Family...
Author: Daferge
"Tenchi Muyo!" and characters were created by Hiroki Hayashi and Masaki Kajishima, and is the property of AIC/Nippon Television, Geneon Entertainment and FUNimation Entertainment.
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Chapter 02...
As the darkness cleared, Tenchi could feel something different... Something was brushing through his hair fingers and vibrations a moving vehicle ...
Opening his eyes, he found a pair of tearful eyes smiling down on him...
His head rested in her lap as she stroked his hair...
His voice cracked...
" mom? "...
" Well... Looks like 'sleeping beauty's' finally awake... Guess all those kisses really did work, mom... "
Tenchi turned his head to see Tennyo sis smiling at him over the front seat...
" Welcome back to the land of the living... Dear brother ... "
Tenchi recognized that tone... The same tone all the females had used, just before they ask him to do something or other...
He heard his grandfather chuckle...
" Welcome to the family, Tenchi... "
It seemed he wasn't the only one to recognize that tone...
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The trip to the house, now "home", had taken a while, but soon they pulled up to the front door of a real ranch house ( as in a house on a ranch )... Surrounded by lots of trees, it reminded tenchi of some of the places he'd lived... He realized why his dad liked finding places in the country... At the door he stopped to remove his shoes, but then realized that wasn't done here as everyone continued inside...
The house was rather large, 4-bedrooms, 2 1/2-bathrooms, kitchen and such...
Tenchi couldn't imagine how old it was... Except for the kitchen, everything seemed older than he was...
His room was the 'guest room' with the 1/2 'bathroom'... Larger than some of the rooms he'd lived in... More than enough space for his things, a small desk for his 'laptop'computer as well as a 'real' bed... Most of his life had been spent sleeping on the floor, this might take a while...
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Later he sat down for his first meal at the large dinning room table, covered with what seem like every type of food imaginable... In Texas this was a regular Sunday dinner, week day meals were smaller, but not by much... Seemed 'mom' loved to cook and try out new 'dishes' she'd seen in magazines or on TV cook shows...
As they sat down to eat, Yosho asked tenchi to say grace...
As everyone bowed their heads, Tenchi took a deep breath before he spoke...
" GRACE!!! "...
Looking up, he found four stunned face starring at him...
" What?...You asked me to say 'grace'?... "...
This was too much for Yosho... Starting to giggle, he fell out of his chair and the only sign of his presents was his hysterical laugh... Grandmother Airi was looking back and forth from Tenchi to her husband and back again... She was not amused and if looks could 'kill', this family would quickly have become ALL female...
Tenchi noticed Tennyo slowly shaking her head, hiding behind her cloth napkin, a twinkle of humor in her eyes...
His mom was also holding her napkin to her face, but it couldn't hide the smile on her face or the tears in her eyes... Or the joy...
Grandmother Airi spoke...
" He's Nobuyuki's son alright, a chip off the old - - - 'blockhead'... "
But Tenchi thought he saw something glimmer in the corner of her eye and perhaps a faint smile, both gone in an instant...
to be continued...
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