Who? Takahashi? Why would a Goddess need to own anything?
Chapter 6 The family that fights together...
"You attacked Akane..."
Chi looked up into the eyes of what was truely his greatest fear: his mother annoyed and disappointed at him. Chi bowed his head. " I'm sorry mom..."
Nodoka's eyes lightened slightly at being called mom. She had been shocked at her son Ranma for attacking his 'brother' like that, but Ranma had stopped after the first punch and had then explained what Chi had just done at the Tendo's home. Ranma had even admitted that Chi had used Ranma's anger and had beaten Ranma himself, 'with a lucky shot'.
Nodoka wanted to know what was going on and knew that Ranma deserved the same. She had Ranma place Chi on the couch so that they could wait for him to explain.
"Now son, why did you attack Akane like that?"
Chi glanced over at Ranma. Ranma was obviously still angry about Akane, but it seemeds his emotions were being mixed with what he was feeling because of the future Nodoka's message.
"I had to. Ranma couldn't bring himself to do it."
"What! What do you mean? AM I SUPPOSE TO TRY AND KILL AKANE MYSELF?"
"No. Train her." The room went silent at that for a moment.
"Son, perhaps you should explain everything for us. I know you're trying to save Ranma and Akane from what could happen, but we could help better if we knew what was going on now."
Chi looked at his mother and knew that he couldn't say no to her. He took a deep breath and let it out.
"Alright, I'll start from the begining. Ranma I know you don't wanna hurt any of your fiances, and Shampoo's laws are mostly still unknown to us. You just read a traveler's copy when Shampoo arrived. In my time you never found a way around them. I don't know of anything either, but I hope I can help you find one."
"Alright 'Brother', What happeneshappens if we don't find one?"
Chi looked at Ranma when the man called him brother. It left a warm feeling in his heart. His family was finally whole. He didn't like the answer he was about to give, but he knew he had to tell them.
"Then we go to war..."
At the Tendo Dojo
Akane was lying in her room. Dr Tofu had already come and gone. Nothing was broken, but almost everywhere vital would be bruised for a while. It hurt, alota lot. She hadn't felt pain like this in years. Not since her father had been actively training her, before her mother died.
A memory began tugging at her, one from a long time ago...
FLASHBACK (please don't kill me)
A young girl, no more than 4 or 5, ran into the kitchen crying. She ran to the woman cooking and wrapped her arms around the woman's leg.
"MOMMA! Daddy hurt me! Why!"
The woman was a little surprised at what her daughter had just told her and bent down to pick her up.
"Let's go see what Daddy has to say about this"
The little girl stopped crying some and smiled a little at this. Daddy was strong, but Momma always won when they argued.
"Kasumi dear? Could you come and watch dinner cook while I talk with your father?"
"Yes momma." At this a young Kasumi enters the kitchen. She is no older than 8 and pulls a stool to the stove so that she can see inside the pans.
"Thank you dear." The woman leans over and kisses Kasumi on the forehead. "Come along Akane. Let's go 'chat' with your father."
The woman, still holding Akane in her arms, walks to the dojo and enters to see her husband on the ground meditating. A tear can be seen leaving one eye. He opens his eyes as he feels his wife looking at him.
"We were training. I thought she was ready to begin more serious training. I am a horrible father, attacking my own daughter."
"Akane dear would you go and get that gi over there?" She motioned to a yellow gi on the wall. Akane nodded, and when her mother put her down she did as she was asked. She stared in wonder as her Mother began to change right there in front of her.
"Akane dear, I want you to watch what happens but don't interfere. Be a good girl and just watch, ok?" Akane nodded, she was in awe of her mother. She had heard her oldest sister talk about how their mother use to practice with daddy all the time, but then just started to practice less and less until she finally stopped. To see her mother fight was worth anything, any pain. Daddy was gonna get it good now.
Soun watched as his wife finished changing and took a stance just waiting for him to get ready. Slowly Soun got up and took an opposing stance.
"Go momma, beat daddy up!" Soun face faulted at his daughter cheering on his defeat but said nothing. It would serve him right for harming Akane.
"Quiet dear, me and your father are just going to have an old fashioned training spar just like we use to. Right dear?"
"A training spar? But you haven't practiced in months."
"Soun, you will fight properly. You will NOT hold back. I'm trying to show Akane something. Do you understand?"
Soun looked at his wife, to his daughter, and back. He nodded slowly.
If Akane didn't hate him already she would soon now. He strengthened up his stance for a serious fight, his wife would probably kill him later if he didn't take it serious. Without a visible signal they started.
Akane was in shock at the dance her parents were performing. It was the art in it's purest form. It was the pride of their family and the Anything Goes school. It was wonderful.
Until Soun landed the first blow.
Akane watched her mother get knocked across the room only to stand back up and fight again. She watched in horror as this went on for 15 minutes. Finally her father had her mother on the floor and had placed his foot at her neck.
Soun helped his wife up and turned to his daughter. Akane ran to her mother when Soun backed away.
"Akane dear, don't cry. I'll be alright."
"But you're hurt."
"That's called training dear. It may hurt for now, but I'll be stronger and it won't hurt as much next time. Sometimes to get stronger you have to hurt in training. Your daddy knows this and was only trying to make you stronger."
"Like you momma?"
"Yes dear, make you strong like me. You wanna be strong?"
"Yes. I wanna be the best like you."
"Good girl. When you're ready let daddy know. And remember one last thing dear."
"What?"
"Look at daddy."
Akane turned to looked at her father. He had a hurt look in his eyes.
"It might hurt you to train, but it hurts your father even more to hurt you to train. He loves you very much and will even do this to make you stronger even though it hurts him very much. Grow strong for your daddy so that he will know that both your pain was worth it. OK?"
"Alright momma, I'll be strong for daddy. It didn't really hurt before. I didn't know why daddy hit so hard." Akane ran to her father and gave him a big hug.
"I'll be strong daddy. You can hit me if you wanna. I'll be strong just like momma. I love you."
Back in Akane's room in the present...
"I'll be strong momma. I promise." Akane sat up and remembered what that guy had said to her just before she had passed out. " 'Now is the time to decide if you are a true martial artist or not. How did I beat you?' How did he beat me? "
Back at the Saotome house...
"Go to war? What do you mean? I thought you were here to stop the war from happening?"
"I'm sorry mom, but I'm not. The only person who might know of a way to stop it all and revoke the Amazon law is Cologne, and she is dead set on getting Ranma to marry Shampoo no matter who suffers. We may have to fight the Amazons anyway."
Ranma looked disgusted. "So nothing changes, huh?"
"WRONG!" Chi looked at Ranma with a fire in his eyes. "I knew that I a fight, a war, might be inevitable. I'm here to change the rules. Before, you fought and died outnumbered and on Amazon lands in China married to Shampoo. This time you know what is going to happen, you will be here not China, you won't be married to Shampoo, and you won't be outnumbered."
"And how am I not going to be outnumbered. I'm glad I'll have you at my side but against Cologne and who knows how many Amazons..."
"Who said anything about just me?" At this Chi just smirks and Ranma could see a look in his eyes... he wasn't telling them something.
"Alright, what do you mean?"
"I've been here for two years training, and gathering allies. They're old friends of yours you could say. First was Happosai, but he ain't the last. I had to wait until after they had met you. They don't know who I am or that I'm a Saotome, but I directed them here after they finished their own soul searching from some info I gave them all. It's good to know the future sometimes."
Ranma got a confused look on his face. "Who did you get?"
"Let's just say that the first of them should be arriving here or the dojo any day now."
Nodoka looked confused for a moment. "Why here?"
Before Chi could answer the doorbell rang and everyone went to answer it. As Nodoka opened the door, she saw a familiar looking young man with an embarrassed look on his face. He was wearing boots, camo pants, and a black T-shirt. He was also wearing a white bandana and was carrying a backpack. Ryu Kumon looked at the faces in front of him. He wasn't surprised to see Ranma with his mother, but was surprised to see HIM there.
"YOU!"
Chi smirked in the classic Saotome fashion.
"Hello Ryu. What kept you?"
Author's Notes:
I hope that you all are enjoying the direction that I am taking this. I still have a few surprises planned. Some painful surprises as well as joyful reunions (and I'm not talking aboutr Ryu.
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