Seeing the large crowd just past the gate, Naruto looked to Nabiki as Ranma jumped down from his position on the fence, but Nabiki seemly ignored the crowd so it wasn't an unusual event. Quickly catching up with Nabiki they found her sorting out bets for a coming fight apparently, seeing the two, she turned to them and asked if they want to bet, seeing the confused looks sporting they faces, explained how 'Kuno' had told everyone that the one to beat Akane would date her. Both boys looked a bit shocked that such a thing was happening here as a regular event, and thought it amazing stupid of the group to even believe something like that, let alone take part. Asking about past times, decided that interrupting Akane's fight was just going to get her mad and nothing else, so decided to let her fight it out herself. Of course that didn't stop them for talking to the crowd and telling them how idiotic they were for taking part, let alone believing that someone had the power to force someone to do something like that, course the amount of people to listen was not very high as they were quite stupid. Hearing Akane coming they started to charge their target while screaming out things like.
"DATE ME, AKANE", "I WON'T LET ANOTHER MAN BEAT YOU", "I'LL DO IT MYSELF".
A few minutes pass as multi-body's crashed into each other, the floor or the wall. Both boys on the edge of the fight look on as it rages one way or another, steadily becoming more clam as the numbers are reduced, till the last boy falls, and Akane is left slightly sweaty and breathing hard. Ranma rolls his eyes at the suppository high-level of martial arts here, and snorts before turning to the one who had just stepped out from behind the tree he was hiding behind. Course at this point they are entering the school completely ignoring the bokken wielding madman but still noticing that this is the person from the description they got from Nabiki who started it, for his own gain of course. He dashed in front of them to gain they attention, before asking how dare they walk next to Akane. Naruto glances at Akane back to Kuno, then leans to Ranma and whispers for him to get Akane to play along. Waiting enough time for Ranma to talk to Akane, replies.
"I'm Akane's Date" This of course was heard by everyone, who starting chatting about it, Akane who immediately started to denied it, Ranma who was still trying to get her to play along, and Kuno who instantly attacked shouting that he forbid it. Course this is what Naruto was waiting for. "But as per YOUR rules, I beat her, so thus I may date her. The only way to stop me would be to retake your statement that those who beat her may date her, otherwise you can do NOTHING." This made Kuno freeze as his brain tried to process the information just fed it, and instantly without thinking about it at all shouted.
"THEN I RENNOCE MY STATEMENT OF THOSE WHO BEAT AKANE TENDO MAY DATE HER, ha ha ha ha I have beaten you soundre-." But was unable to finish as was knocked-out by Ranma for insulting for brother.
"There, SO YOU ALL HEARD, THE BEAT TO DATE AKANE THING IS OVER." Naruto exclaimed before walking in and calling Ranma in to. Silence lasted for quite a while as everyone tried to come to terms with the strange boy who stop the morning fights and if he was actually dating Akane or not. Then the bell sounded and everyone rushed to get into school.
"we're got two new students, that have just come from China, so give a big 'Niaho' welcome." The teacher told the class, pointing at the two. "Well introduce yourself, I wont do it for you."
"Hi, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and this guys big brother, as he really needs one. ow hey." Naruto said before being elbowed in the side. Glaring at him, sighed before stepping back a bit. Ranma stepped up a bit before saying.
"I'm Ranma Saotome, heir to the Saotome school of anything goes marital arts, and damn do i need a shorter introduction." Naruto placed his hand on Ranma's shoulder and laughed a bit, before being told to sit down at an empty seat. So they sat in the middle near the window, Ranma being forced to NOT take the window seat by Naruto who want him to actually pay attention, Ranma grumbled a bit but sat down. So the lesson started, only to have Kuno blast though the door, leaving it hanging on the frame, and looking as if a strong wind will knock it down, enter said strong wind.
"FOUL BLACK MAGE -bonk- I fight on..." Unfortunately for Kuno the door fell onto him and knocked him out. Everyone glanced round before refocusing on Kuno, but the teacher would have none of that and so continued the lesson.
Lunch is a important meal to Naruto and Ranma and so they quick jumped out the window and before any could look out after them had disappeared. Course they didn't really, they just walked up the wall to the roof. Settling down to eat, Naruto and Ranma, talked about the day so far.
"Bloody hell is Kuno annoying, it would be worth it if he was any good but he's CRAP, I mean the DOOR knocked him out." Ranma exclaimed round the food in his month, which he had learned tasted quite good and he could take his time to eat it. Naruto chuckled but continued eating, glancing and sensing his surrounding ever so often. But his watchfulness didn't lessen the surprise when,
"HA, humans are such weird people, oh and Ta Da I've finished the mental link, so now i can torture cough I mean train you whenever. Hmm, your finished your meal so now is a good time to start training you. I think weights are a good idea, so basic exercises first, we'll do more after school. WELL GET TO IT!!" Course a demons version of weight training is to make the person to be training barely be able to move let alone do exercise, but with a steel will they both start their insane weight training. At the end of the lunch hour, 45 minutes spend training, they were tired but had adjusted a little to the weights and could walk seemly normally.
After lunch, the school saw the 2 walking quite slowly and very tensed up, no one knew why, and most shrugged it off. Course with Kuno's fast recovery, he AGAIN slammed, making sure that if the door did fall he wasn't near it, before facing back to Naruto, opening his huge month, drawing a breath, and getting knocked out again as Ranma returned from a toilet run. Ranma seemly ignored Kuno yet stepped on a few painful spots on his way to his seat.
But Kuno was not going to give up and was waiting outside the entrance to the school, for the two to exit after school, but due to his mindless devotion he started a hour before the end of school instead of a little closer to the end of school. So when Naruto and Ranma walked out trailed by Akane and Nabiki, who wanted to see a Kuno bashing close-up, they saw Kuno drenched from an earlier rainfall, bokken held high and a fixed stare at the doors. Only to find that he was only standing but was unconscious and unresponsive, so using some pens supplied by Nabiki started the normal drawing and name writing on him as he stood there unmoving. Quickly finished, they left to travel back to the Tendo's home. Arriving home they were witness to the fierce battle between Genma and Soun, but after a glance they quickly found that it was quite lame actually and was a simple game of go, involving lots of obvious cheating. Naruto and Ranma moved to the dojo while Akane and Nabiki got changed.
After a quick spar, and a few little exercises, Naruto and Ranma decided to go all out on their training and quickly went though a few difficult kata's and more active exercises, after 2 hours and lots of panting they squared off from each other and started a mid-level indoor spar. A hour later and a hour before dinner Ranma headed to the bath while Naruto went and got some spare clothes. Arriving back at the bath just to see Akane walk in, Naruto ran to the door, shouting for Akane to stop. Of course due to Ranmaverse laws, she didn't and Ranma stood up from the noise, a belief semi-covered nude stare contest later, Akane runs out and heads to the large stone ball in the garden shouting about perverts and drowning him in the bath. Naruto after checking in on Ranma and leaving the clothes behind, walks up and pulls the ball away from Akane.
"First: You walked in on him, Second: I tried to stop you but you didn't listen, lastly: Check if there is people in there BEFORE entering. Plus you going on about perverts is rich as the pervert is the one looking IN TO the bath, AND GET YOUR TEMPER UNDER CONTROL, you blow up at the most littlest of things, and in this situation YOU are in the wrong." Naruto then storms off looking for Ranma mumbling about sensory awareness.
"Well Akane, you going to listen, or continue going on about perverts, hmm" Nabiki jabbed at Akane before heading to her room to work on the finances. Kasumi patted her shoulder before saying,
"well, with more men in the house, Akane you need to be more careful around the bath." after saying her piece heading to the kitchen to finish the meal. Akane just stood there shaking, her mind trying to piece together what had happened, and sticking with the pervert theory, quickly blame the event on Ranma, and Naruto for turning her own sisters against her.
The dinner that day was a bit more quiet then normal as Akane was mad at the 2 boys, Naruto was disappointed in Akane, Ranma was hungry and Nabiki was thinking of bets for fights and possible photo selling. Course as Naruto hadn't changed in a while, Kasumi while leaning over to hand Ranma his rice bowl back knocked a glass over, while this could have been a chance event, the fact that said glass was at least 10 cm out of the way made that unlikely, but as this is Kasumi we're talking about it has to of been by chance, right? Naruto seeing the incoming water channelled some charka into the seal on the forearms of both arms, doing this powered the seal to shift his clothes into a sub-space pocket when hit with water, so instant clothes free 9-tailed fox. Mock glaring at Kasumi, before chuckling a little Naruto continue eating for a while till he noticed that the Tendo family was staring at him as if he was a ghost. Roll his eyes at them, Naruto asked,
"This there a problem, or something on my face?" Course this come out the fox's month in perfectly understandable Japanese, Kasumi as displayed the day before have a super-fast shock recovery rate and quick answered.
"Oh my, its just we didn't know you could talk in that form, Genma cant in panda form."
"hmm, oh its just the curse and non-curse form merged a bit, giving me my size, tails and speech. Plus I'm not sure if you noticed before in my non-cursed form, I have slitted eyes and pointy ears. This is due to using -" glance at Genma" - Ki while in the spring causing my non-curse form to be corrupted and my curse form to be at a more powerful level than normal." so saying he picked back up the chopsticks with his paw and his bowl with a tail before continuing to eat. Most to shocked to think of something to say, or those few used to it, restarted eating. After finishing their meal, thanking Kasumi, Ranma and Naruto retreated to their room to practice hand seals and charka control.
