A/N: Thank you to my first reviewer! And the thing I said about Ryoko earlier on...fine. She still loves Tenchi in every single one of her past lives, but not in the same way. In some of the past lives, she might have actually hurted the guy just to make him stay with her forever...you'll see.
Chapter 2c. Sasami's Past- Crimson Saber
The rock dropped on the spot beside Tenchi. Aeka sighed. She just couldn't bring herself to kill him off. Although he killed off most of her family members including her favorite uncle, she somehow sensed no threat coming from him. She actually felt relaxed when she's around him. She's also grateful because he finally brought her to the world outside. Tenchi laughed and sat up. Aeka backed away a bit.
" Aren't you in a coma?" Aeka asked.
" It's a good thing you didn't try to kill me with that rock. If you did, you wouldn't be able to talk right now," Tenchi replied.
" How dare you trick me!" Aeka said, obviously mad.
" Ha! Imagine that. A person from the Masaki Jurai house actually scared of killing someone," Tenchi said.
" Whoever said I was scared of killing someone? I just...I just felt that you're a misunderstood person. I don't believe that you were evil from the moment that you were born...so I...I want to know why you're doing this," Aeka stammered, trying to prove to him that she's not a scaredy-cat and that she dares to kill people too.
Tenchi smirked, but quickly fainted back onto the ground. Aeka seemed a little shocked at this.
" Hey...stop pretending already. I know you're faking it." Aeka said as she edged over.
She bent down and shook him.
" Hey! Don't die!" Aeka cried as she shook him as hard as she could.
She felt something wet on her hands and looked down. Tenchi was bleeding from a wound she didn't notice before.
Oh, what should I do? Aeka wondered. She knew that she shouldn't and wouldn't let this person die. After pondering around her mind for a while, she went down to the lake nearby, stripped off the sleeve of her kimono and dipped it into the cool water. She then twisted it to get rid of any excess water and brought it back to Tenchi, placing it on his forehead. She learnt something about herbs before and went to find some that would at least clog up the blood. She brought the herbs back, applied some onto his wound and boiled the other ones with water. She then occasionally went down to the lake to get Tenchi some water.
After a while...Tenchi woke up. He felt the cloth on his forehead, then looked at the sleeping Aeka. He stumbled over due to his wound and looked at the pot. Inside the pot was a bunch of what looks like overboiled vegetables. He shook Aeka awake gently.
" Wha? Oh! I almost forgot! The herbs!" Aeka bolted up with a start.
" Those are herbs? Those looked like a science experiment gone wrong," Tenchi commented as Aeka rushed over to the pot, saw what was inside it and disappointingly emptied out the whole thing.
" You should be more grateful to me. Afterall, I did save your life," Aeka said as she brought the pot back, " are you feeling any better now?"
" Yeah...you could've ran away, you know?" Tenchi asked.
" Well...if I ran away, then you would be left here all alone...and would have probably died too," Aeka answered.
" Aren't we enemies?" Tenchi asked.
" Yeah...so?" Aeka said.
" Being kind to your enemies is just digging up a grave for yourself. Remember that," Tenchi said, then added as an afterthought, " you're quite special. You aren't like your father and uncles."
" Is that a good thing, or a bad thing?" Aeka asked.
" That's a good thing...look here. I want to bring you to this place I know. I want to show you something," Tenchi said as he began to walk out of the cave.
" You shouldn't be walking around in your condition!" Aeka protested as she followed him out.
Later on...
At the mountains. Tenchi was walking into a deserted house. Aeka looked around cautiously, but curiously. Tenchi stopped in front of a huge grave. Aeka peeked around, very curious as to what's happening.
" That's the grave of my family." Tenchi said.
Aeka gasped.
" What...happened?" She asked. She saw from the date of the grave that all those people died on the same day.
" It was a long story..." Tenchi began.