Child's Play Chapter One: Little Washu's Idea. The day started out like any other at the Masaki household. In the kitchen Sasami was preparing breakfast, with some help from the furry Ryo-Ohki. Upstairs Princess Ayeka and Ryoko seemed to be having a fight over whose turn it was to clean the floating onsen this week. This had driven Tenchi out of the house, along with Mihoshi, both of them deciding to go check on the carrot fields. Little Washu had yet to appear and in fact had not been seen for the past week. Sasami glanced up from her cutting board at the ceiling when she heard a loud crash, "Oh dear, sounds like Tenchi will need to repair another window Ryo-Ohki." "Meow?" Stomping noises were soon heard in the main hall and a soaking wet Ryoko entered the kitchen, "Hey, Sasami, did you know your sister is a brat?" The yellow eyed creation of Washu grabbed a towel and started to dry off. "One comment about her needing do to exercise and work on her figure, just one comment and she tosses me into the lake." Ryoko's eyes seem to glow a tad, "HA! Just wait till she finds out I have been selling her underwear to a store in Tokyo!" "Oh Ryoko!" Sasami sighed and turned back to the kitchen counter, "Will you at least go find Tenchi and Mihoshi and tell them breakfast is almost ready?" Ryoko floated off the ground, "Their together? Oh no!" Ryoko suddenly disappeared, dropping the wet towel on Ryo-Ohki. "YEOW!" Breakfast started out perfectly, as everyone loved Sasami's cooking. That is till Ryoko made a comment about Princess Ayeka's weight. Soon Katsuhito retreated back to his shrine to continue cleaning it for a holiday he made up on the spot, while Nobuyuki, Tenchi's father, decided to go to work, even though it was a Sunday. This left Ryoko and Ayeka trying to pull each other's face off, while Mihoshi cried over the spilled food. "WAAAAA! Why can't you two fight after breakfast? I just finished helping Tenchi check the carrots (hiccup) and I'm hungry and now the food is all over my new shirt! Why can't you fight after we eat (HICCUP)?" "How dare you insult a Princess of the Royal House of Jurai! (OUCH) My figure is not worth watching, indeed. That's funny coming from a monster like yourself! (OOOW) You and your color from a bottle hairstyle!" "WHAAA?" Ryoko stepped back and started to form a ball of red energy between her hands, "Have you seen your hair in the mirror lately, Princess?" Sasami and Tenchi stood to one side, heads turning back and forth between Ryoko and Ayeka as they watched the vocal tennis match over what was left of the breakfast start to become an exchange of a more dangerous kind. Sasami sighed and hugged Ryo-Ohki, "They act so much like children." "Yeah," said Tenchi, rubbing his neck where Ryoko had gotten him into a headlock earlier during breakfast, "Too bad we can't punish them like children." He ducked a piece of burning cushion. "Meow!" Another person who also agreed with Tenchi's statement was Washu who had just entered the main hall after exiting her lab under the stairs. She was wearing a white safari outfit, with helmet and all, as she had just come back from a week long expedition to a planet 23,000 light years away to collect more creatures known as masses. Anybody who did not know her would have mistaken her expression as one of a little child's joy in finding a lost toy or a piece of candy. Tenchi would have recognized it as an idea being born in her head and he would have run screaming into the woods, never to return. Washu, also known as 'Little' Washu, whispered to herself, "You're a first class, one of a kind, greatest scientific genius in the known and unknown universe!" Than with a dimpled grin quickly hurried back to her lab. Washu's lab looked like a mixture between a garden, a factory and an aquarium. She was totally focused on the problem of making both Princess Ayeka and her own daughter Ryoko into little children again, while at the same time leaving their minds alone, so they can be mature enough to understand what was happening to them. "Yes," said Washu to herself as she typed away, "they have to get the full flavor of being kids again and being punished when they do something wrong. No rank, no special powers and no way out." Washu sat a minute thinking out loud, "So that leaves time machines out and hormone treatments. Both body and mind would be changed. No, no, I want their mind untouched, just their bodies..." Little Washu turned to grin at the tank of newly captured masses, who swam over to the nearest side of the tank as if reacting to her thoughts. "Bingo." Washu knuckled her chin, "Now, how do I trick them both in to coming into my lab?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------- Tenchi Muyo! and all characters related to said series were created and owned by AIC and Pioneer. The people at AIC and Pioneer were created by their parents. I have nothing to do with anybody in either groups and am just using the characters for the fan fic. Don't sue me. I work for the government, so I have about as much money as a bum has extra pairs of matching socks! In my updated versions, I hope to replace the thoughts in italics with thoughts surrounded by ' ', because I feel they are not as disruptive to the flow of the story as <> or other symbols might be. Hope you can read the new format. Talking=" " while thoughts=' '.