Ryoga's Girlfriend Ch2
By:
DaisukiFox
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½!
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Nabiki
The atmosphere around Nabiki was thick with tension, her nerves racked with how to convince the ancient martial artist. All factors aside she could probably use what she had to her advantage? Could she use these photos to get Ranma and Ryoga together? It would, of course, be difficult with how persistent Happosai seemed to be when it involved the female body... sadly her female body was at stake here.
That brought something to her attention, why hadn't Happosai been searching for her and forcing her into the agreement they made. Why did this arouse suspicion from her? Why didn't she just leave it as that and hope she could at least get the rest of the day to herself? Why wasn't she taking the time to find some sort of loophole in the deal they made? "Maybe I should have made a huge contract where I can have it leave a loophole open..." Nabiki said, crossing her arms.
Maybe it was best if she just stayed in her room; normal clothes intact. Though she wondered what could he possibly be doing now? Was stealing underwear so important that you wouldn't want a model to actually wear it for you?
"For some reason, I'm getting a sense of dread..." Nabiki commented, looking out her window while she sat down on her bed.
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Genma, Soun & Happosai
"Are you sure this has pretty ladies, fellers?" Happosai asked while the Poke'mon opening theme song began. He was honestly surprised that he had done this instead of going with Nabiki and preparing or stealing some lingerie for Nabiki to wear as his model.
"Of course, master!" Soun assured him, pulling something out of a bag. "Do you mind if I and Genma prepare something, such as snacks for our viewing pleasure?" Soun recommended, clapping his hands together; almost as if he had other intentions.
"Yes! Prepare!" Genma's sign said as he held his sign. The large panda's eyes gave out the same feeling as Soun's.
"Uh... sure boys, get whatcha need, I'm gonna' try and make heads or tails out of whatever this thing is..." Happosai replied, staring at the screen of the TV room's television. Though as the song finished, it instantly came to a commercial, which only served to annoy Happosai as he wanted to get through this show as quickly as possible, also to figure out what all the hype was about.
It was about that moment that Kasumi happened to wander into the room before Genma and Soun were able to leave, perplexed as to why Genma and Soun weren't completely and utterly intoxicated from the sake they were supposed to have bought. "Excuse me father... but weren't you going to buy yourself some sake?" The eldest sister asked.
Soun looked to his side and rubbed the back of his head, Genma did well to mimic his actions. "Well... you see my dear Kasumi, Genma and I were going to, but, we found ourselves with less yen than by the time we exited the store."
"Not to mention that line up of kids in our way!" Genma's sign said as he crossed his panda arms; with the sign tucked between his furry arms.
Kasumi felt an anime sweat drop come from her head; they had spent too much money on Poke'mon merchandise. 'I suppose it's a healthier habit than father's sake problem...' Kasumi thought. Then she watched as Genma and Soun went off to their rooms.
Happosai had been staring at the screen the entire time, ignoring everyone else around him. His attention seemed to fade in and out as the story continued, since, Ash wasn't the most appealing character in the Poke'mon series.
Kasumi noticed that Happosai was the only occupant in the room now, watching the series that Soun and Genma had come to love. She chuckled lightly before exiting the TV room. It would be nice to have Happosai focused on something other than woman's underwear. Now maybe she wouldn't have to constantly keep going to the store to buy some more undergarments.
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Kuno
The former mastermind that sought to take Ranma's heart was now reduced to a man who had been subtly questioning his own motives. His own life and its views, especially the views on Shampoo. The more and more thought he gave it, she wasn't as bad as he made her out to be, before...
Her accent was sort of cute to him and her cat form was certainly something cute too. As he further contemplated his thoughts on her, he failed to notice that Sasuke(Not from Naruto; but pretty close) was now in the room and watching his master think.
"Master Kuno... you should rest now... you haven't yet recovered from your attack," Sasuke stated, hoping his master would be alright. His master may have been cheap and uncaring for his servants or servants slash ninjas, but that didn't mean he was as uncaring as Kuno and Kodachi seemed to be.
The brown haired kendo master stared at Sasuke, before narrowing his eyes and glaring at him. "I shall rest as soon as I am willing!" he proclaimed, gritting his teeth.
"S-sorry, sir!" Sasuke replied, running out of the room and preparing to do some serious housework.
He felt there was no reason for him to lash out at Sasuke, but, who else could he take his feelings out? His pigtailed girl made out with his rival in love and now he was having mixed feelings about a girl with a bad Japanese accent. "I Tatewaki Kuno have failed to gain the affections of my pigtailed girl... I The Blue Thunder Of Furinkan High have lost my beloved to some blind fool... I have failed to gain the affection of any fair maiden..."
To think that he would become this emotionally unstable, well, it shocked Kuno, to say the least. He would usually go with actions at this moment, because, to him, they spoke louder than words. Why was someone of a god status; such as him believed himself to be? Had been humanized by the events prior to his self-questioning. He had to reinstate his views, if not for the pigtailed girl than for himself, he had to uphold the elegant image he had made for himself. He would challenge the purple haired amazon and claim victory, then, and only then would he see that the fates have only been playing a sick joke on him. Having reached this conclusion the blue thunder placed his hand to his head and smirked; his hand covering one side of his face. Small fits of laughter escaped his throat, satisfied with his world of self-delusion, yet again.
At this very second, Kuno thought of standing up and shouting to the very heavens. The sheer amount of joy that came from him had him in that good of condition. "I, the great and ever glorious Tatewaki Kuno am never deterred!" Kuno paused and remembered the last time he had been in a situation like this.
"Sasuke, come here!" Kuno demanded.
The ninja hadn't arrived as quickly as Kuno thought he would have, that was until Kuno heard some noise at the top of his ceiling and looked to see that some of the fake ceilings have broken and in came a ninja, crashing onto the floor. His eyes swirled in dizziness before he quickly shook his head and kneeled in a ninja-like fashion. "Master!" he said, bowing his eyes with his eyes closed.
"Do something about that entrance Sasuke..." Kuno commented. "I'm in need of an audience... now sit there and cheer the moment I'm to proclaim my subtle, yet, amazing speech..."
Sasuke rose a brow and wondered why his master would need him... and for a reason like that? "Uh... okay, master Kuno."
Kuno smirked and tilted his head upwards, slightly. "I the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High have yet again risen from the ashes of defeat and will now seek to conquer the heart of my beloved Akane Tendo, but, not before I have defeated the beau-" Kuno paused, shaking his head. "T-the knave, Shampoo!"
Sasuke eagerly clapped his hands for his master. "Excellent! Lord Kuno!"
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Ukyo, Ryoga & Akane
The yellow wearing lost boy was still at a loss and Ukyo's patience was wearing thin. She needed an answer and she wasn't going to stop until she got to the bottom of this, but, she was aware of her current status. When it was compared to the skill of both Ranma and Ryoga, her skills fell under the radar. What could she really do but demand that Ryoga stops what he was doing? And to stop being so confused about someone Ryoga claimed he wanted dead!
She had to remember that Ranma and Akane were in the other rooms, so, she contained herself enough ask him something. "Look... just stop, okay?" she asked, leaning her elbow on the window frame and giving Ryoga her commanding face.
The Lost Boy felt defensive, why? It made no sense to him, but, he acted on this defense. His mind acted on its own accord and had him blurt out what he didn't want to. "I'm not losing the one I care about!"
Ukyo's eyes almost bugged out of her eye sockets. This couldn't be a possibility, but, maybe she misheard; that had to be the case. "W-who are you talking about?" Ukyo asked, knowing that the question had been directed towards Ranma, but, maybe Ryoga had only been joking or misspoke.
Ryoga's natural defenses awoke and shocked some sense into him, "I-I'm talking about Akane!" he exclaimed.
"So, does that mean you're gonna' help me get Ranma honey and I help you get your Akane?" Ukyo smirked. She hoped this would return her partner in the search for love.
Ryoga's internal conflict was apparent on his face the entire time he paused for Ukyo's question. "Thanks, but no thanks... if I do anything, it'll be on my terms."
Ukyo's eyes widened, as this actually the lost boy she knew? This couldn't be right! The one she knew was clumsy, easy to manipulate and most of all... head over heels in love with Akane. "Y-you can't be serious?" Ukyo demanded, shouting almost loud enough for everyone in the house to hear.
"I'm dead serious..." Ryoga responded, in a grave tone.
Unbeknownst to them Akane was eavesdropping near the very end of the conversation. When she had heard Ryoga shout for the first time, she took that as something she had to listen to. Who shouts to the air for no reason? Besides Kuno. Honestly, Akane never labeled Ryoga as someone to give speeches to the air, mumbling to himself perhaps but to talk to himself? Not a chance.
All throughout the conversation Akane was able to understand what was going on between Ryoga and Ranma. 'H-how much as happened with Ranma and Ryoga? Is Ranma still under the koi rod? No... I remember, he got it removed... but then why...? Why is Ryoga staying at our place and why is Ranma keeping all these things from me? The jerk should know I'm his fiance!' Akane thought.
It came clear to her that she was hiding some feelings for the black haired boy. In fact, she had always known, for the longest time, she shared a connection with Ranma and for the longest time she had buried her feelings for him but now that her natural course of being with Ranma was threatened, she became scared of losing what had taken her so much time to develop. To top it all of she was riddled with guilt for not being able to figure out that Ryoga was attracted to her, all those times he seemed depressed when Akane would mention them just being friends. It should have been insanely easy to figure out during the time Ryoga was using the perfected ShiShiHoukudan.
The pain she must have caused Ryoga all this time. If only she took the time to view Ryoga as someone a little different, she might have prevented this matured feelings from Ryoga. Now she wasn't sure what to say, should she hate Ryoga? Should she be furious with Ranma? Can she fight for Ranma? What could she do?
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The blue haired Tendo leaned her head on the door to Ryoga's room and closed her eyes. She needed to barge in if only to get rid of Ukyo for the moment. When she heard that Ryoga was going to go on about getting her heart, she knew that there must have been more to that if he was willing to stick around with Ranma.
"Ryoga!" Akane exclaimed, opening the door to the room. "Is someone here?"
Ukyo's eyes widened and the spatula-wielding chief jumped away from the window and down onto Ryoga's yard. There was a loud barking followed by and screams of cats that seemed to appear from nowhere. "Damn it!" she screamed as slowly her voice faded.
Akane blinked and turned to the bandanna-wearing boy. He was frozen in shock, hoping Akane hadn't heard too much. Akane was well aware of what had gone down, but, she wasn't sure how to approach it and decided to play dumb. "Oh... what was that about, Ryoga?"
Ryoga seemed to relax, regaining his composure. "I-I don't know... she was talking about how she saw me and Ranma with Kuno, I explained to her why we were doing it and she was okay with it," Ryoga replied, hoping she'd buy his story.
Akane knew otherwise of course, but, she didn't want to confront Ryoga, no, not yet. "O-oh... well... Ukyo's kinda' odd."
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Ranma
The red headed teen had been searching Ryoga's parent's room now and still continued to find no money in the closet. She sighed and threw another shoe box over her shoulder. "Where the heck did they leave his money, huh?" Ranma said, then stood up and placed her hands on her hips.
She then figured if she couldn't find the money like a regular person. She needed to find money like a Hibiki would... when she realized she didn't have the slightest clue what a Hibiki would think, she considered all her options. "Ryoga's room! Dat's gotta' be it! It's the only place we ain't checked too..." Ranma said, slapping her fist into her palm.
Ranma then proceeded by running out of the room; leaving a huge mess in her quake.
When Ranma got to Ryoga's door, she opened it to find that both Akane and Ryoga were in the room. Ranma felt an unease in her chest and gulped, "Uh... what's goin' on?"
"Oh... Ukyo was here, she found out about you two, tricking Kuno into leaving you alone," Akane explained.
Ryoga simply nodded his head. "By the way... I think I found where the money is," Ryoga said.
Ranma's eyes widened, "H-how? Me and Kane' couldn't find it, how can you?" Ranma demanded.
Ryoga glared at Ranma. That was always Ranma's way of thinking, assuming his curse was so bad that he couldn't ever find anything without taking a trip to Osaka. "Because, I can see the stack from here..." Ryoga pointed to underneath his bed.
Ranma stood over where Ryoga was and saw that the stack of yens was neatly set there. "Your parents are weird..."
"That coming from the guy who has a panda for a father," Ryoga countered.
Ranma rose her finger and then brought it down, crossing her arms and pouting a bit. She had no witty comeback for that, she did have a panda for a father half of the time. "Shut it, pig-face."
"Uh... let's just get outta' here," Akane interjected. Her attitude wasn't what it usually was, which caused a bit of an alarm to go off on Ranma. What could be happening inside that blue-haired head of hers?
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Happosai
Contrary to popular belief, the beginning of Poke'mon had an interesting premise; that was until they recycled the plot a million times. Though in this timeline in Ranma, it was still the original series first season and therefore still worth viewing, as Master Happosai would comment was well, since he had been watching the entire first season on VHS and staring at the beautiful woman known as simply as Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny. He stared at the screen with love struck eyes, "Wh-whoa!"
"I see you're enjoying the show, master," Soun commented, silently entering the room without being seen by Happosai. A heavy thumping accompanied Soun's footsteps, obviously the only one who could weigh enough to make such footsteps was Genma in Panda form.
The grand master turned around and grinned with a smile too large for his elderly face. "You betcha bo-" Happosai stopped short in order to stare in surprise at what he was seeing.
Soun was currently dressed as the boy that followed Ash in Poke'mon, Brock. If that wouldn't have been enough to give Happosai a heart attack... or rather throw him into a laughing fit. Genma was the man for the job because he was painted in the same fur pattern as Poke'mon famous electric rodent poke'mon, Pikachu. Glued onto his tail was a crudely made, cardboard cutout of Pikachu's yellow and brown, lightning shaped tail.
The cosplaying panda/father rose up his sign, "Pi-pi-kachu!"
"W-what in the blazes are you two doin'!" Happosai shouted, glaring at his students who were dressed as the two of the main characters in Poke'mon.
"Master, we're simply idolizing our favorite characters! Merely to show our support!" Soun countered. "And besides... cosplaying is also done by women."
Happosai stopped in his tracks and blinked, his eyes sparkling in wonder as he held his hands close to his chest. The idea of seeing a woman in actuality cosplaying as officer Jenny or nurse Joy. "Perhaps I was too judgmental when it came to the idea of this here... err... cosplaying, was it?"
Both Genma and Soun nodded their heads.
A smirk formed on Happosai's face. "How quickly can you get me a cosplay outfit?"
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Ukyo
This was one of those rare moments where Ukyo was shocked with the words that came from Ryoga's mouth. It just brought her to an awkward situation too, what was she going to do with this information? Should she confront Ranma about it and have him beg her to take him back? Though it seemed that he wouldn't beg to be with her... just wishful thinking on her part. She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth as she was standing out on the streets, trying to organize her next set of actions.
She knew that Ryoga must have been planning something, no one could be that unsure that they'd actually claim not to need someone's help when they had in fact gotten help from someone else before. Any chance that Ryoga could use to get to close Akane would almost be instantly accepted by Ryoga. If that wasn't enough to motivate her to do something, it was because Ryoga wasn't sure about his feelings towards Ranma. Men don't usually have to think about their friendships between other men, they were either friends or enemies, the chances of being both was highly unlikely, something had to exist
"Never thought I'd need Akane to take Ryoga down..." Ukyo commented, crossing her arms. If anything was worse than losing Ranma to Akane, it was having Ryoga take Ranma. The only problem now was that she'd have to do this some other day, she had to wake up early in the morning and prepare for another busy day and when that busy day was complete she'd set her plan into motion. Even though it bothered her to leave Ryoga close to Ranma.
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Ranma, Ryoga & Akane
The walk back home was fairly silent, Akane barely making any comments or even acknowledging the fact that she was around Ranma and Ryoga. To Ranma, it was nerve wrecking to see her in such a way because that usually meant she was thinking about things and when Akane thought about things that usually lead to a mallet sending her flying into the sky.
Ryoga, for the most part, was as timid since they first started walking, that alone was ominous enough for Ranma to be on the alert. When they came home, they all went straight to their rooms; Akane leaving the yen on the kitchen counter.
Each and every second that passed Ranma wasn't sure how to change the atmosphere between her and Ryoga. Ranma insisted that Ryoga stays in her room, because if Ryoga were left to sleep on the roof of the Tendo dojo, he'd probably get lost on the way down, in all honestly Ranma used that line in order to get some sort of argument from Ryoga, but, that argument she had wanted to be received, no argument but rather a shy approval and following without question.
The red headed girl saw that Ryoga was now wearing his pants and a white muscle shirt. His face was expressionless as he placed his sleeping bag on the ground nearest to the corner of the room, away from the center of the room where Ranma and Genma would slumber.
"Y'know... it ain't gonna kill ya' to say something right now," Ranma stated, looking off to the side as she sat on her futon.
Ryoga's eyes were glued to the floor, staring at it as his feelings were still confusing him. He preferred not to say anything, but with someone like Ranma, there was probably a chance that she would provoke him enough to say something. He refused to fall for that this time. "I've got nothing to say, Saotome..." Ryoga responded and crossed his arms, closing his eyes while he sat down with his legs crossed.
"Why's dat?" Ranma asked, having moved over to Ryoga and trying to look at his face by angling her face to look at his.
Ryoga noticed that Ranma's voice sounded a lot closer than when she spoke just a few second ago, so, he opened his eyes and saw that Ranma was dangerously close to his personal space. "Wha!" he screamed before leaning back and blushing slightly.
Ranma found herself blinking, was he really this awkward around women? "Oh calm down pig-face... I'm not a real girl."
"Don't you think I know that!" Ryoga shouted, raising one of his hands and clenching it. 'Stupid jackass doesn't know that when he does that I can s-see...' Ryoga thought, placing his hand over his face to try and cover the blush on his face. 'd-down his shirt...'
It was that sort of response that would trigger Ranma's more mischievous side, messing with Ryoga was certainly one of those few pleasures in life, "Since I'm not a real girl... that means ya' wanna' sleep in my futon?" Ranma asked, clasping her hands together in an adorable fashion.
Ryoga bared his fangs and suppressed his need to attack Ranma right now, what good would it do anyways? He didn't have the motivation he used to have... Akane was his motivation and he didn't have that anymore. "No thanks."
Ranma paused when Ryoga hadn't resorted to violence, his usual trademark response hadn't come. "Huh...?" Ranma muttered, dumbfounded.
The lost boy only responded by opening his sleeping bag and pulling the cover over himself, his back facing Ranma as he tried to force himself to sleep.
Ranma shook her head, all these signs weren't a good thing. What could she say to make him more accepting of the situation? She didn't want to make an actual advancement to Ryoga because then she felt that maybe she'd be threatening the very fabric of her mind.
This was Ryoga Hibiki and although she had offered to be his fake girlfriend, she knew that she'd never engage in actual romantic actions. Though she was obligated to if Ryoga ever wanted to make an advancement towards her, but she knew that Ryoga was too much of a gentleman to ever do something like that, without Ranma's consent. Did that mean that Ryoga would eventually try to leave? Now that Ranma gave it some thought... Ryoga would probably, later on, leave when he felt that nothing was really happening. Ranma would be too awkward to provide him with the affection a real lover could provide him with... and it was obvious that Ryoga didn't care much for having Ranma as a friend. 'Hm... maybe I can convince the loaf to hang out, as friends,' Ranma thought. Even she knew that his friendship would eventually wear thin on Ryoga and he'd go back to his loveless, depressed state. There was only really one idea that came to Ranma, one idea that would be effective enough to keep Ryoga from becoming too depressed and leaving... Ranma would have to become important to him as a girl and then use that to her advantage, when she became precious to him Ryoga would still want to be around her, even as a friend. The idea alone was crazy but it was the only way to make someone like Ryoga stick around willingly.
Though Ranma found herself pondering why she wanted to go this far for someone, obviously Ranma's need for a friend couldn't have been that great, right? She could just hang out with Hiroshi and Daisuke. Of course, they had no real understanding of martial arts and were sometimes dull and plain, but wasn't that a good idea? All the things of excitement surrounding Ranma's life involved people like Ukyo, Shampoo, Mousse, Kodachi, Kuno and even Akane. What singled Ryoga out as so important?
Ranma found a blush forming on her face and her eyes widened, she didn't know why but her breath got caught in her throat and a nervous feeling went throughout her body. 'I-I'm thinking too much...'
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Nabiki
The following day came and one can assume that it meant two days of worry free forty-eight hours of laziness, action filled training, cooking training, blackmailing, shogi playing and Poke'mon related things. Not in Nabiki's case, she was determined to try and get to her friend's house and spend some time there, if only to avoid her deal with Happosai.
The middle sister of the Tendo's poked her head out of her room and scanned the hallway for any signs of the perverted grandmaster. Fortune seemed to be smiling down on her because Happosai was nowhere in sight. "Oh good..." Nabiki sighed.
"Nabiki..." Happosai called out to her, appearing from the 'Now you see me! Now you don't!' skill and landing in front of her with a strange nurse outfit and red wig.
Nabiki leaned back with a shocked look on her face. "Look!"
"No butts!" Happosai exclaimed, holding it up with a determined look. "Nurse Joy..."
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Ranma & Ryoga
The red headed girl felt something odd, she didn't know why but she felt strangely warm as if something was holding her close and being protective of her. She squinted her eyes in her sleep a bit and opened them slowly to see that Ryoga was holding her in her sleep. Her first thought was that it was Ryoga's fault for the position they were in and was going to comment on it until she saw that she wasn't even on her futon anymore.
If that wasn't enough to throw her for a loop, Ryoga was also not in his sleeping bag. The red headed girl grunted and tried to pull away from the Lost Boy, but noticed when she tried to move him away, his arms would react and pull her in closer.
"No... no..." Ryoga grunted, bringing Ranma in closer.
Ranma's felt her eye twitch and her mouth hang open in shock, how had this even happened? Then she remembered that Genma would sometimes push Ranma over when he was in his Panda form.
That meant that at night when Genma entered the room he must have tossed and turned to the point where he subconsciously pushed Ranma over to Ryoga and Ryoga in turn must have tossed and turned as well, eventually coming over to Ranma and catching her in his arms.
Ranma groaned and pouted, blowing away a loose strand of hair from her face. She looked up to him once and sighed, figuring that maybe this wasn't so bad... and she slowly drifted back to sleep.
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Kasumi & Akane
Mornings were often routine for Akane and Kasumi, they'd usually greet each other while Kasumi prepared breakfast and Akane would often watch her, mostly to try and improve her own cooking skills; that always failed for some reason.
Kasumi was stirring the pot while looking over it. She turned to the youngest sister and smiled lightly. "Akane... could you do me a favor and run to the corner store? I need a few things... it shouldn't take too long for breakfast to be ready and I promise you it won't be too long."
Akane was sitting on the table in the kitchen with her chin in her hands and her face dull and expressionless. "Uh... sure, Kasumi." she stood up and waited for Kasumi to provide her with the yen she'd need and the list of ingredients she'd need.
Once that was done Akane was on her way to the corner store, all while she seemed to be thinking about the situation between Ranma and Ryoga. There was too much to consider... should she confront Ranma and Ryoga and demand that Ryoga keeps his hands off of her fiance? Then give Ranma a mallet and ask him to accept their future together? Was it even in her to do something like that? The blue haired girl didn't want to be labeled as insane, like the other weirdos that followed Ranma.
"Akane!" Ukyo shouted, stopping in front of the blue haired girl and panting.
"Ukyo?" Akane blinked.
"I have a proposition for you, Akane..." the chef said.