"Uh huh. Just a liiitttle fuuurther. Come on! Come oonn!" Ryoko cheers on Mecha Sakuya on the screen as she walks hesitantly to the door of Sakuya's desolate little loft...


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Yugi's Lair- watching their screen:
"Mmmm..." *rubbing palms together* "You will not find Sakuya there since I've set her on a bus directly to the Masaki residence where Tenchi is in the fields ....very alone" AHAHAHAHAH!!!
Her assistant rolls her eyes behind Yugi's back, but comes up to her with a grin, "Very good. You've done well."


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The Fields:
Tenchi is hoeing the ground with a shovel, planting the carrot seeds. Sweat drips from his forehead from the heat. "Aaaah. It's sweltering today. I hope Sasami is making some more lemonade. Maybe some melon would be nice too. Nice and sweet on such a hot spring day. Aaah a boy can dream. Now back to planting those carrots..."


Sakuya peeks out from a tree having just hopped off the bus a block away. The birds are chirping. Sakuya sees Tenchi rub his forehead with a cloth from his pocket. She blushes and sighs. aside GET ON WITH IT end aside
Gingerly she makes her way up the path as the cherry blossoms fall around her in earnest.


Tenchi glances up towards the sun, and gingerly takes his shirt off so he can hoe faster and get inside to the bath house to wash up before dinner.


Sakuya continues to get closer, but she almost loses her breath at the sight of him there in the fields. Such masculinity. How she'd like to take him. A fierce blush overcomes her and she stumbles on a loose stone and snaps a twig. "AAH!" she gasps and tries to run.


Tenchi looks up. Was that Sa..Sakuya? He wonders and puts the hoe down to go check. Walking towards the trees he sees a small figure - a girl wearing a skirt; jacket tied around waist and a T-shirt; short black hair swinging in her jaunt - pushing against the trees' trunks in her fright. "WAIT!! SAKUYA!! Please...please don't run away...I want to talk to you..."


"Aah?" she turns around in her haste, her eyes downcast to the ground. "I...I..."
Tenchi wipes his upper brow and comes closer in her defense, he puts his rough hands, blistered from hard labor, on her frail shoulders, "it's okay." He embraces her gently. "siiiigh" she smiles and burrows into his chest.


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Washu's Lab:
"AUUUUGH!! Come Onnnn!! WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with YOUR robot?!?"
"Ryoko...pleassse! Don't break my concentration here. Mecha Sakuya is fiiine. It's the real Sakuya that seems to be wrong. Mecha Sakuya has a built in detector which leads her to Sakuya by matching DNA. The reason she stumbled at Sakuya's doorstep was because obviously she's not home. The DNA smudged on the walls and door are too faint and it turned M.S. astray. Don't worry. She will follow at my command wherever she may end up."
Ryoko nods and forgives Washu for her bawdiness and lurid speak of before.


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Yugi's Lair:
"YES! YESYES!! I think Tenchi will take her to the cabin. It's just a matter of time before Ryoko and that thinks she's the Greatest Scientist In The Universe Washu which she isn't since I'm quite brilliant to do this all behind her back and get away with it! find out where Sakuya has been led. Won't Ryoko be disappointed...RAHAHAHAHAH!!"
"More teaaa?" her assistant asks serenely.
"Make it saki and you're on! We need to celebrate!"
"Isn't it a bit soon? I mean, the plan hasn't been completed yet. They could save the day like they've done in many episodes since past and, quite frankly, that Tenchi isn't as weak..." Yugi interrupts, "SHUTUP!! When I say I can complete something I get it done! Now I'd like to get fucking sloshed over my pre-victory!" *snaps fingers*
Her assistant runs off...


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The Cabin:
"What...what are we doing here?"
"Just thought you needed to rest your feet..." "Tell me ...what are you doing here? Why..why did you come back when you know I basically rejected you....?"
Sakuya touches Tenchi's hand gently and looks into his eyes..."Do you really want to know?"