Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ Ginkoneko Hikari ❯ The Past Can't be Changed, the Future Can ( Chapter 11 )

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"Okay, back with my story. Some of you must think that 40,000 years is a very long torture for
Ryoko, not being with Tenchi for so long and still loves him. She lives in complete agony.
Well, I like to exaggerate with almost everything I write."









~Ginkoneko Hikari~ By Saiyan Moon Goddess

~Chapter 11: The Past Can't Be Changed, The Future Can~







Ginkoneko and Trunks were sucked into the glowing crystal ball. After a few seconds they were
thrown back out of it, literally. They fell to the cold, hard floor, away from each other.

Trunks groaned and sat up, rubbing his head. A headache threatened to start. He glanced at
Ginkoneko as he remembered, what he saw. Inmense shock covered his features.

"Koneko..." was all he managed to say.

Ginkoneko lay on the floor with her eyes wide open, staring at the dark ceiling above her. She
stayed motionless.

"Koneko-chan."

Trunks crawled over to his young wife and reached out to touch her face, which now look very
pale. Suddenly the silver-haired woman sat up and stood up slowly, ignoring her husband.

"Koneko?"

Trunks stood up as well. Then he saw it. Her golden eyes were sparkling with tears, which ran
uncontrollably down her cheeks. She didn't blink. As the demi-saiyan reached out to touched her
again, Ginkoneko swerved and ran out of the large room as fast as she could.

"KONEKO!"

On her way out, Ginkoneko accidently hit the floating crystal ball with her arm. The crystal
ball lost its balance and fell to the floor. It shattered into thousands of small pieces.
Ryoko's crystal ball was ruined, but it wasn't as broken as Ginkoneko's heart.



Ginkoneko ran aimlessly through the giant palace. She cried and cried and didn't even know where
she was heading. Until she saw someone standing in her path. It was Tsunami. She stopped in
front of the goddess. Tsunami looked at her with guilt and sympathy as she spoke.

"You saw everything." she said.

Ginkoneko nodded, somehow she didn't have enough strength to talk. There was silence. After about
two minutes, Ginkoneko found the strength to use her vocal cords once again.

"Where is she?" her voice came out in a low, hoarse whisper.

Tsunami nodded to her. "Please try to talk some sense into her. You're the only one who can.
Right now is when you need each other the most."

As soon as she said that, Ginkoneko disappeared in thin air.


She reappeared again in what looked like a forest. She felt a weak ki nearby and followed it.
She came to the edge of a very small cliff, and Ryoko was sitting on the edge. Her legs hang on
the cliff's edge, her hands rested on her knees as she stared at the bright moon in the sky,
keeping her back to Ginkoneko. Obviously she was hidding her ki.

When Ginkoneko took another step foward, Ryoko stood up. Silence...She slowly turned around and
faced her daughter. Her face was blank, but Ginkoneko could see she had been crying. Her eyes
were slightly red and tear-stained, the tears that already escaped her eyes had dried in her
cheeks by the cold wind blowing. Ryoko gave her a knowing stare and opened her arms in front
of her, welcoming. Ginkoneko didn't say a word. She ran to her mother and hugged her. Ryoko
embraced her and Ginkoneko sobbed quietly, crying on her shoulder. Neither of them talked. The
silver goddess stroke Ginkoneko's back comfortingly, then stroke her head and held her closer.

Ginkoneko held on to her mother, afraid that if she let go, she would leave. She's the only
one she had from her past life. Ryoko, the survivor, who had been alone for 40,000 years.
Ginkoneko mentally asked herself how could Ryoko stand so many years of loneliness, but she might
as well not ask. She didn't want to make her remember the hell she went through. And who knows
what other horrible things will happen when Shi comes back. Will she lose her mother again?
She's mortal now, she could die if Shi is more powerful than before. Will she lose Trunks, her
love? What about her friends?

And Ryoko, for the first time in 40 millenias, felt warm.



Back at the palace, Trunks had rejoined the others. They all waited for Ginkoneko to come back.
Later, the door to the room opened and everyone looked up, but it was Tsunami who looked back
at them.

"Tsunami, where's Koneko?", Trunks asked.

"She went back to the Earth." Everyone gasped, but before anyone could speak she continued.
"She's with Ryoko right now. We have to give them some time alone. There's something important
I have to ask of you."

Everyone stayed silent, so she continued.

"Shi is coming back to try and take Ryoko's power again. He has no interest in Ginkoneko's
power, but since she's Ryoko's daughter, she's in terrible danger as well. Apparently, when Shi
died by Ryoko's 'suicide' attack, his soul managed to excape before he could be send to hell.
He came back to the living world. The only way he knew to come back to life was to possess
a living body, but since he destroyed all life in the universe, he was to roam around it until
he could find someone. Many years after the new universe was created, Shi went to the nearest
planet and possessed the body of a young saiyan. With Shi inside of him, he became even more
powerful and reached a level called Super Saiyan. Shi used that power to try and destroy a whole
planet. Shi immediately searched for a way into the Goddess Realm. When he didn't find any, he
continued to destroy all life on the planet to lure Ryoko out. She battled Shi and won. Then,
when she was about to kill him, he threw himself into a black hole. Ryoko left him. In his new
body he didn't have the power to escape a black hole, so he would be trapped until he died from
his injuries. After Ginkoneko was first attacked by Shi, Ryoko and I found out what happened.
He had survived the battle with Ryoko and became powerful enough to escape the black hole
he was trapped in for thousands of years. Since he lived far more than saiyans did, his being
inside the saiyan body made it live longer. He doesn't look a day old from the day he fought
with Ryoko."

She took a deep breath. "He seeks revenge on Ryoko. I'm just asking for your help in this war
against Shi. He's too powerful right now, maybe as powerful as Ryoko, so the more help we have,
the more changes we'll have of winning. What do you say?"

Trunks stood up, looking very serious. "I'm in." The others too.

"You can count on me. Nobody will hurt my best friend or her mother." said Bra.

"Me too. And I'll talk to dad. He can help." said Goten.

Vegeta snorted, crossed his arms, and nodded.

Tsunami nodded. "As soon as Ginkoneko and Ryoko come back, you'll begin your training. You
cannot defeat Shi as you are now."



"Mother, have you really not seen father for 40,000 years?"

Ryoko and Ginkoneko sat next to each other on the edge of the cliff. Ginkoneko's head rested on
her mother's shoulder while Ryoko had her right arm wrapped around her shoulders, holding her
close. They both stared at the moon.

"Not really." replied Ryoko. "A few years after I helped creating this universe, I started
dreaming of him. Not every night, but I saw him. Those dreams were memories from before you
were born. From the day I met Tenchi to the day I found out I was pregnant of you. Sometimes
those dreams turned into nightmares, changing into my memories of when I fought Shi and his
minions. When I had those nightmares, I refused to sleep and dedicated my time to watch my two
favorite planets: The Earth and Vegeta. For me, watching the saiyans fight and destroy things
was a way to relieve my anger, and when I watched the beautiful planet Earth, I just wanted
peace. When the humans created many wars amongst themselves it didn't surprise me. Humans were
primitive and hungry for power. Few of them tried to achieve world peace, but if the human
race didn't changed, that could be almost imposible. I always prefered when the wars ended."

"So dad and the others are in heaven, right?" said Ginkoneko. "I wish I could see them again.
But what's gonna happen now? Shi is coming back, isn't he?"

"Yes, we should go back to the moon. You and your friends have training to do."

"What kind of training?"

"In the state you all are now you're not even powerful enough to face me. So if you go against
Shi right now it would be suicide."

Ryoko stood up and offered a hand to Ginkoneko. Ginkoneko grabbed her hand and stood to her feet
as well.

"Let's go back." Ryoko placed her hand on Ginkoneko's shoulder and they both disappeared.



Tsunami stood up from her seat and glanced at the door. She smiled.

"They're back." she said. The Z gang looked up as the door opened and Ryoko and Ginkoneko
entered the room.

"Ginkoneko, are you alright now?" Trunks asked as his wife stood still.

Ginkoneko nodded and smiled at him.

"I'm ready." she said.

"Where are you gong to train?" said Bulma.

Tsunami turned to her and went to say something, but Ryoko interrupted her.

"Let Goku lead the way." she said, crossing her arms.

"Good luck, Tsunami said, and with a wave of her hand, everyone, but herself, disappeared.



As soon as everyone was back on the Earth, they went to Goku's house. Then, along with him and
ChiChi (who insisted to come along), went to Dende's place in the sky. After telling Dende and
Popo about their situation, they let them use the Room of Time and Space (Did I spell that right?
If I didn't, tell me and I'll fix it.) Ryoko and Ginkoneko went first. They started training
immediately.

"Give me your best shot." said Ryoko.

Ginkoneko flew to her and delivered the first blow, but Ryou dodged it and gave one of her own
to the girl's gut. She was sent flying a few feet before she regained her balance. She held
her stomach and gasped for air.

'My God! She's so strong and fast!'

Ryoko teleported in front of her. "Looks like we have a lot of training to be done. You're too
slow kitten. Are your powers and inteligence as bad as this too?" she mocked her.

Ginkoneko glared at her mother. "How can you say that?"

"Don't make me think that you're not worthy of being my daughter. Or is it true?" Ryoko smirked.

"Why you-!!" Ginkoneko delivered another punch, with more speed this time. Her mother was still
too fast and she got knocked back again, more hardly this time.

Ryoko floated above her. "And don't let you anger blind you. I'm not going to have any mercy
with you. I'm planning on toughing you up."

Ginkoneko got up slowly, still glaring. She looks up at the goddess with a determined look.

"So be it!" She lunged again.

Punch after punch, kick after kick, and blast after blast, the goddess and her daughter trained
hard. They even used their light sabers. Ginkoneko ended up with a lot of bruises, but she was
proud that she managed to give a few bruises to her mother herself.

'Mom is so strong. Not even Trunks, who was the hardest to take down for me, has ever been so...
tough.' she winced as she touched her wounded shoulder. It felt like it was on fire. 'She's
probably still training.' Right now, Ryoko was nowhere in sight. She has left Ginkoneko alone
in a room and healed only her serious injuries. Ginkoneko smiled a little. 'Nobody has ever been
so hard on me in a fight. In training, Trunks was always going easy on me. But mother doesn't
so that.....I think I like it.' She lay on her bed and fell asleep.


Meanwhile, Ryoko trained by herself. Even with all the power, fighting skills, and cunning she
had, she still felt somewhat, unsatisfied. She wanted to be at her best.

'I failed them all before. I CAN'T let it happen AGAIN!' Ryoko thought as she pushed herself
harder. But something still plagued her mind,...memories...of the one she loves. A tear escaped
her eye. 'Tenchi.'




Lord Enma was busy working as usual, when a knocking came to his door.

"Who is it? I'm busy!" he said.

A man entered the room with a paper in hand. "Lord Enma, I have a letter for you. It's very
important!"

Enma took the letter and read it. His eyes widened and he turned to the man, glaring. "Is this
person serious?! Who sent this?!" he demanded.

"I forgot his name, sorry sir. But he has one of the all powerfull goddesses at his side. I
don't think it's wise to turn don't his request."

Enma sighed, feeling defeated. His word was nothing against the Goddesses' word. "Very well, if
this a direct order from the Goddess Realm, I can't refuse."




*DREAM*


Ginkoneko saw the broken house once again.

'Home.' she thought. 'I can't believe it ended up like this. So this was our old house when Shi
destroyed us all.'

The younger version of herself appeared beside her. Ginkoneko turned to her and smiled.

"Hi."

Surprisingly, the girl smiled. "Mummy came back, right?"

The older girl nodded. "Yes, she's back. And now I remembered who I really am."

"I always wondered about something....Um...why didn't you wish Haiku back to life with the
dragon balls since her death wasn't natural?"

At that, memories of her foster mother came back to Ginkoneko and her eyes filled with tears
of sorrow. She looks away from the little one. "I...I couldn't do that to her. She.........She
was going to die anyway."

"Huh?"

"You see, Haiku's life period was going to be a short one. She had cancer."

"How come I never knew?" said the little girl.

The tears fell. "With treatment, Haiku only had a few years to live, and she insisted that I
lived my life as if she didn't have the fatal illness. That something like that could happen to
anyone and that it shouldn't ruin our happiness. Around my friends, I acted as if nothing was
wrong, but when Haiku died, a big question plagued me forever: 'Was it better that she died
in the car accident or was it better that she died of the cancer?' I never found an answer to
that."

The girl went over and hugged her older self tighly on the waist. "It'll be okay." she said in a
soft voice.

Ginkoneko bent over and hugged the little one back.

*Koneko-chan.*

Ginkoneko almost jumped out of her skin as she heard someone whispering her name. The little
girl suddenly pulled away from her and turned to look behind her. Ginkoneko looked up and saw a
bright light in front of them.

"What-?"

The little girl's eyes filled with joyous tears. "It's..."

*Do not worry, you wont fight alone.*


*END DREAM*


Ryoko suddenly stopped training as she felt a familiar presence nearby. But as soon as the
feeling came, it was gone. Shrugging, she continued training.

To Be Continued.......





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