Blazing stallion, crouching fox.
By Wonky_Donkey
fukuwearer87@yahoo.com.au
Disclaimer: I ain't typing new one each chapter, go read the one on chapter 1!!
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Flash backs
".I had hoped that this wouldn't happen, but it has, and Ninjas take honor just as seriously as Samurais, if not more. "
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She looked directly into Ranma's eyes.
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She used her right hand to unwrap the Saotome blade from the cloth that conceals it from prying eyes.
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her left hand moved silently , and gripped onto the sheath to steady it.
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She grasped the Handle
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CLICK, she had unlatched the handle from the katana and had silently caught the hidden scroll, placed inside the handle.
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SWISH-THUMP! Ranma had facefualted. (A/N: hey, that's the sound you make when you facefault, and Nodoka was being way too dramatic.)
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DRIP, DRIP Genma had started to sweat drop and was crouched up in the far corner of the dojo with his prayer beads out. If he wasn't such a dishonorable bastard, he'd commit seppuku, rather than face the consequences of *this* pledge.
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(A/N: what? You think I'd let Nodoka behead Ranma in a pg-13 fic? *Before* beating up Kakashi? Yes, he will beat up kakashi! ^_^)
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Nodoka looked at Ranma as he righted himself. When he was sitting upright again, she began her explanation.
"Ranma, over 5 years ago there was a massacre in the village that I was born in, it's called the hidden leaf village, you've never been there. A boy named Uchiha Itachi hunted and killed off all the members of his clan as a .." she paused then spat, " *test* of his skills."
Showing great self control, Nodoka calmed herself. " the Uchiha clan was famous, and renounded though-out all of the Ninja countries for an ability that is passed down through the Uchiha bloodline."
Nodoka let a single tear as she announced, " My mother, Sarutobi Asuka was one of the ones killed."
"I, during a reckless moment, I left our house and attempted to fight that, that.. monster." Nodoka looked down, " he defeated me, pinned me to the ground with my own weapon..and..and.. mocked me and my skills..."
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Genma had heard this and thought, 'HOLY SHI-.nobi!' No-one had ever mocked Nodoka's skills without regretting it. Hell, Genma still has the scars.
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Ranma was PO-ed. That guy had better be dead. He couldn't allow a sadistic women beater to live unscathed, especially, since he had harmed his mother.
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Nodoka continued, "He mocked my skills, saying that because I didn't have the sharingan.and that I wasn't worth killing.. leaving me alive would make him seem even stronger in comparison."
An angry look suddenly appeared on her face. Making Genma fall backwards in fear.
"He said, he had only one sharingan user left to kill." She looked fearfully at Ranma. "That would be you my son."
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Ranma's thought's were muddled, he had never seen fear on his mother's face, and just what the hell was a sharingan?! (A/N: trust me, I just went through manga to check, the closest thing to fear on Nodoka's face is shock.)
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"Ranma, you were an extremely skilled child for your age. At the age of eight, you had learnt the basics of chakra manipulation, tai-jutsu, nin- jitsu, and the sharingan."
"You were at the same level of skill as Itachi was when he was your age. He took this as a threat, and taunted me, saying that I was too weak to stop him.. that he was going to kill you and that I should get out of his way."
Nodoka gave a smirk before continuing, "but I am not known as "Nodoka the devious-nin Saotome" for nothing. Your father and I discussed a back up plan to ensure your safety at all costs."
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"While I fought Itachi, he was to escape with you from our house which is on the outskirts of Ninja country into the outside world. You see, speed and evasiveness was and still is his forte. So he was to train you in the Saotome school of Martial arts and to keep you from enemy ninjas."
"You see, martial artists use their ki to enhance their speed and strength etc. Ninjas on the other hand use chakra. Chakra is a different form of ki. You could say that ki is the purer form, but in truth, chakra is ki, but uses energy from nature as well to strengthen it's power."
While she was saying this, Ranma was trying to understand what she had meant when she said at the start. That Genma ran off with him (the supposed training trip) when he was eight, and that was only 5 years ago. No-one ever said that he was a genius or anything, but he was smart enough to add 8 and 5 together and he knew it totaled thirteen. Ranma was seventeen, nearly eighteen.
"Wait-a-sec, you said Oyaji and I ran away when I was eight. I know that I was six when we left on the trip, and that it lasted ten years." Ranma was about to say more but Nodoka cut him off.
"Ranma, when we learned of Itachi killing off all the sharingan users in the Uchiha clan, we knew he would come after you sooner or later."
"With this in mind we decided to disguise you." Nodoka gripped the scroll tightly, " Using an ancient technique, we used a form of the kage-henge jutsu (shadow transformation skill) to make you look like you were only five and as your training progressed, you father used a form of weak gen- jutsu to make your training to seem twice as long than it really was."
"Your father has using the kage-henge jutsu on you every time he used the Gen-jutsu to make your body look older. So after a year of training you should've looked to be eight, after two years you would've looked to be about ten, after three you would've appeared to be twelve years of age and so on."
"What?!" Ranma exclaimed, "Does this mean my body is an illusion?! And why don't I look like a twenty year old, instead of a eighteen year old?! And how did I forget to use chakra?!"
"Yes your *body* is a very complicated illusion and the pledge only required that your father use the gen-jutsu and the kage-henge on you until you were sixteen. To answer your other question, even the best ninjas slip up and for someone who has been learning to use chakra since he could walk, we thought it best if we forced you to.. *forget* how to use chakra, since ninjas can track people by their unique chakra signal."
"Forget?"
" I am a master of Gen-jutsu. (techniques that use psychological war-fare) One of my techniques is a seal that can over-ride your memories. "
she looked at the table, not meeting his eyes, she whispered/half sobbed, "This technique is a forbidden-jutsu, the memories cannot be regained."
Ranma stood up suddenly. Ranma was now, *VERY* angry. ow dare she wipe his memory?! First suicide pledges, now brain-washing?!!
Nodoka started to sob, "To keep my own son safe I had to make him forget both himself and myself.and he hates me because of this."
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Ranma looked down upon his mother, shame burning in his throat. He hadn't thought about how she was affected by having to make her only son forget her.
He got up and walked over to his mother's side, sat down then gave her a hug. He then let her cry on his shoulder. For her to be able to do something so brave. Ranma doubted he could do the same..
"Don't cry.. I don't hate you.. I really don't." Ranma told her.
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After a while, Nodoka had stoped crying and had gathered enough control of herself to hand the concealed scroll to him and to tell him that the pledge was complete.
"Ranma, now that you know about your history and that the pledge is now complete. I'm giving you a choice. If you open this scroll, the jutsu that makes you older, will be canceled out, it cannot be cancelled any other way, your father was only modifying it.
"Please understand that you are under no obligation to open the seal, and by doing so, you are putting your life in a danger, greater than you have ever faced before."
A sense of pride shone on her face when she proclaimed to him, "But if what you have said is true, using only you ki, you have gained the strength of at least a chunin, (middle-ranking ninja) and if you manage to use you chakra as you could before, you would definitely be a jounin (high-ranking ninja). With some training from my self, your father, and some of my comrades in the Leaf village, you could avenge our line..." the last part had underlying hope, Nodoka for the first time in her life wanted him to do something for her.
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Ranma looked at the scroll.
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Nodoka looked at the scroll.
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Genma looked at the scroll as if it was his last chance at life.
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Ranma looked up and at his mother, "I'll do it." There was no way that he could let a bastard like Itachi live after what he did.
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Ranma grasped the latch.
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CRACK-BAM!! Genma in a burst of lightning-fast speed that Ranma didn't know his father to have, knocked the scroll into the air and then shouldered his son to the floor.
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Standing there he caught the scroll at shoulder-height before it fell to the ground.
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With a crazed look in his eye he declared, "Ungrateful boy! I'm going to stop you from making a mistake that will save me- uh- *US*, from that freaky patricidal missing-nin!" (A/N: patricide- when you kill your own father )
Ranma got up off the dojo floor clutching his rib, now his father was giving off the crazy energy, similar to the one Saffron gave off.
"You can use chakra.." Ranma stated, there was no way that his father could be that strong and fast using ki alone.
"Yes, boy. I've always been able to use it. Gen-jutsu and nin-jutsu require chakra. Every time we ran out of town wasn't because of debts or crazy shop keepers and restaurateurs that have wild ideas about me promising my son to them for food. ok, that was a factor, but the real reason was that ninjas sensed my chakra every time I used it, and started to hunt me down."
"You? I thought they were after me?" Ranma asked. Things were starting to fall into place. There had to be a reason why Genma was so nervous about the damn pledge.
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"Alright pop, who d'ya steal-from/lie-to/insult/incite a vendetta against the Saotome name? or is it all of the above? Hmmmn?" Ranma knew his father way too well.
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"Actually it's all you mother's fault." Genma replied.
"Very childish, blaming someone else." Ranma taunted.
"Actually Ranma," Nodoka blushed as she interupted, "..it's mostly my fault." Nodoka then sighed and said, "There were quite a large number of male ninjas after my hand in marriage and when I chose your father over all of them." Ranma gave a look of disgust. ".. they assumed it was an insult and decided to take it out on your father."
"So we had no choice but to live in a small house on the outskirts of ninja country." Genma said. "And if you go back to the ninja country, they'll torture you until you tell them where I am."
"They wouldn't need to torture me, all they'd need to do is ask me nicely." Ranma snarled.
"After the Neko-ken training and Jusenko, I'd give them some pointers in just how to torture you, you old bastard." Ranma said and gave his father an extreme look of hatred.
"Give me the scroll." Ranma ordered.
Genma had grim determination in his voice and had a set look on his face when he said: "I will not allow you to change into your proper appearance."
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Ranma stared at his father, locking eyes with his tormenter/teacher.
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"Well then, I formally challenge you for it." Ranma said cockily, hadn't he won every fight and sparring match that he had had in the last two years? The old man must be getting senile if he thought he could win.
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Genma had a smirk, Ranma had absolutely no idea what his father could do. He had been holding back in all their fights by only using his ki. He wasn't known as the silent reaper-nin in his ANBU days for nothing.
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Nodoka looked on in fear, she could not interfere in this. It was a matter of honor, she could only hope for her son's safety. No-one she knew had a style of killing as lethal or as fast and as silent as Genma's.
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A/N: BWA- HAHAHAHAH!! Nice cliff-hanger huh? Don't worry you'll get another chapter soon.
NEXT CHAPTER: Genma and Ranma fight.(well duh, who couldn't realize that that was going to happen?) Wonky's psychotic split personalities all raise their hands and receive a electro shock from a chip similar to the one used on Cartman in the SOUTHPARK movie to stop him from swearing.
Burnt-Wonky-sama mutters something illegibly before collapsing in a pool of his own urine.
Hey, the mental institution peoples put me in straight-jacket for god sake. It's not like I could open up the LOCKED door and walk down the aisle to the toilet and undo my fly to take a leak.
I'm typing this up with my nose damnit! No-one appreciates me. *Pouts*
You don't know how hard it is to use a laptop mouse with your nose.
(Not one of the nice touch pads either, it's a small little knob and the grip on it is wearing the skin off my nose.)
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WONKY-SAMA SIGNING OFF!
By Wonky_Donkey
fukuwearer87@yahoo.com.au
Disclaimer: I ain't typing new one each chapter, go read the one on chapter 1!!
"Speech"
'Thoughts'
Flash backs
".I had hoped that this wouldn't happen, but it has, and Ninjas take honor just as seriously as Samurais, if not more. "
-
She looked directly into Ranma's eyes.
-
She used her right hand to unwrap the Saotome blade from the cloth that conceals it from prying eyes.
-
her left hand moved silently , and gripped onto the sheath to steady it.
-
She grasped the Handle
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CLICK, she had unlatched the handle from the katana and had silently caught the hidden scroll, placed inside the handle.
-
SWISH-THUMP! Ranma had facefualted. (A/N: hey, that's the sound you make when you facefault, and Nodoka was being way too dramatic.)
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DRIP, DRIP Genma had started to sweat drop and was crouched up in the far corner of the dojo with his prayer beads out. If he wasn't such a dishonorable bastard, he'd commit seppuku, rather than face the consequences of *this* pledge.
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(A/N: what? You think I'd let Nodoka behead Ranma in a pg-13 fic? *Before* beating up Kakashi? Yes, he will beat up kakashi! ^_^)
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Nodoka looked at Ranma as he righted himself. When he was sitting upright again, she began her explanation.
"Ranma, over 5 years ago there was a massacre in the village that I was born in, it's called the hidden leaf village, you've never been there. A boy named Uchiha Itachi hunted and killed off all the members of his clan as a .." she paused then spat, " *test* of his skills."
Showing great self control, Nodoka calmed herself. " the Uchiha clan was famous, and renounded though-out all of the Ninja countries for an ability that is passed down through the Uchiha bloodline."
Nodoka let a single tear as she announced, " My mother, Sarutobi Asuka was one of the ones killed."
"I, during a reckless moment, I left our house and attempted to fight that, that.. monster." Nodoka looked down, " he defeated me, pinned me to the ground with my own weapon..and..and.. mocked me and my skills..."
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Genma had heard this and thought, 'HOLY SHI-.nobi!' No-one had ever mocked Nodoka's skills without regretting it. Hell, Genma still has the scars.
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Ranma was PO-ed. That guy had better be dead. He couldn't allow a sadistic women beater to live unscathed, especially, since he had harmed his mother.
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Nodoka continued, "He mocked my skills, saying that because I didn't have the sharingan.and that I wasn't worth killing.. leaving me alive would make him seem even stronger in comparison."
An angry look suddenly appeared on her face. Making Genma fall backwards in fear.
"He said, he had only one sharingan user left to kill." She looked fearfully at Ranma. "That would be you my son."
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Ranma's thought's were muddled, he had never seen fear on his mother's face, and just what the hell was a sharingan?! (A/N: trust me, I just went through manga to check, the closest thing to fear on Nodoka's face is shock.)
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"Ranma, you were an extremely skilled child for your age. At the age of eight, you had learnt the basics of chakra manipulation, tai-jutsu, nin- jitsu, and the sharingan."
"You were at the same level of skill as Itachi was when he was your age. He took this as a threat, and taunted me, saying that I was too weak to stop him.. that he was going to kill you and that I should get out of his way."
Nodoka gave a smirk before continuing, "but I am not known as "Nodoka the devious-nin Saotome" for nothing. Your father and I discussed a back up plan to ensure your safety at all costs."
-
"While I fought Itachi, he was to escape with you from our house which is on the outskirts of Ninja country into the outside world. You see, speed and evasiveness was and still is his forte. So he was to train you in the Saotome school of Martial arts and to keep you from enemy ninjas."
"You see, martial artists use their ki to enhance their speed and strength etc. Ninjas on the other hand use chakra. Chakra is a different form of ki. You could say that ki is the purer form, but in truth, chakra is ki, but uses energy from nature as well to strengthen it's power."
While she was saying this, Ranma was trying to understand what she had meant when she said at the start. That Genma ran off with him (the supposed training trip) when he was eight, and that was only 5 years ago. No-one ever said that he was a genius or anything, but he was smart enough to add 8 and 5 together and he knew it totaled thirteen. Ranma was seventeen, nearly eighteen.
"Wait-a-sec, you said Oyaji and I ran away when I was eight. I know that I was six when we left on the trip, and that it lasted ten years." Ranma was about to say more but Nodoka cut him off.
"Ranma, when we learned of Itachi killing off all the sharingan users in the Uchiha clan, we knew he would come after you sooner or later."
"With this in mind we decided to disguise you." Nodoka gripped the scroll tightly, " Using an ancient technique, we used a form of the kage-henge jutsu (shadow transformation skill) to make you look like you were only five and as your training progressed, you father used a form of weak gen- jutsu to make your training to seem twice as long than it really was."
"Your father has using the kage-henge jutsu on you every time he used the Gen-jutsu to make your body look older. So after a year of training you should've looked to be eight, after two years you would've looked to be about ten, after three you would've appeared to be twelve years of age and so on."
"What?!" Ranma exclaimed, "Does this mean my body is an illusion?! And why don't I look like a twenty year old, instead of a eighteen year old?! And how did I forget to use chakra?!"
"Yes your *body* is a very complicated illusion and the pledge only required that your father use the gen-jutsu and the kage-henge on you until you were sixteen. To answer your other question, even the best ninjas slip up and for someone who has been learning to use chakra since he could walk, we thought it best if we forced you to.. *forget* how to use chakra, since ninjas can track people by their unique chakra signal."
"Forget?"
" I am a master of Gen-jutsu. (techniques that use psychological war-fare) One of my techniques is a seal that can over-ride your memories. "
she looked at the table, not meeting his eyes, she whispered/half sobbed, "This technique is a forbidden-jutsu, the memories cannot be regained."
Ranma stood up suddenly. Ranma was now, *VERY* angry. ow dare she wipe his memory?! First suicide pledges, now brain-washing?!!
Nodoka started to sob, "To keep my own son safe I had to make him forget both himself and myself.and he hates me because of this."
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Ranma looked down upon his mother, shame burning in his throat. He hadn't thought about how she was affected by having to make her only son forget her.
He got up and walked over to his mother's side, sat down then gave her a hug. He then let her cry on his shoulder. For her to be able to do something so brave. Ranma doubted he could do the same..
"Don't cry.. I don't hate you.. I really don't." Ranma told her.
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After a while, Nodoka had stoped crying and had gathered enough control of herself to hand the concealed scroll to him and to tell him that the pledge was complete.
"Ranma, now that you know about your history and that the pledge is now complete. I'm giving you a choice. If you open this scroll, the jutsu that makes you older, will be canceled out, it cannot be cancelled any other way, your father was only modifying it.
"Please understand that you are under no obligation to open the seal, and by doing so, you are putting your life in a danger, greater than you have ever faced before."
A sense of pride shone on her face when she proclaimed to him, "But if what you have said is true, using only you ki, you have gained the strength of at least a chunin, (middle-ranking ninja) and if you manage to use you chakra as you could before, you would definitely be a jounin (high-ranking ninja). With some training from my self, your father, and some of my comrades in the Leaf village, you could avenge our line..." the last part had underlying hope, Nodoka for the first time in her life wanted him to do something for her.
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Ranma looked at the scroll.
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Nodoka looked at the scroll.
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Genma looked at the scroll as if it was his last chance at life.
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Ranma looked up and at his mother, "I'll do it." There was no way that he could let a bastard like Itachi live after what he did.
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Ranma grasped the latch.
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CRACK-BAM!! Genma in a burst of lightning-fast speed that Ranma didn't know his father to have, knocked the scroll into the air and then shouldered his son to the floor.
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Standing there he caught the scroll at shoulder-height before it fell to the ground.
-
With a crazed look in his eye he declared, "Ungrateful boy! I'm going to stop you from making a mistake that will save me- uh- *US*, from that freaky patricidal missing-nin!" (A/N: patricide- when you kill your own father )
Ranma got up off the dojo floor clutching his rib, now his father was giving off the crazy energy, similar to the one Saffron gave off.
"You can use chakra.." Ranma stated, there was no way that his father could be that strong and fast using ki alone.
"Yes, boy. I've always been able to use it. Gen-jutsu and nin-jutsu require chakra. Every time we ran out of town wasn't because of debts or crazy shop keepers and restaurateurs that have wild ideas about me promising my son to them for food. ok, that was a factor, but the real reason was that ninjas sensed my chakra every time I used it, and started to hunt me down."
"You? I thought they were after me?" Ranma asked. Things were starting to fall into place. There had to be a reason why Genma was so nervous about the damn pledge.
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"Alright pop, who d'ya steal-from/lie-to/insult/incite a vendetta against the Saotome name? or is it all of the above? Hmmmn?" Ranma knew his father way too well.
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"Actually it's all you mother's fault." Genma replied.
"Very childish, blaming someone else." Ranma taunted.
"Actually Ranma," Nodoka blushed as she interupted, "..it's mostly my fault." Nodoka then sighed and said, "There were quite a large number of male ninjas after my hand in marriage and when I chose your father over all of them." Ranma gave a look of disgust. ".. they assumed it was an insult and decided to take it out on your father."
"So we had no choice but to live in a small house on the outskirts of ninja country." Genma said. "And if you go back to the ninja country, they'll torture you until you tell them where I am."
"They wouldn't need to torture me, all they'd need to do is ask me nicely." Ranma snarled.
"After the Neko-ken training and Jusenko, I'd give them some pointers in just how to torture you, you old bastard." Ranma said and gave his father an extreme look of hatred.
"Give me the scroll." Ranma ordered.
Genma had grim determination in his voice and had a set look on his face when he said: "I will not allow you to change into your proper appearance."
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Ranma stared at his father, locking eyes with his tormenter/teacher.
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"Well then, I formally challenge you for it." Ranma said cockily, hadn't he won every fight and sparring match that he had had in the last two years? The old man must be getting senile if he thought he could win.
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Genma had a smirk, Ranma had absolutely no idea what his father could do. He had been holding back in all their fights by only using his ki. He wasn't known as the silent reaper-nin in his ANBU days for nothing.
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Nodoka looked on in fear, she could not interfere in this. It was a matter of honor, she could only hope for her son's safety. No-one she knew had a style of killing as lethal or as fast and as silent as Genma's.
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A/N: BWA- HAHAHAHAH!! Nice cliff-hanger huh? Don't worry you'll get another chapter soon.
NEXT CHAPTER: Genma and Ranma fight.(well duh, who couldn't realize that that was going to happen?) Wonky's psychotic split personalities all raise their hands and receive a electro shock from a chip similar to the one used on Cartman in the SOUTHPARK movie to stop him from swearing.
Burnt-Wonky-sama mutters something illegibly before collapsing in a pool of his own urine.
Hey, the mental institution peoples put me in straight-jacket for god sake. It's not like I could open up the LOCKED door and walk down the aisle to the toilet and undo my fly to take a leak.
I'm typing this up with my nose damnit! No-one appreciates me. *Pouts*
You don't know how hard it is to use a laptop mouse with your nose.
(Not one of the nice touch pads either, it's a small little knob and the grip on it is wearing the skin off my nose.)
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WONKY-SAMA SIGNING OFF!