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                         Tenchi will try

       Tenchi climbed up the steps to his home, things were getting complicated, he thought. When had my life become so alien to me, he thought bitterly, all he wanted now was things back to normal. He wouldn't mind the house blowing up; he wouldn't care if he saw logs floating anymore. When she died, he didn't allow himself to feel, to contemplate it, Tenchi focused on helping the others, pushing his own pain away from prying eyes and hearts. Tenchi stopped for a second as he looked around; he was climbing so slowly he was barely moving forward.

         He heard the shuffle of his feet as they past the steps, his thoughts still thinking, opening and wondering for the first time in a long time. The fact was he shut down completely, a section of himself that had died when she hadn't come back. Tenchi knew it was wrong to do so, but frankly he didn't know how to react, so he pretended and made believe that he was strong; he needed for the others to not worry about him. Some noticed his change but thought it was his maturing and growing character instead of a steadfast broken and lost soul. He had become very alone inside, yet he was never so filled with the love that surrounded him. But that was just a small portion of him that was warmed; it was the part that was shut off forever, this he never thought he would feel. He made it to the house as he thought this, going inside he was greeted with a smile from the happily married couple, Tenchi relaxed and smiled with them, happy that they're happy.

"Hi Tenchi! Back so soon?" Washu spoke with a light mirth in her voice; he nodded his head and sat down. Washu frowned at his sullen sudden change.

"Washu why can't you find Kiyone and Mihoshi?" he asked after a second of looking at her. Washu looked away, she should have guessed that Sasami would say something, Washu had noticed a tinge of sadness in Tenchi, he was still very much happy but somewhere in there, he was tossed across lighthearted and desolate. She didn't want him worrying over them, he was stressed out and he was changing....because of... she trailed of into thought until Tenchi repeated his question.

"There is a electrical impulsive distorter shockwave pulse that is transmitted back into my computers' chips when I try to use it in the area that the united states is in, the whole area is that way." she explained briefly. Tenchi had his mouth in an oh and he asked with his eyes for her to continue. He understood that? She thought before she talked.


"The waves are triggered by sound and radar undulates that radiate from the satellites I use to track people and planets. Even after I switched satellites, they tracked down the chips' magnetic script and purged all and any data I tried to collect on the area. Its completely off limits, I don't understand why or who could use such large amounts of equipment or knowledge to do something so large. The worst part of this is that is only is meant to stop my signature pulses, it recognizes my scripts and patterns and isolates my computers from the rest, making it impossible to use against them, or to find them. I'm blind folded basically." she concluded after a while. Tenchi thought hard on this, why someone would do something so pointless, he thought. No one is at war, no one is an enemy to them, not that they know of. And so it doesn't make any sense to him, he would just have to let Washu figure it out.

"I don't know what to tell you. Its not my place to agree or argue to anything you would show me. All I can do is try to find Kiyone and Mihoshi. I need your help though, I need to contact Ayeka and then I need information on America and on this place, and I need a ticket to this place." he told her, giving her the postcard and pointing to it. He also felt so sure of himself; despite what insecurities he should feel he felt none. Just this understanding of what was happening, and acceptance in it, and that he had to change it. This had also been happening to him lately, he was so sure and unsure of things and he knew what he felt he had to do, he acted on this and he had done a very good job so far....or he'd like to hope so.

"Tenchi you need a lot of things, are you sure you should be doing this? We don't know what's going on over there." she said seriously, Tenchi nodded his head.

"Yes I know Washu, but this is my family and I'm not going to let them slip through my fingers. If I can help them or try to help them or if there's anything I can do, I'm not going to sit around and wait for a miracle. I'm going to try everything I can and only then will I be able to hold on to them. Because I didn't give up, and I didn't stop trying to help them." he told her, deep down inside she felt that this traveled back to Ryoko, maybe she was over thinking his first words but she just couldn't help but wonder what he thought on it. She didn't know if she should tell him everything she knew.

"Alright Tenchi I'll do it. But I have to warn you, you're going in by yourself and I won't be able to help you until you get out of that area. I will give you enough money to survive a lifetime and then some. Just in case. I don't know if this is the best of plans...." she shook her head as she disappeared into her lab. Yosho stood at the doorway, his eyes hidden beneath his glasses and he looked very mysterious, then again, he always did.

    Tenchi sighed, he sat down on the sofa and grabbed a piece from the chessboard, it was this queen, and she was white. 'Once upon a time, there was this prince, and he fell in love with this queen-to-be. Okay tench, now listen carefully, she was trapped. In a tower and he had to save her'..... O'ko, I like the pirate game, there's treasure in the pirate game! Is there treasure in this one?  'Yes Tenchi there is, do you want to know what it is?'  Yeah! Tell me O'ko, please?  'Okay, its love, it's the pirate. The queen is the pirate, and she was both queen and pirate.'  Oh, okay, so what do I have to do to play o'ko?............ 'Tenchi' 'Tenchi'....

"Tenchi?"

"Tenchi! Snap out of it!" and he did. The conversation settled in a space inside his head. He would think of it later.

"What happened? Washu?" he asked as he turned back towards the closet door.

"I have Ayeka on the line from the lab, come on down." she told him, holding the door open. He looked at it with reluctance, some part of him still not liking it, she forced it down as he turned from her, getting up and walking in.

The lab was dark and a navy blue tint surrounded everything to such a large extent. He shivered inwardly at the tubes and specimens he saw and proceeded to the screen that showed Ayeka. She was wearing a face of worry and confusion; Washu didn't say anything to her. He walked up to the large screen and heard Washu leave the room.

"Tenchi? What happened? Is everything alright?" she asked after she noticed he wasn't speaking first. He smiled at her, it was a little sad.

"No, Kiyone and Mihoshi are missing, they disappeared in America and Washu can't find them, Ayeka, they are my family, I can't let this stay this way, I need to try to find them. I won't be going back to Jurai anytime soon." Ayeka tried to protest but every time he made his point clearer, she stayed silent for a few seconds, seemingly mulling over what she should tell him.

"Be safe my king, I love you." she told him, before he could return the words she had shut off the link. He frowned, he knew she never liked it when he went into situations lie this but it couldn't be helped. A year is a long time for them to be gone but he had to try. When he turned his back on the screen he was greeted by paper in his face. The ticket read Seattle and Washington, he turned his head to the side a little bit as she waved a credit card in her other hand.

"Everything is done, Tenchi." she said, a little worry evident but she was still very much herself.

"Thank you Washu." he told her honestly. She smiled and watched as he left the lab; Yosho came out from the shadows, wrapping his arms protectively around her thin waist. He kissed the back of her hair and she giggled at the attention.

"Washu-san do you think it is wise to not tell him about the gems? He is very different from the boy he once was, it might be better if you told him." he told her softly as they swayed to and fro.

"Yosho, he is changing, I....think its best to let him do this without knowing it from the beginning is could endanger the way he is supposed to be alter in."

"But-"

"Trust me, Sho-san" she told him before pulling him into a quiet kiss. Tenchi meanwhile was packing his stuff, again. He had lay down on the mattress afterwards, looking up. He will not fail, he will do what he should, and he will try to find them.

______________________------there it is, the third chapter

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