After Hikaru uttered the last syllable, ranma took off, speeding at kira actually cracking the Stone where he used to be. Swinging with a right aimed at his kira's Cheek. Kira caught Ranma's fist, then threw it aside and landed an almost instantaneous blow to Ranma's Stomach making him spit up a mixture of Saliva and Blood. Ranma corrected himself and threw several kicks at Kira's midsection which were blocked. Ranma grunted in annoyance and rapidly struck at Kira who now was on the defensive. Blocking and evading Ranma's blows, kira noticed an opening that only was exploitable every few seconds. Waiting for the right moment the opening widened and Kira knocked away one of ranma's punches and hit him firmly on the side of the Chin.
Ranma grunted as he flew backwards, he flipped backwards and landed on his feet and to his surprise Kira was nowhere to be seen. "The hell?" ranma whispered before hearing Kira's voice. "Over here." Before ranma could react, he felt a hard hit to his shoulder blade that sent him flying forwards. Having enough ranma turned in mid-flight and structured his arms and shot off a moko Takabisha towards his pursuer. Hikaru bit his lip when he saw the yellow orb of ki speeding towards his older sibling. Kira was mildly surprised at the technique ranma had just used but suppressed his surprise almost as soon as it came. Then Hikaru saw what none other could do. Kira had batted the orb away as if it was a beach ball.
Ranma's widened when he landed but remained cool and confident. "Not that it matters, how did you do that?" Ranma asked. "You shoved my attack aside like it was nothing how did you do that?" kira stood up straight and folded his arms around his chest. "I've been in a lot of places and I've seen many techniques, and I must say that I haven't seen that one in a long time." Ranma's eyebrow went up "What do you mean you haven't seen it in a while?" "I mean I saw an old man doing it when I was little and he gloated something about it being fueled off of confidence. So naturally I tried it myself and to tell you the truth, it was a pretty effective weapon in my arsenal up until I fought one of my soon-to-be business partners that is."
"What happened?" Ranma asked "Well, in the heat of the battle I used it and gained the upper hand when it hit, and when I foolishly gloated that it was fueled off of confidence he did something daring. When I fired another one hoping to end the duel, he smacked it away like I did just now, he somehow knew that if he had an equal or greater amount of confidence he would be able to deflect the attack fueled by an equal or lesser amount of confidence." Suddenly it made sense to ranma, and he hoped that little secret would stay one. "Shall we continue?" before ranma could retort. Kira's foot connected to ranma's chest. "OKAY THAT'S IT!" Ranma growled.
Ranma corrected himself and ran at Kira but stopped once in range. Ranma mumbled something about chestnuts over an open fire, ranma's fist's was aimed at kira's midsection, each one hit with rapid succession pushing his advisory back a couple of feet. "Not so talkative now are we?" ranma thought. Kira ripped of the rest of his ruined shirt that was now in shreds. "That's good, you should be a masseuse." Kira smiled. Ranma gritted his teeth. "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" kira put on an innocent like face. "I only said that that you would make a great masseuse, they make a decent amount of money you know; there is no need to rustle your jimmies." "RUSTLE MY- THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?" ranma screamed.
"Oh, nothing just something I saw on the internet." Kira smiled. Ranma charged into the smiling kira, punching and kicking rapidly. Hikaru couldn't decide whether ranma was losing on the attack or kira was winning on the defensive. Ranma could feel his fist's turning raw with each hit; it was like hitting a steel radial. "c'mon c'mon where is it?" ranma thought. He couldn't find an opening anywhere at his lower or above defenses. If he were to take his eye of Kira for the smallest amount of time Kira would gain the upper hand. Ranma retreated to think of a new strategy. "WHAT?! A 100 yen coin!?" ranma pointed behind Kira. Hikaru was fooled at the trap and looked aimlessly behind Kira for it. "if there was a 100 yen coin behind me than why are you telling me? Shouldn't you be getting it for yourself? How stupid do you think I am?" "Sheesh this guy's tough." "Well I guess you're smarter than the average idiot I guess." Ranma shrugged. "And goading me to become angry is only slightly better than the "desired object that just so happens to be behind you" trick." "Damn that's not working either, guess I'll have to use that move again." Ranma thought.
Ranma put down his fists and breathed in deeply a few times. Kira's eyebrow went up. "This is a very inappropriate time to practice yoga Ranma." Kira said. The next thing Ranma did scared Hikaru the most because he had no knowledge of the technique. Ranma got into a stance that resembled a ghost and turned pale and become emotionless. His ki disappeared, that means he intends on moving at an extremely quick pace or hiding." Ranma stood completely still. "Why don't you attack? You have the upper hand don't you?" kira stood there still. "Now he wants me to attack him." Kira went through all possible scenarios. "If he's moving fast he'll want me to attack so I'll miss so he can hit me from multiple directions, and he can't hide not in this broken arena, maybe he intends on draining me in some sort of way? I just don't know." Ranma grew impatient. "It's completely understandable that you're scared, we can stop now but this'll count as a win for me and you still have to teach me that Baja thing."
Kira still didn't move. "Now he defiantly wants me to attack, he knows something, guess I'll go with the most logical approach." Kira put on a calm composure. "Okay ranma, I don't know what you planning but I'll fall for your little trap." Ranma smiled on the inside. "Kira rushed with astounding speed that rivaled that of Ranko's. About halfway from his original place and ranma's kira looked like he was going to hit ranma, ranma thought of which thing to steal first and saw his necklace looked nice but he thought it would look better on him. Suddenly kira's fist came down way to early instead of hitting ranma kira struck the damaged arena sending up a smokescreen of rocks shards, dust, and pebbles. Kira disappeared among the screen ranma couldn't see with dust in his eyes rendering thousand seas useless. "Hello." Ranma heard from his side but it was too late a fist smashed into ranma's jaw sending him all the way off the arena, smashing through the steel stands, through the steel fence, and made a long trail of uprooted trees and bushes.
Kira landed gracefully on his feet. As the dust cleared the only thing Hikaru could see was kira standing alone. Kira made his way to his downed adversary. "aaaand goodbye." Hikaru couldn't believe what he had seen, hurriedly running to his brother. "How did you see him under that smoke screen? I couldn't see my own hand in front of my face!""That's just it, I didn't, everything gives off life energy or otherwise ki, even rocks and dirt, and when I put up the screen or so I'll call screen of ki, ranma had no detectible ki so a large chunk of nothing in a screen of something was easy to detect. Hikaru finally got it then. Kira bent down and lifted ranma up. "What are you doing?"'It's a martial artist's duty to protect the weak, in his downed state he could easily be hurt further by the wild animals around here; it would be irresponsible to just leave him." Hikaru was stunned at the kindness he displayed even toward an enemy. "Show me where he lives." Hikaru guided him towards the tendo dojo and then went home.
A/N: well, that ends another chapter. Thank you NPP6 and Rascalize for subscribing! Many thanks! I'm new here and I'm trying to improve my writing, so review and give me a few pointers and what else I need to work on. Anyway I don't own Ranma ½ or any of its characters, until next time.