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part21: The evil wakes
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Ranma-chan walked purposefully along the fence towards his home when he
heard strange cries coming from around the corner. "Akane!"
'EEEEEEEEE'
"Akane!"
'Get it off me!'
"Akane" ...
Akane stared in a kind of disgusted awe at this strange creature groping
her friends; then it turned its attention to her. "AKANEEEEE!" it yelled
she closed her eyes and braced herself.
"HAPPOSAI!" yelled another female voice, the girl opened her eyes to see
Ranma pinning the thing down to the ground. "You keep your hands off her
you perverted letch!" she yelled. It twisted out and tried to grope Ranma
only to get punched in the face.
He turned away "You're Soun Tendo's daughter all right so high
spirited," he said tapping his back.
"You know my father?" asked Akane with an odd look on her face.
Happy looked at her. "You mean you really are Soun's Daughter?"
"You have some explaining to do Happosai," said the pigtailed girl
angrily.
"You know him Ranma?" asked Akane.
Happosai looked at her "You know me Ranma?" he repeated.
"Akane, I'd like you to meet Happosai Grand Master of the Anything Goes
School of Martial Arts," he said calmly.
Akane Gasped. Happy smiled at her "so you've heard of me cutie?" he said
with a lecherous look in his eyes.
"Sure, you trained both our parents," happy just looked at her. "I'm
Ranma Saotome."
Happy looked at her for a moment. "I thought Genma had a boy," he said
in confusion.
"He did," said Ranma with a smile.
Akane looked oddly at Ranma for a moment. "Anything Goes?
Both...our...parents..." she said dumbly. "How could I not see it? Am I
that blind?" her mind ran back to all the fights She had seen Ranma in.
"You practice the Anything Goes School?" she said aloud.
"Yea, I thought you knew..." he said looking at her oddly.
"You never said anything," said Akane with a distant look in her eyes.
"You've seen me fight lots of times," said Ranma with a slightly
confused look on his face.
Happy looked at Ranma and Akane for a long moment, "Lets go see my old
students," he said cheerfully. "You can carry me!" he cried leaping at
Ranma's chest, only to meet her fist.
Happosai hung back with Ranma and watched her tentatively. "So you're
really Genma's boy, eh?" he said looking her over.
"You can see through my curse?" she asked looking at him with mild
surprise.
"Sure! I ain't lived this long for nothin sonny. Calm down boy, your
battle aura's goin full blast, I ain't gonna rush ya," he said in his
silly 'I'm just a harmless old man' voice.
Ranma blinked "I am calm," he said looking at Happy with the bleak
confusion setting in again.
Happy squinted his eyes and almost gasped in awe, but managed to keep it
hidden. "If that's his calm aura...That boy has twice as much battle aura
as any man should be able to have and live!" Happosai smiled at him. "And
it's still undeveloped," finally he spoke "So Ranma tell me about
yourself," he said looking a little too cheerful.
"Hooo hooo hooo this is too rich! You beat that old windbag Genma and
are secretly dating Soun's daughter who you're supposed to be engaged to?
HA HAH HAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh! I can't take it!" cried Happosai as he rolled on
the ground.
"Keep it down old man Akane doesn't know!" Growled Ranma.
"Sorry Ranma my boy it's just too good, and don't worry I'll keep your
secret, It would be so much more fun not to tell. Just to watch those two
idiots fall all over each other...In exchange for one thing," said Happy
with a sly grin.
Ranma gave him a dark look, he knew it was a risk telling Happosai all
he did, but it was an even greater risk that he might figure it out on
his own or even help Soun keep him away from Akane. "What is it?"
"I want to train you to be the true heir to the Anything Goes School,"
said Happosai with a serious look.
"What?!!" said the girl in surprise.
"No, doubt you've heard the tale of how those two fools 'defeated' me,"
said the old man with a smirk. Ranma nodded. "Don't worry I'm not here
for revenge boy, I'm here to train my true heir to the school. I thought
it would have to be one of those two fools, you have beaten your father
from his right to that honor, and well, to be honest they would have
stuck you with it anyway seeing how Soun only has daughters." Happosai
was serious for almost five minutes when a large group of girls jogged
by, Ranma snagged his collar.
"You can chase women after we go see Mr.Tendo, I don't want to miss
this," said Ranma with a smirk.
"Not even for a little while?" whined Happy. Ranma sighed.
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part22: The great reunion.
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Ryoga sighed as he walked out of Ucchans. "Argh! That stupid uncute
tomboy! All I wanted was directions. Its not my fault she exposed herself
to win that fight!" he rubbed his head a little from where Ukyo had hit
him with that damn spear, It didn't hurt but it was starting to itch.
"Now where does Ranma-sensei live?" he wondered as he looked around.
"Still she was pretty cute when she smiled when I first walked
in...before she recognized me." Ryoga ignored the small pain in his
chest.
"Ooh! That pervert! How dare he ask me for directions after staring at
me that way?!!" Ukyo was (not?) happy when the boy walked into her
restaurant. "Of course I was unhappy!" she chided herself. "He probably
just came to try to peek another look at her chest the pervert," she
growled. "Just you wait Ranma I'll get you for this and all those other
indignities! You've made my life hell!" she ranted as some customers
moved away from her. An elderly man looked at her side ways
"Your generating a lot of heavy Ki my friend," he said to her.
"What?" said Ukyo.
"I may be able to help you, if you wave the price of my meal," he said
with a small smile. Ukyo could tell that a smile was a strange thing to
see on this mans face.
Ranma laughed from his vantage point from a tree in the Tendo yard as he
watched his father and Soun fall all over each other in panic as Happosai
played with them. He would love to have seen it first hand but his father
would have seen him at the Tendo home and he was still feigning
ignorance.
"Don't worry boy's I'm not here for revenge," said Happosai as he
laughed from on top of them as they lay beaten beneath him.
"Y-your not?" said Soun looking hopeful.
"No, I'm here to train my true heir to the Anything Goes School," he
said cheerfully. Both men were packed and preparing to leave within
seconds. "Where are you going?" asked Happy.
"Why, were moving to China master," said Soun with a cheerful smile.
"My heir will not be one of you two," he said cheerfully, both men
looked relieved.
"I'll be training a young man I met on my way here, but I will need a
place to stay...You have a spare room don't you Tendo?" said Happy
looking at him.
"But master, Saotome has much more room..." started Tendo.
"If you think I'm letting him anywhere near my Nodoka-chan Tendo,"
Growled Genma as he grabbed his companion by his shirt.
"Saotome, I have three little girls to think about," sobbed Soun.
"I'll expect to see you here At least once a day Saotome. Don't think I'm
gonna let you slack on your studies I heard what happened to you, by your
own son no less," said Happosai with an evil grin.
Genma paled. "I'm sorry master!"
"Oh, no you don't that 'Crouch of the wild tiger' business of yours
won't get you out of this one, don't make me come and get you," scolded
Happosai.
"Yes, Master," said Genma looking Defeated.
Happy turned to Kasumi "Could you show Grandpa Happy to his room dearie."
He said sweetly.
"Certainly," she replied cheerfully. "Oh, my!" She said from half way up
the stairs.
"Sorry dearie! my hand slipped!" said Happy. Soun began to cry, again.
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part23: a turn for the worse
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"Ukyo been gone for week," grumbled Reiraku.
"She said she'd be back," replied Mousse in a tired voice. "We will save
Shampoo from marrying that monster who did that to her," Mousse was
sounding very motivated and very tired.
"I getting board, when we face Ranma? I tired waiting, Great Grandmother
say she make Ranma marry Shampoo soon," said Reiraku.
"In a few more days I will have mastered this technique and we can face
him then...with or without Ukyo," said the hidden weapons master.
"You only have until I can break the son in law to defeat him," said
Cologne "It seems he has a girlfriend, she must be taken care of. Soon he
will have nothing, and he will cling to Shampoo as his only hope for a
life!" she smiled at her plan. From the roof of the Cat cafe Ranma
frowned and crept away not even Cologne had felt his presence.
Later Ranma lay in his bed and sighed, "This is not good," he thought as
he lay in the pitch-black darkness. He felt something smooth and silky
pass over his chest and he froze. What ever it was it was trying to hide
something cold.
"Ranma," said a voice softly "die!" Ranma heard it grunt as he moved and
grabbed at the intruders arm his other hand moved instinctively up and he
touched its face. Ranma gasped, he turned and pinned the intruder to the
wall. The lights came on blinding him for a moment and the intruder tried
to struggle away taking advantage of this situation, but Ranma had
anticipated this.
"Ranma are you OK?" asked his mother as she entered the room expecting
her son to be having a nightmare. Instead she found her son pinning a
beautiful young girl to the wall of his room. She gasped and blushed.
Then he grabbed her hair and pulled back hard causing her to cry out in
pain. She was about to rush to pull her son off the poor girl when she
saw the long curved knife she held in her hands and something else, she
turned away with a look of horror on her face.
"What's going on?" said Genma. "Shampoo!" he said in horror looking at
the girl's face.
Ranma looked hard at Shampoo and growled at her "You tried to kill me.
You have some explaining to do."
ALAS WHAT A CRUEL PLACE THIS WOULD BE TO CUT AWAY....
Ukyo looked at the mess she had created before her. "I did it!" she
cried.
"Hmmm yes," said the old man with a small amount of disappointment
"looks like that was my last free Okonomiyaki."
"Ranma! Today is the day you breathe your last!" cried Ukyo in dark
triumph.
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Ranma pulled down hard on Shampoo's hair as his parents walked into his
room with looks of concern on their faces. Her thick bangs moved away
from her face revealing a long scar and an ugly white eye staring at him
coldly.
"You tried to kill me. You have some explaining to do...Reiraku," he
said coolly.
Shampoo growled at him, "you did to me!" she said pointing at the scar
on her face "I get revenge. I was beautiful once now I... look at me!!!"
she screamed at Ranma. "I die before I marry you."
"Release her groom," said an aged voice. "I will tell you of how
'Reiraku' came to be, in exchange for her life," she noticed Ranma had
turned the knife in Shampoo's hand on her throat. "She will not attack
you."
Ranma eyed her coldly. "All right,."
"Go Shampoo, we will discuss your actions later, you know *you* should
never have attacked him," Cologne scolded. Shampoo looked at Ranma with a
venomous gaze and left. "Now where to begin....
FLASH BACK: THE AMAZON VILLAGE. This scene is totally in Chinese except
for <>.
Cologne watched in horror as Ranma raised her arm in the spiral uppercut
and called the sleeping dragon. 'HI RYUU SHOUTEN HA!!'
"No!" she cried as Shampoo was thrown violently into the air.
Ranma shifted inside the blast he couldn't see much and it was difficult
to move around without getting caught in the blast. <I should feel
drained...but I don't,> he thought as he stood in the nexus of the blast.
Shampoo struggled in the blast barely holding on to her conciseness as
she moved upwards. "I won't lose," she thought as she turned downward and
started to move down. Ranma looked up as the blast reached its peak only
to see Shampoo directly above him with her Bonbori raised. She swung
downward. Ranma met it with his finger, and the Bonbori exploded in her
face sending her flying up into the blast. Ranma braced himself and leapt
from the blast.
Shampoo woke three days later and saw her family looking solemnly at
her. "Did I win?" she asked already knowing the answer. Her father
looked at her and shook his head slowly.
"My daughter," he said softly. She turned to face Cologne, "Then I am to
marry him?"
"Yes," Replied Cologne.
"So at last I am defeated by a worthy opponent," she thought with a
small amount of relief that he was her own age and reasonably good
looking. "My head hurts," she commented. It was too much, her mother ran
from the home. "What is wrong?"
"I-it is better to see," replied her father looking sadly at her.
Shampoo looked into the mirror and started to scream.
Shampoo looked out over the cliffs. "So I will die like this," she
laughed with the irony, she had laughed at other women who found their
engagements unacceptable and met dishonorable death at the cliffs surely
that was not for her, and yet here she was. "To marry the man who did
this to me."
"Shampoo stop," said Cologne from directly behind her.
"I will die before I marry him," said Shampoo to the elder.
"Because you were injured, there is yet another way, although you may
prefer death. Still I feel you should know of this option. A chance for
vengeance." Cologne smiled as a fire lit in her Great Grand daughter's
eyes.
"Stand boy," said Cologne to the figure that emerged from the spring.
she turned to face the villagers. "A new member of the village has
arrived. Stand forward Reiraku." Shampoo stepped forward in her new male
body.
"Who are you?" Cologne asked.
"Down fall," replied Shampoo.
"What is your purpose?" Cologne questioned Shampoo.
"To kill Ranma Saotome to avenge my sister Shampoo's injuries and
release her from her marriage," he said angrily.
"You understand that you are not Shampoo, but a completely different
individual who can never be destroyed, even if your task is completed?"
Shampoo grit her teeth.
"I do," she replied reluctantly. Cologne had neglected to mention this.
"Who will teach him our ways?" called Cologne.
"I will, she will learn to be an Amazon and a warrior," said Mousse as
he emerged from the crowd. Worried murmurs were heard from the crowd.
Mousse frowned as he heard 'weakling Mousse?' from the lips of more than
a few of his villagers.
Shampoo gasped, "Great grandmother choose weakling Mousse to help me?"
she said with a horrified look.
"You will soon learn respect," snorted Mousse.
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Ranma looked at Cologne as she leapt out the window of his room and
smiled. "She would make an interesting wife 'Son-in-law'" she cackled as
she turned away.
"You keep your hands of her or I'll kill you," snarled Ranma at Cologne.
"What?" said Cologne looking at him.
"You know who I mean, she has no part in this," said Ranma looking at
Cologne his expression unmoving.
"You can't protect her all the time, and you know how things are," she
said coldly. "Humph. Kill me indeed," she snorted as she leapt away.
The next day Ranma walked next to Akane towards the school. "What's
eating you?" she asked noticing his somber look.
"Nothin," he said looking cheerful for a moment, "Just tired I guess."
Suddenly, "RANMA PREPAIR TO DIE!" rang out.
"Ryoga?" thought Ranma but he was surprised to see Ukyo running towards
him with an angry look. "Now what?" he asked.
"Ranma I challenge you!" she called throwing an Okonomiyaki at him with
a challenge written on it.
"Sure thing Ucchan," said Ranma. looking up from the challenge.
Ukyo grabbed his collar. "Who you callin Ucchan?"
Ranma blinked in mild surprise. "She's acting like...Ryoga?" he thought.
Ryoga turned the corner to see Ranma being grabbed by Ucchan.
"Ranma? What's going on?" he asked.
"Just a challenge," said the boy lazily.
"That Uncute tomboy Challenged you?" he asked with a serious look.
"Shut up you jack ass!" yelled Ukyo as she hit Ryoga over the head.
"Violent tomboy!" Retorted Ryoga. Ranma was watching this exchange with
mixed feelings, amusement, wonder, and slight disgust. He looked at Akane
who was just bewildered. "It's like we should be," he thought, and they
all headed towards the school. "It must be love," he said aloud.
Akane looked at him. Ryoga and Ukyo just stopped and stared at him.
"With that uncute tomboy?" yelled Ryoga.
Ukyo bat him on the head. "My heart ain't exactly a flutter for you
either Jackass!" she countered.
AFTER SCHOOL...
Ranma looked at Ukyo sighed. "Let's get this over with."
She growled and swung her spear at him "You ruined my life!" she
screamed and swung furiously at Ranma. He dodged and punched her in the
gut taking a light hit on the cheek.
"Damn I gotta be more careful, I should have dodged that easy," he
chided himself. "Better end this before she hurts herself with that
stick."
"For all the humiliations for every thing you've done to make me suffer.
You pay now Saotome!!! Eat this! 'SHI SHI HOKO DAN!'" Ukyo shot a blast
of blue green energy hitting Ranma on his right side hard.
"Uhng!" cried Ranma in surprise and pain. "Where the hell did *you*
learn that?" he yelled at her.
She smiled "I have you!" she cried. She prepared a huge blast even
larger than the first and shot it towards Ranma. "SHI SHI HOKO DAN!"
Ranma smiled "You think so?" he said confidently. "MOUKO TAKABISHI" he
countered and sent a solid yellow wave of energy into Ukyo's blast.
"No! Impossible!" she cried as Ranma's blast cut through hers and hit
her dead in the chest knocking her out cold.
Ranma clutched his shoulder. "Ranma your hurt!" cried Akane as she
rushed to his side.
Ryoga picked up Ukyo and went toward the clinic...or so he thought.
"Ryoga you jerk how dare you take me to Hokkaido?!" screamed Ukyo as she
beat him on the head.
"You mean this isn't the school nurses office?" he asked as he looked
around.
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"So Ranma is it? I hear you and Akane are quite an item," said Dr. Tofu
as he patched the boy's shoulder. "This should be gone in a few hours.
It's amazing how fast you can heal!" he said as he looked at the wound,
"What kind of fire was it?"
"Shi shi hoko dan" replied the boy half-heartedly.
"You really shouldn't get into fights with people who can throw chi
blast Ranma, you should respect your elders," said the doctor with a
warning gaze.
"She was sixteen, and I won," replied the boy with an amused look.
Dr. Tofu looked at Ranma for a moment in surprise. "Ranma can throw a Ki
blast?" he asked Akane. She nodded. "Tell me Ranma does it usually take
you this long to calm down after a fight?"
"Calm down?" asked Ranma.
"Your Battle aura is still very large," Tofu said looking at Ranma
closely.
"I am calm Doc."
"Come now Ranma," said the doctor pushing several calming points on his
body...several times. He backed away. "Ranma you have twice the battle
aura that any one man should have."
"I've studied martial arts a long time, said Ranma with a shrug.
"No Ranma, everyone is born with a set amount of Ki in their bodies, it
is always pretty close to the same amount for every one. Its like a
battery if you use it up it regenerates, and also like a muscle the more
you use it the stronger it gets, but the amount never change you get more
control and more potent as time goes on but the amount never changes."
Dr. Tofu looked amazed at the boy.
"What about Happosai's battle aura trick?" asked Ranma. Dr. Tofu looked
at him quizzically. "He makes himself look really big."
"That's just control of his Ki, he uses it to manipulate the natural Ki
in the air around him," said Dr. Tofu after a few moments thought.
"Natural Ki isn't really much good for anything but illusions using it
in an attack is kind of like trying to drown a fish. Happosai's real
attacks are disguised in the Illusion. Of course that is just an educated
guess," he said looking thoughtful "At any rate your Ki is still highly
undeveloped, but there is a lot of it, thus making it easier to control."
Ranma was becoming board and stood to leave. "Well it was nice meeting
you but I gotta head home." he quietly walked out with Akane.
After dropping his girlfriend at her home he stopped and watched the
sunset from a rooftop. "It seems we both kept our Ki Saotome," he said to
himself smiling quietly at his personal joke. "So that's how I learned
the Mouko takabishi and the Hi ryuu shoten ha so quickly..." he mused as
the sun slowly sank behind the rooftops of Nerima. "Maybe that's why I
wasn't drained after those Ki attacks. I can use this."
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Ryoga once again looked out over the rooftops of Nerima, with a wistful
look on his face. "Ukyo why do you have to be such an uncute tomboy?" he
said as he rubbed the bump on his head casually, it didn't really hurt
but still he wondered why he'd gotten it. Ranma looked on as he got up
and dusted himself off after his landing.
"So I take it you've seen Ukyo again?" he said casually from behind
Ryoga causing the lost boy to start suddenly.
"Yes, sensei," said Ryoga bowing respectfully to his master. "I can't
seem to get away from her, every few days or so I just wander into her
store."
"So, you've taken on a student Ranma?" said Happosai from behind Ranma.
"That's right," said Ranma showing no sign that he had been snuck up on,
while Ryoga almost screamed again. "Put the water away Happosai."
Happy smiled "OK," he dumped it on the boy's head. Onna-Ranma turned
angrily on the little pervert.
"Why you little..." she started to say when Ryoga piped up.
"How dare you treat my sensei like that you dirty old man!" yelled Ryoga
as Happosai unsuccessfully grabbed for Ranma's breast.
"Ryoga, no!" cried the girl as Ryoga swung at the old man.
"My such a strong boy!" quipped Happosai as he hooked his pipe under
Ryoga's wrist and flung him into the air. A few moments later the boy
came crashing down and immediately got up.
"Why you..." he said as he stalked towards the evil pervert.
Happosai pat him on the head after Ryoga picked him up by his shirt.
Ryoga felt every almost every muscle in his body tighten up in a cramp
and cried out in pain. Ranma walked up to him and hit him hard on the
back.
"Why did you do that?!!" asked Ryoga angrily. "Hey! The cramps are
gone!" he said looking at his sensei dumbly.
"Been hanging around that chiropractor have you Ranma?" asked Happy
lightly.
"I'm his favorite patient," she replied coolly. "Besides he's a friend
of Akane's."
"Who is this guy Ranma?" asked Ryoga warily.
"Master Happosai, Grand Master of the Anything Goes School," replied
Ranma. The lost boy's jaw dropped.
"M-master? I am so sorry please forgive me!" cried Ryoga looking
helpless.
"Ryoga get up," said Ranma after his student prostrated himself on the
ground. "He doesn't deserve *that* much respect."
"Hey!" cried Happy.
"Shut up you old perverted freak."
"R-Ranma?" said Ryoga looking at him sideways "You treat your master
like this?"
"He is my old man's master, not mine he also taught Akane's old man,"
said Ranma coolly.
A somewhat evil plan formed in Happosai and Ranma's minds. "You'll learn
to respect me boy."
"Fat chance old man," replied the girl coolly looking at Ryoga. Ryoga
just looked at the two and shrugged.
Several days later Ukyo Konji looked out over the streets of Nerima with
a strange gaze, Mousse had several problems with this new technique of
his and the Attack on Ranma had been delayed several times. Since the
Reiraku attacked Ranma in his sleep the old hag had made it difficult for
him to practice. Also, it had become a rare site to see Akane anywhere
without Ranma close by. Not that that was unusual, but he was going to
extreme lengths to protect her from something. So what she was seeing
could not be real, her target was walking down the street with an
ordinary looking man in traveling clothes and...her father. But that was
not even the best part; her father was smiling at Ranma and talking like
a friend to him.
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"WHAT?" asked Ukyo with rage in her eyes. Ryoga just stared at the three
men in shock. "Don't just sit there you jack ass say something!!" she
yelled at him.
"T-to that uncute tomboy?" he asked, Ukyo hit him over the head.
"I see what you mean, my wife reacted the same way when our parents told
us about the engagement," said the strange man to Ranma.
"Ranma has offered an honorable solution to our problem Ukyo, and we
will accept," said Ukyo's father.
"Daddy!" said Ukyo angrily.
Ryoga looked at the man sitting across from him. "You and Ryoga will
marry and Ranma's fianc�e and your children will marry thus combining our
two lines and erasing the dishonor placed upon us by his father," said
Ukyo's dad.
"B-but..." he started.
"Quiet boy I only wish I had provided for you sooner," he said to his
son.
"Dad?! To that uncute tomboy??!" yelled Ryoga.
Ryoga's father laughed out loud "I said something similar when I met
your mother!" he said heartily.
Ryoga didn't know what to say. "But to that uncute tomboy?!" was all
that came out.
"Will you quit saying that!!??" said Ukyo as she hit him over the head
again.
"Ranma where did you find him?" asked Ryoga quietly as he stared at his
father whom he hadn't seen in three years.
Ranma smiled at Ryoga, he was getting over the shock of the engagement
thing and still hadn't attacked him, Ranma decided he had made the right
choice. "You have no Idea how hard it was to do," said the boy with a
small laugh. Truth was he had found him totally by chance after only a
week of searching. Ryoga moved back to his seat as Ukyo yelled at her
father who smiled at how much she protested the engagement, almost as
much as she protested against Ranma when he first told her about that
engagement.
A short time later Ryoga glared at Ranma from on top of the roof. "I
can't believe you did this too me!"
"I am aware that you like her Ryoga." said Ranma.
"So what?" Ryoga yelled. Then stopped realizing he had just admitted his
feelings for Ukyo. "That's not what I meant," he retorted facing away
from his sensei.
"Ryoga, I did this because I don't want to hurt her, she was my friend
once. If things had gone on much more I may have had to deal with her,
Mousse and Reiraku all at once, and Cologne is trying to get Akane now.
If she was helping them and they hurt Akane I may have done something I
would have regretted, that you would have regretted. What would you have
done if I had seriously hurt or even had to kill Ukyo?" said Ranma
gravely. Ryoga looked at him. "It may come to that in the end Ryoga, I
pray it doesn't. This takes Ukyo out of the game," he looked at the stars
as he said this pretending not to notice Ryoga's horrified reaction to
his words. Ranma turned to jump off the roof.
"Ranma...thank you...for finding my father," said Ryoga. The pigtailed
boy said nothing but smiled a little at the real meaning from those
words.
Ukyo looked at the two men on the roof of her restaurant Ryoga would be
living with her now when he was in Nerima and her fight with Ranma was
over. She looked bitterly as he leapt off the roof. "Looks like you win,"
she said somberly. A smile crept on her face as she thought about some
possible living arrangements with Ryoga. She crushed it quickly. "Let him
sleep on the grill!" she grumbled without much malice, a small smile
crept onto her face again at an amusing image of Ryoga sleeping on the
hot grill, but quickly squelched it as well. "Ryoga get down off the roof
and let me show you your room, " she called. She heard a thump as Ryoga
jumped off the wrong side of her home. "Moron," she said as the smile
snuck on her face again.
The next day at the Cat cafe'...
"Mousse," said Reiraku looking at the duck in the middle of the floor of
the restaurant covered in water. "I just get word Ukyo no can help us.
Ranma trick her father so no can help any more!"
"Quack!?" cried the duck angrily.
"And after we went to all that trouble to train her too," said Cologne.
"I guess I should take care of the girlfriend soon," she sighed and
walked from the kitchen up to the duck. "I'll give you one final chance
Mousse. If you fail Shampoo will marry the son in law, and my plan to
destroy his life will begin soon. I do not wish to see my Great grand
daughter unhappy so I will help you this once," she said darkly. "If he
succeeds I won't have to kill anyone."
TBC...
Next post should be the last one. After that it will appear on my web
page. This is the part with the scenes from Ill Met by Starlight in it.
Once again, I am aware of them and please don't tell me about it. I know
they are stolen, and I didn't actually read the fic until after I wrote
this. An ex friend of mine put the ideas in after he read it and didn't
tell me about it. By the time I found out it was too late, the fic had
gone too far for me to change anything without a major complete overhaul
that would have ruined the last few chapters. Sorry again.
As always C&C is welcome, send to: Carrotglace@juno.com
The web page where this will be at with my other stories is at:
Http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/fountain/3203