Ranma, Reborn!

Chapter 2, Ranma v.s. The Hentai Horde!

Pixel - "Oi, oi, I don't own Ranma ½! Nor do I own any other mangas or stories I may or may not have referenced or will reference in this story! Ranma ½ and the other story I have so far intentionally referenced are both owned by Rumiko Takahashi."

Ranma - "I ain't this Rumiko Takahashi's slave!"

Pixel - "Again, not what I meant!"

Ranma - "Then what'dya mean?"

Pixel - "Err- She's something like your mother?"

Ranma - "My mom ain't named Rumiko, nor is her name Takahashi! It's Saotome Nodoka!"

Pixel - "I didn't mean it literally. Ugh, cue the next chapter…"

Sorry for not updating for awhile, I had school work. I'll update more often during the summer which starts soon.

Ranma's Martial Arts attacks - Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken / Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire technique (Allows the user to move their hands much much faster than ordinary.), Hiryu Shoten Ha / Heavy Blast of the Dragon (Using the Soul of Ice, and the enemy's battle aura, this technique creates a twister of varying size depending on the enemy's strength. The stronger the enemy, the stronger the twister.), Moko Takabisha / Pride of the Fierce Tiger (A Ki attack powered by the user's confidence.), Umi-Sen Ken / Way of the Silent Thief (An Anything Goes technique create by Genma, it's a forbidden technique, it's a stealth based technique that allows the user to erase their aura and go invisible).

Other Martial Arts attacks (Ryoga's in the canon story) - Bakusai Tenketsu / Breaking Point (An attack that allows the user to destroy any non-living object with just a finger or two. It's training has to do with swinging boulders at the student leaving only their hand free until they learn how to do it.), Shishi Hokodan / Lion's Roaring Bullet (A depression fueled Ki attack, similar to Moko Takabisha), Shin Shishi Hokodan / True Lion's Roaring Bullet (A stronger verison of Shishi Hokodan. It requires the user to be EXTREMELY depressed.)

In the story I go by the Japanese versions of the names, so you should familiarize yourself with them. I read the manga, and haven't watched much of the anime, so I don't really know most of the English Names for the techniques. And the little of the anime I did watch, I watched the subs.

Chapter 2

Ranma 16 y/o (37 y/o spiritually)

"Ahh, Akane, could you show me where the school is?" Ranma asked, both because he didn't want to act as if he knew the way, and due to the fact he had forgotten. It had been 16 years after all.

"Sure, no problem." Akane shrugged with a kind smile on her face, making Ranma blush slightly. He forced it down immediately though. 'For now we'll stay as friends, and then after we get a firm relationship, I'll try pushing it towards romance. Until then, I can't think about her romantically.'

"Oooh, Akane, you're already getting friendly with your fiancee." Nabiki teased her, "Should we call the priest?"

Ranma and Akane glared at her simultaneously, and at this point Nabiki hadn't learned that Ranma wouldn't hurt a non-violent non-martial artist. And despite her crimes, Nabiki was not violent.

"Let's go." Akane muttered, and dragged Ranma out the door.

As they walked to school, Ranma walked along the top of a chain fence, much to Akane's surprise, as she could barely do that for a block, much less as long as he had done it so far. Then again, after remembering how well Ranma had fought, even as tired as he was, she realized that it wouldn't be that amazing if he could do it at a full sprint.

As the pair continued on their way, they passed a house with an old lady splashing water on her sidewalk.

As we all know, this is the ninja Obachan that always manages to splash Ranma on his way to school, turning him into Ranma-chan.

And that's exactly what happened.

-Splash-

"Ugh… Akane, d'ya know where we could get some water to turn me back?" Ranma-chan asked as she landed on the ground next to her.

"Sure Ranma, follow me." She nodded towards her aquatransexual friend

"Ranko." Ranma corrected her.

"Huh?"

"When I'm in this form call me Ranko. Just in case someone hears us conversing." Ranko explained.

Nodding, Akane led him to the Infirmary, "You're pretty smart, aren't you?"

Ranko shrugged, "I'm alright, but it really depends. I'm pretty clever, and I find education to be easy, if damn boring, and I'm a Martial Arts prodigy, but," Ranko admitted, "When it comes to socializing… I'm pretty dense."

"Really? You seemed to handle them fine at the house…" Akane commented, and then noted that they had reached the infirmary.

"Ahh, well, I have a short temper at times, and I tend to put my food in mah' mouth at times." Ranko admitted.

Akane then entered the building to get some water while Ranko hid behind a corner, only to sense the presence of someone sneaking up behind her.

Noticing this, she pulled the offender over her shoulder in a Judo throw, shattering the 'offender' who was really just a model skeleton, into its separate parts.

Blinking twice, she turned around, noticing Doctor Tofu.

'Stay calm,' Ranko reminded herself, as it was yesterday, though he hid it well, it was hard to stay calm when seeing an old friend after 16 years, or in Tofu's case, over 16 years, of not seeing them.

Ranko then bowed towards the doctor, "I- I'm sorry for breaking your skeleton! But it really isn't nice to sneak up on people like that." For effect, Ranko puffed out her cheeks, making her seem upset.

"So sorry dear." Tofu looked a bit guilty, but more so shocked, he also had a bead of sweat rolling down his cheek, "And you don't need to worry about Betty, my skeleton, I can just put her back together."

"Ranm- ko, Ranko, here's the hot w-" She then left the hot water kettle she was now carrying on Ranko's head, she then greeted the doctor, "Um… Good morning!"

"Good morning to you too Akane. You haven't been by recently, no new injuries?" The doctor replied back.

"No, err, well, I might have some bruises from sparring, but nothing serious!" Akane answered, blushing slightly. The way she was talking was cute, admitted Ranko in her head, but she mentally smacked herself, reminding herself to only think of Akane as a friend until their relationship had a firm foundation.

After a couple more seconds of their idle chatter, Ranko turned herself back to Ranma and reminded Akane that they needed to get to school quickly.

"That guy's a Martial Artist, ain't he?" Ranma asked, but it was more of a statement than anything.

"Yeah, how can you tell?"

"He was able to sneak up on me. Sure, I noticed him before he put his skeleton's arm on my shoulder, but in a real battle, he would'a won. I thought his skeleton WAS him. If it was a real battle, while I was judo throwing the skeleton, he could'a used the ultimate weakness moxibustion on me!" It was clear that Ranma was frustrated with himself. After all, at this rate, if Happosai or Cologne came after him, would he be able to combat them? Or if that woman came after him, well, he'd have no chance.

"Ultimate Weakness Moxibustion?" Akane asked, curious.

"It's a fearsome technique." Ranma admitted, then elaborated with a grimace, "It makes the recipient weaker than the weakest infant, and the recipient's defense is lowered quite a bit as well, though not by nearly as much. And as far as I remember, its effects are permanent." Ranma shivered slightly, "The only upside, if you can call it that, is that it has no effect on the recipient's speed, nor does it affect their Ki. It can also be cured."

"Ki?" Akane asked, "Is that a real thing?"

"Yeah, I can show you later." Ranma assured her, "My strongest attack, the Hiryu Shoten Ha, makes a twister using the user's passive or cold Ki, and the enemy's hot, angry, or lustful Ki. The user must get the enemy to follow them in a spiral, and then in the center give them a good corkscrew punch. The stronger the enemy, or their aura, the greater the twister formed." Then after a few seconds, "I've only needed to use it once…" He then shivered, getting a dark look in his eye, "I'd rather not talk about this anymore."

"Ahh… Hai." She nodded, though inside she was worrying about her new friend. As she had agreed to not talk about Ki attacks anymore, she then changed the subject to something she noted before greeting Tofu, "I noticed that when you were talking to Tofu, you looked like a girl, like your mannerisms. What was that about?"

The dark look in his eyes now gone, they were replaced by a bashful look on his face, "I- along with being a Martial Artist, I'm a really good actor." He admitted, "But since I'm naturally terrible at it, I need to practice a lot. So, I might pretend to be a real girl a decent amount when I'm Ranko… though only to a limited degree of course."

"Why'd you decide to go into acting?" Akane continued, but noticed a hesitant look on his face, "C'mon, you can tell me. We're friends."

"No, it's private. Not even sis or my dad know about it." Ranma shook his head slightly, then chuckled slightly, "You have a real knack for bringing up uncomfortable topics, don'cha? What's next," He snorted, "Gonna bring up my phobias?"

Akane blushed slightly, "Ahh, we're at school… please stay out of the way for this…" She warned.

Feigning confusion, Ranma just followed her until he saw the Hentai Horde, in all their lustful glory.

"Tendo Akane, please go out with me!"

"I shall be the one to win the fair Akane's heart!"

"I won't let anyone else defeat her!"

"Not if I defeat her first!"

"Akane-cha~n let me fondle your breasts!"

That was it, something in Ranma's mind snapped, and he turned to Akane and asked, "Would you like to see an example of the Hiryu Shoten Ha? Or perhaps a more explosive move, like the Moko Takabisha? Or maybe Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken?"

Akane sweat slightly as she felt the bloodlust flow out of Ranma, and she knew it was of his desire to protect her, although her heart was touched, she wondered how, in the little less than a day she knew him, she had already warmed herself into his heart enough to get this reaction out of him when someone tried to hurt- or sexually assault- her. But, despite of being touched, this was her battle as a Martial Artist, she couldn't just let him handle it for her.

"Err… Ranma, I'm touched, really, I am, but this is my battle." Akane was sweating herself, in fear of what he might do to them, "Besides, I'd rather they not die, just get mangled a bit."

"Oh, don't worry, I won't let them die. They deserve the pain for their untempered libido, and they can't feel that if they're dead!" Ranma seethed.

"Ranma, really, it's fine. I deal with this everyday, I'm used to it. Ever since Kuno-Senpai." She said Senpai with disgust in her voice, as if she didn't think he deserved that word of respect, "proclaimed that whoever could defeat me would become my boyfriend-" She then blushed as she saw Ranma do the same, but then she realized that it wasn't a blush, but he'd blown a fuse.

"Where is this Kuno-Senpai?" He asked in a fake-pleasant voice. It was one thing knowing intellectually that something had happened, it was another thing living through it. (Yes, he knew, he had lived through it once, but it was so long ago that most things seemed to feel distant.), "Or you could just tell me what the worm looks like? After that I'll let you deal with the rest."

"H-hai." Akane answered. Honestly, Ranma's overprotectiveness was beginning to frighten her a little. But when she thought about it, she realized that Kuno probably deserved what was coming, 'After all, I don't even know if I'm the only girl he's after. He isn't exactly the type who'd settle for just a single woman, or even of a single age group. I wouldn't be surprised if he had one in middle school! Or even elementary!' As her fantasies got wilder and wilder, she enthusiastically told him what Kuno looked like, "He carries a bokken, wears a blue uwagi and a black hakama, and typically has roses with him to give to girls!"

Nodding, Ranma turned back to the crowd and shouted, "I challenge Kuno to a duel!"

A person pushing through the crowd, with curly black hair, a blue uwagi, a black hakama, and a bokken in his hands, answered his challenge, "That would be me. Upperclassman Kuno Tatewaki of junior group E. Captain of the Kendo Club. Undefeated new star of the highschool Kendo world. But my peers… they call me the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High! Now, who are you and why are you being so familiar with my fair Tendo!"

"Name's Ranma, Saotome Ranma. And the reason I'm being so familiar with her is 'cuz she's my friend." Ranma's glare would've burnt holes through the eyes of non-martial artists, but despite his faults, Kuno was a martial artist.

"Girlfriend!" Kuno roared, his delusions making him hear words that weren't there, "Tell me it is not so, my fair Akane!"

"I'm not your Akane you damn pervert! And for your information, he said FRIEND not GIRLFRIEND!" She spat back to the deluded fool of a samurai wannabe, who didn't seem to hear her.

"I accept your challenge Saotome!" Kuno decided, "We shall duel after school for the hand of my fair Tendo."

"No! We'll be dueling for this hentai horde! If I win they disband, if you win they can continue doing what they want!" Ranma sneered at the deluded fool.

Kuno didn't seem to hear him.

"Blue Blunder? More like Deluded Dunder." Ranma spat out, and sent a glare at the Hentai Horde who was currently being beaten up by Akane who had realized that she needed to hurry to class.

Class

"Well, it certainly seems true that you've been in China until recently… but that does not excuse you for being late. Out in the hall."

"What about the fact we were harassed by a crowd of students on the way into school?" Ranma asked.

"Pff, you expect me to believe that?" The teacher laughed, "Out in the hall. Now."

"Hai, hai." The male (currently) martial artist rolled his eyes as he left the room, Akane following behind.

As they picked up the water-filled buckets in the hallway, Ranma asked Akane, "You think we should bring it to court? I'm sure we could get all the perverts, sans maybe a couple closet perverts, expelled, or at the very least suspended."

Considering it for a moment, "If they don't stop after you beat Kuno to an inch from death, then I'll consider it."

"Hey, I'm not gonna go that far! I'll leave him 3 cm!" Ranma joked, earning a laugh from Akane.

Meanwhile, in another part of the school...

"What! The two are engaged!" Kuno blundered, err, thundered, "I won't allow it! I absolutely forbid it! She will listen to my pleas, I'm sure! We are destined to be together after all!"

About a minute and a half later...

"Never Saotome Ranma. Never shall I accept your engagement to Akane!"

"Engagement? What engagement?" Ranma looked at Akane with a faked oblivious face as people from the nearby classroom opened the windows, shouting. Ranma hit his fist into one of his hands and exclaimed, "Ahh! You must mean how we engage in martial arts fights, right?"

"No! Tendo Nabiki told me that Akane and you are to be married!" He roared.

"I think you misheard her. She must have told you that Akane and I are to be ferried. As in we're going on a ferry. You see, my uncle owns a ferry and I promise Akane that she'd be allowed to ride on it since she'd never been on one before." Ranma claimed, making up the most plausible lie he could on the spot, "We just met yesterday, so why would be be getting married?"

The spectators, namely the students, were saying things like, "Oh, it's just Kuno being Kuno," or, "Seriously? All that drama over nothing?"

"Oh… err, it seems I made a mistake. I shall take my leave now." Kuno, who was blushing slightly, made his way back to class, and everyone in the class went back to their seat, closing the window between the hall and classroom as they left.

"Does your uncle really own a ferry business?" Akane asked curiously, "I've always wanted to ride on a ferry."

"Nope, sorry. But as soon as I get the money from whatever part time job I end up getting I can bring you to one." Ranma grinned.

Blushing Akane thought, 'No! He isn't asking me out on a date! He just wants to be friends! Besides, I like Tofu, so even if he was asking me on a date, it wouldn't matter.' With that she managed to force her embarrassment down.

After school, the roof...

"Kuno, follow me." Ranma then jumped off the roof in the direction of the pool, Kuno following behind without thinking. But, rather than falling into the pool like he did the first time, Ranma landed on the diving board, though Kuno did fall into the pool. Sadly for Ranma, the diving board broke under the force of his fall, and he too fell into the pool.

'Kuso!' Ranko cursed inwardly, then thought, 'Wait, I can use this…'

As Ranko swam away as she did the first time, Kuno groped her and followed her even after she escaped the pool and neared a tree.

"You, girl- oh, my, your beauty… if you beat me I will permit you to date me!"

Putting on her best cute girl face, she puffed her cheeks and said, "I dunno… maybe… maybe if you break Akane's heart and promise on your honor to never have any romantic interest in her ever again! Then I'd consider dating you!"

A hurricane of turmoil blasted through Kuno's skull, until he finally nodded, "I shall do as you wish Miss…"

"Ranko. I'm Ranko." She answered timidly.

"Yes miss Ranko, I'll do as you say. Though may I inquire as to why?"

"That bitch stole my friend!" She hissed, "So I want to take something precious from her!"

"Ahh, I see. Meet me here tomorrow at this time."

Nodding, Ranko left his line of sight, reverted back into Ranma, and reentered his site, "Hey, Kuno, where were you? Got lost?"

"Hmph! I thought it was the other way around. Anyway, this duel is meaningless now. I no longer have any interest in Akane." He snorted, "She does not mean up to my interest any longer."

Feigning shock, he asked, "So, you're fine with someone else asking her out, or even dating her?"

Hesitating a moment, he nodded, remembering that he had promise on his honor never to hold her in romantic interest, "Yes. I no longer have any romantic interest in her."

"Alright, then I guess I'll deal with the hentai horde tomorrow." Ranma shrugged his shoulders, "Well, seeya tomorrow upperclassman Kuno."

Later...

"Hey, 'Kane." Ranma greeted her, "I have good news and bad news. Which d'ya want to hear first?"

"... Good."

"Kuno's plannin' to 'break your heart' tomorrow." Ranma snickered slightly, "Though I won't tell you why 'til after he does it. The bad news is that I still need to deal with the rest of the Hentai Horde tomorrow. Oh, if Kuno mentions Ranko, snarl and say, 'Ranko that bitch,' it'll help convince him."

Thoroughly confused, Akane asked, "Are you a miracle worker?"

Smirking, he laughed cockily, "Nah. I'm better. I'm Saotome Ranma."

Next Chapter…

Kuno 'breaks Akane's heart'

Tofu actually breaks Akane's heart

Akane starts to develop feelings for Ranma