AN: here I am again. I hope you liked the last chapter, if not oh well…whatever I'm trying. Anyways let's continue with the adventures of our very unlucky marital artist and how he realizes that even leaving Nerima maddens, maddens never leaves him.
Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING. Takahashi and Anno do and they're awfully rich and me are poor.
"wark" talk
´wark´ thoughts
#wark# sounds
Stop babbling…
ANOTHER POINTLESS RANMA FIC
By
Onedrunkwriter
CHAPTER 2
"The world is a cold and dark place to live"
Yes it was Ryouga repeating his mantra over and over meanwhile he was walking through a very, thin, humid and apparently endless tunnel. After god knows hours later he could see a very white spot. Some walking later this spot became bigger, and bigger.
´At least, and exit´
When he was close to the exit a figure, a female one appeared. Blocking his way to freedom. Watching very carefully Ryouga recognized this person.
´Akane...´ he wanted to yell, but…
"Bweeeee…" ´huh?´
´oh shit I have transformed, now how am I going to apologize to Akane and confess my love, and…´but his mental babbling was interrupt by a voice. The sweetest voice (to him) in the world.
"come here, piggy"
´O joy she loves me, even as her pet, there's hope after all´ and without thinking (as always) he ran to her arms.
He was happy, he was in heaven, and he was with her again. He didn't care if it was as P-chan as she was happy it was OK. Moments passed and the arrived to a sea house. ´strange did the Tendos have one? ´. he didn't mind this fact after all he was with her.
"Dear, I'm home"
´Dear?
"Welcome home, kawaiikune" a new person make his entrance, he was in his mid-twenties, tall with a ponytail. Guess who, that's right it was Ranma.
"BAKA…look what I found" Akane said showing Ranma P-chan.
"Hmmm a black piglet. It seem a lost one"
"And a delicious one, don't you think"
"I completely agree, do I bring the knife?"
"yes dear"
´what, Akane it's me Ryouga don't eat me please I love you. Oh god please help me´. Of course he only could say "Bweee Bweee Bweeeeeeeeee"
Holding the knife that Ranma gave her. Akane pinned the poor pig to the floor. Her delicate features disappear and they were replaced by a maniac look in her face.
"What did you think? Did you truly believed that I forgave you Ryouga?...now receive your punishment…HAHAHAHAHAHAH"
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"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
A very sweaty and scared Ryouga screamed. Well it seems obvious that everything above was a dream what did you thing? The lovely Akane Tendo a wicked murderer (ok with her temper sometimes I think that too ). Back to our story Ryouga awoke, after putting his mind together he remembered everything in the last 24 hour: his arrival, his fight, the reunion with the Tendos, his curse…
"Damn it she had to discover" said to anyone. And the he remembered the worst thing her words full with hatred no even to Ranma she had acted like that. That really hurts him even harder that Ranma punches.
"I screwed it, I really screwed it, now what am I going to do?" Kasumi's advice crossed his mind. He really needed to get lost for a considerable period of time. With a little luck she will be in the mood when he arrived, but this is Ryouga so it really seems impossible. Of course he stubbornly believed in his hopeless hope. By the way
"WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?" unknown to him highly above all known gods were laughing their asses off. Gods also need fun and Ryouga has become in their favorite toy, what cruel are gods #TUNDER# (where did that come from?).
"OK, let's go surely I'm going to arrive at Tendo's dojo in some weeks, so I got a lot of time. First I need a very touching apologize speech, some flowers, souvenirs, bla bla bla"
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Not so far, unknown to the always lost and clueless Ryouga, something big was happening, something that could decide the survival of mankind.
"EVA, launch"
"OK, Shinji remember the plan. Neutralize the enemy's AT-field with your own and fire that piece of jun …I mean your rifle, understood?" Ritsuko spoke.
"Hai" of course he hadn't understood anything. He was scared and muttering something during her explanation. With that he started the fight, firing that shitty rifle.
The sound of the battle arrived to certain bandana boy; curiosity prevailed over self preservation as he ran where the sound came from. On top of a near hill his jaw dropped. That was something to see a huge squid like monster with two pink ´pink?´ whip like tentacles was fighting with a equally big purple ´purple?´ robot. After living in Nerima with lousy fighter, cursed ones, some onis and roughly princes, he thought that anything could surprised him but this was to much.
The monster with its tentacles chopped Shinji's rifle and started to charge him. Of course Shinji's only reaction was getting the hell as far as possible ignoring the voice of NERV's Director of Operations, captain Misato Katsuragi. "Hmm sloppy" Ryouga said as he was watching how the squid was trying to cut Shinji's EVA in two. "That's gonna hurt" muttered when the squid grabbed and throw the purple thing away. "Why isn't it moving" unknown to him a couple of stooges were saved of being pulp by the mighty hand of the Evangelion. "Nice catch" the EVA stopped the monster's tentacles. Some time later the EVA kicked the monster down the hill where Shinji's machine laid. "Now what?" Ryouga was expecting the imminent ending of this duel, without any warning the purple thing slide down the thing with a giant knife in its hand, the squid countered it with its tentacle going through the EVA body. After a moment of hesitate the EVA nailed its knife in the monster's core, killing it after some time.
"That was closed" Ryouga said after the battle. "It easy to say that anybody who was piloting that was not trained" analyzing the battle further "but the pilot has guts and instinct. I'd like to meet him/her. Perhaps I can teach him/her how to fight properly" however it was time for more important matters, like…
"WHERE IN THE WORLD AM I?" yes he was lost. Not only in space but in time too. But the last thing was oblivious to him.
After releasing some stress with his mighty battle cry, our peculiar hero resumed his epic quest: Akane's forgiveness but first he had to find her eventually.
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(Some days later)
#BOOOOM#
"Light, at least" Ryouga said after getting out of a hole created by his ´Bakusai Tenketsu´. Looking around he summed two and two together, he was lost again.
"ARRGG, damn it now what...huh" his ranting stopped when he saw a boy. Fourteen or fifteen he calculated, standing on a rail. ´maybe I can ask him some directions´. He started running to the boy when. ´what is he thinking…isn't he going to do it, is he?´ the fanged boy though when the younger one passed the rail to the cliff below. ´Shit! he is going to jump´ with that Ryouga sprinted as a maniac where the other boy was unfortunately he was late.
Without thinking too much (again) Ryouga jumped. This time he was lucky and grabbed the boy with his right arm. But there was a bigger problem. ´how am I going to brake?´ he realized that they were falling fast. ´ok Ryouga stay cool…think in bad things umm Ranma winning Akane, Ranma stealing my bread, Ranma…´ he continued until he was glowing green.
"SHI SHI HOKOUDAN" using his free hand Ryouga releasing his ultimate technique, successfully stopping their fall and putting them safe.
"Hey kid, are you right?"
"…" but the younger boy's eyes were dull, empty of life.
"Answer me" This time Ryouga's voice was rising.
"…" no answer.
#SLAP#
"SNAP OF IT BRAT"
"LEAVE ME ALONE" the younger said and started to run away leaving a very shocked and pissed Ryouga.
"YOU'RE WELCOME" sarcastically yell. "Geez this is the last time I save a spoiled brat" with that he retook his mission.
(Next morning)
"Hmm that's quite a misty day" Ryouga said. After walking all night he believed he was far away from that crazy place of monsters, robots and suicidal kids. But with his sense of direction whatever thing could happen.
"Move faster kid, we don't have all day"
"Yes, you don't know all the problems we had following you"
"What was that?" The lost boy ran where those voices came. From a safe distance he saw some well suited thug dragging a boy. ´that is the boy from yesterday hmm serves him right for being that ungrateful´ he was starting to leave when…
"STOP IT RIGHT THERE" Ryouga's sense of honor popped over his right shoulder in the form of a chibi-angel-Ryouga (the nice ones).
"DON'T YOU REMEMBER, IT'S A DUTY OF ANY MARITAL ARTIST TO PROTECT THE WEAK PEOPLE AND BLA BLA BLA" chibi-angel-Ryouga started to lecture the lost boy about the honor code and whatever, when…
"DON'T LISTEN THAT FOOL" this time Ryouga's dark side popped on the other shoulder, with the form of a chibi-devil-Ryouga.
#SPLASH#
#KICK#
"GET THE HELL OUT HERE" chibi-angel-Ryouga kicked a chibi-red-horned-Pchan into stratosphere.
"What do you want?" finally Ryouga snapped form his confusion.
"That kid save you must" said the little angel.
"Stop talking like that, and why, don't you remember what happed" Ryouga countered.
"Yes, but a marital artist never expect being praised or to be thanked for. They always comply theirs duties selflessly"
"OK I'm going geez" Ryouga groaned.
"May the force…"
"SHUT UP" ´I'm going to hate myself for this´ with that he charged against the MIB.
When the MIB were about to get in their vans, a yellow blur appeared in front of their glasses knocking out the thugs who were holding the boy's arms. More thugs came out the vehicles in order to eliminate the treat, but with inhuman speed for them Ryouga and his trusty umbrella took down the remaining MIB. Grabbing one of the kid's arm they started to run aimlessly into the woods.
After some hours of running the kid started to protest, unlike Ryouga he didn't have the stamina to keep going. Finally Ryouga took pity of the poor kid and stopped. Then Ryouga took off his oversized backpack and started to look in it for something. When he found it, he tossed to the kid, it was a bottle of water. He looked it with hesitate.
"Drink it, it just water" finally Ryouga broke their silence.
"Thank you" lowly the younger boy responded.
"Well after saving you two times, it's the minimum thing you should do. Don't you thing?" Ryouga said sarcastically. With those harsh words the kid flinched.
"Look what you did" Ryouga's sense of honor said kicking (literally) some sense in him. "Now he is scared, way to go". Of course those dialogs only occurred in Ryouga's head, but sometimes his used his imagination so he couldn't feel that alone.
"#sigh# sorry kid, sometimes (almost every time) I lose control" Ryouga tried to apologize.
"Why did you save me" said the boy.
"Huh?" the lost boy didn't expect it.
"Why?" the boy insisted.
"You'll see, I'm a marital artist, it's my duty to protect the people from bad guys"
"But, I'm a bad person, the only thing I can do it's to hurt people"
"Look I don't care at this moment about your life or what you did. I only want to go to some place with urgency" Ryouga talked trying to control his temper from this meek boy. "And you are going to help ME, it's the last thing you can do, got it kid?"
The boy only could nod. After all what were his chances. He had knocked out several sections 2 agents like if they were kids and even more when he tried to run away from than fanged boy he was found (accidentally) again.
"Ok, let's go then, by the way do you know the path to Tokyo" Ryouga with a calm voice asked.
"Yes, sir"
"Hey don't that formal, oh yes I forgot my name is Ryouga Hibiki. Please call me Ryouga"
"Yes, sir…I mean Ryouga"
"That's an understanding. What's your name kiddo?"
"Shinji…Shinji Ikari"
"All right Shinji, let's hit the road".
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Keeping his word Shinji helped Ryouga in his way to Tokyo. Unfortunate Ryouga couldn't keep his track and always finished getting both of them lost. After that Ryouga snapped and began to make some property damage. Of course Shinji was too afraid to tell Ryouga that he always misunderstood his directions, because he didn't want to become a target for Ryouga's wrath.
On the bright side wandering around had letting Shinji to discover some place that he hasn't seen ever. Well he only knew his teaches place. When he moved to Tokyo-3 he didn't enjoy the view because he was thinking about his incoming meeting with his father. After that he only knew Misato's place and the path to school and NERV. ´Damn NERV, damn you, father´.
Even he had learned some marital art from Ryouga. After a couple of days when he started to travel with Shinji, Ryouga decided he needed a spar partner and with only Shinji around he began to train him. Ryouga also felt pity of the boy and though that making Shinji strong could help him to go through life. During their journeys he had learned some facts of Shinji's life and Shinji's has learned some of his. Never going too deep in their feeling and darkest secrets both of them had development an odd friendship.
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"Agent, present your report about the third child" the cold and frightful voice of the Gendo Ikari aka Bastard King. Fill his equally frightful and ridiculously large office.
"Nothing to report, the different patrols report the same thing. It's he has been swallowed by the earth" responded the extremely scared agent.
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Inside one of many underground tunnels created by Ryouga, they keep their march hoping to arrive somewhere familiar.
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"Dismiss agent, next time I expect to hear better news"
"Yes sir" the agent tried his best to keep his pants clean, after all is was very well known for everybody, what Ikari could do with the ones who failed him. So then he left.
"Damn it" said Gendo almost breaking his bastard and patented pose.
"So, it ruins your scenario" an old goat known as sub-commander Fuyutsuki said.
"Of course not, if the third is not here to comply with his destiny, we still can use the second" Gendo replied taking another bastard and patented pose.
The sub-commander only could sigh before that act or arrogance.
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One of the inconveniences of being so far from civilization, especially from long periods of time was…
"Ryouga…"
"Not now, don't you see? I'm trying to read this map" surely he didn't know that this map was not of Japan but France. But how to tell him without Ryouga starts a rampage over the innocent trees.
"But…"
"Ok, what is it?"
"We ran out of food".
#THUD# Ryouga's jaw hit hard the ground.
"Ryouga, are you ok?" ´Oh God please let him be ok or else…´
"WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?"
"There we go again" Shinji muttered to himself.
But this time the god took mercy, at least of Shinji and Ryouga's angry ranting was stopped when a nice smell comes to both of them. Thinking with everything but his brain, Ryouga sprinted to the source of that smell. ´it seems familiar´ he though, but his stomach overwhelmed him. Fearing that Ryouga could do something stupid he ran after him.
When they arrived to the source of the smell, they found a small grill with two pizza like things over it. ´it look like familiar´ but again his brain was shut up by his stomach and he proceeded to devour that food. ´it tastes familiar´. "Come on there is one left, eat it Shinji" he was about to protest, wasn't it thievery?
#GRUMBLE# his stomach spoke for him and he went to the grill and starts to eat.
Unknowing for both of them shadow was looking that scene. ´how dare them it was my meal´ without hesitation he took his weapon and leap into the air and struck. Fortunate or unfortunate Ryouga's sixth sense kicked in and counterattacked. The mysterious fighter was good but not as Ryouga. With a swift movement of his umbrella he knocked out his attacker. Trying to discover the identity of the thug he walked to him but…
"UKYO…"
AN: there you have it. Now as you can see the story began after the fourth angel. Why? It was the lowest point to Shinji before the twelfth and later angels. I really hated Misato back there. Come on Shinji was not a soldier and three weeks of training aren't going to change him into some kind Rambo. One interesting fact was that Shinji for once didn't run away actually he stood by himself he charged and killed the angel. But instead of encouraging words he gets his ass chewed. Unfortunate Misato was more worried about the chain of command and her own position than that fact. Of course it only gave more insecurity to Shinji so he ran away.