Note: I don't own either the Ah! My Goddess! Characters or Tenchi Muyo! characters. If I did, I would be a very rich (not to mention talented) man. I'm just writing this fic because I enjoy writing, and enjoy those two mangas. If you want to sue me, fine, but keep in mind I have less then $100 in my checking account at any given time, and I'm giving free advertisement with this fic. Now that the legal info is over, enjoy me newest creation. Also note, that I make a cameo in all my work. Not really a self insertion, just one or two lines. Just be aware.

Timeline notes: This takes place in the Tenchi OAV universe after OAV 13, and sometime after the manga volume "The fourth goddess", but before "Childhoods end".

Yggdrasil: Chapter one; The most right wrong number ever

Tenchi's House, on a quiet night

Two figures stood in the dwindling sunlight. One was a man, the other… a goddess. He beheld the goddess in all her beauty. She was magnificent. Perfect hair, perfect features, seemingly chiseled from the finest marble.

" I will grant you only one wish. Choose wisely." She said, and her voice sweetly flowed like honey. He was quiet for a moment, though he knew what his wish was. Her beauty was intoxicating. " Simply choose your hearts desire."

" I can only think of one thing to wish for." He said.

" Then this should not be hard. What is it that you wish?"

" I wish for a goddess like you, to be with me for the rest of my life." He wished. The goddess gasped, but then the room filled with light, and the wish was granted. The goddess would never leave him for the rest of his life.

Sometime later,

' Now I remember why I hate road trips.' Tenchi thought, as Ayeka and Ryoko bickered over who crossed who's side of the car seat the other was on. Tenchi and the gang were on they're way back from Tokyo, visiting a friend of Yosho's who ran a Shinto temple there. Originally it had only been Tenchi and Yosho who were supposed to go, but Ryoko had found out, and then Ayeka had refused to leave him alone with Ryoko, and if you've been paying attention to any Tenchi series, you know how these things happen.

They'd spent a nice weekend in Tokyo playing tourists, and things had been fine while everyone could get away from each other. Unfortunately, they had all been stuck for several hours in the cramped family van, and it was starting to grate on everyone's nerves. Well, almost everyone. All right, just Ryoko and Ayeka. Sasami was asleep in the shotgun position. Tenchi was sitting in the back seat with Washu and Mihoshi, who was thankfully taking a nap, and Ayeka and Ryoko in the middle seat. Tenchi had wanted to separate the two, but no one, especially not him, wanted to be stuck in-between the two, and they would not accept one sitting closer to Tenchi then the other. Yosho was driving, and Tenchi could tell he was more then a little annoyed at it all.

Washu had suggested she too could take a nap, with her head in his lap, but he had quickly shot that idea down, though it probably wouldn't have mattered if Ayeka and Ryoko hadn't taken a brief break to shout at her. Now she was working on her computer, and grinding her teeth as they argued. Ayeka and Ryoko had found been bickering abut anything, from who got to sit in front of Tenchi, to who spent the most time with Tenchi in Tokyo.

" We agreed that you would stay on that cushion, and I would stay on this one." Ayeka shouted. Ryoko reached over and touched the cushion Ayeka was on.

" Touch touch touch princess. What are you gonna do about it?" Ryoko goaded with a smirk. Ayeka fumed, and was about to summon her guardians, probably destroying the car.

" Hey! You two stop this, we're almost home and we don't need you to wreck the van." Tenchi leaned forward and said to them.
" She started it!" Ayeka said.

" No, she did!" Ryoko countered.

" That's outrageous!" Ayeka retorted. The two glared at each other, and were about to lunge for each others throats.

" All right, Little Ryoko, switch places with me." Washu said. " If I have to listen to you to scream at each other I swear I'll blow the planet up."

" What? I'm not going to let Tenchi sit next to Ayeka. And don't call me little." Ryoko replied angrily.

" All right then, you two come back here. Ayeka, you climb over, Ryoko you can teleport back here. I thought you two could handle it for a few hours, but I guess not." They blinked in surprise as it soaked in. Then scrambled trying to get back. They didn't get far. " Hey look we're home, never mind then." He said, breathing a sigh of relief as his ploy to buy time worked. He opened the door even as the car was slowing and hopped out. Sasami woke up with a yawn, and sleepily hopped out too, followed by everyone else. Ayeka and Ryoko got out first, still bickering, and walked back to the house at the same time, saying how glad they were to not have to be near each other. As Tenchi opened the hatch in the back, Yosho came around to speak to him.

" Tenchi. This trip was meant to further your training. It was not as helpful as it could have been. You know what that means." He said sternly. Tenchi gulped.

" Double training for a week?" He sighed. And Yosho nodded, and started down the path to the house.

" Lord Tenchi." Washu said stepping out of the van. " I had a great time. Thank you." She said, with a smile and a nod. Sasami stretched her arms.

" Yes, thanks Tenchi. I loved Tokyo!" she said, hugged him and ran off, Tenchi realizing, leaving him alone with the luggage. He sighed, and started unpacking. The driveway ended well short of the house, and you had to go over a hill and across a wooden path above the lake. Picking up two large bags, Tenchi started up the hill.

" Grandpa could have helped me at least." Tenchi muttered. The bags were stuffed full to bursting. " Did the girls really need all this stuff for two days?" As he stumbled to the top of the hill, he heard Sasami calling him.

" Tenchi! Tenchi!" She said, a little too worried for Tenchi to like. He dropped the bags and started running. Sasami met him halfway across the lake. He could see in the distance Ayeka, Ryoko, and Mihoshi were standing in front of the house. Something seemed strange about it.

" What is it Sasami?" Tenchi said.

" Your house, it's different." She said. Tenchi looked but still couldn't figure out was wrong. " There are all these rose bushes in front now." That was it. Tenchi jogged over and took a look. Indeed, there were rose bushes all in front of his house. In all colors, red, white, black, yellow, green, and blue. Tenchi hadn't even know they made green and blue roses.

" Oh Tenchi, thank you so much." Ayeka said, running over to embrace him.

" You had these planted while we were gone just for me didn't you?"

" Of course not, Ayeka." Ryoko said. " He did it just for me, didn't you Tenchi?"

" No, really." Tenchi backpedaled warily. " I have no idea what's going on." Tenchi was relieved as they seemed to believe him.

" Well if Tenchi did have these put in, who did?" Ayeka asked. She reached over and gently touched one.

" Um… Tenchi." Mihoshi said curiously. " Your house is all weird inside." Mihoshi pointed towards the window of the family room. Tenchi looked in and gasped. He ran to the front door and flung it open, and rubbed his eyes in disbelief. The entire family room was different. The floor, once plain wood, had been completely replaced with polished white marble. The window walls were framed by beautiful and full silken drapes, a dark blue and embroidered with golden roses, and the first window on each wall. The Sofa's had been changed from decent fabric couches, to luxurious leather ones that were also a dark blue. They were on a exquisite carpet with a floral motif, that looked like ivy and roses wrapped around a gate. The shelf to one side had been reworked with an elaborate engravings of people and animals framing it. The shelf that once held books and family photos now held pottery and statues that looked like they'd belong in an exhibit on ancient Rome and Greece, and several vases that held even more blood-red roses.

The dinner table had been changed from a simple, low to the ground Japanese style to a richly engraved, higher off the ground, Euro-American style with a number of high backed chairs that looked incredibly comfortable. On the walls in various places, though still very nicely laid out, paintings, some portraits, some scenes of people, and was that the Mona Lisa? The stairs leading up to the second floor now featured another ornately carved handrail and a simple red carpet that went down the middle. All which led his eyes upwards to the most astounding thing of all. The ceiling, once simple wooden planks, was now covered in plaster, with an ornate border around the edges that seemed to resemble finely interwoven vines. The entire ceiling was covered in frescoes, mostly of heavenly scenes of angels and chubby cherubs, some playing musical instruments. All this combined to create a strongly European look, and even if a person who had grown up in Japan, and wasn't extremely fond of the European look, would admit that it all combined wonderfully.

Tenchi stood and soaked it all in. Tenchi was an architects son, so he had some idea how much work this all would have needed. The engravings, even putting aside the expense, would have taken weeks, and the ceiling even longer. This was not the sort of thing that was done on a whim.

By now everyone else had come in, except Yosho, who had probably returned to the shrine, and they were still noticing the changes in the front hallway. Sasami wandered in, looked around and said quite casually;

" Tenchi, who's that lady?" Tenchi blinked, and only then realized he was not alone. A woman, perhaps the most beautiful addition to the room, was casually looking at him.

" You must be Tenchi." She said. She sat casually on the sofa, with her long neck craned to look at Tenchi. At least that's what Tenchi thought at first, then he realized that she was actually floating gently off the couch, like Ryoko sometimes did, and just tilted so she was sitting at 90 degrees to gravity. The oddest thing about her to Tenchi were the blue diamond shaped marks on her face, like a tattoo; one on her forehead, two below each eye. Having spent so long with flying women and weirder, he barely noticed it. But that didn't mean he wasn't curious about his visitor. Especially about why she seemed to have a stack of his father's bishoujo comics on the table in front of her.

" Yeah, I am. Uhm, can I help you with something?" He asked. The only thing he could think of, with her flying and all, was that she was one of Ryoko's old friends.

" Will you murder your father for me?" She asked casually. Tenchi blinked in surprise at the odd question.

" What? No, of course I won't. Who are you and what are you doing in my house? And why do you want my father murdered?" He said about as furioiusly as he ever got. Before she could answer though, Ayeka and Ryoko were drawn by the sound of the strange female voice like a moth to a flame.

" Tenchi, who is this strange woman?" Ayeka said coolly. Tenchi sweated and tried to say he didn't know when Ryoko came in.

" Yeah, Tenchi and.. and what happened in here?" She said, surprise ringing in her voice, as she saw the new interior decoration.

" You mean you don't know her?" Tenchi asked. Now he had no idea what was going on.

" No, never seen her before in my life." Ryoko answered, eyeing the strange woman cautiously. She and Ayeka both did not like having someone this pretty anywhere near Tenchi.

" I guess I can explain." Said a new voice. Everyone looked up to see Noboyuki coming down the stairs, blushing sheepishly. " I'm afraid this woman will be staying with us for a little while."

It was about six at night at the Masaki residence. Tenchi, Yosho, and the girls were off to Tokyo, and Noboyuki was alone in the house, and relaxing the way he most often did; sitting in the family room with a collection of his Bishoujo (Manga for girls, Noboyuki has a giant library of it.) At about 6:30, he started feeling hungry. He'd had leftovers for breakfast and lunch, but they were all gone now. Since he worked late into the night quite often, he was no stranger to making do. He decided to do what he always did, and order a pizza. He set aside his comic and walked over the phone. He dialed the local pizza parlor, or at least thought he did.

" You life is about to change, my dear, you've reached Goddess first class unlimited Peorth of the Earth assistance hotline. You need but to wait one moment, for me to grant your wish!" the voice spoke. Noboyuki stared at the phone, as if that could make any sense of this.

" A goddess?" Tenchi said cynically. They'd moved up to Ryoko's room on the second floor to speak privately. Ayeka, Ryoko, Sasami, and Mihoshi listened disbelievingly as Noboyuki told his story.

" Listen Tenchi, this is what happened. Do you want me to go on?" He said. Tenchi sighed and nodded in surrender. " Okay."

For a moment, Noboyuki was convinced he'd just called a crazy woman by mistake, until a three foot whole appeared in the ceiling, spilling out blinding light. Slowly, a woman emerged and floated to the ground slowly. Her skin was fare, and looked incredibly soft, with hair of rich brown that was cut short to her neck in most places, but also had one long ponytail, almost down to her knees in the back. She was dressed bizarrely, even after all the alien fashions he'd seen living in this house. She wore what looked like a spandex bikini, the top part black with shoulder straps as well, and the bottom was white. She also wore bizarre leather add ons that was attached to the look alike spandex in several places, made of soft, tan leather that crossed over her shoulders, and two other pieces that came off her back almost like wings. Her jewelry was no more normal. She wore a solid piece of metal around her neck, like a collar, and two ear rings, with two grape sized spheres coming off and a long cord that held a third sphere, all looked silver. She struck several poses while exclaiming:

" Hello there! I'm so pleased to meet you. I've come to make your dreams come true! What is it that you wish?" strinking a final pose. After a moment, she noticed Noboyuki wasn't listening to her. " AHEM! My face is up here." She said, grabbing his chin and making his eyes meet hers. " Now then, your wish?"

" You're a goddess?" Noboyuki asked, still not quite sure what was going on.

" Oui, oui mortel. I am goddess first class Peorth, of the Earth assistance hotline. You been selected to receive a wish. I can grant anything your heart desires, but only once." She said sweetly.

" A wish? I thought she was a goddess, not a genie." Tenchi remarked. Everyone was starting to get a little skeptical.

" Well why else would a goddess call people on the phone?" Noboyuki replied.

" About that…" Ayeka said quizically , but Noboyuki cut her off.

" It will all make sense in a little. Just let me finish."

" Anything?" Noboyuki said. He still wasn't certain what was happening, but he decided to just go with the flow.

" Anything. If you wish to be a billonaire, we can do it. If you want to destroy the world, we can do that too, but we'd prefer not too business with those kinds of people." She said.

" So I can wish for anything huh?" He said to himself. " Well, there's only one thing I could ever really want."

" Then this shouldn't really be a hard decision then." Peorth mused.

" All right then. A while back, my beloved wife died suddenly. I was hoping that…" he said, but Peorth interrupted him.

" Non, messieur, non. Mille pardons, but I can not grant that wish." Peorth said, bringing her hand to head dramatically.

" I thought I could wish for anything." Noboyuki questioned. Peorth's face quickly flashed irritation, but she willed it away.

" Yes, but not that. We can not raise the dead. It tends to throw things off from the way they are supposed to be." She said. " Now, what else do you wish?"

" Well if I can't have that, then…" he said, in a successful attempt to irritate her some more. " Then I guess I have to wish for…" Peorth nodded in anticipation, trying to hurry him up. " More wishes." Peorth face faulted. As she picked herself off the floor, her irritation was starting to show.

" I can not…"

" Do that either, right?" Noboyuki finished. " Can't get more wishes, can't get my wife back. Not much I can wish for then. Can I wish for someone to die?" Peorth groaned.

" No, you can not wish someone dead. Why do you want someone dead?" Peorth said.

" I'm just trying to figure out what my limitations are. You said I could wish for anything, but that's obviously not true." He said. Peorth, manwhile had created a rose as was twirling it between her fingers in growing irritation. " But you said I could destroy the world. Wouldn't that make a lot of people dead?" Peorth rolled her eyes.

" Yes, but it would be a side effect of the wish, not the direct wish." She said. " Please make your wish. I will grant you only one wish. Choose wisely." She said. She tossed the rose aside. " Just choose your hearts desire." She said. She tapped her foot impatiently.

" I can only think of one thing to wish for." He grinned. Peorth clasped her hands together, finally about to grant a wish and go home.

" Then this should not be hard. What is it that you wish?" She said with forced cheerfulness.

" I wish for a goddess like you, to be with me for the rest of my life." He said. Peorth smile and prepared to grant the wish, then the horror of what he had said hit her full force. She stared at him, but she had already connected to Yggdrasil, and the wish uploaded. The room filled with light as lightning seemed to strike from the heavens, through the house to the mark on Peorths head, and a hurricane seemed to form in the room. Noboyuki grabbed onto the doorway to keep from being blown away, while Peorth was floating in the middle of the room, still connected to the light. A few moments went by, the wind began to slow. Noboyuki saw Peorth slowly come back to the ground, and then collapse in a heap to the ground. For a few moments, she lay there, completely motionless. Noboyuki finally got up the courage to go a see if she was ok. He slowly reached down to see if she had a pulse, even though he wasn't certain that she'd normally have one since she obviously wasn't a normal human.

He didn't see her hand whip out a grab him by the collar until it was too late.

" You!" She growled as she stood up. " Why did you have to wish for THAT! Of all things!" By now she was actually holding him off the floor with one hand.

" What? It really worked?" Noboyuki said.

" YES! Of course! Why wouldn't it work?" She growled.

" I thought that was another one you wouldn't grant." He said quickly, afraid she might get angry and strangle him. " Really? Is there anyway to undo it? I'd be happy too." Peorth continued to glare at him, then she seemed to believe it wasn't a purposeful wish, and put him back. She cradled her head in her hands, and nearly cried.

" Why me?" She said. " Why must I be cursed to be here? On this barbaric world?"

" Hey, that's not a very nice thing to say." Noboyuki said meekly. He was still a little defensive because he still had no idea what was going on, but she just ignored him. She walked away, roses appearing out of no where and falling in her path. She entered the family room and collapsed into a chair. Noboyuki followed cautiously behind her.

" Miss? Is there anything I can do for you?" Noboyuki asked. She sighed.

" Just go away." She said. It had all happened so quickly, Noboyuki was just starting to realize she may be here for a long time. " I never thought this could happen to me. Ten thousands years, goddesses have been granting wishes, and not once a wish like this, except Belldandy. I can't believe I won't be able to go home until you die." She sighed. For a few moments, the words simply hung there, as both Peorth and Noboyuki considered the implications. Slowly, Peorth's head turned, and her eyes met Noboyuki's. He bolted, but Peorth was on her feet and after him almost immediately.

" Get back here and die!"

" You don't look very dead." Ryoko observed. Everyone was starting to get a little suspicious of this wild story.

" Yeah, well, she…"

" I decided I should call and get permission. A goddess' job is to help people after all. It took me a long time to get my first class unlimited licesense, and I didn't feel like endangering it." Everyone turned around to see Peorth leaning against the back wall, like she had just appeared there, and if Noboyuki's story was true, she might have. She shook her head sadly. " I should have known better."

" So you're a goddess, huh? What's with the weird freckles?" Ryoko said. Peorth frowned.

" They are not 'freckles'. They are a mark of godhood. They contain programs that allow me to access goddess first class unlimited areas of Yggdrasil. Not that you'd know anything about that…" She said defensively. Ayeka seemed to flinch at something she'd said.

" Is that right? Who knew all it took was three little tattoo's to become a goddess." Ryoko laughed. They locked eyes, and Peorth stared at Ryoko curiously. Tenchi realized this was the first good look she had gotten of Ryoko, and her yellow cat eyes seemed to disturb her.

" Ryoko, goddess or not, she's still a guest in my house. I'd appreciate it if you would treat her with respect." Tenchi said.

" Fine Tenchi," She surrenedered, tossing her hands in the air. " But if what your dad says is true, she's hardly an invited guest."

" He wished me here forever. That sounds like an invitation." She said, and walked out of the room, through the still closed door, phasing through solid matter in the same way as Ryoko did 50 times a day. A moment later her head reappeared through the door.

" And could I do this if I wasn't a goddess?" No one replied.

" All mighty one, I understand that, but he did not want the wish!" Peorth said, to who ever was on the other side of the phone. Halfway through strangling Noboyuki to death, she seemed to have second thoughts, and had went and picked up the phone for some reason Noboyuki didn't understand, had went and picked up the phone. " See." She said, then used the hand she wasn't using to keep Noboyuki in a head lock to put the receiver next to him.

" Really!" He said, trying to squirm out of the headlock. " It was an accident. I didn't really mean it. Could you just cancel it so I can go back to my normal life now?" He pleaded. A moment of silence. " Uh huh. All right. He wants to talk to you again." He considered something for a moment. " Is that really God?"

" Yes." She said, as if it were nothing. She put the receiver to her ear again.

" Yes, all mighty one? Yes. Yes. I understand that but… are you certain there's no other way. But you heard him, he doesn't want me here!" She said angrily into the phone, then became aplogetic. " I'm sorry for speaking to you like that, but… yes, there's no excuse for that. Very well sir." Peorth gently placed the reciver back on the phone. She sighed gently and stared out the window.

" Could you let me go now?" Noboyuki said. Peorth had forgotten she'd had the man in a headlock.

" Oh." She let go, and Noboyuki scrambled backwards until his back was flat against the wall. Peorth quietly returned to a chair in the family room. She sighed again, and said;

" This doesn't seem like too bad a place to spend a couple of decades." Then almost as an afterthoght, added " You don't have to worry anymore, Mr. Masaki. All mighty Odin has informed me, that if I am responsible for your death in any way, through in action or inaction, that my license as a goddess will be revoked immediately."

" So I guess you'll be staying a while then." He said, peering cautiously around the door frame.

" Juste ainsi vous savez, I'd still leave me alone for the rest of the day. I may decide it's worth it."

" After that, she didn't do much for the rest of the day. Yesterday, she decided to re-do the family room. It kept her busy for a while, so I wasn't about to argue. We still aren't on great terms." He said. For a long time, no one said anything.

" I'm done now."

" Well I think she's full of crap." Ryoko said. " Goddess my ass. I've seen cheese more holy then her."

" I always thought Goddesses would be taller and talk like she was from a long time ago, with thee's and thous." Mihoshi added.

" It does seem kind of far fetched. I've never heard of any religion where gods call people on the phone to grant wishes." Tenchi said. He was very uncomfortable with having someone with so much power and so mysterious origin. " Maybe Washu can offer some information." He blinked and looked around the room. " Where is Washu anyway? I thought she'd be up here."

" She took some readings then went inside." Mihoshi said. " I haven't seen her since." Tenchi shrugged.

" That's weird. I thought she'd want to study this kind of thing." Tenchi thought this really wasn't like Washu to pass up a chance to study something. He frowned gently. He still didn't quite trust Peorth's explanation, and he'd feel a lot better if Washu could get more information on her.

" Do we trust her?" He asked. " Is she really a goddess?"

" Come on, don't tell me you actually believe her?" Ryoko said, her cat eyes narrowing. " There's nothing she can do that I can't, and I'm no goddess." She said, then re-considered. " Well, maybe a sex goddess, but that's besides the point." She added.

" As much as it pains me, I have to agree with Ryoko." Ayeka shook her head in gently no. " Jurai has many enemies Tenchi. She very well could have been hired to spy on us." She stood up and motioned downstairs, her voice firm. " She could be anyone. Tenchi, we can't trust her.'

" Dad? You've known her longer then anyone. What do you think?" Tenchi said. He felt the irony that he was the youngest, least experienced in the house, and everyone was looking to him for decisions, and smiled weakly.

" Well she has done some strange thing. She flies and can make things out of thin air." He said. " She seems pretty powerful."

" That's nothing I can't do." Ryoko said. (It's true, where did you think the floating onsen came from after OVA 4?) " This whole wish thing is just to get her in close."
" Misoshi?" Tenchi had to ask. Ryoko groaned at the thought of Mihoshi having input. Mishoshi, who had been sitting on the bed on the bed, was sound a sleep.

" Great." Ryoko said. " Tenchi, let's just kick her out. If she's really a goddess she can magic herself up a place to live."

" She's telling the truth." Said a quiet voice. It took them a moment to realize it had been Sasami. Sasami had been sitting quietly unnoticed behind Ayeka. She was looking down, not making eye contact with anyone. She looked distinctly unhappy and uncomfortable.

" Sasami? What makes you think that?" Tenchi asked. Sasami struggled for a moment, trying to find the words.

" I don't know, I just… feel it." She said.

" Sasami." Tenchi said gently. " Is this coming from Tsunami?" Sasami nodded, and Tenchi understood. Sasami still believed that she wasn't the real Sasami, just a creation of Tsunami.

" Well, I guess I'll accept that." Ryoko surrendered.

" Tsunami is beyond questioning." Ayeka added reluctantly, though she gently reached out and held Sasami's hand to comfort her.

" Now that that is settled," Tenchi said. " We still have to decide what to tell her. Do we want her to know that we have two Jurain princesses, a galaxy police officer and a space pirate living here." He said. " Geez I wish Washu were here. It'd be great to have her opinion. Why now of all times does she have to disappear." Across from him, Ayeka stood up and straigtened her dress.

" It really doesn't matter to me what she knows. If there's nothing else, I really need to take a relaxing bath after that car trip. Sasami, why don't you come with me?" Her younger sister shook her head weakly. Sasami didn't like being reminded of what she thought she was, merely an object created by Tsunami.

" No, I should get started on dinner." She said, and ran out the door.

Ryoko also stood up, and stretched her arms.

" Tell her whatever you want. I'm gonna go relax." She said, and disappeared. Ayeka also left, and Tenchi was left with only Sasami, and unfortunately his father and Mihoshi for back up.

" Could someone wake Mihoshi up?"

Tenchi decided it would be best if they at least tried to keep their identities under wraps for a while, until they could feel out more of what she was like. She was too unstable, and definitely too powerful to surprise with something like this. Sasami had gone to the kitchen to work on dinner, even though it was 3:00 PM and much earlier then she normally would have. Tenchi watched with a bit of a grimace as Mihoshi decided to be friendly and sat down next to Peorth. ' I don't know if she's brave or stupid, to walk into the lions den.' Noboyuki watched from the kitchen, staring at Peorth as if she were a panther. Not something you want in your house, but not something YOU want to make leave. He walked downstairs, and knocked on Washu's door, hoping to talk to her.

" Ms. Washu? Ms. Washu, I'd really like to talk to you." He waited a moment, then knocked again. ' This is really strange,' he thought. Behind him, he heard the dam burst.

" Would you please leave me alone. I'm afraid your stupidity will osmotically suck intelligence out of me." Peorth said sharply.

" That's mean. Why are you so mean." Mihoshi bristled. Peorth didn't respond, just raised her hand without looking and flicked Mihoshi in the nose with her finger, hard enough to cause bleeding. ' Oh great. As if Ayeka and Ryoko weren't bad enough.' Tenchi thought. ' I guess I have to go be peacemaker. Who would have thought a goddess could be so unfriendly.' He moved to the doorway, and saw Mihoshi get up and stomp away from the couch. Peorth seemed more amused than anything else, then went back to her magazine. Tenchi walked to the doorway, and knocked on the door frame.

" Yes."

" Ms. Peorth, I'm sorry about what happened to you, but that's no excuse for your behavior. We'll try to help you however we can to get home, but you can't go around insulting the others." Peorth turned to look at him with an annoyed look.

" Go away." She accused. " I used to be the head of the Yggdrasil system. I know it better then anyon. Once a wish has been granted, there's no undoing it. I'm stuck here for the rest of your fathers's life." She said, then waved her hand dismissing him. " Just leave me alone."

" What do you think of the 'goddess'?" Ryoko said. She gently sipped on a cup of sake. She smiled broadly, and let the warm water of the onsen wash over her. On the other side of the spring, Ayeka gently washed her face and sighed. Ryoko and Ayeka sometimes wondered what Tenchi would think if he knew about this. " Ahhhhh." She sighed.

They didn't realize, of course, that Tenchi had long ago realized it was more than just coincidence that the two disappeared whenever something, particularly a beautiful female something, seemed to be getting close to him, but he just ignored it, letting them go to their little war camp without letting on he knew very well what was happening.

" I'm not to worried yet. She hasn't made any overtures to Tenchi. Yet. She doesn't seem to like anyone."

" She and Tenchi have only been under the same roof for an hour. When her anger cools, Tenchi will still be there. Unless we can get him away to college…" She mused. " If she tries anything I want to make sure there's a truce while I put her through the wall." Ryoko said, throwing a cautious glance at her competitor. Ayeka's stared incredulously at Ryoko.

" Me? You were the one who double crossed me last time!" Ayeka stood up and pointed accusingly at Ryoko, who just sat and smirked. After a moment, Ayeka remembered she wasn't wearing a towel, covered herself and sat down, blushing. " Fine. If she decides she likes Tenchi, we get her. Though it may be hard, considering she can't leave. If she's telling the truth."

" No problem. We simply let her know that we also have no plans to leave, and we can make sure her stay with Tenchi is… unpleasant." She said, swishing her cup of sake around. Ayeka thought about it a second, then nodded in agreement. She sipped her own sake, just as Ryoko had been waiting for.

" So what's Yggdrasil?" Ryoko said. Ayeka's eyes went wide, and she nearly inhaled her sake. " Yeah, I noticed you seemed to recognize the name when she said it."

" Oh that." Ayeka said, still coughing out sake, throwing an annoyed glance to Ryoko. " In some VERY old texts, Yggdrasil is another name for Tsunami." Ryoko surprise shown was obvious. " I know."

" Well she's obviously not Tsunami. We've met Tsunami, and she looks nothing like Peorth." Ryoko said.

" I know that, but 20,000 years ago, when Jurai was founded, most religious texts talked about Tsunami as if it were a huge tree." Ayeka said thoughtfully. She was struggling to remember what her tutors had been saying, but all she could remember how much she had ignored them, thinking she'd never need to know this.

" But Tsunami is the tree, remember? She didn't become the woman until she assimilated with Sasami." Ryoko argued, but Ayeka shook her head no.

" Tsunami as a woman first started appearing about 18,000 years ago, long before she assimilated with Sasami." She peered into her sake thoughtfully. " Though now that I think about, most of the descriptions are quite different from the way she actually looked. That must have been Sasami." Ryoko shrugged.

" It doesn't matter. If it's really important, we can ask her." She stood up and stretched her arms. " Ohhhh, that always feels good. Anyway, I'm going to go back, maybe start putting the pressure on. You coming?" Ryoko said, moving to wrap a towel around her body.

" Not now. I don't want Tenchi to see us come in too close together. He might figure this out." Ayeka said. Ryoko nodded, then teleported away. Ayeka spread out, and let the warm water flow around her. She breathed deeply to fill her lungs with the hot air. Her mind leisurely returned to the Yggdrasil affair. She tried to dredge up every insignifigant memory from her childhood, about learning about Tsunami and Jurai trees.

" How does it all fit together?"

Later that night, at the Morisato residence

" How does it all fit together?" Keiichi Morisato asked. It was a rhetorical question, but Urd didn't seem to realize this.

" How does what fit together, K-boy?" It had been a long day for Keiichi. While Tenchi was meeting Peorth for the first time, Keiichi had been completely oblivious to it all, dealing with an attack of Mara. The devil Mara had, for some reason Keiichi suspected he'd never understand, cast a spell making all the faucets in the house spew gravy. Belldandy said that Mara had made mistake in her spell, and Urd fried Mara with an Urd bolt, winning the day for team K1, but Keiichi and Belldandy had spent the entire day cleaning out gravy pools from the house. Now he just wanted to relax. He lay on his back, on the roof of the house, staring at the stars. Belldandy had not used that much magic battling Mara, but she used enough to make her tired, and she was now sleeping lightly, resting her head on his chest. Urd sat at the crest of the roof, staring at the stars with him. There were so many little pin-pricks of light out there.

" Nothing. I was just looking out there. There are so many stars out there. Is Earth the only one with life on it? Have no species ever risen out of the muck to stare at the stars and wonder the same thing? By some cruel twist of fate, are we alone in this universe?" He said. For a few moments, neither spoke, just continued staring.

" Nope." Urd simply said. Keiichi blinked his surprise away.

" No we're alone or no we're not?"

" No we're not alone." Urd said, cocking an eybrow at him. Then she had an epiphany. " Oh that's right, you don't know do you?"

" Know what, Urd?" Keiichi said cautiously. Knowing Urd, things were about to get weird.

" You're not an native to Earth." Urd said, and Keiichi's jaw dropped with a funny, 'clang' sound. Keiichi knew Urd had lied before, but she said it so plainly, that it seemed honest this time. He sat up straight to stare at Urd, forgetting for a moment about Belldandy. She woke up with a start, and saw immediately something was wrong.

" Keiichi? What is it? Is something wrong?" She said worriedly.

" Belldandy, am I an alien?" He said. Belldandy gave him a bizarre look, that made Keiichi feel very uncomfortable to make her worry like this, even for a sec.

" Of course not Keiichi" She said. Keiichi gave Urd an annoying glare. " At least, not any more then the rest of the people on this planet." It took Keiichi a moment to register this. When it did, it hit Keiichi like a ton of bricks.

" Hate to tell you this, K-boy, but humans aren't originally from Earth. They're from a planet called Jurai." Urd said. She bit her lower lip, then pointed vaguely upwards. " It's right about there." Keiichi was still recovering. He looked back to Belldandy, who gently nodded.

" She's telling the truth, Keiichi. People on this planet actually come from a star empire called Jurai." She said, as gently as she could. She learned some time ago Keiichi was a very excitable.

" Jurai? What's that?" He said. " Why did you never tell me?"

" You never asked." Belldandy replied.

" This will take some time. Goddesses learn these things from birth. Do you want to do it or should I?" Urd said.

" I'll tell him." Belldandy said. Urd made a motion with her hand, as if giving her the go ahead. " I guess I should start at beginning." She said to Keiichi, gently stroking his hair to calm him, as he listened intently. " Over twenty thousand years ago, there were three goddesses. Tokimi, Washu, and Tsunami. They were the first Goddess'. They looked upon the galaxies, and saw all the suffering and pain, and they wanted to do something to cure it." Keiichi nodded in the way that said ' I have no real idea what you're talking about but go on, I'll figure it out later' that Belldandy had noticed he used whenever she talked about anything Yggdrasil. " In their wisdom, they designed a system to be used, that would help bring order to the universe. Tsunami, the youngest, who loved nature, gave it form in a giant tree. Washu, the middle sister and having great knowledge of science, designed a system that would help fill the universe with love. Tokimi, the oldest, wisest, and most powerful gave it the power to work, and the first Yggdrasil was created. To help bring further their goals, they founded an noble empire, called Jurai." She said. Her gaze seemed to turn inward as she remembered these tales from her childhood fondly. Keiichi hadn't seen these often. He felt almost warm as he realized how important these were to her.

" Goddess' are told these things since child hood." Urd said, uncharacteristically serious. " Many of us idolize the three goddess. In fact, when three goddess' are sister's, it's considered lucky." Keiichi thought back to every horrible thing Skuld had done to try and keep him and Belldandy apart, as well as all the horrible things Urd had done to get them together. He was about to respond when he noticed Belldandy smiling at him. Perhaps meeting the three goddess was not the worst thing that had ever happened to him…

" I'd always wondered what Goddess believed in." he said instead. " But that still doesn't answer the question I asked. Are there other species in the universe?" He said to Urd. The blonde goddess, blinked at him, then shrugged.

" Dozens." She said. " Plenty of worlds aren't populated like Earth and Jurai. We leave them to themselves."

" I don't believe it." Keiichi said.

" Bell would know more about Jurai. She interned there after getting her class C license." Urd said, and Keiichi looked at his love, who blushed. Something else striked Keiichi.

" Wait. How can Jurai have a different Yggdrasil?" Belldandy didn't quite seem to know what he was talking about.

" Because the Yggdrasil of Jurai is different." She said uncomprehendingly.

" How can there be more then one? I always thought Yggdrasil was like, you know, heaven. There was only one."

" Ohhhhhhh." Urd said. " I get it. No K, a normal Yggrdasil system only affects a small area, about the size of a solar system. The Original is much stronger though, because it was created by the three goddess'. The others were built by subordinate gods, with help from Tsunami." Something seemed to click in Keiichi's mind. He felt a subtle exhilaration as it occurred to him that he knew something that probably no one else on the entire planet knew. Seriously, what were the odds that a second person's life on Earth could be so weird he'd find out these things?

Masaki residence

It was an odd dinner, even for the Masaki house. Ayeka and Ryoko had come home from their little war camp, ready to make trouble. That lasted until they started 'applying pressure' and it started heavily raining while Peorth shot them angry looks. They wisely choose to back off and wait for her to actually try something with Tenchi.

Sasami cooked up a huge dinner for everyone, going all out. Peorth dismissed it was 'edible'. Despite Peorth's display of power earlier, Ayeka and Ryoko still put on a brave face, sitting at Tenchi's side's like guardian statues. Dinner was served at the new table, and Tenchi had to admit, the chairs were something he could get used too. In the background, someone had left the TV on, with a local news channel, with the anchor, an American college student who writes fan fics was interning as a newscaster was discussing international events. Sasami sitting across from Ayeka, next to Peorth, trying her best to make friends. Mihoshi sat at the end, still angry with the goddess. Yosho had deicded to join them, and was sitting at the other end of the table. Noboyuki, and strangely Washu, were both abscent.

" Would you like some more beef, Peorth?" Sasami offered. Peorth smiled and took some, but looked back at her chosen prey for the night.

" So Tenchi tells me you're a goddess." Katsuhito said, watching Peorth. Having lived with Yosho for years, Tenchi almost felt sorry for her.

" Goddess first class, unlimited, thank you very much."

" Ah. I'm sure that is something special indeed, but unfortunately I know little of these things. Perhaps you could inform us a little more of what exactly you do." Yosho asked. His simple question belied the challenge in his words. 'Why are you so arrogant?' Peorth sighed, loudly and obviously.

" Well, before all of this, I was in direct charge of maintaining the Yggdrasil system. Alas, it was also my job to provide services to help those deemed worthy or in need, as so I met your father." She said, toying with a piece of beef. Tenchi blinked in surprise.

" Wait, why did my dad get a wish? I don't mean to insult him, but dad's never been all that special?" Peorth shrugged.

" We don't get to know. Perhaps it was for putting up with the blonde girl. I know that alone must be a Herculean task." She said, tossing a mean smirk to Mihoshi.

" Oooooh, why are you so mean!" the blonde said angrily. " I should arrest you for insulting an officer of the law."

" Mihoshi." Tenchi said, trying to keep Mihoshi from doing something stupid, like challenging the goddess.

" They're certainly lax on teaching manners in Yggdrasil, aren't they?" Ryoko chided.

" What is this Yggdrasil you keep talking about." Ayeka asked. " You keep mentioning it, but you don't ever say what it is, even though no one has ever heard of it." She lied. It still weighed heavily on her mind how Peorth related to Tsunami. But Peorth ignored her, focusing instead on Ryoko.

" We're trained in all manner of things, I just don't see why I should use them for people such as yourself." She said, with great disdain. " And what are you anyway? Your obviously not human."

" People like me? I'll have you know I'm a two thous…" Ryoko cut back, only to be interrupted by Tenchi.

" Ryoko!" Tenchi said, before she could say she was two thousand.

" Wasn't it more like five thousand?" Ayeka pointed out.

" What are you trying to do Ayeka?" Ryoko replied. Peorth watched it with a growing confusion, not quite certain what was going on. Tenchi was realizing how hopeless it had been to try and pretend they were normal. At this point, somewhere in North Africa one piece of straw too many was placed on a camel, causing it's back to break, and in Okayama, Mihoshi's wrist communicator went off.

" Mihoshi, Mihoshi?" A hologram of Yukinojo, the AI of Mihoshi's ship.

" What is it? It's dinner time." Mihoshi replied tersely. It was clear Peorth was still annoying her.

" I'm sorry, Mihoshi, but we've detected an unknown object entering the solar system. We need to investigate." He said.

" Oh all right." Mihoshi fumed. " Sasami, I'm sorry I won't get to eat your dinner. I'm sure it's delicious. I have to go." She stood up.

" Don't go yet. I'll pack something in a bag." She said.

" Oh thank you, that'd be great." She said kindly. No one, especially Mihoshi, could be mad when talking to Sasami. The little girl quickly stood up and ran into the kitchen. Peorth, stared blinking at Mihoshi as she left.