Dreams and Realities Part 6
A Ranma ½ fanfic by Numbski	
Last Updated 5/19/97

The following characters are copyrighted by Viz Communications and Rumiko Takahashi.  I’m just borrowing them.

Last time in this rather noncontinuous fanfic of mine, Gosunkugi had a peaceful night’s sleep and Mousse…well, 
you don’t know about him yet do you?  Well, now that you know where we are in the story, let’s get on with it!

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Dear Diary,

What a mess life has been lately!  The house is absolutely trashed, so all of us have had to kick in to help 
rebuild.  Nabiki has been ordered to bed rest until further notice.  She came out of her coma about 2 weeks 
after Ranma did.  They told me that I came out of mine not too long after Ranma did, and one of the doctors 
made some comment about me being a violent sleeper.  I really don’t understand why he would say such a thing. 
 Honestly, I was even nice and asked him how he got that huge bump on his head.  He just bigsweated and 
started babbling incoherently. ***Author’s note.  See DaR part 2***

Ranma and I have been working all week on getting the roof fixed.  It’s taking all week because we do more 
fighting than we do nailing.  We also spend more time holding each other.  It’s been a very strange month.  
Finding out about Ryouga wasn’t the easiest thing on earth for me.  I still blame Ranma for part of that mess, 
but I also know that it wasn’t really his fault.  In the oddest way, Ranma was just trying to be loyal to all 
of his friends at once.  I’m learning more and more about how Ranma thinks, and it makes it harder for me to 
be angry at him.  He couldn’t come to a decision about his fiancees because he didn’t want to hurt any of his 
friends.  I don’t know how we are going to deal with Shampoo and Ukyou.  Kodachi could go jump in a lake for 
all I care, but for some strange reason he’s in no big hurry to hurt her feelings either.  What a JERK.  She 
is nothing but obsessive and sexually addicted, and he still tries to be nice to her.

Well, gotta get going for school.  More tomorrow.

			Akane

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"Akane!  Please hurry, your food is getting cold and you’ll be late for school again!"

"Gomen Oniichan!  I’ll get something to eat later!  Where’s Ranma?"  Akane headed for the makeshift stairway 
leading down from her room.  She wondered how on earth this how would ever get put back together again.  She 
also wonder how such a lonely boy could do so much damage just with a thought.

"I’m right here Akane.  Gosai.  Come on, let’s get going."  With that, Ranma and Akane bounded out the door 
and out of the yard.  Ranma bounded up onto the fence while Akane stayed on the ground.

"Ranma, why do you still insist on walking to school up there?  I thought we were engaged for real now.  Would 
it be so hard to walk by me?"  Akane looked up at him with wonder.  Without looking down at her, and without 
even skipping a beat, Ranma did a forward flip off of the fence and landed by her side.

"Actually Akane, I’ve been wondering why you don’t try to join me up there.  I know your balance is good 
enough for it, and you get a nice view from up there."  With a sly grin on his face, and in much the same 
manner as he came down, he bounded back up on top of the fence and kept on running.  Akane for her part was a 
bit nervous.  She had done similar balance exercises before, but not for so long and never running.  With a 
bit of hesitation, she got a running start and jumped up onto the fence.

"There ya go.  Now come on, we’re still running late!"  With that the two began the run to school.

Then they came.

Four metal spikes pierced the base of the fence the two were standing on.

Akane had just started to get a rhythm in her running and was getting the hang of running along this section 
of fence.  She had walked on the wider fences down by the beach before, but this was your run of the mill 
chainlink fence, and it didn’t allow much purchase.  The spikes embedded themselves into the base.  Each had a 
chain running back from them, and once the spikes were buried, the chains went taught.  This was just enough 
of a jolt that Akane lost her rhythm and began wiggling trying to regain her balance.  Ranma had seen the 
spikes coming out of the corner of his eyes and jumped straight up into the air when the spikes impacted.  
Ranma landed back on the fence as softly as possible and turned to look at Akane.  Seeing her struggling, he 
jumped over and steadied her.  The two jumped down and looked to where the chains led.  At the end of the 
chains stood a man in a white chinese battle suit with very thick glasses.
Mousse.

"Whadid you do that for Mousse?"  Ranma fell back into a battle stance, and Akane did likewise.

Mousse lept down from his perch.  Smiling, he laughed to himself.
"Ranma Saotome.  You keep my beloved Shampoo from coming to my embrace.  Therefore, I must face you."

"Give me a break Mousse.  I’m engaged to Akane now, don’t feed me that line about Amazon law.  I don’t want 
the girl.  She’s more violent than Akane has ever been."

*bap* *bap* *bap*  (Dimensional Hammer tm.)

"RANMA NO BAKA!!!  How dare you say that about me, you JERK!"

*THUD* (Little Duckie Training Potty tm.)

"How dare you say that about my darling Shampoo!  Ranma Saotome, prepare to DIE!!!"

Ranma, a little more bruised for the matter jumped away from Mousse and Akane.
(What I’d give for one day of peace in this crazy town…)  Ranma landed out in the middle of the street.  
Mousse lept back onto his perch and began launching his usual array of weapons.  Ranma knew the whole routine 
and systematically dodged the entire barrage, plus he was getting fast enough that he was picking a few things 
up and throwing them back, forcing Mousse to dodge.

"So Ranma, you think it’s that easy.  We’ll see how much you’ve improved."  Mousse reached into his robe and 
pulled out a handful of chopsticks.  Ranma just stood there looking confused.  

"Um, let me get this straight.  Instead of throwing spiked maces, small household appliance, and even bombs on 
a chain, you’re going to throw chopsticks at me?"

Mousse bigsweats.  "Never mind how stupid it looks!  Take this Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken Kaiten Yuk Cho Gekki 
Ko! "

"AARRGH!!!"  Ranma, quite literally flipped out at hearing Mousse’s words.  He had combined Ranma’s chestnut 
fist and Kirin’s pinching chopsticks attack and used them as long range attacks.  Ranma flipped out of range 
of the chopstick and decided it was time to pull a Saotome school secret attack.  He ran to Akane, grabbed her 
rist and RAN.

"How the hell did he do that???  Since when does Mousse go around imitating other people’s moves?"  Ranma ran 
this around in his head to think of some way to fight Mousse without getting himself pinched to death.

"Ranma, why don’t you just use your Mouko Takahishya?  That way he won’t be able to get anywhere near you."  
Akane had managed to stay rather calm in the situation.  After all, she had seen Ranma defeat dozens of people 
stronger than Mousse.  He had even been able to fend off Cologne using the Nekoken.

"Akane, I usually only use the Takabishya as a defensive maneuver to counter other ki blasts or to clear away 
obstacles.  I know Mousse is wrong, but he only wants Shampoo.  If I could get it through his skull that I’m 
not trying to steal her away and that he has to face her in battle, this wouldn’t be happening.  I don’t want 
to kill Mousse for his mistake.   I’m just not fast enough to dispatch his long range Chestnut Fist variations 
and get in close enough to knock him out."

Akane thought of a way, but she didn’t think  Ranma would hear of it.  She had to try though.  She didn’t to 
see Ranma beat by Mousse.  Not now.  "Ranma, let’s use the Horizontal Blast team up on him.  The Blast should 
take care of his attacks, and I should be able to use a chain to tie him up or something, knock him out if I 
have to."

Ranma looked over at Akane.  He thought about it.  "Akane, I don’t want you getting hurt."  That set her off. 
 "Just don’t blast me too hard then baka!  Come on, I am still a martial artist, and you aren’t going to take 
him out alone.  Now let’s do it!!"

Ranma didn’t have much time to argue, as chopsticks starting reaching over their shoulders.  They jumped over 
a nearby fence and set up for the attack, Akane in front of Ranma.  Over the fence came Mousse launching his 
chopsticks.

"Hiryuu Shouten Ha Revised: Horizontal Blast!  Kiyaa!!!"

The dragon’s spiral shot out and hit Akane in the back and blasted her toward the flying chopsticks.  She was 
given a bit of a break by the fact that Mousse hadn’t expected to be doubled teamed, nor did he expect the 
ascension defeat, at least not like this.  A fireball, maybe.  A hurricane, possible.  A violent young teenage 
girl flying directly at him, not a chance in hell.

{*bap* *bap* *bap*  Author NO BAKA!!!}

The wind of the spiral easily knocked Mousse’s chopsticks out of the air, leaving a clear shot at Mousse.  
Akane held her battle stance as Mousse prepared to take her hand to hand.

"Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!"  Mousse lashed out his attack.  He couldn’t help but pull his punches.  He was 
attacking a girl, but on the same note he knew he had to beat Ranma.  Akane on the other hand wasn’t pulling 
her punches at all….mainly because she had none to pull.  She was too busy trying to block the chestnut fist. 
 Then she had a novel thought:  He keeps punching the same place.  She went low using the blast for momentum 
and handsprung up doing a triple kick to Mousse’s jaw.  It was just enough to knock him down, but not out.  

All three teens were bushed from the attack, but Ranma was unyielding.  He lunged past Akane so that he was 
right on top of Mousse.  Mousse lept up so that he was face to face with his nemesis.

"Don’t try to imitate me Mousse.  Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken!!"
"Amaguriken!!"

The two punched and countered for most of a minute, but it was quite clear that Ranma was faster than Mousse, 
having had over a year to perfect the technique.  With a final uppercut, Ranma laid out Mousse.

"I’ll deal with you later Mousse, right now we’re late for school."

"What are we going to do, just leave him here Ranma?"

"We don’t have time to do much else."

Just then the familiar chime of Furinkan High sounded marking the beginning of the school day.  Ranma and 
Akane headed out for class.
 
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That’s all for this beta version for now.   Mousse now knows the Amaguriken, which could make life a real pain 
for Ranma, but I’m not letting the cat out of the bag yet…I don’t want to get a Nekoken in the face. C&C are 
quite welcomed.  Ja ne!

DaR  Homepage down temporarily.  Gomen!