Tenchi Muyo and its characters are the property of AIC and Pioneer LDC. I do not own them. The following story is my attempt at a fan fiction using there characters. I am in no way associated with AIC and Pioneer LDC. I have no money; I live in a cardboard box with nothing but a laptop computer and a small portable television. I have not eaten in four days, and boy am I hungry. So very very hungry. If you feel it fit to sue me for using these characters, go right ahead. At least they feed you in jail. God am I hungry.

This is my first Tenchi fan fiction, and it will account the goings on at the Tenchi household. In the end I am going to have Tenchi "pick" someone, but you'll just have to read the stories to find out whom. I love getting feedback (almost as much as I enjoy getting sandwiches {see disclaimer above}). Please e-mail me a sandwich, or at least your comments, to Boboki@tampabay.rr.com as I have no self esteem (or food) and need 'feed'back. Oh god do I need feeding. *Tries to stop drooling* If you would rather just vote for me at the tmffa voting booth, remember the name of my series is "Beloved."

Also of note, my only source of Tenchi information has been a few web sites, a few fan fictions, and Tenchi Muyo, Tenchi in Tokyo, and Tenchi Universe on TV, which means what I have seen has been westernized beyond belief (I still can't get over the Tenchi gang getting drunk off of tea, that has got to be one of the lamest attempts to "make politically correct" an anime I have ever seen). Now that I finished pleading for attention (I am just so lonely) and begging for pity, thank you for reading my ramblings.

Umm, no you shouldn't vote for me, sence i never got around to submitting this

James "Bob" Langley
BobFromUO@earthlink.net
Beloved Series -- Chapter One -- Those Hot Summer Days
Regular Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction
Days at the Masaki household when suddenly, the air conditioner breaks down. Tenchi Masaki, holding a two necked electric guitar standing in front of a microphone yelling at the top of his lungs to thousands of fans. Ryoko and Aeka off to the right fighting over one microphone singing chorus. Sasami smiling at the crowd beating a tambourine while standing on top of a piano played by the cute little cabit Ryo-oh-ki. Little Washu high above the stage on a glowing platform surrounded by neon drums twirling her sticks between ring and index fingers.

"I've been lost and low," Sings Tenchi, enjoying the audience's cheers.

"Since you've let me go," As the crowd cheers, Tenchi looks up at the top of the stage and notices all the bright stage lights on him.

"Full of pain I hide," 'This heat it too much, and why are some of the people in the audience beginning to laugh?'

"Telling all my friends," The audience has now burst into laughter, completely drowning out the music. Beads of sweat pour down Tenchi's face, as he notices what's so funny.

He is standing before thousands of people, wearing nothing but his underwear.

"Ooo, Tenchi, nice ass," complements Ryoko with a smile on her face as Tenchi turns beat red, sweat pouring down his face from the heat of the stage lights. He looks around the stage for something to hid behind when he notices Sasami.

"Tenchi time for breakfast!"

Tenchi sits strait up in bed, having awoken from his nightmare, covered in sweat. Looking around disoriented, he sees Sasami at his open door, with a pouty look on her face.

"Tenchi I have been calling you from downstairs for five minutes, now get dressed and come to breakfast before your meal gets cold." scolds the little second princess of Jurai.

"Oh uhh, sorry Sasami, I'll be there in a minute." Sasami, looking satisfied, closes the door and is heard walking back downstairs. "Oye vee, what a dream. More like a nightmare." Tenchi wipes the sweat from his brow, quickly puts on a kimono and walks downstairs for breakfast.

"Why is it so hot this morning?"

"Now Sasami, you know the people of earth don't have the technology to control their planets weather yet," says Aeka, scolding her sister.

"Even so, why doesn't Mister Masaki just turn up the air conditioner, I mean isn't that what its there for?" says Mihoshi as she sits down and begins gulping her bowl of miso soup. "This is a great breakfast Sasami!"

"I'm glad you like it!" giggles Sasami, "But I nearly passed out cooking breakfast. The kitchen must be the hottest part of the house after I used the stove."

"My futon is the hottest part in the house," speaks up Ryoko for the first time, looking absolutely miserable, hear matted down on her face and covered with sweat. "I never would have taken up sleeping there if I new it got so hot there, with the sun coming in through that window and all."

"Good morning Tenchi!" Cries Sasami happily as Tenchi walks down the stairs for breakfast.

"Good morning everyone! Is it just me or does it seem hot in here?"

"I have bad news everyone," says a sad Nobuyuki as he enters the house. "The air conditioner is broken, something inside it caught fire and the insides of it have been gutted. The worst part is, I don't have the money to buy and install a new one till the end of the month when some guy who hired me approves the blue prints for his new summer home."

"TILL THE END OF THE MONTH! THAT'S OVER A WEEK WITHOUT COOL AIR!" Yelled everyone with a fury that hell itself has never seen.

"Now now everyone," pleas Nobuyuki holding up his hands in defense, "Maybe you can all just go into Little Washu's lab to cool off."

"Oh no there not, I am not about to have all of you people wandering around my lab ruining my experiments. I'll see if I can come up with a way for all of you to cool off, until then, might I suggest lots of cold showers."

"*Sighs* I guess there isn't a lot we can do then," says Sasami with dread at having to cook over a hot stove with no air conditioning.

"Mister Masaki, couldn't you perhaps take a loan from the bank or get the air conditioner on credit?"

"I'm sorry Aeka but my credit cards can't hold the price of an air conditioner and with my credit, the only people I could get an advance from are loan sharks."

"Well in that case I am going to go into the women's bath for a swim and see if I can cool off a bit," proclaims Mihoshi.

"I suppose Sasami and I will join you then, and I assume you'll be joining us to Ryoko?"

"I'll be along in a bit."

'The girls can just go for a swim, what am I supposed to do?' Thought Tenchi to himself as he finished helping Sasami with the dishes.

"Sasami, I have your furoshiki, I'll meet you in the bath."

"Okay Aeka, I'll be there in a sec."

"Hi Tenchi," says Ryoko as she teleports next to him, right arm wrapping around his neck, left arm holding two furoshiki.

"Thanks for helping with the dishes Ryoko," says Tenchi with a bit of sarcasm in his voice.

"Oh now Tenchi, don't be angry. Look, I even prepared your bathing supplies for you, and if you're real nice, I'll wash your back for you."

"Umm, thanks Ryoko but I wasn't -- ACK," Ryoko teleports Tenchi in front of the bathroom door and opens it, revealing a princess Aeka in the process of undressing."

"Ooh Aeka, lace panties?" Taunts Ryoko with a smile as she tries to drag a now unconscious, bloody nosed Tenchi into the women's bathroom.

"RYOKO! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING TO LORD TENCHI!" Screams Aeka while quickly putting her kimono back on.

"He will be a lot more comfortable in the women's bath than in the men's." "Can I come in TOOO," cries Nobuyuki as both the girls run out the bathroom and throw him through the ceiling and clear across the lake.

"Ryoko you should show more concern for Tenchi's wishes. Honestly, forcing him into the women's bath."

"You should show more concern for him period. Like he would want to take a bath all alone in the small men's shower."

"You daemon!"

"You bitch!"

"Both of you stop it right now or I'll get rid of the girls bath entirely. Then you'll have to share the men's bath AND have to worry about Nobuyuki!" Threatens Little Washu. Both Aeka and Ryoko quickly go quite.

"Tenchi are you ok?" asks Sasami as she dabs his nose with a piece of cloth. Both Aeka and Ryoko start to head towards Sasami but one mean look from Little Washu quiets them both.

"The three of you go take a bath and leave Tenchi to do as he pleases. I will go to my lab and see if I can come up with something to cool everyone off."

With that settled, everyone goes to do there thing. Tenchi is escorted by Sasami and Washu up to his room, given a glass of lemonade, and left to read his book. Sasami then goes to join her sister as Washu goes to her lab.

"I can't believe school makes us read this drivel. 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times?' That doesn't even make sense." Says Tenchi aloud as he looks at his empty glass of lemonade. "This heat is really getting to me. I wonder how Washu is coming?"

Feeling restless (and wanting to go to the one room in the house that still has air conditioning that he can enter without a nose bleed) Tenchi gets up and heads towards Washu's lab.

Tenchi gently raps on the door expecting to see Little Washu's kawaii face to appear on the little round screen, but sees nothing. 'I wonder if she is ok' thinks Tenchi to himself remembering the time she accidentally got strapped to that weird looking metal chair with all the tentacles. 'I wonder what she was going to use that thing for anyways.'

Tenchi enters Washu's lab and looks around curiously. It seems like every time he goes in there is some new addition or device humming away. He doesn't see Washu at her "desk" and begins to wonder around looking for her.

'Ahh I had almost forgotten how good cold air feels against the skin. Now where is she?'

"Little Washu there you are! I thought you were supposed to be working on a way to keep everyone cool?" Little Washu is on a small platform high up in the air over a large aquarium throwing in large pieces of red meat.

"Oh hi Tenchi, I was just fe--," Little Washu is cut short as a large whale like creature bangs its mammoth tail against the sides of the take wanting more food. The platform Little Washu is on shakes violently as she loses her balance and falls into the tank, eaten in one bite by the monstrous creature as a trace of red floats in the tank. "WASHU!" Yells Tenchi as he twists his ring and dons his Jurai battle armor. He runs full force towards the tank only to stop short when he hears a familiar voice.

"Tenchi what on earth are you doing?" Asks Little Washu staring at him quizzically.

"Washu? But I thought you were just, you were on the platform, and then the blood?"

"Oh that? Tenchi, I am the greatest scientific genius in the whole universe, do you really think I would risk my own life trying to feed one of my pets? I feel insulted, that was just a clone I was using to keep up on my chores while I worked. And by the way, what did you just call me?"

"ACK, I mean Little Washu! Please forgive me!" Cries Tenchi bowing deeply, not knowing what to do to stave the wraith of Little Washu.

"Well, sense you were concerned about me, I'll let it go this time. Now what do you want?"

"Actually I was just wondering how you were coming with a way to cool us off, oh magnificent Little Washu, greatest scientific genius in the whole universe."

"Well, coming up with something to just cool us all off is far below a genius like myself, so I have been working on something even better!"

"Something better? What could be better than cooling us all off?"

"Something fun, but you'll just have to wait till noon tomorrow like everyone else."

"Well, ok then. I can hardly wait till tomorrow. Oh, have you had lunch yet?" Asks Tenchi realizing his own hunger.

"Now that you mention it, I am. Are you cooking?"

"Sure, if you don't mind frozen gyoza." Says Tenchi with a smile. "Oh Special Agent Cindy, do you really want us to spend one glorious night together, only to never see each other again?"

"Yes, yes, oh god yes."

"Aeka, I'm not a little girl, you don't need to cover my eyes all the time."

"Hush Sasami," says Aeka as tears flow from her eyes into here tissue.

"Sasami, pass the chocolate syrup, this vanilla ice cream is too bland," says Ryoko as she plops a big spoonful of ice cream from the tub into her mouth.

"I would but my sister is being a pain."

"Your sister is always a pain."

"What was that?"

"I said you're a real pain, and your sister agreed with me."

"I did not."

"How can you be so mean with such a heart breaking story on the TV."

"This story is too clich‚d."

"I like the story."

"You would."

"Leave her out of this."

"I will do whatever I please."

"Not if I have anything to say about it."

"Who says you do?"

And then it was on, neither one really knowing who threw the first attack. Ryoko flew into the air and threw another volley of energy at Aeka. Azaka and Kamidake appear at Aeka's sides and the blast pounds against an invisible barrier. Aeka throws the vanilla ice cream tub and it lands right on top of Ryoko's head. Aeka bursts out laughing as Ryoko tries to pull the tub off of her head. Ryoko finally gets it off of her head, swoops down towards the coffee table and grabs the chocolate syrup, and sprays it all over Aeka as the dark liquid pass threw the barrier, having been meant to stop energy, not matter.

"What on earth are you two doing now?" Says Tenchi, doing his best not to burst out laughing.

Little Washu, not hiding the complete lunacy of the situation, adds, "Now all we need to do is cover Sasami with bananas and we can all have sundaes!"

"Gee mom, I guess this would make it the first time you have ever prepared a meal for me!"

"Damn it Ryoko, you don't have to keep using that word like an insult."

"If you actually were one it wouldn't be such a perfect insult for you!"

With one smooth motion Washu's holo-computer appears and she types in three keys. Ryoko is suddenly surrounded by a pillar of bright light and everyone except for Washu winces and turns their faces. When the light clears, Ryoko is six years old.

"WHY YOU TWENTY THOUSAND YEAR OLD HAG! WHAT THE HELL HAVE YOU DONE TO ME!"

Little Washu, in a very mock tone, "Naughty Naughty Little Ryoko, you shouldn't use such filthy words, I'm going to have to wash your mouth out." Two black portals open up, out of one flies a speeding bar of soap, out of the other a small bathtub appears. The bar of soup flies into Little Ryoko's mouth and pushes her into the tub. Little Ryoko begins to gag as her mouth is filled with suds.

"CHANGE ME BACK!" And with another bright flash, the tub and soap disappear and an adult Ryoko, with no sign of vanilla ice cream to be seen, looks at her hands in confusion.

"All you had to do was ask, Little Ryoko. Come on Tenchi, I believe you said you were going to make me lunch. Hopefully it will be a bit healthier than these two gorging on ice cream. Don't you two know that stuff goes strait to your hips?"

"Washu don't you think you were a tad mean to Ryoko?" Says Tenchi as he places four gyoza on a microwave safe plate.

"She shouldn't have pushed me."

"Well what do you expect her to do when you push her? Ryoko's very prideful, and that whole sundae thing was a tad insensitive."

"Huff, no daughter of mine should be so petty."

"Then what were you?"

"I've lost my appetite," and in a huff Little Washu went back to her lab.

"Tenchi, turn out that light its time to go to sleep."

"Tenchi, wake up, your breakfast is getting cold."

"Lord Tenchi, Washu told us we should have an early launch. Sasami says it will be ready soon."

Soon after another delouses meal prepared by Sasami, Little Washu stood up at the table.

"Ahm, despite recent incidents, and out of the goodness of my heart, I have come up with a way to cool all of us off!"

"It took you this long to invent an air conditioner? I thought you were the greatest scientific genius in the galaxy?"

"Ryoko, Little Washu did something nice for us, try to be thankful." Scolded Tenchi, which quickly quieted Ryoko.

"It's the universe, and these are more than just air conditioners. If all of you will please step outside."

Everyone quickly gathered outside in front of the lake.

"Oh Ryoko, smile."

"Huh?" Asks Ryoko as she suddenly finds herself staring down the barrel of what looked like an old blunderbuss. Little Washu laughs maniacally and pulls the trigger. A snowball hits Ryoko square in the face.

"Burr, that's freezing."

"Haha, that's neat Little Washu!" Giggles Sasami with glee.

"This is great Little Washu, but can that one gun make enough snow to cool all of us off?"

"Who said I only made one?" And with the press of a button, seven small portals appeared in front of each person and out popped snow guns for everyone. For the next several hours, the air was filled with the sounds of people having the best snowball fight in history. Well, except for that one on twelfth planet of the Endorus System, but that was another matter entirely.

And thus ends the first chapter of my first Tenchi Muyo fan fiction. Please vote for me at the tmffa and if you really want me to know what you think e-mail me at Boboki@tampabay.rr.com

Umm, no you shouldn't vote for me, sence i never got around to submitting this