Subject: Ayeka and Tenchi Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 21:50:19 +0000 From: "Trakal" Organization: Galaxy Police To: Trakal@map.com, gensao@geocities.com Ryoko sat upon the roof of the Masaki home caressing the engagement ring Tenchi had given her just a few hours before. She smiled, quietly, to herself. "Now Tenchi is truly mine at last." She told herself. "I don't have to fight Ayeka anymore. I can relax in the knowledge that Tenchi belongs to me." She considered this. "Of course, if Ayeka still wants to fight, I'll happily oblige her. Anything for a friend, right?" "Mind if I join you?" Tenchi asked, rather pointlessly since he was already there. Ryoko patted the spot next to her and Tenchi sat next to his intended. "Ayeka's planning on leaving right after the wedding." Tenchi told her. "I think she's returning to Jurai. She said something about joining the Galaxy Police, but I think that might have just been a sarcastic remark since she was talking to Mihoshi at the time." "Pity." Ryoko replied. "She'd make a great operative. Overly suspicious, overly self-confident, and extremely irritating." "You liked him, didn't you?" Ryoko raised an eyebrow. "That guy in 1970 I mean." Tenchi suggested. Ryoko almost slugged him off the roof. But now that she thought about it. "Well... I don't think I could ever go for him as a boyfriend... him being a cop and all." she looked to the stars for a moment. A feeling akin to longing came over her. "But I do wish he was here sometimes. I thought he was Kain at first, and he was so full of himself I wanted to take him down a few pegs when I learned that he wasn't. But now that he's gone... well..." "You miss him." "I wouldn't say I miss him. I never got to know him well enough. But I sometimes regret not being able to spar with him again. The guy fought me to a standstill and that's not easy to do." Ryoko turned to Tenchi. "How did we end up having this conversation anyhow? Here we are, newly engaged, sitting under the stars with the moonlight glowing down on us, and we're talking about a dead cop." "Not the best topic under the circumstances." Tenchi admitted. He put his arm around Ryoko and drew her close. "It's going to be very different for you living as a housewife." He told her. "Just think, in a few years you won't even remember being a notorious space pirate. We'll have a couple of children. You'll organize bake sales, join the local PTA and go to meetings," he didn't notice the look on Ryoko's face as he continued, "you'll learn to drive a station wagon and join a carpool, get a job to help support the kids, probably something in a fast food restaurant at first and then..." He turned and saw that Ryoko was gone. "Ryoko?" Ryoko slipped quietly into Ayeka's and Sasami's room. She quietly removed the ring from her finger and placed it,quietly, on Ayeka's. Then, she wrote a quick note and stuffed it into Ayeka's cleavage, because she knew how much that was annoy Ayeka. *** "Tenchi!" Ayeka cried out, joyfully, as she ran down the stairs, her steps lightened by her happiness. She threw her arms around him and kissed him on the cheek. "Ayeka..." Tenchi looked around, hoping Ryoko wouldn't come in and see this. "That's odd. Where's Ryoko?" "Ryoko's gone." Ayeka replied. Then she began to wonder why Ryoko had fled when Tenchi was assuredly hers. "Um, Tenchi?" She asked, almost fearfully, "What's a PTA meeting?"