Hi all, I finished part four of Sureal Genius enough to want to post it 
to the list, and I felt that it'd be best to post the previous parts along with 
it.
	Here's part three.

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Legal: The characters of Ranma 1/2 were created by the great Rumiko 
Takahashi.
I am using them without permission, hopefully for the purpose of 
entertaining someone.  If anyone who has a right to sue me has that 
desire, I have almost no money.

	C&C is appreciated, you can contact me at 
brenda02@sprynet.com
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A Ranma 1/2 Fanfict
Surreal Genius
By Brendan O'Donnell
Part three

	Ranma and Akane walked to school together the next day.  
About a block from the school Ranma asked "Do you want some help 
today?"
	"I can handle them myself!" she said angrily.
	"I know that.  It's no crime to ask for help, though."
	Akane paused and looked at Ranma.  With a slight smile she 
replied "Thanks for worrying, but if I can't handle them I'll know it's time 
to worry." She began her final acceleration toward the school.
	Ranma kept himself exactly five feet behind her until she took 
out the last of her admirer's.
	"I told you I don't need any help!" she said to Ranma with a 
scowl.
	"I know that, which is why I didn't do anything."
	"What were you doing then!"
	"Watching the fight," he responded calmly.  "Just watching and 
dodging."
	"Hmph!"  She paused and looked around.  "Hmm, Kuno usually 
shows up around now.  Maybe he's finally given up on me," she said 
with a hopeful voice.  Then she added "Probably not."
	"I haven't known him long enough to judge him, but I'd say he's 
got a really strong obsession," Ranma responded as he walked Akane 
to the school door.

	On the roof Tatewaki Kuno stood, looking at the crowd of 
students entering the building and asking himself "Whither the pigtailed 
girl?"

	"So, I hear you're interested in that girl who kicked your butt 
yesterday," Nabiki said as she sat on Kuno's desk looking at him over 
his lunch.
	"Nabiki Tendo, you should have a care not to trifle with me."
	Nabiki had known Kuno for many years, and thus she knew 
when Kuno was saying something worth listening to.  These were rare 
occasions, and this was not one of them.  "Red hair tied in a pigtail, 
about Akane's height, same clothes as Ranma.  Sound familiar?"
	Kuno handed her a small envelope and said, "I only need you to 
deliver this for me.  If she thinks she can beat me and have it end she 
thinks wrongly indeed."  With this he began laughing, not noticing the 
stares coming from everyone else in the room.

	Ranma skimmed through Kuno's letter.  It took pieces from 
great poetry and mixed them into a second rate piece.  Filtering out this 
there was a message asking "The pigtailed girl" to meet Kuno outside 
the school that evening.
	"Sounds like a formal challenge," Akane said, a worried 
expression on her face.
	"Kuno's a real sore looser," Nabiki added.
	"Well, a few months ago Kuno'd be a cause for worry but I'd 
say I've got a considerable edge now myself," Ranma responded.  Then 
he sighed and added "Unfortunately I've got to meet  someone so I 
can't be there," He said, slipping a black tie through the collar of the 
button down shirt he was wearing.
	"Got a date?" asked Nabiki with a grin.
	"Nothing of the kind," Ranma responded.  "I just have to meet 
with a guy I know at the Museum."  He paused and thought a moment.  
"That might not be a bad idea though."  He pulled out a piece of paper 
and a ball-point pen and started writing.
	"What?..." asked Akane, but Ranma raised a hand and she 
listened as Ranma dictated the letter he was writing.
	"'Dear Kuno;
	I am willing and ready to accept your challenge, 
however I cannot make your chosen time as have a date 
planned and cannot justify breaking it to fight a pompous idiot 
like you.  I will meet you after school tomorrow instead.  And I 
ask that after I beat you you quit harassing my friend Akane.'"

	"Kuno'll REALLY be out for blood when he reads that," said 
Nabiki.
	"Nothing I can't handle," responded Ranma as he folded and 
sealed the letter.  "Uh, could you deliver this for me?  I really do have 
that meeting to attend."
	Nabiki smirked slightly "The look on Kuno's face when he sees 
this should be priceless.  For that plus five hundred yen you've got 
yourself a messenger."

	"Hi Nabiki!" said Noriko as the middle Tendo sister walked 
into the room.
	When Ranma's true nature had been revealed Kasumi had 
requested that one of her sisters share their room with Noriko, and 
Akane had used it as a means to avenge Nabiki's decision to push for 
her engagement to Ranma.
	*Not all that effective revenge,* Nabiki thought to herself as 
she smiled at her young roommate.  She might share Akane's love for 
Martial arts, and she might have Ranma's strong sense of honor, but she 
had a devious streak that Nabiki could really relate to.  "Hi Noriko!  
How was school today?"
	Noriko giggled slightly.  "Pretty good.  No one tried to 
challenge me, but I learned that the girl who sat next to me had a crush 
on a guy in the next class up..."  Noriko proceeded to describe in 
precise detail the scheme she had planed and implemented which ended 
with the pair locked in a closet together for a solid hour.  "Of course she 
was too shy to take advantage of the opportunity, but she ought to do 
better next time."
	Nabiki laughed at Noriko's Matchmaking attempt.  *Ah to be 
young again.  I can't believe I just thought that!*  "By the way your 
brother mentioned that you're a bit of a photographer."
	"Well, I loved playing around with the Polaroid when I was 
young; so mom got me a more sophisticated camera, and Oniichan 
helped me build and use a darkroom."
	"Wow!  You must be pretty good!"
	Blushing slightly Noriko responded "Well, adequate."
	"Hmm, say have you taken any pictures of your brother since he 
got that curse?  I'll bet it's a really strange subject."
	"Your not kidding," Noriko replied.  She pulled a photographic 
album from one of her bags.  "I've started a whole portfolio on it."

	"Ranma, time for school!" Akane opened the door to Ranma's 
room and looked in to see nothing to tell it had a guest except for the 
Peripheral equipment for Ranma's laptop on the desk.
	"He already left," Nabiki said as she walked past her sister.
	"Oh," Akane replied and the two sisters started toward the High 
school.

	"Stupid jerks," Ranma muttered to himself as he looked over 
the prone forms groaning in pain before him.
	"RANMA!" came a loud voice from the gate.  Looking up he 
saw Akane running toward him with a angry expression on her face.
	*Ah yes, the pride of a martial artist.  Still seeing all these guy's 
thinking that they could win love with their fists really turns my 
stomach,* Ranma thought as he turned to face Akane.
	"I told you I don't need your help!" Akane shouted.
	"So you enjoy beating these guy's up every morning?"
	"OF COURSE NOT!!" Akane screamed.  In a quieter but still 
anger filled voice she added "I fight my own battles Ranma, I don't want 
or need you to fight for me!"
	"I wasn't fighting for you, I was just trying to explain to these 
guy's that it this morning battle was intrinsically wrong and they took 
offense."  Ranma shrugged his shoulders.  "I don't like to initiate fights, 
but I always finish them."
	Akane looked around sighed slightly and with a grin said "Well, 
it is nice to get a break from always having to fight them.  Just don't do 
it again."  Akane started her walk to class.
	Ranma walked in next to her  "Hey, It's your fight so it's your 
business.  I just..."
	Ranma's statement was cut off as Kuno stepped in front of the 
pair a rage filled expression on his face.  "Ranma Saotome...  Tell me 
now!" he screamed as he raised his shinai in a menacing manner.
	"Tell you what?" Ranma asked in an unmenaced tone.
	"Where was the Pigtailed girl this past night!  I know her 
absence was somehow linked to you!"
	"Ask her yourself after class," Ranma responded.  "I have an 
aversion to being late."
	"NO! You shall URK!" Kuno's response was interrupted as 
Ranma stepped up to him and punched him.  At least it looked like a 
single punch to the observers, Akane saw something strange about the 
form.
	Kuno fell to the ground unconscious and Nabiki walked up to 
look him over.  "Wow, How many times did you hit him?" she 
commented as she saw the marks from Ranma's fist covering Kuno's 
upper body.
	"150, I'm still working on the technique," Ranma replied.  "It's 
one of the reasons we extended our stay in China for a month and a half 
after Jusenkyo."

	Nabiki dragged Kuno into the Nurses office and put him onto 
one of the bed's.  "Face facts, Kuno-chan, you're totally outclassed."
	Kuno opened his eyes, sat up, and made a two armed grasping 
motion at the air in front of him while saying "Oh Pigtailed Girl My love 
for you is pure and true."  He then collapsed back to unconsciousness.
	Nabiki looked down at Kuno.
	Once again Kuno rose to a seated position, this time saying 
"Akane I love you as I love no other."  Once again he collapsed.
	Nabiki folded her arms across her chest and looked on her 
eyes half closed.
	Kuno sat up and looked at her saying "Pigtailed girl I wish 
nothing more than to date with you!"  Collapse.  Rise  "Akane please let 
me date with you."
	Nabiki got up and walked away.  *What a moron.  Hmm, a 
rich moron though.*  She looked back and glanced at him with a half 
grin on her face.

	"So Kuno, I understand you're interested in that Pigtailed girl?" 
Nabiki said as she pulled her seat up by his desk at lunch time.
	Kuno looked at her and responded, "Trifle not with me Nabiki 
Tendo, I shall meet with her after classes and reveal my love to her and 
the whole world."
	Nabiki took out a small packet of pictures one she had made 
using some of the Negatives from Noriko's portfolio.  Looking them 
over she said "Yeah, going by these photos I can definitely see your 
interest in her."
	"Photos!?" Kuno said leaning forward to look.
	Nabiki put the five pictures down on the desk and spread them 
like cards.  "If you're interested they're a thousand yen each."
	Kuno was devoting all his attention to studying the pictures.  
Most of them were of Ranma's female form at various places in China, 
except for one showing Ranma after she had been accidentally sprayed 
in the Tendo's garden by Kasumi.  The water on her tank top made it 
plainly visible that she wasn't wearing a Bra.  Indeed the thing all the 
pictures had in common was their depiction of Ranma's slow reaction to 
a situation that would have provoked instant embarrassment from any 
true woman.
	"So are you interested?" Nabiki asked.
	"The heavens themselves would balk at the price you state," 
Kuno responded.
	"Oh, you don't want them then?"
	Kuno handed her five 1000 yen bills and said "I'll take them all."
	Nabiki counted his money and commented "Well, you're giving 
up on Akane then?"
	"I said no such thing."
	"Ah, so you'll be two timing her then?" responded Nabiki with a 
neutral expression on her face.
	"I mean nothing of the sort.  Akane is filled with a beauty of 
grace and dignity, while the Pigtailed girls vitality and innocence is a gift 
from the heavens themselves.  They are both so dear to me that I 
cannot part with either.  Is it deception for me to openly pursue them 
both?"
	"Nope, it's called two-timing," responded Nabiki with a grin.  
She pulled out a set of polaroids.  "How about some of Akane to even 
out your collection?  A thousand yen each."  She put the polaroids on 
the desk.  These were of Akane during her training sessions.
	"Sold."

	As the school day ended, Ranma walked behind the tree with a 
cup of cold water he had filled in the fountain.  Emerging in his newer 
body she walked to her meeting with Kuno in the front courtyard.

	Ranma stood in the courtyard with a bored look on her face.  
She glanced back at where Akane and Nabiki were standing by the 
wall.  She looked forward and saw Kuno approaching.  *Hmm, didn't 
feel him there, he must be better at hiding his hostility than I thought.*  
Ranma began looking him over in analysis to prepare for the fight.
	"Pigtailed girl," Kuno began.  "This past evening your rejection 
of my invitation hurt me greatly.  I am here now to honor your own 
summons."
	"I've got things to do, so let's get started," Ranma said in a 
bored tone.
	"I am not here to challenge you," Kuno stated.
	Ranma looked at him with a puzzled expression.
	"Rather I am here to give you this!" Kuno cried, tossing 
something at Ranma.
	Ranma easily caught the bouquet of red roses.  She looked at 
them, recalled some of the times she had been hit on in her female body 
and fought down a sense of nausea.
	"Pig tailed girl, I love you," Kuno said.
	Ranma threw the bouquet away.  She turned and walked out 
the gate.  Pausing she called back to Kuno, "You're an egotistical Jerk 
and I have no interest in you!"  Pulling a thermos from her backpack she 
stepped round the corner.
	Kuno blinked a moment, then ran after her shouting "My love!  
Your devotion to the one you were once with is a noble thing, but how 
could you have known that you would find true love in me!  You must 
not hide these feelings..."  Kuno rounded the corner, and  caught up to 
the wet haired figure in the pig tailed girls clothes.  He moved to 
embrace Ranma, and was met with a fist in his face.
	"Back off Kuno!"
	"Ranma Saotome!  You...  What hold have you on the 
beauteous pig tailed girl!  It is you who forced her to reject her true 
feelings toward me!  Now..."
	"Quit it Kuno!" Ranma responded, glancing at the kendoist in 
annoyance.  "She's not your concern."  Ranma picked up his pace, and 
walked round the corner of the wall surrounding the school.  "Hey!" he 
screamed as a passing car splashed him with water from a puddle in the 
street.
	Kuno ran around the corner and saw Ranma.  She was 
grasping the edge of her shirt and wringing some of the water from it.  
Kuno ran up and grabbed her.  "MY LOVE!  I have found you again!"
	"BUZZ OFF!!" Ranma responded, punctuating her statement 
with a ferocious kick, knocking Kuno back into the street.  Pulling out 
his thermos Ranma upended it, dumping the rest of the hot water onto 
his head.
	"My...  Ranma?" Kuno said as he halted his next charge.  He 
stared at Ranma a moment.
	"Well, I guess you've got questions," Ranma said as he closed 
his eyes and focused on his breathing in an effort to purge his anger 
from himself.
	"I have but one question, Ranma Saotome," Kuno responded, 
pulling his shinai from the same place other folk store hammers.  "Where 
have you hidden the pigtailed girl!?"
	Ranma stared at Kuno in shock.  "Kuno, THERE IS NO 
PIGTAILED GIRL!!  She's just a temporary thumaturgical aberration, 
brought on by Jusenkyo's Nyanichuan!  Nothing but the manifestation of 
a curse I have.  Is that clear?"  *How stupid is this jerk?*
	"Silence, vile sorcerer!  You clearly have some form of magic 
control over her but I shall smite you and rescue her from your 
unwholesome clutches."  Kuno lashed out at Ranma, who dodged the 
attack and kicked Kuno in the chest, knocking him backward.  The 
photo's he had hidden in the top of his outfit came out, and Ranma 
grabbed one.
	His eyes widened at the sight of his female form, wringing out 
the top of her red shirt in China.  The angle made it very clear that she 
wore no bra.
	Kuno stepped forward.  "An opening!" he said as he slashed at 
Ranma again, this time connecting with the martial artists side.
	The pain of the hit pulled Ranma's attention back to the fight.  
He avoided another slash, and leaped backward, landing by the corner.  
He looked to his side and saw Akane and Nabiki arrive.  "Hi!" he said, 
displacing his pain through long practice.
	"Ranma, just so you know, Kuno's really hard to beat when 
he's this mad.  You have to pay more attention," Akane said.
	"No problem," Ranma responded, walking forward to meet 
Kuno's own slow advance.
	"And now it ends," Kuno stated, a look of confidence on his 
face.
	Ranma looked at Kuno, waiting to see what he felt so confident 
about.
	Kuno took one more step forward, bringing Ranma into range 
of his strikes.
	Ranma focused his attention on dodging the flurry of straight 
thrusts Kuno was striking at him.  The technique was noticeably slower 
that the Chestnut plucking technique he had been studying the past two 
months.  However thanks to the heavier sword, the thrusts had to pack 
dramatically more power.  Hearing a crack behind him, he glanced 
back and saw that he was right, the air pressure generated by the 
strikes was generating cracks in the wall.  Ranma focused his attention 
back to Kuno, feeling for the rhythm of the attack.
	Kuno was drawing on the full strength of his rage.  He had been 
drawing on the rage since the moment the fight began, and it was what 
enabled him to maintain this strongest attack longer than he had ever 
maintained it before.  *You WILL fall before me!* Kuno thought, being 
to focused on attacking to voice the sentiment.  Then he saw a foot pass 
before him, and realized that Ranma had somehow penetrated his 
technique.
	Ranma had acted as soon as he was sure he had the Rhythm 
right, swinging his right foot along an arc just in front of Kuno, and using 
his other leg to push himself off into a leap as his first reached Kuno's 
face.  He landed, facing away from Kuno then looked over his shoulder 
and said, "You loose, Kuno."
	"Address me as uppercla..." was all Kuno had time to say 
before he collapsed.
	Ranma walked over and picked up the rest of the photo's, 
pausing to quickly search Kuno's shirt for the rest.
	"Well, I guess you've got fast feet too," commented Nabiki as 
she looked at the footprints from Ranma's kicks up Kuno's upper body.
	"I told you I had a significant edge against him," Ranma 
responded with a shrug.
	"But you took a hit too," Akane commented.
	"Oh it hurts, but I can handle it," Ranma responded calmly.
	"Well what distracted you so much anyway?"
	Ranma handed her a set of Polaroid's of her.  *He got 
distracted because of me...  HEY WHY WAS HE???!!!*  "What were 
you doing with these Photo's of me!?"
	"Kuno dropped them during the fight.  These too," he added 
handing her the pictures of his own female form.
	Akane looked at the pictures, then turned her attention to her 
sister.  "NABIKI!"
	"Hey, you can't blame a girl for making a little cash, can you?"
	Akane glared at her sister for a moment then turned away in 
anger.  Ranma looked between the two of them and asked "Uh, do 
either of you know a good doctor in the neighborhood?  Mom's pretty 
good at patching me and dad up, but it's still good to know where a 
professional is."
	Akane glanced at him and grinned.  "Come on!" she said, starting off at 
a slow jog 
which Ranma easily kept pace with.