Disclaimer: All names, characters and so on are owned by their owners. The political views on the characters are only thoughts by the writer, who suffer from an overdose of political science. Due to that fact, the characters in this story will go OCC from time to time. The writer excuses misspellings and wrong use of word in sentence structures. English is not the writer's first language, and the writer didn't pay much attention to language at school.

The writer excuse the lack of update, but first summer and then a return to a desk, where the cases had spend the summer mutating. Please pay your taxes, the bureaucracy need them to fight the endless war with the ideas of the policy-makers.

Symbols:

abc private thoughts from a human

* Ryo-ohki * thoughts

The meaning of carrots

Tenchi looked over the field. "Well – Ryo-ohki, I think the job is done for today. We better get back to the house and get a bath before supper and training". Ryo-ohki *I'm not the one smelling here, boy, and remember to take that basket of carrots back to Sasami *.

As Tenchi and Ryo-ohki were returning to the house, they saw Ryoko and Ayeka walking to the baths.

Ryoko: "I don't think Tenchi would like you to be in the bath, while I wash him, so stop following me"

Ayeka: "That's exactly why I do it. Lord Tenchi should not suffer the presence of a demon in his bath; you would probably hurt Lord Tenchi trying to wash him. I has been trained to serve a emperor and is as such much more suited. You should leave and let me take care of Lord Tenchis needs".

Ryoko: "I got the idea – you go back".

Tenchi looked down on the chabbit. "Well, I think I can wait a bit with the bath."

*When fighting superior forces, retreat. Smelling can be the preferable solution to a problem  *.

Tenchi and Ryo-ohki waited until the two girls had entered the baths and changed direction to the house.

Sasami looked out from the kitchen, when she heard the front door open. "Oh, Tenchi – you are earlier than I expected".

Tenchi and Ryo-ohki passed through the living room, where Mihoshi was caught in yet another animé, walking into the kitchen. Tenchi put the basket of carrots on the table. Ryo-ohki jumped up on the table and looked longing on the carrots.

"Yes, your sister and Ryoko decided to move their battle to the bath, so I decided to wait to later with my bath".

Sasami smiled "A wise decision, and you will have time enough. Dinner is delayed. We had guests this afternoon to the shrine, and one of them gave me a receipt for a new carrot cake, but I didn't have all the ingredients, so I called your father, and he promised to bring them home. I hope you don't mind waiting".

*Oh, that sweet girl. Tenchi doesn't mind waiting *.

"No, of cause not. The lunch you made for me and Ryo-ohki was very good. Ryo-ohki wasn't even able to eat all of the carrot cake".

Sasami looked worried on Ryo-ohki and patted his head "You aren't sick, are you Ryo-ohki ?".

"Meov" * No, I just forgot about the cake because of the nice catalyst. We could eat the rest now before dinner *.

"No, you can't have the rest of the cake now. Then your dinner will be spoiled".

"Meooooow". Ryo-ohki looked suddenly very depressed as his ears fall down on the table.

Tenchi looked fondly on Sasami and Ryo-ohki. Its like Sasami and Ry-ohki can communicate by the mind . Tenchi stroked Ryo-ohkis fur. "You better do as she says, or you may not get to taste the new carrot cake"

Ryo-ohkis ears mowed quickly back into the air "Miov". Tenchi smiled at the chabbit and asked "Sasami, do you need any help with the dinner? " 

"No, but thank you for the offer. Ryo-ohki is trouble enough to have in the kitchen" answered Sasami with a light laughter.

"Well, I join Mihoshi in the sofa then. I hope she will not mind the smell"

Sasami looked on Tenshi, as he quickly removed the worst of dust from hands and face by the kitchen wash, and returned to the living room. She will not mind it, the smell of a man, who has returned from the fields. Those ancients habits, rituals and smells which through generations has told us that the world is safe yet another night and tomorrow is taken care of. She will not mind it a bit. Sasami started to laugh silently. Oh, sister, you and Ryoko just lost again to Mihoshi luck, she must be blessed by a goddess.

Ryo-ohki looked on the laughing Sasami *By one, who is mightier than you, Tsunami. It is good to se you laugh, Sasami. *.

Sasami "Now we better make these carrots into a carrot cake for dessert, that is the meaning of carrots, isn't it Ryo-ohki ?".

*It's a fundamental principle of the universe, no need for Tenchi to understand that *.