Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Grand Theft Auto: Nerima ❯ Viva Las Vegas ( Chapter 5 )

[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]

Viva Las Vegas

Ranma and Ryouga were driving down the road in their newly acquired tow truck hauling Ranma's Chevy. “You know Ranma… We could have just paid the $80 to get it out of the impound…”

“Yeah, $80 of MY money. I'm cheap Ryouga and look, we got ourselves another truck at no extra charge.”

“Ranma… This thing isn't exactly inconspicuous. I think people will notice. I also think that you shouldn't have beaten up that poor guy, he was just doing his job.”

“Tow truck drivers are the scum of the universe Ryouga. They litter, speed, and break many other traffic laws for the soul purpose of preventing a parking violation. They feed off of the innocent people whom hardly know what they have done wrong and then they make these poor people pay a fine, and for what? Exiting their vehicle in a completely innocent manner to do some meager task of some kind and return to their vehicle to drive off to another location where the process is repeated. It's an outrage.”

“Ranma! That's a stolen truck we're hauling! And you are driving another stolen truck to haul it! You beat the living daylights out of that poor guy doing his job! You just didn't feel like walking and you know it!”

“As true as that may be, you cannot deny the fact that we now have two trucks instead of one.”

“You sound like Nabiki!”

“That's cold man… I was just thinking in advance.”

“In advance for what?”

“When I start hauling cars away.”

“YOU HAVN'T BEEN LISTENING TO ME!”

“Geez, you don't have to yell in my ear. One of my friends likes to make Frankenstein cars, and I can't take that away from her after asking her to come all the way down here to help me.”

“We are still trying to find Akane right?”

“Yes, geez! She's top priority, but as I said before we can't just walk up to Garino and ask where she is. We need a plan and these guys are gonna help us. The least I can do is thank them and get them a small gift.”

“A STOLEN TRUCK IS NOT A GIFT!”

“I wish this thing had a working radio…”

“YOU WILL NOT TUNE ME OUT AGAIN!”

“I can still hope can't I?”

“BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! WORDS! WORDS! WORDS!”

`I'm gonna kill him…' As Ranma thought this to himself, he caught something out of the corner of his eye way off in the distant. His head shot to the side and he laid on the brakes. Ryouga almost whacked his head on the dashboard as the tires squealed and was getting ready to hit Ranma.

“Hey! What's the big idea!?”

“What the hell is that Ryouga?” Ranma pointed out the window and down a few streets.

“That? It's the Casino, why?”

“There's a Casino here now?”

“Yeah… What's so great about a Casino?”

Ranma looked up and yanked the sun visor off the roof and proceeded to hit Ryouga with hit. “You idiot! Why didn't you tell me!?”

“Don't hit me ya fuck stick!” Ryouga started flailing his arms back at Ranma getting a quick smack jab in every so often. After they heard the car behind them honk they stopped and when back to somewhat normal. “What's so great about a casino anyways?”

“If I would have known, I would have gotten employed there and wouldn't be stripping right now!”

“Oh… Still what's so great about a casino!?”

“High rollers man. Those high up connections you really want. Think about the financing I could get from a casino.”

“Yeah you're right… You could have just paid that guy instead of stealing this thing…”

“You don't see the bigger picture do you…?”

“Oh, no. I see it alright…” Ryouga tore off his sun visor and started beating Ranma with it. “YOU JUST SHOULD HAVE ASKED BEFORE BEATING ME WITH ONE OF THESE!!!”

The truck rocked back and forth the rest of the way back. Upon exiting the truck the two were covering in scratches and bruises. Before they entered the gate a hand grabbed Ranma's and pulled him away. It was one of Jerry's boys, Jerico with all the tattoos on his face. He kept a secretive tone and spoke quietly. “Hey! Someone is in there waiting for ya.”

“Yeah I know.”

“You brought visitors into Jerry's territory!? He's gonna be pissed!”

“I'll still be out of here in two days, that and you can tell her I found what I'm looking for, it just a matter of getting it.”

Jerico scratched his head. “Oh, you found her too?”

“Yeah, I heard a guy named Jasper was holding her, I just don't have a location.”

“Well, we do. She's living and working at the Jade Garden Hotel. It may not be the right girl, but the name matches.”

“Sounds a bit too simple… Anything suspicious about her?”

Jerico rolled that around for a moment and came up with, “Not really. Short hair, crabby, and working the blackjack table.”

“Sounds like her, but if she was there all along… Where was she before Ryouga?”

“She was working at a shitty little dinner, for a guy named Rodney. I asked him where she went, but she just didn't show up for work, that's when I started asking around.”

“What about her place?”

“It was vandalized and it looked like a big fight broke out, but I've already asked around at the Casino…”

“Something's defiantly up.”

Jerico put his hands up. “Hey, I just came to relay a message to you, don't shoot the messenger.”

Ranma put his hands on his hips. “Yeah, I know. Who came about this info?”

“Toru did. I went to verify it myself, and sure enough there was a girl claiming to be Akane Tendo working there. I got close enough to see her name tag, but didn't want to look suspicious with a million question.”

“Ok… Don't worry Jerico. If it's a miss I won't come after you guys. Don't take this the wrong way, but I've got bigger fish to fry.”

“Jerry's on your side as long as you're his guest. I won't tell him about your friends, but if he asks me I'll bring it up, so be prepared for a personal visit.”

“Yeah, yeah I know.”

“Ok, I'm outta here. I'll keep looking around for any other girls with the same name.”

“Thanks.”

When Jerico was gone Ryouga leaned over towards Ranma and raised a question. “Why do they keep-“

“Referring to Jerry as a guy?”

“Yeah…”

“She's in charge of all those guys, so probably some time after they finally figured out that they couldn't fuck her, they tried tuning her out by looking at her as a guy.”

“Weird.”

“That and she probably a hardcore lesbian.”

“I got that impression too…”

“It's too bad. With a body like that…”

“Yeah… HEY! Don't make me agree with you!”

“I suppose that's what made you cheat on Akane…”

“Don't bring that up!”

“I'm just bugging you. How many time did you get mallet-ed?”

“That's none of your business!”

“Are you two coming in any time soon? We're hungry…” Said a woman's voice from within.

They walked into the front yard to find three people sitting on the steps to the dojo. They all have a smile of some sort on their faces. The one smile that stood out the most though was the one belonging to the dirty blonde chick in army camo pants and a skintight black tank top. Short hair and defiantly a hotty. Ryouga was caught off guard when she ran to Ranma, jumped up on him, wrapped her legs around his waist and lip-locked him. Ranma fell backwards with wide eyes and tried his best to push her off. “Ahh! Sheela! Stop!”

She let go of him and gave him a pat on the chest. “I love making you feel uncomfortable.”

Ranma picked himself up as the two guys on the steps gave applause. “Shut up guys! And I told you not to do that Sheela!”

“Well maybe I'd stop if you got me a gift…”

“I did. They're parked out side.”

“Oooooo! Two?”

“Yup.”

“Thanks sweetie.” She gave him a peck on the cheek, walked off with a wave and closed the gate behind her.

Ryouga gave Ranma a look and said, “I though Sheela was your name by night?”

“It's a long story… Let me introduce you to these guys.”

One of the guys' names was Hikori and the other one was Zero. Hikori was tall, thin and had this sly smirk on his face that made him look like a real weasel. Ranma didn't mention his area of specialties, but then again maybe he didn't, or maybe Ranma just didn't want to sound like a James Bond film, but as it stood this guy was some how useful and could get a job done. Zero on the other hand was a short nerd from America and had probably been beat up several times and had his lunch money stolen. This guy did have a specialty though. He was the wiz kid with the computer skills and the brainpower to back it up. It eventual came out that he shouldn't be living there in Japan, but after leaving for an Otaku convention the plane left without him and he was broke, however he seemed to be doing good for himself now. The girl out side currently pulling apart the trucks was Sheela. One of those weird funky chicks that's really good at what ever it is she does. It was obvious that she had a serious thing for Ranma, but it was unclear as to what it was. Ryouga got to know every one and soon decided that to a degree they all pissed him off. They were just down right annoying. Hikori was loud with a screechy laugh that echoed for blocks, Zero was in a constant pursuit to sound smart by using huge words combined with old medieval Shakespeare quotes. He was essentially a smart Kuno with no form of combat experience. Hell he couldn't even find the strength in his arms to pull off his own loosely tied shoes and he proved this on more then one occasion. Ryouga couldn't really give a full evaluation of Sheela because she was either unseen underneath a car asking you for shit every time you passed by, or else she was hanging off Ranma to get a rise out of him, or doing something highly random and unexpected. The only way you could describe her would be to say spontaneous, but cute.

Every one was sitting out on the porch after a long talk of catching up on good old times and other various forms of deadwood speech. Ranma was getting ready to check out the casino for Akane, but he had the problem of Sheela sitting on his lap. “C'mon… I have to go Sheela…”

She just stayed comfortable and relaxed in his lap with a large smile on her face. “Not until you tell me where you're going.”

“But I'll regret it if I do…”

Ryouga had been listening to this go on for close to five minutes now and he was getting pissed again. “He's going to the casino!”

Her eyes shot open and her smile turned into a grin. “There's a casino!?”

“Good one Ryouga…”

Hikori shook his head and gave Ryouga's shoulder a tap. “She's got a horrible gambling problem bud.”

“I don't care! Just go!”

Zero gave an observation of the scene and gave a statement. “I rebound Hikori's concern and concur with his theory. One should have been better off to keep one's mouth closed in such a situation as delicate as this. In turn she'll now take Ranma's wallet and make it a few ounces lighter.”

Zero was right on target with that one as Sheela had already started patting him down for his wallet and grabbing him in questionable manners. “H-Hey! Knock it off!”

“Ahh yes, true lovers if I've ever seen them. Their abilities to gamble are equal, however I must admit that Ranma is wiser just to stay away.”

Ryouga's eye twitched as he listened to Zero's voice and blew up at him. “YOU GO TOO!”

“As much as I'd love to gamble away my misfortunes away, I am unhappy to announce that my capitol is… how should I put this? Sub par.”

“What the hell did you just say!?”

Zero adjusted his glasses and let out a breath. “I'm broke.”

Ryouga threw a wad of bills at him and pointed towards the gate. “GO!”

“My thanks faithful warrior.”

“LEAVE!” With that Zero got up with a smile and waited at the front gate for Ranma.

Hikori nudged Ryouga's again and spoke softly. “Try to go easy on him bud. I know he's a bit annoying, but he's a good guy.”

Ryouga looked like he was getting ready to cry as he looked over his shoulder at Hikori. “I… I know… I just… I want to kill him when ever he opens his mouth…”

“Yeah, I know, but that'll pass within a week. You just sort of learn to tune out what he's saying and after two weeks you'll be able to decipher what the words mean.”

As Ryouga looked up he saw Ranma running after a laughing Sheela holding his wallet high. “Hey! Get back here! You're not going to the casino!”

Ryouga had to ask Hikori when the three were gone. “Did those two ever… You know…”

Hikori shook his head with a half smile. “Nope. She just likes bugging him.”

“I don't get it…”

“She defiantly likes him and I think they were fuck buddies for a while, but Ranma always said he couldn't get over a girl he left here.”

Ryouga scratched his head. “Wow… That's kind of deep. I guess.”

“Just so you know. The only reason she's down here is to help Ranma find his girl. She's a real romantic you know?”

“It looks like she's trying to get romantic with him though.”

“Nah. She'd never commit to any one. She really likes playing match maker.”

“I see.”

“So, you got anything to eat around here?”

Ryouga pointed over to the mini fridge parked in the middle of the burnt out living room. “Knock yourself out.”

Ranma and Sheela stood out side the Jade Garden Hotel and Zero had buggered off on his own. Sheela had her arms wrapped around Ranma as the walked in. He couldn't help but look angry and sweat. “Do you always have to latch onto me?”

“Of coarse! I wanna play the slot machine!”

“Sure, but I've got a date at the blackjack table first.”

“Ooo! Sounds hot. Watcha bettin'?”

“The farm.”

Sheela unhooked herself from Ranma and took a step back with a quirky little smile. “You didn't come here to gamble, so who ya looking for?”

“You know exactly who I'm looking for…”

“She's here!?”

“That's what I've heard.”

“Yay! I finally get to meet her! The girl that beat me to your heart. I have to warn you though… I might become insanely jealous…”

“You might not want to be around when I talk to her.”

Sheela's smile slowly faded “What? Hey, you know I'm just bugging you right?”

Ranma leaned in close to her ear as the passed by a wall of lights. “Listen to me very carefully. I think this might have been a trap set up for me. Two guys are already trailing me, so I think I've been flagged.”

She whispered into his ear as well making it look like lovers exchanging sweet nothings. “You think I'm gonna just sit by and watch you screw up sweetie? I'm here to help remember? I'll throw them off and talk to her myself, just tell me where to go.”

“I can't put you into that kind of position. I don't want you getting flagged too.” As Ranma said that he looked over at all the blackjack tables to see his long lost Akane cleaning off the table and getting ready to leave. “Shit there she is…”

“Leave it to me!” She gave him a quick peck on the cheek and went off to the blackjack table.

“Sheela! No! Damnit…!” Ranma gave up and positioned himself against a wall and pulled out a black book to start writing in. He needed to throw people off.

Sheela walked over to the empty blackjack table and put sat down. Akane gave her a look and apologized. “Sorry, but I'm closing up for now. Some one will be back here in a few minutes.”

Sheela smiled at her and said. “You're cute.”

Akane was a bit taken back by the comment and shook it off. “S-sorry, but I'm not interested in women.”

Sheela put rested her head in her hands and kept looking at Akane with a dreamy look. “Oh, I know. I just see why Ranma couldn't let you go.”

Akane stopped for a second and pulled out some cards. “Up for a quick game?”

“Sure.”

Akane made a quick shuffle and tried not to look suspicious. “If you're looking for him I have no idea where he is. You people can't keep threatening me like this. I don't know what else to say, so go tell Jasper for the hundredth time that I don't know where he is and I'd never tell you if I did.”

“You're beautiful and fiery. You must be thinking of some one else because if you look over my shoulder to your left, he's standing right over there.”

Akane lifted her eyes for a moment and saw her long lost Ranma, but she quickly looked away and her breathing stopped for a short second. She leaned down and started placing cards quickly. “Get him out of here. For gods sake get him out of here.”

Sheela kept the mirage of playing a game up by making the hand motion for a `hit me.' “What's wrong?”

Akane gave her a card bringing Sheela to 18. “They're going to kill him if he stays here! He has to leave before they spot him. Jasper wants him dead.”

“I think it's too late for that…”

“They saw him!?”

“Yeah…”

“Go over to him and tell him to run.” Sheela made another `hit me' motion bringing her to 23. “I don't care if you're his new fiancé of what ever, just get him out of here and protect him. Please, do this for me.” Sheela nodded and left her chips on the table.

She walked quickly over to Ranma and started dragging him out. “We have to go.”

“No shit?” Once at the entrance to the hotel the two were stopped at the front doors by a line of four large men. Two had guns ready in their hands and the other two had nightsticks. “Hey boys, how can I help ya?”

One of the men with a gun asked politely. “Mr. Saotome?”

Ranma smile and held Sheela close. “You must have mistaken me for some one else.”

“Maybe, but I think the boss would like to have a word with you.”

“I'm sure he would…” Ranma swiped Sheela off her feet and ran back into the main gambling hall. Three followed while one with a gun stayed at the entrance.

An alarm went off and every one was told to get down. About 300 bodies hit the floor but one stayed up throwing his companion behind a counter with his ex-fiancé. Sheela smiled at Akane gave a small wave. “Hiya. As you can see we didn't get out.”

Akane started panicking and was getting ready to cry. “Oh, god! He's gonna be killed!”

Sheela smiled again pointed over at Ranma as he ran all across the floor with a new guard coming out every so often. Hotel security was dead set on catching him. “I don't think you've met the new Ranma yet. You should really watch this, it's sooo cool.”

Shots started being fired and Akane pointed and yelled at her. “How is this cool!? They're shooting at him!”

“Yeah, but he's the luckiest guy I've ever met, this is exactly what attracted me to him.”

Ranma dodged a bullet as he leaped behind a row of slot machines. Sparks flew out of it as the bullet passed through the lights inside. Another threat made itself apparent as a man came at him with a nightstick and almost smoked him in the face. Ranma dodged the swing and kicked the guy in the face as he got up and started running again. “FUCK! FUCK! FUCK!” Ranma rolled over a roulette table as another guy came at him with a bottle of pepper spray and got a bit on Ranma's face. “OW! HOT!” Ranma yanked the wheel out of the table and whacked the guy with it. Another suit was a bit of a distance away and pulled out a taser. Ranma saw the barbed prongs shoot out and panicked. In an instant he picked up the closest person to shield him. Zero yelled as one of the electric nubs shot him in the nipple and preceded to pump energy into him. Ranma dropped Zero and waved his hands not knowing what to do. “Awe crap! Uhh! Sorry!” Ranma threw the roulette wheel like a frisbee and hit the guy with the taser. He started running again jumping over all the people on the floor and that's when more shots were fired. He flipped a table and hid behind it, but as five bullets shot right through it Ranma freaked out again and pulled out his 9mm. He had eleven rounds left in his clip but felt no need to conserve them. He poked his head up and screamed as he got ready to shoot, but there was a shotgun to his face. He screamed again as a blast came close to taking his head off, but when he moved out of the way the gun in his hand was nicked and it flew out. “FUCK!” He grabbed the barrel of the shotgun and muscled it into his own hands. He knocked the guy out with a hard hit with the butt of the gun and when he was down he tried to shoot him but it was out of ammo. “FUCK!” Another guy came at him nightstick and Ranma changed his grip to once again hold it by the barrel and went at him with a fast baseball swing. As the shotgun hit him it let out a shot, which whizzed past and through most of the left side of Ranma's jean jacket. He was unscratched but the suit behind him that was about the shoot him in the head now had a lack of life to worry about now. “FUCK!” Ranma ran over to the bar and soon ten guys were coming at him. Ranma looked around for a quick solution and decided to start picking up the stools and throwing them at the guys furiously. “LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!” Once he was out of chairs he jumped behind the counter and started throwing as many bottles of what ever he could find at any one that was standing. Zero once again fell victim to Ranma's blind fury and was now down for the count.

Ranma was running again and Akane couldn't help but stare in disbelief. “He's…”

“Still alive, I know. Isn't it amazing?”

“Shouldn't we help him or something?”

“No! When he starts doing this you just sit and wait for him to take care of every thing.”

“Oh, I- Ahh!”

Two suits had grabbed Akane and started rushing her out of the area. “Its not safe here Ms. Tendo, come with us!”

“H-hey! Put me down!”

Sheela stood up and pointed. “Hey! I need her! Give her back!”

One of the guys in black turned around knocked Sheela, square in the face. She went down holding her nose and crying. From across the room Ranma's voice was heard. “YOU FUCKS'!” A trail of destroyed slot machines and tables were broken as Ranma rushed to the rescue. He checked out Sheela but she pointed him to find Akane. He did so and rushed around a corner, but when he went around his reflexes took over when he saw five guys with uzies. “FUCK!” They all fired at once but Ranma gave the garbage can beside him a kick sending it flying towards them and he ducked behind the wall as the swarm of bullets passed by him. “JESUS! DAMN! FUCK!” Sheela managed to catch up with him and started pulling him towards the entrance again.

“Lets go!”

“But Akane-!”

“She's not going anywhere! Move before we die!” She booted Ranma's ass towards the door and they both started running again.

As they ran past all the tables Ranma stopped for a second and looked around. “Oh, why the fuck not!?” He started pulling out cash boxes from each cash only table he passed by while keeping up with Sheela. The one guy holding the fort at the entrance was catch off guard when a cash box flew at him and pinned him in the face. As he fell down Ranma ran pasted, grabbed the box off his face and the gun out of his hand. “Fucker!”

Once they were out front they heard sirens coming in close and Sheela gave him a wide-eyed look. “And our get away vehicle?”

Ranma gave her an angry look and yelled. “Well if you didn't tear out the engine in the truck then we wouldn't have had to walk here and we'd have one now!”

“It's not my fault!”

“Yes it is Sheela! Yes it is!” At that moment a flashy black BMW convertible pulled up waiting for she valet parking. “Perfect!”

Moments later there was a man on the ground holding his head and a pair of black tire marks beside him. Before the police even arrived Ranma and Sheela were long gone and they were heading to the only place he could think was safe for now. “You're about to meet a new friend of mine.”

“Ooo! Is he cute.”

“She's hot.”

“I'll take it any way I can get it.”

“I know…”

“Sorry about Akane, but I couldn't get her back in time.”

“Don't worry about it, at least I know she's alive.”

Sheela smiled as the wind rushed through her hair. “So do I get to keep this thing?”

“I was thinking about giving it to Jerry is she wanted it. Sorry, but she's gonna be pissed when I show up.”

“Oh, don't worry I understand.” She reached over and planted her lips against his. “I love you…”

Ranma pulled himself away and felt that sweat coming on. “S-sorry…”

“Hey, I'm just playing with ya. I'm just glad you're alive.”

Ranma reached over and wrapped an arm around her shoulder. “Sorry to drag you into this…”

“You know Ranma… You were the first one who didn't look at me like some sort of sex object the first time we met. I thought you were just playing it cool, but as it turned out you just wanted to be my friend. It was such a liberating feeling, it just made me want to kiss you.”

“Why can't you be like this all the time?”

“I just feel really comfortable around you. I know that no matter how many times we kiss and screw it'll never turn into anything serious. I also know that as soon as you get her back you'll be happy, and for the guy that made me this happy I'll do anything.”

“That sounds weird…”

“It's complicated, but if you want to know the truth I wouldn't mind a three way with you two.”

As she waved her eyebrows with a grin on her face Ranma got that nervous smile on his face and pushed her away. “Ya bloody nympho! You had this all planned from the beginning!”

“I was a joke you moron.”

“I often wonder about you!”

“I'm doing this because you're my best friend and I'm sure if there was a some one out there I was looking for you'd help me too.”

“Yeah, yeah…”

“Oh, hey! Can you do me a favor? I've always wanted to do something.”

“What?”

“Floor it!”

“Ok.” Ranma put the gas all the way down and brought the car up the 120km/h

Sheela reached into one of the cash boxes and pulled out a huge handful of cash. She threw it into the air with her hands high and watched the bills line out as they flew in a long line towards the road. Ranma just smiled and shook his head. “You're crazy.”

She turned up the radio and said, “I know.”

(Elvis - Viva Las Vegas)