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therapy to deal with the fact so please be gentle.
As Ranma opened his eyes, the memories of what had happened came crashing back to him. He silently cursed himself for getting into another stupid situation. Ranma sat up in his cot and looked around the room. The room itself was small and sparse, there was the small cot he was sitting on, and a small table in the center of the room. Ranma quickly scanned for the Ki signature of the man who brought him here and got up out of bed and walked out of the room and towards the kitchen.
The man looked up from the sandwich he was making and smiled at Ranma. He then said,"Ahh, good, you're a tough kid, aren't you?"
Ranma smirked and said,"Of course I'm the Bes-"
"Best?" interrupted the man, "Acutally, since I defeated you, that would make ME the best, wouldn't it? It also makes you my heir." The man smiled in a truly superior way.
Ranma immediately retorted,"You just got a lucky shot off, I was holding back like 99% of my skill."
The Man's smile didn't disapear though, if anything it got wider. After a moment he said," so, why were you holding back?"
"Because I saw you practicing and I knew you sucked." answered Ranma.
"You THOUGHT, I sucked because you saw what I wanted you to see. You cut me a whole bunch of slack and I used it to whoop you're butt." chuckled the man.
Ranma was getting pretty pissed at this point in the conversation but without warning the man changed the subject."So my new heir, tell me about yourself." asked the man dubiously.
Ranma smirked and decided to tell him the whole story of his life, hoping it would scare the man into not taking him as his heir, What kind of nut would want the kind of frustration the fiancee's and rivals brought, right? So Ranma told the man his life story, including most of the training that he went under as well as what his last two years had been like with his curse and the constant fights and challenges, the man's eyes widened at the mention of powerhouses like Herb and Saffron. He even told him what happened this morning.
The man shook his head in disbelief while saying,"I can't believe it, not a single word of that was a lie, your aura was completely truthful." The man's eyes narrowed for a second and then he looked up at Ranma apprasingly.
Ranma had already guessed what the man wanted and said," go get me a cold glass of water and a glass of hot water." The man promptly did so and when Ranma demonstrated his curse, the man nodded his head sagely.
Ranma said,"Well, what do you think?"
The man smiled and said,"I think.....I think Kuno has good taste, you female form is quite a beauty."
After Ranma picked himself up from his facefault he looked at the man asked,"ya sure ya still want me as your heir?"
The man smiled and nodded saying, "Are you kidding, this is the perfect opportunity to train you in my art."
Ranma sighed and asked," what is your school's name anyhow....uhhhh...what was your name, even."
The man grinned and said," I'm Kentaro Sasuke of the Kentaro school of Chaotic Martial Discipline."
Ramna's eyes narrowed and he asked,"What the heck kind of school is that?"
Sasuke chuckled and said,"It's premise is alot like anything goes as far as skill is involved, I try to integrate the best of each school into a streamlined form. The major difference is that the ki manipulation and mental preperation is different. The stronger the chaotic Aura a person has, the more power they can wield and the higher they advance in the school. As I said before, you may not even believe my real strength, so lets spar for real this time.
10 minutes later.....
Ranma was in fairly bad shape, he was unsure what Sasuke was doing, but it was slowing his movements by at least 20%. More than enough to be truly pummeled. Sasuke was surprised by the amagurien though and had been grazed by two Moko Takabishis. Sasuke grinned ferally and swept in for another attack, he dodged Ranma's roundhouse and blocked his other knee from completeing it's strike, tossing him with an effort Ryoga would be proud of. The Air around Sasuke began to tingle and he produced a black-red bolt of Chi and threw it at the currently prone Ranma. Ranma threw a Moko Takabishi to block but to his ultimate surprise, his chi blast seemed to have been absorbed and only made, Sasuke's chi blast larger. While energy bolt seemed to have slowed imperceptively from the collision with Ranma's Moko Takabisha, it continued on its crash course toward a surprised and unnaturally slowed Ranma. Before it hit however, it seemed to suddenly dissapate and turn into wisps of energy that made their way back to Sasuke.
Sasuke grinned and stated,"Match."
Ranma was completely speechless for a minute or two before he asked,"When do I get to learn that?"
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and said, "Thats up to you Ranma, in order to train in this style, you must be in a certain mental state, and from what I can tell, your current state is precisly in the opposite direction."
"Whats that supposed to mean, ya old fart!" asked Ranma getting angry.
Sasuke grinned and said,"Thank you for making my point, m'boy. From what I gather from your story, your father is an idiot in many, many, things. For all his numerous flaws though, what he did teach you well in is the Art, correct?"
Ranma sighed and muttered,"Yeah I suppose, why?"
"Your Father's method of goading out your anger to make you learn faster worked remarkably well, but in his idiocy, he didn't understand that he was teaching you, the main cause of most of your current problems." said Sasuke matter of factly.
"Huh?" asked Ranma.
"I want you to head back home for now, but I have a special training exercise for you." said Sasuke.
"What do I havta do, get hit by boulders, swim the Sea of Japan, outrun a pack of wolves, what?" asked Ranma.
Sasuke grinned and said,"not quite, something much, much harder for you."
Ranma eyed the man wearily and asked,"like what?"
Sasuke's expression went completely serious as he waited in a moment or two of silence to emphasize his point then he said, "I want you to not talk for 2 weeks."
Ranma sweatdropped and his expression became confused and he said,"Thats it?"
"Yes, thats it, but I mean all talking, no idotic banter in your morning spars with your father, no making fun of your rivals and no explaining anything to your fiancees." said Sasuke with an serious expression on his face, "You may write down anything you want anyone to know, say its a shiatsu point or a new training exercise, but you have to write out anything you want your family and friends to know about."
Ranma sighed and asked,"Whats the point of doin this?"
Sasuke smiled and pointed at Ranma while saying,"Your supposed to figure that out, m'boy."
As Ranma was walking out, Sasuke looked at the boy and said,"You can stop by twice a week and report your progress, you will be allowed to engage in conversation here, and here only."
As Ranma was walking home, his mind kept wandering back to the fight. Not only did his new "Master" have amazing techniques, his chi control was nothing short of remarkable. He had never even seen the freak or old ghoul call chi back into themselves after it had been physically cast out toward something. He was going to need to find out about this guy and think about what questions to ask him later this week. Ranma looked at the position of the sun and determined that it was already too late to go to school, so he just walked at a normal pace, doing something he rarely got to do, which was enjoy himself.
As he approached the Tendo house, it was nearing dusk and he smiled as he took a deep breath of fresh clean air and walked into his own personal hell. He was met at the door by a puffy red eyed Soun who wailed and thanked any kami patient enough to listen to his whining, that had brought Ranma back. It was then Ranma noticed something, Tweedle Dee was currently lacking his tweedle dum counter part.
Thats when a thought occured to him. He ran to the broom closet and opened the door to reveil a very sweaty and pissed off looking panda. He untied him and shrugged and walked towards his room. Thats when he heard it. the glass of water sitting on the kitchen table's surface rippled some water spilled out the glass shattered and the door to the kitchen open reveiling a pissed off, mallet wielding tomboy.
"Where were you today?!"snarled Akane.
Ranma opened his mouth to speak, only to remember his training and he reached out and grabbed a wooden sign and started to write on it. when he finished he flipped it, it read:" I got caught on the tail of a plane again"
Akane's anger subsided a little, but it was something akin to taking out an eyedropper worth of water from the pacific ocean. Immediately she surmised 3 different things he could have been doing. Idea 1:Ranma is running after a crowd of girls and grabbing them akin to what Happosai might have done. Idea 2:Same thing only with Ukyo. Idea 3: same thing with Shampoo. Her eye twiched as she started to glow and Ranma noticed a vacant look in her eyes before she began to focus on him again. She then growled,"I bet you were with your other fiancees, weren't you?" As Ranma began to write down his answer she screamed, "Hey, are you ignoring me you baka! fine go on and see if I care, your nothing but a perverted freak!" she decked Ranma and ran out of the room. Ranma had a feeling that this 2 weeks of silence wouldn't be easy.
Dinner had been quite an experience, Genma was trying to goad Ranma into talking by making wedding plans, and call his son honorless, while Soun still elated by the "GodSent" return of Ranma was eating up the plans for a marrage as soon as a priest could be called to do the preperations and service. Ranma was starting to fall for the tactic when he realised that outside of combat Genma has a huge weakness, his utter corwardess to both the Freak and his Mom, so he held up a sign asking Kasumi call his mother to come help with the preparations and have Happosai do the ceremony. Ranma smiled to himself as he saw Soun run to his room in fear and a fat bald idiot sweating profusely and telling Ranma not to be so hasty to get married to Akane.
To Say that Ranma was surprised would be an understatement, he was flabbergasted that it had actually worked. He smiled widely until a mallet came crashing down on his head and his Fiance screamed,"LIKE I'D EVER WANT TO GET MARRIED TO YOU, I'D RATHER MARRY KUNO!".
Silence reigned for a few seconds, until Nabiki commented,"Wow, that was a low blow sis."
Even Akane looked Taken aback by what had come out of her mouth, unable to come up with an answer she "Hmmfpted" and took off. A sign appeared from under the table that read, "is she gone?!" Nabiki chuckled and said, "Yeah, she left, I swear, you guys are like an endless soap opera." After Ranma straighted himself out he glared at her and up came a sign that said,"Yeah, 'Days of Our Mallet' starring Akane and Mr. Tenderized meat himself, Ranma."
Kasumi and Nabiki both chuckled and then Nabiki's eyes gleamed and she casually while pretending to file her nails asked,"So, Ranma, whats with the signs." Ranma held up a sign that said "Its for training and thats all I'm gonna say, you you can get some cash out of it, I bet the Teachers and Principle Pineapple are gonna freak and everyone will want answers." Nabiki shrugged as if she didn't care either way, but with Ranma not sweating and trying to come up with something quick and being able to think out his answers he noticed a tinge of disapointment and curiousity cross her face.
Later on that night, Ranma layed on the roof of the Tendo house in deep contemplation. When he wasn't trying to think of what to say, he noticed some things about the family. He decided to keep that thought in the back of his head for later contemplation as he heard a clunk clunk behind him, signaling the old ghoul on her staff. Ranma held up a sign that said, " What do you want?"
"Hello son-in-law," said Khu-Lon as she pogoed up next to the boy, either not caring or not noticing the fact he was signing. "Lovely night isn't it."
"Yeah, the stars are a lot brighter since me and Ryoga knocked out that transformer in one of our battles on the east side of town that knocked the streetlights out." Then up came another sign that read,"so, what brings you here, Elder?"
When Khu-lon read the sign she raised her eybrow and said,"what happened to 'Old Ghoul'?" Up came a sign that read, "if you can be civil, so can I."
She laughed a little which sounded like a cheese grater rubbing against a rock and said," I suppose so Ranma, I came because your aura is changing, anyone Ki Sensitive enough in the area has probably felt it. I don't know what you had contact with, but you probably want to be careful." With that, she took off leaving a confused Ranma with some questions forming in his mind.
**Author's Notes** Sorry this took so long, I actually had 3/4 th's of it done, but haven't had the time to work on it, R/R, By the Way, I hope most of you who read this don't like Akane, because if you do, you'll be rather surprised to note I do not, I know its hard to tell because I softened her temper a bit in the fic, but its quite true anyone who has an suggestions please tell me, I am a man desperately seeking to better his mad writing skills so constructive critque is most appreciated. My Aim name is VinnieMacStud
As Ranma opened his eyes, the memories of what had happened came crashing back to him. He silently cursed himself for getting into another stupid situation. Ranma sat up in his cot and looked around the room. The room itself was small and sparse, there was the small cot he was sitting on, and a small table in the center of the room. Ranma quickly scanned for the Ki signature of the man who brought him here and got up out of bed and walked out of the room and towards the kitchen.
The man looked up from the sandwich he was making and smiled at Ranma. He then said,"Ahh, good, you're a tough kid, aren't you?"
Ranma smirked and said,"Of course I'm the Bes-"
"Best?" interrupted the man, "Acutally, since I defeated you, that would make ME the best, wouldn't it? It also makes you my heir." The man smiled in a truly superior way.
Ranma immediately retorted,"You just got a lucky shot off, I was holding back like 99% of my skill."
The Man's smile didn't disapear though, if anything it got wider. After a moment he said," so, why were you holding back?"
"Because I saw you practicing and I knew you sucked." answered Ranma.
"You THOUGHT, I sucked because you saw what I wanted you to see. You cut me a whole bunch of slack and I used it to whoop you're butt." chuckled the man.
Ranma was getting pretty pissed at this point in the conversation but without warning the man changed the subject."So my new heir, tell me about yourself." asked the man dubiously.
Ranma smirked and decided to tell him the whole story of his life, hoping it would scare the man into not taking him as his heir, What kind of nut would want the kind of frustration the fiancee's and rivals brought, right? So Ranma told the man his life story, including most of the training that he went under as well as what his last two years had been like with his curse and the constant fights and challenges, the man's eyes widened at the mention of powerhouses like Herb and Saffron. He even told him what happened this morning.
The man shook his head in disbelief while saying,"I can't believe it, not a single word of that was a lie, your aura was completely truthful." The man's eyes narrowed for a second and then he looked up at Ranma apprasingly.
Ranma had already guessed what the man wanted and said," go get me a cold glass of water and a glass of hot water." The man promptly did so and when Ranma demonstrated his curse, the man nodded his head sagely.
Ranma said,"Well, what do you think?"
The man smiled and said,"I think.....I think Kuno has good taste, you female form is quite a beauty."
After Ranma picked himself up from his facefault he looked at the man asked,"ya sure ya still want me as your heir?"
The man smiled and nodded saying, "Are you kidding, this is the perfect opportunity to train you in my art."
Ranma sighed and asked," what is your school's name anyhow....uhhhh...what was your name, even."
The man grinned and said," I'm Kentaro Sasuke of the Kentaro school of Chaotic Martial Discipline."
Ramna's eyes narrowed and he asked,"What the heck kind of school is that?"
Sasuke chuckled and said,"It's premise is alot like anything goes as far as skill is involved, I try to integrate the best of each school into a streamlined form. The major difference is that the ki manipulation and mental preperation is different. The stronger the chaotic Aura a person has, the more power they can wield and the higher they advance in the school. As I said before, you may not even believe my real strength, so lets spar for real this time.
10 minutes later.....
Ranma was in fairly bad shape, he was unsure what Sasuke was doing, but it was slowing his movements by at least 20%. More than enough to be truly pummeled. Sasuke was surprised by the amagurien though and had been grazed by two Moko Takabishis. Sasuke grinned ferally and swept in for another attack, he dodged Ranma's roundhouse and blocked his other knee from completeing it's strike, tossing him with an effort Ryoga would be proud of. The Air around Sasuke began to tingle and he produced a black-red bolt of Chi and threw it at the currently prone Ranma. Ranma threw a Moko Takabishi to block but to his ultimate surprise, his chi blast seemed to have been absorbed and only made, Sasuke's chi blast larger. While energy bolt seemed to have slowed imperceptively from the collision with Ranma's Moko Takabisha, it continued on its crash course toward a surprised and unnaturally slowed Ranma. Before it hit however, it seemed to suddenly dissapate and turn into wisps of energy that made their way back to Sasuke.
Sasuke grinned and stated,"Match."
Ranma was completely speechless for a minute or two before he asked,"When do I get to learn that?"
Sasuke shrugged his shoulders and said, "Thats up to you Ranma, in order to train in this style, you must be in a certain mental state, and from what I can tell, your current state is precisly in the opposite direction."
"Whats that supposed to mean, ya old fart!" asked Ranma getting angry.
Sasuke grinned and said,"Thank you for making my point, m'boy. From what I gather from your story, your father is an idiot in many, many, things. For all his numerous flaws though, what he did teach you well in is the Art, correct?"
Ranma sighed and muttered,"Yeah I suppose, why?"
"Your Father's method of goading out your anger to make you learn faster worked remarkably well, but in his idiocy, he didn't understand that he was teaching you, the main cause of most of your current problems." said Sasuke matter of factly.
"Huh?" asked Ranma.
"I want you to head back home for now, but I have a special training exercise for you." said Sasuke.
"What do I havta do, get hit by boulders, swim the Sea of Japan, outrun a pack of wolves, what?" asked Ranma.
Sasuke grinned and said,"not quite, something much, much harder for you."
Ranma eyed the man wearily and asked,"like what?"
Sasuke's expression went completely serious as he waited in a moment or two of silence to emphasize his point then he said, "I want you to not talk for 2 weeks."
Ranma sweatdropped and his expression became confused and he said,"Thats it?"
"Yes, thats it, but I mean all talking, no idotic banter in your morning spars with your father, no making fun of your rivals and no explaining anything to your fiancees." said Sasuke with an serious expression on his face, "You may write down anything you want anyone to know, say its a shiatsu point or a new training exercise, but you have to write out anything you want your family and friends to know about."
Ranma sighed and asked,"Whats the point of doin this?"
Sasuke smiled and pointed at Ranma while saying,"Your supposed to figure that out, m'boy."
As Ranma was walking out, Sasuke looked at the boy and said,"You can stop by twice a week and report your progress, you will be allowed to engage in conversation here, and here only."
As Ranma was walking home, his mind kept wandering back to the fight. Not only did his new "Master" have amazing techniques, his chi control was nothing short of remarkable. He had never even seen the freak or old ghoul call chi back into themselves after it had been physically cast out toward something. He was going to need to find out about this guy and think about what questions to ask him later this week. Ranma looked at the position of the sun and determined that it was already too late to go to school, so he just walked at a normal pace, doing something he rarely got to do, which was enjoy himself.
As he approached the Tendo house, it was nearing dusk and he smiled as he took a deep breath of fresh clean air and walked into his own personal hell. He was met at the door by a puffy red eyed Soun who wailed and thanked any kami patient enough to listen to his whining, that had brought Ranma back. It was then Ranma noticed something, Tweedle Dee was currently lacking his tweedle dum counter part.
Thats when a thought occured to him. He ran to the broom closet and opened the door to reveil a very sweaty and pissed off looking panda. He untied him and shrugged and walked towards his room. Thats when he heard it. the glass of water sitting on the kitchen table's surface rippled some water spilled out the glass shattered and the door to the kitchen open reveiling a pissed off, mallet wielding tomboy.
"Where were you today?!"snarled Akane.
Ranma opened his mouth to speak, only to remember his training and he reached out and grabbed a wooden sign and started to write on it. when he finished he flipped it, it read:" I got caught on the tail of a plane again"
Akane's anger subsided a little, but it was something akin to taking out an eyedropper worth of water from the pacific ocean. Immediately she surmised 3 different things he could have been doing. Idea 1:Ranma is running after a crowd of girls and grabbing them akin to what Happosai might have done. Idea 2:Same thing only with Ukyo. Idea 3: same thing with Shampoo. Her eye twiched as she started to glow and Ranma noticed a vacant look in her eyes before she began to focus on him again. She then growled,"I bet you were with your other fiancees, weren't you?" As Ranma began to write down his answer she screamed, "Hey, are you ignoring me you baka! fine go on and see if I care, your nothing but a perverted freak!" she decked Ranma and ran out of the room. Ranma had a feeling that this 2 weeks of silence wouldn't be easy.
Dinner had been quite an experience, Genma was trying to goad Ranma into talking by making wedding plans, and call his son honorless, while Soun still elated by the "GodSent" return of Ranma was eating up the plans for a marrage as soon as a priest could be called to do the preperations and service. Ranma was starting to fall for the tactic when he realised that outside of combat Genma has a huge weakness, his utter corwardess to both the Freak and his Mom, so he held up a sign asking Kasumi call his mother to come help with the preparations and have Happosai do the ceremony. Ranma smiled to himself as he saw Soun run to his room in fear and a fat bald idiot sweating profusely and telling Ranma not to be so hasty to get married to Akane.
To Say that Ranma was surprised would be an understatement, he was flabbergasted that it had actually worked. He smiled widely until a mallet came crashing down on his head and his Fiance screamed,"LIKE I'D EVER WANT TO GET MARRIED TO YOU, I'D RATHER MARRY KUNO!".
Silence reigned for a few seconds, until Nabiki commented,"Wow, that was a low blow sis."
Even Akane looked Taken aback by what had come out of her mouth, unable to come up with an answer she "Hmmfpted" and took off. A sign appeared from under the table that read, "is she gone?!" Nabiki chuckled and said, "Yeah, she left, I swear, you guys are like an endless soap opera." After Ranma straighted himself out he glared at her and up came a sign that said,"Yeah, 'Days of Our Mallet' starring Akane and Mr. Tenderized meat himself, Ranma."
Kasumi and Nabiki both chuckled and then Nabiki's eyes gleamed and she casually while pretending to file her nails asked,"So, Ranma, whats with the signs." Ranma held up a sign that said "Its for training and thats all I'm gonna say, you you can get some cash out of it, I bet the Teachers and Principle Pineapple are gonna freak and everyone will want answers." Nabiki shrugged as if she didn't care either way, but with Ranma not sweating and trying to come up with something quick and being able to think out his answers he noticed a tinge of disapointment and curiousity cross her face.
Later on that night, Ranma layed on the roof of the Tendo house in deep contemplation. When he wasn't trying to think of what to say, he noticed some things about the family. He decided to keep that thought in the back of his head for later contemplation as he heard a clunk clunk behind him, signaling the old ghoul on her staff. Ranma held up a sign that said, " What do you want?"
"Hello son-in-law," said Khu-Lon as she pogoed up next to the boy, either not caring or not noticing the fact he was signing. "Lovely night isn't it."
"Yeah, the stars are a lot brighter since me and Ryoga knocked out that transformer in one of our battles on the east side of town that knocked the streetlights out." Then up came another sign that read,"so, what brings you here, Elder?"
When Khu-lon read the sign she raised her eybrow and said,"what happened to 'Old Ghoul'?" Up came a sign that read, "if you can be civil, so can I."
She laughed a little which sounded like a cheese grater rubbing against a rock and said," I suppose so Ranma, I came because your aura is changing, anyone Ki Sensitive enough in the area has probably felt it. I don't know what you had contact with, but you probably want to be careful." With that, she took off leaving a confused Ranma with some questions forming in his mind.
**Author's Notes** Sorry this took so long, I actually had 3/4 th's of it done, but haven't had the time to work on it, R/R, By the Way, I hope most of you who read this don't like Akane, because if you do, you'll be rather surprised to note I do not, I know its hard to tell because I softened her temper a bit in the fic, but its quite true anyone who has an suggestions please tell me, I am a man desperately seeking to better his mad writing skills so constructive critque is most appreciated. My Aim name is VinnieMacStud
