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Truth about wisdom, by Krimzonrayne, the avatar of the blood-god, (NO, not Khorne from war hammer)
Chapter one, Let the curtain fall.
Disclaimer: Man... I always thought I'll able to come up with something creative for disclaimer but now... now I'm sick of it. Oh god... Anyway I don't own Ranma, there.
Author's note: Wow I didn't expect such an awesome response, anyway thank for all you reviewers out there.
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Saotome Ranma, the self-proclaimed epitome of manhood (for better explanation, refer to Saotome Nodoka's pamphlet entitled "Man amongst man") was sitting on top of the Tendo's roof, looking at the scene below.
Ordinarily, it would've been just the Tendo's backyard, but today it isn't. Today it's a stage. A very special stage for a very special performance. A performance of which months of preparations can either comes together in perfect synchronisation like a dozen parts symphony or falls apart like the poorly constructed house-of-cards.
Beep!
Ranma pulled out a cell phone-like instrument from his pocket. It was a RTL, Radio wave Triangulation Locator, his own invention. It works by detecting and comparing the strength of three separate radio waves being omitted. Two of these usually are local radio channels, the third however, come from a device which would be placed on the object or person you're trying to keep track of.
Due to the practicality and advantages it has over GPS system locally, patenting the RTL would've made the young martial artist rich enough to rival the Kuno, let alone marketing the machine himself.
For Ranma, however, it was just a little something to keep himself from being surprise by Ryoga's unusual (or usual) timing.
"Here he comes," the young man said to himself as he mentally ran over the plan in his mind. He fixed an arrogant and foolhardy grin on his face and hopped down.
"3…2…1..." The boy held his breath for a second before relaxing.
"That's weird; he should've been here by n…." He trailed off as his skin began to tingle.
BOOM!
He whipped his head around just in time to see chunks of broken fence flying toward him at high speed. He leaned to the side, dodging them lazily while faking a scowl.
"Don't ya know how to use the door pig boy?" He taunted loudly, hoping the noise would've alerted the other residences. It worked; Nabiki was on the balcony with her ever-present camera.
'Damn, this is going to be harder than I thought.' The teenager reconsidered.
"Shuddap! Ranma because of you, I've seen Mexico!" The lost boy yelled in fury.
'Mexico? Oh I see, it's June, mince chilli-making competition is on again.' Ranma thought.
"Whatever, I'm sick of you breaking stuff and me having to fix it P-Chan." He retorted with a hidden smile.
"Why you... PREPARE TO DIE!" And with the battle cry, Ryoga charged at him
Suddenly, a plan formed in his mind. Ranma reflexively dodged under the punch and jabbed the enraged boy's sternum. He parried the counter punch and seemingly disappeared only to appear again behind the lost boy an instant later.
Ranma snaked his arms under the other boy's guard and put him in a headlock.
The bandana-clad teenager struggled to overpower the shorter boy. Seeing the confusion on his so called rival's face, Ranma suddenly realizes his mistake.
'Kuso, I forgot I'm not supposed to be stronger than him.' The teenager mentally swore. 'Oh well, it's too late now, I hope at least my plan works.'
Ryoga struggled a bit more before his patience ran out, he jabbed his index finger into the ground and yelled.
BAKUSEI TENKETSU!
With a resounding boom, the two youth were sent flying off in two different directions. Because Anything Goes specialises in mid air combat, Ranma just reoriented himself, rebounded off a tree, and went right back into the battle. From the corner of his eyes, he saw that middle Tendo sister had retreated back into the house.
'Perfect, the resulting noise should've been enough to attract Akane,' he thought.
Being a powerful martial artist in his own right as well as having been taught the technique, Ryoga simply brace himself for the blast. He shook his head in to clear away some form of concussion from the raining rock, but was still lost in confusion.
What the hell happened to Ranma? Since when could he hold me in a headlock and walk away from the breaking point seemingly unaffected?
The lost boy shook his head again and rushed the pig-tailed boy once more.
Ranma saw the haymaker miles away, but he didn't dodge it as usual. Instead he poured a bit of his ki or what he discovered was actually the same as Kinetic energy, into his stomach to negate and shift some of the force of the punch, by doing so reducing the damage done of his body while increasing the distance which he flew back.
He calculated his trajectory and added a bit more ki to the blow, resulting in him being catapulted toward the door at high speed.
'Here goes nothing.' Ranma thought as he faked a look of surprise before turning around in midair...
... to crash head-first into the youngest Tendo. Landing sharply with his hands firmly plastered on her bosoms.
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Tendo Akane was dreaming about cute bunnies and other cute things cute girls dream about (Ack sorry folk, I couldn't stomach the thought myself.) when she was woken up by a loud noise. She rubbed her bleary eyes and climbed out of her bed. She craned her neck out the window to see Ranma and Ryoga trading bows furiously.
'That arrogant jerk, always picking on poor Ryoga.' She muttered angrily under her breath. She then proceeded to stomp downstairs into the living room and slammed the door open. What happen next didn't really register in the mind of the poor girl, (snort yeah right)
'I must be dreaming.' The thought resounded in her mind. She thought she saw Ranma laying on top of her with his hands on her...
The line of thought trailed off as her brain shut down and rebooted. She blinked repeatedly and looked up again. Yep, Ranma was still there and yep Ranma a boy. More precisely, Ranma was a boy with his hands on her ... there...
She mechanically got up from underneath Ranma, who was appearantly frozen by the turn of events. With a mask of robot-like stoicism adorning her face, she slowly turned to the pig-tailed boy who was staring at her blankly.
"...Ranma" she whispered just loud enough for him to hear. He leaned closer to her, the unspoken 'Yes?' plainly written on his face.
DIE YOU PERVERT!
She screamed and slugged him right in the face, sending the teenager flying towards the koi pond… correction, sending him flying towards a certain large rock in the koi pond.
Suddenly a sign of recognition flashed in her eyes. She felt her anger turn to fear as she understood the significance of that particular rock. It was the same one that made him believe he was a girl. Oh Kami-sama. She watched helplessly as his head hit the rock with a sickening thud, which followed by a soft "plop" when he, now she, fell into the water.
She rushed over to the redheaded unconscious body, her eyes filled with dread. She remembered that her big sister had mentioned that if Ranma shows the same symptoms again, the damage might be permanent.
"Come on Ranma, wake up. Please wake up." Akane cried and shook her. To her relief the girl open her eyes once more. She quickly remembered what happened last time and yelled in a panic stricken tone, "Ranma are you a boy or a girl?"
"Do I look like a boy to you?" Ranma said with an eyebrow raised.
Seeing that Akane's face was ashen with fright, the teenager continued, "Just joking Akane. Of course I'm a boy, and no, you didn't give me a cranial trauma this time."
And with that, the redhead walked over to the Ryoga.
"Ryoga, can we continue sparring another time? I'm really not into it today."
In response to this polite request, the lost boy who was looking very… lost… at the moment.
"S...sure Ranma," Ryoga stuttered in response, partly because Ranma just talked to him civilly but mostly because the Chinese-style t-shirt she wears was wet and clinging to her curves rather nicely.
Ranma then wrung out her clothes (the part that she can without taking them off) and walked into the house. As the redheaded girl disappeared into the Tendo home, the two teens realized something.
"Wait a minute, Cranial Trauma?" Both of them blurted the last two words out loud.
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"Kasumi, could you heat up some water for me please? I need to get ready for school." Ranma chimed out as she bound up stair to grab her school's things. When she came back down, she found that everyone was already seated at the table and her portion of the food was gone.
"Here you go Ranma-chan," Kasumi said and handed her a cup of hot water. Ranma gave her a grateful smile before turning to leave the room once more.
"Where are you going Ranma?" Akane asked, still unsure of what had happened earlier.
"I'm going to change in the bathroom, there's no point in getting my clothes wet again."
Akane nodded uncertainly. It makes sense but why didn't he do it before? The question nagged her. When Ranma returned, however, she just dismissed it and began to leave with him.
Nabiki stared at the pair as they leave. Her little sister had told her about what happened this morning, and frankly she began to believe her. On her way out she decided to ask Kasumi about it.
"I'm sorry Nabiki-chan, I didn't notice anything different about him this morning." The eldest of the Tendo sisters replied with an oblivious smile. Nabiki, whom just waved off her sister apology, began to make her way to Furinkan High.
When she was alone in the house once more, (Father and Uncle Genma didn't really count since nothing could take their minds away from their game of Go) she sighed as she allowed her facade of eternal tranquillity to drop and frown a little bit.
'It has begun,' she thought.
She often wondered why nobody asked how come she, the angel Kasumi, didn't interfere with those awful things Ranma has to endure. The answer was simple. It was because she had known for a long time now that he's letting these things happen to him on purpose. She frowned and berated herself for being jealous of Ranma.
She sighed once again, most would say it unlike her to be jealous but the truth is most didn't know the real her.
It's kind of sad but apart from Ranma, nobody really noticed that she's human too.
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How's that people?
I'm sorry but next chapter might be a bit late in coming, I'm so totally obsessed with Naruto fan fictions lately. Anyway review and I'll work faster. It's true, even though I don't update everyday, I always logs on once or twice to check hits and reviews and if there a lot, then I'll type up more.
Yay, I finally have a pre-reader. No more changing tense, no more weird sentences, no more... well you get the idea.
And this thanks to TreadWeaver, everyone clap.
I MEAN IT. Author yelled, while using Tendo's Demon head technique