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"Speech" (duh)
Thought
[Signs]
(Authors notes)
Amnesia chapter 1 revision 1
Liquid poured down from the two white orbs at their source, flowing around the black stalks and around the quivering ridge to flow over the protruding ground and fall off at the edge. The salty liquid rolled over the cheeks of the Tendo patriarch as the first patters of rain fell from the cloudy sky, in his hands a postcard with a panda eating bamboo as the picture.
Soun Tendo was crying, which in itself was nothing new since the Tendo was known to have a constant flowing of tears since the death of his wife. The reason for his downpour was, although, not what most would have suspected, for they were not tears of sadness over the smallest of things but tears of joy. The source of that joy was held firm in his quivering hands.
Hi, Bringing Ranma from China. Saotome... the message that the card held kept repeating in his mind, it was the words he had been waiting for since they had locked the master away in the mountain. Soon the Anything Goes schools of martial arts would be united as one with the marriage of a Tendo to a Saotome, and this brought him more joy than he had felt in a long time. Bringing Ranma from China... Ranma from China... Bringing Ranma... Ranma is coming here!!!!
"R-Ranma? Coming here?" Soun asked the air, his hands shaking from the excitement. "Oh how I've w-w-waited for this day!" He re-read the message and confirmed that this wasn't a dream and he would soon be reunited with his best friend. "Kasumi..."
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"Yelch!" a young man yelled only minutes earlier from his position under a very large and very wet panda. "HEY! Off Pop!" He growled through a mouthful of the wet bear's fur. "It's not my fault that you fell in that puddle! Quit tryin' to change me too, ya old man!"
[Useless boy!] The sign that mysteriously appeared in the panda's paw (how is it that a panda can hold a sign if it doesn't have an opposable thumb?) [We're in Nerima] the flipped around sign read, [Its time to meet your fiancé] the relapsed sign relayed. Ranma did a double take.
Now how the heck did he do that?! Ranma pondered as the message of the final sign sunk in... "FIANCE?"
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"FIANCE?" rang through the Tendo home as the three young girls received the news their father was so happy about. All three stared in horror, well two did and Kasumi was Kasumi, as their father happily nodded his eyes closed and oblivious to their objections.
"Yes, the son of a very good friend of mine." Soun stated, "The son's name is Ranma Saotome. If one of you three girls were to marry him..." sound stared at each in turn as his speech drug on. "...And carry on this training center..." the 17 year old girl's eyes shifted over to the youngest, who seemed to fidget as if she knew what the girl was thinking. "Then the Tendo family legacy would be secure"
"Wait a minute!" the youngest piped up. "Don't WE have some say in who we marry?"
"Akane's right, Daddy." the eldest added, "We've never even met Ranma."
"That's easily fixed." the patriarch answered them calmly, the rain splashing into the koi pond and on the roof.
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The people in the street watched after the short flash shower as a girl was running for her life from the panda that was chasing her. They watched helplessly as the probably rabid animal chased the girl down hoping that the police would show up soon to help.
"YO CUT THAT..." she yelled jumping into the air and tossing the bag and her shoes to the side of the street. "...OUT!!!" was her final outburst as she slammed into the things chest with a vicious flying kick knocking it back the way they came.
"Say--Is that a panda?" was heard from one side of the street followed by,
"That Is a panda isn't it?" The panda got up and took what appeared to be a martial arts stance after spitting to the side.
"Your move." was the only thing the girl said taking a stance of her own.
The panda attacked with a fury of punches that was easily dodged by the nimble girl as she grabbed onto its arm flipping it over her back.
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"LEGGO, y'ol' fool!" was heard from the doorway as Soun had finished the conversation with his daughters.
"Oooo! It must be Ranma!" The middle girl exclaimed running with her father towards the door.
"Saotome, my friend! We've been waiting..." was all that got out before both Tendo's came bolting back to the dining room from the entranceway followed lazily by a panda carrying a squirming red and black bundle over its shoulder. In the commotion that ensued the bundle was eventually placed on its feet in front of the man shaking his head. "You... Wouldn't be..." he asked tentatively.
"Ranma Saotome" the girl said hesitantly fingering her braid. "Sorry 'bout this." Soun then swept her into a great hug.
"At Last! You've come!" was all she heard as her ears were covered with the excess clothing of his kimono when she was violently pushed away.
"He is a girl." was what the one girl said poking Ranma's breast.
"Um... could you stop that?" was the last thing she said as the Tendo father fainted.
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By the time Soun had gained full control over his consciousness Ranma and
Akane were in the Dojo having a small sparing match. Punch, punch, kick, jab, kick, punch; Akane's blows pass through the air where Ranma used to be. Why am I missing her? Is she reading my moves? she swung a few more times and got angry. Ok this time...
"FOR REAL!" her punch shattered the wood wallboard of the dojo and Ranma landed easily behind her and tapped her head and laughed a bit. Soon she was laughing along with the odd girl, and sighed. "You're pretty good. Well I'm just glad that you're a girl..."
"Huh?"
"It's just... I'd really hate to lose to a boy" Ranma stared at her and didn't say a thing... worry creeping into her features.
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Genma sitting in front of Soun...
Ranma sitting in the furo...
Kasumi cooking...
Nabiki watching the two men...
Akane changing in the changing room... ignoring the occupied sign on the door...
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"YAAAAA!" Akane yelled once she had left the changing room, redressed in her bathrobe. Upon reaching the Dining room she stepped out and lifted one of the granite flower pots mumbling something about drowning someone in the furo.
"Akane, what is it? What's that for?" Nabiki inquired watching her sister perform an amazing show of strength.
"There is a Pervert in the Bathroom!" Akane Yelled running for the furo with block in hand.
"But wasn't Ranma just in there?" Kasumi asked Nabiki as they heard the tell-tale sound of a granite flowerbox striking a human skull. (They've heard it
enough times as Kuno's been over trying to date Akane... only to be pummeled into the wall head first... don't worry, no damage to Kuno ^-^)
When the two rushed to the source of the sound they found a very male person that, oddly enough, was dressed in Ranma's clothes, with a broken granite flowerpot sitting on his head. Akane was standing there panting as the two fathers rushed to the scene.
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Akane was not in a good mood, first she makes a friend from Ranma, who she thought was a girl, and now she finds out that he has some curse to turn into one when doused with cold water... it didn't make any sense...
She was planning on apologizing to Ranma when she... he woke but then her
'Akane' thinking came into play and she fumed that he hadn't told her that he was a he.
Ranma, on the other hand, had yet to wake up and Genma was seriously getting worried... not for Ranma, of course, but of what he'd do if Ranma dies and Nadoka found out...
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It was two days and Ranma still hadn't woken, everyone was starting to get worried, yes he was breathing and everything seemed fine but he just wouldn't wake up. No matter how many times Genma smacked him, or they splashed him with water, he just wouldn't wake up...
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After a week they seriously considered calling the hospital... they had thought it before but Nabiki shot it down my stating the current finances and how a hospital bill was definitely not something they could afford. But right now she was more worried about Genma suing their family for damages, not that they could pay that either. And then, to her relief mostly, Ranma's eyes flickered open and he sat up.
"Where am I?" he asked the closest person, who happened to be Akane, and got a reply in the form of a punch to the face. "Ite! What did you do that for?" He sat there holding his bruised face.
"THAT! Was for making us worry!" she retorted hitting him again in the chest causing him to double over.
"AKANE!" Nabiki and Kasumi scolded her. "Don't forget who knocked him out for a week!" Nabiki finished the statement. "You're lucky he's not holding a grudge."
Ranma was too busy gasping for breath to listen to the conversation and didn't hear what had happened to him. "Ummm... who are you?" he asked the three girls... and again Akane got angry and hit him, hard.
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Two hours later Ranma woke again this time with a splitting headache, and
Genma was there.
"There m'boy you finally decided to wake up eh?" he punctuated the comment with a slap to the back. Which ended in Genma landing in the koi pond before the hand fell on his son's shoulders. Ranma just sat there, where had that come from? He just reacted... but why?
Not wanting to find out that he had insulted the owner of wherever he was, he quickly got up and left the premises, grabbing the loaded travel pack out of habit.
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Author's Notes:
There first revision done
This is a divergence but might crossover a bit with another anime or two.
Send C&C to Jnuvares@hotmail.com, to those who mentioned the spelling I sent it through a spell check. For the others oh well.
