AN: My thanks to fenixphlame for agreeing to Beta this.

TOKIMI'S SAVIOR

CHAPTER TWO

TOKIMI AND SASAMI'S HEART TO HEART

The next day, the crew at the Neko Hanten awoke early to a van pulling up in front of it, its horn honking.

A bleary eyed Cologne answered the door, saying in a tiered voice, "You said tomorrow morning, not four AM."

"Ha! You're lucky we weren't here yesterday! Tsunami got Washu really curious, what with her cryptic sayings." A cyan haired woman said as she was coming into the restaurant.

She was followed by what looked to be her identical twin, except this twin had a scar on both cheeks under her eyes. "Yeah, she really made Mom curious." She said.

"Yes. She was most mysterious. All she would say was she must help free her sister, and that this sister would 'Show me my true self.' whatever that means." A short red haired girl said walking in. "And Ryoko, if I can get Minagi to call me Mom, why can't I get you too?" The red headed girl said addressing the first woman who came in.

"Because I know better then to." The woman who must be Ryoko said, sticking out her tongue at the little red headed girl.

"You're Washu?" Cologne asked slightly shocked.

"Yes." Washu said irritably, "But please, just call me little Washu." The little girl said. Cologne suddenly felling it would be in her best interest to do so.

"Fine, little Washu it is then." Cologne said nodding

A purple haired young woman and a young blue haired girl came in next, followed by a young black haired boy, then an older man followed by a middle aged man. Finally a blond haired tan woman with a black haired woman besides her came in. the blond was babbling "Oh isn't this exciting Kiyone? We get to meet Tsunami's older sister. I wonder what's she like? I hope she's nice." The tan blond said in a rapid fire way of speaking.

"Mihoshi, shut up!" The back haired woman, who must have been Kiyone, said harshly. "You'll find out when you meet her. Though Tsunami was reluctant to say much about her." Kiyone said trailing off in thought.

By process of elimination, Cologne turned to the purple haired young woman and the blue haired girl, and asked "So which one of you is Tsunami?"

"Neither." The little girl giggled. "I'm Sasami, and this is my sister Ayeka. I have to bring Tsunami out." The little girl name Sasami said giggling.

"You must be the one she saved then." Cologne said, remembering that little detail that she had forgotten. "Tokimi had said her sister had saved a persons life by combining her life essence with that of a mortal's. She never described the person though. So you're the one?" Cologne asked.

"Uh-uh. Usually she just stays asleep, as to not tire me out, but right now, she really wants to come out. She hasn't been able to sleep since your call yesterday. She's been so edgy with anticipation." Sasami said, taking a quick look at Washu. "Her only request was that I meet Tokimi in the viewing portal before she comes out and tells you where the sub dimension is." Sasami said. "She wants Tokimi to get to know me first. She said something about 'Getting Tokimi adjusted to the way things are now.' Or something to that effect." Sasami finished.

"Yes. And I want to meet this Tokimi. I must make sure she will not," Ayeka paused to consider her next words very carefully "be an inadvisable influence on my little sister." Ayeka finished haughtily.

"And I simply must meet this Ranma!" Washu said gleefully. "A curse of the likes I've never heard of, being split in to two halves and only one of them being able to survive it, and has enough power to take out a minor Deity! I simply must meet him, her, whatever!" Washu started cackling.

"Washu." Sasami said with glowing pink eyes. "You will leave Ranma out of your twisted experiments. She has had one of the hardest lives I've ever seen, and it will not get any easier the way things are going. Do I make myself perfectly clear?"

"Um, Yes Tsunami." Washu said gulping.

"Good." The Tsunami possessed Sasami said. Then her eyes stopped glowing and she said "Oh wow!"

"That's the first partial possession she's done of you, right?" Washu asked leaning forward.

"Yeah. She didn't want to fully manifest yet, but I'd listen to her Washu. She seems very protective of this Ranma." Sasami said.

"Why?" Cologne asked curious.

"Too many reasons to count. Guilt, gratitude, pity, sorrow, the list goes on and on." Sasami said sighing.

"Well if you'll come this way, you can meet Ranma and Tokimi. All of Ranma's friends are staying here, but they're getting ready. You'll meet them after." Cologne said leading them to the bathroom.

As they entered the bathroom a confused Ayeka asked, "Why are we in your washroom?"

"Because that's where I was when they contacted me." Cologne said pointing to the mirror turned viewing portal.

"Oh." Ayeka said, looking at the portal.

"Can you get them? I'd really like to talk to Tokimi." Sasami said eagerly.

"I'll see if they're awake." Cologne said.

It was four AM by Ranma's inner time clock, so of course she was asleep. Tokimi was asleep as well, having adopted Ranma's sleeping pattern over the last week. After trying to wake them by shouting, Cologne finally got tired of it, and used her Ki voice, waking Tokimi, who forced herself awake. Seeing the others in the portal, she violently shook Ranma awake, the only way she could wake her, as she had learned from a week of having to wake her.

After conjuring a table in front of the portal, and enough food to feed herself and an army, or in this case herself and Ranma, Tokimi sat down, followed by a tired and hungry Ranma. As Tokimi delicately ate, and as Ranma inhaled her food at mach 7, Tokimi said as the others, other than Cologne that is, watched in awe as the human black hole devoured all before her "Sorry, but Ranma wakes quite hungry, and they never did provide me with real food, so I have to conjure it for her. So where is Tsunami?" Tokimi asked looking them over and not seeing her sister. When she saw Washu, she thought 'I simply must find out why she stays as a child. All I ever overheard her say is something bad happened, but what? If it's what I think it is, then that somebody will see what the true Goddess of evil can do in the name of vengeance, and if they're already dead, all the better. Then I can have some real fun with them.' She thought, thinking of plans of what she would do to someone that did THAT to her younger sister.

"Um, hi Tokimi." Sasami said, braking Tokimi out of her nasty, vengeful, hate filled thoughts. "I'm Sasami. Tsunami saved me, and she wanted me to talk to you and get to know you before you got out." Sasami said nervously.

Tokimi looked shocked. "Did she think I'd hurt you or something child?" Tokimi asked getting mad.

"No, no!" Sasami said waving her hands in front of her. "Nothing like that. She just thought that you'd, like ignore me, or wouldn't like me because I'm in charge most of the time while she sleeps." Sasami said.

"What do you mean 'While she sleeps'?" Tokimi asked, getting worried.

"Um, it gets tiring for me, when she's awake all the time. She said as I get older and we become more and more a single entity, that will change, but for now, it just exhausts me to have her awake all the time. And after she manifests I'm very exhausted."

"Well that certainly explains some things." Tokimi said, utterly pissed off.

"Like what?" Sasami asked confused.

"Like how, even if she is the last of the original Goddess left, the others suddenly got the courage to start rebelling. She's hardly out and in control of her power. To not hurt you, she's dead to the universe most the time." Tokimi sighed. "You said that as you get older, you'll become a single entity?" Tokimi asked. Sasami nodded back in reply. "How long till that happens? We'll need her if things get bad." Tokimi said.

"Um, a few years. I need to get to physical maturity, whenever that is, before we can even start the process. That's what Tsunami said anyways." Sasami told Tokimi.

"That's just great! What if we need her for extended periods of time?" Tokimi wailed.

"Tokimi, you're upsetting Sasami! Even I can see that." Ranma said through a mouth full of her food.

Tokimi looked at Ranma, then at Sasami. "I'm sorry Sasami. I'm just worried." Tokimi apologized.

"What are you worried about Ms. Tokimi?" Washu asked.

"I'm worried that the Gods that trapped Ranma and I in here are on a path to try to takeover Reality, by getting rid of my sisters and my self. And if Tsunami isn't able to defend herself at all times… that worries me." Tokimi told Washu.

"So, you have more sisters, how many, and will we meet them as well." Washu asked.

"We have one other sister." Tokimi started. "I was the eldest, Tsunami was the youngest, and," Tokimi paused here "you'll meet our other sister when I get out, I have to get her out of the fog she's in." Tokimi said, thinking 'Great, now I'M doing it too.'

Washu's mind was like a supercomputer, only better. She sorted through the facts and said out loud "You have one other sister who won't come till you get her, and Tsunami said that when you got out you'd 'Show me my true self.' Could that mean, nah, it's impossible, isn't it…" Washu said trying to convince herself that the evidence did not add up to her conclusion.

"Is it?" Tokimi asked Washu, deciding to get this out of the way now. "Is it truly impossible? You have no memories before fifty thousand years ago, no past either. You just woke up on that day fully grown, with no one knowing you. You've been alive for fifty thousand years, and even the Jurains don't live any where near that long, and you've never met or heard of a species that exhibits the exact same powers as you do. How is it not possible that you're our long lost sister?" Tokimi asked shocking the room to silence.

"Tokimi!" Sasami shouted "Tsunami said you were to wait till you got out and could properly wake Washu to tell her!" Sasami continued, causing everyone in the bathroom to look at her.

"And why was that?" Washu asked in a dry voice, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, why keep it a secret from Mom?" Minagi yelled.

"I hate secrets, you know that Sasami!" Ryoko yelled.

"Um…" Sasami began, when Tokimi stepped in to save her.

"Sasami's not at fault, and neither is Tsunami. Tsunami obviously felt you would not believe me unless I woke your Goddess self up first. I thought that that was wrong, and when you figured it out, or at least started to, I threw that plan out the window." Tokimi told Washu.

"Fine." Washu said a little miffed. "So that we are now ALL on the same page, why don't you tell us exactly what's going on?"

And so Tokimi did so, starting at her imprisonment and ending at the here and now.

"That's some story." Ryoko said in a low voice.

"Yes it is, you impossibility." Tokimi said to Ryoko.

"What do you mean by that?" Ryoko yelled back at Tokimi.

"Just that. You, and by proxy, your clone there, should not exist. It is impossible for Goddesses to have children, yet Washu had YOU Ryoko. Thus what I called you. You should not even exist, but you do. As does your clone." Tokimi told her, silencing her to thought.

After the room as a whole thought that over, Tenchi asked "Um, why can't Goddesses have kids?"

"Good question." Tokimi said. "The answer is we are born straight from the universe itself, and given our domain, so we do not need to have children, and thus we can't."

"Oh." Tenchi said nodding in understanding.

Cologne chose that moment to reappear, and said "Ranma's friends would like to meet you now.

"Ok." Tenchi said. "Um, we are done for now, right?" he asked.

Tokimi said "Go on, meet them. Then you can come back here later. And Sasami," she said, getting the little girls attention, "I'm not mad at you at all. I'll also try to get to know you, like my sister wants. So after you meet Ranma's friends, you can tell Cologne the location worry free. Oh, and yes, I will want to see my sister after I get out. I think I'll need her help in waking Washu completely up." Tokimi told Sasami.

"Uh, ok." Sasami said back.

"Are you sure you have the right person?" Washu asked doubtfully.

Sasami turned to Washu and said "You know in your heart it to be true."