Ranma Half Moon chapter 30, Makoto's Good Bye

Author's note: This episode fits in with Sailor Moon episode 24, Nephrite Dies for Love.

Author's note: I now have a fiction press site for non-fanfiction stuff. If you want to check it out, do a search for "resop" at the "fictionpress" website. My story is called "A Dream of Roses". It is about a group of blossoming young girls who are giving it their all for an opportunity to shine brightly as professional wrestlers in Japan.

Author's note: "sensei" means teacher and "senpai" means upperclassman.

Makoto scans the newspapers in the library, looking for places that the Sailor Warriors had battled Yoma Monsters. She carefully marks each location on a map. Finally, she connects the dots and finishes by circling one small area.

Makoto carefully scans a school directory. After a few minutes, she stops and examines one of the entry's address. Checking her map, she sees that the school is inside of her circled area.

Makoto lights up. This is it! She rushes to a phone booth, barely able to contain her excitement. She makes a call.

"Yesssssssssssssssssssssssss?"

"Principal, this is Kino Makoto. I would like you to help me get into Juban Junior High School!"

"Are you sure? That's supposed to be a very violent place."

"Yes. It's where I need to go."

...

Minako smiles. I never knew Ranma-ko was adept at installing video cameras.

"That should do it. We can monitor the area on the TV. Does this Yoma Monster always come around the same time?"

"Within about fifteen minutes of ten thirty."

"Okay, I'll stop by tonight. We can transform and wait for him. The moment he appears we use Dual Idol Star Projection."

"Roger!"

Ranma-ko smiles as he heads off to school. Maybe this would also work on his dad?

...

Akane comes home after school. She finds Kino Makoto waiting for her. "What's up?"

"I have some bad news. I am transferring to a different Junior High School so I will be too far away to continue our lessons." Makoto looks like she is about to cry.

Akane gives Makoto a hug. "I'm sure it will be okay. There are probably a lot of good martial arts schools out where you are going."

"But they won't have my beloved sensei."

"Now, Makoto, we keep going over this. As long as this is my father's school, he's the sensei. I'm just your senpai."

"But what will I do without my beloved senpai?"

"You'll stand on your own two feet and you'll make a difference by standing up for what is right."

"Senpai is so wise."

Akane nervously puts her hand in her pocket. She realizes that she still has the earrings that Kuno gave her. "Makoto, let me give you a going away present." Akane hands the earrings to Makoto.

Makoto's eyes tear. "This is the most wonderful present anyone has ever given me."

Akane nervously smiles. "Actually, the guy you saw hassling me at the school fair gave them to me because his sister already had a pair like them."

"It doesn't matter, I will treasure them always because they will remind me of you."

"That's good, I guess."

The phone rings.

Akane secretly breathes a sigh of relief. Why was Makoto taking so long to say goodbye?

Akane answers the phone. "Hello? Okay, wait a minute."

Akane yells up the stairs. "Ranma, it's a girlfriend. She sounds pretty young too, you pervert."

Ranma-kun comes done the steps. "You can't tell me you're jealous?"

Akane turns up her nose.

"I'll take it upstairs. Tell her to wait a minute." Ranma-kun runs to the bathroom to splash cold water on himself.

Makoto sweats nervously. "I think I'll be going."

Nabiki watches this unfold from down the hall. She waits for Makoto to walk by. "So, was Akane okay?"

Makoto, slightly dazed, nods.

"That Ranma and Akane, they're so cute when they fight."

"Do they fight often?"

"I guess. After all, they are engaged."

All color drains from Makoto's face. "Enga-ga-gaged?"

"Oh, yeah. It was something their parents arranged. They try to play act that they don't like each other, but I see right through it."

Makoto stumbles outside. Senpai, you break my heart.

Makoto walks home. She sees Akane's face in every girl that walks by.

...

Ranma-ko walks through the park with the bag of chips that Minako had called about. Unexpectedly, Ranma-ko runs into a familiar face sitting at the bottom of a slide. "Naru?"

Naru looks lifeless, but, seeing that it is Ranma-ko, comes back to life. "Ranma, are you Sailor Moon?"

"What?"

"Last night Nephrite said that he was part of a bad organization and that the Sailor Warriors were trying to kill him because of that. Sailor Moon would have killed Nephrite if I hadn't jumped in front of her flying tiara."

"And, the tiara didn't kill you?"

"Sailor Moon stopped it just in time."

So the tiara attack can be suddenly stopped?

"And, then a monster attacked me but Nephrite beat it off. The monster attacked Nephrite and Sailor Moon saved Nephrite by killing the monster."

"Interesting."

"Don't you think that shows that Nephrite could change?"

"Naru, if you know that Nephrite is part of this bad organization, why did you nearly kill yourself to save him? And, I'm not going to buy you saying that you did it just because you love him."

"He says he wants to leave the organization. If he can get them the silver crystal, then the organization will leave him alone."

Ranma-ko sighs. Oh, yeah. Naru is only fourteen. "And, the fact that Nephrite is obviously lying to you when he says this doesn't bother you?"

Naru looks down. "No."

Ranma-ko nods. "Naru, I wasn't there last night. But, that doesn't mean that I'm not after Nephrite. It'd be pretty useless to tell you to stay away from Nephrite, so let me say good luck instead. It sounds like lots of different factions are gunning for Nephrite's head right now. You could easily wind up in the crossfire."

"I know." Naru continues sitting on the slide, miserable.

To Be Continued!