The hollow known in life as Dan Hibiki really was worried, his boss had ordered him to kill certain girl over two years ago... but he couldn't find her! He thought that she was really smart and could hide well, of course, it was just the Hibiki curse kicking yet again, he was getting really bored and if he didn't found Akane Tendo that day he was shure that his superiors would order someone to destroy him.
If only he could find her...
"Hey! You! Stupid hollow!" Called him the voice of a girl, he had no time to talk to that kind of people, so he just sat over the roof of a house thinking how he'd find Akane Tendo.
The girl frowned as she noted that the Hollow couldn't hear her, or just didn't care, no person would do that to her, and even less a dead person! She'd show him, she was a shinigami, for god's sake!
She drew the Zanpakouto and jumnped to where the hollow laid, boy she was surprised when the hollow simply dodged the slash by jumping really high. "What the hell do you think you're doing? I'm trying to find Akane Tendo!"
Akane growled "My name is Akane Tendo, and I'm a Shinigami, prepare to be banished!"
The Hollow finally used a little of his head and figurated that the girl in front of him was indeed the one he was quested to kill. He was one happy Hollow. "I will eat your spirit, and become stronger!" Yelled the monster as he jumped at her, to his surprise Akane sidesteped and slashed him cutting his arm.
The face of the girl turned as cold as ice "You may be fast enough to dodge me, but when you attack your defense is full of holes, I will cut you until you die"
"Die?" Asked the confused Hollow "but I'm allready dead, don't you know?"
The girl frowned at this "Then I'm just going to destroy your spirit"
A strange pount appeared on the hollow's mask, Akane thought that they couldn't do that "I'm afraid you hurt my feelings, but you don't sound like a Shinigami at all"
"What are you talking about you fucking demon?" Asked the girl as she studied his features, she knew from her mother's stories that every hollow was different and so had it's own unique powers.
"Shinigami cleanese the evil, they don't destroy it, but... I guess that you're only half a shinigami, so you are weak" Muttured the hollow as he opened a portal so he could heal. To his surprice Akane attacked just in time preventing him from entering the black spiral.
Akane cut the hollow's face with the Zanpakouto, but to her surprice the sword's edge began to break and little fragments of the weapon fell, it was almost like the sword was dying. It was then when she heard it... the heartbeat of the sword, at first it was fast, but after a while it began to slow down.
"Gyah! This can't be happening! My face! My beautiful face!" Yelled in pain the Hollow as Akane looked in daze at her sword.
"You... must... cleanese it... fast" Said a voice inside of Akane's head, making her look at the hollow again, she didn't know how to beat a hollow, she just knew that she needed the Zanpakouto, and it looked like it was going to die.
So she just slashed again with the soon to be broken sword, and the face of the hollow's was cut in half, he started to dissappear and after a while a pink dougi clad ghost took it's place. "I thank you, miss Shinigami, for helping me" After that he took off.
Akane looked confused "That was something else, I really need to talk to someone, I need to reppair this sword at least" After saying that she jumped over the roof heading towards her home.
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Back in China, a girl known as Xian Pu was traing for the coming tournament in her village, she wanted badly to become the champion, and she knew that she could archieve it with little traingin. She sighed and prepared to go back to the village when a black cat with burning scars came to her view, she frowned and aproched to the dying animal and touched it, it was quite alive.
"Hel...help me..." muttured the cat to her horror, Xian Pu jumped back at this.
"Are you a demon?" Asked the warrior girl preparing for the worst.
"I'm... a godness, and I really... cough... need your... he..." her voice trailed off as she fainted.
"Aya! This cat needs help... but if it's a demon she will kill me..." Xian Pu formed a fist "I'm strong, I should fear no evil"
She looked for some medicinal herbs and helped the cat with it's healing, after an hour the feline woke up, surpriced with the medical abilities of her savior. "I... thank you" It looked at Xian Pu and her face turned into one that showed real amazement, it laughed a little, "in exchange of this I could make you my successor"
"What are you talking about?" Asked Xian Pu with a frown
"I can see that you're a martial artist, do you want to become something enterily moire powerfull?" Asked the cat, looking at Xian Pu directly in the eyes.
She noded "I... What do I have to do?"
"Just take me to your village, and I will teach you the art of Shunkou, it will help you face your destiny" After saying that, the cat fainted again.
"Aiya, I knew I had something great expecting me! I will tell greatgrandmother about this! She will be so happy and proud!" She picked up the cat and run at full speed to her villge, never knowing of the horrors that awaited her in the near future.
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Meanwhile a strange looking dinosaur was swiming from China to Japan, seeking for revege, he really couldn't understand how his hated rival had done it, but it was true, his body shifted to that of a monster. He was now feared by any human, and no girl would ever love him.
"GROOOOWWWLLL!" The raptor tried to yell his usual 'Where the hell Am I?' and 'IT'S ALL RANMA'S STUPID FAULT!' But the curse had also taken away from him the ability to talk.
He found Japan and tried asking for directions, obviosly any human he encountered ran in fear of him, or just confused him for a character of a movie, some people even muttered something of 'Jurasik Park 4: Japan Rampage' but he just thought that everyone was merely stupid.
"Oh my! What a cute little dinosaur! Are you a ghost?" Asked a voice from behind him.
The raptor blinked a coulpe of times as he looked at the strange woman with HUGE breasts that looked at him as if he was just some lost puppy, he didn't know what to do, he could attack her for her insolence or befriend her for her kindness.
"My name is Orihime, Inoue Orihime, tell me, what's your name?" She kept smiling at him.
The raptor scratched his head in confusion and wrote his name on the floor with his claws, he wrote a very readable "Hibiki Ryouga"
The woman read the name and noded "I see, so you're really a human, for a moment I thought you were just some demon, or a new form of Hollow, those started getting stronger recently, I think you can help fighting them, I can feel your spiritual pressure"
The dinosaur just looked at her with confusion, he couldn't say a word.
"Oh! Sorry, forgot you couldn't talk, let me help you with that" An aura of power surrouded her and some small fairy-like creatures appeared around her, two of those creatures aprouched Ryouga and touched his mouth, a beam of light shot from the dinosaur's head to the sky, and after that... everything was black to the boy-turned-dinosaur.
Orihime looked at the crater where her new 'friend' laid and laughed as she scrached the back of her head "I think I overdid it"
"You bet you did!" Yelled one of the fairies in disgust, after that the magical creatures dissapeared.
The woman looked at the dinosaur and frowned "I bet he weights a ton"
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Akane frowned as she was about to open the door of her house when a redhead appeared out of nowhere right next to her. She looked at the redhead, and her to Akane, both looked at each other and nobody could tell if their heads where blank or filled with 'lustfull' thoughts.
"Hi there" said the redhead at last, Akane noted that she stinked.
"Hi, my name is Tendo Akane, you have business with the dojo?" Asked the shinigami-wannabe.
The redhead noded happilly "I am Ranma Saotome of the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, and the sole and last Quincy in the whole world, my father told me before he died that Tendo Soun, his only friend would explain some things to me"
Akane frowned, she really didn't know what a Quincy was, buy she was shure that she had heard of them before. "Ok, you can come in, by the way, if you're a quincy, I have to tell you that I'm a shinigami"
Ranma smiled as she followed the other girl inside "Shinigami? Really? Wow, nice to meet you then." He was surpriced when he saw two small girls run to Akane, one had long hair and the other short, both were brunettes.
"Welcome nechan!" Said one of the girls, the one with the long hair.
"Hey, Akane-nesan, who's that? She stinks like a dead corpse" muttured the other girl.
Ranma frowned at the girl but he wasn't about to complain, she was right "My name is Ranma Saotome, I'm here to talk to Soun Tendo"
"Oh, father is in the dojo, you can meet him there"
Ranma noded and continued to follow Akane "Hey, you do anything goes, right?"
Akane stoped and looked at Ranma "Some, but lately I started training in kend and an old form of sword fighting, Hiten Mitsuryu, but the scrolls are so old that I can barely learn anything from it."
"Really? You fight Hollows too or what?" Asked Ranma, trying to joke.
"You know about Hollows?" Asked with sudden interest the 'Shinigami'
Ranma noded placing his hands behind his head, he was really surpriced, he didn't expect to meet someone else that thought Hollows "I'm a Quincy, my job is to baniquish all evil, in other words, destroy the Hollow ones"
"Interesting, I think I should present myself again, my name is Akane Tendo, a Shinigami, and my mission is to banish all Hollows, want to be friends?" She smiled, and for some weird reason Ranma's mind went to vacation for a moment.
"I... would really like that" said the boy turned girl, now really hating his 'condition' he hadn't thought about him 'falling in love' he only wanted to have vengeance against the Hollows for killing the only person he cared for.
After that they entered the dojo, where Soun was finishing teaching some of his students, they waited for a moment silently after everybody left the place. Akane introduced Ranma to Soun, who, for a change started crying waterfalls.
"Oh! Happy day! Finally the boy has come! But tell me Ranma, where is your father Genma?"
Ranma frowned, what kind of idiot could mistake the body of a girl for one of a boy, and even more, couldn't he have some more tact about his father? "He died in china, fighting a Hollow, two years ago"
Soun's face darkened "This... is horrible... I thought he had quit his job as a Quincy"
"He had no choice, the monster attacked us, and I really was more of deadweight than help, I didn't understand my powers and used all of my spiritual energy... wich in a way killed me, father used his remaining ki to restore mine" Explained Ranma looking down. "And... I'm not a boy... at least not anymore" he said, the last part really low, so low that neither Akane nor Soun herd him.
"Oh... that's sad" said Akane, remembering the day when her mother died.
Soun was crying waterfalls again, his dearest friend was dead and instead of a son he had a daughter so their children couldn't marry! "Oh! The woe has fallen upon us!"
Akane frowned "I'm shure we can help Ranma, first she needs a bath"
Ranma noded "I couldn't pay anything on my way here, I swam all the way from China"
Akane smiled, not really believing the redhead "Just go to the kitchen and ask the brat for a bath, she will help you, I need to talk to my pop"
Ranma noded and left the dojo silently thanking both Tendos.
Soun frowned at Akane "Something wrong?"
"My sword broke, I need to repair it" said the girl as she revealed the almost broken Zanpakouto.
"The... the sword of your mother, WHAT DID YOU DO?" Soun yelled, but after seeing that he didn't scare his daughter, he sighed and took the sword, examining it.
"I can call an old friend that knows a thing or two about magical swords, he may be able to repair it for you, but I don't want you to go around playing Shinigami without it" Ordered the man with a frown.
Akane smiled "I don't need the sword, I'm learning Demon Arts from an old book of mother, and besides... I think I found a sidekick" an evil smile appeared on her lips, her father didn't like it one bit.
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AN: Shampoo and Ryouga will be active characters in the fic. Even if I had already explained the whole "How Ranma died" before, I had Ranma tell the Tendos about it. The 'Friend that knows a thing or two about magical swords' is not a Bleach character, neither a Ranma one, guess who he is?
Demon Arts are Shingami's Destructive Arts are Quincy's
Demon Arts use internal Ki, as Shinigami have strong spiritual pressure, they don't die as easily from 'runing out of ki'. They cleanese Hollows.
Destructive Arts use outside Ki, Yamasen-ken and Umisen-ken in this world fall in this category. They're called destructive arts because they actually destroy the spirit instead of cleanising it.
Ryoga will get to know about these arts, he's just not going to learn them, at least not in the same way as Ranma.
And yes, that was Dan Hibiki from Street Fighter! Note that his spirit wasn't cleanesed, he just stoped being a Hollow, he may come back later, at least as a comical character.
