THERE GOES GREENWOOD
A RANMA AND OTHER CROSSOVER FIC

A MURMUR THE FALLEN PRODUCTION

EPISODE ONE: AFTERMATH OF A WEDDING

	The orange juice in his glass was beginning to warm; the dry orange pulp
slowly drifted to the bottom.  Ranma stared into space and slowly took a sip. 
	"This has been one weird day," he declared slowly.  
	"Hnck-ah."
	"This is all your fault, Ranma," said Ryoga in a mechanical manner.  He felt
much too depressed to put any real feeling behind it.  "If you hadn't been
such an idiot, this never would have happened."
	"Hnck-ah."
	"Yeah, yeah," Ranma replied, waving his hands vaguely.  "Die, Ranma and all
that."
	"Hnck-ah."
	"Well, at least it was a beautiful ceremony," Ukyo said rather cheerfully.
There was murmured agreement all around the table.  
	"Hnck-ah."
	"Say, Nabiki?  Don't you think that you're overdoing the sake a little?"
asked Ranma concernedly.  Immediately after the reception, Nabiki had gotten a
very large bottle of sake and had been hitting it ever since.  
	"This," Nabiki replied in a very coherent manner, "has been too strange a day
to see it end sober.  Hnck-ah."
	"Well, Akane looked very lovely in her kimono, don't you agree?" Kasumi
cheerfully asked her escort.  Everyone made quite certain to sit far away from
those two; Doctor Tofu was just too volatile to be around.  
	"Why, this is a great okonomiyaki, Ukyo," he replied, chewing on a plate.
"And yes, she did look very much the pickled onion, didn't she?"  Kasumi just
giggled and the others sighed.  
	"Who would have thought it; Kuno and Akane married!" Ukyo said incredulously.
Ryoga slumped even more into his chair, a black aura surrounding him.  Ranma
just stared off into space for a while, which prompted Ukyo to try various
methods to jolly him up.  Nabiki set down for some serious boozing. Kasumi and
Doc. Tofu were off in their own little world of laughter and insanity.  
	"I propose a toast," Nabiki said, still sounding way too sober for a person
that had been drinking non-stop for thirty minutes.  She stood up, her slight
swaying the only indication that she had been drinking (well, that and the
smell of alcohol that radiated from her like light from the sun).  "To Tatchi-
chan and Akane-chan.  May long life and happiness be theirs."
	"Or I'll kick the crap out of him," declared Ryoga, getting some of his old
anger back.
	"Here, here."
	"Here, here."
	"Oh look, a strawberry pixie flying by on a origami swan."
	"Here, here."
	They each took a drink from their respective glasses, solemnly swearing that
should Kuno ever make Akane unhappy, they would kick him in the head until he
said that it hurt and sounded like he meant it.  Well, except for Doc. Tofu,
who was busy in a fantasy that would have made an acid trip seem normal by
comparison.  Love does strange things to people, ne? 
	The table fell silent, each of them reflecting on the events of the day and
what led up to them.  
	
     It had been a rather normal day, about a month after that disastrous
failed wedding.  The birds were singing; the cherry blossoms were getting into
people's hair; and the sounds of violence were everywhere.  You would think
that after such large scale destruction that things would have quieted down
for at least seven weeks, but that's just not how things worked in Nerima. 
     Ryoga was exacting revenge upon Ranma for whatever reason he had (that
time was for the fact that Ranma had taken the last red-bean paste bread when
he already had two; the greedy glutton).  The two had destroyed much of the
backyard, although it was a bit surprising that neither had been dunked into
the pond.  
       Akane had decided that enough was enough, so she opted for malleting
Ranma into submission (i.e. the ground).  Afterwards, she tried to placate
Ryoga by making him some food.  It was too much for even for his considerable
constitution, so down he went.  
       Akane had left the two fallen martial artists, opting for the much
better company of her books.  After studying for hours, she took off her
headphones and stretched.  Immediately, she noticed an odd tapping coming from
her window.  She opened it and looked down; below was Kuno.  When he noticed
that Akane had finally opened her window, he quickly got down on his knees and
started reciting poetry to her.  Akane's knee-jerk reaction was to throw a
desk at him, but soon the beauty of the poetry got to her.  And thus began the
courtship of Tendo Akane.  
       Now, where were Ranma and Ryoga during that time?  Well, after they had
come to, they went inside and quickly got into another 'argument'.  Their
titanic battle had taken them out of Nerima and all over Tokyo.  They finally
stopped at Minato-ward, where it took a couple of sparkling vital pressures
and judicious usage of shabon spray freezing to convince them to leave.  It
took them three weeks to return to the Tendo dojo.  Ranma really should have
paid more attention to where they were going when they left Minato, especially
when with Ryoga.
       "Man, I don't know how you talked me into staying at Akari's with you.
What the . . .?"
       "Hey!  It wasn't as if I forced you to eat all of her food!  Huh?"
The cause of their mutual confusion was the sight that greeted them.  Various
people were milling around the dojo, fixing up its dilapidated condition and
decorating various parts of it.  Others were taking care of the house and its
grounds.  Apparently oblivious to the chaos around them were Soun and Genma.
One was crying hysterically, while the other tried to placate him.
Surprisingly, it wasn't Soun that was watering the grass with salt-water.     
       "There, there, Saotome-kun.  There's always the next generation," he
said, all the while smiling like a madman.  Genma just kept on crying.  
       "Hey, what the hell's going on?" Ranma asked in his usual subtle
manner.  
       "Yeah!" added Ryoga intelligently.  
       "Oh, hello boys.  Why don't you inside, Kasumi has made some lunch, I
think," Mr. Tendo replied, all the while grinning like a loon.  
       "Mamah!  Mmmummm!" yelled Genma.  He then attacked the two boys,
screaming incoherently (well, he was a panda) at them.  
       "Shut up, Pop!" suggested Ranma, when he punched him in the snout,
causing him to fall back.  Ranma and Ryoga, still puzzled by the changes, went
inside; lured by the prospect of food.  Life was hard on the road, especially
since they had no money.  
       "Why, hello, Ranma, Ryoga," Kasumi greeted them cheerfully.  She
quickly passed the two boys food, which they took gratefully.  "It's very
lucky that you arrived when you did."
       "Oh, why's that?" asked Ranma through a mouthful of food.  
       "I was afraid that you were going to miss Akane's wedding," she replied
with a smile.
       "WHAT!?" they shouted in unison, after a brief choking fit.  "TO WHO!?"
"Why to that nice Kuno boy, of course."  Ryoga immediately fainted dead away.
Ranma however just stared in shock at Kasumi.  Even after the wedding, it
still had not worn off.  

       "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT, RANMA!" Ryoga shouted.  He felt depressed
enough to blow up the entire city.  
	"MY FAULT?  THIS IS ENTIRELY YOUR FAULT!  YOU'RE THE ONE THAT GOT US LOST FOR
THREE WEEKS!" Ranma said just as hotly.  
	"WHAT?  THAT'S IT RANMA!  FOR LETTING AKANE-SAN MARRY KUNO, I'LL KILL YOU!"
	"YOU'RE WELCOME TO TRY, P-CHAN!"
	"SHI!"
	"SHI!"
	Ukyo casually knocked Ranma unconscious with her spatula, while Nabiki
knocked Ryoga into Doc. Tofu's sphere of influence; naturally enough, he
quickly went down.  They looked at the fallen duo and sighed.  
	"I hope that going to a new school will help Ranma," Ukyo said.
	"I know that it'll help me," answered Nabiki.
	"I never knew that you had a thing for Kuno."
	"I don't.  Look, it's complicated, ok?"
	"Ok.  Say, how come you don't sound drunk?"
	"Oh, I can hold my liquor very well," Nabiki said, just before she too joined
the fallen duo on the ground. 
	"Oh my."
	"The dingo ate my shoe shine boy! The dingo ate my shoe shine boy!"


Author's afterword: Ok, let me just say that there was a reason for marrying
off Akane to Kuno besides it being a convenient plot device.  I truly do
believe that if Akane were to be properly wooed, that she would fall head over
her other head in love.  And, c'mon, people, Kuno HAS to have SOME romance in
his soul.   
The next episode will deal with Ranma and possibly Nabiki arrival at Ryoukuto
High.  Note:no original cast members of Koko wa Greenwood shall be used EVER.
It will, however, introduce a alternate universe Mizuhara Makoto and Jinnai
Katsuhiko.  C&C and MST (i would love if someone did that!) is always (ALWAYS!
PLEASE!  I NEED FEEDBACK!!!!) welcome.  Thanks
-Murmur the Fallen
Omni is all