I don't own Ranma 1/2 but my ideas are my own, sort of, or perhaps they are
the byproducts of the taint of pop culture and the degredation of Western
society (blinks) where did that one come from, oh well back to wearing my
faded old navy jeans and sipping my Mt. Dew, hooray for capitalism! Oh, and
Mario doesn't belong to me either, but it should, cause I beat every mario
game ever made :( Um, I don't own Bugs Bunny or any of the looney toons, I
have the coffee mug though so....
Ranma had been quite amazed at the past three days, ever since speaking with Khu-lon on the first night of his vow of silence he had noticed a slight decrease in the almost compulsive nature of his mouth. It was like he had stepped back and taken the role of a spectator in what previously passed for his daily life. Ranma had managed to come to some very interesting conclusions about himself in his silence. His thoughts quickly turned to the people in his life as he began to leave the city limits of Tokyo and head towards Sasuke's retreat.
Genma was having the worst time out of everyone with his training exercise, Ranma realized. Genma had molded Ranma into what he was for a reason, Ranma had come to realize, It was easier to control his the way he was. He unable to Deal with life outside a fight and with very little social skills he would need to rely on his pops. Even when evidence of his father's almost daily abuse of honor came about, Ranma did nothing but complain about his pops, he had never realized it was because if he wanted to do something more about it, he wouldn't know where to start. With that on his mind, Ranma continued towards Sasuke's retreat.
Elder Khu Lon just finished with the last order of Beef Ramen needed as the daily rush ended. She had nearly missed tossing a bowl to Shampoo once today, which is quite a testament to how preoccupied she was. The night after she had talked to the boy, she wanted to consult with someone about the changes in Son-in-law's aura, and knew only two people that would be able to offer a additional point of view, Happosai and Dr. Tofu, perhaps also contacting the middle Tendo daughter to see if son-in-law's behavior had been drastically changed. Shampoo had come home dejected for the past two days saying airen was working on a new technique and refused to talk to her or anyone.
Khu-Lon knew he wasn't possessed and he looked like he had battled someone or something that was very powerful in the last couple of hours prior to her visit. His abnormally large ki reserves were down to a normal level and he had that gleam in his eye, the one he got whenever he had a good fight. She nodded her head, deciding that perhaps visiting Dr. Tofu would be a good idea, once she closed up the store.
On the other side of town Akane was starting to be freaked out(just a little) over Ranma's behavior over the past few days. Apparently Ranma was doing some kind of training exercise and refused to talk to anyone. Due to some reconissance, she found out that neither Uyko or Shampoo had been able to get him to talk either. She felt a little placated because of this, but then a thought kept resurfacing. He's training to get a new technique. At this thought she let out an unconsious growl and started redoubling her efforts on the training dummy. Doesn't that baka have enough techniques! She had come to realize, very grudgingly that she was no longer the best fighter, after Saffron, she acknowledged Ranma as her better in Martial arts and what does he go and do? He goes and redoubles his efforts to widen the skill gap between them, trying to be nice to her because he knew he was better! The training dummy's head went flying as this last thought came out. "DIE BAKA DUMMY!!!" one could almost hear the training dummy wimper in abject fear. The following has been cut from the story due to extensive violence and destruction of property.
"DIE BAKA DUMMY!!!" Nabiki winced and calculated the cost of yet another training dummy. She realized that she would need to take some photos of Akane later to pay for it. Her mind, like darn near everyone else in Nerima, was on Ranma and his nearly 180 behavioral change. Take yesterday for example, if she didn't know any better she would say it had not been an accident.
***FLASHBACK***
Ranma and Akane are nearing the gates to Furinkan High, as they enter, Ranma quickly grabs Akane and leaps out of the way, and a very familiar battlecry sweeps over the area. "RANMA TODAY YOU DIE!!!!!" Ryoga had returned from that wierd place that had talking mushrooms and two plumbers that were heroic knights to a princess, not to forget the wierd turtles and other things he kept stepping on. He had found the bane of his existance, and sought to crush said bane into itty bitty pieces, and today, he had the means to do it. Ranma looked up and saw that Ryoga was glaring at him, wanting to fight, not to mention, he had a wierd flower tied into the back of his headband and his normal yellow tunic was red and white.
Ranma jumped back from the assult and took a stance, and whooped out a sign that said, " What in the world do you want, Ryoga?"
Ryoga snorted and said,"The same thing I've always wanted, Ranma, for you to DIE!!!!" With that, Ryoga cupped his hands and a fireball shot out of them, heading towards a confused Ranma. Ranma managed to dodge, and a couple of thoughts came to him, I didn't feel any Ki buildup when he lobbed that fireball at me. Could he be using magic or some new technique. Quickly he realized if this is like my normal duel with Ryoga, the Tomboy is gonna try to bash me soon for picking on Ryoga. With that thought in mind, Ranma fired a stray ki blast or two waiting for Akane to interupt, when it happened, "RANMA YOU LEAVE POOR RYOGA ALONE!"
Ranma quickly implemented his plan, he pulled out a sign that said, "Look a 10 yen piece!" and bent down with the sign still up where he used to be. The mallet's trajectory tried to correct itself in time to punish Ranma properly, but ended up swinging sideways like one would swing a baseball bat, instead of upwards like a croque mallet or golf club. A meatly THWACK sounded, as the sign connected with the mallet, and Ryoga, who had his guard down,was clocked in the face with a sign going the speed Ranma was meant to and usually went. Immediately, Ryoga was down for the count. Ranma looked up from the ground and saw the scene and immediately ran to Ryoga, checking out Ryoga's head, he held up a sign saying, "Akane go get the nurse, I'm gonna check him for a concussion." No one except Nabiki noticed that as the nurse helped Akane haul Ryoga into school that his headband decoration was missing.
***END FLASHBACK***
This new Ranma seemed more in control, even if that whole incident was a fluke, he had a tighter rein over his mouth and his fighting had improved in his silence, his eyes had gone from innocent and oblivious to cunning and calculating, like when he was in a fight. The first time Nabiki had realised Ranma was attractive was the first time he fought Ryoga the first week he was here, on the Furinkan grounds. She knew he was nice looking and well built, but he seemed stupid and that was a definite turn off for her. When she saw his eyes in that first fight, she realized that he was hiding behind a mask too. She had her Ice queen facade and he had his dumb lovable, but arrogant jock mask. It was one even he wasn't aware of, one his father had crafted. She just hoped his new way of thinking didn't hinder her in any way, a girl has to keep herself financially safe in this cruel world, right?
The training dummy cursed its luck, the dreaded dummy destroyer his parents had told him about to scare him as a little unattached head at the dummy factory was real. He prayed to the kami of dummies, Mann E. Quinn that he would somehow survive to tell the tale.
Ranma knocked on the door to the retreat and waited, he felt the Ki of Sasuke Sensei, but didn't want to be rude, so he waited, and waited, and waited. After 15 minuted he finally opened the door and walked into the house. When he approached the living room he found Sasuke watching some Gajin cartoon on his television and doing a wierd kata.
Ranma opened his mouth to greet his sensei, excited to be able to ask him some questions and nothing happened, a look of terror passed over his face and he tried and tried to get a voice to come out, he looked over to see his sensei had stopped his kata and was grinning like an idiot. " So, you did it huh?"
He casually walked over to the beleaguered boy and tapped a point on his shoulder. Ranma immediately said, "What the hell!"
Sasuke grinned and plopped down on the couch and said, "It was a little test to see if you would follow through with my exercise faithfully. I locked up your Larnix with that shoulder pat when you left. From the scared look on your face, I could tell you didn't try to speak any these past days."
"Oi, I gave my word, I never go back on my word!" yelled a slightly pissed Ranma.
"Very true, but accidents do happen, " Sasuke motioned over for Ranma to join him.
The very first thing Ranma asked was,"Why is my aura changing?" Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he looked like he was examining him and stopped, a surprised look on his face.
"Son of a gun...hmm thats really strange." he seemed to drift off into his thoughts from a couple of seconds until he looked up at Ranma and nodded approvingly. "You are really ahead of schedule, it only took 3 days for your aura to change this much."
Ranma raised his eyebrows and looked ready to interupt but Sasuke continued on, "Ranma, let me ask you something, can you tell aura's apart?"
"Yeah, once I learned to center myself, it was easy enough to tell, but what does this-"
"Aura's are based on personality, Ranma, blue for confidence and green for depression any spectrum of colors for other emotions. That is not all that there is to senseing auras though, while a person's danger sense will be able to tell them if someone is emiting killer intent, it will not tell you if someone is good or evil or dullwitted or intellegent. A person's personality changes the flavor of their aura if we go for a food analogy," he grabbed a sandwich he had sitting on the coffee table. Think of your current or most powerful emotion as the meat on this sandwich, your other attributes intellegence, honor, battle cunning, or being a smartmouth." Ranma glared at Sasuke at that and he chuckled, "for those experienced enough, say, your cunning and intellegence are starting to change. They will not only be able to tell that it is different, but they may recognize the taste of what it has changed into. Your personality is changing, or maybe its finally surfacing." surmised Sasuke. "Tell me Ranma, do you think you have the point to the silence exercise figured out?"
"I'm pretty sure, it was to increase my observation skills, when I can't talk to anybody, I spend my time looking at their faces and studying them." Ranma surmised.
Sasuke's grin widened and he said, "Right m'boy, it took my last and only student 2 weeks to figure it out, and myself, it took, about a month, but, I wasn't really looking for a point."
"So whats next, if I already have the observation thing worked out, what should I work on next, Sensei?" asked an eager Ranma.
Sasuke was grinning as he asked,"Did you see what I was doing as you came in?"
Ranma nodded an affirmative and Sasuke said, "Good, here is the exercise until we next meet," he handed Ranma a stack of Video's," I want you to watch all of these and observe the movements of the characters as well, come up with katas that mimic the movements if you so feel the need, but notice their behavior as well, their words and actions are major tenants of living with Chaos. One cannot comfortably flow against a sea of chaos, you have to ride a top it like a surfer and let it take you were it may, good luck student! Oh yes, you may start speaking again if you wish, but say the exercise failed in getting a new technique for you or whatever happened was reversed."
Ranma quickly hid the stack in his hidden weapons space and pulled out a single tape to look at it. "The adventures of Bugs Bunny." Ranma shrugged and thought about Sasuke, he had a good reason for the silence exercise so this must have a reason too. With that, he walked towards the Tendo home, with his silence removed and a new purpose, to sit and watch cartoons!
**Authors Notes**
well so ends chapter 3, what did ya'll think, I realized, I updated fast, but I had a day off from work and my formerly broken muse decided to start working. If Ranma seems OOC, it may just be because he is OOC to canon Ranma, but there is his desire to learn, he would do anything to learn a new technique, so watching cartoons would be agreeable to him. Don't any of you go thinking I've made pairings up in my mind yet, because then I may just pair Ranma up with barney the dinosaur or one of the Hanson brothers. Anyway I hope you liked it, does anyone see where I'm going yet? do you like it? hate it? R/R and tell me via review or aim VinnieMacStud is my Aim name.
Ranma had been quite amazed at the past three days, ever since speaking with Khu-lon on the first night of his vow of silence he had noticed a slight decrease in the almost compulsive nature of his mouth. It was like he had stepped back and taken the role of a spectator in what previously passed for his daily life. Ranma had managed to come to some very interesting conclusions about himself in his silence. His thoughts quickly turned to the people in his life as he began to leave the city limits of Tokyo and head towards Sasuke's retreat.
Genma was having the worst time out of everyone with his training exercise, Ranma realized. Genma had molded Ranma into what he was for a reason, Ranma had come to realize, It was easier to control his the way he was. He unable to Deal with life outside a fight and with very little social skills he would need to rely on his pops. Even when evidence of his father's almost daily abuse of honor came about, Ranma did nothing but complain about his pops, he had never realized it was because if he wanted to do something more about it, he wouldn't know where to start. With that on his mind, Ranma continued towards Sasuke's retreat.
Elder Khu Lon just finished with the last order of Beef Ramen needed as the daily rush ended. She had nearly missed tossing a bowl to Shampoo once today, which is quite a testament to how preoccupied she was. The night after she had talked to the boy, she wanted to consult with someone about the changes in Son-in-law's aura, and knew only two people that would be able to offer a additional point of view, Happosai and Dr. Tofu, perhaps also contacting the middle Tendo daughter to see if son-in-law's behavior had been drastically changed. Shampoo had come home dejected for the past two days saying airen was working on a new technique and refused to talk to her or anyone.
Khu-Lon knew he wasn't possessed and he looked like he had battled someone or something that was very powerful in the last couple of hours prior to her visit. His abnormally large ki reserves were down to a normal level and he had that gleam in his eye, the one he got whenever he had a good fight. She nodded her head, deciding that perhaps visiting Dr. Tofu would be a good idea, once she closed up the store.
On the other side of town Akane was starting to be freaked out(just a little) over Ranma's behavior over the past few days. Apparently Ranma was doing some kind of training exercise and refused to talk to anyone. Due to some reconissance, she found out that neither Uyko or Shampoo had been able to get him to talk either. She felt a little placated because of this, but then a thought kept resurfacing. He's training to get a new technique. At this thought she let out an unconsious growl and started redoubling her efforts on the training dummy. Doesn't that baka have enough techniques! She had come to realize, very grudgingly that she was no longer the best fighter, after Saffron, she acknowledged Ranma as her better in Martial arts and what does he go and do? He goes and redoubles his efforts to widen the skill gap between them, trying to be nice to her because he knew he was better! The training dummy's head went flying as this last thought came out. "DIE BAKA DUMMY!!!" one could almost hear the training dummy wimper in abject fear. The following has been cut from the story due to extensive violence and destruction of property.
"DIE BAKA DUMMY!!!" Nabiki winced and calculated the cost of yet another training dummy. She realized that she would need to take some photos of Akane later to pay for it. Her mind, like darn near everyone else in Nerima, was on Ranma and his nearly 180 behavioral change. Take yesterday for example, if she didn't know any better she would say it had not been an accident.
***FLASHBACK***
Ranma and Akane are nearing the gates to Furinkan High, as they enter, Ranma quickly grabs Akane and leaps out of the way, and a very familiar battlecry sweeps over the area. "RANMA TODAY YOU DIE!!!!!" Ryoga had returned from that wierd place that had talking mushrooms and two plumbers that were heroic knights to a princess, not to forget the wierd turtles and other things he kept stepping on. He had found the bane of his existance, and sought to crush said bane into itty bitty pieces, and today, he had the means to do it. Ranma looked up and saw that Ryoga was glaring at him, wanting to fight, not to mention, he had a wierd flower tied into the back of his headband and his normal yellow tunic was red and white.
Ranma jumped back from the assult and took a stance, and whooped out a sign that said, " What in the world do you want, Ryoga?"
Ryoga snorted and said,"The same thing I've always wanted, Ranma, for you to DIE!!!!" With that, Ryoga cupped his hands and a fireball shot out of them, heading towards a confused Ranma. Ranma managed to dodge, and a couple of thoughts came to him, I didn't feel any Ki buildup when he lobbed that fireball at me. Could he be using magic or some new technique. Quickly he realized if this is like my normal duel with Ryoga, the Tomboy is gonna try to bash me soon for picking on Ryoga. With that thought in mind, Ranma fired a stray ki blast or two waiting for Akane to interupt, when it happened, "RANMA YOU LEAVE POOR RYOGA ALONE!"
Ranma quickly implemented his plan, he pulled out a sign that said, "Look a 10 yen piece!" and bent down with the sign still up where he used to be. The mallet's trajectory tried to correct itself in time to punish Ranma properly, but ended up swinging sideways like one would swing a baseball bat, instead of upwards like a croque mallet or golf club. A meatly THWACK sounded, as the sign connected with the mallet, and Ryoga, who had his guard down,was clocked in the face with a sign going the speed Ranma was meant to and usually went. Immediately, Ryoga was down for the count. Ranma looked up from the ground and saw the scene and immediately ran to Ryoga, checking out Ryoga's head, he held up a sign saying, "Akane go get the nurse, I'm gonna check him for a concussion." No one except Nabiki noticed that as the nurse helped Akane haul Ryoga into school that his headband decoration was missing.
***END FLASHBACK***
This new Ranma seemed more in control, even if that whole incident was a fluke, he had a tighter rein over his mouth and his fighting had improved in his silence, his eyes had gone from innocent and oblivious to cunning and calculating, like when he was in a fight. The first time Nabiki had realised Ranma was attractive was the first time he fought Ryoga the first week he was here, on the Furinkan grounds. She knew he was nice looking and well built, but he seemed stupid and that was a definite turn off for her. When she saw his eyes in that first fight, she realized that he was hiding behind a mask too. She had her Ice queen facade and he had his dumb lovable, but arrogant jock mask. It was one even he wasn't aware of, one his father had crafted. She just hoped his new way of thinking didn't hinder her in any way, a girl has to keep herself financially safe in this cruel world, right?
The training dummy cursed its luck, the dreaded dummy destroyer his parents had told him about to scare him as a little unattached head at the dummy factory was real. He prayed to the kami of dummies, Mann E. Quinn that he would somehow survive to tell the tale.
Ranma knocked on the door to the retreat and waited, he felt the Ki of Sasuke Sensei, but didn't want to be rude, so he waited, and waited, and waited. After 15 minuted he finally opened the door and walked into the house. When he approached the living room he found Sasuke watching some Gajin cartoon on his television and doing a wierd kata.
Ranma opened his mouth to greet his sensei, excited to be able to ask him some questions and nothing happened, a look of terror passed over his face and he tried and tried to get a voice to come out, he looked over to see his sensei had stopped his kata and was grinning like an idiot. " So, you did it huh?"
He casually walked over to the beleaguered boy and tapped a point on his shoulder. Ranma immediately said, "What the hell!"
Sasuke grinned and plopped down on the couch and said, "It was a little test to see if you would follow through with my exercise faithfully. I locked up your Larnix with that shoulder pat when you left. From the scared look on your face, I could tell you didn't try to speak any these past days."
"Oi, I gave my word, I never go back on my word!" yelled a slightly pissed Ranma.
"Very true, but accidents do happen, " Sasuke motioned over for Ranma to join him.
The very first thing Ranma asked was,"Why is my aura changing?" Sasuke's eyes narrowed and he looked like he was examining him and stopped, a surprised look on his face.
"Son of a gun...hmm thats really strange." he seemed to drift off into his thoughts from a couple of seconds until he looked up at Ranma and nodded approvingly. "You are really ahead of schedule, it only took 3 days for your aura to change this much."
Ranma raised his eyebrows and looked ready to interupt but Sasuke continued on, "Ranma, let me ask you something, can you tell aura's apart?"
"Yeah, once I learned to center myself, it was easy enough to tell, but what does this-"
"Aura's are based on personality, Ranma, blue for confidence and green for depression any spectrum of colors for other emotions. That is not all that there is to senseing auras though, while a person's danger sense will be able to tell them if someone is emiting killer intent, it will not tell you if someone is good or evil or dullwitted or intellegent. A person's personality changes the flavor of their aura if we go for a food analogy," he grabbed a sandwich he had sitting on the coffee table. Think of your current or most powerful emotion as the meat on this sandwich, your other attributes intellegence, honor, battle cunning, or being a smartmouth." Ranma glared at Sasuke at that and he chuckled, "for those experienced enough, say, your cunning and intellegence are starting to change. They will not only be able to tell that it is different, but they may recognize the taste of what it has changed into. Your personality is changing, or maybe its finally surfacing." surmised Sasuke. "Tell me Ranma, do you think you have the point to the silence exercise figured out?"
"I'm pretty sure, it was to increase my observation skills, when I can't talk to anybody, I spend my time looking at their faces and studying them." Ranma surmised.
Sasuke's grin widened and he said, "Right m'boy, it took my last and only student 2 weeks to figure it out, and myself, it took, about a month, but, I wasn't really looking for a point."
"So whats next, if I already have the observation thing worked out, what should I work on next, Sensei?" asked an eager Ranma.
Sasuke was grinning as he asked,"Did you see what I was doing as you came in?"
Ranma nodded an affirmative and Sasuke said, "Good, here is the exercise until we next meet," he handed Ranma a stack of Video's," I want you to watch all of these and observe the movements of the characters as well, come up with katas that mimic the movements if you so feel the need, but notice their behavior as well, their words and actions are major tenants of living with Chaos. One cannot comfortably flow against a sea of chaos, you have to ride a top it like a surfer and let it take you were it may, good luck student! Oh yes, you may start speaking again if you wish, but say the exercise failed in getting a new technique for you or whatever happened was reversed."
Ranma quickly hid the stack in his hidden weapons space and pulled out a single tape to look at it. "The adventures of Bugs Bunny." Ranma shrugged and thought about Sasuke, he had a good reason for the silence exercise so this must have a reason too. With that, he walked towards the Tendo home, with his silence removed and a new purpose, to sit and watch cartoons!
**Authors Notes**
well so ends chapter 3, what did ya'll think, I realized, I updated fast, but I had a day off from work and my formerly broken muse decided to start working. If Ranma seems OOC, it may just be because he is OOC to canon Ranma, but there is his desire to learn, he would do anything to learn a new technique, so watching cartoons would be agreeable to him. Don't any of you go thinking I've made pairings up in my mind yet, because then I may just pair Ranma up with barney the dinosaur or one of the Hanson brothers. Anyway I hope you liked it, does anyone see where I'm going yet? do you like it? hate it? R/R and tell me via review or aim VinnieMacStud is my Aim name.
