Ryoko held out her hand. "Tenchi. Please take my hand. Please tell me I'm the one. Please tell me! That's the only thing I want to know in my entire life. I know I've done some mean things, Tenchi. Even to you. And I'm sorry." For the first time in her life Ryoko began to cry. Tenchi's eyes widend.
"Ryoko...I don't know what to say."
"Please choose me over Ayeka! Please Tenchi! I can't live without you! You are my light..." Tenchi was speechless.
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"Serena! I can't believe you failed another test!" Raye scolded her. "That's the third one this month! How do you expect to pass the grade?" Serena's face dropped.
"You're so mean, Raye!" She ran out of Raye's temple crying. The other girls looked at her in wonderment.
"I wonder...how can she be so sensitive?" Amy sighed, and went back to her studying.
"You know Serena," Lita said. "Next time we see her she'll be her normal bouncy self again."
"Yah. Knowing Serena she'll forget it all." Mina assured them. "Probably looking for an excuse to ditch homework to hang out with Darien again."
"Probably."
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"They are so cruel!" Serena cried, running away from the temple. She suddenly stopped as the sound of crying filled her ears. She followed the sound and saw in a nearby field a girl with green/blue messy hair holding out her hand to a black haired schoolboy. The girl was crying so hard. Serena sneaked up a few feet away behind a tree.
"Tenchi! How can you even think of Ayeka over me! I thought you liked me!" the girl cried with her hand trembling. He sighed and said,
"I do like you, Ryoko. But I'm the royalty for Ayeka. She after all is-"
"I know I know. The crowned Princess Of Juraii. But, still, Tenchi. Doesn't my love for you mean anything?"
A Princess!
"It means alot, Ryoko. I really like you. I might even love you. But this is the way it has to be." Serena felt tears swell up in her own eyes. She gasped as the boy Tenchi began to walk away.
"I'm sorry."
Ryoko grabbed his arm. "No! I won't let you go! You're mine!" He looked at her.
"Ryoko...don't do this. Be reasonable." She gasped.
"I am being reasonable! What is unreasonable about trying to hold on to my one and only love?" He sighed.
"I am not your love, Ryoko."
"Yes you are! Yes...you are." She fell to the ground, crying. "Please don't go Tenchi. I beg of you." He looked at her sadely.
"I'm so sorry, Ryoko."
Ryoko got to her feet. "After all that arguing and screaming and fighting I went through with Ayeka over you, she won? She won? I can't let her win! Please PLEASE Tenchi, come with me. We will live a happy life. Together." She walked over to him and hugged him.
"Hey, let me go, Ryoko!" She back off in surprise.
"So that's it, huh? I'm not good enough for you?" She flew, yes flew away crying. Tenchi looked at her sadely.
"I wish it didn't have to be like this." Serena followed Ryoko from the ground. Tenchi spotted her and said, "Hey! What are you doing here?"
"Don't worry, I'm used to strange things!" She ran below Ryoko, who was too sad to see her following. Tenchi and Serena ran together, after the upset girl. Finally after what seemed like forever they came across a large country house.
"Home...again," Tenchi sighed. "I'm supposed to be in Tokyo!"
"Home?" Serena's gaze fell over the perfect home. Yes. It had to be someone's nice home. Without asking, she walked ahead of Tenchi and rang the doorbell. Ryoko was the closest one to the door, but she didn't bother to answer it. She was too sad.
Tenchi caught up to Serena and opened the door for her. Ryoko turned around.
"Leave me alone, Tenchi!" she flew upstairs and through a door. Serena could hear her still cying even from way up there.
"No wait! Ryoko!" Tenchi sighed. "Oh well. She'll get over it."
"Are you sure?" Serena asked him. He turned to face her and said, "I think so."
"Love can do crazy things to people," she told him. "Trust me, I know." Before Serena said another word, Tenchi said, "Do NOT fall in love with me! I have enough girls!" Serena laughed.
"I already have my love. Darien..."
"Who?" She blushed.
"Nobody. Nevermind."
"What is your name?" Tenchi asked her.
"Serena."
"Serena, why were you spying on us? And why did you follow us here?" She turned around.
"It looked like Ryoko could use some comfort."
"Well, it's not too late, or to early."
"Yah..." Serena walked upstairs and knocked on the door Ryoko flew through.
"Who is it?" she screamed. "What do you want?"
"Ryoko. My name is Serena."
"Who are you Serena? Why are you here?"
"I wanted to talk to you."
"About what?"
"Tenchi."
"He's mine! Go away!"
"I don't want him." This surprised Ryoko so much she opened the door.
"You don't?"
"No. I overheard your conversation, and I felt sorry for you."
"I don't need your pity!"
"It's ok to be sad, Ryoko. It's ok to be depressed. I am too, every now and then. And I really was at one time..."
"Please...just go away..."
"Ryoko, I'm so sorry about you and Tenchi. I really hope it works out between you two and Ayeka."
"It never will. Tenchi hates me."
"No he doesn't."
"Yes he does! He hates me! He hates me!" She cried harder. "HE HATES ME!!!"