Brothers of Old
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Chapter 10: Restarting Life
"Boys, just put your bags on the floor for now." Nodoka said to the two.
"Why?" they both asked at the same time. Nodoka smiled holding up water filled buckets, mops, towels, window cleaners and ropes.
"Because this place hasn't been cleaned in a while, everything is so dusty. So we're cleaning this place inside out." She said smiling.
"But we just got he…" Ranma never finished the sentence because Nodoka flashed the steel blade of the family katana, "So like you said we'll clean." Ranma said picking up some of the items making Kyo face-fault.
"Kyo, now is not the time to lay down and take a nap! Get up and help your brother and me clean this house!" Nodoka said tying her kimono sode. Kyo lifted himself off and dusted himself off.
"Well better get it finished." He said as he picked up the rope and headed towards the roof.
About a couple hours and close to death falls later.(The rope in question is used for hanging off roofs and clean windows.)
Kyo and Ranma fell down to their knees.
"Man how large is this place! It's as big as the Kuno's and almost half the height of Furikan High!" Ranma said as he sat down on to the couch.
"And don't forget that we haven't even gotten to unpacking and picking our rooms."
The two sighed and put their head back on the couch. Nodoka watched this and couldn't help but smile at how the two got along so well in such a short time.
"Now, now there is no need for that. Now go to the bathroom and get cleaned up for dinner. Tonight we have sukiyaki." Nodoka said as she walked in out to the kitchen.
Up on hearing they were going to have sukiyaki for dinner the two jumped off the couch and ran to the bathroom to get cleaned up.
At the dinner table
"Man my first meal made by mom. I didn't think I would ever have such luxury." Kyo said as he picked up his chopsticks and got ready to dig in to dinner. Nodoka saddened at the comment but quickly hid it in a smile.
"Oh and I wanted to talk to you two about school." Nodoka said, "I enrolled you two into Juuban High."
The two just nodded and continued eating. Kyo then after finishing his tenth helping of food cleared his throat.
"I don't see why you need to be concerned about it. The thing we need to worry about is the Youma attacks that are famous around here." Kyo said as Ranma nodded in agreement going for his twenty-fifth helping.
"I'm just worried you two might get into trouble on the first day at school. Talking about Juuban High I hear that the girls you met at the shrine go to that school."
"Really! I can see Ami-san again!" Kyo said happy to see a friend again.
"Oh my son has found himself a girl friend! First it's friendship then they go steady and after that marriage! Oh happy day I'm going to be a grandma with lots of Grandchildren to spoil!" Nodoka said with sparkles in her eyes and starting to do a weird dance. The two sweated at their mothers antics.
After dinner they decided on which room will be occupied by whom. Ranma had a room next to Kyo while Nodoka had a room right across from them just in case her children needed her.
"Man I can't wait to get some shut eye around here." Ranma and Kyo said at the same time, they looked over at each other and started to snicker.
"Well, I guess I'll see you two in the morning. Good night mom, Ranma." Kyo said to the two as he opened his door and walked in to it and closed the door.
"I guess it's time for me to get some shut eye too Night mom!" Ranma said following suite and going into his room.
"Good night my children." Nodoka said as she goes into her room and falls asleep instantly.
Next morning…
Ranma woke up and stretched, 'Man that was the best sleep I had in a long while.' He thought as he opened his eyes, 'Where the hell… Oh yeah, right, I almost forgot I'm at the family home.' He thought as he stifled a yawn and got up and dressed in his usual Chinese clothing. "I wonder what time it is." He said to him self as he looked at the clock hanging off the wall.
"Six O'clock. Oh well, might as well do some morning training." He said happily as he opened the door to go outside. As he came out the door he bumped into Kyo causing both of them to topple over, and since his luck sucked ass today he fell and Frenched Kyo as the fell down. It would have been fine if that was just it but some ass up in heaven was having a field day with ideas and Nodoka came out the exact moment the two fell and kissed. She promptly fainted.
The two quickly got up and ran to their mother. Kyo looked over to Ranma.
"Not. A. Word! What happened here, stays here." Kyo said and Ranma quickly agreed.
A couple minutes later
"Oooh. I just had the weirdest dream that Ranma and Kyo were kissing in the hallway."
Nodoka said as she got up.
"Hey mom! Breakfast is almost ready so could you get Ranma to clean himself up before he eats." Kyo said out from the kitchen.
'I must have been dreaming. My manly sons would never do something that unmanly.' She thought as she walked out to get Ranma from the Yard.
At breakfast
Ranma, as usual, is inhaling his breakfast while Nodoka and Kyo ate at a steady pace. Ranma stopped eating to ask his mother a question.
"Hey mom, Where is Juuban High anyways."
"It's not far from here. It's pretty big so if you tworoof hop I think you'll be able to find it easily." Nodoka answered, "And talking about school, you two better hurry off or you'll be late for the first day of school." Nodoka said as she shooed them out and off to school.
"So… I guess we have to roof hop to school today." Kyo said as he jumped over to one of the buildings.
"Hey I think that's it." Ranma said as he pointed to the school roof. Ranma looked over to Kyo, "Hey Kyo, race you to the school. Loser has to be the servant of the winner for a week."
"Tempting Ranma, very tempting. Lets do it." Kyo said as they sped up to get to school.
At the school
"Hi Ami- chan. How are you feeling to day?" Usagi said running towards her friend in the courtyard.
"Hey Usagi-chan be careful or you'll" Ami never finished as Usagi fell flat on her face, "Fall."
"I'm ok." Usagi said as she got back up and dusted herself off. Then they heard screams and saw a group of girls looking towards the buildings.
"Hey what's going on here?" Usagi asked the closest girl.
"Oh there are two dreamy boys hopping on top of the roofs." The girl replied as she went back to watching.
"Hey is that you Ami-san? Wow mother was right. You do go to this school." one of the boys asked.
'That voice, could it be' "Kyo-san! Is that you?" Ami asked.
The two brothers ran and jumped off the last roof into the courtyard and landing on their feet creating a crater.
"Damn it was a tie. Next time I guess Ranma." Kyo said.
"I'll definitely beat you next time." Ranma said
"In your dreams," Kyo replied, "But we need to hurry up and go to the principal's office to get our registrations confirmed. I'll have to talk to you some other time Ami-san sorry." He said as he and Ranma ran off to the principal's office.
The two just looked at the two retreating figures.Then all of a sudden they are surrounded by girls.
"Hey Ami, do you know him?"
"How do you know him?"
"Is he going out with anyone?"
"He's so dreamy"
Were some of the things she could hear from the girls.
"Oh No, I'm going to be late. Sorry but I need to go in. Bye." Ami said running through the crowd. Just as she entered the front door, the bell of the school rang signaling Homeroom time.
Inside the classroom
The teacher of homeroom came in. Ami looked on.
"Good morning students. Today we have a new student joining among us today he just came back from a trip to China with his brother and be nice to him… come in young man and introduce your self."
Ami's heart skipped a beat seeing Kyo come into her class room.
"Hello, My name is Abarai Kyo and I am pleased to meet all of you and I hope we get along fine." Kyo said making all the girls squeal in delight to a cute boy coming in to their class while the boy's were of a mixed behavior. Kyo looked around then he saw Ami.
"Ami-san! I didn't expect to be in the same class as you are." Kyo said as he disappeared and re-appeared in front of Ami's desk.
"Mizuno-san, do you know him?" the teacher asked.
"Yes, he came to one of my friend house while I was visiting." Ami replied.
"Well, since you two seem to know each other, Kyo will be seated next to you."the teacher said making Ami blush a little. This made many of the girls look at her with jealous eyes. One boy in particular seemed to look at Kyo with deep seated hate in his eyes. 'How dare he get close to my Ami-chan!' the boy thought as he could do nothing but watch as this new boy sit next to Ami.
"Well with that clear I would…" The teacher never finished the sentence as there was a scream of terror. Ranma rushed in and broke the door open.
"Hey Kyo, looks like there is a Youma attack and you know what that means." Ranma said with a smirk.
"Yeah, Yeah. It's a martial artists duty to help those in need. Sorry teach bu I got to go."
Kyo said as he opened one of the windows. Ranma jumped out the window followed by Kyo.
"Wait! This is the fifth floor no one can live from that!" the teacher said as he rushed to the open window to see the two land safely on the ground and hop up to the roof of the closest building towards the source of the scream. The Teacher fainted and the girls who were lucky to sit next to the window swooned over the two. 'Well, that's my queue to leave.' Ami thought as she sneaked out of the class.
To be continued…