No Need For Neighbors!

     Mayuka screamed as she went through the worm hole....AGAIN.

     'Seriously, you'd think that enough people are messing around with time!' thought 
Mayuka as she fell, her white pink poka-dotted dress flapping along with gravity, through 
so many loop holes that she knew she soon would get sick. 'NEVER again will I accept Washu 
to do experiments involving ME!!' Mayuka screamed once more, more out of to do something so 
she wouldn't get bored.

     'Will this thing EVER end?' Things instantly stopped, as if a time warp had happened 
be complete. Mayuka then fell straight down from the sky. She landed on her back...or least 
she landed, but on someone-breaking her fall. But Mayuka didn't ask questions, queasy 
herself, eyes swirling as she tried to collect her scrambled mind. 'I'm going to kill 
WASHU!!' was her first thought. However, the person underneath her didn't seem to be doing 
as well as her.

     The young man under her was in fact not doing as good as her.

     "Ugh.... Is the hurting over....?" he said weakly as he lifted his head up. He was 
wearing a red cap and a plaid blue shirt over a red T-shirt and jeans. He was also wearing 
some headphones connected to his portable CD player, which was still running. He shut it off 
as his head was throbbing too much already. "Could you please get off me....?"

     Mayuka stepped off him, then he turned on his back and looked up at the source of the 
pain he experienced a few moments ago. He blinked as he saw it was a girl, then got a slight 
nosebleed as he was able to see up her poka-dotted dress from his angle. He quickly stood up, 
his face red as he faced her. "Eh....sorry about that...."

     Mayuka tried to figure out what he meant, then realized what he saw from his former 
position. Mayuka turned many shades of colors that complimented her dress, the last being 
pink..blushing. Mayuka instantly faced him, ready to burst into tears. "Who are you?" she 
asked, scared of the person in front of her. Washu had said that there were some bad people 
where she was headed. But he looked so.. what was the word. *Ah yes!* thought Mayuka 
*Kawaii!!* Speaking before she thought, mayuka introduced herself. "My name is Mayuka 
Masaki" Mayuka now was calmer, since she though she had just met a CUTE guy. Her lucky day 
for her ditzy brain of course. Mayuka was about to get his name when something ugly came 
from the trees , gruesome and having at least 10 arms. "AHH!!!! A spider!!" Mayuka cried, 
jumping into the guy's arms. " KILL IT!!! Where's the fly swatter when you NEED one?!?!?!"

Meanwhile, near the Masaki home:

     "Strawberry shortcake, Huckleberry pie, who's gonna be my lucky guy?" Sasami chanted while 
skipping with her brand new jump rope, " A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, 
R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z." She stopped skipping. "Jeez, it's too easy now! I didn't fall 
on any letter... Oh well." She shrugged and went back to skipping.

     "Cinderella, dressed in yella, went downstairs to kiss her fella. How many kisses did she 
get? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 
fifteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee............oooooooof!" she tripped over the rope. 
"Well, it was an improvement. Last time I tried that ryhme I only got up to 8." She got up 
and continued skipping.

Back with Mayuka and Jin:

     Jin blinked. "Oof! Ugh...." Jin, trying to hold Mayuka, looked at the spider. "Aw come 
on, it's not so big...." He carefully reached out, still holding Mayuka, and the spider crept 
onto his finger, then he put his finger to a nearby tree and the spider crawled away. 
"There...." Jin blinked, then blushed slightly. "Eh....you can get down now...."

     Mayuka blushed and shook her head. "NO!!! She points at another..MUCH bigger spider 
about the size of a two story house. "THAT ONE!!" Mayuka quickly jumped off from his arms. 
"Um..before you die, could you at least give me your name?" Mayuka was doubtful that anyone 
could beat up that Spider, but at another look..it looked cute..like puppy cute. Mayuka 
awwed and walked up and petted a foreleg. the spider chittered in response, obviusly enjoying 
the treatment. "Awww..how cute!!! I wonder if I can take it home?"

     Jin looked up at the huge spider, and gulped. "T-that's a really big spider...."

     Meditating in silence, a man watched Mayuka from a nearby tree as she petted the spider. 
"Hmm... strange one she is." He thought to himself. "Enough of this... interrupting my 
meditation." He stood up on the branch and vanished.

     Jin slowly went up behind Mayuka. "I-is it safe?"

     Mayuka kept petting the giant spider as if it was no more than a friendly dog on the 
street. Mayuka smiled cutely and nodded her head. "Yeah!! and his name is Bahum. Isn't he 
cute?" The giant spider chittered and seemed to blush under its hair..hell, it WAS brown and 
black..but now RED.  Bahum raised an arm and seemed as if waiting for a handshake.

     Jin blinked, then hesitantly took it's arm and shook it. "Eh.... Nice to meet you...." 
Jin blinked again and turned to Mayuka. "Oh yeah, my name is Jin Tekken. I live a little 
ways from here, but I've never noticed anyone else here before.... Just heard a lot of 
noises...."

     Mayuka looked at Jin, face blank of any idea of what he was talking about. "Umm..noises?"
Mayuka for a minute thought he was crazy. * well, all the cute ones are either taken, conceited, 
or just plain psyco. NAH..no harm done talkiing nicely to 'em, just hafta remember to walk away 
slowly so he won't notice. *Mayuka backed up slightly against Bahum, wondering if a dead run 
would justify..or just plain rude.

     Jin turned around quickly as he heard a lot of noises coming from behind him. But there 
was nothing. "See?"

     Mayuka blinked and nodded quietly. Then she whispered to the spider. "I just met him. 
I don't know him. Honest."

     Jin laughed slightly. "I think you misunderstood me. I meant I heard some noises ever 
since I moved here. They were like explosions.... Coming from.... Hmmm, come to think about 
it, they seemed like they were near here somewhere...."

     Mayuka looked wide eyed at jin. *OK, time to run for da hills and pray* but being the 
kinda(and ditzy) person she was, she smiled and kept talking, about nothing really. the 
weather and such. Mayuka realized she was blabbing and blushed.

     Jin smiled softly. "Well, it was nice meeting you....er....both.... I guess I'll be 
heading home now...." Jin turned and, since his headphones were still on his head, he 
turned them back on and started walking away.

     Mayuka stood there dumbfounded as he left. *I got dissed by a GUY.* Mayuka blushed, not 
knowing what to do. Finally without a thought, she ran after him. "HEY!!!!!!!!!!!" Mayuka 
grabbed unto him arm and walked along beside him. "I..um..need to know where I'm at.."

     Jin turned off his headphones as Mayuka talked to him. He blinked and turned to Mayuka. 
He blushed slightly, but then quickly shook it off. "Ah.... Well, I'm not sure.... All I 
know is the way back to my house...."

     Mayuka looked at Jin curiously. Blinking in amazment. "You live near here yet you do 
not know where you are..um..do you have a year then? Oh Yeah!" Mayuka turned around and 
yelled. "Bahum!!! c'mon!!!" The spider chittered in happiness and ran over, jumped, then 
shrunk into a teeinie-itsy-bitsy spider. Mayuka giggled. "How cute!!"

     Jin looked down at the spider. "Ah.... Well...the year is 2000 AD...."

     Mayuka looked at Jin, feeling stupid. "Ok..well, Washu was wrong on THAT calculation. 
It the same time frame. Good, I can't wait to tell her that shes WRONG!!" Mayuka giggled with 
happiness. Washu had proven Mayuka wrong sooo many times that this was a GOLDEN opportunity 
in a million years. Mayuka looked at Jin, still smiling and eyes bright. "Oh yeah, and I'll 
introduce you to my daddy, Tenchi Masaki. though I don't think you want to meet ALL my 
mommies. Ryoko can be a tough teacher though and Ayeka is nice and Sasami is wonderful and 
everyone else is soo nice and are just wonderful. "Mayuka smiled again at Jin. she wanted 
him to simle, since she hadn't seen him smile yet. "Nani? Whats wrong? Don't you know how to 
smile? here you do this." Mayuka molded Jin's face into a smile, and when she finished, she 
stepped back and smiled. "THERE. Now thats a smile!"

     Jin held his face like that for a moment, then burst into laughter. It was nice to talk
with someone as care free as her. After he calmed down, he smiled brightly at her. "Like 
this?"

     Mayuka laughed. "Yeah!" Mayuka latched her arm with his, walking in time with him. "MUCH 
better. Right, Bahum?" A small and barely audible chitter was her new spider friend's response.
"See? He agrees."

     Sikaru walked trough the forest aimlessly on a path she had just discovered. "I wonder 
where this leads..." Thought outloud as she continued to hum along to a song that was stuck 
in her head all day. Finally she neared the opening and caught a glimps of Mayuka and Jin.
"Hi there!" She waved at the two strangers and walked over to them.

     Sasami had stuck her skip rope in her back pack and went for a walk. She started 
singing "Underground" because she figured: No one is around, so they won't hear me, right? 
After about an half hour of walking, she discovered she was lost. "greaaaaaaat........." 
she said, sitting down on a stump. She looked around. "Cute! A squirrly!" The squirrel ran 
up beside Sasami. Sasami reached into her backpack and took out some peanuts. "I'll never 
eat them anyway." She said, as she fed some of the nuts to the squirrel. Then she sighed, 
"I hope someone finds me, or else I'll have to find my way out! That'll probably get me 
even more lost!!"

     Jin blinked and turned to the new girl. "Oh, hi!" Jin laughed slightly. "Are you lost
too?" Jin said jokingly.

     Mayuka blinked, realizing that he didn't know her. Mayuka, being the ditz she was, 
turned her back to him with a Humph, dress swirling, and pig tails swaying. Mayuka closed 
her eyes, a hard to read look on her face.

     Jin turned and raised an eyebrow. "Uh.... Is something wrong Mayuka?"

     "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!" Sasami cried.

     Before Mayuka could answer, Jin's ears twitched as he heard a cry for help. Jin turned 
to Mayuka and the new girl. "Sorry girls, we'll have to continue this conversation later! 
Come on!" Jin and the girls ran toward the cry, then saw a young girl sitting on a stump.
"Oh, are you okay little girl?"

     Mayuka followed Jin, because she had nothing better to do. She saw the little girl 
sitting on the stump. * sasami?* Mayuka blinked, trying to get her mind clear. * Ok, this 
is strange.!*  But since Mayuka was almost always nice-and hatedt to see people cry- and sat 
down near the girl and pulled her close, saying "there-there"s and "it'll be ok."s.

     Sikaru bends down to the eye level of the little girl. "Are you ok little girl?" she 
smiles trying to make sasami feel better although she didn't know what's wrong.

     "Oh yeah I forgot to introduce my self...I'm Sikaru Toshima..." Looks from Mayuka to 
Jin and sorta waits for an introduction from them.

     Mayuka smiled. "My name is Mayuka Masaki."

     Sasami looked at the girl in the polka-dotted dress. "Jeez she looks familiar..." Sasami 
thought. "I know you, don't I?" Sasami blurted out without thinking.

     Mayuka looked at Sasami, then laughed. "Yeah you do!" Mayuka smiled and waited for Sasami 
to remember her. It had been awhile since she had been back home.

     "Mayuka!! It's you!!"

     Mayuka smiled happily and hugged Sasami. "Wonderful. Washu sped up my aging process by a 
year or two. I hoped you would recognize me!"

     Jin smiled at the two. He was glad someone knew somebody here.

     Mayka smiled. "oh yeah!" Mayuka got up and latched her arm to Jin. "This is Jin! And well..
Mayuka looked slightly lost, until a small chitter reached her ears. "OH yeah!! This is Bahum!"
Mayuka holds her hand near her arm and a small brown and black spider climbs on, chittering 
happily. "Isn't it CUTE? Its nice too! Like Jin!" Mayuka tilts her head slightly, smiling-eyes 
closed, hair swaying slightly. She holds out her hand to Sasami. "Bahum, meet Sasami! Sasami, 
meet Bahum!" Frankly, Bahum lifted two front legs and cave a polite chitter, as if it was 
saying a shy "Hi.". Mayuka giggled as the spider did a small bow, back front legs down the 
formost two slightly bent.

     Jin blushed slightly as Mayuka took his arm. He waved slightly at Sasami. "Hi...."

     Mayuka looked at Jin. "Jin, why are you blushing? Am I ugly or am I embarresing you?"
Mayuka looked at Jin, she had moved off a bit, wanting to know what was wrong.

     Jin blinked, then put his hands up in protest, a bead of sweat on the back of his forehead. 
"Ah! Of course you're not ugly! It's just...ah....I'm not really used to having a girl...." He 
gulped. "....hold my arm like that...." He blushed a deeper red.

     Mayuka wasn't happy at his answer. She 'humfphed' and swirled around, arms crossed, her 
back to him. "Well then.." was all she said to Jin. She suddenly brightens, and she put a hand 
behind her head as she turned, a smile on her face, eyes closed. She opens them. "I don't know 
the way back!" Myuka laughs a bit to herself, then turns to Sasami. "Do you think daddy and the 
rest will recognize me?" Mayuka turned again to Jin. "I'm sorry. I'm just a bit.. confused at 
the moment. Gomen." Mayuka does a little bow that people do to apologise to another.

     Jin smiled softly as he walked up to her. "It's alright.... I understand...."

     Sasami got up and smiled. Then she frowned slightly. "We're lost!!....again......" She 
looked around. "......."

     Mayuka smiled. "Thats ok! I'm sure that Jin knows the way!" Mayuka looked at Jin, with 
a -I'm right, right?- look on her face.

     "Eh.... Well actually.... I've been lost ever since we found Sasami...." A huge bead of 
sweat formed on the back of Jin's head.

     Mayuka crashed to the ground in surprise. "N..n..nani?" Mayuka got up, looking very 
worried.

     Sikaru chuckles from where she was leaning against a tree listning to everybody. "If you 
care...I know the way out..." She smiled a soft smile and brushed a few strands of blond 
hair off of her face.

     Mayuka perked up. "Really!?!" Mayuka smiled, ready to walk to someplace she recognized, 
or at least a way out of this place.

     Sikaru nodded slowly.  "Yeah. I remember where I came onto the path. Oh Jin is it? you said 
something about living around here right? Well I think I know the way back to your house and 
definitaly the way out of here..." Shifted her weight to one foot and a sweatdrop appeared. 
"Shall we?"

     "Well!! what are we waiting for?" Mayuka asked. She pulled up Sasami from the tree stump 
and latched on to Jin again, so that they were in a little line. "LETS GO!!"

     Sikaru Giggles as she looks at the three and thinks "They look like a family..." Shakes 
her head and turns around towards the path she came from and starts to walk in that dirrection.

     Mayuka looks at Jin and Sasami, wondering what was wrong. Seeing nothing, she 
followed..practically dragging Jin and Sasami behind her.

     --Down the path a ways, near a fork in the road.

     "Hmph. Time to have a little fun!" The man who was watching Jin and Mayuka before said to 
himself as he picked up the signpost and turned it around. He chuckled what sounded like. 
"Fwee fwee fwee..." and vanished.

     "Meow?!" Ryo-Ohki stops and looks around.  She sniffs the path, sensing someone familiar 
was nearby <Sasami?> She smiles, and bounds excitedly down another path, nearly running into 
someone. She looks up at the person standing above her "Meow?"

     Sikaru looked down and exclaimed, "Oh! How cute!" Bends down and scratchs Ryo-Ohki behind 
the ears and smiles. "Where did you come from?" Examined the cute critter and pet it.

     Sasami looked over to see what was so cute. "Ryo-ohki!" She exlaimed and ran over to pet 
her.

     Ryo-Ohki purred as Sikaru pet her.  Then her large ears perked up as Sasami ran down the 
path. "Meow!!" She jumped up and ran over to Sasami, who she hadn't seen in a long time. 
"Meow, meeow!"

     Sasami ran to Ryo-ohki and picked her up. She turned to the rest of the group. "This is 
Ryo-ohki, everyone!" She exclaimed while petting Ryo-Ohki.

     Mayuka smiled. "Hi!!!!." Mayuka didn't know if the cabbit remembered her..she had been 
gone for a long time.

     Ryo-Ohki sqiggled in Sasami's arms. "Meow!!" She raised her ears, looked at Mayuka, and 
smiled. "Meow! Meow!!"

     Sikaru watched Ryo-ohki and Sasami and felt as if she's missing a piece of the puzzel. 
"Uh..ok do you all know each other?"

     Mayuka giggled and held out her arms slightly, wondering if the cute cabbit will let her 
hold her. Myuka looked nervously at Sasami, wondering if she was going to make a fool of 
herself.

     Jin turned to Sikaru. "I think so Sikaru...."

     Suddenly a dark portal appeared (gateway) "I hate to break up such a touching moment." 
And from that portal came kagato floating down he sniggered looking towards the gang "It 
looks like you underestimated me, the re-animation process of the souja was quite complicated, 
to think I had actually died."  A green glow came from his hand an a energy sword appeared  
"I'm here for Sasami."

     What was thins.. floating... Weightless for years upon years ends.. And slowly, opeming 
eyes from the darkness called space. What was this.. pressure? And the oh so blue ground coming 
ever so close.. A murrmmer came from the child, that laid stilly in the tube. She was just 
awakened from her nap.. That lasted a couple of years. Then.. a rush.. Her stomach twisting in 
discomfort. She wanted to scream, but found she had no sound to do so. Her screams instead 
echoed through her mind.. and then outloud as she fell from her restarndment that fell to the 
sea. Her tiny body was comforted slowly down to the earth, like a. angel carrying her. With her 
past out now, the wind like carrying a feather dropped her slowly to the soft grass. Somehow.. 
it was by a little shrine.. it wasn't too far.. Her some what spiky, long light green hair 
blanketed around her. She was asleep, and would have a rather large surprise when she was 
awoken..

     Ryoko's eyes glared. "You!" She said in an angry tone, her golden eyes sparkling with 
danger. She had no intent of letting *him*, or anyone else for that matter take Sasami. Her 
fists cletched and she walked closer, fear filling her body and soul, screaming for her to 
run... Yet she stayed, and she protected her loved ones. "I may have just got here... But 
you're not leaving with anyone. Her voice was icy...

     Her thoughts seeming to echo Ryoko's, Ryo-Ohki lept from Sasami's arms, and landed in 
front of her defensively.  Her claws extended fully, digging deep into the ground, and she 
snarled at the intruder.

     Wondering why the group hadn't fallen into the trap he had layed up ahead yet, a blue 
haired man grumbled as he walked into the clearing where they were assembled at just about 
the time ryo-ohki got defensive. Seeing that his target group had about doubled in size, he 
blinked and raised an eybrow. "Eh?"

     The others whirled on him and he narrowly dodged a lightning bolt.

     Hanging off of a nearby tree branch he growled. "Hey! Don't do that!" and slowly climbed 
down.

     Mayuka just laughed, pointing at the mysterious man that had just appeared and ready to 
kill them. She grabbed her side, trying to ebb the pain. then suddenly she stopped, and looked 
up at him. Her voice changed, sounding perscise and smooth. Her eyes glowed a soft reddish-pink 
color, and her pupils narrowed. "Say, you guys. Did you ever like playing soccer? Lets play a 
round."

     Blinking again, the man walked towards the group. "Uh... sorry to startle you like that."

     He strode confidently into the midst of the party and happened to glance the way of Ryoko 
and began to mumble. "I... I... I..." His eyes grew to a huge size and he smiled stupidly.

     Kagato teleported back in front of the gang he looked at them "It looks like I've 
underestimated you, well then." he brushes himself off and has a evil grin on his face. 
"I was saving this for later but i guess I'll use it now" his hands start to glow but this time 
the ball has no colour but it is so bright it is as identical as the sun. "well now, this is a 
substance called anti-matter the most unstable mass in the universe. It really is quite 
intriguing. It is extremely rear to find it in its purest form, the glow is a reaction of the 
air colliding with it. what it does is it makes matter thats in contact with it implode, a bit 
like a star collapsing on its self and creating a black hole." the anti matter is floating above 
his right hand, he looks at the gang "here is enough anti matter to destroy a hole planet" his 
grin increases "what would happen if i were to drop it." then his eyes started concentrate once 
more at Sasami "Now as I was saying hand over Sasami or you shall all die."

     Sikaru Watches everything going on around her. And Suddently focuses on The mysterious man 
above them. "Oh common...don't tell me I'll hafta fight..." Whines as she slowly but surely 
keeps her glare on Sasami and the man, taking out a sword from the midst of nothing.

     The Gleam of the sunlike power he has hovering over his right arm reflects on her sword 
as she stands infront of the little girl.

     Myuka glared at kagato, then smiled. "What if you dropped it on yourself?" she said icely. 
"Would it hurt much? Or just incredibally an inferno of pain? I really already know, so how 
about you trying it on yourself?" Myuka blinked, and then sweatdropped. "errr...did i just say 
that?"

     Jin took a breath, then focused his energy and generated a yellow staff of energy. "I don't 
know what exactly is going on, but I know that you aren't good if your trying to kidnap Sasami!"

     Looks over at Jin and smiles. Nodding to herself she looks back at the mysterious guy. 
"Your outnumbered. And do you think we're afraid your your tiny attack?" Puts her hand on her 
hip with a sausy look leaning on her sword, but ready for an attack.

     Mayuka nodded slightly. "You think you can fight all of us?" she asked quietly to the man 
above. She spoke in such a whisper that one would have had to strain thier ears to have heard.
Mayuka crouched down on her knees, hands suporting her. She could change, she knew she could. 
Her 'mother' had given her that 'gift' more as a curse than anything. Mostly to kill her father, 
but she could change. What worried her is that she might not be able to control herself after 
the complete change.

     Ryoko growled at Kagato,he had gone to far. "You.. You Bastard!" She cried, yet not 
stepping forward. He could be bluffing with the stuff he held in his hands.. But the odds 
weren't likely.. "Mauyka.. Please get Sasami outta here.." Her eyes stayed on the grey haired 
man, as she tried to hide her slight trembling. "Go!" Her voice was forceful.

     Mayuka growled deep in her throat, but Sasami was her friend. She ran, dragging Sasmi and 
cabbit with her. "Jin!! lets go!!"

     Yuzuha woke up with a start, somewhere someone of great power was wreaking havoc on 
innocent souls. She looked about her room of monitors and saw it. The monitor displayed an 
interesting predicament. A group of kids squaring off against cloaked figure with a bright ball 
of energy in his hand. "Could it be?" She took an even closer look, yes it was. "Anti-Matter!" 
She shrieked in delight. "With that I could restore life to my dying home." She mustered her 
energy as best she could and materialized behind the mysteriously cloaked figure. Then Yuzuha 
saw who the others in the group were. "Mayuka!?!?!?!?" She said astonished giving herself away 
in doing so.

     "Meooow?" Ryo-Ohki opened her eyes, and looked around, confused. She had been hit pretty 
hard when Kagato attacked her, and wasn't quite sure what was going on.  She shook her head, 
and suddenly realized what was happening - she was being carried away from the fight by Mayuka! 
"Meow! MEOW!"  She waved her paws and cried out, trying to go back and help Ryoko.

     Clearly being ignored in the presence of a greater threat, the blue haired man stamped his 
foot and left a large dent in the ground. "Well then... if you people are going to be THAT 
way..." He pulled a smallish rod from his cloak and suddenly it was a large runed broadsword. 
"Guess I'll have to join you all..."  He leapt in front of the group and faced the wierdo with 
the anti-matter himself.

     Sikaru looks at the man that had just jumped infront of them. "OK I've had enough! Who are 
all you people?" Seems to be getting very impatient and her sword starts to glow from her anger. 
Standing oddly with these strangers, she feels very powerful negative energy. 'Why me on such 
a beautiful day too?' thinks to herself as she sighs and glares at the cloaked figure that had 
not spoken in a while.

     Mayuka stopped, and clutched cabbit closer to her body. She was far away, but heard her 
name being called. She froze as if ice and stings of lightning fast thoughts flew threw her mind.
She turned around slowly, seemly to take forever in her mind. She wanted to run, but she also 
wanted to stay.

     Jin stopped to, then turned to Mayuka. "Mayuka, I don't want you to get hurt. So take Sasami
and go! I'll help the others!"

     Mayuka didn't even hear Jin, she was focused on the form behind the mean man. *But, how? 
Or is it just me hillucinating?* Mayuka was frozen in place, unable to move. Her mouth tried to 
form words, but they wouldn't form. Her brain screamed at her, but her body didn't do a thing. 
Mayuka looked at Jin, finally, but seemed as if she didn't recoginze him. Then she snapped out 
of it. She handed cabbit and Sasami over to Jin. "Sorry Jin, i need to do something." Mayuka ran,
but towards the enemy. As she ran she transformed. She went basicly kat from and humanoid. She 
leaped up, but above the man, and landed on erh 'mother', and sent them tumbling.

     Astonished by her speed, and completely taken off guard Yuzuha tumbled on the ground with 
Mayuka. Yuzuha realized she had poorly planned her excursion to obtain the Anti- matter, she was 
in no condition for a fight, she didn't even have enough power to retreat back to her domain of 
darkness. In the confusion of the fall these realizations came to her, regaining her senses and 
saw that Mayuka was now on top of her claws fully extended ready to rip Yuzuha to shreds. 
Raising her arms in defense to the strike Yuzuha started to cry " Please don't hurt me!" she 
pleaded "I am powerless against you, I know I did terrible things to you and I'm sorry." 
Cringing she awaited the painful sting of Mayuka's claws.

     Sikaru looks down at Mayuka and Yuzuha. "Ok I'm defenatly missing s peice of the puzzle.."
Shrugging it off and getting extremly impatient of just standing there she looked over to Jin 
and the man infront of her. "You guys ready?" Raising her sword she dived upwards towards the 
man. With her gaze locked on him she swirled and slashed the glowing sword at him.

     Looks down at yuzuha and smiles "the infermous black tree of jurai, I'm pleased to meet 
you." Kagato looks upwards and thinks. Then he looks back at yuzaha and grins Then he throws 
Mayuka-using telekenisis, then laughs "my prioritys are for sasami, but I guess I can have
some fun first. He turns to the gang and then the blinding light of the anti-matter dissapears. 
His green sword appears again. He looks at the gang and grins evilly "well now I think you 
should know that my physical body is dead thanks to tenchi, this is just a physical illusion, 
created by the souja, my real body is being re-animated in the souja as we speak. Therefore you 
don't really have a chance." His sword suddenly appears in a dark green glow "Its good to see 
you so eager to die"

     Still cowering eyes clenched tightly shut she waited for what never came. Slowly she opened
her eyes to find that Mayuka had been flung off of her. Yuzuha started questioning whether her 
powers were returning to her, when she saw it was the cloaked figure that had done this. She 
then listened to his words carefully, if what he said was true no one had a chance against him. 
"Fighting him is futile, your best choice right now is to retreat!"

     *Why am I helping them?* She thought. *Have I gone crazy?* Then without really knowing why 
she gathered every last ounce of energy she had, and used it to open a dimensional gate to the 
Masaki house taking Sasame Ryo-ohki, and Mayuka with her. 

     Everyone else landed safely with Yuzuha landing with a thud on the hard wood floor of the 
Masaki home exhausted from her effort.

     Mayuka couldn't help but star at her crumpled heap of her 'mother'. She blinked, then got 
off of the top of the pile..of people. She muttered a sorry as she acidently stepped on Jin's 
face. *Ick, I always end up hurting someone.* sighing, she morphed back to her regular self. 
she then sweatdropped, realizing that her clothes were in threads after she had morphed. She 
gave an 'eep' and ran into another room, yelling on the top of her lungs for somebody to get her
something to cover herself up.

     Jin rubbed his face, then quickly took off his plaid shirt, leaving his red T-shirt on, 
and walked over to the door. He stuck his arm into the room, holding the shirt. He blushed 
slightly as he turned his head away. "Here Mayuka.... Just button it up and I think it'll be 
okay...."

     Myuka grasped the plaid shirt, grateful for it though, it was getting breezy in the room. 
She buttoned on the shirt, then blushed. the shirt barely made it over to cover things that 
needed to be covered. Myuka snapped around, hearing a voice. "Errr, myuka." Myuka blinked, 
seeing a man in the same room. She brightened. " DADDY!!!" Myuka hopped over, giving her daddy 
a crushing hug. "HEY EVERYBODY!!! ITS MY DADDY!!"

     Tenchi was too surprised to utter anything other than, "M...Mayuka?"

     Jin blinked as he saw Mayuka hugging the person she called "Daddy". "Daddy? Aren't you a 
little young to be her father?"

     Tenchi sweatdropped, then smiled nervously. "Well, it's a long story...." Then Tenchi 
blinked. "Hey, who are all these other people?"

     "My name's Jin Tekken. I live a little ways from here." Before Tenchi could answer he 
saw someone that even surprised him more than Mayuka.

     "Y...Y...Yuzuha?!?!?! What is she doing here?!?!"