Life in the Masaki
household after the Kagato incident begins to return to some sense of
normality. Tenchi wakes one morning to find a bleary-eyed Ryoko staring
through the wall at him. She has been watching him all night, and Tenchi
is becoming annoyed at how overprotective she has become since his battle
with Kagato. After finally getting a little privacy in the toilet, he
accidentally activates his combat armour, and finds a seed in the pocket.
The seed was given to him by Tsunami, and is meant to be used to re-grow
Ayeka's life-tree, Ryu-Oh. He gives the seed to Ayeka, who accepts it
with gratitude (much to Ryoko's annoyance).
A
little while later, Ayeka comes to Washu in her laboratory under the
stairs in the Masaki home (actually, the door just leads to alternative
dimension where her lab resides). She asks Washu for a suitable vessel
in which to plant the new seed, and after agreeing to her demands to
address her as "Little Washu", she is given a spare Juraian
ship module in which to plant Ryu-Oh's seed. Meanwhile, the unfortunate
Tenchi, who entered Washu's lab to call everyone for breakfast, finds
himself the unwilling subject of a series of bizarre (and saucy) experiments
to discover the origin of the Light Hawk Wings he generated in his battle
with Kagato.
Later
that morning, Ryoko comes across Mihoshi and Sasami reading romance
comics. Tenchi's father has an extensive library of them, and it's not
long before she and Ayeka are poring over them for ideas on how to win
Tenchi's heart. Ryoko deliberately knocks him over so he can bashfully
apologise and introduce herself, tries her hand at cooking (with inedible
results), and even plans to grovel to his grandfather. Ayeka trips him
up with a rope so she can give him her hanky, knits him a sweater that
ends up twenty sizes too big, and waits for him after school (without
success, it not being a school day).
After their repeated
attempts fail, Ryoko and Ayeka finally decide to co-operate in removing
the competition by locking Washu in her lab, and sending Mihoshi back
to GPHQ to file a report on Kagato. Finally, Ryoko gets the drop on
Ayeka by tying her with ropes before sneaking off to Tenchi's room.
What she does not expect is a Juraian trap attached to his bedroom door
which teleports anyone who tries to enter without knocking into the
middle of the lake. A soaking wet Ryoko returns to the house just as
Ayeka has managed to escape from her ropes. Rather than simply fighting
each other, Ryoko and Ayeka have a frank discussion about the role of
physical intimacy in a relationship. However, they quickly fall out
over this, and end up fighting hand-to-hand anyway.
Meanwhile,
Sasami is having a nightmare. As she walks alone, the ground shatters
beneath her and she falls, injuring herself. As Tenchi is trying to
help her, he is seized by a mysterious woman. As Sasami awakes, the
emblem on her forehead glowing, she mutters the name "Tokimi"
- the lady in her dream. Upset by her dream, she leaves her room, passing
the still-fighting Ayeka and Ryoko in the corridor, and heads for Tenchi's
room. 
When
Ryoko and Ayeka hear not only Sasami is in there, but Washu and Ryo-ohki
as well, they forget their fight and rush for the door, but forgetting
to knock they both end up in the middle of the lake. As the pair, dripping
wet and miserable, clamber out of the lake, a roar overhead attracts
their attention; Mihoshi's ship is returning, and it's out of control!
It crashes into the house, demolishing all except Washu's lab.
With the Masaki
home wrecked, everyone has to sleep inside the Ryu-Oh unit. Ayeka wakes
to see Ryo-ohki sitting near the place she planted the life-tree seed,
and thinking Ryo-ohki is trying to dig it up again, she rushes to stop
her. However, Ryo-ohki has only spotted that the tree has just sprouted
into a tiny seedling.
