...Thanks to everybody who reviewed. Sorry chapter two took so long to post but I have had a major case of writer's block.
He was alone again, but this was different. Instead of helplessly floating in nothingness he was walking through a forest. The setting sun's orange light bounced off the fallen leaves and back up onto the trunks of the trees around him. It gave the beautiful illusion that the forest was glowing, it was brilliant. Well, maybe ordinary for someone who had seen it all their life, but for him, it was spectacular. He walked. Not knowing where to go, or where he was going seemed to make no difference here. Is this heaven? It couldn't be hell, he had been in the best comprehension of hell most of his life.
"It must be heaven." He said looking up to the full moon already present in the darkening sky.
"I'm flattered, but its not heaven." A childish voice sounded behind him. He spun defensively around to meet a young girl with long red hair stepping out from behind a tree. She smiled, a kind of smile that meant she knew something you didn't.
"Well where am I then?" The man asked abandoning his defensive stance.
"Actually," she started "we are inside your head."
The man only cocked one eyebrow up in contemplation.
"You see, you have been unconscious for about two days now. Your body has healed, very quickly I might add, but for some reason you are still in a coma. So I rigged up this little forest and transported myself into your mind to see if you were really brain dead. You can thank me later, but it was nothing for THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC GENIUS IN THE UNIVERSE!!!"
"Well I don't think I'm brain dead." He said with a little sense of humor in his voice.
Washu laughed. "Of course not, but you were dead dead for a while there. My little Ryoko did a number on you."
The stranger turned away. "Tell me Washu, you haven't figured out who I am yet have you?"
An unnatural look of puzzlement adorned Washu's face; one thing she hated was someone knowing something she didn't. "That's one of the things I haven't figured out, your DNA strains were so complex I couldn't get past the first pair of chromosomes." She said completely missing the fact that he somehow knew her name.
"And the other is you want to know who was controlling me, right?" The man cut off still facing away from the scientist.
"Yep, you know your pretty smart." She said setting down on a fallen log. "So feel like talking?"
"There is not much to talk about, I have been controlled by the Goddess Tokimi as long as I can remember."
"Tokimi, but why did she make you attack us."
"The rest I wish to tell you and the others in person. I need to think for a while, if you don't mind I would like to stay in this forest for a few more days."
"On one condition, tell me who you are. Something about you is so familiar to me."
He turned and looked her in the eyes for a brief moment before casting his to the ground. "I am the same man that kidnapped your daughter and locked you away in the bowels of the Souja for 2000 years."
"Kagato..."
~~~:*:~~~
"He's who!!" Ryoko yelled.
"Kagato." Washu said calmly while sipping her tea.
A blazing red sword formed in Ryoko's hands as she marched towards her mother's lab/closet. "I'll kill him! This time for good!!"
"Ryoko stop it!" Washu's voice was stern now. "You not going to kill him while he is helplessly laying there, especially after I spent two days putting him back together."
"But Miss Washu." Ayeka started. "If you haven't forgotten Kagato made your daughter his slave, not to mention killed Lord Tenchi."
"I know, I know." The scientist said pinching the bridge of her nose. "It's just..."
"Just what! What could possibly justify letting that monster live another second!" Ryoko yelled as tears rolled down her cheeks. "Is it because Tokimi was telling him what to do! He still had a choice damnit!" Ryoko turned and walked to a far corner of the living room, desperately trying to regain her composure, but mostly so the others wouldn't see her cry. "He used me like a tool for over 2000 years, say what you want but when he wakes up I will kill him."
"Ryoko.." Tenchi said as the cyan haired woman dissipated out of sight. He had never heard her like that. She was so emotional. The living room remained silent. One by one the members of the Misaki household began to resume their lives, but with thoughts of Kagato plaguing their thoughts.
"Washu?" Tenchi asked when they were the two left in the room.
"Yes Tenchi?"
Tenchi gulped. "Was that Ryoko or Zero, when she said that about killing Kagato?"
"It was Ryoko..."
~~~:*:~~~
Tenchi stood in the yard looking up to the roof where Ryoko usually sat this time of night. It was cold, uncommonly cold for this time of year Tenchi thought shoving his hands in his pockets.
"I'm sure she will be back after she has cooled off." Ayeka said joining Tenchi looking up at the moon.
"Yea, shouldn't take long in this wind." He chuckled, however it was devoid of humor. The two stood in an uncomfortable silence for what seemed like an eternity.
"Penny for your thoughts." Tenchi said abandoning his visual of the roof and looking over the pond with Ayeka.
"About Kagato?"
"Is anyone here thinking about anything else?"
"I guess not." Ayeka halfheartedly giggled. "I really don't know, I mean he did kill you, not to mention the hell he put Ryoko through. But if what Washu says about Tokimi is true he is not the one to blame. What do you think?"
Tenchi sighed. "I don't know, we should give him a chance but... I guess it's different when you're the victim. We forgave Ryoko so easily because we never knew her when she was a space pirate, but Kagato... I just don't know."
"I know what you mean, all those years I blamed Ryoko for Yosho leaving me, then I find out that Kagato was controlling her actions. Now he is not to blame either, Tokimi was apparently behind it all."
"I never thought of that. I'm sorry Ayeka, I guess with all that happed with myself and Kagato I forgot how much you loved Grandfather." Tenchi looked down at the blades of grass reflecting the moonlight.
"Hmm." Ayeka hummed while trying to bury her self deeper in her kimono to avoid the cool breeze. She physically jumped as Tenchi put his arm around her.
"Relax, It's cold out here, maybe we should go back inside."
"We should." Ayeka blushed as the two walked back into the warm house.
~~~:*:~~~
The lab, or rather the part Washu chose for them to be transported to, was filled with machines that reminded Ryoko of an old monster movie. The entire Misaki family was there with the exception of Lord Katsuhito, who was still on his yearly meditation. Everyone was in a mixed state of fear and curiosity when Washu announced that Kagato's vital signs were increasing, meaning that he would be waking up soon.
"Now Ryoko, when he gets up you might want to be careful how you act."
Ryoko huffed crossing her arms. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, he is a little more powerful than he was when Tenchi first fought him."
"Well if you remember I killed him just the other day."
"Ryoko," Washu said turning around on her cushion. "He let you kill him. His power is greater than anything I have ever seen, you saw what he did to the LightHawk wings."
Ryoko tried to ignore her mother. She was right, as usual, Ryoko more than anyone knew she was totally outmatched, and it should be her on that table. It was hard to look at him. The man who had robbed her of her life was lying there helpless. Images went through her mind. How good it would feel to slowly press her sword into his chest. *Jesus, what am I thinking?* She would be no better than him, Ryoko thought shaking the images out of her head. *But he tried to take Tenchi away from me.* She looked over at the young man who held her heart. She felt content just looking at him, but wished she could at least act normal around him. It was either Zero blushing and acting like a schoolgirl, or the brash space pirate Ryoko 'clobbering' him as Tenchi himself so eloquently put it. Ryoko envied Ayeka, standing so close to him. Not the fact that she silently moved there while Ryoko wasn't looking, but the fact that Tenchi wasn't moving away like he did with her. *He has always been so comfortable with her.* Ryoko thought, but then she saw something that left her breathless.
Holding hands. They were standing there holding hands. Ryoko blinked hoping to wash the image away, but to no avail. *When... when did that happen?* Had she been so absolved in her thoughts the past week that she missed something? She was trembling now, half of her wanted to sink to the floor and cry while the other half wanted to blow something big to hell and back. They continued to stand there, like they didn't even know their hands were touching. That upset her the most. Ryoko closed her eyes and faced back at the medical table. How long had she wanted Tenchi to touch her like that? Any touch, to feel his hand in hers, or his warm skin on her face, anything. And now her chief rival was getting it and looked like she could care less. Ryoko had decided to telaport outside when an alarm much like a microwave going off sounded.
"Ok, that should do it." Washu said finishing her typing and looking over to the unconscious man.
Kagato's green eyes cracked allowing the piercing lights to shine in. He groaned as he sat up on the table, continuing to rub his head.
"How do you feel?" Washu asked, wanting more than anything to break the silence instilled by the other seven people in her lab.
The man stood, wavering a little as his feet found the cold floor, but unknowingly letting the sheet that covered his naked body fall.
"AAAHHH!!!"
"Sasami!" Both Washu and Ayeka yelled as they rushed to cover the little girl's eyes.
"Wha... Hey what are you doing!" Sasami screamed as she was nearly tackled.
"Will you shut up." Kagato said one hand steadying himself on the table while the other rubbed his temples. With this pounding in his head the last thing he needed was someone screaming. "I'm sure you have all seen one before and I'm too beat up to go diving under tables." *At least they are not all screaming,* He thought as he noticed the blond one giggling like an idiot.
Washu's holo-computer appeared before her and with a few quick keystrokes Kagato was in his old cloaks he had appeared in the week before. With a few more swift key movements the entire group was transported into the living room.
"Okay," Washu started taking a seat. "I told them what you told me, but we all want to know why Tokimi wants Tenchi dead." Washu wasn't the type to waste time.
"She is afraid of death." Kagato said quite matter-of-factly crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall. His head was subsiding but was still pounding hard enough to warrant closing his eyes.
"But you cannot kill a God." Ayeka said removing her hands from her sister's eyes.
"Not like you would think. You see a God has no physical being, only energy that can take on any form they wish. In theory, if their energy physically contacted another energy with an opposite wave pattern the two would destroy each other."
"But there are billions of energy patterns in the universe, if an exact negative of Tokimi's even exists it would be impossible to find." Kiyone said taking a seat in between Nobuyuki and Mihoshi.
"But there is one, the Jurai power."
"You mean Lord Tenchi." Ayeka gasped.
"Yes he is part of it, but he is too weak to kill her."
Tenchi put his hand behind his head in his typical goofy fashion. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to be proud that he had the power to kill a God, or insulted that he was too week to use it.
"Picture a mace. The handle is the Jurai power; it provides the motion, or energy in this case that powers the blow. The ball on the end is the LightHawk wings; it is what actually inflects the damage. And Tenchi you are the chain that holds the two together. The chain can only take so much pressure or it will break. That is why you cannot kill Tokimi, while you are a quarter Jurain you are still too weak to use the full power of Jurai." Kagato said opening his eyes, his head still hurt but he blocked it out; after all he had felt much worse before.
"If I am too weak to hurt her why does she want me dead."
"You yourself are too weak, but if you were to have children with a Jurain woman of pure blood your offspring would be stronger. She wants you dead to prevent any future threats."
"But how did you know it was the Jurai power?" Nobuyuki said finally speaking up, all of this seemed over his head but he saw it as a valid question.
"I know what it feels like, Tokimi was able to see it through me."
"How would you know what the Jurai power feels li..." Ayeka started but was cut off by Kagato.
"In the beginning Tokimi wanted to seek it out and completely destroy it. That is why I was sent after you Washu."
*OOOHH that little insolent... how dare he interrupt me!* Ayeka thought.
"She wanted my help in locating it?" The scientist said crossing her legs on the coffee table.
"Yes, the original plan was for me to become your partner and kidnap Ryoko for your cooperation. However Tokimi was afraid you were not that strongly bonded with her, she believed that you were the only one capable of knowing her weakness so she ordered me to get rid of you."
"And make me your slave!" Ryoko yelled banging her fist on the wall.
"Ryoko." Washu said trying to calm her daughter down.
"No, I want to hear him say it! Did she order you to make me a slave, or did you do it yourself!" She stomped across the room and stood eye to eye with him now.
"I did it myself."
"You son of a bitch!" She slapped him, but Kagato didn't move.
"Tokimi ordered me to kill you and your mother. I convinced her that I could use you as my subordinate. I put Washu in Souja's mirror world so Tokimi couldn't detect that she was still alive."
"Liar!" She swung again, but this time her hand was caught.
"Had you rather I killed you? If I had killed you, you would have been spared 2000 years of slavery. But you would not be here right now. You would not know your Mother, Ayeka, Ten..."
"STOP IT!" Ryoko screamed jerking her hand from him. "Just leave me alone!" Ryoko backed away.
Kagato replaced his hand back under his robes. "I am sorry. I know I have caused you all much pain. And if you wish it I will leave and you will never see nor hear of me again. But you have to believe that I hate Tokimi even more than Ryoko hates me. As I see it, if I leave you are losing the only person that can even stand up to her. And whether I do it, Tenchi does it, or Tenchi's descendents do it, I want to see her dead."
Not a word was spoken, Kagato was about to leave when Sasami stood and walked to where he was standing.
"Its okay. You didn't do all those things, Tokimi forced you to. And I'm sure Washu can just add another room onto the house for you."
Kagato looked down at the little princess. *How can she just accept me like that, without even giving it a second thought.*
"Sasami's right," This time it was Tenchi that stood. "Come on everybody, Ryoko was just like him. And I know we can figure out someway to beat Tokimi."
Kagato took a few steps towards the corner Ryoko had backed into. "Ryoko, if you do not want me here I will go."
"Do whatever you want." Her words were barley audible.
...As always please review and tell me what you think, whether good or bad, request or praise.
He was alone again, but this was different. Instead of helplessly floating in nothingness he was walking through a forest. The setting sun's orange light bounced off the fallen leaves and back up onto the trunks of the trees around him. It gave the beautiful illusion that the forest was glowing, it was brilliant. Well, maybe ordinary for someone who had seen it all their life, but for him, it was spectacular. He walked. Not knowing where to go, or where he was going seemed to make no difference here. Is this heaven? It couldn't be hell, he had been in the best comprehension of hell most of his life.
"It must be heaven." He said looking up to the full moon already present in the darkening sky.
"I'm flattered, but its not heaven." A childish voice sounded behind him. He spun defensively around to meet a young girl with long red hair stepping out from behind a tree. She smiled, a kind of smile that meant she knew something you didn't.
"Well where am I then?" The man asked abandoning his defensive stance.
"Actually," she started "we are inside your head."
The man only cocked one eyebrow up in contemplation.
"You see, you have been unconscious for about two days now. Your body has healed, very quickly I might add, but for some reason you are still in a coma. So I rigged up this little forest and transported myself into your mind to see if you were really brain dead. You can thank me later, but it was nothing for THE GREATEST SCIENTIFIC GENIUS IN THE UNIVERSE!!!"
"Well I don't think I'm brain dead." He said with a little sense of humor in his voice.
Washu laughed. "Of course not, but you were dead dead for a while there. My little Ryoko did a number on you."
The stranger turned away. "Tell me Washu, you haven't figured out who I am yet have you?"
An unnatural look of puzzlement adorned Washu's face; one thing she hated was someone knowing something she didn't. "That's one of the things I haven't figured out, your DNA strains were so complex I couldn't get past the first pair of chromosomes." She said completely missing the fact that he somehow knew her name.
"And the other is you want to know who was controlling me, right?" The man cut off still facing away from the scientist.
"Yep, you know your pretty smart." She said setting down on a fallen log. "So feel like talking?"
"There is not much to talk about, I have been controlled by the Goddess Tokimi as long as I can remember."
"Tokimi, but why did she make you attack us."
"The rest I wish to tell you and the others in person. I need to think for a while, if you don't mind I would like to stay in this forest for a few more days."
"On one condition, tell me who you are. Something about you is so familiar to me."
He turned and looked her in the eyes for a brief moment before casting his to the ground. "I am the same man that kidnapped your daughter and locked you away in the bowels of the Souja for 2000 years."
"Kagato..."
~~~:*:~~~
"He's who!!" Ryoko yelled.
"Kagato." Washu said calmly while sipping her tea.
A blazing red sword formed in Ryoko's hands as she marched towards her mother's lab/closet. "I'll kill him! This time for good!!"
"Ryoko stop it!" Washu's voice was stern now. "You not going to kill him while he is helplessly laying there, especially after I spent two days putting him back together."
"But Miss Washu." Ayeka started. "If you haven't forgotten Kagato made your daughter his slave, not to mention killed Lord Tenchi."
"I know, I know." The scientist said pinching the bridge of her nose. "It's just..."
"Just what! What could possibly justify letting that monster live another second!" Ryoko yelled as tears rolled down her cheeks. "Is it because Tokimi was telling him what to do! He still had a choice damnit!" Ryoko turned and walked to a far corner of the living room, desperately trying to regain her composure, but mostly so the others wouldn't see her cry. "He used me like a tool for over 2000 years, say what you want but when he wakes up I will kill him."
"Ryoko.." Tenchi said as the cyan haired woman dissipated out of sight. He had never heard her like that. She was so emotional. The living room remained silent. One by one the members of the Misaki household began to resume their lives, but with thoughts of Kagato plaguing their thoughts.
"Washu?" Tenchi asked when they were the two left in the room.
"Yes Tenchi?"
Tenchi gulped. "Was that Ryoko or Zero, when she said that about killing Kagato?"
"It was Ryoko..."
~~~:*:~~~
Tenchi stood in the yard looking up to the roof where Ryoko usually sat this time of night. It was cold, uncommonly cold for this time of year Tenchi thought shoving his hands in his pockets.
"I'm sure she will be back after she has cooled off." Ayeka said joining Tenchi looking up at the moon.
"Yea, shouldn't take long in this wind." He chuckled, however it was devoid of humor. The two stood in an uncomfortable silence for what seemed like an eternity.
"Penny for your thoughts." Tenchi said abandoning his visual of the roof and looking over the pond with Ayeka.
"About Kagato?"
"Is anyone here thinking about anything else?"
"I guess not." Ayeka halfheartedly giggled. "I really don't know, I mean he did kill you, not to mention the hell he put Ryoko through. But if what Washu says about Tokimi is true he is not the one to blame. What do you think?"
Tenchi sighed. "I don't know, we should give him a chance but... I guess it's different when you're the victim. We forgave Ryoko so easily because we never knew her when she was a space pirate, but Kagato... I just don't know."
"I know what you mean, all those years I blamed Ryoko for Yosho leaving me, then I find out that Kagato was controlling her actions. Now he is not to blame either, Tokimi was apparently behind it all."
"I never thought of that. I'm sorry Ayeka, I guess with all that happed with myself and Kagato I forgot how much you loved Grandfather." Tenchi looked down at the blades of grass reflecting the moonlight.
"Hmm." Ayeka hummed while trying to bury her self deeper in her kimono to avoid the cool breeze. She physically jumped as Tenchi put his arm around her.
"Relax, It's cold out here, maybe we should go back inside."
"We should." Ayeka blushed as the two walked back into the warm house.
~~~:*:~~~
The lab, or rather the part Washu chose for them to be transported to, was filled with machines that reminded Ryoko of an old monster movie. The entire Misaki family was there with the exception of Lord Katsuhito, who was still on his yearly meditation. Everyone was in a mixed state of fear and curiosity when Washu announced that Kagato's vital signs were increasing, meaning that he would be waking up soon.
"Now Ryoko, when he gets up you might want to be careful how you act."
Ryoko huffed crossing her arms. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Well, he is a little more powerful than he was when Tenchi first fought him."
"Well if you remember I killed him just the other day."
"Ryoko," Washu said turning around on her cushion. "He let you kill him. His power is greater than anything I have ever seen, you saw what he did to the LightHawk wings."
Ryoko tried to ignore her mother. She was right, as usual, Ryoko more than anyone knew she was totally outmatched, and it should be her on that table. It was hard to look at him. The man who had robbed her of her life was lying there helpless. Images went through her mind. How good it would feel to slowly press her sword into his chest. *Jesus, what am I thinking?* She would be no better than him, Ryoko thought shaking the images out of her head. *But he tried to take Tenchi away from me.* She looked over at the young man who held her heart. She felt content just looking at him, but wished she could at least act normal around him. It was either Zero blushing and acting like a schoolgirl, or the brash space pirate Ryoko 'clobbering' him as Tenchi himself so eloquently put it. Ryoko envied Ayeka, standing so close to him. Not the fact that she silently moved there while Ryoko wasn't looking, but the fact that Tenchi wasn't moving away like he did with her. *He has always been so comfortable with her.* Ryoko thought, but then she saw something that left her breathless.
Holding hands. They were standing there holding hands. Ryoko blinked hoping to wash the image away, but to no avail. *When... when did that happen?* Had she been so absolved in her thoughts the past week that she missed something? She was trembling now, half of her wanted to sink to the floor and cry while the other half wanted to blow something big to hell and back. They continued to stand there, like they didn't even know their hands were touching. That upset her the most. Ryoko closed her eyes and faced back at the medical table. How long had she wanted Tenchi to touch her like that? Any touch, to feel his hand in hers, or his warm skin on her face, anything. And now her chief rival was getting it and looked like she could care less. Ryoko had decided to telaport outside when an alarm much like a microwave going off sounded.
"Ok, that should do it." Washu said finishing her typing and looking over to the unconscious man.
Kagato's green eyes cracked allowing the piercing lights to shine in. He groaned as he sat up on the table, continuing to rub his head.
"How do you feel?" Washu asked, wanting more than anything to break the silence instilled by the other seven people in her lab.
The man stood, wavering a little as his feet found the cold floor, but unknowingly letting the sheet that covered his naked body fall.
"AAAHHH!!!"
"Sasami!" Both Washu and Ayeka yelled as they rushed to cover the little girl's eyes.
"Wha... Hey what are you doing!" Sasami screamed as she was nearly tackled.
"Will you shut up." Kagato said one hand steadying himself on the table while the other rubbed his temples. With this pounding in his head the last thing he needed was someone screaming. "I'm sure you have all seen one before and I'm too beat up to go diving under tables." *At least they are not all screaming,* He thought as he noticed the blond one giggling like an idiot.
Washu's holo-computer appeared before her and with a few quick keystrokes Kagato was in his old cloaks he had appeared in the week before. With a few more swift key movements the entire group was transported into the living room.
"Okay," Washu started taking a seat. "I told them what you told me, but we all want to know why Tokimi wants Tenchi dead." Washu wasn't the type to waste time.
"She is afraid of death." Kagato said quite matter-of-factly crossing his arms and leaning back against the wall. His head was subsiding but was still pounding hard enough to warrant closing his eyes.
"But you cannot kill a God." Ayeka said removing her hands from her sister's eyes.
"Not like you would think. You see a God has no physical being, only energy that can take on any form they wish. In theory, if their energy physically contacted another energy with an opposite wave pattern the two would destroy each other."
"But there are billions of energy patterns in the universe, if an exact negative of Tokimi's even exists it would be impossible to find." Kiyone said taking a seat in between Nobuyuki and Mihoshi.
"But there is one, the Jurai power."
"You mean Lord Tenchi." Ayeka gasped.
"Yes he is part of it, but he is too weak to kill her."
Tenchi put his hand behind his head in his typical goofy fashion. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to be proud that he had the power to kill a God, or insulted that he was too week to use it.
"Picture a mace. The handle is the Jurai power; it provides the motion, or energy in this case that powers the blow. The ball on the end is the LightHawk wings; it is what actually inflects the damage. And Tenchi you are the chain that holds the two together. The chain can only take so much pressure or it will break. That is why you cannot kill Tokimi, while you are a quarter Jurain you are still too weak to use the full power of Jurai." Kagato said opening his eyes, his head still hurt but he blocked it out; after all he had felt much worse before.
"If I am too weak to hurt her why does she want me dead."
"You yourself are too weak, but if you were to have children with a Jurain woman of pure blood your offspring would be stronger. She wants you dead to prevent any future threats."
"But how did you know it was the Jurai power?" Nobuyuki said finally speaking up, all of this seemed over his head but he saw it as a valid question.
"I know what it feels like, Tokimi was able to see it through me."
"How would you know what the Jurai power feels li..." Ayeka started but was cut off by Kagato.
"In the beginning Tokimi wanted to seek it out and completely destroy it. That is why I was sent after you Washu."
*OOOHH that little insolent... how dare he interrupt me!* Ayeka thought.
"She wanted my help in locating it?" The scientist said crossing her legs on the coffee table.
"Yes, the original plan was for me to become your partner and kidnap Ryoko for your cooperation. However Tokimi was afraid you were not that strongly bonded with her, she believed that you were the only one capable of knowing her weakness so she ordered me to get rid of you."
"And make me your slave!" Ryoko yelled banging her fist on the wall.
"Ryoko." Washu said trying to calm her daughter down.
"No, I want to hear him say it! Did she order you to make me a slave, or did you do it yourself!" She stomped across the room and stood eye to eye with him now.
"I did it myself."
"You son of a bitch!" She slapped him, but Kagato didn't move.
"Tokimi ordered me to kill you and your mother. I convinced her that I could use you as my subordinate. I put Washu in Souja's mirror world so Tokimi couldn't detect that she was still alive."
"Liar!" She swung again, but this time her hand was caught.
"Had you rather I killed you? If I had killed you, you would have been spared 2000 years of slavery. But you would not be here right now. You would not know your Mother, Ayeka, Ten..."
"STOP IT!" Ryoko screamed jerking her hand from him. "Just leave me alone!" Ryoko backed away.
Kagato replaced his hand back under his robes. "I am sorry. I know I have caused you all much pain. And if you wish it I will leave and you will never see nor hear of me again. But you have to believe that I hate Tokimi even more than Ryoko hates me. As I see it, if I leave you are losing the only person that can even stand up to her. And whether I do it, Tenchi does it, or Tenchi's descendents do it, I want to see her dead."
Not a word was spoken, Kagato was about to leave when Sasami stood and walked to where he was standing.
"Its okay. You didn't do all those things, Tokimi forced you to. And I'm sure Washu can just add another room onto the house for you."
Kagato looked down at the little princess. *How can she just accept me like that, without even giving it a second thought.*
"Sasami's right," This time it was Tenchi that stood. "Come on everybody, Ryoko was just like him. And I know we can figure out someway to beat Tokimi."
Kagato took a few steps towards the corner Ryoko had backed into. "Ryoko, if you do not want me here I will go."
"Do whatever you want." Her words were barley audible.
...As always please review and tell me what you think, whether good or bad, request or praise.