A VERY TENCHI CHRISTMAS
Written by Brian Navy (geosword@usa.net)
Copyright © 1997
All characters are Copyright to their creators. You know who you are!
A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR: Perhaps my most loved series of all, Tenchi Muyo
has made me laugh to death and cry when it counted. The characters are
beautiful people that I have come to love like a family. They have helped
me get through some rough times in my own life and so I have written this
fan fiction for Tenchi and the rest of his wacked out group of space girls
and family members. I know the season is off (I had planned to release
during Christmas of 1996 BUT those ROUGH times in my life I mentioned
sprung up, but Tenchi was there to help me through it.
This 4 part fanfic is based in the TV series universe and occurs
during the Christmas following the movie; Tenchi Muyo in Love. I hope
you enjoy it as much as I did writing it.
I had a really hard time writing the ending of this story. It’s
hard to type when your eyes are tear filled. I hope I can get some
emotion out of you too. Thank you for reading. Please send me E-mail
regarding this work. Let me know if I did okay or if I should hang up my
word processor.
PART ONE: THE GATHERING
Tenchi sat the box down on the coffee table and wiped his brow. That
was box number six. All done. Well, at least with getting the stuff down
from the attic. The real work was to begin soon. Where was Nobuyuki?
< He was suppose to help me!> Tenchi grumbled. Upstairs, Nobuyuki snored
loudly from the safety of his bed.
Tenchi suddenly felt the sensation of someone rubbing his chest but
there was no one there. Tenchi knew however that there was. Ryoko
materialized behind him, her arms slid under his and around to his chest
where her hands were playfully exploring.
"Good morning Tenchi." The gray hair beauty said in a singing voice.
She noticed the boxes littering the floor. "Watcha up to?"
"Today’s the day we get the tree and decorate the house." Tenchi said.
Ryoko floated around to Tenchi’s front, never quite letting her hold
on him go. "Tree? Decorate? For what?"
"It’s Christmas time." He said opening up the box on the table.
Ryoko peered into it curiously with her catlike yellow eyes. She
pulled out a white box with a clear front. Inside, various colored orbs
rested with hooks on the ends of them.
"I don’t get it. What is all this junk?"
"Ornaments for the Christmas tree."
"Christmas tree?" she said, opening up the box and pulling one of
the brightly colored balls out. Her reflection in it’s shiny surface was
distorted from the concave effect, her left eye much larger than the right.
"Yes. You get a pine tree and decorate it with lights, garland and
ornaments. It’s an American tradition but we celebrate it too."
"I still don’t get it."
Ryoko let go of the fragile ball and it smashed on the table’s edge.
"Oops." Ryoko smiled innocently.
"RYOKO!!!" Tenchi scowled.
"What a hideous word to hear first thing in the morning." Came a proper
sounding voice from behind. Ryoko’s eyes narrowed and she spun around to
face the long purple hair woman standing in the entryway, still dressed in
her sleeping robes.
"Oh look. It’s the walking grape princess." Ryoko grinned.
"Are you making fun of me!?" Aeka growled.
"I don’t have to do that at all little princess. There’s no real
challenge in it." Ryoko’s grin widened.
"Why you little-" Aeka started to shout out.
"You two cut it out! Not this early! I have work to do." Tenchi
interrupted with a sigh.
Aeka simmered down and noticed all the boxes. "What are you doing
Lord Tenchi?"
"Getting ready to decorate the house up for Christmas then me and dad
have to go get the Christmas tree."
"Oh yes. Christmas. I know of this Earth holiday. We have a similar
one on Jurai. It is the exchanging of gifts between loved ones, right?" Aeka
said, sitting down on the couch next to Tenchi. Ryoko floated over to the
other side and sat down as well.
"Well that’s part of it."
"Lord Tenchi, I would love to assist you in the decorating of the family
house and tree!" Aeka said enthusiastically.
<Oh no you don’t little princess!> Ryoko thought, her eyes narrowing.
"I’ll help too Tenchi!" Ryoko said, trying to match Aeka’s enthusiasm.
Tenchi cringed slightly at Ryoko’s offer. He couldn’t say no to either.
Somehow he knew he was going to be doomed to a day of disaster. If he was
lucky, the house would be left standing at the end of the day.
"I don’t understand why we are putting lights on the roof dad." Tenchi
said, lifting the box of lights up on to the roof that his dad was holding
while on the ladder.
"Well son, it’s simple, if we get visited by more pretty space girls I
want them to see where to land." Nobuyuki laughed at his joke, climbing on to
the roof.
"I don’t think they have any trouble finding this place anyway son."
Youshou said, climbing on to the roof next.
"That’s true! My boy Tenchi just has that natural Masaki charm that
attracts women like magnets. Right son!?" Nobuyuki laughed, nudging his son.
Tenchi grumbled.
Nobuyuki handed Tenchi and Youshou each a staple gun.
"Okay. We have to get creative here. I want people in orbit to see this
house! Now, what to design…" he trailed off in thought.
"Can’t we just, you know, push him off the roof?" Tenchi whispered to his
grandfather.
"You could but it wouldn’t stop him." Youshou whispered back.
"I’ve got it! We’ll design a Christmas mosaic of lights! A snow man here
standing next to a tree there. Santa Clause riding his slay above it all!"
Tenchi’s dad said, pointing to the locations. "Let’s get started!!!"
"Exactly what are we doing again?" Ryoko said, tangled in several strands
of lights.
Aeka and Sasami sat across the room with their own lights neatly laid out
on the floor.
"We’re checking for burnt out lights." Sasami said cheerfully.
"You should know about burnt out has beens Ryoko." Aeka chuckled. Ryoko
glared, thinking up another use for the strands but she knew murdering Aeka
would be bad for her relationship with Tenchi.
From the corner of the couch the head of what was a cat… a rabbit… both,
stuck out curiously. The large cute yellow eyes peered at something on the
floor
nearby. The half rabbit, half cat creature hopped over to a blue Christmas
ornate
ball cautiously. After several tense seconds of no motion the cabbit batted at
the ball. It rolled. The creature "meowed" in a questioning tone. The cute
animal hopped over to the ball and batted it again. Again, the blue ball
rolled.
"MEOW!" the cabbit said happily, having found a new toy to play with.
She hopped over and batted the ball around, chasing it where ever it
tried to
escape.
"Way to go Ryo-oh-ki!" Sasami giggled, her pink eyes watching the
cabbit with
amusement.
At one point the ball got the better of the cabbit, rolling underneath
the big
hind feet. Ryo-oh-ki tried to watch it and ended up falling over. Sasami
giggled
at the cabbit’s antics. Aeka smiled.
"OH! These damn lights are driving me crazy!" Ryoko growled. "I know
how to
check them out real quick!"
Ryoko grabbed the plug ends of all the strands.
"WATCH THIS!" she said with a grin.
The red gem on her right wrist glowed brightly as she sent a surge of
energy
through the strands. All at once the lights glowed with a bright light and
all at
once they exploded. When it was done Ryoko sat tangled even worse, black
soot marks
on her face and brightly colored clothes. Sasami let out a giggle and Aeka out
right laughed.
"I liked that Ryoko! Do it again!" Aeka teased.
"Shut up!" Ryoko growled, trying again in vein to untangle herself.
"There! All my lights work!" Sasami smiled happily.
"Very good Sasami." Aeka said, plugging her strands into the power
strip. All
the lights lit up except one. "Oh. Looks like I have a burnt out one.
I’ll just
replace it."
Aeka fished out a new bulb and took out the bad one. She screwed in
the new
one and it lit up. However, all the other lights on the strand went out.
"That’s odd." She frowned. Aeka unscrewed the bulb and the others came
back
on. "Perhaps it’s a bad one."
She grabbed a different new bulb and screwed it in. It lit up but
every other
bulb on the strand started blinking.
"That’s not right either."
Fifteen minutes later Aeka’s frustrated screaming voice echoed through
the house.
"I’ve had it with these stupid lights!!! They are evil! Your probably made
them Ryoko!"
Ryoko cackled in the background. "Incompetence just runs in the family
I guess!"
"You are just as bad you freak!" Aeka glared.
"You take that back!"
"The truth hurts doesn’t it Ryoko!?"
"Why you stuck up---!"
"Come on!"
"Gladly!!!"
Washuu’s green eyes scanned the holoscreen readouts with interest. She
picked
up her crab decorated cup and sipped the tea inside still focusing on the
screen.
With a free hand she typed on her keypad and the data on the screen changed.
"I think I can do it with no problem." She smiled.
Punching a few more keys she brought up more strange diagrams and data.
"My present to you three will be the best you will ever receive. I
swear it."
Two small Washuu puppets appeared on her shoulders. The one on her left
shoulder had a red letter A on it’s chest while the other had a B.
"You’re a genius Washuu!" Washuu A said.
"You’re the greatest Washuu!" Washuu B cheered.
Washuu nodded. "It’s so true!" She said, tapping a few more buttons. The
screen flickered out of existence. "Time to get started."
Tenchi stood next to Youshou gazing down at the roof. Nobuyuki stood
up next
to them with a satisfying smile.
"There! All done." He said proudly.
Tenchi looked at the design his dad had constructed out of lights. He
looked
again, harder, rubbing the back of his head.
"It’s… great… dad." Tenchi said.
"It’s lame actually." Youshou commented.
"What do you mean dad? It looks just how I pictured it." Nobuyuki said,
studying his handy work.
The snowman next to the tree looked more like a snowman tree, Picaso
style.
Santa Clause had made a crash landing through both the tree and the snowman.
"Then you pictured a jumble of lights all mixed together?" Youshou smirked.
"Well… It has a few problems in the design but not bad for an amateur
designer."
"Architect you are, lighting technician you are not." Youshou patted
Nobuyuki
on the shoulder.
"Hello? Is anyone home?" came a voice from below.
Tenchi left his father and granddad to discuss the intricacies of light
designs
to look over the edge of the roof. Below stood a very attractive blonde
with dark
brown skin and pretty light blue eyes. Her ears were slightly longer than a
normal
persons. The woman next to her was just as pretty with long greenish hair
and blue
eyes as well. Her skin was much lighter.
"Up here guys." Tenchi called down.
Mihoshi and Kiyone looked up, Mihoshi waving happily.
"Hello! What are you doing up there Tenchi?" she asked.
"We’re decorating the roof with Christmas lights."
"Wow! Neat!" Mihoshi smiled.
"Go on inside. I’ll be down in a moment." Tenchi said.
Mihoshi and Kiyone made their way into the house and were met by Aeka
and Ryoko
tangled together on the floor in strands of broken lights. Both were soot
covered,
their clothes torn in places, hair sticking up in a wild mess.
"Are you two fighting again?" Mihoshi asked with a smile.
"No! We’re playing! Get us out of this stupid mess!" Ryoko yelled.
"How did you wind up like this anyway?" Kiyone asked, trying to help
them out of
the tangled web.
"It’s all Ryoko’s fault!" Aeka accused quickly.
"My fault!? It’s your fault!" Ryoko accused back.
After a moment Mihoshi and Kiyone managed to get the two untangled. At
that
moment Sasami entered the room holding a tray with a pitcher and three
glasses on it.
"Break time! Oh! Mihoshi! Kiyone! Hello! When did you get here?"
Sasami asked,
setting the tray down.
"We just got here." Kiyone replied.
"Would you like some tea?" Sasami asked, pouring some of the refreshing
drink into
the three glasses.
"That would be wonderful." Mihoshi smiled and sat down.
"Sure." Kiyone sat too.
Sasami bowed and ran back to the kitchen while Aeka and Ryoko got up
off the floor,
glaring at each other. Aeka regained some of her composure.
"I have to go change my clothes." she growled, spinning about and
storming up the
stairs.
"Don’t hurry back." Ryoko mumbled under her breath, brushing her hair
back with her
hands.
The front door opened and Tenchi walked in, closing the door behind
himself. He
waved with a smile as he entered the room.
"How’s everyone doing in here?"
Ryoko was instantly latched to Tenchi, snuggling into him. Tenchi
grumbled and
tried to pull himself free without success.
"Aeka blew up all the lights, Tenchi. She’s so clumsy and dangerous."
Ryoko said,
snuggling in closer, smearing some black soot on Tenchi’s face.
"What did you get me for this Christmas Tenchi?" Ryoko cooed.
"I’m not telling! So don’t ask!" Tenchi said.
"We were just in the neighborhood, thought we’d drop by. It’s been a
few weeks.
We’ve really be busy at our part time job." Kiyone said.
Sasami returned with three more glasses. "I thought I heard you come
in Tenchi.
I’ll make you a glass of tea." She said, quickly filling those three
glasses. She
passed out the full glasses to everyone in the room then took a sip. Tenchi
took a l
ong drink of his.
"This is good tea Sasami." Tenchi smiled.
"Thanks."
"Meow?"
Ryo-oh-ki leapt up on Sasami’s shoulder and peered at her drink. She
sniffed
above the glass.
"It’s tea. Want some?" Sasami smiled at the cabbit.
"Meow." She replied.
Sasami brought the glass up so the cabbit could get at it. She tipped
it slightly
bringing the tea to the rim. Ryo-oh-ki lapped at the liquid a few times and
meowed in
approval. Sasami giggled then took another drink from her glass.
"I am glad you two came by. It saves me the trouble of having to call
you. We
are going to be having a party here and you two are invited. You can make
it I hope?"
Tenchi said, sitting down on the couch with them.
"Really!? Thanks!" Mihoshi cheered.
"We will try our best." Kiyone smiled.
"A party?" Aeka said from the stairs. Her hair was back in place, her
face clean
and pretty again.
"Yeah. On Christmas Eve, the 24th."
"All right! Party!" Ryoko cheered. "Going to have sake!?"
"You don’t drink sake. You drink eggnog."
"Eggnog? What kind of a weird drink is that?" Ryoko said, snuggling
Tenchi again.
"You’ll find out." Tenchi said, trying to scoot away.
Aeka’s left eye twitched slightly and a second later she forced herself
into a
sitting position between Tenchi and Ryoko. Ryoko glared at her but Aeka
just ignored her.
"Lord Tenchi, we tested the lights. They worked, up until Ryoko got a
hold of them."
"HEY!"
"We’ll just buy new ones. Dad and I have to go into town to get the
tree anyway."
Tenchi said, defusing the situation before it had a chance to get ugly.
"Can I go with you into town Tenchi? I want to buy your Christmas
present." Aeka
asked, leaning against him.
"Sure."
"Me too! Me too! I want to pick up your present as well!" Ryoko said,
having
suddenly appeared on Tenchi’s other side, leaning on him.
"We’ll all go into town."
"Yippee!" Sasami shouted.
The group huddled together on the street corner.
"All right. It’s 2 o’clock. Let’s meet back here in two hours.
Okay?" Tenchi said.
Everyone nodded then split up. Tenchi and Nobuyuki headed for a
Christmas supply
store to buy some more lights and a tree while everyone else headed off in
other
directions to find presents.
Ryoko walked down the crowded street, looking at the signs above the
various shops
she was passing. Nothing looked like a good idea so far then she noticed a
little shop
stuck between two larger ones.
"Koki’s Art and Photos. Hmmm." Ryoko said, reading the sign. She
smiled to
herself as a thought crossed her mind. "What better present than myself?"
she giggled
and headed into the shop.
* * *
"What to get? It must be something special. My Tenchi deserves the
best." Aeka
said to herself as she walked along the street looking at the multitude of
shops. One
sign suddenly caught her eye. "Yakoto’s Custom Shirt Shop."
Aeka smiled. "Perfect!" She entered the shop.
* * *
"I don’t know what to get him. What should I get him? I really don’t
know." Mihoshi
said, gazing in the window of the shop Kiyone and her were standing in front
of. It was a
thrift shop, full of odds and ends, A to Z.
"Don’t ask me. You know him better than I do. What does he like?"
Kiyone asked
with a shrug.
"I don’t know." Mihoshi frowned.
"Well I’m sure we can come up with something. Let’s go in here."
"Okay."
* * *
Sasami peered at the item sitting in the window. "Wow! I bet Tenchi
would love that!"
she said. It was a purple crystal sculpture of a unicorn rearing up on it’s
hind legs.
Ryo-oh-ki meowed in approval. Sasami snuggled the cabbit then ran into the
store.
* * *
Tenchi stared in disbelief at the tree his father was suggesting. It
was a pretty
tree, full and trimmed into a perfect triangle. However, it stood 18 feet tall.
"It will never fit dad. Let’s get a shorter one." Tenchi said.
"But this one is the prettiest in the lot. It will fit. We just have
to trim it a
bit."
"Yeah, by four feet."
"Show some optimism son!" Nobuyuki said to Tenchi then turned to the
attendant.
"We’ll take this one. Can you have it delivered to this address?"
"Not a problem sir." The attendant bowed.
Two hours passed and the group gathered at the same street corner, each
with shopping
bags slung over their shoulders. The shopping done, they all headed for
home and each
headed to their rooms with their secret gifts to begin wrapping.
END OF PART 1 OF 4
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WASHUU: Lineage... Social status... why should these
things matter? That's how grown ups are...
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oo President of the TEARS FOR TENCHI club, ;_; oo
oo Member of M.A.S., MEN AGAINST SHAMPOO! oo
oo Devoted worshipper of KAWAII anime girlies! oo
oo President of ANIME NATION! oo
oo Holder of the sacred P-chan plushie! oo
oo Keeper of the Carrot Basket! oo
oo Member of #AAS# - Achika Appreciation Society! oo
oo Grand Sardine of the Nuku-Nuku Fan Club oo
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