Alright, and here's Chapter 2 of Washu's Second Daughter, the fanfic with the boring name that I just slapped on it so I could post it!! Even this chapter's got the most predictable title imaginable: Sibling Rivalry. Ho hum. Well, enjoy, peeps!

The disclaimer on Chapter 1 applies to this and all other chapters of the fic. Thank you!

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Chapter 2: Sibling Rivalry

Ryoko sighed as she fiddled with her sake glass. The atmosphere was thick with silence louder than a scream. The appearance of the girl had been a big surprise to everyone, especially Ryoko. She knew that she and Washu had never been the closest mother-daughter duo, but in those "bonding moments", as Washu called them (the ones where Washu tied Ryoko down in her lab and give lectures about when _she_ was a kid how she _respected_ her mother, or tell other stories of things that happened while Ryoko was gone, most of them her fault, before Ryoko finally lost her temper and blasted through the bindings with an energy blast that usually resulted in a part of the lab being blown up) Ryoko figured she would have brought up Oni at least once. But this was the first time Ryoko had heard about her little nee-chan. It was all very unsettling.

Silence reigned a few more seconds before Ryoko slammed her sake glass down on the coffee table. "What's going on, Washu?" she demanded. "Why have we not heard about this little squirt before now, huh?"

Washu smiled. "Well, Ryoko, when did you expect me to tell you. I mean, all the times I could have told you, you were off swooning over Tenchi and picking fights with Ayeka."

"Yes, Ryoko," Ayeka said maliciously. "Why must you always be such a nasty person, picking fights with the first princess of Jurai."

"Now, now, don't even start," Washu said. "This is between me and Ryoko, Ayeka-san." Under her breath, she added, "Boy, if you were my daughter, I don't know what I'd do. Anyway, Ryoko," she continued to Ryoko in a normal tone, "there wasn't really an appropriate time to tell you. After all, I didn't actually give Oni much thought once I found _you_ again. Why would a mother dwell on the daughter that was missing when another daughter had just come back? So, you see, there was no need to tell any of you."

"Well...I don't have to like it," Ryoko said.

"No, you don't," Washu agreed.

"So, Washu-chan," Mihoshi suddenly piped up, "who was that adorable little girl out there, anyway?"

There was a crash as everyone face-faulted. "Mihoshi-chan, didn't you listen to a word Washu-chan said earlier?" Sasami asked, a look of pure exasperation on her face.

"No, it didn't really seem to concern me, so..." Mihoshi said.

Seconds later, the door opened, and Tenchi came in with a cheerful Oni following behind. The girl had a black cabbit perched on her shoulder. "Konnichi'wa, minna-san!" she chirped.

Ryoko leaned over the table to look at the cabbit. "Amazing!" she said. "She looks exactly like Ryo-ohki!"

"Miya," protested Ryo-ohki from behind the table.

"Well, I meant besides that, silly," Ryoko answered. Ryo-ohki's response was sticking her nose up in the air.

"This is Rai-ohki, everyone," said Oni.

Rai-ohki said, "Mi."

"Oh! She's so kawaii!" Sasami exclaimed and started petting the cabbit.

"What's with the glitter?" asked Mihoshi. "It's pretty!"

"It was a real statement on one of the planets we visited," Oni informed her.

Ayeka examined the cabbit. "It is kind of kawaii," she said, agreeing with Sasami.

"Well, Oni," said Washu, "it looks like you took very good care of Rai-ohki. Did you guys have fun on your search?"

"_I_ did," said Oni, knocking Rai-ohki gently on the head with her knuckles.

"Mii," said Rai-ohki.

"Hey, don't you like adventure" said Ryoko to Rai-ohki.

"No she doesn't," Oni confirmed. "She's been complaining the whole time."

"Now, why would she do a thing like that?" asked Ryoko. "Ryo-ohki never complained about having fun, right, Ryo-ohki?"

There was silence. "Ryo-chan?" Sasami said. "Ryoko just asked you a-Oh no! She's gone!"

Ryoko looked over to where Sasami was sitting, also where Ryo-ohki had been. "Oh, man! Ryo-ohki! Where did she run off to now?"

"It's okay, Ryoko," Washu said. "She's run off before. Right now, Oni's here! I promise we can find her later."

"Well..." began Ryoko dubiously. "Okay."

"Arigato, Ryoko-san," Oni said. "If Ryo-ohki's anything like my Rai-ohki, she just needs some time to-"

Suddenly, Ryoko lost it. "No!" she almost yelled. "Ryo-ohki's nothing like your little Rai-ohki! You just think you can come into our lives with no notice or anything, then act like you know Ryo-ohki?"

"Ryoko-chan," Sasami said meekly.

"Sorry, Sasami, I'm leaving!" With that, the space pirate levitated through the ceiling and disappeared.

"Oops," said Oni. "I'm sorry, minna, I didn't mean to piss her off."

Ayeka smiled. "She probably deserved it, anyway. Bad karma, you know. It was probably fate's way of getting back at her for being such a nasty person."

Oni decided she didn't like that princess very much.

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A stone flew into the Masaki's lake and skipped a few times before subsiding to the bottom of the pond. The thrower of the rock scowled down at the water. "Who the hell does she think she is, anyway?" Ryoko asked no one in particular. "She doesn't know any of us, especially me or Ryo-ohki. Showing up here and thinking she owns the place..."

Noises could be heard coming towards the lake. Ryoko looked up, cursed, then disappeared once again. She reappeared in the carrot fields. If she was going to be out here, she figured she had best start looking for Ryo-ohki. The fields were one of Ryo-ohki's favorite places, Ryoko knew. So that was the best place to look.

A smiling face appeared before Ryoko's angered one. Ryoko jumped. "Don't do that!" she said to her little sister.

Oni continued to smile. "Look who I found!" she said.

"Who? Don't tell me you found Ryo-ohki already-!"

"No way, like I'd even know where to start looking! What I did find was..." Oni took something behind her back. It looked like a miniature doll of Ayeka.

"Is that supposed to cheer me up?" Ryoko demanded, then stopped, considering. "Is that a voodoo doll?"

"No, I couldn't find one of those, but we can pretend it is!"

"Pretend? What are you, six?"

Oni sighed. "Come on, humor me! It'll take some stress off to beat up on it, huh?"

"Heh, heh, I like the way you think!" said Ryoko. "Hurting _anything_ that looks like Ayeka's enough to relax anything!" She held her hands ready to gather some energy to blast the Ayeka-doll with. Oni just sat and smiled. Ryoko looked at her, confused. "Aren't you gonna take a shot?"

"Me? Uh, no, I just brought it to cheer you up," she explained.

Ryoko's confusion didn't subside. She let the energy blast shrink back into nothingness. "Come on! It'll be fun to team up on 'er, don't you think? What's the matter?"

"I...um...I was going to look for Ryo-ohki."

"What? Can't you make just a little energy sword? You said it yourself: great stress-reliever."

"I'm n-not stressed out," stuttered Oni. "I just don't want to intrude! Really."

"Okay..." Ryoko shot a blast at the doll, leaving in ashes, and laughed maniacally. "Alright, let's go look for Ryo-ohki now!"

"Hai!"

From the shadows, two emerald green eyes peered out at the two. She laughed quietly to herself. "Well, that ought to take care of *that* sibling rivalry! Who would've thought it only took a little Ayeka-doll manufacturing to get the job done, besides me, the Greatest Scientific Genius in the Universe? Now to take care of the other two sisters..." The eyes turned to Ryo-ohki, sitting just in front of the bushes in which Washu sat cunningly. A hand reached out of the bushes and threw a carrot about a foot in front of the cabbit's nose. Ryo-ohki miya-ed happily and dove on the carrot with the vigor of her usual self, untainted with jealousy, but *not* untainted with hunger. "All cabbits like carrots," Washu recalled. "Let's just hope they make up like good little girls should."

A soft chuckle could be heard from the bushes, but Ryo-ohki didn't notice. She had found a friend, she had found love. She had found a carrot.

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Well, how did everyone like my second chapter? R&R pretty please!

Japanese translations:

Konnichi'wa: Good day (greeting)

Minna, minna-san: Everyone

Kawaii: Cute!!!

Arigato: Thank you

I think that's all for Japanese translations. If I forgot anything that you don't know, I'd be happy to tell you what it means. Just e-mail me (faelhah@hotmail.com) or something.