Not A Heart Warming Story
Chapter 2- Training
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"Nerima" a voice chuckled from behind Ranma "Not Exactly."

Turning around Ranma was surprised to see, what appeared to be a dragon. This dragon had greenish gray scales covering his body, a full row of teeth, four legs the top to appearing that they could also be used as arms and a pair of wings on his back. Now normally this would be very intimidating, the only problem being that this dragon seemed to be in total 24 inches tall.

"And just who are you?" Ranma asked, crossing his arms over his chest arrogantly at the mini-sized dragon.

The flying serpent raised his eyebrow at Ranma's attitude and posture and questioned "What you don't remember me boy? I'm hurt beyond belief."

Ranma answered the dragon by saying "Sorry but I think I would have remembered a flying lizard."

Crossing his two top arms over each other the dragon snorted, causing a small puff of smoke to fly out of his nostrils, at Ranma and said "Flying lizard, is that any way to show respect" then shaking his head from side to side he said "I liked you a lot better before."

Ranma hearing his companion's statement became extremely confused and said "Before."

The dragon hmphed at the boy before turning his back on him and flying to the edge of the roof on the opposite side of where Ranma stood said "Yes before, but that's hardly important at the moment isn't it."

Sighing to himself Ranma turned to the city once more, looking over and replied "Yeah guess your right, but I know your wrong this just has to be Nerima, everything looks exactly as I remember it."

Turning around expecting an answer Ranma was quite surprised to see the dragon right in front of his face, while just a second before he was on the complete opposite side of the roof.

"Has anybody ever told you, that your extremely slow" the dragon said inches away from Ranma's face.

Hearing his scaly companion's statement caused anger to well up in Ranma and he shouted "SLOW, I'LL HAVE YOU KNOW I'M EXTREMELY FAST."

Smirking at the pigtailed boy's answer the dragon let out a small laugh and muttered to himself "Not exactly, the smartest of the bunch is he, well that's going to have to change." Before saying out loud "Look for that last time this isn't Nerima, you'll see no little black pigs or uncute tomboys here."

"How...how did you know all that?" stuttered out a shocked Ranma as he went from feeling intense anger to intense confusion in just a moment.

The dragon for some reason Ranma didn't know actually seemed to be disappointed in him, and backed away from the boy while muttering "There's so much to do before he's ready."

Ranma blinking his eyes, he stood without moving, still in obvious confusion and questioned "Ready, ready for what?

When the dragon made it all the way to the opposite side of the roof again, his disappointed expression quickly changed and his smirking face reappeared and he said to the still form of Ranma "That's not really important, but to answer your first question boy, I know everything about you, hell I probably know more about you then you do yourself."

"What do you mean?" Ranma asked still very confused.

With the same infuriating smile on his face the scaled reptilian said "I've seen everything you've done in this life, from your pathetic training trip to all those girls you were surrounded by, and I must say I'm disappointed. All those girls and not once did you take advantage of the situation."

After hearing the last of the dragon's speech, Ranma's attitude once again did a complete 180 as he went from confusion to shock, dropping his head into the palm of his hand, he muttered to himself "Great another pervert that's all I needed, I can't even escape them in death it seems."

The floating dragon started to talk about all the things that Ranma should have down different in his life and more then ten minutes had passed and he showed no signs of stopping, until Ranma had enough and finally interrupted him saying with a little anger creeping into his voice "Okay that's enough I've had enough of being criticized by someone, who's name I don't even know."

When the flying snake failed to respond Ranma looked up, and for the first time sense entering this strange world Ranma saw a confused expression on the dragon's face.

Looking at the boy, the serpent asked "You don't know my name?"

Starting to feel that anger from before return, out of frustration he screamed out "NO WHY THE HELL WOULD I KNOW YOUR NAME!"

Still confused the dragon repeated "You don't know my name" before adopting a happy grin and saying "Well that's easily rectified, my name is..."

Blinking stupidly at the pint sized menace, Ranma confusedly said "I'm sorry what was that I couldn't hear it."

Looking confused again the dragon asked "You couldn't hear it... not at all?"

Confused again Ranma brought his hand up to the base of his pigtail and said "Well I heard everything up to the point where you were going to say your name."

Looking disappointed again the dragon flew to the opposite side of the roof turned to face Ranma and said "Well then kid, if you don't know who I am, how did you even find your way here, and what are you even doing here."

Still with his hands on the pigtail Ranma answered "Well some weird guy in a hat, said for me to come here and get a sword or something."

Looking up sharply the dragon said to the boy "Weird guy in a hat, tell me did this guy have a cane as well."

Nodding his head in the affirmative, Ranma replied "Yeah he did, why you know him."

The mini-dragon floated in spot while rubbing his chin while in deep thought, ignoring Ranma he muttered to himself "So Urahara knows of this as well, I wonder" before being brought out of his thoughts by Ranma.

Looking up dazedly, the dragon said "I'm sorry what did you say."

Feeling angry again, Ranma repeated "Well, I'm waiting."

The dragon stared at Ranma, blinking a couple of times in confusion, and then gained an enlightened facial expression and said "Oh you're here to get the sword, why didn't you say so."

Sighing in annoyance, Ranma finally calmed down and said "Look can you just get the sword and I'll be on my way."

Smirking at Ranma, the flying reptile said "So you wish to wield me again, wield my power."

Feeling confused again all Ranma could do was sigh once again ask very politely "Look can I please just have the sword.

The dragon seemed to contemplate his request tapping one of his clawed fingers against his chin and saying "Well since you asked so nicely...no."

Looking surprised at the pint size dragon, Ranma repeated "No" before exploding and saying "WHY NOT!"

The pint size reptile taking joy out of Ranma's distress said "Look boy, you wish to wield what you once had, you have to prove yourself in my eyes."

Grabbing his head on each side and starting to pull out his hair, Ranma exasperatingly ground out "Fine then" then saying very mockingly " How do I prove myself to you."

After saying this Ranma was hit with a sudden feeling of doom as the dragon's smirk turned predatory and the dragon replied "How nothing much, just beat me in a game."


While all of this was happening back in Ichigo's room, Ichigo and Kon were just now noticing the disappearance of Rukia and their new guest.

"WHERE DID THEY GO" Ichigo screamed while pulling on his hair "THEY COULD'VE AT LEAST GAVE US A HINT."

Kon, who was standing next to Ichigo with his arms crossed across it's chest said in a condescending voice "I blame this on you, now my sweet sweet Rukia is all alone with that Shinigami pervert and we have no way of helping her" he then started to cry and finished saying "Who knows what kind of terrible things he could be doing to her at this moment."

"Oh shut up, don't even try to pawn this off on me" Ichigo said growling at the little stuff animal.

"Well of course this is all your fault, if you would show me even the littlest of respect, I wouldn't have had to beat you all around this room" Kon explain, while crossing his arms over his chest.

"Beat me" Ichigo repeated, while growling "That's it I've had enough of your mouth."

And with that the chase was back on, and any thoughts on finding where Rukia had gone completely forgotten.


Back in Ranma's mind scape.

"A game?" asked a confused looking Ranma.

"Yes a game, it's quite a simple actually, the game is much like what you humans call tag, all you have to do is hit me once" the dragon replied smiling.

Raising an eyebrow in question, he raised his index finger into the air and repeated "Just once?"

Smiling happily the dragon, lifted one of his clawed fingers into the air mocking Ranma gesture and repeated simply while nodding in the affirmative "Oh yes, just once and I'll gladly let you have access to my power."

Smiling arrogantly, Ranma did a few quick stretches and said confidently "Well then this shouldn't take long."

Smiling back at the pig-tailed boy the dragon simply said "Well then, are you ready."

Looking at the dragon and taking a basic anything-goes stance Ranma nodded his head up and down.

"The let's begin" the dragon declared.

Hearing the declaration Ranma went into action running straight at the dragon, not nearly at his top speed, and threw a punch at his enemy.

Only for it to hit nothing but air.

Looking around widely for his opponent, he heard a taunting voice from directly behind him snidely say "Did you actually expect to hit me with such a weak attack, I'm actually insulted that you think so little of me."

Turning around and running at the still grinning dragon Ranma threw another series of punches and kicks all of which the dragon dodged while showing minimal effort.

"Is that really all that you have what a disappointment" the dragon taunted.

Growling to himself, Ranma decided to take this fight up a notch and shouted "Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken" at the top of his voice and tried to rain down punches, only to find that instead of the lightning quick strikes he was expecting to throw from the attack he found himself throwing his normal average speeded punches at his foe. Which the dragon easily dodged around.

Ranma instantly stopped his assault against his scaly enemy and stared at his hands confusedly.

The winged snake seeing his oblivious look sighed to himself and said "Oh wait I forgot, your incredibly slow."

Ranma's anger flared up again, but he stayed in control and asked "Then why don't you speed me up""

Sighing again while dropping his head onto his top left hand and said "Okay" then lifting his head up and staring at the new Shinigami he drawled out "If you remember correctly you died, and with your death your human body died as well."

"So?" Ranma questioned still not understanding what he was getting at.

"And with your human body, all of that which powered you human body is gone as well, you can no longer use the thing that you once called 'ki'" then smiling at the boy he said "You have a completely new energy source that you must learn to master, especially if you ever hope to touch me."

Ranma stood still on the roof, contemplating what the dragon said, only to have his thought process stopped by the dragon saying "Are you done already, I haven't even started to sweat yet, no wonder you lost versus that winged freak."

Growling angrily Ranma forgot completely about there little competition and felt the need to defend himself saying while pointing a finger at his flying opponent "I didn't lose we tied there's a difference."

Calmly examining his nails the pint-sized flying lizard said "And yet he's alive and your dead, I would chalk that up to the lost column if you ask me."

Getting more and more angry, Ranma replied through clenched teeth "But I stilled saved Akane's life."

Lifting his head in amusement the only other occupant of the world said "If I remember right it was the one wearing the bandana that took her to the spring, if not for that she would have sadly died and all your efforts would have meant nothing."

Growling to himself, Ranma angrily threw punch after punch at the diminutive dragon, but found the dragon easily dodging everything that he threw at him.

"Is this all" the flying reptile taunted as he flowed around the fist of Ranma. "I've had a harder exercise in my sleep" he continued.

"Stay still you over-sized snake" Ranma said as he found his attacks continued to be easily dodged.

Ranma, without even realizing it, was subconsciously starting to leak out a new kind of power source and each punch he threw started to be thrown faster and with more strength then the last.

While Ranma may not have realizing it, his opponent picked up on it extremely quick. 'It would seem the angrier he gets the more he relies on his Shinigami instincts' then smiling viciously the dragon thought again 'Good then I know the perfect button to push.'

Flying to another roof top, the serpent quickly made space between him and the enraged shinigami.

Turning around he watched as Ranma jumped over to the roof top he was currently floating over.

Ranma seeing the dragon still smirking at him arrogantly, started to get more and more angry and with it was unconsciously releasing more and more of the unknown power source.

The pint sized dragon's smile grew even larger at this sight and said "Now I can see why that human girl ran straight into the pig's arms, you were much to weak to mean anything to her."

Hearing his words, Ranma's anger raised to a breaking point an with it like a dam breaking, the power that Ranma had never felt in this lifetime before rushed through every pore of his body until physically manifesting out of his body, where a blue aura surrounded his entire body, and started spinning much like a small tornado.

The winged lizard smiled at the sight which was unfolding in front of him, and with a twinkle in his eye brought his upper left hand to eye level, where lighting flowed through it for a second before he closed it into a fist, and with it the lighting stopped.

As soon as the dragon's left hand closed, a glow started to form in Ranma's left hand from with in the spinning vortex, until it finally formed the shape of a wooden sword.

Ranma from inside the spinning vortex got into a fighting stance, and without even realizing it brought his right hand over to the handle of the sword, without taking his eyes off of the floating dragon. Pulling on the handle he unsheathed the sword, then disappearing from his spot on the roof and moving at a speed that was almost impossible to follow he reappeared right in front of his still smiling opponent, and brought the unsheathed sword down upon the serpent slicing him I in half, but as soon as the sword cut down the beast it disappeared leaving Ranma all alone on the roof.

With the source of his anger gone, Ranma found that the anger he once felt was washing away from him, and a new sense of calm seemed to take it's place.

Sheathing the sword, he then and brought it up to eye level. Staring at it, he muttered to himself "Is this what I came here for, seems kinda small to go through all that trouble for."

But before Ranma could contemplate any further a storm seemed to form all around the world he was in, and looking up what he saw caused him to gasp in surprise.

For when he looked up, he saw the now not so small dragon coiled around the city, like a snake getting ready to squeeze the life out of it's prey, only there seemed to be no end to his body.

The not giant sized dragon brought his face down to where Ranma stood on the roof, still wearing that slightly sadistic smile on his face.

Speaking in a booming voice that echoed all around Ranma, the dragon said "CONGRATULATIONS BOY, YOU HAVE WON ARE LITTLE GAME, HOPEFULLY THE NEXT TIME WE MEET, YOU WILL REMEMBER MY NAME."

After hearing the dragon's speech, a black portal popped into existence just above Ranma's head, and no sooner then it opened did he find himself being sucked up into it, and to someplace else all together.


The next minute was very confusing to Ranma, as he twisted and turned his way through the black portal.

One second he was standing on the roof with the dragon talking to him and the next he was back in the room with Rukia, on his back laying on the floor, feeling like a truck just ran him over.

Laying dizzy on the floor, Ranma could barely make out someone calling out to him. Looking over Ranma was surprised to see a little girl that looked very much like a younger version of Rukia smiling towards him, wearing a dirty flowered dress.

Shaking his head, Ranma's vision cleared and the dizziness passed and where the young kid sat, now sat Rukia. Realizing she was saying something Ranma questioned "I'm sorry, what?"

Looking relieved Rukia repeated "I asked, if you were okay."

Sitting up, Ranma gingerly rubbed the side of his head as he said "Yeah I think so."

Smiling Kisuke walked back into the room, while fanning himself he called out "Welcome back mister Saotome, how was your little trip, I see it was at least worth while."

"Worth while" Ranma replied, turning around till he was facing the now entering Kisuke.

"Yeap" he replied closing his fan and using it to point towards the sword that was in his left hand.

Looking down at were he was pointing Ranma was surprised to the sword he was carrying before still in his hand.

"Congratulations" Kisuke said from no where pulling out a bunch of confetti and streamers and throwing them up into the air. While the little girl from before was behind holding up two sparklers one in each hand, and the little boy seemed to be wrestling with his, clearly frustrated with the fact that he couldn't light his.

"Um...thanks I think" Ranma said staring stupidly at the scene in front of him, before leaning towards Rukia and whispering "What is he doing?"

"I have no idea" Rukia dead panned, clearly not amused.

"So what do we do?" Ranma asked Rukia, still in a whisper.

Waving her hand towards the door, Rukia said "Let's just leave, after all you have the sword now. Besides those two fools have been left alone to long, there's no telling how much damage they've caused."

Ranma who was just staring at the scene of a grown man throwing confetti and streamers in the air said "I guess."

With that the two got up and made there way out of Kisuke's shop, only to be stopped by Kisuke calling out to them "Wait Mr. Saotome, please return here tomorrow when both Mr. Kurosaki and Miss. Kuchiki go to school tomorrow" and then as an after thought he said "Oh yes and please bring your sword, it will be put to great use."

Ranma once again looked down at the sword still clutched in his left hand, nodded his head up and down and called out "Okay" before following Rukia who walked through the door before him.

Seeing the two of them walk out the door, Kisuke's smile instantly fell off and he said to himself "Things are about to get very interesting" before turning to an opened window on the side of the room that was just occupied by Ranma and Rukia and said to an unknown person "Wouldn't you say so."

He then turned away from the window and moved further into his shop, revealing a little black cat that was sitting on the window sill, watching everything that happened in the room through slitted eyes.


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Now in some reviews I got people wanted his Zanpaku-to spirit to be that of a cat, as you could plainly see I didn't go that route mostly because I didn't want to use something that he feared and hated as his spirit. Besides the whole Ranma gaining something or power in cat form is kinda overdone so I went the route as the slightly less overdone dragon.

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