-1Chapter 1: Left behind No longer
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Rain fell and rippled in puddles as a short redheaded girl carrying a backpack darted quickly down the alley, an angry giant panda close on her heels.
"You went and Did what!?!" the girl yelled as she dodged several of the black and white bears attacks and flipped down the street facing him. "If you think you can get away with taking me there like this and Engaging me to someone I've never even met then you got another thing coming, OLD MAN!" She yelled flatting the giant bear with a jump-kick to the face.
The panda simply grumbled some incoherent speech and attacked forcing the girl to slide out into the crowded street. onlookers were stunned and shocked to see the conflict between a short redheaded girl and a giant panda at almost 7 feet tall.
The two continued the scrap for some time until. "Ha take that old man!" The redhead yelled as she splayed the panda on its back with a powerful hip toss. She then shouldered her backpack and spoke arrogantly as she began to walk off. "I'm going back to china now so suck on that pops!"
It was then as the panda took his advantage and exploited it, ripping a road sign form the pavement the panda smacked the girl upside the back of the skull and shouldered her backpack and all. growling at the passersby making them all to aware they had better mind their own business.
Nothing but raindrops gently falling could be herd for moments as the panda began to walk off with his prize.
"Genma Saotome, at long last I have tracked you down, do you have any idea of how hard it is on a child being abandoned like that!!" a voice sounded form behind him.
The panda spun around only to see a handsome young man running in his direction wavering a giant spatula around like some kind of weapon. The long haired young man swung at the panda several times with near suicidal deathblows each time the panda ducking weaving and parrying the weapon of war and possibly cooking with his own sign.
Then out of nowhere the panda parried the spatula spun around and struck the young man with a spinning back kick the underside of his chin. His feet left the ground and he soared backward trough the air almost flying, body limp mind stunned motionless in the air as the earth spun beneath him until he finally crashed into a nearby puddle on the puddle on the pavement and slid backwards, the spatula landing less then a few feet behind him sticking into the harden asphalt.
The long brown-haired boy struggled to get up and attack his enemy once more and somehow managed to for one strained moment. Muttering and groaning something along the lines of "Genma Saotome, how dare you leave me like that..." And then collapsed unconscious onto his back, his long mop of chestnut hair splashing down into a puddle of rain falling about him gently as the panda strode off with the girl on his shoulder not looking back even once.
"Ah it still hurts" Ranma spoke out loud rubbing her head as he remembered what Akane had said to her when she thought she was a girl. "Wanna be friends" she said.
"Hump," Ranma thought as she imagined the youngest Tendo daughters face when they had first met, how much her statements had changed when she found out that Ranma the cute helpless looking redheaded girl was actually Ranma Saotome a 16 year old young man that had spent the better part of his life training in advance and dangerous martial arts techniques. How violently she had acted how much she hated him now and for no apparent reason other than that he was a guy. "Uncute, Unsexy… she Muttered walking down the stairs trying her best to contain her anger.
Besides What business did she have getting engaged at this time she was still in training and she absolutely HAD TO FIND A CURE FOR HIS CUSE" there was no other way not until he could become a real man a gain was he fit to marry much less settle down in one place and who wanted to run a stupid dojo right now no one had asked him/her. Besides Akane was practically railroaded into it anyway." "Stupid tomboy, she hates me the moment she finds out im a guy." She thought as she striped down in the laundry room and opened the door.
"Oh im so sorry" Ranma said as she saw someone was already in the tub when she entered. Her face flushed red as she backed out and shut the door behind her."
"Don't worry about it", the female voice struck in. "Your a girl now so its not like it counts anyway." Ranma recognized the voice as Nabiki the Middle tendo daughter and slowly, against all of his good reasonable logic rendered the bathroom, her head and eyes face down and looking at the door as she closed it.
"Ya know if I get in there with you Ill change back into a guy dontcha?" Ranma said shyly looking at the bottom seal of the door frame.
"Well then don't get in" Nabiki said matter of factaly as she slid over to the edge of the tub resting her elbows on the side of the tub and her chin on her forearms so that most of her remained underneath the water and against the side of the tub.
"I cant help but notice but something seems to be bothering you doesn't it Ranma? I mean with the Engagement that Daddy set up for us girls it could have been any one of us yaw know."
Ranma still starring at the door finally turned around covering herself with a towel and said. "What kind of a girl your age still calls her father Daddy? He did say you were 17 right?"
"Nabiki not even flinching at the insult she had just received shot back as coldly as an artic blizzard "Well I suppose that pops and Old man are much more Endearing terms for ones father now aren't they." Nabiki smiled one of her frost covered smiles and continued on without even breaking stride "All kidding aside Now listen here Saotome I know your a guest in this house, though I don't know why you insist on making enemies out of me and my sisters especially since my father just offered to give you one of us and this families sole source of income the dojo, but i assure of one thing you that you do not want to be on my bad side understand." she smiled ever so slightly concluding her little speech satisfied that she had made her point.
Ranma's head dropped into her hand. "Look im sorry Nabiki I didn't mean... look I've had a really bad day week, month even, and the old man, and your father going behind out backs and..."
Nabiki was about to say something when there was a terrifying crash outside and the yell of someone very angry.
Outside...
Lightning flashed lighting up the dark and ominous clouds in the might sky as a young man stood up on the tendo's outer wall the his long dark hair pulled back into a ponytail his thick bangs hanging menacingly over his turquoise eyes.
"Genma Saotome well whatta ya know," he said menacingly drawing his spatula from his back spinning it around in his hand until he caught it in the ready stance like a master swordsman drawing his instrument of war.
"Do i know you?" Genma asked innocently.
"I'm the child you left behind remember, Ukyo!" he yelled leaping into the air spatula drawn ready to strike like a great battle axe. "Your Numbers up pops" Lightning struck and thunder crashed as he yelled soaring though the air. "Don't you know how hard it is on a child's Psyche being abandoned like that?"
"You gotta forgive me it was hard enough feeding the child I already had." Genma pleaded but to no avail as the young spatula man connected with genma's face and threw him to the ground.
"Look Ukyo im sorry, im sorry," Genma pleaded Assuming the "Crouch of the Wild tiger" all the while receiving numerous blows from his assailants spatula.
"You think that's gonna change anything Genma, he yelled because of you My life is ruined because of you, i cant show my face for 50 miles from my hometown, prepare to meet your maker Genma Saotome!" His arms rose back holding the spatula directly over his head ready to strike the killing blow.
"Wait Ukyo, we have had out differences in the past and i have made more than my fair share of mistakes but I.. er i mean me and Ranma have a really good thing going here and... and...
"What do i care you honorless dog!" Ukyo yelled dropping the massive weapon of war.
"Wait stop, Ukyo Ill give you anything you want if you just won't ruin this for me... er us, Ukyo have Mercy on an old man."
The young man grunted and strained and with much effort stopped the spatula just short of Genma's bald cranium.
"Anything?" he asked sheathing the spatula on his back and giving Genma an evil look.
"Yes Ukyo anything but you have to trust me 100"
"TRUST YOU!!! My odds are better just to kill you now." he yelled drawing the spatula once more.
"Just follow my lead Ukyo I promise I won't let you down..." He paused "this time."
"It was just about then that the entire Tendo family plus the redheaded Ranma in her Chinese clothes and Nabiki in a towel ran out onto the paido to see Ukyo and Genma in their life and death struggle. Lightning filling the sky behind them
"Saotome, Who is this boy? you had better have a good Explanation for the meaning of this racket and you had better have it right now ."
"Ol i do Tendo, i do" Genma said in his usual trying to hide something kind of way as she stood up dusting himself off. "Soun, Girls, I would Like you all to meet my OTHER son, Ukyo Kuonji Saotome..."
So At all intriguing? Hopefully I thought I would do something starting from the beginning of the Ranma series where Ukyo caught up to Ranma and Genma a little bit earlier than she did in the series. And for all of those Ukyo fans out there Ukyo is still 100 woman however due to her appearance and attitude Genma hopes to pass her of as another one of his sons until he can get rid of he considering that if she were to fulfill her engagement to Ranma that would ruin his plans for retirement.
So what kind of craziness is going to happen now that Ranma has Ukyo masquerading as his Brother ) at the beginning of the series I would very much appreciate request and suggestions regarding which way this story is going to go. Thanks guys )
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