Foolish Love

"I'll miss you Tenchi!!" Sasami sobbed loudly as she ran over to him and hugged him tightly across his hips. "You promise to write us?" she wiped the tears out of the corners of her eyes as she looked into his kind eyes.

Tenchi smiled, "Of course I will Sasami...I'll write to you everyday..." he patted her on the head. "You make sure everyone takes care for me won't you Sasami?" he asked her in a cheerful voice. Ayeka's sister just sniffled and nodded in reply as she ran back into the house crying.

Next to say goodbye to Tenchi was Mihoshi, she hugged him so tightly that she knocked the air out of him. After five more hugs, Tenchi finally got free of Mihoshi's grip and wished her luck with her new position in the Galaxy Police; after he had caught up on his breathing. Mihoshi wiped a tear from her eye, she was a natural blonde...she never really knew what was going on around her.

Ayeka stood at the doorway, frozen there watching Tenchi say goodbye to his father and grandfather. After saying goodbye to them, he glanced up to the alien princess, "Not going to say goodbye Ayeka?" he half-joked to her.

She held back for a moment and then bolted to him with her arms open; she hugged him tightly around the neck. "Take care Lord Tenchi..." Ayeka whispered to him as she gave him another small hug. "Promise to keep in touch," she had regained her royal composure as she bowed her head in respect to Tenchi.

Before Tenchi could say goodbye, Ayeka ran back inside the house; again bawling her eyes out about Tenchi leaving them. The last to say goodbye was Washu, she presented him with a small black box. "Open this box whenever you want to come home," the scientific genius stated simply. "It's a teleportation device; it will bring you back here no matter where you are. I think it might come in handy for you someday..." Washu gave him a big grin and whistled as she walked away back inside the house.

With a small sigh, Tenchi noticed that Ryoko was not here to say goodbye; he lowered his head as he grab his two bags. Tenchi was going to take earth's form of transportation, a car. Opening its passenger's door, he tossed his bags into the blue car without a care. He walked around the other side of the car to get to the driver's seat, opening the door quickly he jumped into the car. Loudly slamming the door, he started the little blue car and put it into gear. Its better if I don't say goodbye to Ryoko...I'm mad at her enough as it is.

As he drove off, Ryoko was watching from on top of the roof wanting him to turn back. "Tenchi come back!!" she yelled out desperately as he continued to drive away without hearing a word she had said. "Tenchi!" Ryoko jumped off the roof and ran after his car; which was at the entrance of the driveway now. Panting, she ran as fast as she could with tears streaming down her cheeks, "TENCHI!!"

The car turned right at the edge of the driveway to get to the main road; Ryoko jumped over the stone wall that surround the Masaki's property, tripping once she had landed on the other side. Once she was back up on her feet, Tenchi had turned down another street and was gone from her sight. "TENCHI COME BACK!!" Ryoko fell to her knees sobbing with her hands covering her face, Come back...

That was it...that was the end to her life-he was gone and he belonged to someone else. Ryoko had lost a fool's game, she started alone and she ended up alone. Tenchi would never come back, he would marry that earth Lily character and live happily ever after without Ryoko the space pirate. Sure Tenchi has dated other earth girls before, but he never kept it a secret from Ryoko...it must be serious.

Ryoko felt a hand touch her shoulder; she turned her head back to see a face she never wanted to see again. "Time to go home Ryoko..." he whispered as the two suddenly disappeared from the road to somewhere above the ground.

Meanwhile back at the Masaki house, an alarm was ringing loudly everywhere to warn the members of the household that something was wrong. "My computer is being hacked!" Washu dropped her rice bowl on the floor and bolted for the door to her room. In her socks, she slid across the floor effortlessly and pushed the door open. Jumping into her chair, she furiously pushed keys and numbers on a keyboard that was in front of her main computer.

Someone was defiantly hacking in Washu's computer, but for what reason and for what kind of information? As she continued to type more codes, she realized that someone was trying to get into all of her files-they were stuck trying to figure out all of the passwords to the information. "Who is doing this?!" Washu was becoming frustrated as she kept changing the passwords to her files to confuse the hacker even more.

"What's wrong Washu? What's the rush for?" Mihoshi asked in a ditzy voice as Washu's fingers started to smoke since she was typing to fast.

Ayeka and Sasami came into Washu's room with their fingers plugged into their ears, "Can't you turn that noise off?!" Ayeka screamed at the top of her lungs at the mad scientist.

"Not until they stop trying to hack into my computer's data," Washu muttered through grinded teeth as she pushed more and more keys. Suddenly the alarm shut off, making the three girls sigh with relief. "Wa-?" Washu typed in more codes to find that the hacker had finally stopped trying to get into her computer. "Hehe..." she laughed smugly, "Showed them...thought it would be easy to hack into my computer, eh?" Washo laughed even more making Ayeka roll her eyes at the crazy scientist.

Mihoshi glanced around the spacious room Washu had, "Hey is your room bigger than mine?"

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Tenchi hummed to himself as he drove along the road, trying to keep himself in a better mood than he was. All he could think about was the look Ryoko had given him when she had overheard him talking with his grandfather and when he had yelled at her the night before; he had never seen Ryoko give him that look before. That look broke his heart every time his mind replayed it in front of him as he drove; Ryoko was in lot of pain...

His stomach growled loudly and rumbled to tell him that it was time for a lunch break. Sasami had packed him a lunch she had made especially for him; all healthy food to keep Tenchi awake while he was driving. Keeping one hand on the steering wheel, Tenchi reached with his free hand to open the bag of food Sasami had packed. The first thing he pulled out of the bag was a carrot; this was a mistake.

"MEOW!" Ryo-oki leaped out of its hiding place from the backseats and attacked the carrot in Tenchi's hand. Tenchi screamed like a girl, nearly running the blue car off of the road as Ryo-oki and him fought for the carrot.

Tenchi shook the space pet that was connected to his hand and the carrot, "RYO-OKI!" Finally after swerving out of the way of an oncoming car, Tenchi pulled off to the side of the road to deal with the creature with both of his hands. "What do you think you are doing Ryo-oki?!" he watched as she let go of his hand and landed in the passenger seat; the carrot had been devoured already. "You can't come with me! You have to stay with Ryoko and Sasami!!" he glared at Ryo-oki as she gave him huge sad eyes with an equally sad face. "Urghhh..." Tenchi grumbled as he pulled out a black box and grabbed Ryo-oki with his other hand. "Now stay home this time Ryo-oki..." he warned the space pet as he opened the transportation box.