Ch 6: Delusion's End

A/N: Gomen Gomen. I can't appologize enough for how late this update is, but it's all in your best interest...really. I had to make some major changes to the part I'm currently writing, so I had to go back and look at all the past chapters and make soem discrete changes. I also changed it so it ends up like a more mature, refined fanfic, instead of the trash it was before. I'm also extremely lazy, and no one has been sending me long reviews, just favs and alerts. It's not that I don't like those, but reviews are more motivating. With the end of senior year coming up, and teacher's piling on the work, it just seems as if there was no motivation to keep posting. Luckily, Tirsis has been updating One Half a Wing and a Prayer, and I decided to make one more effort for the fans. If nothing happens beyond the usual one to two sentence reviews I've been getting, I may just stop posting, or worse, post everything I have and never write about it again.

As always flames will be given to Mario to throw at his enemies, and reviews and questions will be given a personal response in the next chapter.

-Due to severe injury from Akari's mallet on certain parties, this chapter is taking place a week after the last one.-

As the students of Furinkan high gathered around to watch the 'true blunder' fail once again, murmers washed moved through the crowd.

"…can't believe it took him a week to heal…"

"Yeah, even Akane doesn't hit that hard…"

"I heard that she used a baseball bat."

"No way, I heard it was a sledge hammer."

"I heard she's staying at the Tendo Dojo."

"No way!"

"Really."

"…another fiancé for Ranma, no doubt."

Most of these rumors were being spread by Nabiki's network, which was working frantically to squeeze every last yen out of this duel. As Akari stood near one end of the football(1) field waiting for Kuno, who was 5 minutes late, she observed the way Nabiki was flowing throughout the crowd. She was apparently exchanging money for some sort of package, and at other times taking money and then writing down something on her notepad. She gave a heavy sigh. Mother did warn me this morning that she would be taking bets, but I will need to find out what that package is.

Her attention was drawn back to the present by Kuno's trademark entrance, in which he shouted some random nonsense and then waved his bokken through the air. Akari took up the loose stance which her mother so favored. Honestly, she could slaughter Kuno I she wanted to.

After her meeting with the Kami of Chaos, and practically living both her parents' lives, she knew all the techniques both her parents ever accumulated over their entire lives. Hell, she knew some techniques of her mother's that she hadn't even invented yet. She was probably stronger than even her mother at the moment. Well, in everything except chi attacks that is. Akari thought to herself. Reliving the acquisition of techniques was one thing, but she didn't get to feel the chi flow of her mother's, and later her father's, attacks, so she couldn't easily reproduce them, at least not without giving away how she knew about them.

Kuno went in with all guns blazing, shouting "ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta…" Over and over again. It was a comical imitation of the speed of her mother's Kanchu Tenshin Amaguriken. It almost made her cry to see how slow and random the strikes were. She lazily wove in and out of Kuno's strikes, barely paying attention to it. Akari, because of sheer boredom, called out to one of her classmates.

"Oy, Kaname, what did you get for answer five on Hinako sensei's English homework?"

The flustered girl replied, "Ummm…I believe it was 'Good Evening'(2)."

Jeeze, why do Americans have to make everything so difficult. Why have two words for one thing. Not to mention the extremely long syllables. Why can't they just say 'konban-wa'? It's only three syllables. During all this, Akari was effortlessly dodging Kuno's strikes. In a fit of rage, Kuno increased his speed and power to his max, having initially held a little back because he was fighting a woman. Akari was impressed…or rather, she would have been, if it was the first time she saw Kuno damage property from air pressure alone. She decided she should make this quick and raced towards a low hanging light pole. She flooded her arms and legs with chi, making them close to twenty times stronger than they were originally. As she approached the pole, she pushed off with her legs, achieving a lift off that looked something like an F-14 breaking the sound barrier. It even left a small crater where she pushed off.

As she approached the pole she swung her legs behind her and pushed a little extra Chi into her shoulders. She reached out and grabbed the pole as she approached it, swinging her leg forward to spin her around it, pivoting on the spot where she was holding the pole. As she went around, she pulled her legs in so her feet were resting against the pole. She then hunched forward, to gather speed, and, when she judged it right, she let go with her hands and pushed off with her legs, actually bending the solid steel pole with the force of her takeoff. Actually, bending the pole wasn't that surprising since she actually did break the sound barrier, if only just, upon takeoff from said pole(5). She released the Chi from her arms and instead focused it on the bones in her legs, before she flipped in the air and aimed a left kick at Kuno's chest.

Now normally, one would dodge such a kick. Sane people would dodge such a kick. Hell, even people in an asylum would dodge this fearful technique. Kuno falls under none of these categories, so we must examine his reasoning. Kuno's World couldn't process the fact that a person could travel faster than the speed of sound, so it just dropped that factor out of the equation and told Kuno to block as if he was fighting a normal speed opponent. To Kuno's defense, his bokken was made of the finest hardwood in all of Japan. Unfortunately, hardwood wasn't designed by nature to be rammed with objects going just over Mach 1. Right before she hit, Akari appeared to be shouting something, but no-one could tell what.

Akari grinned seeing Kuno's wimpy defense. Because he stood still, she already won before she hit. She broke his bokken upon contact, feeling the jolt go up her leg, glad she had reinforced her leg bones with her Chi. As her left leg hit Kuno, she pulled it back and snapped out with her right. To all the bystanders, it looked like a continuous stream of blurring legs were hitting Kuno's chest, head, and arms. As Akari landed her last kick and pushed off of her sempai, her voice rang throughout the area.

"Take This! Denkou Kobushi School's Secret Technique(4), kuuchuu hirameku handou(3)"

Akari walked over to were Nabiki was gawking at Kuno and grabbed a handful of money.

"I'll take this as my fee for giving you such a show," she looked over her shoulder at Kuno, "Oh, and you can fall down now." As she continued on back towards the Tendo Dojo to do her homework, everyone present heard all of the bones in Kuno's chest, skull, and upper arms crack, most of which broke entirely. Kuno collapsed into a pile of flesh somewhat like a deflated balloon with broken twigs in it. Whatever Kuno did afterwards, everyone was sure he would never again try for Akari.

(1)- I am referring to the Eastern version of football, otherwise known as Soccer in the west

(2)- This is said in English, in case you didn't guess

(3)- Literally translated as Mid-air Flash Kick

(4)- Roughly Translates as "Lightning Fist"

(5)- the only viable analogue I can give for this is the tips of helicopter rotor blades, which break the sound barrier, but only just, causing that familiar sound we all associate with helicopters.