Chapter Two:
"Tenchi," Ryoko whined, "Do I have to?"
"Yes Ryoko, you have to come out of there. Washu gave me specific instructions so make sure that you 'get a size that actually fits you.'" Tenchi grumbled from the fold out chair that was positioned next to the woman's dressing room. They had spent the last couple of hours in a feeble attempt to pick out a school uniform for Ryoko. No matter what they tried on, it was always way too big. The uniform had been styled in such a way that no matter what size you were wearing, it would always look huge on you. The maroon curtain to the dressing room flung open and Ryoko stood there with a scowl on her face.
"Tenchi, it's still too big." She was wearing a huge white oxford shirt with a gray skirt that went down to her knees on the bottom.
"I look like I'm wearing some old, fat lawyer's work shirt and this skirt. It has four pleats in it! Four! Have you ever seen a skirt with just four pleats in it? Well I haven't until this day. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life! And it's too damn big! Tenchi, why does your school have such ugly uniforms!?"
"Ryoko, I can't do a thing about it so you'll just have to deal with it. It fits you fine so let's go okay?" Tenchi pleaded at her with his eyes. Ryoko let out a small sigh.
"Fine, let's go home." She went back behind the maroon curtain and changed out of the uniform and they walked down the stairs of the uniform store to the cash register. After purchasing, Ryoko ran outside. She had spotted a McDonald's and wanted some immediately. "Tenchi!" she yelled, "Can we go get some McDonald's please?" she latched onto his arm and batted her eyes at him. He suddenly became nervous and scratched at the back of his head.
"Well, I guess we could…" Tenchi's sentence trailed off since Ryoko was already making her way over there. She ran across the busy street and almost got hit by a mini-van. Only minutely shaken, she ran the rest of the way across and waited for Tenchi to arrive. Tenchi at first planned to scold her but she told him innocently, "I didn't know cars on Earth still ran on the ground Tenchi. I'm sorry." She grabbed his hand and went through the door. Ryoko hit the door the first time and then muttered a, "Oh screw it." and opened the door. Thankfully there was no line so they wouldn't have to wait at all.
"Tenchi, can I order whatever I want or is there a limit?"
"Yeah sure, I guess, what do you mean by limit?"
"Well mom always puts a limit on me so…"
"It's okay. You can order whatever you want." She smiled brightly with a slight devilish twist. Tenchi didn't like that look at all. It was the same look he got from future Ryoko when she wanted to make love to him. He had a slight feeling of doom. Ryoko took in a deep breath.
"Hi! I'd like to order a 20 piece Chicken McNugget, 3 regular hamburgers, a cheeseburger, oh and a Big Mac sounds good too, and a Filet-o-Fish because I haven't had one of those in a while, and can you make my McFlurry a Butterfinger and Oreo mix? I'd also like a large diet 7up and an Apple Pie. Oh wait! I forgot the super size fry and I also want a hamburger happy meal because I like the cute little toys! Okay Tenchi, your turn!" She looked at him, the grin never leaving her face.
"I think I'll just have a small coke."
"Okay sir, your total comes to 41 dollars and 92 cents." Tenchi fished through his wallet. He laughed nervously.
"Do you take checks?"
"I can't STAND it! Why did Tenchi have to take Ryoko out shopping? Why couldn't somebody else have? Who knows what kinds of things she could be---I don't even want to think about it!" Aeka fumed as she paced violently back and forth around the TV room. She couldn't even concentrate on her soaps. Without even trying to, energy logs started to form all around her and her anger just kept building and building.
"Aeka please calm down! Father won't be happy if the house gets blown up again!" Sasami latched onto the bottom of her sister's kimono in hopes of stopping the pacing but she just ended up being dragged while Aeka continued to pace.
Ryoko patted her slightly bulging stomach with a content look on her face. She had wolfed down the meal in a matter of seconds and planned to catch a few Z's during the bus ride home. She shut her eyes and slightly curled in the corner of the seat. The bus began moving just as Tenchi finished securing their purchases on the rack above the seat. He plopped down on the seat and turned to talk to Ryoko. He got a half of a word out when he realized that she was sleeping. "Since she's sleeping," Tenchi told himself, "I just I'll catch a few myself." Shutting his eyes, he fell asleep. Ryoko curled up right next to him and leaned on his shoulder. They both were too deep in sleep to notice the bus pass right by the shrine entrance.
"Where are they, where are they, where are they?!?!?!" Aeka screamed as loud has her lungs could handle. She flung her arms up in the air and sat back down on the couch. The rest of the household had joined her in the TV room. Tenchi and Ryoko had left around noon that day and it was now 10:30pm.
"Yeah I agree with Aeka." Kiyone set her teacup on the table. "I wonder what happened to them."
"They probably have rented a hotel and are doing all sorts of nasty things by now." Washu evilly laughed to herself. Kiyone and Yosho instantaneously leaped on her, covering her mouth.
"Washu!" Kiyone yelled, "Don't say those things! Aeka's already about ready to blow up the house. As she spoke tiny electrical logs appeared in various places around the room. All heads in the room whipped towards the entrance as the door opened and shut and Ryoko and Tenchi trudged into the room. Both placing themselves between Washu and Kiyone.
"You will never believe what happened to us." Ryoko told them exhausted out of her mind. "We finally found the uniform,"
"Then we got on the bus," Tenchi cut-in.
"But we both feel asleep and missed the stop,"
"And since this is such an obscure place,"
"The bus didn't come back here for another 3 hours." Aeka leaped out of her seat and thrust one hand around Tenchi's neck and the other around Ryoko's.
"So that means you did nothing! Absolutely nothing! Am I correct in assuming that?" Aeka interrogated them.
"No, Princess, not at all." Ryoko responded with a wink.
"Well I think I'm going to go to bed now, I'm really exhausted." Tenchi got up from the couch and went up the stairs to his bedroom. Almost everyone else followed suit until Ryoko and Aeka were the only one's left in the room.
"No Ryoko, I'm going to be watching you carefully. I see how much you like Tenchi and let me remind you that I have the upper hand here. He just met you and he's known me for a while now. So don't you even try to go for him okay sweetie?" Aeka got a sly grin on her face.
"I'm not guaranteeing a thing." Ryoko half smiled and walked up to her bedroom leaving a fuming from the inside Aeka.
"What do you want with me!" A terrified and crying Ryoko collapsed to the ground.
"Stop crying!" Kagato screamed at her and slapped her across the face. She raised a hand to her face and applied pressure to her throbbing cheek. She continued to sob.
"Who are you? What do you want? Bring me back to Jurai right now!" She stood up and looked at him face to face. He grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up off the ground to his height.
"Listen Ryoko. You will obey me for I am your father and you will listen to everything that I say."
"You're not my father. My father is the mass. Mom created me from one of her eggs and the mass." Ryoko grabbed at his hand and tried to squirm out of his grip.
"And where do you think she got the mass from. My darling, I'm completely made out of mass." Kagato grinned at her before throwing her down to the floor of the Soja.
"That's not possible!" Ryoko cried louder. "You can't be."
"Oh, but I am." He let out a loud laugh and tilted his head backwards.
Ryoko shot up in bed and felt the tears streaming down her face. She threw off her covers and ran to the only place she wanted to be. Her feet pounded on the hard wood floor as she ran down the hall and burst into Tenchi's room. She quietly shut the door behind her and crawled into his bed with him. She wrapped her arms around him and cried into his shoulder. Even though he wasn't awake, just holding onto to someone made her feel better. Tenchi moaned and his eyes slowly fluttered open. Stifling his initial reaction to scream and push Ryoko out of bed, he asked her, "Ryoko, what's wrong?"
"Tenchi, I had a bad dream." She buried her head further down into his shoulder.
"Do you want to tell me what your dream was about?" Tenchi slid his arm around her and rubbed her back.
"Not really, can I just stay with you until I stop being scared?" She looked up at him with tear filled eyes.
"Sure…" He smiled down at her and within moments she had fallen asleep. After making sure he would wake her he removed her arms from around him and crawled over her out of the bed. He swept her up in his arms and carried her back down the hall to her room. He set her back down in her bed and pulled the sheets over her. Ryo-ohki jumped on the bed and cuddled in right next to her. Tenchi bent down and gave her a light kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight, Ryoko." He whispered as he tiptoed out of the room and shut the door behind him. Then it dawned upon him what he had just done. He leaned back and talked to himself, "Why the Hell did I just do that? What was I thinking…" He sauntered back to his room with his hand permanently plastered to his head. Ryoko meanwhile had a very large smile on her face even though her sleep.
"Tenchi," Ryoko whined, "Do I have to?"
"Yes Ryoko, you have to come out of there. Washu gave me specific instructions so make sure that you 'get a size that actually fits you.'" Tenchi grumbled from the fold out chair that was positioned next to the woman's dressing room. They had spent the last couple of hours in a feeble attempt to pick out a school uniform for Ryoko. No matter what they tried on, it was always way too big. The uniform had been styled in such a way that no matter what size you were wearing, it would always look huge on you. The maroon curtain to the dressing room flung open and Ryoko stood there with a scowl on her face.
"Tenchi, it's still too big." She was wearing a huge white oxford shirt with a gray skirt that went down to her knees on the bottom.
"I look like I'm wearing some old, fat lawyer's work shirt and this skirt. It has four pleats in it! Four! Have you ever seen a skirt with just four pleats in it? Well I haven't until this day. It's the ugliest thing I've ever seen in my life! And it's too damn big! Tenchi, why does your school have such ugly uniforms!?"
"Ryoko, I can't do a thing about it so you'll just have to deal with it. It fits you fine so let's go okay?" Tenchi pleaded at her with his eyes. Ryoko let out a small sigh.
"Fine, let's go home." She went back behind the maroon curtain and changed out of the uniform and they walked down the stairs of the uniform store to the cash register. After purchasing, Ryoko ran outside. She had spotted a McDonald's and wanted some immediately. "Tenchi!" she yelled, "Can we go get some McDonald's please?" she latched onto his arm and batted her eyes at him. He suddenly became nervous and scratched at the back of his head.
"Well, I guess we could…" Tenchi's sentence trailed off since Ryoko was already making her way over there. She ran across the busy street and almost got hit by a mini-van. Only minutely shaken, she ran the rest of the way across and waited for Tenchi to arrive. Tenchi at first planned to scold her but she told him innocently, "I didn't know cars on Earth still ran on the ground Tenchi. I'm sorry." She grabbed his hand and went through the door. Ryoko hit the door the first time and then muttered a, "Oh screw it." and opened the door. Thankfully there was no line so they wouldn't have to wait at all.
"Tenchi, can I order whatever I want or is there a limit?"
"Yeah sure, I guess, what do you mean by limit?"
"Well mom always puts a limit on me so…"
"It's okay. You can order whatever you want." She smiled brightly with a slight devilish twist. Tenchi didn't like that look at all. It was the same look he got from future Ryoko when she wanted to make love to him. He had a slight feeling of doom. Ryoko took in a deep breath.
"Hi! I'd like to order a 20 piece Chicken McNugget, 3 regular hamburgers, a cheeseburger, oh and a Big Mac sounds good too, and a Filet-o-Fish because I haven't had one of those in a while, and can you make my McFlurry a Butterfinger and Oreo mix? I'd also like a large diet 7up and an Apple Pie. Oh wait! I forgot the super size fry and I also want a hamburger happy meal because I like the cute little toys! Okay Tenchi, your turn!" She looked at him, the grin never leaving her face.
"I think I'll just have a small coke."
"Okay sir, your total comes to 41 dollars and 92 cents." Tenchi fished through his wallet. He laughed nervously.
"Do you take checks?"
"I can't STAND it! Why did Tenchi have to take Ryoko out shopping? Why couldn't somebody else have? Who knows what kinds of things she could be---I don't even want to think about it!" Aeka fumed as she paced violently back and forth around the TV room. She couldn't even concentrate on her soaps. Without even trying to, energy logs started to form all around her and her anger just kept building and building.
"Aeka please calm down! Father won't be happy if the house gets blown up again!" Sasami latched onto the bottom of her sister's kimono in hopes of stopping the pacing but she just ended up being dragged while Aeka continued to pace.
Ryoko patted her slightly bulging stomach with a content look on her face. She had wolfed down the meal in a matter of seconds and planned to catch a few Z's during the bus ride home. She shut her eyes and slightly curled in the corner of the seat. The bus began moving just as Tenchi finished securing their purchases on the rack above the seat. He plopped down on the seat and turned to talk to Ryoko. He got a half of a word out when he realized that she was sleeping. "Since she's sleeping," Tenchi told himself, "I just I'll catch a few myself." Shutting his eyes, he fell asleep. Ryoko curled up right next to him and leaned on his shoulder. They both were too deep in sleep to notice the bus pass right by the shrine entrance.
"Where are they, where are they, where are they?!?!?!" Aeka screamed as loud has her lungs could handle. She flung her arms up in the air and sat back down on the couch. The rest of the household had joined her in the TV room. Tenchi and Ryoko had left around noon that day and it was now 10:30pm.
"Yeah I agree with Aeka." Kiyone set her teacup on the table. "I wonder what happened to them."
"They probably have rented a hotel and are doing all sorts of nasty things by now." Washu evilly laughed to herself. Kiyone and Yosho instantaneously leaped on her, covering her mouth.
"Washu!" Kiyone yelled, "Don't say those things! Aeka's already about ready to blow up the house. As she spoke tiny electrical logs appeared in various places around the room. All heads in the room whipped towards the entrance as the door opened and shut and Ryoko and Tenchi trudged into the room. Both placing themselves between Washu and Kiyone.
"You will never believe what happened to us." Ryoko told them exhausted out of her mind. "We finally found the uniform,"
"Then we got on the bus," Tenchi cut-in.
"But we both feel asleep and missed the stop,"
"And since this is such an obscure place,"
"The bus didn't come back here for another 3 hours." Aeka leaped out of her seat and thrust one hand around Tenchi's neck and the other around Ryoko's.
"So that means you did nothing! Absolutely nothing! Am I correct in assuming that?" Aeka interrogated them.
"No, Princess, not at all." Ryoko responded with a wink.
"Well I think I'm going to go to bed now, I'm really exhausted." Tenchi got up from the couch and went up the stairs to his bedroom. Almost everyone else followed suit until Ryoko and Aeka were the only one's left in the room.
"No Ryoko, I'm going to be watching you carefully. I see how much you like Tenchi and let me remind you that I have the upper hand here. He just met you and he's known me for a while now. So don't you even try to go for him okay sweetie?" Aeka got a sly grin on her face.
"I'm not guaranteeing a thing." Ryoko half smiled and walked up to her bedroom leaving a fuming from the inside Aeka.
"What do you want with me!" A terrified and crying Ryoko collapsed to the ground.
"Stop crying!" Kagato screamed at her and slapped her across the face. She raised a hand to her face and applied pressure to her throbbing cheek. She continued to sob.
"Who are you? What do you want? Bring me back to Jurai right now!" She stood up and looked at him face to face. He grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up off the ground to his height.
"Listen Ryoko. You will obey me for I am your father and you will listen to everything that I say."
"You're not my father. My father is the mass. Mom created me from one of her eggs and the mass." Ryoko grabbed at his hand and tried to squirm out of his grip.
"And where do you think she got the mass from. My darling, I'm completely made out of mass." Kagato grinned at her before throwing her down to the floor of the Soja.
"That's not possible!" Ryoko cried louder. "You can't be."
"Oh, but I am." He let out a loud laugh and tilted his head backwards.
Ryoko shot up in bed and felt the tears streaming down her face. She threw off her covers and ran to the only place she wanted to be. Her feet pounded on the hard wood floor as she ran down the hall and burst into Tenchi's room. She quietly shut the door behind her and crawled into his bed with him. She wrapped her arms around him and cried into his shoulder. Even though he wasn't awake, just holding onto to someone made her feel better. Tenchi moaned and his eyes slowly fluttered open. Stifling his initial reaction to scream and push Ryoko out of bed, he asked her, "Ryoko, what's wrong?"
"Tenchi, I had a bad dream." She buried her head further down into his shoulder.
"Do you want to tell me what your dream was about?" Tenchi slid his arm around her and rubbed her back.
"Not really, can I just stay with you until I stop being scared?" She looked up at him with tear filled eyes.
"Sure…" He smiled down at her and within moments she had fallen asleep. After making sure he would wake her he removed her arms from around him and crawled over her out of the bed. He swept her up in his arms and carried her back down the hall to her room. He set her back down in her bed and pulled the sheets over her. Ryo-ohki jumped on the bed and cuddled in right next to her. Tenchi bent down and gave her a light kiss on the forehead. "Goodnight, Ryoko." He whispered as he tiptoed out of the room and shut the door behind him. Then it dawned upon him what he had just done. He leaned back and talked to himself, "Why the Hell did I just do that? What was I thinking…" He sauntered back to his room with his hand permanently plastered to his head. Ryoko meanwhile had a very large smile on her face even though her sleep.