Hello.  Story written by myself and the Entomorph.
Comments etc. wanted.

Terrence "The Human Mellotron" Marks
terry@thenet.net

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[Note: I'm not saying who owns the copyright, just to see if 
I'll get an irate call from lawyers or not.  Oh..and there's 
no explanation for why Soun is so wacky, I just think he's too 
cool to be played straight]
 
 
[Dinnertime.  Tendo's.  Ranma sitting on floor, watching 
television news.  Nabiki walks in, and, ignoring Ranma 
entirely, changes the channel to some low-quality game show.  
Kasumi, Akane, Genma and Soun are out of the room]
 
Ranma: Hey!  What'd ya do that for?
 
Nabiki: If you know how the game is played, you know how to 
beat the system.
 
Ranma: (agitated) I was watching that.
 
Nabiki: Your point being?
 
Ranma: When someone is watching television, you don't go 
around switching their program.
 
Nabiki: Yes I do.
 
Ranma: Well you shouldn't.
 
Nabiki: What's the big deal.  It's only television.
 
Ranma: They were talking about tornados.
 
Nabiki: Do you expect me to sit around and watch a 
documentary?  I did weather last year in school.  I don't need 
to sit through it again.
 
Ranma: No!  They were talking about tornadoes here.
 
[On TV, we see Contestant Number 3 guess 'Q' in
TH_ __N WHO WOUL_D __ KING]
 
Nabiki: Tornadoes in Japan?  You're almost as bad as that 
contestant.
 
Ranma: (not paying attention to TV) Huh...what?
 
Nabiki: You were saying something about tornadoes in Japan?
 
Ranma: Yes.
 
Nabiki: There are no tornadoes in
 
[Akane walks into the room from outside]
 
Akane: You know..it's getting really windy out there..
 
Ranma: I didn't hear you come in.
 
Akane: Oh.  Looks like I'm getting better at sneaking, then.
 
Ranma: (accusingly) Been training?  Or does sneaking around 
run in the family?
 
[Kasumi taps Ranma on the shoulder]
 
Kasumi: Maybe you haven't been paying close enough attention 
to your surroundings.
 
[Ranma is startled and runs out of the room.  Kasumi looks 
slightly puzzled, but walks back to the kitchen.]
 
Akane: You know...maybe it isn't just him.
 
Nabiki: Maybe it's the rest of the world?
 
Akane: Do you hear a low roar in the background?
 
Nabiki: Tree falling in woods?  One hand clapping?
 
Akane: I'm serious.
 
[Soun enters]
Soun: Hey..aren't you going to be late for school?
 
Ranma: (from another room) I heard you go into that room.
 
[Soun looks puzzled for a moment, but figures that it's just a 
Ranma thing.]
 
Akane: We have today off.  Miss Takino had this idea..
 
Soun: Another bomb?
 
Akane: She didn't give much for details, but it sounds like it.
 
Soun: crazy witch...
 
[Kasumi and Ryouga enter from the hallway.]
 
Kasumi: There was quite a storm outside.  I let Ryouga in.  He 
was wandering around in the backyard again.
 
Ryouga: I'll be fine, honest.  I don't mind a little wind.
 
Akane: Are you sure?  It looks more like a full-strength gale.
 
Ryouga: I've faced worse.
 
Kasumi: And a nasty rainstorm too.
 
Ryouga: (pales) Umm....maybe I could stay here for a while.
 
Akane: You're almost as bad about rain as Ranma is.   You'd 
think you had a curse or something.
 
[Ryouga's eyes glaze over.  He has fainted but remains 
standing.  There's an uncomfortable silence for a moment, then 
Akane notices Ryouga's condition]
 
Akane: Are you all right?
 
Ryouga: (feeling slightly giddy over the facr that Akane is 
paying any attention at all to him) Yes..I'm fine [faints 
again.  This time he hits the ground]
 
Akane: Maybe we ought to take him to Dr. Tofu
 
[Ryouga snaps to attention and waffles around trying to think 
of some excuse not to go outside]
 
Nabiki: It's not a good idea to drive around in this weather.
 
[Ryouga relaxes slightly]
 
Kasumi: I'll take him once this storm clears up
 
[Ryouga panics again.  Ranma enters the room]
 
Nabiki: Doesn't look so much like a storm as a tornado.
 
Akane: How can you be sure?
 
Nabiki: Had to do some report on weather last year.  I know 
from tornadoes.
 
Ranma: Tornadoes?
[Ranma does that same sort of standing faint trick.  Akane 
shakes him out of it]
 
Akane: What's wrong?
 
Ranma: When i was little, Dad would always try and teach me new
techniques...
 
Akane: like Cat-fu?
 
Ranma: Exactly.  One day he took me to Tornado Training 
Ground.  He made me go into a cabin and stay there alone for a
week, I didn't know why at the time..
 
Akane: so what happened?
 
Ranma: The last night I was there, a giant tornado ripped
everthing to shreds.  I barely made it out alive!
 
Soun: I thought it was a little tornado.  You were found the 
next day crying your eyes out.  Genma said that it wasnt even 
strong enough...
 
Ranma: Shut up!! Where did you come from anyways??
 
Soun: You said you heard me come in.
 
Nabiki: Maybe he didn't really mean it.
 
Ranma: I meant it.  I just forgot.
 
[Genma enters the room]
 
Genma: Ah.  The Seven Noble Cyclones Training Ground story?
 
Soun: Yes.  They didn't seem that noble, though.  They seemed 
rather small, actually.
 
Genma: The brochure was in German.  Maybe it was the Seven 
Tolerable Cyclones.   Doesn't matter.  The brochures never say 
anything worth reading anyways.
 
[Ranma pours water on Genma.  Instant Panda]
 
Ranma: (mockingly) You don't suppose that if you read a certain 
Jusenkyo Brochure correctly we might have a few less problems?
 
Genma-panda: [sign] The brochures _almost_ never say anything 
worth reading.
 
Ranma: By chance...did the tornadoes look small because you 
were, say, far away.
 
[Genma and Soun think for a moment]
 
Soun: Well...you know..
 
Genma-panda: [sign] Maybe.  Just maybe.
 
Soun: They looked puny enough from a mile away......
 
Genma-panda: [sign] Right.
 
Ranma: [points at Genma] And I heard you enter the room.
 
[Genma responds by wittily eating bamboo shoots]
 
Akane: Look!
 
(They all look up and there out from the opening.  There is a 
giant twister about 200 yards away)
 
Ranma: It's here!
 
(The wind starts picking up stronger than ever...they all have to cover
there ears because of the noise)
 
Ranma: We gotta get out of here!!!
 
(Genma stands and makes a mad dash out of the dojo with Soun.  
They are thrown through the air)
 
[Ranma starts quivering in fear.  He tries to do some very odd 
sort of kick, but fails.  Ryouga tries to do the same sort of 
kick, and succeeds.  The tornado slows down.  Ryouga repeats 
the technique, which text doesn't fully do justice to.  This 
time he shouts "Hibiki Falling Hurricane Kick!".  The tornado 
slows to a gentle breeze, depositing its occupants onto the 
ground.  The house, mysteriously enough, is back to its 
normal, undamaged condition]
 
Ranma: (grabs Ryouga) How'd you do that?  That was the 
Anything Goes Rising Tornado Kick.
 
Ryouga: No it wasn't.  The Falling Hurricane technique has 
been in my family for generations.
 
Ranma: How can it be in your family for generations?  The 
training ground is thousands of miles away from your family.
 
Ryouga: Well, my great-great-grandfather found the place on 
the way to a picnic once.  The technique has been with us ever 
since.
 
Ranma: Pop, you told me that this had been in the Anything 
Goes school for generations.
 
Genma: [sign] Well...generation.
 
Ryouga: (to Genma) You would steal the time-honoured Hibiki 
techniques?
 
Genma: [sign] I didn't see a copyright.
 
Ranma: It was probably in the brochure.
 
[Genma smacks Ranma over the head with the sign.  Genma and 
Ranma start fighting.  The fight drifts over to outside the 
house.  Why?  So that the panda can duck Ranma in the 
fishpond.  This is mandatory.  Must happen at least once every 
three episodes.  If Ranma was smart, he would have moved the 
fish into an aquarium and filled in the pond.  However, since 
the Pointless Gender Change is the main hook of the series...]
 
Ryouga: [sigh] First my lunch, then my love, and now my 
techniques.  [screaming] What of mine will he take next.
 
**Kasumi: [pulls out a tray of food.  Miraculously, neither 
Soun, Ranma nor Genma grab it.] I could help you with the lunch bit.
 
Akane: And I could help you with your tech...
 
Nabiki: (Interrupting) And I could help you with your 
techniques.
 
Akane: I didn't think you knew martial arts.
 
Nabiki: You can't help but pick up a few things around here.
 
[Ryouga stands there in a *very* uncomfortable silence.  Akane 
is entirely oblivious to this.  Akane thinks about what Ryouga 
says for a moment]
 
Akane: (angrily) That's just like Ranma to get between you and 
Ukyou.
 
Ryouga: What about Ukyou?
 
Akane: Oh.  Then between you and Shampoo.
 
Ryouga: Not quite.  Ranma's other fiance.
 
Akane: (surprised) You mean?
[Ryouga nods.]
 
Akane: How long has this been going on?
 
Ryouga: Ever since we've known each other.
 
Akane: And all this time I never knew?
 
Ryouga: I...I was afraid to tell you.
 
Akane: You have told her, haven't you?
 
Ryouga: Her?
 
Akane: Kodachi.  Right?
 
[The screen splits into three shots.  One of Ryouga blasting 
the entire building to rubble, the second of Ryouga 
collapsing, and the third of Ryouga breaking down and crying.  
He knows that he can't do any of this.  The screen goes back 
to a regular sort of shot.  Ryouga grabs a cookie from 
Kasumi's plate because there's nothing else that he can do.  
The view changes to the outside of the house.  It doesn't 
explode.  It doesn't collapse.  It remains there, standing, 
but one shingle falls off of the roof, hitting the ground and 
shattering into millions of pieces.]
 
Akane: Don't worry.  I'll help you win her back.
 
Ryouga: But I...
 
Akane: No excuses.  If you had faced up and told her how you 
felt, you would have never had this problem.
 
[Another shingle falls off of the roof and shatters, similar 
to the first one]
 
Akane: I'll think up some sort of plan.
 
Nabiki: Want help?
 
Akane: Sure.  All the help we can get.
 
Nabiki: Good.  15,000 yen and you've got a deal.
 
Akane: Tornado damage would have been about 200,000 yen.  Way 
I see it, help out and you only owe Ryouga 185,000.
 
Nabiki: I didn't agree to pay that.
 
[Ryouga sits around, watching the sisters use him as a 
bargaining chip]
 
Akane: Would you prefer if he let the house be blown down 
because you didn't agree to pay.
 
Nabiki: All right.  I'll help you.
 
Akane: Good.
 
Nabiki: Reminds me.  I'm missing a book of mine, entitled "101 
Fun Ways to Manipulate People".  Have you seen it?
 
Akane: Nope.
 
Nabiki: I don't believe you.
 
Akane: Nope.  Haven't seen it.
 
Nabiki: Maybe you can borrow it when I find it.  You could use 
help on number 57, "Lying".
 
Akane: "Lying" is number 58.  
 
Nabiki: Hah!
 
Akane: (looks around nervously)  Just a guess.  Honest.
 
Nabiki: Keep the book until you've gotten better at chapter 
32, "Weaseling Out Of Situations".
 
[Nabiki hands Akane a folded piece of paper and leaves]
 
Akane: Maybe she's gotten nicer [looks at paper]
[Show paper:
(in red)
200,000 Yen             Credit: Dojo Maintenance
(in black) 
 10,000 Yen             Library Services
 20,000 Yen             General Plotting
 30,000 Yen             Family Discount
-------------------
140,000 Yen Credit      Total]
 
Akane: (glowering) She *charged* me for the family discount?!
 
Kasumi: (smiling) Well, at least you're getting a 
discount....whether or not you wind up paying more for it.
 
Soun: Well, ain't she the vampire of mixed blessings.
 
Ryouga: I didn't hear you come in.
 
Soun: Oh.  Ok  [Soun walks out to do Soun things.  Ranma can 
be heard screaming "I heard you enter that room, Tendo!".  
Genma takes advantage of this and pounds him into the ground]
 
[Cut scenes.  Next morning.  Ryouga, Nabiki and Akane are 
sitting around a table and plotting.  Genma and Soun are 
playing shogi in the background.  Genma points at something.  
Soun looks.  Genma grabs two of Soun's pieces and eats them]
 
Nabiki: Their games don't seem to drag on so long, now that 
Kasumi started baking chocolate-flavoured shogi pieces.  
 
[Akane pulls out map of the Kunou estate and traces a path 
through to Kodachi's Training Gym.]
 
Akane: What do you think of the idea?
 
Nabiki: Depends...Ryouga..is your health insurance paid up?
 
Ryouga: I think it is..(catches the drift of Nabiki's comment) 
Oh.  So you reccomend against it?
 
Nabiki: If I wanted to kill you, I would send you out on a 
mission like this.
 
Ryouga: I don't want to do this.
 
Akane: You _ought_ to.   You can't just give up on Kodachi 
like this.
 
Ryouga: But I don't..
 
Akane: No excuses.
 
[Genma moves a piece.  Soun points at something.  Genma 
looks.  Soun takes the shogi board and replaces it with a 
checkerboard.  Soun moves a piece and jumps three of Genma's 
checkers.  Genma moves a piece onto the back row.  Genma pulls 
out a sign that says "King Me".  Soun grabs the sign from him]
 
Soun: You aren't a panda.
 
Genma: Sorry.  Force of habit.
 
[Ranma runs by and, for no particular reason, dumps a bucket 
of water on Genma.  Genma grabs the sign from Soun.   While 
grappling for the sign, Genma replaces the board with a 
Battleship set-up.  Genma flips the sign over to reveal that 
it now says "B 3"]
 
Soun: (crying) You sunk my battleship!
 
Genma: Give up, Tendo?
 
Soun: Never, Saotome!  C 5!
 
Nabiki: Well, the main problem with this plan is that everyone 
will be trying to kill you.
 
Akane: Kunou won't,
 
Nabiki: Right.  That isn't much better.  I could try to get 
him to help.
 
Ryouga: I don't want to do this.
 
Akane: It's ok.  Don't feel nervous.
 
Ryouga: I'm not nervous.
 
Akane: You can admit to being nervous.  This is a big thing.
 
Ryouga: I don't want to do this.
 
Akane: See.  You're nervous.  Why would Kunou help?
 
Nabiki: He has a vested interest in this.  Trying to keep 
Ranma away from his sister, you know.
 
Akane: But didn't he want to get Ranma with Kodachi?
 
Nabiki: Kunou-baby works in strange ways.
 
Akane: I'll help also.
 
Nabiki: But Kodachi wants to kill you.
 
Akane: Oh...Who else could help?
 
Ryouga: I don't need your help.
 
Akane: If you didn't need our help, you would have told her by 
now.  We need to help you get in and to make sure that you 
don't chicken out.
 
Nabiki: Well, Ranma would only make things worse.  Father and 
Saotome are too busy in their game of..
 
[Soun points at something.  Genma looks.  Soun removes the 
Battleship setup, and instantly gives himself and Genma five 
cards and a number of poker chips.  The panda is now wearing a 
green visor.]
 
Genma: [Sign] Raise five.
 
Soun: Match and raise ten more.
 
Nabiki: their game of poker to help.  Kasumi is out shopping.  
Anyone outside of the family is too big a risk.
 
Ryouga: What about Tsubasa?
 
Akane: He's kind of...well, isn't he...I don't know...weird?
 
Nabiki: He's a disguise expert.  That may be very useful.
 
[Soun and Genma show their hands.  Soun has a full house, aces 
and threes.  Genma has three aces.]
 
Genma: [sign] Why are there five aces in this deck?
 
Soun: I don't know...isn't that Happosai behind you?
[Genma turns and looks.  Soun instantly replaces the cards and 
chips with a Sorry board.]
 
Soun: I'm gonna make you sorry!
 
Genma: [sign] Hmm?
 
Soun: And take that ridiculous thing off of your head.
 
[Genma sheepishly removes the visor.]
 
Nabiki: I'll contact Kunou and Tsubasa.  We'll leave later 
this afternoon.
 
Akane: Ok.
 
Ryouga: I don't want to do this.
 
Akane: Ryouga, I can't let you just ignore your feelings like 
this.  I care about you.  It would just break my heart if you 
didn't go through with this.
 
[Genma grabs the Sorry board and throws it out the window.  He 
replaces it with a Twister mat.]
 
Soun: Hey.  I saw that!
 
Genma: [sign]  Oh..sorry...umm...something behind you?
 
Soun: Oh.  Ok.
 
[Cut scenes.  Later that day.  Nabiki, Ryouga, Gosunkugi and 
an oddly shaped lamppost are outside the gates of the Kunou 
estate.]
 
Gosunkugi: Why'd you bring me along on this crazy thing?
 
Nabiki: Because I enjoy blackmailing people.  You're basically 
going to sit around and try to look useful.
 
Ryouga: Are you sure that that's wise?
 
Nabiki: Hmm?
 
Ryouga: Bringing someone along just to watch him squirm?
 
Nabiki: Never failed me before.  Anyways, Tatewaki is letting 
us in.  We don't need to do this like a secret mission. 
 
Ryouga: Then why did you come along?
 
Nabiki: Because if we didn't, you'd chicken out.
 
Tsubasa: Or get lost along the way.
 
Gosunkugi: I don't want to do this.
 
Nabiki: Don't you start that.  One person whining about not 
wanting to do this is bad enough, you know.
 
Tsubasa: Just incidental, but does _anyone_ really want to do 
this?
 
Nabiki: That isn't important.  What's important is that we go 
through with this.
 
Gosunkugi: Oh.  Ok.
 
Ryouga: Ok.  What's the plan now?
 
Nabiki: Ring the doorbell.
 
Ryouga: Then what?
 
Nabiki: Wait for someone to answer.
 
Tsubasa: Didn't we try that already?
 
Nabiki: Yes.  Only this time, Ryouga doesn't run off screaming.
 
Ryouga: That was the part that I liked most, though.
 
Tsubasa: Running away doesn't get you any closer to Kodachi.
 
Ryouga: That's why it's my favourite part.
 
[Gosunkugi calls Nabiki aside]
 
Gosunkugi: It sounds like he genuinely doesn't like her.
 
Nabiki: Nonsense.  He's just trying to avoid it.
 
Gosunkugi: Are you *sure*?
 
Nabiki: You should see Ranma when we try to get him to ask 
Akane out.
 
Gosunkugi: Are you sure that Ranma likes Akane?
 
Nabiki: Well, it seems that way.
 
Gosunkugi: It doesn't seem that way between Ryouga and Kodachi.
 
Nabiki: So what if it doesn't.  Then she'll say no, and he 
won't care.  You get paid either way.
 
Gosunkugi: I'm not doing this for the money, it's just
 
Nabiki: Ok.  If you don't want to be paid that's fine.
 
Gosunkugi: I want to be paid.  It's just that that's not my only 
reason.
 
Nabiki: What is your other reason?
 
Gosunkugi: If I tell you, you'll just blackmail me with it.
 
Nabiki: I'll find out and blackmail you with it anyways.
 
Gosunkugi: Well, at least I'll make you pull favours to find 
out about it.
 
Nabiki: Then I'll just have to blackmail you for more when I 
find out your little secret.
 
Gosunkugi: You can't do that!
 
Nabiki: (calmly) Why not?
 
Gosunkugi: Because...because.
 
Nabiki: (deadpan) Ah.  This is a flat-rate blackmail item?
 
Gosunkugi: Try anything and I'll hex you.
 
Nabiki: You haven't succeeded at hexing me before.
 
Gosunkugi: But this time I mean it.  Last time, it was just to 
frighten you into selling me those pictures of Akane at 
half-price.  This time, though, I am serious.
 
Nabiki: Sorry.  Just trying to get back what I'm losing on 
this mission.
 
Gosunkugi: Well don't take that out on me.  I'm on your side 
here.  And from what I've heard, you'll need all the help you 
can get.
 
[They return to the group]
 
Ryouga: [sigh] So we do the same thing again?
 
[Nabiki nods]
 
Ryouga: How long do we have to keep doing this?
 
Nabiki: Until you ask her.
 
Ryouga: Oh.  I was afraid of that.
 
Tsubasa: I have to leave soon.  Lunch.
 
Gosunkugi: We just ate an hour ago.
 
Tsubasa: I'm not going for the food.
 
Nabiki: Hmm...Ryouga?
 
Ryouga: Yes?
 
Nabiki: I bet Ranma would be brave enough to talk to Kodachi.  
I always figured you were the brave one.  I guess not.
 
Ryouga: I'll show you who's brave.
================================================================
Tsubasa: That's a new one on me.
 
Nabiki: Servant answers door, Ryouga runs screaming to 
the...gymnasium.
 
Tsubasa: Shouldn't we help him?
 
Nabiki: I suppose so.  Gosunkugi, see how he's doing.
 
Gosunkugi: No.
 
Nabiki: Why not.
 
Gosunkugi: Kodachi might be in there.
 
Nabiki: Frightened of Kodachi?
 
Gosunkugi: Yes.
 
Tsubasa: She can't be that bad.
 
[Nabiki and Gosunkugi look at Tsubasa funny]
 
Gosunkugi: Yes she can.
 
Nabiki: Well, Ranma was probably exagerating a bit when he 
told me about her...
 
Gosunkugi: He wasn't.
 
Nabiki: How do you..
 
Gosubkugi: You don't want to know.
 
Nabiki: Yes I do.
 
Gosunkugi: You know that thing I'm not telling you about?  The 
reason why I don't want to do this?
 
Nabiki: Yes.
 
Gosunkugi: That's what.
 
Tsubasa: Well, it's just about lunchtime.  I feel like getting 
an okonomiyaki.  Want me to bring you back anything?
 
Nabiki: We need your help.
 
Tsubasa: No you don't.
 
Nabiki: Do you want the photos or don't you?
 
Tsubasa: I'll stay.
 
Nabiki: (thought) This mission is falling apart.  I ought to 
be able to pull this off.  This is just a simple matter of 
getting someone somewhere.  Instead, I'm losing control over 
my agents and I've lost my client.  I should have just stayed 
at home and had a hot bath.
=====================================
[Ryouga and Kodachi are in Kodachi's training gymnasium.  
There is a hole in the wall and some wall fragments on Ryouga.]
 
Kodachi: You ruined my gymnasium.
 
Ryouga: Sorry.  I didn't mean to walk through your wall.  
Honest.
 
Kodachi: The wall, I can forgive.  You interrupted my training 
routine.  For that, you shall suffer.  (maniacal laugh)
 
Ryouga: Would it help if I apologized?
 
Kodachi: No.  [Kodachi grabs a hoop from the floor]
 
Ryouga: Is there any way I can make it up to you?
 
Kodachi: No.  [Kodachi throws the hoop.  Ryouga blocks with 
his umbrella.]
 
Ryouga: I've said that I don't want to fight you, right?
[dodges ribbon]
 
Kodachi: Yes.
 
Ryouga: Just making sure.  [takes a step backwards, trying to 
find a door.  He doesn't.  A flying pin hits him on the head.]
 
Kodachi: Fight back. [tosses ball.  He ducks.]
 
Ryouga: I'm not here to fight you.
 
Kodachi: We've been through that before.  I still don't care 
why you're here.  This is beginning to get boring.  Unless you 
start fighting back, I'm going to have to start thinking of 
something else to do.  Something even more painful.  Got it?
[swings steel bar at him.  He blocks with umbrella.  He tries 
to back up even more, but there's a wall.  This doesn't stop 
him and he soon winds up covered with even more wall 
fragments, and in the family study/barbershop.  Principal 
Kunou is there, surrounded by several pamphlets on the 
Phillipines.]
 
Principal: Hello.  Are you from the travel agency?
 
Ryouga: Huh?
 
Principal: They said they'd send someone over with pamphlets 
on Hawaii.  Said I already had all of their Hawaii pamphlets, 
so they tried to fool me with these pamphlets on the 
Phillipines.
 
Ryouga: I don't know what you're talking about.
[Kodachi catches him from behind with a ribbon]
 
Principal: Hello, Kotchi.  Who is this fellow you've brought in 
here?
 
Kodachi: I didn't bring him in.  He just sort of stormed in.
 
Principal: No need to hide him from your dear old dad.  He 
seems like a nice kid, but his hair's too long.  Come to think 
of it, so's yours.  If you're not busy..[picks up scissors]
 
Kodachi: Actually, we were just leaving, right?
 
Ryouga: [nods dumbly]
 
Kodachi: Right we were on our way out, actually.  Weren't we.
 
Ryouga: Umm..we...I..
 
Kodachi: He means yes.  [glares at Ryouga] Don't you?
 
[Ryouga nods]
 
Principal: Ok.  Have a good time, you two.  I'll send Sasuke 
out to escort you.
 
Kodachi: What?!
 
Principal: (to Kodachi) Anyone with hair that long must be 
some kind of ruffian.  I just don't want to see you get hurt.
 
Kodachi:....
 
Principal: Just humour your father.
 
Kodachi:....
 
Principal: Besides, you don't have a choice.
===================================================
[Ryouga and Kodachi are walking down a typical Tokyo street.  
Sasuke follow behind, not really trying to sneak around, but 
just sort of trying not to make himself too obvious, and 
trying not to annoy Kodachi too much.  Ryouga and Kodachi look 
vaguely disinterestedly at each other.]
 
Kodachi: (whispered to Ryouga) Death is too good for you.
 
Ryouga: I didn't want to do this.
 
[Kodachi give him a we've-been-through-this-and-I-still-don't
-care-what-you-think look]
 
Ryouga: I'm sorry.  I can leave now if you want.
 
Kodachi: (glares evilly.  Very evilly)  I don't like this.  
But I don't like being stood up either.  I don't think I could 
ever live that down.  And I don't think you could live it down 
either.  Got it?
 
[Ryouga gulps audibly]
===============================
And that's all that there is so far.
Suggestions as to where to go from there, or how to touch up the last
scene especially wanted.
[And no, it won't end with Ryouga in love with Kodachi or vice versa.
I'm not going for any sort of resolution here]

Terrence Marks

terry@thenet.net