((Daaaa! I never thought anything I would write would generate such
a response! Arigato to everyone who wrote in to tell me what they
thought about this fic. *good including bad* My bread and butter is
thyne comments [ack.. been hanging around Kuno-chan too too long].
Again.. Arigato Gozaimasu for all the feedback!))
Murphy's Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If everything seems to
be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Left to
themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Things get worse
under pressure. Everything goes wrong all at once. Matter will be
damaged in direct proportion to its value. Anybody can win -- unless
there happens to be a second entry. If there is a possibility of
several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage
will be the one to go wrong. If there is a worse time for something
to go wrong, it will happen then. If anything simply cannot go wrong,
it will anyway. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in
which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth
way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. You never run out of
things that can go wrong.
Adam's Law:
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes
something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything
that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Bumper Sticker:
Shit happens.
Promises Lost
Chap 2
Rememberance
By LizMUN
Ukyou did not want to wake up from her dream. It was such a
lovely dream, she and Ranma were finally getting married! Sure, she's
had this same dream countless times before, but this one felt special!
This one felt as if closure was about to happen!
In this dream, nothing could stop them; all other obsticals,
meaning Akane, Shampoo and both Kunos, were tied and rendered
unconscious. This left the two lovebirds alone in the alter. Ranma
was gazing down lovingly at Ukyou's chocolate brown eyes, while Ukyou
did the same to Ranma's deep-sea blue eyes. Now, never would he look
at Ukyou again as a friend, but forever as a soulmate. But, just as
they were to slip the rings into their fingers, Ranma looks at Ukyou in
shock as he suddenly began to drift away and fade.
"Ran-chan!"
She reached out to him, hoping to grab at least a thread, just
to keep him from leaving! He just couldn't leave! Not now! Not after
everything! He needed her! *SHE* needed him! Suddenly, something
grabbed her from behind, pulling her away.
"Uk-chan!" Ranma, as well, reached out to her, not wanting her
to leave his side. But it was in vain. Ranma's form had faded from
sight.
Ukyou turned to kill who had prevented her from helping her
Ranchan, but stopped in surprise. Standing over her loomed a shadowly
outline of a muscular man. The only thing she could absolutly see from
him were his sandy, hazel eyes, looking down at her with understanding.
He brushed a tear from her cheek with surprisingly warm hands and for
an instant she was mezmerized by his being. From him she could also
feel a sense of power, strength, and yet something nameless, something
very heart-warming . He began to speak to her in a voice although
youthful, undoubtedly portrayed great wisdom.
"OHAYO, NO DAAAA!!"
Ukyou, needless to say, face-faulted. Staggering up back to
her feet, she clenching her fists and aims to pop the shadow, but her
fist uselessly flew right through him. Seeing it was fruitless to
physically attack the shadow, she opted to yell at him till his ears
bled!
"Grr.. Why... you....? Why didnt' you let me help Ranchan? If
you don't answer now, mister, I'll smash your shadowy carcas here to
China. The Long way around! Now, what the hell are you?"
The shadow chuckled. Smiling, it squinting it's eyes, and
raised a admonishing finger at her.
"Sore wa hitmistu desu!"
At that moment Ukyou learned something usefull. Battle
spatula's work well on amorphous beings.
Rubbing it's... what was asumed to be it's head, it whimpered,
looking at Ukyou with teary-eyes.
"Daaaa! That hurt, no da! Well, if you must.. um.. well.. I
guess you can consider me a conscious or something, no da."
"Conscious! The day something like you is my conscious, is the
day I happily eat from the Nekohanten! Now, I'll ask you again before I
really get angry! What the hell were you doing keeping me away from my
Ran-chan?"
"You don't have to believe me, no da, but I gotta say, he's not
right for you, no da. He'll hurt you again, just like the other
times, no da.. Plus, he's not yours to have and you are not his to
take, no da."
"Gkh.. What the hell is that supposed to mean? And will you
quit with the "No-da" bit? Anyway, of course he is! I'm his fiancee!"
"*Sighs* Okay, but how sure are you of that?"
"I'll stake my business on it!"
"Oh really? Such a waste on a perfectly good restaurant,
though."
"Nani?" Ukyou turned away from him, her mind realing in
confusion. This just didn't make the least amount of sense. Of course
she was sure! But why would this 'so-called-conscious' tell her
otherwise? Was it really her conscious? Or just indigestion? She
turned back at the shadowy figure, to knock some sense out of the thing
with her spatula, only to find it gone. But not entirely.
"You'll find out soon, Ukyou. Now, I suggest you wake up. You
have people waiting."
~~~~****~~~~
Ryoku Hibiki just stood helpless in front of the unconsious
form of the young Kuonji. The girl was always overextorting herself
into exhaustion. He chuckled in rememberence to his first encounter
with her, but that was beside the point now.
He had just brought her in after she had fainted in the middle
of the street. Odd, because what triggered this unorthodoxial
behaviour was just mentioning his name to her. Perhaps she remembered
him? No, that couldn't have been it, she was too exhausted to even
speak to him when he first tried to speak with her. Oh well. While
waiting for Miss Ukyou to return to the land of the living, he took
this while to look over the restaurant, and whistled appreciativly.
Houan-san surly must be proud of his little girl, heck he was proud of
how well off the place looked. She would make a lovely wife someday.
She had a good business sense, a great cook (well.. he hasn't tasted
her cooking, but if it's the old Kuonji recipe, she's got it in the
bag.) Most of all, she wouldn't get lost in an Oval room. [Okay, I
mean, how was he to know it was the President's room? What kind of
president would do his work in such a psychadelic room anyhow?] Ryoku
sighed, shaking his head.
He began to wonder though if the reason Ukyou-chan did faint,
was because she *did* remember? And perhaps she also remembered the
agreement? Perhaps thought she was too young for the task? She didn't
look the part. Come to think of it, Little Ukyou-chan has grown to
become such a lovely young woman. Would explain the overabundance of
male customers in the restaurant. Hmm... there's a crowd waiting at the
order line. Perhaps it would be best if he wake her up?
"Um.. Ms. Kuonji-san? Wakie Wakie? o/` Estás son las
mañanitas... o/`"
Ukyou just mumbled, and turned over to her side.
"Miss Ukyo-san? I suggest you wake up. You have people
waiting."
Ukyou blinked awake at this, she turned over and saw a shadowy
looking person looking down at her. Her dream, fresh in her memory,
caused her to react in a very understandable way.
**Slap**
Understandable if you saw the dream, that is. Unfortunatly,
Ryoku did not have this privaledge. He just rubed his reddened cheek,
holding up his other hand in a defensive gesture.
"Okay okay! Next time I'll let you have your beauty-sleep!" he
chuckled.
"Oh! Hibiki-san! Gomen! I didn't mean to.. I mean.. I thought
you were.."
Ryoku just shook his head, smilling, dismissing the incident.
Ukyou was confused at this. This was supposably Ryoga's father, and
yet he was nothing like his son. Always a smile on his face, broadly
showing those Hibiki fangs, not a trace of angst or depression
surrounding them. Either this guy's a very good actor, or he's not
really Ryoga's father.
"Still, I know a way you can make it up to me. If your
cooking's as great as your Old man's, I'll take two of your specials
then!"
Ukyou smiled, but one of her business smiles. Nodding she rose
from the chair she had been placed in, and walked behind the grill,
starting on an okonomiyaki. After waiting for it to cook, she flipped
it at Hibiki-san, and began her other orders. Occasionally she would
cast suspicious glances at the middle-aged man in front of her.
"Miss Kuonji-san? May I ask you a little question? It's
nuthing personal.. just wondering why you passed out back there."
Ukyou looked up at Mr. Hibiki, then she looks around, noticing
that everyone was either finishing up or had already left. After
waiting till the last of the customers had left, and then pulling in
her sign, she goes back to the grill to scrape it clean. Mr. Hibiki
was still waiting patiently as Ukyou finished up her tasks. He was
about to ask again, when she spoke.
"My father had told me once about you. Of course, the jackass
didn't tell me your name was Hibiki! Anyway... he told me about some
deal you two made, and that one day he'd come to see if it was.. well..
you know.. dealt with."
"Right, right. Do you remember what it was we made a deal
with?"
Ukyou looked up, as if trying to remember something deep within
her mind. Then she nods.
"Sorry Hun, not a clue!"
Ryoku staggered up from his facefault. Well, it was now or
never.
"Right, say.. where did you bury the body of the boy Saotome?"
"NANI? Burry my Ran-chan?!"
"Err.. Ranchan? This is the same guy we're talking about,
right? You know, the guy you'd say you'd cut up and serve as
Okonomiyaki specials! Those were your exact words when I first met
you! Of course you were what.. 5?"
"Well, let's just say things changed." Ukyou responded, looking
down at her now spotless grill.
Ryoku was just beaming with happiness. The boy was alive!
Heh, perhaps the fates had looked down upon him one more time.
Suddenly, a yell was heard just outside the restaurant.
"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW?!?!"
Ukyou and Ryoku looked up and blinked at each other. There was
only one person they knew that'd fit that yell.
"Well now.. I'd stake my life that that's my boy out there!
Bring him in, would you Kuonji-san? I haven't seen him in... kamigami
knows how long! Knowing me, if I try to answer the door, he'd be Long
gone before I find my way to the entrance! Hahaha!"
Ukyou rolled her eyes, and went over to the entrance, sliding
open the door. Ryoga blinks at the sound, and turns around. His face
thin and weary with exhaustion, his clothes ragged, and covered in
dust. He blinks in utter confusion.
"U.. Ukyou? What are you doing here in Matsue?"
Ukyou sighed, flicking away a little nerve from her forehead.
"You jackass! Just get in, there's someone here who wants to
meet you, alright?" She grabs his wrist and pulls him in. Ryouga could
only nod numbly as he was yanked in. Upon entering, he wonders who
would ever want to meet him? He didn't know much people, since he was
always wandering.
"Ryouga, my boy! Still after that bread thief?"
"DAD!" Ryoga broke free of Ukyou's grasp, and ran to his
father. Ryoku gave his son a mighty bear-hug, picking him up from the
ground. Ukyou blinked. Rediculous strength ran in the family, she
supposed.
"Now, now boy. We'll have some time to talk over our travels,
but first come with me." Ryoku rose from his seat, and walked toward
Ukyou, and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Miss Ukyou, since you didn't compleate your task of disposing
of that Saotome boy, as was in the plan, it's my job to introduce to
you Ryouga Hibiki, your fiance.
Both teenagers eyes shot wide, looked at each other, then fell
onto the floor, fainting.
Ryoku just sighed.
"I should be getting used to that, by now!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hehe.. well.. that's it for this chapter. So sorry it took such a
while to get out, but I've just been busy with exams lately. **sighs**
Responses would be honored and placed in a shrine. Flames will be used
to light my room. **gotta save money somehow** ^_^
Tell me what you'all thought!
1.) "Ohayo, no da" (Ohayo- Good Morning! No da has no litteral
translation, but "you know" is the closest there is to explaining it.
Also a favorite saying of one of my favorite characters in Fushigi
Yuugi. ^_^)
2.) "Sore wa hitmistu desu!" - (That's a secret! a favorite saying
from ONE of my favorite characters in Slayers. ^_~)
3.) Daaaa! (No litteral translation)
4.) Nani? (What?)
5.) o/` Estás son las mañanitas... o/` (These are the mornings- A
mexican folk song called "Las Mañanitas" that's sung before or just as
the birthday person is awoken.)
6.) Gomen (Sorry)
7.) Matsue (A city just on the opposite side of the country to
where Tokyo lays)
a response! Arigato to everyone who wrote in to tell me what they
thought about this fic. *good including bad* My bread and butter is
thyne comments [ack.. been hanging around Kuno-chan too too long].
Again.. Arigato Gozaimasu for all the feedback!))
Murphy's Law:
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. If everything seems to
be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Left to
themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Things get worse
under pressure. Everything goes wrong all at once. Matter will be
damaged in direct proportion to its value. Anybody can win -- unless
there happens to be a second entry. If there is a possibility of
several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage
will be the one to go wrong. If there is a worse time for something
to go wrong, it will happen then. If anything simply cannot go wrong,
it will anyway. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in
which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth
way, unprepared for, will promptly develop. You never run out of
things that can go wrong.
Adam's Law:
Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes
something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything
that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
Bumper Sticker:
Shit happens.
Promises Lost
Chap 2
Rememberance
By LizMUN
Ukyou did not want to wake up from her dream. It was such a
lovely dream, she and Ranma were finally getting married! Sure, she's
had this same dream countless times before, but this one felt special!
This one felt as if closure was about to happen!
In this dream, nothing could stop them; all other obsticals,
meaning Akane, Shampoo and both Kunos, were tied and rendered
unconscious. This left the two lovebirds alone in the alter. Ranma
was gazing down lovingly at Ukyou's chocolate brown eyes, while Ukyou
did the same to Ranma's deep-sea blue eyes. Now, never would he look
at Ukyou again as a friend, but forever as a soulmate. But, just as
they were to slip the rings into their fingers, Ranma looks at Ukyou in
shock as he suddenly began to drift away and fade.
"Ran-chan!"
She reached out to him, hoping to grab at least a thread, just
to keep him from leaving! He just couldn't leave! Not now! Not after
everything! He needed her! *SHE* needed him! Suddenly, something
grabbed her from behind, pulling her away.
"Uk-chan!" Ranma, as well, reached out to her, not wanting her
to leave his side. But it was in vain. Ranma's form had faded from
sight.
Ukyou turned to kill who had prevented her from helping her
Ranchan, but stopped in surprise. Standing over her loomed a shadowly
outline of a muscular man. The only thing she could absolutly see from
him were his sandy, hazel eyes, looking down at her with understanding.
He brushed a tear from her cheek with surprisingly warm hands and for
an instant she was mezmerized by his being. From him she could also
feel a sense of power, strength, and yet something nameless, something
very heart-warming . He began to speak to her in a voice although
youthful, undoubtedly portrayed great wisdom.
"OHAYO, NO DAAAA!!"
Ukyou, needless to say, face-faulted. Staggering up back to
her feet, she clenching her fists and aims to pop the shadow, but her
fist uselessly flew right through him. Seeing it was fruitless to
physically attack the shadow, she opted to yell at him till his ears
bled!
"Grr.. Why... you....? Why didnt' you let me help Ranchan? If
you don't answer now, mister, I'll smash your shadowy carcas here to
China. The Long way around! Now, what the hell are you?"
The shadow chuckled. Smiling, it squinting it's eyes, and
raised a admonishing finger at her.
"Sore wa hitmistu desu!"
At that moment Ukyou learned something usefull. Battle
spatula's work well on amorphous beings.
Rubbing it's... what was asumed to be it's head, it whimpered,
looking at Ukyou with teary-eyes.
"Daaaa! That hurt, no da! Well, if you must.. um.. well.. I
guess you can consider me a conscious or something, no da."
"Conscious! The day something like you is my conscious, is the
day I happily eat from the Nekohanten! Now, I'll ask you again before I
really get angry! What the hell were you doing keeping me away from my
Ran-chan?"
"You don't have to believe me, no da, but I gotta say, he's not
right for you, no da. He'll hurt you again, just like the other
times, no da.. Plus, he's not yours to have and you are not his to
take, no da."
"Gkh.. What the hell is that supposed to mean? And will you
quit with the "No-da" bit? Anyway, of course he is! I'm his fiancee!"
"*Sighs* Okay, but how sure are you of that?"
"I'll stake my business on it!"
"Oh really? Such a waste on a perfectly good restaurant,
though."
"Nani?" Ukyou turned away from him, her mind realing in
confusion. This just didn't make the least amount of sense. Of course
she was sure! But why would this 'so-called-conscious' tell her
otherwise? Was it really her conscious? Or just indigestion? She
turned back at the shadowy figure, to knock some sense out of the thing
with her spatula, only to find it gone. But not entirely.
"You'll find out soon, Ukyou. Now, I suggest you wake up. You
have people waiting."
~~~~****~~~~
Ryoku Hibiki just stood helpless in front of the unconsious
form of the young Kuonji. The girl was always overextorting herself
into exhaustion. He chuckled in rememberence to his first encounter
with her, but that was beside the point now.
He had just brought her in after she had fainted in the middle
of the street. Odd, because what triggered this unorthodoxial
behaviour was just mentioning his name to her. Perhaps she remembered
him? No, that couldn't have been it, she was too exhausted to even
speak to him when he first tried to speak with her. Oh well. While
waiting for Miss Ukyou to return to the land of the living, he took
this while to look over the restaurant, and whistled appreciativly.
Houan-san surly must be proud of his little girl, heck he was proud of
how well off the place looked. She would make a lovely wife someday.
She had a good business sense, a great cook (well.. he hasn't tasted
her cooking, but if it's the old Kuonji recipe, she's got it in the
bag.) Most of all, she wouldn't get lost in an Oval room. [Okay, I
mean, how was he to know it was the President's room? What kind of
president would do his work in such a psychadelic room anyhow?] Ryoku
sighed, shaking his head.
He began to wonder though if the reason Ukyou-chan did faint,
was because she *did* remember? And perhaps she also remembered the
agreement? Perhaps thought she was too young for the task? She didn't
look the part. Come to think of it, Little Ukyou-chan has grown to
become such a lovely young woman. Would explain the overabundance of
male customers in the restaurant. Hmm... there's a crowd waiting at the
order line. Perhaps it would be best if he wake her up?
"Um.. Ms. Kuonji-san? Wakie Wakie? o/` Estás son las
mañanitas... o/`"
Ukyou just mumbled, and turned over to her side.
"Miss Ukyo-san? I suggest you wake up. You have people
waiting."
Ukyou blinked awake at this, she turned over and saw a shadowy
looking person looking down at her. Her dream, fresh in her memory,
caused her to react in a very understandable way.
**Slap**
Understandable if you saw the dream, that is. Unfortunatly,
Ryoku did not have this privaledge. He just rubed his reddened cheek,
holding up his other hand in a defensive gesture.
"Okay okay! Next time I'll let you have your beauty-sleep!" he
chuckled.
"Oh! Hibiki-san! Gomen! I didn't mean to.. I mean.. I thought
you were.."
Ryoku just shook his head, smilling, dismissing the incident.
Ukyou was confused at this. This was supposably Ryoga's father, and
yet he was nothing like his son. Always a smile on his face, broadly
showing those Hibiki fangs, not a trace of angst or depression
surrounding them. Either this guy's a very good actor, or he's not
really Ryoga's father.
"Still, I know a way you can make it up to me. If your
cooking's as great as your Old man's, I'll take two of your specials
then!"
Ukyou smiled, but one of her business smiles. Nodding she rose
from the chair she had been placed in, and walked behind the grill,
starting on an okonomiyaki. After waiting for it to cook, she flipped
it at Hibiki-san, and began her other orders. Occasionally she would
cast suspicious glances at the middle-aged man in front of her.
"Miss Kuonji-san? May I ask you a little question? It's
nuthing personal.. just wondering why you passed out back there."
Ukyou looked up at Mr. Hibiki, then she looks around, noticing
that everyone was either finishing up or had already left. After
waiting till the last of the customers had left, and then pulling in
her sign, she goes back to the grill to scrape it clean. Mr. Hibiki
was still waiting patiently as Ukyou finished up her tasks. He was
about to ask again, when she spoke.
"My father had told me once about you. Of course, the jackass
didn't tell me your name was Hibiki! Anyway... he told me about some
deal you two made, and that one day he'd come to see if it was.. well..
you know.. dealt with."
"Right, right. Do you remember what it was we made a deal
with?"
Ukyou looked up, as if trying to remember something deep within
her mind. Then she nods.
"Sorry Hun, not a clue!"
Ryoku staggered up from his facefault. Well, it was now or
never.
"Right, say.. where did you bury the body of the boy Saotome?"
"NANI? Burry my Ran-chan?!"
"Err.. Ranchan? This is the same guy we're talking about,
right? You know, the guy you'd say you'd cut up and serve as
Okonomiyaki specials! Those were your exact words when I first met
you! Of course you were what.. 5?"
"Well, let's just say things changed." Ukyou responded, looking
down at her now spotless grill.
Ryoku was just beaming with happiness. The boy was alive!
Heh, perhaps the fates had looked down upon him one more time.
Suddenly, a yell was heard just outside the restaurant.
"WHERE THE HELL AM I NOW?!?!"
Ukyou and Ryoku looked up and blinked at each other. There was
only one person they knew that'd fit that yell.
"Well now.. I'd stake my life that that's my boy out there!
Bring him in, would you Kuonji-san? I haven't seen him in... kamigami
knows how long! Knowing me, if I try to answer the door, he'd be Long
gone before I find my way to the entrance! Hahaha!"
Ukyou rolled her eyes, and went over to the entrance, sliding
open the door. Ryoga blinks at the sound, and turns around. His face
thin and weary with exhaustion, his clothes ragged, and covered in
dust. He blinks in utter confusion.
"U.. Ukyou? What are you doing here in Matsue?"
Ukyou sighed, flicking away a little nerve from her forehead.
"You jackass! Just get in, there's someone here who wants to
meet you, alright?" She grabs his wrist and pulls him in. Ryouga could
only nod numbly as he was yanked in. Upon entering, he wonders who
would ever want to meet him? He didn't know much people, since he was
always wandering.
"Ryouga, my boy! Still after that bread thief?"
"DAD!" Ryoga broke free of Ukyou's grasp, and ran to his
father. Ryoku gave his son a mighty bear-hug, picking him up from the
ground. Ukyou blinked. Rediculous strength ran in the family, she
supposed.
"Now, now boy. We'll have some time to talk over our travels,
but first come with me." Ryoku rose from his seat, and walked toward
Ukyou, and laid a hand on her shoulder.
"Miss Ukyou, since you didn't compleate your task of disposing
of that Saotome boy, as was in the plan, it's my job to introduce to
you Ryouga Hibiki, your fiance.
Both teenagers eyes shot wide, looked at each other, then fell
onto the floor, fainting.
Ryoku just sighed.
"I should be getting used to that, by now!"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hehe.. well.. that's it for this chapter. So sorry it took such a
while to get out, but I've just been busy with exams lately. **sighs**
Responses would be honored and placed in a shrine. Flames will be used
to light my room. **gotta save money somehow** ^_^
Tell me what you'all thought!
1.) "Ohayo, no da" (Ohayo- Good Morning! No da has no litteral
translation, but "you know" is the closest there is to explaining it.
Also a favorite saying of one of my favorite characters in Fushigi
Yuugi. ^_^)
2.) "Sore wa hitmistu desu!" - (That's a secret! a favorite saying
from ONE of my favorite characters in Slayers. ^_~)
3.) Daaaa! (No litteral translation)
4.) Nani? (What?)
5.) o/` Estás son las mañanitas... o/` (These are the mornings- A
mexican folk song called "Las Mañanitas" that's sung before or just as
the birthday person is awoken.)
6.) Gomen (Sorry)
7.) Matsue (A city just on the opposite side of the country to
where Tokyo lays)