Chapter two is here and I find myself having forgotten an important Note.

This story Obviously takes place after Saffron and the Wedding in the Ranmaverse, but it is also before the entire Bleach line. Ichigo and Rukia have yet to meet even.

Side Note: Let's all give a hand for my Beta-reader, the talented Chris ShadowMoon. Thanks for the the help, Chris.

Chapter Two: Take One Horse Add Three Hyenas, Two Coocoo Birds, A Pig, A Duck, And Two Trolls And You Get Chaos. Multiply The Horse By A Goddess And You Get Chuckles

By the time luch break rolled around at Furinkan the rumor mills and betting pools were working over time.

A lot of the rumors had Ranma being abducted by aliens or posessed by an angry spirit of vengeance out for the blood of those that wronged him.

All the betting pools centered on bloody gory fights to come and who would come out with the most injuries. It was pretty damn obvious after how long he'd been there that Ranma just wouldn't lose to any of his standard rivals.

The rumors were even more outrageous for the fact that miss Hinako had tried to drain Ranma like normal... and failed. She just couldn't latch onto his energy and draw it out.

Kuno had also returned by the time lunch came. He stood in the courtyard, and angry glare directed at Ranma as he casually strolled out of the building. His glare intensified as he realized the formerly pigtailed youth was ignoring him and his glorious speech proving his superiority and promising the destruction of the vile cur.

His glare was joined by Ukyo's and Akane's as Ranma casually flirted with a couple girls sitting in the bleachers as he lazed about waiting for the lunch period to end.

Finally, Kuno had had enough and shouted out, "I challenge you to a duel, Vile Sorcerer Saotome!"

Ranma looked over at Kuno for a second before turning back to the girls and whispering something that sent them into giggle fits. He then stood up and walked over to Kuno, hands in his pockets.

"Sup, Tatewaki?"

"I challenge you to a duel to the rights to date and marry both the pigtailed girl and my firce tigress, Akane!" Kuno stated proudly.

Ranma took a thinking pose, "Nah, I don't really feel like accepting. Later, Kuno." He began to walk back to the two girls, Kim, a foreign exhange student with blonde hair and green eyes, and Eri, a somewhat short girl a year younger than him with black hair and crimson brown eyes.

He was stopped by a mallet that would have hit him if he hadn't stopped walking.

"Sup, 'Kane," he said with the same bored tone as he did with Kuno.

"You pervert! Stop bothering those girls!"

"Girls, am I bothering you?" He asked Eri and Kim.

"Oh, yes," Eri said sarcastically, "We are so annoyed by your presence that we decided to flirt with you, have a pleasant conversation about manga we enjoy, and laugh at your jokes to see if it would drive you off."

Of course Akane heard,"'Yes, he's a bastard, pervert, freak! Please save us!"

And so she attacked. For the fifth time that day her mallet only hit air.

She felt something being placed on her head and facened under her chin and whipped around to see Ranma with a pitying grin on his face.

"There you go, 'Kane," he said slowly as if speaking to a child, "This helmet will keep your...special mind safe from anymore damage, okay?" And everyone watching, especially Ukyo, started roaring in laughter at the insinuation.

It finally pieced to gether in Akane's mind that Ranma wasn't talking to her like a child.

"I AM NOT RETARDED, RANMA NO BAKA!!" And she swung yet again with the same results.

"Oh yeah. Conving argument there, Akane," Ukyo said through her laughter.

"Shut up you hussy! You're no better than the freaky pervert!" And she stormed off to find where her soon to be dead fiance had disappeared to this time... forgetting about the helmet with the word 'Special' on the front.

After she was gone Ranma peeked out from behind Eri and Kim with a grin.

At the end of the lunch period, only fifteen minutes later, Ranma left Eri and Kim to go to his own class, ignoring the questioning stares he had recieved from Ukyo all period.

Ukyo in a rare moment of clear thought, when it involved her fiancee and one time best friend, decided not to threaten the girls away from her Ranchan. She knew that Ranma hated the situation he was in, being forced to choose between her, Akane, Shampoo or any other fiancee that showed up at his doorstep. She could also probably guess that him flirting with the two girls sitting in the bleachers was not an attempt to garner more females after his heart.

The question was why would he even risk it?

Was something about to happen? Was he afraid he'd lose his life to a new challenge so he decided to just live like he wanted? Or had something already happened? He had jumped up quite aways in power, she could tell, and he usually only did that when facing an enemy far stronger than he was.

This line of thought brought more and more worries to the girl's mind. He had been gone for an entire month and noone knew where he was. Who knew what could've happened.

He was only in China for a little over a week and look at the disaster that had come about when he made it back. The wedding had to be the biggest mistake on the part of every member of the Nerima Wrecking Crew ever. Even Ranma was not completely without fault in that happening.

With these dark thoughts of forboding and doom, Ukyo made her way into class.

For the rest of the day Akane, who had finally removed the helmet, and Ukyo gave him burning glares and nervous, sideways glances respectively. He seemed about as effected by the looks he was recieving as he was by the light breeze coming through the window.

When final bell for the day wrang Ranma was gone before anyone had even moved from their seats. Akane stomped from the class, leaving cracks in the tiles and grinding her teeth.

Once the front gates were in sight she froze, eyes open wide, and ran back inside to get a bucket of water. She came back out and threw the contents on a distracted Ranma.

The water, unlike her mallet strikes, managed to hit it's target. As Ranma-chan shook the water out of her hair Akane's subconscious noted that the spiky hair looked good on both forms.

"That wasn't nice, 'Kane," Ranma-chan said as she pulled a sports bra and a belt out of Stuff Space and managed to slip both items on without flashing every young guy looking.

The cat, the reason Akane had drenched Ranma hoping to either stun her out of the Nekoken or distract her from the feline so she could chase it away, had an amused air about as it watched the two.

"You should be thanking me, Baka! I just saved you from the Nekoken!"

Ranma just raised one eyebrow then looked at the black cat and grinned.

"Oh, right that little old thing," she said, "You don't need to worry about that happening with Yoruichi, here."

Akane's questioning glances were ignored and she frowned, "Why is that?"

"Hmm? Oh, Yoruichi isn't a cat. See, no problem. Just run along and tell the families I'm home. I have some things to discuss with Yoruichi." She waved her off and Akane growled before deciding she wasn't worth it and storming past her.

"So that is your main fiancee?" Yoruichi said in her decptively male voice.

"Yup," Ranma said just before taking a step back as a bicycle landed right where she had been not a few seconds earlier.

"Nihao, Airen!" Shampoo ignored the imediate fact that Ranma had dodged her bike and attempted to glomp her to meet success equal to that of Akane's mallet. That is to say none.

"And this one is my so called Amazon wife," Ranma explained and then leaned back as three throwing knives and a chain passed her head and embedded into the wall beside her and Yoruichi, "And her myopic pet idiot."

"Saotome, you fiend! You dare dodge away from Shampoo's affections when those who deserve it are kicked to the gutter?! I'll draw out your death for all to hear your screams!" Mousse proceeded to throw a volley of weapons at Ranma...or what he thought was Ranma.

He recieved a bash to the head, courtesy of Shampoo's bonburi, and a scolding of, "Stupid Mousse! Airen gone!" She then climbed back onto her bike and went about delivering the noodles she had been sent out to deliver in the first place.

In an alley not too far away Ranma leaned against the wall, Yoruichi on her head. "Thank god for the Shunpo," Ranma-chan mumbled as she waited for both the Amazons to leave before she began to walk home.

"Well, the show has just started and already I'm amused," Yoruichi's voice gave hint to her mirth.

Ranma and Yoruichi began a leisurely pace towards the Tendo Dojo. Yoruichi had jumped down from Ranma's head to walk on her own power just incase another adversary should show up... like the one she could feel approaching quickly followed by a lot of angry auras.

"HACHA!!"

Ranma-chan looked to her right just in time to see Happousai attempt to latch onto her chest.

As with many other things that had targeted Ranma this fine day he missed. Though, not because of a dodge this time.

No this one was blocked by a hand. A hand glowing pure white with a ki projectile about to be launched. Happousai had just enough time to look at Ranma-chan's face, see the wicked grin forming, before he was blasted back with the minimal amount of Ki necessary into the crowd of angry women.

Ranma-chan just smirked as she heard the old man's cries of outrage and pain at the hands of the women he had groped and stolen from.

"Hmm?"

"Sup, Yoruichi?"

"Nothing, just thought I recognized something about your last adversary."

Ranma thought for a moment, "I wouldn't be surprized if you did. Between Happousai and my pops I don't know who's pissed off more people." Yoruichi shrugged as best a cat can before moving on. She couldn't wait for the real show to begin.

The walk back to the Tendo dojo was uneventful after dealing with Happousai, though Ranma could sense another old troll at the edge of her senses. It seemed that at least one person was observing before acting, though of all of the Nerima crew, Cologne was undoubtedly the wisest. That didn't really say much for the rest of Ranma's circle.

Once at the Tendo home Ranma took no pause before entering. He also didn't bother playing nice like he had done so far when both the fathers attacked him to try and knock him out and set him up for another wedding.

She simply kicked Soun to the way side, making sure to add enough force to knock the man out.

She then layed into the fat waste of food and space that claimed to be her father.

The house was filled with snaps, cracks, and screams of pain as Ranma thoroughly ripped her father apart without leaving any permanent damage. After only a couple minutes of this, leaving everyone cringing, Ranma walked into the main living area and was dragging behind her Genma and Soun.

"Hey, Kas-chan," Ranma greeted the eldest Tendo daughter kindly. She was perhaps the only person in her circle of people that had never beat him, drugged, blackmailed him, or sold him. If only he could have been engaged to Kasumi from the beginning he might be sitting in a very different situation.

Seeing the state of her father Akane decided to try yet again to mallet the Saotome heir.

Apparently since meeting the fathers at the door Ranma had decided to stop playing.

She ripped the mallet from Akane's hands and turned it on her with force equal to what she was about to recieve. As her body flew out the back door and into the yard of the Tendo home Ranma put the mallet down and her pleasant grin back on.

"Now that that business is finished let's have a nice little conversation about some things, shall we, Nabiki, Kasumi?" She sat down, ignoring Nabiki's look of astonishment while Kasumi poured Ranma some hot water.

"Oh, I do hope you have some interesting stories from your latest venture, Ranma-kun," she said in her peaceful and deceptively clueless way.

+-- End Chapter Two--+

A/N: OK, that's it for this chapter, I know not much focused on Yoruichi, but that will change with the next chapter. I hope it was as enjoyable as the first chapter.

TOSD out