The disclaimer, practically every character here is NOT mine.  They all belong to their respective company.  I am using a lot of them, so I can't list them all.  Beside, I am gonna add more series to the story later on.  Don't sue me.  You won't get a penny out of me.  Trust me, you won't.  For others, there are SOME characters I made up, but who cares?  I don't.


Ranma Crossover fanfic

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STALLION

Chapter 2.

< They are smart, but they ain't Sherlock. >


Part 2.




- Ranma meets Sasami - TG

"Alright, alright.  I am coming, Geez!"

After a few more complains from her fiancee, Akane finally let go of his pigtail in her hand, only
to bonk him on his head.

"Ouch!  What was that for?"

"That's for making all of us wait for you!  You just had to go wonder around by yourself, didn't you?"

"Man, didn't I say sorry?"

"You better be!  I've been looking forward to this.  But look!  We haven't put one step in the park and you already started to ruin the day!"

"Ah, come on.  It's not that bad yet."

"But it WILL be bad if you keep acting without a care for the rest of us!"

"Okay, okay.  Geez.  I step off for a sec and you are already to tear my head off or something.  You are so uncute."(7)

"WHAT did you say?!"

The best martial artist in Nerima was still no match for the most hot-headed lady in the entire Tokyo, as Ranma cringed and put his hands out for defence.

"Not, nothing.  I didn't say anything.  Really!"

"RANMAAAAAAAAAAA~!!"

Only thought came up in Ranma's head now was how long he would have to fly this time.  A good thing that someone came to his rescue.  A bad thing that the someone happened to be Nabiki.

"Would you cut out the lover's quarrel?  There are people watching, you know.  If you keep this up, you guys are gonna be offered a TV series."

A relieved sigh escaped from Ranma's mouth but Akane was still upset.  She turned to face her sister to retort.

"WE ARE NOT HAVING A LOVER'S QUARREL!!  And nobody is watching us anyway......"

Akane's sentence was cut short as she had noticed people watching them with keen interest.  A embarassed blush made up to her cheek.  However she soon took her control back and yelled to the people around her.

"This isn't none of your business!!"

While some people flinched at her voice before they ran away, some still stayed and snickered at her.  Soon they also left hurriedly, not because they weren't interested any more but because Akane punched a hole through a nearby mailbox.(8)

Being the Ice Queen of Furinkan High, all Nabiki did was to raise a eyebrow. Then she took out a ticket out of her pocket, and handed it to Ranma, who just blinked and stared at it.  Again cooly, Nabiki spoke.

"Your ticket."

"Oh, okay."

However, as soon as Ranma reached out to grab it, Nabiki pulled her hand back.

"3000 yen."

"What?!  What for?!!"

Ranma was surprised at Nabiki's reaction as she made a rather upset scowl at him.

"Because while I was waiting for you two outside here, the rest of the family are already inside having fun.  You should be grateful that I actually WAITED for your sorry ass."

Then Nabiki added after noticing Akane paled at hearing this.

"Well, Akane.  You went to get your lover-boy back here as soon as possible, so I am not mad at you."

"He is NOT my lover-boy!"

"Whatever.  Here is your ticket."

Nabiki took another ticket out of her pocket and gave it to Akane.  Akane put it in her own pocket, but not before Nabiki added some more words.

"Your charge is gonna be on you LOVER-BOY's account."

Akane rolled her eyes and muttered "whatever," and ran towards the entrance. This actually put Nabiki in mild shock.  She was expecting another "he is not my lover-boy" speech.  To say she was disappointed was putting it mildy. But she didn't get to contemplate on this much longer, since she had an another upset customer to take care of.

"WHAT?!!?  I have to pay for Akane's, too!?!"

"Well, yes, Ranma.  A husband always have to take the responsibility for his wife's action, especially if the action was due to YOUR mishap."

"She is NOT my wife!  We didn't go through with that wedding!!  You of all people should remember that, because you HELPED crashing it!"

"Oh, so you WERE gonna marry Akane that day?"

"That's not the point!!"

Nabiki smirked.  While Akane didn't show the reaction she had expected, Ranma still did.  He was so predictable, and always reliable to get a laugh out of him, or out of his expence, depending on the situation.

"Whatever.  You want the ticket, or not?"

"*sigh* Okay, fine.  The usual rate?"

"Of course.  May I presume it will be on your tab?"

"What do YOU think?  You already cleaned me out last week."

Even though there was clear irritation in Ranma's tone, Nabiki didn't faze at all, and answered him with the innocent-looking puppy eyes.

"Oh, I don't know.  I thought you might had some money drop out of sky, just like your fiancees."

"*Grrr* Shut up.  I gotta go to the washroom first."

"Ho-ho-ho.  Okay.  See you later inside~."

With satisfied smile, the middle Tendo daughter walked away to the entrance. Ranma muttered something like "moneyhog," or "smarty-mouth," but not in a voice loud enough to be heard.  After all, he was already at the verge of bankruptcy.



Ranma kept muttering as he walked.  He was so into it that he failed to see a little girl standing, humming a song with her eyes closed.  He almost bumped into her when he finally noticed the girl standing in his way.    The little girl, who had two long ponytails on the sides of her head, also opened her eyes in time to find a stranger walking right up to her.

"Eeeep!"

But he wasn't "the best" martial artist just by the name.  Ranma's replex took over quickly enough to avoid a contact with the girl.

"Oopsie, that was close.  Sorry, kid.  Didn't watch where I was going."

"Um, that's okay.  I should have paid attention around me, too."

"Nah, it was my fault.  You okay?  I scared ya a bit, didn't I?"

"Hehe.  I'm fine.  I am just waiting for Tenchi-niichan."

"Niichan?  Your brother?"

"Eh, something like that.  Hehe."

"?"

Her answer confused Ranma a little.  He forgot about it soon though, because he recognized the girl from the ice cream shop earlier.

"Hey, weren't you at the ice cream shop down the street a moment ago?"

"Huh?!  Yes, I was.  How did you know?"

"I saw you there when I went there earlier today.  With a guy who had a ponytail."

"Yeah, that was Tenchi-niichan.  But weird.  I didn't see you there.  I just saw a bunch of ladies there.  I saw some guys there, but I didn't recognize your face......"

"Oh, re, really?"

Ranma began to sweatdrop.  He just remembered that he was there as HER.  It was no wonder the girl didn't remember him there.  He was there in wrong gender.

"I saw a redheaded lady with a pigtail like you, but......"

"Oh, re, re, really?"

Now Ranma was pouring sweat down his head.  She DID remember him.  But again, only in WRONG gender.  Nervously he tried to divert the girl's attention.

"Um, by the way, I am Ranma."

"Huh?"

"My name.  Saotome Ranma."

"Oh!  I am Sasami!"

Fortunately the girl seemed to have dropped the subject.  Relieved, Ranma took his hand out towards Sasami.

"Nice to meet you, Sasami-chan."

The girl, Sasami, smiled brightly as she shook his hand and answered cheerfully.

"Nice to meet you too, Ranma-niichan."



Back in Sailor Pluto's castle, the Time Gate, which till now only had darkness on its surface, started to glow violently.  Soon, the entire room was filled with bright light.



The shock was so great that Setsuna almost bolted right up.  She could feel the Time Gate acting up again, but in abnormal pattern.  Being the Guardian of the magical relic, Sailor Pluto knew what to expect in almost every situation.  However this time she was in a total loss.

What made Setsuna more frustrated was the fact that the best suspect of this case had been under her surveillance whole time.  She had watched the boy's every single movement, but so far he didn't do anything out of normal.  Despite that, something had upset the timeline enough to re-activate the dormant Time Gate.  Whether the boy did this or not, she would have to go back to her castle.

"Luna, keep watching him.  And tell the others to do the same when they come."

"Huh?  How about you..."

When Luna turned her head, Setsuna was already gone.  Her eyes widened, as she realized her predicament.  She yelled, to particularly nowhere.

"But what if he goes inside the park!?!?!?!?"

Out of nowhere... no answer came.



HONK!

"Sorry about that!!"

HONK HONK!

"Excuse us!!"

"Hey!!"

"We are sorry!!"

On the road to the park, a red car was creating a havoc.  No.  The red car WAS the havoc.  On the driver's seat, Haruka was in her race mode, even though she was on a normal road, not the one in a race track.  On the shotgun seat, Michiru kept yelling apologies either to the honking cars beside them, or to the people who were running away from them.  On the backseat, Hotaru, who already buckled up, held onto the seat with her eyes closed.

After she finished shouting another sorry to a group of nuns, Michiru took a moment to ask Haruka.

"Um, can't we go any SLOWER?"

"No time!  That bastard could already be out of the city, for all we know!"

"Bu, but Setsuna's message said he was at the amusement park!  It's only minutes away from here, on foot no less!!"

"Hah!  He might try to lose us in the crowd!  We have to get there as fast as we can!"

"Hey!  Setsuna said that he MIGHT be the disturbance!  She wasn't sure he was!"

"She wasn't sure he wasn't, either!  Good enough reason to beat him up for me~!"

"NO IT'S NOT!!"

On the back, a small word escaped from tightly shut mouth of Hotaru.

"Mommy..."

She definitely wasn't calling her Michiru-mama.




A portable washroom was not very big.  It barely could fit one grown-up man. Nasty smell surrounded it.  Many people, how much in hurry they might have been, chose to run a little further to the nearby restaurant to use the can.

However, Ranma was never a picky person.  Living on the road for 10 years would do that to you.

After he parted with Sasami, Ranma came to the nearest toilet he could find. While he knew it wasn't the best place to do his business, he was too lazy to hold it and to walk another five minutes.  It wasn't the best, or even the satisfactory middle, but it would do.

A guy would never stay in the toilet longer than he had to.  Especially if it was as smelly as this one.  While not picky, Ranma still had a normal nose.  Although it had higher threshold than a normal human, being trained by the smell of Akane's so-called cooking, his nose clearly told his brain that it REALLY didn't like here.  So the brain ordered a quick evacuation.  For once, all the parts of his body agreed to the brain's plan and hurried got out of there.

When he came out, Ranma had another almost run-in with a girl.  This girl had weird marking on her face, and, this Ranma looked twice to make sure, had a long white mallet on her back.  Due to the mallet, the girl lost her balance while trying to avoid an impact with him.  Soon the girl was sitting on the road, rubbing her bottom.

"Ouchouchouch.  It hurts..."

"Um, you okay?"

"Uh, yeah......"




Skuld was a bit baffled to find a very good-looking boy looking down at her. She realized how embarasshing her position was and stood up very quickly.  The goddess was in hurry.  She had to find some water before the boy went inside the park.

Then she remembered one of Belldandy's advices, one that taught her to be more polite to the strangers.  So she took a moment to grab the guy's hand and shook it.

"How are you doing?  My name's Skuld."

"Um, I am Ranma.  Nice to meet you, Skuld..."



Sailor Pluto was now back in her room inside her castle.  She was studying the glowing Time Gate carefully, when it suddenly started to shine more brightly.  Setsuna covered her eyes with her hand, and was very shocked.  The Time Gate was now beginning to produce some omnious vibration.

"What's going on?"



When Skuld finally let go of his hand, Ranma dumbly stared at his hand.  She almost dismissed it, but the look on his face was too weird.  The goddess just had to ask.

"Eh, what's wrong?"

They say the curiosity killed the cat.  This time, it just made the goddess WISH she died.

"Um, I didn't wash my hand yet......"

"EEEEEEEEHHHHHHHH?!?!?!"

For a moment, Skuld became a frozen statue.  Soon her face became bright red as all the blood in her body seemed to rush up to the veins on her cheek.  Then it turned as white as sheet as all the color seemed to drain out of it. Suddenly the goddess ran into the washroom and slammed the door shut.

SLAM!!

When she kicked it open, and exhaled very loudly.

"Fehhhhhhhhhhh!  What's this smell!?!  And why isn't there any water?!?  What kind of washroom is this?!?!?"

Ranma, still with blank expression on his face, slowly pointed his finger towards the direction of the restaurant.

"I think there was a restaurant over there..."

His words somehow still brought a rather bad blush on her cheek, but Skuld quickly composed herself.

"Thank you, um, Ranma-san.  I will, um, go now.  Eh, bye."

As soon as she finished her words, the goddess of the future dashed away from Ranma.  She didn't know it was the opposite of where Ranma was pointing.

Ranma blinked, but shrugged his shoulders, and walked towards nearby water fountain to wash his hands.




At the entrance Tenchi was with Sasami, waiting in the line in front of ticket collector.  But when their turn came, Tenchi suddenly stopped and smacker his fore head.  He just remembered something that he had forgotten.

"Darn!  I almost forgot about that!"

"Huh?  What's wrong, Tenchi-niichan?"

"Grandpa told me that he was gonna visit today for dinner.  He isn't gonna be happy when he finds out I am gone without telling anyone."

"Don't worry!  I put the dinner in the refridgerator.  I told Kiyone to heat it up later.  There should be enough for everyone!"

"Oh, really?  That's good."

Tenchi was glad to hear that, but people behind them wasn't all that glad to wait for him.

"Hey!!  What's taking so long over there?!  Hurry up!"
"Yeah!  We haven't got all day!"

"So, sorry!!"

Tenchi bowed to the shouting crowd.  Then he gave their tickets to the collector, and ran out of there quickly.  A second later he came back, just to grab the bewildered Sasami, and ran out just as quickly as before.



Back to the Masaki Mansion, Masaki Katsuhito, also known as Yosho the crown prince of Jurai, made his way to the house.  It wasn't dinnertime yet.  In fact, it was only late afternoon.  But there was nothing to do in the shrine today, and he was in a mood for a game of shogi with his son-in-law.

'I hope Nobuyuki is back home by now.'

Soon he stood in front of the house.

Nobuyuki's car was parked outside the house.  That was a good sign.

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!"

Nobuyuki's scream shook the house.  That was a bad sign.

Katsuhito stood there, blinking his eyes as the agonizing scream of pain rattled the window.



Inside the house, Nobuyuki was in his bed.

However, he wasn't asleep.  A man couldn't normally be sleeping if his arm was being punctured with a very sharp needle.  Repeatedly.

Especially if it was in Mihoshi's hand.

"Oh my.  I think I did it wrong again.  Let me see...  The instruction said to find the vein...  But what is 'the vein,' anyway?  Do you know, Nobuyuki-san?  Nobuyuki-san?"

Nobuyuki was out cold.

"Oh well.  It 's gotta be here somewhere.  I am just gonna have to do it over until I find it.  I
found Washu-chan's vein in an hour... but Nobuyuki-san's arm is so thick.  I might have to do this for about TWO hours then."

It was then when Nobuyuki opened his eyes and came back to the reality.  Sadly, it was very, VERY harsh one.



"Heeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllppppppppppppppppp!!!!!!!  Anyone, HEEEEELLLLPPP!!!!  AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!!!"

Katsuhito went on his way back to the shrine, leaving the painful voice of his son-in-law behind.  It seemed he would have to satisfy his stomach with only rice and pickle tonight.  However, it would be better to go hungry than to face whatever horror lied in the Masaki house.  Living for seven hundred years gave him experiences to defuse many dangerous situation, but it also gave him wisdom to know when to avoid such situations.  Right now his survival instinct told him that it was time to run.

But it wasn't fast enough, as he stumbled on a rock and fell.

Crash!

"Umph!"

The priest held on to his nose when he stood up.  He seemed to have banged his nose on the ground when he fell.  Katsuhito wondered how this could be.  He normally wasn't clumsy like this.

"Who's there?  Katsuhito-san?  Oh my!  Look at yourself!  You are hurt!"

"Mi, Mihoshi-kun?  Um, it's nothing, really.  I was just passing by.  Then good day to you.  Bye!"

"Oh no, you don't!  We have to look at your nose.  It might be broken!"

"No no!  It's not broken.  Beside, I don't want to be a burden..."

"No problem!  Today everyone is either hurt or passed out.  I've been taking good care of them.  One more wouldn't be a burden at all!"

"No, really!  I am okay!  Mihoshi-kun!  Please let go of me!  Mihoshi-kun!!"

That was the last heard words of Katsuhito today.




A peaceful day.  On a parking lot near the amusement park, people walked towards the entrance after they parked, occasionally exchanging words between them.

Screeech!

All of sudden, a red car blazed its way through the gate of the parking lot. It took a quick curve, barely missing a parked car.  It went into a lot fast, and stopped abruptly.

In the middle of the scared and shocked eyes of people around, the car door opened, and the driver, a young woman with short hair, stepped out.  She blinked when she noticed people's nervous glance, and spoke.

"What?"

Kaboom!

A loud boom rang through the air as everyone in the parking lot facefaulted almost at the same time.

"Geez, what's their problem?"

Michiru, who was now stepping out also, answered in rather sacastic tone.

"Who knows?  It's not like they just saw a maniac who drives 200km/hr on the city road."

"What 200?  I only drove up to 150.  I didn't want to kill anyone by mistake."

Crash!

Rather small compared to before, the facefault of the long-haired Senshi still looked very painful.

Michiru rubbed her head as she stood up.  It was a miracle they hadn't been pulled over.  They DID meet a cop on the way, but he didn't seem able since he knocked himself out when he jumped into a post trying to avoid their car.

Beside the car Hotaru was trying to hold the vomit down her throat.

As soon as Michiru and Hotaru got hold of themselves again, the Outers ran towards the entrance.  Well, Haruka ran.  Michiru and Hotaru was being dragged by her.  With their free hand, Michiru rubbed her head again, and Hotaru covered her mouth, trying not to throw up.

When they arrived at the entrance, they were quickly met by Luna.  The cat glanced around carefully, and nodded towards a bench near them.  The Outers nodded and walked to the bench, carrying Luna with them.

They finally sat down, and Luna spoke.

"I am glad you are here.  You guys got here fast."

"*sigh* You have no idea."

Luna blinked at Michiru's comment, and blinked some more when she saw Hotaru covering her mouth as if she was going to throw up.  Haruka was acting normal, though.

"Um, okay.  Anyway, the boy already went inside.  Setsuna disappeared again, but I don't know why.  I haven't been able to contact the Inners yet."

"Okay, we will follow the boy inside.  Whatever it is, Setsuna must have a good reason to leave like that.  She always do.  For the Inners, tell them to split up inside the park to look for the boy in case we couldn't find him......"

Haruka stopped in the middle of her sentence because now all three people, well, two people and a cat, were dumbly staring at her.

"What?"

"No, nothing.  I think it's a good idea.  Don't you think so, Luna?"

"Ye, yes.  I do.  Don't you, Hotaru?"

"Um, yes.  Yes I do."

Haruka scratched her head in confusion.  She had no idea what was wrong with them, but she soon dismissed it.

Michiru smiled at her partner.  Despite her hot-headed personality, Haruka was very intelligent and responsible, at times.  Her quick temper also helped her make a quick decision, and act upon it.  Michiru was glad to be her partner.

Luna was amazed too.  She was always worried that the Outers might have some conflict with the Inners due to their difference in point of views.  But at times like this, Haruka seemed very reliable and trustworthy.  The cat couldn't help but to feel a bit proud to be on same side with her.

Hotaru kept her silence, but she was very proud of her Haruka-papa.  Haruka-papa mightly be a girl physically, but she showed the enough strength to give Hotaru much-needed paternal guidance.  The young Senshi felt secure in the presence of Sailor Uranus.

"Okay, then let's go!  Luna, stay here and wait for the rest of them!"

"Will do.  Please be careful, Haruka.  The rest of you, too."

"No problem!  Let's go, guys!"

The Outers ran to the entrance.  They had a job to do, and there was no time to waste.  Too bad they forgot to buy the ticket, or they might have looked really cool.




A girl, no a goddess, ran through the street, looking for something.  Skuld was in hurry.  She had to find some water fast.  Not to travel though.  She just shook a guy's hand, fresh(?) out of washroom.  Wash first, teleport later.  Her hands already started to feel itchy.

'Not to mention icky.'



A man was coming out of a van marked "Gorgeous TV's" on its side.  He was carrying a TV.

His boss put Kasuke on the delivery position when he freaked out, screaming his head off while running around the street.  It was rather hard to move all those heavy TV's, but now he didn't get to see that strange lady any more.

'*sigh* Maybe she WAS just my imagination.'

Today's job was to deliver this TV to a restaurant near the amusement park.  They were expecting this one today, and the boss didn't like it if he was late on the delivery.  A very good merchant, the boss said, would never make his customer wait.  That was the shop's motto, and his boss made sure to follow that motto to the letter.

When he arrived at the shop, an old lady was tending the counter.

"Delivery!  I got your TV here."
"Oh, you came!  I really like your store.  Always so dependable."

"Um, thanks.  Could you sign here, and here?"
"Sure.  There you go."

"Thank you.  Now, where should I put this?"
"Oh, just leave it there.  I'll tell my son to put it up.  Oh, could you do me a favor?"

"Um, what is it, ma'am?"
"Well, I was going to water the front of the restaurant, today being so hot and all.  Could you just put this bucket outside on you way out, while I go and call my son?  I would really appreciate it."

"Sure, no problem, ma'am.  Have a good day."
"Thank you.  You have a good day, too."

Kasuke lifted the bucket full of water, and stepped outside.  When he put it down, however, a girl with a long mallet on her back rushed to his side and began to wash her hand.  He was very confused, to say the least.  But he was more surprised when she finished washing.

"Whew, that should be enough!  Eww, I don't feel good traveling through this water... but I have no choice."

Then she jumped INTO the bucket, and disappeared.

Kasuke blinked.

Then he screamed.



Back at the ice cream shop.

"Thank you, come again!"

Urd bowed to another customers in her uniform.  It was fortunate that she could work her debt off.  Unfortunate new was that she had rather large debt.  It seemed she won't be coming home tonight.  This was all of that brat's fault.

"When I get hands on her, I will make her pay!!!"

Thwack!

"No yelling behind the counter!"

"Yessir!"



Back at their home, Keiichi, or really young Keiichi, with slumbering shoulder, dumbfoundly stared at the blank TV screen.

"When is Urd coming back?"



Back at the restaurant, the old lady came out to find a very strange scene in front of her store.

"A girl, mallet, hands, wash, bucket, jump, boom!  Gone, girl, mallet, gone!!"

The delivery man was waving his hands in the air and screaming top of his lungs.  All she could do was just to watch him go nut.

"...I heard the TV had some bad effects on people, but I had no idea carrying a TV could do so much damage.  Maybe I should tell my son not to put up the TV..."


(7) He has changed, but not by THAT much.

(8) That day, Tokyo postal office made a purchase of two brand-new, custome-made, TITANIUM SUPER ENDURANCE mailboxes.


Finally!  Sorry to make you people wait for the second part.  It was the exam week.  I will get the next chapter done in next few days!!
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