The following morning the kids got up, the game plan being that shrine priest Katsuhito, aka Grandpa to the kids, would escort Nanoha and Usagi back to their respective families. While he was in Tokyo he’d also see if anything sparked some memories of where Ranma’s home was.
Before that however, Alita, Ranma, Nanoha and some of the shrine residents awoke early while Usagi slept in.
Alita sometimes was obsessed with her Panzer Kunst, but she loved a great many things. Playing music and singing, kisses that tastes like batteries, blue skies and strange weather, laughing children and sweet pea flowers were among a few of her favorite things.
Here in this strange natural world, somehow being considered part of a group of children, she was reminded of these things.
Up until Katsuhito, sometimes called Yosho by Tenchi and others there, began morning sparring practice with Tenchi.
Ranma had looked at them for a moment and seemed a bit lonely, but that moment passed as soon as Ranma centered himself in a horse stance and then moved into his own kata.
It was familiar yet strange thing to watch a child clearly gifted in the art, moving gracefully among a grand backdrop of nature. As far as she knew such nature didn’t exist anymore where she was from, but the martial arts were purely for violent combat as well.
Despite the stark contrast, little Ranma clearly knew the inner peace Alita sought when she threw herself into combat to get closer to her own art.
Wanting to feel it herself, the cyborg tried to duplicate his kata, but the boy quickly became annoyed with her. That annoyance only had him pause long enough to demonstrate to her where to focus on each movement. Then the two went back to becoming one with nature through their art.
After the exercise, everyone enjoyed a rather happy breakfast. The missing girls had only been missing for about a week, so the families were still looking. Luckily they had accepted Katsuhito’s explanation involving strange myths of Japan, particularly that they had been caught in a group kamikakushi, an event where children are spirited away on an adventure and return unharmed.
That alone was enough to convince the families the children should keep in touch.
Usagi was the first returned to her home, having a tearful reunion with her mother.
Shortly afterwards Nanoha was returned to her home, the martial arts focused Takamachi family compound. With Nanoha obviously liking the young boy they’d offered to take him in, but Ranma refused because they were a sword art focused family. In reality it was because Nanoha had cheerfully showed him her room, calling it their room, fully expecting him to move in so she could be a proper wife. Alita had chalked it up to the girl still being addled by the pokeball up until her family cheerfully agreed to make Ranma her fiance.
After seeing the sights in Tokyo for a bit, Ranma and Alita eventually returned to the Masaki shrine.
They did not stay long separated from their friends as Washu also loved children quite a lot, more so than even Alita. So it took all of a day until Usagi and Nanoha had new doors in the hallway beside their bedroom doors, those doors connecting to a little play room off of Washu’s lab.
Washu would have connected them directly to her lab so the kids could visit, but she had quickly realized Usagi was a mini-Mihoshi. Cute, blonde, innocent, and entirely not to be allowed in her lab or near non-combat hardened experiments.
Alita was amazed that their ‘playroom’ was a tropical beach with an old forest, waterfall, and a small house for them to live in, complete with a dojo for Ranma.
This of course just backed up the whole kamikakushi event as Ikuko Tsukino might go through the new door in her house, find herself in a forest, then through another door where she met the older Takamachi brother in kendo gear watching Ranma train in their dojo while Usagi watched intently. When Sakura got her own home connected, her cousin Tomoyo quickly requested her own connection. After that Ikuko needed the kid tracker radar Washu gave her just to keep track of the kids.
Besides connecting their homes it also connected the families to the degree that Ranma and Alita could go to school in Tokyo with Sasami joining them. Being a central location connecting the others, Ranma’s house was a typical gathering place for the kids, with Ikuko often there to serve snacks and enjoy the peaceful environment.
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(Posted Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:42)
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