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It belongs to Watsuki Nobuhiro. Please don't sue me because even if you do
you won't get anything 'cause I'm dirt poor!
Chapter four: Enter the Cross-Scarred Rurouni!
It had been little over a week had passed since they had all returned home to Tokyo. Sano had been lounging around the dojo lately with nothing to do. His hand had been healing slowly. Kaoru had been happier than ever lately, except of course when Yahiko bugged her. Everything had been so peaceful after the fight. After everything they had gone through in Kyoto, it was all over. Shishio had been defeated and everyone had made it out alive. They might finally have some peace and quiet for a while. Well this was what Kenshin hoped for. However, it seemed the gods were in a playful mood at the moment and having a peaceful and relaxing time was not on the agenda. The gods in fact had figured out the perfect plan to spice things up for everyone. Something that would throw everything off. All it took was a cracked mirror and two unsuspecting individuals mixed up with a little godly magic. Oh yes. Life was certainly going to become much more interesting for everyone involved and the gods would sit back and have some entertainment to amuse themselves with. If only they had remembered where the popcorn was…
*****
It had been a hot all day long. Kaoru had been teaching Yahiko while Sano had watched from the backgrounds. Kenshin had gone shopping for a bucket of tofu. He had just entered the shopping area when he heard a commotion in the alley behind him. He turned around to see what the noise was all about to find two young girls dressed in very old kimonos and holding what looked to be a bundle of clothing and a mirror frame. They were surrounded by a group of thugs who looked as if they had impure motives as to why they were surrounding the girls. Kenshin gripped his sakabatou and strode forward. He was about to speak when the red haired girl spoke out in a loud voice.
"You guys better get the hell out of my face before I beat the shit out of all of you! I am NOT in the mood to put of with your crap right now!" screamed the redhead.
"Ranma, let me take care of this. I want to start my training so you can see how I do and spot me," stated the other girl happily.
"Hmm… that sounds like a good idea. Go for it Akane. Just don't kill them. They don't know any better," relented the red head.
"Oh, thank you so much!" yelled the raven-haired girl.
Kenshin was totally confused by this point. It was as if the raven-haired girl was happy that they had been attacked. The two probably had no idea what they were dealing with. They possibly were a pair of tomboys from the country where they had had the boys under their control. If that were so, then they would be in a lot of trouble as soon as the fight began. They seemed almost too cocky. There was no way the two cute girls before him were good enough to take on seven full grown men at once. When the raven- haired girl jumped up and hugged the red head he thought he realized the girls were definitely in a lot trouble. He once again grabbed his sakabatou when the girl moved. It would have been an understatement to say that Kenshin was completely stunned.
*****
Ranma and Akane had been walking for about an hour since they had been transported to this time period. It had taken them a few seconds to realize they were still not home when they saw the clothing of the people walking by them. They had been completely confused as to why they were not at home. They had taken a look at the mirror only to find the glass part of the mirror completely gone. It was like it had just disappeared. All they had been left with was the frame of the once magical mirror. They had been looking around for shelter for about ten minutes when a freak rainstorm struck drenching them both. The now female Ranma angrily kicked the tree next to him. The unlucky tree promptly snapped in half causing a loud noise. The two had run as fast as they could into the town. They had hid in the alley to get away from the crowd. This had been when seven men had followed them into the alley. Ranma, seeing their eyes, knew exactly what they wanted and became very agitated.
"You guys better get the hell out of my face before I beat the shit out of all of you! I am NOT in the mood to put of with your crap right now!"
'Damn it! Why the hell do these bozos have to bother us right now?! I'm so sick and tired of this. Stupid mirror can't even work right…' when his thoughts were interrupted by Akane.
"Ranma, let me take care of this. I want to start my training so you can see how I do and spot me," stated Akane hopefully.
'I really want to show Ranma how god I am. I really hope Ranma takes me seriously from now on. I still can't believe everything we talked about. It still makes my feel so happy!'
*Flashback*
Ranma and Akane had landed in an open area. A street was about five minutes away from them. As the two got up and sat down in front of each other they just stared. Akane had just heard something completely unexpected. She remembered the way Ranma said those words. They had been so full of love that there had been no question whether it was true or not. As she remembered tears formed in her eyes. They slowly fell marking paths on her cheeks. Ranma had been completely startled when Akane started crying. Only one thought kept going through his mind.
'She hates me. She hates me. She hates me…'
Seeing her cry had shattered the confidence he had had moments before. His life suddenly meant nothing as thoughts of a life without Akane raced through his mind. His only thought was to make her stop crying.
"Oh god. Please stop crying! I'm so sorry for what I said. I didn't mean to make you cry. Please sto…" when he was stopped by Akane, who placed her right index finger on his mouth.
"Don't say another word. Please just stop because, I love you too Ranma. I love you so much it hurts. I can't believe you love me too. Oh God, you've made me so happy…" where Akane hugged Ranma and cried into his shirt.
Ranma held onto Akane for a moment, happier than he had ever been in his entire life, then lifted her head up and slowly kissed her on the mouth. Akane, who had been completely caught up in the moment responded immediately. The kiss went on for about three minutes as they put all their emotion into it. Coupled with all their feelings they had kept hidden, the kiss had been incredible. Reluctantly the two had separated and gazed at each other with absolute love in their eyes. Ranma broke the silence first by announcing something that made Akane's already perfect moment even better.
"Umm… Akane… I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry for everything that I've ever done to you. I also want to tell you that I've decided that I'm finally going to start training you. I mean really train you. I really do think that you could become truly great if you trained hard enough. I want you to be strong enough to be able to defend yourself if you need to but I also want you to know that I will always try to be there to protect you from everything…"
Anything more that Ranma would have said was cut off as Akane gave him a glomp beyond glomps. The force put any other glomp ever made to shame. It knocked Ranma over and the two had rolled down a hill only to notice people walking by at a distance. The two just lay there for a few minutes in each other's arms, then got up and dusted themselves off. Ranma took hold of Akane's hand and started walking. When Akane gave him a questioning look he merely smiled and replied, "We need to go look for shelter. I don't think we're home yet and this mirror has completely disappeared or something. Now come on," and after a short pause he added, "my cute fiancée." Akane had immediately blushed red and followed Ranma with her fingers entwined with his.
*End of Flashback*
'I can't believe Ranma said all of that. It still makes me feel all giddy inside!' thought Akane.
"Hmm… that sounds like a good idea. Go for it Akane. Just don't kill them. They don't know any better,"
"Oh, thank you so much!" yelled Akane while hugging Ranma, momentarily forgetting that they were both girls.
Akane let go of Ranma and faced the attackers. She immediately dropped into a basic fighting stance that allowed good offense and good defense. As she looked at her opponents she targeted whom she thought were the weakest, then she flew at them at high speed. She threw a high-powered punch at the guy closest to her. As he crumpled over she turned and did a spinning back fist at the next guy. Hearing it connect she immediately turned her attention to the third guy she had targeted. Seeing the first two get hit the third was more ready as he had enough time to put up an ample defense. However, his ample defense against Akane was nothing more than lifting his arms to have them broken first. Which of course Akane did by punching the guys arms with as much power as she could, shattering the bones. It was later speculated by Ranma that Akane had used her chi to power up her punch. This of course meant that Akane was much better then he initially realized. The guy immediately fell down screaming in pain. She then turned to the other four, who previously had been too shocked to move. They had all now taken out their swords that they had had concealed in their garments. Seeing that the swords were real Ranma stepped in.
"Good job Akane, but I think I'm going to take over for now 'cause you haven't been trained in weapon against hand fighting. I'll have to teach that to you soon if we're gonna be stuck here for a while. So stand back and watch how I deal with. Oh yeah, and Mr. Swordsman, you don't have to worry about a thing. I got this under control," stated Ranma to first Akane, then Kenshin.
"Oro?! How did she know I was here?" muttered Kenshin to himself.
'I might have underestimated these two a great deal. I hid myself from them and yet she still knew I was here. I wonder how long she knew. The raven- haired girl was also very talented. I wonder about the red head…' thought Kenshin quietly watching.
Moments later he was too stunned to even move.
*****
Ranma had sensed the red-haired samurai for a long time. The little bursts of his aura had already told him that he was definitely someone very talented. He had also realized that he was someone that did not have any evil intentions. Because of that he had left him alone. He looked the four remaining thugs up and down. He realized instantly from their posture that three of them were mere amateurs, not even at Kuno's level of skill. The fourth however seemed to be about as good as the average Kuno so he decided to leave him for last. With that settled he went into action. He was in front of the first guy in a matter of milliseconds. A few milliseconds later he had disarmed the guy and left him unconscious. With even greater speed and accuracy he leapt into the air before anyone could see leaving the remaining three thinking that he had vanished, only to have him descend upon the two lackeys with a double axe kick to the head, rendering them helpless and unconscious. With that finished he turned his attention to who seemed to be the leader of this sorry group of losers. The last guy dashed at Ranma and swung sideways, in an attempt to cut off Ranma's head. Instead of having a decapitated head all he got was air, as Ranma had ducked a fraction of a second before it hit. Realizing this he swung downwards only to miss again and hit solid ground. Then he felt pain shoot through his head before everything went black. Ranma slowly retracted his arm letting it herself calm down for a second. Having done this type of thing almost regularly he did not feel the least bit tired. Then he turned towards Akane.
"I don't think you would learn very much from what I just showed you. I'll have to find another time to show some of the better disarming attacks, kind of like what I did to the first guy," said Ranma.
"Oh! You mean the different places you hit his hands and arms. I'm assuming they were all pressure points, right? I'll probably need to go over those too, 'cause I don't know them very well," replied Akane.
The two continued on with their conversation in the most leisurely way that it boggled Kenshin's mind. The two girls had just been attacked, most likely to be raped, and then they had beaten them all with incredible efficiency. Then to top it all off the two had started talking about how they could have done better as if this had been some kind of training lesson. Kenshin merely stood there stupefied for a moment, then gathered himself and approached the two girls.
"Umm… are you two girls ok?" asked Kenshin feeling very stupid at the moment.
"Huh? Oh you're that samurai that I sensed. Yeah we're fine. As you can see, we can take care of ourselves," Ranma rudely replied.
"Oh, don't mind Ranma, he's just in a grumpy mood. He's really not always this bad," said Akane.
"Huh? He? Did you just call her a guy?" asked Kenshin even more mystified that anyone could mistake the obviously female person in front of him.
"Oh my! My mistake. It's just that… umm… I, uh, get him confused with his twin brother who looks exactly like him. Heh heh…" stuttered Akane.
Ranma merely slapped himself in the head.
"Anyways, we have to go now. It was nice talking to you… umm…" started Akane.
"Kenshin. Himura Kenshin."
"Well, Himura-san, it was nice meeting you. My name's Tendo Akane and this is Saotome Ranma. We need to go now. Bye!" yelled Akane as Ranma started to walk away.
"Yes… it's nice to meet you two as well. I hope that we see each other again. Good-day to you both."
With that Ranma and Akane rounded the corner leaving a still amazed Kenshin in the alley, who had completely forgotten that he needed to buy tofu for dinner that night.
Author's notes: Next time, the entire Kenshin Gumi meet up with the two time travelers. How will everyone react to them? You'll have to find out next time. I really hope you all enjoy my story. Always R&R! Until next time!
Chapter four: Enter the Cross-Scarred Rurouni!
It had been little over a week had passed since they had all returned home to Tokyo. Sano had been lounging around the dojo lately with nothing to do. His hand had been healing slowly. Kaoru had been happier than ever lately, except of course when Yahiko bugged her. Everything had been so peaceful after the fight. After everything they had gone through in Kyoto, it was all over. Shishio had been defeated and everyone had made it out alive. They might finally have some peace and quiet for a while. Well this was what Kenshin hoped for. However, it seemed the gods were in a playful mood at the moment and having a peaceful and relaxing time was not on the agenda. The gods in fact had figured out the perfect plan to spice things up for everyone. Something that would throw everything off. All it took was a cracked mirror and two unsuspecting individuals mixed up with a little godly magic. Oh yes. Life was certainly going to become much more interesting for everyone involved and the gods would sit back and have some entertainment to amuse themselves with. If only they had remembered where the popcorn was…
*****
It had been a hot all day long. Kaoru had been teaching Yahiko while Sano had watched from the backgrounds. Kenshin had gone shopping for a bucket of tofu. He had just entered the shopping area when he heard a commotion in the alley behind him. He turned around to see what the noise was all about to find two young girls dressed in very old kimonos and holding what looked to be a bundle of clothing and a mirror frame. They were surrounded by a group of thugs who looked as if they had impure motives as to why they were surrounding the girls. Kenshin gripped his sakabatou and strode forward. He was about to speak when the red haired girl spoke out in a loud voice.
"You guys better get the hell out of my face before I beat the shit out of all of you! I am NOT in the mood to put of with your crap right now!" screamed the redhead.
"Ranma, let me take care of this. I want to start my training so you can see how I do and spot me," stated the other girl happily.
"Hmm… that sounds like a good idea. Go for it Akane. Just don't kill them. They don't know any better," relented the red head.
"Oh, thank you so much!" yelled the raven-haired girl.
Kenshin was totally confused by this point. It was as if the raven-haired girl was happy that they had been attacked. The two probably had no idea what they were dealing with. They possibly were a pair of tomboys from the country where they had had the boys under their control. If that were so, then they would be in a lot of trouble as soon as the fight began. They seemed almost too cocky. There was no way the two cute girls before him were good enough to take on seven full grown men at once. When the raven- haired girl jumped up and hugged the red head he thought he realized the girls were definitely in a lot trouble. He once again grabbed his sakabatou when the girl moved. It would have been an understatement to say that Kenshin was completely stunned.
*****
Ranma and Akane had been walking for about an hour since they had been transported to this time period. It had taken them a few seconds to realize they were still not home when they saw the clothing of the people walking by them. They had been completely confused as to why they were not at home. They had taken a look at the mirror only to find the glass part of the mirror completely gone. It was like it had just disappeared. All they had been left with was the frame of the once magical mirror. They had been looking around for shelter for about ten minutes when a freak rainstorm struck drenching them both. The now female Ranma angrily kicked the tree next to him. The unlucky tree promptly snapped in half causing a loud noise. The two had run as fast as they could into the town. They had hid in the alley to get away from the crowd. This had been when seven men had followed them into the alley. Ranma, seeing their eyes, knew exactly what they wanted and became very agitated.
"You guys better get the hell out of my face before I beat the shit out of all of you! I am NOT in the mood to put of with your crap right now!"
'Damn it! Why the hell do these bozos have to bother us right now?! I'm so sick and tired of this. Stupid mirror can't even work right…' when his thoughts were interrupted by Akane.
"Ranma, let me take care of this. I want to start my training so you can see how I do and spot me," stated Akane hopefully.
'I really want to show Ranma how god I am. I really hope Ranma takes me seriously from now on. I still can't believe everything we talked about. It still makes my feel so happy!'
*Flashback*
Ranma and Akane had landed in an open area. A street was about five minutes away from them. As the two got up and sat down in front of each other they just stared. Akane had just heard something completely unexpected. She remembered the way Ranma said those words. They had been so full of love that there had been no question whether it was true or not. As she remembered tears formed in her eyes. They slowly fell marking paths on her cheeks. Ranma had been completely startled when Akane started crying. Only one thought kept going through his mind.
'She hates me. She hates me. She hates me…'
Seeing her cry had shattered the confidence he had had moments before. His life suddenly meant nothing as thoughts of a life without Akane raced through his mind. His only thought was to make her stop crying.
"Oh god. Please stop crying! I'm so sorry for what I said. I didn't mean to make you cry. Please sto…" when he was stopped by Akane, who placed her right index finger on his mouth.
"Don't say another word. Please just stop because, I love you too Ranma. I love you so much it hurts. I can't believe you love me too. Oh God, you've made me so happy…" where Akane hugged Ranma and cried into his shirt.
Ranma held onto Akane for a moment, happier than he had ever been in his entire life, then lifted her head up and slowly kissed her on the mouth. Akane, who had been completely caught up in the moment responded immediately. The kiss went on for about three minutes as they put all their emotion into it. Coupled with all their feelings they had kept hidden, the kiss had been incredible. Reluctantly the two had separated and gazed at each other with absolute love in their eyes. Ranma broke the silence first by announcing something that made Akane's already perfect moment even better.
"Umm… Akane… I just wanted to tell you that I'm really sorry for everything that I've ever done to you. I also want to tell you that I've decided that I'm finally going to start training you. I mean really train you. I really do think that you could become truly great if you trained hard enough. I want you to be strong enough to be able to defend yourself if you need to but I also want you to know that I will always try to be there to protect you from everything…"
Anything more that Ranma would have said was cut off as Akane gave him a glomp beyond glomps. The force put any other glomp ever made to shame. It knocked Ranma over and the two had rolled down a hill only to notice people walking by at a distance. The two just lay there for a few minutes in each other's arms, then got up and dusted themselves off. Ranma took hold of Akane's hand and started walking. When Akane gave him a questioning look he merely smiled and replied, "We need to go look for shelter. I don't think we're home yet and this mirror has completely disappeared or something. Now come on," and after a short pause he added, "my cute fiancée." Akane had immediately blushed red and followed Ranma with her fingers entwined with his.
*End of Flashback*
'I can't believe Ranma said all of that. It still makes me feel all giddy inside!' thought Akane.
"Hmm… that sounds like a good idea. Go for it Akane. Just don't kill them. They don't know any better,"
"Oh, thank you so much!" yelled Akane while hugging Ranma, momentarily forgetting that they were both girls.
Akane let go of Ranma and faced the attackers. She immediately dropped into a basic fighting stance that allowed good offense and good defense. As she looked at her opponents she targeted whom she thought were the weakest, then she flew at them at high speed. She threw a high-powered punch at the guy closest to her. As he crumpled over she turned and did a spinning back fist at the next guy. Hearing it connect she immediately turned her attention to the third guy she had targeted. Seeing the first two get hit the third was more ready as he had enough time to put up an ample defense. However, his ample defense against Akane was nothing more than lifting his arms to have them broken first. Which of course Akane did by punching the guys arms with as much power as she could, shattering the bones. It was later speculated by Ranma that Akane had used her chi to power up her punch. This of course meant that Akane was much better then he initially realized. The guy immediately fell down screaming in pain. She then turned to the other four, who previously had been too shocked to move. They had all now taken out their swords that they had had concealed in their garments. Seeing that the swords were real Ranma stepped in.
"Good job Akane, but I think I'm going to take over for now 'cause you haven't been trained in weapon against hand fighting. I'll have to teach that to you soon if we're gonna be stuck here for a while. So stand back and watch how I deal with. Oh yeah, and Mr. Swordsman, you don't have to worry about a thing. I got this under control," stated Ranma to first Akane, then Kenshin.
"Oro?! How did she know I was here?" muttered Kenshin to himself.
'I might have underestimated these two a great deal. I hid myself from them and yet she still knew I was here. I wonder how long she knew. The raven- haired girl was also very talented. I wonder about the red head…' thought Kenshin quietly watching.
Moments later he was too stunned to even move.
*****
Ranma had sensed the red-haired samurai for a long time. The little bursts of his aura had already told him that he was definitely someone very talented. He had also realized that he was someone that did not have any evil intentions. Because of that he had left him alone. He looked the four remaining thugs up and down. He realized instantly from their posture that three of them were mere amateurs, not even at Kuno's level of skill. The fourth however seemed to be about as good as the average Kuno so he decided to leave him for last. With that settled he went into action. He was in front of the first guy in a matter of milliseconds. A few milliseconds later he had disarmed the guy and left him unconscious. With even greater speed and accuracy he leapt into the air before anyone could see leaving the remaining three thinking that he had vanished, only to have him descend upon the two lackeys with a double axe kick to the head, rendering them helpless and unconscious. With that finished he turned his attention to who seemed to be the leader of this sorry group of losers. The last guy dashed at Ranma and swung sideways, in an attempt to cut off Ranma's head. Instead of having a decapitated head all he got was air, as Ranma had ducked a fraction of a second before it hit. Realizing this he swung downwards only to miss again and hit solid ground. Then he felt pain shoot through his head before everything went black. Ranma slowly retracted his arm letting it herself calm down for a second. Having done this type of thing almost regularly he did not feel the least bit tired. Then he turned towards Akane.
"I don't think you would learn very much from what I just showed you. I'll have to find another time to show some of the better disarming attacks, kind of like what I did to the first guy," said Ranma.
"Oh! You mean the different places you hit his hands and arms. I'm assuming they were all pressure points, right? I'll probably need to go over those too, 'cause I don't know them very well," replied Akane.
The two continued on with their conversation in the most leisurely way that it boggled Kenshin's mind. The two girls had just been attacked, most likely to be raped, and then they had beaten them all with incredible efficiency. Then to top it all off the two had started talking about how they could have done better as if this had been some kind of training lesson. Kenshin merely stood there stupefied for a moment, then gathered himself and approached the two girls.
"Umm… are you two girls ok?" asked Kenshin feeling very stupid at the moment.
"Huh? Oh you're that samurai that I sensed. Yeah we're fine. As you can see, we can take care of ourselves," Ranma rudely replied.
"Oh, don't mind Ranma, he's just in a grumpy mood. He's really not always this bad," said Akane.
"Huh? He? Did you just call her a guy?" asked Kenshin even more mystified that anyone could mistake the obviously female person in front of him.
"Oh my! My mistake. It's just that… umm… I, uh, get him confused with his twin brother who looks exactly like him. Heh heh…" stuttered Akane.
Ranma merely slapped himself in the head.
"Anyways, we have to go now. It was nice talking to you… umm…" started Akane.
"Kenshin. Himura Kenshin."
"Well, Himura-san, it was nice meeting you. My name's Tendo Akane and this is Saotome Ranma. We need to go now. Bye!" yelled Akane as Ranma started to walk away.
"Yes… it's nice to meet you two as well. I hope that we see each other again. Good-day to you both."
With that Ranma and Akane rounded the corner leaving a still amazed Kenshin in the alley, who had completely forgotten that he needed to buy tofu for dinner that night.
Author's notes: Next time, the entire Kenshin Gumi meet up with the two time travelers. How will everyone react to them? You'll have to find out next time. I really hope you all enjoy my story. Always R&R! Until next time!