Enter a Change
Chapter 1
By lunch everyone had seen the new student, and as expected, they came to Nabiki for information. She gave the basic information that the teacher had given them this morning, and sent them on their way. They had all seemed to want to know why he was always wearing those glasses. She decided that someone needed to talk with him and find out. However she decided that instead of sending on of her workers to go talk to the boy and get to know him she would do it herself. She found him in shaded area of the school grounds, lying under a tree with his eyes closed and headphones on. She stopped a few feet short of him and studied him more closely.
"Ok, let's see…he is rather muscular so maybe he practices some form of fighting style or is a jock." Nabiki thought to herself, "Not to bad on the eyes either, maybe I should have one of the photographers follow him around."
"Can I help you?" James asked without opening his eyes.
Nabiki put on her most pleasant expression and said, "I just wanted to come and welcome you to our school."
"Thanks." James answered sitting up and taking off his headphones. He never opened his eyes until he put on his glasses.
"Mind if I sit down?" Nabiki asked.
"Go ahead."
"My name is Nabiki Tendo."
"Pleased to meet you Nabiki, I think you know my name though."
"Yes I do. So what part of America are you from?"
"The United States originally though I have moved around a bit."
"I see, so how do you like Nerima so far?"
"Its alright I guess. Hey what was with that fight this morning? It seemed like a regular occurrence the way a lot of people ignored it."
Nabiki opened her mouth to give her standard replay of 'Five thousand yen.' but changed her mind at the last second and said, "Oh, that's just my little sister's fiancé fighting the school delusional idiot."
"Your sister's fiancé? Isn't she sort of young?"
"It's an arranged thing."
"Oh, is that still done here?"
"Not really, but it is still legal."
James frowned a bit at this, "Don't they get a say in the matter?"
"Not really. Our father and his are dead set on it but Ranma and Akane seem to have actually fallen for each other. They would already be married if it wasn't for his other fiancés and rivals crashing the wedding."
James cocked his head to one side and exclaimed, "Other fiancés? He has more than one?"
Nabiki smiled and replied, "Oh yes he currently has three however we estimate that there may be in the range of twenty or more. Most of them are his father's fault, like his curse is."
"Curse? He's cursed? With what?"
"You believe in curses? That's rare." Nabiki answered. She reached into her bag and pulled out a small book and held it out to him. "Tell you what, if you'll tell me why you are always wearing those glasses, I'll let you borrow this. It's a little book I wrote that details everything I know about Ranma." And it's well worth how much yen I'll get for the info on your eyes. She thought to herself.
James seemed to consider for a moment before he muttered under his breath in English, "Oh well, why not? They'll find out eventually anyway." "It'll be better if I just show you." he finally answered. "Try not to scream."
As he reached for his glasses Nabiki wondered what he meant by not screaming, but then she saw them. His eyes were entirely black except for the irises that were the same were the same color as his hair. They were also shaped more like a cat's iris. Nabiki let out a quick gasp, her hand going to her mouth.
James chuckled as he put his glasses back on. "Now you know why I believe in curses."
Nabiki jumped at the loud chiming of the bells signaling the end of lunch. James smirked as he gave her a sweeping bow saying, "A pleasure talking with Nabiki. I'll return your book after school."
As he walked away Nabiki thought to herself, "Maybe, this guy will be more interesting than I thought."
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Ranma was having a good day for a change. Akane had only malleted him once today. And Kuno had left him alone after this morning's fight. Neither Shampoo nor Ukyo had shown up at lunch today and Akane hadn't tried destroying, er cooking him any food. As they were eating their lunch Akane suddenly spoke.
"Ranma, do you who that is?" she asked pointing to a boy with blue hair lying under a tree.
"Nope, never seen him before. But I bet you'll know everything about him after she's done." He answered as he pointed out Nabiki walking over to his tree.
The rest of their lunch was silent as they both just enjoyed the rare peace. When the bell rang they both started to class when Akane spoke again.
"Ranma does Nabiki look a bit pale to you?"
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"Look at her you," Akane said pointing off to the side where Nabiki was walking by herself. "She looks like she's seen something that made her scared. You don't think that the boy she was just talking to tried something do you?"
"Nah, who would try anything like that with Nabiki, she'd own everything that he has if he even tried anything."
"Yeah I guess your right."
Ranma knew his luck wouldn't hold out. Right after school as he and Akane were leaving his Danger Sense started flaring and he a familiar voice yell, "RANMA! PREPARE TO DIE!"
Ranma pushed Akane out of the way and jumped to the side as Ryoga landed with a crack of the pavement. "Hey P-chan where ya been?"
"DON'T CALL ME P-CHAN! JUST STAND STILL AND DIE!" Ryoga yelled as he began swinging his umbrella.
Ranma just weaved around all of the swings and landed a barrage of Amaguriken punches at Ryoga's chest knocking him back but not down.
"Come on man! I'm not even warmed up yet!" Ranma said with a smirk.
"SHUT UP AND DIE!" Ryoga screamed as he hurled his umbrella at Ranma who dodged to the left and started to say something else when he heard the sound of something heavy hitting flesh and a girl scream.
Turning around Ranma saw Nabiki standing next to the new boy who was sitting on the ground holding the side of his face with Ryoga's umbrella lying in his lap. The boy then stood up and grabbed the umbrella to look at it.
Glancing towards the fight James asked a general question of, "Who threw this?"
A couple of students pointed at Ryoga who began to get a little embarrassed with his actions, though he was also relieved that the guy appeared to be unharmed.
James looked at Ryoga then almost offhandedly snapped his umbrella in two. As gasps filled the courtyard James spoke.
"If you wanted a fight you could have just asked." he said before dropping the pieces of umbrella and charging at Ryoga faster than most of the students could see.
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Ok this is a rough draft that I'm not sure why I'm posting. The finished product will be up some time in the next two weeks. And I still need prereaders. TTFN!
