Disclaimer: I sure don't own any of the Tenchi characters. I wish I did!

Before the story: It is Halloween time. I love Halloween. I have time to write. Thus, corny as it may be, this is set around...Halloween. XD

It was autumn in the hills, and the leaves around the Masaki shrine were dropping. Well, some of them were anyway. Not all the trees were the type that dropped like that. It was October in Japan, with nothing but cold weather and Halloween, which was quickly approaching. The inhabitants of the house all knew it, though few understood it exactly.

"What is Halloween Tenchi?" The younger Jurain princess poked at a black cat window decoration, following it with her eyes as Nobuyuki hung it up.

"What is it? Well...it's a night where people dress up as whatever they want, typically scary things like ghosts and witches. The younger kids, like your age, get to go door to door and get candy. It's a lot of fun! Or used to be anyway." He sighed as he thought about his house's old location, in the development. The shrine was too far back for kids to really bother, so it would be quiet this year.

His thoughts were interrupted as a pair of arms put themselves around his chest. Ryoko's voice squeaked out his name in that all too familiar tone. "Tenchi! My love!"

He wanted to say something nice back. Ever since the time she had run away to the other planet to die as it had been, he wanted to say something. But he didn't. He was a complete and total idiot that way. "Ryoko, please..."

Ayeka was the one to pull Ryoko off. "Get off him! Lord Tenchi doesn't like that!" Her hair stood out. It was obvious that such a simple action angered Ayeka like crazy.

"How do you know what he likes?" Ryoko picked up a cardboard witch hat and held it to Ayeka's head. "Ooh! I know! You used your evil witch powers to read and twist poor Tenchi's mind!"

"I certainly did not!"

"Ayeka...Ryoko..."

"You stay out of this Tenchi!" Both girls said it in unison, as usual.

"Bwahahahaha!" Ryoko the sea serpent now stood in front of the bathroom mirror. She snickered as she toyed with the massive head she had built out of a milk jug and material, and blinking lights. It was perfect! She had built it over a month ago for no real reason except she was bored. But today she found she had a reason to use it. "Oooh, this serpent is gonna drag Tenchi into her dark warm waters! Or something like that...juts you wait until Halloween night Tenchi!"

Unknown to her Washu and Ayeka had gathered around the outside of the bathroom door to hear her cackle. The stepped away as a particularly loud laughed seemed to rip through the door. Ayeka cast a look at Washu. "Is Halloween going to be good for her, or should we do something to tranquilize her."

"Oh no!" The scientist squeaked and waved the very thought aside. She cackled, though not nearly as loud as Ryoko had been doing. "She's never experienced any holidays or relatives to them. Surely you have had holidays and festivals of some sort on Jurai...she's just excited!"

"I don't care about her excitement Washu!" Ayeka almost yelled but kept her voice down. "You know she's going to try and get Tenchi!"

"Come on Ayeka. Didn't we go over this a few times?"

Ayeka shuffled, uncomfortable. "Yea, I know but...well why can't I try and stop it? Maybe Tenchi will suddenly change his mind."

Washu couldn't help but feel pity for Ayeka. If Ryoko had lost in the battle for Tenchi, she'd have blown up the house or a far off planet in anger, and Ayeka's whining was small in comparison to that. "It took him this long to make his mind up, something monumental would change it. Besides....he doesn't really want to be prince."

Those words almost sealed it each time for her, when she was trying to decide if she wanted to fight even harder for Tenchi or not. She loved him. But she also had grown up with a dream she didn't want broken, of being a princess and having a prince who along with loving her, wanted to be there. Tenchi would be perfect since he was not greedy or cruel. But, he did not want to be a ruler. "All right Washu...you proved your point. I'll tone down my interfering with it."

What were they doing out there? Tenchi watched Washu and Ayeka through the crack in his door. He couldn't hear them. He was sure they were up to no good. In fact, they never proved that wrong whenever he was suspicious.

"Myaaa!!"

"Ahhhh!!!" Tenchi jumped a mile. He turned upon the familiar meow of the cabbit, only to see something that was dressed as a giant set of teeth. He had managed to jump clear over Ryo-ohki and land on his bed. "Ryo-ohki don't do that!"

"Mew..." Ryo-ohki lowered her head and gave Tenchi some big eyes, as if she was really hurt by what he had said.

"Oh...I'm sorry Ryo-ohki." He put his hand out for her to crawl on, which she did. He brought her up to his face. "I'm just really jumpy, that's all!"

The cabbit understood, still, she had to sigh. After all, she was not proud of her mission. See, on Tenchi's bed always hung his underwear. A clean pair, but his underwear nonetheless. Ryoko never dared sneak them out, because everyone would know who took them. But, if someone else was seen stealing them...someone who had been promised a lot of carrots and toys...there were other ways. The cabbit drew back and propelled herself with her long legs. In a few moments, the edge of the boxers was in her mouth, and she was off and running, and bounced out of Tenchi's open window.

Tenchi was left still sitting as he had been when he picked the creature up. Had a cabbit just stolen his underwear and jumped out the window? Yes. His life was just plain weird.

"Great job! Here's your first payment." Ryoko laughed and tossed Ryo-ohki some carrots along with a plush that she had eyed whenever she watched the television. The two were up behind the shrine, a nice secret place for a meeting. Ryoko held up the boxers to the light, as if to examine them "These will work great. You know! I'm curious."

"Merr?"

Ryoko phased away for a few minutes. Ryo-ohki watched the space where she stood, and was sure she wouldn't come back, when Ryoko popped up again out of nowhere, wearing nothing but Tenchi's boxers. "These are comfy!" She modeled them as the cabbit stared at her, very confused at this point. "I think I'll make these a habit. I could get used to wearing something that was at one point on Tenchi's little naked butt!"

She laughed and Ryo-ohki sighed, while unknown to them a pair of eyes watched from behind a tree.

Oh man do I have strange plans for this one. Hopefully it'll be a good fanfic in compared to my other junk! There will be more chapters, so stay tuned!