Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ New World ❯ Chapter 6

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

 

Saotome Genma jumped along the roofs towards his old friend's house. Weeks ago he had escaped from China and was now back in Japan. Genma was confident that the Police were no longer looking for him but he decided for once it was better safe than sorry and remained hidden. When he was detained in the Amazon Village he discovered a truly astonishing revelation, his `Ungrateful Son' was alive and apparently living in China, at that was what it looked like to him. In Genma's mind this was both a blessing and a curse. On one hand he could finally get his Son back and use him to retire in comfort, on the other hand the boy had been raised by a bunch of, again in Genma's opinion, weak women and had to be weak himself. There was no way Ranma could be a strong Martial Artist after being trained by them, and that meant more work for Genma and work was something Genma absolutely loathed.

 

Still Genma knew he would need help in retrieving his Son. While a woman was to weak to face the `Might of Anything Goes' a large group of women could take down even the old Master. He knew his old friend would help, it was a matter of honor that they unite their Schools and his old friend would certainly come to his aide. In Genma's version of aide that meant doing all the work and he taking the credit, just like when they were training, unless trouble came with the credit. Then all the credit would go to his friend.

 

At the moment Genma was about to jump onto the next roof when a rain cloud passed overhead changing him into a Panda. Genma-Panda looked at his paws and shrugged. `Tendo always liked surprises so this shouldn't bother him,' Genma's incredibly large stomach growled at that moment. `I wonder if Tendo's wife has any food? She always was a good cook.'

 

A few blocks away in a traditional Japanese House and Martial Arts Dojo a man with long black hair and small black mustache looked a post card with large amounts of tears running down his face. The postcard read, `Tendo, coming back from China, Saotome.'

 

`At last the Schools will be joined!” the man, Tendo Soun, thought. It never occurred to him to wonder why his old friend had not mentioned his Son. `I must inform the girls, they'll be so happy about their new Fiancé.' Soun rushed off to where his daughters were most likely to be.

 

In the kitchen he found his oldest, “Kasumi! Come to the Tea Room we are having a Family Meeting.”

 

“Oh my,” Kasumi, a young woman in her late teens or early twenties with a brown ponytail, said. “I wonder what has Father so worked up about?”

 

Up stairs Soun knocked on the second door in on the left side of the hallway, “Nabiki! Please come downstairs to the Tea Room we are having a Family Meeting!”

 

Nabiki, a girl in her mid to late teens with short brown hair, looked up from a manga towards her door, “Now what's this about?”

 

Out in the hallway Soun was knocking on the third door, “Akane!” when he heard no sound from the other side he opened the door. “Akane? Where is that girl?”

 

“I'll get her Daddy?” Nabiki said. She had seen her younger sister come inside from her daily run from her window not too long ago.

 

A couple of minutes later Nabiki walked into the Family Dojo and saw her younger sister. She was a girl a in her mid teens with long dark blue-black hair. Nabiki watched as the girl brought her fist up and started to glow red with Chi. Akane brought her fist down on a pile of cinder blocks nine blocks high, shattering them on impact. Nabiki took the opportunity to tease her sister, “You know I've seen fighters on the TV that could do better.” Nabiki knew Akane had a big chip on her shoulder and would get riled up if any questioned her abilities as a fighter.

 

As Nabiki anticipated Akane started to fume, “Those guys have no idea what a real Martial Artist can do! If they were they would come here and I'd show them who's the best in Nerima!”

 

“Oh you mean you'd introduce them to that American Psionic Fighter Mordon that moved into the area last month,” Nabiki said casually. Mordon was a thirty five year old American Psionic that uses Kick Boxing and Telepathy to win several tournaments before retiring and coming to Japan. Akane had challenged him once but the American had just brushed her off saying he did not fight anymore and never fought armatures. Needless to say Akane was highly insulted by the brush off and hated the man ever since.

 

“That Coward!?” Akane yelled. “He's not even a real Fighter using Psionics like a cheater when everyone knows real Martial Artists us Chi!” Akane started to glow red indicating her temper was at the breaking point.

 

Nabiki knew this was time to change the subject. “Well anyway Daddy wants to have a Family Meeting in the Tea Room. You'd better hurry.” Nabiki said walking into the house after Akane's red aura disappeared.

 

Inside the Tea Room Soun looked over his daughters' curious faces. He was trying desperately to keep his cool in order to surprise his girls but was also failing miserably with his eyes constantly watering up. “So Daddy we're all here,” Nabiki broke the silence. “What did you want to talk about?”

 

“Girls I have some wonderful news!” Soun exclaimed with a happy smile. “An old friend and training partner of mine is coming to visit us soon and he is bring his Son…” He paused seeing the confused looks on the girls' faces then continued, “And your Fiancé!”

 

There was a brief yet stunning silence that followed the announcement. Then it was broken by three shouts, “FIANCE!”

 

Soun cringed back at the glares from Nabiki and Akane and the frown from Kasumi. “It was promise made when we were training together to unite our Schools through the Marriage of our Children,” Soun whimpered a little as he explained. “And if one of you were to marry him the Tendo Legacy would be secure.”

 

“Don't you think we should have a say in who we marry?” Nabiki asked.

 

“This is so sudden Father,” Kasumi spoke up. “We really should have more time to decide. We do not even know this person.”

 

“Yeah for all we know he could be like Kuno and the Kendo Club Idiots!” Akane added. “Gah! I hate guys like that!”

 

“B…But its about family honor,” Soun said.

 

“Well at least tell us what this guy is like,” Nabiki said. “Like what's his name? And is he cute?”

 

“Is he older than me?” Kasumi asked. “Younger boys can be so…immature.”

 

Soun laugher nervously for a few seconds, “Well his name is Ranma…and as for the rest,” he paused causing the Tendo Siblings to lean in, “I don't know.” Soun cringed back as the looks from earlier came back at double the intensity.

 

“You don't know?” Kasumi and Nabiki asked at once as Akane fumed.

 

“W…well not knowing Ranma shouldn't be a problem,” Soun said. “Saotome is bring him by…” There was a knock on the door that interrupted his sentence. “That must be them! Saotome my old friend!” Soun stoop and dashed to the front door.

 

“Might as well go see what he's like,” Nabiki stood up and followed after Soun.

 

The other two Tendo Sisters got up to try and follow only to hear, “AAAAHHHH!” from the front door and see Soun and Nabiki come running back followed by a large Panda.

 

“Growl,” the Panda held up a sigh saying, “Tendo my old friend it is good to see you again!”

 

“Do you know this Panda Father?” Kasumi asked. Soun frantically shook his head no.

 

“Growl,” the Panda flipped the sign and it now read, “Could I have some hot water?”

 

“Why would a Panda need hot water?” Nabiki asked. She had calmed down a great deal after it became apparent that the Panda was not going to attack. The fact that it could read and write was odd but in a world of Chi, Magic and Psionics it was not terrifying. For all she could know the Panda could be some Psionics or maybe a Mage's idea of a practical joke.

 

The Panda flipped the sign again, “I have a curse.”

 

One thing went through the girls' minds, `Magic.'

 

“I'll get you some hot water,” Kasumi said. A few minutes later she came back into the Tea Room and gave the Panda, who with the rest of the Tendo Family were now sitting at the low table, the kettle of hot water. “Here you go!”

 

The Panda poured the kettle over its head and turned into a fat man with a bandana on his baldhead. “Tendo my friend!” Genma greeted.

 

“Saotome!?” Soun asked. “What happened to you!? And where is your Son!?”

 

“Oh the tragedy!” Genma replied. He started to tell Soun his version of what happened (in other words a complete lie). He started with saying that he and Ranma went to China and that they were tricked into going to Jusenkyo and followed by a visit to the Amazon Village and their betrayal and brain washing of Ranma. He finished his tail with a heroic rendition of his valiant fight against an army of Amazons but had to ultimately retreat in order to seek help. “And that is why I have come Tendo for I knew only you could help me rescue my pore weak Son! Oh the shame I feel for not teaching him enough to escape those Amazons!”

 

By now Soun was imitating a waterfall as he listened to his old friend. “Of course I'll help you retrieve your Son. And once we do and cure his brain washing we can have the wedding and finally join the Schools! Come my old friend let us plan the rescue.” Genma nodded and he and Soun went out of the room.

 

As they left the Tendo Sister could not help but hear Genma say, “You wouldn't have anything to eat and some sake would you Tendo?”

 

After the two men left the girls looked at one another none of them believing for a moment what Genma had said. “I thought the Amazons were considered among the most honorable Martial Artists there were,” Kasumi said.

 

“They are,” Akane said. “In fact I plan on going to the Amazon Village for training someday.”

 

“Well it's easy to see Daddy's friend is lying,” Nabiki commented. “The problem is what he's lying about?”

 

“What should we do?” Kasumi asked.

 

“For now I think we should just play along until we find out what Saotome is lying about,” Nabiki suggested. “You saw how Daddy reacted. If we accuse Saotome of lying now without proof Daddy will never believe it. So for now we have to wait.”

 

Akane and Kasumi looked reluctant to go along with the plan. Akane just wanted to meet this like every other problem she encountered. Charge ahead and beat it, or in this case him, into submission. Kasumi was leery because she did not like to disappoint her father and Genma seemed to make him happy. Still if this man was deceiving them, and he was, he would be disturbing the Wa of the house. Then again both knew Nabiki to be the expert when it came to this kind of thing and trusted her to make the right decisions in these situations. Finally they nodded conceding to Nabiki's plan. Nabiki smiled already planning on tracking down as much information as she could on Saotome Genma .

 

Still there was one thing going their minds, `What really happened to Saotome's Son?'

 

Unknown to the Tendo Family and Genma; Ranma, Akira and Kyoko were just now disembarking from their plain from China. “Aw it feels good to be home again,” Akira said. Kyoko and Ranma nodded in agreement as they stretched the kinks out of their bodies. “So Sensei, what school will be going to this year?”

 

“The Training Center as already made arrangements with Furinkan High School in Nerima,” Kyoko answered. “The School has taken in some students for the Training Center before.”

 

“So they will know we're Psionics,” Ranma concluded.

 

“Yes,” Kyoko replied. “They also have a rather open policy for people studying the Martial Arts and have Six Martial Arts Clubs. At least that was what the Vice Principle said when I last talked to him.”

 

“Sounds fun,” Akira replied. He got a sudden vision that happens sometimes with his Clairvoyance, “Ranma watch…” unfortunately it was not soon enough to warn Ranma about the cold drink that was just spilled onto him, “…out.”

 

Ranma-chan grumbled as she reached into her pack for a towel to dry her hair. She was wearing the dry suit under her Chinese clothes and it did help her a lot. But because the dry suit could not cover her entire body she would still change every so often when she got splashed on from the head. “I can't wait until the Curse stabilizes, then I at least won't have as many wet clothes.” The Curse could not be helped at this point so Ranma-chan took it in stride for the most part, but the wet clothes would often draw the attention most guys trying to get a look at her body through the wet material. This was negated because of the dry suit underneath but it was still annoying being the center of attention of a bunch of leering guys.

 

“Come on you two,” Kyoko said. “The sooner we get to out apartment the sooner we can get settled in.” Akira and Ranma-chan agreed with that and followed as Kyoko went to the airport exit.

 

Two days later Ranma and Akira where walking to Furinkan High. The first day they three simply got into their three-bedroom apartment and unpacked their things. Yesterday the boys explored the area looking at the local teenage hangouts and various Dojos in the area (they did not find all of them so they did not come across the Tendo Dojo) for future challenges. Kyoko started her day at her new job in the area as a Psionic Healer at a local Doctor's Clinic. One of the reason Kyoko supervised the boys' training over the years was because she had the ability to heal up to moderate injuries with her Psionic Powers of Healing Touch and Psionic Regeneration. Her Psionic Healing Powers would be greatly appreciated as the Doctor was often overworked.

 

As they approached Akira became confused as his Telepathy picked up some very strong thoughts coming from the School a half-kilometer away. “Ranma,” Akira addressed his best friend. “I'm picking up some weird thoughts. There's about a dozen guys waiting to fight someone named Akane.” Ranma gave a shrug showing he did not care about that, challenge fights were not uncommon to them. “The weird part is they're trying to fight her to date her.”

 

“Ok that's weird,” Ranma admitted. “Oh well doesn't concern us.” Ranma looked at his watch and saw it was getting late, “Come on let's hurry if we're late Sensei will kill us.” Akira nodded and the two started running off towards Furinkan High.

 

When they finally reached the front fate they slowed down and walked into the schoolyard. Akira nudged Ranma and pointed to a group of twelve boys in Kendo outfits off to one side. They propped the group and discovered they all had some Chi training though one, they could see his face, was stronger than the others. The boys took another couple of steps when Akira suddenly pulled Ranma to the side as a girl with long blue-black hair came running by. As soon as she was in sight the group in the Kendo outfits charged her saying, “Akane I'm the one for you!” “I'll defeat you to prove my love!” and “Let me prove my love!”

 

“GET AWAY FROM ME YOU JERKS!” Akane yelled as she charged her Chi into her fists. The Kendo Club clashed with Akane in an uncoordinated attack as Akane started slamming he Chi enhanced fists into their Kendo Armor. Soon eleven on the twelve-member Kendo Team started to go down.

 

“Her skill is around Second Degree Black Belt Level in Kempo, unfortunately she's fighting in set patterns with almost no modification from the Katas ” Ranma analyzed. “Her Chi is just above rudimentary and she uses her anger to call it out.”

 

“The Kendo Club isn't much better,” Akira added. “With the exception of one or two members they can barely defend themselves with their Chi.” Akira looked at the time and noted only about a minute passed and all eleven attackers were all on the ground moaning and Akane was breathing hard. “Also she does not seem to have that much stamina.”

 

At the same time both boys said, “None would be much of a challenged to us.” With dismissive shrug the boys walked passed Akane and the downed Kendo Team. They idly noted that three girls were going around and either collecting money or taking money from other students around the schoolyard.

 

Just as they were about to walk passed a tree a yell stopped them, “AMAKI RANMA!” The entire student body turned to see Kuno Tatewaki pointing his bokken at one of the two new boys that just arrived. “FOR YOU'RE INSULT AGAINST ME I SHALL SMITE YOU!” Kuno charged with his wooden sword in a thrust position. When he was close enough he started his technique, “FEEL MY WRATH! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!”

 

Ranma and Akira both jumped out of the way; Ranma to avoid the attack and Akira to give Ranma room to fight. When Akira saw the three girls start taking bets he smiled knowing a quick way to make some money, “Hey,” he called on of the girls over. “Five thousand yen on my friend.” The girl nodded and took down the bet.

 

When Ranma landed started at Kuno with a look that showed annoyance. “Hello to you to Kuno, still using that same attack over all these years,” Ranma said as he dodged another swing from Kuno. “I see you're form hasn't really improved all that much.”

 

“I SHALL HAVE MY VENGENCE!” Kuno shouted again as he tried to stab Ranma once again.

 

Ranma wanted to end this match as soon as he could. If this kept up he would be late and Kyoko would give him another bizarre punishment like holding a scrub brush handle by his mouth while using it to clean the dishes. Kyoko has come up with strange but never harmful forms of punishments over the years. She learned a long time ago that embarrassment was the best way to keep Akira and Ranma in line.

 

So to cut this fight short Ranma sidestepped Kuno's thrust, hit Kuno's wrists causing him to loosen his grip on his bokken. Then Ranma pulled the bokken out of the loosened grip spun around on his feet and slammed the bokken into the back of Kuno's head dropping him onto the ground out cold. The entire Student Body was stunned, a new guy had just beaten Kuno with his own weapon with one hit and under thirty seconds.

 

Ranma dropped the bokken and walked up to his friend, “Collect your money and let's get to the office, that is unless to see what new punishment Kyoko can come up with.”

 

Akira quickly walked over to one of the girls and took a wad of money, “Thank you for the money Miss.” He then quickly spun around and dashed after Ranma who had already entered the School Building. A minute later the late bell rang and only then did anyone move from his or her frozen state of shock.

 

Author's Note: I changed the attitudes of the Tendo Girls a little for this fic. Nabiki is less manipulative because it is hard to trick people if you know there's a chance they can read your mind. Kasumi is a bit more open to the outside world for reason's I'll reveal later. And Akane does not think all guys are perverts, just the Kendo Club. Akane can use Chi and thus she hits much harder than the cannon and only people like the Kendo Club have even a basic understanding on how to use their Chi, so most of the boys don't want to risk being hit with a Chi enhanced fist. That means less attackers and less anger to boys in general. Akane still has a hair trigger on her temper just more associated to her Martial Arts ability then anything else.