No Need For Crossovers!
Chapter 6
Two amber eyes shifted nervously as their owner made her way slowly down the dirt road that lead to the fields, a shaky hand quickly flew up in an attempt to tame the wild hair that was being gently whipped about by the midsummer breeze….
"Shiiiiit, what am I being so serious about? Huh? I mean come on! I'm Ryoko! Jeesh, if I'm going to let this get to me then I really have become weak!" The space pirate scoffed as she puffed out her chest, "Or… Not." She said letting her breath escape in a long sigh, her shoulders slumping.
'Who am I kidding?' She thought glancing down at the bento boxes and thermos in her left hand, 'That a little food is gonna make every thing better?' She frowned slightly, "Oh, here Tenchi! I brought you your lunch!" Ryoko exclaimed before splitting herself into two separate beings.
"Thank you, Ryoko! Oh I see you just came from the onsen, you smell…. Lovely." The young woman said in a slightly deeper voice, the other then spun on her heel and held a hand up to her face.
"Oh Tenchi…! How kind of you to notice!" She giggled in a girlish tone, extending her left hand back towards him (her) the bento boxes shifting slightly from the wind. The doppelganger's expression fell into an almost hurt pout.
"But Ryoko… Why didn't you invite me to the bath? You know, you wash my back I wash yours? No Aeka to bother us…"
"Oh I'm sorry Tenchi I already had someone to wash my back…"
"Really? More mother daughter bonding time?"
"No… Not really, Sesshomaru and I were doing a little bonding, you know… Just uh, bathing together…" She answered with a nervous chuckle; the Ryoko acting like Tenchi suddenly had a myriad of expressions cross her features until the crazy roulette finally stopped on confused.
"How would he even react to that?" She asked in a sheepish voice, the other shook her head, contemplated it for a moment then shrugged.
Ryoko returned to a single body with a small hiss, she then teleported away. "Ah, good, nice and dry…" She said playing with a cyan lock with a slight twirl of her slender fingers, feeling a bit more at ease now that she didn't look like she'd just been at the onsen. Hopefully now her little role-play wouldn't become a reality anytime soon.
The young woman walked forward slowly, her fingers grasped tightly around the meal she was planned on giving to Tenchi. She could hear the young man as he worked the field just beyond the tree line.
Tenchi grunted as he turned the field, sweat pouring down his face and back as he moved. Working in the fields had always been a wonderful way to relieve stress and take his mind off of anything worrysome or irritating but it was giving him no aid today.
The thought of the newcomer having free roam of his home set his blood boiling, not to mention the girl's were slowly taking a shine to him. Regardless of whether or not he had attempted to attack one of them or not and Tenchi hated to admit it but it hurt him even more that the demon had tried to attack him and the girls were fine with the beast living amongst them.
'Especially Ryoko...' He thought, his chest tightening in disgust, 'She always goes on and on about how much I mean to her and how she'd do anything to protect me and then she sides with him? She doesn't even KNOW him!' He thought angrily, sitting down the fuming young man pressed the palms of his hands against his eye sockets. He didn't like feeling this way, he didn't like being angry and that only made his rage grow. This demon had to go because if nothing else, his prescense was making a monster out of Tenchi.
"Tenchi?" Ryoko called out as she hovered across the field, she could see the young man sitting on the ground in a rather frustrated position. Her brows furrowed in worry when he did not immediately respond, "Tenchi, are you all right?" She asked in a softer tone as she drew closer, he finally removed his hands from his face and stared at her in a tired way.
"Yeah, I'm fine." He said pulling the dirty work gloves free from his sweaty hands, Ryoko landed about a foot from him and her hand immediately went to the back of her neck. A role reversal, she scratched nervously at the base of her hairline.
"I brought you some lunch," Ryoko said, holding the bento out to Tenchi, he stared at her blankly for a moment before finally taking the box from outstretched hand.
"Thank you." He said said in a flat tone, Ryoko frowned slightly and paused for a moment before turning to head back to the house. "Ryoko, before you go... I'm sorry for how I've been acting, I shouldn't take it out on you. But, I don't feel comfortable keeping that... Man here, we'll help him get better but once he's recovered... He's gone."
Ryoko froze, she could feel anger tightening her chest at Tenchi's tone but she said nothing in response before slowly floating away to leave the young man with his meal.
Inuyasha growled suddenly as they approached a rather ominous looking cave, "Do you feel that, Miroku?" He whispered, the monk nodded and motioned for the others to stop moving.
The Hanyou slowly unsheathed his sword and made his way into the cave, Miroku not far behind. The two of them stared into the darkness but there was nothing but stone, Inuyasha huffed and sheathed his father's fang. "Well, you can definitely smell the miasma, Naraku has been through here for sure."
Miroku glanced at the half demon, his defensive stance still up, "Yes but he's no longer here, so where did he go?"
"You two can relax, the black haired guy went through here a while ago, he used his shikon shards to go to the future." A woman's voice stated calmly from the shadows, the sudden noise causing Inuyasha to immediately become alert.
"Who the hell are you? Show yourself!" He barked, his sword taking its full size as he sniffed the air for any sign of the voice's owner.
"Over here, don't worry. I can't do anything, not given my position anyway." Miroku spotted the pale glowing figure first, his features immediately relaxing.
"What is a beautiful woman like you doing trapped in an aweful place like this?" He asked in a concerned voice, Inuyasha glared at him, obviously unamused by the monk's advances on the spirit.
"MIROKU!" Sango cried as she ran into the cave, Rin held tightly in her arms, the others quickly following on her heels. Chuckling nervously the monk hid behind Inuyasha as the demon slayer scowled venemously at him.
"I was trapped here two hundered years ago by the priest who owns these grounds, I already talked to someone resembling the dog earred boy over there. He said he'd help me get out of this place if I helped him chase this Naraku of yours." Ryoko responded, watching the demon slayer's emotions with amusement.
Inuyasha scoffed at her response, "Feh, good luck with that one. Kagome, hand me the jewel shards, we need to follow him!" Kagome nodded and quickly retrieved the shards from her back pack and threw them to Inuyasha.
He turned his sharp eyes back to Ryoko, "How do we follow them?" He asked in a low voice as he sheathed his weapon. She folded her arms over her chest and arched a pale brow.
"Promise to get me out of here if I tell you?" She said, narrowing her eyes as the Hanyou let out a low growl.
"Sure, whatever lady! Just tell us how to work this damn cave!" He spat out, Kagome placed her hand on his shoulder in an attempt to calm him down.
Ryoko sighed, "Well, I don't know if I can really trust any of you to carry through with your word... But I guess I'll bank on Karma to get me out of here even if you losers don't... Make sure you're all touching one another and the holder of the jewel shards needs to focus all of his or her energy on them. The cave will do the rest...."
A loud smack echoed through the cave as Sango punished Miroku for attempting to cop a feel, the rest of the group silently moved closer together and made a physical connection to the next. Inuyasha held the jewels firmly in his hands and closed his eyes, the cave suddenly was a light with a purple-ish white flash and then the group was thrown through the nothingness of space and time only to land roughly on the cold cavern floor once again.
Ah-Un grunted as it rose to its feet, and Miroku was once again slapped for his wandering hands. Kagome smoothed down her skirt and made her way to the front of the cave, she could see a house down below where the clearing had once before been empty, "Look guys, I think it worked!" Sango moved forward slowly, Rin clinging to her side.
"So this is what your era looks like, Kagome?" She asked slowly her eyes sweeping over the landscape. The other girl nodded as she returned her shards to her backpack.
"Very similar, if not the same, I don't know exactly where we are or what time we're in but we're definintely not in feudal Japan anymore. C'mon you guys, lets get moving!" She said heading out into the mid afternoon sun.
Washu smiled as she and Sesshomaru made their way out of the Onsen, "Those clothes look wonderful on you! I'm glad I looked into that, how do they feel?" She asked in an excited tone, the Youkai looked down at the blue, black, grey and amber colored robes.
"They're comfortable, for the time being. Where are my blades?" He asked his cold amber eyes locking with her excited emerald.
"They're in my lab, I'll give them to you as soo- What the hell?" The diminutive scientist stopped mid step and word as a large energy force registered once again up by the cave, her eyes flew up towards the mountains.
"What is it?" The demon growled, he could sense her sudden apprehension and was feeling his own begin to sink in.
"I'm getting the same feeling I got the other day, when you showed up. There's something else up there!" She cried, Washu closed her eyes and tried to reach Ryoko, luckily the ex pirate was not far away, seeing as she was still heading home from the fields. 'Ryoko! Meet me up at the cave, now!' Washu thought, adding as much urgancy to her tone as possible. Ryoko's response was quick and Washu opened her eyes to see Sesshomaru standing alert his eyes beginning to turn red, "Ryoko is going to meet us up me up at the cave, I want you to head back down to my lab, alright?"
Before the scientist could say anything more the demon had taken off at an alarming speed, his run setting him on a straight course up the mountain towards the cave. Washu felt her chest tighten, without his weapons and being far from fully healed the demon was putting himself in a very dangerous position if whatever had just appeared was in anyway a threat.
'Ryoko! You have to hurry, Sesshomaru took off before I could stop him, I'll see you up there!'
Ryoko felt her heart drop into her stomach when she heard Washu's last mental message, she focused her energy and willed herself to teleport up to the cave that had been giving her hell ever since she landed on Earth over seven hundred years ago....
Okay, so obviously you and I know that its not Naraku but this should still be a pretty dramatic part. Ryoko, Sesshomaru and Washu have no idea who's up there, the Inu gang has no clue who's coming and Tenchi and the gang don't even know what's going on. So for all of you wondering if the rest of the casts were going to clash? The answer is yes, and it's going to be soon. I'm out of college for the summer and I plan on working on BOTH of my Tenchi fanfictions, as I warned in Tsuki No Tragedy, I no longer have Microsoft word and am forced to use Wordpad which has no spell check or anything so I am sorry for any mistakes you might find. Thanks for all that read before and will continue reading, I'll try to update as soon as possible, please review! :D