Disclaimer : Ranma does not belong to me, this fine Anime belongs to one Rumiko Takahashi. Certain features from a lot of funny college films are also in this fanfic.

Ranma Saotome : College Student

Chapter3 : New Acquaintances

The sun was shining, the birds were singing, and the sky hadn't a single cloud in the sky. Friends were chatting happily outside, students were studying and learning inside. Yes, it seemed no one was having a bad day in University Kawasaki, all except, one.

Ranma Saotome, the 'renowned' ,or at least in his hometown, greatest martial artist of his time, was not fighting large yak monsters or arrogant phoenix gods nor was he fighting vengeful rivals or evil people out to try to kill him. Rather, he was fighting himself, at least to stay awake.

'Must, stay, AWAKE!' a drowsy Ranma thought loudly to himself hopelessly.

Right now, Ranma was currently in the middle of a curriculum class with one of his, less likeable professors. The 'Bull' as he liked to call himself, was teaching what appeared to be 'Hamlet', a very chilling tale that would probably leave many to ponder, not that Ranma would care.

"And that was when he saw his father's ghost, looming over him like a-

(SNORE!)

Cao Pi growled as he heard the indignant snore. Which student? He already knew. Clearing his throat and with his back still turned away from the students, he called out loudly,

"Mr. Saotome!"

Ranma immediately snapped his head up from the tiny puddle of drool he made and replied,

"What? What? What?"

The class started giggling as they gazed at Ranma's obvious drowsy, yet clueless look, which only caused to fuel the professor's fire. With a red face, Cao Pi yelled out,

"MR. SAOTOME, I WILL NOT HAVE ANYONE SLEEPING IN MY CLASS, DO YOU HEAR ME!"

Cao Pi facefaulted as the snoring resumed, Ranma seemingly sleeping again. He got up and in a burst of anger, he took a hold of one of his board's markers, and threw it at Ranma. Expecting it to hit its target, he was immediately surprised when Ranma instantly caught it right when it was about to land on his face. The sudden impulse went away as Ranma's hand fell down lifelessly, his instincts no longer blaring as it did before.

Cao Pi immediately got angry again and threw whatever he could find on his desk, which only proved to be useless as Ranma single handedly caught them in mid air and dropped them on the ground, one by one. After throwing his wallet at Ranma, which also proved to fail to his him, Cao Pi groaned angrily and stormed out his classroom.

Silence reigned, aside from Ranma's snoring and occasional snorting, before loud cheers were heard as one shouted out,

"Saotome defied the bull, now we can get out of class!"

More cheering was heard as everyone stormed outside the classroom, leaving a stagnant Ranma alone to sleep in peace.

(Yawn)

Ranma groaned as he stretched his arms in the air. Scratching his head as he opened his eyes wearily, he said to no one in particular,

"Can't believe I just fell asleep like that, how embarrassing."

Looking at the giant clock hanging outside the college mid-top, he realized he still had about half a hour until his next class and figured he could probably use that time to catch up on his sleep, not that it was his fault that he couldn't sleep last night, of course not. It was Reiji's.

"Hey, Ran!"

Ranma opened his sleepy eyes as he looked at an eager Reiji. He looked at the clock hanging in their dorm room and bugged out when he saw that it was midnight. Still sleepy, Ranma turned away from Reiji and mumbled,

"Leave me alone Reiji, I got class tomorrow."

Reiji, however, wouldn't go down without a fight.

"Oh come on Ran! I just bought this cool Karaoke box for only 200,000 yen!"

Ranma immediately sat up from his bed and looked at Reiji with shock.

"200,000 yen for a puny karaoke box? What are you crazy? That's a lot of money!"

Reiji scoffed loudly as he replied,

"So what? My parents are rich!"

Ranma did an 'ahh' as he realized Reiji's parents being rich, explained a lot of how Reiji was even able to get into a college like this. Ranma said to Reiji,

"Alright Reiji, but I really need to go to sleep for class, so try to keep it down, ok?"

Reiji nodded as he walked away with his karaoke box. Ranma yawned loudly and snuggled back into his pillow.

'I don't have to worry about Reiji, even if he is a bit loud, I'm a pretty deep sleeper.'

Ranma closed his eyes to let sleep bestow him, when all of a sudden, he snapped back up when he heard loud music shriek throughout the room. Ranma immediately tried to ignore it and went to go back to sleep, but another sound soon came screeching after.

"R-E-S-P-E-C-T, THAT'S WHAA-TT IT MEE-AANS TO MEEEEEE!"

Ranma desperately tried to clasp his palms over his ears as Reiji's off-key singing drove him to the brink of insanity. Looking up at his ceiling, he cried out over the noise,

"PLEASE JUST KILL MEEEE!"

Ranma grumbled irritably as he reminisced on that 'moment'.

'How can anyone sing like that all night long?'

Choosing to forget the nightmare, he walked back to his dorm room sleepily, not even paying attention when he suddenly ran into someone along the path. Ranma of course stayed on his feet, but the person that he bumped into most likely wasn't, if the feminine yelp was any indication to it.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to knock you down." Ranma said as he helped the girl up to her feet.

"God, I've had an awful day." A girl said out loud.

Said girl was about 5'6 in height, with long locks of brown hair pulled back into a stylish ponytail. She had an athletic body, slim with a flat stomach that went well with her Generous C cup bosoms. She had a pretty face that could probably be described best as cute. However, she had not on a cute smile, rather an angry scowl that represented what she was feeling at the moment. Her clothes were irregular to a normal mini skirt or jeans of some sort, rather she wore tomboyish type clothes. A shirt many sizes bigger than her and just below the knees shorts as her sneakers said a lot of what she did. Despite her outer appearance, many boys would gladly ask her out if they had a chance.

'I can't believe they kicked me off the soccer team! It's not like I meant to kick Saiyuri in the face with the ball, even though that bitch did deserve it. I swear, if I see that snitching cock-sucker slut again, I'm going to slice her into itty bitty pieces and bury her in the nearest park here!'

Although, if most boys knew what she was thinking at the moment, they would practically pee in their pants and run home to their mommies and daddies. Her name? Why it's Sakura Kagome of course.

(Yelp)

'Son of a bitch!'

Of course she would've been better off with a name like Kiwama, since she would not be described best as 'cherry blossoms'.

(Yelp)

'Son of a bitch!' Sakura thought loudly as she landed on her backside. Rubbing her butt irritably, she cursed whoever had bumped into her and swore they would regret doing so.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to knock you down." She heard the person say as the said person was currently helping her up.

Sakura dusted off her pants as she scoffed.

"Oh you will be in a minute when I'm, through, with, you." Sakura murmured slowly as she gazed into the bluish-gray eyes of the man who had knocked her down.

'So beautiful and gentle, yet chilling and powerful at the same time.' Sakura thought softly. She snapped out of her daze when the blue gray eyed man said something,

"Um, like I said, sorry for knocking you down."

Sakura swayed her hand shallowly as she replied slowly,

"No problem."

The man sweatdropped and replied,

"My name is Ranma Saotome, by the way. What's yours?"

Sakura breathed deeply as she answered,

"Sakura, Sakura Kagome."

Ranma nodded and yawned suddenly. He stretched his arms in the air as he groaned when the muscles, which Sakura immediately noticed and took it upon herself to leer at them, cracked from lack of use.

"Sorry Sakura, love to chat, but I've really got to go catch up on some sleep, See ya!" Ranma yelled out as he ran past Sakura. Sakura stiffly turned around and waved a goodbye. Now that he was out of sight, Sakura had time to think of her current situation.

'What a hunk! I've seen a lot of cute guys during my life, but that man was the first one to get me to act like a giddy school girl on the Spanish fly!'

Sakura walked back to her dorm room as her face was contorted to that of deep thought.

'But if he really knew me, he'd be on the first bus to the U.S.! SO, I've got to start acting cool, and if I try, I can make him my boyfriend! Consider me as your Santa Clause because you're on my Christmas list, Ranma Saotome!'

Sakura giggled giddily as she entered her dorm loft.

"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" Reiji cried out.

Ranma looked at Reiji weirdly as he questioned,

"What was that about?"

Reiji scratched the back of his head as he replied,

"I dunno, I just felt some sort of impulse to say it out loud."

Ranma pondered on this for a while before shrugging it off and going back to sleep.

(Click)

"A-B-C! EASY AS ONE TW-OO THRE-

(BONK)

"Ouch!"

"Knock it off!"

TBC.

I've got something now, I think. Crazy, tomboyish girl added on for Ranma's affections. Some characters of the NWC will come on later in the series. But besides that, Hughs, from 'Full Metal Alchemist', DIED! Geez, talk about sad. Didn't expect him to go out like that, but I guess it was coming to him since he was snooping around affairs that were none of his business.

Tell me what you think, Please R&R, Suggestions are greatly needed and appreciated. Thanks for Your Support, Daniel Shinigami.

Ja'ne!