Martial Arts Mix

Chapter Seventeen

Akane blinked as ANOTHER mob of young men charged her.

"Well shit..." Akane braced herself.

The boys, startlingly, all skid to a halt. In a chorus they declared, "We, the united martial artists of Furinkan High School wish to formally apologize."

"Eeeeh?!" Akane blinked.

"We will no longer attempt to defeat you! Again, we apologize!" then the young men jogged off as a group.

"What the..." Akane muttered, then blinked. "Sumika!"

Back at the Tendo dojo Sumika sneezed suddenly. "Excuse me," she said, sitting at the table having breakfast.

"Someone's talking about you," Nabiki teased.

Kasumi just ignored that. "So in addition to the karate club you went around to all the school clubs that had been going after Akane and kicked their asses?" Kasumi noted.

"Well, me, Ryouga and Ranma," Sumika noted. Wryly she added, "I'm not crazy enough to try it on my own."

Nabiki snorted.

Kasumi also looked amused. "Well, it was well done," she observed. "Do you think it will work?" she wondered.

Sumika made a so/so gesture. "I can't see Tatewaki Kuno quitting," she admitted, "I think he's too dumb to stop."

"Pretty much," Nabiki agreed.

"I'm also worried it might piss off Akane a bit," Sumika admitted.

"Huh?" Kasumi blinked.

"She may have wanted to handle it herself," Sumika admitted.

"Huh," Nabiki murmured.

Finishing off her breakfast Sumika got up, "Well, time for Genma and Ranma fighting again. Hopefully I can last a minute or two."

"Good luck!" Kasumi cheered.

Sumika headed outside where Ranma and Genma were waiting. "Morning!" Ranma beamed, "we're gonna spar while Pops watches. Okay?"

"Just don't do too much damage," Sumika sighed.

"Would I do that?" Ranma grinned and Sumika winced.

"Go!" Genma ordered.

After weeks of hard training Sumika could, barely, keep up with Ranma. And that was with Ranma going easy on her... Sumika was quite aware that if Ranma went all out, she'd be toast. On the other hand, Sumika could now probably demolish any normal fighter.

"Not bad, Sumika," Genma grudgingly complimented her. He tilted his head as he added, "There's less holes in your guard."

Just then Ranma hit her with a punch-kick combo, sending Sumika sliding backwards. "Ooof!" she grunted.

"Counter! Always counter!" Genma encouraged.

One of the things 'Anything Goes' style was good at was hitting an opponent with a steady stream of attacks, often in wildly different styles. Ranma switched from Amazon attacks to something from Savate, to kick boxing, then some outlandish weird kung-fu.

Sumika managed to grab Ranma's leg in one of his kicks, twisted her body then threw the young man up and away.

"You're getting stronger," Genma noted.

Ranma twisted his body around, got his legs under him, bounced right off the wall then came back at Sumika.

"You have GOT to be kidding me..." Sumika sighed.

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School, at least, was MOSTLY normal. The classes at least. There were a number of weird clubs and such, but Sumika was trying to avoid them...

"So the supernatural club is ACTUALLY...?" Sumika blinked.

"Yup," Ukyo agreed. "And look out for the UFO club too."

Sumika looked at her dubiously, "You're pulling my leg."

"Not kidding,." Ukyo promised.

Sumika gave her a dubious look, but resolved to ask Ranma and Akane about it later. Akane had tracked her down earlier, thankfully she was OK about them terrorizing the various Martial Arts clubs. Now they just had to see how Tatewaki Kuno would react...

"Sumika Murasame!" a girl yelled.

Sumika looked up to see a girl in another school's uniform waiting by the class room doorway. She excused herself then walked over, "Yes?"

"Uh, I'm Yumi Lukuzawa of St. Hebereke Girls High School," the young woman bowed. "I am here to deliver a formal challenge to you on behalf of the Rhythmic Gymnastics club."

"Declined," Sumika shrugged.

"Eh?" she blinked.

"I have no reason to fight your club," Sumika noted, "and I'm not interested."

"But..." she started.

"Bye," Sumika closed the door then went back to her desk.

Ukyo looked at her with amusement. "You DO realize they're not going to let it go that easily, right?" she asked.

"Yeah yeah...," Sumika shrugged.

Later, in gym class...

"Accept our challenge!" Himeko Kurusugawa yelled, the pretty blonde tossing a sharpened batton carved with the message.

"No!" Sumika slapped it away.

Later in maths...

The women unfurled a banner at the windows, "Accept our challenge!"

"What?" the teacher. Mrs. Tsugumi blinked.

"Just ignore them, ma'am," Sumika sighed.

Later, in literature...

Sumika looked around, glad to see no disruptions.

"Please open your books to page 56," the teacher ordered.

Sumika opened her book only to find a note, "Accept our challenge!"

As she crumpled it up and tossed the note away Sumika wondered, 'How did they sneak the note in there?'

Two other challenge notes were delivered in the next classes too.

"Sumika-san, it might be a good idea to respond to these messages," the somewhat harried teacher in the last period suggested.

"I'll look into it," Sumika sighed.

She QUICKLY chased down Ranma and Akane, who had also heard about it. "We had to fight the Gymnastic Team once," Akane admitted as the three walked away from the school, "I was a member of our school team at the time."

"Then I had to sub in using my girl mode," Ranma added.

Before Sumika could answer, they were engulfed in rose petals.

"OH ho ho ho ho!" a women's voice laughed.

"Speak of the devil...," Akane noted.

"I am Kodachi Kuno, the Black Rose of St. Hebereke Girls High School, and leader of our Rhythmic Gymnastics club!" the good looking black haired woman declared. "Will you accept our challenge?!" she demanded.

Ranma whispered something to Sumika.

'Well, worth a shot...,' Sumika thought. "I accept! As the challenged party, I choose the weapon: karate! We will fight at a location of your choice."

"What?" Kodachi blinked, confused.

"Bye," Akane added and all three sprinted away before Kodachi could recover enough from surprise to object.

"Hey!" Kodachi yelped.

"Think it'll work?" Sumika asked as they raced away.

"Worth a try...," Ranma shrugged.

To be continued...

Notes: I had kinda FORGOT that Kodachi intended to challenge Sumika. So did a extended bit on that in this chapter... Now I just need to figure out how Kodachi will try to cheat and how that'll play out.