- Ranma - Ripped tapestry -
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I wonder what a normal life is like.
No magic, 
No monsters to fight, 
No changing when I get hit by water,
No unwanted fianc�es,
No fights over idiotic stuff
NO MARTIAL ARTS!

              ...maybe it's better of like this?

A home and a mother to go home to!
                       ...then again, maybe not.

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Ranma slowed down.
He had just entered the school and was trying to remember which class 
he was supposed to go to.

(We didn't have Hinako, I wouldn't have forgotten that) He shuddered 
when he ran,(Mr. Fujiwara? No, Takagi then?) He sighed heavily and 
started looking in on all the classes

After a while he sees Akane in the corridor, holding buckets.
He walks up to her cookily.

-Hey Akane, late for class again?

She throws a bucket at him.

-I wouldn't be late if I hadn't been looking for you, baka. 

He moved his head to the right, avoiding the bucket totally.

-Nice throw, but you couldn't hit me with a table if you tried.

-Is that so? She whipped out her mallet. 
 Dodge this! She screamed.
She flailed around with her mallet, coming close a lot of times, but 
every time she missed him.

He began jumping around, sometimes standing on the wall,
sometimes upside down on the roof, and sometimes crouching on the 
floor, all the time taunting.

-You can't hit me, you can't hit me, you can't hit me.

The whole thing seemed to drive Akane nuts.
She got angrier and angrier, glowing bright blue before she collapsed on 
the floor of exhaustion.

-I'll get you yet Ranma! She cried.

He stopped jumping around and walked calmly up to her.
Picking her up in his arms and walking back to where she first had 
stood, he looked into her eyes with a happy smile on his face and said.

-You, will never get me.

--

In a cellar somewhere in Nerima, a little girl was sitting and reading 
mangas.
She knew she was skipping class, but today she didn't care.
She had pretended to be sick to be able to stay home.
Her older sibling had acted weird for a long while and she wanted to 
know why.

Suddenly a white dot appeared about an inch above the floor.
It grew until it was as large as she was and then it reshaped itself 
into the shape of a human.

The white shape became as a mist and slowly dissipated.
It left a 17-year-old boy in green clothes, wrapped in ropes and 
strings.

--

The girl put down her manga among the others she had brought and crept 
close to the boy.
Being afraid wasn't the first thing that came to mind, so she decided to 
be curious.

Wasn't this so much like the mangas she read? 
A girl/boy rescues the magical boy/girl/creature and they become friends 
and have lots of adventures and if they're different genders they fall 
in love and she was wondering what it was like having a boyfriend and...

She scrutinized the boy carefully.

(...and If I don't rescue him soon he might get cross and leave)

She began untying the knots and removing the ropes.
(He sure is cute though) 

-Do you have a girlfriend?

--

Shampoo was serving customers when the mail arrived.

-Mousse get mail!

*crash* 

-Of course my darling Shampoo.

Mousse threw a knife at the mail.
Then he yanked the chain (that was attached to the knife) and knife, 
mail and chain flew back towards him.

Everyone in the restaurant except for Shampoo, clapped.
Mouse opened the letters with his knife and then let it slide back into 
his sleeve.
 
He took out one of the letters and tried to read it.
Mumblings about glasses was heard and he reached up to his head to put 
them on right.
He walked back behind the counter and then into the kitchen, mumbling 
all the time while he was reading the letters.

Shampoo sneaked peaks in his directions while she served more 
customers. (He knows it is below his station to read those letters, yet 
he still does it just to annoy Cologne!)

Suddenly a scream could be heard and following it, came loud callings 
after Cologne.

--

The boy looked at her quizzically.

-No, why?

She felt a warm feeling creep over her.
-What's your name?

-Iruka, why did you ask me if I had a girlfriend?

-Iruka, she tasted the word.
It had a nice ring to it, dolphin, she liked it.

-Do you want to be friends?

--

Ryouga got out of the furo.
He had as was usual, spent the whole night as a pig in Akanes embrace.
(One day, one day I'll work up the nerve to tell her)

He took out a few clothes from a hidden compartment at ground level 
and dressed himself.
(Now all I have to do is find Ranma and beat him to a pulp)

Ryouga walked out of the bathroom up the hall and out the window.

--

-Sure, Why not, as long as you untie me.

-Ok. She answered and continued to remove the ropes.

When she had removed all of them he sat up and looked around, feeling 
for bruises on his body as well.

-Did you turn on the lights when you came in or did I appear out of thin 
air?

-No, she answered.

He turned his head to her.
She was a young girl, about ten to thirteen. (Heck she might be eight or 
eighteen for all I know, I never looked that deeply into such things)She 
was just starting to develop breasts and she had a cute face.If he had 
to describe how she looked with one word, he would have said tomboy (as 
long as she's not the one that strung me up.
If she is, I'll wring her neck)

-What do you mean no?

She smiled triumphantly and said.

-First, I turned on the lights BEFORE I came in.
 And second, you appeared out of a white light, not thin air!

(Shit, that still meant that he wasn't in the same world as the one that 
captured him)

--

-Hey Akane, isn't it about time to go to the next lesson?

Akane was leaning against the wall heavily exhausted.

-NO, Yes... Why do you think they aren't coming out.
She rebuffed angrily while nodding her head towards the classroom 
door.

-No, it can't be! exclaimed Ranma with false fear in his face.
 Do you think...they're enjoying themselves.
He laughed at the thought.

-They're still not leaving. Akane pointed out.

Ranma opened the door, expecting to find a class full of bored students. 
Instead, he was met by a brilliant white light.
He walked in to get a closer look.

--

-White light? He questioned.

-Yes, she started explaining precisely what she had seen, waving her 
hands about and showing him the exact spots where everything had been.

(The fact that she saw that means either that she is a fully developed 
magician or that I moved to a world where I've recently been, either way 
she has potential)
He smiled as she stopped explaining.

-I know that my backpack is somewhere near here, maybe in the next 
building if not in this one. Would you help me find it?

--

Ryouga was astonished, This was the second time within twenty-four 
hours that he had been asked the directions for the Tendo dojo.
(And both times, they wore those odd clothes that seemed so familiar)
He stopped walking and looked up into the sky.
(Familiar clothes...)

-Hmmm.

(What was so familiar about those clothes?)
He suddenly turned about.
(They're family clothes!)

He started running of, opposite of the direction that he had pointed 
before.

By an odd quirk of fate, this was also the direction the other Hibiki 
had gone, if not exactly that straight a line.

--

Iruka twiddled his fingers and quoted something he had heard about 
light.

-It takes 8 minutes for light to reach us from the sun, therefore if the 
sun disappeared we wouldn't know about it until it was eight minutes to 
late.

A ball of light appeared in his hand.
He used it to light up the closet they were searching.

-It does not matter what you say, it doesn't even need to be true, as 
long as it is relevant to what you are about to do.

-Right. The little girl beside him affirmed.

He looked at her a little oddly.
Shaking his head, he continued.

-However, what you say WILL define the spell.
 So if you say something that isn't true when you say the spell, it will 
either not work or it will obey those falsehoods as if they were law.

He looked at the little girl, to see that she had understood and almost 
fainted at the spot.

The little girl was weaving the air into an image of a backpack.
Yellow and purple danced around her like ribbons flying in the wind. 
Tiny blue sparkles appeared on her sweater and at the tip of her short 
hairstrands.
(She's doing a finders spell! Without extra touturing!)
He crushed his lightball and let the colors of her spell play tricks on 
the walls.

--

A car was speeding against red light.
Two police officers on motorcycles were following it.
Inside, a yellowhaired boy was sleeping.
His hair wasn't exactly yellow it had a red tinge to it, giving someone 
who would look at him the impression that his head was on fire.

The boy was dressed in blue pajamas and was snoring happily.
Outside (again), the motorcycles were catching up.
They were almost up alongside it, when a large truck came from the 
opposite direction.
Immediately both motorcycles moved in behind the car.

After five minutes of trying to get to the driver in the car, they lost 
it. 
Both pulled in to the sidewalk and stopped.
One of the women took of her helmet and turned to her partner.
She had dark blue hair and a red bandana.

-Did you at least get the number?
Her partner giggled and answered with a simple yes.

-Good, we'll get him later.
She looked darkly in the direction the car had gone before she put on 
her helmet again and drove off,It took her partner a little while before 
she could get her bike to start but she soon followed as well.

--

-Umm, I'm sorry that I forgot to ask this sooner, but what is your name?

-Ikyo.

-And your family name?

-Kurenai, why?

-Do you have a cousin with the family name Gosunkugi?

-No.

A moment passed in silence.

-You are perfectly sure you are not related to the Gousunkugis?

-Yes, I am perfectly sure.

More silence.

-You know, I haven't been in a situation quite like this before.

--

In an alley, a sign faded into being and attached itself to a wall.

--

-Anyways, the girl said with a smirk and in a slightly snobbish tone in 
her voice, I don't think that your backpack is in this house.

-I know. He answered

-How! She demanded, her eyes bulging in disbelief.

He leaned in to whisper in her ears.

-You would have mumbled the location after you had finished with the 
lightshow if you had known, and you would only have known if it were 
in the vicinity.

Ikyo blushed and asked in a tiny voice.

-Do you know everything?

-No, he laughed, No I do not. If I did, I would not be here.

-Then I am glad that you don't. She said and hugged him.

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  Can you see the red thread,
  the yellow or the blue?

  Can you see the green one
  inbetween the two?

  Take a look at all of it.
  Can you see it too?

  It all forms a tapestry.
  A tapestry for you

              <Dewin Duvae>
              ---
Authors notes:
If I would have found someone tied up in my basement, I would not 
untie him or her until she could explain herself (unlike trusting little 
Ikyo), there's probably reason for that person to be tied up. Like say 
being criminal or being tied up by one (in which case I would watch my 
back). Of course there's also those nawty games that certain people 
play, but I seriously doubt that I'd ever walk into those.

If another one would like to say that this whole text is 
incomprehensible, please do so. At least that means that I'll get SOME 
responce!

In a way, I see this fanfic as a puzzle.
A puzzle that hints at the clues rather than shows them outright at the 
very first moment.
To make it easier to read, it could be read in one swoop day per day, 
not part per part (as I send it out) and when I'm finished with the 
first day I will probably store it somewhere in one big piece.
Until that time I would greatly appreciate some positive and 
constructive responce.

Hmm.
I think I've forgotten on thing.
Aaaah yes.

I should have forced the guy to pay me before I released him.
Just think of how much that little girl wasted.
I can't wait until I can get my hands on the both of them, it could be 
very 
profitable.

Duvae@hotmail.com
(I'm not sure, did I get that person right?)


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