Hunters Chapter 5: Promises part 2, a ranma fanfic

Hunters

Ryouga Yagami

Ranma 1/2 belongs to Rumiko Takahashi

PROMISES (part 2)

Ryoga dodged Keita's attacks what let the cloaked man furious, "What is going on? Fight back!"

Ryoga kept his silence. He was studying his adversary, examining if he would have to fight for real. He was distracted in his own thoughts when Keita got him.

A light cut in Ryoga's hand.

"See? It's better you don't underestimate me"

Ryouga looked at the cut and then at Keita. Suddenly, Ryoga laughed, "What is so funny?", Keita demanded.

"You, idiot!", Ryoga said and before Keita could speak again, he continued, "You are happy", he lifted his hand and showed the cut, "because of this? And I thought you were a real fighter"

Keita's eyes grew wide, "Shut up! I'll show you!", Keita threw some knives and Ryoga easily evaded them. He decided to go for real and ran to Ryoga that just waited.

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Even if Kodachi tried hard to get Ranma-girl, she found the red haired was very agile, different from any enemy she had fought before. Ranma-girl, on the other side, was surprised that a girl like Kodachi could have so many different strategies of combat. First, Kodachi tried the balls, easily repelled by Ranma-girl. Then Kodachi changed her weapon to ribbons of all colors. Some managed to get Ranma-girl, but not for much time. After that, Kodachi tried the clubs. Useless, Ranma-girl was smart enough to see the thorns around them. The same happened with the sharpened hoops. Kodachi couldn't understand. Ranma-girl passed even inside one of them without being cut by the sharpened surface.

But yet, Ranma-girl had a coherent doubt.

'Where does she keep all these things!'

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Hakeda watched the fights in silence and in a secure place. He had to follow a law of the archers.

'If you are in the middle of a hand-to-hand combat, stay far away'

Ok, so the fighters were using weapons and Kodachi was throwing lots of things. Well, Hakeda had just a moment of courage, doesn't mean he will be like that every time.

And so, he stayed behind a tree just waiting. Then a shadow got his attention. He looked at the place he thought he saw it. And he wished he didn't.

"How the hell did she get here!", then he looked at something going in her direction, "Hey! Look out!", and ran as fast as he could.

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Keita was going with everything to attack. He wasn't thinking in anything, except in killing

Ryoga. The criminal hunter had a similar thought. He closed his eyes to concentrate. 'He is coming with everything now', he thought, 'But I can't lose. Can't lose'. Keita went to stab Ryoga, when the umbrella martial artist opened his eyes. And Keita only saw red.

The impact was strong and everything went too fast. Ryouga got Keita on his left ear with his umbrella. What he did could cause a lot of pain in other areas, but on the head, being alive would be a miracle

But, miracles don't happen everyday. Keita fell dead.

'What a wimp', Ryoga thought and fell on the ground from the exhaustion. He still turned to look at Ranma-girl to see how she was doing and his eyes widened, 'No', he thought.

"NO! GET OUT!", he yelled to the small figure.

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Ranma-girl was trying to get near Kodachi, but it was very hard. Kodachi didn't stop to throw things at her and by the way things were going, she wouldn't stop so soon. Ranma-girl evaded all the attacks and saw an opening. She jumped to Kodachi, but just as Ranma-girl prepared her attack, Kodachi surprised her and threw another club full of thorns. Ranma-girl evaded in the nick of time and collided on Kodachi head to head. Both girls fell on the ground, Kodachi unconscious and Ranma-girl feeling a heavy headache. 'What is her head made of? Steel?', she thought and looked at the various weapons on the ground. Then she heard Hakeda and Ryouga yell and turned to see what was going on.

"Damn it", she mumbled and stood up.

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Carrying a bag full of cookies, bread and a bottle of water, the little girl that Ryoga helped and later helped Ryoga walked slowly, paying attention on everything. She just hoped her mother didn't notice her absence.

She decided that she would see her friend. Even if he was kind of stubborn, she knew he was very kind and was just thinking in the better for her. Her mother always said that Kodachi's soldiers were 'evil' and that she shouldn't approach them. In the past, Kodachi killed several fighters that wanted to free Yusan from her presence. If she judged the fighter was handsome enough for her, she tried to force him marry her. If they didn't, they were executed.

She stopped to walk. Something wasn't right. No guards, no vigilance. Then she saw a man lying on the ground. After walking a little more, she saw lots of them. She looked away as some men had no members, or their body full of blood. 'I strong. I have to', and she walked faster with her eyes closed.

The little girl reached the place where the fight was happening. There was her friend, the fearless criminal Ryoga, as her mother called him once. To her, he was the most beautiful person she already saw. Maybe it was the way he saved her from that dog, but she didn't care why, all she knew was that she was fascinated with him.

Ryoga finished his fight. The little girl smiled as she saw Ryoga standing and his enemy down. Suddenly, Ryoga turned to look at her side and his eyes widened. He yelled her to look out and then she saw something going in her way. Her eyes widened too, as the club full of thorns was going directly to her. She closed her eyes, waiting for the worst, but she felt some arms around her. She opened her eyes.

The club perforated his back, but Hakeda saved her.

"Hakeda!", Ranma-girl yelled and ran but fell as something got her leg. She looked behind and saw Kodachi doing an effort to stay awake, "You don't give up, do you?", Ranma-girl asked still dizzy because of the collision.

"It's this, or my sweet Ryoga will fall for your sorcery", she said and Ranma-girl flinched and pushed away any thought about her and Ryoga together.

Ranma-girl moved slowly to Kodachi, who was still lied on the ground. She looked in her eyes and said, "Listen, I don't have anything with him", she punched her in the head and Kodachi fell unconscious again, 'Great, now look Hakeda'. Then she noticed some dead soldiers standing up, their eyes white.

'Zombies!', Ryoga thought, 'What the hell?'

'Everything we needed', Ranma-girl thought, "Ryoga, Let's get out of here!"

Ryoga stood and ran to the unconscious Hakeda. He took the club out of his back. 'I don't have time to be tired', he thought, "Are you ok?", he asked the little girl.

"Y… Yes", she answered still shocked.

"INABUKI ATTACK!", Ranma-girl yelled and put some zombies down, so Ryoga had some time to escape, "Ryoga! Meet me near a river on the forest! Get the girl! I'll get there later"

Ryoga flinched, "Ranma..."

"GO!"

"Ok", Ryouga said and ran away, 'But I'll not get there fast', then he looked at the little girl,

'I feel so stupid asking this for a little girl...', "Hey, do you know where is this lake he was talking about?"

Ranma-girl used more of the Inabuki attack to put more zombies down and ran to get Hakeda. She was lucky that he wasn't so heavy and that there weren't so many enemies.

From distant, a figure smirked and disappeared.

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Yusan, evening

Ranma-girl and Saya, the little girl, were in Saya's house. Hakeda was lying on a bed, still unconscious. Ryoga decided to stay away from the city, since he is said to be a criminal in that place.

"I thank you once more. You saved my little Saya. She's stubborn, I told her not to go there, but she had this necessity to help that man. They say he is very dangerous, is it true?"

"No, mom, he is good", Saya said, defending her hero.

The woman sighed and looked tenderly at her daughter, "Of course he is", more to avoid her daughter continue her defense of a criminal.

'The guy saved her daughter and she still thinks he is dangerous', Ranma-girl thought, 'Being a hunter is not easy', "Oh, he is a good man in heart. I say this because he saved your daughter, didn't he?"

The woman frowned as she remembered the scene, "Yes, but I still think he had other intentions", she shook her head slightly, "Anyway, I have to thank this man. He saved Saya too, right?", she took a look on Hakeda again to see if he was ok.

"Yeah... His name is Hakeda", with that silence fell on the room.

Ranma-girl stood up and got her things, "I think I have to go", she said.

"So soon?"

"Why miss Ranma?", Saya asked, "And your friend?"

Ranma-girl looked at the young girl, "He is not with me really. Now I have to travel and... help another friend", she said. She was going away when she remembered one thing, "Ah, sorry to ask, but could you get me some hot water, please?"

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In an open field, night

Ranma and Ryoga were camping. It was just two hours since they left and Ranma already had to deal with one of Ryoga's problem, his direction one. "So, that's your curse", Ranma asked looking at the stars while Ryoga ate the food Ranma got from Saya's mother like there was no tomorrow.

Ryoga sighed, "It would be good if I was hit by hot water and got my sense of direction back. This is just something my father did to seal a demon. All the males of my family after me will have this curse"

"Yeah, the curse is triggered by water. I'm sorry for you, you can't get rid of this curse. So, what's your water curse after all?", Ryoga flinched, "I mean, they say nobody survived after fighting your cursed form"

'People exaggerate in everything. Damn, Kaneda was right about that', Ryoga thought and smiled briefly as he remembered an old friend.

Silence.

"Ok, if you don't want to talk, don't", Ranma said.

"Ranma?"

"Yeah"

'I don't like to do this. But it's a way to keep it secret', "Don't let cold water hit me or you will die"

Ranma was surprised by the serious tone, "Ok, don't worry", then he noticed Ryoga eating like a wild man, "Hey, man, go easy on the food! I want some too!"

"I don't eat nothing like this", he ate more, "Since I left Ukyo"

Ranma looked at him, "And who is Ukyo?"

Ryouga stooped to eat, "I'll tell you later"

Ranma studied Ryoga sometime and looked at the sky again, "Anyway, I think you would lose your bet against Kodachi, you eat as you have no manners"

Ryoga clenched his fist, "RANMA! SHUT UP!"

Ranma just put his hands in front of him, "Just kidding, man, kidding"

Ryoga growled something then asked, "Changing the subject, why did you let Hakeda there?"

"Because this is not his life. He is an explorer and has to live like one. Besides, I can't let people fight my fights", Ranma explained.

"I can understand. But why do you need me?"

"Because our curse has the same trigger, so the demon must be the same, even if I don't remember her very well. I just don't know her name"

"Licia", Ryoga said, even if Ranma didn't ask, "I don't know", he said and paused. Ranma waited, he was sure Ryoga was going to say that he liked to fight alone, "But since you helped me get out of that cross, I'll go with you. Besides, maybe you can help me after all"

Ranma smiled, "Who did say I would help you? You are helping me. You are my servant", he teased.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?", Ryoga yelled and threw a bandanna.

"Chill, man! Just kidding. Hey, Ryoga! Stop!", Ranma yelled as he escaped from the bandannas.

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In a mansion

"Mistress, Ranma Saotome and Ryoga Hibiki are together now", a woman dressed in black ninja clothes said.

The red skin woman smirked and showed her fangs. She looked rather interested in the news, "Please, continue"

"They are reunited now, since yesterday. Both destroyed Kodachi Kuno's army easily, mistress"

"Is Kodachi still alive?"

"I believe so"

The red skin woman smiled, "It's better for them stay well prepared. I don't know why I didn't kill these insects before. You can go, Sylen. Keep me aware of what is happening to those two"

"Yes, mistress Licia", Sylen said and left. Not without smirking to herself.

'Ranma Saotome and Ryoga Hibiki. I think this will be fun', Licia thought.

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Author notes:

Here ends the first part of this story and I'd like to thank everyone that read it. A special thanks to everyone that reviewed until now: Shakeval, Ithaqua, Xtor49, Jou-Pup, anss123, Dumbledork, Hiryo, wraith and angel61991.

I fixed the format of the last chapter. It really gave the impression that Ukyo raised sumo pigs, she's not in this kind of business. She'll appear later, that's sure.

For those who had the impression of reading this fic before: this fic was on FFNet a year ago with a different name (it was GET LOST!… pretty stupid name), but I couldn't finish it at that time. So I decided to delete the story. A little harsh, I know, but that's how I'm. But it won't happen again, promise.

About the One Piece thing… well, that explained on the end of chapter three. I just put the Ranma characters on it and made a few changes.

Well, I think that covers it all. Thank you for reading.

FAKE SCENES

Prologue

"Thanks, pop", Ranma looked at the distant horizon, "Well, it's a long way, bye", and walked. He didn't know that he was going to walk a lot. A tear fell from his eye, 'Couldn't let them see this', he thought and faced the horizon.

Silence.

More silence.

"Did he go for sure?", Nodoka asked.

Genma smirked, "Yeah"

They looked at each other, "WE ARE FREE!"

Chapter 2

"We came here to burn your house down. You are not welcome to live here anymore", the leader said, "Please, go away before we have to use violent methods"

Silence.

"Actually I don't like this house. Now look at that hole on the roof", Yuri pointed, "Do you understand what is to sleep under that hole?"

The leader approached and studied the situation, "But it's good to see stars, isn't?"

"Oh, c'mon", Yuri exasperated, "And when it rains? And when birds decide to aim their shit on the hole? C'mon, it sucks"

The leader caressed his beard, "Ok, then it's settled. LET'S BURN IT!"

When the house was down, everyone was hugging each other. Then Ranma asked, "Hey, where's Krisaor?"

Everyone looked at the burned house.

"Uh oh"

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"Yuri, my breasts are bigger than yours", Ranma-girl said and giggled.

"No way!"

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"Sing, boys!", Captain Gambarou ordered.

"We are sailors. Sailors of the sea. If you see my boat. Say hello to me"

"LOUDER!"

"WE ARE SAILORS! SAILORS OF THE SEA! IF YOU SEE MY BOAT! SAY HELLO TO ME!"

"Now only Ranma-chan!", Gambarou said and doused Ranma with cold water.

"I'M A SAILOR! SAILOR SAILOR MOON! GOING TO THE SPACE! HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON!"

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Chapter 3

'I'm hungry. I think I don't eat a decent meal since...', the bandanned man dressed with a pink skirt, sleeveless blouse and high heels…

"Why the hell am I dressed like this?", Ryoga asked. Then he noticed he was on a bed.

"Oh, you didn't complain last night, Ryoga dear", Kodachi said and caressed his face.

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"HELP!", a little girl screamed. In front of her, a hungry dog was staring at her. He already bit her arm, and ripped part of her dress but she escaped. Everyone around was static.

"My baby, someone, please, save my baby!", a woman yelled, but people around her just looked away or pretended they were not seeing the scene. The woman ran to her daughter, but something caught her attention.

An umbrella.

And it hit the little girl.

"Sorry, I missed!", Ryoga said.

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"What's the problem with you? Am I not so gorgeous and spectacular?", Kodachi asked with a seductive smile on her face.

Ryoga spat some blood out, "Come here", he asked and she got near him, "Marry me, wench"

"Aren't you being too fast with this?", she asked and slapped him.

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Chapter 4

Hakeda that jumped to the patio had a surprised expression, "What are you saying? It's you against lots of soldiers"

"Hey, man, you change when you are not using that", Ranma said referring to the bow and arrow.

Hakeda didn't take it lightly. "Let me show you!", he said and ran. He kicked the first soldiers, than punched everyone inside the fort. Lots of men were jumping from the window to escape from a furious man. Then he came running on Ranma's direction, "DUCK!", he warned and the fort exploded. He stood and took the dust out of his clothes, "Alright, let's go kick more butts"

Ranma and Ryoga had their jaws near their knees.

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"But if you managed to survive, some other girl would get in your life and spoil our pure love...", Kodachi said.

"Pure love?", Hakeda asked.

Ryoga smirked, "Feh… you know… when a man… loves a woman…"

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"And who are you to talk this way with my love?", Kodachi asked.

"Love? Ryoga, you two-timer, so you betrayed me with Kodachi?", Ranma-girl yelled.

"Sorry, Ranma, but you know… I was so lonely…"

"The hell you were lonely! And here I passed through all this just to save you, you, you… you jerk!"

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Chapter 5

they had fur,

they had candies on their hands…

They were the Pink Bunnies from Hell!