Suikoden One Half: Side Stories
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This is the first time I've written a fic besides being a co-writer with MadHat886 on Suikoden One Half. Please go easy on me.
I do not own Ranma ½ or any other crossovers I do. This is done with permission from MadHat886 and works together with Suikoden One Half. None of these are made by madhat and he sees it the same time as everybody else.
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Red Bean and Green Tea stepped forward. One took out a bucket filled with water and the other a bottle of shampoo and a comb. Red Bean turned to Kodachi and asked, "Are you sure about this? This stuff is permanent and we're not as good as the others at this."
The youngest Kuno stood there in contemplation as she stared at her brother. For a long time she said nothing, thinking over what they are about to do. When the sisters had suggested it she had objected. It seemed cruel to do, even to her brother. Still…he is on his way to a mental facility so perhaps this is much better than putting him in a padded room all his life. She nodded firmly. "Yes. Do it."
"Alright," the two chorused. The two started their work.
A minute later the sisters are done. When they finished they had the doctor come in to wake Kuno up. He walked in and injected something into Kuno's arm.
Tatawaki's eyes opened.
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Wrapping Up Unfinished Business: Part 2
A little later, the same day -
The same doctor that had taken them to Kuno now led the hooded group towards another patient of his. People still kept on staring at them as they passed.
"So how is Mousse doing sensei?" Ranma asked. All around them people looked up sharply when he spoke. Ranma realized that people know his voice and shut up quickly. Ranma and his group tensed as they nervously tried to shuffle away. The people stared at them in suspicion for a few moments before forgetting about it and going on with their lives. Everyone gave a big sigh of relief and one of them hit Ranma on the back of the head for being a baka.
Unknown to them another person wearing a cloak is following them a few paces behind.
The doctor continued walking without looking back. "Mr. Mousse is actually a peculiar case. The injuries he sustained in your battle with him healed very well. We had a little trouble with the numerous bites he had on the head, but they healed as well over time. As for…well…" He hesitated, and then opened the door he stopped in front of. "I believe it is best that you see for yourself."
The group looked at him, bewildered. Why are they going here of all places? They went inside, wondering what is going on. They looked around the room at its occupants before they found Mousse at a corner by himself.
They stood rooted to their spot and gaped…and gaped…and gaped some more. 'Kami-sama, he's worse off than Kuno!' is the most common thought that went through their minds. Mousse did not see them and continued what he is doing.
Tofu turned to the doctor, being the only one not affected. "Is there any way to get him out of it? Does he recognize us?"
The doctor nodded. "Oh yes. He mentioned your name as well as a few others. Some he had good reactions to, others not so good. At first he had panicked when he woke up. However, he seems to be doing fine now as you can see."
Ranma cautiously approached his former rival. 'Kami-sama…' "Mousse? Is that you?" he asked in almost a whisper.
Even though his voice had been low it was heard by the Chinese Amazon. The man in a hospital gown looked up from what he is doing and saw who had called him. He stared at Ranma for a second and then screamed loudly. His scream caused the other patients in the room to scream loudly as well, forcing the workers to try to calm them down as well.
"Noooo! Please don't hurt me! Waaaahhhhh!" Mousse scrambled back to a wall and tried to become one with it. Tears leaked from his eyes as he tried to make himself as small as possible. On his face is a terrified expression.
Everyone sweat dropped. "It's okay Mousse. I won't hurt you," Ranma said in a soothing voice. 'What has happened to him? I didn't hit him hard enough to cause this did I?' Guilt flooded him as he stared at the broken man crying and trying to keep away from him. He tried to come closer to hopefully calm him down.
It did the complete opposite. Mousse pressed himself harder against the wall. "Noooo! Keep away from me! Waaaaahhhhh! I don't want to fight you! I don't want to fight anymore! Leave me alone!" Mousse's crying got worse the more Ranma approached him. The others tried as well including the workers. However, none of them could get closer without making him cry harder.
The workers are about to just rush in and hopefully calm him when an arm stopped them. "Let me handle it." The girl attached to said arm moved forward, slowly and with small steps while saying comforting words.
Mousse saw someone coming towards him and cried some more. However, the woman kept on coming towards him. He squeezed himself into a corner of the room, trying to keep away from her. However, she kept coming towards him. He looked up to see who it is and locked eyes with her.
Everyone watched in amazement as Mousse's tears lessened and lessened until he is no longer crying. The kimono-clad figure knelt down in front of him and put a hand on each of his cheeks tenderly, wiping off his tears with her thumbs. "That's good. There's no need to cry. It's okay." She radiated kindness waves just as potent as Kasumi's own waves.
Mousse sniffed a couple of times and then wiped his nose with his hospital gown. "Hi. My name is Mousse," he said shyly. 'What a nice lady,' he thought.
The kimono-clad woman smiled at him with her 'Auntie Saotome Smile'. "Hello, little one. So what are you doing there?" She pointed to what he had been doing before.
His face lit up and his eyes got big, filled with innocence. "I'm building a castle! Want to help me?" he asked with childish glee.
The woman giggled. "Okay. Let's work on it together okay." Mousse enthusiastically showed her what to do, all the while talking excitedly. The woman sat down next to him and together the two of them built the castle higher and higher.
Ranma turned to the doctor and motioned for him to follow him outside. When the two of them and his group is outside of the room he asked, "What's wrong with him? Why is he acting like that?"
The doctor removed his glasses and cleaned them even if there is no dust on them, clearly a nervous gesture. "For the first few days he was fine. He acted normal, as in he kept on trying to escape and commit a murder, your murder to be exact," He looked intently at Ranma and then continued. "A few days later when he woke up he was like this. From what we understand through asking him and observing his actions he thinks he is three years old. He still has the memories of his adulthood. However, he's scared of them and doesn't understand why he is in an adult body. Thankfully he can still access his language skills or else we would be speaking to him in Chinese. Only two weeks ago was he able to adapt to his body. He's holding up amazingly well. That's why we keep him here in the hospital nursery. He feels better being with children 'his age'. He feels more at home here than in the mental ward."
In the stunned silence that followed the two amazons turned to the nursery door. "So the rumors were true," Green Tea whispered, but loud enough that everyone heard her. Everyone turned to her with questioning expressions.
"I thought that people were kidding around," Red Bean whispered as well, turning the attention to her. "I didn't know that Mu Su actually went through it."
"What are you talking about?" Tofu asked for everyone, puzzlement and anticipation all around.
The two former Amazons turned to them with somber expressions even though no one can see it through their hoods. "In our village it is basically an insult to NOT fight somebody unless you or your opponent is gravely injured at the time," Red Bean explained. "It is against the law to be a coward. At the age of two is when your training begins. Since he thinks he is three years old that would mean his training had started already."
"That's where the rumors we were talking about come in," Green Tea continued. "As my sister said you cannot turn down ANY challenge. From what happened in there Mousse has just turned down your challenge. The rumors are that Mu Su, as a child, had turned down numerous challenges and refused to fight at all. He was obsessed with Shan Pu even then, but he did not practice Hidden Weapons yet. As I said it is NOT allowed to turn down a challenge. Normally they would have killed him as according to law, but he has a grandmother in the ruling council."
"In the cases of pacifists and those who have no aptitude for fighting there is a potion that MAKES you become a fighter," Red Bean continued. "This potion makes you aggressive, competitive, and makes you want to train in martial arts and fight. It basically forces you to become a warrior. However, it is not permanent. It has to be applied regularly or else it will wear off. A side effect of this potion is that it tends to 'put away' the personality you have when you take the potion. It never changes until the potion has run its course. Think of it as freezing a person's mind. If we're right Mu Su has been taking the potion since he was three. Tell me, sensei, he can see perfectly now right?" She directed her question at the doctor.
Still staring in disbelief at the girls he nodded and said absently, "Yes. After he woke up his eyes had been getting better and better every day. Before then he couldn't see even an inch in front of him. Now he seems to have twenty/twenty vision. It was truly astounding."
Green Tea rolled her eyes. "I thought so. Those eye drops must have been it. It's a perfect way to make him take the potion on his own. Geeze! His mother must have been in on it!" The sisters shook their heads at the insanity of it. Their former culture is messed up.
Dawning comprehension came to everyone's faces. Ranma is the first to speak, though his voice trembled. "Y-you mean that s-s-since h-he was three h-he's been l-l-like w-w-hen he f-fights me because of a P-P-POTION!?" He has his own experiences with potions, but at least none of them stayed with him for years.
The two nodded. "Yes. Now that he has not taken the potion in a while he's back to how he REALLY is, a three year old child."
"Is there any way to cure it?" Jones asked.
Red Bean nodded. "Just give him time to assimilate his memories. We've never seen it before, but from our studies his memories would later on merge with his personality and he should be fine then. Usually they remain the same I think. This might even make him a pacifist or something. It all depends on how well he copes with it."
The kimono-clad woman stepped out, glowing happily which surprised them. "Such a darling child he is! He is so cute! What a creative mind he has! Take a look at the castle he built!" She pointed at his creation that got her jumping around as if she had just met a master architect.
Everyone looked inside and saw Mousse beside a castle made of blocks that is almost as tall as he is. It looks like a typical European castle made of blocks, but she is looking at it as if it is a work of art.
Mousse ran up to her and hugged her, which made many of them shiver in horror. "Look at what I made! Do you like it?"
The woman gave him a big smile. "Of course dear! I'm so proud of you!" She hugged him back even tighter, making Ranma and his group gag.
After he let go of her and ran back to his blocks she turned to them. "I was wondering, sensei, is there anyone taking care of him? Is there anyone registered that the hospital can call to let them know of his situation?" she asked with a grin that REALLY bothered Ranma.
He shook his head. "There was one, a Cologne of the Nekohanten. However, no one picks up when we call them. Plus there are the charges against him set by Dr. Jones so he's staying here until he is fit for trial."
"Don't worry about those," Ranma's great-grandfather said. "I don't see any reason to put him in jail, especially when he is like this." Ranma nodded his agreement. He is disappointed that he will not get to see Mousse behind bars after all that he had done to him, but having him manipulated and duped up on potions since he was a kid... He would not wish that on ANYONE.
The woman acquired a glittery look in her eyes and a cute expression that would have made ANYONE do ANYTHING she asked of them. It scared the hell out of Ranma. "Can I adopt him? Pleeeesssseeee?"
Everyone's jaws dropped. SHE wants to take care of HIM!? "I...I'll see what I can do," the doctor hesitantly replied after getting his lower mouth back into place.
"Thank you!" Before anyone could react she swept him up in a big hug. The doctor froze as the short woman wrapped her arms around him.
Kodachi's mind overloaded and she fainted. Ranma caught her before she could hit the ground. In fact, many of them fainted and the others had to catch them before they fell to the ground.
Ranko could only stare in amazement. "Kun…, er, I mean Ayumi, you want to take care of HIM!?"
The female version of Kuno nodded vigorously after letting the doctor go. "Oh my, yes! I feel a joy whenever I am around him. It would be a pleasure taking care of him! I want to adopt him!" She clasped her hands together and seemed to daydream of her new son.
Ranma's jaw is around the vicinity of his ankles. Red Bean and Green Tea had suggested that they turn Kuno into a girl and use the same thing Shampoo had used against Akane one time to erase Ranma's existence from his mind. The two had thought that since he thinks of himself as some samurai from the old times, who are all men, if he became a woman he might get the mindset of a woman during those times. The two would use some pressure points to promote feminine thinking as well. A few of the male Amazons had been given that as punishment before.
The two had then made a quick stop to the magic store where the Chaos Mirror had originally come from and bought two-dozen packets of instant Nyaniichuan powder. An Amazon secret is that if they gather enough packets of 'the instant stuff' and put it in water it would turn into the real stuff, as in the ACTUAL 'Spring of Drowned Girl'. The packets were made from the original springs after all. In theory it would still work even if Ranko is now a living, breathing person because the Musks SHOULD have made another spring by now. All Amazons know about the instant packets unless they are given a curse as punishment and have the memory erased from their minds. It even healed her arm much to the amazement of everyone, even the Amazons. It never happened before.
The water worked, too well in fact. As soon as she woke up and saw her body she convulsed and fainted. A sniff of smelling salts brought her back to the world, acting like a woman. Kuno is now exactly like the perfect Japanese woman of the Samurai Age. She would give Nodoka a run for her money. She even has a few quirks like Mrs. Saotome. She wants a son a year younger than she is!
There is also the fact that a LOT of men had been checking her out when they passed in the halls, she not having a cloak. Kuno is gorgeous as a woman with curves to die for, a cute face, and a killer butt and breasts. She filled out the kimono Kodachi had brought for her really well. All she needs is long hair styled in the right way and she will be a perfect example of the traditional Japanese woman.
It scared the hell out of everyone how WELL Kuno took to being a woman. It scared the hell out of Ranma when she hit on HIM!
Kuno, now named Ayumi, did not recognize Ranma or Ranko at all. She acted just like the time Shampoo had erased Akane's memories of Ranma. No matter how many times everyone tells her who Ranma and Ranko are she keeps on forgetting, though there had been that one time she hugged Ranko a little too tightly.
The doctor shook himself out of his shock and motioned for Ayumi to follow him. "Please come with me so we may deal with the paperwork." The former boy enthusiastically followed him.
Exactly two seconds later Ranma and Ranko joined the ranks of the fainted.
The hooded person following them saw his chance and struck. He pulled out a gun, pointed directly at the target, and pulled the trigger. The DCM bullet hit dead on.
Everyone scrambled around at the gunshot. Ranma's team chased after the figure, but lost him or her in the crowds of panicked people. They went back and gathered the bloodstained person to the emergency room.
End Flashback
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"Do you think Ayumi will be alright papa?" Reni asked her father.
Ranma nodded, careful not to wake the slumbering Sumire. "She'll be fine. The bullet didn't even hit any major organs. Who could have known it was Kuno transformed though? I don't know and I don't think we'll ever now why they shot Kun…Ayumi. Tofu and Kasumi-okaasan will take care of her so she'll be okay." They looked at Nabiki when she started banging her head on the window.
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A location far away –
The shooter from the hospital entered a large, bulbous contraption and took off his hood, revealing a man wearing a futuristic-looking white helmet with a green lens for the eyepiece. He took off his cloak as well, revealing the futuristic body armor and figure-hugging elastic-like suit underneath.
The thing he entered looks like a control room. All around him are knobs, levers, keyboards, screens, everything. He stepped up to a keyboard, typed something and a few seconds later the screen in front of him flared to life. The man wearing sunglasses asked him, "How did your mission go?"
The man gave the person on the screen a salute. "Mission successful, sir. The Mega-Playgirl Ayumi Kuno will never surface."
"Good job. Were there any problems?"
"No sir. A man wearing a cloak and hood did get a bleep from my equipment. I scanned him thoroughly just in case. There were no Mega-Playboy genes, dormant or otherwise sir."
"Good. That is all for the targets in that area. Return to base immediately."
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Author's notes
How am I doing at misdirection? Did I make you think Mousse had ended up with the other insane people instead of the nursery? Or that Nodoka had been there? Please let me know. The fates of the other NWC are coming up soon.