Title: Tenchi Muyo: Daja Vu, or is it?
A Tenchi Muyo Fanfiction
Written by Tex James and Top_Quark
DISCLAIMER: Tenchi Muyo and its characters do not belong to either of us,
though we wish it did. Also, this follows the OVA story line (before GXP
and OVA 3) so we made up our own minds about a number of things. One is
the nature of Tokimi. As you see later this is our interpretation of her,
and probably not, what the designers had in mind.
+++++ Tenchi Muyo: Daja Vu, or is it? +++++
Closing their eyes the three concentrated and despite Tenchi's efforts to remain isolated and alone they found him and pulled him to them. He fell out of a void into the midst of the three. They had him surrounded, not to attack but to contain. If he were to lash out at them, it would take their combined powers to stop him. However he did not attack, at least not physically. "Why'd you bring me here? I just want to be left alone. they're gone. all of them."
"Tenchi," Washu said gaining his attention, "we did everything we could."
"It wasn't enough! They're gone! I've failed them." he fell to the floor weeping bitterly and each of the three around him felt sorry for him and were at a loss of how to handle his grief.
"Tenchi, If I could I'd go back in time and save every one of them.. They didn't deserve this." Tsunami wept as well as she had lost her sister, her best friends and her people in one day.
Washu also was crying, she could feel the pain that Sasami and Tsunami shared as well as the loss of her own children. The only one not affected was Tokimi. "Tenchi," the third goddess said getting him to look at her. "If I were to tell you that all is not lost would you help save them?"
"I'd give my life to save them!"
The others looked at Tokimi and she lifted up her hand. From the floor emerged the sleeping forms of Ryo-Ohki, and Ryoko. "RYOKO!" Both Tenchi and Washu yelled, but the girl did not wake up.
"I was able to protect her, from further injuries, but the damage she has sustained may cause her to die despite my efforts. She sleeps now." She stopped as he was suddenly holding her up off the floor.
"I won't let her die!"
"I know, Tsunami has given us the way to save them all." She stressed the all not just for him, but for her sister as well. He set her down as she continued. "With the energy that Tenchi released we can use it to turn back time, and stop the damage before it is too late."
"How!" Washu demanded thought she was looking at her daughters. They were in bad shape and she was not sure if even her skills could save them.
"We can reverse the power put into the energies and which will reverse time."
"For how long?" He asked
"If you like we can put you back in your mothers womb," the goddess said.
"But if all these things are fated to happen what could change the course of fate? Even we do not have that power," Tsunami added as she thought about how they could do that, and trying to force the thought of the countless peoples that were now dead.
"We don't have all the power, but with his help we could."
All eyes turned to Tenchi as he looked at Ryoko. "I'd give my life to save them."
"Very well, we will make the preparations. Tsunami, you will need to remove the girl from you, just as Washu will need to put her memories back into the gems."
"What! I've just got my powers and memories back!"
"If we reverse time and do not do this it will cause problems. Only myself and Tenchi will retain our memories."
"But why sister?" Tsunami asked concerned.
"If you do not wipe your own and the girls memories then she will remember everything about being one of us, and to have that knowledge in a mortal is dangerous." Tsunami nodded in understanding as her sister explained it. "As for you Washu," she said facing the scientist turned goddess. "They will have need of your gems again, and just like the girl Sasami, having the knowledge you do now will be dangerous for them, and you."
"Damn it! I've spent 20,000 years trying to get my memories back!"
"Yes, and as we agreed before then if you recall now, you will get your memories back, but not now."
Washu looked at her daughter and she could see Tenchi standing beside the bed holding her daughters' hand. "Ok, I'll do it."
"Very well."
Washu then went to see her daughter and she brushed her daughters' hair back, "Washu." he said cautiously. "When I go back, I'll tell her the truth, I'll tell her. I promise."
"I know you will," she said smiling. Washu and Tsunami then left Tokimi and Tenchi standing beside Ryoko's bed.
"I thought that doctor wanted to take Washu to see you?"
"He did, but he misunderstood the reason I wanted to see my sisters."
"I guess we all did." The two stood in silence for quite some time before he turned to her, "Why are you helping me?"
She smiled warmly at him, "Because, they are not my only family." Her form shifted and she became much older looking and as soon as the transformation was over Tenchi could not believe his eyes.
"Grandma." he said as she opened her arms up and he dove into them hugging her tightly. "Why? How?"
"Many years ago I watched as my sisters creations fought on your planet. I thought that he would have killed her when he won, but he spared her life and just imprisoned her. To Tsunami and my surprise he wished to remain on earth and I was curious what would case him to wish to stay there."
"But how. you're my."
"I know, after watching for a few hundred years I wasn't content just watching so I acted. A young woman was mortally wounded and I let her spirit go to the heavens while I repaired and assumed control of her body." She stroked his hair as he cried softly, "Over time I realized that not only was I feeling what the human body does, but I was feeling it's emotions as well. So one night when he proposed to me, I couldn't say no, I wouldn't say no. In time, your mother was born and as she grew, I was happy just living my life on earth. But after she." She stopped as she tried in vain to stop her own tears. "I loved her so much, my first, my only child. When I lost her, I lost my reason for staying and let my body deteriorate. Every time I saw you I saw her. and." She gave up on talking and hugged him close as they two cried over her lost daughter, and his lost mother.
"We are ready," a voice intoned behind them and Tenchi looked up to see that the goddess had assumed her normal form again.
"Good, as the energy is released I will be able to control it with Tenchi's help and then place him back into this dimension at the appropriate time."
"Tenchi," Tsunami added quietly. When he looked at her, he could see that she was crying. "Do you know what happened?"
"Yes, I could feel the energy destroying as it went, I don't even know the names to all the planets I destroyed." He looked down and he looked so pitiful that she almost considered not telling him.
"Tenchi, you know a few of them."
"Yes, the earth, is gone, but the only other place I know of is.." He suddenly stopped as he looked at her with his eyes wide.
"Yes Tenchi, Jurai is gone. My people, my home. my." she started crying harder as Sasami's emotions were still lingering in her system.
"Oh god no!" He pleaded but she just nodded her head. Tenchi then joined her crying for several minutes before Washu came to get them.
Washu and Tsunami nodded and they began to process. Both of them were never quite sure of their sister's motives and both feared that she would use this to her gain later, but for now they had to trust her, and both hoped that this trust was not misguided. Tenchi though did not doubt Tokimi in the least, if what she told him was true then that would mean that he had a little of her power in him as well.
Tokimi then created a portal, "Tenchi step through here. This will take you to my domain. There my servant D3 can monitor us and I will join you soon in there." He did not even have to think twice before jumping through eagerly.
"What did you say to him," Tsunami asked enraged.
"That does not concern you, but you should know that I will uphold my end of the bargain and no harm will come to him."
"Will you still put him back in his own time?"
"I do not think I could keep him away from her," she said waving an arm in Ryoko's direction. She smiled slightly as she remembered the love she used to feel. 'A gift to you Ryoko, my niece,' she said to herself as she put Ryoko back into the other dimension, 'When the time is right you will remember all this as well.'
The three of them started the process of using the energy Tenchi released to reverse time. From Tokimi's dimension, Tenchi watched as time began to work in reverse. "Wow!" He breathed as time began to move backwards rapidly. Tokimi soon approached him.
"My child how far back to you wish to go?"
He turned to see his grandmother again and he hugged her tightly. "I don't know, I've got to tell her how I feel, I need to tell her before things get out of hand."
"Then do you wish to return to when you let her out of the cave?"
"You don't sound like you approve of that?"
She laughed slightly, "You are like your mother." Letting out a sigh she told him, "No I don't approve of going back that far, it would not be right."
"But why not?"
"If you told her then, she would not be ready for it, it was not until later that she, and you really began to care for each other."
"Oh," he looked down completely dejected. "I thought if I told her at the beginning then it would stop all the fights."
"But if they did not fight then Mihoshi would not have joined you, and without Mihoshi then Washu would not have been released. And."
"And without Washu being released we never would have defeated Kagato or Clay." She just smiled again as he began to understand that everything that seems to be chaos in his life actually served some purpose. "What about when I faced Kagato? Washu was release by then and we were all together?"
"That should be ok, but when you return to your normal time even though you remember all this, your power will take some time to build up."
"What?"
"Right now you have been able to call on the Light Hawk Wings and have almost mastered them, but with the energy you released you have not had a chance to gain that back."
"I see, so I'll have to use the sword again."
"Yes, but only for a short time." She looked up and could see that they were nearing the point that he wanted to rejoin his time. "Please, tell him I love him still. I may be able to visit you both again someday."
"I will, I love you grandma," he gave her one last hug before she created a portal for him to step through.
As he stepped through he felt a tremendous pain, but he kept moving, the pain he would not find out till later was his body merging with his body from that time period forming one new body as it stepped through the portal. Blinking his eyes he realized he was holding a crying Ryoko while just a few feet ahead of him, Kagato was staggering backwards holding his arm.
"Tenchi?" She asked as it she was looking up at a dead man.
He smiled as he looked at her, as just moments ago he had thought she was dead, but now he was holding her again. "Don't worry Ryoko, I'm here now," he told her softly then kissed her forehead before he prepared to fight Kagato.
Below, in the reverse world, Ayeka was watching the exchange and she was fuming, once she got over the initial shock that he was still alive. "How dare she trick him into doing that! She was just pretending to be hurt to get to him!"
"In another dimension Tokimi watched her grandson fight Kagato while Ayeka ranted and raved about him kissing that devil woman. "My poor Tenchi, even this has not stopped the fights between them."
"My lady," A feminine voice called from behind her.
"You, don't have to call me that." She then turned around smiling as one of her shadowed guardians stepped up beside her.
"How is my son? Is he still doing all right? I've tried to keep an eye on him, but D3 won't let me watch."
"Yes, he's doing fine." Tokimi watched Tenchi as Achika walked up beside her and the two watched as he formed the Light hawk for what was supposed to be his first try.
"I wish I could've seen him again."
"I know, my daughter. But that would have just caused more hurt for the both of you. you. would have been proud of him," she said with pride. They watched Tenchi rush Kagato and at the last moment he ducked under Kagato's exposed left side killing him, but this time he did not get a scratch. "He's getting much better, I only hope we can change the future."
"I know mom," the woman said then placed an arm around her. Mother and daughter watched as Ryoko tried to stop the others from getting to Tenchi as she proclaimed that she was going to be first.
"Hello, My name is Washu. Would you like to be my guinea pig?"
"Let me think about it Little Washu."
"What? How'd you know to call me that?" He chuckled as she looked at him strangely.
"HAY!" Ryoko shouted as she was crowded out, and instead of being first, she nearly lost her chance as Tenchi and the others fled the Soujya before it exploded. When they returned to Earth the boy again had several women fighting over him, though both watchers knew that he had already chosen, but how long would it take for their soft hearted Tenchi to actually say it.
"You know," Tokimi said smiling, "you could have saved him a lot of problems if you would have just done as I asked, and had a girl."
"OH MOM!"
+++++ APOLOGIES +++++ I would like to make one apology, no that is not for changing Tokimi or throwing Achika in there at the end, I want to apologize to Doug Dennis and my shameless theft of his idea for Tokimi & Yosho's connection from his story, "Uninhibited Consequences." Sorry!
+++++ Tenchi Muyo: Daja Vu, or is it? +++++
Closing their eyes the three concentrated and despite Tenchi's efforts to remain isolated and alone they found him and pulled him to them. He fell out of a void into the midst of the three. They had him surrounded, not to attack but to contain. If he were to lash out at them, it would take their combined powers to stop him. However he did not attack, at least not physically. "Why'd you bring me here? I just want to be left alone. they're gone. all of them."
"Tenchi," Washu said gaining his attention, "we did everything we could."
"It wasn't enough! They're gone! I've failed them." he fell to the floor weeping bitterly and each of the three around him felt sorry for him and were at a loss of how to handle his grief.
"Tenchi, If I could I'd go back in time and save every one of them.. They didn't deserve this." Tsunami wept as well as she had lost her sister, her best friends and her people in one day.
Washu also was crying, she could feel the pain that Sasami and Tsunami shared as well as the loss of her own children. The only one not affected was Tokimi. "Tenchi," the third goddess said getting him to look at her. "If I were to tell you that all is not lost would you help save them?"
"I'd give my life to save them!"
The others looked at Tokimi and she lifted up her hand. From the floor emerged the sleeping forms of Ryo-Ohki, and Ryoko. "RYOKO!" Both Tenchi and Washu yelled, but the girl did not wake up.
"I was able to protect her, from further injuries, but the damage she has sustained may cause her to die despite my efforts. She sleeps now." She stopped as he was suddenly holding her up off the floor.
"I won't let her die!"
"I know, Tsunami has given us the way to save them all." She stressed the all not just for him, but for her sister as well. He set her down as she continued. "With the energy that Tenchi released we can use it to turn back time, and stop the damage before it is too late."
"How!" Washu demanded thought she was looking at her daughters. They were in bad shape and she was not sure if even her skills could save them.
"We can reverse the power put into the energies and which will reverse time."
"For how long?" He asked
"If you like we can put you back in your mothers womb," the goddess said.
"But if all these things are fated to happen what could change the course of fate? Even we do not have that power," Tsunami added as she thought about how they could do that, and trying to force the thought of the countless peoples that were now dead.
"We don't have all the power, but with his help we could."
All eyes turned to Tenchi as he looked at Ryoko. "I'd give my life to save them."
"Very well, we will make the preparations. Tsunami, you will need to remove the girl from you, just as Washu will need to put her memories back into the gems."
"What! I've just got my powers and memories back!"
"If we reverse time and do not do this it will cause problems. Only myself and Tenchi will retain our memories."
"But why sister?" Tsunami asked concerned.
"If you do not wipe your own and the girls memories then she will remember everything about being one of us, and to have that knowledge in a mortal is dangerous." Tsunami nodded in understanding as her sister explained it. "As for you Washu," she said facing the scientist turned goddess. "They will have need of your gems again, and just like the girl Sasami, having the knowledge you do now will be dangerous for them, and you."
"Damn it! I've spent 20,000 years trying to get my memories back!"
"Yes, and as we agreed before then if you recall now, you will get your memories back, but not now."
Washu looked at her daughter and she could see Tenchi standing beside the bed holding her daughters' hand. "Ok, I'll do it."
"Very well."
Washu then went to see her daughter and she brushed her daughters' hair back, "Washu." he said cautiously. "When I go back, I'll tell her the truth, I'll tell her. I promise."
"I know you will," she said smiling. Washu and Tsunami then left Tokimi and Tenchi standing beside Ryoko's bed.
"I thought that doctor wanted to take Washu to see you?"
"He did, but he misunderstood the reason I wanted to see my sisters."
"I guess we all did." The two stood in silence for quite some time before he turned to her, "Why are you helping me?"
She smiled warmly at him, "Because, they are not my only family." Her form shifted and she became much older looking and as soon as the transformation was over Tenchi could not believe his eyes.
"Grandma." he said as she opened her arms up and he dove into them hugging her tightly. "Why? How?"
"Many years ago I watched as my sisters creations fought on your planet. I thought that he would have killed her when he won, but he spared her life and just imprisoned her. To Tsunami and my surprise he wished to remain on earth and I was curious what would case him to wish to stay there."
"But how. you're my."
"I know, after watching for a few hundred years I wasn't content just watching so I acted. A young woman was mortally wounded and I let her spirit go to the heavens while I repaired and assumed control of her body." She stroked his hair as he cried softly, "Over time I realized that not only was I feeling what the human body does, but I was feeling it's emotions as well. So one night when he proposed to me, I couldn't say no, I wouldn't say no. In time, your mother was born and as she grew, I was happy just living my life on earth. But after she." She stopped as she tried in vain to stop her own tears. "I loved her so much, my first, my only child. When I lost her, I lost my reason for staying and let my body deteriorate. Every time I saw you I saw her. and." She gave up on talking and hugged him close as they two cried over her lost daughter, and his lost mother.
"We are ready," a voice intoned behind them and Tenchi looked up to see that the goddess had assumed her normal form again.
"Good, as the energy is released I will be able to control it with Tenchi's help and then place him back into this dimension at the appropriate time."
"Tenchi," Tsunami added quietly. When he looked at her, he could see that she was crying. "Do you know what happened?"
"Yes, I could feel the energy destroying as it went, I don't even know the names to all the planets I destroyed." He looked down and he looked so pitiful that she almost considered not telling him.
"Tenchi, you know a few of them."
"Yes, the earth, is gone, but the only other place I know of is.." He suddenly stopped as he looked at her with his eyes wide.
"Yes Tenchi, Jurai is gone. My people, my home. my." she started crying harder as Sasami's emotions were still lingering in her system.
"Oh god no!" He pleaded but she just nodded her head. Tenchi then joined her crying for several minutes before Washu came to get them.
Washu and Tsunami nodded and they began to process. Both of them were never quite sure of their sister's motives and both feared that she would use this to her gain later, but for now they had to trust her, and both hoped that this trust was not misguided. Tenchi though did not doubt Tokimi in the least, if what she told him was true then that would mean that he had a little of her power in him as well.
Tokimi then created a portal, "Tenchi step through here. This will take you to my domain. There my servant D3 can monitor us and I will join you soon in there." He did not even have to think twice before jumping through eagerly.
"What did you say to him," Tsunami asked enraged.
"That does not concern you, but you should know that I will uphold my end of the bargain and no harm will come to him."
"Will you still put him back in his own time?"
"I do not think I could keep him away from her," she said waving an arm in Ryoko's direction. She smiled slightly as she remembered the love she used to feel. 'A gift to you Ryoko, my niece,' she said to herself as she put Ryoko back into the other dimension, 'When the time is right you will remember all this as well.'
The three of them started the process of using the energy Tenchi released to reverse time. From Tokimi's dimension, Tenchi watched as time began to work in reverse. "Wow!" He breathed as time began to move backwards rapidly. Tokimi soon approached him.
"My child how far back to you wish to go?"
He turned to see his grandmother again and he hugged her tightly. "I don't know, I've got to tell her how I feel, I need to tell her before things get out of hand."
"Then do you wish to return to when you let her out of the cave?"
"You don't sound like you approve of that?"
She laughed slightly, "You are like your mother." Letting out a sigh she told him, "No I don't approve of going back that far, it would not be right."
"But why not?"
"If you told her then, she would not be ready for it, it was not until later that she, and you really began to care for each other."
"Oh," he looked down completely dejected. "I thought if I told her at the beginning then it would stop all the fights."
"But if they did not fight then Mihoshi would not have joined you, and without Mihoshi then Washu would not have been released. And."
"And without Washu being released we never would have defeated Kagato or Clay." She just smiled again as he began to understand that everything that seems to be chaos in his life actually served some purpose. "What about when I faced Kagato? Washu was release by then and we were all together?"
"That should be ok, but when you return to your normal time even though you remember all this, your power will take some time to build up."
"What?"
"Right now you have been able to call on the Light Hawk Wings and have almost mastered them, but with the energy you released you have not had a chance to gain that back."
"I see, so I'll have to use the sword again."
"Yes, but only for a short time." She looked up and could see that they were nearing the point that he wanted to rejoin his time. "Please, tell him I love him still. I may be able to visit you both again someday."
"I will, I love you grandma," he gave her one last hug before she created a portal for him to step through.
As he stepped through he felt a tremendous pain, but he kept moving, the pain he would not find out till later was his body merging with his body from that time period forming one new body as it stepped through the portal. Blinking his eyes he realized he was holding a crying Ryoko while just a few feet ahead of him, Kagato was staggering backwards holding his arm.
"Tenchi?" She asked as it she was looking up at a dead man.
He smiled as he looked at her, as just moments ago he had thought she was dead, but now he was holding her again. "Don't worry Ryoko, I'm here now," he told her softly then kissed her forehead before he prepared to fight Kagato.
Below, in the reverse world, Ayeka was watching the exchange and she was fuming, once she got over the initial shock that he was still alive. "How dare she trick him into doing that! She was just pretending to be hurt to get to him!"
"In another dimension Tokimi watched her grandson fight Kagato while Ayeka ranted and raved about him kissing that devil woman. "My poor Tenchi, even this has not stopped the fights between them."
"My lady," A feminine voice called from behind her.
"You, don't have to call me that." She then turned around smiling as one of her shadowed guardians stepped up beside her.
"How is my son? Is he still doing all right? I've tried to keep an eye on him, but D3 won't let me watch."
"Yes, he's doing fine." Tokimi watched Tenchi as Achika walked up beside her and the two watched as he formed the Light hawk for what was supposed to be his first try.
"I wish I could've seen him again."
"I know, my daughter. But that would have just caused more hurt for the both of you. you. would have been proud of him," she said with pride. They watched Tenchi rush Kagato and at the last moment he ducked under Kagato's exposed left side killing him, but this time he did not get a scratch. "He's getting much better, I only hope we can change the future."
"I know mom," the woman said then placed an arm around her. Mother and daughter watched as Ryoko tried to stop the others from getting to Tenchi as she proclaimed that she was going to be first.
"Hello, My name is Washu. Would you like to be my guinea pig?"
"Let me think about it Little Washu."
"What? How'd you know to call me that?" He chuckled as she looked at him strangely.
"HAY!" Ryoko shouted as she was crowded out, and instead of being first, she nearly lost her chance as Tenchi and the others fled the Soujya before it exploded. When they returned to Earth the boy again had several women fighting over him, though both watchers knew that he had already chosen, but how long would it take for their soft hearted Tenchi to actually say it.
"You know," Tokimi said smiling, "you could have saved him a lot of problems if you would have just done as I asked, and had a girl."
"OH MOM!"
+++++ APOLOGIES +++++ I would like to make one apology, no that is not for changing Tokimi or throwing Achika in there at the end, I want to apologize to Doug Dennis and my shameless theft of his idea for Tokimi & Yosho's connection from his story, "Uninhibited Consequences." Sorry!