For The One You Love
- Chapter 5 -
Tenchi ran out of the van as it pulled into the garage, and ran into the house. He grabbed a suit case out of the closet on the way to his room and slammed his door shut.
"Welcome home…" Katsuhito sighed and took another sip of tea as the others all collapsed down on the couch.
"Hmmm…" Washu mumbled letting her hands run through her spiky pink colored hair. "Tenchi, the girls and I are leaving in two hours for France… We'll be getting my daughter back."
"But don't you need promotion from the head of the Masaiki shrine?"
"Lord Katsuhito… Tenchi would go no matter what. Even if it risked the chance of being disowned by his family; he's getting Ryoko back even if it kills him."
Katsuhito froze mid-sip of his tea. He closed his eyes. "I know, I know Washu. I'm too old to join you though on this trip. Just make sure you bring my grandson… And granddaughter back home safe."
Washu's eyes watered and she nodded hugging Katsuhito before heading up to her room. 'Thank you…'
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Tenchi threw his suit-case onto the bed and hurriedly grabbed a spare pair of pants, and other things that he would need. 'I'll leave it Washu's hands to get weapons... I guess we could take Ryo-oki…' Tenchi clenched his fists again, still not sure what to do. "Washu!" Tenchi stormed out of his room and across to a rarely occupied room.
"Yeah Tenchi?"
"Could we take Ryo-oki?" The little Cabbet came running into the room when hearing her name in use.
"Well, It'd be a long shut. We would be considered a Unidentified flying object and we could ge-"
"Can we do it?!" Tenchi screamed, his hands racked with anger and frustration as they shook uncontrollably.
Washu closed her eyes trying to block the anger in Tenchi's voice. "Yes… Yes, Tenchi we can, but we could also risk the chance of being shout down by the French, all of Europe, and the rest of Jap-"
"I don't care Washu we need to get to France, and we've only got twenty hours now left to do so!" Tenchi ran back out of the room, and froze in the middle of the hallway.
"It's okay Tenchi… I understand how you feel I ca-"
"No… No you don't Miss. Washu…" Tenchi let the tears fill in his eyes. His voice was beginning to crack. "I…" He couldn't talk anymore. He ran back into his room and shut the door abruptly.
'Yes Tenchi… Yes, I do…'
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Ethan walked out of the room leaving Ryoko on the ground. Her face was a river of tears, as she tried her hardest to calm down. 'Tenchi…'
She saw a sheet under a small cot and reached for it, but it was too far. One inch away was too far. The cording, whatever it be was made of was still wrapped around her ankles and writs holding her back from covering her, now naked body.
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"I thought the boss said to leave the girl alone, didn't he?" One of Ethan's colleges came from behind him and placed a firm hand on his right shoulder.
"Yes… He did, but I've made her so scarred of me she wouldn't dare say a word. I told her I kill her… And I will if she does tell. I'm going to kill her in a few hours anyways. Once that 'pretty boy Tenchi' gets his ass over here to save her." Ethan smirked.
"But… But sir they could find out if they took a blood test, it would show your DN-"
"Did I ask for your opinion?!" Ethan pushed the man aside and ran the rest of the way to the cockpit to see how much longer until they'd reach head quarters.
The man shook his head and looked over to the closed door. 'They said no one would get hurt. Not even the girl. But…' The man erased his thoughts and walked over to the door and placed his hand on the door handle.
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Ryoko sat up and backed as far away from the door as she could her body shaking with fear and uncertainty. 'No, no not again…' Ryoko closed her eyes and let a few stray tears fall from her eyes once more.
"Miss?" The man walked into the room and looked around the corner, closing his eyes and looking down at the ground when he saw Ryoko. "I, God, I'm so sorry. That wasn't supposed to happen, no one was going to get they said. This is my first time on duty, and I hope it's my last, if people have to suffer, I'd rather be homeless and on the street."
Ryoko looked up and stared at him for a moment. He looked about Tenchi's ago almost…
He looked up and quickly walked over. Ryoko quickly scurried in the other direction. He frowned and shook his head. "No… I won't hurt you. I'm not like that monster Ethan. I'll help you out of this hell whole okay?" With all sincerity in his eyes Ryoko smiled weakly.
"Th- Thank you…" She let another tear fall, and then pointed behind her to a sheet.
"Hmm…" The man winked his left eyes and then stood up. "I've get a better idea. Why don't I go get you a spare of clothing? I think I've got a pair of shorts and a shirt that should fit you." Then he looked at his watch. "Are you hungry? You haven't eaten since last night, what am I saying of course you're hungry. I'll get you some food and something to drink also."
Ryoko's eyes lit up brighter then they had been since last night. "Thank you again, please… Just keep him away from me. I don't want him to hurt me again." Ryoko shuttered at the thought of his hands on her body again.
"Yeah, I promise. We'll get out of here together okay?" The man cocked his head to the side a lopsided smile on his lips.
"Together it is." She smiled a slight blush forming on her cheeks.
'That Tenchi guy is a lucky man. Hope he gets here shortly. I'll have to tell him some how without making anyone spacious of me. He needs to know what we're doing.' He stepped out the door about to close it before Ryoko called him back.
"Don't tell Tenchi what we're doing, he'll find out when he gets here okay?
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One hour later
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"Okay, we're ready to leave Tenchi…"
"How long is the trip going to take?" Tenchi's eyes were shadowed over and hid the pain and rage in his chocolate colored eyes.
"Well, if we push Ryo-oki hard enough probably a half an hour… At the most an hour, and that's going with pushing her past her limit."
"Ryo-oki…" The little Cabbit smiled and jumped into Tenchi arms. Tenchi threw her up into the air and she transformed in mere seconds into Ryoko's ship.
"Son… Be careful. Bring Ryoko back to us."
"Yeah dad… I will. She'll be backing home in no time…" Tenchi forced a smiled and gave his father a quick hug before picking up the small suit case and walking closer to Ryo-oki joining, Kiyone, Mihoshi Sasimi, Washu, and even Ayeka; who all refused to say at home while Tenchi or Ryoko could have a risk of never coming home.
Ayeka smiled. 'This is going to be an interesting trip… imagine. Me, helping Tenchi get that troll back, just so he can love her, and marry her… Maybe I'm better off going back home, I'll say sorry to father for giving up my duties as the princess of Juri and take back the rule of the thrown.'
Tenchi looked over to Ayeka and smiled weakly. 'Thank you Ayeka… For understanding my feelings, and for being here when I need you,' Tenchi paused in his thoughts. 'For being here when Ryoko needs you…'
"Kiyone! I'm scared!" Mihoshi whaled clinging onto Kiyone's arm.
"Oh! Will you stop?! You a Galaxy Police officer and you need to start acting like one! Not like some baby!" Kiyone shouted flinging her arm into the air trying her hardest to free Mihoshi from it.
Tenchi chuckled and shook his head and stepped onto the platform of Ryo-oki's ship. "Let's get going…"
"I'll start making dinner in the kitchen Washu has put in just for me!" Sasami bragged skipping off to another room.
"We've got to get going now…" Tenchi shadowed his eyes once more hiding the pain.
"Tenchi don't try to hide your feelings," Washu whispered as she passed by him quickly. "You'll only shadow your heart…"
Tenchi looked up to her and smiled mouthing thanking before Ayeka and the others came badgering in and pushing their way into their own separate rooms, also something Washu had cooked up in the past hours since Ryoko's kidnapping.
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Deuxieme Bureau – The second office
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Three trucks pulled into a parking garage and pulled Ryoko from it. It took six men to hold her and she tried her hardest to break free. It was useless. Her powers were completely confined. She couldn't even scream if she wanted to.
"I told you… It's useless. You're ours forever, or at least Maikeru is done playing with you that is…" Ethan smiled his eyes colder then ever as he swept his hand over her face.
Ryoko shuttered as his hand touched her again. 'Get him away, someone please stop him!'
"Ethan… Stop, don't touch her. You've scared her enough already."
Ethan looked over to the young boy in front of him and smiled weakly in disgust. "Kid, you don't tell your superior what and what not to do," Ethan walked over to him and gripped him into a headlock, bending his neck backwards. "Annoy me again and your neck will be bent back even further… And try not to. I don't feel like explaining to the boss why you've dead coupes is in a body bag. Besides… I'd have to do all the paper work, now lay off Nathan… If you know what's good for you. Do you really want to join this girl and that idiot boy when I kill them?!"
Nathan glared at Ethan and shook his head reluctantly. "No sir…"
"What was that kid, I couldn't hear you!"
"No sir!" Nathan replied shouting and looking forward over to Ryoko with forgiving eyes.
"Hmm… That's better. Now let's get her to the boss."
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Ryo-oki – ten minutes in flight
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"Erraaaa! Bastard!" Tenchi pulled at his ebony hair and threw his suit case into a wall...
"Hmm…" Ayeka smiled weakly and walked into the room startling Tenchi. "I've never heard you so outspoken before.
"Heh… I've never been this angry before…"
Ayeka frowned and sat down on the corner of his bed. "Even when Ryoko and all of us were almost killed by Kagato?"
Tenchi looked up at her his eyes slightly widened with a questionable face. "Ay— Ayeka that… That's different! I didn't love one sap—"
Ayeka cut him off abruptly. "Why her?!" Tears fell from her eyes once more. She still didn't want to except that he was no longer hers to own. She couldn't have what wasn't anywhere near her grasp.
"Ayeka? I thought you were okay with it?"
"Oh please! Haven't you ever seen a girl cover up her true feelings before?! I love you! Why did you pick that ugly troll ove—"
"Ayeka stop!" Tenchi shouted stopping her dead in her tracks. "Don't bad mouth her all because you didn't get what you wanted for once in you're royal life! You're Ryoko's friend aren't you?! You just don't want to admit it, well I know the truth, if you weren't her friend, and you weren't mine either you wouldn't have to help get her back now would you Ayeka?!"
Ayeka stared blankly at the red carpeted floor as a single tear fell from her eyes. "No… I wouldn't have." Ayeka's stood up and slapped Tenchi hard across the face. " Came because I thought just maybe I had one last chance to find out how you truly feel about Ryoko and I, and who you truly care about!" She stormed out of the room leaving Tenchi dumfounded and not knowing what the heck to think about.
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Ayeka smiled. 'Haa… That should keep him busy for awhile. Washu's plan worked. He sure as hell stopped throwing things and stopped thinking about Ethan...'
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Tenchi sat with his hand on his face thinking to himself out loud. "I could have sworn she was okay with it! Erraaaa! Women!!!" Tenchi pulled at his hair again and stood up and walked back over to his bed and fell atop it. 'Maybe all I need is a quick nap... Ryoko…'
Tenchi closed his eyes picturing her golden catlike eyes, and cyan hair. He picture him with his arms draped around her holding her close never wanting to let her go for his life. 'I love you more then life itself Ryoko… More then life itself'
- Chapter 5 -
Tenchi ran out of the van as it pulled into the garage, and ran into the house. He grabbed a suit case out of the closet on the way to his room and slammed his door shut.
"Welcome home…" Katsuhito sighed and took another sip of tea as the others all collapsed down on the couch.
"Hmmm…" Washu mumbled letting her hands run through her spiky pink colored hair. "Tenchi, the girls and I are leaving in two hours for France… We'll be getting my daughter back."
"But don't you need promotion from the head of the Masaiki shrine?"
"Lord Katsuhito… Tenchi would go no matter what. Even if it risked the chance of being disowned by his family; he's getting Ryoko back even if it kills him."
Katsuhito froze mid-sip of his tea. He closed his eyes. "I know, I know Washu. I'm too old to join you though on this trip. Just make sure you bring my grandson… And granddaughter back home safe."
Washu's eyes watered and she nodded hugging Katsuhito before heading up to her room. 'Thank you…'
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Tenchi threw his suit-case onto the bed and hurriedly grabbed a spare pair of pants, and other things that he would need. 'I'll leave it Washu's hands to get weapons... I guess we could take Ryo-oki…' Tenchi clenched his fists again, still not sure what to do. "Washu!" Tenchi stormed out of his room and across to a rarely occupied room.
"Yeah Tenchi?"
"Could we take Ryo-oki?" The little Cabbet came running into the room when hearing her name in use.
"Well, It'd be a long shut. We would be considered a Unidentified flying object and we could ge-"
"Can we do it?!" Tenchi screamed, his hands racked with anger and frustration as they shook uncontrollably.
Washu closed her eyes trying to block the anger in Tenchi's voice. "Yes… Yes, Tenchi we can, but we could also risk the chance of being shout down by the French, all of Europe, and the rest of Jap-"
"I don't care Washu we need to get to France, and we've only got twenty hours now left to do so!" Tenchi ran back out of the room, and froze in the middle of the hallway.
"It's okay Tenchi… I understand how you feel I ca-"
"No… No you don't Miss. Washu…" Tenchi let the tears fill in his eyes. His voice was beginning to crack. "I…" He couldn't talk anymore. He ran back into his room and shut the door abruptly.
'Yes Tenchi… Yes, I do…'
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Ethan walked out of the room leaving Ryoko on the ground. Her face was a river of tears, as she tried her hardest to calm down. 'Tenchi…'
She saw a sheet under a small cot and reached for it, but it was too far. One inch away was too far. The cording, whatever it be was made of was still wrapped around her ankles and writs holding her back from covering her, now naked body.
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"I thought the boss said to leave the girl alone, didn't he?" One of Ethan's colleges came from behind him and placed a firm hand on his right shoulder.
"Yes… He did, but I've made her so scarred of me she wouldn't dare say a word. I told her I kill her… And I will if she does tell. I'm going to kill her in a few hours anyways. Once that 'pretty boy Tenchi' gets his ass over here to save her." Ethan smirked.
"But… But sir they could find out if they took a blood test, it would show your DN-"
"Did I ask for your opinion?!" Ethan pushed the man aside and ran the rest of the way to the cockpit to see how much longer until they'd reach head quarters.
The man shook his head and looked over to the closed door. 'They said no one would get hurt. Not even the girl. But…' The man erased his thoughts and walked over to the door and placed his hand on the door handle.
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Ryoko sat up and backed as far away from the door as she could her body shaking with fear and uncertainty. 'No, no not again…' Ryoko closed her eyes and let a few stray tears fall from her eyes once more.
"Miss?" The man walked into the room and looked around the corner, closing his eyes and looking down at the ground when he saw Ryoko. "I, God, I'm so sorry. That wasn't supposed to happen, no one was going to get they said. This is my first time on duty, and I hope it's my last, if people have to suffer, I'd rather be homeless and on the street."
Ryoko looked up and stared at him for a moment. He looked about Tenchi's ago almost…
He looked up and quickly walked over. Ryoko quickly scurried in the other direction. He frowned and shook his head. "No… I won't hurt you. I'm not like that monster Ethan. I'll help you out of this hell whole okay?" With all sincerity in his eyes Ryoko smiled weakly.
"Th- Thank you…" She let another tear fall, and then pointed behind her to a sheet.
"Hmm…" The man winked his left eyes and then stood up. "I've get a better idea. Why don't I go get you a spare of clothing? I think I've got a pair of shorts and a shirt that should fit you." Then he looked at his watch. "Are you hungry? You haven't eaten since last night, what am I saying of course you're hungry. I'll get you some food and something to drink also."
Ryoko's eyes lit up brighter then they had been since last night. "Thank you again, please… Just keep him away from me. I don't want him to hurt me again." Ryoko shuttered at the thought of his hands on her body again.
"Yeah, I promise. We'll get out of here together okay?" The man cocked his head to the side a lopsided smile on his lips.
"Together it is." She smiled a slight blush forming on her cheeks.
'That Tenchi guy is a lucky man. Hope he gets here shortly. I'll have to tell him some how without making anyone spacious of me. He needs to know what we're doing.' He stepped out the door about to close it before Ryoko called him back.
"Don't tell Tenchi what we're doing, he'll find out when he gets here okay?
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One hour later
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"Okay, we're ready to leave Tenchi…"
"How long is the trip going to take?" Tenchi's eyes were shadowed over and hid the pain and rage in his chocolate colored eyes.
"Well, if we push Ryo-oki hard enough probably a half an hour… At the most an hour, and that's going with pushing her past her limit."
"Ryo-oki…" The little Cabbit smiled and jumped into Tenchi arms. Tenchi threw her up into the air and she transformed in mere seconds into Ryoko's ship.
"Son… Be careful. Bring Ryoko back to us."
"Yeah dad… I will. She'll be backing home in no time…" Tenchi forced a smiled and gave his father a quick hug before picking up the small suit case and walking closer to Ryo-oki joining, Kiyone, Mihoshi Sasimi, Washu, and even Ayeka; who all refused to say at home while Tenchi or Ryoko could have a risk of never coming home.
Ayeka smiled. 'This is going to be an interesting trip… imagine. Me, helping Tenchi get that troll back, just so he can love her, and marry her… Maybe I'm better off going back home, I'll say sorry to father for giving up my duties as the princess of Juri and take back the rule of the thrown.'
Tenchi looked over to Ayeka and smiled weakly. 'Thank you Ayeka… For understanding my feelings, and for being here when I need you,' Tenchi paused in his thoughts. 'For being here when Ryoko needs you…'
"Kiyone! I'm scared!" Mihoshi whaled clinging onto Kiyone's arm.
"Oh! Will you stop?! You a Galaxy Police officer and you need to start acting like one! Not like some baby!" Kiyone shouted flinging her arm into the air trying her hardest to free Mihoshi from it.
Tenchi chuckled and shook his head and stepped onto the platform of Ryo-oki's ship. "Let's get going…"
"I'll start making dinner in the kitchen Washu has put in just for me!" Sasami bragged skipping off to another room.
"We've got to get going now…" Tenchi shadowed his eyes once more hiding the pain.
"Tenchi don't try to hide your feelings," Washu whispered as she passed by him quickly. "You'll only shadow your heart…"
Tenchi looked up to her and smiled mouthing thanking before Ayeka and the others came badgering in and pushing their way into their own separate rooms, also something Washu had cooked up in the past hours since Ryoko's kidnapping.
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Deuxieme Bureau – The second office
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Three trucks pulled into a parking garage and pulled Ryoko from it. It took six men to hold her and she tried her hardest to break free. It was useless. Her powers were completely confined. She couldn't even scream if she wanted to.
"I told you… It's useless. You're ours forever, or at least Maikeru is done playing with you that is…" Ethan smiled his eyes colder then ever as he swept his hand over her face.
Ryoko shuttered as his hand touched her again. 'Get him away, someone please stop him!'
"Ethan… Stop, don't touch her. You've scared her enough already."
Ethan looked over to the young boy in front of him and smiled weakly in disgust. "Kid, you don't tell your superior what and what not to do," Ethan walked over to him and gripped him into a headlock, bending his neck backwards. "Annoy me again and your neck will be bent back even further… And try not to. I don't feel like explaining to the boss why you've dead coupes is in a body bag. Besides… I'd have to do all the paper work, now lay off Nathan… If you know what's good for you. Do you really want to join this girl and that idiot boy when I kill them?!"
Nathan glared at Ethan and shook his head reluctantly. "No sir…"
"What was that kid, I couldn't hear you!"
"No sir!" Nathan replied shouting and looking forward over to Ryoko with forgiving eyes.
"Hmm… That's better. Now let's get her to the boss."
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Ryo-oki – ten minutes in flight
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"Erraaaa! Bastard!" Tenchi pulled at his ebony hair and threw his suit case into a wall...
"Hmm…" Ayeka smiled weakly and walked into the room startling Tenchi. "I've never heard you so outspoken before.
"Heh… I've never been this angry before…"
Ayeka frowned and sat down on the corner of his bed. "Even when Ryoko and all of us were almost killed by Kagato?"
Tenchi looked up at her his eyes slightly widened with a questionable face. "Ay— Ayeka that… That's different! I didn't love one sap—"
Ayeka cut him off abruptly. "Why her?!" Tears fell from her eyes once more. She still didn't want to except that he was no longer hers to own. She couldn't have what wasn't anywhere near her grasp.
"Ayeka? I thought you were okay with it?"
"Oh please! Haven't you ever seen a girl cover up her true feelings before?! I love you! Why did you pick that ugly troll ove—"
"Ayeka stop!" Tenchi shouted stopping her dead in her tracks. "Don't bad mouth her all because you didn't get what you wanted for once in you're royal life! You're Ryoko's friend aren't you?! You just don't want to admit it, well I know the truth, if you weren't her friend, and you weren't mine either you wouldn't have to help get her back now would you Ayeka?!"
Ayeka stared blankly at the red carpeted floor as a single tear fell from her eyes. "No… I wouldn't have." Ayeka's stood up and slapped Tenchi hard across the face. " Came because I thought just maybe I had one last chance to find out how you truly feel about Ryoko and I, and who you truly care about!" She stormed out of the room leaving Tenchi dumfounded and not knowing what the heck to think about.
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Ayeka smiled. 'Haa… That should keep him busy for awhile. Washu's plan worked. He sure as hell stopped throwing things and stopped thinking about Ethan...'
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Tenchi sat with his hand on his face thinking to himself out loud. "I could have sworn she was okay with it! Erraaaa! Women!!!" Tenchi pulled at his hair again and stood up and walked back over to his bed and fell atop it. 'Maybe all I need is a quick nap... Ryoko…'
Tenchi closed his eyes picturing her golden catlike eyes, and cyan hair. He picture him with his arms draped around her holding her close never wanting to let her go for his life. 'I love you more then life itself Ryoko… More then life itself'