"No Need for a New Girl"
A clock at Cloverleaf High School chimed as class was let out for the day. A
15 year-old boy walked out with his bag in hand. He had dark hair that was pulled
back in a short rattail. His brown eyes gazed towards the sky in thought. "Tenchi
Masaki! You've got some explaining to do!" The boy's thoughts were broken by a
female peer. She had long purple hair and red eyes with a slight tint of purple.
"Ayeka?" Tenchi said with a confused on his face which was quickly replaced
with an expression of shock. "Ayeka, I'm so sorry! Stupid me!"
"You're darn right! How could you froget?" Ayeka said with an accusing
look on her face. "We had a deal, remember?"
"Yes, I know and I forgot. I was supposed to meet you at your locker after
5th period and I totally forgot," Tenchi quickly explained.
"Yeah, I figured that. Oh, well I should have suspected. Sometimes I don't
know why I put up with you," Ayeka wondered as they began to walk home.
"Because of my dashing good looks," Tenchi said with a grin.
"Um.. no. You'd be in serious trouble if that was true," teased Ayeka.
"Ouch! Harsh!" exclaimed Tenchi. "So what did you want to talk to me
about?"
"Duh! About the camping trip we always go on the last day of school!"
Ayeka said with a slap over the back of Tenchi's head. "We've only gone on it
every year since kindergarten."
"Oh, yeah. Silly me."
Meanwhile... In space a large ship was orbiting the Earth. It was undetectable
due to its reflective coating. A tall man with long, green hair gazed into a small
glass structure. The structures shimmered as if something was passing through it, then
an image of Tenchi walking with Ayeka became visible. "Ah, there you are Tenchi
Masaki. At last I have found you. Washu!" the man called.
A small red-haired girl, appearing to be around the age of 12, appeared and
responded, "At your service, Kagato."
"Washu, how would you and your daughter like to stay on Earth for a
while?"
"Sure, I've always wondered what kind of experiments I could conduct
while on a planet like that," replied Washu.
"You're not only going for pleasure, Washu. I have a job for your daughter
to accomplish while she's there. Bring her to me now," demanded Kagato.
"As you wish, Kagato," said Washu. Washu faded away and appeared a
couple minutes later with another female with her. This new girl appeared to be the
age of 15. She was tall and had long cyan hair. Her eyes were yellow and had
somewhat of a catlike appearance.
"What do you want, Kagato?" said the rebellious female.
"I have a job for you, Ryoko," informed Kagato. "You see this boy."
"Yeah, he's kinda cute," said Ryoko as she gazed into the glass.
"Kill him," demanded Kagato.
"What? Why? He's just a kid," questioned Ryoko.
"Are you questioning my authority, Ryoko?"
"No, of course not, Kagato. I'll get ready right away," Ryoko responded as
she faded away.
"Oh and Washu? No one's going to believe a 12 year-old girl has a 15
year-old daughter. Why don't you change to a more realistic form?" said Kagato.
"Huh? Oh right," Washu snapped her fingers and changed into an older
form. She aged about 25 years. "How's this, Kagato?"
"It's fine, Washu. Now go! I'm losing my patience," Kagato commanded.
"Yes sir," said Washu as she bowed and also dissapeared.
Kagato gazed into the glass again. "Yes, Tenchi Masaki, enjoy your last
days alive."
Back on Earth...
"Geez, that Biology test today was hard!" complained Tenchi.
"Well, if you paid attention in class instead of falling asleep..." retorted
Ayeka.
"Hardy, har, har, Ayeka. I only fell asleep once, and that was when I stayed
up all night studying for the Geometry test which, I might add, I aced unlike a
certain Miss Jurai."
"Hey nobody's perfect," defended Ayeka as she slugged Tenchi in the arm.
"Hey! Why I outta..." declared Tenchi. He then grabbed Ayeka and slung
her over his shoulder.
"No! Put me down!" She flailed in the air futilely. "OK, OK, I give! I give!
Just put me down!"
Tenchi's laughter was interuppted by a voice exclaiming "Ayeka!"
A nine year-old girl with pink eyes and blue hair came running up to the
teenagers. "Oh, hello, Sasami," greeted Tenchi.
"Hi, Tenchi! What are you two doing?" quieried Sasami.
"Sasami, you've got to help me!" pleaded Ayeka.
"I'm teaching your sister a lesson, Sasami," informed Tenchi.
"Oh, I see," said Sasami as she giggled.
"Sasami! How dare you take his side!?! I'm your sister!" exclaimed Ayeka.
"Tenchi, will you walk me home?" Sasami asked.
"Sure no problem, Sasami. After all I have to drop this little troublemaker
off," answered Tenchi
"I'm laughing on the inside, really I am," responded Ayeka. Sasami just
giggled.
The trio continued to walk as Sasami told them about her day. "And then
that jerk, Hotsuma, grabbed my bag and took off with it, but I caught up to him
and did that wrestling move you showed Tenchi. He ran off yelling for his
mommy," Sasami said with somewhat of a devilish grin on her face.
"Sasami, I'm suprised at you, using violence in such a situation. And
Tenchi, teaching a nine year-old girl how to wrestle," said Ayeka who gave Tenchi
a swift kick in the side.
Due to the odd angle of the blow, Tenchi was able to ignore it. Tenchi then
slung Ayeka over the other shoulder. "Tenchi, I beg you. Put me down!" pleaded
Ayeka who followed up with another kick. Tenchi laughed and mockingly said,
"Ayeka, I'm suprised at you, using violence in such a situation. Right, Sasami."
"Yes, Ayeka, you are such a bad influence on me," said Sasami.
"You two are unbearable!" complained Ayeka who eventually gave up.
Finally the trio arrived at Ayeka's and Sasami's huse. "Where's your
parents?"
"They went on a business trip for two weeks. We got the house to
ourselves," infromed Sasami. "You wanna come in?"
"No, I better get home, but thanks for the invitation," answered Tenchi. He
began to head back, but he recieved a blow to the stomach.
"You frogot about me!" exclaimed Ayeka. Tenchi laughed and lowered her
down to ground.
"Sorry, Ayeka."
"You're forgiven. Besides it was kind of cool to have a guy carry me
home," said Ayeka with a smile. "See you tomorrow, Tenchi." She walked off to
join Sasami in the house.
Tenchi began his walk home, but he didn't notice someone watching him.
Ryoko hovered in a tree keeping an eye on Tenchi. She chuckled to herself,
"Cute and available. It's a shame I have to kill him." She dissappeared.
Later...
Tenchi walked onto his street and immediatly noticed something different.
A large truck was parked in the driveway of the house next door to his own. He
immediately spotted a girl his age playing basketball while several workers unload
several objects into the house. The girl turned and caught Tenchi staring at her.
She called out, "Hi there!"
Tenchi broke out of his trance and responded, "Oh, um... hi!" He walked up
to the girl and introduced himself, "My name's Tenchi Masaki. I live in that
house." Tenchi pointed to the house to the left.
"My name's Ryoko Hakubi, and I live there," the girl said as she pointed
towards the house.
"So, uh, you play basketball?" asked Tenchi, trying to generate a
conversation.
"Yeah, do you?" replied Ryoko.
"Yeah," answered Tenchi. *Great, this conversation's going nowhere fast.
Better go before you humiliate yourself more,* thought Tenchi, but before
he could head home, Ryoko passed the basketball to Tenchi.
"Play to 20, have to win by two," Ryoko challenged. "Or are you too afraid
to be beaten by a girl?"
Tenchi smiled slyly and responded, "You're on!"
The game continued for about 10 minutes the score 19 to 19, Tenchi's ball.
"Oh, you're good Ryoko, but I'm better."
"Talk is cheap, Tenchi. Bring it on!"
"You asked for it!"
Before Tenchi could run the ball, one of the workers yelled from inside the
truck, "Look out!"
A large machine reeled out of one of the trucks and headed straight for
Ryoko. Tenchi rammed Ryoko out of the way, and quickly jumped onto the
machine and landed in a tiger stance. Unfortunately, the top was slick and Tenchi
slid off and hit his head on the concrete hard. He blacked out without really
knowing what was going on.
Later... Tenchi groggily woke up and tried to make sense of what had
happened. When his eyes finally snapped into focus, he had to supress a gasp of
shock. He was laying in a bed next to a sleeping Ryoko who had her arm draped
across his neck. He blushed profoundly at the sight. He gently slipped under her
arm, and stood up. He immediatley regretted it. The room spun which caused
Tenchi to stagger backwards, and he fell onto the bed. Ryoko's eyes snapped
open.
"T-T-Tenchi?" Suddenly the memory of what happened flooded back to her.
Tenchi had risked his neck to save her. *No one's ever done that for me. Not even
Kagato.*
"Oh, my head..." Tenchi sat back up rubbing the back of his head.
"Tenchi, are you okay?" asked Ryoko quietly.
Tenchi tensed up at the sound of her voice. *She's awake!* "M-M-Miss
Ryoko, I don't know what's going on here, but it wasn't my choice to come up
here, I don't even remember coming up here," said Tenchi quickly trying to
explain why he was in the same bed with a girl like her.
"Tenchi, calm down. Don't you remember what happened?"
"No. It was all such a blur," said Tenchi as he rubbed the back of his head
and felt the knot. "Ouch."
"But the things you did were amazing. If it was all a blur how could you
have done that?"
"Done what?"
"You really don't remember do you?"
"No, I don't! So would you mind telling me what happened?"
"Well, one of my mom's machines came loose out of the moving trucks and
you pushed me out of the way."
"So what's so spectacular about that?"
"Well, the machine came heading towards you really fast," informed Ryoko
as she got out of the bed. "And you jumped unbelievably high and landed in some
sort of stance." She imitated the move by jumping onto the bed and landing in a
sloppy tiger stance. "Well you did it different."
"Did I do it like this?" He copied Ryoko's move only he landed in a
near-perfect tiger stance.
"Yes! How did you do that? Where did you learn how to do that? Teach me
how to do that!"
"Woah, slow down! Alright to answer your questions; reflex, martial arts
class, and I don't know if I can."
"You take martial arts?"
"Yeah, and I also take fencing."
*He's a fighter and a swordsman? This is too perfect. He is too perfect.*
"Now would you please tell me when I lost consciousness."
"Oh, that. You see my mom's machine was oiled on the top and you kinda
slipped off."
"Yeah, that was real great. I my jump looked really awesome only after that
I slipped klutz-like right off the landing spot."
Suddenly the door opened and a red-haired, 37 year-old woman came in.
"Oh, good. You two are awake. Ryoko, why don't you introduce me to your
friend?"
"Mom, this is Tenchi Masaki. He lives to the house on the left of us. Tenchi,
this is my mom, Washu Hakubi."
"Pleased to meet you, Miss Washu," Tenchi said as he bowed.
"Oh, you don't have to bow, and don't call me Miss Washu it makes me
sound old."
"Um, then what should I call you?"
"Call me, Little Washu."
"Okay, M-, I mean, Little Washu. Well, I better go. I got homework to do."
"Here, at least stay for dinner," offered Ryoko. "As thanks for saving my
life," she quickly added.
"Sure," replied Tenchi. He quickly turned to Washu and added, "If you
don't mind having an extra mouth to feed, Little Washu."
"That's ok. I'll just order a pizza."
"Medium pizza, sausage with extra pepperoni," said Tenchi quickly. When
he noticed Ryoko's and Washu's stares he added, "Sorry, reflex."
One hour later... "Little Washu, Miss Ryoko, thank you for the food, but I
really should get going."
"Alright, Tenchi. Thank you again for saving my daughter's life."
"It was nothing, really don't mention it," said Tenchi as he grabbed his bag.
He waved good-bye and went back to his house.
"He was a polite boy," remarked Washu.
Ryoko sighed and said, "Yeah." She smiled at thought of him. "He's
perfect."
A clock at Cloverleaf High School chimed as class was let out for the day. A
15 year-old boy walked out with his bag in hand. He had dark hair that was pulled
back in a short rattail. His brown eyes gazed towards the sky in thought. "Tenchi
Masaki! You've got some explaining to do!" The boy's thoughts were broken by a
female peer. She had long purple hair and red eyes with a slight tint of purple.
"Ayeka?" Tenchi said with a confused on his face which was quickly replaced
with an expression of shock. "Ayeka, I'm so sorry! Stupid me!"
"You're darn right! How could you froget?" Ayeka said with an accusing
look on her face. "We had a deal, remember?"
"Yes, I know and I forgot. I was supposed to meet you at your locker after
5th period and I totally forgot," Tenchi quickly explained.
"Yeah, I figured that. Oh, well I should have suspected. Sometimes I don't
know why I put up with you," Ayeka wondered as they began to walk home.
"Because of my dashing good looks," Tenchi said with a grin.
"Um.. no. You'd be in serious trouble if that was true," teased Ayeka.
"Ouch! Harsh!" exclaimed Tenchi. "So what did you want to talk to me
about?"
"Duh! About the camping trip we always go on the last day of school!"
Ayeka said with a slap over the back of Tenchi's head. "We've only gone on it
every year since kindergarten."
"Oh, yeah. Silly me."
Meanwhile... In space a large ship was orbiting the Earth. It was undetectable
due to its reflective coating. A tall man with long, green hair gazed into a small
glass structure. The structures shimmered as if something was passing through it, then
an image of Tenchi walking with Ayeka became visible. "Ah, there you are Tenchi
Masaki. At last I have found you. Washu!" the man called.
A small red-haired girl, appearing to be around the age of 12, appeared and
responded, "At your service, Kagato."
"Washu, how would you and your daughter like to stay on Earth for a
while?"
"Sure, I've always wondered what kind of experiments I could conduct
while on a planet like that," replied Washu.
"You're not only going for pleasure, Washu. I have a job for your daughter
to accomplish while she's there. Bring her to me now," demanded Kagato.
"As you wish, Kagato," said Washu. Washu faded away and appeared a
couple minutes later with another female with her. This new girl appeared to be the
age of 15. She was tall and had long cyan hair. Her eyes were yellow and had
somewhat of a catlike appearance.
"What do you want, Kagato?" said the rebellious female.
"I have a job for you, Ryoko," informed Kagato. "You see this boy."
"Yeah, he's kinda cute," said Ryoko as she gazed into the glass.
"Kill him," demanded Kagato.
"What? Why? He's just a kid," questioned Ryoko.
"Are you questioning my authority, Ryoko?"
"No, of course not, Kagato. I'll get ready right away," Ryoko responded as
she faded away.
"Oh and Washu? No one's going to believe a 12 year-old girl has a 15
year-old daughter. Why don't you change to a more realistic form?" said Kagato.
"Huh? Oh right," Washu snapped her fingers and changed into an older
form. She aged about 25 years. "How's this, Kagato?"
"It's fine, Washu. Now go! I'm losing my patience," Kagato commanded.
"Yes sir," said Washu as she bowed and also dissapeared.
Kagato gazed into the glass again. "Yes, Tenchi Masaki, enjoy your last
days alive."
Back on Earth...
"Geez, that Biology test today was hard!" complained Tenchi.
"Well, if you paid attention in class instead of falling asleep..." retorted
Ayeka.
"Hardy, har, har, Ayeka. I only fell asleep once, and that was when I stayed
up all night studying for the Geometry test which, I might add, I aced unlike a
certain Miss Jurai."
"Hey nobody's perfect," defended Ayeka as she slugged Tenchi in the arm.
"Hey! Why I outta..." declared Tenchi. He then grabbed Ayeka and slung
her over his shoulder.
"No! Put me down!" She flailed in the air futilely. "OK, OK, I give! I give!
Just put me down!"
Tenchi's laughter was interuppted by a voice exclaiming "Ayeka!"
A nine year-old girl with pink eyes and blue hair came running up to the
teenagers. "Oh, hello, Sasami," greeted Tenchi.
"Hi, Tenchi! What are you two doing?" quieried Sasami.
"Sasami, you've got to help me!" pleaded Ayeka.
"I'm teaching your sister a lesson, Sasami," informed Tenchi.
"Oh, I see," said Sasami as she giggled.
"Sasami! How dare you take his side!?! I'm your sister!" exclaimed Ayeka.
"Tenchi, will you walk me home?" Sasami asked.
"Sure no problem, Sasami. After all I have to drop this little troublemaker
off," answered Tenchi
"I'm laughing on the inside, really I am," responded Ayeka. Sasami just
giggled.
The trio continued to walk as Sasami told them about her day. "And then
that jerk, Hotsuma, grabbed my bag and took off with it, but I caught up to him
and did that wrestling move you showed Tenchi. He ran off yelling for his
mommy," Sasami said with somewhat of a devilish grin on her face.
"Sasami, I'm suprised at you, using violence in such a situation. And
Tenchi, teaching a nine year-old girl how to wrestle," said Ayeka who gave Tenchi
a swift kick in the side.
Due to the odd angle of the blow, Tenchi was able to ignore it. Tenchi then
slung Ayeka over the other shoulder. "Tenchi, I beg you. Put me down!" pleaded
Ayeka who followed up with another kick. Tenchi laughed and mockingly said,
"Ayeka, I'm suprised at you, using violence in such a situation. Right, Sasami."
"Yes, Ayeka, you are such a bad influence on me," said Sasami.
"You two are unbearable!" complained Ayeka who eventually gave up.
Finally the trio arrived at Ayeka's and Sasami's huse. "Where's your
parents?"
"They went on a business trip for two weeks. We got the house to
ourselves," infromed Sasami. "You wanna come in?"
"No, I better get home, but thanks for the invitation," answered Tenchi. He
began to head back, but he recieved a blow to the stomach.
"You frogot about me!" exclaimed Ayeka. Tenchi laughed and lowered her
down to ground.
"Sorry, Ayeka."
"You're forgiven. Besides it was kind of cool to have a guy carry me
home," said Ayeka with a smile. "See you tomorrow, Tenchi." She walked off to
join Sasami in the house.
Tenchi began his walk home, but he didn't notice someone watching him.
Ryoko hovered in a tree keeping an eye on Tenchi. She chuckled to herself,
"Cute and available. It's a shame I have to kill him." She dissappeared.
Later...
Tenchi walked onto his street and immediatly noticed something different.
A large truck was parked in the driveway of the house next door to his own. He
immediately spotted a girl his age playing basketball while several workers unload
several objects into the house. The girl turned and caught Tenchi staring at her.
She called out, "Hi there!"
Tenchi broke out of his trance and responded, "Oh, um... hi!" He walked up
to the girl and introduced himself, "My name's Tenchi Masaki. I live in that
house." Tenchi pointed to the house to the left.
"My name's Ryoko Hakubi, and I live there," the girl said as she pointed
towards the house.
"So, uh, you play basketball?" asked Tenchi, trying to generate a
conversation.
"Yeah, do you?" replied Ryoko.
"Yeah," answered Tenchi. *Great, this conversation's going nowhere fast.
Better go before you humiliate yourself more,* thought Tenchi, but before
he could head home, Ryoko passed the basketball to Tenchi.
"Play to 20, have to win by two," Ryoko challenged. "Or are you too afraid
to be beaten by a girl?"
Tenchi smiled slyly and responded, "You're on!"
The game continued for about 10 minutes the score 19 to 19, Tenchi's ball.
"Oh, you're good Ryoko, but I'm better."
"Talk is cheap, Tenchi. Bring it on!"
"You asked for it!"
Before Tenchi could run the ball, one of the workers yelled from inside the
truck, "Look out!"
A large machine reeled out of one of the trucks and headed straight for
Ryoko. Tenchi rammed Ryoko out of the way, and quickly jumped onto the
machine and landed in a tiger stance. Unfortunately, the top was slick and Tenchi
slid off and hit his head on the concrete hard. He blacked out without really
knowing what was going on.
Later... Tenchi groggily woke up and tried to make sense of what had
happened. When his eyes finally snapped into focus, he had to supress a gasp of
shock. He was laying in a bed next to a sleeping Ryoko who had her arm draped
across his neck. He blushed profoundly at the sight. He gently slipped under her
arm, and stood up. He immediatley regretted it. The room spun which caused
Tenchi to stagger backwards, and he fell onto the bed. Ryoko's eyes snapped
open.
"T-T-Tenchi?" Suddenly the memory of what happened flooded back to her.
Tenchi had risked his neck to save her. *No one's ever done that for me. Not even
Kagato.*
"Oh, my head..." Tenchi sat back up rubbing the back of his head.
"Tenchi, are you okay?" asked Ryoko quietly.
Tenchi tensed up at the sound of her voice. *She's awake!* "M-M-Miss
Ryoko, I don't know what's going on here, but it wasn't my choice to come up
here, I don't even remember coming up here," said Tenchi quickly trying to
explain why he was in the same bed with a girl like her.
"Tenchi, calm down. Don't you remember what happened?"
"No. It was all such a blur," said Tenchi as he rubbed the back of his head
and felt the knot. "Ouch."
"But the things you did were amazing. If it was all a blur how could you
have done that?"
"Done what?"
"You really don't remember do you?"
"No, I don't! So would you mind telling me what happened?"
"Well, one of my mom's machines came loose out of the moving trucks and
you pushed me out of the way."
"So what's so spectacular about that?"
"Well, the machine came heading towards you really fast," informed Ryoko
as she got out of the bed. "And you jumped unbelievably high and landed in some
sort of stance." She imitated the move by jumping onto the bed and landing in a
sloppy tiger stance. "Well you did it different."
"Did I do it like this?" He copied Ryoko's move only he landed in a
near-perfect tiger stance.
"Yes! How did you do that? Where did you learn how to do that? Teach me
how to do that!"
"Woah, slow down! Alright to answer your questions; reflex, martial arts
class, and I don't know if I can."
"You take martial arts?"
"Yeah, and I also take fencing."
*He's a fighter and a swordsman? This is too perfect. He is too perfect.*
"Now would you please tell me when I lost consciousness."
"Oh, that. You see my mom's machine was oiled on the top and you kinda
slipped off."
"Yeah, that was real great. I my jump looked really awesome only after that
I slipped klutz-like right off the landing spot."
Suddenly the door opened and a red-haired, 37 year-old woman came in.
"Oh, good. You two are awake. Ryoko, why don't you introduce me to your
friend?"
"Mom, this is Tenchi Masaki. He lives to the house on the left of us. Tenchi,
this is my mom, Washu Hakubi."
"Pleased to meet you, Miss Washu," Tenchi said as he bowed.
"Oh, you don't have to bow, and don't call me Miss Washu it makes me
sound old."
"Um, then what should I call you?"
"Call me, Little Washu."
"Okay, M-, I mean, Little Washu. Well, I better go. I got homework to do."
"Here, at least stay for dinner," offered Ryoko. "As thanks for saving my
life," she quickly added.
"Sure," replied Tenchi. He quickly turned to Washu and added, "If you
don't mind having an extra mouth to feed, Little Washu."
"That's ok. I'll just order a pizza."
"Medium pizza, sausage with extra pepperoni," said Tenchi quickly. When
he noticed Ryoko's and Washu's stares he added, "Sorry, reflex."
One hour later... "Little Washu, Miss Ryoko, thank you for the food, but I
really should get going."
"Alright, Tenchi. Thank you again for saving my daughter's life."
"It was nothing, really don't mention it," said Tenchi as he grabbed his bag.
He waved good-bye and went back to his house.
"He was a polite boy," remarked Washu.
Ryoko sighed and said, "Yeah." She smiled at thought of him. "He's
perfect."