Subject: Ryoko Fanfic Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:54:18 PST From: "Alex W." To: gensao@geocities.com Tenchi Muyo! and all it’s characters are owned by Pioneer and AIC. Nighttime Ryoko sat and watched Tenchi as he slept dreamlessly sleep. The look on his face was... peaceful. The Kagato incident seemed to have left him with nothing but memories. He never seemed to worry about the past or suffer from painful memories. If he didn’t suffer like that, then she envied him. Her own painful memories tried to surface, and she clenched her hands into fists, trying to suppress them. But it was no use, the night always made her vulnerable to her thoughts. The worst memory was tha cave. Seven hundred years of cold and darkness; the only bright spots were when Tenchi would play near the cave, and she would watch him. And what did she do when he released her? She attacked him. She could offer him no excuse, she had tried kill him. He could never understand, even if she could explain it to him. Well, he seemed to have forgiven her, or at least forgotten about it. It had been so frightening, the idea of being chained to the Earth by an Earthling. He had destroyed her defenses and seemed about to tear the Space Pirate out of her. But he had done that already hadn’t he? She couldn’t leave now, she wasn’t a Space Pirate any more. But would she go back to how it was if she could? “Ryoko..”, Tenchi whispered. Ryoko turned around sharply, surprised. He was still asleep. But had Tenchi really chained her to the Earth, or had he unlocked the chains that she had been wearing before? Sure, being a Space Pirate had been fun, but she’d done it for hundreds of years. It had definitely started to feel like something was missing. She looked at Tenchi again, wondering if he was still dreaming about her. Or maybe he was dreaming about that bitch Aeka. She scowled. She shook the image off, and looked out the window. The moon had risen to the middle of the sky, the stars were bright. She used to go to other stars... “Miya?”. Ryoko looked down, and saw Ryo-oki inside the doorway. She probably was hungry. “Oh, go watch the constellations or something. Maybe one of them looks like a carrot.” Ryoko looked out the window again, and waited for the sun to rise. Author’s note - I wrote this little fic mainly because I wanted to give a legitimate reason for Ryoko’s attack on Tenchi. I do not think she was playing around with him, except maybe like a cat and mouse. At first she was probably missing deliberately, but then she tried to cut him in half with her sword. I would like to think that the story was written like that deliberately, to make Ryoko’s character more interesting and complicated. This is my first attempt, but tell me if it’s any good, and I might write some longer ones.