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Interlude
Or how I started my new life by Ranma Saotome
Packing up once more Ranma places his meager belongings into a duffle bag. An accident with a blowtorch ruined his backpack and most of his clothes. For six months he has lived in this little room, above the motorcycle repair shop of Kenji Watanabe. "I've learned so much," muses Ranma, as he looks at his little room, bright cheery windows let in the morning sun. A small single bed and a desk and chair set are about the only furniture aside from a little dresser. But a sense of joy and fulfillment fill him like he has never before experienced.
Continuing to stuff clothing and other personal effects into his bag he counts off some of the things learned under Kenji sensei. "Fixing bikes, and being nicer to people. I can't believe how much learning he crammed into my head. I think I learned more in the last six months than in 3 years of high school." He exclaimed in some surprise to himself. Then with a smirk he continued, "well it was Furinken though." Looking at some ordinary looking clothes sitting on the top of his duffle bag. Ranma leans over to pick up a collared shirt colored a light blue. "My tastes in clothes have changed too that's a certain. Not to mention my hair," he remarks before reaching back to finger his much shorter hair, sans pigtail. Tucking the shirt back in to the bag Ranma remarks "another thing to thank Kenji for, giving me so much clothing to replace mine. When it was my mistake as much as his that caused my things to get burnt up." Another chuckle passes his lips before he can suppress it "not the best way to make a first impression that's for sure."
*****************************SIX MONTHS AGO*************************
Walking up to a small mechanics shop on an all ready bustling street, Ranma once again tried to say that Hikaru-sensei didn't have to go to all this trouble on his account. "Nonsense my young friend it is no trouble at all." "Well nobody has ever been so nice ta me 'cept maybe Kasumi but she's nice ta everybody." "Be that as it may Ranma but having a good Breakfast and a nice walk in the morning with a friend is hardly an onerous task is it," Hikaru-sensei exclaimed jubilantly with a pat on Ranma's back. "Onna what" asks Ranma with confusion? With yet another smile the older man explains that it means bad. At the front door they open it and proceed inside to revel a cozy office and waiting room with a side door. A little window in the door shows a single garage full of tools and equipment. Ranma spies a man with a mask hunched over some metal using some kind of tool giving off sparks. "Is that your friend Hikaru-sensei?" "Yes that's Kenji there, and its just Hikaru no need for such formalities Ranma." Opening the door for his young friend Hikaru ushered Ranma into the garage. Seeing his friend getting too close to the welder, Hikaru yelled out a warning to be careful. This exclamation though causes the aforementioned Kenji to turnaround and though he stops the gas from flowing it is one second too late. But Ranma in an acrobatic move flips over and releases his heavy pack and lands in safety behind Hikaru, his pack though caught that one-second exposure to the blowtorch. Through much confusion and panic the flame is extinguished and though much inside is saved much is lost.
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A confused "What's so funny" brings Ranma back to reality. "Oh Kenji" Ranma starts seeing the taller man with a scruffy beard and grease stained hands. Ranma starts chuckling again at his previous thoughts, "I was just thinking about our first meeting." "Oh that, I'm still so sorry about that." With a smile Ranma explains, "don't worry sir you have repaid me a dozen times over and more. Plus, come on looking back it's funny don't you think."
"Well I guess it is, but it's also embarrassing to someone of my profession." "Don't worry about it" Ranma continues smiling to his friend and teacher. Pointing to the bag on the floor Kenji asks, "Need any help." "No thanks I got it." Looking around again Kenji says, "You know you don't have to go." Sheepishly Ranma responds "I know sir and this time here has been . . . unforgettable, but I'll never grow unless I try to make my own way."
As he says that he walks to the desk and opens the top drawer he removes a slightly worn leather bound book. With care Ranma places the Bible in the top of the pack before pulling the drawstring closure to secure it. As he is doing this Ranma smiles up at his mentor and says, "Can't forget that for sure." With a smile of his own Kenji looks on as his young friend slings the bag over his shoulder, "I should hope not."
As they leave the small guest room in Kenji's apartment over his shop they walk down a shadowed and narrow staircase into the shops office. Ranma reflects internally on the way his life has changed no how he has changed in six months. I really don't want to go Ranma thinks, but I have to spread my wings start a life for my self. Thanks to Kenji and his prodding to take those practice tests I think I can get in a college somewhere. Even a third rate school is better than nothing. Get a room of my own, and most importantly witness when I can to those who listen.
"What are you thinking about now" Kenji queries Ranma. Looking at his friend and mentor, Ranma responds with the cryptic response of "the future." With a grumpy chirp Kenji squawks out "Always in motion is the future," before descending into a full-fledged belly laugh. Shaking his head in consternation Ranma can only mutter out a weary "you and your western movies." "Ah come on that was funny." "Not really" answers back Ranma with a shake of his head. "Ah well you don't have much of a sense of humor anyway." "I do too" Ranma responds indignantly before setting down into a mock sulk. "With a laugh Kenji crosses to the front door which he opens into a sunny morning.
A melancholy look comes to Ranma's face before he mumbles "so this it." An almost bemused smile comes too Kenji's face as he pats Ranma on his slouched shoulders. "Hey, hey none of that let's part with a joy it's not like your moving to America, well at least not on the little you saved from working for me that is "Kenji laughs out." Smiling at his friend, friend Ranma thinks with an amused smirk. Thought I knew what that was before now I know what a real friend is, I've made two of them. Two real friends, of course I'll see him again. Stop being a baka Ranma he mentally kicks himself. Looking at his friend " I know Kenji, I'll call once I get settled okay." An awkward moment in sues as they continue to look at each other before Ranma chokes out, voice thick with emotion "aw why not" before giving Kenji a brotherly hug. Responding in kind Kenji hears Ranma whisper "I can never repay you for all you and Hikaru have done. What I have now, what I am now is in thanks to you." Quietly Kenji responds as he pulls back "no not me and not Hikaru you think it was chance that lead you there to his door right then in your life, we were just the instruments of God's grace my brother." Smiling Ranma nods "your right of course but still he used you to help me. And of course I give him all the glory but I thank you too for your help as well brother for being open to his will." And with a smile and a go with God to each other Ranma leaves the first place he ever had true happiness.
With a smile Ranma hops to the top of a building an begins roof hopping to the area he has chosen because of it's central location to several collages and universities in Tokyo. With uncanny accuracy Ranma flips and leaps from ledge to ledge. Dodging TV antennas and wash lines without even pausing to look. Then while upside down and at an angle flipping over a ten story drop Ranma reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a segment of newspaper. Landing and continuing on his journey Ranma begins looking through the appropriate ads. He has certain ones circled in red ink "let's see. Fukaji apartments? Nay too much rent, Juban apartments? Maybe, what the? Hinata house? That's way too far away. Yah looks like it's gotta be this one. Cheap and close to five campuses and tech schools. Yep lets try Maison Ikkoku. And with a smile and a flip in the air Ranma moves on to the next phase in his life and though he does not know it to an old friend.
END
I mean it this time.
End notes: well what did you think? Huh, liked it, hated it? I thought it was something that to my knowledge has not been seen before. And I'm kind of proud to show my faith in something I like, like fanfic. And how will Ranma, a new believer, deal with the insanity of Maison Ikkoku. Oh and the old friend I mentioned, lets just say that time changes people and sometimes years later when you see someone you don't even recognize them and leave it at that okay. If anyone would like to be a prereader just email me at verse12@hotmail.com. I am not going directly to the sequel unless I get an outpouring of calls to do so that is. I am currently working on three other stories one that will probably be first is "Dark Nights" a Ranma 1/2 Batman crossover. That I think has some pretty original ideas to it. Oh and it's pretty dark by the way, to start that is. The other fic in development besides the sequel to Love Lost that is, is a Ranma 1/2 Urusei Yatsura crossover, more on that later. Oh and this one is going to be pretty funny, I hope that is. And one other is in the planning phase this is a EL-Hazard / Ranma 1/2 / DBZ Crossover, this one will have a very DBZ tone to it.
Signed: Verse12
Interlude
Or how I started my new life by Ranma Saotome
Packing up once more Ranma places his meager belongings into a duffle bag. An accident with a blowtorch ruined his backpack and most of his clothes. For six months he has lived in this little room, above the motorcycle repair shop of Kenji Watanabe. "I've learned so much," muses Ranma, as he looks at his little room, bright cheery windows let in the morning sun. A small single bed and a desk and chair set are about the only furniture aside from a little dresser. But a sense of joy and fulfillment fill him like he has never before experienced.
Continuing to stuff clothing and other personal effects into his bag he counts off some of the things learned under Kenji sensei. "Fixing bikes, and being nicer to people. I can't believe how much learning he crammed into my head. I think I learned more in the last six months than in 3 years of high school." He exclaimed in some surprise to himself. Then with a smirk he continued, "well it was Furinken though." Looking at some ordinary looking clothes sitting on the top of his duffle bag. Ranma leans over to pick up a collared shirt colored a light blue. "My tastes in clothes have changed too that's a certain. Not to mention my hair," he remarks before reaching back to finger his much shorter hair, sans pigtail. Tucking the shirt back in to the bag Ranma remarks "another thing to thank Kenji for, giving me so much clothing to replace mine. When it was my mistake as much as his that caused my things to get burnt up." Another chuckle passes his lips before he can suppress it "not the best way to make a first impression that's for sure."
*****************************SIX MONTHS AGO*************************
Walking up to a small mechanics shop on an all ready bustling street, Ranma once again tried to say that Hikaru-sensei didn't have to go to all this trouble on his account. "Nonsense my young friend it is no trouble at all." "Well nobody has ever been so nice ta me 'cept maybe Kasumi but she's nice ta everybody." "Be that as it may Ranma but having a good Breakfast and a nice walk in the morning with a friend is hardly an onerous task is it," Hikaru-sensei exclaimed jubilantly with a pat on Ranma's back. "Onna what" asks Ranma with confusion? With yet another smile the older man explains that it means bad. At the front door they open it and proceed inside to revel a cozy office and waiting room with a side door. A little window in the door shows a single garage full of tools and equipment. Ranma spies a man with a mask hunched over some metal using some kind of tool giving off sparks. "Is that your friend Hikaru-sensei?" "Yes that's Kenji there, and its just Hikaru no need for such formalities Ranma." Opening the door for his young friend Hikaru ushered Ranma into the garage. Seeing his friend getting too close to the welder, Hikaru yelled out a warning to be careful. This exclamation though causes the aforementioned Kenji to turnaround and though he stops the gas from flowing it is one second too late. But Ranma in an acrobatic move flips over and releases his heavy pack and lands in safety behind Hikaru, his pack though caught that one-second exposure to the blowtorch. Through much confusion and panic the flame is extinguished and though much inside is saved much is lost.
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A confused "What's so funny" brings Ranma back to reality. "Oh Kenji" Ranma starts seeing the taller man with a scruffy beard and grease stained hands. Ranma starts chuckling again at his previous thoughts, "I was just thinking about our first meeting." "Oh that, I'm still so sorry about that." With a smile Ranma explains, "don't worry sir you have repaid me a dozen times over and more. Plus, come on looking back it's funny don't you think."
"Well I guess it is, but it's also embarrassing to someone of my profession." "Don't worry about it" Ranma continues smiling to his friend and teacher. Pointing to the bag on the floor Kenji asks, "Need any help." "No thanks I got it." Looking around again Kenji says, "You know you don't have to go." Sheepishly Ranma responds "I know sir and this time here has been . . . unforgettable, but I'll never grow unless I try to make my own way."
As he says that he walks to the desk and opens the top drawer he removes a slightly worn leather bound book. With care Ranma places the Bible in the top of the pack before pulling the drawstring closure to secure it. As he is doing this Ranma smiles up at his mentor and says, "Can't forget that for sure." With a smile of his own Kenji looks on as his young friend slings the bag over his shoulder, "I should hope not."
As they leave the small guest room in Kenji's apartment over his shop they walk down a shadowed and narrow staircase into the shops office. Ranma reflects internally on the way his life has changed no how he has changed in six months. I really don't want to go Ranma thinks, but I have to spread my wings start a life for my self. Thanks to Kenji and his prodding to take those practice tests I think I can get in a college somewhere. Even a third rate school is better than nothing. Get a room of my own, and most importantly witness when I can to those who listen.
"What are you thinking about now" Kenji queries Ranma. Looking at his friend and mentor, Ranma responds with the cryptic response of "the future." With a grumpy chirp Kenji squawks out "Always in motion is the future," before descending into a full-fledged belly laugh. Shaking his head in consternation Ranma can only mutter out a weary "you and your western movies." "Ah come on that was funny." "Not really" answers back Ranma with a shake of his head. "Ah well you don't have much of a sense of humor anyway." "I do too" Ranma responds indignantly before setting down into a mock sulk. "With a laugh Kenji crosses to the front door which he opens into a sunny morning.
A melancholy look comes to Ranma's face before he mumbles "so this it." An almost bemused smile comes too Kenji's face as he pats Ranma on his slouched shoulders. "Hey, hey none of that let's part with a joy it's not like your moving to America, well at least not on the little you saved from working for me that is "Kenji laughs out." Smiling at his friend, friend Ranma thinks with an amused smirk. Thought I knew what that was before now I know what a real friend is, I've made two of them. Two real friends, of course I'll see him again. Stop being a baka Ranma he mentally kicks himself. Looking at his friend " I know Kenji, I'll call once I get settled okay." An awkward moment in sues as they continue to look at each other before Ranma chokes out, voice thick with emotion "aw why not" before giving Kenji a brotherly hug. Responding in kind Kenji hears Ranma whisper "I can never repay you for all you and Hikaru have done. What I have now, what I am now is in thanks to you." Quietly Kenji responds as he pulls back "no not me and not Hikaru you think it was chance that lead you there to his door right then in your life, we were just the instruments of God's grace my brother." Smiling Ranma nods "your right of course but still he used you to help me. And of course I give him all the glory but I thank you too for your help as well brother for being open to his will." And with a smile and a go with God to each other Ranma leaves the first place he ever had true happiness.
With a smile Ranma hops to the top of a building an begins roof hopping to the area he has chosen because of it's central location to several collages and universities in Tokyo. With uncanny accuracy Ranma flips and leaps from ledge to ledge. Dodging TV antennas and wash lines without even pausing to look. Then while upside down and at an angle flipping over a ten story drop Ranma reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a segment of newspaper. Landing and continuing on his journey Ranma begins looking through the appropriate ads. He has certain ones circled in red ink "let's see. Fukaji apartments? Nay too much rent, Juban apartments? Maybe, what the? Hinata house? That's way too far away. Yah looks like it's gotta be this one. Cheap and close to five campuses and tech schools. Yep lets try Maison Ikkoku. And with a smile and a flip in the air Ranma moves on to the next phase in his life and though he does not know it to an old friend.
END
I mean it this time.
End notes: well what did you think? Huh, liked it, hated it? I thought it was something that to my knowledge has not been seen before. And I'm kind of proud to show my faith in something I like, like fanfic. And how will Ranma, a new believer, deal with the insanity of Maison Ikkoku. Oh and the old friend I mentioned, lets just say that time changes people and sometimes years later when you see someone you don't even recognize them and leave it at that okay. If anyone would like to be a prereader just email me at verse12@hotmail.com. I am not going directly to the sequel unless I get an outpouring of calls to do so that is. I am currently working on three other stories one that will probably be first is "Dark Nights" a Ranma 1/2 Batman crossover. That I think has some pretty original ideas to it. Oh and it's pretty dark by the way, to start that is. The other fic in development besides the sequel to Love Lost that is, is a Ranma 1/2 Urusei Yatsura crossover, more on that later. Oh and this one is going to be pretty funny, I hope that is. And one other is in the planning phase this is a EL-Hazard / Ranma 1/2 / DBZ Crossover, this one will have a very DBZ tone to it.
Signed: Verse12