Concubine Chronicles
Heavy Breathing
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By: bsmart
Why the hell am I writing this? Nobody reads them and they have no legal
weight. It’s a complete waste of time and bandwidth and yet I’m still typing.
If you’re under the legal age where ever you are don’t read this, but since
you’re going to anyways at least don’t let your mommy catch you. This fic is
very much NC-17.
is a sort of manga/OVA fic. If you’ve only seen the show then you might be a
little lost.
Breathing
"There's something I
need to tell all of you, something I should have told you a long time
ago."
Tenchi's resolved faltered
for a moment as those words came out of his mouth and rather than immediately
launching into his explanation there was a pregnant pause that took on a life
of its own.
He had their undivided
attention and having every one of the girls he cared so deeply about staring at
him was disconcerting, especially given the fact that this could be the last
time he saw some of them.
Washu was looking at him
intently but there wasn't the curiosity that was on the other girl's faces.
Sasami and Mihoshi both looked at him curiously, genuinely wondering what was
going on and what was the matter. Ryoko was harder to read as she sat there
stone faced but Tenchi saw just a little glimmer of fear in her eyes. 'She's
probably been praying and dreading to hear those words for a long time he
thought, she's terrified of what I could say.' Ayeka though, while she paid attention
to Tenchi there was a sad resignation on her face, and that look galvanized
Tenchi.
"All of you have lived
here a long time with me, with us, and I...all that time I've been so, so
worried about what could happen if I...I..showed any affection to any of you
that I've just closed off."
Ryoko started to speak up,
"Tenchi..."
"No Ryoko let me
finish. I recoil any time one of you touches me, I leave the room if I'm alone
in it with one of you, I don't even...I don't even talk to one of you unless someone
else is in the room. I just can't do it any more, it's not fair to any of you
for me to treat you like lepers, and I don't have the luxury to do it anymore.
I'm just sorry that it took this to finally make me do something about
it."
None of the girls moved to
speak when Tenchi paused to take a breath.
"I've sat on what I've
felt for more that a year trying to figure out how to tell all of you but I
could never figure out how, so I'm just going to say it."
The only breath to be heard
in the room was Tenchi's as he inhaled and prepared to swing for the fences.
"Sasami, you're the
sweetest person I know, you're always cooking and cleaning around the house
without ever being asked and with less help than you deserve..."
Sasami's eyes started to
tear up, "Tenchi-niichan..."
"You're happy and
cheerful no matter what happens and I don't think we all could have lasted this
long if it weren't for you."
Mihoshi was starting to get
misty as she watched Tenchi talk to Sasami, it might not have been the ending
that she was hoping for but it was so sweet. Ryoko and Ayeka looked confused
and the self satisfied smirk on Washu's face was starting to grow, and then
Tenchi turned to Ryoko.
"Ryoko the very first
thing you did when I woke you was scare me to death, then you tried to kill
me."
Ryoko's confusion dissolved
into a sheepish grin.
"Which I repaid by
chopping off your hand."
Ryoko said nothing but the
apologetic smile remained.
>
"You're wild and
exuberant and your lust for life is incredible. If not for you none of us would
be here or be as close as we all are."
Ryoko was still a bit
confused but now she was smiling much like Sasami, so far things had gone
remarkably well for both of them. Mihoshi was still happy for Sasami and now
she was happy for Ryoko though like everyone else she was still confused as to
what was exactly going on.
The words were coming easier
to Tenchi now, he was on a roll that he didn't intend to stop; he had to get
this out before his courage failed him.
"Washu...I don't know
how many times you've dragged me into your lab and tried to extract a sample
and I know even less about how I managed to escape every time but I did. You
are without a doubt the most brilliant person I know and the kindest mother
I've ever known, to Taro and to Ryoko even."
Ryoko's smile faltered a bit
at the mention of her relationship to Washu though it returned when Washu told
her, 'Just leave it be,' across their link.
By now most everyone had a
smile on their face, though everyone was confused. In more than a year Tenchi
had never spoken to any of them like this, they were used to getting a smile at
the most; to suddenly have him telling them what he liked about them was a
shock.
"Mihoshi..."
"Yes Tenchi?"
"...no matter how bad
things may seem or how bad a mood anyone is in we can always count on you to
cheer us up. I don't think I've ever met someone more willing to put others
before herself. You're sweet and happy and a good police officer, I think
you've kept everyone more mellow than they would have other wise been during
all this."
Mihoshi blushed a deep
crimson as Tenchi finished.
Ayeka was now thoroughly
perplexed. Why would Tenchi do this? Was he just trying to soften the blow to
them before announcing who he'd chosen? Why do this to them, it was crueler
than simply telling them he'd chosen Mihoshi, at least that would have been
quick, and then it was her turn.
"Ayeka, I still don't
know why the crown princess of a star empire wants anything to do with me but
for some reason you do, and I feel honored. You're demure and proper and
everything a princess should be but you can also hold your own with Ryoko, I
just pray that one day I can be as strong in spirit as you are."
Tenchi thought he saw Ayeka
wince as he finished and a tear start to form in her eye but she didn't say
anything to him, she just smiled lightly at him and said nothing.
Tenchi took one last deep
cleansing breath, he'd tried to hit the high points about what he loved of each
of the girls, if he listed out everything he'd be here all day, and he'd
intentionally avoided some of the baser reasons he loved them lest they get the
wrong idea, this would be hard enough. 'Enough stalling, get on with it!'
'Well then here goes.'
"The reason I wanted to
talk to all of you is...I love all of you."
After a year and a half of
desiring to hear those words, though not exactly like that, the girls didn't
know how to react. They had become so used to never hearing anything
sentimental from the object of their affections that for it to finally be said
they just didn't know what to do, and none of them had expected it to be quite
like that. Even Washu, who had been expecting something like this for a while
now was affected, to finally hear that he loved her, to have it confirmed,
affected her far more than she had planned on.
When none of the girls said
anything, when they all just stared at him Tenchi launched into his
explanation, he'd make them understand. "I tried for the longest time to
just pick one of you, I did, but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't do it. I
spent weeks trying to decide which one of you I wanted to be with, but I
couldn't, I want to be with all of you." Tenchi's shoulders slumped and he
tried to look through the rug under the coffee table. "I love all of you
too much to part with any of you; I just didn't know how to tell you."
"I know this probably
isn't that weird in your cultures, but it is in mine, and...it didn't seem like
you could stand each other, I've always been afraid that you all would hate
each other more than you love me, than I hoped you loved me. I'm sorry I didn't
do this a long time ago, you all deserved better than to have to wait this
long."
For the longest time no one
said a word, not Sasami, not Washu, not Ryoko or Ayeka or even Mihoshi, and the
silence began to eat at Tenchi. 'I've waited to long, they think I'm a pervert,
they can't stand each other,' all jockeyed for position in Tenchi's mind as he
waited for someone to respond.
When someone did finally
move it was the person everyone least expected. Sasami silently slid off her
end of the couch and walked around the coffee table to Tenchi. There were tears
in the little princess' eyes when she threw her arms around Tenchi and quietly
sobbed, "I love you too Tenchi."
Even if Sasami was the one
girl he knew he'd never even get to see full grown it felt good to know thate wae wasn't rejecting him.
To all the girl's surprise,
especially Sasami's, rather than the usual pat on the back he would hesitantly
give them when one of them might hug them Tenchi wrapped his arms around Sasami
and squeezed her.
In the middle of hugging
Sasami Tenchi felt someone else standing over them. With a final tight squeeze
he let Sasami go and stood up.
"I was wondering when
you'd finally get around to saying it," Washu said with her usual haughty
attitude.
Tenchi tried to give her his
best smile, "Sorry."
Washu tried to pretend she
was judging him for a moment though she made no attempt to wipe the dampness
from her eyes. "Fine, but you'd better not make this so difficult
again."
Tenchi wasn't a short boy by
any measure but where's he'd been able to hug Sasami while he was sitting down,
even standing up his head barely cleared Washu's bosoms. It felt good to be
able to wrap his arms around her and pull her in close rather that struggling
to find a way out of her grip.
With his eyes closed he
didn't know that Mihoshi had stood as well and was patiently waiting her turn
but as soon as Washu let him go she gave him a gentle nudge and Tenchi was
immersed in a haze of golden curls as Mihoshi latched onto him. The blonde's
grip was tremendous, not quite Misaki's level but he suspected that if she
tried she could crack a few ribs. "Tenchiiii I love you!"
"I love you too
Mihoshi."
Before she pulled away
Mihoshi darted in to give Tenchi a peck on the cheek.
Ryoko and Ayeka were both
still sitting on their couches, looking at him.
"All this time?"
Ryoko asked with her voice carrying a hint of pleading. "All this time and
you never told us?"
"Ryoko I'm sorry, I
just couldn't. The way all of you fought, I was terrified that I'd tell you and
then you all would decide that you couldn't stand living together."
"So now because of
Mihoshi...," Ayeka started.
Tenchi nodded. "Yeah,
it was my worst nightmare coming true. I knew I couldn't wait any longer, if I
didn't do something about it it was only a matter of time before you were all
gone, and that I couldn't stand." It was a little tricky talking to them
with each of them on either side of him but he made sure to look each of them
in the eye.
"Why didn't you talk to
us? We could have...we could have done something."
The frustration in Ayeka's
voice ate at Tenchi. If he had spent a year in agony and frustration what about
them? He knew he loved them and he was sure they loved him; the only thing they
knew was that they loved him and he never showed them the tiniest bit of
affection back. 'The fact that they're even still here is a miracle,' Tenchi
thought.
Tenchi nervously kneeled "Lord Tenchi..." "Just Tenchi Aye
ple
please?" "Tenchi...," Ayeka Tenchi's plan had been to Ayeka was caught off guard Tenchi was surprised at how Ryoko was visibly trembling "What took you so "You know me, can't Ryoko quivered as Tenchi's "Ryoko," the soft Washu smiled as Ryoko lunged Tenchi released Ryoko and
down in front of Ayeka and took her hands in his. "I'm so sorry I didn't
tell you sooner, I love you."
stopped when she saw the look in his eyes. Her knight in shining armor was
kneeling at her feet. She wanted to be angry with him, she wanted to rail at
him for waiting so long and putting all of them through this but she couldn't,
she knew that she could crush him with a word, so she held her tongue. "I
love you too."
just tell the girls how he felt and maybe some hugs, he most certainly didn't
plan on kissing them right then and there, but he did.
by Tenchi's boldness. As soon as the words had left her mouth her prince had
closed his eyes and leaned in to kiss her. At first Ayeka was too stunned to
respond but quickly the reality of her situation. His rougher thinner lips were
different than what she was used to but then again everything about Tenchi was
different that she was used to, when Tenchi tugged lightly at her bottom lip she
decided that she could learn to like different things.
well his first kiss with a girl was going; he reckoned that there wasn't a
whole lot about pressing your lips together that you could screw up but the
pressure he started to feel back through Ayeka's soft lips was reassuring. Unfortunately
as much as he wanted to continue this very pleasurable activity with his
princess he knew there was someone else he had to talk to. Tenchi pulled back
from the kiss but Ayeka tried to follow him until he put a hand on her
shoulder. Just before he turned the tip of Ayeka's tongue crept out and licked
her lips and Tenchi mirrored her actions. There was a faint taste on his lips,
so faint he wasn't sure he wasn't imagining it, a pleasant sweetness that he
wanted to taste again.
as Tenchi closed gap gap between them. The anticipation of what she expected
Tenchi to tell her was driving her insane, every time his lips moved, even from
breathing she hoped with all her heart that he would finally say the three
little words she had waited her entire life for. But with the anticipation was
also a bone chilling terror, that he had waited to talk to her so that he could
tell her he didn't love her, to ask her to leave, and there was a bit, just a
little bit, of jealousy directed at Ayeka. Unlike everyone else Ryoko knew for
a fact that that had been Tenchi's first kiss and she had wanted it for
herself. 'There'll be other firsts,' she tried to reassure herself; 'You still
haven't kissed anyone yet.'
long?" Ryoko asked as Tenchi reached for her hand.
make up my mind," Tenchi said lightly trying to blow it off. He'd wasted a
year with the girls so far and that was not something he wanted to dwell on.
calloused fingers slid over hers and gripped her hand and when he squeezed it
she sucked her breath in in surprise. Tenchi was willingly holding her hand,
she hadn't had to surprise him or grab him or trick him, he was holding it of
his own free will and she struggled to commit every bit of that moment to her
memory.
soothing tone of Tenchi's voice caressed Ryoko's ears in a way she didn't think
was possible. "You've known me longer than anyone has and I'm just sorry
it took me this long to finally say this." Tenchi paused to gather himself
and then looked deep into the former space pirate's eyes. "Ryoko I love
you."
forward to wrap Tenchi up in the first hug he immediately didn't fight against.
There were tears on her daughter's face as she mashed her lips against
Tenchi's. The two girl's kisses were nearly perfect expressions of their own
natures in Washu's eyes, Ayeka's was sweet and tender and Ryoko's was wild and
unreserved. 'There's a time and a place for both of those but if they want to
curl the boy's socks I'll have to sit both of them down and teach them how it's
done right,' she thought smugly.
looked around the couches at all the girls. "Umm, wow. I didn't really
think it you all would take this so well."
"Tenchi, we've been
waiting to hear you say that for a long time," Ayeka said, "I know I
had started to give up hope of ever seeing the day you admitted that you loved
me."
Tenchi sighed deeply.
"I can't tell you all how sorry I am, I just can't. I mean, I just told
all of you that I love you and none of you are that upset. I don't mean to
sound conceited but I thought each of you wanted me for yourselves."
"Well..." Ayeka
started evasively.
"We just
sortta..." Ryoko chimed in but before either she or Ayeka could finish
their thoughts Washu cut in.
"It's complicated Tenchi;
I'll explain it to you later. For the moment, jusjoy joy the fact that five
beautiful women love you."
And Tenchi tried to do just
that. At first Sasami hopped up into his lap and reclined against his chest
while her sister and Ryoko crowded in next to him.
reaction of pull away, not that it mattered since the girls had him sandwiched
between them. The TV wasn't turned on and no one talked, they simply enjoyed
being able to be close to one another. Eventually Sasami announced that she had
to get back to work on lunch and both Ryoko and Ayeka volunteered to help,
talking quietly but excitedly to each other the whole way to the kitchen.
Ayeka had just barely
cleared the couch before Wascooscooted over into her spot next to Tenchi and
wrapped her arms around the boy's neck. "Now, about my k..,&..," she
purred enjoying the way Tenchi's eyes got big as she leaned in close and let
the breath of her words caress his face.
She was about to swoop down
and claim her prize when she heard Mihoshi softly murmur, "Anno..."
In her haste to press the
flesh with her favorite guinea pig Washu had forgotten about Mihoshi. Rather
than be angry at the blonde for interrupting Washu was actually pleased,
whether she was even aware of it or not Mihoshi was every bit as possessive of
Tenchi as any of the other girls. She would often stake her claim on him in far
more subtle ways than Ryoko or Ayeka or even she was capable of, she would come
in to watch her cartoons and catch Tenchi off guard; before Tenchi knew it his
lap was her pillow and he was trapped. She never flaunted her occasional nudity
in Tenchi's direction but at the same time she wasn't ashamed of it. While the
blonde wasn't the most popular of the models picks for the one single girl
Tenchi might have chosen to Washu's chagrin she was the consistent pick of the
models she had the most faith in. Given that Mihoshi was more or less the
reason she was able to snuggle up to Tenchi without the boy recoiling, well
there had been the jerk when she first touched him but she was willing to over
look that, she figured that she owed Mihoshi.
Tenchi now knew how a bird
could be mesmerized by a snake; he doubted that if someone had set his pants of
fire he d dad dare move as his eyes were locked on Washu's face. She was close
enough for him to feel the warmth of her body and to feel her breath on his
face as she leaned in. Her eyes were half closed in a sultry stare that gave
him no choice but to comply with her wishes. This is why he was caught off
guard when their lips were about to meet but then Washu looked off to the side
and stopped.
'He looks so cute when he's
confused,' Washu thought as she smiled at Tenchi. 'You'll thank me later,' she
finished as she put a hand on his cheek and gently turned his face to Mihoshi.
"I can wait."
The implications of what
Washu was suggesting dawned on Mihoshi far quicker than they did on Tenchi. In
fact he was pondering why Mihoshi was blushing so much when she leaned in
close, closed her eyes, and puckered her lips. Washu's declaration, the shy
glances and the healthy pink glow in Mihoshi's chocolate skinned cheeks came
together in a rush as he stared at the detective's pursed pink lips, shimmering
from the sheen of moisture on them. 'I should have guessed the girls would each
want aaahhhh!!' he finished as Washu gave him a shove in the back pushing the
boy towards Mihoshi.
Of course Washu knew
perfectly well that Tenchi's Juraian reflexes would catch him before he crashed
into Mihoshi, 'Just one more thing I've got to get around to explaining,"
Washu thought, she wouldn't have done it otherwise, but she wasn't about to let
Tenchi leave Mihoshi hanging while he figured things out. 'We've all had just
about enough of that.'
curled when she felt Tenchi's lips press against hers, she had always wondered
if all the silly things that her mother had told her about loving somebody were
true and to her delight her mother was batting a thousand so far.
'She tastes like...a peach?'
Tenchi was kissing Mihoshi, something he had wanted to do since he had lain
eyes on her and the only thing he could think about was that Mihoshi's lips not
only felt like ripe slices of fruit but they actually tasted slightly of them
as well, like she'd just finished a peach but hadn't wiped off her mouth before
their lip lock.
Washu was mentally reviewing
how long humans and Kizikans could hold their respective breaths when Tenchi
and Mihoshi finally came up for air. Both of them just looked at each other
hesitantly until Tenchi's tongue finally won its battle and emerged to lick his
lips and gather up the last little bit of peach flavored saliva. Mihoshi burst
out into a giggle fit and mirrored Tenchi's actions causing Tenchi to start to
chuckle himself.
"Hey!? What's so funny
out here?" Ryoko asked from the doorway to the kitchen.
"Nothing, mind your own
business," Washu scolded her daughter. Everyone had let her have her turn
in peace so she'd be da if if anyone messed up Mihoshi's. She didn't really
know why but she always felt a deep sense of....something when she was around
the blonde, and Mihoshi wasn't in the process of destroying her lab.
While Washu was distracted
Mihoshi started to blush even brighter red, she tried to stifle her giggles but
couldn't manage it. Finally she pointed back over Tenchi's shoulder hoping that
once he stopped looking at her she could get herself under control.
Tenchi was starting to turn
around when he heard Washu say, "Last but not least," and his vision
went red. The first three real kisses of his life had been pleasant and
memorable and Tenchi had come away thinking he had a good handle on the
practice. As Washu's mouth descended on his and her tongue brushed across his
lips he realized he knew nothing. No one had been leading with the other girls,
they were all relatively new to the art and none had really known what to do, not
so with Washu. The softness of her lips and her kiss belied the strength behind
it, Washu was completely in charge and Tenchi knew it, and strangely to him he
didn't mind it that much. Tenchi's hands sought and found Washu's hips to rest
on but the scientist's ran all over Tenchi's back, one of them finally settling
on playing with his hair and the other making small circles in his back.
For the first time in a long
time, 'Fifteen thousand years,' Washu was in intimate contact with someone she
cared about and the intensity of her feelings startled her. Later on she would
realize that she hadn't even wanted to analyze them as they coursed through
her, she only wanted to feel close to someone, not understand why.
As the kiss drug on Tenchi
felt Washu pulling him closer to her, a gentle but irresistible pull that began
to threaten their seats on the couch. 'If she pulls me much farther I'll fall
on top of her,' Tenchi thought but Washu kept up the pressure.
Tenchi was just about to
fall over on top of Washu when Sasami called from the kitchen, "Lunch is
almost ready!"
Washu's eyes popped open as
Sasami's voice broke through the haze she was in. She gave Tenchi a quick shove
that put him back upright but caused her to fall over backwards. Washu turned
the fall into a roll off the couch and she stood in front of Tenchi staring
down at him for a half second before saying, "I've got to do something
real quick," and darting for her lab.
"But lunch..."
"I'll be back, I just
need a moment," Washu explained and then disappeared into the closet.
"It's time to
eat!" Mihoshi said happily as she bounced off the couch and grabbed
Tenchi's hand. "Come on."
Tenchi muttered his acquiescence
and allowed Mihoshi to lead him to the table.
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Washu leaned against the
door out of her lab in her adolescent form rubbing her temples. "What thell wll was that?" she asked the empty lab. The question was purely rhetorical
though, even though she was now little she could still feel her heart pounding
in her chest, the elevated hormones in her blood stream, and the fact that
she'd need a new pair of panties.
"It all started out so
perfectly," she said. A few more moments of thinking and rocking back and
forth on her heels passed and she declared, "It's just been fifteen millennia
that's all," and she called up her holotop for a moment to enter some
newly acquired data.
***********************
Lunch wasn't quite ready
when Sasami called for them but by the time the table was set and everyone was
seated, including Washu who gave Tenchi her usual self confident smile as she
sat down. Everyone started to pass around the food and fill up their plates but
little was said that would have been out of the usual, actually little was said
at all. The silence carried over inte mee meal and Tenchi started to feel very
self conscious as it drug out farther and farther but he didn't know what to
say. 'I just confessed to loving all of them, how do you follow that up?'
"I need to get back out
in the fields and get some carrots planted." Tenchi finally said. 'Ok,
that was not it.'
"Oh," Ryoko said.
"Do you have to?"
Tenchi considered recanting
his words but they were out there now and he really did have to work on the
carrotsuot;uot;Yeah, if I don't we'll run out for a couple of days and Ryo-ohki
will eat us out of house and home."
Ryoko glared at her partner
but said nothing, Ryo-ohki's appetite was prodigious but there was nothing that
could be done about it at the moment.
"I'll probably get in
just before dinner, why don't we watch a movie afterwards?" 'Now that's
the right way.'
The girl's faces lit up,
movies were usually an exercise in seeing just how close you could get to
Tenchi before he had to get up to "get some more popcorn" or
something, hopefully tonight would be different.
"Which one?" Washu
asked.
"I'm sitting by
Tenchi!" Ryoko and Ayeka shouted at the same time.
"Oh I can make
popcorn!" Mihoshi squealed.
"I can make
tempura," Sasami chimed in.
Tenchi chuckled to himself
at the girl's enthusiasm. "I'll let all of you take care of it, I'd just
be in the way, and I need to get going if I want to finish before dinner."
Tenchi quickly finished off
his lunch and dumped the dishes in the sink. He went up to his room to get
changed and on the way back down each of the girls waylaid him for a moment for
a kiss and a few whispered endearments.
Out in the field Tenchi was
able to relax again. 'I probably should've stayed in there,' he thought. 'I've
been avoiding them for a year and what's the first thing I do after I finally
tell them?' Still, the carrots had to be planted, they had enough of a reserve
to last a few days if they had some bad weather or the like but they'd learned
the hard way not to rely on that reserve after Ryo-ohki wiped all of it out in
one night when she'd gotten loose.
'Speak of the little oni,'
he thought as he watched a toddler looking Ryo-ohki stagger though the field
with a bag of carrot seeds the size of Sasami on her head and a couple of vials
of Washu's fertilizer in the bib of her overalls. Obviously Washu's barrier was
once again on the fritz.
Since the incident with the
masu a year ago Ryo-ohki had started to come out and help Tenchi in the fields
more and more. He had balked initially at letting a small child work with him
but she'd quickly showed him that she was much more capable than her body
suggest, just so long as you didn't give her anything too complicated.
Tenchi stopped tilling and
started to tell her "Thank you," when Ryo-ohki dumped the bag at his
feet but before he could get it out she had latched onto his leg and started to
rub her face against it and...'purr?' The rumbling that Ryo-ohki was putting
out was more lawn mower than cat but it was definitely a purr.
"What's this
about?" Tenchi asked.
Ryo-ohki hopped back and started
to "Myah!" insistently but it still drew only a blank from Tenchi.
Sasami had apparently learned to decode a little of what the cabbit girl was
trying to say but Ryoko was still the only one who could translate for her.
Seeing that she wasn't getting her point across Ryo-ohki balled up her hands
and put them high up on the back of her head and then swung them up and away
then down in a long arc before hopping up and giving Tenchi her biggest smile.
"Uhhh...?"
Ryo-ohki was used to not
being understood so she repeated her actions slowly and deliberately for
Tenchi's benefit.
"Sasami's....happy?
Sasami's happy."
Ryo-ohki nodded and then
threw her arms out to the side and ran around for a minute before stopping in
front of Tenchi, making a rather rude gesture and then shooting him another
smile.
'If the hands meant
Sasami...' "Ryoko, Ryoko's happy?"
Again Ryo-ohki nodded and
then she poked Tenchi's leg and again smiled.
"I'm happy?" 'More
like confused.'
Ryo-ohki shook her head in
the negative then repeated poking him and then pantomimed Sasami and Ryoko,
rude gesture and all, before smiling again.
"I made them
happy?"
Ryo-ohki burst out into her
own smile and grabbed Tenchi's leg again rumbling like a dump truck.
"I just finally told
them how I felt Ryo-ohki, I'm just glad they're happy, and so are you. Now how
about you help me plant these seeds?"
With Ryo-ohki planting seeds
and giving them a drop of Washu's fertilizer behind him Tenchi got back to work
and for a while he was able to simply enjoy being outside in the sun with
Ryo-ohki working behind him. Soon though his thoughts turned back to the girls
and the realization that he hadn't really considered the aftermath of his
little confession.
'How in the nine hells will
I be able to handle all five of them?' Tenchi had spent so much time agonizing
about when and how to tell the girls his little secret that he hadn't given aconsconsideration to how things would go after it, serious consideration, not the
thoughts that had occasionally merited a retreat to his room. 'How do I not
play favorites?' he wondered, 'not that there are any, if there were I wouldn't
be in this mess.' Tenchi frowned, 'Not mess, situation.' Still the problem
remained and his old standby of no contact at all simply wasn't going to fly.
He also knew that only being...close to them in private wouldn't work; the
girls almost certainly wouldn't allow it which meant...'I'll just have to wing
it.' He supposed that it would be inevitable that sometimes the girls would
start to feel jealous of each other, especially when he spent time alone with
each of them. 'Maybe they're brought up to expect this,' he wondered. They all
were aliens after all. 'Maybe this will be normal to them.'
Tenchi checked on Ryo-ohki's
progress and laughed when he saw her pop a handful of seeds into her mouth
before dispensing another one into the ground.
'Tonight I'll see if I can't
figure this out.' He'd have too, Ayeka and Ryoko had already called the seats
beside him but he'd also have to give Mihoshi and Washu some time and Sasami
too. "I'm gonna be a party favor," he muttered, and then he thought
about the girls who would be passing him around. "There are worse
fates."
When they had finished in
the fields the sun was already dipping below the mountains to the west. The
tools were easily put away in the shed behind the house and after grabbing a
basket of carrots for Ryo-ohki they went in. Sasami was thankful for the
carrots and then she explained the evening to him.
"We're going to watch two
movies tonight and eat in front of the TV," she told him. "Ryoko and
Ayeka get to sit next to you for the first one and then Washu and Mihoshi get
to for the next one."
'Well that solves that,'
Tenchi thought. "What about you?"
"It'll be ok," she
said dismissively. "Ryo-ohki, do you wanna help me cook?"
"Myah!"
"Then wash your
hands."
Tenchi left Sasami and
Ryo-ohki in the kitchen and headed for his room. Six hours in the carrot fields
had left him feeling and looking grimy and he wanted to clean up before his first
semi-date with the girls. Technically he could use the onsen but Tenchi
preferred to use his own bathroom. The onsen was a minefield; every time he'd
gone into it there had been one of the girls already making use of it or one
had followed him in shortly after. Ryoko and Mihoshi never cared if he walked
in on them, both of them usually greeting him quite warmly when he showed up,
Washu didn't seem to care one way or another if he saw her but the way she'd
looked at him he thought she wanted to devour him on the spot, and not in a
good way. Ayeka got a little self-conscious if he came in while she was there
in a towel but if she wasn't then she turned as red as Washu's hair, and
Sasami, well he'd been lucky enough to never stumble in on her alone, that would
have been very hard to explain. Trying to explain what he was doing in the
onsen alone with one of the girls had been the reason he'd finally stopped
using it. The girls all still drug him in from time to time but for the most
part he avoided it like a leper colony and anyways he liked showers.
Tenchi quietly thanked his
father as an unending stream of hot water poured down on his tired muscles, the
old man was many things but a poor architect or cheap weren't two of them. The
girls would be wondering what was taking so long but he just needed a hot water
massage for a while. When he got out he put on a simple pair of cotton shorts
and a t-shirt. "Nice and casual," he said to the mirror. He ran his fingers
through his hair to get things presentable and then headed downstairs.
The girl's were waiting for
him. Ryoko and Ayeka were on the couch directly in front of the TV with only a
small space between them. Washu was sitting to the left of Ayeka and Mihoshi to
the right of Ryoko. Sasami was just setting down a plate of some sort of snacks
on the coffee table in the middle he che couches.
"What took you so
long?" Ryoko asked. "We're you thinking of me? You know I can help
you with that if you want me too."
Tenchi expect the usual
string of vitriol from Ayeka but the Princess was just glaring at Ryoko and
pointing at her sister whose back was to them.
"What?" Ryoko
asked as Tenchi started to sit down between them.
"Not in front of
her," Ayeka hissed.
Ryoko just rolled her eyes
and complied.
Tenchi guessed that Mihoshi
or Ayeka picked out the first movie as both of them seemed to enjoy it the
most. He didn't normally go for romance movies given the way that Ayeka and
Ryoko were snuggling up to him; especially during the really sappy parts he
decided that they weren't that bad. Sasami's Tempura and Sushi disappeared
quickly and the little princess was on the receiving end of many a heartfelt
compliment. Eventually she sat down on the floor between Tenchi's legs and put
a pillow behind her, seemingly content with her spot and Ryo-ohki curled up in
her lap. Tenchi didn't watch much of the movie as he was far more interested in
the girls who were clinging to him with a vengeance. Ayeka wasn't as dressed up
as she normally was, Tenchi suspected that she had left off a layer or two of
her usual garb and she had left her hair down again. The first time Ayeka had
taken his hand Tenchi had started to jerk it back out of reflex but he caught
himself and forced himself to relax and let her hold his hand. Ryoko was still
wearing her black, yellow, and red dress but the long sleeves of her top had
been done away with leaving her in a tank top style garment. Ryoko pressed in
so close to Tenchi that just holding her hand was impossible, she wormed her
way in under his arm which forced him to drape it over her shoulders, a maneuver
that Ayeka soon copied.
Halfway through the movie it
really dawned on Tenchi just what was going on, all five of the girls were in
the same room watching a movie, being civil and two of them had grafted
themselves to his sides and he was even being receptive of the touch and there
was no fighting, no tension, it was just....nice. It felt good, it felt right,
and it felt like a dream.
The movie was a long one and
it didn't end until after nine. Tenchi and Ayeka helped Sasami clear the dishes
from their quick dinner while Mihoshi made popcorn. When they returned to the
couch Ryoko was now where Mihoshi had been and the blonde and Washu were now
where Ayeka and Ryoko were. Ayeka was plainly not pleased with having to give
up her spot beside Tenchi but she didn't voice a complaint as she took Washu's
former spot and Sasami sat down beside her.
The second movie was either
Washu or Ryoko's choice based on their reactions.
"Is this going to be
appropriate for Sasami to watch?" Ayeka asked after a heated onscreen gun
battle.
"It'll be fine,
assured her.
Whereas Ayeka and Ryoko had
pressed so tightly to Tenchi that slipping a knife between them would have been
a challenge Washu and Mihoshi appeared to be content to sit beside him instead
of on him. Mihoshi sat and munched on her popcorn, which she shared with
Tenchi, and Washu picked the most inappropriate times to laugh at the movie. As
the movie wore on the action grew more intense and the movie got progressively
creepier. Mihoshi got closer to him until she was hanging from him and burying
her face in his chest at the most frightening parts. Sasami looked to be having
the time of her life. Washu began to get closer and closer to him for no
apparent reason.
Something else started to
change. Tenchi had been focusing on how nice it was to be able to sit with the
girls when it had been Ayeka and Ryoko but now with Mihoshi and Washu his body
began to tell him something else, both of these girls were gorgeous, both of
them felt great and both of them were pressing themselves right up against him.
The material of Mihoshi's tiny little shirt was smooth and silky and stretched
so tight over her breasts that as she held onto him and rubbed up against him
he was able to clearly feel her nipples hardeninainsainst him. The movie was
coming to a close and both Washu and Mihoshi were laying their heads against
him and the scent of both the girls was mingling into a heady concoction of
peaches and roses that was making it difficult for Tenchi to focus on anything
except the girls at his side. Even Ayeka and Ryoko were leaning in closer to
Washu and Mihoshi.
When the movie reached its
explosive climax Mihoshi wrapped herself around Tenchi's right side, hugging
her body to him while her legs tangled with his. Ayeka leaned in and grabbed at
Washu's arm while Ryoko cheered for the onscreen action. No one's grip lessened
as the credits started to roll.
"Sasami," Ayeka
said a little unsteadily, "Why don't you head upstairs and get ready for
bed."
"But the
dishes..."
"We'll take care of
them," Ayeka said quickly.
Tenchi felt his heart rate
rising as he heard Ayeka's orders, he didn't know why but something about the
way she said it put his hormones into overdrive. At his side Mihoshi pressed in
closer to him.
"Come on
Ryo-ohki," Sasami said as she headed upstairs. "Let's go to
bed."
No one on the couch moved
even after they heard the door to Ayeka and Sasami's room open and shut. For
several long moments the only sounds that could be heard in the room was the
heavy breathing of five individuals. The warmth of the girls around him, the
air with every molecule in it infused with the girl's scents and the feeling of
them pressed in about him fought against Tenchi's control, demanding that he
remain silent lest he say something stupid and mess it up, TencTenchi was a
guy.
"Well that was a
goummppph!&; Te; Tenchi's pointless pleasantry shattered the silence of the
room and what little self control the rest of the sentients in it had. He
hadn't even finished half his sentence before Washu was on top of him, her
mouth covering his, raping his in her eagerness. He started to protest to try
and ward off the inevitable explosions of at least two other house guests only
to find Washu's tongue in his mouth the instant his lips parted. Tenchi started
to try and force her off him but he stopped when he felt a second set of lips
pressing against his neck from the left. The feeling of Ayeka's mouth on his throat
banished any half formed thoughts of stopping Washu and freed him to be an
active participant, not that he could do much, between their position and
Washu's insistence Tenchi was well and good pinned.
With his eyes closed Tenchi
was caught off guard when Washu's assault ceased and she whispered something
inaudible to Ayeka. Tenchi opened his eyes to see Washu sitting up on his lap
with Ayeka looking between them. Washu grinned evilly at him and then turned
his head to the right with a gentle hand on his face. Tenchi's heart proceeded
to skip enough beats to add up to a minor heart attack.
Ryoko was mirroring her
mother's actions only since Tenchi had appeared to be full she had grabbed the
next closest member of their group. Where as Tenchi had been mostly passive
Mihoshi was giving it back to Ryoko as good as she got. The detective and the
criminal's tongues battle for supremacy, still dueling for position even when
Ryoko let up for a moment and tried to pull back but Mihoshi didn't let her, wrapping
an arm around the cyan temptress’ waist and pulling her back down while she
brought her other hand to play. Mihoshi's delighted whimpers were joined by
Ryoko's hungry growl when the blonde's long delicate ers ers played across
Ryoko's smooth bare belly and then slid up to grasp one of Ryoko's breasts. Not
to be outdone the space pirate immediately began to maul Mihoshi's expansive
assets, seeking and finding one of her nipples and tweaking it right through
the fabric of her t-shirt like it wasn't even there.
"Oh,
you naughty little boy," Washu taunted as she felt Tenchi’s reaction
through his pants. "I think
somebody likes what he sees. What about you Aye...," Washu's voice dropped
off as she saw Ayeka staring right at the Sapphic couple and licking her lips.
Washu's gently nudged Ayeka's mouth down on Tenchi's as she said, "Let's
not shock the boy to death tonight."
For several long minutes
everyone became vastly better acquainted, with only delighted hums and hungry
whimpers breaking the silence. So engrossed were they in each other that they
didn't hear a door open and close.
"I'm sleeping in
Tenchi's room tonight," Ryoko declared as she came up for air.
Not to be outdone, or beaten
to the punch Ayeka added, "Then so am I."
"Me too," chimed
in Mihoshi.
"Then I suppose I am
too," Washu drawled. "Is all that ok with you?" she asked
Tenchi.
Being covered in kisses by
Mihoshi and Ayeka little Tenchi was not going to be denied and against the
Tenchi that had a brain in his head's wishes he found himself saying, "Oh
yeah, of course."
Washu was just pulling
Tenchi out of the pile of girls and to his feet when they all heard a small
soft voice declare, "I want to sleep in Tenchi-niichan's room too."
***************
Omake
"There's something I
need to tell all of you, something I should have told you a long time
ago."
Tenchi's resolved faltered
for a moment as those words came out of his mouth and rather than immediately
launching into his explanation there was a pregnant pause that took on a life
of its own.
"You see...well....I'm
gay."
Author’s
Notes (a.k.a. My feeble attempt to
explain away how much this sucked.) V1 Beta
Lighthawk - My long
suffering proofreader
Warpwizard - Who doesn't
write as much of his own pr0n as he should because he constantly let me talk
his ear off.
Froop - My part time stalker
who idedided the name for this entire story.
1) Send me the hate mail.
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Feedback:
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