Ryoga really hated Ranma.
Yes, it was true that he didn't push Ryoga into the well. Yes, it was true that he had zero connection to anything happening in Wherever This Was, Japan. Yes, it was true that he wasn't responsible for Ryoga getting adopted by Rin, getting attacked by Naraku, and getting Kagome's house destroyed.
But that didn't matter. It was the principle of the thing, the principle. Now, you'd think that the root cause of all this was simply Ryoga's appalling sense of direction, but from Ryoga's nonsensical perspective, it was because of Ranma.
It was all because of Ranma. Even if Ranma wasn't even involved.
It just was. Somehow.
Ryoga didn't get why the people of Wherever This Was, Japan, acted like this, though. Their odd old-fashioned clothes and their even more old-fashioned speech. Tucked into Rin's arms, he had journeyed several hundred miles and had heard that the capital was still Kyoto, that there was constant fighting between daimyos, and that gunpowder had reached the country only a few years ago.
They were all so hung up on the past. Why were they going on about the "Tenbun" era? It sounded like the Sengoku Jidai.
Ryoga wondered how he'd found all these feudal cosplayers and why they were craving the mid-1500s, when it was currently the 1990s, the early days of the Heisei era. Sadly he'd spent the last days of the preceding Showa era chasing after Ranma, getting lost in a cave, fighting wild boars, and then chasing after Ranma again, when he should have been spending it with Akane-san.
He knew there was some kind of bubble that had burst or something...Akane's dad had been crying about the state of the economy last week. Something about the Tendo assets getting devalued...he hadn't been paying much attention. Akane had been feeding his little pig self some instant ramen and that had been bliss.
Yet another thing that Saotome Ranma had ruined. The last days of 1988, the first days of 1989, and the economy. Yes, it was true that Ranma had nothing to do with the recent economic collapse, but Ryoga felt justified in blaming him for it anyway.
He probably got a few dozen extra fiancees who unleashed a whirlwind of monetary devastation on the country. Ryoga was sure of that.
Just as he was sure that Ranma was behind this incident too.
"What business do you have demanding that Rin relinquish her swine to you, swine?" Sesshomaru asked, stopping in his tracks and leveling that Siberian stare of his at a freshly materialized, leering Naraku.
Yes, it would seem unlikely to any normal person that Ranma had called a demon lord and sicced him on little P-chan...
But Ryoga wasn't a normal person.
This was all Ranma's fault.
A/N: I always wanted to write a scene where Ryoga blames Ranma for every single thing on earth, including the economy. I just didn't know it until now.
The Tenbun era is most likely the time frame Inuyasha and his friends live in in...there are firearms introduced just prior to the start of the Inuyasha series, which convieniently dates it shortly after 1543.
Tell me what you think. :)