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Blessings in disguise Ch 25
"Talking"
Shouting
'Thinking'
*Sound Affects*
{Written Words}
' Memory '
(Chinese)
"So how did it go?" Soun asked Akane from behind his newspaper the next morning as the three didn't get back till late.
"I had to back out because I wasn't good enough." Akane said sheepishly. "But Ryoga and Ranma were able to clean them up in short order."
"Well what do you think that means for you?" Soun said laying down his paper.
"It means that I need to get stronger."
"And how do you plan to accomplish this?" Soun asked.
"I'm thinking about asking Ranma and Ryoga to train me."
"You wound your father by not letting letting him teach you." Soun said dramatically.
"Can it dad. Genma is stronger than you are and Ranma and Ryoga are stronger than him." Akane said as it looked liked three blocks with the names of those three people landed on Soun's back.
After Akane and Ranma left for school Soun went to consult Genma. "Hey Saotome do you think I'm weak?"
"I don't know Tendo. It's been a few years since I fought you in a serious sparring match." Genma answered seriously.
"Then let's test that." Soun said turning to walk to the dojo.
"Fine by me my friend." Genma answered following. Upon entering the dojo the two faced off against each other.
"Come at me with everything with everything you got." Soun commanded dropping into a stance.
"As you wish." Genma said before he started gathering his ki.
'He has gotten stronger.' Soun thought as he was able to feel it. Then Genma seemed to disappear.
'So fast.' Was all that Soun thought before Genma gave him a punch in the gut knocking the wind out of him.
"Well it appears that trying to keep up with Ranma has indeed made me stronger." Genma said before offering his hand to Soun.
"Why is it that when you two spar in the mornings you don't go all out?"
"Because we agreed to try and keep property damage to a minimum." Genma said matter of factly
"Which proves that Akane was quite right. I am weak." Soun said looking quite depressed at the realization.
"It's not that big of a deal we just need to go on a short training trip." Genma said with a smile on his face pulling his loaded pack from out of nowhere.
"Right away." Soun said as he practically ran back to the main house to get ready and tell Kasumi where he was going.
Genma due to this decision was spared humiliation for a little while longer. Ranma on the other hand wasn't so lucky.
"Well class we have two new students joining our class as of today." The teacher said indicating two identical twins. They both had waist length brown hair and brown eyes. The biggest difference between the pair was one was wearing the boys uniform and the other the girls uniform.
While they introduce themselves they proceeded to fry up okonomiyaki.
"My name is Ukyo. And I'm Ukyu." The pair said as they put the finishing touches on their masterpieces.
"Our hobby is cooking exceptional okonomiyaki." Ukyo said as the pair threw their finished products throughout the classroom.
Ranma-chan caught one in her mouth and slowly chewed it deep in thought. "Hmm. I recognize this recipe."
"And who are you that you should recognize the recipe girl?" Ukyo said as she pointed the large spatula on her back towards Ranma-chan her eyes blazing.
"Ucchan it me Ranma. Don't you remember ten years ago?" Ranma-chan asked as she bounced in front of Ukyo. "But I don't recall you having a sister."
"If you're Ranma then it's all because of you that I have an identical twin." Ukyo yelled as she lashed out with her giant spatula.
After swinging a few times and missing Ukyu stopped Ukyo from carrying on further. "Sis Ranma's a girl."
Hearing this Ukyo came back to her senses and saw that Ranma-chan was indeed a well endowed girl. "Then all of this was for nothing." Ukyo said collapsing to her knees.
"Uh Ukyo are you a girl?" Ranma-chan asked producing a kettle of hot water from nobody knew where and poured it over her head.
"Idiot I'm not in my cursed form." Ukyo yelled before it struck her that Ranma-chan must know about jusenkyo. And all but five other people were wondering about the exchange.
"How do you know about Jusenkyo?" Ukyo and Ukyu asked at the same time.
"I've been there." Ranma-chan said simply not elaborating.
"Well then what say we test a theory." Ukyu said an almost sadistic expression on her face.
"Now let's just sit down and quietly discuss this. Okay?" Ranma-chan stated not wanting her curse revealed while school was in session.
"Discuss what?" one of the students asked his curiosity peaked.
"Yeah and what's all of this about Jusenkyo?" Another student asked curious about this as well.
"That's none of your business." Ryoga said as he walked into the room. Hiroshi and Diasuke followed Ryoga's lead taking over crowd control while Ryoga kept Ukyo and Ukyu away from Ranma-chan. "How about we go somewhere after classes to discuss this like civilized people?" Ryoga asked satisfied when they nodded their heads in consent. With that Ryoga walked out of the room a little black pig running in a minute later diving into Ranma-chan's school bag. This of course didn't escape the twins notice.
Later that day Ukyo and Ukyu showed up at the equipment shed behind the school to see that Ranma-chan was there in a gi, Ryoga was present as well along with Akane, Yuki, Shiori, Hiroshi, and Diasuke.
"Ok what exactly are we discussing?" Ukyo asked.
"First I want to know did you fall into the spring of drowned twins?" Ranma-chan asked.
"Yes we did." Ukyo answered. "Twice." Ukyu added.
"Then that means you two are permanently twins." Ranma-chan stated matter-of-factly.
"That's what we were informed." Ukyo said sighing.
"Can you explain how exactly you fell in twice?" Yuki asked.
"Well we were shocked to see our own faces without a mirror that we fainted and fell back in." Ukyu answered sheepishly.
"And I think you said something about that not being in your cursed form." Sayuri added almost dismissively.
"Yeah about that." The twins said in unison then Ukyu continued. "We both thought that it would be interesting to each be cursed to turn into something else."
"But when dad decided to use the training grounds for training. The results were rather humorous." Ukyo finished smiling at the memory.
Flashback
"Do we have to dad?" A ten year Ukyo and Ukyu begged out simultaneously.
"Think of the cursed pools as motivation to not lose your balance." Okonomaru Kuonji told his now twin daughters.
Without any further complaint the two girls did as instructed.
"Oh sir you know springs is dangerous but still you do?" The guide asked.
"Of course. A martial artist's life is wrought with danger so it's a good learning experience. And who knows their cursed form may be something useful." Okonomaru said as followed his daughters. But rather than gracefully land on the bamboo he slipped off and fell into the pool below.
Flashback ended
Ukyo came back to reality when she heard laughter resulting from her sister recounting the memory.
"And as dad was crawling out of the pool the two of us were laughing hard enough that we fell off our own poles." Ukyu continued fighting to keep a straight face but failing miserably.
"And what springs did you two fall into?" Daisuke asked after they calmed down a little.
"Well I fell into the spring of the drowned Zodiac." Ukyu said still giddy.
"Really? And how does that work?" Ryoga asked curious.
When my curse is activated I turn into one of the animals of the chinese zodiac but it's completely random which animal it is." Ukyu answered.
"That actually sounds halfway useful." Ranma-chan said before turning to Ukyo "And how about you Ukyo?"
"I honestly have no idea." Ukyo said before continuing. "All I know is it appears to be a female human. The guide was clueless as well."
"Can we see?" Ryoga asked.
"Sure." Ukyo said slowly as she picked up a canteen and poured it over her head.
The entire room gave a gasp when she changed. Though she physically didn't appear to change something was there that wasn't there before.
"Ryoga are you seeing what I see?" Ranma-chan asked the lost boy.
"I surely do." Ryoga whispered back.
Catching this exchange Ukyo looked at the pair curiously. "You know something don't you?"
"What makes you say that?" Ranma-chan asked innocently.
"The recognition in your eyes is unmistakable." Ukyo said pointedly.
"Okay you have us." Ryoga said holding his hands up in surrender. "We know exactly what you are."
"Do tell." Ukyu said.
"Well in your cursed form you are a being that strikes fear into the hearts of many creatures across the universe." Ryoga said.
"You Ukyo are a Saiyan." Ranma-chan finished.
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You know Shane I think that you ought to leave this story in the crossover category.
Well gee Chris thanks. I couldn't possibly know this.
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