Warning; Spoiler alert! This is not the early adventures of the duo. If
you want that go find another fanfic, I'm sure there's one out there,
just don't ask me for one. This story begins at the end of the 'Magic
Mushroom' story in vol. 34 of the manga.
The Adventures of Chibi Ranma and Ryoga!
Prolouge
Stuck young.
Akane Tendo stared at the two plates in her hands in shock. Nothing but
charred remains were left of the two mushrooms she had hidden away from
the two five year old boys that had once been Ranma and Ryoga. The pair's
squabbling had destroyed all the fungus they had tried to cultivate on
their own and she had taken the initiative and hidden some away from
them. The remains of her room lay scattered around her from where the
boys had torn through her things in an attempt to find them and her
dresser lay in pieces strewn across the floor.
The pair had hidden in the drawer in an attempt to hide from her when she
came in and had used the Moukou Takabisi and the Shi shi houkoudan to
escape. Unfortunately this destroyed the very thing they were trying to
get to.
She tilted the plates over in her hands and felt a strange tugging at
her heart. The mushrooms were gone, those had been the last two. Now her
fiancee and his rival were stuck as they were for good.
"I guess you two will just have to live on, adjust. I'm sure you'll get
used to it."
The two boys seemed to freeze in place as they looked at her with terror
filled eyes. Neither moved as she lifted them into her arms and carried
them out of the room into the hallway. She placed them on the floor
outside the room and closed the door behind her.
The pair walked down the hallway silently and moved towards the porch of
the Tendo home, Ranma unconsciously leading Ryoga along. They sat down
and stared into the yard.
Inside her room Akane fell onto her bed with tear filled eyes and sobbed
into her pillow. "Ranma you fool!"
She had two others hidden away just in case something like this happened,
unfortunately they didn't last long after reaching the full sixteen
inches. Just before she came into the room to offer the boys their
musrooms, she had checked on them; only to find two dried husks.
Ranma and Ryoga sat in silence for a long time, the family was mostly
unaware of the situation just yet. Nabiki had suspicions but no one had
been told just yet. Finally Ranma spoke up.
"We'll go see Cologne tomorrow. That map you made was useless, maybe
she'll know how to find this stupid forest."
The lost boy turned towards his rival with an annoyed stare and nodded.
He hated to admit it, but it was their best shot. Getting by Mousse might
be a bit of a problem though. He wasn't aware of their little problem
just yet, but an earlier encounter with the blind martial artist had been
less than kind to them. He paused and looked at Ranma for a moment before
speaking up.
"You know what she's going to want in exchange Ranma."
The pigtailed boy nodded grimly and sighed. "I can't just stay this way,
besides, anything to keep Mr. Tendo from giving us another of those damn
'Mustache Tickles'."
Ryoga gulped hard and nodded in agreement. It was not a pleasant memory
for him, parts of his face still itched from the man's random attacks. He
wasn't really all that upset about Ranma taking the fall for this one,
despite the fact that he knew it was just as much his fault as the
pigtailed boy's. The price Cologne would make him pay was just icing on
the cake for him. Unfortunately, he also knew the pigtailed boy would
squirm his way out of it. Life was so unfair sometimes.
Unfortunately he had no idea how unfair life was about to become...
TBC in part one.
It's the start of a new series. I wanted to do something that wasn't as
dark as Permanent, and wasn't a self insertion either. I figure I can
have fun with this one and keep it light easily.
For those of you that don't know about the story this is drawing from;
this is the basic story. Ranma and Ryoga eat some magic mushrooms that
turn them into five year old boys. The shrooms turn whomever eats them
into the same age as the length of the fungus. A five cm shroom turns you
into a five year old. A sixteen cm long shroom would turn them back to
normal. The shrooms grow really fast, but the pair has run out of their
supply. Ryoga found them in a forest somewhere in Japan.
They can still use their powers, such as the Shi shi houkoudan. Ryoga can
also still use his umbrella. They are weaker though, they get beat up and
kidnapped at one point or another by most of the cast in this one. Mousse
even beats them up. I quote; 'You kids remind me of Ranma and Ryoga. I
hate those guys!' Everyone else just thinks they're cute kids who look
like Ranma or Ryoga. Shampoo, Kuno, etc. Cologne and Happy have yet to
encounter them in this form.
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