New in Town
-Chiba Hiro
(Disclaimer: A Ranma ½ and Urusei Yatsura crossover. I do not own anything of Rumiko Takahashi's and not for promotion or copy right.)
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Chapter 5: Gathering Together
Ryoga backed off from the scary tomboy in front of him as Ryuunosuke's anger shot up in a blazing aura. Ryoga was not one to back off so easily from a fight when it was initiated, but in this case, Ryoga was scared out of his wits as Ryuunosuke drew closer to Ryoga with intense eyes fixed on Ryoga, or through him as it seemed.
"Now let's not be too hasty alright! I just made a mistake, that's all!" Ryoga defended himself against her. "Come on, Ranma back me up here!" Ryoga shouted, but Ranma folded his arms and stood his ground.
"Hmm, I don't think so, Ryoga." Ranma replied, and let a grin set on his face and stepped back.
"I thought you were oh so strong, Ryoga, where'd that strength of yours go, huh? Did you lose it too!" Ranma taunted him, and Ryoga finally snapped.
"That's it, Saotome! You are dead beyond dead! HA!" Ryoga shouted and charged at Ranma, forgetting about Ryuunosuke all together, which made her very irritated to be ignored.
"Ignore me, will ya!" Ryuunosuke shouted and started after Ryoga, but the school's bell interrupted them, and they stopped dead in their tracks.
"Ranma, Ryuunosuke, the school!" Akane shouted, and both of them ran off toward the school, stomping Ryoga into the road.
An infuriated Ryoga exploded out of his wits and lost all of his common sense and obliterated the ground beneath him. "Damn you to hell, Ranma!" Ryoga cursed and got into a fit of rage and mumbled nonsense about 'Ranma going to hell!" and other things.
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At lunchtime, Ranma was walking down the hall to get his lunch and get away with not eating Akane's cooking again. A voice broke through the chatter-filled hallway and a tall teenager with brown hair dressed in a hakama and wielded a wooden sword, charged at Ranma, blurting out nonsense of 'Ranma stealing his precious vixens!'
"Ranma Saotome, how dare you ignore me of all people! I will take you today!" he shouted and filled the hall with his evil-sounding laughs.
Ranma turned halfway around and appeared to show little interest of facing this teen. "Oh, Kuno, where've you been all this time? I almost missed you!" Ranma shouted and rammed a foot into Kuno's face.
Ranma took his foot off Kuno's face and turned to leave him. "I'm getting tired of all this, and you know you'll never be able to beat me, so why bother now?" Ranma said more to himself than Kuno.
"It is simple, to defeat you and rescue the fair maidens which you hold prisoner!" Kuno shouted out, and that infuriated Ranma.
"How many times do I have to tell you! I...am...holding...no one prisoner!" Ranma shouted out and beat the lights out of Kuno. Ranma walked away from Kuno and managed a grin. "Hmm, now you got my hands dirty. It makes me wonder if you're just a guy or just trash that needs 'taking care of.' Great, now I lost my appetite, thanks to you." Ranma said hostilely.
Ranma walked away from Kuno and left him for dead.
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Ranma and Ryuunosuke walked home from school together again and they decided to eat at Nekohanten, the Cat Cafe. "So, Ryuunosuke, how do you like town so far?" Ranma asked.
"I was wondering, two people attempted to attack you today, what was that all about?" Ryuunosuke asked.
"Well, when I first arrived in Nerima, I quickly gained a bunch of fiancées and rivals too. It got sort of to the point where I was the monkey and they were the players who attempted to steal the monkey away from the others. It's sorta like a game of cat and dog, I'm the cat and they're the dogs. You get where I'm coming from?" Ranma explained and Ryuunosuke nodded.
"I think I get it now." Ryuunosuke said.
Ranma and Ryuunosuke walked up to the door of the Nekohanten and opened its screen door. "Hello? Table for two please!" Ranma shouted out, and a Chinese girl with lavender blue hair came out of the kitchen to guide them.
"Hello, Ranma! This way please!" the blue-haired girl exclaimed and sat them down at the counter.
"Yo Shampoo! It's been a while, hasn't it?" Ranma acknowledged the Chinese girl, and the girl names Shampoo giggled.
"So, who's this? New friend? Or enemy?" Shampoo asked innocently, eyeing Ryuunosuke very peculiarly.
"Uh, why'd she say that?" Ryuunosuke whispered into Ranma's ear, and Ranma shrugged.
"A new friend of course, why?" Ranma answered.
"Airen no have many of friend! I only know enemy!" Shampoo exclaimed in her heavy Chinese accent.
"What does 'Airen' mean?" Ryuunosuke asked Ranma, assuming he knows.
"I dunno, maybe a pet nickname, I'm not too sure." Ranma answered back.
A gleaming butter knife came at Ranma from behind Shampoo to which Ranma heard coming and moved his head away.
"Alright Mousse, you can come out now!" Ranma shouted.
"Who's Mousse?" Ryuunosuke asked.
"Another one of my rivals." Ranma said.
A long haired Chinese boy with round glasses appeared almost out of nowhere and glared through the opaque glasses he had on at Ranma. "Don't get too familiar with my Shampoo in our restaurant ever again, Ranma! This is my territory now!" the boy with glasses shouted out.
"Oh and what're you gonna do about it, Mousse? Your petty little weapons can't slice me in half and you know that!" Ranma challenged and glared back at Mousse.
"Well we won't know that unless I try, okay! I haven't even begun to use my full power on you! I only used thirty percent of my real strength on you!" Mousse lied.
"Oh really? Then why didn't you use your full power from the start, huh? If you really hated me that much, you would've killed me by now. Or are you just bluffing?" Ranma challenged again and bore even deeper at Mousse's core.
"That's it, no more holding back! I'm gonna destroy you for good!" Mousse declared through gritted teeth.
Ranma eyed a bucket at the corner of the room and focused half his attention on it. "Oh, really, then try it! I dare you!" Ranma initiated and Mousse fired an arsenal of projectile throwing weapons.
"Stand back." Ranma said to Ryuunosuke and blocked all of the weapons that came their way.
Ranma leapt up and kicked the bucket into his hands.
Mousse did not notice that Ranma had a bucket that was almost filled with water and attempted to take Ranma on. "You're mine now!" Mousse declared and fired a shuriken, or ninja star, at Ranma, but Ranma jumped out of the way and poured the contents of the bucket over Mousse's head.
In a moment, Mousse shrank and he had transformed into a duck when he was splashed with the water. "Quack!" Mousse, the duck, had given a defeated 'quack' before flying off to find hot water.
"Ha, that was too easy." Ranma said and sat down at the table again. "We'll have the ramen specials, please." Ranma ordered calmly and sat back in the chair as Shampoo got the order ready.
"Wow that was fast." Ryuunosuke complemented.
"Well, it happens pretty much everyday and it does get to the point where getting rid of the rival in under three minutes is normal for me." Ranma tried to sound as bored as possible and let a drawn out yawn slip out of his mouth.
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Later that night, all of Ranma's rivals had gathered together in an alleyway just outside of Furinkan high school. Ryoga managed to stay near Furinkan in case Ranma came back and they planned a secret meeting in which they could deploy a plan of action that could defeat Ranma once and for all.
"I'm getting sick and tired of Ranma always getting the better of us! And who does he think he is?" Mousse shouted angrily and everyone else agreed with him.
"I say we get him to come to us and we trap him, then we kill him, and finally...I take the pigtailed girl right from under his nose!" Kuno devised the plan and laughed maniacally. Sweat drops.
"That won't work! Ranma's not the type to chase after us after we do something to him." Ryoga objected to Kuno's plan. "He'll just get us right on the spot."
"That's true, he won't come to us just like that, there has to be some way to lure him and take something very precious to him, and I mean 'very precious.'" Mousse added.
"Then what do we do?" they asked each other and hung their heads low. "hmm." They hummed as they thought of different things.
"I know." Said a new voice and they turned to the speaker, and it was none other than the ninja Sasuke.
"Sasuke!" they exclaimed together in unison as he came up to them in the quietest form of stealth he could muster.
"I say we all gather everyone that hates Ranma and we gang up on him, then we defeat him in a big battle royal!" Sasuke suggested.
They imagined that happening to their rival/enemy, and nodded their approval.
"I agree with it." Mousse said.
"But where do we get enough people that hate Ranma so badly in such a small amount of time?" Kuno asked.
"If you ask me, most likely they'll be more afraid of him rather than hate him." Ryoga put in.
"The school is a good place to start." Sasuke suggested again and they agreed first hand.
"Yeah, the school has a whole bunch of people that hate his guts more than anything!" Ryoga shouted out.
"There's that cretin of a Principal who claims to be my father, that Ninomiya-sensei, most of the sophomore girls, and Toramasa!" Kuno listed down every person he thought of that hated Ranma more than anything.
"Yeah, altogether that makes it more than twenty people, it's perfect!" Ryoga agreed.
"Let's meet back here tomorrow! I'll gather everyone else!" Mousse shouted and they all laughed maniacally together.
"RANMA SAOTOME, THIS TIME, YOU'RE DEAD!"
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At school the next day, Kuno carried out his part of the plan and whispered to every student he managed to pass by and told him/her the plan for destroying Ranma for good. Most of them turned him down saying 'he's too strong, there's no way we can beat him anyway.'
Kuno wandered aimlessly through prep period and tried to search for the best way to get people to fight with him. "There has got to be someone who has a grudge against 'him.'" Kuno mumbled.
"Oh, I think I can be of assistance." A voice broke his thoughts and Kuno turned toward the new speaker.
"And who might you be?" Kuno asked.
The boy was about a year younger than Kuno and he had shadows under his eyes that indicated that he insomniac. "I am Hikaru Gosunkugi, and I detest the name of Saotome." He said.
"Oh really? Then how can you help us?" Kuno asked.
"It's simple, I have the power of manipulation and I can make anyone I want to turn against Ranma and defeat him once and for all." Gosunkugi explained and took out a voodoo doll with a black pigtail attached to the head.
"What is that?" Kuno asked.
"This is my Ranma voodoo doll, and I attached at least twenty of his hairs and managed to braid it back. I add a little magic power to the doll and a little bit of Ranma's DNA and bam! I have him in the bag!" Gosunkugi elaborated and light dawned on Kuno.
"Oh, I see, you're just the man we needed!" Kuno acknowledged him. "How about we team up and together, we can defeat the nemesis that has claimed our property!"
Ranma leaped up and flying kicked Kuno in the face unexpectedly. "I can hear you, you know. If you're trying to scam me by teaming up against me, then you're VERY WRONG." Ranma stressed the words 'very wrong.'
"Your petty little threats can't get us together! Our combined might shall defeat you once and for all! We, the Ranma-haters-for-life, will destroy you in an all or nothing fight to the finish!" Gosunkugi declared and that made Ranma grin.
"Oh really? You and what army?" Ranma said coldly and beamed at them.
"Our army!" a group of students from all the classes had assembled behind Kuno and Gosunkugi. "We will defeat you today!" they shouted in unison and Ranma backed off a little.
"Hey, don't ya think you're going a little overboard for a stupid grudge match?" Ranma asked.
"Today is the day that we fight together as one!" Kuno shouted on the behalf of everyone else.
"If the fight against the Saotome, then I will too!" Principal Kuno joined in, along with the rest of the hateful staff.
"Ha, even an entire army's not enough to defeat me! You think you're so hot just because you've assembled a school army?" Ranma challenged and another group had assembled with Ryoga and Mousse leading it.
"We are in it as well!" Mousse and Ryoga shouted in unison.
*Damn! I had no idea that I acquired so many enemies!* Ranma thought. "And who are these people?" Ranma asked.
"These are the Ranma haters from town, now you're clearly outmatched and outnumbered!" Mousse exclaimed and an uproar came out from the crowd of people.
Akane, Ukyo, and Ryuunosuke came up from behind Ranma to see what was going on. "Ranma, what the hell is happening?" Akane shouted.
"I don't know, maybe these guys got the idea that gathering all the people in town that hate my guts will beat me for sure!" Ranma shouted.
"That's a little too much for hate, right? I mean what did you do to upset these people?" Ukyo asked.
"That's what I wanna know!" Ranma stated.
"Well, you're not going in it alone. I'll help you fight these guys." Ryuunosuke said, and the other girls nodded in agreement.
"That's right. It wouldn't be a fair fight, one-on-one thousand, you need our help." Akane said.
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Principal Kuno held a microphone in his hand and announced to everyone in the building. "Now, we be havin' a school and town war! On the behalf of all the students, I, Headmaster Kuno shall be leadin' the school Kahuna!"
The Anti-Ranma army had gathered outside and they stood directly in front of Ranma and his small army, which included Akane, Shampoo, Cologne, Soun, Genma, Ukyo, and Ryuunosuke.
"Wait a minute, Shampoo!" Mousse shouted out. "Why are you fighting with the enemy? Are you betraying me! And you too, Cologne!"
"I go where Airen goes, I hate you!" Shampoo declared and Mousse got into a fit of rage.
"Akane, we have to fight against you!" Ryoga exclaimed and immediately look shamefaced.
"Ryoga, come fight with us!" Akane invited, and nearly got Ryoga into siding with them, but Mousse stopped him.
"No, Ryoga! It's a trap set by Ranma to lure you into his trap! He wants Akane to lure you into fighting with them, after all, you're our strongest guy so far!" Mousse stated and Ryoga stood still.
"You're right, Mousse, it's a matter of priority against favors." Ryoga said, and Mousse sadly agreed.
"Both of our beloved women have joined Ranma, our fabled enemy, and we mustn't allow ourselves to be deceived by them! Right now, their minds have been poisoned by his evil ways!" Mousse added to his declaration.
"You're right! Maybe you should lead the town army!" Ryoga suggested.
Mousse nodded and grabbed Principal Kuno's microphone. "Can I borrow this?" he asked and took it from his hand.
"Ladies and gentlemen! As you are about to witness and see first hand, we are the Anti-Ranma army, and I, Mousse, shall lead the town's army! Ranma will be vanquished!" he declared and set his round glasses on the top of his head and pointed in the direction that Ranma was in.
"We will take you today, Ranma! And you will return to us which you unfairly stole!" Mousse shouted.
"I stole? What did I ever do to tick you off?" Ranma shouted back.
"Our women! You took our property...*sniffles*...you took away our pride and now we will take it back!" Mousse shouted and everyone cheered with him. Akane, Shampoo, and Ukyo's anger flared at the retort made by Mousse.
"If you fight against him and my lowly disciples then I too will fight!" a short man with a balding head came out of nowhere and took the microphone out of Mousse's hand.
"Master Happosai?" Genma and Soun shouted together in puzzlement, then ran over to the other side.
"Hey, traitors! Whatever happened to giving your true loyalty towards your children?" Ranma shouted and brushed it off. "Damn them!"
"Whether it's them or us, we have to fight this as a team!" Akane stated.
"I guess there's no helping it! We gotta fight this!" Ranma declared and curled his fists even tighter.
"Let the war begin!" Mousse took the microphone again and shouted through it and they charged at Ranma and his small army.
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A/N: Well, here's another chapter for your enjoyment. Sorry I didn't get back to you in time, but I had SATs this week at school and I hope you'll forgive me! Rate, subscribe, and review please! Tell me what you think and I'll get back to you next time! Thanks!