"So this is it?"
Kensuke looked at his map. "It must be. There are no other 'Hibikis' living around here."
"Then I suppose I should-a knock at the door?"
"Yeah... yeah, that would be a good idea..."
Mario looked at the Koopa in human disguise. "You're nervous, aren't you?"
"Me? No, not nervous at all!" Kensuke squeaked. "I'm looking forward to finally meeting my son!"
Mario grinned. "That's-a okay, I guess I would be nervous as well when I'm about to meet a family member I've-a never met before."
The plumber raised his gloved hand and knocked.
After a few minutes, the door opened.
"Hello, does a certain Ryoga Hibiki live here?"
Mario looked around. "Hello?"
Kensuke gestured downwards. "Um, Mario... I think the dog just opened the door."
The curious-looking dog with the black-and-white fur pattern looked up at the visitors and whined questioningly.
Mario crouched down in front of the female. "Well, hello there, lil' fella! Is-a this the Hibiki house?"
Shirokuro nodded. Unlike many other dogs, she was almost as intelligent as a human being. She had to, or else she wouldn't able to handle the house by herself when her masters were away... what was pretty often.
"Can we speak to Ryoga Hibiki, then?"
Shirokuro shook her muzzle and barked softly.
Mario looked at Kensuke. "You got an idea what she wants to tell us?"
Kensuke shrugged. "Not the slightest, I don't speak dog!"
"Okeydokey, then I guess it's-a good that I brought-a Yoshi along with us," Mario said as he carried his backpack inside.
"Yoshi? Why?" Kensuke asked as he and the dog followed the red-clothed plumber.
Mario chuckled. "Well, he can understand many different kinds of animals, or do you think that-a only Yoshis live on his island?"
He put down the huge egg with the green spots in front of Shirokuro, who watched and sniffed it in fascination.
And then, the egg shell broke apart as a green-colored dinosaur with a big nose and a small saddle on its back came popping out.
"YOSHI!"
Shirokuro barked in surprise. Yoshi looked at her and waved. "Yoshi!"
"Whine?"
"Yoshi yoshi!"
"Bark bark!" Shirokuro wagged her tail.
Yoshi looked at Mario and Kensuke. "Yoshi?"
"Um, please ask her if Ryoga Hibiki is home, we'd like to talk to him in an urgent matter," Kensuke said.
The green dinosaur nodded. "Yoshi yoshi?" he asked the female canine.
"Woof woof! Bark bark bark, whine whine..." Shirokuro rubbed her nose in bashfulness.
Yoshi nodded. Yes, that's what he was thinking too. He turned around and told Mario: "Yoshi! Yoshi yoshi! Yoshi? Yoshi yoshi!"
Mario nodded. "Yeah, I thought so, too..."
Kensuke sweatdropped. "How could you possibly understand what he was saying?"
Mario shrugged. "Oh, Yoshi and me have a long story going way, way back... I learned to understand and speak his language, it's-a not that difficult as everyone thinks."
"But... but he always says the same thing over and over again!"
"That's a true, but it's a matter of how the word is pronounced and if he lowers or raises his voice."
Kensue shook his head. He would probably never be able to speak in Yoshi... "So what did she say?"
"Well, Yoshi told me that she excuses her masters, but both the parents and young Ryoga are away... and from what I heard, it happens quite a lot. When Yoshi asked for the reason, she just said that they 'just get lost somewhere' on a regular basis."
Kensuke frowned. "That sounds pretty familiar... you think Ryo's curse has affected them as well?"
"Eh, I dunno." He looked at Yoshi. "Please ask her if there is any way to contact Ryoga."
Yoshi nodded. "Yoshi yoshi?" he asked. "Yoshi?"
"Yip yip whine!" Shirokuro answered. "Bark bark woof! Whine..."
"Yoshi!" the dinosaur told his friend.
Mario sighed. "It's-a kinda difficult to track him down, but he has the tendency to show up every now and then... She said she's-a afraid she can't help us further, but she has-a to stay behind and watch the house-a."
"Now that's great!" Kensuke sighed. "And how are we supposed to find him, then? It's not as if we are lucky enough and he just comes through this door in a second..."
"I'm home!" a male voice suddenly shouted from the entrance. "Mom, Dad? Aw, why do I bother... It's not as if they are home just because I happen to find the way back home just... today?"
Ryoga looked at the two strangers, Shirokuro and the green dinosaur that was standing inside his parents' living room in surprise. "Um... hello? Can I help you?"
----
"Ranma, you idiot!"
"Hey!" the pig-tailed boy shouted in annoyance and ducked underneath the brick that a certain Tendo tomboy had thrown at him in anger. "Is it my fault that Kodachi and Shampoo are after me the whole time? I wish they'd leave me alone for once."
"Yeah, sure, I bet that's the reason why you glomped her, you goddamn pervert!"
"What?" Ranma asked in surprise, dodging an incoming rock. "You saw what she did to me right? She totally wrapped me up in that ribbon of hers, what was I supposed to do? If you hadn't clonked her on the head, I would've had the questionable honor of testing her newest paralyzing powder or whatever she was going to feed me!"
"Good excuse, you jerk!" Akane yelled. "I saw how you bucked against her when she had pulled you close!"
"I was tryin' ta escape!"
"I'm not a fool, Ranma!"
"No, only an uncute tomboy who can't cook!"
Akane gritted her teeth and pulled out a tool that was quite familiar to the pig-tailed martial artist. "NO! Akane, put down the mallet!"
"RANMA NO BAKA!"
WHAM!
A street that was near the path which Akane and Ranma usually took when they walked to school, or home from school...
Toad yelped in surprise when he saw a human body flying through the air and crashing into a wall. "GAH! Koopa attack!"
"Don't be silly now, Toad!" Princess Peach admonished him. "There are no Koopas in this world... well, almost none," she added, with a side glance to Kimiko.
"Do you think he's all right?" Kimiko asked in worry as they hurried over to the boy, who was just standing up and rubbed his head.
"Well, he sure has a thick skull..." Toad murmured.
"Ow... damn, does Akane have ta do that all the time?" Ranma muttered as he stood up.
"Excuse me, but are you hurt?" a pleasant voice asked him.
Ranma looked up and saw a middle-aged lady in a kimono, an attractive blonde girl in a pink dress and a small kid wearing an oversized cap.
"Um, sure, happens to me all the time..."
"What?" Peach gasped in surprise. "Oh, you poor boy..."
"What do you think you are doing, Ranma?" Akane suddenly shouted as she came around the corner. "I'm not finished with you yet. And are you flirting again? Why, you womanizer..." She raised her mallet furiously.
"Eep," shouted a startled Toad. "Sh-she's going to hit us with that thing!"
Peach frowned. That hammer looked almost as big as Mario's Ultra Hammer. "We have to protect this poor, defenseless man from that hostile fury," she said in a determined voice. "Toad, hand me the Power-Up chest!"
"B-but princess... that's too dangerous!"
"Toad, please..." the princess sighed. "Don't you remember Smithy? Or our adventure in the dreamworld, Subcon? You know I can fight if I have to. Now hand me the box!"
"Y-yes, princess!" the Mushroom Retainer squeaked and pulled something out of his pocket.
Ranma stared when he saw the yellow, cubical box with the question mark. "How... how did that fit into your pocket?"
"Please, stand back," Peach said as Toad threw the box into the air, where it hovered above the ground. He jumped against the box from underneath, and...
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