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Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters of Tenchi Muyo! They are owned by AIC and Pioneer North America. I did not create them, and their use here is strictly for the enjoyment of myself and anyone who gets bored enough to read this. In other words: Please don't sue my poor ass. Tenchi Muyo! Washu Hakubi Personal Journal It's been five years. Five years since that final battle with Tokimi. I can't believe that so much has happened since then, much less that it's taken me this long just to be able to talk about it. I'm getting a little ahead of myself. I guess I chould start by recounting what happened immediatly after that last fight. To make long stories short, Ryoko teleported us back to Jurai, where we found Mihoshi and Kiyone tending to Lord Yosho and Lord Azusa. Yosho had managed to cut off his father's hand, ending the Emporer's maddness. We retrieved Sasami, Ayeka, Mayuka and Ryo-ohki from the City of Twilight and the Chrysalis. We're still among a very few people to know of that place's existance. I would have loved to stay and gather some more data, but Shadow Dog's friend Rieko... um... insisted... that I not. And I thought that mutt was pushy. The other two servants of Tokimi, Mitsuki and Ito Gasam, were turned over to Galaxy Police to stand trail for kidnapping and several other charges. I hear they both got seven hundred years. They're still waiting for their trial on Jurai. I don't think either of them will be getting out of jail anytime in this millenium. Things started to calm down after we got back. The explination left Nobuyuki a tad confused, but I think he's finally managed to piece together everything that happened. He was shocked to see his father-in-law actually had the appearance of a young man. Now for a little longer-term explination. Ryoko and Tenchi got married soon after we returned from Jurai. It was a very happy day for me. I was suprised to see Ayeka hang around for the wedding. I thought it would have been to hard for her, but... I was wrong. After twenty thousand years, I'm still capable of underestimating people. Ryoko's raised Mayuka like she was her own daughter, with some help from yours truly, of course. She's getting better at it. She hasn't bothered to tell Tenchi that she's pregnant, yet. It's going to be a boy, something I'm sure will make Nobuyuki proud. After everything that's happened to him, Tenchi's suprisingly comfortable with not being able to live a normal life. When I asked him about it, he said he'd given up on that a long time ago. I've never seen my daughter happier. I can't think of anything that I wished for more, when I was trapped by Kagato so long ago. Well, it hasn't been that long, but it feels like it. Ryoko doesn't get nightmares, anymore, about him. About him, or the dark, or even of Tenchi going away. I destroyed the tape I made of her, crying in the dark. I know now that I should never have done it in the first place, but I... Nevermind. I told Ryoko that I'd gotten rid of it, and she didn't even seem phased. She told me that she wasn't embarassed by it, anymore. Tenchi had already seen her like that. Probably back when I was trying to catch him wacthing her sleep. That sly little kid. We decided that Sasami should go to school after that year ended. She was excited by it. I think the hardest thing was trying to convice Shadow Dog that he couldn't go to school with her, not even as a dog. After Tokimi was defeated, Shadow was released from his servitude as Tsunami's Guardian, but he decided to stay and protect her and Sasami. He and I are the only ones who know, but I'm not going to say anything. I think he's in love with Sasami and Tsunami, but it's so hard to tell, especially with the way he flirts with Kiyone. Maybe he's just become attatched to the kid. But, love is the one thing that even my science can't predict. Azusa is still on the throne. He wanted to step down, and let Yosho or Ayeka take his place. The shame he felt for letting himself fall under Tokimi's control was almost to great for him to bare. It took a long time for his children to convince him otherwise. I still don't know what they said to him, but it worked. I've never asked them about it. I think I'm beginning to learn to leave some things alone. He also refused to have his hand fixed. It would have been simple to grow him a new one, even for Jurai's scientists. I think he wanted to leave his arm a stump, as a reminder. He doesn't even try to cover it, ruling with an "iron wrist." Ayeka and Yosho are still with us. The princess finally figured that she didn't want to be a princess, just like her sister had decided. Maybe she'll take over for her father when his time comes, but she'll rule alone. Ayeka came out changed by all of this, something I'm still researching. She's become something of a better person, and doesn't let Ryoko bother her, anymore. She's moved on to yelling at Shadow whenever that mutt in person's clothing pulls a prank. Yosho still acts as priest for the Masaki Shrine. He put the illusion Tsunami created for him back on when we got back, even though there's not really any need for it. I guess it's familiar to him, even though there's no telling how long he'll live, or if he'll even die as long as his tree is still alive. He's hoping that Tenchi will someday take over for him as shrine master. I don't know what he has planned for when that time comes, but it's still probably a long time off. Mihoshi and Kiyone still patrol the solar system, and occasionally chase a criminal right into the house. Needless to say, Tenchi still loses sleep whenever a new hole ends up in one of the walls. Those two are probably the most hopeless out of all of us. Well, maybe just Mihoshi. They actually came to me the other day with a strange request. I've still managed to keep my looks and life these past twenty thousand years by altering my body. They asked if I could do the same to them. They know what it means, but still want it. I told them I'd think about it. I'm still considering it. Let's see, who does that leave? Oh, yes. My sister. Tokimi died when Tenchi and Ryoko killed her son again. She died a second time, that day, and this time it was for good. When her son first died, it had shattered her. She'd given in to the Darkness that Shadow Dog has so often spoke of, and was driven insane. When she ressurected her son, and linked their fates, it was the greatest mistake she had ever made. That, and underestimating my daughter's and son-in-law's spirits. I don't know what happened to D3, but I think that he died with his master. I know it's cuel to say, but Tokimi was too weak. She let herself be consumed by grief, and in the end it is grief that proved to be her undoing. Even though she was a goddess, she was just not strong enough. That only leaves me, now. I haven't been Washu-chan in years, ever since we got back. I don't have to hide under her skin, anymore. It suprising, that after twenty thousand years as a mortal, and untold millenia as a goddess, a time which I still can't remember everything about, it's taken me this long to figure it out. I found out what I was so curious about when I first made my desicion to leave divinity. I found out the purpose for existence. Something that I couldn't even know as a goddess. We're all alone, when we start out in life. Life is a storm, and we are all ships upon it. It's our purpose to weather the storm, to become strong enough to rise above it to the calm above the black clouds. And, if we're lucky, to find someone to weather the storm with. It took mortality to teach me that. Mortality, and my son and daughter. Paths are walked, converge, branch off, and meet. Some people walk the same path of fate. Tenchi and Ryoko were meant to be together. Their paths met, and will never part. I guess it was meant to be this way since the beginning. Nothing could seperate them, now. I love you, Tenchi, Ryoko. Both of you. Good luck. End Journal Author's Notes: And so ends my story. Finally! It's been a hell of a lot of fun writing this thing. If anyone's enjoyed reading it, then I've done my job. I hope I've remained as true to the characters as possible. As usual, any comments, questions, advice, spelling tips, praise or even flames and death threats should be sent to killersquid@ticnet.com. Now for the next series... ------------ Washu: Are you really planning on writing a sequel series to
this? That's the end of this series. I hope you enjoyed it! |
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