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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi Universe, and or Tenchi in Tokyo and so on. They are copyrighted by AIC & Pioneer. I am only writing this for entertainment and the Ryoko and Hotsuma Legion. NOT for cash so please, please, pleeeeeeeeease don't sue me. I don't have much of value but my cute wittle puppy. A few graphic novels, and some Ryoko pics. And I will kill if anyone dare try to take those things from me! Ahem! If this story seems similar to your own or someone you know, don't tell me cause I don't give a damn anymore.
Tenchi on Trial
Ryoko stood before Ryo-ohki's large window looking down on the bright glow of the green and blue water planet called Earth. She couldn't believe that it was a bit over nine months ago when she last looked down on the same planet and vowed to never return.
"Almost feels like I'm giving up on something." She sighed.
Zero stood beside her looking down on the same sight. "But it is beautiful isn't it?" She asked. "Mostly because family is down there missing you."
Ryoko mused over her statement a moment. "I guess this place is where I truly belong since I keep coming back to it."
Hotsuma phased himself a good distance behind the two Ryokos. It mattered not how many times he saw them at once he never quite got use to the sight or the knowledge of the second, Zero. Zero was more open with her feelings unlike Ryoko, but she still had the innocent mischievous gleam in her eyes much like the Ryoko he knew. Over the months when he had spoken with her he discovered Zero took an impish pleasure in seeing him sweat under a multitude of personal questions involving himself and his feelings for Ryoko. At times his facade of arrogance and strong confidence failed him around Zero leaving him open for anything she might throw at him.
Both Zero and Ryoko turned to face Hotsuma as he made his almost soundless entrance. "Good evening Hotsuma!" They said in union in an overly sweet tone that usually meant they wanted something of him.
Hotsuma smiled. "Good evening Ryoko, Zero." He greeted them both benevolently. "Are the two of you prepared for our return to Earth?"
Zero stepped away from Ryoko. "Ryo-ohki can't wait to see Sasami again, she got here so quickly didn't she Ryoko?" Asked Zero.
Ryoko nodded. "We've already informed Washu that we are arriving. And we are just in time; the wedding is tomorrow evening."
Zero gave Hotsuma a wink. "I'm going to rest for tonight's activities. See the both of you later." With that said Zero vanished once again into Ryoko's body.
Hotsuma, still unsure of Ryoko's complete motives, looked down on the beautiful glowing planet growing larger as Ryo-ohki descended.
Ryoko playfully rubbed her nose against Hotsuma's cheek. "Don't worry, after tonight we are going to have the time of our created lives. Or don't you trust me?" She said her voice deepening to an almost seducing purr.
Hotsuma shrugged. "I have my doubts." He admitted.
Ryoko tugged at his hair. "Remember I put my trust into you when you first took me away from Earth. I say you owe it to me big time to trust me in this one. Besides I promise this is going to be fun."
"And my I ask my dear what you really have planed for tonight's entertainment?" Hotsuma asked.
Ryoko's fang pressed gently over her lip. "You'll find out once dear Tenchi goes to bed."
***
Tenchi sighed with content as he laid back into the soft pillows of his bed. After tonight he wouldn't be sleeping alone anymore. He would have himself a princess by his side always, regardless of the fact that she was his great half aunt. Love is love that's all that mattered.
Tenchi smiled looking at the digital numbers on his clock, 11:49 PM. Soon it would be the next day, his wedding day. His entire family would be there...well most of them would be there.
Ryoko. It had been merely nine months since she left them, but it felt longer to Tenchi. It was simple to say things became more peaceful around the Masaki home. Except for the occasional accident of Mihoshi landing hers or Kiyone's ship in the lake and bypassing the security in Washu's lab and causing an explosion things were in a way boring. It wasn't until she was gone that Tenchi realized how much of everyone's lives she was involved with. Sasami wasn't quiet as cheerful though she still kept a happy disposition. And the few moments when Little Washu actually left the recesses of her lab slimmed down to near a glimpse of the pink haired child/woman when she needed food or a rest from her work. The only other reason she walked about the outside world was when Ryoko and... that man called.
Ryoko's departure may have allowed him to show his affections for Ayeka openly and without fear of being destroyed in utter rage, he felt the cost wasn't truly worth it. He would have eventually found the courage to tell everyone.
"Tenchi." A sweet singsong voice calling his name flowed by his ears like the wind.
Tenchi sat up looking around the room. "Ryoko?" He asked the stillness of his room. Shaking his head he settled back down into his pillow. "I must have wedding day jitters or something. I'm hearing things."
"Tenchi." The voice called again. "Oh Tenchi."
Tenchi sat up again to come face to smirking face with Ryoko. He was about to cry out with surprise when Ryoko's nimble fingers covered his lips. "Speak of the devil and he...or should I say she is bound to come." She smiled.
Tenchi wasn't sure what had happened but his room began to fade into the shadows and everything went black.
***
"Tenchi. Tenchi." He could hear someone calling his name. "Hey wake up!" A hand flew across his face.
Tenchi opened his eyes to the sight of Ryoko standing before him in a business skirt-suit in the color of a lovely red that made her look very attractive and dominating all at once.
"Good he's awake." Said another voice. Tenchi looked over to his side to see another Ryoko dressed in a pair of wore down hip hugger blue jeans and a red belly T-shirt that said Don't Start With Me, You Won't Win. "It's good to see ya again Tenchi." She smiled stroking his cheek affectionately.
"Hey don't go fraternizing with the accused! Now get back at your position on the bench." Commanded the Ryoko in red waving away the other.
"Ryoko? What's going on?" Tenchi asked.
The Ryoko in red smiled. "This is your trial Tenchi." She said waving her arm back towards the courtroom. Tenchi looked around to find he was surrounded by Ryokos. There was a Ryoko bailiff, recorder of the minutes; even the entire jury consisted of Ryokos. The only one who wasn't the space pirate was the dark masked figure of a judge with his white wig.
"What am I on trial for?" Tenchi demanded.
A Ryoko clad in a black dress sat down at his side and placed a strip of tape over his mouth.
"Ah now that's much better." She gave him a fanged smile as she crossed her legs revealing that the left side had a large split that traveled all the way up to her waist. "Okay we're ready now!" She announced.
Red Ryoko stood. "Ladies and demonesses we are gathered here for the hearing of Tenchi Masaki on grounds of improper treatment of one Ryoko Hakubi."
"HMM!" Tenchi muttered through his taped mouth.
The Ryoko dressed in black gave Tenchi a smart smack in the back of his head. The red Ryoko clicked her tongue wagging her finger before Tenchi's face. "I've got the floor now. I call my first witness Ryoko Hakubi."
Ryoko dressed in her teal and pink dress appeared on the witness stand. The Ryoko in red paced back and forth before the stand as if in deep thought of her strategy before she began her questions. "Miss Hakubi, you were the first of us to have met the defendant is that not right?" Ryoko nodded. "Can you tell the court what happened the moment you met?"
"Well it was in the summertime and I was still imprisoned in the cave behind the Masaki shrine." All of the Ryoko's in the courtroom gave a visible shudder. "Ever since Tenchi was born I would watch over him from my cave, I fell in love with him over those years when he came to his grandfather's shrine to visit. I had the power to cast out an astral projection of myself so that I may see the world outside of my prison."
"Could anyone see you?" Red asked.
"When Tenchi was little he use to be able to see me, in fact I think he was the only person who could see me. And the joyful look in his eyes made me realize that no one had ever before looked at me without fear. But then as he grew up he couldn't see me, then altogether he forgot about me. Until that one day he broke the seal of my cave and my sweet prince came to rescue me." Her eyes started to tear. "When he freed me I wanted to show him my gratitude, that's all I really wanted to do."
"Tell us what happened." Red asked.
"I went to hug him and he stabbed me through with that damn sword!"
Tenchi mumbled in protest but was stopped but the Ryoko in black with sharp elbow to the gut. Black then stood and walked towards the witness. "And how did you feel?" She asked.
Ryoko grabbed hold of her cyan hair. "I felt so angry! All I wanted to do was thank him, show him that I cared for him! And he rejected me and called me a monster! So I followed him waiting until my strength and power had fully returned."
"Returned for what?" Asked Red.
"For a little game." Ryoko answered grinning fiendishly.
The jury of Ryoko's giggled as they all recalled the havoc she had bestowed onto Tenchi's school. Black smiled raising her hand for silence. "Anything else?"
"Besides cutting off my hand and keeping my gems? No." Ryoko said.
Red Ryoko dismissed the witness calling forth another. This time Ryoko stood at the stand wearing a black and blue dress with a red sash tied around her waist. "Now you of all of us have suffered a great pain, can you tell us what happened?" She asked.
"Well that's a large list where do I start?" She wondered.
Red gave her a comforting smile. "Try with the beginning."
"Okay then, almost two years ago Tenchi left for Tokyo while I was asleep. I didn't even get the chance to say goodbye to him and he didn't even bother to wake me. But I didn't let that bother me for long, I quickly found a way to visit Tenchi without much trouble. Things were going all right until he met and fell in love with that girl." She growled digging her nails deep into her palms as she clenched her fist to the point of almost drawing blood.
"Go on." Black Ryoko beckoned.
"He spurred his entire family for that girl." She said through clenched teeth. "I tried to pretend that he wasn't but I saw it for myself with my own two eyes. I saw them atop the school roof."
Tenchi watched as the anger in Ryoko's face slowly mixed with pain and sadness. Seeing such true emotions show through the tough girl mask of the space pirate caused a dagger like pain to stab his heart. The over all shock that she had truly witnessed what had happened between Sakuya and him that day of the school festival had not completely sunk in. Though when it did Tenchi had no doubt realized that he had been so naive to have not noticed that Ryoko had that fateful night dwelling on her heart and mind for so long. It was of no wonder that she went off to space with that other man. What other hurts and pains had she endured by his witless actions made Tenchi's mind race with questions.
Tenchi worked his jaw until the tape fell free. "Ryoko I didn't knuumhp!" The Black Ryoko gagged his mouth again with who knows what.
All the Ryoko's of the courtroom vanished until only the Ryoko on the stand and the judge remained.
Ryoko stood onto her feet looking down at Tenchi. "It wasn't Ayeka I should have been upset with. Hell it wasn't even Sakuya I should have been furious with. It was you Tenchi, it was always you! It is you who are truly the selfish one and the coward!"
"What do you mean by that?" Tenchi demanded standing onto his feet.
"You're the one who wanted things to stay the same though you knew that was impossible! You're the one who left us Tenchi! You're the one who feel for that shadow and pushed very one away! And afterwards you were the one who couldn't decide and when you did you couldn't reveal it. Didn't you realize you were hurting us even more?" Ryoko asked.
Tenchi was silent. It was the sound of the judge standing that ended the long quiet. "What do you say judge? How do you find Tenchi?" Ryoko asked.
The judge held out a dark hand, he stuck out his thumb horizontally then pointed it downwards. The judge pointed out a finger towards Tenchi, "Punish him!" He said in a deep overbearing voice.
Tenchi's eyes widened with shock as everything went black again.
***
"Ooh look at all the toys mommy gave me to play with!" A delighted squeal awoke Tenchi.
"I'm just glad it isn't me." Said a deeper voice. Tenchi could feel an odd sensation in his arms, as if they had been asleep for a long period of time. He fully opened his eyes to find himself hanging by his bounded wrist from the ceiling of a room with red satin clothe covering the walls.
"Ah it seems your playmate has waked onto us." Said an arrogant deep voice.
Tenchi turned his head in the direction of the voices. A hooded man stood with his strong arms crossed over his tan shirtless chest. The man released a deep vibrating growl as he slowly walked over towards Ryoko.
Tenchi's eyes widened to the size of saucers when he laid eyes of Ryoko. Ryoko stood before a table of whips and paddles and other torture devices. She was clad in a highly skimpy leather bikini like dominatrix outfit with torn fishnet stockings. The leather top pushed up her...um gifted upper body greatly leaving very little to one's imagination.
Ryoko turned towards Tenchi and smiled. "Tenchi I thought you would be over that nose-bleeding stage of yours by now." Ryoko's voice turned fuzzy. "What do you plan to do to consummate your marriage night? Wear a blindfold?" Ryoko asked.
"This is a dream, it has to be." Tenchi mumbled.
The hooded man chuckled as he picked up a large paddle then sat it down again. "More like a nightmare, Mr. Masaki." He said motioning towards Ryoko. Beside him Ryoko held a large machine made up of spanking hands, whips, paddles, and other unpleasant objects.
Ryoko smiled evilly as she approached Tenchi with the large machine. "Now Tenchi dear this is going to hurt you a lot more than it will hurt me."
***
"Aah!" Tenchi shouted as he shot up in bed covered in a cold sweat. He looked about him; he was safe and sound in his morning sunlit room. He could smell the aroma of breakfast drifting by his nose.
"Phew it was just a dream." Tenchi muttered to himself walking into the bathroom.
Some moments later Tenchi stood in front of a mirror looking himself over making sure that all that had transpired before was truly just in his mind. "It's just my guilt messing with me because Ryoko isn't here." Tenchi concluded.
If Tenchi had turned completely around he would have noticed the small but noticeable tattoo on his right buttock written in elegant script.
Ryoko was here.
End o' this chapter.
Demoness: Okay so it wasn't total Tenchi bashing. What do you want from me?!
Camellia: A Tenchi with an IQ.
Demoness: Oh that reminds me. (Grabs a whip.) I still owe you for hitting me on the head!
Camellia runs off: Review and for the love of humanity HELP ME!