Ryoko's Heart Chapter 3: The Night of the Fair Tenchi awoke to the sound of birds singing outside, he slowly opened his eyes and was staring into two golden eyes. His eyes shot open and saw Ryoko laying next to him in her white night gown staring at him. "Good morning Tenchi", she purred as she wrapped her arms around him and hugged him. "Good morning", he said returning the embrace. "What where you doing anyway?" "I was just watching you sleep", she responded "Oh yeah I remember, it relaxes you", he riminded himself. "You know I had the weirdest dream last night and you where in it, it's funny, but I dreamt that you were rubbing my breast." Tenchi a short little scream as he quickly sat up and knocked over the trays of breakfast that Sasami brought up, the food and plates spilled all over the floor. Ryoko just sat there staring at Tenchi confused. "What?", he asked nervously. "Oh, uh....ahem. Oh gee, uh....what are the odds of that?" Ryoko cocked one eye brow still confused, she just dropped it and gave Tenchi another big hug. One Week Later: It was the night of the fair, Katsuhito was already there along with Sasami, Ayeka, Mihoshi, and Kiyone, Washu was working in her lab and said she'd catch up later, Nobuyuki couldn't make it because he was tied up at work. Tenchi sat on the couch waiting for Ryoko, after a few more minutes he got and was about to go get when he saw her coming down the stair wearing his mother's old kimono. "Well, how do I look Tenchi", she said as she spun around once to show it off. "Uh....you look great Ryoko," Tenchi answered."Just be careful okay? It was my mother's, and the dance is formal so we'll have to dress up. "Okay Tenchi, let's go", she said taking Tenchi's arm. They both walked out of the house together into the night. Tenchi looked at his watch to see what time it was, it read 8:00 p.m. "We still have three hours till the dance Ryoko, that'll give us time to explore", he stated. "Okay", Ryoko agreed. "What should we do first?" When they made it to the top of the long stairs she looked around to see what to do first. There were games to play, food stands, a few rides, Then something caught her eye. "What's that Tenchi?", she asked pointing at one of the games. "That's the fish scooper. You wanna try it?", asked Tenchi. "Yeah", she agreed. They walked over to the game and Tenchi paid the guy running it 300 yen. He handed them both a few scoopers. They sat down on their stools in front of a big fish tank, then Tenchi explained how to do it. "All you have to do is dip the scooper in and wait for a fish to swim over it, when it does quickly scoop it up and put it in your water bag, but you have to be fast or the fish will fall through.", Tenchi explained. Ryoko nodded her and gave it a shot, she dipped her scooper in and waited for a while, she took a glane over at Tenchi and saw that he already had three. "Damn, he's sure is an expert at this", she thought to herself. she waited a while longer when she saw a fish over her scooper, she scooped it out of the water. "Yes", she said in victory just when the fish fell through the scooper and back into the water. She went through all three scoopers in less than 30 seconds. She sighed, then Tenchi held up his bag with about 15 little gold fish in it and handed it to Ryoko, she smiled as she excepted the bag from Tenchi. They wandered around for a while and came across the food stands. Tenchi spotted Kiyone in one of them, making fried noodles. "Hey Kiyone, I didn't know you were going to work here", Tenchi said. "Yeah, but this is a better chance to improve my skills", she stated. Mihoshi walked over next to Kiyone when she heard what she said. "But Kiyone I thought you said we needed another job because our budget was tight this month, and so we could take a bath every day instead of every weak", Mihoshi ratted. "GOD DAMN IT MIHOSHI, SHUT THE HELL UP!!!!", Kiyone screamed at her bone-headed partner. Mihoshi just had a hurt look on her face and walked to the back of the stand. Ryoko tried with all her might not to laugh, she just started to giggle and Kiyone looked at Ryoko with a furious expression, seeing her face the way it looked, Ryoko just burst out laughing, holding her sides since they were in pain from laughing. When she finally stopped Kiyone looked a little less angry. "You should of seen your face Kiyone", Ryoko giggled again. "Uh....could we have two fried noodles please Kiyone?", asked Tenchi. "Coming right up", she said her face now back to normal. "She's only offering good service because she needs the money to stay clean", Ryoko whispered in Tenchi's ear giggling again. Kiyone handed them their noodles, Tenchi gave her 400 yen instead of 300. As Tenchi and Ryoko walked away he started to giggle at the thought of Kiyone and Mihoshi not able to afford bath water. Then both Tenchi and Ryoko burst out laughing. When they stopped they sat down at a nearby table and wolfed down their noodles. When they finished Tenchi looked at his watch, it read 10:20 p.m. "Ryoko, we better go back to the house and get ready for the dance", Tenchi stated. "Already? Damn that was fast", she commented. Ryoko took Tenchi's hand and in a flash they were both in Tenchi's room. Ryoko watched as Tenchi got changed. "Whoo-hoo, alright! Yeah! Take it off baby! Show me some skin there baby!", Ryoko yelled in excitment. "Do you mind Ryoko?" "No, I don't mind if you undress in front of me", she joked. Tenchi just rolled his eyes and started to change again. He opened his closet and looked inside, he found a black tux with a bow tie and gold cufflinks. He put it on and turned to Ryoko. Ryoko gave a long loud wolf whistle as she saw him. "Oooohh, now that's smooth baby!", she commented. "You think so?" "I know so Tenchi", she said dreanily." Now it's my turn Tenchi dearest." "Well I...uh...I'll just wait outside while you change Ryoko." "Trying to be a gentleman? You don't have to you know. Alright, you don't have to watch me change.......yet!", she gave an evil laghter. She thought about what she wanted to wear. Then she had an idea, and in a second she phased into new clothing. She wore a tight black dress with lightly dark colored pantyhose, and the went down to her ankles, the front had two straps going over her shoulder to the back(kinda like a tank top). The dress was tight enough to to show how her neatly her body was shaped. The whole dress had white shiney ribbon threaded through it so when the light hit it, it would shine and glitter white. She wore black high heels and a pearl necklace with pearl earrings. She also had put on makeup, it made her look like one of those cover girls. She walked over to Tenchi and took his hand. "Wow, you look beautiful Ryoko", Tenchi commented. "Thank you, ready Tenchi?", she asked, and with those words they were instantly back at the carnival. They saw the building where the dance was, when walked in the examined their surrondings, it was a gymnasiam but highly decorated, they saw the D.J. scanning through his CD's, then they spotted Ayeka and Sasami, they waved as they approached them. "Hello Ayeka, Sasami", Tenchi greeted. He looked at what they were wearing, Ayeka wore a red dress similar to Ryoko's exept one there were no shiney ribbons threaded throught it and one of Ayeka's sides was open so it would expose her leg. She wore light colored pantyhose and red high heels, and a red beaded necklace with gold earrings. Sasami wore a dress similar to Ayeka's except with no open leg, it was pink, she wore light colored panthose, and she wore white high heels with a white beaded choker around her neck. "Hello lord Tenchi", Ayeka greeted back. "Ryoko." "Hey", Ryoko responded. Then they saw Mihoshi and Kiyone, Mihoshi wore a black dress similar to Ryoko's exept with no ribbons threaded through it and it went down to her knees and wore dark pantyhose, she also wore black high heels with dimond earrings and a gold thin chain around her neck. Kiyone wore a dark blue dress that also went down to her knees, she wore white high heels with a locket shaped like heart on her necklace with dimond earrings. "Hi Kiyone, hi Mihoshi, any luck with the food stand?", Tenchi asked Kiyone. "Well we did okay I guess", she responded. "But Kiyone, Tenchi and some other cheap guy were our only costomers", Mihoshi ratted again. "MIHOSHI, IF YOU SAY ONE MORE WORD WHILE WE'RE AT THIS DANCE I'M GONNA......!!!!", she was cut short by music playing. The dance started, Kiyone figured she would kill Mihoshi later because they were having to much fun. Tenchi danced with all the girls, they played stuff like jazz, blues, rock, hip-hop, and lots more. After what seemed like forever a slow song came on, it was time to slow dance. "Dance with me Tenchi", said little Sasami. "Uh, alright Sasami", he answered. He put his hands on her little waist and she put her hands on his arms since she couldn't reach his shoulders. All the other girls got a guy to dance with except for Ryoko, she figured she would sit out on the slow dances, because believe it or not, she was a little shy about it. After the slow dance ended the D.J. got back to the fast dancing song, Ryoko jumped in on those. They played stuff like Eminem, Coolio, B.B. King, Nirvana, Deangelo, and lots of other stuff, they had it all. Then another slow dancing song came on, Ryoko went to sit out again. "Tenchi, may I have the honer of having this dance?", asked Ayeka. "Sure Ayeka", he answered. Tenchi put his hands halfway around her waist and she put her arms around his neck. It was finally at the bridge of the song, Tenchi looked over Ayeka's shoulder and saw Ryoko sitting out, he also noticed that when he danced with Sasami. Finally the song ended and the fast dance started, when they played hip-hop they danced hip-hop, when they played jazz they danced jazz, when they played blues they danced blues, whatever they played they danced. Then another slow dance song came on, and Ryoko sat out again. "Uh, Tenchi? Would you uh....dance with me?", Mihoshi asked shyly. "Of course I will Mihoshi", he responded. Tenchi put his hands on her waist and Mihoshi put her arms on his shoulders. Tenchi yet again stared at Ryoko wondering why she was sitting out. After what seemed like forever the song ended and went back to the faster stuff. One song they played was Aqua, he had no idea why they would play that so he just went along with it. And then another slow dance song came on. "Hey, Tenchi, will dance dance with me", asked Kiyone. "Yeah sure Kiyone", he answered. They did the same routine as all the others, as he danced with Kiyone he yet again saw Ryoko sitting out. He just couldn't figure it out. When the song ended the fast stuff played again, then for some reason they played Meat Loaf, Tenchi shuddered at that name, so he didn't dance to that one, but he saw Ryoko dancing. He headed towards Ryoko to ask why she kept sitting out. But then he stopped when the lights dimmed, he knew another slow dance was coming on. He saw Ryoko head over to the chair and sit down. "Alright everyone this is the last dance, grab yourself a partner and get down", the D.J. anounced. Tenchi walked over to Ryoko, she looked up at him as Tenchi reached out his hand. "May I have this dance", Tenchi asked Ryoko. She just looked at Tenchi, after a few moments she took his hand and lifted herself out off the chair and stood right in front of Tenchi. She nodded her head and walked with Tenchi to the middle of the dance floor, Tenchi put his hands around Ryoko's waist and Ryoko put her arms around Tenchi's neck. Then the song started, Tenchi reckonized the song right away. It was a song called "True" and it was performed by "Spandali Ballet". "Ryoko? Why have you been sitting out for all the slow dances?", Tenchi asked. "Well....Because I couldn't find anybody to dance with, and I was just shy", Ryoko confessed. "Shy about what Ryoko? You shouldn't have anything to be shy about", Tenchi said. "Really?" "Really", Tenchi responded. "Tenchi I....I....I love you." Tenchi pulled Ryoko closer to him and wrapped his arms all the way around Ryoko's waist and held her in an embrace. Ryoko wrapped her arms all the way around Tenchi's neck and rested her head on Tenchi's chest. "I love you too Ryoko", Tenchi whispered in her ear. Ryoko shed a tear of joy as the to of them danced to the song while in an embrace. When the song ended Tenchi grabbed the jacket to his tux and exited while Ryoko held on to his arm. Mihoshi and Kiyone went home because they had to get up in the morning to go to work. Ayeka and Sasami went home and went to bed. She seemed to be overwhelmed by what happen that night. Tenchi picked her up in his arms, cradling her he started his ventured for home. He could hear her groaning in her sleep, whispering Tenchi's name. Finally he reached the house, he opened the door quietly and shut it. He reached the sairs and climbed up them, when he reached his room he opened the door, stepped inside and closed it, he carefully set Ryoko down in his bed and took off her shoes and covered her up. He leaned forward and kissed Ryoko tenderly on the lips. When he broke away Ryoko started to relax. "I love you, my Ryoko", Tenchi whispered. To be continued.... Authors Notes: Okay, now we're getting to the good stuff, please please no more applause. Anyway, any questions or comments e-mail me at brandonblair@hotmail.com Okay take care now bye-bye then.