Jang's notes:  This story is NOT mine, so don't delete it.


--begin Caryll Griffin's story--------------------------



Okay! Here it is! My first Web posted Fanfic! Yeah!
Since this is my first, be gentle okay? I tried! <sob>
Don't hate me! 

Anyway! Here it is! Enjoy it! Not enjoy! I don't care 
what you think! Ha ha ha ha! No really! Comments
are welcome! Flames will be taken but ignored! ;)

Disclaimer: Ya! Ya! I know! Ranma 1/2 was *not*
created by me! It was created by the lovely and 
*very* talented Rumiko Takahashi. So all you 
lawyers out there can just ooze back into your holes.
Wait a minute! Did I just say ooze?!
Mental Note: Do*not* tell lawyers to ooze back into
there holes when you are begging them to spare your
pathetic life and not sue you for all the mere $5 you 
are worth!

Okay anyway! Have fun! Read my fanfic! More is yet to 
come! 

-Caryll Griffin

Bakamoichigei
(Even a Fool Has One Talent)
By: Caryll Griffin

	It was a typical day at the Tendo home. Akane was sitting at the table
eating breakfast with Soun, Nabiki, Ranma, and Genma(panda-form of course).
She glared over at Ranma who stuck his tongue out at her. Ranma looks
slightly battered with several bruises and cuts. Kasumi walked in,
oblivious to everything as usual. She smiles at Ranma and Akane and puts
down another bowl of food. Almost instantly Ranma and Genma are in a battle
over the food. Akane sighs with exasperation and stands up.
	"I'm going to school. *I* don't want to be late like I was yesterday!" She
glares at Ranma. He sticks out his tongue and Genma takes the chance to
grab the food and eat it. Ranma grabs his books and they head off for
school.
	On the way to school, Ranma is in his usual position on the fence and
Akane is walking down on the sidewalk. Far off, a bell can be heard
ringing. Ranma's eyes widen as the sound draws closer. He tries to run out
of the way but it's too late.
	*CRASH*
	"Nihao Ranma! Ranma take Shampoo on date?" Shampoo had landed on top of
Ranma with her bike as usual. Ranma lays twitching underneath. Akane is
still on the sidewalk and she looks pissed! She storms over to Shampoo who
looks down at her with a smirk.
	"What you want Violent girl? Ranma no want take *you* on date!" Shampoo
gives her a self satisfied grin. Big mistake. Akane shakes with rage and
with lightning speed punts Shampoo, bike and all, into the drainage ditch.
Akane looks down as Shampoo-cat crawls out of the water and shakes her fur.

	Akane looks down at her watch and her eyes bug out.
	"Gyahhh! C'mon Ranma! We're going to be late!" She grabs him by the
ponytail and runs off for the school. When she gets to the gate she is met
by the usual mob of boys that want to beat her so they can go out on a date
with her. And as usual she beats them while still holding Ranma by the
ponytail.
	The day goes by like any other would. Ranma and Akane fight. Ranma gets
hit, pounded, punched, malleted, punted, and beat with desks. Kuno
professes his love to Akane and Ranma knocks him unconscious. Ukyo flirts
with Ranma while Akane glares at them. At the end of the day Ranma and
Akane walk home together. Ranma is on top of the fence and Akane is walking
on the sidewalk.
	When they get home, Kasumi is waiting with a plate full of cookies.
	"I made some cookies. Ranma, Akane do you want one?" They grab the plate
and run into the dojo. Akane sits down and watches as Ranma begins to
practice his kata. She just sits there, mesmerized by his fluid movements
and practiced skill. She sighs, content to just sit there and watch him.
	Suddenly there is a loud crash and the wall caves in. This happens often
and Akane wasn't too fazed about it. She was expecting to see Shampoo or
Kodachi standing in the rubble after the dust cleared.
	"What the-" Ranma began. A phrase heard oh too often. When the dust
finally cleared, standing amidst the rubble was a girl they'd never seen
before. She had short brown hair she had pulled back into a ponytail.
Resting on her head most likely holding up the ponytail was a red and black
bow. She wore Chinese clothes that were somewhat similar to Ranma's except
that her shirt was green instead of red. On her wrists were two guards. She
had a backpack on her back and she was carrying a battered piece of paper.
	"Happosai! Happosai, I know you're here somewhere!" She looked around the
room totally ignoring the looks Ranma and Akane were giving her. She runs
up to Ranma and grabs him by the shirt.
	"Where is he? Where's that old letch at?" Ranma just kinda looked at her.
He was used to people, especially women, looking to kill Happosai.
	"Haven't seen him. But can I ask *you* a question?" She looks at him and
lets go of his shirt, taking a step back. Obviously she hadn't expected
this. "Who are you?"
	"My name is Okabayashi Miyoko." She bows. 
	"I'm Saotome Ranma, and this is Tendo Akane. Now, what are you doing in
the dojo and why did you come through the wall screaming 'Happosai'?" At
the mention of Happosai her eyes flash anger but she doesn't say anything.
She silently hands him the battered piece of paper she was carrying. He
looks at it and then back at Miyoko.
	"It's just the Tendo's address. Where did you get this and what does it
have to do with the old man?" Ranma asks somewhat exasperated.
	"It's a long story. Let's just say I know the old man is somehow connected
to this address. Am I correct?" Ranma gets a little squirmish at the
question. He doesn't want to admit Happosai really *is* connected to this
address. Miyoko looks at him with anticipation. Akane notices Ranma's
nervous behavior and then looks at Miyoko's look of pure anticipation.
	"Geeze Ranma! If you won't answer her *I* will!" she turns to Miyoko,
"Happosai is more or less, my dad and Ranma's dad's master. And I guess you
could kinda say he lives here. Although he doesn't exactly live anywhere!"
Miyoko looks at Akane and tries to sort out the lame answer. She seems to
accept it no matter how lame.
	They look up as the door slides open. Kasumi walks in and smiles her
famous smile.
	"Ranma, Akane, who's your little friend?" They look over at Miyoko. She
looks between them and then at Kasumi.
	"Uh, my name's Okabayashi Miyoko." She bows briefly to Kasumi. 
	"Oh, well, it's time for dinner. Would you like to join us?" Miyoko nods.
Kasumi smiles before turning around and walking out. Ranma looks at Akane
and she shrugs. Ranma shrugs back and walks out. Akane looks back at
Miyoko.
	"I'm Akane. You want to come to dinner?" Miyoko nods again and follows
Akane out of the dojo. 
	Sitting around the table, Miyoko sits warily watching Genma-panda. He just
looks at her and holds up a sign. "Who's that?"
	Miyoko now *really* gives him a weird look. Ranma doesn't notice this
exchange because he's shoveling food in his mouth likes there's no
tomorrow. Genma-panda gets annoyed at not being answered and Miyoko isn't
about to answer a question on a sign that is being held up by a panda. He
does the only thing left to do, he smacks Ranma in the back of the head
with a sign that says, "Answer me!"
	"Why'd ya do that for pop?!" 
	Sign, "Who's that?!" Genma-panda points at Miyoko who gets a rather
sheepish look on her face. "Oh, that's Miyoko. She's come looking for
revenge on Happosai. You know how it is!"
	Sign, "Oh. Konnichiha!"
	Miyoko looks at the panda weirdly and he begins to sweat. Miyoko just
shrugs and starts to eat her food. Kasumi walks in and smiles at Miyoko. 
	"So Miyoko, where do you live?" Kasumi asks sweetly as always. She was
used to the showing up of strange new people so she wasn't going to waste
her breath asking her why she was here.
	"I, uh, don't...really...live anywhere," she says her face turning bright
red. "I've been training in China for the last year." 
	"Oh my! Well, we can't have that can we? You can stay with us! You can
sleep in Akane's room. You don't mind do you Akane?" Kasumi asks smiling at
Akane and then at Miyoko.
	"Uh, no, course not!" Miyoko looks just as quizzeled as everyone else and
she just nods. The girl that had just busted through the dojo wall seeking
death to the coming and going resident, Happosai, was now going to be
staying awhile.
	After dinner, Miyoko follows Akane back into the practice hall not really
knowing what else to do. Miyoko sits down and watches as Akane practices.
She seems to be rather confused at the moment and stays silent.
	Akane notices this and walks over, sitting down next to her. 
	"You don't talk much do you?"
	"Well, I've been up in the mountains for the last year. And anyway, I'm
still confused."
	"Confused about what? About Kasumi offering to let you stay? Think nothing
of it! We have people show up seeking revenge on the people living here all
the time! It's *never* normal around here!" Akane smiles at Miyoko. 
	Outside of the practice hall, Ranma stands by the sliding door which is
open a crack. He's listening to Miyoko and Akane's conversation.
	Inside the practice hall, "You said you were practicing in the mountains
right?" nod "Well, wanna practice with me? We can be friends." Akane
smiles.
	Outside the practice hall, "Hmph! Where have I heard that before! I can
just picture it now!  Miyoko is really a boy, Akane walks in on her in the
bath, and we have a new skylight in the bathroom! Look out Miyoko!"
	Inside the practice hall, Akane and Miyoko are circling each other. Akane
rushes Miyoko who flips over her head and lands behind her. She swipes
Akane's feet out from under her but Akane catches herself before she hits
the ground. Miyoko jumps at a startled Akane. Grabbing Akane's shoulders as
she flies over her head, she flips her and roles back to her feet. Akane
flies into a practice dummy. She gets up breathing hard.
	"You're *huff* quite *huff* good!" She says smiling despite her defeat.
	"Well, I did just come from training for a year in the mountains. I really
should be more careful. I didn't hurt you did I?" Akane shakes her head.
Miyoko smiles, relieved she didn't just ruin the chances of her staying
here for a couple days.
	"Why don't you go take a shower. I'll take one after you're finished. I
need to pound the baka that's been spying on us!" Akane said walking over
and whipping the door open making Ranma fall in.
	"Heh heh! A-Akane have you seen my...uh..." he scans the room praying that
he left something in the dojo. He smiles sheepishly up at Akane and closes
his eyes waiting for the inevitable punch. He doesn't receive one and opens
his eyes. Akane is standing over him with an evil grin on her face.
	*SPLASH*
	Akane walks back out of the dojo with a satisfied grin on her face.
Ranma-chan just sits in a puddle of water mumbling angrily. She finally
gets up and walks out of the dojo. Walking past the pond he notices a
little black pig with a yellow and black bandanna jump out of it.
	"So I see you finally found your way back, Ryoga! I wondered what happened
to you when you said you were going to the bathroom and never came back."
he pauses "Hey, Ryoga, have you passed by China recently? See, there's this
girl that showed up at the dojo today and she's seeking vengeance on
Happosai. But then again who isn't? Do you know anything about her? She
says she just came from China."
	Ryoga just looks at her. He gives Ranma-chan a look that says 'I know
something you don't know!' and then runs off in the direction of Akane's
room. Ranma-chan fumes but doesn't follow.
	"He'll never make it to her room without getting lost!" Ranma-chan thinks
out loud. She walks into the house and is about to walk into the kitchen to
boil some water when she hears Akane.
	"P-Chan! Where have you been? I've been worried about you!"
	Ranma-chan rolls her eyes and steps into the kitchen. 
	Miyoko walks out of the bathroom and into Akane's room. Akane is sitting
on her bed playing with P-Chan.
	"Akane, I'm done!" notices P-Chan "Is that your pet?"
	"Uh huh! His name's P-Chan. You wanna hold him while I'm in the shower?"
	"Uh, sure." Akane hands P-Chan to Miyoko and walks out of the room. "Well,
P-Chan, be good while a get changed!" At the mention of her changing
clothes, P-Chan's eyes get a little bigger. Miyoko doesn't notice and walks
over to her backpack. She pulls out a pair of boxer shorts and a shirt. She
sits down in front of the mirror.
	Outside of Akane's window, Ranma is crawling across the roof carrying a
kettle full of hot water.
	"I've got to find out what Ryoga knows about Miyoko!" He crawls down to
the ledge and hangs over it looking into Akane's bedroom. He sees Miyoko
sitting in front of the mirror and P-Chan sitting on the bed blushing.
	"Hmm. What's that pig blushing about?"
	Inside Akane's room, Miyoko pulls a brush out of her backpack. She reaches
up and tugs gently on her bow. It loosens and falls to the floor as she
shakes her hair out of the ponytail. Suddenly Ryoga's eyes get even bigger
(if that is at all possible)! Outside Ranma's eyes also widen. On top of
Miyoko's head are two furry orange and black striped tiger ears!
	She slowly runs the brush through her hair. Whenever the brush gets to the
tiger ears she lays them flat and gently brushes over them. She looks over
at P-Chan who stares at her in shock.
	"I see you've noticed the ears. You won't tell anybody will you piggy?"
Miyoko walks over to P-Chan and softly pets him. She looks at him sadly.
She sighs and scratches behind his ears. "You're probably the only one who
won't tell anybody."
	She stands back up and resumes her spot in front of the mirror. This time
she pulls her shirt over her head. P-Chan goes back into shock when he
realizes she isn't wearing a bra. Outside Ranma is still in shock from the
ears and doesn't seem fazed by Miyoko's bare chest (but then again he's
seen himself (herself) plenty of time!).
	Miyoko picks up the shirt she had pulled out of her backpack earlier and
slips it over her head. She then stands up and pulls her pants down
revealing a pair of boxers underneath.
	Outside, "Boxers? Why does she wear boxers? And no bra-" Ranma doesn't
finish his statement when he puts it all together (from his perspective).
"No! It's can't be! Then that would mean-! Akane is sharing a-! With a-!"
He hangs from the edge, his mind swirling.
	Inside, Miyoko pulls down her boxers. She picks up the other pair of
boxers and slips them on. She sits back down, her back to P-Chan. Ranma
sees her reach down behind her and pull at something. She stands back up
and looks at herself in the mirror. Ranma still can't see what she had been
pulling at. She walks over to the bed and sits down next to P-Chan snapping
him back to conciousness.
	Now Ranma sees what she had been pulling at. Miyoko is sitting
cross-legged on the bed and curled around her leg is a furry orange and
black striped tiger...tail? Ranma squints to get a better look. Yup, it's a
tiger tail all right! But why does she have a tiger tail and tiger ears? 
	"Maybe they're fake." His idea is shot down when he sees that the tip of
her tail is gently swishing back and forth. He finds out the ears are real
the hard way. Miyoko's ears suddenly perk up. She heard Ranma. She stands
up and walks over to the window. Ranma quickly pulls himself up and sits on
the roof hoping she doesn't look outside.
	Miyoko opens the window and sticks her head out. Her ears twitch around
searching for a sound. Ranma sits nervously on the roof. He shifts. Miyoko
hears him and jumps on the roof.
	"You hentai! You were watching me dress!" She grabs him by the back of the
shirt and punts him into low orbit. Satisfied with punishing Ranma but
still fumed that he saw her little secret, she jumps back into Akane's
room. She picks up her bow and pulls her hair back into a ponytail covering
up her ears. Her bangs hang down on the side of her head covering up the
spot normal ears would be.
	She reaches around behind herself and grabbing her tail, stuffs it back
into her boxers as Akane walks in. She smiles at her and sits down on the
futon that had been set up for her to sleep on. She was still amazed they
would let her stay in their house when she was a complete stranger.
	"Arigato for watching P-Chan for me."
	"No problem!" She yawns. Akane yawns too. They crawl into their separate
beds and P-Chan curls up on Akane's pillow next to her head. Akane turns
off the light and everything is quiet.

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                                      To Be Continued....
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Okay. Okay! I know you're going "What kinda ending is that?!" Well, 
I decided to make it a series! Yeah! <clapping> The Bakamoichigei 
(Even a Fool Has One Talent) series will have who knows how many 
sections in it! But this will make it easier for me! So I can write without

losing interest and making it REALLY boring for you! So bare with me!

I know there isn't a whole lot in here, but all comments are welcome! I
will take flames but I'll just ignore them! ;) Enjoy! More to come!

Caryll Griffin
mmccrabb@nv-vb.mindspring.com
Bakamoichigei 
(Even a Fool Has One Talent)
Theme Song

It's amazing how you can speak right to me heart                   [Ranma
and Akane sneaking looks  
Without saying a word, you can light up the dark                    at each
other when the other isn't
Try as I may I could never explain                                         
looking. Ranma chasing P-Chan 
What I hear when you don't say a thing                                 
around when he tries to sleep with
                                                                           
                  Akane.]                                          The
smile on your face let's me know that you need me          [Akane smiling
at Ranma when he
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me          has his
back to her. Then yelling at
The touch of your hand say's you'll catch me if ever I fall         him
when he turns around. Ranma
You say it best when you say nothing at all                             
rescuing Akane from different 
                                                                           
                   people.]
All day long I can hear people talking out loud                      [The
dinner table. Everyone is 
But when you hold me near                                                  
 yelling and Akane is silently 
You drowned out the crowd                                                  
watching Ranma and smiling.
Oh Mr.Webster could never define                                        
Ranma trying to tell Akane how he  What's being said between you're heart
and mine                    feels but is attacked by Shampoo.]

The smile on your face let's me know that you need me        [Ranma smiling
at Akane when she
There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me        has her
back to him. Then making a
The touch of your hand say's you'll catch me if ever I fall       face at
her when she turns around.
You say it best when you say nothing at all                           Akane
pulling Shampoo off Ranma
                                                                           
               and punting her into low orbit.]




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