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Ranma walked into her appartment and looked at her father who was
lazily sipping tea out of a small cup in its paws. "hello son." said the
sign the panda offered.
"Father." said Ranma cooly in the tone she reserved only for her
father. "Whats this about an arranged marrage?" she asked cracking her
knuckles and dropping a confused Mr.P on the floor.
The next day Ranma was suprised to see Akane waiting outside her
door. "Hi" she said as she walked towards the school with her.
"Your really moving in with us?" Akane asked with a smile.
"Looks like it, my life will be allot easier if I do. Its closer
to both the school and my job, and the rent is much cheaper." she said
calmly to Akane.
"So uh, where do you work?" asked Akane casually trying to start
conversation.
"Its called Gaijin cafe." said Ranma automatically.
"That's near the Dojo isn't it?" asked Akane thoughtfully.
"Yes." replied Ranma mechanically.
"Why do you act like that its creepy." Akane said quietly to
herself.
"Whats so creepy about it?" asked Ranma.
Akane blushed and looked at her feet in embarassment. "I'm sorry
its just you seem so..." said Akane guiltily trying to find the words.
"Cold? Try spending months in a foreign country being hunted like
an animal. It helps your hearing alot too." she added calmly.
"Ranma?" said Akane to the girl with a horrified look. "What
happened to you?" she thought saddly.
Ranma looked at the crowd ammased at the gates of Furinkan with a
disgusted sigh. "Your public awaits." she said to Akane with a small
humorless smile.
Akane returned the smile. "At least she is trying." she thought.
The two walked towards the school with Akane leading by several yards.
"There she is!" cried one of the boys in the front. They charged
at them. Akane began as soon as the first wave of boys hit, to her
suprise many of the boys, about half in fact, passed her completly and
charged Ranma who backed away with a look of horror on her face. She
turned to run but the boys swarmed her.
Ranma watched in horror as the boys passed Akane and charged at
her. "No." she thoughy and turned to run. The boys had a head start and
the element of suprise and swamped her. She turned as one of the boys
swung at her and cried "I love you!" She dodged punches and kicks fluidly
and easily. "Too many." she thought desperately looking for a break in
the crowd. Several boys tried to crush her in a dog pile and Ranma rolled
away. "Can't escape." thought Ranma frantically.
Akane finished up the last part of her little squad and turned to
see Ranma facing not only her usuall fan cub but also about fifteen new
faces as well. "No! get away from her you Jerks." she cried running for
the crowd. Then an almost inhuman yell erupted from the center of the
Mob. Ranma shot straight up twenty feet into the air with a jumping
uppercut that knocked one boy fifteen feet back and took out several
other students in his wake. Ranma landed and looked at her opponents
carefully. The boys circled her and began to close in.
Akane looked and saw Ranma standing in the center of the crowd
in a ready stance. She starded to go towards to help but a warning hand
on her shoulder stopped her. She turned to see Nabiki holding her back
gently shakeing her head.
"Akane looke at her eyes." she said simply.
Akane turned as the boys edged their way ever closer to the girl
carefully and slowly. "She looked and saw a very serene and calm Ranma
standing motionless in the center. Her eyes held no emotion or fire she
almost seemed to be nothing but lifeless statue.
Ranma was a killing machine.
"No! they'll be killed!" cried Akane as she looked at the boys
edge closer.
One of the Karate club members snapped and ran at Ranma. He
screamed as he rushed her. She moved slightly to dodge his strike and
backhanded him in the back of the head. He fell to the ground with a
sickening thud and she lept into the crowd of boys surrounding her. She
kicked one boy in the neck breaking his collar bone and dropping him like
a rock. One of the sumo club swing at her and she grabbed his arm and
slammed him down on the ground while twisting her weight ripping his arm
out of the socket dislocating his shoulder. Another boy dresssed on
boxing gear swung at Ranma who grabbed his wrist and ducked uner his arm,
then she punched up throught his elbow breaking it instantly. Another boy
kicked her and she grabbed his ankle and brought it down on her knee and
elbowed his knee breaking it instantly as well. She turned and charged
into another group of boys crying out in her rage.
Akane and Nabiki watched in horror as Ranma stood in the center
of the pile of broken and entirely unconsious boys. She stood breathing
evenly and looked around at the distruction she had caused. She fell to
her knees and took deep controlled breaths. Tatewaki Kuno walked out from
benind a tree and smiled at the girl who was regaining control of
herself. Ranma looked at her hands and sobbed as the scope of what she
had done hit her. "Shampoo." she said aloud.
Tatiwaki Kuno smiled smuggly at the girl before him on the ground
and walked up to her. "Such sweet remorse." he said to Ranma who merely
looked at him.
"You." said Ranma calmly. "Did this."
"No! he'll be killed!" cried Akane but was once again restrained
by her sister.
"No he won't, broken but not killed." she said pointing to the
bodies of the male populous of Furinkan, all of them were broken and
cushed but not a single one was in any danger of dying.
Kuno's clothes were obviously designed to show off the scar he
had received in the earlier battle with Ranma. "They, as with the
beautious Akane must defeat you for the honor of your company." said Kuno
standing tall.
"How dare you interfear with my life?" said Ranma with the same
maddening calm.
"Twas no trouble my dear it is what the superior class does to
those obviously too weak to live on their own." said Kuno as he tossed a
rose at Ranma.
Ranma punched it in the air causeing it to exsplode sending
petals in every direction. "Hmm, you are an arrogant jerk."she said once
again a statment and not a curse.
"Now fair maden might thou sparr with me?" he sadi readying
himself for battle.
Ranma waved her hand around her and looked at Kuno with her face
growing hard. "Does it look like I'm sparing to you?" she said flatly.
"My heart guides me into this battle." he said charging Ranma.
Ranma jumped into the air and came down hard on Kuno's chest. She
then sprung off his chest and onto the ground several feet away. Kuno
leaned forward and coughed up a fair ammount of blood.
Ranma eyed him coldly and looked at the kendoist as he stood
clutching his chest. "I just punctured your right lung slightly. If you
don't receive medical attention within the next two hours you will die,
There is a pay phone inside the school." Ranma flipped him change and
began to walk away. She stopped and turned slightly. "Now -sempai- do you
see how much I love a weakling like you?" she said bitterly. It began to
rain and some of the students woke up and started moaning and others
screamed in terror and pain from their injuries. The few who escaped
unharmed and those who had fought Akane looked on in horror as the girl
walked away from the screaming pile of bodies.
She looked like a demon to her, a cold hard emotionless face
that could not possibly be human. Yet Akane could not bring herself to be
afraid or angry.
Ranma stopped in front of Akane. "I am sorry for this, but mabey
now you understand the kind of life I've had over the past year." She
said saddly.
Akane looked at Ranma with pittious eyes. "Ranma how could you?"
she said.
Ranma hung her head lower. "I have fought for my life every day
for almost a year. I thought, finally it would all go away once I got
back home. I guess I was wrong." she said quietly once again in her
emotionless daze. She walked towards the building.
"Akane she didn't do anything wrong." said Nabiki "She defended
herself. Plain and simple." said Nabiki watching Ranma walk slowly
towards the school.
"That poor girl what could have happened to her to cause this?"
said Akane after a moment. In the distance emergancy vehicles sirens
wailed and the pair turned towards the school.
Durring the lunch period. Akane could not find Ranma anywhere on
the campus. Then the speaker in the lunch room turned on and a voice
spoke clearly four simple words that every one understood. "The attacks
will stop."
"Ranma?" said Akane startled by the announcement. She ran towards
the school office and caught Ranma right as she walked out. "There you
are, I was worried you forgot to eat lunch with us." said Akane smiling.
Ranma offered a half hearted smile and allowed herself to be taken to a
group of girls in the lunch room.
Several of them gasped and staired at her in fear and wonder.
Many of the other girls were giving Ranma dirty looks. Ranma realised
that it must be because their boyfreinds were involved in the attack this
morning. The paramedics arrived and the police questioned the boys. No
one would give any information out of either 'love' or fear and both.
More than half the schools male population was absent now because they
had to be taken to the hospital. Ranma looked at Akane and asked a simple
question.
"Why?" she said.
Akane turned to face her and hugged her. "Because I don't
understand, I pray I never do and I hope you get the chance to forget."
she said looking at Nabiki on the other side of the feild who smiled
back. "We're going to be living together and I think we shoud be
freinds." she said smiling. Ranma blushed and looked down at her knees.
"She's so cute. Freinds...huh." thought Ranma unsure of what to
say or do.
Kuno sat looking at the doctor with a confused face. "What do you
mean its not punctured?" he said bluntly.
"You've been faked out my freind." said the doctor looking at the
chart. "She broke your ribs alright and I'm not suprised you coughed up a
little blood with all the bruises she gave you. She must really hat-"
"I knew it she does love me!" he cried.
The doctor sighed and placed the chart back on the table. "You
and I need to talk." he said to the Kendoist as Kuno hugged his pillow
joyously.
I almost forgot the legal crap again...I don't own any of the characters
or situations involved with Ranma 1/2. ect ect....Takahashi, Vis
communications...ect ect...
I love C&c send me some please!
Send to: Catbert25@aol.com.
Go to my web page @ http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Dojo/7619/
I haven't abandoned my other projects Spirit within and Separation
anxiety. But it sould be a week or so before you see more of them [I just
got Evangelion 1-11 and Wanderers:El Hazard 1-5] I'm also working on some
stuff that won't be posted until its completely finished.
So unil I finish my global take over and institute the mass translation
of all manga.
Ja-ne!
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