Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Evil Kasumi Returns ❯ Ummm.... ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½ nor any of the characters. If I did, things would be a lot different. But alas, all I can do is dream and think… what if…

And speaking of ‘What if’, after reading “Evil Kasumi II” by Targhan on The Church of Ranma and Kasumi; http://cork.anifics.com I got this idea.

for the long delay in updated, but sometimes when writing my ideas sound good to me, but when I write them they sound horrible. This idea came from a conversation I had with Dennisud. He took the idea and went one way with it, while I took it another.

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And now, “Ummm.”

Everyone has said it at least some time in his or her lives, but this time it seemed to mean a lot more than the standard inability to express oneself vocally. For Ranma all he could do was sit there numbly and say “Ummm,” while Kasumi said her familiar “Oh my!”

For the two of them, it had been two days since Nabiki and Akane returned to the Dojo. Two days where Nabiki tried to grasp the fact that her dear sweet innocent naïve older sister that seemed oblivious to the word, had outsmarted the entire family and now Ranma and Kasumi were engage to be married. It still seemed hard to believe. Yet she had signed her own name on the very document that proved it. The middle Tendo daughter looked between Ranma’s dumbfounded look and Kasumi’s embarrassed expression.

‘Somehow I expected more of a reaction out of them… especially Ranma…’ Nabiki thought and then sighed mentally. She looked around the table once more. At the head of the table sat her father as usual, but he looked on the verge of exploding into tears, or into anger at any moment. Between their father and Kasumi sat Nabiki. Just the other side of Kasumi was Ranma, which was an interesting switch but considering the current situation, it was warranted. Then at the foot of the table was Genma who looked more confused and unsure of things than he ever had.

However, the two sat opposite the three teens were the ones that held everyone’s gaze. Akane sat beside Ryoga though the both of them did not look at all pleased with why they were here. However, Nabiki could understand that as when she got home and found out what had transpired just a short time ago she herself was in shock.

“Akane…” their father said slowly as he tried to reign in his anger. “I do not understand… why have you done this? Why have you dishonored the family this way?”

“I… I… I didn’t mean to…” She said softly and looked to be near tears.

“DIDN’T MEAN TO!” He shouted. “AKANE! Do you realize that you’ve not only dishonored the Tendo Saotome Agreement, but you’ve dishonored the family with your actions!”

“I… I…”

“Leave her alone!” Ryoga said trying not to quake under Soun’s smoldering demon-head.

“Leave her alone! You boy are a disgrace and a dishonor to martial artists everywhere! I had thought that your presence would finally get Ranma to become jealous enough to marry Akane, but now… now that is ruined! Oh the schools will never be joined and my daughter has brought shame on the family!”

“But father…” Kasumi tried to get his attention.

“No buts! I have been in HELL for several days on that accursed island with the…” he suddenly shivered as did Genma, “…Master… and when I get home instead of finding my daughter and her fiancée enjoying married life… I find…” He suddenly jumped up and looked ready to kill Ryoga. For his part, Ryoga looked ready to die over what happened.

Ranma still sat gaping at the two of them. Had anyone else known that he and Kasumi had been doing things like what Akane and Ryoga were caught doing, then the others might have had a clue as to Kasumi’s embarrassed expression or his dumbfounded look. ‘I thought she would’ve been mad… or something… she seemed pretty mad there for a while. But… but this is kinda sudden… I mean I knew Ryoga liked her… but… but…’ However, even the shock of walking in on Akane and Ryoga like they did, didn’t help him understand completely. Though no one else at the table really understood either.

Looking again at his fiancée’s father, Ranma had to wonder if the old man was going start screaming again, or was he going to break down and cry. However, whatever he was going to do was interrupted by a knock at the door. “I’ll get it,” Kasumi said and quickly left the table.

“Ryoga… you will do what honor demands… you have abused your honor too much lately,” Soun said sternly though Ranma kept silent about the wailing father’s own problems with honor.

“I… ok…” the lot boy said and hung his head.

“But daddy! I don’t want to marry Ryoga… or anyone! I… I’m too young!” the youngest Tendo tried hard to persuade her father not to go though with this, and not noticing the way Ryoga flinched.

“So you… you… with him… and… and you don’t want to get married!” Soun wailed.

Everyone could tell that he was about to say more when Kasumi interrupted them. “Father… the priest is here.”

Ranma gulped as he looked at the Shinto priest that stood beside Kasumi. He knew that one day he would have to do this too. His thoughts were interrupted when Soun began again. “Thank you for coming so quickly!”

“No worries!” Said the old man, “Besides you are the one paying me for my services at this hour.”

Nabiki groaned and shot her sisters an annoyed look. That look died when she noticed Akane staring at the priest. Then in what was by far the fastest Shinto ceremony that she’s ever known, her little sister, was now Akane Hibiki.

And then the wall exploded as a very upset and angry looking purple haired Amazon brandished her weapons threateningly. “You violent-kitchen-destroyer no marry Airen!” She shouted as she pointed her weapons at Akane.

“Um… Shampoo… Akane’s already married…” Ranma tried to tell her.

“NOOO!!” The Amazon screamed then shouted, “I challenge you for Airen!”

Akane just blinked as did Ryoga who was standing beside Akane. Ranma tapped the Amazon on the shoulder. “Um, Shampoo?”

“Not now Airen, you no can see Shampoo try save you from marry…” she suddenly stopped as she realized that she was standing beside Ranma and Akane was standing beside Ryoga. “What go on here?”

Nabiki smirked, “That’s what we have been trying to find out.”

“But… Stupid-duck-boy say he saw Ranma and Akane…”

“Oh my, but that wasn’t Ranma, that was Ryoga,” Kasumi told the Amazon.

“Ryoga… you mean kitchen-destroyer marry pig-boy?”

“YES! This boy dishonored my poor baby!”

Genma remained quiet. There were not many things he knew besides ‘properly’ training his boy in the martial arts. However, he knew not to say a word around his best friend while he was like this.

Shampoo looked around the room. She saw the sadness that seemed to radiate off the pig-boy and his new bride as well as the stunned confusion from everyone else. “This too too strange…”

“You got that right!” Ranma broke in. “I was helpin’ Kasumi with her shoppin’ today an when I got home I found the old men down here playing games and drinkin’ while Akane was upstairs yellin’ her head off.”

“I was -not- yelling!”

“Oh my, but little sister, we heard you from the gate and I’m sure that the neighbors must have heard as well.”

Akane’s face turned a bright red, but not from anger. “My life is ruined!”

No one happened to notice the absolute look of depression that surrounded Ryoga.

“Boy, we thought you were with her!” Genma said at the wrong time. When everyone looked at him, he merely splashed himself with water and pretended to be a simple panda.

“Ok, so you thought that Akane and I were up there and because of that it was ok?”

“Well son,” Soun tried. “You were Akane’s fiancée; we thought that you two had overcome your differences…”

“It’s not like we wanted to!” Akane shouted drawing everyone’s attention. “I just wanted to get back at Ranma…”

“By having sex with Ryoga?” Nabiki challenged.

“NO! I didn’t want to with anyone!” She said ignoring the full-blown sulk Ryoga was in. “One moment Ryoga and I were talking about how to get back at Ranma… and then…”

Shampoo just blinked as she looked around the room. “This too too strange…” she said again.

“You can say that again,” Ranma told the Amazon, then sighed. “I guess that’s why Mousse flew off so fast…”

“What Airen mean?”

“Well usually he’s always tryin’ to get into a fight, but when he flew right over me like I wasn’t even there… I guess he was trying to fly back to you and tell you what he saw… never thought the jerk liked spying like that…”

“You’re right Ranma,” Kasumi added. “When he left the yard he seemed to be flying straight towards the café. You don’t think that he saw Ryoga and Akane without his glasses and thought Ryoga was you, do you…”

Nabiki groaned. ‘And this is the girl that outsmarted us all?’

“Eh, yer probably right.”

None of them noticed Akane’s burning red face from her blush at knowing how many people saw her in the thralls of ecstasy with Ryoga. However, Ryoga had had enough, “RANMA! This is all your fault!”

“What? How?” The pig-tailed boy asked as Ryoga tried to attack him.

“I’ll kill you! I swear it! You hurt Akane… you probably forced yourself on Kasumi! Who knows what you’ve done to…”

His tirade was abruptly cut off as Ranma quickly and mercilessly dropped the lost boy to the ground. “Don’t you ever talk that way about Kasumi…” He threatened his rival. “I don’t care what you say about me, but leave her outta this or I’m gonna make Akane a widow…” With the sheer vehemence in his voice as well as the cold tone, it seemed to strike everyone, especially Ryoga. Ranma had never threatened to kill anyone, but to threaten to kill someone like this was unheard of.

Ryoga though, had had enough. Not only had Akane tried to get his help to make Ranma jealous… but she wanted him to pretend to date her so that she could get Ranma back! ‘And then… then… we did that… and… and she never wanted to with me… it’s all his fault!’ Ryoga mentally screamed. Some would have said that Ryoga got what he always wanted; he was now married to Akane. However, Akane didn’t want him… they only got married because they had to. Not because she wanted to, and he could tell that Akane still wanted the jerk of a rival that he had. “I’ll Kill You!” Ryoga shouted and then started to glow a sickly green and prepared to launch his best attack not caring that beside Ranma was both Shampoo and Kasumi. “Shi… Shi…”

However, his attack was ruined as Ranma jumped him and began attacking. “You idiot!” Ranma shouted as he punched Ryoga in the throat taking away the lost boy’s voice and concentration. “You could’ve hurt someone!” Ranma followed that with several hard hits to Ryoga’s stomach taking away his ability to breathe. “I don’t care if ya wanna try an kill me, but leave Kasumi and the others outta this!” He shouted and using the Chestnut’s Fist technique, he began hitting Ryoga as hard and as fast as he could.

Normally, such a move would not hurt Ryoga much… however since Ranma was glowing a dark purple himself as well as being really mad, there was a lot more power in his attacks. In what was the shortest match between Ranma and Ryoga… Ryoga found himself in a lot of pain, misery, and sitting as a pig in the koi pond looking at his hated rival.

Akane sighed as she saw proof again that Ryoga was indeed P-chan. When her father, Kasumi as well as the Saotome’s barged into her room and saw her mostly nude bouncing on top of a mostly nude Ryoga they had used a pail of cold water on the both of them. While it brought Akane out of her sexual frenzy, it also showed her that Ryoga… was P-chan. That fact was driven home later after her father tried to kill the pig and then splashed him with hot water reversing the change. In all, Akane wanted to scream at the injustice of it all. For so long she had been screaming at Ranma for picking on P-chan whenever she took the pig into her room. And now she truly understood.

Her musings were interrupted when Shampoo suddenly threw herself at Ranma. “Airen you save Shampoo!”

As it was, only Shampoo and Ryoga missed the sheepish and apologetic look that Ranma shot Kasumi as the Amazon hugged him.

Ryoga pulled himself out of the water and looked at Akane and then Ranma. Akane had a longing expression on her face and Ranma looked worried over something. He was about to sigh, when a kettle was placed before him. Looking up he flinched upon seeing Nabiki.

“Get changed and get inside.” She said simply and rubbed the bridge of her nose. Upon entering the house she wondered how they were going to get rid of the Amazon, when said Amazon got rid of herself.

“Ai-yah! Have go café and tell great-grandmother that Mousse tell bad lie.”

“Um, sure…” Ranma told her as the bubbly Amazon happily left the Tendo home. After watching her go, he sighed. “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”

“Now Ranma, things won’t be so bad.” Kasumi told him as she moved to beside him.

“I hope you’re right,” he mumbled and without thinking, he took her hand in his. For her part, all Kasumi did was blush slightly. However, around the room, others noticed this and had decidedly different reactions.

When Akane saw that he was holding Kasumi’s hand she wanted to scream and yell at him for doing perverted things wither sister. However, she was held back by the images in her mind of the perverted things she did with Ryoga not that long ago. And even still, she could not figure out how they went from arguing about making Ranma jealous to kissing and then… then… Her face turned a bright red as she pictured some of those things.

Nabiki just sighed and shook her head at seeing Ranma and Kasumi together like this. Her only thought being, ‘Good luck sis, you’re going to need it.’

of the fathers, only Genma noticed his boy holding Kasumi’s hand. ‘What the… what’s the meaning of this?’ Quickly he went to the kitchen and retrieved another kettle of hot water and reverted himself back to normal.

While he was gone, Ranma could not help but sigh again. “Ya know, I wonder where’ she’s been…”

“What do you mean Saotome?” Nabiki almost snapped.

“Well, it’s just been quiet around here for a while, an I was wondering where everyone’s been.”

Nabiki suddenly looked thoughtful and realized how many her dear, sweet, innocent and naïve older sister tricked. “Ukyo was asking about you as well Ranma. Seems she was unable to find you or your mother for the past several days.”

Ranma blinked then asked, “She’s asking about me… how do you know?”

“Because,” she said exasperated, “I was talking to her when Mousse jumped out at us yelling about Shampoo.”

“I bet she loved that,” he said dryly.

“You guessed it. She sent him flying with her spatula so we could get back to business.”

“What kind of business?” He asked while Soun just tried to calm his nerves.

“It seems someone gave her some bad information. She thought that you and your mom took a trip into Tokyo to do some shopping.”

“She did… where would she…” He paused as he felt Kasumi’s hand tighten a little around his. “Oh…”

“Yeah, ‘Oh’ is right…” Nabiki smirked at his discomfort.

“Oh my… I believe that is my fault… I thought that Auntie had said that she was going to take Ranma shopping in Tokyo…”

“Um... Kasumi-chan… she said she wanted to, not that we were…”

may have not noticed them holding hands, but he was not too far gone to notice the term of affection Ranma just used. “Kasumi…”

“Boy… what’s the meaning of this?” Genma suddenly asked as he entered the room.

“Meaning of what?” He asked while still holding Kasumi’s hand.

“Oh for the love of…” Nabiki grumbled and jerked two pieces of paper out of her pocket. The first one she handed to her father, the second to Genma. “Here, read this.” Ranma blinked and looked at Nabiki who just shrugged her shoulders. “I made extra’s incase someone tries to destroy one.”

“Ranma… this... this…” Soun tried to say though his hands were trembling.

“Boy…. You mean… you mean you will go though with this?”

“I signed it didn’t I.”

“YES!” Both fathers yelled and right before they could begin to make plans, Ranma hit his father over the head, hard.

“HAY! Read what it says pops!”

“I did! And we must begin to plan the wedding since you’ve agreed and…” He was stopped as he was hit over the head again. “What was that for?”

Ranma yanked the paper out of his fathers’ hands, looked it over and then passed it back to him pointing at a specific paragraph. “…agreement to unite the two heirs will be held at the discretion of the two heirs in question and any act made by the parents of behalf two heirs without the prior knowledge or consent of said heirs will not be allowed…” Genma read then looked at his son, “What’s the meaning of this!”

“Keep reading old man, kami knows you never learned to read everything before opening your mouth, but if you don’t read all of this I swear I’m gonna shove this down your throat!”

Normally a threat from his son did not sway him, but this time he kept reading. However the more he read, the wider his eyes became.

“Kasumi… Oh my daughter you’ve made your father so happy! An heir… an heir!”

Ryoga blinked and looked at them in confusion. “Here, read it.” Nabiki said in disgust. Taking the paper, the lost boy read what it said and by the time he got to their signatures, he was almost a pale white.

Dropping the paper, Ryoga looked at those around the room, though Akane kept her eyes to the floor. “Then… then… Ranma... you… and Kasumi…”

“Yea, we’re engaged.” The pig-tailed martial artist said causing the eldest daughter to blush.

“But Akane said that…”

“Oh shut up Ryoga!” Akane said hastily. “I told you that I wasn’t engaged to him anymore!”

“But you said you wanted to make him jealous to get him back!” He replied rounding on his new wife.

“Well… I…” With all eyes on her, the youngest Tendo sighed. “Ok… I wanted the jerk back, you happy?”

“No.”

Growling, Akane was ready to pound him for this when Kasumi asked a very simple question. “Akane, little sister, do you love Ranma?”

“What? What does that have to do with anything?”

“Do you love him?” She asked again and took Ranma’s hand in hers.

“I… well… you see… I…” Akane struggled with her feelings. True she cared for him, but she was never sure if it was love, or something else.

“Akane. I love him.” Kasumi said it, out loud, and in front of witnesses; this was the one thing that Akane had never been able to do before.

“Akane…” Ranma said softly. “I… an I l-lo… love her too…”

Akane, Nabiki, Ryoga, and the two fathers couldn’t believe it. He said, it, Ranma said he loved someone… that he loved Kasumi. For Kasumi, her face was a bright red from blushing at hearing him admit it openly.



To be continued… (Yes, there is still more to go. As a teaser… I am currently planning the fight between Kasumi and Shampoo over Ranma where Kasumi drop a big surprise. Especially considering she is the eldest in a family that has a Dojo.)

For those viewing this on Media Miner, I apologize for the long delay in updating, but the MMo system is the worst I have ever seen. Although they say you can upload word Doc files it refuses to work properly which is one reason I have not updated in such a long time.