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Pre-Read by: Zenapax
The Girls' Newest Rival: Getting To Know The New Girl
Just before the morning sun rises, Ranma wakes up, staring at the ceiling, thinking of soccer. He's disappointed that he won't be playing on the soccer team this year. It helped him work on his legs more than the training with his dad. It came in handy since he was a striker. He also learned how to kick a soccer ball so hard that whoever caught it, would be sent flying a mile away. Or that's what Ryoga said when he did it to him. Plus, he didn't have to train with Happosai.
Speaker of the old lecher, Ranma's very happy that he won't be seeing him for a long time. Happosai decide to leave, along with Master Chingensai, on what they call their All Panty Raid World Tour. He can only imagine just how long he will be out of his life, but was rather surprised to see him yesterday since he left three days ago.
Bored out of his mind, he gets out of bed, puts on some clothes and walks out the room. When he closes the door behind him, he smell something sweet in the air. He thought that Kasumi was cooking until he sees her in the hallway.
"Ranma! What are you doing up so early?" She sniffs the air with her nose. "And what's that smell?"
"I don't know, but I slept pretty early after lugging all of Shinobu's stuff for an hour. But if you're not cooking, then..." Ranma gasps. "Oh no. Don't tell me that Akane is cooking down there."
"And what if I was?" Akane peaks her head out of the hallway, looking at Ranma with disgust.
"Huh? If you two are here, then who's cooking?" He looks down the flight of stairs before making he descent. Both Akane and Kasumi follow. They slowly make their way to the kitchen, where some light escapes through a crack between the door. Ranma firmly grabs the side of the door and gently slides it to see that someone is cooking. He can't tell who's cooking, but suddenly falls when Akane leans against him to peak in. When he looks up, he sees who has been cooking as she turns around. "Oh. Hi Shinobu."
"Hi Ranma."
"Shinobu, what are you doing up so early?" Akane asked, getting off of Ranma. "And why are you cooking?"
"I'm sorry," she says, looking as if she's about to cry. "I'm just used to waking up so early and cooking for everyone back home that I...I..." She drops the knife to the ground and blasted towards the open door. However, she never sees Kasumi. She bumps into her and both of them fall to the ground. Quickly, Ranma helps them up to their feet.
"Why did you run off like that Shinobu?" Akane asks, picking up the knife and washing it in the sink.
"I thought that you were mad at me for cooking."
"Mad? I wasn't mad. I was surprised to see you up so early."
"You are?"
"Yeah." Both girls look at each other and laugh. After Ranma helps Kasumi up, he looks at the food on the table.
"Shinobu, what did you cook?" he asked.
"Some teriyaki, miso soup and rice balls. I even made the sauce for the teriyaki myself." She notices Ranma drooling all over the food. "Help yourself to the food. I'll join you all once I finish making the green tea." Without hesitation, Ranma grab a plate full of food and runs to the table to eat. Akane carries out the rice balls and a plate of teriyaki while Kasumi carries the miso soup and the other plate of teriyaki. In a few minutes, Shinobu came and joins them, carrying a pitcher of green tea. Once they all finish, the rest of the household comes to eat breakfast.
Within an hour, Ranma, Akane and Shinobu leave the Tendo house and walk to school. It doesn't take long for Akane to start asking questions. "So Shinobu, did you always cook back home?"
"Yeah. I was the resident cook."
"Resident cook? What do you mean?"
"After my parents got divorced, I decided to stay with my friends, so they let me live in the Hinata Sou. Since I was about the only person that could cook, I got used to cooking all the time."
"And you been doing the cooking at the Hinata Sou for how long?"
"Since I arrived there, which was 4 years ago."
"And you're our age?"
"Not really. I'm only 15, but my birthday is in November, so I'll be the same age as you two soon."
"WOW! You're a amazing cook."
"Thank you."
"Yeah!" Ranma says as they reach the bridge. "Maybe you can teach Akane how to cook since her cooking could kill people." Akane whacks him in the head with her school bag while Shinobu walks past them. Quickly, they rush to keep up with her.
"So Shinobu. Why did you want to go to Furinkan High School?"
"I'm a very bright and smart student and was ranked top in my high school last year. But the school I went to wasn't very good, academic wise. A counselor gave me a list of well educated schools and I picked Furinkan because the school has a high success rate of students getting into Toudai"
"Furinkan is a well educated school?"
"It is Ranma! You're just stupid!"
"What did you say?" Shinobu sees a spark of hatred in their eyes towards one another.
"What's wrong with you two?"
"HUH?" They both turn to Shinobu. "What do you mean?"
"I noticed that you two are always fighting? Why is that?" The two of them heavily sweatdrop and try to give a straight answer to her.
"Well, you see..." Ranma begins.
"It's that..." Akane cuts in.
"Oh never mind," Shinobu tells them. "Let's get to the school. I want to know where everything is before our class start." They nod in agreement and take off.
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