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Chapter Three: Let The Fun Begin!
"So," said the young pigtailed man, addressing the robed Harry before him, "if you had a day that was repeating over and over, what would you do with it?"
"Me?" said Harry, thinking, "well I'd try out various magic tricks I've never tried before, or even learn a couple of things I didn't know before. But seriously," Harry grinned at his drinking companion. "I'd have the time of life."
The pigtailed youth grinned back, "That's exactly what I thought too." Then fell off his stool in fits of laughter, straight into a bunch of leather clad thugs...
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Ryouga Hibiki stood on the rooftops in the main city of Tokyo, he glanced around, lifting his shoulders to get his pack into a more comfortable position. The sun blazed down across the city sparkling off the tall structures of concrete and glass, (I had planned to say something more poetic than that, but then again, Ryouga isn't Kuno, thankfully! ~_-).
He found it easier from above, how could not he get lost with the Tokyo Tower in sight, as long as he kept in view and at certain distance, he would find his destination that would bring him back to the hotel.
Back to the woman he loved.
Back to the man that had made his life a living Hell.
Ryouga cracked his knuckles, in anticipation of them coming into to contact with that fem-boy's face. He neared the hotel, pulling out his umbrella ready to attack, leaping from building to building without any apparent effort.
Scanning around a second time, he saw the rooftop of the hotel, someone was up there, a red-haired someone.
Ryouga smiled, his fangs glinting in the sunlight as he made his final leap toward the man that had destroyed his life.
"RANMA SAOTOME! PREPARE TO -"
The red-head turned, pulling her shirt wide open.
"Come and get it, Pig-Boy!" squealed Ranma, as Ryouga crashed into crumpled heap, blood flowing from his nose.
"Yer know Ryouga, actin' like that won't impress women later in life. He-he!"
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Harry, Gary and Charlie, after that little confrontation with that little punk with the umbrella, went to look around the city zoo.
Harry stopped at the Panda enclosure, noticing the pandas sleeping in the trees with the suns on their backs, but one panda caught his eye, it was sat on a log, its legs in the small pool. It looked as if there had been ducks swimming around, the panda would have been feeding them bits of bread.
Harry's mind boggled, when the panda looked up at him and pulled a sign from out of nowhere.
{What are you looking at, beardy?}
Harry's mind decided it had enough of being boggled, so stepped out for a quick breather.
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"I, Tatewaki Kuno, must be the happiest man in all history!" proclaimed Kuno, "For I art in thou's discreet presence, without that foul sorcerer Soatome's vile ways besmirching your naïve honour."
Ranma-Chan looked up into the glinting eyes of Upperclassman Kuno, she grinned demurely.
"Don't you think that's a bit cruel?" said Akane, also looking at Kuno.
"Ah, the fair tigress doth also grace me with her presence!" exclaimed Kuno, grinning rather more madly than usual, "I would grant you both an embrace into my arms, but I am otherwise engaged, however..."
"What?" said Ranma-Chan, ignoring Kuno, as he ranted on, "cruel, as in changing into my cursed form, running around half naked in front of him for five minutes before he passes out, than binding his hands and feet behind his back, then hog-tying him and then finally stringing him up to the top of an over-hanging lamppost?"
"Yes," replied Akane, dumbly looking up at Kuno, as he continued spouting poetry that made Shakespeare not only turn in his grave but also start to slam his head against the insides of his centuries old confinement.
"Personally," said Ranma-Chan, grinning, "I can't think of better position to see him in."
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Akane sat with her family, in the large hotel room, all having various conversations about the New Year's party that they would join in later. This was the first meal in years that had either been cooked by Kasumi or (GULP!) Akane.
As Ranma was shovelling in the rice from all corners of the table, Akane noted in passing that he was ignoring the platter of pork, well if he didn't want it then she would have it then.
Taking several other items of food from the western style serving dishes, Akane began to eat, but at a slower pace than the martial artist beside her. Her thoughts were drawn in that direction for the third time today, as she thought over the craziness that had completely surrounded both her and Ranma.
She had found that she could cope with it, if Ranma was around, she was not certain if he really cared for her, each time he did something nice he would turn around and be a real jerk again, Akane thought it would be nicer if he just stuck to one or the other, not only was it confusing it was hurtful.
Plus him chasing around her poor P-Chan, that was annoying, it was strange really, it was like he was trying to protect her honour or something. But from a pig! Honestly what a baka!
Akane chewed on her pork for a few seconds, before she felt something cloth like with he tongue.
She pulled the offending item out of her mouth, and was stunned but what she saw.
"Oh, my!" she said, and passed out.
A yellow polka-dot bandana falling from her hand.
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Nabiki glared over the board, red hotels and green houses covered it, only the houses, belonged to Nabiki.
The hotels belonged to the pigtailed martial artist, who was grinning broadly.
"Well," said Ranma, "are you going to pay up or not?" he gestured to racing race, that had landed on one of the streets that Ranma had managed to put on a hotel, just before Nabiki had gotten there.
He had all his streets, all paid up, Nabiki had to montage most of her houses to keep her in the game, Akane had sat back with a usual "Hmph!" as she lost to Nabiki as usual, while Kasumi just gave in and went to make them all tea and have room service bring up some cookies.
"Fine." Said Nabiki, icily, which made Ranma grin even more. He was _so_ going to pay for this, Nabiki promised herself, when they got back she was going to make his life a living hell, profitable ideas sprang to mind as she handed him the money, he had to tug it out of her resisting fingers at first.
Nabiki Tendo, does not like to loose.
"Ah, come on, Nabiki," said Ranma, his grin widening to almost to chop his head in half, "no one likes a sore looser, right?"
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"Hey, Akane," said Ranma, while stuffing his face with rice and other things, "pass the teapot will you." It was not really a question.
Akane was tempted to simple throw the scolding water in his face, but since he was still male, having changed back after his rather brief sparring with his father this morning, there was not much point.
"Here." She passed it, not looking at him, instead stroking P-Chan on the head as he nuzzled into her lap.
"Thanks," he took the teapot, it suddenly slipped out of his grip and landed, spilling its contents onto Akane's lap.
Akane would have screamed, but for the sudden weight on her lap.
The weight coming for a steaming and very naked Ryouga, sitting in her lap, where P-Chan had been sitting.
Akane mind suddenly reeled, there had been no way for Ryouga to come through the roof, there was no hole to show his entrance, plus there were several other stories to the hotel, plus if he had he would have squashed P-Chan.
And P-Chan was no where around now.
"Hi, Ryouga," said Ranma, causally, as if Ryouga usually sat naked on Akane's lap, which if he was P-Chan, he did, "when did you get here?"
Akane's left eye switched, a loud growl emitting from her throat, her fists clenched.
Ryouga smiled nervously.
"Hello, Akane, I -"
"RYOUGA NO HENTAI!!!" Akane screamed, at the top her lungs, malleting him up through the upper floors of the hotel.
"This is all Ranma's fault..." said Ryouga as he crashed through the roof and out toward the outskirts of the city.
Akane looked over at Ranma, fury in her face.
Ranma just shrugged and carried on eating, the family all looked at him, amazed he was being so calm in the face of Akane's anger.
"You'd never let me explain anyw-"
He was proved right as he was malletted away with a "RANMA NO BAKA!" though not as hard as what Ryouga received!
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"What are we doing here, son?" asked Genma, annoyed at his son from being taken away from their morning meal early, because Ranma had wanted to go shopping for training manuals, which Genma had quickly agreed to before his son could change his mind.
But this was not the way into the centre of shops and retail places, they had been going in the direction of the park, where another celebration of the New Year was taking place.
"You'll see Pop," said Ranma, grinning.
Genma didn't like the look of that grin, it was far too feral for his liking. He's instincts were telling him something, they were telling him to run and hide. But this was his son!
Genma took a few steps away from Ranma, just in case.
Ranma looked at his father. "What's up Pops?" he glanced around, "I don't sense any trouble."
"Nothing," said Genma, "I feel hungry is all."
"Oh, don't worry Pops," said Ranma, again with that grin, "you'll get plenty to eat, don't worry."
They came into sight of a big tent, large enough for a circus to perform in...
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"You're saying you're dad completely agree to it?" said Nabiki, incredulously.
"Oh yeah," said Ranma, grinning still, "said he wanted to do something special for all of us."
"But the circus!" said Soun Tendo, also incredulously, raising an eyebrow for good measure.
" 'A martial artist trains in all things at all times' is what he said," answered Ranma, as they took their seats near the front row of the ring.
After a few moments the lights turned up and centred on the middle of the ring.
All the audience stood agape at the vision in front of that.
Between splutters of laughter, Ranma shouted "Wait a go, Pop! Never knew you had it in you!"
In the middle of the ring stood a panda, dressed like a ballerina and started pirouetting all around the ring, as the stage master cracked his whip.
The panda thrust up a sign as it passed by the group.
{I'll get you for this, boy!!!}
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Kodachi dropped into a nearby alley, where that 'Ice Queen' Nabiki Tendo said her Ranma-sama would be located today.
She peered around the corner, and saw her love walking directly to her, his head jerking from side to side as if looking for something.
He was looking for her, how adorable was that! He had left that wicked Tendo girl and was coming to her, to bring her into his arms.
She pulled a small test-tube from under her hooded cloak, just in case things did not go completely her way. Either an enraged fiancée might turn up, or even worse her brother would interfere with her tryst.
She would not, could not have that!
"Ranma-sama!" she called, springing demurely out of her hiding place and into his path.
"Kodachi!" he yelled, stunned.
Kodachi jumped into his arms, readying her potion, her truth potion, which would bring Ranma under her demure spell, where no one could get in her way with her love.
"Gotcha!"
But Kodachi did not say it, Ranma said it, as if expecting the attack.
But also, he had his own potion, which he sprayed in her face.
Now she was too stunned to even move.
"Now, Kodachi," he said, with a smile, that she would gladly die for, "what have you been up to today?"
And not to her complete surprise, she told him everything.
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"Aiyah! Airen come see Shampoo!" (A/N: God she's annoying!) exclaimed Shampoo, looking up from the counter.
"I've come to give you a challenge." Said Ranma-Chan, grinning broadly.
"Challenge, son-in-law?" said Cologne, appearing. Ranma-Chan still had not figured out how she did that.
"You challenge Shampoo, I shall not allow it!" shouted Mousse at the broomstick.
"Stupid Mousse!" sighed Shampoo.
"What is the challenge, son-in-law?" asked Cologne, noting his broad smile.
"Easy," said Ranma-Chan, "I will marry Shampoo, if," his smile broadened (A/N: he's - I mean - she's been doing that a lot this chapter) "she can prove she has a bigger bust size than me!"
All three Chinese face-faulted.
"Well this is Anything Goes, right?" laughed Ranma-Chan.
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Ryouga was limp in Akane's arms, as she picked her 'P-Chan' up to go to breakfast, after the vision he had seen before him, what else could he do?
Ranma was his usual caddish self, Ryouga would find some water to avenge his love from taking his insulting behaviour.
"Akane," called Kasumi, "Ranma told me the bath's ready for you if you want it, maybe you could take P-Chan," she added, smiling in that Kasumi way, "he may need a bath himself, after all, you don't know where he's been do you?"
"Thank you, Kasumi." Said Akane, picking up Ryouga.
WHAT? A B-BATH!?! With Akane! I better go.
"Ah-hah," said Akane, grabbing him as tried to jump off the bed toward the door, "no you don't. I'm going to clean you up, after all you're travels, I think you deserve it!"
But I don't deserve this, thought Ryouga, mournfully. (A/N: Oh, yes you do, heh!)
They went into the bathroom, Akane holding him as she ran the bathroom, she locked the door and he was trapped. Trapped with a rapidly undressing Akane. At any other time, this would be heaven. But not today.
She picked him up and again and then got into the bath, submerging him in the hot water.
Ryouga sputtered as he came up, completely human, and straddling a naked Akane.
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Ranma heard the scream and as he ran up to the bathroom heard the yelling and things being smashed and broken.
He grinned, as he passed Kasumi back down the hall, who smiled back, in her usual manner.
"Oh, what a day!" he said, "what a day!"
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Next Chapter: Discoveries.
Author's Note: OK, I know this was a short chapter, just a collection of some character bashings, although not all of them, because I could not think of many. I am currently going to be taking a break from writing this, assignments are piling high this week. I will try and sort out these little problems that have to be sorted out, before continuing with the story, but I will get back to it. -_~ Please keep reviewing, without these reviews I would never have been able to think up a title for this fic! Thanks Delirium's Hostage!!! \o/
Author's New Note (14/7/03): Yet another edited chappie, this one had only one or two mistakes re-written, I will attend to the next few chappies soon(ish). So keep reviewing and tell me how I doing, and if you like it! Reviews good and bad, keep me writing.
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