Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction ❯ What Should Have Been ❯ Chapter Eight ( Chapter 8 )
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By: RingPrincess 
Questions that haunt us are about to be answered. . .
Anime/Manga: Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Drama / Comedy / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.01.2003 | Pages: 6 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 449 | Status: Completed
Questions that haunt us are about to be answered. . .
Anime/Manga: Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Drama / Comedy / Angst | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 04.01.2003 | Pages: 6 | Words: 2.9K | Visits: 449 | Status: Completed
A/N The owner of Tenchi Muyo is actually Pioneer and AIC and some author, whom I give
many thanks for creating such a wonderful universe and characters and a truly
unique situation. Cheers.
however the ideas in this story are mine, if you wish to use them contact
me FIRST at either ring_princess@hotmail.com or ring_princess2001@yahoo.com the worst
I'll say is no.
(okay generally I don't like describing meals. And I have been doing that a lot
in this story. However, certain plot points have been created during mealtimes here.
and hopefully, in my opinion this will be the last meal I describe for a LONG time.)
What Should Have Been
Chapter Eight: Hazardous Relations
The royal family descended the stairs. A mix of Athena and Funaho walked between Azusa and
Misaski, darker complexion and eyes, but Athena's hair and build.
Yosho jumped from the table. "Mother," He gasped. "Is there something wrong?"
Funaho smiled at her son. "Nothing is wrong, in fact everything is the most right it has
been in a long time."
"What happened?"
"Oh, Yosho." Funaho came and hugged her son. "I am just a bit different, but I am still
your mother." She smiled. "I told your father who I also am."
Yosho for the first time in many years was stunned by what his mother was saying. "I don't
get it."
"Obviously." Washu droned, her eyes sparkling. "Perhaps you should be an apprentice, Lady
Funaho, or is it Athena." Washu winked.
Funaho laughed slightly, pulling away from Yosho and holding him at arms length. "You
have the blood of a goddess in your veins, my son. I am also Athena, a Goddess to the
Greeks."
"You weren't born, but arose from the head of Zeus in full battle armor." Ryoko murmured
from her corner of the table next to Tenchi.
Funaho laughed again. "Correct, Ryoko."
Funaho forced her son to sit back down and sat down next to him. She picked up the tea pot
and poured into the cup in front of him. "Yosho, it is really quite simple. On a journey
long long ago, I met your father here in Japan, where I was known as Funaho. I fell in love
and left with him for Jurai, leaving my other family behind." She grinned. "It was a
concious choice and they were very put out, but learned to deal."
"Shall we meet them, Aunt Funaho?" Sasami asked, accepting the news with the bliss of the
young.
"We might." Funaho winked at her neice.
"Perhaps sooner than you think." Tokimi added.
"You seem to know more than you are willing to tell, Lady Tokimi." Yoru raised his eyebrows.
"I know what I know, Mr. Yoru." Tokimi shrugged. "All in due time."
Ayeka was carefully swallowing the tea she had been sipping, when her
mouth was clear she gasped, "A Goddess!"
Funaho nodded.
"It is quite the relations you have, Tenchi." Yoru chuckled.
Mihoshi nodded. "Yes, even Tokimi is. . ."
"In due time, Mihoshi." Tokimi placed her hand on Mihoshi's arm. Mihoshi looked at her
and Tokimi suddenly delved into her mind.
::You were right, sister. Head trauma. Easily corrected.::
::NOT at the breakfast table, Tokimi!:: Tsunami chided.
::I agree.:: Washu snorted. ::You also know it is rude to delve into someone's mind
without permission, drop her.::
::Oh, fine.:: Tokimi let go of Mihoshi's mind.
Thankfully nobody had noticed, most being focused on Funaho.
"What is it like to be a Goddess?"
"Boring." Funaho grinned. "Except if your people have wars, then you can meddle." She
shrugged. "Like the Trojan war for instance."
"Wasn't it all over a woman?"
"Supposedly, but the Greeks had more reasons to go to Troy than just Helen." Funaho rolled
her eyes.
"Helen was supposedly very beautiful." Yoru took a sip of tea. "But to go after Troy for
her would have been foolish."
"Many foolish things have been done over a woman." Washu raised her eyebrows, green eyes
twinkling. "Mr. Yoru, I am sure you have done foolish things for your late wife, to make
her happy."
Yoru spit out his tea into his cup. "Ms. Washu, how did you know?"
Washu laughed and Tokimi chuckled. "All men have done foolish things for their wives."
Tokimi waved her hand.
"Be aware of making too general of a statement." Funaho grinned.
Sasami wrinkled her nose. "That would be unfair, to the men it wasn't foolish, especially
if it made the woman happy. Was Helen happy after she left the Greeks?"
"You ask if she was happy with Paris?" Athena sighed. "Yes, she was and that is why the
story is so sad. Menelaus had no right to try to take her back, beyond the right that
marriage gave him. He wasn't prepared to be the husband of Helen of Sparta." Funaho
suddenly laughed. "This is of course after over a thousand years of reflection, at the
time I was still mad at Paris for rejecting my offer." Funaho's hand unconciously reached
down and squeezed Azusa's, who was sitting next to her. "The follies of youth."
"There is much more that happened than what you are saying, Funaho." Washu said gravely.
"That is why I left, Olympus." Funaho sighed. "I left because we were too involved, to
close and too much like the mortals themselves. All the squabbles, all the infighting,
backstabbing and intrigues."
"You were well prepared for the life at Juraian Court." Aeka said smoothly.
Funaho laughed. "You are right." She shook her head. "However, the life of an Olympian
is twice if not three times as bad as the life of a Juraian Queen, I think I made the
correct choice."
Tokimi grinned. "Only in hindsight will anyone ever know that."
Tenchi cleared his throat. "Now that is wisdom." He raised his tea glass in a toast
to Tokimi.
Washu and Funaho laughed.
Tokimi looked at Tenchi. "You owe me an explanation, Sir Knight." She raised her
eyebrows and tilted her head back.
"Oh, that." Tenchi grinned sheepishly.
"Yes, that." Ryoko poked him sharply in the ribs. "Go on, tell her."
Tenchi shook his head. "You see Tokimi, it is a bit of an inside joke. You are not the
first person to show up unexpectedly at my home. The first was Ryoko, sort of."
Ryoko snickered. "You set me free and then are surprised that I show up in your house."
::Did it have to be the bedroom, Ryoko?::
::Yes.::
Tenchi rolled his eyes. "Anyways, Aeka shows up, then Sasami and Mihoshi and Washu and
Kiyone and then Azusa, Funaho and Misaski, now you and who knows who is coming next. I
have given up thinking about it."
Tokimi smiled. "I get it. I really do, your life has been upset so many times you just
make a joke of it than get mad or angry."
"Yep, that is about it."
"And to make it worse, everyone is related to each other in some way or the other." Tokimi
grinned.
"Exactly. Washu is Ryoko's mother, Kiyone is Mihoshi's partner, Aeka and Sasami are sisters
and those three," he gestured at Azusa, Funaho and Misaski, "are their parents. You are
Washu's sister and Yoru, you should feel priveleged you are the only EXPECTED guest that was
invited in a very long time."
Yoru narrowed his eyes. "I don't know whether to feel honored or not."
"You don't have much company then?"
"I have company, just no one from earth and many things around here would be rather
difficult to explain to a native. Hell, I have a hard time with them myself at times."
"But he is getting better." Ryoko broke in to his rambling.
"Besides, who would actually understand and not mention it to others." Tenchi shrugged
and shook his head.
Ryoko ruffled his hair. "He is so cute."
"Ryoko." Tenchi grabbed her hand. "That isn't what you said the other day."
Ryoko flushed and smirked. "I have the right to change my mind."
Tenchi smirked. "Then change it."
::Wipe that sexy smirk off your face, Tenchi, before I do something I won't regret.::
Ryoko giggled mentally.
::Lovebirds, you are at the table.:: Washu broke in. "Speak outloud."
Both of them turned their heads to look at her. "You were speaking to someone mentally
earlier." Ryoko pointed at her. "So, don't be a hypocrite."
"That was different."
"In no way was it any different." Ryoko snorted.
"So many women, my son. You should share." Noboyuki said as he sat down at the table.
Food began to be passed around, for they were only waiting for him.
Tenchi flushed. "Dad, it is nothing of the sort."
Ryoko grinned. "I don't think Ayeka would actually be content in dating an earthling."
Ayeka snickered at Ryoko. "Only you would demean yourself in that manner."
"Hey, my Tenchi is the first crown prince of Jurai."
"That is besides the point." Ayeka said calmly.
"How is his title besides the point?" Ryoko growled.
"He doesn't want to use it."
Tenchi looked between them and sighed. "Says who?"
"You, Tenchi." Ayeka raised her eyebrows.
"I don't want to use it because it means NOTHING here on earth. On Jurai, yes, but we are
not on Jurai, we are on earth." Tenchi said reasonably.
"Point Tenchi." Ryoko crowed.
"You make it sound like you'll go to Jurai." Yosho observed.
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't." Tenchi stared at his grandfather. "It will be our decision."
"Thank you for remembering to include me." Ryoko sniffed.
"I could never forget you, Ryoko." Tenchi grinned.
"You better not."
"Considering she is the only woman who will put up with you." Ayeka added.
Tenchi laughed. "Good, cause I am the only man who will put up with her."
"Hey, unfair!" Ryoko shouted.
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Washu paced back and forth, unwittingly using the very same path through the lab Tokimi
had used earlier.
There came a knock on the door. Washu looked up and swallowed, wiping her hands on her
trousers. "Come in, Ryoko."
The crab jangled as Ryoko entered the lab, her amber eyes on her mother, they were
narrowed in worry.
"Mother, you seem upset."
"I am upset." Washu sighed. "Too much is happening and Tokimi refuses to tell me something
that I KNOW is important." Washu stopped suddenly and turned on her heel. "But that isn't
why I wanted to talk to you."
Ryoko sat down on a cushion near her mother. "Mother, just tell me."
"Well, it has to do with all this talk of relations." Washu was also sitting on a cushion.
Her gaze was far away. "Funaho started an avelanche and. . ." Washu shrugged. She turned
to look at her daughter. "Unwittingly of course."
"Of course," Ryoko agreed.
Washu sighed. "I didn't want to tell you. We have come so far in OUR relationship that I
am afraid this would hurt it."
Ryoko was getting uneasy. "Mother, please just spit it out."
Washu bit her lip. "You know that Tokimi is my older sister, correct."
"You've made that quite clear."
"Well, Tokimi is a Goddess. One of the supposedly 'original' three Goddesses." Washu
glanced over at her daughter. "Tokimi is the Goddess of evil, darkness, time, and all sorts
of other things. Clay was her minion."
"Clay!" Ryoko gasped, "But Clay kidnapped me and tried to kidnap you and kill Tenchi."
"Please be calm, Ryoko. Clay did all of that on his own. Tokimi had no knowledge of it."
Washu's head dropped. "In a way, we both should thank Clay. He created the copy of you
that allows you to recognize emotion and he provided a crack on something that was
important to me.
Clay mentioned Tokimi. I had no idea of who he was talking about, but instinctively I was
afraid of something. I didn't know what at the time. I do now."
"It isn't like you to be afraid, mother."
"No, I wasn't this afraid even when Kagato kidnapped you. You see, Kagato had no concept
of Goddesses, including Tsunami. Tsunami to him was an object, just a power, not a Goddess.
Clay knew." Washu shuddered. "If Clay had found out what he was seeking, I would've feared
for both of our lives. Thankfully he didn't, but I did." Washu took a deep shuddering
breath.
"Why, mother, why were you so afraid?"
"Ryoko, I am also a Goddess." Washu stared at her daughter.
"A Goddess, mother. . ." Ryoko stared at her. "Please tell me you aren't serious."
"I am very serious, Ryoko." Washu sighed. "If Clay had found out, we would both be dead, he
wouldn't have allowed us to live. He would have told Tokimi it was an accident and she
would be none the wiser."
"And the universe would have been even more greatly out of balance." Tokimi added, striding
into the lab, seemingly out of nowhere.
Ryoko glanced between Tokimi and Washu. "Why? Why tell me?"
"Because of the gems, Ryoko." Washu blinked. "And the DNA, it is my DNA, you are also
a Goddess."
"Of what?" Ryoko said scornfully. "Mother, indeed I am powerful, but a Goddess?"
"At the moment you aren't a Goddess of anything Ryoko. You aren't born with the power of
this and that. You assume the power. Perhaps you may have chosen something unconciously,
which is extremely likely. Tenchi has, Tenchi has set himself up as a minor diety of
fate. All because he doesn't believe in it, he changes peoples fates and destinies when
he comes in contact with them." Tokimi smiled. "That is why many more powerful Gods will
most likely hate him for ruining their carefully laid plans. You two will have to be
careful.
"And our children."
"Oh, most definitely they well be Gods and Goddesses." Tokimi waved her hand airily.
"What do the gems have to do with this?"
"Well, the gems proclaim you to be like Tenchi, a Knight of a certain Goddess. Tenchi is
the knight of Tsunami and you are the Knight of Washu." Tokimi frowned. "You are actually
pulling a double duty. Knights are special creatures unto themselves, the fact that you
and Tenchi are also Diety makes your lives that much more complicated."
"And royalty." Ryoko moaned.
"And royalty." Tokimi agreed.
"Why do I have the feeling that all the relations that I have around me are hazardous to
my health?"
"Even telling you this is hazardous to your health." Washu sighed. "I am surprised you are
taking it so well."
"I am not taking this well." Ryoko gritted out between clenched teeth, fighting waves of
naseua.
"Stop denying it, Ryoko." Tokimi sighed. "You'll feel better."
"It is so hard to believe." Ryoko moaned. "Tenchi I can understand, Athena is his great-
grandmother and Tsunami's power runs through him. But, my mother a Goddess!"
"Ryoko, Tsunami and I placed a memory block on your mother long ago. Your mother is chaos.
Surely you can see that." Tokimi chuckled.
Ryoko smiled weakly. "Why did you place a memory block on her?"
"She was getting out of control."
"Hey." Washu pouted. "Can't I defend myself?"
"No." Tokimi winked at Ryoko.
"I can believe that." Ryoko laughed weakly, feeling slightly better.
"The rest is just a matter of genetics." Washu said matter of factly. "I can show you the
records if you'd like."
"No thanks, they'd most likely confuse me even more." Ryoko passed off.
"They didn't used to confuse you." Washu said sadly.
"That was before Kagato." Ryoko defended. "Please mother, I am happy."
"I just worry about you and miss some of the original you."
"Please mother, leave well enough alone."
"I am because you wish it." Washu sighed. "I love you, Ryoko."
"I love you too mom."
Tokimi smiled. "Ryoko, please go explain to Tenchi. I am sure he is worried about you. I
need to talk to your mother."
"Something between older goddesses I suppose." Ryoko wrinkled her nose. "Fine, keep us out
of the situation, but we'll find out sooner or later."
Tokimi stopped Ryoko by touching her shoulder. "It will be sooner, I promise. You and
Tenchi are key players. I don't like this."
"For the Goddess of Evil, Aunt Tokimi, you aren't so bad."
"Tsunami is also our sister." Washu tacked on.
Ryoko groaned. "I knew it. I just knew it. Now I really am related to that prissy princess."
"Ryoko!" Washu laughed. "Go on, go tell Tenchi, in person." She wagged a finger at Ryoko.
"Yes MOTHER." Ryoko smirked and phased out of sight.
"All right Tokimi, she knows and soon Tenchi will too. What the hell is going on?" Washu
glared at her sister.
Tsunami appeared over the lake. "I wish to know as well, you have been extremely cagey
Tokimi."
Tokimi took a deep breathe. "Well, we know we aren't the original beings of the universe."
"Yes," Washu nodded.
"We know." Tsunami agreed.
"The other day I was contacted by a person claiming to be the original diety in the
universe. . ."
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Ryoko phased in behind Tenchi, glomping him.
"Oooph."
"Hey lover." Ryoko purred in his ear.
"Ryoko, air, please."
"Why? You don't really need it."
Tenchi took to breathing heavily and Ryoko sighed. "You are no fun." She easing up her grip.
Tenchi turned his head and grinned at her. Ryoko couldn't resist and gave him a quick
kiss.
"Guess what," She said brightly.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Tenchi said, matter of factly.
"Washu is a Goddess." Ryoko grinned.
Tenchi paled.
"And so am I!"
Tenchi fainted.
"You really are no fun, lover." Ryoko said, holding onto Tenchi's limp body.
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END CHAPTER!!! (I couldn't resist that last scene, I just couldn't) ;)
many thanks for creating such a wonderful universe and characters and a truly
unique situation. Cheers.
however the ideas in this story are mine, if you wish to use them contact
me FIRST at either ring_princess@hotmail.com or ring_princess2001@yahoo.com the worst
I'll say is no.
(okay generally I don't like describing meals. And I have been doing that a lot
in this story. However, certain plot points have been created during mealtimes here.
and hopefully, in my opinion this will be the last meal I describe for a LONG time.)
What Should Have Been
Chapter Eight: Hazardous Relations
The royal family descended the stairs. A mix of Athena and Funaho walked between Azusa and
Misaski, darker complexion and eyes, but Athena's hair and build.
Yosho jumped from the table. "Mother," He gasped. "Is there something wrong?"
Funaho smiled at her son. "Nothing is wrong, in fact everything is the most right it has
been in a long time."
"What happened?"
"Oh, Yosho." Funaho came and hugged her son. "I am just a bit different, but I am still
your mother." She smiled. "I told your father who I also am."
Yosho for the first time in many years was stunned by what his mother was saying. "I don't
get it."
"Obviously." Washu droned, her eyes sparkling. "Perhaps you should be an apprentice, Lady
Funaho, or is it Athena." Washu winked.
Funaho laughed slightly, pulling away from Yosho and holding him at arms length. "You
have the blood of a goddess in your veins, my son. I am also Athena, a Goddess to the
Greeks."
"You weren't born, but arose from the head of Zeus in full battle armor." Ryoko murmured
from her corner of the table next to Tenchi.
Funaho laughed again. "Correct, Ryoko."
Funaho forced her son to sit back down and sat down next to him. She picked up the tea pot
and poured into the cup in front of him. "Yosho, it is really quite simple. On a journey
long long ago, I met your father here in Japan, where I was known as Funaho. I fell in love
and left with him for Jurai, leaving my other family behind." She grinned. "It was a
concious choice and they were very put out, but learned to deal."
"Shall we meet them, Aunt Funaho?" Sasami asked, accepting the news with the bliss of the
young.
"We might." Funaho winked at her neice.
"Perhaps sooner than you think." Tokimi added.
"You seem to know more than you are willing to tell, Lady Tokimi." Yoru raised his eyebrows.
"I know what I know, Mr. Yoru." Tokimi shrugged. "All in due time."
Ayeka was carefully swallowing the tea she had been sipping, when her
mouth was clear she gasped, "A Goddess!"
Funaho nodded.
"It is quite the relations you have, Tenchi." Yoru chuckled.
Mihoshi nodded. "Yes, even Tokimi is. . ."
"In due time, Mihoshi." Tokimi placed her hand on Mihoshi's arm. Mihoshi looked at her
and Tokimi suddenly delved into her mind.
::You were right, sister. Head trauma. Easily corrected.::
::NOT at the breakfast table, Tokimi!:: Tsunami chided.
::I agree.:: Washu snorted. ::You also know it is rude to delve into someone's mind
without permission, drop her.::
::Oh, fine.:: Tokimi let go of Mihoshi's mind.
Thankfully nobody had noticed, most being focused on Funaho.
"What is it like to be a Goddess?"
"Boring." Funaho grinned. "Except if your people have wars, then you can meddle." She
shrugged. "Like the Trojan war for instance."
"Wasn't it all over a woman?"
"Supposedly, but the Greeks had more reasons to go to Troy than just Helen." Funaho rolled
her eyes.
"Helen was supposedly very beautiful." Yoru took a sip of tea. "But to go after Troy for
her would have been foolish."
"Many foolish things have been done over a woman." Washu raised her eyebrows, green eyes
twinkling. "Mr. Yoru, I am sure you have done foolish things for your late wife, to make
her happy."
Yoru spit out his tea into his cup. "Ms. Washu, how did you know?"
Washu laughed and Tokimi chuckled. "All men have done foolish things for their wives."
Tokimi waved her hand.
"Be aware of making too general of a statement." Funaho grinned.
Sasami wrinkled her nose. "That would be unfair, to the men it wasn't foolish, especially
if it made the woman happy. Was Helen happy after she left the Greeks?"
"You ask if she was happy with Paris?" Athena sighed. "Yes, she was and that is why the
story is so sad. Menelaus had no right to try to take her back, beyond the right that
marriage gave him. He wasn't prepared to be the husband of Helen of Sparta." Funaho
suddenly laughed. "This is of course after over a thousand years of reflection, at the
time I was still mad at Paris for rejecting my offer." Funaho's hand unconciously reached
down and squeezed Azusa's, who was sitting next to her. "The follies of youth."
"There is much more that happened than what you are saying, Funaho." Washu said gravely.
"That is why I left, Olympus." Funaho sighed. "I left because we were too involved, to
close and too much like the mortals themselves. All the squabbles, all the infighting,
backstabbing and intrigues."
"You were well prepared for the life at Juraian Court." Aeka said smoothly.
Funaho laughed. "You are right." She shook her head. "However, the life of an Olympian
is twice if not three times as bad as the life of a Juraian Queen, I think I made the
correct choice."
Tokimi grinned. "Only in hindsight will anyone ever know that."
Tenchi cleared his throat. "Now that is wisdom." He raised his tea glass in a toast
to Tokimi.
Washu and Funaho laughed.
Tokimi looked at Tenchi. "You owe me an explanation, Sir Knight." She raised her
eyebrows and tilted her head back.
"Oh, that." Tenchi grinned sheepishly.
"Yes, that." Ryoko poked him sharply in the ribs. "Go on, tell her."
Tenchi shook his head. "You see Tokimi, it is a bit of an inside joke. You are not the
first person to show up unexpectedly at my home. The first was Ryoko, sort of."
Ryoko snickered. "You set me free and then are surprised that I show up in your house."
::Did it have to be the bedroom, Ryoko?::
::Yes.::
Tenchi rolled his eyes. "Anyways, Aeka shows up, then Sasami and Mihoshi and Washu and
Kiyone and then Azusa, Funaho and Misaski, now you and who knows who is coming next. I
have given up thinking about it."
Tokimi smiled. "I get it. I really do, your life has been upset so many times you just
make a joke of it than get mad or angry."
"Yep, that is about it."
"And to make it worse, everyone is related to each other in some way or the other." Tokimi
grinned.
"Exactly. Washu is Ryoko's mother, Kiyone is Mihoshi's partner, Aeka and Sasami are sisters
and those three," he gestured at Azusa, Funaho and Misaski, "are their parents. You are
Washu's sister and Yoru, you should feel priveleged you are the only EXPECTED guest that was
invited in a very long time."
Yoru narrowed his eyes. "I don't know whether to feel honored or not."
"You don't have much company then?"
"I have company, just no one from earth and many things around here would be rather
difficult to explain to a native. Hell, I have a hard time with them myself at times."
"But he is getting better." Ryoko broke in to his rambling.
"Besides, who would actually understand and not mention it to others." Tenchi shrugged
and shook his head.
Ryoko ruffled his hair. "He is so cute."
"Ryoko." Tenchi grabbed her hand. "That isn't what you said the other day."
Ryoko flushed and smirked. "I have the right to change my mind."
Tenchi smirked. "Then change it."
::Wipe that sexy smirk off your face, Tenchi, before I do something I won't regret.::
Ryoko giggled mentally.
::Lovebirds, you are at the table.:: Washu broke in. "Speak outloud."
Both of them turned their heads to look at her. "You were speaking to someone mentally
earlier." Ryoko pointed at her. "So, don't be a hypocrite."
"That was different."
"In no way was it any different." Ryoko snorted.
"So many women, my son. You should share." Noboyuki said as he sat down at the table.
Food began to be passed around, for they were only waiting for him.
Tenchi flushed. "Dad, it is nothing of the sort."
Ryoko grinned. "I don't think Ayeka would actually be content in dating an earthling."
Ayeka snickered at Ryoko. "Only you would demean yourself in that manner."
"Hey, my Tenchi is the first crown prince of Jurai."
"That is besides the point." Ayeka said calmly.
"How is his title besides the point?" Ryoko growled.
"He doesn't want to use it."
Tenchi looked between them and sighed. "Says who?"
"You, Tenchi." Ayeka raised her eyebrows.
"I don't want to use it because it means NOTHING here on earth. On Jurai, yes, but we are
not on Jurai, we are on earth." Tenchi said reasonably.
"Point Tenchi." Ryoko crowed.
"You make it sound like you'll go to Jurai." Yosho observed.
"Maybe I will, maybe I won't." Tenchi stared at his grandfather. "It will be our decision."
"Thank you for remembering to include me." Ryoko sniffed.
"I could never forget you, Ryoko." Tenchi grinned.
"You better not."
"Considering she is the only woman who will put up with you." Ayeka added.
Tenchi laughed. "Good, cause I am the only man who will put up with her."
"Hey, unfair!" Ryoko shouted.
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Washu paced back and forth, unwittingly using the very same path through the lab Tokimi
had used earlier.
There came a knock on the door. Washu looked up and swallowed, wiping her hands on her
trousers. "Come in, Ryoko."
The crab jangled as Ryoko entered the lab, her amber eyes on her mother, they were
narrowed in worry.
"Mother, you seem upset."
"I am upset." Washu sighed. "Too much is happening and Tokimi refuses to tell me something
that I KNOW is important." Washu stopped suddenly and turned on her heel. "But that isn't
why I wanted to talk to you."
Ryoko sat down on a cushion near her mother. "Mother, just tell me."
"Well, it has to do with all this talk of relations." Washu was also sitting on a cushion.
Her gaze was far away. "Funaho started an avelanche and. . ." Washu shrugged. She turned
to look at her daughter. "Unwittingly of course."
"Of course," Ryoko agreed.
Washu sighed. "I didn't want to tell you. We have come so far in OUR relationship that I
am afraid this would hurt it."
Ryoko was getting uneasy. "Mother, please just spit it out."
Washu bit her lip. "You know that Tokimi is my older sister, correct."
"You've made that quite clear."
"Well, Tokimi is a Goddess. One of the supposedly 'original' three Goddesses." Washu
glanced over at her daughter. "Tokimi is the Goddess of evil, darkness, time, and all sorts
of other things. Clay was her minion."
"Clay!" Ryoko gasped, "But Clay kidnapped me and tried to kidnap you and kill Tenchi."
"Please be calm, Ryoko. Clay did all of that on his own. Tokimi had no knowledge of it."
Washu's head dropped. "In a way, we both should thank Clay. He created the copy of you
that allows you to recognize emotion and he provided a crack on something that was
important to me.
Clay mentioned Tokimi. I had no idea of who he was talking about, but instinctively I was
afraid of something. I didn't know what at the time. I do now."
"It isn't like you to be afraid, mother."
"No, I wasn't this afraid even when Kagato kidnapped you. You see, Kagato had no concept
of Goddesses, including Tsunami. Tsunami to him was an object, just a power, not a Goddess.
Clay knew." Washu shuddered. "If Clay had found out what he was seeking, I would've feared
for both of our lives. Thankfully he didn't, but I did." Washu took a deep shuddering
breath.
"Why, mother, why were you so afraid?"
"Ryoko, I am also a Goddess." Washu stared at her daughter.
"A Goddess, mother. . ." Ryoko stared at her. "Please tell me you aren't serious."
"I am very serious, Ryoko." Washu sighed. "If Clay had found out, we would both be dead, he
wouldn't have allowed us to live. He would have told Tokimi it was an accident and she
would be none the wiser."
"And the universe would have been even more greatly out of balance." Tokimi added, striding
into the lab, seemingly out of nowhere.
Ryoko glanced between Tokimi and Washu. "Why? Why tell me?"
"Because of the gems, Ryoko." Washu blinked. "And the DNA, it is my DNA, you are also
a Goddess."
"Of what?" Ryoko said scornfully. "Mother, indeed I am powerful, but a Goddess?"
"At the moment you aren't a Goddess of anything Ryoko. You aren't born with the power of
this and that. You assume the power. Perhaps you may have chosen something unconciously,
which is extremely likely. Tenchi has, Tenchi has set himself up as a minor diety of
fate. All because he doesn't believe in it, he changes peoples fates and destinies when
he comes in contact with them." Tokimi smiled. "That is why many more powerful Gods will
most likely hate him for ruining their carefully laid plans. You two will have to be
careful.
"And our children."
"Oh, most definitely they well be Gods and Goddesses." Tokimi waved her hand airily.
"What do the gems have to do with this?"
"Well, the gems proclaim you to be like Tenchi, a Knight of a certain Goddess. Tenchi is
the knight of Tsunami and you are the Knight of Washu." Tokimi frowned. "You are actually
pulling a double duty. Knights are special creatures unto themselves, the fact that you
and Tenchi are also Diety makes your lives that much more complicated."
"And royalty." Ryoko moaned.
"And royalty." Tokimi agreed.
"Why do I have the feeling that all the relations that I have around me are hazardous to
my health?"
"Even telling you this is hazardous to your health." Washu sighed. "I am surprised you are
taking it so well."
"I am not taking this well." Ryoko gritted out between clenched teeth, fighting waves of
naseua.
"Stop denying it, Ryoko." Tokimi sighed. "You'll feel better."
"It is so hard to believe." Ryoko moaned. "Tenchi I can understand, Athena is his great-
grandmother and Tsunami's power runs through him. But, my mother a Goddess!"
"Ryoko, Tsunami and I placed a memory block on your mother long ago. Your mother is chaos.
Surely you can see that." Tokimi chuckled.
Ryoko smiled weakly. "Why did you place a memory block on her?"
"She was getting out of control."
"Hey." Washu pouted. "Can't I defend myself?"
"No." Tokimi winked at Ryoko.
"I can believe that." Ryoko laughed weakly, feeling slightly better.
"The rest is just a matter of genetics." Washu said matter of factly. "I can show you the
records if you'd like."
"No thanks, they'd most likely confuse me even more." Ryoko passed off.
"They didn't used to confuse you." Washu said sadly.
"That was before Kagato." Ryoko defended. "Please mother, I am happy."
"I just worry about you and miss some of the original you."
"Please mother, leave well enough alone."
"I am because you wish it." Washu sighed. "I love you, Ryoko."
"I love you too mom."
Tokimi smiled. "Ryoko, please go explain to Tenchi. I am sure he is worried about you. I
need to talk to your mother."
"Something between older goddesses I suppose." Ryoko wrinkled her nose. "Fine, keep us out
of the situation, but we'll find out sooner or later."
Tokimi stopped Ryoko by touching her shoulder. "It will be sooner, I promise. You and
Tenchi are key players. I don't like this."
"For the Goddess of Evil, Aunt Tokimi, you aren't so bad."
"Tsunami is also our sister." Washu tacked on.
Ryoko groaned. "I knew it. I just knew it. Now I really am related to that prissy princess."
"Ryoko!" Washu laughed. "Go on, go tell Tenchi, in person." She wagged a finger at Ryoko.
"Yes MOTHER." Ryoko smirked and phased out of sight.
"All right Tokimi, she knows and soon Tenchi will too. What the hell is going on?" Washu
glared at her sister.
Tsunami appeared over the lake. "I wish to know as well, you have been extremely cagey
Tokimi."
Tokimi took a deep breathe. "Well, we know we aren't the original beings of the universe."
"Yes," Washu nodded.
"We know." Tsunami agreed.
"The other day I was contacted by a person claiming to be the original diety in the
universe. . ."
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Ryoko phased in behind Tenchi, glomping him.
"Oooph."
"Hey lover." Ryoko purred in his ear.
"Ryoko, air, please."
"Why? You don't really need it."
Tenchi took to breathing heavily and Ryoko sighed. "You are no fun." She easing up her grip.
Tenchi turned his head and grinned at her. Ryoko couldn't resist and gave him a quick
kiss.
"Guess what," She said brightly.
"I have a bad feeling about this." Tenchi said, matter of factly.
"Washu is a Goddess." Ryoko grinned.
Tenchi paled.
"And so am I!"
Tenchi fainted.
"You really are no fun, lover." Ryoko said, holding onto Tenchi's limp body.
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END CHAPTER!!! (I couldn't resist that last scene, I just couldn't) ;)