Chapter Eleven:
Disclaimer: I don't own Ramna. Too bad.
Ukyo was up that morning making breakfast, Ryoga had not yet woken, and neither did Rei. But Kai was wide awake and was sitting in his baby seat beside the grill, on the counter mostly, listening to Ukyo make baby-talk at him.
"Are you a hungry baby?" She cooed; dipping the spatula in batter and letting him slurp the batter off. He grinned and smeared a small strand coming from his mouth, all over his face. She smiled and cleaned it off to make breakfast.
Rei trotted down to her mother groggily, it was Saturday morning, and they would take their breakfast upstairs to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Ukyo made breakfast for Rei, and asked her to go wake Ryoga up. Rei trotted off to their bedroom, and saw him sleeping on his mat, looking like he was having the greatest dream in the world.
"Daddy-Chan." Rei softly whispered; inching over to the mat and shaking his arm. "Wake up Daddy-Chan, its breakfast time."
"OK." He replied after Rei persisted. He walked downstairs with her on his hip, and her arms locked around his neck.
Ryoga sat down to breakfast with Rei, Kai and Ukyo. They all ate in the living room where Rei was lost in Saturday morning cartoons. Ukyo and Ryoga made light conversation over breakfast, Ukyo held Kai's bottle in place with one hand while eating with the other.
"Hello?" a voice came from the restaurant.
"We're closed!" Ukyo argued. "Try again on Monday."
"Ukyo?" the voice sounded again; sounding as if it was running up the stairs and into the living room. She sighed and moved to the door before the voice could get there.
"Were you not listening when I said-"At the sight of the owner of the voice, her's was unable to continue.
"Hey Ucchan, who is-?" Ryoga came behind her, and seeing her rather distraught expression. So he immediately stopped talking.
"Ukyo. Who is this?" Tsubasa asked; irritated. Giving Ryoga such a death-glare that it would have turned him to stone.
"Ryoga Hibiki." She answered, unsure of how to really get out of the situation. "My-Uh-"She was trying to find a word to get Tsubasa to leave, to go away and not come after her again.
"Husband." Ryoga spat. Putting his arm on Ukyo.
"H-H-H-H-Husband!?!" Tsubasa looked as if his whole world had come crashing down. "Ukyo-this isn't true is it? Tell me it isn't. Tell me he's crazy!" Ukyo shook her head, leaning on Ryoga.
"No, He's my husband Tsubasa. We've got two kids." Tsubasa looked even more horrified at that note. But he stood his ground firmly, and gave Ryoga another death glare.
"I won't quit that easily Hibiki." He clinched his fists. "Not now, not ever. I challenge you to a fight Hibiki, Two weeks from tomorrow. You meet me in the school yard and I'll show you what happens when you take away someone I love." Tsubasa turned heel and ran; beginning his training. Giving Ukyo time to lock the restaurant door again and ask Ryoga about his saving.
"Husband?"
"I panicked." He replied. "I-I figured that with the way your face-"Her soft hug stopped him from rambling on.
"Thanks." She smiled, it quickly faded though. "But now you've got to fight him. I mean, he isn't as strong as Ranchan but still. He's got this problem with turning normal things-like mailboxes- into deadly weapons."
"Don't worry about it. I can take that guy." Ukyo liked the confidence, but she didn't like that he had something in his voice that made him unsure of himself.
Ryoga left to train in a vacant lot, and was gone until two weeks from the next day. Of course, on the day of the fight, no one was there but Tsubasa, or the next day, or the next day, or the next day, then on the next day; everyone was there, and Tsubasa looked pissed off.
Ukyo left Rei and Kai with Kasumi, incase Ryoga got really badly hurt; she didn't want them to have to see that. She sat closest to the ring, Akane and Ranma sitting not far from her.
"You think Ryoga can do this?" Akane asked her, unsure of Ryoga's skills against Tsubasa.
"Of course I do." Ukyo challenged. "He knows what he's doing. Even if he isn't here yet..."
"Where are you Hibiki!?" Tsubasa bellowed in anger and impatience. "I'm going to take the prize right here and now if you don't show!"
"I'm here." Everyone's head shot towards the side of the arena; Ryoga was holding himself up with a stick, and he looked as If he did more wandering than training. "And you're not taking her, not without putting me in the grave." A smirk spread across Tsubasa's face; that was exactly what he planned to do.
"I've researched you Hibiki." Tsubasa challenged before starting. "I learned your one real weakness other than passing out at the sight of women's breasts." He pulled a fire hose from behind him; Ryoga's, Ukyo's and Ranma's faces went completely white. Akane however was oblivious to why a hose was such a big deal to Ryoga. "Ready to give up now Hibiki? Can I take my prize and be on my way?" Tsubasa crudely; still referring Ukyo as a prize to be won. Ryoga, no matter how afraid he was of Akane, and the whole school finding out he was a small black piglet named P-Chan, he wasn't going to give up. He gave his backpack to Ukyo to hold for him, drew his bamboo umbrella that weighed more than a big rig which he held with just one hand, and readied to fight Tsubasa.
Of course, Tsubasa used his water technique early in the fight, not wanting to get unnecessarily hurt before he took Ukyo away and buried Ryoga in his grave. He sprayed the hose and made Ryoga jump away from that spot; he could hear the crowed cheering for him, mostly because they found his opponite otherwise creepy and needed to die.
Ryoga used Tsubasa's head as a springboard and followed the hose all the way to the drinking fountains.
"Well I'll be damned." He thought to himself as he unscrewed the hose from the fountains and returned to the arena. "Now you can't get me wet Tsubasa! Your attack is useless!" Tsubasa looked around and found a trashcan to overtake. When he did; the lid was used as a razor disk that almost hit Ryoga.
The fight raged on; both fighters took on extream damages. Ukyo had a hard time keeping herself from going to Ryoga's rescue; knowing that Tsubasa wouldn't hurt her. But it wasn't Tsubasa's next attack that decided the fight. It was what Ryoga saw in the crowed.
Akane wasn't watching. At least not as well as she would have been if Ranma was fighting. Ranma's arm was around her; Ryoga's Akane. That brought him directly back to square one; and that square, held a heavy heart.
Tsubasa was forced against the outdoor basketball hoop; the wind being knocked out of him. Ryoga had created a crator that he knew would be his grave.
Woo cliffy. Shweet huh?