SHINJI TENGE
by Gunman
Chapter 4
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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"So let me get this straight." 'Reika' said as they walked back to his cousin's house. "You get a cute, enthusiastic fiancée only because you saw her naked in the girls locker room, after you got knocked into the locker room by her three-year old sister, who is actually 17 years old, while fighting some chick wearing battle armor, who broke your arms because you got in the middle of a fight between her and the three-year old, and the older version of this three-year old healed you after you were told by her sister you were her fiancée."
"Yeah, that's pretty much it." Shinji exclaimed.
And all on his first day. "Man, it sounds like one of mom's bad soaps."
The two cousins laughed as they continued on their way to Shinji's house.
"Oh listen to you! You're like something out of a warped fairy tale. The girl who lives under a curse because of something her father did."
"Will you stop talking about me like I was a girl to start with!"
"Well most people don't believe in curses nowadays. Anyone who sees you like you are now will think you're a girl to start with."
With great reluctance, Ranma 'Reika' Saotome had to admit that this was true.
The pair were about halfway to Shinji's home when their attention was caught by a piercing voice.
"Ah-Ha! Shampoo find you!" a female voice shouted, sending a chill up Reika's spine.
"Oh no." Reika said.
"Huh? Who's this?" Shinji asked.
"Long story." Reika said as the pair turned around to see a shapely young woman with purple hair in a form-fitting Chinese style dress standing before them.
"Is there something you want to tell me?" Shinji asked again.
"Really not the time."
"Shampoo have come to claim you as husband!" Shampoo shouted, pointing to Reika.
Shinji looked at his 'female' cousin in shock. "Claim you as husband? She knows?"
Reika nodded. "Yeah."
"Oh, this is going to be interesting." Shinji groaned as the amazon moved into a fighting stance. "Alright, what's going on?"
"Something about amazon law. She wants to marry me by fighting me."
"Fight you? So, if she wins, she gets to marry you?" he asked, trying to understand better.
"No." Shampoo said. "If boy wins, Shampoo will marry him."
Shinji blinked. "Huh? But shouldn't that be his choice if he wins?"
"What do you mean if?" Reika asked, sounding annoyed that he thought he'd lose a fight.
"No." Shampoo said.
"But what if you lose?" Shinji asked.
"Then Shampoo commit seppeku."
That left Shinji shocked. Seppeku? Ritualistic suicide? What the hell? "What? Why?"
"If amazon lose to girl, she unworthy and must commit seppeku. If amazon lose to boy, she marry him."
Shinji blinked. "But Reika, I mean Ranma, is both."
"Yes. But boy not here now."
"But then why do you want to fight him? Her?"
"To make girl change back."
Shinji was getting more confused by the second.
"So, let me get this straight: if it's a girl you're fighting, and you lose, you kill yourself, but if it's a boy and you lose, you marry him?"
"Yes."
"Then what if the girl you're fighting loses?"
"Girl must change back to boy, if fallen into cursed spring."
Boy, covered everything, haven't you? He thought. "You're serious."
"Shampoo is." she nodded.
And she likes talking in the Third person I see. "And if she changes back into a boy, and loses then what?"
"Shampoo challenge to Fight of Marriage."
"Fight of Marriage?"
"Amazon victor can claim right to marry person of choosing, if win."
You have got to be kidding. "Wait!" Shinji said, getting in between both Reika and Shampoo.
"What?" Reika asked.
"You can't fight her." Shinji stated.
"Why not?"
"Because you'll win."
"Huh?" he asked in confusion.
"Don't you get it? I'm betting she knows you're the better fighter, because she wants to marry you. If you win in this fight, as a girl she has to kill herself, and I'm sure you don't want that."
"Of course not."
"But if she wins, while you're still a girl, she can make you change back to a boy, at which point having won, she'll change the rules so you'll have to marry her."
"That can't be legal."
"It may not be legal, here, but she doesn't care about that. Her laws see it as real."
"Huh? Her laws?"
Jeez, Ranma, haven't you been listening? "Reika, she knows about your curse, then she knows you're a boy, which means that she wants to fight you regardless of the fact you're a girl now."
"Huh?"
Shinji's expression turned sour. He couldn't believe how dense his cousin was sometimes.
"The only way I see for you to get out of this is for you to not fight."
"WHAT?"
"Look, I'm not up on all the aspects of Amazon law, but just from listening to what she's said, I don't think there's a way for you to get out of being married to her."
"So you want me to what? Not fight? Throw the fight? That's dishonorable!"
"It's either that or be married to someone you don't want to be married to."
"Like you?" Reika stated.
"My situation is different." he countered, sounding a little offended.
"How so?"
"Well for one thing, I'm not fighting anyone."
"Not good enough." Reika shot back.
"It's a family tradition, not clan law."
"Still not good enough." she said, crossing her arms over her expanded chest.
Shinji sighed. "Right now I've got nothing to complain about having a fiancée like Aya."
Reika seemed satisfied by that answer, but before he could say anything, a new player emerged onto the field.
"Now I will kill you, boy, for trying to take my beloved Shampoo!" A young Chinese man shouted as he leaped through the air and landed not a couple meters from Shinji. He was glaring at the young teen, which Shinji found unbelievable due to his incredibly thick glasses.
"Huh? Me?" Shinji gasped as he noticed the man staring at him. He had long black hair, dressed in a white and ivory colored Chinese outfit, large oversized sleeves and blue pants and slippers.
However, Shampoo was getting mad at this.
"Stupid Mousse! Not Him. Her!" Shampoo shouted, pointing to the redheaded girl next to Shinji.
"I may not be smart, but I'm not that dumb. I'm here to kill the boy who stole you from me." he said.
Shinji looked at Reika and suddenly realized that even if this guy had a vision problem, he could distinguish for himself the difference between males and females. Which meant he mustn't know about Ranma's curse. And it was Ranma's curse.
Mousse leaped into the air and threw his arms out at Shinji. A series of bladed weapons attached to chains shot out of his over-sized sleeves at the young man.
"Oh, hell." Shinji gasped as he leaped out of the weapons line of fire, narrowly avoiding the sharp bladed weapons, which seemed to vary slightly. Shinji could make out a spike ball and chain, a few different knives, some with serrated edges, and some that looked like spear tips. How was he hiding all of these weapons in just his sleeves? Shinji wondered as he continued to dodge the weapons.
Reasoning with this guy was out of the question, since he was dead set on his death. Or worse.
Mousse retracted the weapons and charged at the young man again. Shinji dodged the blades again, jumping up and twisting through the air with fluid grace that stunned the young redhead and the amazon who was watching.
Wow. He's gotten better. Reika thought as he kept his eyes glued to the pair.
Who is this boy? Shampoo wondered as she watched the fight.
I've got to end this fight. Mom's waiting for me at home. Shinji thought as he leaped through the air and grabbed one of Mousse's chained weapons. He rebounded off a tree and flew behind Mousse, twirling the chain so that it wrapped around the near-sighted young man. He ricocheted off the other trees and pulled hard, tightening the chain around the Chinese fighter. He grabbed several of the out-shot weapons and staked them to the ground, effectively making the young man immobile.
"Hey! Let me go!" Mousse shouted as he struggled against him bonds.
"Can't. I don't feel like being attacked again. Sorry, but I have to go now. Hope to see you again." he said. Though I doubt you can see me with those glasses. He thought as he walked back to where both a stunned Reika and Shampoo were standing.
"Man! That was incredible, Shinji! You really have been keeping up with your training haven't you?" Reika cheered.
"One of the benefits of having a legendary soldier as a mother." Shinji grinned.
"Well, now that bad Mousse is tied up, we can fight!" Shampoo said, turning to Reika.
"Oh, no. I... think I hear my mom calling me! Shinji, I got to go, call you later!" Reika shouted as she ran off.
"Come back husband!" Shampoo shouted at Reika. She turned back to Shinji. "You fight very well, cousin of Ranma. Bye." she said with a wink as she ran off.
Man! And here I thought I had trouble with a new fiancée. Shinji thought as he left to go home.
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Currently Shinji was in his room just finishing his homework when he felt something tinge at the back of his neck. He smiled as he recognized it.
Sensei. He thought as he looked at the sword hanging over his bed. It was a katana of exquisite craftsmanship. A black lacquered sheath, etched with a white flowing lotus pattern, housed a curved blade of polished steel bound to a kanji-embroidered hilt. It was a magnificent sword, his birthday gift from his mentor. The sword's name was Yuuki (valor)
He grabbed the sword and raced downstairs. When he arrived, he saw his mother and father sitting in the living room across from a young woman, older than himself, with black hair and eyes and a very elegant look to her. She was dressed in a traditional Chinese gi, her own sword sitting by her side.
"Shinji." Motoko Aoyama said as she set her tea cup down on the coffee table.
"Motoko-sense." Shinji bowed to his sensei.
She smiled as she picked up her sword, pulled the blade from it's sheath and lunged at the boy. Shinji countered by pulling his own sword free and clashed against her own
"You have much explaining to do, Ikari-kun." Motoko Aoyama said as she pushed against his sword.
"I'm sure I do, sensei." Shinji replied as he side stepped the slightly older woman, separating from her for a second.
A gunshot cut their little fight short. The pair turned to see Deunan Knute Ikari with a smoking gun in her hand.
"Not... in... my house! Take it outside." the female soldier said.
"Right." Shinji said.
"Sorry." Motoko said.
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Once the pair were outside on the lawn, they blasted away at each other, slicing, cutting, swiping and just going all out against each other.
"I hear you have a fiancée." Motoko said as she leaped away from the boy to avoid his sword.
Shinji grinned a little. "Yeah. It was kinda unexpected."
"So how did this happen?"
"I saw her naked."
That was probably the wrong thing to say, especially to her.
"YOU WHAT!" she shouted as she rushed forward and savagely struck at his own sword.
Shinji should have figured that was the wrong thing to say. Motoko's sensibilities were from a more 'feudal' era, as such she was inclined to act on them.
"It wasn't on purpose!" Shinji shouted as he blocked all her attacks as best he could.
"That would be your only saving grace!" she shouted as she knocked the sword from his hands, knocking him back onto his rear. "Do you yield?"
"Never." Shinji said, glaring defiantly at the woman, her sword thrust into his chin.
She smiled. "I admire your courage, Shinji. But you are beaten."
"Wanna bet?" he asked as he pulled something from behind his back and tossed it in her face.
Her eyes focused on the object, before shrieking and passing out.
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"Sensei? Are you alright?" Shinji asked as he waved his hand in front of her face.
Motoko realized that she was back in the house, and now lying on her back on the couch. She glared at Shinji, rather annoyed.
"That wasn't fair, Shinji."
"You're the one who told me to use my opponents weaknesses against them. You used my own inexperience, I used your fear of turtles." he said with a smile as he held up the mechanical turtle that Su had made for him.
"Get that thing away from me!" she cried as she backed up towards the edge of the couch.
Shinji just smiled as he watched his sword teacher panic. He liked seeing her like this. It was just do damn funny.
Just then, there was a knock on the door. Shinji left his sensei and went to answer it. But his mother had beaten him to it.
"I'm here to see Shinji Ikari." the boy heard a voice say.
"Aunt Washu?" he gasped.
"Shinji-kun!" the tall red-haired woman shouted as she moved past Deunan and embraced the young man tightly.
"What are you doing here?" the boy asked.
"I have a new invention I want to show you."
Shinji quickly bolted out of her arms and ducked behind the couch.
"Shinji?" the two women cried in unison.
"Oh, NO! The last time you said that, I spent six months in the Warring States Period!"
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The Sengoku period (
Japanese????, Sengoku-jidai) or Warring States period, was a period of civil war in the history of Japan that spanned from the middle 15th to the early 17th centuries. It started in the late Muromachi period in 1467 with the Onin War (1467-1478), lasting through the entire Azuchi-Momoyama period, until finally peace and order was achieved in 1615 of the Edo period.
It was in this time that many demons and monsters were trying to exert their control of the people. They were opposed by a unique team of heroes, of which Shinji had joined when he was teleported into the middle of a vicious fight between the group and a rival gang of demons lead by the sinister and power hungry Naraku.
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"I said I was sorry!" Washu said.
"You're lucky I found some good people to help me, if those demons and monsters had their way I'd have been dead and dust long ago." Shinji said, remaining behind the couch, his sword clutched tightly in his hands.
"See? You made some new friends." Washu said.
Shinji groaned, but knew she was right. While the half-dog demon and the priest were a little odd, Shinji had at least been able to meet the other two, who were far nicer. Sango and Kagome. Wonder what ever happened to... he paused in thought as he remembered that girl from the academy, the one with the ponytail. He shook his head. It still couldn't be.
"So, what's for dinner?" Washu asked in an attempt to change the subject.
"Italian!" Deunan said. "And while we're eating, Shinji can explain exactly what happened on his first day at Toujou Academy. And how he got a fiancée."
Shinji groaned again, realizing that this would be a very long night.
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Authors Notes:
Hope everyone enjoyed this.
The 'Fight of Marriage' idea was borrowed by a fanfic called Shinji Saotome in which a pair of amazons challenged Shinji to a FoM because they knew he couldn't beat them.
I also hope that everyone wasn't too disappointed with the Shinji/Mousse fight. I tried to make it as extensive as possible, but also entertaining and believable. Or at least as believable as I could for an anime fanfiction.
Also, I made sure to include three characters: Shampoo, Motoko, and Washu, as well as an explanation as to how he met Sango and the others. I also tried to keep their personalities as best I could to their original ones. (Though the Washu scene was a bit short I admit) The next chapter will have a better explanation as to what Sango's doing here in this time. Although, some with creative thinking might come up with a believable reason on their own.
Furthermore, the whole conversation between Shinji and Shampoo over Amazon law was pretty much taken from some of the fanfictions, not the anime or manga itself.
Please read and extensively review.