The Mightiest Disciple 1/2
(A/N: Heads up, I recently finished the Ranma manga again, and I'm also working on the Kenichi manga. I'm over halfway done. I've been wanting to do this crossover for like, ever. I don't know why, but for some reason, it's always seemed hard for me to write anything involving Ranma. Anywho, enough about that, let's get it goin')
The New Student Has Some Real Skill
Ranma woke up to a room that was unfamiliar. 'Where am I-oh right, we moved yesterday,' he remembered. Ranma thought back to all the heavy lifting he and his father had to do the previous night, as he yawned and started making his way to the bathroom.
In order to wake himself up, Ranma splashed himself with cold water. In the mirror above the sink he was met with the image of a girl with red hair with a pigtail identical to his. "Oh crap! I forgot I have to hide my curse at school again!" Ranma said aloud. With a grunt, Ranma took her shirt off and headed for the shower. 'I know I said switching schools wasn't a big deal before,' Ranma thought. 'But this just makes things a bit more difficult,' she said cupping her boobs in her hands. With a sigh, Ranma entered the now heated shower and changed back to his normal male form.
Ranma had hopped down the stairs of his new home, landing in front of his father who was in his panda form. "Good mornin' Pops!" Ranma said with an unusually positive air surrounding him. "You seem high spirited, Boy," read Genma's sign. "I guess you could say moving made me feel a little revitalized," Ranma replied. "That's good to here Son," chimed in Nodoka. "Now hurry and eat or you'll be late for your first day at your new school," she reminded him.
"Yeah Mom, about that-," Ranma started. "I just remembered that I'm gonna have to keep my curse a secret so..." "Way ahead of you Ranma!" Nodoka interjected. She then proceeded to hand him a piece of paper and a thermos.
"What are these f-HOT!" Ranma cut himself off at the feel of the thermos's temperature. "I made the water extra hot so it'd still be warm enough for you to change back if your curse does activate somewhere throughout the day," Nodoka explained. "Also, the note is to excuse you from any aquatic activities in PE," she continued.
"Wow Mom. You really thought of everything, didn't you?" Ranma asked impressed. "Well, I don't like to brag," Nodoka said with a mischeivous giggle.
When he finished eating, Ranma headed for the front door. "Bye Mom, later Pops!" he called rushing out of the house. "Have a good day Ranma!" Nodoka called back.
After a long dash, and a run in with a cat, Ranma finally manged to get himself to Koryuu High. "Great, now I gotta watch out for cats on my walk to and from school!" he said to himself. As Ranma entered the school gates, he was immediately met with numer ous glances.
'What're they all staring at?' Ranma thought. 'Is there something on my face?...Did my curse activate!?' Quickly looking down, Ranma was relieved to see that he was still...a he. Still weary of all the looks he was getting, Ranma decided to try and ignore them and head to class.
"Okay class, settle down," came the voice of Mr. Yasunaga. "Before we begin, I have an announcement to make: There's a new transfer student joining us today." Mr. Yasunaga motioned to the door and allowed the new student to introduce himself.
"Hello, my name is Ranma Saotome. I transferred here from Furinkan High in Nerima and...I hope we can get along," Ranma awkwardly greeted.
"Alright Saotome, you can take the free seat behind Shirahama," Yasunaga said. "Shirahama, raise your hand."
Ranma saw the student who raised his hand and headed for the seat behind him. "Okay class, let's begin," Mr. Yasanuga began.
As class started, Ranma stared out the window, lost in thought. Replaying all the recent events in his head, the move, the transfer, and the fight with Akane, he decided to try and make the best of it once class let out.
The day went by just about as dull as Ranma expected. There were some things he had already learned back at Furinkan, and somethings he just flat out didn't care enough to pay attention to.
Ranma was currently trekking through the school, a bit lost. Ordinarily, he WAS just going to go straight home. However, news about a Karate Club in the school piqued his interest. 'The guys there probably won't be a challenge for me, but it won't hurt to check it out I suppose,' he thought.
Still lost in the school(Goddamn Ryoga's starting to rub off on me!), Ranma saw a girl with blonde hair and glasses and decided to stop her and ask for directions.
"Hey!" Ranma called out to her. When she didn't respond, Ranma jogged up behind her and put his hand on her shoulder. "Hey, excuse-!" Ranma's words were cut off by the girl grabbing his wrist and tossing him over her shoulder.
"Waaaaa-!?" Ranma was going to hit the ground, but managed to catch himself with his opposite hand and flip back on his feet.
"Hey!" Ranma yelled. "What's the big idea!?" he asked her. The girl immediately looked at Ranma with a worried and somewhat fearful expression.
"Oh my God, I'm so sorry!" she apologized intensely. "I'm sorry I threw you like that, it was just a reflex!" she quickly added.
Ranma put his hands up defensively. "Calm down," he said a bit hesitantly. "It's not like I got hurt so...I guess it's okay..."
The girl stopped her overzealous apologizingand instead looked at Ranma with a surprised look. "Really, you didn't get hurt?" she asked. Ranma nodded. "Oh good," she sighed in relief. She took another look at Ranma and asked, "Wait a sec, aren't you the new transfer student?" she asked.
Ranma smiled. "Yeah. The name's Ranma Saotome," he introduced himself. "My name's Miu Furinji," she introduced herself with a bright smile.
Without realising it, Ranma was staring at Miu. 'I dunno why, but something tells me this girl is stronger than she looks,' he thought. 'Speaking of looks...' Shaking his head, he remembered why he stopped her in the first place. "Oh yeah! I was wondering if you knew where the Karate club was," Ranma asked.
Miu's expression turned slightly negative, but she answered. "Yes. It's in a building behind the school not too far from the greenhouse, you can't miss it."
"Okay, thanks!" With that, Ranma dashed off leaving Miu behind. Miu watched as Ranma disappeared from her sight with a single thought in her mind, "I wonder what his level is."
With the information he received from Miu, Ranma managed to find the karate club easily. "Hello?" he said while slowly entering.
Ranma witnessed a very huge guy with dark-ish skin and messy hair in a karate gi repeatedly attacking the punching bag relentlessly, and another person doing pushups in the corner. Judging from how hard he was hitting, Ranma could tell he was pretty mad about something.
"Hey buddy, you alright there?" Ranma said approaching the big guy. With an enraged grunt, the guy threw a backfist at Ranma which the pigtailed boy easily ducked under. "I'm...gonna take that as a 'no,'" Ranma added.
The guy finally calmed down enough to get a good look at Ranma. "Who the hell are you? I've never seen you around school before," he said.
Ranma had one head behind his head and the other behind his back. "I'm a new student here, Ranma Saotome. I'm a martial artist so...I thought I'd check your club out if it's no biggie," he said.
The big guy grunted at Ranma. "Get lost runt. We ain't takin' no new applicants," he said
Ranma raised an eyebrow. "Why not? Did something happen?" Ranma asked.
Daimonji narrowed his eyes. "It's none a yer business, new kid!" Daimonji exclaimed. "Besides, the captain ain't here, and we can't accept you without his say in it," he added.
Ranma crossed his arms. "Fine I guess," he said with a hint of disappointment in his voice. "But, if it's not a problem, you wouldn't mind a sparring match would ya'?" Ranma asked.
Daimonji cracked his knuckles. "Yeah I'm game. I could use something to take my aggression out on," he said.
Ranma narrowed his eyes at that statement. 'I think I have an idea about what this guy's are so bent outta shape about now,' he said internally.
Ranma and Daimonji took their starting positions on the mat. "Yo new kid, let me apologize before hand for any serious injuries you might and will sustain," Daimonji taunted.
Ranma smirked and countered, "That's my line, big guy."
"The name's Daimonji short stuff," Daimonji finally introduced himself.
Ranma just rolled his eyes. "Right...Anyway's how bout a little bet. If I win, you tell me what happened here," Ranma added.
Daimonji smiled a cocky smirk. "Whatever. It's not like you can even hurt me when I have guns like these!" Daimonji said taking his shirt off.
Daimonji rushed Ranma and threw a wide punch at him. Ranma swayed to the side to dodge it. Daimonji threw another punch at Ranma and the cocky martial artist just ducked under it.
Daimonji started to visually get angry. "Why you little...!" He started throwing more punches at Ranma in quick succession. Ranma, continued to dodge them effortlessly with his hands behind his back.
After a short moment of punching and dodging, Daimonji fell to one knee feeling winded. 'I don't believe this! My heart's on fire, but this new kid doesn't even look like he's breathin' hard at all!' Daimonji glared at Ranma hard.
The pigtailed fighter looked just as fresh as he was when the match started, topped with his signature arrogant grin. "So...you wanna keep goin' big guy, or should we call the match?" Ranma asked.
Daimonji got back on both feet and screamed a determined yell, part of his shirt falling off as well. "Don't talk down to me ya scrawny lookin' bastard! Once I'm done with you, I'm gonna tear that Shirahama punk apart!" he screamed.
Ranma narrowed his eyes at his opponent's words. 'I thought it was something like that. But why does that name ring a bell?' Ranma decided to put his thoughts on hold as Daimonji was lunging at him. Ranma took a defensive stance and, in his opponent's eyes, seemed to vanish.
"What the-? Where'd he go?" Daimonji quickly turned around and kicked expecting to hit Ranma, or at least find his position. After turning a complete 360 degrees and still not finding Ranma, Daimonji started to panic. 'Where the hell did that bastard new kid disappear to?' he thought. Daimonji's thoughts were interrupted by a certain familiar phrase.
"An opening!" After announcing the classic line, Ranma dropped from above and dealt Daimonji a single punch to the noggin.
Daimonji reeled backwards and lost his balance, falling on his back. Ranma gracefully landed on his feet following his strike, and walked up to Daimonji's semi-conscious form.
"Hey big guy, you alright?" Ranma asked. Ranma's answer came in the form of Daimonji springing back up, yelling.
"Give it up big guy, you've lost this match," Ranma said with his arms crossed.
Daimonji glared hard at Ranma, looking as if he'd attack him again. Ultimately though, he hung his head down with a look of despair on his face.
"Alright new kid," Daimonji started. "You wanna know what happened here, I'll tell ya' what happened. This club's name was disgraced...TWICE!"
Ranma sat down with his legs crossed, listening with curiosity and interest. "How was it disgraced twice?" Ranma asked.
"It happened a couple days ago. This scrawny little nobody named Shirahama asked to join this club. There was no way we would've accepted a wimp like him. However, we ultimately decided to let him in out of our 'kindness.'" Daimonji explained.
Ranma's eyes started narrowing. He didn't like where this story was going.
"Anyways, after a few days, Shirihama turned out to be the useless trash we expected him to be. I gave him a fair chance to leave the club with his honor in tact, but he decided to try and be the big man and challenged me to a match where the loser had to leave the club." Daimonji continued.
"I told him he had no chance, and he knew it. After all everybody knows that karate is for the strong. There's no place in any martial arts for a weakling like-."
Daimonji was cut off by Ranma walking away. "Hey! Where're you going!?" Daimonji yelled at Ranma. "I'm only telling this story cause you asked me to!"
Ranma shot Daimonji a harsh look. "Maybe, but I've heard enough of your crap," Ranma said. "You said martial arts is only for the strong? That's where you're wrong. It's so one can defeat someone who's stronger than them. And the first rule I learnedis that it's a true martial artists duty to protect the weak and defenseless, something this club obviously isn't used to."
Ranma turned away from Daimonji and began to make his exit. "I might not know the full story of what happened here but I gotta say, judging from the results, it's probably the best damn thing to happen to this club, period." Ranma said tauntingly.
Daimonji had finally had enough of Ranma's big mouth and charged at him with the ferocity of a bull.
Ranma kept his cool, and didn't even bother facing Daimonji. As soon as the large student made it into Ranma's striking range, Ranma spun around and dealt a swift kick with his left foot upside Daimonji's head, knocking him down and out. 'I shoulda figured this was gonna be a waist of my time,' Ranma thought. "Oh whatever. I should probably just get home before Pops eats all of my dinner,"
Ranma picked up his bag and headed for the school's gate. However, on the way, he thought he felt the presences of two figures following him. Ultimately though, he decided to ignore them sense he felt no harmful intention(although one felt way dirtier than the other).
From a hiding place within a bundle of bushes, a pair of sharp, glowing eyes stared with great interest at the red clad, pigtailed, new student that had just exited the location of Koryuu's Karate club. "Now that was a most impressive match," said the sly figure to himself.
Meanwhile, on a higher vantage point, a familiar blonde girl also witnessed the informal match between Ranma and Daimonji. "Whoever this guy is, he's good" she said aloud. 'Just wait until Kenichi hears about this,' Miu internally added.
(A/N: Let me start by saying, that I cannot stress enough that it is REALLY hard for me to write Ranma characters. Still, that doesn't mean I shouldn't try right? Next, let me say that next chapter will(hopefully) focus more on the Kenichi side of the spectrum. Third, pairings in this story, I intend to stick to canon, but I may change my mind if I think I can make it work. Fourth, let me apologize for taking long to update but I've mentioned how awful the combination of writer's block and lazyness is in some of my previous stories. Finally, let me say that I'm considering pulling the plug on my other stories and starting from scratch with a some/all of them. If I choose to, I'll mark it as complete and add 'HIATUS' to it's description as opposed to outright deleting it...unless I choose to reuse a title. Here's hoping the next chapter will be updated quickly, peace!)