Hey everyone! I know I should be continuing my YYH story, Fallen from Grace, but I just can't seem to find the inspiration for it, so for now, it's temporarily abandoned. Hope you enjoy this story, because it took a lot of hard work and inspiration for the prologue alone.
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½. All I own are Ranko and Byakko (see later chapters).
Prologue: Ranma and Ranko
"Hey!" A teenaged boy exclaimed as he jumped out of the way of a large panda's strike, only to retaliate by kicking the animal in the head, sending him crashing into the ground. The boy looked down at the panda coldly.
"Honestly, what's wrong with you? Going and picking my fiancee like that without even asking!" The boy exclaimed before turning to leave, "forget this, I'm outta here."
A delicate hand on his shoulder stopped him before he could walk away. Looking over his shoulder, he saw a young girl with waist length red hair and long bangs covering one side of her face. Her eyes were blue, and she wore a black t-shirt and olive green cargo pants. Two white, crescent shaped slashes were on her cheeks on the uncovered side of her face, and several similar slashes decorated her arms. She glanced at the boy with concern and a slight bit of disapproval.
"Now Ranma onii-san, I know your angry, but please don't leave. We should at least give the Tendos a chance before we condemn them." The girl said soothingly. Ranma snorted.
"Look Ranko, you're not the one who's engaged to one of those Tendo chicks, so don't start lecturing me!" He snapped. He immediately regretted his outburst as Ranko's uncovered eye filled with sadness and hurt. Ranma's angry expression softened.
"Aw Ranko, I'm sorry. I spoke without thinking again, I'm not really upset at you." He reassured her, giving her a slight smile. Ranko smiled back happily.
"GROWF"
Genma-panda was not happy. Not only was that ungrateful son of his digging in his heels about the plan to unite the schools, but now he was walking away without even helping his own father up! Filled with righteous rage (yeah right), Genma pulled a stop sign out of the sidewalk and slammed it down on the ungrateful whelp's head.
Or, at least, that's what he would have done, if Ranko hadn't sensed his presence and sent him a glare over her shoulder that could have made Satan wet himself in terror.
"Father," she asked in a sweetly malevolent voice, her eyes beginning to change from blue to greenish gold, "were you actually planning on hitting Ranma onii-san on the head with that stop sign?"
Genma panicked and quickly placed the sign back before holding up a wooden sign reading 'N-no, of course not! Why would you suspect me of that, Ranko?' Ranko's scowl quickly turned into a cheerful smile.
"Good! C'mon Ranma onii-san, let's go." Ranko said, looking at Ranma expectantly. Ranma hesitated for a few seconds, then turned around and nodded.
"All right, let's go." Ranma said. Ranko smiled and took his hand, walking cheerfully down the street while occasionally throwing deathglares over her shoulder at the grumbling, yet scared out of his whits, panda.
TBC
What do you think? And who do you think Ranko should end up with? Please tell me!
As to how Ranko can scare Genma with one glare, that's...a secret! (Yes, I love Slayers. Amelia and Zelgadis forever!) At least until a later date.