Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Rouge Knight ❯ New style ( Chapter 3 )

 

 

Chapter 3

 

 

 

 

Ranko woke up to something she never thought would ever happen to her. First, she was naked, but that has happened many a time in the last couple of months. She was in bed with someone, again which has happened multiple times. However, this time, for the first time it was with a man. If it were not for the fact that she was the one that brought the man and the man was really a woman, she would have freaked big time. Now that she was sober and not in a lust haze she took a real good look at the sleeping man she had named Nika.

*Man he is huge. Then again, I am small, but he is almost two feet bigger than I am. Mama did say that it had been due to malnutrition.* She noticed his hair and face. *He still looks like Nabiki somewhat, very handsome … Is it me or is everybody with a gender bender curse, have strange colored hair? Must be the water, then again … Shampoo and the rest… that is it, I should have noticed it before. The spring water is not just spring of drowned girl or guy, its spring of drowned “Amazon Girl/Guy”. Boy the old ghoul will have a cow now that she has no hold on me.*

She was so happy that she did not realize that she had begun to snuggle up to Nika and had placed a citron appendage in a place of opportunity. She then scooted back, to sit up and look at the rest of Nika. That was when she felt something, which again her sober mind had not ever experienced. It was weird, she should not like having that particular thing in that particular place but for some reason it did not bother her. *As long as it was with this person or one other I could think of.* She sat up and shifted her position to get more comfortable. The feelings she got from just doing that were amazing to her. *If doing just that was that good…* So she slowly raised herself up tell she could feel that she was almost al the way off it and stopped and shuttered. *That felt…* having never felt this way except when she was with some of the women she had been with. The only difference was that she felt electrical sparks coming off him as well. *Here goes nothing.* She let go of her weight and felt a crash of pleasure that was more than she had ever felt before. Even the times she had an orgasm when been with the women, at least to her mind, it did not compare to what she felt just now. *…* She lifted herself again, and then lowered herself at a slow rate. “Hmmm.” She placed her hands on Nika's chest for better balance. Working up a good pace, she began to use the techniques that her mother had shown her. She was already cut off from the world around her ten seconds into the ride or she would have noticed Nika's eyes opening.

 

 

 

 

Nabiki woke up to something she had not ever thought might happen in her short life. Waking up naked, with a butt naked Ranko laying on her has happened many a time especially in the last month or so. Half the time, Kasumi was on the other side of the red head. No that was not the problem no it was that she was a he this time. *That was weird, not bad but weird.* Having Ranko (she nor does Kasumi think of or call her by Ranma when she is a girl any more) give her that packet of instant guy spring for her present was a trip. Knowing that Ranko was still a guy at heart and only liked girls was why she had to confirm with her if that was what she really wanted. The rest of the night was a blur for her once she had changed. *I wonder what it was like to have sex as a man. Being I remember nothing.* He looked at the red head and smiled. *She is so beautiful I can see what everybody see in her. I do not think I would mind being with you for the rest of my life…* that was when Ranko began to wake up, so he closed his eyes to fake that he was a sleep. He felt Ranko stare a him for a few minutes than the girl began to snuggle. *Must have liked what she saw.* He thought with a smirk. That was when he noticed for the first time that he was hard at the time (morning wood). *Hope she does not notice.* But as guys all around have noticed if you make that particular wish it would eventually happen. Therefore, it did but Ranko did not react the way he had thought she would. In just sitting up and repositioning herself. *…* If it was not for the pleasure, being so new to him, (sober side) and the fact that his body was already over it. He would have blown his cover (wad) and exposed that he was actually awake. A few seconds later, he felt the red head begin what was to begin a half a day, endurance workout session.

 

After watching Nika pass out for the final time, and just before following him into unconsciousness she remembered how it came to this. *It all started with a simple request.* then she passed out.

 

 

 

 

 

“Yo Ranma,” when the said person acknowledged the person that had called him “you're the best Martial Artist around right?” When he got, the confirming nod that he had expected. “Then I challenge you to do something that no one has done yet.”

 

Ranma had almost lost it when Michael (exchange student) one of his newest friends had asked him the first question. Nevertheless, was intrigued at what he had in mind, with the challenge. “What do you have in mind, which I would have to do to prove it?”

 

“Oh nothing to hard for someone, of your caliber.” Michael had learned early on what buttons to push to get Ranma to do something (even if both knew that it was only done for appearances sake). “Here.” He handed over a large duffle bag and a plastic bag with ten DVDs in it. “If you do not have a DVD player, use your PS2 like I had shown you last weekend.”

 

“What is this stuff for and what has this stuff have to do with your challenge?”

 

“Well, it is the tools and reference material needed for the challenge. You see, what I want you to do is come up with an Anything Goes Light saber Martial arts.” The face fault from Ranma was felt for blocks away.

 

“You have got to be kidding me!!! You want me to come up with new martial arts from THAT anime. I could see it now, fighting Kuno with an art similar to his kendo with “force” powers. Might have to use a mix of Chi and Ki to copy those force pow…ers … … … Bwahahahahaha!!!” Michael at that began to sweat drop. “No problem I will do it!”

 

“What?”

 

“I'll do it. Do you not see, if I am able to do this not only will the old freak and my old man have to make me a master. However, the look on Kuno's face when I beat the living tar out of him with a style similar to his but not the same would be priceless. For the freak and pops if they do not make me a master I will have my own art I could go to when I abandon the school to be it is grandmaster. It is a good thing that I had already figured out new and better ways to do all of pops forbidden techniques. Same for the Amazon moves I learned form the old ghoul.”

 

“Whatever man, in the bag are the instructions to the sabers. READ the whole thing, those things hurt very badly if they hit any part of your body. In addition, I made all the different types shown in the show. I expect beginners, advance, and master kata for each type if not you loose. I do not expect you to have all the force powers but you must at least have some.”

 

“OK, ok, ok, I get it. How long for at least a working stile do I have?”

 

“Two weeks.”

 

“”TWO WEEKS?!” Ranma was beside himself. He could not believe Michael said he only had two weeks to get it up.

 

“Yep, two weeks should be enough time for kata and training scrolls at the novice level in at least two styles. They need to be up to standard. They will be tested by a panel of at least two no more than six masters.” He held out his hand to stop Ranma from saying anything. “If your going to do it, you will do it right. The testing will be held here in the gym. I will arrange for the masters and all the legal red tape. Are you still up to it or are you a chicken?”

 

“I'm no chicken, can I at least have three weeks you know as well as me that my writing is not the best. And you're right as usual about doing this the right way.”

 

“Fine, three it is so we have a deal?”

 

“What do you get if I don't make it and what do I get if I do?”

 

“If you loose you go on a “DATE” kiss and the whole nine, with Kuno in public. If you win you get your freedom from the freak and your old man.”

 

Ranma mulled over it for a while thinking of the pros and cons of the challenge, the dates, and the freedom he could earn. “You have yourself a deal.” Then shook hands with Michael. “See you in three weeks looser.” Michael laughed at that. The two had become great friends over the three months he had been at the school so far. Michael did not treat Ranma as anything other that of a friend in either form. He had actually spent some time to show Ranma what he had been doing wrong in his studies and showed him an easier way to learn them. Since then Ranma's grades have ski rocketed and was now in the top 5% of the school with all the extra credit and special projects that he had done to raise his grades (only a select few knew this). Only Kasumi knew that he was taking night classes at a local Tech. school to learn more about how the world worked. She found that out one night when he was working in her kitchen making improvements to the frig. He had told her what he was doing when she asked and swore to not tell anyone about it.

 

When Ranma made it home, he placed all the stuff he did not need in his secret place in the kitchen that he had made one night. He had shown Kasumi the spot so she could use it if she needed to. “Kasumi I will be in the dojo if you need me.” Giving her one of his famous killer smirks then walking out of the kitchen.

 

“Ok Ranma, I will call you when dinner is ready” Kasumi blushed. *Oh my, if little sis does not get her act right … and he keeps maturing at this rate …* her blush started going nuclear as she started fantasizing about the pigtailed man. She had no longer thought of him as a boy when she found out that he was going to night school. What she did not see, do to her eyes being closed, at the time was Nabiki walking in.

 

“Now what do we have here, hmm? Is my older sis fantasizing about someone, hmm?” teased Nabiki. She had said this low so only Kasumi would hear it. When she saw Kasumi's glow get even brighter she went for the kill. Kasumi had no defense for that kind of ribbing so she went the only way she could.

 

“Well if my information is correct, someone has been doing more than just mentally fantasizing about someone.” she fired back. That brought Nabiki up short and signaled a touch. “I know that was uncalled for but it was all I could do.”

 

“I know, I know, are we still on for tonight? Ranma won't be back until 2 am once he leaves for class.”

 

“Yeah, we are still on.”

 

 

 

 

Once in the dojo, Ranma pulled out the instructions to the sabers and began to read them. They were very simple push button operation and easy maintenance. What intrigued him was how it worked. It was simply an advanced stun stick on roids. The paper work said it was like 10 tazzer guns hitting you at once. In addition, it had said that a near miss would numb the skin in that area for a few minutes. There were some other points but the most pertinent was to only touch the handles or get shocked. There was also a dial on it to lower the zap; it had settings of 1, 5, and 10 for novice, advance, and master. Ranma then began to worry that he would have to keep stopping to recharge the sabers when practicing. Only to find out that the motion of the saber would let the unit inside recharge. Only if he had hit someone, five or more times back to back that it would discharge too much.

 

After reading, he pulled out the sabers to look at them. He had three regular (@ 3'), two double (one could come apart to act as paired sabers), and two long sabers (@ 5'). Taking one of the regular ones and looking at it, he notices some of the fetchers. Like the outside of the blade was a mesh on the out side of hard rubber. The blade itself was about an inch and a half thick cylinder rounded on top. The handle was two inches thick. It even had the look of one of the sabers of the show. Wanting to test it out he pushed the on switch. The hair on the back of his neck raised up the second he pushed the button. He just knew not to touch the blade even if he had not just pushed the button himself. Knowing he was going to have to feel it to know what to avoid. Therefore, he tapped his leg with it.

 

ZIRK!!!!!!

 

Sixty seconds later Ranma woke; back up hair all spiked up with a hole in is pant leg. *Won't do that again.* after a few practice swings and resetting the saber to novice, Ranma began a kata he learned for swords.

 

Zirk

 

Zirk

 

Zirk

 

Zirk “Arrrgg” he screamed in frustration. Kasumi had just came in to tell him that dinner would be ready in 15 minutes when she saw Ranma get hit that last time and yell.

 

“Oh my, Ranma what is wrong?” she asked with concern.

 

“I do not know Kasumi, I know I am doing the kata correct but its not working like it should.”

 

“Could it be that you are doing a kata for a single plane that is sharp unlike a weapon that is sharp on all planes?” Ranma took in what she had said and thought of it in the new way she had pointed out. Once he did, he rethought the kata he was trying to perform with the new changes. After a few tries he hit pay dirt.

 

“Yataa!” he yelled. He then moved over to Kasumi to hugged her and gave her a toe-curling kiss. After releasing her, he walked out of the dojo to the house to clean up for dinner not once realizing what he had just done. “You're a life saver Kasumi thanks.” he called back.

 

Nabiki found Kasumi still standing where Ranma had kissed her five minutes later with a glazed look in her eyes and a small trickle of blood coming out of her nose. Taken notice to some of the clues around her she knew what must have happened but she was not one to trample on Kasumi so she did the best thing she could to wake the girl from her fantasy. “Kasumi if you do not wake soon Akane is going to go in the kitchen and we all know what will happen then.” Just as she expected Kasumi came out of her haze. “I want details later sis. Wipe your nose before we go back in.”

 

Dinner was just like other days in which Ranma would finish his meal then complement Kasumi earning a one-way trip out of the house via Mallet-sama Airlines, so he could go to school without the two idiots and Akane knowing it. This time unlike others Kasumi jumped in Akane's ass for doing so in her own way of doing things (making Akane do the dishes and the hot water heater some how was not working during Akane's turn to take a bath).

 

 

 

Ranma had made a big brake thru with what Kasumi had said to him. By the time the three weeks were up, he had advanced kata for each type of weapon. He even was able to do some of the force moves as well, even if those had not began to show themselves, till two days ago.

 

 

 

 

 

Ranma-chan was coming home early from night school it was a half day that day and she had forgot about it. When she got to the Tendo home she felt something she had for a while but she had only had felt the reminisce of before. This time she was getting the full brunt of it. Cloaking herself in her version she disappeared completely. Following that feeling she had she moved to the source of the energy to the dojo. Using a technique she learn from some ninja she knew she phased through the wall to enter the dojo. What she saw amazed her. Nabiki and Kasumi were sparing. Nabiki had fighting fans and Kasumi had a Naginata. She leaned against the wall still cloaked and watched the two fight. At first, she had thought that they had each other's weapons; they just did not match what she thought of the two. She had figured that Nabiki would go for the power and strength was Kasumi would be all finesse. Nevertheless, as it went on she found she was wrong Nabiki's speed and flexibility verses Kasumi's unnatural control and force. After some time she figured out that, it was a point verses deathblow match. Nabiki had to get 100 points before Kasumi could get a clean deathblow in to her. A clear deathblow only counted if the blow would have been instant death. Head, neck, and heart the rest only counted as a point for Kasumi. A point for Kasumi subtracted five from Nabiki. The points were like that due to the fact that Nabiki would rattle of 15 to 20 straight before Kasumi could get one in. However, that one point would punish Nabiki physically. In the end, Nabiki took the spear end of the Naginata to the forehead to end the match with her points at 99. The blow had launched her five meters back and she landed at Ranma-chan's feet. That was when she felt Kasumi doing something with the WA of the dojo. Using her aura, chi, and Ki senses she was faintly able to trace what Kasumi was doing. That was when Kasumi made a pushing motion towards her. What she felt was what she could only describe as if Kasumi was next to her and pushed her herself. The push had knocked her down; by the time, she regained herself she had found Kasumi standing over her with the spear end at her neck.

 

“Whoever you are show yourself or …” Ranma-chan knew what was left out. Therefore, she dropped her cloak to the surprise of both Kasumi and Nabiki. “Ranma-chan what are you doing here?” Kasumi removed the weapon and placed it back on the rack.

 

“Tonight was a half day. I watch you two and I have to say you two are great. At least know I know what that energy that I kept feeling when I got home was.” Nabiki looked at Kasumi with a look that had I told you so wrote all over it. “Kasumi what was that; that you did at the end there could you teach me?”

 

“I am sorry Ranma-chan, but I can not teach it. It is a technique from my mother's art.” Kasumi said sadly.

 

“That's ok Kasumi, even if I wont be able to learn your mother's art I could help both of you with at least the weapon side of it.” both Kasumi and Nabiki's eyes opened wide at that. “I will have to study your styles while I sleep tonight but I should have something for you by dinner.” Ranma left after that. As he was disappearing, they both could hear him say. “Seeing them spar like that all sweaty and stuff made them look sexy defiantly sexy. Good thing the tomboy did not hear that.” Both girls were blushing at that.

 

“I do believe Michael has been a good thing for Ranma.” Kasumi looked a Nabiki for clarification. He is an exchange student that Ranma has been hanging with these last three months. He has help Ranma with his grades and life in general. Did you know that Ranma as of yesterday was second in all of the school just .045% points behind?” Kasumi shook her head but smiled at that. “what I hear is that he has also been making his own martial arts school.” At that, Kasumi's smile dropped, she knew what that could mean and it did not look good for the Tendo engagement. Nabiki knew where Kasumi's thoughts were going because she had the same ones when she heard this herself. “If you or I ever think about having him as our man we need to step up or be ass out.”

 

 

 

Ranma after changing, headed to his room replayed what he had seen Kasumi do. It took a few minutes but by then he was in bed and he had finally figured it out. Of how she used the WA of the dojo to push him even though she was over 10 meters away. It was something he knew he would not be able to duplicate as a male any time soon. Therefore, he would have to practice it while in his female form until he was better at sensing the WA around him as a male. Once he figured that out, he did as he had promised and reviewed the spar. At first he was having a problem spotting what was wrong, but unknowing he slipped into his saber training he figured out the problem. *It was their weapons, they were all wrong for the style they used.* He then replace the weapons with saber versions of them and found that their styles matched perfectly with them. *What the hell did that mean?* Ranma asked himself. He put that to the side; he sat up and grabbed one of his note pads he kept near his bed. He spent a good two hours designing the two new weapons. Along the way, he also designed a two-headed spear. Once making sure of what he wanted he fell asleep.

 

The next day Ranma had left early. He met Michael at his apartment and showed him the new designs. “If I help you make these do you think we could finish them by the end of school?”

 

“Sure the Naginata and the two headed spear could be done in ten minutes and two hours respectfully. The spear taking so long due to the modifications you want to do. Now the fans that would be tricky, but the design is sound. It is the different triggers that you want that may stop us. I'll call my friend in the States Rick and see what he thinks about it.” The two spent the day working on the fans. They had working prototypes by noon but they were still having trigger problems. One set looked as if it would work, it past all of their test but Ranma wanted to test one last thing.

 

Even though Nabiki never did it, Ranma knew it was a move that the fans had to be able to handle. So he flipped open the fans and threw them at the target. The fans discharge on the target as he had hoped and passed all retest afterwards. Ranma thanked Michael then left for home with the weapons. Arriving at the dojo, he stashed the weapons away with the others and went inside. Only to be sent via Mallet-sama Air to the park for all his troubles. Having the night off from night school Ranma met Kasumi and Nabiki in the dojo at the time they normally would go in. Once there he explained, what he saw was the problem with the moves that they were using.

 

“You see the problem that you two are having is that you are fighting with the wrong weapons for your style. It so happens that I have what you should find is more conductive to your style.” Ranma handed the Naginata to Kasumi and the fans to Nabiki. Then he handed the instructions for each of them. He went through them with the two and emphasized the part about what it will feel like to be hit by it. Nabiki's fans had preset settings of one when closed and three along the edge when open for now but normal settings were three and six. It would only fire off when her finger was in a particular spot when closed but fired every time when open. Kasumi's blade had the normal adjustable settings and the spear end only had one and three settings. Ranma disabled the weapons first then let the two spar without the discharge. After five minutes, the two were fighting as if they had always had them. The points were now even across the board though Nabiki was on the more receiving end of the physical side. Ranma then reset the weapons to their lowest settings and they spared again. The two went for a good 30 minutes without a point. Kasumi made the first mistake of the spar and paid dearly for it. She had jabbed the right side of Nabiki with the spear end of the Naginata. To which Nabiki redirected, instead of blocking, with her left hand spun inside of her guard and used a backhand slap with the closed fan to Kasumi's jaw.

 

Zirk! “Arrrg…” one knocked out Kasumi.

 

After using smelling salts to wake her back up Ranma went through where she went wrong and how Nabiki was able to set her up for that move. He also showed her how to avoid being hit if it happens again. Once again, they started back up and it was 15 more minutes before one of the two was hit. Kasumi was using her reach advantage to its max but also forgot something she learns sparing with Nabiki when she was younger. Never ever let Nabiki disengage, you must disengage first or pay the price for it. When she did disengage, Kasumi did not react in time and received not only one thrown open fan to the side but received the other closed fan to the forehead.

 

Ranma and Nabiki let Kasumi rest some after waking her up. While she was resting, Ranma was teaching Nabiki the new kata he had made up last night for her. Once Nabiki was going, he did the same to Kasumi. Knowing he had two days left tell the test Ranma sat down and began writing down and figuring out the kata for three new styles in draft form. Once it was down, he brought out the staff and practiced with it. He noticed that the two-headed staff kata was a less aggressive but more affective verses more passive fighters. Nabiki had noticed what he was doing and asked about it.

 

“Well Michael challenged me to come up with a new school based on using light sabers from that anime show.” Ranma showed the two the other weapons and all the scrolls he had drafts of. “So far I have gotten novice and advanced forms for all but the three new weapons but it's the force powers that are stumping me. I have learned push and pull. Adapted the chestnut fist, to my whole body to mimic the force speed. Copied and adapted Herbs ability to fly but I am only able to get just a boost when jumping with it so far. I am studying chi and Ki healing techniques to adapt to the style as well but it is hard coming up with it all by myself with nobody to spar or test on. I have only two more days till the test comes and I am not ready yet.”

 

“Ranma” he looked at Kasumi “is this something you really want to do?”

 

“Yes Kasumi, it is. It is something that I could actually say I had put everything I had into not just because it was a challenge but because it would be something I did and be proud of no matter what the masters that judge it think.”

 

“Then Ranma we will help you. Kasumi and I well spar against you. While we are at school Kasumi could proofread and correct your draft scrolls once they are done take them to be printed up. The only thing you may have to do is have Ranko call aunty up maybe spar with her.,” stated Nabiki.

 

“There will be no need to call aunty she is going to show up tomorrow at lunch so she will be here,” said Kasumi.

 

“Thank you, both of you.” Ranma hugged both separately and gave each a kiss on the cheek before turning in for the night. He left two girls that were having a hard time controlling themselves from doing something very perverted.

 

 

 

 

The next day started off wrong for Ranma from the get go. His pops woke him by tossing him into the koi pond. Then he was treated to an Akane special breakfast. Earning him a one-way trip, back to the koi pond. However, this time on the way down Nodoka walked in the yard and saw him headed for a splash down. Knowing that it was a life or death situation Ranma snatched the WA from the mistress of the home and pushed hard to get away from hitting the water. He was successful in his endeavor at a very high price one he would end up paying that very night. He landed hard on the ground on his side and released the WA back to the mistress of the home. Though he was quick at releasing the WA it was already too late, he had strongly imprinted himself as the man of the home.

 

 

 

 

Kasumi had tried her best to keep Akane from the kitchen but she had to use the restroom. That was when Akane went in thankfully she was able to use the WA to keep Akane out of what she was cooking but it did nothing for what she made on her own. She tried to emphasize that today was not a good day for her to cook but Akane would not listen to her. She tried to warn Ranma but Genma some how was blocking every one of her warnings. Therefore, she had to sit there and watch as the two began to fight. Then she felt something she only felt when this one person arrived at her home. She tried to stop Akane but she had already begun her swing of that darn mallet. She looked at Nabiki and the look on Nabiki's face told her she also had felt it. There were only four people that ever could or would get the WA of the Tendo home to respond too since the death of Kimiko. Kasumi's touch was gentle but firm lightly there but nothing happened that she did not know about in her home. Nabiki's was like a iron fist it was like she was in the room looking at you. Ranko's was like Kasumi's but very cautious always asking if it was alright to be there, if given the ok it would be like she was in the room also. Ranma's was more of a pinging of a sonar once every 20 seconds, only if something was going down did it step up to once a second. The feeling she got was none of the others but the one she had expected to show up latter in the day. Nodoka's was one of gentle pressure until she matches whichever mistress had a hold of the WA at the time. When she felt the gentle pressure build, she was scared for Ranma she hoped that Akane would not aim for the koi pond this time. To her horror, that was just where Akane had launched Ranma. She felt Nabiki join her in an attempt to pull Ranma away from the water. The two were heavily committed to the WA when it was ripped from them by a strong male spirit than given back two seconds later. Nabiki and Kasumi did not know it then but their mate had shown himself in the most erotic way possible.

 

 

 

Nodoka walked into the Tendo yard earlier than she had expected. She flexes her senses slowly matching the mistress of the home but never taking control just riding the flow. She was just settling in when she felt the WA shift heavily in one direction. That was when she felt a second mistress add herself. Being curious she look in the direction that two mistresses would put all they had into helping. What she saw was a handsome young man falling from the ski towards the koi pond. The next thing she knew she felt a male's spirit take hold of the WA of the home. Normally that would not worry Nodoka but what the man did with it did. She saw him make a pushing motion with is hand and she felt the WA push him back away from the water to above the dry land. After he landed, she helped the young man into the home where Kasumi and Nabiki help lay him down to recover. When walking in the home she not only felt the shift but saw the shift in the two girls' moods from worry to sexual excitement.

 

A few minutes later Ranma was reintroduced to his mother for the first time in eleven years. She had asked how he was doing and he told her about his grades, night schooling and the other things that he was up too. Too the surprise of Akane, Genma (panda), and mister Tendo. Nodoka was very happy to hear he was doing so well with everything.

 

“Mother, Ranko told me that you were an exceptional swords woman I would ask for a spar.”

 

“I would be happy to do so son.” The two walked out to the dojo followed by Kasumi and Nabiki. Once there Nodoka loosened her kimono to give herself more flexibility and began to do some stretches. Ranma went over to the weapon racks and picked up two bokken. Returning to where his mother was stretching he handed one to her. “Thank you son.” Nodoka said smiling.

 

The two moved to the center of the dojo in relaxed stands. Before Kasumi could give the signal to begin, they had rushed each other to start the spar. To the two Tendo girls the fight looked even for the first ten minutes. It looked like it would be a long spar when for some unknown reason Ranma stopped it.

 

“Mother can I ask a question?”

 

“Sure son, ask what you must. If it is something I may have an answer to I will.”

 

“I have noticed that your style of fighting and the way you hold the blade is different than most.” seeing her nod to continue. “Your style is not meant for a single plane blade is it?” Seeing the shocked look on his mothers face. “It was meant for a blade that was dangerous from all planes was it not?” Ranma went back to the weapons rack and put the bokken away. He moved over to where he stashed the sabers. Feeling a little sneaky, Ranma threw a fish dart with some of his chi added in followed by one of the activated long sabers hilt first. Picking up the split able double bladed one for himself. Using one blade and putting the other in hammer space, he attacked his mother.

 

Nodoka did not know what to say or think. Her son had some how figured out something about her past which she was trying to hide. Her train of thought was derailed when her senses screamed at her to move. In doing so she was able to get out of the way of the fish dart but not her bokken. Her bokken was stuck just above the hilt portion. The discharging chi snapped the bokken at that point. She noticed something coming her way and grabbed it by the hilt. The hair on the back of her neck began to rise but she did not have the time to contemplate it due to her son's attack. The fight had gone a good 30 minutes with her son steadily upping the pressure neither backing down.

 

Ranma was hard pressed he had upped his attack to the best he could do but could not come close to breaking his mothers guard. So on a hunch, he jumped back retrieved the other half of the saber and attached the two. Then once again, he was pressing the attack. Nodoka was surprised when Ranma had pulled the second sword out and attached it to the first one. She had been impressed with is fighting ability so far. Ranma's new attack had raised her impression even more due to how hard it was to handle the double bladed weapon. Ranma could not believe it that he still could not break her guard so he made his final attempt, separated the two halves, and began his attack once again.

 

The Tendo girls were slack jawed they knew Ranma was good but seeing him with his mother was amazing. The two were itching to fight him now. Both thinking about how much they could improve.

 

Ranma once again stopped the spar. “Ok mother, now that you're done testing me.” Ranma saw his mother smirk. “Show me your real skill, please.” The smile he received from his mother was electric. Nodoka changed her stance from a defensive to a more aggressive one. For the next 20 minutes, Nodoka showed Ranma just how good she was never once actually hitting Ranma but stopping the blade just short and holding it in place showing him where he would have been hit at. Nodoka finally called a stop to the spar when she felt Ranma in a last ditch effort push her with what she sensed was force power.

 

“Halt Ranma” she turned to the two Tendo girls. “Could the two of you leave for a moment please? I need to discus something that is a family secret with my son. We will join the two of you in the house afterwards.” After the two girls left and before Ranma was able to say anything “Ranma please sit. I know what you want to say but sadly I can not train you.” seeing Ranma's expression “The style was not meant for males to learn, it is hard for even females to under take its training. But I have to ask you where you learned to push like that.”

 

“I learned it by watching Kasumi spar with Nabiki one night when she used it on me thinking I was someone sneaking around the dojo. When I asked her to teach me it, she said it was her mother's technique and could not teach it to me. So I experimented and finally was able to copy it though it is very weak.”

 

“I was afraid of that. Well it looks like I have no choice.” Ranma was getting a strange vibe from his mother, and her expression was sad. The next thing Ranma knew he was splashed with water turning him into a her. “I might not be able to teach my son but I can teach my daughter.” Seeing Ranma-chan had a scared expression. “A mother will always know their child. I have always known that it was you my child; you have nothing to fear from me. I would never have held that contract against you, your father…. Nevertheless, we must keep up appearances do not let anyone know of this. Now that that is out of the way. There is much you need to know, did you ever wander why Kimiko died?”

 

Nodoka spent the next half an hour explaining that the style both she and Kimiko practice was very hard on the body and spirit. If not released in a certain way every so often the body would break down. Then she explained how it was done and why it had to be that way. The final thing she told her was what mister Tendo did that literally killed Kimiko. Ranma's eyes bugged out. “Yes son, if you do not provide for those two girls by tomorrow night you will end up killing them in the same way that their father did their mother. They had proposed and you had accepted. You are at least spiritually married to the two of them already. You just need to physically reinforce it or it will kill them. I am going in now sit here and think about it. When I mean physically it does not have to be your male side, though you will have to do so some time within the next year. Also if you do not do the same it will kill you as well.” With that, she left Ranma to think.

 

 

 

R/R please it is the only way to know if I am doing what you like or not.