Ranma 1/2; Tender Loving Care
'The Brat Wars' part 2
Genma stared in horror at Nabiki, Kasumi, and his friend Soun. With a shakey hand, he raised his sign, "[Dear Lord, you mean there's now TWO of them?!?]"
Soun resignedly nodded his head, "Yes, but you fail to realize how much of a danger Akane is..."
"Has she attempted to mail order nukes?]"
"Er... no, but..."
"[Married a guy... er, girl just to annoy the Hell out of you?]"
"Not that I know of, although..."
"[Torched any small villages?]"
"Not recently, listen to me, Saotome..."
The panda gaffawed, "[Tendou, you almost had me going there, for a minute!]"
"Mr. Saotome, Ranma is *nothing* compared to Akane, especially when she's in a mad-on!" Nabiki interjected, allowing the expression of total fear of what has awakened pass across her face.
The panda seemed to scoff, "[Well, if she gets out of hand, I'll just spank her!] Guffaw!"
The Tendous watched the panda walk away from the table, grimly taking this time to remember Genma as he was, before Akane got ahold of him.
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Ranma looked around the construction site with a bit of curiosity, and then back to Akane, "Weird short cut you got here..."
"Well, it's better than walking around the whole block," the raven haired girl rationalized. She bent down, and picked up a large, flat piece of plaster, before hiding it behind her back, "Hey! look, a hundred Yen coin at your feet!"
"Huh? Where?" Ranma looked down, attempting to locate the easy money.
"You kicked dirt onto it, here, lemme get it..." Akane started to bend down to get the coin, before Ranma held his hand towards her.
"Hey, It's mine, alright!" Ranma squatted down, and started to shift his hands through the loose dirt and dust, attempting to vainly locate the money.
While he was preoccupied, Akane raised the plaster above her head, and threw it down as hard as she could behind Ranma. It landed, kicking up a good sized cloud of dirt that caught Ranma right in the eyes.
"DAMMIT! WHAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU TOMBOY!" Ranma began to frantically rub his eyes, trying to remove the sediment that was trapped there.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Do this, hold your eyelids down over your eyes, it'll make you cry the sediment out!"
"Like this?" Ranma enquired, pinching his eyelids with each hand, and holding them down.
"Just like that, keep doing that for a couple of minutes, it should clear it all out!"
"Hey, it's working!" Ranma stated, already feeling his eyes becoming less irritated.
"Good! Just hold them closed, now!" Akane's voice sounded further away.
"How long do I have to do this, again?"
"This should... er... it should only take a few moments more..." Akane replied, quickly refreshing her memory on how to operate the heavy machinery she was currently residing in.
"I think I'm ready now," Ranma stated, just in time to hear a loud, 'tink' above him. "Huh?" Ranma looked up, finding a half a dozen heavy I beams falling towards him.
Before he could react, a red flash intercepted them in the air, knocking them in several directions with precise Martial arts techniques; punching and kicking them away from harming the young man that was below them.
A blond haired man with a long pony tail that was dressed up like some late 80's converse commercial reject landed before Ranma.
"Hey, you know? Kids shouldn't be playing around a construction site, it can get pretty dangerous," the man replied, adjusting his red baseball cap with the metal plate on the front of it.
"Er... I'll keep that in mind," Ranma replied with slight distain, "By the way, your shoe's untied..."
"Huh? Oh, thanks a heap, and call me Terry, alright?" Terry bent down to tie his shoes, as Ranma calmly walked a safe distance away.
"Better yet, I should probably call you an ambulance," Ranma stated, nonchilantly, as he looked upon the twitching body. Akane climbed out of the crane, and walked over to the rather pained man as Ranma walked away, and kicked him in the head before following.
"Damn foreigners, taking all our work and interfering with crap," Akane groused, as she caught up with the pigtailed boy.
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"FALL FORTH, MY FELLOW ACOLATES! WE SHALL SMITE THE HEATHEN WENCHES THAT SEEK TO PLAGUE OUR MESSIAH!!!" Arch-Bishop Joe bellowed, "UNLEASH ANOTHER VOLLEY OF THE SACRED MOTOLOV COCTAILS!!!"
The Amazons lay under seige in their block territory, as Han Tao attempted to determine a point of weakness from the zealots that challenged them.
"Don't they ever run out of those cursed bombs?!?" Shampoo growled, ducking as a window exploded, shattering glass all over the abandoned warehouse they were holed up in.
"YES! MY BRETHERN! LET US SCORE THE UNHOLY SOIL THESE INFIDELS WALK UPON! LET THE EARTH AND THEIR HOSTILE BURN AND SEAR IN THE FLAMES OF OUR RIGHTIOUSNESS!!!"
"I would just settle for him shutting the Hell up!" another Amazon almost whined, "What is he saying, anyway?"
"Religious jibberish," Han Tao answered, "Those fools are thinking we ain't without our own heat..."
"Huh?" Shampoo and the other surrounding Amazons asked, before ducking from an explosion that shook the whole building.
"Okay, that explosion was a little disconcerting," Shampoo stated, looking around warily. Another loud boom shook the building.
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Ranma and Akane walked down the busy street, and stopped at the store Akane pointed out.
"You sure this is the place?" Ranma enquired, looking into the store window.
"Yup! This is the one Kasumi always gets most her stuff from when she's not at the market," Akane checked her watch, it should be by any time, now.
"Well, let's hurry up and get the rice Kasumi wanted. Just as Ranma stepped in, Akane looked across the street. Ranma couldn't see it, but a sinister grin passed over her face, before it lit up in delight.
"Oh! A BABY!!!" Akane hyperlly pointed to the woman walking a baby carriage on the other side of the street, "I wanna go see it!"
Ranma 'hmphed', "Sure, whatever. Just gimme the money and I'll pick the rice up, alright?" Akane handed him the money, and carefully skipped across the street.
"Oh! How cute!" Akane gushed, stopping the woman.
"Oh, thank you! His name's Ryujin."
"Can I hold him?" Akane asked, making googly eyes at the baby.
"Um, sure!" Akane picked up the baby, being careful to turn the carraige around to get a better hold, and started making goo goo noises at him, while shaking the baby rattler she had in one hand.
"Aren't you just the most adorable little thing? Yes you are! Yes you are!" Akane looked down the street out of the corner of her eye; it was show time. "Oh!" Akane exclaimed, dropping the rattle.
"Don't worry, I'll get it," the woman replied, bending down to pick up the toy. As she was distracted, Akane kicked the baby carraige out into the street.
"OH MY GOD! THAT BABY CARRAIGE!" A bystander screamed. The morning bus happened down the street, right as the carraige crossed its path.
The driver, unknowing that there wasn't a baby in it, swerved to miss it, in turn causing the bus to plow right through the store window Ranma was in.
Well, Ranma was just in, really, as he exited the store with an irritated expression on his face, just as the bus demolished the store front. The building then collapsed down upon itself and around the bus from the structural damage done to it.
Akane growled a curse, as Ranma walked across the street, unpetered by the incident behind him, "Yo, he said there's no such thing! You think Kasumi sent us on a wild goose chase, or something?"
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"[...has been going for several days. Police are considering options on how to disrupt the gang turf war between what seems to be a religious organization and a gang of warrior women. This just in, Ikebi's grocery store collapsed, as a bus plowed through the store front. Witnesses report that the bus swerved to miss a baby carraige that...]"
"Looks like Akane's work," Nabiki replied idly, as she continued to watch the news report.
"It appears so," Kasumi replied, "She must be rusty, only seven people injured."
"We're home!" Akane called out a bit irritatedly, followed by a nonchalant Ranma, "We couldn't find the rice you asked for, Kasumi, where do you usually pick it up?"
"I just usually pick my rice up at..." Kasumi paused, before turning a big, warm, and searingly fake smile to her youngest sister, "That's alright, Akane, I'll just make something else for dinner, tonight."
"If you're really okay with it," Akane replied a bit hesitantly, wondering why Kasumi had her fake smile on. She shrugged, and turned back to Ranma, "You want to go out to the dojo and spar?"
Ranma shrugged, as if he had anything better to do at the moment.
"Great! Let me go get my gi! Be ready for me!" Akane giggled, and rushed upstairs. Kasumi and Nabiki both watched their sister head to her room with a bit more cheer than she would usually put on; everything then snapped into place.
"Youuuu," both present Tendou daughters seethed at the pigtailed boy.
"What? Whadd I do?"
'The Brat Wars' part 2
Genma stared in horror at Nabiki, Kasumi, and his friend Soun. With a shakey hand, he raised his sign, "[Dear Lord, you mean there's now TWO of them?!?]"
Soun resignedly nodded his head, "Yes, but you fail to realize how much of a danger Akane is..."
"Has she attempted to mail order nukes?]"
"Er... no, but..."
"[Married a guy... er, girl just to annoy the Hell out of you?]"
"Not that I know of, although..."
"[Torched any small villages?]"
"Not recently, listen to me, Saotome..."
The panda gaffawed, "[Tendou, you almost had me going there, for a minute!]"
"Mr. Saotome, Ranma is *nothing* compared to Akane, especially when she's in a mad-on!" Nabiki interjected, allowing the expression of total fear of what has awakened pass across her face.
The panda seemed to scoff, "[Well, if she gets out of hand, I'll just spank her!] Guffaw!"
The Tendous watched the panda walk away from the table, grimly taking this time to remember Genma as he was, before Akane got ahold of him.
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Ranma looked around the construction site with a bit of curiosity, and then back to Akane, "Weird short cut you got here..."
"Well, it's better than walking around the whole block," the raven haired girl rationalized. She bent down, and picked up a large, flat piece of plaster, before hiding it behind her back, "Hey! look, a hundred Yen coin at your feet!"
"Huh? Where?" Ranma looked down, attempting to locate the easy money.
"You kicked dirt onto it, here, lemme get it..." Akane started to bend down to get the coin, before Ranma held his hand towards her.
"Hey, It's mine, alright!" Ranma squatted down, and started to shift his hands through the loose dirt and dust, attempting to vainly locate the money.
While he was preoccupied, Akane raised the plaster above her head, and threw it down as hard as she could behind Ranma. It landed, kicking up a good sized cloud of dirt that caught Ranma right in the eyes.
"DAMMIT! WHAT WHAT YOU'RE DOING YOU TOMBOY!" Ranma began to frantically rub his eyes, trying to remove the sediment that was trapped there.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Do this, hold your eyelids down over your eyes, it'll make you cry the sediment out!"
"Like this?" Ranma enquired, pinching his eyelids with each hand, and holding them down.
"Just like that, keep doing that for a couple of minutes, it should clear it all out!"
"Hey, it's working!" Ranma stated, already feeling his eyes becoming less irritated.
"Good! Just hold them closed, now!" Akane's voice sounded further away.
"How long do I have to do this, again?"
"This should... er... it should only take a few moments more..." Akane replied, quickly refreshing her memory on how to operate the heavy machinery she was currently residing in.
"I think I'm ready now," Ranma stated, just in time to hear a loud, 'tink' above him. "Huh?" Ranma looked up, finding a half a dozen heavy I beams falling towards him.
Before he could react, a red flash intercepted them in the air, knocking them in several directions with precise Martial arts techniques; punching and kicking them away from harming the young man that was below them.
A blond haired man with a long pony tail that was dressed up like some late 80's converse commercial reject landed before Ranma.
"Hey, you know? Kids shouldn't be playing around a construction site, it can get pretty dangerous," the man replied, adjusting his red baseball cap with the metal plate on the front of it.
"Er... I'll keep that in mind," Ranma replied with slight distain, "By the way, your shoe's untied..."
"Huh? Oh, thanks a heap, and call me Terry, alright?" Terry bent down to tie his shoes, as Ranma calmly walked a safe distance away.
"Better yet, I should probably call you an ambulance," Ranma stated, nonchilantly, as he looked upon the twitching body. Akane climbed out of the crane, and walked over to the rather pained man as Ranma walked away, and kicked him in the head before following.
"Damn foreigners, taking all our work and interfering with crap," Akane groused, as she caught up with the pigtailed boy.
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"FALL FORTH, MY FELLOW ACOLATES! WE SHALL SMITE THE HEATHEN WENCHES THAT SEEK TO PLAGUE OUR MESSIAH!!!" Arch-Bishop Joe bellowed, "UNLEASH ANOTHER VOLLEY OF THE SACRED MOTOLOV COCTAILS!!!"
The Amazons lay under seige in their block territory, as Han Tao attempted to determine a point of weakness from the zealots that challenged them.
"Don't they ever run out of those cursed bombs?!?" Shampoo growled, ducking as a window exploded, shattering glass all over the abandoned warehouse they were holed up in.
"YES! MY BRETHERN! LET US SCORE THE UNHOLY SOIL THESE INFIDELS WALK UPON! LET THE EARTH AND THEIR HOSTILE BURN AND SEAR IN THE FLAMES OF OUR RIGHTIOUSNESS!!!"
"I would just settle for him shutting the Hell up!" another Amazon almost whined, "What is he saying, anyway?"
"Religious jibberish," Han Tao answered, "Those fools are thinking we ain't without our own heat..."
"Huh?" Shampoo and the other surrounding Amazons asked, before ducking from an explosion that shook the whole building.
"Okay, that explosion was a little disconcerting," Shampoo stated, looking around warily. Another loud boom shook the building.
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Ranma and Akane walked down the busy street, and stopped at the store Akane pointed out.
"You sure this is the place?" Ranma enquired, looking into the store window.
"Yup! This is the one Kasumi always gets most her stuff from when she's not at the market," Akane checked her watch, it should be by any time, now.
"Well, let's hurry up and get the rice Kasumi wanted. Just as Ranma stepped in, Akane looked across the street. Ranma couldn't see it, but a sinister grin passed over her face, before it lit up in delight.
"Oh! A BABY!!!" Akane hyperlly pointed to the woman walking a baby carriage on the other side of the street, "I wanna go see it!"
Ranma 'hmphed', "Sure, whatever. Just gimme the money and I'll pick the rice up, alright?" Akane handed him the money, and carefully skipped across the street.
"Oh! How cute!" Akane gushed, stopping the woman.
"Oh, thank you! His name's Ryujin."
"Can I hold him?" Akane asked, making googly eyes at the baby.
"Um, sure!" Akane picked up the baby, being careful to turn the carraige around to get a better hold, and started making goo goo noises at him, while shaking the baby rattler she had in one hand.
"Aren't you just the most adorable little thing? Yes you are! Yes you are!" Akane looked down the street out of the corner of her eye; it was show time. "Oh!" Akane exclaimed, dropping the rattle.
"Don't worry, I'll get it," the woman replied, bending down to pick up the toy. As she was distracted, Akane kicked the baby carraige out into the street.
"OH MY GOD! THAT BABY CARRAIGE!" A bystander screamed. The morning bus happened down the street, right as the carraige crossed its path.
The driver, unknowing that there wasn't a baby in it, swerved to miss it, in turn causing the bus to plow right through the store window Ranma was in.
Well, Ranma was just in, really, as he exited the store with an irritated expression on his face, just as the bus demolished the store front. The building then collapsed down upon itself and around the bus from the structural damage done to it.
Akane growled a curse, as Ranma walked across the street, unpetered by the incident behind him, "Yo, he said there's no such thing! You think Kasumi sent us on a wild goose chase, or something?"
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"[...has been going for several days. Police are considering options on how to disrupt the gang turf war between what seems to be a religious organization and a gang of warrior women. This just in, Ikebi's grocery store collapsed, as a bus plowed through the store front. Witnesses report that the bus swerved to miss a baby carraige that...]"
"Looks like Akane's work," Nabiki replied idly, as she continued to watch the news report.
"It appears so," Kasumi replied, "She must be rusty, only seven people injured."
"We're home!" Akane called out a bit irritatedly, followed by a nonchalant Ranma, "We couldn't find the rice you asked for, Kasumi, where do you usually pick it up?"
"I just usually pick my rice up at..." Kasumi paused, before turning a big, warm, and searingly fake smile to her youngest sister, "That's alright, Akane, I'll just make something else for dinner, tonight."
"If you're really okay with it," Akane replied a bit hesitantly, wondering why Kasumi had her fake smile on. She shrugged, and turned back to Ranma, "You want to go out to the dojo and spar?"
Ranma shrugged, as if he had anything better to do at the moment.
"Great! Let me go get my gi! Be ready for me!" Akane giggled, and rushed upstairs. Kasumi and Nabiki both watched their sister head to her room with a bit more cheer than she would usually put on; everything then snapped into place.
"Youuuu," both present Tendou daughters seethed at the pigtailed boy.
"What? Whadd I do?"