Hello all!
Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction
"The High Cost of Loving - Chapter Five"
" A Reel Man "
by Suds-kun (suds1964@tir.com)
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Ranma 1/2 characters are created by and copyright Rumiko Takahashi.
Published by Shogakukan Inc. and VIZ Comm.
Used without permission.
Intended for the sole non-profit use of fans.
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This is the foreword for the introduction of Eiga Otoukou, a 'Reel Man.'
Let me know what you think!
Also, how is the grammar? Does it flow o.k.? You know, the mechanical
stuff.
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Ukyou Kuonji has first hand knowledge of the high cost of loving
someone. Her first love had left her at a tender age. She swore never to
love another. To this end she forsook her life as a woman and lived as a
man. She dressed as a boy, attended an all boy's school and learned
martial arts as an okonomiyaki chef. When it came time for her to take
revenge on her first love, she found that she still loved him. She explained
away the loss of her childhood as a 'misunderstanding.'
She had made few friends after moving to the city where her first love
lived. Her free time was filled with tasks of running an okonomiyaki
restaurant. This was one of her life goals. To become the greatest
okonomiyaki chef in Japan and therefore, the world. Her other life goal
was to become the wife of her first love. She believed in her heart that she
could attain both goals.
One day she met a young man who had been raised as a girl. Like her, he
did not have a happy childhood. His sisters were less than honorable or
loving. A part of her was touched by his story and wanted to reach out
and help him. She hired him as a waitress in return for room and board.
At that time she discovered that he was in love with her. She did not feel
the same for him. She was devoted to her first love.
When she was ill and unable to manage her restaurant, he showed his love
and devotion to her by taking her place. Unfortunately, his upbringing
was sheltered and he had no experience in cooking or money
management. She lost quite a bit of money in the process.
In spite of this she gave him a raise. He now received ten yen a week.
This was the most money that he had ever been allowed to have and made
him very happy. This also brightened her life. Her friends, however, felt
that she was taking advantage of him.
Reality crashed into her life with a one two punch. She found that her first
love did not love her, but loved someone else. In the darkness where she
learned this truth, she stopped resisting the feelings of her heart for the
young man who loved her. Moments later, he died in her arms.
As she denied her true feelings, an opportunity to win the heart of her first
love was offered to her. She was then faced with a choice. Which of her
life goals was the most important? She could choose only one. With a
heavy heart she chose the life of the greatest okonomiyaki chef in Japan.
A life without her first love. A life with the young man who loved her. A
life alone.
At the news of the irrevocable penalty of death for her first love, she
returned to the ways of her childhood. Casting away the pretense of love,
of womanhood. With a new sense of determination, she devoted her life
to the accomplishment of her only goal. There was no need for friends, no
need for her first love, no need for any love.
However, she did have a tender heart. The true love of her first love was
in need of help, of comfort from a friend. This close friend showed her
that she deserved to love and be loved. She agreed. She deserved love not
from men who looked or acted like women, but a reel man.
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suds-kun (Shaun Schillinger)
suds1964@tir.com
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