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Watkins" <lilin@gnv.fdt.net>, Oni no Akuma
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     Thu, 26 Feb 1998 15:38:56


TENCHI MUYO! EXILE
Episode #5
"Jurai Comes Back!"

 Ryoko smiled at Ayeka as
she walked into the dining room
and sat beside her rival.
 Ayeka fumed. She'd been
fuming ever since that morning. A
morning which she would always
count as the worst of her life.
 "Ryoko," Tenchi called as
he walked in and sat beside her,
giving her a kiss on the cheek.
 "I have had ENOUGH!"
Ayeka screamed at them as she
stormed off to her bedroom.

 Ayeka fell onto her futon
and began to cry. "Oh, Tenchi!"
she sobbed. "Why? Why did you have
to marry that horrible monster? I
cannot bear it." As she wept, she
recalled the morning when she'd
heard the worst news of her life.

 It had happened just
three and a half months ago. She
had been sitting at breakfast,
watching Makiya and Naoki, who
were still newlyweds at the time,
playfully feeding each other and
daydreaming of the day when she
and Tenchi would do the same.
 Then Tenchi had walked
in carrying Ryoko, who was still
dressed in her uchikake, and the
dream had shattered into a million
fragments.
 Ayeka staggered to her feet
and ran sobbing out of the room.
 Tenchi set Ryoko down at
the table and kissed her. "I'll be
right back." He told her.
 "Take your time." Ryoko
told him. She was already his wife
so she had nothing to fear from her
rival. In fact, she'd decided, if
Tenchi wanted to 'go Juraian' as
she called it and take Ayeka as
his second wife, then he was quite
welcome to do so.

 "Ayeka," Tenchi began. "I"
 Tenchi was hurled down the
hallway by a blast of Jurai energy.
 "I HATE YOU!" Ayeka screamed
at him at the top of her lungs. "HOW
COULD YOU MARRY THAT MONSTER-WOMAN?!"
Ayeka ran into her bedroom. A moment
later, she came out and began
throwing things at Tenchi.
 "Calm down, Ayeka!" Tenchi
tried. But it was simply no use and
in the end, Tenchi found himself
running for his life as Ayeka ran
after him, screaming at the top of
her lungs.
 In the end, exhausted and
defeated, Ayeka had gone to Yosho
and asked the only question she could
think of.
 "How could you marry him to
her when you know how much he means
to me."
 "You may still become his
wife some day." Yosho had reassured
her. "Your father had two wives, did
he not?"
 "Yes." Ayeka had replied,
quietly. Her quietness had come from
weariness, howevr, not from acceptance.
 Now, three and half months
later, she still did not accept it.
And now there was something else about
Ryoko that was troubling her. She could
not put her finger on the matter, but
it troubled her all the same.

 "Makiya?" Naoki asked his
wife, gently, early that afternoon as
they did their daily chores. "Are you
okay?"
 Makiya nodded."I guess its
just the hot weather getting to me."
 "Maybe you should have it
checked out." Naoki offered. "This
is your first summer in this decade,
you might have caught something."
 Makiya nodded. "You might
have a point." She agreed as she
passed out.
 "Makiya!" Naoki cried out.
He fell to his knees beside her, and
grabbed her wrist. He was quite
relieved that she was still alive,
but troubled all the same. Why had
she passed out like that. Carefully,
he picked her up and carried her to
the shrine office.
 "Hmmm," Yosho mused as he
studied Makiya carefully. He turned
to Naoki. "I think perhaps you had
better lie down."
 "I'm fine." Naoki said. "Or
is whatever's troubling Makiya
contagious."
 "I can assure you that Makiya
is not contagious." Yosho told Naoki.
 Naoki nodded. "Then, what's
wrong with her?"
 "Nothing." Yosho replied. "I'm
going to lighten up on her chores for
the the duration, that should lower
the number of fainting spells."
 "For the duration of what?"
Naoki asked.
 "For the duration of her
pregnancy, of course." Yosho replied.

 "Is this going to take long?"
Ryoko demanded as Washu put her through
her regular examination.
 "Shouldn't be too... Ryoko!!"
 "Wh.. what?!" Ryoko was startled
by Washu's sudden yelp.
 "Ryoko, you're pregnant." Washu
gasped.
 "You mean Tenchi and I...?!"
 "Well, yeah... or is something
going on between you and Nobuyuki we
ought to know about?"
 "MOTHER!" Ryoko cried out in
offended alarm.
 "Just kidding." Washu chuckled.

 Naoki stared at Yosho. "Did you say
'pregnancy'?" he asked.
 "Yes. That's right." Yosho replied.
 Naoki fainted.
 "Naoki?" Makiya asked. "Is he going
to be all right?" She asked Yosho.
 "You're both going to be just fine."
Yosho reassured her.
 Naoki just stared at the ceiling.

 "Ryoko is WHAT?!" Tenchi stumbled
backward in amazement. A moment later, he
slapped his knees and began to laugh. "Oh! I
get it." He chuckled. "This is another gag.
Right? Like when she told everyone I was
Ryo-Ohki's father?"
 "No," Washu replied in a tone that
was perfectly sober, "she really is pregnant."
 In a perfect imitation of Naoki,
Nobuyuki, and a large number of first time
fathers before him, Tenchi Masaki fainted.


 In a wooden spaceship, not far from
the shimmering blue sphere which is for
some strange reason called "Earth" even
though most of its surface is actually water,
the Queens of Jurai approached the planet
where their children now resided. They'd
talked their shared husband into allowing
them to go, and had even tried to get him
to join them. He had grumpily refused to
go with them, stating that as King he had
far too much responsibility to go off cavorting
around the Galaxy. He'd also added, as an
afterthught, that they were quite welcome
to go themselves. So they had.
 "We should be arriving shortly,
sister." Funaho told Misaki. "It will be good
to see Yosho and my great grandson again."
 "And I'm looking forward to seeing
my little Ayeka and Sasami." Misaki agreed.
 "Ayeka's not so little anymore."
Funaho noted. "In fact, she's becoming quite
a woman."
 "Its hard for me to think of her as
anything but my little Ayeka." Misaki
replied.

 Ayeka was having mixed feelings.
She had just heard the news that Tenchi and
Ryoko were going to have a baby. Her heart
ached with anger and sorrow that she was
not the one carrying Tenchi's child, but at
the same time, she was happy for Tenchi.
 She walked into the kitchen where
Makiya was helping Sasami. "Need a hand?"
she asked.
 "You can set the table, Ayeka."
Sasami told her.
 "You'd better set it for two more."
A voice said from the kitchen door.
 Ayeka spun around and saw
Funaho standing there, grinning.
 "Lady Funaho!" She gasped.
 "Yes." Funaho nodded. "And your
mother is also here."
 "Eeek!" Ayeka yelped as she ran
to meet her mother.
 "You're looking quite radiant,
Makiya." Funaho observed.
 "I'm expecting a child." Makiya
explained.
 "How wonderful for you!" Funaho
exclaimed as she hugged her. "You must
be very happy."
 "I am." Makiya admitted.

 Naoki wandered into the house
with a dazed look on his face. The same
dazed look that now hovered over the
features of Tenchi Masaki. The two young
men converged in the hallway. Each
noticed the look on the other's face.
 "You two?" they asked, almost
simultaneously.

 Ayeka ran into the kitchen. "Mommy!"
she cried. All the frustrations of the past few
months suddenly poured out of her as she
embraced her mother. "Mommy! Tenchi married
Ryoko! He broke my heart, mommy. And now
he's rubbing it in by becoming a daddy with her."
Her tears flowed freely.
 Misaki's face grew stern and a look of
cold anger appeared there.

 In the hallway, Ryoko heard Ayeka and
recalled the way Misaki had tried to split her
head apart by pulling on the corners of her mouth.
There was no sign of Tenchi or Naoki in the hall.
Ryoko's acute sense of hearing heard the thudding of
books hitting the floor and smiled to herself as she
realized they must be in the library trying to find
some kind of manual on being first time dads.

 "Your dad has a lot of books on how to
become a dad," Naoki told Tenchi, "but so far I
can't find a thing on what we're supposed to do
when we actually do."
 "Keep looking," Tenchi told him.
 "I wonder if my kid will arrest yours
someday." Naoki mused.
 "Ryoko's not like that anymore."' Tenchi
told him. "She's calmed down a lot now that she's
going to be a mom."
 "That's true." Naoki admitted.
 "How about you and Makiya."
Tenchi asked.
 "We're looking forward to our first child."
Naoki replied.
 "I hear your old commander's staying on
Earth."
 Naoki nodded. "I think I'll pay him a visit.
later on."
 "Look, why don't you go now?" Tenchi
offered. "Things are pretty quiet here."
 "Thanks." Naoki replied. He went to his
an Makiya's room and got his hat and coat, then
went to Makiya.
 "Where are you going?"
 "I'm going to pay Sarnd a visit." Naoki
replied. "Do you want to come?"
 "No." Makiya replied. "I'm not feeling
very well and I'm going to stay home."
 Naoki nodded. "I'll pick you up some ice
cream on the way home."
 "Thank you, Naoki." Makiya embraced
him at the door and kissed him.

 Sarnd clenched his fist as he read the
data on the laptop computer the Galaxy Police
had let him keep. He didn't like what he was
seeing. The patterns were too familiar. Too
much like...
 A knock on the door broke his train of
thought. "Just a moment." He called as he put
on the mask. He opened the door and saw Naoki
standing there.
 "Naoki," he said, "thank goodness you're
here"
 "What's wrong."
 "Naoki, I need you to go on assignment."
 "Sarnd," Naoki reminded him, "you're
retired. We both are."
 "I know." Sarnd replied. "But this is too
important. You needn't get involved. Just go and
see what the trouble and report back to me with
the information. I'll transmit it to the Galaxy Police.
I may not be their commander any more, but they can't
stop me from being an informant."
 Naoki nodded. "I'll do what I can to help." He
told Sarnd. "I owe it to you after all that you've done
for me."
 "Thank you." Sarnd replied.
Lt. Trakal
Operative of the Galaxy Police SIU