Title: Love Only A Mother Can Give
SUMMARY: Ryoko has been having dreams about Kagato and needs her mothers love.

Disclaimer~ You know the drill.

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As the leaves started to shuffle, Ryoko could feel a soft brezze on her cheek. She smiled. It had been 3 months since Tenchi and she had fought their battle with Kagato. . . his name but yet still haunted her like a bad dream.

"Its hard to forget" Ryoko thought.

"What is so hard to forget lil Ryoko" asked another voice, the voice of her mother,Washu.

"I thought I asked you to break the link Washu!" Ryoko thought back to her.

" Well Ryoko you did. . . I just haven't done so" Washu replied laughing.

"Sometimes you can be SO annoying !!MOTHER!!"

Washu just continued laughing as she broke their link. Ryoko looked off to the lake at the far end of the tree of which she sat.

"Sometimes Washu really pisses me off!" Ryoko said out loud to herself.

"What was that Ryoko?" Washu said from behind her. Ryoko jumped, startled.

"Darn't Washu!" Ryoko yelled at her mother. Washu smiled.

"Sit down lil Ryoko and lets talk." Ryoko sat down on a log, and her mother quickly joined her.

"What do you want Washu?"

"Why Ryoko, I just want to talk about somethings with you"

"Like what Washu?!"

"Kagato. . . "

Ryoko turned to face her mother but was surprised to see that Washu was already looking at her with caring and yet, loving, eyes.

"What about 'em?" Ryoko replied.

"You've dreamed about him for nights now, why does he haunt you like this still?"

" I don't know what you are talking about Washu"

"Oh I think you do Ryoko"

Ryoko sighed. "Why had you tapped into my dreams Washu when I told you not to!" Ryoko yelled at her mother, standing to her feet. Ryoko looked at her mother with hurt in her eyes. Her voice fell almost silent as began to finsih with her mother. "Why would you go against me like that Washu. . . I asked you not to go into my thoughts"

"Ryoko . . . I know how Kagato hurt you. . . I saw it all in your dreams at night. Now I want to help you because I was unable to once before. I love you Ryoko, you are my daughter wether you like that or not."

Ryoko looked at her mother, in un-belif. Washu had just told her daughter all her true feelings.

"Ive never known that you actually loved me. . . Ive never known love. Kagato changed my life Washu. All those years that I had to suffer in pain, I was never shown love. Not even from Tenchi!"

Ryoko looked to her mother with tears in her eyes.

"I am sorry Washu, Ive tried to hold it all in but its only broke me down." And with that, Ryoko began to cry in pity of herself. Washu watched her daughter cry and couldn't help but start to cry herself. For Kagato had not just abused her he had abused her only daughter.

"Ryoko. . . Kagato did not just beat you. He killed my husband and my only son. He abused me to make you, he abused me give him a child."

"What did he want with me Washu? Why would he need me?"

"He wanted to be able to train you, to make you into his own. For you to fight his battles as well as your own. . . "

"Ryoko . . . Miss Washu. . . DINNER!" yelled Sasami from the distance. Ryoko looked at Washu.

". . . Mom . . . Kagato did not just abuse me, he took away the one thing that I needed the most. . . He took away my mother. . . The greatest sciencetific GENUIS in the universe!" Ryoko looked to her mother with a smile. Washu laughed.

"Are you ready to go inside now, lil Ryoko?" Ryoko nodded. Washu smiled and turned to the house with Ryoko close behind.

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