Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ Psychedelic Kiss ❯ Chapter 2

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Psychedelic Kiss (A Ranma/DBZ crossover)
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Written by Iron Dragoon


"This" is Japanese
"-This-" is Chinese




Ranma's body twisted in his sleep as he kept recalling moments from a short time
ago. A damp washcloth gently wiped at the sweat that was on his forehead as he
mumbled about his need to protect. He was a martial artist. It was his duty. The
washcloth stopped wiping for a second as its holder smiled gently at the sleeping
figure beneath her. As Ranma's sleeping body once more calmed, she continued with
her gentle cleansing until he awoke under one such gentle touch, a small static
charge leaping between her hand and his face. Ranma opened his eyes as the
washcloth was pulled away, only to wince from the brightness in the room. He
rolled away from his spot so the light wouldn't hit him as hard as he gave off a
groan of protest.

Suddenly, he felt someone patting him on the arm and a giggle. "Come on, wake
up, you've been out for the last 5 hours, Ranma. You've slept enough," the soft
voice chuckled with a grin.

It took a few moments for the voice to pierce through the fog of sleep, but
eventually it registered in his mind. 'Eh? Pop ain't ever that nice... Wait a
minute... that was a... girl's voice?' And with that realization, he acted
accordingly.

"AARRGG!! Who the hell are you!?" he shouted, clinging to the ceiling.

"You know, for a Martial Artist, you sure are jumpy, ain't 'cha?" she said with
another chuckle.

After getting his heart rate under control and dropping back to the ground, he
examined the girl. It took a second to recognize her due to some slight
differences in appearance. But it was still her. He could tell somehow.

"You!? I thought I told you not to do that!!" he said as he glared at the red
head. His sulking appearance served only to earn him full blown
laughter.

"HAHAHA!! Y-your..hahahahah..face l-looks..hahahah..so funny..hahah!!" the
petite girl laughed, rolling around on the floor.

Ranma glared a few more seconds, "If you're done, I'd like to know where I am."

"Hehehe... O-okay... I'm sorry, it's just that you looked so funny with your
face like that..." she replied with a smile. "This is the guides' house. Your
pop is in the main room talking with the guide."

"Well at least I'm not a girl anymore," Ranma remarked off handedly as he patted
his chest.

Ranko winced as she began to explain Jusenkyo to him.

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"Ahh, this soup is great!" complimented Genma as he raised his bowl to drain
it... Only to have his face slammed into the steaming liquid.

"POP! What's the idea bringing me to a *CURSED* place?!"

"Boy! Quit your complaining! A true Martial Artist is prepared to lay down his
life for the-" he was cut off as Ranma's fist shut his mouth.

"Easy for you to say, ya damn panda! You don't change into a GIRL!!"

"You don't change anymore you stupid boy!"

Ranma blinked, and looked at Ranko. She shrugged a "news to me" sort of shrug at
him. He soon shook off his confusion as he began shouting again. "It's the
principle of the matter!"

"Principle? You didn't even share your cure with your father who raised you
from when you were a baby!"

"uhh.. Sirs? Please no fight in my house?" questioned the guide, shying away
from the combating duo.. Only to be ignored again.

With a sigh and a mutter of "Men..", the diminutive red head stepped between
the father and son right as Genma launched a roundhouse and Ranma fired off a
right hook.

Both gaped as the red head stoped both attacks with a bored expression and a roll
of her eyes. "If you two are done? Let's not destroy our host's house, shall
we?"

"Wha?"
"-How?"
"-The hell?!" was uttered by the three men.

All three gaped as the red head smirked and walked over to the small stove and
poured two bowls of soup, handing one to Ranma as she sat down and began to
eat.

Ranma blinked at his soup and traded confused looks with the other two men
before looking at the red head oddly as he sat down to eat.

"Uhh... Thanks... I guess..."

She simply smiled and went back to eating.

"So, pop... What do we do now?"

"Well boy, the guide said that there is a small village near here. We need
supplies and he says they're warriors."

"Oh, you mean the Joketsuzoku. Yea, they've got some good techniques," said
Ranma.

"Hmm.. It would be a good place for me to get some gear, too," interjected the
girl.

"Eh? Gear? What are you talking about girl?" questioned Genma with a slight
glare. He didn't have time to wonder how the boy knew about the Joketsuzoku.

"Well, if I'm going with you, I'm going to need gear," replied the red head
with a roll of her eyes.

"Who says you're coming with us?! Who ARE you anyway?!"

"That's Ranko, pop," supplied Ranma as he ate his soup. Ranko just smiled and
waved as she got her second helping.

Genma blinked. 'She must be the reason Ranma got cured. Maybe she knows how to
cure me too? I think I'll let her travel with us until I can figure how to get
the secret out of her. Yeah! And then we can ditch her and go meet with good old
Tendo and his daughters! It's perfect!'

The other three people in the room looked at Genma as he began to laugh maniacally
seconds later. "MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!"

Ranma dumped a glass of cold water on Genma stating, "Chill old fat and furry."

The wet panda looked angrily at the boy and was about to start fighting when
Ranko cleared her throat. Stopping, the panda grumbled, before remembering it's
plan about what to do with the stupid girl. 'MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!' stated the wooden
sign the panda raised as it recovered it's good mood. Nobody bothered to ask where
the signs came from as they began to ignore the animal.

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Kuh Lon smiled as Xian Pu deflected her opponent's over hand swing, knocking the
weapon down and to the side with her bonbori, forcing an opening in her
opponent's guard. Xain Pu's eyes glinted as she spun on the balls of her feet,
sending a spinning back fist into the fighter's jaw.. Or would have, had she not
been holding a bonbori.

The fighter flipped as the force of the blow spun her like a top, contacting the
ground shoulder first. The village healers dragged the defeated opponent off to
pop the dislocated shoulder back in as Xain Pu was declared the victor.

Kuh Lon approached her Great-Granddaughter to offer congratulations. As she
passed through the crowd, she heard something that made her smirk.

"Huh. She's pretty good, but I could take her in the end.." boasted the pig
tailed boy.

Still smirking, Kuh Lon turned to inspect the boy. 'Hmm.. Japanese, high level
stance, good training, nice muscle tone, and high level of Ki.. Even if he
hasn't learned to hide it yet... still, my Xian Pu could do worse than him.'

The next comment floored her though.

"Yeah, and I can take you," replied the red head at his side. "She wouldn't
even be a warm up for me."

Had Japan become that much better of a place for women that this girl could defeat
this boy? He was a good fighter, after all, and she remembered Japan from her last
visit. That was somewhat strange. Squinting her eyes she realized that the girl
was hiding her ki to a degree. She was indeed better than the boy. Still, the
comment of how fast she could handle her heir rankled her. Perhaps a test was
in order?

"Is that so, girl? Perhaps you wish to challenge my Great-Granddaughter then?"

"Eh? Oh, umm.. No thanks, Elder.." replied the girl nervously. 'Damn.. Shoulda
just kept my mouth shut.. I don't need a Kiss of Death on me.. Even if they
can't actually hurt me.. Well, once I recover my energy..' she mentally chided
herself. She knew she was still weak from the explosion that merged the spirits
of the Saiyajin and Girl pool to create her. She was still strong, but no more so
than two or three really powerful -human- martial artist. But this village was
full of those.

"Very well.. How about you boy? Do you wish to challenge my Great-Granddaughter
and back up your boast?" asked the decrypted old woman. 'A little training here
and there, and this boy would make a perfect husband for Xain Pu..'

Ranma noticed the gleam in the old woman's eye and how Ranko suddenly became
tense and her smile strained, but lo-and-behold, pride reared it's ugly head.

"Sure! No problem! I'll be back in a couple minutes Ranko, this shouldn't take
too long." With that, he shot a grin at the red head and leaped onto the
suspended log. He idly wondered why Ranko didn't want to take on the purple
haired girl. And what the hell did she mean she was better than him? Yeah,
right!

'Ranma, you moron..' she moaned to herself. 'Figures the moment we get in the
village, he lets himself be tricked into a marriage challenge. Dolt...'

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Ranma grinned at the purple tressed girl as he landed.

"-Who are you? How dare you disgrace the Challenge Log, Outsider!-" demanded the girl from her opposite
position on the log.

"-This boy believes he can defeat you, Xain Pu. Quite easily, too, from his boasting. He's agreed to fight you to prove it.-"
replied the gnarled gnome.

"-WHAT?! How dare he! I'll kill you, Outsider!-" raged the girl as she darted towards her
opponent.

Ranma smirked as he instantly found a hole in her defense. He lashed out with a
blindingly fast snap kick to her over-extended bonbori, knocking it out of her
hand and opening her defenses. He shifted his weight and twisted his hips,
flowing into a spinning sidekick that tagged her in the solar plexus. As she shot backwards
from the force of the kick, she ricocheted off the support tower and slammed
into the ground.

The crowd sat stunned as the boy leaped off the log to land in front of his
companion.

"See? Told ya! No time at all," he boasted with a smirk.

"Oh? And what do you plan on doing about that?" she questioned, looking behind
him with half-lidded eyes and folded arms.

"Eh?" he replied as he turned around to watch the purple hared girl drunkenly
stumble towards him. 'Wow, she's determined ain't s--' his mental musings
suddenly cut off as he was kissed.

He stared stupidly at the girl as she broke the kiss. He watched in detached
shock as she opened her mouth to speak...

Only to be shut up as a delicate fist slammed into her mouth half a second later.

Once again he detachedly watched the girl fly 50 feet and ricochet off a log.
He stared over his shoulder, wide eyed at the golden glowing red head. He
glanced at the arm still extended over his other shoulder and gulped.

"Let's go, Ranma," Ranko ordered, putting the boy in a head lock with her
extended arm. For once, Ranma's brain was active and he simply nodded as she
dragged him towards the village gates, pulling Genma by his ear as he walked
out from a store.

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"Ow! Let go girl!" bellowed Genma, right before grunting as he hit the ground.

"Hey Ranko, could ya let me go? Please?" timidly asked Ranma of the glowing
girl. He too grunted as he met the Earth. Maybe she wasn't kidding about being
able to beat him up. He idly wondered how that was since he'd seen no fighting
practice in her memories in that weird place they met. His thoughts were
derailed as she began to yell at him.

"Ranma, what were you thinking challenging her?!" glared the red head.

"Hey! I've never backed down from a fight, and I ain't gonna start now!" he
shot back as he rose to his feet, rubbing his neck.

"You dolt! What about the Outsider Laws?!" Ranko screamed in frustration.

"Outsider? ..... Oh.. Shit.."

"Oh, so NOW you remember? What do you plan on doing about her?"

"Hold it! What Laws are you talking about?" interjected Genma into the
argument.

"According Amazon Law, Ranma is now engaged to that girl!" answered Ranko, with
a glare for interrupting their argument.

"WHAT?! Foolish boy! What were you thinking?!" bellowed Genma with a smack to
the back of Ranma's head. "You should be thankful the girl saved you from those
women!"

'Heh! I'm so smart for getting her to come with us!' he mentally added. 'She'll
soon tell me how to cure myself too!'

"Hey! She coulda warned me earlier! And it's not like she's in any better
position!" Ranma shot back.

"What? Who do you have to marry?"

"No one!" she hollered.

"Yeah, you just have an Amazon after your head," was Ranma's bland reply.

"WHAT?! She's going to try and hunt you down? And she wants to marry my boy?!"
yelled Genma in a panic. 'Maybe bringing her along wasn't such a good idea!
Foolish boy! Tricking me like that!'

Looking over their shoulders, Ranko broke into the rant. "Whats say we leave?
Like, right now?"

"What? Why?" questioned Ranma with a confused look.

Only to have his question answered by an arrow embedding itself into the ground
a few feet to his side. "Right. Pop, we're leaving."

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