Disclaimer --------------- Tenchi and all related content is owned by AIC and Pioneer (I think) and what I am doing with them is purely to make a story I wanted to write about what could happen in the Tenchi Universe. This is mostly based on the OAV version (simply because thats the only one I've ACTUALLY LIKED!) The concept of Sami-Ohki is a sort of blend of the names Sasami and Ryo-Ohki. This takes place a little while after episode 13 in the OAV series. This is my first fanfic series, so be easy on me if it sounds a little rusty, or the characters seem too out of character. (oh, and for all you MSTers, be glad, for this is NOT a LEMON!) "No Need for Sami-Ohki" Tenchi woke with a start. "Oh man, what a horrid dream..." he murmured. "Hmm? What was it about? Do you want me to comfort you? I can do that very well, if you want." Ryoko's head said right over his shoulder. The rest of her body was somewhere on the other side of the wall. "Waa! Ryoko!" Tenchi cried, "How many times do I have to tell you not to do that? It's really starting to get on my nerves! OUT! Now! I need to change." With a little humph, Ryoko withdrew, only to come back again on the other side of the room where Tenchi couldn't see clearly, beneath some of his towels. After changing, Tenchi left the room to go downstairs to breakfast. There, Sasami was doing her little whirlwind of getting food prepared and cooked. "Oh! Hi Tenchi! Sorry, but breakfast will be a little late today. I overslept," she said. "That's alright, Sasami. I'm just going to get something quick today so I can get to the fields early. How's Ryo-Ohki doing on her lessons?" He poked his head out the kitchen to see her, in her toddler form, watching a children's speech tape and trying to repeat the words. "Great, she's learned 12 new words today! She already said to me 'Hi Sami. How you do? I'm fine, thank you.'" she gave a little giggle. "She still can't say my name all the way. She keeps saying 'Sasasasa...' and getting stuck, so I told her that she could call me Sami for short." she gave a little pause and turned to him, "And don't let me hear you call me that, cause that's only for little Ryo-Ohki. No one else is allowed to call me that, you got it?" She brandished a hot pan in her hand and waved it a few inches from Tenchi's nose. "All right, all right, I promise I will never call you that. OK?" Tenchi hastily said, his nose nearly getting a brush with it. "OK...Anyway, all we have that you could make quickly is some oatmeal, but its the plain kind." She said with a hopeful smile on her face that gave the message that her breakfast would be a feast. "That will be fine. And at least it's something I can make without burning down the house. However, Ryoko would. Hehe." He went to get it and quickly made a bowl for himself. As he sat down to eat, he heard Ryoko and Ayeka fighting over who got to sit beside him for breakfast. With them approaching fast, Tenchi scrambled with his hot bowl and made for a hiding place. He wasn't fast enough. They came into view just as he was getting to his feet when his foot caught on the pillow and almost lost his breakfast. "Lord Tenchi! Are you alright?" Ayeka made a quick attempt to get to him before Ryoko when she, too, tripped on a pillow. Ryoko cackled and teleported beside Tenchi and picked him up. "Here you go, Tenchi, and dont spill your breakfast. You weren't trying to get away from me, were you?" Quick shakes of the head confirmed her suspicions. "And I see you're having only oatmeal...why not Sasami's special?" "Well...I...I...wanted to get to the carrot fields early this morning...today's harvest day for 2 of the fields." Right on cue, Ryo-Ohki popped on the scene. "Miya? Cawwots! Har...harvest! Mya! Mya! Myaa!!" She gave a little tackle onto his legs and he nearly lost his bowl again. "Ryo-Ohki help?" Tenchi knelt down beside her and soothed her before the torrent of tears could come, "Now now, you have your lessons to learn. I want you to be able to talk very well so we can have some good conversations, ok?" "Miyaa! Lessons! Talk! Con...converr...ssa...shhuns! Good! Mya! Fun!" She leapt off him and ran back to the lounge and plopped herself back in front of the screen again. "Hehehe, what a sweet kid...anyway, I've got to hurry or else I wont finish in time." He bolted down the oatmeal before the two ladies could get into another arguement over him and ran out the door. Discontent that Tenchi seemed in such a hurry to get away from them, they gave each other hostile glares until the rest of the Masaki household came. After breakfast, Ryoko went out to clean the leaves from the road and Ayeka went to do the laundry. Sasami went to help Ryo- Ohki with her lessons and Washu went to her lab, muttering something about the "Masses" and factors. Kiyone and Mihoshi went out on patrol. In a couple hours, everything calmed down. --------- It was getting near lunch time, and Sasami was just about to finish lunch when she realised that she needed to get everyone. She'd packed some for Tenchi earlier and let the rest cool for a few minutes. First, she needed to get Washu. Usually, she was the hardest to find in her lab. Especially when she had captured Tenchi and was doing her usual "experiments" on him trying to figure out his powers and his somewhat shaky control of them. Knocking first, Sasami entered. It was brightly lit, and no one was in sight. Walking for a while, she came across a large tank of water. Looking inside, she could see small rounded shapes swimming around inside. Identifying them to be "Masses", she remembered the time Ryo-Ohki bravely fought them and kept Tenchi safe. Thinking on that subject, Sasami wondered what it was like to be Ryo-Ohki. With those large floppy ears and soft, warm fur and that cute little face. She started daydreaming and walked right into a portal that opened up onto a round floating platform over the tank. Still daydreaming, she looked around to see where she was at when she tripped over a floating cushion and fell over the edge of the platform. "Whoa! Ahh!" She came up sputtering and grabbed the edge of the tank. "Oh boy, good thing this isnt anything really dangerous like a giant man-eating monster or anything like that." Just then, she remembered what the masses had done to Ryoko when she suddenly appeared in front of them. It made a huge hundred-foot crater, taking out a huge swath of farmland with it. "Oh no! I have to get out of here!" She started pulling herself up when a small weight suddenly pulled her down with considerable strength. She pulled herself up again and noticed a couple masses hanging on her skin. "Oh no!" she breathed and again struggled to get out of the tank. She could feel them digging into her skin and wondered what they were doing to her. With a great wrench, the Masses won and dragged her into the tank. Her last sensation was the masses covering her up and a great feeling of pain. Then all went black. -------------------- Tenchi suddenly felt something was amiss. He looked up and around, shrugged and went back to work. He hoped nothing bad was happening back at the house. --------- Washu came out of the Onsen toweling herself dry and getting in some clothes, "Ahh, what a nice bath. I really need to take more breaks from my research." Going back to her lab, she noticed the alarms going off again. "Oh no! Not the Masses again! Please not them again!" Running to the tank, she saw that it was still intact. She breathed a sigh of relief. Then she noticed that something inside that wasn't a mass. In fact, there didn't seem to be any masses inside. Quickly, she stepped into the portal to the upper platform and sat in front of her holo-computer. Doing a quick scan, she saw that the masses were indeed still inside, but weren't in their usual state. Looking over the edge, she saw some of Sasami's clothes. "OH NO! SASAMI!" She hit the emergency tank drain and went down to check up on what the mysterious shape was. Getting down there, she saw a little sky-blue cabbit. With a suspicion, she stepped beside it and peeled open the eyes. Sure enough, the eyes were a light pink. "Oh Sasami! What happened to you? Oh man, Ayeka's gonna kill me! Why did you come into the lab for anyway?" Checking the time, she saw that it was well past lunchtime. "Oh...well, maybe I should take more breaks from my research, but I should also check the time more often too..." Just then, Ayeka and Mihoshi came into the lab and called out. "Miss Washu! Are you here? Have you seen Sasami lately? It's already past lunch and I havn't seen her anywhere!" "Hold on a minute! I have some bad news about Sasami, I'm afraid." Phasing through the thick glass of the tank, she showed the little cabbit to them. "Miss Washu, what happened to Ryo-Ohki? Why is she blue like that? What's the bad news?" Quickly explaining what happened, Washu did her best to try to keep Ayeka calm. "Now, its not like it's going to be permanent or anything...I hope...But Sasami will be fine. She's just in a different body." "WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THIS WASHU! WHERE IS HER OLD BODY? JUST WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO MY SASAMI?!?" Ayeka screamed, grabbing the genius by her shirt and jerking her around. "Now calm down Princess! I'm thinking what could be powerful enough to seperate the masses from her without damaging her body. Unfortunatly, it seems she's assimilated with the masses so well just like Ryo-Ohki did that I dont see any way I could do that. I guess I could make another "Mass" body like Ryo-Ohki's and let her reassimilate with it...but that could take a while. I'm fresh out of masses." Mihoshi raised her hand, "Uhh...Miss Washu, is Sasami going to be OK?" "Of that, I am certain. Right now, I think the assimilation has taken quite a bit of her energy and she needs rest and quiet for now. When she wakes up, I will do some tests on her and see what I can do." Washu glanced meaningly at Sasami and looked at Ayeka. With a moan, Ayeka let her go and sank down to pick up the little blue cabbit. "My little sister...Sasami. I hope you will be fine." And she carried her out of the lab. Mihoshi raised her hand again, "Err...What will happen to Tsunami? After all, Sasami IS Tsunami, right?" "Oh Mihoshi. I dont even want to think about the complications of that now...All this is giving me a headache. Mihoshi, get out of the lab, before you break anything." "Oh, you mean like this thing?" She held up some apparatus with several wires sticking out of it and was clicking and buzzing. "OH NO! Alright, please leave and dont touch anything else. You can keep that. It's all busted up beyond repair already anyway. OUT!" Waving her out, Washu herded Mihoshi to the door and through it. "Well, okay. Bye Miss Washu." And with a quick turn, she closed the door behind her. "Sigh, well that takes care of that...now for our little problem..." and she got back to analyzing the data recorded on the masses while she was gone. --------------- Sasami came to with a little funny buzzing in her head. Something was not right. She felt funny all over. She got up and fell forward on her face. She just couldn't walk properly. Everything was out of perspective. She looked around and saw that indeed, everything was huge. Disoriented, Sasami shook her head and tried to get a hold of things. Opening her eyes again, the world was still huge. Suddenly, her sister's face came from the skies and looked at her. "Are you alright Sasami? How do you feel?" She boomed. "Miya!" What? She tried to say "AHH!" but ended up sounding like Ryo-Ohki. Why was her sister so big? She tried to scramble away but tripped over her oversized feet. It was then that she noticed that it wasn't the world that was big, but that she was small. Looking herself over, she gave a great "MIIIYYYAAAA!!!" and leapt about a foot. She was trapped in Ryo-Ohki's body! Ok, this has to be a dream, she thought, and nipped her foot. "MIYA!" Ouch! That hurt! What was happening? "Now calm down Sasami, its only temporary. You fell into the tank with the 'Masses' and got turned into this, but Miss Washu will fix you up in a few minutes, I'm sure, dont worry." Ayeka picked her up and smoothed her fur by her ears. At that time, Sasami remembered the tank and her falling into it. She then remembered that they were affected by a stronger will power and saw that her wish to be like Ryo-Ohki was fulfilled. Only, it wasn't THAT strong of a wish, was it? And the petting was feeling great. She rubbed her head into her sister's strokes. "Miyaaa..." "Oh! You like that? There, there." Suddenly, she stopped petting and picked her up to eye level, "Oh Sasami! I hope you will be fine! We have to find a way to turn you back! It must be dreadful being in a tiny body like that, so hopeless and all." With an indignant "Myaa!" Sasami struggled free from Ayeka's grip. "Mrraa! Mya mya Miiyaa!" With gestures, Sasami tried to indicate she wasn't helpless, even if she was less than half a foot tall. Turning tail, she hopped off towards the kitchen. Without thinking, she phased through the door and leapt up to a shelf. At that moment, she realized the enormity of what she could do. She couldn't pick up a pan by herself anymore. Even holding a pepper shaker was a large risk. In fact, what could she cook, now that she was so small? With a gasp, she hit on it. Ryo-Ohki! Jumping back off the table, she bolted back through the door and dashing by Ayeka who was trying to follow her. Running up to Ryo-Ohki, who was still watching the program on the television, she jumped up to her and started explaining as best she could. When Ryo-Ohki replied, she found she could understand the various "Miya's" and "Mrrow's" Ryo-Ohki often spoke. Although, she still tried speaking English. "Mrra? Sami? Myaa! What happen to you?" After a while, Ryo-Ohki agreed to help as best she could. After all, it wasn't often that another cabbit came by. She thought for a bit. "Can I call you Sami-Ohki?" Sasami grinned and nodded. Ryo- Ohki smiled back. Just then Ayeka came in the room and saw Ryo-Ohki holding Sasami in her palm. Putting two and two together, Ayeka realized that Ryo-Ohki could help translate Sasami's cabbit speech into english. Maybe a little roughly, but better than understanding that kind of talk when Sasami tries to talk something complex. Ryo-Ohki usually didnt talk much, but rather worked by body language and facial expressions. Anyway, she also didnt have many demands on life other than carrots. However, those two could work well together. Ayeka nodded and turned to Ryo-Ohki, "Ryo-Ohki, since you can probably understand Sasami, could you translate what she says for me?" Ryo-Ohki smiled and went, "Miya!" "Good, Sasami, I'm sorry I overreacted...It's just not everyday my sister gets trapped in a different body, you know. So, how does it feel? You may have to stay in it for a little while, you know, until Washu finds a cure. I guess it will have to take a while." With a few "Mya's", Sasami told Ryo-Ohki how she felt. Ryo-Ohki turned to Ayeka and said, "She likes a lot, but she says feels funny. Mrr...I dont feel funny." With that she frowned. Sasami rapidly apologized and clarified what she meant. "Oh, that kind of funny. Like funny walking on two feet. I understand! Mya!" she turned back to Ayeka, "She also says that it ok to stay like that for a while. Says she wanted to be like this for a while. Why Sami want be like me?" Ayeka simply smiled a bit and patted her head, "I dont know, but that's for Sasami to know for herself. Well, I'd better be off for now, laundry needs to be hanged. You help Sasami when she needs it ok? She will be needing it a lot while she is currently unable to do things she used to do." With this, Ryo-Ohki beamed, knowing that she could be a big Helper now. After she left, Sasami gave a little sigh, and asked Ryo-Ohki to help her in the kitchen. She also added that Ryo-Ohki could have a couple carrots as a treat if she did everything she was supposed to correctly. Going to the princesses' room, Ryo-Ohki turned herself into a teenager and changed into some fitting clothes. Then they returned to the kitchen and she tried her best to cook as Sasami ordered her to. Overall, the food ended up pretty good. It just didn't have the old Sasami quality. However, Sasami realized that with a little practice, Ryo- Ohki could turn out to be a very cook, if she wanted to. And the little bribe of a few carrots was just the thing to get her to get good at it. Speaking of carrots, Sasami noticed that she too had a little hunger for a carrot. She hopped up to the basket and got a good look at the mound of carrots. With a wrench of self-control, she now knew how Ryo-Ohki felt around the little orange vegetables. Taking only one, she hopped off and ate it quickly, but visibly restrained herself from any more. Ryo-Ohki noticed that and felt that that was what it took to be a good girl. Self control. She saw that Sasami took only one when she knew she wanted to have them all. After finishing the carrot, Sasami asked Ryo-Ohki to help set up the table. This was something she could do. Hopping from cupboard to table, she took a pair of chopsticks and laid it down where they were supposed to. While she did this, she taught Ryo-Ohki how to do it herself. Then Ryo-Ohki turn herself into a cabbit and they had a little game of who could set the most chopsticks in the least amount of time. Sasami didn't know when she had that much fun. Without noticing, she flew up and hovered above the table, taunting Ryo-Ohki to get the others for dinner as fast as possible. Ryo-Ohki looked up and clapped her little paws together. Sasami looked down, and noticed that she was floating. Now this was an interesting sensation. She wondered what else she could do now that she was assimilated with the Masses. Ryoko and Ryo-Ohki were both made from them, and had incredible powers. They could phase through walls, fly, and shoot powerful bolts of energy. Well, at least when Ryo-Ohki was in her ship form. At that thought, Sasami wondered if she too could turn into a ship. She was already part of the ship Tsunami, so she kind of knew what to expect. But now, they need to get the others in for dinner or else it will get all cold. She asked Ryo-Ohki to go get Tenchi, Mihoshi, her partner, and Tenchi's father and grandfather. She would get Washu and Ryoko and Ayeka. Ryo-Ohki "Miya'd" an affirmitive and hopped off to get them. Sasami hopped off the table and tested going through the door. It felt a little like a breeze going through her body, but was actually quite easy. She phased through the door to Washu's lab and found the self-proclaimed "Greatest Scientist in the Universe" pondering over her problem. She got her attention and mimed eating to get her idea across, giving a couple of "Miya's" in the process. "Oh, you're awake, dinner-time? Thanks! Oh, Ryo-Ohki helped, did she? Thats so sweet of her." More gestures. "Ah, she went to get the others? Ok, so we need to get my daughter and Ayeka and we'll be off, right? Ok." So they went up to the rafters to get Ryoko. "So how's your new body doing? You don't mind me doing some tests on you, do you? I will also need to ask quite a few questions. I'll try to make them simple yes or no ones. Okay?" Sasami nodded. "Yes, and the only way I can think of getting you into a human shape is to go the same path Ryo- Ohki did...make a Mass form for you to assimilate. However, it is a very dangerous task and also, I dont have anymore. I will be gone for a few months to pick some of them up. Don't worry about that though. I'll be careful not to disturb them. They usually are calm if there is a calm influence around, and nothing threatens them. It's a very good thing they didn't decide to blast you." Sasami shuddered a little at the thought. At that point, they reached Ryoko, sleeping as usual. A couple of magazines littered what was left on the available space. Waking her up with a paw, Sasami was unprepared for the sharp yelp and suddenly, she was lifted up high under Washu's nose. "Washu! What's the meaning of this? Why did you dye Ryo-Ohki blue for? Some prank? Some silly experiment? I should blast you to bits for that!" And then a red light sword appeared in her hand and pointed right at Washu's throat. "Now, now, calm down, Ryoko. Thats not Ryo-Ohki." The sword lowered as Ryoko studied Sasami closely, "You can probably sense her near the carrot patches with Tenchi." "Then WHO is this?" "Sasami." "WHAT? Sasami? I dont believe that. What are you trying to pull? " Washu sighed and went through the story of what happened. She might as well make a recording of it and play it to the rest when they come in. Ryoko remained skeptical until she contacted Ryo-Ohki and heard the same story off of her. Then she was bewildered. "So...why like Ryo-Ohki?" "I dont know, and I'm going to find out, sooner or later." "Hmm...oh, does this mean, she will have the same powers as me and Ryo-Ohki? In relation to coming from the Masses I mean." "Yep, she already learned to phase through walls." At that moment, Sasami decided to show her skill in flying as well. "And she can fly too. It may also be possible that she can turn into a ship just like Ryo-Ohki can. Think about how strange that is. Sasami, the Jurian Princess who is assimilated with the mind of the most powerful ship in the Jurai Empire, who is also now a small blue furry creature, who can phase through walls, fly, AND turn into two very powerful ships." Sasami gave an indignant "Meow" and fluffed off to get Ayeka, phasing straight down through the rafters and flying through the glass door. "Well, she certainly learns fast. You have to give her that." ------------- Later that night, when everyone heard the story, Tenchi was the most shocked of them all. He couldn't believe that Sasami didn't pay attention while in Washu's lab and could have gotten herself killed. What if that portal had opened up elsewhere? Ayeka had already accepted the fact that Sasami's current state was only temporary, and could deal with it. Kiyone, too was surprised that a Princess of Jurai had been turned into a little cabbit. Mihoshi thought she was simply adorable. Katsuhito took it like he did with everything sudden and unexplainable...very calmly. So calmly it was as if he had expected it. He just sat there and sipped his tea. Washu explained her future absence and returned to her lab to find a ship in subspace she could borrow for a while. Ryo-Ohki wanted to be her transportation, but was told she needed to help Sasami with the dishes and cooking and everything. After dinner was over, Sasami asked Ryo-Ohki to give out one last announcement. "Mya, she say that it okay if everyone calls her Sami-Ohki from now on. Name like me. Miya!" Then turned to help Sami-Ohki to return the dishes to the kitchen. A second later, after they were gone, everyone was talking at once and getting each other's converstion mixed up. "Sami-Ohki? Heh, she's probably just adjusting." "Oh I do hope Washu can fix her soon." "Did you know, she may even be able to turn into a ship like Ryo-Ohki. Did you see that? She went right through the door. I even saw her fly." "I can't believe this! That food was made by Ryo-Ohki? Wow! Sasami must be a great teacher!" A few minutes of this, and conversation died down and everyone split up to go to bed. This time, Sami-Ohki slept on Ryo-Ohki in toddler form instead of the other way around. It was comfortable however, she thought before going to dream about carrot-land. ------------ The next morning, the door to Washu's lab was gone and they knew she was gone. Tenchi gave a little sigh of relief that for now, Washu wont be trying to get her "sample" from him. And every time, Mishoshi turns up to embarrass him further. The carrot picking was almost all finished, and it was simply time to till the ground for next season. Sami-Ohki taught Ryo-Ohki how to cook breakfast quickly and efficiently and again helped set up the table. What amazed her, though, was that Ryo-Ohki took only one carrot for her treat. Sami-Ohki then gave her permission to get another two for being so polite. Ryo-Ohki was happy and took her designated carrots, and put them in her pocket for later. That really stumped Sami-Ohki. Maybe being a good cabbit was what it took for an example. After breakfast, the two cabbits went outside to play. They played Hide-and-go- Seek and some other little games that was all the more challenging because of their small size. However, Sami-Ohki had a harder time hiding because of her bright blue fur. Then she got the idea to roll in some mud. In the back of her mind, she knew Ayeka would be mad at her, but she would get washed up before they went back home. After that, the games really got fun. They could play this for hours...that is, until Ayeka happened to walk by and saw the mess Sami-Ohki was in. "Sami-Ohki, you know better than that, you shouldn't get yourself all dirty like that. Now come with me to the baths with me and get yourself all washed up. Come now." A dejected Ryo-Ohki watched from a small hole in a tree which was her new hiding spot. Sami would have never found her there. Oh well, she might as well follow and take a little bath as well. They both had gotten a little dirty while chasing each other around. ------------- Author's notes: ------------ Thanks for reading the first installment of my first fanfic. It IS my first attempt at writing something like this down, and I don't have that much experience in the matter. My next episode should be up soon. I got the idea of having Sasami turn into a cabbit when i wondered exactly HOW many different kinds of Ohki's there were and what they might look like if they turned into human shapes. Then I got the idea of a light blue cabbit, same color as Sasami's hair. Then add the fact that Sasami is my favorite character, and presto! You see what I came up with. It didn't go exactly as it did in my mind, but, oh well...things almost never do, right? You can email me comments to Piemur1@lycos.com. Please don't hate mail me, but I will listen to complaints, as long as they are reasonable. Any other comments will go well, too. Oh, my next episode will explain Kiyone's presence even though she isn't in the OAV series. And now, prepare for the next chapter: Sami-Ohki's First Space Flight