Tenchi Muyo: Ryoko's Love...
Pt. 1: Chapter 1:Introducing, Yui!
Revised
By Long T. Tran
Completed 2/16/98
Disclaimer:
The characters you are about read are characters created by AIC/Pioneer. Don't
sue me.
Author's notes:
This is the revised and hopefully corrected version of chapter one, you might
notice some added changes and different rearrangements. And for those who read
the original draft of this chapter a few weeks or days ago, prepare to be
surprised a little bit.
What you are about to read is a Tenchi FF set in the OVA universe, but it will
start 20 years in to the future. As this series progresses the story will be
taken on the present day and it will also take place in other different various
time periods. I won't be including Kiyone or Mayuka in this FF, sorry fans. I'm
going to introduce new characters in this series, Yui, Onimaru and many others.
So, without further a do, let the series begin...
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April 24, 2018
Its another typical day for any student at the Okayama High School, every body
is bored sitting in their desks trying hard to stay awake from the old Sensai's
boring lecture about the Tokugawa Shogunate. Yui is sitting in the second row
of four, she's a 17 year old girl full of life. She is 5'7 with yellow but
human eyes, an athletic prowess hidden under a perfect lady's frame. Her long,
soft, cyan hair was tied up in a beautiful ponytail. Yui is staring blankly
through the window watching a beautiful day pass by, envying the birds that were
flying around in their own free will. Yui was lost in her thoughts and day
dreams. She hates wasting beautiful days like this at school.
<I wish I was out there, I bet it feels nice.> She thought.
"Miss Masaki! Will you please turn around and pay attention!" Sensei shouted.
"Oh! Uh...Y-Yes, sir." She said, her face turning red. "Sorry."
The sensei sighed. "Just like your father, it clearly runs in the family."
Yui's classmates started laughing.
"Class! Quiet down!" The sensei shouted again. The students immediately quiets
down. The old educator calmed down a little. "Ok, now where were we? Ah
yes...the Tokugawa government later took control after the war..."
<I can't wait until school's over.> Yui thought to herself.
Two hours later, school is finally over and Yui was at her locker trying to open
it. The door is jammed. She had always had trouble opening her locker. Mainly
because of one reason...
"Stupid locker! I hate it when this happens!" She said, struggling with the
locker door. She finally gets the locker to open and a tidal wave of love-
secret admirer letters, small gifts, and even a few crushed flowers comes
pouring out. She is buried knee deep in to the pile. Yui's best friend, Misato
Matsumiya, walks by and stops in front of Yui.
"Looks like the love magnet, has her hands full again." Misato joked.
"Oh shut up Misato!" Yui barked.
"What are you going to do with all that? Read them or...the usual?" Said the
silky black-haired girl, with cheerful eyes, and warm smile.
"The usual." Yui growls at her predicament and picks up the letters, gifts, and
flowers and throws them in to a nearby trash can. As the letters fall in to the
trash can Yui could here hearts being shattered, athletes, nerds, and even some
sensais, crying in the background.
"Don't you have any time for love, Yui?" Misato asked.
"Nope. Not interested right now." Making her way towards the main doors.
Misato watches Yui walking off and looks down and notices a letter on the floor
that Yui dropped while putting the rest in the trash. She picks it up and
realizes the letter belonged to the biggest jerk in the whole school. The
Student council president, Katsuhiko Jinnai. Misato smiles deviously.
"I'm going to have fun with this letter. Heh! Heh! Heh!" She puts the letter
in to her book bag.
After passing through the doors, this next routine was the part that Yui hated
the most. She had to try to make her way to the gate without making contact
with any of the guys. Nevertheless, usually her hopes were in vain, a freckled
boy with lazy eyes, and bad green teeth, walks up to her.
"Uh... hello, Yui. Can I walk you home?" He said, nervously.
"No." she replied bluntly.
The boy becomes shattered and turns pale he stood as still as a statue and Yui
keeps on walking. Yui was halfway towards the gate, when a stud handsome jock
walks up to her. Perfect gleaming teeth, nicely combed hair, and a strong
athletic build.
"Say pretty, you look tired." He said confidently.
"Tired from what?" she asked, not looking at him.
"Tired from running around in my mind all day." he smiles and a sparkle shines
on his perfect set of teeth.
"Why don't you go away and bench press yourself to death." She said cruelly.
"That is the lamest pick up line I've ever heard!"
"B-but...b-but..." the jock all of sudden looking very small. He started to
grind his teeth.
"Frogs make better sounding mating calls than that!"
"I...I..." the jock struggling with his words. "BUT I LOVE YOU!!!" He shouted
with tears streaming down his cheeks. The jock runs off crying like a little
boy.
Yui sighed in exasperation. <Why must I go through with this EVERY single day? >
Yui finally reaches her bus stop. She waited a few minutes and a bus stops in
front of her. As she steps on to the bus, she hears a low rumbling, she turns
around and sees a mob of all the boys in her school running, trying to catch her
before she got on the bus. All were shouting for her. "YUI! WE LOVE YOU! WE
WANT TO DATE WITH YOU!"
"Oh no! Don't they ever give up?" she shouted.
The doors on the bus opens and the driver is perturbed to see the mob running
towards the bus.
"Jeez...Hurry up, get in! Why must you put me through this every day?" the
driver said angrily. Yui quickly takes haven on to the bus.
"Floor it!!" she shouted. The driver quickly puts the bus in gear and the bus
burns rubber, speeding away from the school grounds. The boys all simultaneously
wave good bye.
The bus rumbled along through the late afternoon, going towards the country-
side, things were finally calm. She looks out the window, looking at the
countryside. Yui always wondered why her father didn't want to move out to the
city. It could've been more convenient for her, not having to spend so much
money on bus passes. On the other hand, she started to think about the
countryside's natural beauty throughout the seasons. Serene orange-red autumn
days, snowy winter wonderlands, hot green summer days, and of course, her
favorite spring time cherry blossoms.
<Oh well, the countryside was always beautiful year round. It would be crazy to
try to move somewhere else.> Yui sighed.
Yui begins to think about today's special occasion. <Aunt Sasami, Aeka and
Mihoshi are all coming back home to visit.>
It is always fun having them coming by and visit, especially Aunt Sasami. Yui
loves her aunt's cooking and even though Sasami was a grown up, Yui always had
fun being around her. Aunt Sasami always came by to visit at least 3 times a
month, staying at her house for days at a time. Her aunt always had a cheerful
attitude to keep things going, that was one of the reasons why Yui loves being
around her. Sasami had another name she also went by...Tsunami, but she prefers
to be called Sasami by her friends and family. Yui has always admired her
aunt's tremendous beauty, after all, she is a goddess just like Yui's
grandmother Washu. She looked so elegant with her long blue hair, pink colored
eyes that always emits a delightful aura of joy, strong cheerful laugh with
healing power, and not to mention she also possesses the universe's most
powerful energy!
Aeka, however, was a different story. Aeka didn't visit as much as Sasami,
mainly because of her duties as the Empress of Jurai. Before her ascension to
the throne 17 years ago, her great-great grandparents Azusa, Funaho, and Lady
Misaki decided to retire from the throne, leaving it empty to Yosho, Aeka, and
her father. Yosho obviously didn't want the throne because he still felt
strongly attached to the Earth, he was very affirmed about dying on earth.
Although it'll take thousands of years before he actually dies.
<I guess he just doesn't want to get involve with the politics.> Yui thought to
herself.
Her father was also considered to take the throne, but Azusa was very adamant
about keeping her father away from there. For some odd reason the king of Jurai
always disliked her father, the reason being because he was an earthling. What
pisses her off the most, was the way Azusa always looked down at him, as if he
was some low life commoner. Yui always hated being around Azusa, to her, he was
always pouting about something.
<As if my father actually cared about taking the stupid throne in the first
place!> she thought angrily. <At that time, mother was pregnant!>
So naturally, Aunt Aeka became the new ruler of the Jurai Empire. While Aeka's
husband temporarily stepped in to rule the empire, Aeka would come by to visit
about once every 3 months staying at the house for 2 or 3 days before she had to
return home for her duties. During those 3 days, Aeka would always teach Yui
the importance of being her own individual, maintaining respect, and teach
responsibility. To Yui, Aeka was the perfect example of being a Lady. Aeka was
always elegant in every aspect, although Aeka was the Empress of Jurai, she also
knew how to have fun. Every time Aeka came by to visit, she would always
challenge her to a singing contest on the karaoke machine. She was good at
singing and she always told Yui that she was a lot like her mother.
"You have a good singing voice, Yui!" Her aunt always said. "Always remember
that this is one of your talents and you have to keep refining your talents in
order to insure a full and joyous life."
Mihoshi was also expected to visit, but Yui doubted that Mihoshi would be able
to. Considering the fact that she is always busy at the Galaxy Police
Headquarters with her new job as a Deputy Commander. Mihoshi is like a big
sister to Yui, even though she's a little air headed. Mihoshi was always there
for Yui, especially during her times going through that certain phase called
puberty. Her father was at a loss when it came to 'female' growth and
development. When Sasami or Aeka wasn't around, Mihoshi would be the one to
take care of her. Making sure that Yui would come out a perfect young lady.
When Aeka, Mihoshi, or Sasami wasn't around. Her grandmother Washu took care of
her. In all of Yui's life, Washu is the one who nurtured her since she was at
the tender age of 4. Since Yui's mother died, her mother's mother was the
perfect choice. It is kinda strange that her grandmother insisted that she be
called little Washu. But Yui didn't mind having a grandmother who looked a lot
younger than her. She loves Washu dearly and that was the bottom line.
When ever Yui asked any question, Washu was always straightforward with an
answer. She never avoided a question. Washu always said that Yui is very much
like Ryoko, full of spirit and always strong willed. The only questions that
Washu didn't answer was how her mother died...and that bothered her. Every time
Yui asked, Washu simply replied by telling her that her father will answer that
question in due time. What was even more disturbing was the fact that she
couldn't recall any memories from her childhood, she was missing memories from
the age of 4 to 5. She only remembered bits and pieces.
Yui looks at her watch. <It won't be another 10 minutes until I reach home.> She
closes her eyes. She relaxes her mind and tries to regain one of her early
childhood memories.
***
In her mind, it's pitch black, but the only thing that keeps it from being
lonely, are voices and sounds from her early past. Then gradually, the pitch
darkness lifts away and she finds herself in the fields of the countryside near
her house. Little Yui has mid-length hair, there's a lot of tall grass around
her and she's looking at a pink flower with a little yellow butterfly on it.
Behind her a woman stood, wearing a pink dress that only a mother could wear,
(See, OVA episode 8 to see what it looks like.), her spiky hair tied back and
yellow gentle eyes watching over her like a Gaurdian angel.
"What do you think it is, Yui?" Asked the soothing voice of her mother, Ryoko.
"Mm...Bu-fly?"
"That's right Yui! But it's called, But-ter-fly." Kneeling down next to Yui.
Holding Yui close to her and pointing out.
"But-ter-fly?"
"Yes, butterfly." Ryoko said, warmly. "Just like you, a butterfly. Always
beautiful and always flying."
"Oh, Mommy!" Yui blushes and giggles and hugs her kneeling mother.
"Mommy will always be with you." Hugging Yui and laughing a healthy laugh.
Then the memory fades away and Yui finds herself back on the bus.<Wish you were
here mom.> Yui looks down and gives out a small sad sigh.
***
The bus finally reached Yui's stop. She gets off with a mute expression on her
face, she always hated that commute between home and school.
<The commute always takes too damn long!> she thought to herself, making her way
up through the hill.
After a minute or so of walking, a thought had struck her, she realized that
tomorrow will mark the 13th year since her mother's death. She decides to pick
up several yellow flowers along her path. After picking up enough yellow
flowers, she makes her way towards the gravestone. The gravestone was located
near the shore of the lake, behind her house, it's engravings:
Ryoko Masaki
Died 25th of April in the year of 2005
Yui puts the bundle of flowers in front of the gravestone and puts her hands
together and prays for her mother's spiritual well-being. After a minute of
silent prayer, she stops and tries not to shed a tear.
<It has been 13 years since you left, mother. I hope you like the flowers I
picked for you. These flowers were our favorite.> She thought to herself. She
wipes a tear from her eye and heads back home. She goes through the doorway and
takes off her shoes.
"I'm home!" She called out. The house was quiet.
"Meow!" Ryo-ohki cried out running down the stairs.
"Hello, Ryo-ohki!" Yui said joyfully. Letting Ryo-ohki jump on to her shoulder
to nestle her cheek. Yui smiled. "And how are you doing today?"
"Meow! Meow!" The cabbit answered back.
Ryo-ohki was usually a cabbit half the time and the other half she would spend
as a humanoid. As a humanoid Ryo-ohki would help her with chores around the
house. Ryo-ohki loved being helpful it was in her nature, also not to mention
her playfulness. When it came to playing games Ryo-ohki and Yui would be the
perfect pair. They would usually play games like 'chase the cabbit' where Yui
would play a tag game with Ryo-ohki in her cabbit form. Whenever Ryo-ohki was a
humanoid, they would either dance, play video games, or even play dress-up. But
once in a while, the most fun comes when Ryo-ohki was in her spaceship form.
Yui would get the chance at piloting Ryo-ohki but not without Washu's
supervision. But that was just a small downside. Washu was just there to make
sure that nothing went wrong. She remembered the first time piloting Ryo-ohki
and she remembered how Washu complemented her about being so talented in
piloting the spaceship.
"I wonder what time it is." She looks over to the wall clock and it reads
4:30pm.
<That's odd. Where is everybody? Shouldn't they be here by now?>
"Oh Yui!" A voice shouted out from the kitchen. It was her grandfather Nobuyuki.
"Yes grandfather?" She walks in to the kitchen and finds him cooking up some
food. Nobuyuki has already developed a set of gray hair and he still had that
thin moustache. She loved being around her adorable grandfather even though he
is a little nosy at times. Her father, Tenchi, told her that he was much worse
when he was young. Always getting a camera at a moment's notice hoping to catch
her father in some sexual situation. But fortunate for Yui, Nobuyuki had toned
down a lot.
"Ah Yui! How's my favorite granddaughter doing today?" He said cheerfully.
"I'm doing fine grandpa." Going towards the fridge and opens the door. Getting
a bowl of carrots for Ryo-ohki.
"And how's school?" he asked. Yui sits down on a stool at the counter.
Watching Nobuyuki cook.
"Oh the usual, straight A's and all. Where's Washu?" Yui asked, looking
around.
"Oh she's in the lab, doing her usual research." Nobuyuki replied.
"Oh I see." Yui said. Throughout most of Yui's life, whenever Washu wasn't
taking care of her, she would spend most of the day time in her laboratory. Yui
has never stepped foot in to that dimensional lab, mainly because Washu forbid
it. Once in a while, Yui would try to break in to the lab herself but instead
of finding the dimensional lab, she would open the door under the stairs and
find a closet instead. Just what is it that Washu is hiding from her?
"Meow! Meow!" Ryo-ohki jumps off her shoulders and on to the counter to eat the
carrots.
"So...you talked to any boys lately?" Nobuyuki asked deviously. "Your father
tells me that you get thousands and thousands of secret admirer letters
everyday."
"Oh grandpa!" She said embarrassingly.
"Oh what's there to be shy about? All I want to know is how well my
granddaughter is doing in her development in sex, err, I mean life."
Yui pretended that she didn't hear that last remark. "Well, you know how they
are these days."
"No, how are they?"
"You know...immature and always wanting some weird commitment. The main reason
why they want to know me is that they want to get laid."
"Oh, I see. That's understandable." He said, cutting up some vegetables then
putting them in a frying pan.
"So grandpa," decided to change the subject.
"Yes, Yui?" he asked.
"How was your day at the office?"
"Oh, you know. Those young architects I just hired were really talented, I'm
having a hard time trying to decide which one of their blueprints to approve for
the contractors."
"Oh really?"
"yeah, and I had to fire an employee today, as well."
"Oh really? Did you finally fire that lazy bum you were talking about for the
past 2 weeks?"
"Yeah I finally fired that idiot, Kaji. He was really wasting my company's
time." He said with satisfaction. "That'll teach him a lesson about eating up
the Misaki Firm's finances!"
"Isn't it great to be your own boss?" she said with a smile.
"Yes indeed!" He exclaimed, while stir-frying some noodles in the frying pan.
Yui looks around and frowns a little.
"Have my aunts arrived yet?" she asked.
"Oh! Forgive me!" he said loudly, "I've been meaning to tell you."
"Tell me what?"
"They won't be coming until tomorrow, Saturday."
"What? Why?" She was clearly disappointed.
"A formal meeting came up on the planet Jurai and it required presence of both
Aeka and Sasami."
"Gee, I hope it's nothing like a crisis or anything serious."
"Nah, it's just one of those budget meetings." He said, adding some soy sauce
to the noodles.
"Oh, well that's good." Yui was relieved.
Then her great grandfather Yosho walks in to the kitchen. Throughout Yui's life
Yosho always looked old but oddly enough he hasn't aged a bit either. He has
had the same appearance for most of her life.
"I see that you've arrived home, Yui." He sits down at the table across from
her. "How's your day?"
"Just another fine and beautiful day wasted at school." Yui replied. Getting
up to fetch the teapot for Yosho.
"I see...very interesting." Yosho smiled. "Don't worry, Yui. You'll be spending
the rest of what's left of daylight outside."
"What do you mean by that, grandpa Yosho?" She asked, getting a teacup from a
cabinet.
"Your father has graciously asked me to call for you." Watches Yui setting the
teapot and teacup in front of him.
"Call for me?" she said quizzically. "Call for me for what?" Pouring a cup of
tea for Yosho.
"For practice. He decided that he wanted to practice with you." Yosho sips his
tea.
"What?! Now?!" Yui asked and Yosho nodded. "But I'm so beat!"
"He's waiting for you at the training ground. He's expecting you over there by
5 o'clock."
"What?! That only gives me 10 minutes to get ready and run up there!"
"Then I guess you better go." He said, sipping his tea.
"Great! I hate it when he does things like this!" Yui storms out of the kitchen
at lightning speed and to her room upstairs.
Nobuyuki watches in amazement as how swift and fast Yui flew out of the kitchen.
He walks over to the table where Yosho was sitting and serves a plate of
noodles.
"Goodness! She's fast! I can barely see her run!" Nobuyuki said in awe.
"Indeed." He gets his chopsticks and sets the plate of noodles in front of him.
"Very much like her mother."
***
Meanwhile, out in the training ground, Tenchi is sitting on a big smooth
boulder patiently waiting for Yui to come out for practice. With the boken
resting on his right shoulder, he watches the cherry blossoms bloom, which
resembled pink snow falling to the ground. He grinned, he never got tired of
the country-side's natural beauty. Tenchi is in his mid-thirties although he
looks 21, he still has the same short spiky hair do, basically he hasn't
changed much in years due to the cause of his ability to form Light Hawk Wings
at will and his connections to the cosmic space trees.
Nowadays, he's taken over his grandfather's duties as a Shinto shrine priest,
going by a modest salary. He wasn't worried about paying off the bills because
of his father's Architectural Firm, it was bringing in more than enough money to
last another 80+ years. So life was good.
"I wonder what's taking her so long?" Tenchi said, looking at his watch. It
read 4:59 p.m., if she didn't make it in time, he was going to have to double
her chores. He stood up from the boulder and stretched.
"DAMMIT DAD! I HATE IT WHEN YOU DO THIS TO ME!" Yui yelled out. She appears in
front of Tenchi in a blurry flash. She is wearing her practice outfit and
holding her boken in her right hand.
"Jeez! Don't do that! You almost gave me a heart attack!" Tenchi said, trying
to regain his composure. <Uh oh, she's pissed at me. Better give her THE
SMILE.> Then he smiled. "Yui! I knew you would make it in time!"
"I know it's important to practice and all, but you just gotta give me more
notice!" Yui notices her dad's smile and begins to calm down. There's just that
weird effect that he gives off, every time he smiles.
<How does he do that?"> She finds herself completely depleted of anger.
"As much as I want to, Yui. I couldn't," He said "But this is the only way I can
train you to expect the unexpected." Admiring his daughter's honesty, it
reminded him of all his time spent with Ryoko, nearly 14 years ago. Yui acted
so much like her mother that it was one of the driving forces that kept him
alive and happy.
"Yes, I know." She said, beginning to smile.
"Besides, the bright side to this is the fact that you don't have to do any
chores, today." Puts his hand on her shoulder.
"I guess." <Even though I'll do them later on, any ways.> she thought to
herself.
"Shall we begin our practice?"
"Hai!." She said.
"Ok, then. We'll start with a normal exercise and after that we'll spar. We're
just having a short practice today."
"Ok. Which exercise are we going to do?"
"I'm going to test your speed and reflexes. I'll test them by throwing this
pebble at you." He holds up a small pebble. "This is how your grandfather Yosho
taught me how to keen my senses and reflexes."
"Ok. How are we going to begin?" she asked.
"We'll try it stationary, then we'll go on from there. I want to see how much
you've learned so far."
As far as Yui could remember she had been practicing sword fighting for most of
her life since the age of 6. As she practiced with her father throughout her
life, she gradually discovers her hidden abilities. Abilities that most normal
humans would never be able to do, such as, being able to levitate herself a foot
to 20ft. off the ground and moving at speeds faster than a sprinting cheetah,
literally flying. She's 3 times stronger than the world's strongest
weightlifter, and not to mention she has quick reflexes that rivals that of a
cat. She mainly inherited most of her abilities from her mother's.
Yui gets in to her Jurian battle ready stance.
"Ok...ready?" Tenchi asked. Holding up the pebble, getting ready to throw it at
her.
She nods affirmative.
"Here it comes!" He immediately throws it at her. The rock speeds its way
towards Yui and she deflects it easily.
"How's that?" She said confidently.
"Very good." He said. "Not bad for your first time, but can you handle 3?"
He throws 3 more rocks at her and each were successfully deflected off Yui's
boken.
"Excellent, Yui! Now let's move it up one level."
"Alright." She begins to float and she is 5 feet off the ground. She gets her
boken ready in both hands.
"Ok, now start flying around me, and at the same time try to deflect these rocks
as they come to you."
She starts flying around him in a wide circle at the speed of 25 MPH.
"Ok, I'm ready." She said, flying around him.
"Here they come!" He throws 2 rocks at her, each were successfully deflected.
She smiles, obviously pleased with her progress.
"Don't think I'm done yet, Yui." He grins and all of a sudden, throws a volley
of rocks at her.
Yui sees the barrage of rocks flying at her, they resembled a swarm of bees.
<Whoa! Damn!> She quickly dodges a good number of rocks and quickly deflects
the rest. As soon as the last rock was deflected, a second barrage came flying
at her. She focuses her attention on each rock and starts to swing her boken.
She was getting pleased with her abilities. She feels a surge of adrenaline
coursing through her body. This is the feeling she lived for, the Rush and the
Exhilaration!
Tenchi was amazed to see his daughter doing very well. He was getting a feeling
of satisfaction, watching the way she skillfully deflected his barrage of rocks.
Watching her boken cut through the air, swiftly and surely. He realizes that he
was running out of pebbles to throw at her, so he decided to do the next best
thing. He charges at her with his boken ready to do battle.
As soon as the last rock from the last wave was deflected, Yui realizes that the
barrage had stopped and quickly spots her father running straight towards her.
She immediately blocks his boken before it could even touch her. They were
boken-to-boken to each other. Struggling at each other's strength and trying to
keep their balance.
"So dad, I see that you have ran out of rocks to throw at me." Yui said
grinning. She jumps back away from him and goes on the defensive.
"Not really, I was tired of watching you play with rocks, so I decided to go
straight to the spar." Tenchi said. He lunges at her and she blocks him with
her boken.
<She's very quick. If she keeps this up, she'll be able to beat me and possibly
even grandpa.> Tenchi thought to himself. Tenchi was finding it harder to break
through her defenses. She was quick, so quick in fact, he had to try to find a
way to outsmart her.
Yui was pleased by her ability to block her father's attacks but he was still
quite strong and just as fast as she is. She tries not to think ahead of
herself.
"You're becoming more and more like your mother, Yui. Strong and quick."
throwing blows and swings at Yui. Although Tenchi had never really practiced
sword fighting with Ryoko, but only during that one time...
"Thanks, it runs in the family." She replied. Blocking and deflecting her
father's attacks.
Then she finds herself boken-to-boken again with her father. Trying to maintain
her stand against her father's strength, she was surprised on how strong her
father was. He's pretty strong for a man of his frame.
Tenchi was feeling the same way about his daughter. She was definitely strong
alright, he was barely able to hold up against her. If she is as strong as her
mother, his boken would have break by now.
Through the rush of the sparring, Yui was struggling against her father's boken,
then she suddenly feels a surge of energy coursing through her body and moving
towards her left arm. <This was something new, here's a new sensation she hasn't
felt before.> She feels the energy coursing through the veins of her left arm,
gradually focusing on to one point, her palm. She was still holding on to her
boken.
"Uhh...Dad, Something's happening to my left arm!" she said nervously to her
father. She quickly stops sparring.
"What?" he notices his daughter's sudden withdrawal, and steps back. "What's
wrong Yui?"
"I don't know." Yui replied. She drops her boken and looks at her left palm
where she feels all the energy concentrating on to that point. Then suddenly an
energy ball materializes on her left palm. Yui was awed by it. "Dad, what's
going on? What is this thing doing on my palm!?"
"I'm not sure." He comes in for a closer look. "Yui, don't do a thing. Let me
take a look."
He holds up her left arm and looks at the wad of energy. He looks in carefully
at the ball, then with a pop, it disappears.
"What do you think it was, dad?" Yui asked.
"I'm not sure but I do have an idea." He said, thinking hard. <That energy ball
resembled an energy discharge. Is Yui finally regaining her powers?>
"Dad? What are you thinking about?" Yui asked again.
"Yui, could you by any chance try to recreate that energy ball?" Tenchi asked.
"I'm not sure, but I'll try." Yui said. Then without much of a thought, the
energy ball re-materialized. She didn't have to think hard at all, it came as a
nervous impulse.
Tenchi looks at the energy ball again and smiles.
"Ah! Looks like Yui finally developed her very own energy discharge!" Washu
said, walking towards Tenchi and Yui. Ryo-ohki followed Washu, as well, she was
in her humanoid form. Ryo-ohki was carrying a tray holding 2 cups and a pitcher
of water. Ryo-ohki sits down on the boulder and sets the tray down next to her.
"Good afternoon, Washu." Tenchi greeted.
"Hello, Tenchi." Washu looks at the energy ball, intensely studying it. "Ok
Yui, I'm going to teach you your first lesson about using an energy discharge."
"Um...ok" she said.
"Tenchi, why don't you go over there and sit with Ryo-ohki. You're done with
your lessons with her for today." Said, Washu.
"Sure, ok. Since you're the only person qualified enough to teach her." He said
smiling. <Washu's out of her lab, she finally decided to step out.> Tenchi
hadn't stepped in to the lab for the past 13 years. Ever since the death of
Ryoko, Washu had been in that lab almost every time she had free time. <She's
hiding something.> But he figures that he'll find out eventually.
Tenchi sits down next to Ryo-ohki. Ryo-ohki pours him a cup of water. "Thank
you Ryo-ohki!"
"Meow!" said the smiling cabbit humanoid. She turns her attention to Washu and
Yui.
Tenchi watches Yui and Washu intensely, this was bringing back happy memories
and, of course, buried memories. <It's almost time to reveal Yui, her buried
memories.>
"Okay, Yui! Now that you have the energy discharge on your palm, try throwing
it like a baseball." She looks and finds for a suitable point. "Throw it in
that direction." She pointed her finger at the rock.
"Ok...like this?" She hurls the blue discharge at a faraway rock across the
fields. Then the rock and everything near it explodes. BOOM!
"Just like your mother, Yui." Washu said proudly.
"Wow! That is cool!" Yui's eye's were bulging out of her sockets. "I'm doing
that again!" She throws out another energy discharge, this timing aiming it at
the lake. A huge pillar of water explodes.
Washu clearly sees, that Yui was already aware that she had inherited her
mother's abilities, but how far is her potential? Now that she finally
regained most of her powers and some new ones, Washu's going to have to have to
break the news about her past, soon.
"Alright Yui, next and finally. I'm going to teach you how to materialize your
own energy sword."
"You mean, like my mother's?"
"Yes, like your mother's."
Yui brings out another energy discharge out of her hand without even Washu
telling her to.
"I'm ready Washu."
"All you have to do, to bring out your sword. Is close your hand on the
discharge." Washu directed.
"You mean like this?" She closes her hand on the energy discharge and a blue
energy sword is formed. "Wow! Just like a light saber from that movie Star
Wars!"
"Star what?" Washu asked.
"Never mind." Yui said, remembering that Washu doesn't really watch American
movies that much.
"Now that you have your very own sword, why don't you test it? And see how it
works."
"Ok!" Yui said excitedly. She runs over to a nearby tree and starts to swing at
it. Immediately the tree is cut in half, and the trunk slides and falls to the
ground.
Tenchi and Ryo-ohki, both clapped their hands obviously impressed. Tenchi
finished clapping and gives a glance of eye contact to Washu. Washu picks up on
the eye contact.
"Ok, Yui. Time to call it quits." Washu said, smiling.
"What? You mean I'm done, already?" Yui asked.
Washu nodded.
"That's all. Isn't there more to learn?" Yui asked hoping if there was any more
surprises.
"Nope, you have graduated. You've learned on all that you needed to learn. The
only thing that's left is..."
"Is what?" Yui asked excitedly.
"Is to practice and master those abilities"
"Alright." Yui walks over to Ryo-ohki and her father. Ryo-ohki pours a drink
for Yui. "Thank you Ryo-ohki."
"You better head back to the house with Ryo-ohki, Yui." Tenchi directed. "I need
to speak with Washu alone."
"Yes, ok." She picks up her boken and leaves with Ryo-ohki.
Tenchi waited until Yui and Ryo-ohki left, he turned to Washu. Washu was
standing there, clearly thinking to herself.
"Well, she finally, regained all her powers and some new ones." He said. "What
do you think will happen next?"
"Tomorrow I will be permitting you and the others in to the lab." Said, Washu.
"Your lab?" he said curiously. "You're finally giving us access to your lab?"
"Yes." She walks off.
<Man, what's with her any ways?> Tenchi was trying to figure out why Washu had
been acting so recluse for the past 2 weeks. Oh well, he's going to go find out
tomorrow, if not...sooner or later.
***
It's late in the evening and everybody and is in bed. Washu was in her lab,
she is typing on her keyboard, and at the same time monitoring progress. In
front of her, in the center of her dimensional lab, was a huge cylinder casing,
it had monitors and computers connected to it. The cylinder casing was made of
glass but the contents inside it were hidden. For the past 13 years, Washu had
been struggling and maintaining to keep it's contents from deteriorating. Until
2 weeks ago, she finally stopped the deterioration process. Now it was only a
matter of time until it's contents can fully regenerate itself. After it
completely regenerates itself, Washu will set it free. Ryo-ohki was the only
person who knew about it, what concerned her the most, was how the other's are
going to react to this revelation. She looks at the monitoring window on her
screen. <Finally, after all these years...>
Regeneration at 85%. Estimated time of full regeneration in 48 hours.
***
Yui is lying on her bed in her father's former room, looking up through the
skylight window watching the stars glimmer and twinkle. The clock right next to
her, read 1:30am. She couldn't sleep, not after all that excitement she's been
through today. Now that she learned most of her father's sword techniques and
had gained most of her mother's abilities. The only ability she hadn't gained
from her mother yet, was teleportation and walking through walls. But she'll
gain it eventually and when she does...
<I'm going to be the world's greatest fighter!> Yui smiled. She closes her eyes
and her mind wanders off in to a dream state...
***
In the second master bedroom, Tenchi was sleeping soundly in his king-size bed.
The second bedroom was added to the house, after his wedding with Ryoko, it was
built as a wedding present from his father. The bed was also from his father
too, it was obviously meant for 2 people to sleep on. Unfortunately the bed
hasn't been shared by anyone else in 13 years. Tenchi missed being close to his
late wife. He missed her warmth, her touch, and the feeling of being whole.
Now, for 14 years...he slept alone.
In his dresser, the Tenchi-ken's hilt containing the 3 gems that once belonged
to Ryoko, was reacting to a familiar energy source. The gems were giving out a
faint glow. This was an indication of the coming events...
Ending Song:
The Lonely Moon
(tragedy)
I am lonely like the moon
You are faraway as the earth
Now you say I light your thoughts
Night After night
Soon you forget
We are drifting in this dance
I can feel you circle my thoughts
Keeping such a graceful distance
So close but somehow apart
Sometimes I cry for you
Knowing you don't want me to
Sometimes I whisper to the stars up in the sky
That I want to find the way to your soul
Kiss in the sun when morning comes you don't seem to count the hours
When we are not together
I've seen a tender fire in your eyes
Yet when I'm gone you carry on
I float in this emptiness
Till at last love returns
With the night and the lonely moon
End of Pt.1 Chapter 1!
I hope you liked it! Send me your C&C! I'm dying to know what you think! And
stay tuned for Pt.1 Chapter 2 !
Author's second note:
Some of you might object to this, but I decided to put this song in this FF
because I liked the mood of the song. This song always gives that edge of
sincerity and lovingness. This is one of the elements I hope to write in this
FF series. That's my reason for putting the song on here.
I would like to give special thanks to random and Lord Talon. Who were gracious
enough to give some of their time and energy to help me edit this FF.
