Tenchi FanFic
Episode 9
Written by: Simfreak
"A Day With Tenchi"
It took ryoko hours of sitting in the rain to decided to go back into the house. She teleported herself through the roof and into the second story hallway and began to walk down towards the stairs. Momentarily she paused out side Tenchi's room and just stared at the door. With a sigh she dropped her head when, Whoosh, the door opened and tenchi stood in front of her.
"Tenchi" she said surprised looking up at him.
"What's up ryoko? And why are you soaking wet?"
"Oh nothing" she said depressed and started to walk down the hall way again.
"Wait" she paused hearing his words. "You're dripping all over" he opened the hallway closet door and pulled out a towel and walked over to ryoko placing it around her. "There, dry your self with that, we don't want you catching cold or anything"
"Thanks" she said bashfully.
"I have been thinking lately and I think you are right"
She turned around "huh?"
"I have been promising to do something with you for a long time now, it just seems like every time things seem normal enough, something seems to happen." And with a little laugh he continued to say, "Maybe it's a sign or something"
"Heh, yea, sign" she said kind of depressed.
"Well, I think the only way to test this would for us to go out on that date tomorrow."
Immediately her eyes perked up "REALLY! You mean it! Oh, I'm so happy" she says as she wraps her arms around him.
"Ok, ok, calm down" she let go of him "Now go get some sleep" he said with a smile "And tomorrow, we will do what ever you want, I promise"
"Ok I will," she says as she floats passed him down the hall, fluttering her eyes. Tenchi watches her and as she rounds the corner he retreats back inside his room. Ryoko continues to float oblivious to anything else other then her heart racing from their conversation, when she floats past Ayeka who was standing in the hall who did a double blink as she passed her.
Ayeka looks down at Sasami who had peaked out from behind her to see what was going on "What is all that about" she asked.
"I don't know"
"Hmmmm" Ayeka says suspiciously.
In the morning Ryoko was up bright and early, she could hardly sleep from all of the excitement that she felt within her. When Sasami came down to catch her in the kitchen, COOKING! Worried, Sasami manages to say "Uh, ryoko, what are you doing?"
"I'm making Tenchi breakfast! I want him to be nice and strong for our outing today"
"Outing?"
"Yea me and tenchi are going on a picnic together"
"Oh boy a picnic! I can't wait"
"Uhh, your not invited"
"Huh?"
"It for me and tenchi"
"Won't the two of you be lonely? I mean, what are you going to do by your selves"
Ryoko gets a huge smile across her face "Ohh" she says happily "I am sure we will think of something" she says looking off into space.
"Ryoko! It's burning, turn down the heat!"
"What? Oh no!" ryoko turns the flame off and looks at the fish she was cooking. "Awww, it's ruined, she says with a little tear in her eye"
"Sigh Here let me help you, go over there and chop those vegetables"
"These?" she asks.
"Yea, make sure to chop them nice and small"
"No problem" Ryoko generates a light sword in her hands and "WHAP! Whap whap whap"
Sasami look s over at ryoko chopping the vegetables with the light sword and a bead of sweet beads down the back of her head. "Uh, ryoko"
"Huh?"
Sasami sees the cutting board was being diced along with the vegtiables. "Uhh, here use this" she says as she hand her a cutting knife. Ryoko dematerializes the light sword and grabs the knife and studies it.
"Hmm" she says to herself and whips it in the through the air "Not very balanced like my light sword, but if you say so" Immediately she turns to her vegetables and like lighting stats chopping faster then the eye can see. With in a second all the vegetables were neatly chopped up in to little piles.
"Very good ryoko"
"Really?"
"Yea, now take those and out them in that pot of water."
Time passed and the sun began to rise. Footsteps could be heard from upstairs and within a few seconds tenchi came bouncing down the stairs and into the kitchen. "Hey what's up sasa-" he pauses realizing that Sasami wasn't in the kitchen but ryoko "Ryoko, what are you doing in here? Sneaking a bite of Sasami's cooking?" he says with a smirk.
"No tenchi, I wanted to make you breakfast and pack us a meal"
"Uhh, you mean you cooked?" quietly he says to himself "now I am worried"
From behind him Sasami peeks in "Is every thing ok ryoko?"
"Yea I think I got the hang of this now, thanks" and she turns back to the food that she was preparing in front of her.
"No problem" as she starts to leave when tenchi grabs her and pulls her aside.
"Sasami" he says in a low voice "that food is safe to eat, right" She smiled at him and walked away. "Gulp"
"Tenchi, since your here, why don't you make yourself useful and stir this" Tenchi surprised at the request walked over and started to stir the food. "No, no, no, counter clockwise" she grabs his hand, causing him to look at her confused at what was going on, but she was to busy looking down at the food making sure that it was just right. "Like this" she says as she beings to move his hand in a clockwise motion. "Now make sure that it doesn't burn ok?"
"What is this, it smells really good"
She smiles "Its my own recipes I hope you like it."
"This is an awful lot of food for just two people, don't you think?"
"Well, we can always bring the left overs back, I wanted this to be perfect." She says as she stats packing the food into the basket.
After a few minutes Ayeka walks down the stairs and into the kitchen, "Is breakfast ready yet Sasami?" she pauses and looks around "Where is Sasami? And what is with all this food?" she says as she reaches down to grab a little peace of fried beef, but before she could touch it, ryoko appears next to her and slaps her hand.
"Don't touch that, its for me and tenchi!"
"You-and tenchi?"
"Yea" tenchi says as he puts his hand on her shoulder. "I promised ryoko that we would spend the day together, that's all"
"The, day together?" she says shocked.
"Yea, don't worry, we will be back, uhh, ryoko, when are we going to be back?"
"You mean your going out with that women and you don't even know what your going to do!" she grabs Tenchi's shoulders and looks him in the eyes "you know what she is like, what if"
"Calm down Ayeka, Besides, I think that if I can master the light hawk wings, the greatest power in the universe, I can handle ryoko."
"But why?"
"Why am I spending the day with her?"
She nods
"Cause she asked"
"That's it?"
"Well, that and we had a bet."
"Oh, so this is all because of a bet…. Well I guess that is ok"
"Ok" ryoko says from behind "I think that were ready" The both of them turn around to she Ryoko's arms filled with baskets. "Let's go tenchi," she says as she walks past him and out of the room.
"Well, I got to go, I guess I will see you later"
"Take care tenchi"
"Oh, come on, I don't think it will be that bad, at least I know I wont starve, I might be poisoned, but I wont starve."
Ayeka giggles as Ryoko's head peeks back in through the door "Come on tenchi, were wasting time"
"See you later Ayeka" tenchi says ryoko sticks her tongue out at her.
"Ok, bye Tenchi" she says with a snarling look at ryoko.
Both tenchi and Ryoko walk down the path towards the shrine.
"Uhh, ryoko, where are we going?"
"Well, I thought we would have a quick breakfast where we first met, then go into town and poke around, then end with a nice picnic in the mountains."
"Wow, you have really thought this out huh, I expected something, I don't know, a little more wild from you I guess."
"Wild" she says with a smile on her face.
"Well, yea, like a roller-coaster theme park, or a shooting ranges, something like that. I didn't expect you to be so normal, I guess."
Ryoko smiled and rearranged the baskets in her hand so that she could have it free to hold his, but they were too big and heavy.
"Can I help you with those?" he asks as she fumbles around with them.
She smiles back at him and hands him the basket marked lunch "Now don't you go peaking in there, ok?"
"Sure."
Now having a hand free she grabs his "Hang on she says" as they teleport out of sight and reappear on top of Tenchi's school. There were still construction signs up from the first night they met. The holes remained in the roof marked off with yellow tape. Over by the tower that Ryoko was sitting on that night waiting for tenchi to wake up was a table and a pair of chairs. Ryoko had been there hours earlier to set the whole thing up; making sure that everything was perfect.
"Wow, I'm impressed" he said as they walked over to it. "What a great view too" he said as he looked out thought the chain linked fence over the busy town.
"I knew you would like it," she said as she put down the basket and started to un pack the food. "I hope you like the food I made just as much"
Tenchi walks over to the table and sits down across form ryoko and she lays a plate filled with food in front of him.
"You certainly made a lot of food ryoko, a little too much if you ask me"
"Well I wasn't really sure what you liked, so I made everything in the cook book Sasami gave me"
"You mean there's more?"
Ryoko points behind him, he turns around to see 3 more baskets that she had brought there earlier. He turns back to ryoko with a nervous grin on his face.
"Well, just don't stand there looking stupid, dig in!"
Tenchi nervously grabs his pair of chopsticks and before grabbing a piece of food says a little prier for his stomachs safety. Slowly he grabs a piece and quickly throws it in his mouth quickly chewing it with his eyes forced closed, expecting the worst. But it wasn't bad; in fact, it was good, really good. Immediately his eyes flew open and grabbed another piece.
"Does that mean you like it?" ryoko asked curiously.
Tenchi nodded, and swallowed the food that was in his mouth "Yea, I'm shocked"
"Heyyy, what is that supposed to mean"
"Huh?"
"You didn't think that I could cook or something, I would think that you would have a little more faith in me then that"
"I, uh, well"
"It's ok, I forgive you" Ryoko starts picking at the little bit of food that was on her plate. Staring at tenchi enjoying the food that she had made for him.
"Aren't you going eat more then that? You certainly made enough"
"No, I'm really not that hungry."
"Oh? How come?"
"No reason"
"Really Ryoko, sometimes I worry about you" Her eyes perk up as she looks at him.
"You worry about me? How sweet!"
"Yea, just like I worry about every one else"
"Oh, how nice" she says low and sarcastically.
"Yea, all you do is drink and sleep it seems like. That's not a very healthy life style you know"
"Don't worry about me," she says as she pounds her fist against her chest "I'm built like a brick wall"
With a little giggle tenchi says "I can see that, but even still Ryoko" he takes some of the food off of his plate and puts it on hers "Here, I want you to eat this"
"But, I uh"
"What?"
"There is a reason why is don't eat that much tenchi"
"Whys that?"
"Well, I really" Tenchi looks at her, urging her to go on "Don't have to"
"Don't have to" he says perplexed.
"Yea, I don't have to, my gems provide me with all the energy I need"
"But all those times at the dinner table?"
"Just trying to be sociable I guess"
"Why didn't you say anything?"
"Well, I didn't want you to think that I was different I guess"
Tenchi rolls his eyes "This is coming from a 5000 year old mummy that can walk through walls, shoot laser beams from her hand and can even fly…"
Ryoko thinks to her self for a minute "Gee, I guess your right. Seems pretty small when compared to the other stuff huh"
"I'd say so, well, I am stuffed, what do you have planned for me next?"
"That's all you can eat? Common, have some more" she rummages through the basket and pulls something out "here, try this"
"Really ryoko, I think I had enough, but it was really good, thanks"
"Well, what are we going to do with all this food?"
"Bring it home for the rest of the family I guess"
"Like hell"
"Huh?"
"I'm not going to have that prissy princess eating my food, I have a better idea"
With a hand full of baskets ryoko and tenchi walk inside a small, run down looking building. The sign hanging in the front read "Okayama Mission"
After a few minutes the two walk out. "I was sure nice of you to give all that food to the homeless like that"
"Well its better then having Ayeka eat it"
Tenchi shrugs "So what did you want to do now?"
Ryoko smiles, "Well, I was hoping that we would poke around town for a little while"
"Really? There isn't anything really special about Okayama, just your average Japanese town really"
Ryoko grabs Tenchi's hand, and smiles "that's not the town I had in mind"
"Huh?" Before tenchi could say anything else, the two of them disappear and reappear in a dark gloomy ally. "Where are we?" The two of them walk to the end of the dark ally out into the light of a busy metropolis "TOKYO!!!!"
"What's the madder tenchi? You always told me how great Tokyo was, now's your chance to show me"
"I meant taking a tour of Tokyo! I don't know it like the back of my hand you know, this is a big place!"
"Oh, don't be such a woose, common" she grabs his hand and drags him out into the busy sidewalk. So many people in such a hurry, every thing was moving so fast. "Common tenchi, over there" She signals over to a park "lets go for a walk"
"Aren't you afraid – wahhh" he screams as she starts pulling him over towards the park.
Hours began too pass and well, ryoko was ryoko and tenchi was tenchi. But to his surprise, she maintained her incognito disguise and refrained from using any of her powers, it was like, she was human and he began to feel very comfortable around her (well, except for all of the times that wrapped her arms around his neck in public)
"Oh tenchi, isn't this wonderful, just you and me, together, forever" she said. Again with her arms tightly wrapped around his neck.
"Huh, wait a second, I don't remember say-"
"Shhh, you're ruining the moment"
"Ryoko" he says sternly.
"Ok, ok" she lets go of him and sits on the edge of the water fountain that they were standing in front of.
"So what do you want to do now?" he asked as he looks down at his watch.
"What are you not enjoying your self or something"?
"No its not that" he says as he sits down next to her.
"They why are you looking down at your watch???"
"Well, its lunch time silly"
"Is it that late already? Today is just flying by. Well, I guess we can grab a bite to eat, lets see what they have around here"
The two of them walk out of the park into the commercial district that was filled with restaurants and fast food places.
"We can go there I guess" tenchi says as he points out a fast food restaurant.
"I don't think so"
"Huh"
"Lets go there instead," she points across the street to a five star restaurant.
"I DON'T HAVE THAT KIND OF MONEY! And besides, there is a dress code for places like that."
"Not a problem, come with me"
"Huh?"
Ryoko tugs him over to a nice department store and go inside. "Just go ahead and get what you need, I want to show you off to all the other ladies at that joint."
"You got to be kidding"
"Do I look like I'm kidding?"
"Gulp"
Ryoko walks over a self and grabs a nice suit and hands it to tenchi. "Here you go, try this on."
Tenchi looks down at the price tag "Are you nut-"
Ryoko places her finger over his mouth to quite him "Don't worry, I got It covered"
"Well if you say so," Tenchi says as he walks into the men's dressing room. Ryoko gets a grin on her face and starts to follow him in when a hand appears on her shoulder. When she turns around she see a large security guard staring down at her.
A few minutes' later tenchi exits the dressing room all dressed up, he looks around for ryoko, but she wasn't anywhere to be found, so he walks over to one of the employees.
"Did you see where the girl I was with go?"
"What did she look like"?
"Uh, big blue spiky hair"
Before he could finish the description the guy answered, "She was asked to leave the store"
"What for?"
"Trying to enter the men's dressing room I think"
Tenchi grinned as he began to sweat. "Thanks" he said as he sighlently slipped away in embarrassment.
Tenchi walked over to the door too see her looking in through the glass. When she saw tenchi she began to wave excitedly. Rolling his eyes tenchi walks over to the door and starts opening it when a hand grabs his shoulder. By looking at the expression on Ryoko's face through the glass, he knew it wasn't good. "oh no" he said as he slowly turned around and saw the security guard standing in front of him.
"Excuse me sir" the security guard began to say "You weren't going to leave with out paying for that now where you?"
"Uhhh, I, I" he began to say nervously "Just went to go get the money from my friend over there that was kicked out of the store is all, really, I wasn't going to steal it"
"Come with me sir," the guard said as he began to drag tenchi away. "Were going to have to call your parents"
"MY PARENTS! MY DADS GOING TO KILL ME!"
Seeing this, ryoko swung the door open "Hey you!" she said sternly "Where do you think you are taking my tenchi!"
"I thought I told you to stay out, you pervert"
"Hey don't call her that!" tenchi yelled.
"PERVERT!" Why I ought to!" her fist began to spark as she clinched it tight.
"Oh no" tenchi said as he began to duck.
"BOOOOMMMM" The room filled with light and smoke setting off the fire alarms. Quickly ryoko transported over to tenchi and grabbed him "come on tenchi, lets get out of here!" transporting him out of the store. As the smoke cleared, the security guard just stood there like a stone statue with a vacant expression on his face. His uniform was burnt to a crisp along with the displays around him.
Quickly Ryoko and tenchi ran around the corner into an ally as the fire trucks and police cars pulled up in front of the store. Out of breath tenchi says, "What, did you do that for?"
"I was only trying to help ten-chi…"
Tenchi rolled his eyes and noticed that he was still wearing the suit that he had tried on. "Oh great, now I'm a wanted criminal"
"Trust me, its not as bad as you would think, besides, you look so cute in that!"
Tenchi sighs, "Well, we can't go back in there and I really don't think that we should stick around here seeing that now I am a shop lifter and you're a mad terrorist bomber" he says sarcastically.
"Well, if it weren't for me you would be in prison right now, if anything, I think you owe me one"
Tenchi starts walking down the ally to the exit on the other side.
"Where are you going tenchi?"
"Home"
"But, but, but the day isn't over yet"
Tenchi stops and turns towards ryoko "I think that we had enough excitement for one day"
Ryoko's eyes begin to tear a little "But I made you dinner, you haven't even tried that yet. I worked so hard trying to make today so perfect."
"Stop"
"Huh?"
"Stop trying so hard ryoko" Ryoko looked at him confused. "Lets just go home, we can have dinner there"
"So, the date isn't over yet?"
"No, a promise is a promise, I just want to get away form all theses people."
Ryoko runs over to tenchi and wraps her arms around him tightly, so much so that his face began to turn red from the lack of oxygen. Slowly she eased up and the two of them faded out reappearing back in front of the Masaki house. It was already getting late in the day and the sun was starting to set.
"Well, I am going to change out of these cloths"
Ryoko steps in front of him "No" she said, "I want you to wear that, it makes you look so handsome" Tenchi begins to blush. "Here" she says, "Take this basket and follow these directions, I will meet you there, I want to change into something a little nicer"
Tenchi looks down at the piece of paper that ryoko gave him; on it was a little map that pointed him on a path up into the mountains. "Uh, you sure ryoko? I mean, this is in the middle of no where"
"That's the point," she says with a grin on her face.
"Gulp well, ok, I guess I will see you there then" tenchi turns away and starts walking down the path.
Ryoko watches him disappear down the path and walks into the house. The first thing she sees when she walks in the door is Ayeka standing there waiting for her.
"Where is tenchi!"?
"Relax, he just went to go set up the dinner table" ryoko replies as she begins to walk past her. But as she does Ayeka grabs her by the ear.
"Where do you think your going"?
"Heeeeyyyy, let go, ouchy, that hurts, let go"
"Not until you tell me what you have been doing all day"
Ryoko pinches her hand causing her to let go, ryoko starts rubbing her soar ear while Ayeka rubs the pinch make on her hand. The two of them stair at each other before ryoko turns away. "Well, this is enough of that, I have to get ready for my dinner with tenchi"
"Dinner too?"
"It was all part of the bet I made with him"
"What else was apart of this bet"
Ryoko smirks "hehe, wouldn't you like to know"
"Grrrrrrr" she grabs the front of Ryoko's shirt and starts shaking her "Tell me now! Tell me, tell me, tell me!"
"Stop it"
From the other room Aeris looks up from the nap she was taking in the rafters and sees Ryoko and Ayeka fighting. She rolls her eyes and disappears, reappearing next to them. "What's all the commotion about? I'm trying to sleep here"
"Get her off of me!" ryoko shouts still being shaken by Ayeka.
Aeris wraps her arms around Ayeka holding her back from ryoko. Who brushes the wrinkles out of her blouse caused by Ayeka. "It just so happens me and tenchi are out on a date, and your ruining it from me!"
Ayeka calms down "A, A, date?"
"Yes, now if you will excuse me, I have to go change for dinner."
Ayeka tries to wiggle her way out of Aeris grasp but she had her to tight and Ryoko starts up the stairs to her room.
"Let me go! I cannot let this continue any longer!!" Aeris times it so that when she lets go she falls to the ground. "Ouch" she says as she hits the ground.
Aeris looks down at her "That again, aren't you being a little selfish"
Ayeka gasps, stands up and slaps Aeris "Stay out of this, you, you criminal" and walks away into another room.
"Gee, what a bitch"
"What is taking ryoko so long? Were losing the light, and I'm starving"
"Sorry to keep you waiting" A voice said from behind. Tenchi turned around to see ryoko standing there in beautiful dress that sparkled in the setting suns light. Tenchi was shocked; he had never scene ryoko look so elegant in the entire time that they had been together. All he could was stair at her. "What's the madder tenchi? Don't I look good?" All tenchi could do I s nod. She walks past him seductively, putting her hand on his shoulder and dragging her hand down his arm holding his hand as she sat down across from him.
Tenchi's heart was beating a mile a minute as she stared into his eyes and smiled. "What's the madder tenchi?"
"Uh, nothing"
"You seem so quite"
Tenchi smiled as he started to pick at the food on his plate. "Oh, I almost forgot" he said as he bends down and takes out a bottle from under the table. "Yea, hehe, I got this for you a while ago but I keep for getting to give it to you"
"A bottle of sake? Well, I guess it's a start"
"Huh"
"Nothing, thank you so much"
"Well, just don't stand there staring at it, open it up! This is the same brand that dad has hidden away in this room so it must be really good"
Ryoko smiles an opens the bottle pouring a little into her cup and then into Tenchi's. Tenchi looked at her curious.
"Well" she begins to say, "I can't drink alone"
"I uh"
"Common tenchi, it will go good with the food," she says.
Tenchi slowly lifts his little cup and toasts with ryoko before throwing it back. Immediately his face turned red and little teardrops appear in the corner of his eyes.
"BLAH!"
"Hehehe, you defiantly aren't a drinker" ryoko says and then drinks her cup. "Whow, this is strong stuff!" Tenchi laughs at her reaction.
"Well, we better hurry up other wise we are going to lose the light"
"Don't worry, already thought of that one" Ryoko reaches into the basket and pulls out a pair of candles. She sets them on the table and with a little energy burst from her index finger, lit them. Tenchi blinks in surprise at seeing this.
"You have though of everything didn't you" he says and starts eating his food "Delicious! I have to thank Sasami for teaching you how to cook!"
"Tenchi?"
"Yea?"
You had fun today, right?"
"Yea, well up to the point where you blew up the store"
"Is this something that, well, maybe we could do again, just you and me no one else to bother us?"
"You mean another date?"
"Yea"
"I guess so, as long as we stay out Tokyo that is, I don't want people to catch us flying around and things like that"
"Yea, I guess not," she says kind of depressed. Ryoko looks up into the sky, the sun had just set and the stars had come out to play. Sigh
"Ayeka, how did you get in here?" Washu asked.
"I used the door"
"Doh, you mean it was unlocked?" Ayeka nods. "Well, what did you want, I'm very busy"
"I was wondering if you could tell me where tenchi is"
"Why? Well he isn't home yet and I am worried"
"Well, that shouldn't be to hard" Washu turns towards her computer and types a few keys, a large screen pops up with a flashing dot. See there he is, hmm, and Ryoko's there too" she turns around to see Ayeka, but she had already disappeared. "I see"
Tenchi pushes his empty plate out in front of him, "that was really good ryoko, you should be proud of your self."
She smiles and stands up from the table leading tenchi over to a clearing that over looks the entire valley that was lit up by a clear night and a full moon. "This place has really grown on me tenchi, I don't ever want to leave, this is the first place that has ever made me happy"
"Well, considering the life you have had, I don't find that hard to believe"
"You do understand, don't you?"
Ryoko looks down from the sky and into Tenchi's eyes, they became fixated on each other. Ryoko and tenchi began to draw closer, closing their eyes until their lips met in a soft, genital kiss.
From the darkness behind them Ayeka emerged with a frowning face, determined to break up what ever they were doing, but as she approached the clearing she saw the two of them, their lips locked. Ayeka stopped in her tracks and grabbed at her heart in shock and just stared at the two of them for what seemed like an eternity before slowly stepping backwards into the darkness once again with tears starting to stream down the sides of her face.
End Episode 9