Shadow's Rebirth.
A/N: Writers block on my other stories so they are on pause.
This is something that inspired me from reading Ranma the Hedgehog
Mainly in Ranma's view
Not Ranma/ Akane romance,
Don't own either one
Chapter.1: Rings and Masks
Hours later, I woke up again in midair. Pops must have thrown me out the window again, damn him. I was about to twist my body to land on my feet outside the koi pond when I catch a flash of gold in my vision. In the air, there it was; from what I can make of it, it was metal and circular. Unfortunately, it disappeared and I was too tried and distracted, so I landed in the pond. That sure woke me up. While under water, I saw another flash of gold. This time, I could see it, maybe because I was standing still. It was a giant golden ring that radiated power; the weird part was it was radiating MY AURA!! As if in a trance I began to reach for it, but before my fingers could touch it, something grabbed me out the water. Before I surfaced I cursed when I saw the ring vanish.
I surfaced and now I'm staring into the angry face of my much-unwanted fiancé, Akane Tendo. She glares before speaking, "No point in hiding so you can avoid my cooking, jerk!" she yelled as she dragged me into the dining room by my pigtail. One day, I swear on all that is holy, I will get her. When I got into the house I saw everyone, Akane included, but me had a plate of normal food. I looked at Nabiki and to my ire, she was laughing at me with her eyes. Fine just another person that I'm going to get. I really hate her, "You say something, Ranma-kun?" Dear sweet Kasumi asks. Silly me I must have said that out loud.
Before I could respond, Akane places a plate of…something in front of me. I could tell it wasn't done dying a horrible death yet. I feel sorry for any soul that gets reincarnated as Akane's cooking. People ask how do I know that it alive? It is because it's wheezing. I look at Akane's plate and conformed that she is indeed not eating her own cooking. Again she glares at me, like it is suppose to hurt, "Well, aren't you going to eat some?" I think it would be rude to say 'HELL NAH!!' so I panicked, I had to come up with something fast…Wait a moment!!
I pointed to behind the whole family, got to my feet and yelled the most disgusting thing I could come up with, "Hey! Look over there, Cologne and Happosai are bumping and grinding, naked!!!" That got the desire affect. Everyone but Kasumi shuddered, but all of them closed their eyes to rid themselves of that mental image…now to stage two. I used some of my superhuman speed to place equal portions of Akane's food in everyone else's plate, but Kasumi of course and because it is Kasumi's cooking no one can refuse to eat it, or it will upset her and no one upsets dear sweet Kasumi…Revenge is mine!!!
I finished my plan just in time, for everyone had opened, their eyes, having dispelled the mental image, "I'm done!" I lie, putting a big cheesy grin on my face 'GottagotoschoolearlyforesomethingsoIgottagobye!" I say in one word before running out the house, just barely hearing Kasumi's goodbye. I wait outside the door for a minute, then I hear it. The sweet sounds of choked sobs and the rushing upstairs to the bathroom…he he he. I use some more of my speed to run until I'm half way to school. I wonder if they realize what I done, "RRRRAAANNNNMMMMAAA!!!!" I shrug and walk to school whistling and thinking of a certain pink haired girl.
I walk into the grounds of Furiken high, ignoring the surprised looks on everyone's faces. It's not like I never came to school ear…oh wait, I've always been late. Oh well doesn't matter, I don't really care. I groan, because I see Kuno stomping towards me. In his hands was a steel Katana…Damn Idiot! "Fowl Sorcerer Saotome! Release the fiery Akane Tendo and my pigtailed goddess or face the heavenly wrath of Tatewaki Kuno, the Blue Thunder!" On que, lightning strikes behind him. I have neither the time nor the patience to deal with this so I ask, "Hey Kuno-sempai! How can thunder be blue, when all it is is just a sound?" He freezes, "What?" He asks. I smirk internally, "Thunder has no form, so how can it be blue?" His eyes glazed over and he became lost in thought, surprisingly as it sounds. I wave my hand in front of him several times…no response, "Oh I think I broke him, oh well". I smirked and cheerfully walked past him towards the entrance to the school.
I looked at several of my classmates and found that they are shocked, that someone, much less me managed to stop Kuno with words. Saotome, the idiot savant of fighting, I know they think I'm stupid; hell every fiancé thinks that. They have no idea how intelligent I am. Only the teachers know, but I ask them to keep it a secret. I want to see my peers faces at graduation when they announce me as the student with the highest marks ever recorded at Furiken, my grades are even better than Nabiki's. I still remember the shock on Ms. Hinako's face when I displayed my mastery of the English language. I smirk. I wonder how the ol' ghoul would take it if she knew I was fluent in Madrian. I was about to walk into the school building when I see it
It's another gold ring, radiating my aura again. It is floating right next to me. Taunting me, teasing me, making me reach for it. I was about to grab it when…"Ranma! Prepare to die!" I jump out the way of the 300-pound umbrella smashing into the ground where I once stood. I watch as the ring is gone again, and with it my good mood. "Damn it straight to hell!" I turn to Ryouga, "What do you want, P-chan?" Ryouga growls and charges in a rage, Using Mousse's hidden weapons technique, I pull out a bottle of water and with one toss, viola! Instant P-chan. To add more insult. I drop kick P-chan, carefully aiming so he will land where that crazy ice-skater, Azusa practices. I won't be seeing P-Chan for a couple of weeks
I get the urge to look up, so I do and I find myself staring into those red eyes. She is leaning out the window, watching me. I find myself waving like a fool. She smiles and mouths the word "Remember" Then she ducks back into the classroom, the same one I'm heading to. What joy! I try to move, but I'm stuck staring at the spot where she was. I just stand there ignoring my surroundings until a mallet slams into my head. I turn around and look into the slightly green, but still angry face of Akane. I roll my eyes, "Geeze Akane! What did I do now?" She pouts in that disgustingly uncute way that she does. Frankly it reminds me of a damn dirty ape, "If you don't know what you done, then you don't deserve to know why I'm mad" I resist the urge to smack the shit out of her, Kami knows she needs it. I watch her stomp into the building and behind her a even greener, but angry Nabiki glares at me. Doesn't bother me one bit. With one jump, I enter my classroom.
I look around and much to my disappointment Amy was gone. I sigh wistfully as I take my seat, ignoring the daggers Akane was glaring at my back. Ms Hinako walks in adult form and the class falls silent. "Okay class, I have a surprise today," Instantly the class went to def-con 4. The last surprise they had was me. He he he. Ms. Hinako, all used to this, ignored the alarms. "We have six new students today, many from other countries." She turned towards the door. "Okay you can come in one at a time"
Amy came in first, still wearing a Furiken uniform. She bowed, "Hello my name is Yoko Ten" Wait I thought…no I know her name is Amy. I put it to the back of my mind to ask her later. I looked around and saw that the guys where drooling and the girls glared in jealousy. It must suck for their self-esteem to have so many good-looking people come in. I felt liquid on my face and too my surprise, I had a minor nosebleed. I quickly cleaned the blood off. Ms Hinako nodded, "Okay Miss. Ten go take the seat next to Mr. Saotome" Every guy groaned and I could feel Akane's battle aura form behind me, "Mr. Saotome, would you mind raising your hand so that Miss. Ten could find her seat?" My hand exploded from my side and into the air, and I had a big goofy grin on my face. Akane's battle aura, grew but she can't do a damn thing or the new students will find that her 'I'm all sweet and innocent' act is total bullshit and not to mention, the teacher will drain her faster then a yellow belly sap-sucker…well suck sap.
Amy walked towards me, my eyes glued to her swaying hips. As she walked by, her hand rose up and gentle stroked the side of my face and oh my god! It drove shivers down my back and I had a sudden urge to do…something Kasumi would say naughty. I bit my lip and could feel my face flush. I took a glance over to Akane and found she had her mallet out.
I look back toward the front of the class and at the next student. He was a native, he had aqua blue hair. A lot of hair. It went down past his back and not to mention it was nothing but spikes. He had matching blue eyes too. He wore the uniform but there were differences. The dress shirt was unbuttoned and underneath was a matching long sleeve blue shirt in which the sleeves where tucked into giant metal gloves. Many metal bracelets of different designs lined up one arm, "Hey 'sup. The names Hana Recca, just call me by my last name." He took the seat next to Akane and placed his feet on the desk and went to sleep. I like him already.
The next student was obviously gajin. He had dark brown skin with long reddish brown dreadlocks. He too wore the uniform but it was different to. Instead of the shirt being white, it was brownish red, like his hair and over it was a medallion. He had mirror shades on the top of his head and headphones around his neck. Where Sonic had gloves this guy and gauntlets and they looked strong. "Hey, Da' name is Rick Jones, All da' way from Ja'mica" He said in a real accent but I got the feeling it's fake. He took a seat next to Uyko, put his shades and headphones and went to sleep. I could here American rap coming from the headphones.
The next person to come in was also gajin. She was a pale skin beauty with snow-white hair. She wore all black makeup, lips, eyes, and even her pointy nails had black on them. She didn't wear the uniform or even a variation of it. Instead she wore a long black dress with giant sleeves that hid most of her hands. It reminded me of Mousse's robe, where he hid all those weapons. Also on her arms, it wasn't solid black like the rest of her dress, but rather fishnets. I looked into her eyes and found that they were a dark purple. She spoke in an English accent "Celes Victoria Gatesford, Great Britain." As usual all the other guys where drooling but I thought Amy looked better. She walked next to Rick and kissed his cheek then sat next to him, shattering my peer's chances. Rick lifted his shades with one finger, smiled and put them back down.
The next one was a kid, looking about two years younger. He had messy bright orange hair and was also gajin. His face had numerous freckles on it. On top of his head, some black goggles and strapped from his left shoulder to his right hip, was something like Ukyo's bandolier, but instead of spatulas, wrenches, screwdrivers other tools, and underneath was a the uniform, even though it was extremely baggy He bowed, "The name is Miles all the way from Germany, you're going to have to guess my last name" I could hear a couple girls whisper about he being so cute. Miles took a seat next to the sleeping Recca, who just cracked an eye open and just went back to sleep.
Everyone waited, for the last new student to come in, but no one came in. Suddenly there was a blinding flare, and when it cleared, there she was standing. With bright blue hair cut somewhat like Nabiki's style, in a white t-shirt that was cut to expose her stomach, blue skirt that matched her to go over it. To top it off was an open blue vest that went to her knees. Her eyes though where gray and it felt like she was staring at you right down to the core. She looked at me wide-eyed before her eyes slanted like a fox spirit. "Hello my name is Kay Hos, that's all you need to know." She went to a seat that was in the corner where Hiroshi was, "Move" the coward he was, he moved out the seat and took the only one in the front. Kay sat down and proceeded to stare out the window.
I take the time before the lesson starts to check out the energy patterns of every new student, and I am very impressed, They are all a little under my level but Recca, he is equal. I am shocked. Hopefully they don't try to kill me, but there is something, familiar about the auras, like I have encountered them before. Ms. Hinako starts her lesson and I start me little act of not paying attention, when I'm really am.
Halfway through the lesson, I get the feeling that someone is watching me, besides Akane, because all she does is glare at me, so I tune her out. I look around and find that Amy is staring at me. I smile and she returns it, plus a note [I bet you're wondering why I said my name is Amy?] I pass back my response [Probably because that is your nick name or middle name and wanted to get close to me…or you're making fun of me] She giggled and I could feel the return of Akane's battle aura, it only grew as Amy passed another note, [It's a special name, but you already know that. Do you remember yours yet?]
I dodge to the left to avoid a mallet and duck to avoid a spatula. No one noticed except for the new students as they watch me dodge the 'disproval' from my fiancés and pass my note, [No but I can feel it on the tip of my tongue] Amy smiled sadly and responded, [It'll come to you just try to remember] I duck under another mallet swing and press a pressure point on Akane's wrist, causing her to drop the mallet, much to her surprised. "You dodged mallet-sama?" I grin and grab 'mallet-sama' and toss it out the window, right on the still brain dead Kuno
Amy looks out the window and giggles, a sound that sounds like angels singing. "Is that guy okay" She asked, I sigh "Yeah, the Kuno family have very hard heads. That one is a self-delusional pervert. You shouldn't go nowhere near him" She shrugs "Ah" Then her eyes widen in amazement as I duck under another swing from a mallet. Where the hell does she get them?? I'm guessing out her ass, but I'm just annoyed.
Amy leans in a whisper, "Does this happen to you all the time?" I nodded "I'm the best martial artist around her and this unwanted fiancé by arrangement between two lazy drunkards think that she can hit me whenever she wants, but recently I decided screw her" The class grows silent as I pause to snatch the mallet out of mid-swing and break it over one knee. I know I'm going to get hell later, but I don't care. I noticed that Recca is fully awake and staring at me, interested. I'll have to spar with him later.
Before anything else goes on, Ms Hinako interrupts, "Mr. Saotome, Miss. Ten, no talking, go into the halls" and then she winks. "Oh okay teach," my code for thanks. What people don't know is that Ms. Hinako doesn't have to drain someone to turn into an adult or stay one. After the incident where she first showed up, I taught her how to draw off of environmental chi.. Amy looks at me confused, so I just wink and mouth the words, "Follow me."
"What was that about?" She asked the minute I closed the door. I paused, Should I tell her? I glance at her and find that she is cheerfully waiting, my answer. I want Amy to know me, not the mask that everyone thinks I am. I look around and see that no one is around, "Around this school, I'm considered an idiot, but none of them realize that I have the highest marks. I'm a genius yet I wanted no one to know. So I asked all the teachers to treat me like an idiot and all I have to do is the assignments and past the test. Ms. Hinako teaches English. I speak it fluently, most likely you do too, right?" She nodded, "So we get t o do whatever. Tell me Amy do you know the other students?" She nods, "We all have history, we are very close" I grin; "I remember when me and Sonic first fought" Wait a minute, who is Sonic? I look at Amy and she looking at me all wide-eyed. She opens her mouth and closes it. "Amy?" She is staring at me with a huge grin, "Ranma, What did you just say?"
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