To be a Princess, Day 9 - Afterglow
Peace, calm and serene are but a few of the words that Tenchi would use to describe this morning, well after he got over his initial shock. He awoke this morning to find a strange weight on his chest. Then opening his eyes slowly he was greeted by a familiar spiky cyan hair attached to a very nude Ryoko. At first he was scared to move then slowly memories of the previous night filtered in. As the memories played out before his mind eye he was able to determine that they both were necked.
After he recovered from the initial shock and he realized again that what he had thought was a mistake was in truth one of the best things he has done. Smiling now at his Ryoko, his Angel, his fiancé and now his lover he never wanted this to end. This feeling inside him was peaceful and calming. Tenchi warped an arm around her waist and let it rest on her bare back. Ryoko let out a slight sigh as well but kept her eyes closed. It was not possible to tell if she was awake or not, but he did not mind.
Using his other hand he began to run his fingers through the locks of her hair just enjoying the closeness that they were sharing. His more rational side began to try and push thoughts of the future into his head as he knew that this would not be generally accepted and as Ayeka would say not proper. But he did not care at the moment. Right now it was easier and more enjoyable to just push that aside and revel in the new closeness that he now shared with her.
Occasionally she would move a little as he held her, and each time she did he became more and more aware at how soft she felt against him, and how clothe-less they both were. Smiling he remembered how he would have reacted to this not just two weeks ago. If he would have seen her necked as she was now he would have screamed and fainted just like normal. But now, now there did not appear to be a problem, it just felt natural, normal, and strangely welcome.
Ryoko had slept through the night and none of her normal nightmares had shown themselves to her. There my have been some nights where she got a little sleep but nothing like last night. She had shared herself with him and it was beyond anything that she had known. In all her thousands of years as a pirate she had nothing to base the feelings that she had felt then. Since meeting Tenchi all those years ago she had cared for him. And in watching him grow she was unsure how much she felt for him. After he released her she tried to become closer to him but she never really understood her own emotions.
For all the evil that Kagato had done there was one good thing, and that was that he showed her how much she loved Tenchi. Since then she tried to show him but it never seemed to work, but now. Now he not only loved her back but also wanted her to be his wife, and finally last night her greatest dream had come true. The future had never been something that she had looked forward to, but now she looked forward to when Tenchi and her would be married and then she would be his wife! She sighed happily and snuggled against him as he held her.
At first she had thought it was a dream, but when she had woke up this morning he was still holding her, and now he was holding and caressing her. "This day could not get any better," she thought to herself. Despite what she wanted she knew that sooner or later he would have to move, but she tried to postpone it for as long as possible.
As he caressed her it became obvious to him that she was awake, but just did not want to move. He considered it for a moment and knew why she would not want to move yet and at the present he did not want her to move. However there was one thing that let them both know than it was time to move. As he held her he opened his mouth to tell her something, but his stomach beat him to it. It let out a low rumble that she could practically feel laying on him like this.
The peaceful moment was lost as she started to snicker. He closed his mouth the reopened it to finally tell her what was on his mind. "Ryoko, I love you, but I need to get some breakfast." She began to laugh slightly as she lifted herself up off him to look him in the eyes.
"Oh, I would never have guessed." The words and her eyes had a joyful almost bounce to them as he realized how happy she really was. Smiling at her he caressed her cheek with a hand then gave her a gentle kiss before trying to sit up completely. To his amazement she actually let him sit up and even get out of bed while she just sat on the edge of the bed watching. She seemed to be watching him waiting for him to do or say something; at least that's what he figured from her look.
He held up some of his clothes as he stood at the foot of the bed still clothe-less, but he was not ashamed or even embarrassed by it. A grin appeared on his face as he realized how strange the situation seemed, and yet he remained calm, even with her sitting on the edge of the bed also without apparel. He recognized this look from last night; it was one of love. It emanated from her and he also noticed it from himself.
Smiling again he shook his head at what he was about to suggest, but he knew they both needed one. "Would you like to join me for a shower first?" Tenchi was unable to follow her movements as she disappeared from the bed only to appear next to him with her arms wrapped around him then before he could even blink they were standing in the shower. What followed was a mix of their expressions of love, lust and a desire to get clean.
It was sometime around noon before either of them even ventured off the upper level of the chateau to the kitchen where they found Ryo-Ohki sitting in her human form with a mound of carrots on one side of her. And to her other side was a mound of just carrot tops obviously from carrots that she had already eaten. Ryoko not being one for cooking allowed Tenchi to cook them a simple breakfast of eggs and toast. They both knew it was not as good as Sasami made but it was still a breakfast even though it was after noon.
Tenchi and Ryoko both seemed to be acting strangely to Ryo-Ohki, the little cabbit had been feeling her mistress' pure joy all-night and still now. It seemed to her that sometime soon they would get back to normal. When she had woke up to find them gone she was worried until she realized they were just in the shower. Knowing them to be ok she headed downstairs to her now love, that wondrous machine that would give her carrots. Since discovering this miracle machine she has become quite good at saying "carrot".
She hopped that this day would not end as both of them were extremely happy, and she liked it that way. She herself was happy about the way things had been going so she began singing a little song as they ate. She had been so happy singing that she had barely noticed Tenchi leave to go answer the phone in another room.
Upon re-entering the room he told them "We, um, have a problem." As they looked up he explained what was happening to them. "That was one of the managers of the resort. It seems that a group of armed people is holding up the place and..."
"What does that have to do with us?"
He sighed heavily; "They are looking for us."
"What! What did we do?"
"Before the phone went dead the manager said they appeared to be bounty hunters." His shoulders slumped and Ryo-Ohki could see they tranquil moment had passed.
"But my record has been deleted!"
"They don't seem to care, but they may be headed here now so we have to leave soon." He turned to go when she stopped him.
"What? Why? We can take 'em on." In her eyes he could see the anger building steadily.
"No, your record has been cleared and if we fight then they could use that against you. We will go before they get here, ok?"
"But our stuff? My dress?" Her world seemed to crumble around her as her perfect time with him was coming to an end all too quickly. He turned to say something but the look in her eyes made him stop and rethink things. After all that they had been through here they were just about to leave it all behind. He could not ask her to do that but he did not think they should stay. "What if Ryo-Ohki took the house with us?" He raised an eyebrow quizzically then remembered how she had moved his house from the city to his grandfathers' shrine.
She stood there, here eyes begging him to say yes, and realizing what taking her stuff meant to her he could not say no, but he knew he would have to pay for this house. "Ok, we will take it, let's just hurry." He was not even aware as he spoke the words she had teleported them to the top of the chateau. Looking around as he finished talking he realized what had happened and he smiled at her.
In the distance they could see a number of transports arriving so Ryo-Ohki transformed quickly and began to shrink the house for transport. Tenchi could not believe that he was letting her steal a house even if he was going to pay for it later, he still thought they were stealing it. Aboard the cabbit the two of them stood watching as the transports loomed closer while Ryo-Ohki hovered over the chateau trying to reduce it. "Tenchi, Ryo-Ohki says it's taking time to shrink it. She's never tried to shrink something this big before."
He wrapped an arm around her as their enemies came closer. They stopped just a short distance from them. He was about to ask why when he say a rather large cannon thing pointed at them. "Um Ryo-Ohki hurry up!"
They watched as the cannon was leveled at them and then began to power up. "They aren't taking any chances I guess..." he told them nervously. He closed his eyes and hugged Ryoko tight as the gun prepared to fire. The shout was the worst thing he had ever heard in his life, and he instantly thought they were dead from the loud cry from Ryo-Ohki. When he heard Ryoko laughing though he finally opened his eyes to see the ground being left behind quickly.
The others on the ground began firing and the air around them was filled with weapons fire. Tenchi looked down to see the chateau shrunken and safely on board. He began to laugh as he noticed how similar this seemed to once in his life a log time ago. He leaned closer to Ryoko and told her, "We'll run away."
She looked at him strangely then began to laugh when the memory of when she had said that to him came to mind. "Looking up she called out, "Ryo-Ohki, lets go!" And with a mighty cry from the cabbit they left the planet.