Ok I finally managed to come up with some continuation to this story. It
might suck, but I hope you like it everyone. Thanks everyone that left
reviews!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story ecxept the plot.
Alone Still
Ryoko looked at the man standing before her, her tears could not be stopped
as years of pain and anguish came flooding back to her. Memories and events
of a past she tried desperately to keep at arms length in her mind came
slamming back to her. She felt as if she had been punched. "Tenchi.." came
from her mouth no louder than whisper. It was the first time she had spoke
the name since she left the wedding.
She closed her eyes and willed herself to teleport away, anywhere but where
she was now. Everyone she knew was staring at her as she tried to leave. She
opened her eyes when she realized she was still there, still looking the man
she did once love. She turned her eyes accusingly to Washu. Glaring at her
mother she knew this was Washu doing by the smirk on her face. "Damn it! Let
me out of here Washu!" came a pained and furious scream from the space
pirate.
"Sorry Ryoko, but I think you should hear Lord Tenchi out." Washu watched
her daughter calmly, hiding the fact that the link was being flooded by pain
and hurt. She could feel a longing that was so strong she wanted to cry
herself. She cringed at the feeling of betrayle that mixed with the pain.
that emotion was aimed at her and not at Tenchi.
Ryoko turned to Sasami, her face softened as she looked at the second
Princess. She looked almost like Tsunami now. Ryoko knew in another few
years she should be the very image of the Goddess. "Hey kid, long time no
see." She started lamely.
"Hello Ryoko, it has been a while. I am glad that we found you, Tenchi and
I." Gone was the child that Ryoko had known. Sasami spoke softly now, and
with a grace that no one could match. She smiled to Ryoko softly, her eyes
conveying a message that words could not speak. She had trusted Ryoko as a
child, even though she knew her sister hated the demonness. She hoped that
now Ryoko could trust her in much the same way.
Finally Ryoko took a breath and turned her attention to Tenchi. She looked
at him closely, he was much more mature looking. The boyish features traded
for a hansom man. She thought back to Haruna, he had matured even past
that. His hair had grown out and was still pulled back in his customary pony
tail, it just now happen to stop in the middle of his back. He was as tall
or taller than she. He was still thin and muscular. Like Yosho she mused.
'His eyes. they are what are the most changed.' The windows to which Ryoko
had gazed through, to a soul she would have went to the ends of the universe
for were different now. They were filled with a doubt that was not the
childish one she knew. It was a doubt about life, a doubt about himself that
she had never seen. Pain was there as well, the pain over chances lost and
mistakes that were made. Choices made to late or not at all. Regret she saw
next, regret over his life, now and what it was then. Shame was the one
thing she had never seen in his soul before, but she saw it now. Shame over
what she didn't know.
"Your Majesty, I am pleased to see you and the Princess here, forgive my
appearance. I was not expecting a visit from the Emperor of Jurai." She
bowed deeply to him as she chose her words carefully. Keeping them civil and
polite.
"Ryoko, please you do not have to so formal. It's me Tenchi, like old times
ya know." He regretted his words the moment he spoke them. Her look of pain
and anguish tore at him more than anything he had felt before. Not even the
his father passing away from old age hurt this much. He let a mental sigh
go through him. 'It will never be like old times again.'
Ryoko studied him as she stood there, then walked past him towards the
living area of the lab. "Well come one lets at least be comfortable. Besides
Mom might decide to start her experiments again." She hid her emotions under
the vail of humor.
'Why!? Why now did he come back!?' Her mind and heart screamed out as she
walked into the sitting room. She wanted to run away but could already feel
field around the lab that would prevent her from just teleporting away.
'Damn it Washu. Your supposed to protect you daughter from pain, not help
someone cause it.' She thought with a bitterness she had not felt in a long
time toward her mother.
"Your wrong Little Ryoko, I'm trying to help to end your pain. Sometimes
the cure is painful. Besides have faith in the Number One Scientific
Genius in the Universe!" She laughed madly as Tenchi and Sasami joined them.
Tenchi looked at Sasami and she nodded back to him. She gave a smile of
reassurance as she asked Washu to help explain some things about the Royal
Trees of Jurai. Leaving Ryoko and Tenchi together and alone.
Ryoko looked almost panicked at being alone with him. She turned to leave
making some excuse that she forgot something, only to find that she was
trapped in there with him by a shield. "Damnit Washu!" She screamed out and
sat down in a huff.
Tenchi rubbed the back of his head. 'Boy some things really don't change.'
A smile had placed itself on his face as he watched Ryoko fume and curse her
mother. He realized then how much he had missed her. All the emotions he had
denied for years came to him. 'No since I met her, I have felt this. I just
never knew it.'
"Well what do you want Tenchi?" She kept her question short and sharp so
she wouldn't break down and cry.
"I..I wanted to come here, to ask that..you..you.." He flinched as she
glared at him for starting to clam up again. "I wanted to come back her to
ask for a second chance. "PleaseRyokoIdidn'tmeantohurtyou!" He blurted out
running everything together. Looking down at the floor when he finished.
"You, didn't mean to hurt me!!! HOW DARE YOU!" Her anger rose in her, anger
that she had kept buried for to long. "You choose Ayeka, and then ask me to
come to your wedding! Were you so blind then that you couldn't see my heart
break before you!! Do you know that everyone that knew me at that wedding
wanted me dead! But I came, I sacrificed my pride that day for you! I
lowered myself to those Jurian snobs, for You. You, what did you do? You
just waved to me!" She was about a foot away from him now, energy crackled
around her as she yelled.
"Damn it Tenchi, I loved you. I still do, but you have made your choice. I
know why you are here. Jurai laws demand that you at least have one heir that
is male. Ayeka can't produce a male heir. Not now atleast. I will say this
I can't feel sorry about that. Serves her right..She did have two beautiful
daughters though. You also have Mayuka." She sighed and sat down her anger
leaving her feeling deflated and tired.
"Ryoko, please before you say anything more. I deserved everything you just
said. I know I do and I can not do anything to undo the hurt I have caused.
Please all I can do is try to make it right now." He kneeled in front of her
and looked into the amber eyes that were the source of a river tears.
"I chose Ayeka, because I thought it was what needed to be done, and I love
her. Ryoko before you kill me finish hearing me out! Grandpa pushed more
and more for it during training. So I finally relented and did. I chose her.
I will not lie. I am happy being married to her, but always there is a sence
emptiness. I didn't know it then, but I do now. It was not having you there.
Ryoko I do love you." He had swallowed his fear and he had given her the
only thing he thought he could give her. He gave her the complete truth.
She was crying and didn't know it. She stared into his eyes and listened to
his words with both her ears and heart. She wanted to say she loved him, she
wanted to hug him, to never let go. She just couldn't make it past that
stab of pain she felt every time she thought about him and all the years of
being alone. She couldn't get past the fact it took a personal crisis in his
and Ayeka's perfect life to bring him running back to her.
"Ryoko I am being pressed to marry another and I want you to be the one I
have a second wedding with." He looked up to her expecting her to be happy,
expecting her to say yes before he could finish. He was shocked to see a her
face become clouded with more pain. "Ryoko the royal court is trying to
pressure me into marring Sasami. I have until I return to choose. When I go
back it will be either with my new wife or to marry Sasami. Please Ryoko..."
Ryoko got up and stepped around him. She did not speak or even look at him.
Walking away she left him sitting there on the floor. She couldn't, her
heart hurt to much. He only came back for her because of a weakness in Ayeka
and that just added insult. She hardened her heart to him as she summoned
Ryo-oh-ki and left. She would not be a pawn in Jurain politics. 'Tenchi if
you love me, then come and tell me because you do. Tell me that you want me
to be your bride because of love, not for the need of a son.'
Tenchi stood there, numb with shock. He didn't see the two women come back
in to the room as he stared out the window at the departing Ryo-oh-ki. He
didn't see the anger in Washu's adult face. He didn't see the sadness in the
eyes of Sasami. All he could see was Ryoko leaving, again. He had given her
what she had wanted for years on earth. He wanted her as a wife. She left
without a word. He did not understand...."Ryoko.."
might suck, but I hope you like it everyone. Thanks everyone that left
reviews!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in this story ecxept the plot.
Alone Still
Ryoko looked at the man standing before her, her tears could not be stopped
as years of pain and anguish came flooding back to her. Memories and events
of a past she tried desperately to keep at arms length in her mind came
slamming back to her. She felt as if she had been punched. "Tenchi.." came
from her mouth no louder than whisper. It was the first time she had spoke
the name since she left the wedding.
She closed her eyes and willed herself to teleport away, anywhere but where
she was now. Everyone she knew was staring at her as she tried to leave. She
opened her eyes when she realized she was still there, still looking the man
she did once love. She turned her eyes accusingly to Washu. Glaring at her
mother she knew this was Washu doing by the smirk on her face. "Damn it! Let
me out of here Washu!" came a pained and furious scream from the space
pirate.
"Sorry Ryoko, but I think you should hear Lord Tenchi out." Washu watched
her daughter calmly, hiding the fact that the link was being flooded by pain
and hurt. She could feel a longing that was so strong she wanted to cry
herself. She cringed at the feeling of betrayle that mixed with the pain.
that emotion was aimed at her and not at Tenchi.
Ryoko turned to Sasami, her face softened as she looked at the second
Princess. She looked almost like Tsunami now. Ryoko knew in another few
years she should be the very image of the Goddess. "Hey kid, long time no
see." She started lamely.
"Hello Ryoko, it has been a while. I am glad that we found you, Tenchi and
I." Gone was the child that Ryoko had known. Sasami spoke softly now, and
with a grace that no one could match. She smiled to Ryoko softly, her eyes
conveying a message that words could not speak. She had trusted Ryoko as a
child, even though she knew her sister hated the demonness. She hoped that
now Ryoko could trust her in much the same way.
Finally Ryoko took a breath and turned her attention to Tenchi. She looked
at him closely, he was much more mature looking. The boyish features traded
for a hansom man. She thought back to Haruna, he had matured even past
that. His hair had grown out and was still pulled back in his customary pony
tail, it just now happen to stop in the middle of his back. He was as tall
or taller than she. He was still thin and muscular. Like Yosho she mused.
'His eyes. they are what are the most changed.' The windows to which Ryoko
had gazed through, to a soul she would have went to the ends of the universe
for were different now. They were filled with a doubt that was not the
childish one she knew. It was a doubt about life, a doubt about himself that
she had never seen. Pain was there as well, the pain over chances lost and
mistakes that were made. Choices made to late or not at all. Regret she saw
next, regret over his life, now and what it was then. Shame was the one
thing she had never seen in his soul before, but she saw it now. Shame over
what she didn't know.
"Your Majesty, I am pleased to see you and the Princess here, forgive my
appearance. I was not expecting a visit from the Emperor of Jurai." She
bowed deeply to him as she chose her words carefully. Keeping them civil and
polite.
"Ryoko, please you do not have to so formal. It's me Tenchi, like old times
ya know." He regretted his words the moment he spoke them. Her look of pain
and anguish tore at him more than anything he had felt before. Not even the
his father passing away from old age hurt this much. He let a mental sigh
go through him. 'It will never be like old times again.'
Ryoko studied him as she stood there, then walked past him towards the
living area of the lab. "Well come one lets at least be comfortable. Besides
Mom might decide to start her experiments again." She hid her emotions under
the vail of humor.
'Why!? Why now did he come back!?' Her mind and heart screamed out as she
walked into the sitting room. She wanted to run away but could already feel
field around the lab that would prevent her from just teleporting away.
'Damn it Washu. Your supposed to protect you daughter from pain, not help
someone cause it.' She thought with a bitterness she had not felt in a long
time toward her mother.
"Your wrong Little Ryoko, I'm trying to help to end your pain. Sometimes
the cure is painful. Besides have faith in the Number One Scientific
Genius in the Universe!" She laughed madly as Tenchi and Sasami joined them.
Tenchi looked at Sasami and she nodded back to him. She gave a smile of
reassurance as she asked Washu to help explain some things about the Royal
Trees of Jurai. Leaving Ryoko and Tenchi together and alone.
Ryoko looked almost panicked at being alone with him. She turned to leave
making some excuse that she forgot something, only to find that she was
trapped in there with him by a shield. "Damnit Washu!" She screamed out and
sat down in a huff.
Tenchi rubbed the back of his head. 'Boy some things really don't change.'
A smile had placed itself on his face as he watched Ryoko fume and curse her
mother. He realized then how much he had missed her. All the emotions he had
denied for years came to him. 'No since I met her, I have felt this. I just
never knew it.'
"Well what do you want Tenchi?" She kept her question short and sharp so
she wouldn't break down and cry.
"I..I wanted to come here, to ask that..you..you.." He flinched as she
glared at him for starting to clam up again. "I wanted to come back her to
ask for a second chance. "PleaseRyokoIdidn'tmeantohurtyou!" He blurted out
running everything together. Looking down at the floor when he finished.
"You, didn't mean to hurt me!!! HOW DARE YOU!" Her anger rose in her, anger
that she had kept buried for to long. "You choose Ayeka, and then ask me to
come to your wedding! Were you so blind then that you couldn't see my heart
break before you!! Do you know that everyone that knew me at that wedding
wanted me dead! But I came, I sacrificed my pride that day for you! I
lowered myself to those Jurian snobs, for You. You, what did you do? You
just waved to me!" She was about a foot away from him now, energy crackled
around her as she yelled.
"Damn it Tenchi, I loved you. I still do, but you have made your choice. I
know why you are here. Jurai laws demand that you at least have one heir that
is male. Ayeka can't produce a male heir. Not now atleast. I will say this
I can't feel sorry about that. Serves her right..She did have two beautiful
daughters though. You also have Mayuka." She sighed and sat down her anger
leaving her feeling deflated and tired.
"Ryoko, please before you say anything more. I deserved everything you just
said. I know I do and I can not do anything to undo the hurt I have caused.
Please all I can do is try to make it right now." He kneeled in front of her
and looked into the amber eyes that were the source of a river tears.
"I chose Ayeka, because I thought it was what needed to be done, and I love
her. Ryoko before you kill me finish hearing me out! Grandpa pushed more
and more for it during training. So I finally relented and did. I chose her.
I will not lie. I am happy being married to her, but always there is a sence
emptiness. I didn't know it then, but I do now. It was not having you there.
Ryoko I do love you." He had swallowed his fear and he had given her the
only thing he thought he could give her. He gave her the complete truth.
She was crying and didn't know it. She stared into his eyes and listened to
his words with both her ears and heart. She wanted to say she loved him, she
wanted to hug him, to never let go. She just couldn't make it past that
stab of pain she felt every time she thought about him and all the years of
being alone. She couldn't get past the fact it took a personal crisis in his
and Ayeka's perfect life to bring him running back to her.
"Ryoko I am being pressed to marry another and I want you to be the one I
have a second wedding with." He looked up to her expecting her to be happy,
expecting her to say yes before he could finish. He was shocked to see a her
face become clouded with more pain. "Ryoko the royal court is trying to
pressure me into marring Sasami. I have until I return to choose. When I go
back it will be either with my new wife or to marry Sasami. Please Ryoko..."
Ryoko got up and stepped around him. She did not speak or even look at him.
Walking away she left him sitting there on the floor. She couldn't, her
heart hurt to much. He only came back for her because of a weakness in Ayeka
and that just added insult. She hardened her heart to him as she summoned
Ryo-oh-ki and left. She would not be a pawn in Jurain politics. 'Tenchi if
you love me, then come and tell me because you do. Tell me that you want me
to be your bride because of love, not for the need of a son.'
Tenchi stood there, numb with shock. He didn't see the two women come back
in to the room as he stared out the window at the departing Ryo-oh-ki. He
didn't see the anger in Washu's adult face. He didn't see the sadness in the
eyes of Sasami. All he could see was Ryoko leaving, again. He had given her
what she had wanted for years on earth. He wanted her as a wife. She left
without a word. He did not understand...."Ryoko.."
