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From: <DorianVal@aol.com>
To: <karaohki@snet.net>; <ffml@anifics.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [FFML] [fanfic][Tenchi/Ranma]Finding the Lost

    Cool. A KaraOhki fic! And so soon after 'A Kiss To The Victor' too.

Let's

take a look.

Thank you!

Finding the Lost

by June "KaraOhki" Geraci
karaohki@snet.net
March 31, 2002


Tenchi doesn't belong to me, but to Hiroki Hayashi,
Masaki Kajishima, AIC and Pioneer.  Ranma 1/2
doesn't belong to me either, but to Rumiko
Takahashi.  This tale was written to make you
smile, not for commercial purposes.

 Haven't really watched Tenchi, but I think I know enough so that I can
comment intelligently.

--------------------

"Young lady, when I talk to you, look at me!"

Sasami raised her head for a moment, saw her

 Someone yelling at Sasami? Isn't that a sin comparable to yelling at

Kasumi?

Quite possibly.  Of course, if you're the Emperor of an entire planet you
can do as you please.


*snip*

Azusa took Tenchi's advice to heart, and soon every
telephone pole in town was plastered with pictures
of the missing ferret.  What the young man was not
aware of was that the Emperor of Jurai never did
anything by halves.  He had also placed an
advertisement in every single newspaper in the
country.

  Heh. Does anyone in the Masaki household besides Tenchi not go to

extremes?

hmmmm.  his grandfather, perhaps?

*snip*

As the angry young man headed for the exit to the
skating arena he passed a series of benches.
Someone had discarded a newspaper on one of them,
and it was opened to an advertisement.

"MISSING!  Reward!"  That normally wouldn't have
stopped him for a moment, considering how focused
he was on his mission, except for the picture that
accompanied the words.  It was a picture of the
bane of his existence:

  Don't you love serendipity?

Of course, that's why I write the way I do.

*****

"You know where she is?  Wait a moment, let me get
a pen!  What's that address again?"  Azusa wrote
frantically for a moment, and then spoke again.
"I'll meet you there in five minutes, and once I
get her back you'll be rewarded.  Thank you so
much!"  He was out of the house so fast that the
windstorm he created ruined the hairdos of all the
women present.  Tenchi came flying down the stairs
and found Sasami dancing around the room.

"What's going on?"

"Papa found her!  He's going to get her right now!"

"What's he taking?  Not his ship?"

"But he's in a hurry, Tenchi!"

Tenchi sank to the floor, covering his face.  "Why

  The lengths one will go for an over-elongated rat...

There's no accounting for taste, I suppose.  I'll keep the cabbit.

*****

Mikado took his time getting across town.  The
phone number he'd just dialed was not a local one,
so he wasn't at all worried about getting there
first.  As far as he was concerned, it would take a
lot longer than five minutes for the owner of the
ferret to arrive at Azusa's house, no matter how
sincere he sounded.

He was wrong.  When he arrived at the house, there
was pandemonium everywhere.  A strange vehicle was
parked in the middle of the street, causing traffic
to be hopelessly snarled.  The police were trying
to direct cars around the obstruction, and there

  Hey, for Anime Tokyo this is mundane. At least the ship didn't go blow

up

the Tokyo Tower or the Egg Dome or something.

Couldn't fit that in in an hour!

Sanzenin ignored it.  He was more interested in the
sounds of screaming coming from inside his
partner's house.

"No!  You can't take Philomena away!  Philomena
belongs to Azusa!"

"That's right!  She belongs to ME!"

"No!

      This could be milked for more. I wish I was clever enough to

suggest

how though...

Writing comedy is extremely difficult for me, so I left it short.

*****

It took a few minutes for Mikado to figure out that
both of the claimants to the ferret were named
Azusa.

It

took him even less time to realize that
'Philomena,' or whatever the dratted thing's name was,
belonged to the regal-looking gentleman who had
placed the ad in the paper.  The little animal was
sitting on the man's shoulder, rubbing her face
against his, and looking quite content.

      Heh, after a few weeks with Azusa the ferret would probably be

happy

being saved by the ogre-witch Urase from Inu-Yasha.

Yup

never behaved so nicely with Azusa, instead trying
to run off at any opportunity.  His partner had
several bite marks on her hands, received when she
squeezed the animal too hard.

      Totally off-topic, but suddenly I got the image in my head of

Azusa and

Elmyra talking shop and complaining how ill-tempered and irascible their

cute

little fuzzies get...  Brrr.....

Azusa would steal all of Elmyra's pets and clobber her when Elmyra tried
to reclaim them.  She's much more violent.

"I've had enough of this.  It's time to call in
some backup."  The male Azusa pulled some kind of
device from his pocket, and made a call.  "Kiyone?
I need your assistance here in retrieving an item
that belongs to me--a lost pet.  Here's the

      Adding gasoline to the bonfire I see...

Who, me?


*snip*

Shampoo had arrived and followed Ranma all around
the yard, trying to get him to eat the 'special
lunch' she'd prepared for him.  Akane soon got tired of watching

Ranma's

ineffectual attempts to rid himself of Shampoo, and finally took

matters

into her own hands.
She splashed the girl with water, and punted the cat

      I LIKED this. From what I've seen from the mange Akane does not

always

swat Ranma when he's one of the other girls is courting him. Now if only
others would follow your example.

Not everyone's read the manga, unfortunately.

"How come YOU couldn't handle her?  Why did I have
to get rid of her?"

"DAMN IT, Akane!  What did you want me to do?"

"Just tell her to get lost!  How hard can that be?"

Ranma was trying to answer that question when Ryoga
came flying over the wall.  "Ranma!  How DARE you
flirt with Shampoo when you're supposed to be
taking Akane out!"

"Hey!  SHE was flirting with ME!  And what makes it
YOUR business?"

"Never mind that!

      Subtle differentials are lost on Ryoga, I see.

He's got the worst case of tunnel vision...

"I don't believe this," sighed Akane.  She retreated
to the porch to watch the two fight.  It was useless

      After thirty-eight volumes of comics and a bizillion fan fics

you'd

think the poor girl would be use to this by now...

Being used to a situation and liking it are two different things.

As she reached the porch a shadow blotted out the sun,
and seconds later something fell out of the sky and
landed in the pond, sending water everywhere.  Naturally,
Ranma changed. That was fine.  Akane had seen that
happen before.

      It ain't gonna be Ryoga's day, is it?

"R-r-r-ryoga?  P-p-p-chan?"  For a brief moment,
Akane swayed.  She thought she was going to faint.
Then anger took over.  "I'm going to KILL you, you pervert!"

      I see that you are not in the 'Akane forgives Ryoga when she Finds

Him

Out' camp.

That depends on the story I'm writing.


*snip*

careful directions to Kiyone, who thanked her and
began to drag her partner back to the cruiser.  In
the meantime, Akane had overcome her inability to
speak.
"That, that pervert!"  Then she burst into tears
and threw herself into her fiance's arms, despite
the fact that he was female.  "I'm sorry!"

      Akane (light bulb going of over her head): Hey, waitaminute... you
knew, didn't you?
      Ranma: Ah hell...

      WHAM!!!

*Giggle*  Not this time

      [Snip]

*****

Azusa had gone from screaming to hitting.  She
began with the art book sitting on her coffee
table, and soon escalated to the brass candlesticks
from the mantelpiece.  Her victim was showing
remarkable restraint, evading her blows rather than
striking back.

"Young lady, my pet and I are leaving, and that is
all there is to say about it!"  He calmly backed
toward the door, being followed by the tiny,
furious woman.  Then the door flew open.

"Gal--police officers here!"  Mihoshi and Kiyone
inserted themselves between the Emperor and Azusa,
allowing him to leave the house.  Moments later,

      Ah, come on... Azusa-chan and Mihoshi have got to be worth a few

lines

at least... I also notice that Emperor Azusa didn't reward Mikado. Well,

you

know what they say about the gratitude of kings and princes.

You noticed!  Poor Mikado.  Perhaps he'll notice later and call up
demanding his reward.

Azusa burst into tears.  "Give me back my darling
Philomena!  Thief, thief!"  She flew out of the
house, and stopped crying.  A look of joy replaced
the tears.  Something was crawling out of the
vehicle that the police officers had arrived in.
Something that she hadn't seen in a long, long
time.

"CHARLOTTE!"

Ryoga groaned.  Perhaps he should have allowed
Akane to kill him.

      Nope, not Ryoga's day at all. But at least Azusa won't have to

worry

about THIS Charlotte getting too big after being washed with hot water.

I

hear her family is still re-paying that construction company after

Godzilla

got through with her house.

Ah, you read that one!  It was SO much fun to write.

      Don't know how constructive (or amusing) you found this. C&C isn't

my

strength here (of course, some on the list would probably argue I have

no

strengths). Anyway, I found it to be a good chuckle. I don't know if you

can

add to the story without hurting its smooth flow, but it may be worth an
experiment or two.

      Looking forward to the next Change of Scene or TTT.

Jeremy Harper

I appreciated it a lot, Jeremy.

June




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