To Choose A Mother:
Chapter:Tenchi decides
Disclaimer: I dont own Tenchi
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Tenchi and Ryoko spoke about the situation of Mayuka's power.

They looked like parents worrying about their child.

"Tenchi,you're twenty six years old.We've been living over 10 years with you here. Don't you think its time?" Ryoko asked
Tenchi.

"Ryoko,I tought our main theme was Mayuka." Tenchi paused after he said this.

She was right.

He had spent 10 years with them,and he never told them who he had chosen.

Ryoko got up,sighed and looked at Tenchi.

"I know..but I think,enough if enough you know.I can't even bare to think now how one of us would feel when you told the other
who'd you chosen. Since we've gotten so close to you...and each other,but you can't help it. One of us will get hurt,either you choose or not."

"Ryoko,you know who I chose don't you?" said Tenchi,standing up too.

"Yes...that's exactly why..." Ryoko felt silence as Tenchi pulled her close to him and gave her a hug.

Ryoko felt as if she were melting.

But little did they know Mayuka was watching them both from the kitchen.

A tear fell from Ryoko's eye.

"Oh please,Ryoko don't..." he told her.

Ryoko wanted to free herself from his embrace.

Just then he kissed her.

Ryoko couldn't take it any longer.

She teleported to her room.

She threw herself into bed and wrapped her arms around herself.
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Tenchi stood looking at the stairs.

He knew where she had gone off to.

Why had she gotten so upset?

Then he heard a noise,and he turned.

"Mayuka?" he gasped.

"You picked her?" she asked,Tenchi could note anger all over her face.

Tenchi slowly noded.

Mayuka stomped on the floor and left.

Whats with them?! Tenchi asked himself.

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Morning.................
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Tenchi worked on the fields.

"Lord Tenchi,I've brought you a snack." said Ayeka in her sweetest voice ever possible.

"Thank you, Ayeka." he took the lunch box from her hands.

Tenchi left the shovel on the floor and sat under the nearest tree's shadow.

Ayeka sat beside him and watched him as he ate.

Tenchi ate the meal rapidly and then got up.

"Lord Tenchi,if you'll excuse me ,I'll go off now. I have to do my chores,unlike someone I know..." The last part was almost
a whisper.

Tenchi rolled his eyes and noded, then went back to work.

Ayeka started walking towards the house.

She was halfway trough when she heard Tenchi's voice.

"Ryoko" she heard him say.

The tone of his voice...yes she knew that tone.

I was the tone he used when that demon bothered him.

But strange...his voice was followed by laughs from him.

Not his nervous laugh...it was a happy laugh...

She turned and went back to the scene.

When she arrived,she saw something that she wished she had never seen.

Lord Tenchi and that demon...kissing.

The demon had her arms wrapped around his neck...

She could clearly see Tenchi wasn't being forced into the kissing...he was kissing her back...

She saw as the demon pulled Tenchi backwards on purpouse,and they fell together.

Tears started falling from Ayeka's eyes.

She couldn't help to look at them.

He looked happy and so did she.

Tears from anger,pain and agony all together.

She let a small cry slip.

Tenchi's eyes drifted towards that direction,since he had heard Ayeka's cry.

Ryoko wondered why Tenchi had suddenly stopped kissing her.

Then she looked at the direction he was looking at.

She saw Ayeka's face red as a tomato.

She also saw the tears that flowed from her eyes like a fountain.

"How...how could you do this to me,Lord Tenchi?" she managed to ask.

"Ayeka..."

Tenchi approached her but she ran away.

Tenchi followed her,Ryoko ran after Tenchi.

Ayeka got inside first,and she went to her room.

Ayeka started packing the few things she had there, then told Mihoshi to take her to Jurai.

Mihoshi carried her stuff to Yagami.

Ayeka closed the door to her bedroom and when she turned she found Mayuka standing right infront of her.

"Mommy?Where are you going? Why were you crying?" Mayuka asked.

"Oh Mayuka....you have to stop calling me that...I'm no longer your mother..." she said to her,wiping tears from her
eyes.

"What?" Mayuka was confused.

"Your father has chosen somebody who's not me...therefore I'm leaving...she's your mother." Ayeka told Mayuka.

"No...I don't want you to leave! You're my only mother! You're the one who's always cared for me! You're the one who's
always treated me like a daughter besides my father!" Mayuka told her.

Ayeka's heart melted, she kneeled and hugged her.

"Oh,Mayuka...I'm so sorry..." she said.

Mayuka held unto Ayeka tightly,and she felt tears run down her own cheek.

" I don't want you to go... " Mayuka told her.

Tenchi arrived and found the two hugging each other.

"Goodbye..." Ayeka told Mayuka, as she got up.

They both spoted Tenchi at the same time,not being able to look at him,Ayeka looked to the wall behind him.

"Daddy I hate you! I hate you and Ryoko!" Mayuka said as she stomped on the floor.

"Why Ryoko? She's not nice! She doesn't like me or care for me!" Mayuka asked.

"What are you saying!" Tenchi glared at Ayeka,as if thinking she had driven Mayuka to believe this.

"Ryoko is nice. Ryoko has cared for you, Mayuka. She's always loved you. She fed you her own milk,and you...you think she
doesn't love you? Ryoko cares for you alot too. She thinks of you as a daughter..." Tenchi said to Mayuka.

"She h- I dont want her to be my mother! I want Ayeka to!" she said pointing at Ayeka.

"Mayuka you have to-" Tenchi was cut off by the slamming of Mayuka's room's door.

She heard it being locked afterwards.

"Mayuka..." he said annoyingly, as he knocked on the door.

"Go away! I hate you!" he heard Mayuka yell at him from inside.

Tenchi sighed,and then looked over to where Ayeka had been.

She was no longer there.

She found her downstairs speaking to Sasami about leaving tomorrow morning.

Mihoshi had gotten out of the ship to look for Ayeka,and when she heard they were leaving tomorrow she even hugged Ayeka.

"Great! Im just so tired!" Mihoshi said.

She sat on the couch and turned the t.v on.

Ayeka came up the stairs,and without looking at Tenchi she entered her room.

Tenchi sighed once again.

"I heard what Mayuka said..." Tenchi heard Ryoko's voice behind him.

"Oh..." tenchi said worriedly.

He was about to say something comforting but Ryoko stopped him.

"I know that she hates me with all her guts now. But I understand. Tenchi,if its what she wants...,don't you think it would
be better if she left with Ayeka?"

He could notice pain in Ryoko's voice.

"I'm sure she doesn't ha-" "She does." Ryoko interrupted him.

Mayuka was listening to their conversation.

She sighed.

She didn't really hate Ryoko.

Suddenly she felt a presence in her room.

When she turned to face the person,she screamed.

"Mayuka!" Ryoko and Tenchi both yelled.

Ryoko teleported through the door and saw it.

It wasn't a person it was..some sort of thing that had tentacles attached to it's back.

It quickly knocked Mayuka out with one of its tentacles.

"No!You let her go now!!" Ryoko yelled.

The thing hit her with one of the tentacles and wrapped it around them both.

The thing laughed,Ryoko could now see it was a she.

"You're both mine now." it said,it's voice sounded as if there was more than one person inside it.

Tenchi broke the door to open it.

"Ryoko!" Tenchi yelled.

He tried to attack it with his sword but it was slapped away from his hands.
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