Return of the Wolf
Chapter Two
So the whole group went into the family room to find Soun and a fat bald men later identified as Genma talking.
Ranma knelt down next to Genma and the Tendo girls sat across from them.
"I'll explain it once more this is my dear old friend..." Soun began
"Genma Saotome and this is my son..." continued Genma
"Ranma Saotome." finished Ranma
Akane stared angrily at the pigtailed boy as her sisters asked questions.
What's this all about!" asked Nabiki
"Are you really her? That same girl?" asked Kasumi
Genma put a finger to his temple and said "Where should I begin? I know."
This said Genma grabbed Ranma by the front of his shirt and threw him at the koi pond, but before Ranma could hit the water Ookami caught him by his right leg and swing him back towards Genma where he landed in a crouch next to the fat man.
"I have a better idea." said Ookami as he phased out of sight, reappeared in front of Genma, and hit him with a ki blast in the face launching the man into the koi pond. When he emerged he was no longer the fat man that had landed in the pond but the fat panda that the girls had seen earlier.
"Now he's a panda!" exclaimed Kasumi
"Serves you right old man." said Ranma from the door
"Daddy? Why are you friends with them?" asked Kasumi
"They weren't like this before!" replied Soun "Not before they went to China ... and undertook that terrifying training exercise!"
After Genma had been returned to human form the story continued.
"Ah, yes. It was two fateful weeks ago..." (Ops I guess the manga does say how long it took. My mistake)
Flashback (If you already know this flashback from almost every ranma fan fiction or the anime or manga just skip it I'm gonna copy it exactly.)
Mt. Quanjing range, Qinghai Province, China.
"Here sir. Is legendary ground of accursed springs." said the man in the communist uniform waving his arm in the directions of the springs. The view was deceptively calm there were many spring fed pools each with many bamboo poles sticking out of them.
"Are you prepared Ranma?" asked Genma
"This place isn't so impressive." answered Ranma
"You very strange one, no, sir? This place very dangerous nobody use now." said the guide "Is more than one hundred spring here and everyone have own tragic legend."
"Ranma follow me!" exclaimed Genma as he lept onto one of the poles with Ranma close behind.
"Ah! Sir what you doing?" asked the guide
Ignoring him Genma continued to taunt Ranma "I won't go easy on you."
"That's how I want it." Ranma said
"Please sir! Very bad if you fall in spring!" the guide called out as Ranma and his father began to trade blows.
Back and forth Ranma and Genma jumped testing each others defenses trying to find a weak point until Genma made a mistake that would haunt him for the rest of his life. As he tried to kick Ranma using his fall for momentum he left his back open to attack and Ranma twisted in mid air it kicked Genma between his shoulder blades knocking him into one of the springs. (guess which one.) As Genma made contact with the water Ranma landed on one of the bamboo poles and said "Gotcha."
When Genma didn't immediately surface Ranma called after him "Pop? What's up? We done already?"
Soon after Ranma said this a very large panda leapt from the water and landed on a pole across from Ranma.
"That is 'spring of drowned panda'! There is tragic legend very tragic of panda who drown there two thousand year ago!" yelled the guide "Now whoever fall in that spring... take body of panda!"
"Wait a second! You never said anything about..." Ranma started to say before the panda caught him with a left hook and sent him flying towards one of the springs.
"Not 'spring of drowned girl'!" exclaimed the guide as Ranma landed with a splash "There is tragic legend very tragic, of young girl who drown in spring one thousand five hundred year ago. Now whoever fall in that spring take body of young girl!"
Ranma slowly opened the front of his gi and looked a the two new additions to his now her anatomy with horror and screamed.
"You see what I mean?" asked the guide
End Flashback
"The legendary ground of accursed springs. Its true horror has always been shrouded in mystery. But now..." said Soun
"Whaddya mean 'true horror'?" asked Ranma angrily and grabbed the front of Genmas gi "Yo, old man, what's the idea draggin' me to a place like that anyway?"
Genma grabbed Ranma and tried to throw him into the pond but Ranma just used his grip on his father to flip and send Genma instead.
"Oh what a tragedy!" cried Soun
"You went too far Mr. Saotome!" exclaimed Kasumi
"Yeah! Even for martial arts training!" added Nabiki
"What ever made you do something so dangerous?" asked Kasumi angrily
Panda Genma pulled out a book and dropped it onto the floor.
"It's Chinese. A map and guide book?" said Kasumi
"Something about training grounds." said Nabiki
"No wonder..." mumbled Kasumi before she asked "You can't read Chinese can you?"
Genma held up a prize ball which popped open letting loose some confetti and a sign that read "Correct" and Ranma hit him upside the head
Soun ran up with a kettle and poured some of its contents on the fat panda causing him to wave his arms around in pain.
"So. When doused with hot water you return to human form." said Soun
"Well, it needn't be quite that hot" remarked Genma
"When doused with cold water you become a girl..." said Soun as he poured a cup of water over Ranmas head "But hot water turns you back into a boy!" he announced and tried to use his kettle of boiling water on Ranma
"Hot water not boiling!" yelled Ranma while dodging the extremely hot water.
"No sweat. Your problem isn't so terrible after all!" continued Soun patting Ranma on the back "My Daughter Kasumi nineteen, and Nabiki seventeen, and Akane sixteen. Pick the one you want. She's your fiancee."
"Oh, he wants Akane!" said Kasumi
"Oh definitely." added Nabiki backing her up.
"You must be joking! Why would I be.." said Akane
"Well... you hate boys don't you?" asked Nabiki
"So you're in luck he's half girl!" added Kasumi cheerfully
"OK! ENOUGH!" shouted Ookami
Everyone just turned to him in confusion.
"Let's just stop this before someone says something stupid and gets hurt?" said Ookami 'like Ranma' he mentally added
"It doesn't matter I'm never marrying that pervert!" exclaimed Akane
"Why do you say I'm a pervert?" asked Ranma calmly
"Because you looked at my body you pervert." explained Akane
"Incase you forgot 'you' walked in on 'me'." said Ranma
"It's different when a girl sees a boy!" argued Akane
"They're already the prefect couple!" exclaimed Soun
"He's a couple by himself!" exclaimed Akane causing Ranma to wince "And if you ever..." she started to say before Ranma turned around and started to leave
"Where are you going boy!" asked Genma
"I know where I'm not wanted. First she wants to be friends then she insults me just because of my curse. I'm leaving." answered Ranma
"Calm down my friend." said Ookami putting a hand on Ranmas shoulder.
"Why should I?" asked Ranma
"Everyone here is under a lot of stress lets just let everybody get some sleep and talk about this in the morning." answered Ookami
"There is nothing to talk about the boy will marry Akane!" exclaimed Genma
Ookami formed a large ball of black ki in his right hand and scowled at Genma.
"On second thought maybe we should put this off until morning." said Genma
"Good idea, I'm so glad you thought of it." said Ookami sarcastically.
"Where will I be sleeping Kasumi?" asked Ranma
"STOP HITTING ON MY SISTER YOU PERVERT!" yelled Akane as she lifted up the table and smashed Ranma with it.
"That seemed unnecessary." commented Ookami as he lifted Ranma onto his shoulder and grabbed the kettle "I think I can find the guest room we'll see you all in the morning."
Ookami took Ranma upstairs and into the first door on the left which was the guest room and threw him onto the floor. Ranma awakened upon contact with the floor and looked angrily at Ookami "What ya do that for?"
"To wake you up we need to talk." answered Ookami handing Ranma the kettle
After Ranma had returned to his male form he asked "Talk about what?"
"Your new fiancee." Ookami said bluntly
"Who that nutcase down stairs!" exclaimed Ranma "I didn't even know what a fiancee was until you told me."
"Calm down and listen." said Ookami
Ranma shut his mouth and sat down.
"Good, first she probably feels the same about this as you do." said Ookami
"What do you mean?" asked Ranma
As Ranma asked this question Akane who had come upstairs to apologize for hitting Ranma and to make sure that perverted guy wasn't doing anything with the unconscious female Ranma and heard voices from the guest room and leaned in to listen through the door.
"Your parents are trying to push you into this and I can tell that neither of you like to be pushed into things." explained Ookami. Akane nodded
"Oh ok I can understand that. But why did she hit me with the table?" asked Ranma
"I'm not sure something has caused her to distrust males but I don't know what and I'm not gonna ask." replied Ookami
"Why not?" asked Ranma
"Because it's not my business she doesn't trust men and until she does we can't be friends." answered Ookami
On the other side of the door Akane was amazed by how observant this guy was and wondered why they couldn't be friends if she didn't like boys.
"Why can't you be friends." asked Ranma
"Because my friends need to trust me just as I do them. Take you for example I've been traveling with you for two weeks now and I know that you are the most honorable and naive guy I have ever meet." explained Ookami
"Hey I am not naive!" exclaimed Ranma
"Yeah right you didn't even know what sex was or why all of those women and men when you were in your female form were looking at you like they were." said Ookami
Outside the door Akane stifled a giggle.
"Ok what ever get on with the explanation" Ranma said
"As I was saying I know I can trust you and you know you can trust me right?" asked Ookami
"Yeah of course." answered Ranma
Ookami nodded "Good, because if we can trust each other that makes us friends. A friend isn't a real friend unless you trust them totally and Akane can't trust me because I'm a guy. So until she get over this fear of guys I can't consider her a friend." Ookami finished
Akane burst through the door and yelled "I am not afraid!"
"You've been listening since I explained to him about you both being stubborn and you choose now to say something?" asked Ookami
Akane looked at the floor in embarrassment and asked "How did you know?"
"I have a very sensative nose and can smell the difference in individual peoples scents." explained Ookami
"Like a dog?" asked Akane
"More like a wolf hence my name." answered Ookami
"Oh." Said Akane sheepishly
"So you heard everything?" asked Ranma
"Yeah sorry about calling you a pervert and hitting you." answered Akane
"It's ok I'm pretty tough so no damage done." said Ranma with a smile "Can we still be friends?"
"Yeah as long as you don't try to do anything perverted." said Akane
"And I'll keep the dumbass duo off your backs." added Ookami
"Don't insult my father!" snapped Akane
"You can't tell me that you didn't seriously question his intelligence after this."said Ookami
"Well maybe, but you still shouldn't insult people." replied Akane
"Sorry to disappoint you but I insult everybody. You can tell if I'm serious or not by wether or not I smile." explained Ookami
"You will never get a girlfriend if you keep insulting everybody." said Akane smugly
Ookami pulled out his wallet and extracted a picture and handed it to Akane "Oh, yeah?".
"Wow she's beautiful!" exclaimed Akane
"You don't have to tell me." replied Ookami as he took back the picture and put in his wallet out of harms way.
"Who is she?" asked Akane
"My girlfriend, her name is ... Mitsuko." answered Ookami (Surprise I finally came up with a name for 'her'. Thanks to Dragonman180 for sending me a link to a site on Japanese names)
"Well I guess you aren't too much of a pervert." said Akane with a smile
"Maybe just a little but all guys are aloud to be perverts every now and then." laughed Ookami
"Well I don't know about you kids but I'm getting tired I'm going to sleep see you in the morning." Said Ookami before curling up in a corner of the room and falling asleep.
Akane and Ranma just looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders.
"Goodnight." they said at the same time which caused them to both laugh.
That's it for chapter two I hope you like it so far and if you think Akane is cured of her distrust of guys think again. Old habits die hard. As always reviews are welcome and for those of you that don't understand. That means that I want reviews I know you read, but I want to know what you think. I don't care if it's the same comment a hundred times I still wanna hear. Please review.