Written By: Gary Kendzerski
AKA: Simfreak
Simfreak@mindspring.com
Episode 4
Wolf in Sheep's clothing
"Another Beautiful day."
"Yes, another beautiful boring day."
By now a family of birds made a nest on Asaka's head.
"Ryoko! Where is that women! It's her turn to do the dishes."
"I think I saw her go up to the roof Ayeka"
"OOOOHHH, so irresponsible!"
Ayeka takes off up the stairs and finds her way to one of the windows that lead out on to the roof. Carefully she steps out, slowly inching her way along the edge she slowly sees Ryoko come into view. There she was, in her red bathing suit lying on a blanket sunbathing with not a care in the world. "THERE YOU ARE!" Ryoko tilts her head back and lifts her shades to see who it is, but only for a second until returning to her original position. "YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THE DISHES AFTER BREAKFEST!"
"I'll do it later, don't worry about it."
"WORRY ABOUT IT!" Ayeka shakes her hand at Ryoko, "WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO FOR LUNCH!"
"There's no need to shout, I'm not deaf."
"Grrrrrr" Ayeka takes a deep breath to calm her self down.
"Very well, but when Tenchi comes home to find that he is eating off of a napkin, he will know whom to blame."
"I'm not worried."
"Huh?" Ayeka gets a puzzled look on her face. "Why not?"
"Because, it's your turn to do the dishes today, it's my turn to do the laundry."
Ayeka's face turns from puzzled to shocked. Then back to upset, she looks over the edge of the roof to see a pile of dirty laundry sitting in the sun untouched. She then makes her way a along the edge so that she is standing right be hind Ryoko, starring down into her calm relaxed face.
"Well, you haven't done that either." She says in a snooty voice.
I'll do it later, right now the sun is perfect and the Sake is cold. You know princess you look stressed. You could use a little sun your self; you're all pale and sick looking. Come and join me for a drink."
"What! I'll have you know that my skin is a lot better then yours!"
"Name one thing."
"Well I don't know if it's the sun or your AGE, but at least my skin isn't stating to wrinkle!"
"WHAT!" Ryoko sits up quickly looking at her arms, but in the process bumps into Ayeka causing Ayeka to lose her footing.
"OH NO! I'm, AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Too concerned with her skin Ryoko doesn't notice that Ayeka slides right passed her off the roof.
"I don't know what you're talking about, my skin isn't wrinkling" she looks up "hey where did you go?" Ryoko looks over the edge of the roof to see Ayeka head first in the pile of dirty laundry. "What are you doing down there?" Ryoko transports to the ground transforming into another set of cloths and grabs one of Ayeka flailing arms, pulling her out of the pile of cloths. "Are you alright?"
Ayeka's eyes turn wild with furry. "Why you little". She grabs Ryoko's arm and starts digging her nails into it. Immediately Ryoko starts screaming in pain, tears dripping down her cheek falling to her knees. Concerned that she was actually hurting Ryoko Ayeka let go, but Ryoko kept screaming grabbing the opposite arm as she drops to the ground, still screaming.
"Are you ok, I didn't squeeze that hard?" After a few seconds Ryoko gathers herself and wipes the tears from her eyes. She stands up and looks at the wrist that Ayeka had squeezed, four little marks were embedded into her skin. "See I didn't do it that hard". Then she looked at her other wrist, her gem, it was gone!
"MY GEM! IT'S GONE!"
"Gone how can it be gone?"
"I don't know, it was there now its not."
"Could it have fallen off?"
Ryoko shoots a dirty look at Ayeka "These just don't fall off, they are apart of me."
"Then you explain where it went." Just then Ryoko falls to the ground again, grabbing her arm, then the pain moved up into her shoulders and then into her heart, all the while screaming in pain. Finally the pain subsided and she stood up, again wiping the tears off her eyes and dusting herself off. "This is serious, I think that we should see Washu."
Oh no, the last time you told me to see Washu I ended up singed from head to toe.
"Lets go" Ayeka grabs Ryoko's arm and starts dragging Ryoko into the house, all the while Ryoko was kicking and screaming, yelling "no! Stop! I don't want to go!"
They arrive at Washu's door. Ayeka knocks as Ryoko gets to her feet and tries to sneak away. She tip toes two steps before Washu's door flings open and a very perturbed Washu steps out wherein reading glasses.
"What do you want; I'm kind of in the middle of something" Ryoko stops in her tracks petrified with terror.
"Well miss Washu."
"Little WASHU! Even the dolls can remember that!"
"Sorry, little Washu, but Ryoko experienced some very strange pain earlier and now one of her gems are missing"
"Is that so, well I guess its alright then, come in" Ryoko continues to start to tip toe away again only to bump into Washu who has appeared in front of her. "Where do you think your going?" Ryoko's face turns from surprised to depressed, very, very depressed. "Lets go" said Washu.
Washu leads them all into the lab, only to see the previous invention replaced with a new one.
"Oh my what's that?" asked Ayeka.
"That my new invention, but its not finished."
"What dose it do?"
"Well, you know how Mihoshi is always crashing her ship right?"
"Yes." Ryoko looks at the computer council that has some programming on it."
"Well this is her new one; I made this especially for her."
"Oh really." Ayeka replied.
"Yea, the central computer on it was designed around her brain waves, that way it will, hehe fill in the gaps in the orders that Mihoshi gives. But I just cant get the algorithms right."
"That's funny, with how bubble brained she is you would think that it would be easy to program a computer for her." Ryoko remarked as she starts typing on the computer.
"STOP DON'T TOUCH THAT!" Washu screams.
"There you go."
"Huh?" Washu looks at the screen and gets a puzzled look on her face. "It can't be."
"Cant be what Mis-, I mean little Washu." Asked Ayeka.
"She did it, this is brilliant, and it would have taken me weeks to come up with this!"
"Well, hehe, gee thanks, I guess I'll be leaving." and starts leaving the room.
"Not so fast Ryoko", Washu says as she grabs the ribbon on the back of her dress. "I believe you came here for a reason." Washu grabs both of Ryoko's writs and starts studding them "I knew it!"
"Knew what?" Ryoko asks as she gets a worried look on her face.
"The sun is causing your skin to wrinkle!"
"WHAT!"
"HAHAHA See I told you!" proclaimed Ayeka.
Ryoko pulls here arms away from Washu and gets an upset look on her face
"Relax, I have something here that should help." Washu has the computer appear in front of her and starts typing. Out of thin air a device appears that looks like a dousing rod.
"Wha, what's that?" Ryoko asks nervously.
"It's my energy finder. It's designed to find Jurai energy, and since the gems have the same energy constant of the Jurai, then it should be a piece of cake, I'm such a genius!"
"Its not going to hurt is it?"
"NO don't be silly (hehe)."
"Gulp"
Washu flicks a switch on a the rod and it starts vibrating. "Hmmm lets see here." She points it at one gem and it starts beeping, she points it to the other and its beeps. She points it at the other wrist and nothing "hmm, that's wired" she follows the rod up her arm, over her shoulder and finally to the heart which causes to the device to beep again. "There it is, there it is?"
"What dose this mean little Washu?" asked Ayeka.
"Quite simple, her body assimilated the gem." Explained Washu.
"What?" Ryoko said with a look of concern.
"Ryoko I want you to take off your third gem."
"Why?"
"Just do it."
"Ok, I guess?"
Ryoko closes her eyes and concentrates, the gem in her neck starts to glow and detaches, levitating in the air. Ryoko opens her eyes and hold out her hand in time to catch the gem as it falls.
"Do you have any fake gems?"
"Just this one."
"Give them both to me."
"Why?"
"Ryoko, I don't know exactly what is happening, but if it is what I think it is, I don't want it to happen to you."
"What to happen?"
"Just trust your mom on this one ok?"
"Ok", she says with a puzzled look
"Now if you excuse me I have work to do."
"You mean the aft subspace dimensional compressor?" Asked Ryoko. Washu gets another shocked look on her face. "Just realign the coils to .5 degrees from center and it should solve the anti-matter flow constriction going into the regulator."
Washu and Ayeka both fall to the ground in disbelief and shock.
"Was it something I said giggles"?
"Aeris what are you doing out here?"
"I just came to talk to you Tenchi."
"Oh, what about?" he said with a cheerful tone.
"I just wanted to thank you for stopping Ryoko from killing me."
"Oh it no problem really! I didn't think you were all that bad."
"There's a lot you don't know about me Tenchi."
"Can't be any worse then Ryoko."
"You would be surprised."
"Well in any event, every ones ok and that's all that madders."
"I don't think I can ever thank you enough." She starts walking towards Tenchi, getting closer and closer. Tenchi's eyes perk up and then go into complete shock when she disappears and reappears around his neck. "If there is anything I can do for you" she reaches down and grabs Tenchi's crotch making his face turn blue, "and I mean anything, you just tell me" she lets go and disappears, causing Tenchi to fall to the ground in embarrassment.
"Why me?"
Tenchi opens the front door to the house and peeks in, his eyes shift side-to-side scooping out the room. "Fhew, no ones home" he opens the door all the way and walks in. He gets to the foot of the stairs and hears something behind him.
"Ten-chi"
With out looking behind him he blurts out "Look Aeris, I know you want to thank me and all, but what you did was a little crude"
"AERIS!" Tenchi's eyes bug out and gets incredibly worried. "What did that girl do you to Tenchiiiiii!"
Gulp hehe Ryoko. He turns around to see her face right in his burning with anger. "Nothing, nothing. It was all a misunderstanding is all."
"WHAT WAS A MISUNDERSTANDING?"
Sasami walks in the room from all the yelling. "What's going on?"
"SASAMI! Great to see you! Umm, you need help with dinner, don't you, no problem; I'd be glad to help."
"That's nice Tenchi but I'm already done."
"Non sense, there is always something to do" Tenchi runs over to her leaving Ryoko with an angry face just hanging in the air. "Something" he grabs on to her shoulders, "anything, please"
"Well I guess you can clean the pans."
"GREAT! I'll get right on it, and he starts walking towards the kitchen."
"TENCHI!!!!!!!" Tenchi stops in his tracks.
"Doh! I guess I can pretend that I didn't hear her" and looks to the side as he slowly moves to the kitchen; he straightens out his head only to see Ryoko's blazing eyes even with his.
"Nice try! But your not getting away that easy!"
Tenchi backpedals "Look Ryoko, It was nothing really!" he says nervously.
"TENCHI!"
His head dropped, "She kinda said that she wanted to thank me from saving her."
"Saving her from what!?"
His head looks up back into her eyes "Form you!" Ryoko gets a shocked look on her face as Sasami continues to look on. "She just wanted to thank me from stopping you from killing her"
Ryoko goes from shocked to completely calm "Oh, well, I guess that's alright then"
Tenchi gets a puzzled look on his face as Ryoko wraps her arms around his neck and draws close.
"Now wait a minute!" Tenchi pushes Ryoko off of him "what did you think I did! Wait, on second thought I don't want to even know. Come on Sasami I think you had some dishes for me to wash"
"Awww, but Tenchi, ten-chiiiiii"
"Look Ryoko" He turns towards her "you have to stop being so jealous over how all the girls around here treat me."
"Jealous, me over you? Yeah right" Tenchi stairs her in the eyes with a frown on his face, causing Ryoko's eyes to go from uncaring to surprised to depressed. "Oh ok, you win."
"Good, now, I wash you dry?"
Ryoko looks at him and breaks a smile across her face.
"Sure."
"Dinners Ready Every One! Come and get it."
Ayeka walks in from the other room "You shouldn't yell like that Sasami, its bad manors."
"I just don't want the food to get cold."
Washu walks out of her lab, arms behind her back stretching and Ryoko and Tenchi walk in from the kitchen holding the plates.
"Where's Nobuyuki and grandpa?"
"Nobuyuki said something about a boy's night out, grandpa was kinda upset and he wanted to cheer him up."
I wonder why they didn't take me? Tenchi asks, "Oh well, their probly in the park playing chess or something that old people like to do."
The scene flashes to Nobuyuki and the young Yosho sitting on a bar stool with music blaring and flashing lights, each with a cup of beer in front of them. When two legs appear in front of there faces. Both of them look up causing to grin and smile as they hold up money in their hands.
"Where's Aeris, isn't she coming down for dinner?" asked Washu.
"I haven't scene her all day." Said Ayeka.
"I haven't scene her since the fields." Replied Tenchi
"What was she doing in the fields Tenchi?"
Oh no, not you too! Ayeka gets a surprised look on her face. Tenchi Stands up and yells, "Nothing happened! She just came to thank me for preventing Ryoko from killing her is all!"
Distracted by Tenchi's outburst they don't notice Aeris appear in front of Washu's lab door and sneak in.
"Tenchi I was just asking, did you think that I was jealous or something" and smiles.
Ryoko shoots Ayeka a dirty look as she starts eating her food.
"Meeeaaaaooowww"
Tenchi looks down to see Ryo-Ohki taking the steamed carrot off his plate
"There you are Ryo-Ohkie, hey wait that's mine!" startled Ryo-Ohkie drops the carrot and hides under the table. Tenchi looks down at the carrot to see tiny bite marks in it. "Well I cant eat it, you might as well have it" he smiles and hands the carrot to Ryo-Ohkie who was under the table with Ken-Ohkie. Ken-Ohki sniffs the carrot and looks at Ryo-Ohkie and both of them dive in eating the carrot, which lasted all of about 3 seconds. "Looks like you guys are hungry, hang on ill get some more." Tenchi stands up and walks into the kitchen, off the counter he grabs 2 carrots "here you two go" and tosses them down to them. Tenchi then continues back to the table and is about to sit down when he see Aeris leave Washu's lab. "Aeris there you are!" With a shocked look on her face she pauses letting the door close behind her. "Your just in time for dinner."
"Umm, no thanks I'm not hungry" she says nervously.
"Did you find what you were looking for in there?" Washu asks with out looking over her shoulder.
Aeris gets a look of panic on her face. "What are you talking about? (Heh)."
"Oh nothing, never mind, I just could have sworn that you just came out of my lab is all." Washu said as she smiles.
Nope, wasn't me (yawn) well, look at the time, I'm going to bed, good night
"Good night Aeris" Tenchi says.
"Good night Tenchi" She says with a smile and a wink.
Ryoko looks at Tenchi with a stern look, but before Tenchi could see her she changes back to normal.
"I don't trust her." Said Ryoko.
"She's your sister Ryoko!" replied Ayeka.
"Do you trust me?"
"Good point, I guess there is some need for concern I mean she did try to kill Tenchi, and she was hanging out with that Hiroto guy."
"Both of you need to learn to trust a little better, geez, you all tried to kill me when we first met, remember? Ryoko you blew up me school." Scolded Tenchi.
"But I was only playing with you Tenchi, I didn't mean anything by it"
"Well, ever think that maybe she's the same way. And Ayeka you sent you guardians to kill me."
"Well, Tenchi, you broke into my room while I was sleeping and were about to do who knows what to my beatutiful body."
"WHAT!!!!" yelled Ryoko.
"Relax I was only trying to get my sword out of her hands." He says with a calm face.
"WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" screamed Ryoko.
"I didn't mean that, I meant the sword, you know umm, Sword Tenchi, that's it! In any event, I all gave you a second chance and now you should give one to Aeris."
"Well all right Tenchi, if you say so" Ayeka said.
"Ryoko?"
Ryoko crosses her arms and rolls eyes. "I guess"
"Good"
The scene changes to Aeris in Ryoko's room sitting on her bed. A tear starts rolling down her cheek as she looks into the palm of her hand. The two gems that Ryoko gave up were sitting there motionless. She wipes the tear away with her other hand and becomes strong. Her eyes squint and she concentrates the two gems start to glow and fly into her wrists. "Two down, one to go."
"I'm going to the fields to get some carrots for Ryo-Ohkie."
"Ok Tenchi come back soon!"
As Tenchi opens the door he sees Nobuyuki holding up Yosho by the arm, both are grinning incisively.
"Are you just getting home now? What have you been up too all night?"
"When your older son, heh, when your older." Nobuyuki replies as they stagger into the house and collapse 2ft inside the door.
"I don't think I want to know."
Tenchi walks to the fields and as they come into view he notices something. Immediately he runs to the clearing and looks around. "OH NO! THERE GONE! ALL OF THEM!" Tenchi falls to his knees crying in shame when he hears something from the bushes. He gets up and walks over to see Ryo-Ohki and Ken-Ohki on their backs with their stomachs ticking out. "You stupid little animals, you ate them all!"
"Meaaow."
"Don't meow me! Now what are we going to do, the other field won't be ready for a few months."
"Meaowww."
"I better get you two back to the house, from the looks of it you cant even walk."
"meaow"
"Ken-Ohki, did you cause all of this." Ken-Ohki looks at Ryo-Ohki. "Oh I see, partners in crime, well I hope both of you learned your lesson." Tenchi bends over and picks both of them up by the ears. "Lets go. He says as he tosses them into the basket on his back. "Just hope that you can develop the same taste for onions." He says with a smile.
"MEAOOOOWWWWW!"
End Part 4