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			A Little Different...
			Part 1: Here's Lonko

		  By: Peter "Petes-kun" Detenbeck

	<Disclaimer: R1/2 is property of its respective owners.>
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	It was a rainy day, the streets were pretty bare except for a few
people with their umbrellas shopping in the downtown area. Down one street a
young red haired girl in a white and gray Kung-fuu gi comes running, with
something big chasing her. It takes a few swipes with its claws only to miss
as the girl ducks under, and leaps over them. As the rain starts to let up,
the big creature is seen to be a panda holding a large backpack. The panda
attacks the girl again with its one free hand, only for it to be caught by the
girl and flipped over her shoulder. She then picked up the back pack and
continued on. Unknown to her the panda got back up and swiped at her, this
mearly caused her to skid forwards through a rain puddle.
	"Forget it old man! I'm going back home and you can't stop me!" She
shouted at it and drop kicked it in the head, but the panda got back up once
again. "And as for arranging my ENGAGEMENT..." She was caught short as the
panda whacked her over the head with a street sign it broke when it was drop
kicked. It put the sign down on the ground, picked the girl up, slung her
over its shoulder, and picked up the backpack in its other hand.
	"It's a... It's a panda!" exclaimed one person in the crowd that
gathered back when the girl slid into the streets.
	"Oh my god, it has a girl!"
	The panda just coolly looked at the small crowd and growled, the people
quickly backed off and let the panda go its own way.

			* * * * * *

	"Hmm... A letter? From my old friend Saotome!" Shiryou Gosunkugi
smiled as he read the post card from his old friend from his anything goes
martial arts training days, sent to him from China. One line gave him the
most joy. It said that it was time to honor the engagement agreement.
"Toorima! Hikaru! Akiinu! Come here! I have an announcement!" he called out.
A beautiful girl with long brown hair, and a young man with short brown hair
with a pair of candles strapped to his head came into the dining room.
	"Yes father?" The young man, Hikaru, asked.
	"I have something very important to tell you and Aki-- Erm, where's
Akiinu?" Shiryou asked as he noticed his youngest son wasn't there.
	"He's probably still training in the dojo, I'll get him," the girl,
Toorima, said and got up to find her other brother.

			* * * * * *

	Inside the dojo, a well-built young man dressed fully in his school
uniform was standing over a cement block propped up on two other blocks, his
fist clenched except for two of his fingers, he breathes in, and with a quick
motion, he drives the two fingers into the block, it splits in two as his
hand passes through like a hot knife in butter. As he slowly raises his hand
back up and takes a brief smile at the efficient work he did, the sound of a
light clapping is heard. He turns around to see Toorima clasping her hands
together and smirking at him.
	"No wonder you can't get a girlfriend Akiinu, all this training must
make you smell all sweaty," she said as she walked over to him.
	"Hey! I had a girlfriend!" Akiinu gave her a nasty look as he took off
his headband.
	"The daughter of that travelling okonomiyaki cook doesn't count."
Toorima smirked again and flicked him right on the nose, Akiinu casually wiped
it to make it look like he had an itch rather than admitting that it hurt a
little. "Dad sent me to get you, there's something important he wants to say."
	"I'm coming..."

			* * * * * *

	The two sons stared wide-eyed as they absorbed what their father just
said. "You what?" Toorima although, she didn't fully get it.
	"I arranged with my old training partner Genma, that we would each
have one of our children marry. And now that his daughter Lonko is coming,
it's time to honor the deal." Shiryou smiled pleasantly as he explained it
all.
	"You... You go off and engage one of us to a girl we've never met!?"
Akiinu shouted as he shot up from where he was sitting. "How could you!? She
could be... Kawaiikune!" he then shuddered as the image of some fat and
ugly girl being his future bride.
	"Now then, I said that one of you two would be her fianc�e. So don't
go jumping on me just yet," Shiryou retracted.
	"So who'll it be?" Akiinu slumped back down and glared at his father.
	"Well I guess it's up to--" Mr. Gosunkugi was cut short as the sound
of the door opening was heard.
	"Sounds like they're already here." Toorima said and hurried up to
greet their quests.
	"Saotome, my old friend!" Shiryou called out as he followed her.
Akiinu and Hikaru slowly got up to meet their possible fianc�e.
	"Well... Maybe... She'll be pretty..." Hikaru silently said to no one
 in particular. But Akiinu still answered him.
	"Give me ONE example of a arranged marriage that's a good match!"
Hikaru could only look blankly at his younger brother as the he never met a
couple that was from an arranged marriage.
	All of a sudden their father and sister came running back and a large
panda carrying a complaining girl was behind them. Hikaru gasped and quickly
hid behind his father, while Akiinu and Toorima stared defiantly at the panda
as it put down its cargo.
	"Great one pop! Now you scared them!" The girl shouted.
	"Are these... The Saotomes?" Toorima asked. Shiryou just shook his
head.
	"So your friend isn't a big panda?" Akiinu sarcastically asked and
slowly drew his attention to the red haired girl. Once Shiryou realized that
the panda wasn't dangerous, he slowly approached the girl.
	"I'm Lonko Saotome. I can't believe this." She said and rolled her
eyes.

				* * * * * *

	"So this panda..."
	"Is my FATHER. Hai." Lonko finished for Shiryou. "The baka insisted we
went to this stupid training ground in China. He didn't even know why they
called it cursed, can you believe that?!" The Gosunkugis just shook their
heads in a 'no, we can't believe that' way. "So we start sparring and all, the
guide got fed up when pop kept shooing him away, I drop kicked my old man, and
now he's a big goofy pand-- AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
	It was this moment that Genma/Panda hurled Lonko into the koi pond.
	"What was that for, you stupid old man!" Lonko demanded as she
climbed out of the pond.
	"Growf!"
	"Ah that's your reason for everything!" Lonko exclaimed and the
Gosunkugis facefaulted in unison.
	"Now, you weren't cursed as well, were you Lonko?" Shiryou asked her.
	"Um, no."
	"Excellent, then there'll be no difficulties in the engagement!"
Shiryou said and beamed happily.
	"Except that she seems to be leaving..." Toorima said as she watched
Lonko get up and leave.
	"I'm going back home, I don't want to stick around here and be
engaged!" Lonko called out before she went out the front door.
	Just before she was about to go out the gate, Genma, now in his human
form, grabbed her by the pigtail and dragged her back inside. "Foolish girl,
don't you realize the honor and duties of a martial artist this lives up to?"
	"Nope," Lonko said, making Genma pretty miffed. "And I don't care."
But Genma still dragged her back into the living room where the weary
Gosunkugis were waiting, and sat her back down.
	"Now then, Lonko, your father and I made a promise long ago, that
we'd have one of our children be engaged with the other as to combine out
schools and see to it that the legacy of the Anything Goes School of martial
arts lives on for our master." Shiryou sniffed a little. "Our poor departed
master..."
	Genma sweatdropped at Shiryou's tears <He really can be over
emotional sometimes...> "And now that I believe you're old enough Lonko, now
it's the time for us to live up to our arrangement."
	Lonko crossed her arms and glared at Genma. "I'm not getting married
to somebody I don't know!"
	"Well you don't have to get married right away of course. Now then, I
have my oldest son, Hikaru, he's 17, and my youngest, Akiinu, he's 16."
	"I suggest Akiinu since they're the same age, plus I bet Hikaru is a
little scared of Lonko," Toorima said.
	Hikaru sheepishly nodded in agreement. "It's true, I am."
	"Good then, Akiinu will be engaged to Lonko," Shiryou said cheerfully.
	"Ah Gosunkugi, I can just see them wed now." Genma grinned.
	"Yes, isn't it wonderful Saotome?"
	"Yes it is Gosunkugi."
	"Sigh. Why me?" Akiinu and Lonko said together and hoped some divine
intervention would stop this.

				* * * * * *

	While Genma and Shiryou were busy talking about the future they have
in store for their children, Akiinu and Lonko snuck off into the Dojo.
	"This sucks! There's no way I'm gonna get married to some third rate
martial artist," Lonko complained while pacing back and forth around the
Dojo.
	"THIRD RATE?!" Akiinu's expression quickly went from the disgust from
before, to shock and then anger. "What the hell do you mean 'third rate'?!"
	Lonko simply snorted and looked away from Akiinu.
	"You just look like you'd suck, s'all," she said in an arrogant tone
of voice.
	Akiinu began to grit his teeth and growl under his breath a little.
After all, if you were to be the future heir of a Dojo, would you like being
called third rate or a sucky fighter? Course not!
	In a instant Akiinu went into a standard Karate stance and glared at
Lonko. "That's IT, c'mon, you and me, _now_."
	Lonko turned around and smirked. "You're on," she said and went into
a Kung Fuu stance that Akiinu could only recognize from movies, since he never
practiced Kung Fuu himself. "Just don't get all full of yourself and hold back
on me cause I'm a girl."
	"No problem."
	The fight was short, but looked fairly even matched. Nearly every
blow they made at each other was caught or parried with ease. After a few
minutes Akiinu decided to try and surprise Lonko with a fast spin kick, but
he didn't realize how close to the wall they were and his foot ended up
smashing through it and getting caught. Lonko quickly took advantage of this
and made the defeating strike with a flying knee to the head. Akiinu went
crashing down with a bleeding nose.
	Lonko smirked and walked towards the door out of the Dojo. She turned
around and looked at Akiinu, and briefly a look of quilt was on her face, but
it soon left. "Third rate."

				* * * * * *

	When Akiinu tried opening his eyes a couple of things came to mind.
The first was that the ceiling looks really interesting when you're flat on
your back and can only see swirling blurs. And the other was that he's going
to really HATE being engaged to Lonko.
	"He's awake." A tall grayish blur said in a echoing feminine voice that
resembled his older sister, and then it patted him with a wet and spongy
blur. Two more blurs, these even larger than the blur that began to almost
look like Toorima, came into view.
	"Well Saotome," said one of the slimmer big blurs, in a voice like his
father. "I think the first thing we should do after the wedding is marriage
counseling.."
	"Ever before the honeymoon?" The wider blur that now began to have
the features of Mr.Saotome, asked, like he was totally oblivious to what
happened.
	"Yes," the father blur, whom now looked very much like Mr.Gosunkugi,
replied in an annoyed tone. "Unless you want you daughter to be a widow a few
hours after the ceremony."
	Finally Akiinu's vision returned and he sat up.
	"Wha-- What happened to me?" he asked in a groggy manner, while
rubbing his now aching nose.
	Toorima smirked and got up. "You were apparently clocked by your
soon-to-be-spouse." And she began to snicker as she wringed out the wet cloth
over the pail of water.
	"Oh the shame he must feel, being defeated by a girl!" Mr.Saotome
cried out and immediately got nasty looks from Akiinu, Toorima and their
father.
<More like a feminine boy with breasts...> Akiinu thought to himself
and accepted the washcloth from Toorima. Of which he went to work at washing
off the dried blood on his face.
	"Well it's a good thing nothing was broken, eh son?" Akiinu's father
said cheerfully and with a light smile. He patted him on the back and got up.
"Take a warm bath and get some rest. That should give you time for your nose
to stop throbbing and for you to recover from all the excitement from
tonight."
	"Ah, alright." Akiinu slowly got up and staggered towards the doorway
towards the bathroom. Mr.Gosunkugi and Mr.Saotome took it as their que to
leave as well, only quicker, and for the patio in the back of the house to
play some Go.
	"Oh brother mine..." Toorima said in a teasingly sweet voice. Akiinu
turned around and looked at her sitting there grinning. "You want me to find
that okonomiyaki girl's number for you? It's never too late to break off
something like this." Toorima winked at Akiinu, who mearly glared at her and
left. <I'll take that as 'Why yes Toori-chan! I'd really appreciate it if you
go out of your way and find that girl I secretly had a crush on as a kid!'.
Time for me to make a call...>
	Toorima picked up the pail and dumped the contents out into the
backyard, which accidentally hit Mr.Saotome, who was looking for a few of the
Go pieces he lost while opening the case of them. Just the sight of a
grumbling panda pawing around the grass brought a giggle to Toorima as she
watched a little.
	After she tucked the pail under the sink in the kitchen, Toorima
headed for the phone, picked it off its cradle and hit number 3 on the speed
dial, which was labeled 'NT's number, MY use only! -Toori-chan ^_-'.
	The click of the other side picking up was heard and an answering
machine came on.
	"Hello," it said in the female voice of its owner, who Toorima figures
any boy would find sexy, even if she was reading the contents of health food
bars. "I'm not here right now, so if you'll just leave your number and what
your business is--"
	"Pick up Nab-chan, I know you screen your calls."
	Another click was heard and a less rehearsed voice came on. "What can
I do for you Toorima?"
	"I was wondering how good you are at locating people."
	"Not too hard, a little time consuming.." Her voice suddenly dropped
to a less friendly and to something more businesslike. "It'll cost you big
time."
	"I think not," Toorima said, feeling a little insulted. "Or have you
forgotten that you owe me a favor for setting you up with all those betting
opportunities on my brother's fights?"
	On the other side of the phone Nab-chan sighed. "Alright, I'll do it.
So who do you want?"
	"That's better. The person I'm looking for is named Kuonji, Kuonji
Ukyou."

				* * * * * *

	<Stupid old man.> Lonko laid in the bathtub, grumbling over how
Genma over reacted to her beating Akiinu in their sparring session. <It's not
like _I_ started it!> This sort of thing was common for Lonko, she even got
into big fights with her best friend, who she hasn't seen in years. The only
difference is that Lonko's friend could take a blow like that, Akiinu
couldn't.
	Lonko sighed and stretched a little. "I guess I might as well get out
and head off to bed then..."
	To explain what happened next would require us to go back to when
Akiinu was heading for the bathroom himself.
	He was rather miffed about how the fight ended and most things such as
him walking into, and then over, his brother Hikaru, were totally oblivious to
him. Only the fact that he lost to a girl, in fact he lost to his FIANCEE,
which just seemed to be worse for him.
	And so when Hikaru whimpered after Akiinu stepped on his neither
regions, he didn't pay any notice.
	"Stupid tomboy macho chick..." Akkinu muttered as he walked right into
the bath room and began to undress, not noticing that behind the bath shades,
someone seemed to be in the bath.
	And that particular person was... Yep, Lonko.
	Akiinu only got as far as getting off his shirt before Lonko stepped
out, completely naked and dripping wet.
	There was a giant void of silence for what seemed to be hours. The two
of them just staring at each other with looks of utter shock on their faces.
	Lonko ended up being the one to break the silence.
	"HENTAIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!"
	With a "Gya!", Akiinu scrambled to get out of the bathroom. Very, very
quickly.
	"Come back here you third rate martial artist and first rate
HENTAI!!! I'm gonna break your skull on the floor!" Lonko continued to scream
as she quickly but on a bathrobe and ran after Akiinu.
	Meanwhile, Genma-panda and Shiryou were playing Go out on the patio
as the sounds of Lonko's wrath filled the house.
	"You know, Saotome..." Shiryou said as he placed one of his pieces
down, trying to capture a group of Genma's.
	Genma-panda hurriedly looked left and right and finally found a
notebook and a marker and wrote down "What is it Gosunkugi?" on it.
	"I think those two will make a wonderful couple." Shiryou grinned
broadly and crossed his arms.
	While Genma-panda made his next move, which foiled Shiryou's attempt
to take his pieces, he wrote down on the notebook again and held it up.
"Indeed Gosunkugi, indeed."



				`~~Le Fin~~`


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Author's Notes:

Dear lord! I've been working at this first chapter on and off for months, and
I originally promised it's release way back in mid April. Well at least I got
it done and now I can start plotting the future chapters! ^_^ (see "More to
Come!")
The only thing that bothers me though is that while I was sluggishly
working at this is that another R1/2 fic came out "A Litte Earlier", of which
I hope no one thinks the title is a rip off of it. I honestly started this
back in November of '98, and then set it aside as my time became consumed by
RPML-2025. (out now, so go and read it! ^_^ *plug! plug, plug plug!*)
Do I have anyone to thank? Not really, this project was kept pretty much under
wraps except for the teaser I released to the FFML around April. :p

Petes 06/17/99


More to Come!:
Here's a look at the titles of future chapters (not really in order)

-Furinkan Craze part 1: Kunou the Scarlet Kendouist
-Furinkan Craze part 2: Leggo my Fianc�e!
-One Amazon. Two Amazons. Three Amazons. Please, no more...
-Enter Ukyou, the Okonomiyaki Vending Girl
-Friendship Taken too Lightly
-Lonko's Great B-chan Caper

Coming soon (as in a few months, each) to a ML or webpage near you!



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