Shadowbakasama
15th July 2004, 06:00 AM
Disclaimer: I don't own any of these characters, but I'm not trying to
make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.
This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon,
Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.
This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell
me what you think.
Ranma Crossing Over too the Wild Side
By Paul Bennett aka Shadowbakasama
Chaper 5: Today has been really hectic
"Well, that was easy." Rei say after getting off the phone. "Ranma-kun,
it turns out that Nabiki-san and Kasumi-san are already in Juuban. They
were having dinner when I called Nabiki-san's cell phone, and they're
going to come over to check on you, and Kasumi-san has some clothes for
you."
"At least Akane-san isn't with them, I don't think I'm ready to deal
with her yet."
"Yeah, but there is some bad news for you, Nabiki-san is going to bring
a detective and some reporters to meet 'Ranko' to wrap up her 'cat-girl'
hunt. She'll be here in about half an hour."
"Then I might as well change now." Ranma says dumping a glass of water
over his head. "Gives me a chance to get dry before they get here,
besides Rei-chan, your clothes fit me better this way." She says as
starts drying her red hair with the towel she had brought out of the
bathroom.
"Oh, this is great I've got a fiance who can raid my wardrobe." Rei says
teasing him.
"Heh, there was this one time all my clothes were is the wash and the
Tendo girls wouldn't let me have a hot bath, and they were going to lone
me some of their clothes, so that I wouldn't be running around topless,
and they started playing dress-up with me in all their fancy clothes
including a kimono, a bunny-suit, and some sexy lingere. Akane-san got
real jealous because I have a better body than her."
"Well boy, you are a very attractive girl, and a handsome young man, I
expect you to make Rei-chan very happy." Grandpa Hino says coming up
behind Rei.
"GRAMPS, your embarrassing me."
"Well, heh heh, you should know that I am one of the few heterosexual
lesbians in the world, Prince Herb of the Musk is the only other I know
of. And if Rei-chan and I get married she can be a monogamous bi-sexual."
"RANMA, THAT doesn't even make SENSE!"
"Sure it does Rei-chan. When I'm a boy I like girls, but when I'm a
girl I don't like oys, I still like girls. I'm pretty sure Princess
Herb is the same way, when I fought with her, she kept getting
distracted by my breasts."
"Wait, I thought you said Herb was a prince?!" Rei asks interupting
Ranma's story.
"Heh heh, well you see Herb also has a Nyanniichuan curse, so she is
also a princess." explains Ranma.
"Kami, and how can I be a 'monogamous' 'bi-sexual'?" Rei asks in morbid
curiosity.
"Well, that's obvious, if we get married you get the whole package
onna-teki and otoko-teki." Ranma tells her like it's the simplest thing
in the world.
[Onna = girl, Otoko = boy, Teki = type. This is what Shampoo used to
call Ranma's different sexes before she figured out the curse.]
"ARGH! It hurts my brain! Ranma is everyone around you gender
confused!?" Rei yells.
"Not 'everyone', just some of them, Kuno Tatewaki loves both Tendo Akane
and Osagi no Onna, who is me, but hasn't figured out the curse, and
accuses me otoko-teki of being a foul sorceror keeping his two loves
from him with black magic. Both me and Akane-san hate the moron."
Ranma tells her.
[Osagi = pig-tailed]
"Bhu hahahah, that's so bad." Rei says busting out laughing.
"Just wait, I'm only getting started, Kuno Kodachi, his younger sister,
keeps trying to drug me and make me her 'love slave', but she hates
Osagi no Onna. Then there is Kuonji Ukyo, my friend Ucchan, the fiancee
who spent 10 years dressing as and acting like a boy while practicing
Okonomiyaki Chef Martial Arts to get revenge on me and my father, she
even went to an all-boy school. Then there is Konatsu, a 'male'
kunochi, raised as girl and kept in poverty by his evil step-mother and
his evil older step-sisters. He has a huge crush on Ucchan and works at
Ucchan's, her okonomiyaki-ya. There is also Tsubasa, a crossdressing
boy who met Ukyo when she went to that all-boys school, he chases Ucchan
around trying to get a date, and she thought he was gay, but it turns
out that he knew Ucchan was a girl dressed as a boy. When Shampoo first
showed up she was trying to kill me because I defeated her at a village
tournament while I was a girl, and her Amazon laws say that if a
outsider girl defeats Amazon, she must give her the Kiss of Death, and
then hunt her down and kill her. She hunted me and pops all the way
back to Tokyo, and I defeated her by accident defending Akane from her
while otoko-teki, so she game me the Kiss of Marriage, because her laws
say that she must marry an outsider male that defeats her. So for a
while there she was trying to seduce otoko-teki and kill onna-teki."
Rei and her grandfather are just staring at Ranma with their mouths open
so far you'd think that their jaws unhinged, until Gramps recovers
enough to say "Ranma that story is .. just so.... Buwa hahahahaha." and
they both loosing and are rolling on the floor laughing.
"Oh Great, just laugh it up, you know when Ucchan first found out about
the curse she spent half an hour pouring hot and cold water on my head,
she thought it was so much fun." Ranma says getting upset that they
think his troubles are so funny.
"That's a great idea Ranma-kun!" Rei exclaims. "We'll do that when I
have my friends come over, they'll get a real kick out of it, and it's
sounds like a great way to break the ice about your curse."
"LETS Just Tell EVERYONE!! I Don't HAVE Enough People calling me a
Crossdresser and a Pervert Already!" Ranma-chan yells, her red battle
aura filling half the room as she gets really pissed off.
Rei and Grandpa Hino shut up real fast and skitter back until their
backs are to the wall and then they flawlessly perform the Saotome
Secret Technique: Crouch of the Fierce Tiger while saying "Gomen,
gomen-nasai, gomen-nasai, it's not that funny, not funny at all."
Ranma-chan seeing this calms down and pulls in her aura, and says
"Gomen, I'm a little touche about the curse, and I've had a bad day. So
Hino-dono, did my dad show you that technique?"
"Technique?"
"Yes, you did the Mouko Rakuchi-sei perfectly, the Crouch of the Fierce
Tiger was developed by my father to placate the temper of the
Grandmaster of Anything Goes Martial Arts. I must say that it was very
effective, I've used it on a few occasions myself, not for the old freak
though."
"Ah yes, I remember him showing us that technique when he came to pick
you up from us 9 years ago. Our family was very upset that he would
teach the Neko-ken to a young boy, even his own son."
Ranma-chan hears several cars pull up and door's opening and closing.
"Ah, that must be Nabiki and company, shall we go out to meet them?" She
says as she helps them to their feet.
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"Well, this should be the place. OK, Detective Shipiro-dono, please
remember to keep Ranma and Ranko seperate in front of the press, and
don't ask Ranko for any ID, at some point I should figure out how to get
her some, hmm." muses Nabiki.
"I still have trouble believing this, I'll expect to see some proof
after we get rid of the press Tendo-san."
"That's not a problem, after the press is gone you'll get to see the
usual water test and story, nobody believes it until they see it. None
of us believed in magic ... until 'they' arrived. You guys do know
about the panda don't you?" Nabiki asks the detective.
"Umm, actually, I've heard stories, but I've only been here a few
months, before I was in Hokaido." Shipiro replies.
"Oh, then you should know about the 'lost boy' Hibiki Ryouga, he's the
one who ended up in the hospital from the wedding."
"Someone put the 'Lost Boy' in the hospital!?" Shipiro exclaims.
"We've had him walk away from getting hit by cars, he'll get lost and
wind up in the middle of the street somehow."
"Yeah, that's him alright." Nabiki confirms. "One of the few people
that can give Ranma-kun a good fight, but I still give 5 to 1 odds
against Ryouga-san."
"Now Nabiki, Ryouga-kun's not that bad is he?" asks Kasumi.
"Actually Kasumi, he's worse." Nabiki informs her. "But I can still
offer those odds because Ranma-kun's always holding back. He thinks of
Ryouga-san as a friend and likes to 'spar' with him and he'll usually
let Ryouga-san get lost in a fight rather than beat him up, besides the
fact that Akane mallets him for picking on 'poor' Ryouga-san, and
Ryouga-san usually attacks him on sight."
"Well, it looks like Ranko-chan is coming out to greet us, can you
ladies keep the reporters back for a couple of minutes so that I can
talk to her alone?" asks Detective Shipiro.
"Not a problem Shipiro-dono." Nabiki replies. "I'll get them to set up
down here, just send her down when you are done."
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"Hello Ranko-san, or is it Ranma-chan, I'm Detective Shipiro. I'd like
to ask you a few questions before you talk to the press."
"I'd prefer Ranko at least until the press has left." Ranma-chan
replies. "I guess Nabiki has provided you with some information, I hope
she didn't charge you too much?"
"Umm, well, nothing like what she is charging the press anyway." answers
Shipiro. "So what can you tell me about what you've been up to today?"
"Not much, unfortunately." answers Ranma-chan. "I don't remember
anything that I do when under the Neko-ken, the last I remember from the
wedding is getting hit into the koi pond and you know getting wet, then
I was holding an angry cat, and I ran around screaming trying to get her
to let go, then I came out of it in the bathroom in the Hino's house
back there."
"Right, well the assault at the wedding we have down as self-defense."
Shipiro informs him. "And Hibiki-san is expected to be out of the
hospital in a few days, but I was hoping you could tell us about the
monster you apparantly killed?"
"Sorry, I don't recall anything about a monster." answers Ranma-chan.
"But I must have gotten very bloody in the fight, it took quite a bit of
work to clean my hair and under my fingernails, even my toenails."
"Ergh, yes, well could you let us have the clothes you were wearing
during the attack, and ahh, your hand and foot prints, for evidence too
match the crimescene. Not that anyone would charge you for killing a
monster, but we like to let the forensics people figure out what
happened. Oh, and of course we need the blades that you used, probably
some type of 'Tiger Claw' weapon."
"I don't have any blades, when I'm in the Neko-ken I can use 'Ki claws'
sort of like energy blades I think." Ranma-chan informs the detective.
"Can you show the forensic people these 'ki claws'?"
"Not without going into the Neko-ken, I'm sorry."
"Well, we might have to do that then, it would back up your loss of
memory as well, but it would have to be somewhere safe, like a holding
cell."
"Uh, I don't think neko-teki would like that, and I'm fairly sure the
'ki claws' can cut metal bars. I'll get with Nabiki and Hino Rei and
see if we can come up with a better plan, and we'll have to ask Rei-chan
what happened to the tuxedo I was wearing, she may have bagged it up
already."
"OK, lets go deal with the reporters."
"All right, but I'll warn you that I'm going to act all girly for the
camera's, just don't get the wrong idea."
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"This is Namaguchi Jiro, reporting for Tokyo 6 News, we're at the Hirawa
Shrine in Juuban too meet Saotome Ranko, our 'cat-girl' on the run. We
can see her coming down too talk to us with Detective Shipiro from the
Nerima branch of the Tokyo Police. So Shipiro-san, I guess this wraps
up the cat-girl hunt."
"That's right, Ranko-san has snapped out of her 'neko' state, and has
agreed to provide some evidence for the investigation of the Juuban
River Park monster crimescene. Not that we have any plans on charging
her for killing a monster of course, but the investigators like to have
enough evidence to solve the crime."
"Ranko-chan, what can you tell us about the monster that you killed?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't remember it, I have no memory of anything I do
while I'm acting like a c-c-cat. I don't think it even got a hit in
because I don't have any cuts or bruises ..., but I was covered in blood
and it took forever to get my hair clean, and do a manicure, pedicure,
and scrub all of my skin clean."
"Yes, I imagine that killing a monster with your bare hands would get a
little 'messy', can you tell us how you were able to do this."
"I don't want to talk about it."
"But the people would/"
"I SAID I don't want to talk about it! It's a messed up martial arts
technique that NO ONE should ever learn. It's been banned from being
taught by organized dojos in Japan for a reason, the training STILL
gives me nightmares!" Ranko yells before turning and walking off.
"Ugh, well that was Ranko the 'cat-girl' who killed the latest bug-eyed
monster in Juuban River Park, and this is Namaguchi Jiro from Tokyo 6 News."
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"Hey, Nabiki, Kasumi, I guess you guys were out here looking for me?"
"Ranko-chan, you didn't have to bite the guy's head off did you?" Nabiki
asks.
"Oh my, yes you were a bit cross with him Ranko-chan." remarks Kasumi.
"Well, I'd rather not let people know too much about the Neko-ken, we
don't want some baka throwing his kid into a pit of c-c-cats now do we."
Ranma whispers to them in an angry tone.
"Oh my, we wouldn't want that to happen." Kasumi replies.
"Yes, somethings need to be kept secret, right Saotome?"
"That's right, Nabiki, and you've done a good job keeping my names
seperate today, thank you. But you did get me plastered all over the
news, and I bet you made a lot of money doing it."
"Well, this fiasco was going to make the news anyway, from when they
started throwing explosives at the wedding, but I managed to control the
police and the press and make us a bundle of yen while doing it. But
I'm sorry Ranma, I didn't invite those people, but I let them know the
wedding was happening. I didn't want our fathers forcing you and Akane
to get married. I knew they would crash the wedding, but I wasn't
expecting it to get quite that out of hand, the fight over the
Nanniichuan got everyone distracted and I didn't think Ukyo and Shampoo
would use bombs, and then Akane flipped and you went neko. I'm really
sorry, ... I'll even give you some of the money I made from the news,
after I take out wedding expenses and repair costs of course."
"Wow, you must have made a lot of money then. OK, apology accepted, but
I may need some favors, this is going to stir up more problems, I'm sure
of it."
"Why don't we go inside so I can meet this girl who can tame the savage
Neko-Ranma, I have to give her that reward anyway."
"Yes, she must be a nice girl to be able to get the 'cat' to follow out
of that park into a car."
"That's right, Nabiki, you took those pictures of the monster, no wonder
you made so much money from the news people."
"Well we couldn't have been more than 40 minutes behind you, and
probably the third people to find the monster's body, but we were the
first to stick around and call the police, and I got some great shots
before they showed up."
"That's right, there was that nice couple coming out of the woods that
had seen you killing that monster, but they were in a hurry."
-----------
In the Hino's living room the Hinos, two of the Tendo girls, Detective
Shipiro, and Ranma-chan sit down for tea and to talk away from the press.
"Well, I'll go and get the water for Ranma-kun to show you the curse
Detective." Rei says going into the kitchen.
"Don't worry about it Detective, everyone needs to see it before they
really believe." Ranma tells him.
"Oh my, that's true." Kasumi remarks. "The first time I saw it I was so
surprised, but since then it's become so much easier to accept the
strange things that happen around Ranma."
"OK, I'll bite. What kind of strange things happen around Ranma if I may
ask."
"Oh, the stories I could tell you, Detective, we would be here for a
week, but we have seen ghosts, demons, shapechangers of many types,
martial artists attacking night and day and throwing energy blasts
around and smashing through walls rather than use the door, love potions
and magic jewelry. It's been very interesting ever since Ranma showed up."
"Ranma, here's your water, do you mind if I do the honors."
"No Rei-chan, go ahead, have a little fun. They all get a kick out of
doing this for some reason." Ranma explains as Rei pours hot then cold
water over his/her head several times, experimenting with how much water
it takes, and pouring fast and at a trickle.
"Ugh, wow, I guess it is real. Now have we any ideas about showing the
forensic people the ki claws that you used on that monster?"
"Well, you could bring them over here in the morning with a few
'targets' and I'll get a couple of cats to scare Ranma with, I can
handle Neko-Ranma and should be able to get him to scratch up a few
things for you." suggests Rei.
"About that, Rei-san how were you able to bring Neko-Ranma home anyway?"
Nabiki asks.
"Well, we are old friends, Nabiki-san, I met little Neko-Ranma 9 years
ago after he escaped the pit and clawed up his father, it was my
grandmother who first broke him out of the Neko-ken, and he lived here
with us for 2 weeks before his father came for him. We trained him to
be a little less terrified of cats so that he doesn't go into the
neko-ken very fast and usually has time to get away from a cat. I used
to play with Neko-Ranma every day, and then play some more with Ranma."
"Oh my, that must have been so nice, I know Ranma had very few friends
while growing up on the road."
"Well, Rei-san, can I have the clothes that Ranma was wearing before,
the labs wants them for evidence and from what I saw of the crimescene
it's no use trying to save them."
"Of course Detective, I've got them in a bag already, I had to take them
off Neko-Ranma-chan before getting her into the van, they were so bloody
and still wet, blegh." says Rei going to fetch the clothes.
"Oh, Ranma-kun, I brought some of your clothes for you to change into."
"Thanks Kasumi, that was real thoughtful of you."
"Yeah, we should get ready to go home, the detective is going to give us
a ride back to Nerima."
"Sorry Nabiki, but the Hinos have invited me to stay the night, and I
don't want to deal with the parents or Akane tonight. Besides there is
some news that is going to set Akane and the others off when they here
it, and I want to avoid that for a little while."
"What 'news' is that Ranma-kun? You wouldn't have found another of your
many fiancees."
"Yeah, you guessed it Nabiki, Oyaji engaged my to Rei-chan when we were
here 9 years ago, he took some scrolls for several ki techniques and
something like 50,000 yen as her dowery. So I have to consider her as a
real fiancee with a better claim than Ukyo's, maybe better than your
family's. The techniques on those scrolls are a good part of the reason
that I'm as good as I am. Without those techniques I would have lost
the fights with Herb and Saffron, maybe even the fights with Ryouga when
he learned the Shi Shi Houko-dan or the Batusai Tenketsu."
"Oh my, Akane isn't going to like that."
"Nobody is going to like this news Kasumi, so Ranma what are you going
to do?"
"Well, I accepted the engagement with Rei, and told her that we have a
year for the courtship, and I'm not going to marry any of the others
until that year is up. So tell Akane not to worry about them staging
another wedding, I won't go through with it until a year is up, 'if' she
is the one I choose."
"Oh dear, this doesn't sound good for Akane."
"I'll come back in time for dinner tomorrow, I'm going to play neko for
the police in the morning, and then meet some of Rei's friends and get
to know her a bit better since I hadn't seen her in 9 years."
"Well, we better get going or the nice detective will leave us here,
good night Ranma.
"Yes, good night Ranma, see you tomorrow."
"Good night Nabiki, Kasumi, thanks for looking out for me today."
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make any money off this so I guess it's OK then.
This is a Ranma continuation and multi-cross-over with Sailor Moon,
Tenchi Muyo!, Mermaid Saga, Ah Megami-sama and Mamono Hunter Yohko.
This is my first time writing a fan fiction, so please review and tell
me what you think.
Ranma Crossing Over too the Wild Side
By Paul Bennett aka Shadowbakasama
Chaper 5: Today has been really hectic
"Well, that was easy." Rei say after getting off the phone. "Ranma-kun,
it turns out that Nabiki-san and Kasumi-san are already in Juuban. They
were having dinner when I called Nabiki-san's cell phone, and they're
going to come over to check on you, and Kasumi-san has some clothes for
you."
"At least Akane-san isn't with them, I don't think I'm ready to deal
with her yet."
"Yeah, but there is some bad news for you, Nabiki-san is going to bring
a detective and some reporters to meet 'Ranko' to wrap up her 'cat-girl'
hunt. She'll be here in about half an hour."
"Then I might as well change now." Ranma says dumping a glass of water
over his head. "Gives me a chance to get dry before they get here,
besides Rei-chan, your clothes fit me better this way." She says as
starts drying her red hair with the towel she had brought out of the
bathroom.
"Oh, this is great I've got a fiance who can raid my wardrobe." Rei says
teasing him.
"Heh, there was this one time all my clothes were is the wash and the
Tendo girls wouldn't let me have a hot bath, and they were going to lone
me some of their clothes, so that I wouldn't be running around topless,
and they started playing dress-up with me in all their fancy clothes
including a kimono, a bunny-suit, and some sexy lingere. Akane-san got
real jealous because I have a better body than her."
"Well boy, you are a very attractive girl, and a handsome young man, I
expect you to make Rei-chan very happy." Grandpa Hino says coming up
behind Rei.
"GRAMPS, your embarrassing me."
"Well, heh heh, you should know that I am one of the few heterosexual
lesbians in the world, Prince Herb of the Musk is the only other I know
of. And if Rei-chan and I get married she can be a monogamous bi-sexual."
"RANMA, THAT doesn't even make SENSE!"
"Sure it does Rei-chan. When I'm a boy I like girls, but when I'm a
girl I don't like oys, I still like girls. I'm pretty sure Princess
Herb is the same way, when I fought with her, she kept getting
distracted by my breasts."
"Wait, I thought you said Herb was a prince?!" Rei asks interupting
Ranma's story.
"Heh heh, well you see Herb also has a Nyanniichuan curse, so she is
also a princess." explains Ranma.
"Kami, and how can I be a 'monogamous' 'bi-sexual'?" Rei asks in morbid
curiosity.
"Well, that's obvious, if we get married you get the whole package
onna-teki and otoko-teki." Ranma tells her like it's the simplest thing
in the world.
[Onna = girl, Otoko = boy, Teki = type. This is what Shampoo used to
call Ranma's different sexes before she figured out the curse.]
"ARGH! It hurts my brain! Ranma is everyone around you gender
confused!?" Rei yells.
"Not 'everyone', just some of them, Kuno Tatewaki loves both Tendo Akane
and Osagi no Onna, who is me, but hasn't figured out the curse, and
accuses me otoko-teki of being a foul sorceror keeping his two loves
from him with black magic. Both me and Akane-san hate the moron."
Ranma tells her.
[Osagi = pig-tailed]
"Bhu hahahah, that's so bad." Rei says busting out laughing.
"Just wait, I'm only getting started, Kuno Kodachi, his younger sister,
keeps trying to drug me and make me her 'love slave', but she hates
Osagi no Onna. Then there is Kuonji Ukyo, my friend Ucchan, the fiancee
who spent 10 years dressing as and acting like a boy while practicing
Okonomiyaki Chef Martial Arts to get revenge on me and my father, she
even went to an all-boy school. Then there is Konatsu, a 'male'
kunochi, raised as girl and kept in poverty by his evil step-mother and
his evil older step-sisters. He has a huge crush on Ucchan and works at
Ucchan's, her okonomiyaki-ya. There is also Tsubasa, a crossdressing
boy who met Ukyo when she went to that all-boys school, he chases Ucchan
around trying to get a date, and she thought he was gay, but it turns
out that he knew Ucchan was a girl dressed as a boy. When Shampoo first
showed up she was trying to kill me because I defeated her at a village
tournament while I was a girl, and her Amazon laws say that if a
outsider girl defeats Amazon, she must give her the Kiss of Death, and
then hunt her down and kill her. She hunted me and pops all the way
back to Tokyo, and I defeated her by accident defending Akane from her
while otoko-teki, so she game me the Kiss of Marriage, because her laws
say that she must marry an outsider male that defeats her. So for a
while there she was trying to seduce otoko-teki and kill onna-teki."
Rei and her grandfather are just staring at Ranma with their mouths open
so far you'd think that their jaws unhinged, until Gramps recovers
enough to say "Ranma that story is .. just so.... Buwa hahahahaha." and
they both loosing and are rolling on the floor laughing.
"Oh Great, just laugh it up, you know when Ucchan first found out about
the curse she spent half an hour pouring hot and cold water on my head,
she thought it was so much fun." Ranma says getting upset that they
think his troubles are so funny.
"That's a great idea Ranma-kun!" Rei exclaims. "We'll do that when I
have my friends come over, they'll get a real kick out of it, and it's
sounds like a great way to break the ice about your curse."
"LETS Just Tell EVERYONE!! I Don't HAVE Enough People calling me a
Crossdresser and a Pervert Already!" Ranma-chan yells, her red battle
aura filling half the room as she gets really pissed off.
Rei and Grandpa Hino shut up real fast and skitter back until their
backs are to the wall and then they flawlessly perform the Saotome
Secret Technique: Crouch of the Fierce Tiger while saying "Gomen,
gomen-nasai, gomen-nasai, it's not that funny, not funny at all."
Ranma-chan seeing this calms down and pulls in her aura, and says
"Gomen, I'm a little touche about the curse, and I've had a bad day. So
Hino-dono, did my dad show you that technique?"
"Technique?"
"Yes, you did the Mouko Rakuchi-sei perfectly, the Crouch of the Fierce
Tiger was developed by my father to placate the temper of the
Grandmaster of Anything Goes Martial Arts. I must say that it was very
effective, I've used it on a few occasions myself, not for the old freak
though."
"Ah yes, I remember him showing us that technique when he came to pick
you up from us 9 years ago. Our family was very upset that he would
teach the Neko-ken to a young boy, even his own son."
Ranma-chan hears several cars pull up and door's opening and closing.
"Ah, that must be Nabiki and company, shall we go out to meet them?" She
says as she helps them to their feet.
--------
"Well, this should be the place. OK, Detective Shipiro-dono, please
remember to keep Ranma and Ranko seperate in front of the press, and
don't ask Ranko for any ID, at some point I should figure out how to get
her some, hmm." muses Nabiki.
"I still have trouble believing this, I'll expect to see some proof
after we get rid of the press Tendo-san."
"That's not a problem, after the press is gone you'll get to see the
usual water test and story, nobody believes it until they see it. None
of us believed in magic ... until 'they' arrived. You guys do know
about the panda don't you?" Nabiki asks the detective.
"Umm, actually, I've heard stories, but I've only been here a few
months, before I was in Hokaido." Shipiro replies.
"Oh, then you should know about the 'lost boy' Hibiki Ryouga, he's the
one who ended up in the hospital from the wedding."
"Someone put the 'Lost Boy' in the hospital!?" Shipiro exclaims.
"We've had him walk away from getting hit by cars, he'll get lost and
wind up in the middle of the street somehow."
"Yeah, that's him alright." Nabiki confirms. "One of the few people
that can give Ranma-kun a good fight, but I still give 5 to 1 odds
against Ryouga-san."
"Now Nabiki, Ryouga-kun's not that bad is he?" asks Kasumi.
"Actually Kasumi, he's worse." Nabiki informs her. "But I can still
offer those odds because Ranma-kun's always holding back. He thinks of
Ryouga-san as a friend and likes to 'spar' with him and he'll usually
let Ryouga-san get lost in a fight rather than beat him up, besides the
fact that Akane mallets him for picking on 'poor' Ryouga-san, and
Ryouga-san usually attacks him on sight."
"Well, it looks like Ranko-chan is coming out to greet us, can you
ladies keep the reporters back for a couple of minutes so that I can
talk to her alone?" asks Detective Shipiro.
"Not a problem Shipiro-dono." Nabiki replies. "I'll get them to set up
down here, just send her down when you are done."
--------
"Hello Ranko-san, or is it Ranma-chan, I'm Detective Shipiro. I'd like
to ask you a few questions before you talk to the press."
"I'd prefer Ranko at least until the press has left." Ranma-chan
replies. "I guess Nabiki has provided you with some information, I hope
she didn't charge you too much?"
"Umm, well, nothing like what she is charging the press anyway." answers
Shipiro. "So what can you tell me about what you've been up to today?"
"Not much, unfortunately." answers Ranma-chan. "I don't remember
anything that I do when under the Neko-ken, the last I remember from the
wedding is getting hit into the koi pond and you know getting wet, then
I was holding an angry cat, and I ran around screaming trying to get her
to let go, then I came out of it in the bathroom in the Hino's house
back there."
"Right, well the assault at the wedding we have down as self-defense."
Shipiro informs him. "And Hibiki-san is expected to be out of the
hospital in a few days, but I was hoping you could tell us about the
monster you apparantly killed?"
"Sorry, I don't recall anything about a monster." answers Ranma-chan.
"But I must have gotten very bloody in the fight, it took quite a bit of
work to clean my hair and under my fingernails, even my toenails."
"Ergh, yes, well could you let us have the clothes you were wearing
during the attack, and ahh, your hand and foot prints, for evidence too
match the crimescene. Not that anyone would charge you for killing a
monster, but we like to let the forensics people figure out what
happened. Oh, and of course we need the blades that you used, probably
some type of 'Tiger Claw' weapon."
"I don't have any blades, when I'm in the Neko-ken I can use 'Ki claws'
sort of like energy blades I think." Ranma-chan informs the detective.
"Can you show the forensic people these 'ki claws'?"
"Not without going into the Neko-ken, I'm sorry."
"Well, we might have to do that then, it would back up your loss of
memory as well, but it would have to be somewhere safe, like a holding
cell."
"Uh, I don't think neko-teki would like that, and I'm fairly sure the
'ki claws' can cut metal bars. I'll get with Nabiki and Hino Rei and
see if we can come up with a better plan, and we'll have to ask Rei-chan
what happened to the tuxedo I was wearing, she may have bagged it up
already."
"OK, lets go deal with the reporters."
"All right, but I'll warn you that I'm going to act all girly for the
camera's, just don't get the wrong idea."
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"This is Namaguchi Jiro, reporting for Tokyo 6 News, we're at the Hirawa
Shrine in Juuban too meet Saotome Ranko, our 'cat-girl' on the run. We
can see her coming down too talk to us with Detective Shipiro from the
Nerima branch of the Tokyo Police. So Shipiro-san, I guess this wraps
up the cat-girl hunt."
"That's right, Ranko-san has snapped out of her 'neko' state, and has
agreed to provide some evidence for the investigation of the Juuban
River Park monster crimescene. Not that we have any plans on charging
her for killing a monster of course, but the investigators like to have
enough evidence to solve the crime."
"Ranko-chan, what can you tell us about the monster that you killed?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't remember it, I have no memory of anything I do
while I'm acting like a c-c-cat. I don't think it even got a hit in
because I don't have any cuts or bruises ..., but I was covered in blood
and it took forever to get my hair clean, and do a manicure, pedicure,
and scrub all of my skin clean."
"Yes, I imagine that killing a monster with your bare hands would get a
little 'messy', can you tell us how you were able to do this."
"I don't want to talk about it."
"But the people would/"
"I SAID I don't want to talk about it! It's a messed up martial arts
technique that NO ONE should ever learn. It's been banned from being
taught by organized dojos in Japan for a reason, the training STILL
gives me nightmares!" Ranko yells before turning and walking off.
"Ugh, well that was Ranko the 'cat-girl' who killed the latest bug-eyed
monster in Juuban River Park, and this is Namaguchi Jiro from Tokyo 6 News."
---------
"Hey, Nabiki, Kasumi, I guess you guys were out here looking for me?"
"Ranko-chan, you didn't have to bite the guy's head off did you?" Nabiki
asks.
"Oh my, yes you were a bit cross with him Ranko-chan." remarks Kasumi.
"Well, I'd rather not let people know too much about the Neko-ken, we
don't want some baka throwing his kid into a pit of c-c-cats now do we."
Ranma whispers to them in an angry tone.
"Oh my, we wouldn't want that to happen." Kasumi replies.
"Yes, somethings need to be kept secret, right Saotome?"
"That's right, Nabiki, and you've done a good job keeping my names
seperate today, thank you. But you did get me plastered all over the
news, and I bet you made a lot of money doing it."
"Well, this fiasco was going to make the news anyway, from when they
started throwing explosives at the wedding, but I managed to control the
police and the press and make us a bundle of yen while doing it. But
I'm sorry Ranma, I didn't invite those people, but I let them know the
wedding was happening. I didn't want our fathers forcing you and Akane
to get married. I knew they would crash the wedding, but I wasn't
expecting it to get quite that out of hand, the fight over the
Nanniichuan got everyone distracted and I didn't think Ukyo and Shampoo
would use bombs, and then Akane flipped and you went neko. I'm really
sorry, ... I'll even give you some of the money I made from the news,
after I take out wedding expenses and repair costs of course."
"Wow, you must have made a lot of money then. OK, apology accepted, but
I may need some favors, this is going to stir up more problems, I'm sure
of it."
"Why don't we go inside so I can meet this girl who can tame the savage
Neko-Ranma, I have to give her that reward anyway."
"Yes, she must be a nice girl to be able to get the 'cat' to follow out
of that park into a car."
"That's right, Nabiki, you took those pictures of the monster, no wonder
you made so much money from the news people."
"Well we couldn't have been more than 40 minutes behind you, and
probably the third people to find the monster's body, but we were the
first to stick around and call the police, and I got some great shots
before they showed up."
"That's right, there was that nice couple coming out of the woods that
had seen you killing that monster, but they were in a hurry."
-----------
In the Hino's living room the Hinos, two of the Tendo girls, Detective
Shipiro, and Ranma-chan sit down for tea and to talk away from the press.
"Well, I'll go and get the water for Ranma-kun to show you the curse
Detective." Rei says going into the kitchen.
"Don't worry about it Detective, everyone needs to see it before they
really believe." Ranma tells him.
"Oh my, that's true." Kasumi remarks. "The first time I saw it I was so
surprised, but since then it's become so much easier to accept the
strange things that happen around Ranma."
"OK, I'll bite. What kind of strange things happen around Ranma if I may
ask."
"Oh, the stories I could tell you, Detective, we would be here for a
week, but we have seen ghosts, demons, shapechangers of many types,
martial artists attacking night and day and throwing energy blasts
around and smashing through walls rather than use the door, love potions
and magic jewelry. It's been very interesting ever since Ranma showed up."
"Ranma, here's your water, do you mind if I do the honors."
"No Rei-chan, go ahead, have a little fun. They all get a kick out of
doing this for some reason." Ranma explains as Rei pours hot then cold
water over his/her head several times, experimenting with how much water
it takes, and pouring fast and at a trickle.
"Ugh, wow, I guess it is real. Now have we any ideas about showing the
forensic people the ki claws that you used on that monster?"
"Well, you could bring them over here in the morning with a few
'targets' and I'll get a couple of cats to scare Ranma with, I can
handle Neko-Ranma and should be able to get him to scratch up a few
things for you." suggests Rei.
"About that, Rei-san how were you able to bring Neko-Ranma home anyway?"
Nabiki asks.
"Well, we are old friends, Nabiki-san, I met little Neko-Ranma 9 years
ago after he escaped the pit and clawed up his father, it was my
grandmother who first broke him out of the Neko-ken, and he lived here
with us for 2 weeks before his father came for him. We trained him to
be a little less terrified of cats so that he doesn't go into the
neko-ken very fast and usually has time to get away from a cat. I used
to play with Neko-Ranma every day, and then play some more with Ranma."
"Oh my, that must have been so nice, I know Ranma had very few friends
while growing up on the road."
"Well, Rei-san, can I have the clothes that Ranma was wearing before,
the labs wants them for evidence and from what I saw of the crimescene
it's no use trying to save them."
"Of course Detective, I've got them in a bag already, I had to take them
off Neko-Ranma-chan before getting her into the van, they were so bloody
and still wet, blegh." says Rei going to fetch the clothes.
"Oh, Ranma-kun, I brought some of your clothes for you to change into."
"Thanks Kasumi, that was real thoughtful of you."
"Yeah, we should get ready to go home, the detective is going to give us
a ride back to Nerima."
"Sorry Nabiki, but the Hinos have invited me to stay the night, and I
don't want to deal with the parents or Akane tonight. Besides there is
some news that is going to set Akane and the others off when they here
it, and I want to avoid that for a little while."
"What 'news' is that Ranma-kun? You wouldn't have found another of your
many fiancees."
"Yeah, you guessed it Nabiki, Oyaji engaged my to Rei-chan when we were
here 9 years ago, he took some scrolls for several ki techniques and
something like 50,000 yen as her dowery. So I have to consider her as a
real fiancee with a better claim than Ukyo's, maybe better than your
family's. The techniques on those scrolls are a good part of the reason
that I'm as good as I am. Without those techniques I would have lost
the fights with Herb and Saffron, maybe even the fights with Ryouga when
he learned the Shi Shi Houko-dan or the Batusai Tenketsu."
"Oh my, Akane isn't going to like that."
"Nobody is going to like this news Kasumi, so Ranma what are you going
to do?"
"Well, I accepted the engagement with Rei, and told her that we have a
year for the courtship, and I'm not going to marry any of the others
until that year is up. So tell Akane not to worry about them staging
another wedding, I won't go through with it until a year is up, 'if' she
is the one I choose."
"Oh dear, this doesn't sound good for Akane."
"I'll come back in time for dinner tomorrow, I'm going to play neko for
the police in the morning, and then meet some of Rei's friends and get
to know her a bit better since I hadn't seen her in 9 years."
"Well, we better get going or the nice detective will leave us here,
good night Ranma.
"Yes, good night Ranma, see you tomorrow."
"Good night Nabiki, Kasumi, thanks for looking out for me today."
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