Disclaimer: Ranma Nibunoichi a.k.a. Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, all characters belong to her and are the property of Vis comics and Vis video.
This Fanfic is created for fun; the only thing I own is the plot and actions described
The original author of this idea is Guyver (Ctong1@ipoline.com)
"Speech" (duh)
"Chinese"
Thought
-Signs-
(Authors notes)
One Half of One Chapter One
Tofu Ono sighed as once again Nabiki Tendo dragged in the battered and bruised form of her sister's fiancé. They had beaten on him again and still no one would stand up to the bullies or even tell the authorities of it happening. Gathering his supplies he directed the middle daughter of Soun to carry the boy to the examination room so that he could begin.
"Really Ranma, you should tell the administration of that school. They might be able to help stop the fights, and you won't be able to stay healthy long if it stays up. They're going to continue to push the limits more and more until you end up crippled or dead. Are you listening to me Ranma?" The Doctor was patching the boy up when he realized that he hadn't heard the string of affirmatives that usually accompanied the lecture. "Ranma? Why are you smiling?" To go with the words Ranma had a little 'I know more than you do' smile and it unnerved the young doctor as he waited for the response.
"It's ok Tofu-sensei... He's here, and now I will be whole again..." They were the only words that Dr Tofu could get out of the boy. This mode of statements were quite peculiar and the good doctor felt it prudent to call the boy's father after he finished his ministrations.
"Ok Ranma, go home and get some rest. Whoever's coming can wait till you're healed." Tofu released his patient with a forced smile into the care of Nabiki. Waving he contemplated the phrase while the two disappeared around the corner, heading towards the Tendo Dojo. He walked into the clinic and picked up the phone dialing the number for the Saotome's current residence. "Hello is Mr. Saotome there?..."
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Genma was suspicious, first Ranma had been acting different lately, almost more life-like but still not learning martial arts. What was the Hibiki boy doing? Ranma should have been going at the dojo like a person possessed by now to end the beatings! But for some reason Ranma would just come home every day bound and bandaged by the family physician and then go to sleep to wake the next day, or a few days if the beating was heavier than usual, to repeat the process. And now he had just received a call from the doctor about the boy spouting some nonsense. 'He's here, and now I will be whole again' that's what tofu had said he'd said... whole again... he couldn't mean?
Just then Ranma and Nabiki entered the living room of the Tendo home, Ranma limping as he made his way to sit at the table while she sat in front of the television and read a manga from her bag. Akane was in the dojo and an occasional 'Kyai!' could be heard as she continued to obliterate construction materials. Ranma sighed, it wasn't the usual depressed sigh but one that almost spoke of impatience which caught the attention of the Tendo patriarch.
"SAOTOME! Come have another game of shogi. I'll definitely get you this time." Sound shouted to his friend while walking over to the board by the door to the koi pond. Setting up the board he waited for his friend to get there. "There's something going on with Ranma." he whispered while sliding his first piece forward.
"I know, doctor Tofu called and said that there was a serious change in his demeanor and he was talking about being 'whole' again..." Genma replied sliding his piece forward. "What do you think it means Tendo?"
"Hmmm... 'Whole'..." he slid a piece forward while contemplating the words. "Maybe he means to finally start practicing Anything Goes again..." the meaning of his words sunk into the two of them and they smiled at each other.
"Finally my ungrateful son will fulfill his obligations to be the heir of the anything goes school!" Genma said to his friend as they stood and started celebrating and drinking sake.
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Ranma who had been listening into the conversation the entire time just sweatdropped as the two started their party. Sighing again he stood and walked to the kitchen door to see when supper would be ready. "Hello Kasumi." he smiled as he greeted the eldest Tendo daughter with a large smile.
"Hello Ranma-kun," She cheerfully answered, it was nice to see him in anything but his usual depression. "Dinner will be ready soon if you want to help me take it out to the table." She had one of those mannerisms that was infectious and just made everyone want to protect her, even a non-martial artist like Ranma.
"Sure Kasumi, I'll go clear it first" Ranma walked out feeling even better than earlier. Kasumi had that affect on Ranma, she was the only person who was nice to him without expecting anything in return. If, after he was beat, he couldn't go to Tofu's Kasumi always patched him up with the books she was always borrowing from the young doctor. She was definitely the best Tendo in his books.
Stepping through the doorway his smile quickly was lost as a fuming Akane stood there, it looked like she had been standing there for a good while. Here it comes... Ranma mentally deadpanned as he tried to step past her.
"RANMA!" she growled out stopping him in his tracks. "STOP FLIRTING WITH MY SISTER!" With that statement she reared back and threw a haymaker strait into his jaw, sending him through most of the paper walls. Nabiki heard the shout and went about adding the repairs to the dojo into her ledger. Kasumi went about happily gathering the first aid kit to tend to the young Saotome.
"Uncute tomboy..." Ranma groaned as he lay in the pile of rubble. A piece of wood flew out the hole he had made and smacked him right in the forehead.
"I HEARD THAT!" Akane screamed after the board, ok maybe she hadn't but she knew he would have said something, most likely something perverted. Ranma just lay there unconscious, the board still sitting on his face.
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The next day followed the same layout as the previous one, he would get up walk to school. Get beat by Kuno, maybe mousse would show up, then go to the infirmary to get patched up for his class. During class Akane would fume about Ranma taking all of the schools attention from her and plan to relieve some tension on him after school. Lunch would be a repeat of the morning, he would eat lunch and then Kuno, Ryoga or mousse would fight him. Sometimes Akane would join in but usually she waited till after school before her turn.
The only difference this time was that he kept spouting the phrase that he had uttered that one time. 'He's coming, I'm going be whole again' which really disturbed those who attacked him constantly, it was unnerving hearing a boy talk about being whole after someone comes. But being Nerima most of the students didn't give it a second glance, Ranma was Ranma and there was nothing that could change it. At least everyone hoped so.
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"SAOTOME! BECAUSE OF YOU I HAVE SEEN HELL!" The now familiar call of the eternally lost boy roared through the open air of the schoolyard. Ranma had just walked in and Kuno was about to launch into an attack when Hibiki had shouted his challenge. Ranma groaned as the boy closed in.
"Come on Ryoga, I haven't done anything to you!" Ranma tried to dodge the umbrella but wasn't fast enough and got a chest full of the metal head. *crack* Damn there goes a rib... why can't they leave me alone Ranma was now cradling his torso and feeling along his side for the fracture.
"You destroyed my happiness and now I shall obliterate yours" Ryoga's deep growl cause most in attendance to shy away, everyone knew not to confront Ryoga and even Kuno stayed away. "This is for Mariko you bastard..." Ryoga's whispered words were lost the second he said them. Ranma winced again as his breathing irritated the wound, but amongst it all he started to laugh. It was small at first but soon rose up into, for Ranma at least, a full blown guffaw.
"You think that I'm happy? Are you as blind as Mousse? I haven't been happy since I was ten!" Ranma shouted at his rival. "Everyday it's the same damn thing, just get up to get attacked by one of the three blunders. Then stagger home and get the same from the tomboy... I'm sick of it!" His words bit deep into the regular students but were wasted on the three main contenders present. "You've seen hell? You haven't seen anything! Every day is hell for me!" The shouting and words were the total opposite of the Ranma everyone had come to know, and most didn't like the change.
"What's Ranma doing?" "Did you hear? Ranma's standing up to Ryoga." "Wow, talk about living dangerously." The whispers and conversations ranged as everyone was surprised by the usually reserved boy becoming outspoken against his enemies. Something was changing within Ranma and everyone could see it. Everyone except the three who proceeded to do what they did every day.
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Genma was overjoyed at his son's had seemingly started growing a backbone, but was a bit dismayed that he focused the anger at the family, mainly him and Akane but Soun and Nabiki got some too, the only person who didn't get the look of anger and exasperation was Kasumi. Then again no one was ever angry or rude to Kasumi, it just didn't happen.
Soon... soon the boy will come for training... then the Saotome-Tendo pact would be fulfilled! The silly grin on his face earned him another angry glare from his son but he ignored it like all the other times he'd seen it.
The next day Ranma was again accosted in the schoolyard but unlike the day before he didn't say anything except the chant of 'He's here, and now I'm going to be whole again' even when he was beaten unconscious he kept mumbling what must have been those words had they been coherent. Nabiki just sighed as she dragged him to the nurse, he needed to get to class.
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"Hey isn't that Ranma?" the first girl spoke while the two walked down the street a few weeks after his outburst.
"Yeah I think it is" the other replied as they eyed the man walking the opposite way down the same sidewalk. It definitely looked like Ranma, except he was wearing a red and black Chinese outfit, made out of what appeared to be silk. Although he usually only wore his school uniform, even out of school.
"But I thought he was beaten up today, shouldn't there be bruises and cuts and everything?" The first appraised the sight of the boy walking towards them, there was definitely something off from the boy that attended their school. There was also something that made this 'Ranma' Stand out unlike the quiet boy that he hung out with, the picture taking one.
"Nabiki will want to know about this" the second pulled out a cell phone as the boy walked out of sight. "Hey Nabiki... You'd never guess what I just saw..."
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Nabiki was confused, how could her lackeys be watching Ranma when he was with her at the clinic? And their description of him was totally off, he didn't have muscles of any type nor did he own anything silk.
"Can't be... why? It'll cost ya 2000 yen... yes it'll go on your tab... He's standing here in Tofu's clinic with me, been for the past hour... I don't care what you saw... you might want to come here too, get your eyes checked out... quit wasting my time" With that she slapped the end up cutting off the connection. Things just seemed to be getting odder and odder lately. Although, a Ranma with muscles and obviously money did seem to be appealing.
"I told you that he was coming..." the voice behind her startled her out of her wits. How had Ranma snuck up on her, she must have been distracted. Wait what did he say?
"Who?" she answered trying to sound like she wasn't startled at all by his sudden appearance.
"My other half, soon we shall be whole again" This unnerved her, but she shoved the Ice Queen mask up to avoid the embarrassment of a confused look. She had a reputation to uphold.
"Ok now you're starting to sound a little too much like Gosunkugi..." She just hoped 'sounding' was the extent of what he was talking about.
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The next day was started by the usual bully group, minus the lost boy who was mysteriously absent, as they were partaking in their favorite activity. That activity being 'Beat on Ranma,' which they excelled in while the boy sat there. Ranma had long ago resigned to allowing them to beat on him, being non-athletic he couldn't outrun them and not being able to learn martial arts had severely reduced his ability to defend himself. But there was hope, for Ranma at least, His other half was back. And soon they'd be one again, then they would pay for beating on him whenever they felt like it.
"He's here, I'll be whole again..." Ranma kept up the words as if they were a mantra that would forgo the pain from the bokken that was repeatedly striking him in various places courtesy of Kuno. Kuno on the other hand had been listening to the driven about half's of people for quite long enough for his liking. Stepping back he raised his bokken to rest on his shoulder and stood in a regal position, like a samurai about to address those he lorded over.
"Foul knave, your dark sorcery cannot hold up to mine righteous blade. If this other half of thou's self conjured by you fiendish magic's then he shall feel the wrath of the Blue Thunder of Furinkan high. For if this other half of yours is coming, then he is too late! Have at thee!" With that he pulled his bokken into an overhand strike and charged in to deliver the blow to the boy who would steal the fierce tigress Tendo Akane. The honed edge of the bokken sliced through the air and started on its arc to intercept the boy's cranium at his forehead. Only to be stopped by a forearm coming up to deflect the otherwise perfect Kendo strike. Turning to behold the protector of the weakling he was about to strike down his eyes widened.
"Too late? Already here..."
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Author's notes:
I hope this makes sense, I'm trying to get it out before I'm gone for two months.
I'll probably go through a revision over the summer as well as writing a few chapters. Road trips are good for stuff like that.
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