Panda: YAY! Chapter two! Many of you liked it!

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Chapter Two: Two sides of the Coin (meaning I'm switching to Nerima and Hinata)

"HARUKA!"

Naru's short explanation to the swordswoman proved that her predictions were right. Motoko Aoyama was seriously going to kick some ass, with her blade of course. Realizing her mistake, she was about to tell Motoko to calm down—until she was already charging upstairs to the Hinata-house. She could only be amazed of Motoko's speed. Such hatred for a male has proven her that she should never surprise her with any more new tenants' news. Naru sighed, looked up to the skies and wondered about Haruka's and Ranma's strange conversation. What was it that triggered Ranma's transformation? Rain, yes, but what happens after that? She mulled over the thought for a second until she soon came to her senses that Motoko was about to kill someone—which is consider illegal.

"I should help—in case she goes ballistic again." Naru murmured while walking up the slippery stone-steps.


Meanwhile in Nerima…

"What? What do you mean Ranma's not here?" The young Akane Tendo that nearly resembled a long lost sister of Naru's; slammed her hand on the table with a vein popping out near her temple.

Her father, Soun, had a look of admiration on his face. For he knew that Ranma and Akane did not get along very well; but it made his day when he saw the concern of his daughter's future-husband-to-be. Genma, the man whom fell into cursed spring of drowned panda (who I do not resemble!), did not shared the similarity with his own friend. He looked away with a sigh and with his arms crossed; he nodded through the radiant day. A fish flipped dramatically from the pond and landed back with no effort. Strange as it is, Akane began to darken when she thought of Ranma running away with Shampoo, Ukyo, or—maybe—even Kodachi! Where was he!

"My little girl is growing up!" Soun declared while hugging Akane. "See? Your concern for him proves you to be a great wife!"

Akane shoved away her father and left him heart-broken of the no family love. She crossed her arms and pouted angrily, "honestly! I go on a ski-trip with my friends and I come back to find that he disappeared?"

"But dear—I have no idea where my future-son-in-law went to!" Waved Soun rapidly, in case Akane might loose her temper and kill her father of his stupidity.

Suspicions grew into Akane's eyes when she saw that Genma transformed into a fat-panda with his rainbow-beach ball he was bouncing with his feet. This usually means that Ranma's father obviously had something to do with his son's disappearance. Evidence has it, for he did this many times. Akane smirked and walked over to her father-in-law. "Mr. Saotome… I believe you have something to tell us?"

The panda sweated furiously and wrote a sign, 'I do not know what you are talking about!'

Instantly, Akane poured hot-boiling water over him and glared with the most crimson eyes of torture into his. "Now spill!"

The half-naked Genma sighed and looked at Akane nervously. "Your going to get yourself killed Akane. I hid that letter from him but he found it! Now he's going to get his death, but that was his choice not mines! I tried to protect him!"

The young teen blinked with confusion. "What letter are you talking about?" She turned to see if her father knew but he shrugged as well. "And what do you mean killed?"

Genma's tone changed into something that will not be repeated again. His glasses glinted from his tale ready to begin while a deep menacing voice of rain gathered strangely. It was sunny, was it not? Akane looked up for a moment and turned her attention to Genma. She looked a bit worried, for such a strange father could do many things in the past she did not know about—that if she did knew of the secrets dwelling through his life it will maybe help her understand her father-in-law better. Although, the only thing she found out so far was his greediness and stupidity he had done many times as Ranma claims, but maybe there was another side of his story.

"Do you remember Ranma's mother Nodoka? Yes, she is very close to her mother, Grandma Hina. About Three weeks ago, Grandma Hina sent a letter to me to notify that she wanted her Grandson Ranma to visit her. I believed it was a trap since Nodoka has told her mother many things about us and has yet to see us from all these years." He sighed and looked at Akane with worries growing rapidly in his eyes. "When I wanted to train Ranma as a child and settle his engagement, Nodoka refused my future actions and did anything to stop me. I told her, if Ranma does not become the man I have raised him to be—or to at least reach your standards, you can kill us with the blade you have in your hands which you are about to hit me with right now."

Akane and Soun sweatdropped at his last sentence, although Genma continued on.

"Ah yes, now you do realize that if Nodoka ever sees her son changing into a girl when touched by cold-water, Ranma and I will get killed. Why? Since Ranma turning into a girl resembles 'cross-dressing' to most people, there's no doubt she will kill both of us."

Genma's face turned serious and dark, "foolish boy thinks his own grandmother could convince her to prevent that vow from happening."

Little did they know, our little guest was eavesdropping on the conversation. "Aiyah!" Gasped Shampoo, the Chinese-Amazon looking surprised while on the roof-top with her deadly-bike she was planning to run over Ranma again. "Ranma leave town, yes?" Shampoo had her typical clothing. Her lavender hair fell below her shoulders and the bells that dangled in her hair began to jingle through her gesture. Her eyes blinked like a cat's curiosity and purple layers her clothes proved that it was her favorite color. Shampoo is everywhere once it comes down to Ranma. She even sneaked in his bath last-week to bathe with him.

Akane recognized the heavy Chinese-Accent and stared bluntly at the beautiful woman, "how'd you get here?"

Shampoo smiled cutely, "Nihao! Shampoo thought go on date with Ranma but Ranma not here. Now Shampoo want to know where he is!"

"Why don't you check inside a volcano and stay there till you find at least a strand of his hair?" Muttered Akane while feeling the annoyance of her rival.

"Now, now, Akane don't be rude!" Genma chuckled at Shampoo and shook his head. "I'm sorry Shampoo; I can't tell you that info. You see; Akane is going to find him and their engaged, so you shouldn't interfere with their relationship."

Akane's eyes widen as if she had been offended deeply. Anger boiled through her veins once more and she finally did it again! "EXCUSE ME? What relationship are you talking about? It's not like were going steady, I didn't want to be engaged to some kind of boy that I barely knew in the first place! Honestly…"

A shadowy figure appeared before the four, it smirked evilly enough to irritate her two enemies. "C'mon gramps—you've got to do better than that. My Ran-Chan disappeared and I want to know where he is. You'll know what happens when you don't tell me."

"Ukyo!" Gasped Genma soon sweating greatly. "Erk—what a pleasant surprise!"

"Huh?" Was Akane's only response because of the intriguing effect of her future-husband's disappearance that neatly lured everyone she knew inside her home.

"What Spacthala girl doing here?" Huffed the beautiful Amazon while gathering out her unusual weapons.

The spacthala woman shook her head lightly to ignore the woman and walked towards Genma, right in-between Akane and Shampoo. Her eyes seem to have the determination of a thousand suns and her fist clenches up to Genma's chin. In a dark-mono-tone voice she whispers clearly yet softly, "where is Ranma?" Genma slowly calmed down with a smirk—seeing that he might have a chance of not getting hurt, "and what will you do if I don't tell you, hm?"

"Do you remember the time when you took the Okinamiyaki Cart with my father's permission, only if you had Ranma and I engaged? Well, you did take it but you left me behind. I can always kick your ass gramps but I wouldn't mind my father coming out here doing it twice as hard. Do you know how pissed he's been from all these years? Do ya?" Genma's nervousness triggered a smirk slowly appearing on Ukyo's face while the two other woman jaws dropped on how good she was for interrogation.

"Alright! Alright! Ranma is at the Hinata Apartments in the Hinata Village!" Genma squirmed from Ukyo's head-lock and nearly gasped for air. "But don't say I didn't warn ya!"

"Humph, don't worry Gramps. I'm going to drag his butt here even if it does involved me killing him." She replied darkly with a black aura whipping rapidly throughout her whole body.

This also worried the others, for they knew something suspicious was going on down there…


Back to the Hinata Apartments…

"Haruka-Senpai!" Motoko shouted from the top of her lungs again. "Show me that traitorous male that is lurking under very roof of this Girl's Dormitory!"

Haruka sighed deeply, knowing that she couldn't forget about Motoko. She blew out the nicotine-scent lightly and looked over to Ranma, whom was innocently slurping Shinobu's wonderful ramen. Her eyes widen, seeing that he was eating Shinobu's meals too. She grew angrier and instantly pointed her wooden katana at the martial artist with a vain throbbing near her temple, "first you defile Shinobu-Chan and now your forcing her to make the meals you desire? You disgusting male!"

Ranma blinked at her weapon and smiled, "Erk—nice to meetcha! The name's Ranma Saotome?" He tried to use his politesse tone until Motoko charged at Ranma with her Ki in tact. He couldn't believe the crazy- woman so he flipped backwards with no effort, surprising nearly everyone in the room.

"Whoa, chill out Motoko!" Cried Mitsune Konno who appeared to the room with amusement. "He's actually another of Haruka's nephew that's staying here until Grandma Hina comes by."

This time, she snapped. "ANOTHER MALE IS LIVING HERE?"

Haruka rubbed her temple and groaned. "Please Motoko—no more damages." The samurai ignored Haruka's murmured plead and continued to stare viciously at the pig-tailed martial artist. Her nostrils flaring, her eyes shaded with the deepest layers of crimson, and the whitest knuckles she has ever shown from gripping onto her Katana too hard. The only thing Ranma countered from her scornful looks was his smile showing no danger but the lightness of friendship. Shinobu looked surprised that he wasn't even thinking what consequences his silent silly grin could give away—also entertaining Mitsune with his non-chalant attitude and none other than Narusegawa could drop her jaw to the wooden floor when taken by a rapid-heartbeat for Motoko that could actually kill someone.

Oh what to do Naru? What to do?

Knowing that Haruka could not stop from Motoko's menacing threat; she looked at her nephew besides her with the most vigilant expression. Ranma knew the warning and nodded but his attention snapped back to the swordswoman when she began her speech. You could tell he was amused with her temper. Why was the calm Hinata Tea-House owner so calm? Well—let's just say, Ranma had a little trick up his sleeves.

"I have had enough of these misbehaved perverted doings Urashima has committed many times and I cannot stand another clone of him that is suddenly moving into this very house that is a Girl's Dorm!" Motoko huffed while pointing her sharp wooden weapon—inches away from Ranma's face. "And I cannot stand your face! I'll wipe that idiotic smile off with my katana!"

Seeing the typical out-raged tempers many times in Nerima—Ranma knew what to do. Although for a smart guy, he was too dense to notice that Motoko was already sharpening her blade. She was nearly craving for his blood. This could make things a bit more entertaining—by the looks of our other residents of course.

He smirked, "and whacha ganna do about it… kendo-girl?"

She immediately answered his question when the tip of her blade, ripped the right-cheast side of his shirt. "Hey! That's my favorite shirt!" Ranma spat while dodging the other attacks she was constantly repeating.

"The next will be your head! Shinmei-Ryu… THUNDER BLADE!"

'Whoa—this girl isn't like Kuno! She actually has the real ki power—geez—how am I suppose to dodge this big one here!' Ranma thought through his gritted teeth, already sweating from dodging fatal attacks that may break his neck. Strangely, he seemed to have the same curse as Keitaro, for their immortality will always stay in tact.

"Uh-oh…"

Even if he couldn't get away fast enough to avoid Motoko's deadliest attacks, he's still considered immortal, right?

"Urghhh!" Ranma's two arms defended his face and his stance tried to put up to the heat but it was way too strong for him to handle, so he flew back to the kitchen wall.

BAAAMMM

He caused a huge-carter like whole through the thick wooden structure and a few crumbs of concrete briskly showered upon his head. He groaned in pain while everyone's eyes, except the causer of Ranma's pain, went wide open to the scene. Motoko victorious smile was soon wiped off when he came back up to his feet, looking quite pissed off. He had enough being beaten around by a bunch of crazy powerful girls back in Nerima—now he was sick of Hinata!

"Oh man that's going to leave a mark…" He looked up to his attacker with a threatening frown, "what the hell was that for?"

"What!" Motoko gasped with her eye-brows furrowing, "you dare remain persistent? How could any normal man survive that attack after 3 seconds and get back to his feet again? Only Urashima, whom has this strange immortality, can stand up to this!"

Ranma began to stretch his neck out when he was tapping both shoulders. "Well maybe I have it too. Many tried to kill me in Nerima but I'm still alive and well!" He made thumbs up sign and smiled at his opponent, "not bad! Your ki is powerful and with total control! All you need to do is work out your speed a little bit more and maybe have a few different strategies and you'll be way powerful than me!"

Motoko blushed at his remark, "and what right do you have to tell me of my technique! I have been training well long enough to know my strategies!"

Ranma smirked mockingly by crossing his arms. "Really? How old are you and how long have you have been training?"

"I've trained eversince I was five and I am currently at the age of sixteen." She answered formally while eyeing him suspiciously. "You look like you had some training yourself—Karate I suppose?" Motoko sounded curious of her last sentence since she saw the stlye of his defense.

"Funny, we both trained at the same age—not to mention that I am sixteen, too. And yeah, I've been doing Karate for a while but the mixture of Tai-Chi and Kung-Fu combines with my style."

"Humph, do not ever talk to me as if we were friends. Most Men are nothing but scumbags reeking from the depths of hell—and if I were to have anything in common with them, I would gladly kill myself without any hesitation." Mitsune than looked teasingly at Motoko, "and when you say 'most' who is the 'rest' that you claim not to be perverted scumbags, hm?"

Motoko blushed once more and ignored the vixen as she walked upstairs to her room. She didn't turn back but utterly muttered a dark tone that sent the shivers down Ranma's spine. "Saotome… do not think this is over. Your reputation will stay remain as a vile male in my book. Do anything perverted in this house-hold—and you'll regret it. Got it?" With that said she continued her way to her room.

"Wow that was unexpected. I guess you get to star here Ranma!" Shinobu looked quite happy when Kitsune mentioned that.

" One word to describe that kendo girl--scarrrryyyyy," He whistled with a slight grin, "looks like Hinata not as normal as Nerima as well." Haruka sighed deeply and looked at the damages of the tenant's doings and glared at her nephew for his silly child's play. "You better fix this Ranma…" Haruka warned as she walked outside, leaving him speechless.

"But—but—it wasn't my fault!" Ranma called out as Haruka continued to walk out. "Hey! Come back here! Aww—c'mon!"

"I'm home guys!" Greeted the very manager that came with none other than Su. He looked at Ranma blankly at first and than smiled, "hello, what can I do for you?" Kaolla, whom appeared right behind Keitaro, waved rapidly at the martial artist. "Hey there mister! Ya gots some banana's?"

Mitsune, Naru, and Shinobu looked at Keitaro, wondered if he noticed the damages. Than looked at Ranma to see if he recognized his own cousin. They didn't even look alike. Ranma was much more built than Keitaro and Keitaro looked much smarter than Ranma. Two completely different blood-related siblings soon meeting around a time like this.

"So—what's going on here Shinobu?" Keitaro looked at his secret-admirer with his typical smile.

"We have a new tenant—Haruka can explain the details since she knows a lot more Senpai," Shinobu blushed while look down the ground.

"Oh—alright than, I'll go see her, can you come along with me too—um… what's your name again?" He turned to the guest with a formal grin.

"Ranma," He smiled liked his very cousin, "Ranma Saotome."

"I'm going to find you Ranma!" Screamed Akane in her head. "DAMN IT! IT TAKES DAYS TO GET THERE!"

End of Chapter Two.

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