Author's notes: Hahahaha! I'm a T/R kinda girl, but I must admit, I'm the cutest and the coolest girl there is! Heehee. Am I giving anything away...? ^^ BTW, Sareka is an older version of me with no style change or what-not.
Disclaimor: I own none of the Tenchi characters. I DO, howerver, own Sareka! yay!
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!Chapter Six!
:Goddess of Night:

"NO!" Ryoko yelled, leaping in front of Tenchi as the energy ball escaped Sareka's hands and flew towards Tenchi. Moments before it hit Ryoko, Sareka pulled down her hand and it dissapeared. Sareka gasped for breath, and began to sob.

"Tenchi..." she cried. "I'm sorry. I...I must kill you. It's for the best. I..." her voice quavored, and she fell to the ground on her knees. "I can't." She was crying harder then ever now, and she closed her eyes.

"I'm sorry," she said. "I'm sorry." She repeated that for awhile, and Tenchi got tears in his eyes as well.

"Sareka...what's going on?" he asked her. She looked up.

"I remember now," she said. "I remember why I'm here. I remember my mission." she sobbed. "I'm...supposed to kill you."

"But...why?" Tenchi wondered. She cried again.

"I am goddess of night," Sareka said. "I am the night, the night is me. I was happy as the night, I flirted with alot of guys," (wink) "although it was depressing to see people play without me. You see, in the daytime, I don't exist. I only exist in the day. But my soul...can see the day. Anyways, I'm from the future, and in the future, I came by, and I...I saw you here. It was night, and you...your Jurai power inside you...it was power that reached me. And in the future...it..." she gasped for air and sobbed. "It killed me. The goddess of night. It...destroyed me. It wasn't your fault. You were outside, watching the stars, when I happened to come by. I got too close, and your Jurai power reacted to my own, and it destoyed me. But before I died, I had enough power to get back in time, to destroy you before you destroyed me. But my dying body in the future saw your eyes, watching the stars, smiling, and...fell in love with you. By then it was too late, and I was already in the present. But my future dying self didn't want you to die. So it somehow destroyed my memory, so I couldn't remember my mission. I couldn't even remember who I was. My future self...hoped I could live with you, happily. Ever after. Her wish came true for the first few days. But when Ryoko saw withen me, she could see the memories I couldn't. She could see I was out to kill you." Sareka paused, and looked up at Tenchi. He was smiling a sad smile, and was rying. Even Ryoko had a tiny tear in her eye. She continued. "When she brought me here, somehow, I was able to recover my memories. Since she could see them, it helped me see them. And I remembered my mission...to kill you." Sareka stood up, and looked Tenchi straight in the eye. He backed off. "I can't, Tenchi. I can't kill you. You were so kind to me. Too kind. I don't have the heart. I...I rather die myself, then kill you." Then Sareka walked towards Tenchi, and leaned in close to him. Under the circumstances, Ryoko forgot to yell at her.

"I love you, Tenchi," Sareka whispered in his ear. The way she said it, reminded him the way Ryoko said it. The same words, the same voice. The same love.

He wanted to say it. He really did. He would mean it. But he didn't. He couldn't. Not with Ryoko there. And so he let go of her, and she let go of him. She smiled at him, tears were still streaming down her face, and she dissapeared. Back into the night. And so she never came back.


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~Sareka~
It's getting so sad! :'( Oh well. It will have a happy ending. In the next chapter, you'll see why this is called, "I'll Wait For You."
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