Stars



Ryoko looked into the sky wondering when she was going to tell him, she had tried to tell him today but every time Ayeka was there with her claws sunk into his arm. She would tell him soon she was sure.

It was not like she had any more time, after all, it was time for her to go home. Looking up at the stars though she was not ready, but she knew it was time. She would miss him, she considered breifly leaving him a note, as she laid there on the roof, but realized that wouldn't work, it would have to be face to face.

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Tenchi woke up with a yawn, sleepily realizing that Ryoko wasn't there which he noted was unusual. He had been wondering about her lately, she had looked so eager to talk with him yesterday but Ayeka had intervened of course.

Lying on his stomach, he reflected that he would have asked her what she had wanted to talk about if he had had the chance. He noted that she was different lately, no longer was she fighting with Ayeka over him. No, she wouldn't even try to seduce him, he realized as he thought about it that had all stopped the weekend after she went to space. He remembered that look in her eye as she departed her ship, when she had hugged him it seemed she needed comforting.

She had returned to the house and entered her room, staying there for a week. Tenchi had thought about asking about what had happened, but then decided against it. He realized as he looked back on it, that she hadn't touched him since then, and that had been two or three months ago.

Now she always looked like she needed to tell him something, but something always got in the way. Ayeka took this as a sign that Tenchi was hers now, although he, himself, didn't see it that way.

He would always remember that look though, it was one of raw emotion. Now her eyes where closed off, she avoided everyone and he only caught glimpses of her here and there.

Tenchi groaned and rolled over to look at the clock, it read that it was time to start his chores and he resolved to find her later. As he got dressed he decided to skip breakfast today.

Quietly closing the door to the house he walked towards the shrine. He hurried knowing that if he was late his grandfather would get mad, alhtough he had a little extra time to spare.

As he walked up the shrine stairs the soft sound of singing reached his ears, he didn't think as he turned following the sound. He quietly crept up and saw that it was Ryoko singing, he wanted to call out to her but sided against it. Instead he sat down and listened to her song, it was mesmerizing and haunting like it was calling to his very soul. There were not many words, yet still it was enchanting.

Ryoko lost in her dream world sang her song, It had always worked to calm her down and absently she wondered where it came from. She didn't know where she learned it, she had just always knew it.

Stopping her song she sighed and fazed away thinking she should have never taken that trip. I guess, she thought, that you can't change the past. When she reappeared she was in her room, stretching she sat down on her bed and laid back drifting off to sleep.

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Tenchi blinked when he realized she had stopped singing, he had been so caught up in her song. Where did she learn that? he thought to himself, shaking his head he rose and hurried off to do his chores, the song had made him late. Even as he did his chores, he did so in a daze. He kept thinking back to Ryoko and that mesmerizing song she had been singing. It seemed to call out to his soul and pull at his heart, it was a soul enchanting song. He started back to the house, finished with his chores.

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Ryoko laid on her futon wide awake having made up her mind she would tell him today, after dinner, then once he knew she would make him promise not to tell the others. She had accepted her fate, she would not try and make the others accept it as well. Sighing she thought back to the trip, it had been unlike any other she had ever taken.

But this time something happened to change her life, never would she have thought one trip could effect her life so much. Now she would never be the same and she would have to leave Earth and Tenchi.

The End

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