Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto and/or Ranma half.They are properties of their respective owners.Peace out.Ok thanks for the reviews and without furthur ado here is chap 2:
Ranma flinched as he tried to get up from his position on the floor. Where was he? He looked around and noted the four walls, grilled single window and the bars in front of him. Now Ranma was not the sharpest tool in the shed but even he could tell that he was in a jail of some sort. He punched the wall in frustration and all he got from that was an injured hand. His mind was then brought back to yesterday's events. He remembered getting knocked out in one hit by a move he had never seen before. What Ranma knew for sure was that this was indeed Konoha, the giant city behind the gate in the middle of nowhere.
He tried physically hitting the door but he knew it would not yield. If this had been the old Ranma, he would have screamed and ranted at this predicament, but a lot had changed these past months. His youthful recklessness had mellowed down as he saw the world first hand. As Ranma often did when he was bored he thought to himself about what would be happening back in Nerima (thanks to smith119 for the correction). "…she is my fiancée, if you touch her, I will kill you". Ranma remembered when he said that with a painful grimace. He never told her but she really was cute when she smiled. He wondered if Ryouga was still P-Chan, he chuckled to himself remembering the few times when the both of them were true friends. If you saw Ranma right now, you would see the face of a tired old man in the body of a youngster, he wore a sad smile as he replayed the memories of Nerima, the memories that kept him going
. "HEY! The Hokage wants to see you" shouted a gruff man at Ranma, who stood up and followed the man. He went up three flights of stairs until he was met with a very large door.
"In ya' go" said the man pushing Ranma towards the door. He then entered a rather plain room which was dominated by a large front desk stacked high with papers. He looked around and noticed that he was all alone. Where was this 'hokage', WHAT was a Hokage? With a loud crash, the monotony of the room was broken as a tall woman with platinum blonde hair and very umm sizeable assets entered the room.
In a gruff voice she said to Ranma "You are the kid that the ANBU found unconscious outside the gates, right?" Found unconscious? "Wait a minute here, your ANBU knocked me out before I could utter a word to them", Ranma spoke. "Huh? ANBU are told explicitly to only knock out potentially dangerous foreigners. Oh well we'll settle this later. Ok kid where you from?". "Nerima". "Your name", "Saotome Ranma". "Well well Saotome Ranma, you mind telling me where this Nerima is?" Tsunade asked looking at Ranma with amused suspicion. Ranma knew he was in deep shit if he did not handle this situation just right. Just then Ranma's mind inexplicably took him back to the old man's shack where he remembered a conversation he had with him.
"Yup, I was once called the razor blade for the way I crushed any enemies to the hidden stone, its sad though 'cause my clan was destroyed by the hidden mist in the war". Ranma of course thought the old man was nuts so he continued to humor him.
"Its near the hidden stone village", Ranma said praying that the Hokage would not see through his lie. "Ok, let's say I believe you kid, would you mind telling me what you are doing here?" Ranma then launched into a dramatic story of his having to leave the village because it was destroyed in a covert mission by unknown ninja's. Now, one must realize that Tsunade was not one who liked long conversations and because she was suffering from the affects of a hangover she decided to let this kid stay for the time being. "Ok, Saotome Ranma from this day onwards you are a member of the village of Konoha under code 81E or was it 56F, oh who cares, of the Konoha refugee code. In other words we have granted you asylum….and for your sake I hope your story is true".
Ranma looked at the woman not blinking. "Wait why do I even want to sty in this place? And how the hell did my plan work?" this and other thoughts Ranma contemplated as he was handed a few pieces of paper officially making him a citizen of Konoha. "Now on to another thing. Do you have money for a place to stay?" asked the now calm Hokage. Ranma was perpetually broke, for as long as he could remember he never had much money and that did not change even now. He shook his head at which point an ugly vein throbbed on Tsunade's forehead signaling her irritation. She sighed deeply before asking Ranma what skills he had. Immediately Ranma piped in that he was a martial arts master, Ranma had always been one to exaggerate. "A martial arts master? Well well, lets see if you can contribute to Konoha with this skill", Tsunade said this with a twinkle in her eye. She did not know what, but there was something about this boy that was very interesting. "SHIZUNE" Tsunade then screamed and in walked Tsunade's over worked friend. "Shizune would you fetch Jounin Maito Gai and Rock Lee please". "…but Hokage-sama, why just the both of them?"
"Just do it"
Tsunade screamed and scurried of to go get the aforementioned people.
She returned a few minutes later followed by the two people. Ranma
took one glance at them and proclaimed loudly in his head: "Kuno, I
have met someone who looks freakier than you." "YESS
HOKAGE-SAME?" the taller one bellowed. Ranma took a deeper glance
at them: they both wore an almost identical green jumpsuit, both had
the same bowl-cut and they both had REALLY BIG eye brows. Ranma's
gawking at them was interrupted by Tsunade's walking over to the
smaller one and saying "I have here someone from the hidden stone
who claims to be a martial arts master and I would like you to test
his so-called mastery, ok?" The smaller once pumped his fist in the
air saying
"I AM IN THE SPRINGTIME OF YOUTH! I WILL ACCEPT WHATEVER
CHALLENGES".
The bigger one embraced him saying "THAT'S THE WAY
MY BEAUTIFUL STUDENT, SHOWER HIM WITH YOUR YOUTHFUL ENERGY".
Ranma
stared at the now weeping duo before looking at the visually livid
Hokage. "Ok, enough of this. You two will have the fight in half an
hour's time in training ground 6, dismissed". The jump suited
freaks left the romm slamming the door behind them with a loud THUD.
"Argh that's Gai and Lee for you, weird but good people",
Tsunade said before turning to Ranma and asking him to follow her to
this training ground. Ranma was rather perplexed as to why this
obviously important was person was taking so much interest in him
"Maybe she likes me?" Ranma thought to himself. A short bit of
roof hopping later and they reached the wooded training area. Gai and
Lee were already there and Lee looked to be warming up. "Ok here
are the rules: only hand to hand combat, no chakra techniques and no
dangerous moves".
After Tsunade dictated the rules she and Gai stood back as Lee got ready. "What the hell have I got myself into? I don't want to fight for no reason, there is no honor in that" Ranma thought inwardly. After so long Ranma still held his honor as a martial artist above anything else. "Let me make it clear that if you decide not to show what you are capable of then your value to this village will be severely diminished so for your sake Saotome you better not back out", Tsunade shouted from the sidelines. "Gulp! A mind reader? Well, se looks serious enough so I guess it is about time I had a good fight, after all I never had a really good one since Saffron", Ranma said cracking his knuckles and he then gave the confident pose he gave every time he fought. Then Rock Lee attacked.
The young Taijutsu specialist moved at breakneck speed intending to finish the fight in one blow as he attacked Ranma with is patented fist combo. One-two-three punches met with empty air as Lee, one of the best Taijutsu guys in Konoha, began to see that his opponent was no pushover. Still Lee's Tekken was on a whole new level if he really got serious and he decided that he had to. Ranma felt his opponents energy change and he knew he had to get serious as well. One kick-ten punches, spinning kicks, devastating punches and merciless combos were exchanged as the two fought, neither giving each other any edge. Ranma saw that he could not win without fishing into his bag of techniques, so he dodged Lee's palm strike and shouted "Kachhu-Tenshin-Amaguriken" before pummeling Lee's exposed side at hundreds of punches a second.
Lee staggered back, this kind of technique was familiar but very difficult to pull of in a tired state. Ranma looked confident as he thought his opponent was down for the count but imagine his surprise when his opponent got up and shouted "Ha ha, I FEEL MY YOUNG BLOOD FLOWING UNABATED, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY SAOTOME-KUN". Ranma looked at him in abject shock thinking that he had met another Ryouga type. "Crap, gonna have to use it". Now Ranma hated this technique but he knew it was the only way to recharge again. "Anything goes Martial arts Saotome school ultimate technique" Ranma shouted and a look of fear passed across Lee's face as he thought Ranma was going to use some sort of super move but imagine his disappointment when he saw Ranma running of into the foliage. "What the heck, THERE IS NO RUNNING FROM MY YOUTHFUL FISTS" and then Lee chased after Ranma. Ranma's mind was brought back to the past, the last time he used this technique was against Ryouga's breaking point.
"Try harder Ranma, you kicks feel like a baby's" Ryouga mocked Ranma as he recoiled in shock at his failure to even hurt Ryouga. He used that technique to get of that spot. He saw in his mind's eye Akane's fearful face as Ryouga flung him into a tree, he remembered---".
Down fell Ranma from the tree as Lee kicked him off the branch. Ranma berated himself on his lack of alertness as he proceeded to dodge even more blows. The two martial artists traded blows after blows, every move countered by the other perfectly as a flurry of kicks also was blocked expertly. Their bodies a blur as Ranma and Lee were deadlocked. Lee noticed a sudden change in Ranma's pattern as he seemed to be moving around in a circular motion, Lee paid this no heed and continued to attack oblivious to the small smile on Ranma's face as he held his fist up shouting "Hiryuu-Shouten-Haa" as Lee felt himself being blown upwards by the ensuing tunnel of wind. "Hokage-Sama what is tat move?" Gai looked at a stoic Tsunade who replied "I don't know but whatever energy he is using, it's not Chakra. Just who is he?" Lee felt himself hit a tree with a sick thud as his body came to rest. He staggered up felling a rib break and blood trickling from his nose. "I WILL NOT LOSE" the green beast shouted as he launched himself at Ranma faster then before and even Ranma could not dodge this move as he was kicked into the air and Lee followed unwrapping the bandages on his hand and as he approached Ranma's aerial form he suddenly stopped in mid air as he was flung to the ground by an unknown force. Ranma turned around to see Gai looking rather angry at Lee.
"How many times have I told you NOT to use that technique unless you have to against an enemy LEE, YOUR PUNISHEMT IS 500 LAPS AROUND KONOHA." "Gai-sensei, gomen, gomen, gomen I will accept the punishment as part of my YOUTHFUL FOLLY". Out of the blue Tsunade launched herself at Ranma who actually traded four blocks with her before jumping away. "What the hell was that for?" Ranma asked now getting angry. "Relax kid if you could handle Lee that well, I will indeed admit that you are a master. Now as promised you work for me." She said tossing a pair of key's to Ranma who caught it looking even more perplexed. "You new home, of course you will be paying back for it with the sweat of your brow so that's that, I have wasted enough time. Dismissed" with that and a few hand signs the Godaime vanished. "Well well Ranma-kun, you are certainly amazing", Gai said looking at Ranma in admiration.
"Come we will show you to your place" Lee said pumping his fist in the air again. Ranma nodded too tired to ask questions. This had gone way out of control, he had only intended to rest here for a night but now found himself with a home and a job. This place. Konoha, seemed to be drawing him in and for some inexplicit reason he felt like here he could do what he intended to do that night he left Nerima. He followed behind the two of them, their loud conversation not disturbing Ranma as his mind was far away as he saw the sun dipping below the horizon in a picture perfect scene. An hour later he had entered his new home: a totally normal apartment with sparse comforts. Ranma was too tired to be too interested in much as he plopped himself down on the bed without even turning on the light. And his last thought as sleep took him was as always: Good night Nerima.
A/N: Thanks for reading. I know Ranma seemed a bit OOC. And about the move names I would appreciate it if someone could give me a Ranma move list. Next chapter should be out soon.Also my exams are over so i have more time for writing, hoping to ace Add maths and chem,oops i am rambling again. Thanks for the reviews Btw I really enjoyed 'the violent Tomboy's know your stars fic. Signing out