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CHAPTER TITLE: Visiting Jurai

AUTHOR: Ryoko-chan

CHAPTER: 3

PUBLISHED: 2/15/02

OWN STORYLINE: Heaven & Earth

A/N: Here's a late Valentine's Day present for the you guys!

* Means note at the end of the chapter.

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Early morning inside Tenchi and Ryoko's room
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Ryoko gently snore as she recuperated from a wild night before. It took Tenchi long to settle his wife down after the fight she had with Washu. It's just took Tenchi all of his efforts to gather a bundle of strength for him to seduce Ryoko. After all, they had shared a hot and steamy night.

Tenchi opened his eyes as the sun hit his eyes. He turned around to hug his loving wife and gently kiss her neck. "It's time to wake up, sleepyhead."

Ryoko groaned and gently opened her eyes. "Do I have to get up?"

"Of course," Tenchi replied, kissing Ryoko's right cheek before getting up and putting on a pair of silk boxers that lay next to his side of the bed. "We still have to talk to your daughter."

Ryoko groaned louder, "that stupid Washu!" She also got up and put on her usual attire. A pair of silk boxers that belong to Tenchi and that was about it*, bare chest and all.

Tenchi walked around to the side of the bed where Ryoko was and hugged her. "Get dressed, honey. The sooner we talk to Sakura, the better."

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Elsewhere in Space
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"We've searched enough!" complained the youngest Takashi sister, resident of the planet Luna. Tsukita was now fully grown up at the age of 29. Her companion, Niko Katsuragi looking as dreary as Tsukita had.

Time had really had a hard blow on each of these two. Their search for Tsukita's older sister, Reika, had been long and hard. They had only each other to turn so Tsukita was now Niko's girlfriend. She knew that Niko still had feelings for her, but she also knew how much they needed each other to stay alive.

Niko was sitting looking at the main screen of the ship. He placed his hand on top of Tsukita's. "Don't worry, Tsuki, we'll find her. We can't give up."

Tsuki* sighed and rested her head back on her chair. "Alright, I'll try to hold myself together."

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Planet Jir
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"Andrew!" called the voice of the Juraian royalty, princess Ayeka, "hurry up! it's not polite to let your family waiting especially when you have set a time when you were going to meet them."

"Settle down, honey," came Maia's voice from behind her wrapping her arms around her beloved. "Well, be there soon enough. I'm sure An'ya and Yosho will understand why we're late."

Maia and Ayeka had been happily married for 12 years. They had adopted Andrew when he was two years old because Maia had requested that they didn't adopt a baby, they made too much of a ruckus according to her*.

"Why do I have to wear robes? I look more girlish than Setsuna does!" Andrew complained.

"Setsuna does have that rough look on her..." stated Maia.

Ayeka laughed, but quickly calmed herself. "She must have taken after her precious Aunt Ryoko..."

"Have you found out why she doesn't want us on Earth?"

"No," replied Ayeka with a heavy sigh, "we still have no word from any one. Not even Washu will tell us. She respects her daughter's wishes."

"So, how old is Aunt Ryoko's daughter?" Andrew asked.

"She's probably around your age. Why do you ask?" wondered Ayeka.

"Well, last time when Setsuna and I called Washu, some girl answered the phone. We thought she was just a new lab assistant. Do you think that was her?"

"What did she look like?"

"She had spiky black hair and golden eyes. She was awfully rude since she hung up on us."

"That must be Sakura. It isn't hard to believe that she would turn out like her unscrupulous mother..."

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Just outside of Earth
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"Now, how much time do you think it will take for us to get to Jurai?" Sakura asked the main computer from her ship.

"Approximately... twenty days...." the cold voice replied.

"Twenty days?!?" Sakura sighed and sat back down on her chair. 'I never knew getting to Jurai would be such a hassle...' Sakura admitted to herself.

Minutes later, Sakura's ship was ordered to be stopped by the Galaxy Police. "Alright, now you must stop!" Came a shrill voice from an intercom. This belonged to a voice that sounded familiar to Sakura but she couldn't place a face on it. It was detective Mihoshi and her partner which had just happened to be passing by Earth on their daily check ups. The ditzy detective didn't have a clue as to who was the person she was looking at. "Alright, now, do you have a license to be driving this fast on this part of the galaxy?"

"Um..." started Sakura, "I have an important meeting with Princess Setsuna Jurai..."

Mihoshi's partner didn't seem to believe Sakura's alibi but her partner somehow convinced her. "So, are you a little friend of Setsuna?"

"Excuse me, but how do you know her?"

"Well, I know her parents and Princess Ayeka and I used to know Tenchi but then, I don't remember what happened but Ryoko told us not to go back to Earth..." Mihoshi just kept rambling on.

"Mom kept you away...?" Sakura mumbled.

"Well, we have to escort you to planet Jurai and the faster the better!" proclaimed Mihoshi.*

Sakura nodded and just followed the Galaxy Police cruiser.

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Back on Earth
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"WASHU!!!" was heard once more throughout the small looking scientist's lab.

"What did I do know?" answered Washu, looking quite exhausted with tiny bags that hung from her eyes showing that she had had a rough night the night prior.

"Where in hell is my little girl?" shouted Ryoko.

"How should I know?"

"You probably influenced her to do something, didn't you? Didn't you do enough showing her that tape last night?"

"Honestly Ryoko, I don't know where Sakura is..."

"Bullshit!"

Washu sighed, "let me check all of the cameras around this whole area. I'm sure Sakura must be nearby..."

Minutes after Washu had scanned the whole area surrounding the Masaki grounds, she found no answer to her trace. The last spot she was checking was where the cherry blossom stood, "what the..." she asked.

"What's the matter?"

"The tree... it's gone... Sakura somehow found that it was a spaceship..."

"WHAT?!? Spaceship? What the hell do you mean?"

"Before Sakura was born, I kind of tried to make a tree like the ones of Jurai and that cherry blossom tree was it..."

"Washu! Why didn't you tell us..."

"I was..."

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Some other time and place
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'This can't be...' Ryoko told herself. This Ryoko seemed extremely worried about something. "Why didn't Washu tell me that it was dangerous? Damn her! Her stupid inventions always backfire!" Ryoko looked behind her at a calendar and noticed that it was April 25th of only ten years ago. Apparently, she was in a hurry to get somewhere...


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* This if put on Ryoko's words the boxers had a whole in them for a quickie...

* I'm not using Tsukita from now on. It's kinda too long for me.

* ...and me...

* For once, she actually made sense.
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A/N: You may wonder what I'm getting at with that last part, but I always seem to come up with an answer to things, don't I?

Next Time: Sakura's on her way to Jurai thanks to Mihoshi (as hard as that's to believe but then again, Mihoshi doesn't even remember Sakura...). Kiyone finally makes her appearance in this series and she will be of great help. Washu will be called to Jurai and Ryoko gets to confront the group she cast out of Earth so many years ago. Join me next time as reunions of all sorts happen in chapter 4: Old enemies

Ryoko-chan