Finally have a chance to get to this:
Sketches of Tenchi 6: Tearful True Confessions
Oh, I can just imagine how tearful and true they will be with the way this
fic has been going.. :)
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"Yes, it's true! I tried to kill my fiance's child by another
woman!"
In Youshou's office, Washuu, Tenchi, and Kiyone watched a hologram
of Lady Fuyuno confess.
'confessing.' or better '...Fuyuno's confession.'
The knives held to her throat by various
children's toys spoiled the effect somewhat. The terrified
prisoner disappeared from the conical holographic field emitted
by the small wooden box, to be replaced by the visage of Yuzuha.
A number of the newly-arrived fiancee corps watched from the door.
Youshou himself was nowhere to be seen.
Smart man, but I don't think even he can run fast or far enough this time.
"Will you return the Lady Fuyuno to stand trial?" asked Kiyone.
"No, you can't have her back!" Yuzuha snarled. "She's my
plaything!"
"Under what circumstances," persisted Kiyone, "did Lady Fuyuno
enter your realm? Was it voluntary or involuntary?"
Why would Yuzuha care? She's not exactly the sort that plays by the rules.
Yuzuha turned back glared at the three.
back and glared
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Meanwhile, in the house, Teruzi and Shiria kept watch while Pikko
tried to enter Washuu's lab. "Are you sure we should leave Menori
out there by herself? She's been receiving a lot of jealous
glares lately."
"She'd be more unhappy with us," Shiria replied. "We'd make her
stop playing while we're in there."
Heh
"I already told you, Kiyone saw Washuu press a button to start
the attack. Kiyone thinks it's a plan to scare most of us
newcomer fiancees off. She also thinks it's a stupid plan."
And she'd be right.
"Wait; look at this! No smirfiends, but..." Teruzi pointed to a
glass-walled circular pit where a dozen newly-grown androids were
struggling to stand. Large beige and brown fur-covered ursinoid
shapes, with large fangs and claws and exaggerated male
attributes, shook themselves and grunted at each other. Each wore
only a red collar.
Kinky.
Shiria started to laugh. "Washuu doesn't like to repeat herself,
I see."
Pikko smiled. "I think we should add a custom touch of our own.
Don't you think Washuu ought to sign her work?"
How devious. I wonder if it will backfire.
"I expect it to show up on JNN any minute now," added Misaki
with a grin. Behind the two queens, a large flat screen lit up
with a large grainy photo of Yuzuha, accompanied by smaller
pictures of Mayuka and Tenchi, and a headline in 40-point Juraian.
Handy hyperlinks to background on Tenchi showed on one side, with
a real-time count of his currently active fiancees. Other links
offered opportunities to place bets on the final number of wives,
or to vote in a poll for your favorite fiancee.
So it has become a big game for everyone but Tenchi, as I suspected it
would. :)
"Tenchi, our options are narrowing. Either you marry Yuzuha (and
this can be in name only, of course), or Mayuka will be forever
branded as illegitimate."
Given who her mother is, I doubt Mayuka would feel bad about it. :P
Aeka offered placatingly, "We have already had six depart. Five
because of yesterday's attack, plus Milady Fuyuno's
disappearance."
What's to stop more from appearing later on though? :)
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Washuu returned to her lab and inspected the captives with which
her guard-bots presented her. "Oh, just you three. I was hoping
I could actually catch Mihoshi this time.
Yeah. Right. Now who's kidding who?
"Sez you. One: she has shown no interest in using Tenchi for
actual conception. Two: her essence will not contaminate Tenchi
if she did. Three: given which, you're just jealous."
"And is that so unreasonable? It is one thing to share my husband
with my own sisters and with pathetic ephemerals; it is another
entirely to share with an alien, and opposed, immortal."
Heh. Forgot she decreed herself married to Tenchi.
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"...and then the mean laughing woman disappeared, but she left me
wearing this yucky blonde wig and tacky clothes. That's when I
woke up."
"Well, Misao,
* Sigh*
Sasami's eyes twinkled, but she only nodded, saying "...and I
think Mihoshi must, also. She was moaning when I walked in on her
and Tenchi the other night."
Asuka looked appalled. "YOU DID WHAT?"
Sasami: Chill. I joined them, of course. It's not like I'm weird and would
pass up the opportunity to get a piece of those two, if you know what I
mean.
"And what was Tenchi doing to her, the pervert?" In a lower
voice, Asuka continued, "I bet he's a pervert just like all boys!"
Nah. He's gay and can't admit it, lest all of the girls kill him outright.
:)
"I think he was trying to wake her up."
"HOW, exactly?" asked Asuka, suspicious.
Sasami said, "Fuel injection, at least that was what Tenchi told me when I
caught him doing it. I didn't know fuel came out of that part of a boy
though. I thought they just used it to, you know, do business."
"You know, running his fingers over her chest and sides."
Rei took this moment to observe, "Mihoshi is from the planet
Daikyou, is she not?" Addressed ostensibly to Sasami, Rei gave
Asuka a significant look as she said this.
And what does that mean?
"I think so," answered Sasami, hesitantly.
"WHAT? How are we supposed to compete with one of those balloon-
breasted women?"
By using charm, of course. Which leaves Asuka out. :)
Asuka protested, then whined, "It's not fair!"
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In the yard, some of the more martially inclined newcomers used
Azaka and Kamidake for target practice. The latter stoically
endured the blue paint and white caps with which they'd been
decorated.
Heh. Nice imagery.
"Indeed," agreed Pikko. "One of whom is the long-missing Prince
Youshou. Unmarried, and closer to the throne."
About time someone considered that.
Teruzi closed her eyes momentarily. "Yes... It is Youshou's
office. Kiyone pictures an old but still active man, a bit like
both your fathers, but older. Kiyone hasn't seen or heard of him
since we arrived." Teruzi paused, then continued. "I don't sense
Prince Youshou anywhere in the vicinity, but he might be
shielded."
Or he might have run, like he always does when marriage comes a knocking.
"Can you get them to keep watch? If he is still here, he might
not think to hide himself from your pets," ventured Shiria.
"Who would? As a scientist," the amused Pikko commented, "I still
find those mystifying creatures quite baffling."
Have we seen those creatures yet, or is that to come?
Underneath the pile-up, Kiyone found herself staring face-to-male-
member at a decapitated corpse.
Kiyone: Well, as long as the important part of him wasn't decapitated. :)
Orange, smoking blooddrops ate
holes in her uniform. A red bow tie, clearly labeled "Made by
Washuu", fell on to her nose. "Great. Poohbares instead. Very
funny, Washuu."
So the trio did at least get to tag Washuu's pets.
- -
"And 'ol Aeka-hime was coming on to Tenchi like you wouldn't
believe!" Ryouko asserted, waving her sake bottle around at her
eager listeners. Several angled their necklaces or earrings for
better reception.
Heh. this is promising.
- -
"I know that it was your first time too, Tenchi-sama.
At that point Tenchi's survival instincts, previously long ignored, swore
to himself he would never breathe a word about the three way he had with
Kiyone, Mihoshi, and Ryo-ohki in her humanoid form.
I am very
sorry that I was not better for you than I was. I could not
know; nor, I believe, could Ryouko, that her effort would
send us both into epileptic shock and unconsciousness."
Hehehehehe. great punchline.
for that night. I want to wake up next to you."
Tenchi suppressed the impulse to add "and Ryouko."
Heh
"Greetings, ephemeral universelings. I am Tokimi, your fellow
wife-to-be. I have come to get to know you better."
THE END (for now).
Yeah. It had better be 'for now'
Humor was good, and a tad more subdued. But it worked for me. A few
spelling errors at the start, but I failed to find any later. Nice work and
already looking forward to more.
D.B. Sommer