Growing up... again
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(Author's notes or translations)
Flashback/Scene change
I'm back again with another chapter and finally reached the main part of the story. Hope you'll enjoy, please review.
Chapter 5: Kindergarten dreams"You want us to go WHERE?" asked Ranma not believing his ears.
"Son if we are going to stay then you'll have to go there." answered Genma /Of course he won't go for it! ./ he continued silently
"No way in hell will I go to one of those places!" snapped the boy.
"Well for one your solution to the killer problem does have some major side effects, as in you and Akane running around as four year old kids." interrupted Nabiki. "Secondly, I had to pull all my strings to make some changes on your records so you two are now officially in kindergarten age."
"So how much do I owe you?" asked Ranma half-heartedly.
"Nothing for now!" answered the mercenary girl.
"Great!" mumbled the boy trying to figure out how things got so bad for him. /If I stay then I'll have to go to that house of bed wetters, and if I'll go I'll have another hundred fiancée's by the time pop brings me back, and I'm back where I started! To boot Nabiki probably plans to sell me somewhere probably to some circus! Things are just getting better and better! Next thing I'll find out will be that he engaged me toan alien! ./
Somewhere around Pluto"XZT964 have you found your fiancé yet?"
"No father I searched the entire Earth but I couldn't find Saotomeor his father anywhere!" answered the female extraterrestrial.
(Of course the talk has been translated)
Back to earthRanma was thinking about his option about five minutes by now and still he didn't get one bit closer to get an answer. "Would you speed up already Saotome? I don't have all day!" urged Nabiki.
"All right all right I'll go..." he answered. Ranma was awaiting one of his father's stupid speeches after this so he was more than surprised that his old man was silent. In fact he didn't even move a muscle for some time nowand was staring at something behind him.
Ranma noticed that his father started to get pale but he just couldn't get it why. "Ok Genma what did you do with our son this time?" asked a female voice.
"Dear I..." Genma couldn't finish because his wife's sword came within an inch of his throat.
"You're lying!" yelled Nodoka.
"Hey I didn't even get started!" countered Genma.
"I think I have to check some things so I better get going." excused Nabiki while quickly moving towards the door. When she left the room she pulled out a remote control and activated the room's "security" camera.
"Mom, dad a friend of mine asked me to help with his homework so I gotta go." said Ranma also moving towards the door, knowing quite well that things could get hairy he stayed close.
"Start talking husband!" commanded Nodoka.
"I swear I have nothing to do with the killer on Ranma! I swear!"
"The what on Ranma?" yelled the now frantic mother.
"I can explain dear!" pleaded Genma knowing quite well that he's in trouble.
"Start talking husband!" answered Nodoka. Genma shuddered knowing quite well that no matter what he says form now on he'll get a big beating.
A few days later"Oh joy!" called out Ranma when the Nerima Nursery School came into his view. It was a large building with pictures of playing children painted on it's sides and was surrounded by a park filled with playground toys all this surround by a high fence to keep the children from going on too long expeditions of course these also bore forms that looked like toys and other stuff little kids like, in other words it was the last place Ranma would go.
"Would you rather be somewhere with you father?" asked Akane.
"Guess you're right!" answered the boy finding it strange that he didn't have a single fight with Akane lately.
"Come on Ranma cheer up a bit! It's not an everyday thing when someone has the chance to start his life from the beginning." remarked Kasumi who was escorting them.
"Whoopee!" answered the boy.
"Really Ranma it's not that bad! You know at least here we can talk without risking to be married within the next half hour." reasoned Akane with not much luck.
"You still don't get it do you Akane. How the heck will I train with those dammed teachers all over the place! They'll flip out from the simplest warm up kata!"
"Come on Ranma can you think of anything else than martial arts?" asked Akane.
"Do you know how weak I got thanks to using those mushrooms? I don't feel well in this body I need to train!" answered the boy.
"You're so stupid try to have some fun Ranma we can train in the evening!"
"Forget it Akane I'm not training with you! I don't fight girls!"
"Really Ranma! Well you better start because I'll pound you into the ground." yelled Akane trying to punch the boy, Ranma managed to avoid a couple of them and block the others, however before things could get bloody Kasumi decided to interfere. She grabbed Ranma and lifted him into the air away from Akane.
"Now is that any way to behave on your first day?" she asked tenderly from the two. However a certain girl was too far-gone and used Ranma's temporally immobility to place two punches on his face. "Now really Akane that was not nice!" schooled Kasumi.
"But he still thinks that I'm weak!" whined the girl.
"Akane you can be so weak-headed sometimes. He doesn't wants to hit you because he likes you!" reasoned Kasumi.
"But he knows that I won't get stronger if I don't have anyone to fight with!" yelled Akane.
"I'm sure that you can find a good way to train without hitting each other." answered Kasumi while starting to walk towards the entrance of the nursery again.
"Are you joking Akane would never go for something like that!" snapped Ranma.
"I'm sure you two will be able to make it out." answered Kasumi "But remember no fighting here! Ok?"
"All right mumbled the two kids!"
From Ranma's point of view the inside of the nursery was much worse. The walls of the main hall were filled with pictures of various pictures that his brain filed under too fluffy and for the first time in his life he really felt sick because of the things he saw. /And I'll spent most of my time here for the next two years! ./ screamed his brain making him feel even worse.
Five minutes and the usually procedures later he and Akane were standing in a huge room to his immense joy the place looked less corny than the entrance area. "So what should we do?" he asked from the girl next to him.
"I dunno, lets look around maybe we can find some way to amuse ourselves." she replied.
Outside of the Nursery"Nay! Nay! This cannot be happening to Tatewaki Kuno! Such treachery! The Blue Thunder will smite the vile sorcerer Saotome for this!" hollered a young Kuno while trying to avoid what he described a fate worse than death.
"But Master Kuno I can't do a thing about it! As long you have a child's body there's nothing you can do!" answered Sasuke.
"How dare thee! Thou master shall smite thee for this insult!" hollered Kuno, he raised his wooden sword and brought it down on the loyal ninja's head. The weapon worked perfectly and the ninja was out cold.
"You know this is kinda fun." remarked Ranma blushing a bit from embarrassment while adding another building brick to the castle that he and Akane were building.
"I told you, It won't be that bad!" answered Akane with a smile.
However there was trouble brewing in one of the near corners of the homeroom. "Hey boss! Who are the new kids?"
"Who cares but I think we should introduce ourselves anyway!" answered the biggest one in the group. "Genta! Call them over, the two better learn who's the boss around here!"
"Yes! Sir!" answered one of the kids and walked of into Ranma and Akane's direction.
The bit too young couple continued it's the joyful game not noticing the other kid that was walking to them till he opened his mouth. "Hey you two newbies! The commander wants to see you!"
"And who's that commander?" asked Ranma smugly.
"The human version of Godzilla! Now stop your mouth and start your feet or I'll fill your mouth with my fist!"
Ranma carefully checked the room to find the two adults who should be looking after them, they were in the middle of a chat, but considering that it was still early and the normal daily activities didn't get started yet he couldn't accuse them of anything. /Good I've got a free way to use my arsenal if necessary./ "Get lost, if your "commander" wants to play big guy then he better moves his sorry ass over." answered Ranma.
"You don't get it do you newbie? You're just messing with the strongest man around!" warned Genta.
"I think it's more like the biggest wanna be thug don't you think? Now beat it!" replied Ranma while turning to Akane. "Let's go Akane were wasting time with this crazed guy!"
"Looks like you two need to lean it the hard way!" interrupted a third voice.
"Forgive me commander looks like these two don't know their place!" beseeched Genta.
"Shut up you moron! So you think that you're a tough one?" asked the newcomer.
Ranma stared at the boy in front of him trying to hold back a laugh. "What a show-off! Do me a favour and beat it you're polluting the air."
The guy in front of Ranma couldn't believe it, he was way bigger than Ranma and from comparing their sizes he could easily beat up the new kid. At least that's what the boy thought not knowing about Ranma's background. "How dare you, you little bed-wetter! Do you know whom you're talking to?" he roared. "I'm the big boss here! I'm eviler than Darth Vader and I'm cruller than a tyrannosaurus-rex!"
Ranma was barely able to hold back a chuckle /And I thought that I was overconfident. / "Listen up lid why don't you scram before you get hut!"
"What did you say?" hollered the kid. "I'm Toshiro! The strongest man around! I'll kick your sorry ass for this." he lifted his hand and tried to hit Ranma but the boy easily dodged.
/I'll better be careful. / thought Ranma /He may be slow and weak but I'm not used to my new body. / he dodged two other strikes, and finally decided to reply to Toshiro's attacks. The bully could hardly believe, that this little nobody was not only dodging his attack but was also hitting back and those punches have hurt bad. He received another punch in his gut and then saw as Ranma lifted one of his feet for a final blow, he raised his hands, but the part time girl easily broke through his defence, it would have been only a fraction of a second before the martial artists foot came into contact with his face, but suddenly that stopped and quickly brought his foot back to the ground.
The poor kindergarten kid couldn't even figure out why Ranma retreated, but when he felt somebody lifting him into the air he knew what's wrong. "Toshiro! How many times do I have to tell you! Don't bully the others!"
Toshiro almost growled at the smirking Ranma. "Just wait till next time you little!" he whispered.
"Dream on!" answered Ranma then he turned to Akane, making sure that the other kid saw it. "Hey Akane do you want to train on the kid next time he starts to play big guy?"
"Are you insulting me Ranma?" asked the girl in a warning tone. "I want to improve my martial arts not bring it down!"
Over at Furinkan high
A little kid raced across the school grounds with a kendo booken (sword) in his hands. "Ranma Saotome you foul sorcerer crawl out of thou hiding hole! For what you did to me I Tatewaki Kuno will smite thee!"
"Hey was that really Kuno?" asked one of the students from his friends.
"Naw! Probably only a stupid kindergarten kid who heard Kuno's poetry."
"We better report to the principal Kuno's stupidity is contagious!"
"Naw!"remarkedall theboys shaking their heads.