Disclaimer: Obviously I own none of Ranma 1/2 , but if you must be picky... Ranma 1/2 and all related concepts and characters are the property of the wondrous and God-like Rumiko Takahashi-sama. The concept of the Nightworld, Circle Daybreak, and Soulmate principle all belong to the fabulous writer Lisa J. Smith a.k.a. L. J. Smith.
For those who are oblivious, I will give you the meaning of the soulmate principle and several Japanese words, which I will be using. Look below:
Soulmate Principle: this is the idea that there is one and only one person to whom your very soul is connected. The symptoms of this increasingly common occurance are being shot into some one else's mind at skin contact and a fuzzy pink haze. All in all, very disorienting.
Baka: idiot.
Otousan / Tousan: Father / Dad.
Okaasan / Kaasan: Mother / Mom
Oneesan / Neesan: Older Sister
Imotochan: Little sister.
Gomen-ne / Gomen: Forgive me or sorry.
Arigatou: Thank you.
Daijobu: You okay?
Kuso / Chikuso: Shit or maybe Crap. I know it's one of the two.
Obaasan: Grandmother.
And now to my fanfic! Please don't hate me for such a long AN...
When Night Falls
"Here, Father. This was in the mail for you," Kasumi said in her soft, melodious voice with a smile.
"Thank you, Kasumi," came the reply of her father, sitting in the center of the dojo. Accepting the letters, he browsed through them, like he had every stack of mail he had since two years prior, looking for the one letter that would change his daughters' lives. Quietly Kasumi exited with one last glance at her father before she disappeared around the doorway.
Bill. Bill. Bill. Letter from the Elders. Bill. Postcard from Genma. Bill...Wait. Looking back Soun discovered that his eyes had not been fooling him. Looking over the postcard he grew more excited with every word. 'Bringing Ranma back from China. Genma.'
"Finally! Ranma's coming here! Now we can fulfill the Tendo / Saotome destiny," he whispered reverantly. "Kasumi! Get Nabiki and Akane! I have something I must tell you all!"
"Yes, Father," came Kasumi's feather light answer.
~*~*~*~*~*~
An annoyed growl reverberated deep in the throat of a young girl. This was because of the large Panda trailing behind her.
Finally fed up, she jumped in the air and hurled the backpack she was hauling around as hard as she could at the Panda accompanied with a cry of, "Yo! Cut that," a brief pause as she dodged a series of strikes from the panda, "OUT!" She finished, emphasized by a flying sidekick that sent the Panda reeling.
Quickly recovering, it goes, once again, on the offensive. Dodging the vicious strikes of the apparently rabid Panda, she seethes angrily until finally she snaps, "How dare you pick my fiancée for me! And without even," catching the paw of the beast, she shifts her weight to throw it, "ASKING!" With the sudden outburst, she throws it crashing into the nearest wall.
As the Panda flies back, the girl calls balefully over her shoulder, "I'm going back to China now. So suck on THAT old man!" Then she turned and started stalking angrily away.
Regrettably, had she turned her head back for one last glance, she would have seen the Panda rear up on it's hind legs and snap a 'STOP' sign from the pavement. Since this was obviously unnoticed by the girl, she also wasn't prepared for being whacked on the back of the head with it. So she, understandably, fell into unconsciousness.
Before she hit the ground, though, the Panda grabbed her by the waist and slung her over its shoulder.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"WHAT?!" exploded from the youngest Tendo daughter, Akane. "YOU PICKED MY FIANCÉ FOR ME?! WITHOUT EVEN ASKING?!"
"She is right, father. It's not polite to go around engaging people without their knowing of it," Kasumi's soft voice cut in, clear as a bell.
"But you know of it now, don't you?" Soun inquired.
"Yes, Daddy. But normally you tell them when you make the deal. Not sixteen years later," Nabiki said, voice coldly emotionless.
"I forgot...?" he answered weakly, more a question than a statement.
"Oh, Daddy, please do dazzle me more with your incredible wit," snapped Nabiki. Soun shrunk back, feeling desperately insignificant.
Before it could escalate into an all out battle of WITS VS. WITLESSNESS, the doorbell sounded and brought everyone to attention.
"That must be Ranma. I'll go get the door," chimed Kasumi. Graceful as a dancer, she stood and practically floated to the door.
Patiently awaiting his best friend's arrival, the Tendo patriarch remained sitting, watching the changes on his daughters' faces. Akane, irritable as ever, was wearing a rather nasty scowl while Nabiki's entire countenance was that of cold disinterest.
Kasumi's barely audible footsteps reached their ears and Soun anxiously got to his feet, awaiting the joyous reunion with Genma and his son. As Kasumi glided in uncharacteristically fast with a greatly dismayed expression on her beautiful face Tendo-san began to worry that something had gone wrong.
As the Giant Panda with a redhead slung over it's back came in, he was proven correct.
"PUT ME DOWN!!! POPS, I TOLD YOU TO PUT ME DOWN!" The redhead screeched, all the while pounding violently on the panda's back.
The Tendos watched in astonishment as the panda finally complied with the redhead's demands and set her down.
Hesitantly, Soun stepped forward and began, "You wouldn't be..."
"Saotome Ranma," she concluded sullenly. Keeping her gaze down as if in shame, she twiddled her thumbs behind her back.
In a sudden burst of motion, Tendo-san swept the girl up in a hug, crying out, "Finally! You're..." he trailed off abruptly as he noticed that there were two... well, you know whats pressed against him. Pushing the girl back he looked down from her face to her chest area. Not surprisingly, her overly large chest stuck out in a way no man's would.
Mouth agape, Tendo-san let go of her shoulders and promptly fainted from shock.
~*~*~*~*~*~
That's it so far on this part of the story. Believe me, it will get much more interesting as things go on. When I finish posting this up on FF.N I will already be working on the next chapter, which will hopefully be a bit longer.
I beg of you to review and make me a happy little bunny! ^_^ 'til next time!
For those who are oblivious, I will give you the meaning of the soulmate principle and several Japanese words, which I will be using. Look below:
Soulmate Principle: this is the idea that there is one and only one person to whom your very soul is connected. The symptoms of this increasingly common occurance are being shot into some one else's mind at skin contact and a fuzzy pink haze. All in all, very disorienting.
Baka: idiot.
Otousan / Tousan: Father / Dad.
Okaasan / Kaasan: Mother / Mom
Oneesan / Neesan: Older Sister
Imotochan: Little sister.
Gomen-ne / Gomen: Forgive me or sorry.
Arigatou: Thank you.
Daijobu: You okay?
Kuso / Chikuso: Shit or maybe Crap. I know it's one of the two.
Obaasan: Grandmother.
And now to my fanfic! Please don't hate me for such a long AN...
When Night Falls
"Here, Father. This was in the mail for you," Kasumi said in her soft, melodious voice with a smile.
"Thank you, Kasumi," came the reply of her father, sitting in the center of the dojo. Accepting the letters, he browsed through them, like he had every stack of mail he had since two years prior, looking for the one letter that would change his daughters' lives. Quietly Kasumi exited with one last glance at her father before she disappeared around the doorway.
Bill. Bill. Bill. Letter from the Elders. Bill. Postcard from Genma. Bill...Wait. Looking back Soun discovered that his eyes had not been fooling him. Looking over the postcard he grew more excited with every word. 'Bringing Ranma back from China. Genma.'
"Finally! Ranma's coming here! Now we can fulfill the Tendo / Saotome destiny," he whispered reverantly. "Kasumi! Get Nabiki and Akane! I have something I must tell you all!"
"Yes, Father," came Kasumi's feather light answer.
~*~*~*~*~*~
An annoyed growl reverberated deep in the throat of a young girl. This was because of the large Panda trailing behind her.
Finally fed up, she jumped in the air and hurled the backpack she was hauling around as hard as she could at the Panda accompanied with a cry of, "Yo! Cut that," a brief pause as she dodged a series of strikes from the panda, "OUT!" She finished, emphasized by a flying sidekick that sent the Panda reeling.
Quickly recovering, it goes, once again, on the offensive. Dodging the vicious strikes of the apparently rabid Panda, she seethes angrily until finally she snaps, "How dare you pick my fiancée for me! And without even," catching the paw of the beast, she shifts her weight to throw it, "ASKING!" With the sudden outburst, she throws it crashing into the nearest wall.
As the Panda flies back, the girl calls balefully over her shoulder, "I'm going back to China now. So suck on THAT old man!" Then she turned and started stalking angrily away.
Regrettably, had she turned her head back for one last glance, she would have seen the Panda rear up on it's hind legs and snap a 'STOP' sign from the pavement. Since this was obviously unnoticed by the girl, she also wasn't prepared for being whacked on the back of the head with it. So she, understandably, fell into unconsciousness.
Before she hit the ground, though, the Panda grabbed her by the waist and slung her over its shoulder.
~*~*~*~*~*~
"WHAT?!" exploded from the youngest Tendo daughter, Akane. "YOU PICKED MY FIANCÉ FOR ME?! WITHOUT EVEN ASKING?!"
"She is right, father. It's not polite to go around engaging people without their knowing of it," Kasumi's soft voice cut in, clear as a bell.
"But you know of it now, don't you?" Soun inquired.
"Yes, Daddy. But normally you tell them when you make the deal. Not sixteen years later," Nabiki said, voice coldly emotionless.
"I forgot...?" he answered weakly, more a question than a statement.
"Oh, Daddy, please do dazzle me more with your incredible wit," snapped Nabiki. Soun shrunk back, feeling desperately insignificant.
Before it could escalate into an all out battle of WITS VS. WITLESSNESS, the doorbell sounded and brought everyone to attention.
"That must be Ranma. I'll go get the door," chimed Kasumi. Graceful as a dancer, she stood and practically floated to the door.
Patiently awaiting his best friend's arrival, the Tendo patriarch remained sitting, watching the changes on his daughters' faces. Akane, irritable as ever, was wearing a rather nasty scowl while Nabiki's entire countenance was that of cold disinterest.
Kasumi's barely audible footsteps reached their ears and Soun anxiously got to his feet, awaiting the joyous reunion with Genma and his son. As Kasumi glided in uncharacteristically fast with a greatly dismayed expression on her beautiful face Tendo-san began to worry that something had gone wrong.
As the Giant Panda with a redhead slung over it's back came in, he was proven correct.
"PUT ME DOWN!!! POPS, I TOLD YOU TO PUT ME DOWN!" The redhead screeched, all the while pounding violently on the panda's back.
The Tendos watched in astonishment as the panda finally complied with the redhead's demands and set her down.
Hesitantly, Soun stepped forward and began, "You wouldn't be..."
"Saotome Ranma," she concluded sullenly. Keeping her gaze down as if in shame, she twiddled her thumbs behind her back.
In a sudden burst of motion, Tendo-san swept the girl up in a hug, crying out, "Finally! You're..." he trailed off abruptly as he noticed that there were two... well, you know whats pressed against him. Pushing the girl back he looked down from her face to her chest area. Not surprisingly, her overly large chest stuck out in a way no man's would.
Mouth agape, Tendo-san let go of her shoulders and promptly fainted from shock.
~*~*~*~*~*~
That's it so far on this part of the story. Believe me, it will get much more interesting as things go on. When I finish posting this up on FF.N I will already be working on the next chapter, which will hopefully be a bit longer.
I beg of you to review and make me a happy little bunny! ^_^ 'til next time!