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silent one

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Chapter 1

Tenchi's eyes were fixed on the night sky as he ignored the snow and the chill in the air; instead he focused on the stars twinkling like pearls in a velvety blanket. The moon's pale light shined down bathing the world and its lone figure.

He ignored the stars since they didn't matter to him. He sat there among the trees his heart heavy and filled with pain, silent tears threatening to start flowing. The house where he lived was dark and quiet as the others slept and he sat there at the lake in silent contemplation. He knew that the house had dreamers, both peaceful and longing. He also knew that he was the cause of those dreams.

That was the reason he was out here, why his tears were threatening to break free, he was the last person in the world that wanted to cause longing and pain. Tenchi sighed knowing that he was soon going to have to tell them whom he had chosen.

He had know for a while who he loved yet he still had hesitated for one reason and that was when he final announced his choice that there was going to be a lot of people in pain, one in particular. Yet he also knew that if he let things keep going as they were there would only be unbearable pain to the ones involved. It was better to end the suffering of all the parties involved including himself.

He had tried to tell them several times but each time he did something went wrong, either they were interrupted or he did something stupid so he always ended up diving for cover and double talking his way out of it so after awhile he had quiet trying. Tenchi sighed and a memory surfaced:

Tenchi sighed as he walked into the lunchroom knowing that this was not going to be a good lunch. Right before he left the house, both Ryoko and Aekea had forced him to take the food they had prepare for his lunch.

Normally he would have gotten rid of it before he got the bus stop but Ryoko had followed him all the way to the bus stop. He sat down wearily at the first table he came to and started pulling his lunch out of the bag. His stomach started to rumble like an angry upset volcano at what Ryoko and Aekea had fixed. Neither looked all that good and he quickly put it back in the bag thinking 'Great there goes lunch.'

Tenchi looked up to see some of his friends sit down next him. His friend looked over at him and noticing the bag and the look on Tenchi's face asked, "What's up Tenchi? You’re not going to eat?"

Tenchi shook his head and made a face at the thought of eating what was in the bag. His friend raised an eyebrow and asked "Why not?"

Tenchi sighed and answered reluctantly,

"A couple of girls who like me, but can't cook fixed me lunch today."

Kazuiko sputtered and spit out some of his sandwich that he had just taken a bite out of and shouted causing the entire cafeteria to look in their direction.

"What? Tenchi has two girlfriends?!!"

Tenchi bowed his head and felt the familiar heat rising in his face he had brought on himself as he looked back up at his friend and said, "They’re not my girlfriends."

"Then why did they fix you lunch?"

Tenchi sighed in defeat as he sat through the rest of lunch listening to his friend rattled on to the others about how weird it was for Tenchi to have a girlfriend let alone two.

Finally the lunch bell rang and a grateful Tenchi made his way to his class.

No sooner had the memory surfaced and he forced it away when another surfaced; this one the reason why he had finally figured out how to make his choice:

Tenchi had sat through his class listening to his teacher drone on about making decisions. Tenchi had long given up on this class since he had heard all of it at his grandfather’s practices. They had not made any sense when Grandfather had said them and they still didn't. His teacher's favorite saying was

"No matter what choice one makes one will always cause pain."

And Tenchi had to agree with that statement because he knew first hand it was true. He had a decision to make and when he made it was going to cause pain to four girls two of whom who could level the entire planet with their pinkies and the others could just as easily. All he needed to do was make the decision.

He knew that each of the girls loved him, two more than anybody else. One was a princess and the other was a pirate. The problem was how he would make the decision; his dilemma being that he liked them both equally and knew he was only a stone's throw away from loving one of them. "To make a tough decision one must look at one’s own feelings."

He had heard that before but he had never really paid any attention to it but now it caused his mind to start him down the path towards a decision.

He shook his head ruefully and cleared the memory from his mind he had put the advice to good use and now he sat there under the night sky. He was glad that he had but he was also sad as a cold winter wind gently blew his hair and caused small amounts of snow to dance in the air. He could have sworn he heard somebody's voice say “You know who you love now so just tell her.”

He shook his head to make sure that he had heard the voice, it had sounded like his mother but all he heard this time was the wind. He knew now beyond any doubt that he would tell his love tomorrow and yet he had hesitated until tonight. He wasn't sure why but he thought it might’ve been because he was afraid, along with doubt. But now that he was going to tell her tomorrow that he loved her, it made him feel better as he offered up a silent prayer, "Kami-sama give me the strength."

With that he stood up and headed back to the house knowing that if he was going to do this tomorrow that he was going to need his strength. He quietly opened the front door and headed upstairs. He figured that he should have enough time to be asleep before Ryoko appeared in his room to watch him sleep.

Unconsciously he smiled at that thought. He loved knowing he had an angel watching over him at night. He stepped into his room and quietly got into his sleeping clothes, slipped into his bed and he before he knew it he was asleep.
 

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Wow, I love the way this is written. Sorry I never replied...eh, whatever. It seems like one of those Sappy Love Stories...but that's okay!! :D

If you could continue, that'd be great, even if it is only an original or just me reading it. ^^ Don't worry about it...personally...people are stiffs when it comes to originals and think that using only someone else's stuff is much better...of course not, originality requires creativity. :p
 

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It’s really good, I gotta give you a hand up for that. But Tenchi seems like a little bit of a cry-baby for this stupid decision (how old is he anyway?) and so then why would two girls like a cry-baby? I thought at the beginning that there was this sort of ‘sacrifice-ritual’ that has to take place where he has to choose the life of one person to give away. That would have been really intense. But it just sounds stupid later on. Sorry for being rude, though. I’m just very serious when it comes to writing.
 

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The sun shined into Tenchi's room and Ryoko hovered over him watching as he stirred and rolled over. She loved watching the way his chest raised and fell in a peaceful slumber and sighed lightly, contented as he rolled over back onto his back.

Ryoko looked down at his face and fought the urge to caress his cheek so instead she let him sleep. He looked so peaceful and she loved watching him sleep; it calmed her even though he yelled at her when he woke up.

She really couldn't be happy if she couldn't do this one thing, which was why she slept so much during the day. She slept when the others did, but she always woke up at the same time and came to his room to watch him sleep.

Ryoko smiled contently at that thought as she phased into his room, thinking last night was no different, but as she entered: Ryoko felt her worry starting to build when she saw that his bed was empty and she hastily phased thorough the house checking all the rooms. He wasn't in the bathroom, or in the living room, kitchen and not in any of the girls’ rooms.

She had been relieved at that and finally at a loss at what else to do she phased up to the roof and scanned around the house in a desperate search for him. She didn't see him anywhere on the outskirts of the forest and she turned her eyes from the forest’s edge and scanned the frozen lake.

She saw him sitting on the dock at the lake and he looked like he was deep in thought about something. Ryoko fought the urge to phase down there to him but stopped reasoning he obviously wanted to be alone so she didn’t bother him. Instead, she sat down on the roof and watched him, thinking to herself 'Well at lest he's not with Aekea.'

Ryoko shook her head and smiled as she watched him. The cold December night air didn't bother her at all, hardly anything bothered her. There was another reason for her to watch Tenchi at night; she used it as a way of stopping the nightmares. She had killed so many people and even if Kagato was dead she was stilling paying the price of his evilness by having the nightmares.

Each one was seeking retribution with her through her dreams so she watched Tenchi because she loved him, she was sure of that, but also a more selfish part of her watched him because she would use him to remember what innocence looked like even though sometimes as she watched him sleep he would have the dream.

That's all she could get from him or Washu who had been listening to his dreams. She didn't like it when he had the dream she really didn't know what it involved but she was not pleased at the violent satisfied smile, the one that she saw so often in her own nightmares, the one she had when she had killed, slowly spread across his lips.

Ryoko sat there watching him and thinking for an hour, finally he stood and headed back to the house and Ryoko quickly phased back into the house and to her perch on the beam that served as her bed; she didn't want him seeing her watching him when he wanted to be alone.

Silently she listened as he came in and quietly made his way up the stairs to his room. She waited until she was sure he was asleep before she phased into his room to watch him sleep.

The memory of last night slowly faded from Ryoko's mind but she was still so lost in thought that she hadn't noticed that Tenchi had one eye open and was staring at her a smile pulling at the corner of his lips. He saw her face slowly fade from the look she got when she was remembering something and he quickly closed his eye and fought the smile off his face before she noticed.

Ryoko hovered over him waiting patiently she heard his heartbeat quicken and she knew he was about to get up. Finally with a good bit of acting, Tenchi stirred and sat up rubbing the sleep from his eyes.

He stopped and slowly looked up into her golden cat like eyes; it was early and he had planned on telling her later but now that he saw her it felt right to tell her now. He smiled a lopsided grin at her; she smiled back, her golden catlike eyes filled with an all too familiar playful confused light where normally he would have yelled at her by now.

He sat there in his bed just smiling at her while Ryoko was confused since he was flashing a genuine smile at her and it made her heart beat a little faster. He wasn't yelling or running away and that made it beat even faster she silently cursed the zero part of her for having this kind of reaction.

Tenchi sat there smiling, enjoying that he finally had Ryoko flustered. Ryoko was confused since he was not acting normal. She wasn't going to complain but she had to say something so she changed her smile to a seductive one she finally spoke, "Good morning my Tenchi,"

Tenchi smiled back not even phased by her change in smile or her use of ‘my Tenchi.’ Instead his smile grew even bigger as it suddenly dawned on him that he hadn't said anything for several minutes and his mind began racing to find something to say. Finally it latched on to something appropriate. "Good morning *my* Ryoko."

Ryoko’s eyes went wide and her mind plummeted into utter confusion once Tenchi had said the one sentence that she had wanted him to say for the last year and he had finally said it. He had called her my Ryoko, MY Ryoko! Her mind was screaming at her to glomp him, kiss him, do something but her body wasn't listening as it stayed was frozen by another part of her mind that was confused and unsure.

Tenchi smiled and reached his hand up to her face and gently rubbed her cheek. He leaned up and kissed her on her forehead, then each cheek, and finally her lips. He pulled back with a smile on his face now he was sure that she was going to be so confused and shocked that he could have a nice quiet morning and since he was not feeling at hundred percent he was going to need all the quiet he could get. 'I probably caught a cold last night.' Tenchi absently thought as he rolled out of his bed, gathering up his clothes for the day.

Ryoko hung over his bed in shock at what he had said and what he had done. She was so confused and shocked at what he had said that she hadn't even responded to his kisses. Tenchi stopped and looked over at his angel and smiled, he loved shocking her like that 'After all turn about is fair play.' he thought still until he had finished his morning bath and breakfast and figured out how to tell everyone. He didn't want her causing problems so now he had to figure out how to convinces her to keep this quiet.

His mind raced through all the ways he could do it, but none seemed all that good. Finally he came to one that seemed best; he cleared his throat and ready himself for any consequences "Ryoko my love, keep this to yourself until later."

Before anything could happen he quickly opened the door and left closing the door behind him leaving Ryoko very happy and very confused. Tenchi smiled broadly as he made his way to the hot springs, being very pleased with himself.

Ryoko was shocked, so shocked that she lost control and fell onto Tenchi's bed. Her mind was slowly starting to function normally again as her first thought was 'Damn it why didn't I kiss back?' she laid there for who knows who long silently cursing zero and running his words through her mind.

She did understood why he wanted her to keep this to herself until later; despite what the princess thought Ryoko understood discreetness at certain times.

Ryoko's train of thought was broken when her "mother" spoke to her though their mental link, "What are you so happy about?"

"Tenchi just...." She stopped short, catching herself as she remembered what he had told her not to say anything yet so she wondered what she should tell Washu.

"What'd he do? Smile at you and not run away?"

"Yeah he did that."

"Is that all he did?"

Ryoko smiled and answered in a girlish manner, "No but I'm not telling."

She severed the mental link before Washu could ask and say anything else. Smiling ear to ear, she hugged herself as she felt happier than she had ever been in her entire life. She was so happy that she flew up through the roof and soared through the air flying over trees, looping through the air over the frozen lake and up to snow covered shrine.

She didn't know why she had flown this way since she usually tended to avoid it when Tenchi wasn't there. She still didn't feel comfortable there by herself but she had stopped here and was now hovering over it trying to decide about what to do and why she had came here.

Katsuhito stepped out of his small office and looked up at her. As she looked back at the old man, he smiled slightly and motioned her to come down. Ryoko shrugged and with a smile she floated down until she stood in front of him face to face, before she could say a word he spoke "So Tenchi finally choose, hmmm."

She was shocked and immediately she thought 'How does he know?' shot thorough her mind and she began to ask "How did..."

Katsuhito’s smile grew even wider "The look on your face and the fact that he has been fighting better in practice."

Ryoko was surprised; not as much as she thought she would be, but since Tenchi had told her not to say anything, she had to make sure he didn't say anything and feeling that honesty was the best policy for once she spoke, "Well he told me to not say anything yet so... Please don't say anything."

Katsuhito nodded his head in understanding and smiled again "Don't worry Ryoko I won't but I am surprised that Tenchi had enough sense to not let you tell anyone about this yet."

Ryoko looked at him with a question in her eyes. Katsuhito smiled and answered her unanswered question. "So you wonder why I am surprised that Tenchi told you not to say anything yet?"

Ryoko nodded. It seemed so natural for him to do something like that, "Because it showed that he was thinking ahead."

Both Katsuhito and Ryoko smiled at each other as she leapt high into the sky happy that at least she didn't have to keep it a secret from Katsuhito. Ryoko flew back to the house happy as before when she reached the house and quickly phased through the roof and into the living room.

She stood there thinking what she should do now. She could go visit Tenchi in the bath but grudgingly decided to only do that if she couldn't think of anything else to do. She could go see her 'mother' but no sooner had she thought that than she decided against it, Washu would force Ryoko to tell her what happened because she couldn't stand the fact someone knew something she didn't.

So she was left with one question repeating in her mind, "What to do, what to do?"
 

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Um....how old is Ryoko? If she were somewhere in her twenties i'd understand, but if she is a teenager...well...us teenagers dont even know what love is. we claim to know, but we dont. and since they go to school.........seriously this story makes no sense whatsoever but ill read it anyway.

(im weird)
 
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