Author: Ok Mihoshi, you're on Mihoshi: Tenchi Muyo is the property of some company and there's another one I can't quite remember and... Author: Mihoshi, didn't you memorize your lines Mihoshi: Well I tried, but the word were just so big and complicated. Stage Hand: (whispering) AIC and Pioneer Author: No help! (Stage hand runs behind curtain) Now, please try Mihoshi Mihoshi: Property of a Pisces and pie on your ear Author: (smack's forehead ) It's AIC and Pioneer, please try again Mihoshi: Oh, AIC and Pioneer, I knew that all the time Author: Then why didn't you say something Mihoshi: I didn't wanna talk out of turn Author: Oh boy.... Unspoken Dreams~Mihoshi's story ~~~~~~~~~~ "Mihoshi, are you listening to me, Mihoshi?!" "Oh, I'm sorry Chikona were you saying something?" Mihoshi asked, brushing back a stray piece of hair. Her new partner Chikona Izanami was an outspoken girl with an attitude. Her light brown hair worn in a ponytail pulled to the side, with bangs across her forehead, dark green eyes, and a single silver diamond shape in the middle of her forehead. She was often breaking GP policy, as of right now she was wearing a yellow midriff top and khaki shorts instead of her uniform. Mihoshi had been put in the lower ranks a few weeks ago, when she had drastically messed up the last mission she had with Kiyone. She never got to see her anymore, Kiyone had been promoted and was now in another section of HQ. "Mihoshi, you're not paying attention." Chikona snapped. Mihoshi looked away, glancing around the room until her eyes caught site of it. The picture that had been taken the last day they were all together, everyone was happy and life was great. Mihoshi thought as she turned away, "Mihoshi, are you alright, you look like you're gonna cry." Chikona asked, sounding concerned. "No, I'm fine. Come on, we're wasting time laying around here. Let's go." with this she ran out the door. "That's what I've been trying to get her to do for the past five minutes." Chikona said. Mihoshi walked around the courtyard of GP HQ. It was nice, it had flowers and a pond, and a giant tree in the center. Mihoshi looked toward the pond, where a big rock lay pointed towards the sky. She and Kiyone often ate their lunch atop the rock, and one of them usually fell into the pond sooner or later. "Kiyone, do you even miss me?" Mihoshi asked herself. "Mihoshi!" Chikona yelled, running to catch up with her, "Why the rush?" "Sorry, I was just thinking." Mihoshi replied. "Mihoshi, that picture, who are they?" Chikona asked. "You look at that picture like you're remembering something, tell me what?" "They're my friends, all of them. And I could never...." her voice cracked, but she continued, "I could never tell them how important they were to me. I never did. I had to act like a fool, they must be happy to have me gone. " Mihoshi sat down and buried her head in her hands, crying. Chikona sat beside her and smiled weakly, "You never told me you had such important people in your life. I guess you must miss them." Mihoshi nodded. "Just wait, you'll see them all again." Chikona said, reassuringly. Mihoshi looked up as she suddenly remembered, She jumped up and ran back to their room. Swinging the door opened Mihoshi went for her dresser and started digging through the drawers. Chikona appeared in the doorway panting, "God Mihoshi, you're gonna kill me if you don't stop this." Mihoshi payed to attention as she continued furiously searching. "What are you looking for?" Chikona asked, "This!" Mihoshi cheered as she pulled out a envelope. Lifting the flap she reached inside and pulled out a piece of ceramic, a small note still lay inside. Chikona took it and read aloud, "Like the cherry blossom we come and go, drifting with the wind. We leave behind good memories. And one summer we shall return." Chikona got a puzzled look on her face, "It doesn't rhyme." "It's not supposed to." Mihoshi said. "And what's that for?" Chikona asked, pointing to the piece of ceramic. "This is my piece of the puzzle, and when we're together, the puzzle will be complete." "Oh." Chikona said, Tossing aside her duties, Chikona jumped on the bed and lay down. "What do you say we just stay in today?" "No, we can't do that. We're never gonna get out of the lowest place if we don't try." Mihoshi said. "That's the first time I've heard you talk like that. You must really miss that Kiyone girl, huh?" Chikona asked, rolling over "It's not her, it's for me." Mihoshi said "I'm doing this for me." Mihoshi stood, dressed in her uniform, "If you're not coming fine. I won't make the same mistake twice." Chikona jumped from the bed, "Wait Mihoshi!" she paused, "I'll go with you. After all, we are partners, right?" Mihoshi smiled. Chikona's spaceship was Natsuko, it wasn't very big, but it was fast. Darting across the galaxy after vigilant criminals put some excitement into her life, that's what Chikona claimed. Mihoshi sat down next to Chikona at the head of the ship, a small screen popped up in front of them, "Commander, we are ready for our assignment." Mihoshi said, saluting. Commander Matarou Gengi was a young man about twenty-six, and Chikona had a big thing for him. "We await your orders." Chikona said. "Oh, uh, I guess you two can uh.." Matarou scratched his head as he flipped through a stack of papers, "Oh god, I wasn't planning on giving anything to you girls today, wait, let me see. Aha! Ok, go to planet station number 2553, a series of robberies have been occurring there and we think it's the work of a new space pirate recruit." Matarou glanced up, "Think you can handle it." "Of course, no job's to hard for the galaxy police." Chikona said. Matarou laughed, "Ok, you be careful, alright?"with this the screen vanished, leaving Chikona with hearts in her eyes, "He said to be careful, he really does care about me." Mihoshi giggled at her partner's silly nature, forgetting how she acted the same way They neared their destination Mihoshi kept a close watch, soon the planet came into view, Mihoshi gasped, she wasn't planning on returning here, not yet. But it was part of her duty and she couldn't turn back. Remembering what Matarou had said about a new space pirate recruit she gulped, There would be nothing worse than arresting a friend. ~~~~~ They made their landing on a clear patch of woods, not far from town. "I guess we should go to town and check it out, huh?" Chikona asked. "No, first we search here. The criminal could be hiding in the woods." Mihoshi said, as she walked further into the woods. Clutching her gun, she continued, nervous from fear or maybe excitement. Chikona wasn't far behind but had wandered off in a different direction, she turned around a tree and stopped, a girl stood a few feet in front of her. Seeing Chikona and noticing her uniform she gasped, "Shit, galaxy police!" with this the girl turned to run but Chikona shot at her, catching her in the foot. Mihoshi looked up at the sound of the gunshot, "Chikona?" she called. The woods seemed deadly quiet, "Chikona, where are you?" "Mihoshi, I got her!" she heard the reply. Mihoshi ran towards the sound, praying that it wasn't Ryoko. She got to Chikona who still had her gun pointed at the girl who lay on the ground, unmoving. Mihoshi glanced at her, and breathed a sigh of relief to see it wasn't her old friend. The girl only looked to be about sixteen, "Juvenile delinquent." Mihoshi said. Chikona pulled out her ID pen, checking for any info on this girl. A few minutes later she gasped, "Oh my....Mihoshi, this girl is Haruna." "What?" Mihoshi snatched the ID pen from her and looked at the wanted poster, it was the same girl, and the list of crimes was tremendous. "Looks like our work here is done." Mihoshi smiled to herself. Haruna was a young wanted criminal, she had a long history of violence and the GP had been after her for a long time. Mihoshi smiled , Returning to GP HQ, they took Haruna in to the main office. "Sir, I believe we got your girl." Chikona said with a smile. The head of GP, Chief Kenzin Delaneck turned around in his chair, he gasped as he saw who it was, "Haruna. But how, we've been after her for years?" "Let's just say it was sheer luck." Mihoshi said. "And a lot of courage." he replied. "Chikona, Mihoshi, you two have earned your way to central office." Chikona and Mihoshi smiled at each other, finally a promotion. The Chief stood, and pinned a badge to each girl's uniform. "I'm proud of you Mihoshi, you're really improving." "She's just doing her job sir." Chikona said. They left the office still smiling, Chikona fingered the badge, "I don't believe it, I made it to central office in just four months." "Now I can be partners with Kiyone again." Mihoshi giggled, then stopped. She hadn't acted so giggly and silly like this in so long, was it really the fact that she was trying to make Kiyone happy that she acted to immature at times. Chikona glanced over at her, "Hey Mihoshi, why the sad face, you should happy." Mihoshi looked over at her and gave her a small smile, "I'm very happy." she thought to herself Matarou came running out if his office with a smile on his face, "Chikona, you're unbelievable!" he grabbed her and twirled her around. "Huh?" Chikona looked at him, puzzled, "Matarou, what?" "I just heard the news, you caught someone on the most wanted list." Matarou said. Mihoshi glared at him, he was acting like Chikona had done it all herself. "I was there too you know." she said, stepping between them. "Mihoshi, there's no need to get jealous." Chikona said."I'm not jealous!" Mihoshi yelled. "Central office is waiting for me, and I intend to get there." with this she walked off. Leaving Matarou and Chikona alone. Mihoshi walked the hallway of the central office, which lay in the center with many rooms encircling it. She heard a door open and looked up to see Kiyone and a girl with long lavender hair walk out. "Did you hear about those two low-rankers, they got promoted here." the lavender-haired girl said, "Yeah, one of them used to be my partner." Kiyone said. The girl laughed, "Which one, the dumb blonde or the bad-girl brunette." "Hey Aiyu, Mihoshi was a nice girl. She was just, a little slow." Mihoshi felt tears welling up in her eyes, she started forward to confront Kiyone but stopped at her next word. "Believe me, the day she got demoted was the day my luck turned good." Mihoshi turned and ran past the two of them, Aiyu jumped back and, "Oh, who was that?" Kiyone didn't respond, but she had seen the blonde hair, Kiyone ran down the corridor, to catch up with Mihoshi. "Mihoshi, wait!" she called after her. Mihoshi didn't look back, but continued to run, "I know it's you Mihoshi!" Kiyone yelled. Mihoshi stopped and turned to face her old partner, "I understand now Kiyone, once I was gone everything was great. No more Mihoshi. I missed you so much Kiyone, you're the only real friend I ever had." Mihoshi didn't drop to her knees in tears, she was crying but she stood with a stern face. "What about the Izanami girl?" Kiyone asked. "Chikona got Matarou, and now she's happy. Calling me jealous, how dare she!" Mihoshi turned away and clenched her fists. "Yes, but wasn't she right?" Kiyone asked. "You may not have been jealous of her, but you felt she had an advantage over you, am I right?" Mihoshi wiped her eyes, "Guess you've got me down pretty good, huh?" Kiyone smiled, "I didn't mean that I was happy to be rid of you" "But, it was good for both of us. See what happened, you got to central office and I stayed in central office. So, let's just get on with our lives, ok." Mihoshi giggled, throwing her arms around Kiyone in a tight hug, "Oh Kiyone, I knew you missed me. Things will be just like before you'll see." Kiyone sighed ~~~~~~ (Three years later) Mihoshi lay on her bed engrossed in a romance comic, Kiyone entered, slamming the door loudly. Mihoshi looked up, startled by the sound, "Something wrong Kiyone?" she asked. Kiyone made no reply as she walked into the doorway that led to the next room. Chikona had taken up that room with Kiyone's old partner Aiyu Dosan, both girls despised each other, but when Kiyone and Mihoshi had been put back together they had no choice but to be partners. Kiyone barley spoke with Aiyu anymore, Mihoshi wondered why she could be going over there. "Aiyu, you lousy bitch!" Kiyone yelled, standing in the doorway. "Kiyone, you have no right to come in here." Aiyu said. "Oh don't I, what is this Aiyu?" Kiyone grabbed a small box off a desk in the back corner. Mihoshi watched silently through the keyhole of the door. "This is my treasure, and you stole it!" Chikona stood up and put her hands out to Kiyone, "Now really, that box is nothing to get so upset about." "No, it's not just this. I know what you did Aiyu." Kiyone glared at her, as Aiyu backed away. Mihoshi jumped to her feet and ran into the room, a gunshot fired and everything fell silent. Chikona trembled in the corner, she had fired the gun out of fear. Aiyu scared her when she got angry and this was a precaution. Looking around the room she saw no one was hurt, the bullet had gone through the window. Dropping to her knees, Chikona looked up at the three girls. At that moment Chief Delaneck entered the room, "What happened here?" he demanded in his loud, raging tone. Akira stepped forward, "Okay, I admit it. I hacked into the computer and got files on Miho-Kiyo, I was going to use it to have them exiled." Kiyone gasped, "Aiyu, why?" Aiyu turned to her, "You laughed at me Kiyone, and then Mihoshi, was the one I really hated." she walked towards Mihoshi, everyone else not able to move. "Mihoshi, got promoted, Mihoshi got my partner, everyone was raging about what *Mihoshi* had accomplished!" "But now I have this." she pulled an envelope from her pocket. "No." Mihoshi whispered. Chikona gasped, she recognized it at once. "Without this, poor Mihoshi will be lost. Her meaning for success is in here." Aiyu said, in a mocking sweet voice. "No more." she ripped the flap off the envelope and dumped the contents to the floor. Mihoshi screamed as the cherry blossoms drifted down slowly, but the piece of ceramic was to be shattered. Mihoshi shut her eyes, waiting for the horrid sound, but it never came. She opened her eyes to find Chikona kneeling on the floor, her hands bloodied from the ceramic cutting into them, but she had caught it. "Chikona, thank you!" Mihoshi embraced her and took the ceramic from her, gathering the cherry blossoms in her hand. Chief Delaneck had Aiyu in cuffs, she growled at Mihoshi as he led her out of the room. Kiyone stared blankly at her friend, "Mihoshi, I never knew." Mihoshi smiled, "Not many did." ~~~ "Ready Mihoshi?" Kiyone asked, as they stood in front of Yagami. "Are you kidding, I've been waiting forever for this day, let's go!" Mihoshi cheered as she ran into the ship. Taking her seat she thought to herself, Kiyone sat beside her partner as she smiled, "Ok Yagami, full speed for planet earth!" sitting back in her chair she sighed, Author's Note: I hope you understood all parts of the story. Mihoshi is the first to leave for earth, but what has happened to the others? Coming soon is part 2 of The Tenchi Chronicles, Purple Flame-Ayeka's story Please send all comments to washukobayashi@amaonline.com