Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Ranko's Mad as Hell!!! ❯ A very bad day ( Chapter 1 )
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / / Romance / Psychological / Martial Arts / Comedy | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 04.02.2004 | Updated On: 04.03.2004 | Pages: 2 | Words: 8.0K | Visits: 1.5K | Status: Completed
Story idea by: James Lee
By: Nameless Author
Thoughts ' '
Chinese [" "]
"Speaking while inside of Ranma's mind"
Title: Ranko's Mad as Hell!!
Chapter 1: A very bad day
It was a standard day in Nerima, the birds were singing, everyone was doing their own thing, and people walked down the street as they did their daily chores. Kasumi was on her way home from the market with the groceries. Soun and Genma were playing shoji on the patio in the back, Nabiki was working on her ledger to keep track of the family finances for the dojo and the house, along with her business she ran at school to keep the money coming in to pay for everything. Akane was in the dojo working out her frustrations, because she thought Ranma was back to cheating on her.
Despite her suspicions, the youngest Tendo daughter was so far from the truth it wasn't funny, Ranma was currently running away from his various fiancées and rivals. It had been three months since the failed wedding attempt, and things have been slowly getting back to status quo, or what passed for it around Nerima. Ranma had forgiven everyone for the botched wedding, but he had not forgotten it…
**Flashback**
Ranma had woken up to his father throwing him out of the window for their usual morning spar. As it went on, Ranma held back against his father, as he had surpassed Genma a while ago. The entire fight went on for a few minutes, waking up everyone else who was still asleep in the Tendo house hold. First Nabiki woke up with her hair a mess, sticking out at various positions. After her was Akane in her yellow pajama's with fishcake prints, then finally Soun who looked like he had a hang over from drinking too much sake. Each one grumbling about the two martial artists fighting outside their home, so early in the morning. Kasumi, being the ever smiling woman she was, called out to the two battling Saotome's with her ever patented call of, "Breakfast is ready."
The pigtailed youth then punted Genma into the koi pond to end the morning spar and made his way inside to sit down and eat his food. A sopping wet Panda soon followed, but not before getting some hot water from the kettle and turning himself back into a human. Finally things got started off with the usual eating and talking at the table. Genma was still trying to steal Ranma's food as per usual, but Ranma didn't even allow his father to get one bite. Although, that didn't stop Ranma from stealing the fat fool's own food during their usual fight for each others food.
Nabiki sat there watching it all with her usual air of disinterest. What went on in her mind was the usual planning, scheming and other stuff she did. Also, she was pondering getting Ranma to pose for some semi-nude pictures in his female form to sell off to his admirers. They were getting low on money and she needed to get some new revenue in fast. Most of the old tricks and betting pools were not bringing in enough money to keep them in the black. Keeping to herself while eating, the middle Tendo daughter finished her food, then got up and left for school. "If you two don't hurry up you'll be late," she called back after her to Ranma and Akane.
The two quickly finished their meals, then got up and left the house in a hurry. Both of them didn't need to be late again. After all they had more than enough school work to catch up on, due to the fact that they had spent way too much time in China. Even three months later, Ranma and Akane were unable to fully catch up in their school work. Akane was farther ahead than Ranma, but she herself was still a bit behind, on the other hand Ranma was still struggling to catch up. Ranma still had to deal with suitors and rivals, while Akane was trying to keep from loosing her temper when the others came around trying to apologize to Ranma and get on his good side again.
As the two of them took off for school, each one was walking in their usual manner that they had been using for over a year now, with Ranma on the fence and Akane on the sidewalk. However, this peace was not to last as the distinct ringing of a bicycle bell could be heard. In an instant, Shampoo descended from the sky onto Ranma's head bicycle first, thereby forcing Ranma to fall from the fence and land face first onto the ground, surprised that it had happened once again. Shampoo smiled, as she saw Ranma on the ground, throwing her bike to the side she proceeded to glomp onto the pigtailed martial artist. "Aiya!!! Airen take Shampoo on date, yes?"
Ranma for all his martial arts skill could not figure out how to get the overly amorous Amazon off of him. This fact was not lost upon Shampoo, so she squeezed a bit harder and pressed up against Ranma even more. [1] Akane, who just couldn't keep her temper in check any longer, brought out mallet-sama and screamed, "RANMA NO BAKA!!!" hitting him into LEO towards the school, and this was the first sign of things going back to the way they were before Saffron and Phoenix Mountain fiasco. This left Akane grumbling to herself as she made her way to the school alone. Her thoughts on Shampoo and the others who were starting to get on her nerves more and more, but before she could get too far, Shampoo slugged Akane in the belly very hard. Afterwards, she picked up her bicycle and rode off in a huff, not enjoying Akane's attitude one bit. This left Akane grumbling more, as well groaning in pain, all the while she was mentally cursing Ranma.
'Stupid Ranma leading the others on... Making me think he loves me and continuing to encourage Shampoo, Ukyo, and even Kodachi!' Akane thought to herself as she got up off the ground, then continued walking towards the school. 'First it was the wedding with all of them showing up and ruining it! Then it was Ranma forgiving everyone instead of getting angry at them. After all that Ukyo started coming around even more, trying to feed Ranma more of her okinomiyaki and hoping he would choose her. Rubbing it in my face when she got to spend time with Ranma, having the NERVE to even go as far as saying, "I'm gonna make Ranchan mine, sugar, so you better just move along." The NERVE of her doing that and trying to take Ranma away! However that isn't the worst of it, Shampoo coming around at all hours of the day. Glomping onto him, force feeding him ramen, even going as far as to try and force him to take her out on various dates...'
The girl grumbled even more as she continued to think about what had been going on for the past three months since Phoenix Mountain and the wedding incidents. 'Finally there is Kodachi...' Akane shuddered at the thought of the psychotic gymnast. 'The maniac is still trying to drug Ranma with her exotic drugs and paralyzing powders. I even caught her in Ranma's room, after she had paralyzed him and was trying to have sex with him!! I know it wasn't Ranma's fault because he couldn't move, but that shouldn't have stopped Genma from doing something. Instead the fat panda just slept there unaware of what was going on.'
Akane groused some more, straightening out her school uniform as she continued to walk. 'Not to mention Cologne who found out what happened in China. Now she wants Ranma apart of the tribe more than ever. With the power he has, Cologne knows that the Amazons would be near invincible if she could get him into the tribe.
Then the others like Happosai, who continually comes around to glomp me and Ranma, but the baka doesn't even do a thing about the perverted gnome. Oh sure he beats on Happosai for a little bit before the old man comes and gets revenge on Ranma, which inadvertently gets the rest of us involved! Can't that no good hentai even stop an even bigger hentai? No he can't, instead he just lets things happen!'
Akane was really in the mood to hit someone now, and she would prefer it to be Ranma. 'Kuno hasn't given up on me or Ranma's girl side either, still coming after the both of us without much time at all. He even showed up at the wedding with a steel katana! And what did Ranma do? He forgave the fucking bastard!!! Ranma forgave him instead of kicking the asshole's ass! What's more is, Ranma didn't even bother to try and call the cops on everyone who crashed the wedding. Hell, I bet he and Nabiki were in on ruining it from the very beginning.' Akane thought some more, and finally felt a bit better now that she had thought everything through.
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The Jusenkyo cursed martial artist was grumbling to himself, while he started to land in the middle of the school grounds. "Uncute tomboy… always malleting me before I can explain," Ranma grumbled under his breath as he landed. This had been going on ever since a month after the wedding was over with. Everyone from fiancées to rivals started up again, attacking or trying to get Ranma for themselves. After landing, Ranma looked around the school yard and spotted Kuno standing there in his regal pose he usually stood in. He was there with his standard bokken and samurai garb.
"Vile sorcerer, today is the day that I, Kuno Tatewaki, shall smite thee thereby freeing my pigtailed goddess and the fierce tigress Tendo Akane!!! For the sword of heaven is slow, but sure." Kuno spouted out in his usual way of poetry. "Have at thee!!!" cried the insane kendoist as he started the usual attacks.
Ranma was not in the mood for this and decided to just knock the idiot out cold with a karate chop to the neck. "Kuno, I dun wanna fight ya right now," he stated as he made his way into the school. When Akane entered the school yard a little bit later, she found Kuno out cold as usual.
The day went on with Ranma sleeping in class and then being sent out in the hall to hold buckets. When he was in Hinako-sensei's class he would be drained of ki and then sent out into the hall to hold more buckets. Same old routine day in and day out. When lunch time came around, Ranma leapt out of the window landing on his feet. He went to sit under the usual tree to eat his bento.
As luck would have it, this peace was not to last because Ukyo and Shampoo arrived. Then the fates really kicked in as Akane showed up with her horribly cooked food for Ranma to eat. All of this was just the beginning of the troubles for the day, and Ranma was getting nervous.
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"Ranchan I made some Okinomiyaki special deluxe for you!!!" called out Ukyo Kuonji, Ranma's cute fiancée. Right behind her was Shampoo with a ramen box, wanting to feed Ranma some food as well.
"Ranma, Shampoo make too too good ramen special for you!!!" squealed out the purple haired Amazon, while glaring at Ukyo. Akane herself looked over at the other two fiancées and growled under her breath.
"Oh heya Ucchan, how ya doin'?" Ranma called out to his best friend Ukyo as she approached. Then he saw Shampoo and big sweated, as the purple haired Amazon dropped in to get in on the 'Try-To-Make-Ranma-Notice-Me-More' competition. Seeing this, Akane stormed over and thrust the bento she had made for the pigtailed marital artist into Ranma's hand.
"Well Ranma aren't you going to eat it?" asked the youngest Tendo daughter, who was getting irritated at this point in time. The pigtailed martial artist gulped and took the bento tentatively. Sweating, he opened it up and looked inside to see some kind of burnt food or what passed for it. Ranma had no idea what his uncute, tomboy of a fiancée had put into it earlier. Taking a piece of it in his chopsticks, he slowly put it to his mouth. When it got there, Ranma opened up and popped it in and then started to turn green, blue and finally spit it out.
"Gah, Akane your food ain't fit for human consumption!" the pigtailed martial artist exclaimed, while trying to get the taste out of his mouth. As the insult was said, it set Akane off and made her extremely angry.
"Are you saying I can't cook!?" she accused Ranma in a questioning tone.
Having that foot in mouth disease, decided to nod and spoke, "Ya, ain't it obvious ya uncute tomboy? I mean come on your built like a brick, legs so thick, ya dun even look like a chick!" starting with the usual insults because he was having a bad day. Plus being malleted earlier didn't do anything for his disposition.
"RANMA NO BAKA!!!" Akane screamed and then whipped out mallet-sama and slammed it into Ranma's head. Basically flattening him face first into the ground, making a small crater.
The pigtailed martial artist of course started grumbling. "Uncute tomboy, always malleting me. It's not like I dun try and be nice to her, but she always has to make me eat her bad cooking."
By this time the other two fiancées had noticed what Akane had done to Ranma and started a three way fight. Shampoo and Ukyo teamed up on Akane for malleting the pigtailed martial artist. During this time, Ranma had gotten up and snuck away from the three battling fiancée's of his. Making his way back into the school, Ranma just went back to class for the day hoping it would get better.
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**Akane's flashback to cooking class**
The youngest Tendo daughter had been in cooking class that day trying as she might to make some good food for Ranma, knowing how hungry he always was at lunch. However, no matter how hard she tried to make something good for Ranma, it always turned out bad and horrible. Today was no exception as she was too busy concentrating on what Shampoo had tried to do earlier. Her thoughts were warping the actual memory but no one really knew that.
'Airen take Shampoo on date, yes?' Akane remembered a bit more accurately.
'Sure Shamps, jus' let me ditch this uncute tombitch over here an' I'm all yours,' she remembered even more as she started adding in the wrong ingredients to the food.
'Yes too too violent girl not good for Shampoo's Airen,' the food started to burn, as Akane continued to remember the scene that had taken place earlier today albeit a bit warped.
'Hold on Shamps gotta dodge the uncute tombitch's mallet.' Although that wasn't what happened, Akane was too busy being angry to notice what she was supposed to be doing.
'RANMA NO BAKA!!!' the youngest Tendo daughter remembered herself screaming as she slammed her mallet into Ranma, which had sent him flying towards the school as he had no chance to actually dodge it. A satisfied smirk crossed her face as she continued to cook and the warped memory played out in her head.
'Trying to take Ranma away from me you bimbo! I will make you pay!'
Shampoo had taken off after Ranma had been hit by the mallet. 'Shampoo have no time for violent girl, got deliveries to make,' Akane inserted into the memory. 'That's right you Chinese bimbo, run away like the coward you are!!!'
The food itself had been burnt beyond recognition, with various ingredients that would probably make one want to puke at the first taste of it. As Akane returned her attention to the food, she noticed that it was burnt, but she was determined to get Ranma to eat it anyway.
**End Akane Flashback**
Which had led her to trying to feed Ranma the burnt food, wanting to make sure it was good. The girl never did taste her own food at all, instead she just thought it was good because she cooked it. As well it had lead up to the fight with the other fiancées, while Ranma had slipped away.
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At the end of the day, Ranma left school and started towards home without Akane. He was already in a bad enough mood from earlier, it was no fun at all with all his suitors after him. The only good thing was that he had managed to avoid cold water throughout the entire day, but that would be short lived as Ranma knew he was a water magnet. He was now walking home when the first fiancée decided to show up, and that being Shampoo with the normal ringing of her bicycle bell, and her normal greeting of landing on Ranma's head.
"Nihao Airen!!! Come take Shampoo on date, yes?" this of course was seen by Ukyo who was just happening by on her way to open her restaurant.
"Oh no you don't you hussy. Ranma is going to take his cute fiancée out on a date, namely me!" exclaimed Ukyo, the heir to the Kuonji Okinomiyaki style of martial arts, not wanting to have Ranma take out Shampoo on a date, because she wanted to be the one he took out. This led to another argument and fight between both Ukyo and Shampoo, but that would not last as along came Kodachi, wanting to prove her love to Ranma as per usual.
"OHOHOHOHOHO!!! You mere peasants cannot stand up to The Black Rose of St. Hebereke. I will prove to my Ranma-sama that it is I he should take out on a date!!" she called out while trying to get to Ranma. The pigtailed martial artist, wanting nothing to do with all three of them, started to run while all three started to fight amongst themselves to see whom Ranma would take out on a date.
**End Flashback**
The son of Saotome Genma was now currently running away from two of his legitimate fiancées and one demented gymnast who thought she was his fiancée. Thus drawing the attention of Mousse as he got away during the fiancées distraction with each other.
"RANMA, HOW DARE YOU TAKE SHAMPOO AWAY FROM ME!?" he screamed at the pigtailed martial artist before attacking with his hidden weapons.
The pigtailed Martial artist, evaded the chains and other weapons like usual and was trying to get Mousse to settle down. "Mousse it ain't like that I swear! She came ta try an' make me take her on a date!" he explained a bit loudly, while avoiding the enraged blind boy's attacks. It was his hope to try and calm the other boy down. Normally, he would enjoy a fight, but with how bad his day was going so far and how it was still managing to get even worse, he didn't enjoy this fight at all.
"LIAR!!! YOU WANT SHAMPOO AND WANT TO KEEP HER IN Y OUR HAREM, YOU ENEMY OF WOMEN!!!" Mousse yelled in a semi-delusional state, also a bit angry that things were going back to like before the visit to China. The girls were getting desperate to make Ranma want them instead of Akane, for Mousse was still pining away after Shampoo. He really couldn't care less about Ukyo or even Kodachi, but Shampoo he thought was meant for him and him alone.
The pigtailed martial artist decided that he had had enough, and if Mousse wasn't going to listen to logic before a beat down, then maybe he would listen after being beaten up. Thus Ranma leapt towards Mousse intending to finish this quickly. Dodging the ever flowing weapons from Mousse's robes, Ranma slammed a knee into the blind boy's belly. Then when Mousse bent over gasping for air, he delivered a double handed hammer blow to the back of the blind boy's head, holding back enough to not harm the blind boy too seriously. Once that was over with Ranma decided to bend down and try to explain to Mousse in a logical manner.
"Now Mousse, I'm not takin' Shampoo away from ya. She came after me an' it's not like I want her ta come after me," trying to explain it to him, but knowing it wouldn't work. He was too far into the delusion that Ranma wanted to take Shampoo away from him and that he had to fight Ranma to get Shampoo for himself.
"Liar… -cough- you want her for yourself…" steadfastly denying the truth that Ranma tried to present to him. In the end the pigtailed martial artist decided to leave the blind duck boy on the street for now, deciding instead to continue heading towards the Tendo home.
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On his way towards the Tendo's home, Ranma spotted Happosai bounding down the street after a day of groping women, stealing their panties and basically making a general nuisance of himself. Happi himself was just bounding along with his bag full of silky darlings, when Ranma decided to help the enraged crowd of women that was currently following the perverted Grand Master of the Musabetsu Kakuto Ryu. Ranma attacked with a flying kick to the bag the master was carrying, tearing a hole in it and allowing all the panties and bras fall onto the ground.
Noticing that his load had gotten lighter, Happosai turned around to see the contents of his bag fall onto the ground. "Oh no my silky darlings!!!" he exclaimed, as he went to pick them all up, crying the entire time about the travesty of assaulting innocent panties and bras. Doing this distracted the perverted master long enough to actually allow the women to catch up. The women then proceeded to beat the living crap out of Happosai with the righteous fury of women who have had their panties and bras stolen, along with being glomped on; leaving the perverted gnome bruised, battered and a little worse for wear. Ranma had been watching the scene the entire time and smiled to himself, until Happosai saw him and pulled out a bucket of cold water from subspace. "Sweeto!!!" called out the perverted master as he threw the bucket of cold water at Ranma. Being the water magnet that he was, the water hit Ranma dead on. Happosai then proceeded to forcefully attach himself like a twisted old mutant leech to Ranma-chan's breasts, snuggling them and groping them to get a recharge, as well to piss Ranma off like usual.
"GAH! Get offa me ya old freak!" Ranma-chan cried out followed by grabbing the perverted master, and punting him right into LEO, leaving her all alone to grumble about cold water and the stupid curse. With nothing else to do she continued on her way home, it was getting later in the day and frankly she was not enjoying it. Late as it was, Akane would be fuming mad along with the others curious as to where she had been.
However, some of the girls she had helped out decided to stop Ranma-chan to thank her. "Arigato for the help, the old pervert was groping and grabbing us in the most horrendous ways," the girls explained to Ranma-chan, and the boy turned girl just blushed and smiled a bit nervously, looking around for anyone with a mallet. However, the pigtailed martial artist herself just nodded and took off very quickly, not bothering to say goodbye or even really stick around to talk, for she didn't want to be caught by someone else who might think he was cheating on Akane or the other fiancées.
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The Jusenkyo martial artist was on her way home, now female, and not really enjoying herself. It was then that Kuno decided to show up, spouting his usual poetry for his pigtailed goddess. "Oh my pigtailed goddess, it warms my heart that thou hast gotten away from the vile sorcerer's clutches. Come into mine arms and allow me to show thee my love!!!" the insane kendoist called out to Ranma-chan while trying to grab her into a big hug and to fondle her chest from behind. [2]
Ranma-chan for her part was not in the mood to deal with Kuno and his stupid poetry about love. When Kuno got close enough, the boy turned girl slammed her elbow into his gut and walked away grumbling to herself. "Stupid Kuno and his poetry again…"
Kuno was left laying face first in the ground. "The vile sorcerer still has her under his control. I shall endeavor to increase mine efforts to free her and the fierce tigress Akane Tendo from his grasp…" he said before passing out from the pain, and from having his head stomped on while Ranma-chan went on her way.
Ranma was only a few blocks away from the Tendo Dojo when Kodachi showed up again. Having leapt down from a nearby rooftop hoping to catch her Ranma-sama on the way home, the psychotic gymnast instead saw that Ranma was now in girl form and snarled. "Pigtailed harridan, I will defeat you and prove to my Ranma-sama that I am perfect for him. You will not keep him from me anymore!!!" spouted out Kodachi as she snapped out her ribbons, looking a bit worse for wear after the earlier fight with the other two girls.
The boy turned girl, dodged each and every attack, weaving in and out of the attacks like flowing water. Moving ever closer to Kodachi, being very careful to avoid the razor sharp edges of the gymnasts ribbons, also careful to avoid the clubs that the gymnast sent out at her. Finally getting close enough, Ranma-chan hit Kodachi on the wrist to disarm her, then she hit a few pressure points to stop her from attacking. "Kodachi just leave me alone…" Ranma-chan whispered tiredly while using the ribbon the gymnast had to tie her up, then took off to the Tendo home.
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After all the problems with the various fiancées and various rivals, the pigtailed martial artist got to the Tendo Dojo without any further interruptions. Having dealt with all the problems with the fiancée's and various rivals before getting home. As she entered the house Ranma removed her shoes, and then put on the house slippers. "Tadaima!" Ranma called out to let everyone know she had returned.
Kasumi having just come out of the kitchen with a kettle of hot water for the boy turned girl, handed it to Ranma, the eldest Tendo daughter smiling kindly the entire time with that smile she always wore. However, she seemed blissfully unaware of what was going on around her, this could be considered a bad thing. Although, that was a misunderstanding that most people had about Kasumi. She actually knew more about what was going on around here than most people would assume.
"Arigato Kasumi-san," spoke Ranma to the one girl who always listened to her as she took the hot water and poured it over herself. Turning her back to her male form, feeling the tingling sensation that was ever present when the change came was felt all over his body. Kasumi to him was a personal confidant, the person he could go to in times of great stress, like today she was here to help him out with the hot water and to give him a reassuring smile.
"It's no problem Ranma-kun. May I ask why you are soaking wet and a girl?" she politely asked Ranma, who in turn nodded and sighed a bit.
"Well… I got ambushed by Ucchan, Shampoo an' Kodachi. They were fightin' over me to see which one of them I would take out on a date. After gettin' away from all of them, I got attacked by Mousse. He thinks I am after Shampoo again, I've tried ta explain to the baka that I dun want anythin' ta do with her. Mousse called me a liar, I jus' wish people would listen to me like ya do Kasumi…" The pigtailed marital artist trailed off, trying to collect his thoughts. When he finally had them together he continued to tell Kasumi of how he got wet and female, "Next came along Happosai harassing women again. So I put a hole into his bag and let the women beat the crap outta him. I stuck around too long an' he splashed me with some water an' then glomped me. I sent him into LEO and continued on my way home, after some of the girls thanked me for the help. Then I met up with that fool Kuno while as a girl and so I jus' slammed an elbow into his gut and left him on the street. Finally Kodachi attacked me after I guess she and the others saw me gone an' all from the fight they were havin'. Anyhow…. I had ta disarm her, and then use some of the shiatsu points, I'd been learnin' from the doc before he left, on her. Finally I jus' tied her up and left her there so I could get home…" he sighed and trailed off as he finished explaining to Kasumi. The eldest Tendo daughter just smiled kindly.
"Now Ranma-kun it's not nice to lead the others on like this. You need to make a decision." Kasumi chided softly, trying to let him know that if he didn't make a decision soon things would only get worse.
"I know Kasumi, but.. -long sigh- if I make a decision I hurt two of the other girls, an' I also ruin two of the girl's honor," Ranma sighed more trying to figure out a way to get out of this mess with everyone's honor intact. However there was no way he could think of getting out of it at all without hurting someone. "Look I'll be in the dojo practicin', come an' get me when dinner is ready, ok Kasumi?" the girl just nodded and smiled going back to her house work, while Ranma went into the dojo to practice, looking disheveled, tired and about to collapse.
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Entering the dojo, Ranma saw Akane breaking bricks and just muttered to himself while standing there watching Akane break bricks. The youngest Tendo daughter was letting out a "KIYA!!!" every time she broke a stack of bricks. After a few minutes of watching, Ranma just turned right around to leave, not wanting to deal with her and her temper at the moment. However, that was a mistake, as Akane turned around just in time to see him try to leave.
"Where are you going, Ranma?" she questioned in an irritated tone, already suspecting that he was home late because he had been out with his other fiancée's.
"I was gonna leave ya ta ya brick breakin'," stated the pigtailed martial artist as he turned to face her. Wincing a bit at seeing the anger on her face, wondering why she was always so angry with him for the millionth time.
"So your going to go and see one of your other fiancée's is that it!?" Akane guessed of him, suspecting that was where he was headed, wanting to see the guilt on his face to give her reason enough to mallet him.
"Nah that ain't it Akane, I ain't gonna go out and see one of them. I was gonna jus' go into the house and wait until ya was done was all," waving his hands in front of his face trying to look as innocent as possible.
"Mmhmm… Sure you are…" very skeptical of him ever since the botched wedding, not trusting him as far as anyone should. A guy who had three fiancées in her book was very untrustworthy, so she didn't trust him as far as a baby could throw him.
"Hey it ain't like that Akane, I wouldn't go out jus' hanging off of them like that!!!" trying to assuage Akane's suspicions of him going out to the others. At that moment, Shampoo came crashing in through the dojo wall ruining any chance he had of calming Akane down.
"Airen Shampoo bring you too too good ramen, then you take Shampoo out on date, yes?" the overly exuberant Amazon squealed out while glomping onto Ranma, while copping a feel off of Ranma. Akane was now seeing red, as she saw the Amazon plainly grope Ranma, and did not even want to hear Ranma's excuses.
"Just as I thought!!! RANMA NO BAKA!!!" Akane screamed while slamming her mallet into Ranma's jaw, sending him into the koi pond and turning him female once again. Ranma got out of the pond and groaned a bit before falling over unconscious from the blow. It had been harder than most of Akane's hits to her head than before, 'Geez Akane must really be angry…' Ranma-chan thought before she passed out from the pain and concussion.
Shampoo however looked over at Akane with disgust and barely concealed rage. "Why for stupid, violent girl hit Ranma!?" the girl asked Akane in a tone of anger she rarely used.
"Because the baka was hanging off of you that's why!!!" Akane spat out at Shampoo, making the Amazon really angry. Shampoo attacked Akane with a right hook, followed up by a left cross. Akane dodged as best she could but took the left cross to her jaw, then retaliated by swinging wildly at Shampoo. All the time Shampoo dodged or weaved around the other girl's attacks, showing off her superior skill in the martial arts. However, Akane was not in top form from the previous fight in the day with Shampoo and Ukyo, this left her wide open for an attack. The purple haired Amazon saw this, so she punched Akane in the belly, just hard enough to knock the wind out of her, ending the fight early. However, that punch was just to cover the tracks. By hitting some shiatsu points on Akane, Shampoo caused the youngest Tendo's imagination go wild and making her even more angry at Ranma.
"Shampoo have no time for this, got many more deliveries to deliver. Will return later when Ranma wake up," Cologne's great granddaughter said, before taking her bicycle and leaving for the other deliveries. Akane was left on the floor of the dojo gasping for breath, and trying to figure out how to get rid of the other fiancée's.
However, Akane was not listening as she was already thinking about many other things and none of them were too pleasant.
'Damned that Chinese bimbo!!! Copping a feel off of Ranma and he did NOTHING to stop it!!! Just stood there and let it happen!!! Oh I am going to so beat him senseless when he wakes up!!!' she thought to herself, wanting Ranma awake to feel her full fury. This was lost on the pigtailed martial artist as he was currently unconscious.
'Oh that little slut will get hers too, the next time I see that fucking bitch from China, I am gonna beat the crap out of her!!!' Akane mentally ranted to herself, promising the Chinese slut a thrashing she would never forget.
Getting up, Akane then went to work out more of her frustrations on the bricks and practice dummies. Causing more damage to the dojo in her rage than she usually did, not noticing she was driving up the repair bill at all.
**Ranma's Mind**
Ranma awoke in pain groaning softly, he didn't open his eyes right away as it hurt too much to even move. "Stupid, uncute tomboy… always hittin' me with her damned mallet. Can't she see that I'm not interested in the others?" he asked himself as he lay there on the ground or what he perceived as the ground, also noticing that he was currently male at the moment. So slowly, ever so slowly, he opened his eyes a bit painfully. As his eyes opened, all he could see around him was an ever present grey mist. The ground he was on wasn't even a ground, it was just composed of that same grey mist, yet it seemed solid to the touch. Ranma decided to explore his surroundings a bit, and got up onto his feet. He swayed a bit from side to side, then groaned a bit more. The pigtailed martial artist was not in good condition, or so Ranma thought at the moment. "Ugh… where in the hell am I?" he asked out loud to no one in particular, as he tried to get the headache to go away.
Finally, when his head stopped spinning and the pain was gone, Ranma started to walk forward. About 10 feet into his walk he came upon an invisible barrier, walking face first into it. "Ouch!!! What in the hell is there!?" he asked aloud again to no one in particular in an irritated tone. Trying to figure out what in the hell he had just hit, putting his hand up to the invisible wall and felt around trying and determine what it was.
"Seems like some kinda wall… Wonder how far it goes," the pigtailed martial artist mused to himself out loud, while he walked with his hand to the wall. Making his way around the wall, Ranma found out that it was a complete box, and he couldn't find a way out. "Great this is jus' great. That stupid tomboy hit me so hard that I probably was thrown somewhere that I don't know how to find my way out of. Dammit!" Ranma was now cursing his bad luck. He was really, really starting to get agitated now, being someplace he had no clue of how to get out of did that to him. Sitting down, Ranma started to think, trying to use that which he rarely used, that part of his brain that could figure things out that was outside of a battle.
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In another part of Ranma's brain was a clearing, it had grass, tree's filled with fruit among other things. It even had a fountain with water flowing out of it. Here was where the rest of Ranma's mind gathered usually to help him figure out a way out of his predicament. Today they weren't here to just help Ranma, no they were here to try and just end every problem he had at this moment. In this clearing where everyone gathered were various figments of the pigtailed martial artists mind. They ranged from male to female, strong to weak, and so on and so forth. Also in this clearing by the entrance lay the representative of the neko-ken. A black panther that growled at anyone who tried to escape the clearing. It was here the neko-ken was closest to Ranma's conscious mind. This was why it came out during times of great stress due to seeing cats, but it was also the reason why Ranma could not gain access to any other parts of his personality or abilities. Fact of the matter was, everyone was too frightened to try and get passed the neko-ken, for it was Ranma's worst FEAR personified. The thing had no intelligence really, save for it speaking one or two words here and there, but mainly it would growl, attack and harm the others. Each of the other figments or personas of Ranma's psyche represented a piece of him. Also, they represented people he had met along the way in his life. Ryoga, Ucchan, Shampoo, Cologne, and many others were represented here. However, the personas and figments had an uncanny resemblance to their counterparts in the waking world. Cologne was as small and ugly as ever, Ucchan still looked like a girl dressed as a boy. Each and every figment and persona had their own form and own ways of thinking, even the neko-ken was a good example of this.
Somewhere Ranma had read a book on psychological make up, and in the book it had said that, the Id of someone's psyche can speak but doesn't do so. It is considered the anger and danger personified. The neko-ken persona of Ranma's mind was the pigtailed martial artists Id. It was highly dangerous, barely talked, and came out to protect Ranma when it was needed, at the same time it also caused great harm when unleashed. Here it stayed until it was needed by being brought out by the fear of cats that Ranma had. The panther also kept the rest of Ranma's mind from helping him out in other ways, because it looked like a big black panther and extremely dangerous. What was left of Ranma's mind was in an uproar over the latest crap Ranma had to deal with. One persona in particular was really, really pissed off. It was one of the Ranko personas really, the most powerful one out of them all. She stood before the rest of the personas, using a microphone, Ranko spoke out to the others.
"I am getting sick and tired of how people treat Ranma! He does nothing but sacrifice everything for everyone else and they treat him like a prize! Akane the woman he loves is beating on him again!" she spoke loudly to the others present at the gathering. Oddly enough the other persona's agreed with Ranko, not liking how things were turning out again. "Now I know that we are here to help Ranma as best we can, but this is ridiculous! Allowing Akane to continually hit him with her mallet, even when it isn't his fault. I, for one, am going to do something about this, which of you are with me!?" Ranko called out to her fellow personas and figments of Ranma's mind.
"WE ALL ARE!" screamed out the enraged crowd of what made up Ranma's mind. Most of them really angry at how Ranma was treated by Akane and the others, as many instances came to mind on how Ranma had been treated in the past. Shampoo always glomping Ranma, or trying to drug him, use magic on him. Ukyo always trying to get her Ranchan to see that she was the best choice. Kodachi trying various drugs and paralyzing powders to make Ranma hers. Then there was Akane just hurting Ranma for insults or just telling her the truth about her cooking and feminine skills. Few of the figments or personas had any real love for Akane or the others who tried to make Ranma theirs.
"So I suggest we get past that big c-c-c-cat… and then we go and help Ranma out!" stuttering a bit as she called out the battle cry to the others. A great many of them were very frightened about taking on the big panther that represented the neko-ken. Many more of them knew how vicious it could get. Oh it wouldn't kill any of them, but it would harm them and keep everyone of the personas and figments in line. Yet today they were so angry that it didn't matter.
"YEAH LETS GO HELP HIM!" they all screamed out together, Ranko was surprised that she got this kind of reaction. She had half expected that most of them would run away too scared to even go up against the neko-ken, but as all this was happening, the neko-ken's eyes glowed with an eerie light. It was not happy that they were going to try and break away to help Ranma. The panther liked things as they were, Ranma always getting into fights, Akane hurting him and then him trying to make her feel better. Weird thing was, the cat liked Akane more than anyone else. However, what it didn't know was that Ranma was starting to hate Akane more and love her less.
Ranko just smiled as all the figments and personas talked amongst themselves. She did not however, let down her guard, for she was also looking at the big panther with a bit of fear and trepidation. That thing could literally make all her plans go awry and frankly she couldn't afford to fail. Swallowing big, Ranko looked over towards the others and tried to calm her nerves. "Alright we are all going to attack the big c-c-c-cat… together and hope that at least one of us gets through! Now we need to decide who will go through to help out Ranma." the female persona that had rallied every other persona and figment together said.
"YOU GO!!! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO THOUGHT IT UP AND ARE THE STRONGEST OF US ALL!!!" each one of them chorused together in unison towards her. Their trust only bolstered her fading confidence in herself, because that cat seemed so daunting and the task so big.
"Alright, we attack now and try to get me through. On the count of three… ONE, TWO… THREE!" she screamed out and directed them all towards the big panther. As the others went off to attack the panther, Ranko herself went with them crying out a battle scream. It was her hope to overwhelm the panther with sheer numbers, and use the numbers as a distraction to get through the gate that lead to the rest of Ranma's mind…
A/N: A cliff hanger here cause I think this is a good place to cut off for now. Next chapter, Ranma meets up with Ranko inside his prison.
[1] Shampoo is self serving here because of the imprinting eggs to make her a slave. Then Mousse used a mirror to make Shampoo her own slave basically serving herself. Because upon seeing herself she started to serve herself. So it had some side effects, making her a more desperate to get Ranma and starting to force the issue. Which also explains the reason why she was at the wedding, and apart of the destruction of it. Because, she is serving her own interests even more so than before.
[2] Kuno has groped Ranma, when he is a girl, in the manga and anime many times.
Also I would like to thank all the authors who commented with constructive criticism. It really helped with this re-write of the chapter. Again thank you all who wanted to see it become something better.