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My long awaited chapter!!
Chapter 10:Ryuukuyo's Entrance"There?"
"Hai, oshou-sama."
"But it's just a child."
"I sense a powerful youki emanating off him." Youki-evil power…demon power.
The old man looked questioningly at the woman. Her eyes were staring intently at the small injured boy.
Her red hair was done in a braid over her shoulder and she wore a tight dark red Chinese shirt. Around her waist was a yellow sash and a sword hanging off. Her pants were dark blue and tied at the bottom. Her eyes were a violet color and on her hands she wore a metal covering over her pointer and middle. On her right had she had her thumb covered with the same covering.
"Lo-Mein…" he murmured as he shook his head. "Do as you please."
"Thank you, oshou-sama." She said seriously as she picked up the boy and entered her room.
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"Ranma! Wait!" Akane called after him. "Where are you going anyway?!"
Ranma ignored her as he raced down the street, skidding to a stop in front of Ucchan's.
"Aww….it's closed." He said in a disappointed voice.
"OI! Ranma-kun!" Ikuyo called.
Akane growled as eh grabbed his sleeve. "You're coming home! You said you'd help fix the spare room for our guest, who is by the way coming in about an hour." She said in a low, dangerous voice.
"Oh come off it, Akane-chan. Let the guy have a bite. Come on Ranma-kun." Ikuyo said as she pulled him by his braid. He happily complied.
Akane growled as she ran at the old woman with the water bucket. "Then please! GO right ahead!" she yelled as she threw the bucket of water at Ranma's head, drenching him from head to toe
"Oh dare, Ranma-kun, you'll have to change your clothes…use mine!" Ikuyo said happily as she pulled onna-Ranma along with her.
"Fine! Go! See if I care!!" Akane huffed as she turned and walked toward home.
"Tendo Akane?" a weak voice called out to her.
Akane turned slightly toward an alley next to her. Still angry she grabbed a trashcan and threw it into the alley making a few cats meow and run.
"Tendo Akane, such brute strength alone. Might you be angry?" the voice taunted on.
Akane took a step forward, getting in a slight fighting stance just in case something attacked. "Who are you?" she asked cautiously.
A small figure stepped out, a young boy with short brown hair and cut's all over his body.
"I'm Ryuukuyo." He said sweetly as he smiled up at her. "Nice to meet you, Tendo Akane. I'm the guest at the Tendo Dojo."
"Ryuukuyo?" Akane stared at the boy. "Are you lost? You can follow me, that's where I'm going." She offered nicely, forgetting her angry mood and crouching down in front of him, her dress covering her feet and her bag in her hand loosely.
"I would love that…a bunch." He smiled as she took his hand and led him toward the dojo.
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"So…" Ikuyo watched as Ranma wolfed down a bowl of instant ramen, then turned to the okonomiyaki she had tried to make out of request.
"This is good!" he said happily as he turned to a plate of pickle's.
"So…Ranma-kun…how has it been…between you and Akane-chan?" she asked softly, knowing all to well that he would probably deny it if she asked straight and forward.
Ranma ignored the question for a second to swallow down a cup of tea then looked down almost thoughtfully at the counter of the instrumental shop.
"Akane? She's…" he smiled slightly and turned to Ikuyo with a very goofy look on his face. "And uncute, clumsy, tomboy!" He stood and stretched. "Why?"
Ikuyo clenched the trey she held until it snapped in half. "Ranma…-kun?" he voice was strained.
"Yes?" he stared at her nervously.
"You're an unhandsome man-woman, with no sense of fashion, and an attitude like an old grumpy man!" she yelled as she pulled her clarinet off her back. "Get some sensitivity!!" she yelled before playing a very sour note on her clarinet.
Ranma covered his ears and a gust of wind swept him up, hitting him with as much power as Akane's, Shampoo's, and Ukyou's punches.
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"I'm home! Kasumi-onee-chan!" she called as she and Ryuukuyo took off their shoes.
Kasumi stepped out. "Nani, Akane?" her eyes fell on the little boy. "Ah! Our guest is early!" she stepped down and smiled at the little boy. "My name is Tendo Kasumi."
"Ryuukuyo, Kasumi-san." He said, an innocent blush creeping up his cheeks.
"Akane, can you let him stay in your room for now? Only until we get the room finished." Kasumi asked the younger girl.
"Alright." Akane led the small boy up the stairs to her room and closed the door.
"Tendo Akane…are you prepared?" his voice seemed to grow older as he stood behind her.
Akane turned slowly as her eyes grew wide.
Ryuukuyo snapped and a form from the darkness of the young martial artist's room.
It pinned her to the door soundlessly and pressed three points on Akane's body with metal fingers.
Akane gasped as the fingers dug deep.
They pulled back as she stood straight, her eyes glazed over and her arms at her sides.
"Thank you, Lo-Mein." Ryuukuyo said but was stopped short as his chest was punched why the same metal fingers that had pierce Akane.
"Lo…Mein…" he stared at the woman before him.
Akane looked up with the last of her controlled consciousness. "R…Ranma?" the woman's red hair in it's braid and her clothing threw her off and before she could look carefully here eyes covered completely with a glazed brown.
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Was that a bad chapter? I know I know…too short, right? Anyway, I hope I get my old reviewers back. Hope hope hope hope…
Anyway, next chapter:
Chapter 11: Hitting the Pressure Points