Caught In The Mist
1st chapter: I think I know her
"Ryoga, promise me something." The little boy looked at the small girl.
"Yes?" Ryoga asked.
"Promise that you'll always be with me no matter what," the little girl answered.
Ryoga nodded. "I promise."
"I have made it to Akane's house once again!" The
eternal lost boy arrived at Akane Tendo's once again
after at least four days. Like most of the other times he
had arrived here, he once again told himself that he
was going to admit his love to Akane and get rid of Ranma
Saotome.
"Hey, look who it is! Pig boy!" Ranma chuckled as
he saw Ryoga arrive at the dojo with trouble as usual.
"Be quiet Saotome." Ryoga growled, his small fangs
gleaming.
"Heh, what you going to do about it bacon breath?" Ranma said,
just itching to pick a fight.
"Ranma! Are you picking a fight with poor Ryoga
again?" Akane ran outside, glaring at Ranma.
"Hey! He was picking a fight with me!" Ranma whined,
hating how Akane always blamed him for what Ryoga did.
Akane rolled her eyes and turned over to Ryoga. "Hello
Ryoga."
Ryoga turned slightly pink. The women he loved was
standing right in front of her, if only he could just
say the three words. How he wanted to just scream it
out in front of her, but was afraid that she would go
off with Ranma.
"Hello Akane." Ryoga said, staring at his feet.
"We're having dinner soon, you want to join us?" Akane
asked, smiling.
"I'm not having it if you cooked it." Ranma said, not
noticing a vein pop in Akane's head.
"Don't worry Ranma, Kasumi is cooking it so you won't
die." She said between clenched teeth.
Ryoga growled. He always hated how Ranma treated
Akane. 'A beautiful, kind girl like her should be
treated more kindly,' he thought to himself as he
watched Akane and Ranma get into another fight. Ryoga
let out a little 'ahem' and both stopped and quickly
looked toward him.
"I would love to join." Ryoga said, smiling.
Akane clapped her hands and ran back inside to tell
Kasumi they were having a guest. Ranma glared at
Ryoga.
"What are you playing at P-chan?" he said as he
raised an eyebrow.
"I am just going to have dinner with Saotome and the
Tendo's, is that a crime now?" Ryoga asked, an
innocent look on his face.
"I'm watching you." Ranma growled.
The Tendo's, Saotomes and Ryoga were now all eating.
Ranma was still watching Ryoga, but so far he hadn't
doing anything weird.
"Wow Kasumi, this is really good." Ryoga commented.
Kasumi smiled.
"Thank you Ryoga, we should invite you to dinner more
often."
'How I would love that.' Ryoga thought and continued
to eat.
Meanwhile, Akane and Nibiki chatted away about something at
school.
"Hey did you hear about the new girl at school?" Akane
asked
"Yeah, I heard that she is from up north." Nabiki
answered.
Ranma got into the conservation. "What's her name?"
"Kiri, I think." Akane said.
A light bulb went off in Ryoga's mind. Kiri... That
sounded so familiar. Who was she? Did he know her
somewhere before? Ryoga dug deep into his mind to see
if he could remember. Nothing came, he decided he
would go see her tomorrow at Akane's school.
"Thanks for dinner, I should be off." Ryoga said as he
swung his backpack over his shoulders.
"What? So soon, why don't you stay here for the
night?" Akane asked.
Ryoga thought he would cry tears of happiness, Akane
had just asked him to stay over. Ranma steamed.
"What? Why should he stay? He has his own house!" Ranma
yelled. Akane glared at him.
"What's the problem with him staying here?" replied Akane
haughtily. Ranma folded his arms and pouted.
"So what do you say?" Akane asked turning to Ryoga.
"I would love to stay over." Ryoga said, smiling.
Akane smiled back. "Wonderful! I'll get a mat ready
for you, you can sleep in Ranma's room." Ranma nearly
screamed.
"WHAT? Why my room?"
"Because Ryoga has no where to stay," replied Akane. "You got a problem with that, baka?"
Ranma looked like he was going to explode. "Ranma, you guys will sleep in the same room, jeez,
I'm not going to kick you out." Ranma just glared and
went over to his room, Ryoga behind.
"You just had to say yes, didn't you?" Ranma snarled.
"Hey, do you think I'm going to enjoy being in the
same room as you?" Ryoga growled back.
"I'll just wait for tomorrow to arrive." Ranma said,
growling.
Ryoga rolled his eyes and went to sleep easily. He
couldn't believe he was sleeping under the same roof
as Akane. Sure, he had done it many times when he was
'P-chan.' But not like this, when he was in human
form, never had Akane asked him to stay over night.
Ryoga felt there was hope.
"Yo pig-boy, wake up!" Ryoga sat up to meet a pillow in
his face.
"You baka, you didn't have to throw a pillow!" Ryoga
growled.
"Whatever, I have to go to school, later." Ranma said
as he slipped on his shoe and left.
Ryoga nearly fell over as he scrambled out of bed. He
remembered he wanted to go to Saotome's school to find
out about the new girl. He quickly got dressed and
rushed over to Ranma's school. Class had already
stared and now the only part was getting into the
school.
Ryoga sat in a tree, trying to see Ranma's
class but had no luck. He sat down and tried to think
of a way of getting in or seeing the girl. He snapped
his fingers and finally thought of something. He went
over and jumped into the pool. Coming out as the
little black pig, he crawled over to one window where
he could slip under.
The second part of his plan was to make sure no one saw him,
especially a girl. From the past times he was a pig in
public, it seemed all the girls wanted to scoop
him in their arms and cuddle him.
Carefully searching each classroom, Ryoga looked
and looked until he saw Ranma. He squealed in delight
but soon turned quiet to make sure no one heard him.
He stayed near the door and watched. He scanned the
room for a girl named Kiri. Ryoga then sighed. How was
he supposed to know her name if he could barely
remember her?
"Kiri, could you please do this next problem for us?"
Ryoga quickly looked up to see the girl. She had long
black shoulder length hair and gleaming blue eyes.
Ryoga turned red as he saw her. She was pretty. And
she looked so familiar, but where did Ryoga know her
from? Again he looked back to his past to see if he
could remember anything, again, nothing.
"Thank you Kiri, you may sit down."
Ryoga watched as Kiri walked back to her seat, black
hair shimmering in the sun light. Ryoga frowned, he
still didn't know anything, he just known that she was
pretty. Sighing, he walked back outside. He sat down,
not knowing he was under a window and next thing he
knew, SPLASH! Hot water ran down his whole entire
body. 'Crap!' Ryoga was now in human form, and naked!
He quickly ran to his backpack and pulled out extra
clothes. "Damn people." He grumbled as he slipped on
the clothes. Not knowing what to do, Ryoga decided to
stay until Ranma's school got out. He practiced
fighting moves and practiced with his umbrella.
Finally the bell rung and Ryoga waited. His heart
leaped when he saw Akane.
"Oh, hello Ryoga!" Akane said, smiling.
"Hello Akane." Ryoga said, smiling back.
"What brings you here?" Akane asked, Ranma coming up
behind her.
Ryoga shrugged. "Not sure, have nothing better to do."
Ranma glared at him. Ryoga glared back. He then saw
Kiri come out, he couldn't help but blush, she was
very pretty.
"Kiri is hot, don't you agree Ranma?" said Daisuke, staring at Kiri
and drooling.
Ranma shrugged. "She's at least cuter then this tomboy
here."
Akane steamed. "Well sor-ry if I'm not cute!" Ranma rolled
his eyes.
Ryoga growled at Ranma as he said that. He could never
understand why he was always so mean to her. He
continued to watch Kiri, he wish he knew here he had
seen her before. He then saw Kiri turn to him, her
blue eyes piercing through his soul. Ryoga seemed to
freeze. 'That power, that was incredible.' Something
was strange about this girl. Ryoga looked at her again
to see her staring at him. Ryoga turned away, pink in
the face.
"Ryoga? Is that you?"
Ryoga turned and saw Kiri running up to him. Ryoga was
caught completely off guard as Kiri ran up and glomped him
with such force, that even Shampoo would be amazed.
Bewildered, Ryoga slowly got up.
"Um, do I know you?" aksed Ryoga, confused. Kiri giggled.
"I can't believe you forgot me already!"
End of chappie 1
