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Flowering Potential.
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Comments, Constructive criticisum and Praise welcome & can be sent to cobalt@elhazard.net.
Flames will be sent to the electronic ether.
P.S. The continuity used is basically OAV based with the addition of Kiyone from the TV
series and Minagi from the manga.
Disclaimer: I do not own the series depicted within, but go buy it anyway.
Conventions:
~ ~ are used for thoughts and Telepathic communication.
The series is archived at http://www.lum.co.uk/cobalt/
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Chapter 1
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Tenchi hated waking up. It turned a nice peaceful experience into a confused, sometimes
violent one. He began to sit up before sensing something was wrong. He looked and
couldn't believe what he saw. He reached out and touched it to confirm that it was real.
It was.
At this point he did something eminently sensible. He fainted back into unconsciousness.
***
Ryoko got up and stretched. Last night had been fun, although she hadn't been able to get
Tenchi to drink any alcohol. Speaking of which...
Ryoko flickered out of existence for a second before reappearing outside Tenchi's door.
The forcefield Washu had created for his room stopping her from teleporting straight in.
Sensing a presence, a little bundle of fur at the foot of the door uncurled to reveal Ryo-Ohki.
"Ryoko?" She questioned.
Ryoko sighed and nodded. ~ Ryoko: Don't worry. I'll use the gentle approach. ~
"Ryoko." Ryo-Ohki sounded satisfied.
Ryoko knocked on the door. Nothing happened so she knocked again and opened it. She
noted with satisfaction the sleeping figure. Walking in carefully (You never know with
things designed and built by Washu Heavy Industries), she noticed something strange about
the figure before opening the curtains.
Where a sleeping Tenchi should have been was a girl. Staring at the intruder in shock,
Ryoko barely noticed a sleepy Ryo-Ohki crawl up to the stranger. The Cabbit sniffed.
"Tenchi?" She asked before taking another sniff. "Tenchi." She confirmed.
Ryoko caught this and began to realise that this person DID look a lot like Tenchi. Fate
decided that it wasn't having enough fun and Ayeka arrived.
Taking a gaze at the scene Ayeka growled. "Ryoko..."
Ryoko looked up and put a finger to her lips before beckoning her in. Ayeka did so and
noticed the strange girl in the bed where Tenchi should be.
Ryo-Ohki looked up at the princess. "Tenchi Ayeka." She said. Ryoko shrugged. Ayeka
began seeing the similarities between the girl and Tenchi.
Fate looked upon this scene and saw it was good. The girl below them began waking up
and looked at them.
She smiled. "That's a comforting sight." She said. "I had the worst dream..." She trailed
off as she realised something and looked down her body. "It wasn't a dream." She
whispered in horror before the bliss of unconsciousness took her again.
The two puzzled women looked at each other, nodded and ran out the door heading
downstairs.
"WASHU!"
***
There was a small discussion going on in Tenchi's room.
"I'm telling you, as far as I can tell, which is very far believe me, this person is Tenchi."
Washu didn't like what she saw on the screen, mainly because it was nonsense.
"How can this girl be Tenchi?" Kiyone asked.
"Everything about her, except for her gender, is the same as Tenchi's. DNA pattern, Astral
pattern, Overdimension, Energy readings, Everything. I should know right?"
Everybody else shuddered at the thought.
The girl on the floor groaned slightly.
"Why not let me handle this?" Washu told them. "Alone."
The rest of the group did so, Ryoko throwing a suspicious look at her 'Mom' as she
followed. Washu moved to sit beside the girl's head. The girl opened her eyes.
"Are you alright?" Washu asked.
"I think so Washu." The girl replied. Her voice was almost, but not quite, Tenchi's. "God,
what a nightmare. I thought I was..." The voice trailed off as she realised something. She
looked down at herself, then looked at Washu. "What have you done to me now Washu?"
The girl growled.
A screen flashed into existence beside Washu. The message on it read:
"Analysis Complete. Probability at 99.75%. Subject is Tenchi Masaki."
Washu sighed. "I haven't done anything Tenchi. We found you like this."
The girl who was Tenchi gapped at her before looking at herself again. She slumped down
and closed her eyes.
"Why me?" Tenchi asked the universe at large. Tenchi needed something to keep him/her
sane, something reassuring. Tenchi held out a hand and concentrated. Something flashed
across the room and stopped in Tenchi's hand, Tenchi-ken, The Master Key.
This little trick wiped away any vestige of doubt left in Washu's mind. Yosho had told her
that only the true owner of the sword could use that ability of the sword. She put to one side
the fact that Tenchi had never demonstrated control of the sword like that.
The young lady who had been Tenchi didn't put it to one side as she realised who was in the
room with her.
"Uh... Washu I can explain..." She began.
"Later Tenchi. I have other concerns. Can you think of anything that might of caused
this?"
Tenchi's face screwed up in concentration. "Um... I went to bed before you came out of
the lab to watch that program. I was fine then. Maybe that thing with Ryo-Ohki..."
"What thing?" Washu asked sharply.
"I patted her on the head and my power surged and there was a flash..."
Washu began typing furiously at her keyboard. "I didn't notice anything... Didn't see a
flash... Energy surge is here... No resonant field... No Tenchi that wasn't it. Nothing
about Ryo-Ohki affected you. But that's another thing I'll have to investigate." The
computer disappeared. "Come on Tenchi, we have to pay a little visit to my lab. And we're
walking, I don't want to disturb anything."
Tenchi looked worried.
Washu sighed. "The sooner we do it, the sooner we can have you back in your own body."
Tenchi looked unsure but got up. She noticed something else.
"Um... Washu..."
Washu looked at Tenchi with a bit of frustration, but not unkindly. She could well imagine
what the poor boy was going through.
"Yes Tenchi?"
"M... They...um..." She said, gesturing vaguely at her chest. "They...err...seem to
have...um...grown."
Washu shook her head in sympathy. "Then we'd better get a move on, eh?"
***
It was a few hours later. The dejected figure sitting on the couch was obviously female.
She was also obviously Tenchi. In her hands she held the Master Key and occasionally she
would activate it and gaze at the blade.
Sasami tried to console Tenchi. "Don't worry. Washu will fix it."
Ryo-Ohki meowed in agreement.
Everybody else was sat or stood around quietly. Sasami had the best chance to bring Tenchi
out of it, and they knew that.
Seeing that it wasn't working, the young princess tried another tack.
"Look on the bright side, you're very pretty." Which was true.
The rest of the room inwardly cringed. But it got a response.
Tenchi sighed. "Thanks Sasami." She said quietly. Her voice was smoother than before,
but it was still unmistakably Tenchi's.
The door to Washu's lab opened and the redhead walked out.
"Well?" Ryoko asked.
Washu didn't speak until she had sat down and called up her computer.
"I have good news and bad news." She told them.
"What's the good news?" Minagi wanted to know.
"Well for starters, whatever is happening is slowing down. It will stop in three hours."
"What else Washu?" Ayeka asked.
"Apart from the change of gender, nothing about Tenchi has changed. Strength, Mobility,
Speed. If anything, Tenchi's more agile because of the increased flexibility."
"I guess I'll have to be the one to ask," Kiyone said, "but what is the bad news?"
"There are three things. One, Tenchi is going to get at least 78% more beautiful." Washu
looked at Sasami. "She will likely be a match for Tsunami."
"As if my life couldn't get worse." Tenchi muttered.
Washu looked at the young lady with pity. "Two, Tenchi is as attractive to men as she is to
women."
"Is?" Ryoko blurted out. "What does that mean?"
"It means Ryoko that everything we found attractive in Tenchi as a man is still there. The
effect has just been extended to men now."
Tenchi would have cried if she wasn't in shock.
Washu took a deep breath. "Three, unless I make a major breakthrough, it will take me six
weeks to figure out a way to return Tenchi to normal."
There was a loud sigh as Tenchi stood up and walked to the stairs.
"See you in three hours." She said and walked up. Nobody spoke until she was gone.
"Six weeks!" Ayeka exclaimed. "Do you have any idea what that will do to him?"
"Her." Washu corrected. "And no, I don't. Now listen carefully. I want you to rack your
brains. I want to know of anything that might have happened last night to cause this." She
turned a withering gaze on Mihoshi. "And that goes quadruple for you. I want a full report
of everything you did yesterday. That's an order."
Mihoshi snapped to attention and saluted. "Yes Ma'am." She got out her control cube and
teleported to her shuttle.
Her partner sighed. "At least she won't get into too much trouble." Kiyone noted.
***
The atmosphere in Tenchi's room was dark, mainly because of the feelings of the person
lying on the floor. Tenchi wondered if anything about his/her life could be any worse. Now
not only was Tenchi a woman, according to Washu she was going to be an extremely
attractive one for about six weeks. It made his/her head spin.
"Tenchi?" Came a small voice from the door. It was Ryo-Ohki's.
"Come in." Tenchi called, the words deactivating the forcefield.
Ryo-Ohki phased through the door and bounded over to her friend. She didn't like to see
anyone unhappy. She climbed onto Tenchi and nuzzled against her breasts.
"Stop it." Tenchi giggled, quickly finding out she was slightly ticklish in that area.
"Tenchi." Ryo-Ohki agreed, sounding pleased with herself.
Tenchi tickled Ryo-Ohki back under the chin, causing the Cabbit to purr happily.
~ I suppose I'd better get used to this. ~ Tenchi thought to him/her self. He realised to
herself that he would get really confused if she couldn't get his pronouns straight. She found
the idea embarrassing, and the whole thing already confused him. He paused for a few
seconds to try and get her head around the concept.
"I think I need a second opinion..." She muttered to himself.
"Tenchi Tenchi." Ryo-Ohki said. "Tenchi Ryo-Ohki." Those last words had a sort of
finality to them.
"Ok." Tenchi sighed. "You win."
"MIYA Tenchi." She replied, sounding delighted. She nuzzled against Tenchi's breasts
again.
"Will you stop it?" Tenchi giggled.
~ It's going to take a while. ~ She thought to herself.
***
Ryoko was the only one in the front room as Tenchi came down near midday. She had to
admit Tenchi looked very, *very* nice.
"Hi Ryoko." She tiredly greeted the former Space pirate. It was undoubtedly Tenchi's
voice, but it was smoother and richer, with a musical lilt and some sultry undertones. In other
words it was Tenchi, but sexy.
"Hi. Are you ok?"
Tenchi paused to consider this. "I will be. Where is everybody?"
"Washu's in her lab. Kiyone is on patrol with Minagi..."
"With Minagi?"
"Yeah. Mihoshi has Yukinojo all tied up at the moment..."
***
"Mihoshi please!" Yukinojo cried.
"... Well how about this..."
Crash.
"... No? Then how about..."
Klong.
"... Oooo. My head hurts..."
***
"... So the two of them got onboard Hinase and went off on a jaunt around the Solar
system. Ayeka has gone to see Yosho and Sasami is in the kitchen."
"I could do with something to eat." And she wandered off to the kitchen.
Ryo-Ohki walked up to her master.
"Ryoko." She said, sounding smug.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Tenchi entered the kitchen. Sasami was busy making lunch.
"Oh Hi Tenchi." The little girl said.
Tenchi put on a faint smile. "Hi Sasami. Do you have anything ready to eat? I'm starved."
"Um.... Yeah! I'll just go get it." She dashed over to the fridge and got out a piece of cake.
"It's not too healthy." She warned.
Tenchi laughed. "Don't worry. I don't think I have to start watching my waistline just yet."
Sasami couldn't help but giggle in response.
"My, my, my. All those calories." Came Washu's voice from behind them. "I hope you're
not planning to live on the stuff."
Tenchi walked over to the counter and got out a cake fork. "It might be worth a shot." She
told the redhead before digging in.
Washu grinned in reply. A tape measure appeared in her hands and began taking
dimensions.
"Heyph. Stoph it."
"I'll only be a few seconds."
Washu was true to her word and was quickly finished. Her ever-present computer appeared
under her fingers and she began to type.
"What are you doing Washu?" Sasami asked.
"Well Tenchi is going to need clothes isn't she? I don't have time to make them now, but
having her measurements will make it easier."
"Easier to do what?" Tenchi asked, finishing her cake.
"Why to find out whose clothes you can borrow." Washu smiled.
Before Tenchi could run, Washu grabbed her by the arm.
"Come along young lady."
Tenchi managed one terror filled glance at Sasami before she was dragged out of the
kitchen.
Sasami sighed in sympathy.
Flowering Potential.
====================
Comments, Constructive criticisum and Praise welcome & can be sent to cobalt@elhazard.net.
Flames will be sent to the electronic ether.
P.S. The continuity used is basically OAV based with the addition of Kiyone from the TV
series and Minagi from the manga.
Disclaimer: I do not own the series depicted within, but go buy it anyway.
Conventions:
~ ~ are used for thoughts and Telepathic communication.
The series is archived at http://www.lum.co.uk/cobalt/
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Chapter 1
#########
Tenchi hated waking up. It turned a nice peaceful experience into a confused, sometimes
violent one. He began to sit up before sensing something was wrong. He looked and
couldn't believe what he saw. He reached out and touched it to confirm that it was real.
It was.
At this point he did something eminently sensible. He fainted back into unconsciousness.
***
Ryoko got up and stretched. Last night had been fun, although she hadn't been able to get
Tenchi to drink any alcohol. Speaking of which...
Ryoko flickered out of existence for a second before reappearing outside Tenchi's door.
The forcefield Washu had created for his room stopping her from teleporting straight in.
Sensing a presence, a little bundle of fur at the foot of the door uncurled to reveal Ryo-Ohki.
"Ryoko?" She questioned.
Ryoko sighed and nodded. ~ Ryoko: Don't worry. I'll use the gentle approach. ~
"Ryoko." Ryo-Ohki sounded satisfied.
Ryoko knocked on the door. Nothing happened so she knocked again and opened it. She
noted with satisfaction the sleeping figure. Walking in carefully (You never know with
things designed and built by Washu Heavy Industries), she noticed something strange about
the figure before opening the curtains.
Where a sleeping Tenchi should have been was a girl. Staring at the intruder in shock,
Ryoko barely noticed a sleepy Ryo-Ohki crawl up to the stranger. The Cabbit sniffed.
"Tenchi?" She asked before taking another sniff. "Tenchi." She confirmed.
Ryoko caught this and began to realise that this person DID look a lot like Tenchi. Fate
decided that it wasn't having enough fun and Ayeka arrived.
Taking a gaze at the scene Ayeka growled. "Ryoko..."
Ryoko looked up and put a finger to her lips before beckoning her in. Ayeka did so and
noticed the strange girl in the bed where Tenchi should be.
Ryo-Ohki looked up at the princess. "Tenchi Ayeka." She said. Ryoko shrugged. Ayeka
began seeing the similarities between the girl and Tenchi.
Fate looked upon this scene and saw it was good. The girl below them began waking up
and looked at them.
She smiled. "That's a comforting sight." She said. "I had the worst dream..." She trailed
off as she realised something and looked down her body. "It wasn't a dream." She
whispered in horror before the bliss of unconsciousness took her again.
The two puzzled women looked at each other, nodded and ran out the door heading
downstairs.
"WASHU!"
***
There was a small discussion going on in Tenchi's room.
"I'm telling you, as far as I can tell, which is very far believe me, this person is Tenchi."
Washu didn't like what she saw on the screen, mainly because it was nonsense.
"How can this girl be Tenchi?" Kiyone asked.
"Everything about her, except for her gender, is the same as Tenchi's. DNA pattern, Astral
pattern, Overdimension, Energy readings, Everything. I should know right?"
Everybody else shuddered at the thought.
The girl on the floor groaned slightly.
"Why not let me handle this?" Washu told them. "Alone."
The rest of the group did so, Ryoko throwing a suspicious look at her 'Mom' as she
followed. Washu moved to sit beside the girl's head. The girl opened her eyes.
"Are you alright?" Washu asked.
"I think so Washu." The girl replied. Her voice was almost, but not quite, Tenchi's. "God,
what a nightmare. I thought I was..." The voice trailed off as she realised something. She
looked down at herself, then looked at Washu. "What have you done to me now Washu?"
The girl growled.
A screen flashed into existence beside Washu. The message on it read:
"Analysis Complete. Probability at 99.75%. Subject is Tenchi Masaki."
Washu sighed. "I haven't done anything Tenchi. We found you like this."
The girl who was Tenchi gapped at her before looking at herself again. She slumped down
and closed her eyes.
"Why me?" Tenchi asked the universe at large. Tenchi needed something to keep him/her
sane, something reassuring. Tenchi held out a hand and concentrated. Something flashed
across the room and stopped in Tenchi's hand, Tenchi-ken, The Master Key.
This little trick wiped away any vestige of doubt left in Washu's mind. Yosho had told her
that only the true owner of the sword could use that ability of the sword. She put to one side
the fact that Tenchi had never demonstrated control of the sword like that.
The young lady who had been Tenchi didn't put it to one side as she realised who was in the
room with her.
"Uh... Washu I can explain..." She began.
"Later Tenchi. I have other concerns. Can you think of anything that might of caused
this?"
Tenchi's face screwed up in concentration. "Um... I went to bed before you came out of
the lab to watch that program. I was fine then. Maybe that thing with Ryo-Ohki..."
"What thing?" Washu asked sharply.
"I patted her on the head and my power surged and there was a flash..."
Washu began typing furiously at her keyboard. "I didn't notice anything... Didn't see a
flash... Energy surge is here... No resonant field... No Tenchi that wasn't it. Nothing
about Ryo-Ohki affected you. But that's another thing I'll have to investigate." The
computer disappeared. "Come on Tenchi, we have to pay a little visit to my lab. And we're
walking, I don't want to disturb anything."
Tenchi looked worried.
Washu sighed. "The sooner we do it, the sooner we can have you back in your own body."
Tenchi looked unsure but got up. She noticed something else.
"Um... Washu..."
Washu looked at Tenchi with a bit of frustration, but not unkindly. She could well imagine
what the poor boy was going through.
"Yes Tenchi?"
"M... They...um..." She said, gesturing vaguely at her chest. "They...err...seem to
have...um...grown."
Washu shook her head in sympathy. "Then we'd better get a move on, eh?"
***
It was a few hours later. The dejected figure sitting on the couch was obviously female.
She was also obviously Tenchi. In her hands she held the Master Key and occasionally she
would activate it and gaze at the blade.
Sasami tried to console Tenchi. "Don't worry. Washu will fix it."
Ryo-Ohki meowed in agreement.
Everybody else was sat or stood around quietly. Sasami had the best chance to bring Tenchi
out of it, and they knew that.
Seeing that it wasn't working, the young princess tried another tack.
"Look on the bright side, you're very pretty." Which was true.
The rest of the room inwardly cringed. But it got a response.
Tenchi sighed. "Thanks Sasami." She said quietly. Her voice was smoother than before,
but it was still unmistakably Tenchi's.
The door to Washu's lab opened and the redhead walked out.
"Well?" Ryoko asked.
Washu didn't speak until she had sat down and called up her computer.
"I have good news and bad news." She told them.
"What's the good news?" Minagi wanted to know.
"Well for starters, whatever is happening is slowing down. It will stop in three hours."
"What else Washu?" Ayeka asked.
"Apart from the change of gender, nothing about Tenchi has changed. Strength, Mobility,
Speed. If anything, Tenchi's more agile because of the increased flexibility."
"I guess I'll have to be the one to ask," Kiyone said, "but what is the bad news?"
"There are three things. One, Tenchi is going to get at least 78% more beautiful." Washu
looked at Sasami. "She will likely be a match for Tsunami."
"As if my life couldn't get worse." Tenchi muttered.
Washu looked at the young lady with pity. "Two, Tenchi is as attractive to men as she is to
women."
"Is?" Ryoko blurted out. "What does that mean?"
"It means Ryoko that everything we found attractive in Tenchi as a man is still there. The
effect has just been extended to men now."
Tenchi would have cried if she wasn't in shock.
Washu took a deep breath. "Three, unless I make a major breakthrough, it will take me six
weeks to figure out a way to return Tenchi to normal."
There was a loud sigh as Tenchi stood up and walked to the stairs.
"See you in three hours." She said and walked up. Nobody spoke until she was gone.
"Six weeks!" Ayeka exclaimed. "Do you have any idea what that will do to him?"
"Her." Washu corrected. "And no, I don't. Now listen carefully. I want you to rack your
brains. I want to know of anything that might have happened last night to cause this." She
turned a withering gaze on Mihoshi. "And that goes quadruple for you. I want a full report
of everything you did yesterday. That's an order."
Mihoshi snapped to attention and saluted. "Yes Ma'am." She got out her control cube and
teleported to her shuttle.
Her partner sighed. "At least she won't get into too much trouble." Kiyone noted.
***
The atmosphere in Tenchi's room was dark, mainly because of the feelings of the person
lying on the floor. Tenchi wondered if anything about his/her life could be any worse. Now
not only was Tenchi a woman, according to Washu she was going to be an extremely
attractive one for about six weeks. It made his/her head spin.
"Tenchi?" Came a small voice from the door. It was Ryo-Ohki's.
"Come in." Tenchi called, the words deactivating the forcefield.
Ryo-Ohki phased through the door and bounded over to her friend. She didn't like to see
anyone unhappy. She climbed onto Tenchi and nuzzled against her breasts.
"Stop it." Tenchi giggled, quickly finding out she was slightly ticklish in that area.
"Tenchi." Ryo-Ohki agreed, sounding pleased with herself.
Tenchi tickled Ryo-Ohki back under the chin, causing the Cabbit to purr happily.
~ I suppose I'd better get used to this. ~ Tenchi thought to him/her self. He realised to
herself that he would get really confused if she couldn't get his pronouns straight. She found
the idea embarrassing, and the whole thing already confused him. He paused for a few
seconds to try and get her head around the concept.
"I think I need a second opinion..." She muttered to himself.
"Tenchi Tenchi." Ryo-Ohki said. "Tenchi Ryo-Ohki." Those last words had a sort of
finality to them.
"Ok." Tenchi sighed. "You win."
"MIYA Tenchi." She replied, sounding delighted. She nuzzled against Tenchi's breasts
again.
"Will you stop it?" Tenchi giggled.
~ It's going to take a while. ~ She thought to herself.
***
Ryoko was the only one in the front room as Tenchi came down near midday. She had to
admit Tenchi looked very, *very* nice.
"Hi Ryoko." She tiredly greeted the former Space pirate. It was undoubtedly Tenchi's
voice, but it was smoother and richer, with a musical lilt and some sultry undertones. In other
words it was Tenchi, but sexy.
"Hi. Are you ok?"
Tenchi paused to consider this. "I will be. Where is everybody?"
"Washu's in her lab. Kiyone is on patrol with Minagi..."
"With Minagi?"
"Yeah. Mihoshi has Yukinojo all tied up at the moment..."
***
"Mihoshi please!" Yukinojo cried.
"... Well how about this..."
Crash.
"... No? Then how about..."
Klong.
"... Oooo. My head hurts..."
***
"... So the two of them got onboard Hinase and went off on a jaunt around the Solar
system. Ayeka has gone to see Yosho and Sasami is in the kitchen."
"I could do with something to eat." And she wandered off to the kitchen.
Ryo-Ohki walked up to her master.
"Ryoko." She said, sounding smug.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah."
Tenchi entered the kitchen. Sasami was busy making lunch.
"Oh Hi Tenchi." The little girl said.
Tenchi put on a faint smile. "Hi Sasami. Do you have anything ready to eat? I'm starved."
"Um.... Yeah! I'll just go get it." She dashed over to the fridge and got out a piece of cake.
"It's not too healthy." She warned.
Tenchi laughed. "Don't worry. I don't think I have to start watching my waistline just yet."
Sasami couldn't help but giggle in response.
"My, my, my. All those calories." Came Washu's voice from behind them. "I hope you're
not planning to live on the stuff."
Tenchi walked over to the counter and got out a cake fork. "It might be worth a shot." She
told the redhead before digging in.
Washu grinned in reply. A tape measure appeared in her hands and began taking
dimensions.
"Heyph. Stoph it."
"I'll only be a few seconds."
Washu was true to her word and was quickly finished. Her ever-present computer appeared
under her fingers and she began to type.
"What are you doing Washu?" Sasami asked.
"Well Tenchi is going to need clothes isn't she? I don't have time to make them now, but
having her measurements will make it easier."
"Easier to do what?" Tenchi asked, finishing her cake.
"Why to find out whose clothes you can borrow." Washu smiled.
Before Tenchi could run, Washu grabbed her by the arm.
"Come along young lady."
Tenchi managed one terror filled glance at Sasami before she was dragged out of the
kitchen.
Sasami sighed in sympathy.