Love is the only thing that will make my heart stop,
It will be the only thing that will break us apart.
This feeling knows no bounds, no limits,
And all my love is focused on you.
Even if my feelings are kept hidden from you,
Just look through my eyes and you'll see the truth.
Everyday passes by and not a moment do I forget,
Your lovely smile, the bright tone of your eyes,
And the warmth from your kindness and embrace.
Even though you'll never know my little secret,
I'll just smile my broken smile and pretend,
And hope that I see you again...
By Hunter0309
Wishing To Be More than Just a Friend
Ryoko's bright yellow eyes filled with tears of joy as she hugged three bars made out of solid gold. "Gold-gold-gold-goolllddd...." She hummed happily as she examined more of the golden bars that lay out in front of her, "I love gold..."
"Do you know how lucky we were that the entire system of Jurai was on the other side of the palace listening to Misaki and Funaho giving speeches to the public?!" Puck swung his chair around to glare at Ryoko sternly. "And how we were lucky enough that the Galaxy Police thought we were going to capture them and hold them for hostage instead of taking the treasure?!"
Glancing up from the gold, Ryoko's yellow eyes had changed to a golden hue, "No..." she beamed even more at him. Ryoko ignored Puck's overly loud sigh and continued to clean and examine each gold bar with exact precision. "I wonder if Eriko will miss two or five of these..." the ex-pirate added as she started to pocket one of the bars.
"You try that and Eriko will cut off Tenchi's left hand to call it even," the silver-haired pirate warned as he turned back to the main screen. "You better not destroy another ship while you're here..." Puck grumbled unhappily when he started to check the ship's overall damage.
Tossing the solid gold bar behind her head, it slammed right into Puck's bruised shoulder, "HEY!" Puck swerved his chair around with a death look in his eyes, "Watch it where you toss those things!"
Ryoko smirked, "You won't live long enough to find out if I destroy your ship or not for the second time..." With great ease, she jumped up off of the floor and walked away to the opposite end of the ship; kicking some of the gold bars out of her way. I'll just play it cool for two more raids...then I'll take this ship over and fly back to Earth to save Tenchi... "Good plan, Ryoko-good plan," she whispered to herself as she went over to her cell to take a small nap.
Puck mocked Ryoko's last words when she was out of sight, "Ruins my newly painted cell door, damages the left side of my ship, and she manages to bruise my shoulder-all in one bloody day!!" Placing his hands over his face, he let out another frustrated sigh. "If she doesn't kill Eriko first, I'll do it for having to put up with a demon who likes to watch things burn."
The lights above Ryoko's head suddenly flickered off, "Now what...?" she muttered when she opened one eye to notice her cell's light was now off.
"GOD DAMN SHIP!" Puck bellowed at the top of his lungs; not caring who would hear him. "It just has to have an electrical problem today..." Kicking the ship's wall as hard as he could, Puck limped over to his side of the ship to find the tools needed to fix the ship.
Poking her head out of her cell doorway, Ryoko felt a rush of wind and heard some muttered swear words that flew by her in the darkness. "What happened?" she called out; knowing that it had been Puck who had just brushed by her cell's door.
Without Ryoko seeing, Puck rolled his eyes at her, "What does it look like?! The left side of my ship's electrical is down, so is the rest of the ship's. Now, I have to go fix the damage you made today on it...before something else shuts down.
"It is not my fault!!" Ryoko hissed as she stepped out of her cell's doorway to fumble around in the dark to try and find him, so she could argue about it even more. "If your ship wasn't so bulky and slow..."
A small beam of light appeared before Ryoko, "Whoa, whoa...Don't be calling my pride and joy slow and bulky...I made this ship all by hand thank you very much!!" Puck held the flashlight in his hand tightly as he pointed at Ryoko's face, "Never insult my ship..." he growled.
Ryoko snorted, "What are you going to do to me if I don't stop? Blind me to death by flickering that flashlight at me?"
Throwing his hands into the air, Puck muttered, "Why do I put up with your shit?!" and then turned away from her to disappear from her sight.
"Hello?" Ryoko squeaked in fear when she realized that he had left her all alone in the dark.
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"MIHOSHI!!" screamed a voice on Washu's computer, making the poor blonde take cover behind Ayeka. "Why didn't you tell me that Ryoko was hiding here on Earth this ENTIRE TIME?!" Mihoshi's stern father bellowed on the main screen of Washu's computer.
Peeking her nose over Ayeka's right shoulder, Mihoshi managed to tell her father how Ryoko had changed her ways and was no longer a space pirate. "If Ryoko is no longer a space pirate...then why did she just steal all of Jurai's treasure in only thirty minutes?!"
Ayeka went pale, "SHE DID WHAT?!"
With a very befuddled look, Sasami tugged on Washu's sleeve, "Is that where Ryoko has been gone for the past two weeks?" she asked in a small voice. "I thought Ryoko promised Tenchi that she would never be a space pirate again..."
Washu had the same expression on her face, "This doesn't seem like Ryoko...Why would she want all of that gold for when she could have easily gotten it in a different system of planets?" Scratching her chin in a puzzled manner, Washu turned to the screen to speak with Mihoshi's father. "What sort of ship was she traveling in?"
Sasami bent down and picked Ryo-oki up off of the ground; she was whimpering in worry for her master. "Don't worry Ryo-oki...Ryoko will be alright..." the Jurai Princess whispered to the space pet.
"One that can not be identified...either the records have been wiped clean or the ship has just been built...Ryoko wasn't alone though." Mihoshi's father showed a cropped image of Puck in the background holding onto the edge of his seat with Ryoko at the controls. "I'm sending Kiyonne to come pick you up, Mihoshi. Since you know Ryoko so well, you can help us track her down."
Washu was deep in thought now, Ryoko hates having partners...This doesn't seem right... "I might be able to help you," the mad scientist coughed loudly to grab the Galaxy Police's Lieutenant's attention. "If you send me the list of things that were stolen, the blueprints of that ship, and the area she was in...I might be able to calculate which planet she is heading to next, Lieutenant."
"Anything you can do will be greatly appreciated," Mihoshi's father bowed his head in respect and the main computer screen flickered off.
Staying quiet for most of the conversation, Ayeka finally let out a high-pitched scream in anger. "SHE STOLE ALL OF MY FATHER'S TREASURE! THAT BIG-NOSED HEATHEN!!" Stomping her foot on the floor, the princess stormed out of Washu's room to scream some more.
"Are you going to tell Tenchi about this Washu?" Sasami asked in a small voice as Ryo-oki meowed in reply.
Sighing, Washu nodded, "Tenchi wanted me to keep him posted on Ryoko's return...we'll have to tell him..."
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Great...I can't see and I'm stuck in this position until I can figure out where I am in this stupid ship. I don't know why he's so angry at me...it's not my fault his ship is such a piece of shit. Ryoko mistakenly took one small step forward which sent her down to the floor; due to the fact that she had tripped on one of the solid gold bars. My day can't get any worse...she whined to herself as she lay there on the floor helplessly; afraid to move to just fall over again.
"Have a nice fall?" chimed a voice above her head. Puck was smirking as he held the flashlight over her, "Need a hand?"
Without thinking twice, Ryoko grabbed onto Puck's hand and he pulled her up to her feet with great ease. A second later, the lights to the ship flickered on to reveal Puck with a small cut across his forehead and on his left shoulder. Puck noticed Ryoko staring at his cut on his shoulder, "Helps take my mind off of the bruise that you gave me there," he winked.
"What did you do?" she couldn't help but smile weakly at his side comment.
"Well..." Puck rubbed the back of his head, "I dropped my tool on my shoulder while I was working on the electrical, and then I banged my head trying to get up once I had fixed it."
Ryoko's smile widened, "You must enjoy your bad luck..."
"More than you will ever know..." Puck rolled his eyes cynically at her statement as he strolled back over to the control area. "At least I didn't trip on the gold bar that I spent two hours shinning with my sleeve," he jeered as he took a seat with a grin.
"Har-har..." Ryoko rolled her eyes at him this time, "You should change your shirt...it's nearly red now instead of blue."
It was true; Puck's left shoulder was a dark red now with his silver hair turning a darker color from the gash on his forehead. "I guess so..." Sticking his hands underneath the collar of his shirt, he unlatched a silver chain from his neck and delicately placed it on the edge of his keyboard. Puck got up as he slowly pulled his blue shirt that was now clinging to his wet left shoulder. "Don't mess with the controls..." he growled at Ryoko as she smiled innocently at him.
The silver chain had suddenly caught Ryoko's eye, checking twice to make sure Puck was in his room, she casually walked over to the keyboard at the controls area. Swiping her hand across the keyboard, she snatched the silver chain necklace to realize that it was in fact a silver locket. Ryoko glanced over her shoulder to see if Puck was coming back, when she saw nothing she went back to examining the silver locket. Without thinking twice, she hastily opened the locket to find a small image in the right side. The girl in the locket was a drop-dead gorgeous...long, dark brown locks, golden eyes, and a charming smile.
"Give it back," Puck snapped hotly behind Ryoko's back when he knew that she had opened his locket.
Turning around slowly like she already knew that she was in deep trouble, Puck quickly snatched the locket from her hands and pocketed in his pants. "Who's the pretty lady?" Ryoko smirked slightly at the pirate.
"None of your damn business..." he spat as he took a seat at the control area and never spoke to Ryoko for the rest of the night.