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The Kingdom Come's Again
Chapter 9
The cloaking fields the Senshi transformation provides is possibly going to be the biggest bump in the road to contacting the Senshi you may find. It allows them to act as Senshi, without someone knowing who they are. To be honest, if it wasn't for the legends I wouldn't understand its purpose. When they first appeared, according to legend, they were freedom fighters, and as such, they needed to be able to hide.
In your time, the same is likely true. They may very well be freedom fighters, since that is what they would do if born in an area rife with Tyranny, which sadly this world is filled with. They might also not have realized what they are, though I doubt that strongly.
I can't give you a way to see through their cloaking fields, since that magic is powered by the planets they represent, and not just their magical abilities. From what I understand, they would have trouble seeing each other through them if they tried. The good news, however, is that if they tell you who they are, or you see them transform, it will never affect you again, although at that point I suppose it would be fairly pointless to worry about it.
Kaga was standing at the front of the class. How he ended up with Ranma, his fiancées AND his sister and Mouse, he will never know. "Class, I am sure most of you already know Shampoo and Mousse from their...visits...to the school in the past. Lets welcome them both here, and get to work, shall we?"
The class nodded, some of the boys and girls looking very happy to see one, and afraid of the other, at the front of the class. "Good. Shampoo, Mouse, choose a seat. And NO Shampoo you can't push someone out of their seat near Ranma. Ask yes, push no."
The two teens moved into the room, Shampoo asking a boy sitting near Ranma to move with a wiggle and smile, and Mousse glaring at the one behind him, who moved very quickly indeed.
Heck, the scared boy even dragged the unconscious boy with him to the back of the room. Seems a certain Warrior ethic had grown in Furinkan, and don't leave your buddy behind was one of the unwritten rules.
"Now, we actually have a school assembly to go to. The Principal dropped this one on the faculty out of nowhere, so I will quickly take attendance and you can drop your homework in the basket on your way out. Leave as I call your name."
The bulk of the Senshi and Nerima crew turned away from him as he started on one of the far rows. "So Shampoo..." Akane said, with a deep suspicion in her voice. "What are you and Mouse doing here?"
"Kaga and Great Grandmother say we have go to school now. Is okay with Shampoo cause Shampoo get to be with husband."
"I ain't your husband." Ranma said on autopilot while turning to Ryoga and Minako, deciding distance was the safest course. Usagi leaned over into that group while the other girls started chatting with Shampoo. Mouse just sat there and glared.
"So finally gonna get you an education, eh hon." Ukyo said leaning back in her seat and considering Shampoo. "Might actually improve your speech a bit."
"Why everyone say Shampoo no talk good."
Rei smiled at the Fiery Amazon. "Might be the lack of personal pronouns, or maybe sentence structure." Smiling wider at the girl's annoyed look. "Hey, it's not your native language, so don't worry. You'll pick it up. How long have you been in Japan?"
"One year." Akane and Shampoo both answered in a rather eerie unison.
"Oh..." Rei said. 'Maybe she has hearing problems or something.'
Makoto just shrugged. "Just so long as we don't have to take that quiz he announced yesterday, I'm happy."
"Makoto Kino"
"See ya in the Gym." The Senshi of Jupiter said, getting up and heading out the door.
Back in the other conversation, Ranma and Ryoga were actually holding a civil conversation.
"No, man. Really. You have to help me keep Shampoo and Mouse under control." Ranma was saying earnestly.
"Okay, why?" Ryoga looked confused. "I mean, all Shampoo wants to do is marry you, and Mouse is out to kill you. They have been since they got here. What's changed now?"
Usagi and Minako both gave Ryoga an odd look. "Those aren't good enough reasons?" Usagi asked.
"I tried to kill him all the time...heck I still do sometimes. You never wanted to control that before."
Ranma nodded. "True, but that's 'cause you never attached me around bystanders usually. Neither do either of them, but if Shampoo gets all glomp-happy or Mousse gets all into his 'kill Ranma' mode, while in class..."
Minako blinked. "They would do that in school?"
Ryoga had actually started nodding when Ranma explained, seeing his point. "In a heartbeat, Minako. I see your point. I'll try to keep Mousse in line, but you have to field Shampoo. I outright REFUSE to become her Airen."
"Damn Straight!" Minako said.
"Minako Aino,"
"Darn. See you in the auditorium." and off she went.
Soon, everyone but Ryoga, Mouse, Shampoo, Ranma, and a few other students were in the room. Kaga was actually about to call him, when Mousse muttered something under his breath. He didn't hear what it was, and wouldn't have reacted, except Ranma turned and yelled at him.
"Listen Duck boy, you want to start something, do it outside. You trying to interrupt Mr. Kaga or something!"
"You did that quite well on you own, Saotome." Kaga said, shaking his head. "You're here after school again, Ranma. I'll keep your seat open for you. Now get to the Gym."
Muttering Ranma left, soon followed by the other students, leaving Ryoga and the Amazons.
"Before I send you three off, I need you to stay late this afternoon and take some Skill Assessment Tests. We should have done them earlier, especially for you Ryoga, but the Principal wanted to get the 'right ones'. I'll see you this afternoon.
"Yes, sir." Ryoga Said.
"Whatever." Mouse said (he was pissed, dear readers, because he only has about a dozen weapons on him. He felt naked.)
"Yes Big Brother." Shampoo happily said, and hopped out the window towards the Gym. Mouse soon following.
Kaga looked at Ryoga and shrugged. "I'll walk with you to the Gym, Ryoga." Looking at the window, he chuckled. "I suppose we might as well follow them." And the last two martial artists jumped out the windows and started running for the school.
Daisuke, walking with Hiroshi, glanced over to his friend. "You do realize, we now have a teacher that acts like the students, right?"
"Yes, my friend. I do. The question is, is that a good thing, or a bad thing."
Daisuke shrugged. "If nothing else, it should be amusing around finals."
"To true." Said Hiroshi, and into the gym they walked.
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"Alooohaaaa, Kei Kei's. Welcome to the Assembly. I be having great news for all the Students, yeah." The principal immediately started dodging thrown fruit, vegetables, and mallets (Three guesses...).
Kaga looked over to Setsuna from where they were sitting on the stage with the other teachers. "Don't waste time, do they," he pointed to the near rioting students.
Setsuna looked over, not overly surprised by the events. "Actually, according to other teachers in the school, he actively tries to annoy the students. I fully expect him to be dead before Ranma graduates, if what they say is true. And that is ignoring the Kuno son killing his father."
"How likely is that?"
"The middle Tendo girl has it at even odds, actually. Seems Kuno holds less back, while Ranma is reluctant to finish him off."
Kaga looked thoughtful. "Might have to get me a piece of that action."
"I took the long shot and he survives." Setsuna said. It's the first gamble she had found in centuries, and she was working it for all it was worth. In a strange way she was enjoying not being able to tell the future in this school.
"I knew you were a risk taker." Kaga chuckled.
Principal Kuno waited for the barrage to die down, then stood up. "You'se be bad Kei Kei's, but I forgive you, and give the big fun. Furinkan High be having a Talent show end of this month. You all welcome to audition."
The crowd went silent, and a voice, from the Senior class yelled, "What's the catch?" The irony that it was Nabiki asking that escaped no one.
"No catch. Me not even involved after this. I be putting Mr. Kaga, and Ms. Meiou in charge. Now have a big clap, Yeah!" the Hawaiian nut said clapping over his head. Leaning over to the stunned Kaga, he said. "You no have be Truancy officer no more, either. You'se have too much fun." then he jogged off laughing.
Looking over at Setsuna, Kaga asked. "So, what did you to annoy him?"
"Refused to get a bowl cut, I suspect. You?"
"Buzz cut. Wonder what odds Nabiki is putting on ME killing him now."
"Might have to change my wager." Setsuna muttered.
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Amid the students, things were a little different. They were actually thrilled. Nabiki made her way over to the Gang, finding the Senshi and the Nerima crew sitting together. 'Hmmmm... Why do I feel like there is a reason for that happening all the time.' Nabiki thought to herself. Shrugging she found her sister, strangely enough sitting next to Shampoo.
"Just the girls I was wanting to see." She said, as though she had expected to find Shampoo there. 'When did this happen? Oh well. She does work that Uniform though.' "How do you girls feel about singing, like at the Christmas party?" She asked.
Akane and Shampoo looked at each other. Shrugging the looked back. "Sure, That's fine."
"Shampoo can do that. Is Mercenary girl going to get Ranma to sing as girl again, too?"
Nabiki grinned, scaring the boy sitting right next to Shampoo. "That's not a bad idea, Shampoo-chan. Glad you mentioned it." She waved Ranma over, and explained the idea again.
Ranma, who in spite of popular belief could learn just sighed and nodded. "Not like I could say no anyway. Just tell me when you girls decide what you want to sing. No love songs though!"
"Very wise, Ranma-kun. And just for that, we will respect your request. Now off you go while we women talk intelligently."
He shrugged, and found Ryoga and Minako again. Ami and Usagi were with them as well. "So, Ami, will you do it?" Minako was asking as he arrived.
"Yes, I suppose I can, Minako." The blue haired girl replied. "It will give me a chance to use those piano lessons after all."
Usagi nodded. "I wonder if Rei is going to sing, too."
"That is likely." Ami replied. "I suspect she will bring her own music though. You know how she likes to write songs for the occasion."
"Yep." Usagi said.
Ranma looked over at Ryoga. "You gonna do anything?"
"Like what, Synchronized Bakusai Tenketsu blasts to music?" Ryoga said. "I don't have any talents for performing."
"Lucky pig." Ranma growled, sitting next to his sometimes friend, always rival. "Nabiki and the twins over there already grabbed me."
"Singing? You have my sympathies." Ryoga said, with absolutely NO sympathy what so ever.
"Thanks, P-chan."
Ryoga just chuckled, not bothered by the nickname (Minako had started using it. All was right in the world of P-chan.)
A few seats away, Ukyo and Makoto were chatting. "You aren't going to do anything either?" The sometimes Senshi of Lightning asked the spatula girl.
"Naw. I'm a chef and Martial artist. I couldn't dance or sing to save my life. I figure I'll just cater or set up a booth or something."
Makoto blinked. "They will let you do that?"
"Sure...Or at least they haven't stopped me before." Ukyo shrugged. "I just wish Konatsu was still around. He was a big help at things like this."
"I could help?"
The chef looked over the other girl. "You know how to cook Okonomiyaki?"
"Not your recipe, though I will admit it's great. I do know how my mother used to make it, though."
"Hmmm." then with a nod. "Come over to the shop tomorrow afternoon, and we will see. If you're good enough, I would love the help. I'll even give you some of the profits. How's that, get to have a talent after all."
"Works for me." Makoto said, thinking this would be a challenge.
Mousse, deciding he had held off long enough, grabbed the object he had been admiring all this time. "Shampoo, dance with me in the talent show!" he yelled.
"Um...I'm not Shampoo." Usagi said, looking down at the Amazon who was glomping her. "And I'm not a good dancer either. I must say though, you're far more polite about...this...then Kuno."
Shampoo smacked him off Usagi and beat him into the floor, while Akane looked over at the blond girl. "You know, you're right. He is more polite. I don't think he's ever really groped me before."
Shampoo stopped hitting Mouse, and looked over at the two perplexed. "What you talk about. Mouse best male at Glomping in village. How Kuno be worse then Mousse when you glomped?"
Akane and Usagi sweat dropped, and opened their mouth to explain, when the blue blunder grabbed both of them in a glomp, somehow managing to grab a breast on each. "Come my loves, let us find the Pig Tailed Goddess, and we will all DATE!"
Shampoo whacked the bokken boy with a bonbori, smashing him into the pile of derbies that Mousse was occupying. "Okay, Shampoo see your point." sympathy sipping into her voice in spite of herself.
The other girls just nodded.
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The creature now known as Shiro Mikata was standing calmly while watching the swirling vortex of energy form in front of him, the Shinobi he had found in the Yakuza's service standing next to him just as calmly. The lesser leader who monitored the Warehouse district, however, wasn't quite so calm.
"Oyabun. Don't you think we should wait outside? This...Doesn't look safe."
Mikata looked over to the scared man, blinked twice, then shrugged. "For a weakling like you, it probably is dangerous." Turning to the Shinobi "They sense fear, you know Hiro."
"So I have heard, My lord." The ninja replied.
The lesser boss was sweating. "What sense fear, sir. I know you wanted to do...something. But what?"
"This." And with that the vortex snapped into a ridged tunnel in the middle of air, and out stepped two monsters, causing the lesser boss to scream. One monster, appearing to be a carnivorous furry mammal of some form, snatched out at him with its retractile claws, and pulled the screaming man to it, biting off his head, and chewing with great satisfaction.
The other monster, which looked human except for its blood red skin and silver finger nails and teeth, smirked, and turned its attention to Mikata. "I have brought the youma you requested, my Lord. I still suggest you reconsider. He is not a very powerful one, for all his...enthusiasm."
The Dark King waved off the Youma Lord's warning. "Not to worry. I will remedy that." And grabbing the creature by its fur, he turned it to look at him. "I think he will be very much what I need when I am done."
With that he began to chant, the language one not spoken by anyone since the Empire fell flowing over the ears of the two observers. The new Oyabun's body glowed silver, with black arcs of lightning flowing through it, and touched the monster. It screamed and then began to glow, encased in a pulsing shell of silver energy.
"There, that should do the job. Let us sit while he incubates." Mikata said, walking over to the table and chairs that the dead leaser boss had arranged for. "Wine?"
"No thank you lord, I am your body guard." Hiro the ninja said, though he did sit.
The youma lord happily accepted a glass, and sipped. "So my lord, what are your plans for this foot soldier?"
"Mainly, a test. I want to see how the Senshi react to something outside of their experience. Of course if he kills one or two of them, so much the better."
"Ahh, of course sir. Will it have any weakness when you're done?"
Mikata chuckled. "Of course. It will be weak physically, or at least no stronger. Its resistance to the Senshi's attacks will be note worthy, however.
The youma nodded. "Then they are done for, since I doubt any of them have the skill to fight a monster like that with their body or weapons."
"Pluto or Uranus might. The rest, are of no concern." Thinking for a moment. "Well, Saturn could be an issue, I suppose, but I doubt such a sweet girl will destroy the planet just to kill that." He shrugged the concern off, as negligible.
This reminded Hiro of one fact he had already discovered. His new lord was completely insane. 'Why does my honor demand I work for him!' he thought to himself and shrugged. Nothing he could do, his honor trapped him, so he might as well accept his fate. And hope he stayed in his lord's good graces.
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Time passed, as it is wont to do, and afternoon rolled around. "Ahh, Ami. Glad you could help me here. Ignore Ranma." Kaga said as the smartest Senshi entered the room.
"That is my pleasure, Mr. Kaga. It gives me a chance to talk you about extra curricular studies. I hope that's okay."
"No problem. Just make sure we grade these quick. I don't want to be here all night." he chuckled
Ami smiled and nodded, and got plowed into by a running Minako, who was dragging Ryoga. "Sorry Mr. Kaga, Ryoga got out of my sight and I just found him!" She yelled, Shampoo and Mouse already there and waiting.
"That's fine, Minako. I know all about his problems. Seems it's in his school records." he gestured to some seats as he bent down to help Ami pick up her things.
"Ohhh.... I'm sorry Ami!"
"It's okay, Minako. It was an old purse, anyway." Ami said, said purse having torn on the side of a desk, spilling its contents all over the floor. She quickly picked everything up and stuck them in her school bag.
Everything except the communicator that had slid under Kaga's desk.
"Well, if you all will settle down, I'll give you this test. It is taken in sections and will measure your skills in History, Japanese, English, Math, and Science." He opened the folder and sweat dropped. "University of Tokyo...what the hell?"
Ami looked over his shoulder. "Oh, those are very good tests. I only got a Ninety when I took them last year. They were fun, too."
"Um, right." He passed out the first booklets, looking at the girl with total incredulity.
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Makoto, Usagi, Rei, Akane, and Ukyo had taken off right after school, and headed for the Juuban mall. "I tell you two, the prices in Nerima are inflated." Rei said to the Nerima girls, shaking her head.
Usagi nodded. "Yeah, that one ice cream parlor was the most expensive I have ever eaten at."
"That's due to Insurance." Ukyo commented. "I have the same problem with pricing. I have to walk all over Tokyo to find deals on ingredients to keep mine down.
Akane nodded. "Too many martial artists making doors instead of using the ones provided."
"Well, Shampoo and Ryoga can't help themselves I suppose." This was from Makoto. When Rei and Usagi gave her an odd look, she shrugged. "You left the locker room before Shampoo got there. She punched like, two holes in the walls on her way. And before Minako caught him I think Ryoga had blown up a part of the school wall.
"Everything seemed fine when we came back to the lockers." Usagi looked perplexed.
Akane nodded. "The contractors in Nerima are the fastest in the world. I swear it."
With this the girls started shopping, finding many a deal to slay over the next hour. It was actually very much fun while it lasted.
GRRROWWWWWLLLL.... BOOOOOM...CRASSHHHHH!!!!!!
"What the hell?" Ukyo yelled, running over to the railing, followed soon by the other girls. They were treated to the sight of a weird furry beast smashing through a kiosk, and smacking several people down, draining energy from them before moving on.
"Oh my God, its huge!" Akane yelled. "We have to stop it.
The three Senshi were in general agreement, but had to get away. "You girls go that way, we'll go this way. Find a phone and call the cops!"
"Right." Everyone yelled, coincidently the Senshi and Nerima girls split and running separate ways. Of course one scream and the two martial artists had broken off and jumped over the rails after the monster.
"Great." Rei said, the three Senshi ducked into an empty store, and quickly transformed.
Rei pulled out her communicator while Makoto and Usagi ran after the other girls and the monster. "Better call the others. That thing looked worse then the last few."
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BEEP BEEP
"Um, Minako, do you have a pager?" Kaga asked, looking at the blond haired girl. "Um, are you okay Minako?" Ryoga looked a little unwell, too.
Ami was surprised, but assumed it was just Usagi calling to ask her something. Hers hadn't gone off after all.
BEEP BEEP. This time from under Kaga's foot.
The teacher leaned down and picked up the communicator, even as Ami started to try to head him off to it. It flipped open to show Sailor Mars, who was yelling without looking into her own screen. "Mercury, Venus ANSWER DARN YOU! There's a Youma attack at the Juuban mall."
Kaga looked at the Communicator, and then at Ami and Minako. His face showed him working through a problem, in his mind. 'Oh no.' thought Ami.
When Setsuna ran into the room, it was the last piece of the puzzle for Kaga. "Mr. Kaga, can I borrow Minako and Ami for...a..."Kaga blinked, his eyes flying from Ami, to Minako, to Setsuna, and back again. It all clicked and he said the first thing to come into his mind. "Oh boy..."
Ranma who had heard the same thing from Minako's communicator (Minako had really tried to be subtle about opening it, but in her panic forgot about Ranma). "Hey, are you guys those weird Cheerleaders from yesterday?"
Kaga said the second thing to come to his mind. "Oooh boy..."
AN: And the secret is out! Now Kaga, along with Ranma, Shampoo, and Mousse know. Wonder what is going to happen next time. So do you? Then read the next chapter BAKA...well, after I write it anyway. Heh. (Author sweat drops, and sneaks away.)