Here's the next bit of my fanfic. There is a section b, but I'm
having problems getting it the way I want it so I'm sending
a and c out ahead.



Untitled: Part 1c
By Richard Drysdale
(Insert standard Takahashi type disclaimer)



CONTINUED FROM Part 1b


In the district of Nerima, Tokyo a young woman walked slowly
away from Furikan High School. She was quite pretty, but the
scowl that covered her face spoke of the fact that dire tortures
lay ahead for anyone who dared to bother her. Overhead the
clouds had started to gather ominously, rain could not be far
away.

Natsuko winced as she walked along the street, trying not to put
any weight on her ankle. Sheíd twisted it in the fight, but in
her anger had ignored that fact. Now she was paying for taking
care as she should have. Inwardly she still seethed at Ryoga and
that boy, Ranma. The first didnít even recognise her after all
he had done and the second interfered in a private fight!

"Darned idiot." Natsuko muttered to herself as she continued
down the pavement, "Why did he have to interfere with our fight?
It wasnít as if I didnít make it clear enough who I was fighting!"

She took a deep breath to try and calm herself down, "I wonder
why everybody acted so strangely, itís not as if fights like that
happen ever day."

From behind her voice called out.

"Hey, wait up a minute!"

Pausing by a street light Natsuko turned to face the way she had
come, wondering who had followed her. She hoped it wasnít Ryoga,
she hadnít had a chance to recover yet from the fight sheíd just
had.

Luckily it wasnít, instead that girl who had been standing at the
edge of the fight was running up the street to catch up with her.
Natsuko scowled, she could  remember hearing somewhere that this
girl was engaged to the boy, Ranma. As the girl came to a
reasonable distance Natsuko spoke.

"What do you want? To finish the fight on your fiancee's behalf?

The reaction she got was not one she had expected.

"That pervert is not my fiancee!" The girl screamed, her face
reddening. With a visible effort she calmed herself, her face
returning to more normal colour as she continued.

"I just wanted to see if you were all right, I mean you got
into a fight with Ryoga and Ranma at the same time. They're both
real good fighters."

This time it was Natsukoís turn to get enraged, her anger growing
as she answered, "That darned Hibiki is just an eternally lost,
perpetually depressed, complete idiot!

By the time she had finished her sentence Natsuko was seeing red
and stood rigid with both hands balled into tight fists. Akane
nervously backed up a couple of steps from this vision of anger.

With a scream Natsuko released her anger by punching the lamp
post. Hard.

The post remained standing for only a moment before it began to
bend at the damaged section. After a second it snapped under its
own weight at the point where it had been hit. The top section
fells to the street and Ranma landed neatly next to it, having
unexpectedly lost his perch

Spotting Ranma Akane turned on him.

"What are you doing here?" She snapped, "Have you decided to
chase after Natsuko as well as Shampoo and the others?"

Akane reached to one side and up rooted a nearby mailbox and
prepared to cream Ranma on. Ranma hurried to reassure her as he
slowly backed away from his fiancee.

"No, no, no. I just wanted know who she was and to find out why
she attacked..."

Ranma never got to finish what he was attempting to get out as
Akane used the mailbox to embedded him into the pavement. Natsuko
is peering over Akaneís shoulder in amusement, her own anger fled
at this sight. Akane turns back towards and jumps slightly as she
sees the other girl standing so close. Natsuko just grinned.

"How did you nail him so easily? Earlier on when we fought I
couldn't even touch him.", Natsuko asked curiously.

"Practice." Akane answered shortly, still fuming at Ranma's
presumption, "So why were you fighting Ryoga anyway?"

Natsuko's earlier rage returns in force, her eyes visibly
glowing as she answers, "Because he has caused me to be thrown
out by my family and stricken from their records forever. Iíve
been searching for him for a long time and now that Iíve found
him Iíll make him truly pay for what he has done."

With a negligent swipe Natsuko knocked the post box off of Ranma
and in to wall, damaging the wall significantly. Angrily she
stormed off down the street, ignoring her sprained ankle, and
leaving a stunned and slightly apprehensive Akane behind.

Ranma groaned slightly from his personal pot hole in the street.

"Oh, just shut up!" Akane said before heading back towards school.


TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 2



Yes, I know that there are problems with this bit. If anybody
could point out what exactly was wrong then I'd be very grateful.

If you're wondering exactly why I'm putting this out before I've
got it half right then I must first say this. It's not my fault.

A more detailed explaination is going to be posted soon.


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