The door to Washu's VR theater opens and Tenchi creeps in. He takes the
front center seat and breathes a sigh of relief, but then he spots a
flicker out of the corner of his eye as Ryoko teleports into the seat to
his left.
Ryoko: "Tenchi!" (Throws her arm around his shoulders before he can get
out of his seat.)
Tenchi: "Uh, Ryoko..."
The theater door slams open and Ayeka storms in.
Ayeka: "Did you see what they did in Time and Space adventures #2?" (Takes
the seat to Tenchi's right. "They had us kissing on top of Tenchi!"
Ryoko: "Yeah, like Tenchi was only a platform for us to express our
feelings for each other or something."
Ayeka: "Well it certainly wasn't my idea of a perfect world."
Ryoko: "Me neither. How did that start anyway?"
Ayeka: "Pretty Sammy hit us with her love arrow to protect Tenchi from
us."
Ryoko: "Your sister isn't going to be very pretty when I catch her."
Ayeka: "Agreed."
Tenchi: (Nervously aware that Ryoko's arm over his shoulders has Ayeka's
arm over it.) "Uh, we're here to review a fanfic."
Ryoko: "Yeah, roll it!"
Ryuunosuke Meets Ranma
by jeff shelton
jws1@webtv.net
Disclaimer:
All characters in this story belong to Takahashi
Rumiko and I have no right to use them.
Do to a limited knowledge of UY Ryuunosuke and her
father may be OOC.
Any C&C will be read and answered.
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Ryuunosuke Meets Ranma
Prolog 1: Ryuunosuke
This occurs before the story where Ryuunosuke meets
Shiowatari Nagisa.
Ryoko: "Who's that?"
Ayeka: "Ryuu-kun's girlfriend."
Ryuunosuke and her father sit in the middle of the
ruins of the family tea shop, the Hamajaya. It is
destroyed. They are sitting on the only two chairs
that have miraculously survived.
Ryoko: "Present tense. One quote mistake and blammo!"
"Damn You, Ataru!! Ataru and the mess he brings!!"
Ryuunosuke yells at the sky. "I wish, I wish
sometimes, we lived somewhere else, somewhere calm,
you know, old man." She glances at her father, who
is looking around at the devastation. She watches
the frustration build in her father.
"I had just finished remodelling. Then Ataru comes
by for a Grand Re-Opening Special. I LOVE THE SEA!!"
Mr Fujinami screams. A huge tsunami of water sweeps
the ruins clean. After the wave of water passes by
he continues, "I just had to get that off my chest."
Ayeka: "Ryuu-kun and her father usually cause the destruction and blame
each other."
Ryoko: "I thought you said she had a girlfriend?"
Ayeka: "Yes, but not yet. Can't you read?"
"Yeah, but now there is nothing left, not even our
chairs." Ryuunosuke says while getting up from where
the wave knocked her down. "Now what, Pop?"
"Move somewhere else, hmm. Let me see." Mr Fujinami
pulls out a dry newspaper out of his shirt.
"There's an add here that has a restaurant going
out of business in the Nerima area. Cheap, very
cheap. Hmmm." He puts down the paper and watches
Ryuunosuke start going through the rubble trying to
find something usable.
Ayeka: "Using out twice here is poor form."
Ryoko: "Yeah, like working from one of your recipes."
'The Tendo Dojo is near this location, too. I
haven't seen my childhood friend Soun in years. When
was the last time I saw him in person?" he thinks.
He reaches into his shirt again and pulls out an old
piece of paper. 'It was when our fathers called us
together.'
****
Flashback
A young Tendo Soun and Mr. Fujinami (need a first
name, please) are standing in front of their
fathers.
"We called you two here to tell you of a family
promise made years ago between myself and Mr
Fujinami," Soun's father begins. "It was our dream
to have our two families joined by marriage.
However, we both had male children, so this could
not be done. We are charging you two with this
promise. If one of you has a girl and the other has
a boy, you will arrange for a marriage to take
place."
The two best friends look at each other, and agree
to the promise. A promise they feel they might have
made anyway.
end flashback
****
Ryoko: "So what's the name of Mr Tendo's son?"
Ayeka: "He hasn't got one."
Ryoko: "What?"
Ayeka: "Yes, Ryuu-kun will be wearing the pants in this relationship. She
always does anyway. She's a very active girl, just like you."
Mr. Fujinami puts the paper back in his shirt. He
thinks, 'The last time I heard from Soun was when
he wrote that his youngest girl, Akane, had just
become engaged. And he mentioned he does have two
other daughters. I believe, It's time that our
fathers promise was fulfilled.'
"Ryuunosuke, you will get your wish. We'll move to a
more peaceful neighborhood. I have decided to move
to Nerima and rebuild the Hamajaya there." He
smiles, "I'm sure we will do great business right
next to a Chinese Ramen shop called the Nekohanten.
That's the nearest restaurant, according to the
add."
'I wonder why they are selling a restaurant so
cheap, but I won't question a gift horse in the
mouth.' He thinks.
Ryuunosuke begins to jump with joy. "NO MORE ATARU!
NO MORE ALIENS!! Peace and quiet!" Ryuunosuke
shouts.
Ayeka: "How strange. Ryuu-kun's best friends are aliens."
****
A week later.
"WHAT!!" Ryuunosuke shouts. "I'm engaged to marry
the daughter of an old friend of yours!" She attacks
her father. He jumps out of the way. "I'm a GIRL! I
can't marry another girl, see!" She rips open her
shirt to reveal the cloth bandages holding her
breasts down.
Ayeka: "Bingo. I wonder if she only assualts him verbally or if there is
some physical strike here."
Ryoko: "Well, it does say he jumps."
Mr Fujinami swings at her. She evades the attack.
"You're my SON!! You will marry a Tendo! We
promised."
"I sure as hell didn't, old man!" She shouts as she
uses her uppercut into orbit technique on her
father.
She watches her father go flying up in the air. 'He
did get me away from Ataru. That counts for
something. Lets see this promise,' she thinks. She
looks at the paper with the promise written on it.
'Ah! It is written very vaguely. All it promises is
that a Fujinami will marry a Tendo. No sex is
mentioned. Hell, it doesn't it even say sons or
daughters, so it could apply to me marrying an
adopted child, or even a cousin, I think.'
Mr fujinami returns to earth. He instantly stands up
ready for another round of fighting. "You will marry
a Tendo, BOY!"
"Ok, pop, ok. I'll go along," she tells her father
and under her breath she says, "but I ain't marrying
no girl." Mr fujinami hugs his son and starts to
cry.
Ryoko: "His son?"
Ayeka: "Yes, it is stated objectively here. Perhaps it would be better if
this was phrased in more subjective terms."
'I will make sure this Mr Tendo's daughters know I'm
a girl. They won't do through with it, and it won't
be my fault.' she thinks as she smiles. 'Who knows,
there might even be a son, so I can go through with
the promise. `Cause if I am engaged to a boy, that
means I have to act like a girl around the boy I'm
engaged to and pop can't stop me.'
Ryuunosuke makes sure the bandages on her chest are
loose.
Ayeka: "See, she is loose, just like you."
Ryoko: "I'm a girl!"
Ayeka: "That's what she says too..."
They go to the Dojo.
Ryoko: "I guess it was just across the street or something."
end prolog 1
begin prolog 2: Ranma
note: The beginning is a partial novelization of the
first 16 pages of vol28 of the manga. Then I begin
to take liberties.
Ranma will be in female form. I will be using the
name Ranko for Ranma in his cursed form.
Ayeka: "Why?"
short intro
Nodoka has come over for a visit. She has taken
Ranko and Akane shopping for new clothes. The place
she has taken them to is next to a zoo that
specializes in Bears.
****
Nodoka, Ranko and Akane are sitting down at an
outside restaurant eating.
Nodoka says, "I wonder when Ranma will come back."
Ryoko: "Isn't he, er she right there?"
Ayeka: "Well, this explains the Ranko bit."
Ranko looks depressed. Akane says, "Ma'am, You want
to see Ranma, don't you."
Nodoka nods gently and while caressing her sword
says, "He's my only son. I want to meet Ranma, who's
been raised to be a manly son."
Ryoko: "He has?"
Ayeka: "For some definition of manly."
After they finish the meal, she gets up and goes
over to the counter to get the dessert.
Akane and Ranko move closer together so they can
speak without Nodoka overhearing them.
"Ranma, you should just get it over with and tell
your mother who you really are," Akane quietly tells
Ranko.
"If she finds out I'm half woman, she'll make me
commit seppuku," she reminds Akane.
Ryoko: "She?"
Ayeka: "Yeah, it switches back and forth. Oh, you mean the two different
shes here."
"Fine, whats a stomach or two?" Akane challengingly
says to Ranko.
A small sweat drop forming on her head she replies,
"I've only got one."
"It's a bear!" a person shouts.
"A bears escaped!" another person shouts also.
Akane and Ranko look at where the shouts are coming
from.
Akane says, "Huh?"
Ranko looks a little surprised and says, "Bear!"
The berserk bear is attacking people. It charges
at Nodoka. She's surprised and her hands are full of
food so she can not get her sword.
Ayeka: "She should learn to eat with chopsticks."
Ryoko: "Maybe it's a panda bear?"
Ayeka: "Kill it."
Akane yells, "Ma'am!"
Ranko jumping over the table and charging the bear
yells, "MOM!"
Suddenly, "DON'T MOVE!!" is shouted by a young man.
The shout freezes Ranko, Nodoka, and the bear. The
young man uses Ranko's head as a spring board to
jump at the bear. He attacks the bear. Both hands
hit the bear and swing out. Simultaneously his
right leg kicks the bear. The bear falls to the
ground unconscious.
Ayeka: "Ryuu-kun specializes in single powerful attacks."
Ryoko: "The way you say that..."
The young man stands proudly over the bear. His size
and build looks about like Ranma's (male form) size
and build. His bushy black hair falls in front of
his forehead and is contained by a white headband.
He wears a tanktop t-shirt and camouflage pants,
plus a backpack. The army surplus belt he's wearing
has various military style pouches on it.
Ayeka: "No, this is that other guy from Ranma."
A shocked Ranko has never seen that martial arts
move before.
Akane looking on says wonderingly, "Wha...?"
Ranko thinks, "What is it. That martial art?"
The young man looks at Nodoka and asks, "Are you all
right, Ma'am?"
Nodoka looks a little nervous as she answers,
"Y-yes, thank you." She pauses before saying, "Whats
your name...?"
The young man turns from Nodoka and begins to walk
away. "I'm not a person who can give my name."
After a couple of steps he says, "Bye," and then
walks away.
Akane, Nodoka, Ranko and a dozen other patrons of
the restaurant watch as the young man leaves.
'What a manly boy,' Nodoka thinks.
Everybody starts to clean the mess the bears attack
caused. Nodoka notices a scroll on the ground where
the young man stood. "Oh," Nodoka says. She bends
over and picks it up. 'That boy just now dropped
this,' she thinks.
Nodoka's eyes grow wide with surprise as she looks
at the scroll. There is writing on the scroll.
'Hah!' she thinks, 'Th-this...' She suddenly leaves
the restaurant and goes after the young man.
Ranko and Akane see her leave and chase after her.
"What could be the matter with her? her expression
changed..." Akane says wonderingly as they chase
Nodoka.
Nodoka sees the young man. She says, "U-um," to get
his attention.
The young man turns around. "Hm," he says, "What,
the woman from a little while ago?" He stops and
lets Nodoka catch up to him.
"This..." Nodoka says handing him the scroll case.
"Ah!" he says. He grabs the case. "This is my
important secret message. Oh, good..." he says
looking at it.
Akane and Ranko caught up with Nodoka. They are
hiding behind a telephone pole listening to the
conversation between her and the young man.
Nodoka hesitantly asks, "U-um... That deed a little
while ago?"
"That?" he replies. "The Saotome school of anything
goes martial arts."
'The S-Saotome school of anything goes martial
arts...?' a shocked Ranko thinks listening.
"S-So, if so, your name..." Nodoka slowly says.
"Saotome Ranma," he says.
'Huh??' Ranko and Akane think from their hiding
place.
Tears forming in her eyes Nodoka says, "Ra." She
then tightly embraces Ranma. "Ranma! You've gotten
manly!!" she cries.
Ayeka: "The real Ranma this time?"
Ryoko: "Maybe Ranma and Ranko can get together now."
Ayeka: "It's been done."
Ranma is shocked as he says, "Eh?"
Feeling her son tense up, Nodoka releases Ranma.
"You don't remember me, because we were separated
when you were small. I'm your mother." She tells the
surprised Ranma.
"Eh?" comes out of the dumbfounded Ranma's mouth.
But he recovers quickly and hugs his mother.
"Mother!" he cries grabing her.
"Ranma!!" Nodoka exclaims. She cries into her sons
chest.
'Wha...' Akane thinks.
A very shocked and angry Ranma thinks, 'What do you
mean?'
{Authors note: Here is where things change.}
"Come son, let me take you home, finally!" Nodoka
says to Ranma. She grabs him by the arm draging him
along.
Ranko and Akane look at each other. "I can't let a
stranger go home with mother," Ranko says.
"What are you going to do, then, Ranma?" Akane asks.
"..." Ranko starts, then says, "Invite them to the
dojo, so everybody can meet each other."
Ranma thins,'He'll be found out and mom won't be
bringing a stranger into her house."
"Won't work, Ranma," Akane says. "Remember he lives
there, so everyone has meet him already, as far as
Auntie Nodoka would know. Here's a better idea;
Nabiki has been wanting to take pictures of 'Ranma'
and Nodoka together. I'll invite her and him over so
she can take those pictures."
"Ok, Talk to mom. I'll get him away from her and..."
Ranko says with a glint in her eyes.
"You're not going to start a fight, are you?" Akane
asks.
"No, he just saved her life. But he will tell me why
he is lying about who he is," Ranko says in a
determined tone of voice.
Akane and Ranko run after Nodoka and Ranma.
"Ma'am!" Akane says.
Nodoka and Ranma stop and turn around. "Akane,
forgive me, I was so excited about finally finding
Ranma, I forgot all about you and Ranko," Nodoka
apologetically says.
Akane smiles, "I understand, Ma'am. You've been
waiting a long time for this. There is somebody else
that has been waiting for this moment, too. Nabiki
has been wanting to take a picture of you, your
son," she glares at Ranma, "and your son's finance
together ever since you came over."
A huge sweat drop forms on the back of Ranma's head.
Ranko grabs Ranma arm and starts to pull him toward
the dojo. "Yeah, lets go to the Dojo, and have the
family reunion there. Who knows, Ranma's pop might
even be there." She starts walking very fast pulling
Ranma with her.
Ayeka: "It's right across the street, right?"
Ryoko: "Hey, that's my line!"
"Genma, might been there? Yes, now that Ranma is
done training he would be there." Nodoka starts to
follow Ranko and Ranma. "Having a picture taken of
Ranma and his financee, Akane, and myself is a good
idea." She smiles at Akane, who is beside her, and
continues, "Lets go to your families dojo, Akane."
Luckily for Ranma, he can hear Nodoka. 'I'm engaged
to the girl behind me. Her name is Akane. My fathers
name is Genma. We are going to her families dojo.
There is a least one sister named Nabiki. I just
wish we were going to 'mothers' house, what I need
will be there,' he thinks as Ranko separates him
>from Nodoka.
They turn a corner and Ranko knows she has a minute
or so before Akane and Nodoka can catch up. She
grabs Ranma and pulls his face down to her level. "I
don't know who you are, or why you've doing this,
but," she growls at Ranma. "If you hurt my mother, I
will kill you! Leave now!"
"The Saotome school owes my family, girl. I will be
her son, until I've satisfied my honor." Ranma's
eyes develop a hard glint. They stare at each other.
"Ranma and Ranko! Why are you looking at each other
like that!" Nodoka exclaims as she turns the corner
and sees her son and Ranko looking like they are
about to start a fight.
"I was just wanting him to show me that move he used
on the bear, Auntie Saotome," Ranko says sweetly.
"He can do that at the Dojo." Nodoka goes over and
puts her arms around Ranma and Ranko. "I know you
like martial arts, Ranko, but it can wait,
especially on the day me and my son meet."
They go to the dojo.
Ryoko: "Aren't they there yet?"
end prolog 2
Chapter 1
"Ranma" is introduced to the Tendo's and Ryuunsosuke
and her Father show up.
Author's notes:
I've never seen Kumon RyFC used as a main character
in a fanfic before, so I hope I can do a good
characterization of him.
Help with Ryunnosuke and RyFC will be welcome.
Any C&C will be read and answered.
Thank you for reading this far.
thank you
jeff shelton
jws1@webtv.net
Ryoko: "Did we really need to quote the whole thing?"
Ayeka: "Nobody ever reads anything but MSTs these days. But I don't think
anybody will read down this far."
Ryoko: "The coast is clear?"
Ayeka: "Yeah." (Folds up the two armrests between them and leans over to
rest in Ryoko's arms.)
Ryoko: (Coming up for air after the kiss.) "Say, what's happened to
Tenchi?"
Ayeka: (Misty eyed.) "Oh, he's probally wandered off to be with Sasami."
Ryoko: "That little bitch!" (Stands up, dumping Ayeka on her end.)
"Don't worry Tenchi, I'll save you!" (Teleports away.)
Ayeka: "Oh Ryoko, when will you realise that we don't need that wimp?"
(Gets up.) "Well, I'd best keep him away from you." (Runs off.)
Henry J. Cobb hcobb@slip.net http://www.io.com/~hcobb
I only show my sensitive caring side
to people who are unable to do anything about it.