The woods around the shrine
The glow of the setting sun pierced through the trees of the forest around the shrine, flooding the interior with billions of specks of light. The heat making it almost unbearable in the dampness of the make shift "green house" never the less its was the shortest and well hidden path to the shrine, and half way there, two figures and an injured third were quickly and silently making there way in the general direction of the shrine.
Kioku glanced at Ryoko as he jumped from a branch. She winced in pain and softly moaned as she slowly slipped into unconsciousness. "hold on were almost there" he gasped as he jumped off another tree branch and softly landed on the layers of dry leaves that covered the forest sending a small puff of leaves into the air in his wake. It took a split second for Neko to land next to them and simultaneously lunge forward towards a relatively high cliff. Both of them stopped abruptly at the foot of the cliff and leaped into the air easily clearing fifty some feet both Neko and ki landed on one foot over a massive boulder then jumped up another fifty some feet clearing the ridge with air time to spare. Both landed simultaneously on one foot the lunged forward a whole ten yards and used the momentum to run the rest of the way to the now visible shrine.
The Kitchen
Sasami softly hummed the dragonstea din tei song to herself as she cheerfully washed the dishes. she wiped off some sweat from her forehead with the back of her hand – man (she whined) when's this heat gonna go away?- she thought to herself as she let out a long sigh running a soapy hand through her bright blue hair. Ryo-ohki was watching her work and slowly drifting off to sleep with her paws in between her legs and her long bunny feet sticking up into the air. Ryo-ohki was leaning against the window and through the window off in the distance the ridge to a cliff could be seen a ridge that over looked the entire forest. Right when Ryo-ohki fell to sleep ki and Neko cleared the ridge instantly Ryo-ohki felt a shiver down her spine that made her look through the window and at the on coming trio. She meowed at them. Sasami looked at her as she did this "what's wrong?" she looked out the window and saw Ryoko even in the time of dusk the trail of blood that dripped from her shoulder.
"oh my god, Ryoko!" she screamed dropping a plate and running to the door screaming for Washu. "Washu! Get over here!" by the couch Mihoshi sat up with sleepy eyes and ruffled hair, she looked around with a completely bewildered tired face she then fell back on the couch. Sasami swung the door open and made to go outside but ki stood in front of her just out side the door. "she told me to come here, please we need to hurry" he said hastily. Sasami gasped her mouth slightly open staring up at him in awe taking in his fine features and his bi-colored hair (sky-blue and violet) and his hazel eyes, for a second she thought she saw Tenchi in his eyes.
There was a small suction in the air and Washu popped out the air next to Sasami, she was a complete mess, she looked completely pale her hair was messed up she looked sleepy and you could tell her nose was clogged up, and there were tissue papers visibly crammed into the pockets of her pink-ish bathrobe. "yea?" she weakly asked. Sasami turned to her in a slightly panicky and frantic tone told her how Ryoko needed "medical" attention. Washu didn't really understand what she told her but as soon as she saw Ryoko she took Ki's arm and teleported back to her lab leaving Sasami alone with Neko who was trying to figure out were - what now? -, Sasami looked down at the floor then at her.
Neko looked around Sasami trying to avoid her gaze then looking at her she meekly smiled and waved for a second. "come in, come in" Sasami said in a sudden rush Neko took a step forward but stopped remembering something ki had told her a long time ago "um… do I take shoes off?" she asked her. Sasami nodded and watched Neko slip her shoes off and gently put them by the door and followed Sasami to the living room were Mihoshi was still asleep on the couch her arms up over her head making her white blouse cling on to her large breast and pulling it up to reveal her belly which was slightly sweating. Neko looked at her for a second trying with all her might not to look at her nipples but couldn't, even under her black bra you could still tell that they were hard.
Neko finally looked away and sat down next to Sasami. Sasami looked at her quizzically. "are you an alien?" she asked staring at her ears. Neko smiled "uh-uh" Sasami gasped, "me too, I'm from jurai, were are you from?" Neko thought, "um… I don't know, my English is not well?" Sasami nodded as she raised her eyebrows "oh ok then, so who was that guy?" Sasami noted. Neko took a deep breath "his names Kioku, but ki is shorter" Sasami nodded.
Washu's lab
Kioku gently placed Ryoko on an operating table, he wasn't wearing his jacket and his headband was pulled back over the hairline to keep it out of the way. Washu who was wearing his jacket over her bathrobe sat on his right, next to a table covered with sterilized tools and bottles. "can you pass me the scissors?" ki asked gently lifting the collar on Ryoko's shirt. Washu took a clean tissue paper and picked up the scissors with them and passed it to him. "you know…I can do this myself." She told him. Ki smiled as he quickly cut Ryoko's shirt in half and pulled it of her wound. "yes ma'am but you're a little sick and her wound might get infected, pass me the iodine please." Ki wiped away the blood around the hole on her shoulder making Ryoko silently and slowly wince.
Washu passed him a brown bottle that had no cap. Ki took it and looked at Ryoko. He took a deep breath and poured the contents of the bottle over the wound, Ryoko started screaming and kicking. Before she could get up, ki pushed her back down and placed his arm over her legs to keep her from kicking. After a while of screaming Ryoko started to calm down a bit she was still fidgeting though. Washu watched him as he cleaned her and calmed her down. For some odd reason she trusted him, he seamed to know what he's doing at least. "are you a doctor?" she asked him handing him a sterilized towel. "no not really, but in my line of work I have to deal with lots of injured people"
"What do you do?"
"well you could say I'm a space pirate" he went to a nearby table.
"really now, Ryoko here was also a space pirate" ki started mixing liquids.
"yes ma'am I know"
"oh did you know her?"
"yes I know her… miss?"
"yes?"
"could you pass me that pink bottle?"
"sure"
Ki took a beaker and started mixing chemicals. Washu watched him and was a bit intrigued "what are you making?" she questioned. Ki turned around casually holding a beaker, which now held a glowing milky white liquid. "this my newly acquainted friend is what I like to call sploosh" ki smiled as he placed the beaker next to Ryoko. "actually it doesn't really have a name I just call it sploosh. Do you have any sedatives?" he asked picking a syringe and peeling the wrapper off. "yeah" she passed him a bottle. "so what does sploosh do?" ki took the bottle from her "it's a super regenerative its extremely powerful extremely fast but extremely pain full."
"how come I haven't heard of it before?"
"well I kinda invented it"
"how do I know it works and how do I know it wont kill her?
"well I've used it so it works and I'm not dead so it wont kill her" he harmlessly smirked.
"yeah but if you know her then you'll know that she's completely different than an average human"
"yeah me too"
Washu was completely blown away "what?"
"she told me I was just like her, any who… can I use this on her?" he asked holding the beaker in one hand and giving it a little shake making the liquid swirl.
"just promise me she will be alright, she's my only daughter."
Ki nodded but with an extremely serious look.
"it will hurt though."
Washu nervously nodded but let him do it.
Ki turned to Ryoko, she clenched and unclenched her jaw and winced in pain, Ki took a long and deep sigh. He quickly poured the sploosh over her wound. Ryoko immediately screamed and tried to sit up but ki simultaneously pushed her down and hoped over her swinging a leg over her so that he was sitting on her midsection. He managed to get her right hand interlocked with his left and her left wrist was pined under his knee and with his right palm he pined it against her collarbone forcing her to lie flat on the table. Ryoko was still screaming through all of this
Washu watched through it all and noticed that the liquid had solidified inside her wound but it was quickly disintegrating and being replaced by skin. It took a second and a half for the solid liquid to disappear completely; instantly Ryoko stopped screaming and let her self just lie down gasping for air while she stared up at ki who was looking away. He slowly let go of her hand and got off of her. Ki peeled off his headband as he walked towards Washu "she's gonna be ok" he stretched the headband and pulled it over his head and around his neck. She watched him as he walked by her (Ryoko sat up and also watched him as she massaged her shoulder)"thank you Mr…?" realizing she didn't get his name. "Kioku Hikubi" he added "well I guess I'll get going, I'll see you guys later I guess bye." And with that he went up the stairs.
Living room
Sasami and neko were both staring at each other in what looked like complete and utter hatred. They were both inches from there faces. Neko glared at sasami and she glared back. Neko then growled like a lion that shook sasami's ribs. She tried to imitate it but it sounded weak and frail. Neko made her left ear give a little flick and sasami tried with all her might not to smile. Seeing that it was working Neko made her ears move around and in a matter of seconds Sasami had burst out laughing.
"you cheated" she squealed.
Neko smiled and shook her head "nuh-uh!" she stretched it out a bit so that it sounded obnoxious.
"kitty!" ki called in his deep voice from the doorway in the stairs. Neko obediently turned too look at him "say good bye to your friend here cuz weez gots to go" he calmly informed her as he made his way towards her. Neko turned to Sasami and gave her a meek half smile "bye" before she got up to join ki.
"wait ki!" Sasami exclaimed, ki turned towards her and nodded. Sasami tumbled out of the couch and half crawled as she picked her self up and stood in front of ki. "Neko here told me that you guys don't have any were to stay and we have an extra room if you would like to stay for a while, I mean you did help Ryoko," she quickly sighed as she swayed back and forth with her hands behind her back.
"no that's all right, well probably just cost you guys trouble" ki responded. "hmmm" she pouted, ki softened and smiled and knelt down in front of her so that they were eye level. "hey its all good and thanks for watching her for me I really appreciate it." Sasami looked at him her bright pink eyes met his warm hazels. He nodded at her with a warm smile and stood up "come on " he told Neko. She turned and waved at Sasami "bye Sasami ki stopped and turned towards them I'll see you lay-der(later)"
"your name is Sasami?" ki asked her. "yes I'm Sasami Misaki " she answered. Ki cocked his head to the side "you know on second thought I think we should spend the night." Sasami brightened up with a huge smile. She took them by the hands and led them up the stairs to their room.