First Disclaimer: I don't own the rights to Love Hina, Ranma ½, Video Girl Ai or Sakura Diaries. This story is one of the many ideas I have in my brain. In this whole story, you will meet characters from other anime shows. However, with my limited knowledge of anime that I watch (it's about three or four other shows if you were wondering), I won't be putting a lot of characters. I will put disclaimers on them, but not in the first disclaimer of a chapter so you can be surprised about what characters show up! So sit back, relax and enjoy the show.

New Faces And Dangers At The Hinata Sou: Tournament, part 2

Motoko lies in her bed, staring at the ceiling as she psyches herself out for today's tournament. She does this for an hour before she gets up as the early morning sun shines in her room. She gets dressed in her kendo clothes and heads to the baloney. As she closes her door, she hears another door open. Thinking it's Ranma, she quietly goes downstairs to scare her. As she reaches the bottom steps, Shinobu walks pass her, not noticing her.

'She must be getting ready to make breakfast,' she thinks. 'But I'm feeling tempted to do this. I'm sorry for what I'm about to do to you Shinobu.' She quietly sneaks up on her. Once their in the dining room and Shinobu's about to open the kitchen door, she goes for her attack by grabbing her unsuspected victim, turning her around and saying "Boo." Frighten, she screams and waves her arms as Motoko laughs her ass off.

"MOTOKO! What are you laughing at?"

"Your reaction." Trying her best not to laugh anymore. "I swear, the look on you face was just priceless!"

"Stop it! It's wasn't funny."

"I beg to differ." The kitchen door swings open and out pops Urara.

"What's going on in here?"

"Sorry Urara," Motoko is still laughing. "I snuck up on Shinobu and scared her half to death."

"That's not like you."

"Well, I need to relax before my competition."

"It wasn't nice," Shinobu says, calming herself and turning to Urara. "Hey. What are you doing? It's my turn to cook today."

"Well, I felt bad for last night, so I decide to cook everyone breakfast."

"But...But..."

"Don't worry Shinobu-chan. I figured it out. I'll cook today and you can cook the next three days. How does that sound?" Shinobu looks upset, unsure what of what to say. About a minute later, she finally gives an answer.

"Sure! That'll be fine. I'll go back to bed now and catch at least an hour sleep." With a big smile, Shinobu walks out of the dining room and back in her room.

"You know," Urara says to Motoko as she walks up to her. "I have to agree with Shinobu. That's wasn't very nice to do to her."

"Sorry," she says, finally stopping her laughter. "But I thought it was Ranma-chan. I hope she can help me train this morning before going to fight in the tournament."

"Ranma?! I don't know if she can."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, after I finished cleaning the kitchen around eleven, I saw Ranma-chan sneaking out the front door. When I woke up, I decided to check up on her. I knocked on her door and there was no answer. So I opened it and she wasn't there. Her bed wasn't slept in or anything. I checked on the baloney and she wasn't there. I checked living room and she wasn't there. All I know is that she didn't sleep here all night."

"Then where..." Suddenly, the front door opens. The dining room is pretty dark, so neither of the girls try to hide. They watch as Ranma pops in the door, slowly limping to her room. Motoko follows her. As Ranma opens the door, she calls out to her.

"Ranma!" Startle, she turns around. "Are you just getting in?"

"HUH...no. I'm going out."

"But Urara and I just saw you coming in. Where were you?" She puts her hand on Ranma's shoulder. "And way are you wet?"

"HUH...HUH..." Ranma seems uneasy and tired.

"Fine! Be your stubborn self. Just let me know that you're going to be at the tournament."

"I wouldn't miss it for the world." Ranma goes in her room as Motoko goes the baloney. She practices for half an hour, thinking where Ranma has been.

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Ranma is walking up the long flight of stairs to the Hinata Sou. It seems to take forever for her to reach the top, but once she reaches it, tried and out of breath, Motoko is waiting for her. She slowly walks to her and draws out her blade.

"Hey Motoko! What's up?"

"You know Ranma, I never did like..." Before finishing her sentence, she's already facing her, like she teleported and strikes her, cutting off her right arm. "You!"

"Motoko!" Ranma tightly grabs her open womb, trying to make the bleeding stop. "Why did you do that?"

"Because you're a weakling." She strikes again, but Ranma jumps out of the way. Unfortunately, she was a second too late as both her thighs are cut and bleeding profusely. Feeling the cut, she lands flat on her back, unable to move. She sees Motoko slowly coming to her, pointing her blade. "You were chicken when you jumped out of the way when I cut your sword in half. You showed me fear when you did that. You have no right to be called a martial artist."

"You caught me by surprised."

"So? Didn't Ryoga surprise you when he found you at Furinkan? Didn't Shampoo surprise you when she found you after the martial arts ice skating competition? Didn't it surprise you when you found out that Ukyo was a girl? And didn't it surprise you when Akane kissed..." Motoko gives out a evil smile. "You have no excess for making me spilt your sword it battle. Because of that, you must die!" She jumps in the air as she rises her sword with fire surrounding it. Ranma can feel the heat of the sword as it comes closer and closer to her. Still unable to move, she closes her eyes and screams as the blade comes down before striking her.

"Motoko! No!" Ranma opens her eyes and sees that she's back in her room. She throws off her covers and checks her right arm, which is still intact. "Oh man. It was just a dream. I should have known. She wouldn't have known any of them." Sweaty, she heads to the bathroom and takes a quick shower. Once finished she gets dressed and starts to call out everyone.

"Hello? Shinobu? Keitaro? Motoko? Moemi?" None of them reply. "Anyone here?" Feeling hungry, she heads to the kitchen to grab a snack. When she enters, she notices the clock and freaks out.

"Oh no!" Waving her arms. "It's one a clock! No wonder no one replied. Motoko's tournament started two hours ago!" She dashes out and is about to open the front door when she remembers something. She goes back into her room and grabs something out of the closet. "Almost forgot this. I worked a week on it. Hope Motoko likes you." She rashes out her room and is about to go down the stairs, when someone trips her, sending her flying down the stairs.

"Uh...what was that?" She gets up and grab her item on the top of the step when she notices someone. "Oh. So you tripped me. Well, we better get going. Motoko should have all the support she needs." She grabs an arm and head towards the tournament.

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Sweating all over, Motoko goes in the women's bathroom and pour water over herself from the sink. "Damn! Why am I like? I barely won any of my fights out there." She hears the door open and sees Urara in the mirror.

"Motoko! I never knew you were that good."

"You're just being polite. I'm doing horrible."

"But Motoko, you made it all the way to the finals."

"Yeah! But I usually don't have a problem against my opponents."

"Maybe it's because Ranma isn't here to cheer you on." Motoko sweatdrops.

"No. No. I must be off today or something. I could care less if Ranma was here or not."

"Well, I came in here to check up on you."

"I'm doing fine. Don't worry about me." They wave good bye and as Urara heads out the door, Motoko drops to her knees and began to cry. "Damn you Ranma! Where are you? You promised that you'll be here, cheering me on. I'm doing badly without you. I didn't know how much your confidents meant to me until now. Without you, I'm going to lose the finals." She shreds a few more tears before putting on her men and leaving the bathroom.

She grabs her shinai and enters the fighting area. She takes her wakki-gakame stance as she studies her opponent. 'OK. You already seen him fight in the fight three rounds and the quarterfinals. He's very skilled and sort of quick. He also attacks with all force, thus making him weaker and weaker with every attack. Since I been training with Ranma, my speed had improve. I'll just go on the defensive until he gets tried.' She looks away from her opponent and see everyone in the stands, rooting her on, with the exception of Ranma. 'Damn. I really wish Ranma was here. She must not care after all.'

The shinpan blows his whistle and the two fighters start the final match of the tournament. Motoko sticks to her plan and goes on the defensive as her opponent attack. But his attacks are so powerful that she fall on the floor. Dazed, he goes for another attack, but she rolls over to her left as he strikes the floor, sending most of the matting flying into the crowd.

'Damn! I underestimated him. I better think of a new plan.'

Unfortunately for her, she couldn't think of any as her opponent strikes her at every opportunity he can get. All she can do is dodge his attack. After several minutes of this, she beings to get tried and starts to lose her concentration. She misjudges one of the attacks as his shinai strikes her tsuki-tare. She falls to the ground as cheers of victory fill the gym for her opponent. She looks to her friends, who she knows are shouting encouragement, but with the all the cheering for her opponent, can't even hear herself think.

'Damn! I'm going to lose. And in front of everyone too.' Motoko brings to shred a tear and looks towards the front entrance of the gym as her opponent is about to make his finish blow. 'Stupid Ranma! Couldn't you be here for me? Like you promise? I lost all my strength in this match because you...' Out of the blue, the entrance door opens and in comes Ranma. She immediately sees Motoko on the floor about to be attack. Shredding her own tears, she grabs the two bamboo poles from under her arm and spreads them out, reveling a banner. In Japanese characters, it reads: I'm proud of you Motoko. Kick some ass!

Seeing Ranma holding that banner gives Motoko a second wind. As her opponent's about to strike, she blocks it and shoves him out using only her sword. Once he lands, she's already on her feet and taking to the offensive. With each attack, she can tell that her opponent is weakling. After several more attacks, she decides to end it. Remember what she did you Ranma's sword, she turns her back to her opponent, raises her shinai and turns around, striking her opponent's shinai. Everyone in the gym is amazed and speechless as they see her shinai split her opponent's shinai to the handle. Shocked and disappointed, he lets go of his shinai and goes on one knee, with his head down, to show that he surrenders. Immediately, the shinpan blows his whistle and rushes over to Motoko.

"The winner of the first annual Hinata Kendo Tournament, Motoko Aoyama!" Her arm is raised high as everyone cheers for her victory. She takes a bow and see Ranma rushing towards her. She jumps and hugs her.

"You did it Motoko! You become the tournament champ!"

She gives off a smile, but then changes it into a frown and smacks Ranma in the head, letting go of the hug as the others come to join them. "Where the hell were you?"

"Sorry about that. I overslept and didn't wake up until a half hour ago."

"Oh. And here I thought you broke your promise."

"Hey now! I told you I wouldn't miss it for the world. Oh yeah. I brought someone else with me." She grabs something under her shirt and pulls out Tama. "See? I think...huh?" She sees Motoko shaking in fright.

"T...Tur...TURTLE!" She immediately raises her shinai for an attack, but Su and Naru hold her back as Mutsumi grabs Tama from Ranma's hand.

"Ranma-chan," Keitaro says. "Why did you bring Tama-chan? Didn't you know that Motoko's afraid of turtles?"

"What? You kidding?" After a few minutes, Motoko regains herself and sees her opponent, with his men off, walking towards them. She expects a congratulations for a well fought battle. Instead, he hugs Ranma from behind, fondling her breasts.

"Oh pig-tailed girl! How I missed you so!"

"What the?" She kicks over her head and strikes his', letting go of the hug. Ranma jumps out and is flabbergasted to see a familiar face as she's waving her arms. "K...Ku...KUNO! What are you doing here?"

"I was here to be the Hinata kendo champ. But since I lost, why don't you fly into my arms and comfort me?" He says, reaching his arms out.

"Oh. So you wanna fly, huh?" Taking a step back, she dashes over to him and gives him an uppercut, sending him flying to the other side of the gym.

"Ranma, do you know that Kuno guy?" asked Moemi.

"I unfortunately do. How did he know about this tournament?"

"Huh...Ranma-chan," Motoko beings. "This tournament is a high school tournament."

"High...school...tournament?" Shaking, she looks in the direction where Kuno flew. She sees other familiar faces aiding him as she sees a banner overhead that reads 'Furinkan High School.' She turns to everyone, waving her arms. "Listen! Since I missed out your tournament Motoko, let me make it up to you by cooking you and everyone else dinner. My treat." Before anyone can answer, she's already running back to the Hinata Sou.

"Wait Ranma!" Urara shouts out, running after her. "Let me help you. It's my turn to cook."

"What?" Shinobu yells, running after them. "No Urara! Ranma's my friend! I'll help her."

"What got into Ranma?" Moemi asked.

"Who knows," says Kitsune. "We could have asked the Kuno guy, but I think she cleaned his clock." Everyone walks out of the gym together, following the three girls back to the Hinata Sou, unaware that someone is following them.

Second Disclaimer: The italic words in this story are actually kendo terms. You can look up the meaning of the words in this chapter and others at www.rain.org/~galvan/glossary.txt.

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