Ranma ½: A Whole New Adventure
I do not own Ranma ½ or any of its characters so please don't sue me because I am poor!
To the person that complained about the Gatotsu being a lame move that Ranma easily could have taken care off, i admit, it is kind of a crappy looking move. But here's my thoughts on it. The Gatotsu is a move all about speed, if you think about it, Kenshin with his god-like speed, managed to barely dodge it and blocked the rest during his and Saito's first fight in the anime. How many othersdodged it, they were either hit by it or blocked it with another weapon. Ranma can't block so he has to rely on dodging, he may be fast but he doesn't have god-like speed. That's why I thought it would be a good move. Ranma nearly always has trouble with a new move he has never seen before but he always beats it in the end. Sorry if anybody else didn't like it but I thought it was a wicked cool move. (Plus I am a Saito fan!) (Thanks for the comment though, i'll try not to put anymorecrappy moves in.)
Sorry for taking a while to update but life's been giving me a thorough ass kicking! So that's why this chapter is a little short. Hope you like it.
Anyways, here's chapter 4.
CHAPTER 4: THE RANMA AND TARO FAN CLUB!
Taro twisted his neck to the side resulting in a large cracking noise.
"Alright old man. Let's go!" He said throwing a punch at the older mans face who dodged away bring up his sword in defence.
"Who are you evil trickster and where is my red haired pigtailed princess?" Kuno demanded angrily.
Taro looked at Ranma who was standing back laughing. He gave him a disgusted look. "You doing guys as well fem-boy?"
Ranma's laughter stopped as he turned an irritated look towards the Chinese boy. "Shut up Taro, just go away. I don't need your help!" Ranma snapped growing tired of the other boy's presence already.
"Yeah it sure looked like it when you were pissing your pants on the ground!" Taro shot back. This was the second time he had saved Ranma and he still hadn't heard a single thank you. Some people just didn't know how to show gratitude.
Ranma balled his hands into tight fists. He'd show the stupid bull who was boss right after he was done with the other idiot who let his presence known since everyone seemed to be ignoring him.
"DO NOT IGNORE TATEWAKI KUNO!" He yelled indignantly waving his sword about like a child. He turned to Taro and pointed his sword at him. "You, where did you put my love?" He shouted angrily.
"Hey, he aint fighting you. I am!" Ranma complained throwing a nearby stone which struck Kuno in the back of the head with a loud thud.
Kuno twisted to look at Ranma. He gave him an evil glace before shifting into a familiar stance. "Fine. I shall smite you with my ultimate attack." He responded coldly.
'Here it goes' Ranma thought frantically to himself, hoping his plan would work.
Shinji watched as his idiot father hugged the other boy, whom he didn't recognise. He sometimes wondered how his brilliant self could be the offspring of the idiot samurai want-to-be.
As he watched his father shift into his Gatotsu position, he decided to go take care of the Chinese youth that had gotten involved. Not over any concern for his father, he just wanted nothing to stand in the way of his stupid, yet admittedly powerful father defeating the pigtailed black haired boy.
Shinji quietly jumped down from the roofs he was on. He pulled a twin pair of Tonfa from within his black gi and charged the Chinese boy who had his back to him. He forgot he was going for a surprise attack however as he shouted a battle cry.
"Prepare yourself!" He shouted out of habit more than anything else.
Taro twisted towards him with mild surprise upon his face. "What the?" The rest was cut of when a wooden tonfa slammed into his face causing him to stagger back slightly.
"HA. You are no match for a mighty Kuno!" He declared boldly as he smirked at the other boy.
Taro growled and spat on the ground. "No body sucker punches Pantyhose Taro!" He said forgetting to be embarrassed about his name in his anger.
Shinji's face fell from its high and mighty expression and was replaced with barely contained laughter. "Y-your name's Pantyhose?" He asked dropping to the ground in a fit of hysterics, tears streaming from his eyes.
After noticing his slip up, Taro's face became red with embarrassment and rage. "Don't laugh at me!" He shouted running at the still laughing youth intending to do some serious bodily damage.
Ranma gulped and began to run as fast as he could in circles around Kuno. Kuno, for his part looked thoroughly confused.
"Come on Kuno. Can ya not hit a moving target with that attack?" He taunted increasing his speed. He had figured it out not long after Taro showed up, the Gatotsu was too fast to dodge, even with his impressive speed but if he never stayed still, it would be hard for the swordsman to hit him with his fast straight thrust. At least he hoped so.
Kuno gritted his teeth in frustration. He was trying to time his attack in time with Ranma's speed but that was made very difficult as Ranma kept increasing and decreasing his speed to throw him off. "Hold still so that I may bring justice to you!" He demanded his patience growing thin.
"S'wrong simple? Ya not want to see the pigtailed girl anymore?" He shouted smiling at Kuno. He could see the frustration on the mans face. His smile dropped when Kuno gave a loud battle cry and launched himself forward.
"GATOTSU!" Kuno roared throwing himself forward. He had gotten the timing right and would strike the youth the next time he completed his lap around him. His snapped his left arm forward with lightning speed aiming right at the other boy's chest when he missed and his sword buried into the wall behind where the pigtailed boy once was.
The swordsman cursed as he failed to remove his weapon from the solid wall. 'Why? I had my timing right. I must have!' He mentally screamed at himself. He stopped pulling on the stuck sword when he felt a presence behind him.
"Now it's time to see my new move!" Ranma said with a smirk that promised definite pain.
Shinji picked himself up weakly after the rather vicious attack Taro dealt him.
"What's wrong? That's not it over already is it?" Taro mocked disappointment. Even though he was having fun picking on the weaker boy, the warrior within Taro screamed for a challenge. He had taken a few hits too but nothing he couldn't take. He winched. Well, maybe his ribs would take a while to heal from the bruising the boys' amaguriken/tonfa combo had caused.
"You are very strong indeed. But justice and true love will prevail!" He declared bring up his defence again.
"Yeah, your right. I am strong aint i? And unlike that cross dresser Ranma, I don't hold back against those weaker than me!" He bragged while casually circling the other boy. He noticed anger flicker through the other boys' eyes briefly and thought the anger was aimed at him for calling him weak. Then he noticed it wasn't directed at him.
"You fought Saotome?" He didn't really ask it was more of a statement. "And he beat you with out been serious huh?" He could see that his words were true by the look of pure fury in his eyes'. He must have a lot of pride for it to be bothering him that much.
"Shut up!" Shinji snapped running forward intending on silencing the Chinese boy but instead was thrown back by a powerful round house kick.
"Told you I don't hold back. Now try it again, its fun beating up little weaklings like you!" Taro mocked while motioning the other fighter to try again. Which shinji did but an angry fighter is always a messy fighter and he quickly found himself beaten away with a couple of swift savage attacks. Taro wasn't a practitioner of fair play and never held back his impressive speed or power but was still surprised at the other fighters' endurance. He just kept getting back up.
"Ha. Your blows are as feeble as an infants." Shinji laughed a little not allowing his voice to show the strain of the beaten he was receiving. He was a Kuno after all; he would not show weakness or fear. Shinji decided that staying on the defensive wasn't working so he opted to go on the offensive.
Shinji rushed forwards throwing his tonfa as hard as he could in the direction of his opponent expecting him to dodge. It was the same move he had used on Ranma when he fought him. He knew it wouldn't hurt the Chinese boy much but it would provide him with an opening either from the dodge or when the tonfa bounced off the wall and struck the sniggering boy from behind.
To his surprise, Taro not only never dodged the weapon or deflected it away; he caught it and rushed forward to meet his charge with one of his own. There was a brief exchange of blows before Taro's fists became a blur. He struck the Japanese boy repeatedly in the chest knocking the wind out of him.
Shinji jumped backwards from Taro and landed in a defensive crouch, rubbing his chest and breathing heavily.
"I will fight you again Chinese demon!" He said through gritted teeth as he turned and ran. He was doing a lot of running lately. He would find a way to defeat both Ranma and his Chinese ally. He would for he was Shinji Kuno!
"That's right, run away from me!" He yelled after the youth. He turned away and made his way over to Ranma who had just beaten the older man. "Chinese demon. I like that, Taro the demon from china. Nice ring to it." He laughed to himself.
Ranma kicked Kuno in the knee, dropping him down on one leg. He bent low and delivered a powerful uppercut to the man sending him air borne. Ranma jumped up after the swordsman and lashed out with a flurry of punches connecting with Kuno's head and body. Kuno could do nothing but take the blows and try to cover himself as best as he could. He was no hand to hand fighter, especially while off the ground.
Ranma finished his punches as they both began to descend back towards the ground. He twisted head over heels in the air and slammed his heel into Kuno, doubling his speed to the ground. Kuno landed on the ground hard, gasping for breath as Ranma landed next to him.
Ranma looked down at Kuno and his anger vanished. He never liked seeing people hurt, not even people that tried to kill him. "Yo, you okay man?" He crouched down to look at Kuno's face.
"Finish me demon!"
"Uh…Maybe later. You okay to get home yourself right? I mean, you don't need an ambulance or anything?"
"…" Kuno just glared.
"Fine. See ya." Ranma said rising from his crouch. Kuno seemed to be fine, maybe just a little winded. The attack hadn't really been anything serious or fancy; he just kind of made it up as he went along. He walked meeting Taro half way.
"You had problems with an idiot like that?" Taro laughed.
"Hey, he had a real sword okay?" Ranma growled at Taro who just looked away with a smug smile on his face.
"Well, you should have just used that thing we learned. He wouldn't have lasted a second then or were you worried about hurting your boyfriend?"
Ranma growled at the boy walking alone side him. He would have hit him if it wasn't for the fact he was going to be late to school. His old principal and teachers were bad enough, mostly Miss Hinako, so he didn't want to risk getting on the wrong side of his new teachers. Who knew how crazy the teachers of Furinken were in the future. Hopefully none had the ability to suck away peoples battle aura.
"We can't use that unless we really need to bull boy! And he aint my boyfriend, if I wasn't going to be late I'd beat that into you!" Ranma snapped as he began to walk quicker to get away from the other boy who quickened his pace to keep up.
"HEY!"
Both boys stopped in their walk and turned around to see two girls around their age running towards them. They were sisters, they could tell from the very close resemblance in their faces. The taller of the two was running slowly, slightly behind the smaller sister who seemed to be skipping more than running.
The shorter one stopped mere inches from Ranma and gazed dreamily into his confused face as the slightly taller of the two came to stop next to Taro.
Ranma looked nervous under the unrelenting look of the girl who was roughly up to his chin in height. She had black hair pulled into pigtails like Yuki's but a bit longer and wore a red skirt that went to about mid thigh and a tight black long sleeved t-shirt He took a step back to try and get some room between them. He couldn't help but notice that she had a very large bust, not that he was looking or anything.
He barely paid any attention to the conversation that Taro and the other girl were having. He was to busy cautiously eyeing the stranger in front of him. You couldn't blame him with his, in his opinion, bad luck with girls.
"Umm…What?" He asked after awhile when the silence became too much for him. He really didn't like the look in the girls' eyes.
The girl who was quiet suddenly exploded with energy. She was hopping from one foot to the next, pointing at Ranma excitedly. "Wow, you're so cool. The way you kicked that guys ass even though he had a sword! That was amazing! What was that move you did to beat him cause that was really cool?" She asked excitedly.
Ranma frowned a little. Not at the girl but because he didn't really have name for it. He had made it up on the spot. "Uh…it doesn't have a name…I just made it up." He said while scratching the back of his head with his hand. He noticed a look of disappointment on the black haired girls face.
"What? You have to have a name for it! All the coolest people have names for all there moves! Like dragon rush combo or shooting star or…or something like that!" She said waving her arms around as if it would make a name for the move.
Ranma suddenly got nervous and began to rub his chin in thought. He had to think of a name quick, he didn't want to people to think he wasn't cool because he was. As well as being the manliest man among men! So it was only fitting that he had an awesome name for one of his moves. A move that, until two minutes ago, he didn't really think he would use again.
"Ranma's dragon rush combo?" He asked her opinion hoping that it was deemed suitable. Not that he cared what she thought; he just didn't want to seem lame. He began to get nervous when she looked at him blank faced and quietly for a couple of minutes before answering
She all of a sudden jumped and give him the two fingered victory sign "That's awesome! But you have to shout it before you hit someone with it though, okay? That would be well cool to like shout it out and then beat someone with it!" She stopped her ramblings and looked at the pigtailed boy with a huge smile across her pretty face.
"I'm Mink Miyamura by the way!" She chirped cheerfully while bouncing slightly causing her very ample bosom to bounce making Ranma blush and turn his head to the side. "What's your name?" She asked curiously.
"Ranma Saotome. I'm going to be late f --" He never finished the sentence as the girl screamed and pointed at him.
"You're Ranma Saotome? No way! He died like twenty years ago!"
"How do you know my name? I've never meet you." He asked cautiously, ignoring the dead comment. Nobody in the future except those he had known when he was younger should know him.
"Are you kidding? Everybody's heard of Ranma Saotome, he's like a rock star around here! But you can't be him, he's dead…and um…your not and you're my age!"
Wow, a rock star. He puffed his chest out in pride. "I am Ranma Saotome and I didn't die! I just kinda…disappeared for a while." He finished lamely, his chest deflating. He could tell that the energetic girl wasn't convinced. "I'll prove, come to my class and the teacher can tell you who I am!" He moaned wanting her to believe him.
"He is Ranma Saotome, most people know him as fem-boy though. Or cross dresser." Taro added walking up to the talking pair. Ranma noticed that the girl Mink was with was standing very close to him with a starry and hungry, lustful look in her eye as she gazed at Taro at him. The moment her eyes left Taro, they turned cold and she glared at Ranma.
"You got a problem wussy?" She asked frostily. Before Ranma could make a come back he was interrupted.
"That's my sister, Sakura. Don't mind her though; she's just a cold hearted bitch!" She stuck her tongue out at the menacing glare directed her way
"See, he isn't man enough to fight his own battles. He gets a girl to do it for him." She curtly responded turning her face to Taro and unleashing a nice smile to him.
Ranma glowered at the cheeky girl who reminded him of a nastier version of Nabiki. She had the same cute face as her sister but it was in a permanent scowl if not looking at Taro. She had long black hair that went down past her shoulders and wore denim jeans and a tight white t-shirt.
"Look, I'm the manliest man there is okay but I don't have time to argue. I'm going to be late for school!" He snapped and turned and ran in the direction he was going before Kuno had interrupted him, not looking back.
"You chased him off Sakura!" Mink yelled pointing her finger at her sister who was ignoring her, talking to Taro about how hot and cool he was. "Fine, I'm going home to get changed for school. You can stay here with that creepy creep!" She shouted before stomping off towards home.
Ranma roof hopped as fast as he could to avoid any more confrontations. He hadn't even gotten to school and he'd been attacked, harassed and made fun off. Not much more could go wrong. Could it?
Ranma nearly face vaulted when he reached the school grounds. He had expected the school to maybe change a little in twenty years but he had never imagined this. The school looked mostly the same, except it had a couple of extra stories added on to it. That was where the similarity ended. Instead of the small white wall of about head height that surrounded the school, there was a huge grey wall about twenty feet high with barbed wire along the top. Cameras were placed strategically along the wall so that every move in or around the school was monitored. Instead of wide open playing fields, there was only one. The rest were either intimidating looking obstacle courses or were nothing other than large craters.
"What the! This looks more like a prison than a school." Ranma mumbled to himself in disbelief as he pushed open the large metal gate and entered the school grounds fully. There were only a few students about so he figured that he was late. He never noticed that he had a look of pure fear as they hurried into the school.
He began to walk forwards warily towards the school main entrance, wondering if the new principal was as bad as the old one, when the doors suddenly blew open and a mumbling man in his early thirty's came through them riding an eight foot Mecha robot with a large paddle in its robotic hands.
"All students are to be punished for their tardiness!" He said crazily while the robot smacked the large paddle against its metallic arm loudly.
"Argghhh!" He yelled and began running away from the madman/robot carrying the large black piece of wood trying to get him which Ranma had figured was what the punishment was for being late. He really wasn't looking forward to the rest of the day if this morning was a guideline to go by. Why, why did the bad stuff always happen to him?
"Don't run from your great principal young man!"
'I wish it was still principal Kuno and them damn shears!' Ranma inwardly moaned while jumping the paddle swung at his behind.
Cologne was busy preparing the restaurant for opening time near when the school kids would get out for lunch. She could handle it alone for a while until her great-great granddaughters finished school and helped her. Cologne glanced at the clock on the wall. It was only almost time for the schools to start so she had plenty of time to get the café and kitchen ready. But perfume still hadn't come down for breakfast yet. Did she sleep in?
"Perfume?" Cologne shouted up the stairs. When she heard no reply she began to make her way up. She made only a coupe of steps up when a bleary eyed Perfume rush out of her room. "You slept in? You've never done that before." Cologne commentated idly stared in amusement at Perfumes state. The girl was always so calm, seeing her rushing around was funny.
"That's because I've never had school and double shifts here as well as training." She muttered coldly as she began to run to the bathroom mumbling something about getting a paddling. As she was cleaning her teeth with amaguriken speed, Cologne entered. She turned her eyes slightly to look at her while she kept cleaning her teeth.
"Sash's groom isn't very good with weapons. I want you to teach him." Cologne said getting straight to the point. She began to cackle when Perfume spat her tooth paste all over the mirror and turned to glare at her.
"Why me? Why not Sash, it's her husband after all?" She asked angrily. She couldn't stand the thought of seeing the pigtailed boy at school, never mind actually spending any amount of time with him.
"Because she isn't as good with weapons as you. Plus, I don't think the thought of teach him martial arts would even come to her." She grinned. "This isn't open to debate. You will teach him." She turned and walked away from her furious younger relative. She didn't really care if Ranma wasn't good with weapons but steps had to be made to try and build a bridge between the two soon to be brother and sisters.
Perfume growled and violently brushed her teeth. Why did this boy make her life miserable? She pushed the thought out of her head and quickly got ready for school. She didn't want to experience the principal's punishment again.
Akane hummed to herself as she tidied the kitchen. She hadn't cooked the breakfast, her helpful daughter had but she had to tidy it. Yukari had rushed to school earlier than usual. Her shy daughter had told her it was because she had a sore foot and wanted to take her time going to school. She knew better though. Her daughter was going to walk Ranma to school, it was easy to guess. When does any girl blush about having a sore ankle?
She was disturbed from her thoughts as the door bell sounded. She casually made her way to the front door. Who could be coming this early in the morning? She opened the door to reveal a smirking attractive older woman. She was wearing a grey professional looking business jacket and matching short skirt that ended just above mid thigh.
"Hey sis. I came to see everyone's favourite troublesome martial artist." She said flashing a confident smile at Akane which was returned with a gentler kind of smile.
"He is at school just now. Come in and wait though Nabiki."
A tall powerful looking man sat upon a throne. He wore what looked like scale armour on his chest with matching gauntlets. His clothes under the armour were pure white and he wore a long light grey cloak. His long hair, which was also white, had a slight silver tint to it in the dull light of the room.
"Are you sure?" His commanding voice shook through the room causing the other room's occupants to shake at the powerful voice.
The huge black haired burly man, dressed in tiger striped, didn't even flinch at the voice. "Yes, Ranma Saotome is back in Nerima. What are your orders?" His voice was powerful in its own way but not on the level of the white haired mans.
"Prepare for a trip. We are going to Japan." The scale armoured figure ordered getting up from his throne and began walking to his room. The other people present didn't see the smirk that had began to creep up on his face. He would soon settle an old score. He could finally wipe the only defeat of his record.
The large man gave a wicked grin. He knew what was most probably going through the other mans head. He too might be able to settle an old score when they arrived in Japan. Before he turned to make arrangements he thought it best to answer the commanding man.
"Yes, at once Emperor Herb." Lime said and turned and exited the throne room.
Hey, sorry, I know it took a while to get that out. Tell me what you think. Comments and criticism appreciated.