Greetings!

Ah, the full draft of part 4b.

Let the C&C begin!

"What was with the head butt of the table?"

"...head butt off the table?"

Tenchi looked at them all in turn and answered all their questions with
two words.

"Beat it!"

"What?" one of them asked. All of them looked at Tenchi strangely.

"What do you mean 'what'?" Tenchi asked exasperated. "Can't you see I'm
trying to work here?" He accentuated his point by holding up his pinky
finger.

"Tenchi, Tenchi! Teach me how to whistle!" Amagasaki, who had left to
clean himself up and had been listening to the song, shouted running up to
Tenchi.

Heh. I can see Amagasaki doing this.  Very good.

"What're you talking about?" Tenchi asked confused.

"This is no time for questions! The mother of my children is up there on
stage! AND I DON"T KNOW HOW TO WHISTLE!" He yelled, grabbing Tenchi by the
shoulders and shaking him.

Was her luck finally changing?

Maybe.  But with Tenchi in his 'drunken' state, who knows?

Mihoshi couldn't believe it. Tenchi was here the whole time she had been
singing. If she had known, she probably wouldn't have had the nerve to
take the stage. And he had *whistled* at her! Not that a lot of other men
hadn't been doing the same, but Tenchi... Did that mean that he...?  Was
it okay if she...? The more she thought about the situation, the more
excited Mihoshi became. Soon, she couldn't hold her enthusiasm in and
began bouncing about the stage.

"Now's my chance to ask him! Now's my chance to ask him Now's my chance to
ask him," she repeated over and over, perkily jumping around in circles.
Much to the delight of her admirers, who thought it was just some new
dance. The DJ taking his cue played some appropriate music and the crowd
watched every jiggle as if mesmerized.

It's the newest dance craze!  The Mihoshi Bop!

With the large crowd around the stage, Tenchi couldn't see what all the
commotion was about. Besides, he still had Amagasaki spitting in his face
attempting to whistle.

"Like this?" *Hwwspppth*  "How was that? Do you think that will get her
attention?" he asked hopefully.

Tenchi raised a single eyebrow at his friend. He had to lose these guys if
he was going to get anywhere with Sakuya.

"Oh yeah! No way that doesn't get her attention. She'll be all over you!
Why don't you go try it?" Tenchi said smiling. He patted Amagasaki on the
back and gave him a thumbs up.

LOL!

Amagasaki clenched both hands into fist and steeled his courage. "All
right! I'm going in," he declared and began to push through the crowd on
his way towards the stage.

'Scratch one,' Tenchi thought to himself.

The time Sakuya spent in the Ladies' Room allowed her to regain some of
her focus. As she made her way back towards the booth she shared with
Tenchi and his friends, Sakuya formulated a plan.

'Alcohol. Maybe he has a problem with it. If I can get him back to my
place and get him drunk, perhaps he will tell me what his intentions are
towards the throne,' she schemed.

Yea, his problem with alcohol is he can't hold it for long.

Passing the large group around the stage, Sakuya caught a second glimpse
of Mihoshi. Although she hadn't recognized her the first time, seeing
Mihoshi bounce about triggered Sakuya's memory. Before leaving Jurai, she
was briefed about the people she was likely to run into around the Prince.
She watched the Detective First Class for a moment as a large young man
forced his way to the stage, wondering if her appearance here was
coincidence or not. She decided not to risk it and to get Tenchi out of
sight as quickly as possible.

Amagasaki had finally made his way to the front of the small stage, but
his attempts to get the bronze goddess's attention were failing miserably
as she appeared to be in her own little world.

Don't be too disappointed Amagasaki, she usually is.

"I'm not a man if I don't say something to her!" Amagasaki declared and
hopped on to the stage. "Excuse me, miss? Excuse me?" He inquired,
attempting to gain her attention by tapping her on the shoulder.

"Now's my chance! Now's my chance! Now's my...." Mihoshi felt someone
holding one of her shoulders and calmed herself down. "Umm... Yes?" she
asked blinking twice at the young man in front of her.

One look into Mihoshi's crystal blue eyes and Amagasaki's courage wilted.
He refused to back down however. The worst that could happen was that he
could embarrass himself and die of a heart attack. Mihoshi was well worth
the risk. He cleared his throat.

"Umm, I just waned to say that I thought your song was great! You really
have a sexy singing voice and..." this was as far as he got before Mihoshi
cut him off.

"I was good? Do you really think so? I was kinda nervous and I've never
sung that song before. I didn't know if it was any good, but then Tenchi
*whistled* at me! And I think maybe he..." she paused finally remembering
why she had gotten so excited. Without another word, she brushed past
Amagasaki, a determined look on her face. The sea of people parted for
her.

Amagasaki watched her go, dumbfounded.

"How does she know Tenchi?" he wondered.

It's best not to ask.  You wouldn't believe the answer.

Moments earlier, Sakuya had reached Tenchi only to find he had abandoned
their booth for a smaller table. This one only had two seats, one of which
was empty. His friends still hovered about like carrion.

I think 'vultures' would make that a better sentence.  Since carrion is another
word for dead meat.

He stood as she approached still the gentleman, but his legs appeared to
wobble slightly. Now was her chance.

"Are you sure you're feeling all right? You look a little shaky?" she
asked moving closer to him, a look of concern on her face.

Tenchi waved a hand dismissively. " I'm fine. I'm fine."

"I don't know... maybe you should rest. My place is nearby...."

This caused a number of eyebrows to raise.

'Whoa, * relapse *,' Tenchi thought with a grin. What had been at the most
a slight buckle of one of his knees, became almost complete muscle
failure. He put a hand to his head and wobbled back and forth, about to
hit the floor any second.

"N... now that you m... mention it. I do feel a bit... disoriented," he
said groggily and stumbled forward, leaning into Sakuya for support. With
an arm over one of her shoulders and pressing his body into her as much as
he could without toppling the both of them over, he raised his head and
turned up the charm. "Sorry about all the trouble. I'll make it up to you
later."

'No doubt you will, Prince of Jurai,' Sakuya thought with a smile of her
own coming to her face. The smile was short lived however, replaced by
absolute wonder as Sakuya got a close up look at Tenchi's face, especially
the emblems of power on his forehead.

'Tsunami-sama!' she thought in disbelief, they were very dim and the
lights were rather low in the club, so she hadn't noticed before-- But
there was no mistaking the three triangles on Tenchi's forehead.

"Is there something on my face?" Tenchi asked.

Wow. Who would have thought that getting Tenchi drunk would make him show his
power? :)
I also like the part of Tenchi getting ready to pass out.  It makes his
behaviour more justified, since he won't act like this now for long.

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Queen Misaki stormed down the hallway towards her waiting ship. Queen
Funaho was hard pressed to keep up, although truth to be told she didn't
want to get too close to her raging sister.

Yea, Misaki can get REALLY scary when she's upset.  :)

"You know... he wasn't really aiming for you," Funaho offered.

I give that consoleing statement about an 8 on the lameness scale. :)

Misaki glared at her sister and quickened her pace. Funaho sighed and
picked up a slight jog.

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"When I heard-- I did not believe. Surely I thought the person telling me
this was mad...."

All talk in the throne room ceased. The only sound that could be heard
were Bodan's determined footsteps...

..and Minagi gagging for breath, still in Minagi's bear hug.

"...in Misaki's bear hug."
You know, with their names so similiar... I'm amazed you haven't made many
mistakes like this.
(That's a compliment by the way.)

Bodan, High Priest to the Royal Council, slowly advanced towards what was
to him, evil incarnate.

"Madness... I told him. What purpose could be served by imitating the
'Devil'? How could a copy of the creature, who sought to destroy all that
Jurai holds dear, be entrusted by the Emperor of Holy Jurai! HOW CAN
THAT... THAT THING SERVE THE WILL OF TSUNAMI! *IT IS MADNESS*"

<Zack appears in the scene applauding!>
Zack:  Bravo!  What a wonderful tirade!  Have you ever considered going into
acting?
<Everyone just stares at Zack.>
Zack:  ...Uhh....I'll be going now...
<Zack disappears>

The twin bracelets on his wrists glowed a brilliant white as he summoned
all the power he could from his tree. The power coalesced into a sphere of
pure energy between his hands, which he thrusted forward at Minagi. His
rage blinding him to the fact that Queen Misaki was holding Minagi at the
time.

Minagi gasped for air despite not needing to breathe, under the relentless
crushing force of Misaki's arms. It was only out of the corner of her eye
that she spotted the ball of energy race towards her. Finding the strength
to break Misaki's hold, she pushed the Queen away from her and to safety.
Although she could have quite easily teleported out of harms way, doing so
would have placed the First Queen and the Emperor in danger. Instead she
brought out her sword and twisting its base formed a huge shield, which
absorbed the attack.

Bodan was undaunted despite seeing what was his strongest attack repelled

I think you can drop 'what was' .  It'll make the sentence better.

with such ease. He was no swordsman, and he held no misconceptions, but
still he clenched both fists and formed a silver colored blade. If it
would take his martyrdom for the Emperor to see the folly of the path he
was treading, so be it.

"For the glory of Tsunami," he said in a reverent whisper and rushed
forward.

Minagi smirked at what was obviously an untrained suicidal old man. She
readied her sword, prepared to kill him in a single stroke.

Before they could come within a two meters of one another, the Emperor

"...within two meters..."

rose from his throne.

"ENOUGH!" Azusa commanded. "Priest Bodan, You are mistaken, this is
neither Ryoko nor the 'Devil', merely a tool through which we will
strengthen the Kingdom. It is completely under my direct control. Is this
not correct, Director Yakage?" he asked turning to scientist.

"It is as you say my Lord," Yakage replied with a bow, his face
expressionless.

Funaho had watched Yakage the whole time. 'You are a brilliant scientist,
but a poor liar, Director Yakage. What is Minagi to you?'

The same thing Ryoko is to Washu.

Disgusted Bodan stormed out of the room.

Put a comma after disgusted.

Misaki picked herself off of the floor. Her face was flush and her eyes,
blood red with anger. Controlling her emotions was not something she did

I think you can drop the comma there.

easily and it was taking all that control to keep her from incinerating
Bodan where he stood. She quickly turned to her husband an unasked

I think you need a seperator of some sort between husband and an.  A comma?
Semicolon? I'm not sure.

question in her eyes.

He raised a hand, "Let it go for now."

She turned away from him incensed and purposefully walked out the throne
room.

Emperor Azusa sighed knowing exactly how upset Misaki was, but there
wasn't anything he could do about Bodan's actions at this juncture in
time.
He gave a pleading look to Funaho.

She gave him a wan smile. "I will explain it to her."

Wow. A kind-of tender moment between the emperor and his wives. I think that's
the first time I've ever seen that in a fic.

"Thank you."

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Once again catching up to her sister near the entry of the spaceport,
Funaho started to explain Azusa's position to Misaki, but Misaki cut her
off.

"I know, I know. I'm not stupid," Misaki said, her head canted to the
floor and fists clenched in anger.

"I never said you were," Funaho said somewhat hurt.

Misaki straightened. "I know that Priest Bodan is a powerful member of the
Council and a great number of Jurians follow his religious teachings. With
the Council fragmented the way it is, we can't afford a public fight,
right?"

I'd like to see a description of Funaho's face after Misaki's statement.  Would
she have a sympathetic smile? An understanding smile?  I'd also like to know
what kind of emotion Fuhaho is putting in the statement below.

"Yes, Azusa understands how you feel. He feels the same way, but there is
just so much he can do right now. Besides, it's not so much Bodan the
people have faith in, but Tsunami. If all goes well we should be able to
force his ouster. The people's love for Aeka and Sasami rivals that of
anyone on the Council, we just need to get them back here. For that, we
need to talk to Tenchi."

Misaki's mood brightened noticeably at the mention of her daughters. She
clapped her hands together in anticipation. "Oh! I can't wait to see
little Aeka and little Sasami! I'm sure we have nothing at all to worry
about. With my little Aeka's sparkling eyes, sexy figure and charming
laugh, I am absolutely positive Tenchi is under her beck and call."

And I thought Mihoshi lived in her own little world...  :)

They both prepared to transport to their waiting ship.

"I hope you're right."

"And if not, we'll go with Sasami."

Billions of miles away, Aeka shivered in her sleep.

Nice touch.

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A column of saliva ran freely from one corner of his mouth and his right
eye began to twitch.

Washu narrowed her eyes seductively and brought two slender fingers to her
mouth. Slowly she slipped them through her full lips and into her mouth
then after a second or two, the crevice between her breasts. Despite his

That looks like a run-on sentence.  If it isn't, it's still uncomfortably long.

years, it was almost enough to give Noboyuki a nosebleed.

LOL!

"Here ya' go," Washu said brightly, handing him the picture she had
retrieved. "Just don't do anything obscene with it, okay?"

'Why did she give it to me then?' Noboyuki wondered to himself looking at
the picture. It was of adult Washu in her nurse's outfit. It even had a
caption: "Now you give me an injection." He put the picture in his shirt
pocket.

*ROTFL!*

"Maybe I should give this to Tenchi instead," Noboyuki asked sitting down
in a nearby chair.

"Who do you think took the picture?" Washu asked, raising an eyebrow.

Noboyuki looked at her in abject shock.

"I'm kidding."

"Oh, I guess you would be. I mean if Tenchi saw you like this..." He
pointed to Washu.

"He already has. Several times in fact. Tenchi hasn't told you about me?
About my past?"

Noboyuki shook his head and Washu smiled to herself and began stroking
Ryoko's hair again. Seeing that Washu wasn't about to volunteer any
information, he decided to probe further.

"So... What is with the new look, uh... little? Washu?"

Drop that first question mark.  You don't need it.

"Washu is fine, and it isn't a new look. This is me. The real me."

"And the other?"

"This," she said becoming her younger self. The change in her height
caused Aeka's head to fall from Washu's shoulder and nearly hit Ryoko, but
it missed. Washu now had Ryoko on one side of her lap and Aeka on the
other. Breathing a sigh of relief for not having wakened the girls, she
smiled and continued. "This is me also, the true me."

"The 'real' you and the 'true' you?" Noboyuki asked puzzled.

"It's a long story and it's kinda personal," Washu finished, once again
changing to adult form and returning her attention to the two girls she
held in her lap.

'But she could tell Tenchi,' Noboyuki realized to himself.

"Do you mind if I turn off the light? I think it's bothering Aeka," Washu
asked looking at the princess toss and turn slightly.

"Uh, go ahead. I think I'll head up to Tenchi's room to sleep a bit."

Washu nodded and turned off the lamp. The room once again became dark and
silent.

Noboyuki stood and spared one last look at Washu and the two sleeping
girls. 'This is a new twist and Tenchi already knew about it," he said to

Need a double quote at the beginning of that statement.

himself. With his head lowered in thought, Noboyuki somberly headed in the
direction of the stairs. Upon reaching a point just behind the couch where
Washu sat, he paused, his mind struggling with something.

"Washu?" he asked.

Silence answered him. He thought again about what it was he wanted to say
and decided to press on. There was so much happening in his son life that

"...in his son's life..."

he knew so little about.

"Washu," he said again, his voice solemn. "I know this may sound rude...
but just how old are you?"

"You're right. It does sound rude, very. Don't you know a woman's age and
past are best kept secret."

It took several moments for Noboyuki to think of a response, but finding
out about Washu's adult form had made him realize something. Washu, Ryoko,
Aeka, and Mihoshi: he knew next to nothing about any of them. Nothing.

I like the introspection on Noboyuki's part.  It makes him a lot more of a
believable character.

"Washu, I think I have a right to know. As his fath...."

Washu spun around on the couch to face Noboyuki, nearly knocking both Aeka
and Ryoko to the floor in the process. Her face was a mask of fury, but
when she opened her mouth to speak, no words came.

At first Noboyuki thought she was too offended to speak, but then he
noticed her stare. It was not directed at him, but something behind him.
Before he could turn to see what, she spoke.

"I take it that Tenchi has not come home yet?"

Noboyuki turned to see a woman he had never seen before, yet looked very
familiar, cradling baby Mayuka to her chest. Again he was rendered
speechless.

Another first.   Noboyuki encountering Tsunami.

"Tsunami," Washu said finding her voice.

Noboyuki looked back at Washu, and then at Tsunami. "You... you look just
like Sasami," he said in amazement.

"I am Sasami."

Correction:

Washu, Ryoko, Aeka, Mihoshi * and * Sasami: Noboyuki knew absolutely
nothing about any of them.

I wonder how fried his mind will be if he ever gets an explaination? :)

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A Multidimensional Plane

A young girl in her preteens sits in absolute darkness, when she feels
a presence enter her mind.

"You know why you were created?"

The girl stands and answers. "Yes Mistress, to serve Master Tenchi. To see
that no harm comes to him, I am to protect him by any means necessary."

"Then go, the time has come."

"Yes, my Mistress."

The presence leaves, and the young girl begins to due a number of
stretches and warm up exercises. She's been waiting for millennia.

"And it's about time!"

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C&C Public, Private, Flames, Sabot rounds humbly appreciated.

I realize things may seem a bit boring so far.

Not really.  It's a good setup chapter.  Soon all the pieces will come together
and chaos will ensue!

The next part should be out a lot sooner than this one was.

I look forward to reading it.

Until next time,


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