Mighty Morphin' Sailor Senshi
By R-Kives
Disclaimer: I don't own any of series that appear in this fanfic nor am I making any money off it whatsoever so lay off with the lawyers ok? Plus this is an altaverse crossover fusion blend in case you hadn't noticed from the title alone which is kinda hard to miss really so if the characters are OOC then you have my explanation for it right there.
A.N: I was about to put up the completed Part 3 of Episode 1 when I read Pspinler's review of chapter 2. It pointed out a number of problems that hadn't occurred to me as actually being problems at the time I wrote the story originally. So I went back and tried to read over what I had done before as objectively as possible. I was surprised to see just how deep a hole I had been digging for myself. Fortunately Pspinler brought it to my attention before I continued any further. My most sincere thanks go out to Pspinler for this. So after I finished sulking lol I went back and rewrote the story to some extent. I'm now keeping the crossovers down to just Ranma, Sailormoon and Power Rangers although there will be mention of other series from time to time. The only characters who will have any significant impact on the story will be from the above three series however. I've also added a little here and there as well.
I also got carried away with both my sentences and my ideas which I have attempted to correct in this newer version. My tendency to ramble appears to hold true for both my fingers and my mouth, lol. The characters that survived the cut will each have a part to play though. In regards to the comment on using the 'poor beaten upon Ranma' cliché, I admit that this is true to some extant. However I feel simply because its cliché doesn't mean it's not true. Anyway, things start off a little dark for Ranma in the beginning but as things begin to improve for him, I hope that this clichéd feeling vanishes for all the readers. This is supposed to be an action/humor fan fiction after all. I'll end these notes with my thanks for everyone who reads this. I greatly appreciate all the reviews that have been sent in and any future constructive criticism is most welcome, I think I'll be needing it quite a bit lol. Now that I feel I've explained my abrupt absence, let's begin shall me?
So once more from the beginning! 3...2...1... Lights! Camera! Fan Fiction!
Episode 1: Beryl's Escape or A Mighty Rebirth!
Long, long ago
A lone figure makes their way through the ruins of a once beautiful and thriving kingdom. The figure wanders through the remains of a palace, a long staff shaped like a key held in one hand. Their slow steps lead them to the door of the throne room as tears begin to trickle down their face. The woman stops in front of the door and wipes her tears away. There would be no one inside who would be able to care about her appearance. Even so, she makes herself presentable again. This was partly due to old habit but it was mostly so that she could stall for a little more time before she entered the throne room. 'A little more time...,' she thought to herself bitterly, 'Now all I have left is time. Time...and my duty.'
The thought of what she will find beyond the door was running through her mind. She steeled herself to behold the sight of her beloved queen as she lies dead from the injuries she has suffered from her final battle with Beryl. She opens the door to see a sight that shocks her to her core. Her infamous ability to maintain a poker face no matter the circumstances crumbled from disbelief. It wasn't what she had expected to see. The scene was not what the Gates of Time had shown her. Instead she saw Queen Serenity floating in front of her throne within a large white crystal. The queen was noticeably alive and despite the injuries that could be seen, she appeared to be in no danger of dying from them.
Serenity smiles wryly at Pluto's shocked look. "I agree, my old friend, this wasn't the outcome I had expected either."
Present Day
Ami and her mother were coming home after a day spent together. This was a somewhat uncommon occurrence as Dr. Mizuno had been working longer hours due to a staff shortage. The sound of tires screeching and a loud, painful metallic crash coming from up ahead startled both women from their conversation. They stood silent for a few moments before they began to rush to the source of the sounds. They quickly found themselves looking at the scene of a three car pile up. By the time they had reached the scene they saw that several bystanders had been able to pull out most of the people who had been involved in the accident. However there was still a young couple who were trapped in the remains of a late modal sports car. The driver was a young woman with a somewhat masculine appearance and short sandy blond hair while her passenger was a pretty woman with medium-length aquamarine hair. They were both stuck inside the car and according to her mother needed immediate medical attention.
As everyone sought a way to free the two women, a figure pushed their way through the surrounding crowd. The figure slowly walked towards the wreckage. Dr. Mizuno and her daughter gasped at the state of the young man approaching them. He looked like he had been involved in a car accident himself. Three of them, and hadn't had a chance to get treatment from the first one. His clothing was practically in tatters, barely holding together. Numerous cuts and bruises were visible through the holes in them. Some of them were still bleeding and a number of burn wounds were noticeable as well. He face was handsome and his body appeared as lean as that of a dancer. The tightness and definition of his muscles however would have been the envy of many body builders.
He walked up to the car wreck and motioned for the two of them to back away. He reached forth and grabbed one of the doors which had been mangled too badly to open. He almost casually tore it off its hinges as if it had been made from rice paper. He gently lifted the passenger out and placed her on the street before walking back to the car. The driver was pinned in by both the door of the car and the roof. The stranger slowly and carefully peeled back the roof and picked up the driver before placing her next to her passenger. The sirens could now be heard approaching but the look on her mothers face showed how grim the chances of their survival were.
The young man shocked everyone once more as he crouched down between the two women and held out his hands above their chests. His hands began to glow with a light blue aura which reached out to embrace both women who started to heal before their astonished eyes. Their breathing returned to normal and only the state of their clothing showed that they had only moments before been involved in an accident. The stranger nodded to himself and slowly got to his feet. His wounds appeared to have gotten worse and his cuts began to bleed even more then before. He turned around and began walking away from the scene. The crowd of people in front of him respectfully opened a path for the mysterious savior, too stunned to do anything else.
Moments later the ambulance arrived and Ami's mother began assisting the medical personal after identifying herself. The police questioned several people for details including Ami. She was able to provide the most details on the young man who had saved the lives of the two women. Once the two of them were able to go on their way, they resumed their journey home. They discussed the young man who mysteriously appeared to help them and who just left without saying a word. He hadn't even left his name or cared that his own injuries had been worsened by whatever it was he had done to help the accident victims.
They were only a few minutes away from their apartment when they heard a woman's scream for help. The scream was followed shortly by a loud gunshot. A police officer rushed past them heading in the direction of the disturbance even as Ami and her mother began running towards it themselves in order to help. As they entered the entrance to the alleyway, Ami was thinking to herself that today had certainly been one full of unexpected happenings. She hoped that this time it was nothing as serious as before. That hope died a swift death as she arrived at the scene. The sight of the young man she had seen earlier lying in the lap of another young woman stopped her in her tracks. The girl had long, straight black hair and perched on her shoulders were a pair of large black ravens. The ravens somehow managed to convey a sense of deep sadness and regret. They cawed softly as they looked down at the young man.
The police officer who had rushed past them earlier was radioing for assistance. She quickly and efficiently restrained the group of thugs who had clearly tried to assault the black haired woman. Since they were all knocked out this was easily done. It was the young man who had rescued the woman who drew the most concern. An obvious gunshot wound to his chest was surrounded by more blood then Ami cared to see on anyone. Her mother, ever the professional, was doing her best to keep him alive. Although the young man didn't seem to care in the slightest that he was clearly dying. He kept trying to sit up while the woman he had rescued repeatedly held him down as gently but as firmly as she could.
Dr. Mizuno finally had enough of his suicidal tendencies and looked him in the eyes. "Stay still! You'll kill yourself if you keep this up!" she said to him in a firm but compassionate voice.
She gasped at the dead look in his eyes and all the women shivered at the coldness in his voice as he replied to her words. His voice was barely a whisper but in the stillness of the alleyway they could hear them clearly.
"Today is a good day to die..."
Six months later
Ranma Mizuno steps through the door of the apartment he now lived in with a cry of "Tadaima!" He placed his shoes in the little cabinet by the door before closing the front door. He walked into the living room and saw his adopted sister, Ami, studying as usual. She looked up as he came into the room and smiled at him.
"So how was practice?" she asked him as Ranma sat down on a nearby chair.
"Pretty good, it was going great until one of the girls saw a couple of mice run past her and well..." Ranma shrugged as he leaned back into the chair.
Ami giggled at the thought of what had probably happened. "What was a mouse doing in the music room?" she asked him, curiously, "I didn't think the school had a pest problem."
Ranma chuckled as he remembered what happened. "It doesn't, the science club brought in some white mice for an experiment. They got loose when someone knocked over the cage they were in," he explained to her, "Minako tried to jump into my arms but I don't think she looked all that scared about the mice."
Ami began laughing out loud at this point and Ranma joined in with her. That certainly struck Ami as something Minako would do. Minako may not have been pursuing Ranma as a romantic interest but that didn't mean that she didn't try to place herself in his arms every once in a while. Minako would always joke that it was to make sure he remembered what it felt like to have a beautiful girl in his arms. Ami stopped laughing after a few minutes and remembered something. "Makoto called earlier and asked me to tell you that she and Usagi won't be able to make it to tonight's class since they're going on a double date with Mamoru and Keitaro, so it's just going to be us and Rei tonight."
"Who's Keitaro? I don't think I ever heard of the guy." Ranma asked her curiously.
"Makoto's new boyfriend, she met him while she was staying with her friend at a girls' dorm," Ami replied, "I believe it's called the Hinata Sou."
Ranma nodded at her answer. "A new boyfriend huh? I wonder how she met him? It's not like you get a lot of guys at a girl's dormitory," he wondered out loud as he got up and headed towards the bathroom. "Anyway, I'm going to shower first and then we can head over to the Juice bar ok?"
"Sure, I'm just finishing up here; I was just waiting for you to get home so we could go." Ami replied as Ranma went out of the room.
As he left her sight, Ami's smile became a little sadder. She was happy to call Ranma her brother, adopted or otherwise. The circumstances in which he had been adopted into her family still saddened her at times and that had only been a small part of his life. It was a testimony to the inherent goodness and unstoppable determination of the young man once known as Ranma Saotome that he hadn't gone insane a long, long time ago, Nekoken notwithstanding.
Ranma had gone through many changes since that day she had first met him. The emotional and spiritual support of herself, her mother and the women he had rescued that day helped him to overcome his suicidal tendencies and allowed him to move on with his life instead of dwelling on the tragic events of his past. She still found what she had learned of his life prior to that day hard to believe, the abuse he had suffered at the hands of those that he called his family and friends would have been enough to kill a normal man a hundred times over but he had survived despite all the challenges to his life as well as his sanity.
Thankfully there were people he had known back in Nerima who had stood by him in his time of need. Nabiki and Kasumi, formally of the Tendo clan, now Kaiou had stayed by his side as he recovered from his injuries and were the ones who had told the story of how Ranma had come to be in his condition. Out of gratitude for Ranma's rescue and compassion for the two sisters, Michiru was able to bring them into her own clan and helped them to establish the 'Juuban Juice Bar', a restaurant and fitness gym which had been the brain child of both Nabiki and Kasumi.
Ukyou had also been another of his friends to stand by him although she still retained her family name. Once the full story became known to her father, he immediately forgave Ranma and released him from the engagement. Nabiki also helped in his decision by negotiating with Ukyou's father on Ranma's behalf which led to a branch of Ukyou's family business also being a part of their new business venture. Ukyou and Ranma had also finally reached an understanding regarding their relationship and found that they both regarded each other as brother and sister more then potential husband and wife. This meant that Ukyou no longer had any reason to pursue Ranma without the engagement hanging over her head. She returned to her family and began helping out in her father's restaurant when she wasn't busy in her new school. She kept close contact with Ranma and the new Kaiou sisters and visited them from time to time.
The Chinese Amazons had also reached an understanding with Ranma regarding Shampoo's marriage to him. Cologne and the other elders had unanimously decided that a suicidal martial artist with the power to kill Saffron really wasn't a good person to keep around the village. The very real danger that he might decide to end his life and take out the surrounding area for fifty kilometers around had weighed in heavily in their decision. Shampoo had finally accepted that Ranma would never accept her as more then a friend and with the annulment of both the Kiss of Death and Kiss of Marriage, she no longer had any other reason to pursue him much like Ukyou. She had left for China a little sad and somewhat irritated with an ecstatic Mouse who danced happily behind her as they left Japan. The Elder had made Ranma an ally of the village in the event that he ever recovered from his deep depression despite how unlikely it seemed at the time.
There had still been other burdens in his life which unfortunately led to Ranma's suicidal trek through half of Tokyo. Ami's trip through memory lane was interrupted by Ranma's entrance into the room. He was dressed in his traditional Chinese kung fu outfit although it was coloured entirely in white, a habit he had picked up once he had recovered from his injuries. He had explained that his mother and Akane wouldn't have wanted him to mourn them endlessly so he chose that particular colour scheme. Ami closed her books and headed out the door with Ranma walking beside her. They were going to the Juice Bar for the informal martial arts class that Ranma taught there on alternate weekdays.
Ami noted the time on her wristwatch and began to pick up her pace. "We should hurry, Rei will be angry with us if we're late."
"Rei is gonna yell at me whether we're late or not but we better hurry anyway." Ranma replied with a smile.
He and Rei would sometimes argue with each other almost as much as he used to with Akane but at least Rei never hit him. They both knew that the other was just venting their frustrations on the other and the arguments weren't to be taken too seriously anyway. It also helped that Ranma had finally learned not to be as free with his insults as he had been with Akane. Ranma sadly admitted to himself that many of the problems that he and Akane had had was in part a result of the both of them. They never learned to work around each of their own personality problems until shortly before her death. Ranma cleared his head of the depressive thoughts and picked up the pace. The two siblings continued on their way towards their destination.
Somewhere in the North Pole
Taro was depressed; in fact he was as depressed as a Hibiki. This meant that suicide was becoming more and more of an attractive idea as the seconds went by. This wasn't his usual emotional state although there were times in his life when the subject of his name tended to make him feel like drowning his sorrows in alcohol and lots of it. No, normally his emotions tended to range between anger and arrogance. His anger was justifiable really, after all who would want to go through life with a name like his? All because of a perverted midget who refused to change his name to something that he could live with. Of course part of his anger was also aimed at a certain pig-tailed martial artist, the man who stood in his way of getting a new name. Taro had been so close to beating him until Ranma had pulled off his upset win with a move he had just made up out of desperation. His arrogance was also understandable. Until he met Ranma there had been few fighters that could even give him a challenge in his normal form much less his cursed form. This didn't mean that Taro being arrogant was acceptable, it was just understandable.
The reason Taro was so depressed was because he had been drunk enough to actually let Ryoga lead the way back to their hotel room. Naturally since this was Ryoga, the two of them were currently freezing their martial arts trained behinds in the middle of some ancient and, up until ten minutes ago, undiscovered ruins. They were somewhere underneath what seemed to be the North Pole or it could have been the South Pole. Either way, it didn't matter to him; he was still freezing no matter where they happened to be. He was also still in the company of Ryoga who happened to be blaming Ranma for their current situation. How that was even possible, he didn't know. Taro may not have been the most likable person in the world but at least he didn't blame others for his mistakes.
Taro was really starting to regret ever teaming up with the lost boy. He had come across a badly beaten Ryoga several months ago. Ryoga had been in a rage about his latest loss to Ranma. He was also blaming him for whatever happened to Akane and Ranma's mother, saying that it was Ranma's fault and that he, Ryoga wasn't to blame for anything. Ryoga's tantrum would have been quite impressive. If it hadn't been for the fact that Ranma had beaten him so badly, even the Breaking Point training hadn't been able to help Ryoga avoid being severely injured. Had Ryoga been a normal human he would have without a doubt been permanently crippled or probably killed. As it was, the two of them had only started their training trip two months ago once Ryoga had recovered enough to be able to train once more.
Taro never found out what had happened but he was sure that in all likelihood it was Ryoga who had been at fault rather than Ranma. He may have resented Ranma's existence but he also knew that Ranma would never endanger others, going so far as to risk his neck for them no matter the cost. Whatever happened must have been pretty bad given the injuries Ranma had inflicted on Ryoga. He had noticed that Ryoga now wore a strange glowing crystal the size of his fist around his neck and never took it off for any reason much like his endless bandannas. He noticed that Ryoga would occasionally look longingly at the crystal from time to time when he thought that Taro wasn't around.
Finally getting sick of Ryoga's tirade, Taro walked up to him and turned him around. "Shut up! I don't care who you blame for this, just get us somewhere warm!" He shouted at him, his temper now flaring up. He had had enough! He wanted to be somewhere warm damn it!
Ryoga stopped ranting and was about to argue with Taro but the look in his eyes convinced him otherwise. A small underused part of his body (his brain) piped up and pointed out to Ryoga that they were in a place with lots of ice. In a battle between P-chan and Taro's minotaur form, he would quickly wind up as bacons bits without so much as a bweeeeeeee bweee bwee bweee bwee bweee! (Trans: Ranma this is all your fault!) Instead he just stomped his feet to warm them up which caused a small tremor that dislodged a few icicles (his brain had gone silent again) and picked up his backpack, slinging it over his shoulder.
Just as he and Taro were about to walk out of the room they had found themselves in, the two martial artists heard a ghostly female voice float out of a wall of ice behind them. "Set me free..."
Behind the Ice, several minutes earlier
Beryl stirred from her slumber. She spent most of her time asleep now, whole centuries would go by with her snoring up a storm in her icy prison. In retrospect, swearing allegiance to Metallia and agreeing to work with Rita Repulsa had been somewhat of a mistake. True, the two of them had perished along with Zordan in that final battle with the Moon Kingdom. Thus leaving her with an army of powerful minions at her disposal and she had been able to seal Queen Serenity in that time capsule that had been intended for Zordan. It was the fact that Serenity had also managed to seal her in a prison meant for Metallia that really upset her. Metallia might have been able to free herself eventually, Beryl on the other hand while a powerful magic user in her own right was nowhere near capable of breaking free from a seal meant to imprison a dark deity like Metallia.
Behind her, playing an ancient game that had elements of shogi, chess and bantumi (a.n: how you play it I have no idea, the mind boggles at how you could possibly play such a game) were Goldar, Rita's former minion and a pig-like youma named Boreal. They looked up from their game when they heard Beryl waking up. Goldar smirked at Beryl as best he could considering it's hard to smirk with a snout but he managed it somehow.
"Ah, sleeping beauty awakens!" He said to her somewhat cheerfully. "I didn't think you'd be up anytime this millennium."
Beryl frowned sleepily at Goldar. She had been trapped in here for so long with only the youma and Goldar for company and despite everything that had happened she was still a woman. A woman who had been trapped in ice with no other males around except for him. (a.n: I'm under the impression that almost every single youma that ever popped up during the Beryl Saga of Sailormoon was female; can anyone tell me if I'm wrong here?) After a century of celibacy she had given in and bedded the winged minion on the basis that it was either him, one of the youma or go without sex for another century. Self pleasure had its limits; you could only go so far on solo meals before you need someone for dessert.
"There's someone outside Goldar." She replied to him a little testily, "Couldn't you sense it?"
Beryl frowned even more when Goldar simply shrugged at her question. "You're the one with the magic powers, oh Mighty Mistress." He replied with a sarcastic tone.
Beryl shook her head at his attitude somewhat affectionately; he had grown on her after a few centuries. She focused her attention on the first visitors they had received since their imprisonment. She could see they were both powerful and touched by magic as well, powerful moon kingdom magic at that. This was promising, these two might be able to free them...given the right incentive of course. She felt her hopes rise ever higher as she sensed that one of them had a Soulstone! One that had two souls trapped within it and one of the beings inside had enough soul energy to free her! Yes! This was perfect! She couldn't let this opportunity pass her by, her freedom was tantalizingly close by, she merely need seize it...
She called up her power that had lain dormant for so long and used it to send her voice pass the barrier before her. "Set me free..."
Juuban Juice Bar
Nabiki smiled cheerfully at her latest customer as she handed over their change. She took a moment to look over the business that had been established with the help of her adopted sister Michiru. A popular family restaurant with a gym built to one side, the Juuban Juice Bar was a popular spot for students to stop by on their way from school. The place was generally kept busy day and night throughout the week especially on weekends at night. That was when the bar held their amateur nights. A small stage had been set up on the opposite side of the gym. It was open to everyone and Nabiki didn't charge anything for the use of the stage. This had surprised a few people but Nabiki felt that having free entertainment was enough of a fee for the use of the stage.
Nabiki and Kasumi were very grateful to Michiru for taking them in. The death of both Akane and Ranma's mother, Nodoka during a fight between Ranma and Ryoga had been hard on everyone. Soun Tendo, her overly emotional father had been quite distraught over it. He blamed both Ranma and Ryoga for Akane's death. However even in his grief, he still tried to fulfill the dream that had kept him going ever since his wife's death. Kasumi and Nabiki couldn't believe it when Soun tried to force Ranma to marry one of them. The two remaining then Tendo sisters were still coping with their grief and refused to marry him so soon after Akane's death. It wasn't as if either of them wanted to marry Ranma. They both thought of him as a younger brother more then a potential husband.
They say grief can drive a man to madness. The same can be said of pride. Soun had threatened the two of them with exile from their clan if they still refused to follow his wishes. The threat had been a great emotional blow to Kasumi and Nabiki. His callous disregard of their own grief in favour of his own wishes broke their hearts even further. In a time when they should have been turning to each other as a family, they were being torn apart instead. The two sisters left the Tendo Dojo not long after his threat to follow after Ranma.
Genma had followed Soun's example or it might have been more accurate to say Soun followed his. Despite how it may have seemed, Genma did love his wife. A still injured and shocked Ranma had been attacked by his distraught father immediately after Ranma had dealt with Ryoga. When Genma had been unable to beat Ranma, he had given his ultimatum to his son. He would have to choose between marrying one of the remaining Tendo sisters that very day or face exile from the clan. The resulting Perfect Shi Shi Hokodan that Ranma gave in reply to his threat left Genma in the zoo hospital for a few weeks.
Nabiki's trip through memory lane was interrupted as she noticed a group of college boys trying to flirt with their 'waitress' as they tried to decide what to order. In any other establishment this might have been cause for concern but Nabiki just looked on with amusement. No one other then a few people they had told had managed to figure out that Konatsu was actually a cross dresser. Although she had to admit that if she didn't know it herself, she wouldn't have been able to tell the difference either. It was wildly known that the waitress was smitten with one of the customers who stopped by every once in a while which did confuse a few people. This was due to the fact that Ukyou no longer dressed as manly as she used to, making it obvious what her gender was.
One of the reasons Ukyou visited was to check up on Konatsu occasionally. Konatsu had tried to follow after Ukyou at first. Ukyou however had put her foot down and told the male kunoichi that it was high time he lived for himself instead of living for others. It took a lot of time and Konatsu had once come close to actually arguing with Ukyou about it. In the end Konatsu stayed behind in Juuban and tried to make a living for himself. After several failed attempts at getting a job, Konatsu realized that he lacked the necessary skills that many employers looked for in an employee. While he was highly skilled, it was only in certain areas. When he had come into the Juice Bar to apply for the job as a waitress, Nabiki had hired him on the spot.
In the kitchen area behind her was Kasumi and whereas she was usually cooking up a storm as she kept up with the orders coming in, she was taking things a little easier at the moment since most of the orders were now done. Ukyou had been a great help to the two grieving sisters. Her naturally cheerful personality had helped them get through those first few rough months. Kasumi and Ukyou got along quite well with each other with their mutual love for cooking and similarly compassionate natures. Kasumi had certainly benefited from their friendship as had Nabiki herself. Kasumi had also benefited from all the attention that many of their male customers showed towards her. It had certainly helped to boost her self confidence though she never responded to any of it. She seemed to be waiting for someone and it wasn't any of their regular customers. Nabiki was willingly to bet she knew who it was but she hadn't heard anything of him ever since he had left Nerima.
Nabiki glanced over at a table near the counter and smiled at the girl sitting there. The girl returned the gesture while still managing to look a little nervous despite her good cheer. Rei Hino, Shrine Priestess for the Hino Shrine in Juuban and one of the most popular girls in her school sat at her table as she waited for HIM. Ranma Mizuno, the young man that had saved her life and one of her dearest friends was coming to meet her. He would be along shortly with his sister for their regular martial arts classes and as usual Rei was feeling a little nervous about it. It was true that they were friends; good friends even. It was also true that they genuinely liked each other. However it was also true that Rei hoped for their relationship to move beyond simple friendship and become well, a 'Relationship'. This was slightly hampered by the fact that Ranma was still clueless about realizing a girls feelings despite all he had been through. It didn't help that whenever an opportunity came up for such a thing to happen, Rei, well, not to put too fine a point on it, Rei always folded like a deck chair infested by termites and instead would start up an argument to cover up her feelings.
It was at this point in time that the object of her secret affections, secret to the object of her affections anyway but obvious to practically everyone else, walked through the door with his sister. Rei schooled her features into something she meant as a smile but owing to her nervousness and the sight of him looking at her with that grin of his that made her feel like jelly inside made her expression look more like she was glaring at them instead.
Ranma stopped grinning and winced at the expression he saw on Rei's face. 'Uh oh, that doesn't look good, I wonder what she's mad about this time?' He thought to himself as he checked the clock on the wall which showed that they weren't late. "Hey Rei, what'd I do this time? It's not like me and Ami are late or anything," he said to her in a tone that he hoped would calm her down.
Rei inwardly groaned, she had done it again! Now he thought she was angry with him again when all she wanted to do was give him a hug not a smack to the head. "Never mind, Ranma," she spoke to him a little brusquely before softening her tone, "Let's just get started ok? It's nothing to do with you."
Ami hid the smile at Rei's obvious lie before it showed on her face. She still found it a little hard to swallow that Ranma hadn't noticed how Rei really felt about him. Everyone in their circle of friends knew the truth of the matter. They decided that it was better that Rei confess her feelings for him herself rather than someone else doing it for her. Nabiki had started a pool on when that would happen. Ami had bet that it would be sometime in the next few weeks. She rather hoped that this would indeed prove to be the case.
Ami decided to spare her friend some more embarrassment and spoke up. "Since that's the case, why don't we head to the gym area and begin?" she suggested to the two of them.
Rei looked at Ami gratefully and nodded her agreement to her suggestion. Rei got up from her seat, grabbed Ranma's hand and began dragging him towards the gym area. "Come on, Ranma, let's get started." she said to him as she led the way while behind her Ranma merely shrugged as best he could with one hand in Rei's grip, a somewhat confused expression on his face.
A.N: I hope that this time I've better luck then before, if not please tell me! In response to Vixen2, this isn't meant to bash anyones character so you can rest easy on that score. I believe that each of the characters have their good points and the bad points. This is true of everyone (except for possibly Genma, any good points the man may have are probably blunt ones but you never know...) so don't expect me to put anyone on a pedestal to sing them praises. I like Ranma but that doesn't mean he's perfect, he's got negative points just like anyone else and I won't try to hide them either just as I won't hide them for any of the others. On a final note, I've heard of the term ' Mary Sue' in terms of fan fics before but I never found out what it meant. Can anyone help me out with this?
