Some would say that if it didn't have martial arts in front of it, Ranma wouldn't show any interest at all.
While you could put any number of adjetives in front of this scene, it wasn't exactly martial arts.
A naked Ryouga, a couple of pieces of lingerie still somehow hanging from him, raced by. "RANMA! I'LL FIND YOU, THEN YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS!"
A nearly naked Akane, wearing lingerie, and toting a mallet with a metal head that read "3kt", riding a bull, was apparently in chase. "COME BACK HERE YOU PERVERT, AND TELL ME WHAT YOU DID TO P-CHAN!"
Ranma blinked.
"QUACK! QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!"
"Heee HAW!" "Waaaaa! Where's my shirt! Shampoo, you stay on your side of the jackass!" "Shampoo just trying to hold on at this point!"
Ranma blinked again. A topless Ukyo, a giftwrapped Shampoo, on a donkey. Following Mousse who was chasing Akane on a bull who was after a naked Ryouga and asking about P-chan? Oh almost forgot that Konatsu was hanging onto the tail of the donkey.
"Bwock!" "Get him!" "Sweet oh!" "Akane Tendo, my love! I am here for you!" "Lucette! Lucette!" "Get that pervert!" "Happosai! Prepare to die!" "Bwock! Bwock!"
Ranma blinked at the odd parade, including its own musicians. Then did something quite sensible. He clapped his hands three times then rubbed them up and down. "Better him than me. Much better him than me."
ching ching
Yuka and Sayuri momentarily stopped. "Hey, Ranma, aren't you going to help Akane?" Sayuri asked.
Yuka giggled. "Maybe he finally realized that no matter what he does, once he gets involved - everyone will target him."
"I..." Ranma stopped, this sounding like the Cold Voice Of Reason and then nodded. "I think Akane's got control of this situation."
"See you," Yuka called over her shoulder as the two began pedaling again.
Ranma considered things and decided that his best course of action was...
...the tuna melt at Akie's. He was getting hungry and it was cheap.
"Right you are Saotome," said Soun, holding up the glowing beaker. "With this, we assure that those two will get over their stubborness and at last the Houses will be joined!"
"Yes, Tendo, this plan can't... do you hear music?" Genma blinked and slowly turned.
Wham! Whak! Thud! Trample! Bounce! "Sweet Sweet (Alabama)" Crunch! Wakka wakka do! "Charlotte! Lucette!"
Soun looked down. "That looked like it hurt, Saotome!"
Genma blinked as he unpeeled himself. "Where's the potion?"
Soun glanced around and then spotted it where it had been grabbed by a kunoichi who was hanging from the other hand from a donkey's tail. "AFTER THAT VIAL, SAOTOME!"
Splash! "Growf!" [Stupid idiots not watching where they dump water!]
"Come on, Saotome!"
The hand trolley was moved to the side by Mister Yakitomo as he fumbled with his keys. "Nope not this one."
The hand trolley obeyed the laws of gravity, slowly rolling out from the delivery door of "Yakitomo's Wild Paint Warehouse" to gradually pick up speed as it reached the street below.
"Darn. Not this one. Maybe the other pocket?"
The hand trolley, loaded with a number of bright carnival colors in handy five gallon bulk cans, one ounce squeeze tubes, hair dye kits, and watercolor markers, rolled down the street and into an intersection.
"AGGHHHH!" Ryouga said as he smashed into the cart.
Akane, now with pink hair, found she could indeed get more unhappy. "RYOUGA HIBIKI! PREPARE TO DIE!"
Mister Sanada heard something about preparing to die and just knew that the North Koreans were after him again! (AN-several Japanese were kidnapped by North Koreans and smuggled over to that country in the early 90s) Which is why he knocked over the four rows of gumball machines in his panic to get away.
The gumballs, freed of their prison, made a break for freedom and ended up (bouncing and rolling) out in the roadway.
A multicolored Akane (at least three colors, her hair being a nearly flourescent pink, her right arm from hand to elbow being chartreuce, and her legs and hips being the same shade of blue as the bull she was riding) chasing an unpainted Ryouga, preceeding a large crowd of people, all hit the gumballs while the hard little spheres were still mostly in motion.
"AAAA! RANMA YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS TOO!" "WHOA! WHOA! I SAID 'WHOA' WHY AREN'T YOU STOPPING?!" "EEEK!" "AAAA!" "CURSE YOU SORCERER SAOTOME! THIS MUST BE THY WORK!" "QUACK!" crunch "quaaaaa" "AAA!" "Aiyah!" "Pierre! Malthaus! Kafka!"
Having more sense than the average Neriman, as noted by the fact that they usually didn't get involved, Yuka and Sayuri stopped their bicycles at the edge of the disaster area as they watched the "actresses" flailing and sliding around, as well as what the small row of businesses were at the far end.
Yuka pointed. "Looks like Akane's heading for that 'Sex Toys Shop'."
Sayuri disagreed. "I think she's heading for the pet store."
Yuka shook her head. "Well, at least you think that Ryouga's going to hit the 'Transtemporal Travel Agency'?"
Sayuri, again politely, disagreed. "No, I think he's going to curve left there and hit the 'Overly Breakable Treasures China Shop' - see how the street has a little dip in it."
Looking over the crowd, Yuka couldn't resist. "I see a lot of dips in the road. Hmmm. Speaking of which, I'll bet Kuno slides right into the 'Three Stooges Pie Factory'"
"Hmmmm," hmmed the two girls, deciding they'd stay right there.
"WHOA!" Daisuke and Hiroshi yelped as they crashed into two bicycles from behind.
"KYAAA!" "EEEP!"
Yuka and Sayuri saw Akane just as she slid into
(Posted Fri, 21 Feb 2003 11:40)
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