Miss Ranma
Chapter Twenty-Two
!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS"
!KRAKADOOM! "Yeaarrgh!" Kenji screamed as he went flying backward two blocks away upon getting struck by Kyushu Metaka's wrecking ball.
"Don't you run from meeee!" Kyushu called out as he power leaped in Kenji's direction. As soon as he had landed with a loud thump right in front of his opponent who had executed his acrobatic skills to land on his feet and get ready for action, he swung his ball and chain at him.
After ducking the swinging wrecking ball and feeling the power of it overhead, Kenji executed a leg sweep maneuver that knocked the bigger man off his feet.
"That was a weak-ass move, Kenji. And now I'm gonna show ya what I really think about that." Kyushu got up and came running at Kenji wrecking ball swinging. Then he let the wrecking ball go, sending it flying in Kenji's direction.
!CRACK! "Ungh" The size of the wrecking ball seemed to have increased, engulfing Kenji as it slammed into him.
"I'm not done with you, yet!" Kyushu screamed as he rushed towards Kenji before he could get up, attempting to nail him with the ball and chain again.
However, Kenji put his ki hammer up, blocking the attack.
"You're putting up your ki hammer to block my attacks? What kind of fool are you?" Kyushu said as he spun his ball and chain for another attack.
"You've already absorbed it, so what does it matter?" Kenji paused in his mind for a moment while his body fought on autopilot. "I wonder what would happen if I put my ki hammer away. Would Kyushu's present imitation of my ki vanish?"
Then a crafty idea came to Kyushu's head. "Oh, that. Did you think my absorption powers were finite, or that making your hammer disappear would make my powers dissipate?" Kyushu said upon witnessing Kenji's hammer vanish.
"Is that so?" Kenji narrowed his eyes at the bald warrior. Several thoughts of strategy came to his mind, but for the moment he was at a loss.
"That's right. Once I've absorbed something, it stays absorbed. As it is, I'm very powerful now. Your ki hammer was awfully strong; thanks for letting me take on its power."
While the battle went back and forth with the two warriors attacking and parrying with their weapons, Kenji speculated on the situation. "I don't sense an increase in power with every time Kyushu's ball and chain connects with my ki hammer. However, I do carry a spare wooden copy of my ki hammer. If I were to switch them without him noticing, yes, that's it! Now to maneuver in such a way that my ruse will work."
Kenji charged his opponent, leaping into him with his fake ki hammer leading. Upon bypassing Kyushu's defenses and finding an opening, Kenji struck with his fist.
"Whoa!" Kyushu went flying backwards a couple of yards, using his acrobatic skills to land on his feet. Then he swung his wrecking ball in the direction of his oncoming opponent who shuffled backward in the nick of time, prompting Kenji to swing his faux pas ki hammer, connecting with the wrecking ball.
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While this was going on, Ranma had found herself taken away from the previous battle. Due to the combination of the previous exhausting fight with Mai Shiranui and the chloroform filled handkerchief that had covered her face, she was laid out unconscious for a short period of time.
Upon waking up a few minutes later, Ranma found herself lying down with her hands held up, tied to the other girls who were similarly held down with Akane opposite of her. Nabiki was lying down 45 degrees to Ranma's right while Kasumi was 45 degrees to her left.
"It's about time you woke up," Nabiki complained, turning towards the redhead whose pigtail string was gone causing her luscious, red hair to go cascading down her bare shoulders.
"Wha-what happened?" Ranma stammered as she shook out the cobwebs in her head. However, when she looked down, she noticed that she and the girls tied up with her had been stripped down to their underwear or in Ranma's case her bikini swimsuit.
"You were knocked out like the rest of us here. Why we're here trussed up like this I've yet to figure out," Nabiki answered.
"You're here because our senior student, Kyushu, wants it that way," a harsh voice answered loudly. He was broad-shouldered, muscular, and clear-headed, wearing black, shiny pants and boots, being bare-chested. In addition to the one looming over the girls, there were a couple dozen other similarly built and dressed guys occupying the Tendo Dojo.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Ranma demanded despite her comprising position.
"I'm Roku, and you'll only speak with spoken to, bitch!" Roku ordered harshly. He had a cruel countenance to him that surpassed the other men in the room leering at the scantily clad girls.
Then Ranma attempted to break out of her chains to no avail.
"Those bindings are made of tempered steel. The strongest men in the world couldn't break those cuffs, so what makes a sweet piece of ass like you think she can do it?" Roku stated triumphantly with his arms folded on his massive chest.
"I can break these cuffs! Ungh!" Ranma huffed and puffed.
"Your exertions will do you no good even if we enjoy seeing you twist and turn like a snake as you try to break out."
"Why aren't they naked?" a tall, slender member of the group of muscular, bald men said out loud to the nods of agreement of the others.
"Take it easy, Takao. You guys are perverts as it is. If they were totally naked, you guys wouldn't be able to control yourselves," Roku stated. Then he paused for a moment, his eyes bearing on Nabiki.
"Why are you doing this?" Nabiki responded, disliking being restrained in the manner in which she found herself.
"After Kyushu has destroyed your brother and weak father and his fat friend, we're going to have some fun with you ladies. I will especially enjoy picking your fruits," Roku said with a lascivious leer in the direction of the mercenary girl's torso.
"Can't we come to some financial agreement? I'm sure I can interest you in some stock tips or other investments that could make you and your friends a lot of money," Nabiki offered from her compromised position hiding any kind of embarrassment.
Roku regarded the girl for a moment, pretending to actually be interested in what the stripped girl was saying. After looking away from her for a couple of seconds as if in deep thought, he sharply turned back towards her, giving the mercenary girl a frightening glare that showed his prominent canine teeth and shook up Nabiki's soul of ice. Then without warning, he reached over to her torso and violently tore off her bra, exposing her impressive bosom to the cheers of the other men in the room.
"This isn't a negotiation, bitch. Everything you have is already ours by right of conquest. This includes your sweet asses. Got that?!"
"Yes, I see." "I hope Ranma does something to get us out of this situation quickly. What is she waiting for?" Nabiki spoke to herself inwardly.
In fact, it's time to get this party started," Roku stated, having already grabbed a bottle of sake and opened it.
"Get away from me you pervert!" Akane screamed upon waking up from having been drugged. Then she tried to break out of her restraints to no avail.
"Shut up!" That being said, Roku walked over to Akane and pulled off her bra, causing her surprisingly large bosom to come popping out.
"Whoa, I'm impressed. She must have been strangled in the small bra she was wearing. Anyway, we've waited long enough. Am I right, boys?!"
"Yeah!" the other men in the room shouted in agreement.
"Good, let's start with the house frau here," Roku said in regards to Kasumi who failed to keep down a whimper as guys stripped her.
"No!"
"What?!" Roku screamed, regarding Ranma who was still lying on the floor with her arms held up, seemingly helpless.
"I said no! You guys better stop what you're doing before I seriously hurt you," Ranma demanded sternly.
Roku's eyes widened as did the other men behind him. "You're in no position to make demands, bitch! I'd have your ass myself except for the fact that Kyushu has already put a claim on you. Now shut up and wait your turn before I forget the hierarchy of my school."
"Yeah!" Takao who was closest to Ranma called out as he walked over to her and relieved her of her bikini top, grinning ear to ear as he regarded her exposed flesh. However, before he could do anything else…
"I said no!" To the surprise of everyone there, Ranma slipped out of her bonds and snap kicked the one who had stripped her, knocking the tall, lanky martial artist sideways into a wall. Then to the further surprise of the others, Ranma moved faster than the untrained eye could follow, slicing up the bonds of the Tendo girls, prompting them to arise and cover themselves up.
"How dare you defy our control?! Get 'em, boys!"
"Yeargh!" they screamed, rushing the girls with uncanny speed.
As fast as the men were, Ranma was faster, blasting the first row of five intruders with a wide-angled ki energy blast, knocking them back into the others dropping them like bowling pins.
"Are we gonna let a half-naked bitch do this to us?!" Roku said, as he stumbled, to get up.
"No!"
"There are two of us to deal with!" Akane screamed with a ki hammer in her hand that resembled the one Kenji used.
"You bitches are talking awfully tough wearing only a pair of panties? Why don't you scamper off into the house like those two other girls?" Roku said with a leer in Akane's direction.
"Shut up!" Akane threw her ki hammer at Roku with all her might, knocking him back down into the mass of flesh on the ground.
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As Kenji's fake ki hammer struck his opponent, Kyushu laughed. "I have to be honest with you. There's actually a time limit from when I absorb something. I was hoping you'd keep hitting me with your hammer. Now that you're practically beaten, it doesn't matter. You've just defeated yourself. Hahaha haha!"
"Is that so?" Kenji smiled, making his fake weapon disappear as he cracked his knuckles.
"You're looking awfully confident. Why is that?"
"Why don't you take a good look at yourself right now?" Kenji said with a smile.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but I got some news for ya. My comrades are enjoying your sisters right now."
"What?!"
"That's right. I've reserved your fiancée, Ranma for myself, but I'm allowing my brothers to enjoy the gorgeous bodies of your sisters. Did you think the guys with me were the only guys in my school? There are others in your dojo with your sisters right now. Not only have I taken your dojo sign, but I've also taken your woman and sisters as well.
"My daughters! Oh, no!" Soun wailed. However, before he or Genma could do anything else, a couple of Kyushu's fellow students struck them from behind, knocking them out cold.
Kyushu smiled wickedly as he noticed his opponent glare at him, prompting Kenji to shake with rage, his muscles bulging and becoming more prominent. The wind seemed to blow with an abrupt ferocity around Kenji as it tugged his hair to and fro. Then Kenji's eyes bore into Kyushu, frightening him for a moment.
Upon getting his grip, Kyushu noticed a strange aroma about himself. However, before he could figure out what was wrong, Kenji moved in on him at an inhuman speed, nailing him with the "tenshin amaguriken!" striking his opponent dozens of times.
"Aaargh!" Kyushu screamed as his wooden form started cracking up.
"What happened?!" Kyushu screamed
"You're through!"
"I was sure I drained your ki hammer. Wait! You must have switched it with something else. Cheater!" Kyushu yelled as Kenji moved in on him.
"Your friends were going to do what to my sisters?" Kenji called out as he struck with the tenshin amaguriken again, cracking his opponent's jaw.
"Aaargh! No more!" Kyushu begged, putting his wooden hands out.
"Give me back my dojo sign and be quick about it!" Kenji demanded harshly, being wary of any tricks his opponent might pull.
"Here!" Kyushu actually threw the sign at Kenji who caught it. Faster than the untrained eye could follow, Kyushu slid over to Kenji and attempted to knock him off his feet, but Kenji saw the attack coming and crouched down, blocking the attack. Then Kenji responded with a fast-paced leg sweep of his own, knocking his surprised adversary into the air and onto the ground. However, before his opponent could reach the ground, Kenji struck the top of Kyushu's bald head with a karate chop.
"Aaargh!" Stunned, Kyushu returned to his normal form, bleeding and bruised from the top of his head to the soles of his feet. Then Kenji struck him with a right cross, knocking him out cold.
Upon the defeat of his foe, the long-haired martial artist turned towards the group of bald men who had knocked out Genma and his father. "Take this piece of garbage and get out of my sight!"
The group of martial artists took hold of their leader with speedy quickness, running away without looking back.
"That was a pretty good fight, Kenji."
The victorious martial artist turned around abruptly to see, "Ryu, Ken! What are you guys doing here?!"
Ryu stood at 5ft. ten inches tall with medium length, black hair, and a tanned, muscularly defined body. The white karate gi he wore was open in the center and sleeveless.
Ken was a handsome, young man with long blond hair and fair skin. He was similarly built and dressed like Ryu except for the fact that his karate gi was red.
"Your fight attracted so much attention that we decided to see what all the commotion was about," Ken answered.
"Oh! I have to get going. See you guys later," Kenji said as he swung his ki hammer and flew quickly towards the Tendo dojo.
"Well, how about that? Kenji wins a great fight and gets too big of an ego to talk to his old friends," Ken opined.
"I don't think that was it. Didn't you hear how his opponent's friends were going to threaten his sisters? That's why he headed off so quickly," Ryu responded.
"Oh, yeah that," Ken responded.
"I think he's on his way to his Dojo. Let's follow him to see if he needs any help." That being said the two martial artists took off after their friend.
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"Are you sure about this, Akane? These martial artists are a lot more skilled than the hentai horde you normally fight at school. In addition to that, these guys are juiced up something fierce," Ranma said in reference to the couple dozen muscular men arrayed against them.
"I can take care of myself, Ranma," Akane said as she got herself ready.
"Will you put aside your ego and listen to me? This is going to be a hard battle. We should work together for once."
"All right!"
"What are you two girls babbling about?" Roku demanded as he looked around to see his comrades were still ready to fight.
"Get 'em! Get 'em! Get 'em!" Roku ordered, prompting his men to follow him as he rushed the two girls.
However, before the invaders could get to them, Ranma and Akane attacked with ki energy blasts and thrown ki hammers respectively.
"Oof!"
"They're disorganized. Now is the best time to get in the midst of them and attack!" Ranma announced as she flew into them with Akane right behind her, spinning around at super speed, dealing out countless punches and kicks to her former tormentors.
"Tenshin amaguriken!" both Ranma and Akane screamed as the two girls stood back to back working together and coordinating their attacks in order to make shorter work of the intruders.
"We did it!" Akane cheered, jumping up and down as all of Kyushu's fellow students lay on the ground unconscious.
Then Akane noticed Ranma regarding her. "What?"
"You're larger on top than you've let on, Akane; you really do need a larger bra."
"Huh? Oh!" Akane blushed crimson and put her arms over her burgeoning bosom.
"You'd be a lot more comfortable if you weren't so squeezed in like that. Is there a reason you…?"
"All right, Ranma! I'm finally starting to get used to having you around and you have to ruin it by saying something perverted!"
"Well, it's true. I'm happy to hear that you don't hate me so much anymore, but you can stop blushing now. All the guys who attacked us are unconscious. In addition to all that, you've really gotten better, Akane."
"Thanks, Ranma. But why aren't you the least bit embarrassed over your lack of dress?" Akane asked, bewildered over Ranma's relaxed state.
"These pigs have already seen me topless. So what's the point of being embarrassed? I'd rather be naked and beat the daylights out of these guys than be naked and raped. They're unconscious now anyway," Ranma explained dourly.
Then Akane regarded Ranma for a moment. "Now what?"
"How do you stand at attention like that?" Akane asked, blushing a little bit.
"I do certain exercises that help me keep 'em up. Is that why you wear a bra so tight, you're afraid that you'll sag if you're more comfortable?"
"Um, well…"
"I'd like to help you and be friends, Akane. Can't we all just get along?"
"All right, Ranma. I just wish you weren't so free with yourself and your mouth sometimes," Akane answered.
"I'll try to restrain myself a little, but more the most part I'm a free spirit and make no apologies about that," Ranma stated as she took a deep, unabashed breath, stretching her arms back and arching her back, in order to get any kinks out..
"Hmmm," Akane said under her breath as she held some other words in.
"Maybe if you were freer about yourself, you wouldn't be such a grouch all the time."
Akane smiled for a moment, restraining her anger. "How about if we help each other? If I got freer and you got less free, maybe we can meet somewhere in the middle."
"All right, Akane. You got yourself a deal!" Ranma was so happy about making peace with her future sister-in-law that she gave her a sisterly hug.
"I'm happy to see you girls are getting along better," the nearly exhausted martial artist announced upon entering the dojo after having beaten up a couple of Kyushu's brother students who had been guarding the front door.
"Kenji!" both girls shouted as they ran towards him and hugged him.
"Are you girls all right?"
"We're fine, Kenji. We just had a little disagreement with some oversexed bald guys," Ranma answered.
"Wow! What a pair of hot babes!" Ken exclaimed upon entering the dojo with his friend, Ryu right behind him.
"What are you guys doing over here?" Kenji said, turning around and trying to use himself as a barrier to keep Ken from seeing his half-naked fiancée and sister.
"Here, you two," Kasumi said as she came into the room with blankets for each of the girls after having gotten dressed.
"Oh!" both girls exclaimed upon remembering their state of undress and quickly taking the offered coverings.
"We thought you might have needed some help protecting your sisters. And now I can see why you'd be so concerned about them," Ken answered, trying to get peaks at the two rankled girls.
"Can you put your eyes back into your sockets, Ken? Sheesh!" Kenji demanded sternly.
"Yes. Please calm yourself down. There's been enough ogling in this house to last a lifetime." Nabiki walked in with an almost regal air about her, happily back to wearing a tube top and shorts. Despite being in her usual, comfortable attire, she was still very angry over what had almost happened and was going to do everything she could to destroy Kyushu's dojo.
"Who are these guys?"
"This is Ken Masters and Ryu Hoshi, Nabiki. I've known them for a few years. I even learned from their master for a few weeks," Kenji answered.
Nabiki calmly turned away from the newcomers and turned back towards her family. "Anyway, the police will be here any moment. And when I'm done with Kyushu, his school will have the worst reputation in all of Japan. I've already dug into Kyushu's family and found a whole lot of things that would make even Ranma blush," Nabiki interjected with her arms folded on her chest.
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"No offense, Ranma."
"My daughters!" Soun screamed as he came running inside with Genma right behind him.
"We're all right, Dad," Nabiki replied dourly.
"How did you mere girls escape these vermin?"
"Mere girls?! What are you trying to imply, Pop?" Ranma demanded, letting her blanket open up a little.
"I'm not implying anything. Whether you like it or not, women are considerably weaker than men. You're also more bashful. Look at yourself, Ranma. You're holding on to that blanket like it's a life preserver in the middle of the ocean."
"What?!"
"There's no way a bosomy, long tressed girl like you could have stood up against the guy Kenji so handily defeated. It's a good thing you're engaged to a manly man like Kenji, or you would have…"
At that point, Ranma rushed her father, getting in his face. "That's not true, Daddy! I can do anything a man can do. Here, let me show you."
Genma backed up skillfully, blocking and countering his daughter's attacks. As the fight got even more intense and Ranma moved in with more speed, she let the blanket that was covering her fly away from her, forgetting her previous state of undress.
"Oh, my!" Kasumi gasped.
"Whoa! What a pair of assets!" Ken exclaimed upon seeing Ranma's scantily clothed form.
!WAP! "Ow!" Soun called out as the flying blanket hit him in the face. Then he got a little angry and made his way towards the two combatants.
"Now, now," Soun demanded, getting in between Ranma and Genma and forcefully pulling them apart with his hands.
"Hey!"
"Can't we talk this over calmly? There's no need for continued fighting. We've been through a lot today, so why don't we just calm down for the nonce?"
"He's feeling her up!" Ken announced with his eyes widening.
"Dad!"
"What is it, Kenji?" Soun turned around and noticed his daughters staring at him coldly. Then he looked down and noticed that his left hand had found itself placed on the midriff of Ranma's bosom.
"Oh. Oh, my," Soun stammered, sweating bullets as his nervous hand shook.
"Hehehehehehe! Stop that! It's bad enough you grab at me, but do you have to tickle me too?!" Ranma stammered. Upon putting her arms protectively over herself, the rankled girl looked up at Soun petulantly with cute, pouting eyes.
After removing his hand from Ranma's person, Soun began to cry a river. "I'm so sorry, Ranma. Please forgive me!"
"All right, already. Just keep your hands to yourself from now on. I'm ticklish enough as it is without being touched like that."
"See that? Some guy feels you up and you're rendered helpless like a schoolgirl virgin. There's no way you can be a respected martial artist like that. I suggest you start learning how to cook and clean like a hausfrau; you already have the assets to make a man happy otherwise," Genma answered with his arms folded on his chest.
"Daddyyyy! Hyaa!" !POW!
"Ungh!" Genma moaned as he shot up several feet in the air with a hang time of five seconds. Then he went crashing down to the ground unconscious.
"Whoa! She practically stands at attention!" Ken shouted, prompting everyone in the room to glare at him.
XXX
Later the next day, Ranma and Akane were walking home from school when Ranma took out a letter she had received at school when what seemed to have been a walking mailbox spat the letter at her with her name on it.
"I shall come to take your life soon, signed Tsubasa Kurenai," Ranma quoted.
"Is that another challenge letter?" Akane asked, regarding the letter.
"Hmm. I don't really know anyone named Tsubasa Kurenai."
Then Akane regarded Ranma with a look of sarcasm on her face. "Well, I guess it's too much to expect you to remember everyone you and your father have ripped off or jilted."
"What kind of girl do you think I am?" Ranma asked in retort.
However, before Akane could come back with another answer, the flying mailbox returned shooting off straight for the pig-tailed girl. "Ranma Saotome, prepare to die!"
"It's that mailbox. I knew there was something funny about it."
"Charge!" the mailbox screamed, forcing Ranma to take evasive action by leaping up and out of the way.
"Ranma, what did you do to that poor mailbox?" Akane asked as the mailbox smashed into a wall, making cracks and dents in it.
"I didn't do anything."
However, to Ranma and Akane's surprise a fist came punching out of the mailbox. Then out came a cute, young boy with shoulder-length hair who was slender and marginally muscular. His clothes were baggy at the top and hips, but beyond that his sailor outfit which was white with blue trim fit him perfectly.
"Who is that guy?" Ranma gasped as Akane looked on.
"Ranmaaa!" the boy screamed. Then he crashed to the ground exhausted.
"So who is he, Ranma?" Akane demanded, taking a swing at him.
"Hmmm, I don't know." Ranma crept up closer to the unconscious boy, trying to make out who he was.
"Are you sure he's not some jilted fiancé?"
"What are you two phillies doing out here in the street now?"
"It's Yukio!"
"What the…" Yukio gasped upon seeing the familiar form on the ground.
"Yukio, my darling," the downed figure moaned.
Tsubasa Kurenai!" Yukio confirmed.
Ranma turned towards the okonomiyaki chef. "Did this guy send the challenge letter?" Ranma asked.
"Yeah, is he a friend of yours?" Akane commented.
Faster than the untrained eye could follow, Yukio grabbed Tsubasa and dumped him into a trash can, clamped on the lid tightly, tossed the can into the air, and used his large ki spatula like a baseball bat and knocked the occupied trash can into orbit.
"I never thought he'd follow me all the way here," Yukio said in disgust.
"What's his problem, anyway?" Ranma replied, looking off into the direction of where Tsubasa had flown off to.
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Later on at Yucchan's, Yukio was making okonomiyaki for Ranma and Akane as he explained his past with Tsubasa. "Tsubasa and I were in the same class at my last school."
"What does that have to do with me?" Ranma demanded to know without too much patience.
"I'm not sure what's wrong with that confused rascal. He may have thought I was a girl at first because I was so pretty and handsome. But I done told him what I was and that I wasn't interested in him. Eventually, I told him that I was seeing someone else," the beautifully long-haired, slender physique bishonen explained in his sweet, charming Kansai accent.
"Really?"
"Yeah. What I told him shocked him so much, he done fainted."
"Let me take a wild guess," Ranma interjected. "You told this guy you were engaged to me? Was this when you thought I was a guy?"
"Well… I sent a picture of you when I figured that you had gotten a sex change."
"You didn't!"
"I did."
!SMASH! Without a hint of warning, a flying trash can came crashing down on Ranma's head.
"Oof!"
"That's right, but I never gave up. Never, never, never!" Tsubasa exclaimed, his head popping out of the trash can.
"What the… Get off of me!" Ranma demanded.
"Even after my darling Yukio moved away I sent love letter after love letter," the sailor suited youth exclaimed with a sigh as he stared off into space.
"Thus, Tsubasa made it a point of refusing to leave me alone. I even sent him a picture of Ranma along with a letter asking him to leave me alone."
At that point, Tsubasa completely exited the trash can and regarded Ranma shrewdly with his hands on his hips. "You're ugly."
"What?!" Ranma snapped back in a rage.
"You're not letting that get to you, are you, Ranma?" Akane asked as she regarded the pigtailed, smoldering girl.
"Um."
All of a sudden, Ranma changed her countenance to a cheerful one. "Yukio, darling!" she announced with her arms out, leaping into him over the counter and grill, allowing Yukio to take advantage of the opportunity to take hold of his erstwhile fiancée.
"Well, now. Maybe the reappearance of Tsubasa Kurenai is a cloud with a silver lining," Yukio thought as he caressed the back of Ranma's legs.
"Hahaha! Stop that, Yukio. You know I'm ticklish back there!" Ranma giggled, wriggling around in Yukio's hands.
"Gasp!" Tsubasa exclaimed, his long hair standing up.
Then Ranma turned towards the shocked sailor suited youth. "So you think I'm ugly? Who just lost out to ugly, hmm?"
"Um, well. Heh, heh. As you can see," Yukio commented, being happy to have Ranma in his arms if only for a moment.
"Why don't you give up and go home, sweetie?" Ranma said with a brazen look and smile on her face.
"Oh, yeah?! I'll show you!" With that, Tsubasa went storming out of the restaurant in a jealous rage.
"Goodbye and good riddance!" Ranma announced, leaping up from Yukio's grasp over the counter and grill again.
A moment later, a flying vending machine came crashing into the restaurant through the glass entrance of the establishment. "Charge!"
"Yeow!" Ranma yelled as she deftly leaped up and out of the way of the attacking vending machine.
"Gee, I missed her."
"Tsubasa! You wrecked my…"
"Wait a minute!" Akane shouted, getting behind Yukio.
"What are you…?" Yukio said as Akane pulled open his okonomiyaki outfit.
"See that? Yukio is a guy."
"Good idea, Akane, Maybe this should have happened from the start," Ranma countered.
Tsubasa paused for a moment. "So? Did you think I was crazy? I knew he was a guy. I'm only interested in guys!"
"What?!" Ranma and Akane announced in shock at the same time.
"Yukio will still be mine." That having been said, Tsubasa left, but then he quickly came back.
"Ugly!" the boy said to Ranma who got visibly upset.
"Why you…" Ranma stammered as Tsubasa ran out laughing like a maniac.
"Tsubasa likes guys?" Yukio asked no one in particular.
"This gets weirder by the moment."
"I'll show you who's ugly!" Ranma called out to the departing boy.
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Yukio was making his way to his restaurant with some important cooking ingredients when he noticed a statue moving through a crowd of people.
"Charge!"
"Enough!" Yukio demanded as he struck the top of the moving statue with his giant-sized ki spatula.
"Oh, Yukio, how could you do that to me?" Tsubasa said as he crawled out of the rubble.
"Ooh, he's cute!" someone called out happily from a group of girls wearing t-shirts and shorts who had been jogging.
"I done told you to stop chasing after me. Besides, I'm already engaged to Ranchan," Yukio answered back hotly.
"I can't believe you'd be engaged to that ugly girl!"
"Well, I am," Yukio answered.
"Hi there," Ranma announced appearing right behind Tsubasa and poking his back.
"Yeow! So you've come back, ugly," Tsubasa said looking Ranma straight in the eyes.
"That's right, you schmuck!"
"Feh. Let's see who's more worthy of Yukio!" The cute, young boy threw hundreds of pieces of paper up in the air that said, [Lunch Time Duel at 12 PM Okonomiyaki Sell-Off Sponsored by Yuchan's Okonomiyaki. 500 yen each!] In addition to that, each parchment of paper had a flattering picture of Tsubasa and an ugly picture of Ranma.
"Sponsored by me? What is this?!" Yukio demanded as he read the paper.
"The one who sells the most wins, all right?" Tsubasa offered.
"Sounds interesting."
"Did I say you could do something like that?!" Yukio said, smashing his ki spatula on the cute boy's head.
!WAP! "Ooh!"
"But then again I might just be able to make some good money on this."
"Dearest, Yukio, I'm so glad to make you happy."
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In a couple of hours, both Ranma and Tsubasa had a hundred okonomiyaki freshly made by Yukio.
Before the contest could start, Kenji appeared next to Akane. "What's going on, sis?"
Akane then explained what had happened with Tsubasa and how things had come to where they were at the time.
"Let me guess. Ranma's natural competitive nature got the better of her," Kenji said with a knowing look.
"That's right," Akane answered.
"Now get out there and start selling!" the okonomiyaki chef called out, starting the contest.
"Come on, girls!" the leader of a group of cute girls wearing t-shirts and shorts who came running in a jog towards the two contestants announced.
"Would you like some Okonomiyaki?" each of the sellers said, making their pitch.
"Oh, wow, that guy is cute!" the girls announced as they made a beeline for Tsubasa and the food he was selling.
"Get it while it's hot!" In a matter of minutes, the girls had bought all of Tsubasa's okonomiyaki while buying none of Ranma's.
"What the…"
"I guess it's settled, eh, ugly?" the cute boy said with a sneer. "Showed you!"
"I thought I had it in the bag. What happened there?"
"Did Ranma think she could beat a cute guy like Tsubasa when it came to selling food to the girl's volleyball team and other girls around here? Didn't she realize how much the girls in the school hate it when her clothes keep coming off? " Akane said to no one in particular.
"That makes sense, Akane. I wonder what Ranma will do now," Kenji replied.
Ranma looked over towards the girls, noticing that there weren't any guys around. Then an idea came to her head.
Upon taking to the skies and disappearing out of view for a moment, a rather cute guy in a pigtail reappeared with the okonomiyaki in tow.
"Hey, ladieeees. How about some okonomiyaki?" the young man said with a wink, getting the girls' attention.
"He's cute!" another group of girls called out making their way to the handsome young man.
In a matter of minutes, the okonomiyaki sold out. "Done it!" the young man announced, jumping up and down while giving the two-fingered victory sign.
Kenji and Akane made their way to the young man, giving him a closer look.
"Who are you?" Akane asked.
"Ranma?"
"Yes, it's me, Kenji."
"But how? Why?"
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AUTHOR'S NOTES: How did Ranma succeed in this latest contest? Feel free to make any kind of guess you want, but you'll be able to find out in the next chapter.
Also, I've written a new fanfic called Attack on Ranma. If you've liked this fanfic, you'll like that one as well.
