Get yelled at by Akane for sleeping late and splashed with cold water. Grab the bento Kasumi had prepared, pause long enough to splash some hot water, zip out the door after a brief argument with Akane, ignore snide comment by Nabiki, dash for school.
Yup. Boring. Normal. Nothing unusual here.
Except...
The old woman who cleaned her walk each day at this time, and somehow managed to tag him even if he was roofhopping on the other side of the street, was out but couldn't seem to find her bucket or ladle.
Getting to the school meant roughly a 50/50 chance that Tatewaki Kuno would intercept them before they got to the door. If he DID then it was a 100% chance of Tatewaki Kuno saying or doing something stupid. You didn't need to be a genius to manage that forecast, you just had to know Kuno.
Here he was, stepping out from behind a tree. Always reminded him about that saying about eating a live frog first thing in the morning. Once you were past Kuno, the day generally took a turn for the better. Unless he was being particularly obstinate and showed up later on as well.
"Hold foul sorcerer Saotome," began Tatewaki Kuno, clearly in full blowhard mood. "Today is the day you fall before the might of the Blue Thunder of Furinkan High!"
Dull, dull, dull, dull. BORING. Ranma suppressed a yawn. "Man, can't this go at least a little different?"
"WhatEVER," responded Akane, rolling her eyes. "Finish early. We've got an Economics test today."
KA THWAM!
Abruptly there was a girl with really long hair and metal ear-extensions standing in front of Kuno.
"Master," said the girl, half-turning towards Ranma. "I am Chachamaru Karakuri. Member of your kunoichi squad. I shall deal with this annoyance."
"I have ninja?" asked Ranma, sounding surprised.
"You have ninja GIRLS?" asked Akane, sounding surprised and annoyed.
"Saotome has kunoichi?" asked Hiroshi of Daisuke as the crowd muttered mostly the same thing.
"Fiend! Thou hast enslaved more women to serve thy evil?" swish gleam "I say, fair maiden, remove thy blade from the vicinity of mine neck."
"You are an annoyance to my Master, you should be removed," said Chachamaru.
Ranma knew ninja were supposed to be cold blooded killers, though that image was kind of offset by the maid uniform she had on. "Hang on. Can you not kill him? You can beat him up though, if you want."
"Nonlethal parameters applied, though you may regret this," said Chachamaru.
"WHY do you have KUNOICHI?!" demanded Akane.
"I dunno," said Ranma. "In the meantime, weren't we in hurry?"
"AGH!" yelped Akane as the school bell rang.
"Saotome Special Technique: Stall For Time," muttered Ranma to himself with the background noise of Kuno being pummelled and other students running for their classes with various exclamations of dismay.
Ranma simply leapt, toes catching on a ledge, then swung in through the window.
Of course, once he got there and class started, he discovered that:
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