Disclamer : okay, i know it , you know it, do I need to say it again that ranma ½ does NOT belong to me.
Italic: tought or flash back
"" : speeches
( ) : actions
What if Soun was not a crybaby anymore...
Part 2: Observation, retrospection and analyse.
The next morning, Tendo woke up late, it was not usual to see that, most people were gone, either to school or to steal some underwear. He got up and and changed clothes into his normal garb. Then, he looked at the picture of his wife and started to weep. But that's when he remembered the promise he made to himself. He knew now that he didn't need anymore to cry over his lost wife. He knew that she was happy and that she was waiting for him. But for now what he needed to do was think and .... ( snif snif.....) take a bath... so he stoped weeping and went to the bathroom.
While walking toward the bathroom he started to think.
-"Oh my dear Kimiko... what can I do to earn my place to your side... sure you said to help those around me... but what is there to do..."
That's when he saw a big panda sunbathing next to the koi pond while eating a banana split ( made by kasumi), he then saw a big pile of feminine underwears lying everywhere, next he saw little P-chan getting out of the broomward while bweewing something that sounded like : WHERE THE HELL AM I !!!???.
Finally, he arrived in the bathroom and started the shower. He then removed his clothes and looked at himself in the mirror.
-"Look at me now... what have I become... an old man... a grumpy man who was so obsessed by uniting the schools that he forgot the most important thing... the happiness of his family. How could I have let that happened. Alright, I have been oblivious long enough to what has happened around me. It is time to open my eyes and see what's wrong.... but first a little bath is needed."
So he started by taking a shower making sure that every part of his body was clean, next he took a bath to relax himself.. 30 minutes later he stood up and looked at himself again in the mirror.
-" Hmmmm... next, the shaving... ".
So he looked in his drawer and took out his razor. He thought of the time when Kimiko was alive.
- "Wow!!! look at that anata!! Isn't that a cute little dress!! Would it look good on me??"
-Kimiko and Soun were a happy couple.. Soun looked has handsome has he ever was and kimiko was one a kind, in fact the couple was the center of attention and it made Soun rather uneasy.
-" Yes, I am sure it would look good on you. Would you like to try it??
-"Really ?? oh I would LOOVE IT!!"
And so they went in the store. Actually Soun just wanted to get out of the center of the attention so he used the only way he knew, complying to the demand of madam.
While Kimiko was changing he checked the price... fortunately it wasn't that costy, so, if she indeed wanted to buy it, he could afford it. When kimiko got out of the changing-chamber, It reminded Soun how lucky he ever was to have met this beautiful girl.
She was always cheery, she liked to express her feeling and was extremely beautiful. Even with her sometimes childish attitude, she really was mature and when time was needed she could be as motherly as he liked martial arts and that meant A LOT. Of course not everything was happy, if she ever had the feeling that something was wrong she would get her temper high and get a mallet out of nowhere. Fortunately for soun, she never really hitted him but sometimes she could be as frightening as a dragon. But at the same time, the fact that he was able to feel so much emotion with her was part of why he fell in love with her.
-"So how do you like it ? anata??... Is something wrong?"
-"Wow!! You look beautiful, if I wasn't already in love with you I think I would be right here, right now. You look like an angel. "
The dress she was trying was all white but a some places it had a little glittering that made her look like if she was wearing a dress made of silver. It was long enough to cover most of her laps but at the same time is was really thight so he could see, as well as every men in the place, how well endowed she was.
-"Really ? tee-hehehe thank you, so will you buy it for me?
-"Yes, of course, but now you should go change"
-"Why"
-" Because I don't like the way every men in the place are looking at you..."
She looked all around her and saw that most of the men were almost drooling at her, at the displeasure of their gilrfriends. It made her laugh.
-" Are you jealous?"
-"What!! Me !! no!! ... huuh yes ... huh.. i mean...."
She giggled and advanced toward her husband, embraced him and said, in his ears with a purry voice.
-"I don't mind how everyone look at me... as long as you find me beautiful."And with that she kissed him passionately. Everyone in the place was shocked. At how that women was bold, at how that couple dared show their love in public¹, and the other men because she already had a boyfriend. "But first thing we we get home.. you shave that mustach, its really itchy".
-"What? Huuuuhhhh.."
-"Hehehehe..."
-"Anyway let's get home, the babysitter must be bored out of her mind by now and so must are Kasumi, Nabiki and Akane.
-"Right, you give me time to change back, okay?"
-"Alright."
A Tear started to run on Soun's face.
The happy couple was returning home. They were almost home that they kissed again and started to run, playing Tag, while laughing.
While that time, Little Nabiki was playing with the golden fish in the Koi pond and she heard the laugh of her parents so she rushed to the door to go greet her parents.
When she saw her little child Kimiko rushed to her side followed by Soun not too far Behind. Unfortunately, she never saw the motor cycle that was coming at high speed.
Not believing that someone would be running in this peaceful part of tokyo, the driver went at the greatest speed of his vehicule but when he saw the woman he couldn't stop soon enough and...
The last thing Kimiko saw was Nabiki in choc state, her husband crying over her and some abulance coming from afar then she closed her eyes for the last time.
Soun stopped crying ....
-"First, to learn what to do you must know the condition of the surroundings. Maybe I should go see how my daughters are doing in schools.... hmmm its true that this mustach is itchy I never tough of it since that time.... alright time to start my life from where I left it."
And started to shave himself.
Kasumi was pleasantly humming a little song that her mother taught her in her childhood. She was happily cooking some chocolate cookies. When she saw him, she became very shocked, first because he wasn't playing shogi with mister Saotome, second because he actually shaved his mustach. The surprise was so great that she dropped her cookies.
-"Ho no!! my cookies!! , I am sorry father, I shall make some others right away", she said while bowing to pick up the tainted cookies. What happened next surprised her even more, Her father actually bowed too and helped her pick up the cookies." What happened to you father?"
-"Huh ? what do you mean Kasumi? Can't I help my daughter cleaning up a little?"
-"what? No, not that... I mean yes... I mean not only that... what happened to your mustach?"
-"Huh ?? oh! I just shaved it, I shouldn't have?"
-"What, oh no it suit you well, you look years younger it really suit you well you could almost look like my old brother."
-"Hahahaha!! Why thank you kasumi now I think I will fix mself something to eat.
-"Ho no!, let me fix you something"
-"No need I'll be able myself, thank you anyway"
-" Please I insist, - I don't want him to intoxicate himself like last time...- let me do it for you"
-"I said, no than........- wait a minute, this could be an oportunitie to see what is wrong with kasumi and see what I could do for her... yes, let's do that...- hmmm finally,why don't you help me, you might be able to teach me something and we could do some father/daughter activities? Plus, we will be able to eat it together, Is it okay?
-"Well....- well ...why not... at least that way i will be able to watch him and prevent him from intoxincating himself...- yes, let's do that father."
-"Then its settled, but by the way... please don't call me father anymore... it makes me uneasy just dad will be okay."
-"Y-yes! Fath... daddy. –what's with him? He always wanted respect from us and now... what is happening to him... not that this is bad... oh well time to fix some food for Fathe- err... daddy"
For the next 1 hour, Soun actually tried to cook something, he was not exactly doing the good things but at least he did not confuse the tobasco and the whipped cream... like Akane does most of the time.
Actually, most of the time, when Soun was wrong Kasumi would giggle a little and correct him. She had inherited of the motherly side of kimiko. Soun noticed that long ago but this time... It did not make him cry... no , in fact it made him proud and smiled with a fatherly smile. Strangely enough Kasumi noticed it ². It made he feel warmth inside her to feel that her father was actually proud of her, it was not a fake emmotion of obligation to show her some respect, no she felt it came from the bottom of his heart.
30 minutes later, they actually fixed themselves quite a lunch and started to eat. They ate it, for the first time in the kitchen and not in the dinning room, mostly because this was the last place someone would bother them since kasumi was the only one to cook and since Akane is at school....
-"Father... may I ask a question?"
-"I thought I said i wanted you to call me daddy?"
-"hum, yes daddy, sorry, I am just not used to it."
-"It's alright, so what did you want to ask me ?
-" Huummm. Well first what is happening to you, why did you cut your mustach and why do you want so badly to cook with me ? did your intoxication of yesterday affect your head or something, not that this is bad but... It just feel so.... unusual..."
-"Well... let's say that my 'near-death' experience gave me some kind of illumination and... lets say it made me want to change a little."
-"I... see..."
-"Now it is my time to talk."
-"What is it Fat... Daddy ?"
-"I just what to know something about you, like what do you like, do you have any friends, a lover. I mean we have been in the same house for almost twenty years and I noticed I know almost nothing of my girls..."
-"What? Hummm well if you really want to... well you could say I like cooking, and doing the laundry and ..."
-" No no , you misundertsood me Kasumi.. what I meant with what you like is... I don't know... you hobbies, your preferences in clothes, some things like that..."
-"Hummm well... I do like aprons, they are really useful and I like the way I hold a broom in my hand... and ...
-" Nevermind that. Tell me about...?
Kasumi not being used to such an interrogatory was being really uneasy, she really wanted to do something else... her hand started twitching and she looked down. Soun saw that and started to feel regrets... maybe he hadn't been doing the good thing... maybe he should try another approach sometime...
-"About...?"
-" Haaaa... Nevermind I think its time for me to go, the lunch was very good, thank you Kasumi... well please have a nice day, he said with a smile."
-"Yes daddy."
-"Oh! and by the way! Don't bother doing the supper tonight, this time I'll order something so please have a day off and have fun."
-"What?? But..."
It was too late, Soun had already got out of the room. So she decided to go read a book . He went to change clothes. That's when he saw his friend, right now a human, coming toward him.
-"Hello Soun nice day isn't it? How about a game of shogi??"
-" Why it would be gr.... –what a minute... I am not forgetting something am I?? Of course I got o got watch how the childrens are doing in schools!!- finally I am sorry, Genma, my friend, I already have some thing planed today. Maybe another time."
And so he went into his room.
-"Something planned??? Is someting wrong with him??"
Into his room, Soun checked what he could wear for outside... he checked his clothes and saw...
His usual clothes
His martial art suit.
A suit for occasion
His yellow bathing suit set
And a dusty box which he did not remember what was inside.
That intrigued him so he opened it and saw a letter... a letter from kimiko with a big plastic bag that was sealed. There seemed to be some clothes inside.
The letter was saying : Dear Anata, happy birthday! It is our wedding aniversary and I wanted you to have this I think it will be better than your usual clothes, I hope you like it !
Signed, your dear kimiko.
P.S
It sure will be better than the clothes your are wearing... you really have no fashion style. Tee-hehehe. please this when we are going out together.
Soun had a little smirk and opened the bag. What he saw was a some blue jeans an some T-Shirt.
-" This is better than what I am wearing right ??well thank you Kimiko... even if I am late..."
And so he changes clothes.
Somewhere in Heaven....
-" FINALLY !! HE FOUND THEM !!!"
-"What are you talking about Kimiko?? "
-"Oh archangel gabriel, my husband finnaly found the clothes I bought him years ago."
-"What !!??? it took him all this time to find them!!"
-"Yes....... I thought he would never find them... I couln't stand it, he was almost always wearing the same clothes... and when I died, it got even worse... damn... how horrible are those bathing suit..."
-"Indeed they are... well now that he found them I hope he will wear them"
-"Yes, he is changing into them right now care to look?
-" Why yes....... OH MY fng GOD- please forgive me my lord-!!! now I know why you married him... just look at the size!!!"
-"Yes, it was a really good experience... tough I had to teach him how to use it... but in the end both of us were hmmmm... 'satisfied'."
-"I sure hope so with that kind of material every women would like to have him."
-"SHUT UP!!"
-"What?? Aren't you the one that said that he should love and be loved?"
-"Yes, but I didn't mean that he should make himself a harem... anyway that won't happen... he's so shy... he may fall for another girl but I know he will never forget me."
-" Anyway, how about we go drink ourselves some boozes?"
-"T'would be nice, let's go!"
-"Well that it, now let's go... weird... I just had the feeling I was being watched ... oh well must have been my imagination..."
With that, he got out of his room, if someone he knew saw him at this moment, they could have sworn he lost at least fifteen years, he looked like if he was in his mid twenties.
So he got out and started to go to school were akane, Ranma and Nabiki should be taking their diner right now. He walked and saw the clinic of doctor tofu... he decided he would go talk to him later... maybe, he has a crush on one of my daughter I think... . Unoticed by him a big panda was following him...
-"What's gotten into him?? Maybe I should follow him so that he do not do something he would regret."
After a while Soun arrived in the school yard. There he saw Ranma fighting against Ryoga while akane was yelling at him.
His first reaction for this scene was anger. What could have made angering his little Akane Like That. Ranma must have done something unfaithful to her. He was preparing his 'demon head attack' when he remembered the words of his late wife and started to calm down... he advanced and saw ryoga disapear, getting lost... that's when he saw the boy Tatewaki Kuno rushing toward him with his bokken.
Then he saw nabiki taking bets, on how much time he would beat down kuno, She was making a bundle.
Easily enough the wanabe-samurai was beaten to a pulp and was lying on the ground. Next was the Fiances of Ranma to try and feed him, when he saw Akane's Bento trying to get away while yelling 'help!!' it reminded him his baaaaaad day, yesterday. The he saw the little Kodachi Kuno trying to make him drink some tea but it fell on the ground. Strangely enough, the greenery where the tea fell started to wither and die. Next was Ukyo Kuonji, at least her food seemed edible but he wasn't happy with the fact that she was the only one that ranma could eat her food without getting poisoned... He wanted him to eat Akane's cooking but he did not want him to suffer the same way he had. And then the reflex kicked in, he was getting pissed of and started to form a 'demon head attack ' but at the last moment, he stopped and returned to a normal form.
Then what he saw was even more shocking, The little amazon, who always destroyed his walls, had came in bicicle abd landed on Ranma's head this caused him to fall on Akane and kiss her inadvertently.
Then he heard Genma Singing behind him And his could not repress his reflexes anymore and shouted...
-"Oh HAPPY DAY GENMA, THE SCHOOL WILL FINALLY BE JOINED!!"
-"YES SOUN LET'S GET A PRIEST RIGHT AWAY!!"
Upon seeing this scene, Ranma's and akane's reflexes kicked in too.
-"HEY WAIT!!! ME AND AKANE ARE NOT IN LOVE TOGETHER!!"
-"IF YOU THINK I'M GONNA MARRY THAT PERVERT..."
-"WHO ARE YOU CALLING A PERVERT!! YOU TOMBOY!!!"
-"WHAT I'LL..."
But suddendly something happened, Soun stopped singing and dancing and looked very troubled, this stopped everyone to look why the things did not happened like it should have been.
-" Soun my friend, are you..."
-" WHAAA!!!!! I'm sorry !! "
And he started to run away...
Everyone was shocked, nobody was expecting to see Soun running away while crying, well at least not while apologizing, they expected him to cry because Akane and Ranma did not get along with each other.
-" Hey , that's wierd..." said one of the schoolmate of ranma.
-" Yeah he was not supposed to cry for this reason ." answered on of the friend of Akane.
-"Well what do we do now??"Asked Ranma.
-" Grrrrrr Ranma, this is all you fault, you made my father cry again," and with that she sent him in LEO ³ with the courtesy of her mallet.
-"Why you little tomboooooooy........." said Ranma while flying elsewhere.
-"Well 's now I'm better."
-"Hey akane! You did not really hit him because he made your father cry... he cries all the time." Asked another of her friend.
-" huh?? Ho no, I just wanted an excuse to send him into the stratosphere..."
-"Ho... I see well it's time for class now..."
-"Yes let's go"
So, everyone went their own way. With one last question in their mind: What happened to his mustach ??
When soun arrived in his home, he was still crying.. He shut himself in his room and weeped for sometimes.
-"What am I doing!! I saw that it was not ranma's fault but I couln't help it... it was like an automatism... damnit.. ranma got hit by Akane again... ... I know, I saw him fly away when I was runing back home... Kimiko was right, my Akane has her temper really too high... and ranma is suffering because of that ... nabiki is making money on ranma's misfortune and kasumi is too much taken up in her life to notice that her life could be better... tough I did not really help... what can I do to help them... how can I help them... I am always crying at the first thing in life and god knows that nobody will hear out somebody like me ... what can I do... I need to change... but how!! Please Kimiko! God! Anybody give me a sign!!!"
As if on cue, he heard a sound coming from his wardrobe. He dried up his tears and went to see what was making that noise. When he opened the door, he saw a little black piglet with a yellow bandana. He had a great smirk..." Why hello Ryoga hehehe –thank you whoever heard me-", and the poor little piglet shivered in fear as to what this man, akane's father, was going to do to him.
When the teenagers returned from school they saw something that was unusual, kasumi opening some restaurant food bentos.
-"Hey kasumi, you did not cook this evening?" Asked Akane.
-"No, Daddy said he would pay for some restaurant so he left me some money."
-"Well then we'd better eat it before it cool off" said Nabiki
-"Yes, Ranma would you be kind enough to go see my father in his room and tell him that dinner is ready ?"
-"Sure, I'll be right back."
He went, he came back, and was speechless.
-"What's wrong , baka, you ate your tongue?"
-".... .... see for yourselves..."
He handed down th letter and everyone looked at it.
It said : Hello everyone, I'm going on a little training trip, I don't know when I'll be back
I left some money in Kasumi's room for the time I am gone please use it wisely like I know you will. Please do not let my friend Genma touch it.
P.S
My dear Akane I am sorry but i have taken your little P-chan with me I Hope you don't mind, thank you.
-"So that why there was so much money of the restaurant..."
-"Do you realize that he's gone Kasumi ?asked Ranma"
-"So what, it's not like if he was doing anything in the house maybe we will be better whitout him, it's a financial burden removed for a while.
-"Damn... now who's going to play shogi with me...."
-"... .... ... ... ..."
-" Is something wrong Akane?"asked, again, Ranma.
-Why did dad took my little P-chan with him?"
-".......... ...... i dunno why he would want the companie of pork butt... "
-"What??"
-"Oh nevermind, let's eat!!"
And so they began eating, but one question was left in the mind of everyone present.
-"What the hell is wrong with dad/Soun"
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Well here is is the second chapter of ...What if Soun was not a Crybaby anymore...
I had enough of the role of soun in all ( that i have read) the fanfiction, he's either a bad guy or a weakling... i just had enough. Hummm i don't for those you say "Hey he's still weeping" well i'll answer old habits are hard to erase. His progression should be going right now.
¹: i think it is ill wiewed to show or praise our relationship with our love in japan... i heard that somewhere.
²: well since Kasumi is oblivious to anything bad that's happening to her, i figured she was also oblivious to almost anything even good thing.
³ for those who don't know, LEO means Low Earth orbit
Oh i also won't be always putting some :" he "said,, "she " said very often, i thiunk you can guess who's speaking , i just don,t want to repeat myself too much.
well see ya!