Gomen about that last message. I made a stupid mistake I shouldn't of
made...

Gomen Nsai!!!

Richard Beaubien Presents...

A Rumiko Takahashi Spam Fic...

Moving On....

(Note: Not spell checked, Grammar Checked, or Insanity Checked.....You've
been warned...:)

(Okay, so I'm done my X-mas break....And my gift to you is a spam-fic idea
I came up with during the break....:)

(Of course I gave myself a nice Sailor Saturn Silk Screen that's a meter
big...^O^)

****

It had been almost a year, and still she cried when she visited this
place. She thought she would of gotten over the pain alot sooner, but it
didn't go away. It was always with her, and it would always grow when ever
she revisted this place. And sometimes she would sit and cry, cry like she
did when she first heard the news....The news of her husbands death...

The death of Ono Tofu...

The illness was a suprise really, for Tofu knew of all the ancient and
modern ways to treat illness and other afflictions. But as Kasumi soon
found out that illness can strike even the most healthiest of people, and
can ignore the most trusted remadies. Cancer choose to strike him as a
vicitm, for a reason the Doctor's did not understand. And Tofu had tried
his best to fight it off, using all the knowledge he had to delay his
death. But karma was against him, and on a night almost a year ago his
illness claimed him.

Ono Kasumi cried that night, cried almost the entire week. And ever since
the sombre Buddhist ceremony she still managed to cry when ever she
vistied her husbands resting place and shrine. 

But she wasn't crying this time, though she still felt pain for the loss.
This time she just stood in silence as she lit a piece of incence, placing
it down next to the flowers on the shrine. And as the sweet smeel reached
her nose Kasumi managed one more tear before she turned to leave, silently
whispiring gomen as she left the shrine, perhaps for the last time.

****

"Are you sure about this Onnechan?" Akane asked in a concerned voice as
she helped Kasumi to pack her bag's. 

"Yes I am, I need to get on with my life."

"But why not come home, why not sta..." but Akane's questions where
stopped by a stern look from Kasumi, one Akane had never seen her use
before. "I can't go home, there are too many bad memories there. Plus
father isn't exactly the most comforting person in the world though I
still love him to death."

"Well if you think so," a small frown crossed Akane's brow, to be quickly
be replaced by a slight smile. She hoped this masked the feeling of dread
that she had felt, that Kasumi had changed a bit because of the death of
her husband. That she might not be ready to go out on her own and live on
her own, especially in a district far from Nerima. 

"Don't worry I'll be fine, and with Nabiki looking over the rest of the
investments Tofu had I shouldn't run into too many money problems."

"Yeah, Nabiki is one of the better people to have manage your money. Still
I find it odd that Tofu would own something like this...."

Kasumi slightly smiled as she replied to this statement "Well Tofu was a
bit odd." The smile faded slighly as she started to remember him, and
there plans togther, the family they where going to raise. But that was in
the past and she had to live for the present. Her smile returned as she
started to head for the door, "Ranma-kun, is the truck loaded?"

"Hai, though that dog of yours won't get into the truck!!"

"Just let me handle it!! Tofu-san, get into the truck" Ranma looked on in
amazement as the large white dog started to bound towards the truck,
getting in at the command of Kasumi. "You just have to know how to handle
him."

"Sure, anyway where going now!! See you later Akane!!!"

"By Akane-chan, I'll be sure to give you a call later."

The truck slowly pulled away from the curve, with Akane waving from the
door of Kasumi's old house. It wasn't until they where far away that
Ranma decide to ask the question that was bugging him. "So are you sure
it's okay for you to do this. Are you sure Tendo-san won't be mad at you."

"Why would he, he's got you to look after him and run the dojo."

"But he may be worried about you, after all he only cares."

"I know, but it's time I did something for myself." A small wistifull sigh
came from Kasumi as she laid back into the seat. Ranma just looked over at
her and smiled. 

"Yeah, you owe that to your self. And we owe that to you...". And with
that Ranma pulled the truck into the freeway and started to drive towards
Kasumi's future.

****

"Are you sure this is the place?" 

"Hai, this is the address that I was given."

"What a rundown little dump," Ranma mumbled to himself as he unloaded the
truck. 

"Well, it does need a bit of fixing up. I'm sure it's nothing I can't
handle."

"Sure....Anyway what room does your stuff go into?"

"Room 1 Ranma-kun!!"

"Okay, here I go!!!" Ranma yelled as he picked up the coach with one hand,
still showing the slight streak of macho pride he still had. Kasumi
couldn't help but smile at this, Ranma had changed a lot but he still kept
some of his old, less desireable habits. 

"That's it!!! I Really am Leaving this time!!!" The yelled voice
interrupted Kasumi's train of thoughts. 

"He's actually going to do it this time..."

"Nahh, I think he's just bluffing..."

"A poor patheic man....Blaming his Ronin status on others..."

"It's because of you of that I'm failing all of my entrance exam's. If
you'd just stop have drinking parties in my room or peeping on me!!!" 

Kasumi frowned as she listened to the argument, wondering what caused it
in the first place. But then that really didn't matter, for she had to
stop it no matter who ended up starting it in the first place. After all
having tenants argue was no way to run a boarding house.

With that in mind she slowly entered the house and walked upstairs to see
the source of the argument. What she saw was a young man arguing with an
middle age woman, a middle age man, and a young woman in less than decent
lingere. She suddenly cleared her throat causing the debate to stop,
and waited until all eye's where on her before she started to talk.
"Excuse me, but I'm the new manager here and I was wondering what was
going on here!!!"

"Ahh...The new manager. Well forgive us for not throwing you a proper
party but we where to preoccupied with this young man here who seems to
want to leave us...."

"YOTSUYA-SAN!!!" The young man yelled as he placed a hand over the older
man's mouth. The two of them started to whisper for awhile before Kasumi
finally heard the word's beef bowl mentioned and saw that this Yotsuya's
lips curved into a smile. 

"Err, am I interrupting?"

"No, no your not...ah..."

"Kasumi, Ono Kasumi" Kasumi replied answering the young man's question
before he could ask it. Her lip's took on a slight smile as the people
around her (besides the young man) all began to look at her with a
questioning gaze.

"Well that's a nice name, Kasumi-san!!! My name's Yusaku, Godai Yusaku.
And allow me to be the first to welcome you to Maison Ikkoku Manager...."

(A Beginning?)

*****

Hmm...All of this started because of a slight debate me and a couple of
friends had while watching some Raw Ranma 1/2 epsiodes (we where playing
magic too at the time...:P). Basicily we started looking at how most Ranma
1/2 characters seem to be combinations of the Urusei Yatasura characters. 
Though I didn't mention it at the time, I thought Kasumi seemed to be like
a more naive Kyoko Ohtashni (from MI). And I thought Kasumi would become
alot like Kyoko in the manga if she was put through a trauma she couldn't
just ignore....So thus the idea came and I decided it would make a great
spam fic....

Hope you enjoyed it...

Ja ne!!

Richard Beaubien(Who thinks MI and UY kick Ranma's Butt any day...:)
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Matsunaga Mikage "Chemistry Forever!!!"

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