Chains of the Past
Ranma ½ Tenchi Muyo Crossover
Chapter Three
A/N: To everyone that did drop a review, I thank you for them and keep them coming.
And now it's time for the revised Chapter Two.
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Ranma has met plenty of annoying people in his life. Actually he's met more than he can name (though Tatewaki Kuno remains on the top of that list with his sister Kodachi at a close second). Right now he has decided to add Tenchi to that loooong list (near the bottom of course). "For the last time no. Your grandpa has a very good reason to keep those keys away from ya. I wouldn't want a demon runnin' loose either."
Tenchi was on his knees begging. "Come on Ranma. You're way better than me. I need your help. Besides, demons aren't real. They're just figments of imaginations gone out of control. Pleeeease?"
Ranma looked at Tenchi with a raised eyebrow. 'Now I know what Nabs meant by bliss is ignorance, or somethin' like that.' "Listen, I won't help ya." Ranma watched as Tenchi was giving him the old sad puppy dog eyes. Too bad for Tenchi he was a few years too late for that to work on Ranma. That move only really worked on complete suckers. "But I will give ya a piece of advice. Don't be predictable." Ranma walked out of the shrine headed towards the holy tree to practice. 'Maybe that will get him off my back for a few days.'
Tenchi watched Ranma walk out. 'What does he mean don't be predictable?'
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Nabiki sat back and watched as Ranma went through his katas. 'We've been here one month. One month of peace and quiet. Knowing Ranma this won't last too much longer.' Nabiki looked up to the sky. 'Only a few more months till'
"Hey, you okay?"
Nabiki looked behind her and saw Ranma standing there. 'Show-off' "Just thinking. Done for today?"
Ranma nodded as he sat down next to Nabiki. "I decided to take it easy for today."
Nabiki gave a look of false shock. "You? Easy? Maybe you ought to lie down. You must be coming down with something."
Ranma smirked. "You know me. Even if I was sick, it'd be gone before ya know it."
"You always did heal quick."
"Besides, I'd figure today would be a great day to treat ya to a picnic lunch, just the two of us."
Nabiki smiled. "Oh really? When?"
"How 'bout now?" Ranma pulled out a blanket and a picnic basket out from his sleeve.
Nabiki gave a golf clap. "Well done. I see you finally got that down."
"Yep. Took a while though. I'd figure a few more months and you should be able to start using it as well."
Nabiki started to rummage through the basket pulling out plates and chopsticks. "Hey, Ranma, when Tenchi leaves this weekend it will be just us two and Masaki-san, wouldn't it?"
Ranma nodded. "Yep. And good thing too."
Nabiki looked curious. "Oh? Why's that?"
"Tenchi is still tryin' to get me to help 'em get those keys."
Nabiki chuckled. "They say ignorance is bliss."
"Oh, so that's how ya say it." Ranma shook his head. "It'll just be my luck if that demon was real. I don't wanna fight another one."
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Later that day Ranma noticed that Tenchi came back looking like he saw a ghost. "Tenchi, you okay?"
Tenchi jumped when he heard Ranma's voice. "R-R-Ranma. Yes, everything's great. Peachy. Why do you ask?"
For Ranma, all clues pointed towards trouble heading his way. "Let me guess. The demon was real, wasn't it?"
"Um... no?"
Ranma lowered his head. "Man." Ranma walked off towards his room grumbling. "So much for the peace and quiet. Now I gotta fight another demon. Stupid ignorance is bliss bullshit."
Tenchi watched Ranma walk off. 'Another One?'
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Ranma and Nabiki waved Tenchi off as he and Katsuhito walked down towards the street where Noboyuki's car was. Ranma turned towards Nabiki. "Nabiki, I wanna thank ya."
Nabiki looked confused. "For what?"
"For stickin' by and everythin' else. I know I must of seemed a bit off and stuff for these last few months. It's just everythin' comin' to a head all at once kinda messed me up."
Nabiki smiled. "I take it you're better now?"
"Mostly. I know things gotta change, but I'm sure that I wouldn't want anyone else but you beside me."
"About time Saotome."
Katsuhito came up from dropping Tenchi off and saw Ranma and Nabiki in a passionate kiss. He cleared his throat. "I'm sure that you're excited now that Tenchi is no longer here for a while, but he does know about the birds and the bees." Ranma and Nabiki looked at him with a full body blush. 'Ah, the innocence of youth. Good thing I am no longer young.'
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Tenchi and his father, Noboyuki, are enjoying a nice quiet instant ramen meal. "So, Tenchi, how was your summer vacation?"
"Really good dad. Met a very good martial artist who stayed with us and taught me some moves as well."
"Oh really? Is he better than your grandfather?"
Tenchi shrugged. "Don't know. Never saw them fight. I'm pretty sure it would be a great one if I ever did." Tenchi smiled. "To be that good at his age. I wonder how he did it?"
Noboyuki looked intrigued. "How old is he Tenchi?"
"A little under two years older than me."
"Really? What's his name? Maybe I've heard of him."
"Saotome Ranma."
Noboyuki looked shocked. "Saotome? He wouldn't happen to be the son of Nodoka now would he?"
Tenchi looked surprised. "Yeah. Hey, now I remember it, grandpa said something about Nodoka being a old family friend."
"I don't believe it. How long has it been? Why, I remember back when I was about oh ten or so when we first met. Her beauty struck me instantly."
Tenchi gave his father a hooded look. 'Perverted at ten? Why doesn't that surprise me?'
"We had fun back in those days. It was her, me, and your mother mostly. There weren't a lot of kids our age around. We were inseparable. Many joked that I would go back to the old samurai days and take them both as my brides."
Tenchi shook his head. 'Like you would have had any problems with that.'
"Alas it was not meant to be. Her parents arranged a marriage for her. Her husband, Genma, personifies stupidity. How he manages to stay alive amazes me to this day. It's very sad."
"What happened to her?"
"We lost contact for a while, though she did help when your mother died. She knows how to cook."
Tenchi looked at his instant ramen. 'Unlike some people I know.'
"Though I always wondered if…"
Tenchi looked up from his food. "If what dad?"
"Well, Tenchi, Nodoka was involved in a car accident a little after Ranma was born. Ranma was also involved. They both managed to survive, but Nodoka changed after that day. She went from independent woman to traditional housewife almost instantly. The doctors kept saying that there was no apparent brain damage, but everyone who knew Nodoka says otherwise." Noboyuki looked up towards the ceiling. "I always wondered if Nodoka didn't change, what would she be like today? Would Genma still be alive?"
Tenchi finished off his meal. "Ranma never did talk about his family. Every time the subject was brought up he always changed it."
Noboyuki nodded. "Wouldn't blame him. I would be embarrassed to have a father like that myself."
Tenchi looked at his watch. "I better get every thing together for tomorrow. I hate school."
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Tenchi looked towards the dusk sky from the roof of his school where he took his impromptu nap. "Great, I must have fallen asleep. All that training must of made me more exhausted than I had realized." Tenchi dusted off his school uniform and started to head towards the classroom where his books were, but he noticed a cat in the corner. "How did you get up here?" The roof was fenced off. The only ways in were from the access doors.
The cat ran towards him, the bells on the collar jingling. Once the cat made it close to him, it jumped as if to jump into Tenchi's arms, but it faded from view. Tenchi looked very confused. The bells jingled again, this time from behind him. When Tenchi turned around, he saw the bells in the hand of a cyan-haired woman sitting on a small shed. She tossed the bells towards Tenchi, who caught it. "Ryoko."
Tenchi gave the very wise reply of, "Huh?"
"That's my name."
Tenchi noticed her eyes glow. An image of the mummy in the cave appeared in his mind. "It can't be. You can't be that…" Balls of red light appeared around Ryoko, which quickly spread out. Some of them went near Tenchi. "…freeze dried demon."
"It was dark and cold in there," she said while hugging herself lightly like she was cold. "Seven hundred years have passed since I was trapped in that cave. You'll never know… how much pain I had to suffer."
"So you came back for revenge," Tenchi replied angrily.
"Right."
"It's not my fault. It was my ancestor, some guy named Yosho!"
"I don't care." She gathered all the balls of light into her hand, which she used to form an energy sword. "I just need to let out my anger now." She jumped from where she was sitting and attacked Tenchi using the energy sword.
Quickly utilizing his training, Tenchi jumped back and avoided the sword strike. "Why me, I told you it's not my fault." He quickly dodged the energy blasts that Ryoko shot at him. 'This is not good. She can use chi better than Ranma.'
"What's the matter? It's no fun when you just run away." Ryoko taunted while flying right beside him.
Tenchi quickly dove to the side and started to think. 'Wait a minute, that just might work.' "Saotome Secret Technique!"
Ryoko quickly braced for whatever Tenchi had to throw at her when he ran up and stopped right in front of her. Before she could do anything, Tenchi quickly turned around and ran in the opposite direction, found the access staircase that led down into the school and ran down them like his life depended on it.
Ryoko stood there for a second before she realized what happened. "Get back here you little twerp." She phased through the roof and floated down.
Meanwhile, Tenchi was hiding in one of the classrooms. 'I can't believe that worked. I got to thank Ranma when I see him again.' Now he knew that Ranma said not to use this Technique unless it was necessary, but he believed the circumstances warranted it. Now that he had a moment to think, he noticed a peculiar smell. 'Wait a minute, that's gas.' Tenchi looked up and saw that the roof was damaged and a gas pipe was busted and leaking gas. 'Oh great. That's not good.'
"Tenchi."
Tenchi looked around but didn't see the demon. "Wha?"
"Tenchi."
Now this was getting freaky. Tenchi started to walk out of the classroom but the sight of Ryoko's head and hand sticking out of the chalkboard understandably stopped him in his tracks. "Hello there." Ryoko finished phasing through the wall and stood there. Tenchi took this opportunity to get out of the classroom, but the sight of the stool he knew used to be near Ryoko now sticking out of the wall next to him again understandably stopped him.
"That wasn't nice what you did back at the roof." She started up her energy sword.
Tecnhi started to freak. "No, you idiot, there's leaking gas!"
Ryoko looked confused. "Gas? What's gas?"
Tecnhi continued to freak out. "I can just see the headlines. Brilliant Student Blown to Bits! If I knew I was going to die today I wouldn't of done all that homework over the vacation!"
Ryoko stood there watching Tenchi have a small nervous breakdown with a small smile. 'Take that for tricking me.'
Tenchi quickly started to think of some thing to distract the demon with, but could only come up with one thing. "Hey, what's that outside the window?" he asked loudly while pointing towards the window like a fool. 'There's no way in hell this is going to work.'
Amazingly enough she was looking towards the window. "What is it? I want to see."
Using what was clearly one of Ryoko's finer moments, Tenchi snuck out of the classroom and booked.
Ryoko turned back towards where Tenchi was standing. "Where? Tell me where it is." She quickly noticed that she was lacking one body. 'He… he tricked me again!' The anger she was feeling caused her energy to arc. Call it will, call it fate, call it whatever you want, but Tenchi's luck rubbed off on Ryoko. The energy spark caused the gas to ignite, causing an explosion, which caught Ryoko head on.
Tenchi watched the explosion from a nice far distance. "There she goes. Now that I think about it, she was kinda cute." Tenchi clapped two times which signified a prayer. "Huh? I shouldn't have done that, but it's a old shrine habit." Tenchi really needs to change gods, cause his current one wants to give him nothing but trouble. Tenchi stared in disbelief as he saw Ryoko's form walk out of the fire. It took him a total of two seconds before he decided to run away really really fast.
Ryoko was not very happy. "You tricked me not once, but twice, you set up a cleverly laid trap, and you ruined my dress. You're going to pay for this!" Ryoko started to follow Tenchi but the sight of a mirror stopped her. She used it to clean herself up quickly.
Tenchi used this ten-minute break to get away. Now most people would of found the nearest exit out of the school, but Tenchi was using one of Ranma's lessons and started to think ahead. Not wanting to face his English teacher the next day with the lame excuse of having to fight a demon for the reason why he didn't have his English homework, he went to his classroom to gather his belongings, which included his book bag and all of his books on top and in his desk. After he did this he used another one of Ranma's lessons and started to gather his bearings. 'Okay, she can walk through fire, walk through walls and make energy blasts. I have no chance against her as is, but she was beaten before. What did the legend say about the battle.' Tenchi was startled out of his musings by a loud bell. 'Take it easy! It's only the stupid fire alarm!' A thought occurred to Tenchi. 'Why didn't it ring earlier?' Tenchi shook his head. 'That's what happens when you use a cheap alarm.' Looking at the red light above the alarm reminded Tenchi of something. 'Wait a minute. The jewel on her wrist. It's got to be the source of her power. The legend says so. 'Three jewels for power.' Without her powers that demon is just another girl. I can get her back in that cave.' Tenchi stands laughing. "It's so easy!"
Ryoko, who was outside at the time, heard that last statement and homed in on Tenchi's location. "There you are!"
Tenchi upon hearing this scrambled away from the noise by jumping out the first floor window. Just as he exited the classroom landing on his feet, it burst into flames from one of Ryoko's energy beams. Continuing to run he made his way into the sports fields that belonged to the school. He would of continued on his way but he bumped into the demon, which caused him to lose his balance.
Tenchi quickly jumped to his feet and stared in disbelief and fear towards the demon. Ryoko smiled. "Don't be scared sweetie-pie. I won't hurt you too much." Ryoko brought her energy sword up and brought it down to cleave Tenchi in two. Tenchi used the only thing in his hands that he had to block, his school bag.
Tenchi's god finally gave him a break. Ryoko watched as her sword was blocked by a blue glow coming from Tenchi's back. Both halves of the bag fell to the ground revealing the sword hilt that Tenchi took from the cave that Ryoko was sealed in. It was wooden with intricate designs on it. The tip where the blade usually met the hilt was a grayish blue piece. The other end of the sword held three red circular gems that looked exactly the same as the one on Ryoko's wrist.
Ryoko recognizing the weapon started to fire at it, but the sword hilt made an energy barrier that blocked all the shots. What followed next is exactly the opposite of what all weapon users strive for. Instead of Tenchi controlling the sword, the sword controlled Tenchi as it dueled Ryoko. "This is not fair Tenchi!"
"Give me a break! Who would want to fight a monster like you anyways!"
"Monster!" Ryoko punched Tenchi who flew back into the fence. "How dare you! Why do you call me a monster?" she asks loud and angrily.
"You wall through fire, you walk through walls. You rip holes in the roof. You even fly!" Tenchi replied very fast.
"Very good reasons, but not good enough!" While marching Towards Tenchi to beat him for the outrageous claim of her being a monster, she steps on a rake, which caused the handle to fly up. Before is could make contact with her delicate face she smacked it to the side. The sword hilt took this opportunity to come in and destroy the gem on the outstretched arm. With one quick decisive motion it cut Ryoko's hand off and destroyed the gem.
Ryoko watched as her gem exploded. After a few seconds she sighed. "Oh well. Another battle lost. My miserable lot." She noticed Tenchi looking at her a bit scared. "Huh?"
"The sword did it. I didn't mean to cut off your hand." He bowed. "I'm sorry."
Ryoko noticed her stump of an arm. Smiling, she created a small ball of energy. "Watch." She made a few motions like a street magician and it appeared like she pulled a new hand out from her sleeve. "See."
Tenchi smiled and clapped. "Wow."
Ryoko gave a stage bow and said, "Farewell." She phased through the ground out of sight.
Tenchi stood there clapping enjoying the show when the school behind him exploded. Not wanting to be connected with tonight's spectacle, he hightailed it out of there.
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After finally making it back to his home, Tenchi made it back up to his room. He sat on his bed and recalled the fight to analyze it like Ranma taught him. "Man, what a night. Ranma isn't going to believe it. I'm not sure it was real." He looked at the sword that saved his life. "This sword is really powerful. It was able to do so much by itself. I wonder what happened to that demon-girl. Will we meet again?" Tenchi laid back on his bed to relax but felt a large lump. Gathering his will power he pulled back his blanket and saw the afore mentioned demon-girl lying on his bed with her shirt undone. Tenchi took the sight in and got up from his bed and stepped back.
Ryoko woke up and saw Tenchi. "Welcome home, Tenchi."
Tenchi looked at Ryoko like she was the grim reaper. He clapped his hand twice and said a silent prayer to whoever was listening to help him make it through the night alive.
A/N: Much longer than the other chapter. I'm trying to make sure Ranma's influence is felt but make sure it's in approprate ways. For instance, in this chapter, while Tenchi was running from Ryoko, he was more coordinated and quicker. In the show, he was scrambling all over constantly falling and crawling to get away. Tenchi also used his head a bit more. Since he only trained under Ranma for a month, he isn't strong enough to fight Ryoko head to head, but he can run away better.
Next chapter will have Ranma meeting Ayeka and Sasami. Like that's going to end well.
Until next time, remember, he who runs away lives to fight another day (just look at Tenchi).
