Tenchi Universe
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Disclaimer: This episode of Tenchi Universe is of my own creation as well as the character Hayato. I do not own any portion of Tenchi Muyo. "Tenchi Muyo!" and all related characters, names, etc. are ©1992-2003 AIC Inc. and Pioneer LDC. All rights reserved
Note: This episode takes place shortly after the events of Tenchi Universe, Tenchi Muyo in Love and Tenchi Forever.
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The More Things Change...
Episode 10:
No Need for a Fight!
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Fade in: the carrot fields early Sunday afternoon. Nagi the Bounty Hunter has showed up and kidnapped Tenchi...again...to force Ryoko to fight her...again.... This time though, Lady Achika refused to let Ryoko fight and opted to take her place instead. With an enormous display of power, she called upon the Tenchi-ken to come to her and now she is radiating a bluish- green glow, similar to Hayato, while getting ready to face the devious bounty hunter.
"All right," she shouts, "I'm giving you one last chance to give me back my son."
The bounty hunter snorts in amusement. "Ha! You show off a little power and you expect me to give up? I'm insulted!"
Ayeka is shaking with anger. For a while, when the group were going to Jurai to confront the phony emperor Kagato, Nagi befriended the group and helped them. But now she seems to have gone back to her old, cruel ways. She started to mutter under her breath, "Oh I wish that I had not ordered the Knights Azaka and Kamidake to go back to Jurai. We could really use their help right about now."
Nagi takes off her cloak and tossed it aside, Ken-Ohki now at her side. She upholsters her sword, an evil grin spreads across her face. "I promise not to hurt you too much; you have a family to take care of."
Tenchi's mother takes an offensive stance. "You are the one who has to worry about getting hurt." She turns around to the others. "Back up everybody, I don't want any of you to get caught up in this."
They all do as she says. She smiles at them and turns to see that Nagi already started the fight and is charging full speed at her. Achika quickly dodges and swipes at Nagi, but she blocks the shot.
Sasami leans in towards her sister. "Ayeka, do you think that Tenchi's mom can win?"
"I do not know Sasami," the crown princess replies. "She seems to have received a lot of power from Hayato, but Nagi is quite powerful as well."
They turn back to the fight, which is getting more intense. Achika blocks an overhead strike and counters with a sideswipe that leaves a small cut on Nagi's right cheek. Nagi, in a furious rage, attacks back with a flurry of slashes. Achika dodges and blocks most of them, but one comes through, cutting her just above her left knee.
Screams of rage come over from Achika's side while Tenchi makes some more attempts to remove his mouth gag on Nagi's side.
"Go on dearest," Nobuyuki shouts, "take her down!"
The two combatants leap at each other and their weapons collide in mid air, sending a shower of sparks everywhere. Achika takes her right hand off the sword and punches the bounty hunter squarely on the nose.
Nagi falls back, blood pouring freely from her nose. She smirks at her opponent. "You are pretty good, but I'm done playing around. Time to lose!"
Ryoko's archrival reaches back and pulls out her laser whip. In one quick movement, she has the end of the whip wrapped around Achika's neck, as she had once done to Ryoko before. Nagi begins to smile evilly. "Don't worry; I'm only going to knock you out. In a few seconds, I will be the winner of this bout."
"No!" Tenchi's mother screams, "I will not loose to you! I will not allow my family to be torn apart!" She grits her teeth and concentrates. Her body begins to glow again, but more violently. The laser whip releases itself from Achika's neck and flies towards Nagi at breakneck speed. She isn't prepared for it as it strikes her flatly on the stomach. The bounty hunter instantly doubles over, winded from the blow.
The daughter of Yosho walks up to Nagi. "You have lost. Now surrender."
"I'm not done yet!" Nagi shouts as she jumps up and lunges straight for Achika. She rams into her and they both fall over, rolling on the ground.
Both spring back up and charge at each other again. Achika is holding her own quite well, which is infuriating Nagi. She suddenly grabs Achika's right hand, which is holding the Tenchi-ken, and nails her with a powerful uppercut. Achika flies back and lands hard onto the ground.
Nagi dives high into the air with her sword pointing straight for Achika. "Now you lose!" she proclaims, an evil glitter in her eyes.
She is now just feet from Achika. Everyone turns away, not wanting to see her lose. Suddenly, they hear Nagi shouting, "Hey, what's going on? What are you doing?"
Everybody looks back to see Nagi floating a few feet above Achika. It seems like she can't move, but she is still shouting. Achika's eyes are glowing brightly. She stands up and backs up a few steps. Nagi is still screaming furiously. "I know you're doing this! Let me go!"
Achika smiles brightly. "You want me to let you go? Okay." She holds her hands out and Nagi flies twenty feet away, and lands with a large bang on the ground. She gets back up after a few seconds and charges again at Achika, who is also charging at her foe. Every second they get closer and closer. They are within feet of each other when Achika quickly side steps Nagi and trips her, causing her to fall face first onto the ground.
She rolls on her back, only to see Achika standing proudly over her, the Tenchi-ken dangerously close to her neck. "You lose," she happily proclaims
Everyone starts to cheer madly. Tenchi manages to get up to his feet, only to loose his balance and fall back down. Nagi slowly starts to smile. "All right, I lost, though I must admit, you are an extremely skilled fighter."
Achika smiles too and reaches down and pulls Nagi off of the ground. Tenchi's mother looks over to her son. "Now that that is over, could you let my son go now?"
"Huh? Oh sure." Nagi snaps her fingers and the bonds that were on Tenchi fall off of him. He gets up and runs straight for his mom and embraces her tightly. "Oh mom, you were great!"
The rest of the gang runs up to them as well. "Wow, that was cool!" Sasami exclaims.
"Yes," Ayeka adds, "your powers are incredible!"
Ryoko crosses her arms, looking very impressed. "That was something."
Nobuyuki embraces his wife warmly. "I was worried for a moment that she had you, but you pulled through. I am so proud of you dearest!"
Achika smiles and embraces her family. Ryo-Ohki runs up to Ken-Ohki, blushing. "Mya meow."
The male cabbit smiles at her. "Chow."
The two cabbits snuggle next to each other as Nagi idly watches. "You know Ryoko, I think that our cabbits are a little fond of each other."
Sasami picks the two cabbits up and hugs them both tightly. "Oh that's so cute! Its too bad Mihoshi is out on patrol. She would have loved this!"
Nagi wipes the blood from her nose. "Hey, do you guys have something I can use to plug up my nose? I don't have anything on me right now."
"Oh of course!" Achika responds. "Please follow me to our home!"
They all go back to the Masaki house, two of the group a little beat up and bruised.
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An hour later, everyone is sitting around the table, eating lunch. Sasami decides to go light and made several delicious sandwiches and tea. Ryo-Ohki and Ken-Ohki are sharing some carrots with each other.
Nagi takes a small sip of tea. "Thank you for your hospitality. Most people wouldn't be this nice to me after I kidnapped a member of their family to force another to fight me."
"Ah well our family is different," replies Nobuyuki.
"Yeah," Tenchi adds in, "we try not to hold any grudges against anybody."
Ryoko however isn't sharing everyone else's sentiments. "So what," she pouts while crossing her arms, "she'll just leave and then come back again later to force me to fight her again."
Achika looks thoughtfully over to the bounty hunter. "Miss Nagi, would it be too much to ask if you could leave Ryoko be? She has turned away from her old ways. She wants to stay here and be happy."
Nagi looks up at Achika, then to everyone else, who are looking at her hopefully. She sighs deeply, knowing what she probably should do. "All right, I won't hunt Ryoko anymore, but..." She stops for a moment because everyone started cheering, "...but I will check in every now and then to make sure that she hasn't returned to her old ways. Besides, the bounty on her has dropped considerably since she hasn't done any pirating lately."
"Then it's settled!" Achika says happily
Nagi looks around the room thoughtfully. "Hey where is that guy with the red hair that was hanging out with you guys the last time I saw you?"
Ayeka gives the bounty hunter a questioning look. "Who? Do you mean Kamidake the Jurai Knight?"
"Yeah, is he still around?"
Sasami notices that there is a slight flush to Nagi's cheeks as she asks about the legendary knight. She suddenly realizes, "Nagi, do you have a crush on him?"
Nagi goes a deep shade of red and looks very embarrassed. Ryoko grins evilly at her old archenemy. "You like him? I never thought that you were into anything besides bounty hunting."
Nagi instantly goes on the offensive. "Well I thought the same for you with space pirating, and then I come here to see you draped all over that boy!"
Ryoko and Tenchi go just as red as Nagi. Everybody else laughs. Ryoko quickly strikes back, "But I didn't even think that you liked men, you seemed too into your work."
Nagi stands up, now looking offended and upset. "Hey, I'm a woman and I have needs! Men just never understood me! That Kamidake guy was very nice and polite to me even though he knew that I am a ruthless bounty hunter. And I think he is cute, are you happy?
Ryoko bursts out laughing as Nagi stops what she is saying, looking completely stunned at her outburst. She isn't used to expressing her feelings to anyone and now she just blabs out that she has a thing for a guy. Nagi turns around and starts to walk out the door.
"Wait!" Sasami shouts. "Don't leave!"
"I'm not leaving," she replies, "I just need a few minutes to myself."
They watch she walks outside and everybody stays silent for a few moments. Achika walks over to Ryoko and puts her hand on her shoulder. "Why don't you go and talk to her?"
The pirate looks disgusted at the thought. "Me!? Why?"
"Because you are both very similar to one another, though I don't think that either you would like to admit it."
Ryoko is about to reply, but Achika looks at her with a very loving and motherly gaze that she just can't say no to.
"Oh okay," she sighs, "I guess I'll go talk to her."
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The pirate phases out of the house and appears next to the lake, where Nagi is sitting down. She floats down next to her. "Hey."
Nagi gives her formal rival a sour look. "What do you want?"
"To see how you are doing," she answers with a shrug.
"Why do you care?"
Ryoko frowns. She is making this really difficult for her. "Why are you so embarrassed about liking a guy?"
Nagi stands up, looking concerned and weak. "I...I'm not used to feeling like this. I'm supposed to be the most feared bounty hunter in the universe, but when I think about him, I feel...I feel strange." She shifts her shoulders uncomfortably.
The space pirate smiles warmly at her. "You know, I once felt the same way when I first found out that I had real feelings for Tenchi. At first I was afraid, I didn't understand all these new feelings I was feeling, but soon I realized that they aren't that bad. I like to tease Tenchi on the outside, but on the inside, I'd do anything to make him happy. And when he is happy with me...well...I can't describe the feeling. I just know that it makes me feel very good."
Nagi looks up to Ryoko, frowning. "Why are you being so nice to me? Just a few hours ago, I was planning on destroying you, and now, you're giving me advice?"
"Well, like Tenchi's mom said, being here has taught me simpler ways."
Nagi starts to smile at her old rival. "Well wonders never cease to exist."
Ryoko smiles back. "Come on. Let's go back inside, maybe we can get Ayeka to get your little boy toy to come back here."
Nagi turns slightly red as Ryoko has a good laugh. The ex-pirate expects her to have some sort of come back, but what she isn't expecting is... "Well do you think that she can bring him here?"
Ryoko face faults to the ground as Nagi begins to laugh in her place. When Ryoko gets back up, she joins in with the laughter as the two walk back home, old enemies, new friends.
Fade out.
To be continued...
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Author's notes: I thought that I'd try to dwell a bit on Nagi's softer side since she rarely ever shows it. She is a person and she has feelings. I think that I'll have her in for another episode or two. Kamidake returns next episode! Perhaps we could see some Nagi/Kamidake romance somewhere in the near future? Find out soon!
Questions or comments? E-mail me at: lighthawkdemon@yahoo.com
Next episode: No Need for a Knight!
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Disclaimer: This episode of Tenchi Universe is of my own creation as well as the character Hayato. I do not own any portion of Tenchi Muyo. "Tenchi Muyo!" and all related characters, names, etc. are ©1992-2003 AIC Inc. and Pioneer LDC. All rights reserved
Note: This episode takes place shortly after the events of Tenchi Universe, Tenchi Muyo in Love and Tenchi Forever.
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The More Things Change...
Episode 10:
No Need for a Fight!
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Fade in: the carrot fields early Sunday afternoon. Nagi the Bounty Hunter has showed up and kidnapped Tenchi...again...to force Ryoko to fight her...again.... This time though, Lady Achika refused to let Ryoko fight and opted to take her place instead. With an enormous display of power, she called upon the Tenchi-ken to come to her and now she is radiating a bluish- green glow, similar to Hayato, while getting ready to face the devious bounty hunter.
"All right," she shouts, "I'm giving you one last chance to give me back my son."
The bounty hunter snorts in amusement. "Ha! You show off a little power and you expect me to give up? I'm insulted!"
Ayeka is shaking with anger. For a while, when the group were going to Jurai to confront the phony emperor Kagato, Nagi befriended the group and helped them. But now she seems to have gone back to her old, cruel ways. She started to mutter under her breath, "Oh I wish that I had not ordered the Knights Azaka and Kamidake to go back to Jurai. We could really use their help right about now."
Nagi takes off her cloak and tossed it aside, Ken-Ohki now at her side. She upholsters her sword, an evil grin spreads across her face. "I promise not to hurt you too much; you have a family to take care of."
Tenchi's mother takes an offensive stance. "You are the one who has to worry about getting hurt." She turns around to the others. "Back up everybody, I don't want any of you to get caught up in this."
They all do as she says. She smiles at them and turns to see that Nagi already started the fight and is charging full speed at her. Achika quickly dodges and swipes at Nagi, but she blocks the shot.
Sasami leans in towards her sister. "Ayeka, do you think that Tenchi's mom can win?"
"I do not know Sasami," the crown princess replies. "She seems to have received a lot of power from Hayato, but Nagi is quite powerful as well."
They turn back to the fight, which is getting more intense. Achika blocks an overhead strike and counters with a sideswipe that leaves a small cut on Nagi's right cheek. Nagi, in a furious rage, attacks back with a flurry of slashes. Achika dodges and blocks most of them, but one comes through, cutting her just above her left knee.
Screams of rage come over from Achika's side while Tenchi makes some more attempts to remove his mouth gag on Nagi's side.
"Go on dearest," Nobuyuki shouts, "take her down!"
The two combatants leap at each other and their weapons collide in mid air, sending a shower of sparks everywhere. Achika takes her right hand off the sword and punches the bounty hunter squarely on the nose.
Nagi falls back, blood pouring freely from her nose. She smirks at her opponent. "You are pretty good, but I'm done playing around. Time to lose!"
Ryoko's archrival reaches back and pulls out her laser whip. In one quick movement, she has the end of the whip wrapped around Achika's neck, as she had once done to Ryoko before. Nagi begins to smile evilly. "Don't worry; I'm only going to knock you out. In a few seconds, I will be the winner of this bout."
"No!" Tenchi's mother screams, "I will not loose to you! I will not allow my family to be torn apart!" She grits her teeth and concentrates. Her body begins to glow again, but more violently. The laser whip releases itself from Achika's neck and flies towards Nagi at breakneck speed. She isn't prepared for it as it strikes her flatly on the stomach. The bounty hunter instantly doubles over, winded from the blow.
The daughter of Yosho walks up to Nagi. "You have lost. Now surrender."
"I'm not done yet!" Nagi shouts as she jumps up and lunges straight for Achika. She rams into her and they both fall over, rolling on the ground.
Both spring back up and charge at each other again. Achika is holding her own quite well, which is infuriating Nagi. She suddenly grabs Achika's right hand, which is holding the Tenchi-ken, and nails her with a powerful uppercut. Achika flies back and lands hard onto the ground.
Nagi dives high into the air with her sword pointing straight for Achika. "Now you lose!" she proclaims, an evil glitter in her eyes.
She is now just feet from Achika. Everyone turns away, not wanting to see her lose. Suddenly, they hear Nagi shouting, "Hey, what's going on? What are you doing?"
Everybody looks back to see Nagi floating a few feet above Achika. It seems like she can't move, but she is still shouting. Achika's eyes are glowing brightly. She stands up and backs up a few steps. Nagi is still screaming furiously. "I know you're doing this! Let me go!"
Achika smiles brightly. "You want me to let you go? Okay." She holds her hands out and Nagi flies twenty feet away, and lands with a large bang on the ground. She gets back up after a few seconds and charges again at Achika, who is also charging at her foe. Every second they get closer and closer. They are within feet of each other when Achika quickly side steps Nagi and trips her, causing her to fall face first onto the ground.
She rolls on her back, only to see Achika standing proudly over her, the Tenchi-ken dangerously close to her neck. "You lose," she happily proclaims
Everyone starts to cheer madly. Tenchi manages to get up to his feet, only to loose his balance and fall back down. Nagi slowly starts to smile. "All right, I lost, though I must admit, you are an extremely skilled fighter."
Achika smiles too and reaches down and pulls Nagi off of the ground. Tenchi's mother looks over to her son. "Now that that is over, could you let my son go now?"
"Huh? Oh sure." Nagi snaps her fingers and the bonds that were on Tenchi fall off of him. He gets up and runs straight for his mom and embraces her tightly. "Oh mom, you were great!"
The rest of the gang runs up to them as well. "Wow, that was cool!" Sasami exclaims.
"Yes," Ayeka adds, "your powers are incredible!"
Ryoko crosses her arms, looking very impressed. "That was something."
Nobuyuki embraces his wife warmly. "I was worried for a moment that she had you, but you pulled through. I am so proud of you dearest!"
Achika smiles and embraces her family. Ryo-Ohki runs up to Ken-Ohki, blushing. "Mya meow."
The male cabbit smiles at her. "Chow."
The two cabbits snuggle next to each other as Nagi idly watches. "You know Ryoko, I think that our cabbits are a little fond of each other."
Sasami picks the two cabbits up and hugs them both tightly. "Oh that's so cute! Its too bad Mihoshi is out on patrol. She would have loved this!"
Nagi wipes the blood from her nose. "Hey, do you guys have something I can use to plug up my nose? I don't have anything on me right now."
"Oh of course!" Achika responds. "Please follow me to our home!"
They all go back to the Masaki house, two of the group a little beat up and bruised.
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An hour later, everyone is sitting around the table, eating lunch. Sasami decides to go light and made several delicious sandwiches and tea. Ryo-Ohki and Ken-Ohki are sharing some carrots with each other.
Nagi takes a small sip of tea. "Thank you for your hospitality. Most people wouldn't be this nice to me after I kidnapped a member of their family to force another to fight me."
"Ah well our family is different," replies Nobuyuki.
"Yeah," Tenchi adds in, "we try not to hold any grudges against anybody."
Ryoko however isn't sharing everyone else's sentiments. "So what," she pouts while crossing her arms, "she'll just leave and then come back again later to force me to fight her again."
Achika looks thoughtfully over to the bounty hunter. "Miss Nagi, would it be too much to ask if you could leave Ryoko be? She has turned away from her old ways. She wants to stay here and be happy."
Nagi looks up at Achika, then to everyone else, who are looking at her hopefully. She sighs deeply, knowing what she probably should do. "All right, I won't hunt Ryoko anymore, but..." She stops for a moment because everyone started cheering, "...but I will check in every now and then to make sure that she hasn't returned to her old ways. Besides, the bounty on her has dropped considerably since she hasn't done any pirating lately."
"Then it's settled!" Achika says happily
Nagi looks around the room thoughtfully. "Hey where is that guy with the red hair that was hanging out with you guys the last time I saw you?"
Ayeka gives the bounty hunter a questioning look. "Who? Do you mean Kamidake the Jurai Knight?"
"Yeah, is he still around?"
Sasami notices that there is a slight flush to Nagi's cheeks as she asks about the legendary knight. She suddenly realizes, "Nagi, do you have a crush on him?"
Nagi goes a deep shade of red and looks very embarrassed. Ryoko grins evilly at her old archenemy. "You like him? I never thought that you were into anything besides bounty hunting."
Nagi instantly goes on the offensive. "Well I thought the same for you with space pirating, and then I come here to see you draped all over that boy!"
Ryoko and Tenchi go just as red as Nagi. Everybody else laughs. Ryoko quickly strikes back, "But I didn't even think that you liked men, you seemed too into your work."
Nagi stands up, now looking offended and upset. "Hey, I'm a woman and I have needs! Men just never understood me! That Kamidake guy was very nice and polite to me even though he knew that I am a ruthless bounty hunter. And I think he is cute, are you happy?
Ryoko bursts out laughing as Nagi stops what she is saying, looking completely stunned at her outburst. She isn't used to expressing her feelings to anyone and now she just blabs out that she has a thing for a guy. Nagi turns around and starts to walk out the door.
"Wait!" Sasami shouts. "Don't leave!"
"I'm not leaving," she replies, "I just need a few minutes to myself."
They watch she walks outside and everybody stays silent for a few moments. Achika walks over to Ryoko and puts her hand on her shoulder. "Why don't you go and talk to her?"
The pirate looks disgusted at the thought. "Me!? Why?"
"Because you are both very similar to one another, though I don't think that either you would like to admit it."
Ryoko is about to reply, but Achika looks at her with a very loving and motherly gaze that she just can't say no to.
"Oh okay," she sighs, "I guess I'll go talk to her."
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The pirate phases out of the house and appears next to the lake, where Nagi is sitting down. She floats down next to her. "Hey."
Nagi gives her formal rival a sour look. "What do you want?"
"To see how you are doing," she answers with a shrug.
"Why do you care?"
Ryoko frowns. She is making this really difficult for her. "Why are you so embarrassed about liking a guy?"
Nagi stands up, looking concerned and weak. "I...I'm not used to feeling like this. I'm supposed to be the most feared bounty hunter in the universe, but when I think about him, I feel...I feel strange." She shifts her shoulders uncomfortably.
The space pirate smiles warmly at her. "You know, I once felt the same way when I first found out that I had real feelings for Tenchi. At first I was afraid, I didn't understand all these new feelings I was feeling, but soon I realized that they aren't that bad. I like to tease Tenchi on the outside, but on the inside, I'd do anything to make him happy. And when he is happy with me...well...I can't describe the feeling. I just know that it makes me feel very good."
Nagi looks up to Ryoko, frowning. "Why are you being so nice to me? Just a few hours ago, I was planning on destroying you, and now, you're giving me advice?"
"Well, like Tenchi's mom said, being here has taught me simpler ways."
Nagi starts to smile at her old rival. "Well wonders never cease to exist."
Ryoko smiles back. "Come on. Let's go back inside, maybe we can get Ayeka to get your little boy toy to come back here."
Nagi turns slightly red as Ryoko has a good laugh. The ex-pirate expects her to have some sort of come back, but what she isn't expecting is... "Well do you think that she can bring him here?"
Ryoko face faults to the ground as Nagi begins to laugh in her place. When Ryoko gets back up, she joins in with the laughter as the two walk back home, old enemies, new friends.
Fade out.
To be continued...
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Author's notes: I thought that I'd try to dwell a bit on Nagi's softer side since she rarely ever shows it. She is a person and she has feelings. I think that I'll have her in for another episode or two. Kamidake returns next episode! Perhaps we could see some Nagi/Kamidake romance somewhere in the near future? Find out soon!
Questions or comments? E-mail me at: lighthawkdemon@yahoo.com
Next episode: No Need for a Knight!