Disclaimer: Tenchi Muyo and all of the characters in it are property of AIC and Pioneer. I am not making any money off of this fanfic. Please don't sue me because I have nothing to give. The title is taken from the song 'I Will' from the Beatles White Album and is property of whoever owns it now. This fic is based on the OAV universe, if you are mad that Kiyone is in it tough. All of the chapter titles are taken off of Beatles titles and are property of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. This story is probably full of spelling and grammar errors, which is why I am posting it in the first place. If you could please send me an email telling me if you see a error or read through the whole fic and fix all the errors you see and send me a corrected copy, thank you to anyone who takes the time to do this. Here's chapter 2...

Who Knows How Long I've Loved You

*Beta Version*

"Here Comes The Sun"

The sky was beginning to turn shades of gray and the wind was picking up. Ayeka and Tenchi sat on the couch in the living room of the small cottage and watched the storm roll in. Tenchi could feel that Ayeka's muscles were tense.

"There's no reason to be afraid," he said softly.

"I'm-I'm not afraid," she said just before the first clap of thunder. She then gave a small squeak and jumped onto Tenchi's lap. He just smiled. "Well...maybe a little."

Tenchi remembered that there was a ping-pong table down in the basement; he had seen it when they first got here. It probably needed a little maintenance but it wasn't something he couldn't handle. "I have and idea," he said. "Why don't we go setup that old ping-pong table to get your mind off the storm."

She looked up at him. "That's sounds like a good idea," she said just before another crack of thunder shook the house.

They then went down stairs to find a good place to setup the table. After about 5 minutes and a little duct tape, Tenchi had got the thing setup and ready to play.

"Now do you know how to play?" he asked her.

"I'm pretty sure I do," she replied.

Tenchi didn't start out to hard so he gave a nice lofty serve to her side. And then...WHACK! The ball nailed Tenchi's side of the table and bounced off it hitting the wall behind him.

"Did I get a point Tenchi?" she asked.

Tenchi could only stare. "Uh, yea...yea you did."

She jumped up and down full of content with herself.

Tenchi then pick up the ball off of the ground and brought it up to serve it again. He hit it over the net putting backspin on it this time. When Ayeka went to hit the ball instead of going flying over the net it went speeding into it.

"Damn..." she said to herself. "Tenchi, I hit it just like last time, why didn't it go over the net?" she asked him.

He then explained to her about the different kinds of spin that can be put on the ball and how they affect it when the ball is hit. Ayeka then asked him about all the different ways to hit the ball and by the time he was done explaining the storm was over. He looked out the window and saw blue sky and the sun.

"Hey Ayeka?"

"Yes?"

"Would you like to go out for a ride in the sail boat? The storm is over."

She looked out the window seeing that he was right. "I would love to!"

The sun was just now rising over the river Seine in the beautiful city of Paris. A ray of sun shot through the third floor window of a small bed a breakfast in along the river. It shone on the face of a beautiful young woman who lay on her bed. By looking at her face you could easily tell that she had cried herself to sleep. Clothes were thrown all over the room and the windows were wide open. The floor in front of the window was soaking wet from the rain last night.

The girls' eyes started to open and she blinked a few times before sitting up in her bed. She looked around the room with a blank look on her face at all of the clothes in various places. She got off the bed and walked around the room picking up the various articles of clothing off the floor. She took them all and placed them in a bad that she had brought with her. These were the only things that she had brought along with her. When she had gotten all of her things together she walked over to the window and looked out upon the morning scene. The birds were chirping and there wasn't a single cloud in the sky. The girl wanted to be able to smile at the beautiful city but was unable too. Her heart was too full of grief. A lone tear ran down her face as she turned from the window and walked out of the door. She walked down the staircase to the front desk leaving the key in the hand of the attendant.

"Merci et ayez un beau jour!" the lady at the desk said to her. Ryoko had no idea what it meant so she put on a fake smile and waved her hand to the woman.

She walked down the streets of Paris alone. Her destination was the airport so she could take a plane to the USA. She didn't bring Ryo-oki along because she knew that Sasami would miss her. She saw the airport not to far away from where she was. She could have easily teleported to it but she instead decided to walk. She walked with blank face not really caring what was going on around her. She had been like this for a while now ever since...She was now at the entrance to the airport. She walked through the gate and to the main complex.

After going through security and everything else you have to go through at airports today; she made her way to the plane that she was to ride to the USA. When she got to the bottom of the stairs she looked up at them

'Here we go..." she thought to herself as she walked up the stairs into the plane.

Kiyone was the first to arise from her *bed* or her sleeping bag on the floor of Washu's lab. She blinked her eyes a few times and then sat up. She realized that she was hungry as hell and was about to go to the kitchen when she remembered what happened last night. She figured that Washu must have some kind of food in this lab because sometimes she was in here for days strait without ever coming out. She walked around the lab trying to find a refrigerator or somewhere where food might be kept.

"My, you're up bright and early Kiyone," she spun around to see Washu standing behind her. "Looking for something?"

"I was just looking to see if you hand any food cause I'm really hungry," Kiyone replied.

Washu brought up her holotop and began to type on it. "Of course I have food, but I store it in subspace so you woulda never found it." A few seconds later portals opened up and Washu reached up in two of them and started feeling around. She pulled out some milk and cereal. "Will this do?"

Kiyone nodded as Washu handed her the milk, cereal, a bowl and a spoon.

"And you can sit at this table," she reached up into one of the portals with both hands and pulled out a poker table and a chair and placed them on the floor.

"Thanks Washu," Kiyone sat down and poured cereal and milk in her bowl and started to eat it.

Sasami was the next one to wake up. She got up out of her sleeping bag and stretched out her arms. She saw Washu typing on her holotop and Kiyone eating on a nearby table. She walked over to Washu.

"Good morning Little Washu," she said.

Washu turned to meet her. "Good morning Sasami, how are you feeling?"

"I'm fine. But what are we going to do about the house?" she asked.

"I can take care of that, don't worry about it. I'll have a new one up in no time," Washu replied. Washu typed a few more things on her holotop as Sasami walked over to where Kiyone was. Suddenly a portal opened up and Washu pulled out a miniature house. She got up and brought the house with her. She opened the door that leads to where the Masaki house was supposed to be and she went out it; a few seconds later she came back into the lab.

She cracked her fingers. "Well, the house is back up."

"Well I'll go make breakfast then!" Sasami said running past Washu and out the door.

Kiyone got up from where she was sitting. "Well I'm going to check and see if any of our ship is still out there anywhere.

"Good huntin" Washu said.

As Kiyone walked out the front door or the house she nearly fell into a giant hole.

"What the hell!?" she screamed grabbing onto the ledge.

Sasami came running. "Kiyone, are you alright?" She looked out the front door at the crater that was in between the house and the lake. At the bottom of the hole, part of the ship that was once the Yagami was sticking out of the dirt.

Kiyone pulled herself up. "I'm gonna go see if Washu can do anything about this hole..." Sasami looked out into it for a little longer and then went back to the kitchen.

Kiyone walked into Washu's lab and tapped on her shoulder. Washu turned around to meet her.

"Hi Kiyone, is there something I can do for you?"

"Well I was wondering if you could do anything about the giant crater before we have another lake in front of the house."

Washu looked up from the computer. "Yea, I think I could figure something out. Why don't we go see what we can do about it" She got up and walked out of the lab with Kiyone following closely behind.

Washu opened the front door and looked at the giant hole in the ground.

"Now lets see what we can do about this..." Washu said.

A few minutes later Washu was still standing there rubbing her chin.

"Well have you thought of anything let Washu?" Kiyone asked.

"...No"

Kiyone shook her head. "It's going to be a long day."

Ayeka and Tenchi had just reached the center of the lake in their small sailboat. Tenchi had learned how to steer sailboats when he was younger so they were doing just fine. It had turned out to be a wonderful day, the sun was out and there was a nice breeze. Both of them were having a wonderful time.

"Do you want to give it a try?" he said looking at Ayeka who had been in control of the rudder.

"No, that's alright. I think I'd tip up," she said with a smile.

Suddenly the wind picked up and they started speeding off in one direction. Tenchi looked up into the sky and saw some black clouds coming over the mountains.

"Ayeka, a storms blowing in. We need to get back to shore," Tenchi said to her.

"Ummm..." she said noticing that they were facing in the wrong direction.

Tenchi walked back to where she was sitting. "Let me have the rudder and keep your head low, this thing is going to be swinging back and forth."

Ayeka gave up control of the ship to Tenchi and got out of his way. A large crack of thunder echoed throughout the valley a few seconds later. Tenchi was having trouble keeping the boat pointed back to the dock because the water was beginning to get rough and the winds were really blowing. Then the inevitable happened, rain started to pour down on them. It was starting to fill up the little hole in the boat quickly.

"Ayeka! Try to get the water out of the boat if you can," Tenchi yelled over another crack of thunder. Ayeka complied and started to splash as much water as she could over the side of the boat with her hands.

Tenchi was starting to get frustrated with this wind. Every time he would position himself in the right direction another gust of wind would come along and blow them off course. He finally got them close enough to the shore so that he could pull out a paddle for the rest of the way. He quickly brought the sail down and pulled out the rudder. They reached the dock and Ayeka hopped out of the boat onto the small wooden ramp. When Tenchi had tied to boat to a nearby tree he got out of the boat and walked in the water to where Ayeka was.

"Come on, let's get back to the house," he said to Ayeka taking her hand. Just then a lightning bolt hit the middle of the lake. They quickly made their way back to the house where they were staying. When they walked in the front door they were soaking wet.

"Well, since we're already wet why don't we go into the hot tub?" Ayeka stated.

"That sounds like an excellent idea," he said pulling her into a kiss.

They both went downstairs together but Tenchi went to the room with the hot tub in it to set it up and Ayeka went into their room to change out of her wet clothes. When Ayeka walked into the room where Tenchi was they were both already in towels. Ayeka slowly slipped off her towel and stepped into the bubbling water. A light red had appeared on Tenchi's face but then he followed suit.

The clouds, they were nothing new to her, but she had never been up in them. She had flown up and down through them before but never inside of them. As she looked out the window she thought about where she was going. Washu had told her that on the list of the best places to live in the galaxy The United States of America on the small backwater planet of Earth had taken the #1 spot. A stewardess came up too the seat where Ryoko was sitting.

"Hello, is there anything that I can get you?" she asked Ryoko. Ryoko was in a daze looking out the window. "Miss?" Ryoko heard her.

"What?" Ryoko responded turning to her.

"Is there anything that I can get you?" she asked again

"Uhh...Do you have sake?" Ryoko asked.

"Yes we do."

"I'll have some of that then," Ryoko said.

"Alright, I'll be back in a moment."

Ryoko thanked the woman then looked out the window. She could see a storm in the distance, and suddenly began to think of what planet Ayeka and Tenchi might have gone to for their honeymoon. She could think of quite a few lovely locations that they could be staying at. She didn't hate either of them and was happy for them it just hurt like hell. She tried to clean her mind and turned to see the stewardess coming back.

"Here you are," the woman said handing Ryoko the bottle.

"Thank you," Ryoko said as she walked away.

Ryoko thought that she would see what movie they were showing. She turned on her TV just as the movie was starting. The movie showing was Rambo First Blood. She had never seen this move before so she decided to watch it.

Ayeka and Tenchi got out of the hot tub and then went back to their room to change into new clothes. They both then walked upstairs to check the weather channel to see if there were going to be any more storms. They wanted to have a cookout down by the lake tonight and were hoping for a dry night. The rest of the night looked like it was going to be nice. They put all the food that they were going to need into a cooler and packed it into the car that Noboyuki had gotten Tenchi as a wedding present. Tenchi then went into the garage and found the grill and packed it into the trunk of the car. Then they both got in it and drove down the trail a bit till they couldn't go any farther. Ayeka got the cooler out of the backseat of the car and Tenchi got the grill out of the trunk. They both walked down to the picnic table and set up everything. They were going to be grilling ribs tonight. Neither of them have ever had ribs, but they heard that they were good. Ayeka decided to go take a quick swim while Tenchi was cooking the ribs.

"Ayeka! The food is ready!" Tenchi yelled to her.

"Alright, be there in a minute!" she yelled back.

When she got up out of the water she grabber her towel and dried herself off. Then she walked over to where Tenchi was with the ribs. She took some from him and started eating. He then got his own and sat down across from her. They ate their food and talked a little bit about future plans.

When they were done eating they decided to go out and watch the sunset in the rowboat. They both got in it and Tenchi rowed it out to the center of the lake. When they got there Ayeka rested her head on Tenchi's shoulder and he put his arm around her.

"It's beautiful," Ayeka said looking out at the orange and read sky.

"Yes, it certainly is," Tenchi turned and kissed her as the sun set behind the mountains.

Authors Notes: A little shorter than the last chapter but all around I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

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