InuYasha Fan Fiction / Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Ranma in the Warring States Period! ❯ Why Ranma Never Does Homework! ( Chapter 1 )

Different type of Ranma cross over where, instead of Kagome going to Nermia, Ranma goes to the Sangoku Jidaii, courtesy of Happosai's magic mirror.

Notes: I know that the mirror exists, however, I have no clue how it's supposed to work. So, for the sake of the story, let's just say that you look in it, think of a time period and you're there, no questions asked.

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Ranma was studying...well, at least he was trying to study. Miss Hinako's latest report card had told Ranma that if he didn't pick up his grades soon, he was going to be held back a year. As much as Ranma didn't care about his grades, it would be humiliating to have to repeat the year while everyone else went ahead of him. He could just picture what everyone would say if he let THAT happen.

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Mousse: Shampoo! Shampoo! I did it, I finally beat Saotome. He flunked first year high school! Isn't that great Shampoo. Shampoo?

Old Ghoul: For the last time, blind boy, I'm not Shampoo...

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Ryoga: Oh my beautiful Akane, now that Ranma has proven himself unworthy of carrying on your family school, I would... I mean, that is, if you'll have me... I would, I could... I LOVE YOU AKANE!!!

(Crunch.)

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Kuno: Oh Akane, Pigtailed Girl, I have bested that no good Saotome in the higher subject matters of academics. DATE WITH ME!!

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Not only that, the teachers would expect him to call Akane and Ukyo 'Sempai.' Yeah right, he'd rather die than do that. Nu-un. No way, no how. He'd rather study for a couple of hours and pull his grades up than let that happen. And so, here he was, lying on his futon, history text in hand, studying.

"... The sangoku jidai is also renowned for the amount of folklore, or demon fables, that originated from that time period. Some of the more well known fables revolved around a half-demon, or hanyou, who travelled around in a small group, seeking the shards of the fabled jewel called..."

"Ranma my boy!!" (slosh)

"huh? WHOAH!!"

Ranma half rolled, half jumped to the side, just in time to avoid getting soaked by the unexpected shower of cold water. Still holding his history book, he turned to face the one who had launched the surprise attack, not that it was any mystery to him.

"Old freak, whadda you want?"

Happosai's eyes suddenly got all misty, brimming with the pathetic geezer's unshed tears.

"Ranma," sob, "Is that any way to treat your elders? And here I came to give you a present."

"If it's from you, old freak, I don't want it."

"Oh how can you say something like that." sob, "After all the trouble I went through to steal "this" for you."

At the word, "this" Happoai thrust out his wrinkled old hand, which, not surprisingly was clutched tightly around a frilly bra of some kind of another... wait a minute... that bra looked kinda familiar. He was sure he'd seen it in Akane's laundry pile at least once. Oh no. This was not good. On the one hand, if Ranma didn't some how get that thing away from Happosai, eventually he'd be the one that was wearing it. On the other hand, if Akane saw him with it, or anyone else for that matter, they'd start jumping to conclusions about why it was with him. Not good, definitely not...

"Come on Ranma, be a good pupil now and slip this on..."

"Over my dead body, perverted old freak!"

That was the beginning of the (relatively) small scuffle which would destroy the room over the course of the next few minutes. Ranma attacked, Happosai countered but Ranma countered back. Happosai threw water at him, Ranma dodged, and so on and so forth. Somewhere in the midst of it the history text book went flying, only to be picked back up and used as a weapon. More water dodging, and then suddenly Ranma felt something get slipped around his chest.

"See Ranma, look at how pretty that looks on you! Ack!"

It all happened in slow motion. Ranma looked up and found a mirror had been placed before him. He saw himself, in male form, sporting Akane's bra. He also saw the deflected text book as it fluttering to the sopping ground behind him, pages flapping loudly as they turned. They stopped for a brief moment, on an old picture of a samurai in a red suite, with white hair and gold eyes. The page he had been reading... Then he realised exactly which mirror he was looking at. It was old and battered, with an ornate gold frame, and a strange magical aura around it that sent shivers up his spine. Happosai's time travelling mirror...

"Here we go. Don't worry Ranma my boy, this should fix the problem in no time!!" (Splash)

There was no one there. The water landed untouched all over the wet floor, further sopping the abandoned history text book. Happosai stood alone in the room.

"Hmmm? Ranma? Hey Ranma? Now where could that boy have run off to?" Happosai thought about it, hard, arms crossed over his chest, foot tapping on the floor, for the total duration of one second. Then, he simply shrugged, and went to find some other unfortunate female to molest.

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The next thing Ranma knew, he was in the middle of a battle.

"SANKON TETSUO!!"

"DIE USELESS HALF-BREED!!"

Ranma leapt up and out of the way, just as what looked like a giant snake's tail whipped by him, landing a solid hit on it's target. Ranma watched from the safety of a tree as the ball of red and white went flying through the air, took out several trees, and landed somewhere out of site. Ranma winced, that guy wouldn't be getting up for a while.

"INUYASHA!!!"

For the first time Ranma turned his head and took note of the small group that was off to the side. Obviously they were on the side of the guy that was eating dirt right now, but what an odd group. There was some kind of priest, a deformed kid with pointy ears, and a regular chick in a school uniform. It was the girl who was yelling out to the man in red. She got the ugly snake thing instead.

"Hand over the Sssssshikon Ssssssards, mortalssss." The snake approached them, its intentions obvious. Ranma instantly jumped into battle.

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"Hand over the Sssssshikon Ssssssards, mortalssss."

Kagome turned her attention back to the youkai they were facing now. It was huge, almost twice the size of Mistress Centipede, and moved with surprising speed. Still, Kagome thought it should have been an easy kill for Inuyasha. Something wasn't right, but she didn't get a chance to think about what as the thing suddenly approached them. Miroku readied his air void,

"Kagome-sama, get back!"

"But Miroku, what about the shards?"

Miroku stopped at the Kitsune's comment, looping the rosary back around his arm. "Shit!"

"Whoa-whoa-whoa, just what's going on here?"

Kagome looked up in surprise. There standing with his back turned to them was a boy about her age, wearing Chinese clothing and something white, with his hair in a pig-tail. Even more surprising than that, he looked like he was about to challenge the snake youkai? Was he insane? Or maybe he was a demon?

"Out of my way, mortal, hissss, or do you with to die by my sssfangsssssss."

So he was mortal, then what was he doing?

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"Whoa-whoa-whoa, just what's going on here?"

Okay, so Ranma knew he probably wasn't going to get much information out of a giant snake, but that wasn't really what he was trying to do anyway. It was getting boring fighting with just Ryoga, Kuno and Mousse, and this snake thing looked rather interesting. He'd seen the way it moved, it was fast, but also huge, and if Ranma was smart, he'd be able to use that to it's disadvantage.

"Out of my way, mortal, hissss, or do you with to die by my sssfangsssssss."

"Ha, is that a challenge?"

The snakes eyes seemed to bug out of it's sockets for a moment, then it's eyes closed and a strange wheeze-hissing noise was emitted from the back of it's forked tongue. It took Ranma a moment to realise what was happening...

"Weee-hissss-s-s-s-Weeeee-hissss. Foolisssssssh mortal-sssssss. You wisssssssh to challenge me. Hisssss-weeese, Oh you make me laughsssss!!"

...The snake was laughing at him. Him!! Ranma Saotome of the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial arts. That did it, the snake was gonna die!

"TIGER BOMB!!!"

The snake's laugh-hisss was abruptly cut short when the large ball of Ki struck it in the jaw, momentarily stunning it. Behind him, Ranma heard the kid shout something like, "How did he do that?" and couldn't help but smirk.

"So, who's the foolish one now?"

Spoke too soon. Ranma had to all but throw himself out of the way as a huge ball of green something-or-other came flying at him out of the snake's mouth.

"Sssstupid mortal! You will pay for your Inssssolencsssss!!!"

Ranma gulped as he looked back at the large hole where the snake's spit should have landed. Acid, Ranma realised, strong enough to melt the ground too. He'd have to be careful. Out loud he yelled. "Is that all you got, snake boy? Come at me. Tiger Bomb!!!" The snake's body recoiled to dodge his attack, and the chase was on.

From the beginning, Ranma had realised that his regular kicks and punches would have been useless against the snake. It was just too damn big for anything like that to have an effect on it. There was only one real move Ranma knew that could take out something of this size, and he intended to use it to it's fullest.

"YIKES!!" Ranma almost didn't see the snakes tail as it came lashing at him full speed. He jumped just in time, flipping over it's large girth and feeling wind rush past him in the tail's wake. Crap, one hit from that thing and he wouldn't be moving for a week! Mentally he thought, "Stay cool, stay cool."

"Come on Snake-boy, I got nails sharper than those fangs of yours!"

"You want to sssssssee how sssssharp my fangsssss are? Then by all meanssss!!"

The snake lunged, stupid thing wasn't very bright was it? "TIGER BOMB!"

The attack caught it square in the mouth, and continued rather painfully down it's throat. When it recovered, the snake was giving off one of the most murderous ki's Ranma had ever seen, and something else too. This energy was unlike anything Ranma had ever felt before, it sent shivers down his spine. He grit his teeth against it and continued on. Almost there, almost. The snake was coiled around him, and it's aura saturated the very air.

The snake went for the final strike. "Die Mortal-ssssss!!"

He never made it to his target.

"HIRYU SHOTEN HA!!!"

The initial blast of wind stopped the snake dead before blowing it backwards and forming the centre tunnel for the tornado. The wind rushed in from all sides, following the spiral pattern he had set up, and made a spinning cyclone above and all around Ranma. He watched, as always, slightly awed and more than a little bit scared, as the sheer force blowing past his nose lifted the huge creature into the air and tossed it around like scrap paper. And then he saw them, small flashes of lightning, sparks dancing all around him. Ranma had never seen those before, and he watched with mixed horror and joy as they began tearing into the snake's body. A horrible, ear splitting shriek signalled the creature's demise, and soon, its remains disintegrated into nothing but dust and ash.

The force of the winds started to dwindle as small sparkle caught Ranma's eye. Not like the lightning, it was pink, and seemed to glow rather than flash bright white. As Ranma looked closer, he saw that it was a small crystal, like a shard of glass, and it was falling directly towards him. Deftly, he caught it in his right hand, and looked down to examine the small gem. It had a strange, powerful aura, saturated in evil, but slowly changing into something more neutral. Strange...

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Kagome felt herself getting pulled by the sudden wind that had come out of nowhere and was now sucking her into the middle of the tornado. Where had that come from. Kagome didn't have time to think about it as her feet slid along over the ground. She wasn't going to make it, she realised as she held onto Shippo. She looked over to Miroku for help, only to find that he was having as much trouble as she was. His large, baggy robes were dragging him further into the whirlwind, and it was all he could do to dig his staff into the ground and hang on for dear life. Kagome's feet slipped again, and then gave out all together.

"Kyaaa!" her scream was drowned out by the much larger one of a demon in agony just as she felt something snag the back of her shirt. A moment later, she felt ground along the length of her body, and she rolled over to pin Shippo safety under her. A second after that, she was encircled by strong, protective arms, and felt a light weight over her body. It stayed there until the sudden wind storm finally died out into nothing. Kagome recognised the arm near her head instantly, clothed in red, and tipped with sharp claws. Inuyasha had saved her again, and Kagome felt herself blushing as he released her from his hold and stood up.

"You alright Kagome?"

Kagome was too busy being embarrassed by their previous closeness to notice his own blush. "F-fine. What about you? You got hit pretty hard by that-"

"Keh!" He cut her off with an indignant snort. "Stupid Youkai, wouldn't have happened if I hadn't been distracted." He turned his attention back over to where the snake demon had once been. Kagome followed his gaze, and once again saw that strange boy. This time from the front. He was looking at something in his hand, and it didn't take Kagome long to realise it was a Shikon shard. Inuyasha didn't take long either. Angrily he turned and began stalking over to where the young man stood.

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"Oi!!"

Ranma looked up, and was about to go through his usual, "No need to thank me, just doing a martial artist's duty" speech. However, what he saw shocked him so thoroughly, his speech quickly turned into a very intelligent "Whu?"

"Who the fuck are you?"

It... it was the guy, the one Ranma had seen lumberjack half a dozen trees with his body not five minutes ago, and now he saw standing here with out a scratch on him. Not only that, it was the guy from the history book. Red clothes, white hair, golden eyes, and dog ears on the top of his head. What the hell was going on here?

"Never mind that," the living picture was saying, "just hand over the shikon shard and I might let you live." He took a step forwards and held up his hand, cracking his knuckles threateningly. It was then that Ranma noticed the claws...

"Sh-shikon shard?" Dog-boy must have been referring to the stone in his hand. "Why should I?"

"Because it's mine." was the reply, which sounded more like a bark, and quickly turned into a growl. "I'm warning you, unlike that weak snake youkai, I could skin you alive, human."

What was with this human thing? And youkai...demon? That snake thing had been a demon? But that was impossible, the only real demon Ranma had ever seen was the size and shape of a balloon, not bigger than the largest apartment building in Nermia.

"People have tried, and they all ended up scrap garbage." Ranma replied in his usual cocky voice. He never backed out of a challenge. "Ready when you are." He dropped back into a stance.

There was a growl from the opponent, and then a swipe so fast Ranma almost didn't see it coming. Almost. He back flipped out of the way and used the recoil off the ground launch himself at his strange opponent full force. He wanted to test something.

"CHESTNUT FISTS."

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Inuyasha was shocked as fist after fist contacted with his body. This bastard's punches were a blur even to him! Nonetheless, he lacked the demon strength needed to really hurt Inuyasha. He waited it out and then attacked again, only to be shocked when the bastard dodged. This wasn't right, he tried again, another dodge, and another barrage of punches. This time, they all seemed to hit the same place, and it was starting to feel just a little bit sore as he found himself being pushed back. What the fuck? He was losing to a mere human? No way in hell!

"SANKON TETSUO!!"

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The razor sharp ki was a shock to Ranma. He hadn't expected that, and he paid for it when he failed to dodge the attack completely and was rewarded by a deep cut on his cheek and shoulder. Damn. Who was this guy? To be able to make ki like that, and to withstand all Ranma's punches, the guy must have had some training. But his attacks were wide, miscalculated, and as easy to read as a highway billboard. Strange. Ranma dodged again, this time making sure to stay out of the way of the flying ki. He sprung on his hand and landed a hard kick to the guys jaw. Nothing. No reaction, no pain, nothing.

Ranma was seriously debating weather or not he should attempt to use the Hiryuu Shoten Ha on this guy when a new voice abruptly interrupted the fight.

"Inuyasha, Sit!"

Dog-boy was eating dirt so fast Ranma's punch went wide and he momentarily lost his balance. He caught himself again and turned to see the chick in the school fuku before him. How had she done that?

"Bitch! What was that for!"

The girl ignored his comment, although Ranma was sure he felt her aura turn just slightly colder for a moment. Then, suddenly she spun around and looked at him with concern.

"Are you alright?"

Ranma stared dumbly. Hadn't he just been attempting to beat the crap out of her companion? Now she was worried about him? Maybe she didn't really like him after all...

"Uh, yeah...nothing serious..."

The girl sighed in honest relief. "Oh good. Please excuse Inuyasha, he doesn't know how to act around people. I'm Kagome, thank you for helping us."

"... ... uh, yeah, no prob..." Oh great Ranma, that sounded really manly...

"Oi, you, bastard, where did you come from?"

"Inuyasha, SIT!"

"Bitch, what was that for!!"

"He saved us you idiot! I was only being polite." Ranma watched as she suddenly whirled around to the guy who was now getting up after eating dirt. "What happened to you any way! You should have been able to beat that snake easily. Is there something wrong? Are you hurt again?...."

Suddenly, Ranma snapped to as something landed lightly on his uninjured shoulder. He turned to stare directly into a pair of curious, crystal blue eyes.

"Who're you?"

"Uh, I'm uh..."

"Where'd you come from? Where'd you learn how to fight like that? How did you make the wound of the wind appear? Can you show me, huh? Huh? Can you?"

"I'm not hurt wench and NOTHING'S wrong with me. I was just about to kill it when this bastard appeared out of nowhere and..."

Jinglejangle.... "That's enough!"

Silence....

"Miroku," Kagome said quietly. Ranma gave the guy in the large purple bag the once over. He looked pretty strong, probably knew how to handle himself in a fight too, and what was that weird aura coming from his hand... the guy, Miroku turned to Ranma.

"Pardon my companions, they have a tendency to lose themselves in argument." The monk gave a polite half bow," Allow me to introduce you to my companions and myself. I believe Kagome-sama has already introduced herself, the man to her left is Inuyasha, the little one on you're shoulder is called Shippo, and I myself am Miroku, the monk."

Wow the dude was eloquent. Honestly too, not like that flashy Kuno pansy. Ranma took a moment to catch his breath. "Ranma, Saotome Ranma of the Saotome school of anything goes martial arts." He nodded slightly, which was the closest thing to a bow that Ranma's pride would permit. His eyes darted over the group quickly, finally coming to rest on the one called Inuyasha, who was growling at him...

"Bastard, where did you come from! What the fuck do you want with the shards."

The ears moved, rotating slightly, just like a dog's. Inu yasha, dog demon... this guy was a demon? Ranma focused on the question, and scratched his head. "Um...does the year 1997 mean anything to you?"

"Wha??? Where the fuck is Theyearninteennintyseven...!!"

"Wait a minute...!"

Their attentions turned to the girl in the fuku, "Kagome," Ranma reminded himself.

"Did you just say 1997? Do you know about Tokyo then?"

"Uh, yeah...it's a city..." What kind of question is that, of course he knew about Tokyo? Didn't everybody?

"Kagome?" Asked Shippo, leaping into Kagome's arms, "Isn't that you're country?? To-kee-o?"

Kagome nodded, while the other's watched her dumbly. Ranma figured it was his turn to ask questions. "So, where is this place exactly? I should probably try to get home before dinner starts, or Pop's gonna eat it all on...me..."

The look Kagome gave him made Ranma stop. It was sad, almost pitying. That wasn't good, she wouldn't pity him unless it was something bad...

"Well, Saotome-kun, this is going to be a bit of a shock but...you're in the Sangoku Jidai."

Whoosh....(insert lonely wind sound here)

"N...no way!!" Ranma took a step back. She was lying, right? There was no way in hell he could be...It was impossible, 500 years into the past!!! No way! No way! "Y-you're joking right? Hehehe...that's a funny one...hehehe...."

More pity. She wasn't joking. Damn!

"There is a way to get you home though, I think..." Kagome continued on reassuringly. "It's a few days travel away though, through the well..."

"Wait a minute!! There's no way I'm letting this bastard go anywhere until he gives me that shard!"

Ranma felt a battle aura flare and pulled back into a stance. This guy just didn't quite did he, and what was with the piece of glass...

"Inuyasha, sit."

Wham. "Bitch!"

Again...why did that happen every time she said...

"What's so big about this thing anyway?" He asked instead, peering at the shard in his hand.

Kagome did an "Oh", and the pulled something out from just under her shirt. "It's actually a shard of this, the Shikon no Tama. It broke, and now we're trying to collect the pieces. It's a kind of jewel that has power."

Ranma could see that now. Around the girls neck hung a good chunk of the completed Tama thing, only this time the aura around it was pure, almost holy...Ranma shrugged. "Here." he tossed it to her with a flick of his thumb. Who wanted a piece of glass with an evil aura in it anyway. Probably wasn't a good thing to have...attracted bad luck...and cold water.

"...Arigato." Kagome looked slightly surprised, but then shrugged and brought the shard up to the chunk on her neck. A slight spark, and it had fused with the rest of the jewel. Ranma was also surprised, the second she touched the jewel, it's aura became pure...who was this girl...

"Um, Kagome...sama," He was hesitant to add on the polite part, but what the heck, he needed to ask her..." I don't suppose you could tell me how I could get back to Nerhmia? I mean, I kinda want to go back home..."

Kagome nodded and smiled at him. "Mn, Of course, I'll take you myself, as soon as Inuyasha here let's me go home again. I'm soooo behind in my school work!!" she wailed. Ranma blinked...she was worried about school work, here?

"Keh! Wench! What the hell makes you're tests so important anyway! It's just an excuse to get out of looking for...!"

"Inuyasha, SIT"

Wham!

"...and again??... " thought Ranma.

"Well, I suggest we be off then. We still have to go pick up Sango and Kirara before we can go back to the village. Come on Shippo." The monk said suddenly. There was some grumbling from Inuyasha as he picked himself back up, and a sigh from Kagome. Ranma watched as they started walking off and shook his head. Strange bunch indeed...he started to follow them.

"Um, Saotome-kun..."

"Call me Ranma." Ranma told Kagome. If he wasn't going to call her Kagome-sama, she didn't need to call him Saotome-kun all the time either.

"Oh, Okay, Ranma...I was going to ask you...I hope you don't mind...but..."

Ranma looked at her, she was blushing furiously. Hah! The ladies man strikes again! Not that any woman would ever be able to resist him...

"Why are you wearing a bra?"

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"AH!!" Ranma yelled, then ripped of the piece of clothing and threw it too the ground. "I'LL KILL HIM! I'LL KILL THE OLD FREEK! THAT PERVERT! I'LL KILL HIM!!"

And the newly reformed group continued on their way...