Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction ❯ RaEl Book1: A Long Forgotten Legacy ❯ Ra-El Chp 21 - till end of book 1 ( Chapter 5 )
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By: Jhyarelle 
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.11.2007 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.5K | Visits: 833 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Ranma 1/2 Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Martial Arts / Action | Type: Crossover | Uploaded On: 05.11.2007 | Pages: 6 | Words: 5.5K | Visits: 833 | Status: Work In Progress
Ra-El Book1 Chp 21: Just Another Normal Day
“I’m the Black Rose darling. Now be a good boy and Kneel.”
A black thumb width cable shot out her bracer covered with thorns and laced around Hiryu’s neck. Suddenly large current of electricity ran through the cable sending the half teen Kryptonian to his hand and knees. The Black Rosed leaped over him in a somersault with half twist and landed behind him. She planted her stiletto-armored boot between Hiryu’s shoulder blades and pulled sharply on the cord. Hiryu did his best to ignore the coursing pain through his body as he slammed his fists on the beam both he and this Black Rose is currently occupying causing it vibrate enough to make her loose her balance. Hiryu then used this moment of distraction to free himself from the cord wrapped around his neck and with blinding speed tied her hands with it. The voltage coursed through the Black Rose making her scream in pain till her power suit overloaded and she began to fall unconscious. Hiryu tried to save her, but multiple flash bang rounds were fire directly at him from multiple directions temporarily blinding him. When Hiryu could focus his vision clearly, he was alone atop the tower. He looked over the edge to see if she fell, but from what he could see no one fell from the tower nor did he cause any major structural damage to the tower when he struck the beam where they stood. Nonetheless several people were panicked by the sudden disturbance at the tower.
“Dammit!” he thought. “I didn’t get to read her aura, now how am I suppose to look out for her. What the hell does she want?” he thought.
Hiryu looked over the giant digital clock by the Fuji building and noticed that it was nearly three A.M. and jetted off to the Saotome home.
XxX
Four and half hours later give or take few minutes, a knock came from outside Ranma’s room.
“Ranma? Ranma, breakfast is ready. You’ll be late for class,” Kasumi’s voice came form the other side of the door.
No answer. Kasumi tried knocking again, which woke up Nabiki whose room, was directly across from Ranma’s.
“Kasumi what are you doing,” Nabiki asked with a yawn as she opened her door.
“Oh sorry to wake you Nabiki. It just its nearly quarter to eight and Ranma is not up yet. His breakfast is getting cold and he’ll be late for school…”
Nabiki brushed past Kasumi before she could finish and opened Ranma’s door and went in and Kasumi followed after her.
“Nabiki, I don’t think barging into Ranma’s room is…”
Kasumi once again could not finish her sentence as she now has matching facial expression as her sister’s. Well minus the slight drool coming the corner of Nabiki’s mouth. Both sisters were quite surprise from what they saw.
AN: I’ll leave that to your twisted minds.
“O-h-m-y!”
“Ditto sis.”
“Ladies it’s not polite to stare.”
By the time Ranma was sitting up on his bed, he was treated to show of super speed by a pair of blushing sister who probably broke the sound barrier in their rush to get out of his room. A slight wicked grin adorned his face.
“Serves Nabiki right, bust’n in here like that. Didn’t want Kasumi caught in the crossfire though. Any ways, I’ll be make’n it up to Nabiki tonight anyhow, now how do I make this up to Kasumi?” he thought.
Ranma fell back to his comfortable bed and began to stretch like a cat (AN: Ironic I know). Suddenly something pounced onto his chest.
“Aaaaaaaaaa!” Ranma yelled as he quickly shut his eyes and threw his hands over them, since he doesn’t want to once again explain to the Tendo sisters how a car-sized hole was blasted through his wall. Not to mention convincing them that he knew a contractor that can patch up the hole in less than a day under an hour.
The orange fur ball settled onto his chest and began to nuzzle his jaw.
“Geez Lime, do you want me to blow another hole through my wall again?”
The small kitten continued to nuzzle Ranma’s jaw with slight Cheshire look on its face.
“I’m gonna put a bell on you yet, I swear.”
Ranma placed the kitten on his pillow as he super sped to the bathroom showered, dressed and went down stairs.
“Morning girls,” Ranma said with a little too much enthusiasm as he made his was to the kitchen and surprised the Tendo girls.
Kasumi had blush on her face as Ranma smiled at her and Nabiki nearly dropped her toast when Ranma gave one of those “gotcha” grins.
“Ranma you got up awfully late. You’ll be late for class, so I had Kasumi make you an extra helping in your bento. Would you like so milk before you go.” Nodoka asked.
“No thanks mom. I ain’t hungry this morning,” Ranma said as he gave his mom a kiss on the cheek and grabbed his shoes and satchel.
“Thanks for the bento Kasumi. See you round school later?” He added.
Ranma was rewarded by faint smile and blush from the angelic Tendo girl as he she told him that it was her day off. Ranma then walked by Nabiki before leaving and whispered something to her that made her turn beet red and drop her toast. Nodoka paid not attention to it as she left the kitchen with a hidden smile on her face. Kasumi waited till Ranma was gone before she walked up to her sister and shook her out of her stupor.
“What did he say Nabiki, it wasn’t inappropriate was it,” Kasumi asked.
When Nabiki got back her composure she looked at her sister and said, “He said the fist look was free and well you know…”
“Oh my.”
“Please sis, he’s got nothing on my date tonight.”
“Just what do you mean by that?”
“Oh, I’ll be home late tonight and nothing too improper, I just have a date to see Hiryu.”
“Won’t that be cutting in on his time being a superhero and all?”
“He gave me his word for an interview, beside the guy has to eat.”
Suddenly Nabiki cell phone rang.
“Nabiki here,” She answered.
“Hello Chloe. Yes I got your e-mail on what I have to ask him tonight and no you still can’t come with. Don’t worry I’ll give you the juicy bits tomorrow, barring he doesn’t wear me out too much.”
That last comment earned her a pinch from Kasumi, which she replied by playfully sticking her tongue out at her.
XxX
Ranma Jumped over the wall of the Saotome estate and saw Mina and Ganseki walking about a block ahead of him on the way to school. He made sure no one noticed him and super sped up to catch up with the two love birds. Ranma was happy that his technophilic friend was able to get back together with her boyfriend after a year or two apart. They really seem to compliment each other in a weird jock geek thing that only a romance (-) writer could dream of. Some part of Ranma was even a little jealous at the happiness they have, but he brushed his envy aside knowing that if his friends were happy, then who was he to stand in the way of that happiness.
“Hey lovebirds,” Ranma called out right behind Mina.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Mina screamed and jumped straight up as Ranma greeted her and Ganseki out of nowhere.
Ranma moved Ganseki like life sized marionette and positioned him to catch Mina’s fall.
“Saotome, you really aught stop scaring Mina everyday like that, otherwise her hair will turn all white before her time,” Ganseki said mid laugh as he placed Mina down, which Mina retaliated by elbowing him in the gut.
“Hey, she told me that all her toys are able to let her know if any one was sneaking up on her. I took it as personal challenge to see if her toys actually work,” Ranma said as they resumed their way to school.
“Geez Ranma are you ever gonna tell me how you bypass my personal radar systems, or are you just waiting for me to actually have a heart attack first,” Mina said in playfully angry tone.
“And rob you of the satisfaction of figuring out that little conundrum on your own,” Ranma replied.
“Wow Saotome! Those tutoring sessions with Ami must be paying off for you to pull off using conundrum in sentence,” Mina fired off.
“You think the way you two are going at it, that you and Mina are that ones goin out,” a familiar female voice said.
When Ranma, Mina and Ganseki turned to see who said that, they were pleasantly surprised to see the Kounji twins waking briskly to catch up with them.
“Morning Sempai,” Makoto said as she claimed Ranma’s right arm and pulling him closer to her.
“Morning Ran-chan,” Ukyo said as she did the same as her sister with Ranma’s other arm.
“Hi girls. How come Hotaru ain’t with you guys today,” Ranma said nervously.
And like magic out of thin air Hotaru shows up and gives Ranma a hug.
“Good morning Ranma-oniisan,” came from the dark violet haired girl.
Mina and Ganseki took this opportunity to take some embarrassing photos of Ranma being in the middle of three-way tug-o-war, before leaving Ranma to the three girls tender mercy.
XxX
JLA Watchtower
Superman rang the doorbell to Batman’s private quarters. The door opened and he went in to see both Batman and Question discussing some thing over a map of Japan.
“Care to fill me in on this one Bruce,” Superman asked.
“Question and I are working on way to get that kid who using a facsimile of you family logo,” Batman said as he unfolded a blue print over the map he and Question were working on.
“I’m working on it Bruce, the kid’s hard to pin down and I don’t wan to scare him off,” Superman said defensively.
“Not good enough. I don’t want another mess like what we dealt with a year ago, when another “S” thinking that they’re here to help, only to wind up nearly destroying existence as we know it.”
“This kid is not Superboy Prime.”
“Can you honestly say that after Conner?”
Kal-El was taken back by what Bruce said.
“How can I help?” Superman asked solemnly.
“Mind using your heat vision to heat up this coffee? Bruce may be up to par as detective, but as host he sucks!” Question said trying to lighten the tension.
XxX
Back at Cross Roads HS
“Class I want to introduce you to a new student,” Ms. Kazami said as she opened the door to her class.
A young man of seventeen waked in and stood by the teacher’s desk.
“Please introduce your self,” Ms. Kazami said.
“Tenchi Masaki, please to meet you all,” the young man said as he bowed.
“Please take a seat next to Mr. Saotome,” Ms Kazami said to Tenchi and turned to the class, “Mr. Saotome please raise your hand.”
Tenchi made his way to seat and greeted Ranma.
“Hi, I’m Tenchi Masaki,” he said as he offered him his hand.
“Hey, Ranma Saotome,” Ranma replied as he shook his hand.
Ranma paid attention to his aura and already pegged him for the guy who helped out the other day downtown with the giant robot mess. In the back of Ranma’s mind, he thought about his life and how it now has the plot of comic book. Various heroes going to the same school together, sounds too good to be true (-). He let the thought pass as the Ms. Kazami rambled on about today’s lecture on thermal expansion. He kept an eye on the Masaki kid every now and paid close attention of the aura he produced. He seemed very self-conscious of what others think of him and seems to go out of his way to blend in, completely the opposite of Ganseki. He’s ego and in and out of the suit can rival his own.
The bell rang for lunch and Ranma took his usual exit via jumping out the 4th floor window and making sure he dodged the newly formed club called “Ride the Wild Horse” members.
“Man, just my luck,” Ranma thought, “there had to be a school club based on dating me and not only that but they have pool going on who gets to sleep with me too.”
Yes this is very stressful to our valiant hero, but this is Ranma your reading about, if he had it easy; it ain’t Ranma. Ranma had his lunch on a large branch of an oak tree within the school grounds. Normally Ranma inhales his food fearing that it would be taken from him, but since he knows that that’s not gonna happen any more, he enjoys savoring his lunch. Kasumi cooks like a goddess and Ranma has been sure never to take her for granted. In fact she reminds him of the goddess he met when he stayed at a temple sometime ago when he was searching for his mother. At that very moment a beautiful goddess preparing lunch for beloved Keichi let out a light sneeze. After finishing his lunch Ranma lay on the branch with his hands behind his head. When suddenly…
BAM!
A soccer ball came out of nowhere knocked Ranma off the branch. Ranma landed with a thud, hands out in three point and pissed off.
“Sorry Saotome. Do you mind,” Ganseki called from the soccer field nearby.
Ranma had an evil grin on his face as he prepared to kick the ball back to him. Ranma wound up and let the ball have it with enough force and ki to make a spectacular shot. The ball flew through the air headed towards Ganseki so fast that it parted the grass on its way and looked like it was going to hit him before he could do anything. Then suddenly the ball arced and headed for one of the goal nets and ripped through it and landed in the grass before it deflated. Ganseki was stupefied as he stood there with dots for eyes at what just happened. He turned to look for Ranma; he was nowhere to be seen.
Ranma used his phantom zone technique and flew to the roof of the school, which was thankfully vacant. Ranma landed and dispelled the technique and leaned on the chain-linked fence. Suddenly the door to the roof opened and Ami came falling on the floor followed by a group of girls that were seniors. Ranma quickly and stealthily positioned himself out of the view of the girl to see what was going on.
AN: forgot to mention Ami was a junior with way too much advanced what med classes. What the hey, here's the rest of the cast’s. Hotaru is a freshman. Ranma, Mina, Makoto, Ukyo, Ganseki, Tenchi are sophomores.
“Just what is your relationship with Ranma,” one of the girls with black hair in a ponytail said.
“What does hunk like that need a bookworm like you for,” a red haired girl said.
“Word on the school campus says that you’ve been seen hanging around him and someone said that they saw you coming from his house,” a blond in a long braided ponytail said.
“It doesn’t matter. You’re forbidden to be anywhere Ranma you hear us bookworm. Otherwise there will be some physical negotiations that have to take place.” The tall brunette said.
Ranma made his presence known has walked out of his hiding spot.
“Really just what kind of physical negotiation are we walking about here,” he said as he came to view of the girls and he looks mad.
“Ranma,” all but Ami said with hearts in their eyes.
Ranma ignored them as he brushed past them and walked up to Ami and helped her up. Ami mindlessly accepted his help and stood by him and didn’t even notice that he draped his arm around her in protective manner.
“But Ranma…” one of the girls said.
Ranma turned to girls with a harsh glare shutting them up immediately.
“I have a policy, “Mess with my friends and answer to me”, he said as he turn to walk back Ami to the building.
“Ranma you didn’t have to do that,” Ami said as they made their way down the stairs.
“No big deal Ami-chan. No one messes my friends Ami, no one. I have very few I can really call friends and so I tend to hold on tightly to ones I have and you Ami-chan are one of those few,” Ranma said nonchalantly never realizing that his arm was still draped around her shoulders.
Ami blushed at the statement as she just now noticed that Ranma’s arm was around her.
“Mom was right about you Ranma,” Ami said as lean against him a daring act even for her.
A typical Ranma response of course occurred as he stood in attention, gulped and his pigtail stood on end. Ami chuckled at this and took another daring act for her and kissed her hero on the cheek before taking off.
“Thank you Ranma, you’re a real good friend. I’ll see you tomorrow for tutoring,” she called out as she went off trying to hide a blush that was deepening.
Ranma regained his composure and touched the cheek that Ami kissed and smiled. He then felt a sharp pain in his chest that forced him to his knees. He then noticed that the yin-yang dragon mark that elder Ku Lon gave him was now visible and glowing. Ranma super sped up the stairs in phantom zone mode and quickly changed to is alter ego.
Hiryu busted through the door to the roof knocking the girls who were still stunned that Ranma stood up for Ami on their rears and had their ears ringing as he sonic boomed by them. Hiryu rocketed to his house and came through the window of his room, which he can telekinetically open when he’s near. Hiryu immediately picked up the metal-framed picture of Tsu –oap and it began to glow at the same time the mark on his hand and that sharp pain in his chest returned. Hiryu clutched his chest as the pain worsens as he leaned on the wall. Hiryu was about to take off through the window when Kasumi entered and gasped too see him in Ranma’s room. The pain in his chest increased and metal frame in his hands turned to dust which added several dimensions to pain to the one he was suffering, as once again the pain drove him to his knees. Kasumi rushed to his side as he fell unconscious to the floor.
A few minutes later Hiryu awoke to a pair of soft brown eyes staring at him was concern.
“Are you alright,” she asked.
“I think. How long was I out for,” he asked as he slowly got up and looked out the window.
“Only a few minutes, but was more worried about why you’re here. Then suddenly you collapsed, but then again this does answer a few questions. Especially why you are never home or come home very late at night. Right Ranma?”
Ra-El Book 1: Chp 22 Trouble on Mt. Phoenix Pt 1: You Can’t Go home Again
“Right Ranma,” Kasumi said with a smile.
Hiryu was taken back that Kasumi knew who he was.
“Ms. Tendo I assure you…”
Hiryu couldn’t continue with his reply as he noticed his appearance in the full-length mirror next to Kasumi. He noticed that his mask aura was no longer active.
Theory: loss of consciousness means loss concentration. Loss of concentration means…
“Why me,” Ranma thought.
Ranma hung his head to the predicament he’s in.
“You don’t have to worry Ranma, I won’t tell any one. Does you mother know?” Kasumi asked.
Ranma can only mindlessly nod, as he’s still trying to see away out of this.
“Kasumi I…”
“It’s ok Ranma, I happen to think that what you are a doing is wonderful. You also saved my sister and letting us stay with you.” Kasumi continued.
Ranma sat on his bed and thought about what Kasumi said.
“It would be nice to know that mom was not the only one burdened by the knowledge of this, but the consequences that comes with knowing who I am might place her in danger,” Ranma thought.
Any other thoughts were blasted out of his head when…
“Kasumi do you mind if I borrow one of you more fancier dresses for my date with Hiryu to...n…ight,” Nabiki asked as she came in with out knocking.
A sudden moment of silence as seen in most anime situations similar to this, along with a swirly wind effect goes by.
Perspective: Nabiki
1) Came into Ranma’s room to find Kasumi sitting on Ranma’s bed with Ranma sitting near her.
2) Ranma quickly gets up looking like he did some thing wrong, thus making him look guilty.
3) Ranma is in full Hiryu attire.
4) Conclusion: “Kasumi had finally made a move on guy, on her own, and she’s into cos-play. Kinky!” Nabiki thought.
Perspective: Ranma
1) Kasumi knows.
“Damn”
2) Nabiki busts in and finds her sister and me alone. In my room.
“Damn, Shit”
3) Nabiki now knows.
“Damn, Shit, Fuck”
4) Conclusion: “I’m friggin dead,” Ranma thought.
Perspective: Kasumi
“Oh my!”
Back to reality:
“Sis I’m very happy that found someone, really I am, but isn’t a little too soon to be role playing.”
This is probably the only time that Kasumi was stunned speechless. Nabiki then turned to Ranma standing there, looking like he did something wrong. Nabiki gave him the once over and smirked.
“You fill the suit Ranma baby, but you’re no Hiryu,” she said nonchalantly.
That was enough to knock Ranma out of his stupor.
“R…really,” he replied as his right eye twitched.
“Of course not Ranma baby, you’re great eye candy I’ll give you that; but you’re nothing compared to the real thing,” Nabiki fire back.
Ranma and Kasumi caught each other’s eye and shared a mental “If you only know”.
“Well sorry to intrude on your kinky sex games, but I got to get ready for a date with a real hero… err Hiryu. Oh and Ranma be gentle with Kasumi, you might just be her first,” Nabiki finished as she exited the room leaving two at mid face fault.
When the two gathered themselves they decided that it was best to continue their talk much later.
“Kasumi I really wish that we could talk a little longer, but…”
Ranma was silenced when Kasumi placed the tips of her fingers to his lips.
“It’s alright, you have be somewhere right now. Just promise me one thing when you get back,” she said in barely a whisper.
“(Gulp!) N…name it Kasumi.”
“Take me on a ride…”
Ranma’s eyes were now about a third the size of his head when heard what Kasumi said, well actually he only heard half of what Kasumi said.
“I’d like to know what’s it like to fly like bird.”
Then green light went on in Ranma’s head.
“F…fly sure no p…problem. I’ll take you on a ride…err for a ride.” Plants palm to face. “I’ll take you fly’n. I got to go.”
And with that Ranma turned on his mask aura, which elicited a slight gasp from Kasumi and took off out the window like a bullet.
Nabiki was just exiting the Saotome home when she blue black blur flew over the house at supersonic speeds. The flight path looked liked it originated from the back of the house. She knew only few things that moved like that and was about to let go but she made a B-line to the backyard and looked up to see the window to Ranma’s room was open with the curtains fluttering in the breeze.
“Ranma.” Nabiki called out.
Back in Ranma’s room, Kasumi heard her sister call out for Ranma. Kasumi had to think fast. Quickly she roughed up her clothes and mussed up her hair to pull out the performance of lifetime since she knew her sister has a pretty good innate lie detector. As she quickly prepared for the rouse, a bush crept on her cheek about what she’s about to do and its consequences.
“Here goes nothing,” Kasumi thought and made her way to the window.
“What is it Nabiki,” she asked.
Nabiki’s eyes were about to pop out of her head when she saw her sister come to the window looking like she all but had her clothes ripped off her and her hair looked worse for ware as well.
“Nabiki!”
“Uhhh…” was all Nabiki could utter for the moment.
“Well?” Kasumi asked.
Nabiki gathered her wits or what left of them after seeing her sister looking like well…someone who got interrupted in the middle of getting “laid”.
“Uhhh… Is Ranma still up there?” Nabiki asked.
“Why yes he is …oooohhh!”
From Nabiki’s view point it looked like someone grabbed her sister from behind, but she couldn’t see him.
“Ranma, behave.” Kasumi said a she turned around to scold the supposed Ranma.
“You can have your turn with him later sister or would you rather join us.” Kasumi said with a straight face.
Folks picture a Nabiki just standing there after hearing this. Her eyes are now just dots in the middle of her face and a sweat drop on the upper left hand side of her head. Suddenly (figuratively) something blows on the back of Nabiki’s head causing her to tilt her head to the left.
“Uhhhh…. M…maybe next time sis I go to go meet Chloe bye.”
As soon as the last word came out of Nabiki’s mouth she was gone leaving Nabiki-shape cloud of dust behind her.
“Prim and proper my ass,” Nabiki thought as she bolted from the Saotome home.
XxX
Zooming over the horizon at mach one Hiryu had only one thought going through his head.
“I have to get there quick. There has to be a way for me to go faster.”
He then suddenly found himself flying between two JAF (Japanese Air Force) jets.
An: I really don’t know much of how the military work in Japan or any where in Asia, but just remember, this is fiction after all.
“Not again,” he thought.
Then suddenly his earring began to slightly hum.
“Lieutenant Colonel Kaiba report.”
“Sir, First Lieutenant Pegasus and I are at the coordinates and UFO is sighted as Hiryu.”
“Can you establish contact?”
“Cool,” Hiryu thought, “not only is this a universal translator but a communications device as well. Got ta love K-tech.”
“Neg…”
“I can hear you just fine gentlemen. What do you guys want,” Hiryu asked.
“How can you that,” called the second pilot.
“Pegasus! Know your place.”
“Gomenasai Lieutenant Colonel Kaiba.”
“Hiryu you are flying in restricted airspace and heading towards the boarder. We would like to know the reason why you’re headed there,” Kaiba said.
“I have to help some friends overseas and I would really appreciate it if you don’t shoot me down this time and on the way back.”
“Sir that was you? Gomenasai Hiryu-san. We thought you were a hostile threat heading for Japan,” the second pilot said.
“Pegasus!”
“Gomen.”
“Hiryu allow us to accompany you as far as we can,” Kaiba said.
“Suit your self,” Hiryu said and waved as he continued to head towards China.
Soon they reached the boarder between Japan waters and Cheju-Do and bid their farewells and Hiryu continued to rocket towards his destination.
“Sir, why did you make me apologize to Hiryu again? You were the one who fired the first shot,” Pegasus asked.
“Can it Pegasus,” Kaiba said
“Both of you “can it” and get your asses back to base,” came from both their radios.
“Hai Major Mokuba.”
“Hai Major Mokuba. Returning to carrier Yugi.”
He was still quite a ways away and his chest began to ache once more and symbol on his hand glowed. Hiryu wanted to get there faster he just didn’t know how to do so. That was when he turned to the sun. His father told him that the sun was the source of some of the more extraordinary abilities Kryptonians and half-Kryptonians are blessed with. Hiryu flew higher and to the point that breathing became difficult, but he was able to absorb more solar energy. The shield on his chest began glow red and Hiryu blasted off towards the Amazon Village at intense speeds. Hiryu broke multiple sound barriers in his wake and never before had he reached these speeds. The whole world blurred passed him as he zoomed over Shanghai, a minute later over Anhwei. Seconds later he flew past Honan, Hupe, and Shensi. When he reached the boarder the divided Szechwan between China and Tibet, he saw an all familiar mountain range and smoke looming over the horizon coming from a great blaze. Hiryu had that feeling of dejavu’ as headed towards that direction. A split second later he landed in the middle of the Amazon village and…
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"A Taste Of Things To Come"
“(Some thing in Chinese)”
“What did the purple haired chick say did she say?”
“Roughly translated, “You no take, is family. You take, I kill””
“So this is the guy dubbed “The Son of Japan” and Bishonen Weekly’s “Teen Steel.”
Whack!
“Ow! What the heck is that for?”
“You read Bishonen Weekly?”
“I’m the Black Rose darling. Now be a good boy and Kneel.”
A black thumb width cable shot out her bracer covered with thorns and laced around Hiryu’s neck. Suddenly large current of electricity ran through the cable sending the half teen Kryptonian to his hand and knees. The Black Rosed leaped over him in a somersault with half twist and landed behind him. She planted her stiletto-armored boot between Hiryu’s shoulder blades and pulled sharply on the cord. Hiryu did his best to ignore the coursing pain through his body as he slammed his fists on the beam both he and this Black Rose is currently occupying causing it vibrate enough to make her loose her balance. Hiryu then used this moment of distraction to free himself from the cord wrapped around his neck and with blinding speed tied her hands with it. The voltage coursed through the Black Rose making her scream in pain till her power suit overloaded and she began to fall unconscious. Hiryu tried to save her, but multiple flash bang rounds were fire directly at him from multiple directions temporarily blinding him. When Hiryu could focus his vision clearly, he was alone atop the tower. He looked over the edge to see if she fell, but from what he could see no one fell from the tower nor did he cause any major structural damage to the tower when he struck the beam where they stood. Nonetheless several people were panicked by the sudden disturbance at the tower.
“Dammit!” he thought. “I didn’t get to read her aura, now how am I suppose to look out for her. What the hell does she want?” he thought.
Hiryu looked over the giant digital clock by the Fuji building and noticed that it was nearly three A.M. and jetted off to the Saotome home.
XxX
Four and half hours later give or take few minutes, a knock came from outside Ranma’s room.
“Ranma? Ranma, breakfast is ready. You’ll be late for class,” Kasumi’s voice came form the other side of the door.
No answer. Kasumi tried knocking again, which woke up Nabiki whose room, was directly across from Ranma’s.
“Kasumi what are you doing,” Nabiki asked with a yawn as she opened her door.
“Oh sorry to wake you Nabiki. It just its nearly quarter to eight and Ranma is not up yet. His breakfast is getting cold and he’ll be late for school…”
Nabiki brushed past Kasumi before she could finish and opened Ranma’s door and went in and Kasumi followed after her.
“Nabiki, I don’t think barging into Ranma’s room is…”
Kasumi once again could not finish her sentence as she now has matching facial expression as her sister’s. Well minus the slight drool coming the corner of Nabiki’s mouth. Both sisters were quite surprise from what they saw.
AN: I’ll leave that to your twisted minds.
“O-h-m-y!”
“Ditto sis.”
“Ladies it’s not polite to stare.”
By the time Ranma was sitting up on his bed, he was treated to show of super speed by a pair of blushing sister who probably broke the sound barrier in their rush to get out of his room. A slight wicked grin adorned his face.
“Serves Nabiki right, bust’n in here like that. Didn’t want Kasumi caught in the crossfire though. Any ways, I’ll be make’n it up to Nabiki tonight anyhow, now how do I make this up to Kasumi?” he thought.
Ranma fell back to his comfortable bed and began to stretch like a cat (AN: Ironic I know). Suddenly something pounced onto his chest.
“Aaaaaaaaaa!” Ranma yelled as he quickly shut his eyes and threw his hands over them, since he doesn’t want to once again explain to the Tendo sisters how a car-sized hole was blasted through his wall. Not to mention convincing them that he knew a contractor that can patch up the hole in less than a day under an hour.
The orange fur ball settled onto his chest and began to nuzzle his jaw.
“Geez Lime, do you want me to blow another hole through my wall again?”
The small kitten continued to nuzzle Ranma’s jaw with slight Cheshire look on its face.
“I’m gonna put a bell on you yet, I swear.”
Ranma placed the kitten on his pillow as he super sped to the bathroom showered, dressed and went down stairs.
“Morning girls,” Ranma said with a little too much enthusiasm as he made his was to the kitchen and surprised the Tendo girls.
Kasumi had blush on her face as Ranma smiled at her and Nabiki nearly dropped her toast when Ranma gave one of those “gotcha” grins.
“Ranma you got up awfully late. You’ll be late for class, so I had Kasumi make you an extra helping in your bento. Would you like so milk before you go.” Nodoka asked.
“No thanks mom. I ain’t hungry this morning,” Ranma said as he gave his mom a kiss on the cheek and grabbed his shoes and satchel.
“Thanks for the bento Kasumi. See you round school later?” He added.
Ranma was rewarded by faint smile and blush from the angelic Tendo girl as he she told him that it was her day off. Ranma then walked by Nabiki before leaving and whispered something to her that made her turn beet red and drop her toast. Nodoka paid not attention to it as she left the kitchen with a hidden smile on her face. Kasumi waited till Ranma was gone before she walked up to her sister and shook her out of her stupor.
“What did he say Nabiki, it wasn’t inappropriate was it,” Kasumi asked.
When Nabiki got back her composure she looked at her sister and said, “He said the fist look was free and well you know…”
“Oh my.”
“Please sis, he’s got nothing on my date tonight.”
“Just what do you mean by that?”
“Oh, I’ll be home late tonight and nothing too improper, I just have a date to see Hiryu.”
“Won’t that be cutting in on his time being a superhero and all?”
“He gave me his word for an interview, beside the guy has to eat.”
Suddenly Nabiki cell phone rang.
“Nabiki here,” She answered.
“Hello Chloe. Yes I got your e-mail on what I have to ask him tonight and no you still can’t come with. Don’t worry I’ll give you the juicy bits tomorrow, barring he doesn’t wear me out too much.”
That last comment earned her a pinch from Kasumi, which she replied by playfully sticking her tongue out at her.
XxX
Ranma Jumped over the wall of the Saotome estate and saw Mina and Ganseki walking about a block ahead of him on the way to school. He made sure no one noticed him and super sped up to catch up with the two love birds. Ranma was happy that his technophilic friend was able to get back together with her boyfriend after a year or two apart. They really seem to compliment each other in a weird jock geek thing that only a romance (-) writer could dream of. Some part of Ranma was even a little jealous at the happiness they have, but he brushed his envy aside knowing that if his friends were happy, then who was he to stand in the way of that happiness.
“Hey lovebirds,” Ranma called out right behind Mina.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” Mina screamed and jumped straight up as Ranma greeted her and Ganseki out of nowhere.
Ranma moved Ganseki like life sized marionette and positioned him to catch Mina’s fall.
“Saotome, you really aught stop scaring Mina everyday like that, otherwise her hair will turn all white before her time,” Ganseki said mid laugh as he placed Mina down, which Mina retaliated by elbowing him in the gut.
“Hey, she told me that all her toys are able to let her know if any one was sneaking up on her. I took it as personal challenge to see if her toys actually work,” Ranma said as they resumed their way to school.
“Geez Ranma are you ever gonna tell me how you bypass my personal radar systems, or are you just waiting for me to actually have a heart attack first,” Mina said in playfully angry tone.
“And rob you of the satisfaction of figuring out that little conundrum on your own,” Ranma replied.
“Wow Saotome! Those tutoring sessions with Ami must be paying off for you to pull off using conundrum in sentence,” Mina fired off.
“You think the way you two are going at it, that you and Mina are that ones goin out,” a familiar female voice said.
When Ranma, Mina and Ganseki turned to see who said that, they were pleasantly surprised to see the Kounji twins waking briskly to catch up with them.
“Morning Sempai,” Makoto said as she claimed Ranma’s right arm and pulling him closer to her.
“Morning Ran-chan,” Ukyo said as she did the same as her sister with Ranma’s other arm.
“Hi girls. How come Hotaru ain’t with you guys today,” Ranma said nervously.
And like magic out of thin air Hotaru shows up and gives Ranma a hug.
“Good morning Ranma-oniisan,” came from the dark violet haired girl.
Mina and Ganseki took this opportunity to take some embarrassing photos of Ranma being in the middle of three-way tug-o-war, before leaving Ranma to the three girls tender mercy.
XxX
JLA Watchtower
Superman rang the doorbell to Batman’s private quarters. The door opened and he went in to see both Batman and Question discussing some thing over a map of Japan.
“Care to fill me in on this one Bruce,” Superman asked.
“Question and I are working on way to get that kid who using a facsimile of you family logo,” Batman said as he unfolded a blue print over the map he and Question were working on.
“I’m working on it Bruce, the kid’s hard to pin down and I don’t wan to scare him off,” Superman said defensively.
“Not good enough. I don’t want another mess like what we dealt with a year ago, when another “S” thinking that they’re here to help, only to wind up nearly destroying existence as we know it.”
“This kid is not Superboy Prime.”
“Can you honestly say that after Conner?”
Kal-El was taken back by what Bruce said.
“How can I help?” Superman asked solemnly.
“Mind using your heat vision to heat up this coffee? Bruce may be up to par as detective, but as host he sucks!” Question said trying to lighten the tension.
XxX
Back at Cross Roads HS
“Class I want to introduce you to a new student,” Ms. Kazami said as she opened the door to her class.
A young man of seventeen waked in and stood by the teacher’s desk.
“Please introduce your self,” Ms. Kazami said.
“Tenchi Masaki, please to meet you all,” the young man said as he bowed.
“Please take a seat next to Mr. Saotome,” Ms Kazami said to Tenchi and turned to the class, “Mr. Saotome please raise your hand.”
Tenchi made his way to seat and greeted Ranma.
“Hi, I’m Tenchi Masaki,” he said as he offered him his hand.
“Hey, Ranma Saotome,” Ranma replied as he shook his hand.
Ranma paid attention to his aura and already pegged him for the guy who helped out the other day downtown with the giant robot mess. In the back of Ranma’s mind, he thought about his life and how it now has the plot of comic book. Various heroes going to the same school together, sounds too good to be true (-). He let the thought pass as the Ms. Kazami rambled on about today’s lecture on thermal expansion. He kept an eye on the Masaki kid every now and paid close attention of the aura he produced. He seemed very self-conscious of what others think of him and seems to go out of his way to blend in, completely the opposite of Ganseki. He’s ego and in and out of the suit can rival his own.
The bell rang for lunch and Ranma took his usual exit via jumping out the 4th floor window and making sure he dodged the newly formed club called “Ride the Wild Horse” members.
“Man, just my luck,” Ranma thought, “there had to be a school club based on dating me and not only that but they have pool going on who gets to sleep with me too.”
Yes this is very stressful to our valiant hero, but this is Ranma your reading about, if he had it easy; it ain’t Ranma. Ranma had his lunch on a large branch of an oak tree within the school grounds. Normally Ranma inhales his food fearing that it would be taken from him, but since he knows that that’s not gonna happen any more, he enjoys savoring his lunch. Kasumi cooks like a goddess and Ranma has been sure never to take her for granted. In fact she reminds him of the goddess he met when he stayed at a temple sometime ago when he was searching for his mother. At that very moment a beautiful goddess preparing lunch for beloved Keichi let out a light sneeze. After finishing his lunch Ranma lay on the branch with his hands behind his head. When suddenly…
BAM!
A soccer ball came out of nowhere knocked Ranma off the branch. Ranma landed with a thud, hands out in three point and pissed off.
“Sorry Saotome. Do you mind,” Ganseki called from the soccer field nearby.
Ranma had an evil grin on his face as he prepared to kick the ball back to him. Ranma wound up and let the ball have it with enough force and ki to make a spectacular shot. The ball flew through the air headed towards Ganseki so fast that it parted the grass on its way and looked like it was going to hit him before he could do anything. Then suddenly the ball arced and headed for one of the goal nets and ripped through it and landed in the grass before it deflated. Ganseki was stupefied as he stood there with dots for eyes at what just happened. He turned to look for Ranma; he was nowhere to be seen.
Ranma used his phantom zone technique and flew to the roof of the school, which was thankfully vacant. Ranma landed and dispelled the technique and leaned on the chain-linked fence. Suddenly the door to the roof opened and Ami came falling on the floor followed by a group of girls that were seniors. Ranma quickly and stealthily positioned himself out of the view of the girl to see what was going on.
AN: forgot to mention Ami was a junior with way too much advanced what med classes. What the hey, here's the rest of the cast’s. Hotaru is a freshman. Ranma, Mina, Makoto, Ukyo, Ganseki, Tenchi are sophomores.
“Just what is your relationship with Ranma,” one of the girls with black hair in a ponytail said.
“What does hunk like that need a bookworm like you for,” a red haired girl said.
“Word on the school campus says that you’ve been seen hanging around him and someone said that they saw you coming from his house,” a blond in a long braided ponytail said.
“It doesn’t matter. You’re forbidden to be anywhere Ranma you hear us bookworm. Otherwise there will be some physical negotiations that have to take place.” The tall brunette said.
Ranma made his presence known has walked out of his hiding spot.
“Really just what kind of physical negotiation are we walking about here,” he said as he came to view of the girls and he looks mad.
“Ranma,” all but Ami said with hearts in their eyes.
Ranma ignored them as he brushed past them and walked up to Ami and helped her up. Ami mindlessly accepted his help and stood by him and didn’t even notice that he draped his arm around her in protective manner.
“But Ranma…” one of the girls said.
Ranma turned to girls with a harsh glare shutting them up immediately.
“I have a policy, “Mess with my friends and answer to me”, he said as he turn to walk back Ami to the building.
“Ranma you didn’t have to do that,” Ami said as they made their way down the stairs.
“No big deal Ami-chan. No one messes my friends Ami, no one. I have very few I can really call friends and so I tend to hold on tightly to ones I have and you Ami-chan are one of those few,” Ranma said nonchalantly never realizing that his arm was still draped around her shoulders.
Ami blushed at the statement as she just now noticed that Ranma’s arm was around her.
“Mom was right about you Ranma,” Ami said as lean against him a daring act even for her.
A typical Ranma response of course occurred as he stood in attention, gulped and his pigtail stood on end. Ami chuckled at this and took another daring act for her and kissed her hero on the cheek before taking off.
“Thank you Ranma, you’re a real good friend. I’ll see you tomorrow for tutoring,” she called out as she went off trying to hide a blush that was deepening.
Ranma regained his composure and touched the cheek that Ami kissed and smiled. He then felt a sharp pain in his chest that forced him to his knees. He then noticed that the yin-yang dragon mark that elder Ku Lon gave him was now visible and glowing. Ranma super sped up the stairs in phantom zone mode and quickly changed to is alter ego.
Hiryu busted through the door to the roof knocking the girls who were still stunned that Ranma stood up for Ami on their rears and had their ears ringing as he sonic boomed by them. Hiryu rocketed to his house and came through the window of his room, which he can telekinetically open when he’s near. Hiryu immediately picked up the metal-framed picture of Tsu –oap and it began to glow at the same time the mark on his hand and that sharp pain in his chest returned. Hiryu clutched his chest as the pain worsens as he leaned on the wall. Hiryu was about to take off through the window when Kasumi entered and gasped too see him in Ranma’s room. The pain in his chest increased and metal frame in his hands turned to dust which added several dimensions to pain to the one he was suffering, as once again the pain drove him to his knees. Kasumi rushed to his side as he fell unconscious to the floor.
A few minutes later Hiryu awoke to a pair of soft brown eyes staring at him was concern.
“Are you alright,” she asked.
“I think. How long was I out for,” he asked as he slowly got up and looked out the window.
“Only a few minutes, but was more worried about why you’re here. Then suddenly you collapsed, but then again this does answer a few questions. Especially why you are never home or come home very late at night. Right Ranma?”
Ra-El Book 1: Chp 22 Trouble on Mt. Phoenix Pt 1: You Can’t Go home Again
“Right Ranma,” Kasumi said with a smile.
Hiryu was taken back that Kasumi knew who he was.
“Ms. Tendo I assure you…”
Hiryu couldn’t continue with his reply as he noticed his appearance in the full-length mirror next to Kasumi. He noticed that his mask aura was no longer active.
Theory: loss of consciousness means loss concentration. Loss of concentration means…
“Why me,” Ranma thought.
Ranma hung his head to the predicament he’s in.
“You don’t have to worry Ranma, I won’t tell any one. Does you mother know?” Kasumi asked.
Ranma can only mindlessly nod, as he’s still trying to see away out of this.
“Kasumi I…”
“It’s ok Ranma, I happen to think that what you are a doing is wonderful. You also saved my sister and letting us stay with you.” Kasumi continued.
Ranma sat on his bed and thought about what Kasumi said.
“It would be nice to know that mom was not the only one burdened by the knowledge of this, but the consequences that comes with knowing who I am might place her in danger,” Ranma thought.
Any other thoughts were blasted out of his head when…
“Kasumi do you mind if I borrow one of you more fancier dresses for my date with Hiryu to...n…ight,” Nabiki asked as she came in with out knocking.
A sudden moment of silence as seen in most anime situations similar to this, along with a swirly wind effect goes by.
Perspective: Nabiki
1) Came into Ranma’s room to find Kasumi sitting on Ranma’s bed with Ranma sitting near her.
2) Ranma quickly gets up looking like he did some thing wrong, thus making him look guilty.
3) Ranma is in full Hiryu attire.
4) Conclusion: “Kasumi had finally made a move on guy, on her own, and she’s into cos-play. Kinky!” Nabiki thought.
Perspective: Ranma
1) Kasumi knows.
“Damn”
2) Nabiki busts in and finds her sister and me alone. In my room.
“Damn, Shit”
3) Nabiki now knows.
“Damn, Shit, Fuck”
4) Conclusion: “I’m friggin dead,” Ranma thought.
Perspective: Kasumi
“Oh my!”
Back to reality:
“Sis I’m very happy that found someone, really I am, but isn’t a little too soon to be role playing.”
This is probably the only time that Kasumi was stunned speechless. Nabiki then turned to Ranma standing there, looking like he did something wrong. Nabiki gave him the once over and smirked.
“You fill the suit Ranma baby, but you’re no Hiryu,” she said nonchalantly.
That was enough to knock Ranma out of his stupor.
“R…really,” he replied as his right eye twitched.
“Of course not Ranma baby, you’re great eye candy I’ll give you that; but you’re nothing compared to the real thing,” Nabiki fire back.
Ranma and Kasumi caught each other’s eye and shared a mental “If you only know”.
“Well sorry to intrude on your kinky sex games, but I got to get ready for a date with a real hero… err Hiryu. Oh and Ranma be gentle with Kasumi, you might just be her first,” Nabiki finished as she exited the room leaving two at mid face fault.
When the two gathered themselves they decided that it was best to continue their talk much later.
“Kasumi I really wish that we could talk a little longer, but…”
Ranma was silenced when Kasumi placed the tips of her fingers to his lips.
“It’s alright, you have be somewhere right now. Just promise me one thing when you get back,” she said in barely a whisper.
“(Gulp!) N…name it Kasumi.”
“Take me on a ride…”
Ranma’s eyes were now about a third the size of his head when heard what Kasumi said, well actually he only heard half of what Kasumi said.
“I’d like to know what’s it like to fly like bird.”
Then green light went on in Ranma’s head.
“F…fly sure no p…problem. I’ll take you on a ride…err for a ride.” Plants palm to face. “I’ll take you fly’n. I got to go.”
And with that Ranma turned on his mask aura, which elicited a slight gasp from Kasumi and took off out the window like a bullet.
Nabiki was just exiting the Saotome home when she blue black blur flew over the house at supersonic speeds. The flight path looked liked it originated from the back of the house. She knew only few things that moved like that and was about to let go but she made a B-line to the backyard and looked up to see the window to Ranma’s room was open with the curtains fluttering in the breeze.
“Ranma.” Nabiki called out.
Back in Ranma’s room, Kasumi heard her sister call out for Ranma. Kasumi had to think fast. Quickly she roughed up her clothes and mussed up her hair to pull out the performance of lifetime since she knew her sister has a pretty good innate lie detector. As she quickly prepared for the rouse, a bush crept on her cheek about what she’s about to do and its consequences.
“Here goes nothing,” Kasumi thought and made her way to the window.
“What is it Nabiki,” she asked.
Nabiki’s eyes were about to pop out of her head when she saw her sister come to the window looking like she all but had her clothes ripped off her and her hair looked worse for ware as well.
“Nabiki!”
“Uhhh…” was all Nabiki could utter for the moment.
“Well?” Kasumi asked.
Nabiki gathered her wits or what left of them after seeing her sister looking like well…someone who got interrupted in the middle of getting “laid”.
“Uhhh… Is Ranma still up there?” Nabiki asked.
“Why yes he is …oooohhh!”
From Nabiki’s view point it looked like someone grabbed her sister from behind, but she couldn’t see him.
“Ranma, behave.” Kasumi said a she turned around to scold the supposed Ranma.
“You can have your turn with him later sister or would you rather join us.” Kasumi said with a straight face.
Folks picture a Nabiki just standing there after hearing this. Her eyes are now just dots in the middle of her face and a sweat drop on the upper left hand side of her head. Suddenly (figuratively) something blows on the back of Nabiki’s head causing her to tilt her head to the left.
“Uhhhh…. M…maybe next time sis I go to go meet Chloe bye.”
As soon as the last word came out of Nabiki’s mouth she was gone leaving Nabiki-shape cloud of dust behind her.
“Prim and proper my ass,” Nabiki thought as she bolted from the Saotome home.
XxX
Zooming over the horizon at mach one Hiryu had only one thought going through his head.
“I have to get there quick. There has to be a way for me to go faster.”
He then suddenly found himself flying between two JAF (Japanese Air Force) jets.
An: I really don’t know much of how the military work in Japan or any where in Asia, but just remember, this is fiction after all.
“Not again,” he thought.
Then suddenly his earring began to slightly hum.
“Lieutenant Colonel Kaiba report.”
“Sir, First Lieutenant Pegasus and I are at the coordinates and UFO is sighted as Hiryu.”
“Can you establish contact?”
“Cool,” Hiryu thought, “not only is this a universal translator but a communications device as well. Got ta love K-tech.”
“Neg…”
“I can hear you just fine gentlemen. What do you guys want,” Hiryu asked.
“How can you that,” called the second pilot.
“Pegasus! Know your place.”
“Gomenasai Lieutenant Colonel Kaiba.”
“Hiryu you are flying in restricted airspace and heading towards the boarder. We would like to know the reason why you’re headed there,” Kaiba said.
“I have to help some friends overseas and I would really appreciate it if you don’t shoot me down this time and on the way back.”
“Sir that was you? Gomenasai Hiryu-san. We thought you were a hostile threat heading for Japan,” the second pilot said.
“Pegasus!”
“Gomen.”
“Hiryu allow us to accompany you as far as we can,” Kaiba said.
“Suit your self,” Hiryu said and waved as he continued to head towards China.
Soon they reached the boarder between Japan waters and Cheju-Do and bid their farewells and Hiryu continued to rocket towards his destination.
“Sir, why did you make me apologize to Hiryu again? You were the one who fired the first shot,” Pegasus asked.
“Can it Pegasus,” Kaiba said
“Both of you “can it” and get your asses back to base,” came from both their radios.
“Hai Major Mokuba.”
“Hai Major Mokuba. Returning to carrier Yugi.”
He was still quite a ways away and his chest began to ache once more and symbol on his hand glowed. Hiryu wanted to get there faster he just didn’t know how to do so. That was when he turned to the sun. His father told him that the sun was the source of some of the more extraordinary abilities Kryptonians and half-Kryptonians are blessed with. Hiryu flew higher and to the point that breathing became difficult, but he was able to absorb more solar energy. The shield on his chest began glow red and Hiryu blasted off towards the Amazon Village at intense speeds. Hiryu broke multiple sound barriers in his wake and never before had he reached these speeds. The whole world blurred passed him as he zoomed over Shanghai, a minute later over Anhwei. Seconds later he flew past Honan, Hupe, and Shensi. When he reached the boarder the divided Szechwan between China and Tibet, he saw an all familiar mountain range and smoke looming over the horizon coming from a great blaze. Hiryu had that feeling of dejavu’ as headed towards that direction. A split second later he landed in the middle of the Amazon village and…
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"A Taste Of Things To Come"
“(Some thing in Chinese)”
“What did the purple haired chick say did she say?”
“Roughly translated, “You no take, is family. You take, I kill””
“So this is the guy dubbed “The Son of Japan” and Bishonen Weekly’s “Teen Steel.”
Whack!
“Ow! What the heck is that for?”
“You read Bishonen Weekly?”