Ranma 1/2
'Tender Loving Care'
Ranma stared at Akane, a smirk plastered all over her face. Akane thought it was exceptionally similar to the one Nabiki always wore when she was up to something. But even with her sister, it wasn't as perpetual as it was on the pigtailed girl. Also, Ranma hadn't taken her eyes off of Akane's face. The raven-haired girl tried to be inconspicuous about glancing sideways towards her companion at school, and every time she looked, Ranma was still staring at her.
Finally getting unnerved by the way the other girl was staring at her, Akane decided to once again inquire about a previous subject, "Are you going to tell me what you meant by 'change' now?"
Ranma snapped up, like her mind was off somewhere else, Akane felt a bit more trepidation, considering that the girl may have been imagining indecent things with her, "Oh, sure, I change from a guy to a girl with cold water."
"So... you're really a boy?" Akane recalled seeing a panda change into a middle-aged man last night, but it still didn't sound plausible.
"Yup, got a Chinese curse, pretty cool, huh?"
Akane's face darkened, so the redhead was undressing her with her eyes, "Then you're just another perverted boy?"
If Ranma noticed the menace in her voice, she seemed to ignore it, "Not really, spend more time practicing the art to worry about ogling girls. The straight mind always finds its target, you know?"
Akane was slightly taken back by Ranma's counter, and her cavalier attitude, "Oh, um, so I guess you're pretty good then?"
"I've been told," Ranma replied with a cocky tone.
Akane rolled her eyes, not only was the girl probably a guy, but she was an egotistical guy at that, "Maybe we'll spar sometime then."
"Sounds good to me," the pigtailed girl said, once again seeming to focus back at Akane. Akane now realized that his glance seemed a bit... off.
"Okay, we can later on tonight then," Akane grinned to herself at the thought of putting Ranma, boy or girl, in her proper place.
"Promise you'll go easy on me, okay?" Ranma replied, with a wink and a grin, Akane had to smile at that, maybe she wasn't as egotistical as she letting on.
"Anyway, if you're really a guy, why haven't you changed back?" Akane became a bit more serious as she asked, it was still thesable that the girl was saying she was actually a guy out of some misplaced humor.
"Curse is water based, so any time I'm a guy, cold water seems to always find me." Ranma patted her dry clothes, "I just stay much more dry this way. Besides, I would rather go around as a girl than let anyone know about my curse. What if some freaky scientist guy decides that I'm some weird guinea pig?"
"I see your point," Akane replied, still not convinced. Before she realized it, they were not too far from the gates, "Oh great, stay back, Ranma, or you may get hurt!"
"Huh?" Ranma asked, slightly confused. Without giving a reply, Akane turned around and charged high speed through the gates. Ranma's mouth went slack in surprise, as an army of boys in sports gear.
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"So..." Soun replied, after removing his toothbrush and rinsing his mouth out, "Ranma is a bit of a handful? Ah, I remember when Akane was like that, I definably had my work cut out for me, but I managed."
"I don't think you really comprehend the full situation," Genma stated with a sigh.
"Maybe, but he's a boy in his teens. I'm pretty sure it's perfectly normal."
"No, the boy does it to spite me! Ungrateful brat! I give my heart to teach him the art, and how does he treat me?"
"Saotome, when did you get so paranoid?" Soun said, checking his teeth, and grimaced.
"A week after I took Ranma on that training trip," the balding martial artist replied casually.
"He'll eventually grow out of it, take heart, my friend," Soun consoled, believing his old training partner just eradiating.
'Not after ten years, Tendou, not after ten.... long... years."
"Well, if you're so concerned over your son, why aren't you out watching him?"
"Let him be someone else's problem for a few hours," Genma replied in a weary voice.
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"Hmm, she ain't half bad!" Ranma commented, viewing the battle from the gates. Akane was impressively mowing her attackers down like a sickle through ripe wheat. He noted that many of the fighters seemed to pause, slightly startled, before getting knocked out.
"Ranma, what are you doing? Get inside the school!" Nabiki called out from the third floor. Ranma looked up towards the other girl, and dashed forward. She crouched down, and leapt onto the roof over the school entrance, and then with an even stronger bound, leapt onto the balcony that Nabiki was standing at, startling the middle Tendou sister and the three other girls.
"Ranma, how...?"
Ranma turned back and looked down at the fight still going on, though only a few sparse stragglers remained other than Akane, "Hmm, I guess I'm not supposed to be able to do that..." The pigtailed girl smirked a bit larger, as she brought up her finger, "Don't worry, it'll be our little secret!" Ranma paused, looking closely at the pole axed Nabiki, "Don't like miso soup?"
Nabiki shook herself out of bewilderment of Ranma's feat, and exchanged it for bewilderment for Ranma's question, "What?"
Ranma waved the question off, "Never mind, looks like your sister's finished her morning exercises. Later, babe." With that, Ranma leaned back, and fell headfirst from the balcony.
"RANMA!!!!!!!!!" Nabiki screamed, as she and her associates reached out to try to catch the girl before she fell.
Akane turned to the sound of her sister's screaming after taking out the last guy, "Huh? RANMA!!!! NO!!!!" Several other screams in fear accompanied Akane's at the sight.
Ranma had her arms crossed, as she plunged inverted towards the ground. With a light chuckle, she somersaulted, and braced her feet against the wall about ten feet from the ground. Pushing off, Ranma righted herself and landed on her heels, sliding backwards with her torso leaning out while her back pointed out to maintain her balance. The pigtailed girl came to a stop right in front of a completely shocked Akane, her hands in her pockets, "Pretty nice of them to help you work off your baby fat."
"Did... did you see that?" One student asked incredulously.
"Man, that was amazing!" Another one added.
"Girl's got a death wish, that's for sure."
"Man, shame for something so pretty to want to take a chance like that."
"Huh? How, I mean, what?" Akane had trouble getting her thoughts back together. One moment she had been watching the redhead tumble head first to her doom, and then the next moment, striking up a casual conversation as if she wasn't going to have her head split open like melon pitched directly into the front of a speeding Mack truck.
"Yes, Flame haired one that dares tempt death, how was it you committed such a defying display?"
"Easy, I just tried to keep myself from going 'splat'."
The handsome young man holding a bokken and a rose nodded in understanding, "It would be a tragedy if a daring angel such as yourself were to go... splat." The boy turned towards the other girl and paused for a second after getting a good look at her, "Um, Tendou Akane, though it does not besmirch your fierce beauty, may haps you should-OWWWW!!!!!"
"Oops! Did I interrupt your boyfriend's speech?" Ranma asked, guilelessly, as she removed her foot from on top of Kuno's toes.
That snapped Akane out of her stupor, "He's NOT my BOYFRIEND!!!!"
"Surely, my fiery haired daredevil, your jealously of my affections towards Akane should not dishearten you. I announce this..." Kuno stopped hopping on one foot and went into basic kendo stance, "If you may defeat me, I will date with you."
Ranma blinked, and then turned to look at Akane, "Who's this idiot?"
Before Akane could give her rather colorful introduction towards the kendoist, he cut her off.
"Hold, is it not first that I must give mine own introduction. Very well, my name is Upperclassman Kuno, junior..."
"Yeah yeah, you got long winded at the first three syllables," Ranma cut off the upperclassman, her demeanor suddenly switched to one of excitement, "But golly? You really mean I can date a cute guy like you if I beat you up really badly?"
Kuno was a bit taken back, "Er, that... sounds accurate enough."
"LUUUUUCKY!!!!!" Ranma exclaimed, and then giggly bounced up and down for every male present's viewing pleasure.
"Ranma, I thought you said you were a..." Ranma turned towards Akane and put her finger to her lips to signal Akane to keep quiet.
"Okay, I'm ready!" Ranma said cheerfully, taking a cat stance with her lead foot on her heal and toe pointing up.
"Very well, I strike!" Kuno darted at the redhead for an opening vertical slash.
Ranma stood still, and Akane saw the girl close her eyes in fright.
Ranma blinked, and then looked back behind her, to Kuno lying sprawled out behind her.
"Uh... what just happened?" One of Nabiki's associates enquired from the balcony.
"I dunno, Kuno... tripped?" Nabiki replied, just as puzzled.
Akane's eyes were wide in bewilderment, "I... barely saw her move..."
'Tender Loving Care'
Ranma stared at Akane, a smirk plastered all over her face. Akane thought it was exceptionally similar to the one Nabiki always wore when she was up to something. But even with her sister, it wasn't as perpetual as it was on the pigtailed girl. Also, Ranma hadn't taken her eyes off of Akane's face. The raven-haired girl tried to be inconspicuous about glancing sideways towards her companion at school, and every time she looked, Ranma was still staring at her.
Finally getting unnerved by the way the other girl was staring at her, Akane decided to once again inquire about a previous subject, "Are you going to tell me what you meant by 'change' now?"
Ranma snapped up, like her mind was off somewhere else, Akane felt a bit more trepidation, considering that the girl may have been imagining indecent things with her, "Oh, sure, I change from a guy to a girl with cold water."
"So... you're really a boy?" Akane recalled seeing a panda change into a middle-aged man last night, but it still didn't sound plausible.
"Yup, got a Chinese curse, pretty cool, huh?"
Akane's face darkened, so the redhead was undressing her with her eyes, "Then you're just another perverted boy?"
If Ranma noticed the menace in her voice, she seemed to ignore it, "Not really, spend more time practicing the art to worry about ogling girls. The straight mind always finds its target, you know?"
Akane was slightly taken back by Ranma's counter, and her cavalier attitude, "Oh, um, so I guess you're pretty good then?"
"I've been told," Ranma replied with a cocky tone.
Akane rolled her eyes, not only was the girl probably a guy, but she was an egotistical guy at that, "Maybe we'll spar sometime then."
"Sounds good to me," the pigtailed girl said, once again seeming to focus back at Akane. Akane now realized that his glance seemed a bit... off.
"Okay, we can later on tonight then," Akane grinned to herself at the thought of putting Ranma, boy or girl, in her proper place.
"Promise you'll go easy on me, okay?" Ranma replied, with a wink and a grin, Akane had to smile at that, maybe she wasn't as egotistical as she letting on.
"Anyway, if you're really a guy, why haven't you changed back?" Akane became a bit more serious as she asked, it was still thesable that the girl was saying she was actually a guy out of some misplaced humor.
"Curse is water based, so any time I'm a guy, cold water seems to always find me." Ranma patted her dry clothes, "I just stay much more dry this way. Besides, I would rather go around as a girl than let anyone know about my curse. What if some freaky scientist guy decides that I'm some weird guinea pig?"
"I see your point," Akane replied, still not convinced. Before she realized it, they were not too far from the gates, "Oh great, stay back, Ranma, or you may get hurt!"
"Huh?" Ranma asked, slightly confused. Without giving a reply, Akane turned around and charged high speed through the gates. Ranma's mouth went slack in surprise, as an army of boys in sports gear.
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"So..." Soun replied, after removing his toothbrush and rinsing his mouth out, "Ranma is a bit of a handful? Ah, I remember when Akane was like that, I definably had my work cut out for me, but I managed."
"I don't think you really comprehend the full situation," Genma stated with a sigh.
"Maybe, but he's a boy in his teens. I'm pretty sure it's perfectly normal."
"No, the boy does it to spite me! Ungrateful brat! I give my heart to teach him the art, and how does he treat me?"
"Saotome, when did you get so paranoid?" Soun said, checking his teeth, and grimaced.
"A week after I took Ranma on that training trip," the balding martial artist replied casually.
"He'll eventually grow out of it, take heart, my friend," Soun consoled, believing his old training partner just eradiating.
'Not after ten years, Tendou, not after ten.... long... years."
"Well, if you're so concerned over your son, why aren't you out watching him?"
"Let him be someone else's problem for a few hours," Genma replied in a weary voice.
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"Hmm, she ain't half bad!" Ranma commented, viewing the battle from the gates. Akane was impressively mowing her attackers down like a sickle through ripe wheat. He noted that many of the fighters seemed to pause, slightly startled, before getting knocked out.
"Ranma, what are you doing? Get inside the school!" Nabiki called out from the third floor. Ranma looked up towards the other girl, and dashed forward. She crouched down, and leapt onto the roof over the school entrance, and then with an even stronger bound, leapt onto the balcony that Nabiki was standing at, startling the middle Tendou sister and the three other girls.
"Ranma, how...?"
Ranma turned back and looked down at the fight still going on, though only a few sparse stragglers remained other than Akane, "Hmm, I guess I'm not supposed to be able to do that..." The pigtailed girl smirked a bit larger, as she brought up her finger, "Don't worry, it'll be our little secret!" Ranma paused, looking closely at the pole axed Nabiki, "Don't like miso soup?"
Nabiki shook herself out of bewilderment of Ranma's feat, and exchanged it for bewilderment for Ranma's question, "What?"
Ranma waved the question off, "Never mind, looks like your sister's finished her morning exercises. Later, babe." With that, Ranma leaned back, and fell headfirst from the balcony.
"RANMA!!!!!!!!!" Nabiki screamed, as she and her associates reached out to try to catch the girl before she fell.
Akane turned to the sound of her sister's screaming after taking out the last guy, "Huh? RANMA!!!! NO!!!!" Several other screams in fear accompanied Akane's at the sight.
Ranma had her arms crossed, as she plunged inverted towards the ground. With a light chuckle, she somersaulted, and braced her feet against the wall about ten feet from the ground. Pushing off, Ranma righted herself and landed on her heels, sliding backwards with her torso leaning out while her back pointed out to maintain her balance. The pigtailed girl came to a stop right in front of a completely shocked Akane, her hands in her pockets, "Pretty nice of them to help you work off your baby fat."
"Did... did you see that?" One student asked incredulously.
"Man, that was amazing!" Another one added.
"Girl's got a death wish, that's for sure."
"Man, shame for something so pretty to want to take a chance like that."
"Huh? How, I mean, what?" Akane had trouble getting her thoughts back together. One moment she had been watching the redhead tumble head first to her doom, and then the next moment, striking up a casual conversation as if she wasn't going to have her head split open like melon pitched directly into the front of a speeding Mack truck.
"Yes, Flame haired one that dares tempt death, how was it you committed such a defying display?"
"Easy, I just tried to keep myself from going 'splat'."
The handsome young man holding a bokken and a rose nodded in understanding, "It would be a tragedy if a daring angel such as yourself were to go... splat." The boy turned towards the other girl and paused for a second after getting a good look at her, "Um, Tendou Akane, though it does not besmirch your fierce beauty, may haps you should-OWWWW!!!!!"
"Oops! Did I interrupt your boyfriend's speech?" Ranma asked, guilelessly, as she removed her foot from on top of Kuno's toes.
That snapped Akane out of her stupor, "He's NOT my BOYFRIEND!!!!"
"Surely, my fiery haired daredevil, your jealously of my affections towards Akane should not dishearten you. I announce this..." Kuno stopped hopping on one foot and went into basic kendo stance, "If you may defeat me, I will date with you."
Ranma blinked, and then turned to look at Akane, "Who's this idiot?"
Before Akane could give her rather colorful introduction towards the kendoist, he cut her off.
"Hold, is it not first that I must give mine own introduction. Very well, my name is Upperclassman Kuno, junior..."
"Yeah yeah, you got long winded at the first three syllables," Ranma cut off the upperclassman, her demeanor suddenly switched to one of excitement, "But golly? You really mean I can date a cute guy like you if I beat you up really badly?"
Kuno was a bit taken back, "Er, that... sounds accurate enough."
"LUUUUUCKY!!!!!" Ranma exclaimed, and then giggly bounced up and down for every male present's viewing pleasure.
"Ranma, I thought you said you were a..." Ranma turned towards Akane and put her finger to her lips to signal Akane to keep quiet.
"Okay, I'm ready!" Ranma said cheerfully, taking a cat stance with her lead foot on her heal and toe pointing up.
"Very well, I strike!" Kuno darted at the redhead for an opening vertical slash.
Ranma stood still, and Akane saw the girl close her eyes in fright.
Ranma blinked, and then looked back behind her, to Kuno lying sprawled out behind her.
"Uh... what just happened?" One of Nabiki's associates enquired from the balcony.
"I dunno, Kuno... tripped?" Nabiki replied, just as puzzled.
Akane's eyes were wide in bewilderment, "I... barely saw her move..."