Warning: This story is really really bad. Please read it and tell me how to write this better. This story is so lame, so please don't laugh.
Bile Studios Presents:
Ranma 1/2: Berserker
by Jang Choe
Author's Prenote:
In this story, you are a male student. If you're a female
and reading this, try to use some imagination. Also, if he
doesn't have your type of personality, then use your imagination
also. Try to enjoy it, I know it's hard.
***
You are Matsumoto Ikari, the new student at Furinkan High.
You go to the main office to register as a new student. You see
this
weird looking Hawaiian man sitting on the principal's desk. You
think, "Who is this weirdo?" Alas, later you are finally
registered into Furinkan High. You go through the school halls
to
your new class, eager and nervous. You open the door and go in,
you see an old man sitting at his desk; he says, "Ah, so you must
be the new student."
You nod and go over to the teacher and give him the note.
The teacher looks at it and sits you next to this kid named
Gosunkugi Hikaru. You look at your classmate; he is very skinny
and pale. You don't like how he looks, but he does seem
harmless. Alas, the class starts.
The teacher's name is Mr. Takazawa. Takazawa goes in front
of the chalk board and tells us to open our books. You realize
that he forgot to give you your book. You raise your and ask him
for a book, he sighs and tells a student named Kaneda to fetch
one for you. You thank Kaneda by a small bow and we sit back
down. Takazawa goes on with the lesson. "So, the problem on page
143, can anybody solve it?"
You look at page 143 and look at the problem. "In a race, a
race car reaches the quarter-mile (402 m) marker with a speed of
80 m/s. What is his acceleration and how long did the run take?"
You read. You have no idea.
"Well, does anyone know?!" The teacher asks again. We all
stare at him in silence. You hope that he doesn't call on you
and shrink into your chair.
"I think I know it sir." You hear. You look around and see a
short haired girl has said that remark.
"Okay Miss Tendo, come up here and do it." Takazawa says.
You put your hand on your chin and watch her do the problem.
After a few minutes, she gets the answer of 7.96 m/s^2 for the
acceleration and 10.1 s for the time. You have no idea what she
did. Physics was never your strongest subject.
Mr. Takazawa thanks her and tells us to look at page 144.
Takazawa makes us read the next chapter. You try to read it but
reading text books are not your thing. You try to read, but your
mind wonders off. You are reading it, but the words escape your
mind immediately after your eyes pick it up. Suddenly, you
realize that you are daydreaming about what will be in store for
the next class.
After a few minutes, you are still looking at the book but
still daydreaming. You suddenly come back into reality and look
around. You see everybody taking notes and Takazawa lecturing.
"Projectile motion," Takazawa says. "as you reading the
book
should know what it is. But let me elaborate on this. What is a
projectile? Well, it is an object thrown that follows, and the
direction is the trajectory. The trajectory is always the shape
of a parabola. For those of you don't know, a parabola is..."
You try to write down everything he says but fail. You
can't believe how fast he is talking, and he doesn't pause
either. You look at the other kids and notice that they are
having a hard time also.
Physics class and the other classes are the same- boring.
You are glad that school is finally out and start to leave. As
you go out,
you see a few of familiar faces from your class. But you see
some arguing between a guy with a red, traditional Chinese shirt
and a girl with short hair. You go in closer on what they're
arguing about, for you are always nosy.
"I told you, why didn't you eat the lunch I made for you?"
The short haired girl screamed at the boy.
"Hey, I told you I was full. If I had know, I probably have
eaten it." The boy talked back.
"You knew about it, but you ignored me and took Ukyo's
food."
"Yeah, well.." Before he finished, he noticed that you were
listening in. "Will you mind?" That boy asks rudely.
"Ummm," You manage to say. "I'm sorry."
"Oh don't be sorry." The short haired girl said. "Ranma
here is always obnoxious."
"What? you're the one who is obnoxious, you tomboy!!" The
boy
named Ranma screamed.
As you look around, you see everybody is minding their own
business. You assume that this stuff happens every day. So you
decide to leave them alone and go on your way.
You walk for a while and begin to feel hungry. You hear
your stomach growl with dissatisfaction and you start digging
into your pocket. "I wonder if I have any money." You think as
you feel inside your pocket. You fish out about 500 yen.
As you look around for a place to eat, you see that same
short haired girl walking down the street with her head down. "I
wonder what's wrong?" You think as you look at her. You ignore
her, and you start walking to the nearest restaurant. Suddenly,
you feel someone tapping your shoulder.
"Hello," Someone said.
You turn back and you see it's the girl. "Um, hi." You
murmur.
"I'm sorry on how Ranma acted earlier; he's just so
immature." She says.
"Um, what's wrong?" You ask.
"Oh, Ranma just made me upset. I sometimes sulk by myself
when I get mad."
"What did he do?"
"Ranma simply doesn't want to eat my cooking, after worked
so hard to make it for him."
"Why?"
"I don't know..."
"Well, would.. would you like to have lunch with me?" You
say, without knowing why you said that. You assume that it's the
loneliness of being the new student, or maybe because you find
her
somewhat attractive.
"Sure, if your hungry, you can eat Ranma's lunch I made for
him."
"Umm, no I really can't."
"Well, I can't let it go to waste."
You think for a moment and say, "Well, oh right," and you
take the lunch box from
her. You don't want to do this, but hey, it's a free lunch. You
open the lunch at where you're standing. You take the chopsticks
from her and
start probing at the food.
As you look at the lunch, you start noticing weird
combinations of various foods. "This.. looks amusing." You say.
You take a small green-red rice clump on your chopstick and
start eating it. All of a sudden, your eyes bulge out. You
can't believe it.
"Do you like it?" The girl asks with a smile.
"Ug," You say. "HOTTT!!!" You start breathing heavily and
drop the whole lunch. You start gagging and screaming, "Hott!!
Water!!"
"Oops, I guess I accidentally put too much washabi and red
peppers. Hold on, let me get my tea I made."
You quickly grab the thermos and gulp the whole contents
down your throat. Come to think of it, the green tea had this
sicking taste to it. On the other hand, the hot, tingly
sensation covers
up that taste. Even though you have a slight, horrible
aftertaste of the
tea.
"How's the tea?" She asks.
"Ummm," You say and think for a moment. You don't want to
make her feel bad so you answer, "It's okay."
"Well, at least you're honest. I'm Akane, Tendo Akane."
She says.
You look at her. Boy, she is cute. "I.. I'm Matsumoto,
Matsumoto Ikari." You say.
"Nice to meet you. Well, gotta go. See you tomorrow!" She
says as she runs off.
"Tendo Akane," You whisper. "What a lovely name."
You then walk off to your house.
You are at your house and you go upstairs to your room. As
you open the door, you see Akane sitting on the bed.
"Huh? What are you doing here?" You ask.
"I saw how you were looking at me earlier. You seem to like
me, is it true?"
She asks.
"I uh.. I.. Umm." You mutter.
"Well," She says putting her arms around you. "If you do
think I'm attractive, then I want you to kiss me."
"Ki.. kiss you?!"
"Yes," She says and closer her eyes.
You look at her face, waiting for the kiss. She is
surprisingly beautiful for some reason. Like a magnetic
attraction, you draw your face near hers...
She opens her mouth and sings.
"HUHHHH?!?!?!" You scream as you wake up. "Damn alarm
radio." You curse as you drag yourself out of the bed and shut
off the alarm. "Man, that green tea she gave me yesterday still
has that aftertaste." You say as you go to the bathroom.
You do that wash, dress, eat, and run off to school routine
you always do. You realize that it's still early so you slow
your pace to school. As you reach the school, you see Akane and
Ranma walking toward the school from the opposite direction.
"Hi Akane!" You say as you wave to her.
"Hi Ikari!" She waves back.
As you get nearer, you hear Ranma say, "Who is he?"
"This is Matsumoto Ikari." She say.
Ranma looks at you carefully, and quietly says, "Hi."
"Hi," You say.
The three of you walk into the school, quietly. You turn
your
head and look at Akane. She wasn't incredibly beautiful as you
remember in your dream, but she was still cute. You turn the
other way
to look at Ranma. Ranma is walking, carrying his bag over his
shoulder. It looks like he is really fit, maybe a martial artist
you assume.
Suddenly Ranma notice you looking at him. "What are you
staring at?" Ranma asks.
"Uh nothing." You nervously say as you quickly turn your
head back.
"Well, what's on your mind?" Ranma says.
You can't think of anything and just ignore him.
"You aren't one of those type are you?" Ranma says.
"Ranma!" Akane scolds him.
Well, you assume that he won't leave you alone till you told
him something. "Ummm, Ranma."
"Yeah?" Answers he.
"Why don't you like to eat your older sister's food?"
"WHAT?!! OLDER SISTER!!!?" Ranma says furiously.
You hear Akane giggle behind you.
"You think I look like a kid?!" Ranma snarls.
"Oops," You think. "bad mistake."
"I'm sorry, it's just that..." You try to say.
"Ranma, calm down." Akane says in between laughs. "Ikari,
Ranma is about the same age as i am."
"Oh, is he your cousin or something?" You ask.
"No, we're fiancees." She says. "Our parents made this
arranged marriage."
"Oh." You feel like you been crushed by a huge boulder.
Fiancee... so she's taken. You sigh and walk to your class.
It's lunchtime, and you realize you forgot your lunch.
"Damn," you curse. "and I don't have any money either." You look
around instead and see bunch of people eating. This makes you
feel hungrier. You notice Ranma and Akane. You think about what
she said this morning. You look at them, looks like she packed
another lunch for him. Well, you guess you would go talk to
them. You rarely had any friends in the old school. It's
because of your... you forget about it and walk to their table.
"Hi, mind if I join you?" You say to them.
"Umm, yea sure." Ranma say.
"Ranma- honey, here's a new okonomiyaki I made for you!"
This long haired boy? Said.
"Thanks Ucchan." Ranma says as he takes the okonomiyaki.
You wish you had one.
"Ranma! I made this lunch for you!" Akane screamed at him.
"Akane, Ranma wants to eat mine." The long haired boy or
girl or whatever it was said.
"Ohh..." Akane fumed.
"Ranma!" You hear somewhere and see a girl in a Chinese
shirt running. "I made good kung pow chicken for you Ranma."
"Uhh thanks Shampoo." Ranma says.
Gee, he sure is popular with the ladies.
"Hey, bugger off. Ranma- honey wants to eat my
okonomiyaki!" That brown haired girl, you think, says.
"No, he no eat your okonmiyaki. Ranma eat my chicken."
That cute girl says. You assume, with her accent, that she's
Chinese.
"Ranma, I thought you'll eat mine!" Akane says.
You look at the commotion and decide something. Even though
Akane is his fiancee, it's by their parent will as you recall.
That means you might have a chance to have her. It seems that
Ranma doesn't care for Akane anyway. "Akane, I'll eat your
food!" You say.
The four look at you in surprise. "You want to eat Akane's
food?" The Chinese girl say. "You die if you do."
"Uhhh, I forgot my lunch. And I'm really hungry." You say
slightly chuckling. Why would you die if you eat her food?
You're sure that her foods are not all hot.
"Okay..." Akane says giving you her food.
"Thanks," You remark as you take the food. You take a bite
out of the food. and notice it's very good! "Hey, this is
great!" You say as you scarf down the rest.
"Are you joking?" Ranma says in surprise. "Akane's food,
good? Impossible!"
"I told you to try it Ranma" Akane says.
As you walk down the halls for your last class, you hear
Akane call your name. You turn to greet her. "Hi."
"Hello, look thanks for eating my food even though what
happened yesterday." Akane said.
"Oh you're welcome. I was really hungry." You say as you
laugh a little.
"Actually, I hate to admit, that I am a terrible cook. I
got my sister to cook it for me. I wanted to surprise Ranma."
"Do.. you like Ranma?" You ask suddenly.
"What?"
"Ranma's your fiancee, do you love him as one?"
"Well, he's rude, obnoxious, stubborn, and.." She says
bitterly.
You assume that she doesn't like him. Even though she never
did answer the question. That means that you might have a chance
for her to be your girl friend! You are excited but that
excitement fades quickly as you hear the bell sound.
"Crap, the bell!" You say as you run off to your last
class. "See you later Akane!"
She too runs off.
All thorough your class, you dream about Akane. I mean, you
have this major crush on this girl. You miss everything that is
said in your history class as the bell brings back to reality.
You walk out of the class and the school looking for Akane.
All of a sudden, you bump into someone. It is Ranma.
"Look, I want to say this nicely." Ranma begins. "Akane is
my fiancee got that?"
"I.. I know." You say nervously.
"Then why are you being friendly with her? Saying her
cooking is good and stuff? It tasted bad didn't it?"
"Well, no." You say even thought you know her sister cook
it.
"You lie, and I saw you talking to Akane before the last
class. Were you trying to ask her out?"
"No, I.."
"Look, just stay away from her. I hurt too many people and I
don't want to hurt you."
"Jealousy," You think. "I guess he really loves her. But as
long as Akane doesn't love him. I wonder if he can really hurt
me?"
"Hey!" You hear as you turn around and see Akane. You
decide to test this out.
"Hi Akane," You say. "Would you like to have dinner with
me?"
"Well, uh..." She says looking at Ranma, who is now
furious.
"Hey, I told you to stay away from her!" Ranma yells.
"Ranma, leave him alone!" Akane says. "Are you jealous?"
"No, of course not! Fine, have your little date, what do I
care?" Ranma
says walking away.
Akane sighs, "Well, I guess I will. To teach Ranma a lesson
and I haven't been on a date.. ever."
"Great!" You say. "Uhh, how about tonight at eight at
at..."
"How about the EFGF*? They have some great food there."
"Okay, sure. The EFGF at eight." You say excited as she
walks off. "I'll see you there."
(*EFGF is pronounced as "efugefu." Like ABCB is pronounced
"abucabu," or however it's pronounced.)
Your first date. With the girl of your dreams too. You
literally skip to your house.
You are extremely excited about this. You don't know what
to do; you never went on a date before. You go into your room
and look for what to wear. As you rummage through, you finally
find something you think that is right.
As you walk down the street, you notice that people are
staring at you in a funny way. You don't care, you have a date.
You buy some flowers and start towards her house. Her house...
where in the world was it? She never told you where her house
was. You don't want to start asking people, but you have no
choice. Wait a minute, people don't know who Akane Tendo is.
You are about to give up when you see some girls from your
school.
"Hey!!" You yell to them.
They all walk to you and wave. "Wow, what are you so
dressed up about?" One of them says.
"Uhhhm, any of you know where Tendo Akane lives?"
"You have a date with Akane?" The other one says while the
others giggle. "And where are you going? The prom? You're kinda
over dressed."
"Uhhh, you think so?" You say blushing.
"Where are you going?" One of them says.
"To.. umm EFGF."
"EFGF? That's three blocks away. Maybe she's waiting for
you down there." She says giggling with her friends.
You thank them and head towards the EFGF. You are kinda
cross that they are making fun of the way you dress. You finally
arrive at EFGF and look at your watch; it says 7:46.
You wait for a few minutes but she does not show up. "I'll
wait another five minutes." You say to yourself as you wait some
more. You look at your watch again; it says 8:10. "So she's ten
minutes late, so what?" You say but this time with uncertainty.
You finally leave the EFGF alone, flowers in hand, dropping.
You look at your watch and it says 9:02. You waited more than an
hour for her to show up. You clench your teeth and feel the
wrath building inside you. "I've been stood up." You say as you
crush the flowers you hold in your hand. "I can't believe this.
It's probably that Ranma's fault."
You head towards the school the next day. You avoid the
others and go to your class. You try to forget what happened
yesterday and wait for the class to start. Amidst the talking in
the class, you accidentally notice Akane and Ranma come in.
Akane sees you and gives a little wave and a smile. You shift
your eyes elsewhere. "How dare she do this to me?" You think as
you look down at your desk.
The bell rings and the class starts. Physics class, you
hate that class. You hate it more with Akane and Ranma in the
room.
"So, this is how you approach a problem like number 12..."
You hear the teacher say. But you don't concentrate on him, you
think about what Akane did to you last night.
You ignore them for the rest of the school day and you head
for home. All of a sudden, Akane runs up to you and says,
"What's wrong Ikari? You are ignoring us the whole day."
You avoid looking at her in the eye, but you slowly, quietly
say, "Where were you?"
"What?" She asks.
"You know, at the EFGF, why weren't you there?"
"Oh! I'm sorry, I forgot. I.. Why don't we go out another
time?"
"You were going to go out with her?" Ranma asked. "Why do
you want to go out with this uncute tomboy anyway? You should be
glad that she didn't show up."
"Ranma! You jerk!!" Ranma screamed angrily.
"Ranma..." You say to yourself. "You love her but you
can't show that in front of her. You dare call her names?!"
You grab Ranma's collar and start pounding him. "You don't
say that about Akane!!" And that was the last thing you
remember.
You come back to reality. "Not again," you say panting.
"how can this happen again!?" You were cursed from the
beginning. You had the spirit of Hyuri, the berserker demon,
since the day you were born. Those petty fake shamans couldn't
do anything to exorcise the demon. You moved twelve times
already in your life. Every time at each town, seriously hurting
people. You never had any friends because of this curse. They
were afraid to go near you because you might hurt them.
Nerima was different, this town was pretty far away from
where you last
lived. Therefore, they never heard of you nor your berserker
curse. You and your family wanted to start again. You had some
great successes in holding in that berserker rage. However, as
you figured out right now, certain things can still trigger it.
The people at your school were surprised to hear you
actually put Ranma, the martial artist, in the hospital. You
have no control over the berserker, you can't control its rage.
People say your strength and speed increases when Hyuri takes
control of you. You don't know that, you always black out when
the berserker takes over.
Ranma, Akane's fiancee, is in the hospital. You saw Akane's
face, a face of terror, as she watched Ranma lay on the ground,
bleeding. You are now, once again, an outcast. When you go to
the school the next day, everybody is avoiding you. You hang
your head in depression. You hear whispering every time you pass
a group of students. This alone could have brought out Hyuri,
but you learned to control that. But your peers don't know.
You notice that Akane was not at class today. The teacher
is giving his lecture on Mechanics, and, once in a while,
somebody turns his head to give a reassuring look that you're
still calm. You can feel the nervousness in the room. But the
teachers seem not to care. Mr. Takazawa treats me the same as
he treats the other students. Maybe because he doesn't know,
maybe he has a heart in that fierce body of his, or maybe he
doesn't care if you can kill him, he just want to do his job.
As the school ends, you walk out alone, again. You assume
that it's time to move. Maybe to America, or some other country.
You walk a few blocks and as you turn the corner, you come face
to face with Akane, holding flowers. You look into her eyes this
time, and you whisper very quietly, "I'm sorry."
She drops the flowers and looks at them. She then looks
back at you and her face becomes lifeless. She then walks passed
you, without saying a word. You want to follow her, you want to
tell her about the berserker and how he's inside you. You call
out her name, and she runs.
You feel the world in crushing down. You feel very alone,
in darkness. You've been rejected by almost all your peers.
Even by the girl you like, that is a major stab at the heart.
You shake your fist as you try to hold in Hyuri. You calm down
and walk a little farther to a bridge. You look down to the
creek. It is not a big drop, but if you hit the rocks head on,
you might be able to finish yourself, protecting others from
the berserker.
You decide not to do it, for you never had enough courage to
ever to do it anyway. You walk towards your house and decide.
You don't want to move away anymore. No matter how far you run,
your tormentor will always be inside you. You decide to call
Akane and tell her what is exactly happening with you. You
decide not to move this time.
You don't have the courage to kill yourself but you somehow
have enough courage to do this. You go to a public phone booth,
put in your phone card, and look inside the phone book. There
are about 20 or 30 Tendos in the phone book. But you look at the
address that is near your district. You find about twelve of
them. You call the first two and they are wrong numbers. You
call the third one and a young woman's voice answers. "Hello,
this is Tendo Nabiki speaking." You hear.
"Uh may I speak to Akane?" You say.
"Akane? You just missed her, she went out to buy flowers
for Ranma. She should be at the hospital with Ranma right now."
"Uh thanks." You say as you hang up.
"The Hospital," You think. "I'll.. visit her there." You
quickly run towards the hospital, stopping to get some flowers.
"I'll give this to Ranma." You say as you head for the hospital.
You ask the nurse where Ranma is, and she tells you. You go
to his room and open the door carefully. You hear Akane talking
and you stop. She doesn't seem to notice you left the door ajar,
with you standing behind it.
You hear her say things like how she won't leave him. She tells
him that it's her fault for this to happen. "Nonsense," You
think. "This was all my fault."
You can't stop but listing to Akane talking to Ranma. All
of a sudden, you hear her say, "I love you." You then head out
of the hospital, throwing the flowers in the trash. Of all the
people, you finally got a girl to like you, but she loves someone
else. Someone else... you wipe your tears and head home.
Can you still get Akane? Can you still make her love you?
No, you can't. When Ranma became better, which was pretty soon
because of his excellent martial arts physique, he had to stay
home. And Akane started to come to school again. She ignored
you completely. You call her but she hangs up from you. You
finally realize that it's near impossible to get to talk to you
again. You give up, and you are tired of people still staring at
you and walking away from you.
You decide to move even though you swore that you never
will. You left Nerima, to Okinawa this time. You never had the
chance to tell Akane goodbye.
-fin
***
Okay, I tried to make this story short. People hates my long
stories and they never read them. So, I decided to make this
story as short as I can. If you feel that it's missing something
and you wouldn't care if it was long or not, tell me. If enough
people tell me, I shall make it longer to fit your suggestions.
Hyuri the berserker spirit is from Record of Loddoss War. I was
going to intend this to be my usual first person prose fic, but I
tried something different. I hope you liked being the berserker.
:)
Please C&C to Yinyang@altered.com or
Piccolo@cyber.atlanta.com.
I don't want "this sucks" or "this is okay" type responses
either.
Thank you for reading. I hope your pain was tolerable.
Bile Studios is a trademark of Jang Choe
Ranma 1/2 (C) Rumiko Takahashi/Shogakukan/Kitty Fuji TV. 1996
all rights deserved.