Chapter 5: Pleased to meet you
Akane continues looking for ranma for awhile longer and finally gives up and figures why should she care, she had better things to do then worry about him. Of course she was still pissed off, and everyone she passed by in the hallway knew that just by looking at her as she stormed by grumbling. Kuno notes this as she storms by and figures that ranma must've done something to anger his beloved akane tendou, but he was torn between charging off after the fiend or to stay and comfort his beautiful huntress. Kuno shrugs his shoulders deciding to comfort her and embraces her with soothing words only to be punched into orbit.
Ukyou has finished giving ryouga a good beating for trying to pick a fight with her, but now she felt bad for slamming him into the ground repetitively and knelt down near him, putting her spatula back behind her back into it's holder. "Hey I'm sorry for beating you up like that, but that was pretty darn rude how you tried to attack me for being with my best friend.." crosses her arms.
Ryouga after regaining consciousness and seeing the pretty girl before him is really ukyou, becomes quite red in the face and feels like a jerk once more. Again he had wrongly accused a girl of something, and they had really done no harm and this depressed him as usual as he hung his head low.
"No don't apologize I don't deserve such kindness.. I'm sorry I didn't realize it was you ukyou.. I just get so angry and forget about things…"
"Don't we all.." Ukyou rubs her head in embarrassment remembering when she became over excited, how she'd just lash out and slam someone with her gigantic spatula. What boy would think that sort of behavior for a girl is cute she wondered to herself, her face quite red.
Ryouga looks up since ukyou has gotten so quiet, and notices her face is quite red and begins to worry that something is wrong with her.
"Ukyou do you have a fever? You look like your burning up?"
Ukyou snaps out of her thoughts and realizes that her face is glowing bright red and becomes very embarrassed once more, and waves her arms around very quickly saying that she is fine and invites him to her shop to have a free meal since she beat the crap out of him. She then grabs ryouga by the back of his shirt and drags him off with her before he can say no to her offer.
Ranma looks around for any teachers and opens up the door and motions for the girl to follow him outside, and after she's outside the building he decides to ask her the favor he's been thinking about in his mind. It wasn't a big thing so she couldn't possibly get mad at him for atleast asking.
"Well actually yeah.. it's not a big favor though so don't get mad." braces himself for impact.
Onna sweatdrop at this. "Ok then tell me what it is.."
"You see my dad is always annoying me and stealing my stuff and he just thinks he's better then me. So all I want you to do is help me beat him up, of course that is if you can fight.."
"Oh I can fight.. hmm that doesn't seem like a big favor so I suppose I'll help you do that.."
Ranma is quite surprised that she didn't get mad and hit him or yell. "Really?" walking towards the water throwing lady, since he isn't really paying attention to where he's walking.
"Um yeah, why did you think I'd say no or something…"Onna looks off the other way not seeing the lady throw her water and ranma transform into a girl, and keeps walking, thinking about random things. Ranma keeps walking as well too busy being all happy and not realizing the curse had been activated. "Actually yes.. I have a lot of problems with girl's these days.. and I guess I just expect things to go bad.."
Onna stop's walking and stares at the strange redhead girl that's talking to her, like she knows her, then she notices that girl looks like her twin except she is wearing the same clothes that ranma was and her hair is tied up in a pigtail. Ranma-chan notes her starring and realizes she's wet and that she must've changed into a girl and she didn't get the chance to tell Onna about the curse, and waited for her to start yelling that she was a pervert and other things. But to ranma's relief the other girl just starred at her and was very quiet, she looked as if she had seen a ghost. Ranma decided that he had better tell Onna what was going on before she could react further.
Onna was quite confused and shocked by what she was seeing, she didn't know what to do. To run away or to let this girl explain herself to her, yes she would wait for her twin to explain what was going on, running away was not an option. She shook her head about to snap herself out of constantly starring at the other girl, and waited patiently for an explanation. Ranma waited till she seemed like she was ready to listen and then started with her explanation.
"I'm actually ranma, I know it's weird.. and no I'm not a cross dresser ok. You remember when I was talking about jyusenkyo to you back at school in the hall?"
"Your ranma…I suppose that makes sense, you are wearing the same clothes and the same hairstyle your just smaller and a girl." shakes off the weird feeling once more, and the gem beneath her shirt glows very brightly.
"Yes I'm ranma, anways jyusenkyo is this legendary training ground in China, it has pools of water all over the place and my dad knocked me into one of them.. it just so happens it was spring of drowned girl.. So every time I get splashed with cold water I turn into a girl." grumbles and kicks a pebble that's near her foot and wait's for the other girl's reaction.
"Now it makes all sense.. why that girl thought I was you.. and why that fanged boy thought I was you.." she is very quiet for awhile but keeps walking while she is deep in thought, ignoring the gem as it glows brightly. Then she turns to ranma with a thoughtful look on her face. "Now I understand partially why you wanted me to help you beat up your father as well."
"You took that surprisingly well, and yeah I forgot to mention that I accidentally knocked my dad into one of the springs.."
"Still he didn't have to knock you into one as well, usually parent's are more caring in those sort of situations.."
"Hah him caring.. he's done so many uncaring things to me, and of course he covers it up by saying it's for the art.." Ranma grumbles at remembering all the horrible things he had been put through because of his father. "Any ways why don't you come to my house first, you don't want to keep on wearing that school uniform do you? Plus I live with Nabiki so you could return it to her, so she doesn't charge you extra interest on it or something sneaky like that.."
"Ugh you live with her.. well now I feel even more sorry for you. What! She told me I didn't owe her anything this time, just a favor.. but yeah I would like to get out of this old fashioned dress.."
Ranma-chan can't help but laugh at what onna said about the girl's uniform's, and remembers how different her asadaiba uniform was compared it wasn't long and fluttery it was short very short in comparison and cuter. Ranma finds herself blushing abit as she's thinking about the short skirt on the uniform and walks into a telephone pole face first. Onna sweatdrop at the sudden laughter and then ranma smacking face first into the telephone pole, and walks over and yanks her off it. Ranma gives her his thanks and feels quite embarrassed and stupid for doing that.
Ranma and Onna keep walking after the pole incident with ranma talking on about things, and onna listening to the stories her eyes getting wide at some of them. They keep walking till ranma spot's the clinic and stops walking and tells her to wait there for a second, and runs off into the clinic for some hot water. Onna waits outside against the wall watching people stare at her as they walk by.
Not faraway kuno wakes up from his orbit nap, and looks around pulling himself out of the trash pile dusting his kendo outfit off. Then his eyes happen upon the redheaded girl in the furikan girl's uniform. He suddenly remembers he had seen his goddess awhile ago, and she had her beautiful red locks loose, she must've followed him. Kuno walks over to where she is and greets her as usual. "Why my pigtailed goddess, you didn't have to follow me but I'm glad you did."
Onna sweatdrop at the guy talking to her. "I have no idea what your going on about, now leave me alone."
"Come now my goddess you are free from the vile sorcerer's spell, let us celebrate and thank the gods!" sweeps her off her feet and holds her in his arms.
Meanwhile ranma now back as a guy comes walking out of the clinic and see's kuno holding onna, and grumbles to himself and runs at full speed to where kuno is and punches him in the face. Onna jumps out of kuno's arm's and down to the ground, and watches him fall over from the impact that ranma's fist had given him. Ranma mumbles things under his breath and then grabs a bunch of nearby trash bags and puts them on top of the unconscious kuno. "I'm sorry I took so long, and about that idiot.. in case you haven't noticed he likes my girl side.."
"Abit too much."
"Anyways lets go, and I'll explain what were going to do on the way."
Ranma explains to onna on how he wants her to act as they approach the tendou's. Especially how to act to his father, who he describes in detail to the girl so she knows who he's talking about and describes the rest of the people he lives with so she can play the part just right. Onna takes in all the details that ranma tells her, and focuses on the description of genma and ranma's attitude so she understands how to act just like him, and takes her hair and start's braiding it up into a pigtail just like ranma's.
"Wow now you really look like my girlside, aside from the clothes.." Ranma puts his backpack down and goes thru it and pulls out another set of clothes and hands it to her. "Here you should wear these, otherwise the illusion won't work."
Onna stares at the chinese outift abit embarrassed that she has to wear boy clothes, but goes off down an alley and looks around really fast, then changes into the chinese clothing very fast. She folds up the furikan high outfit and sets it ontop of her uniform and holds them both as she comes out from the alley. Ranma just stares in awe, as if he's starring at his double just as a girl then notes her earrings are still on, and tells her to take them off for now and put them and the other clothes into his backpack. He waits for her to do so, and then he tells her to go in through the front door, while he goes in the back door and they'll both surprise his father.
Onna walks in the front door abit embarrassed as a long brown haired girl greets her in a soothing voice, she has an apron on and fluffy dress and her hair was tied back in a bow. She thinks about all the people and their descriptions and other things ranma had told her. "Oh well I wasn't feeling that good kasumi, so they said I could come home early." takes off the chinese shoes's and places them with the other shoes near the doorway, and walks off looking around at the house and the people till she spots the chubby old man with a white cloth around his head playing a game with a another man who had long black hair.
Genma looked up from his game and saw ranma looking at him oddly, and he shifted on his sitting pillow annoyed that his son was a girl again.
"Ranma why is it I always see you as a girl, your supposed to be my son not a girl." grumbles and makes his move on the game board, and waits for his son's reply.
Onna thinks about what ranma had said, and looks all mad at genma like ranma would after hearing that. "And who's fault is that pops.." grabs the cold cup of tea near genma and dumps it on his head and watches as he transforms into a rather large panda, and can't help but laugh. Genma makes angry panda noises at her, and gets ready to attack her. Ranma comes walking in from the porch and starts attacking the panda with no mercy. Soun watches in awe and sips his tea, and then moves his pieces on the game board while genma is busy.
Nabiki comes walking through the front door, and is greeted by kasumi as usual. But what she is focused on is what looks to be ranma's girl side standing there watching ranma and genma as a panda fight. Oh yes she thought to herself that must be onna, but why would she be here? It really didn't matter because now she didn't have to go hunting for her money maker, she was right where she wanted her to be. Nabiki avoids the fighting area and walk's over to where onna is."Hey so you decided to get it over with huh?"
"Um I have no idea what your talking about, I'm just doing a favor for ranma.."
"Come with me if you will, or I could charge you interest on the outfit I lent you." starts walking off to her bedroom quite satisfied at how the day was going for her.
Onna grabs the furikan uniform out from ranma's backpack and follows after nabiki, since she did not want to be charged interest on it and the sooner she got rid of it the better. She walked in the room after nabiki and closed the door like nabiki had asked her to. Nabiki sat down on her bed and motioned for the girl to come over to where she was, as she started pulling out various outfits and other accessories. Onna walked over and sat in the seat near the desk and watched random outfits and makeup and hair things be piled up on Nabiki's bed."Ok lets take some pictures, I mean ranma will be busy fighting with his father for quite awhile. I guarantee we'll be done before they finish, and I won't squeal to genma about your little plan, if you do this for me now."
"Jeez ranma was right about you.. alright I'll do it, but you'd better not go back on your word." crosses her arms as nabiki starts putting her hair up into ponytails on each side of her head, and ties them off with pink bows.
"I won't say a thing as long as you pose the way I want, and dress in what I want." picks out a sun dress outfit and hands it to the girl, and tells her to change into the outfit while she picks out a peachy pink lip stick and pulls out some pink blush and gets it ready.
Onna changes out of the chinese clothing, and puts on the sun dress, and fixes her pony tails and the bows, while nabiki starts putting blush on her face, and then puts the lipstick on her lips and hands her a pair of diamond earrings. While onna is putting them on, nabiki loads her camera's with lots of film smiling the whole time and starts up one of the camera's. She then tells the girl how to pose for this picture and starts to take pictures of onna doing different poses. Oh yes this was a very good day nabiki thought to herself greedily.
Authors notes: Yes I know I can't write, I will eventually find a better way to write it but for now this is how it is. I'm also thinking the next chapter will be quite interesting, and it will involve the devil being angry.
Ah yes all Ranma ½ characters are copyrighted © Rumiko Takahashi, Kitty, and Shogukan, Viz video and any others I have forgotten, man how I wish ranma was mine..
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