She looked around, but it appeared to be coming from an empty section of roof.
"Come down the street,
or along the roofs to the junction.
(Kunoichi Junction)
Forget your cares, it is time to relax at the junction.
(Kunoichi Junction)
Lotsa curves, you bet.
Even more, when you get to the junction.
Kunoichi Junction."
Kasumi blinked as the chorus sounded from several different, and also apparently empty, areas.
"There's a little dojo behind the house at the junction.
(Kunoichi Junction)
There's Kasumi in the yard, hanging up sheets at the junction.
(Kunoichi Junction)
Give her a hand, so she's not overwhelmed at the junction.
(Kunoichi Junction)"
Kasumi blinked as she realized that her clothes basket was empty. She blinked again at the sight of them having reappeared - this time on the line.
"And so we have the following students, recently transferred," said the teacher.
"G-g-good morning, my name is Matsu," said a girl who bowed and looked very uncertain about things.
"Chachamaru Karakuri," said the girl who'd beaten on Kuno earlier. "Transfer from Vulcan Science Academy."
"Musubi," said the next girl in line.
"Nemu Kurotsuchi," said the fourth girl in line. "It is well to meet you."
"KOS-MOS," said the fifth girl.
"Roll Light," said the sixth girl, bowing to the class.
"If you'll be seated," said the teacher, turning to the blackboard and beginning the lesson. On hearing something going on in the front of the school, he went to the window and prepared to tell the Blue Thunder to put a sock in it.
"Excuse me," said a deep voice. "You are Tatewaki Kuno, are you not?"
Tatewaki Kuno blinked as he recovered from the pounding he'd gotten earlier. "That I am."
Kuno looked over the fellow in a black executioner's kimono. Tall but gaijin from the look of him. The odd raiment somehow suited the fellow despite that detail. Idly plucking a bit of stone from where it had been imbedded in an ear, Tatewaki Kuno frowned as he realized that the gaijin was looking him over as one would a bug crossing one's path.
"Also known as the 'Shooting Star,' or 'Blue Thunder'?" asked the gaijin.
"Indeed," said Kuno. "Though what business does some shabbily dressed gaijin have with the rising star of the kendo world?"
The gaijin silently mouthed the phrase 'shabbily dressed gaijin' for a moment before settling into a disapproving frown. "I simply wanted to observe the proper forms and confront you before settling on the proper punishment."
"Pah," said Kuno, straightening up. "I see that I must school you on how to address your betters."
The gaijin blinked. "My name is Pluto, sometimes known as Hades, and locally I am known as Yama. Are you SURE that you want to declare yourself my better?"
"It is as obvious as the sun itself that I am your better," said Kuno. "After all, you are not even Japanese. As for the name you give yourself, I know full well that the series my sister doth watch features one with that name - and she is far more pleasing to the eye."
Pluto nodded as the sun abruptly was concealed by clouds. "Very well then. Originally I thought it would be fitting to shift the curse of Ranma Saotome to you as punishment for your hubris and willing ignorance. That way, every time Saotome's curse activated - it would be you who turned into a 'pigtailed girl.' I see now that such a thing would be insufficient."
"You claim to have power over the pigtailed one? I see. You are an ally of the foul sorcerer Saotome," said Kuno, brandishing his bokken. "I shall smite thee to teach thee the folly of such!"
Pluto did something then that would have caused many familiar with him to reconsider their current course of action. He smiled. "So be it."
CRACKLE-BOOM!
The area was suddenly lit with that odd greenish light that comes before some particularly bad storms. Pluto himself grew to approximately six hundred feet in height. Causing the people looking out from the school windows to make various comments that were indicative of something hitting the fan.
"SO BE IT," thundered the colossus. "Twelve labors faced Hercules. You declare yourself to be MY better? Even Hercules at his worst never boasted so! Twelve plus four will be the disasters I unleash upon you!"
The colossus faded away with a rumble of thunder that sounded like "this might just be fun" to a few of the listeners.
"Kuno managed to piss off a Greek god?" asked Ukyo. "Man, I knew he was annoying, but I never dreamed he was THAT annoying."
"Oh, yeah, sure," said Ranma, not wanting to admit that this was probably HIS fault.
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