“Just something my old man tried with me when I was eight. It should be a breeze for ya’.” The pigtailed martial artist thought back to the training. The first time he went through it, it wasn’t fun at all. But Kassy was older and stronger. It should be cakewalk for her, right?
Right?
...
Right.
The Half-Salusian raised an eyebrow as Ranma was breaking apart some old bicycle chain. “But what can you do with an egg-beater, a two pound block of cheese, a pair of concrete blocks, a blow-torch, and a unicycle?”
“You’ll see when I’m done,” Ranma announced and gave the training equipment the finishing touches. He then turned to explain what Kassy had to do, as if it were the most natural thing in the world.
Kassy raised an eyebrow after Ranma finished his instructions. “You want me to ride a unicycle the wrong way down a one-way street, while balancing the two cinder-blocks on my head, while the chain of the pedals connected to the egg-beater turns on the blowtorch now and again against my ass!?” She screeched.
The pigtailed martial artist nodded his head.
The Half-Salusian stared at Ranma further. “I don’t know what’s stranger... That you want me to do this, or that you haven’t explained what the cheese is for.”
Ranma simply smirked in response.
At that smile, Kassy looked at Ranma nervously. “Do I even want to know?”
“No, you don’t,” Ranma said in all seriousness. “Now, should we get started?”
Kassy chuckled nervously. “... Are you sure this won’t kill me?”
“Didn’t kill me, did it?” Ranma asked and raised an eyebrow. “Are you afraid?” There it was. Genma’s method of teaching with him by questioning his manhood. Only that it was toned down to fit Kassy.
However, he didn’t expect Kassy to have no qualms about saying, “YES!”
...Okay... Time to take a new approach to getting her to do this...
The pigtailed martial artist decided to try his luck, doing something he’d only done before as a joke or under extreme circumstances. He leaned close to Kassy, his face inches from her own as his blue-gray orbs stared right into her own. “Don’t you trust me?” He knew it was a dangerous approach, mainly because he did want to get closer to Kassy to spite her aunt and because of true interest, but using guilt was his only other method of making her actually go through with the training.
The Half-breed Salusian of Imperial birth looked into Ranma’s eyes. Her lips trembled lightly as she tried to form a response. Not trusting her ability to speak, she just nodded her head slowly.
“This will make you stronger, Kassy. I wouldn’t put you through this if I didn’t think so,” Ranma said softly, his warm breath caressing her lips enticingly. It surprised him that his words felt truthful. He really did think Kassy had what it took to survive.
Kassy nodded her head slowly. Ranma believed in her; felt she had what it took. She just wished she felt the same way. Still, her friend had shown his explicit faith in her, and she wanted to prove him right. But just in case she screwed this up... “Okay... But I want one thing before I do this.”
“Anything,” Ranma answered without thinking.
The tanned-blonde with the skunk-ears grinned. “Okay.” Leaning forward, she kissed him on the lips gently, getting herself a second kiss, or her first kiss with his male side.
Ranma’s eyes widened at the contact. He didn’t expect his plan to backfire and he had to...
Had to...
...
...This was actually pretty nice.
After a moment, Kassy broke the kiss, a slight blush tinging her cheeks. “I wanted something for luck.”
The pigtailed youth was left speechless, a silly grin on his face. All he could really do was grin like an idiot. He’d never had someone kiss him lightly like that, sharing with him. The kisses he’d had before were always full of demand, but not this one.
This one didn’t have tongue.
“Okay...” Kassy said as she lifted up the unicycle with the blow-torch connected. “Where’s this one-way street?”
Ranma almost felt bad when he pointed at a small hill. Almost.
Kassy nodded her head as she looked at the hill and then towards to how the egg-beater was set up. “So THAT was why you put the blow-torch to turn on if I tried to break...” It made sense. He wanted her to get used to high speeds and dodging, and trying to break, to slow down, would be rewarded with pain.
“You’re catching on.” Ranma smiled at her. “If it makes you feel any better I’ll be running ahead of you with the gravity device on. You won’t be alone on this one.”
Kassy nodded her head slowly. Surprisingly hearing that DID make her feel better. “Shall we get started?” She asked. “No time like the present.”
Ranma smiled and nodded. Blushing slightly he leaned down to give Kassy another peck on the lips before taking off.
The skunk-eared girl blushed and ran after Ranma as they ran towards the hill, the unicycle in her arms.
Five minutes later they were ready. Ranma was in a ready position. To make things interesting he was going to be running down the hill backwards. That should also allow him to help Kassy if anything went wrong.
Kassy got atop the unicycle, trying to get a good balance atop it while balancing the two concrete blocks on her head.
“Whenever you’re ready,” Ranma announced as he prepared himself, cheese in his hand.
Kassy nodded her head slowly. What the hell was with that cheese!? “Ready.”
“Go!” Ranma yelled and started running backwards.
Kassy started pedaling forward. Now was the time. She could feel the wind against her, but she knew she had to do this.
Slowly, the skunkgirl in human form smiled. She was going fast, but hey! This wasn’t bad at all! She could do this with both hands tied behind her back if she tried.
And then as Ranma ran backwards he tore a piece of cheese and threw it at the wheel, making it slippery as all hell!
“EEK!” Kassy shrieked as she lost control over the unicycle, going into a tailspin as she made a 360 degree turn at least three times in a row. She instinctually tried to hit back on the breaks, but she screamed out as flame shot out for a few seconds. Damn, this was sucking!
“You’re doing great, Kassy!” Ranma cheered as he threw another piece of cheese.
“AAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!” Kassy screamed as she went over a piece of cheese again. She had almost gotten control back! She was barely balancing the concrete blocks now as they wobbled atop her head. Her eyes widen and she practically jumped as she moved out of the way of an oncoming car.
The pigtailed martial artist smirked. Kassy would do just fine...
Her eyes wide with fear of God, Kassy’s heart was racing. She was mentally screaming to hit the breaks, but she knew what would happen. So all she could really do was try and keep herself balance and dodge as she went further downhill. She was almost at the base and gaining control, and...
And...
...
Oh shit, he threw another piece of cheese.
“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!”
Ranma’s eyes narrowed as he saw Kassy about to fall and he jumped to catch her in his arms. He didn’t count with the gravity device making thing all the heavier for him, though, and he fell short of distance to get to the Half-Salusian.
Which left Kassy to continue pedaling out of control...
...Past a four-way intersection...
...And down an alley.
*CRASH*!!!
An alley that apparently had a dead-end.
Ranma ran after the girl. “Kassy!” He shouted out.
“Owww...” Kassy groaned as she lay there in a heap amongst knocked over garbage cans. There was an spider-web pattern cracking in the plaster of the wall where she had hit.
The pigtailed martial artist arrived and saw the scene. “How did you know the next part of your training was crashing against walls?”
Kassy groaned. “I didn’t. I just couldn’t stop since I would’ve been hurt anyway...”
Ranma sweat-dropped. That sounded almost like something he would say.
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