigh escaping. That was the third time that week! She felt so weird, her body felt slow and sorta strange. It was time to visti her mom. She may not be up this early but all the same Ryoko had to wake her.

She entered the lab quite easily, and pressed a button on a machine inside the door. It was like an emergency call, if Ryoko needed her mom she just pushed the button. She waited a few minutes..then a door appeared in front of her, a sleepy Washu with it.

"Ryoko!? That button isn't a toy, why did you wake me up?", she asked angrily.

"Mom…I need to talk to you. My body feels weird, I'm tired, I feel like a slug, my emotions are all very strange." She felt a little embarrassed telling all this. It made her sound vulnerable, and she didn't like that. The only one she liked to bare any of her emotions too was Tenchi.

Washu cursed softly and rubbed her head, feeling extremely tired. A genuis does need her sleep, and she had stayed yup rather late doing some research. The answer to Ryoko's question was quite simple, though there was no way Ryoko could know that. "Well, my Ryoko, it's fairly simple. You now are on earth, so your body is finally adjusting. You are starting to have..well…a period like earth girls..which means I have to give you..these." She clicked her fingers and a hole appeared next to the door, a thing of pads coming out of it. Ryoko's blank stare made her groan. "I'll help you and tell you more about it. Come here." She walked back inside her door with the package, and Ryoko followed..

Meanwhile. Sasami had awoken and begun to fix breakfast. But this morning was different. The little cabbit Ryo-ohki was nowhere nearby. Sasami had called for her, worrying, and gotten no answer. But Tenchi offered to help. Good old Tenchi, she could always dependd on him! Still, she felt almost weird making breakfast without her furry companion.

Tenchi also had someone helping him look. Ayeka walked next to him, in her usual pink wear, head bowed down a little with her eyes open. Oh how she loved to be alone with Tenchi. She savored every moment of it. She loved Ryo-ohki, but was glad for this moment she had run, so that she and Tenchi could search toegther. "Lord Tenchi, isn't this nice?" She asked it without thinking.

"Nice?" He raised an eyebrow at her, was she all right? "Ryo-ohki could be in trouble, I'm so worried Ayeka! What if we don't find her?"

"Oh…", she tok a hurt look on her face, turning red immediately. She knew she would say something dumb. "I mean….you and me walking together."

"Hmm..yea, it is nice." He said it dryly, he obviously was not thinking on the same way she was. "What makes you say that?"

That made the Jurian princess mad. Didn't he EVER know what she was trying to say? He always acted dumb to her advances. She refused to believe he just wasn;t interested, he had to be! She balled up her fists and lowered her eyes, stopping to try and talk to him. "Tenchi don't you ever get why I say those remarks? It's because of the way I feel about you."

Tenchi stopped and looked at her, his eyebrows raised. "And…how do you feel."

She was in the spotlight now. No way to get out of it. She had to tell him, and she was surprised he actually had asked her. "Well…Lord Tenchi..I.well…you make me..you see I lo.." It was at that oppurtune moment a loud meowing cry was heard from the the woods next to me, and Ryo-ohki ran towards them in her little human body, tears streaming from her eyes.

"Well well, we found you!" Tenchi bent down to give the little cabbit a much needed hug as she wiped her face on his shirt, crying more than ever. He had completely forgotten what Ayeka wanted to say. "I wonder what happened…it's not like you to just run away like this. This has happened once before."

The little cabbit popped back into her quadruped form, latching on Tenchi's head and trying to calm down. She did brighten as Tenchi reached into his pocket and pulled out a carrot he had brought along for her. With a meow she took it. He turned to look at Ayeka, who had gone silent. "You were saying?"

The princess just sighed. "Nevermind."

It was dinnertime when the group was together again. It was a silent dinner, except for Sasami and Ryo-ohki talking to and fooling around with each other. They were always like that. Ayeka ate silently and made some chitter chatter, as did Kiyone and Mihoshi. Washu and Ryoko arrived late. They looked odd, unsettling, Ryoko almost looked vulnerable. She bit her lip and sat at the table. No one watched except Tenhci, as he was oncerned always about the members of the household.

"Ryoko are you okay?" He raised his eyebrows in worry.

"I'll answer for her", said Washu. "She is experiencing some sickness being here on earth alive and not frozen and for a considerable amount of time. I hope I can help her, for now she will be okay."

"What do you mean hope you can?" Tenchi's voice was loud and quivered a little as he looked up.

"She means…I just might not make it here on earth. I could die." Ryoko looked down as she said it and then stood, her eyes clearly filling with some tears. She teleported then out of the house, even as both Washu and Tenchi reached for her.

"Good riddance to the rubbish." Even as Ayeka said that she regretted it. Tenchi;s glare was enough to break her heart.

End of chapter 1! Please tell me what you think.