InuYasha Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ It was a Dark and Cloudless Night... ❯ Chapter 2 ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

As for timelines (since I've been asked in the reviews), for Inuyasha's timeline it's right when Inuyasha is trying to master the Kaze no Kizu, and performs the Bakuryuuha for the first time. A short time before he goes to battle with Ryuuketsuke. As for Ranma's, it is after he comes to terms with his mom, but before the last major battle at Jusenkyo. I agree with one of my reviewers who said that the last bad guy the fight is a lot like one of the more powerful youkai Inuyasha would fight (discounting Naraku of course). So that puts them at about the same level of skill.

Disclaimer: Neither Ranma nor Inuyasha nor anything related thereto either anime belong to me.

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The distance this human's scent had traveled shocked Inuyasha. `For a human that landing has got to be as painful as one of Kagome's "sits."' He cringed at the memory. He hopped another block of rooftops and landed smoothly on his feet 10 meters away from the pigtailed boy, who was lying in his own personal smoking crater, created by the rough landing. He picked himself up and groaned. Inuyasha smirked; yes, very reminiscent of a `sit.'

"Oi."

Ranma heard someone calling to him. He looked up to see a boy his age with long white hair, and were those dog ears? Ranma did a double take. Yup, they were. He shrugged, and fell into a very relaxed stance just in case. `There are enough weirdos around here, why not one more?'

"You called?"

Inuyasha, being the marvelous people person that he is, decided for the direct approach. With a movement Ranma could barely detect, this white haired boy was up in his face. Inuyasha's clawed hand grabbing the front of his red Chinese shirt, and lifted him a good foot and a half off the ground. But before Inuyasha could utter a single demand of information, Ranma's foot came up by reflex and kicked off the center of his chest. Launching him from the hanyou's grip. He flipped once as he flew back and landed in a low stance.

"What the hell?" Inuyasha tensed his claws, ready for a fight.

"I think that's my line. Who are you? And . . . are those dog ears?" Ranma tilted his head curiously with the last question. Inuyasha flattened his ears and growled.

"Doesn't matter, and what the hell do they look like, little boy?" Inuyasha was annoyed, his original encounter hadn't gone as planned.

"Little boy, am I?" `We'll see about that.' Ranma lunged forward with a splay of punches on his chest. Inuyasha sped backward rolling his punches. Inuyasha grinned.

"It's been a while since I've had a good ol' fashioned fist fight!" Inuyasha turned the tables on Ranma, putting him on the defensive. Ranma was being pressed pretty hard. Inuyasha drove him backwards dodging for the most part. When the punches did connect, they hit as hard as Ryouga's, if not a bit harder. Ranma chose to concentrate on evasiveness, since Inuyasha's punches were plowing through his blocks. They were covering a lot of ground with their fight, they were clear on the other side of the playground now.

Ranma's one saving grace was his opponent's lack of training. It was obvious that he hadn't had any real sensei to teach him proper technique. His moves were explosive, and he had the reflexes of a cat. Inuyasha bunched up for a finishing blow but Ranma dodged right in time, leaving the dog demon to leave a crater in the sidewalk at the entrance to the park.

As Ranma evaluated his opponent more closely, he saw an exponentially growing amount of raw uncontrolled chi rolling off him in waves. He blinked in shock, and with a bit of apprehension, as the thought of what would happen if he ever mastered all that chi. He was drawn out of his analysis when Inuyasha got in a rather powerful punch. Ranma rolled backwards on the ground and dragged himself back on his feet, 10 meters away from one another, as when they started.

Right now, they seemed to be at a stalemate.

"Yo, dog-boy, did you come here to get beat up? Or did you have a real reason." Ranma tried to ease the tension between the two that was starting to form.

Inuyasha growled at the dog comment, deciding he'd get him later for that one. He deemed his original mission more important of the two right now.

"What the hell is up with all you humans? I've never met ones so strong before."

Ranma laughed. "Is that all? A lot of people around here are martial artists." He acted as though that explained everything.

"Martial Artist?" Inuyasha tried out the unfamiliar phrase. He could guess what it meant. `But fighting as an art? Fighting wasn't art; it was for killing people. Of course there were monks who treated it like an art. Does that mean everyone here were monks?' Inuyasha reevaluated his opponent.

"Keh, you don't look like a monk to me."

"A monk?" Ranma blinked. "Why would you think I'm a monk?"

Inuyasha grumbled. `Damn it, remember this is Kagome's time, of course things have changed, and now I look stupid.

"Keh!" Inuyasha crossed his arms and sent Ranma a level gaze. Ranma sighed and shrugged.

"Whatever." He leapt out of the playground to the road to head back to the Tendo Dojo.

"O-oi! Did I say we were fucking finished?!" Inuyasha jumped after him. When he caught up, Ranma was walking on top of the fence along the reservoir that ran through the town.

Inuyasha hopped onto the fence in front of Ranma not permitting personal space, forcing Ranma to back up a step. "Why did you leave?" he growled.

A passerby saw the confrontation on the fence. `Crazy kids in this town, and he looks like he knows Saotome.' He chose to keep on walking, when he got home he put the house contractor on speed-dial again. A new kid who (apparently) knew Ranma was in town; everyone in Nerima knew what that meant.

"Hey it's not like I wanted to be here in the first place!" Ranma snapped. "That tomboy knocked me here!"

"Tomboy? Your woman didn't seem very tomboyish to me." Inuyasha looked curious.

"She's NOT my woman!" Ranma sputtered, turning slightly pink on the cheeks. Inuyasha took note of his blush and smirked. `Poor human can't even lie to convince himself, this could be fun.'

"It's obvious you've claimed the bitch, if not officially. Her smell is all over you." Inuyasha blatantly sniffed at the boy. He wanted to laugh from the different shades he was turning, and the faces he was making. "Anyone who can't tell that is either blind or an idiot."

Ranma's eyes widened further as it dawned on him what precisely Inuyasha meant by claiming. "I would never do THAT with that uncute-"

Inuyasha pushed Ranma backwards, and he complied being caught with a lowered guard from his rant. Unfortunately for Ranma, that link of fence was in ill-repair and gave way, leaving no direction but into the reservoir.

Splash! "Damn it, you mutt! What'd you do that for?" A very angry, well-endowed, redhead glared up at the dog demon.

The aforementioned hanyou just blinked. And blinked again. Then promptly burst out laughing. "You-you're a girl?!"

"I. Am. Not!" Ranma leaped out of the reservoir and at Inuyasha with a string of punches and kicks. Inuyasha stuck to blocking. "I can't fight girls." Inuyasha mocked and leaped backward putting distance between them.

If his goal was to get Ranma riled up, that did it.

"I am not a girl and I am not giving you a choice!" Ranma leapt at Inuyasha. Inuyasha leaped onto the rooftops; Ranma followed. And they fought on, causing various amounts of property damage, and feeding off each other's adrenaline to fight.

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"And that's why we came here in the first place." Kagome finished explaining her situation. The two girls sat at the table laughing and talking like old friends. To say the least, Akane was completely thrilled. She finally met someone with as insane a life as she had! The two laughed and talked like old friends.

"Once Inuyasha gets a chance to talk to Ranma, I'm sure they'll work together to get the shard back." Akane assured Kagome.

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"KACHYU TENSHIN AMAGURI KEN!!"

"Kuso!" For once Inuyasha was regretting he couldn't use his Tessaiga on a human, even if it would be an uneven fight, as he tried desperately to block the 300 some punches. It turned out he was able to block about half of them, his fire rat kimono made up for the rest. This was amazing, Inuyasha didn't think humans could physically move as fast as this one was. He watched the attack as well as he could while blocking. He saw an opening around punch #189, but it was there and gone before he could do anything about it, so he just tucked it away for future knowledge, when he fought this human again. He was sure he would, he was getting such a rush from the fight if Ranma didn't initiate it later, Inuyasha certainly would. Despite the dog demon's most basic habit of underestimating humans, he couldn't deny this one was giving him a work out.

"Come on, a girl could do better than that." Inuyasha smirked at Ranma's now male form, whose battle aura flared up anew.

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Akane and Kagome sat on the back porch in front of the koi pond playing cards.

"Akane?" Kagome drew a card from the pile.

"Hmm? Got any twos?"

"No, go fish. Do you want to go find Ranma and Inuyasha? I thought they would be back by now, it's past lunch time, it's not like Inuyasha to miss a meal."

Akane drew from the pile. "Hmm, you're right, it's not like Ranma to miss a meal either." She pulled out a pair of eights and set it in front of her. "Think they met yet?"

"Probably, I can't imagine what else Inuyasha would be doing." Kagome set her cards down. "I fold, you win."

"Alright then, lets go find them."

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By the time the girls caught sight of either boy, they could tell they had met. Oh yes, and now they were fighting.

"Mou, Akane, you said Ranma was a good fighter, ne?" Kagome watched the fighting pair worriedly as they made their way across the school grounds to where they were.

"Hai, one of the best."

Kagome sighed with relief. "Oh, good. I wouldn't want Ranma to get hurt."

"Aren't you worried about Inuyasha at all? Ranma has never lost a fight." Akane got close enough to get a good look at the fight. Good enough to see that Ranma had begun the first steps of the Hiryuu Shoten-Ha. `I guess he got tired of fighting him. Hmm, that might hurt him.'

"Come on dog-boy, is that all you got?" Ranma taunted the increasingly irritated hanyou. Ranma had been throwing taunts his opponents way for a while to wipe that confident smirk of his face. That bugged Ranma, even when Inuyasha was loosing, he never lost that confident look. Like he always had one up his sleeve.

"Kagome? Maybe we should stop this fight . . ."

"You think so?" Kagome watched the two move around, they seemed to be circling each other.

"Hai, Ranma looks like he's ready to use his final technique. Even if your Inuyasha can weather it, he won't be in the best of shape after it."

Kagome frowned. "He does look pretty bruised up, but then again, so does Ranma. Well, I don't want to have to bandage up Inuyasha when we haven't even attempted to get the shard back yet."

Akane nodded her head in agreement. "Hey Ran-"

"Osuwari!"

In the middle of the fight Inuyasha facevaulted, causing Ranma to trip over him. The result was a mass of flailing limbs with two different voices uttering colorful curses.

"Ow!"

"Kuso! Where's that bitch?!"

In the time it took the spell to wear off Kagome and Akane walked over to the two lying on the ground. At this point Inuyasha heaved himself off the ground leaving Ranma to topple off.

"What's the matter with you bitch?! Can't you see I was fighting? I was about to finish him off too!" Inuyasha stormed up to Kagome, fuming, rushing with adrenaline from the fight.

"Osuwari."

*Thud*

"Wow! How'd you do that?" Akane asked shocked.

"Bitch, how many times are you going to do that?" Inuyasha grumbled from his position on the ground.

"It's the rosary around his neck. A miko put it on him when he and I first met, because he was trying to kill me." Kagome explained, not looking at Inuyasha.

"Keh!"

"Do you think they work on humans?" Akane eyed Ranma curiously, a glint of something in her eye that Ranma did not like.

"I don't know, we never tried. . ."

Ranma hauled himself up deciding now was a good time to defend himself. He came face to face with Kagome and his words died in his throat as images of that morning and their encounter in the bathroom surfaced in his mind.

Akane noticed the blush on Ranma's cheeks and who he was staring at, and realized what he must be thinking about. "You hentai!" Akane pulled out her mallet and malleted him into the grass. "That's for this morning, hmph!"

Kagome looked embarassed.

Inuyasha watched this whole exchange wondering what the hell he missed. "Oi, what the hell are you all talking about?" Inuyasha glared at Kagome for an explanation.

"Well, uh, you see. . ."

Somewhere, Ryouga was wandering in the netherlands of Japan, and he heard the cry of a very angry dog demon, "He WHAT?!"

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Woo, done and done! I love reviewing this story. Expect to see the next revision up soon!