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Disclaimer: I am just trying to be a writer, I don't own the characters 
or anything. 
AIC/Pioneer owns them.  Also, I haven't read all the fan fics, so I 
don't know if my 
story is original or not but I really apologize if I stole anyone's 
plot.

		Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.  Love is not love
Which alters when it alterations finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no!  It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come:
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom
	If this be error and upon me proved,
	I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
			-William Shakespeare
(If you're really good at poems, you'll understand the meaning of this 
and have the 
"awww, how sweet" effect)

Bitter-Sweet Revenge: Chapter 1
The Beginning of Many Surprises
	By Ace Conners


	A ship flew to earth; its shape was different from any other Jurian 
ships or Galaxy 
Police's. It stopped flying once it reached the Earth's outer 
atmosphere.   A pale faced
man stood inside looking at the planet. 
	"Ryoko... I've finally found you after all this time.  Hiding on this 
puny 
planet?"  He said to himself.  He gave an icy smile.  
"I hope you like surprises, because I have so many in store for you." 
His shape shifted, from a tall built man,  becoming thinner. His back 
length black hair, tied 
in a pony tail, became spiky, then changing to a cyan color.  His brown 
eyes dilated, 
and with a blink, they suddenly appeared golden and catlike. 
He gave a diabolical laugh as his voice echoed along the corridors of 
his ship.

	It was another lazy autumn day at the Masaki residence.  Tenchi wiped 
sweat 
from his brow and stood up from the weeding in the garden.  He looked 
around and 
saw all the girls busy at their chores and smiled.  It had been a 
peacful day so far, 
without any bickering from anyone, and the weather was a bit warm, but 
pleasant.  
	Of course, everyone was busy but Ryoko, who was floating on top of 
Tenchi's bed half-
asleep and daydreaming.  Suddenly, Ayeka stormed into the room, her face 
red 
with anger and frustration. 
	"Miss Ryoko!! I am so sick and tired of having to do all of your 
chores!"  Ayeka 
shouted out in fustration.
	"Then don't do it."  Ryoko replied barely opening an eye to look at 
Ayeka.  
Ayeka stood closer to Ryoko and she could feel the anguishing heat 
emitting from 
Ayeka.
	"You are the laziest person I have ever met!" Ayeka exclaimed, raising 
her voice.  
"Humph!! It is no surprise that Lord Tenchi doesn't love you!!" The 
princess 
commented.  Ryoko recognized this as a start for a fight; Ryoko stood up 
and faced Ayeka.
	"Is that so, your highness?" Ryoko asked in a sarcastic manner, 
clenching her fists
ready to rumble.  "Well I'm sorry for not being a miss perfect like you. 
But 
at least I'm not a whining little bitch everyday!" She gave Ayeka a 
vicious look but the 
princess ignored it and glared back, they stood like that until Ayeka 
finally lost her composure.
	"Oh! I can't stand you anymore!  You are always disagreeing with 
everything and you 
never do your share of the work!!  You are an arrogant, selfish, and a 
lazy monster!!"   
Ayeka cursed at the demon who was getting angry and angrier by the 
second.  "I am so 
surprised that Lord Tenchi has not realized what a mistake he made when 
he 
released you from the cave!  You have brought nothing but trouble and 
bad luck in his life 
and have never helped him with anything!"  the princess criticized, with 
knives in her voice.
Remembering the cave, it brought some kind of dark fear in Ryoko 
and ,surprisingly, Ryoko took a step back..
	"That's not true, Ayeka!" she growled, but the princess only looked at 
her with 
contempt.
	"Oh no? You never help anyone! In fact, YOU are the one who usually 
causes the 
trouble! Ruining everything. Making poor Lord Tenchi clean everything 
up!  How 
will Tenchi choose you?! He will think of his future children and then 
he will look at 
you and see that you don not care about anyone else but yourself.  
You are so lazy and selfish, you would never be a good wife or mother."  
Ayeka suddenly had a 
thought and began to sneer at Ryoko.  
	"In fact, I don't think things would work even if he chose you, eh? 
Alien and Jurian 
blood do not mix, am I right, Ryoko?  So he wouldn't choose you anyway 
because 
you cannot bear him children, isn't that correct?  You're sterile?"  
Ayeka saw 
Ryoko's face fall. Ayeka stared at Ryoko directly into her eyes, and 
Ryoko turned, unable to 
stare back.  
	"You thought no one knew, Ryoko?"
	"Ayeka, shut up!... that isn't any of your damn business!"  Ryoko 
argued.  Ayeka had 
managed to break through to Ryoko, who was beginning to look defeated.  
Ryoko 
stared at the ground.
	"Everyone knows you cannot have Tenchi's children."  Ayeka mocked and 
gave a soft laugh 
and continued.  "So I guess I should not be worrying about competition.  
Tenchi 
will never choose you, because, when Tenchi grows up, he will think of 
having a family, 
something so simple but such a great space pirate can't do!  One day, 
Ryoko, you will go too 
far, and when he realizes what kind of evil person your really are, 
he'll lock you up 
back into the cave just like his grandfather did." 
	"Ayeka! Please!" Ryoko defended, begging not to be reminded of the 
hellish 
place, the place where she was totally helpless.  But the princess was 
enjoying 
watching the pirate squirm uncomfortably under her stare.
	"He'll lock you back up eventually, Ryoko.  Back into that cold, dark, 
lonely 
cave.  And you'll never see him again."  Trying to plug Ayeka's voice 
out,Ryoko covered her ears.
The memories hurt so much! Shr hated that hell and vowed to never to be 
captured back into there.  
And the thought of never seeing Tenchi again! It nearly broke her heart!  
Finally, Ryoko looked up 
and surprised the princess when she saw Ryoko's face covered with tears.  
	"My Tenchi will never do that to me!" She cried as a tear rolled down 
and 
splashed onto the ground. Ryoko quickly teleported and left the room in 
tears.  
	The princess began to panic.  Had she gone too far?  She had never seen 
Ryoko 
break down and cry just because of a few words!! No..... they weren't 
just 
words, they were daggers that had plunged into the pirates' heart.  Of 
course! Ryoko wasn't 
bulletproof, she had feelings too!  What would Tenchi say if he found 
out what 
Ayeka had done to Ryoko??  Ayeka suddenly felt incredibly ashamed.  What 
kind of 
princess was she?  Had had acted foolishly ,unable to control herself, 
how could she command so many Jurains?
	All at once, Ayeka felt a small burst of wind of someone who had 
transported 
behind her.  She turned around to see a bush of spiky cyan hair and 
flashing 
gold eyes.  Ayeka was to surprised to react and at that moment, with an 
evil smile,  hands 
from gold-eyed person shoved her.  Glass from Tenchi's window broke as 
Ayeka was pushed 
out and she gave out a scream as she fell from the second floor all the 
way down to 
the ground.

	The sound of glass breaking and a scream brought Tenchi and the rest of 
the 
group rushing to where Ayeka laid.  Tenchi gave a gasp of terror as 
Ayeka came into 
view. Ayeka laid on the broken glass and she had fallen straight onto a 
pipe running into her 
back and coming out through the other side through her chest.  She had 
hit the floor head first,
leaving her hair matted with blood.  Tenchi held her in his arms as 
grandfather pulled 
the pipe out.  Sasami seemed to take the worst.  In all the commotion, 
her face turned pale and she buried her face against Mihoshi trying not 
to cry.  Mihoshi began 
crying, mumbling something about a funeral. 
	"Mihoshi, get Sasami out of here.  you two can't handle this." 
Katsuhito ordered her.
	"Oh god! Ayeka! What happened??!!??" Tenchi asked, his face grief 
stricken.  
Her blood began pouring onto his clothes in great quantities.
	"Quickly, Tenchi!" Katsuhito told him.  "We must get her to Washu's 
lab."
	Unaware of anything that had happened, Ryoko was sitting by the tree 
Funaho.  
Hearing all of the cries and shouts, she transported back to Tenchi's 
room and 
looked out to see Ayeka in Tenchi's arms looking half dead with her 
Jurian clothes doused 
in blood.  She looked around to see what could have happened in Tenchi's 
room that had done 
this to Ayeka, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. Tenchi look up 
to see Ryoko 
looking back at them from his room and he frowned in suspicion.  When 
she saw Tenchi's 
look, Ryoko had an uneasy feeling and backed away from the window.
At that moment, Ayeka slowly opened her eyes and murmured something to 
Tenchi.
	"What is it? What are you trying to say, Ayeka??" Tenchi asked.  She 
finally 
managed to sputter, a bit of blood dribbling down her chin, 
"Ryoko...Ryoko pushed me. She pushed me out the window...." 
and she fell into unconsciousness. 

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Believe?


Tenchi stood beside Ayeka's side as she lay on the bed with a machine 
was gave 
her artificial respiration.  <How could Ryoko do such a thing? >  Tenchi 
angrily thought 
to himself.  At first, the scientists eye's opened wide in surprise as 
everyone rushed into 
her lab with Tenchi carrying a very hurt and bloody Ayeka. She was even 
more surprised 
when Katsuhito explained that everyone suspected of Ryoko doing this to 
her.  Washu 
had worked for a couple hours, mending Ayeka's wounds. She had just told 
everyone that 
the pipe had nearly missed Ayeka's heart. The scientist had done all she 
could.  The rest 
depended on Ayeka alone.  She was on the verge of surviving or dying.  
The only way to 
tell if she would live was if she could survive for next 24 hours.  
Everyone worried.  Was 
Ryoko really trying to kill Ayeka? What was going to happen to Ryoko?  
No one had 
seen her after Ayeka was rushed to Washu's lab and no one went to look 
for her.  Not 
even Tenchi.

Ryoko was somewhere in the woods.  No one had spoken to her and they had 
all 
given her a look of repulsion as they passed by her while carrying Ayeka 
away.  It didn't 
take long for her to figure it out.  They all thought she had pushed 
Ayeka through 
Tenchi's window.  How would she convince them it wasn't true? How could 
Ayeka tell 
them that lie??!! Ayeka wouldn't throw her self out the window, she 
wasn't like that, so 
who did? Of course, Ryoko was positive it wasn't herself. Everything was 
happening so 
quickly. She had to tell Tenchi the truth first.  She didn't care if 
everyone else hated her, 
but she needed Tenchi to believe her first of all.  If Tenchi believed 
her, then everyone 
else would, and everything would be ok.

Tenchi stayed beside Ayeka and held her hand.  "I'm sorry... I'm sorry 
this 
happened to you."  He apologized to her.  His head was full with so many 
thoughts at the 
same time.  What was he going to have to do Ryoko? This time she had 
gone too far.  
Something had to be done. 
Just then, Tenchi sensed Ryoko's presence as soon as she teleported in.  
Tenchi's 
back faced her as she walked to him softly.
"Tenchi, I need to talk to you."  She told him.  Her hand touched his 
shoulder.  He 
cringed and shrugged it off.  Surprised, Ryoko backed away.  This was 
the first time 
Tenchi had shown deep hostility to her.
"There's nothing to talk about, Ryoko.  I just need time to think." 
"You think I pushed her, don't you?  Tenchi! I wouldn't do such a thing 
to her!  
You know I don't like Ayeka, but I don't hate her so much as to try and 
kill her!" she 
cried out to him, grabbing onto his arm.  He pulled it free and finally 
looked at her.  She 
saw him glare in disappointment.
"Ryoko, how could you say you didn't do it?  Look at her!" Tenchi said, 
pointing 
to Ayeka.   "Ayeka said you did.  Do you think she would just jump 
through the window?  
And when I looked up, I saw you up there.  With what I saw and what 
Ayeka SAID, it's 
all the proof.  She was the main witness.  She wouldn't lie about 
something like this.  If 
you didn't, who did?!?"  He asked her.  He turned back to Ayeka, holding 
her hand.  
When Ryoko saw this, a hard lump forced it's way into her throat.  A 
chest felt pressured 
and it hurt to breath and talk.  But she took a deep breath and began 
talking again.
"Tenchi! Don't you know me by now?? Tenchi!" she pleaded to him.  "I 
would 
never do anything to hurt you!  If would never hurt her because I know 
it would hurt 
you!"
"Ryoko.... I need some time.  I just don't know what to do with you." 
"Tenchi!! I didn't do it!! I can't explain it, but I didn't hurt Ayeka!  
I didn't push 
her out of the window! I don't know who did, but it wasn't ME!"
"Just leave me alone, ok?!" he lashed out.  Ryoko's eye's widened in 
surprised.  
She shook her head in disbelief.  Tenchi didn't believe her?  Sadly, she 
faded out to give 
him space.  
After witnessing the drama, Washu stepped out in from within shadows and 
looked at Tenchi and then at the spot where Ryoko had disappeared, then 
headed to 
where she knew Ryoko would be.

Meanwhile, on the ship hovering above the Earth's atmosphere, the 
mysterious 
man watched through his screen.  It had a close up view of Tenchi's 
house.  Surprisingly, 
he was able to see in Washu's lab. He had seen Tenchi and Ryoko argue 
and he smiled 
slyly.
"Are we having fun yet, Ryoko? Just wait, Ryoko.  I have a lot more 
surprises for 
you."
Washu could hear crying up on the rafters and knew it was her daughter.  
It was 
the only place where she let out her emotions.  It was her own private 
place.  Ryoko was 
crying her heart out when she felt a hand touch her shoulder in comfort.  
She looked up to 
see her mother, Washu.  Ryoko turned away and continued crying.  Washu 
could read 
Ryoko's "no one believes me" thoughts.
Washu used the mind link.  She re-ran what Ryoko had experienced and 
knew the 
truth.
"I know you didn't do it, daughter.  I'm on your side.  Why don't you 
tell Tenchi 
what happened?"  Washu suggested.  Ryoko shook her head.
"It's no use.  You saw it yourself.  He wouldn't even give me a chance.  
He 
doesn't even want to listen.  He doesn't care about me.... he never 
did." Ryoko told 
Washu, dejectedly. Washu caressed her daughter's hair.
"I can talk to Tenchi. I'm the greatest scientist in the universe.  I 
can prove 
anything." She suggested.  Ryoko looked at her mother for a moment, but 
shook her head 
again sadly.
"No.  This is beyond just proving who tried to hurt Ayeka.  If Tenchi 
actually 
cared for me, he would have listened to me in the first place, but you 
saw how he was.  
He didn't even want to look at me! He hates me!... he hates me..." and 
she started crying 
over again.
"Don't be senseless, you know he doesn't, Ryoko... he's just confused.  
There's 
so much he has going on in his mind.  Give him time.  He has to sort 
everything out.  
He'll realize what a fool he's been.  He'll know the truth about who 
tried harming Ayeka.  
The Truth will prevail." Washu comforted.  Ryoko was heaving great sobs, 
and Washu 
did the motherly thing and took Ryoko into her arms, letting her 
daughter cry on her 
shoulder.  "Ryoko, are you sure you don't want me to do anything? Not 
even a little 
boost?"  Ryoko sniffled and very slightly smiled..
"No.... He has to do this on his own.  If he loves me... or even cares 
about me, he 
should really know me, and know the truth. And Ayeka will tell him the 
truth if she really 
is a person with honor."  Ryoko replied.  There was a long silence as 
Washu sat beside 
Ryoko holding her hand to calm her.  Ryoko shifted after a while.  
"Thanks for being 
here with me... mother."  She told Washu, who smiled.  They sat there on 
the roof 
looking at the stars together, experiencing one of those quiet motherly 
daughterly 
moments.  

It was late at night when Washu entered into her lab.  She left Ryoko, 
who had 
refused to come down the rafters,  asleep and everyone else in the house 
was sleeping.  
Tenchi slept on a chair beside Ayeka's side.  Washu checked on Ayeka.  
She nodded in 
relief as she read Ayeka's status report.  It was good news.  Washu's 
mind was bustling 
with many thoughts and questions.  The main question that held in 
Washu's mind was 
about Ayeka and Ryoko.  If it wasn't Ryoko who pushed Ayeka out, who was 
it?  And 
why did it look like Ryoko?  Even Washu knew that the princess would not 
injure herself 
or lie about this, so it was someone who pushed her out... but who?  She 
went to her 
universal computer and began her search for anything irregular that had 
happened since 
yesterday.
In the morning, Tenchi woke up to see Ayeka still on the bed.  Washu 
stood 
beside him.  "How is she?" Tenchi asked.  
Washu nodded, "She'll live."  Tenchi gave out a sigh of relief.  They 
stayed there 
for a minute thinking their own thoughts.  "You don't think Ryoko did 
this to Ayeka, do 
you?"  Washu finally asked.  Tenchi frowned.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Do you?"
"I said I don't want to talk about it."  Washu looked at Tenchi, who 
avoided her 
stare.  Being uncomfortable in the position Washu was putting him in, he 
finally stated, 
"There's so much proof that she did.  I know you're just being a 
protective mother.  But 
there are so much evidence and they all lead to Ryoko.  So what else can 
I say?  You're a 
scientist; you can put two and two together.  And what do you get?  
Wouldn't you say 
Ryoko did it?"  Washu thought for a moment and gave a sigh.
 "... Sometimes, you don't need facts and clues to prove anything.  
Sometimes all 
you have to do is look into your heart and what you believe, and you'll 
find the truth, 
Tenchi.  It doesn't take a scientist to figure that out." And with that, 
the genius left 
shaking her head, leaving Tenchi to think.  The quote hit him hard and 
he sat on the chair 
thinking for minutes, till half an hour passed, then an hour.  Suddenly, 
Ayeka stirred and 
her eyes fluttered open.  "Tenchi..." she called softly with a smile.  
Surprised, Tenchi 
broke from his chain of thought and called for everyone to come.
"Ayeka's awake, everyone!!!!!"  He yelled.  He turned to her.  "How are 
you 
feeling?"  She smiled and noticed his hand holding onto hers and began 
to blush.
"I'm a bit exhausted and a little pained, but I will live, Lord Tenchi."  
She said 
lightly.
"Ayeka, I was so worried! We were all worried for you! We all thought we 
were 
going to lose you!" Tenchi exclaimed.  Hearing Tenchi worrying so much 
about her and 
his grip tighten on her hands made Ayeka's heart fluttered with joy.  
<Tenchi really does 
care for me! >  She thought to herself feeling incredibly elated.  
Tenchi began re-telling 
her what had happen after she fell.  How she bled so much, how she 
almost died, the pipe 
going through her chest, but he avoided saying much about Ryoko.  She 
listened 
widening her eyes once in a while in uneasiness while he told her.
"I want to thank you, Lord Tenchi, for being with me in my greatest hour 
of 
need."  Ayeka said to him.  She looked up into his eyes and it was 
almost as if a surge of 
electricity went through her.  His brown eyes were kind and smiling at 
her, reinvigorating 
her and she felt very much alive. To Ayeka's disappointment, their 
moment was 
interrupted when everyone else rushed into room.  Everyone was relieved 
to see Ayeka 
well and on the road to recovery.  Sasami was the most relieved to see 
her sister. Almost 
bursting into tears, she ran to her sister and embraced her.




So, what do you think? This was my first attempt to write a fan fic, so 
it's 
probably not one of the best things you've read.  Tell me what you think

Please e-mail 
me at AceConners@hotmail.com and give me some comments so I can improve! 
Thanks 
for reading my story, I'll try to write the next chapter. 
I haven't seen the OAV series which I'm trying to base the story on, I 
only know 
about it from what I read, so it'd be really nice if anyone read my 
story and 
saw something wrong and told me so I can fix it.
Also, I realize, because my fave character is Ryoko, I unwarily made 
Ayeka into 
a really bad guy, which is totally bias because she has a good caring 
character, 
so in the rest of the story, I'll try to do some work on Ayeka.

Ace Conners


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