The 8th episode of the Tenchi Muyo OAV begins when Ayeka is escorting Sasami back from a trip to Tenchi's aunt. The next day the doorbell rings and Tenchi answers it. When he does he is given formula, toys, diapers and his baby cousin. His aunt has taken ill and they need someone to take care of the baby. Before Tenchi can think about it his aunt is well down the road. So they're all stuck with this kid. Ayeka, Ryoko, and Mihoshi all attempt to impress Tenchi with their maternal skills. Unfortunately none of them have any. They manage to muddle their way through it. Changing the baby, feeding the baby, attending to the baby's needs. After a day of taking care of the baby, Ryoko is awakened in the middle of the night. She changes the baby in record speed then falls back to sleep. The baby gets up and wanders into Washu's lab under the stairs. When Washu finds the little tike she quickly returns him to the living room. When she gets there she gives the baby back to them. Washu returns to her lab but cannot work. She keeps tossing and turning, thinking about the baby. After a little while she returns to the living room and sees that the baby has made a mess. She takes the baby into the kitchen and doesn't like the ingredients in the formula. So she creates a super formula and gives it to the baby who loves it. The next day Tenchi comes into the kitchen where Washu is with the baby in a papoose. When Ryoko appears she gives the baby over to Ryoko to take care of him. When she sees how poorly she's feeding the baby she takes it and shows her how to feed it. Over the next couple of days Washu spends all her time with the baby, including a scene in which she imagines the baby as a small blonde child. Washu turns out to be very motherly and grows to love the baby. When Tenchi sees her holding the baby he asks if that's how Mothers and children are supposed to be. When she tells him that it is how he was with his mother, she tells him that she knows that this is how it was. The next day while Washu is in the kitchen caring for the baby the doorbell rings. It is Tenchi's aunt and she's gotten better. When she returns the baby, the baby reaches out towards Washu and says "Mama". Tenchi's uncle, which looks way too much like him, thinks that the baby is talking to his mother. After the baby is gone Washu sigh in relief, but Tenchi doesn't believe that she means it. Washu tells him that when she was young she had a baby, but it was taken from her by the baby's father. The baby was taken from her because she was not of the proper heredity. Rather than allowing anything like that to happen again she changed herself into an eternal child because such things are not important to children. When Tenchi turns to comfort her he realizes that she's taken the form of a grown up Washu. She offers to have his baby. Ayeka and Ryoko are not fond of this idea and begin fighting with Washu and each other. At the end of this episode Sasami can be seen looking out the window of her room with a very sad and disturbed look on her face. |
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