Michael Gutin


An Entirely Different Ranma- Altraverse Ahoy!


Chapter 3

He Can Even Screw Up Lunch!


I guess I kinda deserve that, I manage to think before hitting the ground, of course, I'm not about to admit that.

I get up and shout "What did you do that for you…" but right then the bell rang, cutting me off. I quickly ran into class.

As I was a new student, the teacher had me introduce myself.

"Hi, I'm Ranma Saotome, of the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts."

I hear whispering about what happened before school, so I decided to put an end to them. "While I'm up here, yes I am an old friend of Kuno and yes he's been acting like an idiot because of a bet we made." I paused, "Which I won" I added smugly. "And that's all I'm gonna say about that." I finished.

The teacher pointed to a seat in the back of the room, next to Akane. I nodded and leapt into my seat. The class and teachers gaped at me, apparently, they'd never seen someone leap fifteen feet and land in a prefect sitting position, go figure.

The stares were becoming uncomfortable. So I spoke up, "Uh…Teach, shouldn't you stop staring at me and start…ya know…teaching?"

That got a laugh from the class, I that even Akane grinned, but only a little. The teacher looked a little embarrassed, and quickly launched into his lesson.

I just as quickly grew bored as the teacher droned on and on about god knows what. I turn to Akane and whisper "Is he always this boring?"

She shushed me, quite rudely, and as a matter of fact. So that's how she was going to be. I decided that getting both of us in trouble on my first day wasn't worth it, and reluctantly paid attention to the teacher until lunch.

Ah, lunch. My happiness quickly vanished. Damn, I forgot to bring a lunch, which meant I had to get some from the school. Remembering the old school I went to, I realized this would be tough. Luckily my time there had rendered me a master of Lunch-Fu, thank Ryoga for that. So I came to the lunch room and leaped into the fray.

It was easier to fight my way to the front then I had though. Much easier, almost as if they weren't expecting it. As if they never fought to the front, and instead waited patiently in line and…oh shit! I see the lunch lady glaring at me, and she points to the kids I…er…"knocked down".

"What the hell is the meaning of this?"

I put my hand behind my face and give a nervous chuckle, before saying "Well you see…" I take a step back. "At my school…I, er, they…" I take another step back.

"Gotta go!" I exclaim before turning around and running away as fast as I can. I don't pay much attention to where I'm going, and of all the people to run into, I of course run into Akane. While she was holding her bento. In such a way that she dropped it. And it opened. And her food spilled out, quickly becoming inedible.

Why am I not surprised?

I stammer out an apology. She looks pissed, but calms down and says "It's okay we'll just go to the school store and you'll buy me a new lunch."

"The school store?" I chock out. "That's not a very…er, good idea."

She gets angry again "What do you mean, you're just trying to get out of paying for the food you ruined, aren't you?"

"N-No!" I shake my head vigorously. I reach into my pocked, pull out some money, and shove it into here hands. "Here…I just, stuff…gotta do…now, bye!"

I resume my mad dash away from the school store, leaving a thoroughly confused Akane in my wake.

I run into Kuno, who grins at me.

"Trouble with lunch, Saotome?"

"Er…yeah, how'd you know?"

He chuckled, "Things are a little different here in Furinkan."

"I noticed." I responded dryly.

Right then, the bell rang, symbolizing the end of lunch, and the start of the second half of school. I shake my head in disgust. What was I thinking, agreeing to go to school… I must have been out of my mind.

Author Notes: Lunch-Fu, admit it, it's brilliant, am I right? No? Well fine, laugh at my idea, see if I care. Runs into the corner and cries

Does anyone even read these author's notes? Or am I just writing to myself? The world shall never know.

C&C please. Peace out. (Did I really just type that?)