Written in Blood
A Tenchi Muyo- Sailormoon crossover. By Kellybug and Sailor Moonbrat (Partners-in-Crime).
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DISCLAIMER: None of the anime used or mentioned in this story are mine:
Tenchi Muyo is the property of its creator Kajishima Masaki, and its
distributor, Pioneer.
Sailormoon is the property of its creator, Naoko Takeuchi, and its various
distributors.
Card Captor Sakura is the property of its creators at CLAMP.
Pokemon is the property of Nintendo.. at least, the game is. Who lays claim to
the videos, I'm not sure! But, it's not me.
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CHAPTER 2
A blue-haired woman was.. flying? around the room (do I need my glasses adjusted?),
firing what looked like laser-blasts at a purple-haired woman, with two other women
(one blonde, the other green-haired) holding some kind of guns- or waving them around,
I couldn't tell which, three men (one rather old and strangely calm) standing in a
corner, and two young girls a blonde and one in blueish ponytails) trying to- it
sounded like- referee the fight! Washuu sighed heavily: "We're home."
I looked at my sister, then to Washuu. Then, I uttered the only words I could think
of:
"What the Hell's going on here ????"
"What happens in our house when you don't have your coffee." Serena said while getting
away from me so I wouldn't hit her.
Washuu stopped World War III by whistling so damn loud I thought I was gonna kill her.
"All right! That's enough!!"
"Hey! How do you do that?!" Serena said pointing to the flying blue-haired woman.
Leave it to my sister to be affected by me not having coffee but not being affected by
someone flying around in a room.
"Me??"
"Ummm. Yeah sorta! How do you fly like that??"
"Uhhhhh! Well see it's a very complicated matter that I don't think you'd understand
unless, of course, you are as intelligent as me!"
"Ha! Ryoko, you are so hilarious! You don't even have an IQ that higher than a
cabbage's! HA ha ha!!!"
For some reason I couldn't stand the woman that the women named Ryoko was shooting
at. The next line I said, I pretty much just couldn't help myself but say- "Why do you
keep talking about yourself that way??"
Everyone just stopped and stared then Ryoko started to laugh. Ayeka, the woman that
was being shot at , turned bright red then I couldn't help myself and started laughing
too. I thought Serena would be laughing right beside me but instead she was getting
mad.
"Hey! I told you that! You're not allowed to highjack my lines!"
"Can too."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"All right you two! Say! Who are you guys and why are you in your p.j.s???"
Serena and I just turned our heads and looked at Washuu. I thought maybe she could
explain what's going on here but boy would my wish come true way too much!
"Ryo-oko?" Washuu asked the blue-haired woman in a very soft voice that Mom only
uses to get Serena's and my attiention, "could you get away from your fight-of-the-day
with Ayeka and say 'Hello' to your cousins?"
Although I tried not to, I laughed. Here was Washuu-chan, much like our Mom, all
four-foot-plus of her, getting in between these two women-fighters who surely towered
over her! And, much like Mom, I was somehow sure Washuu-chan would win!
But then, Washuu shot a glance my way that told me I had overstepped my bounds by
my quick burst of laughter!
I shut up.
"Arigatou." Washuu-chan softly smiled at me then turned her attection back to Ryoko,
and the others.
"Cousins?" Ryo-oko asked and then dropped her jaw.
"Hai. Cousins." Then Washuu started to raise her voice. "And, if you and Ayeka weren't
so busy turning it into a battle-zone, I'd ask you to show these cute kids around the
grounds! As it is, we'll all be playing 'Obstacle-Course' around here!"
"Well... Don't blame ME, Washuu-chan!" The one who Washuu classified as Ayeka stated-
rather too loudly! "If your daghter wasn't so much of a Buffoonish Barbarian, we would
have to have these disagreements! After all, as a Princess, it is only proper I'd be
shown some RESPECT!" As if to punctuate the point, Ayeka suddenly took a whip from..
SOMEWHERE.. and starting poppng ther damned thing all around her! Add to this her
highly-disturded laughter, and I was getting scared!
And I wasn't the only one! On the stairs, the blonde in the uniform and holding the
gun was starting to break down! Her eyes started to widen as I swore I saw her grow
pale! The poor girl started to shake, then she grabbed the railing of the stairs as her
legs gave way! Fortunately, she dropped her gun (on purpose?) before it had a chance
to mis-fire.
Inside me.. something snapped.
"What in the HELL are you DOING popping that whip and scaring everybody in the
process?" I screamed at the purple-haired banshee as I jerked the whip from her hand.
"Who are you, anyway???" Without waiting for an answer, I went up the stairs to see
about the blonde. "Are you alright, Miss?" I asked, picking up the gun and helping the
young woman to her feet.
"I am.. alrighht," The young lady stammered out, "arigatou." Looking into her eyes,
I could tell she was anything but alright. But, I decided to leave the problem alone.
For now. "I am Detective, First-Class, Mihoshi of the Galaxy Police."
"Officer Mihoshi!" I bow as curtiously as I can.
"And this," she pointed with pride to the green-haired woman beside her, "is my
partner, Detective, First-Class, Kiyone!"
I turned to bow to Kiyone, and meet a drawn pistol at face-level!
"Hmm.. Do you always greet new people with a drawn weapon?" I asked Kiyone.
"PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON !!!" The Officer shouted at me.
I was holding Mihosyi's pistol barrel-down, away from anyone, ever since picking it
up.
"I said..", Kiyone started to growl.
"You did not 'say' anything," I corrected Kiyone. "You *shouted*! There is a difference."
GOD! I thought only Sere got on my badside like this! "And, for your information, it's
not my gun. It's Mihoshi's."
"YOU *STOLE* A GUN??" Damn, this girl is starting to sound like Ayeka! "I'm placing
you under arrest under Galactic Police rule number.."
"I didn't *steal* the gun!" I was fighting to hold on to my patiance, realizing if
it went, my sanity would soon follow. "I picked it up after Mihoshi *dropped* it, and
I was *going to* return it to her!" I handed the gun back to Mikoshi.
"You *dropped* your gun, Mihoshi?" Kiyone was beginning to fly off the handle. "How
COULD YOU???"
"Well... ahhh..." Mihoshi started to stammer, "you see, Kiyone...."
"Officer Kiyone!" I spoke up. "Mihoshi did the best thing she could have done in the
situation! She was getting shaky and wobbly, and dropped her gun on the stairs before
it could go off by accident and hurt someone!"
"Shaky? Wobbly?" Kiyone asked, her pupils shinking to the size of rice-grains.
"Err.. I didn't sence it."
"She was *right* beside you! And you couldn't sence or hear anything ?" I sighed and
shook my head. "And you call yourself a Detective ? You, *Kiyone*, couldn't detect wind
in the middle of a THUNDERSTORM!!!!"
"NANI?" Kiyone shouted. "I will have you know I graduated at the top of my class of
Galactic Police candidates!"
"Either the pickings wer slim that year," I grinned, "or the standards for cops are
dropping."
"NANI? Are you putting me down? Or the Galaxy Police?"
"Smart girl!" I chuckled. "Right the first time.. and maybe the second!"
"THAT'S IT!!" Kiyone shouted, pointing the gun between my eyes, "I'm placing you under
arrest! You speaking disparagingly of a Galactic Patrol Officers!!" She pulled out her
cuffs....
I quickly snatched the gun from Kiyone's hand!
"HEY !! Gimme back my GUN!!" Kiyone whined.
'God!' I thought, 'She sounds as bad as Ayeka!'
"Pardon me," an irrating voice came up from behind me, 'but may I please have my whip
back?"
I speak to both my troubles. "Let me think about it a while. Hmmm .. No!"
"But, my mother gave me that whip!" Ayeka said.
"Ah! Either the family's a matriarchy," I respond with a smile, "Or Mom's just into
Domination!"
I turned to see Sere and Ryoko trying to hold in their laughter. It didn't work for
either of them.
"I need my *gun*!" Kiyone whined again. "I'll get in trouble without it!"
"You get in more trouble with it." I try to say just under my breath. Somehow, Washuu
must have heard it, because she started to laugh! "I can't give you back your gun,
Officer Tongue-black! You see, you are reminding me too much of Mom's stories about one
of her uncles! You see, he was a cop. And, to hear my mom tell it, he never should have
been given authority, much less a gun!"
"Nani?" Kiyone asked. "'Tongue-Black'?"
"'Boot-licker'." Ayeka translated for me.
Sere was holding her sides from laughing so hard.
"Well," Mihoshi put her arm around Kiyone's shoulder, "you do try to impress
Headquarters a little too hard, Kiyone!"
"Officer Brown-nose!" My sister giggled out.
"I ORDER you to return my whip!!!!" Ayeka yelled.
"I can't do it!" I reply. "My conscience won't let me! Washuu? Destroy this thing
somehow, will you?" I toss the whip to Washuu.
"I DEMAND you return that royal-emblem!" Ayeka screamed. "AT ONCE!!!!"
I look at Ayeka funny. "And who are you to order me?"
"I am Ayeka, First-Princess of the planet Jurai!"
"'First-Princess'? Impressive title. And just where is Jurai?"
"In another solar-system!"
"'Another solar-system'? Hmm.. Does Jurai happn to lay claim to Earth, pray-tell?"
"Well.. no.. not exactly...."
"Not exactly'? Well, what is Earth, exactly?"
"Sol is an independent system. It has been for generations."
"For generations, huh?" To say I was loving the sound of Ayeka's suddenly hushed tone
and the way she now held her body would be overstating the obvious. And Serena was
spasming in laughter! "So the 'First-Princess' of a distant planet has the authority
to tell a free-citizen of another planet what to do?"
"WELL!" Ayeka shot back to life. "I AM First-Princess of Jurai!"
"And that's supposed to make me tremble in fear?" I ask. "What kind of planet is this
Jurai that you rule as 'First-Princess'?"
"Well..", Ayeka seemd to falter a little, "I'm not the ruler of Jurai, yet. I have not
been crowned, and will not be until I come of age and am married."
"Ahhh! So you do not rule as of yet?"
"Hai."
"And you're the 'First-Princess'? Just how many Princesses are there?"
"One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seven.. including my sister, Sasami," she pointed to a little
girl in blue-pigtails, who waved at me.
"One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seven ?" I chuckle, "Daddy's been a busy-boy!"
"Nani?"
"Nevermind! So, you're one princess out of 127 ?"
"Hai."
"So, what you're saying is you're just another Royal-Pain-in-the-..."
"NANI ?!!!"
Ryoko started laughing out loud. "He sure has you down pat, Princess!"
Washuu-chan started to lightly chuckle, then said with a smile, "You handle you
cousins very well, Kelly-san! Tenchi-sama could learn many things from you! Many things,
indeed."
My brain came to a complete halt- and demanded a recount of every word Washuu-chan
had just said!
"What did you just say, Washuu-chan?"
"You handle your cousins very well!"
"You mean.. I'm related..", I pointed to Kiyone and Ayeka, "to them?!!"
"Hai," Washuu smiled, as her hand swept across the room, "plus Ryoko.."
"Konnichi-wa." The blue-haired woman faded-out of the room.. then floated over to me!
"Glad to meet you, Kelly-sama!" Ryoko then gave me a small kiss.
"..plus Mihoshi.." Washuu continued.
"I'm related to.. MIHOSHI???" Kiyone looked like she was a fish just brought out of
the water!
"Arigatou.. for helping me earlier." Mihoshi smiled as she took my hand.
"My pleasure." I smile back.
"Samami and Yuugi..."
"Hello," the blue-haired girl said, "I'm Sasami!" She curtsied to me. "I'm very glad
to meet you, honored-cousin!"
Her smile gets to me! Why can't her sister be like that?
"And I'm Yuugi!", the blone beside Sasani bowed.
"And I'm honored to meet you!" I smile, then I step towards Sasami. "Are you really
Ayeka's sister? You seem *way* too calm and ciivilized to be her sister!", I say in a
low voice.
"Hai." Sasami sighs. "We are sisters."
Yuugi giggles a liitle.
Suddenly, I turn back to Ayeka.
"You know something, Ayeka ? With 127 princesses to choose from, *certainly* someone
could have found a better candidate for the Royal Seccession! I am *sure* there were
better candisates for the post than you! Hell, SASAMI WOULD HAVE MADE a better candidate
than you!"
"I don't want the job!" Sasami pleaded in a small voice.
"I never said you *wanted* the job, Sasami, or that you would have to take it," I
smile at her. "I just said you'd make a better candidate for the job. I remember reading
about my royal-ancestors, especially of Scotland and Spain! Being ruler was not a healthy
occupation! Fratricide and Regicide seemed to be national past-times there! But, who
chooses Jurai's ruler?"
"Daddy chose the next ruler." Sasami sighed. "He likes Ayeka best because she's just
like him!"
"'Just like him'?" I asked.
Sasami nodded.
"I don't wanna meet him, then!" Sere said as Ryoko burst out laughing.
"And the planet Jurai HAS NOT BEEN DESTROYED YET?" I ask increduously.
Both Sere and Ryoko were rolling around on the floor, doubled over and gasping from
laughter!
"Hai. Jurai is still there." Sasami said.
"Hai. It *is* rather miraculous, actually." A Shinto priest spoke up.
Ayeka was getting awfully red in the face, and her eyes started to bulge, the pupils
seeming dots in the lenses !
"Ahem!" Washuu continues counting-off the relations, leaving cousin Ayeka with a bad
case of demon-head..
"And, then, you're related to the Masakis! There's Yosho.", she points to the old man
in the clothes of a Shinto priest.
"An honor to meet you, Kelly-san!" Yosho bows.
"The honor is mine, sir!" I return the bow in respect.
"And Nobiyuki..."
"Glad to meet you!" Nobiyuki stick out his hand and smiles.
"Arigatou!" I smile back, shaking his hand.
"And Tenchi!" Washuu-chan concludes this introductions. "I would introduce one other,
but she's not here right now!"
Tenshi Masaki turned to my sister. "Are you going to fall in love with me, Miss?"
Sere just looked at him as Ryoko and Mihoshi turned their heads at Tenshi's
question. "I dunno! Should I?"
'Amanda Serena Graham!' I think, smiling at the picture! 'You are as good at shooting down jackasses as I am!!'
"What about you?" Tenchi turns toward me. "Are you gonna fall in love with me?"
There seemed to be a stunned silence in the room. Obviously, no one ever thought of
Tenchi being Yaoi. There WERE a few snickers after a couple of seconds.
I face-fault.
"Must.. kill. Tenchi.. Masaki.. " I choke out, "iiiiiiiiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGK"
"I will NEVER allow you to harm Tenchi-sama!" God! The one thing I do not need to hear
after a face-fault is the screech of the Princess-from-Hell! "First, you insult ME, and
then you threaten Tenchi-sama! You CANNOT be any relation to The noble Masaki clan!"
I slowly get up from speaking to Sesami. "That's funny, A*yak*a.." I turn around.
"because I was gonna say the exact same thing about you!"
Ayeka then held her arms out, as three shimmering beams of energy seemed to shoot
out from her heart! She seemed to grab one of the beams, and it somehow transformed into
a sword!
"Let's see how you fare against the Power-of-Jurai.. 'Cousin'. Now.. PREPARE TO DIE!"
The Madwoman of Jurai charged at me with the sword at such speed I could not move out
of the way! Then, she sliced me in two pieces!
Or tried to.
"Kelly! Niisan!" Sere cried out, then screamed. "HEY! AYEKA! YOU_ WILL_ DIE!!!"
"It.. is good.." I speak up, "to hear such.. words from you, Imouto-chan! But..
they're.. a little premature."
"Kelly! You're Alive!" Sere said in shock.
"I think so." I chuckle low, then look to Ayeka. "That was *not* nice! Let's see how
you like it." Somehow, the same three beams of energy eminated from me, as I find the
same sword now in my hand! "Let's see how *you* like being sliced!"
"Azaka! Kamadake!" Ayeka screamed out. "HELP!"
Suddenly two, I guess, wooden soldiers (or flying wooden cylinders) were at either
side of the Princess-from-Hell, and protecting her in a forcefield-bubble!
"Gomen. We are the Royal Gaurdsmen! We cannot allow you to harm the Princess!" One of
the logs seemed to speak.
"Hai!" The other log replied. "Surrender your thoughts of harming the Princess!"
"I'm not going to harm your Princess, boys!" I smiled. "I just want her to realize
you don't try what she just tried on me!"
*VWAAAAMP !!*
The energy-sword fell HARD again the force-field bubble!
*skitttit*skittit*skittit*
The bubble flickered- the faded ! Leaving a VERY-stunned Ayeka to fall to the hard
wood floor.
*THUMP !*
"YOUCH !"
I skickered. "That had to hurt."
"Grrrrr.. Oh, Alright!" Hell's Princess hissed through clinched teethe, "Get it over
with. Have your fun." Ayeka then streched out her arms.
'Ayeka.. you're making this WAY too easy!' I thought.
*WOOSH!*WOOSH!*
Ryoko started giggling. "Ayeka! I never knew you have such a fantastic-looking body!"
"Nani ? EEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII !!!!" Ayeka suddenly
covered her now-nude body with her hands and arms. "I MUST find something to cover up
with!"
Ayeka ran faster than anyone I'd ever known! Amazing what embarassment can do!
"Oh, dear.." Sasami sighed.
Yuugi snickered.
"Hey, Ryoko!" Came a voice from outside the doors of the house. "Was that the Princess
I saw running stark-naked for the stairs?"
"It CERTAINLY was!!!" Damn! That put Ryoko in a good mood!
"You and she get into another fight?" The obviously-female voice asked.
"Nope! This time, Ayeka pissed off one of our cousins!" Ryoko chuckled.
"Oh?" The woman- with short blue hair, and what I would guess was a faceful of
Camofluage paint and wearing a pancho, slid the doors closed again. "I didn't think the
girls had it in them to do that. And it couldn't have been Tenchi or the other boys."
"Right you are both times, Nagi!" Washu-chan spoke up. "They don't! And it wasn't!"
"Mom's found some more cousins, Nagi!" Ryoko said.
"Hmm..." Nagi seemed to smile as she picked up what was left of Ayeka's clothes. "Cut
to shreds... and no blood! If my cousin can do this, I'd like to meet.."
"Hmmm.. ahh.. Him!" I smile and offer my hand, taken aback a bit by this woman.
"Kelly Paul Graham! Amatuer genealogist, wisecracker, and occasional-troublemaker at
your service! " Looking at her, and the way she kept herself, my mind started playing
the theme to the old Clint Eastwood movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"! But this
character had a name!
"Glad to meet you, Kelly," she smiled, "I'm Nagi. How'd this happen?"
"Well," I laugh nervously, "I'm not exactly sure! I seemed to have gotten Miss Ayeka
mad at me, and she tried to slice me up with some kind of energy-sword!"
"'Energy-sword'?" Nagi asked. "The Jurai-power?" That got her attention!
"Hai. I think that's what Ayeka called it!" I confessed to Nagi.
"Hey, Hahai!" Nagi called out. "Got any ideas as to how this kid could use the Jurai-
Power?"
"I have a hypothesis, hai." Washuu replied. "But I need to run some tests on Kelly
Paul and Amanda Serena to be sure of my conclusions. We will all head down to my
laboratory to runs the tests after Ayeka gets back down here!" Washuu-chan then smiled.
"I was going to run some tests to show Kelly-kun and Serena-chan to show them how we
were related, anyway!"
A Tenchi Muyo- Sailormoon crossover. By Kellybug and Sailor Moonbrat (Partners-in-Crime).
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DISCLAIMER: None of the anime used or mentioned in this story are mine:
Tenchi Muyo is the property of its creator Kajishima Masaki, and its
distributor, Pioneer.
Sailormoon is the property of its creator, Naoko Takeuchi, and its various
distributors.
Card Captor Sakura is the property of its creators at CLAMP.
Pokemon is the property of Nintendo.. at least, the game is. Who lays claim to
the videos, I'm not sure! But, it's not me.
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CHAPTER 2
A blue-haired woman was.. flying? around the room (do I need my glasses adjusted?),
firing what looked like laser-blasts at a purple-haired woman, with two other women
(one blonde, the other green-haired) holding some kind of guns- or waving them around,
I couldn't tell which, three men (one rather old and strangely calm) standing in a
corner, and two young girls a blonde and one in blueish ponytails) trying to- it
sounded like- referee the fight! Washuu sighed heavily: "We're home."
I looked at my sister, then to Washuu. Then, I uttered the only words I could think
of:
"What the Hell's going on here ????"
"What happens in our house when you don't have your coffee." Serena said while getting
away from me so I wouldn't hit her.
Washuu stopped World War III by whistling so damn loud I thought I was gonna kill her.
"All right! That's enough!!"
"Hey! How do you do that?!" Serena said pointing to the flying blue-haired woman.
Leave it to my sister to be affected by me not having coffee but not being affected by
someone flying around in a room.
"Me??"
"Ummm. Yeah sorta! How do you fly like that??"
"Uhhhhh! Well see it's a very complicated matter that I don't think you'd understand
unless, of course, you are as intelligent as me!"
"Ha! Ryoko, you are so hilarious! You don't even have an IQ that higher than a
cabbage's! HA ha ha!!!"
For some reason I couldn't stand the woman that the women named Ryoko was shooting
at. The next line I said, I pretty much just couldn't help myself but say- "Why do you
keep talking about yourself that way??"
Everyone just stopped and stared then Ryoko started to laugh. Ayeka, the woman that
was being shot at , turned bright red then I couldn't help myself and started laughing
too. I thought Serena would be laughing right beside me but instead she was getting
mad.
"Hey! I told you that! You're not allowed to highjack my lines!"
"Can too."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"Uh huh."
"Nu huh."
"All right you two! Say! Who are you guys and why are you in your p.j.s???"
Serena and I just turned our heads and looked at Washuu. I thought maybe she could
explain what's going on here but boy would my wish come true way too much!
"Ryo-oko?" Washuu asked the blue-haired woman in a very soft voice that Mom only
uses to get Serena's and my attiention, "could you get away from your fight-of-the-day
with Ayeka and say 'Hello' to your cousins?"
Although I tried not to, I laughed. Here was Washuu-chan, much like our Mom, all
four-foot-plus of her, getting in between these two women-fighters who surely towered
over her! And, much like Mom, I was somehow sure Washuu-chan would win!
But then, Washuu shot a glance my way that told me I had overstepped my bounds by
my quick burst of laughter!
I shut up.
"Arigatou." Washuu-chan softly smiled at me then turned her attection back to Ryoko,
and the others.
"Cousins?" Ryo-oko asked and then dropped her jaw.
"Hai. Cousins." Then Washuu started to raise her voice. "And, if you and Ayeka weren't
so busy turning it into a battle-zone, I'd ask you to show these cute kids around the
grounds! As it is, we'll all be playing 'Obstacle-Course' around here!"
"Well... Don't blame ME, Washuu-chan!" The one who Washuu classified as Ayeka stated-
rather too loudly! "If your daghter wasn't so much of a Buffoonish Barbarian, we would
have to have these disagreements! After all, as a Princess, it is only proper I'd be
shown some RESPECT!" As if to punctuate the point, Ayeka suddenly took a whip from..
SOMEWHERE.. and starting poppng ther damned thing all around her! Add to this her
highly-disturded laughter, and I was getting scared!
And I wasn't the only one! On the stairs, the blonde in the uniform and holding the
gun was starting to break down! Her eyes started to widen as I swore I saw her grow
pale! The poor girl started to shake, then she grabbed the railing of the stairs as her
legs gave way! Fortunately, she dropped her gun (on purpose?) before it had a chance
to mis-fire.
Inside me.. something snapped.
"What in the HELL are you DOING popping that whip and scaring everybody in the
process?" I screamed at the purple-haired banshee as I jerked the whip from her hand.
"Who are you, anyway???" Without waiting for an answer, I went up the stairs to see
about the blonde. "Are you alright, Miss?" I asked, picking up the gun and helping the
young woman to her feet.
"I am.. alrighht," The young lady stammered out, "arigatou." Looking into her eyes,
I could tell she was anything but alright. But, I decided to leave the problem alone.
For now. "I am Detective, First-Class, Mihoshi of the Galaxy Police."
"Officer Mihoshi!" I bow as curtiously as I can.
"And this," she pointed with pride to the green-haired woman beside her, "is my
partner, Detective, First-Class, Kiyone!"
I turned to bow to Kiyone, and meet a drawn pistol at face-level!
"Hmm.. Do you always greet new people with a drawn weapon?" I asked Kiyone.
"PUT DOWN YOUR WEAPON !!!" The Officer shouted at me.
I was holding Mihosyi's pistol barrel-down, away from anyone, ever since picking it
up.
"I said..", Kiyone started to growl.
"You did not 'say' anything," I corrected Kiyone. "You *shouted*! There is a difference."
GOD! I thought only Sere got on my badside like this! "And, for your information, it's
not my gun. It's Mihoshi's."
"YOU *STOLE* A GUN??" Damn, this girl is starting to sound like Ayeka! "I'm placing
you under arrest under Galactic Police rule number.."
"I didn't *steal* the gun!" I was fighting to hold on to my patiance, realizing if
it went, my sanity would soon follow. "I picked it up after Mihoshi *dropped* it, and
I was *going to* return it to her!" I handed the gun back to Mikoshi.
"You *dropped* your gun, Mihoshi?" Kiyone was beginning to fly off the handle. "How
COULD YOU???"
"Well... ahhh..." Mihoshi started to stammer, "you see, Kiyone...."
"Officer Kiyone!" I spoke up. "Mihoshi did the best thing she could have done in the
situation! She was getting shaky and wobbly, and dropped her gun on the stairs before
it could go off by accident and hurt someone!"
"Shaky? Wobbly?" Kiyone asked, her pupils shinking to the size of rice-grains.
"Err.. I didn't sence it."
"She was *right* beside you! And you couldn't sence or hear anything ?" I sighed and
shook my head. "And you call yourself a Detective ? You, *Kiyone*, couldn't detect wind
in the middle of a THUNDERSTORM!!!!"
"NANI?" Kiyone shouted. "I will have you know I graduated at the top of my class of
Galactic Police candidates!"
"Either the pickings wer slim that year," I grinned, "or the standards for cops are
dropping."
"NANI? Are you putting me down? Or the Galaxy Police?"
"Smart girl!" I chuckled. "Right the first time.. and maybe the second!"
"THAT'S IT!!" Kiyone shouted, pointing the gun between my eyes, "I'm placing you under
arrest! You speaking disparagingly of a Galactic Patrol Officers!!" She pulled out her
cuffs....
I quickly snatched the gun from Kiyone's hand!
"HEY !! Gimme back my GUN!!" Kiyone whined.
'God!' I thought, 'She sounds as bad as Ayeka!'
"Pardon me," an irrating voice came up from behind me, 'but may I please have my whip
back?"
I speak to both my troubles. "Let me think about it a while. Hmmm .. No!"
"But, my mother gave me that whip!" Ayeka said.
"Ah! Either the family's a matriarchy," I respond with a smile, "Or Mom's just into
Domination!"
I turned to see Sere and Ryoko trying to hold in their laughter. It didn't work for
either of them.
"I need my *gun*!" Kiyone whined again. "I'll get in trouble without it!"
"You get in more trouble with it." I try to say just under my breath. Somehow, Washuu
must have heard it, because she started to laugh! "I can't give you back your gun,
Officer Tongue-black! You see, you are reminding me too much of Mom's stories about one
of her uncles! You see, he was a cop. And, to hear my mom tell it, he never should have
been given authority, much less a gun!"
"Nani?" Kiyone asked. "'Tongue-Black'?"
"'Boot-licker'." Ayeka translated for me.
Sere was holding her sides from laughing so hard.
"Well," Mihoshi put her arm around Kiyone's shoulder, "you do try to impress
Headquarters a little too hard, Kiyone!"
"Officer Brown-nose!" My sister giggled out.
"I ORDER you to return my whip!!!!" Ayeka yelled.
"I can't do it!" I reply. "My conscience won't let me! Washuu? Destroy this thing
somehow, will you?" I toss the whip to Washuu.
"I DEMAND you return that royal-emblem!" Ayeka screamed. "AT ONCE!!!!"
I look at Ayeka funny. "And who are you to order me?"
"I am Ayeka, First-Princess of the planet Jurai!"
"'First-Princess'? Impressive title. And just where is Jurai?"
"In another solar-system!"
"'Another solar-system'? Hmm.. Does Jurai happn to lay claim to Earth, pray-tell?"
"Well.. no.. not exactly...."
"Not exactly'? Well, what is Earth, exactly?"
"Sol is an independent system. It has been for generations."
"For generations, huh?" To say I was loving the sound of Ayeka's suddenly hushed tone
and the way she now held her body would be overstating the obvious. And Serena was
spasming in laughter! "So the 'First-Princess' of a distant planet has the authority
to tell a free-citizen of another planet what to do?"
"WELL!" Ayeka shot back to life. "I AM First-Princess of Jurai!"
"And that's supposed to make me tremble in fear?" I ask. "What kind of planet is this
Jurai that you rule as 'First-Princess'?"
"Well..", Ayeka seemd to falter a little, "I'm not the ruler of Jurai, yet. I have not
been crowned, and will not be until I come of age and am married."
"Ahhh! So you do not rule as of yet?"
"Hai."
"And you're the 'First-Princess'? Just how many Princesses are there?"
"One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seven.. including my sister, Sasami," she pointed to a little
girl in blue-pigtails, who waved at me.
"One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Seven ?" I chuckle, "Daddy's been a busy-boy!"
"Nani?"
"Nevermind! So, you're one princess out of 127 ?"
"Hai."
"So, what you're saying is you're just another Royal-Pain-in-the-..."
"NANI ?!!!"
Ryoko started laughing out loud. "He sure has you down pat, Princess!"
Washuu-chan started to lightly chuckle, then said with a smile, "You handle you
cousins very well, Kelly-san! Tenchi-sama could learn many things from you! Many things,
indeed."
My brain came to a complete halt- and demanded a recount of every word Washuu-chan
had just said!
"What did you just say, Washuu-chan?"
"You handle your cousins very well!"
"You mean.. I'm related..", I pointed to Kiyone and Ayeka, "to them?!!"
"Hai," Washuu smiled, as her hand swept across the room, "plus Ryoko.."
"Konnichi-wa." The blue-haired woman faded-out of the room.. then floated over to me!
"Glad to meet you, Kelly-sama!" Ryoko then gave me a small kiss.
"..plus Mihoshi.." Washuu continued.
"I'm related to.. MIHOSHI???" Kiyone looked like she was a fish just brought out of
the water!
"Arigatou.. for helping me earlier." Mihoshi smiled as she took my hand.
"My pleasure." I smile back.
"Samami and Yuugi..."
"Hello," the blue-haired girl said, "I'm Sasami!" She curtsied to me. "I'm very glad
to meet you, honored-cousin!"
Her smile gets to me! Why can't her sister be like that?
"And I'm Yuugi!", the blone beside Sasani bowed.
"And I'm honored to meet you!" I smile, then I step towards Sasami. "Are you really
Ayeka's sister? You seem *way* too calm and ciivilized to be her sister!", I say in a
low voice.
"Hai." Sasami sighs. "We are sisters."
Yuugi giggles a liitle.
Suddenly, I turn back to Ayeka.
"You know something, Ayeka ? With 127 princesses to choose from, *certainly* someone
could have found a better candidate for the Royal Seccession! I am *sure* there were
better candisates for the post than you! Hell, SASAMI WOULD HAVE MADE a better candidate
than you!"
"I don't want the job!" Sasami pleaded in a small voice.
"I never said you *wanted* the job, Sasami, or that you would have to take it," I
smile at her. "I just said you'd make a better candidate for the job. I remember reading
about my royal-ancestors, especially of Scotland and Spain! Being ruler was not a healthy
occupation! Fratricide and Regicide seemed to be national past-times there! But, who
chooses Jurai's ruler?"
"Daddy chose the next ruler." Sasami sighed. "He likes Ayeka best because she's just
like him!"
"'Just like him'?" I asked.
Sasami nodded.
"I don't wanna meet him, then!" Sere said as Ryoko burst out laughing.
"And the planet Jurai HAS NOT BEEN DESTROYED YET?" I ask increduously.
Both Sere and Ryoko were rolling around on the floor, doubled over and gasping from
laughter!
"Hai. Jurai is still there." Sasami said.
"Hai. It *is* rather miraculous, actually." A Shinto priest spoke up.
Ayeka was getting awfully red in the face, and her eyes started to bulge, the pupils
seeming dots in the lenses !
"Ahem!" Washuu continues counting-off the relations, leaving cousin Ayeka with a bad
case of demon-head..
"And, then, you're related to the Masakis! There's Yosho.", she points to the old man
in the clothes of a Shinto priest.
"An honor to meet you, Kelly-san!" Yosho bows.
"The honor is mine, sir!" I return the bow in respect.
"And Nobiyuki..."
"Glad to meet you!" Nobiyuki stick out his hand and smiles.
"Arigatou!" I smile back, shaking his hand.
"And Tenchi!" Washuu-chan concludes this introductions. "I would introduce one other,
but she's not here right now!"
Tenshi Masaki turned to my sister. "Are you going to fall in love with me, Miss?"
Sere just looked at him as Ryoko and Mihoshi turned their heads at Tenshi's
question. "I dunno! Should I?"
'Amanda Serena Graham!' I think, smiling at the picture! 'You are as good at shooting down jackasses as I am!!'
"What about you?" Tenchi turns toward me. "Are you gonna fall in love with me?"
There seemed to be a stunned silence in the room. Obviously, no one ever thought of
Tenchi being Yaoi. There WERE a few snickers after a couple of seconds.
I face-fault.
"Must.. kill. Tenchi.. Masaki.. " I choke out, "iiiiiiiiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGK"
"I will NEVER allow you to harm Tenchi-sama!" God! The one thing I do not need to hear
after a face-fault is the screech of the Princess-from-Hell! "First, you insult ME, and
then you threaten Tenchi-sama! You CANNOT be any relation to The noble Masaki clan!"
I slowly get up from speaking to Sesami. "That's funny, A*yak*a.." I turn around.
"because I was gonna say the exact same thing about you!"
Ayeka then held her arms out, as three shimmering beams of energy seemed to shoot
out from her heart! She seemed to grab one of the beams, and it somehow transformed into
a sword!
"Let's see how you fare against the Power-of-Jurai.. 'Cousin'. Now.. PREPARE TO DIE!"
The Madwoman of Jurai charged at me with the sword at such speed I could not move out
of the way! Then, she sliced me in two pieces!
Or tried to.
"Kelly! Niisan!" Sere cried out, then screamed. "HEY! AYEKA! YOU_ WILL_ DIE!!!"
"It.. is good.." I speak up, "to hear such.. words from you, Imouto-chan! But..
they're.. a little premature."
"Kelly! You're Alive!" Sere said in shock.
"I think so." I chuckle low, then look to Ayeka. "That was *not* nice! Let's see how
you like it." Somehow, the same three beams of energy eminated from me, as I find the
same sword now in my hand! "Let's see how *you* like being sliced!"
"Azaka! Kamadake!" Ayeka screamed out. "HELP!"
Suddenly two, I guess, wooden soldiers (or flying wooden cylinders) were at either
side of the Princess-from-Hell, and protecting her in a forcefield-bubble!
"Gomen. We are the Royal Gaurdsmen! We cannot allow you to harm the Princess!" One of
the logs seemed to speak.
"Hai!" The other log replied. "Surrender your thoughts of harming the Princess!"
"I'm not going to harm your Princess, boys!" I smiled. "I just want her to realize
you don't try what she just tried on me!"
*VWAAAAMP !!*
The energy-sword fell HARD again the force-field bubble!
*skitttit*skittit*skittit*
The bubble flickered- the faded ! Leaving a VERY-stunned Ayeka to fall to the hard
wood floor.
*THUMP !*
"YOUCH !"
I skickered. "That had to hurt."
"Grrrrr.. Oh, Alright!" Hell's Princess hissed through clinched teethe, "Get it over
with. Have your fun." Ayeka then streched out her arms.
'Ayeka.. you're making this WAY too easy!' I thought.
*WOOSH!*WOOSH!*
Ryoko started giggling. "Ayeka! I never knew you have such a fantastic-looking body!"
"Nani ? EEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII !!!!" Ayeka suddenly
covered her now-nude body with her hands and arms. "I MUST find something to cover up
with!"
Ayeka ran faster than anyone I'd ever known! Amazing what embarassment can do!
"Oh, dear.." Sasami sighed.
Yuugi snickered.
"Hey, Ryoko!" Came a voice from outside the doors of the house. "Was that the Princess
I saw running stark-naked for the stairs?"
"It CERTAINLY was!!!" Damn! That put Ryoko in a good mood!
"You and she get into another fight?" The obviously-female voice asked.
"Nope! This time, Ayeka pissed off one of our cousins!" Ryoko chuckled.
"Oh?" The woman- with short blue hair, and what I would guess was a faceful of
Camofluage paint and wearing a pancho, slid the doors closed again. "I didn't think the
girls had it in them to do that. And it couldn't have been Tenchi or the other boys."
"Right you are both times, Nagi!" Washu-chan spoke up. "They don't! And it wasn't!"
"Mom's found some more cousins, Nagi!" Ryoko said.
"Hmm..." Nagi seemed to smile as she picked up what was left of Ayeka's clothes. "Cut
to shreds... and no blood! If my cousin can do this, I'd like to meet.."
"Hmmm.. ahh.. Him!" I smile and offer my hand, taken aback a bit by this woman.
"Kelly Paul Graham! Amatuer genealogist, wisecracker, and occasional-troublemaker at
your service! " Looking at her, and the way she kept herself, my mind started playing
the theme to the old Clint Eastwood movie, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"! But this
character had a name!
"Glad to meet you, Kelly," she smiled, "I'm Nagi. How'd this happen?"
"Well," I laugh nervously, "I'm not exactly sure! I seemed to have gotten Miss Ayeka
mad at me, and she tried to slice me up with some kind of energy-sword!"
"'Energy-sword'?" Nagi asked. "The Jurai-power?" That got her attention!
"Hai. I think that's what Ayeka called it!" I confessed to Nagi.
"Hey, Hahai!" Nagi called out. "Got any ideas as to how this kid could use the Jurai-
Power?"
"I have a hypothesis, hai." Washuu replied. "But I need to run some tests on Kelly
Paul and Amanda Serena to be sure of my conclusions. We will all head down to my
laboratory to runs the tests after Ayeka gets back down here!" Washuu-chan then smiled.
"I was going to run some tests to show Kelly-kun and Serena-chan to show them how we
were related, anyway!"