Escaping the Inescapable
by Studdevil
Uh-oh! It's a re-write! Wait? Isn't that a good thing! Yes! It's a re-write! Please re-read this re-write as I wouldn't have re-written it if you weren't going to re-read it..? Sorry! Confused myself even. It's like ET completely remastered, but I actually did something besides add new music. Well, I didn't add new music, but...
Enjoy:D
Chapter One
It was another normal day at the Tendo home in the small district of Nerima. Pedestrians inhaled the welcoming aroma of lunch seeping out the kitchen window as they passed by doing their daily chores.
The sun is shining bright, casting shadows across the green gardens brought to life with the the help of the Tendo's oldest daughter.
The Tendo house has a quaint feeling to it. Flourishing gardens wrapped around the house, its boundaries only the old, beaten, wood fence.
A blazing orange koi fish with scarlet speckles flips above the surface and lands back into the cold pond.
Everything seems quiet. Very unusual for Nerima. The only thing heard is the constant ripple of the water.
Then out of the blue, wood chips burst out the top of the roof. Accompanied by it is a rather large panda holding a cracked wood sign reading: "No fair!"
The Nerima everyone has come to expect. Ordinary Nerima. Anyone watching, unless from out of town, dismisses it without a second glance.
And who is to blame for it all? Why it is two certain martial artists, fresh from the Jusenkyo training grounds. But was their coming for the worse?
In a short-tempered girls opinion it was, and she will never admit anything else no matter how much she is questioned.
A raven haired boy, with his hair tied in a short pigtail, runs outside and sees the panda fly into orbit and gives a hearty laugh at his victory.
"That'll show pop to steal my food!! Haha!!" The overly confident boy screams as he shields his eyes from the intense afternoon light.
His victory didn't last long though, as he dodged a giant wooden mallet that seemed to come from nowhere, aimed for his head.
"Ranma! You're fixing that hole you made in my room now!" Yelled a very angry girl.
The boy looked up to see that he had punted the panda straight through Akane's room.
"Nah, a macho chick like you should have no problem fixing the roof! Why d'ya need me ta do it?" The boy sneered.
The girl turned red and swung the wooden mallet at him again, which he quickly dodged and flung his hands out as a feeble attempt to stop the attack.
"Alright, alright! I'll fix the stupid roof! Geez, your so uncute sometimes…"
The pigtailed boy sighed as he began to patch up the roof. He took a look at the plank of wood and realizes it is way to small to cover up the giant hole his oaf of a father had made.
He rubs his head and pain twinges across his features. "She didn't have to hit me so hard!" The boy crosses his arms and thinks.
Ranma lowers a new plank of wood onto the tiles and starts to nail it in. It only takes up a fraction of the space he needs to cover.
"Man, this is gonna take forever!" Ranma thinks as he looks at the huge hole the panda had made in the roof.
After another minute of silence he hears a small thud sound from behind him and turns to see where it originated from.
"Ayahh!!! Ranma!" Shampoo screams as she glomps Ranma in a gigantic hug, knocking him onto his butt.
"S-Shampoo!" was all he could squeak out as he was squeezed tightly by the over-excited Amazon girl.
"Ranma take Shampoo on big romantic date now, yes?" The beaming girl asks as she hugs her airen.
Ranma pulls at the grabbing hands of his crazed fiancée, trying to free himself. His attempt of self preservation is futile as he accepts defeat for the first time in his life.
He just shook his head wondering why he was always the target for over-affection and sighs as he is ravished.
As the thought of a certain fiancée seeing the two together Ranma is sparked to get the girl off of him.
"Shampoo! Let go! What if someone sees us!" Ranma pleaded her to stop. Then a dark shadow is casted upon the two and Ranma fears he will never see the light again.
"Yes Ranma, What if someone sees you?" Asks a subtle voice, knowing how to handle her idiot fiancé.
Ranma, who knew his fate was sealed if he stayed any longer, begins to back away from both girls.
"Akane! It's not what it, er, looks like!" Ranma closed his eyes and keeps on stepping back, waiting to be struck by the painful mallet of doom.
Ranma, who was trying to keep his distance from Akane, did not notice he was walking straight for the hole in the roof he had never finished fixing. His breath stops when his foot plunges down, but makes no contact with the floor.
He feels one leg falling through the damaged roof with the other one still outside. He reached out to grab something but all he gets is a handful of splinters.
His mind, being the mind of a martial artist was able to think on the fly and prepared for any situation. He quickly curled up in a ball and tried to get ready for the fall he was about to roll into. He started breathing quicker and quicker and he knew it was going to be a painful landing no matter how expertly he landed.
This all happens in less then a second and he knew he was about to hit the floor when he realized he was falling through the second hole the panda had made on his exit.
"How the hell didn't I see that...?" Ranma asks himself in shock.
The boy flails his arms around, hoping he'd start flying and could avoid this.
He did not start flying and plummets towards the gaping hole in the floor. The force he was falling was gaining and when he was about to pass through the second floor he felt his head hit the side of the floor really hard.
Ranma hit the wood floor with a thud. He heard muffled screams from people around him, but couldn't make out what they were saying. Everything looked fuzzy and dim and he couldn't see straight. He wonders if he is going to die, but tries to dismiss the horrible thought.
He grabs his head and feels a wet goop trickling down, but it stings so he lets go.
He recognized the voice of the person leaning over him to be Akane, followed by Shampoo and Kasumi.
He can't think straight. All he knows is that his head hurt like hell and maybe dying isn't such a bad idea after all.
The voices fade as he feels himself lose consciousness and his vision turns to pitch black, along with his thoughts.
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There's the re-write! How was it? Better I hope? I know it's a lot longer, and It's written much better. Thanks for all the kind reviews. They're the only reason I re-wrote this chapter. I'm gonna re-write chapter 2 and then I will continue writing a new chapter as I want to make a little progress before I finish re-writing the rest of the chapters.
Thanks for reading:D
Studdevil
