A Shifting Wind- Chapter 2

((R&R OR I WILL STICK A SKEWER THROUGH YOUR HEAD, RIP IT OFF, AND THROW IT TO THE ALLIGATORS IN THE EVERGLADES!!! lol. I suggest that you read chapter 1 before you read chapter 2, for you ppl who like to skip chapters ::grumble grumble::. Believe me, it would make a LOT more sense.))

It rained that day.

Tenchi woke up in a grey dawn, in an oddly snappy kind of way. He looked at his right hand, and noticed the sapphire clutched in his fingers. He could smell a damp must coming from outside, and he could hear the pitter-patter of the drops on his roof. He wasn't at all tired or groggy like he would usually be; just snapped his eyes open, just like it was the middle of the afternoon. He checked the clock.

"6 A.M. Why would I wake up at 6 o'clock sharp?"

He twirled the perfectly rounded marble in his fingers. He thought of Ioki. He got it now.

"This is why I'm not exactly interested in..... some of the kind, well, some kind, beautiful aliens I've come across. This is why......"

He paused.

"Because I still love Ioki."

He looked at the sapphire again before getting up and dressed. He slipped on his school uniform and went out to the living room, where Ayeka sat on the couch, and very surprisigly, was talking quietly with Ryoko. He had left the sapphire under his bed, where no one would find it and do who knows what with it. He walked over to the two.

Ayeka looked behind her to see him, obviously very cheerful. "Hello, lord Tenchi," she chimed, "A bit early this morning, are we? You want to be a good student? Or did Tenchi just not finish his homework?". Tenchi smiled, hiding the depression.

"Hello, Miss Ayeka," He copied, "A bit early this morning, are we? You want to be a good cover-up? Or did Ayeka just not become sober?" Ayeka crooked her smile to a scowl. Ryoko, strangely, did not respond. She sat there, quietly, and, as it looked, was staring at the wall.

"Ryoko?" Tenchi questioned.

He walked over to the front of the couch, only to gasp in a sudden surprise. He felt the word slip his lips.

"Ioki!"

It was Ioki. The only thing is, she didn't have Ryoko's hair anymore. Her long, brown hair hung over the back of the couch. She glanced up and smiled.

"Hello, tenchi."
Awake.

"HOLY SHIT!"

He covered his mouth. He saw the sapphire clutched in his right hand. He saw, heard, smelled the rain outside his window.

"Was that a dream?"

He checked the clock, still short of breath.

"Damn! I'm late!"

He slipped on his uniform, grabbed his books, and scrambled his way out the door, not bothering to eat breakfast.... or to hide the sapphire.

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Tenchi stepped up to his home, to the door. His hair matted by rain, his clothing drenched, he turned the doorknob. He had forgotten to bring an umbrella.

He stepped inside, to find Ayeka waiting for him. She gave him a scowl; the same scowl she gave him in his dream. A scowl of insult.

"Why, hello, lord Tenchi," She said with a touch of annoyance in her voice, "Can we talk for a moment?"

Tenchi's heart turned to stone and sunk, sunk to the bottom of him.

"Alright," Replied Tenchi, "What would you like to talk about?"

He hadn't noticed that she was holding an object behind her back. She brought out a small, round, blue stone. The sapphire.

"I found this beside your bed."

Tenchi felt his stomach sink, too. He wanted to ask what she was doing inhis room in the first place, but he didn't bother; Ayeka saw the vision.

"Come with me, Tenchi."

She grabbed his hand, squeezed the sapphire in the other hand, and closed her eyes. The blue cloud covered them.
Tenchi saw it.

The young man, and Ioki. They were on his bed. It started as a kiss. Then, it grew into more than a kiss.

All of a sudden, he was side-tracked.

Aeka pounced on him and knocked him to the floor.

"Don't you see, Tenchi?"

"See what???"

"The young boy, he is you."

"And?"

"And the young girl..."

"Yes?"

"She is me, is she not???"

Tenchi became incredibly confused; how could Aeka ever think she had brown hair?

"Is she, Tenchi? She looks so much like me!"

Ayeka must have been caught up in the moment, to the point where she was hallucinating. Ioki looked nothing like Ayeka.

Before he could think, Ayeka gave him a kiss. A very deep, thorough kiss.

Their lips parted. "I told you we were meant for each other."

"There is a problem Ayeka."

Ayeka did not listen. Just as he started to talk, she began to remove her blouse. He was speechless in shock; being raised as a small-town, wholesome boy, he had never seen a woman in her bra.

"Do you like what you see, Tenchi? Because I see no problem here..."

"..."

He had a frozen look on his face. He was somewhat attracted to Ayeka, but he wasn't at all very serious about it.

Still in shock, he felt Ayeka's hand on his property.

"AH! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!"

He brushed her hand off and half crab-walked, half stumbled backwards. Ayeka followed him on her hands and knees. She caught up with him quickly, and sat on his lap, hugging his waist with her knees.

"Ooooooh, Tenchi, this is what the hell I'm doing!"

She pushed him back and knocked him to the floor, on top of him with her hands and knees. She removed her skirt now, in her undergarments.

"Oh no," Thought Tenchi, "This isn't good, not good at all. I'm not ready to do this with Miss Ayeka..."

But he thought too slow, because before he knew it, Ayeka pinned his hands to the floor. Neither of them was paying any attention to the younger couple anymore; they were already too preoccupied.

"Oh, yes, oh, Tenchi!"

"Oh. My god."

Tenchi was stuck on the floor, with Ayeka... moving on top of him. She carried herself around him, up and down, side to side. And he found, he didn't dislike it. He got a funny feeling, kind of like the feeling he got when he made out with Sakuya, but more intense.

Ayeka slipped her hands under his shirt, started moving her hands in circles and slowly lifted his shirt up, up and off. Tenchi did nothing to stop it; he couldn't tell why. He did not want to offend Miss Ayeka, and he was still frozen with shock... but he also got a feeling he couldn't understand... he actually liked it.

Before he knew it, he felt Ayeka's venturing hand again. He was overwhelmed...

Tenchi opened his eyes.

He found himself in a room he wasn't quite familiar with...

Ayeka's bedroom!

He turned around to see the warm, beautiful, pale body sleeping before him. Nervously, he lifted up the covers a bit to see that he was in the nude... and Ayeka...

He gasped and turned around again. He got another one of those odd feeling-pangs. Did he just see a naked woman...?

It was a new, strange thing to Tenchi. He thought back to Ioki. Then he remembered a few times before that this happened with her. But he wasn't nervous and sketchy as he had been with Ayeka. He and Ioki would go for a long time, finish it all out, and Tenchi would not be at all how he just was.

"Good morning, Lord Tenchi."

He turned around. Ayeka had half-opened her eyes, he could see that she had just woken up.

"G...good morning, Miss Ayeka."

She stretched out, exposing her breasts. Tenchi froze again.

"You were great last night."