HTG wrote:

Well, here the final chunk I have any current plans on doing?

Ah, too bad. I sort of liked this one, though I have no ideas on how to
continue it myself.

*Thoom*

Tanaka was happy as the OL

Office Lady?

*THOOM*

"Earthquake?!?"

I doubt if it is that simple.

The executive stared in utter disbelief as the wall to his office

exploded inward before an attractive purple-haired Chinese girl in rose and
lavender silks.

Heh. I should have known. ^_^

 >

"<Getting the man's attention, Akane.>"

Akane,

Tanaka looked immediately at the older man in the faint hope that he was

running the show and could be reasoned with.

Not here, pal.

Instead his face fell as the man (and his son) looked almost as confused

as he while

he, while

the oldest girl approached him calmly.

"Please excuse the intrusion sir,"

intrusion, sir

Nerima District, Tokyo:

Akane looked around at the beautiful dojo, smiling in spite of her aches

and fatigue.  She remembered how it was a decade past; the duckie sign on
her door with her name in Romaji, the halls she and her sisters chased each
other through, and the dojo where her father instructed her in the
fundamentals of The Art as her mother looked on.  Even the subtle
imperfections from the recent construction couldn't spoil her mood.

Nice little insight to her mind as she takes a trip down memory lane.

The sight of her archrival fending off attempts by her psuedo-fiance to

clear her plate however....

"Why can't you at least _eat_ like a normal person Ranma?" Akane snapped,

distracting Ranma long enough for Shan Pu capture and break his chopsticks
with her own.

Hehehe. So she's taken up the art of Anything Goes When Trying to Eat, eh?

"HEY!"

"And all you're doing is encouraging him Shan Pu."

him, Shan Pu.

Akane continued as the purple-head

'purple-haired girl'   works better here, I think.

"YOU DID NOT!" Ranma barked while his father remained carefully silent

(between the fact that panda's

pandas

are mute and the amount of pounding he received the last time he berated

his son for letting 'mere women' defeat him he

him, he

felt it was best to stay out of it, besides neither of them were guarding

their plates anymore).

Good ole Genny.

"And who won last night against both o' you?" the boy continued.

"You cheated."

cheated," Akane

"You is getting better." Shan Pu said sincerely.  As annoying as it was to

get caught napping, it was a refreshing change for her to fight an opponent
her age she could not, in all frankness, play like a sitar.

Especially since she couldn't play the sitar worth a damn.

Ranma blinked in confusion and curiosity at the two elder
Tendo siblings, one smiling innocently and the other first widened her

eyes in shock then groaned as she realized how much her poker face slips
this time

slipped at that time

of morning.

"<Might as well tell him, Nabiki.>"

Nabiki,>"

 >

"Alright."

Alright,

Ranma glanced at the goings on and simply snickered, comforted by the

realization that two tomboys (whom, incidentally, he had to go nearly
all-out against to avoid getting clobbered by) and a creepy witch were
ordinary enough to squabble over petty annoyances.  #Nowhere near as weird
as Oyaji always said women were,#

Now that is a scary thought.

"Hopeless, _both_ of them hopeless" Akane grumbled as she took off after

them.  She wasn't interested in outracing either, noway unuh nosiree bob,
she just wanted to not be later to class than those embarrassments (yeah,
that's it).

Of course.

Kuno looked back on the surprised crowd and noticed a short girl eel her

way through smoothly.  As she seemed unfamiliar and was headed straight for
him he felt in appropriate to question her about the strange acrobats that
had just entered.

"Hold-" he began as he drew his shinai from his kendo practice garb and

swung it down to bar her path just as she slipped into view.

Hmm. Not sure if he would be quite that forceful with a new girl. I'd think
it's more likely he'd just stand in her path and block her way. Still,
Kunou is unpredictable.

"Gomenasai sampai," the blue-black haired girl said as she blushed

intensely (she didn't have as much reason to do so as she thought, Kuno
couldn't see past her shoe to her panties and the student body was too
amazed at her speed to notice),

Heh.

"You haven't changed a bit Kuno-chan."

chan,

observed a feminine voice behind the kendoist.  Tatewaki's reflexes took

over and proved rather serviceable as he spun around to strike down the one
who had somehow come upon him unnoticed, but since the weapon was missing
it's

its

"Kuno Tatewaki, 17-sai." the brown haired girl interrupted while her eyes

twinkled in amusement, "Also known as Tacchi

Two 'c's or one?

"That... that exquisite huntress... was thy sister Akane?" Tatewaki

babbled, "And the graceful angel which preceded her, surely some scholar
among the peasants which pulled thee from the rubble come to learn among
us."

heh. Same ole' same

"Gosunkugi, did the fair one named Shampoo not claim kinship to both the

Tendos and the tribe called the Joketsuzoku?"

Oh dear.

"Nay!" Kuno proclaimed, "Shampoo's exotic grace.  Akane's innocent

gentleness.  To deny either of them my favors would be the height of
selfishness.  I would have them _BOTH_!!"

Yep. ^_^

"I thought my teacher had the only surviving trans- you mean you have the

original?" the man said in amazement, "You practice traditional medicine
too?"

Heh. They're hitting it off, I see.

"I bid thee greetings fair ones!" proclaimed Kuno from his place on the

schoolhouse steps, "I have informed the men before you of the Joketsuzoku
warriors' most sacred law, that all men must prove themselves in honorable
combat with thee ere they gain the honor of courting thee!"

Naturally. At least he's justified in the morning challenges now. ^_^

"Still," Yuka said as she and Sayuri shared a knowing chuckle, "we should

try finding someone who wouldn't try the caveman approach and doesn't have
a problem with you being Chinese to fix you up with... oh Hiroshi-kun!"

Yeah. Right.

******

End of the Beginning

Too bad. I'd like to see this continued. Hope to see more if you come up
with something.

D.B. Sommer