He blinked "you've been training like I have then?" he asked. Ranma smiled softly looking down "maybe not like you sir, all I had for twelve years was my Pop, we traveled all over japan and a lot of china looking for new things to learn." He nodded pleased "so you have a very broad understanding of the art, maybe you can teach me a few things." Ranma nodded bowing a little "I doubt that sir, your the best student of the Turtle Hermit, the greatest martial arts master alive." He nodded "you know of Master Roshi?" he asked. Ranma shook his head "I just know the name, all the time we traveled looking for things to learn we would hear of Master Roshi the Turtle Hermit, they say he rarely takes students." Goku nodded smiling "he rarely does, but he took me in after I learned the Kamehameha Wave."
Ranma blinked at him "I've never heard of that." he said excited. He nodded "I'll show it to you. Tell you what, when we get there, as my student you'll take over the chores Chichi can't do when we're not training." he said firmly, not budging on this. Ranma nodded agreeably "I'll do anything if it lets me learn more about the art." he said solemnly. He nodded pleased handing the huge fish to him. Ranma grunted sinking down a little as he shouldered it "your pretty strong." he said pleased. Ranma nodded "I've.. Gotta stop for a second." He put the fish down and then pulled his pack off and started dumping rocks onto the ground "You've got your pack stuffed with rocks besides your things?" he asked pleased. Ranma nodded next pulling his shirt off then took off the layer of chain mail he was wearing. He stretched "ah, its good to get that stuff off my back." he grunted popping his back. He nodded smiling when he hefted the thing easily. Goku smiled "good, now put all that stuff back on and lets go."
Ranma blinked looking inside the house they arrived at and fell over
looking at the dishes stacked as high as the ceiling "let me guess, your
wife did all the house work." he said. Goku nodded beaming. Ranma sighed
putting the fish down and pulled his pack off. He sighed setting into the
dishes.
Chichi blinked walking out into the living room and nodded absently to the spikey red haired girl that was vaccuming her floor as she walked into the kitchen, then jerked stopping. She turned around and looked at the girl wearing one of Gokus gis before looking at Goku asleep in the hammock outside. She walked outside and leaned over her husband before kicking him hard. Goku yelped falling out of the swingng thing in fright. He blinked looking at her curiously. "Whos the girl in the front room?" she asked calmly.
He blinked for a second then smiled "oh, thats just Ranma, that guy that saved the baby from Dr Gero!" he said cheerfully. Chichi frowned at him deeper "yes, I know the black haired man your speaking of, I'm talking about the red haired woman vaccuming our livingroom." Goku nodded "thats Ranma, he turns into a girl." She blinked about to start yelling when his words hit her and she looked befuddled.
Both of them looked up and blinked when Ranma came out of the house clearing her throat "he's right Chichi-san, I have this curse that makes me change into this body when splashed with cold water, I've been learning to surpress it lately but its draining, I got splashed washing the dishes and thought it too much trouble to change back until I finished cleaning." she produced a glass of water and promptly poured it over her head. Chichi twitched looking dumply at the man that was now filling out Gokus gi "I... see. So... Gokus training you?" she asked slowly.
Ranma nodded beaming "its an honor to learn from the champion of the
worlds stongest martial arts tournament." he said pleased. She nodded "why
are you cleaning our house?" she asked. Ranma smiled embarressed "well,
as his student its my job to see to the upkeep of the house and I figured
since you were just getting over your pregnancy and the birth and all,
you didn't need the head ache I saw when I arrived. Master Goku has no
understanding of what a clean house means." he said wincing. She nodded
blinking a little and excepted it seeing the truth in his eyes "thankyou
for taking care of the house while I was recovering." she said bowing.
Ranma nodded smiling "it was no problem. I already started dinner if you
want to finish it?"
Ranma smiled squaring off against Goku after running to a safe distance and grinned excited about their first fight "don't hold back Ranma, remember that theres a very good chance I'm better then you." he said cheerfully. Ranma nodded tensing up and they were away. Ranma grunted quickly pushing his speed to the maximum seeing how fast Goku was coming and grunted taking more blows then he was throwing and broke off with a crescent kick and a backflip. He darted backwards a few more times trying to get the rhythm of the battle and nodded continuing to dodge him as he thought of his strategy.
He grinned darting in as Goku tried to run faster to catching him and he laughed in aproval when Ranma landed ten lightning fast blows before trying to get away "your fast, but you need to put power into your punches!" he said slamming him into the air. Ranma grunted hitting the ground and layed there panting for a minute "not even Ryouga can hit that hard!" he gasped feeling his tender ribs.
He shrugged it off slowly standing up and grinned at him slamming his fist into the ground as he ran at him. Goku blinked quickly throwing up his arms as rocks exsploded at him from all directions then grunted bending double when Ranma slammed his fist into his stomach as hard as he could. Goku winced rolling with his fall and grinned getting back up "is that the best you've got?" he laughed trying not to sound insulting. Ranma grinned bringing his hands together and growled charging a blast "Mouko Takabisha!" he shouted launching the blast.
Goku blinked in shock and let it hit him. Ranma looked shocked seeing that it didn't even singe his shirt "I didn't know you could use your chi." he said deeply pleased. Ranma shrugged a little "not well enough it seems." he said frowning. Goku nodded "well, let me show you my favorate, Kame Hame Ha!" he shouted charging up. Ranma twitched hurriedly hunching down and jerked as the wave hit. He fought against its push for a minute before being slammed off his feet. Ranma groaned shaking his smoking shirt out.
Goku smiled "good, you withstood my wave for a full minute!" he said pleased. Ranma smirked slightly "can I show you my favorite attack?" he asked. He nodded pleased. Ranma nodded standing strait and enhaled deeply spreading his arms and darted around Goku quickly as he lunged to attack. Goku smirked following him like last time, then blinked seeing the red chi that was swirling off his own arms and stopped. Ranma brought the spiral to a close "Heavenly Dragon Ascention Wave!!" he bellowed throwing a punch that didn't come within three feet of Goku.
He blinked then shouted in shock as he was ripped up off the ground and launched into the air. Ranma grinned bouncing backwards and watched the cyclone slam him about the air as it drained off his chi. After a minute he frowned "Goku! Dampen your chi! Stop letting it out! The tornado won't let you go until it eats away all your avalable energy, calm down now!" he shouted up at him.
After three more minutes Ranma nodded when the ki cyclone disapated and dropped the groaning man to the ground. Ranma nelt by him "what do you think?" he asked curiously. He tried to sit up but fell back down "oh man.... no ones ever hit me that hard!" he gasped letting Ranma pull him up. Ranma nodded "the blows match the level of power its pulling from you, so its like your hitting yourself as hard as you can until your out of energy."
He looked up at him and nodded "thats an amazing attack Ranma." he said
respectfully. Ranma shrugged "my last master taught it to me. I made it
more powerful and deadly. Normally the tornado pulls you up and smacks
you around. I changed it a bit to be more effective." He nodded in
understanding "lets head back, we can start your training in the morning."
Ranma looked up and blinked looking at little Gohan when he tugged on his pants leg "are you like daddy?" he asked curiously. Ranma blinked and shrugged "I guess, for some reason I can't make my hair stay down." he said scrubbing at his head and grinned along with him when the cute spikes of hair on top of his head sprung back up "why do you fight with him all the time?" he asked. Ranma nelt down catching Chichis attention "well Gohan, let me tell you something my Mother told me when I asked her about something. See, we had just come home from the worst battle we had ever seen, this is before I met your parents. Both myself and my love had been hurt so bad many times in the week the battle lasted that we doubted we would live through it. In the end, all the doubts I had about how far is too far in the art were banished when the bad man we were fighting struck Akane down with a killing blow."
He looked grim "I only had one chance to save her and he stood firmly in the way. I killed him that day, they said he could never be killed, but I did. When we got home I said to my Mother 'Mom, I killed a man.' She said that it didn't matter because he had been reborn as a baby an hour later. I was hurting because... I didn't know he was special and I took his life exspecting him to never live again. Do you know what she told me?" He shook his head looking rapt. "She said 'Son, I have said many times that killing is wrong, but when those you love are in danger you do what you have to do to make sure everyone gets home.' I didn't understand, really, I've fought many battles and no one had to die to make sure everyone got home, I'd even gone so far as to push a sworn enemy out of the way when a wall almost collapsed on him. She said to me 'I know it hurts Son, and you should try your hardest to make sure it never gets to that point again, but when it does, only one thing is important, the lives of your friends. If theres no way to end a fight without someone dying, then make sure its your enemy."
He sighed looking sad "I still feel guilty about taking his life, I hope to god I never have to do it again, but if he comes back, and it gets bad, I'll kill him again, because he was a very bad person and... they don't care for life as we do. See, those of us with the power, have a responsiblity to the world. We can't let a fight pass Gohan, if we do, we dishonor ourselves, and our families, because for every bad guy we don't beat back, thats five, maybe ten families out there that are going to lose someone they love, and its because we did nothing." He nodded firmly "theres another saying I read in a book 'evil wins, when good men do nothing.' So we have to train, we have to get stronger because if we don't, one of these days, its going to be us that die. Remember the stories your Daddy told about Piccolo?" he asked.
He nodded wide eyed "he's bad." he agreed. Ranma nodded "yes, Piccolo was bad, he wanted to kill your Daddy so he could take over the world and cause a lot of aweful pain to everyone because he was evil. But you know, not all evil is truely evil, some are just really mean." He smirked pinching his nose "and if your lucky, the bad man will let go of his anger and you'll be friends. Thats what Mr Piccolo is, he's not really a bad person, he's just full of anger and lonely. He's been alone all his life."
He nodded wide eyed in understanding. Ranma scrubbed his head standing back up and jumped blushing when he saw Goku and Chichi in the door "ah, haha, just talking." he said nerviously seeing Chichis frown "did you finish with those things I gave you Gohan?" she asked. He nodded "I wanted to hear Uncle Ranma tell a story!" he said pleased. Ranma scrubbed his head again "well I gotta get going Goku, I gotta pick up my fiancee, I'll meet Roshi with you in three years, if I stay away any longer she might just marry someone else before I get home." he said cheerfully.
He nodded "see you in a few." he said waving "You take care and
do what your Mom says Gohan! And remember that Mother always knows more
then Father, although your Father is a lot better then mine!" he laughed
floating into the air. They waved smiling "when will we see you again Ranma?"
Chichi asked. Ranma smiled "in a few years I think, after Roshis I'm bringing
Akane back with me." he said cheerfully before turning and shot off into
the air heading south.
Ranma smirked closing his eyes and spread his arms grinning happily at the feeling of freedom as he blasted through the sky on his way home. He opened his eyes and chuckled spiraling as he went. He howled happily darting downward and coasted over the lake he was passing, watching the fish that had come out to race him before boosting back into the air. He chuckled as he thought of the last two years, Goku was everything he knew he would be, he learned a lot from the man and developed his skills to a hight no one back home would believe.
He shook his head smiling again as he looked around, after a year of training Ranma had figured out how to fly, something Goku was having trouble with still, so far Ranma had become Gokus equal in the art and he was the perfect sparring partner. He sighed, he didn't really want to go, but for the last six months he had been thinking more and more about the sight of Akane that last morning, oh sure, he called every few months, but he wanted to see, to touch, and kiss... He shook his thoughts off again and pushed harder rocketing across the sky. He blinked in surprise when the sound barrier broke around him and grinned.
Ranma stopped after twenty minutes of flight and flipped about sailing towards the ground now that he had reached Nerima. He smiled landing in the middle of the street scaring the piss out of the man that was walking down it. Ranma watched him blinking as he ran for the hills in fright. He blinked confused at that and looked at himself in the window next to him. He blinked looking at his hair, it resembled Gokus a lot more these days since he had let it down, or up if you think about it, funny how it didn't grow anymore. He shook that off starting down the street and grinned looking about quickly taking in every remembered sight.
He chuckled seeing that the high school was in its normal disrepair and stopped at the gate. He shook his head smiling as the students watched the man with the spikey hair in the orange gi walk down the street. Ranma whistled softly to himself as he looked about and almost bumped into someone "oh! I'm sorry! Let me help you with that." he said apologetically. She blinked looking up and beamed happily at him "Ranma!!" she said excited "you've been gone a long time! Akane is going to be so excited!!" Kasumi said letting him take the bags "cool, so whats happening Kasumi?" he asked smiling.
She smiled back "I'm buying food for Tofu today, he can't get around as easily as he could and needs help." she said at peace with the world. Ranma blinked "something happened to Tofu?!" he exclaimed. She blinked looking up at him "didn't Akane tell you when you called? This happened two years ago. Another martial artist came and challanged Ryouga and Tofu got hurt in the fight." she said shaking her head. Ranma glared "who did it?!" he demanded angrily. She blinked "the man did, Ryouga punished him for it though." she said pleased. Ranma nodded molified "so whats Ryouga still doing around?" he asked. She smiled "he still thinks Akane will marry him, she's been helping him train for some reason lately."
Ranma frowned at that as they turned into Tofus office "thats because she wants him to test you when you get home." a voice from inside said smirking. Ranma beamed at Nabiki sitting with Tofu "its good to have you home Spike!" she said jokingly. Ranma laughed rubbing at the back of his head "I wanted to come home sooner, but Master had so many things to teach me, and everytime he showed me something we started brain storming and came up with new, even better things. I feel so.... enlightened."
Tofu smiled in aproval "I hear Nodoka-san asked Chichi-san to make you study those books she has with little Gohan." he said in welcome. Ranma nodded wincing "Chichi is a monument to education. She took to it like a ranch herder with a bull whip. I figure I'm as good at math as Gohan now, that little kid is a genius Doc, only two years old and he's already studying calculus. Just between us, I think she's stifling the boy, I know Gokus hurting about not getting to train him."
He nodded "some people are just born to be fighters while others are meant to be other things." he soothed. Ranma nodded "ya, Gohans a real scholar. I have seen you to the clinic dear Kasumi, I am now off to see Akane." he said setting the bags down and bowed heading for the door "its nice seeing you Doc, sorry to hear about the leg, oh ya." he turned back around and dug into his pack and came out with a small bag "I got one of those Senzu Beans Doc, their hard to come by, study it, or see if it'll do something about your leg, its your dime, see ya." he hopped out the door and then darted to the roof of the building and started roof hopping, one of his favorite hobbies, which he hadn't been able to do lately.
He blinked looking up after three blocks when he felt a large power jump up to meet him. He blinked looking at the wild haired beauty standing there crouched next to Cologne who had come with her. Ranma found himself mimicing her stance and blinked leaning on his instep letting his hands touch the roof "you look like Goku-san." she said simply. Ranma shrugged "can't help it, you look even more beautiful then I remember you being." he stood up and bounced to another roof as she did the same. He crouched down ten feet from her "did you start getting these feelings about six months ago?" he asked softly. She nodded "I started sparring with Ryouga.... Ranma.... I started having these.... feelings of... want for him." she said concerned. Ranma smiled softly "its not want for him love, its want for a strong man, your looking for a strong man." he said softly. She nodded smiling at him hungrily "you look a lot stronger."
Ranma nodded making half the distance disappear "can Ryouga beat you yet?" he asked. She blinked and shook her head. He smiled "then I came in time. You want someone who can beat you." he said softly. She wanted to deny it but couldn't nodding "what are these changes the two of you went through boy?" Cologne asked. Ranma smirked slightly "just a little boost, found something out and went with the idea, after making sure it was safe, I did the same thing to Akane, I knew she would love the freedom." She nodded "what did you do?" Ranma grinned reaching forward flickeringly and gently pulled the furry belt around her waist up and it unrolled "did you know that would be there?" she asked frowning slightly. Ranma shrugged in apology "I didn't think it would, mine appeared after I accidently got hit by lightning." he said letting his tail unrap from around his hips and let it flicker about ."Do you know about the moon thing?" she asked.
Ranma nodded "when mine appeared I called and told Mom that if anything
weird happened she was to make sure you stayed away from the windows on
a full moon." She nodded "or I become that huge monkey monster."
she agreed sourly. Ranma winced "got ya huh." She nodded frowning
"what exactly did you do?" Ranma smiled "I took a sample of little
Gohans blood and after adding a few chemicals to it, injected it into our
blood streams. I waited a few days after doing I to myself to do it to
you, I wanted you to be here with me, you always wanted to fly free, and
with this you could." he smiled. She snorted and he flickered catching
the lightning quick fist she threw at him then blinked when she was suddenly
kissing him passionately. She looked at him almost feverishly after
letting go "how long are you home for?" she asked softly. He smiled "three
years, after that we're going to meet the Turtle Hermit." he said smiling.
She beamed and lunged at him.
AUTHORS RANT!!
ANOTHER CHAPTER RENDERED! i'm going to start the DBZ series events in the next chapter with raditz arrival, it goes some distance from the original while following it at the same time. i plan on glossing over some of the tedious parts of the DBZ series to get right to the good parts, so you see, no gratuitiously detailed blow by blow retelling of events as they unfold, if you don't know what happened in the original story line then stop pretending to be a fanboy and play with some dolls. so things like , most of the captain genyu scenes will be told, briefly, in flashback. as well, i will leave most of the earlier frieza battle with the others upto you, only adding something where it concerns changes i made. if your upset about that then tough, it takes a tad amount of imagination to appreciate fanfiction
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