Chapter 6

We Need Tenchi! (Naruto and Ryoko, Too!)

-The Battle in the Soja - Part 2-

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Previously…

Things were starting to turn peaceful in the countryside for the Masakis, the Juraians, the Hakubis, and the officers of GXP. That is, until the Most Wanted Fugitive Pirate Kagato crashed the party. He kidnapped Ryoko for his desire for the greatest treasure of the Universe. Yosho finally reveals his identity (well, not all of his secrets) to Tenchi, the princesses, and the officers, with Naruto filling in the details.

Later, Ryo-ohki transformed into her battleship mode and carried its passengers - Naruto, Tenchi, Aeka with Azaka and Kamidaké, Mihoshi, and Kiyoné - to the Battleship Soja orbiting in space near Earth. The battle between two battleships ensued until tragedy struck where Kagato's attack destroyed the area where Tenchi is inside Ryu-oh's ship. Ryoko managed to escape Kagato's prison and searched for Tenchi, but it availed her naught, as her husband presented her with a blood-stained towel, proving that their godson is gravely injured and possibly lost in space.

That was when this situation with Kagato wasn't going to be left unchallenged...

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[Battleship Ryo-ohki]

The moment after Kagato fired his ship's laser cannons and destroyed Ryu-oh's ship underneath Ryo-ohki, right where Tenchi was inside, Aeka started to feel the agony and terror, now that she has just lost something precious to her. Tenchi is likely to have been killed by the explosion and his body is lost somewhere in Outer Space. She quickly and desperately sends her Guardians to search for any life signs of her loved one. Mihoshi and Kiyoné were also saddened by the Hakubis and Princess Aeka, but mostly for their gracious host, Tenchi, who was caught in the aftermath. They were trying to cope with the serious loss as they watched Naruto and Ryoko mourn for their lost godson.

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[Back on Earth]

Sasami heard the news that Tenchi is caught in the middle of the calamity of Outer Space and cried as she ran up the hill towards the Funaho Tree, "No! Tenchi-oniichan! Don't die! Please don't die! *sob*"

And she tripped on her footing and continued crying her heart out, hoping and praying that her older brother-figure is still alive. She managed to get back up and reached Funaho's tree and wiped away her tears and started to chant, "From Heaven to the oceans, the oceans into the earth, and the earth back into Heaven, show me the way engraved by the light."

Her forehead symbol began to glow and Funaho's tree began to resonate and the skynette Juraian was transported into the tree to search for Tenchi in the further reaches of the galaxy.

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After a few more minutes of mourning, Ryoko and Naruto sat near the remains of Ryu-oh's tree as they vowed a form of vengeance - - no, "Retribution" against Kagato. Ryo-ohki drifted towards the couple, wishing it could comfort its master.

"Don't worry, Ryo-chan," Naruto said through digital communication, "I hope that Tenchi is still alive after all of this. I sense Azaka, Kamidaké, and Tsunami are searching for Tenchi as we speak."

"Meow… Meow me me yow meow yow me meow!" the battleship replied.

"Yes, the sorrow can wait. Kagato is so going to get effed in the A', pardon the language. We're coming in."

Naruto and Ryoko teleported inside Ryo-ohki's cockpit. Mihoshi noticed them and asked, "Ryoko-san? We thought that you were captured by Kagato."

"You… I hope that you're satisfied," Aeka angrily said to Ryoko, "Why didn't you escape sooner‽ Tenchi-dono did that in order to save you, you despicable wretch!"

Kiyoné didn't know what to believe after how Kagato let his prisoner leave, even though he was said to be very sadistic towards his victims.

"Looks like we can't avoid the inevitable," Ryoko replied while gripping the blood-stained towel, "We must face that bastard, that's all we can do."

"What are you saying?" Aeka questioned, "It's more important to find Tenchi-dono! You should have known that…"

But Naruto stopped her as he passed the blood soaked towel to her, to which Aeka looked at the horror that she's holding. Then he passed the dropped gem from the previous battle earlier to his wife and she regained her strength as the jewel was attached to her left wrist. Then Ryoko detached her earring, containing her spare pseudo gem and attached it to her right wrist, powering herself up and said, "It isn't over. We must kill Kagato!"

"But shouldn't we wait until the Special Prosecutor comes to capture Kagato?" Kiyoné questioned, "He is most wanted by the Galaxy Police and must be held in trial."

"That would be easy for you, Yakuin-san," Naruto replied, "However, I sense that there is treachery on both sides. Your GXP is hiding something that they're not telling us and Kagato did make good his threat after destroying a number of GXP Space Stations. The bounty means nothing to us. We must stop that son of a bitch, but good… even if it means that we use every fiber of our being in order to protect you all."

Kiyoné and Mihoshi started to understand why the Hakubis despise Kagato in the first place.

Naruto turned to his wife and agreed on one thing and they said at the same time, "Let's go!"

And Ryo-ohki charged through the Soja's shielding with the combined powers of her masters as they made a crash landing.

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[Inside the Battleship Soja]

Naruto and Ryoko were waiting outside to let the other ladies change into their battle gear as they mentally scan the layout of the ship. They compare the data that Washu left them and find that there's another dimension located someplace where Washu is held prisoner. There are also treasures that were stolen by Kagato, to which Naruto plans to raid and secure them to return them to their proper owners (with a little help of the GXP data) later. But there's one thing that is bothering the couple - there are other life signs inside the ship and Kagato normally doesn't take any prisoners nor do we ask for hired assistance, unless…

That's when Aeka (in her Juraian war suit), and the officers (in their GXP designed battle suits and their armed weapons) exited Ryo-ohki and prepared themselves for combat.

"Which way do we get to Kagato?" Aeka asked.

"All the paths and passages would lead to him at the main atrium," Naruto answered while pulling out the 3-D map, "Try not to fall behind, and that means you, Mihoshi-chan and Kiyoné-chan."

The officers slightly blushed at the Fox-man's courageousness, but elation can wait as the 5 people split up to find their way to Kagato's lair.

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While the women were busy destroying their obstacles from Kagato's drones, Naruto uses his Multi-form technique to search for the hidden treasures and to find mysterious life signs that are other than Washu's.

And when the original reached a large room, he had suspicions that he was being watched, but the surprise was foiled by a weak bolt shot deflecting a thrown weapon.

And Naruto said, "I knew that you were expecting me, but I didn't think that person had to be you… Orochimaru."

"Now that was rather unsporting of you, Naruto-kun," the man revealed himself, "Fufufu… Kagato somehow revived us by inviting you to join us in our little party in your honor. Just you and me, and some of our... close friends."

Madara Uchiha, Obito Uchiha, Frieza, Smaug (modified to humanoid form), Dragonoid Synn (humanoid form), and even Danzo - Naruto's old enemies from the other planets and other times, and they weren't exactly glad to see their foe that utterly defeated them like they're yesterday's news. They currently outnumbered him 100 to 1.

Naruto made a dismal sigh and said, "Look. I don't have time for this. My godson is in the middle of nowhere and my wife, my niece, and some of my friends are fighting my worst enemy and he's not you."

"What would a little boy like you do against all of us?" Orochimaru questionably dared.

"Don't get naïve with me," Naruto countered, "Ryoko-darling and I recently turned 5000. As long as my soul still burns, you better start praying before I get through with all of you."

And all of the posse unleashed an all-out ranged attack against Naruto, and when the smoke cleared, their foe was relatively unharmed. Some of the group started to lose their confidence when they saw the fox-man just casually cast his opponents aside - by means of neck snaps, bolt shots, lightsaber slashes, and even the infamous bitch slap - all of them killed within a matter of 5 seconds.

(Naruto just moved faster than the speed of sound thanks to his ability to slow down time from his perception and his Time Stop ability.)

And Orochimaru felt like his strings were cut like a puppet as he felt the impact. He tried to make one last desperate attempt by transforming himself into a giant white viper to envenom and swallow his prey whole, but Naruto countered the snake's lunge with a right roundhouse kick to the chin, followed by a deadly breath of sub-zero ice that freezes the snake solid before smashing Orochimaru to pieces of ice and flesh.

"Why don't you just chill out," Naruto said as he and his doubles finished clearing out the rooms and sending the treasures to a [safe location, "I told you that I don't have time for this."

He dusted off his fingers from the useless fight. But suddenly, he senses that Mihoshi is in trouble as she finds herself in a mirror dimension, separating herself from Ryoko, Aeka, and Kiyoné. "Looks like I have to clean up this mess too," he grumbled as he teleported himself into the alternate plane to rescue his niece before rejoining the party.

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Meanwhile, the three remaining women (Aeka, Ryoko, and Kiyoné) were "invited" by Kagato after he opened the curtains and the stone-blocked walls.

"Let's not be rude," Ryoko said as she and the two women walked into the atrium which has the appearance of a chapel where their "host" is playing a dirge on the gigantic organ.

By the time Kagato finished playing, he greeted, "Welcome, ladies, to my personal cathedral. Enjoy the music?"

Ryoko is clenching her fist, Aeka is starting to lose her temper, and Kiyoné pulled out her badge from her belt and said, "Eternally Wanted Pirate Kagato, I'm giving you just one more chance to surrender peacefully to GXP or so help me, I'm going to f* kill you by any means necessary!"

"Don't waste your breath," Ryoko said to Kiyoné, "Save it for the battlefield, now stand back, girls!"

However, Aeka charged in first, trying to make her most deadly foe pay for what he did to her planet, but the swift, energy-powered melee attack was blocked by a nearly invisible barrier.

"Was that for show, Aeka-himé, or was that you just not like me?" Kagato arrogantly smugged, "This cathedral's force field neutralizes all energy that attacks it. Now, it's time to teach you some manners!"

And Aeka was knocked back before Kiyoné used her hand cannon to fire a shot at Kagato, exploding its shell to blind her target for a moment's opportunity for Ryoko to strike, but then, Kagato "faded" after the stab.

"A shadow!" she declared as she defended herself from the real Kagato's incoming attack, but he got past her guard and put her in a choke hold.

"You seemed to have gotten careless in the last 700 Earth years, Ryoko," the dastardly man mocked as he turned his victim's body into a metal statue, "Couldn't tell me from my shadow, how unlike you. Anyway, you look nice in gray."

Kiyoné fired a bazooka shot, but Kagato countered with a bolt shot and destroyed the officer's weapon and she got caught in the blast. Kiyoné is gagging in pain from some shrapnel from the destroyed weapon, piercing into her body as she lies bleeding profusely, reflexively holding her neck wound as she feels like she's close to dying.

"Pathetic," he said to the downed officer before turning to Aeka as the conniver pulled off his glove, revealing an invisible hand to pry into the Juraian's memory for a certain, particular secret.

Little did he notice, Kiyoné's body was dragged into the mirror dimension by an unknown force soon after Naruto and Mihoshi defused the hidden trap…

[A Little Earlier]

Mihoshi found herself out of her original dimension as she tripped and her cube somehow activated. Now the lone, ditzy officer went searching for her main target, but all she found was an empty hall with two statues of giant cobras and a crystal near the wall. By the time Naruto arrived, he yelled, "Be careful! This whole place is a trap!"

But it was too late, and his niece stepped into the arena and inadvertently triggered a booby trap. The cobra statues guarding their prize suddenly came to life and started lunging at Mihoshi and Naruto, but both people dodged the attack as they backflipped away.

Then one of the cobras aimed his jaws on Mihoshi, however, it didn't count on the Kuramitsu to frightfully and instinctively throw a right high roundhouse kick to the snake's jaw as it connected, sending the unfortunate cobra flying towards its buddy. Then Mihoshi armed herself with her freeze shots and fired them at the cobras, freezing them solid, while pitifully declaring the Miranda Rights, but Naruto calmed her down and said, "Mihoshi-chan, they're just simple beasts. You know they can't just simply understand humanoid rights or human reasoning."

"Yes, thank you, Naruto," she said as she recomposed herself as she hugged her uncle (in-law) to be at ease.

Then the duo noticed the giant crystal behind them and noticed that it was not just a work of art, it was a prison. A woman is encased in its bindings with an emblem that resembles snakes wrapping around a raptor. Naruto uses his ability to change his atomic structure to that of the crystal and shatter it with a well-aimed bolt shot, while not harming the prisoner. The frozen cobras returned to stone and the crystal prison shattered.

After a few moments of relief, the prisoner, which turned out to be a young, dark-pink haired woman (or rather a woman in the guise of an eternal youth) with her long, thick hair tied in a long ponytail (almost resembling a crab from the front) and dressed in academy attire awoke and casually cleared out the petrified cobras and said, "Thanks for setting me free. This is a dangerous place to be in, you know."

She transported both Ryoko (astral form) and the heavily wounded Kiyoné into the current plane. Naruto tended to Kiyoné first, because her wounds looked serious. Much of her uniform protected her from most of the damage, but not effectively against her neck and face as he noticed that pieces of shrapnel were near to her vital arteries on her right side of her neck, ready to decapitate her at any moment. Mihoshi ran to her partner, worried that she could end up dying.

Thankfully, the mysterious woman uses her genius skills to quickly heal Kiyoné's wounds, regain her lost blood, and precisely removed all the shrapnel (every last tiny piece of them, including some from her old wounds), repaired and improved her battle gear, along with healing Kiyoné's old and current wounds that the GXP infirmary had missed and said, "That was too close for the officer, she wouldn't stand a chance against Kagato or anybody of his caliber with that pitiful kind of weaponry. I don't know why her superiors issued such terrible tools that can also hurt the user. But there's nothing a genius, such as I, can't handle!"

And Kiyoné managed to get up on her own, with some dizziness still in her head and Mihoshi hugged her partner, thanking God that she's alright.

Then the scientist checked on the stiff Ryoko and simply snapped her fingers, turning the metal statue back into flesh and then said to Naruto as she examined his wife, "For a moment there, my son-in-law, I thought you and Ryoko would grow up completely out of control, but you both seemed to have outdone yourselves." She checked on Ryoko's body and surmised, "Nothing seemed to be broken here. That jerk thought he could destroy my magnum opus, hmm? Well, I'll show him…"

Then Kiyoné snapped out of her confusion and noticed that Mihoshi was crying and her nose was running, but was glad to see that her partner came out of the mess in one piece. She noticed the dark-pinkette woman looked like she was from an academy some millennia ago.

The woman continued assessing Ryoko, "Your gluteus maximus and your breasts aren't sagging and are well-toned and you somehow recovered from the deterioration of your muscles that may affect your ability to fight…" And she checked at her subject's pubis through her body suit (the part where the clitoral tip is at), "...and your husband also helped you with the visual psychological tactics. Oh, how I'm proud of myself for having such a wonderful daughter! *chuckles*"

Naruto dragged the woman by her shirt collar and said, "Now, just a minute, 'Mother'! Just what do you think you are doing to your daughter like she's an unwilling patient of yours?"

But then the petite woman forcibly releases Naruto's grip and checks on Naruto's body, his fox tail, and his [visual psychological tactics] that somewhat annoyed him from seeing the other blushing witnesses watching him.

"Um, excuse me," Mihoshi asked, "What are [visual psychological tactics]?"

"She means [sex appeal," Naruto answered and both officers blushed madly as they hide their shame on their faces.

Ryoko then grabbed the petit woman to her level and said, "I'll have you know, my body shape and my husband's haven't really changed much in nearly 5000 years! You have a problem, Mom?"

"Still, that is no way to treat your mother like that, Ryoko-chan," the small woman calmly refuted.

The officers were surprised about the former prisoner's origins and the relationship with her.

"That's right, I created you, Ryo-ohki, the Soja; in fact, I've managed to create a lot of things, really. But I used my ovum (egg cell) for you and Ryo-ohki. But as for Naruto, my former assistant and I had to quickly reconstruct him after he showed up as a baby, dying. But we managed to patch him up and send him away with you and Ryo-ohki. So, I'm more of a mother than I am a creator."

Then Kiyoné guessed, "Then you must be the missing scientist, Washu Hakubi, that was kidnapped by Kagato, I presume?"

"'The missing scientist'?" the petite woman replied, "I'm more than just an ordinary scientist, for I am Washu Hakubi, the greatest top secret genius in the universe! I admit that I am cute, looking rather young for a woman my age to be a mom. Right, Ryoko-chan?"

But Ryoko replied, "Nh? What a bunch of malarkey! My husband and I have been alone for the past 5000 years, ever since I was born!... ever since I was…"

Naruto came to the tearing-up Ryoko and comforted her and explained to Washu, "Now you see what happened, 'dear Mother'? She cried for you, wanting your love of a parent for too long. We had to scrimp and survive in order to find you."

After she finished crying, Ryoko then wondered what kind of dimension this place is. It's not the Hyperbolic Time Dimension nor exactly is the Mirror World, so what is this place, she questioned.

"I think it's the Soja's Reverse World," Naruto answered, "This realm is empty compared to Kagato's atrium. I don't know if the bastard knows about it, but this tricky dimension can only go one way until a certain condition has passed. I just got to take notes of this place."

And he quickly typed in the data and moved the visual windows into his built-in computer system to test this theory.

"But what about Tenchi?" Ryoko asked, "He's gone!"

"You're trying to take revenge on Kagato for Tenchi?" Washu replied with a question.

Ryoko wanted to off Washu's head with her energy saber, but Naruto put his screen away and made his wife stay her hand, telling her that it's not worth it. So he asked Washu, "Alright, Mother, what do you know about Tenchi?"

"As both of you have bonded with Ryo-ohki, I am connected with you, my children; so I know... everything. I know how you feel about Tenchi, about how you loved him, treat him like he's more than just your godson, and you do everything for him. But on top of that, you wanted to start a real family with Naruto without Kagato interfering with your lovelife and maybe do "this" and "that" with my son-in-law and even start a harem with you as the head wife?"

Both officers blushed even further about Naruto's and Ryoko's private sex lives.

"Do you really want to make me hurt you for this, Mother?" Naruto warned with his fist clenching.

"I won't stop you," Washu consensually replied, "For the both of you, there's nothing to it. But before you go, when all of this is over, I wonder if you please, may I spend some quality time with you? I had a husband and had a baby once, but it's been over 20,000 Stardate years since we've been separated."

The couple didn't quite answer immediately as they phased out of the realm. Of course, Washu, Kiyoné, and Mihoshi are unable to follow them because they don't have the same abilities as Naruto and Ryoko's. So for now, all they have to do is to support them and cheer them on from the sidelines.

"So where are we again?" Mihoshi asked a silly question.

"Where were you when they passed out the brains?" Washu refuted.

"Ask a silly question and you get a silly answer…" Kiyoné murmured with a sweatdrop.

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[In the Dream Plane]

"Aeka... Aeka…"

The Juraian princess is practically naked as she finds herself facing her fiancé and half-brother Yosho as he asks her for the secret about Tsunami, but Aeka knew better as she tried to pull away from her lover, which was actually Kagato, trying to manipulate her. However, Kagato's grip was stronger as he tried to rape and violate the princess. That was when a certain fox-man showed up and knocked the imposter back and then he said to Aeka, "Forgive me, princess, but this is one way to wake you up."

And he gave her a kiss on the lips to activate Tsunami's power within her bloodline and both warriors left the dream plane and caused Kagato to be knocked back into the real world.

[Reality]

Naruto is defending the semi-unconscious Aeka from being possessed.

"I see that damn Tsunami is protecting those of royal blood and that you, Hakubi-san, are always interfering with me," Kagato remarked with a welt on his cheek, "In that case…"

The rogue pirate was preparing to make his move, when suddenly, a bolt shot pierced Kagato's right forearm.

"And just what were you trying to do, Kagato?" Ryoko questioned her foe's motives.

"So the husband's shrew returned from the realm of Shadow, I see," the fiend remarked as he removed the energy bolt, "So, have you come to open my birdcage? But then again, you have such impeccable timing."

"I'm at your service," Ryoko sarcastically replied as she and Naruto resumed their battle against their sworn enemy.

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And the fight kept going for a while.

Ryoko sliced off a pillar made from super compressed Tektite while Aeka used her sealing golems to pin Kagato down as the pillar fell on top of him. (She is still woozy from the previous event.)

Naruto knew that a pillar like that wouldn't kill the rogue so easily as he spotted his foe trying to attack from the atomic structure of the debris and they jumped out of the way in time. Kagato tried to impale Ryoko from above, but she hid herself into the broken pillar's cellular structure, avoiding getting stabbed.

Naruto quickly used his ability to take Aeka into the reversed world where even Kagato is powerless to harm anybody.

And Kagato's astral self encountered the recently released Washu and the GXP officers who were busy trying to comprehend their situation and the sudden appearance of Aeka.

"I see that he and that clumsy officer made this easier for Ryoko to fight, even though my power can't reach here," the dastardly man remarked.

"If that's so, then just go away," Washu calmly replied, "I could just let you go, for old time's sake."

"Let me go?" Kagato reacted with a sneer.

"There are no hostages for you to toy with."

"Hostages... I'm no longer your assistant, Hakasé-san (professor). Do you assume that I haven't learned anything in the past 5000 years?"

"Then why don't you just shut up and face us?" Naruto dared.

"I don't have to, because I have what I need," Kagato said as he uses the gems inside the Soja to unleash a powerful laser cannon blast along with siphoning off Ryoko's gems to give it more power and prepare to fire the shot towards Earth.

However, Naruto smirked and said, "And do you assume that I haven't learned anything in the past 5000 years, Kagato?"

And the main cannon exploded from the discombobulation that is yet to be explained and Ryoko's power is significantly increased from the Soja's gems.

And by the time Kagato came to the facts, Naruto returned to the surface world and supported his wife from the sudden surge of power. The notorious space pirate was trolled by a trickster fox that somehow pulled a fast one on him.

[Meanwhile, in the Reversed World]

Washu gave out her explanation to the witnesses, "I nearly forgot about Naruto having a real nasty habit when it comes to pranking. He normally wouldn't do that to those that dare to anybody, unless of course, they upset him and Ryoko-chan."

Aeka and Kiyoné knew that lesson all too well, while Mihoshi became more fascinated with her aunt and uncle's personalities.

"The best laid plans of pirates and men gang aft agley, Kagato," Naruto declared as he and Ryoko prepared their energy sabers.

"How?" Kagato questioned as his aura began to spark electricity, "How did my cannon fail to reach the Earth where Yosho and Sasami are at?"

"Let's just say that your coveted, prized possessions are in a different location. It's surprising how even the Soja has a weak spot so obviously, now that you're wide open to attack."

"You don't mean…?" Kagato noticed a certain bead in Naruto's hand and that turned out to be one of Soja's crystal gems and made a wicked grin as he tossed the gem and shot it to atoms with a bolt shot with his finger.

"I'll get you for this, Naruto Hakubi!" Kagato swore as he was fit to be tied.

"I'm just the least of your concerns right now, temé," the crafty Naruto countered with a smirk, "Right now, you should be more aware of our surroundings, particularly from outside the ship."

And sure enough, the Soja was attacked by a volley of bolt shots, bypassing its already weakened shielding.

[Reversed World]

"The 10 wings of the Light Hawk!" Aeka declared to her company as she witnessed the phenomenon, "The most powerful ship of Jurai, Tsunami!"

"Is that so?" Washu rhetorically questioned.

[Real World]

"My shields aren't working," Kagato hissed, "But that's not all the rest of the gems can do. No, there's still more to come!"

"So this is the Ship of the Beginning," Ryoko quietly exclaimed.

"No doubt about it," Naruto said as he held hands with his wife, "Tsunami's ship is more magnificent than that of the Devil Princess of Jurai's. I wonder if Seto-san is onto us for dissing her brand of royalty?"

[Elsewhere, light-years away in the reaches of Outer Space]

Lady Seto, better known as the Devil Princess of Jurai, is busy capturing other bad pirates via the ZZZ (Triple Z) code as she feels a sudden draft coming through her robes.

Her secretary and head of the Juraian sector of GXP, Airi Magma Masaki (Yosho's common-law wife), notices that her superior is starting to let off a sinister smile. She hasn't had the sense of fun against Naruto and Ryoko in a long time after they were formerly wanted by the neighboring GXP for their so-called crimes.

(Seto hasn't met them in person yet, but the Hakubis have heard about her and her notoriety. Not to mention, she is a real "dominatrix" and a piece of work towards her prisoners.)

However, even though the charges have been proven to be nothing but fallacies, she still wanted to get to know them - the infamous pirate duo that have gotten away from her clutches who escaped the code.

Airi also wondered what happened to her closest kin and her husband after the death of her youngest daughter, Achika Kiyoné Masaki. She and her eldest daughter Minaho are going to have a long explanation with Yosho and Tenchi when they get back from their duties… after they get the wild and crazy Seto from completely losing her sanity.

Kagato turned to the regrouped Naruto and Ryoko and angrily said, "When I get through with the both of you, it'll be a pity that you won't live to see me as the ruler of the universe."

But suddenly, Kagato's arm started to distort and was soon ripped off.

"About time, Tenchi-milad. I… no, WE were afraid that you didn't make it out alive, ya know," Naruto declared with a smirk.

Tenchi arrived inside the battleship, fully recovered, and in his Juraian battle gear while his godparents sat on the sidelines with Azaka and Kamidaké, trying to catch their breath.

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To make the story of the battle short, after some swordplay and some underhanded tactics by Kagato, Tenchi almost lost against the pirate after he realized that he has been over-relying on the Ōken and awakened his true inner powers, with the help of Tsunami's advice and Naruto's guidance. The battle got extremely tense until the final blow…

*SLASH!* (Issen!)

Tenchi and Kagato dealt with their final fateful crossing. The Masaki recovered from a fatal blow with his regenerating ability. And Kagato?

"Tenchi… Same name as the Ōken. Well done, Tsunami. Tenchi can't be copied. Splendid plan… You've won, boy."

Kagato suffered a mortal wound as he was cut in two and his body slowly disintegrated, proving that he can't recover from it as he fades into nothing but a memory.

"Tenchi, you were brilliant, milad," Naruto said as he and Ryoko shook off the fatigue and hugged him.

[Reversed World]

"So this is the power of the Lighthawk's wings," Washu was fascinated, "I want to have that boy for my own!"

Suddenly, the Reversed World is returned back to its original state back into reality and the prisoners are now free from the Soja's dimensional bondage.

Naruto is reunited with his wife as they kiss each other like there is no tomorrow. (The other witnesses were blushing like crazy from watching the romantic display.) Ryo-ohki jumped on Naruto's shoulder and he petted and caressed her for a fine job. Tenchi (powered down to his regular battle gear) and the other women were also glad for Tenchi making it through the battle.

Then suddenly, Sasami appeared in the flesh and hugged not only Tenchi, but also Naruto and Ryoko, thanking God that they're still alive.

Washu then introduced herself to Tenchi as Ryoko's mother and Naruto's mother-in-law and then asked a rather odd question, "Would you like to be my guinea pig for my experiments?"

Tenchi flummoxed from the small woman's childish question as Naruto replied, "Don't worry, milad, Washu-okasan wouldn't go that far. In fact, I have a few things to ask her when we get home."

However, the moment of mirth suddenly stopped when the whole ship suddenly got sliced from Tenchi's power.

"Uh-oh, it looks like the Soja is also cut in half," Washu plainly explained.

"Tenchi, you're an idiot!" Naruto angrily exclaimed at his godson's mistake.

"Let's get out of here!" everybody else yelled as they managed to escape via Ryo-ohki's battleship form before the former Destroyer Ship Soja exploded to smithereens in the silence of Outer Space.

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[Masaki Residence, Earth]

Everything is back into their own routine in the residence and apartment.

Aeka is still getting used to life as a plebian, no royalties or being given things on a silver platter. Of course, she still has trouble when it comes to home cooking, but she's actually very good with knitting (if she puts her mind on the job). She wonders whatever happened to her family from planet Jurai, especially her stepmother (Yosho's mother) Funaho, her flippant but kind-hearted mother Misaki, and her hard-nosed father and current ruler of Jurai - Azusa.

Sasami is becoming a better housewife for a girl her age. In fact, she became good friends with her classmates at her school not far from the residence: Misao Amano (the shy brunette with an alter ego), Makoto Hozumi (the short girl with a "growing" issue), Tsukasa Takaminé (the taller, thinner girl with a rather emotionless face), and Anri Misugi (AKA "An-An", a girl coming from a large family and has a hobby for daubing).

Ryo-ohki is enjoying the scenery with her small body. She later learns how to do other tricks and even transforms into a giant robot that either Sasami or Ryoko can pilot. The cabbit also stays with Washu during school as a class pet. (Of course, some students in the school have a tough time pronouncing her name from the complicated kanji, calling her "Roy-ohki", to which the cabbit corrects the little mistake.)

Mihoshi is writing up the report of Kagato and his subsequent demise. (Naruto helped with his niece's grammar and details, and made a copy of the report to be sent to GXP.) She learned from "Uncle" Naruto that Washu is also related to her by DNA and RNA tests. However, Washu doesn't really like to be called a great-great...grandmother that honorably, so Mihoshi decided to keep the relationship as "friendly" as possible. She also types in letters to her family, particularly her mother Mitoto who shows up all over the place with her space-time bending trait until she wounds up in (of all places) Lady Seto's ship, her younger and overprotective brother Misao (who she hasn't seen in a long time) is still working abroad in his battleship Chōbimaru elsewhere in another part of the galaxy with his former personal teacher Mashisu (a Seniwan unrelated to the Kuramitsus). She later takes a full-time job in Sasami's school (in cognita) as a teacher, even though she goofs up from time to time.

"Eeek! I forgot my skirt!" (She has most of her clothes on except that her sexy panties and pantyhose were showing unintentionally in front of her class.)

Kiyoné writes up her side of the report. Of course, she was still technically Naruto and Ryoko's prisoner, so she ends up being a masochistic 'human pet' whenever she feels sexually frustrated or if Washu needed her for some assistance. She decides to take a part-time job (with GXP's permission and also in cognita) as an assistant teacher at Sasami's school (by a matter of coincidence) and so far, things are going along rather well until an emergency is called.

Washu manages to have her personal laboratory in the unused closet under the 1st - 2nd floor stairs. She shows up now and then to take a break from her research to spend time with friends and family in the house. She often takes anybody in the residence to become her personal lab rats - particularly and interestingly, Tenchi. Later, she hired herself in Sasami's school as a school nurse (again, coincidental) and became the head supervisor of a cooking club whenever school was less busy. Nothing is what it seems in the school whenever she's around.

Naruto's doubles are busy sorting out the lost treasures of the destroyed and raided planets before planning to send them to a GXP-sanctioned museum or back to their respective owners.

The original Naruto is busy training Tenchi to help better control his skill after his last foul-up. He also helps his former prisoners to adjust to living on Earth, including learning the lost arts of the tribes.

In the meantime, Azaka and Kamidaké are acting as security monitors and mailboxes when the paperboy puts in the newspaper, only to be frightened by their appearances. (💧)

In the meantime, the friends and family in the Masaki household (before school begins again) started their usual routines, with Aeka and Ryoko arguing again, horsing around, with Mihoshi and Kiyoné caught in the middle. Washu is in the middle of an experiment when a mishap happens, causing a big explosion.

But for now, all is peaceful on Planet Earth for the time being.

Omaké

Naruto and Ryoko called to the Washu's newly constructed lab door located originally from the closet under the stairs. They realize that there must be something important. They entered the lab where it turned out to be much like their living quarters: a built-in subspace with means of survival, tranquility, and an off-site laboratory for her experiments and theories.

In this case, however, Washu prepared 2 tables set for 2 people as she asked them to strip down so that she can do a project.

"Before I sent you away years ago, I took a precaution of sealing your reproductive abilities to make sure Kagato doesn't use your family to his advantage."

"Well, your plan, Mom, took 5000 years too long," Ryoko complained, "We just wanted a real family to raise on our own. A child that we really want together by our bonds."

"But you adopted and raised many children, Ryoko," Washu remarked, "There's no shame in becoming parents to the orphaned and the unfortunate."

"You didn't raise us at all," Naruto complainingly reposted, "We had to learn the hard way of what parenthood was all about, after we found the poor children, practically forsaken by their societies of life."

"Yes, but no matter how hard we tried, we still couldn't bear any children of our own," Ryoko added, "We wanted to be real parents, to be as close to be human beings to carry on our progeny."

Washu uses her mobile computer screens to x-ray her two subjects and find the source of the problems. Kagato tries to spite his worst enemies by using a sealing array - one set on Ryoko's ovaries and uterus and another set on Naruto's testes - straight out of a certain Octopus doctor to simply annoy them and prevent any positive pregnancies. Washu is impressed that these arrays didn't cause any serious complications, but nevertheless, she safely removed the seals completely.

When the lovers came out of bed, they felt more alive than ever as they started saying sweet things to each other before they started embracing and kissing.

"Alright, alright, you two, get a room," Washu waved off, "If you want to do it, do it elsewhere. And Naruto, if you want to add another "friend" to your party, please don't hesitate to ask me or a few others. I'm sure Ryoko-chan wouldn't mind."

Ryoko blushed madly at her mother's strange idea and Naruto cleared his throat and answered, "We're gonna need a moment." And they redressed themselves and left the lab.

Washu hopes that she'll have grandchildren to spoil and maybe have more additions of her own to the family.

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The End… for now...

A/N : And that's the end of the adaptation of Series 1. But there's the Bonus Episode coming next. There are other plans in the works, but it'll work out for the best, I hope.

And the heat will be on!

-blukmage19