I don't own Tenchi Muyo!!!--(Except Kijo)
Cont. from Sake Stars and Secrets
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The Return of Evil
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A young 17 yr old girl with black and blue hair tossed and turned on the couch. Finally settling on her back with one arm and leg hanging off the couch.
"MOM!" She shot up. Cold sweat dripping down her face. Heaving her breath. Sighing she looks around and notices that Ryoko's staring at her from on the beam.
"Well, your awake now, how are ya?" Ryoko jumped down and placed her hands on her hips. "Oi! two words... Hang over." Kijo rubbed her head.
"Well thats what you get for drinking with a Demon." A new voice spoke up. Kijo looked over to see a Purpled haired Royal Princess sipping tea at the table with Washu and Sasami.
"Thats not nice!" Kijo spit at Aeka as she stood up. The princess turned in shock. "I invited her for a drink. How is she a demon? Ya know for a princess you sure don't act lady like! A princess would be refined and say 'When you drink above the achohol level your body will react in such a way! But you don't, yet you blame things on someone else. And another fact I drank more then she did!!" Kijo smirked as Ryoko cracked up. Aeka looked abashed by her swift and cutting retort and sat quietly sipping her tea. Ryoko wiped away her tears of laughter and phased over to Kijo putting an arm around her shoulder.
"Ya know i think you can fit in here perfectly." Kijo looked a little nervous ^_^;; "Uh thanks i think." She turned to Aeka, "Sorry, Princess I just meant..." Kijo felt a little bad about what she said. Aeka set down her cup then stood up, "It is alright. I have been out of line to blame Ryoko. I'm Sorry Ryoko. Now i must go get ready for Sasami and I to go to the Market." Aeka walked up stairs to her room.

"What time is it, Sasami?" Kijo walked over to the table with Ryoko. "It's about 9:15. I made lunch already, you missed breakfast to!" Kijo sat down like Ryoko (crossed legged). "Lunch will be fine. I hardly eat breakfast." Placing her elbows on the table and her forhead in her palms her stared at the table, "I feel bad for what i said to Princess Aeka." Before Ryoko could make a comment Washu spoke in, "Ehem! Miss Aeka will be fine, she's a big girl. Tenchi is at the shrine and soon Sasami and Aeka will be leaving. So around 11:00 I would like to speak to you two." Kijo lifted her head to see she Sasami had left to her bedroom. Both girls nodded to Washu as she got up to goto her Lab. Ryoko turns to Kijo, "Have you seen the Shrine?" Kijo shakes her head. "Well then i'll show it to you." Ryoko stood grining and grabed Kijo's arm, phasing out of the room they ended up a couple feet above the ground near the 'Masaki Shrine'.

Kijo landed on her feet cuz Ryoko let her drop. Eye-ing Ryoko's candy, who was sweeping farther up the stairs, she flew up to hug him, followed by Kijo who was running keeping up with Ryoko at her side. Ryoko tombled over the young man. "Tenchi! hehehe." Ryoko huggled him on the ground. "RYOKO...er," He looked up to see Kijo smiling then winked as she ran up to the shrine yelling behind her, "I'll leave you two love birds alone." Tenchi froze then yelled back "NO IT'S NOT LIKE THAT!!" Ryoko laughed as she smuggled the boy.

Kijo giggled to herself as she looked around. 'Man i miss this place' She thought. Just then an older man came walking out of a shrine hut. He wore shrine clothing and had long grey/silvery hair pulled back in a loose ponytail. He looked up in the direction of Kijo and his glasses reflected the light to hid his crimson eyes. Kijo could feel tears fill in her eyes so she closed her eyes and got a hold of herself. She walked over to the praying bell. Rang it twice and prayed. She felt a presence behind her. A stong aura. She smiled to herself as she stood and turned around to meet the face of Yosho. Kijo bowed in respect to the Shrine Keeper.
"You must be Kijo, a friend of Miss Washu." He spoke.
"Yes, and you are YoshoSama... or do you prefer KatsuhitoSan?" Kijo asked politely. "Please, Just call me Grandpa." Kijo giggled and nodded in agreement. Yosho smiled as he and Kijo walked over to Tenchi and Ryoko who just then arrived.
"Tenchi, are you done sweeping?" Grandpa said in a stern voice. "Yes Grandfather." Tenchi showed Kijo around saying the place wasn't much to look at. "Isn't this the Shrine with a cave of the Oger?" Kijo asked as Ryoko cringed #-.- "There's a cave but it isn't an oger cave" Ryoko replaid as Tenchi scratched the back of his neck with a sweatdrop. "It's this way" Tenchi headed into the direction on a beaten down path through a forest of bamboo. Kijo looked back at Yosho, her eyes softened and she smiled sweetly. Kijo waved saying "Ja Na G-Chan."


Ryoko sat on top of the cave while Tenchi showed Kijo inside. She stood at the gate looking in. "Tenchi, may I go in?" She looked to Tenchi who was standing next to her, "Grandpa has the keys and no one is allowed in there." Tenchi proceeded to tell her the story that he was told when he was little. He could not picture what he use to see when he thought of the story. Mainly because he was shown what had happened by Funaho^ and couldn't picture Ryoko as the demon he once thought she looked like because Tama^^ showed him what she looked like. Kijo sighed as she leaned against, not knowingly, the door. It swung open, her eyes swelled up before she fell flat on her face.

"What happened?" Ryoko appeared after she heard the gate slam against the rock wall. "Nothing." Tenchi rushed over to help Kijo up who had a bandaged nose. "Ow... why's the door unlocked?" She looked at Tenchi as she stood up. Tenchi placed his hand behind his head and laughed, "Hahahaha I guess i didn't lock it the last time i snuck in." Kijo and Ryoko sweatdroped at Tenchi's reply.

"Well i wanna check it out!" Kijo headed in deeper into the cave. "No wait..." Tenchi began to protest but felt a hand on his shoulder. "She'll be okay Tenchi." Ryoko said with a gentle smile waiting for Kijo to get out of ear range, "There's nothing in there, remember?" She pointed to herself. "Oh yeah... i forgot." Ryoko did the classic anime fall and Tenchi sweatdroped at her reaction. After Ryoko recomposed herself she got an idea, then whispered it in Tenchi's ear.


Kijo found herself in a small room with a big bolder in the middle and a small bird house type thing over in the corner. 'Where is it?' she thought. Kijo looked around till she found something, 'Thats gotta be it!' She walked over to the back of the room and kneeled down to a small bolder with rope wrapped around it. Releasing the rope the small bolder split into two pieces and the wall infront of her opened up. 'Ah yes!'

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*POV1*
Tenchi walked down the long hallway nearing to the small room. "KIJO?" He yelled. 'Why am i yelling, it'll just echo louder.' Then he heard a scream coming from the small room.

*POV2*
Kijo stood and began to walk through the crack in the wall when she heard her name echo through the room and into her ear, scaring her half to death she misplaced her foot and slipped screaming all the way down.

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Tenchi ran and saw she found the entrance to Ryoko's under ground area. He slid down the tunnel and found a dazed Kijo at the bottom. x.x "Oro oro oro oro oro..." She shook her head as Tenchi approached her. He helped her stand again. They both stood there staring at the bright pool of water in the middle of the room. "Okay you've seen it now let's get out of here." But before they turned to leave the pool of water dimmed down low. Only the outline of a persons body could be seen. Kijo got curious about the water so she took tiny steps to the pool. "No come on let's just leave." Tenchi stopped protesting when Kijo raised a hand telling him to hold on a minute. She clunched up her fist preparing for anything, she neared the edge, peering inside she didn't see anything, Turning to Tenchi she said "It's nothing!" Turning back she froze with fear as she came face to face with two yellow glowing eyes and a monsterous face.

Kijo jumped and rolled to the side getting out of the way as the monster swung a wooden sword at her. Looking up she saw that the creature had gotten to Tenchi. He was laying limp against the monster's body. The horrible thing lifted the sword then brought it down as it pointed it at Kijo.
"Tenchi" She mumbled his name under her breath. kneeling on one knee then placed her palms on the ground, bowing her head as she tightly closed her eyes, the monster looked confused at what she was doing. Suddenly the cave floor began to shake. It caught Tenchi off guard and he fell on top of the monster. "Gee Tenchi i never knew... hehehe" The monster seductively said. But before the young man could reply he was ripped off of the monster and so was it's sword. The creature looked over to see Kijo standing in fighting position. Her eyes lightly glowed a golden color. Tenchi kneeled on the floor behind her.

'She's fast,' The creature thought as Kijo sprinted toward her. Kijo wildly swung at the monster while the monster dogded most the attacks made. After a few blows Kijo began to feel a little to comfident that she can win this fight and didn't notice she left herself open as she swung at it's head.
The monster grabed the sword and used it against Kijo by swinging it toward the water creating Kijo to loose her balance and fall in without the sword.
In the water Kijo could tell the light returned to its full strength. After surfacing she saw Tenchi standing next to the Monster... who had... spikey cyan hair. Ryoko removed the wooden mask and winked at Kijo. Tenchi smiled and offered Kijo a hand out of the water.
"You were pretty good Kijo!" Tenchi complimented her. "Yeah but you got cocky near the end." Ryoko laughed out. "I hope i didn't scare you." Kijo shook her head and smiled. "That was fun. I thought you were the ghost of the Demon." Thre three headed out of the cave and tied the rock back together and got the key from Yosho then locked it up.

Back at the Masaki house, Kijo dressed out of her wet clothes in the bathroom and looked over to a pair of jeans and a t-shirt Tenchi lent her. Ryoko offered to lend her some clothed but the only GOOD outfit Ryoko had was the one she was wearing and that was her blue and tanned stripped one with the tail. Aeka's clothes were to fancy for Kijo and besides she and Sasami were long gone at the market. So Tenchi found a pair of jeans that would fit her and a white long sleeved shirt.
Returning to the living room Tenchi offered to take her clothes to be washed and dried. After Tenchi left Kijo noticed Ryoko was glaring at her. "Erk! ... um... what's the matter Ryoko?" o.o;; Kijo asked. -.- "You're Damn lucky i like you!" T_T "Your also lucky to get to wear his shirt." Ryoko moaned. Kijo raised an eyebrow 'I bet she'd praise it everyday if it was on an Alter.' Kijo giggled to herself as the two headed to Washu's lab.


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Next time : Sad Tellings and the Silent Legacy.
Ya know i'm staying up all night working on these for you all? ^^' i don't mind, i like doing it!!
=^-^= Niyow
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Funaho^ (Episode 3)
Tama^^ (Manga issue PT-12/6)