As soon as Kenichi was far enough away from the dojo to not know he was being followed, Kensei leaped onto the roof and got ready to depart.
“Hey Kensei, what’cha doing?”
The Chinese martial artist barely caught himself from stumbling off the roof, and looked back to the owner of the voice. As usual, Sakaki was drinking another one of his beers that he’d used his special bottle opening method on. “If you must know, I’m following Kenichi.” Since the other man didn’t have any interest in photography, Kensei didn’t invite him to come along.
“What’s with the crappy sign?”
Once again, Kensei stopped just in time to regain his balance and stop himself from falling onto the pavement. “It’s a dojo sign that Kenichi brought in! Now I need to go watch our disciple perform!”
As Kensei vanished from sight, Sakaki looked back at the Tendo Dojo sign, and gulped down the rest of his beer. Now that he thought about it, Kensei had the right idea. If their disciple was going out and challenging dojos to test his skill, his masters needed to see how he did in a fight like that.
“Hey Kensei wait up!” Sakaki shouted as he went after the other master.
Kensei looked over to the other man in surprise. “Sakaki, why are you coming along?”
They cleared another roof, and Sakaki put on a nasty grin. “What’re you kidding? I love this stuff!”
“Really?” the other man asked an excited tone. Sakaki made a good drinking partner, but he didn’t know the man was also into hentai! Tears ran down the older man’s face. “You… you’ve made me so happy!”
Sakaki frowned at the reaction, and looked ahead to their disciple with the small duffle bag on his back, and wearing clothes that weren‘t mean for fighting. Why do I feel I really shouldn‘t have said that?
Meanwhile, back at the dojo…
“Kensei? Is it Apachai’s turn to train Kenichi yet?” Apachai called out as he looked around the disturbingly deserted dojo. “Kensei?”
Apachai looked around… and then noticed a strange piece of wood. After getting a little closer, he bent over to look at the sign. “Ten… do… Do… jo…”
…
“AHHHHH! Apachai is at wrong address again!” the tan giant shouted as he grasped his head in alarm. No wonder there was no one else around! Kensei and the others didn’t live here!
Without waiting another minute, Apachai launched off into the air to look for the real Ryozanpaku.
Right as the master disappeared from view, Ranma rounded the corner. Although it was probably just his imagination, he still couldn’t shake this weird feeling of impending doom. He walked past the gate, and stopped when something caught his eye.
Ranma turned to look at it.
No…
It wasn’t possible…
It just wasn’t possible…
Ranma let out a depressed sigh. Of course its possible. He thought of all the possibilities of just why the Tendo Dojo sign was in the yard, but in the end that didn’t matter.
It was time for him to get gone. Past time.
Ranma pulled out his cell to look at the time, and saw that it was almost lunch. Miu would be in the kitchen. He moved into the house, and headed for the kitchen.
Five minutes later, Apachai landed back in the Ryozanpaku yard. He looked to the evil sign, and frowned at its lying words. “Stupid wood! You trick Apachai! Apachai kill!” the Muay Thai God of Death shouted before he began his ferocious assault. “Appapapapapapapapa!”
It was a purely one-sided battle with the favor lying highly on Apachai’s side. He struck the sign a hundred, hundred times, until there was nothing left but a pile of fine dust at his feet.
Next to the battlefield, the door to the door to the house opened up. Hayato looked out to see what all the commotion was about.
“Do not worry Elder, Apachai got wood!” Apachai declared as he poked his thumb up proudly.
Hayato froze, unable to respond for a few moments. Finally, he blinked. “Oh… that’s nice,” the man said before he slid the door closed and walked towards the backyard entrance. Please let that just be an error in his grammar.
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