Baby Mine

Disclaimer: I don't own Tenchi and the Gang.

Baby Mine by Celticreeder

Chapter Seven

For the next two months Ryoko spent time with Minako, Tenchi, her mother and doing her household chores just to appease Ayeka. However, one day she was in the bathroom having just finished her bath when she looked at herself in the mirror. She sighed at what she saw and pulled on her robe. She needed to speak with Tenchi. She had just gotten her underclothes on when Tenchi suddenly burst into her room without so much as knocking. Ryoko smiled softly as she turned to look in her closet. Ever since Tenchi had announced his choice to everyone he had begun to enter Ryoko’s room at his will. He rarely knocked anymore and so Ryoko could be in any state of dress or undress when he entered.

“Why Ryoko, I didn’t know you were expecting me! I think I have just enough time for…” Tenchi started as he began to take off his shirt.

“Hold on there lover-boy! What is up with you these past three months? You’ve become such a randy teenager! Are you trying to make up for the past eighteen years in which you had no female pleasures what-so-ever? I mean, despite how much you have changed in these past two years, you are not the type to just suddenly become a sex-crazed maniac.”

Tenchi laughed as he pulled his shirt back on. “Yeah, I guess so. I guess once I found out the joy of pleasing and being pleased by a beautiful woman I just became addicted. Besides, don’t you know that most men have sex on their minds just about all the time?”

“Then what do they have on their minds the rest of the time?” Ryoko smirked as she crossed her arms over her chest.

Tenchi shrugged. “That depends on the man, I guess. For me at the moment it’s keeping up with college and making plans for our family.”

Ryoko just smiled as she pulled on a loose dress. “Speaking of our family, we need to tell the others about the baby. I’m in my first trimester, Tenchi, and I’m starting to show. Even Ayeka has noticed.”

“I guess that would explain her comment about you gaining weight, huh?” Tenchi observed as he sat down on Ryoko’s bed.

“Yes. We have to do it soon too since you leave in a few days to go back to college,” Ryoko pointed out.

Tenchi nodded. He planned on telling the others on Saturday. Standing back up Tenchi pulled Ryoko to him for a kiss then he turned towards the door to leave. “Oh, before I forget, do you want to have dinner with me tonight?”

“Do you really need to ask?”

“I don’t know; I didn’t know if you would be feeling well or not. You’ve had morning sickness this week. Well, then it’s settled, dinner at seven tonight. I better get back to packing now that I’ve had my ‘Ryoko break.’” Tenchi said with a smile.
Ryoko just shook her head with a smile as she watched her fiancé leave.

* * *

Saturday came and everyone, save Tenchi, was in the living room working on their own things. Sasami, Mihoshi, Ryo-Ohki, and Nobuyuki were playing Monopoly, Tenchi’s grandfather, Katsuhito, was working on the shrine bills, Kiyone was reading a book, Ayeka was watching television, and Ryoko and Washu were looking through books of cloth trying to decide on the cloth for the wedding. Tenchi entered the room a short while later and his gaze went straight to Ryoko. Ayeka was the first to notice him and she glanced at Ryoko. When Ryoko didn’t seem to notice him, Ayeka frowned and cleared her throat.

“Miss Ryoko, are you not going to…”

“I know he’s in here. I’ve known since he first entered the room,” Ryoko said without turning around.

“I think this white would look beautiful as a dress, Ryoko,” Washu handed Ryoko the book she was looking through.

“Ryoko? In the traditional virgin white? Please, Ryoko was probably never a virgin!” Ayeka sneered.

“She was when I first went to her,” Tenchi spoke up.

“Was? Tenchi what are you saying?” Nobuyuki asked suspiciously.

“Just what it sounds like, Dad. She was but now she’s not. I should know since I was there personally.”

“Lord Tenchi, I can not believe you are saying such things with Sasami present!” Ayeka shrieked as she rushed to cover her sister’s ears.

“Miss Ayeka, Sasami is almost thirteen. If she was going to school here on earth she would have already had sexual education. I think she’s old enough to deal with stuff like this. Besides, you were the one who made the rude comment in the first place.”

“Thank you so much, Tenchi, I’m sure everyone wanted to hear about our sex life,” Ryoko commented with a slight sneer.

Tenchi shrugged. “What we have to tell them is going to tell them about it any way.”

Ryoko shrugged in return and got up to walk over to him. Tenchi smiled as he put an arm around her waist then turned towards everyone else in the living room.

“What is it, Tenchi?” Kiyone asked, concerned.

“There is going to be an addition to the Masaki family.”

“Yeah, we know you’re going to be marrying Ryoko and she’ll become a Masaki. So what?” Mihoshi frowned in confusion.

Tenchi shook his head. “No, that’s not what I meant.”

“Oh, you mean you’re not marrying Ryoko and are marrying someone from College? Why didn’t you tell us! Oh Ryoko, I’m so sorry!” Mihoshi bawled.

“I’m pregnant, Mihoshi. That’s what Tenchi meant by a new addition. I’m going to have a baby,” Ryoko explained calmly to the crying woman.

“Oh, WOW a baby! Congratulations Ryoko! Who’s the father!?”

“Mihoshi can you get any more stupid? Tenchi is the father! Where were you at the beginning of this conversation?” Kiyone growled as she smacked the blonde on the head.

“Oww, sorry, Kiyone!”

“Kami, why me?” Kiyone moaned into her hands.

“Are you really pregnant, Ryoko?” Sasami exclaimed, her hands clasped tightly under her chin.

“Yeah kiddo, I am.”

“That’s why Tenchi is going to marry her! Ryoko got knocked up and now has Tenchi feeling guilty about it, so he’s offered to marry her so the baby will have a father! Well that is just low Ryoko, that baby should stay a bastard since you were stupid enough to get pregnant by some moron!” Ayeka accused.

“Ayeka, that moron would be me just to let you know, and I love Ryoko and I had already proposed to her before I knew about the baby,” Tenchi said in a low almost cold voice.

Ayeka shivered at his tone. She had never heard him sound so cruel before except when he was fighting an enemy. She had especially never heard it aimed at her before; at Ryoko yes, but never at herself. Ryoko put a hand over Tenchi’s when she heard his little lie. She knew she had told Tenchi about the baby before he had proposed but they had agreed that it would be safer to say that he hadn’t known just in case something like this happened.

“Do you want proof that Ryoko is pregnant, Ayeka?” Washu spoke up from her holographic computer.

“Oh, I want to see!” Sasami cried out as she ran over to the red haired scientist.

“With pleasure,” Washu smiled as she turned back to her holographic computer. A few minutes later, Ryoko’s ultrasound appeared upon the screen. The first stages of the new baby could be seen in black and white.

“Oh, do you know what it is, Ryoko?” Mihoshi asked.

“No, I don’t want to know until the baby is born.”

“What about you, Washu? Do you know?” Kiyone asked.

“No, I promised Ryoko that I wouldn’t find out. Besides, some things just shouldn’t be known in advance and the sex of a new baby is one of them.”

“I guess this means you really do love Ryoko and are going to marry her, huh Tenchi?” Ayeka spoke up softly after staring at the ultrasound in silence.

“Yes, Ayeka. I’ve been telling you that for the past two months. I’m sorry Ayeka but even if I didn’t love Ryoko, I wouldn’t feel comfortable marrying you. I love you like a family member and a really good friend.”

“Then I guess the only thing I can say is congratulations on the baby and the upcoming marriage. I hope you will both be happy.”

“Thank you, Ayeka. Coming from you makes it even more meaningful. And to tell you the truth, I really thought Tenchi was in love with you. You would make a much better wife than I ever could,” Ryoko admitted.

“Tenchi didn’t think so since he chose you.”

“Ayeka, I…I would like you to be one of my bridesmaids.”

“Ryoko, I…could I think about it first? This is so sudden and I have to come to terms with myself about Tenchi’s choice.”

“Of course, Ayeka, I understand.”

“Oh boy, a wedding and a new baby!” Sasami cheered.

Congratulations were said and questions were asked and answered. Tenchi smiled at Ryoko and held her hand through out the entire ordeal. He was really going to miss her while he was at college for the next two months. However, the knowledge that she would be here waiting for him, created a warm feeling of comfort to spread throughout his body and envelope his heart. Leaning over, he kissed her cheek and led her upstairs. He was leaving the next day for college and he wanted to spend as much time with her as possible before he left.

“I love you, Ryoko.”

“I love you too, Tenchi, I always have.”

Tenchi leaned down over her and kissed her deeply. Yes, he thought, he was definitely going to miss her.