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The Love of the Black Rose
"You sure you can use all this junk?" Ranma
asked, twirling a club on his finger. Akane looked
between the hoop and the ribbon calmly.
"Just you watch," she said. As for Ryoko.
*******
"So its settled then," Ryoko said. "When Akane
defeats your uptight little noble, I get Tenchi for a
month."
"Hmph." Ayeka smirked. "As if one of your
berserkers can compete with any of mine in such a
contest of style and grace. Kodachi will dance around
this Akane as if she were a rotund bear!"
"Oh, we'll see who's graceless after this, your
divine highness," Ryoko growled.
~And then I won't have to share either of you
for a full month,~ both of them thought with a smirk.
"I don't get any say in this, do I?" Tenchi
asked. The girls didn't seem to hear him and he
sighed. "Didn't think so."
*******
"Coo" The sound caught both Ranma's and Akane's
attention. Both saw a familiar pigeon chickenwalking
across the dojo floor towards them.
~Ryouga,~ Akane's mouth quirked into a frown
before it settled into a neutral expression. She
glanced nervously at Ranma, wondering if he had been
reading her mind when she identified the pigeon.
"Hey, Mr. P," Ranma said cheerfully, to which
response the bird seemed to wince.
~Apparently not,~ Akane thought.
Then Ryouga took to the wing. Ranma easily
caught the bird before it reached him and watched as
it started to peck at his hand.
"Hey, where you been?" Ranma asked, as if he
couldn't feel the beak, which was pretty much the
case.
"Mr. P?" Akane asked. Ranma gave her a
suffering look that clearly said, "Do I really have to
explain?"
"Yeah, Mister Pigeon, Mr. P," Ranma shrugged.
The pigeon continued to peck at him.
"Isn't kind of feminine give a small animal a
cutesy name like that?" Akane asked.
"What would you know about it?" Ranma asked
sticking his tongue out.
"He doesn't even like you and you're falling
all over him," Akane snapped. Ranma stared at her and
blinked.
"Its just a bird, Akane," Ranma said, then he
looked down and continued under his breath. "And most
of them won't come near me. Anyway, ain't you
supposed to be practicing?"
"Fine, don't come crying to me when you start
having accidents," Akane huffed as she walked back to
the tools. Ranma looked at the bird in his hand.
"Sheesh, jealous of a bird," Ranma rolled his
eyes. Then a gymnastics club pounded him on the head.
"I am NOT jealous," Akane snapped. The
priestess rose the clubs up in a starting stance.
"Now watch this!" Akane leaped into the air, tossing
the clubs, kicked her legs out and landed gracefully.
The clubs landed several strides to either side of
her. Ranma and Mr. P blinked.
"Are you supposed to let those drop?" Ranma
asked, wondering if the clubs were supposed to hit a
target of some sort.
"Very funny," Akane growled. Ranma blinked
again and then smirked. "Let's try the ribbon."
Moments later the ribbon was draped around Akane.
"Are you supposed to get yourself all tangled
up like that?" Ranma asked. The pigeon in his hands
cooed angrily and struggled to get free.
"Shut up!" Akane grumbled. The hoop was thrown
up into the air, Akane followed it, easily catching
it. She landed into an easy somersault and tried to
pull herself through. Ranma, smirking, muttered under
his breath, and the hoop broke in three places.
"Are you supposed to break the hoop?" Ranma
asked, trying to keep from laughing. The distraction
proved enough for Ryouga to get free and fly further
into the building. Ranma glanced briefly in the
direction of pigeon and slumped a little, before
turning back to Akane.
"That does it!" Akane shouted, stomping her
feet.
"Aren't you supposed to have just a little bit
of grace?" Ranma asked, a little calmer. Akane
continued to throw a temper-tantrum.
*******
Soun was avoiding the chaos, sitting in the hot
springs and relaxing. He barely blinked when a pigeon
flapped into the room and dropped into the water. A
moment later Ryouga rose up out of the water, without
saying anything and walked out towards the dojo.
*******
"I'm a klutz! I'm a klutz! I'm a klutz!" Akane
cried at Ranma.
"Come on Akane," Ranma said in response,
feeling guilty at his joke earlier. "You ain't that
bad, I mean you're just gettin' started you know."
"I can instruct you." A voice said from the
doorway. Akane stopped dead and turned around.
"Hey, what happened to the pigeon?" she asked
dryly. The low growling behind her attracted her
attention quickly though.
"Ry.Ou.Ga..." Ranma growled out while getting
ready to launch. There was a flash of red light as
Akane invoked her goddess's gifts to intercept Ranma
before he could attack Ryouga. "Let me go! I'm going
to kill him!!"
"You're welcome to try, Ranma," Ryouga smirked.
"If you can get past her that is." Akane was tempted
to let Ranma go after that comment.
"I thought you were supposed to protect me,"
Akane reminded him. Ranma stopped struggling at that
comment. "Not the other way...Ranma are you okay?"
The pig-tailed boy looked from Akane to Ryouga and
back.
"Yeah," Ranma said quietly. Then he growled
and snapped angrily. "Just fine!" In the next moment
Akane was holding nothing as Ranma vanished from her
grip.
"Ranma!" Akane shouted, standing up straight
and looking around. "What was that about?" She
glanced at Ryouga speculatively, who blushed under the
scrutiny. ~He couldn't have been jealous...could he?~
"Well, uh....shall we get started?" he asked.
Akane shook herself back to reality.
"Yeah, but we really should..." Akane was
interrupted as Ryoko appeared in the dojo.
"Are you still just hanging around?" Ryoko
asked, she noted Ryouga and frowned as she recognized
him. There was something relating to Ryouga that she
couldn't quite grab hold of, a favor she had asked of
his aunt or something. The problem was almost
everytime she was around Urd she got almost blind
drunk so remembering the exact conversation was
somewhat difficult.
"Lady Ryoko," Akane sputtered. "Ryouga was
just offering to teach me how to use the tools."
~Ahh, maybe that was it,~ Ryoko said, not yet
realizing that she hadn't talked to Urd in the hour
since the challenge was decided. "That's good,
where's your fiance?"
"He..left," Akane said. Ryoko arched an
eyebrow and floated in front of Ryouga. After a
moment's investigation she knocked the celestial on
the head and received no response.
"Hey, this guy's worse than you," Ryoko said.
*******
Kasumi turned to see Ranma appear in the
doorway behind her. She smiled at the half-demon as
he walked in next to her. Ranma stared at the dirty
dishes for a moment.
"Is there something I can help you with,
Ranma," Kasumi asked encouragingly.
"Do ya need help with the dishes?" he asked in
response. Kasumi smiled and moved to a small closet
to get a smock for Ranma.
"I could always use more help," Kasumi said.
She handed him the smock and a rag. "Why don't you
dry them?" Ranma nodded and slipped the protective
smock over his clothes before taking a dish from
Kasumi and drying it.
Kasumi noticed Ranma become noticeably more
tense after a few moments and almost frowned.
"Did you have another fight with Akane?" Kasumi
asked.
"Ryouga's in there," Ranma said simply.
"Oh, I see," Kasumi said. "I shouldn't worry
if I were you. Lady Ryoko is there as well." Ranma
nodded and continued drying dishes, glancing towards
the dojo.
*******
~So this is the dwelling of the little
barbarian that the Demon has sent to challenge me,~
Kodachi thought as she stood outside the Tendo
monastery.
"Akane Tendo!" Kodachi shouted, causing a
couple of people to glance at her nervously and
shuffle away. "Tonight, Kodachi the Black Rose, will
cripple you!" She paused for a moment.
*******
"Heh," Ryoko snickered holding a ribbon. "I
can see where one of Ayeka's kids would like a
'combat..."
Ryoko's eye started twitching for apparently no
reason. Ryouga swallowed nervously. After all, he
was certain that Ryoko was the one that had arranged
for him to come down here. The fact that he was
currently attempting to speed teach Akane Acrobatic
Martial Arts, and, in the process, making her look
like a clumsy fool, did not escape him.
"Uh, that's enough special..." Ryouga started
"Keep training, there's a small problem," Ryoko
said. "Its being taken care of."
*******
~Yeah, I got it covered,~ Ranma thought in
response to Ryoko's request. He turned to Kasumi.
"Sorry, Kasumi, I gotta do something for Auntie."
"Oh, that is quite all right," Kasumi said
smiling. There was an explosion and an irritated
scream. Ranma and Kasumi looked in that direction for
a moment. "Incidentally, how well do you know Lady
Lina?"
"Well enough not to tell her 'that...is a
secret,'" Ranma said, heading out the door.
*******
Kodachi padded across the roof of the Tendo
dojo smiling madly as she tried to ascertain where her
enemy's room was. She had already ruled out several
rooms and she was quick on her way to eliminating all
but the beserker's dwelling. Then all she had to do
was...be sent flying through the air on a rush of
burning air.
~What....was that?~ Kodachi asked herself,
staring up at the growing stars in a daze. Then the
stars started to shrink again.
"Wasn't there supposed to be someone out here
for me to send away," Ranma asked as he stepped out
into the courtyard. He glanced up and saw a swiftly
descending form, not bracing itself for a fall. "Uh
oh."
He leapt up from the ground and intercepted the
falling figure before she could hit the ground. Ranma
looked to see who he had caught and winced as he
landed.
"Well, this was easy," Ranma muttered. The
woman was apparently still staring off into space, but
her eyes were fluttering. Ranma took a moment to read
what she was thinking.
~Oh!~ Kodachi thought as she came to. ~He's
gorgeous!~ Ranma paled and tried to set her down
before...Kodachi latched onto him solidly.
"Hold on here," Ranma said shakily, though he
could tell Kodachi wasn't paying attention. ~Kiss
her, don't kiss her. If I do that I have to change.~
Ranma grimaced, wishing that he could feed without
dropping the disguise like a full blooded demon could.
~Oh, the grey dreary life of a Jurain novice
cloistered away,~ Kodachi ranted internally, unaware
that her thoughts had an audience. ~I'd given up any
hope of finding a man to love! Ohh! To think that
such a wonderful encounter was awaiting me.~ She took
turned to face him, after drying her face of the tears
of happiness that had been shed. "Please sir, may I
ask your name?"
"R-r-r.Ranma Saotome," Ranma answered
nervously. He paled suddenly as he caught a glimpse
of her thoughts. ~Okay, she goes down.~
"For you," Kodachi said as she produced a
bouquet of roses. "My...Ranma?" Ranma stepped back
away from the flowers letting them fall to the ground.
A puff of enchanted smoke rose from the roses and
dissipated harmlessly.
"You don't need that," Ranma said, smirking.
Kodachi watched, rapt as he slipped out of his upper
jacket and tunic, revealing his well-muscled chest and
firm abdomen.
"Oh, Ranma," Kodachi sighed. "Take these lips
of...mmph!?" She didn't get to finish her spiel as
Ranma quickly embraced her. She caught sight,
however, of the great bat wings rising out of her new
loves back before the ecstacy hit. A couple of
seconds later she slumped to the roof, mind completely
blank from the pleasure.
Ranma returned to human form, not bothering to
listen to Kodachi's currently jumbled thoughts. With
any luck she'd think it was a dream. He slipped back
into his tunic and jumped down through the hole in the
roof.
*******
"Wait!" Ryouga snapped. "I feel the presence
of demonic power!" Ryoko narrowed her eyes and
crossed her arms as Ryouga dashed out of the dojo
before she could respond.
"Demonic power," Ryoko repeated. "Imagine
that. Akane-chan, do you know of anyone in this room
that could be a 'presence of demonic power?'"
"I am sorry Lady Ryoko," Akane said. "What do
you mean?"
"It wasn't anything important," Ryoko looked
Akane up and down and smirked. "Are you supposed to
tie yourself up like that?" Akane twitched, the words
sparked a memory of Ranma teasing her earlier.
"No, I don't think so, Lady Ryoko," Akane said
respectfully. Ryoko snickered. "I'm going to make
sure he doesn't get lost." She carefully disengaged
herself from the ribbon and followed Ryouga.
Curiously she lost him almost immediately.
"Good idea," Ryoko said. She continued,
muttering as Akane left, "I wonder if Urd ever
mentioned to Skuld who's fault that was."
*******
"Saotome," Nabiki growled behind him. "My
ceiling is not a door." Ranma turned around to look
at the soot covered Nabiki and struggled to keep from
laughing, then had a horrid thought.
"Umm, how much did you see of...?" he started.
"You getting a little snack off the flower
girl?" Nabiki asked.
"Errr, yeah," Ranma said paling. Nabiki
smirked.
"Let's talk deal here, Ranma," Nabiki said.
"For what?" Ranma asked nervously.
"If I go to Lord Xellos for help with Lina,"
she stated plainly. "Well, it wouldn't be against the
rules, but it would be terribly disappointing."
"Umm, what's that got to do with me?" Ranma
asked.
"I need a middleman," she smirked. "In a
manner of speaking, to talk to Lina, understand?"
Ranma slumped with a sigh
"Yeah," Ranma said. "I'll see what I can do.
Now, how do we get her out of here so wakes up at home
and thinks this was a dream." They both felt magic of
some sort above them. Ranma sighed resignedly.
"Maybe she has one of those rings too."
*******
Ryouga, flying about the Tendo household, was
fortunate enough to spot the girl on top of the house
right away. Otherwise he might have wandered for ages
before finding anything. He swooped down, landing
lightly on the roof next to the dazedly staring girl.
~And now angels fall from the heavens to attend
to my greatness,~ a semi-delusional Kodachi thought.
"Hey, miss," Ryouga said leaning over. ~Her
life force has been drained, oh that villian, Ranma!
To attack an innocent woman and leave her out in the
cold.~ He reached out, calling on his celestial
nature to heal the girl.
Down in the courtyard Akane turned toward the
roof as she sensed magic. Sure enough there was a
bright white glow coming from up on the roof. She
hopped up to the roof to see Ryouga leaning over some
girl in a black acrobat's outfit, emblazoned with
roses.
"RYOUGA!! What do you think you're DOING!"
Ranma yelled as he joined the party on the roof again.
"Fixxing whatever evil you did to this poor
inno..." Ryouga started angrily.
"That's Kodachi the Black Rose you jerk!" Ranma
snapped. Akane glanced at the girl again, and this
time recognized her.
"Oh my," Kodachi said again. "I must thank
you, oh divine one, for bringing me to my senses.
Here, a token of my esteem." A bouquet of roses
appeared from nothing, and everybody felt the magic in
them.
"Oh....uh...th..th.thank you," Ryouga stammered
accepting the roses.
"No wait!!" Ranma leaped across to try to knock
the roses away from Ryouga. He managed to reach there
just as the spell went off. "Binding spell in the
flowers." Ranma muttered weakly as he and Ryouga were
both bound by an ephemeral chain of roses.
"How was I to know?" Ryouga protested.
"Mind-reading," Ranma suggested irritably.
"Oh, my dark knight and divine saviour,"
Kodachi sighed. "They are both so gorgeous, a pity
that they should be of such opposing factions.
Whichever shall I choose?"
Kodachi paused for a moment, and Akane's eye
twitched angrily as she guessed what was coming next.
Ranma, on the other hand, looked pale as Kodachi
herself. Ryouga was clueless.
"I must have them both!" Kodachi shouted. She
started forward to kiss one of the trapped men when
something seemed to appear out of nowhere and kick her
away.
"Right over my bedroom no less!" Akane shouted
angrily.
"Oh, what tragic timing," Kodachi sighed
irritably. "My immortal loves, let us meet again!"
"Feh," Akane grumbled. "Ridiculous. And YOU!"
Akane whirled on the two bound men. A flash of
red burst between her hands and suddenly she was
holding a red mallet. The berserker rushed at them
angrily.
"YOU are supposed to be training me, not
flirting with the enemy!" Akane swung her mallet and
Ryouga flew backwards into the pool. She angrily
noted that, of course, Ranma was stuck looking the
wrong way.
Ranma felt the waves of jealousy off of Akane
and felt depressed. Of course she would get jealous
over Ryouga and Kodachi. The jerk didn't even bother
to hide it, just rubbed it right in your face. He was
thinking along those lines when Akane pushed him over
so that he fell to the roof on his face. When he hit
his thoughts sounded more like ~This is going to be an
uncomfortable night.~
~Jerk,~ Akane thought behind a shield of
limmericks. ~He's supposed to be my fiance, not
flirting around with Ryouga and Kodachi.~
Akane jumped off the roof and headed angrily
for the pool dragging out the paralyzed pigeon. She
got to bed and set the pigeon in a box before settling
for bed.
~There's no way I'm losing to her!~ Akane
declared to herself.
*******
Ryoko looked around the empty dojo and blinked
"This party sure died fast," she said to nobody
in particular.
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Tribble, Kender Warrior of the Celestial Kingdom
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father
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