Ryoko! Chapter 2: No Need for Admiration
Author: Ryoko-chan
Email: _Ryoko_@masakishrine.com
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Miho finally reveals the real reason she's been following Ryoko around and Ryoko finds that in order to face the present she needs to deal with her past.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tenchi or any others from the Tenchi Muyo! saga. They are the property of AIC, Tokyo TV, and Pioneer Entertainment. Although I'd like to claim Ryoko...but I'm pretty sure I'd be sued for that and all I have is a pack of gum and a nickel. Oh well.
Author's' note: I used the character backgrounds from the Ryo-Ohki OAV and threw them into the Tenchi Muyo! TV plot. So don't get confused and email me telling me that I screwed up...I know what I'm doing, mostly.
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RYOKO! CHAPTER 2 - NO NEED FOR ADMIRATION
By: Ryoko-chan
Sasami was making lunch by the time I decided to join everyone else downstairs. Aeka was still claiming that she was going to die while lying in her room. I stood at the top of the stairs and watched everyone downstairs. I had the ability to watch people without being noticed most of the time. In fact, I could probably go a long time without being noticed if I didn't talk so much sometimes.
Kione is carefully watching Miho. I suppose she figures that if the girl bothers me so much, there must be a reason to watch her carefully. Kione's got the right idea. Everyone else though...they don't seem to listen to me anymore. Mihoshi is having an in-depth conversation with Miho. I suppose Mihoshi has a lot in common with the girl. Mihoshi's sweet and trusting, Kione's going to have her hands full. Tenchi was reading something. Normally I would tease him as a way to let him know I'm feeling better, but I'm not in the mood. Washu is actually out of her lab and watching Miho carefully. She's up to something.
"Ryoko! Come down here, I want to show you something!" Sasami calls to me from the kitchen. How'd she know I was out here?
Washu, Tenchi, and Kione quickly look up toward me, then at one another. I just give them a look at go to see what Sasami wants.
"What is it Sasami?" I ask the little girl as she furiously cooks in the kitchen.
"Look at Ryo-Ohki! I taught her that earlier. She learns fast, Ryoko." Sasami smiles at me as she points to Ryo-Ohki as she's in her human form helping Sasami chop vegetables for lunch. I smile softly to Sasami.
"I hope she's better at that than I am."
"Anyone is Ryoko." Sasami says, laughing.
"Hey, be nice." I say, as I head out toward everyone else again.
"Ryoko! Its you again! Why do you keep making converse with your help? I figured I'd mean more to you than that! C'mon Ryoko!"
"Shut up Miho. These people are my friends, not my 'help.' How did you find me here?"
"Its easy to find you Ryoko. The energy signature from your gems is quite unique. The reports that you died in during the battle at Jurai last year circulated for quite awhile a lot of the group felt that you were dead. They nominated me to take your place, but I knew you were alive, Ryoko. The strongest space pirate in the universe can't just disappear from someone like me."
"And what exactly is someone like you doing here, Miho? Don't you have a planet to run?" I say as Aeka stumbles downstairs whining about a glass of water.
"Ryota is fine without me if its any of your concern." Miho says as her voice deepens a bit.
"Why don't you show everyone your true age, Miho? I know what you are and I know where you came from. If you came here to challenge me, don't hide behind the disguise of a child."
"Challenge you? You're my hero Ryoko! Being able to murder and destroy with absolutely no conscience! I hope to achieve that goal someday."
"Enough of this! I don't want anything to do with you Miho! You don't know enough to say that you want to be like I was."
"I know plenty." She says as she breaks out of the handcuffs that Kione had placed on her.
"Finally Princess Miho Kiyoko reveals herself." I say, hoping that Mihoshi, Kione, and Aeka know enough to get out of the way.
Miho who was about Sasami's height grows to almost Aeka's. Her long dark blue hair grows to her feet and her violet eyes glow to an almost red color.
Suddenly the gem on my wrist starts to glow and I look to Miho.
"Like I said, Ryoko. I know plenty. I have a promise to fulfill to Kagato and I will not let you get away this time. But I won't fight you here either. I will, however, take some collateral. Don't screw with me, Ryoko. I'll be back tomorrow. Prepare yourself for death."
Suddenly I become completely motionless. I can't move or speak. Miho is going back to her ship. Her ship that had repaired itself in the past four hours.
"Ryoko! Tenchi! Aeka!" I hear Sasami scream.
That bitch! She's taking Sasami!
I see Aeka run into the kitchen only to find her gone and as I turn back to where Miho was standing, she's gone as well and the power that had frozen me to the ground gave away and I collapsed to the floor.
"Ryoko!" Mihoshi calls as she sees me fall.
"What was that about? Where did she take Sasami?" Kione asks as she helps me up.
I ignore them both.
"Where's Tenchi?" I yell at them.
Suddenly Tenchi comes running into the room anyway. Saves me time from looking for him.
"Tenchi...you have to get the Master Key." I tell him urgently.
He only looks at me confused.
Then Aeka comes back out.
"She's taken Sasami! You could have stopped her Ryoko! This is all your fault!" She screams at me.
For once she was right...it was my fault.
"Who's taken Sasami? Ryoko, what's happened?" Tenchi asks.
"She couldn't have stopped her, Miss Aeka. Unfortunately Miho has a slight control over Ryoko." Washu says, stepping out of her laboratory.
"Like Kagato did?" Tenchi asks.
I only close my eyes and fight back the urge to throw up. Not this again.
Washu nods at him.
"Kagato was a student of mine and he took a student. The Princess of Ryota. Miho. The Ryota have power very similar to that of the Jurai power, but nowhere near as powerful. After Yosho had trapped Ryoko in her cave, Kagato took Miho as his student. He was molding her into a killing machine the same as Ryoko was. When Tenchi destroyed Kagato, a power awakened in Miho. A power fifty times stronger than her powers had been."
"How do you know this, Washu?" Kione asks.
"I was there when he chose his student."
"In your stasis cell?" Mihoshi asks, she is the one who found Washu.
She nodded. I could tell she was lying. She probably helped him pick her.
"The only way Ryoko can defeat her, is if she has all of her gems, Tenchi. None of
us can help her with this. At least not when Miho arrives again to battle."
"But how can you fight Ryoko? If she can control you?" Tenchi asks me.
"She can't control her completely. She could only incapacitate her. Miho isn't very bright. She probably didn't even notice Ryoko didn't have all her gems. She probably has her false sense of security now since it was so easy to control her."
"But won't having all my gems make it easier for her to control my actions?"
Washu shakes her head.
"No. It will give you more power to fight against her."
"I'll go get the sword." Tenchi says, going back upstairs.
"I can't believe this is happening." Aeka said, sitting down on the couch, sniffling because of her cold.
"I'll get Sasami back, Aeka. I swear it." I say, going upstairs to my room.
I had been lying on my sleep couch for about an hour before Tenchi knocked on my door. He had the Master Key in his hand.
"Ryoko?" He asked, stepping into the dark room.
"What is it, Tenchi?" I ask quietly.
"I have the Master Key. Are you ready for this?"
I turn on the lamp next to my bed and look at him.
"No." I say simply, still looking at him.
"You've wanted your gems back for such a long time, Ryoko. I thought you'd be willing to get them back, even under circumstances like these."
"It's been seven hundred years since I've had possession of all of my gems and I was at the will of one of the most evil forces in the entire universe. My life wasn't my own. I had no feelings. I was completely numb." I'm rambling now. I need to talk and he happens to be there.
"Ryoko...Kagato's gone. That won't happen again, ever."
"He's not gone Tenchi. He's in my mind whenever I sleep, whenever I even think about what happened all those years ago. I don't want to live my life in the past anymore Tenchi. I don't know if I'll be able to face Miho alone tomorrow. I don't know if I'll be able to face my past again. I remember everyone who fell to my sword, Tenchi. I can see their faces, hear their cries and feel their blood splatter. I feel bad that they died, but I can't feel bad that I killed them. And I feel bad about that."
Tenchi walks over toward me and sits next to me.
"You can face Miho tomorrow Ryoko. You have to. Not just for Sasami, but for yourself. You can't let yourself live in the past. There's too many people in the present who'd miss your company."
"But Tenchi, you don't know what it was like..."
"Why don't you tell me?"
"I-I can't..."
"If you feel you can't, then you probably should."
Damn him...why does he have to be right?
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~End Chapter 2~
That was worse than chapter 1, I know...
Oh well.
Chapter 3 - No Need for Little Sister is next!
Author: Ryoko-chan
Email: _Ryoko_@masakishrine.com
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Miho finally reveals the real reason she's been following Ryoko around and Ryoko finds that in order to face the present she needs to deal with her past.
Disclaimer: I don't own Tenchi or any others from the Tenchi Muyo! saga. They are the property of AIC, Tokyo TV, and Pioneer Entertainment. Although I'd like to claim Ryoko...but I'm pretty sure I'd be sued for that and all I have is a pack of gum and a nickel. Oh well.
Author's' note: I used the character backgrounds from the Ryo-Ohki OAV and threw them into the Tenchi Muyo! TV plot. So don't get confused and email me telling me that I screwed up...I know what I'm doing, mostly.
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RYOKO! CHAPTER 2 - NO NEED FOR ADMIRATION
By: Ryoko-chan
Sasami was making lunch by the time I decided to join everyone else downstairs. Aeka was still claiming that she was going to die while lying in her room. I stood at the top of the stairs and watched everyone downstairs. I had the ability to watch people without being noticed most of the time. In fact, I could probably go a long time without being noticed if I didn't talk so much sometimes.
Kione is carefully watching Miho. I suppose she figures that if the girl bothers me so much, there must be a reason to watch her carefully. Kione's got the right idea. Everyone else though...they don't seem to listen to me anymore. Mihoshi is having an in-depth conversation with Miho. I suppose Mihoshi has a lot in common with the girl. Mihoshi's sweet and trusting, Kione's going to have her hands full. Tenchi was reading something. Normally I would tease him as a way to let him know I'm feeling better, but I'm not in the mood. Washu is actually out of her lab and watching Miho carefully. She's up to something.
"Ryoko! Come down here, I want to show you something!" Sasami calls to me from the kitchen. How'd she know I was out here?
Washu, Tenchi, and Kione quickly look up toward me, then at one another. I just give them a look at go to see what Sasami wants.
"What is it Sasami?" I ask the little girl as she furiously cooks in the kitchen.
"Look at Ryo-Ohki! I taught her that earlier. She learns fast, Ryoko." Sasami smiles at me as she points to Ryo-Ohki as she's in her human form helping Sasami chop vegetables for lunch. I smile softly to Sasami.
"I hope she's better at that than I am."
"Anyone is Ryoko." Sasami says, laughing.
"Hey, be nice." I say, as I head out toward everyone else again.
"Ryoko! Its you again! Why do you keep making converse with your help? I figured I'd mean more to you than that! C'mon Ryoko!"
"Shut up Miho. These people are my friends, not my 'help.' How did you find me here?"
"Its easy to find you Ryoko. The energy signature from your gems is quite unique. The reports that you died in during the battle at Jurai last year circulated for quite awhile a lot of the group felt that you were dead. They nominated me to take your place, but I knew you were alive, Ryoko. The strongest space pirate in the universe can't just disappear from someone like me."
"And what exactly is someone like you doing here, Miho? Don't you have a planet to run?" I say as Aeka stumbles downstairs whining about a glass of water.
"Ryota is fine without me if its any of your concern." Miho says as her voice deepens a bit.
"Why don't you show everyone your true age, Miho? I know what you are and I know where you came from. If you came here to challenge me, don't hide behind the disguise of a child."
"Challenge you? You're my hero Ryoko! Being able to murder and destroy with absolutely no conscience! I hope to achieve that goal someday."
"Enough of this! I don't want anything to do with you Miho! You don't know enough to say that you want to be like I was."
"I know plenty." She says as she breaks out of the handcuffs that Kione had placed on her.
"Finally Princess Miho Kiyoko reveals herself." I say, hoping that Mihoshi, Kione, and Aeka know enough to get out of the way.
Miho who was about Sasami's height grows to almost Aeka's. Her long dark blue hair grows to her feet and her violet eyes glow to an almost red color.
Suddenly the gem on my wrist starts to glow and I look to Miho.
"Like I said, Ryoko. I know plenty. I have a promise to fulfill to Kagato and I will not let you get away this time. But I won't fight you here either. I will, however, take some collateral. Don't screw with me, Ryoko. I'll be back tomorrow. Prepare yourself for death."
Suddenly I become completely motionless. I can't move or speak. Miho is going back to her ship. Her ship that had repaired itself in the past four hours.
"Ryoko! Tenchi! Aeka!" I hear Sasami scream.
That bitch! She's taking Sasami!
I see Aeka run into the kitchen only to find her gone and as I turn back to where Miho was standing, she's gone as well and the power that had frozen me to the ground gave away and I collapsed to the floor.
"Ryoko!" Mihoshi calls as she sees me fall.
"What was that about? Where did she take Sasami?" Kione asks as she helps me up.
I ignore them both.
"Where's Tenchi?" I yell at them.
Suddenly Tenchi comes running into the room anyway. Saves me time from looking for him.
"Tenchi...you have to get the Master Key." I tell him urgently.
He only looks at me confused.
Then Aeka comes back out.
"She's taken Sasami! You could have stopped her Ryoko! This is all your fault!" She screams at me.
For once she was right...it was my fault.
"Who's taken Sasami? Ryoko, what's happened?" Tenchi asks.
"She couldn't have stopped her, Miss Aeka. Unfortunately Miho has a slight control over Ryoko." Washu says, stepping out of her laboratory.
"Like Kagato did?" Tenchi asks.
I only close my eyes and fight back the urge to throw up. Not this again.
Washu nods at him.
"Kagato was a student of mine and he took a student. The Princess of Ryota. Miho. The Ryota have power very similar to that of the Jurai power, but nowhere near as powerful. After Yosho had trapped Ryoko in her cave, Kagato took Miho as his student. He was molding her into a killing machine the same as Ryoko was. When Tenchi destroyed Kagato, a power awakened in Miho. A power fifty times stronger than her powers had been."
"How do you know this, Washu?" Kione asks.
"I was there when he chose his student."
"In your stasis cell?" Mihoshi asks, she is the one who found Washu.
She nodded. I could tell she was lying. She probably helped him pick her.
"The only way Ryoko can defeat her, is if she has all of her gems, Tenchi. None of
us can help her with this. At least not when Miho arrives again to battle."
"But how can you fight Ryoko? If she can control you?" Tenchi asks me.
"She can't control her completely. She could only incapacitate her. Miho isn't very bright. She probably didn't even notice Ryoko didn't have all her gems. She probably has her false sense of security now since it was so easy to control her."
"But won't having all my gems make it easier for her to control my actions?"
Washu shakes her head.
"No. It will give you more power to fight against her."
"I'll go get the sword." Tenchi says, going back upstairs.
"I can't believe this is happening." Aeka said, sitting down on the couch, sniffling because of her cold.
"I'll get Sasami back, Aeka. I swear it." I say, going upstairs to my room.
I had been lying on my sleep couch for about an hour before Tenchi knocked on my door. He had the Master Key in his hand.
"Ryoko?" He asked, stepping into the dark room.
"What is it, Tenchi?" I ask quietly.
"I have the Master Key. Are you ready for this?"
I turn on the lamp next to my bed and look at him.
"No." I say simply, still looking at him.
"You've wanted your gems back for such a long time, Ryoko. I thought you'd be willing to get them back, even under circumstances like these."
"It's been seven hundred years since I've had possession of all of my gems and I was at the will of one of the most evil forces in the entire universe. My life wasn't my own. I had no feelings. I was completely numb." I'm rambling now. I need to talk and he happens to be there.
"Ryoko...Kagato's gone. That won't happen again, ever."
"He's not gone Tenchi. He's in my mind whenever I sleep, whenever I even think about what happened all those years ago. I don't want to live my life in the past anymore Tenchi. I don't know if I'll be able to face Miho alone tomorrow. I don't know if I'll be able to face my past again. I remember everyone who fell to my sword, Tenchi. I can see their faces, hear their cries and feel their blood splatter. I feel bad that they died, but I can't feel bad that I killed them. And I feel bad about that."
Tenchi walks over toward me and sits next to me.
"You can face Miho tomorrow Ryoko. You have to. Not just for Sasami, but for yourself. You can't let yourself live in the past. There's too many people in the present who'd miss your company."
"But Tenchi, you don't know what it was like..."
"Why don't you tell me?"
"I-I can't..."
"If you feel you can't, then you probably should."
Damn him...why does he have to be right?
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~End Chapter 2~
That was worse than chapter 1, I know...
Oh well.
Chapter 3 - No Need for Little Sister is next!