By the morning, the streets were full with life and voices, cars and shopping. Within the crowded streets though, people had quite the awe look on their face, some had another type of reaction between their legs and some others had grown with jealousy of her looks. There went a peculiar teenager in perhaps a dress that fitted her figure almost too perfectly. Leaving not only the figure of her legs almost uncovered, but also letting everyone know just the size of her chest or the beauty on her face.
Too bad though she wasn't exactly the type of woman who would brag about their looks such early in the morning and with clothes that were a bit too feminine for her tastes. Ranma kept a quick pace on her running, trying to avoid almost all eye-contact with everybody that could loose control and try to give her chase.
"N-Not very feminine I said, that's the very first thing I said..." - She wasn't in the brightest mood at all, a thick vein was popping on her forehead Ranma wanted to blame Kasumi and be mad at her, but how could she? It's hard not to like Kasumi and she knew she thought it was best. So, she thought about the next Tendo daughter. - "You could had waited me, Nabiki!"
As if summoning the wrong devil, Kuno's voice started to ring a bell or two inside Ranma's head.
"My pig-tailed goddess!" - The annoying voice of Kuno was more than enough to take Ranma out of her thoughts. As much disgust as she felt however, Ranma made the cutest expression she could muster up and ran to Kuno's direction like if he were something to her.
This causing tremendous jealousy over the men that witnessed the scenery, gladly for them though, Ranma landed her left foot on Kuno's face, stopping him just a few inches from her body and throwing him to the ground with the rest of her leg. - "I'm very sorry, Upper-Class Kuno. But I have no time for this! Ta-Ta!"
"Hah... That was close" - An odd spot to hide would be the school bushes, but one cannot be very delicate when a perverted sword-man gives chase. For Ranma, this was the case, not having the best mood to start out the day she had no other choice but to come out of her hiding place after all seemed calm once more.
Such a shame that calm lasted few as soon as some familiar friends found the beautiful pig-tailed girl avoiding the plain sight from the school hallways, in case the teachers showed up. - "R-Ranma?! Is that you?"
"What's with the question?" - said Ranma to her friend as she kept a good look in case danger showed up. - "Daisuke?"
"Ta... I-I don't know" - Hiroshi was the one to answer, seems that Daisuke was now speechless with the looks of Ranma and how the school uniform fits her. - "It's just that you usually stay with masculine clothes then you turn into a girl, and... seeing you with an uniform..."
"Where's Akane?" - Interrupted Ranma before the guys made the situation more awkward than what it was already.
"Didn't she come with you?" - Daisuke had to turn around in order to regain his mouth back or he would surely remain mouth-opened for as long as he looked at her.
"Damn it... Do me a favor and cover me from the teachers" - With these last words, Ranma quickly ran to the closest window and hoped on the border, looking for the best place to land on before she jumps from the third floor, giving one tremendous look of her butt in all its glory with panties to her friends and causing quite the nose-bleeding to Hiroshi who had eyes on her. A view that happened once in a lifetime according to Ranma's dressing code. Thank Kasumi for the experience, and may Daisuke forgive himself when he realizes what he missed.
"Akane! ... Akane!" - Such a problem it was, trying to find a macho girl as her. Ranma wasn't concerned but it was odd that she missed out class. Searching in the gym, the infirmary and all the classrooms proved futile. - "That stupid girl, she has to be a problem all the time!"
Like Karma for insulting her, from several floors above Ranma's, a great amount of hot water fell right in her spot. Not only causing quite the surprise to Ranma, but also causing her to turn back into a guy.
"Idiot! I told you someone was there!" - A feminine voice was head from the roof of the building, apparently yelling to the one next to her.
"S-Sorry Sensei!... I'm... Very Sorry!" - Another feminine voice followed, this time a lot more shy and maybe younger than the other.
"Son of a... Could this get any worst?!" - As if invoking luck to strike him once more, the sound of a flash was the next thing, and this time it made him turn into stone for a few seconds before realizing it was Gosunkugi. At this, Ranma did nothing but to take down the tree where he was hiding.
"Aaaahh! M-M-My photographs!" - Yelled Gosunkugi as soon as Ranma took them from both the air and the ground.
Nightmare followed. Few have seen Ranma pissed over something, and he was going to be one of the unlucky ones. A deep dark shadow began to circle around Ranma, sending quite the battle aura and a feeling of his size increasing ten times at the eyes of Gosunguki. - "Y-You... You bastard!"
"I-I-I-I gotta go" - Gosunkugi was sweating cold, almost ice. Color had completely abandoned his body, more than what it had already. As soon as he grabbed some courage and strength, he took his remaining photos and camera, and with a speed that was heartbreaking for the small guy, he ran away from Ranma to avoid certain death.
"Wait!" - Ranma was about to give chase when the feeling of the wind on his legs made him stop on his feet and quickly hide in the tree he took down little ago. The wind reminded him he now was a guy, wearing a woman's clothes. - "Shit! If someone sees me like this... W-Where's cold water when you need it?!"
Looking for cold water when you a guy with a girl's uniform is something you should brag about if it didn't vaporized your entire reputation with your family and friends. For Ranma it wasn't easy but his abilities made it less difficult than what it could had been. After turning back into a woman, she gave chase to Gosunkugi. - "Akane will have to wait... Gosunkugi is my catch... Good thing the dress is less tight than before... No idea what I'm gonna say to Kasumi though..."
"Didn't knew you were into that kind of stuff" - A very, very familiar voice came from Ranma's left, it was no other than Ryoga with Gosunkugi on a shoulder while looking at the photos of this. - "Got to admit I never thought you were this photogenic" - Ryoga gave a quick smirk to Ranma with this sentence.
Ranma felt ashamed of what Ryoga kept saying, a bright red on her cheeks and hesitation in her words where the only thing she could come up with to answer. - "It... It's not what it seems! Give them back!"
"Ah... What are you doing at the school anyway?" - Said the pig-tailed girl as soon as she realized Ryoga's clothes all dirty and his forehead all sweaty.
"Arah..." - Ryoga had a faint look on his face like if lost in his thoughts until now. He looked his surroundings and while scratching his head, he answered back to the pig-tailed girl. - "Now that you mention it, this isn't Hokkaido"
"Eh...Heheh... Is this guy for real?... Oh, right" - Ranma had a small lapse but she quickly remember he still carried her photos. Now as if she were a little girl, was she trying to reach Ryoga's hand with all her might while this stopped her with his umbrella. - "Give those photos back you piggy! Pervert!"
"Hah! Look who's talking" - With easiness, Ryoga pushed the ashamed Ranma back before embarrassing her some more. - "King of the travesty, you spend quite an awful time as a girl, hormones will catch up with you and you'll be dating Kuno in no time!"
"T-That!..." - For some reason those words felt heavy in Ranma's heart, but she wasn't the type to be wounded so easily and came up with the first thing she could. - "Fool, if I had a hormonal problem I would be marrying Akane. She's just like a guy!"
"Oi Ranma... How dare you insult her in my presence?!" - Ryoga was pretty much at the edge of rage, with more than one vein popping on his head.
"What do you defend her for?! You'll never have a chance with her!"
"True..." - A scenery suddenly falls right behind the bandana guy, quite the ambient too for a Shishi Hokodan of catastrophic proportions. - "I can never confess my love to her with this curse... Oh, Akane! You would hate me for eternity..."
"Eh... R-Ryoga, you don't have to put up like that" - Ranma feared for her life and for everybody else in a 3km diameter. But something else had overcome those thoughts, and before she realized she was already speaking while playing with her pig-tail out of embarrassment and a very quick heartbeat. - "Y-You're a very good-looking guy, so you could find someone else easily... You have Akari, for example"
"Thank you, Ranma..." - Ryoga at long last hopped off the clouds and came back to reality, feeling better with himself. As soon as his whole attention was on Ranma, he at long last realized the way she dressed. It all seemed out of the movies for his eyes, the breeze on the girl's dress, making the skirt dance with it. The top while slightly loosen it still gave shape to her beautiful body, her eyes filled with tiny tears of embarrassment while she kept looking at him, and her left foot tapping behind the other as if not able to handle the way he was looking at her too while her hands were still on her pig-tail. - "Y-You look quite gorgeous..."
Ranma and Ryoga felt their hearts about to explode, but Ranma's most of all. There was silence while they both kept a deep red on their cheeks.
Who knows how much time passed before Ranma's conscience told her to get out of there.
"T-This is too much... I'm outta here!" - Quickly was she running away from Ryoga, but it only took a few steps before she stopped for a moment... - " ... Y-You really think so?"
Ryoga couldn't quite explain what was going on with his mind, but an immediate answer followed her question, after all he couldn't lie what he saw. - "I do"
Ranma had left as soon as he answered.
"W-What was that?!" - Something was very wrong with her, she was happy. - "I'm beautiful... I'm beautiful for his eyes!... No, he said I'm gorgeous!"
There was something indeed, very deep in her heart and in her mind. A feeling of the forbidden, and the excitement of finding out more about it. Ranma never cared about what people thought about her when she was transformed, she liked being praised but when Ryoga did it... There was something else.
Shyness, a quick heartbeat, happiness, a lot of happiness, and joy with his compliments.
"T-This is so wrong... I shouldn't be happy for this... B-But I can't stop smiling!"
Ranma had never smiled like this in his/her entire life. Just for that moment, she allowed her emotions to do the rest.
She could be seen running all around the school hallways, almost jumping. With each class she took, everyone noticed there was something different with her, not only she didn't bothered to change back into a guy, but she also started wearing the school uniform like if she had done it all the time, even at the gym class where her body shows the best view possible for the men.
It didn't last long though, one can only smile for too long before our subconscious takes over again... - "What am I doing..." - Ranma's happiness had come to an end, and quickly everything went back to how it was before.
She missed him already, and the forbidden feeling she had felt back then.