Flashback
" I don't believe this!" cried Tenchi banging on the door. " Open this door please!"
" What's the matter Tenchi?" asked Ryoko with her arms around his waist. " We're all alone!"
" Stop that," said Washu sitting on the floor. " It's your fault we're locked up in here!"
" Yeah!" said Kiyone sitting next to Washu. " If you hadn't have pushed us in here, we'd be all doing what we regularly do!"
" What? Water crops, do choirs and lay around the house?" asked Ryoko. " This is completely different. There's no Ayeka here to go berserk on us!"
" That really makes the difference Ryoko!" said Washu rolling her eyes up.
" Anyway, how could you blame me for locking us all up in a closet? I tried to pull Tenchi in here with me so we be all alone!"
" Plus Tenchi grabbed onto my chair to prevent him going into the closest; that resulted in him pulling me into the closet as well! And Kiyone was….was….how did you get in here?"
" I got pulled in when your chair collided with me!" said Kiyone. Washu nodded.
" I remember, you were shouting that your hair was caught."
" THIS ISN'T HELPING!" cried Tenchi. " I should be at the shire helping Grandpa, thanks to Ryoko, we're all locked in a closet in another dimension!"
" Your mean," said Ryoko facing the corner of the rather small closet. " I always get the blame!"
" Well, this time Ryoko, you are to blame! But if you can help get us out, then you might be forgiven."
" You mean that?" asked Ryoko turning back around to look at Tenchi. She had that loving puppy dog look.
" I guess so!"
" Thank you Tenchi," said Ryoko grabbing on to Tenchi.
" So? How are we going to get out of here?" asked Washu.
" Simple, we wait for Samasi to come and call us for supper. Then we all shout and she'll open the door."
" Nice plan but first, it's early morning. Second, Samasi is back on Jurai and thirdly, I DOUBT SHE WOULD HEAR US!"
" I tried," said Ryoko. She turned to Tenchi. " What do you think darling?"
" Well, I can't think of anything. I guess we're stuck here for a while." Said Tenchi.
" What about food and water?" asked Kiyone. " I don't suppose anyone brought any did they?"
" Well I have this chocolate bar," said Tenchi taking a chocolate bar out. Ryoko snatched it out of his hand and ate it. " Ok, had."
" Yum, chocolate," said Ryoko finishing the bar. " You got more Tenchi?"
" No, that was the only one!"
" Ok, but I knew you kept it all for me." Said Ryoko holding on to him and resting her head on his shoulder.
" Right Ryoko," said Tenchi looking away. " So, what do we do until we're found?"
" Tell stories?" asked Washu.
" I can't bear to hear another fairy tale," said Ryoko. " Why don't we remember times past?"
" You mean what we did before all this?"
" Yes."
" Like the time Ryoko tried to jump on Tenchi which resulted in him grabbing onto my chair which made me collide with Kiyone and we all fell through one of my dimension doors which resulted with us locked up inside a closet with no food, no water and made us all angry at you."
" That's it, except not that one." Said Ryoko. " I'll tell about the time Tenchi gave me a chocolate bar once. I remember as it was just yesterday."
* * * * * *
" What about food and water?" asked Kiyone. " I don't suppose anyone brought any did they?"
" Well I have this chocolate bar," said Tenchi taking a chocolate bar out. Ryoko snatched it out of his hand and ate it. " Ok, had."
" Yum, chocolate," said Ryoko finishing the bar. " You got more Tenchi?"
" No, that was the only one!"
" Ok, but I knew you kept it all for me." Said Ryoko holding on to him and resting her head on his shoulder.
* * * * * *
" RYOKO!" shouted Washu. " THAT JUST HAPPENED!"
" Yeah but it took up two minutes," said Ryoko. " Anyone else got a story to tell because I have another to tell."
" What is it about?" asked Tenchi.
" Well, it's the time I came into the house and there was no one home…."
* * * * * *
" Hello?" asked Ryoko poking her head into the living room. " Is anyone home?"
It was around lunchtime and Ryoko had arrived to get her lunch. However, no one was home. Nothing had changed around the house, nothing that Ryoko noticed. Except for three bowls of rice on the dinning table. Ryoko walked over to see the three bowls of rice.
" Mmmmm," said Ryoko thinking. " I guess one of these must be mine."
Ryoko looked at the three bowls and started to think which one of those were hers. The bowls each contained the same amount of rice; Ryoko quickly picked one up, sat down, and began eating. Within a few minutes, she spat out the rice.
" AH!" screamed Ryoko. " Too hot!" Ryoko threw the bowl behind her and picked up another. She became eating and then spat the rice out after a few seconds. " Too cold!" She picked up the final bowl and began eating. She was happy with this bowl. " Mmmm, just right."
After Ryoko finished eating her bowl of rice; she put the bowl on the table and then yawned. It had been a boring day; Ryoko had been laying around all morning. She looked and noticed no one was still home.
" Well," said Ryoko stretching. " I don't know about you guys but I'm feeling sleepy, I'm going to bed."
She teleported up the stairs and headed straight to her room. Her room was as basic as anyone else in the house, except that it had clothes all over the floor and it had countless pictures of Tenchi on the walls with cut out pictures of Ryoko stuck next to them. Ryoko cleared the clothes off her bed and got in it. She tried to get some sleep but; she couldn't.
" I can't sleep in this bed," said Ryoko. " It's too hard. I know, I'll sleep in Ayeka's bed, she won't mind if I don't leave a mess."
Ryoko quickly transported to Princess Ayeka's room. Her room was much more tidy than Ryoko's. Her Clothes were nicely packaged in the wardrobe and her make up table was in the corner of the room with hairbrushes, facial powder, and nail and lip-glosses. Ryoko took noticed of this and looked at it.
" I didn't she had a make up table," said Ryoko. She sat down and picked up a lipstick roll. She opened it out and then scribbled some of the lipstick on the mirror to see what colour it was. It was a light red.
" Too bright." She threw the stick on the floor and then took out a nail varnish colour. She brushed some of it on the mirror to see what colour it was. It was a dark red colour.
" Too dark!" She threw the nail varnish behind her. " Ayeka hasn't a clue in make up."
Ryoko then noticed the bed and remembered why she was in her room. Ryoko jumped into the bed and tried to get to sleep. She couldn't, something was wrong.
" It's too….princessy," said Ryoko sitting up in the bed. " Which bed is a good one to take a nap in?" She thought. " Ah ha! Tenchi's bed!"
Ryoko transported to Tenchi's bedroom. His bedroom was tidy, with posters of pointless objects up on the wall. His desk had schoolbooks on and pieces of paper. The desk was untidy and hadn't been cleaned up in a while. Ryoko didn't see anything that interested her and she quickly jumped into his bed.
" This is just right," said Ryoko nodding off. But she soon found it a little uncomfortable. " Damn, it's getting stuffy in here. I better change into something or I'll burn up in this bed."
Ryoko got out of the bed and opened Tenchi's wardrobe. She threw clothes out on to the floor and tried to find something. She then found a light pair of shorts and a black T-shirt.
" Perfect," said Ryoko. She quickly undressed and got changed into the shorts and t-shirt. " Now time for a nap." Ryoko jumped back into the bed and dozed off quickly.
However, downstairs in the kitchen. Tenchi, Ayeka, Washu and Samasi had come back. They had been in Washu's lab all the time! Samasi had mentioned that she left some rice out of the table to them. But they soon noticed that the rice had either been thrown onto the floor, spat out on the table or eaten.
" Hey!" cried Samasi. " Someone's eaten the rice!"
" More like thrown it about," said Washu looking at the rice on the floor.
" Who would do this?" asked Tenchi. " That was our lunch!"
" And I was going to make some special sauces for them," groaned Samasi.
" I'll give you a good guess on who's behind this! Ryoko is!" snarled Ayeka. " Where is she?"
" I dunno," said Tenchi going upstairs. " But I'll check her room."
Tenchi quickly walked the stairs and opened the door to her room. All he could see was her clothes all over the floor and small glimpse of her bed underneath. He quickly walked around just to check if she was buried under any clothing of such. After searching, with no luck. Tenchi called out.
" Ryoko!" cried Tenchi. He got no answer. " Ryoko, where are you?"
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Ayeka from the corridor. Tenchi rushed out of the corridor to see Ayeka looking into her bedroom with a shocked look on her face.
" Ayeka? Are you ok?" asked Tenchi.
" NO!" she screamed back at him. " Someone has been in my room and played with my make up table and has…has…been in my bed!"
" Really?" asked Tenchi looking in. He saw the lipsticks and nail varnishes on the floor and Ayeka's bed in a messy state. " Who is behind all this?"
" If I find out that that Ryoko has been in my room, I'll kill her!"
" No you won't," said Tenchi moving to his room and opening the door. " I'll find her and…" he looked in. "…….. WHO DID THIS?"
Tenchi walked into his room, he first noticed the pile of clothes that were in the middle of the room. Tenchi completely shocked then noticed clothes that belonged to Ryoko laying by the bed, then he saw a huge lump in his bed. Tenchi wasn't going to like this.
" I don't want to know what she's doing in here!" he moaned. He then walked over to the bed and pulled off the bedsheet. He saw Ryoko sleeping in his black t-shirt and white shorts. " RYOKO!"
" Huh?" Ryoko asked waking up. She saw Tenchi. " Hey Tenchi."
" RYOKO!" he shouted again. " WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
" Having a nap, what's it look like," said Ryoko. She pulled the sheet back and went back to sleep. Tenchi then collapsed on to the floor while she slept.
* * * * *
" And that was the best nap I ever had," said Ryoko smiling. Everyone looked at her strangely. " What?"
" You did know that because of you eating our rice, I had to walk seven miles to the nearby store to get some more food. And that cost us the money we were going to use to get some more equipment for the house!" moaned Tenchi.
" Like?"
" More washing up powder, more toothpaste, the main essentials." Continued Tenchi. He then hang his head in shame and sighed. " We're never good on money."
" I could always steal," said Ryoko.
" NO!" shouted everyone.
" How many times have we tried to win money through competitions?" asked Washu.
" Loads, and it never seems to work," said Kiyone sighing. " I guess we're all to live on bare essentials."
" Wait a minute, doesn't your dad get money for his job?" asked Ryoko turning to Tenchi.
" Yeah, but he spends it on …..other things." Said Tenchi looking worried.
* * * * * *
" Ah ha," said Noboyuki on the phone. " And you say if I order the swimsuit issue of International Women and I'll get a free blow up doll? Right, and if I subscribe to your magazine I get a car repair kit for only half price? Sounds fair. How much?" He then dropped the phone. " That much a month? But..oh you drive a hard deal sir."
" What are you doing Dad?"
" Just organising next year's holiday Tenchi."
* * * * * *
" Little that I knew that within four months we had crate loads of swimsuit magazines!" said Tenchi. Ryoko noticed a box and opened it.
" You mean these ones?" asked Ryoko looking in the box. Tenchi looked in and took out a copy of international swimsuit models one, with extra swimsuits.
" Yeah! Those ones, so this is where he puts them."
" I put them here," said Washu. " They started cramping up the lab!"
" I see," said Tenchi pushing the box away. " What we're talking about?"
" Money," said Kiyone.
" Oh yeah," said Ryoko. " Do you remember the time you flew to America and took part in a quiz show!"
" Don't remind me, Me and Mishosi could have walked away with a million, but then she had to bumble up on the last question."
" I don't believe this!" cried Tenchi banging on the door. " Open this door please!"
" What's the matter Tenchi?" asked Ryoko with her arms around his waist. " We're all alone!"
" Stop that," said Washu sitting on the floor. " It's your fault we're locked up in here!"
" Yeah!" said Kiyone sitting next to Washu. " If you hadn't have pushed us in here, we'd be all doing what we regularly do!"
" What? Water crops, do choirs and lay around the house?" asked Ryoko. " This is completely different. There's no Ayeka here to go berserk on us!"
" That really makes the difference Ryoko!" said Washu rolling her eyes up.
" Anyway, how could you blame me for locking us all up in a closet? I tried to pull Tenchi in here with me so we be all alone!"
" Plus Tenchi grabbed onto my chair to prevent him going into the closest; that resulted in him pulling me into the closet as well! And Kiyone was….was….how did you get in here?"
" I got pulled in when your chair collided with me!" said Kiyone. Washu nodded.
" I remember, you were shouting that your hair was caught."
" THIS ISN'T HELPING!" cried Tenchi. " I should be at the shire helping Grandpa, thanks to Ryoko, we're all locked in a closet in another dimension!"
" Your mean," said Ryoko facing the corner of the rather small closet. " I always get the blame!"
" Well, this time Ryoko, you are to blame! But if you can help get us out, then you might be forgiven."
" You mean that?" asked Ryoko turning back around to look at Tenchi. She had that loving puppy dog look.
" I guess so!"
" Thank you Tenchi," said Ryoko grabbing on to Tenchi.
" So? How are we going to get out of here?" asked Washu.
" Simple, we wait for Samasi to come and call us for supper. Then we all shout and she'll open the door."
" Nice plan but first, it's early morning. Second, Samasi is back on Jurai and thirdly, I DOUBT SHE WOULD HEAR US!"
" I tried," said Ryoko. She turned to Tenchi. " What do you think darling?"
" Well, I can't think of anything. I guess we're stuck here for a while." Said Tenchi.
" What about food and water?" asked Kiyone. " I don't suppose anyone brought any did they?"
" Well I have this chocolate bar," said Tenchi taking a chocolate bar out. Ryoko snatched it out of his hand and ate it. " Ok, had."
" Yum, chocolate," said Ryoko finishing the bar. " You got more Tenchi?"
" No, that was the only one!"
" Ok, but I knew you kept it all for me." Said Ryoko holding on to him and resting her head on his shoulder.
" Right Ryoko," said Tenchi looking away. " So, what do we do until we're found?"
" Tell stories?" asked Washu.
" I can't bear to hear another fairy tale," said Ryoko. " Why don't we remember times past?"
" You mean what we did before all this?"
" Yes."
" Like the time Ryoko tried to jump on Tenchi which resulted in him grabbing onto my chair which made me collide with Kiyone and we all fell through one of my dimension doors which resulted with us locked up inside a closet with no food, no water and made us all angry at you."
" That's it, except not that one." Said Ryoko. " I'll tell about the time Tenchi gave me a chocolate bar once. I remember as it was just yesterday."
* * * * * *
" What about food and water?" asked Kiyone. " I don't suppose anyone brought any did they?"
" Well I have this chocolate bar," said Tenchi taking a chocolate bar out. Ryoko snatched it out of his hand and ate it. " Ok, had."
" Yum, chocolate," said Ryoko finishing the bar. " You got more Tenchi?"
" No, that was the only one!"
" Ok, but I knew you kept it all for me." Said Ryoko holding on to him and resting her head on his shoulder.
* * * * * *
" RYOKO!" shouted Washu. " THAT JUST HAPPENED!"
" Yeah but it took up two minutes," said Ryoko. " Anyone else got a story to tell because I have another to tell."
" What is it about?" asked Tenchi.
" Well, it's the time I came into the house and there was no one home…."
* * * * * *
" Hello?" asked Ryoko poking her head into the living room. " Is anyone home?"
It was around lunchtime and Ryoko had arrived to get her lunch. However, no one was home. Nothing had changed around the house, nothing that Ryoko noticed. Except for three bowls of rice on the dinning table. Ryoko walked over to see the three bowls of rice.
" Mmmmm," said Ryoko thinking. " I guess one of these must be mine."
Ryoko looked at the three bowls and started to think which one of those were hers. The bowls each contained the same amount of rice; Ryoko quickly picked one up, sat down, and began eating. Within a few minutes, she spat out the rice.
" AH!" screamed Ryoko. " Too hot!" Ryoko threw the bowl behind her and picked up another. She became eating and then spat the rice out after a few seconds. " Too cold!" She picked up the final bowl and began eating. She was happy with this bowl. " Mmmm, just right."
After Ryoko finished eating her bowl of rice; she put the bowl on the table and then yawned. It had been a boring day; Ryoko had been laying around all morning. She looked and noticed no one was still home.
" Well," said Ryoko stretching. " I don't know about you guys but I'm feeling sleepy, I'm going to bed."
She teleported up the stairs and headed straight to her room. Her room was as basic as anyone else in the house, except that it had clothes all over the floor and it had countless pictures of Tenchi on the walls with cut out pictures of Ryoko stuck next to them. Ryoko cleared the clothes off her bed and got in it. She tried to get some sleep but; she couldn't.
" I can't sleep in this bed," said Ryoko. " It's too hard. I know, I'll sleep in Ayeka's bed, she won't mind if I don't leave a mess."
Ryoko quickly transported to Princess Ayeka's room. Her room was much more tidy than Ryoko's. Her Clothes were nicely packaged in the wardrobe and her make up table was in the corner of the room with hairbrushes, facial powder, and nail and lip-glosses. Ryoko took noticed of this and looked at it.
" I didn't she had a make up table," said Ryoko. She sat down and picked up a lipstick roll. She opened it out and then scribbled some of the lipstick on the mirror to see what colour it was. It was a light red.
" Too bright." She threw the stick on the floor and then took out a nail varnish colour. She brushed some of it on the mirror to see what colour it was. It was a dark red colour.
" Too dark!" She threw the nail varnish behind her. " Ayeka hasn't a clue in make up."
Ryoko then noticed the bed and remembered why she was in her room. Ryoko jumped into the bed and tried to get to sleep. She couldn't, something was wrong.
" It's too….princessy," said Ryoko sitting up in the bed. " Which bed is a good one to take a nap in?" She thought. " Ah ha! Tenchi's bed!"
Ryoko transported to Tenchi's bedroom. His bedroom was tidy, with posters of pointless objects up on the wall. His desk had schoolbooks on and pieces of paper. The desk was untidy and hadn't been cleaned up in a while. Ryoko didn't see anything that interested her and she quickly jumped into his bed.
" This is just right," said Ryoko nodding off. But she soon found it a little uncomfortable. " Damn, it's getting stuffy in here. I better change into something or I'll burn up in this bed."
Ryoko got out of the bed and opened Tenchi's wardrobe. She threw clothes out on to the floor and tried to find something. She then found a light pair of shorts and a black T-shirt.
" Perfect," said Ryoko. She quickly undressed and got changed into the shorts and t-shirt. " Now time for a nap." Ryoko jumped back into the bed and dozed off quickly.
However, downstairs in the kitchen. Tenchi, Ayeka, Washu and Samasi had come back. They had been in Washu's lab all the time! Samasi had mentioned that she left some rice out of the table to them. But they soon noticed that the rice had either been thrown onto the floor, spat out on the table or eaten.
" Hey!" cried Samasi. " Someone's eaten the rice!"
" More like thrown it about," said Washu looking at the rice on the floor.
" Who would do this?" asked Tenchi. " That was our lunch!"
" And I was going to make some special sauces for them," groaned Samasi.
" I'll give you a good guess on who's behind this! Ryoko is!" snarled Ayeka. " Where is she?"
" I dunno," said Tenchi going upstairs. " But I'll check her room."
Tenchi quickly walked the stairs and opened the door to her room. All he could see was her clothes all over the floor and small glimpse of her bed underneath. He quickly walked around just to check if she was buried under any clothing of such. After searching, with no luck. Tenchi called out.
" Ryoko!" cried Tenchi. He got no answer. " Ryoko, where are you?"
" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" screamed Ayeka from the corridor. Tenchi rushed out of the corridor to see Ayeka looking into her bedroom with a shocked look on her face.
" Ayeka? Are you ok?" asked Tenchi.
" NO!" she screamed back at him. " Someone has been in my room and played with my make up table and has…has…been in my bed!"
" Really?" asked Tenchi looking in. He saw the lipsticks and nail varnishes on the floor and Ayeka's bed in a messy state. " Who is behind all this?"
" If I find out that that Ryoko has been in my room, I'll kill her!"
" No you won't," said Tenchi moving to his room and opening the door. " I'll find her and…" he looked in. "…….. WHO DID THIS?"
Tenchi walked into his room, he first noticed the pile of clothes that were in the middle of the room. Tenchi completely shocked then noticed clothes that belonged to Ryoko laying by the bed, then he saw a huge lump in his bed. Tenchi wasn't going to like this.
" I don't want to know what she's doing in here!" he moaned. He then walked over to the bed and pulled off the bedsheet. He saw Ryoko sleeping in his black t-shirt and white shorts. " RYOKO!"
" Huh?" Ryoko asked waking up. She saw Tenchi. " Hey Tenchi."
" RYOKO!" he shouted again. " WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
" Having a nap, what's it look like," said Ryoko. She pulled the sheet back and went back to sleep. Tenchi then collapsed on to the floor while she slept.
* * * * *
" And that was the best nap I ever had," said Ryoko smiling. Everyone looked at her strangely. " What?"
" You did know that because of you eating our rice, I had to walk seven miles to the nearby store to get some more food. And that cost us the money we were going to use to get some more equipment for the house!" moaned Tenchi.
" Like?"
" More washing up powder, more toothpaste, the main essentials." Continued Tenchi. He then hang his head in shame and sighed. " We're never good on money."
" I could always steal," said Ryoko.
" NO!" shouted everyone.
" How many times have we tried to win money through competitions?" asked Washu.
" Loads, and it never seems to work," said Kiyone sighing. " I guess we're all to live on bare essentials."
" Wait a minute, doesn't your dad get money for his job?" asked Ryoko turning to Tenchi.
" Yeah, but he spends it on …..other things." Said Tenchi looking worried.
* * * * * *
" Ah ha," said Noboyuki on the phone. " And you say if I order the swimsuit issue of International Women and I'll get a free blow up doll? Right, and if I subscribe to your magazine I get a car repair kit for only half price? Sounds fair. How much?" He then dropped the phone. " That much a month? But..oh you drive a hard deal sir."
" What are you doing Dad?"
" Just organising next year's holiday Tenchi."
* * * * * *
" Little that I knew that within four months we had crate loads of swimsuit magazines!" said Tenchi. Ryoko noticed a box and opened it.
" You mean these ones?" asked Ryoko looking in the box. Tenchi looked in and took out a copy of international swimsuit models one, with extra swimsuits.
" Yeah! Those ones, so this is where he puts them."
" I put them here," said Washu. " They started cramping up the lab!"
" I see," said Tenchi pushing the box away. " What we're talking about?"
" Money," said Kiyone.
" Oh yeah," said Ryoko. " Do you remember the time you flew to America and took part in a quiz show!"
" Don't remind me, Me and Mishosi could have walked away with a million, but then she had to bumble up on the last question."