I know it's been nigh on forever but I didnt' abandon it.
I told you people it'd come around and it did! See?
Here it is! On with the show.
Chapter 4 Be for the Past
Letetsu looked at Ranma with an apprasing eye. Ranma
was almost sure he had no chance to win from his stance,
but it was better not to underestimate an opponent.
Letetsu was in a heavily offencive stance. Amazing how
pathetically confident he was.
Ranma however stood in a defencive stance wanting to
catch his opponent off gaurd. It worked like a charm...
Ranma made sure his stance looked horribly sloppy,
hoping Letetsu's parents would tell him of Ranma's styles
and secrets. Of course he had many, It probably wouldn't
matter in the end if they did anyway. Letetsu smirked.
"You can't possibly beat me! Not with a stance like
that especially!" he cried.
"I'm confident," Ranma replied slackening his worthless stance
even more. To Letetsu it looked like a feeble attempt to shape
the stance up that had failed and ended it worse.
In the corner of the Room Ryoga and Ukyo whispered to each other.
"He doesn't stand a chance you know," Ukyo told Ryoga.
"Yeah, I know. But Ranma's gonna teach him what I've been
failing too. Never underestimate an opponent. He just can't
seem to figure this out just because of the fact that he's never
lost a challenge," Ryoga said.
"Neither has Ranma in the long run. Anyway? What makes
you so sure that is Ranma?" She asked.
"Look at him and tell me otherwise," Ryoga replied calmly.
Ukyo said nothing.
"Come on! Are you gonna just wait there all day? Or are you
afraid?" Ranma taunted. Ryoga stifled the urge to laugh.
Remembering how this had always ticked him off. It had made
him lose his control and fight sloppy. Just as he figured his son
would. Once again, it worked like a charm. Letetsu had allready
taken Ranma's bait and now had the hook in his mouth.
Letetsu charged and hit Ranma square in the face. It connected
and sent him into a wall.
"Hmph! Pop! This guy is pathetic! Why would you even have
me fight someone like...!" But he was interupted.
"If I were you Letetsu, I'd watch your back!" Ryoga shouted back
to his son. Letetsu turned around to a punch headed directly for
his face. It connected and then sent him to a wall.
"WHY YOU! THAT WAS A CHEAP SHOT!" The boy shouted.
"Heh, It wasn't my fault you didn't see it coming," Came the reply.
Letetsu was getting angrier by the second. "I'll get you!"
Now the fight began in ernest. Letetsu throwing punches and kicks
left and right, and Ranma dodging wishing he had a book to read or
something of the sort, so he could tease his rival's son.
"Come on! You'll have to move faster than this! Your just like your
pop! You value your strength over your speed! If you don't get over
that you'll never have a chance of beating me!" Ranma shouted. This
of course, infuriated his opponent. However it interested Ryoga.
"Is that why I always lost to him? Why would he give out the information
to my son? Why not me? I didn't value my strength THAT much more
than my speed and agility did I?" Ryoga thought. "I was such an idiot
back then. But I suppose I had a good reason to be. Good thing I finally
cured my sense of direction problem. And my love life problem," Ryoga
looked out to the floor and saw exactly what he expected. Ranma toying
with his son.
"LETETSU! YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS! YOUR MAKING THE
SAME MISTAKES I DID! CONSENTRATE! STOP LOSING YOUR
TEMPER OR YOUR GOING TO LOSE THE FIGHT!" He shouted.
Oddly enough. It helped. Suddenly Letetsu's red aura cooled. He became
calm and collected and began to attack Ranma at a much faster rate. Ranma
still dodged with ease, however there were a few close calls.
"Good job, kid! Your way better than your pop was!" Ranma yelled.
Ryoga fumed but only for a minute before he remembered how infuriating
Ranma could be. There was something about him... It was just there! A
call to him... he was allways just so, smashable. Just smashing him into a
wall provided so much happiness to anyone and everyone in his vicinity.
He never could figure it out. He knew now for sure though that this was
Ranma. He hadn't fumed in so many years, that only THE RANMA
could do that to him... Well, his wife and kid did it every now and
then... but it still wasn't Ranma.
"Don't Call me a kid!" Letetsu returned.
"Don't lose your focus and I won't, kid!" Ranma said and then
punched him directly in his stomach.
Letetsu doubled over. Ranma smirked.
"If you hadn't been worried about me calling you a kid and had
worried about where I was aiming then you coulda read that
move miles away!" Ranma exclaimed.
"Well, what about you? I don't see you under complete focus!"
Letetsu taunted as he stood up and took a stance. This time it
was more defensive.
"Heh... you got a lot to learn kid," Ranma said. He then proceeded
to break through all of Letetsu's defences in a matter of seconds, connect
about twenty punches in the gut and knock to boy unconcious.
"Ranma!" Ryoga shouted. "Don't you think you could go a little easier on
him?"
"Hmph, with an attitude like that Ryoga, no wonder he couldn't lay a
finger on me!" Ranma replied.
To Ranma's amazement, Ryoga agreed.
"I suppose your right... Ranma, could you do me a favor and train him?
I don't seem near as good a teacher as I thought that I was," Ryoga asked.
"Damn... And here I thought you were the same old porky! Admiting weakness
is definantly a change! Sure Old man! If you spar me. I think I've changed
my mind. Without me around, who know's how much you've slacked off!"
Ryoga was stuck on once phrase however. "I AM NOT OLD!!!!! RANMA
PREPARE TO DIE!"
However, instead of charging Ranma in a mad rage, Ryoga walked to the center
and bowed to his ex-rival and took a stance as Ukyo removed Letetsu from the
floor. Meanwhile, All of the other students who had stayed to watch the fight,
expecting Letetsu to win hands down were amazed to find him unconcious.
Believing this kid was Ryoga's ex-rival was a hard thought but it seemed proven
true. However, no one had EVER beaten their sensei Ryoga, and they didn't plan
on his defeat coming from the fist of a fourteen year-old-kid.
Ranma began to taunt Ryoga just like he always did. "You first P-Chan!
Or will you need some time to find your fist?" However Ryoga was cool
and collected. He had little arrogence. His eyes were hard to read but they
spelled confidence to Ranma.
Ryoga charged Ranma head on. Unlike his former style of charge directly
and never change direction, he instead moved to the left and began a very
fast combination of punches and kicks while running as Ranma had moved
with him. Neither were getting any hits in. Ranma knew Ryoga had
improved, but not TOO much. After all, how could he improve without
Ranma around? Fight angels? When Ranma actually thought about that
he found that it was quite possible that Ryoga DID fight angels even though
he had yet to see one.
The fight lasted almost an hour. When Letetsu woke he was amazed to find
his father struggling for the upper hand in a battle with someone like Ranma.
However it made him feel better knowing that his father had trouble with Ranma.
If his father had trouble, he couldn't possibly win.
Sooner or later they finally called a draw when both of their stomachs gave in to
the call of food long before their energy ran out. ... Basicly Ukyo was
cooking in a corner of the dojo for the students that had stayed to watch
Ranma and Ryoga's battle. She hadn't changed much at all. After all, she
was selling them at an amazingly high price but they still sold just as they had
fifteen years ago when she sold them at low prices. Very well.
"Well, Ranma... I think were gonna have to have a rematch... some other time,"
Ryoga said, taking long intervals in between phrases.
"Yeah, your not bad Ryoga," Ranma said, equally tired.
"Hey? You two done yet? Come get some food! I made your favorites... Well
Ryoga's anyway. Can't remember yours Ranma!
"Anything is my favorite!" Ranma replied having become refreshed at the thought
of food.
"So Ryoga? How'd ya cure your sense of direction? And how about P-Chan?"
Ranma asked after they had sat down inside their home's living room. All the
students had gone home now that the fight was over. They sat on couches eating
their okonomiyaki.
"Well... Long story that one." Ryoga said.
"I've got time," Ranma replied.
"Well, in that case.... After you and Akane died I had no meaning left. My only
mission was to find a cure for my curses." Ryoga began.
"I'm going now. Been here, heard this." Letetsu said turning to go up to his room.
"Ok, later kid!" Ranma yelled after him.
He snorted and walked upstairs.
"I traveled for a long time serching for a way to cure the direction curse. I found a way
to cure myself too. I got a map from my father... But of course, I couldn't use it. I
followed it as best I could but I simply couldn't follow it. Well, sooner or later I bumped
into Ukyo... litterally." Ryoga told. He began to blush slightly and Ranma caught on.
"OH! WHAT HAPPENED?" Ranma asked. "You didn't happened to accidentally walk
in on her when she was in a natural hot spring or something like that, didja?" Ranma asked.
"How did you know?" Ukyo asked him.
"Oh just a guess. It used to happen to me all the time... still does actually." Ranma said.
"Pervert," Ukyo said.
Ranma denied it, of course. But Ukyo had grown up and could tell when Ranma
was joking now. Ranma was being completely serious, however, when he said
this still happened to him, but Ukyo figure he actually was joking and had grown
up a little not realizing that when he had walked into girls locker rooms and such
back in her past that he had never ment to do it to see them.
"Well, Basicly Ukyo led me to the magician who could lift my curse. So I got
cured of that. Jusenkyo though? It's a curse that don't let go. Just give up looking
If you still are Ranma." Ryoga finished.
"Hmm... So you and Ukyo got married and had a kid?" Ranma asked.
"We... ahem, got to know each other on the trip," Ukyo said.
Ryoga blushed.
Ranma burst out laughing.
(END CHAPTER)
I told you people it'd come around and it did! See?
Here it is! On with the show.
Chapter 4 Be for the Past
Letetsu looked at Ranma with an apprasing eye. Ranma
was almost sure he had no chance to win from his stance,
but it was better not to underestimate an opponent.
Letetsu was in a heavily offencive stance. Amazing how
pathetically confident he was.
Ranma however stood in a defencive stance wanting to
catch his opponent off gaurd. It worked like a charm...
Ranma made sure his stance looked horribly sloppy,
hoping Letetsu's parents would tell him of Ranma's styles
and secrets. Of course he had many, It probably wouldn't
matter in the end if they did anyway. Letetsu smirked.
"You can't possibly beat me! Not with a stance like
that especially!" he cried.
"I'm confident," Ranma replied slackening his worthless stance
even more. To Letetsu it looked like a feeble attempt to shape
the stance up that had failed and ended it worse.
In the corner of the Room Ryoga and Ukyo whispered to each other.
"He doesn't stand a chance you know," Ukyo told Ryoga.
"Yeah, I know. But Ranma's gonna teach him what I've been
failing too. Never underestimate an opponent. He just can't
seem to figure this out just because of the fact that he's never
lost a challenge," Ryoga said.
"Neither has Ranma in the long run. Anyway? What makes
you so sure that is Ranma?" She asked.
"Look at him and tell me otherwise," Ryoga replied calmly.
Ukyo said nothing.
"Come on! Are you gonna just wait there all day? Or are you
afraid?" Ranma taunted. Ryoga stifled the urge to laugh.
Remembering how this had always ticked him off. It had made
him lose his control and fight sloppy. Just as he figured his son
would. Once again, it worked like a charm. Letetsu had allready
taken Ranma's bait and now had the hook in his mouth.
Letetsu charged and hit Ranma square in the face. It connected
and sent him into a wall.
"Hmph! Pop! This guy is pathetic! Why would you even have
me fight someone like...!" But he was interupted.
"If I were you Letetsu, I'd watch your back!" Ryoga shouted back
to his son. Letetsu turned around to a punch headed directly for
his face. It connected and then sent him to a wall.
"WHY YOU! THAT WAS A CHEAP SHOT!" The boy shouted.
"Heh, It wasn't my fault you didn't see it coming," Came the reply.
Letetsu was getting angrier by the second. "I'll get you!"
Now the fight began in ernest. Letetsu throwing punches and kicks
left and right, and Ranma dodging wishing he had a book to read or
something of the sort, so he could tease his rival's son.
"Come on! You'll have to move faster than this! Your just like your
pop! You value your strength over your speed! If you don't get over
that you'll never have a chance of beating me!" Ranma shouted. This
of course, infuriated his opponent. However it interested Ryoga.
"Is that why I always lost to him? Why would he give out the information
to my son? Why not me? I didn't value my strength THAT much more
than my speed and agility did I?" Ryoga thought. "I was such an idiot
back then. But I suppose I had a good reason to be. Good thing I finally
cured my sense of direction problem. And my love life problem," Ryoga
looked out to the floor and saw exactly what he expected. Ranma toying
with his son.
"LETETSU! YOU'RE BETTER THAN THIS! YOUR MAKING THE
SAME MISTAKES I DID! CONSENTRATE! STOP LOSING YOUR
TEMPER OR YOUR GOING TO LOSE THE FIGHT!" He shouted.
Oddly enough. It helped. Suddenly Letetsu's red aura cooled. He became
calm and collected and began to attack Ranma at a much faster rate. Ranma
still dodged with ease, however there were a few close calls.
"Good job, kid! Your way better than your pop was!" Ranma yelled.
Ryoga fumed but only for a minute before he remembered how infuriating
Ranma could be. There was something about him... It was just there! A
call to him... he was allways just so, smashable. Just smashing him into a
wall provided so much happiness to anyone and everyone in his vicinity.
He never could figure it out. He knew now for sure though that this was
Ranma. He hadn't fumed in so many years, that only THE RANMA
could do that to him... Well, his wife and kid did it every now and
then... but it still wasn't Ranma.
"Don't Call me a kid!" Letetsu returned.
"Don't lose your focus and I won't, kid!" Ranma said and then
punched him directly in his stomach.
Letetsu doubled over. Ranma smirked.
"If you hadn't been worried about me calling you a kid and had
worried about where I was aiming then you coulda read that
move miles away!" Ranma exclaimed.
"Well, what about you? I don't see you under complete focus!"
Letetsu taunted as he stood up and took a stance. This time it
was more defensive.
"Heh... you got a lot to learn kid," Ranma said. He then proceeded
to break through all of Letetsu's defences in a matter of seconds, connect
about twenty punches in the gut and knock to boy unconcious.
"Ranma!" Ryoga shouted. "Don't you think you could go a little easier on
him?"
"Hmph, with an attitude like that Ryoga, no wonder he couldn't lay a
finger on me!" Ranma replied.
To Ranma's amazement, Ryoga agreed.
"I suppose your right... Ranma, could you do me a favor and train him?
I don't seem near as good a teacher as I thought that I was," Ryoga asked.
"Damn... And here I thought you were the same old porky! Admiting weakness
is definantly a change! Sure Old man! If you spar me. I think I've changed
my mind. Without me around, who know's how much you've slacked off!"
Ryoga was stuck on once phrase however. "I AM NOT OLD!!!!! RANMA
PREPARE TO DIE!"
However, instead of charging Ranma in a mad rage, Ryoga walked to the center
and bowed to his ex-rival and took a stance as Ukyo removed Letetsu from the
floor. Meanwhile, All of the other students who had stayed to watch the fight,
expecting Letetsu to win hands down were amazed to find him unconcious.
Believing this kid was Ryoga's ex-rival was a hard thought but it seemed proven
true. However, no one had EVER beaten their sensei Ryoga, and they didn't plan
on his defeat coming from the fist of a fourteen year-old-kid.
Ranma began to taunt Ryoga just like he always did. "You first P-Chan!
Or will you need some time to find your fist?" However Ryoga was cool
and collected. He had little arrogence. His eyes were hard to read but they
spelled confidence to Ranma.
Ryoga charged Ranma head on. Unlike his former style of charge directly
and never change direction, he instead moved to the left and began a very
fast combination of punches and kicks while running as Ranma had moved
with him. Neither were getting any hits in. Ranma knew Ryoga had
improved, but not TOO much. After all, how could he improve without
Ranma around? Fight angels? When Ranma actually thought about that
he found that it was quite possible that Ryoga DID fight angels even though
he had yet to see one.
The fight lasted almost an hour. When Letetsu woke he was amazed to find
his father struggling for the upper hand in a battle with someone like Ranma.
However it made him feel better knowing that his father had trouble with Ranma.
If his father had trouble, he couldn't possibly win.
Sooner or later they finally called a draw when both of their stomachs gave in to
the call of food long before their energy ran out. ... Basicly Ukyo was
cooking in a corner of the dojo for the students that had stayed to watch
Ranma and Ryoga's battle. She hadn't changed much at all. After all, she
was selling them at an amazingly high price but they still sold just as they had
fifteen years ago when she sold them at low prices. Very well.
"Well, Ranma... I think were gonna have to have a rematch... some other time,"
Ryoga said, taking long intervals in between phrases.
"Yeah, your not bad Ryoga," Ranma said, equally tired.
"Hey? You two done yet? Come get some food! I made your favorites... Well
Ryoga's anyway. Can't remember yours Ranma!
"Anything is my favorite!" Ranma replied having become refreshed at the thought
of food.
"So Ryoga? How'd ya cure your sense of direction? And how about P-Chan?"
Ranma asked after they had sat down inside their home's living room. All the
students had gone home now that the fight was over. They sat on couches eating
their okonomiyaki.
"Well... Long story that one." Ryoga said.
"I've got time," Ranma replied.
"Well, in that case.... After you and Akane died I had no meaning left. My only
mission was to find a cure for my curses." Ryoga began.
"I'm going now. Been here, heard this." Letetsu said turning to go up to his room.
"Ok, later kid!" Ranma yelled after him.
He snorted and walked upstairs.
"I traveled for a long time serching for a way to cure the direction curse. I found a way
to cure myself too. I got a map from my father... But of course, I couldn't use it. I
followed it as best I could but I simply couldn't follow it. Well, sooner or later I bumped
into Ukyo... litterally." Ryoga told. He began to blush slightly and Ranma caught on.
"OH! WHAT HAPPENED?" Ranma asked. "You didn't happened to accidentally walk
in on her when she was in a natural hot spring or something like that, didja?" Ranma asked.
"How did you know?" Ukyo asked him.
"Oh just a guess. It used to happen to me all the time... still does actually." Ranma said.
"Pervert," Ukyo said.
Ranma denied it, of course. But Ukyo had grown up and could tell when Ranma
was joking now. Ranma was being completely serious, however, when he said
this still happened to him, but Ukyo figure he actually was joking and had grown
up a little not realizing that when he had walked into girls locker rooms and such
back in her past that he had never ment to do it to see them.
"Well, Basicly Ukyo led me to the magician who could lift my curse. So I got
cured of that. Jusenkyo though? It's a curse that don't let go. Just give up looking
If you still are Ranma." Ryoga finished.
"Hmm... So you and Ukyo got married and had a kid?" Ranma asked.
"We... ahem, got to know each other on the trip," Ukyo said.
Ryoga blushed.
Ranma burst out laughing.
(END CHAPTER)
