Rumiko Takahashi owns Ranma.
Warren Murphy and Richard Ben-Sapir (A"H) think they own The Destroyer, but in truth, it is owned by Master Chiun. All hail the Master of Sinanju, the perfection that is Sinanju, and all things Sinanju.
CREATED, RANMA THE DESTROYER
By: Mozphoto
Chapter 7
Ranma and Akane ran towards Furinkan high school. Akane was on the sidewalk, but Ranma ran along the top of a chain link fence three feet above Akane easily.
"What's the big hurry, Akane," called Ranma, "we're still a few minutes early."
"I don't want to be seen with a pervert like you!"
"I am not a pervert!"
"Well, you certainly aren't a real man!"
At the entrance to the school grounds, Ranma could see a large group of boys running towards them.
"I thought your sisters said you didn't like boys!"
"That's right," yelled Akane, her voice rising to a scream of rage when she noticed the mob approaching. "I HATE MEN!"
Ranma sat on the fence and watched dumbfounded as about 30 boys attacked Akane. What was very odd about all of this was that none of the boys looked angry and all of them were calling out for Akane to date them! I may be really inexperienced at how girls think, mused Ranma, but even I know this isn't how you get a girl to go out with you. What gives?
A voice called his name from overhead. Ranma saw Nabiki leaning out a classroom window. "Ranma, get to class right now!"
Ranma gaped at her. "But… but…"
"Don't worry about Akane," Nabiki interrupted. "She can take care of herself."
Ranma could see that quite clearly. Akane was laying into the boys with the ferocity of a rabid pit-bull. Even more astonishing was that she was using proper breathing technique! Within a few minutes, all the boys were strewn about the schoolyard, unconscious. Then an even stranger thing happened.
Now that Akane had no-one left to fight, her breathing became ragged as though she had exerted herself. Ranma leapt down to her side.
"For Pete's sake," Akane grumbled. "What a drag!"
"Truly, such a boorish lot," called a voice from the shadow of a large tree. "Evidently each of them intends to ask you out, Akane." A tall, handsome boy stepped into view. He was dressed in the uniform of a practitioner of kendo and he was holding a single red rose in one hand and a bokken in the other. "On the dawn that he finally defeats you."
Akane rolled her eyes and sighed in frustration. "Oh, upperclassman," she droned in a dull monotone, "good morning."
"And now, Akane Tendo," he said as he tossed the rose to Akane and took up a fighting stance, "might you fight with me?"
"Man," drawled Ranma, "you're popular, aren't you?"
"Stay out of the way," Akane growled. "You'll get hurt." Akane was about to say more but noticed a strange look flick across Ranma's face. The same look he had (as a girl, when she tried to spar with him.
The older boy pointed his bokken at Ranma. "You there," he spat, "you are being quite familiar with Akane! Who are you, boor?"
Ranma only had long enough to recall Chiun calling him a boor once or twice and figuring out that it must therefore be an insult, that before he could answer the older boy, the questioner continued to speak
"Ah! But it is custom to give one's own name first!" The boy's imperious voice rose as though he were reciting a Shakespearean monologue. "Fine, then! Mine I shall give!"
"Is this guy for real?" Ranma muttered to Akane out of the corner of his mouth.
"My name is upperclassman Kuno," the kendoist continued, "captain of the kendo club, the undefeated new star of the high school fencing world. But me peers call me The Blue Thunder of Furinkan High." He paused dramatically.
Upstairs, Nabiki and her friends were still watching the show. "Blue Thunder?" Nabiki mused, "That's news to me."
Ranma, dumbfounded by this arrogant tirade, struggled to answer. "Okay. I'm um… I'm staying at the Tendo dojo…"
"WHAT," Kuno bellowed, "under the same roof as Akane?" Without so much as a warning, Kuno swung his bokken with such ferocity that, had it connected, Ranma's skull would've been split like a ripe watermelon. But he wasn't there.
Before the wooden sword had traveled halfway through its arc, Ranma had leapt to the brick wall that surrounded the school grounds. "I am Ranma Saotome, and I accept your challenge!"
Note: Yeah, I know, I'm really sticking to the manga at the moment. I will be going in some interesting directions that bring Chiun and Sinanju into the story yet again fairly soon. I'm really excited about some ideas I have of where this could go.
In answer to some comments made:
What the heck do so many of you have against Akane? So many of you show such outright hostility towards her, you'd think she was a Telletubbie or Barney the purple dinosaur (hostility against them I understand and encourage wholeheartedly!).
While I am changing a few aspects of the stories in order to "seamlessly" blend them together in the direction that I want, I am trying to keep the characters as true to the original authors' portrayals of them. Please remember that this is "What if Ranma was trained by Chiun?" It isn't "What if Ranma was trained by Chiun and hated Akane and was homicidal and constantly horny, etc."
To Nemesis, Part of what makes up the character of Remo is that regardless of how many times he and Chiun kill, he still struggles with the morality of it all. By your argument, Ranma should have no problem with lying, stealing, cheating, and getting drunk because that is what Genma does all the time. Since he doesn't, Ranma must understand that there is a moral dilemma.
Chiun will NOT train Akane. She's a girl and Chiun is a die hard chauvinist. He won't kill Akane, because she isn't a threat to him, nor has she insulted him.
Remember that to the general populace Sinanju does not exist. All of the Masters' "famous" assassinations were made to look like an accident or natural causes. Only people who need to know (i.e. people that can afford the services of Sinanju) know the truth. Advertising is meant for the target customer base. You wouldn't make commercials for feminine hygiene products geared to men, so why advertise the ultimate in assassination to people that will never have need of it?
That being said, thank you all for your comments.
Stay tuned!