"Let's see..." Hibiki Ryouga scratched his head, tightened his bandana, and
adjusted his backpack. Frowning thoughtfully, he began muttering to himself,
"Okay, from here, it's Ucchan's, then the high school, then the dojo.
Ucchan's, high school, dojo. Ucchan's, high school, dojo..."

"Train station, store, hotel...train station, store, hotel..."

"Ucchan's, high school, dojo..."

"Train station, store, hotel..."

"Ucchan's, train store, dojo..."

"Train station, store, hotel..."

"Hotel, train school, dojo..."

"Train station, store, hotel..."

"Hotel store, school train, do...HEY!" Ryouga spun around, red in the face.
"CUT THAT OUT! YOU'RE RUINING MY CONCENTRATION!"

The small, tan-skinned foreign girl on the sidewalk behind him blinked
confusedly up at him with wide, innocent eyes. "Que?"

Ryouga paused, blinked...then, realising he'd just screamed at a small
child, he deflated. Shaking his head, he crouched down slowly to look at the
girl at eye level. She was a cute kid, with a hairstyle not too dissimilar
from Akane's, with wide, dark eyes, a cheerful expression, and normal
everyday little-girl clothes. She wasn't Japanese; he'd have to guess she
was from Brazil or Mexico or some other place in Canada. "Sorry, I didn't
mean to yell," he said in heavily accented English.

The girl smiled. "It's okay!"

Ryouga looked around, and didn't see any other tan-skinned gaijin on the
sidewalk. "Are you alone, little girl?"

The girl nodded. "Yup! Mi familia es on vacation here in Japan! They said it
was okay for me to go sightseeing by myself for a few hours, but now it's
time to go back to the hotel for dinner, as soon as I find the train station
and then stop by--"

"The store, yeah, I heard." Chuckling, Ryouga patted the girl on the head,
and shrugged off his backpack. Digging around for a minute, he pulled out a
box of sakura mocchi. "Here, a tasty Japanese treat to take home for your
family."

The girl beamed. "Gracias!" She then frowned thoughtfully. "But wait. I'm
not supposed to take things from strangers."

Ryouga frowned. "Hmm. Well..." He paused, then dug around in his pack again.
"How about this. If you help me find three places on this map, then I'll
give you these as a reward. Then it'll be okay, right?"

The girl thought about that for a minute. "Well...I guess so!"

~*~

"Annnnd here's the dojo! We did it!"

Ryouga smiled at his travelling companion. "You're really smart! And really
good at finding your way around."

The girl shrugged, smiling. "I get around a lot back home."

Ryouga handed her the box of mocchi, and patted her on the head. "You'd
better hurry now, ne? Your family's probably getting worried."

"Si!" The girl stuffed the box into her own backpack, thanked Ryouga again,
and began to skip away, singing to herself. Ryouga chuckled as he watched
her leave, then stepped through the dojo gates.

"New girlfriend, P-chan?" Ranma asked.

Ryouga kicked him in the face, then replied, "Just some gaijin tourist I ran
into on the way here. She's a pretty smart kid. Followed the map straight
here, no problem."

"It's pitiful that a little gaijin girl can do that more easily than you
can."

"Shut up."

~*~

"Did you have fun today, Dora?"

"Uh-huh! I hope I get to explore even more places tomorrow!"

[Disclaimers: Ranma 1/2 belongs to Takahashi Rumiko, Shogakukan, Viz, etc.
Dora the Explorer belongs to Nickelodeon. Neither is used with permission.
Sorry about this! >.>;;]



[I lied. I'm not the least bit sorry about this.]



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