Yeah, it's short.
Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi and "The Shadow" of Smith & Street Publications, as written by 'Maxwell Grant', each being used for entertainment purposes without permission or intent to profit.
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"Shadows of Men and of Horses"
'Returning'
By J.T. Magnus, 'Turbo'
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Saotome Ranma took a deep breath of the air, smelling the sharp tang of human industry that he'd been away from for the last five years. Five years of learning all that the Tulku had to teach him, all the things he had taken for granted growing up in a life focused only on The Art, learning how to live, how to let live, how to laugh, how to cry, how to dream, how to forget and a thousand other things of which many couldn't be put into words. He could of spent his entire 'second' lifetime learning from the Tulku and the monks of The Temple of The Cobras and it still wouldn't have been enough for the man who had recently seen his twenty-first birthday come and go. Just as it had been time, the Tulku had said, for Ranma to go; time for the training Genma had given his body and that which the Tulku had given his mind to be put to use for something greater than merely becoming 'a man among men'.
Smiling, the Japanese man slung his bag over his shoulder and walked out into Tokyo. Since he had no intention of returning to Nerima and the whims of others, his first goal would be to find a place to stay...