"Su, what in blazes happened here?" Shouted a very furious Motoko clenching by the hilt of her sword.
Ranma, whom was still in his girl-from, realized that one of the shower-heads Motoko had used, was turn into cold water. These trigger his transformation and tragedy has befallen so quickly in the Hinata Apartments. Shame, for he had only stayed in the Hinata for only hours, merely a day but plain hours. He or should I say she, looked vigilantly both sides of the room. Kitsune, Naru, Motoko, and Su were here. Wait, why didn't they noticed him yet? He was in his girl-form. Could it be? Yes, one of those special miracles worked its charm once again. One of Su's explosives caused a thick atmosphere—combining with one of the hotsprings natural steam.
"Kami! It's so steamy and fogging in here, I can barely see a thing!" Complaint the sexy vixen grabbing a tight hold to her towel and tried her best to see through the thick mist. The mixture of explosions and steamy fog nearly made all of the tenants chocked from the fumes but just because they couldn't see, doesn't mean someone wouldn't find out who else is here.
"I'm sensing that someone-else is in this area! It doesn't seem like Shinobu's or Haruka's aura so it has to be Keitaro or that treacherous Saotome!" Scowled Motoko walking carefully to see where the other person was hiding. You could tell that she's piss, like always but this time, it seemed twice as much then the usual.
"Then that means—Ranma is here!" Naru joined Motoko's hostility and began to search the same way as her, while Su and Kitsune stood like statues, not bothering to look for the young teen.
"Now hold on—were jumping into conclusions here. We can't always trust Motoko's aura sensor crap, no offense." Kitsune stated—soundly very much like the mature Haruka. Both of the violent women shrugged slightly and pondered over the thought. "Su—who did you blast in here? Keitaro or Ranma?" Asked the fox once more—to prove Ranma's innocence—or at least assumed.
"I blasted the dodging dude! He's really good but he couldn't dodge Su's missals forever!" Laughed the Gaijen while rubbing the back of her head from the embarrassment of getting him into trouble. "He should be aroun' here but I don't know, maybe he went off into a different angle!"
Ranma, staying silently still, afraid that he might capture Motoko's attention. He cursed ferociously in his thoughts and tried his best to figure out a way to get away from these people. To think he would have the relaxation he needed from the Nerima-Craziness! If he wanted to be blasted by a bunch of mangy girls, he would have kept calling Akane gorilla until he died of blood-lost. He whimpered and tried his best to crawl away, slowly and vigilantly as possible. Unfortunately his stealth was too weak for our samurai-warrior desperately searching.
"Ah-hah! There's the pervert! Gods-Cry-School Secret Technique—ROCK SPLITTING SWORD!"
'Damn!' Cursed the female Ranma, unable to dodge the fatal attack.
FFRROOOOOMMMMMMM
"Ouch." He muttered while under a pile of stone rocks, covering his entire body.
"He's here! Under the pile of rocks!" Yelped Naru—thinking who the mysterious person was lurking in the hotsprings. Before they could even touch the rocks, Kitsune jumped in again.
"What a minute. This wasn't his fault at all. Didn't Su blast him in here? N' if she did, it's more likely n' accident." Stated the fox brilliantly again, looking seriously at the young tenants. Naru and Motoko stood still for a moment and traveled to Su. She looked innocent but foolish so both of them sighed of their mistakes. It was as though they were disappointed that they could not kill the martial artist because of his unfortunate luck with women.
"Too bad. I didn't get to figure out if he was immortal or not." Shrugged Naru, "I have much more important things to do instead of bothering with any guys at this time, honestly. To think that he could be stronger then Keitaro. Oh wells, he's a martial artist, he should be able to handle those pile of rocks on his back right? Well I got to study, so you guys handle this." She waltzes out of the hotsprings, leaving Motoko and Kitsune suspicious. Although they both brushed off the small concerns and looked back at the pile of rubble.
"Humph. Weakling. Even Urashima would have crawl out of those pile of mess by now." She gave a dark smirk while eyeing the condition of the area, "well it cannot be helped; plus he does share the same blood with Urashima."
'Weak?' Grunted female Ranma while he felt his blood boiling in rage. He had enough of Kuno's insults and now he had enough of Motoko's. Were all crazy-kendo people like this or was she just switched with Kodachi as a child? He felt his aura sparkling around him—he had a plan. This time, he will prove to all of them of what will happen if they ever underestimate him ever again. 'Focus your energy' he repeated while in his female form 'focus your energy and concentrate the angle of where you're shooting.'
"I AM NOT A WEAKLING KENDO-GIRL!"
Even though it muffled his cries, it could still be heard clearly by the girls. Everyone jumped when the pile of rocks shot out and burnt by the hot aura flaring out his body. Creating such an immense power meant that it created an immense fog from all of the smoke that Kitsune and Motoko were choking on.
"DAMN! I CAN'T SEE A THING!" Chocked Kitsune while coughing rapidly.
"SHOW YOURSELF FIEND!" Shouted Motoko at the top of her lungs while running out of the area.
Ranma jumped tree to wall in order to get to Keitaro's little hot-tub. He got inside and returns to his normal male self again and sighed with major relief. He hears of Kitsune and Su's questionings while Motoko was clutching onto the hilt to her blade so tight that her knuckles turned white. When he heard and saw this, his heart-beat lowered a little and he began to breathe again. He didn't get blasted by kendo girl or get hurt by Narusegawa. His smile soon left when he sighed deeply. "Phew!" Ranma wiped off the sweat on his forehead and sank into Keitaro's hot tub. "That was a close call!" He began to feel another pair of legs in the water so his eyes peeked up carefully to his own cousin. "I heard the whole thing." Keitaro laughed while scratching his face with his index finger, "must've been tough to get all those things off your back, right? Well—at least they didn't figure out your secret!"
Already irritated of his older cousin, he dunked Keitaro with one hand in the hot tub and left with a towel around his waist. "… ya think?" Ranma got dressed with his extra clothes he packed. He's always known of wearing Chinese-martial arts clothes but that's where you're wrong. He decided to change his outfit so he didn't look like some acrobat in a lonely parade. He wore a little baggy black midnight shirt and baggy pants with an original belt. He didn't wear any shoes because this is an Asian country. It's customary to walk bare-foot around the house.
'Just staying here is making me sick. All of these nutcase people remind me back at home! Why does everything have to be so complicated in my life?' He complained rapidly until he heard Narusegawa's voice booming out through his ears. What was going on now? 'Wait a minute—wasn't she the one that left me under that ruble?' He crossed his arms and scoffed out her behavior towards him earlier and thought wither to leave it be or let the curiosity kill the cat. He sighed deeply and began to walk towards her door, leaned his ear on the wood and listened to her every movement. Why was he so interested again? 'Humph! I'm going to be stayin' here for a while so why not get to know the other residents?'
"Damn it! Ouch—it's deep this time." Naru spoke with a weak tone that worried Ranma a bit, he didn't know why. His head dropped down and a vein came near his temple. 'I hate being so concern with every girl I meet.' He opened the door with closed non-chalant eyes and surprised the person who was trying to get into Toudai. "Yo," he waved with a still hand with the other was in his pocket.
"Ranma?" Gasped Naru who was holding tightly onto her index finger. She looked around to see if her room seemed appropriate enough for her unexpected guess but blew it off when he came closer to her. She blushed slightly when his appearance of his face had the look seriousness. It nearly reminded her of Seta—but reality slapped her in the face and senseless thoughts rang throughout her head. "Wha—what the hell are you doing here without knocking? Don't forget that you're in a Girl's Dorm!" She spoke with rage while pointing at the Saotome. Ranma simply 'feh' it off and sat down next to her with the memories replaying, "I didn't figure out if he's immortal or not. Well he's a martial artist; he should be able to handle huge piles of rocks on his back right?"
"Let me see your finger." He muttered bluntly while losing contact with Narusegawa's eyes.
"What?" She asked again as if he had just explained a rocket-science equation on a dusted chalk-board.
"I said let me see it." Ranma slowly yet gently grabbed Naru's finger and examined it. As the twin sister of Akane Tendo stared at Ranma's strange examination, she blushed deeply at his concern. 'There's something about his eyes.' Naru thought while blushing into deep crimson. 'Who the hell does he think he is? Why isn't my reaction of kicking him into orbit working?' As he saw the deep paper-cut on Narusegawa's finger, he looked up into her dark orbs and blinked at the cherry-face woman. 'Why—who—what is he doing?' She thought again with a million questions in his head.
"Are you sick? Do you have some high fever?" He cocked an eye-brow at her then went back to the subject. "It's nothing but a paper-cut. It's not too deep but deep enough to hurt a hell lot." He scanned around her room and found what he needed. He grabbed the small box and took out the wrapping of a band-aid. "Hold still…" he instructed while wrapping the blue-decorated bunny band-aid around Naru's finger while looking serious the whole time. By the time he was done, he smiled at her, just like what Keitaro would do when he did something silly. "There. Feel better?"
Narusegawa's hand slowly wrapped around the bandage hand and her head turned away from Ranma's in order to avoid contact with him. "Why did you come inside my room without knocking?"
Ranma did the same gaze as Naru, except he decided to give a simple frown, "oh is that all? Gee—your welcome."
"I could've done this crap myself if you didn't come in here and baby me!" Naru shouted out of sheer embarrassment.
"Since I'm going to stay here a while, I just thought that maybe I might get to know the people around here." Ranma said, looking rather dumbly as he was confused with her sudden reaction towards him.
"Well you don't need to know me! We already have a guy as our manager here so—hey what are you doing to my text books!"
"Wow!" Ranma exclaimed while taking a look at Naru's notes. "You must be really smart to take all these notes and actually solve all these math problems. What are you? In college?"
'This guy never gives up does he?' She sweatdropped while taking a good look at him. 'Hey, he's pretty cute when he's like this—ack! What the hell I'm I thinking!' Naru decided to snatch the textbook away from the young man and gave him a cold-glare. "Rule number one, don't touch my textbooks. Rule number two; don't touch anything without my permission. And for your information karate kid, I'm trying out for Todai. Tokyo University."
"Tokyo University… what's that?" He responded still with the curiosity in his tone.
'Kami! He's like Su!' Naru sweatdropped and cleared her throat. "Tokyo University is the most difficult college in Japan. Hard to believe that you never heard of it—do you even go to school?"
"Nah, school's boring. I get there late, I fight with some crazy weak kendo person, get chased by crazy girls, hell—I don't even wear the Fururikian High-School uniforms. Enemies, friends, family, school, it's not normal like your everyday lives."
"So what your most interested in is martial arts?" She muttered softly while looking down at the ground. "Must be great not studying so hard."
"Actually… it's kind of complicated on times. But I still love it." Ranma was about to speak another one of his thoughts until a door slid opened quick enough to surprise them both.
"Saotome! I know it was you in the hotsprings! I found one of your ripped red cloths floating on top of the hotsprings! Now I find you here violating Narusegawa! I have enough of your perverted ways! You're the same as Urashima! Prepare yourself Saotome!"
Ranma dug his ear out with his pinky and looked at Motoko as if he was bored, "you done kendo-girl?"
Motoko charged at Ranma with a battle cry and created an immense Ki blast attacking from the across the ground, he simply flipped sideways to Narusegawa's table with two pockets in his pants. Feeling offended, she charged at him completely getting entirely offensive, striking every possible opening, unfortunately, he dodged every single attack with some effort but barely enough to show Motoko that he actually cared.
'What's wrong with my attacks? He's dodging every-single one of them!'
'Better then Kuno but weaker then Ryoga… man… she's trying too hard.'
When Motoko was about to strike his abdomen, he jumped high enough to avoid the attack and crouched amazingly on top of her blade. Motoko stood there speechless, along with Narusegawa. Ranma finally gave a silly grin and poked Motoko in the forehead, "too slow."
"No—this—can't be…" Her head hung in shame; never had she ever met such a great opponent. He didn't even have a weapon to defend himself. What type of warrior was she? They trained at the same age yet this man is much father skilled then her? She brings shame to the Gods-Cry School, she would think, nothing but shame. 11 years of training? What a waste. He learned how to use the style of fists and she learns nothing but a way to kill or hurt someone easily with a blade? Her pride, shattered as she found the pain of being defeated by a mere male. Would she allow it? Let's find out.
"… I will not let myself be defeated by an acrobat-monkey! Haaaa!" Her attacks seemed much swifter and faster then before and each time Ranma dodged, was another second of getting his skin cut.
"Whoa calm down Motoko!" Shrieked Naru watching from slightly afar. She knew that if Motoko even continued, things will get out of hand.
"Wha! Hey you almost sliced my head—ah! Watch it!" It was as though he was being attacked and chased by Su's missals again.
"I swear by my grave—I will not let a… let a… MALE DEFEAT ME! HYAAA!" She used one of her best—and most powerful attacks and it blasted Ranma right out the door.
KRRAAASFFFFFFFF
'Wha—what the hell was that?' He thought while slowly falling down open air. He could see the expression of his attacker, surprised. 'She knew she went overboard…' It looks like Motoko wasn't like Kuno at all.
Ranma couldn't land on his two feet again because the impact took too much of his timing. And there was nothing he could do to save himself. 'Oh carp!'
At first he didn't felt anything because he heard some type of ringing sound reverberating throughout his head. That was until he rolled down the stairs at rapid and in a dangerous speed. He couldn't breathe, nor could stop himself. He was helpless. When he finally reached half of the stone-steps, he glided and landed on his head and rolled down from that position. Then, the pain slowly came in and grasped his vision to see.
Darkness coated him.
"SENPAI!"
End of Chapter Three.
I know this is rushed but I had no choice. I make deadlines and I really need to sleep and all of this homework is frustrating me. I know this is no excuse but you guys could have waited 1 more week for me to update this. I make deadlines, please understand. And I bet I have a lot of typos and stupid grammar please forgive me guys!
I know I know, I'm going to do better on the next chapter I promise! I'm really sorry guys but I totally rushed on this! I know it's no excuse but please understand…
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