>From before.....

  Lina was shocked at the speed of Ranma's strike. She hadn't even seen it. One
second the man had his hand on Ranma's shirt collar. The next second, Ranma's
hand was extended forward in an open hand strike and the man sent flying
backwards. She had never seen someone so fast before.
  Ranma closed the door behind him and turned toward Lina, "Truce?"
  Lina looked at Ranma.
  "No.....Fireball!!!"
  
  Ranma glared at Lina, "That hurt ya know,"
  He and Lina were facing each other. Surrounding them was nothing but the
debris left behind from what used to be the inn they had been staying in.
Nearby, a burly man was crying as he looked down at what was left of his
beautiful business.
  Damn, how the hell does he brush off my fireballs like they're nothing? Lina
was thinking to herself as she glared back at him. She noticed that he wasn't
even singed. "Good, I hope it hurts. Consider it your down payment of having
seen me naked back there,"
  Ranma sighed, "Jeez!!! It's that why you're all pissed at me?!"
  She nodded. No one gets away with seeing her naked against her wishes.
  Ranma proceeded to take off his clothes. He had taken off his shirt and his
shoes before Lina's eyes widened and she said, "W-w-what the hell are you
doing?!"
  "I'm gonna letcha see me naked," he said seriously, "Since I saw you naked,
then I guess you have the right to see me naked,"
  Lina smiled, "Fine. I guess I can live with that. Go on a strip,"
  She knew the man was bluffing and she was going to call it. She was wondering
just how far he was going to go with his bluff. When Ranma was already stripped
down to his boxers, Lina swallowed the lump in her throat. 
  Just as Ranma was about to pull his boxers down to his ankles, Lina quickly
turned around, her entire face turning red.
  "P-put your clothes back on!!!" Lina stammered, blushing red. Never in her
life had she crossed an opponent so unpredictable as the man standing before
her. "F-forget I said that!!! I thought you were bluffing!!!"
  Since Lina had her back to Ranma, she could see several passerbys glancing
behind her, at Ranma. She knew those females were looking at Ranma. The shade of
red on their cheeks clearly showed that they were having quite and eyeful.
  "Hey! This show ain't free, y'know!" she heard Ranma's voice from behind.
  "Put your clothes back on!!! I take it back!!! I thought you were bluffing!!!"
Lina shouted as she could hear Ranma's footsteps getting closer and closer.
  When she felt his hand rest against one of her shoulders, she nearly jumped
out of her skin as she ran forward away from him, turning toward him on instict.
Her eyes widened when she saw Ranma.
  Ranma was grinning from ear to ear. He was still in his boxers.
  "Gotcha!!" he smirked.
  Lina fummed, unable to believe she had fallen for yet another ruse. It even
shocked her more when she had realized she had turned her back toward him back
then, leaving her vulnerable to a rear attack, yet she had done so anyway
because she really thought the man standing behind her was naked.
  "I gotcha good," he smiled, revelling in the moment. When he noticed the
starry-eyed stares from several girls, "Hey, there's nothing to see here.
Haven't ya seen a half-naked guy before?"
  "No," several girls seemed to say at once.
  "Well, this isn't for your enjoyment," he said, "I'm only doing this to get
this flat-chested chick off of my case," He jerked a thumb toward Lina.
  "F-flat-chested?! Chick?! Why you!!! Fireball!!" Lina shouted as she shot a
fiery projectile at Ranma.
  Ranma managed to sidestep the fireball, much to Lina's surprise once again.
The fireball travelled forward where it struck the ground right behind Ranma.
  "Ha, that was a lousy shot," he taunted her. He knew she couldn't really hurt
him. Her fireballs had little effect and when they did hit him, it only stung.
However, he would have to avoid that 'Dragon Slave' projectile she had casted.
Although she had caught him off-guard with that, it would still hurt him.
  Lina smirked, "You really think I was aiming for you?"
  "Huh?"
  "Take a look behind ya," she smiled.
  Ranma turned around and realized that his pile of clothes were burning, "Oh
shit!!! My clothes!!!"
  When he tried to run to his flaming clothes to smolder them out, he found
himself unable to move. His arms were held tightly against his side. He suddenly
realize he had been restrained by some invisible force. Looking over his
shoulder, he realized that that girl had her hands extended toward him.
  "Hey, you're the one doing this!! Stop it!!!" he shouted, "My clothes are
burning!!!"
  "I know," Lina smirked. She was going to get him back real good for causing
her such embarrassment, "I've put a restraining spell on ya, so you can watch
your clothes burn. That's what you get for trying to pull a stunt like that,"
  Ranma gritted his teeth. A second later, his arms shot outward from his body
as the invisible restraining spell seemed to have been broken right before
Lina's very eyes. He ran toward his clothes where he just stared down at the
ashes of what remained of his clothes.
  "Serves ya right," Lina taunted the man.
  Ranma turned toward Lina, "Oh yeah? Fine, ya wanna play it that way?" 
  Clad in his boxers, he slowly walked toward Lina. When she noticed him
approaching her, she extended a hand forward, "Don't come any closer or your
gonna be sorry," She found it rather odd that she was even giving this man any
warning. Usually, she would just blast a person into the stratosphere, but with
him, she had to admit to herself that he was quite the unusual character.
  Ranma smirked. A second later, he darted forward at supersonic speeds, closing
in on Lina before she even realized he had even moved. Before she could  even
blink, Ranma seemed to have passed right through her and was sliding to a halt
behind her.
  When she turned around to face him, his back was toward her and he was in a
low crouching position, like he had just executed an attack.
  "What the hell was that?" Lina asked.
  Ranma stood up and turned toward her, a smirk on his face.
  A second later, Lina's clothes seemed to shred right before her eyes and fell
down to her feet in tattered remains. She looked down and soon realized she was
only clad in her bra and panties.
  Ranma smirked, "Now we're both in the same boat. Now neither of us have
clothes,"
  "M-my clothes!!!" Lina shouted, covering over her chest, blushing beet red.
She glared at him.
  Hm, I guess I was wrong, Ranma thought. She doesn't have that small of
breasts. I guess her clothes were a bit restricting. Of course, her breasts were
still small, just not as small as he thought.
  "W-what are you looking at?!?" Lina shouted. She had noticed Ranma's eyes
lingering on her chest far longer than they were supposed to. Sure, it was a bit
flattering that he was staring at her, but then again, he was a guy, and all
guys were like that. And what was worse was that it was from a guy she now hated
and would kill in an instant had she her clothes and not her half-nakedness to
worry about.
  Ranma continued to glance at Lina's breasts. If those wonderbra thingies
exist, she would be even more attractive. Attractive?! What the hell am I
thinking?! She's trying to kill me!!!
  Lina slapped Ranma, "Quit looking at me like that!!!"
  That seemed to snap Ranma out of his revierie, "Hey!! What the heck didja do
that for?"
  "You were staring at my breasts!!!" she shouted, very embarrassed.
  "Yeah, so?" he replied without much thought.
  Lina blushed another shade of red. This was a very awkward situation she had
gotten herself into. It didn't help that the man before her was staring at her
breasts. But then again, no one had actually looked at her like that. Her heart
started beating faster than it already was at the realization.
  "Quit having perverted thoughts about me!" she said. She could picture the
thoughts running through that man's mind. It was enough to make anyone's heart
race, especially hers. 
  "Hey, what the heck makes ya think I was having perverted thoughts about
you?!" Ranma said, blushing slightly. It didn't take long for him to realize why
that young girl thought that. He had been staring at her for longer than he
cared to admit.
  Ranma was about to say something else when he realized the young girl turning
her attention elsewhere.
  "That's them!!!" They're the ones that destroyed my inn!!!" the man, forgotten
until now, told several townsmen. It was clear that these people were authority
figures since they were dressed in uniform. They looked at Ranma and then Lina,
a bit surprised at seeing two half-naked people. 
  However, they pulled out their swords as one of them said, "All right, you two
are gonna have to come with us,"
  "Um, what do we do now?" Ranma asked, turning toward Lina. He had no idea what
he was supposed to do in a situation like this. He probably would had gone with
them, but he didn't want to be executed because he knew nothing about the laws
of this world.
  "What else, we run!"
  


-OneShot
Jeffrey Keith Wong
Author of Ranma's girls, 
The least one can do, and
the 'just won't die' series.
http://www.li.net/~jeffwong/index.htm