Chapter 1

The Demon Duo, Resurrected

[YooooOOOH~ Don-don!]

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Earth Year: Summer, Late Late 20th Century A.D.

[Okayama, Masaki Family Shrine]

It was a sweltering summer day with the cicadas chirping in the woods. An old man wearing priestly clothing is walking the weathered stone steps to his residence hidden in the mountains. He notices that his apprentice (and grandson) was not where he's supposed to be as he was expected to do his daily chores.

"Tenchi! Tenchi!" the familiar elderly man called out, but the apprentice was nowhere to be seen. The broom is laid next to a well with a pile of leaves half-finished, and the bucket and washcloth were left unused.

"Now where did he go?" he wondered and then, he knew the likeliest place to be, by the means of his smirking and the wink of his eye.

[Inside Katsuhito's room]

16 year old Tenchi was searching for an important item as he rummaged through the books and the low table. He cracks his joints to loosen up as he resumes the search. He looked through the files and the extra notebooks, but that [item] is not in there. He searches through the workbox, but no such luck, either. What he didn't know is that there are footsteps approaching the portico steps. And just as the apprentice was checking further, the shoji door slid open, surprising the hapless teen as he turned around. And before he realized who it was, a ghastly voice came from behind him, whispering, "Have you finished cleaning, Tenchi?"

The young teen stumbled back from the surprise until he bumped his head to the wall.

"I bet you were looking for these?" Katsuhito said as he pulled out the said [item] from inside his kimono to his grandson - a set of keys to the forbidden inner sanctum of the shrine.

"So that's where they—!" Tenchi blabbed before shutting his mouth up with his hand, realizing that he goofed up.

Then the grandfather suspectedly questioned, "Trying to sneak into [that place] while I was away, were you?"

"No, I wasn't," Tenchi tries to lie his way out as he averts his gaze.

Katsuhito explained clearly to his curious grandson, "It's been the forbidden area of the Masaki family shrine since the days of our ancestors. And you, boy, are no exception." (Tenchi pouted from the same old lecture until...) "But you wanted to see what lies there, don't you?"

Tenchi nodded with an eager, mirthful grin.

And Katsuhito dared his grandson to try to take the keys. And after a slight pause, Tenchi thought he can pull a fast one by charge at his spry grandfather and throws a right bolo, but was blocked by a simple palm by Katsuhito and after a brief struggle, Tenchi was taken by surprise as he was caught off guard and the old man pulled a light left sweep, sending his challenger flying into the closet wall, busting a hole through the door.

"Try harder," Katsuhito grumbled, "Do remember that your chores are an important part of your training." And he walked out of his cottage room.

Tenchi pulled himself together as he turned around from the wrecked closet door, as it turned out that he... got the keys... in his mouth.

Lucky him.

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[En route to the Shrine]

Tenchi is giddy as a schoolgirl as he was skipping and frolicking along the pathway that he knows from the back of his hand. "I just wanna see what's in there, 'cause Grandpa told me not to," he said to himself with joviality as he ran past the bamboo fields and the stone steps to his destination. Ever since he was a baby, he was curious about the cave and often hung around there, either just to have fun or get curious about the sanctum inside, containing the mysteries of the legends that occurred near the residence. As he entered the cave, he came across the cage that originally barred any person entry into the forbidden area and the apprentice looked inside.

A memory of his past kept reminding him as the mysterious laughter echoing throughout the cavern...

-Flashback-

[Ten years earlier]

"Tenchi, boy!"

6 year old Tenchi was shocked to see his grandfather being very sore at his grandson for him wandering inside the cavern.

"Why must you come here time and time again when you know it's forbidden for a reason?"

"But why is that, Grandpa?" young Tenchi determinedly asked.

Katsuhito lowered himself to little Tenchi's point-of-view and explained, "I'll tell you why. A pair of [demons] rest here."

"Eh? [Demons]?"

"A very long time ago, an evil [demon] came down from the sky. With a single bound, it could cross mountains with ease. With a single blow, it could flatten the biggest of peaks. It destroyed villages, burned everything in its wake. Our people suffered greatly because of its deadly powers."

"Yeah, yeah? What happened to the [demon]?"

"Then, one day, a ship shaped like that of a dragon appeared in the sky, and on its back, rode a mighty warrior that was our ancestor. He was accompanied by a Kitsuné [demon] who fought alongside him as the warrior used a sword of great spiritual powers. The Kitsuné sacrificed himself to take the evil one with him as the warrior defeated the [demons] and they were sealed into the cave. Even now, the [demons] sleep in this very shrine, imprisoned. And the sword was planted to the ground as it kept vigil over them."

-End Flashback-

[Back to the present time…]

Tenchi unlocked the gates and began to explore the dark passageways. He came across some stalactites that looked like they were carved in with a form of ancient language that looked like sutras and some rope decorated with wards, said to have blessed and protected the area from evil. As he looked around, Tenchi looked at a hole in the ceiling where the sunbeams pointed to a miniature shrine. As he opened the doors, he found what looked like a sword and he grabbed it...with some effort. It looked like a blade with 3 ruby-like gems on the pommel, set up like a triangle, that is easy to wield. But when Tenchi noticed that the blade was sheathed, he painstakingly pulled the blade from its cover and found that the metal on the weapon and the hilt was rusted over.

"Huh? It's just an old rusty piece of junk," Tenchi grumbled to himself, "Gimme a break! This blade can cut through a rock‽"

And he swung at the sutra patterned stone and the rusted blade and hilt shattered... as well as the stone as it was cleaved vertically and perfectly, leaving the goofball feeling like he's getting himself into big trouble. Just then, the cave began to shake as the formation began to shift and the tree roots that were blocking the passage began to recede, and the double stonewalled doors began to move.

"Oh, man! Jii-chan's gonna kill me for that! Now what'll I do?"

But then Tenchi noticed the passageway that he could possibly squeeze between the gaps, and he did. But when he took the first step inside, his foot felt cold water that was ankle-deep. After bumping his head on a low ceiling, he missed that next step and started to slide down the patterned ramp until he reached the bottom... the hard way, and his dropped blade handle that he nearly lost on the way down bopped him on his head.

When he got back up, Tenchi noticed that he found himself in the inner sanctum. He picked up the blade handle and looked further into the center of the area of the mossy and colorful cavern. At first, he thought that it was two giant balls of light like the twin Spica star, but when he looked closer, something made him extremely nervous that made him habitually swallow: two masked, skeletal, and mummified corpses that were said to be the demons that were sealed by his ancestor as they are lain in the bottom of the basin.

While in the suspense, he accidentally dropped the blade handle, making a brief clatter, surprising the half-wit. After a slight pause from making a fool out of himself, Tenchi is thinking about getting himself out of here as he tries to grab the handle. But then... a hand came out of the water and the blue haired demon started to rise, followed by the blond and red-streaked demon. Tenchi nearly screamed in an irrational terror, like he was going to get fried, when the blond demon grabbed his shoulder and the blue-haired demon began to moan as it caressed his cheek like it knew him as family. But when they drew closer, the blade handle began to glow and it repelled the demons back and knocked Tenchi away. When the boy looked at the demons, they looked like monstrous skeletal zombies that had just arisen from their graves as their eyes began to glow brightly and the blond demon moaned, "LEAVE, BOY! RUN AWAY OR ELSE YOU'LL SUFFER OUR WRATH! OHHHH~!"

And Tenchi did as he scurried and climbed the patterned ramp and squeezed through the passageway and managed to reseal the cave, panting from the fear he faced.

{I gotta get back home and do every chore he says,} the teen thought as his heart was quivering. He reclined on the floor of the cavern, not knowing what disasters would unfold.

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As the demons continued moaning and faced each other, the blue demon made a menacing laughter that echoed in the chamber.

"We sure scared the life out of Tenchi really good!" the first demon is revealed to be Ryoko looking at the blond demon.

"And that poor fool thinks he's as good as Yosho-san," the second demon named Naruto replied with a chortle behind his mask.

And they shapeshifted themselves out of their zombie forms and into their original looks, completely butt naked and without any shame of their modesty. Ryoko, with her long bluish hair, looked like she's still 17 and with great curvatures and the visible forbidden isosceles that a man would simply die for.

Naruto looked brutally handsome with his blond hair and his red feather-like fringes fashioned like a chieftain's headdress from the Americas, down past his neck, in his 17 year old persona, and has the muscles, the backbone, the "nerve", and the manhood to bolster his bravado.

"Ryoko, my dear, you still look beautiful after 7 Earth centuries of slumber," the 5 millennia old Naruto sweet-talked.

"And Naruto, my love, you're still the handsomest man in the universe," the 5000 year old Ryoko cooed.

And they joyfully laughed and then they kissed together. The space-age couple lied down as they spent a few moments together in the cavern basin, making love that's been 700 years overdue after their supposed deaths. This is a great way to rekindle their romance once again.

(They used some forms of protection for their romance. They don't want to have kids...just yet.)

Ryoko's laughter and erotic moaning from her lover's movements and thrusting into her womanhood echoed throughout the cave, making sounds that are very ominous to the unsuspecting teen.

Elsewhere, the sacred Funaho tree begins to send out a lighted code message to the nearest Juraian ship in outer space that receives it, warning them that Ryoko and Naruto have returned to the world of the living.

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[The next day, in Tenchi's Senior High School]

Tenchi was holding the broken blade, thinking about last night's incident, when his classmate Amagasaki (the slightly overweight student with not the best of looks and personality) asked his friend about what happened during summer vacation. Tenchi puts the handle into his schoolcase, telling his friend that it's nothing but a piece of junk as he said that it's the same old routine; just him and his grandfather working all day long, something about training his body and mind.

"You're really such a spoilsport," Amagasaki commented, "Didn't you get to find any girls along the way?"

"You think that girls would come to an out-of-the-way shrine in the middle of the mountains?" Tenchi reminded himself. "Well, you only get to meet elderly people within the vicinity."

"I'll say," the big lug commented with a goofy pervasive grin, "So, you dated [mummies] all summer?"

"Mummies‽ That's a million laughs," the Masaki chuckled for a while until he reiterated in horror, "Mummies…?" And he still remembered the mummified demons and the male voice saying, "LEAVE, BOY! LEEEAAAVE!"

The Masaki broke into a cold sweat as Amagasaki tried to get his attention. "Oi, what's wrong Tenchi?" the big student called out, "You looked so hard up. So you did sleep with a real mummy!"

Tenchi angrily and reactively punched the big mug on the chin, knocking him out with a bloody nose as he sent flying towards the lockers. "Stupid! Get a life! And from what I saw, she looked like she's already married to another mummy!" And he angrily leaves the classroom, leaving the witnessing students and the bewildered Amagasaki wondering what was the matter with Tenchi and what strength he has in his right straight.

-NNFNR-

[School Rooftops]

Tenchi was lying down on the roof on his back as he reflectively complained to himself, "Nothing much has happened since then. Jii-chan never mentioned anything, not even a reason. I still don't believe that the legend was true, after all." But then, he felt like he suddenly was put into a sleep state, not knowing who did this to him. And he napped for a few hours.

-NNFNR-

[Same location, at nightfall]

Tenchi began to have visions of the same mummies with the same, strange glowing eyes, and the blonde demon telling the boy to run and followed up with an evil cackle from both of the fiends. Tenchi is still sleeping with sweat beading out while having the disturbing dream that is possibly a nightmare. Then the sound of a bell rang out as two people were secretly watching the poor boy.

A night breeze blew out on the rooftops and woke Tenchi from his nap. He suddenly realizes that he must have overslept and missed his afternoon classes. But then he heard a small jingling bell ringing out and saw his family's black kitten and an orange fox kit sitting near the corner.

"Chibi? Kitsu‽ How did you get up here?" Tenchi wondered as the kitten and kit made their noises and ran towards him until they suddenly disappeared without a trace, leaving the boy stupefied. Then Tenchi hears the sound of the bell again and turned around to see a woman in a semi-revealing battle dress and old-fashioned elvish shoes, and a man wearing his denim jeans, a black shirt, a jacket with a fox's image and the name "Kurama", and a pair of closed-toe sandals, sitting on the water tank, side by side, softly chuckling at the boy. The woman held the same bell that the kitten wore and she cherished it before tossing it back to the unaware teen.

(She was the kitten and he was the fox that lazily watches over the Masaki shrine.)

"Ryoko," the woman said.

"Naruto," the man followed-up.

Tenchi didn't understand what the strange couple were trying to say.

"That's our names," they said at the same time, with their eyes glowing with power.

"It can't be..." Tenchi muttered as he remembered their faces as plain as day, "You can be them...‽"

Tiny energy balls began to form around Naruto and Ryoko and the surrounding area as the boy exclaimed while being caught in the middle, "...those freeze-dried demons‽"

Ryoko put her arms around herself and ominously said, "It was cold in there... and dark..."

Naruto put his arms around his wife and said, "700 Earth years have passed while my honey and I were trapped inside that miserable, lonely cave, you know. And sonny-boy, it gave us a huge crick in our necks."

And they make sounds deluxe of their joints, including cracking their necks and spines. And that made Tenchi very unnerved.

"And boy, you'd never know how much pain we both had to suffer," Ryoko complained.

"So you two came back for revenge‽ You're after this guy named Yosho?" Tenchi surmised after he saw that the strange couple were not very happy.

"No," Naruto simply answered, "It was Yosho that did us a great favor."

Tenchi was left in the dark about why Yosho, his ancestor, sealed the demons, but it wasn't fully explained to him as Naruto the Beast-man said, "However, we decided to give you a little crash course on your training and give you a sporting chance."

And the energy balls began to gather in the couple's hands to form lightsabers.

"You see, my wife and I haven't had a decent battle with anybody else in ages," Naruto explained as Ryoko elucidated, "I just needed to let out my frustration right now!"

"Come on, Tenchi! Better get going, ya know," Naruto warned, "You have to keep on your toes in this kind of game!"

Ryoko starts to laugh madly as she starts with a jumping slash towards Tenchi and deliberately lets him dodge as part of the roof is smashed open from their destruction, followed by Naruto's bolt shots, deliberately aimed elsewhere.

"Why me‽ It wasn't my fault!" Tenchi yelled as he ran.

Ryoko charged ahead and asked, "What's the matter, Tenchi?" And she swung her saber diagonally, missing her target, but slices the wooden shed instead, and Ryoko tagged in with her husband as he pursued Tenchi as he floated along.

"It's no fun if you just run away like that, slowpoke," Naruto taunted as the frightened Masaki ran to the wreckage and pulled a metal rod with a piece of concrete attached, thinking that his opponents weren't as strong and sturdy as he thought. Naruto did a "come hither" gesture, anticipating the attack.

"Don't you dare taunt me!" Tenchi shouted as he charged at Naruto with the makeshift sword, but he caught the weapon with a catch by his left hand, "Muda, muda, muda, MUDA! (It's useless, useless, useless, USELESS!)" the blond demon scolded him like he was DIO as he knocked Tenchi away. The teen got back up on his feet and began to wildly swing at his opponent, Naruto jumped over and tagged in with his wife, after cutting the metal piping to pieces in the process. Tenchi's weapon became useless as he made an emergency retreat.

Ryoko flew up in the air and began to laugh like a mockingbird as she fired more bolt shots at her victim as he escaped through the stairwell. Some of the blasts send Tenchi falling down the stairs as he avoids becoming a living sieve."Try not to hurt yourself," Ryoko masochistically mocked.

"We'd want to do that for you," Naruto agreed.

And they floated down the open gap of the stairwell, searching for their victimized godson.

-NNFNR-

[Inside the 3rd Year Science Classroom]

Tenchi kept rolling and crashed at the bottom of the stairs, shook off his injuries, and hid himself in the empty classroom and closed the sliding door. He breathed a sigh of relief, but forced himself to hold his breath until the coast was clear. Tenchi is about to plan a way to get himself out of this trap, namely away from his sadomasochistic godparents. But then...

"What is that? That smell," Tenchi uses his nose, "Oh, leaking gas fumes... GAS FUMES‽"

When he checked one of the tables, and sure enough, the rubble smashed one of the gas lines, spraying propane gas into the air. Tenchi cautiously has to get out of the school, like, right now!

"Tenchi..."

The teen heard the beckoning of Ryoko's voice pealing from somewhere. "Now what?"

"Ten-chi~"

The teenager is practically a dead duck as he sees his stalker appearing through the walls. "Hello, hello!" Ryoko greeted as she surprised the student to the wall behind him. Tenchi tried to make for the exit, but Ryoko threw a nearby chair to the wall, stopping him from leaving.

"I'm really starting to like you for being such an energetic godson, Tenchi," Ryoko said as she activated her energy saber.

But Tenchi got really nervous as he cried out, "You-you idiot! There's leaking propane! You'll start a fire!"

"Propane?" she naïvely asked, "What's propane?"

Oh, brother... Tenchi can imagine the headlines of tomorrow's edition of the newspaper with his semi-censored profile on the front page:

[Brilliant Student Blown to Bits!]

If he hadn't known better, he would possibly end up being dead tonight, had he not done all of his homework over vacation, but then he has an idea that would keep her distracted for a while until he can give her and his supposed godfather the slip.

"Ah! What's that outside the window?" Tenchi pointed out. He had to use one of the oldest tricks in the book, but Ryoko bought the gag as he escaped and ran like hell. When Ryoko missed the opportunity, seeing that her victim was gone, it made her very mad as her electrical energy flowed out and she grumbled, "I'll get him!"

And the sparks came into contact with the gas fumes and caused a combustible explosion, sending Tenchi flying awkwardly from the blast. The 3rd Year hall caught on fire as Tenchi felt relief. He can't help but think that his "godmother" looked kind of cute and he clapped twice and then made a simple prayer.

"Silly me, old shrine habit," he chuckled for a while until his senses (with the sounding like an incoming railroad crossing,) began to tingle as he noticed that Ryoko is practically unharmed; she was covered in smoke, but is still practically unharmed as she walked through the flames, so he sneaked over to the stairs and hid himself there.

Ryoko coughed for a bit and angrily yelled, "This is unforgivable!" And she was about to find her quarry, but was stopped by her husband and a nearby mirror.

"Now, Ryoko-chan, that's what you get for playing with our prey—er, godson," he chided.

"Oh, shut up, darling," Ryoko argued as her husband helped clean her body, hair, and her clothes of the smoke and ashes.

"Thank God..." Tenchi murmured as he managed to get to his classroom. He took a breather on his seat and tried to come up with a plan to stop those two so-called godparents as they can tear holes in the roof, walk through fire, and fly through walls. He has to find a way out.

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"You are one beautiful demoness, Ryoko-chan," Naruto sweetly remarked with a vision from a pretend frame with his thumbs and fingers.

"Yes," she winked, "Let's go, dearie." And they atomically phased through the school's walls to resume the chase.

-NNFNR-

Tenchi put his belongings into his schoolcase, but was suddenly surprised by a loud ringing throughout the halls.

"Oh, it's just the stupid fire alarm," he said to himself, "Of course, it only happens when the fire had just broke out... One of these days, this school really ought to replace those cheap models!"

But when he saw the red light from the fire alarm that reminded him of a gem that he saw on Ryoko and Naruto's wrists to be the source of their powers. It's like the legends say, "Three gems for power". And without those powers, they would be just regular people. Maybe he can send them back to that cave. That's when Tenchi begins to feel rather cocky, thinking that this will be an easy thing to do...if he didn't count on Naruto and Ryoko trailing him from outside of the building as they fired a bolt shot together, demolishing the whole classroom and part of the building.

Tenchi managed to jump out of the way before the blast hit as he was close to the gym area and the back side of the premises. But the lovebirds blocked the path in front of him.

Then Ryoko took her turn and said to her godson, "Don't be so afraid, sweetie-pie."

Tenchi had his back against the fence and was clueless about what's going to happen next.

"We're not gonna hurt you...too much!" And Ryoko makes a deadly vertical swing, knowing that Tenchi is going to be a goner. However, Tenchi's schoolpack took the slice as the broken blade started to glow with its power.

"Shimata! (Dammit!)" Ryoko cursed as she began shooting her bolt shots at Tenchi, but the blade handle deflected the artillery as Tenchi started to grab his one and only protection. Then Ryoko charged at her opponent with her energy saber and Tenchi's handle formed a lightsaber of his own.

"Now we're getting somewhere, Tenchi," Ryoko remarked with a grin as they crossed blades.

"Gimme a break," Tenchi complained as he went on the offensive...more or less, "The blade must have a mind of its own! Nobody wouldn't want to dare to fight against monsters like you!"

Tenchi's popping-off angered both Naruto and Ryoko as the latter growled while the former knocked the bigmouth into the nearby fence with an effortless right cross.

"Monster‽ How...dare...you! Why do you call your loving godparents as monsters‽" Ryoko demanded an explanation.

"Eh...you walked through flames, through walls, ripped holes through the building, and you can even fly?" Tenchi tries to make an excuse.

"Nice try, little boy, but that's no excuse for you to call us that!" Ryoko snarled as she stepped on a piece of metal that nearly popped her on the nose.

That's when the blade guided Tenchi to attack Ryoko as she left herself wide open and it connected! Ryoko's right wrist was sliced and burned off and her pseudo-gem attached to her wrist was sent flying and self-destructed with a bang.

The battle was over as the handle turned off its energy blade.

Naruto came to his wife, with her right wrist amputated, and comforted her and said, "Oh, well. Guess we can't win every battle, ya know."

"Such is the story of our lives," she agreed with her empty wrist pretending to be that her real hand is against her cheek.

Then Naruto turned to Tenchi and pointed, "You may have won this round, boy, but this is only the beginning of a much bigger battle in a perspective that you will not comprehend!"

And Ryoko did a "magic" trick and her right wrist regenerated itself, impressing Tenchi. Then both husband and wife took a bow and said, "Farewell."

And they sank themselves through the ground's atomic structure, leaving the hapless Tenchi to come back into reality as he manages to get back to his house in the city before anything else happens, especially on a night of the full-moon.

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[The Masaki Residence]

Tenchi finally managed to make it back to his family's home and his bedroom. He sits on his bed to get some relief after the frantic battle. The jeweled lightsaber he's holding is indeed a powerful weapon and he wondered what happened to the demon godparents. He wished that if he would never see them again, it would be too soon. And just as Tenchi was about to lie down, and suddenly felt something off, like the bed wasn't as soft as he would like, but he soon realizes that the same particular lovers were hiding from under the covers, lying next to each other, making out and are completely half dressed with their chests mostly exposed.

(Naruto was shirtless while Ryoko's large, braless breasts were let out in the open.)

When they realized the jig is up, they casually said to their godson in a singsong, "Welcome home, Tenchi."

[YooooOOOH~]

Tenchi prayed and clapped twice, hoping that this has got to be a bad dream.

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To be continued...=»

A/N: There's a few side notes that I want to mention.

Naruto in this story has been married to Ryoko since they turned 16 and they traveled from planet to planet to hide themselves away from Kagato. They don't want to raise their own children while always being on the run and that though they are rather independent freebirds, they settled down now and then to experience being in a family life. Of course, whenever they raise an adoptive family, there's always the empty nest syndrome and that they wouldn't dare to show their faces in front of their grandchildren because they still looked so young, even though they can change their appearances.

Naruto's surname is given as Hakubi, because of a few things:

1) - Washu saved his life after his original body was nearly destroyed.

2) - He decided to forsake his own name because of the incidents that would have been.

3) - His deceased parents' souls gave the consent for him to marry Ryoko whenever he's ready, so that they'll never be alone.

I also changed the fight a bit since Naruto and Ryoko loved to dance together and practiced their art of fighting after they've experience many battles from different planets and galaxies, such as Planet Mystara for their fighting capabilities and magic against the forces of men, beastmen, magical beasts, and particularly dragons; Planet Vegeta (before its destruction by Frieza) and their physical and mental abilities to use their destructive power before baby Goku was sent to an alternate Earth, and many other planets left by the readers' imagination.

But I digress, their 2-against-1 tag-team battle against Tenchi is basically a way to get him to keep on his toes in mortal combat whenever the situation calls for.

There's more things to come as the heat will be on!

- blukmage19