Ranma blinked...and then blinked again. He found himself sitting in a classroom with a large book sitting on the desk in front of him. He was not wearing his standard attire. It had been exchanged for a revoltingly ordinary school uniform comprised of black slacks and a tan sweater vest over a white dress shirt with a dark red tie around his neck.
"What the hell..." Ranma began before a splitting pain crashed into his skull.
When the pain faded, Ranma knew. He was Ranma Shuyu, student of Nanyo Academy, cousin of Hakufu Sonsaku...who was to arrive today as a transfer student. He was also a Fighter, a possessor of a magatama which contained the spirit of a warrior that fought during the Three Kingdoms Era in China and doomed to live out that warrior's fate in battle with other possessors of the sacred beads.
"Like hell," Ranma growled. "No way I'm letting some stupid bead control my life."
Ranma also now knew that Nanyo was one of seven schools that fought each other for control of the Kanto region of Japan—not that they controlled anything other than bragging rights for being the top school, but for some reason, these people took the fighting deadly seriously. This thought distressed Ranma, not because of the idea of high school students fighting and killing each other, but because of the ease with which he accepted that notion. Something had been changed inside his head and Ranma didn't like that one bit.
"I don't know what the hell's going on, but some girl's beating up everybody on campus," Ranma overheard a student say from the hallway.
"And she's super strong!"
"Is she cute? Is she cute?"
"I'd say about an A- to a B+," the first student reported. "And she's got...Booby-Bombs!"
Suddenly, Ranma suspected who this girl was.
"Oh crap," he muttered, standing up. "Hakufu."
"Raaaaagggh!"
The guy roared out a battlecry as he threw a punch at Hakufu. The green-eyed girl stepped inside his swing and countered with her own punch, crushing the guy's nose in a burst of blood and knocking him backwards onto his back to join the others she had already taken out of the fight. Hakufu held the pose briefly before drawing her hand back and giggling ecstatically.
"Feels so GOOD!" she exclaimed, tears of joy appearing in her big green eyes. She cheerfully began grinding her foot down on the head of one of the defeated fighters. "I just transferred to Nanyo Academy today! My hobbies are tea ceremony and flower arranging!"
"She's pretty damn strong!"
"She greeted us by saying she'd beat up thirty people at once."
Suddenly a new challenger leapt toward Hakufu.
"HAAAAA! What great hobbies!" he yelled as he came down at her with a flying kick.
"Oh, but that's just for the official record, so you shouldn't believe it," Hakufu giggled as she dodged his kick.
"Who cares?" the guy shouted as he landed and fired off several more kicks, each missing the dodging strawberry blonde. It finally occurred to him that maybe she wasn't as big a ditz as he had assumed. "You're serious?"
Hakufu smiled smugly.
"Mm hmm," she nodded right before nailing him with a kick to the head followed immediately by a flying spin kick to the chest. This one joined the others already on the ground while Hakufu blew her landing and stumbled backwards into another guy.
"Sorry!" she giggled as the guy caught her.
"No prob," the guy replied in a friendly manner as his hands began groping her well-developed chest. "Hmm...65 on the bottom and 93 on top. That's some nice growth."
"Huh?" Hakufu remarked in amazement. "That's exactly right. A bra salesman? You're a bra salesman! Am I right? You guessed my size!" With that, Hakufu prepared to drive her elbow into the guy's diaphragm. "But I'm super-busy right now!"
The elbow missed as the guy backed off quickly.
"Ooo, scary," he chuckled before turning and walking away.
"Next! Come on, anybody?" Hakufu challenged.
"Me," a deep voice announced.
Hakufu looked over to see the crowd parting before an absolutely huge guy. He towered over the other students by at least a head and in most cases a head and chest. His body was ripped with hugely bulging muscles as he strode up to Hakufu.
"Whoa...overkill," Hakufu breathed with a sickly grin.
"Woman, show me your sacred bead," he commanded in a low rumble. "I won't battle you unless you're a fighter."
Hakufu looked confused for a moment, her brow wrinkling cutely before it came to her.
"Ah! That thing," she smiled broadly, displaying a cute fang. "I have it! I have it! Anybody that has that bead is okay to fight, right? When I got here, everybody was wearing them. It was so exciting!"
"Okay to fight?" the giant asked incredulously as Hakufu dug around in her dress for her magatama. "Are you stupid? Don't you know what that bead means?"
"Hey! You said stupid! The one that said it first is really stupid," Hakufu retorted and continued to look for the bead, in the process, lifting her dress and showing everyone her panties. "Huh? This is strange. Sorry, I must have dropped it somewhere."
"Dropped it somewhere?" the giant repeated in consternation.
"Don't worry! I wrote my name on it with a marker," Hakufu reassured him.
"What?!?" the giant gasped, his brows raising in distress that someone would deface a sacred bead like that.
"I even used an extra-fine point, oil-based one so you can read it," Hakufu said triumphantly until she saw the glare the giant was giving her. "Um, are you angry with me? Who cares! It's just a stone!"
"Hey, it's not just a stone!" the giant growled.
"Eep!" Hakufu squeaked, stepping back.
Ranma ran toward the crowd of students, shouldering his way through until he could see what was happening. When he broke through he spotted a girl with strawberry blonde hair, in a short blue sundress facing an absolutely huge guy. His new memories allowed him to identify both of them. The girl was his cousin Hakufu and the guy was one of the top four fighters in the school. His name was Gakushu.
"This is bad," Ranma groaned.
"Why don't you kick me," Gakushu rumbled.
"What?" Hakufu asked in confusion.
"What are you waiting for?" Gakushu demanded.
"Um, well, it's just that I can kick someone that's so defenseless," Hakufu said innocently, twisting the toe of her sandal in the dirt and poking her index fingers together. "Excuse me, but...are you a masochist? Because I can't really deal with those types and I don't want to offer my services to someone's hobby."
Ranma could only gape at his new cousin. And people thought he was stupid?
"Quit your bitching and just show me your kick NOW!" Gakushu bellowed.
"HAAAAAA!" Hakufu cried and launched a kick at the enormous fighter.
Ranma winced and palmed his face as Hakufu's kick hit Gakushu in the side with absolutely no effect. Hell, even Akane could have sent the behemoth into LEO with a free shot like that.
"Harrumph," Gakushu sniffed disdainfully.
"That's strange," Hakufu blinked.
"I thought you might be the one, but I made the wrong assumption," the behemoth commented conversationally.
"Huh? What's the wrong assumption?" Hakufu asked, still holding her kicking position with her foot against Gakushu's ribs. "Anyway, why aren't you feeling pain? Doesn't it hurt normally?"
"What was that supposed to mean?" Gakushu snorted. "You think you actually kicked me?"
"Here it comes," Ranma groaned as Gakushu reached down and grabbed Hakufu's ankle which she helpfully left up against him.
With a negligible flip of his massive arm, the behemoth tossed Hakufu skyward. As gravity took over and she fell back to Earth, her flight was intercepted by Gakushu's other fist.
"Aaaaaahhhhh!" Hakufu screamed as the breath was blasted from her lungs. She rocketed across the field to slam into an equipment building hard enough to crater the cinder block wall. "Ow, that hurt," Hakufu commented breathlessly as the dust settled.
"I attempted to restrain myself," Gakushu rumbled as he stepped up to Hakufu's crumpled form. "Forgive me if I have injured you."
With that, the large fighter turned and walked away followed by the rest of the crowd.
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