Family Socializing
Lunch
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma Half or Sailor Moon, both are owned by their respective creators and some big companies. I am making no money of this work.
Author's Notes: Sorry for the wait, I haven't had much time to write the last few weeks, well anyway here's the chapter
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"I wonder what's taking so long. They should have found Hotaru by now." Ami said as she looked around for her friends to which Usagi just shrugged. "Are you okay? I mean usually you're the one who would be worried if Makoto wasn't here as she gives you some of the delicious things she makes for lunch."
"I'm not very hungry right now." Usagi replied, "What are you doing?" Usagi asked as Ami looked around to make sure no one was watching and pulled out the Mercury computer.
"I'm scanning to make sure you're really Usagi and not an Imposter." Ami answered. "Huh, it says you are you." Ami frowned as she put her computer away, "So, please tell me what's bothering you?"
"Hey Usagi, Ami." Makoto smiled as she walked into view with Minako, Hotaru, and a boy Ami didn't recognize trailing behind.
"What kept you?" Ami asked as Makoto plopped next to her friends
"The three of us had to take care of some jerks hassling Hotaru." Minako answered.
Ami smiled at Ranma, "Hi my name is Ami, and this is Usagi." Ranma looked at Usagi for a moment.
'Why does the blonde girl with the funny hair seem familiar' "I'm Ranma, nice to meet ya." Ranma smiled back.
"Ranma, if you do end up needing a tutor the person Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa were talking about is probably Ami." Hotaru said.
"How do you know Michiru and Haruka?" Usagi asked.
"Michiru's my cousin, my mom arranged it so I'm gonna spend the school year with them since I've never met any of my relatives." Ranma responded as he sat down next to Hotaru
"How come you've never met her until now?" Minako asked as she sat down next to Ranma.
"Well, for ten years me and pops were on a martial arts training journey, didn't even know I had any other family until my Mom showed up at the place I was stayin." Ranma answered.
'Was he kidnapped by his father?' Ami thought.
"What style of martial arts to you study and what type of things did you do for training?" Makoto asked excitedly.
"I practice Anything Goes Martial Arts, a style that's designed to adapt to any circumstance by learning moves from all styles and mixing it with what you already know. As for training, Pops taught me the basics of several styles and then we would find other masters of the art and convince them to teach me their style and then I would find it's strengths and weaknesses and figure out when it's best to use it or it's moves and when it would be bad. Then he also had me go through a bunch of really crazy training techniques to strengthen me up, usually cause he wanted to try the easy way out of trying to train me." Ranma answered.
"What sort of techniques?" Makoto asked hoping to learn something she could use in her own training.
'Oh no, he's gonna talk more about the horrible things his papa did.' Hotaru thought.
"Let's see, he used a technique that increased my stamina, strength, and speed. But no sane person would ever consider using this. See what he did is he took me to this snowy forest that was known for having vicious wolves, he then sat on a couch, had me carry it then I had to find the wolves, then run away from them until they got too exhausted to chase me anymore." Ranma said.
"Are you serious?" Usagi asked in shock.
"Uh huh, not even close to the craziest thing pops has had me do either." Ranma responded.
"But, wolves can reach up to forty miles per hour, run for long periods of time, and they generally leave humans alone." Ami said.
"Yeah those things were chasing me for a couple hours before they decided it would be easier to hunt something else. As for why they were chasing me, I'm not sure but I know pops poured something on me before hand so maybe it was something to attract them." Ranma replied.
"That's horrible, why would he even consider doing something like that?" Minako asked.
"I don't know, but he's done a lot of things like that." Ranma said.
"Do you know any techniques that aren't crazy and likely to get me killed?" Makoto asked.
"Yep, I know a bunch, but most of them are still painful, but most things with training are bound to leave you sore afterwards." Ranma answered before his stomach growled. "Um, you mind if I start eating."
"Oh go ahead, we should probably start before lunch ends." Makoto said as she pulled out two bentos, a normal sized one and another larger one. "I made some chocolate cake today Usagi." Makoto grinned as she waved the bento at her friend.
"I-I'm not very hungry today." Usagi whispered as she looked away from the bento.
"Are you sick?" Makoto asked as she put her hand against her friends forehead.
"I'm fine, I don't have to be sick to not be hungry." Usagi waved her friends hand away.
"Even with all of us no way we can eat all this." Makoto frowned as she looked at all the treats she made. "Ranma, do you want some?"
"Sure." Ranma exclaimed, "Just however much you all don't want throw over here."
"There's gonna be a lot left, I got a whole nother Bento in my backpack." Makoto said causing Ranma's grin to widen.
Ranma began to demolish the food in front of him as Minako, Makoto, and Ami stared in shock and looked back and forth between him and Usagi.
"Makoto you're a great cook, this chocolate cake is as good as Kasumi's." Ranma declared between bites.
"I'm happy you like it, but who is Kasumi?" Makoto asked, 'please don't be a girlfriend, please don't be a girlfriend.' Makoto and Minako silently pleaded.
"Oh in Nerima me an Pops stayed with an old friend of his, Soun Tendo who has three daughters, Kasumi is the oldest, nicest and a really great housekeeper and cook." Ranma answered
"So were you dating her?" Minako asked.
"Hahaha, Kasumi, no way. I mean sure she's nice, pretty, and a really good cook, but she was like a big sister."
"What were the other sisters like?" Ami asked.
"Well, the middle sister is Nabiki and she's the most dangerous one and also the smartest, she runs all sorts of things in Nerima that are not necessarily legal, but it's nothing that really hurts anyone and she uses the money she gets to pay for household expenses. So she's really not a bad person."
"Why does she pay the bills instead of her father?" Makoto asked.
"Mr. Tendo is as useless as Pops, he hasn't done much other then cry and drink since his wife died several years ago and left his daughters to take care of everything, the only other thing he really does is when he and pops scheme to come up with plans to unite the schools."
"Unite the schools?" Makoto asked.
"Yeah before I was born Pops and Mr. Tendo were training under the perverted grandmaster of Anything Goes Happosai and they made a pledge to have their kids get married and combine they're styles into one." Ranma said.
"So you're engaged to one of the Tendo sisters." Makoto said dejectedly.
"Unfortunately, and that's not the only engagement either." Ranma frowned.
"What do you mean it's not the only engagement?" Ami asked.
"Pops engaged me to several girls on our training trip in return for their Dowry, then he would take me in the middle of the night and run. On top of that Soun engaged his daughters to a couple princes in return for money or other things." Ranma answered.
"So what's the third sister like?" Ami asked.
"She's a violent, uncute, tomboy, who can't cook, but tries to feed me the poison she makes anyway, and always jumps to the worst conclusions about me and they want me to marry a her I don't think so." Ranma grumbled, "Akane didn't even bother to see me off before I came here."
'Damn, he likes her, but at least he doesn't realize it. There's still hope.' Minako thought.
"So, how many fiancées do you have?" Makoto questioned.
"I lost count a while back, but the girls who are still around are the tomboy, my best friend Uc-chan, this Chinese Amazon Shampoo, and then this Psychotic girl Kodachi Kuno keeps trying to kidnap me, but she's not a fiancée, last time I checked anyway." Ranma replied.
'Sounds like he has relationship problems too, but he's not getting depressed.' Usagi sighed "Mind if I have a piece of that cake after all?" Usagi asked.
"Here ya go." Ranma smiled at Usagi as he handed her a large piece of the cake that was nearly gone.
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"I'm surprised you were able to talk to people you just met so freely." Hotaru said later that day as she and Ranma were walking home from school.
"So am I, I'm usually not good at talking to people and feel really uncomfortable until I get used to them, but something about all of you feels familiar, Haruka and Michiru too." Ranma answered.
"Really, that's strange, but I feel the same way." Hotaru said as she walked towards the door to her house, "Since Michiru-mama and Haruka-papa's classes start a bit later we'll have to wait another hour until they get home." Hotaru said to Ranma as they walked inside.
"Hmm, Michiru seemed like a really tidy person, I'm surprised she'd leave her clothes all along the stairs." Ranma stated as he noticed the things Michiru was wearing at breakfast strewn about.
"What? That's not like Michiru-mama at all." Hotaru responded before the two heard loud moans from up stairs. 'Oh no, they always lose track of time when they…' Hotaru blushed.
"It sounds like someone's hurt we should go up and make sure Michiru and Haruka are okay." Ranma said as he started for the stairs.
"Nonononono." Hotaru panicked "We can't go up there right now, they get cranky when interrupted." Hotaru said as she remembered the time Haruka-papa smacked Pluto through the wall for teleporting in on them.
"OH GOD." Someone shouted from up stairs.
"It sounds like they could be in a lot of trouble though." Ranma stated.
"They're not in any danger." Hotaru whispered embarrassed.
"But, how do you know, I mean you don't usually make noises like they are unless there's something wrong, right?" Ranma asked.
Hotaru blushed brighter at the thought of her doing something to cause those noises and waved Ranma over and whispered in his ear what was going on between her parents.
"Oh." Was all Ranma said before he fainted and fell backwards.
Hotaru sighed as she took a notepad out of her book bag and wrote a note for her parents.
Michiru-mama
Since you and Haruka-papa seemed busy when we got home, I'm going to take Ranma to the arcade until you're free. Please pick us up when you're done.
Love,
Hotaru
'How many times have we been late to or had to cancel all together because Mama and Papa lose track of time while playing together.' Hotaru thought as she began to haul Ranma out the front door.
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OMAKE
"Oh darn, I forgot a book back at school, Ranma you go on ahead. Here's my key to the house, I'll see you in a few minutes." Hotaru said as she ran back to the school.
Ranma shrugged and continued his way home and opened the door and poured himself a glass of water.
"OH GOD" someone screamed causing Ranma to jump spilling water on herself.
'Sounds like someone's in trouble I better go check it out.' Ranma thought as she raced up the stairs.
Considering his life Ranma was ready for demons or crazed princes, what he was not ready for was his cousin dressed up as a Youma and "assaulting" Haruka who was dressed up as a school girl.
Thump, Ranma's jaw hit the floor "Oh look master another source of sexual energy for you to feed off of." Haruka said followed by, THUMP, the rest of Ranma hitting the ground.
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Well here's the chapter, again I'm sorry for the delay. All reviews are appreciated.