Ok, for those of you didn't realize, yes, I *am* White Wolf.  This is my
other account.

I've expanded and completed the prologue, plus renamed this.  (If anyone
out there speaks Japanese, could you verify that I used the right word?)


Kirikaeru Muyo!
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			Prologue - OAV/TV
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	In front of a computer style console, Washuu typed rapidly,
grinning in delight as she worked on her new invention.  A large mirror
sat above the workstation, reaching about a meter high, and half that
wide.
	Tenchi poked his head in through the sub-dimensional doorway, and
called out to her.  "Washuu-chan, Sasami-chan sent me to tell you
breakfast was ready."
	"Oh, Tenchi-dono!  Come in, and watch me start up my new
invention."  Washuu turned, and waved him over.  She reached back with one
hand, and tapped a few keys.  The mirror flickered, then went back to
normal. 
	Tenchi looked at it carefully, then shrugged.  His mirror image
did the same.  "Looks like a mirror." 
	Washuu frowned.  "It was supposed to be a visual gateway to
parallel dimensions." 
	Tenchi smiled, then glanced at the mirror again.  His jaw dropped,
and he tapped Washuu on the shoulder.  "Washuu, look!" 
	"Washuu-CHAN." 
	Tenchi sighed, "Just look!" 
	Washuu grinned at him then looked at the mirror again.  She
blinked a few times.  "Tenchi...  do I have two small robots on my
shoulders?" 
	Tenchi shook his head. 
	"YATTA!  It works!" 
	He laughed, and waved to his opposite image.  It waved back... 
but with the opposite hand. 
	Behind them, a fairly loud crash signalled Mihoshi's entrance to
the lab.  Tenchi looked behind himself, sighed softly, then looked back at
the mirror.  His eyes went wide again.  "Washuu-chan, look.  There's
someone with the Mihoshi in the other world." 
	Mihoshi joined them, and looked in the mirror as well.  She
blinked a few times, and looked to her side and then back at mirror,
repeating until she gave up in confusion.  "Ara...  who is that with
Mihoshi in the mirror?" 
	Tenchi reached out to point at the mirror with his right hand, not
noticing the image in the mirror do the same thing.  "Washuu, who is
that?"
	Washuu shrugged.  "No way to find out."  Her face turned pale. 
"Tenchi, don't touch the-" 
	Tenchi jumped, catching out of the corner of his eye the Washuu on
the other side opening her mouth, appearing to yell at the other Tenchi. 
The outstretched hands touch the mirror at the same instant, and a
blinding flash of light erupted from the mirror, shattering it. 
	"-mirror!!  Oh damn." 
	Tenchi shook his head, and stood up from where he had fallen on
the floor.  He looked around, confused.  "Where's Kiyone?" 

=^.^=

	Tenchi got up, and looked around.  He froze in place, and turned
around slowly to stare at the person behind him.  The one he had just seen
in the mirror.  "Washuu-chan, how did she get out of the mirror?"
	"Tenchi...  assuming that *is* your name...  she didn't.  You
did." 
	He swallowed hard, and looked at Washuu.  There, on each of her
shoulders, were tiny Washuu robots.  "Can you..."
	"Switch you back?  Yes, but it will take me some time to rebuild
the viewing device.  No more than a few days."
	Tenchi sighed in relief.  "Washuu-chan, you really are the
greatest.  In two universes.  Is it safe for me leave the lab, and see
what this universe is like?"
	Washuu grinned, and started typing on the keyboard again.  After a
few seconds, she paused, and shuddered.  "These readings can't be..."
	Tenchi looked nervously around.  "Washuu-chan?"
	"I know why the mirror shattered.  It was designed to handle
beings of this universe's power.  Your personal power is so high, I'd
almost expect you could form the light hawk wings."  Washuu giggled.
"Well, no need to be silly."
	Tenchi just blushed.

=^.^=

	Mihoshi smiled dreamily.  "Ki-yo-ne.  Was that the person in the
mirror who was yelling at Mihoshi?"
	Tenchi laughed weakly.  "Washuu-sama, what happened to Kiyone?"
	"Nothing.  'Kiyone' is safe in her own universe.  You are the with
the problem.  My readings on you put you at a much lower power level than
the Tenchi from this universe.  You can't cross back without his
help."[1]
	Tenchi stared at Washuu.  "I don't..."
	Washuu smiled.  "It's actually very simple.  You see, when Tenchi,
that is, our Tenchi, touched the gateway, it opened a portal to your
universe.  Due to your close proximity, it pulled you over here as he was
traveling there.  It's very likely that the device you touched also
shattered."  Washuu frowned.  "And it's going to take a few hours to
rebuild it."[2]
	Mihoshi grabbed Tenchi's hand.  "Sasami is still waiting for us
for breakfast, and Mihoshi is hungry!"  She proceeded to drag Tenchi out
of the lab.
	"Come back later tonight Tenchi!  We'll see what we can do."

[1] Ok, so I'm prejudiced towards the OAV series.  Still, judging from the
    Tenchi movie, the TV Tenchi is much less powerful.

[2] Ok, so I'm prejudiced again.  The OAV Washuu is 20,000 years old, not
    700.  Naturally she's even smarter that the TV Washuu.

=^.^=

	Mihoshi pulled Tenchi and Kiyone up to the table, and then sat
down between them.  Tenchi looked around, noting that the table's
occupants were the same as he remembered. 
	"Tenchi, this is Ryoko, Ayeka, Nobuyuki, Katsuhito, and Sasami. 
Oh, and Ryo-oh-ki!"
	Tenchi smiled, "Ohaiyo, minna."
	Katsuhito frowned deeply, and stared at Tenchi for a long moment
while the rest of the table looked at each other and Mihoshi in confusion.
"Tenchi...  what has happened to your aura?"
	Tenchi raised one hand, and rubbed at the back of his head.
"Ah..."
	Kiyone laughed.  "Tenchi fell through the looking glass today.  He
hasn't come back yet."
	Katsuhito's brow furrowed deeply.  "I see."

=^.^=

	Tenchi sat next to Mihoshi, and leaned over to whisper to her.
"You don't have a partner in this universe?"
	Mihoshi shook her head, and spoke in a normal tone.  "No.  Is
Kiyone nice?" 
	Tenchi nodded, and then attempted to leap up to the ceiling as a
pair of arms wrapped around him.  "Who is... Kiyone, Tenchi-sama?  You
wouldn't want to make me...  jealous, now would you?" 
	Tenchi shook his head vigorously.  "Ryoko, I'm not..."
	Before he could finish, Ayeka had yanked Ryoko arms off of him. 
At least, she attempted to.  In truth, she only managed to pull one arm
off, and the other tightened around Tenchi's neck in reflex.  "You mummy! 
Leave Tenchi-dono alone, he said he's not interested in you!" 
	As his face turned blue, Tenchi tried to gasp out that he
wasn't... 
	"See!  He wasn't trying to say that at all.  You cut him off.  He
was going to say that he's not doing anything to make me jealous!"
	Tenchi shook his head, "...not Tenchi."
	The table froze, and Ryoko's arm slowly released him.
	"I'm not the Tenchi you think I am."

=^.^=

	"Washuu's new invention.  It was a mirror that let you see other
universes.  Well, Tenchi is from the universe on the other side of the
mirror.  And our Tenchi is over there."
	Silence.
	"Kiyone, did Washuu say..."
	Tenchi nodded.  "She said she could transfer me back in a few
days.  I would guess that the Washuu-chan in my universe will be able to
do the same for your Tenchi."
	The table slowly came back to life, as the extended Masaki family
ate, pausing frequently to look at the 'guest'.

=^.^=

	"The Tenchi from this universe disrupted the gateway when he
touched it.  I had the misfortune to be pointing to where I expected
Kiyone to be and touched the mirror at the same time when Washuu-sama
yelled at me for almost smudging the mirror."
	Katsuhito nodded in understanding.  "That explains it.  Very well,
you are our guest until Tenchi has a chance to fix this.  Tell me, who is
'Kiyone'?"