No Need for Serenity PG-13
Niklas "Hawk" Jonsson

Summary: Tenchi is smooching with Mihoshi in the woods? Tenchi and Ryoko, snogging like there's no tomorrow? Tenchi frenching Ayeka in the living room? Tenchi giving 'it' to Washu? Has he been replaced with a pod person or just what is going on in the Masaki household?

Disclaimer: Tenchi Muyo, Onegai Teacher and whatnot are not mine, though I certainly wish they were. The story is mine though, all mine.
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A Once So Innocent Soul Rants

I actually didn't mean to turn this fic so... Lemon-scented... When I started it. But well... A ( dirty ) man's gotta do, what a ( dirty ) man's gotta do! Who am I to complain when the pervy muses come knocking? ;D

This chapter has a Sasami-focus however, so less of a citrus:y smell, though I guess it'll please the lolicon crowd out there...

It also happens to be the work of a single day of writing. Well, expect for the first four or five paragraphs, which has been around for quite a while. But the rest of it, was all written today. It'd be nice if I could have that sort of focus every time I sat down to read, but... As you may have noticed, this only rarely the case. :)

It is kinda hard to restrain the urge to write utter filth though, being restrained to R-rated fics is somewhat annoying. Ah well, for those of you wanting to read the shit I've written when I've not been restrained to the R-rating, sod on over to TFF. Got some fresh lemons there for ya'll. :)

Now Corrupted Writer Shutting Up Before The Party-Wagon Comes Calling

Previously, on 'No Need for Serenity'

The research possibilities were tempting.

Besides, if she kept her big mouth shut, she might manage to get herself laid.

Even Tenchi couldn't prevent himself from succumbing to his instincts ad nauseum with the way things were developing. Sooner or later, even his astounding willpower would crumble and if Washu played her cards right, she might just be the one who was around when that happened.

The grin that suddenly blossomed on Washu's lips was even more maniacal then usual and the laugh had a slight hysterical edge to it.

"Washu-chan, fight-o!"

"Washu-chan, use birth control!"

"Washu-chan, the most awesome lay in the universe!"

"Washu-chan, the cutest scientific genius in the universe!"

"Aw, you two are too kind." Washu told her two newest inventions, two small androids that looked just like her, only smaller, which were now perched on her shoulders, shouting words of encouragement.

She could hardly wait to see how things would continue to develop now, things were certainly starting to get pretty darn interesting around the Masaki household!

Roll credits

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Chapter Three:

As both Ryoko and Ayeka staggered off with happy smiles on their faces, they looked at each other and for a moment, shared a conspiratoric smile and sly winks. Tenchi saw this in the mirror and frowned for a split second. Had they staged the whole fight, just to trick kisses out of him? Would they do that? Had they done that? And if so, just how many of the other fights over the last couple of days had actually been real? Had any of them been real?

The one where Mihoshi and Washu had nearly come to blows seemed especially suspicious now. The two had never behaved like that before and in hind-sight, he supposed he should have become instantly suspicious when Washu nearly started fighting over the remote control! With her fists instead of technology.

He shook his head and put it out of his mind for the moment, he had his 'date' with Sasami today and it wouldn't do for him to spend that all distracted by other concerns. He was looking forward to it something fierce. Unlike when he spent time alone with the other girls, he expected this to be a much less harrowing experience and with a great deal less physical contact.

It wasn't so much of a concern when it happened, but once he dropped out of his meditative state, whatever he had experienced during it came crashing down and quite often took quite a lot out of him. Grandpa had tried to teach him a technique that would allow him to gradually experience everything that had went on while in the trance, but Tenchi had yet to master it. So when he dropped the meditation, everything came at him all at once.

All the emotions he'd suppressed, all the sensations he'd dulled and all the embarrassment he'd avoided in his trance, came at him like a sucker punch to the stomach.

He stopped by at the bathroom to do his business and freshen up a bit, then he passed by his room to pick up some supplies for his day with Sasami that he'd prepared beforehand and packed into his battered backpack. With everything ready, he walked back to the kitchen where Sasami was stocking a wicker basket with food and beverages for their day out.

"Miyaaah?" Ryo-ohki mewled questioningly and butted her furry head against the basket. "Miya?"

"Sorry, no carrots." Sasami apologised.

"Maaaaah..." Ryo-ohki complained and her ears slumped down as Tenchi picked up the basket and offered an arm to Sasami.

"Ready to go?" he asked.

"Sure thing, Tenchi-niichan!" Sasami chirped and hastily attached herself to the offered arm.

"Miya!" Ryo-ohki approved and jumped up on Sasami's shoulder.

"Sorry, Ryo-ohki. Today it's just Tenchi and me. You'll have to play with Ryoko-neechan or Mihoshi-neechan today." Sasami said as she picked up the furry spaceship and set her down on the ground.

"Miyaaah?" Ryo-ohki questioned with a miserable and heart-broken expression on her wide-eyed face.

"I am sorry, Ryo-ohki..." Sasami stated with a note of finality in her voice.

"Miaaaahhhhh..." Ryo-ohki mewled and her tiny shoulders slumped, before she looked up at Tenchi with a hopeful expression.

"Sorry, little one. It won't be too bad though. Ryoko promised to fill in for me on the carrot fields. She'd probably be glad for a little company. And I know for a fact that Mihoshi can whip up a mean carrot cake. She told me so herself." Tenchi revealed, causing Ryo-ohki to noticeably perk up. Her ears rose upwards and her little nose started to twitch in excitement, before she took off running like all the demons of hell were behind her.

"That wasn't very nice of you, Tenchi-niichan." Sasami admonished him teasingly.

"Well, Ryoko did say that she was going to cover for me. I don't think she actually intends to, but she did say that she would. Perhaps with Ryo-ohki pestering her about it, she'll actually do it." Tenchi said with a faint smile. "And Mihoshi did say that she could bake. How much of the kitchen that still will be standing when she is done is another question entirely."

"But still..." Sasami said, looking around the kitchen with a worried expression.

"We've saved a bundle on repairs these last couple of days anyway, a couple of broken things in the kitchen is a small price to pay for a Ryo-ohki-free day. Isn't it?" Tenchi inquired. "But I could call her back, if you want to?" he offered and made as if to call out for Ryo-ohki.

"Nonono! It's okay!" Sasami quickly exclaimed, raising one of her hands to cover Tenchi's mouth. "Let's go, Tenchi-niichan!" she urged him on and started pulling on his arm to get him going.

"Thought as much..." Tenchi mumbled under his breath as he allowed himself to be dragged out of the kitchen and Masaki home by the insistent young girl by his side.

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"Oh, it's beautiful..." Sasami breathed as Tenchi put the basket on the ground and started shrugging out of his backpack, from which he extracted a soft blanket and put down onto the ground. He looked up at her near worshipful tone of voice and looked around, before offering her a small smile.

"It is, isn't it?" Tenchi agreed with a nostalgic expression. "Father showed me this place once. It was one of mothers favourite spots." he explained as he straightened the blanket out, before he put the basket down on one corner of it. He stood up and moved over to Sasami, standing behind her and gently grasping her shoulders. Just like he had done with Mihoshi when he encountered her in the woods after his training, he started to administer a gentle massage as the two of them looked out over their surroundings.

The clearing was small, surrounded by trees on three sides of it and with a small mountain brook running enclosing the last side. An abundance of flowers were growing here and the sun shone down into it through and over the trees. They were awash in a sea of colours, a multitude of greens, complimented by the blue of the water and the myriad of colours that the flowers provided. Some distance off, they could also see Yosho's space tree towering far above the more normal trees surrounding it. A handful of smaller clouds drifted through the otherwise clear-blue sky above them and a gentle breeze kept the warmth to a bearable level.

All in all, it was a perfect day for an outing and this was a perfect spot for such.

"You're very good at that, Tenchi-niichan..." Sasami commented after a couple of minutes of silence.

"Grandpa has been teaching me ever since he first started training me. It's a great way to wind down after a hard practise." Tenchi explained, then chuckled. "Though I need it more then grandpa does." he admitted with a wry expression that Sasami couldn't see with her back against him. Had his hands been free, he would have rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.

"Is that why you asked me to bring a swimsuit?" Sasami mumbled and nodded towards the stream in front of them.

"Yep. It's a little cold, but after a day in the sun, it's quite refreshing." Tenchi agreed.

"So, it's not just an excuse to see me in a swimsuit?" Sasami inquired with an impish tone of voice.

"Well..." Tenchi mumbled.

"Tenchi-niichan is naughty." Sasami giggled.

"I'm not the only one. I don't think it was an accident when you walked in on my bath yesterday." Tenchi commented, which caused Sasami to blush furiously and be immensely grateful that she was facing away from him at the moment.

When she opened the door to the bathroom, it led to the onsen. When one of the males opened it, it led to the regular old bathroom. So she had just happened to bring up an armful of towels when she knew that Noboyuki would soon be going and happily enough bumped into him outside the bathroom. She had cutely requested that he open the door for her as her arms were full and he had. She'd thanked him profusely and then strolled into the bathroom, coming across Tenchi in the tub.

"That was just an accident. I didn't think about what would happen if it was Noboyuki who opened the door!" Sasami exclaimed innocently.

"Really?" Tenchi asked.

"Really!" Sasami assured him confidently.

"Really?" Tenchi drawled into her right ear after having leaned forward over her right shoulder.

"R-r-r-real-really!" Sasami stuttered nervously.

"Really?" he drawled into her left hear, having moved over to the other side of her head.

"W-w-w-we-well..." Sasami stuttered.

"Heh, thought as much..." Tenchi commented as he withdrew, chuckling in bemusement as he kept up the shoulder rub.

"Tenchi-niichan no Baka..." Sasami muttered disgruntledly.

"I'm not mad, Sasami. I just think that it's perhaps a bit too early for you to be concerned about such things." he revealed.

"Is it?" Sasami countered with a faint sigh. "I like you, Tenchi-niichan. But... So does everybody else. I've even seen Ryo-ohki making googly-eyes at you when she's humanoid. Sometimes when she's not, too." she explained and looked up at the clouds floating past in the skies above. "Am I too young for you, Tenchi-niichan?" she asked in a worried tone of voice.

"For what you're probably thinking about now, yes." Tenchi replied after a few moments to consider his response. "But I like you too, Sasami-chan. If we're meant to be, I can wait." he assured her.

"I've talked to Tsunami-neesama and experimented a bit. We can speed up the merger. I'd be older then." Sasami revealed after a couple of seconds of comfortable silence.

"There's time. Plenty of it." Tenchi responded.

"No, there's not!" Sasami protested and shrugged off Tenchi's hands, whirling around to stare up at him. "I've seen you with the others, you know. You are all touchy-feely and kissy-kissy with each other now. As long as you have that with everybody but me, you're never going to pick me!" she snapped and put her right foot down with a fierce thud. "You like that sorta thing, Tenchi-niichan. Don't try to tell me that you don't!" she groused and looked down at the ground, a faint blush on her cheeks.

"That I do." Tenchi admitted before he crouched down to eye-level with Sasami. "But you know what? I still like you, Sasami-chan. I don't do my thinking with my lips or hands and I certainly won't make a choice with them. I'll make that with my heart." he explained and tilted her chin up so he could look her into her eyes. "And you've got just as large a space in my heart as any of the other girls." he assured her and bent forward to place brief pecks to her right and left cheeks, which only increased her blush.

"Really?" she whispered in a faint tone of voice.

"Really." Tenchi assured her with a comforting smile.

"But look, I can do it!" Sasami blurted out and took a deep breath, closed her eyes and suddenly... Expanded.

Tenchi blinked in faint absent surprise and pulled back a bit as Sasami slowly grew taller and matured before his very eyes. Faint drops of sweat appeared on her forehead and her expression twisted with a bit of pain.

"Sasami... Stop. Stop it." Tenchi breathed in astonished shock and faint worry, feeling his control over his meditative state slipping as his focus shifted to Sasami instead of his centred self. She didn't appear to hear him and let out a faint whimper as she kept on growing older. Her physical age was now at least fourteen or fifteen. "Stop it!" Tenchi insisted.

"Just a little bit more..." Sasami insisted and grew a bit more, her expression turning increasingly more pained.

"No! You're in pain! Stop it, Sasami-chan!" he protested even as she matured further, sixteen or seventeen now.

"Just... A little bit more..."

"Sasami-chan! No!" Tenchi shouted and grabbed her shoulders, but leaped back in shock as she cried out and shuddered at his touch, finally completely snapping out of his meditative state. "Sasami!" he screamed in terrified panic and this finally caused her to stop, collapsing to her knees in exhaustion. "Sasami-chan... Oh, Kami-sama... Sasami... Are you all right!" he asked and went down on his knees, holding her upright as she nearly fell to the ground, completely spent.

"I'm okay... It's all right..." she mumbled and opened her eyes, leaning back and looking straight at him, her face and body now seemingly around eighteen or nineteen. He nearly gasped at the vision in front of him, taking in all the changes she'd gone through in less then a minute.

She was taller then him now, by at least five centimetres. Her hair had grown longer and while he'd never tell her this, it looked outright strange, if not ugly as it was now. But if she let it flow free or braided it instead of the odd-ball pig-tails she had now, he supposed that it would be quite stunning. Her body had filled out, tremendously so. Her hips had widened, her face had lost the baby fat and her chest had grown to such a degree that she now nearly rivalled Mihoshi. Not to forget that it also revealed that Sasami hadn't started wearing a bra just yet.

The clothes that had fit loosely to young Sasami, was now filled to near-bursting and her breasts in particular looked in outright danger of ripping the frilly white blouse clean off her. The pale pink skirt which had almost reached her knees before, had ridden up to such a degree that it revealed the colour of her pale blue panties. Her sandals had been pushed off as her feet expanded somewhat.

"What... What do you think, Tenchi-niichan?" Sasami asked, her voice subtly changed as well. Deeper, fuller and thought Tenchi was loathe to admit it, sexier. She looked like a younger version of Tsunami and sounded like a curious blend of Sasami and Tsunami.

"You're beautiful, but come on now, change back." he pleaded with her. "This is hurting you."

"The change itself hurts, but once it's done, I'm fine." Sasami assured him. "I'm just a little winded. I'll be all right in a couple of minutes."

"That was a stupid thing to do, Sasami." Tenchi admonished her and poked her forehead. "I never want to see you hurting like that ever again, do you hear me?" he demanded.

"It's okay, Tenchi-niichan. It's not that bad." she tried to downplay it.

"Don't give me that crap. I could see how much it hurt and how much of it you were holding back. Don't do this again, Sasami-chan. Ever." Tenchi insisted.

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Tenchi blinked in surprise, his left hand shakingly rising to his cheek as he stared in shock at Sasami.

"I love you, Tenchi-niichan. But please, shut up." Sasami sighed and took a deep breath. "Just because I like you, doesn't give you the right to decide what I can or can not do. It's my body, my decision."

"I just don't want to see you hurt! Can't you understand that!" Tenchi shouted.

"That is not for you to decide." Sasami countered firmly.

"Okay, okay. It's not my decision, I understand that. But please, Sasami. Don't do it again. For me? I... I thought my heart was going to stop when I saw how painful it was for you. It's... I can't stand to see it." he admitted and looked down onto the ground, then hastily looked up at her face again as he realized that looking down offered him a spectacular view of her panties.

Sasami blinked at him, then looked down as well, then blushed even more furiously then she had when he kissed her and yanked her skirt down, then crossed her arms over her chest.

"Hrm... I usually don't do this wearing these kind of clothes..." she muttered in acute embarrassment. "I guess I'd better change back, huh?" she asked and closed her eyes again, taking another deep breath and then she started to shrink.

"Oh, Kami-sama..." Tenchi muttered with a shudder as he saw how Sasami trembled and whimpered in pain under her breath as her body reconfigured itself.

"Gah!" she suddenly cried out loud and slumped over herself, hugging her own torso and breathing erratically.

"Sasami!" Tenchi cried out and pulled her onto his lap, wrapping his arms around her. "Are you all right? Should I go get Washu?"

"I'm fine... It's okay... I'm all right..." she assured him between deep breaths. "Returning to my old self hurts more, for some reason." she panted and slowly wrapped her own arms around his torso, snuggling into his chest with a small sigh.

"Please, Sasami-chan! Don't do something like this again. Please? For me?" Tenchi requested in a low broken voice.

"S'okay." Sasami mumbled.

"No, it's not. It's awful seeing you go through something like this." Tenchi complained.

"Fine. We won't do it around you anymore." Sasami sighed. "You do know that the day will come when this change will occur no matter what, right? Someday, the boundaries between me and Tsunami will completely collapse."

"There's no need for you to force it before it's time, though!" Tenchi countered.

"We're practising doing it gradually like this for a reason, Tenchi. Have you any idea how much it would hurt it all of it were to happen at once in less then a second like it will when our boundaries merge?" she asked and Tenchi blanched, feeling the contents of his stomach rising. "Tsunami and I thought that we'd increase my maturation some, bit by bit. By the end of this year, I'll probably look like a sixteen year old earthling. Somewhere around next summer, we'll have merged completely and become one."

"But that's... Less then a year until then!" Tenchi protested.

"Yes. I... She... We. We thought we'd have more time, but after that whole mess with Kagato... When Tsunami had to come out like that, the process was jump-started. It's inevitable now and the time for the merger is rapidly approaching." Sasami revealed and looked over at the water, smiling faintly as some of it was diverted to dry land where a shimmering figure started to form from the clear waters of the mountain stream. "We thought you should be the first to know." Sasami said as she turned back to Tenchi as the aquanoid slowly transformed into a watery copy of Tsunami, who slowly strode over towards the two of them.

"I'm honoured..." Tenchi mumbled. "I just wish that it wouldn't have to be like that. You're too young, you shouldn't have to be forced to experience something like this, Sasami-chan."

"I'm older then you Tenchi-niichan, y'know." Sasami commented with a wry smile. "Besides, I'm sort of looking forward to it, actually. This is something that has never happened to somebody else, not even my sister or brother. For once, I'm going to be unique."

"You are unique, Sasami-chan." Tenchi assured her.

"How kind of you to say so, Tenchi-dono." Tsunami said to announce her presence, causing Tenchi to gasp in shock and his head to swivel around to the watery goddess of Jurai who stood at the edge of the blanket with her hands clasped in front of her. "Do you mind if I join the two of you?" she inquired and gestured at the blanket with her right hand, before she clasped them again.

"Well... This was supposed to be a day for just Sasami and me..." Tenchi mumbled.

"Don't be ridiculous, Tenchi-niichan. Tsunami and I are a set. Buy one, get one free." she giggled and gestured at Tsunami to join them.

"Well, I guess it's okay then." Tenchi commented and nodded at the blanket.

"Thank you, Tenchi-dono. Sasami-chan." Tsunami stated sedately and gracefully kneeled down opposite Tenchi and Sasami. Sasami stretched and rose slightly to plant a kiss on Tenchi's surprised lips, before she slid off his lap and moved over to kneel next to Tsunami, the two of them looking more like younger and older sister then Ayeka and Sasami did. Tsunami had even emulated Sasami's mode of dress, even though the water she had materialized from made both her body and clothes faintly transparent. If he looked straight at her, Tenchi could faintly make out the background behind through Tsunami, which was a very disconcerting effect.

"Sasami has always lived in the shadow of her parents and older siblings." Tsunami mused out loud and reached out to draw her watery fingers across Sasami's head, smoothing out a few lose strands of hair that had popped out when she started shape-shifting. "I doubt she's ever considered herself unique..." she stated and trailed off into contemplative silence.

"I am right here, y'know. Don't talk about me like I'm not here, Tsunami-neesama." Sasami berated the goddess.

"I do apologise for my impertinence, Sasami-chan." Tsunami apologised with a sedate bow. "It was not my intent to disregard you."

"Do it again and I'll punish you." Sasami threatened playfully.

"I quake in fear of your ire and will strive to refrain from earning it, Sasami-chan." Tsunami assured her with a faint smile playing at the edges of her lips.

"Do you two talk often?" Tenchi asked, looking between the two of them in a mixture of faint awe and utter bewilderment.

"Sure! Tsunami usually doesn't appear for others to see like this though, but I asked her to pop out and see us today." Sasami replied. "Usually, we just converse in my head."

"Uh. Cool." was all that Tenchi was capable of saying at the moment, suddenly wishing for a few minutes of privacy so he could sink back down into a meditative state again. "So... Why did you ask Tsunami to come out to play?" he managed to inquire.

"Well, you wanted to get to know all of us better and Tsunami is already a part of me. As time goes on, she'll be an even bigger part of me. Leaving her out of it just wouldn't be right." Sasami firmly insisted and Tenchi nodded understandingly.

"Well, it's nice to meet you again, Tsunami-sama." Tenchi offered and bowed deeply.

"Please, Tenchi-dono. None of that." Tsunami requested and reached out, putting her right hand to his cheek and gently urging him to sit back up. "Just Tsunami is fine." she said with a tentative smile and even a hint of a blush. "Or Tsunami-chan, if that is more to your liking. After all, I am a part of Sasami." she continued and glanced aside at Sasami with a fond glint in her eyes and a warm smile on her watery lips.

"Uh, uhm, well..." Tenchi stuttered nervously as he mentally berated himself for being such a huge wuss. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath, if he could be calm in a meditative state, he could bloody well force himself to be outside of it as well! "Sure, Tsunami-san." he stated in a reasonably calm and controlled voice.

"Tsu-na-mi-chan." Tsunami purred and his concentration was broken again.

"Ughm..." he gulped and blinked apprehensively.

"Making googly-eyes and flirting with my man are we, Tsunami-neesama?" Sasami asked with a raised eyebrow and a mock-stern voice.

"Our man, Sasami-chan. We are going to be one, remember?" Tsunami countered with an innocent expression.

"Uhm, I'm my own man, aren't I?" Tenchi interjected and suddenly found himself under the scrutiny of both women. "Right. How foolish of me..." he mumbled as Tsunami and Sasami looked at each other again.

"He doesn't seem all that convinced, Sasami-chan." Tsunami commented. "Perhaps the others have affected him more then we originally thought over the last couple of days."

"You may be onto something there, Tsunami-neesama." Sasami admitted with a glance at Tenchi. "Perhaps we should do something about it." she hinted.

"Perhaps we should." Tsunami agreed.

"I still owe you a punishment from before, don't I?" Sasami mused and turned a mock-stern expression on Tsunami. "Your blouse, off it goes." she ordered and Tsunami smiled as the blouse faded away and merged with the rest of her water-spawned body.

Tenchi gulped nervously and swallowed, before he averted his eyes. While Sasami really had no need for a brassiere, Tsunami did. Or would have, if her breasts hadn't been supernaturally perky despite their size. Not even the merest hint of sagginess there.

"Tenchi-niichan doesn't seem to appreciate the fact that I'd probably be married if I'd remained on Jurai. I'm older now then Ayeka-nee was when she was supposed to have married Yosho-niisan, after all. You're old enough however..." Sasami said and turned her attention to Tenchi, who was still looking away so his gaze wouldn't fall across the topless Juraian goddess faux body in front of him. "Tenchi-niichan... Look at me." Sasami requested and Tenchi reluctantly turned his head slightly around so he could look at Sasami, but still keep Tsunami out of his field of vision. "Tsunami-neesama... Sick 'im." Sasami said with an impish grin, observing Tenchi's panicked expression as Tsunami suddenly lunged at him, throwing herself at him and bringing him to the ground with her resting on top of him.

For a body that had been created out of water, she felt surprisingly real and solid he reflected for a few brief moments as she grabbed the sides of his head and turned his face towards her.

"Help." he wimpered just before Tsunami claimed his lips with hers.

"You planned this, didn't you?" Tenchi groused a couple of minutes later as he sat himself upright again, adjusting his clothes and rebuttoning his shirt, offering the occasional glare towards Sasami as he did so.

"Why, whatever do you mean, Tenchi-niichan?" she asked with an innocent expression, putting her left index finger against the corner of her lips as Tsunami sat back down next to Sasami again, smiling as the blouse she had 'worn' before suddenly rose out of her 'skin' until she was decently 'clad' again. She let out a pleased sigh and both her braids which had become undone during the frantic kissing and groping session re-braided themselves between one blink of the eye and the next, until she looked just as impeccable as she had when she first appeared before them.

"Yes, whatever do you mean, Tenchi-niichan?" Tsunami parroted and mimicked Sasami's expression and posture perfectly.

"Fine, fine, whatever. I won't pry. But I am going to assume that you two planned this out." Tenchi grunted as he pulled out his hankie and wiped his face. For a couple of seconds he considered going off a bit to adjust himself, but finally just shrugged and did it as covertly as possible right where he was. Though considering the faint blushes and interested intent expressions on both Sasami's and Tsunami's faces, he might just as well have just grabbed himself right there and still attracted the same amount of attention from the two of them.

"Well... I may have considered trying out some of the things I've seen you do with the others lately and came to the conclusion that you wouldn't because you think I'm too young, then considered some way to... Work around that." Sasami frankly admitted. "Tsunami-neesama was most cooperative and appreciative of my idea. Weren't you, Tsunami-neesama?" Sasami asked with a friendly smile directed at the tree goddess of Jurai.

"I'd certainly like to think so, Sasami-chan." Tsunami agreed with a faint smile.

"But... You're a goddess." Tenchi interjected.

"'Goddess' is the label others have put upon me, but yes, you are essentially correct, Tenchi-dono." Tsunami agreed, then glanced down at Sasami. "I am somewhat of a special case, however. The merger with Sasami-chan has consequences for me as well, not just Sasami. Just as she is slowly developing into me, I am developing into her." she explained and looked back at Tenchi.

"I have existed for countless millennia, everlasting and never changing. Until the unfortunate incident which would have claimed Sasami's life if not for my intervention. It saved Sasami's life and allowed her to keep on existing, that was what she gained out of it. But I too gained something, no longer am I never changing. I am, for the first time I can recall, changing into something new and gloriously exciting. A whole new world has opened up to me, a wealth and range of emotions I've never experienced directly before, only observed from a distance, is now mine to experience for myself." Tsunami explained patiently.

"Not entirely to yourself, however." Sasami interjected.

"No, not entirely." Tsunami agreed. "While we are still separate entities, we have already started sharing our experiences, thoughts, memories, emotions and beliefs with each other." she continued and looked up at Tenchi. "For instance, Sasami is now able to communicate with the Tree's of Jurai in a more complete way then anyone else before her other then me has ever been capable of. She is also capable to relive my experiences this day with great clarity, should she so wish." she revealed with a knowing smile directed at Sasami, who blushed and looked away as Tenchi stared in shock at her. "As I am able to relieve what she experiences and have already gained a small amount of her fondness for mischief. I have through her also inherited her feelings in regards to you, Tenchi-dono. I too, like you very much, Tenchi-dono." she finished.

"Haaaaah!" was all that Tenchi was capable of saying in response to that! Though something else that had been said just now managed to get his mind back in working order, though he carefully stayed away from thinking about the fact that he'd just been confessed to by a goddess! "You can recall what she's experienced!" Tenchi asked with his eyes open wide as he stared at Sasami and then over at Tsunami, before shifting his gaze back to Sasami.

"Can, will and have." Sasami agreed. "Did while she experienced it, actually." she added with a furious blush and a widening smile. "It was even better then I'd imagined. I guess practising with the others these last couple of days have paid off, eh? Tenchi-niichan?"

"Oh lord..." Tenchi mumbled, shaking his head in disbelief.

"Do not fret needlessly about it, Tenchi-dono. Sasami is well past what you earthlings refer to as Age of Consent. On Jurai, it is not a fixed age, but rather it is considered to be from the onset of puberty, whenever that might occur. For Sasami, that took place more then sixty years ago, when she and her sister were awoken from cryo-sleep at Saladis for a supply run and maintenance of some of the non-organic components of Ayeka's companion." Tsunami explained. "Had she remained on Jurai, she might well have been married and carrying her firstborn at her current physical age."

"You're talking about me as if I wasn't here again, Tsunami-neesama." Sasami pointed out with a faintly frustrated expression.

"My apologies, Sasami-chan." Tsunami gently intoned and bowed in her seat.

"Tsunami-neesama has been alone for so long that she's not really used to having to take others into consideration." Sasami explained with a nod in Tsunami's direction.

"Oh, I see." Tenchi commented.

"I don't think you're capable of understanding something like that, Tenchi-niichan. You're the less selfish person I've ever met. Tsunami-neechan has been alone even longer then Ryoko has and you know how selfish she can be." Sasami commented.

"But you've helped me to change, Sasami-chan..." Tsunami murmured.

"You've still got a way to go if you can so easily forget about me even when I'm right next to you." Sasami countered.

"My apologies, Sasami-chan." Tsunami repeated again and offered yet another bow to Sasami.

"This is so weird..." Tenchi mumbled and shook his head. "Well, I intended to use this day to get to know Sasami a little better, I guess that was just a little bigger of a task then I first expected, huh?" he asked the two ladies in front of him and chuckled a bit. "For instance, I thought you had spent the entire trip in cryo-sleep, but if you went through puberty after leaving Jurai, you must have been awake from time to time?"

"Yes. We were awoken nine times during the trip." Sasami replied.

"Can you tell me a bit about the places you got to see?" Tenchi requested and looked up at the skies above him, trying to imagine what sort of wonders might be found in the vast reaches of outer space.

"Sure thing, Tenchi-niichan!" Sasami agreed and though the day had gotten off to a somewhat rocky start, it progressed rather smoothly from there.

Though the topless kissing incident earlier was not the last time of the day when he suddenly and often rather unexpectedly found himself pressed up against an arm-full of Tree Goddess of Jurai. It seemed that both Sasami and Tsunami herself enjoyed surprising him with a couple of excruciatingly hot kisses and some fondling whenever he was least expecting it.

And if he were to be completely honest with himself, then so did he.

Though he found it somewhat disturbing that once when he'd allowed himself to get a little too carried away and caressed Tsunami's nether regions, her moan had been mirrored by one from Sasami. After that incident, he kept everything strictly above the waist.

But other then that and having to endure watching Sasami shifting earlier, it was one of the more enjoyable days he could recall ever experiencing.

Up until that grandpa had found out that he'd accidentally slipped out of his meditative state and punished him with an extra long and extra harsh training session in the evening...

The End! ( For now... )