Type: Humor/Drama
Rating: General
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Ranma ½ and Inuyasha. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Summary:
Cologne found the legendary Tetsusaiga that was known to slay thousand youkais in one go. Saotome Ranma, Genma, Ryouga, Kunou, `kouchou' "principal", Happousai and Mousse went on a Tetsusaiga race using their own little dirty tricks. Shampoo, Akane, Kodaichi and Ukyou joined in the race for their personal motives. On the other side, the activation of the present Tetsusaiga sealed off the bone-eating well's time traveling ability and Kagome found herself trapped in the Warring time!
The Tetsusaiga-Race: CHAPTER TWO
"Tetsusaiga?" Ukyou echoed in her Utchan okonomiyaki shop in the evening.
"Yes and I'm aiming to fight for it with my real strength," Ranma said with his head facing down as he gobbled on her steamy okonomiyaki.
"Are you sure?" Ukyou said, sweat-drop and looking bored with her arms folded.
"Teeheeheeheee.." Ranma's eyes were grinning widely in a greedy way against her vision, but her mirror had reflected his look on the other side of the wall.
"So, many people will be participating it?"
"How did you know?"
"This pamphlet is found everywhere," Ukyou showed Ranma a piece of paper.
It read:
Coconut Slashing Competition at YYY Beach on XXX day. Prize: Tetsusaiga-the most powerful ancient sword from the Warring Period. It was used to slay one million youkai in one blow. Known to worth 100000000 billion yen!
~ Ranma holding the paper (sweat-drop)~
Ranma thought: 'This news sure spread fast!'
"Keh hee hee!! Sounds like a good business opportunity for my okonomiyaki!" Ukyou thought to herself with a grin.
"Rannnn.maaaaa.. How-dare-you-run-away-from-my-cooking-againnnnnnnn.?!?!" A familiar voice growled slowly.
"Akaaaneeee." Ranma sweated and slowly turned towards the entrance door. Akane entered the shop, dark-faced in apron and smoke of anger was streaming from her head.
"I, I was just chatting with Ukyou over a Tetsusaiga competition and .. eat along the way! Hee hee!! Hahaha!"
"Is this true, Ranma?" Akane asked sweetly in smiling way. Ranma gave a guilty grin.
"LIAR!!!" Akane's mallet sent him through the roof into the sky with his two fingers sticking upwards on each hand.
"Bye, and come back again next time, Ranma!" Ukyou waved happily goodbye to the flying Ranma.
"Tetsusaiga Race?" Akane asked a few moments later.
"Yap! Many people will be participating. I'm going to cheer for Ranma!" Ukyou replied happily.
~~**~~
In Kunou's home.....
"Ahhh, ka! Ka! Ka! Ka! Ka!! Get me out of here!!!!" A feminine voice suddenly exploded into Kunou's ears.
"Ah? Is this pig-tailed girl?" Kunou ran out of the house excitedly. A girl with red hair and in red china-style clothes was battling with his pet crocodile in his pool. It was Ranma. He had flew from the shop into Kunou's pool and turned into a girl in the cold water.
"I'm so glad to see you looking for me." Kunou ran to hug the girl but got a kick in his face instead.
"Kunou senior, are you going to the Tetsusaiga race two days later? Are you, huh, are you?" the female Ranma asked, jumping around Kunou.
Putting a finger to his forehead, Kunou said proudly: "Huh, huh, huh!!! Yes, I'm practicing and I'll make sure that stupid Ranma will defeat under me," He laughed crazily: "MUA HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"
"Alright, good luck then!" Ranma ran off with Kunou beaten with his tongue sticking out on the floor.
"Tetsusaiga Race? Hee! Hee! Hee! Since Ranma is going, I'll get that sword to force him to listen to me! Oh Ho ho ho .ho...ho....." Kodaichi eavesdropped behind a short tree 3 metre away and ran off laughing in a cloud of black rose petals.
~~**~~~
"I'm home," Akane said wearily as she stepped into home. She saw a small black pig dragging an umbrella and a piece of paper towards her.
"P-CHAN!" She called happily, hugged it and removed the paper from its mouth.
"Even P-chan knows the competition" she sweated.
"Coconut slashing competition at the beach?" Akane heard Souun asked Ranma as she entered the living room.
"Great! Let's have a family picnic there!" Kasumi suggested.
"I must take the chance to con more boys over there, hee! Hee!" Nabiki thought.
Genma (in the form of panda) held up a piece of board: 'I'm joining you people later.'
"Hey, old man, what are you up to this time?" Ranma asked suspiciously.
'Nothing' the next board wrote.
~~**~~ TWO DAYS LATER AT THE YYY BEACH ~~**~~
Souun beamed with sparkles all over him, spreading his arms in the sea- scented wind at the beach: "It's such a healthy and refreshing day!"
A pot jumped onto his head and leaped away.
"COME BACK HERE, YOU FILTHY OLD MAN!!!! THAT'S MY RAMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ranma yelled, stood and jumped on Souun's head before running after the flying pot.
"Grrrrrrr. Why must everyday start like this?" Souun wailed with his face still in the sand.
Happousai laughed in the pot: "COME AND GET ME, RANMA BOY!!! BUA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA...........!!!!!!"
~BANG!!!!!~
Happousai smashed into a big spatula, flatted.
"Oi..." He groaned and slided down it.
"What's wrong, Ranma?" Ukyou asked, not noticing Happousai on her spatula and fried him into her okonomiyaki and passed it to her customer-one of the students in Fuurinka High School. The entire class had attended the big event.
"Hey! There's an old man in your ingredient!" her classmate, Hiroshi complained.
Ukyou simply wiped Happousai from the food and threw him into the sea.
"OI!!! THAT'S NOT THE WAY TO TREAT A RESPECTABLE OLD GENTLEMAN!!!" Happousai screamed and leaped about the beach touching the girls' butts, causing shrieks around the place.
"Hi Ukyou!" Ranma greeted.
"Ranma! I'm so glad to see you!" Kodaichi screamed and ran towards Ranma.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM! HE IS MINE!!!!" Ukyou beat her off flying from the scene.
"Akane, aren't you going to do something about your future husband?" Nabiki asked. Akane sat under the umbrella and slipped her cold drink.
"HUH! Why should I care? That's his own business!"
"Are you sure?" Nabiki said. Akane's eyes were following Ranma everywhere to make sure he did not get any closer with other girls despite her words.
"Well, make sure you don't snatch him from me!" Shampoo's voice suddenly appeared from behind. She was wearing a purple swimming suit and was sweeping her beautiful long hair to her back gracefully with a hand.
Akane puffed and turned her face away from her.
Afar, Ryouga walked coolly towards Akane's direction. A wave of sea splashed on him turning him into a black pig again. Kunou was busy showing his charms to the excited girls. Mousse kept bumping into the wrong people, mistaking them for Shampoo. Kasumi was preparing sandwiches for her family and Genma was nowhere to be seen.
"Sorry for keeping everyone waiting!" Cologne announced: "I shall now announce the rules and conditions of the race! The prize is the 500-years old ancient sword-Tetsusaiga!!" She held up an ordinary-looking sword in its scabbard.
"Hee hee hee!!! It's mine now!" Happousai giggled and snatched it from Cologne. She leaped, snatched it back and banged its handle on his head into the sand.
"Oi O' Baa baa!! What makes it so different from other sword? Tell us its origin!! Or we'll not feel it worthy to fight for it!" Someone shouted.
"Humpt..!!!" Cologne cleared her throat: "It was passed down from one of the Joketsuzoku clan-Sango sama. There was no written document of its origin. BUT! My great grand mother told me about its legend. It is like this.."
~~~~ COLOGNE'S DESCRIPTION ~~~~
500 years ago in the period of Warring Japan, a beautiful girl with background (her face was not shown) was battling with a youkai in human form (with a pair of horns on its head and a mouth full of sharp fangs). She excelled in creating weapons using youkais' bones.
Girl (with an arrow pointing at her)- Sango-sama, 17 years old.
Her characteristics: Pretty, capable and intelligent. She was the most powerful youkai eliminator in her clan. But it was destroyed by the youkai she was presently battling with.
Youkai (an arrow pointing at him)- Inuyasha, a 100 years old dog youkai, he had destroyed Sango-sama's clan.
His characteristics: Evil, he had a pair of big red eyes and white long hair with two sharp horns on top of his head. He had white fangs all over his mouth and claws as sharp as knives. He wore a blood-red kimono and could blow fire from his mouth.
Sango-sama said: "How dare you destroy my clan?!?!"
Inuyasha replied: "Because your clan has destroyed my clan so I destroy yours!!!!"
Sango-sama shouted: "Alright! Then now I shall destroy you and make a sword out of your bones!!"
So, Sango-sama killed the Inu youkai-Inuyasha and made a sword using his bones and named it Tetsusaiga. Ever since, she used it to slay youkais in her wandering journey until she reached China and settled her roots there.
~~~ END OF COLOGNE'S DESCRIPTION ~~
(Author's words: yeah, I know the story of Tetsusaiga is totally too far- fetched. But legend is often very far from reality. Since there is a 500 years' difference between Warring Japan and Present time, it is not surprised that the truth is distorted.)
All people on the beach whispered to one another: "Wow, so Tetsusaiga is made from the bones of the Inu youkai, Inuyasha. It's really worth the battle for it!"
~~~ 500 YEARS BACK IN WARRING FEUDAL JAPAN ~~~
Kagome had cried herself to sleep and was dreaming about taking her examinations in her own time. Inuyasha was leaning against his back in Kaeda's hut and he was holding his Tetsusaiga in his arms.
"HA-CHOOOO..!!!!" Inuyasha sneezed.
"HA-CHOOOOOOO..!!!!!" Sango sneezed near him.
"Hey! Are you scolding me?" Inuyasha and Sango glared at each other. Miroku, Kaeda and Shippou were snoring away in their sweet slumber land.
~~~ 500 YEARS BACK IN PRESENT JAPAN ~~
The rules and conditions of the competition is:
The participants will be grouped in pairs with a rope binding them to their partners. They were to hold a coconut each. Each team must slash as much coconuts of their rivals while protecting their owns as they ran from the starting point to their indicated destination. They were given a map to guide their way. The winning team will get Tetsusaiga.
Akane thought, blushing: 'I must assist Ranma to win this game and let him get Tetsusaiga by being his partner.' She went towards Ranma's direction and heard a lot of commotion.
"Ranma! I want to pair up with you!" Shampoo shouted immediately.
"Ah Huh! Too bad, but Ranma has to pair up with me!" Ukyou shot back.
"I don't care! Ranma is mine!!!" Kodaichi screamed and waved winds of flying black rose petals over their eyes. Quick as lightning, she grabbed at Ranma's direction and stomped to the starting point.
"SHAMPOOOOOO! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUUU!!!!" Mousse screamed, searching hysterically for her in his thick glasses.
"AKANE!!! Let's pair together!!!" Kunou shouted and rushed towards Akane.
'Pair with Akane! Pair with Akane!' Ryouga thought shyly to himself and tried to force himself to ask her. Red-faced, he ran towards her.
"Ranma! We'll definitely win this game!" Kodaichi said happily and turned to look at her partner. It was Mousse.
~~~ KODAICHI STOOD STUNNED FOR FIVE MINUTES ~~~
Ranma found himself with Ryouga.
"DUH???!!!!"
"HEY! Who says I want to pair with you?!?!" Ryouga protested.
"What's the matter, P-Chan?" Ranma asked.
~ BANG!! ~
Ryouga sent many lumps on Ranma's head.
To Shampoo's dismay, she had to pair up with Akane. Kunou had no partner, so he was forced to pair up with Ukyou.
And so, the pairing of the game is as follows:
Team 1- Ranma and Ryouga Team 2- Akane and Shampoo Team 3- Mousse and Kodaichi Team 4- Kunou and Ukyou
'The Tetsusaiga Race' to be continued ..
Rating: General
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Ranma ½ and Inuyasha. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Summary:
Cologne found the legendary Tetsusaiga that was known to slay thousand youkais in one go. Saotome Ranma, Genma, Ryouga, Kunou, `kouchou' "principal", Happousai and Mousse went on a Tetsusaiga race using their own little dirty tricks. Shampoo, Akane, Kodaichi and Ukyou joined in the race for their personal motives. On the other side, the activation of the present Tetsusaiga sealed off the bone-eating well's time traveling ability and Kagome found herself trapped in the Warring time!
The Tetsusaiga-Race: CHAPTER TWO
"Tetsusaiga?" Ukyou echoed in her Utchan okonomiyaki shop in the evening.
"Yes and I'm aiming to fight for it with my real strength," Ranma said with his head facing down as he gobbled on her steamy okonomiyaki.
"Are you sure?" Ukyou said, sweat-drop and looking bored with her arms folded.
"Teeheeheeheee.." Ranma's eyes were grinning widely in a greedy way against her vision, but her mirror had reflected his look on the other side of the wall.
"So, many people will be participating it?"
"How did you know?"
"This pamphlet is found everywhere," Ukyou showed Ranma a piece of paper.
It read:
Coconut Slashing Competition at YYY Beach on XXX day. Prize: Tetsusaiga-the most powerful ancient sword from the Warring Period. It was used to slay one million youkai in one blow. Known to worth 100000000 billion yen!
~ Ranma holding the paper (sweat-drop)~
Ranma thought: 'This news sure spread fast!'
"Keh hee hee!! Sounds like a good business opportunity for my okonomiyaki!" Ukyou thought to herself with a grin.
"Rannnn.maaaaa.. How-dare-you-run-away-from-my-cooking-againnnnnnnn.?!?!" A familiar voice growled slowly.
"Akaaaneeee." Ranma sweated and slowly turned towards the entrance door. Akane entered the shop, dark-faced in apron and smoke of anger was streaming from her head.
"I, I was just chatting with Ukyou over a Tetsusaiga competition and .. eat along the way! Hee hee!! Hahaha!"
"Is this true, Ranma?" Akane asked sweetly in smiling way. Ranma gave a guilty grin.
"LIAR!!!" Akane's mallet sent him through the roof into the sky with his two fingers sticking upwards on each hand.
"Bye, and come back again next time, Ranma!" Ukyou waved happily goodbye to the flying Ranma.
"Tetsusaiga Race?" Akane asked a few moments later.
"Yap! Many people will be participating. I'm going to cheer for Ranma!" Ukyou replied happily.
~~**~~
In Kunou's home.....
"Ahhh, ka! Ka! Ka! Ka! Ka!! Get me out of here!!!!" A feminine voice suddenly exploded into Kunou's ears.
"Ah? Is this pig-tailed girl?" Kunou ran out of the house excitedly. A girl with red hair and in red china-style clothes was battling with his pet crocodile in his pool. It was Ranma. He had flew from the shop into Kunou's pool and turned into a girl in the cold water.
"I'm so glad to see you looking for me." Kunou ran to hug the girl but got a kick in his face instead.
"Kunou senior, are you going to the Tetsusaiga race two days later? Are you, huh, are you?" the female Ranma asked, jumping around Kunou.
Putting a finger to his forehead, Kunou said proudly: "Huh, huh, huh!!! Yes, I'm practicing and I'll make sure that stupid Ranma will defeat under me," He laughed crazily: "MUA HAHAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!"
"Alright, good luck then!" Ranma ran off with Kunou beaten with his tongue sticking out on the floor.
"Tetsusaiga Race? Hee! Hee! Hee! Since Ranma is going, I'll get that sword to force him to listen to me! Oh Ho ho ho .ho...ho....." Kodaichi eavesdropped behind a short tree 3 metre away and ran off laughing in a cloud of black rose petals.
~~**~~~
"I'm home," Akane said wearily as she stepped into home. She saw a small black pig dragging an umbrella and a piece of paper towards her.
"P-CHAN!" She called happily, hugged it and removed the paper from its mouth.
"Even P-chan knows the competition" she sweated.
"Coconut slashing competition at the beach?" Akane heard Souun asked Ranma as she entered the living room.
"Great! Let's have a family picnic there!" Kasumi suggested.
"I must take the chance to con more boys over there, hee! Hee!" Nabiki thought.
Genma (in the form of panda) held up a piece of board: 'I'm joining you people later.'
"Hey, old man, what are you up to this time?" Ranma asked suspiciously.
'Nothing' the next board wrote.
~~**~~ TWO DAYS LATER AT THE YYY BEACH ~~**~~
Souun beamed with sparkles all over him, spreading his arms in the sea- scented wind at the beach: "It's such a healthy and refreshing day!"
A pot jumped onto his head and leaped away.
"COME BACK HERE, YOU FILTHY OLD MAN!!!! THAT'S MY RAMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ranma yelled, stood and jumped on Souun's head before running after the flying pot.
"Grrrrrrr. Why must everyday start like this?" Souun wailed with his face still in the sand.
Happousai laughed in the pot: "COME AND GET ME, RANMA BOY!!! BUA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA...........!!!!!!"
~BANG!!!!!~
Happousai smashed into a big spatula, flatted.
"Oi..." He groaned and slided down it.
"What's wrong, Ranma?" Ukyou asked, not noticing Happousai on her spatula and fried him into her okonomiyaki and passed it to her customer-one of the students in Fuurinka High School. The entire class had attended the big event.
"Hey! There's an old man in your ingredient!" her classmate, Hiroshi complained.
Ukyou simply wiped Happousai from the food and threw him into the sea.
"OI!!! THAT'S NOT THE WAY TO TREAT A RESPECTABLE OLD GENTLEMAN!!!" Happousai screamed and leaped about the beach touching the girls' butts, causing shrieks around the place.
"Hi Ukyou!" Ranma greeted.
"Ranma! I'm so glad to see you!" Kodaichi screamed and ran towards Ranma.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM! HE IS MINE!!!!" Ukyou beat her off flying from the scene.
"Akane, aren't you going to do something about your future husband?" Nabiki asked. Akane sat under the umbrella and slipped her cold drink.
"HUH! Why should I care? That's his own business!"
"Are you sure?" Nabiki said. Akane's eyes were following Ranma everywhere to make sure he did not get any closer with other girls despite her words.
"Well, make sure you don't snatch him from me!" Shampoo's voice suddenly appeared from behind. She was wearing a purple swimming suit and was sweeping her beautiful long hair to her back gracefully with a hand.
Akane puffed and turned her face away from her.
Afar, Ryouga walked coolly towards Akane's direction. A wave of sea splashed on him turning him into a black pig again. Kunou was busy showing his charms to the excited girls. Mousse kept bumping into the wrong people, mistaking them for Shampoo. Kasumi was preparing sandwiches for her family and Genma was nowhere to be seen.
"Sorry for keeping everyone waiting!" Cologne announced: "I shall now announce the rules and conditions of the race! The prize is the 500-years old ancient sword-Tetsusaiga!!" She held up an ordinary-looking sword in its scabbard.
"Hee hee hee!!! It's mine now!" Happousai giggled and snatched it from Cologne. She leaped, snatched it back and banged its handle on his head into the sand.
"Oi O' Baa baa!! What makes it so different from other sword? Tell us its origin!! Or we'll not feel it worthy to fight for it!" Someone shouted.
"Humpt..!!!" Cologne cleared her throat: "It was passed down from one of the Joketsuzoku clan-Sango sama. There was no written document of its origin. BUT! My great grand mother told me about its legend. It is like this.."
~~~~ COLOGNE'S DESCRIPTION ~~~~
500 years ago in the period of Warring Japan, a beautiful girl with background (her face was not shown) was battling with a youkai in human form (with a pair of horns on its head and a mouth full of sharp fangs). She excelled in creating weapons using youkais' bones.
Girl (with an arrow pointing at her)- Sango-sama, 17 years old.
Her characteristics: Pretty, capable and intelligent. She was the most powerful youkai eliminator in her clan. But it was destroyed by the youkai she was presently battling with.
Youkai (an arrow pointing at him)- Inuyasha, a 100 years old dog youkai, he had destroyed Sango-sama's clan.
His characteristics: Evil, he had a pair of big red eyes and white long hair with two sharp horns on top of his head. He had white fangs all over his mouth and claws as sharp as knives. He wore a blood-red kimono and could blow fire from his mouth.
Sango-sama said: "How dare you destroy my clan?!?!"
Inuyasha replied: "Because your clan has destroyed my clan so I destroy yours!!!!"
Sango-sama shouted: "Alright! Then now I shall destroy you and make a sword out of your bones!!"
So, Sango-sama killed the Inu youkai-Inuyasha and made a sword using his bones and named it Tetsusaiga. Ever since, she used it to slay youkais in her wandering journey until she reached China and settled her roots there.
~~~ END OF COLOGNE'S DESCRIPTION ~~
(Author's words: yeah, I know the story of Tetsusaiga is totally too far- fetched. But legend is often very far from reality. Since there is a 500 years' difference between Warring Japan and Present time, it is not surprised that the truth is distorted.)
All people on the beach whispered to one another: "Wow, so Tetsusaiga is made from the bones of the Inu youkai, Inuyasha. It's really worth the battle for it!"
~~~ 500 YEARS BACK IN WARRING FEUDAL JAPAN ~~~
Kagome had cried herself to sleep and was dreaming about taking her examinations in her own time. Inuyasha was leaning against his back in Kaeda's hut and he was holding his Tetsusaiga in his arms.
"HA-CHOOOO..!!!!" Inuyasha sneezed.
"HA-CHOOOOOOO..!!!!!" Sango sneezed near him.
"Hey! Are you scolding me?" Inuyasha and Sango glared at each other. Miroku, Kaeda and Shippou were snoring away in their sweet slumber land.
~~~ 500 YEARS BACK IN PRESENT JAPAN ~~
The rules and conditions of the competition is:
The participants will be grouped in pairs with a rope binding them to their partners. They were to hold a coconut each. Each team must slash as much coconuts of their rivals while protecting their owns as they ran from the starting point to their indicated destination. They were given a map to guide their way. The winning team will get Tetsusaiga.
Akane thought, blushing: 'I must assist Ranma to win this game and let him get Tetsusaiga by being his partner.' She went towards Ranma's direction and heard a lot of commotion.
"Ranma! I want to pair up with you!" Shampoo shouted immediately.
"Ah Huh! Too bad, but Ranma has to pair up with me!" Ukyou shot back.
"I don't care! Ranma is mine!!!" Kodaichi screamed and waved winds of flying black rose petals over their eyes. Quick as lightning, she grabbed at Ranma's direction and stomped to the starting point.
"SHAMPOOOOOO! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUUUU!!!!" Mousse screamed, searching hysterically for her in his thick glasses.
"AKANE!!! Let's pair together!!!" Kunou shouted and rushed towards Akane.
'Pair with Akane! Pair with Akane!' Ryouga thought shyly to himself and tried to force himself to ask her. Red-faced, he ran towards her.
"Ranma! We'll definitely win this game!" Kodaichi said happily and turned to look at her partner. It was Mousse.
~~~ KODAICHI STOOD STUNNED FOR FIVE MINUTES ~~~
Ranma found himself with Ryouga.
"DUH???!!!!"
"HEY! Who says I want to pair with you?!?!" Ryouga protested.
"What's the matter, P-Chan?" Ranma asked.
~ BANG!! ~
Ryouga sent many lumps on Ranma's head.
To Shampoo's dismay, she had to pair up with Akane. Kunou had no partner, so he was forced to pair up with Ukyou.
And so, the pairing of the game is as follows:
Team 1- Ranma and Ryouga Team 2- Akane and Shampoo Team 3- Mousse and Kodaichi Team 4- Kunou and Ukyou
'The Tetsusaiga Race' to be continued ..