As the two girls entered the gates of Ryozanpaku, Ranma hoped that this wasn’t the beginning of a trend with her having to come home as a girl all the time. Both she and Miu glanced around to try and find where Kensei was hiding with his camera. They looked in the bushes, searched the trees, checked on the roof, behind all the doors, under the house…
“Oh you’re back. Well, if you insist on giving me a show, then let me go get my camcorder, would you?”
Miu bristled at the voice and shot up from the bent over position that left her butt sticking out in to the air. “What the hell are you doing not waiting for us at the gate with a camera to peep on us with?” she shouted.
Kensei just blinked.
“… Hey, she said it, not me,” Ranma mumbled, confused.
For a long time, Kensei just stood there after Miu’s statement. Finally, he reached over to clasp Miu’s hands, tears of joy glistening in his eyes. “I… I didn’t know it was so important to you!”
Miu’s hair untwined, and her look went from one of anger to dumbfound. Oh no.
“From now on, I swear to wait for your return every day,” Kensei declared. “I shall follow you around at every outing and record your every move! Do not fell bad Miu, for I shall never miss an opportunity to shoot that sexy body of yours AGAIN!” The Chinese martial artist raised his fist into the air, and lighting crashed in the background at the man’s declaration.
Say what? Miu asked herself.
Kensei cleared his throat, then put his arms behind his back and walked off. “But, I’m a little busy at the moment. If you want a photo shoot, or a martial artist girls gone wild video, you’ll have to wait a bit.” As much as a distraction that Miu was, now Kensei had a more important responsibility. Over the next few years he would create a girl to surpass Miu in sexiness! Fate had shown him his ultimate purpose as a practitioner of ancient Chinese medicine, and he would not fail!
“AHHHHH! I CAN’T BELIVE I’M SO STUPID,” Miu shouted as she clenched her hair. Now she was never going to get that pervert off her back.
The young woman took a deep breath to calm herself down. She couldn‘t anything about that now, and there was work to do. “Well, nothing I can do about it for now I guess.” It wasn’t like anything was going to change. Oh God she hoped nothing changed.
“I need to go get dinner ready before Apachai starts trying to eat Kensei herbs again,” Miu told her husband as they parted ways at the gate.
After making a quick stop at the washroom to run her head under the shower and change back, Ranma made her way to the back of the grounds to find her grandfather-in-law. He slid open the door to the man’s meditation room and-
“Ah Ranma, what is it my boy?” Hayato asked as he sat in meditation.
Long since grown accustomed to having the man know exactly when he showed up, despite not making a sound, Ranma didn’t react to his question. Although the man had his attentions focused on the statue in front of him and wouldn’t see, Ranma put himself on his knees and bowed his head. “Master, today I saw what would have become of me had you not decided to take a foolish little boy under your wing. I‘ve never before said this to anyone in my life and truly meant it but…” Ranma paused before sliding forward so his head touched the ground. “Thank you Master! That you for everything you’ve done for me, I-”
Ranma found himself cut off as Hayato stomped his foot on the ground front in front of the young man’s head. “Get up boy. You’re being too hard on yourself again,” Hayato assured him reaching down to grab Ranma‘s hair and lift the man in the ninja suit to his feet. “If you’re talking about that fight you had with that fool from your old neighborhood, then put such thoughts from your mind. You may have a dual nature, but you’ve been trained to walk the path of Sei at the exclusion of Dou a long time ago. Even if fate had not allowed our paths to cross, you would never have become the kind of man that Ryoga had turned into.”
“A thief, a womanizer, a pathetic excuse for a man who never takes responsibility for-”
“OKAY, OKAY I GET IT,” Ranma shouted. He crossed his arms and looked away. “Geeze, see if I ever open up to you again you old bastard!”
With the boy taken care of, Hayato cleared his throat and turned Ranma around. “Now, put such thoughts from your mind. Let’s see what Miu has cooked for dinner.”
For a moment Ranma wondered if the old man was going to start break down and start crying again at the mention of Ranma’s wife, when nothing happened, he decided to count himself lucky and not give the man a reminder of that little fact.
Meanwhile, at the Shirahama household…
“ABOLUTELY NOT! I forbid it! There’s no way a little girl like you should go anywhere near that hell on earth! They may play with you after school, but that‘s really just a trap to sucker you in and torture you to death!”
Saori sighed, and then looked over to her son before he could continue his protests. “Kenichi dear, maybe you should let your father and I decide this.”
“But Moooooooooooom, you don’t know those people like I do! They’re monsters! Evil demons that just look like people.”
“Mooooooooom,” Honoka parroted Kenichi’s Cartman-style whining. “I need to! What’ll you think will happen to me if I don’t? Remember Kenichi’s first days of high school? Mine will be ten times worse!”
(-Honoka’s Scenario-)
The pure and innocent girl ran as fast as she could, with the howls and jeers of the men chasing her closing in. She turned the corner, and scooted to a halt as her escape was cut off by a chain link fence. Behind her, she could hear them coming closer, promising unspeakable evil acts upon her pure and innocent body.
“Oh why, if only my Mommy and Daddy had let me learn to defend myself,” the cried in despair.
The shadows closed in, and Honoka fell down to cower in fear before her screams could be heard from block around.
Three stories above, the petals of a flower fell away from the stem.
(-Reality-)
Kenichi stared at his sister with a annoyed expression. “Aren’t you overdoing it?” No one was going to buy that cra-
“Oh my little girl!” Mototsugu cried before he hugged her tightly with a waterfall of tears cascading down his face. After releasing his little girl, the man nodded and crossed his arms. “I agree with Honoka. The girl needs to learn to defend herself.”
“Yeah! You go Dad!” Honoka said as she jumped for joy. Big boobs here I come!
The male head of the household reached into his robes. “And she’ll do it with this!” he shouted as he pulled out a revolver.
(-Mototsugu’s Scen-*Whack*
The wavy flashback lines suddenly came to a stop, and the woman of the household put down her frying pan. “I think the author is risking enough with that last one dear, no need to crazy.”
“You’re breaking the fourth wall!” Kenichi shouted in horror while pointing to his mother, then quickly worked to repair the problem.
“What your father means to say is,” Saori told her with a frown directed at her husband, “instead of giving you a gun. We would be happy to let you learn to defend yourself and build your confidence. Right dear?”
“Ow OW! Okay, okay I give! I give!” he said as she callously twisted his ear.
Honoka cheered in delight and hugged her mother as tight as she could. “Oh thank you Mom!”
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