Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Chasing Akane (DC) ❯ Part 5: "Ranko"'s High School Nickname ( Chapter 5 )

Chasing Akane: Part 5

Note: I don't own the rights to View Askew or Ranma, just to Dimi-Chan and Juton (but not to the "Silent" part of Juton, or to the characters they represent in this fan fiction.

Introductory Comments: Here it is, the moment of truth…where we figure out what the hell I'm planning on doing with the "finger cuffs" thing!

INT. Studio - Day

Akane draws. A book is thrown in front of her. She looks up and Ryouga stands there.

Ryouga: Check out page forty-eight.

Akane looks at the book. It's a year book from Ranma's old high school. She shakes her head at Ryouga and flips it open.

On the page is Ranma's senior year photo, and under his name is another name that quotes "Kung-Fu Fighter."

Akane (looking up): So?

Ryouga: Not that one! The one that says Ranko Saotome!

Akane (looking back down): "Red'n Always Ready"? Okay, she had a weird nick name, what's you're point?

Ryouga: What do you think it means by "Always Ready"?

Akane: I suppose you actually know.

Ryouga: I do (takes a seat) You remember Gosunkugi? Left Furikan High to transfer to another school our senior year?

Akane: Yeah.

Ryouga: Well, I ran into him the other day, and we got to talking, and I mentioned Ranma, and he said…

CUT TO GOSUNKUGI, in a parking lot-addressing the camera.

Gosunkugi: Ranma Saotome? Shit. I knew his sister, Ranko. I mean, I KNOW her, you know what I'm saying? Me and my buddy Mousse used to hang out with her for awhile, right? Just hanging around her house after school, `cuz her mother divorced her father and her father was always going to gay bars and stuff, and her brother was always off somewhere Kung-Fuing someone's ass. Anyway, one day Mousse just whips it out, and starts rubbing it on her leg and shit; chasing her around the room-I was dying. But you know what that crazy bitch did? She starts just fucking him right there and then! Right in front of me, like I wasn't even there! I almost died! After she finished though, she went right to work on me! She was insatiable, man! So my friend came up with the nick name because she was a red head and shit-"Red'n Always Ready"! She was on the pills even-got them illegally from some girl named Nabiki! That was some fucked-up shit, man!

BACK IN THE STUDIO-Akane stares at Ryouga.

Akane: Well, he's full of shit.

Ryouga: Gosunkugi is a lot of things, but an exaggerator he is not. The dude's voodoo-catholic!

Akane: She's never even been with a guy.

Ryouga: That's what she says.

Akane: He's pulling your chain. And the fact that you even bought it for a second makes you look like a baka.

Ryouga: Hey I'm getting your back, bitch! What if she's carrying a disease? With a nick name like that, she's gotta have slept with more guys than just those two!

Akane: You're such a fucking asshole! Would you just let this go? I'm telling you, she's never been with a man, let alone a zero like Gosunkugi and his zero friend Mousse.

Ryouga: I'm telling you, the bitch could be a bigger fucking germ farm than that monkey in "Outbreak"!

Akane grabs Ryouga and pins him against the wall.

Akane: Give it a rest! Do you hear me?! I'm tired of this shit! She's my gawd damn girlfriend-boyfriend, how you want to think of her as! Do you understand?! Show her a little fucking respect! I just can't believe you!

She releases Ryouga, and he brushes himself off.

Ryouga: Well I can't really believe you, either.

Akane (walking out the door): Well, that's because you're a dumbass!

AT THE HOTEL ROOM - Juton, Dimi-Chan, and Nabiki

Dimi-Chan: We should make this into a soap opera-slash-reality show-slash-porno T.V. series.

Nabiki: That's actually a good idea!

Nabiki writes it down.

BACK TO THE STUDIO

Ryouga just stands there, with P-Chan beside him looking equally bewildered.

INT. Anime & Manga Shop - Day

Akane and Soun peruse anime DVDs.

Soun: Where's your pig-boy partner of yours been?

Akane: Sucking. He's having a real problem with this Ranma thing.

Soun: Yeah, that boy loves you in a way he's not ready to deal with.

Akane: …he's been digging up dirt on Ranma.

Soun: And what has he uncovered about your lovely intersexual?

Akane: He heard some bullshit story about her taking two guys in a row.

Soun: Really? We'll he's barking up the wrong tree if he wants to split you up, isn't he? (holds up a DVD) This one?

Akane: Have it…you know, actually, it's kinda gotten to me.

Soun: How so?

Akane: Ryouga may not have a good sense of direction, but he's pretty good at detecting bullshit.

Soun: So, what if it's true? Would that bother you?

Akane: Sex with actual men?

Soun: Yeah, but you seem to have no problem with me doing that.

Akane: That's because you're gay and don't transform into a girl.

Soun: True…So-what do you care?

Akane: Well, that's the thing. I shouldn't-but it gets to me.

Soun: He might've had sex with actual girls as a guy, or even as a girl.

Akane: Well, that doesn't bother me, but somehow her with guys…uh!

Soun: Maybe you should just ask her about it. Point blank. Before it gets too big for you two to handle.

Akane: Okay…

Soun: Just trust me on this one.

INT. Sum Wrestling Arena - Night

In the ring, two mammoths clash, shoving into each other.

In the stands, Ranma watches the game with a large degree of enjoyment. Sitting beside her, Akane doesn't seem to share her enthusiasm.

Ranma: Why so glum?

Akane: I checked out your high school year book recently. There were two of you in it.

Ranma: Yeah, I got set up by a girl I knew who had a lot of resources. I think her name was…Nabiki. Anyway, she got me in school with the name Ranko when I had to be in girl-form as part of my therapy. So I had to do two sets of senior pictures, which was actually pretty fun!

Akane: But what was with your nick-name?

Ranma: What? Kung-Fu Fighter? You know, my father's training and stuff.

Akane: No, I mean for Ranko: "Red'n Always Ready". What's that mean?

Ranma: Hell if I can remember. I'd look it up, but I threw all that shit out years ago.

Akane: Did you know a guy named Gosunkugi?

Ranma: Gos? Sure, we used to hang out in high school.

Akane: Did you go out with him or something?

Ranma: Date him? No we just hung out a lot.

Akane: Just…you and him?

Ranma: No, he usually had his friend with him…what's his name?

Akane: Mousse?

Ranma: Yeah, that's it!

ON THE MAT-The wrestlers square off, it's starting to get intense.

The crowd around Ranma and Akane goes wild.

Ranma: I remember these guys would come over almost every day after school. They'd look for porno tapes in my Pop's closet…although it was nothing in their "taste", if you know what I mean, but they'd also raid the fridge. They really took advantage of the fact that the one parent I did have was rarely ever home.

ON THE MAT- The wrestlers struggle even more to knock the other out of the ring.

Ranma (starts laughing): Then one day…Gosunkugi's friend pulled his dick out and chased me around the house with it! Right in front of Gos! I couldn't believe it! Those guys were weird-I thought the whole size hang-up would make them all terrified to show their dicks to each other.

IN THE RING: Uh yeah, like last time only still yet more violent.

Akane's face is really sour-looking. Ranma's still really into the game, however.

Akane: Mousse pulled his dick out? Really? What'd you do?

Ranma (looks her dead in the eye): I fucked them both one at a time!

IN THE RING: One of the wrestlers finally gets the other shoved out of the ring, and there's a big bloody mess from it.

Akane stares at Ranma, absolutely shocked. The crowd is now staring at both of them. Ranma fumes.

Akane: Excuse me?!

Ranma: That's what you wanted to hear, isn't it? Isn't that what this little cross-examination of yours is all about? Well try not to be so obvious about it next time, there are subtler ways of badgering a witness!

Bystander (to Akane): Sheesh, even I could tell what you were getting at!

Ranma (gathering up her stuff): If you wanted some background information on me, all you had to do was ask! I'd have gladly volunteered it! You didn't have to play that whole game with me!

She storms away, Akane chases after her. The bystander watches them go.

Bystander (to companion): I told you these were good seats!

INT. Stadium Lobby/EXT. Parking Lot - Night

Ranma marches quickly, putting on her coat. Akane catches up to her. We follow them into the parking lot.

Akane: So it's true!

Ranma: Yes, Akane! In fact, everything you heard or dug up on me was probably true! My therapist told me I should feel free to experiment with my girl body. It started with a little masturbation then it went on to just about every guy in the fucking school! I just loved doing it so much-I was a fucking nymphomaniac!

Akane: How the hell could you do that?! You were a guy!!

Ranma: It was easy! Some of it I did out of stupidity, some of it I did out of what I thought was love, but they were my choices-and I was VERY emotionally confused during that time! And I'm not making any apologies for them now-not to you or anyone! And how dare you try to lay a guilt trip on me about it-and in public, no less! Who the fuck do you think you are, you judgmental bitch?!

Akane: How am I supposed to feel about all this?

Ranma: How are you supposed to feel about it? Feel whatever the fuck you want about it! The only thing that really matters is how you feel about me!

Akane: I don't know how I feel about you right now.

Ranma: Why? Because I had some sex?

Akane: SOME sex?!

Ranma: Yes, Akane-that's all it was! Some sex! Most of it was stupid high school sex, for crying out loud! Like you never had sex in high school!

Akane: Not the kind you had! Not with a guy! They fucking used you!

Ranma: I used them! You don't think I would've let it happen if I hadn't wanted it to, do you? I was experimenting for Kama's sake! But that was then and this is now-and now I have you-and I am sated. Can't you take some fucking comfort in that?! You turned out to be all I was ever looking for-the missing piece in the big fucking puzzle! (She tries to calm down) Look, I'm sorry I let you believe that I'd never been with a man. I should've been more honest. But it seemed to make you feel special in a way that me telling you over and over again how incredible you are would never get across.

She touches Akane's face. Akane pulls back. Ranma stares at her, hurt and very pissed.

Ranma: Do you mean to tell me that while you have no problem with me being a gender-changing freak-that you have some kind of objection to pubescent antics, that took place over ten years ago? What the fuck is your problem?!?

Akane: I want us to be something that we can't.

Ranma: And what's that?

Akane:…a normal couple.

Akane sulks off. Ranma stares after her, and then starts kicking and punching the car behind her, finally slumping to the ground, she cries.

The car behind her now looks like a train just hit it, and the sound of the anti-theft device is really loud and annoying.

INT. Studio - Dusk

Ryouga: That girl?

Akane nods. Ryouga nods back. He stands there for a second, then he sits beside Akane. He opens his arms, and Akane shifts into her friend's embrace and starts crying on his shoulder. Ryouga pats her back. We pull back and see a girl in pain and the comfort of a friend.

To be continued…

Conclusion: This is a bit shorter than usual, but I felt this was a nice place to leave off. But I'm planning on typing up yet another part, and possibly I'll have this thing completely typed up by tonight.

Please either review or e-mail comments to deejaygamer@yahoo.com

I hope you have been enjoying the story so far, and I want to mention that the part with Gosunkugi was something I came up with on the spot, he was originally Mousse and the "friend" was nameless, but when I thought about it, the thing would be even more hilarious and definitely appropriate with Gos playing the part.