Ok, I've given this a quick once over, it has problems but it's
a concept I don't mind seeing pursued.
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, "X-ile" <tapham@vt.edu> wrote:
***Author's notes***
This is one of my first attempts at fanfiction. I'm working on three
other stories in conjunction with this one. This is a cross over of
Ranma � and Tenchi Myuo OVA, not the Tenchi Universe. The story of
Ranma takes place after the battle on Phoenix Mountain and before the
fiasco-wedding attempt. After they return to Nerima, the other
fianc�es have triple their effort to win Ranma and much to Akane
irritation. As for Tenchi, it's after the last episode of the OVA.
Ok, so in this story Soun doesn't get the barrel of Nanichuan
after the battle. That was what he used to convince Akane to go
through with the wedding.
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<SNIP>
He didn't say anything, but merely nodded and dragged his feet toward
the furo. Placing himself in the warm water, he slowly became aware
of his surrounding. < I'm here with mom. Away from all the craziness
of my life. > Closing his eyes and relaxing, he played over some of
Actually Ranma likes the craziness in Nerima. Or at least
that's how he's portrayed in the Manga. Akane's apparent death at
Phoenix Mountain combined with the fact that he tried and apparently
succeded in killing someone would be more likely to make him concerned
about his life.
the events in his life for the past year. < It's been over a year and
nothing changed. I wanted to do something about it, but couldn't. I
tried to correct my mistakes, but people interfered. What can I do
now? > He sighed and tried to think of his coming talk with his mom.
< I hope Mom can help me with this. She's the only one I can turn to
right now. I just hope it works out ok. > After half an hour of
soaking in the furo, Ranma pulled his courage together to go talk with
his mom. < Now or never, I guess. >
Ranma isn't the sort who turns to anyone unless he has
absolutely no choice. Of course if he was still not quite over the
shock from Phoenix Mountain he might be more trusting.
<SNIP>
"I.I made a promise to someone and since then regretted it. The
promise have been use against me numerous times and I've been tempted
to break it."
"Ranma, if the promise cause you or anyone pain, it's not worth
keeping."
"But, if I break the promise, how honorable can that be?"
"Being honorable can mean many things. A promise is only good if the
members involve act honorably. Otherwise, it's no longer a promise
worth keeping. When one person uses that promise against another
knowingly, that person broke the agreement and therefore the promise.
Do you understand?"
Wait a second, is this the same Nodoka who'd make Ranma and
Genma commit seppoku if Ranma didn't measure up to her standards of
manliness? Frankly she would be the one person with the most
absolutist attitude toward honor of the entire cast.
"Yeah, I think so." Looking up at his mother, "Mom, I need a new
start away from here. Please, can you help me?"
"Of course, I can. But what about your current problems?"
"Well, I've been thinking about it a lot and I have a plan."
"Good, lets hear it."
"First, I need to get rid of the Kunos. I think I can convince the
hospital to take them for examination on their sanity or the lack of.
Second, I want to form some legal documents and have the Amazons ship
back to China for all their involvement. Third, I want to break off
all engagements."
Boy he is SERIOUSLY rocked by Phoenix mountain.
"Are you sure that is wise? To break off the engagements?"
Who cares about wisdom? The engagements are about family
honor, so Ranma must honor them. Besides a son who's snared 4 women at
once is so manly.
"I think so. It seems to be the key to all of this. I know some,
er.all of them, will be upset and probably piss, but I need to do
this."
"Very well, I'll take care of that. Who are you engaged to?"
"Well, there's Ukyou. Pop engaged us when I was about 7 and stole her
yatti which was supposed to be the dowry. Now she wants to marry
because it will restore her honor."
"Do you want to marry her?"
"N.No. She's my best friend and will always be and I can't see her
any other way. I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I don't see any
way out of this."
That's an overreaction. Ukyo's a friend, and there's no
evidence that Ranma likes her more than he likes Shampoo, or Ryouga for
that matter.
"Who else?"
"Akane. She's engage to me since our birth. Though I like her a lot,
I think my feelings are wavering in the past few weeks. I'm not sure
how I feel about her any more. She constantly hits me before allowing
me to explain. I constantly get into trouble because of a promise I
made, too. I like to start over with Akane, but with everyone else
around I don't have a chance."
You're drawing on the Fanfiction cliche characterisation of
Akane. She does sometimes hit Ranma when Ranma makes her mad, but by
the end of the storyline, the majority of those incidents are
deliberate provocations on Ranma's part. To see if she cares enough
about him to react.
"What is this promise?"
Ranma hesitated, but continuing, "When I was in Junior High School, I
met this boy, Hibiki Ryouga. One day, he challenged me to a fight.
When I showed up, he wasn't there and I waited three days before Pops
drag me off on the fourth, which he showed up. He blames to for
running out on the fight and follow me. The next time we met, I
accidentally knocked him over a cliff while chasing Pop for cursing
me. He later caught up with me at the Tendo where I found out about
his curse. I made a promise to keep his curse a secret, but I didn't
know he was going to use it against me."
"Is he the pet pig Akane always carries around?"
Carried, Ryouga was waffling between Akane and Akari since he
met Akari, and at Phoenix Mountain he decided to devote himself
entierly to Akari.
<SNIP>
"My grandfather?"
"Yes, Masaki Kameda, my father. He lives at the Masaki Shrine with
his grandson, Tenchi. You remember him don't you?"
"Tenchi..Tenchi" Suddenly, his eyes lit up in recognition.
"Tenchan."
"That's correct. The two of you were very close. You spent a lot of
time playing together every time we visited."
Um, Ranma doesn't have a very good memory for events,
especially the ones that happened over ten years ago. And the Training
trip would have meant that the last of these visits had to be when
Ranma was five at the latest.
<SNIP>
"You're welcome, Ranma. I'm sorry you've been put through all of
this. It's time we did something to correct it. You certainly have
grown up to be man amongst men, Ranma. I'm very proud of you."
Well not trying to score with all the women he's engaged to is
a mark against his Manliness...
<SNIP>
Ryouga grinned at the announcement. "Ha.The coward ran away just as I
thought." Nodoka also heard his comments. < There's no stopping me
>from being with Akane now. >
<But wait, what about Akari? At Mount Phoenix I pledged my heart
to be hers alone! But Ranma's cast Akane aside! Akane, Akari, WHICH
WILL I CHOOSE?!>
Mousse didn't say anything and smiled at the opportunities to win his
Shampoo.
Mousse isn't the quiet type.
"Please, everyone. Calm down and let me finish." Everyone calm down
a bit but still frustrated. "Thank you."
"Now, as I was saying. Ranma broke off all engagements. This does
not matter how it was formed in the beginning." [pause] "I have here
are some documents signed my Ranma. Because of my foolish husband
actions and his continuous dishonor to the Saotome name, I have pass
the honor to Ranma, who is now the head of the Saotome Clan which
gives him the rights and priviledges to make any decisions that will
affect the Clan." A lot of people gasped at the news.
I find it hard to believe Nodoka has that sort of power. Or
that if she had the power to judge Genma for dishonoring the clan she
wouldn't demand that he commit Sepoku as the most effective way to
clense that dishonor.
< Yes. If Ranchan is head of Clan, then he's honor bound to marry me
for sure. >
< Husband head of Clan make Amazon strong. >
"Now, please take a look at the document as they are given to you."
The men in suit handed Akane, Ukyou, Shampoo, Cologne, and Nabiki an
envelope. Each took them and read.
"WHAT!!!!" The small group shouted in unison, except Cologne and
Nabiki.
Ukyou was up on her feet glaring at Nodoka. "You can't be serious.
Ranchan belongs to me. I'm his cute fianc�."
That bit of characterisation's accurate.
<SNIP>
Still smiling, Akane said, "This is what I think of you." She drew as
much saliva as she could gather and shot it at him and walked away
without looking back.
Akane's the sort who gets mad, and then gets over it. Anger is
very much in her characterisation, long term hatered is not. Of course
everything with Ryouga would make her blow like Vesuvious and retain a
hair trigger temper toward him for weeks, but she'd forgive him.
Though she'd probably never trust him again.
"No! Akane-san! This is all Ranma's fault. He broke his promise.
He has no honor."
Way to much Rationality. If Ryouga thought he'd lost Akane
he'd collapse in misery then start raging against Ranma "It's all your
fault!"
Akane stopped in her track, without turning, she said, "You have no
honor. You used my friendship, arrogant, and stubbornness to get
close to me and turned me against Ranma. Whatever friendship we had
is no more and will never be. You are no longer welcome in the house
of Tendo." She quickly left the room and headed to the back of the
house.
Not Akane at all. She'd just hit him and yell insults at him
before kicking him into the distance.
<SNIP>
"I'm Masaki Ayeka. Nice to meet you Saotome-san."
"Masaki Ayeka? I didn't know Tenchan had any sister."
Hmm, considering that Yosho took his name after Ayeka's mother,
Ayeka might have called herself Funaho after Yosho's mother.
<SNIP>
"Ranchan, would you mind telling me what's going?"
Ranma sighed and shook hi head in disbelieves. "Might as well."
Looking back up at everyone, he continued, "I've been training in
martial arts since I could walk. One day, my old man decided to teach
me a new technique call the Neko-ken."
At that instance, Grandpa lifted his head and his eyeglass cleared.
"Any way, he found this manual and followed it.The old fool didn't
even read the page that said it was ban."
"So, how did he teach you?" inquired Tenchi.
"He wrapped me in fish sausage and tossed me in a pit full of hungry
c.c..a"
"Cats?" answered Washu.
"Yeah, those things."
"That's awefull."
"What's so scary about some stupid cats?" asked the space pirate.
Nothing, it's being raked and bitten by them in a dark cave
that's scary
"Nothing to an adult."
"H.How old were you then?" asked Sasami, nervously.
"Six."
No he was 10.
"SIX!" chorused the group around the table. Even Washu and grandpa
were stunned by it.
"Yeah..when it comes to martial arts, there's not much the old fool
wouldn't do to teach me a new technique."
"So, is this why you develop a fear of cats?" asked Washu.
Ranma reply flatly. "Yeah."
"heheh.at least you only have to do that once."
Ranma raised his brow and stared at Tenchi. "Once? Who said he did
it just once."
"WHAT??" the group cried again.
"When he tossed me in the first time, I didn't learn it right away so
he wrapped me in fish sticks, cat nibbles, and other stuffs and threw
me in a few more times. Eventually, I snap."
Ranma's saying WAY to much about this. At least he's saying to
much without prompting. Ranma never talks about his problems unless
their breathing down on his kneck. Even then he'll try to just give
the minimal explination he can get away with.
<SNIP>
Everyone grasp except Grandpa and Washu. In the case of Grandpa, it
was more of an understanding. But for Washu, she was delighted. She
had a child like gleam in her eyes that said 'this going to be fun.'
"The curse is water activated. Cold water activates the curse and hot
water neutralizes it." To demonstrate, he dumped the other glass. "I
fell in the spring of drown girl. According to the guide there, a
girl drowned in that spring some 1500 years ago. So who ever falls
into the spring will turn into a girl when hit with cold water."
"Ranma-niichan, are there other springs?"
"Yeah, about a hundred of them. Some will cause you to change
physically while others will affect you mentally. There's the spring
of drowned panda, duck, pig, and others. There's also spring of
downed virtuous man."
Too much unprompted talk on Ranma's side.
"Ranchan, is there a cure?"
"I don't know. I tried several times to find a cure, but none of them
worked or was only temporarily."
Actually he does know that the Nanichuan will cure him, he's
just never gotten ahold of the real article.
<SNIP>
"Of course. I'm the great Washu." Washu started laughing while
placing her arms at her waist. "You have to call me Washu-chan
though."
"Er.sure Washu-chan," Ranma sweated.
Big sweat drop formed on everyone head except for Ranma who was
confused. Before he could say anything, Washu grabbed Ranma and
pulled him into the closet. We could here Ranma screaming from the
dimensional closet
"Hey.where you taking me. let me go."
"Don't worry Ranma-chan..if it doesn't work, we'll still have lots of
fun."
"FUN!? What do you mean by that?"
"You'll see."
"Hey don't. Hey, give that back. I'm warning you...I say stop.
No.don't. Stop! No.No..don't do that. Hey.get that thing away from
me...Why does these things always happens to me!?!"
"Oh boy. I better go to make sure Ranchan is still in one piece."
Suddenly, an explosion vibrated from the closet and smokes leaked out.
Stepping out of the door, Ranma and Washu are on the floor coughing.
"Ranma, are you ok?"
"Ranma-niichan."
Waving his hand to dismiss the others, he stood up and walked to the
back door. "I'm ok. I.I just need a little walk." With that said,
he jogged away from the house.
"Washu-chan, what did you do?"
"Nothing really."
"Then what's the explosion?"
"Oh.that's Ranma-chan."
"Ranchan?"
"Yep. It seems that he's quite powerful."
Unless you've really upgraded Ranma's abilities, you might want
to rethink that. Tenchi and Ryoko could take out Japan with one attack
if they wanted, and she could easialy make a planet killing weapon.
Maybe she should just mention that Ranma's Bio Energy utelisation was
something she'd never expected to see from a human.
<SNIP>
"NO. It's not. I blame Ranma because it was so easy. I blame him
because I didn't want to be wrong. I blame him because I didn't want
Ryouga to be wrong." [sobbing] "DAMN THAT PIG. He made me look like a
fool. He used me like I was some toy of his. He used me to get some
sick pleasured out of being with me. He used me to hurt Ranma.."
[tearing] "And I let him because I wanted to blame Ranma."
No, she let Ranma get her mad because A: it let them both avoid
dealing with their feelings, and B: because she knew that Ranma was
trying to provoke her to see if he cared enough about her to
<SNIP>
"Yes, it is. In his letter, he said that he had tried to make things
worked between us, but I didn't trust him. Now he's tire of
everything." [starts crying again.] "He said that he cares for me
once, but in the last few weeks, he's not sure anymore." [sobbing]
"What have I done? How do I get him to trust me again?"
Unless you've severely warped the past Ranma has no reason to
distrust Akane. And you are really going to have to come up with some
incredible circumstances to make the weeks after phoenix mountain impact
Ranma like that.
<SNIP>
At the edge of the lake, Ranma was practicing his katas. Sasami
stopped at the edge of the forest to watch Ranma. After a while,
Ranma stopped sat in a lotus position and closed his eyes.
Hmm, not only has Ranma started learning or making up katas but
he's started meditating as well.
<SNIP>
"Yes. Please calm down Ranma-niichan. She's not a cat. You just
have to remember that. She's not a cat."
Actually I remember reading that the intention of Tenchi's
creaters was that this version of Ryo-ohki is part cat. The story is
that while Ryoko was in the cave, one year Tenchi found a dying cat and
tried to nurse it back to health. Ryoko was able to divert some of her
power to revive it and keep it healthy, but when she was revived, she
couldn't maintain the link and the cat started to die. So she took it
and merged it with Ryo-Ohki. Which is why Ryo-Ohki generation 2 hatched
to look like she did.
<SNIP>
"Er.ok. it's started over a year ago when I first met the Tendo and
found out that I was engage." Ranma spent the rest of the evening
telling them all the adventures, enemies, friends, fianc�es, and
battles he fought. "..the last battle was against Saffron, the
phoenix king, on Mountain Phoenix. After that, I thought things would
get better, but everyone seems more determine to keep me to
themselves. As a result, Akane became more distrustful and jealous
and our fights got worst. At a time, I thought I really care about
her, but I'm not so sure any more. That's why I told Mom I need to
start over and that's how I ended up here."
At Phoenix Mountain Akane heard Ranma admit that he loved her,
confirming what she's had plenty of reason for suspecting for a very
long streach. The only reason their fights would get worse is if Ranma
were so afraid of dealing with what happened on Phoenix Mountain that he
pumped the Jerk factor to the max.
<SNIP>
"But Grandpa, doesn't Ranma need something like the Tenchi-ken to
channel his power?"
Wait your mixing the Tenchi TV series and OAV series. In the
OAV series, Tenchi's self contained LightHawk Wing power is unique to
him. The Tenchi-ken and Ayeka's headband channel power from the Royal
trees(And thus from Tsunami). That's why Tenchi threw away Tenchi-ken
in OAV 6, because instead of relying on an outside power he had to use
the power within him.
And for that matter how do Yosho and Washu know that Ranma has
any sort of power himself? In Tenchi's case he's probably seen a few
signs over the years he's been training him, and possibly gotten some
tips from Tsunami and Funaho(The tree not his mother). Likewise In OAV7
when Washu was scanning Tenchi and had all the samples and data (Except
the all important sperm sample:) She had commented that everything
seemed normal. She might have figured out a few ways to id that sort of
power from her studies of Tenchi, but I doubt she could have spotted in
in Ranma from a few basic scans.
<SNIP>
Ranma rushed back to the bedroom and quickly came back down with
wrapped package. He removed the wrapping and opened the case. There
lies the family heirloom of the Masaki. The katana is intricately
design. There is one dominant symbol on the hilt of the sword, a
dragon. Lifting the sword he carefully examine it. He found at the
bottom of the hilt what looked like a button. Pressing it, the blade
of the katana fell out of the hilt and onto the floor. Startled by
the sudden release of the blade, several people jumped from their
seats. Curious, Ranma held the hilt like Tenchi and concentrated. He
could feel his aura flickering to life and then opened his eyes. He
was surprise to say the least. Unlike the Tenchi-ken which was a thin
blade, his match the fallen blade on the floor exactly. It also glows
a deeper blue with a mix of crimson red. His sword was longer and
wider than the Tenchi-ken. Swinging the sword around a few times, he
noticed that it was extremely light and responsive.
Well that does explain why she carried it around despite not
knowing how to use it. Still it would probably make more sense if the
blade turned out to be made from Heizan-Super(Taping the Manga)
<SNIP>
"The sword is fine, but I've trained in unarm combat. Any weapons
will only hinder my attacks."
No, he's trained in unarmed combat, and weapon combat as an
extension of that. Anything goes means he incorperates anything and
everything usefull to get the job done.
<SNIP>
Ranma took the blade and inserted it back into the hilt. After
hearing a click, the blade was securely in place.
Ah, slayers refference.
"Sasami, why don't you start serving diner."
"Sure thing oneechan."
At the diner table, the gang discussed their adventures and about
various topics in there lives. There were lots of laughter's and good
cheers. Ranma forgot about his problems and enjoyed his new home.
***Somewhere in space***
"My Lady. There is a new reading registering with the Masaki."
"I am aware of that. It seems the Dragon of Jurai is about to be
awaken."
"Yes, My Lady. It is best if we intercept now before it's fully
awaken."
"Very well. Send Katasan after them and bring our 'guest' here."
"Yes, My Lady.
Hmm, and now Tokimi enters the picture. Though I wonder how she
knows about Ranma, or at least why she shared it with her underling.
****
[End of chapter 1]