New in Town
-Chiba Hiro
(Disclaimer: A Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura crossover. I do not own anything of Rumiko Takahashi's and not for promotion or copy right.)
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Chapter 1: A New Friend
It was a perfectly normal day in Furinkan, and a black-haired pigtailed boy of about seventeen, accompanied by a short raven-haired girl also the same age, is walking together.
"Ah man, just when I thought school was never gonna start, I hate first days." The pigtailed boy complained.
"Ranma, just be glad that you made it through last semester's final exam, at least you got a passing grade." The short raven-haired girl said.
"But I didn't even get to enjoy the summer." Ranma grumbled.
"That's because all you did was train and go to a festival, that's not much of a summer. If you wanted a longer vacation, you should drop out of high school." The girl teased.
"Very funny, Akane." Ranma said sarcastically.
As they neared the school, another girl joined them. It was a girl about Ranma's age with a long brown ponytail dressed in a male student's attire. "Yo, what's up, Ukyo." Ranma greeted casually as they joined each other at the school's gates.
"Yo yourself, Ranma, so how's your summer like?" Ukyo greeted in the same manner.
"Ah, a bit of the usual. Why?" Ranma answered with a shrug.
"Oh, nothing, same here. But I gotta admit, I made a great profit this summer from just going to the beach and selling Okonomiyaki." Ukyo elaborated.
"That sounded like fun. Too bad I didn't get to go to the beach." Ranma sighed.
A little ways off, the sound of a person beating another one was heard, and Ranma sensed it immediately. *Where's that fight noise coming from? Sounds like someone's in trouble.* Ranma thought, and looked around to see if anyone was fighting, but he saw no one, until a voice is heard, and Ranma rushed toward it.
"Ranma, where are you going in such a hurry?" Akane asked as Ranma dashed toward the source of the sound.
"I gotta check something out, be back in a sec!" Ranma yelled back, and disappeared.
"But school's about to start." Akane mumbled.
"Just let him go. The classes don't start for another twenty minutes, so it should be fine if it were just him." Ukyo said.
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Ranma raced toward the fighting sound, and found the source to be behind a nearby vacant parking lot. *Who the hell is doing that?* Ranma thought, and out of nowhere a male student came flying backwards at Ranma, but Ranma caught the student upon impact, and pulled to a stop. Ranma checked his pulse, the student was alright, but he was unconscious. *It's Daisuke!* Ranma thought fiercely as he looked at the bruised student more closely.
"Alright, who's the wise guy picking on he weak like that? Somebody's gonna pay for this!" Ranma shouted out.
"Oh, sorry, but he initiated it." a scratchy-voiced teenager with black hair in male student attire said, and he emerged from the shadows of the vacant lot. Ranma lowered Daisuke down gently, and faced the teen.
"Who are you and why did you do this? Daisuke was my friend, and now..." Ranma began, and shifted to a Kenpo fighting stance.
"Don't worry, I just taught him a lesson in humility that's all." The teen said, and shifted to the same stance. "Oh I see you know Chinese Kenpo, don't you." The teen observed.
Ranma's eyes narrowed, but he let the other teen make the first move. His movements were fast alright, but Ranma could tell that he was of no match for his own skill. The teen launched a left hook to Ranma's side, but Ranma blocked it. He feigned a right uppercut, Ranma anticipated it and stepped back, but the teen seized the opportunity and swung down and trip kicked Ranma's ankle which made him fall backwards, but he caught himself, and did a series of backward somersaults until he landed in a one-legged Kenpo fighting stance.
The teen dashed at Ranma, and attempted to side kick Ranma's face, but Ranma grabbed the teen's ankle, and threw him back. The teen corrected his position, and landed smoothly on the ground in front of Ranma, and they rushed at each other at full-speed. They stopped somewhere in the middle, and they a flurry of punches at each other, eventually they came to a mutual point where both were at equal standing.
Both teens were already sweating and gasping for breath, but the other teen relented. "Ya' know you're pretty good at this, aren't ya'." The teen acknowledged.
"You're not bad yourself, it's the first time someone actually had the sense to trip me, and you're pretty fast too, but I'll admit that there's some flaws to your fighting." Ranma also acknowledged. "Where're you from, kid? I haven't seen you around this town before." Ranma said.
"Oh, I moved into the neighborhood, hope you don't mind my being your neighbor." The other teen said. The teen went up to Ranma and held up his hand in surrender.
"I give up, fighting 'til the end was never my focus point, maybe we could fight again sometime."
"Uh, maybe." Ranma reluctantly agreed. "My name's Ranma Saotome by the way, you don't seem like a bad guy." Ranma introduced himself.
"Nah, I wouldn't think so...I'm the baddest person out there. Anyways, nice to meet ya' Ranma, my name's Ryu..." the teen started to introduce himself when the school's bell rings. "Oh, great, I'm late for school now!" the boy exclaimed.
"Oh, really, so am I." Ranma said cheerfully, and quickly snapped out of himself. "Wait a minute! I am late, sorry I gotta go now, see ya' around!" Ranma shouted, and picked up Daisuke and ran off toward the school.
"This place keeps getting more and more interesting, oh wait, I forgot to tell him my school's in that direction too." The teen said quietly, and took off in the same direction.
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The late school bell was ringing, and the gates were almost closing. "Damn it!" he cursed, and leaped over the closing gates with an unconscious Daisuke on his back. Ranma rushed inside the school, and dashed into the infirmary. "Nurse, I got someone who needs help!" Ranma alerted, and caught the school nurse off guard.
"Oh, well, put him over there please. And don't forget to take a late pass when you leave so your tardiness will not be accounted for." The nurse said. Ranma laid Daisuke on one of the beds, and dashed out. "Thanks!" Ranma exclaimed.
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Ranma raced around the empty hallway, and went to his homeroom class and slid the door open in a haste, and panted. "Sorry...I'm late!" Ranma panted, and the teen from earlier was standing at front of the classroom, looking weirdly at Ranma.
"Oh, am I interrupting something?" Ranma asked.
"Oh, not really, we're just getting started." The teacher said. "Ranma, please take your seat, and please be sure not to be tardy on the first day again." The teacher relayed, and he took his seat like he was told.
"Ahem, as we were about to do, pleased to meet you all, this will be the first time I will be teaching your homeroom this year and you all know me, I'm Professor Dan, and it appears that you have a new student in the class. Am I correct?" The teacher said. "Now, please introduce yourself to the class, miss." Professor Dan said to the teen quietly.
The teen took a deep breath, and faced the class with an atmosphere of stiffness. "Well, um, nice to meet you. Um, my name's Ryuunosuke Fujinami, and I'll be looking forward to a great year with everyone." Ryuunosuke said stiffly and bowed to the rest of the class.
*Ryuunosuke, huh? So that's the name of the guy I fought with earlier. Hmm, he seems different from when we first met, now he's all stiff and stuff. Almost like a deer caught in the headlights.* Ranma thought as a few girls around him started to make giggles at Ryuunosuke, but Ranma ignored them.
"Anyway, please make her feel welcomed." The teacher said finally. "Now, take your seat behind Mr. Saotome." He gestured, and Ryuunosuke took her seat behind Ranma.
*Wait a minute, did he just say 'miss', and 'her'?* Ranma thought, and turned around in his seat to look more closely at Ryuunosuke. *It's probably nothing.* Ranma shrugged, and turned back around.
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At lunchtime, Ranma went up to Ryuunosuke to eat lunch together. "Yo, Ryuunosuke, that is your name, right?" Ranma greeted Ryuunosuke, and she looked up from her bento box.
"Oh, it's you. So we're in the same class together, huh." Ryuunosuke said rhetorically.
"Yeah, so can I join you?" Ranma asked. Ryuunosuke shrugged her shoulders, and simply nodded. Ranma took his seat right across from her, and began eating from his bento box in earnest. There was silence between them, and the tension was light, but Ranma thought of raising it a little. "Um..." Ranma began conversing, but Ryuunosuke intervened.
"If it's because you wanna ask if I'm a girl, then yes, I am one for your information." Ryuunosuke said bluntly. Ranma was dumbstruck.
*Did she already know what I was gonna ask her before I said anything?* Ranma thought the question out. "Uh, that wasn't what I was gonna say." Ranma said.
"Oh, really." Ryuunosuke said unconvinced. "You know a lot a' guys tend to ask the stupidest things to people and often make bad judgments about them. One of them would be asking me whether or not I'm male or female." She said calmly.
"But, you...uh..." Ranma started, but hesitated.
"Go on and ask, I won't be offended, I've heard it a million times." Ryuunosuke dared Ranma.
"Oh, um, here goes. Why are you..." Ranma began to ask, and once again, Ryuunosuke answered. "Simple...I am what I am." Ryuunosuke intervened yet again.
"Yeah, but, why are you dressing exactly like a boy, plus your haircut?" Ranma blurted out and rushed to cover his mouth to keep himself from blurting out anything unnecessary, but Ryuunosuke remained calm.
"It's because...my dad is..." Ryuunosuke began, but could not continue what she was about to say.
"Don't worry about it. You don't have to say anything if you don't wanna say it, I was just curious." Ranma said, and got up from his seat, and turned to leave.
"Um, wait, hold on." Ryuunosuke stopped Ranma.
"What?" Ranma asked. "Um, do you think, uh, we could be buddies?" Ryuunosuke asked kindly. Ranma turned around, and looked at her with honest blue eyes.
*Well, now that I see more closely, I guess she looks more like a girl if you take the male uniform and haircut out.* Ranma thought. "Sure, why not." Ranma said finally.
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A/N: I had a lot of time on my hands, and I just thought that I'd make another story. And for those of you who read my previous story, Magic of Fate, it was my first one, and it was a full-blown mistake, no questions asked, and now I'm too lazy to fix it. Now this one, I just came up with out of boredom, so I apologize if you thought it was too short or boring, because I am going to school, and I will get back to you guys shortly with the updates. Bye!
