Chapter One: Another Contraption

So we find ourselves in this little suburb of Tokyo once again. A town where there was not such a thing as a 'normal' day. It's just the way things had become around here and even though it was still annoying for most of the area around Tomobiki to have to clean up the mess that this Moroboshi boy would inevitably produce, they could live with most of the rest. It would just be a bit weirder than a usual place.

One weird thing that didn't even make anybody question reality anymore was that a flying green-haired girl with horns descended down from her UFO into the two-story house that her self-proclaimed husband lived in.

"Daarliing!"

Lum came flying happily into her fiance's room, having yet another electronic gadget in her hand that wound surely just cause more havoc. To her disappointment she only found a little tiger-striped football with green hair just like hers sit inside at Ataru's desk, glueing some sort of paper construct together.

"Ten-chan, have you seen Darling?", she asked the little kid, irritated.

"No, what do I look like? His personal assistant?"

Figures. She would just have to ask mother in law. "Okay Ten, I'll go look for him downstairs. You be a good boy, alright?"

Ten turned towards her and fired up his 'Good_boy. exe' program and gave her his cutest smile. "I'm always!" and then turned around to his project again. Satisfied Lum headed downstairs.

If only she knew what paper that was...

Downstairs she also didn't find any trace of her Darling, but she found Mrs. Moroboshi reading a letter with a very annoyed expression while shaking her head.

"I don't believe it. I should've ..." she stopped immediately seeing her daughter-in-law floating in the door frame. "Ah, hello Lum! Do you need help with anything?", her face suddenly shining bright as the sun.

"I'm looking for Darling, have you seen him anywhere? I've got a surprise for him!", she practically exploded of sheer anticipation.

"No, honey, I'm sorry, but he left half an hour ago. He said Shutaro had called him about showing off something or other. I swear sometimes I wish he wasn't so incredibly thickheaded", she answered, yet again wondering why Lum was putting up with this.

"So, what kinda trouble did he cause you this time?", the matriarch of the hose continued, as she saw Lum turning red.

"None at all," Lum stated more aggravated by the second, "But he's off just as I had gotten something tho prove his love for me! Again! Sometimes I think he'd rather drown in quicksand than admit it!"

"Oh, honey, I'm sure that's not true," she told her, adding to herself mumbling, "at least I wish it wasn't!"

But as soon as she was finished the alien girl had already disappeared out the window.

"Poor thing!", she added sympathetically, before returning to preparing dinner.

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Hi Urusei Yatsura Fans!

I hope you enjoy my first story this far, even though this is ridiculously short. Don't worry: the next chapters are already written and way longer than this one. I'm planning to submit semi-weekly until I have reached what I have already put down to paper at this point (ch.7). Then we'll see.

In any case, please review, since it's very possible that your ideas and so on will influence future plot (if i like them). Also I'd like to know what you think. If you don't, then you don't. Your choice ;)

Thanks anyway,

Francis.