Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ New World ❯ Chapter 3

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma use it merely for entertainment purposes.

 

Ranma stood outside his new school, an all boys Junior High, with his best friend Yamato Akira. Ranma and Kyoko were still residing at Tasuki's Shrine two years after Ranma's challenge with Kuno making him thirteen. They stayed here because Kyoko decided it was best for Ranma's social growth to attend public school and interact with people his own age. Over the two years Ranma also discovered yet another Psionic Power, Remote Viewing. This was halfway expected, as Remote Viewing was very similar to Omni Sight. The draw back of the power was that when in use the person was unable to move. The pair still made trips back to the Training Center but these were limited to Summer Break or the occasional extended weekend.

 

On one of these trips Akira challenged Ranma to an all out spar to test how each had grown. The sparring match was even in the beginning with Ranma holding the slight edge because of greater experience, Akira's Telepathy and recently discovered Clairvoyance gave him the ability to predict an opponent's actions. That was when Ranma started channeling Chi in his body making him faster and stronger and eventually overpowered Akira and won the sparring match. After the match Akira started to express and interest in Chi as well. When summer ended Tasuki had another guest and pupil in Chi training.

 

Akira's Chi training followed along similar lines as Ranma's, though for him it was much easier for he lacked the taint of the Neko-ken. The combined efforts of his Telekinesis and Chi body hardening techniques made Akira physically stronger. This suited his style as he fought defensive in nature, focusing on Aikido and Judo styles as the base with some Karate thrown in for variation.

 

“Well our first day of school here,” Akira stated. “What do you think it is going to be like?”

 

“Why ask me?” Ranma asked with a smirk. “You're the one with Clairvoyance here can't you look into the future and see how it's going to be.”

 

“You know it doesn't work that way,” Akira replied. “I only get a second or so of foresight when I use it. And Sensei Kyoko said not you use my Telepathy in School here. She called it cheating.”

 

“Sensei said the same thing to me with my Omni Sight and Remote Viewing,” Ranma said. His voice changed into a bad copy of Kyoko, “School is just like any other training, you get out what you put into it. That means no Psionics to help you find the answers from other people.”

 

`He still can't call Sensei, Mother,' Akira thought. Ranma and Kyoko had grown very close ever since she adopted him but Ranma still did not see her as his Mother. He was still hoping news would come about his birth mother. Akira, with his Telepathy could knew that Kyoko desperately wanted Ranma to see her as his Mother but she kept it quite just like Akira did. It was Ranma's choice on his standing with Kyoko. “Still I'm keeping a tight lid on my Telepathy, I don't to risk Sensei's punishments. Meditating while standing on my head for hours on end give's me a headache.”

 

“Excuse me,” a voice said from behind the two friends. “Do you know where Nagami Middle School is?”

 

Akira and Ranma turned to the voice and saw it belonged to a boy around their age. The boy's appearance was rather strange. His school uniform looked weathered and worn, he had a huge back pack that looked like it was more of a survival bag then a school bag and his face was covered with smudges of dirt, “Um you're standing right in front of it,” Ranma answered.

 

“I am?” the boy asked. He looked at an odd map then back at the friends, “But I thought I was in Kyoto.”

 

“Um no,” Akira said wondering what was wrong with this guy.

 

“Oh,” the boy said with a shrug, “Are you sure I'm at Nagami Middle School?”

 

“Yes, we're going here too,” Ranma said.

 

“Alright I made on time!” the boy seemed especially happy at that declaration. “I told Dad I didn't need any help finding the School!” He then started to walk away from the school entrance seemingly totally oblivious he was heading the wrong way.

 

“Hey the school is the other way!” Ranma called out.

 

The boy stopped looked around for a minute then turned left heading around the corner. “What was that about?” Akira asked. Ranma shrugged indicating he did not know, “Well let's get inside we don't want to be late for our first class.” Akira walked ahead of Ranma who was still looking where the strange boy had walked off too. “Ranma come on!”

 

“Yeah right behind you,” Ranma answered and quickly followed Akira into the school.

 

Two weeks later Ranma and Akira were waiting for lunch to be served. In the week they attended Nagami Middle School they found the entire school's curriculum was geared to make the students extremely competitive. Not that Ranma and Akira had a problem with this, they both thought a little competition always made things more interesting. The School issued rewards for students who did well and punishments like extra clean up duty for those that did not. Even lunch was a near battlefield where the lunchroom only served a few lunches and threw them out to the students who had to fight for them. Most students brought their lunch and avoided this part of the day, however sometimes they would serve exceptionally good food as a treat. Today was such a day, they were serving curry bread, which just happened to be near the top of Ranma and Akira's favorite food list.

 

“All right boys here's the curry bread!” the lunch lady called and threw the ten pieces of bread at the awaiting boys thirty boys.

 

Ranma and Akira were both in much better physical condition, then the other boys so getting these little treats were not a problem for them, even without their abilities. So when they jumped up to catch the bread they each caught one without much trouble. The other boys would often grumble about how they got the special treats so easily but no one ever tried to go any further, many saw the boys sparring before and after school. Today however was different, when Ranma and Akira jumped up for the bread they expected to be the only ones to reach their height. Both were surprised to see the boy they ran into at the beginning of school jump up to their general height as well.

 

“That one's mine!” the boy yelled just as Akira grabbed the piece of bread nearest to him. As they landed the boy stomped up to Akira, “Hey that bread's mine! I called it!”

 

“The rule of the lunchroom is that once the food is in the air its up for grabs,” Akira countered. “That means you can't call it until you catch it. Just who are you anyway?”

 

“I'm Hibiki Ryouga!” the boy answered angrily. “Who are you?”

 

“I'm Yamato Akira and this is Amaki Ranma,” Akira answered.

 

“I challenge you to a fight for stealing my bread! Meet me in front of the School after classes are over!” Ryouga stomped off heading away from any of the classrooms.

 

“Do you think I should accept?” Akira asked. “It was only bread not much of a reason to fight if you ask me.”

 

“I think you should,” Ranma answered. “I'm not sure but I think I felt a spike in Chi from that guy. He might be fun to having another sparring partner.”

 

“He did jump almost as high as us,” Akira said. “And fighting someone other than you would be good practice. Ok I'll accept the guy's challenge.”

 

After school Ranma and Akira were waiting for half an hour for Ryouga to show up. Akira was getting rather angry with him, “What kind of guy issues a challenge then doesn't show up! That's an insult to any Martial Artist!”

 

“Let me try and find him,” Ranma suggested. He was referring to his Remote View and could search the entire School and the surrounding area in a few minutes.

 

Akira nodded, “Fine but if he's not here we're leaving.”

Ranma sat down and closed his eyes and started to search for Ryouga. His consciousness left his body and started scanning the surrounding area quickly. When he finished searching the interior of the school Ranma shifted his Psionic gaze to the back. What he found really puzzled him, Ryouga was there, looking all around like he had no clue where he was. He then moved towards a tree and they started walking around it in circles for about five times then walked back to school building looking completely bewildered. Ranma returned to his body, “Hibiki's in the back of the School walking around in circles.”

 

Akira blinked a couple of times at the news, “Why is he walking around in circles?”

 

“From the looks of things he appears to be lost,” Ranma answered.

 

“Lost?” Akira asked.

 

Another student was walking buy when he heard the two friends talking about someone getting lost. As he had lived in the area for a long time he knew whom they were talking about. “If you guys are waiting on Hibiki then don't bother,” the boy stated. “He gets lost real easily, in the fifth grade he got lost in the classroom even though there was only door. It would be best if you just left now and saved yourself the trouble.”

 

Ranma remembered the look of Ryouga's cloths from the first time they met and added this new information together. He accurately deduced that Ryouga spent a lot of time on the road and away from people. He could sympathize with this from his time with Genma (Ranma refused to call Genma his Father finally coming to realize just how bad a person the man was). “Come let's go find him,” Ranma suggested.

 

When they reached the back of the school Ryouga was nowhere to be found. Ranma tried to locate him again with his Remote Viewing but could find no trace of him. With no clue on where Ryouga could have gone the boys decided to head back to the Shrine as there was nothing they could do.

 

A few hours later just after sunset Ryouga finally made it to the front of the School. When he saw no one there he became extremely angry, “Yamada you Coward! How dare you run out of our fight!? I'll make you pay for this!” The Lost Boy turned around a couple of times and then started to wander aimlessly into the night.

 

A few weeks later Ryouga showed up again, this time at Tasuki's Shrine. Ranma was outside training when the Lost Boy entered the Shrine's grounds looking to be once again lost. “Hey Hibiki!” Ranma called out. When the boys got home and explained Ryouga's bad directions to Kyoko and Tasuki the two adults suggested that the problem could have been caused by Psionics as the brain controlled a person's sense of direction. They said that if either saw Ryouga again they should make tell him Kyoko may be able to help him with his directional problem.

 

When Ryouga heard his family named called he saw the friend of boy that insulted him by not showing up for their fight. “You! Where's Yamato!?” Ryouga demanded.

 

“Out shopping with Mr. Tasuki,” Ranma answered. “Hey we heard about your problem with directions and…”

 

“I knew he was a coward!” Ryouga interrupted Ranma. `Yamato knew about my family's curse and he still didn't show up! That means he was just making fun of me!'

 

“Hey don't call Akira a coward!” Ranma yelled. Akira was Ranma's closest friend and did not take to kindly to when someone insulted him. “It's not Akira's fault you couldn't the front of the School!”

 

“He should have waited! And I'll make him pay for running out of a man to man fight!” Ryouga said.

 

“Like I'm going to let you blame my friend for your own problems!” Ranma declared.

 

“If you get in the way of my revenge then I'll just beat you too!” Ryouga yelled as he rushed at Ranma.

 

Ranma saw the rage filled charge and jumped out of the way. Ryouga was already starting to swing his fist when Ranma jumped away. He continued the punch and hit the ground where Ranma was standing creating a huge hole in the ground because of the force behind the blow. When Ranma saw this he was ever surprised by the impact, `I can't fight Hibiki here!' Ranma thought. `The Shrine will be ruined just from the collateral damage. I need to get him away from the Shrine.' Ranma though back to the lessons at the Training Center about fighting and remembered that it was possible to get a person to do what you wanted in a fight by playing on their emotions. This was why the Training Center taught that a person, whether they had Psionic Powers or not, should only fight with a clear head. `Hibiki's pissed so it should not be hard to get him away from the Shrine if I get him mad enough to chase me.' Ranma really hated what he was about to do the risk of damaging the Shrine in a fight was just to high, “You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with a punch like that,” Ranma said.

 

“Stand still and take your punishment!” Ryouga yelled as he charged Ranma again.

 

Ranma jumped away again but this time towards the entrance of the Shrine. Just like what Ranma wanted Ryouga followed after him. One more dodge and a jump and Ranma had led Ryouga out of the Shrine. Once they were outside Ranma went of the offensive. This time when Ryouga punched at Ranma, Ranma redirected the fist past him. When Ryouga was close enough Ranma challenged some Chi into his knee and kneed Ryouga in his stomach. To Ranma's surprise the blow only caused Ryouga to flinch a little, `Whoa this guy can take a hit better than Akira!' Ranma thought as Ryouga tried to punch him again.

 

“That the best you can do?” Ryouga asked. “I barely felt that.”

 

“Actually it wasn't my best,” Ranma answered. This time Ranma ran at Ryouga and focused his Telekinesis into his fists as well as his Chi. Ryouga tried to kick Ranma when he was close enough but Ranma sidestepped the kick and punched at Ryouga's ribs with a left cross. Ryouga was surprised by the force of the hit and stumbled back. Ranma redirected his Telekinesis and Chi to his legs and kicked Ryouga in the face with a spinning heel kick. The kick was strong enough to knock Ryouga to the ground and send him skidding two meters finally stopping near a corner of a building.

 

When Ryouga stood up he was facing away Ranma, “Where did you go Amaki!?” Ranma stumped by the question so he did not answer right away. When he was about to answer Ryouga yelled once again cutting Ranma off. “You're a coward just like you're friend! I'll hunt they both of you down for running out of our fight!” Ryouga ran around the corner thinking that was the direction Ranma went.

 

Ranma saw Ryouga run off and chased after him. When he reached the corner he could find no trace of him, “Now how did this happen?” Ranma asked. “I only lost sight of him for a few seconds.” Ranma tried to use his Remote Viewing to find Ryouga but once again saw no trace of him.

 

From that day on Ryouga vowed vengeance on Ranma and Akira. Every time he encountered one or both boys he would attack them without just cause. This really did not interrupt the two young teenager's lives because it would happen once every two weeks at least. With each little skirmish it was quickly proven that because of Ranma and Akira's combined use of Psionics and Chi they were the better fighters though Ryouga did give both very good fights. Combined with his endurance and his ability to channel his Chi into cloth making it as strong as steel made him a worthy rival.

 

When Kyoko learned of the attacks she tried to put a stop to them. She understood and even encouraged Akira and Ranma to accept Martial Arts Challenges, but what Ryouga was doing was just random acts of aggression. She talked to the School but they could do nothing because Ryouga never attacked them on School property, mostly because he could hardly ever find the place. When Kyoko went to Ryouga's home she could only find a couple of notes telling either Ryouga or one of the other Hibiki's who stopped by and when, so there was not help there. Then when it became apparent that Ryouga could not be reasoned with and called Akira and Ranma cowards for involving woman in a `man to man' dispute she finally let the boys handle him as they were never seriously injured.

 

One day about a month before the School Year ended Akira and Ranma came home looking highly annoyed. She did not need to any kind of Psionic Power to know what happened, “The Habiki Boy again,” she stated. He adopted Son and Charge nodded their heads in unison. “I know you two are getting tired of this routine,” Kyoko saw two pairs of eye role at the statement and could feel the `duh' that was going through their minds. “Because of that I decided we should leave the are for a while once the School Year Ends.”

 

“Are we going back to the Training Center?” Ranma asked hopefully. The Training Center may have been isolated but at least it was far away from their annoyance. `With Habiki's bad direction he would never find the Training Center.'

 

“Don't be so sure Ranma,” Akira said. “Habiki could find it by random chance, he seems to find anything else that way.”

 

“Stop reading my mind!” Ranma said back.

 

“Ahem!” Kyoko cleared her throat drawing the boy's attention once again. She erected her mental defenses against Telepathy to keep her surprise from Akira. “Now as I was saying earlier I think it would be best to leave the area for a while. And no Ranma we are not going to the Training Center. I can instruct you both is your Psionic Training well enough on my own. What I have planned is something both of you have wanted for a while now.” The two looked at each other then back at Kyoko wondering what she was talking about. “Both of you have been wanting to further your Chi Training and Tasuki does not have anything left to teach you. There for we are going on a little trip,” she paused for dramatic effect, “To China.”

 

“What/Are you serious!?” both boys asked at once. They had been wanting to travel to China for months, and in Ranma's case for years. And now Kyoko has just told they were doing just that.

 

“I have already arranged everything,” Kyoko said. “Both of your passports have already been processed and the plane tickets have been bought. We'll leave the weekend after you're Exams are complete.”

 

“All right we're going to China!” Ranma yelled. “Sensei do you think we can visit the Amazon Village?”

 

“We'll see Ranma,” Kyoko smiled at her adopted Son.

 

“How long will we be gone?” Akira asked.

 

“At least a year,” Kyoko answered. Akira nodded satisfied with the answer. “Now that that is out of the way Tasuki needs some help with fixing some of Electrical Sockets, something about an overload…” Ranma started to sweat knowing that because he was the source of the overload he would be forced to help fix them and then have to face the punishment. He just hoped he did not clean the Shrine again using just his stomach again.

 

A month soon passed, not quickly enough in Ranma and Akira's opinions, and the Exams had just ended. To Ranma and Akira's fortune Ryouga had not been seen the entire month and their good mood about the training trip was not ruined once. The reason for this was because Ryouga had been busy for the last month. On his latest trip across Japan he discovered an old scroll that taught an advanced Chi technique that would fire one's Chi like a cannon shot. Ryouga spent all his time training and perfecting the technique and when he finally felt he had it down he started to head back to Nagami and Challenge Ranma and Akira to settle their feud once and for all. He even had the foresight to send and formal Challenge Letter a week ahead.

 

It was too bad for Ryouga the letter arrived at the Shrine a day after Kyoko took the boys to China. So when Ryouga finally made it to the spot he said he would meet them, a day after the letter said, he found no one there. After screaming in rage about cowards Ryouga spent days running around a vacant lot looking for someone who could tell him where Akira and Ranma ran off too.

 

After three days of running in circles Ryouga finally ran into a boy he recognized from his class, “Where are Amaki and Yamada!?”

 

Knowing Ryouga's strength and tendency to break everything around when he was angry the boy did not hesitate to answered. “I heard them talking about going to China after Exams were finished. They left about a week ago.”

 

Ryouga started to boil with rage. “THOSE COWARDS! They ran out on a Formal Challenge! I'll make them pay for being such cowards even if I have to chaise them to the ends of the Earth!” Ryouga, because he was always ready to travel, immediately set off for China to deliver his revenge. Unfortunately China was to the West and Ryouga was heading to the East.

 

Author's Note: I added Akira into the main part of the story because I felt Ranma needed a real friend. And to those who are wondering, yes Ranma is going to get cursed and yes Genma is going to be the cause.