Kasumi checked herself in the mirror by the door before she even thought of departing. She was a chuunin kunoichi on a mission: to get that bastard Tai—a male member on her team, the one that wasn’t gay—to finally notice that she was a hot girl that wanted him to at least attempt to jump her bones. Really, was it that hard for him? And if he was gay, couldn’t he just come out so she could move on to better hunting grounds?
“Why can’t he look underneath the underneath?” she groused, as she adjusted her new top. All he has to do is ask and he can look underneath this!
She was distracted out of her thoughts by a rapid knocking at the door. Kasumi blinked as she casually approached it. Who could be here at this time? Opening the door, she saw three Academy students, out of breath, looking exceedingly nervous. “Naruto, Ranma; how nice to see you. Oh my, are you three okay?”
Ranma nodded quickly, gulping for breath. “Um … Kasumi, if anyone asks, we were here with you for the last half hour.”
Ranma’s mouth nearly dropped at seeing Kasumi Tendo quirk her eyebrow in a way more associated with the Ice Queen of Nerima. “Oh?” she asked. “Why?”
Naruto chuckled lightly. “Well, we got out of class early and decided to go get some quick sparring in at Training Ground 4.”
Kasumi nodded, waiting for them to continue.
“Well, these two morons showed up and said we weren’t allowed there and we should leave.”
“Well that wasn’t nice,” said Kasumi. The only time you could say that was if you had reserved that ground. “They didn’t reserve it, right?”
“Nah,” said Ranma, “it was clear until tomorrow.”
“Did you know them?” asked Kasumi.
“Well, one was a guy with blue hair wearing a shirt that had a smiley face with a kunai stuck in its forehead, and the other was a girl with white hair that had two red streaks in it,” replied Naruto.
Kasumi fought very hard to keep from twitching. “Oh dear, I know those two.” What she left unsaid was that since the two discovered each other, they had a bad habit of hitting training grounds for no other purpose than to make out. “So what happened? They didn’t attack you, did they?”
“Nah,” waved off Naruto. “They tried to, but me and Ranma showed them,” he said, thumping an embarrassed Ranma on his back. “I took out the dumbass with my Oiroke no Jutsu, while Ranma dealt with the girl using his awesome Fūton: Chikan Senkou no Jutsu to defeat the girl.”
Ranma and Hinata both blushed at that. He hadn’t meant to, he just wanted to redirect the technique to blow her into the river. He didn’t plan to do so and strip her at the same time. Hinata had been happy that they had defended her, the strike starting when the white-haired woman had ended a rant about ‘rail thin bony bitches’.
“S-s-she’s hiding in a bush near there now,” Hinata said quietly, staring at her fingers as they moved in her familiar pattern of nervousness.
“… Really,” drawled out Kasumi, a giant smile on her face. Turning slightly, she opened a small coat closet and pulled out … a camera. “Training Ground 4, right? The one near Mr. Ishito’s store?”
“Uh … yeah,” said Ranma.
“Then I should go … assist her,” said Kasumi. Payback bitch for that baby paper-bomb in my hair! The reason Kasumi also knew the couple was she had shared classes with them in the Academy, where they both teased and tortured her without mercy.
And now … Konoha was about to have a new poster girl.
“Um … Kasumi?” asked Naruto. “Shouldn’t you take her some clothes?”
“Oh, don’t worry,” she said with a smile, “I know what I’m doing. Why don’t you go practice in the Dojo? Mother will be home soon and I believe Nabiki is bringing Yakumo over today for some taijutsu practice.”
“O…kay,” said Ranma, as a smiling Kasumi disappeared in a burst of leaves. “Damn,” he muttered. “I didn’t know she knew Shunshin no Jutsu…”
“So … can you teach me those moves now, Ranma?” asked an excited Naruto.
“I told you already; I can’t because the Hokage said I wasn’t supposed to.”
“Oh come on!” cried Naruto.
“You know, you doing that is why we had to fix the training ground at the Academy by ourselves and not on the weekend,” glared Ranma.
“Oh,” said the embarrassed blond.
Ranma sighed. He liked Naruto, he really did, but the kid could be so dense at times. I just hope no one tells him my Mom has my notes for those techniques. Of course, he forgot that his mother might actually seek out Naruto to teach him, since the Hokage never forbade her from teaching them.
Smiling however, he reached into his backpack, withdrawing a scroll he knew would serve to distract the blond. “I can however teach you a nice little chakra control exercise.”
“What kind of exercise?” Naruto asked full of suspicion. The last ‘chakra control exercise’ Ranma had offered him ended up with Naruto doing a skinny-dipping splash into a girls’ only outdoor bath.
“The type that I know Sasuke doesn’t know,” Ranma said with a smirk. “The basics of sticking to surfaces, such as Tree Walking up to Water Walking. Hell, after this, you might be able to make a decent Bushin!”
“Hah!” cried Naruto. “I’ll master it before you!”
Ranma just raised an eyebrow. “I already mastered it, ‘Ruto.”
“Oh,” said the embarrassed blond. “Then … I’ll master it quicker than you!”
Sighing, Ranma turned to head to the Dojo. “Just come on, I gotta help you two through the first parts. Everything else you can pretty much copy onto those blank scrolls we have to have for class.”
“You’ll teach me too?” asked Hinata, a smile developing on her face.
“Why wouldn’t I?” asked Ranma. “You guys are my friends.”
A true smile bloomed on Hinata’s face. They were friends, she was going to learn a nice technique, and she got to spend more time with Naruto and Ranma. This was so perfect! Okay, the part on the other training ground with Ranma’s technique stripping the developed kunoichi and Naruto’s centerfold technique weren’t exactly joyous memories, but this was.
“There you are,” snarled Nabiki, as she entered the house, a slightly winded Yakumo behind her.
And then the moment was gone. Hinata’s head fell forward. Well, so much for the perfect moment.
“I guess you guys can copy it while I’m helping Yakumo with her taijutsu,” said Ranma, handing Hinata the scroll with a smile. “You guys have any trouble with it, let me know.”
“Sure thing!” cried Naruto, before Hinata could reply. Grabbing her free hand, he started to lead her to the Dojo. “Come on, Hinata; we gotta get started! I want to start learning this fast!”
N-N-Naruto is holding my hand! he inner mind squeaked, as she was dragged to the Dojo.
“They make a cute couple,” smiled Nabiki, before she sighed. Oh, she was not going to play match-maker, no way in hell! That could only end badly for them, and she most certainly did not want to see the Gentle Fist up close and personal if Hiashi learned someone was setting his daughter up with the village pariah, no matter how much she wanted to pair them up to see if it could work. Damn fanfics…
“Couple?” blinked Ranma, reminding Nabiki that when he probably watched the series, he either looked for techniques or paralleled it enough to his own life to understand an angry pink-haired tomboy.
“Let’s get to training Yakumo before our parents get here.,” Nabiki continued, walking past him, Yakumo following close behind. “I’d rather put off a cheering section for as long as possible.”
“Oh, right,” Ranma said, following behind.
“I’ll skin you alive, Tendo!” screamed a white-haired girl with red streaks, as she dodged an exploding tag, giving a view that caused three flashes to go off.
“And it’s not even my birthday,” smiled Kasumi, as she quickly switched the film out of the camera and launched another explosive-tagged kunai at her target.
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