(Legal stuff: I don't own Tenchi Muyo, or any of the characters or anything
it stands for, Don't sue. And WARNING: This is a shoujo-ai, meaning
girl/girl fic. If your offended by that stuff, simply, don't read it.)
::The Princess And The Pirate::
::CHAPTER 1::
::Collisions And Consequences::
A typical day in the Misaki household, the sun was shining the birds were singing the cherry trees were in full bloom, the scenery was exploding.. Exploding.. Exploding!? Uh oh.
"AEKA!!!"
The smashing of glasses could be heard from inside the kitchen.
"AEKAAAAA!!!"
It was Ryoko she was searching through draws and cabinets throwing anything onto the floor that resided inside, Aeka walked in and gasped at the chaotic scene that lay before her. She placed her hands on her hips and leaned forward toward the Ex-space pirate, who at the moment had her back to the Juraian princess.
"M-MISS RYOKO!! Just what in all of Jurai stars do you THINK YOUR DOING!?"
Ryoko span around, fury written all over her face as she gritted her teeth and spoke "Were have you put my sake? Have you drank it!?"
Aeka raised and eyebrow "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."
Ryoko clenched her fists and marched up to the princess making sure to stand on her toes just to get more height "oh.you lie! You drank it admit it!"
Aeka complied by standing on HER toes matching the space pirate in height nearly, she was a couple of centimetres shorter than her rival but that didn't matter to her. "I did no such thing!" She withdrew from her stiff pose and stood with one hand over her mouth, Ryoko knew what was coming next and briefly wished she had a pair of earplugs "OHOHOHO! As I would drink anything that belonged to YOU, Tsunami knows what I would catch!"
Narrowing her eyes she growled "WHAT! What do you mean 'what you would catch'!? Are you hinting that I have a disease!?"
The princess shook her head in arrogance and smirked "Oh no I am not hinting at all. I'm TELLING you!"
She barely avoided an oncoming fist quickly followed by another that again she was lucky to dodge "Why you prissy bitch!"
Aeka's eyes widened in anger then they narrowed "OHH! Y-You fucking stupid cow!!"
THAT was something that Ryoko did NOT expect, Aeka just said the "f" word.. Yep the crowned princess of jurai, the most prissy bitch Ryoko has encountered so far had said the "f" word. She stood there, her jaw lying on the floor gawping at the newly foul mouthed Aeka. Frozen to the spot she could do nothing more than stare
"Aeka.. You just swore." Ryoko quickly snapped out of it and leaned slightly to the right so she could see behind Aeka.
Jumping around Aeka looked to the kitchen door and saw her little sister- still in a sleepy daze standing there and staring at her "S-SASAMI!"
Sasami rubbed her eyes of sleep, drowsily she pointed at her sister "You.. shouldn't be swearing you know.*yawn*.if mom found out she'd kill you.."
Ryoko smirked and whispered under her breath "..Yeh and do us ALL a favor.."
The princess looked over her shoulder and narrowed her eyes "..Did you say something..?"
Ryoko jumped and nervously scratched the back of her head "Heh.not at all." Aeka huffed and turned back to her sister who was eyeing the mess that lay behind Ryoko.
".What's all that mess.?" Ryoko looked behind her and noted all the broken pans and plates AND glasses AND chopsticks... Ect. Ect. Ect. She sighed slightly and then remembered WHY she had broken them all "HEY! That's not ALL my fault! I did it 'cos I was trying to find my sake that AEKA drank!" Aeka span back round to the smirking space pirate "For the last Fu.the last time, I did NOT drink your sake!"
Ryoko stuck her tongue out "Shut up stupid bitch." Aeka narrowed her eyes and was just about to say something when she was interrupted by Sasami "You mean that stuff that stunk like old tea was sake?" Ryoko looked toward Sasami with a slightly worried face
"Yeh I suppose that's what it smell like...wait..What did you do with it?" Sasami sweat-dropped and blushed nervously "Uh..well. it smelled funny and I thought it was 'off' so I..." Ryoko sighed, "You threw it away didn't you?" Sasami looked down at the floor and shuffled her right foot "..Sorry." Aeka smirked "HAHA! See I TOLD you I didn't drink it!"
".Whatever."
"WELL?"
"'Well' what?"
"You know what! Aren't you going to apologize to me?"
"Umm let me think.. NOOOOOO!"
"OH you-you-you.THING!"
"Oh my I'm soooo offended!"
Aeka fumed as Ryoko merely ignore her and walked over to Sasami patting her on the head, she smiled and lifted the child's head up with a gentle hand "Don't worry kiddo. I'm not angry at you.."
Sasami beamed "Really? Great!" Ryoko continued to pat her on the head as she looked back at the mess that lay on the kitchen floor "Oh. I'm sorry for making a mess."
Laughing nervously she said "Heh about that, you'll have to buy new stuff. That's all we had.." Ryoko stopped her hand movement and slouched her shoulders "Aww MAN!" Aeka giggled amusingly but was soon stopped by Sasami's serious glare.
"Aeka you go too"
Aeka looked wide eyed and gob smacked "WHAT!? But I didn't do anything!" Sasami put her hands on her hips "It's punishment for swearing.."
Aeka laughed "And who do you think YOU are punishing ME? Your just my little sister you can't do that!" Sasami sweetly smirked "What? Would you rather me tell mom or dad about you swearing and let THEM punish you instead?" Aeka sighed and looked away ".fine."
Giggling Ryoko muttered "Heh heh that little sister of yours has got some skills!"
Aeka gave Ryoko a glare of disapproval but ryoko just whistled and pretended she didn't say anything. Sasami smiled and poked aeka "You'll have to go into town get it.."
***
So there they were. Ryoko and aeka walking along rows of shops with a pocket full of cash. Aeka sighed ".. I can't believe I'm doing this. shopping for cutlery"
Ryoko nudged her and smiled "Hey it's not so bad! And look on the bright side! You get the honour of spending some quality time with ME!" Aeka looked sideways at her cyan-haired companion
".Wonderful." Ryoko looked as if she was thinking for a second then she raised her arm and stuck up her little finger "And who knows? Maybe through spending some time together we may actually learn how to get along." Aeka couldn't help but smile at Ryoko's words ".Maybe.."
As they carried on walking down the row of book stores Ryoko spotted something "Hey look over there that shop, it say 'Kitchen utensils' maybe we can find our stuff in there!" She grabbed hold of aeka's hand and dragged her inside. "WHOA! Miss Ryoko un-hand me! I can get there on my own!" She had her eyes clamped shut. god knows why.
"I SAID-huh?"
She felt a tap on her shoulder "uh..were here aeka." She opened her eyes to see ryoko with an look of fair amusement, she blushed and crossed her arms "I-I knew that!" Ryoko sweat dropped "..sure.Anyway look!" She pointed over to a big sign with 'SALE' written across it "This place has got everything we need AND it's a sale so we'll have money left over!"
***
One hour later
***
Aeka and Ryoko emerged from the shop with two heavy bags full of kitchen crap, Ryoko looked around and grinned
"Hey. we haven't spent all our money right?" Aeka nodded "uh huh I'd say we still have over half left.." Ryoko rubbed her hands together "Good then lets go shopping!" Aeka grabbed hold of the over enthusiastic space pirate "Now wait just a second! We should NOT go shopping, we should go home now!"
Ryoko put on some puppy dog eyes-which made aeka jump back in surprise with a hand lifted to her mouth ".Aw.pleeeeeeeeeease! C'mon Aeka! You NEVER have any time to buy anything for yourself. C'mon! c'mon!" Ryoko saw a clothes shop across the street. She grabbed hold of the princess's hand again and dragged her across the busy road, managing to dodge traffic easily..
Though Aeka wasn't too thrilled. Traffic blasting past them at speeds of about 50mph didn't seem to bother Ryoko at all, but to a certain princess it was terrifying. Once they reached the other side and Ryoko had let go of Aeka's hand to look at the clothes in the window Aeka had put her hands on her knees and took a much-needed breather.
"Huff..puff..." After regaining some oxygen she turned around to Ryoko, who was staring through the window "Ryoko. what are you looking at?" Ryoko, still not taking her gaze from the window waved a hand over her shoulder, motioning aeka to join her. She did so and followed the space pirate's gaze into the window, there her eyes fell upon the most extravagant dress she had EVER seen. Her eyes sparkled and shone at this beautiful gown that lay before her.
".. Oh my! It's beautiful!" Ryoko turned to the princess and smiled "Aint it? .Well it's not really the type of thing I'D personally wear.. But you might suite it!"
Turning to the grinning Oni she stuttered "Ryoko. I couldn't" But Ryoko was hearing no of it, for the third time that day she grabbed a-hold of the princess's arm and AGAIN dragged her into the store "C'mon! Since when do you get to treat yourself huh?"
Once inside the shop Aeka was taken by the many different clothes and dresses all shapes and sizes, colours and textures. She had never been in an earth clothes shop before so she didn't really know what to do. Ryoko however was already at the checkout talking to one of the staff
"Yeh. my friend there would like to try on that dress in the window" The member of staff nodded and headed to the window followed by Ryoko "You mean. this one?" He held up the gown that Aeka had been gawping at a minute ago, Ryoko nodded "yep that one!" She smiled and bounced up and down as the member of staff brought the dress down from its stand. Ryoko took it and called to Aeka, who was still standing at the entrance of the store not knowing what to do with her-self.
"Hey Aeka? Aeka!" She jerked her head "h-huh?" She looked over to the cyan haired women that was waving to her "oh..Ryoko.."
Ryoko was bouncing about, for some particularly reason, unknown to Aeka, she was seemingly excited. "Hey come over here! Try this dress on!" Aeka was still apprehensive and her ' oh my what will the others think?' attitude was getting on ryoko's nerves. She sighed slightly agitated
".listen Aeka, you gonna come over here and try this damn dress on, or am I gonna have to drag you here AGAIN? And might I add that I have been doing that all day, your starting to piss me off Ya know?" Aeka scowled a bit at her, SHE was pissing RYOKO off? This-women had dragged her too-and-fro from shop to shop ALL day, almost got her killed on a busy road and SHE was the one pissing HER off?
(do not kill. do NOT kill. Ryoko is trying to be nice..for once.. It is a rare occurrence and I should make the most of it.. And after all I am a princess, just try the dress on and then go home. yeh.)
She breathed in and walked over to Ryoko, the attendant tapped Ryoko on the shoulder "Miss. the changing rooms are over there.." he pointed to the far end of the shop and then left to serve another customer. "Hey Aeka, c'mon lets try it on" Aeka nodded and took the dress from her and walk in over to the changing rooms.
When they got there, there were many different blocks of cubicles for changing rooms. "Go try it on Aeka, I'll wait out here.." Aeka smiled, nodded and then headed for the pink cubicle. Once inside she closed the door behind her.
***
30 Minutes later..
***
Ryoko was lounging on one of the uncomfortable seats outside the changing cubicle that Aeka was STILL inside, she had been looking at some magazines that were on a little table but it was just crap, all about dieting and some supposedly famous people that she hadn't even heard about.
She rested her arms behind her head and sat up huffing "Peh.. Famous my butt! I haven't even heard of any of those losers.. Hey Aeka, are you finished yet?"
The sound of fabric being moved around and the little grunts and sigh's of the princess could be heard coming from the cubicle "Uh.YEH. I'll be out in a minute.OW!"
Ryoko raised and eyebrow and jumping of the seat she slowly walked up to the cubicle door. She knocked on "Hey are you ok in there?" Another grunt and a sigh ".uh. I'm fine. I'm just.. Well. I don't know. how do you put this thing on?" Ryoko sighed and laughed shaking her head.
Aeka was stood with the dress halfway up her, it wasn't fully over her chest though, and she hadn't got the hand of fastening clasps on the built- in-girdle. The dress was all skew-whiff as she tried frantically to get it on. She leaned slightly to the door
"Hey Ryoko. how do put this on? It's like some sort of full-bodied bra or something, it's really strange I have never seen one before.. Hey could you tell me how to.hey Ryoko? Are you LISTENING?" But there was no reply, that women better not be ignoring her! "Ryoko! Hey.. Ugh! The NERVE" She carefully pressed her body against the door and opened it a crack so she could see through but no-one could see in. "RYOKO?" She poked her head through the door and looked around but to her surprise.. she was gone, vanished..
Aeka closed the door again and scratched her head, were HAD she gone?
(That women better not have run off and left me! ..huh?)
And then she felt it. Some-one was.behind her and they had their hands on her dress! She let out a little sound of surprise "W-who?" when the words left her mouth she felt the warm feeling of some-one's breath on the back of her neck.
"Shhh.relax.its only me.." Aeka recognized that low hoarse voice it was Ryoko's and she was breathing down the back of Aeka's neck LITTERALLY as she spoke again her voice seemed husky and caused Aeka to shiver involuntarily
"It's ok.. I'm just gonna help you with this." She sighed slightly "Huh? Uh. Princess what the heck is WITH you?" Aeka's eyes widened as she span around "RYOKO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Ryoko jumped back and hit the wall in surprise "WHOA! Jeez! What the hell?" Aeka felt a light draft on her chest and remembered that the dress wasn't on completely, quickly she darted her arms up to her top half and covered anything that may have been showing "RYOKO! What on earth are you doing in MY changing block!? Can't you see I'm TRYING to get dressed!?" Ryoko top lip arched as she pointed to the dress that was.. Well.. Not exactly on correctly
"Yeh. TRYING but not SUCCEEDING.." Aeka looked down at her crappie attempt to put on the dress "uh." Ryoko continued, "You see. that's why I'm here? You said you needed help didn't you?" Aeka thought about it for a second. she DID say she needed help. and Ryoko was only trying to HELP right? So what was she so bothered about?
"Uh.. I guess.." Ryoko smiled "Well then? You gonna let me help you put it on or not?" Aeka sighed and averted her gaze to the floor "B-but..I-I..I'm shy Ryoko"
Ryoko's expression faltered to a look of concern and understanding, one that the princess had NEVER seen on the space pirate "h-hey! Don't be! I mean you haven't got anything I haven't seen before.right?" The princess sighed nervously
"R-right." Ryoko placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled reassuringly
"Ok then. turn around for me please?" She nodded and complied turning around as she had asked, soon after this she felt Ryoko's hands glide to the clasps of the 'full-bodied-bra-looking-thing' as Aeka had called it. As Ryoko fastened the loops she spoke softly "You know what this is? This is called a girdle.. It kinda holds you in so you can fit into really small clothes, I never were 'em. can't stand the damn things.. But I honestly thought you would have worn one of these before. but I guess you juraians must use something else.."
Aeka nodded, though not saying a word, she just stared at a dot on the wall of the cubicle. "Turn around for me would ya?" She nodded silently again and turned around. Now, looking into Ryoko's eyes. she saw something. something she had never seen before.
A look of kindness and purity.heh. purity, a word she thought LAST to describe this space pirate, this women who had come to nearly destroy her home. though now. she had changed, for the better. Even if she was a little selfish from time to time, she had her moments and her turn to put in kind words and gestures, now being one of those times.
This was Aeka's first time though in being the target for Ryoko's kind deeds. Usually it would be lord Tenchi. scratch that, it was ALWAYS lord Tenchi. And she couldn't help but smile at the sincerity upon the cyan haired women's face. "Finished! ..uh hey what are you smiling about?"
"Huh? Oh.nothing.."
"Nothing? .ok.. Are you sure? It seemed like something."
"No. it was nothing."
"Okay.. If you say so"
"I do...SAY SO I a mean."
"...Uh.ANYWAY..c'mon !"
Aeka tilted her head as Ryoko turned her around and pushed her out of the cubicle and up to a mirror, she wasn't looking at the mirror though, she still had her head over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow staring at Ryoko. Ryoko ran in front of her and smiled "LOOK! LOOK!" She pointed to the mirror, Aeka gave a look of confusion, shrugged and then turned to face the mirror.
But she did not see herself, she saw a totally different girl stood in front of her, The dress was absolutely beautiful. It was a sky blue color, that fit snugly around her body showing her figure to it's fullest. Around the neck it had little trimmings of lace a darker shade than the dress itself.
"See? You look beautiful!" Aeka felt a lump form in her throat, Ryoko had just called her beautiful? "Y-you think I look. b-beautiful?" A slight look of puzzlement but non the less an answer soon followed "Well. yeh, why else would I say you did? Listen princess if I say you look beautiful then you look beautiful, I'm not the type to lie you know. I aint got nothing to gain from it." Aeka smiled and nodded, turning back to the mirror and giving a little pose. "Hey why don't you buy it? You hardly EVER buy stuff for yourself"
"Yes.I think I will!" She looked at the price tag... and nearly cried
"What's wrong?"
"I. can't buy it." Ryoko walked up to the heart struck princess and stared at her "Huh? Why not?" Aeka blushed a little and sighed "I can't afford it.. it's way too expensive.." Ryoko took hold of the price tag and whistled
"Whoo.. I see what ya mean.." Aeka sighed again "..oh well. never mind.. maybe it wasn't meant to be.." Ryoko giggled "I know.. you can still have it.."
The princess raised an eyebrow and then frantically shook her head "NO WAY! Your not STEALING it!" Ryoko mimed a 'woah!' and then put her hands over the princess's mouth "H-hey! I wasn't gonna steal it!" Aeka tried to speak but having ryoko's hands over her mouth made her speech distorted "mph mph!" The cyan haired women took her hands away and allowed Aeka to speak ".huff. then what do you propose we do?"
Ryoko waggled a slender finger and grinned "nuh uh! Not what WE do, what I do!" Aeka scratched her head "Huh?" As ryoko shoved a hand into her pockets and stuck out her tongue slightly as she rummaged about in her pocket "mmm.it should be here somewhere." She tried the other one.. "umm..nope..maybe here?. no..ah I remember!" She levitated a bit as she slipped her boot off "It's in here" Putting a hand inside her shoe she pulled out what looked like some sort of wallet "Here it is!" Handing it to Aeka as she put the boot back on her foot she smiled "Go ahead take a look inside!" Aeka waited a bit but then opened the wallet and peered inside to see.money, lots and lots of money "WOW!" ryoko grinned like a cat who had just caught the biggest rat known to man "Yeh, I know.. there's a lot aint there? I've been saving up for a while and.well I don't really need it anyway.."
Aeka looked up and titled her head at the floating oni "huh?" Ryoko thumped her head and rolled her eyes back "I mean ,take it you dolt!" Aeka jumped back "What? I c-cant!"
"Why not?" she asked
"Because.well.it's yours!"
Ryoko sighed and tutted. "Yeh, and I'm giving it to you!"
Aeka shook her head and pushed the wallet back into Roko's hands. "No! I don't deserve it!"
Ryoko threw it back. "Yeh you do!"
"How?"
"Well. lets just call it a piece offering for blaming you about the sake this morning.."
"B-but.."
"No buts! Take it! I 'aint gonna hear another word!"
"Ryoko..."
"It's ok really! You can find a way of thanking me later!"
"Right."
"C'mon lets go buy it!"
***
Washu lay back in her floating pillow, with all her calculations finished and all necessary equipment fixed, upgraded and tested she was bored.. VERY bored.SO bored in fact that she was thinking about leaving the lab
"Hmm. I wonder what everyone else is up to.." She sighed and hopped of the cushion "I think I'll go check.." Slowly she walked over to the lab door, exiting through it leaving the little metal crab to jangle on behind her.
Sasami was in the kitchen as usual when the little genius walked up the stairs. Tenchi wasn't there. must be at the shrine.
(hehe I'll check on him LATER..)
Mihoshi was being..Mihoshi.. sleeping on the couch. as usual. Kiyone sleeping next to her, poor thing must be exhausted through nurturing that dolt she hardly got any rest so she deserved it.
As Washu walked into the kitchen the sweet aroma of miso soup filled her nostrils, she breathed in heavy savoring the smell of sasami's wonderful cooking
"mmmm. something smells nice sasami!" The little princess turned round and giggled, Ryo-ohki perched on her shoulder "Oh hi washu! Thankyou! I'm cooking lunch but it won't be ready for a while.." Washu smiled as ryo-ohki hopped down from Sasami's shoulder and jumped into Washu's hands
"Hi there! You saying hello to your mommy?" Ryo-ohki's ears twitched as the little cabbit smiled and gave a hearty "Mya!" Washu cocked her head to the side "Do you know were your sister is ryo-ohki?" The cabbit gave another "Mya!" and jumped back onto sasami's shoulder
"Oh washu?" Washu looked at the little princess "huh?" Sasami gave a nervous smile "Ryoko and Aeka got into another fight this morning and broke all the bowls and glasses and stuff, so I sent them into town to get some more"
Washu sighed and shook her head "That girl, she is hopeless!" She sighed again as she headed back into the front room, kiyone and mihoshi were still asleep so there was nothing for the little genius to occupy herself with HERE she walked toward the front door and put on some small sneakers "Hmm. might as well go see what Tenchi's doing."
***
Ryoko and Aeka-who had now changed back into her original clothes, were walking happily down a crowded street Aeka had the dress wrapped up and placed inside a lovely fancy looking bag, they were nearing a small park when Ryoko stopped and held her stomach Aeka stopped beside her and looked toward the cyan haired oni with concern.
"Ryoko what's wrong?" Ryoko bit her lip and squinted then without warning her stomach gave a loud, low growl and rumble causing both girls to blush. Ryoko scratched the back of her neck "Heh. guess I'm hungry.." She searched around and spotted a small noodle stand at the park entrance
"I'm gonna get something to eat.. you want something?" Aeka nodded "Ok then.. hey why don't you go wait for me over there?" Ryoko pointed to a small green park bench, Aeka smiled, nodded again and went to sit down as ryoko headed for the noodle stand.
Luckily there was no-one else there so she was first served, she looked at the menu board and then approached the owner
"Can I help you miss?" Ryoko licked her lips and nodded "Yeh.. I'll have two fried noodles with two teas please.." The owner turned around and began to get ryoko's order ready.
Aeka was sitting on the park bench admiring the moon and stars, she smiled and sighed it seemed like today was turning out pretty good, she and ryoko hadn't fought once since breakfast
"Hey there pretty lady. What you doing all by yourself?"
Jumping slightly she shifted herself "Huh?" And turned around to see two slimy looking guys with their hands in their pockets "uh.. I'm just waiting for someone."
The tall guy with greasy black hair leaned in "Oh really? Why don't you come with us? We'll keep you company.."
Aeka's face turned nervous and timid "uh.. N-no Thankyou."
The other guy with the red spiky hair stepped forward "What's the matter? You want us to pay?"
Gulping slightly she gripped her bag tighter "Please just leave me alone.."
The greasy guy laughed and then stared with an evil interest at Aeka's bag "Say now.. what you got there? That looks pretty expensive.."
Before she could say anything else the greasy guy lunged forward and snatched the bag from her hands, Aeka jumped up from were she sat and reached out in a desperate attempt to get it back "Hey! That belongs to me! Give it back!"
They both laughed evilly as Aeka tried as hard as she could to get her dress back "Ahaha! Oh I don't think so. I think we should look after it for you.." He tossed the bag to the red head and pulled from his pants a sharp knife, Aeka froze and gasped in fear as he lunged forward pinning her to the bench and climbing on top of her. She was too terrified to summon her guardians or do anything else for that matter.
He pinned her arms back and slid his hand down to her crotch "Hey now.. just relax.. it'll all be over soon.." She tried to scream but the red head put a hand over her mouth and slammed a fist into her side and kneeing her in her gut. She yelped in pain as he laughed like some sort of maniac "Really pretty lady, you should be more careful. You don't know WHO'S around. So you should be a LOT more careful."
"To bad you don't listen to your own words!!"
Both men turned round to see Roko leap toward them, fist out full stretch and smack the greasy guy so hard her literally flew of Aeka and onto the concrete floor. The red head ran to his accomplice while ryoko stood triumphantly with her hip to one side
"You know. You REALLY shouldn't treat women like that, it's not nice.." The greasy guy wiped some blood from his lip and stood up growling
"Hey BITCH who the fuck do you think you are!?" Ryoko raised her eyebrows and smirked
"Who me? Why I'm a knight in shining armour. you got a problem sick fuck?" The red guy stepped forward and cracked his knuckles "Hey bro, I'll take care of her." Ryoko shook her head and laughed sarcastically
"OOOH my I'm soo scared whatever will I do?" The red head grunted and pulled out a knife "Listen girly you shouldn't be playing around here at this time of night.."
Flicking a stray peice of cyan hair from her face she pointed at the weapon "And YOU shouldn't be playing with knives, you could hurt yourself. let me take that off your hands.."
She pointed a finger toward the silver object and fired a singled ball of energy toward it, blowing it to smithereens and sending it's owner into a nearby tree. The greasy guy looked wide eyed in shock and tried to run away
"Oh I don't think so. you've got something there that doesn't belong to you.." She quickly vanished and reappeared in front of him wearing the biggest grin known to man .
"Boo."
And with that she punched him square in the face sending him flying into the same tree as his brother, as he flew he let go of the bag which spun in the air and was gracefully caught by Ryoko. The two men groaned and stood up, whimpering nervously.
Quickly leaning on each other for support they scurried away out and way from Ryoko. She clapped her hands together to rid them of any unwanted dust and turned back to Aeka, who was lying face down on the bench. Ryoko eye's widened in horror as she flew toward the princess. She landed in front of the bench and knelt down, gently placing her hands on Aaeka's still form she carefully shook her. "Hey princess. hey Aeka.Aeka!"
But there was no answer
".Oh no. Aeka?..Aeka?!" She shook her again more violently this time but froze when she felt something warm and wet on the palm of her hand.
She slowly lifted it up and looked at the crimson liquid that trickled down her arm, panicking she frantically searched for its source and found that Aeka's side had been cut, probably from those men. THE BASTARDS! She quickly ripped a piece of fabric from her clothes and wrapped it around Aeka's side to prevent any further blood loss. Ryoko lifted up Aeka's wrist and checked for a pulse.. luckily her heart was still beating but only just. She needed medical help fast! And the only person who she knew was even CLOSE to a doctor was..
"Uh..washu. dammit." But she had no time to ponder on such thoughts as Aeka's life was in danger, she put the bag over her shoulder and picked the princess's limp form up in her arms, she was much lighter than Ryoko had expected. Looking down at the sleeping Aeka she smiled and vanished from sight.
***
Tenchi was training with his bocken in the shrine yard, he had been at it all day and was beginning to tire. He wiped some sweat from his brow and rose from his stance to rest. No sooner had he done this he heard the nearby bushes rustle, quickly he fell back into his stance
"W-who's there?" No answer just more rustling "H-hey! Who ever you are show yourself!" Still no answer, the object that lay in the bushes moved to the shrubbery behind him, he quickly followed the noise and turned around. He was starting to sweat as he heard the object move in the other direction, then a shadow passed over him and dived into the bushes opposite
"I-I've got a weapon here and I'm not afraid to..huh?"
He raised his bocken, or what was SUPPOST to be his bocken.. it had gone vanished.. "Hey!" But there was no use, his weapon had been taken from him and he put a step forward and raised his hands ready for unarmed combat if necessary.
Then he felt a wind gust passed him, he spun around but nothing was there. He looked up to see a pair of green eyes gleaming at him through the branches of a tree "W-WHO'S there??" But no answer, however the eyes were soon joined by a set of gleaming white fangs and THEN a feminine giggle.
Tenchi stood straight "uh..Ryoko?" But no answer instead the object leapt forward knocking him to the ground "WOAH!" His head hit the floor and stung real bad.. "uh.." After a few rubs he looked up and saw the little scientist Washu sat on top of him giggling like a school girl. He sighed and sweat dropped
"Aha...Washu..hi.." The pink haired scientist smiled and winked "Hi Tenchi!" Tenchi nervously laughed as he looked up at the pink haired genius, who was sat on top of his chest with the bocken in her small hand. He pointed to it
"Heh heh. hey washu do you mind giving that back?" Washu curled her top lip and looked to the wooden sword "What IS this tenchi?" She rose off him much to tenchi's satisfaction and held the wooden object up to the sun staring at it peculiarly Tenchi also got up and brushed the dust away from his pants. "Oh that's called a 'Boken' it's a type of wooden sword I use for combat training.." Washu snickered "Oh a sword huh?"
She slowly walked up to the midnight haired teenager and gently poked him in the ribs "Do you know how to use it?"
Tenchi nodded in confusion "Uh well. yeh" Washu gracefully jumped back and threw him the sword, snapping her fingers a space pocket appeared. She reached inside and pulled out a bocken similar to Tenchi's but it had a little crab engraved into the handle. Tenchi scratched the back of his neck "Uh.Washu? What's that for?" Washu smiled and held up her wooden bocken
"Why this? This is what I'm going to use to kick your butt.." Tenchi sweat dropped
"I don't think I understand.." Washu sighed "Look it aint rocket science ya know, I wanna see how good you are." The black haired teenager scratched the back of his neck again and blew a little puff of air from his mouth.
"Look I don't want to seem sexist ,but I'm not gonna go and hurt a girl."
The little scientist pouted at that comment but soon let it pass "Hey! Don't be so damn cocky! Who says you can 'HURT' me in the first place? You know there's more to me than meets the eye.."
She sank down into a peculiar stance, she stood side on. Her right foot planted a short distance in front, her left leg bent slightly at the knee. And sword held above her shoulder with the end pointing directly forward. Tenchi could tell she was serious so decided to play along, he'd beat her as nicely as possible and try not to hurt her in the process after all. she WAS just a girl. But he had forgot one important factor, this GIRL was the mother of the strongest criminal in the galaxy. Though I think he'll find that out soon enough.
Tenchi grinned "Ok Washu, fine.. I'll fight you but don't blame me if you get hurt.." Washu merely raised an eyebrow and smirked.
Without warning she lunged forward and planting one foot in front of Tenchi's she launched herself up and above the surprised teenager. Flipping gracefully over his head she landed directly behind him in a crouched manner. Before he had time to turn around she slammed a hand into the dirt and span herself around with a leg out, which hit the poor boy in the shin sending him stumbling forward and landing flat on his face. She stood up triumphantly as Tenchi rolled onto his back with one hand on his sore shin and the other on his face
"Ouch!" Washu giggled and then slowly walked over to him. When she arrived before his feet she outstretched an arm which he embarrassingly took and was hauled to his feet by the 12 year old looking girl who had just kicked his butt. She let go and took a step backward, with one hand on her hip she grinned
"Well?"
He wiped some dirt away from his face and groaned "You win, But how the HECK did you learn to fight like that?" She smirked and tossed the bocken back into subspace
"I've always know. I WAS the one who taught little Ryoko you know."
Tenchi's jaw hit the floor "Y-your joking!?" She shook her head "Nope not at all." He placed the bocken in his belt and bowed respectfully to her "Maybe you could teach me some time?" She nodded and bowed back to him "Maybe I wi..."
She was cut off by a sharp pain surging through her head, she gripped the side of her scalp "Agh!" And shook it violently, Tenchi's eyes grew wide in concern "Miss washu!? What's the matter!?"
{Washu! Washu!} It was Ryoko's voice, the shear panic could be heard in her tone
"Agh! dammit not so loud Ryoko!" Tenchi sighed in relief
{Washu! It's Aeka!} Washu closed her eyes in concentration
{What about her?}
{When we were coming home these guys attacked her and I got there a little to late, she's hurt Washu! She's loosing blood fast!}
{What!? Oh no.. bring her to the lab right away!}
{Ok I'm on my way!}
Washu closed the link and turned to Tenchi
"C'mon we have to get to the lab right away!" She quickly turned around and ran down the shrine steps
"Hey Washu what's happened!?"
As she continued to run as fast as her tiny legs could take her she shouted back over her shoulder "It's Aeka! Something's happened!" Tenchi needed no further information and ran to join with the little scientist.
***
Ryoko floated over the light of the street lamps of the city. She held the princess's blood drenched form in her strong arms, opening her eyes from her mother's closed link she looked with shear determination written across her.
She HAD to get to lab and fast! It was way too far to teleport and Washu had that damn barrier on the lab roof so she couldn't get through, there was no other way around it.. she had to fly and fast!
Gripping Aeka tighter she raced on through the night, Street lamps flashing past beneath her as she flew. It was strange, never before had she felt such panic within her. Knowing that Aeka's life hung in her grasp made her carry on, faster than she had ever gone before. The fear of losing someone else pushing her on and on. But did Aeka really matter that much to her? .. No of course not, it was just that Tenchi would kill her if she let anything happen to her.
And even if she WAS her rival. She doesn't deserve to die! Yeh that's it. Concentrate Ryoko, Concentrate. Just get Aeka to Washu's lab and then everything should be ok. No it WILL be ok!
The moon looked down on her, the moon was her guide. The moon was her only friend in the world. The only person who didn't laugh when she felt alone, the only person who would not scold her when she did something wrong.
She was starting to tire, her pace becoming slower, her speed weakening. But she had to carry on, she was nearly there. Just a little ways to go and Aeka would be safe. The lights were blinding her as she strived to stay alert. When she had gotten out of the city and into the forest, trees hit her face. Cutting her cheeks and ripping her clothes, but she held the princess close, leaning over slightly so as to shield her from the vicious attack of nearby branches. She had to be coming close, she could smell the dampness of the lake. The trees had also become less and far apart.
Her face was badly cut, her clothes shredded. But she had not time to feel pain she had to preserve, push on through the night. But one thing lingered in her mid. why did she care? Something, some sort of feeling lay deep down inside. She didn't know what. And honestly didn't care. But she knew, she just HAD to get Aeka back to Washu.
Breaking through trees flying threw bushes, just caused more cuts, though Aeka was still unharmed, safe under the arched Ryoko. Who for some reason felt as if she had to take all the tree branches and sharp thorn hits for her. She did not take long to think about it though, she hated thinking about stuff she didn't understand for too long. It never got her anywhere.
Then she formed her energy sword, and cut through the trunks of trees that blocked their way. Effortlessly she tore through the bows of cherry blossoms and the centres
on boulders. Fragments of stone tore through her skin but she did not care. She looked down at Aeka's still form, she was covered in blood.
That bastard must have cut her pretty bad. Poor thing, she didn't deserve it. Though there was thing that Ryoko DIDN'T notice, it was the fact that all the blood that covered her limp form did not all belong to Aeka.
She looked up and smiled in relief as she saw the Masaki house not to far away.
***
Washu was pacing up and down in the lab, Tenchi was with her. He was watching her walk up and down, backwards and forwards. She had been like this for the past 10 minutes. She knew Aeka was safe with Ryoko and even though she knew Ryoko could take care of herself. She still feared for her daughter's safety.
That's what normal moms do right? Even though you practically KNOW your children are old enough to take care of their selves, you still wet your pants at the thought of them being in danger. And she had a REALLY bad feeling about this, every so often she would tap into Ryoko's thoughts and then have to tap back out immediately because of the pain that hit her if you stayed there to long. She stopped her pacing and clenched her fists
"She's hurt .badly.." Tenchi looked down to the floor he was just as worried about them both as Washu was for her daughter. "Aeka? Is she that bad?" The scientist shook her head
"I don't know.. But I think Ryoko may be in pain aswell.. I can't really tell. She's blocking it off, trying to hide her pain. So I don't know how bad she is. I know Aeka's pretty bad though, even Ryoko's concerned for her." Tenchi sighed "I hope there ok."
Then Sasami ran in, she had her back to Tenchi and Washu and had her arms out. "Ryoko! You have to put her down! Your hurt!" Washu looked up and was wide eyed to see her daughter walk in, slashes covering her face, her clothes shredded.
"I-I'm not hurt.. Aeka needs help." Washu ran quickly to her daughter's side and grabbed her arm, jumping back as if she had been pricked by a needle. She looked to her hands, and her eyes widened when she saw they were covered in blood. Ryoko continued past her as Washu followed her with her eyes.
She noticed something and her gaze fell to the ground, there. lay a trail of crimson liquid. Blood and lots of it. Washu followed the trail and it led, not to Aeka, no her bleeding had stopped. It led to Ryoko.
She gasped "Ryoko! Your bleeding!" But she ignored her and continued her way to Tenchi "S-see she-she's fine.. Only that cut on her side, apart from that. n-not a scratch on.her.." Tenchi nodded and lowered his eyebrows "Ryoko. your hurt.." Ryoko coughed
"N-NO I'm NOT dammit! I-I'm fine.!" She gently lay Aeka on a nearby table and covered her with her jacket. "See! Now hurry up and help her alre- already!" Sasami and Tenchi rushed to the table were Aeka lay as Ryoko slowly on shaking legs exited the lab.
***
She walked out of the lab, unbeknownst to her Washu was in close second. Slowly as if drunk she walked over to the place were her beam hung directly above, leaving a trail of blood behind her. She tried to teleport up to it, but didn't have the energy, so instead she tried to fly. She got a short distance off the ground but fell.
And was caught by a pair of strong arms. Using all her energy she lifted her head to see her mother's caring face smiling at her. Then she went limp and fell unconscious. Washu carried her upstairs to her bedroom, surprisingly considering her child like body she was extremely strong.
***
It was dark.. So dark. She opened her eyes to see a women with fiery red hair smiling at her. She smiled back, the women held onto her as she walked through a small meadow filled with flowers and little animals. She giggled and reached her tiny hand to pull on the women's red bang. The women laughed and kissed her head. She giggled
"mommy."
The women smiled and patted her softly "That's right little Ryoko. mommy's here."
Then a flash..
And she saw her mother, reaching out for her screaming her name. Tears filled her mother's eyes. She couldn't understand why, then she looked up and saw 'him'. He looked down at her with a stare that seemed to penetrate your soul. He was cold. She turned back and saw her mother being sealed in some sort of crystal, crying out
"Kagato no!! Kagato PLEASE!!"
But the man did not stop, he smirked and turned to walk away. The women tried to escape but she could not move. She tried frantically to reach her but she could not. The little girl reached out to her mother "Mommy! Mommy!"
The women's attempts to escape became furious, her eyes filled with hate for the man who was taking her daughter away from her, brimming with tears for her little Ryoko. She reached out one final time "RYOKOOOOOOOOO!"
And then the crystal encased her completely. The little girl screamed at the sight of her mother trapped "MOMMY! MOMMY DON'T LEAVE ME!!"
***
"MOMMY!!!!!" She awoke, her face covered in sweat. She was breathing heavily. Then she felt a gentle hand grasp her own "It's ok Ryoko. I'm here." Ryoko turned around and peered into the darkness
"Washu?" The hand gently squeezed to confirm that she was correct. She tried to turn to face the person but a pain shot through her "UGH!" and she collapsed onto the bed. The person gasped and moved itself in front of her.
She saw her mother's face, Washu with a look of concern. The pink haired scientist sighed. And got into the bed beside Ryoko.
Now usually if this happened Ryoko would have shot out the other side and far away from washu, it may have been the pain or the exhaustion or something else. She didn't know what, but it made her stay and do something unexpected. Ryoko shakily snuggled up to her mother, who smiled and gently put her arms around her daughter's waist pulling her closer into a loving embrace.
The little scientist smiled again as Ryoko rested her head against Washu's shoulder and fell asleep.
***
End of Chapter 1
This chapter is the crappest outta them all, dont judge based just ont his chapter, read on, it does get better I promise. Anyways, review please! or send comments to yokouragasi593@hotmail.com
::The Princess And The Pirate::
::CHAPTER 1::
::Collisions And Consequences::
A typical day in the Misaki household, the sun was shining the birds were singing the cherry trees were in full bloom, the scenery was exploding.. Exploding.. Exploding!? Uh oh.
"AEKA!!!"
The smashing of glasses could be heard from inside the kitchen.
"AEKAAAAA!!!"
It was Ryoko she was searching through draws and cabinets throwing anything onto the floor that resided inside, Aeka walked in and gasped at the chaotic scene that lay before her. She placed her hands on her hips and leaned forward toward the Ex-space pirate, who at the moment had her back to the Juraian princess.
"M-MISS RYOKO!! Just what in all of Jurai stars do you THINK YOUR DOING!?"
Ryoko span around, fury written all over her face as she gritted her teeth and spoke "Were have you put my sake? Have you drank it!?"
Aeka raised and eyebrow "I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about."
Ryoko clenched her fists and marched up to the princess making sure to stand on her toes just to get more height "oh.you lie! You drank it admit it!"
Aeka complied by standing on HER toes matching the space pirate in height nearly, she was a couple of centimetres shorter than her rival but that didn't matter to her. "I did no such thing!" She withdrew from her stiff pose and stood with one hand over her mouth, Ryoko knew what was coming next and briefly wished she had a pair of earplugs "OHOHOHO! As I would drink anything that belonged to YOU, Tsunami knows what I would catch!"
Narrowing her eyes she growled "WHAT! What do you mean 'what you would catch'!? Are you hinting that I have a disease!?"
The princess shook her head in arrogance and smirked "Oh no I am not hinting at all. I'm TELLING you!"
She barely avoided an oncoming fist quickly followed by another that again she was lucky to dodge "Why you prissy bitch!"
Aeka's eyes widened in anger then they narrowed "OHH! Y-You fucking stupid cow!!"
THAT was something that Ryoko did NOT expect, Aeka just said the "f" word.. Yep the crowned princess of jurai, the most prissy bitch Ryoko has encountered so far had said the "f" word. She stood there, her jaw lying on the floor gawping at the newly foul mouthed Aeka. Frozen to the spot she could do nothing more than stare
"Aeka.. You just swore." Ryoko quickly snapped out of it and leaned slightly to the right so she could see behind Aeka.
Jumping around Aeka looked to the kitchen door and saw her little sister- still in a sleepy daze standing there and staring at her "S-SASAMI!"
Sasami rubbed her eyes of sleep, drowsily she pointed at her sister "You.. shouldn't be swearing you know.*yawn*.if mom found out she'd kill you.."
Ryoko smirked and whispered under her breath "..Yeh and do us ALL a favor.."
The princess looked over her shoulder and narrowed her eyes "..Did you say something..?"
Ryoko jumped and nervously scratched the back of her head "Heh.not at all." Aeka huffed and turned back to her sister who was eyeing the mess that lay behind Ryoko.
".What's all that mess.?" Ryoko looked behind her and noted all the broken pans and plates AND glasses AND chopsticks... Ect. Ect. Ect. She sighed slightly and then remembered WHY she had broken them all "HEY! That's not ALL my fault! I did it 'cos I was trying to find my sake that AEKA drank!" Aeka span back round to the smirking space pirate "For the last Fu.the last time, I did NOT drink your sake!"
Ryoko stuck her tongue out "Shut up stupid bitch." Aeka narrowed her eyes and was just about to say something when she was interrupted by Sasami "You mean that stuff that stunk like old tea was sake?" Ryoko looked toward Sasami with a slightly worried face
"Yeh I suppose that's what it smell like...wait..What did you do with it?" Sasami sweat-dropped and blushed nervously "Uh..well. it smelled funny and I thought it was 'off' so I..." Ryoko sighed, "You threw it away didn't you?" Sasami looked down at the floor and shuffled her right foot "..Sorry." Aeka smirked "HAHA! See I TOLD you I didn't drink it!"
".Whatever."
"WELL?"
"'Well' what?"
"You know what! Aren't you going to apologize to me?"
"Umm let me think.. NOOOOOO!"
"OH you-you-you.THING!"
"Oh my I'm soooo offended!"
Aeka fumed as Ryoko merely ignore her and walked over to Sasami patting her on the head, she smiled and lifted the child's head up with a gentle hand "Don't worry kiddo. I'm not angry at you.."
Sasami beamed "Really? Great!" Ryoko continued to pat her on the head as she looked back at the mess that lay on the kitchen floor "Oh. I'm sorry for making a mess."
Laughing nervously she said "Heh about that, you'll have to buy new stuff. That's all we had.." Ryoko stopped her hand movement and slouched her shoulders "Aww MAN!" Aeka giggled amusingly but was soon stopped by Sasami's serious glare.
"Aeka you go too"
Aeka looked wide eyed and gob smacked "WHAT!? But I didn't do anything!" Sasami put her hands on her hips "It's punishment for swearing.."
Aeka laughed "And who do you think YOU are punishing ME? Your just my little sister you can't do that!" Sasami sweetly smirked "What? Would you rather me tell mom or dad about you swearing and let THEM punish you instead?" Aeka sighed and looked away ".fine."
Giggling Ryoko muttered "Heh heh that little sister of yours has got some skills!"
Aeka gave Ryoko a glare of disapproval but ryoko just whistled and pretended she didn't say anything. Sasami smiled and poked aeka "You'll have to go into town get it.."
***
So there they were. Ryoko and aeka walking along rows of shops with a pocket full of cash. Aeka sighed ".. I can't believe I'm doing this. shopping for cutlery"
Ryoko nudged her and smiled "Hey it's not so bad! And look on the bright side! You get the honour of spending some quality time with ME!" Aeka looked sideways at her cyan-haired companion
".Wonderful." Ryoko looked as if she was thinking for a second then she raised her arm and stuck up her little finger "And who knows? Maybe through spending some time together we may actually learn how to get along." Aeka couldn't help but smile at Ryoko's words ".Maybe.."
As they carried on walking down the row of book stores Ryoko spotted something "Hey look over there that shop, it say 'Kitchen utensils' maybe we can find our stuff in there!" She grabbed hold of aeka's hand and dragged her inside. "WHOA! Miss Ryoko un-hand me! I can get there on my own!" She had her eyes clamped shut. god knows why.
"I SAID-huh?"
She felt a tap on her shoulder "uh..were here aeka." She opened her eyes to see ryoko with an look of fair amusement, she blushed and crossed her arms "I-I knew that!" Ryoko sweat dropped "..sure.Anyway look!" She pointed over to a big sign with 'SALE' written across it "This place has got everything we need AND it's a sale so we'll have money left over!"
***
One hour later
***
Aeka and Ryoko emerged from the shop with two heavy bags full of kitchen crap, Ryoko looked around and grinned
"Hey. we haven't spent all our money right?" Aeka nodded "uh huh I'd say we still have over half left.." Ryoko rubbed her hands together "Good then lets go shopping!" Aeka grabbed hold of the over enthusiastic space pirate "Now wait just a second! We should NOT go shopping, we should go home now!"
Ryoko put on some puppy dog eyes-which made aeka jump back in surprise with a hand lifted to her mouth ".Aw.pleeeeeeeeeease! C'mon Aeka! You NEVER have any time to buy anything for yourself. C'mon! c'mon!" Ryoko saw a clothes shop across the street. She grabbed hold of the princess's hand again and dragged her across the busy road, managing to dodge traffic easily..
Though Aeka wasn't too thrilled. Traffic blasting past them at speeds of about 50mph didn't seem to bother Ryoko at all, but to a certain princess it was terrifying. Once they reached the other side and Ryoko had let go of Aeka's hand to look at the clothes in the window Aeka had put her hands on her knees and took a much-needed breather.
"Huff..puff..." After regaining some oxygen she turned around to Ryoko, who was staring through the window "Ryoko. what are you looking at?" Ryoko, still not taking her gaze from the window waved a hand over her shoulder, motioning aeka to join her. She did so and followed the space pirate's gaze into the window, there her eyes fell upon the most extravagant dress she had EVER seen. Her eyes sparkled and shone at this beautiful gown that lay before her.
".. Oh my! It's beautiful!" Ryoko turned to the princess and smiled "Aint it? .Well it's not really the type of thing I'D personally wear.. But you might suite it!"
Turning to the grinning Oni she stuttered "Ryoko. I couldn't" But Ryoko was hearing no of it, for the third time that day she grabbed a-hold of the princess's arm and AGAIN dragged her into the store "C'mon! Since when do you get to treat yourself huh?"
Once inside the shop Aeka was taken by the many different clothes and dresses all shapes and sizes, colours and textures. She had never been in an earth clothes shop before so she didn't really know what to do. Ryoko however was already at the checkout talking to one of the staff
"Yeh. my friend there would like to try on that dress in the window" The member of staff nodded and headed to the window followed by Ryoko "You mean. this one?" He held up the gown that Aeka had been gawping at a minute ago, Ryoko nodded "yep that one!" She smiled and bounced up and down as the member of staff brought the dress down from its stand. Ryoko took it and called to Aeka, who was still standing at the entrance of the store not knowing what to do with her-self.
"Hey Aeka? Aeka!" She jerked her head "h-huh?" She looked over to the cyan haired women that was waving to her "oh..Ryoko.."
Ryoko was bouncing about, for some particularly reason, unknown to Aeka, she was seemingly excited. "Hey come over here! Try this dress on!" Aeka was still apprehensive and her ' oh my what will the others think?' attitude was getting on ryoko's nerves. She sighed slightly agitated
".listen Aeka, you gonna come over here and try this damn dress on, or am I gonna have to drag you here AGAIN? And might I add that I have been doing that all day, your starting to piss me off Ya know?" Aeka scowled a bit at her, SHE was pissing RYOKO off? This-women had dragged her too-and-fro from shop to shop ALL day, almost got her killed on a busy road and SHE was the one pissing HER off?
(do not kill. do NOT kill. Ryoko is trying to be nice..for once.. It is a rare occurrence and I should make the most of it.. And after all I am a princess, just try the dress on and then go home. yeh.)
She breathed in and walked over to Ryoko, the attendant tapped Ryoko on the shoulder "Miss. the changing rooms are over there.." he pointed to the far end of the shop and then left to serve another customer. "Hey Aeka, c'mon lets try it on" Aeka nodded and took the dress from her and walk in over to the changing rooms.
When they got there, there were many different blocks of cubicles for changing rooms. "Go try it on Aeka, I'll wait out here.." Aeka smiled, nodded and then headed for the pink cubicle. Once inside she closed the door behind her.
***
30 Minutes later..
***
Ryoko was lounging on one of the uncomfortable seats outside the changing cubicle that Aeka was STILL inside, she had been looking at some magazines that were on a little table but it was just crap, all about dieting and some supposedly famous people that she hadn't even heard about.
She rested her arms behind her head and sat up huffing "Peh.. Famous my butt! I haven't even heard of any of those losers.. Hey Aeka, are you finished yet?"
The sound of fabric being moved around and the little grunts and sigh's of the princess could be heard coming from the cubicle "Uh.YEH. I'll be out in a minute.OW!"
Ryoko raised and eyebrow and jumping of the seat she slowly walked up to the cubicle door. She knocked on "Hey are you ok in there?" Another grunt and a sigh ".uh. I'm fine. I'm just.. Well. I don't know. how do you put this thing on?" Ryoko sighed and laughed shaking her head.
Aeka was stood with the dress halfway up her, it wasn't fully over her chest though, and she hadn't got the hand of fastening clasps on the built- in-girdle. The dress was all skew-whiff as she tried frantically to get it on. She leaned slightly to the door
"Hey Ryoko. how do put this on? It's like some sort of full-bodied bra or something, it's really strange I have never seen one before.. Hey could you tell me how to.hey Ryoko? Are you LISTENING?" But there was no reply, that women better not be ignoring her! "Ryoko! Hey.. Ugh! The NERVE" She carefully pressed her body against the door and opened it a crack so she could see through but no-one could see in. "RYOKO?" She poked her head through the door and looked around but to her surprise.. she was gone, vanished..
Aeka closed the door again and scratched her head, were HAD she gone?
(That women better not have run off and left me! ..huh?)
And then she felt it. Some-one was.behind her and they had their hands on her dress! She let out a little sound of surprise "W-who?" when the words left her mouth she felt the warm feeling of some-one's breath on the back of her neck.
"Shhh.relax.its only me.." Aeka recognized that low hoarse voice it was Ryoko's and she was breathing down the back of Aeka's neck LITTERALLY as she spoke again her voice seemed husky and caused Aeka to shiver involuntarily
"It's ok.. I'm just gonna help you with this." She sighed slightly "Huh? Uh. Princess what the heck is WITH you?" Aeka's eyes widened as she span around "RYOKO! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"
Ryoko jumped back and hit the wall in surprise "WHOA! Jeez! What the hell?" Aeka felt a light draft on her chest and remembered that the dress wasn't on completely, quickly she darted her arms up to her top half and covered anything that may have been showing "RYOKO! What on earth are you doing in MY changing block!? Can't you see I'm TRYING to get dressed!?" Ryoko top lip arched as she pointed to the dress that was.. Well.. Not exactly on correctly
"Yeh. TRYING but not SUCCEEDING.." Aeka looked down at her crappie attempt to put on the dress "uh." Ryoko continued, "You see. that's why I'm here? You said you needed help didn't you?" Aeka thought about it for a second. she DID say she needed help. and Ryoko was only trying to HELP right? So what was she so bothered about?
"Uh.. I guess.." Ryoko smiled "Well then? You gonna let me help you put it on or not?" Aeka sighed and averted her gaze to the floor "B-but..I-I..I'm shy Ryoko"
Ryoko's expression faltered to a look of concern and understanding, one that the princess had NEVER seen on the space pirate "h-hey! Don't be! I mean you haven't got anything I haven't seen before.right?" The princess sighed nervously
"R-right." Ryoko placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled reassuringly
"Ok then. turn around for me please?" She nodded and complied turning around as she had asked, soon after this she felt Ryoko's hands glide to the clasps of the 'full-bodied-bra-looking-thing' as Aeka had called it. As Ryoko fastened the loops she spoke softly "You know what this is? This is called a girdle.. It kinda holds you in so you can fit into really small clothes, I never were 'em. can't stand the damn things.. But I honestly thought you would have worn one of these before. but I guess you juraians must use something else.."
Aeka nodded, though not saying a word, she just stared at a dot on the wall of the cubicle. "Turn around for me would ya?" She nodded silently again and turned around. Now, looking into Ryoko's eyes. she saw something. something she had never seen before.
A look of kindness and purity.heh. purity, a word she thought LAST to describe this space pirate, this women who had come to nearly destroy her home. though now. she had changed, for the better. Even if she was a little selfish from time to time, she had her moments and her turn to put in kind words and gestures, now being one of those times.
This was Aeka's first time though in being the target for Ryoko's kind deeds. Usually it would be lord Tenchi. scratch that, it was ALWAYS lord Tenchi. And she couldn't help but smile at the sincerity upon the cyan haired women's face. "Finished! ..uh hey what are you smiling about?"
"Huh? Oh.nothing.."
"Nothing? .ok.. Are you sure? It seemed like something."
"No. it was nothing."
"Okay.. If you say so"
"I do...SAY SO I a mean."
"...Uh.ANYWAY..c'mon !"
Aeka tilted her head as Ryoko turned her around and pushed her out of the cubicle and up to a mirror, she wasn't looking at the mirror though, she still had her head over her shoulder with a raised eyebrow staring at Ryoko. Ryoko ran in front of her and smiled "LOOK! LOOK!" She pointed to the mirror, Aeka gave a look of confusion, shrugged and then turned to face the mirror.
But she did not see herself, she saw a totally different girl stood in front of her, The dress was absolutely beautiful. It was a sky blue color, that fit snugly around her body showing her figure to it's fullest. Around the neck it had little trimmings of lace a darker shade than the dress itself.
"See? You look beautiful!" Aeka felt a lump form in her throat, Ryoko had just called her beautiful? "Y-you think I look. b-beautiful?" A slight look of puzzlement but non the less an answer soon followed "Well. yeh, why else would I say you did? Listen princess if I say you look beautiful then you look beautiful, I'm not the type to lie you know. I aint got nothing to gain from it." Aeka smiled and nodded, turning back to the mirror and giving a little pose. "Hey why don't you buy it? You hardly EVER buy stuff for yourself"
"Yes.I think I will!" She looked at the price tag... and nearly cried
"What's wrong?"
"I. can't buy it." Ryoko walked up to the heart struck princess and stared at her "Huh? Why not?" Aeka blushed a little and sighed "I can't afford it.. it's way too expensive.." Ryoko took hold of the price tag and whistled
"Whoo.. I see what ya mean.." Aeka sighed again "..oh well. never mind.. maybe it wasn't meant to be.." Ryoko giggled "I know.. you can still have it.."
The princess raised an eyebrow and then frantically shook her head "NO WAY! Your not STEALING it!" Ryoko mimed a 'woah!' and then put her hands over the princess's mouth "H-hey! I wasn't gonna steal it!" Aeka tried to speak but having ryoko's hands over her mouth made her speech distorted "mph mph!" The cyan haired women took her hands away and allowed Aeka to speak ".huff. then what do you propose we do?"
Ryoko waggled a slender finger and grinned "nuh uh! Not what WE do, what I do!" Aeka scratched her head "Huh?" As ryoko shoved a hand into her pockets and stuck out her tongue slightly as she rummaged about in her pocket "mmm.it should be here somewhere." She tried the other one.. "umm..nope..maybe here?. no..ah I remember!" She levitated a bit as she slipped her boot off "It's in here" Putting a hand inside her shoe she pulled out what looked like some sort of wallet "Here it is!" Handing it to Aeka as she put the boot back on her foot she smiled "Go ahead take a look inside!" Aeka waited a bit but then opened the wallet and peered inside to see.money, lots and lots of money "WOW!" ryoko grinned like a cat who had just caught the biggest rat known to man "Yeh, I know.. there's a lot aint there? I've been saving up for a while and.well I don't really need it anyway.."
Aeka looked up and titled her head at the floating oni "huh?" Ryoko thumped her head and rolled her eyes back "I mean ,take it you dolt!" Aeka jumped back "What? I c-cant!"
"Why not?" she asked
"Because.well.it's yours!"
Ryoko sighed and tutted. "Yeh, and I'm giving it to you!"
Aeka shook her head and pushed the wallet back into Roko's hands. "No! I don't deserve it!"
Ryoko threw it back. "Yeh you do!"
"How?"
"Well. lets just call it a piece offering for blaming you about the sake this morning.."
"B-but.."
"No buts! Take it! I 'aint gonna hear another word!"
"Ryoko..."
"It's ok really! You can find a way of thanking me later!"
"Right."
"C'mon lets go buy it!"
***
Washu lay back in her floating pillow, with all her calculations finished and all necessary equipment fixed, upgraded and tested she was bored.. VERY bored.SO bored in fact that she was thinking about leaving the lab
"Hmm. I wonder what everyone else is up to.." She sighed and hopped of the cushion "I think I'll go check.." Slowly she walked over to the lab door, exiting through it leaving the little metal crab to jangle on behind her.
Sasami was in the kitchen as usual when the little genius walked up the stairs. Tenchi wasn't there. must be at the shrine.
(hehe I'll check on him LATER..)
Mihoshi was being..Mihoshi.. sleeping on the couch. as usual. Kiyone sleeping next to her, poor thing must be exhausted through nurturing that dolt she hardly got any rest so she deserved it.
As Washu walked into the kitchen the sweet aroma of miso soup filled her nostrils, she breathed in heavy savoring the smell of sasami's wonderful cooking
"mmmm. something smells nice sasami!" The little princess turned round and giggled, Ryo-ohki perched on her shoulder "Oh hi washu! Thankyou! I'm cooking lunch but it won't be ready for a while.." Washu smiled as ryo-ohki hopped down from Sasami's shoulder and jumped into Washu's hands
"Hi there! You saying hello to your mommy?" Ryo-ohki's ears twitched as the little cabbit smiled and gave a hearty "Mya!" Washu cocked her head to the side "Do you know were your sister is ryo-ohki?" The cabbit gave another "Mya!" and jumped back onto sasami's shoulder
"Oh washu?" Washu looked at the little princess "huh?" Sasami gave a nervous smile "Ryoko and Aeka got into another fight this morning and broke all the bowls and glasses and stuff, so I sent them into town to get some more"
Washu sighed and shook her head "That girl, she is hopeless!" She sighed again as she headed back into the front room, kiyone and mihoshi were still asleep so there was nothing for the little genius to occupy herself with HERE she walked toward the front door and put on some small sneakers "Hmm. might as well go see what Tenchi's doing."
***
Ryoko and Aeka-who had now changed back into her original clothes, were walking happily down a crowded street Aeka had the dress wrapped up and placed inside a lovely fancy looking bag, they were nearing a small park when Ryoko stopped and held her stomach Aeka stopped beside her and looked toward the cyan haired oni with concern.
"Ryoko what's wrong?" Ryoko bit her lip and squinted then without warning her stomach gave a loud, low growl and rumble causing both girls to blush. Ryoko scratched the back of her neck "Heh. guess I'm hungry.." She searched around and spotted a small noodle stand at the park entrance
"I'm gonna get something to eat.. you want something?" Aeka nodded "Ok then.. hey why don't you go wait for me over there?" Ryoko pointed to a small green park bench, Aeka smiled, nodded again and went to sit down as ryoko headed for the noodle stand.
Luckily there was no-one else there so she was first served, she looked at the menu board and then approached the owner
"Can I help you miss?" Ryoko licked her lips and nodded "Yeh.. I'll have two fried noodles with two teas please.." The owner turned around and began to get ryoko's order ready.
Aeka was sitting on the park bench admiring the moon and stars, she smiled and sighed it seemed like today was turning out pretty good, she and ryoko hadn't fought once since breakfast
"Hey there pretty lady. What you doing all by yourself?"
Jumping slightly she shifted herself "Huh?" And turned around to see two slimy looking guys with their hands in their pockets "uh.. I'm just waiting for someone."
The tall guy with greasy black hair leaned in "Oh really? Why don't you come with us? We'll keep you company.."
Aeka's face turned nervous and timid "uh.. N-no Thankyou."
The other guy with the red spiky hair stepped forward "What's the matter? You want us to pay?"
Gulping slightly she gripped her bag tighter "Please just leave me alone.."
The greasy guy laughed and then stared with an evil interest at Aeka's bag "Say now.. what you got there? That looks pretty expensive.."
Before she could say anything else the greasy guy lunged forward and snatched the bag from her hands, Aeka jumped up from were she sat and reached out in a desperate attempt to get it back "Hey! That belongs to me! Give it back!"
They both laughed evilly as Aeka tried as hard as she could to get her dress back "Ahaha! Oh I don't think so. I think we should look after it for you.." He tossed the bag to the red head and pulled from his pants a sharp knife, Aeka froze and gasped in fear as he lunged forward pinning her to the bench and climbing on top of her. She was too terrified to summon her guardians or do anything else for that matter.
He pinned her arms back and slid his hand down to her crotch "Hey now.. just relax.. it'll all be over soon.." She tried to scream but the red head put a hand over her mouth and slammed a fist into her side and kneeing her in her gut. She yelped in pain as he laughed like some sort of maniac "Really pretty lady, you should be more careful. You don't know WHO'S around. So you should be a LOT more careful."
"To bad you don't listen to your own words!!"
Both men turned round to see Roko leap toward them, fist out full stretch and smack the greasy guy so hard her literally flew of Aeka and onto the concrete floor. The red head ran to his accomplice while ryoko stood triumphantly with her hip to one side
"You know. You REALLY shouldn't treat women like that, it's not nice.." The greasy guy wiped some blood from his lip and stood up growling
"Hey BITCH who the fuck do you think you are!?" Ryoko raised her eyebrows and smirked
"Who me? Why I'm a knight in shining armour. you got a problem sick fuck?" The red guy stepped forward and cracked his knuckles "Hey bro, I'll take care of her." Ryoko shook her head and laughed sarcastically
"OOOH my I'm soo scared whatever will I do?" The red head grunted and pulled out a knife "Listen girly you shouldn't be playing around here at this time of night.."
Flicking a stray peice of cyan hair from her face she pointed at the weapon "And YOU shouldn't be playing with knives, you could hurt yourself. let me take that off your hands.."
She pointed a finger toward the silver object and fired a singled ball of energy toward it, blowing it to smithereens and sending it's owner into a nearby tree. The greasy guy looked wide eyed in shock and tried to run away
"Oh I don't think so. you've got something there that doesn't belong to you.." She quickly vanished and reappeared in front of him wearing the biggest grin known to man .
"Boo."
And with that she punched him square in the face sending him flying into the same tree as his brother, as he flew he let go of the bag which spun in the air and was gracefully caught by Ryoko. The two men groaned and stood up, whimpering nervously.
Quickly leaning on each other for support they scurried away out and way from Ryoko. She clapped her hands together to rid them of any unwanted dust and turned back to Aeka, who was lying face down on the bench. Ryoko eye's widened in horror as she flew toward the princess. She landed in front of the bench and knelt down, gently placing her hands on Aaeka's still form she carefully shook her. "Hey princess. hey Aeka.Aeka!"
But there was no answer
".Oh no. Aeka?..Aeka?!" She shook her again more violently this time but froze when she felt something warm and wet on the palm of her hand.
She slowly lifted it up and looked at the crimson liquid that trickled down her arm, panicking she frantically searched for its source and found that Aeka's side had been cut, probably from those men. THE BASTARDS! She quickly ripped a piece of fabric from her clothes and wrapped it around Aeka's side to prevent any further blood loss. Ryoko lifted up Aeka's wrist and checked for a pulse.. luckily her heart was still beating but only just. She needed medical help fast! And the only person who she knew was even CLOSE to a doctor was..
"Uh..washu. dammit." But she had no time to ponder on such thoughts as Aeka's life was in danger, she put the bag over her shoulder and picked the princess's limp form up in her arms, she was much lighter than Ryoko had expected. Looking down at the sleeping Aeka she smiled and vanished from sight.
***
Tenchi was training with his bocken in the shrine yard, he had been at it all day and was beginning to tire. He wiped some sweat from his brow and rose from his stance to rest. No sooner had he done this he heard the nearby bushes rustle, quickly he fell back into his stance
"W-who's there?" No answer just more rustling "H-hey! Who ever you are show yourself!" Still no answer, the object that lay in the bushes moved to the shrubbery behind him, he quickly followed the noise and turned around. He was starting to sweat as he heard the object move in the other direction, then a shadow passed over him and dived into the bushes opposite
"I-I've got a weapon here and I'm not afraid to..huh?"
He raised his bocken, or what was SUPPOST to be his bocken.. it had gone vanished.. "Hey!" But there was no use, his weapon had been taken from him and he put a step forward and raised his hands ready for unarmed combat if necessary.
Then he felt a wind gust passed him, he spun around but nothing was there. He looked up to see a pair of green eyes gleaming at him through the branches of a tree "W-WHO'S there??" But no answer, however the eyes were soon joined by a set of gleaming white fangs and THEN a feminine giggle.
Tenchi stood straight "uh..Ryoko?" But no answer instead the object leapt forward knocking him to the ground "WOAH!" His head hit the floor and stung real bad.. "uh.." After a few rubs he looked up and saw the little scientist Washu sat on top of him giggling like a school girl. He sighed and sweat dropped
"Aha...Washu..hi.." The pink haired scientist smiled and winked "Hi Tenchi!" Tenchi nervously laughed as he looked up at the pink haired genius, who was sat on top of his chest with the bocken in her small hand. He pointed to it
"Heh heh. hey washu do you mind giving that back?" Washu curled her top lip and looked to the wooden sword "What IS this tenchi?" She rose off him much to tenchi's satisfaction and held the wooden object up to the sun staring at it peculiarly Tenchi also got up and brushed the dust away from his pants. "Oh that's called a 'Boken' it's a type of wooden sword I use for combat training.." Washu snickered "Oh a sword huh?"
She slowly walked up to the midnight haired teenager and gently poked him in the ribs "Do you know how to use it?"
Tenchi nodded in confusion "Uh well. yeh" Washu gracefully jumped back and threw him the sword, snapping her fingers a space pocket appeared. She reached inside and pulled out a bocken similar to Tenchi's but it had a little crab engraved into the handle. Tenchi scratched the back of his neck "Uh.Washu? What's that for?" Washu smiled and held up her wooden bocken
"Why this? This is what I'm going to use to kick your butt.." Tenchi sweat dropped
"I don't think I understand.." Washu sighed "Look it aint rocket science ya know, I wanna see how good you are." The black haired teenager scratched the back of his neck again and blew a little puff of air from his mouth.
"Look I don't want to seem sexist ,but I'm not gonna go and hurt a girl."
The little scientist pouted at that comment but soon let it pass "Hey! Don't be so damn cocky! Who says you can 'HURT' me in the first place? You know there's more to me than meets the eye.."
She sank down into a peculiar stance, she stood side on. Her right foot planted a short distance in front, her left leg bent slightly at the knee. And sword held above her shoulder with the end pointing directly forward. Tenchi could tell she was serious so decided to play along, he'd beat her as nicely as possible and try not to hurt her in the process after all. she WAS just a girl. But he had forgot one important factor, this GIRL was the mother of the strongest criminal in the galaxy. Though I think he'll find that out soon enough.
Tenchi grinned "Ok Washu, fine.. I'll fight you but don't blame me if you get hurt.." Washu merely raised an eyebrow and smirked.
Without warning she lunged forward and planting one foot in front of Tenchi's she launched herself up and above the surprised teenager. Flipping gracefully over his head she landed directly behind him in a crouched manner. Before he had time to turn around she slammed a hand into the dirt and span herself around with a leg out, which hit the poor boy in the shin sending him stumbling forward and landing flat on his face. She stood up triumphantly as Tenchi rolled onto his back with one hand on his sore shin and the other on his face
"Ouch!" Washu giggled and then slowly walked over to him. When she arrived before his feet she outstretched an arm which he embarrassingly took and was hauled to his feet by the 12 year old looking girl who had just kicked his butt. She let go and took a step backward, with one hand on her hip she grinned
"Well?"
He wiped some dirt away from his face and groaned "You win, But how the HECK did you learn to fight like that?" She smirked and tossed the bocken back into subspace
"I've always know. I WAS the one who taught little Ryoko you know."
Tenchi's jaw hit the floor "Y-your joking!?" She shook her head "Nope not at all." He placed the bocken in his belt and bowed respectfully to her "Maybe you could teach me some time?" She nodded and bowed back to him "Maybe I wi..."
She was cut off by a sharp pain surging through her head, she gripped the side of her scalp "Agh!" And shook it violently, Tenchi's eyes grew wide in concern "Miss washu!? What's the matter!?"
{Washu! Washu!} It was Ryoko's voice, the shear panic could be heard in her tone
"Agh! dammit not so loud Ryoko!" Tenchi sighed in relief
{Washu! It's Aeka!} Washu closed her eyes in concentration
{What about her?}
{When we were coming home these guys attacked her and I got there a little to late, she's hurt Washu! She's loosing blood fast!}
{What!? Oh no.. bring her to the lab right away!}
{Ok I'm on my way!}
Washu closed the link and turned to Tenchi
"C'mon we have to get to the lab right away!" She quickly turned around and ran down the shrine steps
"Hey Washu what's happened!?"
As she continued to run as fast as her tiny legs could take her she shouted back over her shoulder "It's Aeka! Something's happened!" Tenchi needed no further information and ran to join with the little scientist.
***
Ryoko floated over the light of the street lamps of the city. She held the princess's blood drenched form in her strong arms, opening her eyes from her mother's closed link she looked with shear determination written across her.
She HAD to get to lab and fast! It was way too far to teleport and Washu had that damn barrier on the lab roof so she couldn't get through, there was no other way around it.. she had to fly and fast!
Gripping Aeka tighter she raced on through the night, Street lamps flashing past beneath her as she flew. It was strange, never before had she felt such panic within her. Knowing that Aeka's life hung in her grasp made her carry on, faster than she had ever gone before. The fear of losing someone else pushing her on and on. But did Aeka really matter that much to her? .. No of course not, it was just that Tenchi would kill her if she let anything happen to her.
And even if she WAS her rival. She doesn't deserve to die! Yeh that's it. Concentrate Ryoko, Concentrate. Just get Aeka to Washu's lab and then everything should be ok. No it WILL be ok!
The moon looked down on her, the moon was her guide. The moon was her only friend in the world. The only person who didn't laugh when she felt alone, the only person who would not scold her when she did something wrong.
She was starting to tire, her pace becoming slower, her speed weakening. But she had to carry on, she was nearly there. Just a little ways to go and Aeka would be safe. The lights were blinding her as she strived to stay alert. When she had gotten out of the city and into the forest, trees hit her face. Cutting her cheeks and ripping her clothes, but she held the princess close, leaning over slightly so as to shield her from the vicious attack of nearby branches. She had to be coming close, she could smell the dampness of the lake. The trees had also become less and far apart.
Her face was badly cut, her clothes shredded. But she had not time to feel pain she had to preserve, push on through the night. But one thing lingered in her mid. why did she care? Something, some sort of feeling lay deep down inside. She didn't know what. And honestly didn't care. But she knew, she just HAD to get Aeka back to Washu.
Breaking through trees flying threw bushes, just caused more cuts, though Aeka was still unharmed, safe under the arched Ryoko. Who for some reason felt as if she had to take all the tree branches and sharp thorn hits for her. She did not take long to think about it though, she hated thinking about stuff she didn't understand for too long. It never got her anywhere.
Then she formed her energy sword, and cut through the trunks of trees that blocked their way. Effortlessly she tore through the bows of cherry blossoms and the centres
on boulders. Fragments of stone tore through her skin but she did not care. She looked down at Aeka's still form, she was covered in blood.
That bastard must have cut her pretty bad. Poor thing, she didn't deserve it. Though there was thing that Ryoko DIDN'T notice, it was the fact that all the blood that covered her limp form did not all belong to Aeka.
She looked up and smiled in relief as she saw the Masaki house not to far away.
***
Washu was pacing up and down in the lab, Tenchi was with her. He was watching her walk up and down, backwards and forwards. She had been like this for the past 10 minutes. She knew Aeka was safe with Ryoko and even though she knew Ryoko could take care of herself. She still feared for her daughter's safety.
That's what normal moms do right? Even though you practically KNOW your children are old enough to take care of their selves, you still wet your pants at the thought of them being in danger. And she had a REALLY bad feeling about this, every so often she would tap into Ryoko's thoughts and then have to tap back out immediately because of the pain that hit her if you stayed there to long. She stopped her pacing and clenched her fists
"She's hurt .badly.." Tenchi looked down to the floor he was just as worried about them both as Washu was for her daughter. "Aeka? Is she that bad?" The scientist shook her head
"I don't know.. But I think Ryoko may be in pain aswell.. I can't really tell. She's blocking it off, trying to hide her pain. So I don't know how bad she is. I know Aeka's pretty bad though, even Ryoko's concerned for her." Tenchi sighed "I hope there ok."
Then Sasami ran in, she had her back to Tenchi and Washu and had her arms out. "Ryoko! You have to put her down! Your hurt!" Washu looked up and was wide eyed to see her daughter walk in, slashes covering her face, her clothes shredded.
"I-I'm not hurt.. Aeka needs help." Washu ran quickly to her daughter's side and grabbed her arm, jumping back as if she had been pricked by a needle. She looked to her hands, and her eyes widened when she saw they were covered in blood. Ryoko continued past her as Washu followed her with her eyes.
She noticed something and her gaze fell to the ground, there. lay a trail of crimson liquid. Blood and lots of it. Washu followed the trail and it led, not to Aeka, no her bleeding had stopped. It led to Ryoko.
She gasped "Ryoko! Your bleeding!" But she ignored her and continued her way to Tenchi "S-see she-she's fine.. Only that cut on her side, apart from that. n-not a scratch on.her.." Tenchi nodded and lowered his eyebrows "Ryoko. your hurt.." Ryoko coughed
"N-NO I'm NOT dammit! I-I'm fine.!" She gently lay Aeka on a nearby table and covered her with her jacket. "See! Now hurry up and help her alre- already!" Sasami and Tenchi rushed to the table were Aeka lay as Ryoko slowly on shaking legs exited the lab.
***
She walked out of the lab, unbeknownst to her Washu was in close second. Slowly as if drunk she walked over to the place were her beam hung directly above, leaving a trail of blood behind her. She tried to teleport up to it, but didn't have the energy, so instead she tried to fly. She got a short distance off the ground but fell.
And was caught by a pair of strong arms. Using all her energy she lifted her head to see her mother's caring face smiling at her. Then she went limp and fell unconscious. Washu carried her upstairs to her bedroom, surprisingly considering her child like body she was extremely strong.
***
It was dark.. So dark. She opened her eyes to see a women with fiery red hair smiling at her. She smiled back, the women held onto her as she walked through a small meadow filled with flowers and little animals. She giggled and reached her tiny hand to pull on the women's red bang. The women laughed and kissed her head. She giggled
"mommy."
The women smiled and patted her softly "That's right little Ryoko. mommy's here."
Then a flash..
And she saw her mother, reaching out for her screaming her name. Tears filled her mother's eyes. She couldn't understand why, then she looked up and saw 'him'. He looked down at her with a stare that seemed to penetrate your soul. He was cold. She turned back and saw her mother being sealed in some sort of crystal, crying out
"Kagato no!! Kagato PLEASE!!"
But the man did not stop, he smirked and turned to walk away. The women tried to escape but she could not move. She tried frantically to reach her but she could not. The little girl reached out to her mother "Mommy! Mommy!"
The women's attempts to escape became furious, her eyes filled with hate for the man who was taking her daughter away from her, brimming with tears for her little Ryoko. She reached out one final time "RYOKOOOOOOOOO!"
And then the crystal encased her completely. The little girl screamed at the sight of her mother trapped "MOMMY! MOMMY DON'T LEAVE ME!!"
***
"MOMMY!!!!!" She awoke, her face covered in sweat. She was breathing heavily. Then she felt a gentle hand grasp her own "It's ok Ryoko. I'm here." Ryoko turned around and peered into the darkness
"Washu?" The hand gently squeezed to confirm that she was correct. She tried to turn to face the person but a pain shot through her "UGH!" and she collapsed onto the bed. The person gasped and moved itself in front of her.
She saw her mother's face, Washu with a look of concern. The pink haired scientist sighed. And got into the bed beside Ryoko.
Now usually if this happened Ryoko would have shot out the other side and far away from washu, it may have been the pain or the exhaustion or something else. She didn't know what, but it made her stay and do something unexpected. Ryoko shakily snuggled up to her mother, who smiled and gently put her arms around her daughter's waist pulling her closer into a loving embrace.
The little scientist smiled again as Ryoko rested her head against Washu's shoulder and fell asleep.
***
End of Chapter 1
This chapter is the crappest outta them all, dont judge based just ont his chapter, read on, it does get better I promise. Anyways, review please! or send comments to yokouragasi593@hotmail.com