The Books of Doctor Tofu
A pair of spamfics by Larry F

Disclaimer: Ranma � is owned by Rumiko Takahashi, Shogakukan, Kitty, and Viz
Video. I'm just playing with the characters and setting.



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Impression One:

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"...and I do too try to pay attention in class," said Ranma Saotome as he
walked home from school. He was accompanied by his fiancee, Akane Tendo.
"Can I help it if old man Okamura has a voice that would make the Emperor's
monotone when he recites mantras sound exciting by comparison?"

"Point," Akane said, "but you have to try harder. You'll never get into a
good college if you don't learn that stuff. It'll all be on the entrance
exams."

"Like I really care about college? Once I'm out of high school, I'll
probably go off on a dojo tour to learn more styles and to set up a name for
myself. I'm not so stupid that I don't know that you or Nabiki would be
better at running the business side of the dojo. I just need to concentrate
on learning to be a good teacher."

"That's the point. You have to have a degree or a teaching certificate
before you can open up a school these days."

"Well, I'll think about it. But I still think that I can wait a while before
I worry about that. It'll take Nabiki years to get her business schooling
done, and the same for you to get into whatever you want to do. There's no
hurry."

The two teenagers passed through the gates and onto the walkway leading up
to the front door of the Tendo home.

"Anyway, I'm gonna see if Kasumi has any snacks. I'm hungry," Ranma stated.
After kicking off his shoes in the entrance, he turned right, following the
hallway leading towards the kitchen as Akane began climbing the stairs to
the second floor. As soon as he turned into the kitchen doorway, he
immediately noticed that the table which held Kasumi's microwave oven was
tilted at a precarious angle. A brief look was all that was needed to see
that one of the legs which supported the appliance's weight was about two or
three inches shorter than the rest, having somehow been broken off in the
past.

Ranma was a bit startled that he hadn't noticed that before, and paused a
moment before greeting the eldest Tendo daughter, who was standing before
the sink, gazing out the window at yard which separated the main house from
the dojo proper.

"Hey, Kasumi. What's with the table? How come I never seen it was broken
like that?"

"Oh, welcome home, Ranma. The table? I usually have a book under the leg to
keep it level, but I had to return it earlier today."

"Return it...? You mean... that's what you use those books you borrow from
Doctor Tofu for?!"

"Well, of course, silly. You don't think I actually -read- those dry, dusty
old things, do you?"



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Impression Two:

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Ranma was bored.

Bored, bored, bored.

There was nothing on TV but soap operas and gossip shows. None of his
friends or rivals were anywhere to be found, and he had nothing to do but
homework, and he was darned if he was going to do -that- if he could avoid
it.

While lying on his back next to the table in the Tendo's tearoom, he swept
his eyes across the room, looking for something, anything, that might
promise a little fun. As he did, he spied one of the books that Kasumi
regularly borrowed from Doctor Tofu.

'Well, I got nothing better to do. If Kasumi thinks those things are
interesting, maybe it'd be fun to leaf through. It might have interesting
pictures or something,' he thought.

Putting action to his thoughts, he flipped to his feet and retrieved the
volume. Laying it on the dining table in the center of the room he opened
the cover to the title page...

...and felt his jaw drop. Then he fell over sideways onto the floor and
laughed until his stomach began to ache.

"Oh, my god," he gasped as he desperately tried to quell the guffaws that
were threatening to do him in. "A hardbound edition of the 'Harlequin
Romance Anthology, Volume Twenty'? Who'd have ever thought that the doc was
addicted to trashy romance novels?!"


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     Ja mata,
     Larry F

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