Blazing Stallion, Crouching Fox
wonky_donkey
"Speech" 'Thoughts' *Flashbacks*
Chapter 7: Ninja Ducks!
Ranma stood silently in the brightly-lit room. He fervently wished that his mother hadn't dragged him into this lively place of soon-to-be raging chaos. Chaos followed him wherever he went, he tried not to walk headfirst into it when he could help it. He had smelt these scents many times as his father took him on the run from ANBU and other pissed off male ninjas through Japan and China. The spices and eating sounds always calmed him down, Chinese food was his favourite food.. after Japanese, Italian, Thai, Malay...Mmmmm...
All the same, as soon as he could leave the Nekohanten the better. There had been many fights here, Khu Lon, Herb, Panty-hose Taro naming just a few. This was in Ranma's opinion, one of the chaos centres of Nermia, and he had recently tried to avoid places such as the Nekohanten, Uchans, Furikan High school, or unused lots. Unfortunately for him, Nermia thrived on the destruction caused by the Nermia wrecking crew so he had nowhere to go. Gambling, Cheap housing materials, mild pornography, "Live Martial Art Exhibitions" (for a fee), was mostly run by Nabiki. Unlike what most people think, there is no way one 17 year old girl could manage to support a family of four, who lived in a large property, with two human vacuum cleaners for guests*cough*free-loaders*cough*, not to mention how many times the house has been nearly destroyed. The truth is that at age 14, Miss Nabiki Tendo started dealing in everything that could make money, bordering of illegal, to make money for her poverty-stricken family. She learnt from an early age to not get caught, risking to break her ailing father's heart further after the death of his wife and her mother.
With all the chaos in the air, with some luck and some manipulation from the Ice Queen, the Tendo family managed to stay in the black. This was the only reason why Ranma had put up with the manipulation since he had returned from Jusendo. Before he started to use his subconscious Ninja instincts and talents, it didn't matter if he what he cared about the manipulation, he couldn't do anything outside of pimp-slapping Nabiki. And one thing his father and mother had instilled in his was to never hit a girl. Genma didn't hit women, because his wife had instilled a fear of all women shortly after he refused to fight her for the first time.
It wasn't long before a familiar purple blur raced out screaming a deadly war-cry of "AIREN, WO AI NI!!", before attempting to spear tackle our hero to the ground. Ranma jumped just in time, so instead of *his* frame being broken yet again, the honour was bested upon his father. CRUNCH, CRACK, POP- POPITY-POP went the sound of Genma's body being slammed across the wall and then given a bear-hug strong enough to give a grizzly a dire need for a chiropractor. (A/N: Hey, just because Genma isn't a bad person, doesn't mean he won't get a beating for all the things he did to Ranma over the years. And anyway, who doesn't find "Giving the ole' Panda rug a beating" fics funny? ^_- )
"Aiyah!" Xiam Pu exclaimed, her eyes closed, rubbing against Genma's prone frame, "Ranma, you need diet.. and bath! Xiam Pu wash Airen back!" Xiam Pu grinned like a cat as she began to drag Genma's corpse-like state upstairs.. only to be stopped as Nodoka let out a small cough, getting the feisty amazon's attention. Noticing Ranma standing next to his mother, it took our bouncy warrior two seconds to notice and drop the old man before attempting to glomp Ranma. Standing in front of her, Nodoka gave her a stern look before asking in an old dialect somewhat a mixture of Japanese and Cantonese, "Greetings young warrior. I come to speak with the honourable Elder Khu Lon. This concerns your marriage to my son."
Xiam Pu looked blankly at Nodoka, blinked twice, then attempted to glomp Ranma again to be stopped by a frustrated Nodoka. "Don't they teach the young-ones anything of the old ways anymore? I'm going to have to speak to your Great-grandmother about this." Nodoka said in an offhand way.
Xiam Pu thought, 'Hmmmnnn.. if mother-in-law talk to great-granny then Xiam Pu get Ranma.' Xiam Pu called to her granny (who was upstairs meditating) . "GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER-IN-LAW AND AIREN IS HERE!" Xiam Pu shouted.
A white blur appeared from the kitchen appeared and sent a barrage of knives at a pot plant on the other side of the room, screaming "NOW YOU DIE Ranma !!" everyone in the shop sweat-dropped then went back to their own businesses leaving a half-blind young man extract his fury on a pot plant. Finally Mu zhi realized that it (the pot plant) wasn't Ranma and put on his glasses. After looking around the room about twenty times, Ranma walked up to him and smacked him on the back of his head. Mu zhi then began to rant and ramble about how he would finally free his future bride from the demon... blah, blah... before throwing a few chains at Ranma.
Ranma dodged at the last second and jumped out of the shop to get more space to fight. He taunted "Come on blind boy, let rumble!" before running off towards furikan high. Mu zhi in hot pursuit ran after him, on roof tops, tree branches, houses with open windows, until the two fighters reached the furikan high school oval. The two boys stood there watching each other.
-
the wind blew through the grass and the two martial artist faced off.
-
Ranma, wanting to end the fight as soon as possible, charged towards mu zhi at high speed. Mu zhi grinned and threw a chain in a jabbing throw, straight at Ranma. Ranma side-stepped the chain with ease and didn't stop running. Ranma with a burst of energy punched the still grinning Mu zhi with all his strength.
-
Well, he tried to but he was being restrained by a chain around his waist. Mu zhi then threw some kunai at Ranma scorning hits on his thighs and left shoulder. Ranma shouted out in pain and tried to free himself from the chain with no success.
Mu zhi laughed, "Fool, no-one can escape my newest special technique. This is my living chain technique, by releasing my chakra through the chain I strengthen it and can control what direction it moves in."
The world seemed to slow as Ranma processes this new information. If mu zhi knew how to use chakra, then he had ties to ninjas. Ranma didn't want to use his new found abilities in fear of a recurrence of last night. His father was still in the clinic and Ranma was still weak from blood loss. Ranma fired off a large Mokotakabisha at mu zhi, only to find that a few more chains leapt up to protect their master from harm.
Mu zhi laughed and commanded his chains to grab Ranma and smash him against the ground. Ranma could feel his bones moan and grunt in complaint when he hit the ground. He gritted his teeth and decided that if he wanted to live, that he needed to use chakra to survive. He relaxed and released his ki into the air drew it back in. feeling the power flow around him he focused it into his arms, grabbed one of the chains that were holding him down and tried to yank mu zhi off his feet.
As if Mu zhi had his feet glued to the ground he merely laughed at Ranma's feeble attempts to move him. "It's elementary chakra manipulation to stick your body to objects, even children can do it. You can't move me!"
Ranma was in deep SHI-take (A/N: a mushroom), and while mu zhi began to rant and rave while slamming Ranma against the ground, he contemplated how chakra could be used to stick your feet to the ground. Therefore if it could be used by your feet... then...
Flash back **************************************************************************** ********** Ranma and his mother are discussing why the Uchiha clan was so powerful as they walked from the clinic to the Nekohanten. "The Uchiha clan, was famous for having a special genetic ability, commonly known as an advanced bloodline. It's rare, but some of our clan have the sharigan ability. It's an ability to see chakra, therefore being able to copy jutsus after just seeing them. From your description of the Jusendo battle, I would assume that you still have the gift.
End Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
If Ranma could copy his technique to stick to the ground Mu zhi couldn't slam him around.
Ranma focused energy into his closed eyes and opened his eyes. Nothing was different, he concentrated again. Yet again, no luck. He was panicking right about now, but he calmed himself down enough to remember everything he knew about the sharingan...
Uhhh...sharingan means "Spinning Wheel Eye" ... Ranma began to focus again, but this time he focused the energy in his closed eyes and began to make it spin. Faster and faster it span and when it reached it's peak speed, Ranma opened his eyes.
-
Ranma saw. The colours he assumed to be chakra, flowed around him and mu zhi.
-
Ranma understood. He didn't know how he understood what the chakra was doing, but he understood how to copy it. He focused his chakra under his feet when he landed on the ground. Mu zhi looked up from ranting and looked surprised. He channeled more chakra into his chains trying to move Ranma.
Ranma saw what he was going to do, before he did it. He increased the chakra under his feet accordingly.
The two teens began raising their chakra. Mu zhi chains started to crack and one by one they began to break from the sheer amount of chakra inside them. The ground under Ranma's feet suddenly exploded under his feet and propelled him into the air. Mu zhi only had one chain left. He let go of Ranma, not wanting to fight Ranma in an air battle, instead he used his final jutsu.
"ASCENDING DRAGON CHAIN!!" Mu Zhi shouted in rage as his single chain rose into the air in a tight spiral. Ranma began to descend and was planning to do some form of the Hiryushotenha but first he had to deal with the chain.
'Mu zhi controls the chain using his chakra, by forcing it into the chain, if I do the same with cold chakra...'
Ranma grinned and gathered his energy as the chain rose higher and he descended faster.
When he connected with the chain he channeled his chakra into the chain as Mu zhi did. His chakra mingled with Mu zhi's and made the chain cold. As Ranma pumped cold energy through the chain, the winds picked up. A tight hiryushotenha came down upon Mu zhi and like a corkscrew, the whirlwind of air ripped muscle and tendons from Mu Zhi's right shoulder. Over the noise of the attack, Ranma heard Mu Zhi's scream and stopped channeling energy.
-
When Ranma landed he saw the destruction he had caused. There was a deep hole in the ground and surrounding it was a pool of blood. Lying in the pool of blood, Mu Zhi laid there holding what was left of his shoulder.
-
At this sight Ranma promptly threw up. After a few seconds Ranma gathered the strength to look up at Mu Zhi's body. He realized that Mu zhi required instant medical care. In short Mu Zhi was bleeding to death.
-
Despite his earlier injuries, Ranma ran like he had never run before. Carrying Mu Zhi's body he reached Dr Tofu's clinic, and left him in the good care of Dr. Tofu.
As Ranma made his way back to the Nekohanten, he bleakly thought if this was the life that he was going to live from now on. Kill or be killed, die or become a murderer. This was the way of the Shinobi. Nin-do. His mother had spent some time before they opened the scroll, telling informing him what it would be like to be a ninja.
-
'Kill or be killed...' Ranma sighed
-
When Ranma reached the Nekohanten, he was surprised to find it empty apart from his mother, Khu Lon and Xiam Pu sitting around a table. Khu Lon and his mother seemed to be talking in a strange dialect and Xiam Pu was trying to understand what they were saying.
Khu Lon noticed Ranma and saw his injuries. "So, did that fool Mu Zhi invent a new technique son in law?" she cackled, "I hope you're better off then he is."
Ranma winced, he decided to let them know the worst. "Mouse is in a bad way, he used some form of a chakra technique using some chains and I had to go full out. He's currently in Dr. Tofu's clinic, he's lost most of his shoulder."
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pause.
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Xiam Pu had a pale, sickly look on her face. Mu Zhi may be annoying and possessive, but he has been the one constant in her life since she was 4 years old. She glanced at her grandmother and before she could say a word he grandmother gave her permission to go.
She left the room without even glancing at Ranma. Ranma gave the two women a summary of what happened on the oval. When he was finished his mother told him about what had happened while he was fighting.
"Khu Lon and her tribe of amazons have been allies with the Hidden Leaf village since the Great Shinobi War. I have updated her of your situation and she says she might have a cure. She didn't know who you were, but she guessed so. She'll give you the cure as way of apology. She could see the resemblance in you and your grandfather. He was the 3rd leader of our village. His title was the 3rd Hokage and he along side of Klu lon here." Nodoka calmly told Ranma.
"Like you, he was a damn good looker too!" Khu Lon cackled then winked at Ranma, "if I was a good 40 years younger you'd be back in the village acting like a good husband already." Khu Lon sighed. "I miss him a lot these days."
Noticing Ranma's puzzled look, Nodoka told him that his grandfather died recently. She decided not to tell him that he was killed by one of his own students. Ranma has enough on his plate, without swearing vengeance on Orichimaru.
Khu Lon asked Nodoka, "I can give you a cure, but I don't understand why son in law hasn't changed back into his proper form." She added, "that scroll should have reversed the effects as soon as it was opened. I don't understand why it didn't work."
"It did work. It is because this is Ranma's proper form."
"Pardon me, dear? My hearing must be going, I heard you say that this is his proper form." Khu Lon said.
While Nodoka explained Ranma remembered why it didn't work.
'Damn you Ryoga..'
Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
"I'm going to do it now mom.." Ranma said as he took a firm hold of the scroll. Genma and Nodoka looked on and watched as Ranma open the scroll. There was a blinding flash of light. Genma and his wife shielded their eyes as Ranma ...
...stood there stupidly waiting for the effects to take place, except that they already had. Genma smacked his fist on his hand and stated, "Ahhh!! That's right Ranma ate those aging mushrooms!"
"Aging mushrooms?" Nodoka asked.
"Yeah, who eats them gets younger or older. It depends on the size of the mushroom, so if you eat a 10 cm mushroom, you become 10 years old. He ate a 18 cm mushroom at the end, so he's 18 years old." Genma happily said.
"OYAGI!" Ranma said dangerously, "IF YOU KNEW THIS THEN WHY THE HELL DID WE HAVE TO FIGHT LAST NIGHT?!!" Ranma shouted.
"Ooopps.." Genma said.
"OOOPPS?! OOOPPS?!! PANDA NO BAKA!!" mother and son said simultaneously as they gave Genma the beat down of a lifetime.
Dr Tofu walked in and thought when he saw the scene, 'what the hell was the point of staying up all night and fixing him up? I need something to drink..'
End Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
"Ah. That would explain it. If the two of you could come back tomorrow, I'll have the cure ready." Khu Lon said. "I'm going off to visit Mu Zhi now." She then looked Ranma in the face and said, "thank you for not killing him today." Before escorting mother and son out.
As they walked out Ranma wondered if she thought that he would killed him without a second thought.
'Is this the life of a shinobi?'
A/N:
Sorry for taking so long, I was stuck in a place with no computer/internet/people who spoke English. I;m also starting year 11 (senior school) so the work load is harder. Hopefully I'll get a chapter every week done, depending on my work load.
"Speech" 'Thoughts' *Flashbacks*
Chapter 7: Ninja Ducks!
Ranma stood silently in the brightly-lit room. He fervently wished that his mother hadn't dragged him into this lively place of soon-to-be raging chaos. Chaos followed him wherever he went, he tried not to walk headfirst into it when he could help it. He had smelt these scents many times as his father took him on the run from ANBU and other pissed off male ninjas through Japan and China. The spices and eating sounds always calmed him down, Chinese food was his favourite food.. after Japanese, Italian, Thai, Malay...Mmmmm...
All the same, as soon as he could leave the Nekohanten the better. There had been many fights here, Khu Lon, Herb, Panty-hose Taro naming just a few. This was in Ranma's opinion, one of the chaos centres of Nermia, and he had recently tried to avoid places such as the Nekohanten, Uchans, Furikan High school, or unused lots. Unfortunately for him, Nermia thrived on the destruction caused by the Nermia wrecking crew so he had nowhere to go. Gambling, Cheap housing materials, mild pornography, "Live Martial Art Exhibitions" (for a fee), was mostly run by Nabiki. Unlike what most people think, there is no way one 17 year old girl could manage to support a family of four, who lived in a large property, with two human vacuum cleaners for guests*cough*free-loaders*cough*, not to mention how many times the house has been nearly destroyed. The truth is that at age 14, Miss Nabiki Tendo started dealing in everything that could make money, bordering of illegal, to make money for her poverty-stricken family. She learnt from an early age to not get caught, risking to break her ailing father's heart further after the death of his wife and her mother.
With all the chaos in the air, with some luck and some manipulation from the Ice Queen, the Tendo family managed to stay in the black. This was the only reason why Ranma had put up with the manipulation since he had returned from Jusendo. Before he started to use his subconscious Ninja instincts and talents, it didn't matter if he what he cared about the manipulation, he couldn't do anything outside of pimp-slapping Nabiki. And one thing his father and mother had instilled in his was to never hit a girl. Genma didn't hit women, because his wife had instilled a fear of all women shortly after he refused to fight her for the first time.
It wasn't long before a familiar purple blur raced out screaming a deadly war-cry of "AIREN, WO AI NI!!", before attempting to spear tackle our hero to the ground. Ranma jumped just in time, so instead of *his* frame being broken yet again, the honour was bested upon his father. CRUNCH, CRACK, POP- POPITY-POP went the sound of Genma's body being slammed across the wall and then given a bear-hug strong enough to give a grizzly a dire need for a chiropractor. (A/N: Hey, just because Genma isn't a bad person, doesn't mean he won't get a beating for all the things he did to Ranma over the years. And anyway, who doesn't find "Giving the ole' Panda rug a beating" fics funny? ^_- )
"Aiyah!" Xiam Pu exclaimed, her eyes closed, rubbing against Genma's prone frame, "Ranma, you need diet.. and bath! Xiam Pu wash Airen back!" Xiam Pu grinned like a cat as she began to drag Genma's corpse-like state upstairs.. only to be stopped as Nodoka let out a small cough, getting the feisty amazon's attention. Noticing Ranma standing next to his mother, it took our bouncy warrior two seconds to notice and drop the old man before attempting to glomp Ranma. Standing in front of her, Nodoka gave her a stern look before asking in an old dialect somewhat a mixture of Japanese and Cantonese, "Greetings young warrior. I come to speak with the honourable Elder Khu Lon. This concerns your marriage to my son."
Xiam Pu looked blankly at Nodoka, blinked twice, then attempted to glomp Ranma again to be stopped by a frustrated Nodoka. "Don't they teach the young-ones anything of the old ways anymore? I'm going to have to speak to your Great-grandmother about this." Nodoka said in an offhand way.
Xiam Pu thought, 'Hmmmnnn.. if mother-in-law talk to great-granny then Xiam Pu get Ranma.' Xiam Pu called to her granny (who was upstairs meditating) . "GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, MOTHER-IN-LAW AND AIREN IS HERE!" Xiam Pu shouted.
A white blur appeared from the kitchen appeared and sent a barrage of knives at a pot plant on the other side of the room, screaming "NOW YOU DIE Ranma !!" everyone in the shop sweat-dropped then went back to their own businesses leaving a half-blind young man extract his fury on a pot plant. Finally Mu zhi realized that it (the pot plant) wasn't Ranma and put on his glasses. After looking around the room about twenty times, Ranma walked up to him and smacked him on the back of his head. Mu zhi then began to rant and ramble about how he would finally free his future bride from the demon... blah, blah... before throwing a few chains at Ranma.
Ranma dodged at the last second and jumped out of the shop to get more space to fight. He taunted "Come on blind boy, let rumble!" before running off towards furikan high. Mu zhi in hot pursuit ran after him, on roof tops, tree branches, houses with open windows, until the two fighters reached the furikan high school oval. The two boys stood there watching each other.
-
the wind blew through the grass and the two martial artist faced off.
-
Ranma, wanting to end the fight as soon as possible, charged towards mu zhi at high speed. Mu zhi grinned and threw a chain in a jabbing throw, straight at Ranma. Ranma side-stepped the chain with ease and didn't stop running. Ranma with a burst of energy punched the still grinning Mu zhi with all his strength.
-
Well, he tried to but he was being restrained by a chain around his waist. Mu zhi then threw some kunai at Ranma scorning hits on his thighs and left shoulder. Ranma shouted out in pain and tried to free himself from the chain with no success.
Mu zhi laughed, "Fool, no-one can escape my newest special technique. This is my living chain technique, by releasing my chakra through the chain I strengthen it and can control what direction it moves in."
The world seemed to slow as Ranma processes this new information. If mu zhi knew how to use chakra, then he had ties to ninjas. Ranma didn't want to use his new found abilities in fear of a recurrence of last night. His father was still in the clinic and Ranma was still weak from blood loss. Ranma fired off a large Mokotakabisha at mu zhi, only to find that a few more chains leapt up to protect their master from harm.
Mu zhi laughed and commanded his chains to grab Ranma and smash him against the ground. Ranma could feel his bones moan and grunt in complaint when he hit the ground. He gritted his teeth and decided that if he wanted to live, that he needed to use chakra to survive. He relaxed and released his ki into the air drew it back in. feeling the power flow around him he focused it into his arms, grabbed one of the chains that were holding him down and tried to yank mu zhi off his feet.
As if Mu zhi had his feet glued to the ground he merely laughed at Ranma's feeble attempts to move him. "It's elementary chakra manipulation to stick your body to objects, even children can do it. You can't move me!"
Ranma was in deep SHI-take (A/N: a mushroom), and while mu zhi began to rant and rave while slamming Ranma against the ground, he contemplated how chakra could be used to stick your feet to the ground. Therefore if it could be used by your feet... then...
Flash back **************************************************************************** ********** Ranma and his mother are discussing why the Uchiha clan was so powerful as they walked from the clinic to the Nekohanten. "The Uchiha clan, was famous for having a special genetic ability, commonly known as an advanced bloodline. It's rare, but some of our clan have the sharigan ability. It's an ability to see chakra, therefore being able to copy jutsus after just seeing them. From your description of the Jusendo battle, I would assume that you still have the gift.
End Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
If Ranma could copy his technique to stick to the ground Mu zhi couldn't slam him around.
Ranma focused energy into his closed eyes and opened his eyes. Nothing was different, he concentrated again. Yet again, no luck. He was panicking right about now, but he calmed himself down enough to remember everything he knew about the sharingan...
Uhhh...sharingan means "Spinning Wheel Eye" ... Ranma began to focus again, but this time he focused the energy in his closed eyes and began to make it spin. Faster and faster it span and when it reached it's peak speed, Ranma opened his eyes.
-
Ranma saw. The colours he assumed to be chakra, flowed around him and mu zhi.
-
Ranma understood. He didn't know how he understood what the chakra was doing, but he understood how to copy it. He focused his chakra under his feet when he landed on the ground. Mu zhi looked up from ranting and looked surprised. He channeled more chakra into his chains trying to move Ranma.
Ranma saw what he was going to do, before he did it. He increased the chakra under his feet accordingly.
The two teens began raising their chakra. Mu zhi chains started to crack and one by one they began to break from the sheer amount of chakra inside them. The ground under Ranma's feet suddenly exploded under his feet and propelled him into the air. Mu zhi only had one chain left. He let go of Ranma, not wanting to fight Ranma in an air battle, instead he used his final jutsu.
"ASCENDING DRAGON CHAIN!!" Mu Zhi shouted in rage as his single chain rose into the air in a tight spiral. Ranma began to descend and was planning to do some form of the Hiryushotenha but first he had to deal with the chain.
'Mu zhi controls the chain using his chakra, by forcing it into the chain, if I do the same with cold chakra...'
Ranma grinned and gathered his energy as the chain rose higher and he descended faster.
When he connected with the chain he channeled his chakra into the chain as Mu zhi did. His chakra mingled with Mu zhi's and made the chain cold. As Ranma pumped cold energy through the chain, the winds picked up. A tight hiryushotenha came down upon Mu zhi and like a corkscrew, the whirlwind of air ripped muscle and tendons from Mu Zhi's right shoulder. Over the noise of the attack, Ranma heard Mu Zhi's scream and stopped channeling energy.
-
When Ranma landed he saw the destruction he had caused. There was a deep hole in the ground and surrounding it was a pool of blood. Lying in the pool of blood, Mu Zhi laid there holding what was left of his shoulder.
-
At this sight Ranma promptly threw up. After a few seconds Ranma gathered the strength to look up at Mu Zhi's body. He realized that Mu zhi required instant medical care. In short Mu Zhi was bleeding to death.
-
Despite his earlier injuries, Ranma ran like he had never run before. Carrying Mu Zhi's body he reached Dr Tofu's clinic, and left him in the good care of Dr. Tofu.
As Ranma made his way back to the Nekohanten, he bleakly thought if this was the life that he was going to live from now on. Kill or be killed, die or become a murderer. This was the way of the Shinobi. Nin-do. His mother had spent some time before they opened the scroll, telling informing him what it would be like to be a ninja.
-
'Kill or be killed...' Ranma sighed
-
When Ranma reached the Nekohanten, he was surprised to find it empty apart from his mother, Khu Lon and Xiam Pu sitting around a table. Khu Lon and his mother seemed to be talking in a strange dialect and Xiam Pu was trying to understand what they were saying.
Khu Lon noticed Ranma and saw his injuries. "So, did that fool Mu Zhi invent a new technique son in law?" she cackled, "I hope you're better off then he is."
Ranma winced, he decided to let them know the worst. "Mouse is in a bad way, he used some form of a chakra technique using some chains and I had to go full out. He's currently in Dr. Tofu's clinic, he's lost most of his shoulder."
-
pause.
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Xiam Pu had a pale, sickly look on her face. Mu Zhi may be annoying and possessive, but he has been the one constant in her life since she was 4 years old. She glanced at her grandmother and before she could say a word he grandmother gave her permission to go.
She left the room without even glancing at Ranma. Ranma gave the two women a summary of what happened on the oval. When he was finished his mother told him about what had happened while he was fighting.
"Khu Lon and her tribe of amazons have been allies with the Hidden Leaf village since the Great Shinobi War. I have updated her of your situation and she says she might have a cure. She didn't know who you were, but she guessed so. She'll give you the cure as way of apology. She could see the resemblance in you and your grandfather. He was the 3rd leader of our village. His title was the 3rd Hokage and he along side of Klu lon here." Nodoka calmly told Ranma.
"Like you, he was a damn good looker too!" Khu Lon cackled then winked at Ranma, "if I was a good 40 years younger you'd be back in the village acting like a good husband already." Khu Lon sighed. "I miss him a lot these days."
Noticing Ranma's puzzled look, Nodoka told him that his grandfather died recently. She decided not to tell him that he was killed by one of his own students. Ranma has enough on his plate, without swearing vengeance on Orichimaru.
Khu Lon asked Nodoka, "I can give you a cure, but I don't understand why son in law hasn't changed back into his proper form." She added, "that scroll should have reversed the effects as soon as it was opened. I don't understand why it didn't work."
"It did work. It is because this is Ranma's proper form."
"Pardon me, dear? My hearing must be going, I heard you say that this is his proper form." Khu Lon said.
While Nodoka explained Ranma remembered why it didn't work.
'Damn you Ryoga..'
Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
"I'm going to do it now mom.." Ranma said as he took a firm hold of the scroll. Genma and Nodoka looked on and watched as Ranma open the scroll. There was a blinding flash of light. Genma and his wife shielded their eyes as Ranma ...
...stood there stupidly waiting for the effects to take place, except that they already had. Genma smacked his fist on his hand and stated, "Ahhh!! That's right Ranma ate those aging mushrooms!"
"Aging mushrooms?" Nodoka asked.
"Yeah, who eats them gets younger or older. It depends on the size of the mushroom, so if you eat a 10 cm mushroom, you become 10 years old. He ate a 18 cm mushroom at the end, so he's 18 years old." Genma happily said.
"OYAGI!" Ranma said dangerously, "IF YOU KNEW THIS THEN WHY THE HELL DID WE HAVE TO FIGHT LAST NIGHT?!!" Ranma shouted.
"Ooopps.." Genma said.
"OOOPPS?! OOOPPS?!! PANDA NO BAKA!!" mother and son said simultaneously as they gave Genma the beat down of a lifetime.
Dr Tofu walked in and thought when he saw the scene, 'what the hell was the point of staying up all night and fixing him up? I need something to drink..'
End Flash back **************************************************************************** **********
"Ah. That would explain it. If the two of you could come back tomorrow, I'll have the cure ready." Khu Lon said. "I'm going off to visit Mu Zhi now." She then looked Ranma in the face and said, "thank you for not killing him today." Before escorting mother and son out.
As they walked out Ranma wondered if she thought that he would killed him without a second thought.
'Is this the life of a shinobi?'
A/N:
Sorry for taking so long, I was stuck in a place with no computer/internet/people who spoke English. I;m also starting year 11 (senior school) so the work load is harder. Hopefully I'll get a chapter every week done, depending on my work load.