A Third Chance at Life
Torture, Interrogations, and Naps
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma or Inuyasha, they are the property of Rumiko Takashi and some companies I can't remember, I also do not own Shadow Hearts, I am making no money of this work.
Author's notes: Well here is the next chapter, to aondehafka I'll try and make sure to keep Shampoo in the right type of speech pattern depending on what language she is speaking. As all ways reviews are appreciated.
11111111111111111111111111111111
'I hope everything stays calm today, Sayuri's gonna be a bit messed up after what happened.' Ranma thought as he walked to school with Akane.
'We will just have to wait and see.'
"Hey Sayuri you okay? Akane asked as she saw her friends pale face.
"Ranma, Akane." Sayuri exclaimed as she jumped toward the two and hugged the both of them.
Ranma cringed when he felt her body quake with fear. "Are you okay?" Ranma echoed Akane's question
"Every time I fell asleep I had nightmares about what my father did and tried to do." Sayuri sobbed.
"You didn't get any sleep?" Akane asked while looking uncomfortable at being hugged.
Sayuri grunted in the negative as she sunk further into the hug.
"Don't worry we're here for ya." Ranma said as he rubbed her back soothingly.
"Hey ran-chan what's up?" Ukyo said as she hurried towards her friends, "Is Sayuri oka-gwahh" Ukyo grunted as Sayuri pulled her into the hug. "Wha- what's going on" Ukyo blushed as she was squeezed into Ranma and Sayuri.
"After dinner last night I was walking Sayuri home and we got attacked by demons." Ranma said causing Sayuri to shudder.
"What are you both okay, are you hurt anywhere?" Ukyo asked.
"It attacked my mind." Sayuri whispered.
"Don't worry Sayuri, if you need anything feel free to ask." Ukyo said as she patted Sayuri's back awkwardly.
"You feeling any better Sayuri?" Yuka said as she walked out of the school.
"A little." Sayuri whispered and Yuka came up and joined the group hug.
"How do you know what happened?" Akane asked.
"Sayuri called my house and asked if Mom could drive us to school she told us what happened last night." Yuka said as she looked towards Ranma, "You saved another person I care a great deal about, thanks Ranma."
"I don't know I should be thanked for this one, the demons attacking might be my fault. Cologne thinks the demons might have been attracted by the spirit energy I used to heal her hand." Ranma squirmed.
"It's not your fault, all you did was heal me and then protect me, and I think Yuna's comment about you being an angel is right." Sayuri said causing Ranma to blush and Akane to give a brief frown.
11111111111111111111111111111
"Hey look at that." Hiroshi said while pointing at the group hug.
"How does he do it, I mean seriously does he excrete some sort of pheromone that attracts women to him?" Daisuke moaned.
"It would explain a lot of things, but that hug looks to be less for fun and more for comforting, Sayuri looks kinda upset." Ben responded.
"Well then I'm sure she could use another person in that group hug to cheer her up." Sakura said as she gazed intently at Ranma and licked her lips.
"I don't thing so blondie, that hug looks to serious for a fangirl to but in." Ryoko said as she comes up and began to drag the girl away. "Come on you three lets get to class."
"Yes, Ma'am" The three boys say as they begin to follow.
'What am I a captain or something?' Ryoko thought. "Don't call me Ma'am" Ryoko grumbled.
"Yes Ma'am." The three say in unison causing Ryoko to twitch.
"Just a little hug please, he just looks so scrumdidlyumptious today please." Sakura wailed causing Ryoko to twitch again.
'Urge to kill rising, self-control fading, NO I must not kill my classmates that would be horrible, I'd fail the project for sure.' "JUST GET INSIDE." Ryoko snapped.
"Yes ma'am" All four of her teammates said before running in the building causing Ryoko to groan.
11111111111111111111111111111111
"Master we have a major problem." Vlad said as he stepped into a darkened room. "Master are you in here?"
Shink a sword hummed as it was pulled from its scabbard. "Tell me why I shouldn't kill you for your incompetence here and now."
"Master?" Vlad stuttered as he felt the swords blade caress his back without piercing his skin.
"I can only assume you screwed something up in Nerima yet again, just like you screwed up finding the Shikon no Tama. So tell me what task did you fail in THIS time because all you seem to bring me is bad news." The deep voice asked as it pushed the sword a bit deeper.
"I am sorry master, someone broke orders and set hunters instead of trackers to find the Spirit user. They attacked the wielder of the spiritual energy, it was Ranma Saotome" Vlad stated before he felt the sword cut deeply into his back.
"Who broke the orders?"
"We are unsure at this time, Megumi is investigating who did it at this very moment." Vlad said as he ignored he pain the master was inflicting on him.
"Megumi has failed me numerous times as well, actually as she is the ranking member in Nerima right now, she is the one who failed. I believe she should be punished for her failures as well."
"Master this was all my fault not hers, while I am not there at the moment Nerima is my responsibility. Therefore any punishment that needs to be dealt should solely come upon me." Vlad said as he kept his face neutral.
"Are you just trying to protect her or do you actually believe that I wonder? Hmm no matter, you are technically correct about Nerima being your responsibility so all the punishment shall fall upon you as you wished. It will also be coming back to haunt you continually if the Wrecking Crew learns of us because of this, I will put you through the most horrendous torture in existence. Now lets get started on your punishment" The master brought it's small delicate looking hand to Vlad's face and caressed it gently. "Try not to die."
111111111111111111111111111111111
"Alright people, I believe by now all of you must have heard why I called an emergency meeting." Megumi said as she glared at a group of thirty people of different ages and genders. "One of us broke orders and left two hunters, they attacked Ranma when he used spiritual energy. If the member who did it comes forward they will not be as seriously punished, but if I have to break everyone in this room I will find out which of you disobeyed mine and Lord Vlad's order's and when I find the fool who did so they will wish they were going through the master's torture rather then mine.
All the people fidgeted nervously, but no one came forward.
"So be it, I will discover which of you is the traitor the hard way then if you'll all be so kind as to step into the interrogation waiting room we'll get started." Megumi stated sweetly as she pulled out a box with the words painted in what appeared to be blood, "Little Meg's Torture Kit"
1111111111111111111111111111111111111111
"Here you go Akane" Ukyo said as she handed her an okonmiyaki.
"Thanks Ukyo. Me and Ranma were in such a hurry to get here we forgot to grab the bento's Kasumi made for us." Akane said as she nibbled on her food.
"Should I make one for you Ranma?" Ukyo asked.
Ranma shook his head no and pointed at Sayuri who was now asleep back against a tree and holding his right arm. "I don't want to move and wake her up." Ranma whispered.
'Ever since this morning she's been holding onto all of us a lot, but him the most, I hope it's just cause she feels safest with him.' Ukyo thought worriedly, 'either way it doesn't matter right now she needs help, if it's anything more then just feeling safe I just have to deal with it, cause she needs help not one of her friends getting mad at her.'
'This is comfortable.' Ranma thought as he just sat back and listened to the group make small talk.
'I'm surprised you think that there is a girl hanging off your arm.'
'Yeah, but Sayuri isn't trying to get me to marry her or anything she's just a girl who's a friend.'
'If you say so.' Kikyo thought back.
'I'm so sleepy' Ranma thought.
'Yeah well you didn't get much sleep yourself between worrying about Sayuri and the Neko-ken nightmare you had last night.'
'Thanks for helping me out through those.' Ranma thought sleepily.
'Your welcome Ranma, Sweet dreams.' Kikyo thought as she felt Ranma drift off.
"Look Ranma fell asleep too." Yuka said as she giggled at the site causing Akane to look over and shoot Ranma a dirty look.
"Hm lunch period is almost over." Ukyo said as she looked at the clock.
"Should we wake them?" Yuka asked.
"We have too." Akane said with a slight smile. 'Time to get Ranma off of her, I don't like the way he's taking advantage of her while she's upset.'
"No let's just let them sleep, they're both exhausted, I'm sure if we explain about a demon attack to the teachers they will be happy to have Ranma out of class and Hinako will understand he's not ditching for no reason." Ukyo said even though she didn't like the idea much.
"Wait you want to leave Ranma alone with a girl while they are asleep and basically hugging." Akane stated incredulously.
"No I don't want to, but Sayuri isn't having nightmares because she feels safe sleeping next to him, and I trust Ranma not to do anything to take advantage of her, so I think they should sleep because they both look like they need it." Ukyo said.
"I agree with you Ukyo, but will they be safe out here?" Yuka asked.
"I'll pay Nabiki to have someone watch them and make sure to wake them if any problems appear." Ukyo responded.
"B-but." Akane spluttered.
"Come on Akane they'll be fine, and they both do look exhausted." Yuka pleaded as he pulled a puppy dog look on Akane.
"I-I guess." Akane blushed "Just quit with the puppy look." Akane said as jumped up and walked up to the school.
111111111111111111111111111111111111
"So you want me to have one of my girls wait outside and make sure no one sneaks up to attack them or give them a warning if she can't stop the attacker." Nabiki said.
"Yeah, Sayuri didn't sleep because of nightmares so she needs to rest and for some reason she isn't having them next to Ranma." Ukyo whispered.
"Ranma had nightmares last night as well." Nabiki stated.
"Really, how do you know that?" Ukyo asked.
"Kasumi and I both heard him, it was about the neko-ken training." Nabiki said.
"How much to get one of your girls to watch them?" Ukyo requested.
"No charge, after what happened last night I figure I should give him a little break, but I am going to have my associate take a picture or two of them like that. Don't worry we won't make it look dirty, it's just too cute not too though." Nabiki smiled over at the two sleeping teens.
"Alright thanks Nabiki." Ukyo said.
"Just don't tell anyone about my generosity, it would ruin my image." Nabiki responded causing Ukyo to grin.
"My lips are sealed." Ukyo laughed.
1111111111111111111111111111111111111
Well here's the next chapter, All reviews are appreciated.
