Type: General
Rating: General (Humor because the mess under Ranma/ Inuyasha confusion and serious when it concerns Inuyasha's future 500 years in the past)
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Ranma ½ and Inuyasha. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Summary:
This fanfic is a sequel from my other fanfic, 'The Tetsusaiga race' (you may look through the list of fanfictions under my profile link on this page by clicking on my nickname).
Determined to know what has happened to Inuyasha 500 years in the past, Ranma brought Inuyasha to his school, hoping to make use of the resources in the library but Inuyasha ended up becoming a student in Fuurinkan High School, feigning as Ranma's long-lost brother. Kagome, Hinako, Gosunkugi, Saotome Nodoka (Ranma's mother), Hojo, Souta and Toufuu are added into this confusion. Humors involved.
SEQUEL TO THE TETSUSAIGA RACE
Chapter Two: Going Home
"COME BACK WITH MYYYYY PETTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hinako shrieked after Saotome immediately the lesson ended.
"Must get him outta here before he's being tortured to death by that pervert sensei!~" Ranma thought as he carried Inuyasha in his arms out of the class.
"Oi! I can run by MYSELF!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha yelled, struggling to lay his feet to the ground, but Ranma was leaping too fast from the building onto the school compound.
"Ohhhhhhhh.." Hinako growled in frustration: "HAPPOU-5 YEN KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL~~~~~!!!!!!!!"
"Arggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha and Ranma screamed together.
~~~~ 5 MINUTES LATER ~~~~
"Wait, wait!! We can discuss!!!" Ranma screamed as he struggled on the ground due to lack of strength. The dizzy Inuyasha lay besides him with spiral eyes. Hinako had absorbed his strength three times in one go. She was preparing to absorb Ranma's strength for the second time next.
"What have you got to say........, Saotome?" Hinako snarled.
"Actually....." Ranma began: "Inuyasha's actually .. (He wiped out a microphone and screamed though it) My half-blood BROTHER!!!! His full name is Saotome Inuyasha!!!!!!!!!"
"Heh?" Hinako stared at him, shocked and taken aback.
'Yes! One step into my trap!' Ranma thought and continued aloud: "We have the same father, his mother left home at his age of two and it's only recently that we are finally reunited, but, but."
"He suffered from a strange illness that makes him look like what he is today!"
"Sob, sob!!" Hinako wailed and wiped her tears with her tissue: "I'm so sorry I've ill-treat your long-lost brother like that!"
"Precisely!" Ranma feigned a serious and depressed look: "I wouldn't ask for more, sensei, just teach me your Happou-5 yen kill technique, give me full marks for ALL my tests and examinations, plus stop pestering me whenever I skip lessons.."
~~BONK!!~~~~
"That's enough, Ranma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Akane screamed as she kicked him at the back of his head: "You are already so lazy and yet you want results WITHOUT working for it?????? I'm not TALKING with you!!"
"Huh! Tomboy! Uncute!" Ranma scolded behind her back.
~~ BONK! ~~~
Akane threw a school statue onto his head and stormed off.
"I'll arrange your brother to study in the same class with you from tomorrow onwards! Get him to buy school uniform and textbooks, ok?" Hinako suddenly chipped cheerfully and skipped away, snatching a student's lollipop along the way.
"HEY!! That's NOT what I'VE ASKED for!!!!" Ranma could not stop her. A hand suddenly slapped onto his shoulder.
"OI!" Inuyasha growled: "Who is your half-bloooooodddddddddd brother?????????!!!!!!!!!! And WHO gives you the permission to make me HANG in this place as a GODDDAMMITT STUDENT?????!!!!!!!!"
"Heh? I don't know, Hinako sensei plans everything for you before I can stop her, kee hee hee.." Ranma tried to act innocent.
"THAT means I've to stay here and study everyday like a bookworm in that room before thatttttttttt pervert sensei and stick myself to TESTS and EXAMINATIONS every semester??????!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha roared, shivering with anger.
"Ah ha ha, sort of." Ranma laughed guiltily, playing with his fingers.
"YOU TROUBLE-MAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha kicked Ranma into the air with two fingers sticking out of each hand.
"COME AND HAVE A DUAL WITH ME, SAOTOME!!!!!!!!" Tatewaki jumped towards Inuyasha.
"Grrr, I'm too tired with this nonsense!!" He growled and hit him off into the air with a fist: "I'm going home, going back to MY time this very MINUTE right NOW!!!!"
"Uh-huh!" Nabiki said, standing by the school gate: "It's too late to back out now, Inuyasha-kun, everyone knows about it! Besides, you need to find out what you need to know in our time. And." Her sentences were cut off by a dark shadow between she and Inuyasha.
"And I don't mind having ANOTHER SON in Tendou Martial Arts School!!!!" Saotome Genma wailed, appeared from nowhere and hugged Inuyasha. He ended up being kicked into the sky instead. Inuyasha stormed off looking for Ranma.
"Sigh! I haven't got the chance to remind him to give me the ancient coins from his time!!" Nabiki thought.
~~~ *** ~~~
The female Ranma crawled out of the school swimming pool, squeezing water from her clothes.
"Huh! Ungrateful! I've just rescued your life! And that's WHAT I get in return!!" She scowled to herself: "Huh?" A flying figure landed on top of her. It was Kunou Tatewaki.
"Pig-tailed girl!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE FATED TO MEET AGAINNNNNNNN!!!!!" He wailed with tears of happiness.
"Get off me, you --- you PERVERT!!!!!!!" Ranma screamed, kicking Tatewaki off her back.
"Oi! Ranma! I want you to tell that stupid sensei to stop THAT nonsense!!!!" Inuyasha followed Ranma's scent and screamed from afar.
"HUH! Saotome Ranma's here to snatch my pig-tailed girl away from me, doesn't he???!!!" Tatewaki snarled, preparing his sword.
"HEH???" Ranma said.
"Oi, Ranma!!" Inuyasha approached: "HUH??!!" He could smell Saotome Ranma nearby but he could not see him (he did not know Ranma's ability to change into a girl despite his one-week stay in Tendou Martial Arts School because he had been watching television all the time and ignoring all events around him).
"Huh! Huh! Huh! You've finally showed your wolfish true colour, Saotome!!! Especially your wolfish ears!!" Tatewaki grinned.
"Oi! Did you see Saotome Ranma around?" Inuyasha asked.
"Ask yourself!!!!" Tatewaki screamed and attacked Inuyasha.
"WHAT????" Inuyasha shouted.
"Who has the wolfish ears, you PERVERT!!!!!" Ranma shouted angrily and kicked Tatewaki out of the scene, turning to Inuyasha: "Hey, Inuyasha, I'm here!"
Inuyasha sniffed again. It was Ranma all right, but this person was a girl!
"I think my nose is having a problem," Inuyasha said and started to leap off.
"Hey! Come back here!!!" Ranma leaped after Inuyasha and hopped before him holding a kettle of hot water.
"Keh! Are you going to pour hot water over my head?" Inuyasha snarled.
"Watch me!" Ranma said and poured its content over her head. She changed back to a boy again.
"HEH?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha stared, shocked.
"Now you understand?"
"RANMA!!!!! I'M HERE TO SEE YOU!!!!" Kodaichi shrieked and leaped at him.
"Ranma!! Are you some rare kind of human species?!" Inuyasha shouted through his ear.
"Ranma!!! Date me! Date me! Date me!!" Kodaichi screamed into Ranma's right ear.
"Answer me, Saotome!!!! Are you or are you NOT?!" Inuyasha yelled into his left ear.
"WILL THE TWO OF YOU LEAVE ME IN PEACE????!!!!!" Ranma screamed, kicking both of them into the air. (Oops, he thought, I've kicked a girl!)
~~~~~~~~~ LATE EVENING ~~~~~~~~
"Nee-chan, has Inuyasha Nii-chan returned back to Warring Japan?" Souta asked Kagome while he played with Buyo-his cat in her bedroom.
"How would I know? He's probably fighting some youkai in some other area." Kagome replied, while trying to figure an algebra problem. Actually, deep inside, she was worried, but she couldn't do anything about it. Inuyasha told her he would be fetching her back to Warring Japan a month *0* later.
"What is Inuyasha doing in this time? Does he have an important mission which he doesn't want me to know?" She wondered.
~~~~ ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOKYO ~~~~
"It's ALL your fault that we can't get into the library before it closes just because of ALL these STUPID nonsense when you and Kodaichi yell into MY ears, plus ME having to buy ALL your books and school uniform!!!!" Ranma scolded Inuyasha on their way back to Tendou Martial Arts School.
"FEH!!! It's ALL your fault that you DON'T bring me personally to that STUPID library before your lessons AND because of you and YOUR stupid sensei's conversation, you chain me into THAT STUPID classroom forever for no reason!!!!! I still have some MORE IMPORTANT things to do instead of staying in THAT STUPID CRUMPY ROOM!!!!! Besides, it was YOU who did not explain and tell me about those funny cursed springs in China in the VERY !!!" Inuyasha shot back as they both leaped across the fence.
Below the fence, Akane followed.
"Hey! Can't you both just cut it out?" She lifted her head and called.
"NO!!!!!" Inuyasha and Ranma both responded at the same time sternly.
"Hi, Akane-chan! How's your school today?" A friendly voice called. Unknowingly, they were outside Toufuu's clinic. A panda (Genma) was sweeping outside the door.
"Do you both make this new friend today? My, you do remind me of Ranma- kun!" Toufuu laughed cheerfully, making close examination of Inuyasha's appearance.
"Are you a hanyou?" Toufuu asked.
"HEH?????!!!!!!" Inuyasha was taken aback, shocked.
"Toufuu sensei, what's a hanyou?" Akane asked.
"Oh! A hanyou is a mixed breed of both youkai and human being," Toufuu answered.
"KEH!! Who are you and how did you know my identity???!!!" Inuyasha growled threateningly, revealing his sharp claws, preparing to spring into attack.
"Toufuu sensei is a very skilful doctor!" Ranma explained.
"He's Inuyasha and he will be transferred to our class tomorrow," explained Akane.
"Wouldn't he be creating a lot of commotion in school?" asked Toufuu.
"Just because I'm not a FULL HUMAN????!!!!!!" Inuyasha snarled.
"Wait, I think I got something for you, Inuyasha-kun." Toufuu smiled and invited them into his clinic.
Toufuu searched through his storeroom and pulled out a dusty wooden box.
"Let's see if this helps!" he blew the dust away and took out a wooden Buddhist bracelet.
"Let me help you put this on," He said.
The moment Inuyasha's hand got into contact with the bracelet; a familiar feeling ran through his blood just like any new moon night. His dog-ears, fangs and claws vanished, his iris changed to grey-violet and his hair turned midnight violet-black.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME???!!!!!" Inuyasha cried out in horror.
"Don't worry, this thing only purifies your youkai power whenever you put it on, but upon removal, you'll still regain back to your original self." Toufuu assured him.
"WOW! You look so handsome in your human form, Inuyasha!!" Akane praised.
"Hey!" Ranma grumbled: "There's not much difference in his looks anyway!"
"Ranma!" Akane called, looking closer at his face: "Are you jealous?"
"HUH! Jealous! Me? You've got to be kidding! How can I be jealous over such petty minor matter???!!! I can prove to the whole wide world that I--- Saotome Ranma is the MOST handsome and charming guy in the entire Tokyo!!!!!! BUA HA HA HA HA!!!"
'Why do I feel some fiery aura from Saotome Ranma? Or am I imagining things?' Inuyasha thought, sweated.
"He is definitely jealous," Akane thought smugly.
Afar, a dark figure stood tall against the full moon on the rooftop of a nearby house watching Toufuu sensei's clinic. Silently, it leaped off.
That night, the Tendou and Genma made many remarks about Inuyasha's human appearance and Kasumi helped him amend the uniform to make sure it fitted well on him. Luckily, Happousai did not witness the change or else he would start planning how to snatch Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga whenever he was in his human form.
~~~ THE NEXT MORNING ~~~~
Tendou Souun flipped another page of the newspapers. Three shadows shot past him, causing his hair to fly up.
Kasumi placed a cup of coffee on the table besides him: "Father, they forgot to bring their lunch boxes again.. Are you alright?"
"I think so.." Souun replied, his hair stood tall like a tree in the air.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, Ranma!!!!" Akane screamed: "Why didn't you remind me of my time???!!!!!"
"Who ask you to be so engrossed in your karate practice in the morning???"
"Why doesn't Nabiki inform us before she leaves for school?" Inuyasha grumbled. He wore the black Fuurinkan High School uniform and had tied his long black hair with a band to his back. He had a similar hand-held black bag as Ranma. He looked at the bracelet on his hand and attempted to pull it out.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Ranma questioned.
"What am I doing? Pulling this annoying thing out!! I can run faster with my youkai strength!!" Inuyasha growled.
"Better not, Inuyasha, remember what Toufuu sensei said yesterday, don't get yourself unnecessary attention in school, ok?" Akane reminded.
A group of girls in green uniforms were walking along the street towards their school.
A girl with hair band turned to another one with long hair: "Nah, Kagome, how's your relationship with your wild and two-timer boyfriend?"
"He has been very busy ..." Before Kagome could complete her words, suddenly....
~~~ ZOOMEDDDDDDDDD~~~~~~~
Three teenagers rushed by them, looking at their watches at the same time and scolding among themselves at the same time.
"Gosh, those people over there, they must be late for school," One girl with short hair said. Kagome stared at the running figures. One of them was a boy with long black hair tied to his back. Somehow, she felt she had seen him somewhere before.
"Am I sensing something wrong?" Kagome wondered.
"From the uniforms they wear, they are from Fuurinkan High School!" the girl with hair band said, noticing Kagome's attention on the fading figures.
"Talking about school, we are going to be late too!! Let's hurry up!!" The girl with short hair cried. Kagome tried to divert her attention back and ran off to school with her friends.
"School's in view now!" Ranma called.
"BUA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The crazy principal roared from afar, standing on a gate pillar: "I've changed the school gate's lock!! Whoever can't break through this before the school bell rings shall have to stay back for 10 hours after SCHOOL!!!! BUA HA HA!!!!!!"
"Why is this principal always coming up with the SAME OLD TRICKS to create problem for us???!!" A student complained.
Ranma flew a kick at the gate and knocked it down immediately.
"LET'S RUSH IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The students called and stormed past the principal. Akane pulled Inuyasha's arm and ran into the school.
"Ranma!!" A tickle of a bicycle sounded and Shampoo, riding on her bicycle flew and pushed Ranma out of the gate.
"Talk to you later, Shampoo!!!" Ranma cried: "I'M GOING TO BE LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's have a date with me, Ranma!!!" Shampoo called.
~~~ SPLASH!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~
Inuyasha pulled the nearest water hose and splashed Shampoo and her bicycle away.
"Let's get to the class before it's too late!!!" He called and pulled Ranma by his pigtail after Akane.
Luckily for Ranma, he did not get to see Shampoo in her cat-form. A purple colour cat glared angrily after the running figures with her bicycle.
"Good morning, class! This is our new classmate--- Saotome Inuyasha!" Hinako Sensei introduced, turning to Inuyasha: "You can sit behind Ukyou." Ranma had managed to lie to her that Inuyasha had 'recovered' from his strange 'illness' when they entered their classroom and had turned more human-like.
There was a little whispering noise among the students.
"Hey, Saotome, that new student looks like you!" One student said.
"And his surname is Saotome too!!" Other student continued.
Ranma looked on, bored: "Because he is my half-brother," He lied.
"Your half-brother??!!" The student whispered.
"Yeah, I am his older."
"Younger! I'm much, much older than you!" Inuyasha growled as he walked past Ranma.
"Look, Inuyasha and Ukyou have the same hair style. They both tie their hair behind in the same way! They looked like a couple." A girl whispered. (NOTE: Ukyou usually tied her hair behind and wore boy's school uniform.)
"Shut-up." Ukyou hissed: "Everyone knows that I'm Ranma's fiancée."
The class was commenced. It was Mathematics lesson. Ranma knew Inuyasha came from the Warring Period and had not study before. He secretly examined his expression. Inuyasha was very attentive to Hinako's teaching and started to take note very aggressively while voicing his doubts at the same time. As it was the first time he started schooling, all the questions were very childish (causing laughter among the students). Nevertheless, Hinako patiently answered his questions (feeling happy at the same time that someone had finally respected her as a teacher.)
Ranma sweated, thinking: "I never know ancient people like to study so much, he's much hardworking than Akane!"
A chalk flew and hit Ranma on his head.
"Saotome! Are you paying attention??" Hinako shouted.
Finally, it came to lunchtime.
"Inuyasha, let me show you where the library is," Ranma called and pulled Inuyasha along.
"HEY, LOOK!! There's another duel going on down there!!" A student shouted along the corridor.
Curious, Ranma ran over to the window and looked down. It was Shampoo and Ukyou.
"What are they quarrelling over this time?" Ranma looked on, bored.
"How dare you interfere with me and Ranma's dating?!!" Shampoo snarled as she held her bonbori (a pair of maces with big spheres on the end): "You know I and Ranma are MEANT to be TOGETHER!!!!!"
"HUH!" Ukyou puffed: "When did I interfere you both and even if I do, there is NOTHING WRONG, because Ranma is MINE!!!!"
"You dare to deny? This morning, you splashed water at me when I want to date Ranma!! How cunning of you!!"
'Huh? Shampoo must have mistook Inuyasha for Ukyou,' Ranma thought: 'Oh yeah, Shampoo has not seen Inuyasha in his human-form before and he has tied his hair in the similar way as Ukyou.'
"Ranma, you said you want to bring me to the library!" Inuyasha's voice appeared from behind: "Oi!" He peeped down: "What's going on down there?"
Ranma pulled Akane to Inuyasha: "You help me lead Inuyasha to the library, ok? I got something on now!" Turning and pulling Inuyasha from the window: "There's nothing interesting down there!"
"You want to get more chance to act 'Hero saving Beauty', don't you?" Akane said, bored.
"No, no, I just want to explain things down there!" Ranma said and started pushing Akane to Inuyasha: "Hurry, bring him to the library before lunchtime ends!!"
"Alright.." Akane said sounding exhausted.
"Remember to tell me any results of your researches later!" Ranma called behind them and turned towards the window, thinking: 'Huh! Huh! It's show time for me!!'
Ranma looked down again. Shampoo was walking towards Ukyou and suddenly held her face to her lips.
'Shampoo is going to give Ukyou 'kiss of death'?' Ranma grasped.
"Hey, the girl with purple hair is going to give Kuonji-chan a 'kiss of death'!" Some on-lookers whispered: "It's the deathly mark of Joketsuzoku clan to wipe out her opponent until she dies!"
'Huh! Huh!' Shampoo thought as her lips reached Ukyou's cheek. A hand accepted the kiss instead. It was Saotome Ranma.
"Enough, Shampoo," He said.
Ukyou looked on feeling touched: 'He is protecting me! Ranma is protecting me!"
Ukyou looked at Ranma emotionally with the background suddenly becoming sparkling and colourful.
"Grrrr." Shampoo growled: "RANMA!!! WHO ARE YOU SHELDING?? AND WHO DO YOU LIKE???!!!! SHE OR ME???!!!!" Anger drove her mind dizzy.
"Oi! What's the commotion?" A Saotome Ranma-liked voice called. It was Inuyasha and he walked towards Ranma.
"That's none of your business!" Ranma said: "Akane's waiting for you in the library!"
"I'm here," Akane said, feeling pissed. Ranma was showing his charms to Shampoo and Ukyou again.
Inuyasha suddenly felt a kiss planted on his cheek.
"What are you doing, Shampoo?" Inuyasha questioned, rubbing the mark on his face.
"Hah?????? I've kissed the WRONG PERSON!!!!!" Shampoo heard Inuyasha's voice and realized her big mistake. She saw Ranma close besides Ukyou and knew she could not present her 'kiss of death' to her. She jumped off and shouted to Ukyou: "I'll definitely kill you one day unless I DIE!!!" She ran off.
"Shall we explain to her, Ranma?" Akane asked.
"It'll be too complicated to tell her," Ranma sighed.
'That's because you still want to show off your charm by saving Ukyou!!!' Akane thought angrily.
"Can I move to your house, Ranma? I need you to protect me from Shampoo!" Ukyou asked.
Blood veins popped up on Akane's forehead.
~~~ IMAGINATION ~~~~
Ukyou hugged Ranma in the living room of Tendou Martial Arts, saying: "Ahhh, I'm so scared, Ranma!!"
Ranma, acting cool, said: "Fear not, Ukyou, I'll protect you from the evil Shampoo!"
Akane was thrown aside in the cold wind.
~~~ END OF IMAGINATION ~~~~
"Very calculative, huh? I'll not let this thing happen!" Akane thought. Immediately, she pulled the puzzled Inuyasha by his arm and ran after Shampoo.
"Hey, Akane!!" Inuyasha called: "Where are you taking me?"
"Explain this morning's water splashing incident!"
"So I've splashed on Shampoo?" Inuyasha began to get the whole picture. He pulled out the bracelet and threw into Akane's hand, turning back to his hanyou form and leaped after Shampoo.
"OI! SHAMPOO!!!" Inuyasha called after her.
"SHAMPOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mousse's voice appeared from somewhere and threw his arms around Inuyasha: "I've finally found you!!!! Let's date today!!!"
"GET OFF ME, YOU PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha kicked Mousse into the air with his two fingers sticking out from each hand.
"Why are you following me?" Shampoo's cold voice called behind Inuyasha. In his haste, he had overtaken her.
"Listen, Shampoo, I was the one who have splashed water on you, NOT Ukyou!!"
"Are you here to apologize?"
"No, I'm here to explain, I don't see anything wrong with my action,"
~~~ THUMP!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~
The fainted Mousse fell onto Inuyasha.
"Listen, Inuyasha, I'll not let you off for this incident! Wait for my revenge!!" roared Shampoo and ran off.
"WAITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha shouted and prepared to chase.
"SHAMPOOOOOOO!!!!" Mousse suddenly woke up and screamed as he hugged onto Inuyasha again.
"OHHHHH......" growled Inuyasha: "It's you again!!!" He kicked Mousse up into the air.
"Inuyasha!!!" Ranma, Akane and Ukyou ran towards him: "How's it going?"
"I have a bad feeling about this," Inuyasha said and left for the next lesson. Lunchtime was over.
~~ THUMP! ~~
Mousse fell back onto the same spot where Inuyasha had last stood.
"Hey, Mousse!" Ranma greeted: "Are you still alive?"
That evening, the three people reached home together. Nabiki had left before them again.
"We're home!!" Akane called as they entered the house.
Cologne and Shampoo were sipping tea by the table in the living room.
~~ RANMA AND INUYASHA STOOD STUNNED ~~~
"Cologne baa baa is here to visit us!" Kasumi smiled.
"WHY ARE YOU HERE, O BAAA BAA???!!!!!" Ranma screamed into her ear.
"I've heard about today's incident, Great grandson-in-law," Cologne said: "Shampoo has presented her kiss to a boy before he defeats her."
"Especially when I DON'T like that boy AT ALL!!!!" Shampoo cried.
"So how? Can you take back the kiss?" Ranma asked.
"Such incident has not appeared in my clan before," Cologne said: "There's only one thing to solve this problem."
"First option, Inuyasha, you must marry Shampoo and then let her ditch you for Great-grandson in law!"
"OI!! WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS????" Inuyasha growled and roared.
"Second option," Cologne put up two fingers: "Fight with Shampoo. If she wins, she has to kill you. If you win, you'll have to marry her. How's that?"
"Is there any third option?" Akane asked.
"No," Cologne continued her drink.
"What's the meaning of this??!!" Inuyasha snarled: "I don't CARE!!! I'll not marry with THAT WOMAN (pointing Shampoo) and definitely NOT let her KILL me!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going back to MY TIME!!!!!!! I'M LEAVING FOR GOOD AND NEVER RETURN!!!!! SAYONARA!!!!!!" He pulled off his bracelet, threw it onto the floor, transformed back to hanyou and leaped off.
"WAIT!!! HOW ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH???!!!" Ranma picked up the bracelet and together with Shampoo, they ran after him.
Inuyasha did not respond or turn back. He ran straight towards Kagome's shrine and jumped into the bone-eating well and returned to Warring Japan.
"HEY!! Isn't that the shrine we have seen after chasing the flying Tetsusaiga at that time?" Shampoo asked.
Quietly, they slipped into the compound. Kagome and her brother had not returned from school. Her mother had gone shopping and her grandfather was taking a nap.
"MEOW!!!" Buyo sensed the presence of two strangers in his home and went out to meet them.
"C..C...CATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A CAT!!!!!!!!! SAVE ME, SHAMPOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ranma screamed in fear and ran as fast as he could.
"Ranma, WAIT FOR MEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll save you!!!" Shampoo chased after Buyo and Ranma.
Ranma did not see a pail of cold water (probably left by Kagome's grandfather or mother for whatever reason) on the path before him and ...
~~~~~~ BACK IN FEUDAL JAPAN ~~~~~~
"INUYASHA!!! You're BACK!!!!" Shippou called, sitting by the well.
"Huh? Why are you wearing this strange clothes?" Miroku approached Inuyasha and noticed his black school uniform. Inuyasha did not have the time to change back before he returned to the Warring Japan.
"KEH!!! THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, MIROKU!!!!!!" Inuyasha snarled angrily, thinking: 'I can't just tell them that I was frightened off by a branch of stupid and crazy human beings, that'll be a great LOSS of face especially for someone like me with youkai strength!'
"Does it concern with someone in the future?" Sango asked nearby as she cleaned her boomerang.
"I SAID, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!!!" Inuyasha fumed, sitting on the grass.
Miroku went and sat besides him: "What's wrong, Inuyasha? Isn't Kagome coming back with you?" He assumed Inuyasha was still angry with Kagome for staying in present Japan instead to going back to look for shikon no tama shards.
"Keh! I'll fetch her a month later! I've promised her and I won't go back on MY WORDS!!!" Inuyasha scowled angrily, folding his arms and staring at the setting sun.
"But you are going back on your promise, Inuyasha," An angry feminine voice called from behind. Inuyasha felt a hand grabbing one of his. Something slipped onto it and a strange feeling tickled through his blood.
Miroku stared at Inuyasha in shock. Inuyasha's white hair darkened and changed into midnight black although it was not a New Moon night. His fangs, claws and dog-ears disappeared, replaced with human ones. His eyes turned into violet grey. Before his eyes, Inuyasha had transformed into a FULL human~!
"Inuyasha... You????!!!" Miroku stammered and his eyes widened with surprise.
"Ahhhh..????" Inuyasha grasped in shock as if expecting something bad next.
True enough, a familiar voice appeared again.
"You are COMING BACK WITH ME, INUYASHA, COMING BACK TO THE PRESENT JAPAN AND CARRY OUT YOUR DUTY!!!!" the female Ranma yelled behind him. For whatever reason, she had traveled through the well after him, leaving Shampoo in the present time. She had put the bracelet on Inuyasha's wrist again.
Inuyasha stared at the red-haired girl in shock: "This is NOT POSSIBLE!!! You are NOT supposed to travel through the WELLL!!!!!!" He remembered that only he and Kagome could travel through it and NO ONE ELSE!!!!
"Well, I've travel through it and I've found you here! What have you got to say?" the female-Ranma fumed to the stunned Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippou and Sango.
To be Continued ...
Rating: General (Humor because the mess under Ranma/ Inuyasha confusion and serious when it concerns Inuyasha's future 500 years in the past)
Disclaimer: I don't own any characters from Ranma ½ and Inuyasha. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi-sensei.
Summary:
This fanfic is a sequel from my other fanfic, 'The Tetsusaiga race' (you may look through the list of fanfictions under my profile link on this page by clicking on my nickname).
Determined to know what has happened to Inuyasha 500 years in the past, Ranma brought Inuyasha to his school, hoping to make use of the resources in the library but Inuyasha ended up becoming a student in Fuurinkan High School, feigning as Ranma's long-lost brother. Kagome, Hinako, Gosunkugi, Saotome Nodoka (Ranma's mother), Hojo, Souta and Toufuu are added into this confusion. Humors involved.
SEQUEL TO THE TETSUSAIGA RACE
Chapter Two: Going Home
"COME BACK WITH MYYYYY PETTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hinako shrieked after Saotome immediately the lesson ended.
"Must get him outta here before he's being tortured to death by that pervert sensei!~" Ranma thought as he carried Inuyasha in his arms out of the class.
"Oi! I can run by MYSELF!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha yelled, struggling to lay his feet to the ground, but Ranma was leaping too fast from the building onto the school compound.
"Ohhhhhhhh.." Hinako growled in frustration: "HAPPOU-5 YEN KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL~~~~~!!!!!!!!"
"Arggg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha and Ranma screamed together.
~~~~ 5 MINUTES LATER ~~~~
"Wait, wait!! We can discuss!!!" Ranma screamed as he struggled on the ground due to lack of strength. The dizzy Inuyasha lay besides him with spiral eyes. Hinako had absorbed his strength three times in one go. She was preparing to absorb Ranma's strength for the second time next.
"What have you got to say........, Saotome?" Hinako snarled.
"Actually....." Ranma began: "Inuyasha's actually .. (He wiped out a microphone and screamed though it) My half-blood BROTHER!!!! His full name is Saotome Inuyasha!!!!!!!!!"
"Heh?" Hinako stared at him, shocked and taken aback.
'Yes! One step into my trap!' Ranma thought and continued aloud: "We have the same father, his mother left home at his age of two and it's only recently that we are finally reunited, but, but."
"He suffered from a strange illness that makes him look like what he is today!"
"Sob, sob!!" Hinako wailed and wiped her tears with her tissue: "I'm so sorry I've ill-treat your long-lost brother like that!"
"Precisely!" Ranma feigned a serious and depressed look: "I wouldn't ask for more, sensei, just teach me your Happou-5 yen kill technique, give me full marks for ALL my tests and examinations, plus stop pestering me whenever I skip lessons.."
~~BONK!!~~~~
"That's enough, Ranma!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Akane screamed as she kicked him at the back of his head: "You are already so lazy and yet you want results WITHOUT working for it?????? I'm not TALKING with you!!"
"Huh! Tomboy! Uncute!" Ranma scolded behind her back.
~~ BONK! ~~~
Akane threw a school statue onto his head and stormed off.
"I'll arrange your brother to study in the same class with you from tomorrow onwards! Get him to buy school uniform and textbooks, ok?" Hinako suddenly chipped cheerfully and skipped away, snatching a student's lollipop along the way.
"HEY!! That's NOT what I'VE ASKED for!!!!" Ranma could not stop her. A hand suddenly slapped onto his shoulder.
"OI!" Inuyasha growled: "Who is your half-bloooooodddddddddd brother?????????!!!!!!!!!! And WHO gives you the permission to make me HANG in this place as a GODDDAMMITT STUDENT?????!!!!!!!!"
"Heh? I don't know, Hinako sensei plans everything for you before I can stop her, kee hee hee.." Ranma tried to act innocent.
"THAT means I've to stay here and study everyday like a bookworm in that room before thatttttttttt pervert sensei and stick myself to TESTS and EXAMINATIONS every semester??????!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha roared, shivering with anger.
"Ah ha ha, sort of." Ranma laughed guiltily, playing with his fingers.
"YOU TROUBLE-MAKER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha kicked Ranma into the air with two fingers sticking out of each hand.
"COME AND HAVE A DUAL WITH ME, SAOTOME!!!!!!!!" Tatewaki jumped towards Inuyasha.
"Grrr, I'm too tired with this nonsense!!" He growled and hit him off into the air with a fist: "I'm going home, going back to MY time this very MINUTE right NOW!!!!"
"Uh-huh!" Nabiki said, standing by the school gate: "It's too late to back out now, Inuyasha-kun, everyone knows about it! Besides, you need to find out what you need to know in our time. And." Her sentences were cut off by a dark shadow between she and Inuyasha.
"And I don't mind having ANOTHER SON in Tendou Martial Arts School!!!!" Saotome Genma wailed, appeared from nowhere and hugged Inuyasha. He ended up being kicked into the sky instead. Inuyasha stormed off looking for Ranma.
"Sigh! I haven't got the chance to remind him to give me the ancient coins from his time!!" Nabiki thought.
~~~ *** ~~~
The female Ranma crawled out of the school swimming pool, squeezing water from her clothes.
"Huh! Ungrateful! I've just rescued your life! And that's WHAT I get in return!!" She scowled to herself: "Huh?" A flying figure landed on top of her. It was Kunou Tatewaki.
"Pig-tailed girl!!!!!!!!!! WE ARE FATED TO MEET AGAINNNNNNNN!!!!!" He wailed with tears of happiness.
"Get off me, you --- you PERVERT!!!!!!!" Ranma screamed, kicking Tatewaki off her back.
"Oi! Ranma! I want you to tell that stupid sensei to stop THAT nonsense!!!!" Inuyasha followed Ranma's scent and screamed from afar.
"HUH! Saotome Ranma's here to snatch my pig-tailed girl away from me, doesn't he???!!!" Tatewaki snarled, preparing his sword.
"HEH???" Ranma said.
"Oi, Ranma!!" Inuyasha approached: "HUH??!!" He could smell Saotome Ranma nearby but he could not see him (he did not know Ranma's ability to change into a girl despite his one-week stay in Tendou Martial Arts School because he had been watching television all the time and ignoring all events around him).
"Huh! Huh! Huh! You've finally showed your wolfish true colour, Saotome!!! Especially your wolfish ears!!" Tatewaki grinned.
"Oi! Did you see Saotome Ranma around?" Inuyasha asked.
"Ask yourself!!!!" Tatewaki screamed and attacked Inuyasha.
"WHAT????" Inuyasha shouted.
"Who has the wolfish ears, you PERVERT!!!!!" Ranma shouted angrily and kicked Tatewaki out of the scene, turning to Inuyasha: "Hey, Inuyasha, I'm here!"
Inuyasha sniffed again. It was Ranma all right, but this person was a girl!
"I think my nose is having a problem," Inuyasha said and started to leap off.
"Hey! Come back here!!!" Ranma leaped after Inuyasha and hopped before him holding a kettle of hot water.
"Keh! Are you going to pour hot water over my head?" Inuyasha snarled.
"Watch me!" Ranma said and poured its content over her head. She changed back to a boy again.
"HEH?????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha stared, shocked.
"Now you understand?"
"RANMA!!!!! I'M HERE TO SEE YOU!!!!" Kodaichi shrieked and leaped at him.
"Ranma!! Are you some rare kind of human species?!" Inuyasha shouted through his ear.
"Ranma!!! Date me! Date me! Date me!!" Kodaichi screamed into Ranma's right ear.
"Answer me, Saotome!!!! Are you or are you NOT?!" Inuyasha yelled into his left ear.
"WILL THE TWO OF YOU LEAVE ME IN PEACE????!!!!!" Ranma screamed, kicking both of them into the air. (Oops, he thought, I've kicked a girl!)
~~~~~~~~~ LATE EVENING ~~~~~~~~
"Nee-chan, has Inuyasha Nii-chan returned back to Warring Japan?" Souta asked Kagome while he played with Buyo-his cat in her bedroom.
"How would I know? He's probably fighting some youkai in some other area." Kagome replied, while trying to figure an algebra problem. Actually, deep inside, she was worried, but she couldn't do anything about it. Inuyasha told her he would be fetching her back to Warring Japan a month *0* later.
"What is Inuyasha doing in this time? Does he have an important mission which he doesn't want me to know?" She wondered.
~~~~ ON THE OTHER SIDE OF TOKYO ~~~~
"It's ALL your fault that we can't get into the library before it closes just because of ALL these STUPID nonsense when you and Kodaichi yell into MY ears, plus ME having to buy ALL your books and school uniform!!!!" Ranma scolded Inuyasha on their way back to Tendou Martial Arts School.
"FEH!!! It's ALL your fault that you DON'T bring me personally to that STUPID library before your lessons AND because of you and YOUR stupid sensei's conversation, you chain me into THAT STUPID classroom forever for no reason!!!!! I still have some MORE IMPORTANT things to do instead of staying in THAT STUPID CRUMPY ROOM!!!!! Besides, it was YOU who did not explain and tell me about those funny cursed springs in China in the VERY !!!" Inuyasha shot back as they both leaped across the fence.
Below the fence, Akane followed.
"Hey! Can't you both just cut it out?" She lifted her head and called.
"NO!!!!!" Inuyasha and Ranma both responded at the same time sternly.
"Hi, Akane-chan! How's your school today?" A friendly voice called. Unknowingly, they were outside Toufuu's clinic. A panda (Genma) was sweeping outside the door.
"Do you both make this new friend today? My, you do remind me of Ranma- kun!" Toufuu laughed cheerfully, making close examination of Inuyasha's appearance.
"Are you a hanyou?" Toufuu asked.
"HEH?????!!!!!!" Inuyasha was taken aback, shocked.
"Toufuu sensei, what's a hanyou?" Akane asked.
"Oh! A hanyou is a mixed breed of both youkai and human being," Toufuu answered.
"KEH!! Who are you and how did you know my identity???!!!" Inuyasha growled threateningly, revealing his sharp claws, preparing to spring into attack.
"Toufuu sensei is a very skilful doctor!" Ranma explained.
"He's Inuyasha and he will be transferred to our class tomorrow," explained Akane.
"Wouldn't he be creating a lot of commotion in school?" asked Toufuu.
"Just because I'm not a FULL HUMAN????!!!!!!" Inuyasha snarled.
"Wait, I think I got something for you, Inuyasha-kun." Toufuu smiled and invited them into his clinic.
Toufuu searched through his storeroom and pulled out a dusty wooden box.
"Let's see if this helps!" he blew the dust away and took out a wooden Buddhist bracelet.
"Let me help you put this on," He said.
The moment Inuyasha's hand got into contact with the bracelet; a familiar feeling ran through his blood just like any new moon night. His dog-ears, fangs and claws vanished, his iris changed to grey-violet and his hair turned midnight violet-black.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME???!!!!!" Inuyasha cried out in horror.
"Don't worry, this thing only purifies your youkai power whenever you put it on, but upon removal, you'll still regain back to your original self." Toufuu assured him.
"WOW! You look so handsome in your human form, Inuyasha!!" Akane praised.
"Hey!" Ranma grumbled: "There's not much difference in his looks anyway!"
"Ranma!" Akane called, looking closer at his face: "Are you jealous?"
"HUH! Jealous! Me? You've got to be kidding! How can I be jealous over such petty minor matter???!!! I can prove to the whole wide world that I--- Saotome Ranma is the MOST handsome and charming guy in the entire Tokyo!!!!!! BUA HA HA HA HA!!!"
'Why do I feel some fiery aura from Saotome Ranma? Or am I imagining things?' Inuyasha thought, sweated.
"He is definitely jealous," Akane thought smugly.
Afar, a dark figure stood tall against the full moon on the rooftop of a nearby house watching Toufuu sensei's clinic. Silently, it leaped off.
That night, the Tendou and Genma made many remarks about Inuyasha's human appearance and Kasumi helped him amend the uniform to make sure it fitted well on him. Luckily, Happousai did not witness the change or else he would start planning how to snatch Inuyasha's Tetsusaiga whenever he was in his human form.
~~~ THE NEXT MORNING ~~~~
Tendou Souun flipped another page of the newspapers. Three shadows shot past him, causing his hair to fly up.
Kasumi placed a cup of coffee on the table besides him: "Father, they forgot to bring their lunch boxes again.. Are you alright?"
"I think so.." Souun replied, his hair stood tall like a tree in the air.
"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT, Ranma!!!!" Akane screamed: "Why didn't you remind me of my time???!!!!!"
"Who ask you to be so engrossed in your karate practice in the morning???"
"Why doesn't Nabiki inform us before she leaves for school?" Inuyasha grumbled. He wore the black Fuurinkan High School uniform and had tied his long black hair with a band to his back. He had a similar hand-held black bag as Ranma. He looked at the bracelet on his hand and attempted to pull it out.
"Hey! What are you doing?" Ranma questioned.
"What am I doing? Pulling this annoying thing out!! I can run faster with my youkai strength!!" Inuyasha growled.
"Better not, Inuyasha, remember what Toufuu sensei said yesterday, don't get yourself unnecessary attention in school, ok?" Akane reminded.
A group of girls in green uniforms were walking along the street towards their school.
A girl with hair band turned to another one with long hair: "Nah, Kagome, how's your relationship with your wild and two-timer boyfriend?"
"He has been very busy ..." Before Kagome could complete her words, suddenly....
~~~ ZOOMEDDDDDDDDD~~~~~~~
Three teenagers rushed by them, looking at their watches at the same time and scolding among themselves at the same time.
"Gosh, those people over there, they must be late for school," One girl with short hair said. Kagome stared at the running figures. One of them was a boy with long black hair tied to his back. Somehow, she felt she had seen him somewhere before.
"Am I sensing something wrong?" Kagome wondered.
"From the uniforms they wear, they are from Fuurinkan High School!" the girl with hair band said, noticing Kagome's attention on the fading figures.
"Talking about school, we are going to be late too!! Let's hurry up!!" The girl with short hair cried. Kagome tried to divert her attention back and ran off to school with her friends.
"School's in view now!" Ranma called.
"BUA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The crazy principal roared from afar, standing on a gate pillar: "I've changed the school gate's lock!! Whoever can't break through this before the school bell rings shall have to stay back for 10 hours after SCHOOL!!!! BUA HA HA!!!!!!"
"Why is this principal always coming up with the SAME OLD TRICKS to create problem for us???!!" A student complained.
Ranma flew a kick at the gate and knocked it down immediately.
"LET'S RUSH IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!" The students called and stormed past the principal. Akane pulled Inuyasha's arm and ran into the school.
"Ranma!!" A tickle of a bicycle sounded and Shampoo, riding on her bicycle flew and pushed Ranma out of the gate.
"Talk to you later, Shampoo!!!" Ranma cried: "I'M GOING TO BE LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Let's have a date with me, Ranma!!!" Shampoo called.
~~~ SPLASH!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~
Inuyasha pulled the nearest water hose and splashed Shampoo and her bicycle away.
"Let's get to the class before it's too late!!!" He called and pulled Ranma by his pigtail after Akane.
Luckily for Ranma, he did not get to see Shampoo in her cat-form. A purple colour cat glared angrily after the running figures with her bicycle.
"Good morning, class! This is our new classmate--- Saotome Inuyasha!" Hinako Sensei introduced, turning to Inuyasha: "You can sit behind Ukyou." Ranma had managed to lie to her that Inuyasha had 'recovered' from his strange 'illness' when they entered their classroom and had turned more human-like.
There was a little whispering noise among the students.
"Hey, Saotome, that new student looks like you!" One student said.
"And his surname is Saotome too!!" Other student continued.
Ranma looked on, bored: "Because he is my half-brother," He lied.
"Your half-brother??!!" The student whispered.
"Yeah, I am his older."
"Younger! I'm much, much older than you!" Inuyasha growled as he walked past Ranma.
"Look, Inuyasha and Ukyou have the same hair style. They both tie their hair behind in the same way! They looked like a couple." A girl whispered. (NOTE: Ukyou usually tied her hair behind and wore boy's school uniform.)
"Shut-up." Ukyou hissed: "Everyone knows that I'm Ranma's fiancée."
The class was commenced. It was Mathematics lesson. Ranma knew Inuyasha came from the Warring Period and had not study before. He secretly examined his expression. Inuyasha was very attentive to Hinako's teaching and started to take note very aggressively while voicing his doubts at the same time. As it was the first time he started schooling, all the questions were very childish (causing laughter among the students). Nevertheless, Hinako patiently answered his questions (feeling happy at the same time that someone had finally respected her as a teacher.)
Ranma sweated, thinking: "I never know ancient people like to study so much, he's much hardworking than Akane!"
A chalk flew and hit Ranma on his head.
"Saotome! Are you paying attention??" Hinako shouted.
Finally, it came to lunchtime.
"Inuyasha, let me show you where the library is," Ranma called and pulled Inuyasha along.
"HEY, LOOK!! There's another duel going on down there!!" A student shouted along the corridor.
Curious, Ranma ran over to the window and looked down. It was Shampoo and Ukyou.
"What are they quarrelling over this time?" Ranma looked on, bored.
"How dare you interfere with me and Ranma's dating?!!" Shampoo snarled as she held her bonbori (a pair of maces with big spheres on the end): "You know I and Ranma are MEANT to be TOGETHER!!!!!"
"HUH!" Ukyou puffed: "When did I interfere you both and even if I do, there is NOTHING WRONG, because Ranma is MINE!!!!"
"You dare to deny? This morning, you splashed water at me when I want to date Ranma!! How cunning of you!!"
'Huh? Shampoo must have mistook Inuyasha for Ukyou,' Ranma thought: 'Oh yeah, Shampoo has not seen Inuyasha in his human-form before and he has tied his hair in the similar way as Ukyou.'
"Ranma, you said you want to bring me to the library!" Inuyasha's voice appeared from behind: "Oi!" He peeped down: "What's going on down there?"
Ranma pulled Akane to Inuyasha: "You help me lead Inuyasha to the library, ok? I got something on now!" Turning and pulling Inuyasha from the window: "There's nothing interesting down there!"
"You want to get more chance to act 'Hero saving Beauty', don't you?" Akane said, bored.
"No, no, I just want to explain things down there!" Ranma said and started pushing Akane to Inuyasha: "Hurry, bring him to the library before lunchtime ends!!"
"Alright.." Akane said sounding exhausted.
"Remember to tell me any results of your researches later!" Ranma called behind them and turned towards the window, thinking: 'Huh! Huh! It's show time for me!!'
Ranma looked down again. Shampoo was walking towards Ukyou and suddenly held her face to her lips.
'Shampoo is going to give Ukyou 'kiss of death'?' Ranma grasped.
"Hey, the girl with purple hair is going to give Kuonji-chan a 'kiss of death'!" Some on-lookers whispered: "It's the deathly mark of Joketsuzoku clan to wipe out her opponent until she dies!"
'Huh! Huh!' Shampoo thought as her lips reached Ukyou's cheek. A hand accepted the kiss instead. It was Saotome Ranma.
"Enough, Shampoo," He said.
Ukyou looked on feeling touched: 'He is protecting me! Ranma is protecting me!"
Ukyou looked at Ranma emotionally with the background suddenly becoming sparkling and colourful.
"Grrrr." Shampoo growled: "RANMA!!! WHO ARE YOU SHELDING?? AND WHO DO YOU LIKE???!!!! SHE OR ME???!!!!" Anger drove her mind dizzy.
"Oi! What's the commotion?" A Saotome Ranma-liked voice called. It was Inuyasha and he walked towards Ranma.
"That's none of your business!" Ranma said: "Akane's waiting for you in the library!"
"I'm here," Akane said, feeling pissed. Ranma was showing his charms to Shampoo and Ukyou again.
Inuyasha suddenly felt a kiss planted on his cheek.
"What are you doing, Shampoo?" Inuyasha questioned, rubbing the mark on his face.
"Hah?????? I've kissed the WRONG PERSON!!!!!" Shampoo heard Inuyasha's voice and realized her big mistake. She saw Ranma close besides Ukyou and knew she could not present her 'kiss of death' to her. She jumped off and shouted to Ukyou: "I'll definitely kill you one day unless I DIE!!!" She ran off.
"Shall we explain to her, Ranma?" Akane asked.
"It'll be too complicated to tell her," Ranma sighed.
'That's because you still want to show off your charm by saving Ukyou!!!' Akane thought angrily.
"Can I move to your house, Ranma? I need you to protect me from Shampoo!" Ukyou asked.
Blood veins popped up on Akane's forehead.
~~~ IMAGINATION ~~~~
Ukyou hugged Ranma in the living room of Tendou Martial Arts, saying: "Ahhh, I'm so scared, Ranma!!"
Ranma, acting cool, said: "Fear not, Ukyou, I'll protect you from the evil Shampoo!"
Akane was thrown aside in the cold wind.
~~~ END OF IMAGINATION ~~~~
"Very calculative, huh? I'll not let this thing happen!" Akane thought. Immediately, she pulled the puzzled Inuyasha by his arm and ran after Shampoo.
"Hey, Akane!!" Inuyasha called: "Where are you taking me?"
"Explain this morning's water splashing incident!"
"So I've splashed on Shampoo?" Inuyasha began to get the whole picture. He pulled out the bracelet and threw into Akane's hand, turning back to his hanyou form and leaped after Shampoo.
"OI! SHAMPOO!!!" Inuyasha called after her.
"SHAMPOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Mousse's voice appeared from somewhere and threw his arms around Inuyasha: "I've finally found you!!!! Let's date today!!!"
"GET OFF ME, YOU PERVERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha kicked Mousse into the air with his two fingers sticking out from each hand.
"Why are you following me?" Shampoo's cold voice called behind Inuyasha. In his haste, he had overtaken her.
"Listen, Shampoo, I was the one who have splashed water on you, NOT Ukyou!!"
"Are you here to apologize?"
"No, I'm here to explain, I don't see anything wrong with my action,"
~~~ THUMP!!!!!!!! ~~~~~~~~~
The fainted Mousse fell onto Inuyasha.
"Listen, Inuyasha, I'll not let you off for this incident! Wait for my revenge!!" roared Shampoo and ran off.
"WAITTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha shouted and prepared to chase.
"SHAMPOOOOOOO!!!!" Mousse suddenly woke up and screamed as he hugged onto Inuyasha again.
"OHHHHH......" growled Inuyasha: "It's you again!!!" He kicked Mousse up into the air.
"Inuyasha!!!" Ranma, Akane and Ukyou ran towards him: "How's it going?"
"I have a bad feeling about this," Inuyasha said and left for the next lesson. Lunchtime was over.
~~ THUMP! ~~
Mousse fell back onto the same spot where Inuyasha had last stood.
"Hey, Mousse!" Ranma greeted: "Are you still alive?"
That evening, the three people reached home together. Nabiki had left before them again.
"We're home!!" Akane called as they entered the house.
Cologne and Shampoo were sipping tea by the table in the living room.
~~ RANMA AND INUYASHA STOOD STUNNED ~~~
"Cologne baa baa is here to visit us!" Kasumi smiled.
"WHY ARE YOU HERE, O BAAA BAA???!!!!!" Ranma screamed into her ear.
"I've heard about today's incident, Great grandson-in-law," Cologne said: "Shampoo has presented her kiss to a boy before he defeats her."
"Especially when I DON'T like that boy AT ALL!!!!" Shampoo cried.
"So how? Can you take back the kiss?" Ranma asked.
"Such incident has not appeared in my clan before," Cologne said: "There's only one thing to solve this problem."
"First option, Inuyasha, you must marry Shampoo and then let her ditch you for Great-grandson in law!"
"OI!! WHAT'S THE MEANING OF THIS????" Inuyasha growled and roared.
"Second option," Cologne put up two fingers: "Fight with Shampoo. If she wins, she has to kill you. If you win, you'll have to marry her. How's that?"
"Is there any third option?" Akane asked.
"No," Cologne continued her drink.
"What's the meaning of this??!!" Inuyasha snarled: "I don't CARE!!! I'll not marry with THAT WOMAN (pointing Shampoo) and definitely NOT let her KILL me!!!!!!!!!!! I'm going back to MY TIME!!!!!!! I'M LEAVING FOR GOOD AND NEVER RETURN!!!!! SAYONARA!!!!!!" He pulled off his bracelet, threw it onto the floor, transformed back to hanyou and leaped off.
"WAIT!!! HOW ABOUT YOUR RESEARCH???!!!" Ranma picked up the bracelet and together with Shampoo, they ran after him.
Inuyasha did not respond or turn back. He ran straight towards Kagome's shrine and jumped into the bone-eating well and returned to Warring Japan.
"HEY!! Isn't that the shrine we have seen after chasing the flying Tetsusaiga at that time?" Shampoo asked.
Quietly, they slipped into the compound. Kagome and her brother had not returned from school. Her mother had gone shopping and her grandfather was taking a nap.
"MEOW!!!" Buyo sensed the presence of two strangers in his home and went out to meet them.
"C..C...CATTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A CAT!!!!!!!!! SAVE ME, SHAMPOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ranma screamed in fear and ran as fast as he could.
"Ranma, WAIT FOR MEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll save you!!!" Shampoo chased after Buyo and Ranma.
Ranma did not see a pail of cold water (probably left by Kagome's grandfather or mother for whatever reason) on the path before him and ...
~~~~~~ BACK IN FEUDAL JAPAN ~~~~~~
"INUYASHA!!! You're BACK!!!!" Shippou called, sitting by the well.
"Huh? Why are you wearing this strange clothes?" Miroku approached Inuyasha and noticed his black school uniform. Inuyasha did not have the time to change back before he returned to the Warring Japan.
"KEH!!! THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, MIROKU!!!!!!" Inuyasha snarled angrily, thinking: 'I can't just tell them that I was frightened off by a branch of stupid and crazy human beings, that'll be a great LOSS of face especially for someone like me with youkai strength!'
"Does it concern with someone in the future?" Sango asked nearby as she cleaned her boomerang.
"I SAID, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!!!" Inuyasha fumed, sitting on the grass.
Miroku went and sat besides him: "What's wrong, Inuyasha? Isn't Kagome coming back with you?" He assumed Inuyasha was still angry with Kagome for staying in present Japan instead to going back to look for shikon no tama shards.
"Keh! I'll fetch her a month later! I've promised her and I won't go back on MY WORDS!!!" Inuyasha scowled angrily, folding his arms and staring at the setting sun.
"But you are going back on your promise, Inuyasha," An angry feminine voice called from behind. Inuyasha felt a hand grabbing one of his. Something slipped onto it and a strange feeling tickled through his blood.
Miroku stared at Inuyasha in shock. Inuyasha's white hair darkened and changed into midnight black although it was not a New Moon night. His fangs, claws and dog-ears disappeared, replaced with human ones. His eyes turned into violet grey. Before his eyes, Inuyasha had transformed into a FULL human~!
"Inuyasha... You????!!!" Miroku stammered and his eyes widened with surprise.
"Ahhhh..????" Inuyasha grasped in shock as if expecting something bad next.
True enough, a familiar voice appeared again.
"You are COMING BACK WITH ME, INUYASHA, COMING BACK TO THE PRESENT JAPAN AND CARRY OUT YOUR DUTY!!!!" the female Ranma yelled behind him. For whatever reason, she had traveled through the well after him, leaving Shampoo in the present time. She had put the bracelet on Inuyasha's wrist again.
Inuyasha stared at the red-haired girl in shock: "This is NOT POSSIBLE!!! You are NOT supposed to travel through the WELLL!!!!!!" He remembered that only he and Kagome could travel through it and NO ONE ELSE!!!!
"Well, I've travel through it and I've found you here! What have you got to say?" the female-Ranma fumed to the stunned Inuyasha, Miroku, Shippou and Sango.
To be Continued ...