Chapter 2
Entering Earth orbit was a rather strange looking spacecraft roughly the size of a space shuttle, only this particular craft was surrounded by planks of tree bark and the flight section was a red, black, and yellow pod. A young girl was looking out the viewport looking very bored. "Princess Sasami," a strange wooden log spoke this log had a split down the front and a lens embedded in the wood. Sasami turns her head, sitting up at the waist. She is in a white colored capsule with its transparent lid hanging a few feet above her head. "What is it Azaka?"
"We are nearing a planet that Princess Ayeka believes to be the one we are looking for. She is already out of Cryo-stasis and is on the bridge," the log replies
Sasami puts a hand to her head and shakes away the lingering nightmares. "Alright Azaka, I'll come to the bridge in a moment."
On the Bridge, Ayeka is standing in front of a large tree looking into a big screen. Another large log was standing to her right performing scans on the planet. "We are within full scanning range Princess Ayeka."
"Proceed with the scans; see if you can find that scurvy wretch Ryoko." Various screens appear within the big one up in front, several things are displayed on the smaller screens, such as Sine waves, spectral analysis, and infrared scans. Of course, these things are useless Ayeka was scanning through each bit of information frowning at each scan.
"The planet is called Earth; it's within the Juraian sector of space. There are high levels upper life energy, as well as various unknown sources." The log replies as one of the screens lights up red. "I have found the energy pattern you specified Princess. It's in a highly localized area of plant life; however, I am also reading a strong Jurai energy sequence.
Ayeka speaks quietly to herself, "Could it be Yosho? My fiancée?
"The energy sequence is being masked by some other more powerful signals, we cannot identify the individual causing the signals," the log responded.
"Ayeka " Sasami yells out as she walks onto the bridge with Azaka following close behind. Sasami walks up to Ayeka and looks at the screen showing Earth. "Big Sister? Did I hear you talking about Yosho?"
"Well I…I was just saying how I hope this is the place where that pirate Ryoko has gone after she trashed all of Jurai," Ayeka responded nervously trying to cover her obsession.
Looking at her sister in growing annoyance Sasami just sighed. "I wish you could think of something else, we've been chasing planets in this sector of space for the last few hundred years."
"I know Sasami, but I feel we are close to a conclusion. We will finally reap the rewards for our long hard work," Ayeka replied trying to give some rationalization for this.
"What reward is worth all this?" Sasami said to herself.
"I have pinpointed the source and laid in a course," the unidentified log replied. "Or I should say sources."
"Very good, take us in. We see the ship slowly heading towards Earth," Ayeka ordered.
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Tenchi is sweeping up the area around the temple, while Naruto and about six of his clones were painting the sides of the temple. The real Naruto stops for a second and Tenchi looks over to him.
"You know, this isn't exactly how I imagined spending my days, I thought I could spend time training," Naruto said looking bored.
"That's because you don't have an active imagination," Ryoko appears with her arms draped around Tenchi, who looks obviously annoyed by this.
"Hey! I-" Tenchi sighs heavily glancing Ryoko. "Don't you feel bad not doing any work?"
"Oh, all you ever talk about is work, Tenchi. Why don't you come play around with me?" Ryoko replied. "And all Naruto whines about is training."
Naruto pouts, "I don't always want to train sometimes I want to eat too." A bolt of energy hits the ground in front of the blonde shinobi, the stone sizzles a bit with the enormous energy it was just hit with. He looks over to Ryoko who has her normal grin on. "Hey! I'm working with paint here; you could set the whole place on fire. And I doubt the old man would like having a charred temple."
Mihoshi walks up the temple stairs with Yosho, she is playing with some device that looks cubic in nature. "Oh, Hi! Mihoshi! Grandpa!" Tenchi stated in greeting a smile on his face.
"Good Afternoon!" Mihoshi smiled as well still fiddling the cube
"What cha' got there Mihoshi?" Ryoko asked as Naruto moved up to them in curiosity.
"This? Oh this is a utility tool given to all Galaxy Police personnel, in an emergency it's supposed to be able to do anything," Mihoshi explained flipping up than down getting more and more frustrated.
"So Mihoshi-chan, what can you make it do now?" Naruto asked.
Tears forming in her eyes, "I can't remember! Waahhhhhh!"
"There, there, Mihoshi. I'm sure you'll figure out how to make it do something." Yosho replied encouraging the young police detective. The cubic tool begins to glow a yellow light. "There you go; you got it to do something." The light starts to get blinding.
"Perhaps you can make it stop now Mihoshi," Tenchi asked shielding his eyes.
Mihoshi looked confused. "I didn't make it start. Oooh, I bet I know what this means."
"What?" Naruto asked. The temple and the area around it get dark, as they look into the sky a large, plant looking ship appears.
Mihoshi looked up her face in awe. "It's a proximity detector," she paused. "That's a Jurai royal family ship!" The group all looked up into the sky and see the ship settle over a nearby lake. They all rush off to the lake to get a closer look. Yosho however stays back for a second, then quietly follows as the ship settles above the lake.
Naruto looked lost as he followed the group. "I wonder if this is a good thing."
Ryoko gave sour glance at the blonde shinobi, "I don't think so."
Ayeka is still on the bridge looking to the big screen. Suddenly a smaller screen appears with a zoomed in picture of Ryoko's face. Ayeka suddenly turns red. "There's the pirate that took Yosho away from me! Kamidaki! Target that pirate!"
"Yes, Princess Ayeka," the now identified log replied. The ship suddenly lurches towards the shore, one of the cannons emerges from the side and points at Ryoko. Everyone starts to shake nervously.
Ayeka's voice comes on over an amplified speaker. "Ryoko, you will surrender yourself at once to be tried for your crimes against the Juraian Empire." Naruto smirked turning to Ryoko, who doesn't seem to be at all shocked by this.
"That would be you, Ryoko-chan," Naruto chuckled watching the ex-space pirate.
Ryoko throws her arms around Tenchi. "Tenchi! You must protect me from this vile creature!"
"Uhhhh Protect you? How can I protect you against that?!" Tenchi pointed at the huge wooden spaceship.
Naruto sighed. "Looks like a giant plant wish I knew the Great Fireball jutsu."
Turning to Kamidaki Ayeka looks up at the log, "Is this thing on? Why aren't they listening to me?"
"Princess Ayeka, regarding Ryoko's crimes against the Empire," Azaka's hesitant to reply further
"Later Azaka. I'm busy," Ayeka turns looking at the other log. "Kamidaki, fire a warning shot into the lake."
"Are you sure that's wise? They haven't fired at us," Kamidaki asked unsure feeling like they were threading the needle of the law themselves.
"Just do it!" Ayeka shouted.
Kamidaki seemed to stiffen more. "Yes, your highness."
Ayeka's ship fires off a shot into the lake, the wave that ensues thoroughly drenches the gang. "See, she is Evil, Tenchi! You must protect us!
Naruto in a panicked state runs over to Mihoshi, takes her cubic tool, and begins to mess with it. "This thing must be able to turn into some sort of weapon or a jutsu to blast that thing."
"Hey! Don't mess with that," the blonde detective shouts.
Naruto frantically begins moving parts of the cube around until it starts to shake. Shocked, he holds it up and looks at it. "Uh, Mihoshi-chan is this normal?"
"Oh, that's normal," Mihoshi smiled vacantly.
Naruto took a deep breath, "Well that's a relief."
"It's for the self-destruct sequence," Mihoshi stated matter-of-factly. Everyone facefaults and staring at the blonde.
"SELF DESTRUCT SEQUENCE?!" Naruto looks around, then at the cubic tool in his hand. "Uhh, here Ryoko-chan merry-Christmas."
"Oh thank you so," Ryoko said then paused and looks at the cube device and her eyes got huge. "AAAAHH! I don't want this!" Ryoko throws the cubic tool at Ayeka's ship. A screen on the Bridge of Ayeka's ship shows the small, cubic, tool landing on top of the ship.
"What's that?" Ayeka asked.
"It appears to be a Galaxy Police Hyperdimensional cube. It seems to be in the final stages of Self-Destruct," Kamidaki stated flatly.
"Oh," Ayeka replied nonchalantly. The cube explodes on the side of Ayeka's ship, a large plume of smoke that blocked the ship from view.
"Oh well, the witch got what she deserved," Ryoko said pursing her lips.
Tenchi looked on in awe. "Wow."
Naruto sighed looking up at the smoke, "I wonder if that person is okay."
"I'm sure she isn't," Ryoko sounded very cheerful turning to Tenchi wrapping her arms around his right arm. "Come on Tenchi! Let's play!" Ayeka's ship, the Ryo-ouh, moves out of the cloud of smoke to settle right above everyone. The ship has a black char mark, but is otherwise unaffected.
Ayeka's laughs over a loud speaker looking down at the group gather a sneer on her face. "Kamidaki! Azaka! Get them."
The two logs respond simultaneously. "Yes, Princess Ayeka." The guardians fly out of Ryo-ouh towards everyone. Floating logs appear around Ryoko, Tenchi, Naruto, and Mihoshi paralyzing them. Azaka and Kamidaki, one by one, engulf them. On the bridge of Ryo-ouh, watching all this Ayeka is laughing at her handy work.
Tenchi's eyes flutter open, he found himself lying in a grassy circle with thick vines surrounding down around it. "Huh? Where am…I bet I know where I am," Tenchi groans weakly "Oh, I just wanna go home. I wonder how I can get out of here." As Tenchi walks through a pair of vines, they quickly stiffen and close around the opening the boy was trying to get though. Tenchi tries to get through many times, and each time the vines close around the opening. Finally he pulls out a small knife and attacks one of the vines by whittling it slowly away. "Haha! Take this!"
"What are you doing?" someone asked.
"I'm trying to get out of here, Tenchi paused blinking a couple of times looking up in confusion. "Huh?"
Sasami stands just outside of the cage of vines, she giggles walking closer looking down at Tenchi.
"Who are you, little girl?" Tenchi asked.
"I'm Sasami," the blue haired princess replied.
"Sasami Are you a prisoner here too?" Tenchi blinked.
"No, Silly. This is our ship," Sasami giggled.
"Your ship, so that means," Tenchi nodded slapping his hand figuring that all aliens must be like characters from DBZ. "Are you an alien from the planet Sasami?"
"No, you are silly I'm from the planet Jurai. What's your name?" the princess smiled.
Tenchi scratched the back of his head nervously. "Oh, how silly of me. I'm Tenchi."
"Hello Tenchi!" the girl giggled again. "Will you play a game with me?" Sasami raises up a control for the cage, as she points it to the vines they move away like curtains. Tenchi wearily walks out of the grassy cage, then looks around quickly. "Thanks Sasami, hey, do you know how I might get out of here? I'm here by accident, I really have nothing to do with any of this."
"I'll do something for you, if you do something for me," Sasami asked her smile turned sly.
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Naruto's eyes flutter open, he's lying in a grassy circle with thick vines hanging down around it much like the ones Tenchi found himself. "Eh? Ever since I was put here in this strange world I've been reacting. Kakashi-sensei would laugh and Pervy-sage, ugh he'd be rolling on the ground. This is getting way annoying." Naruto conducts the same experiments as Tenchi did earlier, with the same amount of success. "Now this really sucks. I wonder if someone will rescue me." Naruto pauses. "I'm gonna die."
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Ryoko's eyes fly open, she's being held upside down by the two guardians, Kamidaki and Azaka. Ayeka is standing in front of her.
"Well hello, Princess, you'll excuse me if I don't bow before you I'm kind of frozen in place," Ryoko stated with a dry smile.
"O ho ho ho ho! Ryoko, I finally have you before me, now I can bring you back to Jurai to pay for your crimes! O Ho ho ho ho!" Ayeka cackles darkly.
Ryoko smirked sarcastically, "Oooh, I'm so scared." The guardians send jolts of electricity through Ryoko, she begins to scream in pain.
"You should be scared of the Jurai judicial system, you'll pay dearly for you actions against Jurai," the princess threaten watching the woman scream at first then cackle in glee. "Why are you laughing criminal?"
"It tickles," Ryoko laughs in between jolts Ayeka sighed waving the guardians off.
"Princess Ayeka, about those crimes," Azaka spoke up hesitantly.
"Oh, what is it now?" Ayeka asked annoyed.
"During your cryogenic sleep, an amount of 697 years occurred," Kamidaki continued.
Ayeka looking more annoyed turning to her guardian, "So?"
"So by the Stature of Limitations, no crime committed on Jurai shall be held against a person in an excess of 700 years," Azaka informed causing Ayeka to cringe.
Kamidaki brought up the galaxy wide wanted file on Ryoko and Ayeka watched it burn into dust. "And as of this morning, the 700 year mark passed and the Galaxy Police destroyed the file of crimes concerning Ryoko."
"Whaaat?!" Ayeka growled watching as the last particle vanishes from sight.
"Hahahah! Well, your highness, it looks like I have nothing to fear," Ryoko smirked however that smile weakened watching Ayeka stalked closer to her.
Ayeka growls slamming the hilt of Tenchi-ken into her the space pirate stomach adding to the guardians own jolt sending large amounts of electricity through Ryoko, the space pirate screams until the pain becomes unbearable and she faints. The electricity stops. Ayeka glares at Ryoko coldly, "Wrong pirate you still have much to fear." A small spherical droid comes up to Ayeka.
The droid clear it's throat, "Princess Ayeka, it's time for bed."
"Not now, I'm busy," Ayeka snorted glancing back Ryoko's unconscious form.
"I can't allow that, the Queen as given me strict orders that I keep you on a regular schedule. Now it's time for bed," the droid responded.
Sighing in frustration, Ayeka turned away. "Oh, alright. Put this thing, in a cell."
"Yes, Princess." The two guardians quietly vanished from sight taking the ex-space pirate with them
Ayeka follows the droid off, then she quickly turns around and yells out. "And find those other two power sources!" she shouts before leaving.
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Tenchi and Sasami were walking down a path with cages similar to the one that held Tenchi on all sides. They come to a ridge and look out to see the closed structure that contained Ayeka's bedroom.
"There she is," Sasami pointed out.
Tenchi raised an eyebrow with an unsure voice, "And you want me to get the hilt to her sword?"
"Yes," Sasami stated matter of factly.
Tenchi was dumbfounded wondering if he was being suckered into something. "But isn't it hers?"
"Awww, just get it," Sasami replied annoyed.
Yep Tenchi now knew he was being played but he was honor bound to keep his word. "Okay okay," Tenchi walks off towards Ayeka's bedroom. When Tenchi leaves, the small girl walks back the way they had come. Ayeka is lying on a giant bed, asleep, and clutching, very tightly, to Yosho's sword the Tenchi-ken. Tenchi pauses for a moment at the foot of her bed. He was currently trying to figure out how best to go about this. Wish I had Naruto's ninja skills he'd be able to get in and out.
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Naruto was sitting in his cage staring up at where the vines are controlled. "Okay, I need to get out of here. No one is gonna rescue me, I must find a way out myself. Wish I could do the Hiraishin Jutsu like the fourth Hokage," Naruto stands up and moves closer to the vines. Just as he reaches them, they tighten up and block his passage. As he walks backwards, they slowly loosen and relax their grip. "There must be a way to get out of here."
"There is a way," a female voice spoke out Naruto looks around in confusion looking for the source of the voice. "The Vines of Jurai are sensitive to movement, and do not all act of one mind."
"Who's there? Hello?" Naruto looked around again after a long. "Movement, huh?" Reaching into his pocket and pulls out one of his kunai. He walks closer to the vines but stops before they close up. He throws his kunai at the vines then quickly dashes out of the cage just as the vines tighten, narrowly missing him. "Ha! Now let's see if I can find the others," he smirked then froze looking into his kunai pouch. "Hmm, I wonder if the old man will help me make some new kunai."
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Tenchi is still where we left him, standing at the foot of Ayeka's bed still trying to decide whether he should or not. He finally comes to a decision slowly walks to the side of the bed and tries to take the sword gently. Ayeka's grip is however was too tight for Tenchi to get the sword. Tenchi walked to the other side of the bed and tries again, still with no luck. He finally crawls on top of her and uses all his strength to pull the sword from her grasp. "Come on, Let go," he whispered in a panic.
Ayeka's eyes flutter open to see Tenchi right above her. Eyes widen in fear Tenchi quickly grabs her mouth when he sees she's about to scream.
"No, don't scream. This is not what it looks like!" the boy states and groans internally groans in every one of his favorite animes this happens. Ayeka gets on of her legs underneath the boy with a giant heave throws Tenchi off her bed and screams out. Tenchi lands with a thud and looks in his hand to see he's holding the Tenchi-ken.
"Azaka! Kamidaki! Get that Earthling! Kill him!" Tenchi jumps to his feet and runs out of the room and into the fields at a surprising supersonic speed. "My my, how quickly he runs." Tenchi runs through the field dodging in coming fire from the Guardians that were following him.
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Naruto is walking down a field of cages. "Great, how on earth am I supposed to find my way out of here? This place looks more like a Zoo than a ship," after a few feet he could hear snoring from a nearby cell. Naruto moves closer to get a better look to find Mihoshi sleeping in the cell. Slapping himself on the forehead Naruto snorts looking down at Mihoshi, then froze. I wonder if this is how Sakura-chan often saw me. Sakura-chan wherever you are please forgive me I now know the headaches you went through. "Mihoshi! How can you sleep at a time like this?!" Mihoshi stays asleep, shaking his head the blonde shinobi sighs getting an annoyed look in his eyes. He looks around the cell until he finds a small device hanging near the cell. He picks it up and when he does the vines around the cage open up. Naruto quickly moves inside and shakes Mihoshi until she wakes up.
"What happened? Where are we?" Mihoshi looked around groggily.
"You don't remember?" Naruto looked at her in awe. Wow even I wasn't that dense.
"Nope. Not at all. Did we find that Space Pirate?" Naruto hits himself again in the forehead then proceeds to help Mihoshi to her feet.
Naruto sighed rubbing the bridge of his nose. "We are on an alien spaceship. We were captured by these big logs and placed in cells. I have just rescued you, and now we need to find the others. Understand?"
Mihoshi looked like she was thinking, "Ummmm " suddenly Naruto could almost sense like her brain come to a complete stop, "Nope."
Naruto groaned shaking his head, he was lucky that he had gone down this road before. Actually had been on her end three years ago during the Chunin exams. "Never mind, just follow me." Walking out of the cage with Mihoshi following, he walks down a path for a while until they come to a tree with a hole near the roots of the tree. "I think I saw someone jump into this hole. I think it would be a good idea if we follow. What do you think Mihoshi?" He turns to see Mihoshi is standing by a nearby cage, laughing at one of the animals in it. "This is payback for all the grief I've given Sakura-chan, Kakashi-sensei, Granny, and Pervy-Sage." He mutters grabbing Mihoshi, who is still laughing, and jumps with her down the hole. As they fall, blue lights appear around them and they disappear, only to reappear on the bridge and land with a thump. "Ouch!"
"Oww that hurt." Mihoshi whines as she is dropped on her butt.
Sitting up feeling dizzy Naruto groaned, "Well that certainly is not a trip I'd like to repeat."
"Hey! Yoo-hoo! Naruto-kun! I'm over here!" Ryoko stated with a cheery voice.
Naruto turns to see Ryoko in another one of those cages vine like cages. Ryoko is by the one of the vines and waving at Naruto and Mihoshi. "Ryoko-chan! I've been looking for you!"
"Well," Ryoko stated continuing in her cheerful voice. "Now you've found me! Let me out of this cage will ya?"
"Now now, what's the magic word?" Naruto asked in a teasing tone.
"Grr. Don't mess with me, Naruto now get me out of here!" Ryoko snarled at the blonde shinobi. Naruto rushes over to the cage and uses the device on it the vines move apart and Ryoko hovers out of the grassy circle.
Naruto sighed turning to the group gather, "Come on, let's get Tenchi and get out of here."
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Tenchi runs down a path in the field of cages with shots from the Guardians nearly missing his feet. "I just want to go hooome!" he runs up over a ridge to see Sasami standing beside the path looking at him she waves to him and the guardians as they approach.
"Hi Tenchi!" the boy runs past taking Sasami by the hand, as the shots from the Guardians shoot past him by mere inches.
"Those monsters are trying to kill me!" Tenchi cries out to the blue haired girl.
In a cheerful tone trying hard not to giggle at the inadvertent chaos she caused. "They're not monsters, they're my sister's guardians."
"Whatever they are, they're still trying to kill me!" Tenchi yells dodging three mores blasts approaching a pond of water where the path he's following forks.
Sasami points off to the left. "Go that way Tenchi." Tenchi obliges and quickly darts to the left. "Jump in there Tenchi, they can't get you in there."
"Are you sure?" Tenchi asks unsure however the blasts were getting closer decides it wasn't the best idea to be discreet, jumps down the hole and the sounds of the Guardians hitting the side of the tree are heard. Sasami is cheering and laughing the entire trip through the kaleidoscope of color, quickly they appear on the bridge. "Ouch!"
"YO, Tenchi!" Naruto shouts outs running up and helping the dark haired boy up.
"My Tenchi!" Ryoko flies over and wraps her arms around Tenchi. She then moves back a bit and looks down at Sasami. "Who's this, Tenchi?" she asked annoyed.
Tenchi trying to catch his breath after all the hectic running and screaming glances at Sasami then at Ryoko, "Uhh, This is Sasami."
"Pleased to meet you," Sasami smiled cheerfully having finally got some people to play with.
"Hi Sasami-chan! I'm Naruto Uzumaki," Naruto smiled giving a quick salute
"Hiya Naruto-kun!" the cheerful girl replied in kind minus the salute simply waved.
Ryoko snorted in irritation at the cheerful exchange. "Enough with these introductions, let's just get out of here!"
"I'm afraid that won't happen, Pirate!" Ayeka appears onto the bridge flanked by Azaka and Kamidaki. "Sasami! Are you the cause of these prisoners escape? Azaka! Kamidaki! Get them!"
"Yes, Princess Ayeka," The two Guardians spoke in unison moving forward towards the group.
Naruto growls suddenly jumps in front of the group and with a single hand sign. "Stay right there! I don't know what's going on but I've had enough! Shadow Clone Jutsu!" Two clones appeared he holds out both of his hands and the two clones began helping him charge up another one of his signature jutsu.
"O ho ho ho ho ho! What do you think you can do to me?" Ayeka states coolly.
With a snarl Naruto jumps at both of the Guardians, "RASENGAN!" The two balls of chakra slams into both logs knocking them into the tree behind them.
"Quickly, Tenchi! Do something!" Ryoko cries at the dark haired boy.
Tenchi looking at the cyan haired woman both in shock at the display Naruto just made and being woefully out of his element. "What can I do? I don't know how to fight these things!" The Tenchi-ken begins to glow in Tenchi's hand; vines from above swing down and entrap the Guardians before they can reorient themselves from Naruto's attack.
"How is he doing that?" Ayeka was shocked at both Naruto's attack and the sudden control Tenchi was exerting, "The master Key, its reacting to him. How is that possible, it's only supposed to react to people of royal blood." She frowned at the blonde boy's power. "And only those within the legendary Juraian Knights could produce such an attack."
Ryoko begins chanting now that the guardians were restrained. "Ryo-ohki! Come quickly!" A loud cat like cry is heard in the distance and suddenly a spike from a large ship spears into the bridge and is sticking out of the ground. "Quickly Tenchi, Naruto! Let's go!" Ryoko puts Tenchi in a head lock and drags him into the ship Naruto and Mihoshi quickly follow, the blonde shinobi glanced back at the purple haired princess a frown of his own on his face.
"Bye bye, Tenchi, Naruto-kun," Sasami waved softly her voice sounding very sad.
Inside Ryo-ohki, Ryoko walks to a pair of globes that are near a chair and puts her hands on them. "I'm going to bring her down to Earth. As long as she's up here she can still be a danger to us."
"Are you sure that's necessary?" Tenchi asked
"Hey! Whose side are you on anyway? If you care for Ayeka so much, you can go join her." Ryo-ohki turns around in space, and, since the strange crystalline ship was currently speared on the
Ryo-ouh, both ships enter Earth's outer atmosphere. As they get through the inner atmosphere, re-entry heat begins scalding both ships tendrils of red flame lick out from the bottom of the wooden ship.
"Ryoko! What are you doing?! You'll kill us both! Quickly, Azaka! Release the outer hull!" Ayeka desperately calls out shocked at the ex-space pirate's blatant disregard for her life and the lives of the others.
"Yes your highness," Azaka quickly initiates its princess's commands. Most of Ryo-ouh detaches from the ship and flies away from the ship, leaving only the center section pod. The parts slow down the decent of the ship as it crashes into the lake, skidding along the shoreline for miles.
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Tenchi, Naruto, Ryoko, Sasami, Mihoshi, and Noboyuki are sitting at a table eating and watching Television. On the news is reports of people seeing the crash, though there was no actual footage of said crash simple aftermath footage of the wrecked bridge and water logged shoreline homes.
"Hmmm, last night was an interesting night," Noboyuki stated watching the news report.
"Don't remind me, Dad," Tenchi replied sourly taking some rice into his mouth.
"And what are you so upset about? Everyone got back safe and sound," Noboyuki pointed out annoyed at his son reaction to his comment.
Ryoko looked at Tenchi smugly. "It's thanks to my ship. You know, I risked my life to save us all."
"Yes that's but it was our ship that took all the damage, so it was Ryo-ouh that saved us," Sasami said sipping some tea.
"Oh, so that's why re-entry wasn't so bad," Ryoko looked on in wonder tapping her chop sticks on her lips.
"Hey, weren't there four of you girls?" Noboyuki asked.
Naruto snorts gesturing with his ramen cup, "Ayeka is outside trying to pull what's left of her ship out of the lake. She's more emo than a certain teme I know." The others all look on with dawning expressions.
Ayeka runs into the house and stares at Sasami. "Sasami! What are you doing in here, eating with that thing! You must help me get Ryo-ouh free from the lake!"
"But the ship is too big for the two of us to pull out," Sasami replied shaking her head at her sister.
"But we must try! We can take it out piece by piece!" Ayeka runs back out to the lake.
"Geeze I was wrong she's worse than Sasuke. All that time in space must have made her loopy," Naruto stated and sighed in dreamy pleasure sipping the broth from his ramen.
"It figures it would happen eventually to a person like her," Ryoko stated then cackled after half a second.
Ayeka is pulling on one of the pieces of the ship hanging over the coastline. She pulls on the piece until it breaks off. She falls backwards holding the piece. "Where is that Sasami? We can't get stuck here! We just CAN'T!" Ayeka trips and the piece of ship flies out of her hand and hits the ship; the ship begins sink even farther down into the lake bottom. Ayeka quietly begins to cry at the injustice of it all.
Author's Note: I purposely changed from the Tenchi Universe format to the Tenchi Muyo!: Ryo-Ohki format so I could skip the hot springs episode and still introduce Mihoshi. Plus I figured Naruto would be more sympathetic to Sakura, Tsunade, Kakashi, and Jiraiya if he could view it through their eyes by Mihoshi's scattered brained and ditzy characteristics. This is an old story
