Return of the Wolf
Chapter Three
"Goodnight." they said at the same time which caused them to both laugh.
Then next morning the Tendo family was awakened by the sounds of combat. Ranma and Ookami were sparing over the koi pond jumping from rock to rock fighting in mid air.
"I'm gonna win today Ookami." shouted Ranma before he leapt
"Yeah right like you can beat me." Ookami taunted back when he landed
Akane and Nabiki were staring at the combatants in amazement.
'How are they doing that?' thought Akane
'I'm gonna make a fortune off of these guys!' thought Nabiki
As the girls were watching lost in there own thoughts Ookami decided to end the match and get back to the discussion they were having the night before. So Ookami connected with a right hook which sent Ranma flying towards the girls. Ranma noticed them and adjusted his course to land in front of them.
"I believe we were all going to talk this morning." said Ookami
"Couldn't we have finished our match first?" whined Ranma
"It is over Ranma, this discussion is important." answered Ookami
Ranma, Ookami, Akane, and Nabiki went into the family room where Soun was reading his news paper and Genma was impatiently waiting for breakfast to start. (He learned long ago not to interfere with Ookami and Ranmas sparring sessions)
"Ok, if I remember correctly we are supposed to talk about this whole engagement thing this morning so why don't we get that out of the way before we eat." said Ookami after everyone had entered the room except Kasumi who was preparing breakfast.
"Right as I was saying last night Ranma must marry Akane the honor of the Saotome clan depends on it." said Genma
"Shut up Genma it's not like you know anything about honor." said Ookami "The way I see it the kids are to young to get married and they just meet yesterday so why not give them a chance to get to know one another before you start preaching marriage."
"I agree." said Akane and Ranma in unison
"But, Saotome and I had an agreement." whined Soun
"No one is saying that the agreement won't be fulfilled we are just saying that they need some time to get used to the idea." said Ookami
"I'm to young to be engaged daddy." said Akane with big tear filled eyes (There is only one man alive that withstand the puppy dog eyes and he's writing this story)
"Alright as long as you promise to try and get to know one another I'll agree." sighed a defeated Soun
"But Tendo we made a promise!" exclaimed Genma earning himself a foot in the face and a trip to the koi pond courtesy of Ranma
"Shove it pop, you can't force me to get married." said Ranma
"It's a matter of family honor!" signed the panda
"Genma I would be surprised if your family has any honor left." stated Ookami
Genma glared at Ookami but didn't press the issue anymore for now. 'I'll have to talk to Tendo about this later'
Kasumi who had joined the group a moment earlier and saw Genma change so she said "Oh my, I imagine Mr. Saotome will need something different for breakfast." and pulled a big plate of bamboo seemingly out of nowhere causing everyone to face fault.(I know I said I would go by the manga but this was to funny to leave out)
Sometime later
"School?" asked Ranma
"Well, we are going to be staying a while." answered Genma
About this time Nabiki who was passing by said "It's the same school me and Akane go to. We'll see you there!"
"Nabiki wait I'll go with you!" called Akane who was running down the hall to catch up with her sister
Nabiki turned her head to look at Akane and said "What're you talking about? Ranma is your fiancé remember? You should walk him to school!"
Akane and Ranma glanced nervously at each other (I didn't like the angry glares.) Soon after Akane and Ranma were walking towards the school Ranma on the fence Akane on the ground.
"We're not getting married you know!" said Akane
"You're tellin' me." agreed Ranma disinterestedly from the fence
"So don't tell anyone about this engagement thing ok?" pleaded Akane
"Hey, I thought we already went over this we're just friends." replied Ranma
Without warning Genma ran up behind Ranma on the fence and hit him upside the head.
"Listen Ranma I'll only tell you once..." Genma started to say but before he could finish Ranma punched him in the face knocking him into the canal.
"Shut up pops." said Ranma before continuing his walk to school
As soon as Akane and Ranma were out of sight Ookamis head slid out of a nearby shadow and he laughed at panda Genma who was floating in the water and then sunk back into the shadow disappearing from sight.
Meanwhile down the road Ranma has gotten splashed by a little old woman who was watering her driveway.
"Something wrong?" giggled Akane
Ranma shot her a dirty look and started walking back towards the dojo "I think I'll go take a bath."
"You'll be late for school." protested Akane
"Think I want to start school as a girl?" asked Ranma
"But if we just pour hot water on you, you'll turn back right?" asked Akane
A few moments later Ranma was standing behind a sign while Akane asked an old woman who worked in what appeared to be chiropractors office for hot water.
"Hooo boy, what a way to start the..." Ranma started to sigh but was interrupted by a boney skeleton hand touching his ... her shoulder.
Ranma turned her head and was meet by a human skull which prompted her to jump to the top of the sign she was standing near.
"Oh pardon me." said a kindly looking man with brown eyes and glasses wearing a dark blue gi. "Nothing to worry about dear! This is just my skeleton."
Ranma just stared at the man blankly from her perch on top of the sign not knowing what to make of him. Akane cam around the corner with a steaming kettle.
"Ranma here's the hot..." she started to say "Oh! Doctor!"
Akane bowed and put the kettle on top of Ranmas head and said "Um...Good morning!"
The doctor and his skeleton bowed back as he replied "Good morning to you!"
Ranma looked curiously at Akane who was shyly looking at her feet.
"You haven't been by lately. No new injuries?" asked the doctor
"No sir. I mean... I haven't been doing anything that would..." Akane mumbled in reply
As Ranma poured the hot water on her head changing back into a guy he said "Interesting."
Moments later Ranma and Akane were running to school when Ranma asked "Who was that guy?"
"Dr. Tofu, the local chiropractor." replied Akane
"Martial arts master too isn't he?" Ranma questioned
"Huh? How could you tell?" asked Akane
"Sneaking up on me that way ... he erased all sense of his presence." answered Ranma
"True he's very good. But he doesn't look like he'd be does he? Ever since I was little he's taken care of my injuries." said Akane
As she said this they reached the gates of Furinkan where they were greeted by the reason Akane thinks all boys are perverts ... The Hentai Horde. Which Akane greeted with her cry of "I HATE MEN!"
The horde called out their own battle cries of "Akane Tendo's here" "Akane don't come any closer! They all want to beat you" "No Akane" "I'll stop you" "I wont let another guy beat you! I'll do it myself!" (They talk to much)
Ranma just jumped up on the wall next to the gate and watched wondering what was going on.
"Ranma! Get in this school! Now!" called Nabiki from a balcony
"But... But..."stuttered Ranma
"Don't worry about Akane!" Nabiki yelled but by this time the fight was finished bodies and broken sports equipment littered the ground.
"For pete's sake. Every morning! What a drag!" huffed Akane
From nearby a pompous jackass in samurai robes carrying a bokken said "Truly such a boorish lot. Evidently each of them ask you out, Akane on the dawn that he finally defeats you." (Anybody understand that?)
"Oh. Upperclassmen. Good morning." Akane says sarcastically
"And now Akane Tendo..." kuno started to say as he flicked the rose he was carrying but before it could reach its intended target it was blasted out of the air with a ki blast from a nearby shadow.
"So you are the one I've heard so much about. The bully and pervert." Said the shadow
"Who dares to destroy my gift to the fair Akane Tendo and call me a pervert?" asks kuno
"I'm Hitotsu Ookami." the shadow says as Ookamis head raises out of the darkness.
"Well I am tatewake kuno of junior group E captain of the kendo club. Undefeated new star of the high school fencing world. But my peers call me ... the Blue Thunder of Furinkan high." spouts the long winded kendoist.
"You talk to much come at me and lets see if you stay 'undefeated'." says Ookami sinking back into the deepening shadows.
"I attack." announces kuno like the moron he is and swing at where Ookamis head used to be.
"This brings new meaning to the words 'shadow boxing' doesn't it?" echos Ookamis voice
"Come out and fight me!" yells the true blunder
"Ok." says Ookami as he rises out of a nearby shadow holding a katana.
"You would use a real sword against an opponent who is using a bokken?" asks kuno
"Don't worry wind bag this is a saka-bato (Reversed blade sword) like my sword instructor used." said Ookami as he drew the blade a few inches from the sheath showing that the blade was indeed on the wrong side.
"Then I attack!" shouts kuno as he charges Ookami
Ookami draws his sword and flips it into his left hand and prepares for kunos attack. kuno swing downward as Ookami effortlessly blocks his attack.
"And you are undefeated? I'm right handed and I'm beating you with my left what does that tell you?" asks Ookami with a smirk
kuno just snarls draws back is blade and swing from his right, Ookami deflects the attack and it cuts down a nearby tree.
"Ok so you have some skill but not enough to beat me I learned from the best." says Ookami
"You must be using some manner of vile sorcery to do this because none can match the mighty blue thunder." shouts kuno
"That's right I'm not a match for you blue blunder I'm better than you." replies Ookami
"Then you admit that you are using some manner of magic to win!" asks kuno
"No but I can use magic watch this." answers Ookami before he begins muttering arcane words and moving his hands in an intricate pattern before thrusting them outward where a loud bang is heard and a puff of smoke marks the arrival of an old friend of Ookamis. As the smoke clears a small flying reptilian creature that's about three foot long from the tip of its snout to the end of its tail with golden scales and leathery wings is seen.
"Hi Dothys." says Ookami (Dothys is my familiar from Neverwinter Nights)
Dothys looks at Ookami makes a happy squawking sound (I have no clue what kind of noise a pseudo dragon makes if anyone know please tell me) and flies over to him and lands on his shoulder. "This is Dothys my familiar I picked her up in Faerune where I learned a bit of magic." says Ookami
"I knew it you are a foul sorcerer!" exclaims kuno
"Actually I'm a wizard, sorcerers learn magic naturally wizards like me have to learn from books and scrolls." corrects Ookami
"Sorry my mistake." says kuno "You a re a wretched wizard."
"Good correction." compliments Ookami
"Thank you." replies kuno
"Dothys do you mind?" Ookami asks his familiar
Dothys looks at Ookami and nods before opening her mouth and breathing fire on kuno leaving him standing burnt and in his boxers holding the remains of his bokken.
"That hurt you know." says kuno before he passes out from the pain caused by his third degree burns.
Ookami turns to Akane and Ranma and introduces his familiar "Dothys this is Akane and Ranma they're friends." Dothys nods and Ookami continues "Ranma, Akane this is Dothys my familiar."
"What is it." asks Ranma as he waves his finger in Dothys face
Dothys snaps at his finger in anger at being called an 'it'. " 'She' is a Pseudo-Dragon." answers Ookami "And by calling her 'it' you insulted her please don't do it again."
"She's cute." says Akane causing Dothys to puff out her chest proudly and look at Ookami for a moment.
"She says thank you." says Ookami
"You can understand her?" asks Ranma
"Yep it's part of the process the bonds a wizard and their familiar, we have a psychic link." replies Ookami
Before Akane and Ranma can ask any more questions the bell rings for class.
"Oh shit we're late!" exclaims Akane as she starts running for the door.
Moments later in classroom 1-F
"Well it does seem to be true that you were in china until recently. But that doesn't change the fact that both you and Akane Tendo were late stand in the hall." says the teacher
"This is your fault" says Akane angrily as she and Ranma were standing in the hall holding buckets full of water.
"My fault? You were as interested in that little dragon as I was." argues Ranma
"You should have reminded me about school." snaps Akane
"I didn't know when class started." Ranma replies angrily
Suddenly a moron calls out "Never Ranma Saotome!" and throws a bucket of water at the pigtailed martial artist.
"What do you think you're doing!" snaps Ranma
"I shall never accept your engagement to Akane!" shouts kuno
Before Ranma or Akane could reply the window of the class room fly open and they are bombarded with questions by their classmates.
Akane and Ranma just shouted at them together "It's not true we're just friends! It's all our parents idea!"
kuno swing and cut the bucket that Ranma was holding as the pigtailed martial artist jumped out of the way to avoid being splashed.
"Stand your ground!" shouted kuno
Ranma began running down the hall as he called back to kuno "This is no place for a fight follow me."
kuno took off after him and replied "That I shall."
The whole class followed the pair talking amongst themselves most of what was said was along the lines of "This is great!" and "Oooooooo! And the winner gets to go out with Akane!" Making the blue haired girl very angry.
A little further down the hall "Let's go outside follow me!" called Ranma as he grabbed the bottom of a window sill and swung his legs out jumping out of the window.
"Hey this is the third floor!" shouted one of the students.
Xero Reflux Strike: I know the story is really textbook but I will start making more alterations as the story goes on so please be patient.
Dragon Man180:I don't think kuno will ever be good enough to really spar with Ranma he's just to stupid to realize that he needs to get a lot better to be in Ranmas league.
Hope you like this chapter let me know what you think about the different attacks the I will borrow from other anime series. The shadow thing was from "Vampire Hunter D" I watched it again and decided that it would be a cool thing for my character to learn. Any suggestions for attacks that I should use would be welcome. Remember don't forget to review I want to know what you think.