KUNO'S OBSESSION CHAPPY #4

Ranma got within range and in his panic Chris threw a clumsy swing at the guy. He watched as the martial artist attempted to dodge. For some reason the guy was moving extremely slowly. Wasting no time to think Chris corrected the punch and sent Ranma careening into the wall.

HOLY CRAP! How the hell did I manage to do THAT! Chris thought non-plussed as he watched the martial artist slid down the wall still moving slowly.

Chris decided not to stay around to what would happen when Ranma got up and just ran.

Ranma walked home that day amazed. He had approached Chris and saw the guy start to swing. It was a rather pathetic swing and Ranma had planned on just leaning out of the way. Unfortunatly at the last moment felt a sudden spike in the guy's aura he moved at an amazing speed and hit Ranma right in the face. The thing that was even more amazing was the fact that the guy had hit harder than Taro! Ranma thought he knew the magic. The old ghoul had used it against him just a few weeks ago.

He didn't actually speed away. He slowed his opponent in time and used his power to strengthen his fist. The strange part was that despite the fact he had Ranma at his mercy he ran as soon as he hit Ranma. Ranma had learned how to counter the move while fighting the old ghoul but didn't have the counter up while fighting Chris. He didn't think he could do that kind of attack. From the look on the boy's face he surmised that Chris didn't know he could do it either.

Ranma began to work out a plan in his mind. If he could do such powerful chi attacks without training. Ranma could only imagine what might be possible with training. Chris' chi didn't seem as strong as Ranma's but it did seem pretty damn close to it.

All he had to do was find out whom Chris was working for, figure out if he can get Chris to join him instead, and get his father and Soun to train him. If this worked out Ranma could have a very powerful ally indeed.

"Yes," Ranma said to himself walking through the gates of the dojo, "Yes that will work."

Ranma stopped walking and stepped to the side watching a yellow and black blur slam into the ground where he had just stood crying, "RANMA PREPARE TO DIE!."

"Hey Ryoga," he called into the crater looking at the small black pig sitting in the pool where he had broken into an underground spring. "Wow," Ranma said looking at the spring. "and there I was thinking I could find water anywhere. Ranma reached down to grab the piglet. As she reached for the pig it splashed water up at him and bit his finger hard.

She held the piglet up by the bandanna around his neck and stared him in the eyes. "Did you really have to bite me?" she asked punching the pig on the head and leaving a large bump.

So distracted was she by the pig she didn't noticed the large mallet decending toward the back of her head.

Ranma woke up on the futon hours later. She felt a big bump pulsing on the back of her skull. She stood up and rubbed her head.

"Serves you right," said a cross female voice from behind him, "Picking on

P-Chan like that."

Ranma sighed and looked over her shoulder at the girl behind her cradling a small black pig in her arms. Ranma got up, brushed past her angry fiancée, and headed for the furo. "I'm gonna take a bath," she said closing the door. She had already stripped down before she saw the sign indicating it was already occupied. She heard her father and Mr. Tendou conversing behind the door.

"Perfect," she thought sliding the door open and walking into the steamy furo. She walked in and hopped into the furo as the two men stared at her. She noticed Mr. Tendou was holding his nose and squeezing his eyes shut.

"What's wrong Mr. Tendou?" He asked as he went and sat next to his father.

"H-h-hello Ranma," said Mr. Tendou.

"Hello Boy," said his father gruffly stressing the word.

"Oops sorry Mr. Tendou," said Ranma in a way suggesting he wasn't sorry at all. "I wasn't thinking I guess. Anyway, I have a question for you. How do you feel about teaching another student for the dojo Mr. Tendou?" he asked looking at him.

"Hmmm," thought Genma putting his index finger and thumb up to his chin and rubbing it in thought. "Does he show any talent already?" he asked looking at the boy suspiciously.

"Yes," said Ranma slightly insulted his father believed he would want just any trained. Its Mr. Tendou's dojo you know dad… I was asking HIM not you Pop. But, yeah, he has an aura but he has never had any training before. His aura is almost as strong as mine is, and he can even do the slow time technique the ghoul used on me a few weeks ago.

"No training you say?" asked Soun going into a thinking position almost identical to Genma's as Genma fumed at Ranma's insult and had his fist raised about to punch his insolent son.

Genma sighs and lowers his hand back into the water. "Well I will have to think about it for awhile… What is this boy's name anyway?"

"Chris Spooner," said Ranma. Then he blinked in confusion as he watched both men pulled back with horrified looks on their faces.

"Ch-Chris Spooner?" asked Soun in alarm.

"Don't you know what he is boy?" asked Genma. Without waiting for a reply he said. "Of course you don't. He's is a hitman," he said bluntly, "an assassin, a killer, a murderer, a paid gun," he said tallying it up on his fingers, "Any of this sinking in boy?" he asked angrily knocking Ranma on the head hard causing lots of bumps. "He would just use the powers we teach him to kill more people. We don't want Anything Goes connected to an assassin!"

Ranma had been ignoring his fathers ranting since he heard him say hitman. So, he's a hitman? That explains some things. He must have been hired to kill me. Now I just need to know who hired him. He had been listening on one level though and he developed a plan based on something that had happened to him before.

"How about this father?" he said in a business tone of voice shrugging off his father's blows and standing. He had learned this tone of voice from listening to Nabiki when she tried to get him to except a deal (which he invariably ended up doing every time). "I get the old ghoul to lend me some of that memory-erasing shampoo stuff. I can use it before or after he gets trained. I can erase either his memory of being a hitman and then return it after training. That way he will be drilled with the Protection of the Weak speech like you drilled into me. Or I can do it after the training. That way if he starts to get out of control…" Ranma shrugged," We just erase the memories of the training."

Genma nodded and looked at his son. "Okay then," he said grinning. "But you have to get the shampoo and the reversal of the shampoo from Cologne. I will train him if you manage that."

"Good," Ranma said looking pleased. "Now I only have to figure out who hired him to kill me," Ranma said not noticing the other two collapses headfirst into the water in a classic anime-style face plant.