Ranma Fanfiction: Meeting Later 18

ML18

some scenes.

Licking her lips, Akari Unryuu rode down the street on her prize champion sumo pig, Katsunishiki. To say she was nervous was an understatement, but after trying to open herself up to Shinnosoku she really wanted someone more normal.

-Honk honk-

Glancing back, Akari waved apologetically to the large flatbed pickup truck behind Katsunishiki, riding a six foot high and six foot wide sumo pig, didn't leave much room in the narrow streets of residential japan for the truck.

Pushing in on her champion's flanks and clicking her tongue to urge him to go faster, she sighed seeing there was no widening or turn offs coming up for several hundred meters, only closed gates to private properties.

Ignoring the annoying horn honking of the rude driver, Akari looked around shocked when he started yelling abuse as if it would hurry her or make her trespass into someone's property just to let him pass, but she suppressed the urge to let this ruin her day or to turn Katsunishiki around and make her champion walk over the little man in his little truck.

Finally a side street gave enough room for her sumo pig to move aside, the truck brushing past in such a rush he scraped his mirror on the opposing wall, making Akari grin in vindication till she heard a shouted insult about her behind being as large as her pets.

Shouting back a few choice country epithets, Akari ignored the driver speeding off, hand rudely signing at her out the window, when Akari saw the small child rush out of a gate ahead of the truck.

Her blood cold, she cried out in vain, the screeching of tires on the truck showing he had seen the child but obviously too late, when a figure jumped from the sky near the child, jabbing an old fashioned bamboo umbrella into the bonnet of the speeding truck.

With little apparent effort, the bandanna wearing martial artist flipped the truck up, over his head and that of the child, the vehicle spinning on the tip of the umbrella before slamming down on its wheels, turned around to face the pair it nearly ran down, the driver frozen wide eyed with white knuckles locked on the steering wheel, the vehicle rolling back slowly with the remaining momentum it previously had.

“Wow,” Akari breathed.



Sasuke berated himself for losing sight of the idiot friend of Mistress Kodachi's fiancé. Leaving Hibiki alone training in the yard was not his best move and now he had to find him so he could get the young man to this date with that Tendo girl. Failure would mean even more berating over an already bad weekend.

Looking around the diminutive ninja saw a truck rise twisting through the air above the roofs of some houses before vanishing again.

“Couldn't be,” he muttered to himself before rushing ahead.

Panic subsiding, he indeed saw Ryoga Hibiki in his tiger print bandanna and training outfit with a small child near the now stopped truck. Landing, he quickly made his presence known. “Hibiki-san, perhaps we should return to the mansion. You still need to prepare for your dance this evening. That is what Mikado-sama invited you to stay with us to do, was it not?”

Reminded of his obligation to honor Mikado for his help, Ryoga watched as the ninja manservant led the way over the houses and followed, leaving the child and truck behind.



Riding up on Katsunishiki, Akari watched dismayed as the heroic figure left with another short figure.

Moving up she saw the child, a little girl, holding a doll, looking at where her saviour had vanished as quickly as he had appeared.

“Um, excuse me little girl, do you know who that was?” Akari asked cautiously.

“Mikado,” the little girl said unsure before skipping off through the gate back to her family home.

“Mikado.” Akari breathed the name.

Remounting Katsunishiki, Akari knew she had to talk to Akane. She had to know who this Mikado was. Maybe she could even get out of this blind date and they could find him.



“Is there nothing I can do to help?” Akane asked, urging her sister and Aunty Nodoka to let her help cooking Christmas dinner.

“Too many chefs in the kitchen can get in each others way, Akane-dear,” Nodoka said diplomatically.

“And we do need something watching Daddy and the men or you could end up losing your present completely,” Kasumi pointed out.

Frowning and nodding, Akane turned away, knowing she was cut off because of her poor skill in the kitchen.

“Besides we need someone to greet guests as they start to arrive,” Kasumi added, hammering the point home.

Passing the front door, Akane saw Kasumi's evening purse on the table near the telephone. A dark smirk crossed her lips and she darted up stairs to get a little present for her older sister.



secret dance training, Ryoga preparing, evil Ryoga asking Ukyo out, Christmas preparations, second Kuno challenge and shaving.

Yes I need to make an issue of Christmas as Nodoka wants to do a western presents because she got little time with Ranna as a child. I need a moment of Ranma as a haircut monitor and favored boy of principal then I need a double date with R&A R&A, at a Christmas dance with Kasumi humiliated, Hinako and Shika fighting over Soun, and Genma trying to romance Nodoka. all exploding in a principal attack... Need an elaborate plot by the principal that Ranma will end early as haircut monitor. (like hallway monitor but for haircuts)



“Thou shalt not pass!” Kuno's voice thundered around the school courtyard, his eyes boring into the demon Saotome.

The fact that everyone in the party that left the Tendo Dojo was still down the street, nearly half a kilometer away, no one aside from Akane was sure who the angry Kendoist was really refering to, or if it was all of them combined.

Akane shook her head then looked up at her teacher, Miss Hinako walking with her father and latched on to one arm. “Miss Hinako, Kuno already lost to Ranma and I in challenges this month, can he challenge us again?”

Brown eyes nervously glanced to Soun knowing she had school rules to enforce, and could not help her date's daughter. “I'm sorry, he can lay challenge again, however if he fails again, he does go to the punishment chair.”

“The barbers chair?” Akane asked, recalling the normally covered seat that stood alone under spotlights behind the ring inside of Love Dome.

“Wait,” Ranma asked getting excited, his hand rubbing the back of his hair where his pigtailed once was. “If I beat him a second time, I get to shave his head?”

“Well technically Principal Kuno would get to chose the punishment hair cut.”

“Ug. His own Pop would never humiliate his son.,” Ranma understood, thowing a glare at Genma for a father who would humiliated his son.

“Oh no, Principal Kuno would shave him bald without a second thought.”

Looking up at Akane's words, Ranma grabbed her hand and sped down towards the school.

“Ranma!” Akane cried trying to run in four inch heels for the first time since Happosai's balance training regimen when he started training her. “He needs to make the challenge to you!”



Thanks for the thoughts Ran-san.

The principal is certainly a hard character to take seriously. His antics also tend to more slapstick for his humor and cartoon villain for his tricks and weapons than any other character in the series.

Making it a Hawaiian Christmas seems to be the definite must have if he is involved, and a hair issue. His cruelty seems to be in difference, I prefer him when he is more of a demented child playing than being mean to be mean. Not only for Ranma, PK will be a startling encounter, but this will be an intro for Ranma, Nodoka, Genma, Tofu, Ryoga and another of Akane's friends. This and very possibly being Principal Kuno's only big chance for the fic, I do want to do something grand and crazy.

In my notes, Principal Kuno was taken down a peg by a more confident and capable Akane because she didn't have Ranma to do it. But during fighting between the Principal and Akane over haircuts, he nearly got her braid twice. One a third time was caught off and would have lost it, only for Kuno to chop it off himself as part of blocking, claiming it as a prize. Pissed Akane beat both men down.

After the wish, Kuno left his fathers skill in the dust, so the on became the focus of his pranks instead of Ranma, Hinako brought in to even the playing field, Kuno having a great deal of respect for the teachers skill, and fears being around her lest he be disarmed again and have his head shaved by his father.

Okay, here I use you like a sounding board for how this is shaping up and why. :D

Posters are up for the Christmas dance, all seems legit, if a little high on the dress code and odd for a weeknight. Parents invited as chaperons. Many of the students stay away, but many of the other school love dome challenges want in, so it will be crowded, but many know crazy stuff happens at school, and since Christmas in japan isn’t a holiday few parents can volunteer.

Akane meets up with Ryoga, who has been under the tutelage of Mikado in the Art of Love, asking for their date to be that night, Ranma gets upset, a shouting match tells her she may as well take him because he has other fiancés who if he did take her out would be wanting dates of their own.

Akane grins at that and arranges another double date, so she and Ranma aren’t dating, they are chaperoning Ryoga and a friend of Akane's she wants to set him up with. Akari.

Nodoka, who wants a western Christmas for Ranma because she wants more special times with her boy before she loses him to Akane. She will drag Genma along as chaperone because she wants to get him in a suit too. Soun of course is now chaperoning with both Shika and Hinako, to the displeasure of both. And round it out with Kasumi bringing Tofu to their old school. (Nabiki has been lured by a romantic night with Jiro Ohata).

After some early slapstick, Ranma will get an engagement ring from the fathers, making that it was lost but pocketing it instead.

Arrive at the dance, do a fairly standard fun time to start with for a non-alcohol event. Christmas trees, and a Santa’s cave apparently taken from a shopping centre is used at the entrance to a hallway done up as a cave of love, in a typical Japanese perversion of the holiday concepts. One couple inside the cave ambushed by a Hawaiian Santa with an ominous fade to black. Hinako and Shika both have different ideas about how Ranma should dance with Akane, the latter formal and sedate, the former wanting hip grinding disco.

When a tropical punch appears, the temperature starts to go up. When people start getting worried, the doors are locked and the temp keeps going up into hot tropical. A cupboard opens spilling out bikinis, lei, and grass skirts, a sign unrolling saying Hawaiian Christmas as the Christmas trees fall part to palm trees still with tinsel and lights.

As characters strip down, change to bikinis in change room, or the like, interactions occur including Akane pranking Kasumi, angry at Kasumi’s attitude to her improper act with Ranma, has loaded her purse with condoms, which tofu sees and freaks out going back to crazy love dance tofu.

Finally the principal strikes out, exploding presents, coconuts, pineapples, tinsel nets, fake snow sprays, all to release his trained hair cutting crabs. Fight fight fight, someone breaking the roof lets the cold back in, forcing back the crabs who like tropical weather. Capture the principal, stop Shika and Hinako trying to get the other bald, possibly Ryoga sacrifices his hair for Akane or akari or both.

Ryoga, already warned that he can only win Akane by kissing her before the end of the date, makes his move, going for Akane, however after Taro kissed Akane ina previous chapter, Ranma interrupts, yanking Akane to him, Akari dragged by Akane’s hand into Ryoga who is more focused on the kiss than target kissing her.

Breaking the first kiss with his love, he is caught off when he opens his eyes and sees akari, embarrassed but appreciative, when hit into wall by sumo pig. Defeats the sumo pig, which impresses akari even more they start making out, his budding love for Akane forgotten as he has new girl who likes him lots.

Ranma and Akane walk away in the snowing night, talking of romantic things, akane wearing Ranma’s jacket, finds the engagement ring in a pocket. Now its out there, Ranma sees Akane wants it and wants him to ask, but before he can propose, fathers jump in interrupting, Ranma reiterating he can’t ask Akane to January even if he was going to. Akane hurt but understanding.

Later when Ranma gets his present from Akane, a special bracelet, he hangs the engagement ring from it as a constant tease to Akane, who can’t have it but it is threaded through the present she gave him.

Still not huge for the principal time, but a start.

Your thoughts?

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”Okay Pops’, I’ll take you as a student.”

”Watch it Boy,” Genma warned at his son’s smug tone.

”The *Ranma* Saotome school of love.”

The older man did a passable imitation of a growling panda despite his human throat, but let it slide counting a second strike he’d have to make the boy pay for later.

Mulling it over in his head, Ranma frowned trying to decide where to start. Thinking like a teacher, he focused on how his student might likely use what he was teaching. His father, above all other things, was cheap. So he had to start with the stuff that cost nothing at first.

”Okay, so girls, they always thinkin’. Weird thing is, they don’t have the focus of men, but they can think about more stuff at the same time.”

Gaining confidence as Genma nodded, Ranma forged on. “Even when they are focused on other stuff, they bubbling away in their head. It’s why they gotta talk all the time too, when they should be focusing on what they are doing.”

Genma nodded in agreement, there was times when Nodoka would talk at him while cooking or cleaning or… actually just about everything she did near him she’d find something to rag on him for about at the same time.

”Okay, so cause there thinking about all this stuff, the girls after me are thinkin’ about me at times. A lot of times. So they kind of expect me ta think about them a lot. And only them.”



Sayuri and Yuka cautiously looked into the school gymnasium, seeing some of the students from the organizing club waiting to greet arriving attendants. Slowly they looked to the tacky Santa's sleigh where an overly tanned santa wore sunglasses, and had a palm tree standing behind his red capped head. He sat in the middle of the festive Christmas set near the entrance to 'Santa's cave'.

Resigning themselves to the not getting in reach of their psycho who ran the school, the pair of girls in nice dresses got close enough to yell.

“Principal Kuno,” Sayuri called.

“Ho-ho-ho,” Santa replied, “Der be no principal ere, wahini, only dem Big Santa.”

“Um, Principal Santa,” Yuka tried, “Miss Hinako wanted you to know that Tatewaki Kuno has challenged Ranma Saotome again. If he loses they'll be using the punishment chair.”

“Mah boy? No otha brudda is shaving my sweet boy's head!” Santa cried, rushing for the door in his padded costume, clippers ready in head to ready to do any hair cutting today.



Stepping into the arena Akane smiled to Ranma, rushing back with a pair of pompoms to meet him before he entered the ring to face Kuno. Ignoring the crowd of family watching the preparations for the love dome challenge, Ms Hinako preparing to umpire from the podium, the youngest Tendo slipped off of the xxxx heels she wore, reaching down her hand to grab the second, hiding it in her pompom as she prepared to cheer on her fiancé.

“Are the challengers ready?” Hinako asked formally, rolling a five-yen coin in her hand hoping the obnoxious Tatewaki Kuno would make a preemptive move she could drain him for.

Akane lamented that she had to do this in her nice dress, unable to do some proper acrobatics in it over a cheerleader outfit, but went on before Hinako could call a start to the match, stomping her feet to timed elbow strikes and claps in sharp precise dance moves, starting a rhythm then using the moves to punctuate her cheer with the moves.

“R. A. N-M-A, you can beat him all the way!”

More stomps, dance moves, and pompom waving continued.

“Jump High, block that stick. His head, it's there to kick!”

A twirl and lashed out arm changed to short punching jabs with the flourished pompoms.

“Break his nose, break his toes, when you win, I have Mistletoe!”

Ending tossing the pompoms in the air, she posed holding the mistletoe over her head.

Grinning at Ranma, red faced never having a cheer squad before, Akane's eyes drifted to her heel, tossed out of a pompom during the third verse. Learned from Happosai during her balance training, her sleazy former instructor had shown her how to use a good tall heel like a weapon, using its curve to bend back around like a boomerang, Kuno far to focused on his anger at Akane cheering his opponent to notice before the tossed shoe hit the back of his head.

Ranma wanted to frown as the hidden attack of the Martial arts cheer-leading struck a cheap blow before the fight on his opponent, but that was the point of that whole technique regime. Focusing on how her cheer affected him emotionally, and being impressed as the tossed show impacted off the taller senior's cranium to lazily bounce back to its owner, Ranma gathered his love for his fiancee and rolled it into his ki, forming a pink glow in his hands ready to strike at the Kendoist the heartbeat the teacher declared a start.

Kuno sneered, ignoring the pain off his head or betrayal of his obviously subverted and bewitched first love, holding his kendo blade at his left hip, ready to step forward and slash this cure before he could get off his underhanded technique.

Hinako took a breath, “Ready. Be-”

They began without her.

“Muteki Kurohyou Me-To!”

Kuno was fast, but Ranma was prepared and had the width of the love dome between him and Kuno to get off his 'Unyeilding Pather Mate' attack, the pink swirl of ki going straight through his defending blade, taking Kuno in the chest, launching him back out of the ring to crash to the floor.



Clapping among the family and friends observing, Genma leaned to his old friend. “Looks like our plan is all coming together, the boy and your daughter are a sure thing.”

Soun nodded proudly as he clapped, seeing Ranma and Akane looking at each other after the victory. “Perhaps we should hold back on your plans, we don't want to risk things going so well.”

“Why hold back? The worse case is we get the heir to our united schools,” Genma hissed back. “I don't want to be too old to properly take my grandson training.”

Not far from them, Akari gushed to Ryoga, “Oh wow, they're like a team.”

“AYE! Ma boy!”

The cried voice with the heavy accent cut over the applause of the families heralded the arrival of a disheveled Santa in his red suit, running in to the fallen warrior,

Principal comes in, cries about boy, drags to chair berating having to do this, gets knocked out, Hinako drains Kuno, and Ranma does the honors.



I am thinking there is more value in the mistletoe, because i can naturally bring ryoga in cause he is trying to kiss akane, so a school of boys tring to kiss akane under the misltetoe, a bunch of girls wanting it to from ranma, and ryoga, while genma keeps outting ranma and akane under mistletoe seems to have potential

I have for a setting, a christmas themed dance, including some kind of punch, lots of couples, and a dark romantic corridor dressed up as a themed 'Santa's cave' immitiation Cave of love (actually trapped to cut hairs of those inside)

Nodoka and Genma, one in dogi under kimono, other wanting ranma and akane hooked up, possibly will enter santa's acve first, genma losing bandanna for evening while nodoka saved by dogi breaks machine making tunnel save.

Kasumi and tofu arrive as chaperone, having fun then pursue opening spills out condoms, embarrassed, kasumi and akane, tofu goes back to old behaviour, kasumi draggin him out by ear. They end up going home and him giving her a massage, tofu later seen leaving.

Soun with shika and Hinako. Hinako wants dirty dance over kimono shika, shika hiding fishbowel to force hinako to start draining boys to stay adult, shika takes a stand against michiko while supporting kimono girl. Hinako takes other side with michiko.

Genma will see mistletoe in cave and try to get akane and ranma in, ryoga wanting to get in there with them to kiss akane, but ends up kissing akari.

Yuka wants to avoid grabby BF while sayuri wants to steal daisuki. Yuka wants ranma to steal kimono girl but he is obstinant because even if he doesn't want to risk another girl, he can't hit on a bros date In the end he will