Ranma Vs Ushi Seinen
Chapter 2
"Again!" Alin shouted at the beaten down Ranma, but he is not giving up yet. He swiftly stood and up and sped towards the petite girl with a closed fist. Alin smirked.
It was almost dinner time and the youngsters exchanged blows, punches and kicks as Soun, Genma and Akane watched from the sides.
"Gambate, Ranma!" Akane cheered as Ranma delivered a spinning high kick, which Alin avoided easily. She then countered with a low swipe kick, trying to tackle down Ranma but he flipped backwards, barely avoiding it.
"She's too fast," Ranma thought, his mind was too occupied that he did not see Alin striding. "Oh no!" too late, as the wavy haired girl connected her fist to Ranma's right cheek. It was thunderous by the sound of the blow. Ranma flew backwards about a metre and landed roughly on the floor. Akane gasped. "Ranma!"
Ranma sat up, checking his body for any injuries. His back was hurt, but he could still stand and he did it. Alin was still in her fighting pose. She was deeply amazed by her opponent's stamina and durability. He stood up again and again, after receiving her blows. But to her, he was not the one she was looking for.
He was trying to figure a way to defeat this girl. She was simply too fast and he could not even touch her.
'I beat girls before…. So why this is different,' Ranma thought frustratingly. Then a forgotten idea suddenly came from his brain.
He stood straight and bowed to Alin. The girl looked weirdly at him. He grinned at her, making her puzzled. Ranma waved his hand. "Be right back," he said and ran out of the dojo to the shocked of four people in the room.
"Ranma!" Genma snarled shocked with his son's action.
"Saotome-kun, what is your son planning? Is he running away form a fight?" Soun asked but his best friend just shook his head. Akane was worried. She hoped Ranma has a plan because he is not the type to run away. Alin on the other hand was flabbergasted. She never met anyone so spontaneous. Ranma was more than an interesting person right now.
A splash of water was heard outside. "Masaka," Soun said. The door slid opened and in came…
Ranma, wet but more importantly he became small, her hair fiery red, bosoms heaving, clothes fitting her slender curves and her skin from tan to milky white. Yes, Ranma changed into a girl. Akane and the two adults were impressed and delighted to see him. Ranma smirked at Alin, who was unfazed by whatever Ranma was thinking. "Great idea, Ranma!" cheered his father.
"Being a girl, his speed increase and hopefully match Ms. Alin's pace," said Soun. "Go get her, Ranma!"
"Are you ready?" Ranma asked, as he moved in position. He did his fighting pose and Alin did the same. "It doesn't matter whether you're a girl or a boy or anything else, you still can't beat me," said Alin confidently but Ranma retorted back.
"We haven't try it yet so just don't talk," he shot back.
"Don't sing it, bring it." Alin stopped speaking and bolted right after the now girl Ranma. She instantly went for a combo of various kind of kicking manoeuvre.
Ranma simply blocked all of the kicks with his hands. Alin was determined, occupying Ranma's attention; she spun around fully, bringing her left leg to the air, making a roundhouse kick.
However, girl Ranma was quicker than boy Ranma, and managed to duck, avoiding Alin's powerful kick. Ranma made a fist and drove it to Alin's stomach, sending the girl backwards. Alin backflipped twice and landed on her feet, and clutching her stomach in pain.
'He's fast,' Alin thought. Ranma stood back up and once again in his fighting pose. He then playfully waved his hand in effort to mock his opponent. Alin felt insulted.
"No more holding back, from now on it's real," warned Alin, as she moved like no human can. Her speed increase leaving a silhouette of her where she stood just now.
"Look at the girl going!" said Genma, the spectators just gawked.
Ranma kept his eyes on her movements. She was too fast for his eyes. Then Alin disappeared. "Nani? Where is she?" Ranma looked around frantically, still no sight of his opponent until Akane helped him. "Ranma, she's above you!" she warned and Ranma responded by looking up. He saw Alin plummeting downwards like a missile.
'She's really fast now,' Ranm thought anxiously and took a huge side jump to barely avoid Alin's critical attack. Alin crashed down on the floor, resulting in more repair damage for the Tendo dojo. Soun fainted at the sight of it, while Genma managed to catch his best friend mid-fall.
Alin jumped out of the hole, she just created. She gazed frustratingly at Ranma, who was lying on the floor on his back tensely. 'That's one of my most powerful moves and he still able to avoid it,' she thought sourly.
'I have to step up a notch if I want to beat this mad girl,' Ranma thought wisely. He stood straight and put his right leg out and his right hand rose in a new fighting style pose. He smirked one last time. 'Let's do this.' Ranma moved fast, his girly feet moved like a cheetah. Genma's face was like a blowfish when he looked at his son. "What speed!"
Alin was caught by surprised by the sheer swiftness of Ranma. She was too surprised that she was not aware of her opponent's kick to her chest. She fluttered backwards.
'Damn… need to focus,' she thought cursely. She flipped in midair as she was about to hit the wall. Her feet touched the wall and she used it to bounce back and flew to Ranma with intense speed. The red head tensed seeing the move.
'Another one of her deadly attacks,' he thought.
Alin was confident that Ranma could not escape this time. But Ranma has other ideas. He used his signature move.
"Feel this… Chestnut Roasting On Open Fire Technique," he yelled while delivering rapid fire punches in direction of the speeding Alin.
"Oh yeah! Lightning Gazelle Technique," Alin shouted back as the two were about to collide.
"Oh no, those two are about to crash into each other," said Akane, Feeling dreadful, she clapped her hands over her mouth.
'Ranma….'
BANG!
Two bodies flew in different direction as they were hit by the force of the collision. Ranma somehow flew into Akane's arms, which she caught him safely. Genma dropped Soun to the floor to attend to his son. Soun woke up from the painful drop to the floor. Alin on the other hand fell hard on the floor and ended up lying on her front. Both had a couple of bruises form the nasty collision, but who was still strong.
"Ranma, okinasai!" Akane shook him. Ranma groaned heavily and opened his eyes. "A…ka…ne," he said softly. Akane sighed relief. She looked down at blue eyed boy, who was a girl at the moment. "You won," she spoke. Ranma smiled and chuckled.
"Not yet… she's getting up," said Soun, pointing at the sitting up girl. Alin barely could get up, as she struggled to prop up on her knees and elbows. She winced in pain but did not show it in front of Ranma and the others. She tried to stand up.
"She's going to fight again," said Genma disbelievingly. Hearing his father spoke, Ranma got on his knees quickly. "Not if I can help it," he said and moved from Akane's arms. "Ranma!" she yelled, shocked.
'Just one blow would do it,' Ranma thought and ran with all of his strength left towards Alin. "I'm going to win," he said confidently, gaining Alin's attention. She turned her head to the right and saw Ranma charging towards her.
'I… can't move!' Alin tried to move quickly but could not. Her muscles were too strain and sore. She could only watch her opponent moving closer and closer towards her.
Luckily for her, a white furry cat, with brown spots on top of its head, moved swiftly towards her master. He hissed at the oncoming danger. Ranma saw the cat and he freaked out.
"A CAT!"
In a blink of an eye, Ranma ran out of the dojo, not caring to open the door, thus making another repair for Soun.
Everyone just gawked at the hole that Ranma made.
This was one funny way to end things.
Alin laughed non stop since coming back from the dojo. "It's… so funny… ha ha ha… someone… who…. Ha ha... is... ha ha... afraid of... ha ha ha... cats," she said in between laughs. She held her pet cat, Luan in her lap.
After the fight, everyone gathered in the living room for dinner, everyone except Ranma and Akane, who were sitting in the hallway. The reason was the cat for Ranma while Akane's was to tend Ranma's injuries. Kasumi was tending to Alin, while giggling along with the merry girl. Soun and Genma listened on while Nabiki, the second of the Tendo siblings, stared boringly while eating lazily.
"Will you stop laughing already," yelled Ranma. He was still in his girl form and tottaly embarrass by Alin's laugh.
"I can't help it… it's just… this place grows weirder and weirder every minute," said Alin, then she stopped laughing. "I like this place. It's better than my home."
Nabiki suddenly became interested. "What does your home looks like?" she asked curiously. Alin looked up and put her finger on her chin. "Well, it's not bored but everyday is always the same…. Training, working, eating, studying… there just no fun," she told them. "We were forbidden to do any sorts of entertainment after the master was given the control of the clan. Before this, only women were made leaders because that's the way how it works."
"Now that's a clan I like," said Nabiki nonchalantly, but she was enthusiastic none the less.
"But how come the master takes control of the clan?" Kasumi asked, adding some more rice for her father.
Alin crossed her arms and made a I-am-thinking face. "actually, to tell you al the truth… I don't exactly know how it happened but it just happened….one day everything was fine… then the next day…. The master got full control without much protest from the people, even the secretary." Alin's face showed anger and displeasure.
"That's sad," said Kasumi. "And the next thing was you've been chase by the master until you got to Japan," said Akane, appearing from the threshold. She seemed wanted to help Alin since the wavy haired girl came into the Tendo home. "We can offer you our hospitality," she said and everyone stared at the youngest Tendo in surprised but Ranma was the one really surprised, his jaw dropped.
"Alin's eyes brighten. "Really? You mean it/" she asked. Akane nodded. "If otosan don't mind?" she looked pleadingly at her father. Soun raised his hand and shook his head. "Iie, this house is welcome to everyone," he said.
"What!" Ranma yelled right beside Akane, from the threshold. "You're going to let the cat stay here!" eh said disbelievingly. Luna hopped onto the table and hissed at the red haired girl/boy. Ranma screamed freakily and bolted upstairs.
Once everything was calm, Akane turned to Alin. "Don't mind him, he always makes a fuss about every small thing," she told her.
"But… is it okay?" Alin asked, unsure of the situation.
"It's okay really… Ranma can be annoying all the time but you're get over it… you can sleep in my room," said Akane, beaming a smile.
"Arigato… Akane-kun," Alin said gratefully.
Dinner was over, the two girls quickly became friends as they chatted through the night. Alin felt happy for the first time since she left her home and family. She missed them but she knew she was going to return home soon. She thanked the god for this fortunate encounter with this family in Japan.
Meanwhile outside the Tendo home, a dark figure stood on the stone walls, watching Alin talking to Akane. He smiled happily. "Rest well… Alin-chan," he whispered in the dark.
He disappeared out of sight.
R/R please...
