DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the Tenchi characters, I simply wrote this fic for fun.



STORY: The Universe Beyond

CHAPTER: 3

CHAPTER TITLE: To Be Alone

A/N: Sorry for the short chapters I've been packing up for this story. Hopefully I will get to write them a bit longer from now on.

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Evening
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Sasami sat patiently waiting for the rest of her extended family to sit down and eat. Of course, this would take some time since the bigger part of the girls in the house where helping Washu with the cleaning up of her lab. She did not, however, know where Tenchi and Ryoko where.

"Meow, meow," Ryo-ohki said to her small friend.

"Hey, Ryo-ohki. Do you know where Tenchi and Ryoko are?" Sasami asked the cabbit.

Ryo-ohki simply shook her head. Sasami sighed and started petting her small companion. "I can't believe Mihoshi would cause such an accident."

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On the roof
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Tenchi and Ryoko were about to kiss* when they heard Sasami's voice calling Tenchi. Ryoko looked at Tenchi and softly blushed before she disappeared. "Yes?" Tenchi answered at Sasami's call.

"There you are! I've been looking all over for you! Didn't you hear the explosion?" she asked looking up to where Tenchi was.

"Explosion?"

"Yeah, Mihoshi pressed some buttons again and Washu's lab is a mess. Aren't you getting cold?" she asked him as she saw that he was merely wearing a T-shirt.

Tenchi didn't even think about the cold, 'how could I?' he thought. He smiled and called down to Sasami that he'd be down in a second.

"Alright," Sasami called up to Tenchi, "now we can go eat," she told Ryo-ohki. Sasami gasped as she noticed that Ryo-ohki started to disappear.

Ryo-ohki meowed with fear as she saw the image of her best friend disappear from her eyes.

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Elsewhere
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A young male of about eighteen in age loudly yawned as the sun early sun hit his eyes. He ran his fingers through his short brown hair looking at his surroundings. 'Another weird dream,' he told himself. In the past few months he had dreamt of nothing but a pair of golden eyes looking at him. He didn't know what they meant or who they belonged to. He shrugged the thought away and got up from his futon. "Misa!" the young male called.

"What is it my love?" a slender female with blue eyes and long black hair that swung freely down her waist called from within the bath.

"I thought you had gone out," the male called.

"No, I'm just taking a shower. Wanna join me?" she shouted with a soft giggle.

The brown haired male smiled and quickly headed towards the shower. "You're such a tease!" he told Misa.

Misa laughed and extended her hand out to the young male, "do you wanna stay out there or join me?"

The young man didn't think twice and took the hand entering the shower.

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In planet Vera
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The bell announcing that school was starting rang preparing students for a new day of school.

"Oh no! I'm going to be late! I can't be late!" a young girl with long blue hair tied in one ponytail said to herself trying to catch her breath. "I can't ruin my perfect attendance record being late today!"

As the young girl continued running, she didn't see that a teacher was in her running coarse. In what seemed like seconds, the teacher and the blue haired girl both fell to the ground. Papers flew everywhere as both figures fell. "Student, you must keep at all times a watch on your wrist that way you wont be late and wont be giving me bruises like these!"

"I'm sorry professor!" the young girl excused herself from the teal haired driving instructor. "It's just that I've never been late and I can't ruin my record!"

"Alright then, just make sure this doesn't happen again!" the professor warned.

"Yes," the young girl bowed apologetically and quickly rushed towards the school.

The young driving instructor sighed 'these students are going to be the end of me!"

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On a town nearby
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"Alright, we have to get to the Northern Bank ASAP if we want to catch the robbers!" a young tanned looking officer with blonde wavy hair directed a crew of police officers. 'I can't let people like this ruin this wonderful planet!' the young officer told herself.

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In the High School
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"Alright, students. Take your seats," professor Kage told his group of emotionally unstable teens that sat in his third period class. "We have a new student teacher and I ask of you to treat her with respect or else you'll be dealing with Principal Harvey and getting strong consequences."

The group quickly sat down and became silent.

"You can come in," he told the figure that was waiting outside. The student teacher looked no older than twelve years of age and her head full of spiky red hair didn't add any more thought to her looks. Her green eyes however, caused great fear to the ones that looked into them.

"Good morning," she said to the class. "I hope to get to know each and everyone of you and that we have a good semester."

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Planet Cer
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A waitress patiently awaited the order of her customers, "let's see if I got this right. You would like miso soup and two vegetarian hamburgers?"

"Yes," the customer answered.

"Alright then," the young purple haired waitress said before leaving. Her whole figure and persona resembled that of a sophisticated princess stuck in the wrong place.

"You can take a break now," her friend, Rei, told her making hand signals towards the door. "You deserve the break so don't act like you don't!"

The young waitress smiled, "okay you win. I'm going to town for a few minutes, get my mind cleared."

"Take your time," Rei called out.

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In town
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A young couple walked hysterically laughing at something of them had said. "I can't believe you did that!" The male companion told his beloved girlfriend.

The young cyan haired female laughed, looked deeply into his green eyes as he held his neck with her arms around it. She played with his short brown hair as she began to talk, "Oh, Tenko*, it seems you still don't know me very well."

Tenko looked deeply into his lover's golden eyes, "your eyes are mesmerizing. Have I told you that?"

His mate nodded.

"That's what I love about you," he before he placed his lips on his girl's and pulled her into a passionate kiss.

The young waitress from before hurried towards the street and didn't notice anyone in front of her path as she bumped into Tenko and his girlfriend. "I'm sorry," she said, between sobs.

"Watch where in hell you're going!" the golden eyed girl yelled.

"I'm sorry," the waitress said once more.

"Are you alright, miss?" Tenko asked.

"Tenko, why are you worried about this rude bitch?"

"Settle down! Can't you see she's crying?"

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Planet Vera
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Ryo-ohki roamed around the crowded halls of Pink Hall Elementary School. She stopped as she saw a the young blue haired girl in front of her class. 'Sasami,' she thought. She ran into the classroom and meowed happily as she climbed on the girl's head.

"Get away from me!" the girl yelled as she threw the small cabbit off of her.

Ryo-ohki looked up at the girl, with hurt eyes and ran out of the room. She sat crying on a black alley, 'what's going one here? Where are you, Ryoko? Where am I?'.

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Earth...
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Sasami ran into the house, "Washu! Everybody! Ryo-ohki disappeared!" she yelled.

"What do you mean 'disappeared?'" Ryoko asked.

"She just banished..." she said as she fell down to her knees and started to cry hard.


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* Apparently, the last we saw Tenchi and Ryoko, it was around dusk... or so.

* Tenko? Ooh! The mystery! LOL
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Next Time: What in the world is going on? Is it me or are there two copies of our heroes? Will Ryo-ohki ever figure out where she is? The Tenchi world goes round and round as many things are explained yet make things complicated. We follow the group from space and our family down on Earth. Join me next time as the complicated storyline continues in chapter 4: The Mystery Begins