Happosai Unleashed!
By Ron Dow75
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[WARNING: Spoilers for Viz Vol. 18, 27, 28, 29, and 31]
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2) Who's Responsible for a Teenager?
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It was homeroom period at Furinkan. Class 1-F's kid
teacher, Miss Hinako, studied the slip of paper with Dr.
Tofu's signature again; "Isn't it the custom for notes
from a doctor to EXCUSE you from school?"
Akane explained, "But isn't it better to WANT to go to
school?!"
Miss Hinako said, "While I admire her wanting to further
her education, there are OTHER places of education. In
Japan, there is no requirement that a person have a high
school education. Just a junior high one." She, of course,
looked like she hadn't even graduated elementary school.
She did, though, dress the part of an adult, today in a
yellow double-knit dress.
Nabiki said, "Let me handle this. Miss Hinako, while
there is no REQUIREMENT that you accept her, there is no
requirement that you NOT accept her, either. You cannot
keep her out without good reason."
The preteen in mind and body blinked at this logic. She
then turned to the woman in question, "Didn't you already
graduate?"
Kasumi smiled, "Oh, my, yes. I'm nineteen."
Guy-Ranma told the little kid who was their "elder",
"Wouldn't you like a motherly type around?" Kasumi without
her apron was certainly dressed like young one.
Miss Hinako became excited at the idea, "She can be my
teacher's assistant! She can do all of the little things
for me!"
Ranma muttered, "You NEED somebody to do that, you
scatterbrained, little---"
Akane whispered, harshly, "Ranma! We want to keep Kasumi
WITH us!?! Miss Hinako has to go to OTHER classrooms during
the day." In Japan it was the TEACHERS that moved from
classroom to classroom during the day, not the students.
Ranma told her, "One battle at a time."
Nabiki reminded them, "At least Hinako has that Happo-
trick of hers. It HAS defeated Happosai before. And isn't
protecting Kasumi from HER the reason we brought big sister
to school?" Happosai turning into a girl had allowed her to
express feelings she couldn't while trapped as an old man.
Ranma crossed her arms, "Hmf! That is IF it's Kasumi the
girl-Freak has a thing for." Ranma was unwilling to admit
that somebody could NOT be interested in his girl-form. Not
only did it seem to HIM the redhead drew more attention
than the other girls around her, his overly competitive
spirit wanted her to win even at THAT showdown. It was one
way he COULD fight a girl, thanks to his CODE.
Meanwhile, Kasumi was serving as T.A., "Another juice
box and cookie, Miss Hinako?"
"Yeay!"
Ranma urged, "Easy on the sugar, Kasumi! She gets
hyper!" And HE was the one who usually seemed to pay for
it.
The murmurs among the classmates shifted from the
perfect Kasumi (too perfect to be believed some felt) to
the vision who'd just entered the room. She was a tall,
slim, blue-eyed blonde with the high ponytail. Though she
looked sixteen she was definitely NOT in any kind of a
school uniform. Her long legs in light purple hose were
topped by dark purple shorts that didn't hide her pink
garters; and the dark purple, short-sleeved top that JUST
covered her light purple bra. (The guys discovered they
could see the bra if they got their heads low enough.)
With all of her flashing, she became instantly disliked
by the girls, who were stuck wearing the frumpy school
jumper and blouse uniform. (She even wore outdoor shoes:
Heels!) Ranma and Akane, on the other hand, had better
reasons to abhor her.
Nabiki announced, "Well, there's my cue to exit. Ciao,
everybody! Have fun."
Miss Hinako was already starting to feel the effect of
the sugar, as she ran up to the blonde teen, "Whee!
Somebody ELSE to teach? And who are you, Miss?!"
The girl smiled at her as if she was thinking of a
wicked joke. She gave the teacher her note. "I'm here to
attend class, Miss."
Miss Hinako read from the permission slip, "Miss Inkogu
Nito? *Giggle* That sounds almost ENGLISH! I'm an English
teacher, you know."
"I know."
In Nabiki's haste to get out of the line of fire, she
almost stumbled over a boy coming into 1-F. Though he
wasn't a kid, he was on the short side for a teenager; and
he was dressed in the navy blue plebe uniform some high
school still made guys wear. Furinkan, however, wasn't one
of those high schools.
Since he was down near her hem, he decided to lift it up
and peek under it. Nabiki told him, "I'm wearing cotton
underwear. Nothing silk, satin or taffeta. Sporty, not
lacy." That loosened the guy's grip long enough for Nabiki
to escape back to her own homeroom.
Akane too recognized the boy. Less than an hour ago,
he'd been a kindergartener; she said, "Age Mushrooms!"
Apparently they had been among the plants that Pink and
Link had accelerated the growth of. What other plants had
Happosai had saved for his use?
Inkogu Nito said to the teacher, "And this is Lukkyosai.
We used to go to the same school."
Ranma glared at the new girl, "You never went to
school!"
Her blue eyes glared back, "Oh, yeah!? You haven't heard
of the School of Hard Knocks!"
"Then you weren't the students! You were the ones MAKIN'
it hard!!"
Daisuke said, "She sure is making me---" Whap! Sayuri
hit him with a loose-leaf binder.
Sayuri told him, "I DON'T want to hear that!"
Lukkyosai zipped up to her, "Nice spirit! I always had a
thing of girls in ponytails!" Whack! Inkogu hit him on head
with her fist.
The blonde with the ponytail said, "And *I* don't want
to hear YOU say that. Remember the deal we made."
Ranma picked the runt teen up by the scruff of his
uniform; he threatened, "Have you ever heard of the "Cradle
from Hell"?" It was one of the most disgusting things that
a guy could do to another guy. And if Lukkyosai had the
same male-phobia as Happosai---
Miss Hinako announced, "I sense a naughty---No! A very
naughty delinquent!" Guys and girls scrambled out of their
seats.
Ranma said, "Uh, oh!" He quickly held up the pipsqueak
in front of him.
"Happo 5-yen---"
Lukkyosai challenged, "I'm much more naughty than
THAT!!" And he refused to let ANY battle energy out that
she could get hold of.
For his impertinence, Miss Hinako changed to, "Happo 50-
YEN Satsu: Ja! Byo! Tsu! Aku!..."
Lukkyosai, magician-like, held up 5-yens between each
finger of a hand. Five coins also with holes. "Lucky 25-yen
Satsu!"
"...Ma!" Hinako's green aura reached out through the
hole in her coin to sap the wicked energy she'd sensed
before. The tendrils came back, pulling the delinquent's
aura through the holes in his own smaller coins. And the
girl teacher became more definitively female.
Inkogu cried, "NOW!" as she pressed certain points on
the transforming Hinako's back and right breast.
Akane cried, "Happosai!!"
Angry, Ranma said, "Even as a girl, she's a pervert!"
And threw the other one at the shapely blonde. Fight a girl
pervert with a guy pervert!
But Lukkyosai somersaulted, changing his trajectory,
"Sweet!! She grows up NICE---" At the moment when he was
the most vulnerable to a counter maneuver, girl-Happosai
flipped him around with one finger.
Lukkyosai came somersaulting back, to bounce off Ranma:
While the runt landed on his feet, Ranma crashed into the
desk-seats behind him!
Lukkyosai challenged, "Swindler! You said I could HAVE
her!!"
Happo-chan told Lukkyosai, "Give her a chance to realize
what's happened to her, You Old Fool!"
The change in her transition had left Miss Hinako a
little disoriented, "Oo...Oh! I feel different. But how? I
have hips. I have breasts. I have the curves of...of a
teenager?"
Akane, and others noticed, "It's true!" Instead of
having her VERY filled out adult form, Miss Hinako was now
no more developed than some of the girls in class.
(One male student said to his friend, "At least her skirt
is as short as when she's ALL woman." The hem had moved up,
revealing most of her slim legs.)
(Meanwhile, Happosai Inkogu had casually walked back to
sit on one of the toppled desk-chairs beside Ranma. It
became an agonizing choice for the guys in class; which
sexy body should they gawk at? "But SHE has a short shorts-
--And garters!")
Lukkyosai jumped from halfway across the room to in
front of the teen teacher. He held up his coins, "I did it,
Miss Hinako! I only gave you back 25-yen: HALF the satsu,
"coin change" of 50-yen!"
(Pulling himself out from under desks, Ranma said to
Happosai, "It's more than just that! What did you do to
her?!"
(Happo-chan said, "It's a treatment that limits the
amount of energy she can take in.
(Ranma snorted, "Like that 30-day treatment you gave me
to use on her!?!"
(Happo-chan smiled, "Exactly.")
Hinako looked down at the body she was not used to, "I
am half way between the child I was, and, and the woman I
was becoming??" She shook her head to clear it. She held up
her coin, aiming it, "And if I release the energy I
absorbed?"
Lukkyosai told her, "You'll RETURN to being a child! As
you've always have had to.
"BUT: In this form you can hold onto the energy TWICE as
long as when you are a grown adult, with half the effort."
And he smiled, "As long as *I* continue the treatments."
Miss Hinako snorted, "Hmh! I will STILL need to drain
energy."
Lukkyosai got a VERY crafty grin, "At your present age,
*I* have enough energy for the both of us."
A thought ran through the girl's head. Dared she hope?
No! She turned her head away, too afraid to be disappointed
again, "I have already TRIED having a constant supply of
battle energy when I bought the Thai fighting fish. The
strain was too much. I HAVE to become a child."
Lukkyosai said, "Not as often, this way. And when you
do...you won't have to be alone." Miss Hinako wondered what
the boy meant by that. When she looked at him, he ate an
Age Mushroom.
At 8 centimeters, the mushroom made him as young as Miss
Hinako's child form.
But before anything else could happen, Akane stomped the
300-year-old kid, "That's a perversion even HAPPOSAI didn't
do!! I WON'T allow any pedo---" Miss Hinako was making a
circle with her fingers.
"Happo No-coin Satsu!"
Ranma cried, "Akane, watch out!!" And he saved her from
an energy blast just in time. He further protected her with
his body when they fell against yet more desk-chairs,
sending them to the floor as well.
Young Hinako ran to the crumpled boy her age, "Are you
alight? Did the mean, much bigger girl hurt you?"
"Girls have ALWAYS been mean to me! It's SO unfair! I
just want to be their friend!"
///
Akane was nearly in shock, "Miss Hinako ATTACKED a
girl!??! I don't remember her EVER doing that: Just guys!"
It had taken Shampoo and Kodachi invading the girls' PE
basketball game and, along with Ukyou, attacking her for
Hinako to do anything to a fellow female.
Underneath her Ranma groaned, "Yeah. The two perverts
must have done some kinda mind control on her, too."
Happo-chan leaned over them in a way that the guys
appreciated, "We did no such thing. Hinako is just tired of
being alone."
Akane stood up to her, "If she's lonely, it's YOUR
fault! You're the one who changed her metabolism so she's
can't grow as fast as she should!"
"Hmh! And at the rate Hinako's growing, how old do you
THINK she can become?" She went into her "poor,
misunderstood me" mode, "She was sick in a hospital before
I came along. I gave her chance to live three times her
normal lifespan. Is it my fault that, like so many
medicines, there's a side-effect?"
Getting up, Ranma cried, "YES!"
The act was dropped, "So I DON'T always know the all
that'll happen with the techniques I come across: So SUE
me!"
Ranma rolled up his sleeve, "I'll do more than just
that."
(The buzz among the guys was, "Ranma's going to hurt a
girl? What about his Code!?"/ "Please, don't mess her up,
man! She's beautiful!")
///
Meanwhile, Kasumi had come up to the children with,
"Juice boxes and cookies?"
Lukkyosai the little boy asked, "Do you have any milk?"
Hinako the little girl smiled, "You're not lactose
intolerant, either?"
Taking the small carton of milk, he told her, "I made
myself an ultimate anti-poison pill over a century ago."
Apparently, a mushroom that could make you younger OR older
wasn't a poison. "Do you want to play house?"
Hinako's smile became bigger, "You LIKE to play house?"
Kasumi reminded her, "Oh, my, what a fun idea! But
shouldn't you be attending to your school work, right now,
Miss Hinako?"
Miss Hinako blinked, trying to refocus on her
responsibilities.
Lukkyosai pleaded, "Runaway with me, Hinako! Please!
Please!? I have a playhouse in the woods! We can be ALL by
ourselves. No adults to bother us!"
The little girl was tempted. But her shoulders slumped,
her young voice sounded older, "No. I've worked too hard on
growing up. I cannot abandon the duties it's taken me so
long to acquire. I don't want to be Peter Pan." A tear
formed in her eye, "I want to be Wendy!"
Lukkyosai said sadly, "And I HAVE to be one of the Lost
Boys. When I grow up, I become a lost man. A pervert."
(Happo-chan was behind Ranma, controlling him with her
"Happo Wide-Open Ears" technique. "Hear, Ranma: Like me,
Lukkyosai WOULDN'T attack children!"
(Ranma found it harder to attack her, "No: Just anything
with boobs!!" Oh! Was that why he wanted to get away from
adults? No! Once a pervert, always a pervert.)
Miss Hinako's looked at him in a different light, "You
can be a pervert?"
Lukkyosai confessed, "Yes. But it easier to control when
I'm this age. An eight-year-old boy has a natural antipathy
in girls. AND, *he, hee* after all, like this, I'm not a
dirty, OLD man."
Hinako started seeing floating, brightly colored dots,
"Ever since the class and I were stuck on that island with
the Aloha virus, I've been thinking about...." Becoming
red, she couldn't finish the thought.
She suddenly put her arms around the little boy's neck,
"Happo No-Yen Satsu!" Her aura reached out, and took in his
energy. The little girl was replaced by the teenager. The
young woman looked down at the now less energetic boy and
pleaded, "You will molest me, won't you?!"
(The class, guys and girls, facefaulted.)
Feeling too drained for that at the moment, Lukkyosai
smiled, "Only if you promise to treat me like a friend when
I'm not. It's been AGES since I had a gal pal."
Miss Hinako took the child by his small hand, "It's time
to go to the next class? Will you join me?"
Lukkyosai let her lead the way, "I'd be happy to."
As the couple that looked like a big sister with her
little brother exited, Kasumi asked, "Should I go with
them. Am I still her assistant?"
Akane blinked, "I think she has herself a new one."
///
The first period teacher came in, thinking it was at
last safe to start his class. While he was directing the
students on straightening up the room, Kasumi excused
herself...
Splash! Ranma dropped the pail of cold water, "I KNEW
you'd try to walk in the girls' restroom. C'mon!" He
grabbed the OLD Freak by the back of the purple ninja suit
that now fit, "We're gonna have a little talk in the boys'
can!"
After kicking the little perv through the swinging door,
Ranma was greeted by water spray from the sink. Happosai
told the pigtailed girl, "Be thankful I didn't use TOILET
water!!" Then he jumped for her bosom. "Come to Papa!"
Ranma cried, "Moko Takabishi!!" releasing his "Flying
Air of High Tiger" blast. The Old Fart went crashing into
the far tile wall. And certain parts of Ranma's figure felt
a sudden chill.
She looked down and saw that---SOMEHOW---Happosai had
taken off her clothes and dressed her in the purple
lingerie, garter belt, hose, AND heels that he was wearing
as a girl!! "What!??!?"
From the floor, Happosai held up Ranma's Chinese
clothes, "Quick Change Martial Artist" technique.
Ranma ran, "Gimme back my clothes!!"
Happosai leaped up on top of a stall door, threatening,
"Come any closer, and I'll flush THEM!"
A heel made Ranma turn her ankle as she stopped, and
stumble, but she didn't fall.
The dirty, old man laughed, "What a view! You want to
know where I was so many times when you couldn't find me at
home? I was up, ninja-style, near the ceiling! *Ha, ha,
ha*"
Ranma ground her teeth, "How did you do this? Could
you've put me in girls' things anytime you wanted to?"
Happosai sat down on the rim of the stall, "Perhaps. I
really didn't care to find out. As I've said before. I
could've done a HELL of a lot of things to you, AND to
Hinako, for that matter, if I HAD been as bad as you
imagined me to be. "The EVIL Master", as I've heard my
ungrateful pupils call me." Ranma felt the lecher's eyes on
her. "But when you threw cold water on me, that lovely
ensemble became too much for this body, it had to go
somewhere. And I decided it would go to the one wwho TOOK
it from me!"
Ranma was startled, "You mean I was wearing it as a,
guy?"
Happosai scoffed, "You still haven't noticed that Genma,
Ryoga, and Mousse get their clothes back after they return
from being animals? Only Shampoo and YOU don't." He gave
the redhead a challenging stare, "Shampoo's a natural
exhibitionist at heart. What does that make YOU?!"
That thought stabbed at Ranma's sense of manhood. (And
it didn't help that her soft body was adopting subtle
changes in her posture. The silky things were causing her
girl persona to accent their sexiness.) But, "No! They
wouldn't have fitted me! I was a guy! I was TOO big for
them!"
"*Ha, ha* And you STILL haven't noticed that you use the
power of Juusenkyo only to resize the female clothes you
find yourself in! I dare say as long as your subconscious
thinks of something as female, you could bend steel to keep
it on you. Oh! *Ha, ha* That's right, you already HAVE done
that: With the iron corset of Madam St. Paul!" Should the
iron corset molded to her petit frame REALLY have fitted
his larger male one!?!
Before Ranma could reject that idea, somebody came
rushing into the boys' restroom. And here girl-Ranma was in
sexy underwear!
Daisuke just had to slow down when he saw her, "Oh, MAN!
What a time to get lucky!" But he could only slow down. He
continued on to the nearest stall; all the time he was
going, "Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man..." Backing into the
stall, he said, "I hope Nabiki has pictures of Ranma like
this."
Slam! Ranma kept his stall door closed; she yelled at
the old pervert, "I can't go around like this!!"
Happosai told her, "Let me get some hot water from the
tap, and I'll show you the flip-side of the Juusenkyo
power. Without touching you, I'll put ON what you're
wearing."
///
Just as suddenly as Happosai had changed back into a
blue-eyed blonde so her purple ninja suit barely covered
her tall, slim body. Happo-chan held the nude redhead's
clothes just out of her reach, "NOW, will you listen to
me?"
Taking them, Ranma said, "I will." Then as she hurriedly
put them on, she muttered, "I would've listened if you'da
said anything before."
(Daisuke could be heard lamenting from his seat, "Oh,
ma-an! Here I am missing the show.")
Happo-chan explained, "Lakkyosai and I were in a
contest. Meeting again after all those decades, and putting
our differences aside reminded us of what we once were.
And, *Sigh*, what we had lost. We wanted to find a way out
of the cursed form we had been trapped in for centuries."
"That was the reason Lucky had gone back to Juusenkyo.
He was looking for the "Spring of Young Girl"." She shook
her blond head sadly. "That was why I was at the springs
when Pantyhose Taro was born. I, too, had been thinking
about taking another chance at life."
Fastening her shirt, Ranma, "So Lukkyosai dove into the
"Young Kid" one. What an idiot."
Happosai started for the door (wiggling her hips), "The
idiot is the one who thinks she can just walk UP to the
"Spring of Drowned Young Man"."
"Yeah, I guess--- Unh!?!! Hey!! What do you mean by
that?!!" She forgot to button up all the way, revealing
some cleavage.
Out in the hall, Happosai seemed to not hear, "Lucky
always did have poor luck. Thus the irony of his nickname.
Because he has become cursed again, he can never become a
girl again. ...Well, not a genuine one, anyway."
Ranma reached up and put her hand on her shoulder,
"What!? Tell me what you mean!!"
Happo-chan warned the girl about the touching her, "Do
you want the school to see you buck naked?"
"YES!"
Ranma yelled, "Daisuke!!"
"I won our contest, of course. Thanks to the Flower of
Youth. But I decided to give my friend Lucky a consolation
prize, as it were. Yeah, that's it. For old times sake."
Her voice then became more a mutter, "I still have to watch
my back. He's jealous of that I have what he can't have.
Ah, it was the same way with Kumo, my pet cloud."
Because of Daisuke's was standing behind her, looking
down her cleavage, Ranma had become distracted enough to
button up. She now refocused on Happosai, "Why can't I find
the "Spring of Drowned Man"?! What will happen if I DO find
the spring?!! You said I'm gonna be TRAPPED as a girl one
day: I need answers here!!"
Happo-chan smiled, "...At least now Lucky will be able
to have a friend who he can do some female things with. --
And he can be a provide the mature conversations Hinako so
yens for. (As well as *Cackle* other adult entertainment.)"
Coming out of the girls' restroom, Kasumi said, "Oh, my,
how thoughtful of you, Grand--- uh, Miss Happosai."
Happosai said, "Yes. I think so."
Ranma wanted to tear her hair out, "Why is everybody
ignoring me!?"
(Daisuke said, "I'm not ignoring you. ...Nice butt.")
The woman who was a little taller than Kasumi asked,
"May I escort you home, my dear Kasumi?"
"Oh, my. Don't you have to be in school?"
Ranma cried, "Yeah!"
"I don't HAVE to be anywhere. Nobody does. High school
isn't mandatory in Japan." And especially at lenient
Furinkan, as they all should have known, considering all
the school days Ranma and Akane had had to miss because of
one crisis or another.
Kasumi dithered a little, "Well, I do have to get back
home to the housework."
Happo-chan said, "That's already taken care of, my dear.
My faithful students, Soun and Genma are even now taking
care of those tasks. The Flower of Womanhood has them being
the perfect maids." For an instant, Ranma had the image of
Mr. Tendou polishing woodwork while his pop the panda was
using a wok. Both were wearing frilly aprons. She tried to
shake the image out of her red head.
Kasumi looked for something else she could do, "I
suppose I could do the shopping."
Happo-chan suggested, "Why don't we take Soun and Genma
with you. It will ease your mind." Ranma flashed, now, on
the martial arts squad that Pink and Link had used to
demonstrated their "Flower of Womanhood". They had gone
from warriors to girly-men who KNEW how to cook, knit and
do the laundry!
Then it added up for Ranma, " "Ease your mind"? ---
You're plannin' on takin' Kasumi away with you!" Just like
what Lukkyosai was planning to do with Miss Hinako!!
"Kasumi, RUN!! Get away!"
"OH, my! You startled me, Ranma!"
Happo-chan warned, "What have I said about interfering
in my business!?!"
Well, if Kasumi wasn't going to make a move to save
herself, Ranma would! While Happo-chan's aura started
growing, seemingly turning her into a giant, Ranma blasted
her way THROUGH the projection, "Moko Takabishi!!"
The growing woman seemed to collapse in on the flesh-
and-blood Happo-chan.
Yes! The transition was Happo-chan's weak point! While
her energy was being used to establish the platform for her
technique, she couldn't USE it! Ranma had guessed right
again. When it came to the big things, she was the best!
The nude petite martial artist lifted Kasumi up in her
arms, "Come on! We gotta get you some place safe while we
still can!"
Kasumi said, "I don't think Miss Happo-chan will harm
me."
"I'm COUNTIN' on it. 'Cause she WILL harm me!"
As Ranma bound as quickly as her short legs could carry
her towards the stairwell, an embarrassed Kasumi said," Uh,
Ranma, shouldn't you put something on? It isn't right to go
around in public, uh, without clothes."
Frustrated, Ranma said, "That DAMNED "Quick Change"
thing of hers!! But I can't worry about that now!" But a
part of her mind use Kasumi as her cover.
Ranma tried to pick up speed by sliding down the
handrail on her bare butt. Not sweaty enough, she had to
take half-a-dozen stairs at a time.
Happo-chan, her hands free, was able to surf down the
handrails between her heels. When she came to the turn at
the landing, she merely bounced off the opposite wall, and
land on the next rail, "Give me back my idol! She's MY
responsibility!!"
Knowing that Happo-chan would get in front of them at
the next flight of stairs, Ranma zagged, and slapped bare
feet down the hall of the second floor, "Aw, MAN! Even if
she wants Kasumi more 'n me, that pervert's GOTTA want me
naked!" The thought gave her more speed.
Hearing familiar voices, Nabiki had opened classroom 2-
E's door, "Ranma!! Through here!"
(Kasumi waved, "Hello, Nabiki.")
Seeing no other option, Ranma ducked inside. Not only
was Nabiki ready for her with her camera, but so, too, were
her two associates on either side. But since Kasumi was in
the way, they waited until they got a rear view of the
pigtailed girl to use their flashes.
(Kuno had cried, "The Pigtailed Goddess...is nude..."
before being shoved aside and stepped on by the other guys
in class, vying to get the best view.)
When the sexy, blond Happo-chan came in, she stepped in
a pail of water that just happened to be in her path. Her
long legs became instantly short. The now wrinkled, old man
stumbled because the floor wasn't where he had been
expecting it to be. Camera flashes further disoriented him.
He rolled across the floor, knocking over desk-seats.
This gave Ranma enough time to break through a window
using her back and leap with Kasumi from the second story
to the ground.
Nabiki said, "Oo! This should only be attempted by a
trained professional. Of course, Ranma never trained for
that."
The Old Freak got to his feet, "Nabiki!! You will pay
for interfering!!"
Popping the film out of her camera, she said, "I'm
sorry, Happosai, but it WAS my duty as Kasumi's sister, you
know. Even you have to respect the Code of Family."
Happosai made a face that said he did understand. He
didn't have to like it. He warned her, "Be careful, Nabiki:
One day you will go too far." With that, he leaped out of
the broken window, to continue his quest.
But he left something behind on the floor. It was an
ancient looking scroll. The force of her mere presence made
the others in class make way for her as she approached it.
When Nabiki opened it, she saw that, "It's a map." But a
map of what? The characters were in Chinese. Though she
couldn't read Chinese, there were words she could read in
ANY language. She recognized the ideograph for, "Gold! Is
this a treasure map?"
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The End...
By Ron Dow75
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[WARNING: Spoilers for Viz Vol. 18, 27, 28, 29, and 31]
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2) Who's Responsible for a Teenager?
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It was homeroom period at Furinkan. Class 1-F's kid
teacher, Miss Hinako, studied the slip of paper with Dr.
Tofu's signature again; "Isn't it the custom for notes
from a doctor to EXCUSE you from school?"
Akane explained, "But isn't it better to WANT to go to
school?!"
Miss Hinako said, "While I admire her wanting to further
her education, there are OTHER places of education. In
Japan, there is no requirement that a person have a high
school education. Just a junior high one." She, of course,
looked like she hadn't even graduated elementary school.
She did, though, dress the part of an adult, today in a
yellow double-knit dress.
Nabiki said, "Let me handle this. Miss Hinako, while
there is no REQUIREMENT that you accept her, there is no
requirement that you NOT accept her, either. You cannot
keep her out without good reason."
The preteen in mind and body blinked at this logic. She
then turned to the woman in question, "Didn't you already
graduate?"
Kasumi smiled, "Oh, my, yes. I'm nineteen."
Guy-Ranma told the little kid who was their "elder",
"Wouldn't you like a motherly type around?" Kasumi without
her apron was certainly dressed like young one.
Miss Hinako became excited at the idea, "She can be my
teacher's assistant! She can do all of the little things
for me!"
Ranma muttered, "You NEED somebody to do that, you
scatterbrained, little---"
Akane whispered, harshly, "Ranma! We want to keep Kasumi
WITH us!?! Miss Hinako has to go to OTHER classrooms during
the day." In Japan it was the TEACHERS that moved from
classroom to classroom during the day, not the students.
Ranma told her, "One battle at a time."
Nabiki reminded them, "At least Hinako has that Happo-
trick of hers. It HAS defeated Happosai before. And isn't
protecting Kasumi from HER the reason we brought big sister
to school?" Happosai turning into a girl had allowed her to
express feelings she couldn't while trapped as an old man.
Ranma crossed her arms, "Hmf! That is IF it's Kasumi the
girl-Freak has a thing for." Ranma was unwilling to admit
that somebody could NOT be interested in his girl-form. Not
only did it seem to HIM the redhead drew more attention
than the other girls around her, his overly competitive
spirit wanted her to win even at THAT showdown. It was one
way he COULD fight a girl, thanks to his CODE.
Meanwhile, Kasumi was serving as T.A., "Another juice
box and cookie, Miss Hinako?"
"Yeay!"
Ranma urged, "Easy on the sugar, Kasumi! She gets
hyper!" And HE was the one who usually seemed to pay for
it.
The murmurs among the classmates shifted from the
perfect Kasumi (too perfect to be believed some felt) to
the vision who'd just entered the room. She was a tall,
slim, blue-eyed blonde with the high ponytail. Though she
looked sixteen she was definitely NOT in any kind of a
school uniform. Her long legs in light purple hose were
topped by dark purple shorts that didn't hide her pink
garters; and the dark purple, short-sleeved top that JUST
covered her light purple bra. (The guys discovered they
could see the bra if they got their heads low enough.)
With all of her flashing, she became instantly disliked
by the girls, who were stuck wearing the frumpy school
jumper and blouse uniform. (She even wore outdoor shoes:
Heels!) Ranma and Akane, on the other hand, had better
reasons to abhor her.
Nabiki announced, "Well, there's my cue to exit. Ciao,
everybody! Have fun."
Miss Hinako was already starting to feel the effect of
the sugar, as she ran up to the blonde teen, "Whee!
Somebody ELSE to teach? And who are you, Miss?!"
The girl smiled at her as if she was thinking of a
wicked joke. She gave the teacher her note. "I'm here to
attend class, Miss."
Miss Hinako read from the permission slip, "Miss Inkogu
Nito? *Giggle* That sounds almost ENGLISH! I'm an English
teacher, you know."
"I know."
In Nabiki's haste to get out of the line of fire, she
almost stumbled over a boy coming into 1-F. Though he
wasn't a kid, he was on the short side for a teenager; and
he was dressed in the navy blue plebe uniform some high
school still made guys wear. Furinkan, however, wasn't one
of those high schools.
Since he was down near her hem, he decided to lift it up
and peek under it. Nabiki told him, "I'm wearing cotton
underwear. Nothing silk, satin or taffeta. Sporty, not
lacy." That loosened the guy's grip long enough for Nabiki
to escape back to her own homeroom.
Akane too recognized the boy. Less than an hour ago,
he'd been a kindergartener; she said, "Age Mushrooms!"
Apparently they had been among the plants that Pink and
Link had accelerated the growth of. What other plants had
Happosai had saved for his use?
Inkogu Nito said to the teacher, "And this is Lukkyosai.
We used to go to the same school."
Ranma glared at the new girl, "You never went to
school!"
Her blue eyes glared back, "Oh, yeah!? You haven't heard
of the School of Hard Knocks!"
"Then you weren't the students! You were the ones MAKIN'
it hard!!"
Daisuke said, "She sure is making me---" Whap! Sayuri
hit him with a loose-leaf binder.
Sayuri told him, "I DON'T want to hear that!"
Lukkyosai zipped up to her, "Nice spirit! I always had a
thing of girls in ponytails!" Whack! Inkogu hit him on head
with her fist.
The blonde with the ponytail said, "And *I* don't want
to hear YOU say that. Remember the deal we made."
Ranma picked the runt teen up by the scruff of his
uniform; he threatened, "Have you ever heard of the "Cradle
from Hell"?" It was one of the most disgusting things that
a guy could do to another guy. And if Lukkyosai had the
same male-phobia as Happosai---
Miss Hinako announced, "I sense a naughty---No! A very
naughty delinquent!" Guys and girls scrambled out of their
seats.
Ranma said, "Uh, oh!" He quickly held up the pipsqueak
in front of him.
"Happo 5-yen---"
Lukkyosai challenged, "I'm much more naughty than
THAT!!" And he refused to let ANY battle energy out that
she could get hold of.
For his impertinence, Miss Hinako changed to, "Happo 50-
YEN Satsu: Ja! Byo! Tsu! Aku!..."
Lukkyosai, magician-like, held up 5-yens between each
finger of a hand. Five coins also with holes. "Lucky 25-yen
Satsu!"
"...Ma!" Hinako's green aura reached out through the
hole in her coin to sap the wicked energy she'd sensed
before. The tendrils came back, pulling the delinquent's
aura through the holes in his own smaller coins. And the
girl teacher became more definitively female.
Inkogu cried, "NOW!" as she pressed certain points on
the transforming Hinako's back and right breast.
Akane cried, "Happosai!!"
Angry, Ranma said, "Even as a girl, she's a pervert!"
And threw the other one at the shapely blonde. Fight a girl
pervert with a guy pervert!
But Lukkyosai somersaulted, changing his trajectory,
"Sweet!! She grows up NICE---" At the moment when he was
the most vulnerable to a counter maneuver, girl-Happosai
flipped him around with one finger.
Lukkyosai came somersaulting back, to bounce off Ranma:
While the runt landed on his feet, Ranma crashed into the
desk-seats behind him!
Lukkyosai challenged, "Swindler! You said I could HAVE
her!!"
Happo-chan told Lukkyosai, "Give her a chance to realize
what's happened to her, You Old Fool!"
The change in her transition had left Miss Hinako a
little disoriented, "Oo...Oh! I feel different. But how? I
have hips. I have breasts. I have the curves of...of a
teenager?"
Akane, and others noticed, "It's true!" Instead of
having her VERY filled out adult form, Miss Hinako was now
no more developed than some of the girls in class.
(One male student said to his friend, "At least her skirt
is as short as when she's ALL woman." The hem had moved up,
revealing most of her slim legs.)
(Meanwhile, Happosai Inkogu had casually walked back to
sit on one of the toppled desk-chairs beside Ranma. It
became an agonizing choice for the guys in class; which
sexy body should they gawk at? "But SHE has a short shorts-
--And garters!")
Lukkyosai jumped from halfway across the room to in
front of the teen teacher. He held up his coins, "I did it,
Miss Hinako! I only gave you back 25-yen: HALF the satsu,
"coin change" of 50-yen!"
(Pulling himself out from under desks, Ranma said to
Happosai, "It's more than just that! What did you do to
her?!"
(Happo-chan said, "It's a treatment that limits the
amount of energy she can take in.
(Ranma snorted, "Like that 30-day treatment you gave me
to use on her!?!"
(Happo-chan smiled, "Exactly.")
Hinako looked down at the body she was not used to, "I
am half way between the child I was, and, and the woman I
was becoming??" She shook her head to clear it. She held up
her coin, aiming it, "And if I release the energy I
absorbed?"
Lukkyosai told her, "You'll RETURN to being a child! As
you've always have had to.
"BUT: In this form you can hold onto the energy TWICE as
long as when you are a grown adult, with half the effort."
And he smiled, "As long as *I* continue the treatments."
Miss Hinako snorted, "Hmh! I will STILL need to drain
energy."
Lukkyosai got a VERY crafty grin, "At your present age,
*I* have enough energy for the both of us."
A thought ran through the girl's head. Dared she hope?
No! She turned her head away, too afraid to be disappointed
again, "I have already TRIED having a constant supply of
battle energy when I bought the Thai fighting fish. The
strain was too much. I HAVE to become a child."
Lukkyosai said, "Not as often, this way. And when you
do...you won't have to be alone." Miss Hinako wondered what
the boy meant by that. When she looked at him, he ate an
Age Mushroom.
At 8 centimeters, the mushroom made him as young as Miss
Hinako's child form.
But before anything else could happen, Akane stomped the
300-year-old kid, "That's a perversion even HAPPOSAI didn't
do!! I WON'T allow any pedo---" Miss Hinako was making a
circle with her fingers.
"Happo No-coin Satsu!"
Ranma cried, "Akane, watch out!!" And he saved her from
an energy blast just in time. He further protected her with
his body when they fell against yet more desk-chairs,
sending them to the floor as well.
Young Hinako ran to the crumpled boy her age, "Are you
alight? Did the mean, much bigger girl hurt you?"
"Girls have ALWAYS been mean to me! It's SO unfair! I
just want to be their friend!"
///
Akane was nearly in shock, "Miss Hinako ATTACKED a
girl!??! I don't remember her EVER doing that: Just guys!"
It had taken Shampoo and Kodachi invading the girls' PE
basketball game and, along with Ukyou, attacking her for
Hinako to do anything to a fellow female.
Underneath her Ranma groaned, "Yeah. The two perverts
must have done some kinda mind control on her, too."
Happo-chan leaned over them in a way that the guys
appreciated, "We did no such thing. Hinako is just tired of
being alone."
Akane stood up to her, "If she's lonely, it's YOUR
fault! You're the one who changed her metabolism so she's
can't grow as fast as she should!"
"Hmh! And at the rate Hinako's growing, how old do you
THINK she can become?" She went into her "poor,
misunderstood me" mode, "She was sick in a hospital before
I came along. I gave her chance to live three times her
normal lifespan. Is it my fault that, like so many
medicines, there's a side-effect?"
Getting up, Ranma cried, "YES!"
The act was dropped, "So I DON'T always know the all
that'll happen with the techniques I come across: So SUE
me!"
Ranma rolled up his sleeve, "I'll do more than just
that."
(The buzz among the guys was, "Ranma's going to hurt a
girl? What about his Code!?"/ "Please, don't mess her up,
man! She's beautiful!")
///
Meanwhile, Kasumi had come up to the children with,
"Juice boxes and cookies?"
Lukkyosai the little boy asked, "Do you have any milk?"
Hinako the little girl smiled, "You're not lactose
intolerant, either?"
Taking the small carton of milk, he told her, "I made
myself an ultimate anti-poison pill over a century ago."
Apparently, a mushroom that could make you younger OR older
wasn't a poison. "Do you want to play house?"
Hinako's smile became bigger, "You LIKE to play house?"
Kasumi reminded her, "Oh, my, what a fun idea! But
shouldn't you be attending to your school work, right now,
Miss Hinako?"
Miss Hinako blinked, trying to refocus on her
responsibilities.
Lukkyosai pleaded, "Runaway with me, Hinako! Please!
Please!? I have a playhouse in the woods! We can be ALL by
ourselves. No adults to bother us!"
The little girl was tempted. But her shoulders slumped,
her young voice sounded older, "No. I've worked too hard on
growing up. I cannot abandon the duties it's taken me so
long to acquire. I don't want to be Peter Pan." A tear
formed in her eye, "I want to be Wendy!"
Lukkyosai said sadly, "And I HAVE to be one of the Lost
Boys. When I grow up, I become a lost man. A pervert."
(Happo-chan was behind Ranma, controlling him with her
"Happo Wide-Open Ears" technique. "Hear, Ranma: Like me,
Lukkyosai WOULDN'T attack children!"
(Ranma found it harder to attack her, "No: Just anything
with boobs!!" Oh! Was that why he wanted to get away from
adults? No! Once a pervert, always a pervert.)
Miss Hinako's looked at him in a different light, "You
can be a pervert?"
Lukkyosai confessed, "Yes. But it easier to control when
I'm this age. An eight-year-old boy has a natural antipathy
in girls. AND, *he, hee* after all, like this, I'm not a
dirty, OLD man."
Hinako started seeing floating, brightly colored dots,
"Ever since the class and I were stuck on that island with
the Aloha virus, I've been thinking about...." Becoming
red, she couldn't finish the thought.
She suddenly put her arms around the little boy's neck,
"Happo No-Yen Satsu!" Her aura reached out, and took in his
energy. The little girl was replaced by the teenager. The
young woman looked down at the now less energetic boy and
pleaded, "You will molest me, won't you?!"
(The class, guys and girls, facefaulted.)
Feeling too drained for that at the moment, Lukkyosai
smiled, "Only if you promise to treat me like a friend when
I'm not. It's been AGES since I had a gal pal."
Miss Hinako took the child by his small hand, "It's time
to go to the next class? Will you join me?"
Lukkyosai let her lead the way, "I'd be happy to."
As the couple that looked like a big sister with her
little brother exited, Kasumi asked, "Should I go with
them. Am I still her assistant?"
Akane blinked, "I think she has herself a new one."
///
The first period teacher came in, thinking it was at
last safe to start his class. While he was directing the
students on straightening up the room, Kasumi excused
herself...
Splash! Ranma dropped the pail of cold water, "I KNEW
you'd try to walk in the girls' restroom. C'mon!" He
grabbed the OLD Freak by the back of the purple ninja suit
that now fit, "We're gonna have a little talk in the boys'
can!"
After kicking the little perv through the swinging door,
Ranma was greeted by water spray from the sink. Happosai
told the pigtailed girl, "Be thankful I didn't use TOILET
water!!" Then he jumped for her bosom. "Come to Papa!"
Ranma cried, "Moko Takabishi!!" releasing his "Flying
Air of High Tiger" blast. The Old Fart went crashing into
the far tile wall. And certain parts of Ranma's figure felt
a sudden chill.
She looked down and saw that---SOMEHOW---Happosai had
taken off her clothes and dressed her in the purple
lingerie, garter belt, hose, AND heels that he was wearing
as a girl!! "What!??!?"
From the floor, Happosai held up Ranma's Chinese
clothes, "Quick Change Martial Artist" technique.
Ranma ran, "Gimme back my clothes!!"
Happosai leaped up on top of a stall door, threatening,
"Come any closer, and I'll flush THEM!"
A heel made Ranma turn her ankle as she stopped, and
stumble, but she didn't fall.
The dirty, old man laughed, "What a view! You want to
know where I was so many times when you couldn't find me at
home? I was up, ninja-style, near the ceiling! *Ha, ha,
ha*"
Ranma ground her teeth, "How did you do this? Could
you've put me in girls' things anytime you wanted to?"
Happosai sat down on the rim of the stall, "Perhaps. I
really didn't care to find out. As I've said before. I
could've done a HELL of a lot of things to you, AND to
Hinako, for that matter, if I HAD been as bad as you
imagined me to be. "The EVIL Master", as I've heard my
ungrateful pupils call me." Ranma felt the lecher's eyes on
her. "But when you threw cold water on me, that lovely
ensemble became too much for this body, it had to go
somewhere. And I decided it would go to the one wwho TOOK
it from me!"
Ranma was startled, "You mean I was wearing it as a,
guy?"
Happosai scoffed, "You still haven't noticed that Genma,
Ryoga, and Mousse get their clothes back after they return
from being animals? Only Shampoo and YOU don't." He gave
the redhead a challenging stare, "Shampoo's a natural
exhibitionist at heart. What does that make YOU?!"
That thought stabbed at Ranma's sense of manhood. (And
it didn't help that her soft body was adopting subtle
changes in her posture. The silky things were causing her
girl persona to accent their sexiness.) But, "No! They
wouldn't have fitted me! I was a guy! I was TOO big for
them!"
"*Ha, ha* And you STILL haven't noticed that you use the
power of Juusenkyo only to resize the female clothes you
find yourself in! I dare say as long as your subconscious
thinks of something as female, you could bend steel to keep
it on you. Oh! *Ha, ha* That's right, you already HAVE done
that: With the iron corset of Madam St. Paul!" Should the
iron corset molded to her petit frame REALLY have fitted
his larger male one!?!
Before Ranma could reject that idea, somebody came
rushing into the boys' restroom. And here girl-Ranma was in
sexy underwear!
Daisuke just had to slow down when he saw her, "Oh, MAN!
What a time to get lucky!" But he could only slow down. He
continued on to the nearest stall; all the time he was
going, "Oh, man, oh, man, oh, man..." Backing into the
stall, he said, "I hope Nabiki has pictures of Ranma like
this."
Slam! Ranma kept his stall door closed; she yelled at
the old pervert, "I can't go around like this!!"
Happosai told her, "Let me get some hot water from the
tap, and I'll show you the flip-side of the Juusenkyo
power. Without touching you, I'll put ON what you're
wearing."
///
Just as suddenly as Happosai had changed back into a
blue-eyed blonde so her purple ninja suit barely covered
her tall, slim body. Happo-chan held the nude redhead's
clothes just out of her reach, "NOW, will you listen to
me?"
Taking them, Ranma said, "I will." Then as she hurriedly
put them on, she muttered, "I would've listened if you'da
said anything before."
(Daisuke could be heard lamenting from his seat, "Oh,
ma-an! Here I am missing the show.")
Happo-chan explained, "Lakkyosai and I were in a
contest. Meeting again after all those decades, and putting
our differences aside reminded us of what we once were.
And, *Sigh*, what we had lost. We wanted to find a way out
of the cursed form we had been trapped in for centuries."
"That was the reason Lucky had gone back to Juusenkyo.
He was looking for the "Spring of Young Girl"." She shook
her blond head sadly. "That was why I was at the springs
when Pantyhose Taro was born. I, too, had been thinking
about taking another chance at life."
Fastening her shirt, Ranma, "So Lukkyosai dove into the
"Young Kid" one. What an idiot."
Happosai started for the door (wiggling her hips), "The
idiot is the one who thinks she can just walk UP to the
"Spring of Drowned Young Man"."
"Yeah, I guess--- Unh!?!! Hey!! What do you mean by
that?!!" She forgot to button up all the way, revealing
some cleavage.
Out in the hall, Happosai seemed to not hear, "Lucky
always did have poor luck. Thus the irony of his nickname.
Because he has become cursed again, he can never become a
girl again. ...Well, not a genuine one, anyway."
Ranma reached up and put her hand on her shoulder,
"What!? Tell me what you mean!!"
Happo-chan warned the girl about the touching her, "Do
you want the school to see you buck naked?"
"YES!"
Ranma yelled, "Daisuke!!"
"I won our contest, of course. Thanks to the Flower of
Youth. But I decided to give my friend Lucky a consolation
prize, as it were. Yeah, that's it. For old times sake."
Her voice then became more a mutter, "I still have to watch
my back. He's jealous of that I have what he can't have.
Ah, it was the same way with Kumo, my pet cloud."
Because of Daisuke's was standing behind her, looking
down her cleavage, Ranma had become distracted enough to
button up. She now refocused on Happosai, "Why can't I find
the "Spring of Drowned Man"?! What will happen if I DO find
the spring?!! You said I'm gonna be TRAPPED as a girl one
day: I need answers here!!"
Happo-chan smiled, "...At least now Lucky will be able
to have a friend who he can do some female things with. --
And he can be a provide the mature conversations Hinako so
yens for. (As well as *Cackle* other adult entertainment.)"
Coming out of the girls' restroom, Kasumi said, "Oh, my,
how thoughtful of you, Grand--- uh, Miss Happosai."
Happosai said, "Yes. I think so."
Ranma wanted to tear her hair out, "Why is everybody
ignoring me!?"
(Daisuke said, "I'm not ignoring you. ...Nice butt.")
The woman who was a little taller than Kasumi asked,
"May I escort you home, my dear Kasumi?"
"Oh, my. Don't you have to be in school?"
Ranma cried, "Yeah!"
"I don't HAVE to be anywhere. Nobody does. High school
isn't mandatory in Japan." And especially at lenient
Furinkan, as they all should have known, considering all
the school days Ranma and Akane had had to miss because of
one crisis or another.
Kasumi dithered a little, "Well, I do have to get back
home to the housework."
Happo-chan said, "That's already taken care of, my dear.
My faithful students, Soun and Genma are even now taking
care of those tasks. The Flower of Womanhood has them being
the perfect maids." For an instant, Ranma had the image of
Mr. Tendou polishing woodwork while his pop the panda was
using a wok. Both were wearing frilly aprons. She tried to
shake the image out of her red head.
Kasumi looked for something else she could do, "I
suppose I could do the shopping."
Happo-chan suggested, "Why don't we take Soun and Genma
with you. It will ease your mind." Ranma flashed, now, on
the martial arts squad that Pink and Link had used to
demonstrated their "Flower of Womanhood". They had gone
from warriors to girly-men who KNEW how to cook, knit and
do the laundry!
Then it added up for Ranma, " "Ease your mind"? ---
You're plannin' on takin' Kasumi away with you!" Just like
what Lukkyosai was planning to do with Miss Hinako!!
"Kasumi, RUN!! Get away!"
"OH, my! You startled me, Ranma!"
Happo-chan warned, "What have I said about interfering
in my business!?!"
Well, if Kasumi wasn't going to make a move to save
herself, Ranma would! While Happo-chan's aura started
growing, seemingly turning her into a giant, Ranma blasted
her way THROUGH the projection, "Moko Takabishi!!"
The growing woman seemed to collapse in on the flesh-
and-blood Happo-chan.
Yes! The transition was Happo-chan's weak point! While
her energy was being used to establish the platform for her
technique, she couldn't USE it! Ranma had guessed right
again. When it came to the big things, she was the best!
The nude petite martial artist lifted Kasumi up in her
arms, "Come on! We gotta get you some place safe while we
still can!"
Kasumi said, "I don't think Miss Happo-chan will harm
me."
"I'm COUNTIN' on it. 'Cause she WILL harm me!"
As Ranma bound as quickly as her short legs could carry
her towards the stairwell, an embarrassed Kasumi said," Uh,
Ranma, shouldn't you put something on? It isn't right to go
around in public, uh, without clothes."
Frustrated, Ranma said, "That DAMNED "Quick Change"
thing of hers!! But I can't worry about that now!" But a
part of her mind use Kasumi as her cover.
Ranma tried to pick up speed by sliding down the
handrail on her bare butt. Not sweaty enough, she had to
take half-a-dozen stairs at a time.
Happo-chan, her hands free, was able to surf down the
handrails between her heels. When she came to the turn at
the landing, she merely bounced off the opposite wall, and
land on the next rail, "Give me back my idol! She's MY
responsibility!!"
Knowing that Happo-chan would get in front of them at
the next flight of stairs, Ranma zagged, and slapped bare
feet down the hall of the second floor, "Aw, MAN! Even if
she wants Kasumi more 'n me, that pervert's GOTTA want me
naked!" The thought gave her more speed.
Hearing familiar voices, Nabiki had opened classroom 2-
E's door, "Ranma!! Through here!"
(Kasumi waved, "Hello, Nabiki.")
Seeing no other option, Ranma ducked inside. Not only
was Nabiki ready for her with her camera, but so, too, were
her two associates on either side. But since Kasumi was in
the way, they waited until they got a rear view of the
pigtailed girl to use their flashes.
(Kuno had cried, "The Pigtailed Goddess...is nude..."
before being shoved aside and stepped on by the other guys
in class, vying to get the best view.)
When the sexy, blond Happo-chan came in, she stepped in
a pail of water that just happened to be in her path. Her
long legs became instantly short. The now wrinkled, old man
stumbled because the floor wasn't where he had been
expecting it to be. Camera flashes further disoriented him.
He rolled across the floor, knocking over desk-seats.
This gave Ranma enough time to break through a window
using her back and leap with Kasumi from the second story
to the ground.
Nabiki said, "Oo! This should only be attempted by a
trained professional. Of course, Ranma never trained for
that."
The Old Freak got to his feet, "Nabiki!! You will pay
for interfering!!"
Popping the film out of her camera, she said, "I'm
sorry, Happosai, but it WAS my duty as Kasumi's sister, you
know. Even you have to respect the Code of Family."
Happosai made a face that said he did understand. He
didn't have to like it. He warned her, "Be careful, Nabiki:
One day you will go too far." With that, he leaped out of
the broken window, to continue his quest.
But he left something behind on the floor. It was an
ancient looking scroll. The force of her mere presence made
the others in class make way for her as she approached it.
When Nabiki opened it, she saw that, "It's a map." But a
map of what? The characters were in Chinese. Though she
couldn't read Chinese, there were words she could read in
ANY language. She recognized the ideograph for, "Gold! Is
this a treasure map?"
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The End...