Ranma ½ a new beginning.
by: A New H Production
I just wanted to take a quick moment to remind everyone that I do not own ranma 1/2 or any other anime that I make reference to in this story. This story was not written for profit please do not sue me.
I would also like to thank my editor ThreadWeaver he has done a great job with getting my story cleaned up.
Chapter 2: School's in Session.
Ranma awoke to water being poured on her head. "Hey wad you do that for?" she whined while looked at her assailant holding the bucket.
Akane had an evil smile on her face. "Stay away from my sister, or I'll kill you."
Nabiki sat up, and looked at Akane through her groggy eyes. "If you threaten my fiancé again, Akane, I'll make sure you are engaged to Kuno so fast your head will spin."
This made Akane pull back then storm out of Nabiki's room. "Why was she defending him? She can't possibly want to marry the jerk. He must have done something to her… Maybe he put a spell on her. I will save my sister from him!" Akane stormed to the dojo to break bricks until breakfast was ready.
Back in Nabiki's room, a very upset onna-Ranma was sitting on a wet futon. "What is her problem?" Ranma whispered.
"Ranma, Akane is vary jealous, pig headed, and violent. She also thinks that all men are perverts," Nabiki answered while stretching.
"I'm going to go take a bath and change back" Ranma said as he stood and looked at Nabiki, who was already back to sleep. Ranma walked out of the room and shut the door carefully. Ranma found that the furo was already full of hot water and sat down on the stool, filling a bucket with cold water. "Oh, that's cold!" She said while dumping the bucket over her head.
Nabiki sat up and looked at her alarm clock and noticed that she was running late. "Shit! I'm going to be late!" she muttered to herself as she ran to the furo. After stripping in the changing room, she slid the door to the furo open to find a naked Ranma, who was just getting out of the furo, staring at her. Quickly she wrapped herself in a towel, and before she could get two words in, Akane burst in through the outside door with mallet in hand. This was the first time Ranma had seen Akane truly mad, and he had no chance to defend himself before the mallet came down on his head, knocking him out.
"Akane why did you hit my fiancé?" Nabiki questioned with frost coming out of her mouth as she spoke.
"He's a pervert and he saw you in the nude! I was doing you a favor by putting him in is place."
Nabiki was furious at what her sister just said. She didn't even know Ranma and she had made these false accusations. "Did you ever stop to think that I walked in on him? Hmm? That it was an accident?"
"He's still a pervert and saw you in the nude!" Akane was yelling by now which caused Soun to come to the door.
Nabiki was fed up. "Akane, do you remember what I told you this morning?"
The youngest daughter turned green at this statement.
"Daddy…" Nabiki started "Akane has a suitor at school that is descended from samurai, and I think that it is in her best interest that she has an arranged marriage with him."
Soun knew better than to cross his middle daughter when she spoke in a cold, grim tone. "Okay honey, just set it up for me to meet him." Akane paled and ran for the toilet she was sick at how her sister got her revenge.
"Akane, that's what you get for making me late." Nabiki stated and walked into the bathroom. "Now get out Akane." As Akane was walking by, Nabiki grabbed Ranma's arm and dragged him into the furo with her. Akane was speechless at what Nabiki did. All she could think is, "My sister's a pervert too. That's not right… Only boys are perverts. When I find out what he did to her I'm going to kill him."
Ranma awoke to the sounds of splashing. His first thought was that he had fallen asleep in the furo and his pops had joined him. But when he opened one of his eyes he went into shock.
He was in a furo nude and Nabiki was sitting on the stool brushing her hair. "I'm sorry Nabiki, I will leave, just don't turn around." Nabiki smiled then she looked over her shoulder just as Ranma stepped out of the furo. He nearly slipped when his saw her face. "I thought you weren't going to look?" Ranma stammered.
"I didn't agree to that." Then Ranma caught a glance of what was in her hand, a camera.
"Why do you need a camera in the bath, Nabiki?"
She smiled and took a picture. "So that I have some photos of my fiancé." Nabiki snapped another one.
"Hey stop that, why do you need nude photos anyways?"
Nabiki just shrugged her shoulders at the comment. "We better get dressed or we will be late." Nabiki stood up and kept a towel over her chest as she walked into the changing room. Ranma just stood their in shock. When Ranma finally came out of shock he stepped into the changing room to find a school uniform waiting for him. Nabiki looked at Ranma as he came down the stairs in the blue uniform.
"Ready to go Ranma?" Nabiki inquired.
Ranma fixed the white gloves he was wearing. "No breakfast?"
"We don't have time, thanks to Akane."
Ranma sighed and followed Nabiki out the door. Nabiki started to run down the road when she felt a strong set of arms pick her up and jump to the closest rooftop. She closed her eyes as she was afraid that if she opened them for too long she would become scared and cause Ranma to drop her. The only other thought in her mind was how secure she felt in those arms.
Ranma was roof hopping in the direction that Nabiki started in at full speed. "She is so light, and from what I can tell, she works out some too," he thought to himself. He jumped down to the street when he saw the gates of Furinkan High and a brawl going on in front of the school. After setting Nabiki down, he walked over to the only combatant still standing. Nabiki just sighed and walked over to the tree then leaned against it.
"Gee Akane, did you have to do this kinda damage to all of them?" Ranma paused for a second and poked one of the boys with a stick. "Why were they attacking you anyways?" Out of the corner of his eye he saw an object flying towards him and caught it. Ranma looked at the object and Akane paled.
A boy in a gi stepped out from behind a bush by the front door. "Who dares prevent my gift from reaching the beautiful Akane Tendou?"
Ranma was about to speak when Akane interrupted him, "He's my sister's fiancé, Kuno."
Kuno raised his bokken to Ranma. "This cad has taken the fair Kasumi for his bride? I will smite thee and free her! For I am the rising star of the high school fencing world. I am the blue thunder of Furinkin high."
Ranma watched as Kuno started to charge him and clapped his hands together.
"What are you praying for?" Akane yelled at him.
He grinned and put his hands to the ground as Kuno brought his strike down. Before Kuno made contact he was launched 12 feet in the air and slammed into the school. Nabiki ran over to Ranma. "What was that? I've never seen anyone take out Kuno so quick."
"That was something that I learned on my training trip. We better get to class before we're late." He stated.
"In one minute. I have to go collect some money owed to me." With that she started bouncing from group to group collecting her yen before making it back to where Ranma was. "Okay, now I'm ready."
"So Nabiki, how much did you make off the fight?" Ranma questioned.
"Enough for us to go out later." She stated proudly.
"I won't say another word about it" Ranma said as they walked into the school.
Class was boring. He had been listening to the teacher talk about ancient history for an hour now, waiting for lunch to come. He started to go cross-eyed and hit his head on the desk. Not only did he feel like he wanted to rip his ears off, Akane wouldn't stop staring at him. When he would catch her, she acted like nothing happened. Ranma was about to hit his head again when the bell for lunch rang and he got up to walk out of class.
To Ranma's surprise Nabiki was waiting for him. "Ranma we need to talk," She stated coldly and firmly. Ranma didn't respond to this and fallowed her to an empty classroom. "Don't say anything about our engagement, ok? After what Akane said this morning I have a chance for a real profit," She told him in a soft tone with no ice this time.
"I get half, right?" Ranma asked her with a hushed voice.
"You can have a quarter" She whispered.
"A third" he stated and kissed her to stop the arguing.
"Fine a third" she gave up.
The two walked out of the room and off the schoolyard for lunch. When they made it out the front door, they were mobbed by a group of students. Nabiki pushed her way through the people in the yard and to the cherry blossom tree where they ate lunch. Nabiki's lackeys would stop buy every ten minuets and get more information, then deposit money.
"I never thought I would be this popular on the fist day" Ranma stated.
"All you had to do was beat Kuno and you're on the top," Nabiki stated and brushed some of her short brown hair out of her eyes. Shortly after that, the bell for classes rang and the two walked back to class.
It was 2:59pm. The seconds were creeping by and the students were going insane. Finally the bell rang and everyone bolted for the door. Ranma decided that the door took too long and jumped out of the second story window. When he landed he found Kuno waiting for him.
"Vile sorcerer, I shall smite you and free the mercenary Nabiki Tendou then marry the beautiful Akane Tendou." Kuno shouted and raised his weapon in the air. He ran at Ranma at full speed while yelling, "ahh, ta, ta, ta, ta." The strikes were so fast if you weren't a martial artist you didn't see the stick move. Nabiki was watching from a safe distance when the wall next to her burst into rubble.
"Nabiki, watch out!" Ranma yelled, then did a flip backwards. Kuno froze where he was and dropped his practice sword.
"Ranma what did you do to him?" Nabiki asked as she walked up to him. Ranma put a foot under Kuno and flipped him over onto his back. "You kicked him? I didn't even see your legs move!" Nabiki looked in shock.
The two teens left the schoolyard and walked towards the dojo. As they walked home, a car drove by and splashed water from a puddle. The water hit Ranma, missing Nabiki.
"Come on Ranma, we'll stop at a friend of the family's and get you some hot water." Ranma walked next to Nabiki until they reached a small clinic. "Doctor Tofu, are you here?" Nabiki yelled into the empty clinic.
"Come on Nabiki, let's go to the dojo." The redhead stated.
"Ahhh!" Nabiki turned to look towards the scream and saw that Ranma was hanging on the door.
"Hello doctor" Nabiki said to the man in the blue gi.
"I'm sorry about this, I didn't think that it would scare her so much" the man stated while moving his skeleton back to her stand.
Nabiki poured the hot water over his head and watched as the aqua-transsexual filled out his clothing and became more cut. This caused the doctor to breathe two words, "Cursed Springs." The two chatted for some time with doctor Tofu before heading home.
The next week was uneventful every morning Ranma would find some new way of making a fool of Kuno… Until Friday, that is.
Ranma and Nabiki just made it onto the school grounds when a tingle went up Ranma's spine. He grabbed Nabiki and jumped out of the way as the ground they were just standing on became a crater.
"Ranma, I have found you, prepare to die!"