The journey to school the following morning had been normal, or as normal as it could get for one Ranma Saotome. His mother had bought him a new computer (which he could use, although he wished he could kill that annoying paperclip that kept popping up!) a calendar full of naked women (which he stashed away, since he couldn’t bring himself to look at that kind of thing, at least not without risking blood loss), posters of cars (he just shrugged and wondered what all the fuss was about), porno mags (which quickly joined the calendar), new clothes (he admitted the jeans felt comfortable enough, but he was given another reason to hate his curse: His own mother used his female form as a life sized Barbie doll!) and the Kama Sutra (which he thought was some book about Martial Arts. When he learned it was more about Marital Arts it joined the mags and the calendar).
Although there were some things he could do without... being with his mother again was all worth it. And now she led him down to the local high school, without getting splashed once. In fact he hadn’t been splashed since the other day, a new personal record for him.
But he couldn’t help but feel that something really weird was about to happen.
He was right.
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Nodoka double-checked her hair as she entered the Principle’s office, making sure to set a good example, as she and Ranma sat down across the desk from the man. “Hello Sensei,” Nodoka said. “I’m Nodoka, and I’d like to register my son here.”
“But of course,” the man said, smiling warmly. “It’s actually an honour to have the infamous Ranma Saotome here.” Nodoka’s smile faltered slightly as Ranma blinked slightly.
“Infamous?” he asked.
“Oh yes! You’re a bit of an urban legend here! Is that thing with the curse true?” the Principle asked, acting more like a student than a teacher.
“If you mean turning into a girl, then yeah... It--”
“Really? Wow, that’s something!” the principle interrupted as both Saotomes sweatdropped a bit. “What about those energy blast things?”
“Ki blast, yeah I can use’em.”
“Hurricanes?”
“Yup.”
“Did you defeat an twelve headed, fire breathing, forty foot dragon?”
“Uhh... No... I beat a guy descended from a dragon... And I beat the eight-headed Orochi... But no huge twelve headed dragons, that’s something I’d remember.”
“Oh...” The principle said calming down a bit. “I suppose I shouldn’t listen to all the rumours then...”
“Um... Yeah... Anyway, about my curse... Since a normal uniform is kinda annoying is there--”
“Oh, don’t worry m’boy, if you wear some nice slacks and a black shirt like what you have on it’ll be fine.”
“Oh... That’s cool then.”
“Ahem,” Nodoka ‘ahemed’ to gain some attention. “Now, about his class schedule?”
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Usagi raised her head from her book as the teacher went to the door to speak with the principal. Shrugging it off as unimportant she returned to her ‘studying’.
“I don’t see how smuggling a comic book in your history textbook is going to help you learn,” her friend Ami said, shaking her head slightly.
“Oh, don’t worry Ami. It’s just... appreciation of artistic merit,” Usagi replied.
Ami sighed, and wondered how EXACTLY Usagi managed to get her grade level up to a C average, despite her lack of studying. She was about to go back to her own textbook as the teacher walked back into class.
“Attention everyone!” the teacher said making sure everyone was paying attention. “We have a new student joining us today. Come on in!” Shortly after that a youth walked into the class, moving to stand next to the teacher, wearing black kung-fu pants and a red Chinese silk shirt. He reached back and toyed with his hair, braided in a pigtail as the teacher continued. “This is Ranma Saotome, class.”
“Ummm... Hey everyone,” Ranma said waving a bit. The class stared at him in silence. It didn’t last.
“THE Ranma Saotome?”
“The guy who changes gender because of water, right?”
“I thought it was a curse...”
“Didn’t he beat a demi-god or something?”
“I heard he beat a twelve headed fire breathing dragon that was a hundred feet tall!”
“You're lying, I heard it was one hundred and thirty feet!”
“My GOD he is CUTE! Think the harem rumours are true?”
“Isn’t he able to throw a Hadoken or something?”
“No you moron... He’s supposed to throw a Kame-Kame-Ha!”
Ranma simply sweat dropped as the discussion raged back and forth in the class. “I can’t be this famous... Or infamous... Whatever...”
“It seems you are...” the teacher said, also sporting a sweatdrop.
“Wasn’t that dragon two hundred feet tall?”
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