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CW: This story will contain violence, strong language, sexual humor and situations, drug use, Moroboshi Ataru, and Happosai. You've been warned.

|Vice Principal|

The next morning at the Tendo Dojo was a hive of activity. In the backyard of the house, an invigorated Soun was shadow boxing, and in the sitting room Nabiki watched him while she sipped a glass of juice. Kasumi was busy at work cooking for her family plus their guest, and just finishing up to her satisfaction.

"Akane-chan, Katie-chan, breakfast is almost ready!" Kasumi sang and the sound of footsteps coming down the stairs followed. "Are you ready for class?"

"We're ready as we'll ever be," Akane called back as she and Katie strode into the sitting room and sat down.

Katie sat down next to Akane and ran her fingers through her long black hair, fanning it out and letting it fall against her shoulders and back. She had a restful night's sleep on a comfortable bed roll that Akane set out next to her bed. "Well, I feel refreshed. How you doin' this morning?"

Nabiki was a half-second slow to realize Katie was speaking to her and lowered her juice. "Oh? I'm okay; not really looking forward to today, though."

Akane looked over as Kasumi came in with several covered bowls of breakfast. "What is it?"

"Well, Kuno's gone, so the faculty is going to take control at school," Nabiki lamented.

That puzzled Akane. "Isn't that what's supposed to happen?"

"I for one welcome anyone competent enough to do their job," Katie added.

"And there's the rub. These are the same guys who let Kuno have free reign of the school."

Katie grimaced. "Yikes."

"Can you blame them? Kuno probably threatened to challenge any of them who resisted to a duel, or something silly like that," Akane said.

Kasumi sat down with them after setting the last of the dishes out. "Well, if Okamada-sensei is still the Vice-Principal, it should be fine, shouldn't it?"

"We have a Vice-Principal?" Akane asked, surprised.

"Yes, he was Vice-Principal when I went to Furinkan for my first year, and he was the only one who could really keep the principal contained. By Summer break he convinced the principal to go to Hawaii and we never saw him again."

"How bad was he?" Katie dared to ask.

Kasumi sat still for a moment, her gaze unfocusing as she stared at the far wall of the sitting room. Katie and Akane shared a look as a moment went by with no movement from Kasumi. Without warning, she snapped out of it.

"What's important is that we never saw him again."

Katie and Akane shared another concerned look.

"After that, school was more peaceful, but I decided to leave to devote my time here at home," Kasumi went on like she didn't just have a traumatic flashback.

Mulling on that as she began to fill her plate, Katie decided to sit on the brighter side of it.

"Well, as long as he's a peaceful guy then we'll have a peaceful time. I doubt anyone's going to cause much trouble after yesterday, and if anyone does, I'll handle them," she said

"We'll handle them," Akane corrected.

Katie chuckled. "Pardon me, we will handle them." She corrected herself and earned a smile from Akane.

With breakfast done, the three girls Akane, Nabiki, and Katie left the Tendo residence and headed to the school. As far as morning walks went for Akane, it was a much-welcomed change of pace to be able to just walk to school and talk about something other than how frustrated she was. It had only gone on for three days, and ended just yesterday, but being able to go to school with no worries for once made it feel like it'd been suffering for weeks.

"It's so weird," Akane said as they neared the gate.

"Having no unruly mob to greet you every morning?" Katie teased.

"Yeah," Akane said before she looked up at the covered clock.

Katie let out a silky chuckle. "Soon you're gonna miss the attention, Akaneko."

"Not likely, ever, I'm never going to miss a boy, especially any of them."

"Ah, to be so young," Nabiki said as they passed the threshold to the front yard of the school.

Barely two steps into the schoolyard, and Akane bumped into someone who walked into her path. Surprised, she pushed him back and gave a yelp when she realized it was one of the school's male students.

"Ugh, back off!" She snapped at him.

The student stumbled back, and with a muttered "Sorry" he lumbered listlessly away from Akane–not towards the doors but towards the school's wall. Watching the dazed boy leave, she looked back at Katie and Nabiki. They were both looking at the curious sight all around them: the schoolyard was packed with male students left and right.

There was no mistaking them, they were all the very same boys who'd aggressively lusted for Akane in the days prior, but it was clear that her explosion had an effect on them. They were all pale, almost completely colorless; it was like looking at a grayscale manga drawing compared to everything around them. They all had the same lifeless expressions, as well, and their gazes were held firmly to the ground, looking no higher than anyone's ankles.

"Huh," Katie said as she nudged one of the meandering boys.

"Sorry," he muttered as he drifted away like a balloon bouncing off her.

Nabiki scratched her cheek with one finger, and pushed another of the boys, and he went stumbling in the direction he was shoved.

"Sorry," he said, before he tripped, fell, and laid there on the ground motionless.

"Dang, I think they're actually broken," Katie said.

"Woe, for my ability to care is nonexistent," Akane said with her hand upon her chest.

Nabiki nudged the prone student, and he spoke a muffled "Sorry" into the dirt. "Frankly, I'm impressed they had enough sentience to get up and come to school today."

"They're going through the motions … I think," Katie said as she kept poking another boy's cheek.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry…"

"Definitely an improvement," Katie said as she relented and let the young man wander off. "Though I think if they're gonna wander around like livestock, we'd better put bells on 'em."

Nabiki and Akane both looked at Katie and jumped.

"They're like ghosts, I'm looking right at them and I can barely tell they're…" She noticed the two jump and looked back. "What…?"

She jumped back, flying to her guard, when she saw the slight, weary-looking middle-aged man in a suit standing right behind her. The man came up to Katie's nose in height, with a wrinkled and pitted face and a severely receding hairline.

"Who…?" Katie began.

"Good morning, I am the Vice-Principal of Furinkan, Okamada-sensei," the old man introduced himself.

This was the Vice-Principal? No wonder no one noticed him, he was the image of a man who wouldn't be noticed unless he was standing directly in front of someone, and he was barely there now. Still, Katie bowed politely to him, Akane and Nabiki doing the same.

"Good morning, sensei," all three said.

The Vice-Principal returned his bow. "Good morning, Akane-san, Nabiki-san, Katie-san. I hope that you are well this morning, and that you experienced no difficulty on your way to school."

"It was the nicest walk to school I've had in the last couple days, everything is much quieter now," Akane said freely.

Katie watched a boy walk between them in a fugue and bounce off another zombie-like lad. "We're gonna need to build a pen for all these boys, though."

Okamada looked to his left at one of the boys and shook his head slowly. "That is a shame. The fire of youth in their souls ran wild without forethought or reflection; it is the unfortunate state of affairs here in Nerima, that makes them like this. Before I needed to worry over a single madman–now everyone's gone mad, and these young men paid for it by having their spirits snuffed out."

He turned to the girls and bowed deeply. "On behalf of myself and the faculty of the school, you have my sincerest and humblest apologies for inaction in reining them in."

Akane was a bit taken aback by the gesture. "Oh! Well, thank you… and just do not let it happen again."

"Not that it can," Katie chimed in as she envisioned where the pen to keep them would go in the courtyard.

She'd probably need a dog to help herd them.

"Yes, going forward there will be changes to how the school is administered, with steps to contain raucous behavior at the forefront. You needn't worry anymore, it is my sworn duty now to ensure that Furinkan High School will be a paradise," Okamada assured them.

"Good!" Akane said brightly, thankful that more change was in the wind.

"Yeah, thanks," Katie agreed.

Nabiki just hummed and nodded.

"Now, hurry to class before the bell rings," Okamada ordered, and the three girls turned and bolted off to the building.

Soon as they were up the stairs and through the door, he heaved a sigh and looked around at the sad mess of empty young men milling around him. He brought his right hand to his mouth, covering it, before he bowed his head and spread his palm across his face like a man in grief.

It was too much to bear.

"It is no one's fault but my own," he said to himself. "I was too meek, slow, too com-"

He stopped himself, he was suddenly gripping his own face, like he wanted to tear it off.

"No, I am the Vice-Principal of this school."

Okamada Kamoyo will make everything right.

A/N: And here we have our big divergence from the original. It's only going to intensify from here. Okamada, from the Live Action special, is such an underused character. It's no surprise, this fandom's dead af, and uh... yeah Okamada/Madame Kamenbell is a huge swerve from the usual Ranma formula. But we're gonna have fun with him.