"Illusions Don't Kill"
	Ranma/Perfect Blue fusion

	It was a few days after Ranma and Akane's prize winning performance in
Romeo and 
Juliet and the disappointing visit with 'China'.  Disappointment, the
feeling you get
when something doesn't meet your expectations.  Unfortunately disappointing
is hardly
a strong enough word for the events that would happen this morning,
especially when 
considering the people who lived there; or as Soun would say 'freeloaded'.

	"Time for breakfast everyone!" Kasumi called out.  This brought on the usual 
procession of half-asleep teenagers, lechers, and pandas.  The senior
Saotome, being the
glutton he is, was the first to hear the call, and he answered it in his own
fashion, 
breaking into a mad dash for the breakfast table.  The other weren't far
behind, 
knowing that if they didn't get there quick enough they wouldn't have
anything.  Ranma and
Akane both followed closely, still yawning and wiping the sleep out of their
eyes, but leave
it to others to be chipper in the morning.

	"I'm starving," Nabiki commented as she made her way down the hall.  The
last to 
follow was Happosai, hard put between the thought of his colection and food,
he opted for 
both.  Stuffing a few bras and panties into his shirt (to go along with his
personal 
favorites, some of which hadn't left his side for decades), the ancient
master of perversion
ran along to join the crowd.

	Genma slid the <insert name of those sliding doors here> and was so shocked he 
stopped in his tracks,  causing a five body pile-up, no one else being awake
enough for any
for of alertness.  

	"What the?!?" Was the only comment, everyones attention fixed on their
breakfast, 
a single pickled vegetable.  Not only that, but it was sliced very thinly,
somewhat 
reminicent of the Disney movie Jack and the Beanstalk.

	Everyone seated themselves, taking their places at the table, even with the
shock
none of them wanted to lose the meager portion they would get.  Finally
someone chose to 
to speak up.

	"We aren't just having pickles, are we Kasumi?" Akane voiced the thoughts of 
everyone at the table, more than a little hope in her voice.
	
	"Oh no.  We're having rice too" Her eldest sister answered happily.

	"You mean we don't even get the seaweed we had yesterday?" Ranma as always
being 
the first to complain about anything regarding food.

	'The day before THAT we had pickles, seaweed, AND fermented soybeans!'
Genma noted on 
one of his signs.

	Akane was the first to start with the mental calculation.  "So in other
words," she 
halted a bit not liking the prospect much, "by tommorow we'll..."
	
	"Just have rice?!?" Happosai broke in, not enjoying the sound of it either.

	"Don't be silly! Tommorow we'll be out of rice too."  Kasumi showed them an
empty 
bowl to prove her point.  This lead to a cause of general alarm, one that
lasted only 
momentarily, as Genma started picking at the Vegetable in the center of the
table.  After 
a few moments it was down to the last peice, a small part of the end,
something one might 
throw away on another occasion, instead this measly pickle became a hot item
of commodity.

	Ranma was the first to get it, but in a house with more than one Saotome,
first 
means nothing.  Rather than try to battle it out, Genma tried to eat it
right off of 
Ranma's chopsticks.  This of course lead to some shouting from his son, but
he didn't mind,
the prize was worth winning by any means.  But unfortunately for Genma it
was not to be so,
he'd forgotten the prescence of his master and a knock on the head was
enough to make him
lose it to Happosai; after all, he was a panda, not a pitbull.

	"You know, come to think of it, this dojo has only one bread winner" Akane
started
the guilt tripping, which Kasumi continued.

	"We've no source of income" 

	"Not to mention three freeloading houseguests" Akane's comment managed to
stop the 
brawl on the other side of the table, as the three combatants were faced
with 4 Tendo's 
staring bleakly at them.  They laughed nervously, knowing that it was
becasue of them that
these hard times were upon them.

****

	A bit later, after Ranma, Akane, and Nabiki had left for school, Soun and
Genma 
were involved in a game of shogi.  Well, they weren't realy thinking about
it so much as 
trying to.  All either could think of was how great it would be to have a
feast at that 
moment.  Knowing that talking about it would be even worse than thinking,
both steeled 
themselves to remain silent.  Genma broke the silence, more acurately his
stomach did.
Soun, with nothing further preventing him from speech, had to comment.
	
	"It's a sad day when a world class training hall like the Tendo Dojo is
reduced 
to pickles and rice"

	"Indeed... good thing we don't eat too much, eh Tendo?" As if he wanted to
disprove
his point, Genma's stomach growled once more.  He bent forward towards the
shogi board, in 
time to see a wrinkled old hand knock most of the peics out of place with a
stack of 
panties.

	"Master? What are you doing?" 

	"I'm making a guesture!  I been thinking about it, and i am on the hook to
you for
room and board.  So take what is more dear to me than life itself, go buy
food after you 
sell this underwear from my collection"  Those words caused Soun and Genma
to facefault, 
whether it was out of surprise at Happosai's generosity or the idea of
selling panties
for food, only the two knew for sure.  Soun got right back up and grabbed
his master by the 
shoulders, maybe to get his attention, maybe to see if it was really him.

	"I'm sorry Master but we're going to have to find some other way! They're
are some
sacrifices that just can't be allowed."

	"Oh Soun! What a great disciple you are!" The shrunken master *1* excalimed
through 
his tears.

	While Soun seemed to be giving away free lunches, Genma decided to take a
shot at 
it.  "Tendo! if only there was something i could do."  The hope and greed on
his face was 
unmistakeable.

	"Don't worry Saotome.. you'll think of something."  Soun voiced, sending
Genma's 
dream of some more freeloading crashing to the ground.

****

yes i know i haven't written anything new here.. i mainly want some C&C of
my writing style, this project,
if i manage to get it right :) is going to be my opus.  If anyone actually
bothered to read anything else 
i've written you'd know thta i usually use script format, but that would
definately not work for this one.
As mentioned above, this is based on Perfect Blue, one of the greatest anime
i've ever seen, my mission is
for this to be completed before January, that being it's release date in
Japan.  also i'd like input on how 
you'd like revisions posted.. just the new parts, everything that i have up
to that date, or just the finished 
product.  About the C&C, i just want to know what you think of my writing
style.  this portion is heavily 
stolen from the second episode on Back To The Happosai, if anything it
breaks several copyright infringements
not just using characters, but basically being a retelling of the first half
of the episode.  This does have a 
point beyond just improving my writing skills, this is the best place i
could find in the Ranma series to jump
into the Perfect Blue storyline, so don't start thinking that it's just
gonna be another one of those Anime put to 
writing fics..anyways.. i seem to have written more in my notes than i have
in my other fics.. :) 
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