The Teacher
Part 14
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Ryo Kagome smiled as he walked down the street, his life was going
remarkably well and he knew it wouldn't last long, especially once
Cologne got Shampoo going again. Strangely this did not bother him in the
least, he would have to make explanations to several different people
after the whole mess cleared up finally, but in the end everything was
perfect as it was now. He nodded to a passing couple as he turned and saw
his destination. Tightening his grip on his brief case he wandered into
the offices of Dr. Ono Tofu.
"Mr. Kagome, what brings you here? Is Torako feeling well?" the man
smiled cheerfully as he greeted the much larger man and led him into the
back office.
"No, no...nothing like that I'm afraid." Ryo tried his best to keep his
face professional. "Not very busy today Tofu?"
"Oh, no not really, flu season is over and I usually only get a few
minor aches and pains, along with the martial artist in the area," the
doctor walked over to his sink and started to make tea. "So, what brings
you?"
"Actually I have a favor to ask of you? How would you like to teach a
class up at Furinkan starting next week for a semester?" Tofu raised his
eyebrow and sat across from the man with a confused look. "The classes
would be twice a week."
"What's the subject?" asked the doctor.
"This is," Ryo slid the man a packet and saw a strange creep onto his
face as he read it.
"Well, I suppose, any in particular reason you wanted me to do this?"
asked Tofu warily.
"Well, I know you're pretty frank and professional; I don't need some
government moron in my school talking about virtues and giving useless
information, plus the fact that you are a trusted physician in the Nerima
area." Ryo smiled at the reaction he got.
"I'm flattered, I suppose I could take a little time away from my
practice and help you out. You are aware that this could upset quite a
few people, especially the more traditional families...."
"I am very much aware of that, but Furinkan has been chosen as a test
market of sorts. No matter what I do they'll send someone, but I'd rather
get an early start, I was hoping you'd substitute until then. We will pay
you of course," said Ryo calmly. "We have a budget for this sort of
thing."
"That's good to hear," said Tofu with a grateful look on his face.
On their way home from Furinkan, Ranma and Akane glanced over their
shoulders nervously and noticed the girl was still there, glaring at
them. "I wish she'd quit following us," grumbled the boy.
"Why is she still there? She's been like that for two weeks!" said Akane
as she spared another glance back at the Amazon.
"She says it's so you don't escape," offered Torako, she had been
ignoring the whole affair.
"From what? She can't do anything!" said Ranma with an even more annoyed
look on his face.
"She's hoping that the Amazons will rule for her to continue the hunt.
With my daddy involved it's unlikely, he's got something up his sleeve,"
the tiger girl spared a glance back at her cousin and smiled as the girl
gave her a friendly wave.
"I'm just glad she goes home with you at night, it's creepy," said Akane
as she started to move in front of her fianc�e.
"I do the same thing Akane," said the girl with a slightly mischievous
smile.
"Yea, but not all day!"
Ranma shook his head and sighed as he gave Shampoo a sidelong glance.
"You aren't hiding from anyone in those bushes you know."
"I'm not hiding, If I didn't want you to see me you'd never know I was
here," replied the girl as she poked her head out from a small patch of
shrubbery glaring at him angrily.
"Whatever," snorted Ranma.
"Who said I go home every night?" said the Amazon to him as he turned,
he frowned when he noticed she had vanished. Akane looked back and
shivered slightly.
"Ranma, this is driving me insane! Do something!"
"Like what? She hasn't done anything yet," Ranma turned away and looked
towards Torako.
"She isn't lying, she's only come home with me twice this week," the
girl took her turn and walked towards her own house.
Ranma and Akane glared at her in silence for a moment before continuing
onward.
A few hours later at the Tendo home, Ryo sat with his friends as they
pondered over a board game on the porch. "Arrghh! Boardwalk again?" spat
the man as he looked at Genma with an angry snarl.
"Kagome, how goes your daughter's engagement?" asked Soun.
"Huh? She seems happy," he replied with a shrug.
Ryoga tore through the Tendo yard screaming as Torako appeared behind
him with a whip in her hands, she was dressed in a pair of daisy duke
shorts and a halter top, with sick inch black pumps. "But darling! I
thought you liked playing wild kingdom!"
Ranma looked up as Ryoga Hibiki stood with his back to the door in his
room peering out of the crack. "Ranma, you've got to..."
"What's wrong now P-chan?" asked Ranma with a smirk appearing on his
face.
"Sh-she keeps trying to rape me!" gasped the lost boy as he clutched his
torn shirt against his chest keeping himself covered.
"So? You are engaged Ryoga," said Ranma with a sigh.
"Damn you! You don't understand, she'll kill me if I let her! She likes
whips and chains!" Ranma went pale as an image of Ryoga chained to the
wall appeared in his head.
Ranma looked at him and frowned, "What do you want me to do about it?"
"Hide me! You've got to! This is all your fault after all!" Ryoga
grabbed the boy by his shirt and lifted him off the floor.
"Hey! Leggo!" cried Ranma as he pushed the boy away.
Akane sat across from her friend with a completely red face, Torako was
lying across the floor with a half asleep look on her face. "Six inch
heels Tora-chan?"
"I was only joking Akane," said the girl as she tossed her whip off into
a corner of the room.
"Did you see what you did to his shirt?" gasped the girl.
"He got caught in a tree branch," explained the girl with a shrug.
"Still, I wouldn't think you'd be so forward! You shouldn't be doing
things like that when you're not married yet!" cried Akane with worry
written on her face.
"Certainly!" agreed Kasumi looking equally scandalized.
"Oh, come off it, I haven't done anything. If I did my daddy would smell
it right away. Just like I can smell it on him right now!" she turned
away from the group looking insulted and continued. "I mean poor Ryoga,
I'd have to catch him first and he's really fast, besides he passes out
every time I force him to look at me naked. Just the other day I made him
sit in my room while I changed for school so he wouldn't get lost. You
wouldn't believe how long it took me to get the stains out of my carpet!"
she stopped suddenly when she realized no one was paying attention to her
any longer.
Ryo was frozen with his game piece held over the board in mid turn. He
turned slowly around and stared at her noticing everyone was looking at
him with questioning and innocent smiles. "Uh, I um..." Finally he shook
his head and smiled. "It's the lady who was with me at the skating match,
she and I are getting pretty serious now."
"You-your seeing someone Kagome-kun?" asked Soun with a shocked look on
his face.
"Umm, yea," answered the man as he finally placed his game piece down.
"Well?" asked Genma and Nabiki in unison as they both leaned in towards
him.
"Well what? We just started seeing each other," cried Ryo defensively.
"Doesn't smell like it to me," said Torako with a frown appearing on her
lips.
"Don't be obnoxious Ko-neko..." said Ryo as he grabbed his daughter by
her cheeks and pulled at her face.
"Owie! Ok, ok!" cried the girl in pain.
"Besides, it's not polite to ask a lady about such things," Ryo suddenly
became very demure and blushed slightly. He turned and gave the shocked
room a small wink. "Well, I have been a woman for more than sixteen years
you know."
Nabiki turned away with a sick look on her face followed by the rest of
the room. Ryo smirked to himself and sat down at the game finishing the
rest of it in relative silence.
A few minutes later Ranma dragged Ryoga down the stairs forcefully.
"Come on you big baby!" he said as Ryoga pulled part of the rail off and
sent them both tumbling down the stairs.
"I don't wanna face my fears damn it! I'm afraid of them!"
Torako was curled up in a ball and sleeping in the middle of the floor.
She perked up and looked at them causing Ryoga to back away nervously.
She rubbed at her eyes lazily and turned back towards the television.
The lost boy relaxed visibly and walked calmly over to the table and sat
next to his fianc�e's dad. Torako smiled slightly and stood up walking
almost as if she was sleep walking, she plopped down in his lap and hung
her arms around his neck smiling contentedly. Ryoga made no move to stop
her and she buried her head in his neck.
"I'm tired P-chan," muttered the girl. He looked at her with a somewhat
angry and strangely affectionate glare.
"Hey, a minute ago you where afraid she was gonna kill you!" snapped
Ranma as he finally recovered from falling down the stairs.
"I know," said Ryoga with a heavy sigh. "When she's like this I don't
have anything to...Why the hell am I telling you this?! I'm going to send
you to hell...just as soon as my girlfriend wakes up."
Ranma stood and shook his head as he walked out of the room. Ryo watched
the whole exchange and smirked to himself. Torako had the Hibiki boy
wrapped around her finger, just as a true Amazon should.
The next day at Furinkan the students walked around the campus
conversing amongst themselves. Akane noticed something was a bit more
animated than usual, "What's going on?"
Hiroshi and Daisuke smiled as they walked up to Ranma and elbowed him in
the ribs. "Hey, Saotome. You got that new class today?"
"Huh? New class?" Ranma looked at his schedule and frowned as a long
column of numbers indicated the new classes he had to attend starting
today.
"Huh, he does have it, but it's last period," said Hiroshi. "I hear the
teacher is a real nice guy, kind of a bore though."
"There's a new class?" asked Akane looking bewildered.
Yuka and Sayuri looked at her in shock. "Akane, you had to get your
parents to sign a form so you could take it, everyone who didn't has to
take gym."
"Oh, that's probably what Ranma did then," she frowned slightly at the
thought of her fianc�e slacking off. He was off with his own friends at
the moment and they where laughing like idiots.
"Aww, man! You mean I could have taken a Gym class instead?!" Ranma was
not happy at the moment.
"Uh, Ranma, you are aware of what you're saying right?" asked Hiroshi as
he stared at his friend in shock.
"Yea, I mean...gym class instead of this?" Daisuke looked at his
schedule and frowned slightly. "I wish my parents had let me take gym
instead too."
"See," said Ranma as he looked at Hiroshi with a smirk.
"I think you're both nuts."
Ranma, Akane, and Torako found themselves sitting together, in their
last class of the day.
"What's this about?" asked Ranma impatiently.
"I don't know, daddy is starting a new class for the sophomores," said
Torako with a shrug.
"Hey, it's Dr. Tofu," said Akane.
Ranma noticed the look on her face and frowned at the man as he moved
behind the teacher's desk.
"Hello class, I am Dr. Ono Tofu, and I will be teaching you this
semester until a permanent replacement can be found. The subject for this
class is sex education we will begin by discussing the mechanics of the
act..." The doctor smiled to himself as he heard half the class lean
forward and stare at him in shock and anticipation.
Ranma, Akane, and Torako glanced at each other calmly and shrugged.
A half-hour later, the silence of Furninkan high school was cut as a
scream echoed through the hallowed halls. "I'VE GOT TO WHAT?!!"
Inside of Ono Tofu's classroom Ranma Saotome lay on the ground as pale
as a ghost as a short educational film played at the front of the class.
It was a scientific film showing close up views of penetration with
various explanations about what was happening to whom and what that meant
to the body. Half the class didn't care as the voice droned on and they
stared at it in perverted awe, the other half had frightened looks on
their faces as the word 'Pregnancy' came up a few times. Now all eyes
where on Ranma Saotome as he lay passed out on the floor, right next to
Torako Kagome.
Ryo stood up in shock and stared at his daughter with a completely
confused look on his face. "Ko-neko?"
Tofu sat with Ryo in the school clinic staring down Ryo angrily. "You
mean, you never told her?!"
"I-I thought she knew!" stammered the man in shock.
Ranma was sitting next to Akane giving her uncomfortable stares, Torako
was lying on a bed with a shocked and completely pale face.
"How could she have known if you never told her?" asked the man with a
small frown on his face.
"She watches a lot of television, and she has friends. I figured she
found out through one or the other, that's how I found out." Ryo hung his
head in shame and clutched his daughter's hand. "I'm sorry Ko-neko...I"
She turned and glared at him angrily. "DON'T TOUCH ME YOU MAN YOU!" he
reflexively pulled his hand away and stared at her in shock.
"N-no one is ever going to put one of those inside of me! I'll kill
anyone who tries!" she moved up to the head of the bed and curled up
snarling at the three males in the room.
"Tora-chan!" gasped Akane in confusion. "What happened?"
"Ranma I can understand his father didn't do anything but train him and
keep him pretty much a recluse during that time. It doesn't surprise me
that he wouldn't tell his son." Ryo frowned and poured a glass of water
over her head. "But, Torako always acted like she knew. She's been very
aggressive with her fianc�e, I didn't see the need to talk with her about
it."
"What about pregnancy or disease?" asked Tofu with a harsh frown.
"She's engaged, I saw no reason to bring it up. I've know them both a
long time, Ryoga wouldn't even if he could and she's so loyal it's scary
sometimes." The newly female Ryo sat at the foot of the bed and took her
daughter in her arms. Torako accepted and curled up in her lap like a
frightened child.
"We have to do something about this," said Tofu calmly as he tossed a
glass of water on Ranma, the boy didn't seem to notice, he was still in
his own mild state of shock. "She can't go on acting this way every time
a man touches her."
"I think they should both continue to take the classes," said Tofu with
a frown at the two children. "They obviously need it."
Ryo frowned as he looked back at Akane and Ranma, "I might have to move
back to Joketsuko," he thought to himself watching the girl escort her
fianc�e away.
A few hours after everyone had calmed down the three families sat around
the table looking completely lost. Torako had calmed down considerably
and was acting like her normal self again she sat between Ranma and
Akane. Ranma was also female at the moment. She seemed fine outwardly,
but Ryo knew better. She was shying away from Soun and Genma avoiding
them completely. She even moved if she was in one of their fields of
vision.
"This is bad Kagome," said Genma with a frown to his currently female
friend.
"Yes it is," agreed the man.
"How will you get an heir if your daughter is like that?" asked Soun
with a frown.
"That doesn't concern me, what bothers me most is Torako's violent
tendencies, she could lash out at any male she comes into contact with.
It's going to take a while to get her used to the idea. I also feel sorry
for Ryoga, the poor boy is going to be devastated," as if on cue the lost
boy wandered into the house.
"Excuse me, would you tell me where the Kagome house is?" he looked
around and smiled as he recognized everyone in the room. "Mr. Kagome, I
brought this from...I'm not sure, it's for Torako," he handed the man an
elaborately decorated fan.
"Uh, Ryoga this isn't a good time too..." said Ryo as he glanced back at
his daughter.
"P-chan!" squealed the girl as she dashed into his arms and tackled him
to the ground. Ryoga dropped like a rock and froze up under her grip.
"I uh..."stammered the boy.
The tiger girl seemed to remember something and she stared at her
fianc�e with a battle aura forming around her. "Ryoga, what's that?"
Ryoga looked down and blushed. "It's nothing! I..."
Torako pulled a mallet of doom over her head and smiled darkly. "Ryoga,
YOU PERVERT!" she promptly nailed him over the head and sent him crashing
into the koi pond.
Ryo stared at the scene in shocked terror, he glanced over at Akane and
Ranma and saw them sitting quietly together, both completely calm and
serene.
"No! Not my daughter! I've turned her into..." the woman hung her head
with a completely shocked and frightened glare at the ground. "It isn't
too late, I can fix this...I hope."
She found himself walking through the rain on his way home, Torako was
planing on spending the night with Akane and for once she was grateful.
Ryoga wasn't phased much by the new Torako, in fact he didn't seem to
notice any difference; and she still seemed favorable towards him so it
was possible she could be cured of her new phobia, but he was also aware
that there wasn't much he could do about it. Ryoga had the best chance of
helping his daughter, and he really didn't want to return to Joketsuko
unless he had to.
He frowned when he came to the door of his house, standing in the rain
watching him was Makoto, she was soaking wet and appeared to be very
upset. Ryo slowly walked up to meet her with a look of concern on her
face. "Makoto, is something wrong?"
"R-Ryo!" the woman dashed forward and forced herself into his chest
bawling. "I-I'm sorry!" she gasped desperately.
"What? Tell me?" he said to her as he held her in his arms.
"I went to the doctors today, for an appointment I made a few weeks
ago..." she looked up at him and her eyes welled up with tears again as
she started to sob. "I'm pregnant!"
When it rains it pours...
TBC...
C&C to Carrotglace@juno.com
Gasp! How dare I cut this off right there?! I must be destroyed for my
insolence.
This was just down right evil, I'm not planning on changing Torako's
character, she's recovered a bit, but her reaction towards the advances
of males is a tad familiar now isn't it?
Poor Ryo has all kinds of problems heaping up in his lap all at one
time, but don't worry too much.
Next time: Ryo tries to help his daughter while dealing with a new
problem; and Shampoo attempts to convince her cousin to return to
Joketsuko. Will Akane be able to keep her best friend from running away,
and would she take Mr. P with her?
What happens when the message from Joketsuko appears in the middle of the
mess?
Boy I could go on for hours with questions about this one...