Turn your heel; Turn your face
Chapter 2: this is a call out
Written by Jayrock1127
Ranma ½ created by Rumiko Takahashi
I'm a fan of the show so tell me what you guys think in the comments and give me some ideas of what you would like to see if your guys want me to continue. Also I don't own any of the rights to ranma 1/2 please support the official release from viz media and rumiko takahashi
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It was the next morning already when everyone was doing there regular routine.
Soun was reading the newspaper in the dining room.
Akane was on her morning jog.
Nabiki still sleeping in until it was actually a good time to wake up for school.
Nodako and Kasumi were fixing up breakfast for the family.
And finally Ranma and Genma we're doing their morning spar in the dojo. However there was something different about the way they were sparing and it seemed only to be one sided.
Genma was trying all his hardest to land a punch on his son while Ranma was just going through the motions of their spar.
Ranma's mind was focused on one thing and that was the letter that he got from Aiden. Just the things he said in that letter just enraged him and that is all he could think about.
Ranma felt like he needed to take his anger out on something after thinking of that so he picked up the pace between him and Genma.
Genma noticed how Ranma was picking up the pace so he prepared himself for what was to come next.
Genma tried dodging all the punches and kicks Ranma was throwing at him, but it was no good as Ranma took it seriously and landed his hits on Genma from all angles of his body.
Genma was winded trying to keep up with Ranma that he simply couldn't keep up no more. He was now starting to get bruised up, he couldn't defend himself no more, and to top it all off he couldn't find a way to stop Ranma.
Ranma was not stopping and he was going to go in for one last blow on Genma.
He then cocked his fist back and released it with all his might.
When Ranma did this his whole world started to move slow around him.
He didn't know why it happened, but after a little time he saw that his fist was still going towards Genma. When he saw Genma though he saw how battered up and bruised he was from him.
This caused Ranma's eyes to go wide as he was now starting to get another hot flash like last night.
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Hot Flash
Ranma had a quick vision of Genma on all fours and all beaten up. His gi was all ripped apart revealing some pieces of skin.
From the looks of things Genma was trying to get up, but try all he might he just collapsed to the ground.
Ranma then came back to reality realizing what he was about to do to Genma.
His world then started to move regular pace again and within the final blow of aiming for Genma's chest he held back his punch and stopped one inch away from contact.
Genma flinched at this and looked away, but when he felt nothing happened he turned to look at his son.
Ranma was one inch away from his chest and he was didn't know why he held back his punch.
Ranma the pulled his arm towards himself and he turned around and left to the house to go get cleaned and eat breakfast.
While he was leaving he muzed some things in his head about what just happened. 'I am not him I am better than that. I don't want that to happen to pop again.'
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It was now breakfast time with everyone sitting down including a bruised up Genma. Based on how the sparing session went between his son Genma decided to keep his own food and not steal from Ranma's plate this everyone ate in silence and in peace for the majority of breakfast.
Akane only had one bowl of rice and she was now waiting for Ranma to fill himself up before they went off to school.
Ranma however surprisingly ate only one bowl of rice and thanked his mother and kasumi for breakfast.
"I'm leaving for school now." Ranma said as he stood up getting ready to leave.
Nodako then started to feel an unusual feeling about why Ranma didn't eat much so she decided to ask him about it. "Are you sure you don't want another bowl before you leave? You didn't eat much like you usually do."
"I'm sure, I just don't have much of a appetite this morning that is all." Ranma replied respectively.
Everyone at the table heard what Ranma said, but Genma was the one to say something about it.
"Ranma What have I told about eating a martial artist must always eat when he can." Genma scolded him for that because he felt like his son would get weak just by not eating enough.
"I'm telling you I'm just not hungry right now." Ranma responded.
"Nonsense boy you are always hungry. Here have my bowl of rice it's the least I can do after beating me in our spar this morning and you offering your bowl to me last night." Genma said with a fake smiled.
"Thanks, but no thanks pops." Ranma said back.
Genma was annoyed that Ranma was not following what he was ordering so he raised his voice and directed it towards Ranma. "BOY YOU COME HERE AND EAT RIGHT NOW!" Genma yelled, but he was soon met with a cold steel near the back of his neck.
Nodako did not like the way how Genma was treating their son, so she decided to make Genma understand not to disrespect their one and only child so poorly. "Our son has said he does not want anymore to eat Genma you will respect what he says and let it stand do I make myself clear." Nodako said in an angry voice.
Genma only nodded in fear and he fell silent as soon as Nodako sheaved her blade back into
its rightful place by her.
"If it makes you feel any better pop I'll eat more at dinner if that'll make you happy and stop forcing me to eat so much like you did right now." Ranma said trying not to get Genma on his back for not following what he said.
Genma just nodded at his son with his jaw wide open and then Ranma,Akane, and Nabiki all left for school.
Kasumi and Nodako then gathered up the dirty dishes and started their cleaning in the kitchen.
Soun then peaked up from his newspaper and asked. "Saotome what was that all about?" Soun questioned.
"I just don't want the boy to be weak by not keeping up as he usually does. Have you noticed the boy has been acting different since last night." Genma weeped out.
"Yes I have noticed that the boy has been different since last night, but you heard your wife we need to leave him alone for right now. And I can see what your saying about him getting weak because you are frustrated that he didn't do what you say, but you can't force your son to do everything you want you know. You seemed so stressed about your son that you are overreacting to something so little. Maybe we can take your mind off of that with a game of shogi that is all."Soun suggested
"Perhaps your right Tendo maybe I did overreact it's just a couple of times Ranma didn't want to eat. What is the worst that could happen to him." Genma said as he moved to the shogi board to play against Soun.
Ranma, Akane, and Nabiki were all walking to school now with plenty of time to spare. Ranma doing his usual thing walked along the fence while Nabiki and Akane walked along the ground.
Akane was looking at Ranma as he was walking along the fence and she was wondering why he has been acting different since last night. Her though was interrupted though when Nabiki spoke up to Ranma.
"So care to tell me what has been going on with you last night?" Nabiki asked to Ranma trying to figure out why he acted so different.
Ranma didn't want to talk about the events from last night because he felt bothered just remembering who that letter was from. So he decided not to answer. "I just have a lot on my mind right now that I don't want to talk about right now." After Ranma said that he heard something that sounded familiar and he stopped in place on top of the fence and tried to locate the source while Akane and Nabiki were just walking.
He was searching for the sound and when he finally located where the sound was at he saw that it was a radio playing a song.
"Why don't you want to talk about it?" Akane asked while still walking, but she got no reply at all for a little bit of time since she asked that.
She was a little annoyed that Ranma wouldn't reply to her so she turned around to confront him about it. "Are you going to answer me or not?" Akana said as she turned around to see that Ranma was standing still and doing nothing from afar distance. She didn't know what he was doing and she stared on at Ranma trying to figure out what was going on with him. To her, he looked like if he was lost in a trance or something.
Nabiki also stopped with Akane as soon as she stopped walking and she was seeing the same thing as he sister was seeing. "What is he doing?" Nabiki said as she approached her sister.
Ranma stood there listening to the familiar song that he knew the words to very easily off a radio. "This is your time to pay this is your judgement day we shoot without a gun we'll take on anyone." As the radio was playing the song.
Ranma then started to get another hot flash again just from listening to that song.
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HOT FLASH
Ranma had a hot flash back in the black void, with that song playing in the background, where he saw himself and Aiden balancing on top of a thick strand of black rope.
Both Ranma and Aiden were wearing the exact same thing when they wore all black for their long tights, boots, and leather jackets that had the initials A.S.S. on the back of the jacket.
Ranma and Aiden just looked at each other for a little bit and they only nodded at one another. They then jumped off the ropes with their hands out all the way to the other side of the ropes from where they were doing a hand off the ropes.
They then landed on top of their hands while their body bounced of the ropes and they started doing two back flips in sync. When they were doing the last flip they both landed in front of each other with their left hand on the ground and their right hand in the air while their left leg was laying on the floor and their right leg was kneeled up.
The position looked as if they were bowing to one another and they had this planned all along. The way they did their flips and landed looked so much like something you would see that Superman would do when he is coming down to land.
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Ranma then returned to reality and started to frowned at that hot flash. His anger began to grow when he thought about that and he did not want to be here no more listening to that song as it reminds him of something he does not want to be reminded about.
Ranma then decided he didn't want to stay any longer than he had too and with that he sprinted past Akane and Nabiki without acknowledging them.
"Ranma wait up!" Akane yelled out as she was chasing after Ranma. 'why is he running we have plenty of time to get to school anyways.'
Akane muzed.
A couple moments later all three of them showed up to the school early as Ranma stopped running when he reached the front of the gates to the school and proceeded to walk to the schools entrance.
He then stopped in place though as he heard Akane calling from behind. "Ranma wait!"
Akane was a little winded chasing after Ranma, but she was still concerned about why Ranma ran off. "Why did you run off like that?"
Nabiki was now walking in behind her sister trying to find out the same answer as her sister. She had her arms crossed against her chest and she stared Ranma down. "Now I definitely know something is going on with you. What was with you just standing by yourself back there and I suggest you spill now Saotome because you know I will find out what you are hiding." Nabiki said with a smirk on her face
Ranma didn't want to deal with this right now and he was easily annoyed by what Nabiki was doing so he decided to try and tell her off. "It doesn't matter look let's just get inside before something happens okay." Ranma said in a hard voice.
"You're lying I can see right through you now spill." Nabiki said as she sensed Ranma was lying through the tone of his voice.
Akane had picked up from Ranma that he has acting different since last night and she was wondering what was making him this way and trying to be so secretive to them. She knew that he wasn't going to say what was going one, but another question came to her head that might be able to get him to talk "Ranma If your not going to tell us why your acting differently can you at least tell us why you won't say anything about it?" Akane budded in and asked.
Ranma was now contemplating over to answer that question because this was a question he could or can not answer to her.
After thinking about though he finally had an answer and he was going to say something until he was cut off by bokken that nearly missed him. He jumped back from the strike and landed softly on the ground and he looked up only to see it was Kuno that tried to hit him.
"Kuno what do you want?" Ranma said in an annoyed tone.
"SILENCE!" Kuno yelled. "You know what the blue thunder of furikan wants. I want to free Akane Tendo and the pig tail girl free of your grasp and in order to do so I must slay thee who escaped me once, but not a twice." Kuno said in his most heroic voice.
Just the way Kuno was talking was enough to make Ranma even more annoyed and angry. Ranma didn't want to deal with him in the mood he was in from what he remembered a couple of moments ago and he just wanted to be left alone. "Kuno I got your challenge the other day and I accept it, but right now I'm not in the mood so please I am going to ask you nicely can you save me the time and leave me alone for today."
"NAY I won't let you escape me a second time, now prepare Saotome as I am prepared to take you down." Kuno said staring down Ranma pointing his bokken towards him.
From the sounds of it Kuno was not going to follow what he said and it just made Ranma's anger grow even larger. "Kuno I'm warning you right now if you fight me right now you won't like how it'll turn out like the other times I've fought you. So I am going to leave right now and not deal with you." Ranma said as he walked off to the school.
Kuno just laughed at Ranma's warning and he only got confident that he was now intimidating Ranma if he was trying not to fight him. "I will not back down from any challenge to achieve what I want and what I want is to beat you and date with akane tendo and the pigtailed girl."
"PERVERT BAKA!" Akane yelled at Kuno
Kuno then also brought something else that would guarantee he and Ranma will face off. "And to add in is it not within the saotome clan that you will not back down from any challenge no matter the time or place you pathetic coward." Kuno said
Ranma stopped in place when Kuno said that and he snapped from what Kuno said. He clenched his fist tightly, grinded his teeth hard, and his head twitched back. He then gathered himself together and turned around to face Kuno. His face was emotionless, yet he still spoke. "Okay Kuno you really want this you got it, but don't say I did not warn you." Ranma said in a cold tone.
Akane noticed the change in Ranma just now when he turned around when Kuno called him a coward and it made her wonder what was it about that Kuno said that made him change his mind. 'What is wrong with him usually when he gets called a name he doesn't make a big deal out of it, but now it seems that he was offended when Kuno said that."
Kuno just smiled grimly. "I will slay thee foul sorcerer. Now let us go and we shall settle this in the fields." Kuno directed as both him and Ranma left to the fields.
"Now this is going to bring in a few yen" Nabiki said as she got her notepad out and started to head to fields, along with her, and spread the word about Kuno fighting Ranma.
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Everyone came in running to Nabiki's poll to place their bets on who would win. Everyone put their bets on Ranma to win the fight, since he has always beaten Kuno on multiple occasions.
Ranma and Kuno were in the fields staring down one another while everyone else watched them.
"Go ahead I will let you make your first move against the blue thunder." Kuno said
confidently as he was for sure he was going to beat Ranma.
Ranma just stood there in silence looking at kuno angrily. He only just stood with his arms to his sides not responding to anything for a good minute.
Kuno was waiting as well and he was a little irritated that Ranma would not make his move already. "Perhaps you did not hear me correctly go ahead make your first move against me." Kuno repeated himself.
Ranma still stayed still as he kept looking on at Kuno.
"What is wrong with Ranma why isn't he making his move?" One student began to question as it made the other students angry that no one was doing anything. Students even marched to Nabiki's poll demanding a refund because there was nothing going on. "We want our money back nothing is even happening they are just on the field staring at each other." one student said.
Nabiki started to get worried because she might lose the yen she just made. "Just wait they are going to fight I promise." Nabiki said so nervously.
"Wow way to promote the stands Nabs" Akane said sarcastically next to her sister.
"Why isn't Ranma fighting he can take Kuno on easily?" Nabiki said to Akane as she tugged on her shirt in desperate that she might lose money.
"I don't know, but it's not like Ranma to be like this. Have you seen the way he has been he has been different." Akane explained.
"That doesn't matter right now Akane what does matter is if he makes me lose all my yen then I am going to force him to do things in his girl form that he will not like." Nabiki said with a cold look in her eyes.
Akane and Nabiki then looked on toward the fields as it was same as when they looked away.
"What game are you playing saotome?" Kuno said.
Ranma didn't say anything and stood in silence still.
Kuno was now feeling that Ranma was disrespecting him by not wanting to fight and he was fed up with it. "GRRRR... That is it you do not want to take my offer fine then I will take you down in one blow." Kuno got angry and charged at Ranma with his bokken over his head ready to strike Ranma as he leapt into the air and brought his bokken down to strike Ranma while still in place.
As the bokken was brought down Ranma could feel the air of the swing coming towards him and he broke his silence when he lifted his hand and caught the bokken. Ranma had the bokken blade in his hand, while Kuno was holding onto the guard on the other end.
Students gasped at what Ranma did as he finally broke his silence when he caught the bokken.
Akane and Nabiki were surprised when Ranma finally moved for the first time and caught the bokken.
Kuno was shocked when his attack did not work and he could not believe that his bokken was caught when he was using all his might in that swing.
Ranma then lifted his head toward Kuno to meet his eyes and yanked the bokken away from him roughly.
"What are you doing that is my weapon?" Kuno said in disbelief.
"This is not your weapon anymore and if it was you should learn to take better care of it." Ranma responded.
Ranma then got behind Kuno and kicked him down onto both knees as Kuno stood there trying to comprehend what had happened. Ranma then got in front of Kuno pointed the bokken at him. "I warned you." Ranma said as he turned the bokken to the flat part of the blade and pulled it back releasing it against Kuno's body rapidly.
Kunos body felt his bokken hit him and when it did he felt his body was cold from the first hit that it left him fazed. It was only when Ranma started to pick up the pace on how he was swinging the bokken that he felt his whole body to burn.
After many hits Kunos clothes were ripped apart on him reveal the pelts left on his body.
Ranma didn't know when to stop as he was filled with anger and he kept on going until he was satisfied.
Ranma then pulled the bokken back as he swinged it one last time across kuno's left arm and and the bokken shattered into pieces. Not only was the bokken shattered but Ranma also broke kuno's arm in two places.
Kuno was yelling in agony as his arm was in pain from now being broken and he only fell to the ground grasping his arm.
Ranma then dropped the broken bokken in his hand and he left without saying a single word.
Every student watched as he left and they saw the look of anger on his face. Based on what just happened everyone didn't say anything about it and minded their own business as they were in shock in what they just saw.
Akane only stood in shocked as well at what she just saw, when she saw the other students eyes were on the pigtailed martial artist.
"I have never seen him take someone down so violently before like that." Akane said to her sister.
"Well whatever it was that caused him to be like that little sister I'm sure he'll be alright he might've gotten Kuno out of your hair for a little bit." Nabiki responded as she was counting the yen that she just made.
"Sure that can be a good thing for me and him, but aren't you worried that something is going on with Ranma. It is not like him to be this way and hurt someone like that. Even if it's Kuno he usually just beats him and leaves it that, but why did he do what he did?" Akane said worriedly
Akane had made some good points to Nabiki and it raised questions to her on why Ranma was being so different. "You make some good points. Don't you remember how he acted when we were coming here. I am pretty sure something is going on with him that he wants no one to know about if he is acting different. And I am going to do my best to find out what it is." Nabiki said
"Okay I'll leave it to you then make sure you tell me once you have something." Akane replied
"I will and It'll be free of charge for you since he is your fiancé." Nabiki smirked
"Gee thanks Nabs" Akane said as she facepalmed once again.
Both young women then walked their way into the school and went on about their day.
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Meanwhile at the Tendo dojo
Nodako and kasumi were cleaning the kitchen after breakfast, washing the dishes to start off their day.
Kasumi was washing while Nodako was drying
Both women just stood in silence doing their own thing with one thing on Nodakos mind.
Nodako was replaying the talk she had with Ranma that morning and she was worried for her son. She was worried that there might be something in his life right now that she doesn't know about. She got that feeling because of the letter Ranma read and how it caused him to act so different since the following night. 'What was that letter about that caused him to act so differently? I know it is not in my right to look into that letter because that was only meant for Ranma and no one else. But just seeing him this way just makes me want to help him and find out what is going on.'
That was not the only thing that was bothering her as she remembered the last thing what Ranma said about a person he considered a brother and he said. "He was like a brother to me because we had so much in common. I cared a lot for the guy, but he is gone." Nodako remembered as she was trying to decipher what her son had meant what he said.
Kasumi was washing the dishes and she noticed that Nodako was drying an already dried dish. When she looked to see her face she saw she was in deep thought about something. "Auntie Nodako are you feeling okay?"
Nodako then looked at Kasumi and she felt like she needed to talk to someone about what she was thinking. She then broke the silence by asking a question to kasumi. "Kasumi dear."
kasumi then responded. "Yes auntie."
Nodako asked on. "Have you noticed anything going on with my son lately?"
Kasumi stood their with a puzzled look on her face and finally spoke up after thinking about what has been going on with Ranma. "Well I have noticed that Ranma didn't want to eat as much as he usually does and he hasn't spoke up much, but that is all I know why do you ask?"
"I'm just worried about my son right now that something is going on his life that I don't know about." Nodako said sadly.
"What gives you that idea auntie?"Kasumi questioned.
"Well last night Ranma was yelling in his sleep and I went to his side to see what was wrong, but he woke up yelling when I got close to him." Nodako explained.
Kasumi just chuckled on about what Nodako said because she might be worrying for no reason about her son. "Auntie Ranma must have had a bad dream if he woke up yelling. Besides this is not the first time this has not happened."
"No, but this was different Kasumi because after he woke up I asked him what had happened and he didn't want to say anything. I then remembered how he was acting differently since dinner and I thought it might have to do with that letter that he got. So I asked him about is what he read why he was acting so differently. Sure enough he only nodded to me and he stayed quiet after that." Nodako explained.
"Ohh my what was the letter about that made Ranma act so differently?" Kasumi asked hoping to get an answer from Nodako.
She however didn't have the exact answer that Kasumi wanted because Ranma never told her what the letter was about because it was only meant for him. "That is something that I do not know. Ranma only told me that letter was meant for him from the people that sent it to him."
Kasumi then had a questioned look on her for from who Nodako was talking about. "People. Who are these people that Ranma told about?"
"The people that Ranma told me about were a married couple that sent him this letter and based where that letter was sent from I guess this is an American couple. Ranma told me about these people about how they took him in when he got separated from his father during on their trip and they were able to help him with so much including his martial arts…" Nodako then fell quiet for a moment as she remembered what was about to come next to the story.
The reason she fell quiet is when she remembered what Ranma told her he sounded depressed from telling her that. "Eventually the married couple introduced Ranma to their son and Ranma considered him a brother. Ranma told me they had so much in common and they taught each other new stuff that neither knew about. And what he told me next has been making me think about what he meant because he said that he really cared a lot for the young, but he is gone. I can't seem to get what he was trying to tell me."
Kasumi was now surprised to hear this because she has never heard this side to Ranma before. She then went over what Nodako said to help her figure out what Ranma meant. 'Ranma said he cared about a person who he considered a brother, but he is gone.' Kasumi muzed as she started to go over the possibilities of what that meant. She then got one possibility that might make sense, but to her it was the most saddest one. "Auntie you said Ranma sounded depressed when he told you that correct."
Nodako only looked at Kasumi with question, but she nodded at her. "Yes I did say that, but what are you trying to do Kasumi?"
Kasumi then took a deep breath and she spoke. "I think I may have an idea as to why Ranma has been acting different."
Nodako only looked at her with surprise and she had her full attention to hear what she had to say. "What is it Kasumi what do you think is going on with my son?"
"Well I think I know what Ranma meant when he said when that person was gone and I think he meant that that person is no longer alive no more."
Nodako was shocked from what Kasumi said because it was something unlike of her to speak of something like that. "Why would you say that?"
"I only said that because it seemed to make the most sense. You said that Ranma sounded depressed when he told you that right; don't you think he might be grieving over that person's death." Kasumi explained.
When Nodako heard Kasumi it made sense to her why she thought that. "Kasumi I think you maybe right because what you said makes perfect sense based on how Ranma has been."
Kasumi nodded. "And I have another guess as well that the letter Ranma received was letting him know that he is gone now"
"I think so Kasumi; that may also explain why Ranma doesn't want to talk about the letter he got because it was private for a reason." Nodako said.
Kasumi now started to feel sad for Ranma because whoever he met was now gone. "I guess you can meet people and grow fond of them when you have been on a training journey for ten years."
"I think you are right and whoever this person was they must have had an influence on my son's life if he is acting this way."
"What can we do to help Ranma?" Kasumi questioned depressed.
Nodako then moved in closer towards Kasumi and grasped her shoulders lightly to reassure her. "We will leave Ranma alone for right now to let him mourn and if he needs us he will open up to us and tell us when he is ready."
Kasumi understand what Nodako was saying and leaving Ranma alone right now was the best option based on how he was the following night. "Okay…I just hope Ranma is okay because I consider him a little brother to me and I don't want him to be this way."
"I know I hold Ranma to being a man, but for this circumstances I will not hold it to him. Everyone needs to grieve and so does my son. I will talk to Genma later to see if he knows anything about this situation and we can all resolve this together." Nodako said.
Kasumi only nodded at Nodako and she fell quiet.
"Kasumi, why don't you take a little break I'll take care of the rest of these dishes."
She only nodded again only to leave the room, but was stopped when Nodako called her name again. "Kasumi."
"Yes." She responded.
"Thank you for taking the time to talk to me about stuff like this it really helps a lot that someone will hear what I have on my mind right now." Nodako replied
"Your very welcome auntie it's no big deal to me to talk to anyone in a private manner"Kasumi then smiled again
Both women got back to doing their own task for the day as they heard Soun and genma argueing in another game of shogi.
With that everyone went on with their day.
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Later that day back at the school
Everything went like normal with teaching to the class, but Ranma was staying awake through the class.
Akane couldn't help, but stare at Ranma all that time they were in their, she was trying to figure out what is going on with him because she has never seen this side of him before
'What is going on with him?' Akane kept on repeating that question ever since they got to the school.
The next bell rang for lunch and everyone went out as Ranma jumped out the window, with his bag, to the bottom floor.
"Ranma wait." Akane yelled as she tried to stop him before he jumped out, but it was too late as he was already out the window. 'I'll catch him down at the field and talk to him there.' She thought as she ran down the stairs to meet up with her fiancé.
Ranma was a little calmer when he jumped out, but he was still angered about something.
Ranma then reached the bottom of the school and he looked through his bag. There he found his bento and the letter he had received the following night. Ranma was bothered by that letter so much that it made him lose his appetite again. 'I can't think straight right now I'll skip lunch today and take a nap instead.' Ranma thought as he thought a nap could relax him.
He then moved to the tree he usually goes by at and hopped onto one of the branches.
Ranma then closed his eyes and dozed off worrying about nothing around him would harm him as he was in a deep sleep now.
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Ranma's dream: Flashback
Back in the voided area with just a spotlight Ranma was laying on the ground with his eyes barely open and he started spitting out blood after that shot from the ladder.
All Ranma could see was Aiden laying there with him and he looked up to see the two men over them raising something over their heads that seemed to be a leathery strap, yet it was still shiny in some places of the strap.
The two men just stood over them and looked at them for a good moment and disappeared into the void with what they got.
Ranma and Aiden were still laying there for a few moments until Aiden was the first to get to his feet.
Aiden limped towards Ranma and he picked him up by his arm and put it around his shoulder. "I got you man." Aiden said.
They proceeded to walk off as they were both limping from the fight they had been in, into another spotlight in the void.
When they got to the other spotlight they turned back around to see the other spotlight.
Ranma was just looking on as he was breathing hard of what he just went through with Aiden.
Aiden then rested his head on Ranma's head to show that he was still there for him.
Ranma just looked on into the void as he felt disappointed, but proud. 'I may be bloodied, bruised, and scratched up, but dammit I am proud of what we did.' Ranma mused as he was grabbing his jaw.
After Ranma thought that he only heard a whisper in his head that didn't sound to pleasant. "You did this to yourself." Ranma heard as he felt himself get thrown into a wall like structure.
Ranma was just fazed at what just happened as he was trying to figure out what is going on. The pain he felt earlier was now much worse and he felt his back was burning up.
Ranma then looked up to see what was going on, when he saw a shadowy figure running towards him.
The a shadowy figure pounced on him unloading rapid hits across Ranma's temple.
'Where is aiden?' Ranma could think as he was getting hit repeatedly across his head.
The shadowy figure then stopped as he looked on at Ranma.
Ranma was spitting out more blood as he looked up seeing who it was as his fazeness faded away revealing who attacked him.
Ranma's blood ran cold as he saw who it was and Aiden was the one who attacked him. He looked extremely frustrated and he had no remorse for what he just did.
Ranma was almost speechless to see this that he could only mutter out one word. "Why?"
Aiden just shook his head and backed up a little further from him. He then began to stomp his right leg. A light blue aura started to form around Aiden's foot as it started to give off heat the more he stomped.
Ranma only watched as this was going on and he was defenseless.
Aiden the just took one look at Ranma one more time and he shook his head again and charged Ranma with his boot connecting to his jaw.
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This caused Ranma to wake up breathing heavy with his hand over his chest checking his heart. He then calmed down and realized it was a dream. He then felt something from his face as it was coming down from his nose. He felt his face to see what it was and he saw on his finger that there was blood and he was having a nosebleed.
When Ranma saw this he immediately remembered about his dream and it was almost like that dream was real if he was bleeding.
He then checked around his are to see that a clock post said It was 15 minutes into lunch and another 45 minutes until the next class.
Ranma then got his bag to his side and pulled out the letter that he got from Aiden and hethen read it over again.
"This isn't a challenge this is a callout." Ranma said angrily as he realized what he had to do.
Ranma then put the letter back in his bag and pulled out a piece of paper and pencil. He was about to write when he heard a bell ring and he turned around to see where the sound was coming from. He then saw it was Shampoo on her bike trying to find him.
"Nihao Ranma" Shampoo said as she was riding on her bike toward Ranma.
"Dammit I don't need this right now." Ranma muttered as he jumped from the tree and ran off to escape shampoo.
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Hey guys make sure to let me know what you think on how my story is coming along. I am really enjoying redoing this story because I have so many options now that I liked to put onto this story that I never thought back for the original. Let me know how the changes are and it is more clear to read now because I really feel I made a big improvement Back from the old story.
P.S. Also if any of you would like to know what the song was that I used it is called ready to die by Andrew W.K. if any of you are interested in listening to it. I put that song in their mostly because I liked it, but because it is going to play a major role in the story. Anyways thanks for the support and I'll see you in the next story.
