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"Speech"
Thought Signs
"/Chinese/"
Dare to be Ranma
Ranma groaned as he lay in the hospital bed, Kasumi should get a restraining order against doc tofu to stop his insane episodes. since betty wasn't there the doctor had been forced to use Ranma as a replacement since all of the Tendo's, minus kasumi who had been giggling all the time, took cover behind the hospital bed that ranma now lay in. even his father had been able to get away from the psycho doctor until Nabiki had been able to get kasumi out of the room allowing the man to calm down and eventually untwist ranma from the obviously painful position the blind boy had been folded into.
"I'm sorry about that ranma," tofu spoke as he finished his chiropractic treatment of the anything goes heir. "Now what did you want to talk to me about?" he picked up the eye bindings and slowly re-wrapped them around Ranma's head causing the boy to flinch at the rough texture of the gauss.
"Well for one I don't think that the doctors here know about my curse, nor would I like them to know about it. Also I was wondering how much you knew about what happens to a blind person's other senses, they get stronger right?"
"Yes, at least that's what many have claimed and a lot of scientific studies have proven that humans can even develop a sonar type ability after years of training, some blind men have even been able to ride a bike when there aren't many sound distractions." the doctor explained while sitting in the visitor's chair. to Ranma though all there was a pair of lips moving as the man spoke, lips complete with teeth, a tounge and even part of the esophagus, it seemed as long as it made noise he could see it in the black and white world that he now lived. touch also defined his world as patches of the blanket that covered him appeared as he moved.
"I dunno it seems different... its like I can see what I hear..." The last he said pretty quietly not knowing how the doctor would take it. he really didn't' need the doctor thinking he was crazy, but then again with his life it wouldn't be hard to make that accusation. crazy stuff happened to him all the time, this should have almost been expected. the doctors just placed his hand on Ranma's shoulder causing the arm, clothing and all to appear in his mind, the limb ending just before the doctor's shoulder.
"That's what many call ghost pains Ranma. your mind is making up what it wants to see since its not used to missing the stimulation of the eyes. many people have reported this and even those that have lost limbs have reported feeling old sores that were on the missing appendage. its quite natural and the images should fade after a while." he gave a reassuring squeeze before standing and walking out of the room, his feet appearing as he moved across the floor.
"But its so real..." he muttered to the empty room while he waited for more news. his father and the Tendo had already left and would return tomorrow to check up on him, Akane said she'd even bring Ukyo in to visit. he hoped his friends accepted him now that he was deformed.
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"Ranchan?" He was awoken the next day by his best friend Ukyo saying his pet name with a worried tone to her voice, sitting up he was greeted by the blackness that was his world now. Looking side to side he tried to pinpoint where the voice was coming from but had the customary lips weren't there as he awoke. seeing him so confused Ukyo reached out to touch his face, the contact flaring an arm in his mind similar to when the doctor had grabbed his shoulder.
Startled by the image in his head he flinched away from the contact as if burned. the violent reaction to her touch caused ukyo to pull away downtrodden at his response.
"Who's there?" he asked shaken by the entire experience. relaxing a bit
he noticed that there were two small and very faint flashes coming from in front of him,
concentrating on them he was surprised to see faint glimpses of two sets of teeth. almost like whispers of what he saw when people talked.
"Baka, It's just Ukyo and me," Akane spoke causing the right teeth to flare brighter and move before fading back into the faint flashes. refocusing on the right set both Akane and Ukyo were a bit surprised to see him staring blankly right at Akane instead of to the side.
"Okay... for a second there I thought Ryoga or Mousse had found me." he frowned at how those two would react to his new affliction. Ryoga would laugh his ass off before attaching him for making his life hell by sending a grasshopper to land on his nose while he slept. Mousse would most likely try to take him out now that he couldn't defend himself.
he turned to Ukyo's teeth as he saw the flash of her gasping, most likely coming to the same conclusion. Mousse her and the others could handle, weather or not anyone would stop him was yet to be seen. not many of the martial artists that were in Nerima would readily help him, most were there to either challenge or kill him anyway.
"Ranma, I have some good news. Your being Released from the Hospital. Dr. Tofu talked to the doctor in charge of your case and had him release you to tofu's watch." Akane piped in trying to break the somber mood that had permeated the room. even though inside she was in turmoil over the images his words brought about. it worked just not too well.
"Well that's good, when do I leave?" he smiled a bit, it would be nice to actually move for once other than getting up only to have a nurse fret over him till he laid back down.
"That's actually what we're here for other than to visit." Ukyo said moving closer to him while rummaging through a bag she was carrying, the movements and crinkling sounds providing some interesting images of disembodied arms and the top of a backpack.
"Hope you brought a set of clothes. these hospital gowns don't exactly provide enough to get out of an indecent exposure charge." the statement got a giggle out of Ukyo and a snort from Akane illuminating the lower half of each of their faces for a brief second. Ukyo's face was contorted in a look of mirth while akane had a semi-content smile on. the smile surprised Ranma but he didn't say anything about it since he didn't know what was really going on.
"Actually Kasumi thought about that already and gave me a set of your usual." Ukyou finished holding out the clothes for a moment before remembering Ranma's reason for being in the hospital and placed them on his lap with a small eep. she also took one of his hands and laid it on the clothes.
Using one hand to hold the clothes he pulled the covers back with his other hand and swung his feet over the edge coming into a full sitting position.
"Hope I'm alone or someone's getting a free show." Ranma stated dryly not wanting to deal with the problems should Akane think he was walking in on her in the bathroom or something. seeing them leave, or more hearing them leave and seeing shoes and floor. once he was alone he proceeded to strip and change into his usual tang and pants, he didn't know which color Kasumi had given them but it didn't matter much. standing up he took a tenitive step and noticed that the world seemed to come in faintly as he moved. turning he stepped again and the world flared in his mind, showing him where he needed to go.
"RANCHAN!" Ukyou's cry broke his concentration a body appeared in front of him hugging him while holding him in place, the image in his mind was very detailed and if there wasn't a transparent layer of clothes he would have probably had a nosebleed. thank goodness for small favors. "Be careful!, you could have ran into something or tripped!"
"Aww c'mon Ucchan, nothing happened." Ranma tried to calm the girl down when his mind flared showing him a large object aimed right for his head. it was circular and had a stick coming out of it that was attached to a pair of hands and a set of teeth screaming something that he'd heard many times before.
"RANMA NO BAKA!" Like with his father's sign he was able to dodge the mallet causing it to slam into the ground while he was on the other side of Ukyou, having pulled her with him partially as he spun away from Akane's hammer.
"Ranchan how'd you do that?" Ukyou asked confused about what had just happened, the hammer just come out of no where and had hit the ground before she even noticed it being there. Gotta give akane credit, I can see how she was able to get Ranchan so many times.
"uhhh..."
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Sitting in his futon Ranma thought about his newfound sight, seeing without eyes, it really opened his mind to how the world worked but still left him confused more than anything. he lay there in apparent rest but in reality he was a constant flurry of thoughts and images from his newfound senses, he knew that Kasumi was in the yard hanging clothes from out the open window, the sounds of everyday city life bouncing off her and assaulting his senses like a super sonar system in the navy.
Nabiki was in her room listening to her CD walkman, as he could even make out the door's outline from his bed, and akane was in the dojo. He knew this from the loud kiyaps every half minute. his father was playing shogi with Mr tendo in the living room, at least he thought they were since they never seemed to leave that board unless it was to annoy him. opening his eyes he regarded the room in the same way as when his eyes were closed, blackness occasionally tinged with blue as he moved or made sound. at least he found that sound and touch were the best conductors to his sight, smell was a secondary and he never saw something when he tasted it but that could be cause his mouth was under his eyes.
the lack of kiyaps and the sliding open if his room's door alerted him to the entrance of the youngest tendo daughter, she was going to yell at him again for something. yell then out with the mallet, not that she hadn't caused enough damage to him but in the last few days that he'd been home it was pretty quiet for him aside from the constant mallet attacks when he'd "stare at her", like he could even see her if he faced her. thankfully at least nabiki and kasumi came to his aid whenever they were around reminding her of why exactly he couldn't stare at her. but then again that never stopped her before, o thought he closed his eyes and rolled so that his back was to her, maybe if he didn't'
even look in her direction she'd not say he was staring at her like a pervert.
of course this didn't bode well with the youngest tendo daughter who now thought he was ignoring her, and he was. but like the times before he somehow dodged her mallet right before it was going to smack into him, instead it demolished his pillow and part of his futon spraying the fluff into the air while Ranma rolled away from the angry girl.
"How do you do that!" Akane yelled at the boy raising the mallet up to strike at him again. Ranma was truly blind again, the fluff from the pillows overloading his brain as they fell on him opening up his defenses to an old attack, an overhead swing leaving him flat on the floorboards and Akane walking away with a smug look.
"That girl is going to be the death of him..." Nabiki commented looking in from the doorway.
"Oh Is Ranma Having a Nap?" Kasumi said walking in to cover Ranma with a blanket. Nabiki just shook her head and walked off, mumbling about one dense sister and one that's an air-head.
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AN:
Yes I am alive... well sorta, took a while for my friends to gather the dragon balls but it seems to have turned out alright.
sorry for keeping everyone, but life's been a ride and I haven't been living much of it how I want.
As usual send your comments, flames, and anything else you want to me but my e-mail is now Please no spam or junk.
Nuvares
This, and all my fics, can be found at my old site
my new one is
And tannim's
"Speech"
Thought Signs
"/Chinese/"
Dare to be Ranma
Ranma groaned as he lay in the hospital bed, Kasumi should get a restraining order against doc tofu to stop his insane episodes. since betty wasn't there the doctor had been forced to use Ranma as a replacement since all of the Tendo's, minus kasumi who had been giggling all the time, took cover behind the hospital bed that ranma now lay in. even his father had been able to get away from the psycho doctor until Nabiki had been able to get kasumi out of the room allowing the man to calm down and eventually untwist ranma from the obviously painful position the blind boy had been folded into.
"I'm sorry about that ranma," tofu spoke as he finished his chiropractic treatment of the anything goes heir. "Now what did you want to talk to me about?" he picked up the eye bindings and slowly re-wrapped them around Ranma's head causing the boy to flinch at the rough texture of the gauss.
"Well for one I don't think that the doctors here know about my curse, nor would I like them to know about it. Also I was wondering how much you knew about what happens to a blind person's other senses, they get stronger right?"
"Yes, at least that's what many have claimed and a lot of scientific studies have proven that humans can even develop a sonar type ability after years of training, some blind men have even been able to ride a bike when there aren't many sound distractions." the doctor explained while sitting in the visitor's chair. to Ranma though all there was a pair of lips moving as the man spoke, lips complete with teeth, a tounge and even part of the esophagus, it seemed as long as it made noise he could see it in the black and white world that he now lived. touch also defined his world as patches of the blanket that covered him appeared as he moved.
"I dunno it seems different... its like I can see what I hear..." The last he said pretty quietly not knowing how the doctor would take it. he really didn't' need the doctor thinking he was crazy, but then again with his life it wouldn't be hard to make that accusation. crazy stuff happened to him all the time, this should have almost been expected. the doctors just placed his hand on Ranma's shoulder causing the arm, clothing and all to appear in his mind, the limb ending just before the doctor's shoulder.
"That's what many call ghost pains Ranma. your mind is making up what it wants to see since its not used to missing the stimulation of the eyes. many people have reported this and even those that have lost limbs have reported feeling old sores that were on the missing appendage. its quite natural and the images should fade after a while." he gave a reassuring squeeze before standing and walking out of the room, his feet appearing as he moved across the floor.
"But its so real..." he muttered to the empty room while he waited for more news. his father and the Tendo had already left and would return tomorrow to check up on him, Akane said she'd even bring Ukyo in to visit. he hoped his friends accepted him now that he was deformed.
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"Ranchan?" He was awoken the next day by his best friend Ukyo saying his pet name with a worried tone to her voice, sitting up he was greeted by the blackness that was his world now. Looking side to side he tried to pinpoint where the voice was coming from but had the customary lips weren't there as he awoke. seeing him so confused Ukyo reached out to touch his face, the contact flaring an arm in his mind similar to when the doctor had grabbed his shoulder.
Startled by the image in his head he flinched away from the contact as if burned. the violent reaction to her touch caused ukyo to pull away downtrodden at his response.
"Who's there?" he asked shaken by the entire experience. relaxing a bit
he noticed that there were two small and very faint flashes coming from in front of him,
concentrating on them he was surprised to see faint glimpses of two sets of teeth. almost like whispers of what he saw when people talked.
"Baka, It's just Ukyo and me," Akane spoke causing the right teeth to flare brighter and move before fading back into the faint flashes. refocusing on the right set both Akane and Ukyo were a bit surprised to see him staring blankly right at Akane instead of to the side.
"Okay... for a second there I thought Ryoga or Mousse had found me." he frowned at how those two would react to his new affliction. Ryoga would laugh his ass off before attaching him for making his life hell by sending a grasshopper to land on his nose while he slept. Mousse would most likely try to take him out now that he couldn't defend himself.
he turned to Ukyo's teeth as he saw the flash of her gasping, most likely coming to the same conclusion. Mousse her and the others could handle, weather or not anyone would stop him was yet to be seen. not many of the martial artists that were in Nerima would readily help him, most were there to either challenge or kill him anyway.
"Ranma, I have some good news. Your being Released from the Hospital. Dr. Tofu talked to the doctor in charge of your case and had him release you to tofu's watch." Akane piped in trying to break the somber mood that had permeated the room. even though inside she was in turmoil over the images his words brought about. it worked just not too well.
"Well that's good, when do I leave?" he smiled a bit, it would be nice to actually move for once other than getting up only to have a nurse fret over him till he laid back down.
"That's actually what we're here for other than to visit." Ukyo said moving closer to him while rummaging through a bag she was carrying, the movements and crinkling sounds providing some interesting images of disembodied arms and the top of a backpack.
"Hope you brought a set of clothes. these hospital gowns don't exactly provide enough to get out of an indecent exposure charge." the statement got a giggle out of Ukyo and a snort from Akane illuminating the lower half of each of their faces for a brief second. Ukyo's face was contorted in a look of mirth while akane had a semi-content smile on. the smile surprised Ranma but he didn't say anything about it since he didn't know what was really going on.
"Actually Kasumi thought about that already and gave me a set of your usual." Ukyou finished holding out the clothes for a moment before remembering Ranma's reason for being in the hospital and placed them on his lap with a small eep. she also took one of his hands and laid it on the clothes.
Using one hand to hold the clothes he pulled the covers back with his other hand and swung his feet over the edge coming into a full sitting position.
"Hope I'm alone or someone's getting a free show." Ranma stated dryly not wanting to deal with the problems should Akane think he was walking in on her in the bathroom or something. seeing them leave, or more hearing them leave and seeing shoes and floor. once he was alone he proceeded to strip and change into his usual tang and pants, he didn't know which color Kasumi had given them but it didn't matter much. standing up he took a tenitive step and noticed that the world seemed to come in faintly as he moved. turning he stepped again and the world flared in his mind, showing him where he needed to go.
"RANCHAN!" Ukyou's cry broke his concentration a body appeared in front of him hugging him while holding him in place, the image in his mind was very detailed and if there wasn't a transparent layer of clothes he would have probably had a nosebleed. thank goodness for small favors. "Be careful!, you could have ran into something or tripped!"
"Aww c'mon Ucchan, nothing happened." Ranma tried to calm the girl down when his mind flared showing him a large object aimed right for his head. it was circular and had a stick coming out of it that was attached to a pair of hands and a set of teeth screaming something that he'd heard many times before.
"RANMA NO BAKA!" Like with his father's sign he was able to dodge the mallet causing it to slam into the ground while he was on the other side of Ukyou, having pulled her with him partially as he spun away from Akane's hammer.
"Ranchan how'd you do that?" Ukyou asked confused about what had just happened, the hammer just come out of no where and had hit the ground before she even noticed it being there. Gotta give akane credit, I can see how she was able to get Ranchan so many times.
"uhhh..."
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Sitting in his futon Ranma thought about his newfound sight, seeing without eyes, it really opened his mind to how the world worked but still left him confused more than anything. he lay there in apparent rest but in reality he was a constant flurry of thoughts and images from his newfound senses, he knew that Kasumi was in the yard hanging clothes from out the open window, the sounds of everyday city life bouncing off her and assaulting his senses like a super sonar system in the navy.
Nabiki was in her room listening to her CD walkman, as he could even make out the door's outline from his bed, and akane was in the dojo. He knew this from the loud kiyaps every half minute. his father was playing shogi with Mr tendo in the living room, at least he thought they were since they never seemed to leave that board unless it was to annoy him. opening his eyes he regarded the room in the same way as when his eyes were closed, blackness occasionally tinged with blue as he moved or made sound. at least he found that sound and touch were the best conductors to his sight, smell was a secondary and he never saw something when he tasted it but that could be cause his mouth was under his eyes.
the lack of kiyaps and the sliding open if his room's door alerted him to the entrance of the youngest tendo daughter, she was going to yell at him again for something. yell then out with the mallet, not that she hadn't caused enough damage to him but in the last few days that he'd been home it was pretty quiet for him aside from the constant mallet attacks when he'd "stare at her", like he could even see her if he faced her. thankfully at least nabiki and kasumi came to his aid whenever they were around reminding her of why exactly he couldn't stare at her. but then again that never stopped her before, o thought he closed his eyes and rolled so that his back was to her, maybe if he didn't'
even look in her direction she'd not say he was staring at her like a pervert.
of course this didn't bode well with the youngest tendo daughter who now thought he was ignoring her, and he was. but like the times before he somehow dodged her mallet right before it was going to smack into him, instead it demolished his pillow and part of his futon spraying the fluff into the air while Ranma rolled away from the angry girl.
"How do you do that!" Akane yelled at the boy raising the mallet up to strike at him again. Ranma was truly blind again, the fluff from the pillows overloading his brain as they fell on him opening up his defenses to an old attack, an overhead swing leaving him flat on the floorboards and Akane walking away with a smug look.
"That girl is going to be the death of him..." Nabiki commented looking in from the doorway.
"Oh Is Ranma Having a Nap?" Kasumi said walking in to cover Ranma with a blanket. Nabiki just shook her head and walked off, mumbling about one dense sister and one that's an air-head.
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AN:
Yes I am alive... well sorta, took a while for my friends to gather the dragon balls but it seems to have turned out alright.
sorry for keeping everyone, but life's been a ride and I haven't been living much of it how I want.
As usual send your comments, flames, and anything else you want to me but my e-mail is now Please no spam or junk.
Nuvares
This, and all my fics, can be found at my old site
my new one is
And tannim's