One Month Later…
A familiar scene, with rain coming down in the Nerima streets, a small, well-built pigtailed girl comes tear-assing out of the curtain of rain followed by… a fat bastard in a martial arts gi and a kerchief covering his spear-bald head. "Ranma! Come back here this instant!" shouted the portly bastard.
Strangely, the onlookers had the distinct feeling that the girl should've been chased by a panda, not a man.
The portly man jabbed at the fleeing waif, who leapt to relative safety sailing in midair. She tossed away the backpack she was yanking around by the strap, and retaliated at the fat fool with a kick to the chin. "Stop that! I told you before: I don't want any part of your delusions!" she screeched, trading blows with the rotund man.
"Your father weeps, boy!" growled the man of significant girth, tears suddenly streaming down his dour face. "You cast aside this sacred arrangement between the Saotome and Tendou families! I have no son!"
The frown on the girl's face deepened. "You can say that again!" she roared, snapping a vicious kick across the fool's head. "And if you hadn't insisted on that moronic trip to rip off a monastery, you would still HAVE a son!"
"Don't blame me for your getting all pissy like a girl and stomping off up that mountain in time for a UFO to land on you!" countered the fat man, apparently this girl's father.
"Oh, now I'm the one who did something wrong, huh?!" growled the girl, twisting in for an unladylike Punch ta da Guts.™ "You're always like this! Whenever something doesn't go your way, blame the kid, 'cuz it couldn't possibly be your fault!" The portly man, presumably the lass's father, seemed to catch the sarcastic tone of voice.
"Let's not get into that now!" shouted the portly man. "Right now, you need to realize that, regardless of your circumstances, you cannot shirk your responsibilities! We will fulfill our pact with the Tendous!"
"You're not marryin' me off to some guy!!"
"Use your head, boy! This arrangement was valid long before your little accident!" the man said testily. "Tendou only has daughters!"
The girl looked relieved, yet annoyed. "Better, pops, but you're still an idiot!" she grumbled. "Girls can't marry girls, you know!"
Genma coughed. "You never know until you try. Who knows, you might be able to secure my retire…errr, that is, secure a happy family, such as it is."
Their argument gave the crowd a few moments to gather, buzzing with gossip. Suddenly, one of them made the following outburst:
"Oh! I recognize her now! That's Ranma Saotome, the guy who was made a girl by those aliens. Remember?"
"So that's the famous Ranma Saotome!"
"That's her? Doesn't the Diet want her examined to see if she was really turned into a girl?"
"I hear they're desperate to get their hands on her first, as they want to be the only one to get a glimpse of alien manipulations firsthand!"
The last comment brought back unpleasant memories for Ranma. She and her pops had more than one encounter with running time due to government officials in China wanting her blood (literally; fortunately, it was only blood samples). This sparked their return to Japan, by swimming across the Sea of Japan as they did coming to China originally.
Good thing Genma was too cheap to pay for even boat tickets; otherwise, they would've been caught immediately.
Once again, things were going south. The boy-turned-girl seemed to have had uncanny face-recognition. (Genma and Ranma Saotome hadn't yet quite grasped the fact that the broadcast explaining the boy's transformation was a worldwide phenomenon.) Genma's instincts in these kinds of situations was well-honed: run for it! He grabbed his daughter's hand and dragged her away as fast as his stocky feet could take him. "We should've trained at Jyuusenkyou and called it a trip!" he grumbled.
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