KOF 2001
by Darth Wraith
Disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 and KOF is not mine.
' ' - thoughts | " " - speaking
"See ya, Benimaru!" Ryoga waved at the two men.
"See ya. You know, you are quite a fighter. Why don't you try signing up for the tournament. There, I will guarantee that I will kick your butt to orbit." Benimaru winked.
"Yarre yarre. C'mon let's leave. Besides we gotta go to that place to stay in...what's it called..." Kyo said as the voices faded away to nothingness. Meanwhile the nerd-like duck that perched nearby suddenly doused itself in hot water (where did it get it...who cares) and gave Ranma and Ryoga a nice surprise greeting. Mousse opened his right sleeve and sent a steel claw linked by a chain towards the floor, startling the two guys.
"Hey hey! It's you Mousse, what do you want?!" Ranma said, getting into fighting stance. Mousse rectracted the hidden chained weapon. Looking at both Ranma and Ryoga, he replied inaudibly. Ranma and Ryoga cocked their ears. 'Shampoo! I must avenge you!' Ranma thought was his answer. 'Quack!' was what Ryoga thought. Instead they heard:
"Heh! This King of Fighters tournament sounds interesting. Mind if I join?" A leaf gracefully glided by and the tranquil wind blew Mousse's hair, giving the hair that 'Oh it looks so good after shampoo (har har...Shampoo!)' look. Silence enveloped the area, and it was rather unnerving.
'Hmm...Mousse did help us out in Jusenkyo and in Horisan...he's not bad of a fighter...better than Kuno of course...' both simultaneously thought, thinking about past events in which the three were actually together and fought against a common enemy.
"Why not. But we need one more person now..." Ryoga scratched his head.
"What about Akane?" Mousse suggested.
Ryoga suddenly sweated in nervousness. "Oh, what a team we will make," he muttered, envisioning him and Akane enjoying an intimate, romantic embrace in front of Ranma. But his fantasies were interrupted by a really annoying shout, coming out of Ranma's mouth.
"Geez are you both crazy! Who would want a macho tomboy jock chick in-" Ranma felt a strong presence of chi enveloping him, and he recognized it all too well. Slowly turning around, he turned around. He could barely see the person's face, which would be a good thing, because the short, dark blue hair and the huge *metal* mallet that now formed was none other than...
"Ranma......." she growled, so menacingly scary even Mousse and Ryoga backed in fear. *BONG!* Ranma was now Superman; too bad he can't control his flight. The aura died, and Akane stormed off after sending Ranma into low orbit. Ryoga and Mousse visibly relaxed.
Mousse chuckled. "See what I mean Ryoga? With that power, we can be undisputed champions of KOF."
"Indeed," Ryoga mentally laughed at Ranma, "indeed." But inwardly he knew Ranma was right about Akane. Not about her being a macho jock chick, mind you, but that she can't join KOF. She was only 'powerful' against one opponent, and that would be Saotome Ranma. Against others, she wouldn't stand a chance. 'Heck', Ryoga thought, 'why am I even thinking about her! First priority is the fight! She can't even stand a chance so why am I even thinking about her being in KOF...besides I don't want her hurt. Huh?' Ryoga looked up to see Mousse cracking up so bad he nearly choked.
"Hahahah!! I was just kidding about Akane about joining! Hahahahahahahaa! Ah Ryoga, I'm sure we both needed to see Ranma suffer some pain. We gave our word not to hurt him, but did we say anything about Akane?" After Mousse finished speaking he succumbed into the abyss of hilarity. Ryoga totally agreed, and he too succumbed into the abyss.
*Ring! Ring!* Kasumi picked up the phone. "Hello, Tendo Residence?"
(mutter, mutter)
"Oh my! How interesting!"
(mutter, mutter)
"No problem."
(mutter, mutter)
"Ok, 6 p.m it is."
(mutter, mutter)
"I do too. Ok, bye bye!" Kasumi hung up the phone. Nabiki came out from her room, and seeing Kasumi so surprised she can't help but ask. "What's happening, onee-chan?"
"We have visitors. Time for more futons in the guest room." Kasumi smiled and went back into the kitchen to work. Nabiki growled. "More guests...well they better pay or else..."
Mousse, Ryoga, and Ranma could see the stadium now. It was an awesome sight to behold. It was twice the size of the Colosseum, and its design was quite unique as well. Steel-like structures support the stadium. It looked more like a maximum-security prison than a stadium. It was as if it was built for just this tournament. The three guys looked dumbly at the magnificent structure before them.
And in another place....
"What a haul, what a haul!" A shriveled old lech was hopping around, clutching a green bag full of panties. Taking out one, he caressed and hugged it, all the time shouting, "Sweeto!" Of course following Happosai was a mob of demonic-looking women (well...angry) chasing him, clutching many painful-looking objects ready to torture him with. Happosai was still running and noticed an odd looking structure to his right. Thinking it as a secret vault of lingerie (gee he does have a perverted mind after all) he bounded towards it, not noticing a sudden darkness and a fist right in front of him. Collision was likely. A second later, collision was inevitable. Another second later, collision occured. The fist opened and grabbed Happosai and another huge fist bounded down on top of him. After that, the fist threw him into orbit. Suddenly the owner of the fist felt something hot splash around its legs. And it started shrinking form....
Ranma and the others recovered from their stupor and suddenly Ryoga got knocked down. 'Oh no!' Ranma thought. 'It's the old pervert! Damn him...' Meanwhile Ryoga stood up after being knocked down. He noticed Ranma's angry expression and looked towards his direction. 'It's that crazy perv!' Equal anger surged between the both of them, but suddenly died down when a huge monster-like creature pounded and threw Happosai into orbit.
Suddenly, a sly grin spread across the three guy's faces. Taking three kettles of hot water, they splashed the contents onto the monster's body. It started shrinking form until it became a normal-looking human.
"Hello Pantyhose Taro. Long time no see."
*Smack!* Taro put a foot on Ranma's face. "Don't call me that, fem-boy! Oh hi pig-boy and duck-boy. It's you three."
*Double smack!* Taro suddenly received two feet to his face. "Don't call us that!" both Ryoga and Mousse growled.
"Ok stop you guys! Enough of *ahem* friendly greetings! Anyway, I think you'll be interested in this. Ryoga you have the paper somewhere?" Ryoga fished around his backpack, taking out the KOF paper, unwrinkling it and handing it to Taro.
"King of Fighters tournament..." Taro muttered. He looked at the three men. "Why should I join a stupid tournament?"
"It's fun man. You get to fight a ton of powerful people!" Mousse said.
"Who cares! All I want is to destroy Happosai and change my name!"
"You know," Ryoga joined in the conversation, "I heard that the winner gets to have whatever reward they one. Any tradition that it might violate is void against what reward you want, of course, as long as it's not malicious to other people."
Taro looked up. "For real?"
"Oh yes." Ryoga nodded solemnly. "So are you in?"
"Wait...how do I know whether you're telling the truth?" Taro glared at Ryoga.
Ryoga glared back. "I know lots of things, you idiot! If it weren't for my directionally challenged disorder I wouldn't have learnt about this."
Taro sighed. He really had nothing much to do at the moment. Meanwhile Mousse held out a hand. "Are we all in?"
Ranma put his on top of Mousse's. "Hell yeah I am!"
Ryoga put his on top of Ranma's. "Heh. Time to kick butt."
They all looked at Taro. He sighed again, but the thought of changing his name by winning fights perked him up. 'Screw tradition,' he thought, 'this is better.' He put a hand on top of the pile of hands. "I'm in."
"All right! We are now the Cursed Team!" Ranma shouted joyfully.
"Lamer," the others muttered.
Ranma sweatdropped. "What? Can you think of something better?!"
"That's not of importance," Mousse replied. "Come on, let's go and sign up!"
"Well you guys, it's official. We are now an official KOF team. The Cursed Team." Ranma said.
"Yeah, though I think we were rather lucky to get a spot on the rosters." Ryoga replied.
"Heh. Those fools will surely underestimate us." Taro grinned.
"It's only after we told them of all our adventures that they let us join." Mousse chimed in. It took an incredibly long time to convince the administration to let them join. They had to show some of their powers and tell them of their adventures to even remotely convince them that they are capable of fighting in the tournament. However it was the Orochi and Saffron episode that finally convinced them to let them join the tournament.
"Well the disclaimer says that we're not guaranteed to live. As if that was supposed to scare us. The administration said it with an evil voice as well. What an idiot." The four laughed. All their adventures had death as a risk.
"Come on," Ranma said. "Let's go back home...uh Tendo Dojo so we can start practice. And Taro, don't think about using your cursed form at our place. We had to spend so much money to repair the damages you caused."
"Yeah yeah whatever." Taro muttered. He glanced at the clock: 6 pm. "It's getting late, we should go." The four walked back towards the Tendo Dojo.
It was 6 pm. And at this time, the mysterious caller opened the door. "Hello, anyone there?"
"Hey Kasumi, looks like we have visitors," Akane called out to Kasumi. Following Akane, Kasumi greeted the two men outside.
"Ah hello there!" Kasumi bowed politely.
"Hi there ma'ams," Both men bowed back and Kasumi welcomed them inside. Akane suddenly realized that sunset was close and Ranma was still not back. Her anger heightened at the thought of Ranma.
"That baka. He's probably at Ucchan's or Cat Café at this moment, enjoying time with his cute fiancées. Wait till I get him..." She stormed out of the door, mallet in hand ready to bash the pig-tailed boy silly when she heard laughing noises. She recognized one of them was Ranma's.
"Well you guys, it's official. We are now an official KOF team. The Cursed Team."
"Yeah, though I think we were rather lucky to get a spot on the rosters."
"Heh. Those fools will surely underestimate us."
"It's only after we told them of all our adventures that they let us join."
"Well the disclaimer says that we're not guaranteed to live. As if that was supposed to scare us. The administration said it with an evil voice as well. What an idiot."
'What's going on?' Akane thought. Her anger softened. 'At least the idiot's not with his fiancées...but what is he doing with Ryoga, Mousse and the other guy? They're not fighting for once, not that I mind, but...oh well.'
Ranma meanwhile went in the gates. "Hi 'Kane!"
'He seems so cheerful. Well it's better than his usual insensitive self.' Akane blushed. "H..hi."
Ryoga followed and when he saw Akane his walking suddenly did not seem normal. "Hi Akane-san." Akane waved back. Mousse and Taro did the same. 'Taro?!' Akane thought, 'now that's new.'
Ranma and the others walked in the door. "Hiya Kasumi-san. I brought some visitors along, you don't mind right?"
Kasumi smiled. 'Gee I wonder how it's like to see her angry,' Taro mused. "Sure. Oh you have visitors in the guest room. They look like challengers or something. Why don't you check it out?"
Ranma's battle aura increased. "Heh, I'm ready." He proceeded up to his room and opened it. He gaped when he saw who the visitors were.
"Kyo and Benimaru?! What are you doing here?!" Everybody's eyes widened.
"Oro?" Kyo looked up. "Oh it's you, so you live here huh?"
Ranma relaxed. "Yes...so what are you doing?"
"Let me explain..."
~~Flashback~~
Kyo and Benimaru just arrived in Nerima. As they walked, they passed by Furinkan High. It was just at the right moment that school ended. "Benimaru," Kyo said, "I don't see any hotel around Nerima. Where are we supposed to stay?"
Benimaru shrugged. "Let me ask." He went over to a group of girls. "Hey there. Know of any hotel or some place we can stay in?" The girls fainted, swooning over Benimaru. Kyo sweatdropped.
"Um Benimaru, I'll ask instead." Kyo proceeded to a group of boys. "Hey there. Is there a place where we can stay?" The boys fainted, seeing the famous Kyo Kusanagi in person, admiring his powers and such. Benimaru and Kyo sweatdropped.
"You know Kyo? Fame does have its price." Benimaru muttered. Kyo shook his head. He couldn't agree more.
"Hey you two!" Benimaru and Kyo looked to see who called them. A boy was running towards them, probably unaware about who they are.
"Yes?"
"I know of a place to stay. It's called the Tendo Dojo. Here's the number to call." The boy handed them a piece of paper with the number.
"Tendo Dojo?" Benimaru asked.
The boy nodded. "You won't believe how nice their family is. Ever since Ranma Saotome arrived; by the way he's some kid in our school, he started the little precedent of living in someone else's house, many people have come over to their place to eat and sleep. Funny how the family can support them all. Anyway I don't think you'll be an exception. Cya!" The boy ran off. Kyo and Benimaru had no choice but to call the Dojo.
"But first," Benimaru said, "I need some lunch."
~~End Flashback~~
"...so we called to your place and Kasumi-I assume that nice lady was her, her voice gives it away-let us stay." Kyo finished.
"Oh, okay then. So where's Daimon and er...Bingo?"
Benimaru cracked up. "It's Shingo, not Bingo. They're still training somewhere out there in Japan, in one of those supposedly magical forests. They'll come soon."
"Well I'll be at the dojo practicing with my friends. If you want to you can go down and practice as well. It's a pretty big place." He closed the door and proceeded down to the dojo.
"Okay," Ranma said. "We fight one pair at a time, ok? I'll start first with Ryoga." Ryoga sneered. Standing across Ranma he asked, "Ready to settle our score, Saotome?!"
"Heh. Come on, Ryoga. I'll take you anytime. HAH!" Ranma surged forward, starting off with a Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken. Flurries of punches rained down on Ryoga, who backstepped and dodged. Fortunately he was as tough as a brick, so he wasn't too fazed by the attack. Ryoga responded with a low sweep on Ranma's legs. Ranma jumped on time, but his chestnut fist was halted. "Heh," Ryoga said. "BAKUSAI TENKETSU!" Ryoga pointed down at the dojo and sent shards of wood everywhere. Ranma barely dodged and widened his eyes when Ryoga charged with combinations of kicks and punches. Ranma barely dodged all of them, blocking the rest. 'Damn,' he thought, 'Ryoga hits hard. Blocking is pretty much the same as being punched. Thank God for speed.' Ranma rubbed his arm.
"You're faltering, Saotome." Ranma snapped back. "Heh! This is just starting." By this time everyone (Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane, Soun, Genma, Taro, Mousse, Kyo, and Benimaru) was watching intently at the sparring session. They were both real fast and strong. Kyo and Benimaru were surprised. "You know Benimaru," Kyo said, "we need to practice."
"MOKO TAKASHIBA!" A ball of positive chi flew towards Ryoga, who responded with, "SHI SHI HOKODAN!" An equally powerful ball of negative chi surged towards the incoming positive chi blast. They collided, sending light sparkling all over the dojo. "Not bad Ryoga," Ranma sneered.
"Not bad yourself, Ranma." Ryoga said. Suddenly Ranma averted his eyes to the wall behind him. He felt a dark and an insanely powerful aura over there. 'Whatever it is, it's powerful. Oh well.' Ranma and Ryoga continued their fight.
Kyo also sensed a powerful presence behind the dojo wall. He sighed. He knew all too well who's aura that was. Red hair, funny looking white cloth thingy. And finally, purple flames. He was here, and he was out to get him. It would be his first fight in Nerima.
'Yagami...'
As if on cue, the wall exploded with sheer force, revealing Iori Yagami. "Kusanagi...I know you're here. Ah, there you are!" Pointing a flaming finger at Kyo. "Ready to die?"
Kyo responded with orange flame on his hand. "What do you think?" The two sworn enemies surged forward, punching and burning each other. The others, except Ranma and Ryoga who were still too concentrated on fighting suddenly averted their attention from Ranma and Ryoga to the new combatants, enjoying the fireworks as purple and orange fused and danced around each other. Suddenly Iori released a flame that travelled towards Kyo. Kyo dodged, but Ranma who was behind the approaching flames didn't notice.
"Ranma! Watch out!" Ryoga screamed. Ranma blinked, and felt something real hot creep up on him. He quickly sidestepped, avoiding the purple fiery projectile. After recovering, they turned to see the culprit. Ranma and Ryoga jumped in surprise to see Kyo and the mysterious redhead battling, flames dancing around each other. Ranma could sense huge amounts of power on the both of them. 'I guess they don't call it King of Fighters for nothing.'
Ryoga suddenly jumped up and down and screamed, "Hey! They're stealing the spotlight! If they want a light show, we'll show them! SHI SHI HOKODAN! SHI SHI HOKODAN!" Multiple mini chi balls blasted around the room, creating quite a light show. Ryoga panted and snorted (ah...not again ^_^) after his 'light show'.
Everyone stared at Ryoga, raising an eyebrow. Ranma sweatdropped and mass facefault ensued.
NOTES: Fixed some plotholes, thanks to Tyverius. Anyway, R & R! Thank you!