SHINJI TENGE 3
by Gunman
Disclaimer: I do not own Shinji Ikari, Tenjho Tenge, Ranma, Love Hina, Appleseed, Inuyasha, Tenchi, Sailor Moon, Project A-ko, and GI Joe.
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Lunch ended and Shinji found himself headed for gym class. Unfortunately, he found himself next to a rather familiar pair.
"Well, well, well. It's the newbie." Bob Makihara said.
"Yeah. Just our luck." Souichiro Nagi said.
Kami-san, it just doesn't stop, does it? Shinji groaned.
"Alright, ladies! Today's activity will be... dodgeball!" the coach shouted.
Shinji noticed that some of the students were groaning, some were cheering. He didn't have to guess what the consensus was about this activity, nor who was actually cheering and complaining.
Nearby, the girls class was getting their swimming in.
"So you actually have a fiancée?"
"What's he like?"
"He is buff?"
"Is he smart?"
"Is he drop dead gorgeous?"
The questions flew around Aya one after another and she found herself giggling like crazy at their enthusiasm.
"Does he at least have a name?" another question fired up.
Aya turned to the girl. "His name is Shinji Ikari."
At this, one of the girls head shot up.
Shinji Ikari. I know that name. The girl with long black ponytail tied hair and brown eyes thought. But from where do I know that name?
While Aya fended off question after question regarding her new beau, the boys dodgeball teams had been selected. Shinji found it almost poetic that he was on opposite sides from both Bob and Nagi.
"LET'S BATTLE!" the coach shouted.
You have no idea how true that is. Shinji thought as the two teams started hurling the hard rubber spheres at each other. He wondered if it was the coaches sadistic sense of humor to team up all the enthusiasts against the cynics.
Not having a ball himself, Shinji chose to duck and dodge the assault. He managed to grab one of the balls that had hit a member of his team and tossed it back, nailing an opposing player in the hip.
Out of the corner of his eye, Shinji noticed that Bob and Nagi seemed to be throwing balls left and right all in an attempt to strike him. Shinji thanked his mother for all her training over the years as he easily dodged the balls. However, he noticed that several members of his own team were getting hit. Worse, they were getting hit and falling to the ground in pain.
They're crippling strikes. Shinji thought as he leaped through the air to avoid another barrage.
Eventually, only Shinji was left standing.
"Time to go DOWN!" Bob shouted as he hurled the ball at an almost machine gun velocity directly at Shinji.
The boy just stood his ground.
He stretched out his hand, as if to stop the speeding ball, and succeeding with a loud WHAM! as it connected with his open palm. The ball was stopped in mid-air, and dropped from his palm into his other hand.
He eyed the other team, his face nearly emotionless.
"Let's Play."
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At the swimming pool, one of the girls looked down through the fence and noticed what was going on down on the lower field.
"HEY! Look at the boys game!" the girl shouted.
"So what?" one of the said, dismissingly.
"It's one guy against a whole team."
The girls still didn't seem that interested. "And?"
"He's winning."
That got their attention.
"WHAT?"
The girls all gathered around the fence and looked out to see that there was indeed a single boy on one side of the field, throwing and hurtling balls at the opposite team.
"Is he alone?"
"Where are his teammates?"
"Over there! They look hurt!"
And indeed they all looked like they were in some form of pain.
"But who's the guy fighting the whole team?"
"He looks new."
"Shinji?" Aya gasped.
"Shinji? Wait... you mean... that's your fiancée?" one of the girls gasped.
"Yes."
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Shinji leaped into the air, over the speeding ball and tossed his own at the thrower, nailing the player in the chest before he landed on his own feet. The entire opposing team continued to throw all the balls at Shinji in a vain attempt to hit him. This was a mistake as Shinji was soon left with all the balls on his side of the field.
"Uh..." Bob stated.
"... Oh!" Nagi finished.
You got that right. Shinji grinned as he quickly snatched up all the balls he could carry in one shot and started hurling them back at the opposite team.
WHAM! A ball strike to the knees.
BAM! A ball strike in the arm.
SLAM! A ball strike in the leg.
Bob and Nagi watched the display, suddenly realizing that Shinji was dispatching every other member of their team. He was singling them out.
He hefted the last two balls into his hands and glared at the pair.
"Separate. SEPARATE!" Bob shouted as he bolted from Nagi to get distance, harder it was to hit a moving target.
However, that didn't stop Shinji as he hurled the ball at him and nailed his behind, sending him down into the dirt.
Nagi stared at Bob in shock, and then back to Shinji, only to see a red blur a split second before he felt incredible pain in his groin.
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Shinji was sitting in his last class of the day, History.
The teacher was a rather attractive woman with long purple hair and a figure to die for.
"Alright Class! Today we'll be starting a new lesson having to do with The Antranni War, which as many of you might know, happened nearly 15 years ago. But first I want to introduce you to a new student who just happens to be starting today and was late due to a family matter." she said as she held up a card. "So let's all welcome, Mr Ranma Saotome!"
Shinji's head shot up at that name as the slightly older boy with an athletic build, red shirt, and single pigtail stepped into the classroom.
"Hi I'm..."
"Ranma!" Shinji shouted.
"Shinji?" Ranma gasped.
The older boy practically leaped across the room and tackled the younger in a headlock. This quickly caused everyone in class to glare as the pair wrestled with each other.
"I take it you two know each other?" Ms Misato, the teacher, asked with an amused smirk.
"Oh, sorry, Ms Misato." Shinji said as Ranma released him. "Ranma and I haven't seen each other in two years."
"Miss each other that much huh?" she grinned.
"Well, it's pretty difficult to find a good partner nowadays." Ranma replied.
"I suppose so. But no hand-holding in class." she said, trying and failing to stifle a laugh.
Shinji and Ranma suddenly froze as they both realized what she was saying.
"WHAT?" they shouted in unison, sub-consciously separating from each other.
"You mean you thought..."
"That Shinji and I..."
"Where would you..."
"You said he was your partner." Misato smirked.
"SPARRING partner!" Ranma corrected her. "He's my cousin for crying out loud!"
"And I've already got a fiancée!" Shinji declared.
Ranma froze at that little statement.
"You got a what?" the pigtailed boy gasped.
Shinji blushed. "Uh.. It's a complicated story."
Ranma grinned. "Man, Kasumi's going to be heartbroken."
"Stop teasing me!"
The laughter didn't die down for several minutes after that.
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Class ended and Ranma quickly pulled Shinji behind the school. There was something he had to tell his younger cousin.
"Shinji, there's something I have to tell you." Ranma said.
"Considering what's happened in the last hour, please don't tell me you're gay." Shinji said with some exasperation.
"Well... not exactly."
Shinji regarded him strangely.
"What do you mean... not exactly?"
Ranma sighed as he pulled a bottle of water out of his backpack.
"A couple months back... Pops and I were in China for some special training. We ended up in this weird valley, I forget the name, but it had a lot of these... sacred cursed pools."
"Cursed pools?"
"Yeah, and Pops knocked me into one of them."
Shinji wasn't liking where this conversation was going.
"There's like hundreds of these things just laying all over the place. According to our guide, when a person or animal or something or other, falls into one of the pools and drowns, whoever else falls into those pools gets turned into whatever drowned there in the first place."
Shinji just glared at him. He may believe in ki-energy, but a cursed pool was something else.
"Cold water turns them into that, hot water turns them back." Ranma explained.
"And in your case..."
"A redheaded girl." he said with mortification.
Shinji scrunched his lips together like he was sucking on a straw. He then burst out laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man! Oh, Ranma, man, you... you really had me going for a second." Shinji laughed.
Ranma gave him a sour look. However, it wasn't totally unexpected for him.
"Maybe if I show you." he said as he opened the water bottle and poured it over his head.
Shinji stopped laughing the second Ranma's jet black hair started changing color to bright red. His eyes didn't alter, his chest suddenly expanded a bit, his figure shifted a little, and his face became more effeminate.
Shinji gasped and dropped onto his butt as he was now standing in the presence of a very attractive and rather tough/pissed off looking redhead.
"Oh... My... GOD!" Shinji exclaimed in shock.
"Yeah. That's what mom said when she found out." Ranma scoffed, his voice now softer and just a slightly bit higher.
Shinji scrambled to his feet as he as now apologizing profusely to his cousin.
"Ranma, I'm... I'm sorry. I didn't mean... I mean who wouldn't..."
"Forget it, Shinji." Ranma waved him off. "It's not like I like this! My only consolation is that the same thing happened to Pops."
"Uncle is a girl too?"
"No. He's a giant panda."
"What? A panda?" he gasped in disbelief.
"Yeah. Can't talk or anything, which saved me from having to listen to his repetitive lectures." he said and noticed Shinji's confused look. "What?"
"Does anyone else know about this?"
"Well, Pops, my mom, and our friends The Tendos. We're staying at their dojo for the time being so that I can get an education here. And now you."
"And you're telling me this, because...?"
"Dude, I trust you a lot more than most people. I figured you had a right to know."
Shinji smiled at that, rather honored that Ranma placed such faith in him.
"Wow. Thanks man." Shinji said. "But you have to admit, this whole thing is..."
"Yeah, I know. Kinda sucks."
"Well, not really."
Ranma gave him a sour look. "What do you mean 'not really'? For crying out loud I'm half girl, Shinji! This is ridiculous! Humiliating!"
"Well, yeah. But now I've got two cousins!" he smiled.
Ranma grimaced before tackling him and putting him in a headlock.
It was at that point that Aya popped through the bushes looking for her fiancée.
"Shinji-kun, are you..." she said as she paused. The wrestling pair did the same.
There was a silence for several seconds, then...
"GET OFF OF MY FIANCÉE!" Aya shouted as she leaped at the girl and kicked he in the head, knocking her away from Shinji.
"OWWW!" Ranma groaned, not expecting such a quick strike from the mystery girl.
"Aya, wait! It's not what you think!" Shinji shouted, trying to stop the fight before it started.
Aya had a look in her beautiful brown eyes, one of both pain and anger. "Then tell me Shinji-kun, what is it? Who is this girl?"
"This is my cousin, Reika. She's new to the academy and is going to be starting soon."
Aya blinked. "Your cousin?"
'Reika'? Ranma thought, blinking as well.
"Yes, Aya." Shinji said as he stood up.
She stared at him in the eyes, noticing nothing but honesty.
She softened and turned to the redhead. "Sorry about that." she said to 'Reika'.
"Don't worry 'bout it." the redhead said, waving her off and holding her jaw.
"You two must be very close then." she smiled sweetly.
"Something like that." 'Reika' said.
"I'm really sorry, Shinji-kun." she smiled as she kissed him on the cheek. "Forgive me?"
"Yes, Aya. It was an honest mistake." he said, blushing slightly as the girl hugged him around the neck. "Is there something you needed?"
"Maybe." she said in a teasing tone. "But actually I wanted to tell you that The Jyuukukebu is having a meeting tomorrow after school. I figured you'd want to be there."
"Of course."
"The what?" Reika asked.
"The Jyuukukebu is one of the martial arts clubs here at the academy. Aya and her sister run it and I just joined today."
"A martial arts club run by girls?" 'Reika' scoffed.
Shinji coughed, realizing that Ranma still had a limited view on women as martial artists, especially given the fact he was a girl now as well.
'Reika' caught herself and smiled. "Sounds fun." she said.
"It is mostly. Maybe you'd like to join us?" Aya asked, then turned to Shinji. "That way you and your cousin can spend more time together."
"Uh, sure." Shinji said.
"Alright then. Meet me tomorrow in front of the school after classes."
"Deal."
"Right. Bye Shinji-kun." she said, kissing him on the cheek before running off.
Shinji blushed a little as her movements caused her short skirt to flip up, giving the boy a teasing flash of her white panties.
It made him wonder if that was intentional.
"Was that your fiancée?" 'Reika' asked.
"Yeah. Aya Natsume. She's..."
"Not bad to look at."
"Ranma!"
"What? I'm just saying..." he said defensively. "By the way..."
"What?"
"'Reika'?" Ranma asked.
"You would have preferred something like Hikaru, or Izumi, or Ryoko?"
"Well... I hadn't actually thought about that."
"Well I did."
"But why did you tell her that?"
"You wanted me to tell my fiancée about my gender-changing cousin? That's your secret and I'll keep it until you're ready to reveal it."
Ranma could only nod his head, once again admitting to himself that Shinji had once again proved to be the smarter of the two. "Good point."
"Besides, I do like having 'two' cousins. Technically speaking."
"Ha. Ha." he laughed weakly.
"Come on. Mom and dad will love to see you again. And I think this is something they should know about as well." Shinji said as he headed out.
"Right. Let's go see Auntie Commando and Uncle Ninja." Ranma said, following his cousin. "Sides I need to get some hot water. And on the way, you can tell me how you got such a cute and athletic fiancée."
"Well, that's complicated."
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Author's Notes:
Here it is, chapter three. I hope everyone enjoyed it and like the addition of Ranma now in the story. I tried to be as true to his character as possible. I'll try to get to how he became Shinji's cousin at some point.
And don't worry about Inuyasha and the others, I'll get to them eventually.
The names: Hikaru, Izumi and Ryoko are from Martian Successor Nadesico. They just came to me when I was writing this.
Anyway, if I miss something, I'm sorry. I'm a little rushed on this story.
Please, read and review.