Niklas "Hawk" Jonsson
Summary: Tenchi is smooching with Mihoshi in the woods? Tenchi and Ryoko, snogging like there's no tomorrow? Tenchi frenching Ayeka in the living room? Tenchi giving 'it' to Washu? Has he been replaced with a pod person or just what is going on in the Masaki household?
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emphasis/shouts/Kindred Domination/post-hypnotic triggers
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Heh, it's odd how things happen by pure coincidence sometimes. Do you know why I'm uploading this story now? Because of a Micro$oft Messenger conversation about Onegai Teacher I had two evenings ago. :) That conversation made me recall just how long ago it's been since I last watched the OT anime, so I dug through my anime collection and last night, I started watching Onegai Teacher. I've watched episodes 1-7 by now and felt my fingers starting to itch, wanting to write something. So, I started up Windows Explorer and cruised on by to my Stories-folder, where I entered by Onegai Teacher-folder, taking a peek at what sort of stuff I've already gotten started on at some time in the past.
Nothing I found there, really got my creative engine started however, but I recalled that I've started on a few Onegai Teacher crossovers from time to time over the years, which can be found in folders belonging to other fandoms. After marveling over the fact that I've started writing on such diverse crossovers as Evangelion/Onegai Teacher, Full Metal Panic/Onegai Teacher, Hellsing/Onegai Teacher ( this one was odd, I dunno what I was thinking when I started working on this one... ), Happy Lesson/Onegai Teacher ( This one was bloody great! I've got to try and write a little more on this one, as it's got quite a bit of potential. ), Smallville/Onegai Teacher ( Quite odd, but it kinda works, even if the beginning made me shudder now. I've got to rewrite that... ), Love Hina/Onegai Teacher ( Two of them! One of them defenetively has potential, the other... Naw, I got to rewrite that one from scratch or scrap it all together. ), Mahou Sensei Negima/Onegai Teacher ( This one was... Bleh... Bland. Not bad, but not good either. Gotta revise that one somehow... ), Naruto/Onegai Teacher ( Quite cool from time to time actually. But it doesn't really work as a whole. ), Ranma/Onegai Teacher ( Three of them. None of them exceptionally god... Yet... But all of them have potential. ) and then I popped into my Tenchi Muyo folder.
I did find a Tenchi Muyo/Onegai Teacher crossover in there, quite a good one if I say so myself, but I also rediscovered No Need for Serenity and the fact that I had two full chapters, spellchecked'n html:ized and all, just laying there, doing nobody any good. Which they have been since like two harddrive crashes ago or something, as the creation date on those two files were early last fall:) Anyways, after a few minor revisions that I made while re-reading them, I thought it was just about time to upload this shit and traumatize the general public with yet another one of my demented creations, so I can go on with what I was planning to do before stumbling across this, namely write a pure Onegai Teacher fic, without crossover elements. :)
What? You guys thought I would be satisfied just because fanfiction dot net now has a Mahou Sensei Negima category? Hell no! Now we need Onegai Teacher, Onegai Twins, Grenadier and Happy Lesson categories as well:)
Anyways, I started writing on this particular fic about two or so years ago. I recall it rather well even now, I was home sick and spent the day cruising the Tenchi Muyo Fanfic Archive for anything and everything that seemed interesting enough. After reading xxx number of stories where the girls just up and decide to share Tenchi with no hard feelings whatsoever, x number of fics where all it takes for a huge orgy to break out is a little increase in the general horniness level of the Masaki household and xx number of fics where Tenchi has no qualms whatsoever about gettin' down'n dirty with Sasami, I decided that enough was enough and started writing this particular fic.
The end result will probably be just about the same as in all those other fics, but I figure that the journey there will be quite different and perhaps contain one or two surprises along the way, which is why I decided to go through with my own particular take on all the above situations, mixed together in one weird blend.
Rating may change later, but the first 3-4 chapters doesn't contain anything particulary outrageous, other then some cursing and naughty words.
- Toodles from Lord Alzheimer Light, the most forgetful writer in the known universe
"Mglf. Mornin', Ryoko." Tenchi grunted out as he emerged from his slumber into semi-consciousness, scenting the space pirates presence, though he did not open his eyes to confirm it. "Don't let Ayeka catch you here." he added by the way of advice, then rolled over and relaxed. If his internal clock was correct, he still had a few more minutes until his alarm would go off and he intended to make the most of them.
"Tenchi?" Ryoko eventually inquired, completely flabbergasted by his unexpected greeting. Usually, he just yelped in surprise or yelled for her to get out of his room. This was a first.
"Mhmm?" he grunted in response.
"Why... Why aren't you mad?" she asked. "Not that I'm complaining or anything, but... I mean... You usually toss me out." she added in a faint voice.
"Doesn't seem to help, now does it? As long as you leave before someone discovers that you're here, it's a harmless hobby and one that I guess I can learn to live with. But the moment you get careless and another stupid fight breaks out because of it, I'm back to tossing you out again. Understand?" he demanded, then groaned as his alarm started buzzing. One arm lazily reached out and stopped it, then he slowly raised his head from the bed, yawning and scratching himself. "Well, I'm going to get dressed now. So..." he hinted, trailing off with a suggestive look at the door.
"I could... Help?" Ryoko hesitantly offered. Still somewhat overwhelmed by Tenchi's completely unexpected behaviour, she wasn't at all her ordinary sexy sultry self and the offer sounded almost laughably amateurish.
"No, thank you." Tenchi replied and dismissed her with an absent wave, which, much to Ryoko's own surprise, caused her to teleport out of his room without protesting about it.
"Have you noticed anything... Different about this morning, Sasami?" Ayeka whispered, leaning down closer to her little sisters ear as she did so.
"Yes, you and Ryoko hasn't fought over Tenchi yet." she declared in her usual speaking voice, causing a faint blush to appear on Ayeka's cheeks as Sasami apparently didn't care much for the private conversation Ayeka had desired to initiate. All eyes around the table were now focused on them, then moved to Ryoko who appeared to be deep in thought and nearly completely oblivious to her surroundings, then over to Tenchi who probably was embarrassed to be the focus of so much attention at once. Though he didn't seem like it at the moment. As a matter of fact, he seemed completely oblivious to the current discussion.
"Yes, now that you mention it... What gives?" Mihoshi inquired vapidly between bites of food, looking between princess and space pirate.
"That vile... Person... Must not have barged into Tenchi's room this morning. That seems to be the most frequent reason for our little morning... Disagreements." Ayeka decided, moderating her speech somewhat because Ryoko really hadn't done anything to annoy her this morning. Well, other then existing in general and still drawing breath, of course.
Though if Ayeka was really brutally honest with herself, she had to admit that she was a bit peeved that the lack of Ryoko's usual antics meant that she hadn't been able to burst into Tenchi's room this morning. On those days when she was really lucky, Tenchi would even be in a state of undress and without blankets obscuring the view as she burst into the room ready to fend off that wretched pirates unwanted advances for Lord Tenchi, who was too refined and polite to do so himself.
Not that she'd ever admit that she looked forward to those lucky days, of course. She was the first princess of Jurai, she was supposed to be above and beyond such base lusts, desires and thoughts. Why, thoughts like that belonged more in the head of a certain space pirate she knew.
"As a matter of fact, I was..." Ryoko began, but whatever she had been about to say was forever lost as Tenchi reached out and put one of his hands on her right leg, shaking his head at her as he did so.
"Ryoko, don't." he simply insisted, then turned his head to regard Ayeka. "Princess, please. Try to refrain from insulting Ryoko." he requested, then calmly removed his hand from Ryoko's leg and continued to consume his breakfast, still with that unusually serene expression on his face, one eerily reminiscent of the one his grandfather usually adopted at all times.
"Are you feeling all right, Tenchi?" Washu inquired curiously from her seat, having emerged from her lab for a bit of breakfast and companionship instead of her customary isolation. "You're not acting like your usual blundering self. Perhaps I'd better do a quick examination to ensure that you aren't ill." she suggested, a slightly maniacal grin appearing on her face as she cracked her knuckles.
"I am feeling perfectly fine, Washu-chan. Thanks for your concern though. Perhaps after breakfast." Tenchi replied, unfazed by the mad little scientist's behaviour and seemingly not affected by his usual fear of the laboratory. But his easy acceptance of Washus offer for an examination didn't seem to sit all that well with the others.
"Okay, he's caught something and it appears to be bad." Ryoko blurted out, looking over at her mom. "Washu, get your lab ready. I'm bringing him in." she announced, abandoning her meal and effortlessly hoisting Tenchi into her arms as Washu sprinted towards her lab.
"Ryoko." he protested. "Really, I'm fine. There's no need to get worked up..." he attempted to explain, but his deviant behaviour had gotten his friends really worried. Ayeka hadn't even mentioned the fact that Ryoko was carrying Tenchi around. "Fine..." he sighed as he caved in to their concerns. "If it'll ease your minds. But I'm perfectly capable of walking there on my own." he insisted, but to no avail. Ryoko trailed after Washu, bursting into the lab and carrying Tenchi without visible effort, kicking the door shut behind her to prevent the others from following.
The scientist and her daughter soon had Tenchi strapped to a table, as a swarm of odd medical apparatuses started flitting all over Tenchi as Washu began her examination and two minutes later, hustled Ryoko out of the room for 'interfering too much'. Three minutes after that, she pushed back from her holoscreen and looked over at Tenchi with a curious expression on her face.
"You're perfectly healthy, no problems whatsoever." she announced and Tenchi nodded sagely, still displaying the same odd calmness he'd maintained all morning.
"I know. I told you all that I was fine." he replied. "Now then, Washu-chan. Would you mind setting me free now? My breakfast was interrupted and I would like to finish it."
"Actually, there is something you could do for me first... Now that you're here anyway..." Washu drawled.
"'That' sample? Will giving it to you keep you from experimenting on me in the future?" Tenchi inquired.
"Well, that depends on just how well you 'give it' to me." Washu teased with a giggle, before she turned a little more serious. "No, probably not. I'm having way too much fun." she admitted with a twinkle in her eyes.
"I suspected as much. But fine, yes, I will give you that sample." Tenchi stated, causing Washu to blink, then turn back to her holoscreen and repeat the tests she'd just performed. Finding the results pretty much the same as before, she ran the tests a third time just to be sure. Eleven minutes after she started all over again, she turned away from her holoscreen and looked at Tenchi again.
"What made you change your mind?" she inquired suspiciously. If she hadn't already confirmed that she wasn't dealing with a clone, she would have suspected that a switch had been made. "Why are you so calm and accepting on this particular morning?"
"Grandpa told me to work on my focus and awareness, stressing the need to practise my mind as well as my body. So now I'm constantly using the Juraian meditation techniques he taught me to use in battle. It removes doubt, hesitation, subdues emotions, heightens mental faculties and increases perception." Tenchi replied. "In battle, it makes me a better warrior. In my day-to-day life, it causes me to behave a little different then usual. Things that used to worry, embarrass and concern me are now less of a concern, though certainly not completely removed. I still have a lot of training left before that will be possible."
"Ah, that would explain it." Washu replied, then suddenly grinned and suddenly stood before him dressed in her tight nurse uniform. "So then you wouldn't mind if I took that sample now?" she inquired, putting on plastic gloves with a pleased smirk and a couple of ominous sounding snaps.
"Lessened, not removed, Washu-chan." Tenchi replied with faint hints of red on his cheeks. "I'll do... Uhm... The extraction... Entirely on my own, Washu-chan."
"Are you sure?" she asked, looking with false shyness at him and batting her eyelashes seductively as she reached down and tugged on the end of her tight mini-skirt, slowly dragging it further up her nylon-clad leg. "Are you certain that you don't want a little help? Or perhaps something exciting to look at as you perform the... 'Extraction'?" she drawled as the skirt hiked further and further up, now revealing the edge of her bright red lacy panties.
"Uh... I'm... Uh... I'm sure, Washu-chan." Tenchi responded, though not nearly as clumsily as he would have done without the mental tricks he was currently employing, his nose wasn't even bleeding. "I'll be able to handle it on my own." he insisted.
"I betcha you've got lots of experience 'handling it'." Washu purred, toying with her skirt, pulling it up and down as she licked her lips. "Living with all us girls, you must have had a lot of practise."
"Washu, it's disturbing when you do that." Tenchi complained. "Your body looks too young for that sort of behaviour." he admonished her, his cheeks still red.
"Washu-chan." she reminded him. "Is this better?" she purred and assumed her adult form, filling out her already tight clothes to near bursting. Flashing him a sultry leer as she raised her skirt up far enough to reveal nearly everything it was supposed to cover up.
"I think you deliberately misunderstood me there." Tenchi berated her with a sigh, then looked her up and down. "But yes, it is better. You are stunningly beautiful, Washu." he complimented her.
"Tenchi!" Washu exclaimed, blushing and yanking her skirt back down as it was now her turn to be embarrassed. She swallowed and plastered a fake-looking smile on her lips, trying to appear composed even though she was not. "You shouldn't say those kind of things. What if Ryoko or Ayeka heard you now?"
"They aren't here, Washu. But they are beautiful as well. All of you are." he replied with a faint shrug, then tugged at his bonds. "Washu? Let me go." he implored her.
"Are you sure that you don't want me to help you?" she inquired.
"It is not a good idea, Washu. The others would be upset if they found out about it." he answered her.
"Is that the only reason why you're refusing, Tenchi?" she wondered.
"Of course. You're a beautiful, wonderful, intelligent and very sexy woman, Washu. I would be honoured." he said, calmly looking at her again. "I'm sure it'd be the experience of a life-time. But so would the reactions from Ayeka and Ryoko be as well."
"They wouldn't have to know..." Washu hinted, intrigued and a little turned on by Tenchis calmly spoken words. She had felt excited around him before, certainly. But not like this, nothing like how she was feeling now.
"Would even you be able to keep it from them?" Tenchi wondered. "Mihoshi could wander in on us at any second, Ryoko shares a mental bond with you, Ayeka is very perceptive and Sasami is bonded with Tsunami. Are you sure that it wouldn't be uncovered?" he wondered.
"No." Washu reluctantly admitted after a period of silence.
"Then it is better that I go at it on my own. For both our sakes. Ryoko would never forgive you if she found out about it." Tenchi replied and Washu found herself in very reluctant agreement with him. "Unless you have some sort of sub-dimension accessible only by one device, one which we bring along with us, of course. Then I'll quite happily screw you into a dazed stupor." Tenchi added with a perfectly straight face, causing Washu to nearly trip and fall from sheer surprise, complete astonishment, overwhelming desire and acute embarrassment.
"Tenchi!" she exclaimed in a shocked tone of voice, her face a weird blend of conflicting expressions as she mentally debated how long it would take her to build such a device.
"He. He. He. Gotcha." Tenchi responded, though there was no real genuine mirth in his response. But the expression on his face did promise that he was going to remember this moment later, when he was no longer employing the mental techniques and thus free to laugh his ass off as he recalled her reaction to his suggestion.
Payback was a bitch.
"There's nothing wrong with him!" Washu explained the moment she opened the door to her lab after first having returned to her petite form, coming face to face with a cluster of nervous females. "He's merely training, following his grandfathers instructions to make use out of Juraian battle meditation techniques at all times." she added as Tenchi followed her out into the house. "This subdues his emotions, removes doubt and suppresses hesitation, causing him to act unburdened by these things. Which of course makes his behaviour seem odd to us, as emotions, doubt and hesitation have always been an alternately guiding and/or inhibiting principle behind all his actions in the past."
"So, Tenchi is more uninhibited while using these techniques?" Ryoko wondered with a speculative frown.
"Yes, well, that's part of..." Washu began to explain, but Ryoko had heard what she needed to know and thus stopped listening in favour of action and instant gratification.
"My Tenchi!" she cried out and launched herself through the air, teleporting in mid-air and reappearing just inches from Tenchi, hurling herself at him and sealing her lips to his in a passionate kiss. Tenchi stumbled back a few steps from the impact and his arms automatically went up, holding Ryoko close. "Mmmmmnchi..." Ryoko moaned against his lips as he lazily indulged in and absently responded to her kiss.
"Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yo-yo-y-y-you vile fiend! Demon! Pirate! Shameless tramp!" Ayeka exclaimed, stalking towards the kissing couple with murder in her eyes. Tenchi dragged out on the kiss for a few moments, then pulled back and stepped between Ryoko and Ayeka. As the furious princess attempted to sidestep him in order to reach Ryoko, he reached out for Ayeka and reeled her in for a kiss, which stopped the Juraian princess dead in her tracks.
It took the stunned Ayeka a few moments to react, during which she just clung listlessly to Tenchi. But she quickly caught on and wasn't late to take advantage of the situation, taking command and quickly turning the kiss just as passionate as Tenchi's and Ryoko's had been, if not more so. So when Tenchi pulled away, Ayeka indulged in a somewhat dazed, but none the less proud glare at the equally dazed Ryoko who was too happy to care much about what the prissy princess did.
"I've always wondered about that 'kiss and make up'-thing. Now I know. Should have tried it before. Would have saved us a lot of repairs on the house and garden." Tenchi calmly commented with a deadpan look.
"Yay, Tenchi!" Mihoshi cheered, raising her clenched fist into the air. "Atta boy!"
"Tenchi-niichan..." Sasami breathed, a furious blush on her cheeks, a questioning smile on her lips and both eyebrows raised in surprise.
"Have you been browsing through more naughty parts of your father's library lately, Tenchi? I didn't think you were the kind of guy to go for two women." Washu teased him, struggling to maintain the fake smile plastered on her lips and preventing an envious expression from making an appearance on her face.
"I'm not, Washu-chan." Tenchi simply replied, then looked first at Washu, then Mihoshi and finally Sasami. "I'm the kind of guy who'll go for four women. Perhaps five once Sasami has grown up a bit more." he deadpanned, after which followed a stunned silence and the sound of five asses hitting the floor as five sets of legs suddenly found themselves incapable of supporting the weight they carried. "He. He. He. Something I said?" Tenchi asked, though without any real mirth. But the sparkle in his eyes revealed that once he was back to normal, he would indeed see the fun in the current situation.
A bitch she might have been, but oh how sweet Payback was!
"Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod!" Tenchi chanted as he'd emerged from his meditative state at his grandfather's request. "Did I really say that? Did I really do that?" he exclaimed. "Ohmygod! Ohmygod! Ohmygod!"
"Tenchi! Calm down. What did you say? What did you do?" Yosho asked him, a suspicious gleam in his eyes. "The technique you were using now shouldn't have caused you to say or do something that would warrant this behaviour." he added.
"Ohmygod!" Tenchi repeated again. "Ryoko kissed me... And I kissed her back... Right in front of Ayeka!" he blurted out.
"I'm surprised the house still stands." Yosho commented, relaxing as he had expected something far worse from Tenchi's unexpected panicked behaviour just now.
"Oh, they had other things on their minds then fighting." Tenchi waved it off. "Ohmygod." he repeated himself once again, shaking his head, then he started to laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. And laugh. In the end, Yosho had to apply the flat of his bokken against Tenchi's rear posterior to get him to stop, leaping up into the air with an offended expression as he rubbed his butt. "You didn't have to hit quite so hard..." Tenchi grumbled angrily.
"We've wasted enough time talking about the girls. What I want to know if is you ever dropped and lost your focus." Yosho demanded to know.
"No, not once." Tenchi admitted after considering the morning and events up to lunch, after which he'd headed to the shrine.
"Then everything is proceeding as it should. Given a few days, you'll be able to enter and exit that state of mind at will, much like myself. Just keep it up for a while longer, now center yourself." Yosho ordered him, a statement which Tenchi wasn't sure if it calmed or worried him. He'd been so incredibly out of character that it was scary and he wasn't sure if he ever wanted to repeat the experience ever again.
Though he had to admit that the 'new him', certainly seemed better at handling the girls then the 'old him' ever had. He'd even managed to stop a fight between Ayeka and Ryoko, without having to get injured in the process. Unless one counted bruised lips as injured, which Tenchi certainly didn't at the moment.
"Okay, Grandfather." Tenchi replied and took several deep breaths, closing his eyes. Yosho had assured him that it'd get faster and easier with practise, but for now, it was a difficult process that took several minutes to achieve. He usually didn't manage to stay in the battle trance for very long either, though earlier he'd been in it for hours, even sleep hadn't shaken him out of it. That was an accomplishment that Tenchi was proud of, though the results and his actions while in the trance still weirded him out.
"Focus, Tenchi. Focus. You're distracted." Yosho admonished him and Tenchi nodded, the stray thoughts he was having were not helping him reach the trance. He tried to clear his mind again and focused, eventually managing to slip into the blessed state about four minutes later. As he opened his eyes again, his features had calmed significantly, his pulse slowed down and his breathing evened out into a deep, calm rhythm. "Good, Tenchi. Very good." Yosho complimented him and stood up, raising his bokken, something Tenchi mirrored without being told to.
The master and the student faced each other in complete silence for a few moments, then Yosho was the first to move. Though the initial motion was nearly imperceptible to the human eye, Tenchi reacted. Tenchi in the blessed state didn't rely entirely upon his eyes any longer. He heard the creak of muscles preparing, he smelled the change in Yosho's body and some of the hairs on his arms twitched at some unfelt tension in the air. When Yosho started his strike, Tenchi moved just as fast to counter it.
Twack+
The clatter of wood swords banging together was repeated over and over again, as master and student went through a seemingly endless sequence of attacks, blocks, dodges and counter strikes.
Tenchi strolled through the woods, his mind everywhere and nowhere. After their training session, Grandfather had told him to take a walk in the woods and meditate upon that which he encountered during his walk. Tenchi hadn't quite understood the point of this particular training at the time and he was now long past caring about it. In the blessed state, he found himself rediscovering the beauty of nature all over again. Scents were so much more richer then ever before, colours so much more clear, sensations so much more heady and it felt as if he could feel every fibre in the straw of grass that hung out of one corner of his mouth.
He gawked like he'd never seen the wooded landscape before, he bent down to feel the grass and he stopped to smell plants, flowers, weeds, moss and at one point, even stepped right up to a tree and darted his tongue out against the trunk, tasting the bark. At first, he wasn't even consciously aware of it, but his now sensitive hearing was the first to pick up on it. But it wasn't until his nose joined in and alerted him that he realised that he wasn't alone any longer. Now that he was aware of it, he could clearly hear footsteps, soft breathing and a faint humming. His nose finally picked up on the almond soap she used and the vanilla perfume she wore, revealing which one of the girls it was.
He didn't know what Mihoshi was doing out in the woods, but his feet took him closer to where he now knew she was. He stopped as he reached the edge of a clearing, a smile appearing on his lips as his eyes fell upon the ditzy detective chasing after a butterfly. She wasn't trying to catch it, it merely appeared as if she was following it around to see what it was up to and Tenchi found himself doing the same, following after Mihoshi just to see what she was up to.
After all, Grandfather had told him to meditate upon that which he found during his walk, had he not? So what if what he had encountered was Mihoshi? She had been found and so, he had to meditate upon her. Brief concerns regarding what Ayeka and Ryoko would have to say about him stalking the detective flared up and threatened to break his trance for a few moments, but in the fluffy cocoon his mind now found itself it, these concerns were soon diminished and muted.
Mihoshi followed the butterfly until a passing bird attracted her attention, causing her to follow that around instead. A while later, a rabbit stole away her attention, leading her and by extension, Tenchi, around the forest in a very erratic pattern. He was starting to get unsure about just where they were and faint concerns regarding if they were lost or not hollered for attention, but as Mihoshi came across a small stream he recognised, his concerns were eased.
Mihoshi bent down and put her hands in the stream, drinking a few mouthfuls of the cold mountain water, then seated herself on a grassy knoll where sunlight streamed down upon her. At that moment, the sun reflecting in her golden hair and the babbling brook in her background, Tenchis lips acquired a wry grin for a few seconds as he recalled what his grandfather had said earlier regarding the beauty Tenchi would encounter during his walk.
Somehow, he doubted that Grandfather knew just how much beauty he would encounter.
Tenchi suddenly started moving again, walking up and seating himself behind Mihoshi as she gazed out over the vista in front of her.
"Beautiful..." she mumbled, rolling her shoulders and rubbing her left shoulder with her right hand, trying to work out a kink.
"Yes. Very." Tenchi agreed and reached out, putting his hands on the detective's shoulders, causing Mihoshi to jump and give off a startled exclamation.
"Aaaahhh! Tenchi!" she panted out, looking back over her shoulder at him. "What are you doing here!"
"Enjoying the view." he replied, then began to knead, rub and massage Mihoshi's shoulders and neck. It seemed as if she had more questions, but apparently thought better then to question her good fortune and instead just relaxed as he sat behind her, giving her a massage. The combination of her long walk, the sun and the expert massage she was getting, soon had Mihoshi's eyelids fluttering and despite her best efforts, she soon dozed off.
Tenchi smiled as he realised what had happened and carefully eased the detective down in a more comfortable position, resting her head on his lap. He sat there in silence and watched the view, absently stroking her hair and rubbing her scalp as she slept peacefully under his tender care.
When she came to an hour later, Tenchi hadn't budged and still drew his hand through her golden wealth of hair, smiling faintly down at her as she opened her eyes and gazed up at him in silence. She liked him, she really did. But seeing as he had both the perfect princess of Jurai and the exotic space pirate so hot on his heels, Mihoshi had never really pursued Tenchi as she figured she didn't stand a chance with that competition. What could she possibly offer him that the other two couldn't?
No, better to pretend to be clueless, squash her feelings and never allow herself to admit that she... That she... Tears welled up in her eyes and she closed them again, silently praying for the resolve to keep herself from crying. She couldn't... She didn't...
Mihoshi wasn't even aware of when or how it happened, but suddenly Tenchi had pulled her up and into his lap, his arms wrapped around her in a comforting embrace as she wept against his chest. It wasn't even the madcap bawling she usually indulged in, it was a more subdued sobbing affair sprinkled with the occasional sniffle for good measure.
It wasn't fair! She didn't just like him, she loved him! She loved him! She loved Tenchi! Why should she keep her feelings to herself? Why should she bury what she felt for him? She'd never had to do anything as hard as pretending to be happy earlier, cheering even, after Tenchi had kissed both Ayeka and Ryoko. Why? Didn't' she have the same right to love and be loved as anyone else?
Damn straight she had!
Just like she didn't remember how she'd wound up in his lap and embrace, she had no recollection of how the kiss started. All of a sudden, she just came to and found herself in the middle of a passionate kiss. Well, passionate on her side at any rate. Tenchi was responding and participating, but in a calm, collected and nearly serene manner. She wasn't complaining though. From Tenchi, she'd accept whatever she could get, whenever she could get it.
Besides, sometime he'd leave that trance and she just couldn't wait to find out what sort of a kisser he would be then. Though one little concern kept dancing around the back of her mind, something he'd said earlier after Washu had teased him a bit. While the trance made him more open and confident, it did not induce any feelings or thoughts that wasn't already there and he had said something about being a five-woman-man, hadn't he?
Did he really expect her, expect any of them to agree to share him? And if he did, what would she do?
Mihoshi didn't know, but for now, the kisses were good enough. She would worry about the future later.
Much later, she decided as one of Tenchi's hands dipped down low and caressed her shapely behind, causing her to redouble her kissing efforts.
"Where is he?" Ryoko growled to herself, flying back and forth across the darkening landscape. Yosho had revealed that the training was long over and that he'd sent Tenchi off into the woods to meditate, but Tenchi had yet to return to the house. She spotted Mihoshi wobbling around below and briefly considered asking the ditzy blonde if she had seen Tenchi, but dismissed that notion. Mihoshi probably wouldn't recognise Tenchi even if she tripped over him.
Though she had to admit that something had seemed slightly... Off, about Mihoshi. While there had been a smile on her face, it had looked different then her usual smile. More genuine somehow, though Ryoko couldn't understand why it should. Mihoshi was one of the happiest persons she'd ever come across, why should her smile seem genuine now all of a sudden? Ryoko shook her head, being so worried about Tenchi made her think odd things. Mihoshi was just fine, she always was.
But all thoughts of Mihoshi were instantly dismissed as Ryoko found Tenchi not long after zipping past the GP detective. Tenchi was lying on a grassy knoll, a straw of grass protruding from his mouth, his head resting on top of his rolled-up shirt and his bare feet caressed by the slight breeze, his shoes resting beside him. She stifled an excited moan at the sight of his bare chest, all those years of training and chores had paid off!
"'ello, 'oko." he mumbled as she touched down near him, wondering just what it was that had alerted him to her presence. His eyes were closed and besides, the slow rise and fall of his chest had nearly convinced her that he was sleeping.
"Good afternoon, Tenchi." she greeted him and sat down next to him, ogling him with a feral smirk on her face. "Getting ready for me? How convenient..." she purred and positioned herself above him, leaning down and lowering her head until her lips were merely a hairs width away from his. She took in his scent and the smile grew for a moment, then her eyes shot open wide as she took in another scent which was all over him. Another scent that quite unmistakable had come from a very aroused woman. A very aroused Galaxy Policewoman, to be exact. "Mihoshi!" she snarled, pulling back and clenching her fists. "I'll kill that fucking galaxy pig bitch!" she growled and would have shot up into the air if it hadn't been for Tenchi reaching out and holding her down, holding her against him.
"Ryoko... No." was all he said, his arms keeping her where she was. It wasn't that she couldn't get loose, because she certainly could, either by teleporting or by tearing herself loose with her superior strength. But if she did the latter, Tenchi might be hurt in the process. And if she teleported, she wouldn't have his arms around her any longer. Besides, it felt very nice to be pressed up against him, even nicer when he was actually the one pressing her against him rather then the other way around. This didn't happen all that often.
"But that whore detective..." she tried, but was interrupted.
"Ryoko." was all he said, but his tone made the truth behind the single word perfectly clear. It was a warning, one she had better take seriously.
"But that sow... But you..." Ryoko protested, tears gathering in the corner of her eyes. "D-d-do y-yo-y-you l-l-love her?" she asked.
"Of course I do." Tenchi flippantly replied. "I love all of you." he hastily added. "I love you, Ryoko." he insisted, then loosened his grip around her and moved one of his arms, using his now free hand to pull her head down for a kiss.
Normally, this would have made her the happiest biological construct on the planet. But now it merely caused the tears gathering in her eyes to start flowing freely.
"But you... She... You..." she blubbered, pulling away and clenching her hands into fists again. "I'll kill..." she started, put was silenced as Tenchi placed a silencing finger against her lips.
"We kissed, kissed and touched each other, Ryoko. That was all. The only parts of us that found it's way inside the part of the other, were our tongues." Tenchi stated. "I love you, Ryoko. But I love Mihoshi as well. And Ayeka. And Sasami. And... And Washu as well." he added with a faint sigh.
"Sasami! And Washu!" Ryoko demanded, jumping up and glaring down at Tenchi in disbelief. "Washu!" she repeated for good measure, shuddering as a freezing chill went down her spine.
"Yes." Tenchi confirmed and sat up, pulling his shirt back on, although he didn't button it up. Instead he got back onto his feet and captured her right hand, placing a gentle kiss on top of it.
"Mihoshi... Two Juraian sisters... Mother and daughter..." Ryoko mumbled, staring at Tenchi as if he was the alien from outer space. Which to her, he was. Though she'd never seen him as such before. "Are you sure that you haven't spent too much time immersed in your fathers library lately?" she inquired suspiciously, trying to stem the flow of tears and lighten the mood with a joke which fell flat even to her ears. Tenchi merely nodded. "But... Five of us? How can we... How could you even think... Do you really expect any of us to agree to share you?" she demanded.
"No." Tenchi replied with a faint shrug. "Not really. I knew all along that you weren't being really serious when you offered Ayeka to go first." he admitted. "However, I was hoping that at least you wouldn't go off murdering each other the moment you found out. I've reached the conclusion that I've been pushing all of you away, never given the idea of a relationship with any of you girls serious thought because I've been too scared of the possible consequences. Because I was afraid of hurting some of you, I've been hurting all of you. Well, from now on, no more pushing away." he announced. "I'll give each of you whatever chances you want, I'll spend time with each of you and try to get to know the girls I've been pushing away for so long a whole lot better. Something I recently realised I've been neglecting for fear of appearing to be playing favourites. I've lived with the most marvellous women in the universe under the same roof, but although we've all been through a lot, I don't really know all that much about any of you."
"B-bu-b-but, I love you, Tenchi!" Ryoko pleaded with him. "You don't need to get to know the others. You have me! What more do you need!" she demanded.
"What I need, Ryoko, is to get to know all of you girls. What I need, is for you to try and get along with each other. At the moment, I don't know nearly enough to make any sort of choice. What I need, is for you all to understand why I have to do this." he replied, then drew her in for another kiss. She whimpered against him, but responded to his kiss, without her usual gusto though. When he pulled away, she leaned against his chest for support, clinging to him and hugging her arms around him as if she never intended to let him go.
When she had calmed down somewhat and stopped crying, they sat down on the knoll and watched the scenery, talking about this and that. Ryoko reluctantly told Tenchi a little about her past, Tenchi gladly filled Ryoko in on the parts of his childhood that she had missed. They spoke of hopes for the future, dreams, likes and dislikes, all those little nonsensical things they simply hadn't gotten around to talking about before.
Before long, Ryoko found herself seated between Tenchi's legs, her back resting against his chest and his arms wrapped around her, his jaw resting on her left shoulder. It was... Nice... Not at all what she had expected. She didn't think it would be possible to enjoy something as simple as talking as much as she did right now. There were a few more kisses, some initiated by her, some by Tenchi. But mostly, they talked, without outside interruptions.
The End! ( For now... )