Disclaimer: I don't own Sasami or any of the Tenchi characters.

Hey people. Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out. I didn't know if people would like my story, and then I had a lot of reports to write for school. Hope you like it!

Sasami lay quietly in the dumpster breathing in the nasty fumes from the rancid waste. "It must have been at least a week old." she thought quietly. As the sirens stopped, she began to shake nervously. "Crap. I don't want to go back!" she screamed in her head as she dug deeper into the waste. She was nearly to the bottom when she heard something outside in the alley.

"Hey, Chief! I think I heard something over here." a voice called. She froze and tried to be as quiet as she could. She could hear the officer walking back and forth in the alley and looking in trash cans. He must have been tipping things over, because he was making a racket. Her ears were pulsing from the noise, even inside the dumpster.

She could faintly hear him say "Hmm... I could've sworn I heard something!" He turned and started walking out of the alley when he noticed the dumpster. "I didn't check there," he thought. As he lifted the lid, a large draft of fresh air swept into the dumpster. The horrible smell of the waste was swept out of the dumpster and straight into the officers face, catching him off guard. "AAHHH! NASTY!" he yelled and let the lid slam back down onto the rim of the dumpster. "I'd probably kill myself if I looked in there again." he said. "Oh well, no one could survive that awful smell anyways." He turned and walked out of the dumpster, trying desperately to fan the smell away from his face.

Sasami breathed a nervous sigh of relief as she heard the officer walk down the alley way. She waited what she thought to be at least another hour until she couldn't hear anything from outside.

Nervously, she worked her way back to the top of the dumpster and lifted the lid off slowly. She cautiously peeked out, and when she saw no police cars, she climbed out. "That was the most horrible thing I've done in years..." she complained as she removed part of an egg-shell from her slimy hair. "DISGUSTING!" she cried when she looked at her freshly cleaned Kimono. It was slimy and brown from the trash.

She dodged out the alley way and began working her way down the street trying not to attract the attention of too many people. "This really sucks." she said to herself as she ran from behind a trash can to the back of a parked car. "I've never had to resort to sneaking around before..."

Eventually, she made it to a large park in the center of the city. It was grassy, clean, and full of Hobo's. She would fit right in here, at least until she could get cleaned up again. "Now if only they had some water here..." she cried desperately into her slimy hands as she looked up and saw only grass and trees.

She walked over to a bench and sat down to think. "If I was water in a big park, where would I be?" she thought. "In the center!" she cried, startling the birds that were milling around where she had been sitting. She got up and started walking to what she assumed was the center of the park.

After about half an hour, she began to hear running water. "It's about time." she thought miserably. "I don't think I could've taken much more of this smell." she said as she glanced down on her disgusting Kimono. After another 10 minutes, she saw a pond, with a stream running into it. There were ducks swimming around, and the water looked almost as green as her newly stained Kimono. "Well, I guess it's better than nothing." she thought as she started to un-do her Kimono.

By this time, it was nearly mid-day, and people started arriving in the park to feed the ducks. "Dammit." she cried. "I DONT WANT TO WAIT!" She ran into the bushes before any of the people saw her. "Now I'm going to have to wait until it's dark just to get this nasty smell off my clothes." she thought miserably as she un-tied her Kimono and took it off. At least she had the privacy of the bushes now.

She spread her kimono on the ground next to her, inside out. She laid down on it, and then remembered that it smelled awful. She quickly rolled off it, and crammed it into a little ball. "Ug. Now I smell even worse. I'm so tired..." she thought. Her eye's became heavy and she could not stop herself from falling asleep.

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"Uhh... no! no... get away from me! ...stay away!" she cried as she tossed and turned in the grass. Her eyes slowly opened as she woke from the horrible dream. "Where am I?" she said as she looked up into the trees above her. Almost immediately, she noticed the terrible smell coming from the wadded up ball next to her. "Oh.." she thought dismally.

"I must have slept for a really long time..." she thought as she noticed that the moon was out and it was almost completely dark. She slowly crawled out of the bushes and looked around. The pond was beautiful. The moon was reflecting on it, and the stream made soft gurgling noises as it rushed over the rocks. She quickly looked around. When she didn't see anyone, she practically dove into the pond with delight. She took off her undergarments and crawled up into the stream. "It's deeper than I thought!" she cried with delight as she sat down in it, the water coming up to her neck.

She picked up some sand off the bottom and slowly began to scrub her skin. She dunked her head under the water and then tried miserably to get the knots out of her beautiful long blue hair. After spending more than half an hour in the stream, she grabbed her undergarments.

She washed them until she could no longer smell any of the garbage on them. "This feels soo good." she thought as she put the fresh clothes on. She quickly walked back to the bushes and picked up her Kimono with two fingers. She carried it back to the stream and washed it until she could no longer smell anything nasty coming from it.

"I'm so hungry..." she thought as she pulled the fresh Kimono on and tied the sash around her small waist. "I haven't eaten in a really long time..." She drank some water from the stream, and then started walking in the opposite direction from which she had entered the park.

After a little while, she saw the lights of a shop near. Then she heard the noises of a road. A couple minutes later, she emerged from the edge of the park in the middle of an outdoor shopping mall. "WOW!" she thought greedily as she eyed the locked stores and the closed hot-dog cart. "Everyone must be gone for the night..." she thought as she started walking towards the hot-dog cart. "I know it's bad, but I'm starving... " she thought guiltily as she crept even closer to the cart.

She grabbed a stick from near-by and pried open the bottom of the cart. It had ketchup, mustard, and some relish. "Hmm..." she thought. "I wonder what else there is..." She took the stick again and jammed the upper section open. "JACKPOT!" she cried when she saw the heaping pile of pre-cooked hot-dogs and buns. She quickly grabbed the bag of buns and hot-dogs.

"WHO'S THERE?" A voice called as a flash-light beamed across the hot-dog cart. "OH NO!" Sasami cried as she turned and ran back into the park. "STOP! NOW!" the officer called as he chased after her into the park. The officer was young and athletic, and he could run faster than Sasami in her drenched Kimono. She dropped the hot-dogs and threw off her Kimono in a last ditch effort to get away. The Kimono dropped to the ground and the officer quickly dodged it.

"I TOLD YOU TO STOP!" he yelled as he grabbed Sasami's arm. "OUCH!" she screamed as he spun her around. Her arm was screaming in pain from the sudden harsh movement of the officer. He had spun her around so fast, her arm had snapped in two... She cried in pain as she fell to the ground on her knees, cradling her mangled arm.

"If you had stopped, that never would have happened." the officer said somewhat sympathetically as he grabbed her fine arm. He kneeled down next to her and looked at her. He was taken aback by her beauty, but her face was stained with the pain of her freshly broken arm. "Jeesus.." he sighed to himself... "How come all the pretty ones end up like this?" Sasami cried out in pain as he touched her shoulder. The tears streamed down her face. He read her her rights and asked her name. She glared at him, but it wasn't very convincing because the pain from her arm was so intense.

"Can you walk?" he asked her as he stood up. Sasami sat, afraid to look at him. She didn't move. "I asked you a question." he said as he kneeled down next to Sasami again. "I... I don't k.. know.." she stuttered as a fresh wave of pain rushed into her head. "Try." he said plainly. Sasami tried to stand up, but as soon as she put any of her weight onto her ankle, it gave out. When the officer had grabbed her, she must have broken it, but the pain from her arm was so much greater that she hadn't even noticed. "AHH..." she cried as she fell back to ground landing on her already broken arm. "Guess not.." the officer said. "I'm going to pick you up, ok? Don't try anything." He knelt down next to her again and put one arm under her legs and one under her arms. "Put your arm around my neck." he said as he slowly lifted her up.

He was surprised at how light she was. He lifted her easily and began to walk back to the shopping center, where his car was parked. "Where do you live?" he asked her as he stepped out of the bushes onto the sidewalk. Sasami did not reply, and instead, turned her head so he couldn't see her face at all. "We're going to find out eventually." he said as he approached his patrol car.

He slowly put her down onto the ground, careful not to hit her broken arm on the way down. Sasami cried out in pain again and he nearly jumped in alarm as he heard her. It had been awhile since she had made any noise at all. He unlocked the door on his car and opened the back door. He placed her into the seat and fastened the seat belt around her tiny waist. She gazed foreword with her eyes in the same glazed over fashion as they had been. He shut the door and it closed with a thunk.

He walked around the the driver's side of the car and took the radio off the dash. "Headquarters come in.. Headquarters... come in." he said into the mike. "Yes we hear you. Continue please car 214." "Reporting in from the park shopping center. I found a girl breaking into the hot-dog cart. Please send back-up to investigate. I need permission to take her to the hospital for a possible injuries." "Permission granted, car 214. Over and out." He placed the mike back onto the dashboard and looked back into the cage at Sasami. She was wincing in pain, but trying to hide the fact that she was vulnerable.

He sighed as he sat down into the patrol car's seat. He closed the door and started the engine. He pulled out of the parking lot and headed towards the nearest hospital. Sasami cried out again as her broken arm thudded against the door when they rounded the corner. The car continued straight down the road. "What am I going to do now..." Sasami screamed into her head as another pulse of pain shot from her broken arm. "Now what..."

I hoped you liked that chapter. Sorry I didn't get it out sooner! The next one should be out shortly! -RyoOhki020