The Tienshin Han Saga
By: Tienshin Han
Notes:
This is just a fan-fic. I wrote it, and I hope you will like it. It is about Tien, a majorly underused character from Dragonball/Z/GT. I am Tien. That's how I know all the stuff that happened here. It is all made by me, except for the characters. They belong to their respectable owners. That means that Akira Toriyama, and Rumiko Takehashi created the characters in this fan-fic. Some were made up by me and other fine people. So, please, anyone, don't sue me, I am not making any profit, nor plan to, nor will, by the writing of this. If you notice anything wrong, misspellings or inconsistencies in the plot, please take into consideration that this is my first fan-fic. If you find anything that doesn't fit into the DB/Z/GT timeline and story, please e-mail me at "old_man_picking_nose@hotmail.com". I will gladly debate on why I tell it differently. So, please, sit back and read on...
The Tienshin Han Saga
Chapter 3: What the HFIL happened?
I woke up from another dream about Lunch. She was in it telling me to come home. She was yelling out my name and she looked distressed. In the dream I couldn't do anything about it. I was so sad when I woke up in the morning and I was sweating so much I thought some one splashed me with water, or worse, I thought I might've wet the bed. I wiped my forehead and felt the moisture slid off. I looked around the room and saw the clock. It said 6:00 AM. I sat up in bed and put my head in my arms. I knew that getting back to sleep would be a hard task to accomplish, so I decided to get up and start my training a little earlier.
I got dressed and headed to the back yard, or as its sometimes called the court yard. I did my usuall streatches and got to work. It was an hour or so later that I spotted Genma Soatome, Ranma's father, moving around inside the house. I looked through the window and saw him shuffling through the fridge in his underwear. He scrathed his backside and pulled out a carton of milk and began to drink. I looked away and shivered. He popped his head out of the window and saw me. He spewed out the milk and ran to his room. He musta figured that since Ranma wasn't getting up he didn't have to either.
A while later I saw Akane and Soun eating breakfast. I didn't notice them when they got up.
"Good morning, Tien!" called Soun waving his hand while smiling. He looked nervous and kinda surprised. So did his youngest daughter, Akane. I didn't know why until I noticed I was flying. Thats not normal here I thought to myself. I went to the ground and went inside to get some breakfast.
"So, Tien, I heard you screaming last night," Kasumi said from behind me. I didn't notice her there.
"Uh... I was?" I asked. She nodded her head. It must've been that dream I had I thought to myself. "I musta been talking in my dreams."
"About a girl?" asked kasumi.
"Uh... sorta." I said. It did have Lunch in it after all. But, it wasn't like that. She was sad and so distant in that dream.
"Well, I could hear you pretty clearly." she said.
"Me too." said Soun.
"I could hear you quite good too, Tien." said Akane. They all seemed to have good ears. "We really shouldn't pry, guys." Akane said to her sister and father. I looked over and saw Ranma wobbling around in his bandadges. He looked like he was healing quickly becuase he yanked at a peice of the bandadge and started to unravel it. Underneath what was revealed was just slightly scarred skin. It was healing really quickly.
"Ranma, my boy, you look great today." said Soun. Ranma still had wrappings over his eyes though.
"Dr.Tofu's medication does wonders, dosn't it, Ranma?" said Kasumi while pouring some tea for him. Ranma sat down at the table feeling its surface to make sure he was not gonna sit on anything.
"Yeah, I'm almost healed." he said, sounding spiteful towards me. Kasumi took Ranma's hands and put the cup of tea in them. He sipped away at it thirstally. I was amazed that the healing was this quick. I'm used to seeing senzu beans do their work, which is a lot faster I might add, but this was some fast healing.
Just then the doorbell rang and Kasumi went off to answer it happily. She swung the door open and greeted someone. I couldn't tell who it was becuase there was a starving looking Ryouga standing in my way. His stomach growled and he walked into the kitchen.
"I bet your hungry, arent you, Ryouga?" asked Soun. Ryouga stared at Mr.Tendou for a moment and gave him the 'You think?!' look.
"Yes, I am hungry." he said. I noticed him glance at Akane every once in a while. He watched her eat her food. He watched her as she slid the food past her delicate lips and into her mouth. Ryouga started to sweat a little.
"So, Ryouga, how long are you staying with us?" asked Akane.
"Wha?! I mean..." Ryouga snapped out of his trance, "I don't know for sure. I thought that I'd teach Ranma here a few things before leaving again."
"Ha!" Ranma said with his mouth full of food, "I could beat even while I'm this beat up! I'd be the one teaching you a few things."
"Yeah, like teaching me to lose? You can do that fine, Ranma." Ryouga said back defiantly. He crossed his arms and smiled. "Besides, I got a new technique I wanna try on you."
"Am I your new guinea PIG." Ranma said putting emphesis on the word pig. Ryouga threw his fist out and stopped it in front of Ranma's face. He had to act like a guest I guess.
"Fine, if you don't wanna fight me becuase you're too scared... I'll back off." Ryouga said making Ranma look like a wuss. Before you knew it the two boys were fighting on the table. It got flipped over and they were standing on the back side. They were growling to each other's face. Soun got in between them and pushed them apart. They looked like the didn't wanna start a fight at the moment anyhow.
"Uh, are all mornings at the Tendou training hall always this odd?" I asked. Just then Kasumi came back into the room with someone following behind her. The person behind her was Terry. He smiled and waved at me.
"Hey, Terry." I said, glad to get some releif from the wackiness at the breakfast table.
"Yo!" he said and tipped his hat.
"Uh, everyone, this is a friend of mine that I met yesterday. His name is Terry Bogard." I introduced him. He bowed and took off his cap.
"Nice to meet you Terry!" said Soun, then under his breath he muttered "He better not ask to stay here for a while too... we've got enough freeloaders."
"Hi, Terry, nice to meet you." said Akane blushing. I suppose she was alittle bit attracted to him. She got up and walked over and put out her hand.
"Same here." he said taking her hand and kissing it. She blushed even more. He flashed a goofy smile.
"The names Ryouga." said the bandana wearing martial artist. He turned around in his spot to say that and then turned back to the food Kasumi had just set at the table.
"I'm Ranma Saotome." said the pigtailed martial artist. Ranma stuck his hand out in the air not pointing towards Terry at all. Terry grabbed his hand and shaked it.
"Its great to meet you all." Terry said, "but Tien promised me that we could practice today. You still up for it, Tien?" he asked me.
"I always am." I said and got up after finishing my food. We rushed out of the crowded kitchen and into the courtyard in the back. I hadn't noticed the little pond before for some reason, but today I did. The sun glistened right offa it. Me and Terry were about to spar when Ryouga came out and sat down to watch us. He looked alittle bit interested.
"Eh, you gonna start?" I aksed Terry.
"I'll start." he said. He ran forward and skidded to a stop in front of me and swung out a fist. I let it hit me right in the jaw. My head didn't even move or twitch. He looked surprised. I then kneed him in the stomach with my right knee and kicked him into the air with my other foot. When he flew into the air I jumped up after him and hit him in the chest with the side of my hand in a chopping movement. He got hit hard and fell to the ground. He thunked down hard on the grass. he struggled to get back up. Ryouga looked amazed. He sat there with an astonished look on his face. I landed back on my feet and brushed off my shirt.
"Nice punch." I stated. Terry looked at me as if I were some kinda animal. He didn't know what had hit him, and why it hit him so hard. He was covering his mouth, and when he pulled his hand away there was a blood stain on his palm.
"Nice... whatever you did." he said, "I didn't really see what you did though."
"I'm used to fighting extremly fast." I told him, which is true. If you ever fight a guy named Buu that happens (sure he kicked me and I was down but who cares?).
"I'll say." said Ryouga. He didn't look like he was gonna say anything else. Instead he charged at me and swung at my face with the back of his hand. I cought his hand inches in front of my face.
"Why'd you attack?" I asked.
"Unbelievable... no wonder Ranma's in bandadges after training with you! You're some kinda inhuman beast! The third eye shoulda been a dead give away." Ryouga looked shocked.
"I'm as human as you are." I told him. Terry got up as I released Ryouga's fist. Terry weakly walked towards me and patted me on the back. Ryouga jumped ontop of the wall. He turned and looked at me. Then he jumped off of the wall and over the side.
"Ryouga, wait! Where are you going?" I shouted. It was too late. He had left.
"SHUT UP!" came a tiny voice from the window. It was Chao Tsu sticking his head out. He looked like he just woke up and he wasn't too happy about it.
"Sorry, Chao Tsu." I said.
"You'd better be sorry..." he said and pulled his head back inside the window.
Later in the day me and Terry were at Dr.Tofu's with Ranma and Akane. Terry was getting his wounds looked after. He apparantly had three bruised ribs and a cracked rib. I didn't use full force in my shots and maybe its a good thing that I didn't. Dr.Tofu had Terry's ribs pretty well bandadged up.
"So, you're staying at the Tendou residence?" Dr.Tofu asked me.
"Yes, yes I am." I responded. I sat on a small stool that was really close to the ground. Ranma sat patiently waiting for Dr.Tofu to diagnos his condition to see if its improved. Terry hopped off of the table and onto the ground. He held his side and moved his other arm in a circle.
"Hey, thanks, Dr.Tofu." said Terry.
"Oh, no problem." Dr.Tofu said smiling. He patted Terry on the back. Ranma moved quickly towards the table and sat down on it. Dr.Tofu started to pull off Ranma's shirt. He then told me and Terry to go with Akane outside while he treated Ranma.
We left his office and waited outside. Me and Terry were joking about me hitting him again. Akane sighed and sat on a bench. A ice cream man went by on his bike and we stopped him. Terry bought as all ice cream. He was so generous.
"Thanks for the ice cream." I said showing my appreciation. Akane looked happy finally with her ice cream. Just then a chain came flying out of no where and wrapped around Akane. It pulled her offa the bench and into the sky. She landed in the arms of a long haired glasses clad chinese boy. He looked at her and put her down.
"Sorry, you are not Ranma." he said.
"Mousse, don't do that!" Akane shouted at him. I was begining to wonder how many great fighters this little place had. Mousse walked towards me and adjusted his glasses. He stared me right in the face.
"Shampoo!" he then proceeded to grab me and hug me. I freed myself from his grasp easily. He fell backward flailing his arms wildly. He wore a long sleeved Chinese robe. He looked back angrily.
"What was that for?" I asked. He took a stance and flashed his teeth.
"What did you do to Shampoo!?" he yelled. He must've thought I had Shampoo.
"I don't have her." I told him. He wouldn't listen and he jumped at me with a whole crap load of chains and maces and assorted weapons flying out of his sleeve. I was about to stop them when suddenly Mousse and his weapons stopped in midair. They just floated in front of me.
"What?!" Mousse said confused. He could just float there swinging his arms and legs.
"Chao Tsu, where are you?" I asked out loud. Chao Tsu came out from behind a garbage can holding his palms out in front of him.
"Heh heh, this is too easy." Chao Tsu had that evil grin again.
"Chao Tsu, just put him down." I commanded.
"Fine." He flung Mousse's body against a wall. The wall cracked when he connected with it. Terry looked at Chao Tsu with amazment. Akane did too.
"Holy crap, what can you guys do that you're not telling us?" Terry said astonished. Chao Tsu brushed his hands together. He walked over to me and looked up at me.
"Whats up, doc?" he asked. Mousse fell from the wall and looked at Chao Tsu with anger. Just then a lady on a stick came bouncing in. She was actually holding onto the stick and bouncing on it's end. She had long grey hair and was really wrinkly.
"You're the one with great power that I sense. You must fight Shampoo for marriage!" the shriveled old women uttered.
"Uh, me or him?" said Chao Tsu.
"You..." she said pointing at Chao Tsu. She looked very determined too.
"Agh, again with the challenges..." Akane muttered to herself. Terry looked like he was as confused as me. This was really going nuts.
"Lemme see this Shampoo first." Chao Tsu said. The old women held out a picture and showed it to him. "Where is my beautiful fiancee?" He asked.
"She is not here." the old woman said. She looked Chao Tsu in the eye. "Uh, if you don't mind me asking, why are you dressed like a Chinese Vampire?"
"Thank you, finally someone who knows their facts. I'm not a doll thing or a mime, people." Chao Tsu floated up offa the ground. "So, where is she then?" he asked again.
"I don't know right now." said the old woman. Terry and I finished our ice cream cones and started dragging Chao Tsu into Dr.Tofu's office.
"What are you two doing?!" he shouted. He kicked and screamed. He then bite Terry's arm and kicked me in the groin. He bolted out of there and to the old woman's side.
"Take me to her." he said. The two lept onto the top of a roof and then started to travel that way from building to building. Me and Terry and Akane just stood there confused. Mousse got up and dragged himself away. Ranma came out of Dr.Tofu's office and stepped outside. He stumbled a bit and tried to get his balance. His eyes had newer wrappings on them and his burns looked completely healed.
"You look better, Ranma." said Akane.
"Gee, thanks Akane." he said. We all started to walk as we told him what happened with Mousse and the old woman and Chao Tsu. Turns out her name is Cologne.
We got back to the dojo and Akane went straight to her room. Ranma was getting along pretty well being blinded. He was adapting well.
"So, does that KI sensing thing help you get around while you're blind?" I asked.
"Yeah, it was a lesson that took alot to learn, but I can sense where you guys are now, and where other things are like trees and stuff." He seemed to be putting it to good use afterall.
"I was waiting for your arrival." said Ryouga. He was standing in the middle of the living room. "Ranma, I will defeat you with the same technique that I will use to defeat Tien!"
"HUH?!" I said, wanting to know why he was thinking of challenging me. He just smirked. Ranma looked like he didn't know what was going on, but I could tell he didn't like it either.
"I will use my newest final attack to destroy Tien in a match today, at 5:00pm." Ryouga announced.
"You had better have someone to guide you to the fight." said Ranma.
"Shut up." said Ryouga irritated. I didn't like the way this was going. I knew that where I come from the fighters are alot tougher than they are here. And I might hurt him too badly as I almost did to Terry. What made him think that he could defeat me? "You," he pointed at me, "Just be there." He walked past me and went through a door. We all stared at the door as he left. A moment later the door opened and he went out. "Alright, which is the real door?" he said. I pointed to the door and he headed towards it. He slamed it as he left. I was wondering why he had gone in the closet in the first place.
"Well, you don't have to worry about fighting him for a while. He'll get lost." said Ranma.
"Not to mention he didn't say where he would fight you." Terry said. We all just went on with the rest of the day.
At 5:00pm there was a knock at the door. Kasumi opened it and Ryouga came in. I was sitting with Ranma and Terry in the courtyard. We were trying to fly. I already could, but I wanted to see if I could teach them. Ryouga came through and out into the yard. He threw a headband at me. It sliced through the air and I caught it. I looked at it for a second.
"How many bandanas do you got?" I asked him. He let out a battle cry and charged at me. He started to let loose a flurry of attacks from every direction. I was blocking and dodging them all. I was wondering what he was planning to do. He did, after all, mention having prepared a special technique. He then stopped punching and kicking and jumped back. He put his arms together in an X and started to say something. He then looked up at me and his eyes started to glow red. He then put his arms straight out in front of him. I didn't know what kinda power he was building up becuase it didn't seem very strong. He then shouted something and a blast shot out from between his arms. It came straight at me. Now, I coulda have dodged it but instead I decided to try to block it. I was so stupid. The blue blast hit my arm as I tried to deflect it. My arm then turned blue and froze up. The freezing started to flow over my skin and from my arm to my shoulder.
"What?!" I shouted. I wasn't expecting such a technique. I do have to admit that when he fired that thing it moved fast. But still, I should have tried to dodge it instead. The blue stopped at my shoulder and my arm remained frozen. I couldn't move it at all.
"Heh, you thought you would do that, thats why it was the perfect technique to use on you!" Ryouga said to me sounding confident.
"I havn't ever seen Ryouga do an attack like that before." said Akane who was watching with the others from the side. Genma was holding up a banner that said 'Go Ryouga' on it.
"Go Ryouga! Destroy that maniac!" Genma yelled. He still didn't like me it seemed.
"My arm... its frozen!" I said.
"Well, duh!" said Chao Tsu who was sitting with the others.
"My icey northern blast did it. Now I shall finish you off!" Ryouga lept forward at me and attacked again. I dodged out of the way easliy and clubbed him in the back of the neck. He fell to the ground unconscience.
"That was my arm!" I shouted. I was mad.
A while later Ryouga woke up and he tried to attack me. They had to tie him down. My arm had thawed by that time but it was feeling a little bit tingly. I had just about thought that my troubles were over. I was wrong. They were just beginning. At that moment a cold liquid splashed me from behind. I was standing outside in the courtyard with this liquid covering me. I looked behind me and saw a shadowy figure jump off of the wall. He had long hair and glasses. I knew it was Mousse.
"Hey, you!" I jumped over the wall after him and chased him down the street. For some reason I couldn't keep up. I tried to catch him but I was running at about the same pace as him. Luckliy for me he tripped over a little kid on the sidewalk. He fell on his face and did a flip off of it and onto his feet again. I tried to fly over the kids but something stopped me. I instead jumped at the last second. I grabbed onto the end of Mousse's robe and pulled him to the ground. I sat on his stomach.
"What was that for?" I asked. I had enough from these people here, and I wanted to know what he was doing.
"You're not Ranma." he said after adjusting his glasses.
"No, I'm not Ranma. I'm Tien." I said to him.
"My appologies." he said. I let him get back up and he ran off.
"Hey, why'd you splash me!!" I yelled at him as he ran, "Tell me!!"
"What happened, Tie--!!!" Terry had followed and started to say something but stopped for some reason. He just stared at me. I looked back not knowing what his problem was.
"What?" I asked. He grabbed my arm and pulled me over to a puddle. He pointed at the puddle. I looked at it and saw my reflection. I wasn't normal Tien anymore. I was... a younger version of myself. I looked about Ranma's age.
"AHHH!!" I shouted. My voice even sounded a little younger. "What did that guy do to me?" I was gonna blame this right on Mousse.
"I dunno, lets head back to the dojo, maybe they can tell us." Terry suggested. We ran back to the dojo as fast as we could. We got back and I explained what happened to me to the others.
"Sounds interesting." said Genma looking at me, "But you can't fly?"
"Uh, no. I can't shoot my usuall ki blasts either." I told him.
"Really..." Genma started to rub his chin. He then lunged at me and I threw him into the pond outside. He got back out as a panda.
"AHH!" I still didn't know about this whole panda-Genma thing by now. Just then a little familiar looking tiny man jumped down and landed on top of Genma's head. He was that little man that fought Chao Tsu for the underwear yesterday.
"Happosai, what brings you here?" asked Ranma. He must have been using his KI sensing to feel his presence.
"Ah, Ranma, my boy! Good to see that you're... blind?" He asked. He must know these people I thought.
"Yeah..." said Ranma sullenly. Happosai jumped onto his lap.
"Cheer up. Don't be so glum." Happosai said. He gave Ranma a pat on the shoulder. He sat down and started to unpack his giant bag of women's undergarments. We decided to tell Happosai about what happened with me and Mousse because as Ranma told me 'he knows alot more than you'd expect an old man to know.'
"Well, I suppose that this could be the result of being slpashed by young changing water. I had some but just today a young man with glasses bought it from me." He explained.
"That was Mousse!" Ranma yelled at Happosai.
"Uh, if you don't mind me asking, why didn't you use the water on yourself? You're pretty old." said Terry.
"Becuase I was already splashed with different water that would make using that young changing water not work." he explained, "But I do have some extra water left if anyone wants to buy it."
"Is it permenant?" I aksed.
"Yes." he said, "Until you age back to how old you really are."
"Well, at least I got some extra years to train. I'm alot weaker than I was before, I can feel it." I could actually feel that my strength was gone. I was a little shorter and my muscles werent as big as they used to be. I was disappointed that all my years of training were for nothing. It seemed hopeless. But at least now I could have a few extra years for training.
"Its not too bad, Tien." said Ranma, "At least you don't turn into a girl."
"Uh... ok." I said, becuase at the time I no clue about his curse.
It was later that day at about 9:00 at night that I decided to go for a little training session. I wanted to see if this place really was the second earth that was supposed to be great for training. I figured that there were enough fighters here to make the place an awesome training spot. Anyway, I wanted to go to the woods or something. I also didn't really want to go alone. I am a loner usually except that Chao Tsu keeps hanging around me. I wouldn't mind being alone out there, but having someone else around is always nicer. I didn't want to take Chao Tsu though. I was thinking of inviting Ranma and Terry. Possibly Ryouga if he wasn't going to try to kill me.
So I got up off the couch and went into the kitchen. Nibiki looked up from where she sat on the floor in front of the t.v. As I passed through the doorway I suddenly saw something fly at me from the corner of my eye. I wasn't fast enough to stop it though. It was Genma Saotome, Ranma's father, and he was holding a big stick. He smacked me on top of the head with it and broke it. I winced as I felt the pain. It wasn't too bad probably becuase I do know how to take shots to the head, but still it really hurt.
"OWW! What was that for?!" I yelled at my attacker. I was quite upset by this.
"You are now weak enough to fight me!" he yelled and thrust his pole at me. He spun it around expertly. I retreated backwards as he attacked. I walked backwards right into the wall and had no where to go. I reached my legs up and stopped the stick in front of me by grabbing it with my feet clasped around it. I yanked it out of his arms and it flew into the next room. Genma wasn't deterred from attacking me at this time. He lunged forward and struck me in the side of the face with his fist.
"HAA!!" he shouted as he attacked. I got my head hit against the wall but stopped it from going through the wall. I kicked from my side and hit him in the stomach. he flew back and landed on his feet. He took a stance.
"What are you attacking for?" I asked while resisting the urge to rub my face to see if it was ok. I didn't want to show any weakness.
"You tried to kill my son, and now I must avenge his death!" he yelled.
"I didn't kill him!" I shouted back.
"Oh... really? Yes, I suppose you didn't kill him, did you?" he rubbed his chin.
"No, I didn't. Now, could you please let me go talk to Ranma?" I asked, wanting the middle aged man to leave me alone.
"First you must... DIE!" he jumped at me with his foot and I feigned it away and punched him in the stomach while he was still in mid air. He crumpled on the ground in pain.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?" I asked, concerned for his health.
"Ugh... I'll be alright if you... jus help me up." he managed to groan. I bent over to help him up and he jumped to is feet. I was still bent over, but I looked up at him.
"Saotome school final attack, flat frog fu!" he shouted. He then began to kick at me but was stopped by Soun.
"What are you doing, Saotome?" Soun asked.
"I'm repaying him for the injustices hes caused!" he shouted.
"Wouldn't you rather play some shoji?" Soun offered.
Genma thought for a moment then said "Yes, yes I would." and the two of them went off to play their game. "I had him unaware on the ground, like a toad on the road. It was flat frog fu alright." Genma was saying as he left.
I wiped my mouth and walked out to where Ranma was. I was still upset from getting attacked by Genma like that. I found Ranma outside frantically scriblling words onto paper. It seemed that he had gotten his eye sight back completely now. He had the wrapping that was once around his eyes laying on the ground beside him.
"Hey, Ranma whats u-"
"Not now, homework." Ranma interupted.
"Oh... sorry." I said. I decided to wait until he was finished. An hour later I decided it was hopeless unless he got some help. "Can I help you with it or something?" I asked, wanting to hurry him up.
"If you can understand it." he said. He handed me a bunch of paper. I looked at the paper. I turned it to its side and stared more closely. "What? Can't you read?" Ranma asked.
I glared at him. "Of course I can read, what kind of idiot do you take me for?" I asked. Truth was I didn't understand a bit of it.
"No, sorry, its just a joke." he stated. He seemed like he was kinda worried about getting it all done. He stopped for a moment and put his pencil between his nose and his upperlip. He held there for a second and then put his head in his hands.
"Uh, maybe Chao Tsu could help you." I suggested as I saw Chao Tsu pulling a can of soda outta the fridge. "Chao Tsu, can you help us for a second?" I asked.
"No." he said and began to walk away.
"Seriously, can you help?" I asked again.
"I said no, open you freakin' ears, Tien." he said somewhat angrily.
"Chao Tsu, get over here!" I yelled. He rolled his eyes and came over to us. he sat down and grabbed some paper.
"Alright, what needs to be done?" Chao Tsu asked.
"Can you do these math problems for me?" Ranma asked.
"Heh, you're asking the wrong guy, pal." said my pasty skinned little friend, "But why are you so worried about getting this done? Just forget about it and take the punishment."
"Ah, to be as lazy as Chao Tsu, wouldn't that be nice, Ranma?" I said trying to make a funny, which I don't usaully do but seeing as how Ranma looked like he was about to face execution I thought that it would cheer him up.
"Actually, the principal said that anyone who dosn't do all the year's homework gets expelled. I havn't done any homework this year! I'm doomed!" Ranma explained.
"I see..." I said not knowing what to say. I was still kinda not very knowing about school type stuff so I was at a loss of words.
"Heh, if Tien could read he could help you." Chao Tsu said. I gave him an evil look.
"Chao Tsu!" I yelled.
"Oh yeah, you didn't want that getting out, did ya?" he said.
"I can too read!" I said.
"Yeah, a map." he said. Which was true, becuase thats all I really could read at the time.
"Thats nothing to be too ashamed of, Tien." Ranma said, "But, maybe since you are now younger... you should go to school, man." he said.
"Uh-uh!" I said, feeling sick at the mention of me going to school. I didn't want to be trapped in some cramped classroom with a bunch of smelly teenagers. Very unapealing.
"Yeah, you should, then you could learn to read like a normal human being... or are you a human being?" Chao Tsu said. he started laughing.
"I beg of you that you go to school." Ranma said.
"Why are you interested in me going to school all of a sudden, Ranma?" I asked.
"Uh, no particualr reason, just thought you'd like it." he said.
"I can't stand being inside for too long, I'd go nuts. I'm an outdoors guy." I stated. After a while of prodding and prying Ranma finally got me to say that I'd consider it. I didn't plan on staying here that long, so I didn't see a real good reason to go to school here.
That night Ranma didn't go to bed at all I don't think. He stayed up all night trying to get his work done. Ryouga was still tied up in the living room, but only stayed there becuase Akane asked him to. He seemed to show some sort of affection towards her. Everyone else went to bed and the only noises I heard, besides Ranma's pen scratching, was Chao Tsu outside in the yard behind the house talking to that old woman, Cologne. They had a pretty interesting conversation. I found out that Cologne wanted the strongest man to marry her grand daughter and have a strong baby. Chao Tsu just wanted to get a peice. I found out while overhearing them that since Chao Tsu was stornger than Ranma, and since Ranma was Shampoo's current fiancee, that Chao Tsu had to fight Ranma and defeat him. Chao Tsu saw no problem in this at all. I fell asleep after I heard them scuttle off late that night.
Again I had a dream with Lunch in it. She was jumping up and down waving her arms around frantically. Her blue hair bounced on her shoulders lightly and she looked scared or something. She cried out 'Tienshin Han! Tienshin Han! We need you!' I didn't have a clue what the dream meant, but I had a good night's sleep anyway. I was afraid of the next morning when I would have to tell Ranma that I wasn't going to go to school. He wasn't going to like it. All I knew was that the next day would be almost as hectic, if not more so, than today.
Next Chapter4: I hate school!
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Well, folks, that was the end to my third chapter. I hope that you readers enjoy my story. Its my little child. *Sniff sniff* Anyway, if you like them I'm gonna keep pumping them out. Remember to e-mail me with ANY comments or suggestions. Even if you just wanna yell at me for writing a horrible peice of crap, please do so. Anyway, this isn't really what I had planned for this chapter. I didn't want to make Tien young, but since it seemed to fit so well... I just had to do it. I wanted to make Tien about the same power as Ranma and the others, but the whole youth thing was good too. Hes alot weaker now, and the story shold be more interesting with that. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Theres more to come. LOTS more.
By: Tienshin Han
Notes:
This is just a fan-fic. I wrote it, and I hope you will like it. It is about Tien, a majorly underused character from Dragonball/Z/GT. I am Tien. That's how I know all the stuff that happened here. It is all made by me, except for the characters. They belong to their respectable owners. That means that Akira Toriyama, and Rumiko Takehashi created the characters in this fan-fic. Some were made up by me and other fine people. So, please, anyone, don't sue me, I am not making any profit, nor plan to, nor will, by the writing of this. If you notice anything wrong, misspellings or inconsistencies in the plot, please take into consideration that this is my first fan-fic. If you find anything that doesn't fit into the DB/Z/GT timeline and story, please e-mail me at "old_man_picking_nose@hotmail.com". I will gladly debate on why I tell it differently. So, please, sit back and read on...
The Tienshin Han Saga
Chapter 3: What the HFIL happened?
I woke up from another dream about Lunch. She was in it telling me to come home. She was yelling out my name and she looked distressed. In the dream I couldn't do anything about it. I was so sad when I woke up in the morning and I was sweating so much I thought some one splashed me with water, or worse, I thought I might've wet the bed. I wiped my forehead and felt the moisture slid off. I looked around the room and saw the clock. It said 6:00 AM. I sat up in bed and put my head in my arms. I knew that getting back to sleep would be a hard task to accomplish, so I decided to get up and start my training a little earlier.
I got dressed and headed to the back yard, or as its sometimes called the court yard. I did my usuall streatches and got to work. It was an hour or so later that I spotted Genma Soatome, Ranma's father, moving around inside the house. I looked through the window and saw him shuffling through the fridge in his underwear. He scrathed his backside and pulled out a carton of milk and began to drink. I looked away and shivered. He popped his head out of the window and saw me. He spewed out the milk and ran to his room. He musta figured that since Ranma wasn't getting up he didn't have to either.
A while later I saw Akane and Soun eating breakfast. I didn't notice them when they got up.
"Good morning, Tien!" called Soun waving his hand while smiling. He looked nervous and kinda surprised. So did his youngest daughter, Akane. I didn't know why until I noticed I was flying. Thats not normal here I thought to myself. I went to the ground and went inside to get some breakfast.
"So, Tien, I heard you screaming last night," Kasumi said from behind me. I didn't notice her there.
"Uh... I was?" I asked. She nodded her head. It must've been that dream I had I thought to myself. "I musta been talking in my dreams."
"About a girl?" asked kasumi.
"Uh... sorta." I said. It did have Lunch in it after all. But, it wasn't like that. She was sad and so distant in that dream.
"Well, I could hear you pretty clearly." she said.
"Me too." said Soun.
"I could hear you quite good too, Tien." said Akane. They all seemed to have good ears. "We really shouldn't pry, guys." Akane said to her sister and father. I looked over and saw Ranma wobbling around in his bandadges. He looked like he was healing quickly becuase he yanked at a peice of the bandadge and started to unravel it. Underneath what was revealed was just slightly scarred skin. It was healing really quickly.
"Ranma, my boy, you look great today." said Soun. Ranma still had wrappings over his eyes though.
"Dr.Tofu's medication does wonders, dosn't it, Ranma?" said Kasumi while pouring some tea for him. Ranma sat down at the table feeling its surface to make sure he was not gonna sit on anything.
"Yeah, I'm almost healed." he said, sounding spiteful towards me. Kasumi took Ranma's hands and put the cup of tea in them. He sipped away at it thirstally. I was amazed that the healing was this quick. I'm used to seeing senzu beans do their work, which is a lot faster I might add, but this was some fast healing.
Just then the doorbell rang and Kasumi went off to answer it happily. She swung the door open and greeted someone. I couldn't tell who it was becuase there was a starving looking Ryouga standing in my way. His stomach growled and he walked into the kitchen.
"I bet your hungry, arent you, Ryouga?" asked Soun. Ryouga stared at Mr.Tendou for a moment and gave him the 'You think?!' look.
"Yes, I am hungry." he said. I noticed him glance at Akane every once in a while. He watched her eat her food. He watched her as she slid the food past her delicate lips and into her mouth. Ryouga started to sweat a little.
"So, Ryouga, how long are you staying with us?" asked Akane.
"Wha?! I mean..." Ryouga snapped out of his trance, "I don't know for sure. I thought that I'd teach Ranma here a few things before leaving again."
"Ha!" Ranma said with his mouth full of food, "I could beat even while I'm this beat up! I'd be the one teaching you a few things."
"Yeah, like teaching me to lose? You can do that fine, Ranma." Ryouga said back defiantly. He crossed his arms and smiled. "Besides, I got a new technique I wanna try on you."
"Am I your new guinea PIG." Ranma said putting emphesis on the word pig. Ryouga threw his fist out and stopped it in front of Ranma's face. He had to act like a guest I guess.
"Fine, if you don't wanna fight me becuase you're too scared... I'll back off." Ryouga said making Ranma look like a wuss. Before you knew it the two boys were fighting on the table. It got flipped over and they were standing on the back side. They were growling to each other's face. Soun got in between them and pushed them apart. They looked like the didn't wanna start a fight at the moment anyhow.
"Uh, are all mornings at the Tendou training hall always this odd?" I asked. Just then Kasumi came back into the room with someone following behind her. The person behind her was Terry. He smiled and waved at me.
"Hey, Terry." I said, glad to get some releif from the wackiness at the breakfast table.
"Yo!" he said and tipped his hat.
"Uh, everyone, this is a friend of mine that I met yesterday. His name is Terry Bogard." I introduced him. He bowed and took off his cap.
"Nice to meet you Terry!" said Soun, then under his breath he muttered "He better not ask to stay here for a while too... we've got enough freeloaders."
"Hi, Terry, nice to meet you." said Akane blushing. I suppose she was alittle bit attracted to him. She got up and walked over and put out her hand.
"Same here." he said taking her hand and kissing it. She blushed even more. He flashed a goofy smile.
"The names Ryouga." said the bandana wearing martial artist. He turned around in his spot to say that and then turned back to the food Kasumi had just set at the table.
"I'm Ranma Saotome." said the pigtailed martial artist. Ranma stuck his hand out in the air not pointing towards Terry at all. Terry grabbed his hand and shaked it.
"Its great to meet you all." Terry said, "but Tien promised me that we could practice today. You still up for it, Tien?" he asked me.
"I always am." I said and got up after finishing my food. We rushed out of the crowded kitchen and into the courtyard in the back. I hadn't noticed the little pond before for some reason, but today I did. The sun glistened right offa it. Me and Terry were about to spar when Ryouga came out and sat down to watch us. He looked alittle bit interested.
"Eh, you gonna start?" I aksed Terry.
"I'll start." he said. He ran forward and skidded to a stop in front of me and swung out a fist. I let it hit me right in the jaw. My head didn't even move or twitch. He looked surprised. I then kneed him in the stomach with my right knee and kicked him into the air with my other foot. When he flew into the air I jumped up after him and hit him in the chest with the side of my hand in a chopping movement. He got hit hard and fell to the ground. He thunked down hard on the grass. he struggled to get back up. Ryouga looked amazed. He sat there with an astonished look on his face. I landed back on my feet and brushed off my shirt.
"Nice punch." I stated. Terry looked at me as if I were some kinda animal. He didn't know what had hit him, and why it hit him so hard. He was covering his mouth, and when he pulled his hand away there was a blood stain on his palm.
"Nice... whatever you did." he said, "I didn't really see what you did though."
"I'm used to fighting extremly fast." I told him, which is true. If you ever fight a guy named Buu that happens (sure he kicked me and I was down but who cares?).
"I'll say." said Ryouga. He didn't look like he was gonna say anything else. Instead he charged at me and swung at my face with the back of his hand. I cought his hand inches in front of my face.
"Why'd you attack?" I asked.
"Unbelievable... no wonder Ranma's in bandadges after training with you! You're some kinda inhuman beast! The third eye shoulda been a dead give away." Ryouga looked shocked.
"I'm as human as you are." I told him. Terry got up as I released Ryouga's fist. Terry weakly walked towards me and patted me on the back. Ryouga jumped ontop of the wall. He turned and looked at me. Then he jumped off of the wall and over the side.
"Ryouga, wait! Where are you going?" I shouted. It was too late. He had left.
"SHUT UP!" came a tiny voice from the window. It was Chao Tsu sticking his head out. He looked like he just woke up and he wasn't too happy about it.
"Sorry, Chao Tsu." I said.
"You'd better be sorry..." he said and pulled his head back inside the window.
Later in the day me and Terry were at Dr.Tofu's with Ranma and Akane. Terry was getting his wounds looked after. He apparantly had three bruised ribs and a cracked rib. I didn't use full force in my shots and maybe its a good thing that I didn't. Dr.Tofu had Terry's ribs pretty well bandadged up.
"So, you're staying at the Tendou residence?" Dr.Tofu asked me.
"Yes, yes I am." I responded. I sat on a small stool that was really close to the ground. Ranma sat patiently waiting for Dr.Tofu to diagnos his condition to see if its improved. Terry hopped off of the table and onto the ground. He held his side and moved his other arm in a circle.
"Hey, thanks, Dr.Tofu." said Terry.
"Oh, no problem." Dr.Tofu said smiling. He patted Terry on the back. Ranma moved quickly towards the table and sat down on it. Dr.Tofu started to pull off Ranma's shirt. He then told me and Terry to go with Akane outside while he treated Ranma.
We left his office and waited outside. Me and Terry were joking about me hitting him again. Akane sighed and sat on a bench. A ice cream man went by on his bike and we stopped him. Terry bought as all ice cream. He was so generous.
"Thanks for the ice cream." I said showing my appreciation. Akane looked happy finally with her ice cream. Just then a chain came flying out of no where and wrapped around Akane. It pulled her offa the bench and into the sky. She landed in the arms of a long haired glasses clad chinese boy. He looked at her and put her down.
"Sorry, you are not Ranma." he said.
"Mousse, don't do that!" Akane shouted at him. I was begining to wonder how many great fighters this little place had. Mousse walked towards me and adjusted his glasses. He stared me right in the face.
"Shampoo!" he then proceeded to grab me and hug me. I freed myself from his grasp easily. He fell backward flailing his arms wildly. He wore a long sleeved Chinese robe. He looked back angrily.
"What was that for?" I asked. He took a stance and flashed his teeth.
"What did you do to Shampoo!?" he yelled. He must've thought I had Shampoo.
"I don't have her." I told him. He wouldn't listen and he jumped at me with a whole crap load of chains and maces and assorted weapons flying out of his sleeve. I was about to stop them when suddenly Mousse and his weapons stopped in midair. They just floated in front of me.
"What?!" Mousse said confused. He could just float there swinging his arms and legs.
"Chao Tsu, where are you?" I asked out loud. Chao Tsu came out from behind a garbage can holding his palms out in front of him.
"Heh heh, this is too easy." Chao Tsu had that evil grin again.
"Chao Tsu, just put him down." I commanded.
"Fine." He flung Mousse's body against a wall. The wall cracked when he connected with it. Terry looked at Chao Tsu with amazment. Akane did too.
"Holy crap, what can you guys do that you're not telling us?" Terry said astonished. Chao Tsu brushed his hands together. He walked over to me and looked up at me.
"Whats up, doc?" he asked. Mousse fell from the wall and looked at Chao Tsu with anger. Just then a lady on a stick came bouncing in. She was actually holding onto the stick and bouncing on it's end. She had long grey hair and was really wrinkly.
"You're the one with great power that I sense. You must fight Shampoo for marriage!" the shriveled old women uttered.
"Uh, me or him?" said Chao Tsu.
"You..." she said pointing at Chao Tsu. She looked very determined too.
"Agh, again with the challenges..." Akane muttered to herself. Terry looked like he was as confused as me. This was really going nuts.
"Lemme see this Shampoo first." Chao Tsu said. The old women held out a picture and showed it to him. "Where is my beautiful fiancee?" He asked.
"She is not here." the old woman said. She looked Chao Tsu in the eye. "Uh, if you don't mind me asking, why are you dressed like a Chinese Vampire?"
"Thank you, finally someone who knows their facts. I'm not a doll thing or a mime, people." Chao Tsu floated up offa the ground. "So, where is she then?" he asked again.
"I don't know right now." said the old woman. Terry and I finished our ice cream cones and started dragging Chao Tsu into Dr.Tofu's office.
"What are you two doing?!" he shouted. He kicked and screamed. He then bite Terry's arm and kicked me in the groin. He bolted out of there and to the old woman's side.
"Take me to her." he said. The two lept onto the top of a roof and then started to travel that way from building to building. Me and Terry and Akane just stood there confused. Mousse got up and dragged himself away. Ranma came out of Dr.Tofu's office and stepped outside. He stumbled a bit and tried to get his balance. His eyes had newer wrappings on them and his burns looked completely healed.
"You look better, Ranma." said Akane.
"Gee, thanks Akane." he said. We all started to walk as we told him what happened with Mousse and the old woman and Chao Tsu. Turns out her name is Cologne.
We got back to the dojo and Akane went straight to her room. Ranma was getting along pretty well being blinded. He was adapting well.
"So, does that KI sensing thing help you get around while you're blind?" I asked.
"Yeah, it was a lesson that took alot to learn, but I can sense where you guys are now, and where other things are like trees and stuff." He seemed to be putting it to good use afterall.
"I was waiting for your arrival." said Ryouga. He was standing in the middle of the living room. "Ranma, I will defeat you with the same technique that I will use to defeat Tien!"
"HUH?!" I said, wanting to know why he was thinking of challenging me. He just smirked. Ranma looked like he didn't know what was going on, but I could tell he didn't like it either.
"I will use my newest final attack to destroy Tien in a match today, at 5:00pm." Ryouga announced.
"You had better have someone to guide you to the fight." said Ranma.
"Shut up." said Ryouga irritated. I didn't like the way this was going. I knew that where I come from the fighters are alot tougher than they are here. And I might hurt him too badly as I almost did to Terry. What made him think that he could defeat me? "You," he pointed at me, "Just be there." He walked past me and went through a door. We all stared at the door as he left. A moment later the door opened and he went out. "Alright, which is the real door?" he said. I pointed to the door and he headed towards it. He slamed it as he left. I was wondering why he had gone in the closet in the first place.
"Well, you don't have to worry about fighting him for a while. He'll get lost." said Ranma.
"Not to mention he didn't say where he would fight you." Terry said. We all just went on with the rest of the day.
At 5:00pm there was a knock at the door. Kasumi opened it and Ryouga came in. I was sitting with Ranma and Terry in the courtyard. We were trying to fly. I already could, but I wanted to see if I could teach them. Ryouga came through and out into the yard. He threw a headband at me. It sliced through the air and I caught it. I looked at it for a second.
"How many bandanas do you got?" I asked him. He let out a battle cry and charged at me. He started to let loose a flurry of attacks from every direction. I was blocking and dodging them all. I was wondering what he was planning to do. He did, after all, mention having prepared a special technique. He then stopped punching and kicking and jumped back. He put his arms together in an X and started to say something. He then looked up at me and his eyes started to glow red. He then put his arms straight out in front of him. I didn't know what kinda power he was building up becuase it didn't seem very strong. He then shouted something and a blast shot out from between his arms. It came straight at me. Now, I coulda have dodged it but instead I decided to try to block it. I was so stupid. The blue blast hit my arm as I tried to deflect it. My arm then turned blue and froze up. The freezing started to flow over my skin and from my arm to my shoulder.
"What?!" I shouted. I wasn't expecting such a technique. I do have to admit that when he fired that thing it moved fast. But still, I should have tried to dodge it instead. The blue stopped at my shoulder and my arm remained frozen. I couldn't move it at all.
"Heh, you thought you would do that, thats why it was the perfect technique to use on you!" Ryouga said to me sounding confident.
"I havn't ever seen Ryouga do an attack like that before." said Akane who was watching with the others from the side. Genma was holding up a banner that said 'Go Ryouga' on it.
"Go Ryouga! Destroy that maniac!" Genma yelled. He still didn't like me it seemed.
"My arm... its frozen!" I said.
"Well, duh!" said Chao Tsu who was sitting with the others.
"My icey northern blast did it. Now I shall finish you off!" Ryouga lept forward at me and attacked again. I dodged out of the way easliy and clubbed him in the back of the neck. He fell to the ground unconscience.
"That was my arm!" I shouted. I was mad.
A while later Ryouga woke up and he tried to attack me. They had to tie him down. My arm had thawed by that time but it was feeling a little bit tingly. I had just about thought that my troubles were over. I was wrong. They were just beginning. At that moment a cold liquid splashed me from behind. I was standing outside in the courtyard with this liquid covering me. I looked behind me and saw a shadowy figure jump off of the wall. He had long hair and glasses. I knew it was Mousse.
"Hey, you!" I jumped over the wall after him and chased him down the street. For some reason I couldn't keep up. I tried to catch him but I was running at about the same pace as him. Luckliy for me he tripped over a little kid on the sidewalk. He fell on his face and did a flip off of it and onto his feet again. I tried to fly over the kids but something stopped me. I instead jumped at the last second. I grabbed onto the end of Mousse's robe and pulled him to the ground. I sat on his stomach.
"What was that for?" I asked. I had enough from these people here, and I wanted to know what he was doing.
"You're not Ranma." he said after adjusting his glasses.
"No, I'm not Ranma. I'm Tien." I said to him.
"My appologies." he said. I let him get back up and he ran off.
"Hey, why'd you splash me!!" I yelled at him as he ran, "Tell me!!"
"What happened, Tie--!!!" Terry had followed and started to say something but stopped for some reason. He just stared at me. I looked back not knowing what his problem was.
"What?" I asked. He grabbed my arm and pulled me over to a puddle. He pointed at the puddle. I looked at it and saw my reflection. I wasn't normal Tien anymore. I was... a younger version of myself. I looked about Ranma's age.
"AHHH!!" I shouted. My voice even sounded a little younger. "What did that guy do to me?" I was gonna blame this right on Mousse.
"I dunno, lets head back to the dojo, maybe they can tell us." Terry suggested. We ran back to the dojo as fast as we could. We got back and I explained what happened to me to the others.
"Sounds interesting." said Genma looking at me, "But you can't fly?"
"Uh, no. I can't shoot my usuall ki blasts either." I told him.
"Really..." Genma started to rub his chin. He then lunged at me and I threw him into the pond outside. He got back out as a panda.
"AHH!" I still didn't know about this whole panda-Genma thing by now. Just then a little familiar looking tiny man jumped down and landed on top of Genma's head. He was that little man that fought Chao Tsu for the underwear yesterday.
"Happosai, what brings you here?" asked Ranma. He must have been using his KI sensing to feel his presence.
"Ah, Ranma, my boy! Good to see that you're... blind?" He asked. He must know these people I thought.
"Yeah..." said Ranma sullenly. Happosai jumped onto his lap.
"Cheer up. Don't be so glum." Happosai said. He gave Ranma a pat on the shoulder. He sat down and started to unpack his giant bag of women's undergarments. We decided to tell Happosai about what happened with me and Mousse because as Ranma told me 'he knows alot more than you'd expect an old man to know.'
"Well, I suppose that this could be the result of being slpashed by young changing water. I had some but just today a young man with glasses bought it from me." He explained.
"That was Mousse!" Ranma yelled at Happosai.
"Uh, if you don't mind me asking, why didn't you use the water on yourself? You're pretty old." said Terry.
"Becuase I was already splashed with different water that would make using that young changing water not work." he explained, "But I do have some extra water left if anyone wants to buy it."
"Is it permenant?" I aksed.
"Yes." he said, "Until you age back to how old you really are."
"Well, at least I got some extra years to train. I'm alot weaker than I was before, I can feel it." I could actually feel that my strength was gone. I was a little shorter and my muscles werent as big as they used to be. I was disappointed that all my years of training were for nothing. It seemed hopeless. But at least now I could have a few extra years for training.
"Its not too bad, Tien." said Ranma, "At least you don't turn into a girl."
"Uh... ok." I said, becuase at the time I no clue about his curse.
It was later that day at about 9:00 at night that I decided to go for a little training session. I wanted to see if this place really was the second earth that was supposed to be great for training. I figured that there were enough fighters here to make the place an awesome training spot. Anyway, I wanted to go to the woods or something. I also didn't really want to go alone. I am a loner usually except that Chao Tsu keeps hanging around me. I wouldn't mind being alone out there, but having someone else around is always nicer. I didn't want to take Chao Tsu though. I was thinking of inviting Ranma and Terry. Possibly Ryouga if he wasn't going to try to kill me.
So I got up off the couch and went into the kitchen. Nibiki looked up from where she sat on the floor in front of the t.v. As I passed through the doorway I suddenly saw something fly at me from the corner of my eye. I wasn't fast enough to stop it though. It was Genma Saotome, Ranma's father, and he was holding a big stick. He smacked me on top of the head with it and broke it. I winced as I felt the pain. It wasn't too bad probably becuase I do know how to take shots to the head, but still it really hurt.
"OWW! What was that for?!" I yelled at my attacker. I was quite upset by this.
"You are now weak enough to fight me!" he yelled and thrust his pole at me. He spun it around expertly. I retreated backwards as he attacked. I walked backwards right into the wall and had no where to go. I reached my legs up and stopped the stick in front of me by grabbing it with my feet clasped around it. I yanked it out of his arms and it flew into the next room. Genma wasn't deterred from attacking me at this time. He lunged forward and struck me in the side of the face with his fist.
"HAA!!" he shouted as he attacked. I got my head hit against the wall but stopped it from going through the wall. I kicked from my side and hit him in the stomach. he flew back and landed on his feet. He took a stance.
"What are you attacking for?" I asked while resisting the urge to rub my face to see if it was ok. I didn't want to show any weakness.
"You tried to kill my son, and now I must avenge his death!" he yelled.
"I didn't kill him!" I shouted back.
"Oh... really? Yes, I suppose you didn't kill him, did you?" he rubbed his chin.
"No, I didn't. Now, could you please let me go talk to Ranma?" I asked, wanting the middle aged man to leave me alone.
"First you must... DIE!" he jumped at me with his foot and I feigned it away and punched him in the stomach while he was still in mid air. He crumpled on the ground in pain.
"I'm sorry, are you alright?" I asked, concerned for his health.
"Ugh... I'll be alright if you... jus help me up." he managed to groan. I bent over to help him up and he jumped to is feet. I was still bent over, but I looked up at him.
"Saotome school final attack, flat frog fu!" he shouted. He then began to kick at me but was stopped by Soun.
"What are you doing, Saotome?" Soun asked.
"I'm repaying him for the injustices hes caused!" he shouted.
"Wouldn't you rather play some shoji?" Soun offered.
Genma thought for a moment then said "Yes, yes I would." and the two of them went off to play their game. "I had him unaware on the ground, like a toad on the road. It was flat frog fu alright." Genma was saying as he left.
I wiped my mouth and walked out to where Ranma was. I was still upset from getting attacked by Genma like that. I found Ranma outside frantically scriblling words onto paper. It seemed that he had gotten his eye sight back completely now. He had the wrapping that was once around his eyes laying on the ground beside him.
"Hey, Ranma whats u-"
"Not now, homework." Ranma interupted.
"Oh... sorry." I said. I decided to wait until he was finished. An hour later I decided it was hopeless unless he got some help. "Can I help you with it or something?" I asked, wanting to hurry him up.
"If you can understand it." he said. He handed me a bunch of paper. I looked at the paper. I turned it to its side and stared more closely. "What? Can't you read?" Ranma asked.
I glared at him. "Of course I can read, what kind of idiot do you take me for?" I asked. Truth was I didn't understand a bit of it.
"No, sorry, its just a joke." he stated. He seemed like he was kinda worried about getting it all done. He stopped for a moment and put his pencil between his nose and his upperlip. He held there for a second and then put his head in his hands.
"Uh, maybe Chao Tsu could help you." I suggested as I saw Chao Tsu pulling a can of soda outta the fridge. "Chao Tsu, can you help us for a second?" I asked.
"No." he said and began to walk away.
"Seriously, can you help?" I asked again.
"I said no, open you freakin' ears, Tien." he said somewhat angrily.
"Chao Tsu, get over here!" I yelled. He rolled his eyes and came over to us. he sat down and grabbed some paper.
"Alright, what needs to be done?" Chao Tsu asked.
"Can you do these math problems for me?" Ranma asked.
"Heh, you're asking the wrong guy, pal." said my pasty skinned little friend, "But why are you so worried about getting this done? Just forget about it and take the punishment."
"Ah, to be as lazy as Chao Tsu, wouldn't that be nice, Ranma?" I said trying to make a funny, which I don't usaully do but seeing as how Ranma looked like he was about to face execution I thought that it would cheer him up.
"Actually, the principal said that anyone who dosn't do all the year's homework gets expelled. I havn't done any homework this year! I'm doomed!" Ranma explained.
"I see..." I said not knowing what to say. I was still kinda not very knowing about school type stuff so I was at a loss of words.
"Heh, if Tien could read he could help you." Chao Tsu said. I gave him an evil look.
"Chao Tsu!" I yelled.
"Oh yeah, you didn't want that getting out, did ya?" he said.
"I can too read!" I said.
"Yeah, a map." he said. Which was true, becuase thats all I really could read at the time.
"Thats nothing to be too ashamed of, Tien." Ranma said, "But, maybe since you are now younger... you should go to school, man." he said.
"Uh-uh!" I said, feeling sick at the mention of me going to school. I didn't want to be trapped in some cramped classroom with a bunch of smelly teenagers. Very unapealing.
"Yeah, you should, then you could learn to read like a normal human being... or are you a human being?" Chao Tsu said. he started laughing.
"I beg of you that you go to school." Ranma said.
"Why are you interested in me going to school all of a sudden, Ranma?" I asked.
"Uh, no particualr reason, just thought you'd like it." he said.
"I can't stand being inside for too long, I'd go nuts. I'm an outdoors guy." I stated. After a while of prodding and prying Ranma finally got me to say that I'd consider it. I didn't plan on staying here that long, so I didn't see a real good reason to go to school here.
That night Ranma didn't go to bed at all I don't think. He stayed up all night trying to get his work done. Ryouga was still tied up in the living room, but only stayed there becuase Akane asked him to. He seemed to show some sort of affection towards her. Everyone else went to bed and the only noises I heard, besides Ranma's pen scratching, was Chao Tsu outside in the yard behind the house talking to that old woman, Cologne. They had a pretty interesting conversation. I found out that Cologne wanted the strongest man to marry her grand daughter and have a strong baby. Chao Tsu just wanted to get a peice. I found out while overhearing them that since Chao Tsu was stornger than Ranma, and since Ranma was Shampoo's current fiancee, that Chao Tsu had to fight Ranma and defeat him. Chao Tsu saw no problem in this at all. I fell asleep after I heard them scuttle off late that night.
Again I had a dream with Lunch in it. She was jumping up and down waving her arms around frantically. Her blue hair bounced on her shoulders lightly and she looked scared or something. She cried out 'Tienshin Han! Tienshin Han! We need you!' I didn't have a clue what the dream meant, but I had a good night's sleep anyway. I was afraid of the next morning when I would have to tell Ranma that I wasn't going to go to school. He wasn't going to like it. All I knew was that the next day would be almost as hectic, if not more so, than today.
Next Chapter4: I hate school!
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Well, folks, that was the end to my third chapter. I hope that you readers enjoy my story. Its my little child. *Sniff sniff* Anyway, if you like them I'm gonna keep pumping them out. Remember to e-mail me with ANY comments or suggestions. Even if you just wanna yell at me for writing a horrible peice of crap, please do so. Anyway, this isn't really what I had planned for this chapter. I didn't want to make Tien young, but since it seemed to fit so well... I just had to do it. I wanted to make Tien about the same power as Ranma and the others, but the whole youth thing was good too. Hes alot weaker now, and the story shold be more interesting with that. I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. Theres more to come. LOTS more.