Ch. 3
"Hand it over, Dog boy!!"
"FEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!!"
"Fighting isn't the answer, that it is not!"
"Why don't you all stop fighting over it and give it to it's rightful owner.....ME!!!"
"You're all asking for it!! CHESTNUTS ROASTING ON AN OPEN FIRE TECHNIQUE!!!!"
Carrot shoved his hands into his pockets. 'Tira....' He rounded the corner and started walking down the master staircase, not noticing the mass of bodies all rolling around fighting over a dead, yellow, rodent.
"What the hell are you boys doing?!" Akane yelled from the top of the stairs.
"KENSHIN!!" Kaoru cried, rushing to her warrior's side(no rhyme intended ^-^
"I did not get into this, Miss Kaoru, honestly!" Kenshin answered, sweatdropping.
"Eww, is that a.....giant rodent?!" Videl shrieked.
"IT'S MINE!" Inuyasha screamed.
"INUYASHAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Silence filled the room as everyone turned and looked in the doorway. Inuyasha's yellow eyes showed fear as he swallowed the massive lump in his throat, and prepaired for the biggest 'sit' yet.
"OSUWARI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The result was a massive hole, and a long drop down into the basement, for both Inuyasha, and the rodent corpse.
"Everyone, please! You must calm down, that you must!!"
The attention was now on Kenshin(DAMN THIS RHYMING!!), who gave a serious look to everyone. "I have but one way to solve this, that I do."
"Oh yea, and whats that?" Ranma asked, smartly.
"Well, I was thinking we could do a tournament, that I was."
"That's brilliant, Kenshin!" Kaoru cheered.
"Entertainment, and food!" Yusuke said.
"If you're all gonna fight, I'm gonna be the judge!"
Everyone faced the doorway at the new voice they heard. Stepping in from the rain was a brown haired girl with a brilliant smile on her face.
"KEIKO?!" Yusuke yelled.
"Yusuke, you big jerk!" Keiko scolded, approaching her boyfriend. "How dare you leave me behind like that! I was worried sick about you, and all you've been doing was sitting here with these new friends of yours!"
"Keiko, I wasn't just sitting here! A-And I was afraid to take you!" Yusuke replied as Keiko pointed a finger at his chest.
"Afraid of what?"
"That you might get hurt! I thought these guys were gonna be tough!"
"Hey, kid, we are tough!" Ranma shouted, getting to his feet.
"When we're not acting like 5 year old girls." Akane whispered.
Ranma shot her a glare. "Akane! I don't want anyone knowing about that!"
"Ranma's a 5 year old girl?" Syaoran asked, confused.
"HOE?!?!"
"I am not! SHUT UP!"
"Everyone calm down, that you must!"
"Yusuke, I can't believe you! Trying to protect me from 5 year old girls, you jerk!"
"Ranma, you baka! I can tell these people whatever I want!! YOU BAKA, YOU BAKA, YOU BAKAAAA!!"
"SHUT UPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
A blast of spirit energy formed around Yusuke after his shout, which slowly faded into the air as everyone's eyes were now on him. "Let's just get this thing over with!"
***
Since the basement was the biggest empty space they had, everyone gathered down there in new attire, the girls dressed as cheerleaders, and a microphone in Keiko's ready hands. Against the wall sat the benches in which the girls waited until they could cheer their men on, and to the opposite side was the waiting area for the fighters. In the middle, Sakura had drawn boundry lines for the arena in which the guys could battle, and from the ceiling, hung the only piece of food left in the house: the dead pikachu.
"Alright, are you all ready for the first battle?!" Keiko said, excitidly into the mic, forgetting about her boyfriend problems.
"Just get on with it!" Ranma complained, standing in the ring.
"I hope you'll be this impatient when I'm punching your face into the ground." Yusuke smirked, from the opposite side of the ring.
"Our first match will be Ranma Saotome virsus MY BOYFRIEND YUSUKE YURAMESHI!!"
"GO RANMAAA!!" Akane screamed, leaping to her feet in the outfit she was forced to wear.
Ranma smiled, he was wearing his martial arts ice skating outfit, the one he wore against Azusa and Sanseni when he won P-Chan back for Akane with Ryoga. "As of now, you'll be the one getting the whipping, Yusuke."
"Oh yeah, I'm sure those sissy chestnut punches of yours REALLY leave a mark." Yusuke laughed, in his normal street clothes, blue jeans and a white sleevless shirt.
"LET THE MATCH BEGIN!" Keiko shouted.
Ranma leapt into the air, as Yusuke blocked the kick he threw at him. Backflipping, Ranma landed on his feet and charged again. The two engaged in punches so fast it beat the speed of light by a million miles per hour!
"Fists fly as the first attack is over with! Ranma's kicking seems to be no match for Yusuke's increadible speed!" Keiko announced, just as Ranma socked Yusuke in the face, sending him flying backwards onto the ground. "Heh, maybe not." she reannounced, sweatdropping. "KICK HIS ASS, YUSUKE!!"
"My pleasure!" Yusuke said, leaping back to his feet.
Ranma ran foward, not noticing the aura of spirit energy surrounding Yusuke. Yusuke held out his right arm, pointing his index finger at Ranma's heart. "SPIRIT GUN!!!!"
A blast shot from his finger tip and collided with Ranma's face.
"No! Ranma, get up!" Akane cried as Ranma slowly got to his feet.
"Nice little trick ya got there," Ranma complimented. "Unfortunitly, it's not enough to beat me."
"Whatever you say, pigtailed boy." Yusuke replied, charging up some more.
"Martial arts never failed me before..." Ranma whispered to himself. "And it's not gonna fail me now!"
"SHOT GUN!!!!!!!"
Putting his hands in front of him, Ranma blocked the spirit ball, which pushed him a few feet back. Forcefully, he pushed the energy through the hole Inuyasha made after his last sit.
At this, Yusuke ran foward and threw a punch at his opponent.
"With great effort, Ranma seemed to have blocked Yusuke's shot gun, and the two are now fighting fist to fist again....poor Yusuke..."
Yusuke's eyes slanted into a glare as he notice Ranma's smirk of confidence. 'I'm gonna win this....I have to....Keiko's watching. If I can't even protect myself, how am I supposed to protect her from these guys?'
Ranma sweeped Yusuke to the ground, and leapt into the air, punching his stomach hard. Yusuke winced before scrambling back to his feet, grabbing Ranma's ankle, and flipping him over his head.
"The two seem to be evenly matched! This is gonna be a great fight, everyone!" Keiko said cheerfully, using the skills the announcer fox lady had at the dark tournament she watched.
"Sorry Ranma, but compared to demons, you're no match for me." Yusuke told him as Ranma got back to his feet, scarred and bruised. A trickle of blood ran down Yusuke's face as he charged up for his next attack. "SPIRIT WAVE!!!!!"
The biggest amount of energy possible shot at Ranma, who once again tried to use martial arts against spirit energy and blocked. But, the force was too much, and the blast sent Ranma flying from the ring and crashing into the wall behind him.
"RANMA!" Akane cried, rushing over to her wounded love.
"He has til the count of ten to stand back up," Yusuke panted, wipping the blood with his fist. "Don't get your hopes up, lil lady."
Akane nervously stared at Ranma, who had taken a pretty hard beating from the spirit wave. "Ranma, pull through! You can make it! I know you can!"
"Ten....Nine....Eight.....Seven.....Six...." Keiko counted, staring at Ranma.
Ranma grunted. "I'm not done yet!" Slowly, he raised to his feet, and stepped back into the ring at the count of two.
"You will be in a second!" Yusuke yelled, charging at his wounded opponent.
"And Ranma makes it back with only two seconds remaining for the count! Yusuke doesn't seem too pleased, this should end well!" Keiko announced. "Man, I feel so stupid right now..."
Using the remaining energy he had, Ranma threw his hardest punches at Yusuke, who took them with little damage. "Those sissy punches aren't gonna get you anywhere." Yusuke commented. With that, he charged his spirit power up again, this time sending the energy throughout his body. "But this one will get me to the top!" With that, he punched Ranma at his hardest, sending him once again to hit the wall.
"Yusuke refuses to let a martial artist beat his spirit power, and sends Ranma straight out again! Better start counting!" Keiko approached Ranma and stared down at his body. "Erm....it seems he's...blacked out....umm....which rules him out of the match," Keiko sweatdropped. She then turned back to ring, where Yusuke stood sweating and panting. "Which means Yusuke's the winner!!!!"
"Poor Ranma...." Akane said, pulling her boyfriend into her arms. "Well, I guess I'll go treat his wounds, be back as soon as I can!"
With help from Kenshin, Akane managed to get Ranma back to his room, and the second fight was announced. "Gohan virsus.....Yusuke?! What?! Hey, guys, that's not fair!"
"Well, he did win, and the winners names are placed back into the bucket, so....I guess it is fair..." Kaoru told Keiko.
"I never get a break!" Yusuke complained.
"You will in a sec, hold on." Gohan suddenly began glowing as the benches lifted off the ground.
"AHHH!!! I'M FLOATING!!!!!!" Carrot screamed.
Gohan dropped the benches just as he turned super saiyan 5. Yusuke's eyes widened as fear over came his entire body. Gohan approached Yusuke, and with a single tap, flung him from the ring and into the wall.
Keiko was speachless and struck with fear.
"HOLY SHIT MONKEYS!" Carrot gasped, staring at Yusuke. "I think he killed him!"
"Yusuke!" Keiko cried, dropping her mic and running over to him. He had fallen unconscious, and had obviously hit his head into the wall, because blood streamed out from it as Keiko held it. "K-Kenshin, can you help me?"
"Of course, Miss Keiko." Kenshin replied, casually getting to his feet and scooping the 14 year old boy into his arms. Together, he and Keiko headed to the injury wing.
***
"Alright, since Keiko has her hands busy with a medical kit, I'm taking her place!" Kagome announced happily into the mic. "It's the beginning of the third match! Carrot virsus Inuyasha!!!"
Carrot froze with fear. "Me?! Against wolf boy?!"
"Excuse me, I'm a DOG demon, not a wolf demon, FEH!" Inuyasha growled as he stepped into the ring.
Carrot clung to the bench, but released his grip as he noticed Tira staring at him with hope in her eyes. "You're goin down, dog breath!" Carrot leapt to his feet and darted into the ring.
"I'm sad to say that this match may be a bloody and disgusting one, but I have to start it one way or another....LET THE MATCH BEGIN! Good luck, Inuyasha!"
Inuyasha pulled out tetsusaiga and smirked, as Carrot took out his normal sword. Compaired to Tetsusaiga, Carrot's sword stood no chance, and knowing this, he began to shake. 'Bad Carrot! Pull yourself together! You gotta at least LOOK tough before you're pounded into the ground....' With that thought, Carrot put on his one in a life time serious face, and stepped foward.
Inuyasha pulled Tetsusaiga over his head and brought it down on Carrot, who blocked with his sword.
"It's strength against strength as Carrot and Inuyasha's swords collide! Who will hit who first? I have my bet..."
"HEY!" Carrot yelled. "I'm much tougher than all of you think, so stop picking on me!" With that, Carrot took his sword down in one slick motion and stabbed it right through Inuyasha's stomach.
Amazingly, he stood still, and lowered his sword.
Carrot grinned. "Ha! How'd ya like that?!"
"Carrot, he's not dead..." Tira said, as Inuyasha's wounds closed up.
Carrot's eyes went wide again as Inuyasha's sword met his chest, and you could only guess how much damage it caused.
"And the winner is Inuyasha!!" Kagome announced, cheering. "Umm...could someone please clean the bloody mess that is Carrot off the floor....please."
Once again, Kenshin was stuck taking Carrot to the hospital room with Tira at his side. "The fourth match of the tournament will be.....Gohan virsus Inuyasha!"
"That boy doesnt stand a chance, that he does not..." Kenshin said to Tira as they walked.
"How can you tell, Kenshin?" Tira asked, staring at Carrot's unconscious body.
"Inuyasha is a demon with much strength and determination, even if Gohan is the same, he is still no match against Tetsusaiga...that sword is very powerful, I'm afraid I might not even stand a chance against it, that I am...."
"Wow..." Tira gasped as they reached the room where Ranma and Yusuke lay in sleeping bags on the floor. "Welcome to the nursing home, Tira." Keiko said, handing Tira an aprin with a cross on it and some gloves, along with a medical kit.
"Gee, thanks..." Tira replied as Carrot was set down next to Yusuke.
"Good luck, Miss Tira," Kenshin said, leaving the room. "I must get back to the tournament, that I must."
Tira sighed, staring down at Carrot's bare chest, and a blush came over her face. Even if it was still covered in blood, he was topless, and with that fact, Tira's face grew even more red. Slowly, and carefully, she began to wash the blood from Carrot's chest. 'It'll be alright, Carrot....I'll fix you...'
***
By the time Kenshin had return to the basement, Gohan was sprawled out on the ground, his limbs nearly hanging off his body and blood covering the entire ring.
"Inuyasha, thats enough! He's out already!"
"You people are sick!" Videl yelled at Kagome and Inuyasha. "Is this your idea of a fair fight?! You've nearly killed him!"
"No one said it was fair, that they did not." Kenshin said, sitting back in his spot on the bench.
Angry, Videl picked up her boyfriend and headed for the medical room, leaving the blood puddles behind.
Inuyasha growled and plopped back down onto the bench next to Kenshin, right as Kagome began announcing again.
"And we're into the semi finals! In the semifinal match, Kenshin will go up against Inuyasha!!"
"That I shall!" Kenshin said, approaching the ring, leaving his smile behind.
"Feh." Inuyasha sighed as he too stepped into the ring.
"Wait," Kaoru started, confused. "Who's the winner going to be up against? Only Sakura and Syaoran are down here....and...well, I don't think they'd stand a chance, no offense."
"We're gonna have to test that theory when we come to it, but first Inuyasha and Kenshin, you may begin!!"
Inuyasha and Kenshin nodded to Kagome and drew their swords. A long standoff it was until Inuyasha made the first move.
"I'm gonna win this easy! TETSUSAIGAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Kenshin lept out of the way just in time as the Tetsusaiga smashed and got caught in the floor.
"FEEHHH?!?!?!" Inuyasha struggled trying to pull his mammoth sword from the floor.
'Now is my time to strike, that it is', Kenshin said to himself. He darted straight at Inuyasha and stabbed him in the torso. Kagome gasped as Inuyasha fell to the ground.
"Ha! Thats's right! Your little doggy boy doesn't stand a chance against my Kenshy Wenshy!" Kaoru laughed, almost insanely. Everyone stared at her and sweatdropped. As Inuyasha got to his feat, and pulled Tetsusaiga from the ground, he stood in stance and thought of what to do next; as did Kenshin.
'His wounds heal so rapidly, what am I to do? I am in a predicament, that I am' Kenshin again thought to himself. He paused. 'Wait....isn't Inuyasha the one obsessed with noodles???' A wide grin appeared on Kenshin's seemingly innocent face. 'I just happen to have an extra container of noodles in my pocket!'
Inuyasha stared at Kenshin confused. 'This isn't much like me but.....I must win....wow, this really isn't like me...lets just say, I'll do it for Miss Kaoru'. Kenshin smiled and nodded triumphantely. Inuyasha did a 'Feh' and charged at Kenshin.....for the last time.....DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!! *odd music in background*....
As everyone watched Kenshin draw something from his back pocket, Inuyasha stopped in his tracks and began sniffing the air.
"I.........SMELL.......NOOODLESSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! FFFFFEEEHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Inuyasha ran right up to Kenshin, completely forgetting about the match.
"Ummm....h-here you are!" Kenshin managed putting on a decent fake smile. "Go get it.....er....boy!" With that at note, Kenshin chucked the noodles out of the "ring" and Inuyasha bolted after them.
"MINEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" It was after Inuyasha finished smothering the noodles that he realized he was disqualified.
"THAT'S SO UNFAIR!!!" Kagome yelled angerly. "THAT'S CHEAP AND VERY NOT LIKE YOU KENSHIN HIMURA!!!" Kagome glared at him.
As Kenshin did a big sweatdrop he replied quietly,
"I-I know" A look of horror struck across his face. "IM SO BAD!!!" A tear trickled down his face, running over his X shaped scar. He sat on the floor and watched Inuyasha stop steaming and begin eating the noodles.
"I don't care if I lose....I have my noodles! Feh..." Inuyasha set up a fancy table with candles and played some sort of Opera. He also put his right pinky up and chowed down on those noodles.
"T-t-those nails....." Syaoran shivered at the sight of them.
"HOE?!?!" (need I say who said that...?)
"Kenshin.....your next match for the pika-thing is Sakura.....have fun...." Kagome said depressingly and walked away, leaving the mic in the part of the head of the dead pikachu. Kenshin suddenly realized what Kagome had said. He jumped to his feat.
"I MUST FIGHT SAKURA?!!?!?"
"HOE?!?!?!"
***
Slowly, Kaoru rose and approached the mic stand, watching the audience croud into the room for the last match. "Konnchiwa, Minna-san." she greeted.
"Yea, Yea, whatever." Yusuke grunted.
"Yusuke, don't be such a sore loser." Keiko whispered angerly.
"Mommy, where are we?" Carrot asked, staring at Tira.
Tira sighed heavily, and instead of explaining how Carrot got from the hospital wing into the basement, she whacked him over the head with her mallet. Carrot fell to the ground, his tongue sticking out and his eyes swirling.
"If everyone will settle down the final match can begin..." Kaoru said, as everyone's chattering came to an end. "Arigatou. And now, let the final match begin!"
Sakura stood at the left end of the mat, feeling a little nervous, and dressed nicely in her Blue Warrior outfit.
"KICK IS BUTT FOR ME, SAKURA!" Syaoran yelled from the croud.
Sakura blushed and stared over at him. "Syaoran-kun...HAI!" With that, she took the star staff from behind her back, and stared over at Kenshin, trying to look as tough as possible.
"You may attack when you wish, Miss Sakura." Kenshin told her, smiling.
"FIREY, BECOME THE FIRE THAT BURNS! FIREYYYY!!!" Sakura shouted, as Firey rose from her card and flew at Kenshin.
Easily, Kenshin rolled aside and avioded the first attack. Firey, noticing she had missed, became angry and flew down to try and burn Kenshin a second time. Kenshin ran from it, until he came to Sakura, and rolled behind her, without even attacking.
"And my strong, handsome, cute, hott babe, Kenshin, aviods Sakura's....erm....giant fire monster, by simply rolling away." Kaoru said into the mic. "Kenshin, why arent you attacking?"
"WATERY!" Sakura called, releasing the Watery this time.
It soaked the whole audience the second it rose from it's card.
"FEH!!!!!!" Inuyasha screamed.
"Calm down, it's only water, yeesh" Ranma said, pausing. "COLD WATER?! OH NO!" With that, he ran from the room, wishing to hide his secret.
"Ranma! Wait!!" Akane yelled, chasing after him.
Everyone stared at the running couple with confusion.
"Hoe?"
"Feh! DO MORE MAGIC TRICKS!"
"YEAH!" Kagome shouted.
Sakura put on her fake tough face again, and pulled out yet another card. "EARTHY!!" The most beautiful spirit flew from this card, and began destroying the floor of the basement in order to injure Kenshin.
The samurai flipped in all sorts of ways, avioding all of the attacks.
"KENSHIN! Whats wrong with you?!" Kaoru yelled. "We need to win that food, I'm starving, c'mon and attack!"
Everyone stared over at their announcer, who was becoming insane from a lack of food. "G-Gomen." Kaoru appologized, sweatdropping.
"I am sorry, Miss Kaoru," Kenshin said, landing on his feet as the Earthy Card went back in Sakura's pocket. "But I cannot hurt a child, espically a girl child."
The whole audience facefaulted, and Kaoru's mic fell from her hands.
"Oro?" Kenshin studdered, staring at everyone.
"YATTA! WE WON THE FOOD!" Sakura cheered, as Syaoran ran out and scooped her up, kissing her as he did.
"Young children kissing...what has our world come to?" Tira questioned.
"Hamha everyone!" Hamtaro shouted, appearing on the announcers mini stage.
"FEH, FOOD!" Inuyasha darted at Hamtaro, but was instantly stopped by another "OSUWARI!"
"Yikes....down puppy," Hamtaro teased. "Anyway, the reason I've appeared is because it's time to vote out our first loser!"
The room got quiet.
"I-I mean player, not loser...yes, right....anyway, everyone point at someone you hat- er, dislike, and the one with the most fingers pointed at him or her will be poofed from the mansion to never be heard from again! I mean...will go home...oh whatever, JUST POINT!"
Instantly, Kagome and Videl pointed at eachother, they had been in a mini fight ever since Inuyasha nearly killed Gohan in the semi finals.
Everyone else all pointed at Gohan.
"KILL THE PERV!" they yelled.
"Your wish is my command! Gohan, you have been voted out!"
"NOOOO!!!!!!!!" Videl screamed, grabbing hold of Gohan, who was crying.
"I cant leave Videl! I can't!" Gohan burst out.
"You can, and you will," Hamtaro said. "Watch!" With the raise of his paw, Gohan disappeared, and the audience (except for Videl) clapped. "Hee, thank you everyone!"
Videl fell to her knees, still crying. "I WILL SEAK MY REVENGE, I SWEAR IT!"
"Calm down, it's only a game show." Kagome said.
Videl pointed at Kagome, evil in her eyes. "You...this is your fault! All your fault!"
Inuyasha shot a glare at Videl. "NO ONE INSULTS KAGOME! FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEH!!!!!!!"
Inuyasha ran at Videl, opened his mouth, and swallowed her.
"H-Hoeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!"
"OHMIGOSH!!" Kaoru gasped.
"That just isn't right, that it is not...." Kenshin commented.
"Well, it seems you have one less couple to deal with! I hear tonights gonna be a rough one! The spirits in the graveyard are rising." Hamtaro said, randomly. "Sweet dreams!"
Authors note: HIII!! Colie-chan here! Thanks so much to everyone who commented on the first two chapters! I'm so happy people are reading! I promise this story will keep getting better, but please, believe that I love all these anime characters, and whoever is killed off, isn't hated, VIDEL KICKS BUTT! Hee, anyway, as Hamtaro said, the fourth chapter will get even better than the last ones! Ranma's dreaded secret will be revieled, and some spirits may rise from the dead, which won't please lil Sakura here ^-^' Keep reading! ARIGATOUGOZIMASU!!!!!!!!