Disclaimer: I own none of these characters; they belong to their respective creators.
Sorry if it is a little OOC, I figured that if Yusuke were nice enough to save a little kid in
the first episode then he would treat a little kid (even if he is rather muscular), Kuwabara
is nice to the little Ranma because he has a code of honor that tells him not to hit little
kids and because he is nicer than Yusuke on the outside. I will try to get back to normal
character for all the characters. Ranma figures that if he I going to be the body of an 8
year old, he should act like one. I need a pre-reader, some want to help?!
Reiki spiritual energy (Tell me if its wrong)
"Speaking"
'Sarcasm'
Thoughts
Little Brother or Sister?
Chapter 2: Testing possible Pupils
"What about if yours is Green" Ranma proves his point to the older woman by
holding it in front of him. He sees that Genkai just stares blankly, a small twitch in the
left eyebrow forms. the piece of paper and gives a little smirk that screams 'interesting'.
Oh great, what'd I do this time.
Genkai is a little surprised at the amount of power one so young just showed. 3
kicks to the one on the right and 5 punches to the one on the left,. But when he showed
the green slip she was lost in thought for a sec, Green? Red and white is the only two that
is supposed to show? Arrgghhh that means it is an outside disturbance or, green is… Ki!
Glad with he hypothesis she already liked the little kid, which takes extensive training to
be able to harness ki consciously. This was interesting; people who had good ki control
could do a lot with the spiritual side. Unknowingly giving the little twerp a smirk and
replied to put simply "You passed the first test, twerp."
Yusuke didn't see the way Genkai smiled at the pigtailed boy because
a orange haired boy was knocking on Yusukes head like he would knock on a door.
"Where did you meet the kid?" the question asked was towards Yusuke who
quickly retorted.
"Same place you met him" Yusuke replied back to the taller boy a little bit of
playful sarcasm ringed into the words.
Every body stopped shortly after hearing two different people. Both just as big
and unhappy as the first two, yell at Genkai for a second time and listened.
"WAIT" the one on the left stopped and the right one took over "How can you
have a lot drawing and expect for people to be happy that they lost because they didn't
happen to get a red slip." He stopped and the one on the left started up again "We are
very well known for the spiritual power that we hold." Both at the same time while
standing towering over the small form of the spirit wave master "We want answers"
"Hold your tongues greenhorn" Genkai replied surprisingly relaxed, this is my
chance to show them power of the spirit wave. "Are you going to decline my offer to
dismiss you respectfully?"
"WHAT" they were quite shocked that some little hag was going to back talk
them.
"Did you say that you have spiritual power? Don't make me laugh you fakers!
You weren't even picked by a lot drawing. Go home, shit, and sleep." She replied all the
while giving a dangerous glare.
"UNFORGIVEABLE" both of the men jumped at her ready to give her the
'thrashing' she 'deserved'. Genkai just stood there waited, looked down, and lifted her
head with blue glows to her eyes and threw the two men back at the wall of a building.
The Impact caused loud cracks from the wall and the two brutes just moaned into
unconsciousness.
Looks of shock were all over the place. Genkai looked at all the faces a little
amused at looks people had on. Then her eyes came to the little kid with the green slip.
He's not even phased, he just looks even more excited to be here.
Ranma was stunned at the power she just showed that was not even ki based. It
was a different power that he had seen before and accidentally sucked a little bit of it
from saffron. It was also the same type of power that he had that surrounded his aura of
ki. Maybe I can use that power the same way. He was broken out of his reverie when he
noticed that Yusuke was a ways behind him with Kuwabara. He walked back when he
noticed Yusuke tap something on his wrist and it blew up with a touch of smoke. he had
to stifle a giggle while walking over to break the kid out of his thought. Kuwabara made
it over to the Yusuke.
"Oh, no... It's broken."
"What are you doing?"
"Come on you bakas, lets go." A voice came from below and both saw the blue
eyes looking at them expectantly.
Kuwabara looks down and back at Yusuke, with a casual expression "looks
like we got a new friend"
"Yep, little unexpected, but we did." Yusuke looks down at his new pigtailed
friend who looks up at Yusuke with big puppy dog eyes (1), a huge sweat drop appears
behind the two older boys heads.
"Do you think I'm just a tag along?" Ranma was having a great time, he always
wanted to do that. Probably look weird for me to do it, and I'm bigger than the average
child my 'age'.
Both boys looked down in dread, Yusuke for once answers well "No no no no
no… Come on lets get going"
Kuwabara looks at his fellow schoolmate whispering into his ear "That is weird
to look at, how old is he? He looks 12."
Yusuke just stares blankly at Kuwabara and chuckles lightly "Well actually"
chuckles a little bit louder and gets the attention of Ranma, who was up front "He's 8"
"Are you sure? He's got quite a rugged build for someone only 8."
Ranma stopped and looked up at Kuwabara and replies in an excited voice "Ah
hah, I'm 8 and turning 18…errr, I mean 9 next month."
Both boys noticed the slip in age that the boy showed but paid no attention to it.
Ranma gave a sigh of relief, and started walking to the crowd and go to the middle where
he could see between everybody. What he saw was a little shocking, he saw the wall and
floor had a bunch of games. Nerds would worship to get into that room, but a bunch of
martial artist were just staring wide eyed at it.
As Yusuke stares in with wide eyes and confusion shown on it "What type of
place is this"
"It's exactly like a game center" the same expression from Yusuke is on
Kuwabaras face also.
Genkai promptly shows up in something that looks like a bucket that is fastened
by chains to a track at the top. "As you can see, I want you to play games for the second
test"
After she says that a boy walks up from the center of the crowd dressed in a
blue looking robe with white pants and an odd black cap. "Excuse me master, but how is
this related to the apprentice exam?"
Genkai looks down at the crowd and answers with that weird little half smile
"These are not your usual games. They measure Rei ability, these machines are specially
made. The Janken game measures the amount of Rei-kan; the karaoke game measures the
amount of Rei-ki. If you fail more than one game go home at once."
Ranma turns and sees every body going to different games and he follows the
older boys that he has hung out with the whole time. They both walk forward and around
him and he started following them. Yusuke looked back and saw that Ranma was
following behind and get the attention of the now younger boy "Hey, squirt catch up."
That caught the attention of the younger boy who narrowed his eyes at the taller
kid and looked up at him. Don't want an enemy so no more snapping back "don't call
me Squirt" He noticed that they stopped in front of a punching game where a man just
failed and Genkai answered why he did so bad, that he didn't mix his physical strength
with his spiritual strength. Ranma was clueless, do they mean ki, he saw Kuwabara yell
and punch the bag at full force scoring him a 129p.
As he walks back and gloats at Yusuke "How about that Urameshi, did you see
my power, the shrimp here will beat you" Yusuke the whole time was just standing there
with a very annoyed look that was screaming 'I could do better'.
"Please it was just a chance hit" now showing a cockier attitude "I'll show
you a real punch" with that said he pushed the taller boy out of the way and proceeded to
punch the bag. Ranma the whole time was scanning to see if he could tell from the styles
if they were good at fighting, Kuwabara is sloppy with his punch, but Yusuke is a lot
better at fighting then the other. Yusuke scored a fairly high score of 155p and threw
the glove at the 'squirt'. While lost in thought he caught the glove that Yusuke threw at
him.
Yusuke was on the side waiting for the kid to punch the bag "come on squirt,
lets move it"
People that weren't looking before turned around and noticed that some little
kid was about to punch the bag, a lot of people started to laugh openly at the runt who
was going to punch the bag.
"Oh please, the runt is going to get next to zero"
More people picked up where he left off but were being ignored, Ranma just
looked a the bag that he was supposed to punch, but he was snarling out loud that was
more of a cute pout, it only added to the people laughing.
From the perch in mid air Genkai was happy to see some kid in blue jeans and a
green coat score a 155p, There is a guy that can get over 150 points. I am impressed. His
spiritual striking power isn't bad. He could become competent with his spirit power and
subjugate demons. She saw the little kid catch the glove with out looking up and the
people laughing about some little shrimp. Interesting, with out even looking up he caught
the glove easily.
Back to Ranma where he was being mocked by every one but Yusuke and
Kuwabara, he was angry. He looked at the punching bag and walked up to it till he was
about three feet in front of it, he noticed that to just hit it he was going to have to jump.
Other people noticed this also and he got madder. He took one step and jumped into the
air and spun in a 360 with his punching arm back and hit the bag full force. Promptly any
body talking, well…. Shut up.
People were surprised to see the kid jump and hit the bag Hard. But when the
bag hit the back the machines surface cracked under the amount of physical force put into
the punch, everyone shut up. Some people just left because they didn't want this kid to
get payback and others just stood there shocked and bug-eyed to see the kid match the
previous score of 155p. Ranma was still mad at the people that were looking at him so he
picked the person out that started taunting him and threw the glove at him. It made a nice
WHAP sound when it hit the face of the idiot that made fun of him.
Genkai loved it; now she had at least two people that could get above 150p in
there spiritual striking level. The little twerp is surprising, not only can he have enough ki
to disrupt the paper. He also has a surprising amount of spirit power, that is a very rare
thing to see he could become very powerful.
The next game was Janken that the three played and Kuwabara went first,
Kuwabara went first and scored perfectly at the game. Genkai noticed this, He has a very
high spiritual ESP, and with that capability he would be able to handle high-leveled
spiritual tools and spells. She then noticed the following that the next person at the
punching machine had scored a 175p. I am Impressed! There are a lot of amazing guys
here.
20 plus people had advanced to the next round and Ranma was quite excited
that he got to the next round. He knew that he could do it but wasn't sure because of the
damn karaoke machine, ehhh, singing isn't my specialty. He caught up with the two older
boys while approaching the third test, which looked to be some spooky old woods.
Some of the other people that were there was freaked out at the sight of the
woods. Ranma was more freaked out by the person in front of him with a yellow stain
running along the inside of his leg. "Wha… What the hell is this place?" "Wha… what
ghastly woods are these?"
The person who asked Genkai about the games at the beginning of the second
test stood forward "It seems as if these woods were admitting youki."
"This whole area is called the woods of evil, a savage land where a compass
can not function. You will find dangerous animals and natural traps. Once entering this
land a normal human will not be able to come out safely." Genkai stopped for a second
and smiled pointing behind herself "The goal is that big tree that you can see from here,
pass the test by reaching it in two hours."
The person standing in front of Ranma had an expanding smell that was starting
to make him nauseous. That's when the smelly fool quickly ran off with some others
"This is no good, I give up." "Entering these woods is like throwing ones life away."
Genkai just laughed them off and talked about wise decisions. Ranma was
already prepared, but he was more along the line of jumping from branch to branch. He
looked up and some people were staring at him expecting something and he just looked
at them confused and answered intelligently "What?"
Some people just looked at Genkai and back to the person who scored the 175p
on the punching machine. "Only people who have trained should be here." All looked at
Ranma but Genkai, Yusuke, and Kuwabara.
"Back off, Bud" Ranma scoffed at the people who looked at him and turned
towards the woods. He noticed that Yusuke got the same look from some of the others
but he just did the same thing and copied what Ranma did.
Ranma noticed that Yusuke did the same thing, which wasn't what he expected.
Then Yusuke pointed at Ranma and himself "We will do this, after watching your
amazing power baasan, I can not go home empty handed."
Genkai's turned more disgruntled and yelled back "Call me master you Brat!"
Ranma just looked back and turned towards the man that was basically saying
that he couldn't handle this little test "I bet you that I will be there before you get there"
He gave the older man a smirk that was filled with confidence and arrogant bravado. He
noticed the man was about to shake his head in the 'no' fashion, that couldn't do "Old
Man"
That got the mans attention, he snarled in reply "you little brat, your going
down, Bet excepted. I'll set the terms after I win if you make it out."
Genkai didn't like how this was going and had the 'twerp' and the 'brat' down
as troublemakers. She decided that they were getting nowhere and had to start "Lets
begin"
Every body started to get ready at the start to dash in "Set… Begin!" Everybody
ran and hurdled the small fence set up for the demons and ran, well except Ranma.
Genkai noticed he didn't move, maybe he does value life.
Ranma stood there waiting for every body to go up ahead and he changed his
clothes quickly. He no longer had on the weighted clothes but now had the normal red
chinese outfit with the red shirt and black pants. After he finished he whispered to
himself "3…2…1… Go!!!"
His form blinked from existence as he ran full speed and saw everybody take a
different root to get to the tree. He decided to be original and jumped up into one of the
trees 25 feet in the air and started using the branches as spring boards moving faster and
faster until he started to get enough height to where he was clearing the tree tops by 15
feet and landing on other branches. Unknowingly since he was having the time of his life
'playing' in the spooky woods, he was also expressing the fun he was having.
Genkai just departed from the pack of people and reached the top of the hill.
She turned around and saw something clear the top of the woods, what is that? She went
down a little bit closer for a better view. She noticed it was a small figure that was
approaching on her position rather quickly. Next thing she knew it was making some
noise she made out some words like "Can't catch me" and "Wooooo hooooo". When
it was about to hit the ground in front of Genkai, she got a surprise. The boy jumped off
the branch and got a good 75 feet in the air and cupped his hands by his side and thrusted
them forward. A blue ball came out where it would hit 15 feet in front of where
she was standing. The kid practically floated down to the ground from all the force that
was put into the small ki projectile.
Genkai just looked at the kid smiling widely at this young one and decided
something, even if he doesn't win the tournament he will still train with the winner and
me, he is amazing. She walked over to him and observed him, he had sweat pouring
down his face. But he just stood up like he wasn't even tired and smirked. He has good
stamina, and he is wearing different clothes?
"When did you change your clothes, twerp?" Genkai asked.
"Right after you left with all the others." Ranma casually answered the question
never looking at her directly.
"Ok Twerp, call me master! Why did you change?" Genkai looked at him
expectantly and waited for an answer, then she noticed something "And where did you
put your other clothes?"
He just looked at her half and chuckled nervously scratching the base of the
pigtail "Well, um I got this neat trick." While saying this he flicked the wrist and the
medal shirt appeared in his hand. Her face didn't change from the mask of nothingness
but inside she was surprised to see the shirt come from no where.
"Here hold this and that will answer your question."
She held out her hand and almost lost her balance because she was not expecting
to hold something so heavy "How much doe-"
"75 pounds" with that he took it back and put it back in the sub-space pocket.
She looked at him and was wondering, "You practice ki don't you"
He replied nervously but still put some pride in the word "Hai"
"That explains everything"
"What?"
"The reason your slip turned a color was because you had enough spirit power to
make it do that, but it turned green because you have a lot of excess ki. It interrupted
your spirit power and some went with it."
"Oh"
From there on out no more talking was done between the two. Ranma just jumped
to the top of the tree and waited while Genkai stood there at the bottom. They waited
until the second arrival came. Genkai opens her clock and looks at it "Heh, 15 minutes
left. Guess I'll have to go get the stragglers" Next thing they knew Kuwabara came to the
top of the hill "Oh, it is you boy."
"What unbelievable, I am at the top" Promptly after that two people pulled up next
to him and looked at him out of the corner of their eyes. Kuwabara nervously looked at
both of them, one being the person Ranma challenged.
"I was too relaxed, maybe. But I still beat that little Brat."
Genkai looked at him and he looked back "No" with that said by Genkai she
pointed up and looking up the man saw Ranma laying on the branch fallen a sleep.
"But how?"
"He got here at the 30 minute mark" Genkai replied
Just then Ranma looked down and saw the man "Heh, finally the old man gets
here."
"I am not old!"
"What ever, I win. Ill tell you what I want later"
"Why you little Bastard-"
"Tut-tut" Ranma snidely said "Not in front of the Child"
Every body shut up for the next 10 minutes but the man was not happy. He
grumbled about the 'brat' up in the tree.
"I guess these 8 will do"
"Wait one more is coming"
"We have to be punctual"
"Urameshi" "Yusuke" the two younger ones in the crowd yelled as a boy ran up
the hill.
"Damn, I thought strait was the fastest but I had no end of the trouble"
"Wait, you went strait and met the Bat Tamer" Genkai replied while being put
through a verge of disbelief.
"Yeah, he was a Joke" Laughing the whole time like it was nothing "Hiei was
much faster then he was, they didn't even compare" he started laughing again.
What type of person is he, Genkai looked at the boy in front of her and was
surprised again to here he took out the Bat Tamer "Your late, But I will let it slide"
Ranma was still sitting in the tree and jumped onto Yusukes back from the perch
and landed on top "Glad you had Fun" All he got back in response was a bunch of low
moans. Kuwabara just looked at the 2 with a sweat drop appearing on the side.
"Now let's get to the Competition" Genkai announced.
In a place far away in the office of King Koenma "Yusuke made it past the test.
Be careful Yusuke."
Authors Notes: The start of the tournament, finally. Damn that chapter was brutal, next
we get to see the first round of competitors, but wait there is 9 people in the mix, Not 8!
What is to come next? Read and review please it is appreciated I accept constructive
criticism. E-mail ideas to me at Best reviews of chapter 1 go to Alex Ultra and Campin' Carl,
thanks for the criticism.
1) Remember that Ranma is only 8 years old and the puppy eyes work on gullible
people and for kids under 10 years of age (j/k). But it looks really weird with
Ranma because he is exceptionally jacked compared to even some of the older
people there.