Miss Ranma
Chapter Seventeen
!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS"
"Hmm… You look like you're in good shape,' the newcomer announced, landing on the ground, turning towards Ranma, and flexing her fingers.
The smiling, teenage girl regarded Ranma with a wicked gleam in her brighter, left eye. With a brazen toss of her head, she shook her dark hair that was styled into two thick horn-like bangs on either side of her head fastened with a pink ribbon. The girl's fair, pretty face while attractive had a look of malevolence to it, sending an intimidating, red-eyed glare in pigtailed girl's direction. Her palms were covered up with pink colored gloves while her fingers with pink painted fingernails stayed visible. As she breathed, the center of her heaving bosom was covered by a dark purple breastplate held up by black straps that fastened to form a spider pattern on her back while the outer sides of her breasts and the rest of her fair-skinned torso laid bare. Her hips swayed back and forth in long, baggy, silver/white colored trousers and purple tights. Her fast-moving feet were wrapped in black, leaving her pink-colored toenails visible for the world to see.
"So who are you, already?" Ranma had begun to tap her feet on the ground, getting impatient with the slender girl who lazily stretched her legs.
"I'm Juri Han." The lithe warrior stood on one leg, her other leg dangling at her side as she got in a martial arts stance, poised to strike! "Word on the street is that you used to be a guy, but now you're a girl. Those things," she pointed to Ranma's chest with her thumb, "look fake and oversized. How much did you pay for them?"
"Listen, you…"
"So were you originally a guy or a girl? Whatever," the young girl said lazily. Then she crouched, reaching her hands out towards Ranma in a grasping fashion, her countenance getting deadly serious! "I'll just rip you apart and find out."
"I'm Ranma Saotome, and I accept your challenge. Your move," the pigtailed girl announced, getting in a stance with her knees slightly bent while on her toes as her hands moved slowly.
"Juri Han's one of the most dangerous fighters in the world!" someone in the audience called out, recognizing the famous street fighter. "Ranma's in for it now."
"Like that?" Juri started the fight with a laugh and an upwards snap kick with her dangling leg that Ranma barely avoided by gliding backward on the ground. Then the slender girl leaped up into the air and came crashing down on Ranma, attacking with a fast-paced roundhouse kick combination that failed to get by the pigtailed girls' defenses. However, when Juri landed she quickly attacked with a leg sweep that knocked the pigtailed girl off her feet before she could mount a counter-attack.
"This girl's feet move so fast!" Ranma thought to herself as she landed on her feet and crouched to block her opponent's low attack, kick barrage. However, Juri had gone to the well one too many times, allowing Ranma to spot an opening. !CRACK!
"Why you…" Juri moaned as Ranma counter-attacked with a low strike of her own that knocked the horn haired girl off her feet.
"You'll regret!" The leggy girl reversed herself, twisted around in the air, and struck Ranma on her head and shoulders with a lightning-fast kick combination before the pigtailed girl could get up. "Haha!" Upon knocking the pigtailed girl into the air, she nailed her with several kick combinations that made Ranma reel backward.
Then Ranma moved in on her opponent at superhuman speed and attacked! "Tenshin amaguriken!"
"Why you…" Juri found herself struck countless times with fists of fury. She had barely kept herself from being stunned when she zipped backward on the ground. "Over here!"
"She's not getting away from me now!" However, as Ranma zoomed in to follow up on her previous attack, she realized too late that she had fallen into a trap, Juri's Kaisen Dankairaku kick attack.
Time slowed to a crawl as Juri lowered herself in a crouch, stretching her legs outwards. "This is the end for you!" The horn headed girl struck Ranma with countless spinning kicks using both feet and knocking her high into the sky, going with her as her deadly kicks sent Ranma higher and higher. Then Juri got above her and kicked downward, practically stepping on her opponent. Before Ranma came crashing to the ground, Juri speedily got there first thus was waiting for her. Kicking the small of Ranma's back and holding her up with the same foot, she whispered in the stunned girl's ear. "That felt good, didn't it?" Then horn headed girl used her prehensile legs to violently slam the pigtailed girl to the ground head first.
"Oof!"
"Come on! You're not done already, are you?" Juri said in a taunt as she flexed her leg muscles, stretching her leg to the point her foot was behind her head.
"No, I'm not!" Ranma got up quickly, surprising her opponent with a rapid-fire ki blast that knocked her back a few feet as it cut through her.
"Why you…" Without missing a beat, Juri leaped into the air and came crashing down on Ranma from a diagonal slant, kicking her several times using each leg, knocking her into the sky. "Hold still! You're finished! Hola! Hola! Hola! Hola! Hola! Hola!" Juri then struck Ranma countless times with superhumanly fast spinning kicks with ki energy blasts coming out of her feet at the same time, causing Ranma to come crashing to the ground. "Stings, doesn't it?"
"Ungh!" "Where did this girl come from? Can't stay down. Ranma Saotome doesn't lose!" Ranma got up quickly and flew upwards into her opponent's midsection fists first after swerving to avoid a deadly kick barrage. !SMASH! "Shoryken!" !KAPOW! Ranma nailed Juri Han with a Dragon Punch, striking her opponent in the midsection then jaw, snapping the horn headed girl's head back.
As Juri glided downward, she twisted around and struck Ranma with a triple kick combination, striking with her right leg first, then her left, then her right again, hitting Ranma's legs, stomach, and head. "Go to…"
Ranma flew upwards in a diagonal fashion, counter-attacking with a volley of ki blasts on her adversary who went crashing to the ground.
As Ranma touched down and made her way towards her opponent, Juri got up quickly and struck the pigtailed girl with her pinwheel strike, doing countless somersault kicks in rapid-fire concession. "Like that?"
"Ungh!"
"This is the end for you!" Even though Juri had quickly set up once again for her Kaisen Dankairaku attack, Ranma was ready for it, thus she blocked the attack, causing the horn haired girl to go flying into the sky, her kicks only finding air.
"Never mind that. Try this attack!" Ranma countered with a speed kick attack of her own, taking to the air and striking her opponent with a helicopter-like attack which nailed Juri in her stomach, knocking her a little higher and then on to the ground.
"Why, you…" Before Juri could finish her sentence, she took several hits from Ranma's autofire ki blast attack. "Ha, ha!" Then Juri took to the air herself giving several kicks in Ranma's direction, creating ki blasts of her own, sending them from her feet as opposed from her hands.
"Oof!" Ranma had arrogantly dodged the ki blasts, but the energy had come back much like boomerangs, hitting the sparkling redhead in the back.
The horn haired girl practically flew into the air to meet Ranma and strike her with another three kick combination. Before Ranma could recover, Juri kicked her in the jaw, snapping her head back. Then she struck Ranma on the top of her head with a two-fisted ax handle strike. Before Ranma came crashing to the ground, Juri struck her several times with attacks that seemed to resemble stomping more than kicks. "Like that? Does that feel gooood?"
"Shoryuken!" Ranma screamed, rising with a Dragon Punch that struck her opponent's feet, shins, thighs, stomach, chest, and head, knocking her up further into the sky.
"Ungh! Whatever." Juri quickly landed on the ground and zipped over to Ranma, crouching downward while stretching her legs. "You're finished! Hola! Hola! Hola! Hola! Hola!" The horn headed girl attacked with feet of fury, hitting Ranma with over a dozen roundhouse kicks, ending her attack with an auto-fire pinwheel, somersault kick barrage.
"Ooh!" Ranma moaned. "I don't know how much more of this I can take. Here she comes again! I'm just going to go all out against her. May the better girl win." As the two combatants came at each other, Ranma poured on the speed, getting so close to nullify her opponent's inhumanly fast kicking power. Then she attacked. "Tenshin amaguriken!" While using her fists to pound on the girl, Ranma used her gliding feet to move backward or forward as was needed to stay outside of kicking range and to block any low kicks Juri managed to get out. This forced the horn headed girl to rely more on her fists which were simply no match for Ranma's superior punching power.
"Why you… Go to…" !POW!CRACK!SMASH!
As Ranma kept up the pressure, Juri began to back up. And as soon as she began to waver, Ranma delivered the coup de tat. "Shooryuuuken!" The pigtailed girl struck with a powerful Dragon Punch sending her adversary high into the sky.
"I'll have my reveeenge!" Juri screamed as she crashed to the ground unconscious.
"You need to work on your punches," Ranma stated as she touched down. "You rely too much on your kicks."
"Wow, Ranma! I don't believe you beat Juri Han like that!"
"Whew! Hey, Sakura!"
"The last time I fought Juri Han she almost killed me! I'm happy to see you've done so well, Ranma."
"Thanks, Sakura. That was one of the toughest fights I've ever had."
Then Nabiki came running over to them. "Why did she want to fight you, Ranma? When everyone heard how tough this girl was, they bet against you. If you hadn't have won I would have been out of a lot of money."
"You've made so much money off of me that you shouldn't be complaining about it. Sheesh!" Ranma responded.
"Juri Han often fights people for the fun of it, Nabiki," Sakura explained.
Then Sakura noticed many of the guys surrounding the downed form of the horn haired girl, ogling her. "You guys better get away from her. She's dangerous. You don't want anything to do with her!"
"Oh, she's so hot!" one of the guys stated.
"She doesn't have the rack Ranma has, but she still looks good," another opined.
"Can't you guys think of something else?" Ranma asked the boys who steadily ignored her.
!KRAKADOOM! All of a sudden it got dark and lightning struck the sky. "What was that?" Sakura asked no one in particular.
"Sounds like a bad omen."
"Hmm." Ranma stood there, regarding the sky and reflecting on it.
XXX
At that time, there was a cave in the Hida Mountains whose mouth was covered by a boulder with mystical wards on it.
However, deep from within the darkness of the cave, the evil awoke. !BOOM! went the boulder as it exploded into pebbles.
Out of the cold, dark maw of the cave came a small, gnome sized, little old man. After walking a few feet from the cave, he fell and went to sleep only to awaken again.
XXX
The next day, a bunch of Furinkan High School girls was jogging on the street around the school, wearing tight shorts and T-shirts.
"Huff!"
"Huff!"
"Huff!"
"Eeeek!" the girls screamed as a small, gnome sized man came flying towards them, groping and fondling them on various parts of their bodies.
"Akane!" the little, old man screamed as he flew from one girl to another.
"What's going on?" Akane called out, walking over them after having seen the commotion.
The old man and the girls turned around to see Akane standing there. "Hey, Akane. I think this thing is looking for you," one of the girls answered, removing the thing that was stuck to her chest.
The old man turned towards the blue-haired girl. "Akane, it's me!" Upon the onset of the creature leaping towards her torso, Akane slammed it with her book bag.
"Do you know this guy, Akane?"
"No. I've never seen this guy before."
"You don't know who I am?" the old man replied with tears.
"I'll try to remember," Akane responded with a little bit of pity.
"Oh, that's all right. Just let me have a nice cry in your bosom." As the little old man jumped towards Akane, she struck him down with her book bag again.
"Who's this?" Ranma asked, looking down on the little gnome.
"Akane!" the old man screamed, flying into Ranma's chest.
"Eeeeek!" Ranma then proceeded to pound the little old man into the ground. "Get off me, you freak!"
"Hmm. I don't think I've ever seen you before." Then the old man stopped and looked up at Ranma for a moment. "Maybe if I remove that ridiculous pigtail string, I'll figure out who you are." All of a sudden, the little old man popped right behind Ranma and took the string that held Ranma's hair in place, causing her red locks to lusciously cascade downward.
"Give that back!" Ranma called out, chasing after the old man while her hair flowed back with the wind.
"Lookie what I got! Woo hoo!"
"Come back here, old man!"
"Pretty, young things like you shouldn't be wearing stuff like this." !SIZZLE! Happosai had taken out his pipe and used it to set Ranma pigtail string on fire, burning it into smoke.
"Why, you…"
"Ooh la la!" the old man called out, regarding Ranma's long hair. "Now that's much better! Now we need to do something about those clothes. Must you hide your beautiful body with such insipid apparel?"
The old man whipped out a sharp instrument the size of a pen and poised it at Ranma's over-worked tunic. Akane shivered at the idea of Ranma being once again stripped naked in front of everyone, making every boy in site way too happy while giving every girl within eyesight an inferior complex. "Who are you?"
The old man turned towards Akane. "You must be Soun Tendo's daughter since you're so spirited and so healthy."
"You know my father?" Akane asked.
"Why don't you tell us the whole story before I give you the beating of your life?" Ranma said while she cracked her knuckles and regarded the diminutive old man.
XXX
A while later, Ranma and Akane arrived home with an unexpected guest. "Hey, Pop, Mr. Tendo!" Ranma called out with Akane right behind her. "This guy says he's a friend of yours."
Both Soun and Genma had looks of shock on their faces when they saw their diminutive master regarding them shrewdly.
"Hello there, Soun and Genma. It's been a long time, hasn't it?"
Then Soun had a look of sharpness on his face. "Oh, Master, it's so great to see you! Are you well?" Soun said in greeting as he seemingly gave the old man an affectionate hug.
"I'm as healthy as ever. Heh, heh!"
However, Soun tried to smash the little old man's head in with a martial arts killing attack, but the grandmaster was well aware of Soun's bad intentions. Intercepting the offending fist, he threw his student off of him, up into the air, and down through the wooden floor.
"Going somewhere, Genma?" the old man called out to the panda who was trying to quietly get away from there.
[I'm just a cute little panda,] the wooden sign the panda showed said.
"You haven't changed one bit, Genma," the diminutive, old man said, regarding the intelligent panda.
"You weren't going to leave me to face this alone, were you, Saotome?" Soun said, regarding his nervous friend shrewdly.
"What's going on here?" Akane stated, surprised at how her father was acting.
XXX
A few moments later, everyone in the household was sitting down in the main meeting room.
"Now what happened?" Ranma asked her father and his friend.
"Around twenty years ago, Soun and I trained in Anything Goes under our master day after day. There were many times when we'd have to work off what our master had stolen," Genma explained, having turned back into a man with the application of hot water.
"The training was brutal," Soun interjected.
"All too true. The fact that our master stole so much from so many people made the training worse when we had to pay for what he had stolen," Genma explained.
"There were even times the master would tie us up and starve us while he gorged himself on sumptuous food."
"Will you get to the point?" Ranma interjected impatiently.
"I'll get to it, you impertinent, child!" Genma stated testily. "Anyway, one day we brought the master several gallons of sake, getting him so drunk that he passed out."
"So while the master slept, we tied him up and put him inside a box laden with dynamite. Then we threw him inside a cave after setting off the fuse and covering the cave with a large boulder," Soun explained.
Then it was Genma's turn to talk. "We were certain we were rid of the master."
"That's right, but you made one mistake; you didn't finish me off," the master said as he drank up much of the household's sake.
"True," both men stated quietly." Then both men had backpacks on their backs and took off for the door.
"Where do you guys think you're going?" the old man said, appearing right in front of them.
"Er... Um. We're going out to..."
"You guys can stay here." Then the old man turned towards the girls in the room. "It's time I introduce myself. I'm Happosai, Grandmaster of Anything Goes!" the old man announced with aplomb and an increase in his battle aura.
"Gasp!" Nabiki exhaled. Then she and her sisters introduced themselves while Ranma scrutinized the old man.
"So you're Soun's daughters."
"I'm Ranma Saotome, Genma's daughter."
"Ah, yes. Figures Genma would fail to turn you into a boy. I'm ever so happy he did fail though. You girls with your various sizes look pretty good. I like 'em big; I like 'em small; I like 'em all. Heh, heh," the dirty old man said, practically drooling all over himself.
"I know she's only a girl, but she's a great martial artist despite her inferior gender, Master," Genma said, putting Ranma forward.
"Hmm. Nice muscle tone, but I can't train a girl."
"Inferior gender? Listen, old man, I don't know what your game is, but you're beginning to annoy meeeeeee!" All of a sudden, Ranma yelped as the wily martial arts master attached himself betwixt her breasts.
"So firm yet so soft. They're perfect the way they defy gravity and stand at attention. I've never seen a better set."
"Get off me!" Ranma screamed, shoving the old man away. Then she felt something from behind.
"And this ass. Wow! Rock hard and the perfect shape. I can just feel this up all daaaaayyyy! Yeow!"
Happosai cried out in pain as Ranma turned on her battle aura, creating a damage shield of electricity that shocked the old pervert.
"When I say get off, I mean get off!" Ranma shouted in a rage.
"That's exactly what I was doing when you turned on the voltage! Where did you learn a trick like that?"
"Trick? You silly rabbit, tricks are for kids!"
"What's going on here?" Kenji announced, walking in the room after having competed in a hard-fought strength contest which he had lost to a large sumo wrestler. Looking downward, he noticed the pint-sized old man.
"Who's the steroid king?" Happosai pointed his thumb towards the long-haired, young man.
"This is my son, Kenji," Soun explained, putting the young man forward.
"Hmm." The little man bounced all around him much to Kenji's annoyance. "I'm happy to see you've built your son up pretty well, Soun. Since he's so physically strong, I won't have to be so gentle."
"What is this?" Kenji demanded.
"Son, this is Happosai. He trained Genma and me in our martial arts. He has graciously offered to train you in his martial arts, making you his heir."
"This little guy seems kind of weird," Kenji commented. "At any rate, I really don't need any more martial arts training."
"This guy is plenty weird!" Ranma interjected. "He can't seem to keep his hands to himself. He gets his jollies by groping women and draining them of their ki! If he touches me again, I'll have to hurt him."
Then Kenji turned towards the old man. "Listen, Pops. I won't have you touching my fiancée. You got it?"
"Oh, really? Since I'm training you to be the heir of Anything Goes, you should be grateful."
"What?" Kenji exclaimed.
"And you can show your gratitude by making your fiancée and sisters available for my pleasure."
"No way!" Kenji came at the wily martial artist like gangbusters. However, it was all to no avail as Happosai took out his pipe and struck the muscular martial artist, sending him through the roof and into the sky.
"Yeow!" "He shouldn't have been able to take me out like that," Kenji thought to himself as he went flying. " I knew I shouldn't have strained myself so much in that contest, but I didn't like the idea of taking second place. The fact that Honda weighed over 300 pounds didn't matter to me when it should have. And to think I laughed at him when he said he had more muscle on him than fat. That showed how little I knew. I'm going to have to be more careful next time Nabiki enters me in a contest."
"That will teach you, you young whippersnapper! Heh, heh. Now, where were we, my lovelies?"
However, before the old man was finished turning around…
"Shoryuken!" !POW!
"Oww!"
"That was for what you did to Kenji and for what you did to me!" Ranma called out to the old man who took to the skies upon Ranma's powerful Dragon Punch.
"How dare you do that to an old man?" The little gnome had surprised the pigtailed girl by reappearing right in front of her.
"I don't like you putting your hands on me! And go away!" Ranma barely dodged an attempt to be groped by the rascally old man who had flown in the direction of her torso.
"You're pretty fast, little girl. While I'm training Kenji, I'll enjoy copping a feel on you when I get the chance."
"Fat chance, old man!" !KAPOW!
"Aaaaagh!' Happosai screamed as he went flying through the roof and into the sky a second time.
XXX
Later the next morning, the whole household sat down for breakfast. "Ranma."
"What is it, old man?" the sparkling redhead snapped back.
"I want you to wear this bra." The little old gnome whipped out an expensive undergarment and showed it to Ranma and everybody else at the table.
"Ranma shouldn't have to put that thing on. It's way too small for her anyway!" Kenji stammered. Then he blushed when he realized what he had said.
"Kenji!" Akane shouted.
"It's too small? Hmm." The little old man popped all over Ranma prodding here and there.
"Hey! Back off!"
"Yep. It is a bit small for her. And here I got this in Europe where the women are much bigger. Anyway, with a little bit of effort Ranma can squeeze into it. Besides, it would be great to see her pop out of it if she breathes too hard."
"Listen, you dirty old man! There's no way I'm putting that on!" Ranma announced harshly.
"But I spent so much on it," Happosai lamented, crying crocodile tears.
"Will you stop it?" Ranma demanded.
Then the old man's face darkened, regarding the redheaded girl with narrowed eyes. "All right. One word of warning though."
"What's that?" Ranma stood firm against the glaring old man.
"If you don't wear it, they'll sag."
Ranma then got very angry. "Let it go already!"
"I'm not going to let it go. You remember that. I'm not going to let it go. I'm not going to let anything go. More importantly, I'm not going to let you leave the house wearing that ridiculous red shirt and green pants!" Happosai interrogated.
"What's it to you? Anyway, I like these clothes. Who made you the fashion police all of a sudden?" Then Ranma got up from the table, reaching for her things and making her way for the door.
"I'm much more than a policeman. Here, let me show you."
"No time for that now. I have to go to school, so I'll see you later, old freak! I'm out of here!"
"Not yet!" !ZIP!ZIP!ZIP!
"Hey, cut it out!" Ranma complained as the little man pounced all over her.
"Oh, my!" Kasumi exclaimed.
"It looks like he got you there, Ranma," Nabiki commented.
"Ranma, you pervert!" Akane screamed.
"Hotcha!" Happosai called out happily, holding Ranma's clothes in his hands.
"Oh!" Ranma exclaimed. Looking down and blushing, she realized all she was wearing was her bikini bottom underwear.
!SNIFF! "This smells so nice," the old man commented with Ranma's bikini top in his hands.
"That's it, old guy!" Kenji announced, getting up and making his way to the wily little gnome.
"Stay out of this, roid boy!" Happosai stated, using his pipe to send Kenji through the roof and into the sky. "Now where were we? Heh, heh."
Ranma covered herself, blushing deep red and glaring at the salivating old man. "What's the big idea?"
"Well, Ranma," Happosai said, plopping himself on the girl's shoulder and looking downward There's nothing wrong with what you're wearing now, but I won't have you wearing the ridiculous clothes you had on just now."
"There's nothing wrong with my clothes! Give them back, you pervert!" Ranma screamed, knocking the little gnome off his perch and chasing after him all through the house.
While taking flight away from his pursuer, Happosai popped right behind Ranma. "And this pigtail has to go too." !SLICE! Ranma's luscious hair cascaded downward, giving off a shine in the light.
"Hey! That's my last pigtail string! How dare you?" Ranma screamed, turning around and landing a reverse roundhouse kick, knocking the Happosai into the wall.
"Shows what you know, old man! I have a whole bunch of clothes like what you just took from me. I'll just go get another set."
"No, you won't." Happosai had bounced off the wall, appearing face to face with Ranma, seemingly hovering in the air in front of her. "I've already taken all of those horrid clothes and hidden them. You'll have to wear a dress like a real woman."
"You can't tell me how to…"
"Yes, I can! However, if you want your old clothes back, I'll meet you at school. If you beat me, I'll tell you where your clothes are. If not, you'll wear the bra I got for you. And seeing the way you're dressed right now, you need this thing. But then, maybe you don't. Yours stand at attention without any support whatsoever. How do you do that?"
Ranma blushed and covered herself with her arms. "Grrr! I'll get you for this!"
"You can try fighting me later at school today. Do we have a deal, girlie?"
"Fine!"
XXX
Later on, both Akane and Ranma were making their way to school, but this time Akane was the one walking on the fence to increase her balance and agility. Ranma also took the time to train, gliding on the ground without leaving so much as a footprint, the wind tugging at her hair and blowing at her school dress, turning it up a little.
"You can't beat him, Ranma. He trained both of our fathers. Besides, you look kind of cute in that dress," Akane said with a snicker.
"Very funny, Akane. Anyway, I've learned a whole lot of things that have nothing to do with my father. Even Kenji knows more than your father does."
"Didn't Happosai say he was going to show up at the school later to fight you again?" Akane asked, looking down on the flowing haired girl.
"Yes, he did. When he shows up, I'll be ready for him." Ranma had a look of determination on her face as they made their way to school. "How dare that old fart tell me how to dress? I'll fix him up and fix him good!"
Later at lunchtime, everyone sat down to eat their meals. Hey, Ranma!"
"Huh?" the red-maned girl said, turning towards the sound of the yelling girl who waved at her.
"Over here!" Sayuri called out.
"What are you doing, Sayuri?" Akane asked with consternation.
"I want Ranma to sit and eat lunch with us."
"That's a wonderful idea!" Yuka commented.
"Are you two crazy?" Akane stammered.
"Oh, come on, Akane," Sayuri interjected. "I want to pump Ranma for information. I can't stop wondering how far she's gotten with your gorgeous brother, Kenji. I bet she just put her hands all over him and just…" Sayuri stopped when she noticed Akane glaring at her. "Oops! Sorry. I got carried away there for a moment."
In a few moments, Ranma walked near them with her bento box in tow. "What do you guys want?"
"Relax, Ranma. We'd like to talk to you about your relationship with Kenji," Yuka replied.
"Yeah, so how far have you gotten with him?" Sayuri asked wide-eyed. "And don't spare the juicy details."
"Look, girls. We haven't had too much time to do much of anything together."
"Oh, right, Ranma," Yuka asked, not believing the attractive, redhead. "If I was Kenji's girlfriend, I would have done all kinds of things with him."
"Yuka!" Akane admonished.
Then the girls noticed a bunch of guys walk towards them, sitting down with them and crowding them in. "You look great, Ranma. I'm glad to see you're wearing a dress instead of your usual clothes."
"Uh, yeah. Thanks, I think."
Then Ranma noticed a particularly tall boy peer over her shoulder. "Sigh!"
"What are you doing?" the buxom girl asked.
"Oh, nothing. Heh, heh." "Gosh, Ranko's hot when I look at her from up here!"
"We're trying to eat here; do you mind?" Ranko asked, getting annoyed.
"Oh, no problem at all, ladies," one of the guys said with a smile. "We're just enjoying the sun."
Akane looked at the boy with suspicion but said nothing, proceeding with her lunch.
"I wonder what Kenji's doing right now?" Sayuri said with a sigh.
XXX
"Achoo!" Kenji stood on an area of the Tokyo Beach that was cordoned off for a photo shoot for a group of bikini-clad models. Nabiki had gotten him the security job by convincing the producers of the magazine that Kenji would be all they needed for the job, thus they would save money by hiring only him instead of several guards. The owners of the magazine wanted to save money badly, so they went along with Nabiki's suggestion to only hire Kenji. The long-haired martial artist made himself look professional, wearing a three-piece suit and nice black shoes despite spending most of the time standing on the sand of the beach. They were a few guys who had tried to breakthrough in order to get to the drop-dead gorgeous models that were working that day, but Kenji's ability to use his ki hammer to fly into the air and be wherever he needed to be at a moment's notice, made any effort to disrupt the shoot unproductively. As the photoshoot was wrapping up for the day, some of the girls came screaming out the dressing room. "EeeeeeK!"
"What's that noise?" Everyone turned to see a small, gnome sized man carrying a large sack over his shoulder while women threw objects at him to no avail.
"It's Happosai!" Kenji called out as he made his way to the commotion. "What are you doing here, old man?"
Happosai stopped what he was doing and looked up at his student. "Kenji, my boy! I overheard you and Nabiki talking about all these pretty models, so I decided to show up and see how you were doing."
"Listen, Happosai. It's time you took off for home. I can't have you showing up here and ruining a good job for me," the well-dressed man answered firmly. "All that food and liquor you consume at the house costs money, so Nabiki and I have to…"
Then the old man's countenance darkened. "You listen, you ungrateful pup! Your father and his fat friend do my bidding and so will you."
"No, I won't!" Kenji stomped the ground with his foot, causing a minor shockwave that knocked the little man up six feet off the ground, causing him to drop the large bag in his hands.
"Yeow!"
"I thought you were going to have a match with Ranma at her school today," Kenji said, getting his ki hammer out, readying his whole body, mind, and spirit for battle.
"I was going to do that, but the thought of being able to see drop-dead gorgeous women in skimpy bikinis was too much for me to resist. I'll deal with Ranma later. Right now there's swimwear for me to liberate. Now get out of the way!" The old man used his pipe to strike Kenji, knocking him high into the sky, and then crashing into the ocean.
!SPLASH! "This suit is ruined now. I knew I shouldn't have worn something like this so close to the beach, but Nabiki insisted I wear it."
"Hotcha!" Kenji heard in the distance as he made his way out of the water.
"Where did the old guy go?"Kenji looked around until a young woman covering her bare breasts with her arms ran over to him.
"Kenji! Are you going to do anything about the pervert who's been assaulting us? I thought you were here to protect us!" the woman pleaded.
"Where is he?" Kenji demanded hastily.
The rankled starlet pointed in the direction of the woman's dressing room. To the amazement of the half-naked model, Kenji swung his ki hammer and threw it into the air, allowing it to take him aloft in the direction of the screaming and yelling.
Kenji landed while screaming young women, running away from the gnome sized man. As soon as Happosai was clear of anyone else, Kenji took careful aim and threw his hammer, striking the old man in the head. "Arrgh!"
"Got him!"
Then the old man appeared in Kenji's face. "You muscle headed moron! How dare you treat your master this way?"
"I told you to get out of here, Happosai, and I meant it!" Kenji demanded harshly.
"You ingrate! All you had to do was let me have some fun, but noooo! Now you're gonna get it!" Happosai used his battle aura to grow several kilometers tall. Looking down on the martial arts warrior with an intimidating glare, he froze Kenji for a moment.
"I gotta break free!"
Then Happosai used his giant hand to slam Kenji to the ground, pinning him. "It's over for you now, boy! Swear to make Ranma wear that bra I wanted her to wear, and I'll let you go!" the old man's giant-sized battle aura demanded.
Kenji reached down deep inside for that little something extra, managing to only shake a finger until he started shaking his head. "Never!"
"How dare you refuse me?" I'll…" Happosai's attempt to smash Kenji further into the sand met with unforeseen difficulty as the martial arts powerhouse shook his whole body, breaking out of the paralysis. Then Kenji powered out of the old man's hold, shoving the giant-sized hand off of himself.
"Enough!" After having surprised the old man, Kenji winded his hammer countless times to build up a powerful momentum; then he let it go, striking the old man right between the eyes!
"Aargh!" Upon being struck with Kenji's ki hammer, the old grandmaster went flying back end over end into the horizon, his giant-sized battle aura having vanished with the impact as he got further and further away.
"Not only was Kenji able to move, but he was also able to attack me. This guy's a whole lot better than any son of Soun's has a right to be. Using my battle aura like that has taken too much of my energy, so I'll have to take leave of Kenji for now. Meanwhile, I'm going to have to figure out some new ways of bringing this kid to heel."
"Whew!" "That fight took a lot of effort. Maybe working horrifically hard at that strength competition was just what I needed."
"That was pretty good, Son-in-Law."
Kenji turned sharply behind him to see a diminutive, old woman standing on a stick, regarding him.
"Who are you? You look like one of those amazon elders!"
"That's right, sonny boy. I'm Shampoo's great-grandmother, Cologne. It's high time you take your responsibilities as Shampoo's husband, the actions of my amazon sisters notwithstanding."
"Oh, boy!"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: I hope you're not too upset with me straying away from canon so much, but I didn't want to copy the manga all that much.
