Through the Years: Spring Break special Chapter 4

By Agent Reptile

Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura, and all various in sundry characters found within belongs to Viz comics/video and Rumiko Takahashi (not mine). Wolverine, X-Men, and anyother Marvel characters which come along belong to (duh) Marvel comics (not mine). Tenchi Muyo and all various characters I pull from them belong to AIC and Pioneer (not mine). Gold Diggers belongs to Antarctic Press and Fred Perry (not mine). G.I.Joe belongs to Hasbro (also not mine). Darkstalkers belongs to Viz comics and Capcom (you see a pattern here?). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles belong to Mirage Studios (again not mine). Ran Okami (my character so ask if you want to use). As said in previous version Logan has been an X-man years before the others. Any other connection between X-Men: Evolution and this fic ends at that line as this is like the comics or the other X-Men cartoon from the 90's.

"Japanese"

"English"

We shall take a moment, dear readers, to look into a day in the life of one Oroku Saki before his rise to power as the infamous and notorious villfain "the Shredder". Our focus is on a young man of about sixteen years of age. He is taller than the average Japanese male with shortly cut dark hair, almost black. His eyes are cold, dark, and piercing as daggers to whoever would look into them. The lips on his face are held tightly in a neutral position such that no hint of emotion is given and making him seem distant to observers. With shoulders held back and chin held up, Oroku Saki seemed proud and gave the sensation that he was all but invincible. Many of his fellow students would have made a fatal mistake that he was nothing more than a pretty boy who was thought too highly of himself...and would pay dearly for it.

At the very crack of dawn we see said teenager in ninja garments as he pushes his body to the very limit of human physical ability. He leaps from one bamboo stalk to another as his fellow Foot Clan ninjas throw deadly ninja stars and poison darts at him, missing their target by only mere centimeters. As Saki clears the gauntlet, he drops down the last bamboo pole, and breaks it halfway down so that he now has a staff to use as a weapon.

Almost as soon as the teenager hits the ground, he is assaulted by at least a dozen fully attired ninja wielding a variety of deadly weapons. Faster than a lightning strike, a chained scythe is launched at Saki. Dodging the arching curved blade, Saki strikes out his make-shift staff and wraps the chain around it. Not attacking one-on-one, another warrior slashes out with a sword to Saki's side. Seeing the gleam of sharpened steel, Saki rolls to his side and dodges the attack.

With speed and grace honed through years of training in mind and body, Oroku Saki not only was able to avoid his fellow Foot's sword, but he also used his bamboo staff to jab his foe in the temple. This quick and decisive attack forced the sword out of Saki's foe's hands and open for the use of the future Shredder. This plan hit a snag, however, when several deadly ninja stars suddenly shot out from unknown locations and surrounded the blade Saki was about to use.

Since he was dissuaded from grabbing the blade, Saki took his make-shift weapon and held it with one hand behind his back so that he could effortless care it in an easily controllable manner. This was imperative since while one ninja was relieved from the fight, several more were still in full fighting form.

One of these ninjas shot out a blade on a chain right to Saki. With incredible precision, the scythe sliced through the air nearly taking Saki's arm off. Note that it was nearly. Saki had made sure to time his moves so that the sycle blade pasted him harmlessly, but close enough that he was in the exact perfect location to grab the metal chain that linked the blade to it's master.

With the hooked weapon now stuck deep in the ground, it's welder couldn't hope to pull it out fast enough to stop Saki from firmly graping it, twirling it around with his wrist, catching the other ninja by the neck and was able to swing the captured agitator around so that all the rest of the foes Saki is facing had to either leap out of the way or get slammed.

The unfortunate man being swung around was now gasping for breath as he throat was being squeezed hard by the metal chain, gouging wounds into his kneck. Relief comes only when Saki releases his hold on the chain causing slack to form and the trapped man to go rolling on the ground gasping for breath.

Saki wasn't given any rest from the onslaught now facing him, but he had just giving himself a new weapon. As one ninja using a short sword attempted to slice Saki in the back, the aggressor found his target roll away and out of harms way while his own hands soon found his wrists caught within the chain of his comrades lost weapon. Saki pulled hard as he planted his feet and caused his newest aggressor to be yanked to the ground and loosing his sword.

Saki spingboarded himself so that he was able to grab the fallen sword while at the same time smacking his trapped foe in the head. Now that two of his opponents were taken care of, and him finally having his own metal weapon, Saki believed that he had finally gained the upper hand. Unfortunately for him, he was still entrenched in a battle that was far from over.

Out of the forest, several deadly ninja stars flashed through the air followed by several smoke bombs that were meant to bind Saki. Not waiting to be taken down, the future Shredder instinctively ran as far from where he was while simultaneously attacking the few opponents that were in his way who had become distracted by the new attackers.

Narrowly missing the blades of sharpened steel that were flying through the air, Saki was able to evade all of the surprise attacks and avoid the billowing white cloud of vapors now rapidly rising from the exploding smoke bombs. Now Saki was clear of this foes, some of which were on the ground in sever pain. This distance was the only thing between Saki and fifteen aggressive and deadly fighters all wanting a piece of him.

From the yards separating Saki from the other ninjas, black painted ninja stars flew through the air all intended at taking Saki to the great beyond. Saki had other ideas as he seamlessly avoided being struck by the blades and was able to grab his make-shift staff and use it to collect the thrown stars that were continuing to be thrown at him by carefully maneuvering the blades to where they impacted the bamboo rather than him.

The other ninjas ran towards Saki with their various blades, chains, and other weapons being brandished for the kill. Saki remained calm, but focused. Not allowing himself to fall for into the base and idiotic follies of blinding rage, Saki held well the teachings of the true ninja always being in control of himself, and as a master of himself a master of others.

By choosing his movements wisely, and forcing his opponents' hands when possible, Saki was able to remove several choices from the opponent, Saki was able to force his foe to choose from a select set of few options which he would calculate his next move from. This rationalizing and cunning were things that, although natural to the future head of the foot clan, were hardened and sharpened to such a point of near impossibility for most to comprehend.

Dark as shadow, and deadly beyond measure, the other Foot raced towards Saki with death in their eyes, but found that their future leader was more than a match for them no matter how many rose up to strike, Oroku Saki was able to dodge, parlay, block, and counter every attack unleashed at him. From use of weighted chain, to knife, club, sword, thrown blade, or explosive gas bomb, Oroku Saki was more than able to hold his own against his opponents.

As steel and staff lashed and jabbed, swung and thrust, through the maelstrom of opponents that unleashed their combined skills upon him like a hailstorm. Several times Saki was nearly taken out for good, but with reflexes so quick and movement so precise, he was able to avoid the lethal blows of his fellow ninjas. Although Saki was able to demonstrate his expertise as a warrior and ninja without once being hit by his aggressors, Saki still did not have a absolute victory. As good a ninja Saki was, those chosen for his morning exercises were some of the most experienced members of the Foot with years of deadly training beyond those of their future leader.

Sweat was pouring down Saki's face as he narrowly missed being lacerated by a fellow ninja's sword. Precise in movements, flawless in execution, and driving in determination, Oroku Saki retaliated in such a manner that his opponents couldn't believe that it was from a teenager. Over a period of several minutes Saki was able to disable each and every one of the garbed men facing him. In the end Saki stood over his fellow ninjas in victory and made certain that they all would respect him as their future lord and master.

There was no need to kill these men in Saki's mind, after all they had served the Foot well and were needed to insure that the clan would be strong. It would take years for the new blood of the clan to gain the experience and training needed to be as good as these true ninjas. On a more personal note, if Saki was ever to be the pinnacle of the Foot, then he would need to train again and again against increasingly more dangerous and skilled opponents, and if he were to kill those warriors he spared with? No it was stupidity to cut off one's own arm to increase the strength of the other. Rather increase the strength of both for the greater good of the whole.

As the men got to their feet, they bowed to their future master before disappearing in a veil of blinding white fog.

"It would seem that you are progressing right on schedule my son." the elder Oroku clan member said as he looked upon his weary progeny.

"That is very good to hear father." Oroku Saki said with no emotion, no hint as to the depths of the anger he had for his asinine father and his ideas on molding his son. But Saki kept himself in such a state of mind that he didn't reveal that it would only be a matter of time before he would have learned all that he could from his father, and in such take his rightful place as his father's replacement. All that he needed to do was somehow eliminate the potential threat of Logan Ranokami and Hamato Yoshi.

Master Hamato Yoshi was skilled beyond Saki's current level of skill, and wouldn't take kindly to a usurpation of rank. As for Ranokami...Saki could tell that he was as great practitioner of the art of ninjitsu as Saki himself. Numerous time the two of them had spared and both had shown that they could never totally defeat each other. Strangely the other young man seemed to be able to learn anything remotely related to martial arts with uncanny ease and mastered techniques that had taken Saki several tries to gain the same amount of skill that so effortlessly came to Ranokami.

Deep in thought, Saki sheaved his sword in his belt and made his way to the bathroom to prepare himself to attend his daily courses at school. One of the few refugees Saki used to clear his mind from his destiny as the ruler of the Foot, the high school allowed Saki to expand his mind into realms of knowledge that he couldn't get to any other way. Ever the cunning on, Saki knew that knowledge is power and the more knowledge he had then the better for him. Of course there was also the fact that Oroku Saki liked to gain knowledge for knowledge sake alone; it was one of the very few indulgences per say that he allowed himself.

After a quick shower and change into his school uniform, Saki was his way to classes. This meant a long walk with the occasional attempt from Sasuke to get a picture of him...stupid immature ninja wannabe. Saki was still getting annoyed that one Kuno Kodachi hadn't gotten it through her head that he had neither the time or interest in wasting on her or her...love. Such nonsense were not for the driven few who would rule, such as himself. No Saki still had too much work ahead of him to lax in his studies or discipline to indulge a sociopathic delusional twit's fantasies of romance.

With all the craziness which the Kunos attacked to themselves, or rather revealed in it would seem, the idea that a ninja of his breeding would waste his time...relaxing himself he was able reclaim control over his facilities and focus on the more immediate situation of classes, tests, and projects that were the day-to-day part of life for a teenager.

On the subject of teenage males, we turn our attention towards another part of Japan. We see that neither Ranokami or his cousin Tenchi were getting a break from their training either...but were in far better spirits than Saki.

At Nodoka's family home, we see that Ranokami was getting back to the feeling of using a sword against someone who trains almost exclusively with it. Tenchi, on the other hand, was getting used to the fact that his cousin was able to deal blows with greater strength than Tenchi could. Due to a number of factors (Caucasian genetics, body building as part of his training, and some other reasons) Ranokami possessed a great deal more raw power than his cousin, especially in his upper body. This was a shock to Tenchi, who wasn't expecting such a hard strike to come from a single blow from his cousin.

Ranokami was also having difficulty in sparring with his cousin. Tenchi wasn't a slacker when it came to learning swordsmanship skills, women yes but that was another topic, and while Ranokami was a more versatile fighter, Tenchi was a far better master of the sword. In all the years that Ranokami had been training with masters of several disciplines of martial arts and conditioning his body to be more powerful, his cousin Tenchi had been training almost exclusively with the sword. This was proving to be a problem for the teenage mutant as Tenchi was now sparing in his field of expertise. Needless to say our teenage Logan was not having an easy time dealing with this.

The wooden training swords were lighter than the metal ones these two more commonly used so their moves were far faster and seemingly more aggressive. Ranokami's quick thrust to Tenchi's side missed as the intended target side-stepped at the last moment. In a perfect set-up to strike at the teenage mutant's now exposed wrist. As Tenchi rose his sword however, Ranokami rolled on the ground our of the way of the strike and attempted to turn the tide of the session on his cousin by using his body's momentum slice Tenchi across the gut. Tenchi, in a shocked moment of instinct, inverted his sword so that in intersected his cousin's just in the nick of time.

"Enough." Tenchi's grandfather said as he saw his two students were about half an hour into their session and a clear victory was still far away. "Rise and bow to your opponent." Katsuhito said as the two teenagers stopped their battle and bowed to eachother.

"Not bad Tenchi, not bad." Ranokami said as he placed his wooden sword on the table and headed back inside his mother's home.

"Yea, but you're still a little rusty when it comes to a bokken...by the way how is it that you?"

"What? The fact that I almost knocked you on your butt cuz? Probably all the times I've been driving these through training robots strengthened my arms." Ranokami says as the claws of his left hand jutted out from between his knuckles.

"No offense meant, but having the idea of having six switchblades in your forearm just jut out and you don't even feel it makes me a little...spooked." Tenchi said as he sheepishly scratched the back of his head.

"And the fact that you have a working lightsaber and apparently are the heir to a galactic empire doesn't?" Ranokami countered as he retracted his blades once more into his forearm.

"Well yea kinda...but the key really isn't a lightsaber and I sort of never really wanted to be royalty. Not to mention Ryoko and Ayeka trying to destroy each other. Who the heck would want this kind of life?" Tenchi said as he looked around the Logan's backyard to see if two very nosey people were around watching them. True to form there were two very nosey people who it seemed would always

"I think I know of one person who apparently wouldn't mind." Ranokami said as he pointed to where Ataru was busy hitting on Mihoshi, who had absolutely no idea as to what he was trying to do to her. As for what exactly that pervert was doing here, it was Saturday so school started late and Lum wanted to spent some time with her new friends.

Flashback a few short hours

"Lum why are we doing this?" Ataru groaned as he was led by the arm by his...girlfriend? fiancée? significant other? female princess who loved him beyond all mortal comprehension and had the potential to zap him like a bug if he got out of line? Yea we'll go with the last one.

"Because darling, I like spending time with the Logans and they aren't going to be here for long. Besides Ten-chan couldn't wait to actually meet a mutant." Lum smiled as she was pulling Ataru up the long path to the mansion, hovering a few feet off the ground. The flying princess was flanked by her diminutive cousin, now having no trouble keeping up with the lovebirds who had slowed their speed considerably.

"Hem, a if anyone from this planet could possibly of any interest to me. Lum lets go home and play, please?" Ten pleaded as he did everything in his power to appear to be the cutest little baby in the universe as to get his way.

"Please Tenchan just give them a chance, besides you may be surprised what you may find that people of this planet can do, not to mention it's nice to find people who have unique abilities from this world. It add variety to this planet." Lum smiled as she led the uncooperative males to the front door of the Logan's residence.

Knocking the front door, Lum landed beside Ataru as they waited to be greeted. Expecting one of the Logans themselves, either the head of the house or perhaps his wife, all three were shocked as the only one that seemed to be able to open the door at the time was...

"Oh hi princess Lum it's so good to see you again, and you brought your boyfriend isn't that the nicest thing?" A particular blond with a child's mind and heart said as they were greeted to the sight to Mihoshi just getting out of the shower and dressed in nothing but a towel. A slightly wet towel that was now clinging to her so much that Ataru, true to form, rushed up and grabbed the blond by the waste and forced his head into her chest.

"Oh it so nice to meet you too Ataru, I didn't know that you cared about me." Mihoshi said as she returned his hug and rested her head on his before letting go and somehow escaping Ataru's grasp. This seemingly impossible escape caused Ataru to hover in the air for a second grasping for something that wasn't there, and falling onto his face with his butt in the air. It was so comical that Tenchan couldn't help but laugh like an idiot as he floated around in circles.

Tenchan's antics drew immediate attention to him as Mihoshi seemingly instantly appeared right in Ten's face.

"And who is this cute little guy?" Mihoshi asked the now giggling Lum.

"This is my cousin Tenchan. He's been living with me and darling for a while now, but never really got around to realize how interesting people are on this planet. So I figured it would be best if he got to meet the Logans." Lum smiled as Mihoshi kneeled down and smiled into Ten's face.

"Well I'm sure that he'll be very interested to see Wild Wolf doing all those cool moves in the morning. He's so athletic that it's just like watching my favorite kung fu movie for free." the airhead continued to prattle on about all the neat things that she'd seen Tenchi's cousin do that one could easily think that she had a crush on the teenage mutant, but anyone who spent five minutes with the blond would have instantly realized that the reality was she was inamered by him like an obsessive fangirl over her favorite childhood hero.

"Well okay pretty lady, I'll go wherever you take me." Ten smiled as he flew up to Mihoshi and was quickly grabbed into the blond's arms and coddled like the infant he really was. Pressed and held into the chest of the air headed spacecop, Ten was enjoying his brief moments in paradise.

One often wonders why it is that a baby like Ten would posses the level of lechery of Ataru or Happosai. It is possible that it is due to the fact that he is an Oni and such is biologically different from a human being, but with the total lack of development out of toddlerhood it is very unlikely. A better explanation for Ten's behavior is the total lack of love or attention that he has received from his mother and thus longs for it in other women, especially cute women with large sizable chests. For but a brief moment it would seem that Ten was finally indulging himself in the affection of one willing to treat him with seemingly unadulterated love. Lets face it people this little guy is going to have some serious issues with women in the future unless something really big happens to change that soon.

"Excuse me Mihoshi but why are you holding that baby while wearing nothing but a towel?" Nodoka Logan asked as she saw the space officer, Princess Lum, her boyfriend Ataru, and a little baby boy that she suspected was the same species as Lum who was nuzzling himself into Mihoshi's bosom.

"I'm only in a towel?...Oh right the doorbell rang and no one else was up so I got it for you and this little guy is just so cute I couldn't help myself." Mihoshi sighed and started to tear up as if she was going to cry her eyes out soon.

Nodoka just groan as she laid her head in her hands and took all of this in. "Thank you Officer Mihoshi for letting our guests in, but please let the little one go and get dressed more appropriately for breakfast." The middle aged red-head composed herself while starting her work in the kitchen.

"Sorry that I didn't answer the door myself, but I really had a late start today." Nodoka said as she started gathering the ingredients to make breakfast.

"It's alright Mrs. Logan...I mean Auntie, Ataru and I will be more than welcome to help you make breakfast for everyone." Lum smiled as she began to aid her hostess in the matron's daily choirs. This was, although welcome, the reason that Nodoka made a sudden and decisive near leap out of her skin.

"Uh Auntie is everything allright?" Lum asked as she started to take down the dishes needed to prepare the first meal of the day for the large group of people who were now at the house.

"Forgive me Lum but I from all the tobasco sauce and chili peppers that you had last night I take it that you have an affinity for spicy food am I correct?" Nodoka asked as she went from cabinet to cabinet getting various food stuffs to prepare.

The answer that the middle aged red-head received was a very friendly nod and a glowing smile from the Oni princess.

"Well not to be rude Auntie, but you humans tastes seem to be really...bland." Lum's reply was met with Nodoka shaking her head and letting out a small sigh.

"Well Lum from your reaction to last night's dinner, Oni seem to be incapable of handling beans in their diet. Is that correct?" Nodoka said this without any malice or anger, but rather in a very calm and collected voice such that Lum was forced to think about the topic in detail.

"I guess that your right about that Auntie, but I still think it only right to help make breakfast for everyone. It's the least I can do to be helpful." Lum smiled a she aided the Matron of the house. "Besides I owe Sasami for that wonderful dinner that she helped to make."

"I'm sure that she'd appreciate whatever you make for her, but please watch the hotsauce." Nodoka conceded as she decided to just accept the young princess's help.

Back at the present

The air headed blond who had so recently greeted Nodoka's latest house guests was, as always, completely oblivious as to the true nature of things around her. Caught within the her picturesque dreamworld of inescapable naivety, she completely missed Ataru's constant attempts to start a lustful session with her.

"So you really like having a good time I hear?" Ataru smiled at the older blond, who was currently watching the two teenage boys complete their training session.

Mihoshi just smiled as she watched one of the most important friends in the world do what he does best. "Oh yea I really like to have fun. It makes me so happy to be able to have friends to have fun with and do stuff with." Mihoshi smiled as she looked at Ataru with one of her very happy, almost disturbingly so, smiles.

It was boon fortune that Mihoshi decided to get up and walk over to Tenchi and Ranokami when she did, for we now see the eternal pervert Ataru grabbing a air as his arms flail out in all directions. In the same instant that Mihoshi hugged Tenchi, like a friend here, Ataru hit the wood panel of the porch with a dull splat. Ranokami got a small chuckle out of seeing the idiot kiss the floor, Tenchi was too occupied with the doe-eyed blond now hugging him.

This very entemant reaction was secretly observed by three parties who had been observing the situation with great detail and unending supervision. Yes you read right three parties. Being some trees we see that Ryoko and Princess Ayeka were doing a very pathetic version of ninja stealth techniques in an attempt to observe the item of their mutual desire in the same fashion that they daily do back at the shrine. So as always with these two, they were seen early, easily detected, and it was in reality nothing more than an enormous farce of an attempt.

It was the third party watching the scene that was the real threat to everyone. Slice, who was observing well out of range of any possible level of detection, had been observing the Logans for the past few hours and had been taking careful notes on the level of martial arts that was shown in the backyard, the technology and powers displayed by the occupants, and anything else that would be of any interest to Cobra.

The only example of the last part so far was a cat/rabbit thing that could turn into a spaceship, this was also the cause of the only known time Baroness had been heard to giggle like a little girl and want one of her own. This was not, however, when it was shown in cabbit form, but rather when Ryo-Ohki had accidentally transformed into a spaceship and started to fly around like crazy trying to find some carrots, only to be forced to defend itself against the incompetent and pathetically armed forces of Menduo's private army; utterly devastating all of the jets and tanks that attempted to knock the hungry cabbit out of the sky late last night.

It was pure comic gold seeing a single crystalline starship shoot laser beams out at F-15s while meowing like a kitten, just because she had a hankering for a few carrots. Destro immediately wanted to start a breeding program for the things for many reasons including the fact that they were weapons of mass destruction only needing carrots as a fuel supply, and his lady love wanted one for her own.

Although it would seem that the Logan's security was not up to standard, that wasn't really the reason that Cobra so easily was able to spy on them. Having their fangs into every branch of technology available, Cobra was able to mix and match the various breakthroughs in science such as the still experimental fiber-optic cable used for the virtually imperceptible lense of the camera now recording the actions of the backyard and storing them temporarily electronically until the days data was transferred several times to the main computer system with locations in the Himalayas, Scotland, various Pacific islands, and the occasional South American and Asian Jungle. The signals were also sent at random times with modulating frequencies to prevent any pattern from being recognized.

Without any video tapes or microfilm to worry about, Slice and Dice were able to take far more notes and be able to more easily move between observation posts and safe houses in case of a base being compromised. Such new strategies were inevitable with the recent string of losses from G.I.Joe and S.H.I.E.L.D. Cobra Commander was explicit on how these new rules were to be followed...okay so he was screaming his head off like a banshee and threatening to shot people, and it was actually Destro who engineered the new safety measures and Cobra Commander just agreed to them.

Getting back to Slice observing the Logan's at the end of video receiver, we see that the ninja was occupying himself by occasionally jotting down notes, munching handfuls of popcorn from a large bowl, and throwing back a couple of beers. Hey with the chaos that he was watching right now he could save a ton of cash on his entertainment budget, and they haven't even met all of the "cast" yet.

Speaking of the "cast", we see that Lum had finished helping a very happy Nodoka make breakfast for the various members of the household.

"Auntie how do you get so many people fed every morning and still have time to train and keep yourself looking beautiful?" Lum asked as she flew from one shelf to another helping Nodoka getting everyone's breakfast ready.

"It's not easy princess, but I consider it part of my responsibility to my family, and to my husband to do so." Nodoka almost wanted to blush as she remembered how Logan reacted to how she looked. "Besides when you work at it for as long as I have you see it as another form of speed and accuracy training."

"Well it really works for you pretty lady." Ten said as he seemingly miraculously appeared floating around like a tiny blimp.

"Why aren't you just the cutest little fellow, and a gentleman to boot." Nodoka smiled as she pinched Ten's cheeks, not at all what the little pervy baby wanted but at least he wasn't getting ignored like his own mother did to him.

"Auntie not sure if you've been introduced or not, but this is my little cousin Ten." Lum said as she moved various bowls and plates around with great care.

"But everyone calls me Tenchan." The floating tiger clothed baby said as he did several rolls in the air. "I'm a good boy."

"I'm sure that you are Tenchan, and you can call me Auntie." Nodoka smiled as she nearly completed her preparations of her guests. "Ah Logan-kun good morning, how are you feeling today beloved?"

The gruff Canadian was dressed in a pair of jeans and a t-shirt as he walked down to the kitchen. A slight snarl was gracing his lips as he rolled the cigar from one side of his mouth to the other, clenching it in his jaws occasionally.

"Just fine darlin'." Logan replied as his features became more of a arrogant smile. Removing the cigar from between his lips for a second, he grabbed Nodoka around the waist and laid a passionate kiss on her, causing her to go weak in the knees.

"Oh Logan-kun please behave, there are innocent eyes here after all." Nodoka said as she blushed heavily. A quick glance over his shoulder let Logan see that the flying baby was now nonchalantly covering his eyes with his hands while Lum was turning very red and about to explode in a bout of giggles.

"Heh, my house I can kiss my wife whenever I want, but I've got to stretch my legs for a bit. I'll be back in plenty of time to enjoy your wonderful breakfast." Logans said as he hugged Nodoka and went out for a walk around the grounds.

"Don't take too long beloved." Nodoka smiled as she regained the sensation in her lower extremities. She soon got back to setting up for the morning meal, but it seemed to Lum that their was a pronounced skip in her stride. Lum only wished that Ataru would make her feel the same way; what was Nodoka's secret for getting her man to make her make her feel so good...or maybe it was Logan's secret for making his wife feel so good. Lum couldn't tell.

Ten had taken notice of the master of the house with great interest. As the first non-Japanese human that he had ever come in contact with, Logan fascinated the infant Oni. This compelled the little baby to slowly soar out of the house a few feet after Logan. Bobbing up and down in the air, Ten followed the older man out to the front door and to the front lawn.

"What do you want kid." Logan asked as he started patting his pockets looking for either his lighter or matches; anything with which he could light his cigar. "I'm busy."

"You Earthlings sure are weird. You wear pants with pockets but are constantly forgetting to put what you want in them, or loose what was put in there because you get holes in them." Ten said as he levitated in a relaxed position looking up at the clouds.

"You have anything useful to say or are you going to just float there and yap like a spoiled mut?" Logan said as he finished looking all over himself for something to lit his cigar with.

"Why you...humph, at least I wouldn't be caught without a flame." Ten smirked as he pulled his head back and unleashed a wall of flame at Logan, stupidly thinking that he could get away with it like he could with Ataru.

Logan would have not of this and rolled under Ten before the baby's attack could connect. Promptly grabbing Ten by his diaper cover, Logan held his cigar to the flame now coming out of the baby and used it to light up his cigar. When he was done with that, and the flame died down, Logan let out a smoky breath and indulged himself with his cigar.

"Alright here kid lets get a few things straight;" Logan said as he looked Beten in the eye with a stare that would make most men cower in fear...or in this case baby's wet themselves. "This is my house and home so I can throw you out on your ass whenever I like. You want to visit with your cousin then you behave yourself. Now you may think that shooting flames out of your mouth in impressive right? Big deal."

Logan let a few of his claws slowly release from between his knuckles.

"Now that we've had this little conversation, I'm going out for a walk around the grounds while you get your diaper changed." Logan tossed Ten over his shoulder and started walking away as the infant extraterrestrial did a few spins in the air before he was able to control the flight mechanics of his body.

The Canadian just smiled as the baby just held his position in mid-air fuming at the paddling he had been given.

Breakfast was enjoyable, if slightly tenuous with Ryoko and Ayeka going into cold war mode in their continuing contest to have Tenchi to themselves. Mihoshi was cuing over Ten, and feeding him with a spoon. Sasami and Lum were spoiling the little cabbit Ryo-Ohki by feeding baby carrots to it out of their hands. Ranokami and Ukyo were just trying to enjoy their breakfast without something exploding or someone shooting someone else for love, lust, or vanity...which wasn't really much to ask but with the current hosts it wasn't an unexpected possibility.

As for Washu and the rest...well they had a very enjoyable polite meal in which Washu forced herself not to bring up any possible ideas for experimenting on either Logan or the mutant members of his family. She may very well be a "goddess" and the greatest scientific mind in the universe, but no way on this planet was she going to push Wolverine after getting a face load of ademintium blades.

The adults who were sitting to eat had a slightly less bothersome time than the children when it came to avoiding the political land mines, being that this was Logan and Nodoka's home and they were the absolute authority; even Tenchi's Great Grandfather would be hesitant to try to push anyone here.

Now as enjoyable as the meal was, and it was very good and appreciated very much, it left most of the people here with very little to do until either lunch time or dinner. It was after everyone had finished and cleaned the eating area that Lum had an idea and spook up.

"Hey does anyone have any plans for today, or would anyone like to take a tour of our town with friends of mine?"

"What a wonderful idea Ms. Lum I think that all of the younger people would love to go on a tour of the area with you." Nodoka replied as she started to herd all of the kids out of he dinning room and towards the front door.

"Ah mom we were going to go anyway, what's up?" Ranokami asked his mother in an aside.

"Oh it's not you my son, or Ukyo for that matter. I just know that Ryoko and Ayeka can't seem to go for any real time before trying to kill one another. I just want them to do it outside of our home." Nodoka answered her son as her answer was allowed to sink in. "Besides it's a great excuse for you to go out and meet some girls."

"Mom!" Ranokami groaned.

"What? Isn't it a mother's duty to take an interest in her son's love life? Now you and Ukyo have a good time meeting Lum's friends. And who knows, you may find someone who you like." Having completely embarrassed her son, and thus her duty completed for the day, she ushered everyone out of the door.

"Well I guess that means we go looking for your friends Princess Lum?" Ayeka said as she did her best to be polite to the other member of royalty, the tension was so obvious that you could almost see it.

"Sure. I think that Ryuunosuke, Ran, Benten, Asuka, and Oyuki would love to meet all of you." Lum smiled as she floated down the driveway of the Logan estate.

The other levitating extraterrestrial was not at all interested in touring around this part of Japan. No Ryoko wanted nothing more that spend time with the one male in the universe who ever treated her well and do so far away from any princesses...especially Jurian ones but Ryoko couldn't really enjoy herself with Tenchi if Lum was around either since Ataru would always be around her and that pervert made the former pirate very uncomfortable in more ways that one.

"Yea great more people...hey Tenchi why don't you and I just go for our own private tour of the city. You, me, just seeing the sites?" the female's hands were now letting themselves explore Tenchi's upper body.

"Demon woman get your hands off of Lord Tenchi." Princess Ayeka yelled into Ryoko's ear.

"Hey Ryoko are you that you're supposed to do that to Tenchi?" Mihoshi asked as she scratched her chin.

"Does stuff like this always happen to him?" Ten asked as he hovered over Ukyo's shoulder.

"Oh yea cute stuff. Tenchi may actually be the luckiest unlucky guy around. Sexy women literally throwing themselves at him, and he's way too much of a gentleman to take advantage of it." Ukyo said as she chuckled slightly. The wavy haired brunette decided that having nothing else to do this day, she might as well meet some of Lum's friends and take a tour of the town.

"I'll tell you right now that I don't envy that guy one bit." Ranokami said as he casually walked out of the main gate of his family's home and out towards his next adventure in Japan.

Sadly Ranokami had just stabbed probability in the eye with a stick and probability never likes that. Being as certain as the sun rising in the East, Ranmas across the multiverse will inevitably have girl trouble.

At a quick glace we see that one Mendou was still treating his wounds from the ass whooping that Ranokami had given him a few days ago. Fuming like crazy, the heir to vast fortune had to deal with the fact that a mutant had no only destroyed his steel sword, but also had let him a bloody heap on the floor. His distraught state was soon observed by the one being in Mendou's life that was more trouble than Ataru...Mendou's little sister Ryoko Mendou.

Spoiled rotten, over indulged, and dangerously bordering on sociopaths, this little girl had been board for way too long and was thinking about who could possibly have upset her brother so much...and how much fun it would be to meet this "Ranokami" and play a little with him. Now all she had to do was find this particular young man and devise an intricate plan in which she wouldn't be connected to any misfortune that may befall her target.

Well getting back to the numerous members of our group we see that they were now in the main housing area of Nemaria in route to were all the really cool stuff was, more specifically the commercial district and the park region. All in all a very nice place to tour around for hours on end and did loosen the tension that between Ryoko and Ayeka a little.

"Seems a little crowded doesn't it?" Ranokami commented as he noticed all the people around him busily going to and through.

"You've been in the America's way too long cousin. You forget just how many people there are in Japan in a proportionately small place." Tenchi said as he chuckled slightly.

"Hey Lum where did your cousin get off to?" Ukyo asked as she noticed that Ten was missing.

"Oh I'm sure that he's around somewhere, he's constantly going here and there." Lum said as she hugged Ataru and nuzzled him like a stuffed toy, the male who was receiving the attention was less than thrilled and did his best to ignore her.

"Well if you're sure it's alright. I mean he's only a baby and it is a big place." Ukyo commented with grave concern.

We can't fault Ukyo for her concern, but Ten isn't like human babies. In the brief moments that he had before the larger group caught up with him, the infant Oni had gone to find Benten, Rei, Mendou, or anyone else that could break Lum and Ataru...or maybe get back at that Logan guy for disciplining him earlier. Either way the infant soon across a familiar female form, actually a few familiar female forms.

"Ah Ran, Benten, Oyuki!" Ten cried as he flayed his arms as if trying to increase his speed by swimming in mid-air.

"Why little Tenchan what's the problem?" Princess Oyuki asked as she gracefully turned her head and looked upon her friend's cousin. Her attitude was so calm and collect that she could teach Ayeka to be emotionally removed.

Ten was too pooped to answer her question so he just hovered there for a moment catching his breath for a few moments. When he was finally able to collect himself, he spat a few sporadic words.

"Lum...new friends...tough guy...need help..." Ten

"Oh so Lum has made some new friends huh? Like I care at all what she does." Ran huffed as she tried to deny her obsession and jealousy of the Oni princess.

"Heh might as well see what all the fuss is about." Benten said as she threw back her head and downed the last of her drink, then tossed the used bottle behind her shoulder.

All three of them mounted their airbikes and justed off back the way Ten had just come from, Princess Oyuki being polite enough to grab the baby before heading off.

"Wait you don't...oh never mind." Ten said, just letting the topic drop.

In a few moments we see that Lum's friends were now hovering slightly overhead of the massive group of people.

"Wow Ten wasn't kidding about your new friends Lum." Benten said smirking as she straddled the handlebars of her airbike over the assembled people.

"Hey Benten, how's about a date." Ataru asked, before getting shocked into the ground by a bolt of lightning from Lum's horns.

"Not even if you were the last man alive Ataru." Benten yelled while brandishing her bazooka.

"Quite a mashera you have here Lum, guess your taste is laxing again." Ran huffed as she didn't even bother to look at who was actually standing below her.

"Excuse me? Do you have any idea who you are talking about young lady (and I am using the term very lossly)?" The purple haired member of the group asked, her kimono was beginning to fluster as several floating wooden logs appeared around her.

"Yea you little punk. You looking for a fight or something?" Ryoko growled as a crimson beam of energy formed in her right hand while she floated up to eye level to the pink haired girl.

"My, you wouldn't happen to be Princess Ayeka of the Jurian empire and the space pirate Ryoko would you?" the Princess of Neptune asked.

"I would be, and who exactly are you my dear?" Ayeka calmed slightly as the other princess landed and bowed to her.

"Prince Oyuki of Neptune, and I take it that this is you little sister Sasami?" The crystalline haired female stated. This may have changed Princes Ayeka's reaction to Ran's outburst, but Ryoko was nearly at the pink haired girl's throat with her energy blade.

"Just give me a reason to use this you little prat." Ryoko sneered with ferocious intent.

"Overgrown whore." Ran just huffed as she turned her head averting perfect view of Ryoko's cleavage.

"I was unaware that Neptune was an occupied planet in the solar system, but yes we are the Princess of Juria and this is Lord Tenchi." Ayake answered as she let the logs go back to where they came from and returned the bow to the other princess.

"A pleasure. And who are the other members of your group?"

"Oyuki these are Officer Mihoshi, Kuonji Ukyo, and..." Lum said as Benten landed and finally got a look at the people who Lum was showing around the town.

"Hello stud." You can just guess which one she was referring to right? Yep you guessed it: Ranokami. Deciding to forgo a more cultural appearance of red shirt, black trousers, and black shoes, Ranokami was dressed in the usual manner for touring around the Xavier grounds so he was in jeans, boots, and leather jacket.

To his credit, Ranokami mouthed rather than spoke his reply.

"Oh shi.."

"So how'd a big strong guy like you get in contact with Lum and that idiot boyfriend of her's?" Benten asked as she grasped Ranokami by the waist and gave him a very hungry look.

"Would you believe just trying to get lunch, now please back off." Ranokami groaned as he released Benten from his side. "It's going to be like China all over again." The teenage mutant male groaned while Ukyo just chuckled.

"Hey Pepar Mint and you are dear friends to this day, but yea the lack of personal space would get annoying." Ukyo thought for a second. "Besides they can't help it if you are so desirable Ranchan."

"Well I'm Benten and who are you?" the female alien punk was undeterred and decided to this time to be a little more forceful in her persuasion.

"Logan Ranokami, and please back off." Wild Wolf was beginning to be very annoyed at the continued advances he was given and decided to keep his guard up.

"Well Ranokami I'm Benten, and I'm not know for giving up on what I want." Benten smiled as she expertly lassoed Ranokami around the waist with her chain and pulled him towards her.

"Then I suggest that you learn to take no for an answer occasionally." Wild Wolf noted that both of his hands were free, so he decided to use them...or rather his claws.

SHINKT

WOOSH

Instantaneously Benten felt the slack in her line drop along with the chain. Taking her vision off of her weapon, she noticed that her new playtoy had six razor sharp blades about the length of his forearm sticking out from between his knuckles.

"I think I've made my point." Wild Wolf said as the claws disappeared back into his body.

Now you'd think that any rational people would get it and back off and let the topic drop. Benten was not acting like most people, well not a rational one at any rate. No she was now acting like a woman with a very specific condition, love. Yes shock had given way to an entirely different condition which symptoms are dreamy eyes, weak knees, and a vacuous expression.

"I'm in love." Benten said as she gazed longingly at Ranokami who had decided to just walk off before he did something he'd regret later.

Ukyo just chuckled as her Ranchan once more showed his true women attracting nature and felt sorry for him.

She would have felt much more sorry for the rest of them had she only known that a splotchy gray clad fiend was now watching from above. Yes Firefly was in Japan, and doing his best to bide his time for when he would be given the opportunity to get back at the little brunette and her adopted mother. Yes so very soon.

To be continued.

Author's notes:

Sorry that it took so long to finish this but I've been very busy with work and visiting relatives. Hope that you enjoyed it and please leave a review of it when you have finished reading. I also have been debating whether or not to add the Tendos into my story or not and I don't have a strong feeling either way so I'll leave it up to my fans. If you want to have the Tendo's appear at all please say so either by e-mail or in the review and I will keep a tally of those for and against. As always any constructive criticism is welcome.