Pirate, Princess, Policewoman, Wife?...

Author: Daferge

Disclaimer: Tenchi Muyo! is copyright AIC/Pioneer Ltd.

All respective characters are property of their original owners. All original characters and ideas are property of the author.

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Chapter 02... ( Wedding Bell and other things... )...

(In the mountains west of Okayama, Japan )

Katsuhito Masaki looked down from the alter, onto the crowd of people who'd come together today...

People from all walks of life, from all over the galaxy...

Take the small crowd gathered around his step-grandmother ( NEVER let her hear you say that ), Lady Seto Kamiki Jurai better know as the Devil Princess of Jurai...

Several members of the Galaxy police were inquiring into her Space Pirate hunting tips...

Also paying attention, but for different reasons, were Nagi Katsumoro, a well known bounty hunter and Captain Fragga a not so well known ex-Space Pirate, both friends of Ryoko's...

Yet here they were, smiling and toasting someone several years ago they'd both have been doing their best to avoid, by light years...

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Across the crowd, Azusa Masaki Jurai, the Emperor of Jurai was looking around also...

In his long life time, he'd been to many gathering and events, large and small...

But this was the most unusual he'd ever been too...

Had some one told him that he would attend a very low-society event on a back-water planet and enjoy it, he'd have thought them mad, yet here he was and he WAS enjoying it...

Every where he looked, there were smiling and laughing faces...

Not the forced laughter and painted on smiles he usually encountered...

Around him was the real thing, pure, true, emotional joy...

He was beginning to understand why his son and both daughters loved it here...

The corner of his lip twitched as he wondered if Tenchi might have a spare room?...

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Standing beside Azusa, was Funaho Masaki Jurai, his first wife and Queen...

Her eyes blinked as she felt something very unexpected...

Unless she was mistaken ( a rare thing indeed ), the man standing next to her, the Emperor of the Jurai Empire, THE most powerful male in the Galaxy, her husband, had just given her bottom a squeeze?...

IN PUBLIC?...

Leaning forward a bit, she was able to see that her (sister/wife) was also smiling...

Moments later, Azusa's eyes blinked as the two Queens of Jurai returned the favor...

Perhaps we're retire early!...

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Katsuhito watched as Tenchi and his new wives stood next to the alter and greeted their guests ( mostly other family members ) under their new names...

Accepting congratulations from people from across the Galaxy...

They were in their most trusted formation, Ayeka was holding one arm, Ryoko holding the other and Mihoshi behind him, her arms around him, holding him tight ( well not too tight ), her chin resting on his shoulder, she had his back covered ( so to say )...

Joy radiated from all their faces...

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Katsuhito smiled as he watched...

The ceremony had gone quite smoothly and undisturbed, except for Misaki's sobbing cries of " My baby... My baby... "

Every thing had gone alone as planned, until he'd bent over to bless each of them...

The quiet was broken by the sound of ripping cloth...

Looking around, he discovered a mixture of surprised and smiling faces...

Out of the corner of his eye, he'd seen Washu toss something into one of her subspace pockets...

Turning to look her in the eye, she gave him a sad face and a WHO ME? look...

To some very light giggling and chuckling, he managed to complete the ceremony and pronounce them husband and wives...

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Nagi stood to the side, sipping some sake, watching Tenchi and the others as they greeted the others...

Practicing for when they faced all those people on Jurai...

She smiled, the Empire didn't stand a chance...

Ryoko Hakubi Masaki, it sounded good...

She'd miss Ryoko, the chases, their fights, life was going to a lot duller...

Just for the heck of it, she'd asked Ryoko if she might join her and go out Bounty hunting across the Galaxy, they'd make a fortune...

Ryoko had smiled, wiped a tear away and told her, she had her fortune, in Tenchi...

Would she miss the fights?...

Ryoko laughed and reminded her she still had Ayeka, besides she'd have her hands full protecting everyone from Mihoshi...

Nagi looked around for Ken-ohki, finding him with Ryo-ohki, sitting on Sasami's shoulder being fed carrots...

Sighing, she made her way over to the three, she didn't need the young princess turning her mode of transportation into a pet like she had Ryo-ohki...

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Seina Yamada stood with his four female crew members, sipping some tea...

He'd been expecting something to happen with his bad luck, but nothing...

No flash floods, no unexplained storms, no starships falling from the sky ( Mihoshi was here already )...

Not even Pirates showing up out of thin air...

Well, there was Ryoko's friend Captain Fragga, but he didn't count, being EX-pirate like Ryoko...

What did make him nervice, was the way Lady Seto was eyeing him...

Then there was how the girls had stuck their heads together to talk and were glancing over his way ever now and then...

Why did their giggling suddenly sound so wicked?...

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Nobuyuki was half way through his second camera and was wondering if he should check on getting another one...

As he snapped Mihoshi's grandfather congratulating Tenchi, he felt a tap on his shoulder...

Washu, in adult form, was standing there smiling and looking beautiful...

He instantly snapped half a dozen shots...

Still smiling, she came up to Nobuyuki, kissed him on the cheek and put a camera with fresh batteries and an empty data chip into his empty hand...

With a wink of an eye, she turned and disappeared back into the crowd...

Nobuyuki stood there a few seconds before he began to breath again...

Smiling, he put the fresh camera in his pocket and started taking pictures again...

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Kiyone watched as Mihoshi rested her head on Tench's shoulder, her eyes closed and a dreamy smile on her face...

A hand on her shoulder startled her...

Turning, she discovered the Grand Marshal standing next to her...

She snapped to attention...

" At easy, Detective... We're all off duty today... "

He too was watching Mihoshi...

" Any plans, Detective?... "

Kiyone's eyes blinked and then she smiled...

" I was thinking about taking some time off... "

The Marshal smiled...

" Sasami has offered to teach me how to cook and I can stay in the guest room... "

The Marshal couldn't help chuckling...

" And with Tenchi and the girls ( especially Mihoshi ) gone, it should be nice and quiet around here... "

Kiyone's only reply was a long, deep, SIGH...

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Captain Fragga slowly sipped from his cup of sake, the last thing he need was to get drunk with all the Galaxy Police officers around...

He'd seen what it could do, this simple drink from a back-water planet...

It made some of the drinks he served back at his Inn, no better than water...

He smiled as he watched Ryoko interacting with the cream of Jurai's upper-crust...

After what she'd been through, she deserved only the best and she got it in Tenchi Masaki...

He lifted his cup...

" Here's to you, Ryoko... "

Taking a sip, he smiled...

A soft voice behind him spoke up...

" You're Quite right... "

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Startled, Fragga turned to find a charming young lady with long dark hair standing beside him, watching the newly weds...

She turned and smiled at him...

Fragga knew he'd seen her before, but he just could remember...

She smiled as he nodded his head and then she disappeared...

Suddenly he could see a vision, as clear as when it happened...

His ship was burning, his crew dead, his blood slowly dripped from his body...

She had appeared before him and smiled, watching over him, only to disappeared just moments before Ryoko boarded his ship and saved his life...

" Tsunami!!... "

He heard a small voice giggle in the back of his mind...

" Yes?... "

to be continued...

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