Ranma & Kaneda
By Ron Dow75
16: Blood, Sweat, and Torn Clothes
[I've changed Ch. 15 to "Fight Karma with Karma". The
Kasumi storyline is gone.]
Ranma-chan had had enough jumping up and down. That was
how she'd put all the boards in the ceiling. Gently
cradling her tender boobs with an arm, she looked around
for the way out. That was when she realized that they'd
forgotten to put in a door, or even a doorframe. There
were the two long openings along two of the walls with
only the posts to show where the window frames could be.
That was the way out Akane had took when Ranma had
threatened her.
Ranma-chan groaned. It was only 2.5 meters/7.5 feet or so
off the grassy ground, but just the thought of jumping
DOWN even further than she had been doing with her sore
boobs was more than she could take. She was a martial
artist; pain wasn't the issue. It was WHAT would be
hurting again.
Ranma-chan saw that she had two planks with nails in them
left. All of that practice she'd gotten had allowed her
to find the best way to drive the nails in deeply into
the wood with her bare hands. "I'm gonna have to see if I
can get to the point where I can just throw them in."
Then she thought to herself, "Nah, I probably haven't
reached that level, YET." She emphasized that "yet",
because she was certain that one day she would reach
master level.
Ranma-chan said, "I'd get there a LOT sooner, once I
learn that kid Miss Hinako's chi techniques!" Only THAT
is what had kept her a girl. It had nothing to do with
Akane. Her head went back to the window, "SHE'S out there
now with that brat principal! She's trying to beat me to
the techniques!" Then she grumbled, "As if she really
could get better 'n me." But there was a tinge of doubt.
Ranma-chan went to the planks with nails. Using her
instep only, she flipped first one, then the other
towards the front of the completed interior. They fell
right where she wanted them to, across a section of
floorboards, over their joists.
Screaming her battle cry, "Hyaiii!" she jumped with and
on the scrap board. The planks and their nails were
tramped in place.
Replacing the arm that held her boobs in place with her
left, Ranma-chan kneeled on one of the planks. Taking aim
at the floorboards between the two planks, she commented,
"Every tree house needs a trapdoor."
A stronger battle cry, a couple of blows and the trapdoor
opening was almost complete. The floorboards between the
planks and juices broke straight and evenly because of
Ranma's skill at karate.
Shifting the weight of her hooters around under her arm,
she told herself, "Just one more blow, and I can use a
long plank to jog--"
One of Kane-chan's triggered traps was set off: Ranma
yelled as she was catapulted out the window she HADN'T
wanted to leave by!
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Ranma's had a huge well of natural chi. She just hadn't
learned how to release it properly, yet, for much of
anything but mid-air maneuvers. These air-shaping powers
she used to avoid breaking through the ceiling she'd just
put up, and, then, aim herself.
Ranma landed on Kane-chan.
Kane-chan had been using a brace-and-bit drill to bore a
hole into a tree for Miss Hinako.
Now Kane-chan was squashed boobs-down on the ground with
Ranma-chan on top of her.
And though Ranma had done that much, all she could bring
herself to do was clench her fists and threaten the girl,
"I know you it was your fault!!"
The tall and beautiful Miss Hinako told Ranma-chan, "Miss
Ranma! Workplace accidents DO happen! Get off of Miss
Akane before I put you in detention!" She used their
first names because both of them said their last name was
Saotome.
"Miss" Ranma looked up at the grownup brat. There was
still a look of defiance on her cute face. Detention was
no threat to HER. She'd had that or worse in just about
every school she'd been in. That is where they tried to
cage the outsider.
But in all of the travels she and Pop had endured the
last ten years, of all the masters they'd petitioned to
teach them their secrets, this appeared to be the closest
she had yet come to learning true chi techniques. But HOW
important was becoming a true martial artist master
compared to her pride as a man!?! Her current craving to
be a man!
Ranma-chan rose quickly in one motion. Hands together,
she bowed deeply and smiled sweetly, "I am sorry, Miss
Hinako! I'll try not to let my naughty temper get the
better of me again." Man!! She even gave herself a
girlish voice.
Miss Hinako was aware of Ranma's male-like aura of
stubbornness and violence. But the longest journey began
with one step. Hinako HAD dedicated her life to working
with delinquents in need of reform. "Alright, Miss Ranma,
now apologize to Miss Akane, and help her to her feet."
"Miss" Akane was already helping herself to her own feet,
"That's okay, Miss Hinako, I can do it myself!"
Little Miss Ranma said syrupy, "Nonsense, Miss Akane! I,
because of an 'accident' (which I KNOW you're responsible
for), knocked you down; it is only RIGHT I help you up!"
She demonstrated just how strong she was by lifting her
up, squeezing Kane-chan's bare biceps just a might too
hard.
When Kane-chan's feet touched the ground, she said,
"Thank you! NOW can I get back to doing what Miss Hinako
asked me to do?!"
Right now, to Miss Ranma the name Miss Hinako was like
"Master" to a genie. Ranma looked at the drill dropped to
the ground. She said, "Oo, that will take too long! We
need a faster way to...uh, do whatever our Miss Hinako
WANTS us to do!" Ranma-chan tried to remind herself of
all of humiliations she and other pupils over the ages
had had to endure to learn from their masters. This was
just another form of hazing. Anything can be martial
arts training...' just gotta keep remindin' yourself
that.
Picking up the drill, Kane-chan the accomplished
carpenter asked indignantly. She motioned to those chalk
X's Miss Hinako had gotten around to using her power to
position for best affect. "Do YOU have a martial arts
solution? She wants holes through ALL of these trees
around her office."
Ranma-chan said, "Is THAT all! Sure I, uh.... Well, not
yet." She looked around for one, "But it HAS to involve
something long enough to through a tree."
Kane-chan told her, "All we have like that are these
pipes for scaffolding."
Ranma-chan asked her, "What are you doing with METAL
scaffolding? Isn't most of that in Japan done with
bamboo?!"
Kane-chan said, "And if we did use bamboo, your dad might
just eat it all!"
Ranma-chan was about to say something, but didn't. It was
ridiculous, but it was also possible with the panda's
appetite.
Kane-chan told her the truth, "My supplier let me try it
because he didn't get enough orders for the pipe."
Ranma-chan picked one of the pipes up, studying it; "Now
we just need to put enough force behind it to ram it
through the tree."
Miss Hinako said, "*I* can supply that."
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Kane-chan finished speed filing the end of one of the
pipes. "Here, Ranma, I admit you're the better martial
artist," she said, handing it to her.
Miss Hinako said Miss Ranma, "No, a little more to the
right. I want this first hole aligned with that playing
field. Sports activities bring out people's natural
battle lusts and auras, wouldn't you say?"
Ranma-chan put the sharpened end of the pipe up against
the trunk where she'd been directed to, above her own
heart level. "Yes; of course, I've never been a team
player."
Miss Hinako said, "Oh, really?! How sad." Sounding more
like her little girl self, she sounded sympathetic. The
adult returned to direct, "Press that board up against
the other end and hold it in place. Use both hands. No,
stand directly in front of it."
Ranma-chan leaned against the board, "Okay. Now what?"
The adult Miss Hinako made a circle with her fingers,
"Happo Change Returned!"
Her narrowed, concentrated blast of chi energy struck
Ranma's core, redhead's trunk, limbs and head. It excited
Ranma's own chi and exploded it away from the more potent
source, Miss Hinako.
Ranma's chi was powerful: She was propelled violently
forward. Only her skill and strength kept Ranma-chan's
arms from bending.
She didn't slam to a stop until the other end of the pipe
had been driven out the other side of the tree.
Ranma-chan crumpled to the ground, the two parts of the
split board still in her hands above her breasts.
Kane-chan yelled at the now horrid and reckless kid,
Hinako, "Why did you do that for!!?! She might be hurt!"
running to check on Ranma-chan.
Little Miss Hinako grew up quickly. She siphoned the
energy of the people on the playing field through the
pipe through the tree. "My attacks only hurt those who
are truly destructive."
Kane-chan kneeled beside Ranma-chan, checking her neck's
pulse and her forehead temperature, "You don't think
being blown up against something's is going to HURT
something!!? What if the pipe had broken through the
board!!"
Miss Hinako said confidently, "Miss Ranma has a very
strong spirit. She would survive a simple accident like
that."
Ranma-chan had finally recovered enough to try to get up
with her fists, "Y, you couldn't have, have done it a,
another way!?"
Miss Hinako said, "The only time my techniques work on
non-living things is when I get very upset."
Ranma-chan got to her feet; her blood was returning to
her body, especially her eyes, "You brat!! You DID do
that on, on purpose!!"
Kane-chan gripped at the back of her shirt, "Ranma,
you're here to LEARN from Miss Hinako! You DON'T want to
get her "very upset"!"
Miss Hinako said in a tone that was both a pledge and a
threat, "I do my best to keep from getting upset. It's
not a very pretty sight when I am."
Ranma-chan cried, "And NEITHER am I!!!" Her battle energy
was rapidly building back up.
Miss Hinako held up a coin, "Happo 50-yen--" She suddenly
stopped her attack. "That's right. I have absorbed a lot
of energy already."
Ranma-chan gloated, "Ha! A weakness in your technique!
And what happens if you DO get too much aura like
that!?!"
Kane-chan suggested, "She overloads and blows the excess
back at you?" She reminded her, "--Like what happened in
Assembly Hall this morning!?" Miss Hinako had taken in
not battle aura but weaker battle lust--but it had been
of hundreds!
Ranma-chan told them, "I'm about ready to blow myself!!"
Kane-chan got in front of Ranma-chan, and put her hands
on the pigtailed girl's shoulders. But she looked over
her own shoulder at Miss Hinako, "Perhaps you'd better
hire professions to finish up for you, Miss Hinako."
Miss Hinako nodded, "Yes. That WAS what I had originally
intended to do. Men would do a better job."
Ranma-chan screamed, "Oh!!? How many men can take the
abuse you've given ME!!?!!"
Kane-chan leaped up into Ranma-chan's arms. She got her
strongest "Clinging-to-a-Statue" hold. She told her,
"You're going to have to tear me apart before I'll let
you harm our, MASTER!"
Ranma-chan growled, loudly. "MASTER! Yeah, right! How
stupid!" to have a master like THIS brat! But Akane was
right. What had happened was nothing compared to some of
the things his sensei Pop had done to her. And Hinako's
techniques WERE just too tempting to louse up the chance
to have them for her own.
Like having a wad of food stuck in her throat, Ranma-chan
swallowed her pride. For another time!
Miss Hinako told them, "I give you permission to go to
the clean up thoroughly. You girls are perspiring too much
for ladies."
Ranma-chan cried, "Hey!! What about your promise to tell
us your secret!?!!"
The very poised woman told them, "I will keep my promise.
I will tell you EXACTLY how to gain my techniques. But I
will only reveal my most important secrets to GOOD
girls." She looked at Ranma levelly and seriously, "The
first lesson IS called "Good Girl Exercise Step One"."
Ranma's growl could be seen but not heard. Here was
another temporary defeat for his male self.
Acting Principal Ninomiya said, "I have things to do,
now. Miss Akane, you will see that Miss Ranma is properly
washed and presentable for her next class?"
Kane-chan wasn't comfortable with the idea of being alone
with Ranma at the moment. "Uh, Akane Saotome doesn't GO
to this school! She's--I'm not registered!"
The woman pulled a pass out of one the pockets hidden in
her now very short, yellow dress. "Here. This will give
you permission to use the school's facilities."
She then challenged Miss Ranma with a stare, "I shall ask
your teachers if Miss Ranma had ALSO freshened herself
up. Tomorrow we shall talk about her wearing the school
uniform." She then turned to go on her business, "I have
started a ledger book on your merits and demerits, Miss
Saotome." There was no doubt which Miss Saotome she
meant.
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Ranma-chan stormed toward the long, concrete sink with
several taps out near the gym building, "How can I
"freshen up" when there's only sinks!!?!" He had heard
that unlike Japanese schools Western schools had gym
showers.
Keeping a wary eye on her, Kane-chan trotted after Ranma-
chan, "Go ahead; don't take a clean up. This IS Japan. We
don't care if a girl wears the same clothes after taking
a bath. Hey, she can even wear those clothes days in a
row. We don't care that much what a girl smells like.
It's just MISS Hinako that seems to care." Will this
work? It IS weak reverse psychology. "Maybe she'll
settle for you wearing perfume."
Ranma-chan told her, "Me!!?"
Kane-chan said, "How hot do you think the water IS? One
splash and I'm a guy again." And thanks to Kasumi, I'll
be wearing out of this dress just as fast. "It's like
I've been saying to you, because it's harder to become a
guy, stay a girl."
Ranma-chan turned on one of the taps, "No! I'm stayin' a
guy, no matter how hard the curse makes it--And I AIN'T
wearin' anything but Chinese clothes!!"
Kane-chan smiled, "Then I'LL get Miss Hinako's
techniques. I can wear either uniform." Though I LIKE
getting out of the girls' as soon as I can.
Ranma-chan she put her wet hand in the armhole of her
sleeveless shirt, "I'll show her I AM a guy!" The other
hand went under the shirt's bottom.
Kane-chan watched her trying to clean her boobs and torso
without soap, "Miss Hinako already thinks you're a GIRL
that needs to be reformed. If you want to learn her "Good
Girl Exercises", she's going to want to see you being
one."
Again the definitions that defined Ranma clashed: Martial
artist vs. man!
Suddenly Ranma-chan remembered, "Our class is scheduled
to have P.E. next period!! --Ow!" One hand had been on a
still tender boob when it spasmed.
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Kane-chan followed Ranma-chan as she headed for the main
building, "Are you going to skip, like you did all but
one day last week?" Though I guess you didn't go to the
last class of Friday.
Ranma-chan told her, "No!! And I ain't gonna wear
burumas, either! I'm gonna wear my OWN, GUY gym clothes!"
At least the P.E. teacher'd like that better than her
showing up in his street clothes.
Kane-chan said, "So, you think as long as your only
demerits are for wearing guys' clothes, Miss Hinako won't
force you to become a girl too fast?"
Ranma-chan told her, "Something like that. Thanks."
Because she hadn't gotten that far in planning her excuse
for showing up, again, out of yet another uniform. HER
plan had been to just show up and deal with what happens
after that.
Kane-chan told her, "Only one problem with that idea.
With all that's happened you haven't gotten any gym
clothes yet."
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Kane-chan stopped when Ranma-chan went pass girls' locker
room and for the guys'. "Ranma, you're not going to STEAL
a uniform!"
Ranma-chan went in, "I'm borrowing it! It's not stealing,
if they're not using it."
Ranma-chan really didn't expect any guys in the locker
room. It did look empty. The clock inside told her what
she already had judged by the sun: The fifth period gym
class wouldn't be back for a while.
She went down the locker doors. The third one was the
charm. And it did have guys' sweats! She looked at the
body covering short-sleeved shirt and long pants. "That's
more like it."
She didn't dawdle, but then neither did she hurry
shucking her sweaty clothes. While she was unfastening
her red silk shirt with one hand, she was untying the
white ribbon that held up her black silk pants. "I don't
mind showin' the body, but why do it if you're not
showin' off?" She was shrugging out of her shirt while
she pulled down both her pants and boxers. "And why would
I want to show off the body I'm not proud of?" Bringing
in each arm through its hole while the other held the
shirt, she bent over to take off the red elastic hair
bands that held her baggy pants legs around her ankles.
Suddenly her danger sense kicked in! Ranma-chan half-spun
as she leaped back to put herself in the defend/attack
position. But her right foot was briefly caught until the
elastic band snapped free, releasing the foot. Meanwhile,
her surefootedness was broken by the brief, UNWELCOME
thought that she was, maybe, seen as a naked girl in a
guys' locker room.
Ranma-chan stumbled, and fell against the lockers. She
landed on her padded butt, her raised knees falling
apart. Still, her hands were out to strike whoever was--
Blood was sprayed over her naked boobs.
Ranma-chan was about to accuse, "Kane--" Then she saw the
very pale, half-skeleton of a guy standing in a locker.
He'd been frozen by the sight of a girl in the locker
room, and THEN the girl undressing before his nose blew.
(Blood was dripping heavily from his nose.)
Hiraku Gosunkugi stared at the naked girl staring at him.
Suddenly he became frightened. "I'm sorry!!" he yelped as
he slammed the locker door shut.
Ranma-chan sat up, wondering, "I was afraid of that??"
She reflexively wiped at the blood. "Why would I be
warned about HIM!?" Her hand and soft and jiggling boobs
reminded her that she didn't have her normal muscular
chest. "Disgusting!" she said taking her hand away the
curses.
Gosunkugi cried, "I'm sorry!!" from inside his locker.
Ranma-chan saw her hand was smeared with, "Blood. THAT'S
what my senses were noticin'."
Suddenly, those same senses warned of an attack from
another direction.
Blood again!
Ranma-chan cried, "KANEDA!"
Kaneda was dripping blood over HIS boys' uniform, now. "I
THOUGHT I was prepared to see you, uh, like this."
The cute redhead looked down at her red spotted and
smeared mounds. "In all my battles up till now, I don't
think I've ever seen this much blood."
(Gosunkugi cried, "I'm sorry!")
Kaneda looking away for something for his nose, said,
"This blood's nothing." Don't tell her that! I don't
think Ranma's ready to hear about periods. Better leave
that to a real girl like Kasumi.
Ranma-chan got up, grumbling, "I never got this kinda
Bloody attention before." She picked her things with her.
Finding a small towel for his nose, Kaneda struggled to
think of anything that would appeal to Ranma about being
a girl (and coming right after thinking about
menstruation, that was hard), "Think of it as uh, a
TECHNIQUE! The "Saotome Vampire Energy Drain"!" Man! You
couldn't come up with a BETTER name!?
Ranma-chan was even less impressed, "Problem is it'd only
work on virgin wimps!" And she kicked a deep dent in
Gosunkugi's door.
Gosunkugi screamed, "I'm sorry!!!"
Ranma-chan put her frowning eyes up to the vent slots and
banged her fist against the door, "Tell me why you're
here!"
Inside, Gosunkugi closed his eyes, "My club had to find
another place: You and those other women had taken over
where my club meets!! You were all too intimidating!" He
shuddered, "Especially that tall, adult woman."
Ranma-chan was suspicious, "Yeah? What kinda club meets
out among a buncha trees?"
Gosunkugi told the girl, "It's, it's the Voodoo Club! We
make straw dolls, and then hammer spikes through
them...into tress."
It took a moment for Ranma-chan to say, "Unh, hunh. You
play with dolls. Just what I need to be seen doing in
this body." And she left for the door, putting on only
her outer red shirt. She carried her other clothes over
her arm.
Gosunkugi added, "We also do OTHER black magic!!"
Kaneda hurried to follow after the pistoning buttocks of
Ranma--When HE was sprayed by blood coming out of the
locker's vent.
Kaneda banged another dent into the door: "Hey! No
peeking! That's MY girl!" And he stuffed the towel into
the vent holes.
The bare naked Ranma-chan told him, "I'm not your girl!"
Kaneda was hit and buried under a barrage of balls of all
kinds.
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For the short trip to the guys' room, Ranma hadn't
bothered to put on her pants. The shirt was long enough
to cover anything that was supposed to be covered.
Stepping up to the long, enamel sink in the guys' room,
she looked at the blood spatters that got on her clothes,
"Just great. Other than my kempo-gi, these clothes are
about ALL I have! This means I have to use COLD water to
get the blood out before it sets. I hate cold water!" The
confident martial artist stubbornly persisted in acting
as if she were still a guy, right to the point of taking
off her shirt again. Only then did she think to put on
the pants again, if only so she wouldn't have to look at
what was missing.
Suddenly, the mummy Tatewaki Kuno burst into the rest
room: "My lackey was correct: It IS the Pigtailed Ranma
in all of her glory!!"
A small ninja type peeked out from behind his master.
"Oh, my! I really hadn't expected her to be THIS brazen."
Ranma-chan looked at the tall, bandaged and idiot in the
kendo-gi in surprise. "Oh, this is wonderful: My senses
must not take this guy seriously enough to warn me! But
that geeky wimp, it does."
Kuno heard what he wanted to hear, "My Juliet said the
sight of her Romeo is wonderful! I COME to thee, My Sun
Goddess!!" He had come with his sword to defend her honor
inside the boys' locker, and then the lav.
Ranma-chan tossed the wet clothes in the sink, and
stepped over to where the creep could get a clearer
charge at her: "Come on!! I took you down the last time!"
Kuno chortled, "Such double entendre!"
Sasuke Sarugakure cried to his master, "Watch out--"
before he was trampled.
Kaneda screamed, "Keep your manicured hands off Ranma!!"
The sight of Ranma he had seen at the doorway was a
small, naked, soft and cute redhead with great chichis:
He lost it! He completely forgot his martial arts
training as he leaped on the samurai boy, and started
wailing.
The force of the rear assault was to cause Kuno to
stumble forward.
Ranma yelled at Kaneda, "This is MY fight!! Stay! Out!
Of! It!" She hoisted herself up by the rim of the sink,
and lifted her legs to kick them both away.
And she didn't think to keep those legs together.
His nose spewing blood again, Kaneda cried, "Don't
look!!" covering Kuno's eyes.
Kuno cried, "Oh, the inhumanity of my fellow--"
Sasuke said, "I'll aid you, my--" But he dove onto the
floor just in time. The wild haired redhaired guy and
Master Kuno flew over his short, prostrate body.
Kaneda got his legs up in time to meet the wall opposite
the sink. He used his new "Tendou Lower Body Whip-Crack"
technique to kick him and Kuno away from the wall.
It WAS still new and unpracticed. The off-center thrust
sent them stumbling.
Ranma-chan got an idea. She turned on the hot water, and
directed the spray with her hand.
The nude Ranma-chan raised a foot to send the two other
guys over onto the floor.
Akane found herself under the weight of Kuno!
(Sasuke lifted his hands to peek out, "Where did that
other lady come from? The Master has clear field with TWO
girls in the men's facilities?")
Kuno lifted himself onto his knees, and searching for his
fallen bokken. "I shall smite you for keeping me from
seeing My Sun!!" It took him a moment to realize that he
wasn't straddling any male.
In that moment Akane's blouse and jumper were getting
soaked with hot water. The dress's bib did interfere with
the wet-shirt effect. But Kuno did see the straps and
part of her bra's polka dot cups.
The disheveled Akane told him, "Get away from me, jerk!!"
lashing up at him.
Kuno grabbed her wrist, and yanked her up to him. "My
Wild Haired Huntress!!" His other arm hugged her tightly
to him, "You have captured my heart!"
Ranma-chan snickered as she leaned her bare ass against
the sink, "That's right, Kuno, she's ALL yours to try and
date."
Akane yelled, "I'll do more to your heart than hold it,
if you don't let GO of me!!!" She still had ONE arm half
untrapped under the heavier samurai's left arm. Waving it
about it up and down, she loosened it from Kuno's grip
enough to try a Tendou Upper Body Technique on parts of
his face, when--
Kuno pushed her away, sobbing. "Oh, cruel, cruel accident
along the True Path of Love! Oh, that I be shielded from
the warm and heated embrace of My Flame by this armor
against amour!" In frustration, he tore off the knot that
held his bandage in place. "Do not heave a chaste sigh
over a maiden's opportunity lost, we shall soon both be
free of what separates us!!" As the bandage unwound, Kuno
was shrugging out of his gi coat.
Ranma-chan asked Akane, "I know why I let him yammer on.
Why did you?"
POW! Akane's blow was so powerful it sent Kuno sideways
to land in a sprawl on the floor on the other side or
Ranma-chan.
(Sasuke cried, "Master!!" going to him.)
Dripping wet, Akane got up on a foot and a knee, "I was
surprised, OKAY!!?! Kuno let go of me and started orating
again! Who listens to what HE says!!"
Ranma-chan smiled, "Is that all? Maybe your girl feelings
were comin' out." She was STILL directing the hot water
at Akane.
Akane approached her, "You want GIRL feelings!?"
Too late, Ranma-chan saw what the black haired girl was
reaching for. She scorned, "You're threatening me with my
own clothes?"
Kaneda used his Whip-Crack to send Ranma's red, Chinese
shirt to slap Kuno in the face.
(Sasuke was surprised, not wanting to dwell on forbidden
fruit, he had been keeping his attention on his master.)
Kuno came to, "What's this!?! An article of clothing of
My Beloved!!" His heart swelled, "This token of her
affection tells more than her moist lips can!"
The nubile girl said, "You want to play THAT game, do
you!!?" turning on the hot water of ALL the taps.
Kaneda grabbed Ranma's cold wet clothes to as a shield to
neutralize the hot being sprayed and splashed at him.
Ranma-chan decided to use the clothes to PULL the Kaneda
in.
Kuno cried, "Unmitigated reprobate!! Stealing a lady's
clothes!" He was charging before he was fully on his
feet, "Give ME My Lady's vestments!"
But, 'somehow', the au naturel Ranma-chan just happened
to be on his way.
Her danger sense warning her this time, all Kuno touched
was a well-turned ankle against shin, and strong fingers
that directed him INTO the sink:
Slash!
(Sasuke cried, "Master!!" Again he missed the change.)
Ranma-chan yanked her pants away from Akane.
Akane grabbed at them...Just as Kuno blindly struggled to
get out of the sink.
Ranma-chan cried, "Hey!! Watch the boobs --and butt!!"
A guy cried, " "Boobs"!??"/ Another said, "Butt??"
Both Ranma-chan and Kane-chan's heads snapped on their
graceful necks to the guys' room door: Guys with and
without sweaty shirts were standing just inside, in and
outside the doorway.
The stillness was broken when one guy confirmed, "There
are girls in the guys' room!"
Ranma-chan and Kane-chan defensively backed up, looking
for more room to maneuver.
Then the flood: "And one of 'em is buck, spanking
naked!"/ "NAKED!?!!"/ "Big, chichi, cute naked!"/
"And the other one looks like she was about to join the
redhead!!"/ "And she's cute, too!"
Then: Let's join THEM!!" It had started out as a simple
call for a little "guys' fun".
But as the guys rushed for the girls, things quickly
escalated. They ended up pulling and pushing, tripping,
leapfrogging, trampling, and ankle-biting each other.
And that was the just the preliminaries. The main event
where the fifth period gym and club guys tried to
volunteer for nude martial arts lessons was much more
violent and noisy. "I recognize the pigtailed girl!"/
"That's Kaneda's girl!"/ "The guy who always beats
us!?!"/ "And he's going to beat us again for this!!"/
"If we're going to get beat up anyway--"/ "Yes!! Let's
make it worth while!"/ "Go for it!!" This day they
earned the name "Hentai Horde". The story would grow, and
become the stuff of legends.
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Kane-chan, her limp, wet uniform practically shredded was
the first to escape. Taking up the taller girl's rear
view, the still starkers and mauled Ranma-chan was the
next to battle her way out into the hall.
Kane-chan told Ranma-chan, "I THINK we need to practice
more as girls!! We should have been able to beat these
guys easily!!"
Not all of their assailants recognized their defeat. The
two girls were followed by bloody nosed guys who also had
on tattered clothes. They were spurred on with, "For our
honor as men!" His idea of how to treat girls obviously
came from hentai mangas.
Ranma-chan told Kane-chan, "Now's the time to fight
again: We're out where we have maneuvering room!"
Kane-chan took Ranma-chan by the wrist, "No! I've got a
better idea!" Thinking the stupid girl might have an idea
Ranma-chan let herself be led. Akane, after all, knew the
where everything was at this school better than Ranma
did.
MUCH better: Too late, Ranma-chan saw that she'd been
pulled to, "The girls' lockers!! Oh, no!! I'd rather face
the--" Kane-chan got her in with quick jujitsu.
The half-dressed and girls in just panties inside cried,
yelled, and screamed when they saw the condition of the
girls who'd made the surprising entrance.
Kane-chan yelled, "We were attacked by guys!!"
Ranma-chan got her hand out of Kane-chan's grip. She
looked coolly at her, "You really aren't a man, are you."
But Kane-chan HAD gotten her in the girls' locker where
she'd wanted her in the first place.
The girls cried, "Guys!!?"/ "Guys!!"/ "Just like
guys!"/ " 'Bet my brother was among them."/ "You poor
girls!"/ "POOR!?! How would YOU like have your clothes
ripped from your body by a mob of hormone crazed
boys!!?!"/ "You don't have to be so GRAPHIC about it,
Bianka."/ "Stop talking!! Get these victims some
clothes!"/ "Right! Clothes!"
While others of the female horde approached them, Ranma-
chan started backing up. She would RATHER face the lust-
crazed guys than this smothering opposite of all that was
hentai.
"Somebody go get a teacher or somebody!"/ "I'M not
going out there where those creeps are waiting!/ "Take
a team with you!"/ "Only if I'M on the inside."/ "If
we can get word to the principal--"/ "THAT kid!??!"/
"At LEAST she's a girl!"/ "A little girl!"/ "What can
a kid do!!"
That did it! Ranma-chan turned for the door out.
Kane-chan crashed through it first, screaming in panic:
"I tried! I can't do it!! I have to get out!!!"
Ranma-chan stood there wondering what had caused that! It
was as if Kane-chan had a...phobia?
First one hand, then another was pull toward a different
girl; while other girls swarmed around Ranma-chan. She
realized just how short she was with bra-clad and unclad
boobs sticking out near her face. Hips almost touched her
lower abdomen, and her butt grazed against thighs as she
flinched this way and that.
And all the while, girls talked to her: "How did it
happen?"/ "Was it Tendou's fault!!?!"/ "That's right:
You're that girl! His fiancée!"/ "This is Ranma?!"/
"How many OTHER girls around here have hair that color!"/
"Is it dyed?" a very badly done blonde asked, physically
checking Ranma-chan's roots.
Ranma-chan said, "What is WITH every girl havin' to know
if it's DYED!!?!" She wanted to take the girl's hand out
of her hair. Only with all the girl flesh so close at
hand, it was hard to make any movement without touching
humid skin.
"Here! She can use this school jacket I forgot to take
home! Hope you don't mind it being in my locker for a few
weeks."/ "Mi-gan! You DID take my slip last week!"/
"Oh, OKAY! Hmph! I was planning to go home early anyway.
Ranma can have my dress. (And blouse, too, I guess.)"/
"Nice try, Omi, but everybody can see you're a B bust!"/
"Wow!" another girl said, staring, "Ranma's D's ARE
real!"
Ranma-chan hugged her D's: "Don't touch!!"
"Ooo, sensitive!"
Ranma-chan told her, "Very!!" Her arms over her chests,
she made to bull her way through the females that see she
was serious and move aside.
Instead, they placed their hands on her bare shoulders
and hips, turning her around: "Before you get dressed, go
to the girls' room."/ "Clean those wounds."/ "It'll
make you feel less dirty."/ "It'll help you relax."/
"We don't have a shower, but maybe some hot water--"
Ranma-chan's bare back bumped up against girl parts, "No
hot water!!" She was ready to push against, and grab soft
skin to keep THAT from happening!
One girl put her arms around Ranma and hugged, "It's
okay, girl! We understand."
Another asked, "We do?"
The girl that had tried to touch Ranma-chan's size D's,
now put her hand on the small of the redhead's back,
"Miyo, Ranma's SENSITIVE! Hot water causes her skin to
get splotchy or something."
Miyo asked, "It does?"
Ranma-chan told them, "Put me under hot water, and it
won't be a pretty sight. I won't be pretty at all."
Miyo said, "Aw, how sad." Others showed their sympathy.
Ranma-chan was asked, "Do you want us you to escort you
anywhere?"
Short Ranma-chan told the sea of girls she was drowning
in, "No! I just want to get out of here!"
The girl who was hugging, took an arm away to motion,
"Where the clothes for Ranma?!"
The door suddenly opened, and sopping wet clothes were
tossed in.
The clammy damp made the pair of girls they hit scream and
get out of any more attacks. Ranma-chan saw the way out
of this nightmare clear.
But, then, she saw that the clothes that had been tossed
in were her own clothes. Or what was LEFT of her red and
black, silk shirt and pants, cotton undershirt and
boxers. The same thing that had happened to Kane-chan's
uniform had happened to Ranma's Chinese clothes.
Ranma-chan fell to her knees not caring WHAT she bumped,
as she screamed, "NO!!! I need Chinese clothes!! I'd
rather die than go without them!!"
The End of this chapter
[For those who don't think Ranma would allow himself to
be a girl for even a powerful technique, just remember
"Martial Arts Dining" and "Martial Arts Tea Ceremony".]
By Ron Dow75
16: Blood, Sweat, and Torn Clothes
[I've changed Ch. 15 to "Fight Karma with Karma". The
Kasumi storyline is gone.]
Ranma-chan had had enough jumping up and down. That was
how she'd put all the boards in the ceiling. Gently
cradling her tender boobs with an arm, she looked around
for the way out. That was when she realized that they'd
forgotten to put in a door, or even a doorframe. There
were the two long openings along two of the walls with
only the posts to show where the window frames could be.
That was the way out Akane had took when Ranma had
threatened her.
Ranma-chan groaned. It was only 2.5 meters/7.5 feet or so
off the grassy ground, but just the thought of jumping
DOWN even further than she had been doing with her sore
boobs was more than she could take. She was a martial
artist; pain wasn't the issue. It was WHAT would be
hurting again.
Ranma-chan saw that she had two planks with nails in them
left. All of that practice she'd gotten had allowed her
to find the best way to drive the nails in deeply into
the wood with her bare hands. "I'm gonna have to see if I
can get to the point where I can just throw them in."
Then she thought to herself, "Nah, I probably haven't
reached that level, YET." She emphasized that "yet",
because she was certain that one day she would reach
master level.
Ranma-chan said, "I'd get there a LOT sooner, once I
learn that kid Miss Hinako's chi techniques!" Only THAT
is what had kept her a girl. It had nothing to do with
Akane. Her head went back to the window, "SHE'S out there
now with that brat principal! She's trying to beat me to
the techniques!" Then she grumbled, "As if she really
could get better 'n me." But there was a tinge of doubt.
Ranma-chan went to the planks with nails. Using her
instep only, she flipped first one, then the other
towards the front of the completed interior. They fell
right where she wanted them to, across a section of
floorboards, over their joists.
Screaming her battle cry, "Hyaiii!" she jumped with and
on the scrap board. The planks and their nails were
tramped in place.
Replacing the arm that held her boobs in place with her
left, Ranma-chan kneeled on one of the planks. Taking aim
at the floorboards between the two planks, she commented,
"Every tree house needs a trapdoor."
A stronger battle cry, a couple of blows and the trapdoor
opening was almost complete. The floorboards between the
planks and juices broke straight and evenly because of
Ranma's skill at karate.
Shifting the weight of her hooters around under her arm,
she told herself, "Just one more blow, and I can use a
long plank to jog--"
One of Kane-chan's triggered traps was set off: Ranma
yelled as she was catapulted out the window she HADN'T
wanted to leave by!
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Ranma's had a huge well of natural chi. She just hadn't
learned how to release it properly, yet, for much of
anything but mid-air maneuvers. These air-shaping powers
she used to avoid breaking through the ceiling she'd just
put up, and, then, aim herself.
Ranma landed on Kane-chan.
Kane-chan had been using a brace-and-bit drill to bore a
hole into a tree for Miss Hinako.
Now Kane-chan was squashed boobs-down on the ground with
Ranma-chan on top of her.
And though Ranma had done that much, all she could bring
herself to do was clench her fists and threaten the girl,
"I know you it was your fault!!"
The tall and beautiful Miss Hinako told Ranma-chan, "Miss
Ranma! Workplace accidents DO happen! Get off of Miss
Akane before I put you in detention!" She used their
first names because both of them said their last name was
Saotome.
"Miss" Ranma looked up at the grownup brat. There was
still a look of defiance on her cute face. Detention was
no threat to HER. She'd had that or worse in just about
every school she'd been in. That is where they tried to
cage the outsider.
But in all of the travels she and Pop had endured the
last ten years, of all the masters they'd petitioned to
teach them their secrets, this appeared to be the closest
she had yet come to learning true chi techniques. But HOW
important was becoming a true martial artist master
compared to her pride as a man!?! Her current craving to
be a man!
Ranma-chan rose quickly in one motion. Hands together,
she bowed deeply and smiled sweetly, "I am sorry, Miss
Hinako! I'll try not to let my naughty temper get the
better of me again." Man!! She even gave herself a
girlish voice.
Miss Hinako was aware of Ranma's male-like aura of
stubbornness and violence. But the longest journey began
with one step. Hinako HAD dedicated her life to working
with delinquents in need of reform. "Alright, Miss Ranma,
now apologize to Miss Akane, and help her to her feet."
"Miss" Akane was already helping herself to her own feet,
"That's okay, Miss Hinako, I can do it myself!"
Little Miss Ranma said syrupy, "Nonsense, Miss Akane! I,
because of an 'accident' (which I KNOW you're responsible
for), knocked you down; it is only RIGHT I help you up!"
She demonstrated just how strong she was by lifting her
up, squeezing Kane-chan's bare biceps just a might too
hard.
When Kane-chan's feet touched the ground, she said,
"Thank you! NOW can I get back to doing what Miss Hinako
asked me to do?!"
Right now, to Miss Ranma the name Miss Hinako was like
"Master" to a genie. Ranma looked at the drill dropped to
the ground. She said, "Oo, that will take too long! We
need a faster way to...uh, do whatever our Miss Hinako
WANTS us to do!" Ranma-chan tried to remind herself of
all of humiliations she and other pupils over the ages
had had to endure to learn from their masters. This was
just another form of hazing. Anything can be martial
arts training...' just gotta keep remindin' yourself
that.
Picking up the drill, Kane-chan the accomplished
carpenter asked indignantly. She motioned to those chalk
X's Miss Hinako had gotten around to using her power to
position for best affect. "Do YOU have a martial arts
solution? She wants holes through ALL of these trees
around her office."
Ranma-chan said, "Is THAT all! Sure I, uh.... Well, not
yet." She looked around for one, "But it HAS to involve
something long enough to through a tree."
Kane-chan told her, "All we have like that are these
pipes for scaffolding."
Ranma-chan asked her, "What are you doing with METAL
scaffolding? Isn't most of that in Japan done with
bamboo?!"
Kane-chan said, "And if we did use bamboo, your dad might
just eat it all!"
Ranma-chan was about to say something, but didn't. It was
ridiculous, but it was also possible with the panda's
appetite.
Kane-chan told her the truth, "My supplier let me try it
because he didn't get enough orders for the pipe."
Ranma-chan picked one of the pipes up, studying it; "Now
we just need to put enough force behind it to ram it
through the tree."
Miss Hinako said, "*I* can supply that."
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Kane-chan finished speed filing the end of one of the
pipes. "Here, Ranma, I admit you're the better martial
artist," she said, handing it to her.
Miss Hinako said Miss Ranma, "No, a little more to the
right. I want this first hole aligned with that playing
field. Sports activities bring out people's natural
battle lusts and auras, wouldn't you say?"
Ranma-chan put the sharpened end of the pipe up against
the trunk where she'd been directed to, above her own
heart level. "Yes; of course, I've never been a team
player."
Miss Hinako said, "Oh, really?! How sad." Sounding more
like her little girl self, she sounded sympathetic. The
adult returned to direct, "Press that board up against
the other end and hold it in place. Use both hands. No,
stand directly in front of it."
Ranma-chan leaned against the board, "Okay. Now what?"
The adult Miss Hinako made a circle with her fingers,
"Happo Change Returned!"
Her narrowed, concentrated blast of chi energy struck
Ranma's core, redhead's trunk, limbs and head. It excited
Ranma's own chi and exploded it away from the more potent
source, Miss Hinako.
Ranma's chi was powerful: She was propelled violently
forward. Only her skill and strength kept Ranma-chan's
arms from bending.
She didn't slam to a stop until the other end of the pipe
had been driven out the other side of the tree.
Ranma-chan crumpled to the ground, the two parts of the
split board still in her hands above her breasts.
Kane-chan yelled at the now horrid and reckless kid,
Hinako, "Why did you do that for!!?! She might be hurt!"
running to check on Ranma-chan.
Little Miss Hinako grew up quickly. She siphoned the
energy of the people on the playing field through the
pipe through the tree. "My attacks only hurt those who
are truly destructive."
Kane-chan kneeled beside Ranma-chan, checking her neck's
pulse and her forehead temperature, "You don't think
being blown up against something's is going to HURT
something!!? What if the pipe had broken through the
board!!"
Miss Hinako said confidently, "Miss Ranma has a very
strong spirit. She would survive a simple accident like
that."
Ranma-chan had finally recovered enough to try to get up
with her fists, "Y, you couldn't have, have done it a,
another way!?"
Miss Hinako said, "The only time my techniques work on
non-living things is when I get very upset."
Ranma-chan got to her feet; her blood was returning to
her body, especially her eyes, "You brat!! You DID do
that on, on purpose!!"
Kane-chan gripped at the back of her shirt, "Ranma,
you're here to LEARN from Miss Hinako! You DON'T want to
get her "very upset"!"
Miss Hinako said in a tone that was both a pledge and a
threat, "I do my best to keep from getting upset. It's
not a very pretty sight when I am."
Ranma-chan cried, "And NEITHER am I!!!" Her battle energy
was rapidly building back up.
Miss Hinako held up a coin, "Happo 50-yen--" She suddenly
stopped her attack. "That's right. I have absorbed a lot
of energy already."
Ranma-chan gloated, "Ha! A weakness in your technique!
And what happens if you DO get too much aura like
that!?!"
Kane-chan suggested, "She overloads and blows the excess
back at you?" She reminded her, "--Like what happened in
Assembly Hall this morning!?" Miss Hinako had taken in
not battle aura but weaker battle lust--but it had been
of hundreds!
Ranma-chan told them, "I'm about ready to blow myself!!"
Kane-chan got in front of Ranma-chan, and put her hands
on the pigtailed girl's shoulders. But she looked over
her own shoulder at Miss Hinako, "Perhaps you'd better
hire professions to finish up for you, Miss Hinako."
Miss Hinako nodded, "Yes. That WAS what I had originally
intended to do. Men would do a better job."
Ranma-chan screamed, "Oh!!? How many men can take the
abuse you've given ME!!?!!"
Kane-chan leaped up into Ranma-chan's arms. She got her
strongest "Clinging-to-a-Statue" hold. She told her,
"You're going to have to tear me apart before I'll let
you harm our, MASTER!"
Ranma-chan growled, loudly. "MASTER! Yeah, right! How
stupid!" to have a master like THIS brat! But Akane was
right. What had happened was nothing compared to some of
the things his sensei Pop had done to her. And Hinako's
techniques WERE just too tempting to louse up the chance
to have them for her own.
Like having a wad of food stuck in her throat, Ranma-chan
swallowed her pride. For another time!
Miss Hinako told them, "I give you permission to go to
the clean up thoroughly. You girls are perspiring too much
for ladies."
Ranma-chan cried, "Hey!! What about your promise to tell
us your secret!?!!"
The very poised woman told them, "I will keep my promise.
I will tell you EXACTLY how to gain my techniques. But I
will only reveal my most important secrets to GOOD
girls." She looked at Ranma levelly and seriously, "The
first lesson IS called "Good Girl Exercise Step One"."
Ranma's growl could be seen but not heard. Here was
another temporary defeat for his male self.
Acting Principal Ninomiya said, "I have things to do,
now. Miss Akane, you will see that Miss Ranma is properly
washed and presentable for her next class?"
Kane-chan wasn't comfortable with the idea of being alone
with Ranma at the moment. "Uh, Akane Saotome doesn't GO
to this school! She's--I'm not registered!"
The woman pulled a pass out of one the pockets hidden in
her now very short, yellow dress. "Here. This will give
you permission to use the school's facilities."
She then challenged Miss Ranma with a stare, "I shall ask
your teachers if Miss Ranma had ALSO freshened herself
up. Tomorrow we shall talk about her wearing the school
uniform." She then turned to go on her business, "I have
started a ledger book on your merits and demerits, Miss
Saotome." There was no doubt which Miss Saotome she
meant.
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Ranma-chan stormed toward the long, concrete sink with
several taps out near the gym building, "How can I
"freshen up" when there's only sinks!!?!" He had heard
that unlike Japanese schools Western schools had gym
showers.
Keeping a wary eye on her, Kane-chan trotted after Ranma-
chan, "Go ahead; don't take a clean up. This IS Japan. We
don't care if a girl wears the same clothes after taking
a bath. Hey, she can even wear those clothes days in a
row. We don't care that much what a girl smells like.
It's just MISS Hinako that seems to care." Will this
work? It IS weak reverse psychology. "Maybe she'll
settle for you wearing perfume."
Ranma-chan told her, "Me!!?"
Kane-chan said, "How hot do you think the water IS? One
splash and I'm a guy again." And thanks to Kasumi, I'll
be wearing out of this dress just as fast. "It's like
I've been saying to you, because it's harder to become a
guy, stay a girl."
Ranma-chan turned on one of the taps, "No! I'm stayin' a
guy, no matter how hard the curse makes it--And I AIN'T
wearin' anything but Chinese clothes!!"
Kane-chan smiled, "Then I'LL get Miss Hinako's
techniques. I can wear either uniform." Though I LIKE
getting out of the girls' as soon as I can.
Ranma-chan she put her wet hand in the armhole of her
sleeveless shirt, "I'll show her I AM a guy!" The other
hand went under the shirt's bottom.
Kane-chan watched her trying to clean her boobs and torso
without soap, "Miss Hinako already thinks you're a GIRL
that needs to be reformed. If you want to learn her "Good
Girl Exercises", she's going to want to see you being
one."
Again the definitions that defined Ranma clashed: Martial
artist vs. man!
Suddenly Ranma-chan remembered, "Our class is scheduled
to have P.E. next period!! --Ow!" One hand had been on a
still tender boob when it spasmed.
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Kane-chan followed Ranma-chan as she headed for the main
building, "Are you going to skip, like you did all but
one day last week?" Though I guess you didn't go to the
last class of Friday.
Ranma-chan told her, "No!! And I ain't gonna wear
burumas, either! I'm gonna wear my OWN, GUY gym clothes!"
At least the P.E. teacher'd like that better than her
showing up in his street clothes.
Kane-chan said, "So, you think as long as your only
demerits are for wearing guys' clothes, Miss Hinako won't
force you to become a girl too fast?"
Ranma-chan told her, "Something like that. Thanks."
Because she hadn't gotten that far in planning her excuse
for showing up, again, out of yet another uniform. HER
plan had been to just show up and deal with what happens
after that.
Kane-chan told her, "Only one problem with that idea.
With all that's happened you haven't gotten any gym
clothes yet."
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Kane-chan stopped when Ranma-chan went pass girls' locker
room and for the guys'. "Ranma, you're not going to STEAL
a uniform!"
Ranma-chan went in, "I'm borrowing it! It's not stealing,
if they're not using it."
Ranma-chan really didn't expect any guys in the locker
room. It did look empty. The clock inside told her what
she already had judged by the sun: The fifth period gym
class wouldn't be back for a while.
She went down the locker doors. The third one was the
charm. And it did have guys' sweats! She looked at the
body covering short-sleeved shirt and long pants. "That's
more like it."
She didn't dawdle, but then neither did she hurry
shucking her sweaty clothes. While she was unfastening
her red silk shirt with one hand, she was untying the
white ribbon that held up her black silk pants. "I don't
mind showin' the body, but why do it if you're not
showin' off?" She was shrugging out of her shirt while
she pulled down both her pants and boxers. "And why would
I want to show off the body I'm not proud of?" Bringing
in each arm through its hole while the other held the
shirt, she bent over to take off the red elastic hair
bands that held her baggy pants legs around her ankles.
Suddenly her danger sense kicked in! Ranma-chan half-spun
as she leaped back to put herself in the defend/attack
position. But her right foot was briefly caught until the
elastic band snapped free, releasing the foot. Meanwhile,
her surefootedness was broken by the brief, UNWELCOME
thought that she was, maybe, seen as a naked girl in a
guys' locker room.
Ranma-chan stumbled, and fell against the lockers. She
landed on her padded butt, her raised knees falling
apart. Still, her hands were out to strike whoever was--
Blood was sprayed over her naked boobs.
Ranma-chan was about to accuse, "Kane--" Then she saw the
very pale, half-skeleton of a guy standing in a locker.
He'd been frozen by the sight of a girl in the locker
room, and THEN the girl undressing before his nose blew.
(Blood was dripping heavily from his nose.)
Hiraku Gosunkugi stared at the naked girl staring at him.
Suddenly he became frightened. "I'm sorry!!" he yelped as
he slammed the locker door shut.
Ranma-chan sat up, wondering, "I was afraid of that??"
She reflexively wiped at the blood. "Why would I be
warned about HIM!?" Her hand and soft and jiggling boobs
reminded her that she didn't have her normal muscular
chest. "Disgusting!" she said taking her hand away the
curses.
Gosunkugi cried, "I'm sorry!!" from inside his locker.
Ranma-chan saw her hand was smeared with, "Blood. THAT'S
what my senses were noticin'."
Suddenly, those same senses warned of an attack from
another direction.
Blood again!
Ranma-chan cried, "KANEDA!"
Kaneda was dripping blood over HIS boys' uniform, now. "I
THOUGHT I was prepared to see you, uh, like this."
The cute redhead looked down at her red spotted and
smeared mounds. "In all my battles up till now, I don't
think I've ever seen this much blood."
(Gosunkugi cried, "I'm sorry!")
Kaneda looking away for something for his nose, said,
"This blood's nothing." Don't tell her that! I don't
think Ranma's ready to hear about periods. Better leave
that to a real girl like Kasumi.
Ranma-chan got up, grumbling, "I never got this kinda
Bloody attention before." She picked her things with her.
Finding a small towel for his nose, Kaneda struggled to
think of anything that would appeal to Ranma about being
a girl (and coming right after thinking about
menstruation, that was hard), "Think of it as uh, a
TECHNIQUE! The "Saotome Vampire Energy Drain"!" Man! You
couldn't come up with a BETTER name!?
Ranma-chan was even less impressed, "Problem is it'd only
work on virgin wimps!" And she kicked a deep dent in
Gosunkugi's door.
Gosunkugi screamed, "I'm sorry!!!"
Ranma-chan put her frowning eyes up to the vent slots and
banged her fist against the door, "Tell me why you're
here!"
Inside, Gosunkugi closed his eyes, "My club had to find
another place: You and those other women had taken over
where my club meets!! You were all too intimidating!" He
shuddered, "Especially that tall, adult woman."
Ranma-chan was suspicious, "Yeah? What kinda club meets
out among a buncha trees?"
Gosunkugi told the girl, "It's, it's the Voodoo Club! We
make straw dolls, and then hammer spikes through
them...into tress."
It took a moment for Ranma-chan to say, "Unh, hunh. You
play with dolls. Just what I need to be seen doing in
this body." And she left for the door, putting on only
her outer red shirt. She carried her other clothes over
her arm.
Gosunkugi added, "We also do OTHER black magic!!"
Kaneda hurried to follow after the pistoning buttocks of
Ranma--When HE was sprayed by blood coming out of the
locker's vent.
Kaneda banged another dent into the door: "Hey! No
peeking! That's MY girl!" And he stuffed the towel into
the vent holes.
The bare naked Ranma-chan told him, "I'm not your girl!"
Kaneda was hit and buried under a barrage of balls of all
kinds.
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For the short trip to the guys' room, Ranma hadn't
bothered to put on her pants. The shirt was long enough
to cover anything that was supposed to be covered.
Stepping up to the long, enamel sink in the guys' room,
she looked at the blood spatters that got on her clothes,
"Just great. Other than my kempo-gi, these clothes are
about ALL I have! This means I have to use COLD water to
get the blood out before it sets. I hate cold water!" The
confident martial artist stubbornly persisted in acting
as if she were still a guy, right to the point of taking
off her shirt again. Only then did she think to put on
the pants again, if only so she wouldn't have to look at
what was missing.
Suddenly, the mummy Tatewaki Kuno burst into the rest
room: "My lackey was correct: It IS the Pigtailed Ranma
in all of her glory!!"
A small ninja type peeked out from behind his master.
"Oh, my! I really hadn't expected her to be THIS brazen."
Ranma-chan looked at the tall, bandaged and idiot in the
kendo-gi in surprise. "Oh, this is wonderful: My senses
must not take this guy seriously enough to warn me! But
that geeky wimp, it does."
Kuno heard what he wanted to hear, "My Juliet said the
sight of her Romeo is wonderful! I COME to thee, My Sun
Goddess!!" He had come with his sword to defend her honor
inside the boys' locker, and then the lav.
Ranma-chan tossed the wet clothes in the sink, and
stepped over to where the creep could get a clearer
charge at her: "Come on!! I took you down the last time!"
Kuno chortled, "Such double entendre!"
Sasuke Sarugakure cried to his master, "Watch out--"
before he was trampled.
Kaneda screamed, "Keep your manicured hands off Ranma!!"
The sight of Ranma he had seen at the doorway was a
small, naked, soft and cute redhead with great chichis:
He lost it! He completely forgot his martial arts
training as he leaped on the samurai boy, and started
wailing.
The force of the rear assault was to cause Kuno to
stumble forward.
Ranma yelled at Kaneda, "This is MY fight!! Stay! Out!
Of! It!" She hoisted herself up by the rim of the sink,
and lifted her legs to kick them both away.
And she didn't think to keep those legs together.
His nose spewing blood again, Kaneda cried, "Don't
look!!" covering Kuno's eyes.
Kuno cried, "Oh, the inhumanity of my fellow--"
Sasuke said, "I'll aid you, my--" But he dove onto the
floor just in time. The wild haired redhaired guy and
Master Kuno flew over his short, prostrate body.
Kaneda got his legs up in time to meet the wall opposite
the sink. He used his new "Tendou Lower Body Whip-Crack"
technique to kick him and Kuno away from the wall.
It WAS still new and unpracticed. The off-center thrust
sent them stumbling.
Ranma-chan got an idea. She turned on the hot water, and
directed the spray with her hand.
The nude Ranma-chan raised a foot to send the two other
guys over onto the floor.
Akane found herself under the weight of Kuno!
(Sasuke lifted his hands to peek out, "Where did that
other lady come from? The Master has clear field with TWO
girls in the men's facilities?")
Kuno lifted himself onto his knees, and searching for his
fallen bokken. "I shall smite you for keeping me from
seeing My Sun!!" It took him a moment to realize that he
wasn't straddling any male.
In that moment Akane's blouse and jumper were getting
soaked with hot water. The dress's bib did interfere with
the wet-shirt effect. But Kuno did see the straps and
part of her bra's polka dot cups.
The disheveled Akane told him, "Get away from me, jerk!!"
lashing up at him.
Kuno grabbed her wrist, and yanked her up to him. "My
Wild Haired Huntress!!" His other arm hugged her tightly
to him, "You have captured my heart!"
Ranma-chan snickered as she leaned her bare ass against
the sink, "That's right, Kuno, she's ALL yours to try and
date."
Akane yelled, "I'll do more to your heart than hold it,
if you don't let GO of me!!!" She still had ONE arm half
untrapped under the heavier samurai's left arm. Waving it
about it up and down, she loosened it from Kuno's grip
enough to try a Tendou Upper Body Technique on parts of
his face, when--
Kuno pushed her away, sobbing. "Oh, cruel, cruel accident
along the True Path of Love! Oh, that I be shielded from
the warm and heated embrace of My Flame by this armor
against amour!" In frustration, he tore off the knot that
held his bandage in place. "Do not heave a chaste sigh
over a maiden's opportunity lost, we shall soon both be
free of what separates us!!" As the bandage unwound, Kuno
was shrugging out of his gi coat.
Ranma-chan asked Akane, "I know why I let him yammer on.
Why did you?"
POW! Akane's blow was so powerful it sent Kuno sideways
to land in a sprawl on the floor on the other side or
Ranma-chan.
(Sasuke cried, "Master!!" going to him.)
Dripping wet, Akane got up on a foot and a knee, "I was
surprised, OKAY!!?! Kuno let go of me and started orating
again! Who listens to what HE says!!"
Ranma-chan smiled, "Is that all? Maybe your girl feelings
were comin' out." She was STILL directing the hot water
at Akane.
Akane approached her, "You want GIRL feelings!?"
Too late, Ranma-chan saw what the black haired girl was
reaching for. She scorned, "You're threatening me with my
own clothes?"
Kaneda used his Whip-Crack to send Ranma's red, Chinese
shirt to slap Kuno in the face.
(Sasuke was surprised, not wanting to dwell on forbidden
fruit, he had been keeping his attention on his master.)
Kuno came to, "What's this!?! An article of clothing of
My Beloved!!" His heart swelled, "This token of her
affection tells more than her moist lips can!"
The nubile girl said, "You want to play THAT game, do
you!!?" turning on the hot water of ALL the taps.
Kaneda grabbed Ranma's cold wet clothes to as a shield to
neutralize the hot being sprayed and splashed at him.
Ranma-chan decided to use the clothes to PULL the Kaneda
in.
Kuno cried, "Unmitigated reprobate!! Stealing a lady's
clothes!" He was charging before he was fully on his
feet, "Give ME My Lady's vestments!"
But, 'somehow', the au naturel Ranma-chan just happened
to be on his way.
Her danger sense warning her this time, all Kuno touched
was a well-turned ankle against shin, and strong fingers
that directed him INTO the sink:
Slash!
(Sasuke cried, "Master!!" Again he missed the change.)
Ranma-chan yanked her pants away from Akane.
Akane grabbed at them...Just as Kuno blindly struggled to
get out of the sink.
Ranma-chan cried, "Hey!! Watch the boobs --and butt!!"
A guy cried, " "Boobs"!??"/ Another said, "Butt??"
Both Ranma-chan and Kane-chan's heads snapped on their
graceful necks to the guys' room door: Guys with and
without sweaty shirts were standing just inside, in and
outside the doorway.
The stillness was broken when one guy confirmed, "There
are girls in the guys' room!"
Ranma-chan and Kane-chan defensively backed up, looking
for more room to maneuver.
Then the flood: "And one of 'em is buck, spanking
naked!"/ "NAKED!?!!"/ "Big, chichi, cute naked!"/
"And the other one looks like she was about to join the
redhead!!"/ "And she's cute, too!"
Then: Let's join THEM!!" It had started out as a simple
call for a little "guys' fun".
But as the guys rushed for the girls, things quickly
escalated. They ended up pulling and pushing, tripping,
leapfrogging, trampling, and ankle-biting each other.
And that was the just the preliminaries. The main event
where the fifth period gym and club guys tried to
volunteer for nude martial arts lessons was much more
violent and noisy. "I recognize the pigtailed girl!"/
"That's Kaneda's girl!"/ "The guy who always beats
us!?!"/ "And he's going to beat us again for this!!"/
"If we're going to get beat up anyway--"/ "Yes!! Let's
make it worth while!"/ "Go for it!!" This day they
earned the name "Hentai Horde". The story would grow, and
become the stuff of legends.
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Kane-chan, her limp, wet uniform practically shredded was
the first to escape. Taking up the taller girl's rear
view, the still starkers and mauled Ranma-chan was the
next to battle her way out into the hall.
Kane-chan told Ranma-chan, "I THINK we need to practice
more as girls!! We should have been able to beat these
guys easily!!"
Not all of their assailants recognized their defeat. The
two girls were followed by bloody nosed guys who also had
on tattered clothes. They were spurred on with, "For our
honor as men!" His idea of how to treat girls obviously
came from hentai mangas.
Ranma-chan told Kane-chan, "Now's the time to fight
again: We're out where we have maneuvering room!"
Kane-chan took Ranma-chan by the wrist, "No! I've got a
better idea!" Thinking the stupid girl might have an idea
Ranma-chan let herself be led. Akane, after all, knew the
where everything was at this school better than Ranma
did.
MUCH better: Too late, Ranma-chan saw that she'd been
pulled to, "The girls' lockers!! Oh, no!! I'd rather face
the--" Kane-chan got her in with quick jujitsu.
The half-dressed and girls in just panties inside cried,
yelled, and screamed when they saw the condition of the
girls who'd made the surprising entrance.
Kane-chan yelled, "We were attacked by guys!!"
Ranma-chan got her hand out of Kane-chan's grip. She
looked coolly at her, "You really aren't a man, are you."
But Kane-chan HAD gotten her in the girls' locker where
she'd wanted her in the first place.
The girls cried, "Guys!!?"/ "Guys!!"/ "Just like
guys!"/ " 'Bet my brother was among them."/ "You poor
girls!"/ "POOR!?! How would YOU like have your clothes
ripped from your body by a mob of hormone crazed
boys!!?!"/ "You don't have to be so GRAPHIC about it,
Bianka."/ "Stop talking!! Get these victims some
clothes!"/ "Right! Clothes!"
While others of the female horde approached them, Ranma-
chan started backing up. She would RATHER face the lust-
crazed guys than this smothering opposite of all that was
hentai.
"Somebody go get a teacher or somebody!"/ "I'M not
going out there where those creeps are waiting!/ "Take
a team with you!"/ "Only if I'M on the inside."/ "If
we can get word to the principal--"/ "THAT kid!??!"/
"At LEAST she's a girl!"/ "A little girl!"/ "What can
a kid do!!"
That did it! Ranma-chan turned for the door out.
Kane-chan crashed through it first, screaming in panic:
"I tried! I can't do it!! I have to get out!!!"
Ranma-chan stood there wondering what had caused that! It
was as if Kane-chan had a...phobia?
First one hand, then another was pull toward a different
girl; while other girls swarmed around Ranma-chan. She
realized just how short she was with bra-clad and unclad
boobs sticking out near her face. Hips almost touched her
lower abdomen, and her butt grazed against thighs as she
flinched this way and that.
And all the while, girls talked to her: "How did it
happen?"/ "Was it Tendou's fault!!?!"/ "That's right:
You're that girl! His fiancée!"/ "This is Ranma?!"/
"How many OTHER girls around here have hair that color!"/
"Is it dyed?" a very badly done blonde asked, physically
checking Ranma-chan's roots.
Ranma-chan said, "What is WITH every girl havin' to know
if it's DYED!!?!" She wanted to take the girl's hand out
of her hair. Only with all the girl flesh so close at
hand, it was hard to make any movement without touching
humid skin.
"Here! She can use this school jacket I forgot to take
home! Hope you don't mind it being in my locker for a few
weeks."/ "Mi-gan! You DID take my slip last week!"/
"Oh, OKAY! Hmph! I was planning to go home early anyway.
Ranma can have my dress. (And blouse, too, I guess.)"/
"Nice try, Omi, but everybody can see you're a B bust!"/
"Wow!" another girl said, staring, "Ranma's D's ARE
real!"
Ranma-chan hugged her D's: "Don't touch!!"
"Ooo, sensitive!"
Ranma-chan told her, "Very!!" Her arms over her chests,
she made to bull her way through the females that see she
was serious and move aside.
Instead, they placed their hands on her bare shoulders
and hips, turning her around: "Before you get dressed, go
to the girls' room."/ "Clean those wounds."/ "It'll
make you feel less dirty."/ "It'll help you relax."/
"We don't have a shower, but maybe some hot water--"
Ranma-chan's bare back bumped up against girl parts, "No
hot water!!" She was ready to push against, and grab soft
skin to keep THAT from happening!
One girl put her arms around Ranma and hugged, "It's
okay, girl! We understand."
Another asked, "We do?"
The girl that had tried to touch Ranma-chan's size D's,
now put her hand on the small of the redhead's back,
"Miyo, Ranma's SENSITIVE! Hot water causes her skin to
get splotchy or something."
Miyo asked, "It does?"
Ranma-chan told them, "Put me under hot water, and it
won't be a pretty sight. I won't be pretty at all."
Miyo said, "Aw, how sad." Others showed their sympathy.
Ranma-chan was asked, "Do you want us you to escort you
anywhere?"
Short Ranma-chan told the sea of girls she was drowning
in, "No! I just want to get out of here!"
The girl who was hugging, took an arm away to motion,
"Where the clothes for Ranma?!"
The door suddenly opened, and sopping wet clothes were
tossed in.
The clammy damp made the pair of girls they hit scream and
get out of any more attacks. Ranma-chan saw the way out
of this nightmare clear.
But, then, she saw that the clothes that had been tossed
in were her own clothes. Or what was LEFT of her red and
black, silk shirt and pants, cotton undershirt and
boxers. The same thing that had happened to Kane-chan's
uniform had happened to Ranma's Chinese clothes.
Ranma-chan fell to her knees not caring WHAT she bumped,
as she screamed, "NO!!! I need Chinese clothes!! I'd
rather die than go without them!!"
The End of this chapter
[For those who don't think Ranma would allow himself to
be a girl for even a powerful technique, just remember
"Martial Arts Dining" and "Martial Arts Tea Ceremony".]