Concentrating hard on the purple orb of f ki that levitated in the palm of Ranma's Hand, sweat began to drip from his brow and trickle down his face and then drop into a small puddle at his feet. He had been practicing the Baja-sen-kyo by himself the entire night but only got it to about the size of a Soccer ball. The one he saw Kira display however was much more massive and intense kira must have practiced for years to get it to the size that it was then, but the last thing he would do is quit when he was as far as this. Ranma tried to will the ball of ki to get larger but it only seemed to slow his progress so he threw that technique out of the window.
"C'mon you stupid…" He growled through gritted teeth but the ball only floated there almost insulting him. He could feel his arm become weak from it being in the position that it was all night and he could feel his left hand go raw from it being clenched so hard and so long. "What is the matter with this thing!? Why won't it grow!?" he thought mentally. It was hard enough contracting on a ball that only seemed to grow an eggshells width every few hours, but it even more difficult trying to concentrate when that over-dramatic idiot Kuno yelling challenges of battle at him in the back ground. "Ranma you cur! Release the fair pig-tailed girl and the fair Akane!"
Kuno yelled bouncing off of roof tops searching for Ranma. "One day… one of these days… I'm gonna end up killing that Guy." He thought angrily. "Coward! You hide yet you call yourself a warrior!?" Kuno shouted getting closer to Ranma's location. "Shut up damn it!" Ranma's blood began to come to a boil. "Where are you!? Show yourself!""Please shut up!" Kuno saw Ranma with his back turned and the purple orb of ki he worked to accomplished so gruelingly. "So you finally showed yourself coward!" Kuno stuck his bokken out in challenge. "NO! If that idiot screws me up I'll have start all over again!" quickly formulating a plan Ranma came up with the only thing for Kuno to leave him alone for a while.
"uh, okay Kuno! You win! I give up! I surrender! Now leave me alone!" Ranma said waving his free hand in surrender. Confused, Kuno leaned to the side to see what Ranma was up to and saw the orb of ki. "What thou hath there?" He asked. "Nothing! Now Leave!" kuno was like an annoying mosquito that just won't get that it was not wanted. "My eye's has yet to deceive me Saotome! What do thou has in thy hand?" Kuno said as he approached Ranma. Sighing at last Ranma tempted to make a deal with Kuno. "If I let you see will you leave?""On my honor." Looking quite rudely over Ranma's shoulder Kuno got an eyeful of what Ranma has accomplished so far. "What do you think?" Kuno stared at the swirling ball of ki that levitated in his hand. "Well?" kuno just pointed to it with a plain expression on his face. "Tis quite small don't you think?" Ranma turned and punted kuno into the sky. "WHAT DO YOU KNOW!?"
On the other side of nerima two Japanese school girls were hired to pass out flyers of the 80th annual masquerade festival. "Sheesh is it really this big of a deal?" one said with flyers up to her chin. "Must be, everyone in nerima is going." "There has to be an easier way! My back is about to go out!" one other complained. "Oh, stop being a baby! It's barely ten pounds!" Handing flyers to the nerima passerby hours had passed and the morning sun had turned into sunset and still had a good few left over. "for the love of Kami we'll never get this done! If we come home late mom is going to think we've been out all day with boys!" "Oh, be serious! We can just tell her we've been passing out flyers all day."
"Okay, I guess. Hey Orina, could you get the rolls of tape out of my back pocket? It's been bugging me all day." Orina stopped and looked at her sister with and dumbfounded expression. "You... Had tape... This entire time?!" "Yeah why?" Orina sighed. "Come on let's tape these things to something so we can go home." "Really? That's a great idea!" the two crisscrossed over streets taping the blue paged flyers over anything that had a hard surface. "Okay that's the last one! Come on Akiza, let's go back and get our pay and go home." The two sisters both ran out of sight. "That was quite rude." Hikaru thought with a flyer taped to his forehead. Gently peeling it off Hikaru stared at the flyer.
"I sure wish I had someone to go with me he grumbled. "What was that technique?" Hikaru cut off a shout when he recognized the voice. It was Kira hanging upside down from a black cord from a telephone post. "What are you Spiderman?" Hikaru said plainly. Kira retracted the cord into a small metallic cylinder and flipped over and landed gently on his feet. "No, I prefer Mr. Deadpool." He smiled. "Riiiight." "Back to my original question, what was that thing you did? Those girls completely ignored you as if they never saw you but in physics case they should have." Hikaru scratched the back of his head. "I just have this way of not being noticed that's all." "So there is no technique to it? You just… do it?" "Yeah basically" "I see. What's that?" kira pointed to the blue paper in Hikaru's hand. "Oh, a festival that takes place every year. We wear masks, play games, eat food, and other stuff.
"Sounds interesting, I shall go, what is the day that it starts?" "April 23rd, next week." "Okay, I'll see you there." "I wasn't thinking of going this year I... Don't have a date" "are you sure there isn't a girl that doesn't want to go with you?" "Well, I'm no Casanova like you and I'm not the best looking guy around either so I usually just go with mom." "In that case I'll go with you two I don't have anything better to do." "Okay, I'll see you there." Kira vanished out of sight and that was that. "Such a lucky guy. Looks, a great personality, good fighter. He has to have at least halve of the female body at school running after him. And I can't get even one." He sighed. "Forever alone."
Ranma opened the paper door to his home, completely drained and hungry. "Why can't anything be easy for once?" he said aloud. Walking past kasumi in the kitchen the scent of roasted pork and spices put his feet in reverse. "That smells good kausumi, what's for dinner?" "Roasted pork with cayenne sauce, white rice with grilled fish and pickles, steamed lobster with melted butter, and stir-fried chicken" Ranma's mouth drooled from the first three. "And for desert we'll be having Jesus tears. How was your day ranma?" "Pretty good." Ranma mentally kicked himself for lying to the nicest girl on the planet.
"Oh, before I forget, Akane wanted to see you about something." Ranma's spine froze. "And to think this day actually could get worse." He thought. Walking slowly to her room, he prepared himself for a trip to the furthest lake courtesy of AA. Akane Airlines. Turning the doorknob to her room and slowly opening the door he was met with indeed a rare sight, Akane getting dressed. She was topless holding eight pairs of bras in her right arm looking into a full-length mirror and she looked happier than a child in a candy store. "This one doesn't fit anymore, this one doesn't fit anymore, and this one doesn't fit anymore" she trailed on. She was throwing out all her old bras because she hit a growth spurt over night, she got 2- inches taller and her bra strap popped when she woke up this morning.
She then bent down to pick up her new pairs of bras and giggled again. "Still too small!" blood began to trickle down ranma's nose. "Damn. Ranko is gonna have some competition." He whispered. Akane put on the biggest bra she had and buttoned up her blouse. "Wait until ranma hears about this." She giggled. That struck a major cord in Ranma's brain. Thinking quick, he ran towards the stairs as Akane opened her door. "Oh, hey Akane." He tried to sound nonchalant but couldn't wait to hear the news from her mouth herself. "Ranma! I've got something to show you!" she smiled. She went back into her room. "well, what are you waiting for?" And like a bat out of hell ranma leaped for the door. "maybe she'll let me touch em'" he thought optimistically. When he turned into the room he was met with a blue paper in his face. "E-eightieth annual masquerade festival?" He said as he took it out of her hands. "Yeah, wanna go?"
Another chapter well ended. Once again I must tell all of you Kira is not and I repeat NOT an over powered character, he just seems to be. Anyway fun fact: if you take some letters and rearrange the letters in Hikaru's name you get Kira!
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