Chapter 4
Mihoshi and Kiyoné Fall into the Land of Stars
Foreword:
After giving some thought from watching a video of facts about Tenchi and how some characters like Kiyoné Makibi didn't show up in the OVA, other than the alternative renditions of Tenchi (i.e. - No Need for Tenchi TV Series; Tenchi in Tokyo; Ai Tenchi Muyo; Pretty Sammy series, etc.).
So I asked myself, "Why don't I add a little twist into the OVA version in this story?"
And there you have it. I hope you're satisfied.
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[Outer Space, Swan Constellation]
Kagato, with the Battleship Soja, is on the prowl as multiple cruise and battle ships from the Galaxy Police (or GXP for short) prepare to open fire laser beam cannons, missiles, and mines against the humongous Soja, but then, everything went SNAFU as some of the missiles and the beams inadvertently destroyed some of their own allied GXP ships, while the other cruisers collided against Soja's shielding and tough armor plating. The battalion unit and its occupants were decimated within the sound of the silence of Outer Space.
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[At a different Galaxy, GXP Headquarters]
Commander Tigure (who is a Wau; a humanoid beastman) is in a rut, sorting out the paperwork, and said to the incoming line, "7th Headquarters, Commander Tigure speaking."
It was the Grand Marshal Minami Kuramitsu (who is a male Seniwan), that appeared on the holographic communicative lines.
"Commander, it's been a while," he addressed the Wau.
"Marshal!" Tigure enthusiastically exclaimed, "It's good to see you, old friend."
"Yes. However, we've gotten urgent bad news about the most wanted criminal Kagato."
"Kagato?"
"He was last spotted at the ancient ruins of Planet 617 (Cygnus), Area 3, in the Swan Constellation. The troopers contacted the patrol fleet and they gave chase. But they were then ultimately destroyed when they came into contact with the enemy. There were no survivors. We figured that Kagato had escaped into the Solar System. Initiate search immediately."
"Ho!" Commander Tigure obeyed as the Marshall hung up the line.
After a brief sigh of exasperated relief, Tigure relaxes himself on his work chair when his subordinate, Captain Nobeyama arrives with a fresh cup of coffee to give to his Superior.
"Isn't it terrible what happened?" he questioned.
"Yeah," Tigure answered, "By the way, who is patrolling the Special Protected Zone (SPZ) of the Solar System?"
The Captain answered with a sense of uneasiness, "That would be... Detective First-Class (DFC) Kiyoné Makibi and... DFC Mihoshi Kuramitsu..."
That name made the Commander nearly gagged as he coughed out some of the coffee he was drinking and he uses a napkin to wipe the liquid off of his mouth and grimacingly said, "Those two‽ No way we have a budget large enough to spend on their pay grade!"
"But Commander, DFC Hakibi is a top-notch officer and DFC Mihoshi is an excellent detective," Nobeyama explained, "And they worked well with Noike Kamiki Jurai for a while... only..."
"Only their service records stink! That's all," CDR Tigure growled as he pointed out the mess, "Just look at this! Do you know what these are on my desk?"
There were misconduct reports and a lot of bills strewn across the desk.
"And most of those were done by the actions of a single team of dimwitted officers," the commander explained.
"And that would be Kiyoné and Mihoshi?" Nobeyama guessed.
"You got it," Tigure replied with a stern look.
That was when the captain has an idea to do something with his subordinate and a way to pay off the bills - by sending their patrolwomen on a suicide patrol mission to find Kagato so she can call in for backup. It's more like sending them into a nest of venomous asps. It'll mostly break Mihoshi's family's hearts, namely her Grandfather Minami, Aunt Mikami (Headmistress of Galaxy Police Academy and the current Head of the prestigious family), her mother Mitoto (the natural-borne scullery maid that pops up from time to time), and her younger brother Misao (who is away with his battle fortress Choubimaru, with his assistant Mashisu), but when the commanding officers planned to use the detectives as insurance for a major pay-off...
It's simply elementary that greed and corruption are starting to get the better of them...
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[The Solar System, Outside the Reaches of Saturn, in a private Cruise battleship]
Mihoshi (a Seniwan appeared to be in her early 20's and the lessee of the ship), is a practicality overworked detective as she finally gets her chance to get some down time, watching her favorite comedy show («Gimme a Break, Will Ya?»), and Kiyoné (a humanoid appearing to be in her early 20's) is doing a simulated target practice game to hone in on her shooting skills and sharpening her civil duties (with the pictured faces of Mihoshi, crooks, and civilians to help distinguish them to be friend or foe) when she overheard to the incoming message and called for her partner to report to the bridge from the captain. However, Mihoshi is a bit of a slob when it comes to getting things organized, as she tripped, stubbed, toppled, and spilled herself from many things in her room, and Kiyoné gets herself caught in the middle as they hastily tried to get to the bridge to pick up the line.
Captain Nobeyama yelled from the screen to the disheveled and messy detectives, "You're late! What have you been doing, you two‽"
And he sees his subordinates looking like they're living in a post-modern mess and looked like exhibitionists who were wearing nothing but their undergarments and officers' caps.
"Sorry, sir!" both detectives apologized and Mihoshi cluelessly replied, "Can we be of service, sir?"
""Can you be of service"‽" Nobeyama exasperatedly parroted, "Just what the devil are you two wearing? You both look and act just like the Dirty Pair!"
(A/N: To be specific, Kei Tonguu and Yuri Shimazu - the Lovely Angels, A K.A.: The Dirty Pair - are two of GXP's other bottlenecks that were patrolling in a different planetary system that tended to make messes of themselves in both life and in their duties, particularly when they are in their scantily-clad uniforms. Kiyoné is currently in her sky-blue thong panties and strapless bra set and Mihoshi in her black bikini panties and her black A-shirt. In their haste, Kiyoné found that her uniform and her partner's got stains from the madness inside their quarters and she and her partner were forced to undress themselves when they just answered the line.)
The Solar System detectives found themselves utterly and relatively out of uniform and shrieked as they blushingly excused themselves. Kiyoné switched the monitor to a different camera facing the back of the captain's head to give them a moment of privacy as she and Mihoshi got themselves dressed properly with their spare uniforms from the built-in cleaning closet.
And finally, Mihoshi switches the screen back to front-view as the captain clears his throat and barks, "We have a serious problem. Kagato, one of our most wanted criminals, is heading in your direction when you are in charge of patrolling, so pay attention, Detectives Makibi and Kuramitsu. If you locate him, contact the Special Prosecutor and we'll take over from here. Remember, he's very ruthless. Understand?"
"Ha! (Yessir!)" Mihoshi complied with a salute, "We will prove ourselves by bringing in Kagato."
"Mihoshi!" Kiyoné exclaimed to her partner.
Nobeyama felt apprehensive from what his subordinate just said, "Wait! You're the Marshal's granddaughter. If you go off like that and something happens, then I'll get blamed!"
"Captain, I'm a GXP officer and danger is my business," the ditzy detective Mihoshi adamantly said, "Don't worry about my family. Tell them that I'm off to do my duty."
"No! Stop! Listen to me, for heaven's sake!" the captain tried to reason, but Mihoshi sternly replied, "We're on our way now, so we're getting off the line. And don't worry, you can count on us."
"Wait a minute, Mihosh—" And the line was cut off.
"Mihoshi, you idiot!" Kiyoné grabbed her partner's uniform collar, "We're supposed to keep watch for Kagato, not apprehend him! He's much too powerful for us alone to even confront him!"
The blonde detective seated herself in the pilot's seat and said, "But Kiyoné, we don't know who Kagato really is. Maybe that criminal isn't as dangerous as our superiors thought he was."
So she asked her mechanical assistant Yukinojo about the profile of Kagato.
»Space Pirate Kagato,« Yukinojo pulled up the data, »AKA Ruins Buster. Estimated age: at least 5000 years. A former assistant of missing scientist Washu Hakubi, Kagato was involved fighting with the presumably missing husband and wife pirate team, Naruto and Ryoko Hakubi because they have witnessed connections with Washu. Kagato controls a huge, stolen battleship called the "Soja" and has been ravaging cultural assets all over the known universe. The number of ruins looted and destroyed: 3326 and counting, with the number of cultural artifacts stolen: Unaccountable.«
Mihoshi is amazed at how infamous Kagato really was, while Kiyoné has to swallow her fear of the culprit's profile.
»This is no time to be impressed, Mihoshi-dono (Lady Mihoshi)!« the computer rebuked, »Are you ready for the really long details?«
While Yukinojo explained about Kagato's 3 mile long rap sheet, Mihoshi distracted herself with her dimensional cube from its cottontail dormancy and anything that she didn't want just materialized and fell in front of Kiyoné (much to her bad luck). "Oh, come on! All I want is to get a cup of brewed space coffee!"
»Are you even listening carefully, Mihoshi-dono?« Yukinojo sternly questioned, with Kiyoné giving an agreeable angry look of her own.
"Oh, that's enough," the ditzy woman grumbled, "We just got to track him."
And she sets up the coordinates to begin the search...after giving the stubborn engine a "kickstart" as she decides to cruise the system for a while.
And Kiyoné is really going to regret the mission the superiors are making her to do, especially with Mihoshi in the driver's seat.
However, Kiyoné would rather find the witnesses that may lead to the suspect than for her to lose her sanity, And what she really wanted...no, needed is a much well-deserved vacation for herself, without the Buttinskies (that are the quirky Kuramitsu family and GXP) around to spoil things... On some beach on whatever planet will have to do and maybe get a less stressful part-time job... However, she has to keep her thoughts on the career, whether she likes it or not.
So there they go, off to the great yonder of the Solar System. But not before Kiyoné reposted, "Mihoshi, you are an impossible case!"
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[Earth - Autumn, At a rural inn]
The Masakis and company traveled by van to their destination. When the left passenger doors were opened, an extremely energetic Sasami yelled out, "We made it, we made it. Onee-sama! Hurry! Hurry!"
"Sasami, you being too loud," Aeka rebuked, "It's simply impolite."
"Oh, come now, Aeka-chan," Naruto chided as he teleported himself through the van's atomic structures, "Let your sister be herself for once. I bet you were like that when you were Sasami's age."
"That's none of your business, Naruto!" Aeka argued as she took Sasami to the koi pond.
"Oh, well," the beast-man shrugged as he escorted his lovely wife by the hand and helped gather the luggage.
The elderly hostess of the inn came forward and welcomed her guests as she talked to the head of the household, "Well, thank you for coming, Nobuyuki-san. You're off to a busy year."
The head of the household chuckled from the flattery as the hostess asked, "Are all of these Tenchi's girlfriends?"
"Not all of them," Nobuyuki explained, "Tenchi's godparents came along, too. So please bear with us."
Somehow, the hostess couldn't help but recall Naruto and Ryoko as if they were the two ghost versions of themselves that gave her and her former fellow neighbors quite a frightening experience after the end of a certain incident many years ago.
Meanwhile, Tenchi is grumbling about why he has to carry so much luggage the girls are towing. That's when Ryoko reappeared and sat on the suitcase that he was carrying.
"Oi, can we help you?" she asked.
"Hey, it's heavy! Really heavy!" Tenchi grunted from holding the luggage and his annoying godmother, "Get off!"
"Darling, lighten up," Naruto kindly chided and his wife floated away from the load and embraced her husband, who then said to his godson, "Hey, Tenchi, we need to talk to you."
But Tenchi scolded, "What about it? Now, just remember that you're not in my house and people will start giving us a bad name! Just act normally. The old lady is very nice to us. Anyway...DO behave yourselves."
Naruto and Ryoko sat cross-legged as they felt very annoyed that their godson is acting like he's the boss. So Ryoko angrily questioned, "Now why do you have to treat your godparents like that?"
"You've been flirting along with Aeka-san, haven't you?' Naruto agreeingly suspected,"
"And just what do you mean?" Tenchi asked while moving some more boxes.
"You've changed, Tenchi-miboyo," the godfather vaguely explained and Ryoko explained, "That time with that girl and making out in the shed... You've been acting very strange since then."
"I'm not acting weird, if that's what you're getting at! There's nothing to explain!" Tenchi blatantly denied with an embarrassing blush.
"You see, there you go again," Naruto stated, "You're not good at hiding your poker-face, boy, when you keep giving off those lustful thoughts."
And the godparents teleported themselves and reapperated themselves, floating sideways next to their godson as Ryoko warned, "That "Ayeka" is scary, you know. Have you forgotten that we risked our lives for you and your closest kin?" Her cat-like tail is pointing wildly.
"Oh, come on, will you‽" Tenchi worryingly commanded, "What if somebody sees you like that?"
But Ryoko embraces her godson and tries to charm Tenchi with her motherly ways, "Oh, Tenchi, why don't you spend some time with your godparents?"
"Don't be stupid," Tenchi disagreeingly scoffed as he instinctively tosses Ryoko aside.
Then Naruto catches his wife and declares, "Really, then? So it's fine to spend time with that terribly uptight woman and not with us? Just for that, you'll have to pay the penalty for your foolishness." And he snapped his fingers before he and Ryoko disapperated. The luggage mysteriously levitated themselves and crashed into Tenchi as he was sent flying into the back end of the van.
"What's their problem‽ What do they want with me?"
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[Later, in the divided onsen]
On the men's side, Tenchi, Nobuyuki, and Naruto already disrobed themselves. The Masakis are wearing towels to hide their modesty while Naruto shapeshifts himself to be more human-like and wears a fundoshi (loincloth) for the sake of the other patrons - the men couldn't match his quality in manliness and the women (other than his wife) would get the wrong impression and simply be infatuated with his body and his manhood. (Not to mention, he is circumcised.)
But right now, there's a completely different problem at hand...
"Peeping‽" Tenchi exclaimed before getting bonked by his shameless dad who shushed him, "Keep your voice down."
"Nobu-san, are you trying to teach your son to be a masher or something?" Naruto asked with his hand about to form a fist, "You do realize that my wife, the princesses, and Ryo-chan are likely to be on the other side of the fence. And I'm most particularly concerned about Sasami-chan, since she's still just a child."
"Guys," Nobuyuki calmly explained, "When you come to a place like this... You know there are other young women bathing themselves up there. It'd be rude NOT to peek."
"The old lady's going to kill us if she finds out," Tenchi warned his old man and Naruto agreed.
But Nobuyuki paid no mind to his son's warning and boldly said, "Like I'm afraid of that old dragon?" And he puts a hand towel around his face like an old-fashioned thief.
(A/N: Think of Ebisumaru's face from the Ganbare Goemon series.)
Tenchi asked what was that for and Naruto plainly answered, "Milad, that is what old-fashioned thieves and peepers used to wear, simply to pitifully disguise themselves to get what they selfishly wanted."
This makes Tenchi feel rather peeved as the "peeper" climbed the rocky and bamboo fence to look at the other side as he wanted the guys to see the naked girls.
*Hwooo~oh!*
As Nobuyuki looked at the women's side, Ryoko casually popped up, probably doing the same thing with the men's side. She then asked while pretending to be clueless, "Yo! And what are you doing here?"
Nobuyuki got caught as he was taken aback by the surprise as he fell into the hot water. Naruto dragged the widower's sorry butt out from getting himself drowned and he asked his wife, "Was this trip really necessary, Darling?"
"And miss my chance to have a heart-to-heart talk with Tenchi?" Ryoko remarked before turning to the young Masaki, "And this is where you and my Hubby are at. I was wondering when you two will show up. Come up here where the water is fine."
Tenchi sheepishly complained, "What do you mean "come on up"? Isn't that the Girls' bath over there?" And he pointed his index fingers together in a fidgeting and embarrassing position.
"Mm? Did you say something?"
[YooooOOOH~]
Ryoko entered the men's side… shamelessly and absolutely butt-naked as she slinked next to her husband's side like a cat as they stood up on top of the rocks. She and Naruto take Tenchi by the hand and the godmother said, "It's much more spacious on my side. Let's go."
Tenchi tried to convince his godparents otherwise, but Naruto said, "I've seen many other women of all kinds from all the journeys that we've been through, but they are nowhere in the same league as my long-faithful wife. And she said that I wouldn't mind joining her since it really is a mixed bath today."
"*Gulp!* M-m-mixed bath‽" Tenchi gasped. Since when did his favorite hotel have such a schedule, he wondered.
"Better hang on to us, or you'll fall," Ryoko singsonged.
She and Naruto grabbed their godson and teleported themselves and reapperated themselves on the women's side, while giving Tenchi a playful dive into the water. When the young man resurfaced from the hot water to catch his breath, he inadvertently got a close-up of Ryoko's "naked glory", giving him a case of the "eye-popping" experience and a nosebleed.
"What's the matter, Tenchi?" Ryoko playfully teases her godson, "You've seen us naked before, remember? Back in the cave?"
"Yeah..." Tenchi reluctantly answered, "But you were just hideous mummies..."
"Tenchi, don't count us off as dead," Naruto playfully chided, "We've been simply "resting" for the last 7 Earth centuries. The mummy routine is to just simply scare ordinary Earthian looters away from our sanctity, otherwise, they'll be doomed to be blasted into atoms, with not a drop of blood or fat remaining."
The fact that his godparents mentioned unnerves Tenchi as he imagined a common, ordinary, tomb raider getting turned into the atomic structuring of a human. In other words, he gets turned into basically... dust to be blown out of the cave.
(Confidentially, it happened several times in the distant past when marauders and brigands dared to raid the Okayama area and the Masaki lands for their own gain. Most of the cowards were scared stiff and were run off by "bewitching spirits" of both the murdered innocent bystanders and the killed brigands, while the other reckless fools who dared to break into the tomb were never seen nor heard from again, thanks to Masaki-Jurai ingenuity and the Hakubis' scare tactics.)
And then Sasami casually walked out from the dressing room with her hair tied to a twin odango, wearing nothing but a pink towel, and with Ryo-ohki on her head as she saw Tenchi and Naruto and greeted them.
"You're just in time," Ryoko remarked, "Are you alone, besides Ryo-ohki-chan?"
"No, Aeka-onee is with me," Sasami replied before calling her older sister's attention, "Onee-sama, come out!"
Tenchi tries to get away from an embarrassing situation when Aeka rebukes as she exits the dressing room, "Please keep your voice down, Sasami! You've been acting rather rude since you've been hanging around with that couple. Are you listening, Sasa—!" The violette princess suddenly stopped when she noticed the naked Ryoko and barely dressed Tenchi and Naruto looking at her as she ran back inside the dressing room, utterly feeling like her heart just couldn't take it anymore.
"What happened?" Sasami asked as she followed her nervous-wrecked sister, "Tenchi-oniichan and Naruto-oniichan are here, too, you know."
"Why didn't you say so before?" Aeka blushingly and nervously questioned, "I'll join you later..."
Sasami tried to win Aeka over to join her, the Hakubis, and Tenchi in the baths, but her older sister obstinately refuses to join, That's when Ryoko phased herself through the wooden wall and grabbed Aeka and said, "Come on, don't be a spoilsport, just come off with it and join us. Tenchi is waiting outside." And Ryoko slowly dragged Aeka through the wall with her.
"Stop it! Please stop it, I said!" she protested.
"Now why must you be so shy?" Ryoko questioned, "You've gone [whoopee] and [hoochie-coochie] with Tenchi at the shed the other day."
Aeka turned red from the secret and demandingly pressed, "How...how did you know that‽" And she finished phasing through the wall by Ryoko's guidance.
"Elementary, little girl, I've been borrowing Ryo-ohki's memory, since she is a living computer," the former pirate explained as she looked at her husband and Tenchi behind her, while Sasami naïvely watched the older women's conversations. And while Aeka is surprised to see the mostly naked men in the bath, Ryoko then stated, "And you've come so far to join us on a mixed bath day, so go ahead and make up your mind." And she chuckled from the hilarity.
"Don't mind me," Naruto added, "My wife talked me into it."
Tenchi gave off a nervous grin as the scene felt like the suspense was growing and Aeka started to courageously start to walk towards him. But then Ryoko decided to stir things up a bit by grabbing the holding strap from Aeka's towel and suddenly...
Tenchi gets a nosebleed and the princess gave off the strangest look as she finds herself all-nude... (with her mesomorphic frame with some curvatures not well-defined like Ryoko's, a pair of round C-cup breasts, a vestige shaped womanhood with some trimmed pubic hair covering it, now showing herself in naked glory in front of the limited public) …as she shrieked and hid her modesty in the water.
Naruto just looked away as he whistled a tune as the consequences happened with Tenchi knocking himself out in the water.
"*Ha ha ha!* Excusez-moi, s'il vous plaît," Ryoko fakely apologized in a different language as she returned the dropped towel to the annoyed Aeka.
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Naruto and Sasami helped grab the unconscious Tenchi to a tall rock on the other side of the onsen. The young Masaki thanked the two from nearly drowning himself the same way his father almost ended up.
And then Sasami got a little too curious and noticed, "Your face looks pale and your nose is bleeding." Tenchi covers his culprit as he got himself in a fix, done in by an innocent little girl, "Tenchi-oniichan is a naughty boy!"
"I didn't mean it, I was just...a little dizzy from the hot water, and... Naruto, help me out!" Tenchi asked his godfather for assistance, but the beast-man shook his head and said, "You're on your own, lad. I'm afraid my "magic" can't solve this one, especially with Sasami-chan and Ryo-chan giving you the [Baby-Doll Eyes] treatment."
And sure enough, Sasami and Ryo-ohki gave off their cute, soulful charms and then...
[Cue: Simple Piano Chords]
...Tenchi admitted defeat, "Sorry for being naughty... *blub-blub-blub...*"
"Good boy, good boy," Sasami patted her brother-figure's head.
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As the trio plus one Ryo-ohki peered from the rock, Ryoko said to Aeka, "They're watching us." And the violette looked behind her back just as the former pirate stated, "What's so shameful with coming in here naked?"
"That's the trouble with you, Ryoko," Aeka argued, "You're being so insensitive!"
"I wouldn't mind with my husband, but not with Tenchi?" Ryoko calmly countered before teleporting near her rival, "You were going to show your body to my godson sooner or later, weren't you?"
Aeka blushed and turned red for a moment, but rebutted, "I... Well, I'm not an exhibitionist and a show-off like you are!"
"Well, you do bathe naked, right?" Ryoko easily tore through the argument and looked as Aeka's physique, "But you don't seem to be proud of yourself, as you still seem to have an old flame that you're still thinking about. But I can understand that."
Aeka is starting to lose control of her temper.
"But if I said something offensive, go ahead and tell me."
SMACK!* Aeka slapped Ryoko's face from losing the battle of the bulge.
SMACK!* *SMACK!* Ryoko slapped back at Aeka's face twice for the insult.
The women looked like they're ready and edging for a catfight. Tenchi tried to diffuse the situation, but took the coward's way out and backed off.
Naruto then declared, "Ladies, if you want to settle matters between yourselves, do it on the field of honor and try not to wreck the place. It's much too serene for it to be a total loss."
Though Aeka somewhat agreed, she took a deep breath to calm herself and she then stated, "I just about have enough of you and Naruto. If you think I'm simply helpless, you got another thing coming."
"Hm! And you're just a naïve little girl, Princess," Ryoko retorted.
Aeka then summoned her miniature wood pieces and arrogantly said, "This is what I used to stop you the last time you were in your ship. You won't have Naruto's nor Tenchi's help this time."
"Really, but you do realize that Ryo-ohki is with your sister and I suppose that this is all you can do?" Ryoko pointed to the holes in her opponent's defense.
"Talk all that you want, but anyway, you have sealed your doom," Aeka declared as her wood golems use their abilities to bind her foe, But this time, Ryoko knew better and teleported out of the wrappings and smacked Aeka's face with her hand from a flying somersault and landed herself on the boulders with ease as she cackled with a taunting laughter.
"You demon!" Aeka angrily called out after rubbing her nose from the impact.
That's when the former pirate explained, "This time, it's my turn to show you why I'm called Ryoko (魎呼) - the devil caller."
The Mōryō spirits are coming from the earth towards the Hakubi's beckoning.
"I have the ability to call out the spirits from any place under the sun, wherever I want."
Some of the spirits were deflected off from Aeka's shielding as she arrogantly remarked, "Is that really supposed to scare me?"
"No, but I'm just getting started, Ojoō-chan," Ryoko said as she used the gem in her left wrist to fuse them into a malevolent mist monster. And just when she was about to command her golem to attack and pin down Aeka, the golem suddenly...turned against her.
Naruto realizes that Ryoko is missing something very important, as he yells, "Darling! You're forgetting something important on your right wrist!"
And the mist monster swiped at him, but missed his target, destroying one of the boulders as Naruto avoided another brutal swing and grabbed Tenchi and Sasami out of its range.
"He's right," Ryoko somehow goofs herself to a corner, while standing in the gender boundary fence, "I forget that I need a gem on my right wrist to control that monster. And my spare earring gems are in the locker room. Shimata!" And the monster wrecked the fence, missing his prey.
"Oh-ho-ho-ho! Oh, my. That is actually entertaining," Aeka boastfully laughed at her adversary's predicament, but then she noticed Naruto yelled, "Run, you simpleton!," as the Mist Monster started setting its sights on her.
And she quickly took Naruto's advice and ran out of the onsen before the monster wrecked even more havoc as it busted down another boundary fence.
Naruto told Ryoko to help get the civilians and get Aeka away from getting killed by her botched creation. He also ordered Tenchi to get the blade and to put on some pants.
"What about you, honey?" Ryoko curiously asked.
"I sense a disturbance in the force that is heading towards our location," the husband forewarned, "Be careful, Darling."
And Naruto gives his wife a consolable kiss as they do their part on protecting the civilians in the inn district as he focuses his attention on shooting down some lingering Mōryō spirits.
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[Meanwhile, back in Outer Space]
Yukinojo and Kiyoné are trying to get Mihoshi's attention, but the distracted Kuramitsu has her own problems on her watch on her left wrist; it somehow must've malfunctioned or broken or something.
"Sorry," she apologized as Yukinojo stated out a warning, »Mihoshi-dono, an energy pocket is developing on the 3rd Planet. The location of the ship is...«
"Mihoshi!" Kiyoné interrupted, "Why are you fiddling with that watch of yours?"
"This watch appears to be broken and we don't have the nearest repairman to this contraption," Mihoshi whined, "Oh! I just can't seem to get a response."
»Mihoshi-dono!« Yukinojo shouted.
"Yes? Well, turn us back around, then," the ditzy detective ordered, but then realized that something was not right as she queried, "Hey, is this right for us to be suddenly speeding around like that in this planetary system?"
»Mihoshi-dono, our ship is being drawn into the energy pocket and falling headlong towards it. We're flying out of control!«
"Oh my, that's not very good news, huh?" Mihoshi cluelessly asked a silly question.
"Mihoshi!" Kiyoné started yelling at the top of her lungs, "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU IF WE END UP DEAD!"
And the ship continues its wild, downward descent towards Earth.
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[Back at the inn]
Aeka and Ryoko were busy running down the halls, away from drawing the Mist Monster's attention as the violette demandingly yelled, "Do something about this! You summoned that monstrosity, didn't you‽"
"How many times do I have to tell you that without one of the real gems on my right wrist, I can't control that overgrown Mōryō!" Ryoko shouted as she kept on running.
"Then why did you do it in the first place‽"
"So I forgot about the gems, so what?"
"URRRYYYYY!" the Mist Monster growled with a satanic roar as it smashes through the open-air halls.
Then the women came across a crossroad. Aeka took the left side while Ryoko took the right. But Aeka quickly forced to make a U-Turn and caught up with Ryoko and yelled, "Hey, that was a dead end you led me into!"
"Silly me, what was I thinking?" the devil woman rhetorically replied.
They came past the room where the elderly hostess is residing as Ryoko yelled, "Out of the way!"
"Okami-sama (Hostess), you mustn't come in here. Take cover!" Aeka warned as she hastily ran across the hall.
The hostess couldn't believe the way the young women behaved, but then she was nearly trampled by the Mist Monster...nearly, as Naruto dragged the old woman away before it made its tracks.
"Steady there, Obaa-chan, easy does it," he calmed the old woman down, but then, she suddenly remembered, "Wait a minute. You're—?"
"Well, what are you expecting, the Grinch?" Naruto rhetorically questioned, "It's almost like you've seen a ghost. Anyway, I'm just a double. The original is busy with the other guests' safety."
And then the double poofed itself while the hostess felt like she wanted to have a heart attack and just die from the surprises that she just experienced.
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[At the onsen]
Tenchi is wearing his denim pants with Sasami worrying where Aeka and the Hakubis went. And then they see the monster coming towards them, with Ryoko and Aeka a few lengths ahead of it.
Naruto reappeared himself and said, "The other guests are okay, no other casualties, other than the inn, ya know." He turned to Tenchi and asked, "Ready to take it on, sonny boy?"
The young Masaki reluctantly complied as he took the front line with his blade while Naruto readying his own energy saber. The godfather said, "Remember your training and never give yourself up to the enemy until the bitter end."
And Tenchi remembered his long and arduous training with his godfather and grandfather as his blade activated its saber. Then the warriors charged at the Mist Monster and Tenchi sliced at his foe's arm successfully, but the arm stump somehow regenerated itself. And when the monster prepares to counter-attack, Naruto thrusts his blade into the beast's face, causing some damage to its system.
But just when the fight was still commencing, Naruto sensed the disturbance in the atmosphere and yelled, "Incoming!" And the party noticed that the sky turned dark as an unstable portal is trying to open as a spaceship (in Earthian terms) is coming through as it is falling fast. And then, a miniature black hole started to appear, vacuuming anything that wasn't tied nor anchored down, including the Mist Monster as it got sucked into the hole. Tenchi was nearly dragged, too, but Ryoko and Naruto managed to grab him from being pulled into the vortex. But Tenchi noticed a dark-skinned, blonde-haired woman unconsciously flying towards him, and she bumped off Ryoko. Naruto also spotted a bluette-haired woman also unconscious as he caught her from being pulled in.
Thankfully, the black hole collapses itself. However, the law of gravity begins to reset itself, and as it was once said, "What goes up, must come down."
And Tenchi finds himself falling from at least 30 feet in the air and he starts coming down into the water below, hard.
Tenchi was unconscious in the water, with the blonde-haired woman on top of him. And Sasami cried to get her brother-figure to wake up. Ryoko carries the unconscious blonde woman to a lounge room while Naruto uses his double to carry his knocked out godson and the bluette to separate resting areas.
"Is... *sniffle* Tenchi-oniichan going to be alright, Naruto-oniichan?" Sasami sobbed while asking.
"Don't worry about it, Sasami-chan. Let Tenchi rest for a bit. Right now, we need to have a talk with those characters," Naruto answered with a simple explainable smile as he and the women went into the lounge, after letting Aeka and Sasami get dressed in their Autumn clothing.
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[In the Reorganized and Cleaned-Up Lounge Room]
Tenchi is on a table with a blanket underneath his unconscious body.
A naked, but towel-wearing Mihoshi slowly woke up and found herself on a propped chair and a low table and her head was on top of a towel as a makeshift pillow as she saw the Juraians helping her up. Mihoshi looked to find her comrade resting on top of the fully dressed Naruto's lap, wearing the same kind of towel she is currently wearing. Her first thing coming to her mind was where she and Kiyoné ended up.
Then Sasami asked, "Hey, Onee-chan, where did you and the other lady come from?"
Mihoshi took a few moments to sink in and realized that she had come into contact with the local citizens.
"Actually, not all of us are Earth-borne citizens, girly-girl," Naruto pointed out, "Your partner looked like she was still beside herself before she could wake up."
"Excuse me, but we haven't catch you your name," Aeka politely stated.
"Forgive my lateness," Mihoshi politely excuses herself, "My name is Mihoshi Kuramitsu and my partner over there is Kiyoné Makibi, and..." But then she noticed her GXP watch on her left wrist was missing and Ryoko showed it to her.
Mihoshi had never been so grateful to the woman and the beast-man for helping her and her partner, but she thanked them just the same. But then, Ryoko chuckled and questioned, "And why is it that you from the Galaxy Police are doing here?"
Mihoshi was flabbergasted that the Hakubis and the Juraians recognized the uniform (finished being dried by Naruto's standards) and then she explained, "Well, we were chasing a felon who is wanted as Public Enemy 1, but then we were forced to drawn into the energy field and then we suddenly blacked out..."
Then Ryoko gave the device back to Mihoshi and she thanked her, but then, her presumably broken watch suddenly emitted warning noises. The ditzy blonde wondered how it got to work again and the noise somehow woke Kiyoné from her slumber...
"Mihoshi, turn the alarm off, I'm up, I'm up..."
...and then looked into Naruto's eyes as he questioned, "Slept well, Galaxy Policewoman?"
"You!" Kiyoné angrily growled, "Naruto and Ryoko Hakubi, the GXP's 2nd Most Wanted Space Pirate Team and ...where's my gun? And where's the dossier?"
But then, she found herself practically disarmed and Naruto says, "Unfortunately, Officer, it was I who have you dead to rights." And he made a gesture like it was a gun and said, "Bang. You're dead."
Nothing happened as Naruto joked with the detectives and brought out the unwet computer containing the dossier profiles. Kiyoné snatched the device and looked up Naruto's Profiles as she remembered from Memory as she stated, "Naruto Hakubi and Ryoko Hakubi, with their battleship Ryo-ohki, wanted felons for the destruction of 10 planets and terrorizing 94 colonies. What have you got to say for yourselves?"
The Hakubi couple just laughed at the hilarity of what Kiyoné stated and Naruto said to his wife, "So the young detective wanted to arrest us! That's a killer!" Ryoko laughed along as she slapped the officer on the back and said, "Now that's not a bad joke that I haven't heard from in a long time!"
But then, the laughter soon stopped when Naruto gave her a serious look and said, "Officer, I'm afraid you need to check on our current profiles, because there's something that you previously overlooked. Have you got a warrant for those charges?"
And while Kiyoné frustratingly searched for the details, Mihoshi asked Ryoko, "Say, are you a jeweler?"
*Moo~oo!*
Naruto turned to his wife again and said, "Can you believe it, Hun? Your great-great niece from your side of the family called you, my lovely wife, a jeweler."
"Well, once upon a time, I did have knowledge about making and maintaining watches and rings," Ryoko replied, and both husband and wife laughed at themselves, before the wife looked at Mihoshi leeringly and said, "Unfortunately, I'm not!"
While Mihoshi is stunned about the fact of knowing that she has two long-lost relatives, Kiyoné then demanded, "What gives? All of the reported crimes are said to have been eliminated from the system. What's going on here?"
"Why, haven't you heard?" Naruto questioned the hapless bluette and playfully teased her, "The [Statute of Limitations] took effect after our little squabble on Earth where we stayed there for 700 Revolutions. Arresting us for those annulled crimes without a proper warrant isn't going to look good on your records, sweetheart. So right now, I'm afraid that you two are now our prisoners and you're in no position to enforce your demands, Yakuin-san." And he stripped off the strap on the towel, and Kiyoné shrieked from nearly fully exposing her naked glory (orange shaped C-cup breasts, toned hourglass physique, "forbidden diamond", and a dark teal pubic hair trimmed to a bikini cut covering her womanhood) showing in front of the witnesses, "It's as simple as that, little girl."
{"You can't win, Kiyoné,"} the bluette officer admittingly thought to herself with comedic tears as she pitifully hid her privates, {"You just CAN'T win! *mutter*"}
But suddenly Mihoshi gets a warning message from her now working watch, showing the Wanted Space Pirate Ryo-ohki's profile and is said to be nearby. She ordered the witnesses to be careful as the Felon was somewhere nearby as she picked up her firearm with her neatly folded uniform. (It was a laser pistol.) And the coordinates said that the target's point of origin is (27.5, -7.8). The ditzy blonde is starting to doubt herself as she isn't ready to face the suspect and she moves closer to the target where Sasami was standing and Ryo-ohki is on top of her head.
"The distance is only... 6? 6...inches‽" Mihoshi checked her watch as the Hakubis tried their darndest to contain their laughter and Kiyoné just couldn't believe her eyes as what she saw, as the blonde officer pointed at the cabbit and asked Sasami, "Is... this...?"
"This is Ryo-ohki," she innocently replied, "Isn't she cute?"
"Ryo...ohki‽" Mihoshi exclaimed as she got scared of the little cabbit as it munched off a piece of her firearm, "Will you please not eat my gun?" And her towel came off as she fainted on the floor, bumping her head, "That hurts..."
"She's unconscious again..." Sasami murmured, while the Hakubis laughed their heads off from the hilarity. Naruto helped the fainted officer back onto her chair sitting next to him. Mihoshi began to feel like her family is becoming much closer than ever than she realizes as she rested upon his shoulders.
Kiyoné wondered why she had a pitiful excuse for a detective partner who could be related to the formerly wanted space pirates and how she put herself into such a crisis as to getting caught by them, too.
Then Tenchi got back on his feet, as he exclaimed what just happened here and asked who those two women were, when the hostess entered the room and yelled, "Hey! Tenchi, what on Earth is going on around here‽" And she dragged Nobuyuki by the ear and exclaimed, "Somebody better explain this nonsense to me!"
It took a while to put things in detail, but anyway, the night began to drag on after that was said and done, after cleaning up the rubble around the inn.
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[Later that night]
Most of the guests plus Kiyoné and Mihoshi were sleeping in their futon beds, when Sasami broke into a sweat from the nightmare she is having.
[Dream Plane]
Sasami is in an unfamiliar scenery with a Sacred Tree in front of her and she is standing on one of its roots when she spotted an unidentifiable battleship flying overhead and a mysterious person shows himself, making a hideous, evil laughter.
Then Sasami finds herself all alone in the dark vastness of nowhere crying to Tsunami for help. Then the evil being draws his energy saber, ready to kill his victim on the spot. However, a peculiar fox-man managed to block the slice with his energy saber and said, "You have no power over here, Kagato. If you dare to reproach my friends and family, I'll be there to stop you."
And he canceled his blade and then threw a row of punches and chops...
"ORARARARARARARARA! KYUUUU~!"
And the Kagato Nightmare was sent flying and disappeared. The ordeal is over…..for now.
But before Sasami woke up, the fox-man said to her, "This is just a forewarning of things to come. The enemy is coming by within a week's time and he will search for what he selfishly wanted - the "greatest [matter] in the universe". Tenchi must face the real adversary soon enough."
And he faded out from the dream.
[Back into reality]
Sasami woke up, with her odango hair coming undone as she looked to find Ryo-ohki outside watching the night skies, anticipating the forthcoming battles, as did the Hakubi couple watching from on top of the roofing.
Kagato is on the move.
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To be continued...»
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Meanwhile, in the Battleship Soja, Kagato felt the blows dealing against his body as he tried to invade what he thinks is Tsunami's avatar's dream plane, but then the familiar face that managed to bust through his defenses, making him bleed internally.
"Curse you, Washu! Curse your pet project and Ryoko for always getting in my way! I'll find the ultimate source and the Universe will be mine for the taking."
And he lets off an uninterrupted cruel chuckle as he continues his search.
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Omaké
The Relationships of Ryoko and Mihoshi
When the Masaki extended family took the van back home, with Naruto and Ryoko flying close by.
Mihoshi and Kiyoné ended up staying with the Hakubis as situational P.O.W.s because they were right where their suspects wanted. They were situated in the new 2 story apartment guest building that Naruto, Ryoko, and Nobuyuki (with his plans) have built with the recycled junk and wood that the Hakubis salvaged and reformatted into newer parts. They have plumbing, electricity, water heating, a good foundation, and the codes for better housing; a perfectly built apartment for the guests that took about a week to get it finished from the bottom to the top. The officers weren't given their expansive settings, like Ryoko and Naruto's basement bedroom, until they had earned their trust.
One day, Kiyoné and Mihoshi decided to ask the Hakubis in private about how they are connected with the missing scientist Washu and the Space Pirate Kagato.
The couple looked at each other for a moment and then Naruto elucidated the details via recording device.
From what he knows, Washu is Ryoko's mother and the person that saved his life. He also stated that he borrowed a strand of Mihoshi's hair to perform a portable DNA Relation Test and it turned out to be that she and Ryoko have definite proof that they are related as the latter reveals herself to be Mihoshi's Great-great Aunt.
(In 5000 years' time, you readers probably don't know what if, unless the people have the capabilities to extend the life expectancy by several centuries, if not a few millennia.)
Mihoshi was shocked to see that she has other relatives. If only her closest kin would only see more of what they are by now, the blonde wondered.
But Kiyoné declares that they were getting off-track here, so Naruto continued his and Ryoko's tales.
The couple were only children when they were awakened, and they and Ryo-ohki had to find some planet to stay, after Kagato had betrayed Washu. So they stayed on a moon-planet known as Chakra, in the Elemental Galaxy (similar, but different from Planet YU-48) to begin their education. They stayed in there for a while, after dealing with one crisis after another, as the people became absolutely and increasingly paranoid by the young sojourners trying to do what is morally right and the citizens just couldn't comprehend their smarts, technology, their unusual show of strength, and intuition. And then, after the 4th Shinobi World War was over, Naruto and Ryoko decided to leave Planet Chakra to get a job at the nearby GXP quarters they received via mail to get some extra formal training and to get a valid marriage license, now that they are 16.
They were later evaluated to have already been modified by a certified scientist and doctor before they began their training and eventually become officers of the Galactic Laws. Of course, the young couple found themselves in several corruptive schemes a time or two within the GXP unit, but they wanted no part in them whatsoever. So they know what to do about the corruption - - the hard way.
One time, they visited the Kuramitsu family with young Minami and his older sister Mikami for a social visit and the Kuramitsus are rather friendly towards Naruto and Ryoko.
After clearing up thousands of cases without much of a hitch, the Hakubis decided to retire as high-ranking officers before venturing off onto many other planets.
Then Ryoko told her part of the tales of the planets she visited, like the Force Galaxy to hone in on their sword skills and moral enlightenment.
They even stopped by the Dragon Galaxy's planets to encounter the diabolical Freiza and the Freezer People, and the army of multiple races of people: humanoid, beastmen, or something else. But they decided to let some of the Saiyan race do the rest of the work while they hold off the enemy.
Then, years later, Naruto, Ryoko, and Ryo-ohki stopped by Planet Mystara of the Fantasy System (in a different galaxy) to enjoy life in a simple manner, if they didn't count on several monsters and what appears to be dragons creating chaos in their wake. It was another day, another doubloon at the end of their work.
They even traveled to the planet known as Middle Earth in the Fantasy System to enjoy the sights and do some downtime for many of their hobbies. Unfortunately, they were in the midst of the wars involving the Demonizations of Sauron who were trying to spoil things for the Hakubi couple and the lowly citizens of man, dwarf, hobbit, elf, and other folk. The couple decided to join in on the fight to help not mainly for themselves, but for the other people. After Sauron was destroyed once and for all, they stayed on the planet for a few centuries. They even helped adopt the parentless children to raise them as their own, since they still fear that Kagato would use their child or children (biological or not) as hostages, and that would make the Hakubis absolutely furious. However, they've experienced several cases of the "empty nest" problems now and then as the children grew up and moved away.
Then Naruto took over as Ryoko teared up from the cherishing memories and then said that the destruction of planets and terrorizing the colonies that they were "wanted" by the GXP were actually done by either someone else's doing or when the planet is dying. They normally wouldn't start riots without just cause.
And then he tells of the time where all of this started when they stayed at Planet Jurai in a different unspecified System. It was peaceful for a few years, until "guess who?", Kagato. He captured and brainwashed Ryoko and Ryo-ohki and attacked the planet for his foolish mission (he says). Naruto and Yosho dragged the fight and flight all the way into the Solar System and the Planet Earth where the Hakubis sacrificed themselves to put an end to Kagato's bewitching terror and stayed in a tomb for 7 centuries until a certain boy unsealed their imprisonment and the eventual involvement with the Juraian Princesses Aeka and Sasami.
"After that, you can guess the rest, ya know."
Mihoshi dozed off from probably not having enough sleep and Kiyoné was just amazed that the Hakubi couple have lived so long to experience the joy and pain of the many things in life. To think that they were once former GXP officers before the public dubbed them as space pirates. Maybe she, too, needed a re-evaluation of herself as a person and an officer of the law.
That was when Tenchi called out from outside, "Naruto! Ryoko! Can you lend me a hand? This flying garden project needs some extra helpers!"
"Just a minute. We'll be coming, Tenchi, after we finish our little interview," Naruto replied as they finished a few short questions and stopped the recording. Then he and Ryoko gave them a quick lesson, "Trust us, 5000 years can go faster than you think it is, so enjoy your moments while it lasts. Oh, and you both look like you need a man in your life. You don't have to be single all your life, ya know."
And the Hakubis left the apartment to help Tenchi out. But Kiyoné asked Naruto where she could contact GXP Headquarters, there was a note left next to her saying, "The Earthian lines don't work like that. However, we not only installed an antenna to let you watch programs from within the range of the galaxy, but we put in a special hotline where they can contact GXP for further instructions. Just dial 4989 before the desired number."
Getting marooned on a remote planet isn't such a hard life after all.
A/N: This is what happened when Naruto was partly involved with his life with Ryoko when she and Ryo-ohki weren't being used as puppets by Kagato and his wicked schemes for much of the journey. Trying from day to day as sojourners of fortune is how they turned out without Kagato messing with them and everybody else's lives, but the rogue former student of Washu will have to use other means to get what he wanted.
Thanksgiving is not far behind by the time I finish this chapter. Are you preparing for your part for a Thanksgiving dinner with your friends and family? Are you thankful for the blessings that God gave to you and your family? Well, I got things planned for my part while visiting some relatives, so writing more chapters may slow things down a bit, but I promised to never give up.
By the way, if you noticed the cameo of the Dirty Pair team, I decided to "borrow" the VAs' last names to Kei and Yuri's surnames to make some sense to the characters. If you like watching the "Dirty Pair" series, then you'll probably like it.
And the heat will be on!
- blukmage19