Ranma: Son of Saki

Episode 3:
Crouching Dragon, hidden Foot.
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He had been defeated by the turtles before. Time and again they made him look like a fool. This time they had gone too far. He had lost his master to those mutants. He would take revenge.

But first, he needed an army.

He tried using the Purple Dragons to fight the mob and to take control of the remaining Foot. He failed. It was all the turtles fault. Again.

He punched a lightpost and it came down. He was angry. But he would get enough weaponary to get back at the turtles.

Hun growled at two punks that were handling some stolen crates. "Be careful with that, you idiots, that stuff will turn the purple dragons into the strongest organization of NY"

"Really?" Asked a voice from the shadows. "Perhaps I was mistaken, I thought you worked for the Foot"

The big, ape-like, man turned around and his eyes widened at the sight of Shredder. "Ma-master?" He stuttered.

The Shredder narrowed his eyes at him. "What's all this?"

"Weapons, my lord."

The armored man walked to one of the crates and broke it. He took an automatic rifle, examined it, and then put it back. "Stolen, no doubt. From the Foot."

"We... I... I thought you were dead master, gone" The blond man closed his eyes, expecting some sort of punishment.

He waited, and waited, and waited. No punishment came. He slowly opened his eyes. "You're not the master"

Then, the Shredder took his helmet and showed his face. "Our master is not gone, idiot."

Hun's eyes grew and then they narrowed. "You. What is a brat like you doing here?"

Ranma looked around, the Purple Dragons had surrounded him. "I'm here to take you back to the Foot."

The man laughed at him. "You make me laugh you punk, I only follow the master's orders, not a weak imitation like you"

Ranma didn't look angry at the man, in fact, he smirked. "I bet I could kick your ass in less than a minute"

Hun nodded, ready for battle. "You dishonour the master just by wearing that armor. I will kill you for that."

"You dishonour my father by stealing from him, using the resources from his company to arm these gangsters" Ranma crouched and took a weird position where his left hand was over his head and his right one was pointing at his opponent.

Hun ran at the boy screaming and didn't see him move as he jumped above his head. Ranma landed behind him and kicked him on his backside. "Fight like a man, you shameless child!"

Ranma laughed. "I told you I would kick your ass in less than a minute."

"TAKE HIM OUT!" Screamed a very angry Hun from the floor.

The Purple Dragons took their automatic rifles and started firing at the armored boy. None of their shots got to him. He was just doing some sort of kata as he started taking out each of the gangsters.

Hun was shocked. The boy... he was actually dancing around his men. "STOP!" He yelled at the top of his lungs just before Ranma took the last punk out.

The new Shredder smiled at the large man and put his helmet back. "You just saw what I can do. Will you follow me?"

Hun didn't look pleased. "You said before... you said that our master isnt gone. What did you mean?"

"I meant he lives on in our hearts" answered the Shredder in a mocking tone.

"What?"

"You really are an idiot. I meant that he is alive. As in, 'not dead'?"

Hun frowned. "Why are you using that armor then?"

"I am to take his place until he recovers. Wich will be soon enough, I think the weight of this suit just makes me slower" Just after he said this, more than thirty ninja of the Foot appeared on all exits.

Hun looked arround, eyes narrowed.

"You have two options, Hun of the Purple Dragons. You rejoin the Foot, or..." his voice trailed off.

"I want to see the Master"

"You will, in time"

"Will I be able to face the turtles again?"

Ranma nodded. "I think Father likes you enough to give you another chance. He is generous."

"In that case, I accept"

The Shredder gave him a curt nod and then dissapeared. Hun growled again, his men were still as useless as ever.

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Ranma was jumping above town as he returned to the Saki Building. He pressed a hidden button on his helmet.

"Akane, did you learn anything about the turtles?"

He waited a couple of seconds but when no one answered he stopped jumping. "Akane, answer me."

He formed a fist with his hand. He was not happy.

He pressed again the hidden button. "Sister, have you heard anything from Akane?"

From the other side of the line, Karai sounded annoyed. "I'm busy"

"She's not answering me"

His sister sighed. "She sounded angry with you, maybe it's just that. She can be childlish at times. Did you talk with Hun?"

"Yes, pice of cake"

Ranma looked at the city before him. It was a complete chaos without the Foot. The gang wars had wrecked it. His sister believed that the Turtles could help them repair the damage . Ranma knew better. It had been the turtles in the first place who were at blame for everything.

They had humilliated his father.

They had destryed half of this city, half of his clan.

And now, they had done something to Akane.

Ranma decided that something had to be done about that. The faster, the better. He resumed his march, not stoping for anything.

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Raphael was annoyed. "So you didn't kill her"

April nodded as she finished patching him up. "You shouldn't move in a while, and I mean don't do anything stupid"

The turtle with the red bandana growled at her. "You didn't kill her" he repeated.

"No, we didn't. Master Splinter found a way to erase her memories" explained Leonardo as he entered the room.

Raphael nodded at his brother. "You should have kept fighting."

Leonardo sat next to his brother and sighed. "The fight was over Raph, if there's a way around kiling someone, I will take it allways"

"I wasn't talking about the new girl, I was talking about the roof battle, you should have kept fighting. You have the skill to defeat that stupid ghost woman, we all do."

"If I had kept fighting, you would be dead"

"So?"

Leonardo looked at Raphael astonished. He raised his head to see April's reaction. She just looked sad. "Raph... It was my fault we were there in the first place."

"That doesn't matter to me, you never put us in any problem, it's usually me or Mikey and ocasionally Don, any of those times could have gone out of hand..."

Leo frowned. "If I was the one the one about to die and you the one that had to make a decision... What would you had done?"

"Same as you. Doesn't make it right. You are the turtle that follows bushido, you should know better"

"And you are an idiot... a reckless idiot."

Raph smiled weakly. "Hey... you were the one that was going all Batman on us"

Leo nodded. "I guess that's right"

April stood up. "Leo, we should let Raph get some sleep, he needs to recover. You too."

Raph shook his head. "Nah, I'm good"

Leo smirked. "I will stay with him for a while, you go to sleep April, thanks for everything"

She nodded and left the room. She could feel that those two had issues that the other turtles didn't have. They were the elder brothers, they were the ones that had to protect the younger ones. It wasn't that Michelangelo and Donatello weren't as skilled. They just didn't take the art as seriously as Raphael and Leonardo did. And that... weaker.

But now they had failed against Karai. Leonardo had failed as a leader, going on his own, fighting for something that he himself didn't know how to fix. He had taken his brothers on a fight that didn't concern them and his brother almost paid with his life for it. Raphael had let the Foot hurt him enough that he couldn't protect those who were weaker than him, he had failed too.

The both felt like failures. April didn't understand why. They were the strongest people she knew, in every sense of the word.

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Akane Tendo had no idea where she was. She had no idea where she was going to go. She had no idea who she was. She had no idea about anything really.

Well, not ANYTHING.

She did know that she was a... martial artist of sorts. She somehow knew that the 'funny looking suit' as people that walked past her liked to call it was actually a powerfull mythical artifact that granted her abilities beyond what any normal person could do.

She also knew she was being followed. When she turned around there was only a small redheaded kid. He looked to be about twelve years old at most. She frowned and decided to confirm if he was indeed trailing her. She walked to a dark alley, not unlike the one that she had woken up at.

When she saw the kid in the alley she reacted. She took him by his neck and growled angryly.

"Who are you?" She snarled at him while raising her fist in a menacing manner.

The boy looked scared at her. "You can see me!"

She lowered her hand, more confused that moments before. "Who are you?" She repeated.

The boy smiled at her and then, without warning he... touched her breasts in a lecherous way. "WHAT A HAUL!"

She reacted as usual. She tried to punch him dead in the face. She missed. The little pervert had easily escaped her grasp.

"Who are you, little creep?"

The boy whistled, he was hanging from a fire-escape ladder. He smiled at her. "Don't you mean 'who are you'?"

"That's what I said"

"But Akane! You don't even know who you are! How do you expect to get to know me?"

The girl took a tiger stance. "If you don't answer me I will hurt you"

"You alredy tried that" muttered the boy not minded her much. "But anyway, I will tell you who I am."

She nodded, expecting him to say something else. When he didn't she sighed. "So, TELL ME"

The boy evaded a lighting fast kick and then sidestepped an equally fast punch with ease that no boy his age should be able to. "Oh, Yes. My name. I'm Octavian Treasure"

"That's a weird name"

"It is! Isn't it?" He happilly agreed.

"How do you know my name?" She was pretty sure that she was called Akane, but she was also sure she knew that only because he had called her that.

"Well, I've been watching you for quite some time. Your whole life really. Good for you those turtles are not honourless bastards like the Foot, or else you would be a corpse in the sewer" The boy jumped to a wall and then he bounced and reached a roof.

Akane's eyes narrowed. She followed Octavian.

"Turtles?"

The boy nodded. "Yes, turtles. The Teenage Mutant Ninja kind of turtle. I've been watching them too. They've gotten pretty good for being only fifteen."

"So you're some kind of weird kid that just... watches people? Are you some kind of pervert?"

"OH! I never said I wasn't. But that glomp back there was the first perverted thing I've done in this lifetime, I assure you." He then promptly grabbed her behind.

"HEY!" Yelled Akane while again she tried to punch the boy. Again she failed.

"Didn't assure you I'd stop being perverted" He danced around punches and kicks like it was a second nature for him. He was... unnatural.

"How are you doing this? You're just a kid!" She screamed in rage as a punch of hers managed to thrust into a wall. She didn't find easy to get her fist out of there.

The boy nodded, amused by her antics. "You have some insane power to back that punch. With your suit you have a near perfect control over your body. But your speed still is just... good. Nothing special."

"So you're saying I should work on my speed. Big deal. Are you going to answer my questions?"

"I guess I wil. Follow me" He started jumping from building to building. He moved so fast Akane could barely keep track of him.

They arrived to a secluded place. It looked to be some kind of abandoned building. Akane thought that at any second it could fall and bury them. "What's this?"

"Wow. You do make a good deal of questions, don't you?"

"Yet you don't answer anything."

The boy looked at her and frowned. "That's unfair. I did tell you my name."

"I guess you did."

Octavian took a seat on the floor, Akane didn't imitate him. "Well, anyway. I can't tell you who you are."

"You can't?" Her eyes told him of the anger that was raising in her.

"I can, however, tell you who you used to be. It would be your choice to go back to that and become a Foot... or someting else."

"I don't understand this whole Foot thing"

"You were Akane Tendo, seventeen years old and sole heir of the Tendo school of ninjitsu. You were one of Ranma Saki's fiancee. You were a high ranking member of the Foot."

"That Foot thing again, what do you mean? My feet are not smelly"

Octavian arched an eyebrow at that. "Yes they are. But that's beside the point. The Foot is a clan of ninja, They show no mercy. They are murderers. But that's only on the surface, obviously"

"On the surface?"

"Yes. They follow one known as Oroku Saki, the Shredder. But he is actually an alien, a Utrom."

"And he wants to conquer the world, right?" joked the girl.

"Not really. He wants to go back to his home world..."

"That's not bad at all" Akane interrumped.

Octavian looked a little annoyed at the girl. "... to destroy it and enslave every other Utrom"

"Ok, that is bad"

"Yes. Up 'till moments ago, only three people knew about him being an alien"

"Who?"

"His daughter, Karai, his son Ranma... and you."

Akane blinked. "So I wasn't a good person?"

The boy took a cigarrete and lit it. He didn't smoke. "Not really. You just were raised a ninja. It's in your blood. But they decieved you. They told you that the Utroms were evil, that Shredder is a good man. Those are lies"

"And the turtles?"

"They are Shredder's enemies. You faced them. They defeated you."

"And erased my memory"

"Exactly"

She thought about it for a moment and then raised an eyebrow. "Why should I trust anything you say to me? "

"You don't have to, but it's important for your sake that you do"

Akane took a seat in front of the boy and put her hand on her head. "I feel like crap"

"I bet you do, the turtles aren't exactly masters of using that chinese shampoo"

The girl frowned. "So some muntant turtles did this to me."

"That it's true"

"But they're not 'the bad guys'"

"True again"

She closed her eyes. "And Ranma Saki, he was... what?"

Octavian smiled at her. "He is the son of Shredder, he does know that he is an alien, but he thinks he is 'one of the good guys'"

"What do you want me to do exactly?"

The boy's aura suddenly was visible, it was dark and evil. "I want to use you as a weapon of vengeance against Saki He took my life, my pupils and my art. I will take everything that is precious to him"

"So you don't fool yourself into believen that you are one of the 'good guys', do you?"

The boy yawned. "I never was a good boy, I will never be one. But I don't care about good or bad. I just care about revenge. And to do that, I have to help you do the right thing."

Akane nodded at that. "Help me how?"

"Oroku Saki might have taken my pupils and with them my art, but I hadn't finished training them when they betrayed me" The boy stood up.

"I don't understand..." she started saying, but then she saw his eyes. They weren't those of a kid. They looked old, grim.

The aura around the boy grew and turned crimson. "I will teach you every martial art I know and then you will use them to destroy the Shredder, do you understand?" His voice... it sounded strange, somewhat different but not quite so.

Akane stood up and took a step back. "I will do nothing untill I'm sure what you are exactly"

The boy had an evil smile on his face. He started walking around the girl. "You don't seem to understand the situation at hand, Tendo."

"Yes, I don't understand anything at all. That's why I'm not doing anything" She gulped when she noticed that he wasn't actually walking, he was... floating. "Who are you?" she repeated.

"Happosai" was all she heard as a bright light blinded her.

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AN: Yes, I'm taking Akane in a new direction.

I thank everyone that showed me the many errors (Spelling or otherwise) in this fanfic. if someone wants to betaread, please mail me about it.