*Notes from Minako!* Hiya! I had an extremely hard time writing this chapter, which is why it took so long to get itself out of my head and on to the keyboard (no comments from *cough* Kylee! *cough* Sorry, had a Caligh in my throat, heh.). I kinda just made most of it up on the spot, but I really do hope that you all like it, and just keep in mind that I have never written anything. to this "type" before. You'll know what I am talking about in a while! Just please read and review afterwards! Other: Sorry about the delay (I know, procrastinator, but it's not that this time!). I had this all done at 2/2/03, but my computer has been not letting me go to my document manager, so I got this out as soon as I could!

Chapter 6

"Why did you follow me out here. Didn't you get it that I wanted to be alone?!" Ryoko screamed from the tree that she was sitting in. Tenchi walked over to the base of the tree and looked up at her.

"You looked like you were going to do something stupid, so I came out here to protect you from. yourself." Tenchi said, trying to hide his sword behind him, which didn't work out to well, because Ryoko was above him.

"Why the hell would you think I would need protection?! Why don't you go inside and protect your precious little princess that you love and adore so much! Just leave me out here alone, like you always seem to do! Go! Go!!" Ryoko screamed, almost falling out of the tree, almost in tears.

"Ryoko. you know I wouldn't do that just to piss you off. That was the medicine talking, you know you can never trust Washu," the prince said, scratching the back of his head, kind of laughing.

"Tenchi, how can you laugh at a time like this? I know that." Her words were broken apart when on the opposite side of the tree was a woman, just standing there, watching them fight. The woman was fairly tall, her light blue hair slightly coming out of the black hood that draped over her head. She wore a long black cloak that was buttoned half up and you could see a blue and black suit underneath the cloak. Tenchi slowly walked over to the woman.

"Who are you?" The brave Jurai prince asked. He bent over slightly, trying to see under the woman's hood. He finally realized who it was, when he saw little Ken-Ohki hop over to her side.

"Nagi." Ryoko said from the tree.

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"What was that?!" Sasami asked, holding on to her sister's legs, while Aeka is trying to walk.

"I don't know, imoto-san." Aeka said, bending over to unclamp Sasami, and giving her a hug. Washu stepped over where the window used to be, walking outside to the Jurai household grounds, looking around for anything that could have caused the blast.

'What am I doing?' Washu said to herself, summoning her keyboard and screen in front of her. She got pictures from the grounds on what happened about 5 minutes ago. She clearly saw the blast coming from the front of the house, by the nice big oak tree.

"Washu-san! What are you looking at?" Aeka said, jogging over to where Washu was standing. Sasami, and the rest of the crew followed soon after. They all gathered around her computer, as Washu repeated the scene of the blast, until they all saw it.

"Washu, isn't that the tree that Ryoko always goes to sit in when she is upset about something?" Sasami asked, picking up Ryo-Ohki and dusting off some stuff from her fur.

"Yes, it is, little one. Maybe if I can zoom in on the picture, I can see if that is her, and then I could see what caused the blast," Washu- san mumbled to herself as she typed in her commands on the keyboard. The screen blew up in size, but not enough to see if that was infact Ryoko sitting in the tree. But now they could see that there were 2 other people standing outside, next to the tree.

One looked a lot like Tenchi, the other wore a hood, so they couldn't see her face. Just then, a little tiny. dot like thing hoped over to the hooded person. Ryo-Ohki jumped from Sasami's arms and over to the top of Washu's head, looking down at the screen.

"Mreeeooww!!" Ryo-Ohki screamed jumping up and down on the little scientist's head.

"Ryo-Ohki, what is it?" Aeka said, picking up the excited Ryo-Ohki off of Washu's head. Washu lightly brushed off her magenta hair, and continued to stare at the screen. The tiny hopping. thing stopped by the person's side. What Washu assumed to be Ryoko flew out of the tree, and revealed her sword.

The hooded person took off her cloak, revealing herself, drawing her own sword. They flew at each other, when all of a sudden the screen went whitish-gray. Washu assumed this was the blast. Everyone around her was focused on Ryo-Ohki, that they did not realize what was happening on the screen. After the smoke cleared, Washu saw one of them lying on the ground. not moving a muscle.

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"What do you want, why are you here?" Ryoko screamed, flying from out of the tree. Tenchi took his sword and placed it in front of him. Ryoko summoned her own sword, and got into a fighting position.

"Oh Ryoko, Ryoko. That's not the right way to great a long lost friend, now is it? It seems it's been a while since we have gotten to, lets say, chit-chat again, hasn't it?" Nagi said, taking off her hood and striping herself from the cloak, throwing it aside. She summoned her own sword.

"What were you doing, just spying on us? Why the hell are you here Nagi?!" Ryoko said, in an extremely agitated voice.

"Actually, I was just hear for a visit, you know, to see how my latest project is going." Nagi said, looking over at Tenchi. Tenchi's eyes got that dear-in-the-headlights look, and Ryoko looked over at him, then back at Nagi.

"You mean. you did this to Tenchi? You are the one that sneaked that stuff into the sake.? How dare you!" Ryoko screamed, leaping at Nagi, sword ready for combat. Nagi put up her sword, and when the two swords collided, there was a huge blast of white that came from the spot of contact. The two of the women were driven away because of the force of the blast, but Tenchi was left, lying on the ground, blood dripping from his chest.

Meanwhile, Ryoko did not realize that Tenchi had not been forced from the explosion, so she went back after Nagi. She flew around, looking for where she landed, but could not find the space pirate who poisoned her Tenchi. While she was looking for Nagi, she found Tenchi on the ground, not moving.

"TENCHI!" She screamed, transporting straight over to where she saw him, but when she got there. he was gone.

She looked absolutely everywhere she could to find him, even on the roof, but he was nowhere to be found. Just then, a single tear ran down the side of Ryoko's face. 'Nagi.'

*Notes from Minako* Hiya, I really hoped that you liked it. I know that I always leave you like this, but it's always fun to read your reviews of hatred towards me because I always leave it in a cliffhanger. It's great! Anyway, 2 chapters to go, so keep reading and reviewing! Later!